The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-30

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withoutan appointment, Good night, I'M
GOOD nigEt, salmon" Dudley accom-
Pstied him to the door. He niust hayesean
what a blow he had given him You
think me harsh" he added; "buJ the time
viii come when you viii zee tbat this is the
best advice could give you
10 perhaps. " said Salmon, slifiy; and he
walked away, filed with disappointment and
bitterness.
a"Wen, did be promise i?' asked VII
lans, who sat up awaiting his return.
lie had been thinking be would Ike 10
have Salmon in. his own room at the De-
partment; but now, seeing how serious be
looked, his own countenance fell.
sa What didn't he give you any encour-
agemenl?"
= "Onthe other hand" said Salmon, ''he
advised me to buy spade and 60 to dig
ging for my living! And 1 shall do it be-
fore 1 ask again for an appointment"
Williams was astonished. He thought
the Senator from Vermont must be insane.
But, after the lapse Of few years, per
haps he, too, saw that the uncle bad given
his nephew good advice indeed. Williams
remained clerk in the Department, aud
was never anything else. Perhaps, if Sal
mon had gothic appointment he sought. be
would have become a clerk ike him, and
would never have been anything else.
In little more than twenty years Salmon
was himself Senator, and had the making
of such clerlse. And what happened a
dozen years later? This: he who-had once
sought in vain a petty appointment was
called TO administer the finances Of the ma
Trcte.d # claTly ,sF.Orrr rrr0yr tho
Department, 10 whom the irreveient young
sters might be saying to-day, &C.,, do
this. - OF, 's.--, do that" and lie dOeth
it. he is himself the supreme ruler there.
He could never have got that place By pro
motion in the Department itself. 1 men
ton this, not to speak slightingly Of clerk
ehips,--tor lie who does his duy faithfully
in any ealing, however humble, - worthy
of honor,-but to show that the ways Of
Providence are not our ways, and thas often
we are disappointed for our own good. Had
clerkship been what was in store for Sal
mon, he would lave obtained il; bat sin re.
had he got it. he would probably have new
er been ready to give 1t up, how fortunate
that he received instead the oGer Of t.ty
cents wherewith to purchase spade!
It.nayi be, when The new Secretary en-
tered upon his duties, Williams was there
Etill; for there were men in tie Treasury
who had been there a much longer term
than from 1926 to 1861. l should like to
know. Lean fancy him, gray now, slight
ly bald, AID rather round shOU,deral but
cheerful as a cricket, introducing himself 70
the chief
''My name is Williams. Dom you re
NOM her Williams-boaid ed at MIS-. Mark
i1oT1,s n '26 and '27, wbsn you did?" 1
I1Wbs,! David Williams? Are you here
yet2'. - (Tbegs old clerks
:, ." slt e. ~ Honor " in addressing tie
The ,~ouDger O. e' s J.y no - ~ =
respectfully II Was lever so lue as sn 10 =
to leave. You have got in at asst .
But it was necessary for you to L'ake
wide eireuiL 6lst, in clder to come n at she
.op!,'h 70
Did such an interview ever take place, l
Tonaer? &CCL..-
But we are talking of that evening SO
oug ago, when Williams seemed the lucky
one, and things looked SO black to SALMON,
after be had asked Of his uncle bread, and
received { as he then thought a stone.
well then, l don know villa, the deuse
you .seiH dol, said Williams, knocking The
ashes out Of bis pipe.
You would have said that his hopes Of
Salmon were likewise ashes. be, had enter
aimed himself with them a little while; now I,
they were burnt out; and he seemed to
knock tdem out Of his pipe, too, into the
FIRE. He got up, yawned, said he PiHsd
and went to bed. Ia liu!s wLle1
his breathing denoted that be was fast asleep
Salmon went to bed, too; but did he sleep?
Do not think after ali this, that he gave
way 10 weak dependency. Something
within him seemed TO say, WHAT you have
you must obtain. through earnest struggle
and endeavor. Itis only commonplace Paor
pie and weakHngs who find the hinges Of s
life sill smoothly oiled Great doors DO not
open so easily. Be brave, be strong, be
great" II was the voice of Faith speak
ing within him.
The next morning he arose, more q man
han he had ever felt before. This long
and severe trial had been necessary to de-
relop what was In him. His seiIreliaRce, !
his strength of character, his faith IN Gods
were tried, and no found I,
wanting. WE F.l..
Sill the veil of the future remained in.
penetrabie. Not a CLEAN of light sboaa
through its sable folds. He could only
watch for It's uplifting, and'siv sill. -g-1e
IA bad beginning makes good ending"
said Williams, one evening, to confer. him. ,
'Yes-and good begihhing somedmss {
makes bad ending. L had q lesson on-tLat a
subject once. When vas about eleven !,
wears old, started from Keene, with oue !
of my sisters. 10 90 and visit another sister,
who was married and living at Hookset
Falls, over on the Merrimac. It was inf