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Show The following story, which is going the rounds of the press, furnishes an object lesson to many a young man who has an insane desire to leave the old farm . "The son of an immensely wealthy American having graduated gradu-ated from college, went to Paris to study art. He worked hard in Paris studios for three years. One day he made up his mind that he would never be a great artist, and that he would rather be a success-j ful farmer than a fairly successful success-ful painter. Now although still a young man he has a model farm, covering 10,000 acres, in Illinois. He knows every foot of 1 it, what it should produce, and j h-e sees that it produces every iking it should. He has built a magnificent house, in which not' aa ornament jars the finest taste. ' He goes to Europe every winter aad studies European methods . of scientific farming and cattle rais-' ing. He is developing the land as his fathers did before him. He employs scores of men; he helps the small farmers about him; he j Is likely to be a great factor in the develop. nent of the state dur-' iag the next few years. And this ! 5 the story of a young American j who works for the love 6t it, and who is a great success because, anxious to do things," he knew when he had not found his svork."j |