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Show Till: ASSaCI.T i) .M.VCK.H. John W. Mackay la about the hat man In tho world who would have been thought of by thoao who know him at the target for an aaiaialn. He la Immensely wealthy, Uv haa not beenexolutlvo, mlterly oreelflih with It all; on the cuntriry, hi record of gool deelt quietly ptrhirmod la a long one, and the encouragement he la aald toliave given to thote wha eomod to him to dieervo It would If tubllahed make a volume 'if no mean proportion). propor-tion). And hulaoka thtt haughllnna and dladatn which oharactorlzt nine out of ten men who own morolhan the gemrallty of their felhwa, being atninblonniacceitlhlo now at when hit aula xa-otalont wro hla wagea aa a miner. True, Lit family live lu a rather nrlttocratlo If notoatentat oua manner beyond tho aea, ' their modo of life nnd pi ice of abode being aouir what antaontatlo to the demooratto plrlt uf the lent In which they got Ihelr moi.r)-; but that la altogether a mitlur of tatte, aomethlng with which they alone have to do. There la nothing of that kind about Mr. Mackay hlmtttf, nothing, at far at wo havu hiard, tojuitlfy anyone In harborl g reiontraont nitnlntl him; nnd It It a anfu aaertlin that hla aiaillant waa one of thote narrow-minded narrow-minded cranka who are oppo! to othera' having money which they will not divide with everybody who do mnnila It. |
