The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-24

Once there was a young Rustic who felt
ready 10 leave the Home Place and leg Tor
the City, where he felt sure that he could
cut a large CASH He was tired Oh getting
cut with a Coal-On Lantern about 3:f5 g
m to awaken the Horses and Curry them
and tease the Milk away from a restless
Bossy and hurl few lines of Sustenance
at the Shoats.
de was out in the East Eighty doing
things to the Stubborn Glebe about the
time that Jocund Day stood tiptoe on the
Misty Sand Ridge. Along about Noon ne
would get back TO the House and show a
Boiled Dinner how 10 take Joke. After
Dinner he would pick out a Soft Spot I'M
der the Cherry Tree and try to sneak
Sicsta. but Father would rout him up and
order him back to the Corn Rows Father
was a Good Man to work for. He never
osked the Boy to crowd a Days Work INTO
eight or nine Hours. He would give him
Sixteen Hours IL necessary.
Jason had Instructions to Knock OF
every Evening as soon as 1t was so Dark
he couldn't see the Team. After he came
in and bedded down Queen and Fannie and
cid a few Chores and nailed up Hole in
the Fence so that the Bull Calf could not
work through and devour the Morning
Glories he would wind slowly under the
winking Stars to where the Light streamed
from the Kitchen Door. After Boiling
everything exposed 70 view on the Red Ia
BILE Cloth, even TO the Dried Raspberries
with the Clinkers in tn IN he would read a
few Jokes out of the Populist Paper and
start away to Bed with the Sprightly Step
of Paralytic aged eighty-two. He never
had TO leave Call.
Sometimes when it Rained Jason could
not work in the Field, and Father would
let MIN so out in the Barn and turn the
Chop Feed Machine just for Change. ia
son would hump at his Task until his
Tongue hung out and he had the Heaves
and had to stop and Blow. and then Father
would revile him as a WeaklIng aud Gas
about how Strong and Husky he had been
at the same Age
And yet the County Institutes ask, why
do Boys leave the Farm?"
Jason's only Amusement consisted of an
occasional Trip to the General Store. Every
two Yeers there would be a Rally and he
" ouid get Chance to see a Congressman
Of course that was great Privilege, but
even that did nos buoy the Lad up for two
years at Stretch.
What he hankered for was TO get into the
City and be Successful Business Man
He had read that all the Heavyweights in
the World of Commerce had come into the
City as simple and untutored yaps Their
early Habits of Industry, frugal Manner Of
Living and that Sterling Honesty which a
Boy learns on the Farm by watching his
Father trade Horses never failed TO land
the Reub in the very Forefront of the Pro-
cession.
Every Week he used to read a Paper that
Cost Dollar Year, with a 22-Calber Re-
volver and Colored Picture OF President
Mckinley and Cabinet thrown in as a Pre-
MUM. This Paper told Young Men how to
Succeed I'm Life. The Stuff was written by
a Genius who had to get little m Ad-
vance now and then or else rely on the
Free Lunch
1t said that the Captains of Industry and
all the Mainstays of Finance had received
their Early Training on the Farm drinking
Buttermilk, killing Garter Snakes being
stung by Bundle Bees, stealing Water
melons and going in Swimming in muddy
Cricxs.
The man who wrote these Signed Arti-
oles just the same as said that any Youth
who was brought up inside of the City
Limits and never had any Stone Bruises or
Warts. but who wore a SEARCHED Collar and
went to Dancing School and learned 10 say
Yes, Ma'am' and carry a Handkerchief,
did rot have one Chance in a Thousand to
land in with the Plutocrats
The Editor of this Paper knew his Bust
ness. He was on to the Fact that the
Farmer likes to be depicted as the Chief
Gazooks of the Universe and good deal