The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-17

strong and seem to possess principles
which cannot be shaken, are Outlines
the first to yield to it, are broken in
health and character, and ruined
while those who still have the kindly
home protection, and feel the shelter.
ing love of fond mothers heart
weather the storms, and at last stand
upright and unframed in the beautiful
symmetry of their characters.
81 have heard it said that nine boys
out of ten, who go from sweet. pure
country homes to the city, are led away
by temptations. Many of them do moi
60 far astray, perhaps, but only one
out of the ten keeps himself .unspotted
from the world Charley, l want my
boy to be that one. When you meet
those who smoke or chew and are in
vited to Join with them, when all the
others about you participate, do not be
ashamed to stand up for your princi-
pies, and be that one in ten. When
your companions ask you into some no.
tel. or heightened restaurant, or re-
spectacle drugstore, for glass, and.
if you refuse to 90, taunt and ieer you,
telling you you'll be more of man one
of these days, and get over these
'goody' ways. do not swerve from the
right, and if you are the only one in
ten that dares to do right, and dares to
be true, Charley, be that one. And
when cards, and theater-going, and
places of worse evil are suggested to
you, and you sometimes feel how much
! n I'm tn Sv~ kl~n
other boys and do as they do, than to
fight it out soevery day. remember this
talk tonight, and although you may be
the only one who tries or is able to re-
sist, beg of you. for mothers sake,
and for your sake, be that one"
| As the stage was just then heard
rumbling up the street, MRS. McAlpine
put her arms about his neck and kissed
him fondly, as he replied, I'm re-
member all you've said, mother, and
will try to be that one. and come back
as GO"
The stage stopped at the gate, while
one of the men came in and carried out
the trunk packed full of neat clothing
and many pretty. dainty and useful ar
ticles to adorn Charley's room, which
had been SO cheerfully made by mother
and Nellie. Then with fervent good
byes, said over and over again by most
of the home group, and a warm pres
sure of the hand by his mother, who
stood there with melting eye and heart
too full to speak, for
The heart feels most when the lips move not,
And the eye speaks the gentle gO0d-by.
Charley jumped into the coach, and
amid the shouting of the children, and
the waving of handkerchiefs, and the
shrill voice of little Ruth as she called
out, "Don't stay long; come back soon
to your own little Ruthy, and don't for
get the button-hole bouquet and the
young ladies. Ha, ha, ha, that was a
good joke, wasn't it?'' the coach rat
tied away down the lovely valley,
frightened ut that hour by the glorious
sunset light, and made more beautiful
by the varying shades and tints reflect
ed upon the mountain sides. 1t seemed
too bad to 60 from such beautiful,
peaceful scenes to the noise and tumult
of large, close city. But the cities
would be far worse places than they
are, were it not for the country ele-
ment, the men and women whose early
lives were spent in the country, and
who amid the crime and wickedness in
cities have not lost the principles of
right, and truth, and honesty, and JUS
tice, which were incuicated in their
youthful minds.
So in the crowd of strangers who
next morning arrived in Boston was
Charles McAlpine, as handsome, as
genial and intelligent boy of eighteen
as you often meet. He found his way
to his uncle's warehouse and counting
room, not far from Fanueil Hall, and
was cordially received by those in his
employ at the office, and seated with
the morning paper in hand, awaiting
the arrival of his uncle, who drove in
from Brookline at a later hour each
day.
Charley had not seen his uncle, Mr..
Talcott, for many years, but felt at
home Immediately, after the cordial
greeting he received from his genial,
tine-looking relative. His uncle told
him he could busy himself looking
about that part of the city, and going
through the warehouse; and at three
o'clock they would drive out together
to Brookline, where they would be hap
Ply to have him pass the night, and the
next day he could 60 to his boarding.
place in the city, and begin work in
earnest.
The evening was passed delightfully."-
in the elegant home of his uncle, and
the next day Charley went with the
bOOkkeeper and head-salesman to a
neat clearinghouse, kept by two
maiden sisters ON Somerset street.
His experience in hardware store in
ClaremOnt prepared him to take hold
intelligently in this mammoth estab-
lishment of Talcott, Tower & Co., and
before the week was out his uncle saw
that Charley would soon take an i'm
portant position there. if he held out as
he promised.
The head-salesman was distant rel
alive of Mrs. Talcott, and, as he had
been in the employ OF the concern for
six years, he began to have serious
hopes of soon becoming one of the part
ners. His father was ready to give
him $4,000 at any time when there
was good opening for him to go in
with the senior members, and regard
ing himself as almost invaluable to the
concern, he hoped by the new year,
now eight months distant, that pro-
posals would be made to him, and he
should send to his father in Vermont
for his check to that amount.
But a salesman of fine appearance
and gentlemanly bearing, a quick &C
countant, good talker, and popular
fellow-desirable as all these qualities
are, yet after all they are not the essen
tial ones. Careful business men are
more anxious to obtain for their en-
ploy those who are thoroughly upright
and honest; as interested in. the bust
ness of the firm as if it were their own;
careful in all their accounts, and thor
oughly trustworthy. These qualities
Mr.. Davenport did not possess. Since
joining club of young men. two years
after coming to the city, he had gradu-
ally become broad-nsinded, as he termed
it. He became member of one of the
musical societies, which always re-
hearsed their music Sabbath evenings,
and often vavo cOncprta nm that ho1v dav