Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-15
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Ahe heau OI buo AAOuso anthropist, with Unexps&s<@ - ( zz-- = One day, just as we were seated at the din- ner table, MT. Bower queried:
 Mrs. Bowser, what have you done for charity this fall?"
 q have sent about $100 worth of money and clothing to our poor relatives in Ne braska"
 "Humphl l said charity"
 "Well, if you mean how many old tramps I have fed, how many beggars' baskets have filled and how many quarters l have handed out to frauds I can answer you that they are very few. What has started you on the sub ject of charity all at once!'
 'An at oncel The subject has always been of the deepest interest to me. have always felt sorry because had so little to give.n
 We said no more about it, but I took meas ures to discover what he was up to- He owned a lot with an old, dilapidated and untenanted house on it. He was intending to give this house to any one who would tear it down or remove it, but humanitarian advanced a brighter idea. He also owned an old house, but it was occupied by four or five families. He could get no rent, disliked the notoriety of ejecting them, and so he suggested to Mir, Rowser that our old shanty be put in repair for the reception of some poor and worthy people he knew of. MT. Bowser fell into the trap. He bought lumber, hired carpenters and had paid out S200 before the house was habitable. He tried to keep it all from me, but kept posted on the work nevertheless When everything was ready four families swarmed into the house and blessed Mir. Bow ser. When he came home that night his heart was full and after a little skirmishing around he said:
 Mrs Bowser something happened today to melt my heart"
 tsYes What was itf'
 ''I let four poor families move into our old house over there, rent free, and you ought to have heard them asking Heaven to bless me. It made me feel like woman-like a child. I wish I was rich enough to help ten thou sand poor folks"
 !'Well, hope they will appreciate what you have done"
 "Why, of course they will! Any one of them would crawl on his hands and knees for me"
 ''But will they be satisfied with what you have already donel"
 ''There you gol If you had your way about it, you'd lock the doors and burn 'em all upl Statistical Of course they will be and are-more than sat-
 The bell rang, and the girl said it was a man to see Mir. Bowser. He went to the door, and the caller said:
 Had a deuce of time to find you, old chap, but I've finally hit 1t. Say, do you know my wife feels imposed uponi You give that Clark family the best rooms in the house, and they are no better than we are. I'll do my best to coax the old woman to be- have herself, however, but you will have to come down with some tin. l want s for grub and fuel.n
 Mir. Bowser gave it to him and hurried him out of the house. I pretended not to have noticed anything, but he continued to look anxious until bedtime. We were just through breakfast next morning when a woman came to the door and inquired for MT. Bowser AS he went into the hall she said:
 "And is this the way you treat poor aud unfortunate fanilyG' My good woman, what is its'
 IA good deal, sir. Only one penstock for four families to get water at, and there's rats in your old shanty, sir-ratsI And dc you know we have no wood to burnt Think of a Christian man expecting people to gei along this weather without woodn l He gave her some money and hurried off | days. Then two women, who had evidently been pulling hair all the way over, reached our house as Mir. Bowser came up They wanted something settled. They wanted i settled then and there. They didn't care SC much about the absence of a door plate, but as one of them demanded:
 "We want to know, sir, who owns then front door steps, and whose children havt the right to knock out the window glassr'
 don't know how he settled it. When h. came in he looked so uncomfortable that did rot ask any questions. Next day ther was a man to see him, and on the day fol lowing a woman came to make compl aint and for six weeks hardly a day passed tha some of his free tenants did not show up ol one excuse or another. The last one cam, from whole family-husband, wife anC five children. We were in bed when the, came. They pulled the bell until Mir. Bow ser raised a window and asked what wa wanted.
 "We want you to come downm replied tn man.
 And give an account of yourself" adde the woman
 Mir Bowser went down. They gave hr fits about the water, the stairs, the iron gate, the woodshed, the cellar and the cei ings. They wanted all the other familie turned out, the street paved, the house pain ed and the rooms papered. They were out c meat, potatoes, wood and flour. He argue and discussed, and finally told them to go the county house. At this they all jumpe for him, and nothing but a strong door save him from violence.
 "Was it some one who wanted the doctor 1 asked as he came up stairs.
 Mrs. Bowser, do you hear mel" he replie as he struck an attitude under the dim ga light.
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 "Then let me warn you that this has gor far enoughl am done with charity! If yo ever get me into another such scrape you hear from my lawyer as soon as I can file bill."
 But didn't get"- That's enoughl You'd squirm out of knot holei I'll go over and set fire to th
 whole business to-morrowp But that very night the old house burne , to the ground, and Mir. Bowser didn't expre } his qualification that all the inmates escape