The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-10-02
Che9nteIltqetrtea,
Living on the Old Wan.

The IlUrdrlfc journal gives an mug
u,pl father room to vent his woes, Tit
story 4. appropriate tor the commence
myut season:
ui.,cr Editur haint no edicatior
and thank God ior it. Governor Lip
n.,t aid in his kollese speech that edica'
Inn Maid better than mortgage at six per
Governor Iippitt, ask you have you
daft .urh things rs three highly edicated
AM. mn Your hands, what can't support
Themselves and all living on the old man.
Van know YOU hain't, and rs have, !
.'..'- / Know a. much about this edication
,,,,.r n. yon do. ! Gus the day when
Gmrray ambition broke out in my family
4, three son, to kollege, and ii | had
,., AN, lrit To- .tly ON the farm and work
,i,l mn. wc -hould all on us be taken a
J.,ninrrr.tiuthc annual appropriations
lar The pour VI the town.
Nv S'h. ,miicl law, and all the writs
h.. Ia. vet seen has been on hisself. lie
,,.t,.warc ont 81 Jail three times week,
,,.,,lar rrip. he makes, Monday, Wed.
"g,,gy Friday like the Rhode Island
ir,m Swu,ng,on,
H., Ina. rot rs pretty lettlc IIoilis rs
.,,r VAN see. with legal work Of SmOllct,
E,rna and all them great jurists arrang.
81 AM .hcyc-thc portrait OF Rutas ChotC
and tIa. ,url what danced SO good at the
'r,Iaur hung up on the walls. We fur
ni.Brl him with all those necessaries OF
Mn. legal profession, and although he
snake, aud drinks beer, and does all a
,.yn, LAWYER ought to Ito to win conf.
,Irn.r and public esteem, it is no go.
Ilr hr,uug. To ten secret societies, and
nII him wish to God he'd jine one
.p-rrrc, that his creditors could not find
lin,
lie bny. all his tobacco in my name for
fear Of getting attached, and as for his
beer. hrdriak up live dollars worth at a
time. and then swcars out on it. lie Is
getting low pirilcd now; and says that all
thr Blackstone he wants to know about 81
the Blackstone river, with u big stone tied
/, his heels, which made hiI mother cry,
but told him he was Of age, and had no
control over him,
Poor Silas, when he graduated ut kol-
lcst, his oratiau was on "a classical cdi-
cation Indispensable to success IN life"
iii. mother and cried in the Baptist
Church when We heard him deliver il, We
didn't know what for then, but hev since
found out, tell Silas that the only
chance | see ahead is to take to drink
strong, then reform, and maybe the tenn
pcrancc folks will shove him along to
keep him moral and steady.
Nv tothcr boy, Ezra, studded for Il
doctor. The rrstca.c he had was law
kim. that was gorcd 80 badly by Olney's
big bull. Hawkins had six good stiff
horns aboard Of hi, own atore the bull
muxcd with him, which made it u bad
case. Ezra wanted to be sure, so he gave
him all the medicine he had on hand at
once Just ~ Hawkins was a.dying he
writ an afyiayit that the treatment he rc.
cciycd from the bull was generous and
humane compared with that OF his doctor.
IIawkins's widow sued for malpractice,
and her lawycar told tho jury that NJ. d.
stood for murdcrouS doses, and that Esra
wa, drunk, and that llc was Il doctor Of
many dram, hni few scrunlcs Al ihis
i"I"',br Imi,rnnl iurv longhnJ lila ,L"v
wnnIJ .uii, and thav ~iH a liz vcrIic,
",in r.rn and he Ind ~ RIM n IN Coli'
iOruy.
lIc dror4 small drafts on me often, 30
We know he's alive; which il more Of q
WG"n ,,r, , % III. or"iinr ,y,s I om
"s"alIn,n a p"r,ccti"n A1"inst H." E"'
hmi,;ns If i;fcH III. mo,Lcr and I
cri"j L,J ,hnn nnI wc Lavr' sine, iomni
ont nby ' '' " ''''' ''''
En, ii, s,Ie.t c,se ofolI wos our mar
mia C'I,i" a, ito tim" wL"n vn,linL
in , ynn,I'y ar, sno"i in lov;n" siomo wall,
"r 6or;u, earn calvin wHs scrionSly
,Linkin" of III" marc imnorlani work n
snyin, snnIs II" cntrrrI roilo,c orJ
wns ir,ilv Sn,,lai ov"r,n loryc ngri,L NJ
IIclIhmrm \Nooi. o -
Eor n tsw ycars thing. went .nooth
H., ma, ,,I, snvnI m,Lor snhI. Ln, hn
no,LIv ncrsu,rI Nj. nnriinn If mo ir;nI,
ami discinlinr If iifr hy vr,,iny married
ami rni,irg ~, a fnm;l,v ni snnIs ~ III
avn manI,toctI,rc W ''' W
Then his parisi, rot tired or him and
mll him to did npd lhcy turned linn off
A. they do ministers, by passing a lot Of
sn,a%;;nn, ohn", ,a nain '" ,.a, ~, ,, W
dor sWcl, tender nnJ hnIlicd tics, W '"'
lie ani Lis hui family cnmc home IN
IL. and nr,er wa rot nboul mscd nm viii,
them, rot Calyin,s litc ins,Irci [or Mi
/ Could and he sailed len months MO- M
commissioner TO n lot of icrocio,,s enni.
ball. have nrennrcd nv mind 10 soe
qoon from the kim of the tribe A letter
something like this:
"My DEAR SlR-Your son Calvin ar.
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