Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-02-06
''Stick to the Farm"-A Talk with the
Boys.

| AM sure that the more man knows
of life in great cities, the greater emphasis
will he give to the title of this article.
And / will tell you why.
The ma ority of country bows are in no
sense Of the word fitted or prepared for
participation in the rivalry and COMPETE
ton of business in the city. They would
find themselves as much out of their
sphere Or groove of usefulness, as a states
man would to be placed in command of
ship. Or, to make the illustration more
pertinent, they would succeed in the city
in about equal measure with the city men
who go to the country to get rich farm
ing; and you know how that is.
Hundreds of young men come from the
country to the city weekly in search of
work. [ see them anXiOusly walking the
streets, or standing at the street corners
in a brown study. Oftentimes they are
robbed of their little store of money; de-
coyed into hells where in a single hour
they learn more of the ways of death than
would have come to them in an entire
lifetime elsewhere. All! but you wouldn't
be seduced from truth and virtue! Per-
haps not; but granting you to be firm as
the everlasting hills in righteousness,
what could you do to insure success? Can
you set type? Can you keep books? Do
you uuQcIStduU COuu1cTCldl business!
Can you write book review worthy of
the book? What do you know of art
and science, or any one branch of either?
Have you a well-defined idea, or half
defined idea, of just what you wish to do?
If so, what qualifications do you carry
with it? To leave the farm for the city is
as foolish and dangerous, in most cases,
as to jump overheard, far from shore
when you are morally certain you do not
know how to swim.
But | do not mean to have you believe
thatto "stick to the farm"is always the best
thing to do | do not believe in sticking
to anything that is utterly distasteful,
and which you do not feel "drawn to-
ward" in any sense, either from fitness
or sympathy, But in leaving the farm
think it would be wiser to hope for sue
cess where competition is moderate, and
where your unstrained faculties will not
be completely overwhelmed by skillful
and disciplined workers, every place fill
ed, and all vacancies applied fora decade
in advance. -Rurdl Neao Yorker
DOUBTFUL SToRY-The London Globe
publishes story from Paris of very
remarkable character. 1t is related that
German professor begged two Com
munist prisoners to experiment on scien-
tlf1cally. He administered chloroform to
each, injected solution of calx into their
systems, and then bled them to death.
The corpses were dessicated by furnace
heat until the flesh shrivelled and the
skin became like leather. In this state
they remained three months, when the
process of revivication began by injecting
into the bodies the blood of two healthy
laborers, and applying galvanic battery.
One of the bodies remained lifeless, but
in the other the muscles twitched, the
eyes rolled, the heart began to beat, and
finally the man arose, complained of hun
ger and soreness of limb, but speedily re-
covered all his faculties, and is still living
to attest the success of the experiment..
The tale is remarkable, but still moro so
the fact that the London papers appear to
believe it.
THE Portland (Me.) Press says. Zone
of our fruit dealers caught al urchin
stealing nuts yesterday, and proceeded to
administer condign punishasant The
boy begged to be released, because he had
recently been vaccinatea ,fresA from the
enc. What has that to do with it?'
shouted the Infatuated fruit dealer. She
was hooking COW, and it got into my
blood was the whimpering reply"
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THIRTY tons Of English walnuts we're
raised in Los Angeles last year.