Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1875 — The Boy Couldn’t See It. [ARTICLE]

The Boy Couldn’t See It.

A Grand River avenue grocer* saw a boy about twelve years old loafing around his store yesterday, and he patted Jiim on the head and said: “Boy, goto work. George Washington was a worker; Thomas Jefferson swung the ax; Henry Clay used the hoe.” “ Did they ?” asked the lad. “They did,'my son. Labor is grand; labor is ennobling; labor is the founda-tion-beams of this country. The boy who cultivates habits of industry will sooner or later achieve success and independence. There’s fifty bushels of potatoes in there to sort over. Go to work at them, my boy, and to encourage you I’ll give you fifteen cents a day. In a few days, if you are industrious and trustworthy, I’ll let you saw some wood, and then you may pick over some beans, and it won’t be long after that before you can run for Governor, of Michigan. Come, now, go to work.” The hoy went in and worked for about an hour, and was then missing. On a board was a sign he had left behind him. It read: “Your hank Clay and george Washington kin go to blazes.”— Detroit Free Preu. ■ The telegraphic administration in France propose to encourage the introduction of private wires, and to offsr such inducements that no great factory and no rich man’s house in the country shall be without its means of communication with the outside world. —Said a thoughtful editor, when a friend inquired what was the matter with him: “ I Can find no subject worthy of my ‘ ***•' ” ______ • The last census of the British Isles was takes is 6 single day, aqd post 1980,000,