Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-29

r. WIL1IAeE SI<ABORN talking OF
& aaO to which he yrns inspired by the carefully
plotted green slope 1,ou his hilltop barn
to the river with the hazy mountains lar away TO
Z was just such young fellow ao you, Joseph,
when I made up my mind that this was no place
Ter me,-and see me non"
Joseph brought his face slowly away from the
scabuTy. Then he d1; his heels little deeper into
he turf, braccd his back against the dOoT-post and
stared away at the distant hills
There are two things to EeE3efabeE Joseph One
Is that you've got to rise by hard work IL any honest
money where there ISN'T any. I was seventeen when
went away to the city with my clothes IN ia
aobody to help me and needed nobody;
three dollars week and never LETT that store tlll
asst year when 1 retired from the presidency Of the
5g md il DO do say It there isn't H. 6r ShsF 6"s1
Abbott, Schif and Company. But did It by hard
Joseph shifted his seat from the soft sand TO the
loor-sl, and rose slowly to his feet
bsonSyn aaVGe G psee of broWn paper and get
New York somehow il you have to E Il you
PAUSE he added;
Are you gon' TO try7''
Il do not think / am"
AIR Seabary shifted dsgustedly.
q suppose you haven't the SUNK Wouldn't you
ooh, yes, suppose So"
Wen I've been talking to ~ You AL sp SUI I4ti. nee" new
Up and get How long do you suppose you'd last
about a , week" Joseph answered slowly, But
What do you expect you'll amount to anyway"
~ = don't ont Know"
what do you want to be-a farncrF
perhaps you want to be poet or an artist"
And Mr. Seabury leaned back and Laughed
I'd want to work here by the river with the noun
tains all around me don't want TO go to the Gity
listen and Joseph went away, slowly, his taads
deep in his pockets and his head bent toward the
6s4e or St he ff1 no% bo 0 @
fastened the yoke of farm work permanently on has
He had just returned from the winding driveway
Of Mr. Seaburys summer home the most paiarI sd
house In Greenwich County, az DIR. Seabury called
it. into the narrow, sandy read when hf' S1oTtol
osepR 5nBed in BESIDE the the tcse occupant
IF the 6aFg hi o4 9s a os than al a 52s oeF
He was prosperous bqt he was not pudey nc , asa
ten stse aa but who IN n fw short yeas.
risen, not from office boy but from position OF
ted h % the eontFoi Of scvea large dng
frn1s and then retired To-day he was active visof-
% aIf il o. syiiy hay 40 of Been ng
us sir% H.; Jo os2p2t. a fa;gt !, smiling
5.~ro. 60 to the city and Start az ss he Cd"
ibid he advise you to walk theFeC'
afts the same old old story, That's the biggest
In The fading liTht Joseph watched the SAND Dip
for the buggy wheels. and soothed himself with
he endless noises of The night. His mind was
Graphing with the old problem which every
bow meets when he first feels the responsibilities
81 life and measures himself by this standards Of
which he has read and the esfHaFPias which great
men have left behind them, Somehow there was
world of comfort in the big, strong successful
Beside hirn-a comfort as great as the Discourage
n1ent and q pom which Mr. SeabnFy diaused, Mr.
Morton read his thoughts
81 don't know what the matter IS" Joseph said
rFather says / am lazy. and Mr.. SeabuFy said he
never boy with SO little get up and get. But
WELL don't feel bit as great men felt when they
we're boys"
Afterwards when they wrote the story of their lives
for the magazines. Or if they did, there were
thousands of others who felt the same way and
never got beyond book-keeper's desk. Nobody
ever tells about the who trudged to the city
With less than 4 dollar in their pockets aad died
fRere years afterwards without MUCH more. Good
Boys win aad good boys fail. But most gnen win,
not because they INDUSTRIOUS and wiped their
feet and said sir, but because when they met a
good opportunity they stuck It, and weuidnt let
80 That's what Seabury did, nRiy he thinks
he would have anyhow, matter wiere he
lsnded."
"I would like to work, think would, but
don't want to stay here and farm 1t and don't
giant to go to the CITY,
4 In the dusk they silent for several minutes
Below the river slipped quietly by. with the ghts
ef tow passing steamer making the surface
visible il streaks.