Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-26
THE RICH AND THE POOR.
Bill Arp ON Bank Accounts In this World
and the Next.

From the Atlanta Constitution
Riches is a blessing and a comfort when used
Alright, but man who boards his money and is
all bottled up with his own selfshness is fool
and a fraud. Nobody cares whether he lives
or dies. In fact, they would rather he should
die. Neither God nor men are his friends.
The nation moaned for Peabody, but who
moaned for A. T. Stewart? Now is the time for
man to start good bank account in the next
world.
John Brown DIR.
To money honestly gained. ............ $4,000
Cr.-By charities to the poor. 81, 600
Balance to be accounted for
But with most of the millionaires it stands:
John Brown Dr.
To money gained by sharp practices. 81, 0O0, 900
No credit except the gifts contained
in his will. Excuses rendered
THE poor have no gratitude"
1.-THE poor are lazy and might be
better off if they would work..
never knew stingy. selfish man who didn't
roll those excuses under his tongue. John
Brown was riding along one cold morning and
saw apoor woman picking up scraps at a 1um-
Der yard to make fire, but it was nothing to
him. st. Peter was looking down and charged
him up with wood and clothing for that woman
and her children, and he is charging up some
thing to us almost every day. 1t troubles me
folks are not grateful, know, but most of them
are. That was true and beautiful verse that
Lady Dufferin wrote in the "Irish Immigrants
LAMENT
II am very lonely row. Mary,
Forthe Poor make no new friends;
But oh! they love the better still
The few our Father sends"
The trouble with many of our rich people is
they don't know the wants of the poor They
never see them; Their daily journey is from
their beautiful home to the counting-room and
from the countlng-room to their home again.
They never go about the homes of poverty, nor
see the rented cabins with broken windows and
cracks in the floor, and the scanty covering on
scanty bed and. as Tom Hood says:
"A wall so blank my shadow 1 thank
For sometimes falling three"
London did not know she had poor people
until Hood wrote that ''Song of the Shirt, -
and all of sudden London began to weep
with pity and was aroused, and did more for
the suffering, starving thousands in one
month than had been done for ten years be-
fore
never did believe that human nature was
innately. radically. incorrigibly mean. It is
selfish and thoughtless. but just let tender
touching case come right up square before a
man and he will surrender. One time / saw
<eckless, God-forsaken man jump into a
mad, swollen, rushing river to save poor
boy from drowning, and he saved him at the
peril of his own life. In 1854 saw a man
lodged on the end of log that had been
caught among the rocks Just above the brink
of Niagara Falls.
For thirty-six hours the people had been
trying to rescue him, and thousands had con-
gregated there from neighboring cities. All
efforts had failed, and his wife and children
were weeping upon the bank Suddenly
man mounted upon box and shouted, with
appraised arms: Il will give $4,000 to any,
body who will save that man. Here, is my
check for the money! and he handed his
check to the mayor. who is that man?''
inquired, and the answer was: HE is the
meanest man in Buffalo," There is a tender
spot in most every heart.
But still these spasmodic charities won't do
to rely on. 1t is a systematic charity that
keeps the world alive. There was an old gem
tleman in Rome, Ga, who was a banker, and
he laid aside 81 out of every $40 that he made.
That Was the Lords money, he said. and he
gave it to the churches. He kept it in DIFF
ferent drawer in the iron safe. He would not
use 1t for any other purpose. Outside of that
he gave literally to public and private chari-
ties. He said: II owe to the Lord one-tenth,
but what give to the poor lend to the Lord.
He pays good interest. and won't plead usury
nor take a homestead on me. Down here when
lend money take security and make them
sign lron-clad notes that waive homestead and
agree to pay all expenses of collection, and
even then they get me sometimes; but take
no note from the Lord. / don't even charge
it up to Him. He keeps the books.''