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Wingham Times, 1890-04-25, Page 2ttt U1 t$ x rli DA's'•, APRIL, 25, 1890. ME OLD MAN '!LLB THD BOYS. tie rusk. Iloilo. About that oarI told you, boys, A. little that I saw, Well, then.. there was some ore and coal, And long prairie straw,oars and plums. And apples, peaches, P Would bless a sea king's eyes, And No mangels, beets and the skiler roots, es. But soon I left the railroad car, And jogged along the track; You see, to get my dinner, boys, I bad to hurry back ; I sate a great big salt block, too, Tliat gave me a surprise, The steam was like a thunder cloud Alloating up the sky. The salt was best I ever saw, ' As white as April snow, A little salt,I think would make, Tha fall wheat kinder grow. 'When I got the inuer man, Refreshed and strengthened too, I rambled all about the shops, To have another view. I went in Gannett's blacksmith shop ; He does a lively trade, Gannett, Murray and 117cClymont's cart Had just been lately made: The springs were fixed, I can't tell how, 'Twas mighty neatly done : 'Twould knock Travethick out o' sorts And beat Tom Edison. together, and both eu 'em • wanted quarter "f :a hound ,of best young Ryon tea.; -so i ju.at' takes two big pieces of that paper and I chucks a piece into the scales, and weighs out Betty's tea, and then another piece. for Stilly., llo, hal a dollar and a, wiener a pound for that paper 1 Fully a third of what they paid for watt paper 1 Good for you, my son. That's a pretty price for old paper, By the way, has old Hodgkins, been in this moruin'g Yes ; and I've dot his wool= --every pouud of it, and given trim credit on our books. \Vhat did you allow !him ? Ah, there I had him! He hadn't heard a word of the advance in price. I told hien thirty cents was all we could possibly pay. He hesitated but 1 got it at my price. Ile had a little over four hundred pounds : so there's a Olean forty.dollars gained out. of this old screw, '1'liat's the spirit, my boy. If you are.going to trade, and expect to make money at it, you can't be too careful. Everybody who buys or sells will he sure to cheat us if they can. 4h 1 this is a great world! and he is the beat man who can make the tmost off Hallo who ' ' —• Iia. his opportunities. that talking with William ? It's Ben Baker. Zounds 1 I twist mitten him. He's got a splendid lot of wool ; and he ain't sharp neither. And the mer- chant started away to intercept the elan who had the wool to sell. 'I'Ilese two, thus conversing, were father and son—old John and young John Sharper. Old John was the owner of the priucipa' store in a large a thriving New England village. Like ell stores of the kind, it turnish- ed the people of the town with about everything that could be kept on sale; and since the railroad had brought the town so near tl'e .:ity, the farmers found ready market for about all they had to sell. Mr. Shtirpe "s character is snffi'cient• iy exposed iu the cenVerslttlotl we`have overheard ; and we can see that his son is coating up in the practiet+ of the shone sharp methods. His store was the oldest in the village, with a cell-. trat location ; and shaving money on hand, he was able to pay cash when it was for his interest so to do; and there are times when a poor farmer,— or a poor anything else, for that mat. ter,—will sacrifice a great deal for a small sum of ready money. And be sure- it never jarred on John Sbarper's cunscienue to rob a man, if he could do it under cover of the seeming law. William Snow was a young roan of one and -twenty, whom Sharper em- ployed as bookkeeper and clerk. He was the son, and only child of a widowed mother with whom he resided, and whom be mostly sup- nofatherand• bore's carriage shop's in splendid style, Got carriages and cutters swine, The boxes fiinished up to beat A. looking glass each one ; For Collins' road cart strong and light, Just call on Dore some day ; You won't think much about the stamps, But bring that cart away, And Scott has got a chopping mill At Hastings apple press, I didn't get some cider the, Cause