The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-08

Why not hep To reconstruct his finances
he takes hand and whist Is in frenzy
Of delight aud takes another hand-and
looses all.
When he frst came to the city Edward
was disposed to keep Sunday in quietness,
reading little and going occasionally TO
hear sermon. Now Sunday is a day OF
carousal. He is SO full Of intoxicants by
eleven O'Clock in the day be stagRers into
one Of the licensed rum holes Of the city.
Some morning Edward, his breath
stenehful with rum, takes his place in the
store. de is not fit to be there. He 10
ilstless, or silly, OF impertinent, or in some
way incompetent, and a messenger
comes to him and says.
"The firm desires to see you in their
private Office"
The gentleman in the private once
says:
Edward, we win 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
I done anything7"
The reply iss "We 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? IL means OPP
portunity to get another and perhaps bst.
ter place, It means opportunity for mem
tai Improvement and preparation for
higher work.
"Out Of employment" What does that
mean to a dissipated young MANI 1t
means a lightnin express train on a down
grade on the Grand Trunk to perdition.
Al Borak was winged horse, on which
Mohammed pretended to have ridden by
night IRON 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 young man out of
employment through his designations is
seated on an AL Borak, riding as fast in
the opposite direction,
1t is now only Eve years since Edward
came TO town. He used to write HON
once week at the Ion gest. He has not
written home for three months. what
can be the matter?" say the old people
at home. One Saturday morning the
ather put on the best apparel of his ward
robe and goes to the city to find out.
"Oh, he has not been here for 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.
he father SAYS;
Ny 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 RICH away, %
he says, putting his hand on the young
mans shoulder. Ia an angry tone Ed
ward replies}
Take your hands off me! You mind
your own business! I will do as 1 please +!
Take your hands off me or / will strike
you down. You go your way and viii
go mine!"
That Saturday night, or rather Sunday
morning-fcr 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 and again, and it
seems as if no answer would be given
Tut, after awhile, a window is hoisted and
a voice cries:
"Who's there?"
at is me-" says the old man.
'Why, father, is that your"
In a minute the door Is opened and the
son sayss "What in the world brought
you to the city at this hour Of the nfght?D
''Ohl Edward has brought me here. 1
feared your mother would go stark crazy
not hearing from him, and 1 find out that
it is worse with him than I expected"
YES" said Nicholas, 81 had not the
heart to write you any thing about it. I
have tried my best with him and all in
vain. But it is after two O'clock" saws
Nicholas to his father, "and 1 will take
YOU to a bed"
On a comfortable couch I'm that house the
old father lies down coaxing sleep for a
few hours, but no sleep comes. Whose
house is it? That [ his son Nicholas. The
fact is that Nicholas, soon after coming
to the city, became indispensable to
the commercial establishment where
he was placed, He knew what few
persons know, that in all depart
ments of business, and mechanism and
art there IS a surplus of people of ordinary
application and ordinary diligence; there
is q great scarcity, and always has been
a great scarcity, of people who excel.
Plenty of people to do things poorly or
tolerably well, but very few clerks, or
business men or mechanics who can do
olas had resolved to do so grandly that
the business firm could not do without
him. Always at his place a little after
every body had gone. AS extremely po-
lite TO those who decline purchasing as to
those who made large purchases. He
drank no wine, for he saw it was the en-
poisonment of multitudes, and when any
one asked him to take something, he said
"No' with the peculiar intonation that
meant no. His conversation was always
as pure as il his sisters had been listening.
He went to no place of amusement where
he would be ashamed to die. He never
bet or gambled, even at church fair I
When he was at the boarding house, after
he had got all the artistic development he
could possibly receive from the chrome
on the wall, he began to study that which
would help him to promotion-study PEN
manship, study biographies of successful
men; or went forth to places of innocent
amusement, and to Young Mems Chris
tian Associations, and was not ashamed
to be found at church prayer-meeting.
He rose from position TO position, and
from one salary TO another salary.
Only FIVE years in town and yet he has
rented his own house or a suite Of rooms,
not very large, but a home large enough
in its happiness to be a type of Heaven. In
the morning, as the old father, with hand
kerchief in hand, comes crying down
stairs to the table there are four persons,
one foi each side; the young man, and OPP
posite to him the best blessing that a God
of infinite goodness can bestow, namely, a
good wife, and on another side, the high
chair filed with dimpled and rollicking
glee, that makes the grandfather opposite
smile outside while he has a broken heart
within.
Well, as 1 said, it was Sabbath, and
Nj holas and his father. knowing that
there is no place so appropriate for a trou-
bled soul as the house Of God, find their
way to church. 1t is communion d y, and
what Is The old MANS snrrrisn 70 zee hla