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A Modern boy.

--A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser and Register writes from Savannah:

‘ This allusion to the Republican Reminds me of the wonderful success which has attended the efforts of one of the boys engage in the sale of that paper in the camps around the city. Within a period of eighteen months he accumulated money enough to purchase a horse and dray, but finding that he was too small to load and unload his dray, he sold it and the horse; and invested the money in five milch cows. He still continues to furnish the paper to the soldiers, and with the profits arising from the sale he buys feed for his cows. The income arising from the safe of papers and the milk given by his cows, is now ten dollars a day or at the rate of about $500 per annum. This boy will make his way in the world, and Pallude to his gold fortune that the boys engaged in the sale of the Advertiser and Register may take heart and emulate his example. You may tell your boys that this Savannah boy does not swear, nor use tobacco, nor drink liquor, but loves his mother and is very industrious.

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