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


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 discI edit, in every sense
OF the word, attached to it, which renders
its possessor very jealous of its discovery.
In worldly judgements we too often find
that the sin is in tho detection, not the
the commission Of the offence man
may live in a garret, and dine on stale
bread and mouldy cheese, and yet, with
tho eXactness ofindependence, his Compa-
NY will often be solicited at the social
meal or festive board. But let his domici.
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 bcggary 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 destitution, eats the rich man S
crumbs, and snores upon the flint, How
different is the condition Of the other
| In him the cravings of hunger reflect
| the blandcst 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.
l.. ny ON II r n
without first secretly searching his poct-
cts, and deducting the cost from the sum
total. If under Il sudden windiall,, 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 o. keeping up appear
ances the other half. He dies, and is for
gotten 10y 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 ge.teel povor ty. His personal suf
ferings are merged in the thought OF home
lie would gladly throw of the diguise -
gladly resign his fashioable acquaintance
and seek his hP ppiness, when the days la
Dor is ever, in the bosom OF his family
But the ineXorable world decides othor'
wise. He can never escape the grindstonC
to which he is tied. Country cousins
must be entertained, family reunions Civ
en-, summer aunts undertaken. lie
knows full well that as the mainspTing Of
the whole machinery, il he once give out,
dscord and destruction are the inevitable
result, and he works on hopeless and des
perate. Finally the anticipated crash
comes. lie loses nothirg-he had moths
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.
HsE ~ 10 ltidNOA " ~ ll'' lA'lSAHhN N'
vine, who hourished not many years ago
and whose matrimonial relations are supN
posed not to have been Of the most agree
able kind certainly, that one sabbath
morning, while readin h.to his congrega-
ton the parable Of the supper, i'll which
occurs this passage-"And another said
have bought FIVE yoke of oxen, and sc
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
dl ew off his spectacles, and looking a.
round on his hearers, said with emphasis
"The fact is, my brethren, one woman cal
draw man further from the kingdom o
Heaven, that Twenty yoke Of oxen.
} RaE~J oshua Shaw long a citizen Of Phil
adelphia, died at Burlington, n. j., OF
Thursday the Sth inst. at the age of So
Mr.. Shaw was born at Bellmgbrook, Line
. olnshire, England in the year l776, anc
, emigrated to the United States, in thC
year 1919, bringing with him the grea
, picture of Christ Healing the Sick,
T painted by Benjamin West, and present
, ed to the Pennsylvania Hospital. Mr.
Shaw invented the percussion lock anc
cap, for which our government were &c
pay him S25 200. The Emperor of Rus
sia also awarded premium to Mr.. Shaw
for improvements in naval warfare.
Eely-Mr. Paran Stevens who keeps the
Fifth Avenue Hotel in this city, is the
Proprietor also af the Continental Hote
of Philadelphia, the Revere House anC
the fremont House of Boston, th,
Battle House, Mobile, and the Poin
Clear, Alabama, in all six first class hotels
involving a capital and current expense
of several millions. Mr.. Stevens is a ma
tive of C!aremont, n. II.
7 peEpA little fellow four years ii, th,
ether day nonplussed his mother by ma
king the following inquiry: Mother j
man is a Mister, amt a woman Mis-
terry ?"
Eas-A Yankee in Panama sought shell
ter at the American Consuls from an eartl
/ quake he thought ever the earthquak,