Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-01-02

1here nave been compst,i rod 70 wo;t
holidays for me, | wssr,t Chr;s,mas
nearly roor to,. ~ first celebration
of tho dav - dependence, and a full
year for my srss birthday,
,o,tants, yet, when the holidays come
around. md am sitting at the Christ
mas ssnquet, l cannot escape the feel.
inc mat | am eating last years turkey,
NJ on the glorious Fourth can | | break
away from the conviction that | am
listening to last years orations. But
let us drop these vain speculations and
commence a tale of my busy life.
have now completed my sixth year.
During my first twelve-month, find.
Ing no other employment at hand by
which to gain my living, | determined
to lay aside all considerations Of dig
nifty, and to engage in a course of UNI
renting grief. In this business |
prospered beyond my hopes, and, show
ing how perseverance may find its re.
ward even In the simplest vocation, |
was able at all times to keep myself
well and happy.
1t may be well here to point out
what | consider an error in the course
pursued by other children. They are
content to assuage their grief after
crying until they have obtained every
thing they can think of. 1t was my
W practice, however-and | now
look back at this as presaging the tire
less industry | have since shown-to
cry not only until | had obtained
everything | could think of, but to con-
TIME crying, letting other people think
of things. They often thought of
things that pleased me beyond measure.
Nor was there more than one occa.
sion of Importance when lamentation
failed me. This was in the early bart
of my early summer Wi. n, after the
first hot days, there came about a ter
rifying commotion. The room in which
played was invaded by a frightful
gloom; titful light flashed at the win
dows; the wind rose; the glass was
beaten against by rain and hail, and
there were bursts of deafening noise
such as had never Ito my recollection
heard. Wishing this Immediately dis.
continued, l began to cry; but the COM
motion growing only more terrible, |
abandoned this course, and hastily es-
sayed to appease n power that / could
not coerce. | performed the patty
AXE, repeated in a sweet voice the
Tree words that knew, and enacted a
Nile.
Now, l know that 1t was q thunder
torn that tried to %cajole; and though
laugh at my simplicity, yet the Incl
mt shows, perhaps, some fertility of
xpedient
AT the end of the year, so good
ogress had l shown, so strong and
1T had ! become, that | was promoted
to a seat at the family table. Here |
found that my labors were none the
less exacting, nor their reward the less
gratifying. Within twelve months |
had broken nearly a complete set of
china, and had practically ruined a bale
OF table cloths. Devoting myself to
the great truths of science for the
study of which | cannot recommend
too early a date-I burned my hands
three hundred and sixty-five times on
the %coffee-urn, and an equal number of
times on the teapot
But it must not be supposed that |
neglected the arts. Like every other
person who tells ahout h;mealf nm,
myself in the way of learning every.
thing. l invented hammered metal
work, and myself hammered two trays
into artistic and shapeless masses.