New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-27

offered you, and never complain becaus,
nobody offers more"
Those words are to be cut on nv sea
ring, If ever have one. and If DIR. Anthol
or Professor Webster will put them int
short enough Latin for me. That is thu
motto of the Children of the Public
John Myers died before that term wal
out. And my more that mother, Betsv
went back to her friends in Maine. Aftel
the funeral never saw them more. How
| lived from that moment to what Fausts
and call the Crisis is nobody's concern.
worked in the shop at the school, and OF
the farm. Afterwards / taught school in
the neighbOring districts. l never bought
ticket In a lottery or rattle. But when
ever there was chance to do an homes,
stroke of work, | did it. l have walked
fifteen miles al night to carry an election
| return to the Tribune's agent at GJuv.neur.
| have turned out IN the snow to break
open the road when the supervisor could
not find another man in the township.
! When Sdrtain started his magazine,
| wrote an essay IN competition for the pre-.
MUM. and the essay earned its hundred
dollars When the managers of the Orphan
Home" in Baltimore, Cff-red their prizes
tor papers on bad boys, l wrote for one OF
them. and that helped lie on four hard
| months. There was no luck in these things.
l needed the money, and | put my hook
into the pork barrel-that is, trusted the
public. never had but one stroke of luck
In my life. ! wanted a new pair of boots
badly. was going to walk to Albany to
work in the State library on the history of
| the Six Nations, which had an interest for
me. I did no. have a dollar. just then
there passed Congress the bill distributing
\ the surplus revenue. The State of New
York received two Or three millions, and
divided it among tie counties. The county
of st. Lawrence divided ie among the
! townships. and the township of Roscius
divided il among the voters. Two dollars
| and sixty cents OF Uncle Sans money came
to me. and with that money on my f-et I
walked to Albany. That call luck! How
many fools had TO assent to an absurdity
before could study tho history Of til. Six
Nations:
But one instance told in detail i. better
than a tn us mi told in general for the
illustration vi = principle. So viii detain
you no longer from this history Of what
FAusta and call the Isis.
U-THE CRISIS.
was at work as a veneerer ir pia 40.
forte factory at Attica, when some tariff or
other was passed or repealed: there came a
great financial explosion. and our boss,
among the rest, failed. He owed US all six
months wages. and We were all very poor
and very blue. Jonathan Wittemoye-a
real good fellow. who used to cover the
hammers with leather--came to me the day
the shop closed. and told me he was going
to take the chance TO 60 to Europe. He was
going to the Musical Conservatory at Leip.
sic. IT he could. He would work his pas.
sage out as q stoker. He would wash
himself for two or three days at Bremen.
and then get work. ii he could, with Weight
lander or Nun Hammer till he could enter
the Conservatory. By way Of preparation
for this he wanted me to sell him my At
ler's German Dictionary.
II have nothing to give you for it. Felix,
but this foolish tElng--lt Is one OF Burr.
hams tickets-which | bought in froic
the night OF our sleighrida. Ill transfer it
to you.
Itold jonathan he might have the die.
tiOnary and welcome. He was doing seu.
slbls thing. and he would use it twenty
times as much as ] should. As for the
ticket. he had better keep it: | did not want
it. Blu. saw he would feel better If took
lt-so he Endorsed II to me.
Now the reader must know that this
BnrIham was man who had got hold
OF one cOrner OF the idea OF what the
public could do for Its children. He
had found out that there we're thou.
sand psopi" who would be glad to make !
the tOur OF IN" mountains and the Take !
every summer II they could 90 so tor half |
price. Iie found that the railroad com. |
panies were glad enough to put the price |
nown II they could be sure OF the thousand |
people. lie medltated between the two. |
and 80 ''cheap excursions came into being. |
They are ono OF the gifts the public gives
IT'S children. Kissing from step to step. |
Durham had. iuss before the great finan.
,lal crisis. conceived the idea OF a great
cheap com pIna'ion. IN which everybody was |
IN ia, ri "a a ,u.ysZinN for "A wear md n cc.
,!opedla. both az half price; and not only |
50. but the money that was gained in the
combination WAS 10 be given by lot 20 the
,wo 'lckethoiders. one man ard one
woman. Tor their dowery III marriage. l
lare say the readers remember the pros.
Dtc:us. IL savors too much OF the modern
Cut enterprise to be reprinted in full;
1ut 1t had this honest element. that every.
,ody got more than ne could get Tor his
money In retail. have my magazine. the
no D'sto" .n'SceIa"y, to this day. and
just now looked OUT Levasseur's name
my cyclopedia; ana. as you VII! see,
rave reason to know all the other sub.
crlbers got theirs.
One OF the tickets for these books for
which Wittemore had given five good dol.
ars was that which he gave me for my die
ionary: And so We parted. l loitered at
Attlcs, hoping for place where could
nut in my oar. But my hand was out at
eaching. and in time when all the worlds
eneers OF different kinds were ripping off.
obody wanted me to put on more OF any
ind. SO that my cash ran low. would
ot go IN debt-that 10 thing never did.
lore honest. say. 10 go TO the pOOrhOuse,
nd make the public care for it's child there
han to borrow what you can not pay. But
did not coLe quite to that. as you shall
ee.
l was counting up my money one night
nt 1t was easy dOne-when l observed |
nat the date on this Durham order was
ne fifteenth OF October, and it occurred to
le that it was not quite fortnight before