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HAMILTON. HARRIS CO., GA„ FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1875.
THE GOLD SOVEREIGN.
The story of the gold sovereign, re
lated to me by Judge X , a gen
tleman of wealth and influence in
western New York, is well w rlh re
penting—not for artificial interest,
which it does not contain—but for
the admirable lesson it conveys to
young persons, about commencing
life.
I regret I am nubble to produce
the spirit and humor, with which the
inimitable judge graced bis simple
story; but I will do my best to re
member his own words.
When I was only eight years old,
raid Judge N , my father and my
mother being poor, with half a dozen
children better than myself to take
care of, T was given to a farmer in the
town of F-, who designed making
a plow-boy of me, and keeping me in
his service until 1 was of age.
Well, I had not a very g;ty time in
Deacon Webb's service: for although
lie was an honest deacon, and a tol
erably kind man in his family, ho be
lieved in making boys work, end un
derstood how to avoid spoil!.ig them
by over indulgence.
So I had plenty of work to do, and
an abundant lack of indulgence to en
joy. It was consequently a great
treat for me to get the enormous sum j
of cue or two pennies into my pos
session by any sort ofgood fortune—
a circumstance of such rare occur
rence, that at the age of eleven I had
learned to regard money as a blessing
bestowed by a kind Providence only
on a favored few.
Well, I had lived with Deacon
Webb three years before I knew the
color of any coin except vile copper.
By an accident I learned the color of
gold. This is the story I am going
to tell you.
One Saturday night Mr. "Webb sent
me to the village store on some er
rand ; and on returning home, just
about dusk, my attention was at
tracted by a little brown package ly
ing on the roadside.
I picked it tip to examine its con
tents, w ithout the least suspicion of
the treasure within. Indeed, it was so
light, and the volume of brown paper
appeared so large, that I undoubt
edly suspected that I was the victim
of an April fool, although it was in
the month of June. I tore open the
folds of tlio paper, however; and dis
cerning nothing, I was just on the
point of throwing it. into the ditch,
when something dropped out of it
and fell with a ringing sound upon
a stone.
I looked at it in astonishment. It
was yellow, round, glittering —too
small and bright for a penny. I felt
of it, I squeezed it in my fingers, spelt
out the inscription; then something
whispered to me that it was a gold
coin of incalculable value, and that if
I did not wish to lose it, I had Letter
pocket it as soon as possible.
Trembling with excitement I put
the coin in my pocket. But it would
not. stay there. Every two minutes I
had to take it out and look al it. Brit
whenever I titc-1 anybody I was careful
to put it out of sight. Somehow, I
felt a guilty dread of finding an owner
to the coin. Provided I found none,
I thought it was honestly mine, by
right, of di-coverv; and I comforted
myseif with the sophistry that rt was
not my business to go about the strC't
crying, “ Who’s lost? ”
\ went home with the gold in my
pocket. I would not have had the
deacon’s folks know what I had found
for the world. I was sorely troubled
with the fear of losing my vast and
incalculable treasure. This was not
all. It seemed to me that my face
must betray my secret. I could m t
look at anybody with an honest eye.
These troubles kept me awake half
the night, and projects for securing
my treasure hy a safe investment, the
other half. On the following morn
ing I was feverish and nervous, when
Deacon Webb, at the bfeakfaSt-table,*
said,-
“ William f ”
I started and trembled, thinking
the next words would be—
“ Where is that piece cf gold yon
found, and wickedly concealed to keep
it {■■Sm the rightful owner?”
But he only said,
“ I want you to go to Mr. Bald wii A
this morningj-and ask him if lie can
come to work for me to-morrow.”
I felt immensely relieved. I left
the house and got out of sight as
soon as possible. Then once more I
took the coin out of iny pocket, and
feasted on its beauty. Yet I was un
happy. Consciousness of wrong trou
bled me, and I almost wished I had
not found the sovereign. NVould I
not be ea’led a thief, if discovered? I
asked myself. Was it not its wrong
to conceal what I had found, as to
take the same amount from the own
er’s pocket?—was he not defrauded
the same ?
Bat then I said to myself—
Why, if I don’t know who the loser
is, how can I give him his money ? It
is only because 1 am nfra : d Deacon
Webb wid take it away from me that
I conceal it; that’s all. I would not
steal gold; and if the loser should ask
me for it, 1 would give it to him. I
p ilog'ze 1 thus to myself all the way
to Mr. Baldwin’s house, hut after all,
it wouldn’t do. The gold was like a
heavy stone bound to my heart. It
was a sort of unhappy charm, which
gave an evil spirit, power to torment
me. And I could not help thinking
that I was not half so Well pleased
with my immense riches as I had been
with a rusty copper which I had
found some weeks before. Nobody
claimed tie penny, although 1 kept
my good fortune no secret; and I had
been at happy as a king, or as a king
is commonly supposed to be.
