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BENEVOLENCE.
Philanthropos, the day after the great Railroad
Jubilee, appeared in public with two excessively black
eyes. It seems that he was going by one of our principal
hotels, when a large delegation arrived from out of
town, and hearing the remark, “All full,” his heart was
touched, and, mounting upon a post, he asked the crowd
if they would n't like to have a nice house to stop at,
where every man could have a room to himself, and
every accommodation he could desire. The response was
“Yes.”
“Well,” said the good man, with emotion, “well, if
I hear of any such I will let you know.”
The people were strangers, and did not understand
the benevolence of his intentions, and one or two of them
expressed their disapprobation in a striking manner,
which marred the good man's pleasant exterior, as above
described.
On the day of the above celebration, a large locomotive
was brought to a standstill in Washington street,
in consequence of one of the wheels giving out belonging
to the car it was on. Philanthropos, with an eye
always to the interests of the mechanic, seeing the danger
to which the engine was exposed, walked sentry round
it all night to prevent the boys from running away with
it. It was an act for which he should have been honored;
but the workmen called him an ass for his pains, when
indignation for a moment was awakened; despair succeeded
of ever being able to benefit his race; when a
small voice whispered to his conscience: “Will you
abandon an eternal principle because crude humanity
fails to appreciate your efforts?” and he responded
promptly to the question, and turned away in search of
new objects for the exercise of his benevolence.
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