Connecticut western news., 1882-05-31
Published by request.
 The TranAP's Stsry.
BY WILL CARLETON

I
 If experience has gold in it tas disoernir
 folks agree,
 l Then there quite little fortune slowed ava l somewhere in me
 And deal it out regardless of regular state
 price,
 In rough done up packages of common-sens The people they can take it, or run round il
 as they please,
 But the best th,ng they'll And in it is som
 words like unto these:
 Worm oT ns beetle, asa dreyg" { 'r tempest o" aa'm
 'gainst Mem au.
 On my weddin' day my father touched m
 kindly on the arm,
 And handed me the papers for an eighty-acr | farm,
 With the stock an tools an' buildin's for ., independent start,
 Saying, Here's . wedding present from m, l muscle and my heart;
 And except the admonitions you have takel from my tongue, | And the reasonable lickin's that you had whe, | you was young,
 And your food and clothes and schooling tno
 so much as I could wish,
 For had 2 number eatin' from c some'a scanty dish)
 And the honest love you captured when ye, m first sat on my knee,
 lhis IS all ! have to give you-so expect nt more from me-"
 People'd said couldn't marry the sweet Rir tried to court,
 iIll we smihngly submitted minority report | Then they laid their theories o> er, with | ,quickness queer to see, And said they knew we'd marry, but we nsve,
 could agree;
 But we did not frame and hang up all tn. neighbors had to say,
 But ran our little heaven in our own peculia, We ss.,ss started oil quite jolly. wondrous fall ot And 2 general ens.. o understanding that the road So 1s lyss, ' :sd d'isa seiisd and pro.p.r.d and ,, the little family party That came on from heaven to visit us, were bright and hale and hearty; And to-day we might ha' been there had ] only just have known ... How to lay my road down solid, and let vel
 enough alone. " But l soon commenced s-kiskins in tho taee, l confess There west Ess too much land that joined M. .,. When once he gets land -hunS~.
 Favenous enc can be- s'H strange nov
 that iI.ss :.u!S S''s ..s wanted all the sroan' .n% SSushs sa.,,, smother eighty fnot sOr.bodin, And for that and some down-monsy nut , r, "ore6aRe on my farm.
 Anen to a bought another forty, hired some easl Ana 70. 70 buy covered eArrisge-and of cours the mortgage grew.
 NOW my Wife was square against this, 'tis bu >~r, n8ht that you should know (lhG;agh I'm very far from saying that thinl But she went in hearty with me. workins har, For we knew that aik fife va. bu,ip.,.. now W
 had that debt to pay. We worked through spring and winter, throusl summer and through fall, 0us that mortgage worked the hardest an the steadiest of us ail;
 It worked on nights and Sundays 1t works each holiday:
 ' set.aea down among us,l and 1t never wen Whatever we kept from it seemed almost a It watched us every minute, and it ruled u right and left.
 The rust and blight were with us sometimea ,,, and sometimes they were not; The oatx-orowed scowling mortgage was for - ever on the spot;
 The weevil and the out-worm they wont A The %1,o.r,tg.se stayed forever. eating heart It nailed up every window, steod guard q l every door, | 000 - with us no more
 LII with failing crops and sickness we TO stalled upon the grade,
 Ana there came dark day on us when the in terest wasn't paid;
 Ana sd sns5s o 't%s ost my iha.sR hssR and Ana grew weary and discoura9ed, and thu farm was sold and fed.
 The children left and scattered when the,
 hardly yet were grown
 My wiie she pined an perished, sn' I foun, myself alone. What she died of was 6 mystery" an tn. doctors never knew;
 But 4 knew she died of naortgaqe-just as vel as wanted to.
 If to trace hidden sorrow were within tn, They'd hs' found 6 mortgage on that woman broken heart.
 Two different kinds of people the devil mos One is the man who conqusrs; the other, h. But still still think the last kind are soonest t, Ana to, to hide their aorry faces behind the shame Like some old king or other, whose name I'v, somehow lost, W They straightway tear their eyes out, ius ,,,, when they need 'em most. When once had discovered that the debt
 could not pay, l tried to iquidate it in rather common way I used to meet in private fellow -financier. Aho we would drink ourselves worth ten thou. sand dollars clear
 found, eA But ones heap sight poorer when he gets
 back to the ground. Or course ought to ha' braoed up, an worked
 on all the same, ain't trying to shirk out, or cover m from
 blame: But still think men often, it safely may be Are d,iven to temp tations in place of being led And II that tyrant mortgage hadn't cracked 1 shouldn' thave constituted the ruin that vor For thoH h I've never stolen or detaulted, Yet socially considered I'm pretty miadlin am helpless and forsskep, ! am childish and haven't single dollar that its fair to call My old age knows no comfort, my hear. is u, scant of cheerl The children they run from me ss soon .s
 come near, The women shrink and tremble-their alma ,,, are far bestowed The dogs howl curses st me. and hnnt mo
 down the road; My home is where night finds me my friands o, are few and cold Oh, little is there in this world for on vbo,.
 poor and old But I'm wealthy in experience, all put up in ., good advice, -A ?. in the price; '' oAe" You may have it, an thrive on it, or run round
 1t, as you please, But generally give it wrapped in some sucb v, words as these: s"'' worm or beetle, drought or tss,.pess ca q fay~,
 gainst herA aQ. N Ea,.n, no Ea.s:..g9 mso.sgd9e
 Duty to Othersn CLAABERsBURG, July 25, 1875. ', ms IS to let the people know that I, Anna naIia hfioer, wife of Tobias Krider, am now