The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-07-07
.UESCEELf.yEOUS.
From The Phiia. Saturday Ere. Post.
TIE PURSE.
AN AMERICAN TALE.-coNcIvpED.

TIE PURSE.
AN AMERICAN TALE CONCLUDED.
CHAPTER III.
When Jane and Louise Walton we're
done making their purchases at the store,
they with their cousin, Gertrude Clarren
don, left it and proceeded homeward.-
They soon arrived at a splendid mansion 10
Walnu, street aud ringing the door bell,
we're in few moments admitted. Hasten
ing along the hall they entered an elegant,
~ furnished paror, where sci middle aged
man, engaged in reading.
lie lad down his book as they entered,
and with pleasing smile, asked how they
had succeeded IN their purchases.
Oh, admirably said Jane aud Louise, IN
breath, and they proceeded 10 spread out
before him the various things they had
bought, consisting Of ivory needle cases,
Gilt edged books, souvenirs, &c.
I He examined them aud expressed his
I pleasure at their beauties.
But where are yours, Gertrude said he
turning to his nelce who stood behind him,
with one Of her delicate hands laid upon his
arm.
have uone, sir, she replied.
( None why. did not give you money as
we'll as your COUSINS
Yes sir, bu.------,
Bu, What, my dear said be winding his
arm around her waist, and drawing her
closer to him.
will tell you what she did, father, SAID
Jane, you know she believes every thing
beggar tells her, aud she gave all her mo
uey TO a ragged hoy who told her great
story about his mother being sck-hayIng
nothing to ea,--uo ere, and SO on
Indeed could no, help it, uncle, saiC
Gertrude, putting her arm around his necl
and looking With her soft blue eyes coaxing
Is in his face, Indeed could not. lie be-
sed so hard, and looked so pitl!ul, really
believed be told the truth. You will for
give me, uncle, viii you not :! did no
think when | gave him the purse abou, III
being your gift, or ! would have kept II
and gave him the money only, was S.
touched with his appeals, that | put IT iniC
his hand without thinking. But you wi!
no, &c angry will you!
Angry 20, Gertrude, no Il were worth
len thousand purses, filed with ten ,hous
and times the amount you have given &c
know that you possess generous heart
Girls, he continued, turning 10 bis daugb
ters, am asionished that you could mol
fiod it in your hearts to give this poor boy
ut least part OF yours.
Forgive me, dear father said Jane
abashed, | have regretted since that did
not; | viii strive 10 act more generous ii
future
And |, too, have since thought salC
Louise, that what he told US may have
been true, and that We might have glyeI
him something for his mother
Well, we'll my daughters, said their faith
or, kissing their rosy checks, for time Il
come always feel for and remember The
poor. Here Gertrude, he continued taking
note from bis pocket book, here, is twice
the amount you so kindly gave TO tho poor
boy. Take Il, my noble girl. you well de-
serve to be rewarded. Remember always
that beneyolence is one Of the most godly
OF virtues
So saying, be arose, and left the room.
has been said the general makes tht
soldier. With the same proprle,y It mat
ha asserted that the mother makes tht
daughter. II is truth hat cannot be de
MED. We have an illustration Of the cast
before Us. The mother Of Jane aud Lou
se (she was pow dead) was woman Of iht
fashionable world, whose heart had beer
caIlous BY contact with society, so ,ba, il
never responded TO the calls uf Distress
Reared, too, amid wealth from her very
birth she in fac: could not comprehend The
suffering Of tie poor. She had formed the
opinion that all beggars gere impos,ors ms
some had been found so--an opinion, unior
,unateIy for the yirluous poor, tina, is toe
generally prevalent. This opinion by OK
ample she Iusllllcd INTO her daughters
minds and tho they possessed hearts like
that Of their fathers, naturally kind and be
nevoIent, yet the example Of their mother
chung TO them like an unsreuly garment
hiding the beauty tina, lay beneath.
Not so was it with the mother Of Ger
irude, Mr.. Walion's sister. She was .
woman, unlike Mrs, Walton, whose chic
beauty was her mental accomplishments
She had hear, 10 feel for poverty, ard al
ever ready hand TO alleviate lis dlstresses
Bat Ger,rude's mother was now dead, as
well as her father. They had died some
years before, leaving her an orphan belress
10 the guardianship Of her uncIe, who, like
his sister, cherished the generosity Of dis
position which she possessed.
CuNIER T..
Alone in the counting house Of one Of the
extensive mercantile establishments In The
city OF New York, sat young m1n appar.
, entity about twenty.one or Two years Of aye
: Ills arm rested upon the desk al whch
he was sitting, and his bead recined upor
his hand. Ile seemed 10 be lost in media
ton on some object that lay before him, for
; he sat for long time without moving bis
, eyes therelrom, or even so much as chang
Ing his position. Al length however, he
gave vent to his thoughts 10 word: