The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-01-21

be honest, useful and industrious. She
taught us to be faithful aud 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 had been raised-the Indians
had killed our father long before, aud
we'd nothin' to keep us-aDd 80 VIC went
to seek our fortunes. Ny brother he
took down there to St Louis, and got
married down there some'ers and just
went where the wind blowcd, and when
Id scraped money enough together, |
came back and bought few acres of land
around my mothers old cabin, for the
place where laid her bones was sacred
like. Wal, in course of time it turned
right up 10 the middle of Chicarger. |
couldu't stand that-IIoved nv old moth.
err too well to let the omnibusses rattle o.
yer her grave, so come back about ff-
teen gears ago, aud quietly moved her a.
way to the buryiu' ground; and then |
went back to Texas. aud wrote to an a.
gent afterwards to sell my land. Wh at
cost few hundred dollars to begin on.
sold for over forty tbousand-and if I'd
kept it till now 'twould bave been worth
ten times that-but | got enough for it.
soon turned that forty into eighty thou
sand. and that into twice as much, and 80
! oD, till | don't know nor care what I'm
worth. work hard, am the same rough
customer; remember every day Of my life
what my mother taught me; never drink
nor fgbt, wish didn't swear nor chaw;
but them's got to be kind o second natur'
like, and the only thing that troubles me
lis Money-haveU got no wife nor chill
dren. and I'm going now to hunt up my
brother and his folks. If his boys is
clever and industrious. aud amt ashamed
of my big boots and old fashioned ways,
aud his gals is young women and not Ia
dies; if they heed their Dother, and don't
put on more'n two frocks day, III make
'em rich, every one on EN-.
| Now, gentlemen, faint often I'm led
to tell on my-elf this fashion. But thest
old places, where trapped when | was a
boy, made me feel like child agsin--
and just felt like telling these young
sters here about, the changes and chan
ces feller may meet in life if he only
tries to make the most of himself
But, boz, said he. turning to a party
of ycun. ucn. There's something bet
ter than money. Get education, and
mind your mother. FoIler out all her
counsels; never do anything that will
make you asham cd to meet her in heav-
en-.
All this passed while waiting to ~ood
just out OF Chicago. The great man was
swelling with emotions called up from the
dark shadows of the past; his big rough
form heaved like great billow upon the
ocean Tears sprung to his deep set
earnest and eyes-sveiled up to the brim
and swan round asking to be let fail
as tributes to his mothers memory trib-
uteS to the love of the past Bat be
choked them down, and hutnmiug a snatch
of an old ballad, he thrust his hands
down into bis pockets, walked back to
the end Of the car, pulled his gigantic
collar of his shaggy coat up around his
ears, buttoDed it close, and leaned back
against the window in silence.
The cars ratified on. What mind
was there; what giant intellect. sleep
ing, buried away from light and useful
ness by rubbish of prejudice. and habit
and custom-doiag but half work for
want of culture
a mute inglorious Milton or rather
Webster, going about the world, strug.
Cling with his own soul, yet bound by
chains of ignorance, which precluded his
doing but moiety Of good it lay in his
: power to do.
All the way through our long tedou.
journey he had been on the watch to dc
,. good. He gave up his seat by the Ere tc
an Irish woman aud her child, and took
one further back; soon young girl seat.
ed herself By his side, and as the nigh
hours wore on she nodded wearily; ht
rose, spread his beautiful leopard skin
with it, soft rich lining, on the seat, mad,
pillow of his carpet bag, and insisted
|, that she should lie down and sleep.
r What will you do! said >he naively.
5 Never mind mel can stand up aus
sleep like buffalo; I'm used to it.
! A little boy, pulled up from SCUM
= nap to give place to incomers, was pacl
, fed aud made quit by handful OF ehes
r nuts and a glowing bit OF candy out o.
, the mans pocket. When he left the car.
, for refreshment, he brought back his hanc
full OF pies, and distributed them anon.
the weary group. A mother and sever
little children, the eldest not eleven year
old, whose husband and father left thc
! cars at every stopping place, and return
: ed more stupid and bea,tly each time
:, seolding the little tired ones with thici
, tongue aud giaring his furious red eye
+, upon the poor grieved victim of d wife
like tiger upon its ptey, because sh,
did not keep the young ones still, the,
would disturb everyboddy. No bite o
: rcfreshmeut, no exhilcrating drau5ht, nc
rost frorD that fa croSS y hahy aa.nc D uaI