The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-17

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o just as true as the opposite propos
ition, tina. tns gaeateai hindrance
city boy has to contend with ar
the opportunities which beset hir
when young and pursue him till h
begins the real business of life
business which each individual mus
carry on fer himself. For the Cit
10Y everything is made as easy a
,ossible. Even pleasure become
O him an old story before he is GU
Of his teens Brought up ia The
feveIish rush of place where grea
n'ngs are happening day by day,
}e sees the world with a cynic'.
yes and despises the small thing
nich, like the bricks in house,
20 10 the upbullding of charac Ter,
and carers. He believes in using
arge markets in the game of life;
tor pennies and small unites
of value he has little taste and
,cant regard.
The conditions surrounding the
country boy are as different as pos
;ible. There is great deal of re-
,ular work that every country boy
must do and this regularity of EN-.
ployment, mostly out Of doors, in
culcates industrious habits, while it
contributes to a physical develop
ment which in after years is just as
valuable as any athletic training
that can be had. He can not run
as fast, perhaps as those trained by
a system; he may not be able to
jump as high or SO far, or excel in
my Of the sports upon which we
get so much pleasure, but his
development enables him to buckle
down to hard work in which hours
are consumed and from which very
little or mo- immediate pleasure is
cxtracted. His strength may be
something like that of the car,
morse, but the cart horse is to be
preferred when long and steady
pulls required. The thoroughbred
race horse has fine flight for speed
and canters with delightful lightness
and grace along the pnrk Bride
aths, but the heavy work is the
work mest In demand, and for that
We want the draft animals every
time.
Enthusiasm is the spur to en-
feavor and at the same time it is
the SAVIOR of life. The country boy
whose ambition has taken him to
Iown comes filled with enthusiasm.
Even the little things are novelties
10 him and as be accomplishes this
and that he feels that he Is doing
something not emily interesting but
valuable. His simple tastes have
lot been spoiled by a multiplicity of
and so he Is glad OF
everything good that comes his
way. At thirty, if he leads a clean
ife. he has more of the boy in him
nan his city cousin has left at fit-
cen. He does what is before him
'eeause it is his duty, while the
ther is too apt cynically to ques-
ion the value Of doing anything
nd ask, "Wbat is the user" 4
OF the men who have achieved Z
reat prominence and high influence I
our affairs of state the country h
oys are at least twenty to one over y
lie city lads. Nowadays, indeed, "
ur cynical city lads look upon men o
no take an active interest in public
fairs as rather low fellows and
lite beneath their ASSOCIATION and
'tice. But the country boys are d,
the top in ether lines of endeavor. m
finance, they are preeminent and
c great bank presidents today In
e great cities nearly all learned to
ad and cipher in the country sc
hools where birch and ferule had he
I succumbed to the civilizing In 70
ences Of scientific pedagogy. :
II great railways we're in the main "
lit by them, and today the ad- =
nistrators Of these great com. =