The Baltimore County union., 1875-10-16
The Dollar.
BY B. FRANK TAYLOR.

He was long. thias spindle sbaaRkea lYsyst. Ysats
in little house, in city alley. He remem-
bered one bright day only, in his boyhood-and
hat was the day somebody gave him-'A dol
lar
0, how delighted he was How he clutched
it! What raptureus visions of its worth fitted
before his stngy little heart as he gazed on that
dear object he did not bear to part wth-the
beautiful, beautiful dollar
He got more of them, after awhile ;-enough
to have him sent to college, and to have open
ed to him the fair walks of Literature, and the
wonderful labryinths of science, and the ele-
CANT galleries of Art. But he would not enter
that magic realm of glory and beauty, because
it would cost him, what to him was fairer still
than all-'the dollar
So he plodded in the dusky walks of trade.
There came bright vision to him the vision
of beautiful girl, whe would have loved him;
and he could have loved her, enly-she was
poor--she lacked the one needed grace
without which her fair hair, and her glorious
eyes, and lovely form and loving spirit were
dim and faded things-she lacked-'the dol
lar
So he smothered young love to death, in the
putrid rays of his averice, and he married a
raw boned, loud-voiced, brazen-faced vixen.
On, how he wooed her-she was his treasure,
his diamond, his golden dream, his pearl, hi s
wealth-because in the vaults of her rich faith
er's treasure house, lay countless boards of that
beautiful thing-the dollar
This is a lovely world we live in. 1t has fair
vallies, where the wild flowers grow; and quiet
woodland walks, where the birds are singing 6
ever; and wild free hills, where the health
| giving breezes blow; and mountain tops, where
| halos of glory rest; and broad rivers, where
the white-winged ships are gliding, and the
boundless ocean with its expanse of fairy bill
lows where beautiful islands lie sleeping in the
| L L ...lxk Laxy0 off
| among these charms of nature, and drunk her
loveliness into his spirit, but he did not. His
life was passed in dog-kennel, dark, dingy
counting houses where the Pickering gas
burns all day, to light up musty books, upon
whose yellow pages appeared the mystic sym
Dol of the only thing he worshipped-and SO
the love of the good, and the beautiful. and the
true, died in his palsied spirit, as he bent his
eyes and his mind, and his soul, to worship
and love, only, and always, his one gOd-'the
dollar
At last there came creditor who will not be
put off, and it takes all we have pay him.
Death So he knocked at the miser's door,
and the old man to lay down to die. They told
him of the heavenly city but he only thought
of the golden streets They told him OF tn
| white robes,' but he only thought of 'mer-
chandise.' They spoke of sweet music and
he thought of the ring of coin. And so the
| bright angels, and the Sweet home and the
the fadeless joys, and the far more exceeding
and eternal weight of glory, which he might
have won, passed away forever. And he went
\ down into the darkness of the grave, in all the
utter hopelessness of bim whose only love, and
only god, had been through life-'the dollar
Waysidc
| They paw school marms $1.25 per week in
| Wisconsin, but whether they "fnd themselves
| is not stated.
| L IL ala otnrS with
a combined capacity of 15,35O,OOO bushels, rep
| resenting capital of $6,900,00O.
els that clock right over there" asked 2
visitor the other day. "Right over thereP
| said the boy "taint nowhere else"
An Albanian who lost hat on James
| Buchanan's election paid the wager last week.
| The returns must have come in very slowly IN
! Alabama.
"A coiored labor union at Camden, Ark,
fixed the price of picking cotton at ia dollar
hundred and board, and severely thrashed sew
eral members for working cheaper
An Indiana man said to Bible agent: ~
am a Christian, but Pm be blamed if don =
lave to grit my teeth when the Ohio river is
on level with the top of my corn
-"You never saw my hands as dirty as that,
said mother 'reproachfully yesterday to hel
little eight-year old. "Cause never seen you
when you was little girl" was the prompt re-
ply.
"A young lady in Minnesota boasts of hav
ing ten grown-up brothers to watch over her
but Norristown girl prefers to have only one
brother to watch over her-provided he is the
brother of some other girl.
AT the commencement exercises of Abbot
Academy, Andover, Mass, Prof. Smith told thu
Young ladies that while he was not "prepare'
to send them forth es captains in the socla
ship, there would never be any difficulty II
their finding situations as first mates"
"A few weeks ago the elegant mansion O
DR.. W. H Hagood. at Blockville, s. G., was en-
tirely destroyed by fire, with valuable col
lection of bric-a-brac As soon as the new
spread thirty negroes, formerly his slaves, vol
unteered their assistance for the erection of
new building,
The Butte (Cal.) Mercury tells of band @
sheep being brought down from the mountain
and turned into wheat field. Over one hun
dred head died in one night from eating whea
and drinking water. The wheat swelled t
such an extent that the stomach was complete
ly torn apart,