The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-06-24
lnsIerieu. Method Of Avoiding Das.
The CoMposIToR AND COLLECTION.

lnglerieus Method Of Avoiding Dun.
The CoMposIToR AND COLLECTOR.
A compositor in one Of the daily news.
paper Offices, though good fellow, like
! many Of the Faustian profession. suffers
from repeated attacks of limited finances,
or revenue disproportional to his disburs-
ments. He has no objection to paying
bis debts, to the last penny, when he has
the money but when he is "short," be
abhors the idea of meeting one Of his
creditors, for he hates a dun as he does
the devil, or dirty "proof." On one
of the not few occasions of the pressure
upon the typos monetary market, be was
descending from the news-room TO the
street, when he met collector, who ask
ed him if James H Smith (giving the
printers real name) worked in that Office.
"Why do you wish to see himl' asked
Smith.
II have little bill against him (pro-
ducing the same) for $50, left by DR..
-, who, you remember, recently died,
and whose accounts have been placed in
my hands for collection"
"James II. Smith," replied the COM.
positor, repeating his own name slowly,
as ifit had mysteriously familiar sound
and he were endeavoring to recall it. II
have heard that name before, surely
James III. Smith, Smith, James, James
H.-Oh yes, (as with sudden remem-
brance) he used to be employed here
Certainly he did. / remember now he
worked next to my case, poor fellowl"
and the speaker paused and looked sad.
and breathed sigh. r s.
"Did anything happen to him r. ques-'
toned the collector, sympathetically. N'e
"Yes; although as good fellow %
ever lived, he died suddenly one morning
of the cholera, after be had been attend.
ing the sick bed of friend"
did he leave anything p asked the
man of bills. aa ssFa
"Oh, no. The boys had to bury him.
/ remember giving S5 myself to put the
generous creature under the sod, and ii
was one of the best actions of my life---
With all his noble qualities, he died hum
dreds of dollars worse than nothing"
Then there's no use keeping this bill,
| suppose y
"Not bit, my friend" hastily reioin-
ed the printer, with kind of comic sO-a
lemnity, for | assure you neither
Jim Smith nor any one of his friends
ever was or ever will be worth d-n-"
" Well, good morning, them"
"Good morning; !" and, as the collec-,
tor departed, Il guess I've got rid Of
that old bore. 1t wasn't perhaps so much
of story as was telling. Probably I
was only anticipating little, after all.'
GrShall he who pours out his full
heart of love and gratitude upon his In
finite Creator and Benefactor, and de-
votes all his powers to universal we'll be-
ing, be looked upon with contempt by
him who worships the stupid things Of
sense, and knows no higher motive Of ac-
tion than supreme selfshness2 Do you
call piety superstition /! 1t is true phil,
osophy. Alteration meanness It's the
highest employment of man Says 1
great writer, " No nober feeling than tbis
of alteration for one higher than himself
dwells in the breast of man." Man was
made to love, and to love the lovely, and
to love supremely the infinitely Lovely,
and this..alone is manly. Christianity de-,
grading to humanity! Look at facts
Who is it that now challenged the grati-
tude and admiration of the civilized world
for his unparalleled military heroism ini
avenging violated and slaughtered inno-s
cence, and in protecting and defending
the helpless Who is the avenging here,
of bloody Cawnpore, and the angel Of
salvation to beseiged and distressed Luck
nowf Who wrought those miracles of
bravery in that six days march Of blood
and death from one to the other The
brave, the beloved Havclock, the Baptist
exorter. He it was who when Colonel.
baptized the soldiers Of bis own regi-
ment and his commanding officer hav-
ing investigated charges against him for
dsorderly and unsoldier like conduct
in the thing, pronounced his regiment thu
most orderly and we'll behaved, and
sending him his respects, ordered him to
baptize the whole army. Has Christian
ity degraded that self sacrificing herof
What else made him equal to the e1iI
gency and carried him triumphantly
through those overwhelming scenes -
Did Puritan Christianity render the
soldiers of Cromwell inferior as men
Bi1shing Blushing is said to Be y
sign that something Of the angel is lelk
N woman, beautiful to The eve, sYld n.