Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-10-14

| S4udl III Ill lnlngSs interior nOn6t except,
perhaps, in that hardness of character, which
is general element of success in life, don't
talk about " buts," and a. schys,'' and the
tightness of the money market; he knows
that already-spsre him the intelligence that
| you lent Mr.. So-and-so a sum of money,
| which was never returned he don't want
your biography, he wants your cash. Don't
tell him that if he were to die you would lose
it-that arrow might sink deeper into his
heart than any amount of money could ever
fathom-and then close with the recital of
this, that and the other thing, which, if re-
ally true, could not interfere materially with
your furnishing him the required amount.
If you have ordinary sagacity, you can
make up your mind in moment, whether to
! grant the accommodation or refuse it. If you
are man, and you design a refusal, tell him
at once in some kindly way, that you are not
| prepared to accede to his wishes. If on the
| other hand, you have heart to help him, do
not do it as if you felt it were mountain,
! grinding you to powder or as if each dollar
| you parted with was inhictng pain equal to
drawing of a tooth don't torture him with
| cross questioning, nor worm out of him some
of the most sacred secrets of his life away
with your inquisitorial and brassy lmperti-
nence; don't lay him on the rack for an hour
at time, as if you gloated at the sacrifice of
| down on his very knees to win his way into
| your curse away with it all we say, and
stand up like a man give MIN a cordial
| greeting, let holy sunshine light up your
countenance, and speak out before he has
done asking; tell him how much you are
gratihed at having it in your power to help
him, and let that help go out in full, free
soul, and with good slap on the shoulder,
bid him look forward and ahead, Tor there's
sunshine here for him.
Why the very feeling in the mans heart as
he goes away from you, is worth more to hu-
mainly than all the money you have let
him have, ten times told. He goes out of
your presence with heart as light as feath-
er, in love with all the world, and full of graf
tude towards you. He goes to work with
will which hews down the obstacles and
melts away the iceberg which hedges up
the ways of men, and behold, in moment,
rough places are made smooth, and straight
places made plain to him.
Reader suppose you never get your mon
ey back, and you have heart so big that you
can, notwithstanding his non payment, give
him, at every meeting, a cordial smile of re-
cognition, can speak to him without ever re-
minding him of his Indebtedness it may be
that you are his only friend, but then you
are the world to him, and however hardly
that world may have dealt with him, your
single exception is placed on the credit side
of humanity, thousand times its individual
value that man can never die a misan-
thrope, for he will insist upon it to his latest
breath, "there is kindness in the world, after
ALL" What grand thing it is to have a
man close his eyes in death, and one of the
last thoughts of mortality be a prayer for
blessing on your head.
We repeat, then, if you lend your money
at all, do so freely and promptly-do it with
a whole soul do 1t with grace that becomes
man, with cordiality which will do quite
as much as your money in raising your friend
from the depressing influences which sur
round him. We do not advise the loan of
money in every case, but write to show in
what manner 1t should be done, when deci.
ded upon, to bring the most pleasant remin-
iseence of yourself, hereafter, and to carry
with it the largest advantages to whom you
wish to befrend.- HATS Journal of Health.
The CHINAMAN-THE WAY HE FIGHrs. =
A correspondent writes 81 have seen the
arms used by the Chinese in the fight at the
storming of the forts at the mouth of the
Pei Ho. The first sight of them shows the
utter helplessness of this vast empire of three
hundred and fifty millions OF population,
when ii comes into contact with European
science and arms and decipline on the battle
fed. They remind me of the scenes of my
boyhood, when all the lads of my country
village were armed with wooden guns, fur
nished with wooden locks and hiuts, which
could snap if they could not fire. They are
ignorant of the rifle the percussion cap, and
even of the flint, once used in its place. The
gun is matchbox, and of such formidable
dimensions and weight, as to need wheels to
carry it, instead of their own shoulders. 1t
is almost impossible to raise and level it, such
is its weight; and often and often another
man, kneeling before him who loads and fires,
bears the end of the gun upon his shoulder,
| in the happy consciousness that if the enemy
choose to kill him instead of the soldier at
the other end of the gun, he is innocent of
any mans blood, and could not but be. And
those matchlocks they are worthy of place
in any antiquarian museum.
| Almost would the old knight Tempars of
Malta start up again, should these matchbox
! guns be placed in the gallery besides their
armor. The matchbox in cumbersomeness is
fairly in keeping with the barrel and stock
some inhammable material which is kept
burning, taking the place of flint in a COM
mon gun, and coming down like the tail of a
comet when the tedious process of loading is
completed. Then there is a spear not to be
used by the hand in fight, but slender and
| oAihON WIN on pOlhbg anu uTGQ WIN
rockets. Then comes the battle-ax, not
heavy, and easily welded by the hand, but
useless, except in close contact, and then
| powerless compared with the sword and the
bayonet. Their cannon are either sunk in
the earth and permanently leveled or else
mounted on carriages which provide for no
elevation or depression of the guns, or else
make it so slow and difficult, that after all
the carriage is useless. In the attack on the
forts one of the steam gun boats came within
range of the guns, and received several shots.
Very strangely and unlike soldier and
gentleman, as John Chinaman thought the
English did not choose to remain in range,
and presto with a puff of steam was out of
the reach of their guns, though almost touch
ing the nozzles.
The following from Punch is a good ma
tured hit upon some of our peculiarites
Theml's our Sentiments.-Ow Owing to the va
riations of clocks, and the smartness of the
citizens Of the United States, it is now the
middle OF next week in New York. The
banquet in honor of laying the Atlantic ca.
BILE having taken place, we are enabled by
submarine telegraph, to furnish list Of some
of the toasts and sentiments most enthusiastic
cally received on this auspicious occasion:
" Sutm CuiQue.--To the United States cit
| liens who planned, made, and laid the Allan.