The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-11

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RELY needed sleep, and her arisin |
disturbed me, and the warm water I
hev allowed that woman tn bring |
from the kitchen, mites, for them
childen, would never be bleevd.
Like a troo father, made sacrifices
for them children. 1 felt the dOoty
NV economizen that they might en-
ioy advantages, and to that end 1
sternly refoosed to let Marian pay
for q pew in the church she belong
ed to, and at once cut off her annoo-
al subscipshen to the Furrin Mishi-
nory Sosiety.
"Mariar," 1 remarked, pintin at
the ten. "the heethen is not only at
our door, but they are inside
thereof"
Well would it hev been for me If
1 had never allowed myself to be
over-persuaded inthis matter. Ma
riar sunk nnder the labor of carin
fur them children, and went to her
long home, despite the advice l he'd
given her for twenty-five Yeers,
concernin the proper management
of EN-. l drop q teer to the memo
nv of that excellent pervider-she
was my stay for q quarter nv
a century. My second wuz better
lookin, but the minnit she wuz mar
ried she clozed the shop Il hev al
luz married millinery, and she in
sisted on my supportin her. My
third was Weakly-I wuz took In
with her-aAd couldn't work. Wat
a contrast! Marian frequently put q
mortgage on her fxters to supply
the father NV her children with the
necessaries Nv life. Alas them fix
tiers all are gone, this many a year:
Time rolled on, and Tom reached
the age of twenty-five, and wuz adj
mitted TO the bar, and got into a
good practis. Now, sed to my
self, shell reep my reward. The
first fee Tom got, promptly asked
him for ten dollars, witch wuz to heV
been the fret drop nv the golden
shower that wuz tn felier. Tom
looked at me with q expression that
BODIED me no good, aud turned on
his heel and walked away. Not q
dollar would he give me, though he
did squander some of his money on
his ynnger bruthers and sisters, aud
aboosed me one day for not given
EN- q better chance. He wuz hard
harted and uDgrateful.
Imogene did marry a rich old
man at eighteen, and moved in
brillyant speer. Confidently APP
] preached her husband on the subjek
of takin up my abode with them,
and passin my declinin years in COM
fort, but he remarked he'd see me fur
Their fust, and he was ekally onrea-
sonable on the subjeck of Temporal
~ relief. Finally he informed me
that he didn't marry me, and Imo.
gene quite agreed with him, and
departed sick.
Looiser married q week-mindeC
man, from 1 could have boTrereo
money, but for the insurmountabl'
fact that he didn't heV none, ant
t never did. He wanted to return Il
A.. the parental. roof, but indignant!
I declined.
Joolius got to be a mechanic, bu
D he he'd his own family to support
), and Abner lated me to scorn whel
= | came upon him, insistin that b
}, wood do as much for me eZ he'
' ever did for him.
d Samyool, from whom 1 did expeC
: suthin, f1outed and jeered at ms
anu w AOu i lhSAoNSo ohA boAHSN
J. parental authority and sicb, absC
c lootly threatened me with brick.
Melinda, my fifth, got to be mi
I liner, and never married. EZ a la'
d resort | proposed to live with he
= and take charge ny her dizziness, as
he'd he'd experience. "Excuzs me,
o WIZ her hartlis remark, i amt ma
II And so | Wuz cast off from ali {
:, um.
il The memry NV their muther r.
i up like a wall between me and thel
! ez shood heV cared for me eZ sh
l did.
e And so on down. They SHOVE
e great alacrity in gitiin away frol
ne, and a indisposishun to return
which never Good account for. i
a speekin Nv the ramiiy they wuz a
Wus protuse in reverin the memr
g oV their mutber, which didn't nee
;, il, but they didn't reyeer me, whiC
e did need it, particle. Then ! re
Z Allied
"How sharper than seFpenGs tooth 1t
,. Tu heV u thankiis child"
l. Ny children are all most Nv thel
v in fair circumstances, and their chi
dren are we'll clad and well care
n for. L am q lonely old man, depel
e dim for a subsistence on my BIO
,e rowin capasity among strangers,
pFecarious and disagreesbie metho
p Nv Twin. My investment didu
q pay. The $1,000 that them childre
cost my YARNS wives wood, eff hs
it now, give me decent inkum, an
Is enable me to live in compsratiN
q comfort. It was the mistake Nv n
life, and / am too old to begin agi
And so life is to me o weary dreeI
m and my fucher is overcast with Leaf
N en- clouds ihrugh witch 1 see no ri
9. May heaven forgive my wives an
lr my unnachural offspring.