Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-27

guidance. If a man wants 20 go the
whoe round OF sin. he can find plenty TO
take blni. a whole regiment who know the
way. But after while Edwards money
j. all gone. He has received his salary
aguin and again, but it was spent before
he got il. borrowing a little here and a
little there. What shall he do now?
/ Why, he has seen in his rounds OF The
gambling tables men VI no put down dol
! lar and took up ten, put down hundred
and took up thousand. Why not her To
reconstruct his finances he takes hand
and wins; is SO pleased he takes another
hand and wins; is in a frenzy OF delight
and takes another hand-and loses all.
When he first came TO the city Edward
was disposed 20 keep Sunday in quetnehs,
reading a littl and going occasionally to
hear a sermon. Now, sunday is day OF
cRrousal. He is so full Of intOXicants by
! II O'Clock in the day he stag"ers into one
! Of the licensed rum holes Of the city.
Some morning Edward, his breath
stenchful with rum, takes his place in the
store. He is not fit to be there.
! He is lstless, or silly, or imperti-
nent, or in some way incompetent, ana
messenger comes to him and says: Tine
hrm desire TO see you in their private
! office"
The gentleman in the private office SAYS;
"Edw ard, we will not need you any more
We owe you little money for services
! since we paid you last. and here IL 49,"
What is the matter?' says the young
man. II cannot understand this. Have
done anythlngP'
| The reply is 1--WE do not wish any
words with you. Our engagement with
each other is ended"
''Out of employ What does that
mean to a good young many 1t means
opportunity TO get another and perhaps
better place. It.means OPP lortunity Tor
mental Improvement and preparation for
higher work. "Out of emplOymentW
What does that mean to dissipated
young man? 1t means lightning express
train on down grade on the Grand Trunk
TO Perdhion. AL Borak was winged
nOrse on which MahOmet pretended to
have ridden by night from Mecca TO Jeru-
salem and from Jerusalem to the seventh
heayen, with such speed that each step
was as far as the eye could reach. A young
man out OF employ through his dissi-
pations is seated on an AL Borak, riding
as last in the opposite direction.
1t is new only five years since Edward
came to town. He USED TO write home
once week at the longest. He has not
written home for three months. What
can be the matterP ?" say tie old people at
home. One Saturday morning the father
puts on the best apparel of bis wardrobe
and goes to the city to find out.
80, 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 saws: "My son, come with me;
your mother has sent me to bring you
home. 1 hear you are out of money and
good clothes, and you know as long as we
live you can have home. Come right
away" he SAYS, putting his hand on the
young mans shoulder.
In angry tone Edward replies: "Take
your hands off me! You mind your own
business! l will do as | please! Take
your hands of of me or | will strike you
down. You go your way and l will 90
minei"
That Saturday night, or rather Sunday
morning-fOr 1t is by this time 2 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
1t seems as II no answer would be given;
but after awhile a window IL hoisted and
voice cries: who's thtrer'
at is me-" says the old man.
"W by, father, is that you?"
In minute the door Is opened and the
son says: NV hat in the world has BROUGHT
you to the city at this hour of the CHI? %
4
feared your mother would go stark crazy
not hearing from him, and find out that
Vt ia worse with him than | Suspected
EYES," says Nicholas. 81 bad not the
heart 10 write you anything about IT,
have tried my best with him and all in
vain. But it is after 2 O'clock" says
Nicholas to his father, land l will take
you TO a bed.'
On a comfortable couch IN that house
the old father lies down coaXing sleep tor
few hours. but no sleep comes. Whose
house is it? That of bis son, Nicholas
The fact is, that Nicholas soon after COM
ing 10 the city became indispensable IN
the commercial establishment where he
was placed. He knew, what few persons
know, that while in all departments OF
business, and mechanism, and art, there
is a surplus OF people of ordinary appli-
cation and ordinary diligence, there is a
great scarcity, and always has been a
great scarcity, Of people who excel.
| Plenty OF people to do things poorly or
tOlerably we'll, but very few clerks
! or business men, or mechanics
who can do splendidly well. Appre-
ciating this, Nicholas has resolved 10 do
so grandly that the business firm could
not do without him. Always at his place
little after everybody had gone. AS
extremely polite 10 those VINO decline
| purchasing, as to those who made large
purchases. He drank no wine, for he
saw it was the imprisonment of multi
Iudes, and when any one asked him to
| take something, he said mo" with the
| peculiar int0nation that meant no. Els
conversation was always as pure as
II 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 q church fair.
Wnen he was at the boarding house, after
he mad 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 prOmotinn-sIudy pen
mansbip. study biographies OF successful
men-or went forth To places OF innocent
amusement and to Young Mems Christian
associations, and was not ashamed TO be
found at a 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 bis own house or suite OF rooms,
not very large, but n home large enough
in Its happiness to be a type of heaven.
In the morning as the old father, with
bandkerchiefin hand, comes crying down
stairs TO the table there are four persons,
! one tor each side-the young man, and on
posite TO him the best blessing that a God
| of infinite goodness eau bestow, namely.
a good wife; and on another side the hign
chair filed with dimpled and rollcking
| glee. that makes the grandfather opposite
IL 10. ~ Ia h.on