Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-10-26

Lonce, and see if the end does not prove
its wisdom |"
Mr.. Randolph looked at Tom. "You
young rascal, you'll be serving me
another trick one of these days." he
said. Sit down, here, and copy
these letters"
The Office boy tried to speak, but,
instead, their came a great gush OF
sobs, with rain Of tears. And SO
Thomas Haynes was received once
more into favor.
Mrs. Randolph's charity did not stop
here. She procured him lodgings un.
der . kindly home roof, in whose
pleasant atmosphere the boys nature
expanded, and beneath which he found
the peace and shelter that his inexpe.
rienced youth SO mech needed. He
never fell into evil again. There is
more than that to tell. The boys
quick intelligence, his promptness and
business capacity, advanced him
steadily in the house as the years
went on, until at last the old mother
and the pretty sister, blooming into
her womanhood, came, in pride and
joy, to live in the pleasant home
which the strong arm of the young son
and brother had earned for them.
There is more yet to tell. There
came time when sudden business
crisis fell upon and paralyzed the COM
munity. Old houses whose credit had
stood the storms of scores of years,
suddenly tottered and fell. The house
| of which Luther Randolph was now
Senior partner, tottcred to its centre.
In the midst of all this, the man was
taken seriously ill-con6ned to his
room and his bed. And, at that time,
had it not been for the senior clerk,
for his knowledge of the business in
all its relations, for his foresight and
energy, the house must have been
overwhelmed. As it was, it weather
ed the storm, and in gratitude thereof,
Thomas Haynes was taken into the
other firm by the other partners, and
was thereafter its youngest one.
There is more yet to tell. When
Margaret, the eldest of the daughters
of Luther Randolph, was in the bloom
of her lovely womanhood, Thomas
Haynes wooed, and amid other suitors,
won her for his wife. And after the bri-
DIAL breakfast, which included only the
of the newly-wedded pair, he
turned to Mrs. Randolph, and calling
her by the sweet, new name of mother,
he said "All that have. all that am,
l owe, under God, this day, to you y
And then he told, to these VINO viii
nc -ccTr forget 1t, and who heard it now
for the first time, the story of the fall
of his youth, and how Margaret's moth.
err and his had saved him. / think
there were few dry eyes around that
bridal breakfast-table when he paused.
"Yes, MOTHER added Mr.. Randolph,
in voice of strong emotion, as he
looked down with the tenderness Of
his youth, on the fair and gentle mat
ron at his side, "your woman's wisdom
was greater than all my boosted judg-
ment then. !, and mine, will have
cause to bless you for that work so
long as we live /" Sweet words in
the ears of her who heard them.
And how many women, like this one,
have work lying at their doors-work
which they neglect to do? In their
husbands Offices, and stores, and
warehouses, and manufactures, are
clerks and employees, are men and
women, for whom they might spesk
aOrnp kindly tiucelv xsvovrlr IN ~UhOae
welfare they might take some interest,
whom they might rescue from wrong
and evil, in their youth and need. TO
how many women, throughout the
land, sitting in ease and prosperity, in
their luxurious homes, has the thought
Of the good which they might accom-
plisil by speech or deed, never come
home
Lift up your eyes, for the fields are
already white to harvest, and the la
borers are few"