Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-20
STORY OF "SWEET.'!

whoa, Bessie, whoa"
STORY OF ''SWEET.'!
1t was proud day for "SweeJ''
when he tirsI put on the uniform of
the news company he represented,
with the brass buttons down the
'front.' and on the sleeves, and the
hatty cap that Just fitted when set
back tritie from his forehead.
''Sweet" had peddied papers on the
street when he was too small to
reach up to the check window CT the
circulating department. He sold
papers at the depot later and was the
especial butt OF the trainmen and the
aepOt policeman. Then one day whe n
the boy at the news stand was sick,
'Sweet was asked to take his place,
and he filled it SO we'll that when the
regular boy returned he found his
place permanently filled.
So "Sweet" went on from promo.
zion to promotion until at last ne
put on a uniform and became regu-
lar train boy on thorough vestibule
train between an inland city and the
Elcat metropolis.
When Sweet wrote his name he
wrote it, Samuel S Sweetland"
The neWsbOys nick.named himl
"Sweet," and the name chung to
him.
Here comes Sweet" the Agar.
Did sister would announce to her
mother from the window, where she
mad Leen watching for him ever since
his train was as far away as Dams
vile.
''Here comes Sweet" as the
trainmen would say rs they stood to-
gether mornings waiting for the engi-
heer to shut down.
Everything went wonderfully we'll
for Sweet" after his promotion. The
accidents OF which his mother was al
ways expecting to hear never came
The evening local, which brought
the city papers t. Mount Morris for
distribution on "Sweet's" train was
never behind time. Sales Of 'litera-
ture" were good. Everybody who
has travelled on a through train
knows how refreshing oranges and
bananas are, so at the end of the run
sweets" stock was always low and
ais pockets heavy.
"Swcet" had been ON the road a
Ong time. One morning as they left
,he city for the day run west num-
per OF foreigners crowded into the
forward car on their way to different
destinations in the West, some to
Join friends there, others to find
homes. Among them. but not be-
longing to them, was little Swede,
boy OF about 10. I'm card which
he held with his ticket was written
the information that he was an or.
phan going to Minneapolis to live
with his uncle, Jan Ireson.
A DRIFTING ORPHAN,
Little Tens father had died re.
GENTLY and it was his last wish that
his child should be sent to his brother
In America With the infinite trust
the Swedish nature has in human kind |
little Tens friends had packed up his
bundle, written the card, procured
his passage, and sent him westward. |
There were other Swedish people on
shipboard, and they saw that he got
his train all right at New York, but
on the train there was not soul who
could speak word of his mother
tongue, and he could not speak a
word of English.
His head ached badly. and he laid
uown on the seat and went to sleep,
still holding his ticket and the card
in his hand. Sweet" noticed the
boy as he lay there, his white hair
railing straight over his forehead and
his face so red in striking contrast.
Sweets" books were piled in that
corner OF the car, and every time he
went up to that corner he had to pass
the sleeping boy.
Along about noon the boy sat up.
looked wildly about, raised his hands
to his head as If in terrible pain, then
sank back with his head on the arm
Df the seat. Sweet" touched him
and asked him If he was sick, but the
boy did not notice him in any way
sweet called the conductor, who
came and said he guessed the bow had
fever.
"Better not go too near him." he
said. "He may have something con.
tagious l will have the baggageman
zee that he is taken to the hospital
when we get in"
sweet" got his extra coat and put
10 under the boys head for pillow. ;
and as he did SO saw that the restless
hands OF the child had torn his ticket
INTO bits and the card with the ad-
dress Of the uncle also. ;
A DILEMMA.
"Whatwill they do now?" the train.
boy said to himself .'They won't
know where tOsend him when he gets
put OF the hospital" He picked up ;
me olts OF paper and tried to put them