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S AM* TI!i:iR BOYS.

CHAPTER I.

' P'-ua to ran ateay—TXinii bttltr nf ii—Gelt a Mmiag and jroea—iVnf niyht abroad— 4/out and fcow/W.

JAHBS STEVEKS'S feet were bare and sore. He had travelled more than twenty miles, and vai now jtut in sight of the city. He sat dnwn on a large stone on the roa&ido and

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In a country town, away from any city or Tillage of much importance, the parents of James Stevens lived. With little of this

_'ooda, and having bard work to train l;Udn'n. they v.. -.1 by the thought that

God was their portion and would bo mi • all esrthly parent* to their children. summer-time they £"! along very well. Hut in the winter, when the b»y* «uld find no work, they bad a hard lot.

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BOSSES AND THEIR BOYS.

But their faith never failed. They were rich in thi*, though poor in every thing else.

Ml i, . wife," the good father used to say. " It's not much wo shall ever he

•-.•• the yoanfl>ones, in the way of learning, and we'll try to giro them good principles."

" That's what wo will." asid aho. » And they will bs hrttiT off if they axe honest and poor, than if they are rogues and rich."

US what?" asked tho fall- r. -• d • ijaM 11.1 rich," the wife repeated.

" I f i lnvrif rich snd not hoPWtj it will bo worse f' -Aotld and that which is to come, thou if they starve to death."

"Yes, yes, so it will. 'The fear of tho Lord is the beginning of wisdom.' Wo arc poor, but wo never touched any man's gold without giving him his gold's worth, and it's not everybody that can say the like of that."

Ami so ilu-"' z ' pooplBj in their poverty '•. their

r i father work..-] at a trade which, in a villsg.. have )>< a| in the thiol v

• great deal of hu*inct*. His oldest son ho bad brought up to work with him, and Mary (tho

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next in years) «na her mother's help in taking care of the yiungrr children and keeping house. James, the third, was now fourteen years old.

:*ul, he had for noroo months been thinking that ho ; to do something for the rest—at leant by inking care of himself. Thett vet* four children

be, and his parents had quite as much as.thev could dt> to find food and raiment for them. There would ho one mou'.li feed, mid one back less to clothe, if ho was away. And the more he thought ijf tin.-, the more anxious he felt to go and look up some­thing in the way of work, by which he might provide for his own wants.

-• N hftD rny fnthor and my mother forsake i the Lord will take me up," was a

promise in the Bible which he had of:-H his father read; but ho had a fooling that ho was going away from his parent* instead of their going away from Mm. It looked like i t ; and he thought too, that perhaps his ; would DI

• •f running away. ^ I going away for fear they would hut l-'t him

knew what he was about- And would i^ht?

1! : oked at the matter on all nidus. " I f I

8 BOSSES AMD 1HEIR BOYS.

wore runn ing away because I was discontented with inv home. mill m y paren t s were e n I could do bet ter , thao I should feel that I was doing very wrong ] Dot I am only going tmy b e c t a n I lore m y paren t s and bro thers a n d BSb - b e doing for them as

well as for myself. Tha t makes all the differ-i th« world—at leaet it seems so to me .

" I f my father was a boy like me , be would do just so. A t a n y r a t e he ought to let me go, if I am wilting to go, for 1 shall h a r e the worst of it. I 'm rare.

•' But then ,—le t me see .—Is it j u s t the r ight r me to go off ami no t let my paren t s

know where I am going? They will think I am drowned, or t h a t somo dreadful accident has happened to me , and t hey will he looking after me day and n ight . This would be worse than hunger or cold. I t is bard to be poor, but i twouhi v a child a n d not know

what had become of him.

-< ' ! . . 1 rnow.wb*l I'll do. I will tel l M i r y

' -i:u thinking of, and make m u o not to tell father aod mother till I am off, and then they will know 1 am n t t drowned, and i t will ho too l a t e fur them to stop me, for I will have uomo hours UM

This was ull wrong in James , exctp l I

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plan—lh:ii of telling Mary. He had no right to take inch a atop u ho n i now thinking of without first o.iking hU parents, and getting

nscnt and blessing. " I say,—Mary,—look bare,"—ho said, as

Mary came out into the yard where ho was sitting on a log of wood, and talking the mnt-

vitb. himself. U ;. came op to him and drew her apron

around her Mok—ft* it was in the carl;. and (die was chilly, coming into the open air. James was a favourite brother of her's. Next younger than herself, he had boon tho play­mate of her childhood, and she lorod him dearly.

• > Will. Jimray, what now! Yon look grave enough fur a mi'

, don't laugh at me, Mary; and pro-I you will never tell anybody, if I'll

tell you something." ••I won't Uu^h at yon, .Jimmy, but I am

afraid to promise not to tell. You know I might hart to tell. and then what should I do?

promise or tell another story V • you may tell this in one week after i r i t I only want you to keep ;

a week, and then you may tell all lb I

ef it for "ha! I care,"

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•a* silent a minute, and then said, •• Well, I promise Tor .i - it'll not inii.li, nfler all, or you wouldn't make mo pro­mise, mil then let me off BO Boon." A promise

m m or Utter thau a promise for an hour.

•• No, it's not much to you, or anybody hot met| and tho tears camo into

his eyes u bo spoke. " Bui tho fact is, I nin going away, and I must tell somebody of it beforo I start."

t " Going away! Why, whoro on earth afo tag! I would just like to know. And

bow ore you going to get there V " Keep quiet, Mary, and hear me, and then

you will know all about it. Yon know what wo were talking about tbe other day, coming acrota the fields V

-.—the children, and how hard father and mother hare to work to g^ as to eat, and clothes for u> to wear. Tea, I do remember; and I have been thinking ever •ince of trying to do more lo help them. What

i can't do any more than you are doing now, aiftor; and you are a great help to mo­ther, and the greatest comfor: father. But I am only in the way.

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have mnilc np my mind to look out for myself. 1 am going to ——, to BOO what I can do for a bring."

"No# you are not going to'1 • Wfco put it into your head to think

••Why, 1 don't know that any one i much to me about it, but last winter 1 talked a good deal about it lo Mr. Johnson, when be caino homo from there, and said that in tbo great shops for making carriages and barncaa and hats, and almost every thing else, there were chances enough for a boy to get work; and I have a mind, to try my luck, and see if I

1 cannot do something as woll as others. There is nothing to be done without trying, and I cannot bo doing less than I am now—just no­thing at all."

Maty was still for another minute. I t was i anew thought

"James," ibe .said, "have yon spoken to * father about it yet?"

• a word, for the world, l ie wouldn't :'o; and I mean to go, whether be will : so the best way is to say nothing to

him till I am off, and that's what I want yon \ i promised not to say any

for a week: now in less than thnt time I •ball be clear of th then 1 um

12 BOSSES AVD THEIR BOYS.

hiT should know where I have gone U>. Bui not * word till then; you know TOO promised.''

. 1 'lid pi-omise, and I will keep it, if • ! -- von will chungo yonr

\it this before yon start. If it U beet ; should co—and I ihink wry likely it

is—it looks so to mo—if yon can find a good place where they will ho kind and good to you—then father will consent, for he always does what is for the beat. If he think* it is not a good plan, why yon hod better give it up, an I know yon will, if father and mother do not approve. I am sure they arc the best judges. Beside*. you know the fifth command-

Horf-ur thy fathir and thy i and I know yon do DOt foffOW* them when yon ran away from them for fear they will not

• f what you are Irving to do. Jimmy,

not havo God'* Messing; and how caii vmi have • eommandments at the

I t wan the boy'* turn now to taky a minute ] [i tirted up the »i

his fool, and whistled a little, as if he did not mind what his sister had been saying. was touched. Mury km-w where t<> : •

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tea boro to hit and his fear of offending God were bol by the gentle words of his sister. Still ho

I'rcparctt to give op jn-I yoa what it IH, Mary, I do lovo my u much oa you do, and if 1 did not ', aii'I you, anil Dick, ntnl Krcd, and

ulilii't think of clearing out, I would it great deal rather stay thar. that a'n'i the thing. I'm going to holj' I and go I will."

on shall go, James," said Mary, now talcing a scat by his aid*

: loved you more in my life than 1 do DOW, but I VOttld pari • for the toko of the r e s t : and I know that mother and father both nil! think aa I do, after a while. Bui it will D<

. \, .. r thing that you are afraid .'f letting

your father and mother know. Let'a talk the dl over to-night, and BOO what they

their children- They •

: facto vrhon we were too small to ltd

i ain. Don't lol fhem any more distress than wo can help, now

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that we hav* become older, and ought lo know •

M.rv in l drvcr made to oineh of a speech in Iter life before; 1>ut now that it «n« made,

that the had dune her duty, and aha tould have woj'i and kissel her brother too, He was convinced. There WM no doubt now

nmd that it would be wrong for him to thont asking his parents' kdvfce, ind

he w u now thinking of the beet w»y to get at it. He salted Mary's advice en

"The be»t Way,' Bltrj n i. " t o get at any a* way.

Say what you wiint to say, and in a proper manner, and let I] '• fiwn course—> that's »li l Bat if you are al

begin to talk about ii, whefl we are all sitting around the table th I we shall soon G what fatl to me, and I'll bring it in. Will

"Yes, Mary, I would leave every tl I great deal all

winter, and you don't know Itow I feel about leaving yon. Yon always feel i . talk to dt« und low me BO; awl when I am away there in thatgreai i fry, • ng Ha

• sinter to *it down with, whl

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comes—ami" Bill James could go no lur (hex. IK- leem 1 Lis band on M ;i ry and sob-l> I. A brother's heart was yearning for his sister, and he was tasting in advance i of absence from those ho loved.

That evening tho matter was all talked over abject up,

than James, anil ii was i in all its bearings. M

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hi* ciiililrcii thai they were U) do for tlniii-llo loved thrm . 1 to have

them near him, hut this desire did Dot interfere with bil judgment. when he saw what was best for then on the whole, nad often

for Homo of tho bora to go into tho world at en early ago, and

rather pleased than uthvrwwe that one of them h fore he had ever

thing to them on tho "object. Mrs. and then

D the «ork she had in hand, and at length she had to put it aside.

to sow.

. well worn, an<l :

Bible, was taken up rath-.; i when :i [>i>rti"H of ii !

read with slow and faltering lips t n t :

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Mttaold commended them, and cipccially iho boy who was soon lo leave tin-: . euro oF Him who had always been their cove­nant-keeping God.

I t was a sober hour. And when they sepa­rated for the niglii. tfce children U> tin ir Utile

m where they had -. which «va.« :«!

M known in tint DOOM in nuun Bo) tin- uui t . r va i tottiod. Jmncswaatogo from home as soon as they could put his

in order and mate such lint.' M they were able for his comfort and

aid after he should reach the city. Tli.' mother h

Miry managed ; with one good y" suit,

which he woutA or three new shirts. had east

:ne way to give his boy a start i i,.- finally bii i

ha • nl'I bavodonn. Hewcnt to the minister of ton clnireh or whieh he wail

of good -•.or could

ive, for he had always I Family, and knew the children to bavo

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been brought up in the way they should go, He gave James a letter stating that lie was a lad of industrious habits, good principle-, who had boon well taught by honest, piuus parents,

; anxioiu to help them, (as tln-y bad . ho was now going to the city

then com-Lhe lad to the notice and care of any

good people to whom he might apply. With thi* letter and a single dollar in his

nod with great care by his mother and now given to him with many charges and team, James took hi* bundle in hi- band, one fine morning in May, ami Ht oil*. Mary had put her KUo into the bundle, and her heart was in it too.

" Good-by, James. Be a good boy. God bless you and keep you'." wero a few of the words

love which wcro sent after the lad as he marched steadily away R door. He cast somo *< longing, lingering looks behind," i did he shod. S ho was wanting in love for thof? he was leav­ing. None who knew James Stevens would doubl bis strong attach •

to him as since he h:id reaoh from home. All those ties were now sundered;

IS BOSSES AXH TIIKIll DOTS.

but he felt it was time for him to h not br manly to be shedding

team, M he «a> only "going amy," wore all sober at home that day.

be* room and had a good cry-. i loo for her absent bro­

ther. and commended him lovingly to her little, Ear

her heart was too full for words. Probably .lames felt as little of sadness as any of the family. He knew tliat ho was doing what was rig!;' ' it was bravo and m.hlo

to go out into the world to do for himself and tli...,- \w love 1. end to hi nerved bim

I that wjs before him, ns a good, strong heart, will. That was the day when James Stevens began the world.

; t.try" where this family And u onr little hero, with hi* bundle

of clothes in his hand, trudged along, tip one hill and down anotlter, he had nothing to do but to think of I' A and the pros-

! ro him. To save his shoes. I them off and put them in hi* bun die. He bad never worn them e*eej>t in cold weather, and he could walk more easily without than with them. On he went, slowly but steadily, •• tho

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world all before him,—all ho loved in the world behind him "

Noon came. Ho knew : ' betide*, bo was tired and hungry. The little •tore of bread and cheeeo that his a pat up for him wa< brought out.

the roadside. and ate it. That was iway from

home. I t didn' t taste very well, it confeued. Somehow ho Wl '

H ithout having made ranch pfOgreN in In- ilinniT, lie put Op l'.. hi* liiindl.', and »a!fc-*-l -;ii. A b r a little way from Uie road, now came in night. and he turned in and, finding the t i ichoo-d 'W

;>pnl up to it and i m th of the house just in- - from the

•• W.-1I," said she, M James stood on the broad, flat stone at the door ;—"wel l , what

have?" This I U rather

young traveller, but he made out to find his tongue in time to say ho would like to sit down a fow minutes and rest himself, for he wn*

I liking.

h«d in a moment. " C o m e in, my little man. and lit down; w t

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•ball have Boino dinner in a minute, and you shall eat Miniething too."

James tlinnkc- i her. but told that ha had his i .„. and would eat il have, if she

Veold let him ; fur he began lo think he could make a very comfortable meal in the house, Taking down n tin horn that hang up by the aide of ' ifl Ionian stepped to the door and blow a blast tha t n i g h t be beard by -in a m y .

The farmer and hia two boya were a t work

by the barn, not very far from the home, but this was the shortest way of telling them that

dinner was r eady ; and before they hail reached bj had the meat and potatoes on

and a good, warm dinner tast ' i l lO him tfcaU brr.i.l : l lr l BDMM DUtST the fetice, that he nle heartily, and tr.ld fa

over before the farmer*• family rose from the

table. James got a good HA from this call

farmer and hi.' wife *poke encouragingly to him, and told him to go on with his god pose, to remember wh*' him, u d ind keep his command­ment.'. It wn« well for him lo find that there were others besides 1"* p a i M H and the minis-

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Jnraefl w u n)w mere than over strong in hit m o t a t i o a i " Hffl t a d die 1-y the good princi-

roiight with liim fron his home in the country.

But ho WIIB to bo two day* in walking . 1 ho hud no*, yet made moro than ton 1

walk twenty-five miles in a day; but it w u new busiucM,— I "ping,—nnd he was more a n d by twelve o'elock than he ex-

- • be HI night. II . .' U Ihe firmer**, howerer

li. I].. 1 bil wondwAilly, A good dinner did in.in- ( h u be iftKngbt it would to get him on

ha kind w rd i were l> > 1m i<» bin heart nnd to his feet. They made him bright

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Itiad friend* for bin dinner and their irords, Tlicre are mow good p .Id titan Mmc of nil are disponed to

think. And BO easy is it to do good and to make others happy, tlmt the wonder i- there

i more pleasant words said am- u • They may be droppe 1

odor hearts they turn to pearls. • | i •

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lo walk before i t will tw tydU dark. iho h u t liount you will bo »a malic little headway with your aching feet. On btVODt, ut.i:l i.. iviched a country lavcrn.

• Mill tlio only one near, and he had been told that this was to be the atop-

• »ay. In a little room over a

«hed O u t joined the end of the tavern, with the home* •landing beloi him, and stamping their feet so u to be heard distinctly, did he get any aleep ? T o be aure he did. l i e waa not afraid of the horses, nor of being •)

k, for hia parents had taught hiio better than to bo afraid when there waa noth bo afraid of. But .Inmca was more HxtnUsd with thought! of home. This was his firat night abroad. N o moOicr canto in and lucked up the bed-eloUh

i which had been paM «i-trr badohun " goud-iiiglil" front an adjoining

> V I I it waa t ime to go to alevp-if J immy abed a few tenia that night, it would not bo vi rj t t n n g e ; bal it w w d s r k , u I

1 *aw them. They were tears of a true love, and none need lo be aahamed of such • •

l i e did not forget to pray before ho turned

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into hi* little bvA. James always prayed at night as veil a? when bo arose in the BV and now t h a t he was alone a n d from I felt more than BYer in his life before the need

I - kind care. So he asked hi -in heaven l" wnteh OTtf him and keep him while he nlopt, and to keep thoso safely whom he bad left at home. voice gave oat ,

• nd be prayed more, b a t ho »poko very softly, and none bat God heard him.

Then he crept into bod, and was soon font asleep. The good angels whom the Fa the r sends were around him, and James slept till ilu- early dawn.

II was not long in d r e e i n g him*elf, and Boding Ihe tare*n~lEC«per*a wife a l ready amir,

i tell him wbn't he was to pay her for hi* lodging he V

" O h , ! 'U you'll stay and have —me break-

• I ihonM like to, very well," he u " h u t 1 have only a little money, and I hare something to eat in my b u m l h \ "

•• !'••• my lad. Come,

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ii. What do TOO say te

James said that nothing would -nit him

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better, and he was won feasting on a bountiful bowl of it.