Mr. Baldwin was not at home, and
I returned to the deacon’s house. I
siw Mr. Wardley’s horse standing at.
the gate, and I was terribly frighten
ed. Mr. Wardley was a constable,
and I thought he had come to take
me to jail. Sol hid in the garden
until he went away. By that time
reason began to prevail over coward
ice, and 1 made my appearance at the
house. The deacon looked angrily
at me.
Now, thought- TANARUS, feeling faint, he
is going to accuse me of finding the
gold.
But he only scolded me for being
so long about iny errand. I never
received a reprimand so willingly.
His severe words sounded sweet, I
had expected something so much
more terrible.
I worked al! day With the gold in
my j Ockct. 1 wonder Deacon Webb
j did not suspect something, I stopped'
so often to see if the gold was really
there; for much its the possession of
it (Cobbled me, the fear of losing it
troubled me scarcely less. I was
miserable. I wished a hundred times
I had not found the gold.
I Lit that it would he a relief to
lay it down by the side of the road.
Again I wrapped it in brown paper
just as I had found it. I wondered
if ill-gotion wealth made everybody
so miserable.
At tiight L Was rent again to Mr.
Baldwin’s; and having found him,
obtained Ids promise to work at Dea
con Webb’s on the following day.
It was dark wlu-n I went home, anti
Iw as afraid of robbers. I never felt
so cowardly in my life. It, seemed
tome that anybody could rob ine with
a clear conscience, because iny treas
ure was not mine. I got home and
went trembling to bed.
Mr. Baldwin Came Carly to break
fast with Us; I should tell you some
thing about him. 110 was an honest
poor man, who supported a largo
family by hard woik. Everybody
liked him, he was so industrious and
faithful, and besides making good
wages by bis labor, ho often got pros'
outs of meal and flour from thoSc who
employed him.
Well, at the breakfast table, after
Deacon Webb had asked a blessing,
and g'Ven Baldwin a piece of pork,
so that he might eat and grf to work
as soon ns possible, Something was
said about the “news.”
“ I suppose you have heard about
my misfortune,” said Mr. Baldwin;
“ Your misfortune ? ”
“Yes.”
“Why, what has happened to you?”
asked the deacon.
“ I thought everybody had heard of
it.” replied Baldwin. “Youeee, the
other night, when Mr. Woolly paid
tne, he gsvC tne ft goVl piece.’’
I StftriCd, nnd felt the blood for
sake mV cheeks. All eyes w ere fixed
upon Baldwin/ hoWeVtT, so my trou
ble was hot observed.
“ A sovereign,” said Baldwin; “(ho
fir.it one I ever had in my life ; and it
seemed to no that if I should put it
in my pocket like a cent or half a dol
in', I should lose it. ffo, like a goose,
I wrapped it up in a piece of paper,
a id slowed it away in my coat pocket
where I bought it was sure to lie
safe. I never did a more fo>d,.sh
thing. 1 must have lost the coin in
taking out rny handkerchief, and the
paper would prevent its making any
aoise as it fell. I discovered iny loss
when I got homo, and went back to
look for it; but somebody must have
picked it up,”
“ Who uonhl be so dishonest ns to
keep it?” asked the deacon.
I felt like sinking through ihe
"Door.
“I don’t know,” replied the poor
man, shaking his head sadly; “lie’s
welcome to it, whoever lie he is; and
I hope Ids conscience won’t trouble
him more than the money is worth;
though he knows I want all my hon
est earnings.”
This was too much for me. The
allusion to my conscience brought the
gold out of my pocket. I instantly
resolved to make a clean breast of it,
and to be honest in spite of poverty
and shame. So I held tlio gold in
my trembling hand, and said:
“Is this yours, Mr. Baldwin?”
My voice whs so faint that he did
not hear me. So I repeated my ques
tion in a more courageous tone. All
eves were turned upon me In aston
ishment, and the deacon demanded
where and when T found the gold.
