The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-14
WHAT ALLIED MR.. YOUNG'S CLERK,

Mr.. JOSIAH YOUNG kept a country store
at Gazerville. He had followed the bust.
ness for thirty years in the same building
he now occupied. Mr.. Young was a very
pleasant, dignifed old gentleman. very
polite to his customers-tO all of his Gus.
tomers-and very accurate in his accounts.
His rule was to square all accounts
every three months. Other merchants
and there were several in the place-had
rules that suited them-different, per.
haps, from his but that was his rule, and
he insisted upon it. So few mistakes had
occurred in all the years of his trade that
people spoke of it as though it was char.
acteristic of his store. Mistakes some.
times, perhaps it might be said often.
were made by his fellow tradesmen, and
their customers would speak of them in
his store, But we dare say that those less
fortunate fellow tradesmen were never
made happy by any ones saying in their
hearing that Mr.. Young had made q
wrong entry, or erred in reckoning up an
account. When one reflects upon this
trait-the leading One-of Mr.. Young, one
sees at once what sort of man would be
likely to suit him as clerk.
Arthur Guild proved to be perfectly
satisfactory to his employer. In the three
years that he had been clerk for MIR.
Young he had made not one mistake in
the accounts-and he kept all of them
nor, SO far as Mr.. Young knew, any where
else. He kept things in "apple. pie
order" Was, in short, as polite, dignified
and sure as his EMPLOYER. SO well was
Mr.. Young pleased with him that he was
half decided to take him into partnership.
I'm wait another year and see how he
does, guess" said he.
Arthur Guild had never shown much
desire to be in the company of young
women. He went out very little, seldom
TO party of any kind; and never while
ne had been there had he taken a girl out
10 ride, Or accompanied one to any place.
Once or twice he had been seen at a social
gathering; and once it had fallen to him
to take young woman designated by his
l,ostess) to supper. Perhaps his partner
was pleased; but he did not appear to be
over-delighted with the task that was as
signed to him. He boarded at Mr..
Ioung's; and they liked him as boarder;
Mrs. Young told her husband that she
never saw nicer young man." And he
liked his boarding place.
Rosa Young, the daughter, had finished
her education, at least at the seminary;
and was expected home every day. Arthur
heard her father and mother speak of her
when he was at the table with them; but
he tOok uut lanyulu inlerest IN the fact
that she was soon to be q member of that
household. Her coming was nothing to
him. What could it be? She was prOba-
bly, about like the other misses of 0azer-
vile that were her associates before she
went away to school. On the whole,
though, it aeas something to him-this
daughters coming h0me-what if she
were like some young women he had
known? If she were, she would be q
bother. He would be obliged to take her
somewhere every little while. His quiet
evenings would be disturbed. Yes, ON
the whole, he was sorry that Mr.. Young
had daughter, and that she was coming
home.
But she came, and Arthur was not at
all prepared to see such q handsome
young woman as he was introduced to one
evening when he came home from the
store. "Can 1t be possible" he asked
himself, "that this beautiful girl ia Miss
Rosa Young: did not dream that their
daughter was a beauty. She looks
naughty, too. Just as we'll if she is 30;
for in that case she will be pretty sure to
leave me to myself"
Rosa had been to q school which many
fashionable young ladies attended, and
she showed, in measure. the effect of her
association with them in q certain lOfti-
ness of manner. She did not carry this
SO far as to show herself lacking in sense,
but she was not the simple Rosa Young
that went away from Gazerville three
years before.
About week after she came home she
attended q Al Spf AI~n IL
who lived near by ON the same street.
The Ex-Governor was there: but. with the
exception of him aid q few respectable
elderly people, she declared that there
was at sOlutely nobody" there. When
Rosa returned home her mother was sit
ting before the crate in the sitting.room.
1t being chilly spring night. =
Mamma" she began, as she took q seat
Deside her, "at its best, Gazerville party
il not great affair.""
why, no. my dear, don't suppose
it would be called great affair: but did
you not enjoy yourself this evenine?' "a
-. wen, you see, my living with Aunt
EIlnOr, while was away-who. now and
then, had some quite distinguished peo.
pie at her hOuse-gave me q chance tn sea
something of what in the CITY is called
society; and by contrast some of the peo.
pie l met tonight did seem rather stupid.
mamma"
My dear child, it is jus. possible that
cities, as we'll as villages, have more or
less of stupid people. Perhaps your
father and would be called very dull by
some OF those clever people you have
spoken Of"
Rosa was touched. The thought that
anyone could speak lightly Of her parents,
whom she loved with al her heart, was
very painful. She threw her arms around
her mothers neck, and, cxclaiming,
Ihey could not! They should not!
mamma" covered her face and hair with
kisses.
Inc next morning, after Mr.. Young and
his clerk had gone to the store, Rosa asked