Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1875-11-19
The Two Bills.

Two bills were awaiting in he bank fo,
i their Turn to get out into the world. Oue
n 60 :>..t, s:ciT 80 ! .i
was d O'S ".'I, a ,.,Uus .nd u0.i.s Otli.
While lying there side BY side, they fell
a t ikiag about their usefulness. The dol.
lar oiii murmured out :
'Ah Is were IS big ss You. Nhst good
would do D! could move in such hiyb
places, and people would be 80 earef,,l os
me, wherever should go, Everybodv
would admire ME, and want TO take me
nome with them but, small as am, what
good can L do? Nobody cares much for
me. am too little to be of any use.,
'Ah, yes that is so,' SAID the tbousand
dollar bill a.; and it gathered up lis we'll
trimmed edge that was lying next the little
''ii' N corn scious superiority. That "a
So 1t repeated. Ifyou were as great "a
am thousand times bigger than you.
'i'en You might hope to do sonle good in
the world And its face smiled a wrinkle
OF contempt for the little dollar bill.
Just then the cashier comes. takes the
little murmGring bill, and kindly gives It TO
poor widow.
TOD bless you = she cries, as with a
smiling face she received il. NV dear
hungry children can now have some bread, .,
a thrill ofjoy ran through the little bill
as 1t was folded UP in the widows hand
ana 1t whispered L may do some good. if
am SMALL And when it saw the bright
laces OF her tatherless children, it was very
glad that it could do little good.
Then the little dollar bill began its Jour
ney OF usefulnes. 1t went first to the
oaKer's Tor bread, then to the miIler,s then
10 the farmers, then to the laborer,s then
TO the doctors, then to the minister's, and
wherever 1t went it gave pleasure, adding
something to their joy.
AT last after a long, long pilgrimage Of
usefulness among every sort of people. il
came back to the bank again, crumpled,
defaeed, ragged, softened by its daily use.
Seeing the thousand dollar bill lying there,
with scarcely wrinkle or finger mark upon
it, it exclaims:
Pray sir, and what has been your mis-
sion of usefulness p
The big bill replies L have been from
safe to safe among the rich, where few
could see, and they were afraid to let me
90 out far lest / should be lost. Few
indeed are theywhom 1 have made happier
by my mission
Then the little dollar bill said: 1t ia
better 20 be small and 90 among the multi
tudes doing good, than to be so great as to
be imprisoned in the safes OF the few.-
And IL rested satisfied with its lot.
ANCIENT WALL IN MrsSiSsIPPI-
About eighteen miles from Port Gibson.
and one mile from Brandywine Springs, on
th2 place Of Mr.. Qasuinzzsys existence ola
~ -''nl(cr of blocks Of cut stone has
Je,.,. "u"wn for al indefinite time. and the
people in the neighb9rh0od have used them
ior props FOR their houses. Mr.. Jane Gage,
Jr.. went out there few days ago to
explore, aud had specimen stone brought
into town. Il IS about three feet long, by
about twenty inches square, resembling in
shape bar Of soap. Ii is probably a na-
i've sandstone. Mr.. Gage took this block
limslf from beneath the roots OF p large
pine tree. 1t formed the portion of wall
about twenty feet broad on the top, Y!h;-n
Mr.. Gage traced for DISTANCE esrsncs
hundred and fifty yards <5w ~ f-on, ,his
hat one would nature5}k;s must have been
, ,'p., pc. Hti"i u 'ie" i9aeep exploration might
''S wall portion ofa fort, temple or
'"0" tiaaildiug. Anyway, its antiquity is
',s0Hbably immense, antedating the history
the red man.