The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-05-18
TEN YEARS LATER.


listeners on the veranda of the village
| tavern.
"Know Mr. Bolton? Well, | should
rather say did. l can remember the
time when jeremiah Bolton didn't have
n ~eeond ~hirt, h~a doubts about tho
first shirt, TO his back. Jobs turkey
wasn't in it with Jerry-I allus used to
call him Jerry an he used to call me
| Hiram. There warn't no mistcrs be-
tween us them days. Some of you
boys think yourselves smart, but there's
none of you could hold candle to Jere-
miah Bolton. No, sir. Last lection,
when there was talk of running Jerry
for guvnor, l knowed Jerry wouldn't
take no nomination. What did he
care about being guvnor? Why, Jerry
Bolton could buy the hull state eff he
wanted to-"
Most of the governors have to do
that" said bvstander.
"Well, Jerry amt that kind of man.
Fact is, they don't build men like Mr..
Bolton nowadays. Why, | remember
eleven years ago, before Jerry took out
his patent, an he was fcclin' kind o.
! discouraged, | says to him; Never you
mind, Jerry, your times a-comin'
You'll be able to buy out the county
some of these days Why, there wasn't
man in this town believed in Jerry
but me. There was old Deacon Swipes,
him that's dead and gone. He used to
say to me: Hiram. l can't imagine what
the devil you see in that wuthless coot,
Jerry Bolton The deacon used to
swear just little, cause he'd been I.
lumberman once, and n man has to
swear when he's bringin' down raft,
but he never knew he swore, and no.
body liked to tell him, and him dea-
con. Why, the preacher, he used to"
What did you say to the deacon
| about Bolton?'
ooh. l says to him: Deacon, you're
all right at seein' anything that's right
under your nose, but you're no good at
dealin' with the future
The preacher attended to futurity,
l suppose"
jess so, jess so. But the deacon
could never see why l took such trouble
with Jerry, but l<nowed he wasn't no
common kind of man. He had way
of lookin' past you and of not hearin'
what person was sayin' to him
that"
Lucky mani"
Exactly. He was always a-studyin'
and a-studyin in his mind. We used to
talk about his patent, and, though he
never'd tell what he was figurin' on,
you could tell which way his mind was
turned. Hiram he used to say 80 me,
great inventions, like the air brake and
the telegraph and the standard of COM
pany, they's only thought out once in q
life time. 1t takes big man to inven:
them sort of things, and I'm only a
modest man, was Jerry"
THAT was because he was so much
in your company"
"Well, anyhow he used to say that
what he wanted to invent would be
some little thing that every body would
want to have and couldn't do without
once they had it, and that wouldn't
cost much, and wouldn't last long, and
yet would pay fifty per cent. to the
maker of it. Hiram he used to say to
me, if soap wasn't invented, that's
what would like to invent and get a
patent on He never could have lived,
eff it hadn't been for me. Lived in a
house | owned at that time, and most
they got to est come off my farm.
never bothered him about no rent nor
pay, and when he was troubled about it
l used to slap him on the back and say:
You wait till your ship comes in"
Didn't he pay the mortgage on your
farm, Hiram?"
well, that's neither here nor there.
That's private matter 'twiXt him and
me. Besides, it was like this: put
that mortgage on, to get the money for
his patents"
why, it was in the papers that the
man FROM New York put up the cash. -
Now young man, you keep your
shirt on, and don't be too smart
didn't need to use no money for that,
because | brought Jerry the man from
New York. Twas me introduced EN-.
The man from New York made good
enough thing out of it, and he can
| bLstuh Hlt II, IOO Jlldl nc ever uOuS
it."
But Jerry was grateful"
"You bet he was. And he didr't
want to hurt my feelings nuther. His
wife she came to my wife with the pa.
pers that Jerry had bought up and she
says to my wife: Hiram was good to us
when we was poor, and so you give him
these ere papers fur present Then
Jerry's wife, thinkin' of the hard times
suppose, she breaks down and cries
and my wife she keeps her company
and them two women had a good cry
together
over your goodness, Hiram, sup
pose"
well, that's neither here nor there
Jerry knows who backed him up wher
it was hard slcddin' fur him, and now
by gum, he's rich enough to buy us al
out and never feel it, and has big
house in New York. l allus said that's
whs< he would come to, and eff the dea
con was alive, he'd tell you the same
thing. Luke Sharp, in Detroit Free
| Press.