Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-10-10
Genteel Poverty.

how
the other half live. This truth arises less
from want of curiosity on one side than
studied deception on the other Poverty
for instance Is reither legally or morally
n crime and yet, aside from its convent
ence there is discIedit, in every sense
OF the word, attached to it, %hlch renders
its possessor very jealous of its discovery
In worldly Judgements we too often find
that the SIT j. IN the detection, not the
the commission of the offence. A man
may live III a garret, and dine on stale
bread and mouldy cheese, and yet, with
the exactness ofindependence, his compa-
ny will often be solicited at the social
meal or festive board. But let his domic,
and his means be detected-let his coat
lose its freshness, his hat its smoothness,
and his boots their polish, and the felon's
brand would not more certainly excom-
municate him than the poor mans garb.
Men often prefer the suspicion. of crime
to the suspicion of penury.
Poverty and beggary are very distant
relations. The beggar never knows power
ty, he only feels want. To HIM the mere
daily necessities of life are sufficient. He
begs without disguise, owns to the world
his destituton, eats the rich mans
crumbs, and snores upon the flint. How
different is the condition Of the other.-
In him the cravings of hunger reflect
the blandest OF smiles, he talks of din
ners he never saw, and fancies suppers
he never knew. He believes himself
suspected of meaness, because he declines
some picnic or other pleasure party,
where the expenses are so much per head.
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without first secretly searching his pock-
cts, and deducting the cost from the sum
total. If under q sudden wndfall,, he
|, ask companion to take an oyster, he
trer bles, lest his fortune may with the
oyster, disappear dawn the throat of his
quandam friend. Thus the poor bachelor
lives, spending one half of his time in
some MYSTERIOUS occupation, whereby he
receives the meant Of keeping up appear.
ances the other half He dies, and is for
gotten by all, save perhaps some intimate
friend, who wonders he is not appointed
executor.
But il is the married man, the man of
family, who mostdeeply feels the miser.
les of geGteel povor ty. His personal suf-
ferings are merged in the thought of home
He would gladly throw of the dguise -
gladly resign his fashioable acquaintances
and seek his ha ppiness, v hen the days la
Dor is ever, in the bosom OF his family
But the inexorable world decides othor-
wise. He can never escape tks grindstone
to which he is tied. Country cousins
must be entertained, family reunions Civ
en-, summer aunts undertaken. lie
knows full well that as the handspring Of
the whole machinery, il he once give out,
discord and destruction are the inevitable
result, and he works on hopeless and des
perate. Finally the anticipated crash
comes. He loses nothirg-he had nothS
ing to lose. But now he may gain all for
which he so long sighed The play Is over,
the lights are out, and the gaudy trap
pings of assumed wealth may he replaced
by honest homespun. But it is too late
the Intoxicating bowl of worldly varity
has become too necessary to the depraved
taste to be now resigned. Once it might
have been, but not now, Again he starts
epon the fatal race, again he for a moment
hovers above the horizon, and then for
ever disappears from sight, and it is heav.
ems mercy if his memory is u-tinted with
guilt.
B2s"lt is related 10y new England di-
vine, who 1ourished not many years ago
and whose matrimonial relations are supS
posed not TO have been of the most agree
able kind certainly, that one sabbath
morning, while readin to his congre ga
ton the parable or the supper, in which
occurs this paSSage-"And another said,
have bought five yoke of oxen, and 90
TO Prove them; pray thee have me eX-
cused; and another said, have married
wife and therefore, cannot come, he
suddenly paused at the end OF this verse,
d. ew off his spectacles, and looking H.
round on his hearers, said with emphasis,
"The fact is, my brethren, one woman can
draw man further from the kingdom Of
Heaven, that Twenty yoke of oxen.
sN~J oshua Shaw long citizen of Phil.
adelphia, died at Burlington, N j., on
Thursday the Sth inst. at the aye Of So
Mr.. Shaw was born at Belingbrook, Line
olnshire, England, in the year I776, and
emigrated to the United States, in the
year 1919, bringing with him the great
picture of "Christ Healing the Sick"
/ painted by Benjamin West, and present.
ed to the Pennsylvania Hospital Mr.
Shaw invented the percussion lock and
cap, for which our government were to
pay him S25, 600. The Emperor of Rus
sia also awarded premium to Nv. Shaw
for Improvements in naval warfare.
IGy~Mr. Paran Stevens who keeps the
| Fifth Avenue Hotel in this city, is the
Proprietor also Of the Continental Hotel
of Philadelphia, the Revere House and
the fremont House of Boston. the
Battle House, Mobile, and the Point
Clear, Alabama, in all six first class hotels
involving capital and current expenses
of several millions. Mr.. Stevens is ma,
tive of C!aremont, N. II.
psnBA little fellow four years ii, the
other day nonplussed his mother by ma
king the following inquiry: Mother if
man is a Mister, amt woman Mis-.
terry 2"
hH-A Yankee in Panama sought shell
| fer pt the merican Coneule from, an aarib