Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-10-31

olSappolnt the good lady Waters, oil
rather to give her a pleasing surprise
She said after the performance was
over and they were congratulatine
themselves over his great success.
al could kiss that boy. love him
SO"
Prof. Potter had taken young Far
rington in training himself for this en-
teftainment and had read to him the
poem "Jeptha's Daughter. The
great dramatic force Of the poem came
home to the student and his eyes stood
out from his head Never before had
ne had such an awakening. He was a
modest. diffident boy, and did not
know the atrength that was in him.
And that night he made the audi
ence see, as he had seen, the great
sacrifice Jeptha made when his most
beautiful daughter was the first TO
meet him returning from the battle
field, and he had vowed to God to sac
rifice the first living thing that came to
greet him. 1t was triumph for the
awkward boy.
1t was the same Harrington thu I
night in Grass Valley that today leads
the Republicans Of Nevada and charms
the people by his eloquence and his
earnestness. Not only will he be
elected to Congress next Tuesday. but
some day he will take his seat in the
United States Senate. that same bare
foot boy.
Some years after the incident Of the
school entertainment Harrington had
returned from Maine, where he
had gone with his parents. He was
then young man of eighteen. He
went to his old friend Prof Potter and
said:
al want to earn money enough to go
through college. owe my father a
hundred dollars have bought my
time from him"
1t was the old New England custom
that boys time belonged to his par
ents until he was twenty one. and If he
wished to work for himself before he
became Of age he had to buy his time.
When questioned what he wou
like to do Harrington asked.
DO you suppose know enough to
tsach SCHOOL,"
ED, you always knew enough to
teach school," said Prof. Potter
The board of examiners at that time
was Prof. Potter, F. w. Preston. now
cashier Of the Nevada County Bank;
Frank Power, B. ] Watson ard Mike
Burn, and the board would not be in
session for three months But they
gave Harrington certificate to teach
and Prof. Potter found him school al
the North Star mine. mile and z
half from Grass Valley.
Some time after that time Prof.
Potter was talking with Harrington and
asked what he intended to make oi
himself when he grew TO be a man
and added that he had an idea that his
parents would try to make a preacher
out OF him.
ITO tell you the truth" began Far
rington.
"You always tell the truth, Ed. "
Prof Potter interrupted.
ITO tell you the truth, resumed
Harrington. They do want me to be 2
preacher.
Don't do 1t, replied Prof. Potter
"You have brain to make a lawyer. .
And harrington says today that It was
Prof. Potter who caused him TO study
law.
Another little incident Of his Nevada
life will make a fitting close to this
narrative, and point a moral TO other
young men:
Harrington had been teaching school
at Empire and Gold Hill and had. by
close economy, saved up twelve hun
dred dollars. Some Of this, It is true,
had been gained in speculation. He
was dealing in Comstock stocks.
Stocks. took a tumble and his twelve
hundred dollars was wiped out In one
day Harrington has always said that
vas the best thing that ever happened
to him. losing that twelve hundred dol
lars. He has never gambled in stocks
from that day to this
Nevada will always feel proud oI
Harrington.
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