The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-17
BILL NYE IN BOSTON.
An Account of a Visit to His Birthplace in the
State of Maine.

An Account ola Visit to His Birthplace in Il
State OF Maine.
Last week Visited my birthplace i
the state of Maine. | waited thirt
years for the public to visit it, and a
there didn't seem to be much of
rush this spring, l thought l woul,
go and visit it myself. L was tellin.
a friend the other day that the public
did not seem to manifest the interes
In my birthplace that l thought i
ought to, and he said l ought not t.
mind that. "Just wait" said he. "till
the people of the United States have
an opportunity TO visit your tomb, and
You will be surprised to see how they
will run excursion trains up there to
M%oosehead lake, or wherever you
plant yourself. 1t will be a perfect
picnic. Your hold on the American
people, William, is wonderful, but
your death would seem to assure it.,
and kind of crystalIze the affection
now existing, but still in a nebulous
and gummy state"
A man ought not to critlcise his
birthplace, l presume, and yet, if |
Ntlc W QO IL Ill ONcI d0dlu, 40 uOU
know whether l would select that par
ticular spot or not. Sometimes | think
| would not. And yet, what memories
cluster about hat old house! There
was the place where l first met my
parents. 1T vas at that time that an
acquaintance spraDg up which has
rlpened in late years into mutual re-
spect and esteem. 1t was there that
what might be termed Il casual meet
ing took place that has, under the al
of resistless years, turned to
golden links, forming a pleasant but
powerful bond of union between my
parents and myself. For that reason /
hope that l may be spared to my
parents for many years to come.
Many old memories now cluster
lbout that old home, as | have said.
There is, also, other old br~ic-a-brac
which has accumulated since | was
)orn there. l took a small stone from
he front yard as a kind of ''memento"
If the occasion and the place. | do
lot think it has been detected vet.
was another stone in the yard,
o it may be weeks before anyone finds
ut that l took one of them.
How humble the home, and vet
that a lesson it should teach the BOYS {
t America! Here, amid the barren +
nd the inhospitable waste of rocks s
nd cold, the last place in the world .
lat a man would naturally select to
born in. began the life of one who, G
Y his own unaided effort, in after L
ears rose to the proud height of a
at Laramie City, Wyom- v
g, and, with an estimate of the fu- 8
re that was almost prophetic, re- !;
gned before he could be character fl
ed as an offensive partisan. @
Here on the banks of the raging tt
where winter fingers in b
g lap of spring till it occasions a h
'od deal of talk, there began a ca h
er which has been the wonder and IL
miration of every vigilance com lo
ittee west of the turbulent Missouri. sa
There on that spot, with no inherit l
ce but a predisposition to prema- 10
re badness and a bitter hatred of ST.
m, with no personal property but a va
silt suspender and a stone-bruise, tn
gan a life history which has never &C
Used to be a warning to people who CO
| groceries IN credit. be
It should teach the youth Of this to
ung land what glorious possibilities sa
y lie concealed in the rough and pa
Igh bosom of the reluctant present. an
shows how steady perseverance and of
God appetite will always win in the an
l. 1t teaches us that wealth is not IN;
ispensable, and that if we live as to-
should, draw out of politics at the GU
per time, and die a few days be- do
e the public absolutely demand it, on
matter of our birthplace will not Loo
considered. br
till, my birthplace is all right as a in
1t was a good, quiet place wi
which to be born. Ali the old ba
yhbors said that Shirley was a very as
ct place up to the time 1 was born err.
re, and when l took my parents by sal
hands and gently led them away dr.
he spring of '43, saying: parents, Sm
is no place for US" it became pei
1T. he
is the only birthplace Ihave, how 9th
and l hope that all the readers wa
Tie Globe will feel perfectly free to ha,
there any time and visit it, and an,
y their dinner, as did. Extrava- tax
t cordiality and overlooking hos frig
lily have always kept my birth Gle
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