The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-05-31
PEcx's FAD BOY AND als "A.
" GEORGE V. rxcx.

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 @Give me small bslls tor a 6ve.- said :he alleged bad boy, as he vent into the grocery, followed by two meek looking. pleasant faced sisters of charity. The groceryman gave him the change, he handed one of the daskly dressed ladies two dollars. received thanks and the sis ters bowed and went out, while the boy rolled up his three dollars in piece oftis- sue paper and put it h his pistol pocket. and watched the grocezyman, who seemed 1 10 be mad.
 aweli. you are the darndes, fool ever saw" said the groceryman- -yoo haven't got sense enough to go in when 1 it rains" and he brushed some crumbs Of crackers, sugar and tea that was on the counter into barrel of ground coffee. Whats the matter with me now said the boy. Have I got to take my regular weekly blowing up !s
 Matter. Matter enough" said the groceryman. as he sneered al the boy. !" You go and earn five dollars, and the first person that asks you for money. you give 1t to them. Now, them sisters of charity could buy and sell you, every day in the week, and yet they kanoodle you ou, of two dollars They dout belong to your church. and yet you ccnsribute 10 their enterprises. would not give them condemned cent. What are they going to do with that money? How do yeu know but they will spend it foi elcthes. l heard once tha, these sisters of charity had high old time when they were in- side the walls of the plsce they stay in. and that they laugh nshs oss loud They couldn't fool me with any of their stories'
 Well, for a mean old grumbler, you take the whole bakery said the bsy. as picked up rolling pin as though he wanted to maui the grocery man. You have got about as much charity about you as goat. You ought to be put on exhibition at a museum as the champion mean man of the nine teenth century. could excuse you tor finding faul, with anything have ever done, but this, but when you abuse poor sisters of charity, meek angels of mercy, you are beneath even the contempt of a bad boy. Those ladies are the purest of their sex, devoting their lives to doing
 good. with no hope of reward except
 when they die. Those ladies are two of the Little Sisters of the ioor. and they care ,enderiy for old people ~he have no homes. no money, and no friends. They
 are getting money to put on an addition to their building, and pa gave them ten
 dollars, and told pa would like 10 take
 little stock in that scheme myself. and
 he said could if wanted to. and so
 happened to meet them and told them | k-l Al k. AAst sk
 mine than to buy pools in a baseball
 match, as you did last Saturday, and they said they were not canvassing among
 children, but if wanted to aid them and
 could afford it, they could see no ob-
 lections, 90 1 took two dollars stock , What do care if their religion is difier-
 ent from cur folxses, and what does my |. pa care. They feed and clo,he poor old folks, regardless of their religion. If
 had gone in company with you last : Saturday and bought two dollars worth of pools in the baseball match, and had won dollar, you would have given me credit for being awful smart. You would
 have said had head on me like a cifiei
 justice, and yet would have been only a
 plain, common gambler, like yourself
 l would have felt mean as you do nov
 You lost your money on the base ball ! match, and feel mad at everybody, and [ abuse sisters of chairty, ladies who are l always the first to appear al any scene ol accident or calamity, to soothe the las, hours of the sick or afflicted. Your , investment in baseball pools makes you dyspeptic grambier, who looks ] upon the whole world as colossal swin. 1 AiA q tAA terprise of caring for old people tha, are homeless makes me happy, and all the world seems to me bright, on this pleas an, morning. 1 may rever get a diyi. dend on my stock tha, will show up a, the bank, but if you and l should start for heaven this afternoon and you should present your baseball pool ticket to S, . Peter at the gate, and should have noth- ing with me bu; the reflection of the heavenly smile Of that sister of charity
 that gave the two dollars 10, which oi . us do you think St. Peter would take the
 most stock in: He would fire you out,
 and if he didn't let me in. he would a, least steer me on to some place where there was hole in the fence abou; my size. And if the pool seller that you in- vested your money with, had seEt up his
 books to St Peter, to be looked over, and the Little Sisters of the Poor had sent their books, whick book had you rather
 your name would be found in. Nov,
 guess you are about as ashamed of your self as you ever will be, and if you van, to chip in towards the nssers Of charity. !. and want to give few dollars. not only to help along the scheme, but as sor' oi
 apology for your unkind remarks abou, |. the good sisters, think could catch up . with them down there by the postossce somewhere, and give ii to them, and say
 that the nice old gectieman who keeps
 the grocery had sent is.'
 "An right here's five dollars" said
 the grocezyman, as he pulled out a leather wallet and began 10 snrosl if, spilling some old pool tickets on the counter. "Cive it to them as coming
 from the bIamedes. old fool in W'iScon-