Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-04-08
TWO KINDS OF PRIDE.
BY sYLvANUs COBB, JR.
A LIFE SKETCH.

BY 6ILNANUS CObt9,
| Stephen Glover was successful mer-
chant. He had started in life not exactly
poor, but from small beginnings, and de-
pendent upon his own strength and exer-
tions. By strict attention to business, and
by care and fore-thought, he had succeeded
in winning great wealth, while, by his ster-
ling integrity and his truly Christian man
hood, he had gained the esteem and the con-
fidence of all who knew him.
Lewis Wightman had been for many years
Mr.. Glover's head book-keeper and conf
Dental clerk; and being we'll versed in sew
eral foreign languages, his services as cor
respondent were Invaluable. The time
came when Lewis Wightman lay upon his
death bed His wife had passed on to the
world of spirits before him, and when he
knew he was soon to follow, he sent for his
employer.
''Mr. Glover" he said, 81 have served
you according TO my ability ! have tried
to be faithful. have made your interests
my own. All I have on earth to love l
must soon leave behind me. My sonny
only child-will be left
"Borrow no trouble about your son. in
telrupted the merchant. 81 will make him
my especial charge"
1t was what the dying man would have
asked; and with heppy light upon his wan
face, he expressed his gratitude.
"Alonz' is good child" " he said; and /
know he will fully appreciate your kind
ness. He is like his mother-trqe and
faithful
And thus it came that Alonzo Wightman,
at the age of ten years, fell to the charge of
Mr.. Glover.
Exactly what to do with the waif was not
an easy matter for Stephen Glover to dis.
pose of. He had, at first, thought that he
should take Alonzo into his immediate fami
ly. He had no son-only daughter. two
years younger than the boy; and should no
more children be born to him, the bright
faced, happy-hearted boy wonld be COM
panion for his lit le Isabel. But Mrs. Clio
yer overruled this plan. She did not think
It quite the thing to bring the orphan son
of the Id book-keeper into the bosom of her
family; yet her heart was in the right place,
and she was resolved that the poor boy
should always find true friend in herself
Mr.. Glover's estate was large, and his
gardens and lighthouses were presided over
by Peter Frost, who had been in his employ
a number of years, and who occupied neat
cottage on the demesne, separated from the
mansion by only greenhouse and grap-
cry. Peter and his wife were kind hearted,
true people, without children, and they fair
ly leaped with joy at the offer of their mas
ter that they give Alonzo Wightman home
beneath their roof.
'I only PROPOSE" said the merchant.
'that you shall be my almoners. All the
expense shall be mine.'
And so Alonzo came to be the garden
err" and as soon as the wound of his be-
reavement was healed, he became happy
and contented and grateful grateful to Mr..
Glover, who, he knew, was his willing
guardian and protector, and grateful to
Peter Frost and his dame, who were so kind
to him, and beneath whose roof he found
shelter. But the boy was not the only hap
py one. With his bright face and bound
ing heart had come glow of living SUM-
shine into the gardeners cottage.
"Ah, Mr.. Glover" said the gardeners
wife one day, when Alonzo had been with
them six months, "you sent bit of heaven
itself into our home when you gave US
charge of that boy"
the merchant told his wife of this, and
she was glad. She was glad because she
had foreseen that her little caughter must
be more or less playmate with the lad
| The springtime was at hand, and as the
bright garden was Isabel's favorite haunt
when the flowers were blooming, and as the
gardener was her outdoor faototum, the
fact of companionship was inevitable.
And the companionship came-came as q
blessing to the boy and blessing to the
girl. Alonzo was gentle and kind and low
ing, and so, too, was he firm in the way of
right. His influence over the impulsive, ef-
fervescing girl was salutary.
The old book-keeper had been man Of
rare scholastic attainments, ard had taken
great pains In the rudimentary education OF
his son, and as the boy had inherited from
his mother most excellent qualities of head
and heart, he took to his fathers teaching
with surprising aptitude.
| Before the SHOWS of another winter had
come an improvement was perceptible in