Show WHAT DID HE LEAVE 1 1 DY BY T S artnur ARTHUR a large funeral L counted thirty two carriages yes sir its the funeral of bf mr ellis he died very rich I 1 how much did he leave i A large ama amount of money sir sir I 1 dont know how much some say about half a million dollars i 8 his death is considered a great ioa loa loss lors s to the community I 1 presume loss sir the man to whom I 1 was speaking looked up in my face with the air of one whose mind was not exactly elear clear as to my meaning 1 11 still with his ample means I 1 I 1 said I 1 even though only caring for himself he must have been the prompter of large industrial enterprises through th h which many were greatly benefited benefit ed 11 the man shook his head doubtfully 1 I never heard of ills his doing anything with it particularly ly was ther unsatisfactory answer r eli loney money ioney must he be used in order to M make ake it productive was he in no business no sir what then did he do with himself oh ahe he was always about after bits of property that had to be sold he was sharp for bargains in real estate ah gahl I 1 see how it was then he lie did find use for his money in that way he did but when a piece of property came into his hands there was an end to its improvement he let other people improve all around him and thus increased the value of what he be owned so that he grew richer every day without putting his hand to anything or benefiting anybody body that was your million man and so all that he has left are those property accumulations all then his death is not regarded regards d AS a public calamity no zo indeed sir I 1 ac conw er ed a 0 4 y he 11 has eco tco a we couple of son couple 0 of sons in la law wido wibo dro will satter scatter much faster than lie lip saved the moment they come inta possession of his estate it will be divided and lots of ground which ought to have been improved years ago be sold and wd covered with handsome buildings clitis giving trade and industry a new nev impulse why sir he has been a dead weight on our town for years sears growing richer and other peoples enterprise and yet n not t adding a building himself or in any auy way vay serving fhe he common good il t r C 1 I though thought said 1 I from m thelong e ID ng array of carriages that death h ad talen taken in this instance a vain abio abie and now lamented efm eff citizen izen 14 hii lere mere ostentation sir but bui bu nobody is deceived there are plenty of idle people who are pleased to ride in funeral c carriages arri ages old ellis will be put away with a grand flourish but that will be the last of him the black will do all the mourning sir mr but surely said I 1 his children are not without natural affection ain air action you yon do not mean to say that theres only a semblance of sorrow korr my it is my opinion sir that they are arc glad in their hearts why not he stood hard unyielding as iron between them and the wealth they desired desired to possess he was cold sour tempered and repulsive crushing outi out by his manner and conduct all natural affection they had too much policy fp a quarrel barrel with him of late though t the he time was when hot words were said tb have passed between them ay there are no gleams of light in your picture said L 1 I copy from nature and nd only give what I 1 see he answered there a ane are W deep valleys where the sunlight nev never er comes as well as golden tinted landscapes 11 1 1 l see another funeral sal sai said baid I 1 jook gilill dirig towards a dis I 1 of rhe there are but two carlage cari eari aged foot fool yet 1 t I 1 seea see a long line of mourners on foot be do 0 you know wh othey a rebury ing yes I 1 not a richman rich man no 0 there mere is no need of asking what he haslett has left t yes mali maii man ilip jill in this worlds goods but bub ut so far fr as his hii means went wint he was princely in his munificence his death sir is a public loss the mans face brightened as he spoke you knew him yes sir I 1 knew him well he was a working ten hours every day and earning just nine dollars a reek yeek eek but bilt these n nine 1 ane dollars seemed an inexhaustible exhaustible n fun fund d for good he had no wife and children of his own to love and care for they went years ago to the blessed land where ae he is now following them so after supplying his own humble need the had bad five dollars every week left over for lA vestment investment he did not put this in inthe the Savi savl savings bank nor buy tumble down houses for the poor boor poor to live in at the rate of fifty per cent on their cost nor take up barren lots to hold for an advance in price 1 rice consequent on neighboring 1 improvements prove ments no his investments were made in a different spirit as you shall 11 see elee 14 first he paid regularly every week t to a poor aboor w woman man who ha had two children to support and who could not leave them to go out to work in families the sum of three dollars as teacher of little boys and girls whose parents were unable to send them to school two hours in the in ornIng morning and two in in the afternoon these poor children received instructions lie he was their benefactor and hers also for it was one of his big sayings that we must make the right hand help the left his means of doing good were small so he made them go as far as possible ahe he was a noble nobie fellow said sald I 1 in admiration of orthis this poor tom peter peters yes there was fine stuff in alls alis his jils fine composition if his hands were dark and bony and if his