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Sir, bring me good, plain dinner said a
melancholy looking individual to waiter at
one Of our principal hotels.


The dinner was brought and devoured, and
the eater called the landlord aside, and thus
addressed him


You are landlord?'


Yes


You do a good business here?


Yes Gin astonishment)


You make-probably ten dollars day,
clear?'


Yes


Then am safe. I cannot pay for what
have consumed; have been out of en-
ployment seven months; but have engaged to
go to work tomorrow. | had been without
food four-and-twenty hours when | entered
your place. I Twill pay you in a week


4 cannot pay my bills with such promises,
blushed the landlord, and do not keep a
poor-house. You should address the proper
authorities; leave me something for security


4 have nothing


Il will take your coat


If go into the streets without that will
get my death, such weather as it is.


You should have thought of that before
you came here


you are serious? Well I solemnly aver,
that one week from now will pay you


Il will take the coat


The coat was left, and week afterwards
redeemed.


Seven years after that wealthy man en-
tered the political arena, and was presented
at caucus as an applicant for congressional
nomination. The principal of the caucus held
his peace-he heard the name and history of
the applicant, who was member of church,
and one of the most respectable citizens He
was chairman. The vote was tie, and he
cast egative-thereby defeating the veal
thy applicant, whom he met an hour after
wards, and to whom he said


You don't remember me?'


NO


Il once ate dinner at your hotel, and al
though told you was famishing, and pledged
my word and honor to pay you in week, you
took my coat, and saw me go into the inclem-
ent air, at the risk of my life, without it,


well, sir, what then?'


Not much; you called yourself a christian.
Tonight you were candidate for nomination,
and but for me you would have been elected
to Congress-



Three years after the christian hotel keeper
became bankrupt, and sought home al
Bellevieu. The poor dinnerless wretch tha,
was, is now a high functionary at Albany
We know him well. The ways of Providence
are indeed wonderful, and the worlds muta.
tions almost beyond conception or belief-Er