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Show PEARSONS IS TO STOP SPENDING i Chicago. April 5. Dr. D. K. Pearsons, Pear-sons, the Chicago philanthropist who has given away so much money that he has lost all account of It, has de-elded, de-elded, on the threshold of his ninetieth nine-tieth birthday, to give his pocketbook I a well earned rest. lie will be P0 on ' April 14, and says he is a "halo, j hearty, happy old man." ! Here (s his birthday resolution, lu which he rorers to the colleges ho has aided and his forty-seven children in twenty four states. "For twenty-one years I've heen giving away money, but I've kept no nrroimi of It tl wnc tnv rtml.lt Inn on my ninetieth birthday, to pay off all my debts. Rut I can't do it. Five of my colleges hae not come to the scratch. I shall not cut them off. I'll give theni one year more to make good. "During that year I shall make no gifts. When I've paid ofT my debts, what llltlrt I've left will be lor my children. I have forty-seven in twenty-four states, and I must take care of them." |