The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-05-12


voice would not trust itself in words.
eBut then what ?" said Brent, beginning
to grow cold and impatient.
Il was going to say, sir, that should
have nothing to eat until tomorrow. | was
to go to Porters house on my way home, and
get the shilling, and would not go and ask
for it before my work was done"
'Do you do this for money to buy some
thing to eat p
THAT is all, sir"
'sIIere is your days earnings" handing
him as he spoke, dollar. Get the lu,aber
90, | will see to that in the morning.
s.All this for me? am working, sir, not
begeing;" there was a flash of independent
dignity in his eyes that Brent liked to see.
II hired you" was the cool business an
swer, ''to pay you as | do other men whom !
have to work l would give you more if
could afford it, would certainly hea heath
en- to give a man who has family to. sup
port in a city like Boston, anything less
than six dollars week. like you'll be-
heve | can trust you. This is to be your
place, and your master, until you get a
better one somewhere else. But | must lock
up and you must go home"
Who shall describe that home made glad
by a few comforts to which it had been long
a stranger? All the way to Beacon street,
Hamilton Brent thought Of it, and after he
sat down to his own dinner, pictured the sup
ner table in Davis room, the center-piece of
thankfulness To his matronly housekeeper
whose heart was ever open to deeds of chart
ty he told the sad story, and promised to lind
the next day where they lived, that from the
bounties he had been blessed with, Giles Da-
Wis home might be yet happier and pleasant
er The next mornig he did not forget to
ask Giles where he lived, and after dark the
housekeper and her son paid St Nicholas
visit to the room designated, leaving their
basket upon the platform in front of the door
with nothing to show from whence it came
but the two Ietters-'H B." burned upon
the handle
Early and late was Giles Davis at work,
and the ragged charity hand" that at first
the men in the yard had Stunned, grew to be
respected by all, from his employer down to
Tip, the little fellow who made fires and did
the errands of the office. The old housekeep
er, after being caught in her second visit a
la St. Nicholas, used to go in and chat with
the little woman whose land and life grew
marveously strong as the better time coming
cleaned upon her.
"Hope on her its heavenly radiance shed,
And waved its silver puons o er her head
The winter went by, and March came
the months of winds and SHOWS, Of halls and
rains-of days that are cheerless and nights
that are gloomy even to the gayest heart,
and still, master and man stood as firm aud
as high in each others confidence as ever.
n l..
ceived an imperfect knowledge of his prov
erb shining upon him, in the kind effort of
Giles Davis, but the full time had not yet
come for him to see latter many days" the
wealth of its promise.
Upon one of those stormy days you and
have seen in March, came an order for ship
timber, which Brent must attend to himself.
! All day long he staid i'll that drenching and
chilling storm. That night his walk home
seemed longer than usual-the house colder
the matronly lousekeeper 'crusty." his
great visions were sad ones--his d, cams more
likespirituai visitations than like visions that
we love to think linger around and above us
in our sleeping moments
The next day at his office passed sadly and
drearily, until 1t grew nearly night, when heart
and flesh failed him, and he fell fainting to
the floor. In the hour Of excitement that
| followed, Giles Davis stepped into the position
of counselor and nurse Every one in and
around the Office gladly followed his directions
or asked his advice. He it was who they
agreed should support Brent home and stay
with him. During the illness of many weeks
| that followed his rash exposure, Giles strong
arm was the one on which the good old house
keeper leaned for help and guidance. The
quiet little woman was brought from her
humble home to the grander one Of her hus-
! bands employer, to assist i'll the enormous
duties of nurse. The sick man, whose friends
with the exception Of an invalid aunt, who
| lived with her daughter in Maine,) had all
gone to the esprit land, y looked in moments
of consciousness, the gratitude he could not
speak, every day, as Giles would go to the
Office to consult with Porter and report IA
vorably to his employer.
brought MAY flowers" that Hamilton Brent
took his old place in the lumber yard. But
! the strongest tie that can bind humanity to-
gether united their hearts, and Hamilton
never forgot that under God, he owed his
after prosperity to the ''charity hands" Du-
ring the summer evenings when his bachelor
home grew silent, he would think, with lin
gering regret, of a pleasanter one in quiet
! street, and devise some plan to insure that
one as part of his own. 1t was not until
| Christmas that his plan was perfected. Then
when the other hands received the slip of pa
I'per with GA Merry Christmas written on it.,
and dollar note pinned to it, Giles receiv-
ed little package, and opening it in his
pleasant home, found it contained the gift OF
one fourth interest in the lumber yard, pro-
vided Mrs. Davis would consent to occupy
the house in Beacon street, in company with
her husband, Hamilton Brent, and her old
friends the matronly housekeeper and her
son. Mrs. Davis was not unreasonable. She
went, carrying with her nothing but the
sweet smiles that had made her humble
home paradise for her husband; and as
Hamilton Brent enjoyed the pleasantness OF
the group that fingered in the moonlight OF
his ancestral mansion, his heart understood
at length the bIessedness of the command,
Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou
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