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NEW SERIES.
LOYAL
A Story of the Present Day.
* BY MISS CARRIE CAIiL.
A young man stood upon the steps of a re
cruiting otlice in a little town of one of the ,
Western States. A boy, we might rather say, j
for the beardless face, its shadow of golden !
hair, its blue, earnest eyes, and delicate, al
most girlish features, could not have seen more
than fifteen summers. He stood with one hand
upon the door-knob, the other was pressed in
a perplexed, irresolute way ever his forehead —
for. a moment, he stood thus, <s if debating
with himself, then he opened the do T and en
ter. a
A number of men sat around tire stove: one
on high >ioul be hind a desk av ore the uniform
and straps of* a Lieutenant. "Ah 1'" said the
officer blandly, wnile the men around th3stove
chuckled and w inked among themselves. . "Ah,
good nioi ni>.g, ?,ir. Bradshaw, just come this
Way: f thought you'd conclude to enlist under
die honest old dag and light for the stripes and
star-.
"I don't know as I am dojng right—God for
give me if I in a doing' wrong. You know I
told you, Lieutenant, I have a little sister who
my dying mother left to my charge; with her
last breath she bade me take cure of little or
phaned Nellie, and she hasn't a soul to care
for her but inc. I hope some one will befriend
her and watch over her, aud that the God of
of battles will—"
Charlie Brad-Law's voice grew trembling
and indistinct.
"Never you fear ; she'll be taken care of, j
old boy,' said the Lieutenant. "The good ioy- j
ai people of this rilhge never would see a sui- !
diur's sister come to want or distress; do you
think so, Mr. Simmonds?"
Hugh Simmonds, a dark eyed, black whis
kered young fellow, only laughed as he squirted j
a mouthful of tobacco juice upon the stove.
"I'd undertake to look after Miss Nellie my
self,"' he said, poking his next neighbor in the
ribs, "if she wasn't such a little copperhead."
The Bradshaw blood was up, the blue eyes !
grew dark with i issioo: the delicate temple? !
were purple with rage.
••What do you mean ?" he said, turning
fiercely upon the speaker. "Keep your epi
thets to yourself; and such care as yours for
my sister is not needed. By the way, Hugh
Simmonds. why aintyoa enlisting / You with
your ioud-mouthed patriotism ?"
"They wouldn't take Mr. Simmonds," spoke
up the recruiting officer, "he has eosiaopndeio
of the aurrecular vertertrial antiscerc rin. Mr.
Simmon Is has enlisted twice and been • '.til
both times for disability."
"I'm sure he is stouter and heartier than I,'"
said Charlie Bradshaw. "And its for abuse of
| me and my sister, soldier or civillian, I've
i heard the last ot it. I will—mark my words." j
'•• *
Every village or community, we doubt not,
has it? Hugh Simmonds—somewhat dissimilar
from the gentleman of whom we write, per
haps. so far as the personelle is concerned, but
boasting the same character. A very intensely
loyal young man, who denominated Mr. Lin
coln as the Government, and had a perfect con
tempt and intolerance in regard to those who
dithered with him in opinion. It a man or wo
man either, said "Constitution," that individu
al was a "copperhead"' —if anyone hinted that
this war should be carried on for the restora
tion of the Union, "without an if," that per
son was "a secesh and ought to be hung." He
was unconditionally Union, of course, hut not
for the Union unless slavery was pulled up
root and branch first, instead of making the
abolition of slavery a consequent of the war;
his theory was that putting down the rebellion
was a secondary consideration. "Slavery must
be abolished if the Union went to hades."
But Mr. Simmonds was. as we s i id, intensely
loyal, one of the first to head subscriptions for
volunteer families—(for effect, never being
paid) —bis name flourished on handbills as chair
man of Union Committees, the right-hand man
of all recruiting officers, etc. The first to get
up dinners in honor of the soldiers home on
furlough—though he never paid a cent him
self. but his grocery was patronized, of course,
in the getting up thereof-—as he sold oyster®,
pearlies, etc., etc., at cost —said cost being the
usual retail price at other stores. At all "{/-
<<■ r flaUh he was thi biggest fish in the pond
—getting up banner and transparencies, em
blem- am! Hags—aud always marshal of the day,
chief speaker, committee on toasts, etc , etc.
