The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-01-15

thing and everything except splenu'u
WV with all that wonderful strength
have YOU not done something!
was nothing TO stop you, nothing 'h"o
could stop you. What was "rons
Did YOU lack ambition? Did you TAN
under temptation? What was the HAT
Ter? What was the matter!
He had lifted his eyes to me at the
of my outburst, anu
followed me complaCently untll ndu
done and stood before him Oreathies'
and dismayed. He waited moment,
as though seeking where to oee'il' anu
then said:
HUMP. do you know the parapie
of the sower who went forth to so"
II YOU will remember. some Oh 'he
seed fell upon stony places where
there was not much earth, ana loI'h
with they sprung up because theS nau
no deapness of earth. And wheh inc
sun was up they we're scorcheu' anu
because they had no root they "ith-
cred away. And some fell ahohs
tborns and the thorns sprung up anu
! choked them.
"Well?" | said
"WeIl?" he uueried, half petulantly'
ut was not well. was one OF those
seeds"
He dropped his head to the scale
and resumed the copying. | finished
nv work and had opened the door to
leave, when he spoke to me.
Hump, II you will look on the wes'
coast of the map of Norway you VII
see an indentation called Romsdal
fiOrd I was born within hundre'
miles OF that stretch Of water But
was not born Norwegian. | am
Dane. Ny father and mother wer'
Danes. and how they ever came u
, that bleak blight of land on the ives
, coast | do not know. | never hearo
, Outside of that there is nothing my:
FERROUS. They were poor people an
: unlettered. They came OF gener'
: tions OF poor. unlettered people-pea'
ants of the sea, who sowed their son
on the waves as has been their Gu
j. tom since time began. There is Il
o more to tell"
But there is" objected. ut
g still obscure to me-"
S What can | tell you?" he deman
e Cd with a recrudescence Of fiercenes
"Of the meagerness of a childs hf'
t. of fish diet and coarse living? OF G
% ing out with the boats from the tin
could crawl? of my brothers, WI
,e went away one by one to the deep-s
liz farming and never came back? or m
self. unable to read or write. cabin-p
ie at the mature age Of ten on the Goa
v. wise. old-country ships? OF the rou
ne fare and rougher usage, where klc
of and blows we're bed and breakfast
at took the place of speech, and fear
Ike hatred and pain were my only 81
IS experiences? | do not care TO RENE
do her A madness comes up in my br'
so. even now as | think of 1t. But th'
were coastwise shippers | would ha
returned and killed when a ma
be strength came to me. only the Ill
ex- of nv life were cast at the time
is other places. | did return. not IL
YER ago. but unfortunately the skipp
the were dead. all but one. mate In
asst old DAYS. a skipper when | met b
and when | left him a cripple
ess would never walk again"
eri- But you who read Spencer
ed. Darwin and have never seen the ins
res NJ a school, how did you learn
$ a read and writer" | Queried.
and In the English merchant serv
lire Cabin boy at twelve, ships boy at I
to teen. ordinary seaman at sixteen,
eed. seaman at seventeen, and cock OF
|. { foc'sle, infinite ambition and inf
\ q loneliness. receiving neither help
Ger. sympathy. did 1t all for myself
in igation, mathematics. science, III
With ture. and what not. And OF what
the has II been? Master and owner
ked- shin at the top of my life. as you
Who when am beginning to diminish
he die Paltry, isn't it? And when
med sun was up was scorched. and
was cause had no root I withered av
n of But history tells Of slaves
epu- rose to the purple, l Culueu'
long And history tells OF opportur
that came to the slaves who ros
in a the purple" he answered grimly.
man makes opportunity. All the
done men ever did was to know 1t VIII
, the came to them. The Corsican kne
have have dreamed as greatly as the
II of can [ should have known the o
YOU tunity. but it never came. The Il
bro sprung up and choked me.
, you Hump. can tell you that you
e d.. more about me than any living
q an except my own brother"
hunt And what is he? And whe
ction he?"
deco Master Of the steamship Ma
"a TO MIA, seal hunter" was the an