New-York tribune., 1908-02-16


When he died IS47.
ue began manage
+- I ourselves. Forty
years afterward,
had managed II all
~. a.. .s..- r,.- Thousand ttrtS and gotten nothing
t. -.rn,-. s.- the sales bv About 1887 possibly IT
.., earlier he ten thousand went. Ny brother
.suud ID n.nue TO trade Il for a house and lot IN
;he tYau . CORY IN the oil regions OF Pennsy
About 1904 he sold this property tor two hundred
and GftE dollars That ended the Tennessee Land
Il auE penny Of cash came out OF my latheT
alsc Investment but that | have no recollection OF
t 30. Z au overlooking a detail 1t furnished me
q field tsr Sellers and book Out OF my haf OF the
book I -s- fifteen OF twenty thousand dollars out
# the -..s got severtv-fVe eighty thousand
lolar~ .ust about a dollar an acre 1t IS curious
I MAS r.. alive. when NIX father made the invest
ue1t therefore he Mas not intending an I'trtaIltS
set 1 aa- the only member OF the ta1nliy that ever
pr0rIret bs II. ] shall have occasion to mention
tins arl gam now and then, IS 90 along loI II
udueu..- our life N one way or another curing
DIRK 30 r.-e .nd put hopeful Sellers hand ana
-heerei up, and sald. Do not be a1rild @ uuat
ao me watt 1t kept rs hoping and hoping during
FORTY s..-- and f0rspok Us 1T last 1T put our eH
-rgc- 8. -gp and made Missionaries OF Us -dIea1neIS
and nd .ut We were always going to be T1ch
next Ee.r no occasion to work 1t IS Good 70 pe6i
lie poor il Is good 30 begin life rich, these are
ehoIe-aae bat to begin 1t prospectVely Tlch-
The ra ao has not experienced It cannot l'N''ie
NJ rts removed 10 Missouri IN the early
WI s. do not remember just when; Tor was
Cot born ,.en and cared nothing Tor such thnl8S- IL
was IL long Journey III those days, and must nave
been o. rough and tiresone one. he nome was
a-a5e a The wee village OF Florida IN Monroe
County. and / WAS born there IN 1885 Inc V5llage
contained % hundred people, and L increased the
population by one per cent 1t IS more than tne
best 1.- ir history ever did for any other town III
may u.- l modest IN to refer to this; but II -
true here Is record OF a person DONG "a l l5
and shows that could have done 1t 1or any I'dN0
even London, | suppose.
Rea.-.. some one IN Missouri has sent me a pc
ture a. tse house / born IN Heretofore nav
always stated that Il was i palace; but l Sfah pS
] remember only one circumstance connected
UI-h r.. III. n II | remember II very wei, thou2h
t"as a1- tao and hall years old at the le. III
family packed up everything and started IN wagons
ior iar-.aaI the Mississippi thirty mics away
Toward r.4ht when they camped and counted up
the Children one was missing. L was the one.
lad been left behind. Parents ought always 70
count the children before they start was haVnig
good enough time playing 10y myself, until 1ouo
that the doors were fastened and that there was a
srA-y, dec. silence broodlng over the place ko'i
ther that The family were gone and that they had
torg0tteu me. | was well frightened, and mace a.,
sne nose ] could, but no one was near, ana 1t uli
ao good I spent the afternoon IN CAPTIVITY, anu anu
.4s not r-eued until the cleaning had ialleh al"
--e --l alive with ghosts.
Ay brother Henry was six months old al tI!1l El
-ne. ! used % remember his walking INTO I1'
-ta5-ra when he was "A week old. 1t was IeiliIN
able I'D lae t9 remember a thing Ike that, when o,
rre1 hen ] Was 50 Young. And It was stli iii,It
1ei--arate that / should cling 70 the deIuSloI on o
1r1y years that / did remember II, -lor oI c"uio
never happened: he would not have been am
10 walk Il that age. II had stopped 10 TeiI9ct'
should not have burdened my memory WIN INA
impossible rubbish 50 long
It Is believed by many people that an imPfeasl"'
deposited in a child's memory within the frst wv"
.ears II It's life cannot there hVe years 10"
hat error The incident Of Benvennto telliil