The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-17

doctor, I'll be bound to say you have
sent many a honest fellow UNDER
ground. > zimmerman replied, with
out hesitation: "Not so many as Your
Maiesty-nor with so much credit to
myself"
Isn't that wit, if you please? Aye,
and of very high order. But it is
even possible to convert the practical
joke to amiability, and to substitute the
milk of human kindness, where hither-
to men have dealt in adulie'ated vine
gar. And of this l beg to offer an ex-
ample.
A certain German noblcman provided
his son with tutor; who was to attend
closely to him at all hours and improve
his mind. This tutor, it seems, took for
his example a certain predecessor of
his, who used TO coach young Cyrus in
doors and out. And both these tutors,
each in his own country and his own
generation. had the brains to see that
to educate a young fellow you must not
merely set him tasks to learn indoors,
and then let HIM run wild in the open
air, but must accompany him wherever
he goes, and guide him with your greater
experience, in his Judgment of the vari-
Gus events that PASS before his eyes.
For how shall he learn to apply an cX-
pericnce which he does not possess?
What n boy learns by rote is not knowl-
edge, but knowledge shadow.
One day these two came to the side of
a wood, and there they found a tree half
fcllcd, and par of wooden shoes. The
woodman was cooling his hot feet in Il
neighbOring stream. The young noble
man took up couple of pebbles and
said to his tutor:
"Tn put these in that old fellows
shoes. and we II see his grimaces."
"Hump' says the tutor, al don't
think you'll get much fun out of that.
You see he's Il poor man, and probably
thinks his lot hard enough without his
having stones put into his shoes.
can help thinking that if you were to
put little money in, instead and YOU
have plenty of that, you know, more
than should allow you if We're your
father old fellow would be far
more nabbergasted, and his grimaccs
would be far more entertaining.
The generous youth caught fire at the
shoe. Then the confederates hid be
hind n hedge, and watched the result of
their trick. They hal not long to wat.
An elderly man came back to his hard
work-work a little beyond his years -
and slipped his right foot into his right
shoe. Feeling something had in it, he
took it off ain and discovered double
dollar. His grave face wore look of
amazement, and the spies behind the
hedge chuckled. He laid the coin in
the palm of his hand, still gazing at il
with wonder; he mechanically slipped
his foot into the other sabot. There he
found another coin. He took 1T up, and
holding out both his hands, stared with
astonishment at them. Then he sud-
denly claspet his hands together, and
fell upon his knees; and he cried out in
a loud voice: 80 God. this is your do
ing. Nobody but you knows the state
we are in at home, my wife in her bed,
my children starving, and hardly able
to earn crust with these old hands. 1t
is YOU who have sent me these blessed
coins, or one of your angels"
Then he paused, and another idea
struck him. perhaps it is not an angel
from Heaven. There are human angels,
even in this world. Kind hearts that
love to feed the hungry and succor the
poor. One of these has passed by, like
sunshine in winter, and has seen the
poor old man S shoes, and has dropped
all this money into them, and then gone
on again, and not even waited to be
thanked. But poor mans blessing
flies fast, and shall overtake him, and
be with him to the end of the world,
and to the end of his own time. May
God and His angels 60 with you, keep
you from poverty, protect you from
sickness, and may you feel in your own
heart a little of the warmth and the Joy
you have brought to me and mine. I'll
do no more work to-day. I'll go home
to my wife and children, and they shall
kneel and bless the hand that has given
us this comfort. and then gone away
and thought nothing of it.
He put on his shoes, shouldered his
AK, and went home.
Then the spies had little dialogue:
Now, this | call really good fun,"
said the tutor, in rather shaky voice;
land what are you sniveling at?'
"'1isn't l that am sniveling; it is
YOU"
"Well, then, we are both sniveling,'
said the tutor; and with that, being for
eigners, they embraced, and did not
conceal their emotion any longer.
"Come ont" said the boy.
"Where next?' asked the tutor.
"Why, follow him, to be sure. /
want to know where they live. Do you
think | will,let his wife be sick, and his
children starve, after this?"
'Dear boy, l don't for a moment
think you will. Yours is not the age
nor the heart that does things by
halves"
So they dogged their victim home,
and the young nobleman secured a
modest competence from that hour to a
very worthy and poverty-stricken
family.
Now, think that both these veins of
humor might be worked to the profit of
mankind, and especially of those who
can contrive to be witty or humorous
vet kindly; and of those who can profit
by this sort of humor. l have heard of
an eccentric gentleman who had some
poor female relations, and asked them
to tea-a beverage he himself detested.
He retired before the tea-drinking COM
menced, and watched their faces from
another room. They found their cups
mighty heavy, and could hardly lift the
ponderous liquid. They set them down
probed the contents, and found sedi-
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