The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-04-25
SHORT TALKS WITH THE BOYS.
I'M. Quad, tn Desroi. Free pssss.l

lM. Quad, in Detroit Free Press.l
 "A. A. L." writes as follows rom Cleve- land, O.:
 am E yeaEs ot age and have hk~ ing Eor the legal profession. would he under many obligations to you if you would give me few hints as to how to become lawyer. Is 1t true that all law yers become rich P
 Yon are young yet to begin trade or to study for profession. Attend school two years more aud then search for an opening in lawyers office.
 You must remain a year or two as a sort of apprentice-reading law, drawing up papers, and getting all the insight possible. You will then be ready for law school, and by the time you attain your ma ,rity you will have the right to put " Attorney at Law" on your cards It is not true that all lawyers become rich. It is not true that all of them even make fair living. The lawyer who has the luck to be selected as counsel for corporation will do well. The one who makes lucky hit in great criminal case will have plenty of clients. Outside of these 1t is hit-and miss with the fra ternity. It is fact which no one can dispute that it is the interruptions lawyer who makes the most money. Let him but secure the reputation of "knowing how to handle jury" standing in solid with the judge" man who can break of large cash income.
 "H. C. Ill.," of Johnstown, Pa, writes ::
 "It has been the dream of my life to own an orange grove in Flosida. My father desired that all his boys should learn a trade, and went into black smiths shop, and have been at the trade for six years with the result that to. day am doing the best work and making the highest wages in the shop. But my health has failed, and long for open air work, and as have saved about S6oo have my mind made up to try my luck in the orange business in Florida. My in- tention is to buy place and continue at my trade do sn there until it is paid for Will you please give me some facts in regard to the orange culture in Florida F' l IL you will take the word of one who has interviewed at least fifty men who have had more or less to do with orange growing you will go slow. In the first place, it has never occurred to you that such change of climate as you propose may be the worse for your Florida is the land of flowers" but flowers and fevers get on fitst-ra'e together. It there arc any good bargains in orange grove sites left alter all these years of specula- ton there are plenty of men near by to pick them up. Ten years ago land down there was cheap. To-day the prices asked would astonish you. When individuals have started in with SIo 900 and lost it all, where would you be with your $6oo2
 While money has been made 10 orange growing, a great deal has been lost. The more groves the cheaper the fruit must become. Indeed, prices for the last two years have discouraged many who were previously making fine thing of orange growing.
 70 P. H." writes from Cbillicothe, o ;, as follows:
 would like you, as am learning to operate, 10 tell me whether there is any danger of the telephone coming so much l in favor as to abolish the use of the tele- graph"
 While there is no doubt that the tele- phoEe will be improved until points 900 miles apart will be able to talk to each other as easily as neighborhoods do now, the telegraph will not be abolished. It has been seriously interfered with, and as the telephone improves the telegraph must suffer, but this can only go to cer. tain point. Go on and learn to be first class operator. More than that, let your conduct be such as to be certificate of character and make you friends. As a telegraph operator you cannot look for ward to anything but hard work and moderate pay. But the telegraph opera tor who can secure the situation of sta tion agent as well has good thing of it. There are thousands of small stations where the agent must be an operator. but to secure one of them you must be known as a sober, honest and reliable person.
 J. M.," of Manchester, England, writes:
 "I am boy of IS, and intend trying my fortunes in the United States. am a gardener, and want to know if there is money to be made in raising early vegetables for your city markets That is, will be sure of sales"
 Locate yourself near any city of from 5 900 to POO GOO population and you can fad ready sale tor your vegetables itis a business in which many English people have come to this country to engage, and the instances in which any have failed to at feast make good living are few and | far between.
 "F. M.," of Don Juan, Ind, writes: am farmers son, and though am not enthusiastic on the subject of agriculture, my parents are old, my only brother a cripple, and am compelled to remain on the farm. I should prefer to be bookkeeper, mechanic, chemist or civil engineer. Could learn any of these things at home during spare mo- mentsi 1t also seems to me that have some talent for writiag, although l may be mistaken in this 1 have also prac- ticed littie in making pen pictures, but every time undertake anything with the pen or tool the other members of the family make fun Of me and discourage me in every way possible, until give up