Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-09-04

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attention.gSti 1d# sas4iI;o bni3 wsi A
n"FouFteehs hours In Chicago, sehg
WALTZ can stand dit tff The rest eans II
twenty dollars rwon,s carry me through,
I'lf borfy ofomy friends.@ live got the
things that1I'll bring 'em aasTHAT's2 tso.'
- And he th1ustia hand q littleIless in
size than aaeommon spade, down into the
cavernous depths Of a broad striped,
1ashy pair ofiphnts, and sbtonghtup}that
great red hand, full astit could hoidS of
Shining twenty dollar gold pieeesoa bee
21nDon't n't.yerLthinkiI can stand hese ere
Chicagers for one fourteen houfs?'' ni95'a
LA nod of assent from three or four,
and smile Of curiosity from The rest, AN
swered his question in the affirmative. 50
t"Yo ou must to have beeniinluck, stran-
GER" said an enyious looking little man.
"You've more than yours of gold y gi7-a
"I have, eli? WellI reckon not I
come honestly by It: that's so. And
there's them living who can remember
this child when he went round the p'rar-
ries trapping, p'rarry hens and the like.
to get him a nights lodging. or pair iof
shoes, to keep the Messengers from biting
my toes. I've hung myselfsup more nor
one night in the timber, to keep out of the
way of the wild varmints; best sleeping
in the world, in the crotch Of a tree top!
Now, reckon you wouldn't believe it,
but I've gone aliwinter withouta shoe to
myofoot; and lived on wild game, .whenI I
could ketch it. THAr's sol" - ,asns .i.s
Didn't stunt your growth," said a
voice near. asaa
q "Not abit of it. 1t brought me up
right. These p'raries are wonderful
roomy. thought one spell would let
myself out entirely, but me and mother
held a corcus, and decided. that as she
was getting old, and blind like, it TUX
too long. and cost too much to sew up
the legs Of my trousers, and so put a
stop to it; and concluded that six foot FIVE
would do for afellow that couldn't afford
tho expensive luxury of a wife to make
breeches. It was only my love for my
mother that stopped my growth. If I'd
a had an idea of sewing machine,
there's no telling what might done"
"You have SO many gold pieces in your
pocket, you can afford to get your trou-
sers made now. Why don't you and
your mother hold another caucus, and
see what you can do? If she would let
you expand yourself. you might sell out
to Barnum, and make fortune travelling
with Tom Thumb, and take the old wo-
man along"
Stranger" said the rough, great,
man, and his whole face loomed up with
mingled expression of pain, and pride.
Stranger, | spoke word here didn't
mean to, a slightly word, like, about my
mother. l would give all tho gold in my
pocket to bring her back for one hour, to
look upon this country as it is now. She
had her cabin here when Chicager was
nowhere; here she raised her boys-sho
couldn't give them larnin', but she
taught us better things than books can
give; TO be honest, and useful, and indus
trious. She taught us to be faithful and
true; to stand by friend, and be gener>
Gus to an enemy. It's thirty years,
stranger, since we dug her grave by the
lake side here, with our own hands; and
with many tear and sob, turned our
selves away from the cabin where we'd
been raised-the Indians 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
some'ers; and 1 just went where the
wind blowed, and when I'd scraped mo,
ney enough together, / cum back and
bought few acres of land around my
mothers old cabin, for the place where
I'd laid her bones was sacred, like. Well.
in the course Of time, it turned up right
in the middle of Chicager. couldn't
stand that i loved my old mother TOO
we'll to let omnibusses rattle over her
grave. SO cum back about fifteen years
ago., and quietly moved her away to the
buryin' ground; and then I went back to
Texas, and wrote to an agent arterward
to sell my land. Wha: cost few hun
dred to, begin on, l sold for over forty
thousand if PGa kept ittill now 'twould
have been worth ten times that; that's so,
but 1 got enough fort. l soon turned
that forty into eighty thousand, and that
into twice as much, and SO on, 'til don't
know nor | don't care what I'm worth;
that's so. / work hard, am the same
rough customer, remember every day Of
my life what my mother taught me. new
er drink, gamble nor 6gtt; wish I didn't
swear and chew; but !hems,s got 70 70 be
kind Of second natur'. ike. andIlhe, only
thing that troubles ;me IS my money
havn't got nc. wife nor children. and I'm
going now to hunt up my brother and his
folks. Ifhis boys, is clever and industri-
Gus, amt ashamed Of. my big boots and
old fashioned ways, and bis gals is young
women and not ladies; it they help their
mother, and don't put, t,op more'n two
frocks day, III make EN- fJ rich, every
- NOV, gentlemen, tai ,tssiplIs lseft e9ften I'm led led
to tell on myself after this fashion. !, But
these old places. where trapped when
was a boy. made me feel like child