The Saint Paul globe., 1904-04-17


he knew what was between it's covers.
He never seemed to forget anything.
Father didn't have any great means,
but he wanted US all to have education,
and when George showed an inclination
along that line why father helped him
the best he could. He attended school at
Dudley for a term or SO, and then one
term went to the state normal school in
New Britain.
when George next left home he went
to teachin' school in little place over the
line from here in Rhode Island. There he
earned a little money and kept up his
studyin'. He got a chance to go South
as teacher. and when the Civil war broke
out he was a private tutor in the family
OF a Southern planter. Georges sympa~
thieS We're with the North, and he deter
mined to come North. He had a hard time
TO get away. but finally did get through,
and he brought news up in this region OF
the first running Of the blockade.
Was he a determined boy? Well, I
should think he was. He would never
give up anything he ever tackled and yet
with all of his perseverance he was aS
gentle and as kind as could be-.
He wouldn't let anyone beat a horse
on the farm or pound any of the CritteI s.
Once we had hired man helpin US in
the busy haydn time. The hired man was
dTivin a big load of hay from the field
to the barn. and in a swampy spot that
he had to drive through the wheels got
stuck. George was rakfn' hay back in
the field when he heard the hired man
beatin' the horses over the backs with q
big CAD. Down off the rake he got, and
went for that load of hay. Father and !
stopped work and watched him.
A TussIe With George.
HE came up behind the hired man quiet
like and tapped him on the shoulder. The,
hired man turned on him, for George was
only a bit of a boy then, but as strong
as young steer. The hired man dropped
the stick he had been beatin' the horses
with and went for George They tuSsled
in the marsh for moment OF So and
then George got the hired man by the
collar and he just shdok him till his
head flew back and forth on his shoulders
like thistle top.
when he got through with the hired
man he let him drop on the ground. Then
George petted the horses and coaxed them
TO draw the load out of the mud by Of
fering them apples. And not word did
George say during all this fuss. When the
hay was unloaded he stepped up to the
hired man and said:
Don't strike the horses again And
the hired man never did.
Brother George hasn't been up here to
the old place in eleven years But the last
time he was here he walked about over
the fields and seemed to take a great deal
of interest in those old rocks with the
drill holes in them. He was always a col-
lector of curious things, and when a boy
the room where he slept was filed with
queer things he found in the woods and
fields. There was hardly room sometimes
for us with all of Georges birds nests
and old rocks.
while 1 was always crazy to run in
the woods with a rifle and fishpole, George
never was much of a fellow for sports
that is. not when he was home-but after
he got in the far West he became an eX-
pert rifle shot and hunted all kinds OF
wild animals. He made his reputation as
an engineer on the Washington mOnu-
ment. L guess he has done some pretty
good work for the government from all
they tell"