apples mighty scarce. Beitshey uses lots of clay, And turns it into jugs, Spitoons and bowls and And flower -pots and mugs, ars Ana jam, And Ireland's smith and wagon shop Is thriving steady still, The old man's hale and hearty, too, And works with honest will; There's none can do a better job On wagon or on plow, ANonenatural be genius alland for allow. wit, average four and: a half pounds each. .That's good isn't it, vanes, Yea Ben, Nine hundred p Haat is. a good shearing; and your sheep are good, too. At this point Parker became aware that Mr Sharper had approached the desk, and the conversation was drop ped. The farmer nodded, and spoke a pleasant word to, the merchant,. find' then turned to leave, but the merchant stopped him. you sold i3y the way, Parker—have y your wool yet? No,1. haven't. self answered his summons When d want cash for it? I A lovely, pretty girl was Laura I sell a it yes• Winship a healthful, hopeful, truth- HowWell, Iul 1I Wouldo a fair price, ful,happy i Y much? you call a fair maiden, the o and the blessing of her widowed mother,•witlt prices know, are a heart large enough to love every• Well—your sheep, 1 i is i tiling worthy gesslove. She and From, with "brawny arm" of strength, He strikes the anvil hard, Maybe it was electric shock My poor old system jarred; Tie's got some a 1 buggies made, All furnished up to beat, Nice tops to keep out r,uu and rain And dandy cushioned seat. 'Then Harry Clark, you know him, boys, Y saw nim at his place; The than that wins a prize from him, Will have a right smart chase ; That pump with iron spout, out there, Has worked six years, still sound ; $e makes the best of For hundred miles around. sure 1emmex, yes, he's au old friend, That's where I next did go, To sell his wagons there about He doesn't need to blow, d Got goo as sat through, we do pot forsake ouraelva's• Stome almost a year, ever eines 1 kne thingwill be found.. I you end Laura were sure to .Ah 1 returned William'•' --not Badly, and wife, trod the l�latT•s wer but hopefully, and with a simile• -•that something must be quickly found ; for we have -nothing laid t.p--nothing save my health and strength. Bat we will not complain. I can dig and delve thank fortune 1 William had another to inforrnlo hisan s situation ; and here a darling p lite must be changed.,y lie celled at Later in the evening 4 the cottage of the Widow Winship. Laura had expected him, and elle lher- good ones, and I know your woo clean. 1'll give—you—cash—say— thirty-two ciente; and that's two cents more'n I ought to give. Yes—well, said the hard handed old farmer, with a comical leer, whenJ get ready to sell mebbee 1'11 let you know. I aint _ sufferin' for money just now. And with that be turned and walked away. when William, said Mr Sharper, the farmer was beyond ear -shot, has he been talking with you about his wool. quot- ed asked me what wool was q ed at','sir. And what did you tell himt At first I told him it was not my business, but he appealed to me as a friend, and of course I told hitt. Told—what? esterda What wool was quoted at y Y William had, been.'betrothed to one another for more than a year, and they had planned that at the close of the present season they would marry. But that must be put off to a later date ; and this It was that hurt the youth most deeply. 0, Willie 1 I'tn glad you've come. Uncle Sam is here,—dear old Uncle Sam And before he could answer a word she had led him into the little sitting room, where sat her mother, and her mother's brother,—Uncle Sam Law- rence. He was a plea alit, fraillc_fitced happy -looking ratan, of three -score, or more ; but ,heerty and healthy as ever. He greeted William—he called him, Billy, my boy,--•-wit.h .ardent, eener ons affection, and then waved hint to a sent. We were talking of you, my boy, when you knocked, the old man said, In Portland. give Yes; and what figure did you g laughingly, put oil all the unhappy biro?for Why, what could. I have given them looks, We'vetheardd�tlne news 'to story, ibet the quotations, fY,r we have t just as straight, probably, as you in papers?ycould tell it ourself. I asked you what—figure-you— As William cast a wondering look hm? around, Laura took it upon herself to explain. We have heard the whole story of your trouble at the store, Willie. Mrs. Jackson came directly here after she left there. She and Mrs. Bald- win overheard the conversation be- tween yourself and Mr. Sharper ; and as she happened to be the very person to whom you had exposed the truth about the cloaking, of course she understood it thoroughly. 