The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-16

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 ex-
perience which he does not possess?
What a boy learns by rote is not knowl-
edge, but knowledge's shadow.
One day these two came to the side of
wood, aud there they found tree half
felled, and pair of wooden shoes. The
woodman was cooling his hot feet in
neighboring stream. The young noble
man took up a couple of pebbles and
said to his tutor:
I'm put these in that old fellows
shoes, and we Il 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 his lot hard enough without his
having stones put into his shoes. |
cant help thinkinr that if you were to
put little money in, instead-and you
have plenty of that, You know, more
than | should allow you if were your
father-the old fellow would be far
more flabbergasted, and his grimaces
would be far more entertaining"
The generous 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 his hard
woodwork little beyond his years
and slipped his right foot into his right
shoe. Feeling something hard in it, he
took it off again and discovered double
dollar. His grave face wore a look of
amazement, and the spies behind the
hedge chuckled. He laid the coin in
the palm OF his hand, still gazing at it
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 clasped his hands together, and
! fell upon his knees; and he cried out in
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 shoes, and has dropped
all this money into them, and then gone
on again, and not even waited to b.
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 90 with you, keeT
you from poverty, protect you iron
sickness, and may you feel in your OWL
heart little of the warmth and the Joy
you have brought to me and mine. II
do no more work to-day. I'll 60 homt
to my wife and children, and they shall
kneel and bless the hand that has given
MS this comfort, and then gone away
and thought nothing of it. -
He put on his shoes, shouldered hi.
ak. and went home.
Then the spies had little dialogue
Now, this I call really good fun,
said the tutor, in rather a shaky voice
land what are you sniyeling at?''
"'I'isn't | that am sniVeling; it i
you"
"Well, then, we are both sniveling,
said the tutor; and with that, being for
eiguers, they embraced, and did no
conceal their emotion any longer
Come on!' said the boy.
Where next?" asked the tutor
why, follow him, to be sure.
want to know where they live. Do vol
think will let his wife be sick, and hi
children starve, after thisp''
''Dear boy, don't for q momen
think You will Yours is not the az
nor the heart that does things b
halves
So they logged their victim home
and the young nobleman secured
! modest competence from that hour to
very worthy and poverty-stricke
family.
= Now, | think that both these veins G
l humor might be worked to the profit c
! mankind, and especially Of those VIII
= can contrive to be witty or humorou
! vet kindly; and of those who can prof
by this sort of humor. | have heard c
an eccentric gentleman who had som
poor female relations, and asked ther
! to tea-a beverage he himself detesteG
: He retired before the tea-drinking CON
menced, and watched their faces fro1
I another room. They found their cup
mighty heavy, and could hardly lift th
= ponderous liquid. They set them dow
4 probed the contents, and found a sed
> ment of forty sovereigns in each cuI
: Each discovery being announced wit
little screeches, and followed by cor
tinuous cackling, the eccentric host az
y pears to have got more fun out of
{ than by the vulgar process of DRAWN
, checks for the amount.
The human mind when once that n
I tention Of many persons is given TO
Z subject, is so ingenious, and gets $
much metal out of ever so small vel
T. of ore, that / feel assured, if people
y home and abroad will bring their mine
J to bear on the subject, they may
i some degree improve manners and embe
& lish human life with good-hearted hume
and kindly jokes,
II | offer these observations to Il
Il Youths Companion, with IA apology
Il the editor for their crudity. am tt
{ unwell to sit down to my desk al
: elaborate anything, and these remarl
!; must be considered as what they are
suggestions, dictated (which is o fiji
Il word for talked-and written by
Charles ReGde, in Iouth's Companion.
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