Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1893 — A Boy’s Ambition. [ARTICLE]

A Boy’s Ambition.

Harper's Magazine. There is, as a rule, nothing more lofty than the ambition of boy of five who has looked carefully over the whole range of human endeavor and made up his mind what he is going to be. A lad of that observant age known to all of his kind as “goin’ on on six” was asked the other day if he expected to becoma a lawyer like his father. “Oh no /’said he with a positive shake of his head. “I’m going to be k captain of a big ship, and I’ll sail out west and bombardi the Indians on the plains.”