The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-11-10

saturday morning tho father puts on the hast H
To- Gnd o Ut us wardrobe and goes to the CITY
uOhS he has not been here for q ,or,
""WWne, say the gentleman of tie arm
wronm son, am sorry to say, IN on the
me Old father goes hunting him from placo
night IN a . comes suddenly upon him that
u,SSn0 IN place OF abandonment. The father
says; My son, come with me. Your roother
uaS semi me to bring you homo. hear Won
L. ouS OF money aud good clothes and Won
home" IS i HGgm as we 1--we you can have q
i an angry aa@o tone on ne sd TSanS % pepPis, shonlds ax,
BSU Uei bands off me! You mind your own
9ands Off OF me or l will strike YOU down
h9m go your way and l will 90 mine"
mat Saturday night or rather Sundo,
~ uhormlngLfo it is by this time two o'clock in
NJ bia osnang the father goes TO the city homs
VI nls son Nicholas, and rings the bell ana
arngs again and again, and it seems as if NJ.
ahswor would be givcn, but aftor a whilo .
"3n NOV IS hoistod and a voice cries,
who's there I"
II is mo" says tho old man.
why, father, is that you ~
"a a minute thodoor is oHonc1 md the AN
,",Elrot III tho word l.. =:
mes His hour Of the night ~
'oh, Edward has brought me here. 1 feared
your mother would go stark crazy not hear.
ing from him, and | find out that 1t is worse
WIN MIN than | suspected"
70" says Nicholas, IL had not the Leart
20 WHO you anything about it, l have tried
after two ornrG,' Gays Nicholas to his
father, anu | will take you to n boil"
~ u conn ortablc couch in that house the
oln rather lies down, coaxihg sleep For a few
yours, Out no sleep comes. Whose house is
10. One rentel by his son, Nicholas. The
tact Is ttat Nicholas soon after coming to
the city became Indispensable in tho com
mercial establishment where he was placed.
10 Knew what few persons know, that while
Ism aud art there is a surplus Of people Of
ordinary application and ordinary diligence,
therc Is n great scarcity and always has been
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 splcndidly we'll. An
preclating this, Nicholas had resolved to do
80 grandly that the business firm could not
20 wlthout him. Always at his place before
inc tlme ho vas required to come. Always
at his place a little after everybody had gone.
AS extremely rOlita to tn so who do lined
purchasing aS to those who made largo pur-
chaSes. He drank no vino, for he saw it
was tho empoisonment Of multitudeS, and
when any, one asked him to take something
ne SAID No. with the peculiar information
tn It meant no. HIS conversation was always
a pure rs if his sister had been listening.
tic went to no plar o of amusement where no
would be ASHAMED to die. He mover bet or
gamblei oven at church fair. When he
was ut tho boarding house after ho got all
tho artistic development no could possibly
receive from tho chromoS on the wall he be-
gan to study that which would help him to
promotion; study pcnmauShip, study biog-
rnpNlcs of successful mon, or went forth to
places of Innocent amusement and to Young
Mems Christian Associations, and was not
ashamed to DO found ut n church prayer
meeting. lilo rosc from position to position
and from one salary to an }ther salary.
only five yeas in town aud vet he has
rented his own house or a suit of rooms, not
very large, but q homo largo enough in its
happiness to be n typo of heaven. In the
morning as the Ole father with handkerchief
In hand comes cry ng down stairs to the table,
there are four Per ions, one for each side; the
young man, and opposite to him tho best
blessing that n God of infinite goodness can
bestow, namely, a good witt, and on another
side the high chair filled with dimplcd and
rollicking gleo that maics the grandfather
opposite smile outside while To has q broxeu
heart within.
Well, as I said, it was Sabbath and Mich
olas and his father knowing that there is no
place so appropriate for Il troublcd soul as
'hc house If God fin their way to church.
Ii j. OH. =, a d"y, and what is tho old
mans surprise - src his son pass down tho
aisle with one Of the silver ChaliccS, showing
him TO lr n church oil ial. the fact was
Ih0J .Nl'nOIhN from the StlHI Ill flIN HE non
Orel God and God had honorcd him. When
tho first wavc OF city temptation struck him
he had felt the nycl Of Divine guidance and
Divine protection and in prayer hal sought
n rcgcneratcd heart, and had obtUinel that
mightieSt of all arlnor, that mightiCst I oil
protection, that mightleSt of all rciuforco.
ments, tho mlltipotcntand omnipotent grace
of God, and you might aS we'll throw thistle.
down AGAINST Gibraltar, expecting to destroy
it, rs with all the comOlncl temptations OF
@.,l. .,-l hall trss 10 AssAr tf,, ~ t.vn -N,,,A 80.
who can truthfully shy: Good is my refuge
and strength"
Come, let us measure Nicholas around tho
head. As many inches OF brain ms any other
intelligent man. Let us measure him
around tho heart. 1t is so largo it takes in
all the earth and all the heavens. Measure
him around tho purse. He has moro re.
sources than nine t'nths of any Of those who,
on that Monday, September 20, came in on
any of tho railroads from Nor'H, or South,
or East, or Wcst.
Bat that Sabbath afternoon, while in tho
back room, Nicholas aud his father are talk
ing over n new plan for tho reclamation Of
Edward, there is n ringing of the door bell,
and n man with q uniform of n policeman
stands there, and with some embarrassment
and some hating, aud in n roundabout way
says that in n fight In some low haunt of tho
city Edward has been hurt He says ID
Nicholas: al heard that he wts some rela'
ton of yours and thought you ought to know
It,"
"Hurt' Is nc badly hmt!'
Eyes, very badly hurt
"Is the wound mortali'
eyes; it is mortal. 70 tell yUn tho whola
truth, sir" says tho policeman. although
can hardly bear To tell you, he is dead.
"Deail' cries Nicholas. And by thist time
tho whole family are in tho hallway. Tho
father says: Just as | fearei. 1t will XIII
his mother when she hears of it. Oh, my SOL,
my son! Would to God / had died for thee.
Oh, my son, my SON.
Wash or tho wounds" says Nichola".
"and bring him right here to my house and
let there he all respect aud GontlcncSs shown
him. 1t is the last we can do for him
oh, what obsequies The next door neigh
bors hardly knew what was going on, but
Nicholas and the father and mother knew.
Out Of tho Christian and beautiful homo OF
the ono brother is carried the dissoiuta
brother. No word Of blame uttered. Nc
harsh thing said. On the bank of camelliai
il spelled out tho word "BRoTBER." Had
tho prodSAh boon true and pure and noble IL
Ii @ and honorable in death, he could moi
have been carried forth with more tender.
pess, or slept in a moro bea ItiSul gard II OF
A'edead. Amid the looscned + lrf the brothers
who loft tho country for city lifo five years
before now Dart forever. Tho last scene OF