The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-30
kIIE STORY OF A UNITED STATES SENATOR.

(y4g0, that a certain quiet man walked 3&hrough the corridors and courts of the Spenitentiary of the state of California, the everyday garb of his business life, his appearance was not particular l,ly striking, but as he peered into the 3cells, the work shops, and the culinary Ndepartment, his many questions were All answered deferentially.
 ~ After an hour or more spent in this I{GEhion he was passing out of the build- ling, when, in the outer inclosure, he enaet a bright-faced boy, arrayed in the sntriped garb of the place. There was nothing else to indicate that he belong 'ed to convict life, for his face was far from that of criminal, and the man, k3xliO seemed a good reader of faces, inn ihediately recognizing that fact, halted < heslad and asked:
 V sswhat brought you here, my boy?" J. The kindly tone and the look of in- terest, so unusually of late, and, above 2AII, that sympathetic, fmy boy" en- the young convict to pour out Hig plaint, although this man was an f4mtire stranger to him, so he replied: SzssIt was just boyish prank, sir"
 Fell me all about it." said the stran-
 sir,' he began, "I am cabin y0Y on a ship; we had been on long
 6Yage and when we landed, and I got
 yFfnission to go on shore, felt like a
 fxd let out of cage. I had been a
 Fnner boy and loved the fields, the
 0We and the horses, sit so, when l
 " horse hit ched to a post jumped
 hta back to trot him around a little,
 TX to zee If had forgot how, with
 sea legs, you know, to have a
 <kIe lark. I never meant to steal
 fii. It seems to me they might a
 ESwn that; for how could boy like
 X in a strange place, too, ha' got lWay with him? But they arrested me-
 xs he said, with sob in his throat
 TT then bravely bracing up, they
 S6 me Into court. They proved that
 fj1d been caught with the horse in my
 8SSession they said caught sir; but
 Has not trying to get away-indeed.
 NH just turnin' round to come back
 1id there was nobody to speak a
 6rd for me; so--so they sent me
 0he gentleman turned from the lad
 fifdey the tears in his eyes, but he
 kind hand on the sorrowful
 IIiiF head as he did so.
 HIIat same day a pardon for the boy
 asent by the governor of the state, 2 HI A request that he report at the
 cutive mansion at once. He did so, { I}ig directly from the prison to the K actAl regidence, and great was his &4&A 4A aS~I ;x, thn '! tfange gentleman to whom he had told :! ID story that morning, and whom he ISf Sfptld have thought unresponsive
 l1en he turned away so abruptly, but f8f the soft thrill at his heart, when he
 1t the kind hand upon his head.
 32oOking back into the past, the gov Thor had seen himself under exactly
 {nlar conditions. He, too, was a
 rmer boy, without educational ad- {Sntages, or hope for the future, but flth soul in his small body that E6lfId not consent to perpetuate such SptAte of affairs; so he ran away from
 oine when only 12 years of age and Eent to sea as cabin boy After IEljE and wearisome voyage the ship |anded at New Orleans, where he and
 coinpanion "salt" were allowed to go Ah0fe There, seeing a horse and tuggy that the stevedore had left Pitched to post while he went on &o&fd the ship, they took it into their 89ds to have a, drive, jumped into the tUEgy and drove gayly off, returning, Her a short run of few squares, to 8A place whence they started. with Il5k having been noticed by any of the tlfce at the levee; and when the 1t$xedore came ashore they politely HKffched his horse for him, receiving l1nke instead of a sentence to prison horse stealing, which, had they
 @n observed while on their frolic, &6nid probably have been their fate. Fortunately for them there were no RSrxealous persons to accuse them 3hen there was none to defend, as |Iith this other innocent lad, and in ai&filory of that fact the governor re- |olved to save this fellow lawbreaker Ilso. Hour years after the above incident, | he future governor of the great state E &tCalifornia had shipped before the Tt on sailing vessel bound for J&n Francisco, and there, beginning at | &e bottom, went up, step by step, until l |S$became rich and influential, with all 1 S}e honors in the gift of the people of | |8 8adopted state at his command. AL 1 Si6uxh. like many others of our prom H4Yit men, he is self-made man, un- |ge to many of them, that fact has |0t made him the intolerant judge of |Iose who have failed.
 #ssWell, my lad said the governor, T |fa ,klad to see you. Would you like to 6l sto school?"
 1h. yes your honor! But let me SIls you how much I thank you" 3s{l here he broke off, the tears stream Rx down his face.
 f"Never mind, my boy, never mind. EEDis all right said the governor. in a usky voice. Then after clearing his Sroat. he continued: Well, l have a lace in mind for just such boys as you, nd you shall go there"
 gsCh. you don't mean to, send me to ke reform school!" the boy exclaimed | alarm.
 aI0u not blame him for this slight ant of confidence, for the poor lad had treatment that was quite Ixely to shake his adherence to the lea that we are the architects of our wn fortunes.
 s"Poor boy" said the governor, laying Areassuring hand upon his shoulder, do you suppose I would. take you out one prison to put you into another? would not have pardoned you out if I od thought VOL needed reforming;