Show 3 sidelights 1 D etla ff ir THE FINANCIAL COWARD masi there was a ti gnp I 1 in n years agone when pity and love and kindred feelings mado moil 1 I an brother to brother when not the question of note due or rent wita was tile all absorbing thought hut but that of illow how are freyou yell today to day chou lil boils moils hearty hearts swelled n them thein at tokens of brotherly love and kindness when friendship truo was the password to one nn another other alion lives of or borrow sorrow all and bharne were vera borno together by the many an AB a whole when only a true spirl spirit t of nobility each anians brow and A lid what have we now ask aal the lord of hosts how yo so leave valli vain coyed to follow allm how tile tho strength of bright manhood has given way to cringing cowardice illow how your to Manit mammon noll ilan torn away tile the gloss and glitter find and shows ilia babe clay aloof alas why these chilin changes gea now bt bitter tier never to have brn been born at af all than lioni born to the fatal cowering that financial cowardice compels I 1 seel bee tile the man anat who but bill yesterday i contained within him blin his illint of rooney motley how the bervile anil and the lowly glowed tit in humble servitude to tile man of wealth seel see how now penniless for kolten A shadow only of illin him who was and what miracle wrought the change his money blown his hh credit gone gona and today to day a fawning toady to those who are standing where yeL yen erday he was tile the man of drawn brawn who not lot long g since held high his head among his bis fe follow I 1 inell fabas find cringed at the leash of III his s financial taskmaster tile the taskmaster to whom lie ha OWN owes for lue ilia roof over lits hla just greying lead head ilia shoulders droop his eyes sullen the beast glares lurth forth I 1 irom from baleful eyes fingers clasping and titi unclasping clasping disarranged r aggedy dirty ilia flis shoulders narrowed by stooping bending to earn A few miserable thle erable peu tiles to save LIB ilia body to save av tile the gna or hunger but ilia ill choul ali ah that thai liua has gone the pitiless by threats and curses broken the soul till but a few shreds 0 of disembodied spirit which now sways this WILY and thea to that bar but of those things of the soul wait those feelings fee linga of tenderness humanity lov friendship that intangible part of Mail baz that ile king of all gave eav cis thi the nian of wealth to guasp but though the lie lody body that tant living ern blein of tritty fill ah rin r t and cower lit at the taskmaster tile the soul it id that belongs to him alone and the fatal finati cial cowardice that compels I 1 lie body to serve but suffices to lift tile the soul to him at and ot 0 the clio soul boul what then does it servo serve its mission liere here to allay the he pangs of nf hu hunger tiger the of conscience dov do to it relieve tile ilia weary and stride strick ec at no ITIs ta tha th soul that speaks and datu demands ut ht laet its it freedom from the tak mater naster ohl obi fatal fata financial cowardice art thou than i bound in its it fat fatal ai snare the little child weaned from its mothers breast I 1 loanes but too soon the tha sound of those word a alas how often Is the child compelled to go upon tile tha streets to look for peonies pennies crusta pieces of fuel in filth U and tit in muck and its little features pinched with cold its ila tiny hands scarce large enough to told hold a crust compelled to lo carry huge loads loada c ot wand or coal I 1 to save some loved one front from freehill fre freezing ezill at early morn batora barer tile tha sun lit la r ile he goes goe upon lila ilia way tr uia ilia rest foat scarce hidden in the torn taro shoes rho 1 1 I wind perol p ng his rugged clother U ilia 1 face stamped with tile the tare eare of ages ila his limbs bent beneath the bur deny dens I 1 I 1 lie ile Is cent compelled pelf ed so young to carry mud A oil at last hla his flaak aluad to la boine 0 only a tiny framo frame lit in a rough box T then cat cast away A nothing a worm A and who compels these things the man of family dillavou by his I 1 1 awl 11 aster L each part or of his hearl he artof of him hial compelled to go to eat hla life away because conditions I 1 doth make cowards a of lid all ohl oh how ile he the author of all must look aud and rand weep ye miserable maa loan cast aroln roin you its as the sha eldes of hell bell aliese g bondu bonds of j serf serfdom doin nd ask of him who far I 1 1 jandla away yet so near for the tha mercy for the iho love for the truth that denies B SY |