Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-03-15
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Why Poverty IL q Blessing.

Why Poverty Is a Blessing.
"Taw, what's All this in the Papers
about Poverty being Blessing:" NAV
asst.
That's the latest discovery" paw
says. This Is the Glsiitest aige of dis
cuverics the world Ever seen. Eve.y
few Days they are some new kind of a
discovery. One week they Discover
Wireless TELEGRAPH pole and the next
Day sumbudd Gets up from the Table
in hurry and says: Excuse me a few
Minutes. l got to go out and Discover
Limf to keep people from Ever
Growing old or else he discovers how
to freeze air and then thaw it So It'll
be icewater.
$50 Andur Carniggy got to Thinking
about it the Other day, and he thot he
would DO little Discovering, becoZ
llaft to Tare off the next Bunch of Coop
pOns. He thot and thot and thot trying
to Discover sumthing that would make
him faimus. but the more he ThOt the
more it Seemed neerly Everything had
been discovered before he got at it, and
they didn't seem to be Emmy way left
to Bring Il little Glad sunshine Into his
Life. That mite he had to Make a
Speech before Some people that
haven't Ennything to live for except
how to find Sum way to Get rid of the
Worry n pursOn has after they get
more Than Leven or Fourteen million
dollars. and When he Got up on the
Stage he had happened to Look ut the
Faces in front of him and There he
seen Iiockyfello. That made him think
of what he was trying to Discover all
the time 1t was just like ii he would
of Been inspired. and he sed:
"'Poverty is II BLESSING
1.-The unhappy mllyunaircs that were
I.issening to Him broke out in Wild
apploz and give him three Cheers. 1t
was One of the most Tutching things
Ever happened. Strong men wep and
wimmen who haft to Use Marble Bath
tubs neerly tainted when they Thot of
the Blessings of the poor and Then Re
melnbered their own trubbles. The
poor Don't haft to worry for fear the
cOacllmnn might get drunk and Let the
horses Run away when they are Going
home from the Grand opera. The poor
don't Need to BE afl1de the ship mite
Sink while they Take three Trips to
Yoorup every year. The poor needn't
Toss about at mite thinking mebby one
of the Survents mite run Away with
Dimund necklace valued at three hun
dred Thousan dollers and dimunds GO
ing up every day on Account of the
War in Africky. The poor Don't haft
to think their sons mite Get their necks
Broke playingpolo or chasing bags with
annus seed in them. The poor don't
Haft to Worry Becoz the Butler was
tob6}" ' Wei; " Ohm the shampane Bottle
before he Rrot 1t In where the Cumpny
Is. when they paid Thurty sents a Bot
tie extry to have the Cobb webs put
On. The poor Don't haft to he afrade
their privut Car mite be left Standing
out Oh the track where it'll get Rained
on or mebby the Sailors mite no how
to Unlock the side Board on the ate
wv thVt
fawthcr gave them for birthday
present.
IAN these Things and n Lot more |
can't think of just now Come to Andy
in a Flash when he looked at the Sad
faces Of the hitch In trunt of Him. and
it's no Wonder Sum of Them almost
Broke down when they thOt How they
had rocked their lives by getting So
they could Own counties here and there
with Cassels on Them and have Their
own ice Cut. So when the meeting
was over they all went up and shook
Andy's hand. and when they Went
away from there every one Had new
resolve in his hart"
"What was thnt?" nav asst.
"To go on Nobly sacriticin' them
selves and their Time and happiness to
keep welth from WHARF it mite bring
Misery and dispcpsy to millyuns Of
their Renited countrymun who don't no
Enuff to Enjoy a first Class blessin'
When they've got it and can't get out
from under it," paw says.-Chicago
Times Herald.