Litchfield enquirer., 1832-03-08

l""S "0 Wpuu1dlIlSs Just uOIOIe tOIt tHO village to reside in Philadelphia. He was raw country lad, and so awkward in his manners and appearance that the boys of 1 the village used to crack many a merry joke upon his broad brimmed hat and 1 clownish address. For lack of better place, he was apprenticed to Giles Over shoot the white smith. It was poor bu- siness in a country where pewter dishes and wooden spoons were served up at the dinner table of the squire, but it afforded Giles the means of supporting lazy fami- ly, and of keeping his credit tolerably good at the ale-house. With him Charles learn ed the business and came out with credit. slim as, from a variety of circumstances, his chance appeared at filst.
 By this time silver smithing business had become better than it was. The girls had taken it into their heads that their city friends looked better in silks and lockets, than they did with their homespuh frocks and their rosy cheeks; and these becom- ing fashionable for an evening walk, they soon brought the furniture of the table into corresponding style. Cha,lcs set up a shop, not in opposition to his old master, for opposition means to oppose, to- injurc. but with the view of bene6tting himself,' the business, and the public, by bringing the trade to more perfection than it had been brought there, and in the honest ob- ject to which he aspired he was successful. His hammer never has ceased from that time to this. Hc married; and children grew up around him; but he set them to work as soon as they left the school: he had not an idler about his premises he not only set an example ofconstant and un- remitting industry, but in his frugal habits; in his regular department in his moral and religious duties, ho was pattern to all who knew him. Charles Clemens never neglected his shop; never broke his prom ise; never slighted his work never cheat- ed his customers and Charles Clemens soon had purse full of dollars; a cellar full of beef and cider; house of his own,' and two or three handsome lots round it.
 Giles on the other hand, found his busi- ness declining his old customers one af- ter another dropped off; and, as may be supposed, he saw them calling upon his fellow tradesman, with not much of com placency. Still however, upon reviewing, he was we'll assured that in the aggregate, since Charles had set up for himself, the greatest part of the business had como to the old shop, though now indeed the ball. ance seemed inclining fast to the new one. How could it be that he, with smaller and older family than Charles, should be poor, while Clemens was growing rich ?- It was a mystery he could not unravel; and he resolved to watch him c!ose.- Night after night, as he returned from the tavern, he saw a light over the way, and heard the hanimer that was charming his customers from him, busy and, again, its clmk was heard at the first blush of day. He reflected and observed and reflected and, at last, apparently big with some new idea or discovery. he posted down to tho magistrates, craved an audience and in-, formed that he had aseertained beyond all controversy or doubt, that Clemens was in the habit of coining spurious metal into dollars. This discovery was, indeed, an unraveller. and he proved it by all argu- ment drawn from the cireumstances that his rival worked at unsoasonable hours, in secrecy, alone, and that he had accumulat- edamore than was possible to be gained
 honestly, from the business he did.
 His honor smiled very good naturedly.
 but sent for the offender, and promised
 that justice should be done him, if the charge was made out. Charles soon ap-
 peared in his feather apron and check shirt. "If" said he, in answer to the ar- gument of his accuser, have made liv- ing and laid up money, owe it to other means than those alledged. While have worked hard, as my hands attest, I have spent but little as all know. My boys as- sist me in the shop, my girls spin, and my apprentice, because am always with him, earns me round sum every year-the ne- cessaries of life are fow, and we want no more. Thus live ;--and if you, Giles Overshoot, would cease to spend your yearly hundred at the ale-house, and would earn your three hundred Ut the hammer if you would put out your children, or make them earn their living at home if you would do as much work as you could, with as little expense as possible, and then live G'ugally and sparingly, you would dc- serve the appellation of Money Coiner as much us do." The audience laughed heartily. Giles hung down his head and the rival tradesmen shook hands before they parted.
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