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Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale, by Mark Twain.
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The brave cashier’s head-stone has this inscription: “Be pure, honest, sober, industrious, considerate, and you will never–“
Nobody knows who gave the order to leave it that way, but it was so given.
The cashier’s family are in stringent circumstances, now, it is said; but no matter; a lot of appreciative people, who were not willing that an act so brave and true as his should go unrewarded, have collected forty-two thousand dollars–and built a Memorial Church with it.