The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-07-21

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to be but this park is my mission
field. Here | come day in and out,
all the year round, acting for many
persons, all friends Of mine. who do
not desire the world to know their
names and from the derelicts | find
stranded on this shore / am able to
build up again many stout vessel
which is capable of meeting the buf-
fets and storms of hard and cold
world. Did | not dress continued
Scott-as | do. would not get these
people, who are driven like flotsam
and jetsam to this place for few
hours rest, to speak with me. When
/ first saw you, Mr.. Cameron, startto
frequent this place saw only
prosperous business man who had
the misfortune to meet with serious
accident. Later 1saw an ever-absent-
minded expression on your face and
frequently to this was added look
as if something frightened you. Par
don me saying all this, but it is my
joy to bring happiness to others. [
caused careful inquiry to be made
concerning you and in doing this, do
not think me NEEDLES some or officious,
for | sincerely wish to help you, if
you will allow me to do 50, for | al
SO know you are very Wort b y
young man though at present in great
dependency.
What could / say in answer to
such expressions? To speak of my
position was in itself re lie and
when added to this | plainly saw a
fixed determination to draw out my
innermost thoughts well, l yielded
and told all, including how / had for
years struggled hard to gain covet-
ed post and having reached the zenith
of my ambitions the cup dash
ed from my lips just as was drink
ing to my own good luck.
Mr.. Scott l continued, but this
after much talk on general matters
= will you tell me what has made
you take up this life? While appre.
ciating sincerely your magnificent
offer to secure me another position
which, as you affirm, will be even bet
ter than my last, | am u o u t(
know what influences were brough
to bear upon you to give up a life O
luxury and follow into the deepest
mire Of profigacy and vice those
whom the world would spurn from
their very doors?
" Itis.' replied Mr.. Scott, becaus'
the world spurns that [ have elected
this field for my labors. Years AM
years ago / was known as one OF th
most violent tempered men the worlt
J has ever contained. AS an employe
of labor was a taskmaster and wha
service | secured from my employ
ees / obtained by fear and not love
My home life was no better. M,
wife was always on tenter-hooks les
e she should give occasion for an un
f justifiable outburst of wrath and m
! children literally feared my footsteps
Money poured fast into my Golfers
: but no happiness. | knew | was
0 grouchy customer to deal with an
: even prided myself on the fear | in
$ stilled in others and yet | was to
!, proud to admit the error of my way
though | knew at heart / was wron
entirely wrong in all my dealing
0 with men.
e The change took place in m
life through an episode in this yer
e park. 1t was miserable, cold VIII
e ter's night. My carriage had bro
d ken down in a snow drift and | VIZ
e forcing my way home while careful
e ly muffled up in luxurious fur Goa
A man accosted me by name-on
n whom, as | afterwards found, ha
d discharged from my employ, throug
n no fault Of his own, but simply b
b cause he had resented my c Hin
,r him down for not doing more wor
d than, as I know was possible
y Mr.. Scott he said, for God
If sake spare me few cents. My wit
10 is starving and two of my childre
a are down with the fever: OF all tt
" money you possess you can at lea
Of give me just enough to buy the
< bread. | ask no more.'"
10 II turned on him with an oat
to my temper as u unreasonabl
and told him if he persisted in b
d. opportunities l would have him a
st rested
To which he replied, then shs
n, my blood be your head" II
/. following dav | was horrified to re:
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