Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-07-31

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there's no telling what might DONE
"You have so many gold pieces in your
pocket, you can affordto get your trowsers
made now. Why don't you and your
mother hold another corcus, and see what
you can do? If she would let you ex-
pand yourself, you might sell out to
Barnum, and make fortune travelling
with Tom Thumb, and take the old wo-
man along"
"Sranger," said the rough, great man,
land whose face doomed up with a mingled
depression of pain and pride, stranger,
/ spoke word here / didn't mean to; a
slightly word, like, about my mother.
would give all the gold in my pocket to
bring her back for one hour, to look up
on this country as it is now. She had
her cabin here when Chicager was no.
where; here she raised her boys-she
couldn't give them larnin, but she taught
us better things than books can give; to
be honest, and useful, and Industrious
She taught US to be faithful and true; to
stand by friend and be generous to an
enemy. It's thirty years, stranger, since
we dug her grave by the lake here, with
our own hands; and with many tear
l and sob, turned ourselves away from the
: cabin where we'd been raised-the In
: dians had killed our father long before,
and we'd nothing to keep us-and so we
went out to seek our fortunes. My
:; brother, he took down to St. Louis and
> got married down there som'ers; and !
just went where the wind blowed, and
{ when I'd scrapped money enough togeth-
er, l cum back and bought few acres
: land around my mothers old cabin, for
the place where I'd lain her bones was
Is sacred like. Well, in the course of time
it turned up right in the middle of Chi
Il eager. i couldn't stand that loved my
mother too well to let omnibusses rattle
" over her grave, so cum back about fif-
teen years ago, and quietly removed her
taway to the buryin' ground, and then
went back to Texas, and wrote to an
J agent afterWard to sell my land. What
Is CUst d fsu hundred to Lesi- -a--z cold
q for forty thousand-If I'd kept it till now
% t would have been worth ten times that;
that's so, but l got enough fort. L soor
~ turned that forty thousand into eighty
thousand and that into twice as muct
III and so on, till l don't know nor care how
d much I'm worth, that's so. | worket
ng hard, am the same rough customer, re
II member every day of my life what m.
10 mother taught me never drink, gambl
us or fight wish l didn't swear and chaV
Ye' but them's got to be kind a second natu
like, and the only thing that troubles m
lie is my money-haven't got no wife nc
ing children, and I'm going to hunt up m
cry brother and his folks. If his boys al
clever and industrious, amt ashamed
= my big boots and old fashioned ways, an
II his gals is young women and -
gh, if they help their nno.l~f' ana ooh p
the - - man two frocks day, I'll max
-em rich, every one of 'em.
IN ''Now, gentlemen, 'taint often I'm Il
the to tell on myself after this fashion. B
'ed, these old places, where trapped when
hat was boy, make me feel like chi
, OF agin-and I just felt Ike telling the
youngsters here about the chances fl
ere Ter may meet in life, if he only tries
make the most of himself.
our "But boys" said be, turning, to par
'eSt' of young men, E'there is something bett
lVe' than money. Get education. Why, bo..
er' if had as much larnin' as money, IcoI
d be President in 1860 just as easy.
DID, Why, could buy up half of the Nor
't; L and not miss it out of my pile. But {
And larnin' don't chaw tobaccer; don't ia
nber to liquor don't swear and mind "
ralr- mother-that's the advice of real /
like Sucker; and if you mind what l say J
Ilr OF may be men, (and it amt every fel
from that wears goatee and breeehes that
I up man, by long Ways. Foller out
Keep counsels; never do thing that will m;
nnts; you ashamed to meet her in heaven
rotch Why, boys, l never done a bad thing
ould- l heard my mothers voice reproving
inter and L never done good thing and m
I'd on good move, but seemed to hear
hats say, That's right, jack and That
been the best of all Nothin' lik
aid a mother, boys nothin' like a mothe
that's so.''
1t up. All this had passed while waiting
n.y. wood just outside of Chicago. The g
1ysef man was swelling with emotions c.
had up from the dark shadows of the past
S get big rough frame heaved like a great
long low upon the ocean. Tears spran
egS OF his deep set and earnest eyes-they
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