Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1878-02-27


sum of S25, 900, and to pay to said
: Haynes on his thirty-fifth birthday
) the remainder of my property, be
it more or less.
, / went down to the store just as
usual the next morning, for | wish
ed to show people that | had too
J good sense to have my head turned.
: When / filed our best customers
molasses jug with kerosene, / knew
l had demonstrated my GOODNESS.
} The Chairman of the Board of
Selectmen wanted to know what |
should advise in regard to rebuilding
the Piper stone bridge ; the doctor
asked what my candid opinion was
concerning the comparative merits
of muriate of ammonia and iodide
of potassium in case of pleurits
where egophony denotes slight eff
fusion, but with strong indications
of adhesion of the mediastinum !;
and the minister said there was an
article on "Semi-Pelagianism in
the Fourteenth Century" in the
Bibliotheca Sacra, he thought |
would enjoy perusing. AS l stood
on the hall doorstep after singing
school that evening, Evelina came
out back of me, and said she, with
a little SILVER: "Oh, how da-ark
it is"
1t flashed across me, as / offered
my arm for escort home, that to
the feminine imagination matri-
mony on the income of seventy
five thousand is naturally a less
solemn ordinance than on a pre-
carious salary of IS week, and
nothing but peppermint drops.
Presently Evelina remarked:
"Aren't yon very lonely since your
aunt died 9'-tender emphasis on
the lonely. My aunt had been
dead year, and Evelina engaged
at least once in the meantime.
"Not at all my time and atten-
ton are likely to be entirely alb
sorbed in business"
"No one can rejoice more sim
cerely in your good fortune than /
do, Samuel"
81 don't doubt it, Evelina; /
shall always feel confident of your
friendship"
leave Evelina at her cottage |
gate, and feel that,
OF all the glad words of tongue or pen,
The gladdest are these-"It wasn't to have been" |
The next afternoon my employ
er invited me to he seated behind |
the railing that fenced in our office,
and said he, laying his hand on my
shoulder with confidential, pa
rental, sacriicial air:
Samuel, have been rejecting
upon my duty to you. You are q
young man just starting in life, and
starting in some respects under
favorable circumstances, but every
thing depends upon your starting
right. You have always been faith
ful to my interests, and | have de-
termined to show my appreciation
of that faithfulness. l have in
tended to sell out to you"
A glance at the door showed me
that the way of escape was not
cut off.
"With all the varied interests of
the business you are already ia
miliar; we are yearly drawing in
more of the trade from surround
ing towns; we have the confidence
OF our customers; we have the
confidence of wholesale dealers
we can buy to the best advantage
To all these privileges you will
succeed. Rarely is there such an
opening for young man. Con-
suit our books, consider our profits,
reflect upon the income of the
postoffice-"
"Sir," interrupted 1, in thunder
Gus tones "by the blessing of
Providence and benevolence of my
aunt, who is to have a monument
that will bring the glow to the
bosom of the president of our
Cemetery Association, / am now
the recipient of a modest com
petence, and shall / squander more
years of precious life on vulgar,
soul-wearing dry-goods and gro
ceries, subject ever to the fuctua-
ton of Amoskeags and Pepperells,
or shall | live on my income and
avail myself of the humanizing in
fuence of leisure and culture B.
Conscience and the voice of reason
within my soul cry: Live on
your income, Never more will