" And so you are going to learn a trado do«l» in N . 1 tlic wijiniu.

"That's it, and I mean to work hard, too." ••Well, I rah v..u well, but I'm thinking

yon haTc got a hard row to hoe, and you'll bo lick and tired of it lefore a year I

- Why w ?" aeked JSJ • spoon Tall, and . at tho lady who

I'ffi iw tlwre myaclf, and 1 know it'a a hard pine f->r boys. You will have to look out for yourself, and nobc . for you, only to see how maofc work way can gel mi of yon whflo you are in tl feat of the time you may go to the dogs, for

care." All s i .Tame*, but ho

dd take care of hiiiHtir, if he to do: hi* groat fear Was that

nd any place to work in. If he vuuld do that, he was determined to bo iadut-

d faithful • in wan pirated with bU

for hit. I on hia wav with a lighter h ,

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tio ki-«o'l Mary >goad-hy" yesterday morn­ing.

\ D I *o ho trodged on all day, and the eun ww finking in tho western sky when he reached (he point where we found bin opening of this chapter—sitting down on n

moteart, The city was full iii -••hi, iiiul chiding himself for I by tho way, when he wai no near hi* j end, ho brushed away bis team, and descended tbcbilL

CHAPTER II.

,1 ae*- wrlifar Jama.

DcJUKO tiiis long day's walk, oar youog id unptfl time to make up his mind m

to what ho fluniM do wln'ii lio reaeh.'d the city. Hut he had hit upon nothing that pro-Btiied him a bcl the plan which the good pastor in the country had re-

ided; and that was to take bis loiter to the minittfr, and a*k hii adricc as to • •hooM da

Tl letter i r u directed to the Rev. A. (1. . :iad it was- an

easy matter to find it, aa tbo firat one DI luted the way to the itreet, and

ho aoon made bin appearance there. Bnt it « u a new world alt .

boy. II*1 hail never hecn in the city before, and indeed had DO idea what a city waa.

. .t wai more qniot than nsunl whi>n he and carriage*,

the hurrying hither and thither vf n . the houses and »hops and stores were

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to close together, tha t it w « hard for that HO many people could live so, and

find any thing to do. 11 . and although he win disturbed b y tho

whirl of I out him, ho walked on through i t , as if he was Dot of i t , and I

HWhy didn't yofl pull the bclU" told a coarse Irhdt girl , who came to the door after he hod knocked once or twice.

" B o l l ! " said James, » I didn' t know as tsMM was any belL"

T h e girl laughed a t the simplicity of O M who had nnv.T before been at n house where hc was to r ing a boll in order to bo let in, and of course ho knocked on tho door with bis knuckles, ss they do in ihe country. But now

I door was openi ' l . lu- nmd>; known bin tnd n-k.d if Mr. Jones was nt home.

II ... and was j u s t going down to hi

hfa pocket, and a»k<-l tho girl if ihe would please to u tha t . S I 'iin in ihe dork hall , o u r • •- to Mi . Jonoi in his

Those were anxious moments t - ' as hen tooda lon r in the hall . [f3 unable or unwilling to help him in lit" efforts

into some of tho shops to work, he did

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11 ho should do- A n d ' ' •

ironld U -• in him,—a poor hoy

igh lo lo, *ir' to vnry o u kind that cnine along, and i f ho did it for one,

it for others. I i w u rery doubtful. indeed, if he did not Imvc to

torn nboul ai.-l '. ihere »*ero worse place* (lian home, b a t he was not

• Of) JFtt

While he was tho» thinking the m i l t e r all I jir, ]>iringhinuelf to bo disappointed,

•top was heard in (lie hall overhead, wntly Mr. Jooca came down, in hi*

• n o a lamp in hi- hand.

H i . pleasant face and friendly roiee aa he

D) | man , bow do you d o ? " were b a i n and hope to James ' s l inking hear!. Si

• down si tht n&$ feel and wep:. to U ad to"k* of ItindncM fall on his oar in this s t range

' • I am tvrv well, > i r l " said Jamr.4. u coana) down from Sbell-

" I waJki-i down, cir ."

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" W a l k e d ! " exclaimed Mr. Jones . "'Yon mii*l hnvo had a long tramp of it. Are you

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' i . and 70a min i bare something t" ea t . "

Jaines oonld find no words for tho occasion, 10 he silently followed Mr. Jones down an­other pair <>f ' cement-room, and was there introduced to a pleasant-looking H'Jinnii nlready seated ut the head of the Ian tabla, about whi.'h were two or three children, the oldeM being not more than eight years of age.

I ' M J 1. . 1 . " -mi .Mr. Jnm, " th i s lad baa walked all the way from ShelUon, more than forty miles; and ho b m .

to me from our frier,'! 1 linistor, who says that he wan; b tn into

. learn a t r ade . " " S i t down hero and h a r e a o m

said U amiles on her face. James hesitate-! ccpt so kind an invite anted t-i think it wo* i . 1 liiiu t o s i t d o w n

at tlie same table with the*« t t r a a p 1 Who Were living in 1 quite unaccustomed in the country. But his DMifr tion was 1 DTarooBt. ."•!•-. J a n a i

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would not allow • chnir b y the iririo of ono of l» r own i-hildrm ; and aflor Mr. .lone* bad a-learned from hiin more and more of the fact! wliii'h Inni* been re la te ! in the previous pages. TIIP more they hoard, the more t l t ens ted io lb* youth who w u now thrown

IDMBMB, and !i"

to do what Mr. Jones wn* a faithful n ln t t t a r ; • man

who fell tho pon. i | which ho

b« bad on-portnnity, l l r w u not n bai ty and reckless

• --, niiini»)T into every new it wan presented for b

doing good; but steadily living no-cording to tho example of h i . tori Mid M » -lor, he w u alway* active and earnest io tho cause of true Christian U'liovoltt •

• i of ihosa who were suffering, and j.tit the poor iu a waj

MnMUiing for themselves, which he thought

There worn many iiiJiiittiT't in that place who marie more noi*o in t in i r i did. H i van not iho graft!**! man

charity necting . H be wag willing to do. So

3 1

that oftentimes ho m i absent from the meet­ing* wttore hi." b b i a s ing in tin' &pplaweof thecrowd for their ' !<"juri iccinbe­half of the wreU'hud all around us and afar off. Bui if there was a poor widow who had strug­gled through the month, and withal conld no t aavo enough lo pay he r ren t , the was sure to call on Mr. Jones, and tell him the -her » j u t s ; and she never told it in vain. He

1 a plan in the course of the day to get her out of trouble, and star t fair tl month. If a child of one of the poor of hi* flock win not clad so as to b« able to go de­cently to rchool, Mr. Jonea reported the c a n to hi* wife, and the mat ter was speedily wen to . The public were none the wiser, but many hearts wer<> gladder fur these silent acts of chari ty o n the pa r t of thi» good pastor,

:: hand know what his right hand was doing. But God knew, and

knew, and the I B widow and the fatherless mine down on hi* head.

talked the matter over with -lames; and after tea, i» the -i all be could tell about Mary • and tl. dly In- had left nt borne.

at the weekly praver-wee ling, aiid he had

32 BOSSSS AND TBBIll DOTS.

soine thought* thai ho might there met i 0110 ', and loom sonmUawg

tbfl lad •»« WM »O» in his band*. It) thll hi- Will duMppniBt^d. Ho

Id apply •with any hope of MKoesi. It •truck him more forcibly that nighl that tho

1 tho persons w i.•• | rayer-_• had been hard at work in their vari­

ous employment* iuriii* tho day, while tho*o who were mora at U'idurc word still too busy to Coinc-

Mr* Jonoa had a comfortable bed mado up for Jam?*, and ho alc|>t al the mirii?tcr'» house. This was a good beginning, inch H

ked ftr. ••I declare,"—said Jaiuo* to him-plf, not

• - down in bu h e a r t y " I should mvvelf: tliu* U tho beat pbuH

• J * in my life: mid if Mary *a* hero to wait on Mw. JuiHw and take « r -

: lovo to *t«y and make a homo

Tin* next morning, whetf breakfiift wa» over, • . xaymg

that this hoy had been commended to him by •Milan in ibe oou>

rioua, and trusty, and he hoped thai he

t I M i * A FRIEND. H8

would bo able lo find liim a place. Willi tm> paper, fdgncd by Mr. Jones, Jatnca want m l into the street to keck a Situation. U o would have been bettor pleased if Mr. June* had p a t on bU hat and b o o t i j n d gono with bin.. tho minister would » v o doDfl TOrj willingly, had be thought i t tho boat th ing for him. But it was his opinion t h a t i t would be bel ter de­cidedly for .lames to t ry his own band at the work, and, with only such encouragement as a certificate of good character would afford, to go out and make his first appearance in the wurld.

M back about noon, and let us know how yon get on ," said Mr. Jones to him, u bo was leaving his door-htep; N)d with tbifl i m i ­tation James went oat to seek his fortune. yVith a boy •» well taught as ho had IH-TI. for­tune was PrcpiJenct. H o knew that God watches over al l , both great and lit t le, rich a n d poor. And when he was seeking some­thing to do, i.

in, or he should never succeed;

Louring tho ridxtt—1 in wUofa Mr. Jones 'io lad entered the s t reet on which moat

of the manufacturing establL-hracnts were litu-

ated. H o did not know where 10 go, or what to ask for. He had thought of various t rade*

34 UGSSE!* AMI IHKin POTS.

that he would tike vv.-v well, l>ut he « « will­ing to tune bold of almost any thing; and now

m fairly aurtc-1 in search, ho fait a» if In- .-h./uU take llie lii ,1. lio

i long ami very lofty range of buildings, which woMF*eTidcnily filled with worfcmop. The steam wu ooxing out of a

pipe that went up tin- side of it, and frcai tin- under-ground apartment clouds of

vore coming out- Ue discovered that it was a hat fartory. After stopping a mo­ment or two to look at the new and Strange fight# which met his wide-open eye?, he come up to llif door, over which wad printed, in Very distinct letters—

>• N<< iraaturaa RXCBR OX BVSWWW."

y don't ipcll »r ; Id ,'amca, TllrV

•.'.A I remember I Dp head in school for spell-

•....nl." Bul thai WM no time for a conutry-boy to

:i_- fault with sign-spelling. I' !„- else w think about jtisi li:-

koew wliiit "no admittance" meant, Nut be had basines*, and so he pushed at the door. I t opened slowly, and toi'La hard push before

SEEKS A num. 85

it yicWed, bat he crowded in and tutcd the first man he met—

.. \V1HTP*» the bow?" «Go round I I you want the

bou. Yon won't Wot': bore." .. \\ bi H :>-- • offiqart" asked JamoJ, "And don't you know where the oQ

* inuntl iho comer, M '''••• • tbw end of

The minute that James had been in bad bfaa no very Btrong liking to the bui»i-

ncss he had seen going on, bat ho knew it was ,i to make qp his mind from firet ap­

pearance-. u d In- Mi the ihop to try at tha office for work.

Ho was not long ju finding iho rig] over which "OTTOi** «W prim

'v. Jamoa trembled much aft he walked in, took off hi* hat, and ltOO)I by the door.

"What do you want V * u tho roth* • :. ami it wns not like',;.

courage him much aj he stood shaking in hii

• I ;»!led to aflk If you would liko a, boy to learn the burinew."

in don't Wo'w got more now than we want, by a down."

And the man who spoke turned to the desk

8 6 BOSSBS *SD THirR BOtt».

by which he was Billing, and went on with his writing. A large number of letter* were lying around h i m ; he w u thinking of the profit* of hu hiuiiiiua, and the prospect* of *v . | ih wan bright enough, Vftty idioiild b» trouble fiimtelf for a moment abtfiu a paor country-boy f

J ams* w*« in trouble. H e baldly knew whether t o go. or s t a r and press his applica­t ion. While bfl * i .-. tho mat ter hflt-ronnufsctiirer looked up again, and told hiui not to Hand there, but to be atirrii '^—he wan only toning tiuir, a n d was jn o ther peo­ple'a way.

The boy left the office, and t u once more world atl before him, but

wbore to look ho knew not.

And now the tfcOQgfat « D * j - 'Th i - i* what I might have known; and who will do any

Hii« hard man* Tl;i > are all full of 1'

and few boys, tliey wouldn't biro a n y more. ' ' H e wa* on the point of giving np and g'ting

" road was s t ra ight , a n d he knew i t :

H o wauled to toe Mary, and tip i '.an ho did when ho wwl to

Bed it would not bavo bee r

N

H k e J a : - tod Lack out of the groat work on whicli lie lin-1 set ]i

•lire he w w right, and he would pu-li on. i i l | ii,it m bopo m i left.

• r than himself, and asked bun if In- knew any plac* wl

. likely !•• find work, and * 1 K • him n« i n apprentice.

-i t wn« hard to get in, mid harder to May after In

" Why, what '• to kteyf" in I tome anxiety.

- -W.! : . i . drmdfid Imtil work, and worse • I Of it if you

• u y here a month, 1 know." wn* nil the an-nr«T he got.

A n d so they parted, for J a m e s wa* to learn noU&Rg of this hoy to help liiiu in I place. Yet he waa determined to t r \ a n d ugain, and as long a t ho could H O Y in the city «n the dollar that was atill unl

kot, »o long would bo do work,

• 1 even wor«. than the i with only a BCOWI and a icni him oat of til

•

factory, where bo e n u r e d with the iamo in-4

33 m n ntYB,

lion m a mure gra • •

•

. road UM WKVpBpn and look s i g Won at work. •"- 'jiiitc <tt tannin*

when J u n c i cainr in. :.r,-! it IW! In with hi-huiooiir to have u little chat with liim.

, do Too," • ii-l tbfl Old tTi:iTj to Jam"-. when the DOT had

i md. •

i I pie**, run away from homo, and don't

know what to do with your-elf. u d •» ."" are i n "frai"! to

go back."

I lo any one since he

yl it. lor the Otktti 1 ni b r a l n d Iiini away >o qnirkly thai

thkt hi' w*» worth

il •ikod the

bfl ww the name o( A. ' the boll' tn

• He Kaxe it to mc thin morning, »ir. 1 night."

M V- i H BJT, ih.it'i* Itimi • -Icti Mr. .Ion.

He rpotovirjiraU, I U you but what

i:, iln- woods there say*, but I goMa i t 's all r i gh t . "

li 1 would like to \<:v- '•'• and

•eo if I ani l . " I. w,' u i l i MA about it. I d o n ' t know

• lkop> I will a«k ibo foreman, ami • « what hfl tlunlob Mi. J o a M i* a MOB n u , ti i d i l l

i. UMBOno* or Di-xt day, and I will In-1 ymi."

«*To-morrow, or next d a y ! " thought .Tome*. . . \ \ i . .• f till Lhon, h will iirv,.r do to stay with Mr. .Jones nil that lime, and 1 may not get (hit place after oi l ."

i.,jBwr faw that he wai heaita' a*k«-.l him what h« WU thinking about .

•• I dq n"i kui.w «b«N to May; and if I

wait till to-morrow or the r.-• • a you ahonldn't want w e "

I •

. toward night, i*y four or fin i

(0 ItOSKSS ISO TIIKIR BOtfl.

an) if I ntii not in. o>* Jenkiui btftf- -Mr. Ho wafiU to learn

Ifcfl l.u-ir,.-'. vuti .- (r. What du Y<.U think ? i> i< bi -i ! • • '

"A>k .l»lin»on. Jus t Men in and *cc if

* WOOlll Willi, I

reckon, too—b*j i while." And to raitli-il on Mr. Epora la Stone, the groat carriage and harflOM maker, otu

:' thai city. Q-* it" In* i - beat coarhi-a with a

fast team before it. [teforc he had BaMMd hi* «<•!.:• •• offico and making iaqniriei of tho fort

•

if he wished to t;iko Mother one. ilii-y would make room f»r bbn.

,.i wo win »co i j w h a t * . tfr. S tone t o J a n *

J. making as good a bow a* he kni

brighter. The noi-v r i ly was aim i:ft o r e .

