Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-09
Calder fba ca,rno,,to,. WON'T

Vie ooy. Oaidef, Gne carpenter, wants
to take BIN as prentice. He's kind
man, Calder, and carpentering is a sure
road to a good living hereabouts But
my own advice is that he turns into
seines and rods, and makes fisherman
of himself. The seas the only meadow
where the crops never fail.
C The lads eyes sparkled, as I inter
preted this to him. They are all so
good, crossing his arms over his
breast. But you see, monsieur, [ am
wood-carver. 1 canuot be carpen-
ter, or plough that big water-field. -
laughing for [ am wood-c arver.
There Is vacant hut on the sands.
where [ shall live with FRANCHISE.
8 was perplexed, 'Itis impossible,
at your age, that you can have learned
the trade of wood-carving z
No, '-coloring. { But the men
of my family they have the mind in
the fingers you understand +? One
paints, one is draughtsman, one is
sculptor. I am child, but I can carve
| in wood. That is ALL When I come
to try myself, knocking on his fore
head, = find no talent but the one.
[ carve in wood. VOLTA tout p
/ 6 But nobody wants to buv wood
carving here. You will sta1ve, per-
sisted. sI rE .fsa
Louis shrugged his shoulders
So But [ am wood-carver, moi o.
" AS for your sister, she must re-
main with Mrs. Darnell. What can YOU
do with her 2 ...f.....
Themen of my house have always
supported the women, proudly. Fran
coise shall not live on aims
g Darnell and were both out of all
patience with the lad. But though he
was affectionate and gentle and ready
to take advice on all subjects but the
one, on that he was obstinate and pig
headed belief. It seemed impossible
for him to comprehend how he could
do otherwise than work at the one thing
he could do best, and carry out the
peculiar traits of his family. r,serf
Well to cut the story short, the
matter was still in dispute when [ left
the bay. When [ returned, a year
after, [ found the two children actually
living IN the hut. and living comforta.
bly,. Louis had persisted in his wood
carving, which some of the fishermen
took in trade at first for fish and vege
tables, and at last one of the kucksters
carried some of his work to New York.
and succeeded so well in selling it for
him, that the boy was able to clothe
himself and his sister, and to make a
very snug little home out of the cabin.
:" Now comes the curious part of my
story.
1.-The next spring I had, as super
cargo on my vessel, man named Fon-
querel, OF what nationality [ don't
exactly know; but, at all events,
d very sh1ewd, intelligent fellow, wide
awake to all peculiarities in human ma
ture. One evening, in the cabin. talk
ing of shipwrecks, told him this story
Of Louis, just as I've tCl1 it to YOU.
He seemed remarkably interested in it.
What was the boys name, did
you say?' ratt's .r -.--.s 7s
Dessoux. Louis Dessoux.
"FThen it can't be. There was a
family in Alsatia, called LIE Menager,
to whom [ fancied he must belong.
They were counts under the Empire,
men of large landed property But
the singular point about them was,
that they each had unusual mechanical
talent, and that every one praeticed
some trade or art. not, of course, for
remuneration. but as a constant occu-
patton. They were, simple middle-aged
men, too, of exceptional independence
IN opinion and action, and obstinate as
mules. L fancied your boy must be
one of them But none of lie Managers
went to Algeria.
'''And then, said [, his name is
Dessoux That settles it.
The matter escaped my mind. I
landed my supercargo in York, and
forgot all about him until, year af-
terward, [ received letter from him
dated Lyons. He had been so i'm
pressed with my story, he said, that he
had gone down to Cape Henlopen to
see Louis, and, on returning to Europe,
had made it his business to hunt up
the LIE Managers. He discovered that
one of his brothers had, in fact, recelv-
ed an appointment as officer in Algeria,
had taken his wife's name, Dessoux,
with her estate. and with his family
had embarked on the brig L'Etoile for
America, intending to visit friend in
New Orleans"
$50 Louis and FRANCHISE went
home ~ cried Agnes. ks.
eyes. There We're large estates in
Alsatia waiting for the boy, and, bet
ter than that, kinsfolk who welcomed
him. with the love they had given to
his lost father and MOTHER
p" And it all came to him. said Joe.
thoughttullY, "because he persisted in
making himself out of himself 2" -e
& Precisely. His best SELF The
captain clasped his hands behind his
grizzly old head, and pushed his feet
out nearer to the fire, watching Joe
with quizzical laugh in his half shut
eyes. cts my notion, Joe, " he said,
"that we can't change the features God
gave to our mind, any more than the
features of our body; and the loyaller
we are in preserving them and making
the best of them, the surer we'll be Of
finding our estate and kinsfolk when
we get into port in that other country
beyond the sea. '-Re6ecca Hurdipag