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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1882)
12 * ■'— I —-■ 1 . 1 *r ■ 1 ■' v ' A. breakfast grew cold. Still there his pocket. but a pauper in fulfillments ; a gar . • — ' * Educational Department. was no sign of the boy’s stopping, * “ Well, Dan,” said the father on dener to-day, a. carpenter to-mor ». ■ ' The Boyhood of Daniel Web- and the hungry doctor at last asked their return, “what did you buy row, a scientific gatherer of curiosi- ster. how much rWilll y ................. v ’ “ Spent it,” answered the boy. everything, knowing not hoW to do It was jus£ one hundred years, ’ to,read. “To the end of the twelfth book “ And what did you do with anything. What shall we do with on the 18th of last January, since of the zEneid/ ’ answered the “ idle ” him ? ■ yours, Zeke ?” . Daniel Webster, Die great states “ Lent it to Dan,” was the an e Educate him. It is a shame in man, orlftor, an<l lawyer was born, boy in triumph. After that, Webster did not give swer. As a fact, Dan, had spent this country of free education, to and the time seems a fit one for up his hunting and fishing, but he. both quarters. throw this boy~out into life with saying something of his boyhood. ‘“’^ToungAVeEster was very indus out equipment, and equipment so Webster’s father dtv^ireiF*'the“ ■ -worked -head-waters of the merrimac river, got on so fast, that there was no trious in his studies, as we have cheap: It r*~^sending a soldier and-the only school within reach complaint of’his “idleness.’.’ He seen', and he was physically strong 'into battle wifi lout a gun, was a poor affair kept open for a not only learned the lessons, given and active, as bis fondness of sport it is sending a carpenter to his few months every wintér. There to him, but more, every day, and proved; but he could never endure, wo rk witJ i o i t t - tools. Tlte - farmer AV eEster learned all that th’e ¡gnor- besTdesyWis, -he read every * good farm work. One^-day his- father is tempted to set him at the hay- ant master could teach him, which book he could lay his hands on, for wanted him to help^him in cutting lieldahd the corn-tie^, the caj’penter was very little; but he acquired a he was was not at alb satisfied^ hayAvith a scythe; but very soon to put him at the bench, the mer taste which did more^’or him than know only what .could be ioVfhl in the boy complained that the scythe chant to put him in-* the shop. was not “hung” to suit him, that He can eai’n a few dollars a week the reading, writing, and arithmetic the school-books. Webster’s father, who' was poor is to say, it was not set at a proper —perhaps enough to pay board or of the school. He learned tojike But hO' hooks, and to-want knowledge and and in debt, finding how-meager this, angle upon its handle. The old clothes or'even both. gentleman adjusted it, but still it who takes, his' boy from school to when a boy gets really hungry and boy was for education, and seeing, did nofsuit the boy. After repeat put him-to’work, before he is half thirsty for knowledge, it is not basy too, that he possessed unusual abil attempts to arrange it to Dan ’ s ed equiped, drives him to drudgery. to keep him ignorant. When some ity, he determined, ill as he could li king, th e father said bnpatientfy; s Th i s -is t n se n d-t r iT r r truthc ^atlej'sT of the neighbors joined in setting .afford the expense. to send 1dm t-i. up a little Library^young Webster college.- Accordiugjv, young Dan “ Well, hang it' to suit yourself.” to condemn him to Siberi a ; to for- lend every book in it two or three iel went to Dartmouth.* But after And young Dan immediately bid him ever to get on. If you* times, and even committeeTto mem he had been tji^, two years,* and “ hung ” it over a branch of an ap have a fine blooded'Lcolt, you will ory a large part of the best of them. gorie .home for his vacation, he ple-tree and left it thert}. That train, diim before 'V.ou use him. It was this eagerness for,education startlcd.JiLi..falber one morning by was the hanging which pleased You will not dim his fire l>y put- on his part that led his father after declaring that he would not go back Trim. After finishing Iris college course, ward to send him to Exeter to to college^unless bis brother Ezekiel school, and latter to put him in could be educated too. This seemed Webster began studying law, but out of the question. The father having no money, and being unwil Dartmouth College. There are not many