The Shasta courier., 1872-10-26
A STORY FOR CHILDREN.
GFrom the Seneca Falls Courier I

This is picture of Horace Greeley Pic
ture necessarily omitted. The reader will
imagine very sorry picture.) See 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 be starves to death. Mr.. Gree
ley 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 belonged to him,
and l have forgotten which. The Tribune
had a great many subscribers. A subscri-
Der is person who takes paper, and be
tells everybody else he ought to subscribe.
After he has Subscribed" about seven
years, the editor writes to him and asks him
to let him have So so (two dollars and fif-
ty 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 it and then the poor editor
goes and starves some more.
Now 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 'not an
organ" so you see it would hold great
many strawberry plants. Mr.. Greeley had
heard that any poor boy might be Presi-
dent Of the United States, and have plenty
of money and buy Alaska diamonds and,St.
Domingoes and things, so he used tosit
and think how he might become President.
Then he would scratch his head He did
not have any hair on his head, like you and
/, so he soon made his head very sore, and
people used to call him the Great sSors
Head, and then Mr.. Greeley would say,
"You lie, you william, you lie !" There
was great many men besides Mr. Greeley
who itched all over in spots to be. Presi-
dent, or Governor, or constable or.some-
thing else besides what God intended them
70 be.
These men were all very sorry when they
saw Mr. Greeleys head and they said,
"Let US make him President, and may be
the poor head will get we'll" So they all
got together, "without regard to country,
creed, or color, politics or religion" and
they called themselves democratic Repub-
icans," which is Greek word, and means,
anything to get at the Treasury" The
Treasury is large building at Washington,
where all the gold belonging TO the United
States is kept until there is "corner" in
Wall street. You don't know what a
"corner" is, my children, and I 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 ALI
agreed that Mr.. Greeley was a good man
because he did not have any religion, and
that he was great man because he did
not have any politics, and would make a
good President, 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 boots. and "swing around the
circle You love to swing, do you not,
children? Mr.. Greeley was like child
in a great many 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 fowl that eats crow until it is gorged,
and is then easily caught by Mr.. Greeley.
But, alas, it made Mr. Greeley very sick,
and it made all of those wicked men sick
that told him to go and Swing" and they
all wept, and said, "Don't you remember
how how sick ii made 'Old Mr. johnson
to Swing around the circle" But Mr..
Greeley said, "You are always saddest when
I wing" and went on swinging and his head
got sorer all of 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 to be the Pre-
sident of these United State she must never
"swing around the circle"
"STRAyED-ouT"