The Newtown bee., 1907-01-04

course, had to seek shelter at n1gnU where dusk found him and enjoyed the simple hospitality of rural homes. It is where man is most intimate with Nature that his heart goes out most unQuestioningIy to his fellow. It was a dairy region, the territory surveyed, and it was the custom to churn the cream with power furnished 5y dog, | ram, calf or, in the case of creameries, | by horses, the tread of the animal gen erally keeping the churn in motion. The survey was not difficult, the process being to point the compass, set on a standard on the OdOmeter, which | might be roughly compared te light wheelbarrow, along the highway, ana dial beside the wheel, as we'll as the direction indicated. The odometer was then trundled on until a house was reached or, if none was in sight, until the direction of the road changed. Then the name Of the owner was secured, in the case of a house, and the figures on the dial again re- corded to show how the house was To- cated as regarded the points at which the road changed it's course or as con- cerned other houses. Accuracy was the first essential and speed the next, but, while Robin was less speedy than some, he was afterward proud to know that the accuracy of his work was un- questioned. Snow began to fall before work was finished for the season and Robin and an older surveyor left to l finish the county, returned East later than the rest of the party. The elder man had not funds with which to get home and Robin had but enough to get both to New York and perhaps | little farther, the plan being to walk after the money gave out. The train reached New York late in the evening and Robin had his first solicitation from a woman of the street, buxom Irish maiden of fair appearance and ence with this party. There was money enough left to get 25c bed for each in the smallest, dirtiest room that Robin ever saw and, after bite in the morning, the pair sallted forth to find an uncle whom the elder trav- town. The uncle was minus, but Robin happily recalled that the firm by which they were employed had an office on Wall street. Their office was at last found and funds secured, after
 which the getting home was easy enough.
 The homecoming was about the
 time of the annual Thanksgiving feast
 but 1t was not for a very long stay
 since Rev Richard South had arranged
 that Robin should enter the service o1
 a publishing firm at Norwich. So tt
 Norwich he went, with his satchel
 packed for-he knew not where. Ar
 irving at Norwich in the evening, tn.
 firm asked Robin if he could go at onc<
 to Michigan.
 Certainly, if you will tell me hoy
 to go."
 The route was hastily outlined ant
 Robin left on the night steamer fo
 New York. He will never forget tht
 panorama of the streets of the me
 tropolis as the steamer rode along ths | vj hi
 liant with rows of gas lights dowl
 either side of it's length. Meeting thu
 agent in charge of the canvass fo
 Kitto's History of the Bible, the bool
 which the publishing firm was thel
 selling at Pontiac, Mich, Robin wa
 assigned territory in neighborin,
 village and got at once into motion. l
 was new business for him in an un
 known territory though he was typica
 of the enterpris1ng young agent wh'
 sold clothes at the South before tn . Civil War and who has entered almost ! the whole Union to sell this and tha and earn an honest living. Tn
 Yankee mind has turned almost a readily to business and bargains as tha
 of the Jew and the Yankee is in D.
 Hebrew brother. The canvass was con
 ducted during the Winter and agail
 our book-agent found his stopping
 place for the night in some accessfbl
 home among those simple people wh !. make up the majority of the race ant
 furnish some of it's most useful ant
 dependable members. While brfllian
 leaders make the notable figures i
 popular opinion as in history, it is tn
 common, the ordinary folk benin
 possible, as it is the rank and file wh
 really fight the great battles of th
 world and not alone the officers wh e direct them. Inspiring leadership It always desirable, but crops cannot b
 raised upon an arid desert nor ca 'e noble influences originate among sue .e people as the Esquimaux. Happ
 is he wise enough to recognize tt Q strength and abiding character C .s simplicity and the unfailing value ( l. the little things in life, the clean an l. wholesome speech; the honesty an 5s which bespeak heart; the punctualit l- and troughtfulness which consider tf le right wishes and happiness ot other a the n1mflity which is ever willing is learn from whatever source: the trus 2 Worthiness which precludeS the b IF trayal of confidence; the perseveren, 'e which cannot be baked by trifles; tf if fidelity that ever and always wins u 2 true crowns of life. Ut is the lit S- things all the time that prove love ar le make happiness J
 is by It's employment in the open and ,' became quite walker, footing fro h the corner of one mile square sectfC r. to the opposite corner in from l3 to 9 minutes and becoming able to walk in miles without fatigue. Satan s Id snares one day by persuading him ;, enter a country tavern and drink ,s glass of beer. It was Robins first ar n- last glass for he recalled the excellel or advice of MT Child, his Freshte le friend, that he who never drinks oS first glass will not hecOme a Crunkar
 Robin, indeed, took the first glas . but it aroused such a train of ref1ecti( 1i as to the ease with which appeti
 might be kindled and habit blown in
 flame that he then and there for
 swore anew all alcoholic beverage
 Happy is it for the young man wh
 like Robin.' is under the benediction
 godly ancestry, simple In it's fait
 clean in life, with appetite and ps
 sion ruled by power divine and han