0 ! I am glad you aro free front the place. Your own reputation might have suffered in time. Certainly, said the youth, it is not pleasant to lose one's employment ; vet my losing that pace could only have been a question of time. The moral taint of such an atmosphere was a little to touch for me. - 1 say that here and now, because you all that: mad It far laid out that it required only tll�ll 'act of Sharper's to honorably set you free, and the building of Dail Noble to give. ns quarters. And that will snake n splendid store Better than Shar- per's, won't it ? • Very much better better in .every way. But, uncle— Then it is the sante as done, broke in the impulsive old man. I can have. the goods here as soon se the. store can be ready for them, Arid the. sign. 0, we'll have a grand one WILLIAM Slow AND C.•,ipANY 1 illy Little Laura is to be the comp Any, for to her I give the a tablistiment, The fact is,I am not going to wait till I am dead and gone for my loved ones to enjoy the little good that I can give them. No, I prefer to see and enjoy some of it while I live. Now, tell me honestly, he went on, after a moment's pause, do you think you will be bore to malce•a success of it ? My dear Uncle Lawrence, answer- ed the youth, with solemn assurance, give me the capital, and I will pledge myself if my health is spared to do • more baeilles't, and a far better bust • ness than John Sharper is doing. In short, success is sure to be the outset. But—remember— there must be a sufficient capital at the bottom—that must be the foundation upon which to build the success. And what is your idea of a suffi- cient capital ?--Come — come, no modesty ab .ut. this 1 mean business'. I ask you, because I suppose you know what would you call a sufficient capital in cash ? William reflected for a little time, with his bent upun his hands and when he looked up his face was bright and clear. Yon will understand, he said, that besides the cash paid for the goods which we place iu stock, we must, if we would be whole -handed, have cash for the farmers who bring produce to sell, • There are certain articles of farm produce which are the same as cash, and he is fortunate who secures tar then : Butter, chrese, e,�gs,wool,yarn, honey and other things of like charac- ter. I should' say ten thousand dollars Would set up a fair business ithatt-is, supposing we ask no credit at the beginning—fifteen thousand would start a stronger business and twenty thousand would not only `make a sure thing, but it would give us the strength of a bank financially. Well, sir, said tht; good -Hearted old man, chis face glowing with the radi- ance of perfect happiness, to -morrow morning you may put on yonr work- ing clothes, for I shalt want you at had I the new store. 'Twenty thousaihd dol- ing marred seven -and sixpence,. know ; but I would not seen k it tiro it is Remember—'The business cotton its)at. i abroad, and I trust you will not re.- is yours. For a word now about Certaiifly I did. Pat it from my lips. division of profits. We'll fix that Aye; dud Mr Jackaou was with her n and 1 had told her only the day be And purpose do `2yaske , Uncle, cin his 1 fun we !the money IIwilllrlt okrto you Patent grins and hubs all sound, for the last. d k staves all ported. fore, that there ,wasn't a bit of cot - Would , 1a11d, hearty way. The •easy running a of the wheels NII Son had been ou ton in it;must look When Willit'm Snow walked home. Well, SiCri turned the youth, wi' o I dont know yet. I Would satisfy a Jew. gaged in their Characteristic con- t saws and