The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-08-15
SIMPLE STORY.

The Form of child-The Heart Of Hero
How an Ambitious Orphan Boy Rose from
the Humblest Station in Life to the Highest
Position in the Councils Of the State.
Away back 10 the fifties vessel
puts into Charleston harbor. For
days it has wrestled With the waves Of
the broad Atlantic, and its passengers
are reioiced to see the sunny land to
which starry-eyed Hope has pointed.
Two passengers, yes, three, especially
interest US. a young man in whose
ewes burn truth and fidelity, and a
Young woman who holds by the hand
q slender, 4eiieate boy about four
wears of age. 1t is saSy to see that
the three are father, mother. son.
They have left their old home, hope
whispering, ambition urging that in
this the new world, they will hew
out Of life's rough circumstance q
shining future. The little boy is the
center, from and toward which their
every thought revolves. TO educate
this boy so that he may be blessing
to them and his adopted country is
their hourly prayer.
Their little home is a happy one,
| for peace and love and plenty
abound. But God knows best-"He
doeth all things we'll" Suddenly the
dark days come. The noble young
father is stricken down with yellow
fever, and the widow and the father
less commence the hard, cruel battle
of life.
Don't be impatient, my dear read
er, am not telling you an idle story,
but O truly true one, and l must
needs begin at the beginning.
Well, before that delicate little hoy
has reached the tender age Of ten, he
| is struggling for livelihood. Out in
the streets he sells newspapers-in
the biting March winds, the sultry
August days-this child, this little
one, works for his daily bread! The
form OF a child-the heart of hero.
Now We mothers who toll with your
little boys lessons every evening,
how would it be if your little jim
mie, or Willie, or Arthur, or Johnnie
were thrown out upon the world at
such a tender age? see your faces
pale as you instinctively press your
boy to your heart. Read this little
story carefully, and your patriotism
will have a fresh access OF zeal.
There is no other country upon the
globe where your boy has such a
God given chance to hew out IN the
temple of fame name for himself.
Something over hundred years
ago. BENJAMIN Franklin entered Bos-
ton with enough money to buy II
breakfast of bread. Every school
boy is familiar with his history. He
was an humble printer, yet today the
entire civilized world knows his
name and flashes from pole to pole
by that mighty power which he dis
covered.
THE NEWS BOY.
But to return to our little newsboy.
The Charleston society people sweep
by-perhaps buying a paper, per-
haps not. What does it matter, the
success or failure of newsboy? But
ah. some day, mayhap, those same
fine peoples grandsons may be sent
to our capita! city as pages in the
Legislative halls of South Carolina.
and 10. when the Governors Mess
age is read. it is written by that same
little barefoot newsboy. All, little
fellow. with the form OF child and
the heart OF a hero, surely since those
March winds blew and those August
suns beat upon your little head, you
have striven manfully. "Seest thou
man diligent in business, he shall
stand before kings" Aye, in South
Carolina he shall be q king among
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