The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-22

but gentleman of excellent manners,
good education and high breeding
When I tell you that my poor wife
and children have scarcely eaten enough
to keep them alive for three days, you
viii excuse these unmanly tears, said he,
weeping freely as he gazed at the little
hungry innocents clinging around him.
The young man was himself moved to
tears and could not doubt his own eyes,
though the picture was one he had not
expected to meet, and one which he had,
perhaps, never met before.
He at once handed the unfortunate
husband and father twenty dollars, almost
the last cent of money he had-retainlng
only sufficient to take him to the end OF
his journey by a scant allowance
caring to keep any to return on. The
stranger insisted on receiving only five
dollars, trusting to Providence for enough
to complete his journey to that part of
Kentucky whittier he was moving; but
the young mans heart was too large not
to have given five times that amount if he
had been able. Besides this Gas he him.
self relates) his eyes filled with tears, as
did those of the father and mother, while
the poor, hungry children literally devour-
ed the fragments of lunch which the
young Samaritan had brought with him
from his last breakfast.
Amid the tears and blessings of the
lite circle, the kind-hearted stranger rode
off, thanking God that it had been in his
power to bestow so much happiness and
so OPPORTUNITY.
Years passed by, and the incident was
about forgotten, when the benevolent
young gentleman received letter, en-
closing twenty dollar bill, gratefully re-
calling the circumstance above related,
announcing that the family had reached
| their destination in Southwestern Ken
lucky, and that the father was again a
merchant, making money and living hap.
lily.
Almost another decade, including in its
whirl and turmoil the bloody story of the
great civil war, had once more about shut
out all memory of the occurrence, when
the hero of the story, now long since
grown to mans estate, and become dis
tinguished in the political history of Ken
lucky, was elected to the Lower House of
the Legislature. His talents and influ-
ence were such that, with but little diff
Guilty, he was elected Speaker of the
House. During the contest over the
| Speakership, he had noticed that a stran-
ger-and a member of the Radical side
was one of his most active supporters.
Meeting him few days after, the accom-
plished Speaker remarked:
Mr., l have been curious to
know why you were among my very war
NEST friends during the election-doing
all you could for me. / never met you
before in my life-your very name is UNI
known to me-we are opposed in politics
and, while thanking you kindly for
your partiality, | have enough of the
woman in me to insist on hearing why it
it was so"
"Sir," replied the member, "you will
recall, when mention it, little scene
that occurred when you were a boy on
your way to Virginia (relating It 1t
was you who saved my wife from starva-
ton. She has told me time and again
that never did a morsel of food taste so
sweet-so utterly delicious, as that you
gave her then. She was but six years old
at that time; but when she saw your
name, during the late canvass, among the
prominent probable candidates for the
Speakership, she laid down the law as
to how was to vote. This is ALL Mel
Their she, nor her father and mother,
brothers and sisters, nor myself, can ever
forget YOU"