The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-21

their armorics. and was told that thcro
Was going TO be a great military pa
ftdc. ] was wild. Like the darkies OF
to-day. who Will throw up job to go
on "a scursion. ! was ready TO give III,
min. What :, fool thought /, to start
IL work on the eve OF this great pa
gpant? | was not kent long in sus-
pcnsc. for my employers could see that
iold me 10 so. From the beginning to
tie end of the march. was up with
the procession by the side OF the band.
would rather have been old Joe
nirschbcre. -bcatin' O. that drum. than
10 have been tho Governor or Virginia.
II lad becn but little more than u
wear since the military had been ut
i5%rper;s Ferry. when old John Brown
WAs captured tried and hung, and q
soldier was every inch hero In tho
cyas OF ;he ladies' returned 10 my
lutios next day. and found IL hard TO
eeitle down 10 business.
store and cleaning the fly specs on of
. hundred square feet OF mirrors which
llred the back part OF our store was
fll,. daily task The average drug clerk
of to-day would drop dead If told that
M, had 10 do II daily. | had been told
rncn left home TO do whatever Mr..
", ade or Mr Baker told me TO DO and
tI4t no labor should be considered
utprial II IL was in the line Of duty and
promotion. hut noNcr having done any
~,rk before, hut ordered darkcN 10
do whatever I wanted done, ii went
Wet Prominent Mon.
Nhou nay father sent me here. he
toIl his friends in my presence that
i, wanted 10 gei the country green off
mr ~ the time had cleaned up the
store in The morning which included
,ie washing of two big windows ana
tuc soda fountain, J thought my father
lad put upon his poor boy an amount
of work and class OF work which
vsls 10 SAY tile least of IL. very hunil-
.atiuu. liut that which encouraged me
aot 10 Erow weary Of well doging. WAS
TIA Kindness aud the attention ] got
a the hands OF men VINO stood at the
100 Of the ladder ia the various trades
ard professions OF Richmond. and who
made our store sort Of headquarters
and bureau OF Information Every
sort of question which affected the re
'if:'ous social. Industrial and political
welfare OF Richmond was discussed
ere. and by men who were capable
All of these gentlemen seemed to
& kc Il fathcrly interest in mo, and il
mattercd not what was doing. they
would stop and talk TO me In "a kindly
Way. ! had natural. and country
lied way Of expressing myself. and
while was not ut AL pert or self
Important in my bearing. the fact of
cause me 10 treIuble In their presence
ior the country boy doesn't think any
body else is any better than he, is If
'ookinE out either for Sights or for Il
chance 10 pass somebody without
Country Doys Most Successful.
The world Will never again see such
men rs William II. Maofarland. James
lyons. Colonel Edmund Fontaine, Col
Jncl Tom August. Marmaduke Johnson
Dli Judge Coz of Chesterfield. typical
southern gentlemen with hearty
meet. and meant nothing by ii except
TO be polite ana gentlemanly. Men like
these were my friends, and that / was
as green as grass in most things In
which the town boys thought them
selves smart was the very thing which
made thorn take TO me as they did: I
mean no reflection upon the town boy
WHO is SO very unfortunate as TO he
one but II is well-known fact that
go PEI, cent OF the men who are sue
those whom the town boys said the
COWS would cat" 1t is no less true
,o Go,}o ana , If any one VII TAX take the
That the leading men in the profes
sio9ns. as we'll as in mercantile life in
footed lads from the country.
was always fond of hunting: and rs
n boy ! owned every kind of hunting
dog from Il bobtailcd. benchlegged flee
hounds, settlers and pointers. Ny com
ing TO the city did not Qucnch the de-
sire ! had for field sports. although the
average old business man, II raised il
town, wouldn't have n man in his EN-
ploymcnt who hunted. If he fount
out that he was fond OF the sports o
tho field he would say that fellows M
count"
Fond of Hunting.
Such men had no idea OF the jnvig
Grating effects OF Il tramp through the
nclds and forests. and having no ain
in LIE beyond that Of making money
spent all of his time ut his desk II
tho counting room. He walked from
his home TO his office and back again
and lived on medicine and foods Which
arc recommended for dyspepsia. II,
couldut see that lie was killing him
S,lf daily hS confinement, ana COuldn'
Sc how ANY Sensible man could waSt'