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Show ALWAYS THE WORLD'S WAY Peteessor of Wealth More Thought of Than the Man of Virtuous ' Worth. A young merchant went abroad, and' after many years, having a large for-, tune, returned to his native land. ( When ho reached home, he found, that his relations had gone to a feast at a country house a fow miles away.) He was so eager to see them that he! did not take the trouble to change hla clothes, and waa wearlag the thloaa; he had used on board ship ooralngj home. When he entered the larga hal( where the guests were all assembled his cousins showed very little pleasure' at tho sight of him. It was plain tq .them that ho had come back a poor. man. A young negro who had accompanied accompa-nied him from abroad was qulto upset by their coolness to his mastor, and said: "They must all be vory bad men to recelvo you so cruelly." "Walt a minute," whispered tho merchant, mer-chant, "and you will see a change In their looks." He quietly put a fine diamond ring on his finger, and, lol every face began to tfmlle, nnd they pressed at onco around htm and called him "Cousin William." "Has a simple gold ring the power, to charm people like this?" asked the. black servant In perplexity. "It Is not that," replied his master; "but the ring Is worth a good sum, and they guess from It that I am rich, and riches are dearer to them than any thing." "What deluded men I" exclaimed the negro. "They think more of yellow metal and a pleco of glass than all my master's virtues and loving kind"' ness." ' |