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Show Farmers Educational 7n and Co-Operative Union of America Matters jf Especial Moment to I I the Progressive Agriculturist Diligence is the mother of good luck. A good way to kill time is to work it to death. He keeps his road well who gets rid of bad company. You can't improve the weather by grumbling about it The farmer, like the business man, xnuBt use modern methods or fail. "Learn more, earn more, have more, be more" is a good motto to keep in mind. The more alfalfa folks grow on their farms the less you- see of it on their faces. To despair is to put an utterly false and foolish estimate upon the meaning of life. Just as soon as some men get boys big enough to trust they learn how to take life easy. A filthy tongue never manures any poor knoll, but it always points to a poor knowledge. Anybody who adds to the wealth of the world, and prevents waste, makes everybody richer. He who never had temptations to overcome has never traveled any on the upward course. When yesterday's duties stick their heads in amongst those of today they crowd the quarters. The theory that like cures like seems borne out by the fact that some of the new dances are proving a cure for the Insane. If your neighbor is kind of heart, public-spirited and philanthropic, do not be afraid to say so now, instead .of waiting until he is dead. A cheerful atmosphere is the one we all wish to live in and yet many of us expect some other member of the family to furnish the sunshine while we go around looking like a rain cloud. Cultivating kindly thoughts and mental serenity may be begun at any time in life, but the habit comes easiest eas-iest to us in our youth and the longer we use any good quality the greater the life and the longer we live. |