Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-16
TEN YEARS LATER,

nOlOS IOrUn to d CcOWu or listeners on the veranda of the village tavern.
 ''Know MT. Bolton? Well, I should rather say 1 did. I can remember the time when Jeremiah Bolton didn't have a second shirt, had doubts about the 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 misters be- tween us them days. Some of you boys think yourselves smart, but there's none of you could hold a candle to Jere- miah Bolton. No, sir. Last lection, when there was talk of running Jerry for guvnor, I lznowed 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 bystander. ''Well, Jerry ain't that kind of man. Fact is, they don't build men like Mr. Bolton nowadays. Why, I remember eleven years ago, before Jerry took out his patent, an he was feelin kind O discouraged, I says to him: Never you mind, Jerry, your times a-comin'
 
 some of these days Why, there wasn't a 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, I can't imagine what the devil you see in that wuthless coot, Jerry Bolton.' The deacon used to swear just a little, cause he'd been a lumberman once, and a man has to swear when he's bringin' down a 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|'
 ''Oh, I 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, I suppose"
 "Jess so, jess so. But the deacon could never see why took such trouble with Jerry, but I znowed he wasn't no common kind of a map. He had a way of lool1in' past you and of not hearin' what a person was sayin' to him that"
 Lucky man!'
 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 fgurin' on, you could tell which way his mind was turned. 'Hiram,' he used to say to me, great inventions, like the air brake and the telegraph and- -Ahe standard oil com pany, they's only thought out once in q life time. It takes big man to invent them sort of things, and I'm only a small man, Hiram He was always q | 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 1 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 I owned at that time, and most ! they got to eat come off my farm. l ! never bothered him about no rent nor l pay, and when he was troubled about it I 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 fol
 his patents-"
 "Why, it was in the papers that the
 man from New York put up the cash.
 "Now young man, you keep you
 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 'em
 The man from New York made gooG
 enough thing out of it, and he car
 thank me fur it, not that he's ever done , it.''
 ''But Jerry was grateful" "You bet he was. And he didn' ! want to hurt my feelings nuther. Hi } wife she came to my wife with the pa } pers that Jerry had bought up and sh' ) says to my wife: Hiram was good to u when we was poor, and so you give hin these 'ere papers fur present. The1 7 Jerry's wife, thinkin' of the hard times ! l SuppOSG, Su0 SAOWA bI1SA SA AAS1 l and my wife she keeps her company l and them two women had a good CT. I together"
 ''Over your goodness, Hiram, I sup pose."
 = "Well, that's neither here nor there Jerry knows who backed him up whel
 it was hard sleddin' fur him, and now t by gum, he's rich enough to buy us al ! out and never feel it, and has a bi :: house in New York. allus said that what he would come to, and eff the des f con was alive, he'd tell you the sam 9 ng."-Luke Sharp, in Detroit Ere ot Press