The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-08-09

'rom, she said, laying her hand OF
bis shoulder, as his own mother nigh
have done, IF Nj. Randolph shoul'
take you back again-if contrary II
all his rules and precedents, l coult
persuade him to do this, would yo,
try once again to resist the eyil,a yo,
never did before
size would not take me back. YOl
don't know, recalling the last word.
which his employer had used toware
him, words which had festered anG
rankled in his heart ever since, aB(
made him feel that, let come wha
might, swift freezing or slow starva
ton, he would never seek his old mas
ter again, even though forgiveness an6
help awaited him on the threshold.
Mrs. Randolph did not answer for a
moment. Perhaps she smiled little
to herself, thinking that his wife ough
to know Luther Randolph little bet.
ter than his office boy. At last shs
said:
Get in, Tem,a go with me- point
ing to the carriage. And he went il
without saying word. And as Mrs
Randolph took her seat, she said to the
driver, who awaited her order, 'The
office, Daniel
Mr.. Randolph sat alone at his desk
when his wife entered his Office &C
compsnied by Thomas Haynes, who
had been 80 ignobly driven out of it a
few days before. She walked straight
up to her husband, who glanced from
the lady to her companion in silent
curiosity and surprise.
Il have found him, Luther, and
brought him back said she. Try hin,
once more for my sake
tAnd make fool of myself growl.
ed the merchant; but there was some
thing which encouraged further en-
treaty in the tones.
No, Luther, take all the blame, all
the folly, on myself; only try this
once, and see if the eud does not prove
its wisdom
MIR. Randolph looked ut 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 q great gush of sobs'
with a rain of tears. And so Thomas
Haynes was received once more into
favor.
Mrs. Randolph's charity did not stop
here. She procured him lodgings un-
der kindly home roof, in whose
pleasant atmosphere the boys nature
and beneath which he found
the peace and shelter that his inexpe-
rienced youth SO much needed. He
never fell into evil agian.
There is more than that to tell. The
bows quick intelligence, his prompt
ness and business capacity, advanced
him steadily in the house as the years
went on, until st last the old mother
and the pretty sister, blooming into
her womanhood, came, in joy and
pride, to live in the pleasant home which
be strong arm of the young son and
brother hau earned for them.
There la more yet to tell. There
.a,ne a time when q sudden business
;risis fell upon and paralyzed the COM
nunity. Old houses, whose credit had
stood the storms of scores of years,
.uddenly tottered and fell. The house
If which Luther Randolph was now
senior partner, totiered to its center.
IN the midst Of all this, that man W.
AIKEN seriously ill-cOnfined to Lis
,ed. And at that time, had it not been
or the senior clerk, tor his knowledge
If the business in all it's relations, for
lis foresight and energy, the house
must haye been overwhelmed. AS it
vas, it weathered the storm, and in
.ratitude thereof, Thomas Haynes was
AIKEN into the other partners, and was
hereafter its youngest one.
There is more yet to tell. When
Margaret, the elder of the daughters
# Luther Randolph. was in the bloom
II her lovely womanhood, Thomas
Haynes woed, and, amid other suitors,
von her for his wife. And after the
,ridal breakfast, which included onl,
he families Of the newly welded pair,
le turned to Mrs. Randolph, and call
ng her by the sweet new name Oh
nother, he said:
sAll that have, all that l am. l owe,
Inder God, this day, to your
An then he told, to those who will
leyer forget it, and who heard it now
or the first time, the story of the fall
# his youth, and how Margarets
mother and his had saved him.
hink there were few dry eyes in that
oom around that bridal breakfast Ia
lie when he paused.
yes, mother, added Mr.. Randolph'
u a voice of strong emotion, as he
ooked down with the tenderness OF
liz youth on the fair aud gentle mat
on at his eide, your woman's wisdom
vas greater then. l aud mine will
ave cause to bless you for that work
o long as we live! Sweet words in
he ears of her who heard them.
Aud how many women, like this
me, have work lying at their doors
york which they neglected to do? In
heir husbands offices, and stores, and
ware houses, and manufactures, are
Jerks aud employees, are men and wo-
nen, for whom they might speak some
indy, timely words in whose vel
are they might take some interest,
whom they might rescue from wrong
nd evil, in their youth and need. To
low many women, throughout the
and. sitting in ease and DrOsDerify. in