Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-04

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DIS uSs' probably he was not very
wrong. lsI... However, he fell sick, andthe
weakness o. his body, Isuprose. affect
ed bis mind 50 he sent for a physician.
Dr. zimmerman, but at sight of him
his theory revived, and his nabitual
good manners led him to say to Zim-
mermann' BY way Of greeting "Now.
DOCTOR Il be bound to saw YOU have
sent psny a fellow underground"
zimmerman replied, without heslta-
ton, "Nol somany as Your Majesty.
nor with 50 much credit to myself"
Isn't that wit if you please Aye,
ana Of very high order But itis \
even possible to convert the practical
joke to amiability, and to substitute the
milk Of human kindness, where hith-
erto men have yedealtin aduiterated vim
egar. And of this l beg to offer an
example.
A certain German nobleman proyid- |
ed his son with a tutor: who was to
attend closely to him at all hours and |
improve bis mind. This tutor, it seems.
took Tor his example a certain pred
ecessor ofhis, who used to coach young
Cyrus indoors and out. And both
these tutors, each in his own country
and his own generation, had the brains
tosee that to educate a young fellow
you mustnOt merely set him tasks to
learn indoors, and then let him run
wild in the open air, but must accom-
pany him wherever he goes, and guide
him with your greater experience, in
his judgment of the various events that
pass before his eyes. For how shall
he learn to apply an experience which
he does not possess. What a boy learns
by rote is not knowledge, but knowl-
edges shadow
One ddI these two came to the side
Of wood and there they found tree
half / Ilei, and a pair of wooden
shoes ~ aoodman- was cooling his
nov leet n . neighboring stream. The
young nobleman took up a couple of
pebbles and said to his tutor
TH put these in that old fellows
shoes and Wen see his grimaces."
"Hum" says the tutor, 81 don't
think you'll get much fun out of that.
You see he's poor man, and probably
THINKS ms lot hard enough without his
having stones put into his sshoes. Ican't
help thinking that if you were to put
a little money in, instead, and you
haVepenty of that, you know, more
than should allow you if l were your
father-the old fellow would be far
more llabbergasted, and his grimaces
would be far more entertaining"
Ihegenerous youth caught fire at the
idea and put double dollar into each
shoe Then the confederates hid be
hind hedge, and watched the result
Of their trick. They had not long to
wait An elderly man came back to
bis hard work,-work a little beyond
his years, and slipped his right foot
ntO bis right shoe. Feeling something
hard in it, he took it off again and dis
covered double dollar. His grave
face wore look of amazement, and
he spies behind the hedge chuckled.
He laid the coin in the palm of his
land, still gazing at it with wonder;
he Mechanically slipped his foot into
he other sabot. There he found anoth-
3r coin lie took it up. and holding
)ut both his hands, stared with aston
shment at them. Then he suddenly
,lasped his hands together, and fell up
IN bis knees; and he cried out, in a
oud voice 80, Godl this is your do
ng Nobody but you knows the state
We are in at home, my wife in her bed,
ny children starving, and l hardly
lble to earn crust with these old
lands, 1t is you who have sent me
.hese blessed coins, or one Of your an
gels
Then ne paused, and another idea
struck him. perhaps it is not an
angel from heaven. There are human
angels even in this world. Kind hearts
hat love to feed the hungry and succor
.he poor. One Of these has passed by.
ike sunshine in winter, and as seen
-he poor old mans shoes, and has
lropPed all this money into them, and
las then gone on again, and not even
waited TO be thanked. But a poor
mans blessing flies fast, and shall over
AXE him, and be with him to the end OF
he world, and to the end of his own
lime. May God and his angels 90 with
you, keep you from poverty, protect
you from sickness, and may you feel in
geuF own heart a little of the warmth
and the Joy You have brought to me
and nine. I'll do no more work to.
lay III go home to my wife and
children and they shall kneel and bless
the hand that has given us this CON
fort, ard then gone away and thought
nothing of it."
He put on his shoes, shouldered hi,
axe. and went home.
Then the spies had little dialogue:
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