Year: 1878

From the Toronto (Ont.l Globe.


No people know what is in store for


them. Every day brings something


new, and there are thousands of in


stances about us where men are poor


one hour and rich the next. But to a


man who receives such fortune people


do not show their appreciation for his


luck, as when two little lads, apparently


homeless, friendless and poor, find a


treasure laid at their tired feet in the


early and hard struggle through cold


and to them often dangerous and treach-


erous world. Two little boys came to


this country from England two years


ago with Mrs. Rye. Their names were


Sam and Johny Gill. They were pick


ed up in the streets of an English town,


poor and alone by compassionate and


kind lady, whose motherly heart yearned


toward the little lads so deserted and


poor, They were brought over to this


country and found their way into the


Boys Home in Hamilton. They did not


long remain there. Their bright eyes


and intelligent faces attracted notice,


and one of them, Samuel, was taken in


to the country by farmer. The life


was new to him, so far away from old
associations and home, and the little fel-


low often sorrowed in secret, and show
ed the traces of his sadness to his employ
er. He was whipped and abused, and in
his extremity came back to the Boys
Home. Soon afterward Mr.. Fisher,
kinahearted and wealthy farmer rcsid-
ing in the heighborhood of Nelson,
took the boy home, treated him kindly,
and in a very short time the boy formed
Il warm attachment for his employer
In the meantime the other brother had
got employment on train running be-
tween this city and Buffalo. He got
along very nicely and was popular with
travellers. Little did they think, as
they went on their way perfectly salts
fed with their lot, and determined in
their young minds to work their way
manfully on, what fortune was in store
for them. 1t appears the lads had an
uncle in the old country who was very
wealthy. He had an adopted son, on
whom he bestowed all his love and
patronage, ignoring the two orphan
nephews, who were taken away to strug.
gle among strangers in strange land. |
His adopted son, however, turned out
badly, and acted in such a manner as
to lose the confidence and regard of
the old man. About year after the
two little lads were imported to this
country he lay down on his bed to die,
and as he felt his life ebbing away from
him he bcthought him Of the two little
orphans so far AWAY and so shamefully
In this will he left them
the sum of .G25,000 each, together with
some landed property, At the very
time the uncle touched the will with
his pen the little nephews may have
been weeping, homesick and hungry,
from him by the broad At
lantic. Since hat time, it is said,
si00 year has been sent ont to them
to the Boys Home in this city. They
have received none of the money, but
it is probable that it was kept in trust
for the boy strangers till such time as
they would know how to use it to the
best advantage. A few days ago a
man from Engand, who is acquainted
with the circumst noes, arrived in Ham
.lton to take them home. The younger
brother went willingly and is now
nearing the shores of his native land,
out the elder one refused to leave his
employer till the spring work was over.
This speaks volumes for Mr.. Fisher,
md proves he must have been extreme
y kind and fatherly toward the boy
Spring work and seeding
having commenced, the grateful lad re-
used to leave Mr.. Fisher until the lull
n work began, when he will leave Can.
ida to join his brother at home.


There are none who will read the
lbove account but will sympathize
With the boys and congratulate them
N their good fortune. 1t is to be
loped both will live long to enjoy
hepleasant change that has come over
hem,