Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-06-04

AOuttCCu uOuIc III OuiCdScI, I'll. w Ill,
can stand it if the rest can; if twenty dol |
lars Won't carry me through, I'll borry of
my friends. Pve got the the thin gs that'li
bring 'em, That's So
And he thrust hand little less in size
than common spade. down into the cav
ernous depths of a broad-stiriped fiashy pair
of pants, and brought up that great red
hand, full as it couki hold; ofshining TWEEN
ty dollar gold pieces S..
Don't yer think / can stand these ere
Chicagers for ONE fourteen hours?'
A nod Of assent from three or four, and
smile of curiosity from the rest answered
his question in the affirmative.
'Yon must have been in luck, stranger
said an envious looking little man. You've
more than your share of gold I.1.I1tI
i have eli? Well reckon not. / come
honestly by it. That's so. And there's
them living who can remember this child
when he went round the p'raries trapping
p'rary hens, and the like, to get nights
sasaugers from biting my toes; I've hung
myself up more nor one night in the tim
Der, to keep out of the way of the var
minis; best sleeping in the world, in tn
crotch of tree-top! Now, / reckon you
wouldn't believe it, but I've gone all winter
without shoe to my foot; and lived on wild
! game, when l could ketch it. That's so'
Didn't stunt your growth, said voice
near
! Not bit Of it. 1t brought me up right.
These p'raries are wonderful roomy !
thought one spell that would let myself
out entirely, but me and mother held COR
Gus, and decided that 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 Teller that
couldn't afford the expensive luxury of a
wife to make his brooches. 1t was only
my love for mother that stopped my growth.
If I'd had any 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 .rowsers
made now. Why don'tyou and your moth
er hold another caucus, and see what you
caudo? If she was to let you expand your
self, you might sell out to Barnum, and
make fortune travelling with Tom Thumb,
and take the old woman along
Stranger, said the rough, great man, aud
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.
would give all the gold in my pocket to
bring her back for one hour, to look upon
this country as it is now. She had her cab
in here when Chicager was nowhere; 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 faith
full 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
side with our own hands, and with many a
tear and sob turned ourselves away from the
cabin where we'd been raised-the Indians
had killed orr father long before, and we d
nothing to keep us-and so we went to
seek our fortunes. Ny brother, he took
down to ST. Louis, and got married down
there summers; and | Just went where the
wind bowed, and when I'd scrapsd money
enough together, come back and bought
few acres of land around my mothers old
cabin, for the place where I'd lain her bones
! ~as sacred, like. Well, in the course of
time, it turned up right in the middle OF
Chicager. couldn't stand that loved
my cid mother too we'll to let omnibusses
rattle over her grave, so cum back about
fifteen years ago, and quietly moved her a.
way to the buryin' ground, and then went
back to Texas and wrote to an agent AFTER
wards to sell my land. What cost few
hundred to begin on, | sold for over forty
thousand-if I'd kept it till now, 'twould
have been worth ten times that, THAT's so,
but got enough fort. soon turned that
forty thousand into eighty thousand, and
that into twice as much, md so on, till
don't know nor don't care what Pm worth
That's So worked har,l, am the same
! rough customer, remember every day oil
my life what my mother taught me: never
drink nor fight; wish ] didn't swear and
, chew; but them's got to be kind second
natur' like, and the only thing that trou
bes me is my money-having got no wife
and children, and I'm going now to hun
: up my brother and his folks. Ifhis boy,
is clever and Industrious, amt ashamed 0
my big boots and old-fashionsd ways. anc
his gals is young women and not ladies'; i
they help their mother, and don't put oil
: more n two frocks day I'll make EN- rich
every one on en-.
Now, gentlemen, faint often I'm led t.
: tell onmysclf after this fashion. But thes
old places, where trapped when was
? boy. made me feel like child agin-and
7 just felt like telling these youngsters her
: about the chances and changes Teller ma
meet in life. if he only tries to make tn
2 most of himself.
q But boys said he turning to party Q
!, young men, there's something better tha
= money. Get education. Why, boys, if
e had as much larnin' as money, cod b
President in 1857 just EASY. Why,
1t could buy up half the North, an not miss
e out of my pile. But get larnin' don't cha'
II tobacco; don't take to liquor; don't swear
= and mind your understands the advic
IS of q live sucker; and if you do what say 20
may be men, land it amt every Teller ths
hi wears oorEE and breetches that's ma
r by q long ways.) Foller out her counsel'
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