usand dollars
($5000) to purchase a kite and some marbles. Greatly stricken in
conscience, and heartily ashamed of his recent meanness, he turned
to the suppliant, and said, kindly:

"'Give me your address, and to-morrow morning I will send you a
cart full ($000) of means. I would give you more now, but I have
only sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) about me, with which to pay
for the pair of boots I now have on.'

"'Moses Faro,' responded the deeply-affected pauper, 'your noble
charity will enable me to pay the nine thousand dollars ($9000) I
owe for a week's board; and now let me ask, how goes our sacred
cause?'

"'Never brighter,' answered the wealthy Confederate, with
enthusiasm. 'We have succeeded to-day in forcing five more cities
through the Yankee lines, and are dragging three whole Hessian
armies to this city.'

"'Then welcome poverty for a while longer,' cried the beggar,
pathetically; and so great was his exuberance of spirit at the
news, that he resolved to spend five hundred dollars ($500) for a
cigar in honor thereof.

"Mr. Faro walked thoughtfully on toward his residence, pondering
earnestly the words he had listened to, and astonished to find how
easily a rich man could give happiness to a poor one. After all,
thought he, there is more contentment in poverty than in riches.
Show me the rich man who can boast the sturdy lightness of heart
inspiring that hackneyed rhyme, the

"'CAROL OF THE CONFEDERATE BEGGAR.

"'Though but fifty thousand dollars
Be the sum of all I own,
Yet I'm merry with my begging,
And I'm happy with my bone;
Nor with any brother beggar
Does my heart refuse to share,
Though a thousand dollars only
Be the most I have to spare.

"'I am shabby in my seven
Hundred dollar hat of straw,
And my dinner's but eleven
Hundred dollars in the raw;
Yet I hold my head the higher,
That it owes the hatter least,
And my scanty crumbs are sweeter
Than the viands of a feast'.

"Humming to himself this simple lay of contented want, Mr. Faro
reached his own residence, gave eighty dollars ($80) to a little
boy on the sidewalk for blacking his boots, and entered the portals
of the hospitable mansion. His wife met him in the hall, a