The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-08-23
From the Hartford Press, Aug. z.
Stephen and his Anxious Mother.

Stephen was anxious to see his moth
er. His mother was anxious to see
Stephen. The dutiful boy advertised
in the public prints that he was on his
way to see his mother. He started
from the city of New York to visit his
mother, who resides in the western Sec
ton of New York State. He naturally
came to New Haven, Guilford, and
Hartford on his way, and at the latter
place he was " betrayed into speech"
Still bent on the maternal pilgrimage,
he goes towards Boston, attracted by a
relative of his wife, 1t was a case of
relative attraction. On his way, at
Worcester, some Judas "betrayed"
him into a speech. At Boston, be-
trayed again. Now, however, he
started towards his mother. AT Alba
ny, seeking to pass through there as a
private man, astonished at the magnifi-
cent demonstration, the unexpected re-
ception like the one at Hartford) he
was "betrayed" into speech, in which
he declared he was on his way to see
his mother. From here the pilgrim
soon reaches Saratoga. Here he lays
aside politics, thinks of his long unseen
mother whom he is about to visit, and
sinks into the genial pleasures of the
place. Previous to this we ought to
mention he was betrayed into a
speech. Full of thoughts of his moth
er, he starts in northeast direction
and lands at Rutland, the home of his
youth. Owing to the wholly unex-
peoted arrivalin that place, so hallowed,
&c-he-well-is "betrayed" into a
speech. Full of pent-up affection, he
can no longer restrain himself, but
goes to Bellows Falls. Amid the bel
lowing of the populace and the sobs
of Stephen, he is deceived, deluded,
imposed on-in fact betrayed" into a
speech. He fees to the North, he
labors at White River Junction. What
a junction, what conjunction in point
of fact was there! Stephen was " be-
trayed" into speech. Cutting his fiji
ial stick in a southeast direction, he in
forms us at Concord that he is visiting
New England to look upon the grave of
relative. Sad Stephen, how skillfully
his anxiety to see his mother is dis
guised. This statement was made in
the course of some extended remarks
which, in point of fact, betrayed
Hneas into speech at this place. AT
Manchester, at Nasua, at Providence
still seeking the maternal embrace that
stillreoeded, he is still surprised and still
betrayed"-but why repeat the sad
details?
Stephen, Stephen, who seems unable
to cut his bread and cheese even, is
next seen at clam-bake at Rocky
Point; far, far from mother, relatives
or graves, on this strictly private tour
TO see his mother, Stephen, we say,
sinks the maternal for season, and al
lows one hundred and fifty bushels of
baked CLAIMS and thirty. thousand peo-
pie to "betray" him into a speech-a
brief one of an hour and half
Look at the map of New England.
Where do you think Stephen is now
Why, way down on the rocky end OF
Rhode Island, at Newport, kicking up
his truant heels by the great ocean, as
much as to say that, having travelled
all over New England on the strength
of her, he now don't care a C brass far
thin for his maternal!
| And yet, by-and-by when he gets re-
cuperated and wants to start on anoth.
err tour, we shall hear his low, sweet
voice mingling with the roar of the
surf down there by the sounding sea-
softly singing
| Wake, and call me early
Call me early, mother dear.