The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1863-07-24

al attendants are all true mourners. =
There is no sham there"
And what else did he do with hi
money 2" asked, growing interested il
the rope-maker. "He had two dollars {
week. still for dispensation"
Yes. Let me see. For one thing ht
paid q boy half dollar week to read tc
poor blind woman, and in order that thi.
reading might not be given to single
pair of ears alone. be took care to have
the fact known, that as many as chose
might come and listen. The consequence
was, that more than dozan persons me,
every evening in the blind woman's room,
| to bear what was read. This suggested to
! Tom the way in which another half might
be usefully invested. The men in the rope
walk generally spent their evenings at tav-
erns Tom fo1nd another lad who was a
.oleraoie good reader, and paid him hall
dollar weekly, to read two hours each
evening, for such of bis fellow workmeu
as he could induce to assemble for the oc
casion. He began with three, soon in
creased to ten, and when I last heard OF
the matter, over twenty men nightly met
TO hear the boy read.''
Admirable !" said |, with enthusiasm
" Admirable! | never heard Of wiser
investment And yet he had one dollar
eft"
Yes
GLOW was that disposed Off"
"Iu ways lnnumerabe. cannot recoun,
them. The good that Tom Peters man
aged to DO with that dollar is almost fac
uious ; not, of course, as to magnitude,
bu: as to variety. 1t seemed to duplicate
itself like the widows oil and meal, when
ever drawn upon. You we're always hear
ing of some good acts in which ,iispen-
saton Of money was involved OF poor
woman helped in m king up her rent; OF
a dainty sent 70 sick neighbor of pair
of shoes to ban efoot boy in winter, or a
hook 10 a child. Why, sir. Tom Peters
mas left behind him enough good deeds to
endow a whole ca endar of saints"
SO should think, after what YOU have
said of him "
and Jet, sir, remember he only earned
nine dollars week -
q remember that very distinctly" |
answered. Yes, sir, his death is indeed
a public calamity. 1t is no figure OF
speech to say that his grave will be wa
tered by tears
Nons, sir, none. He will be sorrow
ed for bv hundreds, and his memory will
be greener and more fragrant as the years
pass By. lie built his own monument be-
fore lie Ieit ls-of good deeds"
parted from the stranger; and as |
walked from the cemetery, SAID to anoth-
er man who stood by my side, while
looked at fine piece Of en- blematic statu-
airy
They have been bnrying a rich man?'
Eyes" he cold!v responded.
What did he leave!"
"Nothing but money"
"They have been buryng poor man,
also e.
"Tom Peters,
A light broke over the mans face.
" But he had not even any money to
leave" said |.
"But something far better" answered
the man in tone of rebuke.
What"
"Good acts, which, like good seed, viii
reproduce themselves thousand fold -
Tom Peters carmel Just nine dollars a
week; Edward Ellis. Esq, (there wa. a
cutting contempt in his tonesl was worth.
it is said, a million of dollars, yet the hum
hIe rope-ma}er did, while living, humid
red times the most good with his money,
and leaves an estate that shall 90 on in
rreasinc in value through countless years.
Bn. the estate of old ELI, will not pass to
the third generation. Tom Peters had
the rue riches, sir, that are imperishable.
People Ask, when a man like Ellis dies,
What property has he left behind him 2?
Bat when one Ike our good rope-rnaker
passes away, the angels ask, What good
deeds has he sent before him 2 That is
the difference, sir, the ,mmeasuyabIe differ
ence, between the two men-one giving,
made himself rich the other, in withhold
ing, became miserably poor, so poor that
his memory is green in no mans heart.
| turned from the cemetery with new
impressions stirring in my mind, and tho
question, What kind of legacy will
you leave!' pressed itself home to my
thoughts.
Let it be good deeds, rather than mon
ey," said half aloud, in the glow of ear
nest feeling, and went back again, into the
:, ing, busy, stirring world, to take up the
,ho.;n or for brief season and bend
"a NV work with a serener spirit, and, |
trust, rob!er life purpose.