Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-01-29

or law very few men would have
had nerve TO do this, under the cir
cumstances.
But his government. aDpreciating
/ the knightly act, recalled him and
shOWered. additional honors upon
him. 1t gave him the order of p.
M. G., and made hinb Commander
of the p. O. ID.
In the meanwhile the natives
ruled their country, and it 7eas a
a "meanwhile" for HOraee's broth
ers; they underwent many priva-
tions and endured great suffering.
They were deprived even of the
''small Officesu-a kind OF aims
which was distributed by the ma
tives which had furnished them a
scanty subsistence, and were often
hungry and tleSpondent. They had
been educated for professional rul-
erS and lawmakers, and found it
difficult to pursue the aVocations of
!, the natives for a livelihood. Be
/ sides, they had been used to living
on food called "pap, and this was
not to be obtained by them at that
/ time, in that country.
/
long time in power they fell out
among themselves, as silly people
sometimes do. 1t came about in
this wise: They owed Il debt, and
one party wanted to pay half of it
and the other a third of it, and each
got suspicious of the others motive;
hence they quarrelled, and Horace's
brother Alvin seized this opportu-
nifty to have himself declared gov.
ernor over the land. At the same
time ROderick and Horace, Jr.,
were made members of the local
council, but Arch, poor, inprovi-
dent, uncalculating Arch, got left.
He was unapprised of the coming
revolution, and had made no pro-
vision for it.
Now, the home government per-
mitted the local council to elect
representative for the nation to the
great council at Washington. This
representative was called a senator,
and the Office was one of great re-
sponsibility, power and considerable
pay; but very few men are ever
known to shrink from it on that
account.
Arch very naturally thought it
belonged to him, as his brothers
were provided for; but ambition
was a growth indigenous to the ma
ture of all of Horaee's family, as
Arch soon discovered. Here grew
UP feud between the brothers liv-
ing with the natives, and promised
to result disastrOusly to all con-
cerped. While they quarreIled and
wrangled over the Office, Horace
left his home country and came
with brilliant retinue towhere his
brothers were-in his train was one
general, four colonels and a host of
lesser lights.
While Horace was a good and
wise man, he was also just man,
and he came to settle the dispute
which had arisen among his unhap-
py brethren. He well knew that if
he gave the Office to one the other
three would be dissatisfied, and he
moreover doubted if either of them
would add lustre to the family
name in the learned council to
which they aspired. Therefore he
concluded to take it himself.
But Horace did not desire this
Office for the power or fame it would
give him, for he was an old man
now, and full of hOnors.
Speaking about this time with
Senator Hamlin, of Maine, Horace
said to him, 81 have been in Office
for half century, and / am now
poorer than when | first went into
office" This explains the real Sc
cret of HOrace's desire for the office.
While he was good, wise just man,
he was also a devout man; his long
residence among the Orientals con-
tributed somewhat to enlarge his
natural tendency in that direction.
His great desire now was to die
poor; it had become part of his
faith he had read how hard ii was
for rich man TO enter the promised
land, and did not want to die with
even the semblance of riches.
Horace was man who never did
anything by halves, and nothing
short IF the poverty which charac-
terized Jobs turkey would suit him.
He knew of no easier way of dispOs-
ing of what little he had than by
holding office he had tried this and |
was used it, and knew its efficacy, I!
and he didn't intend to be slipped |
up on by death with lucre in his |
breeches pocket. A great French
writer has said: "When we come I
into the world our friends rejoice, |
we alone are crying; we should so
live that when we are passing out |
of it we alone rejoice, while all the |
Others are weeping. If Horace died |
poor he could rejoice; and others !
might weep for the same reason.
But his brothers were pious uen
also, and they wanted to become
poor some too, in the same manner |
that Horace had found so successful. I
So the quarrel went on, and even /
Horace, overcome by his monOma
MIA on the subject Of poverty, took
a hand in it. The brothers said
that Horace had no part in the rev.
and was not entitled to the
spoils and he intimated lack of
on their part to fulfill the
duties of the office. ALI parties
were right; Horace was not enti-
tied to the Office, and the Others had
no business with it; and while they
were engaged in belittling the
claims of each other, the local coun-
ell met and appointed native to
them, and thus ended the
1t is barely possible that
Horace may be caught dead yet
with some "stamps" on hand. But
even in his disappointment he had
the consolation of knowing that he
had been true to his ''golden rule"
.''Do unto others as you would
they should be done by"
COUNTRYMAN.
immigrants to the south from ItaIy