Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-22

thick and dark close before mans eye
will often cause him to lose his way ane
to wallow where he would otherwise
walk.
When came the morning there was (
call at the poor mans home. The story
| of a lifetime was listened to. A SAL
story-like Thousands of others. A maj
without friends-but with little educatio,
A man whose youth had been spent il
Iidleness-who lived, as man, from HAND
to mouth. Nothing to do. A stranger il
strange country. To timid to stane
upon his rights of manhood and force hi
| way. So he wandered and fell. AS other
have. With better education he coule
have had work here, or there, or at tina
place-but the day is passing away wher
men of Ignorance are in demand. Edu
| cation is help. One can lift a stone
| roll log, drive stake, guide pillow, fell
tree or build fence better, and easier
| and quicker if he but knows something O.
cause and effect-of momentum and re
sistance-of that or those sciences and ap
planes we all are entitled to.
That was then nearly eight years
ago.
Let the man we visited speak now
just as he talked with us since the sun
went down, as two of US, earnest workers
called to see how Jared the man of then,
his wife and little ones.
''Come income right in-right into
the parlor. You are welcome-even as
Saturday Night is welcome. Here, good
wife, here is an old friend come to see US
again. Come in-call in the little ones.
Be seated there--there by the open win
dow-the coolest place in the room. How
do you get along ? Quite well, L judge,
from whae the papers say. | read all
about it, and said, "Good !" Times have
changed, haven't theyP Yes, indeed.
Perhaps you wonder why he and l are
such friends And SO much the older.
He will tell you some time-I can't now
have to much else to talk about.
ayes, this is my home. Bought and
paid for. She don't have to make pants
now for fifty cents pair-that time has
gone by. l did as you told me to. All
winter, while work was scarce, and only
here and there an odd job to do, worked
when had work, and spent the balance
of the time in studying. Yes; l did.
And she helped me. got to like it. It
was something new. I taught the chill
dren-she taught me-we taught each
other.
81 never spent another dollar in saloon
never. The cold 1 caught that night
that night, you know, when first knew
when I could-sawed wood for Anderson
and Dean and you, and done jobs when l
could get them, and studied the rest of
the time. You don't know how much
better it seemed than loafng-for you
never loafed
"Well-I don't now-do I darling p
When [ got to quelliug-really got to
study, it seemed so nice. Something new
new every day-something |
new, instead of the same old loaf-the |
same thing, day after day-lookiDg in a
beer-glass for work
"Tm all right now. Your advice was
good. When you said
"Td find work if somebody wouldn't
give it to me. I'd look outside rather
than inside of some drinking resort for it.
And when I had no work, I'd study and
it myself for work which would pay bet |
er, so if had less of it I'd have more pay
and an easier time.
That's what you said. Or about it.
When you went out wrote it down With
. lead pencil, on the margin of leaf in
he Bible-just where I opened it. Wait
moment-here is the book-here | wrote
t down, on this page. Commencing by
accident at this verse, see
"'If the iron be blunt, and he do not vhet the
dge, then must he put to more streng h but
wisdom is profitable TO direct"
"That is what it says-right where |
egan to write, the tenth verse of the tenth
HAPPIER of Ecclesiastes. Singular, wasn't
t2
we'll wvrhvd ona etudioa, ana
tudied and worked. She was just as
rood to me as could be-she always said
t would be all right if I'd only stick TO
t, and stuck like good fellow. 1t was
o much better resting with her than
han at that other place, where fellow
,n't welcome if he don't have money to
ay for it. I could do more resting with
er in half an hour than there all night
r till midnight. 1 could talk with her
bout our dffairS. instead of with others
bout nobody's affairs, and didn't have to
ay so much for it. could sit down be-
ide her-hold one of her hands in mine
read to her while she fixed things or
ewed-then when the work was done we
ould put our heads on one pillow, while
he little ones had theirs on the other and
leep so soundly. 1t was better than
pending all one had to have headache
nd mean tasting mouth for q month,
nd an empty pocket the next day.
Yes, we are pretty well fixed now.
Ve own this house and lot-all paid for.
nd have some money in the bank. And
our children now-all doing well. |
lake in my business about two thousand
ollars year, and it is increasing steadi-
:. I know how so much better now than
len. T
"Come in again before you go on your
urney. You are always welcome here, t
ause you never sermonized me and made q
1T that you was better than everybody
Sc. You just said what you would do q
I've tried it and it's the best way. |
ONE and see us-not on Sunday. for g
len we read and visit and go to church, {
i'd rest, but at any other time from Mon d
ay morning till Saturday night" 8
The CANCER CURE.-The new cancer t
eciic, "Cundurango," is at present cre- Il
ing much interest in medical and other J,
roles. DIR. Bliss of Washington, who z