The Delta independent., 1888-01-17

able trip over your line, and now take pen in
hand to thank you for the use of your roadbed
| from Indianapolis to this place. It is a good
road, and was surprised to find 1t well
ballasted and furnished with cool retreats and
shady culverts every few miles wherein a man
could rest.
1t is good route for the poor but pnmpered
tragedian to take, and watermelons grow close
| to the fence. have Travelled over many other
roads since the new and pernicious law, but
| nowhere have found watermelous more sue
culent or less coy and secretive than on your
justly celebrated line. / also notice with
pleasure that green corn Is still susceptible
and wild paw paws are glowing In the sum.
| mer sun.
thought saw you 60 by in your special
car just north Of the first trestle outside of
town, hut you went by SO fast that I could
not tell definitely till too late. Please excuse
me for not speaking to you as YOU passed by.
Success on the stage has not taught me to for
get or ignore my friends whenever l am
thrown in contact with them.
People write me that New York
State is rapidly settling up, and
property is advancing rapidly in every
direction. Is this sol Advancing rapidly in
every direction is, suppose, one of the most
difficult feats known to calisthenics. have
tried It myself, years ago, but now do not
practice it, having quilt drinking altogether.
hope you will let me know any time that
can be OF use to you, either in moving weeds
or gathering nuts that have ripened and fallen
of your track. l enjoy, especially in the
autumn when the hectic of the dying year has
flooded the forests with its multiplied glories,
and the cricket sings his sleepy song to the
tired heart and the locust lifts his lawn now
er voice in the boughs of the poplar, to 20
nutting along prolific railroad track.
would be glad also, II you have not secur-
ed any one else, to assist you In herding your
stock on Wall street. Railroad stock fire.
quently runs down and gets the hollow horn
for lack Of care during the winter months.
Always feel free to call on me at any time
that can be Of any service to you.
Yours truly,
49,.
The moral to be d rawn from the
career of Napoleon Bonaparte Ives is
that they who make haste to bo rich
may not be innocent As Gen. Nc
Clellan once said, there can be no
better incentive to integrity than the
generous approval accorded to honesty
by those who are honest All other
kinds of approval are not worth strug-
Cling for. Money will buy a certain
kind of applause, but it is the kind
that turns to scorn when justice begins
to get in her fine work.
And life itself is brief. Storied urn
and animated bust may succeed well in
society. but they cannot soothe the
dull, cold ear of death. Freckled
granite and prevaricating marble may
perpetuate the fraud of q lifetime, but
they do not always indicate success
For myself would rather have more
sincere and honest friends through life,
and afterwards content myself with a
plain tomb.
Not many miles from the costly
mausoleum Of great millionaire
sign board by the roadside reads:
This way to Foley's Grove!
Enjoy life while you live, for I:
You'll he long time dead.
.................-.' .................
While do not fully endorse this
sentiment, there is food in it for
earnest thought Bill Nye. IN New
York World.