Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-07
The RICH AND POOR
Bill Arp ON Bank Accounts In This world
and the Next.

Dill arp ON Bank Accounts In This World
and the Next.
Riches are blessing and a comfort
when used Alright, but man who
hoards his money and is all bottled up
with his own selishness 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 to start
good bank account in the next world.
To money sonsstly gained. P eiaooo
Cr-By charities to the poor . $40, 900
Balance to be accounted for
But with most of the millionaires it
stands:
John Brown. Dr
No credit except the gifts contained
IN ms will, Excuses rendered.
Ine poor have gratitude"
The poor are lazy and might be
better on II 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 poor wom-
an picking up scraps at lumber yard
to make a fire, but it was nothing to
him. st. Peter was looking down and
charged him up with wood and cloth
Ing Tor that woman and her children,
and he Is charging up something to us
almost every day. 1t troubles me, and
am afraid to see that book. Some
poor folks are not grateful, know,
but most of them are That was a true
and beautiful verse that Lady Dufferin
wrote in the Irish Immigrants La
ment:"
am very lonely now. Mary
For the 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-roo aud from
the counting-room to their home again.
They never go about the homes of pow
erty. nor see the rented cabins with
broken windows and cracks in the floor
and the scanty covering on scanty
bed, and, as Tom Hood said:
wall so blank my shadow thank
For sometimes falling there.
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 suffer-
ing, starving thousands in one month
than she had done for ten years before.
1 never did believe that human
nature was innately, radically, incor-
rightly mean. 1t is selfish and thought
less, but just let a tender, touching
case come right up square before a
man and he will surrender. One time
l saw reckless, god-forsaken man
jump into mad, swollen, rushing river
to save poor boy from drowning. and
he saved him at the peril of his own
life. In 1854 l saw man lodged on
the end of a 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 thou
sands had congregated there from
neighboring cities. All efforts had
failed, and his wife and children were
weeping upon the bank. Suddenly a
man mounted upon a box and shouted
with appraised arms: Il will give S10,-
600 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 MANI" /
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 gentleman in Rome,
Ga, who was 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 a different drawer
in the iron safe. He would not use it
for any other purpose. Outside of
that he gave literally to public chart
ties. He said: Il owe to the Lord
one-tenth, but what 1 give to the poor
l lend to the Lord. He pays good in
terest and won't plead usury, or take a
homestead on me. Down here when
lend money / take security and make
them sign iron-clad notes that waive
homestead, and agree to pay all eX-
penses of collection, and even then
they get me sometimes; but 1 take no
note from the Lord. 1 don't even
charge it up to Him. He keeps the