The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1900-08-14
SIMPLE STORY.
TIE FORM OF \ OuII.D-ruE HEART
OF A HiGRO.
How An Ambitious Orphan Boy Roso from
tho Humblcst Station In Ltfp to tho
highest Position In tho Councils of
tho State.
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puts into Charleston hnrbor. For
days it has wrestled with tho waves
Of the broad Atlantic, and its pas
sonHers are rcjoiced 10 SEQ the sunny
land to which starry eyed Hope has
pointed. Two passapgers, yes three,
especially interest u. y young man
in whose eyes burn truth and iidel-
ity, and young woman who holds
by the hand a sleoder delicate boy
about four years Of ago. It is easy
to 500 that tho tnrco are father,
mother, son. They have left their
old home, hope whispering, ambition
urging that in this new world, they
will how out Of lifo's rough circum-
stance shining future. Tho little
boy is the center, rom and toward
which their every thought rovolves.
TO educate this boy so that he may
be blessing to then! and his adopted
country is their hourly prayer.
Their little home is happy ono,
for peace and love and plenty abound.
But God knowns bcst-''He Goath
all things we'll" Sun lenly the dalk
days come. The Noble young father
is stricken down with yellow fever,
and the widow and the fatherless
commence tho hard, cruel battle of
lifo.
Don't be impatient, my dear,
reader, I am not tolling you an idle
story, but Il truly true one, and I
must needs begin at the beginning.
Well, before that delicate little boy
has reached tho tender ago Of ten,
he is struggling for livelihood.
Out in the streot% he sells newspa-
pers-in the biting NTarch winds, the
sultry August days this little one,
works for his daily bread Tho form
of q child-tho hrart Of a hero!
Now ye mothers who toll with your
little boys lessons every evening,
how would it be if your little jim
mic, or Willie, or Arthur, or Johnnie
were thrown ont upon tho world at
such tender age? Isee your faces
pale as you instinc'ively press your
boy to your heart. Read this little
story carefully, and your patriotism
will have fresh access Of zeal.
There is no other country upon tho
globe where yonr boy has such a
God-given chance to hew out in the
tomple Of fame name for himself.
Something over q hundred years
ago, Benjamin franklin entered
Boston with enough money to buy
breakfast Of bread. Every school
boy is familiar with his history. He
was an humble printer, yet to. day
the entiro civilized~world knows his
name and flashes from pole to pole
messages by that power which he
discovered.
THE VIEWS BOY.
But return to orr little newsboy.
Tho Charleston society people sweep
by-perhaps buying paper, per-
haps not. What does it matter, the
SUCCESS or failure Of newsboy? But
ah somo day, mayhap, those same
fine peoples grandson may be sent
to our capital city as pages in the
Legislative halls of South Caroline,
and 10! when tho Governors Mes =
sage is read, it is written by that
same litGle barefoot newsboy. All,
little fellow, with tho fo1m of child
end the heart Of hero, surely since
= those March winds blew and those
August suns beat upon your little
head, you have striven manfully.
"Seest thou a man dlligent in busi-
ness, he shall stand before kings"
Aye, in South Carolins he shall be
king among his follows.
THE NEWS BOY BECOMES GOVERNOR.
Now that you have already guessed
who this brave little newsboy is, he
shall be formally introduced tt
you-Miles B. Mc5weeney, Governor
of South Carolina, by tho grace O.
God and true Democratic votes.
There is many q clever boy who's
manhood fails to como up to on
expectations. Let us see about on
Governor, let the 'tierce white light
that ever beats about public ma
envelope him. While solling paper