Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-01-21

am your son." He asked himself hal
grieyed, half amused, ''where are the uner
ring natural instincts / have read about il
novels.
His hostess, seeing he did not eat, kind,
asked if he could suggest anything he woule
be likely to relish, IL thank you madam,
he answered, sit does seem to me that
should like some oat meal porridge, such as
mother used to make, if so be you have any.
"Porridge 2" repeated the widow. CAT
he means paritcb. Yes, we hae little lief
from our dinner. Gle it to him, Margery.
But mon, T guess it is cauld.'
Never mind, I know shall like it," he
rejoined, taking the bowl, and beginning tic
stir the porridge with his spoon. AS he did
so, Mrs Anderson gave a start, and bent
eagerly toward Then she sank back in ner
chair with sigh, saying, in answering to
his questioning look:
eye mind me o'ny Malcolm, then just
in that way he used to stir his paritch-
gieing it whirl and hirt. All gin ye
we o'my Malcom, my poor laddie !"
"Well, then, gin were your Malcolm, T"
said the merchant, speaking for the first time
in the Scottish dialect, and in his own voice /;
cor gin your Draw young Malcolm were as
brown, and bald and grey and bent as old
as l am, could you welcome him to your
arms and love him as in the dear auld lang
syne? Could you, mither!''
All through this touching little speech the
widows eyes had been glistening, and her
breath coming fast; but at that word, ''mith
err" she sprang up with cry, and lettering
to her son, fell almost fainting on his breast.
He kissed her; kissed her brow and her
lips, and her hands the big tears slid down
his bronzed cheeks, while she clung about
his neck and called him by all the dear old
old young looks By and by they came back.
The form in her embrace grew comelier ;
love and joy gave it second youth, stately
and gracious, the first she then and there
buried dead in her heart a sweet, beautiful
peculiar memory 1t was moment of solemn
remuneration, in which she gave up Che fond
maternal illusion she had cherished so long.
Then, looking up suddenly into the face Of
the middle aged man who had taken its place
she asked:
"Where hae We left the wife and bairns?:"
eat the inn, mother. Have you room
for us all at the cottage p
"Indeed I have-twa good spare rooms
wi large closets, weel stocked WI linen l
haze been spinning or weaving a these lang
years for ye bath and the weans.'
''Well, mother, dear, you must rest, re-
joined the merchant tenderly.
s'No, ma. dinna care to rest till ye lay
me down to take my lang rest. There'll be
time enough between that day and the res
direction to fauld my idleness. Now 'twould
be unco' irksome. But 60 my son, and
bring me the wife-I hope I shall like her;
and the BARNS hope they will like me-
I have only to say that both the good wo-
mans hopes were realized. A very happy
family knelt down in prayer that night, and
maSy nights after in the widows cottage,
whose climbing roses and woodbines were
but outward signs and types of the sweetness
and blessedness of love and peace within
About Honey.
When one man has money and another
has not, they contend for its possession
This is trade or robbery, according to cir
cumstances. There are three uses for mon
ey-the use of getting it, and the use of
spending it. Consequently it Classics man
kind into moncy-getters, money-keerers and
money-spenders. Except the misers we read
of in novels, men do not love money for it
self, any more than soup tickets OR baggage
cheeks, or promisory notes, or little deeds
The ''lovc of money is the pleasure Of men
tai function in getting or keeping, to spend
ing. The sponge and spendthrift are equal
ly guilty with the miser.
The class of money -getters includes mer-
chants, gold-miners, pickpockets, politicians
and professional beggars. Americans are
great money -getters, but they do not care
to keep it. Hence. this is a country of great
income but small fortunes.
The class Of money keepers are small
Literary men are not fond Of it. Lawyers
are good at keeping money, particularly if it
is other peoples. Money, like some other
essences, has pungent, sweet taste; but to
keep must be corked tightly. 1t evaporates
in the open air, and the vapor is called in
torest. A mortgage is condensing instru-
mept which enables a money keeper to cvap-
crate money spender.
The class Of money spenders includes the
! majority of mankind It is natural 10 spend
money before we get it. We are born to
this; and cost a great deal before we earn
anything. The power to get in debt is es-
sential to the happiness of all shiftless people
including most of the governments Of Eu-
rope. College students aud married women
who have no capacity to bind themselves,
satisfy this propensity by getting their fats-
ers and husbands in debt, if possible.
Money is like gunpowderj to make it
carry, charges should be carefully measured
and rammed down. Its explosive powder
depends on the tightness with which you
hold Scattered loose it izzles away with
no effect,
In the town Of s., in Maine, lived
some years ago couple who had got tired