boys iq our could barely alTord to educate one ling to tax his father for further time who have not declaimed parts son, and he could not spare the support, lie \went into Northern of Webster’s great speeches; and it other from the farm woik that pro Maine, and taught school there for will interest them to know that the vided the means for this. But a time. While teaching he devoted boy who afterward made those young Dan was generous and reso his evenings to the work of copying speeches could never declaim at all lute. If Zeke could not be educat deeds and other legal documents, while he was at school. He learned ed, he would not. He would not and by close economy he managed 11 :s pieces" welt; and practiced them let them sacrifice Zeke fbrbim, and to live upon the money thus earned; in his own room, but he could not there was an end of the matter. so that lie saved the whole of his —A guest was eating inord but speak them before people to save The good mother solved the difficul salary as a teacher. With this ter than biscuit, while the landlady ty. She was getting old, she said, money to live on, lie went to Bos his life. looked or and fidgeted and hinted Webster was always fond of and her children were dear to her; ton, studied law, and soon distin until she fairly went into a nervous shooting and -fishing, and however she was willing to give up every guished himself. The story of Iris fit. Finally she said: “Do you hard he studied, thè people around thing for their good, and if they life as a public man, in the senate, know butter is up to sixty-five cents Lim called him lazy and idi®, -be- would promise to take care of her in the cabinet, and at the bar, is a pound i1” The hungry guest canse .he would spend whole days during her old age, the property well known, and it does not belong reached out and took what there in these sports. Once, while he should be s< Id; tbi*-duhts paid, and to this sketch of his boyhood.— was left. ‘ Well,” he drawled, ap- was studying under Dr. Woods to what remained Jijj^rtld 1 e spcnT'nr- Hur pier's Young People. jjrovingly and reassuringly, “good prepare for college, he spoke to him educating the boys. After much What Shall We Do With Him ? butterTs WUth itrr--------------------- —- on the subject, and hurt his feelings debate, the matter was settled in a. little. The boy went to his room this way, and it is pleasant to know It seemsxas if only yesterday he that the dear old mother never was in long-clothes. But that was AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER ! determined to have revenge, and this is the way he took to get it. knew want as a consequence of her really a great many yesterdays ago. TO AGENTS, The usual Isatin lesson was one devotion to the welfare of her chil And here he is growing up into his hundred lines of Virgil, but Webster dren.- teens, full of life, hope, joyous out- GOODS UNSOLD RETURNED Many anecdotes are told to illus- looking into life; little knowim- spent the whole night over the I! oi Enyplayment and want io Lcok. 'The next morning before trate the character- of young' Dan. J what strife and -mre4t-4s-4o- bring; j ! | _ Ntai l in buniucHB you can mako from $3 to $10 »_«jay clear, aiid take no risk of I okh , we will He was al ways Invi sh o f h i s wk >ni -y even anxious tor the str He;’ — | ■ c-iidym "'<1 V/11 m ¿^11, on I'XVipb HMeTpTpTSTrwm «41__ ----- ------ if the Agni t fails when he had any, while Iris brother noble martial ardor; full of iii()u1- to kch tlicKO goods, hi tour ar.d read the whole lesson correctly. day», tliov can return was careful but generous, especially riesand Wonderments and question- i all utuold to uh , and wo will return* them their Ti.cn he said : lnoiK-v, can anything Im fairer/ Wa take all “ Will you hear a few more lines, to Dan, whom he greatly admired. ings; full of plans an<l purposes, J wk of loss, and U e Agent get« started in a bus- lnesa that will be |>cnnanent, and par from On one occasion the Htr^s went to a childish, but noble, full of imita $1 doctor ?” OOO to if.t.Ovo ,» ytar I.adira ean ao as well men. A\e want an Agent in every county, The teacher consenting, Webster neighboring town on a high holiday tions of his elders wlio are. not as rnil particular* free. Address, U.S. Manufact Co.,-No. 116 Smithfield Street, Pittsburg, ■ read on and on* and on, while the each with a quarter of a dollar in always his betters ; rich in schemes, uring 1---------------------------------------------- 12 31 3m.