Taylor's d shaves, Pvenation,keby name, hor old au adj inn had bornp'alout all,he could conifer- around. Tlhen, turning to Laura : The ward that evening he seetned to tread btrarghhappy da, will peep, darling ; but we on air. He was in a wondrous Breton The planta mid ahwves, Darner had ne fromtheau adjoining t tall bear, and whpset. utter detests ply„ y I saw bin tapping. down the hoops, town, entered the stor«;aud, espy- ysmust ut•1t further from us I am sorry with the mystic Lamp of Aladdin in To tighten up the staves; ing young Snow at his desk, had ap- tion of the tmerchant's uc in where was p where will lousy ;but further lovem all the sorry full possession, hmysti Iiisbarrsls.tubs and cistrons, too, bed flim He had known Billy 13 and live on top During the following dray, young 1 father dna 1311 Snow t;a to You remember then, sir—fortyforty-two cents. Ohl those were the figures, were they? You 'are a smart merchant's clerk, you are 1 Last week you tock nigh on to forty dollars out of shy pocket by tellin' Solomon Brown that he ought to get sixty •cents for his potatoes. You know I darent let yon stand behind the counter to sell. if there's a brack or a crack or any kind of an out, in a piece sre goodsts that a customer looks at, y 'Willi it. And so, Mister Snow, you calecei,side.r that I've had enough of you.: Jolie tuld we only last night, how- you gave Ilse the lie. Gave •yon the lie, sir? Yes gal'4i rue Irel repeated dr Sharper, iii hot wrath. You . told Mrs tVrelirnre that that piece of cloak - bronghtsto the sur arcs, } e. - y., you Biot the blame a matter. But to Look', youug man : 1 don't know John told his a ter to 13i ll not argue the matter. I am about this. I have had • my mind had gone to work for Dan Noble. sorry 1 cannot please; yet, I am free made u to enjoy that wedding , this Let him dig 1 was the elder John's to say, that you can never depend fall'bnd to eat. my than.kegiving, din response. upon mato deceive a customer for :your pecuniary benefit; nor— tier at your table ; and 1 dont Mean But in the course of_ the followin p Y to be cheated out of it if I• can iij 1p week their note was changed. What Hush! Hush! Don't you hoe? it. No\v answer me: What ' is to in the'°wind is the young rascal doing? Yes, he saw, Two ladies had en- be' done ,with that k,large .• new the''e1der 1>eked. terse the store, and were stand- building wl}iis11 has been erected on Two"weeftt� more,and both old John ingwhere they could overhear; and g one et thein was the very Airs Jaak• the opposite Elide of the sttea;t from and young Jdhn• knew about it, son to whom Sharper had declared Sharper,s store ? new sign had appeared --large golden that the cloaking stuff had not a par- It was put up for Mr. Waldron, to letters' on a black sanded background tiale of cotton in it. be used as a tinware manufactory, and WILLmM Stow Si Co., and a large The conversation was dropped, and a store for stoves, furnaces and like number of smaller signs were exposed the business that even. goods ; but the death of his son has such as Farm Producc .bought and at the close of, unsettled all his plane, and he will not Sold, Cash Paid for Butter, Cheese, ing William Snow was discharged take it. Eggs, ctsa., and so 00. from the merchant's employ.That hardly answers my question, Old John gave the young rascal, The young ratan experienced a sense boy.1 asked you, what is to be dune the presuming puppy, jltst three of relief in being thus freed from the with t it ? months to live. taint of that $tare. Had he been call- Why,Mr. Noble wishes to let it, But at the end of three months, ede to stand behind the counter as s John Sharper at the old store—the and he offers it very cheap. regular aalesulan be could not have How cheap 1 standard store—had scarcely a cash- borne a as long as he had; and as it Two hundred and fifty dollars a paying customer left. Among the was, t 4 had en when a had than he year, and ha says he will fix it to suit farmers, Ben Parker set the ball in con a tell. fading herb le lier seeny poor,aany busiltess that may be carried on motion. He bad learned, why old honest confiding people literally Sharper had turn W `'?ill neither bust nor leak, prose • Tho' left out in the July suu - Snow from his babyhood ; and he had Or twelve mouths ice a creek. confidence in him ; and it was nim W 11 D e v is blacksmith shop stands he wanted on the present occasion. near; e rye Billy, faid he, after he had passed The mud a kjo ted me mad, the usual compliments of meeting, A lints sidewalk just down there and lied asked after his deur old friend Is ttoeded mighty bad. 