Year: 1872

On certain day in 1858, young man
whose noticeable points ware fashiona-
bic coat, pantaloons with wide checks,
and large watch chain at the end of
which dapgled seal, walked into large
hardware store in Boston, and asked for
employment Mr.. Peter Butler, one of
the proprietors, inquired if he had ever
worked at the business. He had not
What had he been doing? studying law
at Campridge. Where did he belong
His friends lived in Maryland. The firm
were not in need of help, and the services
of the applicant were civilly declined.


On the following day he addressed a
note to Mr.. Butler, saying that he feared
he had not made himself fully under
stood, and would call again on the morrow
to explain further. At the second inter
view he said be had graduated at Harvard
University, and commenced reading law /;
that he had become acquainted with u
young lady in Cambridge whom he pro-
posed to marry that his father had writ
ten to him, iorbidding him to wed a
Northern girl under penalty of utter
disinheritance and Punishment from home


He intended, however, to keep faith
with his betrothed, and as he must paddle
his own canoe in future, he was looking
for employment. Mr.. Butler engaged
him at S400 year, and gave him certain
duties to perform. Next morning the
young man, whose name We may as well
say was John Paca, walked in from Cam,
bridge with his dinner packed in tin
pail, and went stoutly to work. He kept
steadily at this for a year, doing all he
was told to do, and more besides for his
comrades ; of whom there were more than
sixty, finding him able and willing, set
him at all the menial tasks of the estab-
lshment, until the proprietars discovered
and stopped the imposition.


At the end of the year Johns salary
was increased Sl00, and he named an
early day for his wedding. When the
day came Mr.. Butler gave him a new suit
of clothes Che presents everybody he
takes liking to tip top suit once in a
while) and holiday. Mr. and Mrs. John
Paca went to live with the brides father
and mother, and John continued to walk
to his business, tin pail in hand. Among
all the merchants aud tradesmen who
rode in from old Cambridge to the banks
and counting rooms of Boston. there was
not one whose heart was lighter and hap
pier than that of John Paca, clerk oi
/ $500 year. He was always on hand
when the warehouse was opened, and
stuck by it until it was closed. Daring
the second year Of his service he received
letter from his sisters, who were al
school in Brooklyn, asking him to gel
| leave to make them short visit. lie die
so and returned to his duties.


Not long afterwards another letter came
His father wanted him to come home fol
few days, and bring his wife along will
him. Mr. Butler furnished the necessary
funds for a comfortable trip to the ole
home and back again. During their stay
in Maryland the young people won the
love of the old folks, if indeed they haC
ever forfeited it, for John had not Ions
been back at the store in Boston, wher
his father desired him to take charge o
one of his plantations. He should have
a liviog off it, one thousand dollars yeal
besides, and two saddle horses, and hi
wife should have a carriage and pair
His employers hurried him away anC
bade him God speed. At the death o
his father. John fell heir to an immens'
estate. Every year he writes to Pete
Butler, whom he justly thinks one of th'
best men in Boston, to come and join hin
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