The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-15
Rexhooa ReeolIeetlons.

New York Press
 Some worry well known New Workers were sitting on the piazza at Clermont the other night reminiscensing. They had drifted there in fast automobiles, enjoyed a bite. and were outside wlLn their cigars and cordials. There was not man under 50. The conversation turned upon almost forgotten days. Armstrong" said Reynolds, what was your Idea of happiness when you were kid7' "A pair of goats and wag- on," replied Armstrong. "Joe and sam Veal. school mates of mtne. had such rig, and whenever l saw 'em drive by used to kneei againstI the side Of the trundle bed ands ask God to give me something like 1t. l haven't got over that goat and wagon yet. reok- on both Joe and Sam are dead.
 And what did you most covet when a lIid?" was asked of Henry Henderson.
 Well, when l was about l2 years old father took me to see a sleight- of-hand man who had little stick with which he extracted silver half touched. I've wanted that stick ever since. suppose yoiI call it . wand What was your favorite ambition?" some one asked of Arthur Morgan. He replied: Nothing in all my young days so impressed me as Robinson Cru soc. I didn't give a rap for the trou- bles he had on the island. and didn't think a whole lot of Friday. buto l wanted to own great big old-fash- toned Dutch bottom ship and go trad- ing all over the world"
 "what most appealed to you?" was the question put to ,Billy" McAd9o; Mac. sek he Sni iIReS 'ef tho seven.ieSgueS eiea boots. and even went to work at elev- en years to make pair for myself, thinking l might be able to step twen- ty-one miles at a stretch. But when that the strife was a great deal short CT and sometimes went backward"
 What was your idea of happiness?" was asked of Charles Campbell. the paper man. T wanted to be a pjcate. At the age of 13 I made up my mind to steal a ship and hoist the black flag. In my minds eye 1t was as easy as falling of log. l had everythins cutlasses. pistols, plkes. biz. boots, grppling iron, a steel chest for gold and silver, a plank for prisoners t1 walk. etc. I don't remenlber who wrote The Pirates Treasure but it had much to do with an underground passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at the Isthmus of Panama. IL beat Rider Haggard's KiEg Solomon's Mines
 Henry w. Powers was asked about his youthful inclinations. He replied: The book that most impressed me was The Young Marooners l cannot re- name was Richard Golding. Does any one here know? I have looked in vain through all my sets of encyclopedias. A devilfish took a boatload of boys and girls from Mobile to Tampa. and they lived there for a long time. TheTr adventures so preyed upon my imagi- nation that I actually ran away from home in a bateau. looking for a dew Ilfish to carry me to a far-away land"
 oscar Halston said he wanted to be a hunter and trapper. T got so work ed up about trapping otters, minks, coons, muslSrats beavers and even "a said stfhat I gnanf could earn and that papa would give me in buying traps caught nearly every cat and dog and chicken in the neighborhOod and got about a hundred thrashlngs. I was bound to be a hunter and trapper. but the ambition was licked out of me-"