The Albany Star. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, April 27, 1883 Page: 2 of 8
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I oat no <
• nun;
■j bmt I think I sen throw
* a ton. \
bold,
„ „ j*oro, *>"• if:i
to he who tmadetli ou me;
geTl wish he had.ne'or beon born
ir of the fi«W, vain wan
at the break of day,
lhall feel my grip on hi* heel
the i iMe he fadeth away;
IBP
And I know he's clear gone upon me.
i e,m acoruttd by the man why ImyxH
I am HM d«t and quiet and meek;
r talents are few^ yet the
op in the air,
wherehtoheadongUtto be;
crash he makcth hto
me;
work
Has oftuu made the cellar door creak.
^feiKiXr"' , „
fhough the head wear a crown, I .would
bring H* pride down, '
If it Mt ito proud heel upon me
||P •'*' —Hariurs Mo.ynri,,,.
p - MWiyi'f; • „ njy
BACKBONE AND GRIT.
"The stage has gone, sir, but there's
* widow Uvea here, and she's got a boy,
he'll drive *on over. He's a nice
little fellow oad Deacon Ball lets him
have his team for a trifle, apt! we
like to get him a job when •we can."B
It was a hot day in July. Away |
among the bills'that make the lower!
slope of the Monadnock Mountains, a
friend lay very ill. In order to reach
his temporary home, one must take
ati early train to the nearest station,
and trust to the lumbering old ooacb
that made a trip toK—, The -train
was late ; the stage after waiting some
time, was gone. The landlord of the
little white hotel, appeared in his
shirt sleeves, and leaning his elbow on
the balootiy rail, dropped down on the
hot and thirsty traveler what comfort
/'ould be extracted from the opening
nentenoe of my sketch.
"Would we not come in and have
nome dinner?" "Yes." "Would he
iwndfor the deacon's team?" "Yes,"
"And the boy?" "Yes."
And the dinner was eaten, and the
team came round—-an open buggy and
an old white horse, and just as we were
seated, the door of a little brown house
aoross the way opened. and out raafied
(the widow's boy.
In his mouth was the last morser of
his dinner ; he had evidently learned
how tp "eat and run." His feet were
«*lad in last winter's much-worn boots,
whose wrinkled legs refused to stay
within the limits of his narrow and fa-
ded trousers. As his logs flew forward
itim arms flew backwards, in an ineffect-
ual straggle to get himself inside of a
jacket mttch too short in the sleeves for
"There he is," said the hostler, "that
-aaAha-aridow Beebe's boy. I told him
Td hold the horse while he went home
and got a bite."
The horse did not look as if he need-
ed to be held, but the hostler got his
'tifeMMWd tlw boy approached in time
U) relieve my miiid as to whether lie
would conquer the jacket, or the
jivket conquer him and turn him wrong
side out. *
^-JU*4aaej uu-barnt and freckled,
large mouthed and red headed--a
uouiefy, plain, wretchod little Yankee
bojr, aid yet, as we rode tlirongh the
so
a&djl fait quite fifce* _
hod them Ott with onr old
JBut that was only one
way; we have two' or three old apple
trees in the bade yard against the wall,
and we dried the apples and sold them.
Then some of the farmers who had a
great many apples began to send them
to us to dry, and we paid them so many
pounds all dry and we had the rest to
selL"
"But you surely could not do much
ways like these?" ' >
("No, not much, but something; and
she had the knitting."
"Did you knit?"
"Not at first; but after a while moth-
er had rheumatism in her hands, and
the joints became swollen and the fin-
gers twisted, and it hurt her to move
them. Then I learned to knit, before
that I would wind yarn for her. I had
to learn to sew a little, too, for mother
did not like to Bee holes without
patches." .
And he looked half smilingly at the
specimens on his knees ~.
"But vou did not mend those?" said
I."
"Yes, sir, but I was in a hurry, and
mother said it was not done as it
ought to be. They had just been
washed and I could not wait for them
to dry."
