Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-06-02
THE FARMERS BOY

"eiu III new 0rk,
the other day it was a matter of
comr'~.: that of those present,
twelve were farmers boys.
When the yongster at home on
the farm gets the blues" and
fancies that there is no longer the
chaEce that there used to be 10
rise above the mOnotony and
drudgery Of tiIler of the soil, he
can think of those twelve captains
of industry who started as he is
starting and remember that wien
they were boys there was times
when they too imagined that it
was hopeless ambition to aspire
TO win their way to the front in
the city.
He wants to remember that the
farm has evolved some of the
worlds greatest men and some of
its m Ist conspicuOusly useful one
and that with the increasing
activities of the nation in all
directions there is now more than
ever, room at the top for the
exceptional man.
In the contemplation of the
stirring achievements of the
ia, mer's boy past and present, if
he has imagination and soul he
will find helpful inspiration. when
the day seems dark and the
future full of gloom. Let him
recollect as the world surely does
that il was the farm that gave
us Abraham Lincoln. one of the
worlds most majestic figures: that
gave us Andrew Jackson, Millard
Fillmore, the martyred Garfield,
Horace Greeley. Sir Isaac Newton
and the brilliant Carlyle. 1t was
farmers son-Eli Whitney who
created the cotton gin which laid
the foundation for the growth of
the cotton industry now worth
5000. 900. 900 a year to the United
State and a farmers boy--Elias
II )wc, who emanciapated woman
hood from the slavery of the
needle by inventing the sewing
machine.
Long before Robert Fulton
sailed his steamboat. the Clermont.
up the Hudson. John Fitch, the
ingenious product of a Pennsyl-
vania farm demonstrated that a
boat could be propelled by steam
by equipping skiff with an engine
and sailing his craft up the
Delaware with its aid. Another
brainy farmers boy-Olivcr Evans
sometimes called the Wat Of
America was the first to build
and operate locomotive in the
United States. Cyrus Mccormick,
inventor of the reaper, the whir
of which is today heard around
she earth was the modest son OF an
ordinary Illinois farmer. The
first machine to make tacks was
the creation of Massachusetts
farm lad-Thomas Blanchard--and
the device that furnished the
world with the modern screw was
the work Of poor Vermont
genius, Thomas Harvey, quiet.
thoughtful farmers son. To the
resourcefulness Of an Ohio farm
boy Charles +. Brush who
invented the dynamo the world
is indebted for its present day
great industrial and power plants
that give employment to millions
of hands. Thomas a. Edison. most
brilliant of the worlds inventors
sponsor for the clcctic light, the
the phonoRraph and hundred
other devices, was the son of Il
poor farm laborer. Patrick b.
Delaney, inventor of the Multiplox,
the Delany relay. the tclepost
automatic telegraph and hundred
other telegraph and cable improve.
ment grew up on New England
farm. From a Wisconsin farm
came G.. Sholes. the inventor Of the
typewriter, which revolutioni Ell
the business methods of the world.
Where service is the only
credential that commands recogni-
ton and a mans ability must
SQUARE with his responsibility, the
farmers boy" who has hearkened
to the call Of the big city will be
found today in the front rank Of
the worlds useful workers in
every large city on the face Of the
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