Half a Century

mastering the details of the most simple duty. The first of which I preserve the memory was about Peter, who was made to illustrate the growth of crime.

hope of reward, and Peter found a lower deep, for "he began to curse and to swear." A profane swearer is without tempt

rbade those living in its violation to come to the table, and so proceeded through the decalogue. When he came to the eighth, he straightened himself, placed his hands behind him, and with t

the spinning wheel on which mother converted flax yarn into thread, which she sold to aid in the support of the family, b

in the hands of lawyers, and mother was left with her children and the debts. There were the contents of his shop and warehouse, some

o money. He had a splendid physique, was honorable and faithful, and if mother had been guided by natural instinct in governing him, all would have been well; but he never met the requir

und profit in selling pictures. Ah, what pictures I did make. I reached the culminating glory of artist life, when Judge Braden, of Butler, gave me a new crisp five dollar bill for a Goddess of Liberty. Indeed, he wanted me to be educated f

which brought her plenty of work, so we never lacked comforts of life, a