The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1854-05-03
From the Biddsford (Me.l Journal.
The Quaker and his Apprentice.

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Itis now twenty years since we hung
up IN a peg in the old New Hampshire
Statesman Office, at Concord, NJ. H., lit.
lie brown jacket and b.ue cap. and com.
menced learning the cases " We remem-
Der that cap and jacket well. 1t was the
i best cap We had then ever owned and We
= remember that its visor had a green lining,
, which we fanOied might be great benefit
to the eyes and we remember how our
mother sat up for several nights, after the
other members of the family were bed. 10
get that little brown suit ready by the day
appointed for her boy to leave home and
enter upon his seven years apprenticeship.
. We were little fellow then, we are not
very large now, but we we're SO short then
that we had to endure the laughing Of the
big boys at our necessity of mounting a
chair to get up to our work. But we have
not set down to write about that cap or
Jacket, or the experience Of those seven
years, or to tell Of the score Of young men
we met in the Printing 0fTice-all now scat.
tered--the major part already passed 'that
bourne whence no travelerreturns." Peace
to their ashes But we want to tell Of a
couple of men in those days living IN Con.
cord, engaged in the Book binding business.
Charles H---was man in middle life,
a Quaker and generally very sensible and
clever man. But he was man Of intense
: and uncomfortable mper,--when excited,
he wagged a very saucy tongue-and some
| times dealt in blows. His best friends
were not unfrequently the subject of his vi
oent abuse. Oliver L. S - was the
! other Book binder. He was y young, quiet
man, of not many words, but of attentive
and industrious habits. For several years
: he had been An apprentice to the irascible
: Quaker--frequently subjected to his unreas'
enable rage, scarcely pretcxt for cause,
and at last driven from his shop; his master
emphasizing his imprecations by the -four
iShes of an iron preSS-Sar.
Some sIxteenor seventeen years since the
Quaker moved west. A few years later,
the other Binder removed to the city of
Portland, where he has since been extensive
ly and successfully engaged in book and
newspaper publishing
Day before yesterday we were in Port
land, and in the counting room of his news
: paper establishment met with eur old ac-
quaintance and friend. The conversation of
course turnedupon the old times, and the gen
tleman gave us bit Of the history of bis old
master since his leaving Concord. He first
ptche his tent at Utica, N. Y, where in trade
he fell into the hands Of rogue, and lost his
little property. With his Interesting family
. for he hal a good wife and fine troop Of
: little ones, he pushed farther west. But
misfortune kept him company, and be was
; reduced to extreme want. Nine years ago
his old apprentice, at Portland, heard ru-
NOR of his circumstances, and that in his
extremity he had been Obliged to sell his
shoes from his feet to purchase bread for his
children. At once like man with heart
, beneath his jacket. he forgot all about their
t parting and sent his old master, one hun
dred and fifty dollars. 1t was the act of
+ a christian, [alas that our world witnesses
so few Of The kind, and it was done in
eime. and it saved the man and his family
) With II hundred dollars Of the money, the
: man made a purchase Of tract Of rich prai
rie, twenty five miles from Chicago. His
: family went with him upon the land. Not
a board could then be obtained nearer than
} Chicago--and they had not the means Of
buying, were lumber ever so plenty. Their
house consisted of a cooking stove sheltered
: by three boards. But they had the land,
and kept their hearts-nnd bountiful crops
followed industry--and in few years the
$l50. with many blessings found its way
back to Portland,
, Last year the Portland man was travel
! ing in the west, and finding himself with
in an hundred and fifty miles of the home
he had enabled his ol master to possess
he turned off from his journey to make the
, family visit. He says he found them, on
the most charming spot Of earth he has yet
} seen; in the midst Of one of the richest Of
) the pra iries; near line Of railway, with
, pleasant buildings, the sweep Of the winds
broken by forest of young locust, that du-
ring the years had succeeded in developing
trunks whose diameters were now six and
E eight inches. The buildings were a little
distance from the highway--and the few a.
| cres intervening he found filed with all
manner of fruit trees, pleasant shrubbery
] and beautiful flowers. Our friend tells us
that as he rode up through these beautiful
grounds towards the house he discovered
his old master sitting in his door. Dismount-
= ing from his horse, the two clasped hands,
but the visitor thinking that he was not re.
e cognized, said,
j "You do not know me-"
e ayes; do. 1t is Oliverl" and the old
mans gushing tears choked all further Ut
terance.
The wife heard the name, "Oliver," and
r she came out, and children and not word
G could any of them speak, but there upon
the threshold of the happy home they all
h stood, shedding copious, gushing tears oi
5 Joy and gratitude What happy meeting
If And what rich reward for that forgetting
: of past wrongs. and that act Of kindness,
: which nine years before had laid tie foun'
e dadons of this happy and prosperous home
If And what a happy world this might be, il
n we only had more good men in it.
t, ET"Don't act so, Isaac DEAR" said
If Mrs. Partington. as Ike WAS raising par
G ticular noise about the kitchen. and throw
ing everything into confusion in vain At
tempt to find his ball; "People by'm by
will say YOU are non. .propous mentfs, as they
s did about poor Smith. The doctors SAY
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