Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-12-13
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NOW, JOnn, sRlo ROVER, with eud0sn
earDestOese. j am going to ask you a
question, and you can answer me or not,
% yod please. What have you done with
the money that you had on Monday morn
mgr
At first John Perkins osuld not tell what
be had done with it; but finally he made
out to account for it There were two
theatre tickets at fifty cents each. One
oyster supper for himself and trieud-a
dollar. A horse and wagon for a moon
light fide-two dollars. And then he
owned to numerous glasses of soda and
beer. In all be accounted for six dollars
or tbereabOuts.
Il Declare said Tower, shaking his
head, and speaking with solemn serious
ness, ' would not like 60 borrow money OF
Matthew Baldwin for such purposes
How ? uttered John. 'BorrOW-of Mat.
thew Baldwin,
Oh you need not try to hide the tIu b,
John. Yoa know what mean
AT this point the friends separated and
as John Perkins walked towards his shop
the words of Sllas Tower reng in his ears
Did be know what bis friend meant p
Aye-thst be did. and when be reached
his place of work be reflected long and Sc
riously.
4 declare, he muttered, a. he rolled up
his sleeves and arranged bis tools. j
think Tower is right. / could have paid
Baldwin last Monday morning if l had
| only thought 80. wish had
He set his lathe and fixed bar of iron
fur turn ng. If had paid him. lie Con-
tinued, as be watched the bits Of iron drop
| from the revolving bar, / should be at
this moment better of than am. Oh
course should not have borrowed money
| to go to thu theatre with, o to paw for
horses with. By the powers S,ias told
the truth. That money honestly belonged
to Matthew Baldwin
And so, through the day, John Perkins
talked with himself en- the subjects thus
brought before him, and before night be
resolved to turn over a new leaf
On Friday morning John Perkins saw q
man carrying little cufiu into Matthew
Bsldwin's house. The sight caused him
to reflect more deeply than be had done
the day before. That little coffin With it's
tale of woe, led him into sympathy with
the sufferers and the thought that his
failure in duty might have added to the
sufferirgs of the loWly household. smote
him to the heari.
Saturday evening Perkins knocked a
bald~ln's door. The poor man answered
the summons. He was bowed with grie
and his eyes were red with weeping.
Pardon me for calling at this time
| said Perkins in q subdued tone; but,
thought you might need the money owed
you
Indeed. sir. do need il, and / thanh
| you for your kindness in remembering
me- The mans face brightenad as he re,
oeived the money, and expressed his thanks
again
In the time to come said John Per
kiOs, 4 may have considerable work fO
You TO do, and l promise that you shal
never again have occasion to ask m,
twice for what is duep And be kept BIZ
word.
People who are acquainted with job {
Perkins, and who saw him often fsncisC
that he walked more stately and proudly
than be used to walk and the impression
with some was, that he had met with
gOodIy stroke of fortune. The grocer, anc
the baker, and the butcher, were among
those who imagined that large sum o
motley had fallen to him
Six months had passed away. Johl
| Perkins and Silas Tower were walking TO-
gether as we have seen them before.
My dear Silas,' said John, in continue.
ton of a conversation just begun, Il owe i
| ell to you; to you am indebted for m,
emancipation from one of the meanest ant
most CALLING states of ssrvitude that eve
laid it's yoke upon the neck of mao. Si1
months ego | was haDpered with petit,
debts, and was growing more and more in
cliDed to shirk the payment of them Blu
1t is so no more. / now regard a debt O
thing to be shuuned, but ifI incur
debt, | pay it as soon as / can. II hal
an enemy and was malevolent enough t.
wish him i'll, can think of no greater evi
to call down as a curse upon him than
state of perplexing. harassing debt.