Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-08
MlSCELLAMY.
SOMETHING ADVANTAGEOUS;
OR, A FAMILY FRAcAs.


once attended very poor old man of
the name of Jordan, in his last Illness
/ call him poor, but yet he was not in
want and had about him the comforts of
life. When he was near his end, he said
TO me-
"Doctor, / want to know the truth from
you. / am not in the habit of being fat
tered by the world There was time,
indeed, when. it fooled me to the top Of
my bent; but that was long ago. Do you
not Hatter me, but tell me your real
opinion. Shall ] soon die, or shall linger
on brief career, in world / am quite
seiViag to be done with?"
''You desire, me" replied I, "to be can
did with you, aud will. You are on your
death bed"
"How soon shall be immortal2"
That ! cannot say. But your hours,
90 far as human experience can teach me
to predict, are numbered
lie was silent for few moments, and a
slight spasm passed across his face.
We'll" he said, "it is the lot of all l
have lived long enough"
els there no friend or relation, Mr.,
Jordan" said /, "to whom you would wish
to send3 You are here, as you have often
told me, quite alone in lodgings Perhaps
you would like to revive some old recollec-
+. tons before youalcave the world"
} "Not one" he said. .r
care you completely isolatedg'.
Most completely. have tried all re-
latiens, and found them wanting. But
| still have remembered them, and made
/ my will. 1t is now between the mattress
end sacking of this bed, and Mr.. Shaw
he only honest attorney ever met with
tnd who resides in Lincoln's Inn Fields
pill carry my intentions into effect, was
: kch once in early life, How dark day, y
what day?"
To-day. How dark and misty it has
come over doctor"
His sight. was going fast, and 1 felt
certain that it would require but little
patience, and great sacrifice of time to
zee the last of Mr. Jordan. ..
"Yes" he continued, speaking in an odd
epasmodic fashion. eyes, was rich, and
had many crawling sycophant about me
many smiling faces at my board but there
came reverse, and like fair flowers at Q
sudden frost, my kind friends hid theii
heads was nearly destitute, and think
ing and believing that the tieof blood
would bo strong enough to bind to me, in
any distress, those with whom claimed
kindred, and who had been delighted t.
claim Kindred with me, went to them I
visitor"
"And failed"
"And failed, as you say. They drop
' ped from me one by one. Some remem
bered slight offenses; some were never a
home some really thought | must hav,
boen dreadfully improvident, and, unit
they we're convinced had not, they coulc
not assist me. Doors were shut in M
faee-window blinds were pulled down a
| passed. l was Stunned as a pestilenc,
my clothes were in rags-my step feebl
from long want of common necessaries.-
And then an old school companion dice
in the West Indies, and left me ego, 900
which received through the hands o
NIr.Shay."
al large fOrtune And your relations? !?
"Heard of it, and were frantic. dis
appeared from them all From that da,
70 this, they have not heard of me. D.
YOU love Wild howers|
VWild howers?'
EYES. Here are heaps just from tn
teeming garden, Look, too, how yo
cAerub .wiues them iua her hair TIL
stream flows deep to eternity |"
"Mr. Jordan, sir, " cried "Mr. Jordan
do you know me p
nCsme .hither, laughing, gentle spirit,
he said, "bring with yoE your heap {
Aaaral gems Yes / know this is the sweC
y violet. Mary my Mary; God knows
loyo You" ts %
R wa strange thing, but, at III
momsnk The blind of the window, whic
had dnwA up to the top, came suddsal
rattling doSn, and the room was quii
dark, IrAlsrd il again, and then turned I
the bed.---Mr Jordan Was a corpsel Whi