The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-11-11

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big hearted and kind as all heroes
must be whether in story or real life.
This hero was trying to harden his
heart and / reckon he thought the old
skinfint would be sort of tracer to
him. So the old fellow delivered him.
self to the kind-hearted hero something
like this: "You are saving, ambitious,
and firm in all matters until you see
other folks suffering, and then you
get as timber as rag. I admire you
for it admire you for being just
like you are, and seeing the way you
act makes me ashamed of the road
over which I've reached my own in
dependence" That sounds good, and
you have heard it. These old stingy
rich admire generosity and sympathy
for suffering On the part of others.
They still have a little touch of hu-
manity left, sufficient to admire gen
erosity in the other fellow. But lis
ten to the continuation of this phil
osophy and answer me if you have not
seen it in real life. The old fellow
continues: "It makes me ashamed,
say, and yet, by golly, if had it to
go over again 70 take exactly the
same course I don't know but what
I'd hew closer to the line Of justice
and let no mans idle hand tilt the tub
LIN padding. Folks preach that self
sacrifice is the most beautiful thing
under the sun, and yet old Sac has to
walk through the mud and mire, while
Skin-flint is coming full tilt in a red
automobile and footing for him to
stand out of the way or get mashed
as fiat as a filter. That's life, Gil
bert. It looks like we were made to
live on our fellows just as bugs under
the bark of rotten trees do. Jim
amt far wrong when he says, Cast
thy bread upon the waters, go hun
cry, and let the mud-tuTtles have
FEAST"
You know there is a great deal of
truth, from the human viewpoint, in
the old Skin-fint's philosophy. A
great deal of the charity and the sac
riice and self-denial that we read
about and hear about is always beau
tiful and commendable in the other
fellow, but the Skinfints don't see,
much beauty and loveliness in it when
called upon to make the self-denial
and the sacrifice themselves. And
when We see how they prosper in
temporal affairs who never do any,
thing for anyone but themselves We
are sometimes almost tempted to for
get. Remember what.I wrote in my
last and read again the quotations
that I made from that Great Book,
and do not forget. "Cast thy bread
upon the waters" and it will return,
though it may be many days." Lis
ten to further soliloquy on this some
rich merchant:
| The hero after he returned to his
plow from his conference with the
wealthy merchant soliloquized in part
as follows: what, in any sense, did
the whole awful struggle Of life mean?
With all the wealth Daggart (the rich
skinfint) had piled up, what
whay had the merchast profted?
Who loved him? Who cared if
he lived or died? It had been
said of Daggart's wife, now in her
grave for a twelvemonth, that she
had not loved him deeply. The sordid
chase for wealth in her long, child
less period Of wifehood had afforded
her no moment of ease or pleasure.
After all, Gilbert mused, it was such
irresponsible individuals as his broth
er David who would part with money
as rapidly as he would accept tit
was such as they who would be miss
ed and even mourned.''
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There you are. Money is good, but
only good when used to a good pur-
pose. You may not believe it, but it
is as true as the Great Book itself.
Improper use Of it will be visited to
the third and fourth generation. And
if it were not, what are you going to
do about it and with it when you come
to the common level Of all humanity?
All Of it can't purchase one heart
throb, but its proper use Will give
pleasant recollections and add to the
comfort Of the passage beyond.
I read in an Atlanta paper the 9TH
eT day where Miss Geraldine Farrar,