Show the old settler written from salt lake aty city my dear san Jua ners when I 1 sailed away across the broad atlantic forty years ago it became a matter of wonder wonderment to me how anybody could know where we were going how far and in what direction we v hadl had come and where the dickens we were at in the big salon on the upper deck I 1 discovered a big chart showing the long ocean stretch between philadelphia and liverpool and on it each morning they made a black line showing just how far we had come and in what direction since the tha morning before huge idea and it has infinite possibilities of application aPPI cation I 1 have been so delighted with my privilege of living in this world that for more than forty doity seven years I 1 have kept a feord record of my doings every single day I 1 am now writing in the volume but it is a tremendous lot of material to have to look thru to ascertain which way I 1 have come where I 1 am going and continued on page 16 the old settler continued from page one where I 1 am due to arrive I 1 have ther therefore elore gone through all thess books and prepared in two volumes I 1 a summary of the places the things the labors and the people with whom I 1 have been occupied sines since the time I 1 was weaned I 1 i these records give me quite al a clear notion of my general direction and what I 1 have yet before me to do in order to reach the desired port for which I 1 set sail sixty years ago when I 1 reach that port I 1 want to merit the brave lodgings for one of which our fr frend end dickens make in mention I 1 am not urging any one to keep a daily journal for forty seven years but I 1 do recommend that they preserve a yearly or i monthly record of matters that fount count we are supposed to learn by experience but if the stable rable experience is not duly tabulated and remembered it will have to be lived over agam again and if the direction is not kept carefully in mind we sail in a circle or drift on to the rocks so I 1 suggest that if you are really going anywhere if there is any point from which you started and any purpose you have in existence then preserve some kind of record and have a chart showing the port of sailing and the place of that other port of desired destiny As a farmer a sheep man a merchant a human being a pilgrim across a strip of wonderful territory terri toy to which we are making our first and last visit it is of all things worth while to keep some kind of an account of the whence and the whither in order to achieve the thing for which the journey was undertaken yours for the most successful trip ALBERT R LYMAN |