The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-05-05
Another Letter From watkins Pa.v
GARDENIA. VA. April %. i99.

GARDENIA, VA, April 20, '99.
Editor Herdid:-It seems proper
that everybody should sometimes sit
down and think, and Watkins Pa de-
sires to say that of late he has enjoyed
many profound reflections. When he
looks abroad in the world he sees the
great bulk of mankind digging and
delylng, day in and day out, and when
life Is closed there is scarcely left any,
thing to pay the expenses Of decent
burial, while others who are born UNI
der less favorable circumstances arise
to ailluence and fortune and die mil
lionaires. Now, Watkins Pa has
come to the conclusion that there is
great waste of energy somewhere, and
while Others may do as they please
he is determined henceforth to set his
energy in the right direction and push
it Tor all that it is worth.
AS Watkins Pa was sitting few
days ago in the veranda of his spacious
dwelling, and was casting his eye over
the green valley to the south and con-
templating the silent forces of provi-
dence in operation, producing bud, leaf
and flowers, he was overwhelmed with
the beauty and marvellous works in
the vast laboratory of nature but unfor-
tunately he saw nothing in these imam
innate things to help him conserve his
wasting energy, only he knew what he
did before that the hand Of man can
improve nature by striking at the right
time and at the right thing, and Wat
kins' Pa thought and thought and
thought, and he called TO his help all
knowledge that statistical reports Of
the various industries of the world af-
forded and he read of the tremendous
outputs of the products resulting there
from and Of labor saving machines,
and as his searching eye lit upon the
statement that the poultry output in
the United States was in value more
than the entire wheat crop Of all the
States and territories combined, and
just then the cackling Of a hen nearby
his attention, for it was at
time Of the day that the appetite de-
sired to be appeased, and he ran and
secured the egg and a happy thought
suggested itself that there was less
waste Of energy in the incubator than
in any other labor saving machine in
the world, and he straightway bought
one and he is now sitting by his incu-
Dator watching the mysterious devel-
)pment Of the Matching process, con-
serving his energy, and like his dis
inguished countryman, Ex-President
If the United States, Returning-B
Hayes, who after retiring from the
presidency went into the poultry bu-
iiness, but unlike the ex-president in
his, Watkins Pa has never retired
rom an office of $4,000 year; but
who can tell what kind fortune may
nave in store along these lines for
WATKINS PA.
AN OFFER.-In watching the work.
ng Of the incubator Watkins Pa has
observed that there is a great loss Of
leat, and he has hit upon the happy
levice of rendering this heat available.
from his past experience in the nur-
cry business and seeing that many Of
lis neighbors and friends are contin-
tally put to the great inconvenience and
annoyance Of having to rise at night
md kindle fire to heat the cat-nip
ca for crying infants, he is satisfied
hat the nursery and the incubator
hould be combined, and he will give
lalf Of the proceeds Of his invention to
my one who will furnish the means to
procure patent on the device.
WATKINS PA.