Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30
FIRST START RIGHT.
Then you SIay Occupy the Presidential
Chair.

rheu you Nay Occupy the Presidential
Chair.
Every American youth has been told re-
peatedly by his parents and his teachers thas
be must be good boy and an exemplary
Young man in order TO become the president
Of the United States There Is nothing new
IN this statement, and I do not print 1t be-
cause l regard IL in the light Of scoop
But I desire to 60 q triHe further, and call
the attention Of the American youth to the
fact that no must begin at much earlier
date to prepare himself for the presidency
than has been generally taught He must
not only acquire all the knowledge within
reach, but guard his moral character night
and day through life, or at least up to the
time Of his election, but he must he self
made man, and he should also Use the utmost
care and discretion in tho selection Of his
birthplace.
In the first place, q boy may thoughtlessly
select the wrong state or even foreign
country a. a site for his birthplace, and then
the most exemplary life will not avail him.
But hardest Of all perhaps, for one who as
pires to the highest Office withia the gift OF
the people is the selection Of q house in
which to be born
Take for instance, the residence Of An
drew jackson. His name appears more fire.
quently today In papers for which he never
subscribed than that Of any otter president
who has passed away.
Andrew Jackson was . poor boy whose
father was a farm laborer who died before
Andrews birth, thus leaving the boy per-
fectly free to choose the site Of his birth
place
He did not care much about books, but felt
confident on the start that he had chosen q
good birthplace, and therefore could not be
defeated in hts race for the presidency. Here
In this house A. jackson first saw the light
Here, on the back stoop, was where he was
sent sorrowing at night to wash his chapped
feet with soft soap before his mother would
allow him TO 20 to bed Here Andrew turned
tho grindstone in the she'd while large,
heavy neighbor got OH and rode for an hour
or two. Here the future president sprouted
potatoes In the dark and noisome cellar,
while other boys, who cared nothing for the
presidency, drowned out woodchucks and
sucked eggs in open defiance Of the pulpit
and press Of the country.
And yet, what quiet, peaceful, unosten-
tatious home, with Its little windows opening
out upon the snow in winter and to hare
ground in summerl How peaceful it looksl
Who would believe that up in the dark cor
ners of the gable end it harbors a large iron
gray hornets nest with brocaded hornets in
It'll And still it is so quiet that, on hot sum-
mer afternoons, while the bees are buzzing
around the petunias and the regular>b breath
Ing of the sandy colored shoat in the back lot
shows that all nature Is hushed and drugged
into a deep and oppressive repose the old
hen, lulled into a sense of false security,
walks into the "setting room," eats the seeds
out Of several everlasting flowers, samples q
few vanished aoorns on an ornamental pho
tograph frame in the corner, and then goes
out to the kitchen, where she bites into the
dough that is set behind the stove to raise
Hero in this quiet home, far from the en-
ervating pousse cafe and carte blanche,
where he had pork rind tied on the outside OF
his neck for sore throat, and pepper, NewOr
leans molasses and vinegar, together with
other groceries calculated TO discourage i'll
ness, were put inside, he laid the foundations
Of his future greatness.
Later ON the fever OF ambition came upon
him, and he taught school, where the girls
snickered at him and the big boys went SC
far away at noon that they couldn't hear The
bell, and were glad of it., and came back m
hour later with water In both ears and craw.
6sh In their pockets.
After that he learned to be q saddler
fought in the revolutionary war, afterward
writing it up for the papers in graphit
way and showing how it happened that most
everybody else was killed but himself Bill
Nye in New York World