Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1875 — A Plucky Boy. [ARTICLE]

A Plucky Boy.

Charles Howard, now one of the boys on board the school-ship Sabine learning to be a sailor, will amount to something when he grows up. He was a New York bootblack, and when Bamum’s hippodrome set out on its summer travels he set out with it, to carry on his business and at the same time see the country. He brought up in Boston at last, and brought up suddenly, too, being arrested for blacking boots without a license. He was in trouble, and didn’t know what to do, when his attention was attracted by a newspaper he had got in his possession, stating that the school-ship Sabine was at Portsmouth receiving boys for instruction. He made up his mind promptly. With his blacking-box over his shoulder he struck out boldly through New Hampshire for Portsmouth, shining boots on the way. Footsore and weary he reached Portsmouth, went on board the schoolship and asked to be taken as a pupil. The commander couldn’t take him because he had no guardian. Then the disapfointed boy went back into the city of 'ortsmouth and stood by the City-Hall until he saw a man to suit him. It proved to be the City Marshal. The boy stated his case, concluding anxiously: “ Wil you be my guardian?” The keen intuition of the youth had not failed him. The Marshal, struck with the boy’s manner, consented, went to the Probate Office, was made Charley Howard’s legal guarddian, and then accompanied him to th® Sabine, where he was regularly enrolled in the school of instruction, wo Charles Howard is learning to be a sailor, and will be one of the hearts of oak when, soma time, our navy ; is called upon to defetd the national honor. —Like all great men who rule their fellows, Red Cloud, ther big chief of the Sioux, i 9 also ruled by a woman. His woman is his squaw, and she, like all squaws, is ruled by the youngest of her offspring —a little pumpkin-faced papoose about as long as a fiddle-box. —Every husband thinks that he can tame a shrew—except the poor fellow that has her.