Show I 1 I 1 if I 1 were a rich mw man I 1 I 1 if I 1 were a rich man said mr harris is 1 tand and 0 suppose 0 0 7 you ou were neighbor what whai th then eul saws said I 1 mr r brown r own wha overheard this exclamation I 1 1 1 why id d rive give to the poor and ana roop reap the pleasure plea kire of charity oh arity A I 1 I 1 I 1 t would would I 1 you 11 yes kirmos air most t certainly arid and wish to keep IL a trine for this purpose and for ht and ride in in your carriage when yo you u might ag a well iel ll 11 go afoot a foot 01 0 sir noti air brown and would prove un an ho honorable adorable ex exception among meo men would you tou 1 il 1 I should ya 7 1 T chink bi I 1 fi k I 1 ant what V hat mikes think you yon would be lo 10 much bet better ter than tha ahe rich in ia general gene iAl 3 ah h I 1 cant say exactly I 1 suppose ii is because I 1 so frequently experience the in venie venh noes of poverty tv I 1 13 yon poor mr lip aa harris why 1 I al always ways considered you ou a wealthy man me w cair I 1 could not noi muster alive hundred bollara do llara if I 1 should oll evar everyn thing I 1 poe I 1 aos I 1 web rich pd id like to own mi my dinner before I 1 eat it 1 I am sure 1 I 1 should I 1 grow grov fat agthe at the bare thought I 1 I 1 but mr harris arris ww would you really do if yoa were iivo ag rich as jacob astor well awell front I 1 dont know exactly what I 1 vituld I 1 do much money as baud but one thing it is cei certani tail 1 pd jive give all the poor pool in ike the neighborhood 6 aa one 1 rood good dinner 1 is a that all 1 aej 1 repeat the dose so ao often that the leanest i should cry elou enough 9 hp 1 I 1 well far arh H R rem ms I 1 have haive heard a great grait many people talk in just thiis his manner vitt but when P movidene enoe has blessed thi them em they have almost invariably forgot all their good 3 I 1 resolutions I 1 I 1 I 1 1 some 4 inay may have dene so b but ut just g ive ife mer me a chance a tod ill how you the differenced ioe i 1 I 1 I 1 I ah I 1 fear beig neighbor abor said mr brown as he walked daway away but few are ablerto able to I 1 withstand the temptation 1 I 1 1 and i am wiping Y to t be ite 11 tempted the soon e er the th e better bet said U mr harris crip ache as he passed on I 1 I 1 I 1 but op year after the date of the aboe c conversation wharris was what the world calls a rich man an uncle had died in in the indies or so cohee hee els at just the lucky ladi moment moi 4 baving i him we oll holi hir to a fortune ar mr harris first intelligence was was I 1 a draft for fifty th thousand dollars payable bi elt at sight the I 1 poor man could hard hardy contain U hi himself myself for joy a thou thousand brilliant visions da danced peed through 48 bribri sis bis wi wiry I 1 should not Itt labor bor his chill children dren d be finely dres dressed siad and delici delicately ettely fedan fed anahis an nei neighbors s should have yes he would give gibe something to some of his neighbors I 1 I 1 I 1 the news ot of this good furtune spread like wildfire wild wad fire friends gathered idro round sto to con congratulate gr a balate 3 1 one and another volunteered t this service and that offers chev they never would have nide made but tor for the ringing of that j ame ame fifty thousand dollars k 1 mr harris moved from his hii bitin humble ble cot t tage a ge to a splendid house in town mrs harris hara r no longer performed the A drudgery r d er y f for or her ber bamily family jaup and anallen wen left le ft olt of knitting itt g mittens for their brothers and henry and ellward edward split no more wood for foi the kit kitchen elien fire with wealth bome wants 8 unnumbered labor once performed from nece neos hk sity was and d with A th IT 41 renounced entirely an 1 17 p pleasure oure that labor brings I 1 I 1 fr harris soon found himself unable 11 horses or es do the drudgery his limbs limb ah had ad hitherto been able to perform while pampered pore d appetite rejected the wholesome food I 1 wh which D not long ag ao go g o crowned his table mr il brown arvn who had anticipated such revolutions should his neighbor wish he be granted looked on in silence tri true atte good man breathed a sigh now and then for I 1 the fickleness of his big fellows but he chose bohose that time and nd opportunity should bou convince vince mr harris that ilist after all his be wao only huma I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 the wholesome resolves to do something forbis for Us neighbors were undoubtedly forgotten in the multiplicity of cares which now encompassed our rieb rich friend frend unless we reckon the heastings fea stings he gave those who ho were able to feast ip in turn torn as worthy of the title not that mr harris arris 11 possessed V assessed oss essed less kindly impulses than in former times not so helas he was I 1 aver man and ready to assist others other according to his abili ability ty once his expenses were few because his income income was limited now his position furnished a necessity for larger expenditures and he really had bothin not hing left to give at last so he convinced 0 on vinced himself and endeavored to convince vince others ier is this an exception to tb the general manifestation of suddenly acquired wealth afman if man is omni omnivorous verous in any passion it must be love of gold not f tor 0 r its ita own sake lone alone a so much as it insures wealth can purchase honor fame luxury might and ri right ht everything but and ma ina as he be the I 1 but lut 1 bap happiness i I 1 I 1 I 1 thank thank json is the poor mans birthright if he will hut but lawfully la fully claim the boon honor may come to the back of a silv silver erwand wand fame may wreathe her laurels to bind the brow aready already decked with pur olisker brilli brilliantz brilliants ants and luxury may pamper until manliness inan liness is lost bat peace contentment without which gold is vain is ia won won without money and without price is in process optime Of time mr harris fell ill mr bro brown n who noer leyer lost sight of his bis old friend now reri renewed ewed his former friendly in ter i marst dim recollections of a former I 1 conversation once held with ohp th some same mr brown haunted the wick sick mans mania mind lie he was willing to be tempted lia wish bad been gran granted tid and like many others he had bad proved himself a frail in man in during his hib protracted ill illness nesi recollections of neglected opportunities opportunity tunit ies I 1 and wasteful extravagance brou trou troubled bled him resolutions for the future are were f frequently adeptly avowed but bait the arrangements of providence nipped ip in the had bad thi the man who I 1 but ut a few fei years ato afro found his heart beatt ty touched with sympathy ta i batky for his hia follows fellows had d not fal fulfilled filed hi his etter better w when h on mens weri were in his power 1 and a ought therefore to atone for past neglect bv beao bestowing I 1 wic in iii one generous bequest that which I 1 could no BO longer retain at once a name inthe in the world for charity and a right to be rem embred at the portals of heaven Heave ii mayhap the knowledge of his hii denef actions preceded adge his is own appe appearance arwe there buta questions the such claims of admission I 1 were this th afi an overdrawn or raitt solitary ry case charity would prompt us to drop the veiland veil ind did bid him bain god speed in his journey journey to io the aw tomb but matlya many manvitz man with means at h his i 6 COMM command and to alleviate mach of human suffering pleads inability bailit T with tle the p piteous to 0 1 as I 1 addendum U I 1 were only on rich I 1 I 1 I 1 f abie were 1 rich ich 1 what then good d med jn I 1 this world i is s not estima ted by dollars lino and cents cent s hy by him who seeth i theeart th heart there was once a poor widow I 1 more mor e commended for the bestowal of two i mites than her wealthier compeers com peers for their large arg ge bests do 1 good as ye have opportunity por port tunit unity y 1 troy gadget budo t ot I 1 I 1 |