The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-02-01
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A Discourse on Public Charity,

81 hold heah in my ham, began
1 Brother Gardner, as the triangle sounded
4 and Samuel Shin laid aside his harTnoni!
car. Il hold heah a letter from one of
de charitable societies of Detroit akin if
] dis club can be depended on so aid in dc
/ good work dis winter. In sartin cases
| dis club kin be depended on fur ton OF
/ coat, q cord of. wood, bar'l of ,fiopr or
\ a ten-dollar bill. In sartin odder cases,
dis club bawon't come down wild as much
VS. a shingle-nalLf Public charity in dis
| kentrY am Gurus thing.
SfItinsists dat ebery man shall airn his
own libin' ! an den it turns in an sup
ports de class who will starve sooner dan
\ work. s@$ p sstts@S 5DAa sgssi
1T am de enemy OF, whisky, an yet
4 as soon as whisky makes a .pauper it
supports him. st4 aI5k3 tih -
''It fatters de man who gifts few
dollars ahead, and yet demands a.sheer
| of dat money to aid de idle an dissi@
| pated. e.gs IS I ia srffa e ~
! "'ublic charity comes as near bein'
boldfaced fraud as any sentiment YOU
can name. 1t encourages. laziness by
/ providin' fur de families of drunkards
1t encourages immortality by providin'
homes an hospitals for de immoral, 1t
encourages the spendthrift by feedin' an
clotEin' him all winter arter he has
i squandered. his money all summer
] Public charity am wall agin which de
reckless, de lazy, de shiftless an de- dis
solpte lean when all odder props give
way.
I Skinner it down, and public charity,
means takin' de money which man has
saved by hard work an economy an usin'
/ tito support de man who has squanderedl
time3an, money .Widout a car as to what
became of him. It am blackmail on in
ddstry--it am slap at economyl-it am
; q kick at industry. How does it, come
i dat Wid dis kentry constantly CROWN in
wealth. and constantly furnishing in
creased CHANCES for poo men to get
along, dat pauperism am also increasin'?
Eight-tenths of de saloons in America
am. supported by men whose families
need ebery cent dey airn fur clothin'
and bread an who rely on public charity
in case OF a hard winter. De kentry has
five times as many paupers as it had
fifteen y'ars ago! WhyP Kase.we raise
five times, as much money to support
| 'em. Double de amount OF the poo fund
an you will double de number OF pau
/ pers. ,s.as.-.sF.,s... -
! /" An now let me ask you plain
queshun. If work hard week in an
week out-if my wife works hard an
economies we patch, darn. dye an
cut ober-if we buy cheap tea an coffee
+, an pare de Eaters close, an manage to
pay for a little home. an put money in
| ID l. r. 4 L
human bein' right to ask me to give
Que penny to a man who has thrown
away scores of dollahs for beer and to-
Fbacco who plays keerds an shakes dice
4 fur. money-who works only when he
/ feels like it, who neber dreams OF econ
! omY--Who, neber practices self denial? !?
4 reckon not! Let us now turn our faces
\ towards de5rowteen of bizness 'a--- From
Proceelsngss of Lime RjIg, Csu5, an De-
tyoit Free Press.
I. ...9sfss AZ 1-7---- - ~ ;Ts,a 7Ts,s f,i
! Some OF the Trials OfsAuthOrship.
\ Tosbe known as writer is to become
public property. Every book a writer
publishes say, rather, every line, he
traces.-is an open sesame as good as a
!, latchekey for some one it my be. some
seore,- or hundreds, or thousands. The
already recognized author, with whom
his affinities may be more or less strong,
Il takes his hand as brother-after the
public has accepted him-sometimes
before. The unsuccessful authors,
whose efforts find their natural habitat
in the. waste baskets of the maga-
zines and newspapeFs,i seeing that he is
& afoat, struggle to the surface through
the dark waves of oblivion, and grasp at
him, in the vain hope that he can keep
lftheir heads, as well as his own, above
water. The hitherto undiscovered twen-
tieth cousin starts up m the huckleberry
bushes. and claims him as relativ6l
That citizen of the world, the borrower
! whoseremittancess have failed to reach
him, is at hand to share the good fortune
of his. literary friend, whose works, as
he says, have been his travelling com
panions from Climatic Peru. The poet
/ with his manuscript, the reader with his
5larynx, Invade his PREMISES and he
must read and listen, perhaps to his own
verses. until ss<s.. o,lr r.T y.
II He back recoils he knows not why.
IL Zen at the lines himself has made. -
III Rejoice, o manzof many editions!
I on nave sold your bookS--1yes, and
You have sold your time, your privacy,
your right hand, If that is the .0no Nou
hold your pen in, and a slice Of yourim-
mortal soul with it! For if you do not
sooner or later explode in all the mall
edictions of Ernulphus and Athanasius,
you are gifted with a patience that JOB
4 the all-enduring might have envied. 81
a There is one more trial whichstouehe5
the finest sensibilities of an author. The
reader who has adopted him as his favor
ite, or his object OF admiration, has
| formed an ideal of his person, bis ex-
preston, his voice, his manner. How
rarely does an author correspond to this
ideal picture! How often IS the visitor
who has made a pilgrimage to the shrine
of his demigod disappointed. olsen
chanted, and sent off regretting that he
has exchanged his false image for the
Z real presence! Let every pilgrim on his
way to the idols temple read Miss Edge
worth's ''Angelina, or L'An1ie Incon-
nue.. "-O -Oli0er Weigtten Holmes, In At
IGntic Monthly.
t. /, Al.