The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-09-16
a-rnioe Star and Catholic Messenger
JUVENILE COLUMN.
RICH AND POOR.


My dear little girl. with fowers in your hair.
Stop singing mon moment H "a and look over ,,S' there
with treasures Of silver and trea ,Ires OF gold.
Jg.t few steps away H. da.L X pa,Tow o.s sIsst. @
poor girl is dying. So ider than youi
Her s.ep was as light and her song was sweet.
And the be art in her bosom merrily beat.
But now she Is d.ine. so lonely and poor
While you were ssy. in your Beautiful dress,
ron n ms.s e dawn aPa to sSa END OF Gsy
\ She was always at work with 20 momen, for play.
That glesmed in the distance. &c go dim and afaf
Remembered the poor sIl in ity and love.
All. yes He remembered mid harpings and hymns,
And loud allenias. and waving of wings,
hs H sss of of
Was yet in the east; row she never win need
Nay. lime Perhsps IRON he, home in the fkies,
she win look lack to see you with tears in eyes
And dow on US all dIops The sorton tul rain.
She never win need you; but many bereft
You can if on VIII from the liace here You stand.
Reach downward TO help them hs touch OF your hand
MY xaten within them, S1th MAJ gioai power,
nas and the ssoae on sp to a se afraid
he burdens 1, are heavy toat some one must bear.
THE TWO BILLS.
Two bills were waiting in the bank for
their tnrn to 60 into the world. O1e wac a
]ittle bill-only one dollar; the otner was a
big bill-a thoueaud dollar bill. While lying
there side by s;Co they fell to talking about
stheir usefulness. Tie dollar bill murmured
out:
H "Ab, if were as big as you, what good
q should do. 1 could move in such high
places, and people wonld be more careful
of me wherever [ should go. Every body
would admire me and want to take me
home with them. but, small as l am, what
good can i dot Nobody cares much for
'me; am too little to be of any use.'
"Ab, yes, that is 80 !" said the Thousand
dollar bill /; and it haughtlly gathered up
Pts well trimmed edges that were lying next
to the little bill in conscious superiority.
"That is so," it repeated. "If you were
.as great as l ANA thousand tines bigger
Shsn you are-then you might hope to do
some good in the world" Aud its face
smiled Into wrinkle of contempt for the
little dollar bill.
just then the cashier comes, takes the
little murmuriug bill, and kindly gives it
to poor widow.
"God bless you!" she cries. "a with .
smiling face she receives it. MY dear hun
gry children can now have some bread"
A thrill of joy rau through the little bill
as it was folded up in the widows hand.
and it whispered:
81 may be able 10 Go some good if l am
small"
And when il saw the bright faces Of her
FatnerieSs cniidTSl, IL vas veEy glad that It
could do some good.
Then the little dollar bill began its iour-
hey of usefulness. j. went frat to the
Baker for some bread then to the miller,
ehen to the farmer, then TO the lAborer,
fhen to the doctor, then to the minister,
Rnd wherever 1t went, it gave pleasure.
adding something tn their comfort and joy.
AT last, after a long pilgrimage of use
1ulness, among every sort of people, it came
pack TO the bank again crumpled, defaced
And ragged, softened by it's daily use. See
pg the big bill lying there with scarcely a
frinkle or finger mark upon it, it ex
$laimed:
"Pray sir, and what ltas been your mis-
eioD of usefulness
The big bin sadly replied:
81 have been from safe 20 safe among
Z he rich, where few could see me, and they
Eere afraid to let me go out far, lest |
should be lost. Few, indeed, are they
HON have made happy by my mission."
Then the little dollar bill said:
ut Is better to be small, and to go among
nultitu6es doing good, than to be 30 great
rs to be imprisoned in the safes of the few"
n And it rested satisfied with Its lot.
4 Moral The doing of little every -8ay
Eoties makes one the most useful and happy. |
PUBLIC CRIME.