The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-12-31
Fanbrother Fancies
Being j Few Observations on the Holiday Week JUST Closed

Suppose Mrs. Green had bought all the
boys and girls candy. canes and WOODY
toy cows ana penny; banks u, which she
didn't. but suppose{ she had done so.--Nwlhy,
in d twinkling OF Gnass.s, almost, she
lwou1d have passed from the Gistinetiori
tEgof being the richest woman IN America
Ito b hesgared o~utcnst-for there y are
millions 81 little boys and girls In the
world, and w;oply toy COWS and candy
IsclaiiyNif you 8 s5out to buy eighteen or
twenty million f thom.
The fact that Mrs. Green had the good
ness of heart 10 remember the Hoboken
boy and she thought enough, OF him 10
buy not only q couple sof candy canes,
but d woody toyEcow and a penny bank,
Isl to- her credit, and i am not AMONG
the list who rushed In and threw off
on the pi1ilanthropic old lady who seems
determined to livo5jand die the rlchest
woman In America.
II WAS also recorded. l believ4 In the
Times Dispatch, along with these tnunin-
cent gifts OF John Rockefeller and Mrs.
Green, that 't13ig Tim Sullivan, OF New
York, went down In his jeans and pitt
lup the price OF seyon thousand Christmas
,tdinners for seven thousand hungry and
homeless Bowery} lodgcrE. Now. the mo-
tive that moved Jphn Rockefeller and
Mrs. Green was the same motive that
moved Sullivan, Sullivan simply. went
further, and, while ho fed moregthan the
other two philRnthropists, II you viii
figure II out, Rockefeller rave more than
Sullivan, and 50 did Mrs. Green. lggtako
II that the dim ers did not cost over a
dollar each, and truly two candy cln cs,
a toy woolly. COW and a penny bank could
not have been purchased for the price
OF onefdinner. And then rockefeller gave
a w1iole five-spot to those whom ho re-
m%embered, and this only thing about II
was that neither Mrs.: Green nor. Mr..
Rockefeller had as many people in mind
as Sullivan. Lot us keep this thing
straight as we 81 nlofg-for history al
ways gets perverted when ass covers It.
100 &a1ls954a
1t not be a good Idea for people who are
disseminated, and who md great pleasura
and satisfaction IN railing out against tho
rich, to SIT down and figure 1t out and see
that the rich are absolutely essential TO
the progress and development OF the coun-
try. The poor man who works for two
dollars a day or &three dollars day on
some public Improvement may curse this
rich man who passes. by him In hts gay
%equippaso, but lie should not do It. He
should remember that Old Money Bags.
whenathe city8wanted to pave Its streets
and issue bonds, was the man who had
saved his money, and was able to buy
the bonds--nblo4sto shell out tho hard
cash, and thus make the Improvement
possible,
II ali the world was reckless with It's
coin Il II lived from hand to mouth and
no one over saved, there could bog$no
public improvements; there would be no
bonds offered for sale. because no $$ons
would have tho money to buy them. on
tho other hand. the frugal and conserva-
tive citizen, who So yes his money ana
abuses the man whom he calls a spend
thrift. should remember that IL all men
were boarding their wage ana their pro-
FITS. that there would DO no ycirculatine
medium--the wealth would ali be IN chests
and vaults, mi each man would be mis-
cradle. 48AS
In the economy OF tho world there arc
the two sides and the two extrennos /
never could get itsinE my mind to despisB
a rich man or envy him his possessions.
Il always figured IT that lie was playing:
his part and Il awonld play@mlne.t I used
to think that the little story OF silas
Mariner, written by George Eliot was ms
me as anything I ever read. because. ]
made myself believe that the moral was
be remembered that Mariner boarded his
gold and counted It with glitterinEE eyes
and that his whole life and soul were
wrapped up in 1t; that ono time robbers
came and took his money and left in Its