. i-.titrthing by hi* own labour; and :iiia

^ 5 =

H U M i n.AOs. 41

p i e u n d and rheerod fatal so that he wn« reody I ! -iw by tho oloch

of »K«- church-towers that it Wnn near I;-look a walk around to see ill n lio *iw of it, ilu" mora he * •Mcr. i i i i fh btrge battdingl

never M • • roples of the churches

went np I M high ini-> the tiir! . I T to him than

nil beside*. II-' itd not know one of tfirm. tiiat hr

didii't k n a v , un', -. •'. was a fwdler or % irnvi-l-;• h e n nil U M people pawed r ight b y

him * i 11.

t o fori n ^hen he was all alone in tho wood)., live n.:'

\v loogtfa buger reminded him of be hastened to

Mr. Jonoa**, •

l i e announced tho result of hi" i

•

| . dee bin in "ii tr ial . M

him not and the l ip ," u

n i g h t be one of il.- m. " B u t i oe*d, my b«y , " Mid M to feel that yuo :ire ootoihg into •> 1

4-

42 E05SK AND TI1LIK HOYS.

temptation and peril, where yon will be in

m a t watch and pray.

itnl the Snnday*

: Jaine* on.- melting nlr«

words. l l r would try to b* upright, and remember all thtm kind word*. l i e was hoping too that Mr. Jones would offer

in the after-h *. this was more than the lad dared

In UIBMJ-.rrcat B« he saw the

•• T taking bis lint mid cane to walk

Bnl li limcfl was surprised at barm); inch 1

•

•

. with tint Ind, who ••; and he tells m

allowed htm to conic tbi* afternoon for an an-application. l i e was commended

to my care by one ill whom 1 have cuutid.ncc,

7IHM A FLACK. H

ami I hopr you will find the lad lo be every •

ind t ry i l , " said Mr. Ston*, I

nn I if ha beharai well and v. idiall gel along with him. Much you, Mr. .) -. f'.r taking no much trouble about the uu t t c r . "

I: at all, hit. I Ha* IBl the la>| by what my friend wr,.' biiu. and ho lUyod at my hoOH k i t night, I WW pleased with him, and hope \ gitti mil any canoe to regre t that be u» now here with my inn . , |

I l » u then arranged that James fhoutd be­gin hi* work in the shop tin1 next morning, and receive for hi" " a g e s two dollar.- i

II yea r . IIo uiuxt board and elofho of that , and if ho po>Y<

and handy" at the businc*-. thing the nest *"tir, bU wages wo

Mr. Bl li doty Una " h i r e d bU ftpprenGi

.-, and in wow t h u p l a c e . i t wa> . ... -».» matter W U k * boys as apprentices unt i l they ve ra twenty-one, giving them board and clothing

44

until that t int , Mid hiring in MUM m i . •pomiblo for their moral u d int • ileotnal Enro­

ll * .r:h « e n • by. The m u t w stood then in iho pUcu of

S i

: nf, or in Iho liouftoof eomo one who wodU 11

•

was nn' tfr.fi . H e n

miil harncM, iitd if il • Well, i little for the nun mul

hojB who world

——

C H A P T E R III-

J t . W , » j 4 ™ w for kayi—Ktv anpu»iiAi«i.v.-V»« . - J O * Jfi.iwwi-J.tMM r*

yit^t fc lr>H —li l<iujl>ti ,tl j'u pmyin-j—Bi IN tkr. 'hop.

pi t .boarijng-hi

boy* in Hampton street, not very (si De'l simp. I t WBI a wooll, one-ntorv-

aml-n-li.iir hODM, with a basement to i t ami * garre: . managed W b*n

: logfaten, which •llQ fur tlwir bcd-chaiubvr, nm] op.

•tair- under the rotf -it for oi^'Iii l:nl-. whom »be call' i :

" • •

thop;m to got the pay- (at (ho boys* board a t the

•it to her and tn t hen and BO taken out of th. jr

wage*. M i imicdhcr nam.

that ocourrc.i :• u k e d him where ha would adviae James to

a placo to board. So they book Mrs. SlaUerlv '" DOOM oi, the w i j a s they 1

4a

4f. >.M' III KIR DOVP.

ibfl bad a placofor juat

one more, Mic nlwav* had room ror just one more,) they u k e d ber m 1 they

' • • - •

old t ake all but Iwcntv-livc cetit i of M* week** wage*, end leave him Utile indeed

it i l l to •

" W h y ilii-n ilji! I M !• the firit •v- reckoning in

iiow h* wueoodB • • [ ' . : • I

utd that will bo so a u d i Mved; end iii-Ti in a year or m o I will do I i -all my earning* to help fat hot and Bother . " Thi* was his rcaaooing, and it wna quir -point,

Mr*. Slntti-rlv Hfroold t a t o him ill. and he • had Ktrlv i" go around iii'l Ml hi* bundle ami

•ilil make liiiu

• Her daughters were imart girl*, and did the washing and mending for the boys. • great

rU dill ii ni l ; and it »n* not many boy* away from

•If ilia! hadn' t ought i« say it, but "bo would My

nnch good can- taken of them an she and her

roa BOT?. 47

ok of the bojn t h e y h a d i n the i r

i n<]atio&

of h e n e l f and b

••••n voinij; a n d muo tp i aouK u

•

and that the ft iv DSXl |..--t WOWM i<. his m«>-

i Un . Jooott ma the nood lady who n i - DOW :ivin>r -urli RlM tfilllgl BbOtll fo rtelf

•. , , i-! . : .•! .- . I j .

older, iirid Warned thnt people aoldom speak

tli than when they nre prais ing them-

T h i i t hen w a s fixed, n p o n a s thu place for

dantea to - l a y ; and poinj; hom» with Mr.

Jones , ho yut his handle of Clothe*, a n d

thanked Un . Jonei n to her kindne.-a lo him, und the m i n u t e r for all ho

I . lames then re turned t«.i Mrs . S la l -lo r ly ' e u i '•• p o u t e r * .

On tli' :uado much be t t e r pro­bed any r ight to expect . l l u n -

• 1 nltogether where he had euecoeded. A n d he wan thankful to God

rfl to the nutii«ter 'is " h o had been inch a good friend to him Men he

i friend to nneh. Be m that if Mi. Jonee had refused to help him, it would

4 8 B08818 ASP TIIKIIl BOW.

bare been Terj difficult for him lit find |

• l ien , and he could onlj

for directing l̂ int to BO kind a man in « c h a

MOll.

nn't home then, you'll low it," Mr*. Plaltcrly dried 'mi u> him, a.* he put lit* bundle 'Uwnnnd left the bOQM to l a i r n niilk in ihe city and see » little more of it, before he catered upon

' ir work the next day. IIB back long !>• I I lam**,

hut tlu-re m i loaet l l tag in Mi-. Slait<:i!y"p. tones thnt m'n-1. | ggh it would be

• "

I I - • ii in wandering about an;onjr i tee without guinj- in, fol ' '»act" o v e n - " 1 iiiin thnt bent1

all hw Bcarcheaoutside. H e learned <"? little, 1ml it ».i- BHIMK to trim, end 1) 1

. ipidly. JIL'1 tbc ibadoa of m o r a

i biek u I f in boor before

•

d p u t •upper-lime—tht-y were hnngry "•> bei

sine • ID

, di'ln't

I them to or they would got no tapper, and pro-

ceedod yciy hi-urely to take off a large iron pot tr . for it W«a I dininp-room. :in<! nil in one. nti-I emptying (KM » great quant!:.

•

in "piil noontion, till the greedy months were J being filled.

letting of bwran was asked n* they drew near to ihr table; no ptjM

I :y good gift, at]

would pet nothing if o*> did not gft il . and nil vcrnmtilcd n- if they had had

All thl* wat new to the new-comer. I 11 with hi* largo ©yet (as many culled

them) » • i ndcring whether theio dirty fellow* were hears or boys. 1'

ik at the thoognl ihem. >• 1 tm poor, nnd my people ni homo

•aid to himself, "but we are n we eat, and we ask a

we fall to; and tterer in my UfV did ! —•• iiich A " i n- <!n.-.

£ 0 BOSSES AND TI1KIR BOTB.

Mrs . Slat terly paid no attention to their manners •*> long »• they did not break her duhr*, and »bo always modi* them pay for what they broke, and thb. *

, say of them. They ba I notice of J u CUM in, but m ihey

observed him backward ab- m I • •

like (be moan,

lc« i t ; it'o the I • I •

I t was Joe Akfr* that spoke in this m d e w a y to J a a i o , and for a moment Ja tnN thought ho

innre r him, but then he changed his toot, tha t it

wa» very gou-l; hn found no fault with it, but ho was not '

aourn to-morrow,"

•

" At >'

•!• icn voices, " tha t ' l l where wo are, my l*iy. A now hand at iln< h.'Uowa wo »hall have to-morn.". Jon ll stand ti

J o u i c s m i •••. !!• did no) • dcratand what was meant by « standing t rea t , " a n i In.' waited to hear more.

t 3AMIS RKPCflS TO TREAT. 6 1

• V i -l.-ii't lake, <1o T O O ! " demanded Joe

AkWf. "We l l , w e l l make you take, after

- took courage and said he should like to know what w.-.-

• • If ynii want to know," fa i l Bill Wilson, « I con toon lei yon into it. Tho fact ii j m t

bare:—You «ec,every avtfhuti the ehophim tu'i ipwltb, and so to-nighi i •'» and tako a drink all round at ymir .

• ' T l n t u tlm sort. Now yon take, don't

*'.iey all cried out, and our raw friend from t i c country was (juite fri explanation. and the applause. with which i t

aired. He looked down at hU plate,

and at fir-l be m that would • toy good, and would only excite tho

• boy*. So be pnl though: lo ho resolved to be a man and " n o t be scared before he »»« h u r t . "

•• 1 o s d e n U n d what you mean now, ami I am

'.-ra'sor anywh. . - Vouan ' t , ehT And why not ,»ir , v><

juat like to know?" .. \ •• i . -HI know," aaid J a n .

you like. I doil'l drink any tblng hut milk and water, and 1 suppose we get that *Oft of

1

52 HOiMES AND TlIEIB HOTS.

i we booriL Ami u 1 •'•• • il»c. I abnn't go to I'eton'i to

gel cmv thing for inyaclf or f<w v i a rh l i r r . "

' i ro ! " raid |for iu b o y i ; bm we

i the tre:il anyhoW." ••Wlir,i i ,.Lit Hill Wilson.

t i ' s ? " i'i-.n w u carried nnanirn

with many a (jibe ami jeer at the -

tOTHW) they marched out of Uw bottle, with qptia a* little e<'ieinony and more

n<d it. .IODIC* « U

OM and tiio

company of Mr*. .Sbtlcily. She h i d qn l t t as much sympathy with tho rowdyiim OJ who had gone, M with the principle! of Jamc*

i ;.t hoofc 1" fm't, ihe greatly pro-

tl the Wya •hooM «o ' ° a l l .v place l in tin- tirening, rather than May at

home. She wa* bound to g i t e tho boy* food and lodgin-

do with tliora. If they were rc-• • r -hop and work till

bed-time, |t w..uM ba*« jil,-n»«l her rery well; but if not, "he nrrntly preferred to haw them take to the ttroetf, or to the baa ought icek and find. Their room w u bettor

i - 5 8

than their company to Mr«. BhtUtij- H « fine kdfett, and though! it al-

•; them to wMcia lowi th shop. Thry would not condescend to h*vo

Olio of ill

lour, and it w i s n dreadful annoyance to them when the hoys wcro making a noise in the

•tnir<-Now what waa Jarac* to do with I

when 1 rly put out all U H lights. hiii one candle, and walked up-stairs,

- b i n to his own reflection*. H e waa hnlf bfl

D * ' •.. HunvTcr, ho yielded to this thought bol fin

i l ptumplly r<-f .-• • • : when they had attacked him in company, he would BM think of going after t hen now ho WBI fairly rid of them all for the evening.

l ie looked A * Ur fa t tdM, «ln.-i. I,.- had left • •

which Mary h i - -'.re he left homo-Mary ' s Bible! How p r t d o a

H in hi- band, and went down •gain to his solitary place. " l ' p then- El ton they are all sitting about the a l t s* on whii-li the frugal supper was spread a few moments ago; and now they a re thinking m l

4»

&•» MB6IU ASP TIHtlR BOT».

pethaps apenkinx of the one who U p o w from amftnc lli.m. If 1 wan only thpro now."

would b« o i ^ r to come away in lli.> morning and work hard nil d»y, wiili the prospect of going back to inch * awVet homo at •

B« it El; ••home. iwMt home!" The home hi« parent* and brother* nnd sister.- lived in w « poor and amall, ba t loro mad* it a happy home

i i ' i t i l rcwfonh the heart of the only one who had left it. H e wa* lie*

ilv bomesirk tha i r ivninp. Aivl I ii:.i no) nmke him f,>el much better. ' in the ihoiiiand fcwect recollections »>f his chililhood wero dearer to his sool than the mciui'ty of those hours when the family wore

•.- instruction. Aronnd ihe fin-ide on n wil * i on the

tep in the summer, tlit-y n t ODO and read and talked of the t h i n p wl wriit ' .

loTed those hallowed h&um. 1 parent* and one another n o those precious acaaona, and in after-life they might wander to iho enda of the earth, and be exposed to tea thousand tamptaiio:i . memory of those leseona could never be effaced from their hearts.

I

BJttOHT* TO DI8 MIIU:. 55

.Tame* thought of nil thene » his Bib!.-; and hi i o y w were aoon ID filled

• I:.- oo«M not • could in I ig recollection.

pnat; Kid as Mary ' s !•••. - uf par t -

inp. h is niotlirr'H ni l iut u-ndiTw-ss when he came away, his father '* morning prayer and

Of coannel cam© back to his mind. h« « u Btretijjilr.ii.il.

J a m e * wn* no t •> boy to g i f t up lo himself, a n y moro than to oil: ,.<? done

r ight , he would say. there i* nothing to bo

•o r ry for: why 1 ery about i t? :'u swell a short process of ri

IrilMfilf tha t it *n - hiK duly to 1 h M mi tiin whole mat te r , a n d go

be had begun. I t wa« nitiyuliir that he opened to the chap-

ter where he fonnd tho fami!, •on. if s inner* •

I t was the first chapter of tho Book of Pro* Ycrlu, ami he know there waa murh in that

to read when from I; • in danger . !!•• therefore began a t il n ing , and rend on ti l l be came t o these v o H e , a n d ho thought be would moke them hi* MOTTO while he was in the ^n.ids* of sued a t r l s s ho found at Mrs . S l a t t e r k V Then he read on,

66 BOMB AKD THEIR BOYS.

ami the solemn counsels and warnings with he chapter closed, u n i t into hi

G e l bad spoken to him in his solitSfle, and lie heart to lii ' voice.

He aat still for an hour or more, and mnsed on win: he had been reading. He a*aa not alone, for God was with hint. The sweet comfort of being in the way of hif duty , and •nffbriu for the sake of those he lored, waa nil tb t l I . f"i there was no one

to whisper a word of hope in his ear . Tin- longest evening ss well as the I

day come? to u i -: the clock on a

neighbouring ehwwVaowar rtraah ran. That waa bed-time at home, and it was the hour tha t ho meant to keep ns the lime for | when he waa away. H e went np-staira and told Mr*. SI utterly that he would like to go In bed, if she would show him where be wax to sleep. She led the way up to a wi-l<-room where there wcra two bed*, and

of them as the place whero he wonld <iiuld she}) with

him.—one of the cleverest fellows in tlio house." J a m e s had no heart to speak, badly aa he fell

at the proHpeet of being confined to the same room and to share the same bed with such a sad specimen of a youth aa thin Bill Wilson.

OASTS HIS CAR* CPfiS GOD. 57

Put *vily an J a m r s fell ni the prospect before I ' forget to kn. •

and pr i n him grace to •.;.- to Ii i d . He re was

•to s t raggle to bo gone t a r n .• unices God should help b i n , b e bad mai that bo i against

• * •boot lnm. Bore, too. was a new world and a new life opening before him. A t ln*t be was thrown upon God MM]

II thru boose cured n and (hero Was not onc towhon ; I

M to a friend. U o must Grid in God a. father and a friend, or there would bo none to help Mm when his OMmga hi l l 1. II

bod never prayed ti l l tha t nij-ht—first for hit:. • thou for those dreadful boys that he » a I 1

him, and blepsed him that very night with •nidi peace of mind as th is world cannot give nor take*away.

BflWUBOt !(Oanii*« came Mr-. Slntierly teestrad her own repose

night by locking up at ten o'clock, and

if m y one of b< • •. i t that hour, bo toust find k'dging-i where he coold.

Th i s was PA M s ] it, t h c n d o r c . h a p -

SB MS8B6 AKD-TIIKIR IK>T*.

pined that t ins—the only good t *' tcr ly had—worked v c y well, and bHHgl boya hbroe in a n u b i ]

She always insisted on that , and sh< march any hoy out, bag and baggage tbi morning, if lie could not behave himself and

i want to sleep himself. The boys, thorc-fi-r.. U I

:nc, and James made not B .1 than ho expected. Thoy

laughed, and cracked low jokes among l b D> •elves for a half-hour or BO, but a hard day'* work

Id* ideep very acceptable to all of ili'in, and before eleven the 1 I use of

i tor lr was as nliil • * U empty church. •• !!••. 1. s i a-here!" KToamed Kill Wilson,

jastabt>ut daylight. '• Hi-n V Jim .Stevens pray-

of his speech, which is not to ho repeated hen-. Sure laonjrfa, Jamea h a d risen very early,

before any of the Mot of them »vfe awake, and dressing himself quietly, \au bia badiiiili- to ptay. Bo ho had been taught,

lie meant to do as long as he lived. Many hoys who pray at : . > pray ** in tha innming. Diey jaiup oat of bad, hurry on their clothe?, and run down to breakfast,

LAUUUKD AT FOR l1 It A VI.Mi. 50

without •: . , [ . ; . .1 | them in peac« ami safety during the darknesa of IIK' night, when they could inko no earn ol thorn-elves. J a m e s was not ODD of these boys : —not he . Tliorc hail not ' n an a morning t ine* lie wa* • • • about

when ho had mil Ihankl taking caro of him through the Bight, a n d asked him to keep him from danger and *in during th* day. A n d such a habit * u too good for him lo break almost the first day ho wa* from limine and about to begin life in a new place, among those whom ho fear. I than any whom lie Invl I

.•.Km S t a r m ki :i-|iray;Ti-: boys in the other bed, as they sat up looking across in the early twilight to seo so strange a •pfctiiclo aa a boy at prayer. A loud laugh burnt from the whole nf them, as they saw the

nil kneea. Ho got op without delay, for there W*B no one in his trying to pray in the nM i ry did not cease when he rose.

