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Germany lias a population of 45,-
1 94,172.
Central California hail a baby earth
quake April 10th.
Dana, of New York, lias sold a three
year old colt for st,ooo.
Missouri legislators get one dollar
per day and the honor.
France wants Tunis, but Italy does
not want to see the wish gratified.
Eighteen States have rail road com
missioners. Alabama lias followed
suit.
The readjustee in convention at
Harrisburg, Va. endorsed Mahone’s
course.
General Carey, a distinguished Con
federate, died at his home Edgefield S.
C. April 9th.
Brigauils near Snlonica have captured
an Englishman and demand s7oooo for
his release.
At Wnverly Tenn a negro mur
derer was baptized and hung on
the same day.
Minnesota's snow blanket, taking
the whole depth of it since OctJ
ber, has been thirteen feet.
Mahone as President of the Atlantic,
Mississippi and Ohio Hailroad Com
pany, received $25,000 per annum.
Tn Macon County Tenn., a revenue of
ficer was taken out of a house, where
he had stopped for the night by five
men and shot to death.
The memorial column to commem
orate the battle of Cowpens Jan. 19th,
1781 will be unveiled at Spartanburg
South Carolina, May 11th.
The Philadelphia Bulletin thinks
that the stone boby that was found
recently at Eureka Springs must
have been rccKed to death.
Gen. Gordon, who owns 270,000
acresot coal land in Alabama, is mov
ing in the matter of building a road
from Atlanta to that section.
That the Atlanta cotton exposi
tion will be formidable the 8104.000
casli subscription shows. New
Yoik gives 829,300.
Mrs. Chatles Ballou, the big |
Michiganderist, and who weighed
about as much as four one hundred
and fifty pound men, is dead.
The fasting girl of lowa, is dead, i
The bodv weighed forty-five lbs.,
and wheD the post mortem exami- j
nation was made, was bloodless.
The German immigrants to
South Carolina are delighted and
wan* others ot tbeir countrymen j
to come and share their delight.
Birmingham, Ala., knows what j
an advance in real estate means.
Lots that three years ago changed
hands at 8400, now bring 86,400.
The situation in Washington is j
unchanged. It has been a warm j.
spring in the senate chamber, and
the country in nene the better for
it.
Twenty-seven states hold their
elections November. Georgia, with
three others, votes in October. She
ought to fall in with the November
line.
Capt. Henry, of Ohio, a friend of;
the President, will be appointed
marshal of the District of Colum- ;
bia in place of Fred Douglas, I
colored.
The Nihilist prisoners have been sen- j
tenccd to death by hanging. They
staked life on their game, and lost.
One of them, Sophie Picfosky is of
noble birth. Her party have notified
the Czar that if she dies he dies also.
Tiie interest of the game is not over.
Judge Underwood, before whom
the BanK of Rome cate was tried,
decided that the State was a pre
ferred creditor. This will call for
that private property that the
President offered to sacrifice on the
altar of debt.
Generally in a civilized commu
nity when you gotosleep with four
others in the room you expect to ,
wake up unharmed. Near Cape
Girardeau a farmer under those cir
cumstances had his throat cut. A
boy was sleeping with him. But
neither he nor the other occupants
of the room could throw any light
on the mystery.
Rev. A. G. Ilaygood reached Ma
con with 850,000 in cash for the
Wesleyan Female College and sls
-for Oxford. All the gift of
Mr. Seney, of Brooklyn. At Wash
ington, as lie entered the sleeping
car, three men attempted to rob him j
hut he showed that he belonged to
the church militant, and saved the
big prize. They got off with his :
pocket book, worth 8125.
The Georgia R. R. has been leas
ed for 99 years to New York capi
talests. who are interested in the i
Louisvile and Nashville and Cen-
R. R. They pay 8600,000 a year
which is ten per cent on the stock
and indebtedness. This will put
the stock at a premium of 60 per
cent. John H. James of Atlanta |
who oivued a good deal of stock is
in a very good humor.
Walker County Messenger,
VOL. IV.
tiw Erring.
Think gently ot the erring!
Ye know not of the power
With which the dark temptation came
In some 'ingiiarded hour.
Ye may not know lion earnestly
Tliev struggled, or how well,
Until the hour of weakness came,
And sadly thus they fell.
Deal gently with the erring!
Oh, do not thou forget,
However darkly stained by sin.
He is thy brother yet.
Heir of the self-same heritage,
Child of the self-same God;
He hath but stumbled in the path,
Thou hast in weakness trod.
