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Show 1 . A Hard Job , . ' 1 ' rVENTY thousand cartloads of stones were picked up and hauled -way by J. P. tJaJcobsson Elmquist In clearing land for his farm in Sweden. So no one objects to his winning this year's first prize of the Swedish Agricultural association. In 18.95 he took three acres that no one else wanted; It was such a rock pile. Patiently he set to .work digging up the boulders. Finally he had the stones all removed end the soil bearing crops. Gradually, with profits saved from his harvests, har-vests, he bought more rock pile. Now he has eighty acres, ten devoted to crops which support sup-port him and his family, and seventy acres of forest which he planted. He used his 20,000 cartloads of stones to build a beautiful wall around his farm and a fine highway along one side. He and his wife can take things more easily now, for their nine children -whose living was wrested from as hopeless a looking strip of land as can be found almost anywhertj now are assisting as-sisting In the work. .... How many men would have the ratience and the confidence in their own efforts to ' attempt the task undertaken by Elmquist back In 1895? His success demonstrates that ;ue-, ;ue-, cess is largely up to the individual himself, that no handicap is too big to be overcome, that man can create his own opportunity. ' The story of his life Is enough to make some ' of the rest of us ashamed of ourselves when' we grumble or become discouraged at our lot. Will power can overcome the lack of opportunity. oppor-tunity. ; , A city man, living a relatively soft existence, exist-ence, can't help but marvel at what Jake has accomplished. And yet Jake's career is symbolic sym-bolic of what farmers are doing all over the world, especially the pioneers at the outskirts of civilization. Respect the farmers, you city chaps, for they. are the foundation stones of civilization and carrying a tremendous burden. Considering the financial reward, they get most of the time, In comparison with metropolitan income, it's a wonder most of them aren't anarchists.' The Champion agitators and com-plainers, com-plainers, however, are city loafers who never did an honest' day's work. |