*• No* —"that is all well enough at homo nnd among tho babies, but you'll get over all that sort of thing b i t enough) if yon I U J hero."

« I shall never got over praying, as long as

fiO WMBfl A!«I> t i l 111 K BOTg.

I life*" fnid J a n e t , o.« decidedly u Fort, *lwfl the I'ov* Wasted him to

g<> nn.l treat, ii'l mean lobeatnommy-boy all your

Hfe, do yon '(" paraued hi t tormentor. " W« rfl a great while be­

fore they get ?ick i>r it, and by-end-1 ever it, h u t on yoairiH in h w thai.

IBMS, «• be waabed lii.- Imntl' nii'l face, nii-1 paiil ••> Bit

;Jic talk that i u goiogon. in which all of them now joined. But ho thnnghi «nit i f tin i n " : -- than thn mat, awl,

Liipht-1 nt their fan, r.-.1' ribaldry with which they spoke o(

ng the Bible. I L I U a com­fort nii'l a hOfM t'i him that nnp of the lioya

. diapoeed to think well of him, and not to fill in with 101 wicked net. Tht- |ad WW John Mun*"ii, who had been

. mid had not yet irckleaa aa the real. Ilia atory may

I . fore wo a re through. • a Bp i " dames S l c » n » , and

in a hnlMiiuphing, half funny way. aaid Ktt

good a right to prny at tin v lm<-of it. •!•:,.iv mm ta til liking," U my rule ."

JOUR K\ 11

•' I moan to do what I tlimk U right," re­plied Jama* • • • • • ' . I have bMfl brought op t-. pray, and I mean to

•;. ajght nici no TKi. .:u<.l..! UM host of ili.-V.oys, and they

. Jamw to be road« *• T stuff than they supposed at first. They rallied

. iiowover, and Joe Akers told him he than other folks,

. would toon 6ud oat n could take the starch out of him."

• I don't ihiuk myself half so good a« many i . . I •

I BID. I nd I will •

art* net to work by the forem business was •• [oirod no

•

at ii. It wan rhii-fiy to move a pile of tight •toff for MoooBiBg, ami Mmagiog i' so that

..id do the work ii>. While thus engaged there waa no

opportunity for much c-inrcr-atioii, 1 reached him was chiefly from thuse who were bat a Utile older than himself, aud of the Wime

!»p»ny at bis hoarding-house. o

ii'J BOKBE* ANU rilKIK BOTE.

Hi- i n " ac BWBtWiao, Jobs Munson, « u not in the I U W pari of UM loop, and lie saw nothing of him lill the twelve o'clock boll

rang, *nd then they nil rushed out ami I HT> James bad no foul: •

with hi- U"»\. Hi' liu'i bttB BMWtOnud to frugal faro at b) 1 iritb

•:' cold water would have lasted • rly's boiled beef and

cabbage. Hut be bad n.nde up his mind to p i- tbej BUMS to make ibe beat

.:il ln« lot waa too bard for a n ; body to bear. Be

I l bat Uicrc is alwaya more than making u|i yotn i

liiy ho wan learning moro und more of the iruth there is in thai

B h first day's bfceu men had found no fault with him. K. i In tli. shop had treated him veil enough, and ' ' • ' • •

with hU work, and of 1 those who employed him. The first day loop was B great day to him, and whtn n-11 on • rated a

wonderful feat, and VH of ;i man than he was En boyi attacked him again on the «uW

JOB* UVStQS. •>*

..11 iii-.mxi. WA r-aid tliol Do olio Old . i ihuii t it. Jnmc.« 0$M

J o h n MUDKOH, and one of them understood the look, and -

H D M O U , didn't y M t rea t the first ni^lti after you came F '

l.ii.l t u koknoiriadga thai lu d lie took no groat pleasure in owning it. In fact, the Cowing of James had begun to awaken somo good feelings in ihi* lad, arid he was pausing t u think before h e took a n y more

d o w n v v d

AH the rent m bowl of having trtattd, and each one could tell bow many

•irank. BHo waa i|uilo as firm as he h a d b e e n • In-fore. ,

They left James alone again. I f J o h n : - of breaking off from

ttpanj, they nuuanod when he thongbl of the ridkolo they would b m p on him as

\ aoon a s they saw him lagging behind. While t iny were at their frolic hi i

and the nine-pin all- j a solitary

• •.: with lii» Kible, and his thoughts of ntrj I.••!!.•. Be

I tha t he had aomo paper, and he would try to writo a letter lo M a r y ; but h* had none,

04 I;A--K- ,vi, rata won.

i nd IM lid gel nny if he udtnl Iftn.

•omr. . ' l inii-ln-

i t id c- l •Hulk i t wa» plrawti t Ifl ihinl; of it. An.I

f t h a t ho wnni'i ehnptcr or two, an<l lln-n hiiviu^ a ' | ' to him ;.'"i, In- »-iit Dp

lo bed, and was toutid a.*l»-rp when iho roU-

*

CHAPTER IV.

J u:gh! wlrr*luT^—U*Jtr-4jromd *j*»rf*—A Jipkt—J long night trilk a intr ktatl end oriinff Umtt—A

• nmt.

T H K second day of J ames ' s apprentice-hip w u much BB UM only by

i little change i» li**t work. a n d meeting with • i-hop.

Among the. journeymen, (or ra ther those who hail ceaoed to bi . u d W«M DOW

.here were several mco • und character . earn ing enough to

maintain themselves and their nUBiliea respect­ably. They were members of the church. • ml u-i'fiil in ihe community. orderly ci linens aiid intelligent men. Some of them had grown up in the p lace : In i UttM were few. Most of tlu-tn hod com« from ihe Eas t , and had t rongbt with them habits of temperance. indni t ry , and ••going-to-church." But tin-re wn- n o t * man of them all t" n o o n ii l.i-i ever occurred that there ra any tiring for bim to do thop in the way of reclaiming or wiring the young apprentice? from ruin .

66 BOSSES AND T1IE1P. nOYS.

I f there were soy n e b g"<»l rules a s "JVo

•wwrfa • aVosufc •••••»," ii w u riolated daily in.)

hourly by the looser pa r t of tfci ::u>\ il,. :•• ffH BO H»i« Of rtt IOB to prevent a pru t ioO that wai constantly lending to dr^!: The working of the whole syiilem of factory or shop

pon this principle, that iho "boas" » u to •«ork and pay the wages: and the "ork-

. i old, r o r a to1- -'• •elves when their work wa* done. Tl>-

n hy •team, the men an were urged hv the want of moni'y, and nothing

rk and wugea wi I tnployer u d e t n j

• r ihoio boj-a at Mrs. Slatterty 'a boonti I

rtt nude any c •. and if Bill WOton, or any "f thi i: on a ipreo at night, :i-

to vork the DOXl out of

• • •

splendid mansion at * street,

with uncommonly fine and spacious grounds around it for Si l an sloeant carriage of his own manufacture,

iKtiirruiBVcK. 67

and wfc« ho made hi* appearance in New York

with it, ns he dW il was a travelling

advertisement »f In- i) ' M - a r t i c l e ,

na well as to m»ko money by it.

Mr. S t4M hud a b r g i family of bit own. and

being a good Christian man a n d n w o r :

bcr of the church, ho brought t h « u nil up in

tbo fear of God . and in obedience to bia com­

mandment*.

B • " h • I •> • fa ' i i r e T t a J o d ••• M r . P t n n e tha t a pari of his duty a* a C h r u t i a n master

and tmploycr , wa* to wsteh nnd pray for tbo

soul* of tlie hundred end fifty people in bis I'in.iii. Very likely, if Air. -

I 'KHT. and bad w e n nil

bia premise* to j;ot ' he i r dinner. or in hi*

f,ir th<> night, he would

have thought ' t o them, and ,

being a good man in bis way, bo would have

w a d e some cfforti to promote their moral woll-

•reaU b a n tha t they wcro provided with some pi

D N M of ratio: anil im-

• proTcmcnt, when their bnnds W.TO not cm-

ployed in bii work.

round them with the luxuries that i •

him-. If, (which ho certainly was not required

68 I I I &SV THEIR BOTF.

to do.) he would have made them comfortable n ning at their own lodgings; and, with

• .•!- • • 111 iiim, h.- B..i;iil ! u \ . o p m a d -in h •lit- instruction, or moral and

it*, as would hare di­verted thorn from the haunts of rice and tho

Hut then ' wa* no inch place within n-ach of tho poor, who were compelled to spend most of their ttrningl upon their bare support, leaving but a little for the gratification tastes, and those were coon so depraved u to

: .mlv in drink and g Of theto James had a specimen the third even­ing t i t e r In1 a n i i v l in town.

It was Friday, a t the cloae of the second rorfc in tho shop, when the only one of

tho boys to whom hel iad taken tho 1 « l i John Munson, stayed with him after tho real

they * m e b a t t n g John proposed a walk to see what was sjoi I m >re because be did not

know whnt to do Willi himself, than •'-b ' t i iT reason—and they were soon MO

the city. A few «tcps oat of it, James stopped sud­

denly, ' ho arm, u k t d b in whal a a n Lfai n o l n !

A nun um 68

John laughed a t h i * ignorance, ami a*ked : ' • •

A» if it wore quit* down under t h o ground, it low, long, rumbling, rolling sound, ;i

, ' I :I;(CT and crush camo up, repeated often, and always ending in the l U U V l ] if J u n e * l i d known what on awthqnal

; have thought there wna a small ono near the corner of Hampton and Main

!i m ! ;i -limit tha t often cuine up at the esd of the roll and roar , dispelled all fear Prom tin- Bund of t in l istener, a n d only in­creased hi* wonder.

I :hc perplexity of hi* friend, so fresh from thr r»nnt rv , and no unused to ' • l i fe ," that he could not tell a nine-pin al ley from an ear thquake.

" I Bay, J i m m y , " naid In-, in * friendly nnd enooun take a t o n in and see

thorn ro l l . " uBoU whfttf" cxchiiuifd J a n e t , half fright-

I -ccing what was making OW heard, hut !

- a l l be could wit I lunger.

" W l I re. rolling nine­p ins ; nnd if y.iu h a r e n mind, we can ju.it look

I -."> them. Thejr won'l hurt u* any ,

•

HUSK AM. T1IHIU HOTS.

MM occur l#Ja ine* ihol there would be any harm in hi* arcing a new sight, and hr had no thought of aiiy thing wrong in iuch a placo aa a cellar—foe »uch the pluco seemed to bo whenoo tbo novo came up into tbc street. l i e thcref' I . . l a i r s , and

ftlonga narrow pHD tiir -nil "( iIn- boa tobadaaide* door, "Inch was instantly opened in answer to a l»-ll which i lnv rang,

. a ide apartment, lighted with smoky orl-lamp-i, smelling with rank fame* of tobacco, and damp will fined air of the place, presented itaelf to the vuiitora. Three long alleys, uarrow and •mouth, hud uaoh of them n group of >>x or eight half-grown young | |> , : ' ond, and a person aj the . pint for them to ktiock over with ball* which

•i in tarn. The number of pina

anuounced with vagtrner* and marked down: and ono after another took hi* turn in rolling—

• saing with e rc r r Btage of the gonu its par ty , and each party was d • •idea, who were playing to »co which would knock down the greaieat nnmK r of pina, and

rNnrr.-iiRorsi' BPORTS. 71

- the ex-' . gun*. Tin- beaten I'iifiv bad to

treat the mopany, it*d then tin- pinw would bo renewed, UH

I •'. .Tallin* Kiuld ncamdy

i ali. There e n no window under-ground apartment—ooty RnaJl opeaingi under the ceiling* for vmiilj

I -uflicivnt to carry off the foul odour* of |he room, mid no fresh air could make its way Into it. (tn one side of the room, behind

3 ore, was a coupler, in the rear of which stood a long-haired and ibabbydookiri to doal out UqoOffl (•' tin1 eomiuiiy, u thry

in groups to 'ike » drink nl! ronnd, i as a gamo w u lost or won.

BIOI and the rolls the e»

unong (In- player* only, bttf among

anei end his friend Join Mm •

• Duioat of ih' and Hill Will

now that iWy were loose, an I too wiili drink. I James

bar, and to him with all haste. >• Ah! mid ao

72 nosaiM u r n n i m n DOT*.

you hove eomr to h i n a pa' —-glad lo aec yrm—hero's a hand, ootnc, lako a rolL" ThU was llio mddcn and unexpected challenge villi which James wa« graatad.

i l n ' t come to play; but John and .•I u we were walking, just to see

d answer of tlio invitation BO rudely given. • :»ind what you BOOM b r . JToa m

here now, and must t a l e a game «.,• shan ' t co*t yon any [Hog, if you are afraid of that, oe you was wlirn yon wouldn't t reat ."

I on not afraid of the coat; b know bow to play, and don't want to know. If 1 had known what kind of n place it was. I'm »ure von would . • me here—

and now 1 have (bun i ,nit." And . .'antes waa turning to go 001 of the

Akm laid h'u hi and stopped him

tare," said bfl in a bullying tone. >-'body has hurt you;

•

and have some fun."

" L e t g o of m e , " said Janic*. " I'll go when I like, and I don't want any fun of yon."

'ftucc!" Akers replied, and taking Jaincs by the collar, he _

A PIOUT. 7 8

whirl which marlo liim »j.in sonio feet nround itOp. Tlii- t emper of the boy

* M up, and re turning toward the door, mad enough to c ry or to -* mitcrcd

Alters , who h a d plant . . I him •••If w W his back • o let lump***. Jatne*

poshed against him, and demanded to

vod him off. and with so much •4 to t h r u * him down. 1'ici.i.

self up and coming boot; ilu* fi-t nf lii* CIH-IIIV full in the fin-blood s tar ted from hi- ni • ned by

the pain a n d the •name, be drove blindly into Alter*, and with feeble force ail erupted to rc-• h t his stif

" A t . m the T V now nii«ed ill all | : i r t - Oftl

•A ' was thy call of the company as t hey pressed toward

•

find out what wns the i m t i c r . l t u i tlicre «*» i. J a m e s una no mutch for fall foe, and

• • ' I

rago of a brute, poiinct-i on tba pnftj boy and m like a dog.

OO shouted, and t h e r e * . : joued with him in the

ery. Bui afraid of Altera) end

74 M M *JTD TllKIK ROT*.

• _' Ji# lie might have re**..:. the hoy a flogging, and M the poor fellow ua< severely beftli-n before fab assailant would let him alone. F i n ped liiin on ono aid*- of ilia bend, then the

Ind him, and next If g»ve him * blew ocro»» the uoau), wHoh cat hi* lip l ad lv mi liis teeth and drew more blood s t i l l ; ami ho followed up this lavage b rac ing and beating Eall h* »>

, won't you, another time, you - . , ' ' said Alter*, ai toon M bo eoald get breath, giving Stevensa. fnrcwell l ick, which teal b in violently against the crowd that j v. - - - -1 | m o n d ti. BL

" I t 'a too b»d!" «nid John Man««n. " If you •liT, yon might take one • '

and not boat >tm> thut ain't half as big as you a r e . "

Alters felt the contempt even »f his own w t , s o d said he wouldn't have « lnuk him if he hadn' t In g

p n i t ," said John. " Y o n ' • •

. here." \ id a pitched

bat t le in a *BW that Stevens wax deadly halo and readv lo fall.

i ii 'tin: QBAUUEL. T5

IIo look hi* anii, nml two or throe of the more humane o f the boy* joined with him, anil they

- '[•(.tiiitice oat of the stilling collar, bsjlped him <in the .~t--j" into the fresh air, and proposed at 001

W h a t M M U M I,.,i ' ' . . • u,\ t t r a ] :

n hw own home •oh, ninl Mary tu ait by an-i

1.1- •li-'.r.- ><•>. The boys took him to a pump and wa»bcd

off tin1 bipod. Hi- HOI ^'f.-ntly revived, and soon found that ho was uot to badly hm

• L':II_' fa i I

i <>f as among the yo+ffltfai i); il • •

Hck hi* foHOB*. Thi-y 1*4 !; •

rod John Mun-on. o o * loving him as be pitied him, hi-Iped liiin np saying in'tliin/ to the woman nboot what had

II,* m i -lake off hi* clothes, and .l..im. ; i - interest in him growing ttronj ant, M -

maiii"<i by bim and p n t y took of bis clothes. bed," t-:ii»i John, as he turned

A I will covof md you will feel a thousand tin:

in On morning."

l id ) TnEIR BOYF.

'I'im. I never go to bed without that ."

And h< lie )<I himself down by ti.<> »ido of the bed, to pet on hi* knees, John Miuwon knell down too, and with QM nrtn over the

.lames. as if he would give him sup­port, he waited in BOORM to hear tlio prayer Of h i ' :itni-r.| aad -'iIf• r Ji>;; (r.cvl.

in 11ir» own word* at I the friends ot home,

and hi* own peculiar trials and want*. Now i villi ihc Lord'i • i P t tber ,

who ;»rt in hi'.ivcn," and when he came to the as we

those who trespass against OS, ' ho prayed for J> lid bless liiiti and glW him a letter mi-be prayed that his o » : •• >ueh ft

•

night bo forgiven, and that God would keep him from falling into do again, EQ|

w u short, for hi* limbs

I', them down on the bed. gave him sueh help u • . said a n -, til! ho had tu in nicely, and Jamce was quir t . And then J a n u s m i tl. •peak.

I U K raoMi'TKD n u x n . 7 7

• V •! nrp i>ogood t ome , to eomo houte with mr . ni><] DOW N> take ncfa eaw of me, bare been eo wicked, and don''.