"Who
washed them?"
widow, Mandy and me.
saw Handy; hut for all that we
deep
bloom and fragrance of
wood, winding up the lulls
of the afternoon sun, J|
him • lesson I shall uot
[ sot look much like s praafeher
« kt sat stooping forward a little,
whisking the flies fi rout the deaoon's
fcorM. butpe sermon was one which
I wish migfat have been heard bv all
< he bo/a in tha land. As it was J had
to spur him an bow and then by ques-
tions, to get Mm to tell all about liiw-
«U. , *
"My father died, you see. aud left
wtj mother thill little brown bouse op-
posite the tavfcn. You saw it, didnt
you sir" the uftc with the lilac bushes
under tl wiudaw? Father was sick a
, and w|i«o lie oould not work
to get money on the house-
1 Ball let Mm have it, s little at
• time, and when mr father was gone,
■other found tho money owod was al-
oat three hundred dollars. At first,
*he thought aha would have to give up
the house, but the ^aoou said, 'Let it
wait • while, ai*S lie turned and patted
me ou the head and said'When /ahany
Rets b% enough to earn something I
shall exjteet him to paar it.' I waa on-
ly niae then, and I an thirteen now, I
remember mother
, 'Yes. deacon, Johrniy i
now/ Ml I wondered
what work I could do.
I at tf I ought to Imgiu at
lot think of anything
If laakad
■ |m would
- J .to hear |he
Edkvary
'Jti,
"I did, and J. ironed themrfoo. I can
"P I wash and iron almost as well as mother
can. She don't mean to let me, but
how is she going to help it ? She can
hardly use her hands at all, and sofne
days she can not leave her chair, so I
had to learn to make the beds, scrub
the floors and wash the dishes, and I
can cook almost as good as a girl."
"Is it possible ? I Bliall have to take
suppor with you on my way back to
town and test your skill."
Johnny blushed aud I added:
"It is a pity, my boy, that you have
no sister."
"I had one," he said gently, "but she
died; and—if she had lived, I should
not have wished her to lift, and bring
wood and water, and scrub as poor
mother always did. Sometimes I wish
I could spring all the way from a baby
to a man. It is such slow work growing
up; and it was while mother was wait-
ing for us to grow up that she worked
so hard."
"But my boy, you can not expect to
be son, daughter and mother all iu one.
you can not do work for a whole
family."
"Yes, I can ; it isn't much, and I am
Sfoing to do it, and^the work my father
eft undone. I'm going to pay that
mortgage if I Jive."
"Heaven grant you may, "I said fer-
vently, under my breath, "for not many
| mothers have such a son."
"Mother don't know I mean to do it,
and she is very anxious I should go to
school, aud I mean to some time; but I
know just where the boys in my class
are studying, and I get my lessons at
home. Mother reads them to me out
of the book, while I am washing the
dishes or doing the work, and we have |
great fun. I try to remember and re-1
peat it, aud if we come to any place we 1
cant make out I take it over to the
teacher in the evening; she is very kind,
she tolls me."
Very kind! Who wouldn't be kiud
to sucfi a boy ? I felt the tears come to
my eyes at the sudden vision of this sou
doing girl's work, while his poor old
mother held the book in her twisted
hands and tried to help him learn.
"But all this don't earn money, my
boy. How do you expect to save if you
spend your time indoors ?"
"Oh, I don't do girl's work all day;
no indeed! I have worked out our
taxes on the road. It wasu't much, but
I helped the men build a stone wall
down by the river; and Deaoon Ball
lets me do a great deal of work for
him, and when I net a chance to take
anybody from the hotel to ride, he
lets me have his team for almost
nothing and I pav him whatever I
make. And I work on the farm with
men in the summer, and I have a oow
of my own and sell the milk at the tav-
orn; and we have some hens too, and
sell eggs. And iu the fall 1 out and
tile the winter's wood for jfcxiple who
ave no boys -and there's a good niaur
people Jtere who have no boys," lie ad-
ed, brushing a fly from the old horse
with the tip of his whip.
After this we fell into silence as we
tode through the aweot Mew England
roads, with Mouadnook rising before
us ever nearer and more majestic It
impressed me with a sense of rugged
strength -one of the hills "rook-ruwad
and aa anciantaatheaunf but I glanced
from the mountain to the little morsel
of humanity at my aids with a sort at
recognition of their fcinahip; somehow
they aeemed to belong teg«thar. J felt
aa if thd same sturdy stuff ware in tliem
both. It was only1 a fauoy, but it was
confirmed next day, for whenl came
hack to town after aaaia* my invalid
friend, 1 called on Deaoou Ball 1 found
white-haired and kindly faoed. He
the viU*«ertore and owned a peat
ter to let the boy think he's , „ ^
She says I might aa well try to keep, a
barrel of vinegar from working aa to
try to keep tint boy from working. It
is the mother ia him Mid it's got to
work. We think a good deal trf the
e. I did before I
... . hold
.the mortgage, and Johnny wants to
work it out. Mandy and me, we are
going to let him work."
I turned away for I was going to sup
at Johnny's house, but before I went I
asked the deacon how much Johnny
had already paid.
