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Letters from a Self- Made Farmer to His Son Hastings, Ont. February sth, 1913 ; To James Tompkins, en 8 of Thus Port Perry, Ontario tie carder of one man ho help- Sake the Island what it is. . DEAR Jim, -- } In > hor o Mr. Ropes Duly Now that you've got your boy you'll begin to sit up and take .widaw, who' 'will: still rmain notice. You've got another nold on things your life of to-morrow is ome an 'for whom much sym" begun. ox ped. Now there is folks that might just as well die one time as another. Ho They ain't got nothing to look forvard to, and to-morrow 13 going to by, be just the same as to-day. About eleven o'clock they'll say "My 3 wisht it was noon" and at five o'clock they'll wisht it was six. They they has there suppers and hangs round a while until the time comeg (POON Ned, dnd witein hey crawl in, it WoRldn't niske i great sight of difference if they didn'nt never get up again. They ain't got mo to-morrow in theirtlives, They ain't got no hope of nothing any better, (ty act ¢ and nobody ain't showing them any ciffetent way to live. he ht originally thin, had But when you've got a youngster round the house it's different, er | been almost exhausted by continually unless you're really broke right down and has a bigger load than yom thout fertilization. can carry. That child is there for you to make pretty much what you want to of him, = He starts in by thinking that you're about the best. man there is anywhere on earth. It don't masler a mite how small or it was occupied by 'how anything else you are that youngster thinks you're all right. 'which has been there from First on, all you has to do to make him think that wayis to Le mmemonal LT him and feed him add carry him, and say. "Ah Goo" but that aim, i going to last forever. You've got to do more than that, though, foy it's about the worst thing that can happen if the youngster loses faith in you. Of course some day he'll find out that your name ain't Borden "Latirier or Whitney; but there mustn't never come a day when-he find a lazy streak, in you nor a me: n streak, nor a stupid streak, mor a cowardly streak. H¢'ll forgive a whole lot, but if he finds that the fellows laugh at his "old man" because he's lazy or n:ean or stupid oy. igtingy or cowardly, then the games all puy. That boy ain't yours no longer. Of you'll have to feed and clothe and house him thy: i To AD law looks after that But he ain't your boy just the same: He 'don' persisted, ha and trust you, and you needn't take everything-he tells you 'for thé g E; ¢ ey fi 'yruth 'neither, for it won't be. - He'll foel you every time he thinks 1 .- necessary, and finally he'll grow uy and sass you back. You won's be chums no hy 2A * But if you're chums nght along and you treats him as décent as: J you treats youmseif, things 'll turn out in great style. Don't forget He's, 4+ - yourself that is to be He's the man you meant to be, and v'by ' ' He's your to-morrow, and the iellow thavll nd and, suc "Now there's one item most on us forgets-- 1} up makes dandy drivers if you lose your temper and otherwise make a