•nr •Mil l '•

T no l inger , and b a n t ­ing into tears, said, « I want to pray too . "

" Do pray, d o , " raid Jatnee, i s he •«* at ...t the heart of his young friend was

•

•• I p 1 ••• pre* wh • • •. I>nt its three or four years since I came away, and I've :

do t r y : it will all come to yoa nly just begin."

John afDMon knell down again, and la id— ' * O G • • !" and here he paused. Word* would

• Ipod b in by -" T r i l l t to he what you ought to he, and are sc-rrv t!n.i •

went on, Jiirhca prompt-, and John taking up his words and

y e n aa he wen: till th made a full eonfeB*ion,«nd s trong pro-rtuwa to be good in time to come.

" I wonder if

I would rather than to get in wiih Joe . A t any rate I'll try it, and if he turns

7P BOUBS AXD TlHtl* DOT*.

BM "in when he comes home, why M be it." . toned, ai.<l James encouraged bun

*o torn in *ith him, vaJefa be diil willwQl any delay, though it *n- hardly nlna a and he had never been in the bnbit of going to bed before Mrs . Slatterly 's appointed hour of I a,

A a Joint was lying down, James actually I pain. J i J - !.::':- nrhed Sadly,

u a ha wold not help a sigh now and than, mora u ha Ml tkal he had brought

all this misery and disgrace upon hu

» I was so glad to hear you pray." said m too, when John supposed-

be could be think i bol hi- own

pains. to pray when I was at home, but

oh, I 've been a wild boy since. Whi D yoa the other day. I thongbt of my

tappy I v u there." l ie wouhl In.

lid not flow •

lid James to him, " a l l aboat i D I'll till you about OOr'sV'

Jnhii rli i - l Up hit '"ie<' and began.

I W I 'i Oran rllle, iifiy miles or more from here, ami my father has a farm. H a

JOnS HTOROX'S STORY ~V

and mother belong lo the church, and u n d o os all go to chun" . every Sunday, ind tty oa r prnyrr* 1 morning. Bui i liked it up there, it wn» 10 dull—nothing going on—and I tried to g»*t father lo let me learn a

« i d it would ho better for me to stay and work on IIH- farm; nod I did s tay till I win fautMfl y M a old, and th ' i : 1 off—ran away. I mppose—and went U N • York, where I t r ied all aorta of way* to get a l iving; now at work at thi«, and now at t h a t ; not long at any thing, and never awalsf, mora than just enough to gat my virtuaUtand cluthcj, ami ROl imirli of tln.'in, nnd very poor too.

•• A nd then you know I got in with a bad set of fellows, that WIT.' up to all f r t > of mis­chief; and what good there w u in me when I left home, was all used up and gone in a abort

two y e a n or BO, anil then in ill- :i lri[i M sen, and that lluixhcd me. Bl It, and n a - glad enough

to pet i pom thing anil . a t l u i 1 got here about UtrM non tb l i a t good lack would have i t , I got a place here in Stone'* chop, and mean to stick to it.

• • Itut t h e n - f fellows here, I tell y o u ; and if I could only keep clear of them, there would bo tome hope of doing something.

8 0 BOWES AND TI1EUL HOTS. 9

Kiit in nil tlic fbui n o t e I C«m* away from - house, 1 never saw any one

of the boy* who prayed, or who did and hare their way eej Sum] tjf. And when I taw vim w:i- graving yesterday morning, after Bill lung 001 when I was at home, and used to nay my

•• Ob ,luu, I tell you what it i\ wo may get over every thing else, but we ean' t forgot mo-

• •

of UM IM'I wfalla we «aid our prayers. That ' s what has hung around me all tho time,

. re been, and whatever I havodono;

ainl if I bhoulil he as hail as Joe Akcrs or Bill Wilson, I plimiM t trer target th. -! from my mother when I wu* a little boy, and wiid my prayer*."

l td nil ibi- -villi tlcep Ukl i 11- *aw that in his new-found

friend there were the B U M be bad b i t • tanght : u d nlili"iigh for three

»d had been cxpoacd to s t rong i t, and had doubtIe*J h e n

i . l m i l nut wholly forgotten the in-iroctiona of hit ehildhood, tho lewoni b« had learned at his mother'* knee. Jnmes

-. his own ache* and pains in nil

~M< D P I : 8 1

sympathy with John , whoso s tory had so scn-' IM recollections of p u t yea r s .

A n d ' ! sd of their early homes,

of pnronts mid staler.- ami b ro the r s ; or, 1

noiwithstanding his aches and pftiBSj iwhit-h rely foil the next day.) was very

eloquent when praising M u y , whom he firmly

to bo the best i-irl tha t ever Iiveil. A n d be never was afraid o r a s h s m r d to s a y so .

Tli'-y war* in tbfl mMtt of tin ii • !;• " in. . '

when J o e Ake r s and Bill Wilson came in, the _- to their room. J o e was half

drunk—incased rather more than half—and so s tupid a s to t ake Utile M the boys

m bed. Bill did not exactly like i t

• •

r a the r sleep with Joe any l ime, ihon with such

a chicken-hearted fellow u- that Stevens. T h e y

BH re - oa ell sound uleap. D6W and ' a d experience

in the uh of car young A •• a \ from Lhe d be think, when ta lking it over with

Mary , or while t rudging along barefoot in search of Ins foriinit', iliat in three day* after

into his new p b almost to death in a qasr re l with one of his companion ' , and go to bed groaning with pain

• me.

ȣ ROSSES AND T u t u BOTB.

[ the ij/ittm. |'w< might almost tay the heathenish •

• boll of t i n t great t o w of labour »;.< i , M . ' I . I . Mo diil not know that iii a

than ten thousand n were at leaat one thousand young

men for whote m a b no man ear. might spend their nights a t they pleased, if

l b r m i well by day. It was no concern of Mr. Stone's, how murii I

' money, or bo» 11 drank a* gnaMwl)

thry bad, if tbr carriai;,-, that were ordered wore the beat that could bo made. M lomer* HMT f'.uitd fault. A juat aa too many employers in onr great manu­facturing lowis have always felt ftl

• • 'lid nut feel at nil. It is no wor«e in the factory ayitcm than in the tooreantile walk* of life. Many a merchant who baa fire, ten. I Mat in hi* service, satiafics hia c m . think* that he fails of doing hi- l

I dollar* a year for their work, and leave* them t o

L- image*. Toiome ind others,

if he ga« • •-'. 1 only bare mora

utioMi n n n ,

to speml in the fked, and thus would but hn«l«-ii tluir own min.

If yoni bare not the restraints of home, parental and ties to bind tlu and to tho path* of wisdom which aro plcnsaiiti, they are in danger. And those who In

iro under solemn obligations t« mako aome provision far their moral and intellectual ewe. This whole matter ought to be looked a t ; and perhaps it will M KKD need of quito as great a refer n. ment of our social avatem as in any other.

I ' l l M'TER V.

U n 4 to w mm-1\vtk bU-A miUinj hamS-i tatt/W m«J f-wW - Arfln- to Jbrjr— Tit grtmt fin —TK' ynoij b v n '

T in : appearance of James, IM he presented hep the nexr morning, wan far

I

t a d one iek all around it, that any one

would fay, »' •' •' b in , tha t he had been fighting. l ie wi»* *o con«cioiu of

uelf, that he hesitated sometime before up hi* mind to meet thfl

UM foreman ID UM sh< • >f the boys, who ma id kaur joke* at the expense of hi« fnee of r -

•II told him it was no strange !• hare black eyi

h i praniMd l" put it all right with -L-nkina, the foreman, if any notice w u t n l .

• • I ilim'i van! u

to think I've been fighl " Will vou haven't exactly. You have been

• i

ASttAvm TO u s ans. 8 5

abused 1'V * big bully, who ought to ho

pounded"

*aid J a m e s . " Y o u know wo p r a y * forgive us a s we forgive our enemies ; ' L ; 11- irv and feci right."

or learn lo be good, if I i n o i l n fidlutr oil J o e

U fiv. I l i i " months, nn<l I I K V . T knew him to do the first

• tha t wasn' t mo«n of cruel. bod y tin ten trim; and the boy* who a re moat l ike him, ha le him the mos t . "

i r e to ld ," said J a m e s , " t o love our . and to pray for t h a n WW) di'-|iit.-fully

use us ai"I p O n o O o M n i ; UM cer ta inly Joo is ju s t one of thota who need our p r a y e r s . "

u u two boys on their the shop. A s they entered it, t hey

met Mi . i • .ITort

• -. M that uuj

wounds a n d bruises should no t be I lie said,

•

and having been longer in the shop u

- with the formidablo foreman, he told him the q DUTOI between Joe a n d

<iid of .-our»e laid all the blame on tho

I 8

Rti M M VBt TIIKIR BOY".

H Bol t 1: i a Ifr, Jenkins; ••howo»m< • - ich * |ilaco T Yoa had no bu»ine« there, and might b»W

into trouble if you -John I U ready with lit-* J .I!*«.T. "Jamcji

ami I were out, walking; ami U IK- hid nrv.r v. I toot IiiTB» 'i'^wn to Me

tlirm ro l l ; lint as toon M he found -ml it t i u * ba "an ted to come away, and would

nt, if Joe hadn't flopped him."

Mr. J « n k b l wo* »li»fii~i.

ir work. Jones felt M if |l(- had I 1 l.y hia adventure. u d h

him-elf with hiving done wrong, lie wait sorely panarind b hi* own feelings, ot tn if he did not •ink in the esteem of others.

ThU fear that Mr. Jenkins wjptild not like. D tiow that he had been in inch a

ncrape, and come ont of it with inch a foee, mode James more than ever careful to attend faithfully to hii biwincM, and t» gain a« far

Liar opinion of thuM around (.in !n !::•- attempt, ho woj glad lo have the

Unnion, who seemed to cling IgOMDt nnd hi i | .

he wan three yeara older than Jon, fi ll it .1 .'i. • had strength in bj

-J

FAITHFUL AHD I- 8T

principle and Ms !••..• f..r the Bible, tint DO years <«i:; WOtft) g i " to any DM.

mpfa, and be-h;ii h.> was always right whou doing

M Janus did, he hold lo him fast, as his guide and fr

luoudis from tho limo James entered thi» *hop, he had worlc?d bis way by diligence and faithfulness, i into a fair knowlodga of the early stages of the

be bad undertaken, hot what was far more difficult, into tho •:• • loukins,

and of all the journeymen who had any sense of tin- •> good boy orer a bad

V more Willing hand llu'iv was not about the concern. Trusted beyond t| and often called on to go hare and Ui was ready always, and never failed to give

'••a by the manner in which ho dis-bil duty. Jlnt it M l a long rood and

• profiensney in tl nesi>; and however much he nii<-ht desire 10 he

bettor for himself than to ho merely carping bin food and clothe:"- he saw nothing before him hut to wait patiently, work on, and trust God for the future.

is doing njtlhing for the lorod ones at home, and this thoognt gaM him pain, ilis

B? . " - - r - t n illVIft BOW.

• r l hat) i l '•-1in—; u d si.i- gaw b in a liitlf «'..ni!'..ft.*Thc better Opinion favoured bU slaying where lie wai and trying as ban) w bo could to get an increase of wagrt u » O D n- powiblc. That good time be fell w u t o come, one of these days, and he

• « I I not r e r y far off. Such an example ai James w u BO

ought lo bar* had Home effect upon tboae who wi re with him in hi* boarding-houW and in iho

v MW him ri-iii^i in the regard of • 1 esteemed for hia industry u d

I • •! eonduot, uid often referred to us the UH-M of a hoy; ba t tbey

U BJOM i" their course of evj | t o bo much affected by the good example Men of Jamci> Stevehf. And lie <\\,\ nut press himtielf on their attention, or provoke them I alratiec. lit* plan Hoi to mind hia o\»n btui-new, a n d never to ba te iroxdl with thoac whom In- ilril ti.it like, unle** they imposed their

ip'jn him. in wl always ready to maintain what ho believed to he right, no matter how many hoys there were,

••-•re, who thought otherwise. Ai to living "»liui up" by the indolence of other*, BO long a* In- bad t^.- b n itfa <-f life in him, he would stand up fur what ho though!

*JL

LKTTKR TO MARY. 89

was fair and true. come what mi^ht. In time

tin* habit earned For bin the raped of thoM l i r tne . They saw that

elioved,

I n good n reason to give fur his way of h id for the irs :

so that when l i n y would no: I their own error, nn>t much less would admit that James WD- • oonpo l l ad 'M

f e d that he was more of & man than any of l!i.TII. .1 : .u'in him that nono of

I had.

Lato in tbo mirnmer of thi<* first year of J a m e s - apprenticeships circomstance occurred lli:it gave n ooJooriBg to his future cniiru, and must be mentioned here. Hut tin- b

will be to g in

he first part of the atory is told in his

own simj/

LETTn TO X

M M : v . — I gol vour h I

igo, and you can't tell how mu

I :, :1 yon in -ill n i

am lonesome, and want to SM yoo and all the

h o m e ; but then I know it's all for the beat as it is, and that helps me to feol con­

s '

90 BOSSW AKD THtlI» BOT?.

(cnttxl wncre I am. IT it wo* not Tor yoar Utters , thai come once in a great while, I could nol Moinl it anyhow.

Lint night we bod a great time here. A large (hop, where they made carriages just a t the* do in our* , wai burnt down ; and to-day there ha i been tho greatest time about it in our shop, and in all the re»t. thai

• • •• • *et on fire by one of our boy», and he haa been taken up ami i- [nit in JTiil tn !*• tri.-l f.ir >:. Ymi

i in my In t e r abont Joe Akrr*. one of tho wor-'

I j have taken u p ; but he i i not the only one that had a hand in it by a good deal. I rather think that I know something abont it, and if I thought it was right for me to fay

•lark, o> tho boy* pay, Z belter. But 1 don't know what I

Yyu see, Joe Aker* and I nro not good friend'. He always had a spite

i told you and don't

here, "lii-ti br tried lo make me bojra, and I Wouldn't. .1 ^•lad to hurt h im; but 1

wish him well, and would not do him any harm if 1 could. Xow. Mary, what do fofl think I

LITTII TO MART. 01

ought (o d o ? •' ': know what n i ui John in) nn.i I

together in ilic aaroc rri"m with Bill Wilson and Joe . Mr- BUt tar l j •'••• I ] • fittt«N »J. t U

I ten o'clock, and lets nobody i» ifkar t h a t tin..-, Hut las t n ight , af ter wo h a d all been in bod for an hour or more, iho born, J o e and (till, got op, and, as softly as the]

> li i l . .lliesand wont out into I ho o ther room, where four other boy* nre sloepi; In i t 1 t h e n get u p and eonld see them dress­ing, for it was li^ln enough from tho windows.

Afi. rth.-y bad b heard them go down-stairs on G

• .11, so ns not to dis turb Mr- . S la t te r ly , and then they opened the front-door and m m ML I '•• • bad not been gone long, no! more than half an hour, when they came in again , bolt-

• I. .mr. crcj.i ii|i--iairB and into eta paffihg MidjuBpiBg into bed.

••Think t i n y arc awake';"' say B " N o , UM • >p like log*," .

Raid Joe . ** I only wi-h that watchman had boon asleep

too ; but I'll bet a dollar ho 'saw me, and will know uif when lie feci mo a g a i n . "

M this t ime w r heard the c ry of Fin! • • : . .

&2 BV&U AND TOTI* » « .

We were all up in » minute. >Ioo and Bil! pretended io be faat ajdeep, but when wc were

twriy drwri, ti,.y.vUd vfaal mi i« i i v. and, ( in i f th ry had j and drafted too. Wc nil ran >•''

- -in. tin. By iMl lime tha fire m all through tlio shop, and llieTa m i so much light miff in it (hat it Mined i l l op. »nd in a very little • burned doWV. " i l h all tha t waa in ii. N'ow, John and I knew well cnongh th.it hn»" come from tlii> idiop with Rill and pcrbaj" one or two of liio bow who room. Wo knew from what we K«W and heard

PAN Inol- TbtJ "'TO 0D| of breath, a* if they had been running hard ; ond the way they spoke about tho light and the naiehman, make* iw auro that they had been

• lire to the »hi>|.. toll any this/; abort i t : If wi • !• will all be down on o.«, and we *hall bo kicked about) ai lone a* wo atay hare, fb* ull-t.il> -. What to do I don't know. John aayi he idiall say nothing till he ii aajnd, ana then he shall tell the truth, feo • lis 11 I, and lb< do what ihey have a mind to.

M would write to me M what y . u think U right. Yon know I would d o

Kl.NSIS'i WITH Flltfc-K.NlilXK.-. Ml

that , a* soon .in I find out what is r igh t , nnd n o body can ttD '»<' bflttM than vmi. Ifoo recol< lect when I wft* going to run away froi you told mo no t to go without fa lher ' s knowing it, and how much hotter it wfli tha t I took your

ud told him nil about i i : :\n>\ now I want you to tell mo again jus t what yo T h U b the longest letter I over wTOte, and I

i id KO much to write about before. Give my love to all.

loving b ro the r , J A M K S B U I

Tho burning Of H r . factory was one of many fires | [da re that summer in the city. It was r a r e t h a t a n ight passed without some a l a rm. M a n y rf these wore false a larms, DM i to eall out the engines , and have a tun with t h e m , down o n e s t r ee t a n d u p a n o t h e r , m a k i n g as g rea t a racket a* if the whole city was on fire. Th i s van considered greirt sport among

and half-grown yOOQg im n. of the appren t ices hung a round nl! the

cry of fire they riulied i n , seized the "machine," as t hey cnll i t—ond away they went, whooping like so many In­dians rushing to bat t le . B re ry t o n thui k ind wound up with a row of some

94 DOftSKft aSD THF.in BOY*.

generally a drinking frolic, and often broken re always lite fore­

most for running with the engine*. Too young t r,\ as regular member* of the firc-

I li.mselre* U|HHI the skirts of the different cornpaiiic*, and gQ| up H.

