The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-04-11
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!. ATRUE STORY.
From The Concord Monitor.

From the Concord Monitor. r.
+ On certain day in 1853, young man
whose noticeable points. were fashionable
coat, pantaloons with wide checks, and a
large watch chain at the end Of which dam
gled q seal, walked into o large hardware
store in Boston, and asked for employment.
Mr.. Peter Butler, one of the proprietors,
inquired if he had ever worked at the bust
ness. He had not. What had he been
doing? Studying law OF Cambridge
Where did he belong? His friends lived
in Maryland.
The firm were not in need of help, and
the service of tho applicant were civilly de-
clined. On the following day he address,
ed q note to Mr.. Butler saying that he
feared he had not made himsel: fully un-
derstood and would call again on tho NOR
row to explain further. At the second
interview he said he had graduated at
Harvard University, and commenced read
ing law :; that he had become acquainted
with young lady in Cambridge whom
he proposed to marry that his father had
written to him forbidding him to wed a
Northern girl, on penalty of disinherltancc,
and Punishment from home. He intended,
however to keep faith with his betrothcd
aud as he must paddle his own canoe in
future, he was looking for employment.
Mr.. Butler eng aged him at $500 year,
and gave him certain duties to preform.
Next morning, the young man, whose
name, We may as we'll say, was John Pace,
walked in from Cambridge, with his dinner
packed in tin pail, and went stoutly to
work. He kept steadily at this for year,
dong all he was told to do, and more be,
sides; for his comrades, of whom th.rr
were more than sixty, finding him able ana
willing, set him at all the mental tasks Of
the establishment, until the proprietors dis
covered and stopped the imposition.
At the end Of the year Johns salary was
increased 500, and he named an early day
for his wedding. Whom that day came.
| Mr.. Butler gave him new suit Of clothes
(he presents everybody he takes liking to
with tip-top suit ence in whitley, and n
holiday. Mr.. and Mrs. John Pace went to
live with the BRIDES father and mother,
and John continued to walk in 10 his bust
ness, tin pail in hand. Among all the
merchants and tradesmen who rode in from
old Cambridge to the banks and counting
rooms Of Boston, there was not one whose
heart was lighter or happier than that OF
John Pace-a clerk at $500 a year. He
was always on hand when the warehouse
| was opened, and stuck by until it wal
closed. During the second year of his
service he received letter from his sisters
who were at school in Brooklyn, asking
him to get leave to make them short Wis
it. He did so, and returned to his duties
Not long afterward another letter came
His father wanted him to come home for {
few days, and bring his wife along with
him. Mr.. Butler furnished the necessary
funds for comparable trip to the OLD
home and back again. During their sta,
in Maryland, the young people won The
love of the old folks, if, indeed, they had
ever forfeited it.; for John had not Ion!
been back at the store in Boston when hi
father desired him to take charge of one O
his plantations, He should have q living
off it, one thousand a year besides, and tw'
saddle-horses, and his wife should have I
carriage and pair. His employers hurried
him away, and babe him God speed.
At the death of his father, ohm fell bei
to On immense estate. Every year h
writes to Peter Butler, whom he justly
thinks one Of the best men in Boston, t
come out and join him in fox hunt.
tone can't have everything" as tn
man said who was down with small-p
and cholera, and the yellow fever came in
to the neighborhood.
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