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Show GET A HOME. Apart from all other considerations, ami there are many of weight, it pays a man to own a home to have a spot which he can absolutely call his own. The natural tendency of mem is to live up to their means. There are a few-whose few-whose income is so large that, to use a popular expression, "they do not know . wbat to do with it," which means that it is greater than can possibly be expended ex-pended for maintenance alone; but the average mortal readily finds an outlet for the whole of his income. Whether apart of it goes in payment on a house or to the owner for the use of it, the year finds it all absorbed in one way and another. But if a man determines to have a home for himself he must assuming that he has a small income-shape income-shape his resources to that end. Little by little he makes progress, until finally ' he lias a roof over his head he can ac tually call his own has a substantial stake in the community, and has laid a solid foundation toward a competency. competen-cy. In many cases he is just a home ' better off than he would be if he had continued to act upon the theory that it is "cheaper to rent than to buy." Desirable as it is in the city for a man to be the owner of a home it is even more so in the country where one gets 'i hislivingfrom the laud. In this coun try, as yet, the actual occupiers of ' agricultural lands are in the great majority of cases the owners thereof. This is a great factor in our national strength and prosperity. There is no man who has justly more right to feel independent than he who has the means of providing at first hand all " " tamnTT'ETery mirrrio Triases tifs liv ing from the first fruits of the earth should strive, if he do not now, to own t the land lie tills. Even now, in some " ' .sections of the country, the delusion that reining is more economical, has led many men into a relaxation of effort, with the result that, instead of ' ' . themselves keeping their noses to the grindstone, with a reasoable hope of I respite in the future, they are compelled com-pelled to keep them there with little j prospect of relief. |