The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-22


would you be content with your mill III
lion or SO and buy house and
yacht and some silk pajamas and
shirts with monograms embroidered
on the sleeves? In short, would you
Keep On money grubbng and trying
TO get more gold would you quit?
The overwhelming chances are that
you will say you would quit The del.
ugi2g probabilities that, when the ~
tine came you would try to get lust
one million more" The end Of the
rainbow which marks the nesting
place OF the tabled pot of gold is always in
sight but never quite in reach Slightly edit
ing and revising the biblical dictum, ITO him
who hath" is given an Unsuitable appetite for
more.
Glancing hurriedly up and down the list
OF Americans OF millions. it Is difficult to pick
out bare fraction of them who have found
that enough was Sufficient. Uncle Russell
Sage never lost his interest In interest Aunt
Hetty Green still loves to stroke the fur Of
a coupon and hear 1t purr William Waldorf
Astor was born on couch upholstered with
dainty bonds and beautifully tinted green
backs. and as soon he was able to toddle he
went into the uphostering business on his
own account and has been at 1t ever since.
moving to England and mixing up with expen-
sive royalty in the meanwhile, but always
keeping his eye on the main chance.
F. Augustus Heinze after getting hold of
more money than he knew what to do with out
in Montana. to New York and tried to
plant his dollars in productive soil. The cut
worms got it.
]. Pierpont Morgan. one of the money over
lords, generalissimo of finance. is SO busy get
ting more that he hasn't time to talk to those
whose vocabulary is limited to less than seven
figures.
Other instances might be cited in proof of
the contention that generally. the man with
millions doesn't quit.
But sustaining the rule, there are ex-
ceptions. and this is the story of one man who
quit, Thomas F. Walsh.
He had all kinds of money-white brown.
green and yellow, but he didn't become so
enamored of it that he couldn't let go. Mel
ther he impressed with its desrability
that he wanted more. He would rather talk
about oneeyed prospector that he knew
back in the days of Leadve's colicky baby
hood than he would about any business scheme
that human ingenuity could devise. He didn't
care to talk about making money. Those who
know him best assert that he would rather
give 1t away than increase that which he hG.V
One third of July few years ago MT. Walsh
walked down to the Boston & Maine railroad
station at Manchester-by-the-Sea and did some
things that left the eyes of the railroad
ployes hanging out like the old fashioned
knockers the front doors of New England.
Mr.. Walsh arrived quietly at the station. He
manifested no symptoms Of give-upativeness
and the employees were unprepared Digging
down into ample pocket he dragged forth
a roll Of tens and twenties-real money-and
began to skin on the top layers He handed
. bill to each of the men.
Tomorrow is the fourth of July and want
you boys to have good time" his ex-
PLANTATION. For few minutes the Manchester
station crew was utterly useess-pitifully In
competent 1t couldn't get its breath.
Say" whispered watchman who hap
pened to be of the elect on that auspicious oc-
casion. that roll of yellows that he pulled out
was big enough to stall freight"
Walsh heard about that remark and was SO
tickled over it that be got chummy with the
watchman and used to walk down and talk
with him every day or two.
This and other instances OF the generosity
of Mr. Walsh should not, however, have a
tendency to inject hope into the systems of
those who dog the footsteps OF the rich and
seek loans and contributions. One sure way
not to get money from Walsh is to ask him
for it. He has almost holy horror of the
CRATER and the person who writes hard luck
tales to those who are classed among the ultra
wealthy.
Once upon time, when he was Colorado's
commissioner at the Paris exposition Mr.
Walsh in his side excursions. discovered a
king. This particular monarch was Leopold
the gay old party with the severe but ample
whiskers who lately ruled over Belgium.
Come over and have a snack at my, camp"
remarked Mr.. Walsh. At all events that was
the substance of what he said
"TI try anything-once" was the attitude
of the monarch with the lilacs. Now It hap
pened that Mr.. Leopold. Rex. had been to a
number Of very fussy banquets. He had been
entertained numerously that terrapin didn't
thrill him any more. He knew all about the