"Well I don't know; Mandy knows—
I pass it to her—she keeps the book.
Drop in before you go to the train and
I will show it to yon."
I dropped in and the deacon showed
me the account. It was a book of a
savings bank in a neighboring town,
and on its pages were credits of all the
little boy had earned or paid, and I saw
they were standing to widow Beebe's
name. I grasped the deacon's hand.
He was looking over the house-tops
to where the Mo|^dnock was smiling
under the good-niglit kiss of the sun.
"Good-bye, sir, good-bye," he said,
returning the squeeze with interest.
"Much obliged, I'm sure, Mandy and
me, too; but don't you be worried about
Johnny. When we see it we know the
real stuff it takes to make a man—and
Johnny has got it; Johnny is like that
mountain over there—chuck full of
grit and lots of backbone.
The Wituess Who Answered as the Law-
yers Asked.
"Do you know the prisoner well V'"
asked the attorney.
"Never knew him sick," replied the
witness.
"No levity," said the lawyer sternly.
"Now, sir, did you'everseethe prisoner
ut the bar ?"
"Took many a drink with him at the
bar."
"Answer my question, sir," yelled the
lawyer. "How long have you known
the prisoner?"
"From two feet up to five feet ten
inches."
"Will the court make the—"
"I have Jedge," said the witness an-
ticipating the lawyer; "I have answered
the questions. I knowed the prisoner
when he was a boy two feet long,
and a man five feet ten."
"Your Honor—"
"It's a fact, Jedge, I'm under oath,"
persisted the witness.
The lawyer arose, placed both hands
on the table in front of him, spread his
legs apart, leaned his body over the
table and asked:
"Will you tell the court what you
know about this case ?"
"That ain't his name."
"What ain't his name?"
"Case."
"Who said it was ?"
"You did. You wanted to know what
I knew about this case. His name is
Smith."
"Your Honor," howled the attorney,
"will you make this man answer?"
"Witness," said the Judge,"you must
answer the questions put to you."
"Land o'Ooshen Judge, hain't I been
doiu' it? Let the blamed cuss fire away.
I'm all ready."
"Then," said the lawyer, "don't l eat
about the bush any more. You aud the
prisoner have been friends ?"
"Nevor," promptly responded the
witnesg.
"What! Wasu't you summoned here
as a friend?"
"No, sir; 1 was summoned here as u
Presbyterian. Nary one of ui was ever
Friends. He's an old time Baptist,
without u drop of Quaker in him."
"Stand down," yelled the lawyer, in
disgust.
Hey f
"Stabd down."
"Can't do it. I'll sit down or stand
up—"
"Sheriff, remove the man from the
box."
Witness retires muttering: "Well,
ef lie ain't the thick-headtxlest cuss I
ryoudortl
> who would tiki to have
yffsgaa
"•wT
all ready {p be
tv house. He waa evidently well t<> do
Naturally we talked oO<lift, a*d tM
deaoon aeid to ma with team in hia old
w mj bless your heart, air, you
liot think I am going to take his moa
doyouf Tbfonly son of his moil
and aha a widow a*
knots with lbs
do
■aT'&etlflaaeea mj dear,
children of our own, and
inM4 AA ivalt <iJf a I.Mti<1 - —-t
jum m wfti €m • HMitanM!
iver laid ajraa on."—Utioa Observer.
A tourist leaniug out of a nook,
Fell on his head nuar a brook.
The hurt he reocivtid
St. Jacobs OU relieved,
And he says it eurod "like a book."
Great oaks from little acorn* soring,
Croat aches the little toe-corus bring,
But for every oorn
That was ever born,
Mt. Jacobs Oil is just the thing,
A ronrrr girl positively and truly
says, "If our Maker thought it wrong
for Adam to be single when there was
not a woman upon earth, huw criminal-
>re the old bachelors with
world full of pretty girl*. Ar
Latum* lVw^r.
Maar people mistake stubbornness
for bravery, meauness for economy, and
vileuess fof wit.
Better be wias by the BiisfortaMa of
uttiets tl^A^by yo«r#wn." 1W* waretaf la
At the Treasury Department the
sum of money new being counted eon
founds the imagination. Senator Joe
Brown said last winter to a friend who
had spoken flippantly of a million dol
lars.
"Young man, a million dollars is a
great deal of money."
What, then, most a thousand millions
be ? Counted dollar by dollar, even at
the rate of $200 a minute, day and
night, without stopping, it would take
ten years to count it.
