The Dickinson press., 1883-05-26
CLIMBING LIEE's
Romantic History of Two Former In
mates of a Chiiaren's Home.

nnAVeS Oh u SlllHten' : Home
In 1867 there came into Cincinnati as
%stowaway on a freight train a lad of
eleven years, who: firing Of country life,
came here in the hope of lettering his
fortune. Looking in the marvellous
store windows did not appease his hun
ger, and he approached Il friendly look
ing little bootblack, who, with kit slung
to his back, was engaged in selling pa
pers, and asked the contemporary, use
Of his box so as to earn money enough
to buy something TO eat. The bootblack,
with great generosity, gave him five
cents with which to buy something, and
told him to wait around until the papers
were sold. when, With the twenty cents
that would be realized, they would get a
square meal together. AT the epicurean
feast the Cincinnati Arab said: "The
first thing yer want is headquarters-a
place where you car close Your blinkers
at night without bein' pulled by ther
police. Yer want ter go to ther Chill
dren's Home on Third street, and give a
name that amt yer own. so if yer don't
like it yer can skip and they won't find
yer"
The advice was taken with the excep-
ton of giving the fictitious name. lie
told the truth straight through. Forthe
succeeding nine years he lived off and
on at the Home, making himself very
useful to the institution, and ut the same
time learning the trade of st~one-cutter.
He was twenty years old when he babe
goodbye to the officers of the Home
and went across the river, where he OBJ
tanned immediate employment on the
southern railroad at his 1. AIDE at the pay
of 81 per diem. Three days afterward
he was made foreman of the gang at the
pay of So Il day. AT the end of the
month a heavy contractor ON the road
5000 d month and expenses. One month
later found him The owner of some
horses and carts, and doing sub, con-
tracing. which netted hiM in
two years $4,000. lie now, at
the age of twenty-five years, felt that
the field was not large enough for him.
and he went west, where he took con-
tracts on the Denver and the Rio
Grande Railroads, and in connection
with this work constructed for capitalists
two hotels at Denver. Still restless. he
pulled up stakes and went to Texas,
where purchasing one-tllousand Texan
cattle, he went with the drove to Chica.
go and disposed of it, at a very hand
some profit. lie now found time to take
q run to GEORGETOWN, Ky, on the south
loveable country girl whom he took with
him to Colorado, where he bought a
large cattle ranch, that is at present
stocked with 500 head cattle and $40
ponies. Indians being too thick around
his ranch, he has established his wife
and two bouncing children at Colorado
Springs. He is now but tW%enty-eight
years old and is worth $50, 900.
Day before yesterday he walked into
the Children's Home and revealed his
name to the officers. who it is needless
to say, are delighted over the phenom-
email success ofthcir boy.
Nor is his the only case that reads like
a romance, Eight years ago a beautiful
little girl of four Years was given to the
institution by its depravcd mother, who
was n Of the city's noted characters
The father, a worthless sot, disappeared
Within a few months the child vas
adopted by an excellent family, living
Her foster parents brought her up with
twelve years, she promises to be an or
nament to her home as Well as to So
ciety. Within the past few days the
father, who had not been heard of be-
fore in all these years, appeared at the
Children's Home and demanded the
custody OF his child. His request was
refused by the Trustees, who have no
desire or intention to see her bright life
wrecked. His demand to know where
she was living met with no better result,
and he now p.oposest to sue the Trustees
who, it may be stated, will stand the
suit, relying on the aid of justice in their
cause.-Cincinn matt Journal.