Money is a good thing, especially in these hard times, but there is something a thousand-fold more valuable. It is character—the consciousness of a pure and honorable life. This it should be a man's first aim to preserve at any cost. In times of commercial distress, while some are proved and found wanting, others come forth tried as by fire. Here and there one comes out of that furnace far more of a man than before. Amid the wreck of his fortune he stands erect—a noble specimen of true manhood. We have occasionally witnessed an example of courage in such a crisis, of moral intrepidity that deserves all honor. Let it be the aim of every business man above all things else to keep his purity unstained. This is his best possession—this is a capital which can never be taken from him—this is the richest inheritance which he can leave his children.