Fortunately for the sore fingers of
the lady counters, the money is not all,
or mainly, hi one dollar lulls ; and again,
in this work, as in others, many hands
make light work.
The total volume of money falls into
three main divisions. There is fitst
what is called the cosh in the treasury.
This was in round numbers, on the first
of this month, $806,0 0,000. There is
next the surplus reserve fund, that is,
the supply of treasury notes received
from the Bureau of Printing and En-
graving, and held to furnish banks and
sub-treasuries on demand. This money
lies ready for delivery in the custody
of the treasury, but is not included in
the assets of the office. It iB estimated
that there are between $200,000,000
and $300,000,000 of this money locked
in the treasury vaults. Finally, there
are the bonds held by the treasury to
secure the circulation of the national
banks to an amount of $400,000,000.
Altogether, therefore, there is a plump
billion of money to be handled.
The method of working is simple.
The paper money lies in neatly wrapped
piles in the vaults, with, the amount of
each pile stated. The band is removed
and the money given to a counter, who,
with deft fingers, finds the result. A
strict watch is kept to prevent bills
slipping up sleeves or under aprons. If
the reports of the counter agrees with
the record the band is put back and an
entry made, and it would greatly as-
tonish the committee, no doubt, if a
difference were to be found and to be
proven on a second and more careful
count. Probably not one such incident-
will disturb the monotony of the exa-
mination, as tl^e system of checks in
use renders a false count in a package
delivered to the treasury almost an im-
possibility, and no one hints that the
vaults have been tampered with.
It will be comparatively eatjy and
pleasant to count the smooth, clean
packages of bills, but when it conies to
the broken piles of mutilated currency
the committee will have a disagreable
time of it. The custom of the treasury
is not to distroy returned notes of a
national bank until they amount to $500
or multiples thereof, and mutilated bills
are sorted and preserved until this unit
of destruction is reached. Hence, as
there are al>out national banks.
TtEWEDfl
for nun
RHEUMATISM,
Neuralgia,
il
HEADACHE, KKHHAffll,
UK THROIT
IUK rmiwf I f
QUIKST, 8WKLWKQ8.
SoreMM, Cats,
FKOBTBITEH.
bitbh8, ocaum,
And-sll other boflUy acbsa
sski pains.
nrnr chits « kittle.
■ffiirraESiM
UntpuMtes. 10
The Charts* A. Vojetsr Ca
tfrmeaaaca to A VPQKUKE k OH)
Hamaarc, li, t". 8. A*
each having its little pile of greasy and | uvKwr^.^1^
torn bills, this feature of the count will1 smitorpiStrofthsl
be a tedious and disagreeable job,
Another job which the committee dread ;
is the counting of <4he specie. The;
clerks are not accustomed to handling J
coin, and work slowly and awkwardly. I
A few *<"hinese shroffs might well be!
engaged to attend to this part of the j
business. They would clink the dollars!
off is short metre, but the clerks make
slow and clumsy work of it. In many
eases, however, the process can be ex-
Sdited by a recourse to the scales. A
,000 bag of double eagles will be
oounted for iustanoe, then tied up and
put in one arm of the scales, and the
contents of another $5,0<'0 bag of dou-
ble eagles will be turned into the plate
ou the other arm, and the sack and
cord throwu on the yellow heap. If
the two weights balauce it will be pre-
sumed tliat the loss from friction is the
same in both, and the figures of value
will be accept as proven. The chief
bother will come from the euormous
horde of silver dollars and subsidiary
coin.
Of oourse much of the $400,000,000
which appears on the 1 Micks as cash iu
the treasury will lie simply credits re-
turned from the various sub-treas-
uries aud other depositories. These
reportn will be acoepted for the time I
at least, as accurate, and probably no
count will lie demanded by the iuconi |
lug Treasurer
The surplus reserve fund will be'
tackled after the cash is verified. This !
will simply involve a count of thi^l
packages as delivered into the euatodyT
of the Treasury by the Bureau of
Printing and Kugraviug. . Finally,
ere will be such an exageration of
bonds de|>o«itcd by the bank as
shall satisfy Mr. Wyuiau, the new Treas-
ure^ and hi* liondsinen. York
Sun.
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'8
VEGETABLE OOMPOtJTO.
le n Positive Cure
Far aU those Pslafkl Complaints «nd We
•o eonuaoa to oar best feaale pepalatloa.
A Medicine for Wosian. Inx-stail bjr s Won
Prepared by a Woman.
