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Show B WITH THE EDITOR BBBBj The following "With tho editor" of Farm tind BBBBj Flrcsldo Is timely; BBBBj I A Letter From Minnesota BBBBj A correspondent In Minnesota writes mo a let- BBBBJ tcr which touches naively a nat'er of such unl- BBBB versa! Interest that it seems to mo worth comment- BBBB Ing upon. I shall not glvo his namo or address. J Hero Is what ho says by way of beginning: J I have been one of your readers for h num- BBBB bcr of years, and tlio number of useful hints I J havo got from It nro worth many times tho price BBBB of the paper. I havo tried lo get you sotho sub- J; scribers here, but tho people nro all very poor, J and they say they can't afford to tako nny moro J pfipers than they aro taking. I am very poor J myself, and havo a largo family. It is hard to BBBJ support n largo fnmlly hero, as It Is very stony. J Dairying Is about tho only way to mnka, money, J but it Is hard for a poor man to buy cows, hs they BBBI nro very high, BBBVl This man's location Is In n part of Minnesota BBBi, which Is admirably situated for dairying ant In BBBl: which the soil Is peculiarly adapted to phsturo BBBl grasuca and clovers. Tho stones can bo slowly ro- BBBj moved. Tho grass will grow between tho stumps BBBj and stones. Tho problem Is to get cows. It will BBBJ tako grit and pcrsovcranco, but It n, rulo is ndopted HH under which ho will forgot nil nbout tho possibility HH of selling n lielfur, ho will sooner or later get ahead BBBjl of tho gamo. HB It takes years to build up a dairy herd, but in BBBJ his part of tho world tho man who owns land on BBBJ which to pasturo It Is Independent as soon as ho BBBj Rns accumulated ouo. Prices for butter fat nro at- BBBJ most always good In Mlnncsotn. I am inclined to BBBj think that what this man needs Is a strong lnjec- BBBJ tion of tho essence of optimism. I nm still moro BBB inclined to think so by what follows. BBBj A Millionaire's Correspondence BBBj "Now," says he, "I want to tisk you lo do me BBB a favor. I should like to Bond my boys to collogo; BBB ntl1' as I havo rend In tho papers that tho million- BBB aires glvo away so much money I thought one or BBB tho other of them would glvo mo a thousand dol- BBBJ lars to glvo my boys a Btsrt In college Hut I don't BBB know their nddrcsses. Will you ploao write me BBB the addresses of J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, BBB Mrs. Robert Carson, Captain J. C. Marty, P. A. BBB I). Wldener and J. D. Rockefeller?" BBB Somo of theso millionaires nro dead ono has BBS cl I eil since tho letter of our correspondent was writ- BBBj ten. Tho medical profession Is learning now things BBBj In tho healing art nil tho Unto, but It Is not yet wtso BBS enough tn keep tho breath In tho body of oven a BBS I Morgnn when his time comes. Our Minnesota BBS friend has probably n better chanco for a long life BBS than any of tho rich men ho envies, nut that Is BBS' n '"Kl'l'SBiOU. BBS ' cnurso, none of theso men would answer h BBS letter from our friend It ho should write asking BBS for the thousand dollars. All such millionaires are BBS In 'receipt of such letters every day, nnd.aU of them BBS havo to hire secretaries to sift out letters which BBS arc not to be read by their employers, and those BBS which should. So thero would bo no chanco what- BBS over ' our subscriber's letter getting to the oyes BBS of, tho rich person, If mailed to him. They cannot BBS read such totters, to say nothing of answering BBB them. They cannot answer them,, let nlono grant- BBB 'nK tno favors. They havo other things to do. BBS Confidence Better Than Capital BSB "'it would tho thoucand dollars do our friend BBB W Rood? L nm absolutely satisfied In my own BBS mind thnt It would not. What Mb sons need Is not BBm, money, but confidence In themselves, and deter- BBS mlatlon to win n collogo education. Any boy who BBB lo ready for college can get through without n cent BBm of monetary nld If ho has nobody to look after BBj ' hut himself. BB I have no personal knowledge of tho conditions BBT at tho University of Minnesota, but I have no BBj doubt that thero nro dozens, It not hundreds, of BBJ hoys working their way through that institution. BBM If,, Instead of trying to get tho address of mil-BBS mil-BBS llonnlros from whom to nsk aid, ho would take his BBS hoys to tho University of Minnesota or send them BBS there ho would accomplish n lot more. Mhybo BBM they nro not yet ready. Mnybo they never will BBJ he. There are a great many boys and girls and BBJ ' somo mighty smart In their own ways who cann' BBM' master u college course Maybe his boys hro of BBj the latter sort. Thoy may be and can still bo BBJ. successful In tho world. BBJ 1 know a poet who told me that he had to g'o In- BBJ' i to llteraturo because ho was too Ignorant to beenmo BBJ I nn engineer which was his ambition Ho co.i'd BBJi I not mttster university mathematics He went Into BBJ'' i newspaper work, a,nd when I last saw him was get- BBj ting i 00 n year In tho way of shlary. He Is quite BBJ a distinct success for all his fatluro in co!!ev N?t BBJ every boy can be a success in college, no matter BBj how much money he possesses. BBJ Thr Hindu and You BBM But it co,n almost bo laid down as a rule, that BBJ nnyAmorlcari boy who Is ready for collogo and l BBJ able to make good in his college work can work his m, i fBMWMBMMMsMSwMMMMMMMMMt - .- way through. Ho can do it In a dozen colleges cast and west. His professors will take an Interest Inter-est In him nnd help him to find work. His clnsB-mates clnsB-mates will help him. His class ndvlser will help him. If ho is n good student help will flock to nlm. Not offers of money, but a thing n thousand times better, offers of woik. I know a Hindu boy who enme to the Agricultural Agricul-tural Collcgo of tho University of Wisconsin four, or 'flvo yenrs ago without a cent nnd is graduating next Juno. Ho has worked his way through. The'' nvcrago boy from an American farm is vastly better bet-ter equipped for such n struggle than was this young man so far from his nntlvo land. I know ono school whero the fellows who had money wero rnther ashamed of it they felt that' tho real way to go to school was on tho work-your-way basis. And think of the difference, all through tho young mnn's llfo between "J. P. Morgan sent me to collegol" nnd "I sent myself!" I want theso boys up in Minnesota to go to co'Iegc, in the rchl Minnesota way Independent, by grnclcus! |