Year: 1868

feel different from shat | ever did be-
fore My heart is broken, and ! fees
my weakness. and believe God viii
help me this time


God grant il may be 40 Daniel.
get ia and taka . seat Thee must be
hungry 20 home with me


On The way the Quaker drew ont of
him adj that has been written and lie
advised him to go to California He
told hifn 10 go 10 New York, aud work
his passage around The cape lie de-
torminod 10 do 90 The Quaker fur
uished HIM With suitable apparel


Thee wants to see Thy WITS and chill
dren before thee goes


Yes, Friend Edgerton. | do but
they have become estranged from me.
II went, perhaps they would not be-
lieye what / say. Ii is better that |
should not see them. Indeed, il is bet
/ ter that they should not know where !
am. want 10 surprise them as / hope
10 do, by coming back sober man,
aud With money enough 10 make them
comfortable. / prefer that YOU aud
your wife should be the only persons in
/ the place who know whore | am or
what | am doing.


/ Thus while riding toward the quiet
/ farm house Of the Quaker, the whole
thing was arranged. When they reach
ed the place, the horse was put in the
barn, and they entered the house He
said as they took seats before the fire.
Amy, thee may put on another plate /;
Daniel will stay with us a few days and
then he will 60 to California.
The benevolent Quaker was confident
that Daniel Aiken would keep his re-
solve.


At length when everything was in
readiness the old horse was harnessed,
and bofors day light Daniel Aiken was
on his way to railway station He
had not been to the village since
the night when the words mot a drop
more, Daniel, were uttered. He was
missed from his customary haunts but
it was supposed he lad gone of on a
spree, and SO nothing was thought of
his absence. His wife's father lived in
an adjoining town. and some thought
be had gone there.


No inquiries were made, for all were
rejoiced that he was missing, and cared
not for bis return.


He had been gone somewhat more
than year when the Quaker was in
the store Of Haskins and remarked
that lie wished to hire u pasture the
coming season. Il have got one that |
will let you have free of rent if you will
put up the fences on the place" said
Haskins.


Where is that?' said the Quaker.


"On the Aiken farm.


"If thee viii LET it at that rate thee
must have let it get our OF repair"


1T is SO indeed, cannot leave the
store to see to il. The house is poor,
and the family that lived in it last were
too shiftless to buy wood, and burnt up
all the rails | had rather sell it than
rent it"


what will thee take for it?'
at cost me some sixteen hundred
dollars


Eyes, bat thee paid in goods and
charged thine own price on thsm.


TO be sure | iri, Akin could not
get trusted amy where else, and | felt
that | was running great risk in let
ting him have the goods, and charged
accordingly, just as everybody else would
uuder tha rircu m Qtaneaa F"


"Thee has not told me what thee
would take for the place | viii give
eight hundred for it, if that is any OBJ
| lect to thee.


/ Haskins thought long enough to con-
clude that the interest of eight hundred
| dollars was far better for him than the
farm, for the use of which he real
lied scarcely anything, and said. you
can have It,


4 "Thee can make out the deed to NOR
row, aud thee shall have thy money
BY the way does thee know what has
become OF Daniel Akin 2"


mo, He has not been in the village
for more than year At any rate |
have not seen him"


We may tell the reader what Haskins
did not know. The Quaker had that
day received letter from Daniel Akin
stating that he was at the mines hard
at work, and was sticking to his motto,
"Not drop more, Daniel, and that he
had laid up few hundred dollars
and desired him to enquire what the
place which be once owned could be
bought for. Mr.. Edgerton had taken
the course above mentioned to find out
Hasiins' views. So confident was he
that Daniel Akin would come home a
sober man, with money in his pocket,
that he ventured to purchase it, for the
purpose of keeping it for him.
he wrote to Akin what be had done,
and about three months after received
letter stating that by express he had
sent five hundred dollars in gold, to a
banker in New York, with orders to sell
I il and remit proceeds to him, to go to-
wards the farm. Gold commanded a
large premium aud the five hundred
became more that eight hundred before
ii reached Friend Edgertons hands
Akin requested him TO draw a deed CIV
ing the whole property TO his wife Ma
ry, and have il duly recorded and left
with the Register Of Deeds.
I In his letter II perchance | should
syer break my resolution, / shall have
e r.. r.. i u.