Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-03

The opportunity has passed. for rich
men make the laws. Millionaires con-
troll the United States senate and will
resist any tax that limits or lessons
their estates.
But 1T is wrong for us to envy tho
rich. In the economy of life and the
ursuits of happiness it seems necessa-
ry TO have rich men. They build
ships. railroads, canals telegraphs
and telephones. cotton and wooden
mills. reapers. mowers. -four mills and
n thousand other plants that furnish
us with food and clothing and add 10
the comfort of mankind The world
would make slow progress without
them. but when they begin to unload
their vast profits mankind will criti-
Cize the manner of it. Generally they
unload il on their children. who never
earned dollar of it. Some of them
would carry il all to heaven with them
If they could Many OF them give n
part of ii to some church or charity as
a kind of passport to heaven. An old
friend Of mine who was pretty hard up
borrowed s. from me one morning to
pav one of those darn little Just debts
as he called them. He said his creGi-
tor was annoying him. but before 70
left my office a committee from the
country called and asked us to help to
build u country church l gave them
dollar but my friend subscribed s.
and handed over the bill that | had
leaned him. After they had left ask
ed him why he gave me much and he
said: We'll, | always give that mucn
to help build church. / do not he
long to any, for have not yet felt
good enough to join. but l have lived
in five counties and practiced my pro
fession in fourteen and | have helpe1
to build country churches in all os
them. 1t may be that death will catch
me unawares before l do Join the
church and ST Peter will refuse me
admission into the heavenly gate.
| But / will have one credential for
can say: st. Peter, know | have
not been a good man and am not flt
to mingle with the saints, but have
got little stock in every country
church from Rabun's Gap to Tallapoo-
sa-and maybe he Will let me in-may
be so. Major, could you lend me
another So without Inconvenience" -"
or course I did, for he was one friend
whom l never refused He did join
| the church and l believe he is in
heaven now.
Charity is the greatest and most
blessed of all virtues. AS the poet
says: at is twice blessed. 1t bless
ath him that gives and him that doth
receive" But when a man with slOC-
| coo income gives away s. .001 of il u
ease his conscience and secure n pass
port to heaven he makes a mistake
1t yill do neither 4 mans standing
in the community is determined more
by his charity than anything else
! How much does he give TO the church
and how much to the poor is discussed
| by his neighbors and he is rated az
cordingly.
Not long ago I gave a problem to
the young people If n man sells a
SOW and pigs for SIS and gets as much
| for one-tenth OF the SOW as h did
for nine-tenths OF n pig how many
pigs did she have? | have received Il
| scores of anSwerS-moSt OF them MAX
| ing II nine pigs and some ten pigs
| one smart girl makes it seventy-two
| pigs and one smarter man proves that
the SOW had 1871 pigs. Strange TO
say every answer is correct Nine
| pigs gives 50 for the SOW and 81 ca II
| for the pigs; Scventy-two pigs gives
81 for the SOW and II 80 cents for Il
pig and it would take seventy-two pigs
TO make the SIG. Nine cents for the
SOW would give ! cent for each piS
and therefore require 1,73l pigs to
up the S1S. 1t is a see-saw sum. AS
the price Of the SOW goes down the
number of pigs goes up and any num-
ber is correct. Now let me ask the
| school boys and girls to hold up lit
tie on compositions and speechei
Please excuse me for / have not the
time. It would take every hour in
the day to comply with ell their re-
quests.-Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitu-
hon.