The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-10-17

If You will ri,lo With me some morning
over II billy section of New England, I
will show you my old home. Thc LITTLE
manufacturing village ct my hoyhood
has become nlmrot II city. Our family
residence, once the best in town, will
soon make way for n row of tenement
houses. Once the dingy, m"ny paned
windows cast merry glanccs within.
Now, far-scc!Mg with the vision of old
age, they look beyond the busy street,
beyond the brick-crownel hill, with the
ghosts of an ancient forest waving over
it, and they see low, green city.
Among its crumbling door plates they
can read the names OF all the Dcnnison
family save one, and that Is on my Office
door-John Dennison, NJ. ID.
Years egO, father owned WOODEN fac
tory at the Falls. ] suppose ne was
considered n promiucEl man in the town,
for he held important Offices many years.
Mother died when Jack and ! were very
young. Jack and We're twins, Few
outside of our own family knew M apart,
SO people called us indiscriminately Jack
Or John, The neighbors knew that the
fastest runner was Jack and the loudest
talker was John and everybody knew
that when che hoy was visible The other
must be within hearing distance.
Fannie and Alice kept house for lis.
The poor girls must have had an nncom-
| Portable time of it with jack and /. 1t
was doubtless n happy day for them
when we were pushed of to the acad-
envy some twenty miles distant, with the
promise that if wo behaved ourselves
and the teachers thought anything could
be made of us we could fit for college.
"Now, young mon, if You go to play
iug pranks aud don't attend to your
books, you'll walk home and 60 tc
work." father said, as he drove away
from the boarding-house.
Father was man of his word and We
governed ourselves accordingly, nj
though we managed to have some pretty
gay times. At the end of three years
we had completed our eft Father
came down to the exhibition and lis
tened complocently while we shouted
forth our lofty aspirations ana on
sweeping denunciations against the fool
ish world. We went home feeling tina
We were just the men to revolutioniz
society. -Four years seemed long tim
before we could begin and Twas afrai,
some of the other fellows would &c
ahead of us and right all the wrongs be
Gore We were out of college.
What plans we made that summer
Of course, We were going to study Tor
profession, and we would always be par
ncrs. But, what profession would hes
further the interests of the human rae
and the credit of the Dcnnison family
was in favor of studying medicine, br
Jack used to say that he didn't want
spend his life doctoring sick babies {
making bread poultices.
One day after we had had more tina
usually earnest discussion we went jnt
! the house and found father sitting in h
armchair unconscious. He had bee
, suddenly stricken with paralysis. "
summoned the doctors and they to-
, us that he could never be well again
! mind or body, although he might li'
for wears. We all bore our affection
we'll rs we could. Jack and | saw tn
> we must look after the mill and tt
family, and that the unngcnerate wor
; must look after itself. We divided Il
work between us and got on very well.
y One morning tho last oil August, Ja'
came to me and said
No "John, want you to 60 to colle'
Z We are not both needed here. l CT
ct hire help and take care Of the faoto
p,r we'll enough. I like it first rate. !
can study with doctor vacations ana
VOL won't take you 50 very long to 2
throuch, We must have one prof
&c .;onal man in the family, and you kn'
as I'0 never did care a great deal abe
ed stndyinp medicine. Now PACK 70
his At first would not listen to tne a, pre-
ID osition but secretly it was Ssd uss Wnh a
had been wishing might happen %