The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-01-12
KEEP THE LOAF UNDER YOUR ARM.


KEEP THE LOAF UNDER YOUR ARM.
The following is copied from New
York paper printed in the year 1873,
and is related as fact. Similar cases
often occur in these days, where a pa
rent, having given all into the hands
Of his children, is obliged to spend
the remainder Of his days in poverty
and want;
At this time there is living in Har-
lem an old man who relates the follow
ing story Of himself. He was possessed
of pretty good farm with everything I
necessary for his business, and had one .
child, a son who having married, it was
agreed that the young couple should
live in the house with the parent as he +
was wid0wer. These things wento
exceedingly well for some time when
the son proposed to his parent that he
should make ever to him his estate, I
promising to build a new house and /
otherwise improve the farm. The faith /
er through persuasion, gave him a deed /,
or gift of ii, and everything belonging +
to it.
After a few years, as the father grew /
old he grew little fretfui and dissatis- /
fed, while the son, thinking he had .
nothing more to expect from him, for
got his filial duty and used his old faith
er worse than his servants. The old .
man was no longer permitted to eat at /
the table with his son and wife, but /
compelled to take his meals in the
chimney corner, and was continually .
ill-used by them. The ill-usage to the /
old man was at length carried to such /.
height that he could no longer bear I
it. but left the house and went to a /
neighbor and relation Of his, declar- /.
ing that if his friend could not help
him get his farm back again, ne should /
be obliged to come and live with him. T
His friend answered that he might /
comeand live with him, andifhe would !
follow his directions, would help him
to get his estate again.
Take this bag Of dollars, carry it to !
your room at your sons. shut it up well /.
in your chest, and about the time you
expect they will call you down to din
ner, shut your door, and have all your
dollars spread on the table in the mid /
die Of the room. When they call you,
make a noise with them by sweeping
them into your bag again.
The bait took completely. The wife (
had peeped through the keyhole, and /.
saw the dollars spread out on the Ia
bic and told it 10 her husband. When /
the old man came down, they insis-
tedon his sitting at hetabIe with them, |
and treated him with uncommon civ
ility.
The old man related to HIS friend /
what he had done, who gaEe him di-
rections what to do if his Son asked for
the money.
After a few days the son discovered /
the old man very busiIy engaged in
counting out his money, and at thenext /
meal time asked him what money it /
was he had been counting.
"OnIy some money / have received I
! for the discharge Of one Of the bonds I /
had standing out. expect more in a
few days, and | fear l shall be obliged /
to take Mr.. Ms farm, upon which I
have a mortgage, as he is not able to /
raise the money, and if the farm is sold I
it will not fetch as much as Will dis
charge the mortgage"
After few days the son told his
father he intended to build q house on /
the farm, if he wouldlet him have that
money.
"Yes, child. all l have is coming to .
you. [ intend giving you the bonds
and mortgages have, but then | think I
it will be the best to have ii put all to-
gether in new deed Of Gift. will get /
neighbor L. to call here and draw new .
| one"
Accordingly his friend and cousin,
who had devised the scheme, came to I
the house, and the son gave the father
the deed, that another might be drawn /
Of it. When the old man had got the /
instrument into his hands, in the pres /
enca Of his friend he broke OF the seal, /
and committed the writing TO the fire, .
saying:
''Burn, cursed instrument OF my fol-
ly and misery! And you, my dutiful .
children, Us this estate is all my own, /
again, must remove Immediately, un-
less you will be content to be my ten
ants. I have learned, by sad eXper- .
ience, that it is best for parent to hold /
the i0uf W1der his or7 arms. That /
one father can better maintain ten
children than ten children can faith
| er."
THE New York Express says that the !
History of Mexico shows that during
the last 4Oyears, Mexico has had thirty /
seven different forms of government,