The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-07-03

sadvise him; and when refused to advise
Ihim, he said he would give me $5 if |
Iwould kick him half way down the hill.
EAnd when I refused to kick him ,he cried
I out, "Here have been lying to that girl {;
!. lying and lying, loafing and lying right
!. along all the time, and she hard at work
with her honest little hands trying to help
her broken down brother. Yes, [ lied to
the other girls, too; lied to them all.
But then they lied to me. They loafed
and lied and lied and loafed in return.
And so all that was even. But here this
only honest and Industrious one in the
lot has given me truth for falsehood.
And now Pm going to marry her if pos
sibly can get her."
Well, he married her, after hard work
and very hard training in telling the
truth; and now the orange ranch-500
acres instead of tive-is run by three of
them. No, there are four of them for
got the baby.
And now. my little fair maiden, let me
tell you this-there are more good men
looking for truth than for money.
In fact, no really good and courageous
man is looking for money in the matter
of marriage. What an honest man wants
is an honest woman. That is what he
wants and that is all he wants. Let an
honest man meet an honest woman, and,
all other things being equally propitious,
my word for it, he will marry her. And
hand in hand these two honest souls will
go on gladly together down to the doors
of death. Truth is fortune enough for
any two.
And now, one word to you, my brief
less young lawyer-you who turned your
back in the battle of life, you who left
the good old farm where God first set
you down in the fight, you who fled from
your old schoolmates and took refuge in
the town to live by your wits; we'll, sir,
you want to marry that rich old mans
girl, do you? [ will tell you how to do it
and | take out my fee in the satisfaction
of having done bad man good turn.
Go to work. No, don't join baseball
club nor straddle pair of steel wheels.
Go to work.
How many handsome and learned
young clergymen there are treading this
same soft path in cat-and-mouse scheme
to catch another mans money, L, as an
American, would be almost ashamed to
publish. But these are less bad, less de-
liberately burglarious than the young
lawyers by great deal, for they teach
and preach peace, while the others only
stir up strife and perpetuate enmities.
But the road to triumph in the matter Of
marriage is the same. Go to the heart;
go with truth in clean hands.
When L was living in my cabin at
Washington, writing when | could and
helping to plant trees when could round
about the city, my little girl, then five
years old, came to spend month or so
with me from New York. And she, too,
wanted to plant tree. So she begged
five cents of me and went and bought a
leafless tree. You see, that was all |
could spare then, for had recently been
in Wall street, under the protection of
Jay Gould. And while | was busy at
work in the cabin, my little girl took her
leafiess little tree out behind the house,
and by long and hard work she dug a
hole in the dirt with her little dimpled
baby hands, and planted it there all by
herself. Then she came gleefully and
led me out to see. And 10! God bless
her! she had got it upside down.
But | didn't care cent for that. The
spirit was there; the effort was there;
the sense and obligation of toll in the
garden. And if L caught her up and
kissed her and cried, it was because |
couldn't help it.
Yes, my young friends, first comes toll.
Then the candor and the truth and the
truth and the candor that come of toll.
These things go to the heart. This is
the secret of marriage New York Sun
day Herald.