| Show an uncharitable father EDITOR JOURNAL A little boy bov thirteen years old came from denmark as an emigrant seven or eight years ago an and T was taken care ot by his relatives here in logan un until til the middle of the fol following lowin ja january when his stepmother step mother a ar r ri rived ved with willi two other children and she soon foon gave hirth birth to another one all of them being cared for hy by relatives and friends until ahr next Eu fc ummer miner when the father ar rivta he Ile being industrious and abood a good shoe maker soon got along nicely dwely ean though it might some times have been at the expense of his friends frie after a couple of ear be bought a place in mink creek idaho and moved there and afeei two tio or three years sojourning sojo at that pleasant burg he be sold gold out and moved to bear lake valley finally settling at montpelier so much for an now we will let our young hero tell his own story about a year ago my father drove me away from home and I 1 went to work for a neighbor and earned some money in in addition to my hoard board the moa goei I 1 of which chieh my father afterward took look away from rne me leaving me but with chich I 1 bought the suit euit oi of clothes you see I 1 have on 1 1 I I his winter n I 1 worked for my board at a hotel until a short time ago ago 0 when they told me they did not need mv my bel help p ani an more since then I 1 have hav is had to beg for bread and sometimes gather up a little coal along the track and trade it for a meal but I 1 soon got tired of that lunde of living and thought C of my kind friends in logan and made up rny my mind ind to get to them if possible on monday afternoon I 1 rodeon rode on the back of a locomotive tender bich was attached to a freight train rain all ali the way war to mccammon flom aiom there to 10 oxford I 1 rode in the passenger car and rot got to cache junction on U wednesday ednes day morning As I 1 had bad had nothing 0 to eat since monday morning I 1 asked a lady there for something to eat cat but she told mo me the IQ had 11 nothing to give to boys who run i away from home so I 1 set eel out on oil foot mono along the railroad track until the logan wagon coarl al jata reached and then on through soo snow and mud mm until here I 1 am ain a dirt dirty V lo fellow and awfully hungry the boy is hale bale and hearty and shows pluck and nerve and is a good worker I 1 think he is as good a boy could well be under such circumstances but no credit is due to the cruel father who refuses to tn school and care for his own offspring what if some accident had bad befallen the lad on his runaway journey would not the responsibility rest on the parent I 1 think it would can the good people of montpelier ler stand such inhumane and unchristian conduct by one of its citizens without taking any interest in the rr matter iatter if so they have got more forbearance than I 1 think would be a virtue it was known to a number of people there that for some length of time the b boy oy had no place to sleep except in th the e livery stable As for myself I 1 am willing to admit that my supply of charity is entire entirely Iv exhausted for such a father yours truly C L OLSEN logan april 10 1897 |
