Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1904 — SOME GOOD ADVICE. [ARTICLE]

SOME GOOD ADVICE.

A young man sought a clerkship in one of the departments at Washington during the life time of R. G. Ingersoll, and asked the indorsement of the gifted orator. Ingersoll’s reply is not only a bit of fine word painting, but is full of some mighty good advice. He said: “Young man, I’d rather have forty acres of land, with a log cabin on it and a woman I love in the cabin—with a grassy, winding path where the water gurgles from the lips of the earth, whispering day and night to the white pebbles, a perpetual poem — with hollyhocks growing at the corner of the house and morning glories blooming over the low thatched door —with lattice work over the window so that the sunlight would fall on the dimpled babe in the cradle, and birds, like songs with white wings, hovering in the summer air—than be the clerk of any government on earth.”