Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-01-04
mother, when she died, sir --and thesboy
sobbed told me 50 go to New York. and !

how you would like TO go into the shops and
learn, before you are q man, how wa silver
steel, how we melt and mold silver and how
we make the knives and forks and spoons for
.sAna / said 70 sUncle Nahum, !, said MI.
| Throop, that you should acome teahitn if you.
/ chose. But I said Yon we're = New York boy
/ and perhaps you would like bettersto 60 back
with me tomorrow. IFcansnot take you into
the bank; we have nothing for boys to do there.
But can find some one who will teach you
what your. friend Milkrip never taught you,
and you seem already not to lie anu not to-
stea" zs,4ea s&sta $<Ss%5 ;sa'z@g 49, ri 7a
Then followed long talk with which the
reader need not be trou Sled. & But it was pretty
Gear all along where the boys affections were
saeh home as he had, poor child, was in the
great CITY whose streets he knew only too we'll
The two gentlemen nodded to each other. and
New York it shallsbe, my,bog; te New York
you shall 60" ,y~... ..~ .>.-.,.-~
7 ssYou are not mad with me:n said Dick,
turning eagerly to Uncle Nahum. s'You have
| been SO kind I will do just as yon say" F%1z
'.No, Dick; ! am not mad at all, I say just
| what lie says. 60 to Nav York and grow to be
a man thore; and when you are man, Dick,
Lock- ont Cor the little fellows who want .
| home. % 4Say " '4A''',3 8#f o. -
| ~ H. =. v.--rHE SHAH: <ss.- -
| And 80 Dick went to New York. All, me! if
he would only take time enough to-day only to
| tel:he storysafwhat felato bis lo.not 60 many
years afterwsrd. Gil Bias himself could not
| tell more varied tale! - {aas*a Mt egg
:. IT, smallest e {, hey il IT, 'agsest
Dick TO getssthats sense Of ths 'WE's without
which such a consern meyer really Vospers.
1t was not in QUO month, nor In Two, that Dick
| learued.to say, 'We tslegraphed to-day for
twenty cargoas Of Coffee" buv the store was in
COCA training, aud IN 'imo, Dick rned this
trick as we'll IS the bigger boys hal learned it.
! \ Everybody in theory meant &c be kind to
| him. as often once ~ month Mr.. Roche,
the junior partner, to whom Mr. Hulme had
| intrnsted him, remembered to ask him how he
was getting on, and it he had good boarding.
! house. After wear John Roche, a son, came
into the store.' Ho took to Dick, took fancy
to him. SAT- to the boarding -huuss, had Dick in
his own Sunday school class. wrote to Mr..
| Brace about an evening school. and in general
saw that the boy did not go to the dogs John
| Roche, under Providence, was the making Of
Dck, aid the boy grew up ready, thrifty,
kind hearted willing boy. a boy whom no one
could spare, who helpel along where he wa1,
/. who dil not make reply, and did not question
! why, but found out all the more because he
/ ola not question. -
A sad day it was for Dick when John Roche
| made his Iirst voyage to- the East
:'Dick," he said, II am going 10 see orr own
coffee people. am going 10 sea whore coffee
! grows, and how
ooh, Mr. Roche take me-"
Aud Mr.. Ba'estier really thought OF it. hoped
ecu conld come. But they seat for old portman
! here, and he said that the could not do without
! you. He said that since young Sweeney
/ rail- away he could not spare you snid it was
! hard on you that you should lose the voyage:
and that all ends by this: you are 10 have a
! hun rel u year added to your pay from the
first of last month, and at Christmas another
lift. But, Dick, you know that shall miss sou
sadly, and you must write to me. And what
shall:I bring you? I would say choroots, if
Bring yourself. Mr. John, and feather
from roc's tall
Dick, you shall have the largest roofs egg I
fad"
Aud 50 John Roche sailed, and Dick WAS left
behind. ALI the beser for himssHNow he was
nobody's pet He wa an important factor in
tie concern. Old Portman had been made I,
confess his Importance; that was q great thing
Mr. Baiestier had learned his name; thas in
