The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1893-05-04
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H3IHI3 I ABSOLUTELY PURE ~"
HIS VISIT TO IHE OLD HOME,

Aflch msn VIE haa slsport i0oGlee
! hfA4lS father sud mother tens hov b,
came 10 make them = visit
How came TO visit my home happened
in curious wsy. Six weeks ago went
down 10 Fire Islssd fishing. l hsd bad !
lunch put np for me, spd you csn imagine
my establishment when opened the hami
per to hod = package OF crackers wrapped
up 10 a piece Of the little patent inside
eountry wes kiy published ., my bone 10
lFiseoaan read every word Of il, ads
vertisemenls aud slI Th,rs. WAS George
& Kellogg. wi o wss q sehoolma'e " mine,
advertising ham and pork. aid slolhef
boy was post master BY Gsorge' II
made me honesick AMI determined then
and there TO 80 home. snd 80 home 1
did. #A I MI
Ia The first place q ust tell you bow
I came to New York. hai tiff with my
father and left home. 4 finally turned ID
New York with a dollar 10 my pocket. l
got job running freight elevator in the
very house ia which am . partner My
haste to get rich drove the thought OF my
parents from ne. and when did think OF
them the bard words that my father lat
spoke TO me rankleed 10 my bo ON. Well,
went home, ! tell you, Jchn. my trsin
seemed to creep,I was actually worse than
. scLo lIboy goiog tome for vacation. At
last we reared the toxn. FsmiIisr sights
met my eyes and, upon my word they fill
cd with tears. There was Bill Lymsu's
red barn just the sane; tut-grest Scottl
what we're sll o. the other touses? We
rode nearly mile before coming TO the
station, passing many boases. OF which
ouly 40 occasional one was iamilisr The
town bad grown to ten times Its liz when
jumped off No: face IN sight kuew
and started down the platform to go
home. 10 the office door stands the sta,
tion agent. ! walked up and said: Hoxdy,
Mr.. Collins9 8EE
He started at me and replied: You have
got the best ofme, sir. fea#N i
Itold him Who'll was and whpt had
been doing 10 New York. and be didn't
make any bones IN talking to me. Said he;
It's bout time y6u came home. You in
New York ricb and your father scratching
gravel to get bare living
tell you John, il knock d me all in a
heap. thought my father had enough
TO live upon comfortably. Then notion
struck me- Before gong home tele.
graphed TO Chicago TO one OF Our corres-
poDdents there TO send me $1,000 by the
first mail.
| went into Mr.. O. llins's back o'ice,
got my tiubk in there and put on an cd
hand me down suit that used for fishiog
and hunting. My plug bat replaced for
soft one, took my vslse in my hand and
went home. Somehow the place didn't
look right. The current bushes had been
ding up from the front yard and the fence
was eo1e. All the old locust trees had ,
been cut down and young maple trees !
we're planted The fouse locked smaller. Fl
somehow, too. Bnr vert up 10 the front
door aud rang the bell Mother came to
the door and said,
We doat wish to buy anything to day,
sir
II didn't take a miunte to survey her
from head to ioor Neatly dressed. John.
but patch aud darn here and there, /,
her bair streaked with gray, her face thin.
drawn aud wrinkleo. Yet over h'r eye
glss, a. shone those & ol honest eyes.
stood Il, ring at ber aud then she beesn ~
stare VI me saw the blood rush to her
face, spd vi b great sob she threw her, !
self vi on me and neryously clssped me
about her neck, bystericslly cr, ing: lr
Its jimmy It's Jimmy II
Tben | cried. too. John. Just broke I
down aud c,i ID like baby. She got me
into tie house, hugsing and kisslue me,
aad tLen she went 70 the back door and
shouted; q, orgel
Father called from the kitchen: What /,
do you sent, Osr'line9 =
Then tic came in. He knew me in !,
moment. He stuck out his hand and
grssped ine and said, steiuy: /,
Well. yonng man, do yon propose 10 be. |
have yourself no~1
lie tried to put on brave front. but he
broke down. Then We three sat like whip ,
ped schto children. oil whimpering. All
last supper time came and mother veot
out to prepare it. went in.o the kitchen
vi b her.
whsre 20 you live. jimmy she SEX I
ed.
Ia New York, rel lied. {
What are 700 working q. now. Jim
NV
am working In err eools store,
Then | supptse yon don't live very
bish. for be tell q them city clerks
whs, dont get enough money 10 keep
body aod toal together, So I'll ius. tell
ron. Jimny. We got notLlng bus rosss
spar ribs for supper We amt got ay
noner now, Jimmy We are poorer nor
Job's turkey.
I told hef would be delighted With tie
sptraiibs. sud. 10 tell The truth. John.
haser I eaten smesl 10 New YORK that tss'.
"a as good ~ those crap rosst spsrribs
did Il
| spen, the evening playing check, ra
wita father, ~bile mother sst by telling
me all sboGt their uisfortnpes. from old
~Aiie NOISY getting drowned ia the
rnni 10 tsther's sisn.nR rots ter q friend