Show THE ASSAULT ON MACKAY john W mackay is about the last man in the world who would have hav ae been thought of by those who know him as aa the target for an as sanin he la is immensely wealthy but has not been exclusive miserly or selfish with it all on the contrary his record of good deeds quietly performed is 18 a long one and the encouragement he to is said to have given tu to those who seemed to him to deserve it would if published make a volume of no mean eions and he lacks that haughtiness and disdain which characterize nine out oat of ten men who own more thau than the generality of their fellows being as an affable and accessible now as when his sole possessions wre were his wages as a miner true lis family live in a rather aristocratic if not ostentatious manner beyond the sea their motie moile of life and place of abode being somewhat antagonistic to the democratic spirit of the land in which they rot got their money hat but that Is IB altogether a matter of taste something with which they alone have to do there la Is nothing of that kind about mr mackay himself nothing so BO far as we have beard to justify anyone in barbora a resentment against him and it Is ia a safe assertion that his hia assailant was wag one of those cranks who are opposed to others having bavine money which they will not divide with everybody who demands it |