Show This 5 is to b be wrote on the subject t of H The C Curse Corse of Riches a aAs As Ju for us ua I aa ed prop Prof of the Boogie we dont don't know so 80 very much about this being being beng be- be ing ng as we aint newer been cursed by y riches to enny great extent ayou a as you rou might say although we would be e willing to be cursed that way if we only had haff a But in n the absents of enn enny Y knowledge on the 8 we weve have ve looked up statistics like we weft haft ft to do sometimes sometime when w write a on we we dont don't know about and now 1101 we feel competent to handle this In a very Vety intelligent cr manner The only person In Bingville who we can think of who is cursed with riches or in other words the person erson who is is the most cursed inthis in tin this his manner is our estimable townsman Cy Hoskins who has the reputation of being not only he the richest 5 most man but also aho the stingiest and tightest tightest- wad amongst all of our We per m that's how Cy comes to be be rich rich rich-by by being so tight We if he charge 10 or 10 16 per cent when he makes make a loan and if the he take mortgages on widders orfan property and then foreclose foreclose foreclose fore fore- close the mortgages without shoving showing showing show show- ing enny mercy Cy wouldn't be bc much better off offen en the rest of us We wouldn't wouldn t call Cy cursed with riches so much as we would call him cursed cursed- with tig I Let et us take tak another example of ofa a rich man who is cursed cured b by his riches and that's hats John D. D Rocky- Rocky I feller whoever he is Ve have read from time to time that this this' I Rocky feller chap is worth millions I and millions of dollers whereas we I I know until u we e read that i that there was that much mon money y inthe in inthe inthe the world The They say that John D D. has so ro much money that he dont don't know what to do with it 7 I it be c nise nis to be in that We Ve should sa say as much But it its right here that Johns curses come an in he hc is so bogged down and overwhelmed with cash that all his time is took up in passing M it out to the needy and them as aint got enny cash of their own Ewer we read that we have been thinking ng that it might bea be ge I a good idea If we was to set down i isome some day and take our pen in hand and write John D. D a letter setting forth our financial to the effect that we aint got one round doller to rub agin another most of the time owing to the fackt that most of our subscribers subscribers subscribers sub sub- scribers is dead beets and owes oveS U us es from 10 to 15 per each which they ant aint newer paid and probably newer will and therefore would he be so kind and obliging as to jest write us a check for say a few hundred dollers if it wouldn't inconvenience him enny I and mail same to us so that we could take it to th the co seat and git gith it h cashed and replenish our our finances somewhat has said It aint no disgrace to be poor This may betrue be betrue I true but its inconvenient I at times when you need money It may be true that folks dont don't look down on a man he is ia poor and yet if a poor man 1 becomes be bo- comes rich folks begin to look up to him right away like In we desire to repeat re repeat repeat re- re peat what we said at the outset of this namely viz if some Borne kind hearted person who has more money than they know what to do with will kindly curse us with a batch of it we will be I terrible thankful |