Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-06-18

He had spread on the lather and was
strapping the razor.
"Some folks say BARRIERS talk too much,
said he, "but have been in the business
these 20 years and never noticed il.
A gentleman rode by in his carriage.
"There goes old higgins, said the bar
Der. "He shaves himself. There is one
thing l never could understand about
rich men. Why is it that as soon as
man gets lot of money his opinion at
once becomes valuable2 Why is it that
when man has invented potato peeler
on an idea which his wife gave him and
has made fortune out of it, he at once
becomes an oracle and can answer knotty
questions in ethics or metaphysics or
political economy to everybody's satisfac-
ton? / can't seem to reason it out why
man who has run milk route for 81
years and hidden the proceeds of it under
the corner of the carpet until he becomes
rich enough to retire, should know more
about therapeutics than whole conven-
ton of doctors and revised edition of
materia medica, but the world takes his
diagnosis of every disease, physical,
mental or moral, political or ecclesiastical.
i knew a man once who went West be-
cause he couldn't make living at any
thing at home. Going over mountain
one day he stubbed his toe on nugget of
gold and shoveled up enough to make
him rich. When he came back home
the people thought they had all been mis-
taken when they judged him TO be a fool.
He had money, you see, and that made
him wise. There was another man in
our town who lent his brother some
money and when the time came
to pay it the brother had nothing
but some land in Chicago-bog land
at that. The man didn't want to take il
said it wasn't worth paying taxes on.
His brother said it would make him rich
some time; that the city would grow up
to it. The man called him fool, but he
took the land because it was all his
brother had. The brother is still poor,
and his opinion isn't worth the wind il
takes to express it, but the man sat still
and that land made him rich and an or
acle. People point to him as great
fnancier and seek his advice in the mat
ter of getting rich or getting religion or
anything else. Maybe you remember
when Rufus Hatch was rich, how people
clamored for his opinions; how they
would travel half way across the conti-
nent to get him to give them 10 minutes
of advice. Don't you know how the news
philosophical things about the best way
to cook a shad or to buy horse, or to
hold your cue at billiards? Why, any
editor in New York would have given
Rufus Hatch dollar a minute to talk for
publication on any subject under the sun
or above it. Rufus Hatch is poor now.
He was sued for a few dollars a little
while ago and couldn't satisfy the judg.
ment. You never hear of anybody want
ing his opinion these days, though he
probably knows heap more than he did
when he was rich. l tell you, sir, money
makes the mare 90, and the opinion, too.
A Door man must keep his mouth shut in
this world. Nobody wants to hear what
he has to say.
@Powder, sir? Thank you, sir. Come
again.
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