Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-10-24
A story for Children About Horace
Greeley.

FROM the seneca FHlS courier,
This Is a picture OF Horace Greeley. pic
turc necessarily omitted. The reader will
imagine a very sorry picture.) Sec how sad
he looks. He is very great man. He was
once poor editor. An editor is man who
lives on what other people owe him until he
starves to death. MIR. Greeley did not starve,
because he ate too much Graham bread. Do
you love Graham bread? Sometimes Mr.
Greeley would write pieces for the New
York Tribune He belonged to the New
York Tribune, or the New York Tribune be-
longed to him, have forgotten which. The
Tribune had a great many subscribers A
subscriber is person who takes paper, and
he tells everybody else that he ought to sub
scribe. After he has ''subscribed" about
seven years, the editor writes to him and
asks him to let him have So so (twO dollars
and fifty cents, and then the subscriber writes
back to the editor and tells him not to send
him his old paper any more. for there is
nothing In 1t; and then the poor editor goes
and starves some more.
Now l will tell you about Mr.. Greeley.
He used to wrap up strawberry plants and
beets and things in his paper and send them
TO his subscribers His paper was mot an
0rgan,' so you see it would hold a great
many strawberry plants. Mr. Greeley had
heard that any poor boy might be President
OF the United States, and have plenty of
money and buy Alaska diamonds and St.
DomingOes and things, so be used to sit and
think how he might become President. Then
he would scratch his head. He did not have
any hair on his head, like yon and |, so he
soon made his head very sore, and people
used to call him the Great Sore Head, and
then MIR. Greeley would say, ''You lie you
villain, you lie!" There was great many
men besides Mr.. Greeley who itched all over
in spots TO be President, or Governor, or con-
stable, OF something else beside what God
intended them to be.
These men were all very sorry when they
saw Mr.. Greeley's mead, and they. said, Let
us make him President and maybe the poor
head will get we'd So they all got together,
without regard to country, creed or color,
politics or religion and they called Them
selves "Democratic-R Republicans" which is
Greek word, and means, "anything to get
at the treasury" The treasury is large
building ut Washington, where all the gold
belonging to the United States is kept until
there is corner in Wall street. You don't
know what ''corner" is, my children, and /
will not make you unhappy by telling you.
Well. as was saying all the people got
together in place called Cincinnati, where
they pack good deal Of pork, and they all
agreed that Mr.. Greeley was good man be-
cause he did not have any religion, and that
he was great man because he did not have
any politics, and would make good Prcsi-
dent, as he would not have any of those things
to- bother him. So they told him to dress
himself up nice, and to black his Loots, and
''swing round the circle" You love to swing,
do you not, children: Mr.. Greeley was like
child in some things. He loved to play
about the garden among the rhubarb, and
cabbage, and guano, etc, and catch Demo-
Gratis in his large white hat. A Democrat is
a fowl that eats crow until il is gorged, and
is then easily caught by Mr.. Greeley. But,
alas, it made Mr.. Greeley very sick to
swing, and it made all of those wicked men
sick that told him to go and "swing," and
they all wept, and said, "Dont you remem-
ber how sick 1t made old Mr.. johnson to
swing around the circle?" But Mr.. Greeley
said, ''You are always saddesi when swing"
and went OH swinging and his head got sorer
all the time, and he got raving crazy, and his
friends did not know whether he was Horace
Greeley or Daniel Pratt, or George Francis
Train! My children, the moral to this sad
story is, If any good little boy wants 10 bc
the President of these United States he must
never '.swing round the circle"
A ''STRAYED-OUT.'