Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-03-25
A LIFE PfCTtRE.
The DyIng AIIseF.


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beasts in their kennels; he was there with
bis handbook 10 his hand, when Death
laid his band upon him.
He was carried home to bis splendid
mansion. He was laid upon = bed with
a satin coveret. The lawyer. the relations
and the preacher we're sent for. All day
llong he Law without speech, moving only
bis right hand, as though 10 the act Of
counting out money.
At midnight lie spoke.
He asked for dollar, and they brought |
one to him, and. lean and gsuht, be sal up
in his bed and clutehed it with the grip Of
death.
A shaded lamp stood on the table near
the Silken bed. Its light fell family around
the splendid room, where chairs. aud car
net. and mirrors, silken bed aud lofty cell
ing, all said GoLDl as plain a. lips can
say it.
His hair and eye brows were white, his
cheeks sunken, his lips thin and surround,
ed by wrinkles that indicate the pattern OF
Avarice. As be sat up in bed with bis
neck barred, and the siken coVerlet wrap
ped around bis lean frame, his white hair
sud ewes contrasted with bis wasted aud
: :, wrinkled face, he looked like a ghost
Aud his life was centred there, in the dol.
lar, which he gripped iu his cleuched list.
- His wife, pleasant faced, matronIy wo-
Y man, was seated at the foot of the bed
His son, a young man of twsuty.one,
- dressed in the last touch OF fashion, sat by
the LAWYER. The lawyer sat by the table
is pen in hand aud gold speotacles on bis
n.. nose. There was huge parchment spread
ge before him.
sv "Do you think he'll make will!" ask
ut ed the son"
,rs "HardIy compos mentis yet" was th'
N whiFpered reply. swat, he'll De '"o''
nd after while"
rv "Mv DEAR" said the wife, chad l no
led better send for the prescher3"
ys. She rose and took her dying busbsn.
IN. by the hand, but he did not mind. hl
rry eyes were upon the dollar.
rcb ! He vas rich man. He owned palace
de in Walnut and Chestnut streets and boVel
i'm. and courts in the outskirts. He bad Iro
nto mines in this State; copper mines on tn
inc lake somewhere, he had golden interest
nce in California. His name was bright o
raj. the records of some twenty banks; h
,oa owned stock of all kinds; he bad half
I'M. dozen papers in his pay.
to He knew but one crime-to be in del
= without the power to pay.
hat He knew but one vitue-to get none
ears The crime he had never forgotten ia Il
. it long way of thirty-fve years.
A TO hunt down debtor, to distress
rom tenant. and to turn few additional thou
in ands by a sharp speculation; these we
the the main achievements of his lite.
this He was good man; his name was U
Of on the silver plate on the pew door OF
velvet cushioned church.
He was a benevolent man: for eve
Thousand which he wrung from the te
ants of his courts, or from the debtors "
lat a writhed beneath bis heels, he gave ten d
ling lars to some benevolent institution.
'Ls' He was Just man; the gsIovs and
slbly iail always found him a faithful and |
'''o"' swerving advocate. :.
He now is dying man. See hun
Jou'' he sits upon the bed of death, with
nmlt- dollar in his cenched hand.
error o! holy dollar, object Of his life L
,pton pursuit, what comfort hast thou for |
are .>.;o of 1aathT
what at length the dying man revived
.lonal dictated his will. 1t was strange to
ously the mother and son and lawyer mut
uld at ing and sometimes wrsnglng, beside
'ecaue death bed. All the while the test
IT ma clutched the dollar in bis hand.
se'z- Willis the will was being made
tot preacher came; even be who had held
estlon PASTORAL charge of the great church, VI
Ihoun' pew doors bore the sanity names on
K'ch- YER plates, and whose seats on Sabbath
very croaned m under the weight of respectabi
btoadcloth and satin.
-, He came and said bis prayers mos'
- ne corously and in measured words, but u
NE" once did the dying man relax bis hol'
> the dollar. =,
"a "Can't you see that I'm goingi !
'a'VeS length said the dying man, turning IT
! COM O.r eped look toward the preacher.
rUMI rDTr The preacher. whose craVat was
NEE M whitest, took book with golden
= StS - from the marble table.
And be read:
sand say unto you. it is easier
'IS1e . camel to pass through the eye oil n
'e' ho', than for rich man to enter the KIM
"'' VI of God"
: ,.h "Who said these words-who. "
= - ,'O" ". fairly shreked the dying man, shaElu
'"ey ''S hand which clenched the dollar
preachers head.
,dent Of The preacher hastily turned ov
writes leaf and did not reply.
cited for "Why did you never tell me OF Il
meeting fore? Why did you never preSch u
lich ali as | sat in your churchi WHY
,e repre- The preacher did not reply but
nonstra. over new leaf. But the dying man
numbers not be quieted.
acres of sand it 10 easier TOT cSuie' "
out, de- the eye of needle than for rle6
,ncpt of enter the kingdom Of God. is i'll