Speak gently to the erring!
For is it not enough
That innocence and peace have gone.
Without thy censure rough?
It sure must lie a weary lot
That sin crushed heart to bear,
And they who share a happier fate
Their eludings well may spare.
Speak kindly to the erring!
Thou yet raays’t win them back,
With holy words aud tones of love,
From misery’s thorny track.
Forget not thou hast often sinned,
And sinful ye! must be —
Deal gcutly with the erring one,
As God has dealt with, thee!
A DOUBLE CRIME.
The wholesale produce and com
mission store of Mr. Purvis, on Del
a ware avenue, near Vine strtet, was
robbed or. the night of October 17,
1865,
The safe had been oppned appa
rently by false keys, and upwards
of nine thousand dollars in green
backs were abstracted. A package
of bonds to the amount of 83,000
more remained untouched.
Two clerks, both young men, us
ually slept in the store. August
Yerkes bad been in the employ of
Mr. Harrison Purvis about four
years, and enjoyed the confidence
of his employer. Pembroke Sharon,
the other ckrk, had only recently
been taken, but the manner in
which he took hold of the business
impressed Mr. Purvis so much in
his favor that he predicted a suc
cessful future for the young man
as a very able salesman and ulti
mately prominent merchant. Under
this impression he placed implicit
trust in Sharon, and selected him
as a companion of Yerkes in the
store at night.
Both of these young men were
in the store on the night the rob
bery occurred; but when the place
was opened in the morning Sharon
was missing and Yerkes lay on the
floor near the safe with a severe
gash oh the side of the head, which
had been bleeding profusely, judg
ing by the amount of blood on the
floor.
The unfortunate young man had
evidently endeavored to staunch
the blood for both his hands were
stained, as also were his clothes.
By the disorder in the office and
the numerous blood stains both on
the floor and on the walls it was
evident that a desperate struggle
must have taken place.
It was conjectured from this that
Sharon, having provided himself
with false keys, had opened the
safe and been surprised by his fel
low clerk in the midst of his work,
who in turn dealt him the blow
near the temple, and then, after a
severe struggle between them, Yer
kes fainted from loss of blood and
the robber fled with his booty.
Varnoe, the detective, and a phy
sician were at once sent for, and
while Dr. Edson attended to his
patient the detective examined the
premises with his usual carefulness,
particularly the second floor, and
returning to the lower floor found
that Yerkes had recovered and sat
in an arm-chair with a bandage
ariund his head.
‘Well, Mr. Varnoe, what have you
discovered ?’ asked Mr. Purvis.
‘I find that the robber has been
to the second floor,’ replied the de
tective; ‘possioly he has taken some
valuables from there as Well.’
The merchant hastmed upstairs,
hut presently returned, saying
nothing had been disturbed or re
moved as far as he could see.
'Whatever his object may have
been, lam positive he visited the
second floor after the bloody strug
gle had taken place.’
Then Yerkes gave the following
account:
LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL *2l, 1881.
110 awoke suddenly and found
i that Sharon had left the bed, and
fearing that some mishap had over
taken him he lit a parafine candle
by the small gas jet in the room
and began to search for him.
Not finding him on the second
floor he descended to the first floor,
! and discovered him before the
open safe. They saw each other at
the same moment, and Sharon was
spell bound at being ciught in his
criminal act. Then began thestrug
| gle, the evidence of which, was so
plain. Sharon being the Btronger of
the two soon overpowered his op
ponent, and threw him so violently
on the floor that he became in
sensible.
Varnoe listened with wrapt at
tention to the end, then made a
few notes in his book, after which
he walked out of the store witli his
eyes bent on the floor before him
until lie reached the street; then af
ter casting hi* eyes searchingly
around oh the ground, he walked
over to the dock and gazed for a
few moments into tne water in a
thoughtful manner. When lie re
turned to the stole anil rejoined
the others in the office, it was with
a grave countenance.
‘Mr. Purvis, the robber has evi
dently escaped byway of the river,
as the blood tracks reach to the
dock.’
All eyes were now directed to
wards the wounded man, who had
suddenly grown very pale. He
opened his mouth is if to say some
thing, hut fell back in hia seat with
a groan and fainted away.
While the doctor was applying
restoratives to his charge the de
tective drew Mr. Purvis away to
the rear ot the store and remained
there for ahalf hour in conversation
with him, and judging by his fre
quent jesticulations he must have
been greatly astonished by what
the detective told him.
Re-entering the office they found
Yerkes still unconscious, and at the
suggestion of Varnoe he was con
veyed in that condition to the hos
pital.
