The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-01
ROMANCE OF PRoDIGAL SONS.
Strange Fortunes than Befen Two Way
ward Boys in Their wanderings.

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ward Boys in Their Handerings-
Mayor Steele, of Albany. Ga, recalls an
! interesting incident of adventure. He tells
/ the story in his own words; Near my
/ fathers home, in Allegheny county, Vir-
! ginia, lived a family by the name Of Rey-
nolds, composed of man and wife and
! several sons.
'They were fiiterate people, and were
/ regarded by their neighbors as pretty
1 tough crowd. No master ever treated his
/ slaves with greater severity than did old
/ man Reynolds treat his sons, and under
! such treatment they had but little respect
| for their parents and no love for their
| home.
when l was nineteen years old two OF
| these boys went to school to me- and one
/ of them could never understand the prin-
! ciple Of subtraction, though at his fathers
/ lumber yard he could count lumber In his
/ head faster and moro accurately than /
! could with a pencil
"Old man Reynolds Also owned n grist
} mill, and one morning about chestnut time
| those scholars Of mine were sent 10 the mill
| to get meal for breakfast.
After getting Tho meal they started on
their return home, bht wandered out into
the woods, and in gathering chestnuts, lost
sight of the flight Of time. and forgot their
errand until the breakfast hour had long
since passed, and knowing that they would
get an uDmerciful logging for their tru-
Rncy, they decided right then and there to
leave home. Their failure 10 return that
day aroused the fears Of their parents, and
the country was secured for them for days
afterwaFd without success and then they
were given up as lost.
Twenty years or more after that q
stranger rode up To my fathers gate aud
asked for lodging for tho night. 10 was
cheerfully granted him, and that night, as
they were sitting around the fire, for it
was again chestnut time, the stranger be
gan 10 make inquiries concerning the Rey-
nolds family. The sheriff OF the county
was also spending the night az my fathers.
and remembering the lost boys Of ord man
Reynolds, during the progress OF the stran-
gers inquiries he turned in his chair and
asked him:
Amt you ono Of them sons Of old man
Reynolds that ran away
eyes, ! am one Of them replied tho
stranger and then he went on 10 tell bow
he and his brother made up their mind IN
leave home. Dever stopping until they had
reached the Ohio river, how they had
come lost 70 each other, and how. after
many years, an irresistible longing had
come over him To revisit the scenes II bis
childhood, and how be had mode the loag
journey on horseback 70 satisfy that long
Ing
Finding that his parents were still alive,
and that the old mill was still running and
grinding meal for the Community ~ 81
yore, when he left foe his old home tho
next morning. he went by the mill, sscuYed
= small sack Of meal and carried IL 20 his
fathers hOUse. where be received soch Q
welcome as be Bsver befer- received.
lie spent several weeks with ma parents
and then left for bis houle IN Mississippi,
and that was he lass ever heard Of hfm %
BIS brother trsAnt, who was thought %
have gone to California aid become swal-
lowed Up and iost ia the rash TO thu god
fields 4"
There was a far away look in the MAJORS
eyes a. he oOnclndsd, and the reporter
imagined that probably his old Virginia
home wa again being looked 81 tbrD8gh
the strong lens 81 love add rnemory, and 80
be- skippes1 out and lsit MIN lingering and
the recoIlections Of ebsstnnt time.
The TOO Yrash" individual
We hear much 81 people who are "toS
frank" These dsstroyezs Of tbs Desos q
mind % friend and foe alike pride shen1-
selves on the facs that they are nothing Il
not candid" and always say Just what
they think Marion Hariaoi ASSURES "a,
however, il The HO1sekeeDars Weekly,
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