The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-12-30

same man wrote me again, hut I held
f1Tm and thought no more about IL.
One day / was in my office, when q
nicely dressed man came in and intro
duced himself and said he was the
President of the bank that ne had been
writing me about and so forth and So
on. He made an urgent appeal for me
to change banks, showing where his
bank could do us more good than the
other. that it was bigger bank, with
bigger deposits and could let us have
money, If we ever needed it, on easier
terms than the other banks and so
forth. But Nanny had always taught
me when man had proved honest
and straight and my friend. to stick
to him, and so l told the gentleman
l was going TO keep the funds where I
found them when l came into office.
Now look here Colonel he said.
business is business and we want that
deposit-we want to make money on
it for your good and ours. Its purely
a business proposition. but we can
afford to do it. Now you write check
putting that money into our bank,
which is just as safe and just as good
as the one you We got it in, and III
give you this check for ten thousand
collars. just put it in your pocket
and say nothing about tits business
and all tight and we can afford to do
1t.
This was the, first and only man
that had ever tried to brlbe me in my
life. / thought of Nanny and won.
dered if she would think I'd ever done
anything In my life to make that
scoundrel think l could be bribed.
Then got SO mad cried and got up
and told him / ID give him just two
minutes to get out of my Office with
out being kicked out. and he got.
Well. went down into the cellar and
prayed over it, but still felt so hurt
and mean to think anybody would try
to bride me that | went into ---'a
office and told him that dirty little
fellow had tried to bride me. and how
it came about and SO forth. But he
just laughed at me and said l was
fool-that the bank was safe and that
it was their business, il they wanted
to give me that commission, and that !
ought to have put the money in my
pocket and said nothing. But In q
few months / saw was right, for that
bank broke all to flinders and il I'd
put it there Tennessee would have
been pretty near bankrupt. III al.
ways believe Nanny watched over me
in it all. -
It is the belief of mine that the
mother who Tears one honest son for
the Republic is greater than the Gen.
eral who cOnquers her foes i'll battle.
Let this, then, be tribute to
Mammy-Mammy-t sacred symbol
If all true Motherhood.
And let the little picture 1t throws
On the canvass show us tho real
strength and greatness OF him whom
The reared in the old time ways OF
SO sadly needed today;
lis life. full of gentleness and Truth
ind good deeds, monument to her
,wn character, his peaceful. lamented
leath. the Eenedlctlon of her faith.
Farewell old friend, kind neighDor,
over OF Shakespeare and the Bible, OF
iou and the works of His hand, of
Nature. of Truth and her ways that
we're peace Farewell-and may the
cpe of your heart, so often expressed,
% a sweet reality today:-that your
pIrlt, unlike the body, has not gone
ack to the elements from whence 1t
anne, but bred of the eternal princi-
les CT truth, which cannot die. lives
ct again with Nanny. IA 4 r
JOHN TROlWOOD MOORE.