Show DONT GO TO AFRICA Why We Should Cultivate the Difficult Diffi-cult Art of Content Brooklyn Eagle A resident of Africa cordially advises people to stay out of it He says that prices are high sickness sick-ness frequent sanitary arrangements inadequate liberty less than in our country and altogether the inducements induce-ments to emigration are small It has been obvious for some time that the adventurous youth in our land does not better himself when he goes west as Horace Greeley once advised all young men to do There was a reason for that advice when the government hind land to give away and before large lioldings were bought and grabbed up by corporations but nowadays a man is likely to make at least as much money out of a farm in this state as he is from one in Kansas and while the mines of the mountainous states do make fortunes for a few they reduce many more to poverty and the influence influ-ence of their surroundings as unfortunate unfortu-nate and immoral We Americans are a shifting uneasy un-easy dissatisfied lot and many of us go through life always believing that if we could be somewhere else or engaged en-gaged in some other calling we should make a lot of money A little patience a little stick a little cultivation of the difficult art of content will produce pro-duce surprising results If we can not grow rich we can learn how to do without with-out riches and that is the next best thing or a better one |