Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Weekly Valley Herald, Vol. 15: October, 1876
Leave the house instantly You are no son of mine from this time. I will not harbor one who has thus de graded himself, and disappointed me.
Hard words were these from the lips of any one still harder from those of a father.
Mr. J ohn Phillips was a proud man - proud of himself, of his family, of the reputation he had acquired for honesty and upright dealing, and of the notice he received from people who were just a step farther up the ladder of fortune than himself. To in crease his wealth and consequence, he had ground down his family to the most [pitiful and pinching straits in private, to atone for expenditures to meet the public gaze with a show of riches, that honestly belonged to his wife and children for their ordinary comfort.
Ilis eldest boy was placed in a store where there were many other clerks. Young Phillips' scanty clothing, his evident destitution of money, even to withholding a penny from a poor child when others gave freely, accorded ill with the reports of his father's wealth, and the lads sometimes touched the sorest place in Samuel Phillips' heart, by reproaching him with sordidness.
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