:v. ninl fought M bravely, awore an roomily, anil drank as freely in behalf of their favourite engine, u if they had n til

BM. In this way the engines de­stroyed the ioubt of the boya, white they were

! 1 . l l . . Bill

did parents beg that theirchildrcn m allowed to frequent these engine-bouse*. Tho

Infatuated with tho excitement, and preferred the race to any other amusement that could be found. And the worse they grew,

hi y liked tho nightly run and revel. -e alarms became so fa

ihe city government took step* I them, and they made a law to allow any citisen

! .1 person raise tho cry i - was nn cause for the alai

tho p e n on crying, and to deliver him into the hands of an officer. In this way it was made

real for tlie boyi lo raise an alarm, --• liable to bo " n a b b e d " in an in*

atom, by anybody in the street, l tut the

L

' ' • * •

alarms of fire were ab^r (tor thta i and with thin great differ*

rj<.<y were nlm<*t nil rtal fin MM place remote from the centre of. business, an old shod or born standing a short d from ibo house*. would W in Him- s though Uura had been DO Bit in it during •• and perhaps not for j e a n . It was plain that thojr had been fired by some miscreant, but for what purpose il could nor. bo learned for. a long time, till it was suspected that the boya bnrntd tl ut :be engines.

A terrible disaster and a fearful' tragedy resulted from Ihi ' V.-UHPSI on tbo part of th" boyi. Tli. y bad marked a small and long-deserted tenement u just the build­ing to make a grand illumination, and, an no­body lived in ii. they would do no harm, as they said, beyond destroying the property, which was of rery litil-

"And it's n i . '•"," said one of - they wore calculating on the expe­

diency of burning it up. u |- doM Dobodj toy good, and it will make

1 of the street look a great deal ither. ." added a third, -'especially while it's

b in : : . i t i . * . '

VO M U I iVD TO KIR tOlf.

So it wan agreed on nil hand* thai tho homo •houlil be liuniM, and I ' I« next Saturday night

M Tor tho deed. More than a down Of boy* just j?;

D, were engaged in the | ' l iny bid b iUur t t tUoniptod nothing beyond the burniin' i 'luiniy. there w u

a d ihe anticipation of the "U l ln - i kind of sport ." The f o r m r firw had tumnlly ooSHRtd I : •omc public meeting w u in p rog re« in one of the chnrehe*. thai la* breaking up of Uic an-aeinbly and the confusion that foi l"" ' d migbl

t «t the occasion. But now thfy had day night ; u d a i tin boiMingwai

• •

it «o» thonj bt the fire till af i r r t h e people wore i l l it »n« qolta midnight when the alarm VM

\ mail Who bad been out late was Dh b b way home, and >aw the flames bun t ing from the front-duor "f the old tenement. Ho

<M w u in iho house, bnt irflhort the delay of an barfaflt, he gave thu alarm. »hieh *»» taken up by the watcb-

iprwtl far and • few of those fir».t routed gathered around the

?!ii. roow nraosuuMi - 1*7

MM CUM ni.-l.ii Htnoko •nil fire, with a oMU •• i| dinging

ii inte • who i r o n in i . back and dashed into t h borning house again .

lools te . Thc*toir-ca»c, n p o a v U e b lie

I u i . hud fallen a his first load, and now 01

he«to<-d. I•'.' bslo tin* Hazing chnm-wife t a d rlii) in II. t t

wa* a house bu t a story ami a half high, and

" i f caoon appeared in • nig to raise the

Midi, fhr flWr gave way, and ahc Mi the mow of Brol Two "T be* children ncrcr

•' burned alivo, !i:ip» suffocated ai ;e, before

Wt and devoured them. The frantic 1 ..y that

bwring tho roar nud e n c M i o g O f On boose ; that be called to bit wife, who waa with bun, to follow him, and tot t ing their e J out n» MOB E« he could, auppofing tbat she wa* brli" had lakei i ' l ie home , Hating ob-

tfa* privilege of l i rmg in Ji for ' of the wiiriu lesMn, or until they could do better, Ky a s t range coincidence, ibc first

!1P BOMtf AVD TIIKIH ItOM.

night tbey had »U*pi in tha : ' •

! • • • • ; , • known the awful M of "-Ii-'ir WloktdMttiB

to A h o w tottl m not i l inr own, U .

The terrible tragedy sent a thrill of horror through tlu As (be hoose had

t'Uin enough that i t '•con the work fif an |

•

tfe« part of tho family who liml jui t B M whoa they came to e w n h w tha

premises, tin* "nil* of wMoa were left standing, it w u plain that bundle* of alrnw hail t een brought and put into *"**3i a n ( '

there, not far from -taiw, had On fire. The wonder was tliat eten

tho man had been able t o make bi i way out

But to secretly had the thing lieen managed that tho fitiiltT parties wero not detect'-•). T)i--_v l u l taafar ""i» Imrrnr* of remorse, whm a n HW the ©stent of tho « f l ihey had wrought, but they were silent a- doath about it. fearing to apeak of it to one u o t l u bo oterheard. And so they escaped prcMftt pubblinniii .

CHAFTKH VI.

PWumrf—7V trial— TV K*taK*—?%e ctHMpmet*.

Off! would think that BO dreadful an event os that resulting from their Foolish and wicked

• •

lad tint UKM D K U M I Fellow* would have making fun and

nun and IT, <li.-in. Kach one of the rogues

did think in his own heart that it would be test to give it up.

But ihere were too many of them. Tin , were always putting one another up to mis­chief. "Who*! ai'r;uilY—I ain't !" WM

wng among them. Andfromoi : r they went, till the burning of Van

. WM agreed on as the grand exploit of the Reason. This stood so far out of tho orowdod part of the town, tl: i was vrr-

toother huildiiigs; and it was so long and large, BO full of light. > ' it would make a grand whole town. And there were not BO many

thk plot u in the other. It was too 99

groat an undertaking to be tnn icd to miint hand* anil tongue*. Joe Afcor* Lad planned

•jueof the < be joined

by a single otir betide*. who lived in a hou-e eloio by, and lhe»e ftw b^ I

. end carried it through. It t u not done u well M they expected.

• !»roe blander*. frightened and fled in great hame, hut not until the flame »r:t" ktndfc I tad. they had good reaaon to fi»ar thov wont I '

i ipomed, »lu-ii the affaif n m c lo be

. As might bo exj>cct*d, the fire « u the great

nilijccl of ci inrei- '1 (J, and pro­duced i n axeflemtnl tbnt reached nearly crcry man, worn.-I M one of the lending maanftoMran in t lu

la had grown un with the city, m d n» hi* bniinen increased, he bad built nnd rc-Imilt, always enlarging, and only a year or two

bad ttrnek m l of the central and crowded part of town, unite into t!.

sold hare p lmty of room. Hara bad put up a largo and commodious building, and was driving » great huiincas, an ieant one hundred and fifty nicu and boya.

: i IK!-. 101

-ruction of hi* property, :in<i the aud­i t a throwing out of work of to many. «n<l •Among them those who had families depending on their daily labour, was an event of groat

. ndoooH Ml t;iil torouaotho feelings of iho wind.* eomiuiimtv.

A- John UDDMD ••''. I .'nines were coming from ilk- ph.tp to dinner, they saw a hand-bill

the walla :—

$500 REWABD Will he piiid to any one who will give infor­

mation that will lead ' « of the person or persons who set fire to A. Van Arden's carriage i wring.

A. \ " &BDU ft 00.

Tb* botl read it, and walked on in silence for a few moments cwh thinking what it was

, to do in thin matter. They had ol-tO toll the truth

if they were Mired, hut now Ihoy were culled '•n to OOtae forward and volunteer th

unl if it were not eoncloirire it might lead to something <1H<-.

•

ward ought not to make any difference, bnl they do what wu right, whether there was

any money to be made by it or not. They «•

102 BOF«»t AM' W

were afraid of being abused by tbfl wicked Mt around them, vet tbcy were much more afraid of doing wrong and dup lex ing

M Jiison bad como to feel that tin- fiar of God i» better than tbo fear of man.

•

(.i liinncr. Wliit »•» their anrpriaa, vhcD

< I at Mr*. SUtierly'a, to fiadaU tht When was

Dfl knew nn_v thing more than that • wlltTI* J o s

worked, and spoke lo him, when he wont out, and hiui not f i n e Won seen.

The fire and the reward and the absence of J M wore the subjects of conversation at din­ner. in which all joined with groat interest and

U very still, • Km,-,):* with woadoringwhat bod

become of J o e !

.!

•

hi. bear) baa* quicker than ' • thought waa of |he fire. But he neither started nor turned pale. l i e bad never been sent for to

::-> receive hi t wagca, and he know that it waa not the lime for that, so that it must be something new, and,

Tin: .ifliiKST. 108

H" pa l on his coat, BIK] walked out with ti swaggering, carries* air .

J o e was n r p r i f e d ta find that the office i r u

filled » : ' f whom he h i d I to nono of whom, except Mr.

I en in his life. II.• hud

manners enough lo Uikc off his h i t , which he »U>ot\ twirling in hi* liari'l.

H*. Si IPok*. to him :—'• Akers , do J O B about the fire last night ' :"

. l i r . " " J)U to ! « • it with the r e s t ? "

. -ii ; ba t Ldon'l know a n y t h i n g oboat haw it go t afire."

yoo first UM cry of fire?

• '. . I was in bed, and asleep. Mr. Stow. What t i m e did you go to bed

I Jot. About tan o'clock. Wo always go to

uid no-:hat .

ftflu. A n d you wor»> not out of the home last n ight ,af ter ; <>i"firc?

. . -n ' t ; and Bill Wibnfl with m e : tit. I be kjtowi J W U D ' I .

.Mr. Stout, I 'id you • knife bo-

forc?showing him adoublc-bladcdpocket-knifo.

I ' M ' .. 1I>V«.

. / • ,- \ l i ' l

3Fr. Stone• TLen thin a not yovf k . >ir ; 1 n.'wr • :•» the 1 i

In mj life. Mr. StOM "li'l that he had no more quee-

liona to aak, anil tlio •hcriff. -who was present. rote, and telling Joe that Kt uai hit pruoner,

•ffice and nji to the court-houw, where he wai locked in a cell, and loft to hii own reflection!. The jailer wai directed to allow no intcreourw between Joe am) any one eke, especially hU eroniM, »huuld any «>f thrm. iii thi' OOUTM of the evening, attempt to get a chance tn talk with b in .

Il w u a >rT>-miy ' l iy fi.r Joe, U I a* many that catno afterward.

What could be the reason that he was »us-, [list watchman ! Joe knew that aa hr w u ranidl • Ike factory he had

I »ne of the o i t j wntchm< . :uuch afraid

that he was known ; hut then ha m the watchman ootdd know nothing of arbor* he

doioffi

•l .eonrrfcl-; a«w In' *«• out, and thi

much in the bnainwa as he was. Thoy ooald no*, tell without telling of themselves; andthey

PU LVVKTIGATIOK. 105

woatd D fooli ^ t i n t . Still, ho

wafl w r y mwugr. \h- l a m tiMI ku

he knew when and where lie m a s t have loi t it, a n d what be was doing when ho loit i t ; and

.ot know whoae ic was, i t was-very likely t h i i : - umeof the Soy* i aide to prove it was bjfl : bought

i t o « r , the worse i t looked Rtf him. !!• pro. baldy hud never read those t<

• I!.' Aure your fin will find you ou t . " •• • < fiefl '/I" Mr..-"

formed a committee of investigation, and with the aid of the police of the c i ty , they were p a w n i n g their im[uir i r . in » w r y direction. T h r watchman h id reported Joo Akers u having !•• u l i ili»

s t r ee t ju*t before the alarm of fire, and that information led.t i hi.- a irosl on suspicion. T h e

ili' ' dirt , some little diKUOB from the rnd Of the factory where the (ire hefpio, but as yo t no ton to who:.. (bar it had any

i '-aught one, and through him th«-y hoped to reach the

i break up a gang of incendiaries now log to bo the ruin >•( tho city. They

fcpsra lcd after Joe was taken off, tOt) to meet again in the evening.

lut;

It f u lhat evening that .lot,. M»ry fur ui ' . -- . 11' 1.1 n.>i have lime lohear

lM W U called (o act in the very m. ' r

The next <tay all the boarders .. torly's wore called op, one after another, and examined separately oa lo what they know of

nd who wiia in L tho home during (he priming and the night.

Bon nnd James Steven* told their Btory^Kiih a straight-forward, open air nml

Dded it lo tho gentlemen

.itr. £/•>. - .CME, I h » w •ecn Vou brforu, have I net I

>>•», air. I wa i ' in «6e office with the niini»Wi«—Mr. Jones—when 1 came hare

i ' • . ' . 11 i lasjpjr. *&'

L now I r«-niembiT''nhat Mr. JonM aaid of van. Have you seen much of Aker* and WiUoo ?

to ace them at meala and in the morning. I have kept out of

[eooU -:iiccl found oot what kind of fellow* they are.

Mr. Stone. Ba t you muit spend your even­ings with them, when you »«<• BDI I )

Jamil. Oh no, dr, We have no place U

avai. 1"7

•

ff to find n** much fuu a» .(hey can. I • »itb ihcm. John Muasofl mid I stay

i t home Bti'I do as well aa we can. A non thought it ruck Mr. Stone at thin

moment. :••.• 'iinea— •*I)o ; iraAt of some place 10

upend your evcning*in ?" .A(.';r.'». \V.••: .. sir. v.-ry much indft

many of the bow* Who are now in the habit of going lo (he nine-pin alters and tho> liquor-nouses, would Blay away if there wu any other

. '•I tO . i . . .

plain (ha: one of I ii and Chn-tiiri employ-

e n nwrd to their apprentice* hnd m -been Attempted, and many youth bad perhaps gone to ruin fron t >• i - neglect* though tleasnew - bnl fiUal it had been to bun-dfada, now hf\ if aid.

Jaroe* and John ooul | <*f any :ri their roon •

•i and -ir.it the npponite door, but who came out with thoni it was inipOFsiblo

i 10 nay. Who was the third, and how • with them, it was t)o» •

if the coiutniuee to find out. They called in

WB BOSSES AND T in ih fort'

\Vilmiii'-ap4iii. who hail already •'• '••• ltnowh ttor an roundly • did, bat with a falteriog voice and in thai g*T« lh<* cer.tlemcii r<M««» to think l i n t

MW more th in ho v u willing tr>«ay. The •OCa of Munfoo and Steven* wa* concla-•I to Wilson's connection villi the lire,

and they do tor in in id to frighten him. if possi­ble, into & confeaaion. Wilson own* with more

0. Wlmt u<r*! W |„n the r tiled with him. be was in

- that he wni not ItUpeev •

10 the bottom or thU nat ter , and the bcM thing J O B can do for your-

- to ma le a clean bi .. ol ^ . - • ItH name* of all who had any baud h

M:er* are fouivl M enough. You two w<-n- oot together half an

hour boforO too Bra, nnd you bad other com­pany with you. After Retting fire to the build­ing you ran I | a company; Joo

• was aeen on his return, and yem wtnl in - H S latterly**, and came nul

again shortly after the alarm was given. I Ii re ii Aker t ' knife, which was lot! the fire. Vcu know it, and know nil < uid you ami Joe will go to the pec:

Tilt INVE-riOATfOX. 10!>

ODIOM you confess an-I I _• «^cd."

• Thi* wu like a thnndt>r-rU]i u> Wilton. He » M 8t> confounded that lie m•• u.-k liiTii-i-ii" how* till tliia wa* known-(poo, there vw ii" denying that, and he wtp-

iw in tlu world it lifld oome out. Wilrfta letfMd tlu gratt truth that

r«r man commit* a crime, ll-.v-n BoJi • • :'i;it lie would toll all he knew abixjl it.

"Stop," Kid Mr. S toy , «Iei ov 100, if you toll a tie now, it i« all OTtT

with you; and il" you try to deceiro us nny i i not trust to any thing yon

say. bin DM ila* evidence wo have against you . and let you t$k< u then confonedthat Joe Alters, Mark*,

and he were the only ones engaged in gutting fin to tli.' factory, hut it hud been talked of a good deal, in their set? for some time post. They three wont out together, and no was with them. Mark- and ho itood fcrent points of approach to ' ' Joo went to the building and nude a fire of

Epi at the wc*t end of it, and ran a* »oon as ho had got it fairly kindled. Jlo most h»ve pulled hia knife out of his pocket at he was

10

110 BOSSES ASI> Til!

get t ing the match*.* out, M ho h a d no one fov it llml Wilson could tliinW ofi Thry l o w to take different ? t rcf t i on their way home, ao u Hot to a t t rac t at tention, u d t o meet a t t h e corner nearest M M . Slat ter ly 'a , and nil go in U^cther , u they came ont. In nniwer to fitr-

iiiine*, Wilson added that tlu-v fired the building for tbtCtlMOf

out the engines and the people, and to have -»ii pood t ime geQAnUy."

