Mower County transcript., 1903-11-25
FARMER BEN'S COLUMN.

IL JuSC uO0S DtdG dill WuaS AOSs VI yOOAS
sports call fun and good time. My
paper tells about St Louis millionair's
young son who was shot and killed
about five o'clock Sunday morning just
after he had come out of saloon with
pack Of female play actors and some
men that he had been out with all night:
The whole outfit had been. drinkln'
freely and racket climbed up between
the men and they got to DARN each
other and shootin' and the young mil
lionaire took to the ground teetotally
dead. I've no doubt that chap thought
he was strictly in for good time when
he caught on to the crowd and after
theatre was out had an all night carouse
with 'em, drinkin' and carryin' on until
almost sunrise Sunday mornin' when
all decent people should hav been in
bed. Such idee of havin big time
when chap gets full of rot-gut and is
up revelin' all night instead Of bein' in
bed and is in company with off charac
tered women and dissolutes and in dark
places where vileness and grossness and
undue familiarities prevail. They say
that it's almost impossible to cure chaps
that get crazy after such bum life,
too. 10 think OF a millionaire's son
that might hav had every chance OF
gettin' on in the world of business and
might havtraveled all over. Europe and
might hav. had fine library and might
hav got the best university eddication
and then just to hav such chance just
wallowed in the mire like it was cob
or brickbat is past Farmer Ben's
sober comprehension.
My idee of a good time don't coincide
with these rocky notions in one iota.
L tell you there's lots more fun in de-
cent ways than in bummin' and riotous
livin'. If that young st. Louis chap
got interested in singin' and in home
where he could be surrounded with re-
fnement and good readin and happy
society and kept hissef clean and sweet
and healthy and could hav by and by had
home of his own where sunshine of
love and plenty and companionship and
purity was alwus shinin', what a good
time he would have had then every
hour Of his bein'. He would then te
honored by the esteem and confidence
of his fellows, he wouldn't be burDin,
out his life at both, ends, he wouldn't
be the associate of the low and vile, he
wouldn't hav his tastes depraved and
low and filthy, he wouldn't be in mortal
terror all the time of his life by gettin'
mixed up in drunken brawls and in
jealous fights over lewd and unclean
women, he wouldn't be in danger OF
gettin' arrested and penned for en-
bezZlement, but he would hav clean
conscience and sweet breath and a
righteous record and happy home and
honorable career and could look the
world in the face with serene challenge.
tell you | bet Farmer Ben has more
real good times rite in his own humble
home than thousand sports and high
livers can get all billed together, for
we hav plenty and we go to bed at nine
o'clock every night and sleep the sleep
of the peaceful.
Talking Of homes, what kind of a
dog life some of the high chaps of the
earth liv. l see by my Constantinople
paper that the sultan of Turkey is so
afraid of assassination that he's crazy
afraid all the time. He has got sleepin'
places in eight differin' buildin's and
nobody knows which he will occupy
until the last minute before he jumps