Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-03-07

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think, TO tina. Of the father Of the great
Ulysses.
never had much money in my HE, ana
still have. For this reason have given the
bulk of my fortune to my two sons there
by rendering them pauPers. Ny nephew
declined to accept anything. saying no
thought he could get situAtion on street
oar. Il . dollar and . half day, which |
would place him beyond immediate want.
Hans Patrick lie Conner was born long |
time AFRO. between r. 4. In the evening and |
A. n. in the morning, and at the same hour |
every succeeding day for week. The
houee In which he was born 10 still standing,
bat the ground upon which it Was built has
been removed. II 10 popularity believed :,
have been carried OF In pots, BY . sinai
h.nd az Fenians, TO fill up the Dutch Gap.
The infant Hans Patrick received his
m.mmarial balm in the usual way. and not
through the fundamentally Of patent
bottle One Of his caprices, when vet
child. was to scream with eli the force of
his little lungs, when be was severely chas-
Used by his parents. THIS singular habit
was but a foreshadowing of that genius
which has rendered him SO eminent N his
maturity.
The carly training Of Hans Patrick was
une ptionably moral. remember en-
one occasion, he vas desired by party Of
rude companions to go into field and steal
. watermelon. He refused, and said he had
been taught that it was wrong to take other
peoples melons. The boys first coaxed and
then threatened him, but No held out stout
y TO the end. have heard it intimatsd
that he knew there was man concealed in
the field with . double. barrelled shot gun
aud bull dog. Hence his melancholy OBJ
| lection to entering. This statement may
or may not DC true, or both. cannot say
Almost as soon as he could 60 alone, the
subject Of my sketch manifested the strong
est kind Of friendship for mules The first
time no ever rode mule BY himself he was
about six years old. had left home to he
gone all day, when he saddled the critter
and rode fourteen miles to a campmeeting
and back again He was 90 small he had
to stand on his head to put his feet in the
st rrups. Then be would turn . hand
spring and mount, He used to brs K all
| L. in, h. anA
broke their necks. l have known him to
to harness mule colt when he had to climb
. ladder to put the bride on. He hadn't
much taste for horses they were too tall FOL
him. Occasionally he would ride one. Hi
method Of saddling and mounting the ani
NAL displayed wonderful ingenuity for ONT
50 young. He would select horse from thu
pasture, drive him under a shed. climb on
top. with saddle and bride on his arm
. ami then drop down on the horses bacl
J with tho saddle under him. He would
! then crawl out on the horses neck and pu
the bride on. lie would often get upor
j horses in this way when he Was preparing
u to break them.
If ever a circus came to town. with pai
}. Of comic mules to amuso the public. Han
J Patrick was the first boy in the whole com
. munity to rip hole in the canvas and slide
! in This was doubly gratifying to him, q
d it enabled him to see the mules and sppeas
ed his appetite for ripping up canvas. |
G there was al elephant along, he would &c
i ten cents from home to buy apples for hi II
Usually, however, he would eat the apple.
e himself ard persuade other boys to feet
I the elephant. This fact gave rise to 4 re
0 markabe saying, which is now very gener
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d circus.
| must not overlook one other event il
the history Of our young hero, which re
:, gard as having exercised an important in
huence on his whole life. | was building
log house in Green county. The logs wer,
: TO be hewn foot square and fifteen fee
long. These had to be hauled about tive
niles TO the place where the house was be
i ing erected generally worked very
4 large pair Of mules and Hans Patrick toll,
M one day. if would buy him a new snit
(ot about the size suitable for ripping oper
circus tents). he would haul logs one da,
by himself and save the expense OF a hirec
: hand. He was then about twelve years o
age, and small of his size. told him i
: was impossible for him to load the log,
+ 10y himself, but he insisted be could do i
, with perfect ease. and tod him he nigh
make the trial. then sent the hired ma,
secretly TO watch him and sec that no acct
dent should happen. In about two hour,
!, the wagon appeared, bringing a huge loac
of logs
'Ilow IN the world did YOU manage e
load p inquired. for considered it utter
" impossible for him to have accomplished
tie feat alone.
90. said he, "thc mules and loaded
'lhc mules and your What do you
mean =
lie then explained how he had managed
BY hisching the horses to the side of the
wagon, he had contrvcd to upset it over a
pile of logs. BY means of log chain they
were firmly fastened, the mules rs-htched
and the wagon pulled right side up again,
when, Of course, i. was loaded. The re-
maindsr Of my logs were hauled in this
manner. ! bought three new knives the
next day, aud the next circus that came
that way went out Of town with . NAM
moth rent in the canvas
While living with me Hans Patrick used
to take my stock to water. II was no IN
common thing for him to stand upon bare
backed mule three feet high and ride . mile
At . time without falling oil. He began to
practice this sort Of equestrianism BY stand
Ing upon the back Of an OK. that furnishing
broader and safer foundation than the
mules. Once he was accompanied BY
companion. who attempted to stand upon
smother OK. The attempt Was too much
TOR him. He slipped up and fell off, sd
down a hill several hundred feet into . bar
rel of ice-water, and vas drowned.
Ny hero was very fond Of planting small
grain. For many years he was in the habit
Of sowing oil my oats. He would stay in
the field and toll all day. and if At night he
had any oats LETT he would 60 and SOW them
10 the woods. These he fscetiously termed
"~ild oats" He acquired such . passion
for this kind Of sport that he somstimes
practices it even now, merely to remind
him Of his boy hood, suppose.
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