The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-05-25
Vol. XVIII.

why he had never been allowed
to stop and study in schools him
seit.. -.
His mothers care and love had
| never failed him, her patience had
| never given way; but she never
remained long enough in any one
place to make friends.
Boyhood wins friends sooner
than more mature age; but Robert
had scarcely any friends, and
changed his acquaiutances so fre.
quently that be could remember
but few of them, and those were
people whom he had met in late
years.
Then the method, or want Of
method, which characterized Mrs.
Gaines actions was growing stran-
ger and stranger to her son as he
grew older and knew more of
life, and more of the way IN
which people usually travelled.
His mother was not a woman
who would have been called libe
raj by the people around hotels
and public resorts. She would
pay 8 hackman exactly what she
had promised or exactly what she
knew he had g right to charge,
aud not one cent more. She
would seek the humblest rather
than the best hotel in a place. She
dressed plainly. She WAS economi-
cal. 49,.
Still, Robert remembered a GER
tain occasion when she had order
cd a carriage at the last moment
in New York, and driven in all
haste to the steamb boat just start
ing for England, leaving tickets
for San Francisco on the table.
Aud he remembered several occa-
sions on which tickets for shorter
journeys had gone in the same
way, gone without word, appa
re ntly without thought.
She was q great reader; she
never grudged money paid for
books and newspapers; and she
read aloud to her eon hours at u
time. She would read Of great
men with smile Of enthusiasm
on her face; Of great ar: galleries
with all the appreciation OF a
cultured taste.
And Robert had seen her face
flush with pleasure at the sight OF
some famous painting on one or
two rare occasions.
But they had visited Rome, and
be had seen nothing of the treas
ures of art or relics Of early reii-
gion there they had jourueyed 10
Egypt, and he had not climbed a
pyramid; they had been in Paris
twice, and be had never seen 8
play nor listened to an opera
they had visited Berlin, St. Peters,
burg, Washington, and he had
only by accident seen some OF the
noted leaders among men, and had
never been inside one Of the pub
lie buildings in his life. They
had spent month 10 Philadel
phia during the summer of 1876
and had not been allowed to Wis
it the great exhibition.
There were three conditions
| which Robert had always had to
| obey. He could never 60 any
| where, even for the shortest dis
| tance or the briefest time, without
| a full statement Of exactly where
be was going and how long be
would be gone, and was allow
ed to 60 alone only on rare
occasions. His mother always
read all newspapers before hs
was allowed to touch them. She
always read her letters in silence
and never mentioned them after
ward.
Indulgent in many things, hi
mother exacted implicit obedience
in these matters. He went or re
mained as she said; he read hi
favorite papers after she hat
| finished them: be never ap
peared to even know when sht
had letters.
| Robert Gaines was thinking o
these things as be paced th'
deck of a fast ocean steamer head
ed for New York, On the eleventh
day of October eighteen hundred
and eighty. And the wise conclu
sion be formed as be threw away
his cigar and turned to rejoin hi
| mother, who was reading a dozel
PAGES from him, was conclusion
| that had been uttered By NOR