Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-27

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Amazin rracc--how sweet the sound
That saved wretch like me
once. was lost, but now am foundi
Wns blind. but now see.
After expoundiug passage OF the
scriptures, the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage,
d. D., took for his text, Proverbs ", rs;
'Poudor the path Of thy feet" and
preached the following sermon on the
subject; "Two young men who came to
live in the CITY,"
II was Monday, September 20, at q
country depot. Two young men are to
take the cars for the city. Father brought
them in wagon with two trunks. Tine
evening before at the old home was rather
a sad time. The neighbours had gathered
IN TO say goodbye. Indeed, all the Sun
day afternoon there had been a strolling
that way from adjoining farms, for It was
generally known that
THE TWO BOYS
the next morning were going to the city
TO live, and the whole neighborhood was
interested, some hoping they would do
well and others without saying anything,
hoping for them city failure. Sitting
on the fence talking over the matter the
neighDors would interlard their CONVEX
sation about the wheat crop last summer
and the apple crop yet to be gathered,
with remarks about the city prospects of
Edward and Nicholas, for those were the
names Of the two young men-Edward
seventeen and Nicholas nineteen; but
Edward, although two years younger, be-
ing little quicker to learn, knew as
much as Nicholas. They were both
brown-faced and hearty, and had gone
through all the curriculum OF hearty
sports by which muscle Is developed and
the chest filled out.
Father and mother on Monday morning
had both resolved to go TO the depot
with the boys, but the mother at the last
moment backed cut, and she said that
somehow she felt quite weak that morn
ing, and had no appetite for day or two,
and so concluded TO say goodbye at the
front door Of the old place. Where she
went and what she did after the wagon
left, leave other mothers TO guess.
The breakfast things stood almost TIL
noon before they were cleared away.
But little was said on the way to the rail
road station AS the locomotive whistle
was heard coming around the curve, the
father put out his hand-somewhat knot
ted at the knuckles and one Of the Joints
stiffened years ago by wound from q
scythe--and said; "Good-bye, Edward;
goodbye, Methodist Take good care OF
yourselves, and write as soon as you get
there, and let us know how they treat
you. Your mother will be anxious to
hear.n
Landed in the city, they sought out
with considerable
INQUIRY or POLICEMEN
on street corners and questioning OF car
drivers, the two commercial establish
ments TO which they were destined, so
far apart that thereafter they seldom saw
each other, for II is astonishing how far
apart two persons can be in largeIclty,
especially IL their habits are different,
Practically hundred miles from Bowling
Green TO Canal street, or from Atlantic
avenue TO Fulton.
Edward, being the youngest we mustlook
after him first. He never was in so large
a store in all his life, Such lnterminabie
shelves, such skllliul limitations OF real
men and women TO display goods on,
such agility OF cash boys, such immense
stock OF goods, and whole community
OF employees His head Is confused as he
seems dropped like pebble In the great
ocean OF business life. "Have you seen
that greenhorn from the country2u whis-
pers young man to young man. Gle is
IN such ana such department. We will
nave 10 break him in some night.u Ed
ward stands at his new place all day. 40
homesick that any moment he could have
cried aloud II HIS pride had not ann.
pressed everything. Here and there A
tear he carelessly dashes off as though II
were from influenza or cold ln the
head. But some of you know how
young man feels when set down In CITY
OF strangers, thereafter to fight his own
battles, and no one near by seeming to
care whether he lives or dies. The cen
Ter OF desert, months Journey to the
hrst settlement, is not much more soil
tary
But that evening as the hour for closing
has come there are two or three young
men who side up TO Edward and ask him
how he likes the city, and where he ex-
poets to 60 that night, and II he would
like them TO show him the sights. He
thanks them and says he shall have 10
take some evenings for unpacking and
making arrangements, as he has lust ar
rived, but says that after while he will
DC glad TO accept their company After
spending two or three evenings In
MS BoARDING-HoUsE
room, walking up and down, looking at
the bare wall or an old chrome hung
there at the time that religious news, |
papers by such prizes advanced their sub |
scriptlon lists, and after an hour towing
with the match boz, and everand anon ex,
amining his watch to see II II is time to
retire, and II seems that 10 O'Clock at
night, or ever O'Clock, will never come,
ne resolves to accept the chaperoninR OF
his new friends at the store.
The following night they are all out to-
gether. Although his salary isnot large,
he h quite flush with pocket money
which the old folks gave him after saving
by for some time. lie cannot be mean
and these friends are doing ali this for his
pleasure, and so he pays the bills AT the
door OF places Of enchantment his COM
panions cannot ind the. change, and they i
accidentally tall behind just as iht ticket
ofilce Is approach,d d, or they say they viii
make II ell ri ht, and viii themselves
pay the next time. Edward. accustomed ,
% farm life or village life, IL dazed and ,