The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-03-06

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Interference principles at the Office,
for Mary never saw any more of them
Neither husband nor wife ever ailud-
ed to the subjectagain. but Mr.. Haven
was cured of lis own bad habit Ma
ry's single strategem was worth q
! thousand remonstfances.g 5eaf ro3 see
A Little Romance. ,5
The Concord Monitor ivouches for
the truth of the following .atlI i7 Hoi7
On a certain day in 1853 a young
man whose noticeable points were d
fashionable coat, pantaloone, with
| wide checks, and a large watch chain
at the end of. which dangled a seal,
| walked. into a large hard ware Store iii
Boston,. and asked for employ nlent.
Mr.. Peter Butler, one OF. the proprie-
tors, Inquired it he had ever worked
at the business? He had not. What
had he been doing? Studying law at
Cambridge. Where did he belongl
His friends lived in Maryland. The
firm was not in need Of help, and the
services OF the applicant were civiIly
declined, On the following day he
addressed a note to Mr.. BntIer, say
ing that he feared he had not made
himself fully understood, and would,
call again on the morrow to explain
further. At the second interview he
said he said he had graduated at Har-
yard University, and commenced read
ing law that he had become acquaint-
ed with a young lady in Cambridge,
whom he proposed to marry; that his |
father had written to him, forbidding |
him to wed a Northern girl on penal
ty of utter disinheritance and banish- |
ment from home. He intended, how
ever, to keep faith with his betrothed,
and, as he must paddle his own ca
noe in future, he was looking for en-
ployment.
= Mr.. Butler engaged him at $400 a
year, and gave him certain duties to
perform. Next morning the young
man, whose name we might as well
say was John Paca, walked in from /
Cambridge, with his dinner packed
in tin pail, and went stoutly to work.
He kept steadily at this for q year,
doing all he was told to do, and more
besides; for his comrades, of whom
there were more than sixty, finding
him able and willing, set him at all
the menial tasks of the estab blishment,
until the prOprietors discovered and
StOUpcu lu0 iiup0eltlOus al lAO CHu
of the year Johns salary was increas-
creased 500, and he named an early
day for his wedding. When that day
came Mr.. Butler gave him new SUIT
of clothes Che presents everybody he
takes liking to with a tip-top suit
once in y whitley and holiday. Mrs.
and Mrs, John Paca went toilive with
the brides father and mother, and
John continued to walk in to his bu-
siness. 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
PacaAa clerk of $500 0ayear. He was
always on hand when the warehoase,l
was opened, and stuck by it until it
was closed. During the second. year
of his service he received a letter
from his sisters, who were at school
in Brooklyn, asking him to get leave
to make them a short visit. He did I
SO and returned to his duties. Not
long afterward another letter came;
His father wanted him to come home /
a few days, and bring his wife along
with him. Mr. Butler, furnished the
necessary funds for a comfortable trip
to the old home and back again, Dur |.
ing their stay in Maryland the young
people won the love of the old folks,
if indeed they had ever forfeited i:
for John had not long been back at
the store in Boston when his father
desired him to take charge of one of
his plantations. He should have
carriage and pair. His employers
hurried him away and bade God
speed. At the death of his father
John fell heir TO an immense estate.
Every year he writes to Peter Butler,
whom be justly thinks enc of the best
men in Boston, to come, out and join
him in a fox hunt. ,i,, 81 go, +-ss'..