Huntsville gazette., 1886-05-29
TRUE INDEPENDENCE.
Noble Ambition Nipped in the Bud by .
Hard, But Powerful, Argument

noble AmDftlon Nipped In the Bud by .
Hard. But Powerful, Argument.
"Every man should have an incentive
to spur him onward" said Gosport to
Millikin, as they walked down State
street together the other morning.
''He should set up target toward
which every arrow of effort should be
aimed. Every act of his life should be
means toward an end. Plant your
stake somewhere ahead, young man,
and try with your utmost energy to
get there, said Daniel Webster; and if
you don't stop somewhere ON the way,
you are sure to reach it, That's the
talk for me; it has the ring of pure
gold about it, and if / had dozen
boys l would have that printed in let
ters a foot long and pasted on the
tell you, Mlllikin, every thing depends
on getting boy started right. Look
at me. Parents both died before l was
big enough to butter my own biscuit,
and | was left to drift about without
rudder, and l grew up with no more
ambition than an organ-grinder. / had
to do heap of wild shooting before /
found out that every thing depended on
blazing away in the same direction all
the time, but for ten years back I've
had my stake planted, and if I'm
spared I'm bound to get there as sure
as guns" and Gosport brought down
his hand with slap so sudden that an
old lady just ahead gave jump,
screamed 'Mercy on u.s." and dropped
pound of butter on the sidewalk
"Well, / hope you'll get there, Cos,
upon my word do,' replied Millikin.
'But if it amt an impertinence, may |
ask what sort of sapling your hatchet
is aimed at?"
Certainly; there's no secret aboutit.
| want to be a farmer"
Millikin braced about and gave him
look that began at his plug hat and
went down to his button shoes.
"Well, you'd make a nice-looking
granger, you would. Whatever put
that notion into your head?" inquired
Millikin, with a tone that had consid-
erable pity in it.
Il always wanted to get into posi-
ton where | could feel independent. /
don't like the trammels business man
has to submit to. 1t gals me, and |
don't intend to put up with it any longer
than have to. / want to be free to
come and go when l please Work
when | want to, and rest when | feel
like it. To have my own ideas on
politics and religion without the danger
of taking bread out of the mouths of my
children by doing So
"You want to be independent"
eyes, sir, l do; want to feel that l
can safely have opinions of my own, on
every subject under the sun, from
evolution to the price of whisky, with
out having to pay tax, in the
shape of lost patronage The farmer
is the most independent man in the
world-'
"When his wife is away from home"
"None of your jokes. | am serious.
l am determined to be a farmer. |
want to be the owner of some land and
my own soul. If know man to be
villain or a hypocrite, | don't want to
be compelled to associate with him or
have any thing to do with him."
"And you want to be independent"
ITO be sure do, and will be if I'm
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my objective point has been to find my
self the owner of good farm; where |
could earn my bread by the sweat of
hired mans brow; smell the clover
blossoms; drink in the beauties of
nature, and eat sausage whenever | feel
so disposed, without fear Of losing
social standing"
'Its independence you're after?"
Don't tell you SOP"
''Then, in Heavens name, why don't
you buy railroad restaurant, and get
into position where you can make the
biggest farmer in the State feel like
small boy every time he comes along?
If it's independence you want, you
can't get so much of it for so little
money in any other walk of life.
Farming, fudgel Let me sell the sand
wiches, and | don't care a pretzel who
breads the nation. ."-Lige Broom, ia
Chicago Ledger.