Show the old settler my dear san Jua ners 1 shakespeare or some other philosopher is credited with saying my conscience hath a thousand tongues ano and each tongue loth doth condemn me for a villain that thought came to my mind a short time ago when I 1 had a birthday anniversary and received tokens and greetings gree tings and presents from friends far and near As I 1 contemplated tem plated the splendid motives and land impulses behind these expressions of good will something ini in me demanded when did you ever send birthday greetings or gifts to anybody what have you I 1 ever done to merit the good will of these wonderful friends I 1 in answer I 1 simply coul zint remember 1 anything of the kind to report unfortunately for me I 1 Il am not built that way and that fact started me with a long ion train of thoughts and questions reaching into matters of deeper import than birthday anniversaries what in the first place had 1 I 1 done ti t merit the matchless love and care and devotion of my mother my coming imposed a continued on page eight the old settler 0 continued from page 1 fearsome tea fea some haz d on her health and her life and my birth entailed on her a constant responsibility from wl which ich she never once shrank anc and was still eager to help chelp me when she was old and tired and I 1 was young and strong As a prospect for her a adiv ii birth I 1 was more a liability an n an asset and yet she delighted ti ij assume the care caie and the drudgery necessary in my utter helplessness to keep me alive and what have I 1 done to merit the supreme privilege of living a few years in this world which had been organized and stocked and fitted and tem tempered pereLL to my benefit a world whose ila natural tural advantages had been added to and improved by a ot of toilers boilers toi lers inventors reto relo imers and martyrs 7 people with health and wealth and tame lake bake IL ic tor for grantee granted shaf all their god fortunes havercome have come to them by due law of merit but what did they to do to get itt it it it is contended that they won casy otheir their fine brain or suler superior 10 inq baj then who gave them the he good abrain brain and brawn with which to enter the tight and what hau haci they done clone to be worthy ot of the gmt gilt 1 l after carrying these thoughts into many holds of human ali anaias airs 1 I teli lett no inclination to complain that I 1 do not have better things but grateful that I 1 have so much which according to my accounts was not due ALBERT R LYMAN |