‘Now, Mr. Purvis,’ said Varnoe,
‘you will please point out to me
which are the clothes usually worn
by Mr. Sharon while on duty at
the store.’
'Certainly, sir,’ replied the gen
tleman; ‘that is readily done,’ and
he went to a closet where the clerks
kept their outer garments ard open
ed it. He took piece after piece
from the hooks, an exclamation as
if of surprise escaping him as lie
did so.
‘What is it?' asked Varnoe, when
Mr Purvis laid the garments on the
bed.
'Why, as I live, Sharon has not
only left his coat and vest behind,
hut also his pants!’ said Mr. Pur
vis, with a look of bewilderment.
‘That is singulai,’ remarked the
detective, excharging significant
glances witli the doctor; ‘the more
so when you bear in mind that Mr.
Yerkes when found had on his coat
vest, pants and boots, while the
robber even left his boots behind
him,’ pointing to a pair beneath
the bed.
‘You will now please see whether
Mr. Sharon lias left anything of
value in his pockets.’
Every pocket was instantly di
vested of its contents. There was
found a valuable gold watch and
chain, a wallet containing a trifle
over 85, a penknife, pencil and
memorandum book, etc.
•Retain the articles Mr. Purvis,
and restore the clothes to the closet,’
said Varnoe. ‘I have another sur
prise in store for you, I think.’
When this was done, Varnoe took
off all the bed clothes and threw
them on the floor, leaving the mat
tress bare. An exclamation of sur
prise burst from Mr. Purvij as he
pointed to the mattress where a
number of bloody finger-marks
stained it along a seam about ten
inclies in length.
‘Now I see what you are driving
at,’ cried Mr. Purvis, scanning the
seam.
Then inserting his hand into the
| opening, he presently drew forth
the package of greenbacks. They
were intact, so Mr. Purvis annouc
cd after examining the fastnings
and seals.
‘What am I to think of this?’ ask
ed the gentleman in a helpless tone.
‘I declare that my head aches try
ing to divine the motive of this
most extraordinary rubbery.’
‘Think as I do.’
‘What is that?’
‘Why, that Pembroke Sharon, in
stead of being the rubber, is the
victim of the rotiber, which ac
counts for his leaving nil his outer
gnrincuts behind. He evidently
surpised the robber ut his work,
ami in the encounter that took
place he murdered poor Sharon,
dragged him across the street, as
the trail showed to me, aud tossed j
him into the river.’
‘Then you really suspect August
Yerkes as the robber?’ asked the j
merchant greatly agitated.
‘1 am sure lie is not only the rot- j
her, but possibly also a murderer,’ i
was the reply.
‘Oh, the wretch !’ cried the mer- .
chant; “and in mv heart I ad- j
mired his bravery, while I pit '
ied him for what he had endured j
for endeavoring to protect my prop
erty,’
‘I am convinced tlmt you have j
hit on the right man,’ said Mr. Pur j
vis. ‘lf he knew oi this he might
give us the slip. The next thing j
to be done is to use every means in j
our power to recover the body of;
poor Sharon.
‘Poor, indeed, since all the
clothes lie has on are not his
own,’ spoke a voice behind them.
All looke 1 it the speaker, who
wore an old seaman’s suit, and look
ed as if had he just recovered from
a severe spell of sickness.
Something in the tone of the j
voice struck a chord in the brea-t i
of the merchant. He approached j
the man and asked eagerly ;
‘Who a e you?’
*My name is Pembroke Sharon.’ j
In a moment he was surrounded j
by the trio, who congratulated him
on his escape from death. He re
quested permission to assume his
proper dress, after which he would
tell exactly what hud occurred dur
ing the past night.
His story wis very similar to
the one told by Yerkes, with this
difference the positions were |
changed. It was Sharon who sur- j
prised the other before the open |
safe just in the nctof stowing in his J
pocket the package of greenbacks ;
alluded to. It was Sharon who de j
nounced the act, and Yerkes, both
angry and frightened to be'hu* de
tected, picked up a paper weight
and hurled it at his fellow clerk,
striKing Sharon on the head in
flicting a ghastly wound, from
which he I'iinted, and Knew no
until he awoxe on board a vessel
near the navy yard. He was told
they piciced him up in the river.
The captain and two of his men
had been to the theater and were
returning in a boat to thg vess' 1 1
when a white object floating in the J
water attracted their attention and j
they made for it, and drew the ap
parently dead man in the boat and \
tooK him on board the vessel, j
where his wants were at once at
tended to.
