The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-03-17
NOTHING LOST BY CHRISTIAN
CHARITY.


One OF those toil.hardened. true
hearted chaps often read of in romance
made his appearance on the Campus
Martius yesterday, and bis sympathies
were at once aroused by the sight of
three or four old men standing around
with their bucksaws and waiting for
work,
"Ill be hanged if it isn't tough" be
replied. when they told him they hadn't
had any work for a month. How would
you like some oysters2"
They smacked their lips by way OF re-
ply, aud be gathered up crowd OF eight.
marched them up to a restaurant and
ordered oyster stews for each one.
ut just does my soul good to see them
eat!' he said to the owner of the place as
the eight got to york.
reply.
1T makes me feel good in here" con-
timed the stranger, laying his hand on
his heart.
"a good deed brings its own reward"
was the soft answer OF the restaurateur,
as he calculated the profits.
II cant rest here;I must do further
good" said the big-hearted stranger, as
he rushed out and brought in three ne
groes. q chimney sweep, two boys and an
old woman, and ordered more oysters.
The fifteen people went for oyster
soup in manner to amaze, and their
guardian nudged the restauraseur in the
ribs and said: F..
See them gentle lambs! Oh, that |
could feed the poor of all America"
lyon are good man and heaven will
reward YOU" said the proprietor, as he
filled up the dishes again. ....
The stranger said he wanted to bring
in just Eve more. so as to say that be had
fed an even score, and he rushed out
after them, while the restaurateur sent
after more oysters and crackers. The
stranger didn't return. He was last seen
climbing into farmers sleigh on State
street and guiding his team to the west.
The fifteen in the restaurant licked their
plates clean and departed in joyful pro-
cession, and the last one had passed out
before the man who furnished the soup
had got through waiting for the return
Of the big-hearted stranger. There were
oaths and slang phrases and watohw0rds
and expressions, delivered in the purest
OF English, but what mattered it to the
fifteen soup devourers, who drew up in
line opposite and
RESOLVED, That them oysters just
touched the spot. Detroit Free Press.
SENATOR NYE AND HORACE GREELEY.-
Hara T., spokopoo sIlr, kSo ~ 80 ooa -
Nye's well-known defects: Just before
Secretary Chase resigned the Treasury
in 1864, Horace Greeley, being in WASH
ington, was asked who he thought would
DO good successor to the important Of.
foe.
1.-THE best man 1 can think Of" re.
piled Mr.. Greeley, "is Jim Nys."
Jim Nyo? You can not mean it.
What in the world is there to recommend
him?"
Just this" answered the journalist,
"I've known Nye for good many years.
He's.always borrowing money, and I've
never known him to pay dollar back
Now, if be could be in the Treasury, he'd
keep borrowing money in his old way
while nobody conld ever get anything
out of him. and the result would be that
the Treasury would be full all the time
and the Treasurer would be full, too
and things would go on swimmingly. :"
'Benjanin!" shouted Mrs. Toodles to
her husband, who was going out the gate.
bring me five cents worth of snuff
when you come" "Snuff? Mrs. Too
dlest snuff" he calculated. as he paused
with his hand on the latch. "No, no,
Mrs. Toodles; the times are too hard to
admit OF such extravaganza; you must
tickle your nose with a straw when you
want to sneeze."
WoMAN's WoNDRoUs LovE.-H last
words to her in the morning were