Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . of Dr. Kanessecond expedition ? How did Kanes party travel after leaving their ship ?Can you describe the rescue of the men sent to establish a station forprovisions ? What long journey did the explorers undertake ? Howwere they rescued ? Where was Kane born and when and where did he die? JAMES GOKDON BENNETT AND HIS FAMOUS NEWSPAPEE. OU must have noticed, said Uncle Frank, how manygreat successes have come up from very poor begin-nings ; and how many men who have become re-nown
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . of Dr. Kanessecond expedition ? How did Kanes party travel after leaving their ship ?Can you describe the rescue of the men sent to establish a station forprovisions ? What long journey did the explorers undertake ? Howwere they rescued ? Where was Kane born and when and where did he die? JAMES GOKDON BENNETT AND HIS FAMOUS NEWSPAPEE. OU must have noticed, said Uncle Frank, how manygreat successes have come up from very poor begin-nings ; and how many men who have become re-nowned started out with just about nothing, and madetheir way by their own hard work. Yes, said James, tall oaks from little acornsgrow. A very apt saying in this connection, remarkedUncle Frank. I have in mind a story that shows itto be true. It is the story of a great newspaper and the way it was could hardly believe it if he did not acquaint himself with the facts. James Gordon Bennett was born at New Mill, Keith, in Banffshire,on the north-eastern coast of Scotland, about the year 1800. His relatives. 142 JAMES GORDON BENNETT. were Roman Catholics, and he was brought up in a Catholic family ofFrencli origin. In his fourteenth year, having passed through the pri-mary schools of his native place, he entered the Roman Catholic Seminaryat Aberdeen, for the purpose of studying for the priesthood of thatChurch. During the two or three years which he passed here he was aclose student, and acquired the basis of an excellent education. In 1817 he came into possession of a copy of Benjamin Franklinsaccount of his own life, which had been recently published in Scotland. The perusal of this littlebook changed the course ofhis whole life. It inducedhim to abandon all thoughtsof the priesthood, and to tryhis fortune in the New World,in which the great philoso-pher had succeeded so wellbefore him. A little morethan a year later he leftGlasgow, and in May, 1819,being now about twenty
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