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Rh ,' 'mean,' or 'miserly' with the name of Isaiah Williamson, who distributed, while he was yet alive and might have had other uses for the money, four millions in charitable gifts for almost every form of benefaction that would relieve the suffering, that would help the needy, that would shelter the houseless and homeless, that would succor and support the helpless, that would stimulate talent by education, that would encourage the worthy, that would reward merit, that would build up industry, that would enlighten and uplift the rising generation of working!"

These incidents have been dwelt upon to bring Isaiah Williamson's personality more vividly to mind, and to show his large-heartedness. To the last there was a certain boyishness in the standing order to George, his attendant and coachman, to buy every Saturday a supply of candy and apples, the candy for his master's own use, and the apples for the horse. And the story goes that certain horses on the street learned to look for his coming, to pat their noses and feed them bits of broken apple.

He used to say that no man could be a