The Newsboy's Dream

The American newsboy can alruost be said to have created a genus for hirnself. If he has auy, he has certainly created it, for of all the inhabitauts of this planet there is none who is so absolntely independent, so thoronghly confldent cf bis owu exertions. He has a self importance, dorived from his ability to support or partially support hiruself, which places him high above the rank of the ordiuary ganrin, and he generally possesses what is far more important in any community - ready rnoney. He is the capitalist of our junior civilization, the Count Esterhazy of newsboys' alley. He can play craps for inoney when other boys are constrained to pursue this delectable amusement with only the milder if more iutellectual pleasure of studying the fluctuatious of fortune, or, at most, hazarding cigarette pictures. He may swear a little more than is necessary, but in general is not half bad. His train of thought is usually healthy and vigorous and has a robustness bom of the onter air in which he spends so muoh of his time. Physically he is agile and almost tireless. While apparently reckless in most things, he is, on the whole, careful of his health - he is scarcely ever known to smoke a whole cigarette at a time. His intellect is as keen as a razor. He keeps it continually "honed on the strop of experience. Everything carries for him a lesson. Froru the sale of the largest Suuday paper to that of the most uupretentious weekly there is nothing he does not profit by. He is a born statist, a self educated strategist. He bas the nice art of going far enongh and yet never overstepping himself. On the eve of such an occasion h'e will vociférate, ' 'All about the election," but doa't ever expect of whom nntil yon buy the paper. Pleasure and other things occupy a fair proportion of his time, bnt with him the distribntion of news is always uppermost. It even permeates his sleeping hours. One of them was heard toremark betweeu sales to another a day or so ago, "Say, Jim, I had de flnest drearn I ever had las' uight." "Was it about angels?" inqnired Jim. "Naw, " was the contemptuous response. "I dreampt dat der was a awful smashnp, six fires, four doublé murders an tree suicides, all in one day. " - Chicago Times-Herald.