'Well Droaver does is shoeing trade, the boy's mother,—I want a bit of Nor does he work in vain, your help. I've got the hest lot of 'Will never need For they that take their horses there, _plain wool i ever had.—and you know what my wool ire—just Cotswold enough in a-Steveneen is a y band lad, it to give it length and firmness ; In and iron hue, —now, what had I ought to get for >�e'd got the very knack, you see, To make material shine ; it 1 Cali make a dray and buggy, too, Why, really, Mr. Parker, said the To And sits 'ern out so nice ; youth smi}ii31, I am not the man who e e intra job, I know, makes prices here. $ear a try it t ed 't t twlco U pb}taw 1 Dang }t all 1—d' you 'itlill Holt s'pose I'd asl. old Sharper +nes has vim without the boast, , Isar er the price of ISoes all things up in style, it Old V,tlean at his glowing forge anytitiha nl 1 dont to want now o what it Would' give approving smite; here , y To see him beat the sparking ore, is worth ; and 1 thought—thinks I to It my oldheartglove; myself, --Billy Snow'il tell me the Can make u stress for any horse, tvuth if he knows it. I know that Or i on se - Inglis 1� rs t-clo h is a n+� mill, cents,or thereabouts ; Where l%ret•Clot414stoads, *.Co seg the rattling' loom' at work, but I'm thinking it's rix rinse then. It nuole tut most afraid; It heti, Ben, •aid the bookkeep- So out 1 Kot. but, boys, you know. er, frankly. It was quoted in Port - So seen o, mighty pilo' land, yesterday, at forty to forty two X started fur tidy lronrdrn� house, To rest my bones a While, cents, according to quality. O fit 't to wood d' Salon about shearing time it wassell - Eh tug for thirty Eh 1 Forty—forty-two ? Then MNItc BANTT AND HIS mine is worth forty-two cents fast enough. CLERKS. Delivered in Portland or Boston, rttttracosli, JO. you understand, You would hardly lrY el'LV" get that kherv. ler 18. well T shall call on Mr ed illiam Snow oil; bed behis very face had felt Very anit be sure be spread it. And that be must give up the situated; a►.d tomorrow, and' take his build among the women Mrs, Jackson and the lace was lost— Noble yet, now that p , Mrs. Baldwin were a power. But, taken from hila—be felt sad and down- ing. hearted. And he had a particular You 4 cried William in blank sura'• above tend beyond alt that the young ^rise, merchant web a power in himself. reason for it, as we shall see anon. Yes, And, moreover, I wish to Not only honest but honorable, in every word and every deed—honor- able and truthful, with a disposition and a will to do unto others exactly what he would have others do unto him so living and' acting, itis pledges always a sacred pledge, and his pl q sure to be fulfilled, how could he do else than succeed ?—remembering, of course, that be had the field in Wbieti to worth His mother, when he told her what I engage ou to superintend matters. had happened, was not surprised. naort my toy, the old fl an went She had lona felt that Mr. Sharper with soul•serlt earnestness T pent • presence apose to hate an honest and honorable could lint endure his city, w , Well .. there hadn't ought to be his personal in its and buttiness " W1raE' n the w irld,ara you so tickled more'n a cont off for carryrn had while, p merchant In this village, and I prupolra. *bout, rlctlrn7 here methods beinga constant reminder'to' the you shall be that �trierahant,. isbo. I t e merchant nd his son of their own 0, dart, it want too good 1 You' t No �- t►bt�tsld arty not; or say a cent dishonesty, Hold on 1 1\iot a word. I've