Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1868-06-25
The Three w isIaes.
NJ JOIN QulLL,

| life, and every fellow was gazing into fu-
turlcty, and chewing gum, and enjoying
himself except Tom, who was trying 10
smoke cigarette, and just at that precise
moment was beginning to feel uneasy
about the stomach.
While they satthere, who should come
along out one OF those niedaling old phi
laltlropisfs. with giugi.aui pm 5reiia,
and iilne fingers of Grape on Ills high hat,
who was All the time aggsayatlng small
| boys with moral conubdrums. so. as
soon as lie spotted these chaps, he tackled
! them and he laid his hand on Toms
head, which Tom had just bandolinea, in
| ORDER to distract girl who lived next
door to him, and this benevolent old sport
said rif
Thomas, my son, what is your ambl,
ton il life Y hat do you want to he when
you grow up?
AND lon. he felt miserable on account
OF nat cigarette, so he only answered
''Oh. don't know, ano | don't care
4 Il want is TO get rich. Tn going for
STAN psi am, should think.
/ AL expression OF pain passed over the
aged mans lace, ana he turned to Dick,
who had taken his chaw OF gum out Of his
mouth and had 1t IL his zst.
And, Richard, what do you want
most Ia this life r
And Dick he swelled up, and saA he
was I ing to De a great iilan--he was.
More suffering appeared III The good old
/ tt.y, fI., ~ tn
Ana. Harry what Is your ambition ?"
'"io be good, sir, replied Harry.
Now, it is lie regular conventional hing
! in ali the books, when COY sRseers Ill
this noble manner for the philantbropist
to shcd q siiont tear, ana to torK out !. half
! a dollar as the reward ot virtue But tuis
man, with the bombazue on his haf, dis
appoin ted Harry by simply wlplug his
nose Oh a red pocket, nan(i h rcilieI ANA sta
ting that Harry was OH The right track, and
had chosen the only coarse that could make
him feel Sc. enc aud happy ana tip-top.
And this, you see, Was just precisely
where tins old customer was wrong, ana
showed that he ulm't know anything at
all ABOUT 1t. lie considered himself smart
but ne wasn't For the whole tnlue turn
ed out exactly the wrong way, ana not at
all 10 accordance with the BOOKS Wnlch tell
perfectly miraculous stories about Fellows
like tnese three 4t+.se+fr -
Tom, Tor instace he laid himself out to
get rich, and, as he knocked down on his
employer about four dollars week. aad
played nunlhley-peg fot iIoaps, AMI cheat
Ell, AM worked hartl, and saved up, aud
got stney and mean, and ntfer gave y
cent to any SICK crlpples III the street, and
retrained from eiieyl@tlug The surterlngs Vi
amy lonely WIDOWS anu .. tAaDe VINO were
starving to death in I. garnet, and spread
out none OF Africa, who, lie said, ought 10
be benignteo, and were better Oil when
they were benightel. And when tie col
lection was taken up in CHURCH on Sunday
he always put bali dollar OF the plape.
and took ous seventy cents change,
and considered thar sharp Numbering
AnQ - he got Older ne speculate. IN
oil, aud took Lls i,louds ia ON tie .rou4u
moor OF his company, which SMASHED up
after Thomas had MADE ais pFie. ANA
then he took in government contracts, and
furnished blankets for ten dollars that
CO.'S HIM one, and afterwards sGartta a
bank, and when he got d naif nrlilon uoi-
lars 10 it he failed aud embezZIod 1t, ana.
went TO Europe to take . tour Tor the BEN
eft Of his health, for he mad obtained his
desire to be rich
Now you would think that this wicked
man would have been filled with femorse
ana anguish, ~lnd world have reflected
how Unsatisfactory riches are, alter All,
and now d clear conscience is better than
the wealth Of CroeSus and theIi, fo0klu
upon lis gold, he would have considered
i. mere aroSs, that could not prlng happi-
ness; and tlaii he woulQ nave sgAeds lora
the pui1ty and Innocence OF his chldhooo2s
day, ana reflected how Ire dad wasted Ills
lite since the happy tine when he SAT Oh
that fence ana conversgd with the benign
old brick with the umbrella and the htgh
hat III iiat morning. s
/ know that would nave oeon the way in
most stories like this. But Thomas, be
just got up and said lie was satisfied lie
had his Au"crs % me cash, and lie felt
tils7-rate NO pang OF re,norse bothered
hIm much, ana he olont want to be
boy again, bur lie enjoyed himself just az
he Was, spending his revenue, and having
every pooy considering liu II 4gnI6oeut
fellow, which they uidn't when he was
poor, and he even had the nardihood TO
assert that he woulo do just as he had done
again, and he would 90 fof the money Of
the next man he got ichanse at
And Dick you understand wanted to
be great. So he Just worked his cards,
and got elected Justice of the Peace, and
lie let up ON hardened criminals, who had
perpetrated frighttul crimes, on condition
they would vote Tor him for Common
Council So they did, and he was elect
ed SIS 87 4a Is ~ @
And then he gave our contracts to ras-
caily politicians, tho could rob the Treas
ury as much as they wanteu to, provided
they boosted Dick TVS, the Legislature
which they accordingly did Aud when
he got there, be voted foi all the dead
wood corporatiaasi a.r railroad swindles.
for the fellows Es pfondsed IL make him
Governor, aud yea ~ sand he was
elected Governor, aad then what must he
do but pardon all the pickpockets and
thieves out Of the penltentary, and wink