The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-10-28

| says:
edward, we will not need you any
more. We owe you a little money for
services since we paid you last, and here
| it is"
| "What is the matter?" says the young
man. II can not understand this. Have
done anything?"
| The reply is: ave do not wish any
words with you. Our engagement with
each other is ended"
"Out of employment" What does that
mean to a good young man? 1t means OPP
portunity to get another and perhaps bet
ter place, 1t means opportunity for men,
tai improvement and preparation for
higher work.
''Out of employment" What does that
mean to dissipated young man? 1t
means lightniny express train on down
grade on the Grand Trunk to perdition.
AL Borak was winged horse, on which
Mohammed pretended to have ridden by
night from Mecca to Jerusalem and from
Jerusalem to the seventh heaven with
| such speed that each step was as far as
the eye could reach. A yonng man out of
employment through his designations is
seated on an AL Borak, riding as fast in
the opposite direction.
1t is now only five years since E lward
came to town. He used to write home
once a week at the lonsest. He has not
written home for three months. .'What
can he the matter?" say the old people
at home. One Saturday morning the
father put on the best apparel of his ward
robe and goes to the city to find out.
"Oh, he has not been here for a long
while," say the gentlemen of the firm.
"Your son, am sorry to say, is on the
wrong track"
The old father goes hunting him from
place to place, and comes suddenly upon
him that night In place of abandonment.
The father says:
"My son, come with me. Your mother
has sent me to bring you home.
hear you are out of money and good
clothes, and you know as long as we live
you can have a home. Come right away"
he says. putting his hanI on the young
mans shoulder. In an angry tone E l.
ward replies:
"Take your hands off me! You mind
your own business! will do as please
Take your hands off me or l will strike
you down! You go your way and will
go mine!"
That Saturday night, or rather Sunday
morning-for it is by this time two O'Clock
in the morning-the father goes to the city
home of his son Nicholas, and rings the
bell, and rings again AMI again, and il
seems as if no answer u,d be given;
lut, after awhile, window is hoisted and
| voice CT les:
"Who's there?"
sit is me-" says the old man.
"Why, father, is that you?"
In minute the door is opened and the
son says: "What in the world brou yht
you to the city at this hour of tae night:'
"Oh! Edward has brought me here.
feared your mother would go stark crazy
not hearing from him, and find out thai
it is worse with him than l expected"
eyes" said Nicholas, ~ had not the
heart to write you any thing about it.
, have tried my best with him and all il
vain. But it is after two O'clock" say:
, Nicholas to bis father, "and l will take
, you to bed"
On comfortable couch in that house ths
, old father lies down coaxing sleep for
few hours, but no sleep comes. Whose
house is it? That of his son Nicholas. The
fact is that Nicholas, soon after coming
, to the city, became indispensable t.
the commercial establishment wher,
| he was placed. He knew what few
persons know. that in all depart
D ments of business, and mechanism ant
: art there is surplus of people Of ordinary
/ application and ordinary diligence; there
e is great scarcity, and always has beer
a great scarcity, of people who excel
S Plenty of people to do things poorly o.
tolerably well, but very few clerks, Of
l business men or mechanics who can d,
splendidly well. Approaching this, Mich
olas had resolved to do so grandly tina
r the business firm could not do withou
l him. Always at his place little afte
s every body had gone. AS extremely pc
n lite to those who decline purchasing as t,
i those who made large purchases. HI
9 drank no wine, for he saw il was the EN-
Q poisonment Of multitudes, and when any
one asked him to take something, he sal,
!. mo" with the peculiar information tina
!, meant no. His conversation was Away
b as pure as if his sisters had been listenin
r He went to NO place of amusement wher
i he would be ashamed to die. He neve
S bet or gambled, even at church fair
e When he was at the BOARDING house, afte
: he had got all the artistic development h
y could possibly receive from the chrom
t en- the wall, he began to study that whicl
would help him to promotion-study pen
5 manship, study biographies of successful
| men; or went forth to places of innocen
| amusement, and to Young Mems Chris
r tian Associations, and was not ashame
to be found at a church pr ayer-meeting
n He rose from position to position, am
!; from one salary to another salary.
Only five years in town and yet he ha
rented his own house or q suite of rooms
: not very large, but home large enoug
q in its happiness to be type of Heaven. 1
the morning, as the old father, with hand
kerchief in hand, comes crying dow
a stairs to the table there are four persons
: one fol each side; the young man, and op
d posite to him the best blessing that Go
q of infinite goodness eau bestow, namely,
good wife, and on another side, the hiy
o chair filled with dimpled and rollickin
q glee, that makes the prandf her onpoSif