Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1884 — A Successful Bootblack. [ARTICLE]

A Successful Bootblack.

Sir John Macdonald, the present Premier of Canada, is said to have started in life as a bootblack in Glasgow, says the Indianapolis Journal. He emigrated to Canada at an early age. When only eighteen the daughter of a wealthy Canadian fell in love with him, and he ran away with her to a clergyihan, who consented to marry them. The bride’s father, after a time, forgave this escapade, and started him in busmess. Thence he drifted into politics, and displayed so much shrewdness and tact that in a short time he was a leading member of the minis terial party in the Dominion Parliament.