Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-11-12

some letters to her church paper in the
south; she had even had some negro
anecdotes published In one OF the
"comic" Journals.
I could guess what that dear simple,
girllike old thing had gone through
the struggle and the poverty and the
heart stralnlng anxiety 1t had cost to
achieve this much. Now she wanted
to do more. She wanted to get into
other lines of writing, and she thought
tbero must he II rreat fold in the daily
minors. And she looked ND mt me with
the light of hone and the wayer of fear
I'm her faded nretty old eyes.
A hrioht Thought come to saye me
from despnlr4if only she could be
made IN share II A Tonnesseo senator
hnd inst made some kind of sensation
in congress-. I soid. "You know Semi
TOR I.nwton don't Won? Tbcn whv
can't Won t,ke This MINER md fix II nil
I'm no bnnnnninr on senntor I,nwton's
nlocc? You'vc becn there. You can
oosilv mo,,n II occrroto then You 900
~ vou con make II m in with some.
thinr that &c coinr on TINT thc naners
oro full nr inst now II will 70 If Is
handy opouCh to n,o,,o n sImn,v oho,,t
the nrcscnt seoson though thnt ia we'll
but ~ Won SHOW vhot the I,owtons'
homo ,e lil,o nm euro Won con soil II
70 Tho Earth and thcv will nav Won
hettor thon this manor wil,n
she locked n,tir,lIv duhious "You
don't thi1, II would no Infringing ON
tho /, v,s Of bosn,tol,tv9" she aoid
"You don't Mood n be nersonol and
"ond vol, mich+ write +o Colonel Law
ton for nermissIon IN fell ahont his sor.
rhum presses"
az knovv wbo+ Won moan sbo soid
"obout tho now curt cu,cl, wov ~
writing. have noticed If in the M
nors onlv thonobt norhons II was ha
norso thov oouldn,+ ,yritn INV o+hor5
wov Rnt con trv 70 do II too If
tbot Is What thev liko nm here in the
north And ri toll ANYTHING obout the
To,yton nloco tbnt eecrs unohtection-
ohio I'm Glad Won mini, bo Won't dis
ILL., n And NOW, NV door I,ll +ol,a
n,vsole o,rov an s,,ro Won oro Civ-
tho mo fo,. too urcb limo hrt Won con
t,s+ tou +horn NV child +bot Won don,+
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oil about vol, For tbrao generations
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Ieovn ron hero oil Inv Yourself az md
vou 90 vopngi Whnt would your
grondpo+hor H.. Rut +hen your
G,ondfothor vo,ld ho ,orv nro,,d of
vow talents Aaol,ro and no wos n
n,nn who knav +ho+ wo hove IN odant
onrsalvos n circumstances and I'm
eura thosa-oant,eman all eeau verv-.
yor1 ,noeeo,e,vou Ana sbo ovor,oolrod
4ba hordvorl,inr sorjbhlino crowd
bent over their desks
soetIv f,rtter,no ovar mo IN tl,te fosh.
ION n Tho varv aiavntor door sha f,nal.
~ +oo,r har laavo
soon learned what seemed MI the
mnin facts Of her little story-her
great tragic humnn story-6lled. as
ararvbodv,s s+orv Is with exneriences
et once TERRIBLE and commonplace.
She had been left n widow with two
,ittla children while stlII Young wo-
man. The children. boys. Ind both
died only n few wears later, and she
had spent most of her life as n childless
widow in her widowed fathers house.
She was his only child. lie had died
near the beginning of the war. Most
of their property had been lost. Mrs.
Overmnn had since then made what
shift she could and now in her old age,
with n courage rooted in Unborn gallan-
try of soul and also in Ignorance of
this rough world. she had come to this
strange land. "the north" to try to
make her living by writing.
How foreign and far away this part
of our common country seemed to her
probably only southerner can realize.
Fundamental ideas affect many rami-
fications of feeling as well as thought,
and the weakness of the idea of nation