Mr. Simmonds also was extremely loyal , for
I he believed in negro equality, saying that only
j by a commingling of the black and white ra
! ces could the highest human perfection be secu
red. He was a great friend of the negro,
though he never gave a cent to clothe, feed, or
free one in his whole life. But the gentleman's
biggest gun was that he was a Democrat, a
life-long Democrat, but not a "copperhead;"
he was a Jackson Democrat, a Douglas Dem
ocrat —though in 'OO he cursed that great and
good man, and sneered at his adherents as
"Union-savers," when the "old slave Union
wasn't worth a cuss, no how." This was the
life-long Democrat (?) who cried "copperhead"
to every true Democrat—and so loyal !
But to go on with our story. Alter Charlie
Bradshaw went to war, this perfection of loy
alty continued to flourish like a young bay tree.
The State quota had been filled and the tear of
the draft being over, the youth settled down
quietly to read the Tribune and wait on his
customers. As for the pretty, spirited Nellie
Bradshaw, she had apprenticed herself to the
milliners, the Misses Clark, and tried to think
she was happy reading Charlie's letters, and
writing to him, and busying herself with her
needle-
The Misses Clark, two spinsters of uncertain
i age, however, made peace and happiness a
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1865.
moral impossibility for Nellie; they made Mr.
Simmonds a welcome visitor, "such a good
ioyal young man he was," and they heartily
enjoyed Nellie's discomfiture when she would
leave the room, or get into a remote corner to
avoid him.
?.lr. Hugh Simmonds used to entertain his
hostesses, and vice versa, with long tirades a
bout the "copperheads in the army, as well as
at homeaud one day of great glee, when
pretty little Neilie had more than usually evi
denced her dislike for him, lie drew a dailv pa
per from hi.s pocket and tossed it into her lap,
exclaiming, "So may it be with all toriea."
The paper was marked with a pencil at this
passage .•
"Among those who fell at . was
Charles Bradshaw. He was shot by his own
'captain, while attempting to desert to the ene
my. We learn from good authority that he
was a notorious copperhead at home, and rich
ly deserved his fate.''
The shock was too great for poor Nellie, and
she tell hcaviiy to the iloor. A gleam of sat
isfaction passed over Hugh Simmonds' counte
nance.
"A rather tough joke," he said. "I've paid
the little vixen well for the way she has treated
me . inee Bradshaw vint away. I paid theed
itor ten dollars for publishing that iittle para
graph, but I didn't thi. k she'd take it exactly
this way."
"So Charlie BradsA.w didn't attempt to de
sert, eh?" queried theWder Mis? Clark, us she
rummaged in a closet fi camphor.
"No; at least I neve heard as lie did, and
for all that, be might hire done so, yju know.
A traitor s a traitor, fi all Uncle .Sam's uni
form
"And is lie dead ?" \
"j believe that's r.oiji fact either; for all I
know he's a? well a? I hu."
"You are too LaJ. .1 Simmonds," smiled
Miss Clark. "As you lenarked, it was a hard
joke: poor girl, that brofcer was all she .bad in
the world."
"Well, he was a blatLl 'copperhead,' and
she is too, and there's lining too bad for such
trash," remarked the y?ng man, taking his
leave; "of course I tru||<you to keep my se
cret in regard to the nuti."
Mis? Clark protested th.t she wouldn't hint
a word of the affair—<an perhaps she never
would have done so, but 11 -.t poor Nellie never
recovered from the shock sfc teceived: lived on
ly a few days, to rave of fir (as she supposed)
murdered brother.
The day a f w friends olhumanity hid Nel
lie's pale face away benqth the sod of the
; church ;• ard, Miss Clark maje Mr. Simmonds'
j joke somewhat public bv riating it after the
; funeral • but, unwilling to Ifve justice done to
Charlie Brad A.aw. the affiif was hushed up by
these loyil. people.
When .ttmng Bradshaw iarned of his sis
ter's death, the life he had Vlued for her sake
grew worthless to hifn; he n longc had any
thing to live for, and becamtdaring and reck
less. Ills companions couicbut admire his
courage, and but that ha foujit for the Union
and the Constitution instendif the nigger, he
would have received promotion
One day came the teiribiejackson fight, and
among the killed was found te white, upturn
ed face of Charlie Bradshaw, ; is golden brown
curls dipped with gore, one < the many vic
tims of Louman's terrible mis fee.
"What's the difference if t was killed,"
sneered the loyal people of his Iwn when they
saw liis name in the list of thfi'dlled. "Only
a copperhead: it's a good thing a enlisted, as it
helped to fill the quota and prt-ent the draft;
but its well enough he's out of he wav."