The OrastMt ISIui Mmw> D'.bm the U« n if lllstsry.
twit re rim the drooping eplriU. Inrl^oratu aurt
tuu-muniias the organic (onv:lou<, tflrex elsstinltr and
firmness to the (tup, rsstoroa the natural lustre to the
eye, and plants on tho palo check of woman the fresh
ro H-a of life's spring and early summer time.
{W'PhyjIclant Use It and Prescribe It Freely.^a
It rumoees falataess. flatulency, destroys all rrarlof
for HtUuutaat, and roiieros weoknes^of the stomach.
That furling of bearing down, canning pain, weight
an J lisckaflhc, la always permanently cured by Its ueet
fvr the sare sf Kidney Complulnt* of either tu
this Compound Is •aaurpasM.'d.
I. Till A K. PfNKHAM'S BLOOD PCRiriEB
will eradicate every vestige of Humors from tIre
Blood, aud (See tout> and i.tn-natU to the system, of
inan w oiuan or ohlld. Insist uo hu'log it.
Both the Compound anil Blood Purifier are prrparsa
at KB and <09 Western Avenue, Lynn, Baas. I'rice at
either, $1. Six bottles for (S. Sent Uy mail In the form
of pills, or of losonsce, oa receipt of price,, $1 per box
for either. Mrs. I'mkluun freely anxwera silt lettees of
Inquiry. Kuclose Set. stamp. Send for pamphlut.
,bs without LYDIA E. PIKKHAICS
cure poDstlpauoa, liWonmca^
its per bo
a>
of the liver. J foen<a per box.
ITMld by all Uruiiclsts.~feS
KIDNEY-WORT
FOR THE PERMANENT CURE OF
CON8TIPATION.
retnodyhaaH
lar.WOBT as a i
Moothsr rtlsissi a aopareTalant In Oils soua.;
try sa CunsUpUlon, and no siaU
equalled the oelsbrated lUUKKY
oun. Whatever fieoauss, howe ■
tbsoasc, this roi.iadjr will ovorosmeltl
PILES,
with •ojsUpa'.or,.
th weakened porU and <_
Ot film s*en when phytlolaus sad 1
liSTObSfaBSfc^ 0
for this It <
■ Is a WOW-i
painfull
RHEUMATISM
. JMUTVL OVlUt, as It la for ALL .
j dMseaaaaef the Kldnoyg.Ulw and
I IIeieaaasathe sjrwtem oiUm acrid i
loaaaes the diesdftd suasrluc whlol
noanieaUae.
only the J
f-Iteleaaees, Kt.rn*«fcrtia sal arlvee *s |
to all the iin;>oriant organs of the bod/. J
■natora) aoUon of the Kldixtys Is restored, j
■ tiver It «>am«d if all disease, aud the|
' Bowsis move fiwoljr a id Lc-Jthfuliy.
k crltAaU at tlie sanje time on the AJUUMJia. \
' uvru ajid wjvvr.u si milu t; uauiuian. *
: fl, U(|i iHar hut. Dryaao be asat by malL I
) WOJM, KI(3IAJi«OK 1 OO.. Uurilugtoe.Vt.(*f>*
KIDNEY-WORT
f
HENRY'S
4AHHOLK NAIVi;
m
Pare Ced-Uisr Oil made from so soled liven.
Utuai'li Co., New
and sweet. I'ailsuU
a<l tW fiufS-
I have dc<'lded It superior to tm)r of lb* other
as the sea shore, by OAswaix. I
York 11 la sbsolulely pure ai
who have oaos taken II prefer II
aOala
ffends, r<
lis. ruied It/
j ipab
usiss Jiiaiska Tab Moat, taade by
Camwu, Mauu a Oa, Hew Yvrfc.
A Laad aC
During the rear UW1
aand six honarad and
Uvea
I'ewerft-I ll< alisif <M m ul
Ere IliMsmrnd
HKUKT'M t AHKDLU mLVK «ur a
HKNKf'M t'AKUOUt HAI.TK >(«}-
IN
HEKKT'« t'AKBULK KAI.VK tares
Hrulea.
HERMIT CAKBUIJr HALVE
rtmp m.
Mr V' CAUMLll tuLVK ear.a
Hlea.
MEIBrS CAKBOLU HALVE Leal-
U«l*e
HENKV" a«" •*h .
ar.w i u or > i*
dcatrorad in India br
The natUe killed would, Mia enppoead,
aggregate double that nambar. At the
•MA Ml I'oisoaoa* a&akaa
are to have baun killed the
*s aa aockiuK doves
ad with their larofltoaa kit
HJodoatan. From Dtrnomf*
%/or Afa^
• •
THE SUN "UUUS.1"
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