Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-04-15
The Farmers Son.

entage? This is question of fear>
full Importance to the wealthy and
business men now treading so sue
cessfully the paths of wealth
Whence comes the Lincolns, the
Grants, the Wrights, etc, of the po-
liticsl field p? What wealth or royal
prestige of parental position bolster
ed up their early or later successful
struggles Or where was the ed
ucation or the surfelted exchequers
of the ancestors that laid the fiDan-
cial found of Allen, Blair, Stew
art, Vanderbilt, and thousands of
Others scattered all over the country?
They were all orphans, or sohs of
farmers unknown to fame, and whose
signatures were unknown TO bank
counters. AS general rule, sue
cessful business men merchants,
politicians or bankers) were mem
bers of larl e families. Not hot-bed
influence of weallh, or the petted
training of an Only child, dwarfed in
their early efforts at self reliance
No extravagant use of unearned
money smothered the great lesson OF
economy, without which no solid
foundation of wealth was ever laid.
In early life no lesson of caste or ex-
clusiveness of blood chilled their So
liability, but their minds were inn
bued with the idea that true worth
made men and woman of the first
class.
The farmers son, raised on the
scanty farm, or the Ealf orphan of
poor widow, has no carriage in which
to ride, 80 the son soon learns to
walk to fame and fortune. ln his
youth no wealthy hand reaches out
to sustain and steady his steps, so
he learns to save himself and pushes
forward with self-reliance and con-
scious ability to distinction His
father with his scanty purse, sets an
example of economy which clings to
the son through life. In this way
tho poor boy from the farm, removed
from the fashionable vices of society,
comes to manhood and strikes out
boldly with determination to hew
his own way to character and COM
fort. Look around yon, poor toiling
son of the farm, and read the history
Of those whom the world now wor~
ships for their learning, their talents
and their purity in the way of trial.
In early life they trod the same
thorny path you are now trying.
Self,reliance is the foundation on
which to build, adding industry,
honesty and perseverance. How
good it is to feel in lte's young man.
hood, with the smiles of Providence,
we can enter The arena Of conflict,
uncontaminated with evil associa-
tions and not enfeebled by an early
life of idleness, and be permitted, un-
aided, to hew out with q strong and
willing heart, position with our
country's true nobility.
EAT Jim Benedict was something
of prodigal son He took all the
money that bis father, Philadelphia
merchant, would give him, and went
to Chicago where he spent the funds
in riotous living. With the last
fifty dollars he went on spree, end
ing in police station in Joliet.
Miserable in body and mind, he de-
cded to kill himself He had left of
his money two five-dollIr bills, and
five gold dollars that be had kept as
poke t pieces. He gave boy one
of the bills to buy pistol, some
powder, and percussion caps. Left
by himself with these things, he
loaded the weapon, using the re-
naming bill for wad and the coins
for bullets, and shot himself in the
head He died instantly of the
wound, an post-mortem examina-
ton revealed the golden missls and
bits of the costly wad in his brain.
49, Emil Whaener, the aged and
eccentric German who made the
Trinity chimes, recently died in
Brooklyn. His house on Meserve
street is filled with models of me.
chanica curisosities, the work of bis
hands. The CLOCK was built nearly
thirty years ago, and has never
stopped for any length of time.
With the exception of the Stras-
bourg clock, it is the l4rgest dial
working mechanism in the world.
The pendulum, which is made of
wood, is twenty-one feet long 1t
has about five feet swing This
great clock is wound up once week,
taking two hours each time. The
bells of the chimes are just behind
the clock hands