As for Mr. Hugh Si mm on dy he is as loyal
as ever—no voice so loud as is in denuncia
tion of secession, but none so nwillintr as he
to shoulder a <run and practice wit he preaches.
Our story is not overdrawn—jther too light- ;
ly colored, for well we know tit the villifiers
of MeClellan have no respect fethe country's
heroes. But a day of retributic will come:
justice to the true patriot, the lev and defend
er of the Union and constitution liberty, trill
be done at the last, for God rule
THAT RASCALLY PRYATE.
A correspondent writes from Jit on Head: 1
One day a soldier went into a 4re at Hiiton
Head with two bottles. One wit tilled with
sweetened water, and the other haisheu to get
tilfed with whiskey. lie got his %i.skey, aad |
placing it in his pocket, said: '
'Mr. U., yon can charge this to it till I come !
around again.'
"Can't see it," said the shop keejr. "Give j
me back that whiskey."
The soldier produced the bottle of ater, and,
after gotiing the empty bottle, madtracks for
the camp with his quart of whiskey fely stow- I
ed away in pocket.
Soon, an officer visited the store, jj called
for a quart of whiskey. The store-l-pcr gave
him the soldier's quart; but the olfir tasted
the stuff, and said it was devilish 'cak for •
whiskey, whereupon the merchant's ;ce grew i
long and after investigating the casebund he !
had been sold by "that rascally priva."
An old trick ; but it worked succffullv in
this instance.
a bad story is now going tl rounds
of l : aris. A small German baron hadjeasion,
as it seems, to see Baron Rothschild, cil'rank- :
fort. The great financier was writing f/ay for ;
very life when Baron X. was aunoumj. He j
did not even lift his eyes, but said, fake a
chair, sir." The baron, with true errnan
touchiness about titles, said, "Sir, in e d! I
| think M. le Baron did not hear my I
jam a baron—the Baron X." "Ah! thou
j sand pardons I" said the banker, still Tting, !
"you are a baron. Take two chairs, en, if j
| you will bv so kind, and wait til! I havlnish- ■
1 ed this letter "
AN IDIOT SOLDIER BOY SHOT.
In tl e Army of the Potomac there is a stock
-1 ade of . >gs, twenty feet high, and sharpened at
■ the tops, and known as the "Bull pen," in
which captured deserters are confined before
s execution. In it there are about sixty wretched
- men, awaiting their fate. Henry Clay Trutn
-5' bull, Chaplain of the Connecticut 10th, thus
i writes of
• j A VERY SAI> CASE.
But the saddest case was the latest. A boy
. not yet sixteen, born and brought up in the
! upper part of New York city, was met in the
i street by a hellish broker, and enticed away to
Connecticut to be sold as a substitute. lie
• was far from being a bright hoy, seemingly not
i full witted, but his childish ways were touoh
- ingly attractive. He said—and probably with
: truth—that until the broker led him off he had
never passed a night away from his parents. —
Like r. tired, homesick school boy determined
! to play truant, he started to run home. Being
■ arrest-1, he again slipped otT, but was once more
- caught, as he exercised no shrewdness in his
flight. Being tried and sentenced to death, lie
1 was put into the condemned ceil in the evening
I to be shot the following morning, llis boyish
- grief, when told he was to die, was heart rend
• mg.
W 1. unaffected naturalness ho sobbed out
Lis lament over his own hard lot, and for the
• dear ones at home. "Me, so young, to go out
1 side the breastworks and see the coffin and
grave there, and ihen be shot ? I don't wan't
I to be killed. Won't the general parole mef'
On being assured that his execution was acer
■ tainty, he urged the chaplain not to let his
friends know how he died, "for they'd feel so
bad about it," he said. "I suppose it would;
Kill my fe-fef" (for some reason his father seem
ed closer to his heart than his mother.) "I sup
pose it would kill 'era all. They'd be thiakiug
! of i< at nights. Don't tell 'em about it."
' Geo convinced that it was too late to ob
a reprieve—no official short of the depart
ment eorhOßmder having the power to grant it,
and there being no time to obtain it from him,
and having died Ids cry nut—iie quieted like
a weary child, and !tsit£-d to a!' the chaplain
could say to aid in preparing Uirn for the etern
al future. Kneeling on the soaked, swldJipy
ground, under the dripping root" of that gloomy
ceo in. in the dark and stormy night, he folded
hi- fettered hands, and meekly said his little
evening prayer, and committed himself in seem
ing confidence to his Heavenly Fathers cure.—
He could not read, but he had been taught in one
of the blessed mission schools of New York, and
seemed to have a simple, childlike faith in God.
