New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-09-23
HIS BROTHER SLEEPER.
From the Youths Companion.

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"Pm not good for much, am I,
mother?'
= The question was asked playfully,
! but the young man sitting at the
brea kfast table, from which q red-arm-
d ed girl was carrying the dishes, threw
\ down his paper, andspringing said,
] with a flushed face, 5%ssi
No, Dick, you're not good for any.
thing!"
"Come now!' was the angry re-
4 Spouse. and Mrs. BARNES hurried for
81 ward nervously, for III seemed as if the
b two brothers wouldfght.
"It's a fact. You are living on us;
you are lazy-and you re almost twen-
q ty years old, said Tom, the eldest.
& 20 boys! boysNpr protested the wom-
I an, holding out her hands. "Younev-
er quarreled in your life. Don't be-
gin now!" s
cts time he heard the TRUTH z mutt
tered Tom. S.
.'But, mother, haven't L tried?"
asked the boy, turning to her, and his
'tYou know, q On, liat Dick is deli.
cate" pleaded the woman. 4sf''
eyes, and that's been his shield long
enough, should say. He's not too
delicate to go to all the merry markings,
and eat his share, and WhenShe gets a
good chance in life, he. don t. know it.
I'll never try for hi1n again. I, never"
and out he went, slaming the door be-
hind him. !. ss s#s S Ssss D 9sss t@s n b
II don't see what's got into Toni"
said the widow, sdistressfully sInev-.
er knew him to act so before" /
"Oh, it's been in him some time"
nuttered Dick, oarsely y. ~ Ever since
he got acquainted with the Moses.
That's what's the matter"
'Doyou really mean it, Dick? ''ss sa&sf
"Of course I do. Helikes Miss Anne,
and he wants to marry and settle
down Pm in the way. I.wish father
had lived, or had died with him. ~
'eDick, darling, don't talk. soY' Il
II say do! Everything was going
on just right. I liked my studies, and
meant to make a man; though in a
different way from Tom. He likes
hard work,and can doBit.x / hate ev-
erything but boo ks, study and law.
I don't see why Tom should be so
hard on me- I'm trying my best.
Lawyer Bates said that. in less than
two years can make my own way. ;,
My, poor,4dear boy! You are do
ing yoursbesr kno wyou are.N u was
Il 'Yes, you think SO; you feel so; I'm
sure of your sympathy, but you see,
&Tom wants me to be making money.
Vie begrudges me the food Teat, and
thinks I am Sinking, and trying to
s&sget along without work. He never
Msaid so8before, but IFhaNe seen it OF
M1ate. Icanread it in the wayhe looks
Hat me-" &8 & si SG So
81 "My dear boy! try not to mind
it!' said the widow distressfully
r. II have tried; laughed at his hints land
/ swallowed my chagrin. Butt can't do
it any longer, my self-respect. is hurt.
All is, must throw uptmly place with
Lawyer Bates, and 60 out to Oregon,
and buckle down to hard work. y
sDlck, | never will consent to it!'
said his mother, growing pale. tYou,
4 with your delicate constitution, to 90
away so far from home, from me,-
when you have always needed to be
watched over and cared for!s Try not
to mind Torn!n s
q have done so, mother, but can't
Spretend TOT ryany longer. Tom wants
& to be married-to the silliest girl in
the family, too, because she has a
pretty face and dresses so stylishly I
suppose he'snot to blame; he S twenty
five years old, and doing a fair bust
ness. It's only am in the way. He
has to help me to, clothes, you know,
and OF course my board costs some.
thing. I might as well say yes. The
Journey will do me good, maybe, and
there's chance to make money. It's
a new place, you know"
The conference closed, and Dick went
to his Office, leaving his mother al
4 most bro ken-h hearted It was such q
change from the tender care of her
husband, to dependence upon the
strong, self-willed man whose word had
begun to be law. !. And it was embar-
RAISING to! feel that before long She
would only be second in his heart and
home. For he called the home his,
Though his mother had boughtit with
her own money. years before, and fur
nlshed 1T herself. But now she was
left so impoverished that she had no
means to pay the taxes, and her health
was poor.
If Tom would only wait! But no;
Tom believed that Dick was lazy; that
shis studying law was but a farce; that
he should be no more exempt from
hard work than himself. And he had
Just had such splendid situation of
tered for him, that it angered HIM be.
yond measure when Dick declined,
Dick" as he sneeringly
kcalled him. Besides, he did wish to
marry, but would not while he fancied
Dick an inculnbrance.
That night the brothers met fora
few moments; the mother was not in
the room.
.s Have you written your friend in.
Oregon?u asked Dick, aud something
in his handsome, intellectual face re-
buked his elder brother as he an
swered,
No; / shall write to him tonight. z
Il