Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-06-19
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tor. and hers also for il was one of his say
ings, that We must make the right hand help
;he left hand. His means Of doing good were
small. and so he made them 20 IS far as pos
sibie'
he was a noble fellow said !, in admi-
ration of this poor rope-maker
Tom PeteTs-yes there was fine stuff IN
his composition. if his hands were dark and
bony, aud if his clothes did smell of pitch
and resin
He has left tender and fragrant memories
lie has, sir. That long line of funeral
attendants are al trae mou.Ders. There is
no sham there -
Aud what else did he DO with his money p
I asked. growing interested in the rope-mak-
ct. He bad two dollars week, still, for
disPensation.'
Yes. Let ne see For one thing. he
paid boy half dollar week to read two
hours every evening 10 poor blind woman;
aud IN order that this reading might not be
given to a single pair of cars alone, he took
care 10 have the fact known, that as many as
chose might come and listen. The conse-
querce was, that more than a dozen persons
met, every evening, In the blind woman's
room, to hear VIA. was read This suggested
to Tom The way Ia which another half dollar
might be usefully invested. The men in the
rOpc-walk were mostly IL the habit of spend
ing their evenings In taEerns. Tom found
another lad who was tolerably good reader,
and paid him half dollar weekly to read
aloud two hours, each eFenI0g, for such of
his fellow -workmen as he could Induce to as
semble foT the purpose. He began with three;
soon increased to ten and when [ last heard
OF the matter, over twenty men met nightly
to hear the boy read
admirable. | never heard of wiser invest
ment. Aud he had one dollar left =
Yes
How was that disposed off
In ways irnumerable. l cannot recount
them. The good Tom Peters managed to do
with that dollar Is almost fabulous; not, Of
course, as to magnitude, but as to variety
1t seemed to duplicate itself. Ike the widows
oil and meal, wherever drawn upon You
were always hearing Of some good acts in
which dispensatiou Of money was involved
Of poor woman helped iu making up her
rent of dainty sens TO a sick neighbor of
a pair of shoes to barefoot boy in winter;
or of a book 10 a child. Why, sir, Tom Pc
ters has left behind him enough good deeds TO
en6ow a whole calendar of saints.
SO I should think, after what you have
said Of him.
And yet, sir, remember, be only earned
Dine dollars a week
I remember that. very distinctly 1 an
svered. Yes, sir, his death is indeed pub
lie caiamity- It Is no figure of speech to say
that his grave Will Be WsteTed Oy tears
None, sir. none he viii be sorroTed for
by hundreds, and his memory will be greener
and more fragrant as the years pass by. He
built his own monument before he left us-of
good deeds
! parted from the stranger and as L walk
ei from the cemetery. l said 10 another man
who stood bv my side while | looked at fine
piece of embleratic statuary-
They have been burying a rich man =
Yes he coliiy responded.
What did he leave :
Nothing bus money
They have been buryiug a poor man, also
Tom Peters = light broke over the
mans face.
Bat he had not even money to leave
said l.
Bat something fa- better, answered the
man. IL a tone Of Tebuke.
.EnatE
.GOsd acts, which. Ike good seed. will re-
produce themselves a thausand-fold. Tom
Peters earned Just nine dollars week; Ed
warI L lis, Esu'-there was cutting con-
tempt In his tone-'was worth, 1t is said, 3
million OF dollars; yet the humble rope-mak-
. er all. wails liv;"-. hundred times the moss
good wirh his money. and leaves an estate
} lht shall 20 on decreasing IN value through
. countless vears i5as lIe es.lts of old Ellis
viii not pas 10 sae ILiri generation Tom
Peters had ths true riches, sir, that are Im-
per.sbsbls. People ask, when man ike FL
lis dis, What property has he left behind
him :: But " ben oZe, Ike cur good rope
mz',a-. passes away, the angels ask, What
-p5E deeds has be sent before him ? That
/. th- difference, sir, the immeasurable differ
en- -e between the two men. One, in giving,
made himself rich the other, In withhold
iar. became nlise-ably poor 50 poor, thAt
his memory Is green in no mans heart
I turned from the cemetery with some ne"
imprgssiaus stirring In my mind, and the
outs,ioo. What kind OF legacy VII you
leave : pressing itself home to my thoughts.
Let i be good deeds rather than money .
I said. half aloud, in the glow OF earnest ieel-
ing and went back again into the hFing'
, bnsv stirring world, TO take up the laooTIn
) o,, which had laid down. in wearlness, tor
Lrief season, and bend TO my work with
! sarener spirit and, 1 trust, nob.or h'e-pur-
5 pose
, = Coon RULE-A man wlO Is very rlel
,,,w was very poor VIXEN be was boy
, when asked how be got his riches, be replied
my father taught me never 10 play until ~
: work was finished. and nevec 10 spend ny