I burst into tears, and confessed
everything. I expected ihe deneon
would whip tne to death. Bat he
patted my head, and said more kindly
than was his wont:
“ Don’t cry about it William. You
are an honest hoy, if you did come
near falling into temptation. Always
bo honest my son ; arid if you do not
grow rich, you will lie happy wdtll a
clear Conscience ”
But I cried still—for joy. I laughed
100, the deacon had so t.ouhed my
heart. Of what a load was I relieved!
I felt then that honesty was the hast
policy.
Baidu in declared that I should have
half the money for finding it; but I
wished to keep clear of the trouble*
some stuff for a time, and I did—l
would not toue.li his offer, and never
regretted it, hov as I was.
Well, T was the deacon’s favorite
after this. He was very kind to me,
and trusted me in everything. I was
careful not to deceive him ; t pre
served the strictest candor and good
faith; find that has made mo wlmt I
am. When he died, he willed five
hundred dollars, with which I came
here and bought new lands, which are
now worth a great many sovereigns.
But this has nothing to do wif.h
iny story. That is told ; and all I
have to add is, I have never regretted
clearing my conscience of Job Bald
win’s sovoreign.
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Boys, Improve Your Time.
Valley Plains, Ga., May 8, 1875.
En. Visitor—As we look around
us, we see many young people, buoy
ant with life and spirit; and you, i*
rents ought to encourage them, and
impress upon their minds the neces
sity and importance of cultivating
their reasoning powers and faculties,
for “enlightened minds and virtuous
manners 1 the gates of glory,”
“ Intelligent# the life of liberty.”
Boys, your future welfare depends
to a great extent upon your educa
tion.
Education cannot gain everything,
but nevertheless, can gain much.
Educate yourselves religiously and
morally, as well as mentally, and then
you will have that within you which
will keep you erect, and enable you
to move onward in your course.
Then you will be a crown of glory
and honor to your parents in their
old age.
Now is your golden age—full of
spirit, and high in hope. Now you
have no weariness to clog yodr wak
ing hours, and no care to disturb your
repose.
’Tjis the morning ofllfe, ns no clouds
of misfortune have cast their dark
shadows across your path.
“ O youth! for years so many and
sweet,
Tis known that thou and I were one,
I’ll think it but n fond concert —
It cannot that thott art gone ”
Boys, do yon ever think that these
gohltm opportunities will soon be past,
ahd yon will bo standing on the ves
tibule of eternity ? Yes, they will
soon be past, for you let your years
slip through your fingers like water.
Of yottng and old alike this is too
Often true.
The time will eomo my young
friends, when you will mourn the loss
of misspent bout’s, and these neglects
ed opportunities, forever past. Con
science will thunder iff yom* ear, ye
knew your duty, but ye did it not.
Then let cadi moment be so im
proved, that it will bear np to licaven
on golden wings, tlio record of some
good deed done.
If you would bo wise you must not
longer postpone this important mat
ter, but beed the warnings of eneb
mofttetit as h liabtens by, and speaks
in thunder tones, hew are I it will
soon he too late. The voice of duty
is over present to remind you of the
ritifigh'tiohs you owe If) yoilr Hod,
your fellow-beings and yourself; ad
monishing you of the dangers that lie
concealed in the beaten path of {fro
crastination. Those who walk that
path, trample beneath their feet into
eternal oblivion, every golden oppor
tunity that unfolds its riches to them 1 .
Ask yourselves if you fire travel
ing that pathway. If you discover
then that you arc; why right-about
face, and wave the baifriCt 9f truth;
and iffijiMovement above your heads;
and not neglect, idleness, nnd prodi
gality.
Place not your affections upon
upon worfilfj* lusts and pleasures;
for foes of the young will bind you
with chains of steel, and lead you
on with astonfshittcj rapidity to dis
tress, anguish, and poverty,and what
remains of your worthless, miserable
existence, will be tantalifcd with the:
memory of these golden opportuni
ties forever lost. Your cherished
hopes will be but phantoms that will
laugh at your misfortunes, and Apeak
with sneering Voices—it was i/ott
that placed ns here, and i/riil will v;d
follow to you? eternal destiny;
Boys, hf) you. wont you realizce
the f ict, that you are hastening on
through the narrow limits of time
to the broad aretia of eternity ?
Will you not pause one moment, to
contemplate what you arc, and
whither you are going? Answer
these questions for yourselves.