it:9;f WAS 81 at thing. From that moment
! Dick was on his feet IN the store. 8
And from the begnn;ng no ono in the estab-
iis!lmeps bad more letters from John Roche, or
fuller, than Dick had NJ. ear 49, -
: And when john Roche returned, when Dick
mat him as&quarantine to come upthe.bay with
Enl in the snip, Was not each OF them proud Of
>, ''Dck,s said Mr. john aftsrathe. first greet-
ing, II believe have made your fortune" \
81 hope you have made Your own" said the
HGF. i
:.Dick, + Was back ia North gorneo, The
widest giun yonevtr saw. A rum old rajah,
i: with heayen knows. how many black meu in line
Of battle. male swell dinner party for mi, and
ITO restsr and all2 it was the right thing fontls
}ai( / ) carry presents OF com pliment One man
t1uk revolver. and oae took q set Of chessm sn
Poor mo, did not know what to take; bat
/ Forrcs1er said tbs rajah would like your new
pattern for mousetrap. Well, know it wpnid
plca'e YOU 10 have, The thing go 80 far, so,
though it was your present to me, took that u
PLEASE ue y cried Dick: II think So! But
sjIlco rnu went away I have had no heart for
ihat. You tod me to take out patent, but
la Va d.'ne notaiuy+"s#e2 "4Aa 4" a,s w
:" fime. for that now" replied John Roche.
~ ,wed the black king how tn SGT it with little
i scraps Of lump sugar: as you taught m..
7 Wei We al went TO bed searly thatsnight IN
the 5old j sachem's hacienda. And. Dick, I
swear TO you, the next morning that thing
q was fullf Df53 scockroachesss Whether, they
HOT know This t kaov-tha: lis cook,
! roaches'are4as big "a mice While taey were
ampaging round ill your trap, and nibbling at
ythe old Shah's sugar, some dozen Of them
sprapg she thing, and s. 80 cagght themselves
graudmothers all together 4Dick,s,he next
week shisqshah,,er ,rajah, or sultan, or what
|'evsrhe is, sent down to the ship, OH, do not
know how much cnnaman, toasay DO wanted q
-nn1
Fsent word that wa had none left, but that T.
| thousand should go out TO him as soon ais III
Il oreturned. And now it seems that you have
hot even . patent, Dick."s - Sos, v' r &
But az some renders may recollectif they
will try, a sufficient patent was soon obtained,
| What South American country scat, what
\ palace in Madagascar, what elegant haciendaln
the philippines, is now without 'sshe Shah's
4Christlnas box" T. E>4# 3 Z sfysags "a aAsssS
For this was thesname at last given to Dicks
! clever contrivance. They studied over several
One WAS s'tne Rajah's Repose," one was ''the
! Sultan's Solace, !" one was the name the Rajah
&call Il, 'the American aplragon. :" q Sf+S>f~ =
But Dick vent foadly tbackgy;to that last
Christmas, Of which the reader has heard. As
no said thai the experiment was first tried by
4 The isaiah of Persia, y and that =" Phe Shah's
Chtistmas-boxp itshonid'be
So s'The Shah's Christmas.bcx' it u.s.,
And so this little story approaches it's end
For it was the q :shsh Of Persia or Alice
! Hume who gave ,the shah. to, Dick, who, it so
nroYed 80 changed Dicks life that he became
the great inventor that be is, aud never d sue
cessful coffee merchant, as he seemed likely
to do - ....:
I At least people say it was the shah 9TH St.
| Truth; is, it was all in the boys blood. The
shah was the first successful itaeif a very
trivial matter. But, really, every jib,key and
eccentric or double reaching combination, which
4 has sprung from that quick creature's ready
Y brain, all the relief which his quick wits have
7 given to tired hands or weary feet,
'eyerr prompt answer which has coma from
n him when - fast ana eager world has asked
him for his help, has been born from theaame
p native passion toact sndB to oblige--promptly
! swiftly aud we.l-waIch earned for him his
lthrashing from Mickiiss, which carried to Alice
her doll at whatever risk, and which, at the
! right moment. made a nouse-tiap from q
| checker board ~ II r. 4 = &# SE$Sb
Il : a p1.aaf in ventnr fha shnv hacar,aa S,'e -
Il When he invsnts4a way to make time, and 40