WUafl) were taken off b j &« -IK riff, and lodgoMnja i l , in separate few weeks afterward they were all brought up for tr ial . Wilson » u ndmitted u a witness

th« other two, who were convicted of —ntenccd to the Mate pritOB—

>' i r - . and Mark* for four. Wil­son was diaehnrgtd, but woa advised to Have the Sta te , which he did without delay. *

A few. years ago these three boys would have been shocked a t being told that thoy would he

••I of stiph a crime before t h r y n-cro •'! Team or ape ! Bui the road to ruin

ia rapt i; • ; all the way down hill-Bad company ii bad enough! Running with

w o n t school* t h a i b a d boys eTpr attend, Nine-pin alley* and li^uor-sbupa ar r tin • • .• Ah. Few a rc saved who £'• in thereat .

CHAl'TEIt VII .

Qrtat rtnUt— Tht boy** #i*not*—Mr. Jonea m nfvrm.

V. g i r was the effect of this crime and pa-nUhinent upon tlio youth in that community ? That it put an end to fires for mischief in vorf

• imple that was made of Akcra, Marks and Wilson *ent a thrill of fear through

•]> in the city; ami those who bid been moat food of tht> sport of burning down houses and getting up fire-alarms wero now most afraid of being caught. But they wore: not nude better, only more cautious in their choice of amusement*. They were no logs) fond than before of the riot in the streott and the revel in the alloy* and beer-shops.

Bui there were two of the youth of that . whom the example of these wicked

incendiaries was not lost, (hough they were not : the danger of

bad company. James Stevens and John Muii-!v ronwd to the great

work of socking a reform in the habits of the youth by whom they were surrounded. They talked the matter over with great serious-

i l l

112 no«E8 AND THEM BOTB.

new among themselve*. Il seemed 1" tli«ni tliat ili.- g n a t difficulty Iny in the want of in­t e r n ! on the part of their employers in tho moral improvrnit'iii <.f ili. • Here were at least a thousand lad* in one •mnil d i y , from fourteen to nineteen years of age, almost all of tbrm away from home, and for whose Bonis it might wjili tr • that " n o man cm- -y had the

Sabbath as a day when no work was to be if they plensed they eoold go to

church and find a aei t where they rould : and if they were disposed to atb they would be received and well treated. Ba t who wi» to take them b j A t tad, and bring

Who was to fad sanctuary where tbey eonld fee! tl nthoine'f Wfcovonl --into break

away from their evil hab iu and loose com­panion*, and give the Salhntl i U r tiea, instead of upend ini? it in the field* or the hatiriU of tho idle and wi.

It was not long tl •• of Akcrs that Jamra ventured on the bold ei j

limes, the mini-'. with bim about the matter. He had often Men

'be summer past, and he and John had been the stead" ft of (he steady in the

THE WV'S MUKIOV. 118

B I a n which was at tached to the Sunday-

school of Mr. Jones ' s church. Itut h. 1ml never ventured to speak with him on inch a subject a" the ways ami memai of doing good

I months ago, James wan a h a t e footed boy, coming into town to lo work, and i t was qui te the strangest pa r t of our *tronge s tory t h a t he should now ! i to the minister in behalf of JI thousand youths, who were like himself expose^! I with t i" MM to look after their eternal w.ll-

Msng I James did not go to Mr. Jones for (ho Bake

of tracking him—hy no means. I t was far from bis thought to do any thin^ more thnn ask Mr. Jones to think of some way by which the boys coul.l l»> led into bet ter habits, and saved from the dangers to which ihey were now so con­s tan t ly exposed. Because ho had been with the boys, and one of their number, he knew, as M r . Jones could not |a .1 ions of

ad i t w u , therefore, with the feeling) " f n fnvii'l t a those who, l ike him. were in the »hop.«, he cnuie to his minister to

•vast was in his hear t . Ho was a long . af t r b4 Fraud

himself iii the bouto of Mr. Jones, in the midst of bii fwafly, vho had encouraged b i o freely

io»

114 ROME* AND tHEIB BOYS.

to come and *ee them lAtQi ' trncs that a land

l-nt it into the heart and mind of M him, looking up from the

DU reading—

i " u r « l f when you arc at home etewiiigt, Jamt* V

with »ome limitation, » I hsre my Bible IcHon to learn,

• lime* I write a le t t i . . many evening when I tan I thero are a great many other* i|iiite ru badly offaji I am."

" How i foty o f f " u lna 1 Mr. Jonef. • [dace in which to

evening*, to I H they have nctthiog to keep them at home, they go off among the beer-shop* and bowlfng^llBTi, making amuse­ment for ; • f « they can."

"Bu twi . ; u k e d Mr. i •

rtng m a n ' i •

rfce place they might

1

UM privilege of th

115

evening* as lior children ill), ami with thorn, if they please?"

- KM now roused to state (he whole ewe. It was what he haj come for, and the way WM open.

ttpJMM," said the youlb. " tha t I havo been afl well treated as any of litem, and hare had ns many favours u the rent, but I bare never been a*kcd to -:* B parlour

Slattcrly'* family since I went there to board; and I never know one of the boarder* to be aaked to come in when.- iho family are. And if they stay del where we hare our mi-.: | i rep still, or the ''I'l wOmu bdow&uxn than u'rysoon, and makes them StUL SJtt woo't havo any noise in her house. The boys will not stand that, and as they have no enp •;•

' abroad to look after it, and find it where they DM, John afunsou and I have

di al al>out it this sun.. ;iflair, wc liavn been thinking

thai if the «bosses' knew as mnofa ibonl the boys M we do, the* would try and do somc-•

•• And what do you think Ought to be askiJ M you seem to b»i

116 BOWKS AtiO TOW* BOM.

some mttonlion to the matter. Perhaps yoo havo thought of MDIO p l a n ? "

• • \ . - i r . replied James, " I cannot say t h a t I have. I t Li hardly the thing for mo t o any any thing about, if I b a r e ; for I would not want to take any a lop that you would think oat of tl " s o young and in my

The good pastor wan pleased with the sound wnao and the modesty of the answer; fur whilo J a m e s hnd but a v . r y humble opinion of his own merit-", he was truly » tmrif-U lad, and when he did speak with those older n n ! than himself, he spoke to the j his words were better ehewen than t h o u of most boy» of fourteen or fifteen; for n.« ha never indulged in the loone way of talking so common with boys in his condition of life, ho was in the lini • I uiguage ns the

books ths t he read and the conversation of j.to suggested. In this, ns in

many oih< r reipaotf, his exnmplo wo- a of being followed by all the young. T: leas, coar te , free-and-easy way of u l k c boys so often fall into and cultiv/u.-. u if it were o'. ifig smart , will i

s tay by them, and show iue l f in their ripen years , but i: hinder! them great ly in forming

THE DOT'S Mi 117

a good I The "flash" terms are always at their tongue's end, and

i it very hard to think of any others. I | wonderful dtfiVr.iico in thi,

in the language of the young, of bog y ; hut the girls are not without fault,

is quite :u- much r.'irfloKsncss, though mch coarseness among: them as among

the boys. Mr. donee had always been pleased with Jsmo's Stevens when ho heard him talk­ing; but never so roach BO ns when bo thus gave his opinion, with diffidence but great dis­tinctness, of tho state of tiling- among the youth of the shops and the necessity of doing something to save them from going to destruc­tion. He laid down bis book, and walked the floor a few minutes in » deep study. At length be stood ptill in front of the shop-boy, who was half frightened with the serious manner of Mr. Jones, who now looked as if his mind was earnestly at work with a thought of great in­terest and import

ii My young friend,"—at length the minister ssidy*-" God has sent you here to-night as a messenger to reprove ino and others of oar groat noghct of duty, and to call us to the work which long ago wo ought to Imve per­formed. I aee it now, ami it ia wonderful that

118 HISSES ASK TU11II BOYS.

I norpr saw it in thi '••n- H e n wo have toon living for Tears will. tod* of youth around us, and hare MOB thai man-. of ih.-m arc going to ruin, and tome of them ba te perished; bat we have never made any systematic efforts to lend thorn in the way of life—to turn thp=i away from tho road to death and hell, and to make the ways of wU-dotii and virtue to appear pleasant in tlit-ir «Y*a. My son, (for I do feel u a f.' I apeak to you,)—my aon, I thank you for coming hero to talk with DM about this matter , and you have put thoughts into n ; the, aobjoct, which I mean to work out for the gooJ of those in whose behalf yon hare como to plead. If »i ' ' 'an do nothing more for them. wo can nt least wash our own haoda of the •tains which we hnv

• in I bless you, James , and maka yon a blessing to others, as I know tl< i

• ' •

JantM w u affected to tears by the cam eat words and tones of tint pastor, as he tha i

bjj luart . and bfl put hi* head down and wept freely.

lo you s t e p f " Mr. Jones inquired • • | :

or give you any rain win:

TUI; Kftt IO8SI0V. 119

" O h no, sir, I know tint »vry veil * u thinking how strange it mint look for a pour boy like me to come front the tbop with JOT about '.'; I "ii im>-t T>jiTJli that I am very bold, and I do not know as I

I right." James did not express his own mind, when

iheee words'. They ware all true, bnt they were not what he wanted to fay. He was melted to tears when Mr. Jones thanked him for coming, and upoke of him as having been Bent of *»od to call tho minister's stlention to this great nubjeet. Sir. Jones caught his idea,

••': ! to ln'in that God often om-Dg and the humble to do great

him. <. Do VUII recollect," -aid he. " the utory of

Naamiin uoral, who was sent to the Lord'* prophet ).y tin- advice of a little Capita girl, and he was healed of his leprosy by ("-'Mowing hfr |

.. I remember El Wrj weW," said James, " for I !

H ii mad Mr. .i"!:. •

"lore me, that I may bo moved to do what I and uthim -tight

'ione before. At any rate, not auoiber

12<I B y u i urn THJEIR UOVS.

day shall [KIM before I make on effort to «ef

: ;iing cannot bo done f"r tlwM y o u t h . " .I.tiiii- Mt a litilr while longer. and after

ir.liter with deep feeling for all tha t he had u i d , ho took his leave. It is no t

to be wondered at tha t he wan much affected I v what h i d pas*ed. He walked the s t ree ts alone for some time thinking it all ovi was moro and more surprised at himself tha t he shmi k f « reformer.

ad John in the room below when he

. ill tha t h a d occurred. John wni delighted in ; • it. - I t was just like you, .lame*, I olwnyi th<iu

be a man—ever since the follow* tried to I

' talk so to in James , with morr -rriounness than i

to speak to bi» friend. " A n d why ill . . l ames !

You on !. till yon took

•

.idcom-tO Jesus , who ii

able to cleanse me from all my sins. 1 never can halj if it bud not boon

I should hare ad. Km*

TUB BOY'S M! i : i

with .Too Akera and the reft, and hare gono to hell in the end, M I fair they will."

James * u touched with the simpledot] with which his young friend poured oat his fating* Ho said to h t m ^

" And now, John, you feel that tho Saviour boa forgiven your sins, and will prepare yon for hoavvn I"

".Sometimes I foe! so,'" said John; "bu t vrt there is i<o much sin in my heart and I have been so wicked, and so long too, Uu almost afraid to hop*) that God is tny friend."

•••I love them that love me,"* replied James, " i s the preci";- | I think more of it than of almost any other j • : the whole Bible. It makes mc sure that if I love God. ho is my friend, and wilt bo my friend, for ha will ntter forsake those who put their trust in him."

• • I do not love ' sure that I am so wicked it

would be rjgfll foe him to send me away for ever from

•• And •! ' TOD hnro to much against God, who i- to holy and

so kind •'" ret, I do feel sorry, more than 1 can

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122 HOMES AMD THSlli SOTB.

'•'• Ton or anybody; but Uic more sorry I feel, the more wicked 1 feel."

• mean jus t thoother way," said J u n e s ; « the more indeed yon feel, the moro t e r r y yon

• 1 have Wen ao wicked."

" I 'crhaps it a so ," answered John—as if a new ihonj*ht had struck him.

' • A n d the more wicked yoa feel yourself to be ," continued J u n e * , " tho more willing U tho bleated Saviour to pardon all your sins, and adopt y o a with the family of God."

" S o I liavo always felt, since I took him to be my Saviour. But I forget him, and forget my promises; and often, when tho rest of tho boys a re around mo, 1 seem to bo as wild and careless u any of thorn. I wish wo could go away into the country, and live where there

i be so many b i d fellows about, to draw us into sin."

" I will tell yon what it is, J o h n : it don ' t mako BO much difference where we are, or what Hurt uf boys there are about ua. If we want to servo God and keep his commandments, he will g i n as all tho help we n e e d ; and we may do as well hero as up in the country. I t ' s the IIEAHT, John, i t s the hear t ! If tha t is only kepi there is no trouble about tho rest, l int I should like, as well as you would, to go op ir

now LOVR. 123

the country tt. lire. And of ill things I should love to have you go to Shellcon with mo, and sec my mother and Mary."

"Youhave told ma so much about theiu that I feci," laid John,."as if J knew them all. One of these days wo will MB them, I reckon, and have a good time there."

afl they wandered off from one subject •r—tV..iti Qaa souls to their ni liters

and frieii'l*—and it was bed-time whilo they were in the midst of their pleasant discourse. Yet it was no great wardering either. The lore of parents and sisters is not for from the lore of every thing that is good. An<! whm a boy ii away from home, and exposed to ton thousand evil examples, there is hope for him still, if the love of a sister twines itself about his heart, and he cherishes the memory of her gentleness and tenderness as the sweetest treasure that he can keep. A mother's lore is one of tho strongest and dcepe.t motive! fat •ways the yoothful heart; and there i* in the pure affection of a sister and brother a source

•••ire that no other fountain supplies. It has bteu growing silently and side I

• unit; with the growing strength of childhood and youth ; fra-rai.t with flowers of loveliness in the spring lime, and yielding

124 MMttl ANIi TIIEIR BOW.

fruit* of beauty and joy when tho rammer

OOBH1 OUi Love your tu to r s , bora '. Lovo them ten­

derly. and they will b* ini.ro than jewels of gold and of wilt i-r to you, when you como lo bo men. Love your brothers , girl* I mid they will be more than fprluncj to you in tho long year* to come, if God prolongs your life.

H In ii J u n e * laid hi* head upon hi* little pallet. < that nipht, ho wns truly

thankful that God had enabled him to make on effort for hi- g lory-and tho good of olbora.

read in the books of h a Sunday-achool 1 ing people had been soc-ceasful in their efforts to do good, and this •ras the firftt experiment ho had ever made beyond that of talking to his companions and, Btrivinj | under better influence*.

i hftd taken a long step, and ho went to sleep asking himself what was likely to come

CHAPTER vnr. n r t M p * — I V l f e w r » - A « ptmr—!*• e t a * *

— »'*al ow fey can do.

H i . .I"SES went to sleep with very much iho n t n o thought* in h n mind that Jame* had. Ba t lie •lid not .«leep tha i night until he h id resolved on a great many plain for ti. of reform to which hit attention had I Middenly called,

The next J a r ho talked the matter over wltll ono or two of hi* friends with whom he waa in the habit of taking counsel. To hii great sur­prise. they were quite indhTareQl to the T h e good man had »nppo«d thoy would t ake tlic alarm a s soon u he did, and ask a t once,

Bf<M " Pom the thing going on the game way for twenty years, »nd they had no anxi-1-i t—they did not believe ther* wa.« a n y me in

t ing about any i I eon the mayor

of the e h j for Tiiany year-, and a* a prominent

. itnl i leading manufacturer too, the pastor called in m bis

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office toward th* cloae of ii him what he would think of a movement to improve the character aiid eottdtda hoy* employed in thoMtablUhmcnt*? Having enjoyed no advantage* of early cdu-

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was his idea t l m hoy* needed no education. •• I rcr went to

I three winter* in my life, nnd I'vo got ahead fait enough a n d far enough for anybody."

H e w u not the mo«t hopeful man for Mr. Jones to approach on this errand, hut tho minister wa» well aware how much people *r« b-1 b j ihjB taDUnpI* of prominent On

biu in h'u aehemc*, and, if potnbh), to mako him " t h o father <>f the p lan ' . " What the plana were,

11 not know hitn*elf. Ho waa forto-< and quite

pleaapd t o - ' • Mm, 11 errand waa «oon told. I t waj urged with filling and the .

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hen he Imd •aid all he had to aay, the respectable manu-farturcr drew himself up in hischair, an follow

: no u«c at all, Mr . Jones, 1 k*0V

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alt about it. I'i.' I.r,-n h tn , "ft" «nd on, man m n , and I tell yc* ;

a nuis-r • 'lo nothing* 11' ami ili»r more yon try, the worse it will be Some on "cm will turn oat well, nnd tho rest on 'em will go to destruction, and I don't think

m trying. You preach I i :i,in'l :ii n t<>. I m'i tho

-chool. I give ton dollars to tho . to get hooka for it, only a work or two

•go, and think there'n jist as much dono for ,ny use a-doing."

• a." the last call Mr. Jontw made that day. At tea he related hi- labour* and success, or rather I .-cess; for he had not

'. the first man who sympathir<-<l with him in his view of the importance of the groat work in which he might to enlist them.

Mr-. Jones heard it with grief, and, like a true wife, eno.n:

. •• he had failed in a good cau-.-. he would make an effort in

form, lie would put tin- I II he peo­ple tothewajofbUdtttyua minister of the gos-

. try tli" power of religious considerations b ilto thcmuri - manner

in which they perform- *.<> those wliuiu Providence hud committed to their care.

