Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-03-12
PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH II, 1890

industrious. | will give you light and
steady employment in my factory,
wh-re you can earn wages such as i
have to give to other men. 1t is not a
charity that 1 am Offering you, because
il you are not employed in my shop,
some other man must be there IN your
place. And l am sure, as you need
work, and much more need home, /
would dishonor the memoIy of my poor
mother If did not offer these to you.
This sort of talk was plain and sensi-
BILE. and it struck the returned mer-
chant with considerable force; but 1t
was not part of his plan to do any
such thing as had been proposed. Be-
sides. Robe THAI was the manufac-
| turer's first name-might be ashamed
to have him working in the streets, and
he might have made the offer with any
other than the right motive.
he could hardly think, however,
from his nephew's candid manner, that
there was any deceit IN his heart. But
he declined to go with him, and the
manufacturer went away comforted
only with the assurance that the old
| man would send for him in case lie got
/ sick.
As regards his other two relatives.
! the bachelor uncle got no positive rec
/ ognition from them, except SO far as
happened one evening when by chance
| he went into the store owned in part
| by the dry go 1ds nephew. No one else
| happening to be in, this person ques-
| toned him a little concerning his Yoy-
age, and seemed in a half-heaTted sort
of way TO acknowledge a relationship,
! but that was all. AS for the profess
sional man, he carried his head higher
| than peacock, and never 50 much as
noticed Cole In any way whatever, al
| though he repeatedly passed him upon
the street.
The manufacturer, however, contin-
ued friendly, and as he could not pre-
vail upon his uncle to go to his house,
he often spent hours at time standing
| by the roadside talk ng with him of
| things past and gone. And when Cole
would wind up his discourse, as he
| generally did, with an expression of
| joy, because he had been able to get
| back to his native land with his life,
not limiting that he brought anything
else, Robert would add that it was a
comfort, still it was hard to lose his
| ship and all he had; but many a man
mad faIed worse than that.
BY Fall Cole had pretty well made
! up his mind as to who would at some
| future day have the pocketing of the
money to be derived from his estate.
| But he desired now to find out which
one of the boys had the best head for
business. He knew the knack of accu-
mulatiDg generally went with Sensi-
ble man, and that with sensible man
was always found a warm and cheerful
heart. Still, If he could see with his
own eyes, he would then be assured of
| he of
To this end he went home, and after
staying for some days about his cabin,
SO that he would be missed from tue
streets of the town, he dispatched a let
ter, by means of a neighbours boy, who
was directed to drop it into the post
office for the professional nephew, stat
ing that he desired him TO come to his
| house.
The lawyer, for he was one, suppos-
| ing that the old man wanted a home,
or some kind of help for the winter
for he knew nothing of his brothers
offer-paid no attention 10 the mlssive,
but settled himself into his easy-chair,
and was only aroused from his dreams
as TO who should be sent as Minister Il
Japan when he got to be President OF
the United States, by another letter
which came day or two alter.
By this time the man who had learned
everything in college, began to scratch
his head, and think that the moon
might be inhabited after all, so next
morning he took a blank. on which to
write will if need be, z into his car
riage, and wen to whe. he supposed
the returned merchant lived. Think
ing he knew where the cabin stood, he
made little or no inquiry, and therefore
went a great deal out of his way. After
much time spent in winding about the
country, he discovered the house at the
mos distant corner of a large field
Seeing no way of getting his vehicle
through the fence, he tied his horse
and prepared to make the rest of his
journey on foot.
A Thunderstorm had been gathering
and he was be- rely inside the inclo ure
when the rain came down in torrr III $
wetting him to the skin. He still had
more than an eighth CT a mile 10 g
before he would reach the rude cabin,
and to cap the climax, the field had moi
been cultivated for some years, and was
consequently breast-high with all sort:
of weeds and briars, such as stain and
tear ones clothes, and prick the skin.
He had only got fairly into thl!
thicket when the rain, with utter dlsre-
gard for broadcloth, seemed to pOuI
down harder than ever. And as the
man of finished education bobbed along
over the uneven space, he began Il
think that a personal insult was coming
upon him from some quarter, the like
of which he had never dreamed would
be his experience. However, he tho ght
of his blank, and pressed on as well "a
lie could.
When Cole, who had been watching
; all the morning from his one smal
window, saw his nephew nearing the
house he was much amused at the be
draggled appearance or the young law
yer. He controlled himself, however
aud by the time his visitor touched the
threshold and gave two or three sharI
wraps on the deal plank which cOnsti
tuted the door, he was able to answer
in a low, wheeZy voice:
Come in, nephew
The next instant the door opened
and the lawyer, in his haste to get out
of the rain, failed to due his head low
enough to get safely through the apera
ture, and he received a rousing bumI
on the head. and his hat, which con
tanned the blank will, dropped to til,
floor.
BY the time he had picked up th'
paper and hat the returned merchant
had delivered himself of dry, huskl
, cough, had placed a skeleton chair il
, front of the hearth, and wheezed out
BE seated, nephew'
This skeleton chair needs little de
scription here, for upon it hinges th'
| experiment that Cole was trying. Hi
, object was to find out, If possible, by al
ingenious way, how much business tao
was respectively possessed by his neph
, ews. The chair had been an ordinar,