Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1848-11-02
Number 3J.

morning, which will bring me four and six
pence; but then we are out of meal and DO
'atoes-the children cannot eat books
What shall dor he cried in perfect agony,
Sanders, sorely perplexed, rapidly meas
ured the ground lying between his cottage
and the stage office, and without coming 10
any satisfactory conclusion as to his future
conduct, found himself in the office, con.
fronting clerk and owner.
"'There is box here said the stage
owner. and
"'And it is NINE said sandersi it is my
books
"'Y our books !"
YES, sir my books, my Latin. Greek,
and Hebrew. What is-the freight"
"'Nothing. nothing, you big. boned fool,
it is prepaid
Without taking any notice of the mans
uncour,ious answer, Sanders shouldered
the box. and in few moments it was
placed in triumph upon the old rickety table.
Excitement is no evidence Of great
mind; yet great minds, under peculiar cir
cumstances, have been greatly excited. So
it was with Mr.. Sanders on this occasion.
! The children gathered around, expecting,
40 doubt, to see some live monster burst
from its confinement, on the opening ofthe
box. The lid was quickly removed, when,
to the establishment and nexpressible de-
light of the father, nine large volumes, not
second hand but new, present themselves
They were drawn out, one by one, and last
of all came a small case of mathematical
instruments.
The next three years of Sanders life
almost Frustrated the strength of the high
minded and resolute man. Poor and scan
ty fair, excessive labor, and nightly study,
began to make rapid inroads upon natu-
rally strong constitution; but the time Of
his reward was near at hand.
~ mathematical problem had been pu.
forth in scientific journal, copy Of
which his city friend had sent him: for the
solution of this problem a reward of one
hundred dollars was offered. Thirty.6ve
competitors appeared; and among the rest
Sanders, with the greatest possible modes
ty, ventured solution In ten days he re-
ceived letter by mail, containing draf,
for one hundred dollars, and announcing
the altogether unexpected but Joyful news
of his successful effort.
I'VE will not follow him through the
next seven years of his life. lie was sue
cessful in almost every branch of learning
, TO which he addressed himself; and the
man who, at thirty years of age, was the
! renter of a miserable cabin, worn with
, toll and crushed with poverty, was seen at
forty the owner Of a comfortable and even
elegant mansion, in the suburbs of the grea,
commercial city of C. The unlearnod
mechanic, who bargained with schoolbov
for the use of his books at night, seven
years afterwards was publicly known as a
man of rare literary attainmcnts. For
twenty years Sanders acted as foreign
correspondent TO the principal business es.
Establishments in the city, being perfectly
familiar with the modern languages of Eu-
rope. He was also distinguished as ma,h-
ematician, and geoogist, and indeed in al.
most every department Of learning. The
real greatness and glory Of the man, how
ever, consisted in the purity of his char
. acler. A firm believer in revealed reli-
gion, his was deep-toned, practical Chris
lianity, making him eyes TO the blind and
feet to the lame He visited the widow
and sustained the fatherless, and the b4es-
sings of many ready to perish descended
upon him. His departure was such as
might have been xpected-calm, ,rium-
plant, glorious! Il have been said he,
n when rear his end, confined for many
/ years in dark prison house, where the
, bgh,est and brightest moments | enjoyed
! only served 10 show how deep the dark.
i ness was in which / walked. In my stron.
gesl moments | was only able to drag my
Il spirit TO the window of its CELL TO gaze
$ with rapture upon the fair vision that lay
!. beyond, but which could not reach. The
spirit indeed was willing, but the flesh was
weak, powerless. The prison door will
d soon be opened; the letters struck of, and
y the captive spirit forever set at liberty, vii
t, rejoice in the funess of glory and power
| have sometimes thought he continued
., that the most perfect state attainable by
~ man. while tied to mortality, is TO acquire
IL an ability to discover between right anc
ID wrong; TO love the good, and long afiel
" a complete conformity 10 The pure and no
:, ~; to bow the spirit willing, though III;
- a. .>aTra;n akraas, T., AZ. -