Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05

away to the westward.
81 was just such a young fellow You, Joseph,
when made up my mind that this was no place
for me-and now
Joseph brought his face slowly away from the
streaked western sky, 70 the puffy figure OF Mr..
the turf braced his back against the door-post and
stared away at the distant hills
is that you've got rise by hard work, III any hon
est business, and the other is that yo- can't make
went away to the city with my clothes IN bundle
and less than dollar in my pocket. I had nobody
to help and l needed nobody.
Il got a place to work in a dry-goods house for
three dollars week and never lett that till
firm. And, if do say it, there isn't higher bust:
A AoTf S'''ff and Company But DID 1t by hard
Joseph shifted his seat from the soft sand to the
door-sill and rose slowly his feet.
Take my advice boy and clear out Pack up
70 New YoFk Somehow + you have to 2k II you
work as I did you'll win out And then after
a.. ~A5 DO y not s S2ia. to . n.y.
n SS58" yo 5a Rs4e 6sS Bs Pgn Wouldn't you
like to get along in the world
well. I've been talking to you all summer now
and think never boy with little get
LII A ABB sc 5hS long 90 20" suppose you last
About week Joseph answered slowly. But he
What do you expect you'll amount to anyway"
asked Mr.. Seabury.
q don't know"
What do you want to be-a farmer?"
Perhaps you want to. be poet OF an artist"
And Mr.. Seabury leaned back and laughed,
I'D like to work. / think I would like it. But
I'd want to work here by the river with the
tains al AROUND me don't want to go to the city
listen and Joseph went away slowly, his hands deep
in his pockets and his head bent toward the ground
doing nc ohng no% before OF s 1sf e
yoke Of farm work permanently on his shoulders.
MI Seabury's summer home the most palatai
house in Greenwich County" as Mr.. Seabury called
It, into the narrow, sandy road when MI Morton
Hello Joseph! Want rides"
Joseph climbed in beside the thicIl-set occupant
of the buggy, his face aght. In all the county he
admired John Morton more than any other man;
been successful bat he was not vain. He
keen athletic man. WHO in few short years had
responsibility to which his education engineer
firms, and then retired To-day he was active, Wig
orous and IN every way an ideal to a boy like
well, Joseph what's up: Been visiting Croe-
sus?"
Yes SIR. Joseph answered. smiling.
Whats his advice o-night?"
ITO go to the city and start as he did
Did he advise you to walk there?'
Eyes. with my clothes in a brown paper parcel"
ITS the same old. old story That's the biggest
In the fading light Joseph watched the sand drip
from the buggy wheels, and soothed himself with
the endless noises of the night His mind was
graphing with the same old problem which every
life and himself by the standards of which,
he has read and the examples which great have
Sefr behind them. Somehow there world OF
Comfort in the big, strong, successful beside
E1im-a comfort as great as the encouragement and
gloom which Mr.. Seabury diffused. Mr.. Morton
Read his thoughts
81 don't know what the matter IS" Joseph said
FEATHER says I lazy, and Mr. Seabury said he
slever, boy with little get up and get. But
well, don't feel bit great felt when
<hcy boys"
Nonsense. boy, They didn't feel that way til
afterwards when they the story of their lives
Tor the magazines Or if they did there thou
eands of others who felt the same way and never
got beyond a bookkeeper's desk. Nobody ever tells
ebout the who trudged to the city with less
Fhan dollar in their pockets and died there years
afterwards without much more. Good boys win and
good boys fail. But most win, not because
they Industrious, and wiped their feet, and said
'er' hut because when they met good opportunity
=" stuck to II. and wouldn't let go That's what
A'i-- did only he thinks he would have
matter where he landed"
.vould Ike to work. or I think would. but I
liant 20 stay here and farm it and don't
=. 60 away TO the city,