The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-12-04
our fortunes. Ny brother, he took down
20 St Louis and got marrid down there
som ers; and l Just went where the winds

som 'ers; and just went where the winds
I bowed, and when I'd scraped money
enough together, cum back and bought
few acres Of land around my mother s
old cabin, for the place where I'd lain
her bones was sacred like. Well in the
course OF time it turacd up right in the
middle OF Chlcager. couldn't stand
that loved my mother too well to let
omn'busses rattle over her grave, 80
cum back about fifteen years oeo. and
quietly removed her away to the bu,yio
ground, and then went back te Texas,
ana wrote to an agent afterward to sell
my 'and. What cost few hundred to
Degin on, sold for forty thousand--if
Id kept it till now it would have been
worth ten times that: but | got enough
Tort | soon turned the forty thousand
into eighty thousand and that into twice
as much, and SO on, till / don't know nor
care how much am worth, that's SO. |
worked hard, am the same rough customer,
remember every day of my life what my
mother taught me; never drink, gamble
or fight; wish didn't swear and chaw,
but thcin's got to be kind second mater
Ike, aud the only thing thot troubles me
Is my money-haven't got no wife nor
children, and I'm going to hunt up nv
brother aud his folks. If his Bows are
clever and industrious, amt ashamed of
nv bic boots aud old fashioned ways,
and his gals is young women and not
ladies; if they help their mother, aod
don't put on more than two frocks
day, I'll make 'om rich, every one of
'em.
"Now, gentlemen, 'taint often I'm led
to tell on myself in this fashion But
these old places, where | trapped when |
was boy, make me feel like child again
and just felt like telling these young
sters here about the chances a fellow may
meet in lie, if he only tries to make the
most Of himself
But, boys" said he, turning to par
| ty OF young gentlemen, "there is some
thing better than money. Get educa-
ton. Why, boys, if I had as much
larniD' as money, | could be President in
1860 just as o.s-y. Why, I could buy
up half of the North, and not miss it out
of my pie, But get larnin', don't chaw
tobaccer; don't lake TO Ticker; don't
swear: and mind your mother-thats 8
the advice of real live Sucker. and il
you mind what say you may be men,
! (and it amt every feller that wears a
goatee and breeches that's man by a
long ways.) Foller out her coupsels,
never do a thing that will make YOU
ashamed to meet her in heaven. WHY.
boys, | never done bad thing but |
heard my mothers voice reproving me:
and | never done good thing and made
good move but seemed to hear her
say, That's right, Jack and That has
been the best Of all Nothing Ike a
mother, boys nothin' like mother
that's Sc"
All this had passed while waiting Cor
wood, just outside of Chicago. TIE
great man was swelling with emotions
called mp from the dark shadaws of the
past; his great rough frame heaved like
big billow upon the ocean Tears sprang
to bis deep set and earnest eves-they
welled up to the brim, and swan around,
asking to be let fall as tributes to his
mothers momory-tributes to the love
/ Of the past. But he chokcd them down.
and humming a snatch of IN old ballad,
| he thrust bis hands down into his pock.
cts. walked back to the end of the car,
pulled the gigantic collar of his shaggy
coat up around his ears. buttoned it close
and leaned back against the window in
/ silence.
The cars ratified or. What a mind
was there. what gigantic intellect, slee-
ping buried away from light and useful
ness by rubbish Of preiodiee, habit and
custom, doing but half work for want of
/ culture.
a mute, inglorious Milton" or rath-
cr Webster. going about the world, strug-
/ Cling with his own soul, but bound by
chains Of ignorance which precluded
/ his doing but moiety Of good it lay in
his power to do. All the way through
| that long. tedious, journey he had ever
been en- the watch to do good He gave
/ his seat bv the fire to an Irish woman
and heI child and took one farther back;
soon young girl seated herself by his
side. As the night hours wore on. and
she nodded wearily, he rose. spread his
! leopard skin, with it's soft, rich lining on
the seat made pillow of his carpet bag.
aud insisted that she should lie down and
sleep
"What will you do?" said she naive
ly.
"Never mind me- can stand up and
sleep, Just like buffalo; I'm we'll used
to it. THAT'S SOL"
A little boy pulled up from a sound
nap to give place to incomers. was paci-
fed and made happy by handful Of
chestnuts and a glowing bit Of candy,
pulled out of the biz mans pocket
when he lift the cars for refreshments he
brought back handful os pies, and dis
tributed them among the weary and way
worn looking group. 4 mother and sew
en- little children, the eldeft not twelve
years old. whose husband and father left
the cars at every stopping place and re-
turned more stupid and beastly each oc-
casion, scolding the little tired restless
ones with thick tongue, and glaring his
furious red eyes upon the poor grieved
victim of wife, because she did not
keep her young ones still; they would
disturb everybody" No bite Of refresh
ment, no exhileratine draught, no rest
from that cross fat baby, came to her all
the long night, save when the big man
stretched out his great hands, and took
her bow for an hour. and let him play with
his splendid hunting watch to keep him
quiet,
aTn give you a thousand dollars for
him." said he, handing him back to his
mothers arms