The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-07-29
TIE IRON WOLF.

J. conducted the services two months
ago" said Il clergyman, 'at the funeral
of one Of my parishioncrs. He had
been farmer. Forty years ago, as a
young man, he comm enced work fol
himself ami young wife with one hum
dred acres of land, and he ended with
one hundred. Ee was a skilled indus.
trious workman, hut he laid by no mo.
ney in the bank. l understood the
reason, as l listened TO The comments
OF his neighbors and friends
1T WAS always n warm, hospitable
house, said one The poor man was
never turned away from the door
His sons and daughters all received
the best education which his means
could command One is clergyman,
one a civil engineer, two are teachers;
all lead useful, happy and full lives.
Said another neighbor. Those chill
dren sitting there and weeping are the
orphans of friend. He gave them 8
home. That crippled girl is his wife S
niece. She lived with them for years.
That young fellow who is also weeping
so bitterly was walf that he rescued
from the slums of the city,
'And so the story went on, not of q
miser who had heaped dollar on dollar,
but servant of God, who had helped
many Ives, and had lifted many of
them out of misery and ignorance into
life and joy.
"On my way home from the funeral
l stopped at the farm of another par
ishioner, who said to me, in a shrill,
rasping tone:
$50 poor Gould is dead? He left
poor account Not a penny more than
he got from his father Now started
with nothing, and look therel pointing
to his broad fields. L own down to the
creek Dye know why2 When 1
started to keep house bought this in
the first thing taking an iron saving
bank in the shape of wolf out of the
closet. Every penny 1 could save
went into its i,ws.
Its surprising how many pennies
you can save when you've q purpose.
My purpose was to die worth hundred
thousand dollars. Other folks ate meat
we ate molasses Other meL dressed their
wives i'll merinos; mine wore calico
Other.men wasted money on schooling;
my boys and girls learned to work ear.
ly AMI keep upllate wasted no mo-
ney on churches, or sick people, or
paupers, or books, and (he concluded,
triumphantly) and now own to the
creek. and that land with the fields
yonder and the stock in my barns are
worth one hundred thousand dollars.
Do you see and on the thin, hard lips
was o wretched attempt to laugh.
"The house was bare and comfor tless
his wife, worn out by work, had long
\ 20 crept into the grave; of his cl ildren,
aught only to make money a god one
laughter, starved in hcaay and mind,
vas still drudging in his kitchen; one
ION had taken to drink, having no other
resource, and died in prison; the other,
| harder miser than his father, remain
ID at home to fight with him over every
penny wrung out Of their fertile fields.
Yesterday buried this man" cor
inueI the clergyman Neither neigh
,or nor friend, son nor daughter, sled
tear over him. His children we're
ager to begin the quarrel for the gr, md
ne had sacrificed his life to earn. OF it
III he only had now earth enough to
over his decaying body.
Economy for noble purpose" ladd-
d the good old clergyman, ''is q virtue;
ut in the houses of some of our farm
RS it is avarice, and like wolf, de-
ours intelligence, religion. hope and
fe itself. - Youths Companion.