Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-06-08

ing to the carriage. And lie went IN WIFI
out saying word. And as Mrs. Ran
dolph took her seat, she said to the driver
who awaited her order, 1.-The Office
Daniel''
Mr.. Randolph sat alone at his desk when
his wife entered his office, accompanied by
Thomas Haynes, who had been so ignobly
driven out of it few days before. She
walked straight up to her husband, who
glanced from the lady to her companion in
silent curiosity and surprise.
81 have found him, Luther, and brought
him back" said she. ''Try him once more
for my sake"
"And make fool of myself" growled
the merchant; but there was something
which encouraged further entreaty in the
tones.
mo, Luther, 1 take all the blame. all
the folly on myself; only try this once, and
see if the end does not prove its wisdom. ;"
Mr.. Randolph looked at Tom.
'You young rascal, you'll be serving me
another trick one of these days." he said,
! ''Sit down, here, and copy these letters"
The office boy tried to speak, but, in
stead, there came a great gush of sobs,
with a rain of tears. And so, Thomas
Haynes was received once more into
favor. =
Mrs. Rando!ph's charity did not stop
here.-She procured him lodging under a
kindly home roof, in whose pleasant at
mosphere the boys nature expanded, and
beneath which he found the peace and
shelter that his inexperienced youth so
much needed. He never fell into evil again.
There is more than that to tell. The boys
quick intelligence, his promptness and
business capacity, advanced him steadily
in this house as the years went on, until at
last the old mother and the pretty sister,
blooming into her womanhood, came, in
pride and joy, to live in the pleasant home
which the strong arm of the young son and
brother had earned for them.
There is more yet to tell. There camea
time when sudden business crisis fell
upon and paralyzed the community. Old
houses, whose credit had stood the storms
of scores of years, suddenly tottered and
was now senior partner, tottered to it's
center. In the midst of all this. that man
was taken seriously ill-confined to his
room and his bed. And at that time, had
it not been for the senior clerk, for his
knowledge of the business in, all it's re-
lations, for his foresight and energy, the
house must have been overwhelmed. AS
it was, it weathered the storm, and in gra-
titude thereof, Thomas Haynes was taken
in with the other partners; and was there af-
ter its youngest one.
There is more yet to tell. When Mar
garet, the eldest of the daughters of Luz
ther Randolph, was in the bloom of her
lovely womanhood, Thomas Haynes wooed,
and, amid other suitors, won her for his
wife. And after the bridal breakfast,
which included only the families of the
newly welded pair, he turned to Mrs.
Randolph, and calling her by the sweet,
new name of mother, he said:
call that I have, all that am, owe,
under God, this day, to you p
And then he told, to those who will
the first time, the story of the fall of his
youth, and how Margaret's mother and his
had saved him. I think there were few
dry eyes in that room around that bridal
breakfast table when he paused.
Eyes, mother,'' added Mr.. Randolph, in
q voice of strong emotion, as he looked
down with the tenderness of his youth on
the fair and gentle matron at his side,
"your Woman's wisdom was greater than
all my boosted judgment then. I, and
mine, will have cause to bless you for that
work so long as we live!" Sweet words in
the ears of her who heard them.
And how many women, like this one,
have work lying at their doors
which they neglected to do? In their hus-
bands offices, and stores, and warehouses,
and manufactures, are clerks and en-
pioyees, are men and women, for whom
they might speak some kindly, timely
words; in whose welfare they might take
some inter est, whom they might rescue
from wrong and EVIL, in their youth and
need. To how many women, throughout
the land, sitting in ease and prosperity, in
their luxurious homes, has the thought of
the good which they might accomplish by
speech or deed, never come home.
Lift up your eyes, for the fields are al
ready white to harvest, and the labo rers
are feW.'