The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-04-19
oa,cAoo's APOSTOLIC 'NeNwseov,
One OF tho Ouriositi~s Left Over From thu
BiE Expedition


Ono of tho Ouriositi~s Left Over From tho
Mig Expedition.
Probably 800, 900 people know him by
sight Certainly not 500 know his name.
hut anywhere no would be a marked
man, He looks like old pictures Of the
apostles His long black hair hangs
about his neck in locks which curl at
the ends, His beard IL like a fringe
about his olive colored. oval face His
eyes are large and lustrous. He quotes
Scripture with tho air Of prophet He
lives in tho cheap temperance hotel and
saves exactly the same amount of money
every day of his life.
He is one OF tho curiesttles left over
from the Worlds fair. When the great
exhibition was at its height, he drifted
into the city. He camo from Kentucky,
but neither whisky nor fast horses had
tho slightest attraction for him. The
first day he struck Chicago he became a
newsboy. His peculiar dsess, his awk-
ward manners aud his strange personal
appearance made him at once the object
of tho sharp wit and the rough jokes Of
the little arabs whose business u Is to
sell papers on the streeta
But Willie. as they call him in
derision, met all their attacks with a
oalmness which was disarming. When
they upset him and spilled his papers,
he got up and gently reproved tBein by
quoting q verse from the Bible. When
thoy put humps 81 ice down his back,
he SHOOK them out of his trousers leg
and bado them edo unto others as they
would have others do unto them.
Gradually he won their respect. They
have rough but strict rules of honesty
among themselves, and they found
| Willie was always ready TO live up to
the very letter Of the law. A penny's
ehange either way was a matter of
grave concern to Willie, The smaller
boys found friend In Willie. He was
! willing to take their part on every oc-
oasion and bis long black hair was
waved in the thickest Of many hard
fought fight in Newspaper alley, but al
ways he played the part of a peacemak-
er and smote only that the right might
prevail.
At the same time Willie is not slow
to look after his own interests The first
| day of his adventures as newsboy in q
great city Willie took his stand ut the
corner Of State and Madison streets,
and there he has stood every day, in
spite OF winds and weather, sickness
and repeated attacks of other boys who
had come to regard that crowded corner
as their particular property. Their first
plan was to fairly surround Willie with
small and shrill voiced boys, who
drowned his deep below with thei,
treble yells and cut off every possible
customer by darting between him and
the strange long haired vender.
But the small boys found Willie i'm.
movable. He had come there to sell pa.
pers. and sell papers he would though
all the newsboys in Chicago should try
to prevent him. If he could not make
himself heard above their uproar he
could keep quiet. So early in the en-
gagemen. he spiked their guns in that
direction, and so for months Willie has
not called his papers. He simply stands
like an oriental figure on the busy cor
rer, holding up copy Of the paper be-
fore the eyes of every passerby.
1t is said Of him that he never "gets
stuck" on his papers, because he never
goes home until the last one is sold
that he lives on exactly the same amount
Of money every day, 2nd that he ha'
never sworn or told lie in his life, IL
all of which particulars 1t may be OBJ
served that his apostolic appearance Il
borne out.-Chicago Tribune.