The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-09-12

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fhsy brought lin. I dollar,
ne took j. and clutched i IN hin lonS
sskinH 6nS&fsy rid IT. soand 1900 ne
.Oeepast, Ind then gassd On hloGk nd n
lily With his duh ieaden ~,
81 ~ Day u he harry d bQlinsss. H1ssh
hAaSetuhk hiM even IL. The street M Iar
y sying 70 collect tbs Int nonth,a rent.
ana the verge Of the,piserabls c6nrt
MAefe his tenAnts herdsd Ike beasts. 81
thear ken6el he was there With the hand-
= eeOksin his hand when Death lid his hard
upon HIM. IS s;
Ms VS. carried home to his spl.ndid -nau :.
ssson. He laid upona bed With q satin COW
eflet. Tha lawyer, the. relations and The
preacher, were sent for. All DAY he lay With
out speech, moving only histight hand a.
though counting money. u
At midnight 66 spoke.
He asked for dollar, and they brought
one to him, and, lean and eaunt, he sat 10
IN his.b bed and clltchsd it with the gripe Of
A shaded lamp stood on table neal; the
ssiiken bed. Its light FELL family around the
splendid room, where chairs and carpets,
and mirrors, silken bed, and lofty ceiling,
sail1said Gold Is plain as human lips can
shy it. e 800.
His hair and eyes we're white; his checks
Snnken and his lips thin and surrounded by
Wrinkles that indicated the passion Of ava
rice. As he sat up in his bed with his meek
barred andthe silken coyezlet wrapped about
his lean frame, white hair and eyebrows
contrasted With his wasted and xrinkled
tsce--he looked like . ghost. And there
shis hfe Was ceDtered in the dollar which he.
,griped, in his clenched hand.
His wife, pleasant faced, matronly wo-
man, was seated at the foot 81 the bed. His
son young man Of tWenty-one, dressed in
the last touch Of the fashion, sat BY the laws1
yer. The lawyer sat by the table, perm
shandapd gold spectacles on his nose. There
was huge parchment spreaJ before MIN.
ssDo you think he'll NAL 2 WHIP" asked
isHardly eompo, GENTS, yst'' was the
whispered reply. Unit. He'll be lucid
sitter :. while. ~
ssAiy dear . said the wife sshad Lnot, bet
Ter send for she preacher 20
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the hand, but he did not mind her. His eye
was upon the dollar.
HI was rich mans He owned palaces in
Walnut and. Chestnut streets, and bowels and
courts inthe outskirts. He had iron mines
Z in this State; copper mines onthe lake some
where he had golden interests in Califor-
MIA. His name was bright upon the records
Of twenty banks-he owned stock Of all
kinds, he had half -a-dozen papersin his pay.
He knew bot one crime Ito be in debt
without the power TO pay.
he knew but one yirtue--to get gold.
The crime he had never forgotten--the
virtue he had never forgotten, in the long
way Of seventy five years.
To hunt down debtor, to distress tenant,
to turnss few additional Thousands by q
sharp speculation-these were the main
achievements ofahis life.
He.wasa benevolent man-for every thou
sand dollars which he wrung from the
wretched tenants Of his courts, or from the
debtors writhing from beneath his heels, he
gave ten dollars to some benevolent institu-
ton.
He was a just man--thc gallows and Jail
always found him d faithful and answering
advocate.
Aals-rsffilo NJ sir-is 4; As 10 !;
ss! mated in the bond.' To thar N ,
TO the people Of the United 81, ,e,ono !
purshole society. That's the va for him
GOV I'D it. And we maintain IT,
Nlsdelegate that power to Sed ana dc
.a.ea in the xernatts :. ~ and md
9Sometimesv wrsnSrfng, 1slt;ds 10 Sed Of
death. AL the while the testateT clutched
the dollar in his right hand.
Wh,le the will was being made, the preach
Or came-eyen he who held the pastoral
charge Of the great church, whose pew-doors
bore sanity names on silver plates, and
whose seats on Sabbath day groaned beneath
the weight Of responsibility, broadcloth and ,
the satin.
He came and said his prayers-decorously ,
and in measured words-but never once ,
did the dying man relax his hold Of the dol j,
lar. 80 -t 49,
aCan't you see Pm going ?" at length :
said tho rich man turning frightened look T
towards the preacher. s q
. The preacher whose cravat was Of the
whitest, took book with . golden clasp, :
from marble table. 3 =.
Andhe read
'sAnd II say unto you it is easier for a !
camel to 60 through the eye of q needle,
than for . rich man to enter tho kingdom ,
of God" +
"Who said these words-who-who-
who ?" fairly shrieked the dying man, sha-
king the hand which clenched the dollar at
the preachers head. ss
The preacher hastily turned over the leaf
and did not reply. >. i.
"Why did you never tell Of this before ?
Why-why ?" II
The preacher did not reply, but turned
over another leaf. But the dying man would
not be quoted. 9
Sand it is easier FOR camel to 20 through
the eye of needle than for rich man to
enter the kingdom Of God, is it? Then
what's to become Of me? Am rich? What
tenant did 1 ever spare-what debtor did I
ever released And you stood up on Sunday
after Sunday and preached to us, and never
said one wordabo the camel!"
The preacher in search Of . consoling
passage, turned rapidly over the leaves,
and in his confusion came to this passage 8
which he read:
EGO now ye rich men for the miseries !
shat shall come upon you. Your gold and
silver are cankered, and the rust Of them
shall be a witness against you; and shall eat
your flesh as il were FIRE i you have heaped
the hire of the laborers who have reaped /.
down your fields which is Of you kept back, ,
crieth, and the cries of them which have :
reaped are entered into the ears Of the Lord
Of Sabbaoth.
"And yet you never preached that to me!n
shrieked the dying man. Il
The preacher who Numbered through the !
passage from James, which vehnvs quoted,
knew not what to saw He wsa nerchance