got 1I!t that �tbiose heart' tepee ttlf, at the arory outside. .kissingi all arrange. It seems as thoughit vt titan and a lr W illiem, " . bl'rat oa�ae `cut of those scythes Yes, that's fnir. Titarrlcne, lever mind, she said, her `herr, a Providence in this tatlair, beth iia son with tnkrnte tenderness, ! was thisidson tniatt for Y tad wsinitl • Esti- 1' },otter off titan 1 thought 1 wee, the nnrl will tent forelllCe nos if 1 havething d ed ff and they ff 1 "r11,,tG'it'eWa two 'o' t D Tyle r two h a it eeee5t �. ill4tty,flt+ rwiti soul �etrrrr«t ux, Sas- u TiEMMRANCR COL, UMt 00Nnuo Nii av mimeses V. W. 4. Clippis}r., Th, 'eased value of Ifansas 1880 iex;160,000,000, In 18 after eight years of prohibition, valuation was 8803,000,000. At the close of a masterly tem ance address in Calcutta, by Oat Wilberforce, dusky Mohammedans Hindoos crowded to the table, nearly eight hundred pledgee v taken. The Anglo Teniperau0e Associa is making rapid advances in In The object of the organization is secure the ultimate prohibition the sale of liquor throughout Iudi Charles Emory Smith, the American Minister to St. Petersb turns the glasses down when the is passed at public banquets, and not tasted the intoxicating out fifteen years. Edward Everet Rale says: ready to acknowledge that the c are apt to be a little fanatical in matter of temperance. Why no deed? They see the skeleton its closet, which other people dosnot They receive the confidence, and know why a lad never kept the promise with which h ha entered ed co They know what i8 the hidden ca - the ruin in this household, and fond hopes of that young pair you want to make au active to once member of any indifferent set Mien at work in prisons, in al organizations, in educations; yoi soon find that be say s less about erate drinking, that he lool doubtedly on strong legal laws to es for keeping men out of tempt We wish sincerely that alt man were temperance fanatics. trouble, is that many are airing views on personal liberty, etc., some of the young men 111 their gregatiol'is are going down to aril's graves. The Tra f c& we Tolerate. Judge Digby Seymour, Q. C. charge to the Grand Jury at castle -on -Tyne, Eng., held up jeryinen a card in varioue eoloi trastiug u1 prominent colo amount of money spent in Brit intoxicating drinks as compares the money spent in Britail bread, butter, cheese; and of titles, 'and showing very s results. The great black col . the . left represented £186,1 spent in intoxicating drink as+ se with bread, £70,000,000, and cheese,£35,000,000, mill 000,000, sugar, £35,000,000, t fee and cocoa, £20,000,000, co 000,000, rent of houses, £60,1 rent of farms.. £60,000,000, goads, 116,000,000, cotton 'R14,000,000, edn;atiou, £11. linen goods, £6,000,0Q0,and missions of alt kinds, £1,1 These, remarked the judge, vt startling figures, put in a ver; and instructive way. They h used up for them there few as to the amount spent npi was a great source of evil, not so much as to quantity, 1. the quality, which, to his gni always the greatest mischief shatters. But the enormous neverthelessV'1'y sariking, at the great disparity between amount spent upon intoxieati and, say, that upon educatiot ' Orphaned by itum. Harry's statement that the Homes is an'ply confirm' Raimerrlo. In his last alum; of the Homes lie says : In the winter of 1371, at guest of the late Earl of Sh. 1 carefully investigated my rescued children. d. tab epecial columns the various causes, nearer or More rem led to their becoming cand the Homes ; and the astolin emerged (doubly astonishin because I Was that then a stainer, nor even in spmpt that eminent) that no less per cent of all the chit were admitted to the lloh; my cine owed their social xi • long tt•ain ref their distress', alub'nce, direst or indirect, o ii►g habits of their parents, parents, 9r other relativ , have passed since that it tirade, bet the testimony inn records has only con evidence collected so pail before. Indeed, I would hesitate to affirm than, of at ,clieltts, 5110 perootltago who ,ciivxi,iu life throttgll, h4o,.