Trobabh he had not been addicted to vicious
! .bits. He said, when asked about the way
lie spent bis evenings that he "always worked
in tiie factory daytimes, and when evening came
; was lired, and went to bed early." llis father
and mother prayed with him, and taught him
to do right. "If your life should lie spared,"
arked the chaplain, "would you love God and
try to serve him "Why ye?," he answered,
"I always did love him," as though, in its child
like trust, he had no cause of enmity with the
Father to whom he had been drawn in grate
ful confidence. After his first hard cry the thought
I of death did not seem to occupy him.
! He was too much of a child to fully realize
it. Just before he went out to be shot he turned
to the chaplain and asked, as in boyish curios
ity. "If I die to-day, will my soul go to heav
en to-day 1" Arriving at the field of execution
he was not at ail disturbed by the terrific prep
arations. lie walked up to his open grave and
looked inquiringly into it without a shudder
; and then lie turned to gaze at the firing party
as though he saw kindhearted comrades there.
He kneeled again to pray as calmly as if he
were to lie down in his own little crib at home.
Just as his arms were being bound a bird flew >
by, and lie twisted his head around to follow
with his gaze the bird in its flight as though he
should like to chase it: then he looked back a
, gain at the bright muskets with soft and steady
eye as belore. "Let me kneel on the ground
and rest on the coffin," he said, as they fixed
him in position. "No, kneel on the coffin,"
j was the order. So kneeling (here he settled him
i self down into a weary, crouching posture as
: though he were 10 wait thus a long aud tiresome
j time. He had hardly taken tins place before
he fell back dead, with every bullet of the fir
ing platoon directly through his chest—three
through his heart. He ui&rred never a groan
nor did his frame quiver.
j Even sued boys as that are here shot if they
j desert. But are they guilty above those who
1 send them here ?
H. C. T.
j Can any one read the above shocking narra
tive without tears in his eyes? God of our fath
ers what are wo coming to? A poor little "not
full wilted'' boy—perhaps an idiot—a mere
helpless child—who had been enticed and sold i
mto the army by some burly brute, attempts to
run home to his parents, and for this his young
quivering heart is blown to atoms, and I.is soul
sent to eternity! This simple child had no more
idea of responsibility than a sucking babe.—
He was half-witted, and had never in Iris short
life passed a .-ingle night away from his parents,
lie wanted to go home, and "like a tired home
j sick school boy. determined to play truant ."
For this the tender body of the idiot boy was
torn to pieces by the bullets from a dozen mus
kets ! — Lancaster Intelligencer.
69*"\Yell, Sambo, wiiat's yer up to now-a
day ?"
"Oh, I is the carp'ner and jiner."
"He! I guess yer is! What department do
you perform ?"
"What department! Why, I does the circu
lar work."
j "What's datt"
"Why, I turns the grindstone !"
63-An old negro living in Illinois has fifteen
sons in the Federal army.
WlltflE NUMBER, 3106
THE CAPTURED CITIES
DETAILS AND INCIDENTS OF THE OCCUPATION OF
RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG.
Executive Mansion of Jeif Dclvis, )
Richmond, Va., April o, 1865. j
I have the national honor anil pride to an
nounce the fall of the Confederate capital, and
the unconditional surrender to the gallant Ma
jor-General Wcitzel, and the forces under Lis
command, at 7 o'clock this morning.
About 3 o'clock this morning, Gen. Shepley,
chief of staff to Maj. Gen. Wcitzel, felt con
vinced, from the statement of the large number
of deserters coming within our lines, confirmed
by despatches from Gen. Hartstuff's lines on the
Bermuda front, that all the rebel works around
Richmond were being evacuated, and that Lee
and his army, and Jeff. Davis and his govern
ment, had already taken up the only available
line of retreat to the North Carolina boundary,
and that the way was clear for the oe ••ipaney ,
of the rebel capital by the forct ~ of the United
States. Gen. Weit/el telegraphed these conclu- j
sions to Lieut. Gen. Grant, who replied instant-j
!y, saying that be had no doubt that General
Wcitzel could occupy the city without the slight
est difficulty.
On the 2d Inst. Gen. Wcitzel, so clear was
his mind upon the subject, despatched M-j. A.
