New Ulm review., 1906-12-26

and many other men in the Northwest
did their part, in securing lands fraud
udently, says the article.
Weyerhaeuser' wealth and OPP
portunity grew out of national
crime. AS shrewdly as the first Astor
sought out and accumulated New
York city property, Weyerhaeuser
has sought out and secured the best
timber property asserts another
section of the narrative.
One recent deal is said to have net
ted Mr. Weyerh haeaser profit'of $780,,
900, 900.
After awhile he'll be unable to en-
Joy that old nursery rhyme diversion
of Old King Cole, counting out his
money! He'll have so much he can't
count it.
Well, we'll, if ST. Paul really has
the very richest man in the world,
what about him? How does he live?
Where does he spend his time?
Who knows him? Who ever sees
him? How about his social standing.
Lots of people in St. Paul don't
even know his names in the directory.
Lots more never had a glimpse of him.
The magazine calls him imam of
mystery" just about right, too, may
be.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser lives in a
substantial, but not at all pretentious,
home on Summit ave. He has sew
eral children, some married, others
single, and his wife is living, yet it
isn't often the Weyerhaeusers are
chronicled at swell functions of the
$780," though, of course, they are
entirely eligible from every aspect
st. Paul News.
The lesson which Christmas ought
to bring to every civilized human
being is the opportunity which is
afforded everyone to make fellow NOR
tails happy.
We do not care to morali ize or SER
monize on this joyful day, but we do
sometimes wonder why more people
who have been favored by fortune do
not seek for happiness for themselves
by making some one else happy and,
while they live, seeing them enjoying
their happiness. The happiest moment
in a PERSONS life is when he or she
has made some one else happy. and
is there on the spot to see and drink
in that cup of bliss which is the su-
premest of all happiness.
That is the homely and important
lesson of Christmas which the whole
world ought to realize and appreciate.
TO give after death is to deprive
your gift of one hundred per cent Of
it's joys. The world is so full Of op-
portunity to relieve misery and suffer
ing that it is difficult to understand
why people who really have generous
impulses do not seek to have some of
the joys of life themselves.
We are not speaking in the sense of
giving aims to mendicants, but COM
menting on the broader sense of the
finer feelings Of humanity which are
touched when played upon by the
heart throbs of humanity. A person
does not have to be wealthy in this
| world to be bounteous and JOY
! giving almoner. Kind words to a
person in distress; encouraging words
to discouraging and disheartened
fellow being can be made more etfec-
tive than rubies or precious gems.
| If you are able and inclined to aid
a fellow mortal with something practi-
| cal do not wait until you have filed a
homestead pre-emption upon six feet
| by two of rea. estate where you lie
down like an animal to be forgotten
unhonored and unsung If you have
real charity in your heart turn 1t or
yourself and make yourself joyous be-
cause you have lightened the burden
of fellow mortal.
! Christmas day and Christmas time
are fleeting. Remember that the worlt
is full of grown up children whose
hearts are aching for encouragement
and sympathy. To go through llt'
and add to no ones comfort is tt
make life dismal failure, and such ;
person had better never have beer
born.
TO secure the love and gratitude Q
some pure being, young or old, NAL
or female. is to secure the beautltude
IN 4.