When YerKes version of the affair
was related to him he laughed de
risively, and was on the point of;
remarKing when familiar footsteps
were heard ascending the stairs.
‘By Heaven ! I believe it is Au
gust !’ whispered Sharon, as he j
hastily entered the closet and puil- 1
ed the door to. He was none too \
soon, for the next moment Yerkes j
came up to where the three gen-1
tleinen were standing. The:r faces j
told him that something was amiss j
apd not to hia advantage.
‘You are probably surprised to |
see me here again ?’ remarked he,:
for want of anything else to say.
‘We are indeed,’ said Mr. Purvis,
regarding him with an omnious
frown.
‘You all appear to be anything
hut pleased to see roe?’ next re
marked the robber and would-be
assassin.
‘On the contrary, we are very
glad to see you,’ here spoke Varnoe
with an ambiguous smile.
Glancing at the detective with a j
skeptical air, Yerkes walked to the
closet and opened the door, and the
next moment he started back with j
his hair standing on end, and his j
face the color of ashes.
He had seen (as bis guilty con- j
science had told him) the ghost of;
his victim, for Sharon remained
standing in the closet perfect)’ im
movable. hia eyes fixed reproachful
ly on Iho guilty wretch.
The horrid vision was too much
for his bruin to endure. Yerkes
became a raving maniac and so vi
olent that Varnoe wtie obliged to
manacle him hand and foot and
again return him to the hospital,
fioin whence lie was shortly after
conveyed to the insane department
of the almshouse.
Pembroke Sharon was generously
recompensed by his employer for
his heroic attempt to prevent the
robbery, nr.d promoted to a respon
sible position in the store, which
he filled with credit to himsell and I
his grateful employer.
Ytr/.es lived a year or so after
his confinement, and died a raving
maniac, a terrible retribution for
h s ittempt to fasten a crime on an
innocent person, and thus rob him i
both of his reputation and life at
one fell blow.
William Arp's Discoveries,
j There’s nothing settled. Spring
j and winter keepskirmsliingaround,
j The dead-lock at Washington eon
| tinues. Railroad stocks are jump-
I ing up and down. Money kings
j and corporation magnates butt
heads awhile and then retire on a
still-hunt while we. the people, look
on and wonder and exclaim what
is all this devilment going to do to
't? Farming has begun about in
spots. The fruit is kill-d in some
orchards and left alive in others
The flood has passed away, but the
j wreck of it still lingers in the land.
I The bridges have not been rebuilt.
I ard the Boil on niary farms has
| bppn taken off and left holes and
j pits which cannot be filled up.
j Fenci s have not been replaced, and
j there’s enough rails in the Gulf of
Mexico to build a corduroy bridge
across it. It would be a good time
now to vote on a stock-law —“fence
or no fence.” We have worked
hard for ten days hauiing rock and
pens and filling Yin. It’s double,
double toil and trouble, hut still
we are not unhappy. We don’t
set on the bank and cuss at my
house. It don’t pay. Corn is going
to be corn and wheat wheat this
year, and it becomes every farmet
to be up and doing. If we don’t
make a surplus these railroads will
suffer and be impoverished fm
want of dividends. The merchants
will have no customers who can
pay for what they buy. Then the
hankers will have no borrowers
they can trust, days Ito Mr. Dean,
at Gadsden, who is a solid mer
chant and a close observer: “Sup
pose this turns out to be a very
poor crop year, what then?'’ ‘‘‘Why.
sir,” said he, “the whole country
will be broke. The corn and meat
and hay and guano that steamboats
and railroads are pouring into this
country on a credit will not he pai.'
for. Everything depends on a good
crop year—more so than I have
ever known.”
I went round to Dalton to get to
Rome —eighty miles to make twm-!
ty —for the Rome and Kington
railroad had not been repaired. It’s
all right now, waiting for the next
freshet. Dalton is a lively place,
arid says site wouldn’t have a river
if she could. That's all right, I
reckon, for I like to see folks con
tented and happy, though I told
Mr. Lewis I couldn’t help thinking
about the feller wtio wouldent have
the corn because it wasent shelled.
