The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-08-21

From the Hartford Evening Press, Aug.7.
sRerheH and his Anxious Mother.
stephen was anxious TO see bis mother
dis mother Was nnxious to see Stephen
The duitufnl boy advertised in the public
prints, that he was on bic way to see bis
mother. lie started from the city of New
York to visit bis mother, who resides in the
western section OF New York state. He nat
urally came 90 New Haven, Guildford and
Hartford, on bis way, and at the latter place
he was betrayed into speech. Still bent
on the paternal pilgrimage, he goes towards
Boston, attracted by a relative Of his wife,
II was cause of relative attraction. On
bis way, at Worcester, some Judas "betrsy.
eds him into speech. AT Boston, "betray-
ed'' him again. Now, however, he started
towards his mother. At Albany seeking to
pass through there as a private man, aston
ished at the magnificent demonstration, the
unexpected reception (like the one at Hart
ford. he was "be.rayed'' into speech, in
which be declared be was on his way to see
bis mother. From here, the pilgrim con
reaches Saratoga. Here be laws aside poll
tics, thinks of his long unseen mother whom
he 10 about TO visit, and sinks into the genial
pleasures of the place. Previous TO this,
We osght to mention, he was .'betrayed' in
to 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 hallowed, Che well-is-ssb etray-
eds into q speech.
Full of pent mp affection he can no longer
restrain himself, but goes to Bellows Falls.
Amid the believing of the populace and the
sobs of Stephen, he is deceived, deluded,
imposed in fact "betrayed" into speech.
tie fees to the north; he lands at White
River junction. What junction--what q
conjunction, in point OF fact, was there T.
Stephen was 'betrayed" into a speech. Gut
ting his flial stick In q southeast direction,
he informes US at Concord that be 10 visiting
New England to look upon the grave of a
relative. Sad Stephen, how skillfully bis
anxiety to see his mother is disguised. This
statement was made in the course of some ex +.
| tended remarks which, in point of fact, ssbe
trayed" pious Aneas into q speech at this
very place. At Manchester, at Nashua, al
| Providence, still seeking the maternal am
brace that stillreoeded, he is still 'sbetrayed''
but Why repeat the sad detailsp
Stephen Stephen, who seems unable TO
cut bis bread and cheese even, is next seen
at clam-bake ut Rocky point; far, far
from mother, relatives or graves, on the
strictly private tour to see bis mother--Ste
phen, we say, sinks the maternal for a sea-
son, and allows one hundred and fifty bush
els of baked CLAIMS and thirty thousand peo-
pie to "betray" him into . speesh--a brief
one OF an hour and a half.
Look at the map of New England. Where
do 20 think Stephen 10 now? Why, way
down on the rocky end Of Rhode Island, at
Newport, kicking mp his truant heels by the
great ocean, as much as to say that, having
Travelled all over New England on the strength
Of her, be now don't care "brass farthin' -
for bis maternal!
And yet, by and by, when be gets recuper-
ated and wants to start on another tour, we
shall hear his low, sweet voice mingling with
the roar OF the surf down there on the sound
ing sea, softly singing
'Wake and call me early,
Call me early, mother dear"