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acnco' t!ian any otbcr bootc-cs- ^ •I S ^ptuig tiic word of God. Napoleon b and road the writings of Rcyual and Ros-a seau’ a,ld ^ fillec] ins mind with°,nv' and unrivaled ambition, a lit-nf i HiuuiUlUU.uipt. tie boy employed in EnglandFunk m aF??nk b ackin2 , manufacturing establish-n M TUS V'1,0se dut,J’ ifc was to pasteDnrfa ? 10 lal?ClS p0tl tho boxCf5 aad tie litis inf , e b.r,rif?s 01 ribb°n around them, read d ^ tbe books in Uia father’s library and hn«S tbose hooks gave England one of its I be.s5 and popular writers-Chas. _ vfnrr P.ickens- Abraham Lincoln read in Q «sciire ms mountain cabin in Kentucky—for hihe was one of those mountain whiteswhom God raised up to wive libcrt.v IlSh 4’?00’0(0 slaves—lie read the storyrind r fl ? Prab'an Nights around his father s fireside, and from that book-es” no derived liis cheerful spirit, and hisM'imv incxhausl-ib,c flind Of jokes. And soi,uow we can account for this boy being acrnlrlirtT 1 ir _ T ■ _ ®sano S0Jd) tfK|;ly Wec(JU,d no(. liavcfcex.rv™ pec?cd an'tl,inS olse when the oppor-erfnr ^ I™8 Prescnt*d him. So, look-LUtUl inrr MapL- Tir\nr* ...r«ctt f ,a ^ ap0.n b,S •vout,1 wlleu ]le 'v«s h l,,s noblo young heart with theSloi7 ot military heroism, it is notnri-h 7.. « - J ^ in iiul;fniI,! sUrPr,sl.n8 t,|at when the opportunity slum ?am,° an,ihtion lose up and swelled I, idor Vs ,eart t0 its ful]est extent, andthat nothing could restrain him cx-u,f. ?ep,tl thc Positl™ command of bis H * fattier that be shculd not go to war.rory On the twelfth of September he wrote a letter from the Island ofForto Rico to his father, saying: ‘I.i, am 111 vcr’ feeble health, and unless y } ,can get away from here very soon e the [ fed as though j shall never get lh home again.- That letter was re- rumg cel veil here tleotcmber 29th, at 7 piisted '*’C??ck fa thc morning. At 2 o clock M49in the afternoon ills fatiier was on his J o way to Porto Rico, making that Ion- 01 V' J»umey of over a,000 miles across 1,1,1 land and sea. And largely did we ew hope that bis life would be spared inch and thathis boy would be brought pers back here and that we should see him and face to face again and nave him grow «*«, up among us as a citizen. A few ua« I months a»° a father living in theami I EaSt ,rc?civcd. » telegram that his sonwas dying at Denver. He jjjIC(]Jteci special traiu and right of way over ”*al* the tracks and made an astonish-■Jca hngly quick trip, but only to find that01 he was too late. The newspapers told it all over this land and nfany of us rom admired that father’s sacrifice andrrmiI • fiut here is an instance farSIS hn0rC,00ljlc tban tbat~of am« who peu travels to our Eastern coast, tlien en-m gages passage a thousand miles across«cd the waters at thc first Intimation ofj son d *Hdc3S: reminding ns of Himnd who came into the world to seek and! sav® tbat, was lost, Hewo telegraphed from New York Citv1 3‘that he was coming with all haste■as and not to he discouraged. When'thc ueiboy received that message he held itup to the nurse and oilicers of thehospital and said, ‘Papa is coming: I know that he will stand by me.’ And when he died that telegram was tnrr pinned on thc inside of his nightlv® shirt.be- “Two centuries ago, when the hero 1,3 ' Continned on FonrtiiWOo
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Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Mon, Oct 31, 1898
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