Life — June 8, 1905 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Anticipated. “1 CAME much sooner than I should—” I (As one who understand: Said Death to Debt,“ Beca ‘The man was in your hands. I knew The Trials of a Millionaire. OHN D. POCKETFILLER, the note multimi was in Magistrate Mc- rt yesterday on the cl f y mone us c CTs. It appe: Mr. Pocketfiller, disguised with chestnut wig, sidewalk y downtown corner, carrying a large sack filled with bank-bills done up in bunches of one hun- dred dollarseach. He would hold one of these bunches in his hand and offer it to passers-by in an offensive way, muttering: ‘ Please help me, ind people; I am very rich; take this little gift and make me happy."’ That Mr. Pocketfiller was a nuisance of the most irritating description could not be denied, Ladies gathered up their skirtsand swept disdainfully past ; busy merchants elbowed the millionaire contemptuously aside; street urchins thumbed their noses at him; and one fat-necked politician, into whose hand Mr, Pocketfiller attempted to thrust a package of bills, thrown into such a rage that he not only hurled the money back in the millionaire’s face, but followed it with a fistful of silver coins which he pulled from his own pocket. The coins scattered over the side- walk, where it was noticed that people kicked them into the gutter like scraps of orange peel. ‘The very idea of money had been rendered distasteful to the ace by Mr. Pocketfiller’s presence and his insolent behavior. The millionaire was finally taken into custody, much to everybody's relief, at the instance of a well-known clergy- man, Rev. Saintly Longface of Brooklyn, who deposed that Mr. Pocketfiller had rudely offered him a hundred thousand dollars for the foreign m ion fund. After listening to the testimony, Magistrate McShamrock promptly sentenced the prisoner to hard labor for life 26 Broadway, with the injunction that he must not cease to let his wealth accumulate. ‘I have no patience with these un-American notions," remarked the Magistra would this country come to if our capitalists persi giving away even a small fraction of their fortunes, without expecting something in return? It will be a gloomy outlook for the future of our magnificent Trusts if such things are suffered to continue. Public sentiment demands that this. donation business be stopped here and now. I understand that this is not Mr. Pocketfiller’s first offence, or I should have let him off with a term in the United State: nate,"” A brief interview was subsequently granted with Mr. stood on the “LIFE: The prisoner looked cheer- ful, despite the o tence. "1 cannot account for my remarkable lapse," he said. “Lam told I have been occasionally taken with similar fits before, first time I was dragged into court for it. The public seems to be getting unusually fastidious aowa- Iam sincerely sorry for what I have done, and trust that the wholeso usterity of life in this institution, and close application to business, will make me a better man.” Pocketfiller at cell twenty-six. ditions of his though this is days. Why the Vacation Was Extended. H was only four, but he had a genius for conden- sation. He had been taught to invoke the divine blessing on cach member of the family by name. One evening, uncbserved, he listened to papa and Uncle Tom discuss the summer vacation problem in the tibrary until it was long past his bedtime. When he knelt by his little cot, he thought to nake up for lost time. As he raised his ¢ to Heaven, he said “God bless papa and mamma and the whole d-—d bunch.” And mamma had fire in her eye when she entered the library a few minutes later Religious Freedom. pus prejudice in the United States There is none, or almost none. The privilege is open, in theory and in fact, to every citizen of the United States, to worship his Maker after his own fashion, or merely to worship money, provided be is content to have only one legal wife at a time, \WAnte A good office-boy. One who never for- gets, who can keep his mouth shut, who never looks at the clock and yet who is always on time; who can talk politely over the telephone, and who doesn’t know how to whistle, Salary, ten thousand a year, COCHIN CHINA,