But he needn't care about rivers or
anything else as long as he can
keep that tub mill agoing. Six
train loads of passengers a day to
fead, and he sets a . g od table, and
everybody knows it. lie is an old
line whig—John Quincy Adams
Lewis —the only man I know of it.
the south named for that presi
dent. There's thousands of G. Ws
and T. Je and T. Ms and A. Js and
H. Cs and J. Cs, hut the old Adan s
family wusent very popular with
our people. When I got to Rome
I found a fresh sensation, for a
hank had busted and every man
who lost by it thought his own case
the hardest, and ail of em were
mad with the state for bagging the
assets. The stete is rich and they
want to know what right si e has
to a preference. You can argue
with tire men about it, but Mr.
Speer had better keep clear of the
women if he knows what’s good
NO. 38.
! for him. Our good ln.lv luid <1(150
! in there nod when she heard tlml
j the hank wan a little slinky, she
I told tier husband to take it out, hut
! he put on generous airs about it
| and said it would he wrong—it
would show a lack of confidence
| —that it was confidence that sus
i tnined hanks and kept eni from
j busting. A few days afterwards
j the bank broke and be went home
| a sadder man and got demoralised
; and Went to bed sick an went on
j iimalin, nnd woulden’t eat and
j couldn't sleep and pr .aned and
i tumbled about on the bed nnd
j called for motphine nnd finally lib
| wife told him to sit up a minute,
and then she showed him a pack
age of money marred BGOO, and in
formed him that she took the mom y
out herself before the suspension,
and he got well immediately, and
danced all around the room, and
, kissed her forty limes without
! slopping, and on Irokirg at the
| package again, ‘ Why,” says he,
I “this is only BGOO, and we had
| SGoO.” “That’s so,” said his wife.
I “I took out BOfXI for us and left SoO
; in there for confidence.”
But you musent joke with eni
| much ns yet. They are not in a
joking humor. The pulpit text
now in that town is “Lay up your
treasures in Heaven,” and one of
the ministers added: “Where there
are no preferred creditors.” Well,
its had. very bad, especially on poor
people, bat there are a heap ol
good people who dident have any
to put in a bank, nnd I reckon we
wil’ have to be sorry for them, too.
I beard of a poor sickly woman
who bad scratched up fifty dollars
and put H in there to pay liei
burial expenses, and when sin
heard it was gone she got up out ol
bed and she said sho couldn’t afford
j to die innv, nod is sowing awa-y b
J make some more.
*An olri acquaintance saluted in>
so gaily I said, “You don’t look lik*
you lost anything by the bank.’
Loss the mischief, no, sir, I’m as
*eUs; I owe eni and I’m enjoined
from paying over. Ain’t it splen
did?’
Having some business at Gads
den I journeyed to that little mari
time city and was astonished at in
in ogress since I was there two yean
ago. The population has nearli
doubled. They haven’t built any
more falls, but they have built
more saw mills, nnd lots of new
stores nnd dwelling houses and i
steamboat, and it hotel that would
do credit to Rome or any otliei
such town. It’s a lively, prosper
mia city with fine prospects. Rot
K.’le used to own the concern
pretty much, hut he don’t now. lli
nus worked hard and done much
to build it up and ought to be proud
of l.is success. It’s astonishing
bow much one emrgetic man can
do for a place. The ladies are re
joicing over the speedy banishment
of whisky from the county. Tin
law has been passed on the vote,
and before long bar-rooms will he
closed, and a man will have to go
i out of the county to get it, for tin
sale is prohibited, both at whole
sale and retail. What they want
now is for public opinion to sus
tain the law and give it a fair test
| It’s a woman's movement to pro
| lecl their husbands and sous, and
I wish the women all over the land
hud the right to vote on that ques
tion, if no other, for they are more
j interested in it than anybody else,
i Gadsden is wide awake about
j making railroad connections with
j Georgia. They are hopeful of the
i Geor,it Western and the Opelika
' road, and then with the Coosa
opened up to Mobile in a few wears
it would be a considerable city.
The coal that was burned in my
I grate cost only ten cpnts a bushel,
i and thr.t is about 82.50 a ton, and
it come horn a mine near the sub
urbs. Gadsden is proud of Gads
d«.n. and when you ask about the
population by the last census they
don’t know exactly what it is, hut
will tell you that hundreds have
moved in since the census was
taken. I remember asking Coußin
John Thrasher about the popula
tion of Toccoa City, and he said
] the census give ’em 700 but it was
, cot half taken and two families
and a nigger had moved in since.
I do like to see folks stand up to
their town—don’t you?
Bill Anr.
