Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-08-24
Stephen and his Anxious Mother.
Frsm the Hartford Press, Aug. 2.

! Frsm the Hartford Pfcss, Aug. Z.
Stephen was anxious to see his mother
His mother was anxious to see Stephen. III
dutifnl boy advertised it in the public print
that he was Oil his way to see his mother
lie started from the city Of New York {
visit his mother, who resides in the weeterl
section OF New York State. He naturall
came to New Haven, Guilford and Harttor
on his way, aud ut the latter place be wa
"betTayed into speech" Still bent on th
maternal pilgrimage, he goes towards Boston
attracted by relative Vt his wife. It wa
at Worcester, ,s,.ne Judas "betrayed him ini,
aspeech. At Boston, betrayed again. Nov
however, LIE started towards his mother. A
Albany, seeking to pass through there as
private man, astonished at the magnifioen
demonstration, the unexpected reception
(like the one at Hartford) lie was "betray
ed into speech, in which he declared b,
was Oh his way to see bis mother. From
here the pilgrim soon reaches Saratoga
hers he lays aside politics, thinks OF his
long unseen mother whom he is about tc
visit, and sinks into the genial pleasures cl
the place. frevious to this We ought te
mention, he was s'betrsyed" into q speech
Full Of thoughts OF his mother, he starts in
q northeast direction and lands at Rutland
the home Of his youth. Owing to the wholly
unexpected arrival in that place, SO hallow-
ed, &c-he-wsll-is 'betrayed" into q
speech. Full Of pent-up affection, he can no
longer restrain himself, bit goes to Bellows
Fails. Amid the believing of the populace
and the sobs of Stephen, he is deceived,
deluded, imposed ON IN fact betrayed
into speech. He fees to the North, he
labors at White River junction. What q
junction, what conjunction in point of fact
was tlierel Stephen was ''besrayeds into a
speech. Cutting his filial stick 10 southeast
direction, he informs Us at Concord that he
is visiting New England to look upon the
grave OF relative. Sad Stephen, how skill
Iuliy his anxiety to see his mother is disguis-
ed. This statement was made in the course
OF some extended remarks which, in point
of fact, ':betrayed Aueas into q speech at
this place. At Manchester, at Nassua, at
Providence, still seeking the maternal EN-.
brace that still recedsd, be is still surprised
and still "betrayed" - but why repeat the
sad details2 ...... ...-- 'l.-.,'~'-. -.
Stephen, Stephen, who seems unable to
cut his bread and cheese even. ia next seen
at a clam-bake at Rocky Point far, far
from mother, relatives or graves, on this
strictly private tour to see bis mother.
Stephen, We say, sinks the mat ternal for
season, and allows one hundred and fifty
bushels of baked CLANS and thirty thousand
people to ''betray" him into speech "a
brief one of an hour and half.
Look at the map Of New England. Where
40 you think Stephen is now? Why, way
iown on the rocky end of Rhode Island, at
Newport, kicking up his truant heels by the
great ocean, as much ss to say that, having
travelled all over New Eng glaLd on the
strength of her, lie now don't care "brass
arthin" for his maternal
And yet. BY aud>by, when he gets recu
'erated and wants to start on another tour,
We shall hear his low, sweet voice minglipg
With the roar of the surf down there by the
sounding sea, softly singing
Wake, and call mo early,
Call ne ear ly, neither dear: