The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-11-18
CHAIRITY'S REWARD.
A True Incident With q Moral
Ending.

Gratitude is an almost forgotten quality
in the problem Of life 10 most people, but
now and then some rare, sweet deed of this
kind comes to the surface, and like dew
upon the parched face OF nature, il leaves q
solaee snd blessing behind it, which goes
fathoms deep into the heart almost harden
ed to anything but the worlds eager call.
Such an instance recently came to the
notice of q representative of the BAzoO
while on railway journey to distant
state, and which was vouched for by the
narrator as being an absolute fact.
Years ago, when TO the youthful mind OF
the east, the land of the setting sun"
seemed The goal of brave ambition, there
journeyed from Western New York to
Central Iowa young man, poor in every
thiag but integrity and rudy manhood,
who resolved 70 carve for himself, "name,
wealth and fame"
Iowa was comparatively new and he who
succeeded, did so by toilsome route.
Thus it was with the young emigrant
from New York, but nothing dsunted he
pressed on and at last began'to count his
gains by the thousand.
He married and as time rolled on two
children came to bless his home and gives
him the promise of hale and happy old
age with his loved ones about him. Sud-
denly however, to him the world wa
shrouded in darkness for the wife of his
love died, and If this were not enough, bis
two children soon followed their mother,
leaving him to sit in the "ashes o. his hap
piness" i'm despair and lonliness. Then it
was, he remembered his childhood home,
with a yearning tenderness for those within
1T and he resolved 10 take up the broken
threads which time and circumstances had
wrought and win for himself comfort for
the remaining years of his life in their
love. Like many another, however, he de-
sired to be loved, not,,for his possessions,
which were vast, but for himself, and he
accordingly wrote TO two Of his BROTH
ers, also niece. of his beresve-
ment and added that misfortune had dealt
him another blow in the shape of loss Of
wealth AMI now in his old age he was
obliged to crave at least q small amount
from them to assist him In purchasing
necessary food and rsiment.
One Of his brothers answered by saying
that the times were hard and he could do
nothing for him :" the other had misfor-
tunes of his own TO contend with and moth
ing to spare"
The niece, however, was made of better
material and she wrote to the lonely and
impoverished old man, IS she supposed, that
she was teaching school far livelihood
and at present could only spare him $40,
which, together with her love she enclosed,
and hoped it might, though small, be Of
some benefit. She also wrole that "in the
spring when she bad received her wages
she would send him more"
The feelings OF her uncle can be better
imagined than described. On the enc
hand was mesnness and parsimony, on the
the 9th was charity and love, and it is
not to be wondered at that shortly after,
when his death occurred, his will left ev-
cry dollar of his possessions to the School
teacher who, when she received her wages
in the spring would send him more"
Thus it will be seen that gratitude is not
lost art, and in this incident is q moral,
if the reader cares to Spd il out.