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!!.• |.r. i . : o 1 lhc very next Lord's-day from the word*. "Give en account of thy itc-rard-snip**' and from thU ho went on to show the

A parent! and masters, and of all those who had tho BOUIS of Other* in any way in*

i .-are. There was no dotiht, ho said, that parent* would he called to a v.rict account a t the I their fidelity to

. .nd t a d would he the reflection! of thoso who suflWed their children to perish from neglect. Tha t mother is a monster who leaves her own child to starve. when she has tho mean* of giving it food; or who suffer* her child to fall into the well and be towni I, or into tho firo and bo horned, when by proper

•: and care she might save it from such I u r worse than euch a monster

i* the father or tho mother who neglect* e child's aalration, and lets it perish in hell, in­stead of ranking use of all the mean* which *»od ha* provided to MVfl i t

» Kijuully solemn," said he, " U the obliga­tion of employers or niaater* to their servant*, apprentices, elerk*. end

who linv ...idianship of parental affection and authority. If they have been seut from home to be employed in your eata-

PM>y bo the nature of

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your busincsf. JOB do not ' i i -chargoyour ohli-gsJJOfi *hi>n J t W r wage* and leave them to look out for themselves. H e y arc young anil giddy, and easily led as t ray. Wild hearts inclined to »in. and lovi:. rather than pood, they will go astray, and bo ruined, unliwn lometbiog is done for thorn.

• '>ne is guiltless »ho refuses to do wliat is in his power to nave the young who a rc in his icrvicc from destruction. '

This was good doctrine, and just as ii important in every other city as in the one where M r . Jones prcn k effect, God blessed it tha t very day. Tl mi many present who wcro influenced by w h i t they heard; and M much were they affected by it, that before they left the homo they began to

measures for the benefit of the young. Mr. Jones had not been satisfied with merely

laying down somo general principles, but he had appealed to them by the facta well known to them, of Tefy recent occurrences anv ing • a d be, u k a d the employers ihera prewol what they knew of thy apprentice* in the i r scrvico

lark, •e reo nights in n week? " W h o of yon know,* or cares," he asked, «w1

, your employ is in the house of God or in the haunts of sin on tho Lord 's d a y ! Who

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of you know* where your clerks and apprcn. t i cvaarea t thiii moment, while l a m speaking?"

This waa plain langaage,.but no plainer than the cam* demandi-d. The consciences of eom© were awakened. All R B I more or Itwa moved by the argument anil the appeal. Something n u t bo done!

In the COUTH of the week » meeting for can-w l u i i o n « u held. Mr. Stone put hi* hand

work with thai nVeiaion of character for which he wMdUtiogniiihed. Even - h U Honour

-' lyof" » ,» carried alone by the •euofad good feeling on the aubject, when he found

i" movement was likely to be popular.

* « l t was |Ti-j<nt at the meeting to prtiiJe, and I that tin- MiLjoct had often laid heavily

on hw mind, and he would be glad to do ovary tiling he could to hulp along n good a work.

A great reform was begun. 0 were appointed to deviao the beat when waya and mean* to carry thrni out. The first point to which attention wa» directed W M th© boarding-houae ay«t#tn. I t was oooiidered caaeu: I mprovomenu, that ein-

•L-iM |t*j|d in M M 'Irgrtf toward those in t lnir -n u k e Huitable provision for their o> when out of the thopa. This wot o(I> •

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the gradual introduction of a be t t e r class off boarding-houses, with lb . by the

inanuiVt •'' keepers were persons in whom confidence could be reposed t h a t they would take a a interest in the v.

aflUBDM they could to induce them to s tay a t homo and employ themselves there , when t he r e were n o useful a n d a t t rac t ive sources of pleasure open to them abroad.

The next s tep was toward opening reading-rooms and a large a n d w.'U-BelcctcJ l ibrary. In each extensive establishment a largo room was set apar t , to which all the journeymen a n d apprentices .could have access a t all hoars when they were no t a t work. I t was abundant ly supplied with periodicals and books selected

« a n d appropr ia te to the object, and ••y could resort with nUi

feel themselves a s much a t home afl in the •bop or tho boarding-boose.

A general l ibrary for tho youth of li. with a large lecture-room, was provided, where courses of lecture* were delivered, a t the ex-penso of the proprietors of the es tah luhmenU,

I tha t the money thus expended wo* well laid out, and brought in good re turns , in tho increased intelligence, h»-

tnd good order of those in their flcrvice.

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_ % aTho coarse of ' 'Iiieh m a n r of

•ntercd Upon, led them to lH«- r gation of & great many principles in the busi-D M I they were puraning: and for the first time i t mat discovered in this very enlightened city, that mi intelligent class of workman lam n d

-,,.rk. and to a fur jrrcnter advantage for the capitalist, t h in a set of ignorant and unthinking men.

I t i* vorv tn i - U B J intelligence is not reli­gion, and a whole community may become very iriae and yet be rery wicked. I But ignorance nrnl vice arc very »|i! to kMp company. And

H ra l improvement now witrroged in the H i i no leas lo bo obMmtf in llnfe

attention to ndigious duties than in other respect*. Th«; ' i i s c o f ' G o d oa

11-jthiliv. Tin v i n n far more easily indui'..! to attend Sunday-school* and BnMc-

•1" power of religious foil 1 i |i—mhjl.ii felt in the minds of. many. The

• and r d i g t a a papers utcd become popular.and hundreds

of useful publications were town widely in the were the moat needed.

All these helped on the good work. It Bjjgfrt^ be haul to -M- which wa§ cause, and w b ^ ^ ^ H effect; but that was of very little c o n s ^ ^ ^ ^ H

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wiirn the grenl rnnilt «•»• reached--f' ' t eiatt bf young men,

going to ruin in the mifat of tht mott ftj mtaiufor ihtir MM

Nor was this a mere mdden excitement. It t u a permanent reform. It was begun in on earnoet desire lo Jo good to the touts of the young"—to save them from iin and hell. The help of dirine grace, without which all reforms are short-lived, was sought *v. \ was in the work, and hs will always accomplish

begins, and establish what he makes

Of coarse, all thin Was not brought abont without much opposition. Indeed, there were some rather well-disposed men who thought it was money wasted and time spent in vain to try to do »ny thing far the boys. "Things had always been so, and there was no uie in making such an ado abont them now," they said—with a very wise look, and now and thee a smile of gentle contempt when the friends uf reform pressed them to t-ngagc in the gi

lii the slyest way imaginable, but with nil the ar:-> they could bring to b#*r on tin

he keep*™ of the liquor-shops and bowling-alloys, and all met pub l

-narcs, and strove lo

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ra ta l s Hair bold upon their former customers and friomis. A l a s ! they were too auceeaafal in many cases. Not a, few of the young men VCN too far gone when the new movement was made. They laughed n t the whole thing, as well enough for the l<*i», hut " y o u can ' t catch old birds with chaff," they eaid, ami BO they drank to the health of nil the reformer!,

to h a t e their own way. A n d they did havo it. I could here write

the- names of several who were discharged for I'iirly intemperance, rowdyism and other v i e w ; who soon became loafers in the etrects, a dis-graoo to themselves and a harden to the comma*

off. They ran away, and became vagabonds on the ear th and on the flea. I know some, of them this moment who ore roving widely and wildly too, abroad—mere wrecks of what

•re ten year* ago . tfumc of them were ipOOtabla parents , who

have long mourned over them aa worse than dead.

B u t these aro the exception-good work was began and carried ou t . I t was

m of saving many from a hi t ter end, and train .1 rwpectol ' i l i iy here, and happiness f«.»i -

i . ' I I A H ' F K IX.

Qui cf kii limt—OtMn? ahiad—Tl* tmtfirvi—.'terra* and Xu%to*—3tr. Stone ami hU ion-Maw—W* cry

Tin: grand design of this record w now finished, a* 1 have shown tho power of good principle* to preserve a boy from being led astray by evil associates, and also iho influence of one good boy over a whole community. I l c r e I might leave the s to ry ; bu t i u inters perhaps i u usefulness, will bo great ly increased if we go on and ihow, from the aubsequeni h i * lory of our young friends, tha t industry a n d

• sure of their reward. years ba r« passed away. The first of

these ten was not completed before James Sloven* had so distinguished himself in tho •hop by hi* faithfulness and skill, as to a t t rac t the marked and favourable notice of the fore mati. and indeed of all the older wee] Ilia promotion in the business was steady, and

: -amo an increase of his wages—I whloh he hud loi :'.y desired, tha t be might have the means of doing something

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for the support «f hi* fnibeVl family. W h a t a full, gin J heart ho hud when ho was able to write »1 I ii off i rhh e r a s a ewe-

dollar bank-note in i t ! — t h e fir.-t dol lnr t h a t ho bad ever been Me lo call his own, when ho owed nothing for his V a

wrote him back a le t ter full of congratulat ion, not becauso ho had saved a dollar, but I success of ln-r dea r brn thr r in thus overO'ining all the difficulties of beginning a Ben the midst nf s trangers, ami reststing nil the

. N l inmlredshad been

Munson, too, was making p t O g W in tnsj MOM dinotiott* B e became • consistent

, i - p a r e n t s came back to him when tbey heard thai tl son wan QOl only found, but had been brought home to Christ . J o h n wrote to thorn and told (hem all it1 (Head—

who bad of bringing him

bock to ind the sweet mer had taught him in the sunny

days of childhood.

The two friendl were inseparable companions.

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soon had the p la t ra re -*f a room to themselves,

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where they could cnj\v their morning and evening :"Ut interrupt ion; and

the precious hoars of the Sabbath th<q spend with the quietness becoming that holy day. Thns they went on from year to year, tajWoviag h mind and manner*, growing in grace and in the knowledge- nf God. They prised highly and attended with g n a t dili­gence the popular lecture* which were intro­duced for the benefit of the young mechanics; but more highly lh.ni all olhcri , they valued tlio lessons they learned in God'* word, and the instructions they received in God's house. They became wise unto n l f a t foo .

:i year the boys (now grown to be young men) visited their parr t i ta ; and they always arranged it so ok to pass a few days with each other. Stevens felt that his poor parents bail

a to offer his friend; but he was a welcome guest , and in his i

f the neatness, order and penci : of the house, he found enMgh to nuJti any wont of the mure abundant comforts which his father's farm afforded. Mary was t;

charm of the Sb -;-i Uts% John

i thought s o ; and after his fell ba always had :i e n d to

her when ho found James was writing a K i l n IS"

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home. John Muiuon was out of his term of apprenticeship tome three %>nr* before J u n e * ,

- i work fii o journeyman, a n d the wages t l u t he made he Was t a n ' Bp in the - u inf i inni i^ un­

known in the city in. : ' rm began. I that James Stevens had completed

too had something ahe j I begun to think •boot going int«» b u s i n m for

(li'in-'lvv...

• ii' had been more and more inte­rested in the progress of hi* apprentices. . U i n by hU dirtctioa thai James's wages had

• nd from time to time, more rapidly than they would havo been but for the favour of his employer, who bad been an attentive observer of the habit* of his men ever since ho had been roused to a sense of l>i- Ugh r. ftBQaV sibility u an employer. He bad been com­pelled to diimi*s HTtral from his service, on, the ground of •nmithfnlas

tbeir bad hubit«; and when lie ' a n UW mi*. chief which fail to not!- Hon the deportment

of nol i i youth as J u d • had long

been looli ' employer'i intent hit e i ra"—a young man

t i KIT IN'J AHEAD, I-VJ

uhn would labour and watch with the same xeal DD(I fidelity for fa interest of hid em­ployer thai he would if the establishment be­longed to him.

iirahlc regard of one who " o w n s the concern." Most businwi men keep • I look out for their own interest . It is not au easy matter :<» find help that mil*, few young men are disposed to work for other* as they would work for themselves. They do not think that they a re working for them-

• v an- serving an employer for wages. I t U rory short-sighted in them to

• . li a view of the ease . Tor it will be found in the long run, that he who i- faithful in a few thing* will hy-and-by have the charge of many thing*; and tBOQssj UMffit in some­times suffered to Ho unobserved in thin world,

. r a l l y appreciated: aud BUCCCJS (hat in not 1 • 1111 - "li merit i* not worth having.

Mr. Stone was a fair sample of manuiY

lie

was willing to do well by those who were dis­posed to do well by him. When ho saw that a young man would do H more than jus t

his place and get hie wages, working as if he grongad every minute and every blow, Mr. -Stone set him down as a la iy

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iml indiflVrrnt fellow, not worthy of hi* regard. But he ww Stevens and Mun»on always ready for any tiling that won! I of tho business. Ear ly and Int-. out of season, thfy wore always r eady ; and if

ul owned thf shop, and were making fortunes uul of the business, they could not have u o r o faithfully Itboarscl in it.

Hi- wa* now ge t t ing well on in life. Moat of hi* children were grown op. He had taken a fancy to these young men, and ho ad­vised them to go into business on their own account They urg«'d the want of capital aa a fatal objection; but lie removed that difficulty by telling them that he would put them in the way of beginning a small concern, and they might come to him for I'--Jp *: •hBttr tltcy wore in need.

They could not refuse to favourable an .-. and, taking a building of moderate

dimensions, they act up business for themselves niul . t the firm of

STEVENS .v MUNSOtf, COACU AND CAIiIUAGfe JIASrFACTTKIHP.

In a manufacturing community inch ai this, tho social pmiiioti of the people is of course not regulated by birth and education. There

T«B «mr FIRM. l i l

are fewer distinction* in society Ihau elsewhere.

; " i i n g men found thcm»elre* a t onco entitled to tilt) respect, n* they had long

i i lie ent i re confidence of the comraunitja. so far RB they were kifltwn. James S t e r t n s was often at Mr. Btono'f house; nnd it came to p u s that , in the lapse of time, James Ste­vens h< I .*.» of Mr. St.. nut r e r y long after that important event, Mr.

M to take his business u i d car ry it on in his own name, a* be, Mr. S t o w , oral Q M td janoed in age. and v u anxioua to rolffe. To this James said In had but one objection; and that w u , he was in partnership with John Munaon, and he was not willing to leave him, however his prospects im-lit l«> improved by s» tempting an offer aa_

OM hod made him. Tin 'old p-nt lr inan EoU him it wtiiihl bo very easy to get along with ihul ma t te r . H Mun-mi ••••nil ooma hi lo the newBrran- ' re r sum

"V he might be able to command. Mr. ' -onunted to remain, if the

men would toko the entire char;.:* business and let him m i

formed a now firm u n i H.ll i . i " t

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STEVKNS. MCN80N ft CO., % OOACH, CAKKUOE AX1> CAB lUSOtAOTtJUU;

•Oil under this firm they a t e doing business a t th is Tcry t imr . Mr. S tone has ceased to give • n y attention to the concern, bat in enjoying the evening of life with hi* ehiUlrcu and grand­children around him.

James Stevens, who MM his first dollar lo hi t pa ren t s . *>n- gmfl to Spend the fir-t thou­sand dollar* that be was Worth in improving the house they occupied in S b c l l t o n ; and from time to t ime be t d d t d to it »rl the comforU which tbe old people could desire! T h e same good spiri t loo" him to provide for th' tion of the younger ch i l d r en ; a n d u they come on in life, he will see that they are put into the way of ea rn ing a n honsjM livelihood a s h e Ka* done before them.

Nes t to tin- enjoyment t h a t James finds in hi* own family nnd in the church of which he is now ono of the main pillars, is tbo pleasure t h a t it gives him to have Mary, his sister , near b u n .

" M a r y , " said he , one evening win were spending together, •• do you recollect tha t morning when yon camo nut a n d found me on that log in the back-yard V

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said M a r y : •• a n d 1 remember TOO were thinking of running a » a y without

OBMBt to leave llOhlc!" " A w l I should hare run away, and perhaps

gono t o ruin, if i t h a d no t been for y o u . "

• • I ilo not know i l u t , " replied Mary . " I hope you would not h a r e been any worse for going away- a* yon wanted to ."

" I most have- been worse for r u m I for that woold have beon wicked, and no one h u a right to e ipoct the blessing of God when be U doiu^ wrong. I have bffen groatly M e w e d ; a n d 1 trust 1 have been mindful always that every good gift cometh from the ha ml of'

" G r e a t l y Mewed! and so haTt, I Wen , "

i - , u her eye* fillsd with tears at the memory • L | u s e d , and the thought

of the pleasant places in whieh her lmee had now fallen.

" M a r y , " t-aid Jaraoa. " t h e r e is on tin about a mile and a half north of thl* city, a n o n e sti ' that I

want to have taken up tun) put into l b •ton «pf my DOOM. I have never lost •:

.1' to th i . city. 'I'll' T a rc building bouBee now all around it, a n d a s soon a s the i t ree t i are g raded there , 1 knon

I l l n'-•"!> ASB inKiB sore.

tliai stone will bo dug out and broken op, and I wont to get it bcforo it is gone':''

: for. brother?" again inquire! Mary, with more seriousness;—for by this time James looked almost u d .

"Why, Mary, it w u on that stone I sat down, a barefooted boy, and eried, the dny •kfiiT I kiswd V'U gOOaVtyi A H 1 lirst came away fruin none."

Jam< • on 1 i.> 1 it set by ibe aide of ti. lead up to the frontdoor ot* IIH IIIIHILMMDC house; but no one except

klkOwl why James has each a partiality for that particular stone.