H. Stevens, of the 4th Massachusetts cavalry,
and Major E. E. Graves, of his staff, with 40
cavalry, to investigate the condition of affairs on
i the roads leading to the rebel works and thence j
ito Richmond. This party had not proceeded ]
! far within the rebel lines when they espied a i
shabby carriage approaching, the driver waving j
a white flag. Approaching this vehicle, it was
found to contain Mayor Mayo, the head of the
Richmond city: government ; Judge Meredith,
of the Supreme Court of Richmond; Judge
Lyon, and several other worthies of the rebel;
persuasion, who announced that they had come '
out to surrender the city to the competent atE \
tliorities. This took place within a distance of*'
two miles of the city, after the Major? had found i
their way through several lines of torpedoes, j
and was marked by the following conversation:>
Maj. Stevens. —Who is in command of this j
Sag of truce?
Judge Meredith.—lt is Mr. Mayo, Mayor of-,
the city of Richmond.
Tbt; Judge at the same litne introducing the j
Mavor and all of his associates to Majors ,Ste*j
veus and Graves.
Mayor Mayo then handed Major Stevens a !
small slip of paper upon which was written the j
following:
"It is proposed to formally surrender to the i
Federal authorities the city of Richmond, hith
erto capital of the Confederate States of Amer
ica, and the defences protecting it up to this
timer'
The document was approved of, and Major
Stevens accepting it in behalf of his command
ing General, it was at once transmitted to Maj.
Gen. Wcitzel, who had already sent out his
skirmish line, and upon the receipt of Mayor
Mayo's surrender instantly moved his column
upon the evacuated city and took possession.
The Major then took charge of the rebel flag
of truce party, and advanced upon the city—
two capable, efficient and popular officers of the
stout old Army of the James thus being the
first, with their escort, to enter the fallen and
capitulating capital of rebeldom.
Eweli set the city on fire, and ail the busi
ness portion of the mam street to the river was
destroyed. The bridges across the river were
also destroyed. Many families remain. Mrs.
Lee remains. At Petersburg the public stores
were burned, and a few houses caught fire, but
not much damage was done to the city. The
bridges here were also destroyed. Will report
fully from Richmond. Cannot get a clear idea
of our loss. The only one 'General killed is
Wintkrop. Potter is dangerously wounded in
the groin.
All the commercial part of the city was found
to be in flames, Gen. Early having ordered the
destruction of the public buildings, which order
General Breckinridge, rebel Secretary of War,
strove earnestly to have countermanded, but
without avail.
Gen. Wcitzel finds much suffering and pov
erty among the population. The rich as well
as the poor are destitute of food. He is about
to issue supplies to all who take the oath. The
inhabitants now number about twenty thousand,
about one-half of them of African descent.
It is not true that Jeff. Davis sold his furni
ture before leaving. It is still in his house where
lam now writiug. He left at 7P. M., by the
Danville Railroad.
All the members of Congress have escaped.
Gen. Weitzcl took here one thousand pris
oners besides wounded. These number five
thousand in nine hospitals.
We captured cannon numbering at least 500
pieces. Five thousand muskets have been found
in one lot. Thirty locomotives and three hun
dred cars are found here. The Petersburg Rail
road bridge is totally destroyed ; that of the
Danville Road partially, so that connection
with Petersburg can be easily made in that way.
Ail the rebel vessels are destroyed, except an
unfinished rain, which has her machinery in her
prefect.
The Tredegar Iron Works are unharmed, and
the machinery is running here to-day under
Weitzel's orders. Libby Prison and Castle
Thunder have also escaped the fire, and are fill
ed with prisoners of war.
Davis left this city last night, at 8 o'clock by
rail for Danville, his family having been sent
out five days ago. On the train he had horses
and carriages embarked, in case the road was
interrupted, in order to easily make his way by
these means. lie was very much depressed in
spirits, and bore the appearance of an exceed
ingly haggard and care-worn man, his counte
nance clearly betraying the loss of his cause.
He expressed himself as being yet determined
not to give up, but to put forth another effort
to redeem his hope loss and sunken fortunes. I
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VOL. 8, NO. 38
think it may he relied upon that lie has not yet
altogether abandoned his cause, though it is
positively known he has hut little hope left.—
His residence, when this despatch was written,
was desolate indeed, and every thing betokens
toe extraordinary haste with which he abandon
ed his capital and home.
Extra Hilly Smith, late so-called Governor
of V irginia, did not evacuate the gubernatorial
mansion until 1 o'clock this morning, when he
fled, leaving Mrs. Smith behind, and all the fur
niture in his house, which he had heretofore
threatened to burn.