Words are but empty air—deeds
disclose the fountain of the heart*—
and you must bo watchful of your
selves, lest in an utfgUafdcd moment,
you give vice and its allurements the
ascendehcvi
Early habits of vice throw almost
insnrnioutable barriers across the
road to true manhood, adding fuel to
the lire of conscience, that now but a
spark, will strengthen/and wrap their
fiery tongues around your withering
hearts, blighting every hope cf future
happifiMSs, and thundering in your
ears—too late! too latp! The gentle
influences of kind and loving parents
will he utteily unavailing. You will
drift down the channel of tuin, until
your barque is dashed to pieces on
the rocks of dark despair; and your
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terror-strioken souls are hurled 1 I
their eternal dwelling place atnou I
ihe fiends of hell. |
But let the curtain drop, and tl I
scene be changed. Henceforth, ava 17
yourselves of every opportunity tb* |
presents itself to yon. Let your aii fj
lie fixed on some lofty object. Pre W
pare yourselves for'the conflet. Art p
yourselves with truth, industry, enelyij
gy, and perseverance. Fold arount 1
you the mantle of a resolute will, fi
Thus armed and equipped, repair a tj
once to the field of notion; and shouft |
you begin to faint and filter, duty!
will remind energy of its high cajl-ti
ings, and perseverance will gent!)
repeat its name. Then when tht
struggle is over, and vice and its al
luiementM, your worst foes, ai’e ban
ished, you can mareh steadily on t<
the object for which yon have been
striving. The prize gained, you can
plant your banner on fames proud
pinnacle as a beckon to those who
are following the road to knowledge.
This done, you have accomplished
your object.
When death shall summons yon to
the tomb, you can respond with th
peaceful consciouness of a well-spent
life, and indulge the humble, bnt en
courageous, and unfaltering hope, of
reaping a rich reward. M.
WIT and HUMOR.
A t is a little letter, bnt its omi--
sion sometimes makes mischief. For
example, a newspaper says: “It was
a practice of ottr immoral Washing
ton never to allow profanity in his
presence.”
An town paper tells of a smart wife,
who helped her husband raise seventy
acres of wheat. The way she helped
him was to stand in the door and
shake a broom at him when he sat
down to rest.
“ Does the Lord love a man who
spends at a church festival the money
he owes his washerwoman?” is a
question asked by a Pennsylvania pa
per,
He blushed fiefy red, her heart
went pit-a-pfit; she gently hung her
head, and looked down at hike mat.
He trembled in his speech; he ro- •
from where he sat, and shouted with
a screech, “You’re sitting on my
hat l’ r
A negro woman was relating her
experience to a gaping congregation
of color, and among other things she
said she had fiofctt ifi heaven. One of
the ladies of color asked her, “ Sister,
did you see any black folks up in
heaven ? ” “ Oh, get out 1 you s’pose
t go In do kitchefl when I was dar ? ”
A country youth, who desired to
know how to become rich, sent a
qaiarte? in' atlswer to an advertise
ment, and reeeived the following v 1—
liable recipe: “ Increase your receipts
and decrense your expenditures.
Work eighteen hours a day, and live
on flash and ftartrfietfl gruel.”
A gentleman said to Mr. Evarts
while crossing to Brooklyn on the
ferry-boat: “ How sadly the Brooklyn’
scandal is affecting the public mind
everywhere I” “Not at all,” re
plied Lvartu; “ask that, man sitting
there”—pouting to a countryman
from Bay ridge, sitting near by.
The question was put to the laitefi'
i{ What do your fcr'ghbors think of
the Beecher scandal?” “Well,”
said he, “ the people in our place
most generally use /cerosAne/"
A printer out West. whode office
is two miles from 1 any other building,
and who hangs his sign o-A thifdimb
of a tree, advertises for a boy. He
says, “ a boy from the Country pre
ferred.”
Two Irishmen travelling on Gift’
Baltimore and Ohio railroad track,.
came to a mile post when one of them
said : “ Tread aisy, Pat; here lies a
man 108 years old-h is name was
Miles fiom Baltimore.”
“I don’t care much about the
bugs,” said Warnitzv, to the head of
a genteel boarding-ltcmse, but the
fad is madam, I haven’t the blood to
spare; you see that yourself.”
Ilcflehtly the local paper at Grass
Valley said : “ The prettiest, girl in
Grass Valley doesn’t carry herself
straight enough when promenading.”
Fora Week after all the Grass Vniisy
girls stalked about like so many bean
poles; and every girl said, “That
horrid paper! Ma, doo’v 1 walk
straight ? H •
Pleasant-faced people are generally
the most welei 9 me, |,nhe auction
is always pleased to ice a man who. o
countenance is for bidding*