The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-11-12
A KNIGHT OF THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY

ILL.,
IL. crippled newsboy. who gave skin
M i, u.rl,'ss lsg 10 save TIC life O.
li,tin Et,cl smy,.ie, VINO Was dying
of mans ia a nearby hospital. but il
r,.,.5i.,.. Tor the Texas Stylus to
+. N 81 the true knishthOoc and ro-
us,.rr IA the newsies soul. which
lat,d a.ain that tie noblesl senti-
M ats may spring from the 6,imc OF
tt,. cutter, even y. tie pure-white
.iy flower lif,s its head from the
s.H1 in which its roots find t.eir
..~llye home. The stylus says:
"lIully Gee. but dat :ci.s
j,ach," WAS the estate, even II
.,rnacular, expression OF tine Grip
Piled ncwsboy on the ,orner, Us the
little ,irl with eyes as blue as corn
flowers swept by On her bicyc'e, her
s.apc.y. flashing white-stccxinged
limbs moving crescendO on TIC ped
ais and marking vivid contrast in
life and motion to the withered les
that was trailed by Bly, Rug. new
~, GRIP" and clild Of the gutter.
Ike brown eyes undcr TIE shock 0i
rcd hair blazod in the smudged
white face OF tie lid with admire
ton and perhaps with a little tOuc!
OF envy of the heallhful lassic W it'll
the yellow curls who u.cd the paved
SIDEWALKS as right OF WHY ami
rode her wheel over them like the
Erottiest aud most reckless of metz
Orites
Socialists ana philosophers nigh
well haze sighed al ihc contrast be
tween ths iil,lc dau.htcr of the
rich and this little SON OF the poor.
lrt the little Girl. mo,cd 10 pity per
h&ps By the lads crippled leg. had
flashed him !. smile MS she wheeled
hy and the lock he cast upon her
Nai S,rahecl! adOring, and the demo
cratic tcic4atiIy of childhood had cs
,"Eishrd worthless Friendship be
tween the two children separated b,
tie ,hasm oi Discs.
lilly was no saint 10 juvcnil'
martyr. tie was born in a tenement,
Lad early lost such parent, as IL
VA need 10 have, could 2i.c a good
"ceount Of himself in A scrap witt
tie other little paper mplt hants, and
H.Gt craps and Snipca with the cas-
S.'ilcc Of the gutter urchin lie had
trampcd his way into the little In
dana town, defended his street cor
ncr vi ot crutrh"s aud Nla ~ shri.l
and insi>trnt rs any ot his conf
peers IN yelling "lNtra; I'll abou,
tie muiGrr; here's yoweNtry, only :,
moidcr; here's yowcXiry, only ii
cents"
Billy was Il graduate from that
original university of hard knocks
yclcpt the BOwery, and his vocabu-
Ery was fluent and untrammclcd.
It's up to muh to be muh own hes
fen, Billy was accustomed to say,
;hG What sot in muh pocket
that's muh." Fairly he maintained
himself in the brigand life of the
street Arabs, despite the constant
handicap of the trailing leg, withcr-
81 from birth. He had never real
o; Roland of Paladin, Grail knight
az noblcssr obliac aud no one had
ever told him Of Sir Philip Sdnry's
Saiiant deed on Dutch battlefield.
Ills heroes were the sluggcrs o! !
@r''raw's Giants. Teddy Roosevelt
The lion slayer, and John l.. Sullivan
and he yearncd in his passionate lit
Tie heart for some one or the other .
o. the numerous White Hopes" to
make good aud knock the cycrlost- ,
n coco off of lil'Arthur. lie WIS
us much an alien TO Sunday $, hoo! [
- Re was to dancing school. al
'aouSh he would have been urdoni.
~ ~ interested in some stunts pu,l.
&c OIL hy David and his frcehaorers
III the Cave OF Adullam.
barney the baraerp" and Nike
we ''hd'r OF "vceAcrs" were hi.
1i'hus, and in the cir les in whi.n
"' moved he was REGARDED MS o6p,,t. :
ed and an authority on such m,t,ors
rs possessed real intercs, "a n, ,
human race.
hliiy was ignorant of the ad,pc
'aat n cat may look at a king" hnt 5
he was Thoroughly cognizan, thar a ,
sntter-snipe might look at > ouoe,
ana little Ethel Smythc, Of t,o $
shap'iy. white-stockinged Ices ,,d
'''' 'orh-llower eyes. re regarded as {
Tue Queenliest thing in queens
Ethel lived in the big house with :
TIE glazed brick front and m w., ,
d'rn plumbing. Her parents wor,
fl'h and she was thoroughly ... ,
f"ainted with the uses of srapcfr,;+ =
'"'rrons slaces, bath tubs GRANGE /: