Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1903-12-24
BILL DOOLEY'S LETTER.


| agreed to go along with the
youth that | commenced with sevs
eral weeks. The last said about
him if the reader recollects was
that he was going to teach his boys
how to work. This was something
his wife did not like, for she knew
none we're able TO work except the
oldest, and she thought he ought
to be put in school, and besides
che knew il her husband did not
know how to work, how was he to
teach anyone else
Let that be as it will he sent his
stepson out with the hired hands
to work. After this he began to
treat the boy with disrespect, aud
finally mistreated him shamefully,
But the stepson dragged on as best
as he could, never being allowed
any privileges, and being made "a
servant of while his half brothers
were sent TO school and started off
lust like their father had been. So
they kept in school and never were
put to work. Thus things went on
this way until the stepson Was 10
years old. He has always been
told by his stepfather that be was a
fool, and believed it until he real
lied how things actually were
Then he goes to his mother and
tells her that his money and 9th
er effects are being squandered and
lavished on his half brothers, and
the time has come for him to looH
out for himself and try to make
something of himself as no ont
: else will, So he bunches his small
effects and starts out to try his Tor
tune alone. So he goes to an oil
friend OF his fathers relating hi
D troubles and asks to work part G
: his time and go to school part
His fathers friend sees that hi
o intentions are good and at once
agrees to help him, so instead o
putting him to work he starts t
school the first thing, telling hin
he can pay him hereafter. H
sends him to school two years an
q then gets him into business at
n salary. He lives saving, saves hl
D money, goes to see his mother no
and then and at last he learns tht
the farm. which is his by rights,
y heavily mortgaged. 1t became
by his stepfather's extrayagan'
and takes things in his own hand
tells his step father that he Cd
n. stop there, but he will manal
of things to his own liking from no
he on. So we leave the stepfath
D. sitting around on the porch of Il
n, cross roads postoffice smoking CT
n" ar he has bought from the pos
Its master who is doing small bus
le- ness in connection with his pos
'ot ., Office to keep himself in bread al
be butter, and tells how they d
IN things where he come from.
he So now we return to Big 5
BAL whom we left when we started ol
"S After Sonny had spent ever
to thing the family had she was dri
of en- to the necessity of taking he
in of the household drudgery a
is made fine housekeeper, and
,oa stepson having taken notice OF
this, concluded to take her to St
lrm house for him. She accepted b
as a husband, and they are n
living very happily as man a
wife, while the stepfather and
halfbrothers are living and loaf
cen al their expense. So you will
Ia, at once that the self-made man
end the man that always succeeds.
,s The young man who leaves
day farm to sick for a living genert
fails. There are too many
list would like to make living w
out work, and this is of such
'u' uuent occurrence that there is
ears. overplus of such men who 60
near our large cities, and you will
nOli- scores Of we'll dressed, ine-looi
young men on the street cor
now now, who haven't dollar to their ns
But they could be making th
g at selves useful at home L
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