‘Jbt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Farm Boy and Chauffeur 
During rb«> past few weeks we have 
had several letters from farmers’ sons 
who say they want to come to the city 
and get a job as chauffeur. Just why a 
young man on a good farm should pre¬ 
fer to be a rich man’s servant is some¬ 
thing too deep for us to figure out, but 
there is evidently some movement along 
this line. In one case we appealed to a 
man who knows the hoy and his family 
well, and this is what we get in com¬ 
ment : 
I really cannot see why any snlf-re- 
specring farmer's son should wish to be- 
i-onip a chauffeur, and I am pretty sure 
that this one dues not, if he gives the 
matter “careful consideration,” as our 
< 'ongressmeu say. 
It happens that I know this boy’s 
father, and know him to he of good old 
American stock, who have owned tlieir 
farms and been their own bosses for gen¬ 
erations. So I don’t believe that the son 
would be contented to become some rich 
man's servant. When a man becomes a 
chauffeur for some rich man he becomes 
part of an automobile, just like the 
wheels or any other part of the machine. 
Ami the worst of it is. it doesn't lead to 
anything better. An automobile wheel 
has jo stay a wheel. It cannot advance 
in irs work and become the engine. Just 
so the work of a chauffeur does not lead 
in anything better. It is only in dime 
novels that the chauffeur marries the rich 
owner's daughter and takes his place in¬ 
side. 
Just because a boy happens to he horn 
lhe son of a farmer is no reason why he 
should always he a farmer. There are 
a great many more satisfactory jobs than 
farming, and if a boy wants to go after 
one of them I would be the last man in 
ihe world to stop him. A. boy may be 
mechanically inclined and get a job in a 
shop. Here he has a chance to work up 
to the bead of the business. He may 
start as a clerk in a store. There is the 
goal of becoming a partner in the busi¬ 
ness In fact, there are a great many 
job' open to any clean young man who 
wants them that have a road leading from 
them up to something worth while. 
"Bags with Holes” 
A LITTLE SERMON ON RICHES 
“And he that earnetb wages, earnetb 
wages, to put it into a bag with holes.” 
In giving a little Bible talk on the 
subject. “Something for Nothing"; or, 
“IIow Jezebel Got the Vineyard of Na¬ 
both." I ran across the above passage in 
llaggai. and it occurred to me that the 
reason for your Publisher’s Desk is be- 
eause of the fact that men and women 
even of our day get bitten with that bug. 
“something for nothing." aud when the 
oily-tongwed salesman comes along he 
does not create in the heart a desire to 
get something for merely nothing, but 
just brings to the surface that desire 
whic h you have secretly harbored in your 
heart. 
When we mortals get the habit so fixed 
that we will "prize life's honest work, 
and front our duty never cringe or shirk.” 
then, and only then, will we be securely 
settled with a fixed and determined pur¬ 
pose to dare and do the right. It will 
make us to know that "a little with con¬ 
tentin'ut is better than great riches aud 
strife therewith.” and show tu us that 
the slow, plodding way lasts and is far 
superior to any and all the “get-rieh- 
quiek" schemes that are held out to us 
that we may put our money in “bags with 
holes.” 
The farmer folks are all too prone to 
discredit their neighbor and his ability, 
and we often see them fleeced by rank 
outsiders, because the outsider displays 
a fancy, decorated bag to view, and ddates 
upon ail Ihe superior qualities, all the 
while forgetting to mention the “hole.” 
The h orse trader dilates upon the* good, 
not the bad qualities of his horse-: so 
with the schemer who invades your terri¬ 
tory with visions of sudden riches. Why 
not pass him up and stick more closely to 
some friend and neighbor, who will give 
us a square deal, even though we progress 
more slowly to the heights of fame? By 
tin’s method one might reach the heights, 
but so many wrecks are strewn ahrng the 
way of sudden riches as advocated by 
the stranger within our midst that it is 
well that wo look at the boues bleaching 
\v the wayside, ere we add our bunch of 
bones to the lot. ir. p. maxwell 
Arizona. 
Destroying Ants 
1 would like to offer a suggestion for 
housewives who are troubled with ants. 
Having moved into n new house where 
the yard had been graded, we found the 
place infested with ants of all descrip¬ 
tions. The pantry was full, and they 
even would crawl on the side of the wall. 
I washed the wall and floor well in tur¬ 
pentine water, and laid small pieces of 
charcoal saturated with turpentine 
around, and in a short time the ants all 
disappeared. This proved such a won¬ 
derful success I felt sure that some other 
reader would he glad to know of same. 
Dhio. GLADYS M. FOSTER. 
1051 
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