Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-08-02
Pleasant Memories.
REVIVED BY EDITOR WHITES
VISIT TO THE HOME OF
HIS BUYHO0n.
Good Advice 10 Young Men Who Are
AbOut Siarting Ont in i.ife-Uthrr
Topics Of Interest 10 the
Ledger Renders.
Editorial CorrespOutieuce of the Ledger


Southampton, LONG ISLAND, n. v, |
July 25.-What memories cling around |
your boyhood home when, As II man, |
you go back to the old farm on visit |
| think of the past, the present and
the future. Your mind naturally
dwells on the past, and those who
have gone before, but this takes you
over to the future and the question,
"Will We meet those dear ones who
have gone where there will be no
parting | say will we meet them
there that's the question. We can
go back to the old homestead as often
as we will but TO meet those who
made it so dear to us is what we
should live for; otherwise, is life worth
the living?
| find that in the east as we'll as the
west that young men are anxious to
get away from the farm and avoid the
farmers life. This seems quite natu-
raj and the best business and profess
sional men we have in the country are
farmers sons. AT the same time
quite number make mistake in
looming 10 town to live without
work" You must work to make an
honest living, no matter where you
live or what you do. There is no
more noble calling or Independent
life than that of a farmer. Many Il
good farmer is spoiled to MAKE a poor
doctor, lawyer or business man.
Young men growing up on a farm
should remember two things: You
will have to work just as hard, and
often harder, IN town than you will in
the country if you succeed, and that
farm work is just as honorable and
very often much more so. These are
facts which cannot be controverted, as
experience will teach you.
This morning | came upon thicket
of huckleberries and enjoyed n feast.
| thought of Dick Hopkins, Jim
Minor, Tom Torreyson, Henry Ed
| monds and tine rest of 1.-The army OF
Virginia" who will bear me out in the
| statement that huckieberIies are the
very best berries that grow anyw here
and believe that they would grow
nicely in Missouri. They do well i'll
Virginia. Nirginians flourish in Mis-
souri, therefore huckleberries should
be a success i'll Missouri. Is there
anything the matter with that argu.
ment?
| had bad luck fishing today,
Rather, did not catch any fish and
come 10 think OF it, there was no Iucb
about it. | went after black bass.
forgot my bait and the boat leaked.
only had one oar and no anchor. | go
two bass and if I had made the righ
kind of preparation / would have
caught perhaps one hundred. How
often we cuss our luck or lay it II
Cleveland's administration. Wher
we catch no fish under similar circunf
stances very often we lay our busi
| noss failure to bs,ti iuch VI suIIIr utire
own. We tailed to provide bait ant
still expected to catch fish. "It can
be did,
| | would like to have Mexico's "N'
WOrkman's Club" here. If | coult
get Atchison, Browning and the reg
of the boys grabbing barefooted, or ol
the ocean in an open leaky boat dur
ing storm think could get NOV
on them. Grabbing barefooted they
would work their legs; rowing fol
shore in storm they would worl
their arms. In the first instance the!
would be after saving their toes;in tin
other case their lives would be 4
stake. We Grabbed barefooted ant
saved all our toes but q piece of one
The crabs were not used to such larg
bait. | am never going to try tn
open boat experience if ] can help it
One less toe, more or less, don
amount to much but when it comes t,
an open sea in storm, that's differ
ent. The ocean is grand when caln
but in storm it is simply magnifi
cent and not TO be described. | wisl
could send you a "sliee" of tn
ocean to be placed i'll Mexico's sum
mer Garden but there are other thing
TO be wished for and as easily to b,
accomplished which would do tn,
wisher much more credit. | am in
wishing humor today, caughtso few
fish.
/ BETTER LUCK NEXT DAY.
| notice the LEpG ER' IS contemporary
this week contains column articl,
signed "Reader" taking the LEDGE
10 task for endorsing Clevelan6's ac
| Il In