Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-02-20

lave you examined th2t bill,
Jamss?"
eyes, SIR"
"Any thing wrong?"
81 find two errors.'
"Ah! let me see."
The lad handed his employer long
bill that had been placed upon his desk
fer examination.
"llerc is an error in the calculation of
ten dollars which they have made against
themselves; and another of ten dollars
in the footing"
"Also against themselves
eyes, sir"
The merchant smiled in q way that
struck the lad as peculiar.
"Twsnty dollars against themselves"
he remarked i'll a kind of pleasant sur
prise. "Trusty clerks they must have"
Shall l correct the figures" asked
the lad.
"No! let them correct their own mis-
takes; we don't examine bills for other
peoples benefit" replied the merchant.
sit will be time TO rectity those errors
when they find them out. All SO much
gain, as it now stands"
The Logs delicate moral sense was
shocked at SO unexpected II remark. lie
was the son of II poor widow, who had
given him to understand that to be lust
was the duty of men.
Mr.. Carman, :hc merchant, in whose
employment he had been for only few
months, was an old friend of his fathers.
III whom he reposcd the highest conf,
dencc. In fact, James had always looked
upon Vim as Il kind of model man, and
when Mr.. Carman agreed to take him
into his store, he felt that u good fortune
was in his way.
"Let them correct their own mis-
takes"
These words made strong impression
on the mind of James Lewis. When
ii st spoken by Mr.. Carman, and with
the meaning then involved, he felt, as we
have said, shocked; but as he turned
them over again in his thoughts, and con-
nected their utleIancs with the pyrson
who stood so high in his mothers esti-
nation, he began to think that perhaps
the thing was fair enough in business.
MIR. Carman was hardly the man to do
wrong. a lew days after James had
examined the bill, a clerk from the house
by which it had been rendered called for
settlement. The lad, who was present,
waited with interest to sec whether Mr..
CarnIaU would speak of the error. But
he made 10 remark. A check for the
amount Of the bill rendered was filled up
and receipt taken.
"ls that right? 2"
James asked himself this question.
His moral sense said no; but the fact
that Mr. CarInan had SO acted bewi.
dered lis mind.
at may be the way in business"-so
he thought to himself-"but it. don't look
honest. | wouldn't have believed it of
him."
Mr. Carman had kind of way with
him that won the boys heart, and nat
orally tended to make him judge what
ever lie might do in most favorable
81 wish he had corrected that error"
he said to himself great many times
when thinking in pleased way of Mr..
Carman, aud his own good fortune in
having been received into his employ
ment. at don't look right, but it may
be it's the way of business"
One day he went to the bank and
rev the money on q check. In count
ng IT over he found that tho teller had
paid him fifty dollars too much, so he
vent back 10 the counter and told him
'f his mistake. The teller thanked him,
md he returned to the store with tho
consciousness in his mind of having done
light. .. .p..ts
"Ths teller overpaid me fifty dollars"
ne said to MIR. Carhan, as he handed him
he money.
"Indecd!'' replied the latter, a light
breaking over his countenance; and he
hastily counted the bank bills.
The light faded as the last bill left his
fingers.
"Thcre's no mistake, James" A tone
Of disappointment was in his voice.
"Oh, / gave him back the fifty dollars.
Wasn't that right?" /
"You simpletonp' exclaimed Mr.. Car
nan, "don't you know that bank mis-
axes are mover corrected? If tho teller
rad paid you fifty dollars short he would
Tot have made it right"
The warm blood mantlsd TO the cheek
# James under this reproof 1t is often
he case that more shame is felt for q