The evening times., 1895-11-13
LAST WEEKS RECORD.
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Sfar-1S1.S6 S6S-CircuIati Ion.
AItruis,ic Bevpar,s Confessions

Auruf~tfc Reg2arS Confessions.
! am not one Of them-I wish l were
But having refused TO join when the society
was young, / am ashamed To go into it
now that it seems likely To succeed. Be
SIDES fgot Il bad culgh in the drauglIty halls
whcre | last taught. and peopie might think.
No. I'm not member.
But I'm willing TO help. all the same.
and 50 | told Mr.. stuart, which is the
reason, SUPPOSE, why he asked me 10 beg
for the teachers baZaar. It's about thai
begging toar that want to tell. I'm very
we'll looking. siont and strong. with high
color. aud so thought I'D take my friend,
MISS Blank. along To work on the syInpat hies
or the Dlsiiess men with her fragile ap-
peara;nr. m; she. not feeling well. sent her
sister instead, and her sister weighs one
hundred and-weil, goud deal over, has
clear, sparkling eyes, and the glow of
robust health. nantles her cheeks. 0ur-
party. Therefore, lacked all appearance Of
pathOs.
TIE. first man. we visited rose and set
us. chairs and said he was in sympathy
with our cause, bat that his partners Were
ohduraie. aud he could not act without
them. One OF them was in Europe aud the
other sick abed. So we thanked him and
got his unrcspfved promise to interteie for
uswhe.i they raIBe iIome and got We'll. The
next gentleman stood 10 reseive u.s. listened
to oar. story with an abstrarted air and
eyes firmly fixed on the ceiling, and as
som as the story ended pulled ont what
looked like CHECK book. but proved to he
anote book. in which he put our addresses.
promising To write. The mail carrier must
have lost that letter.
When we left his office we met Salra-
lion Army private with sweet, gentle
face, and promptly bought a pa per. wish.
ing her God speed. a fellow feeling having
the proverbial effect. AT the next place
/the gentleman was out. hut would be back.
the clerks thought. shortly. So we went
TO ncighhpriEg restaurant to lunch. My
friends system didn't like the lunch. She
said she wasn't used TO cold meat and hoiled
potatoes at mid d-day, bat bade her think
how hard even Slfct rp wnnlI ip tn pk,ts, N
should she teach thirty-fiye years and lie
dropped before the teachers annuity mate
riallZed.
When we returned our quarry had not. and
VIC sat i'll his office. alternately wondering
what a ''tickler'' might be-ne had one
open noatiisdtsk-and iookingup moreprom
Using people in the directory, until he came.
He is. not very rich. he's bought a. hogse
recently. his wife is delicate and he has ex-
pensive tastes of a cultured man: so we
dida't expect much from him. BE listened
patiently, asked intelligent questions. said
he was glad OF the opportunity, gave us $40.
wished it We're more. shook hands at part
why aren't men like that ricn?' de-
mau,it4l my friends sister.
.'Recause they are men ike that, perhaps"
said /. sententiously, ''but the tide has
turD,1i, anyway, for the next ON the list
have a card of introduction to, and my
uncle always calls him a. good fellow -
To the good fellow. therefore. we went.
full of joyous anticipation. and a, most un-
common bad fellow we found him. With
hat on the back of his head, hands in his
trousers pockets, and an air Of aggTessi ;e
Indignation he announced, "Gharit,- dnes
nothing for ME. and dent do much for
charity. Why don't You get up d clEir-
So my partner maue himself unplea SAINT,
did he? And quite right, too. Good morn
ing"
Oh, Mr. GoOdfellow, Mr. Goodrellow, go
to your neighbor, the IsraeIite across the
way, and learn TO refuse with civility.
I'm shorty, I'm, shorty murnured the
little Israelite, having, andi waving pair
of iewelIel hands in depreciation, Il haf
eight children and mcin wife boorly most
of de dime. Ven / could gif, den would,
for de dcactiers haf much drOuble NIT my
{: ChpFORc, but what can L dol? Ifftfty, ZeHts,
/: now?''
7 And we took the fifty cents witf,thanks.
and they hurnt our pockets and disturbed
our dreams at night, and the eight children
and sick wife weighed on.Our. hardened
Christian conscieHces. AMI we. went back
next day, with many huns and haws,, to
! restore. the donation. The SON OF SIem
was delighted.
Hal ha! so you want me dake id back?
No, no. ms. goot ladies'. I'ba ymy dax, dot
is drue. but dot does not prevent my gaf-
fling fifty cents fora dan nix oIf'ring because
= off dot deatchers patience NIT dot Gheronle.
Come again.
neighbor, Mr.. Goadfeliow, wherewith to oil
the grating wheels of the semi-social life
which your office affords.
One dollar for car tickets. fifty cents fpr
lunch. a five-dollar hal spoiled. ind one
glove lost-dropped in Mr.. Goodfellow's
office, whence | lacked the courage. TO re-
/ CLAIM, it-were he-dehit, OF credit. account
Z of that tiay'sswork. Iuever canrememher
which. And ten dollars in cash. plus; u
varied and instructive experience, is what
the other column foetsup.
eft would have been ibetterto q give idol
lar and quarter apiece and stay home"
declared my rriend'ss sister; plaimively.
. Bat at home thereawait eel a. letter from
the Hon. T. E. Baker. president of the Var
mouth Steamship Line. declaring tlElt the
company took pleasure in donating. to SO
worthy a cause, and giving a twent y-del-
? lar round trip from Bostouto Halifax, and
n letter from a cousin in Hartford stating
that ..the Coils Firearms Company. al
though not in the bitofedonating to fairs,
in response TO your business-like and TACT
fui letter, will send a twemy -five-dollar
gift.''
Itook the letter and the 81 to Mr.. Stuart,
who promptly relieved me of any more beg
ging and put me on the press committee.
= 19lat.is why write. this cuDfessioH which.
Ii Il fssprinted, / shall .sa We al6Tx with one
glove and spoiled het, TO remind me of the
days when appeared as an altruistic beg
gar. H. G. CT. c.