The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-01-17


Racau were the best friends in the world
The Quaker and his Apprentice |;
or. 1nE BEAUTY or DOING COOL TO THOSE
WHO DEsrIrrrULLY Use YOU.
II is HOW twenty years since We hung
NJ on peg in the old New Hampshire
Statesman Office, at Concord, little
brown jacket and blue cap, ard com
mcnccd - learning the cases" We re.
member that cap and jacket we'll. 1t
was the best cap we had then ever own.
od-and we remember well certain pc
cuiiari;ies pertaining TO it, that made it
in our boyish fancy quite handsome
cap,-and we remember how our mother
sat up for several nights, after the other
members of the family were a-bcd, to
get that little brown suit ready by the
day appointed for her boy to leave home
aud enter upon his seven years apron
ticcsbip. We were a little fellow then
(arc not very large now,) but we were so
short then, that we had to endure the
laughter of the big boys. at our necessity
ofinounting a chair to get up to our ws.k.
But We have not sat down to write II
bout that cap or jacket, or the expert
ence Of those seven years, or to tell Of
the score of young men we met in that
Printing Oilice-all now scattcred-tho
major part already passed that bourn
whence no traveller returns" Peace to
their ashes But we want to tell Of two
men in those days living in Concord
engaged in the book binding business
Charles Il, was man in middle
life, a Quaker, and generally very ser r.
sible and very clever man Bat he was
a man Of intense and uncontr oliable
temper. When excited he wagged a
very saucy tongue-ond sometimes dealt
in blows His best friends were not I'M
frequently tie subjects Of his violent a
bu>e. Oliver l. S., was the other
book binder lie was a Young quiet
man, Of not many words, but Of atten
tive and industrious habits Fer several
! years he had been an apprentice to the
irascblc Quakcr-frcquently subjected
to his unreasonable rage, with scarcely a
protcxt for cause, aud at last driven
from lis shop, his master emphasizing
his imprccations BY the hourishcs of an
iron pressbar.
Some sixteen or seventeen years ago
the Quaker moved West A few years
later the other binder removed to tho
city of Portland, where he has been eN-
tensivcly and successfully engaged in
Book and Newspaper publishing.
Day before yesterday we were in
( Portland. aud in the countiugroom of
his newspaper establishment met with
our old acquaintance and friend The
conversation of course turned upon the
olden times, and the gentleman gave us a
bit of the history Of his old master since
his leaving Concord. Ho first pitched
his tent at Utica. n. Y, where. in
trade, he fell into the hands of rogue,
and lost all his little property. With
his interesting family for he had a good
wife, and Gne troop of little ones, he
pushed farther West. But misfortune
kept him company, and after few years
he was reduced to extreme want. Nine
years ago. his old apprentice at Portland
! heard rumors of his circumstances, aud
that, in his extremity, he had been
obliged TO sell his shoes from his feet, to
purchase bread for his children At
ouce, like man with heart beneath
his jacket, he forgot all about their part
: ing, and sent his old master one hundrod
1 and fHy dollars. l was the act Of a
christian (alas. that our world witnesses
so few of The kind y and it was done in
time and it. saved the man aud his fam
lily, With an hundred dollars of the
money, tho man made purchase OF a
tract of rich prairie, twenty-five miles
from Chicago. His family went with
him upon the land Not a stick Of tim
Der could then be obtained, nearer than
Chicago-aud they had not tho means of
buying were lumber ever so plenty.
Their house consisted Of a cooking stove,
sheltered by three boards But they
had the land aud kept their hoarts-and
bountiful crops followed their industry
and in few years the $3.50, with many
blessings, found is way back to Psri'
laud.
Last year the Portland man was tray
ellng in tho West, and finding bimsOl
within one hundred and fifty miles tho
hoGle he had enabled his master to pos
sess, he turned of from his journey t'
make the family visit. lie says h'
found them on tho most charming spo
OF the earth he has yet seen. In thu
midst of one Of the richest of prairies
} near line Of railway, with plcasan