Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-05-28
A STORY OF INaRATITupE.

Ile DullQlnS ltSelr Is on Cno Site OF the
old Washington Hotel This hotel, by
the way. was built on the ground once
occupied by the mansion of Nathaniel
Prime. the Jay Gould of fifty years ago.
1t may be added, psrenthetieally. this
same banker, Prime, once, when a poor
young man, went to Southern planter
on visit at the time to New York, and
asked for loan of $4,000.
What security can you giveY asked
the planter.
The word of an honest man. answer
ed Prime.
The planter eyed him for an instant
and then replied: You shall have it,
This sum gave Nathaniel Prime his
great start in life and he soon paid the
debt. Years rolled on and he became
the leading banker of the city. One day
the planter. who had befriended him at
the outset Of his career, came to him in
poverty snd asked him for the loan of
the same sum that he had lent Prime so
opportuneiy. The banker remembered
him well, but asked:
What security can you give?'
The word of an honest man. answer
ed the planter, echoing Primes own
words of years before
That won't do in Wall street. was the
bankers reply.
The planter seemed dazed by such an
answer and left without word. The
maa who was capable of such ingrati+
tude had become miser, a mOnOmani-
&C on the subject of money, and in his
old age becoming insane in the midst of
wealth over the thought he might by
some possibility die poor, committed SUI
icide by cutting his throat in his man
sion, that occupied the site, as already
stated, of the present Washington Build
ing.-New York Letter to the Sunday
Oregonian.
POE's KINDLINESs TO A YOUNG sAvANT.
Trudging along the road near Penn
sylvania village, his pockets filled with
snakes, toads and bugs, the ten or twelve
years old Aughey-whese instructive
love for these creatures found its earli-
est expression in gathering them up in
this way-was suddenly stopped by
young man. He had pale face, dark
hair, high forehead and deep-set, pierre
ing eyes. He had a serious, unhappy
air, but his voice was kindly as he bid
the young naturalist come to him.
Now, do you know what this is p ta-
king one of the harmless little snakes.
The boy only knew its common local
name; whereupon the young man told
him its correct scientific name, after
making his delighted pupil NOW Terri
torial Geologist of WyomingI repeat the
ponderous words, to be sure he under
stood them correctly. Then he went on
with each reptile and each bug he had in
his possession, until the child had mas
tered his fascinating object lesson, the
many -jointed names of each specimen
being firmly fixed in his mind by some
little history Of the habits of each, shows
ing how closely they had one and all
been studied by their teacher.
After the first meeting many others
followed, in which the patient, loving |
labors of the teacher were amply reward
ed by the glowing enthusiasm of the pu- |
pill. Finally, the boy was told that
whenever he was puzzled in his research
es to write letter, asking what he de-
sired to know, to be deposited in the
village postoffiee. He availed himself |
of the offer, and, in addition to the def
mite and precise information sought, the
teacher would criticise. with delicate
tact, the composition of the letter itself.
Ell. Trafton in The Christian Union.
ANDREW JACKsON's TENDERNESS.
people have little idea of the tender
ness of President Jackson's heart" con-
tinued Gen. Brinkeshoff. :Even on his
deathbed. when his body was racked
with the pains of fast-approaching dis
solution, his kindness of heart was
shown In nearly every act, one of his
daughaer's stories we'll illustrating this
Mrs. Jackson, jr., had some rare tropical
plants which she priced very highly and
tended with great deal of care. But a
few days before he died, when he knew
his end was near, Gen. Jackson called
his adopted so Andrew to his bedside,