The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-05-03

/ a decree appointing Aiexanore Miller
/ and, former minister of war, governor
of AIsace-Lorrane. His headquarters
will be at Strassburg.
printing office in East Pou1tney where
was published The Northern Spectator, !
and before another 10 years had passed
he became the editor OF The New York
Tribune, one of the foremost of the met
/ ropolitan journals and Horace Greeley
continued to grow until he ranked as
Americas great journalist. He could read
before he could speak plainly, and at the
age Of six he declared that his purpose
III life was to be a printer So quick of
apprehension was he and so active was
his intellect that the commonest school
education was for him sufficient.
Amos Bliss, grandfather OF Miss Marion
! c. Bliss OF East Poultney, was one of the
+, publishers of The Spectator when Mr.
Greeley became am apprentice; III fact,
. it was Mr. Bliss who engaged the young
! man, and writing to The New York Home
: journal IL August, 1851, Mr. Bliss de-
scribes the lad who walked into Peultney
i'll this way:
''Some time in the month Of May, 1896
while | was concerned IN publishing The
> Northern Spectator, weekly newspaper,
IN the village of East Poultney Vt,
. was one morning engaged IL my garden
: when there came to me a STRIPPING OF a
: boy OF about II years of age and inquired
], if ] was the man who carried on the
! printing office | answered that | was.
> He asked me If | wanted to take hoy as
= an apprentice ! told him that ! had
!, thought Of it and asked him if he wished
to become printer. He said that he
y had some notion Of learning the printing
: business. lie had come some 10 miles
on foot that morning from a humble home
!. in the vicinity Of West Haven to make
7; his application | had not at first, paio
. much attention to his address and nov
- turning to the young stranger ! saw stand
= ing before me a light, slender form dressed
: in the plain farmers cloth of the day
- and with a negfget not in accordanc,
= with the fastidious taste of Beau Nash o.
10 Blummel. His hair of a light hue, shad
ing upon the orange, lay thinly upon hi
= shoulders, apparently too slender to sup
port the weight OF a member so dispro
portioned to his general outline On Ell
tering into conversation and partial eX
animation of my new applicant, it re
quired but little time to discover that Ii
\ possessed a mind of no common orde
\ and acquired intelligence far beyond hi
years. lie had had but little opportunit
, at the common school, but he said he ha
T read some-and what he had read he we
: understood and remembered
: In addition to the ripe intelligenc
manifested in one so young aud who's
9 instruction had been So limited, Their
L was a singlemindedness, trutnfumes
, and common sense in what he said tina
2 at once he commanded my regard Ate
a conversing with him for while | toll
q him to go to the Office and talk with tn
: foreman. lie did SO, and soon returne
: with line from the foreman saying i
I thought we had better Try the lad II
: soon entered the office, after having boun
i himself an apprentice for four years
c "On his first entering the Office thel
/ was quite a sensation among the oldt
D apprentices and joulnalmen The
J. thought they had caught a green one an
= resolved on treat of fun. But the ney
- conner paid no attention to what ";
passing. He took his copy and compo
- ing stick from the foreman and stood |
to the desk of ems, intent on though
and all the world a blank He had Ii,
SlObu there many Jays before MS on
companions appeared somewhat in dout
and the more tame ones began to sn
a little OF the young lion. But they cop
not entirely forego the anticipated plea
ule of initiating their new friend, so,
his hair was OF a lighter hue than TIN
thought became the trade of ink al
types, they applied the black balls I'M
est they thought the impression would cor
L Loft inf liyih "
ely stood at the desk of types, bnt none
ed, these things moved him, nor did he 10
'es single en- by the operation
I've AT the end of about four years
nt' went to Chautauqua county. where
cry think he sojourned about year. employ
iiy, as a journeyman printer, but lost all
earnings by which he had hoped to pla
- himself in better circumstances. We ne
III. see him in the city Of New York,
. stranger in strange city, friendless a
~ alone, IN quest Of employment as a 70
man printer At this time he wrote
the first letter giving any account of hi
self since he had left Poultney staff
hls object IN going to the city, and
many obstacles he met with in the way
obtaining the employment desired.
7 Now all the rest of the acts of Hor'
+ Greeley from the first to the last
! they not written in the late New Yorl,
The Log Cabin, The New York Tribr
and the contemporary literature of
country? Except we have late seen /
at assembling of nations. speaking
America at the Paxton dinner, or as
American lion, shaking paws with a B
ish honess at a levee of England's mol
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