Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-12-27

'You,- you'll never have anything!
YOU'LL be a poor man as long as you live.
Lost the ademy this fall-.that tells the
story"
"But, father it wasn't my fault lost
the academy
''t's no matter whose fault 1t vas
that neither here nor tGere-you lost it,
and here you are with the vacation Def 10
you and nothing do There's your
mother, she's working herse to death;
she never gets any rest, expect she'll
60 off in Consum ton one of these days.
I" there there father! that's enough
Please don't say any more. You'll see /
will find son ething to do "
There are words spoken at times In life
that do not sound bitter that come from a
pitiable depth of anguish, and as James
turned from his father he had taken a
resolution that cOnvulsed him with pain;
| his strong arms vi cred with the repress-
ed agony, and he hastily sought dI tant
part Of the cid, and began cult ng and
stacking cornstalks with nervous ener-
gy.
"WhY, We work like thundcrm was
Biah's comment "Dook larnin' han't
spilled We yet; your arms are good for
suthin'.'
| and III use them for something said
Jim.
There was raging tempest in his soul.
For young fello of pur an education in
those days to be anGy with his father
was somewhat that seem d to him as aw-
| full a sacrlege as TO e angry with his Co.,
| and yet he fr,t thai his father had been
bitterly, cruelty uni st towards him He
had driven economy TO the most stringent
extremes: he had avoided the intimacy Of
! h class fellows. lest he should be drawn
| into needless eXpcn eS; he had borne with
shabby clothing AMI mean fare among bet
ter dressed and richer assoc ateS, and been
will ing bear it. He had stuffed faith
fully, unremit ingIy or two years but at
the moment he turned from his father the
throD that NTung his heart was the giving
up of all.
lie had in his pocket letter from his
towns nan and Sch00 mate Sam Allen.
II ate of an asst nda AN just fitting out
at Salon, and it said
We arc going TO sail with picked crew,
and we want one just such fellow as you for
third mate. Come along, and you can go
right up, and your college math MATES will
be all the better for US. Come right off, and
your berth Will DO ready and away for
round the world"
Here, to be sure, was immediate posi-
ton wages Decentralization from
the intolerabe burden of dependence;
but it was &C epted a. the sacrifice of all
his life's hopes. True. t at in those days
tn pertinent of a sea faring life had
often even II instances which he re allied
brought forth tOrtu and an alb lily to
settle down in peaceful competence in
alter life. But there was Diana. Would
she wal for HIM EncircIed on all sides
with lovers, would she keep faith with an
adyentur gone TO an indefn tie ,uest?
Tie de,pOn ing srlf-d sturbing side of
his ma ure said, d" 0. Why should e."
Then, TO 90 was to 81 e up iana-to
make up his mind to ha e her belong to
some other. hen there was his mother.
An unutterable reverential pathos always
TO him enCirCle the idea OF h s mo her.
Her life to Ii III seemed hard one. rom
the outside, he iewed it. it was all
sel-Sacrihce and remuneration. Yet he
knew tnat she had set her cart on an
education for Ii IN, a, much as it could b i,
set Oh an thing earthly. He was her
pride, her hope, and Just now that YER
thought was ull Of bitterness. There
was no help for it; he must not let her
work er elf to death for him; he wcult
make the hOUsch Id vessel lighter by the
throwing II IN elf into the sea TO sink or
| swim u, III ght happen and then perhaps,
he might come back with money TO help
| them all.
All this was what was surging and
boiling il his mind when ne came in from
his work to he sup er that night,