The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1858-08-11
From the Boston Olive Branch.
POLITE N ESs PAYS.
!" THE LITTLE Drafts. .

THE LITTLE BRATs. "
" II seems to me you treat that ragged lit
tie brat with more polteness than should' .
said oughlooking young man to shop
keeper who had just done up three cents
worth Of sugar very neatly in brown paper
and tied it carefully.
The boy in question had presented mar.
ked physognomv. From under rimess
hat projected wide, full brow, deep spark
ling eyes, and features full of energy aud re-
solution. His face and hands were scrupu-
lousy clean, but his clothes were poor and
patched, though not as the man above had
insinuated, ragged. His mother was wo-
man possessing much force of character "a
hard working woman, who had been reared
in apparently better circumstances than
those that now surrounded her, for she was
the wife Of drunkard.
The grocer was busy, and he evidently
had not heard what was said, 50 tie rough.
looking man remarked again:
| say, Wyman, you're queer one"
Hnw queer, Goss 7" asked the grocer,
throwing scope OF tea into the scales.
" Why, you treat all the beggars about
here with as much consideration when they
a
by the Wholesale"
+" And Why shouldn't 7" asked the gro.
Ger, looking up with his honest eyes wide
open and clear. .....
0h, | don't know; its queer, that's all ;
you're the only man that doe, 1T, reckon,
in these parts"
Well, III tell you said Wyman, deli
berately UNIV nllng SPOOL Of cord and
twisting the string about package he he'll
in his hand: !" the fact Is, if ! wasn't natu-
rally tender towards the children, should
treat them as | d1 frnm motives nl policy.
You see I'm bat a young man. and these
brats as you call them, are growing up
fast. Many OF them, OF little worth a they
seem now, will become men Of character,
and men of business. Now | want to retain
their custom" be said laughingiy; g their
pennies, in the course Of lew years, will
turn into pounds; their three cents worth
of sugar will change into orders Dy the bar
rel. shall have many a gond customer
among the brats;' besides | have alway,
found that politenes, pays we'll"
Something in that, calculated the coarse
man. thrusting his hands into his pockets.
something in that; but | never looked al
/ II in that light before"
! The buy who bought the sugar." contin-
ued the grocer, +" Is OF no ordinary mind, il
/ ! am not mistaken Ii his father was dead
7 I'D take him with me into the store, and
make man of him-ihough reckon nature
will do better for him than could" and the
far-seeing grocer smillnglS handed cents
worth ol pins to little ttmid child whose
top curl just reached to the counter.
/ Time verified the prediction of Nymau
the grocer There wasn't ship in the place
where 50 much small change was spent as in
his; for the children loved To go where they
were not afraid Of rough actions or rude
speeches. They felt themselves safe while
making their little purchases; they saw that
their rights were respected and il is wei
known that on such trllins sales much prof
accrues in the aggregate.
Time passed, and Wyman the grocer wa.
the most popular man in town. Ills pleasan
face at forty years was greeted everywhere
Young men and maidens always patrOnlzeC
Wyman. 1t was strange to see the transfer
nation that took place 80 gradually. Tn,
little dirty faced juveniles shot up into awk
ward youths learning trades, and then grew
: to respectable business men. Wyman en-
larged his shop, and built a splendid house
" all the fruits Vi chlldren's pence" he Oitc
said. laughingls.
Ye-, with hun, il paid 10 Be polite; il al
ways pays. IL pays the merchant as well a
the mechanic, the lawyer as well as the phy
sician. urbane manners have been the mean
, of making many fortune. while the cross
grained have wondered why they didn't ge
along. The roughness that speaks lis min
, at all times and IN all places, bOasting itsel
that il is Onls honest, blunt, and stfaightlur
. ward,' is habit that demoralizes a. well a
insults. Ask any man YOU chance tn see,
; he remembers those whn treated him vii
{ urbanity when be was child, and be vi
! call his name With a thrnb Of pleasure. PEI
I haps. too. he will couple some other nam,
: wlthe epithet of . old rascal" aud "Is
{ never liked that man--l Nauidn't have dea
E ings with him.
IL pad the grocer 10 be polite. The raa
ge,l bOy. the dflnkaul's son. became a gres
as we'll as I'll h man. lie established Ii
e sad maiher In handsome residence ol hi
e own, aud sent u unlimited orders IL thr gr,
, Ger. II was hi. influence that gave Wyma
l several posts u honor u his native city
. for the town became thriving city an
$ when silver haus hung on the shoulders
e the old man. and the young congressman
8 name rang lar and vide. spoken Oy atmt
: ing tongues. praised b. men 81 wis,lum ~
+ sterling worth. II was no idle baast for hi
u to sly With smIle Of triumph. +" ! told =,
4 80 y Pollteness paws. II. A. u.
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ANgcDoTE OF MR, CLAY.
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