The Worst Boys in Town And Other Addresses to Young Men And Women Boys And Gir
The Worst Boys in Town And Other Addresses to Young Men And Women Boys And Gir
Hill, James Langdon, 1848-
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It is a mandate from heaven, fixing its grip on the soul. The tenacity of its hold is shown in the Keuben Hoar Library in the little town of Littleton. A country trader, who kept the village store, by slow and persistent economy had acquired a small prop- erty and with it the confidence of the community. Many entrusted him with their small savings. Then followed the old story of a dishonest partner, finan- cial ruin, the loss, not only of the fortune and hard [238] SOMETHING ABOUT DEBTS AND DEB...TORS earnings of a lifetime, but with them also the funds held in trust for widows and friends. Business failure carried with it severer penalties then than now. The law did not then give its present easy avenue of return to commercial life. Before him were the opening doors of the debtors' jail. But there was Reuben Hoar, a plain Massachusetts farmer, a neighbor, customer, attendant of the same church, largest local creditor, who was under no obligation whatever to his bankrupt townsman, ex- cept what humanity dictates toward a dumb animal fallen in the streets, who said to him, ''Let me be a brother to you.
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