The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
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him, but his timely entrance renders the prophecy even more effective.
 The characters are all interesting. and sharply differentiated from each other, there Is the clearest unfolding of. each individuality. the hnest work ing out of character. If the book points a moral 1t is that old truth what q man sows he shall also reap.
 'TIecia Sandwith" arouses expecta- ton of greater things to come from the authors pen. and certainly every read CT will be keenly interested to watch for the full maturity of this new writer.
 Perhaps because MT. Valentine was first a poet, he, has stamped his prose with the rarer and profounder insight of poetry.
 The book is dedicated to James Lane Allen. who has so exquisitely depicted life in Kentucky.
 by Robert Herrick.
 The cheapest thing to get in this world Is money. If you have the ideas the money will flow like water down hill" This is the theorem of a propo- sition that Von Harrington set himself to solve. and it's @. E.. D. read Suc- cess Professor Herrick is Americas
  who sees the romance of a packing house and the millions that 1t makes for its owners, the glow in the vision of great railways opening up to thou sands of emigrants the vast wealth of the Southwest; he reads his Golden Legend in the story of the garnering in and scattering out of all the food products of the teeming earth. This is indeed the day when a mans pulse beats in his pocket, when his heart throbs with the systole and dias- tole of a full or empty purse, when his brain cells move with the clink of coin. Professor Herrick seizes on this pas sion for gain and makes romance of 1t as the Wizard of the North made TO-
 nance of the passion for fight of the Crusaders. or of the Covenanters. Behind or rather in the worlds sight before the passion for fight was the Canae So in the fight for millions there
 sounds the cry for Progress. And vast fortunes do mean progress
 for the world Who is crushed by l one mans millions? Not one man who | does his share of the worlds work. The shirker and the laggard look on l at the heaper of millions and cries out | at the injustice of it when his rightful I output of industry or practice of self
 denial would secure for him his quota
 of this Wvorld's goods.
 | | small loans to the village folks on their | bits of property and foreclosed just
 mortgages was a greater rascal for all | his long hypocritical face, and Phara sical life than was Harrington with his
 "switch-backs" In Chicago. his fifty
 thousand of preferred stock" in his packing trust, his "persuasions" of Judge, his securing a seat in the Uni
 ted States Senate. It Is the same with
 but a difference in degree. Was Will Harrington who willingly saw his
 brother Van leave the old farm and | start without a dollar. who won his
 sweetheart, May. any better man than
 was Van. who winning fortune by
 methods as selfish means in the great
 city, sought out his brother and set
 him on the road to fortune7 It Is a hard world to sit in judgment 1 on and he who makes the effort gets
 early tangled in a web of hypocracies | and convictions.
 Will and May sitting in judgment on 1 Van withdrew from the easy way of l wealth and fell in with the long array of failures and cranks,t self-righteous
 to the last as If there were due pun
 ishment to be allotted as well for the | disregard of the command Judge Not"
 as for any other command of the Old | Book.
 He was plain crank now! "I'll buy this paper for you-or I'll
 start a new one for you to curse me and my friends with-if you'll just take May and the children and go down to my farm in the country-when you've got back your health, then you can start in to baste me as good as you've a mind to-"
 Does Mir. Herick intend to preach
 that the worst course of humanity Is the drying up within ones soul of the | N.N- H.. AL l process be by acquiring great wealth
 or submitting to great poverty And the secondly to MT. Herick's ser
 mon on the gospel of wealth is:
 There's mighty little happiness in a million dollars" That Is a fact: however the million is acquired. Food, clothes, shelter, diff fering in degree is all that money can buy.
 What makes life worth living2 Love,
 honor. work, friends, peace. content. Great wealth oftentimes cancels several of these good things from life. So does extreme poverty. ~~ Give me neither riches nor poverty"
 for the crimes. losses, discontents. miseries of either case are often equal and often similar. ":~-> Farson who had made his millions
 by older, slower. and perhaps better methods is contrast to Harrington who has seized his millions without patience without scruples.
 "Farson congratulated me dryly on the success had met with in the nego-
 tiations.
 T hope, then, we shall have your support" I remarked, forgetting our past dispute.
 T am here to see that my friends are taken care of" he replied grimly;
 "all we hope Is to get our money back from the properties. My people do not understand you and your genera tion We are better apart" T am sorry you think so." said.
 understanding well enough what he meant.
 "'I am sorry. too, sorry for you and
 for our country in the years to come.