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Show One Time Champion John L. Sullivan Goes Back to Mother Earth. H T i mMiL3S The Lion and the Lamb. ! Uv UDDY checked, clear eyed and I 8 U "'' !,IC,) "8 Jl)ri,I;-v "8 "''e ,ui:i when he war, the champion prize !Wl ''Pi11''7 0r tIie world, John L. Sullivan Sul-livan this week has been directing the harvesting of a line crop ou his seventy acre farm on the outskirts of Abiugtun, Max, lie is no longer the Sullivan Sul-livan whom his friends knew during the years that followed his defeat by Corbctt. He drinks none, smokes little and never Is seen in the haunts in which us Lhc idol of thousauds he spent fortunes and almost brought to an end the career of the greal-c greal-c fighter the world has ever seen. "Nothing would ever induce me to ict'Jr:! to city life." said Sullivan, after he had sent his wagon to his barns with n load of potatoes that would bring the highest price In any market. "I am back to Mother Earth for keeps and hope lo spend tho rest of my days on this place. No more Bohemian life with its bright lights for John L. you can bet your last dollar ou that" And Sullivan undoubtedly means what h .says. The ,ear that he has been a fanner has made him in appearance ten years younger ami the mighty -ight which sent many a man reeling to the lloor with championship aspirations crushed does not seem to have lost any of Its power. Barrels and boxes of potatoes and huge bocs of corn aud beets nc tossed about us if they were bags of peanuts, and when u day's work is ended he shows its effects less than the laborers in his employ. It is (wo years since Sullivan went lo the farm, after marrying charming' voman whom he credits with having made ja man of him. but the first year he jnsi wandered over his beventj ucrcs ami wondered if there wns in him tho stuff that makes'' good fanners, "A oar ago i decided that there was," he said recently. "And, believe me, the results have proved that I had the right jhuucli.'- ! Sullivan has grown putatocs enough almost al-most to keep the town of Abington sup-plied sup-plied for the winter. He has hens which he siiys are "real hens," because they lay aud turn themselves into the finest food In tho laud, and he has About cTcry va- r rlety of vegetable thai can be raised iu the New England climate. "My boy." he said, fondly patting one of the potatoes which he had just dug, "there is n Murphy that would make the heart of any Irishman glad, It contains food, drink und enjoyment. I have the best crop there Is around hero and I have It because I worked hard. The only way to get anything is to work hard for It. The great trouble witli the young men In Ihe country to-day. especially those who have como to towu from tho city laden down with ideas obtained from the newspapers news-papers and magazines, is that they think nil they lnivo to do is to put u sued into tho ground and wntch it grow Believe me, that Is bad dope. "Last year, when 1 made up my mind that I wis cut out for a farmer. I had my laud thoroughly covered with good fertilizer. fertil-izer. In the spring 1 gave it another coat, and when 1 planted the ground it was not hungry but was willing to work and work well. "Besides that, I stay right on the job The missus and I are poking our noses about the farm from nionilng until nignt. and I'll let you In on a little secret when it coincx to farm knowlcdg slu has yours truly lashed to tho mast nud jelling for help. Wc have now got things going so that, If wc did not have a nickel coming in, we could live comfortably and tell tn? world to go shoot. "Some of the wise ones told nie after I had got started thai I could uot raise watermelons. What happened? Well, I raised some that even the kuockcrs admitted ad-mitted were the best tuey ever tasted. We read and hear n lot about going to the Great West and to Canada and taking tak-ing up the farms. HIght here in xen-England xen-England there arc abandoned farms, hundreds hun-dreds 6f them, that will yield as good a living, if properly worked, as anything there is In the West or Canada ' Any man -7I10 will dovotc the energj he docs to a job iu the city to one of them will get u better living and be independent. indepen-dent. He won't get rich, perhaps, but he will be healthy, his wife and children will, be healthy and happy and they will nil' live longer John L Sullivan and His Dooi, "Back 10 Mother Earth Is my advice lq thu thousands who are only existing Iu the cities. The quicker they follow this advice the better it will he for thcn'selvcs nnd the boel.il conditions of the country My only regret Is tlmt 1 did nut get wise to it earlier in my life." . Sullivan and his wife are very popular with the townsfolk and they aro seen at merit of the social functions. He has been almost persuaded a dozen times lo seek political office. A year ago he was on the vergo of being a Congressional candidate, but Mfa, Sullivan vetoed it ami it wus dropped. On the farm, among his pots and his crops, she knows that he will ncer nguiu yield to temptation, but of politicians nud political ways she ib suspicious. sus-picious. John L. opcas'onally takes an active Mart In a towu election Iu the Inicr-e.ts Inicr-e.ts of a friend, but when night comes and entertaining begins he ilipa back .0 .the farm. "There ain't a chance that 1 woulJ fall ll off," he confided to 11 friend the other lH day, "but women, you kuow, will be .ll women, and when ou get a good one liko 'll I have it's a good idea to take her advice." ' Sullivan is uot like the modem farmer! ' of the West who have discarded thcil 'll horses and taken to automobiles He H likes automobiles well enough, be says. jH but he has more confidence Iu a lior.-c. 'H Strange as It may stem to those who knew Sullivan asu man for whom no paco was: too fast, he won t have fast H j horses, either. His horses are all strung, jH 'fat. healthy and fond of him. aud that Id H tall he tequires. His cariiuges arc com- 'fortable ami ablclo ' bear Jiumense 1 H weights, and they have to be for Sulli- ' H van is g-itting mouth by mouth. H With him ou most of his carriage rides H to towu after supplies goes Mrs. Sullivan. H 'an, on Sundays aild occasions when their I work ou the farm does not require their H attention they hitch up horse aud gu H visiting among friends. In all New Eng- H land thciu is not - happier couple. They H are more than husband aud wife they are H chums. Mrs Sullivan seems to under- M Maud her big husband, and perhaps that H (he secret of their happiness.. She wns a wldov when he married her H an' comfortably well olT. She loves the H country aud she it was who suggested the home aud the farm at Abington. The house in which they live is n brick struct ure built one hundred years ago. J 11 the H various rooms arc delightful old fashloueJ M fircpluccs aud the rooms are big nnd H square ami well lighted. To the old house H Mr. aud Mrs. Sullivan have added por H tic.) iu front and about it they have, laid H wide cemeui walks, but they h.m done H nothing 10 change the appearance of the H which half r century t ago IH hpuscd ir.Jtocrats of the section. jH |