clothes did smell of pitch and rosin if he has left tender and fragrant memories 27 he has si sir bir r that tati long iong oniel line ne of fu funeral r attendants are true mourners there is no sham there 11 r v and ani ana what else ese dlithe did dia he do with his money I 1 asked growing interested in the he had two dollars a week still left for dispensation yes let me see for eor one thing he paid abby ahoy half a dollar per read kend to a poor blind woman an and d in order that this reading might not be given to a single pair of bars ears alone he took tool care to have it known that as manyas many as chose might come and listen the consequence was that more than a dozen persons met every evening lil in the blind womans comans room to hear what was read this tius tins suggested to tam tom the way in which another an i other half might n be usefully usefull invested tda IT men nien in the he ropewalk rope wal wai walk were mostly nin kin n the habit of spending their evenings at taverns tom found another lad ad who was ws a tolerable good reader and paid half a dollar weekly to read aloud aboud two hours each faeh each fach evening for such of his fellow workmen as ho he could induce to assemble for the purpose he began with three soon increased to dpn and when I 1 last heard of the latter matter over twenty men met to hear the boy read admirable said 1 I with WI th 6 A d aam T 1 I never heard of a wiser investment and be bad had only one dollar lefel i yes hovy hove was that disposed of ove 11 in ways inumerable I 1 catinat are count them the good tom peters managed to do with that dollar is ls almost fabulous not of course as to magnitude e but as a variety it seem edt 0 d duplicate cupl acate itself like the widows oil and meal meni whenever drawn upon you was always hearing of some good acts in which a dispensation of money was involved of A a poor adm woman au helped in making up her rent of a dainty sent to a sick neighbor of a pair of shoes to a barefoot bare foot boy in the winter or of a book to a child why sir tom peters has left behind him enough good deeds ito to endow a whole calender of saint saints sJ so I 1 should think after vh what at you have said of him and yet sir sir reme remember niber he only y earned nine dollars a eek 1 I remember that very distinctly I 1 answered yes sir his death indeed is a public calamity it is no figure of speech to say that his grave will be watered by tears none I 1 sirlone sir bir none he will desorro be sorro sorrow ed for by hundreds and his memory will be greener 1 1 an and d fragrant agthe as the years pass by he reared his own monuments elk eik before 11 he glett giett iet let us of good deeds 11 I 1 pa r the stranger and as y V I 1 I 1 said to in another irian ihan who stood by my side while alook edat at a fine piece of emblematic statuary they have been burying a rich man yes I 1 he coldly responded r what did he leave nothing but money they have havi been burying a poor man also tom ate reters peters rs A light bro keer weer the mans face fafe s buthe had not even money to leave but nut something farsbetter far better answered the man in a atone tone of rebuke what Good deeds which like ilke gabd s eed seed will wiil reproduce produce them a thousand foid fold tom peters earned just nine dollars a week edward ellis esl esq there was was a smiling contempt in his is tones was worth it is said a million dollars yet the humble did while living a hundred times the most good with his money and leaves an estate that shall go goon on increasing in value through countless years but the estate of old ellis will not pass to the third generation tom peters had the true riches sir bir that are imperishable people will ask when a man like elli ellis s dies what property has he left behind him but when one like our good passes away the angels ask what good deeds las aas has he sent before him that is the difference sir the immeasurable difference between the two men en finein giving made himself rich the other ot herin in withholding became miserably poor peor so go poor that his memory or is green in no malis maris mails mans heart r turned from the with rith naw new impressions stirring in my mind and the question what kind of a legacy will you the leave eave cave flet ilet good deeds rathe rather rAhan than money said eaid 1 I back again into the living world to take up the laboring oar for a brief rief sea season and aud bend to my work with aselener spirit and I 1 trusta ardit a noble life purpose i i OF N NEW FW YORK the late flie legislature grafi granted ted charters for foy two new cities lockport and newburg making sixteen in the state by the census of 1860 the population of the cities of this state jato appeared to be as follows new york brooklin buffalo albany rochester troy syracuse utica 2229 22 29 poughkeepsie oswego denburg lockport auburn 10 elmira eimira bludson Flud hudson son 7 total population odthe of the cities s A of I 1 the state in 1860 1 A new state census will be taken immediately and it is probable that teetotal the total of these cities will ilg tie swollen to nearly two millions th thy purse urse h had ad better be empty than filled with others an money boney there aro are said fo to be persons in the austrian dominions dominion s entitled to the rank of nobles but this is nothing compared to sicily j in that fortunate island there were hye are ate princes 48 dukes marquises monks and IS pa nuns nuna no N 0 one ever attempted to count the number of barons counts and eile elle v ailers aliers |