| Show beautiful illustration of honesty the st louis republican of sept 4 contains the he following fol foi lowin 0 touching 0 incident johnny moore is the name of a bright eyed jolly faced lad twelve or fourteen years of age whose invalid widowed mother living on morgan st street reet he helped to support by the I 1 sale of newspapers and by such errands and small jobs as he ae may chance to fall in with I 1 johnny who ia is the liero hero of the pleasant and truthful incident we are about to record is extremely neat in his attire though his clothes have not always been of the best and may have shown in sundry patches and mended rents the results of both poverty and frugal care in short johnny is just such a boy as we used to read about in sunday school books yesterday Yester yesterday dai dar morning bright and early he was trudging ing a along ong broadway between franklin frankiin i ave avenue nue and washington street when he chanced to stumble against a large lare lar iare e pocket book which he picked up and found to contain a large number of banic bank notes and papers while he was meditating on the sudden riches he had amassed and wilch which he had slid lid into a capacious pocket or perhaps racking c his youthful mind whether to seek for the owner or conceal his good fortune a gentleman rushed by him nim in an anxious hurried nervous manner which convinced the boy that he oas was ivas looking for something and he thought he knew what have you lost anything asked johnny yes my pocket book bocik was the we gent lemans answer have you seen it I 1 the little fellow expected he had he didn dian khoky know though what kind of pocket book was it 1 this led to an adjournment to a neighboring store where the flushed and almost breathless individual of the first part proceeded to say that the pocket book vas was a a large black eonta ionta containing ining 1200 iu in bank bills and some accounts a strip obied of red morocco binding underneath the th flap being inscribed robert thomas covington ky 1 l the description tallied and johnnys I 1 eyes snapped with cheerfulness as he placed the treasure just as he had found it into the strangers stranger 3 hands and vve we spine there was reater joy in that one act than ten ton thousand creater ollars could have purchased at the expense of a guilty conscience i mr nir thomas hardly seemed to know which to feel most relief on the recovery of his mony money and papers or gratitude to the lad and and admiration of his honesty taking johnny by the hand whose bounding heart he knew anely not why had bad by b this time splashed tears into his eyes tj t the e gentleman took him to a clothing store and dressed him out from top to toe in a bran new suit then proceeding to a jewelry store he purchased a good silver wa watch tc upon which he directed to be engraved these words robert thomas to little johnny moore st louis sept ad 1859 bronest honesty is the best beat policy not even content with this fhe the generous stranger placed in a neat bead purse five twenty dollar gold pieces which he directed the lad to give to his mother we shall not attempt to portray the emotions of the boy if his quivering kinf lips and choked utterance and the smile tha that trove strove so hard to get through the great watery globes clobes that trembled in his hig eyes failed to tell what was going on in his heart hov how shall we tell it AN ERUDITE A would be erudite young man wishing fo to aska ask a young youn g lady if he might speak to her a few moments wanted to know if he could roll the wheel of conversation around the of her understanding 0 for I 1 a moment |