An-tee &Bro., •
The boy mnrch
the counter. 1 l,s '
‘Well, my little •it 4th, 1881.
merchinit, coin fleet
jui>t riiten Jrtim suciv’l”- <u
good dim fer—‘what wii 1°
to day?’ 9 ("■
‘Oh, pleitop, air, may 1 } ~*
omc Work foi you?*
It miglit liate tieen the "
blue eyes that did it, for the mart
was not accustomed to parley With
such small gentlemen, and Tommy
wasn l seven yet, and small of his
sge at that. There were a fetV
wisps of hair on the merchant,s
temples and looking down on the
appealing face, the imth pulled at
them, he gave the find of his efaVrtt
a brush, and then his hand travel
ed down to his vest pocket.
‘Do some work for me, eh! Well
now, about what sort of work might
vour small manshift calculate to
be able to perform? Why, you Han’t
look over the counter.”
‘Oh, yes, l can, ni d I’m growing,
pleare, growing very fast— there,
see if I can’t look over the coun
ter.’
‘Yes, bv standing on yonr toes;
are they onnnertti?’
‘What sir?’
‘Why, your toes. Your mother
couldn’t keep you in shoes if they
weren’t.’
‘She can’t keep me in shoes any*
how, sir.’ and the voice h 'sitated.
The man took pAins to look
over the counter, it was too much
for him; he couldn’t see the little
toes. Then he went all the way
round.
‘I thought I should need a mi
croscope,’ he said Very gravely,’but
I reckon if l get close enough 1
; can see what you look like.’
‘l’m older than I‘m big sir,’ was
t t’>e neat rejoinder. ‘Folks say I’m
very Finall for my age,’
‘And what might be your »ge,
| sir?’ responded the man with great
emphasis,
‘l’m almost seven,’ said Tommy
with a look calculated to impress
; even six feet nine. ‘‘You see my
mother hasn’t anybody but me,
[ and this morning I saw her crying
because she couldn’t find five cents
in her pocket-book, nr.d she thinks
| the boy that took the n«hes stole it
1 —and—l—haven’t had any— 1
1 breakfast, sir.’
The voice ngain hesitated, ar.d
tears entire to the blue eves.
‘I recKon I can help you to
breakfast, my little fellow,’ said
J the man, feeling in his pockets,
j There, will that quarter do?’
1 The boy shook his head. ‘Mother
wouldn’t let me beg, sir,’ was his
j simple reply,
I ‘Humph! where’s your father?’
j ‘We never heard of him, sir, after
Ibe went away. lie was lost, sir, in
‘ the steamer City of Boston,’
‘Ah! you don’t say . That’s had
—but you are a pi jck/ little fel
■ow, anyhow. Let tne see; and lie
I lomlered, puckering up his mouth
! nid lot icing straight down into the
; oy‘« eyes, which tvero looking
truight into his. ‘Saunders.’ he
Me a-Ked, addressing a clerk who
1 .vi’s rolling up and writing on par
-1 c Is. ‘ s < a-h N<, 4 still sirk?’
‘Den i sir; died last night,’ was
the low reply.
‘Ah, I’m sorry to hear that. Well
litre’s a youngster that can take
his place.’
Mr. I a inders looked up slowly—•
then he put his pen behind his left
ear—then his glance traveled curi
ously from Tommy to Mr. Towers.
‘Oh I understand,’ said the latter
•yes he is very small indeed, but
I like his pluck. What did No 4
gel?’
Three dollars, sir,’ said the still
astonished cleri.
‘l’ut this boy down four. There,
youngster, give him your name,
arid run home and tell your mother
you’ve got a place at four dollars a
week. Come bad - on Monday, and
I’ll tell you what to do. Here’s a
dollar in advance; I’ll late it out
of your first wet is pay. Can you
remembei?’
‘Wori, sir— wori all the time!’
Tommy shot out of the door. If
cvei broien stairs, that had a twist
through the win le flight, crucicd
under the weight of a small boy, or
perhaps as might be better stated,
laughed and churiled on account
; of a small hoys good luti, those in
that tenement house enjoyed them
selves thoroughly that inornii g.
‘l’ve got it mother! Fin tooi!
I’m cash bo\ I Don’t you inow
when they tuie the parcels, the
cleri calls‘cash?’ Well, I’m that!
Four dollars a week, and the man
said I had real pluci—courage you
inow. And here is a dollar for
breaifast; and don’t you ever cry
again, for I’m the man of the house
now.’
The house was only a ten by
j fifteen room, hut how those blue
eves did magnify it. At first the
mother looied— well, it passed njy
power to tell how she did looi, as
she caught the hoy in her arms and
hugged him end iissed him, the
tears streaming down her cheeis.
But they were tears of tharifulnese,
now.