Mrs. Gen. fi. E. Lee. wife of the rebel Gen
eral-in-Chief, is also in the city. News has
reacned here of the death of her son, General
Vi. H. b Lee, of the rebel, army, killed in the
battles of last week before Petersburg
General Hill is killed.
Gen. Wci'z ! Las taken for his private resi
dence the uiansion or Jeff. Davjs. A portion
of his staff are quartered with him, and the re
mai:H;-.*r in a splendid dw. ihug a few doi<rs below.
I he interior of Davis's house presented the
j appearance of having been hastily evacuated
Iby hiin. Everything is id fine order and good
! repair. Many of Jlrs. Davis's little nicknacks
: and ornaments are yet to be found on the naan
i ties and bureaus of her room.
A MILITARYJSIECESSITY.
'•Why, Poraney, is dat you dressed up in so
; jer clothes so smart ?"
\ 4 'Yes, l'eie, I'se enlisted."
"Well, den, Pomp, I wants to ax youjei one
ting beibr you go. Wut's dis I hear bout mil
itary necessity ; Wut's it mean?"
"I il spiain it to you right off, Glm'e your
knife fust,"
"Dar it is."
"Bery well. Novr, ara you a loval man*
Pete?"
"I spec I Is."
"'Lucky tor you. Now law ara one ting and
military necessity am another. I'se a sojer.—
War times now vvid me. I got your knife be
cause it am a military necessity. I want it.—
The law can't touch rae lor taking it. You
touch tne and you am opposed to military ne
cessity, and you go to Fort La Eaughyet."
"Why, dat's my knife !"
"No. It am confiscated by military neeossi
ty, In tune ob war d. Army and Gufcermen't
take? all they want—property, slabes and all
tings—bci-ase dey want it to help to kerry on
de war. In peace der is no such military ne
cessity, and dey couldn't do it; but now if dey
oppose, dose who oppose am Rebels, bekase dey
oppose de interest of de whole kentry. I am
in dat interest, being a sojer. I keep your knife
fur military necessity, you object and you're
a Cesessioaist at race. So be kerful. Wut
say ?"
"I say take de knife, and be dam 1 I don't
want to go to Fort La Faughyet."
"Den you sufficiently understand bout mili
tary necessity !"
"I does now, dat's a fack."
'•Well dar! I oilers tought you was loyal ;
so good bye, Pete; de General wants to sea
me."
"Good bye, Pomp, but when de war is ober
bring back my knife."
THE SUCCESSFUL MECHANIC.
Many years ago, a young man, a housepaia
ter by trade, went to Savannah to start in bus
iness for himself. He took a shop, hung out his
sign, and looked for customers ; but none came.
There appeared to be painters enough in the
place already, and his prospects looked dark.
\\ hat should he do ? Give it up, return to tho
North, and work as a journeyman again ? He
was not that kind of a man. If customers
would not come to him he would go to them.
Early one morning, with overalls on and paint
pot and brush in hand, all ready for work, ho
started out and walked briskly through the prin
cipal streets us though in haste to commence a
day's work, which, indeed, he was. Presently
a gentleman stopped him him with—
"l see you are a painter."
"Yes, sir."
"Do you do business on your own account ?"
"Yes, sir."
"When can you do some work for me V
Most men would have answered ''right a
way." but our friend was more shrewed, and
replied —
"Probably in a week or so."
"But I want It done immediately."
"I would like to accommodate you, and will
try to; I will send a man by day after to-mor
row, or I will come myself."
Of course he went himself and fouud a long
and profitable job on the gentleman's plantation,
which he completed so well that others noticed
it, and were glad to employ him; and in a
short time he was at the head of the largest bus
iness of the kind in Savannah. He has Rince
changed his business, and were we permitted to
name him, he would be at once recognized as the
principal of one of the most important manu
facturing establishments in this country. Re
member, boys, that lie owed his success to per
severance., shrewdness (not cunning, but careful
thought,) and faithfulness.
good deacon making an official visit to
a dying neighbor, who was a very unpopular
man, put the usual question—''Are you willing
to go, my friend?"
"O. ves." said the sick man.
"1 am glad of that," said the deacon, "for
all the neighbors ate willing."
<5rA gentleman, taking an apartment, said
to the landlady, "I assure you, madam, I never
left a lodging but my landlady shed tears." She •
answered, ''l hope it was not, Sir, because you
went away without paying your bill.**\
£3" A Texau paper tells of a Judge who has
three lmnus. Wo know a few. not many, fore
handed -