The Forrest City times., 1890-07-26
ROY BERRY;
THE FRUITS OF INTERFERENCE.
BY GEO. w. wooLsEY.
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and was paid the amount due him in full He then returned to his work to complete the week for which he had just been paid
 As he worked with his hands, his mind was occupied with plans for his futurs course He had no intention of remaining there and submitting to Mir. Hines un reasonable requirements.
 But for young man who loves home as he did, it is no easy matter to tear him self loose from it and go out into the great world among strangers But he wa resolute when once he had made up hi, mind to do a thing.
 He informed his mother and sister oi what he was going to do and begged thai they might not object.
 Mrs. Berry, although grieved to givt him up for only short time, had deter mined not to oppose his plans, but Ola wal more unrelenting as was shown in the opening conversation with her mother.
 Roy, we are indeed sorry to give you up for 80 long time" said Mrs Berry, as she wiped tear from her eyes and con tinued looking over his clothes she was packing away in his valise.
 Mother, you know how true l have al ways been to my temperance principles and ever since 1 commenced to work ip the distillery l have felt that it was wrong for me to aid in the manufacture of that which makes drunkards and maniacs of sober, industrious men, and bringf want and misery upon their dependent families. have long since resolved to quit and seek more honorable employment somewhere else But surrounded as we are here in this wilderness. with no means of earning dollar, what is poor boy to dol The distillery is the only place where can get employment here, and there are scores of our neighbors depending upon labor from the same source for their sup port. l had planned to resign within the next year, and have already been corre- pponding with a gentleman in C. who will give me employment in his large wholesale dry goods store. am promised very good salary at first and shall be ad- vanced if am competent to do the work, md know l shall try very hard to be. This arrangement l kept to myself be- cause I did not want you to worry about t, and thought it best that you should not know it until had fully resolved to 70. Mir. Hines can find no fault with me, more than that am poor. But l would thousand times rather be poor as l am than to have accumulated riches In a traffic of human beings and the manufac- lure and sale of that which pauperizes and enslaves the many innocent to enrich he few who engage in it. Mir Hines is becoming more tyrannical and exacting, and has recently made demands upon me which will not comply with, and he may IS we'll know 1t now as at any time. Het- tie has proven herself to be my very best friend, and for her will consider no sac riiice too great
 You now understand why have taken Ihis nasty step, and I hope you will not sblUt to my plans. When have attained 70 that position in life which now so sarnestly desire, I will return to you and my old home. as leave--honest and hon. bred. but not poor man.
 "Roy, fear you are too enthusiastic, and should you not prosper as you so greatly desire. that you will become dis souraged. know you are ambitious, and he Lord whom you serve has promised aever to leave or forsake those who put sheir trust in Him, but sometimes we may look for more than 1t is His will to give, and we are too apt to become discouraged four plans are not in accordance with His divine will Should you meet with Qo opt httNtilc but remember that perseverance is the sniy way to success"
 Mother, am young In years but old in experience. l appreciate your counsel lbove all others and shall endeavor to smulate your example as nearly AS possi- 7 ole, and then know that shall succeed"
 Then go, my noble boy, and mothers blessing go with you. Do not worry I.ttt l. ts- and am sure she will ever be true to You."
 Mother. do not misjudge me. Itis not Tor Hettie alone that l am concerned l tnow that she is honest and will never ,orsake me though should never be any thing else than poor lsborer She will have everything that wealth can bestow toward happiness. But it is for you, dear mother, that now feel the deepest con ,ern. I fear yon will be lonely, and worry about me. beg you to trust me wholly, and when I have been gone but few weeks you will hear of my promotion, for ,omething which know Is no vain fancy sells me that am to succeed, and know that shall.
 Roy, you will succeed in nearly every hing. but you must not fancy too much n so short time. You may find a rough .oad 10 travel and meet with temptations ,hat will be hard to bear. and it will re- luire all the courage you possess to with ,tand them all and prosper. But would aot discourage you. You are young and .he future to you is now all sunshine, but IS you go along your pathway will ooea- honally be strewn with thorns where you nay look for flowers to grow Yoa will pften feel like giving up the struggle, for those who God loves He chasteneth. , When these come remember that every lark cloud has silver lining. and every ,tormy night n brightening morning. and fyou fail to prosper so rapidly as your ambition would have you. do not give sver the struggle. The promiseis is to those who continue faithful unto the end and save run with patience the race set before hem Spend your idle hours in reading he Bible aud other good and useful books y
 On Monday morning Roy went to tho fistillery as usual, but not to work He first called at the office aud informed Mir Hines that he was going away and that As might i'll his place with some one else.
 MT. Hines was heartily sorry. but was too obstinate 10 let 1t he known how deep iy he fclt the loss of so faithful and trusty Alaborer.
 He remembered the conversation he had with him a few days before, and attributed that as tho cause of his hasty departure. He now was fully convinced that he was wrong. but too self-willed to relent. and Roy left without further conversation.
 Roy called upon all his many friends in the distillery and bade them long fare well. and went out never to enter that building Again or to look upon the faces of some of his fellow laborers with whom he had spent many happy days
 He now came to the hardest trial of all; that of making known to Hcttie his plans Tor the future and the long separation they must endure
 To call upon her at her home was the only alternative. and hither he bent his steps, with bowed head and aching heart.
 Hettie was frightened to zee the sad OK pression on his usually cheerful face, and her first thought was that some serious