The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1854-08-11
THE QUAKER AND HIS APPREN TicE,
on, TMR BRAUTv ~ DolNo coon TO THOSE
wTfo DRsFrrxVUyLY usH aou,

!, 10 now twenty years stree we hung
| Up onsaspeg in the old New Hampshire
Statesman Office, at Concord, N. H., q
little brown jacket and blue cap, and
co'ntneneed "leaming sic casss,n We
remember that cap and jackei wtli. Il
was tho best cap we had then ever own.
Cd, and we remember that lis visor had
green lining, which We f6hcied might
be q great benefit 10 the eyes, ,--aad Re
reme mber how our mother sat up for sew
eral nights, after the other members or
The family were abed, 10 gel thai linIe
brown sui, ready by the DAY appointed ios
her boy 10 laave home and enleF upon his
seven years apprenticeship. We wore
lirtle fellow then, 1--WE aresnot very large
now, bui we were 80 short then, ilgat We
had 10 endure the laughing of ihe1 big
boysst our necessity Of mounting chair
TO get up at our work. But We have net
SET down TO wriie abou, that cap or iacka
ei,or the experience Of those seven years,
or 10 tell ofihe scois Of young men We
metin that Printing ofice--all now scai-
tered; The msjof part already,hays s'pass-
ed that bourne whence no traveller re~
Iiuyns.n Peace to iheiI ashes! But we
want 10 tell Of couple Of men, in those
Edays, living in Concord, engaged III the
book binding business. Charles H.
was in idle life, q QuakeB rand gen.
orally a very ssnSibls aud very clover
man. But he was a'man Of intense and
uncomfortable temper. Whom excited
b. Hagged saucy tengue--and somes
tiimos dealt in blows. His best fTienda
were moi Saheauehlly HE shbiecis al iiis
violent abuse Oliver L. S.s wasthe
otbet book binder. He wass young ihaG,
Fofnoi many words, hui Of attentive aud
industrious habits. For several years he
had been an apprentice 10 the itascibIe
Qnaker--frequently subjected 10 his uH-
redsorable rage, With scarcely pretsxt
| fara cause, and was a, lssi drives fro.n
bis shop, his master emphasizing his i'm
ptsca.ions BY the nourishcs Of On iron
! press.baT. -. - as M
Some sxtrenor seventeen yeats since,
the Qu,keF moved wrs' a few years
later, the other binder moved 10 The ciiy
of Put,land, where be has since been ex.
iensisely and saccessivsly gagged in
book and newspaper publishing. Q 's-
"a Diy before yesterday We were ia Port
land, and in lbs eotiuting room of his
newspaper establishment met with our
old seqnaihIance oeainq 'fha ronsrts,-
tion Of course turned upnn nd, n timrs,
and The geaIleman gave tus a bit &c The
history OF bis old master s;acs liis ieav>
ling Concord, lIo frs, pitehfd his ten,
lat Ulica, N Y where in airade Iie fell
into the hands uf a rogne, andlo all his
llile properly. With his interesting i.m.
lily,fur he had good wife aud I'm, ;totp
oflitlle oncs, he pushed ftr,In.r vest
But misfortune kept in company. aud he
was reduced 10 extreme want, Nj
years ago, bis old arpreniicc,ai Portland,
heard rnmnr Of his circumsltnces, aud
thai in his extremity he had been obliged
TO sell his shoes from his feet to purchase
bread iH liis children. Atohcr, like a.
man with heart beneath his jlcke,, he
forgot all about their pArIine.and aerih his
Old mns,er one hundred and jffy dollars.
Il was the aCt of a Ciir;s;i1n. (slas. tim
our world witnesses SO few of tie kindly
and i, was done in time, and il saved TIM
man and his family. With an hundred
dollars "f the money the man made . pnI-
chsse of 4 h',raci ef rich prairie, twen,y-
ivo miles from Chicago. Nai a board
could DO obtained nearer than Chicago--
and they had moi the mesns nf buyiRg,
tweso lumber ever SO plenty. 5The muse
consisted Of a cooking. .siove sheltered by.
three boareis. Blu, ,tsS had tho land,and
KEEP, .beif h,arts, and bodn,iful crops fol-
lowed their industry, and in few years
the $50, with many blossings, found i,s
way back to Portland.
Last year the Portland man was ttat.
aling in the wrsi, and finding, himself
within hundred and fifty miles Of the
home he had enabled bic old master 10
possess, he turned of from his jsurneyie
make the family a visit. He says hs
| tuuuV uCm OH Uo uuSt CtdIHlluS BIVk "
earth he has yet seen. In tho midst Of
oae Of The rich st Of the prairies, near a
liue ofrnilway, with pleasant buiIdings,
the sWeNp Of wind broken by growing
forest OF young locus,s, that during the
| nine ,eaIs had succeeded in developing
trunks whose diameters we're now six and
eight inches. The buildings were q lit
lie distance from the highway, and The
few acres Intervening he found filed with
all manner Of fruit trees, pleasan, shrub.
bery and beautiful flowers. Our friend
itlis us tha, as he rode up through these
beautiful grounds towards the hs1se, he
discovered his old master sitting in bic
doo'. Dismounting, the two claspsd
thands. but the visitor, thinking that he
Twas not recognized, said, s'You do not
Know me-" Yes, I do. II is Oliyet!"
fand the olt mans gushing tears choked
all farther iiiseraBca. 1'lIa wife Heard
The name, "Olivor," and she came out
and tho chi!dten, aud NOT word eould