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Show Tlio Amcilcan Is a great follow to hang on, but many a man would have either saved or made a foituno triio had known enough to let go at the light time. We know or a case wheic a man hung on to a 5,000 bu. ct lb or coin for four jeais. He lelused 75 cents a bushel for It and was foiced to sell It for forty cents; we ic-call ic-call a case wheie a farmer was offered $500 for a e)l-matchcd diaft team and, refusing, was busj digging a hole to put the best horse Inside or ten dajs; we have known many men to hang on to some public olllcn fiom which they might have giacefrilly le-thed le-thed with credit and houoi until they were Ignoininiously kicked out uj an irritated constituency. "Hang on" Is a good motto sometimes, and often "let go" Is a better one. |