The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-20

roDDAPy ANDERSON was
,ba bov's name. though had
Won made inquiry for Stod-
~ 57-d Anderson OF any boy Of
-, 81, which he lired-and I my
i.rss there. a handy boy in the
Old days-you doubtless would
-D hsar informed that nobody Of
~sr-e was there. Your juvenile
81 however. by way Of gratui-
Intelligence, might have gone on
W ..,s that two families of the name
.-4a-eon resided there-"Old Do
a. anderson. the preacher. and his
- John But had YOU asked for
az An la-eon. or simply Tod"
L how would have known Tod. your
- ir all likelihood. would have had
y..fqr reasons for remembering Tod,
s-,,eb his mO5esty, perhaps, might
'..liog. him to inform you how Tod
"a .vavea 30 20 him more'n onc't.
h. would have told you, as 1 tell
nov, that Tod Anderson was the
t..bar's boy. and lived at the par
-,ge. Tod was a queer boy.
'-,@saar5 Anderson was named in
of some obscure divine his IA
~ had Joined church under when a
~ Il was a peculiar weakness OF
=. father 20 relate the experience OF
~ sarIv conviction: and as he never
80 Of repeating il, by way of pre-
~ and admOnitiOn to the hayward
,nbkins Of his flock, Tod mastered its
81 iutri cate and sacred phraseology,
...etbsr even with the fathers more
..igious formulas. to a degree of per-
s.tjon that enabled him to preside
!, mock meetings in the hayloft, and
orer the baptismaI service at the
~-rimmin' hole"
In point of personal or moral re-
,s~blance. Tod was in no wise like
s.s father Some said he was the pic
-r-s Of his mother. they who could re-
-smber her. for she fell asleep when
Tod was three days old, with her moth
EARNS locked around him so closely
nat be cried. and they had to take
him away from her. No.-Death had
tssep her away from him.
n needs now no chronicle TO tell how
Tod tlrived in spite Of his great loss.
and how he grew 10 be a big, fat, two
ssted baby with a double chin, the
r1B and constant worry of the dear
a8 grandmother into whose care he
bad fallen II requires no space in
history's crowded page to tell how he
cotfd stand up by a chair when eight
months old. and crow and laugh and
doid,e his little chubby arms till he
cutie upset his balance, and, pulling
the chair down with him, would laugh
and crow louder than ever, and kick.
and crawl. and sprawl. and jabber;
and never lift a wLimper of distress.
but when being rocked to sleep. Let
a babyhood of usual interest be in
ferred-then add few more years, and
you will have the Tod of 10 I knew.
0 moral, saintIike and consistent
Christian what is 1t in the souls of little
children so antagonistic to your own
sometimes? What is il in their way
ward and impulsive natures that you
cannot brooke And what strange tine
tire Of rebelliOus feeling is IL that en-
bitters all the tenderness and love you
pour out so lavishly upon their stub
born and resentful hearts? Why is il
you 50 GENEROUSLY cherish the COM
mand divine. Children. obey your
parents" and yet find no warm nook
within the breast for that old house,
Rss truth that goes wailing through
the world:
boys will is the winds will
and the thoughts of youth are long.
long thoughts?
Tod went to school-the thriftIess
Tod-not wholly thriftless. either: for.
although he had not that apt way Of
skmming like a swallow down the
placid riils of learning. he did possess.
IN some mysterious strength, a most
extraordinary knack Of acquiring Just
such information as was not taught at
school, and had no place within the
busy hive Of knowledge.
Tod was q failure in arithmetic Tod
couldn't tell twice ten from twice eter-
nifty. Tod knew absolutely nothing of
ether Christopher Columbus or the
glorious country he discovered express
g Ior the use OF industry and learning,
a. the teacher would have had him i'm
picitly believe. Tod couldn't tell YOU
anything about John Smith, even, that
very noted captain who walks cheek by
nW' with the dusky POca hontas across
me iilimitable fancy of the 10-year-Old
senool boy Of our glorious republic. Tod
Knew an about the famous Captain
Md. however In fact. Tod could sing
MS history with more lively interest
ana real appreciation than his fellow
s,nooImates sang geography The
simple Tod once joined the geograph-
Aal chorus with:
Bible in my hand.
As ] sailed. as / sailed,
And ] sunk her in the sand,
As I sailed
and T0d-not Captain Kidd-had a
HAslng IN his ears as he sang, as he