The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1882-12-22
asked him what was the matter.

He answered:
81 was thinking, did Tom tell
the truth when he sand | was sober
aud thrifty y
Aud thereupon t6ey all exclaim.
ed:
aOf course did Oh was ever
"A man soberer or more thrifty r
Because pursued the host, pa.
theticaIly, | shouldn't want IA trieni
to lie on my account"
"Ohol Sensible to the last Fill
up
But the host would drink no
more. He bale the others enjoy
themselves as much, aud AZ long as
they pleased, they must xcuse him.
Without him, however, the Sport
Jagged, aud whtn they found there
was to be no ocard.playing they soon
dispersed.
Aud after they were gone, the
young man sat down alone and
thought, aud the word " Sober and
thrifty y " Sober an | thrifty !arang
in his ears, and be repeated them
aloud.
And then he repeated:
"May be be ever as sensible as
be is at this momentw Aud then,
With "a shifting of his clenched hand
upon bis bosom. he exclaimed,
=. Tom did not lie will not let
him lie n
On the following day the youth
went to the bauk, and was closeted
tor half an hour with the manager.
On the morning of the next day
IA paragraph appeared in the papers
announcing:
1--WE are rather paiued to an
nounce that F. B, the young
man who was the inheritor of for
tune LITTLE more than two years ago,
has lost every penny. Misfortune
has befallcu him; false friends have
betrayed him; so that now his bill
for less than a hundred pounds has
gone to protest.
On the next day after this the
youu, man 1--WE will call him Fred)
went 10 Tom Amberly, TO whom he
had given hundreds and thousands,
aud asked him tor the luan OF u
hundl ID pounds.
"'Pou my honor, Fred, | wish |
had it; but, really"
The youth waited to hear 10 more.
| He tried bali dozen others, and
with the same result save that one
man, who had won two thousand
pounds Il om him at one sitting, of.
fered to give him five pounds; but
be wouldn't lend him
Then Fred went to his rooms and
sold of his fur,iture, and gave
them up; aud from tha, time was
lost to sight for several months.
| 1t W $ getting towards Christians
time that society paper came out
on certain morning with u para
graph which, to certain SET, was
startling:
"We are happy to state a sad
mistake was made u few months
since in the announcement OF tn,
entire loss of Mr.. r BIS for
tune. He had at that time beer
very unfortunate, aud, through
some strange mistake, u bill of his
went to protest; but he is all right
now. Tue manager of the bank
where his account il kept informs
us that he will honor the young
mans check for a hundred thousand
pounds with pleasure. All is well
that ends WE'LL"
Within four and.twenty hours ol
that time Fred was in receipt of a
dozeu gushing notes, from as man,
different individuals, Offering hin
any help in their power to give, and
begging him to remember the old
friendship.
Only one OF them did he answer
and that WAS the note from Ton
Amberly:
"Do you remember, Tom, that
you once offered a toast III my rooms
in honor of myself; and you called
IN, your Sober and thrifty host.
And | resolved IN my heart oi
hearts from that moment that you
had not liedw
Aud when the Christmas bells
were ringing Fred led the dear Cir
of bis old.time love to the altar
and took her baud in wedloek
promising that the night had pass
ed, aud that the morning had dawn
ed upon u new and better life.