Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1894-03-23
TIE AMERICAN POOP.

heir Pride Makes It Fxtre ely Difficult
to Assist Them.
They are the most perplexing Of
features to do anything for. They
Re apt to resentany and every attempt
help them even in the most guarded
ay, as if it were an insult The con-
iousness that they are extremely
Dor, that their income is completely
BIT off, impels them to act as they
ould not if they were in possessionySf
handsome independence. Their pride
hing sensitive to morbidness during
heir perjury, all sorts of shifts are
hired not to wound it. Repeated en-
Eavors to alleviate their indigenc6
ave miscarried, even when madewith
Feat tact, discernment and delicacy.
There is no such general devotion to
harity, it is superfuous to say, as will
hduce the adoption of various eypedi-
hts that needy though stubborn peo-
lie may be prevailed on to take it,
fence the difficulty of helping Amerj.
hns. Many generous persons who try
assist them meet with such rebuffs,
with SO emphatic a denial of their
eeds, that they release their intens
ions. Others get angry, and frankly
ksert that persons who DECLINE aid
teeIy Rendered forfeit all right to 1t.
doubtless the unemployed Americans
ere are hard to manage, and frequent
very provoking. But he who under,
bands their cruel circumstance and
Bnpathizes with sensibility will re-
pect and honor them for their incon-
stent behavior. Contumacious pride
bay often be a high virtue.
It is very hard to tell how these
merican men may be approached. how
hey can be brought to admit their dis.
Tess. But their own kin, their &C.
uaintances, their friends should
barge themselves with the duty.
Where these know that they have lost
tuations, been Invested of income or
EARNINGS by the great commercial up
eaval, they will have their cue to act,
nd sympathy will direct them.
Recently heard of case in point
young married couple, with two
mall children-they were New York.
RS removed in July from a small
partment to an inferior one in mean
uarter The man had been in receipt
q small salary as bookkeeper, and
Eas permitted to resign to reduce exc
lenses An old acquaintance learned
be fact last month, visited them, and
discovered their sadly altered state.
le offered them money.
They said they did not want it He
nsisted and questioned until the poor
ookAeeper was so wrought up that
e broke down completely. bursting
nto 9 Hood of tears. When an Amerii
IAN man weeps it is of deep signifi-
apce.
The sequel proved that he had sought
or another situation daily to no pnr-
pose; that he had parted in silence
vith nearly everything pawnable, and
lad been driven to bay. He had been
ought out and relieved on the eveSBf
badness or suicide
This instance must be one of many.
Harper's Weekly.
Although Switzerland is mostly up
nd down Hill, it has $3.50 miles of Iail3
oad track, which cost over one hundred
thousand dollars per mile for construct
ion.
a Hindoo VINO has written a boob
hbout England says that John Bull
lets hts people hear sermons Sunday
mornings and get drunk in the after
boon Why do the English spend twice
much for drink as for bread?"
made fool of myself again yes
s q said Cholly. in tones of contri'
Really" said Cholly's sister.
<e becoming very unnecessarily
lie. Washington Star,
world has laid eighty-three
tons Of iron aud steel rails
enia and Eugsn;e srs French