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Show Emory Storrs on Millionaires. j One day a group of millionaires, who j were sitting on the piazza at the United States Hotel, began to chaff Storrs in a ! solemn fashion. He had just confessed to I them that he was not worth any money, j and that he had spent everything that he j made as fast as he had got it. Suddenly j he turned on one of his would-be tormentors torment-ors and began : "You rich fellows appear to think that money-making is an intellectual intel-lectual process, and that the wealth ac-auired ac-auired bv vou tjroves that vnn ar a verv superior kind of men. You are very much mistaken. There is nothing intellectual intel-lectual about acquisitiveness. It is merely an animal trait. It is less highly de- j veloped in you, gentlemen-, than it is in the chipmunk. The beaver is very much your superior in this regard. "Where are the rich men now in history? his-tory? There are two only who live in the legends of literature Dives, who survives sur-vives on account of his fortunate connection connec-tion with a pauper and Croesus, because his name has been used by poets merely as a synonym. Gentlemen, where are the stockholders who built the Parthenon ? Doubtless, in their day, they sat around in Athens and spoke of "the fine work that Phidias was doing for them. -But,' gentlemen, gentle-men, where are the stockholders to-day, and where is Phidias?" He went on in this quaint way for fully half an hour, and when he had finished, even the millionaires mil-lionaires did not seem to think that they had the best of it. Washington Correspondent Cor-respondent New York Wortd. |