The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-04
STAMINA AND POWER ARE COUN-
 TRY-BRED.

TRY-BRED.
 Nature gives a life-draught that artificiality knows not how to brew. Our nation has become great through it's newness, it's nearfiess to primitive conditions; through the opportunities that come from tapping the store houses of nature at first hand; and through such manly qualities as vigor energy, and enthusiasm. which have been developed In overcoming natural conditions and living face to face with the real world. Our great cities would decay from their own unnatural condi- tions were it not for the constant steams of fresh. honest. vigorous man hood and womanhood constantly flow ing in from the suburbs and the coun- try at large. The artificial human crop will no more supply the demand than hot-houses will supply the food of the world. The sun-kissed fields and wind purified hills must always be relied on for men and bread.
 There are many reasons for the greater success of country boys. The stamina of the forest, the streams, the hills and the valleys is in their veins; each has more iron in his blood; his fiber is flrmer, and his staying power greater than those of delicate or fab by city youth, reared amid unnatural surroundings, insa wilderness of brick and stone. The chemic forces of the soil, air and sunshine become a: part of his very constitution.
 The freely y-circulating ozone breathed in great inspiration during muscular effort gives him lasting lung power. Flowing, hoeing and moving add vigor to his muscles. The farm is gymna- sium,-a manual training school. The hated chores not only give him exer- else, but also develop his practical powers and ingenuity. He must make implements or toys that he cannot af- ford to buy, or cannot readily procure He must run. adjust and repair many machines. He is stranger to no me chanical principle or tool and in an emergency he always has a remedy l that makes him 8 "handy man" in any | occupation.
 ! Ueucllt, lll6It health and manual dexterity, is derived l from the life of a country boy. He ! lives closer to nature, in constant touch with the creating power which brings l forth all that is natural and real. He ! touches the truth of being as city boy never does. He is in perpetual school | of reality, for the ever-changing clouds, 1 the panorama of landscapes, and the | seasons phenomena teach him secrets, and wake in him a wide understanding l Of life if he but open his mind to their 1 impressions. He gets his ideas of gran deur from the mighty sweep of alter mating valleys and hills. He learns sublimity from the mountains aspiring reach toward the clouds, He absorbs peace and tranquility from deep, wind | ing rivers. The power of natural forces he feels in rushing storms, and hears in | the crash of thunder. Providence ap- pears to him in a thousand ways in the ingenious provisions for insect, plant
 and animal life. Love teaches it's les son in the maternity of dumb animals
 He lives in the wonderful laboratory
 Of the Great Chemist, where he can watch the processes working miracles
 in the soil, calling out from the black earth the most exquisite colors and
 odars of flowers and herbs, food for man and beast, and timber for mani fold uses. The unfolding of buds, the
 storing of juices in fruits, the develop
 ment of fiber in plants and trees, the
 activities of bees, and of birds and oth-
 Ter animals, and the use and handling lof every kind of meatrial.-all these | things afford one long course in prac-
 ticality. These are some of the sources of the country boys stamina. his supe.