Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-05-17

besmed DER the mothers face, and
the ispidi;y with which her heal,h
and strength returned.
y have 10 be gone al next week
said Mr.. Ross one morning when
she was quite strong again. I'm
having trouble ahOni the mills !
bought; the rasc4ls are trying 20
ebea; ne oct OF the rent. ! want
Won 10 keep them boys at work.
and have 10 lazing about with
books and papers"
She looked about the bare room,
wondering whore they would find
the books and papers, but only
sail,--I viii try 10 keep things
mOviu..7
Yes you are pretty strong Do~;
seem better than you've been FOR
long iine. Perhaps yOa won't need
4 gin al SUMNER She made II
aosEer, b.; there was look about
. her eyes he didn't understand, and
Didn't remember 10 have seen there
before, and hs vent 01t, wondering
i bis usually meek. obedient wife
VAS getting any high notions in her
had ..JCs; = likely as 70; she'll .
get 70 thi1kiDg SIZE mus; keep help
al the time. She ANT near =
-.rin- IS lie used 70 he; If she
waits anything she don; stop 10
consider whether ! an able 10 az
ford j, or net, he mnite-ei, as be
Ealked DoOdily toward the barn.
T; Eoa!i have heen hari f0r NJ
Ross TO explain jus; where wif='s
iaek Of economy lay, hat this was
form Of speech lie had long ago
adopted, and often used in speak
ing 10 and abogt her.
Tie morning Of Mr. Ross de-
nzrt1re came, and be was early
away, after many injUnc;ions TO
keep al hands at work. Edward
called Mrs. Ross from the door, Is
.oo1 a. her husband was out Of
light, "come here / wan: You to
take re 10 NJ today The I
boy looked surprised. When had {
bis mother ever made such re-
lues: before and in his fathers ,
absenss, too! why, mother how
an leave the work - andhe sank ;
Town upon . chair, as If shocked ]
It the iiea. Z
"Well, my son, viii manage ,
hat. You need not stop to bother
lhout il now, but tomorrow you
nay hire an extra hand TO make it :
up, and next day too, IL need be,
md l will see TO the pay! but TIL. J
morning you must go with me-" :
But YOU are not well enough TO =
ide so far ia a wagon, mother" :
"Wcll, you may 60 and hire 4 Z
Juggy for to-day, and make haste, :.
or must start right away" Mrs. I,
Ross never had any trouble to en- :,
orce obedience, but she had never, :
ince the boys remembrance, done ,,
so strange; so be obeye1, Z
-onde1ingly. Edward Ross was b
eally fine-looking boy of seven
cen, though he looked older, for a.
ard work, and harder words had Pt
IT their mark upon him. He
)vcd bis mother intensely, and she,
moving his noble qualities of heart, y
-usted him implicitly and now, T.
: soon as she is seated in the bug n
Y, eagerly rs child she tells him 81 81
i her secret, and watches to see S 1o
is fine dark eyes open wide with y, y,
'onder. "But what will you do hie'
18th it, mother! II father gets n,
old Of it it will never do any of 90
5 any good" e.
"Don't speak so Of your father, Il,
.dward he thinks he has a hard 20
me" On "a
81 know, but he needn't have a a,
ard time He's got money enough, h Il,
ut he keeps it boarded up in land ~
I'd mills, and never a cent to use sal
III sure I'd rather have q chance l.
} get an education, than all the get
,al estate he'll ever be worth !" ed
I'D the boy spoke bitterly. are
"My dear boy. you shall have the Of Of"
nance you wish, but, under all GO"
rcumstanccs, speak respectfully T..
your father" and the tears filed p,,
Ie mothers eyes as she spoke. =
Now she unfoldtd TO her son all -
e plans she had formed, and was
nused to sec how eager and ex-
ted the quiet boy became, and
Nv readily he could assist her in
her calculations, and throughout