, 1891-11-10
WHAT HE SAID.
Warren's Remarks Reported by a
Laramie Paper.
How He Runs in the Nail Picking
Story
And Left no Doubt That He Him.
self Was Meant.

The LEADER reprints herewith from
the Laramie Boomerang what that paper
declares to be "a full and fair report of
that part OF Senator Warren's lecture
before the Y. NJ. C. A. which referred
specifically to himself. The report bears
every evidence of being not only correct,
but in many respects literally so. The
following is word for word as the portion
of the lecture now under discussion APP
peared in the Laramie paper:
WARREN FORTY YEARS AGO.
The speaker said he knew a boy forty
years ago. When his father and mother
were married they did not have IS left
alter the minister was paid. The boy
commenced to go to school when he was
between 2 and 8 years old in order to get
him out Of the way, as other children
needed the mothers attention. At 7
years of age the boy was put to work
driving VOWS and doing odd chores. At s
years of age his mother reminded him
that it was time he commenced to do
something for himself. He hired out to
a contractor who was building the Baptist
church to pick up the nails that dropped
into the shavings for a penny a day. He
worked thirteen DAYS and made thirteen
cents. His mother told him the thirteen
cents must be put away. He next hired
out to drive a flock of sheep twenty miles
for a neighbor. The man rode in a buggy
aud the boy followed barefooted with the
sheep.
THE BOYS WARDROBE
Consisted of a little pair of blue trousers,
q little calico jacket upon which the
trousers we're buttoned and upon his head
a little five-cent chip hat. The entire
wardrobe could be rolled up and placed in
that tumbler [indicatiugI without tipping
it over. He put in three days and earned
SIX cents. This was added to thirteen.
The next summer his father SAID: Il
have been 10 the habit of giving you a
vacation. There is a little piece of ground
out there. You drive the oxen n [
will help YOU plow it and let you have
potatoes for seed and you see how much
you can raise" The boy dug the potatoes
in the fall and had $500 LETT for his sum-
mer's work. About this time the boy
Y W liho ~ lal aoGd hloIuluRb anu lie
father got in a habit of yauking him out.
NEIaHBoRs COMPLAINED.
Neighbors used to say to the father.
you will ruin that boys health" The
father would saw: Better die rather
than to be of no account" During the
ninth, tenth and eleventh years the boy
added to his fortune. He cleaned cellars
and got ten cents. Cleaned a neighbours
well and got fifteen cents. Skinned a
dead animal for a neigbbor whose olfac-
tories were sensitive and who gave him a
whole hide tor twenty-five cents. When
he got a sufficient sum he put it out at
interest. 1n the meantime the mother
encouraged the boy to save his money and
be a good boy, but the father gave him a
sharp job if he whimpered.
H BOYS MOTHER DIES.
At IL years of age the boys sainted
mother died. This was the hardest blow
the boy ever received, and tho speaker
said he believed it was the hardest blow
the man of today can remember through
out his whole life. The other children
were growing up and the home became
broken. The boy said TO the father:
Let me 20 and earn a living myself"
The father said: My father gave me
nv time when 1 was l6 and now | will
give you yours. Here is your home;
come any time. but don't attempt to eat
the apple and give me the core. IF you
are sick or wanting, come; but be pre-
pared to work If you come strong"
THE BOY STARTED OUT.
The boy started out earning money in
the summer and going to school in the
autumn and winter until IT years OF age.
until the war broke out ahd he got u $l3
job carrying a musket. The speaker said
the boy told him when he enlisted that he
had the same patriotism and love Of
country hat other boys had. He argued
that he would see something of the world
and the people. In the first engagement
he was 80 scared he could not tell one
hand from the other. He could not tell
his name. His first impulse was to run
to the rear, but he said he could not run
away from himself and he would not be a
coward. The boy came home from the
war and at 81 years OF age had accumu-
lated $3.50 and he believed he was
ON THE WAY TO FORTUNE.
The speaker said the boy had assured
him since that the SAVING of the $3.50
entailed more hardship than the $780,
900 he accumulated later. About this
time the boy vent West, leaving a Job
where he was getting the highest salary