Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-01-12
and then let HIM run wild in Tho ,ren

~" S'eHtS tilaC pass before his eyes.
for how shall he learn to apply an ex-
Retiehce which he does not possess?
what a boy learns by rote is not knowl-
edge, but knowledgcs S shadow.
One day these two came to the side o.
wood, and there they found tree half
1elied, and pair of wooden shoes. The
"oodman was cooling his hot feet in
nelghoorlng stream. The young noble
man took up couple of pebbles and
said to his tutof!
I'll put these in that old fellows
shoes, and we II see his grimaces.''
lfum. says the tutor, Il don't
think you'll get much fun out of that.
lou see he's poor man, and probably
thinks his lot hard enough without his
having stones put into his shoes. /
can't help thinking that if YOU were to
| put little money in, insteaI-and YOU
have plenty OF that, you know, more
than L should allow You if L We're yous
father-the old fellow would be far
more fla abbergaStcd, and his grimaces
| would be far more entertaining"
The generous youth caught fire at the
| idea, and put Il double dollar into each
shoe. Then the confetcratcs hid be
| hind a hedge, and watched the result of
their trick. They hal not long TO wat
An elderly man came back To his hard
and slipped his right foot into his right
| shoe. Feeling something had in it, he
| took it off n ain ani discovered a double
| dollar. His grave.facc wore look Of
amaZement, and tue spies behind the
hedge chucklc,!. He laid TIE coin in
| the palm OF his hand, still gazing at it
with wonder; he mechanically slipped
| his foot into the other sab3t. There he
! found another coin. He TOOK 1t up, and
! holding ont both his hands. stared with
astonishmcn, ut them. Then ne sud
denly clasped his hands together, and
| fell upon his knees; and he cried ont in
| q loud voice: 80 Cod, this is Your do
/ ing. Nobo ly but you knows the state
we are in at home, my wife in her bed,
my children starving. and hardly able
! to earn Il crust with these old hands. 1t
| is YOU who have sent me these blessed
coins, or enc of your angels"
Then he paused, and another idea
struck him. .-Periays 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, Ike
| sunshine in winter, and has seen the
| poor old man shoes. and has dropped
| all this money into them. and then gone
on again, anI not even waited to b.
thanked. But a poor man ; blessing
flies fast. and shall Ovcrtakc him. and
be with him to the end of the world,
and to tn" end OF his own time. May
God and His angc'; 90 with you, keep
you from poverty, protect Nou from
sickness, and may you feel in your own
heart little OF the warmth and the Joy
You have brought t. me and mine. IL
do no more work to-day. Ill 90 home
tn my wife and children. and thcy shall
kncrl and bless the hand that has givcn
us this comfort. and then gone away
and thought nothing of it,.
He put on his shoes, shouldcred his
AK. and went home.
Then the spies had little dialogue:
..Now, this call really good fun
said the tue in rather Il shaky Voice:
'.and what are YOU sniveln" at
.Tisn't [ that am snivcl;ng; it is
You.
We'll. then. we are both snivclinr,'
sad the tutor; and with that. being for
cigncrs, they embraced, and did not
conceal their emotion any longer.
Come on" sad the boy.
.Whcrc next?' as<cd the tutor.
..Why. follow him, to be sure. l
| want to know where they i've. DO you
think | will let his wife be sick, and his
children >tarvc, after this?'
..Dca' boy, don't for a moment
nor the heart that does things by
halves
so they doggcd their victim home,
| and the Young n"blcnau secured Il
| modest competence from that hour to a
very worthy and poverty->trickcn
| family.
| Now, think that both these veins of
| hrmor might be worked to the profit #
mankind. and especially of those who
can contrive to be witty or humorous
vet kindly: and of those who can profit
bv this sort of humor. | have heard of
an eccentric gentleman who had some
poor female relations. and asked them
| to tea-a beverage he himself dctest"d.
! He ret red b fore the tea-drinking com
mcnced. and watched their faces from
anot her room. They fond their cups
mighty heavy, and could hardly lift the
ponhc -oiIs liquid. They set them down
probyd the contents, and found = Scii-
| mcnt of forty soVcreignS in each cup.
Each discovery being announced with
little Screr,hrS and followed by Il con-
tinuous cacklin@, the eccentric host APP
| pears to have got mere fun ont OF it
than by the vulgar process of drawing
checks for the amount.
| The human mind when once that at
tcntion of many persons IS given to Il
sub 'ect, Is so Ingenious. and gets so
much metal ont of ever so small vein
of ore, that | feel assured, if people at
home and abroad will bring their mindf
to bear on the subic t. they may in
some degree improve manners and embol-
| lisf human life with good-hearted humor
and kindly Jokes
offer these observations to the
IoutF'S C0mpGuion, with an apology to
the editor for their crudity. | am too
unwrll to sit down to my desk and
elaborate anything. and these remarks
must be considered rs what they are
sumges ions. dictated which is 4 fine
word for talkcd-and written by
| Charles HCd,ic. IN IOUth's Companion.
Wanted Chance.