Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1882 — Anxious to Help. [ARTICLE]

Anxious to Help.

Senator Vance, of North Carolina, frequently illustrates his speeches with anecdotes, 01 rather parables, which he relates in a manner that seldom fails to bring down the house, no matter how much the majority may disagree with him politically. Speaking one day against a bill which he considered "penny wise but pound foolish,” he said it reminded him of a kind old man who lives at the top of a hill in North Carolina. One day a wagoner came by and unfortunately got his team "stalled” at the foot of the hill. To the old man’s house he went, asking the loan of a pair of mules and a "fifth chain” to help him up the hill. Said the kind old man : “My friend, I have not got a pair of mules or a filth chain to save your life. But I am always anxious to help a m m in distress; I can lend you the best fiddle you ever drew ft bow across,”