New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-05-09

great generosity. And there never was his equal
to my knowledge, among the poor people. never
saw any thing equal TO the way he would help the
Poor. Give him good measure David, the old
man would ray 10 queer sort Of man ihat always
lived with him and who used TO the Colonel lived
with HIM" give him good lneasure-do ut streak
the S good ways. and there s enough OF
H." He always had plenty OF Corn, the scarcest
years The Earth, as il aware OF his great nature
never put him off with stingy harvest. He never,
those wears would sell kernel Of Corn any body
that could bring the noaey for it. He said there
the Poor round, that could nj pay, that must be
seeu to- And to them be turned ont the yellow
Corn, and the Hay With bis barns full in the
scarcest seasons, he never would sell lock OF Hay
TO any body but the Pcor-and 10 them always at
the prices OF times OF plenty, and TO pay In work
when they could" He used to take their litlle old
due bills Tor it, payable in help, and never call on
,nem-,hough they generally remembered to turn
out and help him when it come Hay time But
numbers of the old due-bills were found among the
old mans teg papers, after his death, writ in hs
own plain, honest hand-not after any business
forrn-and always spelt as 10 be understood, and
many of them yellow with age. He was ut wha,
you call tender hearted man, that ne was
sidera,e of the Poor. Il generosity and sheer
greatness. He felt it beneath man THAT any
body should suffer when there was enough and
he knew They had n. calculation enough, many OF
them, to bring the year about, especially IN cold
seasons" and he said They must be seen to-
And he did see TO them the glorious old man. 1t
wasn nj for the name of it-for he did Mt seem 10
~, OF JCip hirCa
And il was Mt for salvation" giving 10 the Poor,
becalse it was lending 10 the Lord He wasnt
a RELIGIOUS man-iha, is never made a profession.
Religions people about him did MT like il that he
did nj. though their chief uneasiness was that he
always did so well that it made them appear TO dis
advantage. he always was right in all he did and
said do n, believe he did or said single wrong
thing, or thing tina, out Of the way, or that
was anhaudsorne, all the time he lived III Camp
ton All that time for fifty years, no man ever said
a lonA word against him. And grew to proverb.
that man g word " as as good as Colonel Holiness
should love to tell you, friend Tribune, how it
looked where he lived His grand old house,
forget whether it ever painted-sei up on
rising ground just in South OF beech.wood, at the
head OF long meadow, the clear little Beebe's
River running through it, and the great wide pas
lures on the hills that bordered it 1t is all in plain
sigh, from here and within thirty miles. The bills
covered with cattle and the long tailed colts. But
the dear Old man is dead, and the people never
were sorrcr for any thing that took place in that
region.
have n, made up story here to tell you, friend
Tribune nor colored il any, nor told you ball the
truth, though Colonel Holmes never went 10 Col
ege, nor 10 Congress. nor TO General Court more
than once, if he did that and was nothing but
working, home Farmer. all his days Ask the old
people of Camp,on and the young people too and
they Il all tell you i; is just as We told you-only
more So Tears OF admiration come 10 my heart
when remember the beautiful, honest old man.
Hs was great man too-as great AS Washington
greater than Washington would have been, alone
there on that Campton Farm,-but glorious mos,
for his HONESTY, and has proU'dtng Jor the Poor
But he was only Farmer. think the more Of him
for that. lryou do nj, friend Tribune, you We right
to your opinion But if you wont print this because
i, is about a working man. and one you have never
heard of and nobody has ever heard oil, and that
had mt any learning-noihing but goodness and
Crea,noss-you II hear no more from
THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN.
E,,yroD;o Match Auril 81, 1916.