The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-10-04
TWO KINDS OF PRIDE.
By sLYyANUS COBB. JR-

h@A' E'A4II - lOfIL " do Il SilCItSSIu
merchant He had started in life no
exactly poor, but from small begin
nlngs, and dependent upon his owl
strength and exertlons BY strict at
tentlon to business, and by care an6
| fOrethOught. he succeeded in winning
great wealth, while, by his sterling in
tegrity and his truly Christian man
hood, he had gained the esteem and
confidence of all who knew him.
Lewis Wightman had been for many
years Mr.. Glover's head book keeper
and confidential clerk; and being well
versed in different languages, his ser
vices as correspondent We're invalu-
able. The time came when Lewis
Nightman lay upon his deathbed
His wife had passed on to the world Of
spirits before him, and when he knew
he was soon to follow, he sent for his
employer,
Mr.. Glover" he said, Il have serv-
ed you according to my ability. /
have tried to be faithful I have made
your interests my own All L have
on earth to love [ must soon leave be
hind me. My SONNY only child
will be left"
Borrow no trouble about your son,
interrupted the merchant. Il will
make him my especial charge"
1t was what the dying man would
have asked; and with happy light
upon bis wan face, he expressed his
gratitude.
''Alonzo is a good boy" he said;
''and | know that he will fully appre-
ciate your kindness. He is like his
mother true and faithful"
And thus it came. that Alonzo
Wightman, at the age Of ten years,
fell to the charge of Mr.. Glover.
Exactly what do with the waif was
not an easymatter for Stephen Glover
to dispose of. He had at first. thought
that he should take Alonzo into his
immediate family. He had no son,
only daughter, two years younger
than the boy; and should no more
children be born to him, the bright
faced, happy hearted boy would be a
companion for his little Isabel But
Mrs. Glover overruled this plan. She
did not think it quite the thing to
bring the orphan son of the old book
keeper into the bosom Of her family;
yet her heart was in the right place,
and she was resolved that the poul
boy should always find true friend
IN herself
Mr.. GlOyer's estate was large. and
his gardens and hot houses We're pre-
sided over by Peter Frost, who had
been in his employ anumber of years,
and who occupied a neat cottage on
the demesne, separated from the man
sion by only a green house and a
grapery. Peter and his wife were
kind-bearted, true people, without
children, and they fairly leaped with
joy at the offer of their master that
they should give Alonzo Wightman a
home beneath their roof
Il only propose" said the merchant,
that you shall be my almoners. All
the expense shall be mine"
And so Alonzo came to be the gard
ner's boy;" and as soon as the wound
of his bereavment was healed. he be
came happy and contented and CRATE
ful-gratetul to Mr.. Glover, who, he
knew, was his willing guardian and
protector, and grateful to Peter Frost
and his dame, who were so kind to
him, and beneath whose roof he found
shelter. But the boy was not the
only happy one. With his bright face
and bounding heart had come glow
OF living sunshine into the gardeners
cottage
'Ah, Mr.. Glover" said the garden
er,s wife one day, when Alonzo had
been with them six months, "you sent
a bit of heaven itself into our home
when you gave us charge of that boy"
The merchant told his wife of this,
and she was glad. She was glad be
cause she had foreseen that her little
daughter must be more or less a play
mate with the lad. The springtime
was at hand. and as the bright garden
was lsabefs favorite haunt when the
flowers We're blooming, and as the
garden was her outdoor factotum, the
fact of companionship was inevitable.
And the companiOnship came-came F.
as blessing to the boy and blessing
to the girl. Alonzo was gentle and !
kind and loving, and so, too, was he |
firm IN the way of right. His in |
thence over the impulsive, efferves-
eng girl was salutary.
The old book keeper had been a !
man of rare scholastic attainments. Z
and had taken great pains in the rudi- |
mentary education of his son, and as
the boy had inherited from his mother
most excellent qualities of head and
heart, he took to his fathers teaching