Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-06-18
From Chambers Edinburgh Journal.
Two Kinds of Honesty.


Some few wears ago, there resided in Long
Acre an eccentric oh Jew named Jacob Ben;a-
min; he kept seel shop, in which he likewise
carried on not u common thing, we believe, in
London-the sale Of meat, and had risen from
the lowest dregs ofpoverty, by industry and sell
denial Til he grew to be an atlluent tradesnan.
He was, indeed, a ich man, for, he had neither
wife nor child to spend his money, nor kith nor
kin to borrow it ofhim, he had great deal more
than he knew what to do with. Lavish II on
himself he could not for his early habits stuck
to him and his wants were few. lie was always
clean and decent in his dress, bur he had no
taste for elegance and splendor in any form, nor
had even the pleasures Of the table any charm
for him; so that, though he was no mser his
money kept on accumnlatlng, whilst 1t occurred
to him now and then TO wonder what he should do
with it hereafter One would think that he need
not have wondered long, when there were so
many people suffering from the want or what he
abounded in but MIR. Benjamin, honest man,
had his crotches ike other folks. In the hrst
place. he had less sympathy with poverty than
might have been expected, considering now poor
he had once been himself; but he bad theory,
Just in the main, though by no means Without lis
exceptions-thst the INDECENT have generally
themselves to tlank fos their prvauons. Judg-
ing from his own experience, he believed there
was bread brewery body who would take the
trouble of Gaming it and as be had had lIttIe
difficulty in resistng temptation himself, and was
not nh;losonbsr enough to allow for the varieties
ofhuman character, he had small compassion for
those who niured their prospects by yieldingto
il. Then he had found, on more than one occa-
sion. that even to the apparently well dong, as
sistance was not always serviceabe Endeavor
was rplaxd and gratuites once received, were
looked for again. Doubtless part of this evil re-
sui, was % Be sought in Mr.. BenJamin's own de-
feclive mde of proceeding; but repeat, he was
no philosapher, and in matters of this sort could
not see rolIch farther than his nose, which was
however avery long one.
To nahllc charities he sometimes subscribed
liherally: but his hand was frequently withheld
by d6gbt regarding the judicious expenditure
Of the finds, and this doubt was especially forti-
fed ofsr CHANGING TO see one day, as he was
passing the Crowd and Anchor Tavern, a con-
course If gentlemen turn OUT, with very flushed
faces, sho had been dining together for the ben
eft If some savages in the Southern Pacific
Ocean. accused of davourinC human fesh-a
practs,e so abhorrent TO Mr. Benjamin, that he
had Subscribed for their conversion. But failing
10 pyrceve the connection betwixt the dinner
and hat desirable consummation, his name ap-
peard henceforth less frequently in printed lists,
and ge felt more uncertain than before as to what
branoh of unknown posterity he should bequeath
his f,ttune.
In the meantime he kept on the even tenor of
his way, standing behind his counter and serv-
ing lis customers, assisted by q young woman
cslled Leah Leet, who acted as his shopwoman,
and in whom, on the whole, he felt more interest
than IN any body else in the world, insomuch that