The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-03-15
FROM sACRAMENTOT To NEW YORK
The Life Of n Bootbiack as Told by
Himself.
lFrom the Syracuse Herald. /

train at West street one day last week.
The spryness with which he did it
showed him to be no amateur &C The
business. He stepped over 10 crowd
OF boot6lacks who stood in West street
near The railway. One ofthem asked
him whether he should be regarded
as friend or foe to the bo0tblack
fraternity, which Is in favor of short
hours and big pay.
"Don't be Harmed, boys, ain'i
goin' TO stay; you kin go your laa
bit, though, II wuz i'd be no sucker.
I'm up and up every tiine," he said,
with manly toss of the head, which
indicated that he had grit and pluck.
''The conductor said we had twenty
minutes here, and | thought Id get
of an see the boys; I've retired from
the bootshinin' business an I'm goin'
to New York TO get schooiin' an see
II can't shine in 'nuther light"
The little Arabs were tlen all
interrogations and ears to learn tue
history OF the fellow oflheir cloth who
had so abruptly thrown himself into
their company.
.,Ill have to talk fast and ye
mustn't interrupt me- coz my train
don't stay very long, you know"
I'VE wou't," was the response.
"Well, my father was Irish and
muther was q Jewess. Both had
spectacle old folks and lived in New
York City. They met and 10 we'd each
other and agreed TO get married. The
old folks didn't like IL; dads folks
said the idea Of q Catholic marryin'
at all outside his church was bad
enough, but to marry jew couldn't
bs thought OF, and II he would do 1t
why they would disown him forever,
The old folks had good deal of
money. Muther's folk, were very
rich. They didn't want their daugh-
Ter 10 marry Gentle, and specially,
a Catholic. but they loved eacu other
and money, or no money, they were
bound 10 marry an they dId. They
lived year IN New IarS. Dad
thought no could do better IN the
West Indies an so they sailed ior
there. THIS l. where com in, pards,
l mnz born on the way there. Dad
becum "A fruit dealer aud made lots OF
money for year or Lmo. Poor fellow,
he worked too hard, TUX yellow ieser
an died. Then malier wuz broken
hearted. We slayed tnore Two years,
when nearly all oil dads earnings
were gone, and then SET out for san
fiancIsco, Cal. Mnther would never
let the folks in New York know where
she wuz, an dads folks knew moth
ing oil him. Well, as us pettIn' near
time for my train 10 81, / must talk
faster, SAID he little fellow. "Muther
wenl to Sacramento and toached
school for four years, when She TUX
SEX an died. Then | was an orphan,'
the little fellow saii as the bIs tears
rolled down his cheeks. "Dont
laugh pards, she wuz IA brave, good
uIuther, an | shall ne, er find anyone
like her again. She wuZ true 10 the
last an she wouldn't ask forgiveness
from the old lolks coz she thought
she had u right To marry the man she
loved when there WIZ nothin' wrong
bout it.
"Then begun to black boots coz |
could do nothin' else. | lived jest
like all us fellows do, Eat what could
get and slept in dry gOous boxes.
Two years ago mulher's tolxs
accidentally found me out In Sacra-
nento. l told them the story of my
dead father an muther, an they wept
when they heard muther wuz dead
am sed they'd been for years searchin'
and inuulrin' AN could get no race
OF her. Then they wanted me 10 go
home with them 10 their fine home
an live with them an be educated,
but | said no. Muther worked, to'led
an died ;ur me an fur the man she
loved. an / wouldn't ask any odds of
any one who WIZ so cruel to let her
do so. A newspaper reporter met me
bout that time, got my story, pitied
me. aud sed he would help me all he
could. lie didn't get much pay, but
he wure bright, smart, kind fellow
though, tell you, an wnrked hard.
When he had time Sundays he
learned me TO read. A year ago he
left Sacramo nto an went 10 New York.
Then thought hadn't IA friend left
an wishe Guild be laid 10 my.
muther. But l wurked on. Fred,
that's the reporters name, said he'd
wri for me when he culd ford to,
hut | waited and waited and thought
he mus be dead. Last week l got
letter from him w tn a ticket from
s Sacramento to New York and some