Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

~ RI twenty years-intact.
II When he died in 1S47.
~ began to manage
tr l.nieraeyie it elves. Forty
wears afterward,
had managed it all
away except ten thousand acres, and gotten nothing
to remember the sales by. About 1SS7..possibly it
was earlier-the ten thousand went My brother
found chance to trade it for a house and lot IN
the of Cory in the oil regions of Pennsylvania.
About 1904 he sold this property for two hundred
and fifty dollars. That ended the Tennessee land.
If any penny of cash ever came out of my fathers
wise investment but that have recollection of
It. No, am overlooking detail. 1t furnished me
field for Sellers and book Out of my half OF the
book got fifteen or twenty thousand dollars; out
of the play got seventy five eighty thousand
dollars, just about dollar 1t is curious:
I was not alive when my father made the invest
ment. therefore he was not intending any Partially;
yet l was the only member of the family that ever
profited by it. 1 shall have occasion to mention
this land again. and then, as l go along; for it
influenced Our life in one way or another during
dark it rose and put hopeful Sellers hand and
cheered us up, and said g Do not be afraid-trust
N me-wait.' 1t kept us hoping and hoping during
forty years, and forsook at last. 1t put our en-
ergies to Sleep and made Missionaries of us-dreamers
and indolent. We always going to be rich
aext year-no occasion to work. 1t is good to begin
life poor it is good to begin life rich,-these are
who1esome.-b but to begin it prospectively richl
The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine
the of it.
MY parents removed to Missouri in the early
INA COS l do not remember just when; for was
not born then. and cared nothing for such things 1t
was long journey in those days, and must have
been a rough and tiresome one. The home was
made in the village of Florida, in Monroe
County and was born there In 1895. The village
contained hundred people, and l increased the
population by per cent. 1t is more than the
best man in history did for any other town. 1t
may not be modest in to refer to this; but 1T is
true There is no record of person doing much.
not even Shakespeare. But l did it for Florida.
and shows that could have done it for any place
even London, suppose.
Recently some one Missouri has sent pic
ture of the house was born in. Heretofore l have
always stated that it was palace; but shall be
more guarded now.
with my life in it. l remember it very well, though
Twas but two and half years old at the time The
family packed up everything and started in wagons
for Hannibal on the Mississippi thirty miles away.
Toward night, when they camped and counted up
the children, was missing. l was the one. l
had been left behind. Parents ought always to
count the children before they start l was having
good enough time playing by myself, until found
that the doors were fastened and that there
grsly, deep silence brooding over the place knew
then that the family were gone, and that they had
forgotten me. l was well frightened, and made all
the noise l could but one near, and it did
no good. l spent the afternoon in captivity, and
was not rescued until the cleaning had fallen and
the place alive with ghosts.
My brother Henry was SIX months old at that
time. l used to remember his walking into fire
outdoors when he week old 1t remark
able in me to remember thing like that, which
CURED when | was so young. And it still more
remarkable that should cling to the delusion for
thirty years; that did remember t.-for of course
it never happened; he would not have been able
to walk at that age. If had stopped to reflect
should not have burdened my memory with that
impossible rubbish SO long
1t is believed by many people that impression
deposited in a child's memory within the first two
years of it's life cannot remain there five years; but
that is The incident of Benvenuto Celn
and the salamander must be accepted authentic
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