Show liberality and its abuse we see in the california papers and last of all in those of Sic sacramento where the scamp was finally arrested an account of a rascal irom from who his been in tho the b habit abit of imposing on tho the kindly feeling and generosity of the community by es enting one of his bis horses borses as just jast dead himself anxious to sell out his loid of vegetables or purchase one as 13 the case might be the impossibility offis of his moving a peg wit without houta a bor horae e to fill up tip bi his team and his bi orvn inability to procure one unless dinless as assisted isted by a temporary loan or gift in this way and taking advantage of the well known generosity of the california californi public lie ho was traver traversing qIng the state and hid bad a already realized it a large sum of money by means of this ahli taie tale false dinall in all it its particulars when chaum stances showed him up in his true colora and he was arrested for swindling limn this man is detected but how bow mady many thousands are there not who remain undetected and who by thus abusing the best beelin feelings s of our nature continue to make motey without earning it I 1 we venture to say sav that while liberality and generosity are excellent things and the undue exercise thereof are failings that lean to virtue s side 1 still that pame same unguarded exercise of either cither or both is a weakness and is calculated to do injury to the giver the ibe recipient and to the entire community all of us who aho have bave traveled know the various guises under which our sympathies have been appealed to by unworthy objects and we will venturie to state that nine out of every ten of the persons so applying are actual and downright liars and impostors at least such has bas been our and we have taken the to examine into many of the cases presented to ourselves here and elsewhere during a very extensive course of travel in both hemispheres hemisphere s now it is ia plain that by assisting a person who is thus gaining money by means ot of false pretenses we are encouraging en coura ing him and injuring the community while bile wo we at the same time lender leader ourselves so much the less able to assist a really deserving person who may apply to us ora or a really meritorious object presented for our aid and all men ni bo have had the ability to amass any money for it requires ability to do that and the sense to keep it after it was earned know full well that they could readily impoverish themselves in a short time by responding sp to all the claims that are arc from day to day presented to them many are ashamed to refuse their aid even to an object put in the form of a subscription which they do not understand or understanding do not like lest they m may ty be regarded edas as penurious many from sheer indolence give when they know the money will be badly used and again there are many who dislike to say no and rather than do so BO will allow themselves to be swindled of a small sum by these petty scoundrels and thieves for in principle those who gain a livelihood thus are arc no better than thieves all of us have acquaintances too many of them who are in a chronic state of and who are never without it hout a valid acason in ia words toas to assign sigu for the pm pose of proem ing an accommodation to the extent of five or ton ten dallai collais dol lais s but knowing iii themas them as wedo we do weare we are fully aware that these hese t promises are wolds woid sand and nothing more and as such lamentably in inadequate adequate to bring back the sums once disbursed we know that it is no charity but the direct reverse to furnish such men with our funds N n liy hy then should we take it for granted that the first stran stranger 11 er who comes along with a cunningly devised tale is any better or that chete is real kindness in giving to him when wo 10 feel so well colv convinced need there is none in giving to the drunkard the petty gambler or tho the spendthrift that we know DOW or why should we take it for granted that it is our bounden duty to launch out five or ten dollars whenever r a subscription paper is thrust at us its when in ninety nine cases out of the hundred we know not nothing heing and care less about tho the objects set 1 forth therein in point of fact it is a duty which we owe ourselves to examine carefully these itinerant or local applicants for charity ans nd to satisfy ourselves that our money when advanced will d ud will will riot not be used sd to be well 11 expended X P n d a and insist and support idleness and habitual mendicancy die di cancy incy let no tale met mearly ely as such of a sick 1 or destitute 0 NN wife ife of a stal sta ving iving family or any of the adm so well wel I 1 h known by these parasites upon the public impose upon them and if we find u us s but let us examine them true then gi e according to our ability in short let us its use the sat same no degree of caution and judgment which we would in any ordinary business briness tran transaction action with this mental under standing stin ding 1 I earned this money by prudence and belf denial and I 1 inuit blut cc some personal onal benefit or extraneous good conferred or to be conferred conf ened before lightly parting with it claimants on oil 0 our tir means ii will ill bo be raf rarer r when hen the merits of those chims me aie sifted |