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The Farmer’s Boy.
At a meeting of twenty Presdeuts
of twenty of the nation’s largest
corporations held in New York,
the other day it was a matter of
comment that of those present,
twelve were “farmer’s boys.’’
When the youngster at home on
the farm gets “the blues” and
fancies that there is no longer the
chance that there used to be to
rise above the monotony and
drudgery of a tiller of the soil, he
can think of those twelve captains
of industry who started as he is
starting and remember that when
they were boys there were times
when they too imagined that it
was a hopeless ambition to aspire
to win their way to the front in
the city.
He wants to remember that the
farm has evolved some ot the
world’s greatest men and some of
its most conspicuously useful ones
and that with the increasing ac
tivities of the nation in all direc
tions there is now,more than ever,
room at the top for the exception
al man.
In the contemplation of the
stirring achievements of the farm
er’s boy, past and present, if he
has imagination and soul he will
find helpful inspiration, when the
day seems dark and the future
fuil of gloom. Let him recolleot
as the world surely does-that it
wa3 the farm that gave us Abra
ham Lincoln, one of the world’s
moßt majestic figures; that gave
us Andrew Jackson, Millard Fill
more, the martyred Garfield, Hor
ace Greeley, Sir Isaac Newton and
the brilliant Carlyle. It was a
farmer’s son—Eli Whitney, who
created the cotton gin, which laid
the foundation for the growth cf
cotton industry, now worth S9OO
-a year to the United
States, and a farmer’s boy—Elias
Howe, who emancipated woman
hood from the needle by invent
ing the sewing machine.
Long before Robert Fulton sail
ed his steamboat, the Cleamont,
up the Hudson, John Fitch, the
ingenius product of a Pennsylvan
ia farm demonstrated that a boat
could be propelled by steam .by
a skiff with an engine and sailing
his craft up the Delaware with its
aid.
Another brainy farmer’s boy—
Oliver Evans —sometimes called
the Watts of America—was the
first to build and operate a loco
motive in the United States. Cy
rus McCormick, inventor of the
reaper, the whir of which is to-day
heard ’round the earth, was the
modest son of an ordinary Illinois
farmer. The first machine to
make tacks was the creation of a
Massachuttes farm lad—Thomas
Blanchard —and the device that
furnished the world with the mod
erm screw was the w r ork of a poor
Vermont genious—Thomas Har
vey, a quiet, thougtful farmer’s
son. To the resourcefulness of an
Ohio farm boy—Charles F. Bruch
—who invented the dynamo, the
world is indebted for its present
day great industrial and power
plants that give employment to
millions of hands. Thomas E
Edison, most brilliant of the
world’s inventors, sponsor for the
electric light, the phonograph and
a hundred devices,was the son of a
poor farm laborer. Patrick B.De
lany, the inventor of the multi
plex, the Delany relay, the tele
post automatic telegraph and
cable improvements grew up on a
New England farm. From a Wis
consin farm came C. L. Sholes,
the inventor of the typewriter,
which revolutionized the business
methods of the world.
Where service is the only cre
dential that commands recogni
tion and a man’s ability must
square with his responsibility,
the “farmer’s boy” who has
hearkened to the call of the big
city will be found to-day in the
front rank of the world’s useful
workers in every large city on the
face of the earth. He makes good
and the world needs him.
To make whitewash, slake half
a bushel of fresh lime with boil
ing water, covering the barrel
while slaking. Strain and add 12
pounds of salt dissolved in warm
water, A pound of whiting aim 1
pound of gUio dissolved in warm
water. Let stand for several days
and apply warm, if possible An
other receipe is to merely slake
the lime and then add one pint of
boiltd linseed oil to each gallon of
wash, or, if no oil is at hand, use
melted tallow. This for rougu out
side work only.—Prog Farmer.
Cotton Chopping Time.
Evolution has been cutting some
qimer pranks in the world of prog
ress during the last hundred years
or s >, but cotton chopping goes on
in the same old fashioned way.
Not a bit of that verdict that etn
inated from the Angel with the
flaming sword in Eden has been
remitted when it comes to handl
ing the tiny cotton plant upon
which the world is now centering
attention. Likewise cotton con
tinues to be picked in the same old
style as that which prevailed in
prehistoric times.
These two features seem to be as
immutable as the law which gov
erns the tide of the 6ea. It appears
that restriction ha 9 been placed
around the development of the
plant so that the good work shall
not he overdone. I: does seem,
however, even to a conservative
student cf the situation, that it is
a hard thing to have to follow the
long dusty rows on hot summer
days, but perhaps it is the toll hu
manity must pay for life’s bless
ings. Viewed from oue stand
point such is the case and yet af
ter years of experience with chop
ping cotton and doing half of the
other things of creation it is safe to
say that there are hundreds of oth
er things that can’t measure up to
honor of following the hoe on the
row.
Picking the staple is about one
of the toughest jobs in all the
category of cotton growing. Yet
it must be done by hand, picking
one boll at a time and keeping at
it from day to day for more
months than it takes to grow it.
Traveling recently over one of the
noted sections of cotton belt the
unusual sight of seeing men, wo
men and children at work chop
ping cotton was witnessed There’s
too much of this in Georgia just
now and if folks would get to work
planting a little more corn, an
other patch of hay, some peanuts,
potatoes and things needed at
home there will be quite another
tale to tell next season. This work
of chopping cotton deserves some
remuneration and if we make too
much of it. in this section of the
South the men who buy it won’t
want to pay us as well for it as
they have in the past and conse
quently there will be somebody
dissatisfied.—Georgia - Carolina
Agriculturist.
Respect the Mother.
Mark the young man who is
coarse and disrespectful to his
mother. No roseate pathway can
be hers who shall sustain to him
the relations of wife. Not the
happiest will be the lot of those
who shall come as his children.
Not to he envied is the neighbor
hood in which must be reckoned
as a citizen. It does not matter
what the mental statute of that
mother is, how old, how ble9t, how
decrepit, tne man to whom she is
mother owes to her gentleness,
tendencss and consideration. Did
she fall back and did the children
by means of superior advantages,
pass her in the race? But think
of the toil and trials and devotion
and denial, her mind and the
years she gave that the children
might derive the benefit. Think
of her sacrifice; no wonder if she
fell behind her heart was in her
home, in the buds that were hers.
There in no rank, no station, no
condition, that may exempt a
manly man from a kind regard
for his mother. —Ex.
Mistake Corrected.
Mr. Editor: —Please allow me a
little space to correct a mistake
that lias been made concerning tbo
appointment of Mrs. Aaron to fill
the vacancy caused hv the death
of her husband.
I understand that it is rumored
that I used my influence to pre
vent the appointment and that I
worked for some other party. It
is a mistake. It is well enough
for anyone to say such things that
don’t, know and don’t understand
what benefit a negro can be or
what good he can do People will
make mistakes that dont know
the condition cf things. It is well
said by parties that they wonder
what a negro thinks he could do
in getting an appointment. He
may not do much in such things
but it is not well for him to sit
down on the stool of do nothing
ness all his life and not be of any
good at all to his couutry.
Respectfully,
E. B. Cooper.
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