People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — One of God’s Noblest. [ARTICLE]
One of God’s Noblest.
In a New England town the other day, a newsboy, hardly higher than the platform, was run over by a horsecar and fatally hurt. What did this selfsupporting baby of six years do, when writhing in the last agonies of a terrible death? He called piteously for his mother. To shriek upon her breast? That she might clasp him while the surgeon worked? To give her his day's earnings! ‘Tve saved ’em, mother!” he cried. “I’ve saved ’em aIL Here they are.” When his little dirty, clenched hand fell rigid, it was found to contain four cents!—Newsboys* Calamity Howler.
