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Show i Farmers' Educational r?n and Co-Operative Union of America Matters tf Especial Moment to I I the Progressive Agriculturist Sterling worth, like cream, comes to the top. The typhoid fly 1b a menace to public health. Sound national physique is better than sound national- finance. A wooden-headed man is apt to go to blazes when hti gets hot-headed. There's always room at the top and always a crowd at the bottom. A fly seems to weigh several pounds more about daylight than at any other time. Possession of an automobile may indicate in-dicate either prosperity or a mortgage. mort-gage. Give the devil rope and he will hang a whole lot of people before he hangs himself. The forward young man or woman is apt to be backward in the race for success. If horses could go to heaven there are a good many men who would be kept out. "Knowing your business" is the foundation foun-dation upon which a successful career can be built. Patronize the man who has had the enterprise to bring a purebred sire into the neighborhood. If you know anything, the telling of which is liable to make trouble, be careful not to let it pass your lips. "I didn't think" choked the calf, caused the team to run away, foundered foun-dered the horse and burned the barn. The carrying of life insurance, at least to the amount of one's debts, would seem to be only fair business judgment. It's not where a man now stands that really counts; it's how far he has come, and the obstacles he has passed on the way. When one's judgment tells him that a thing is wrong he doesn't need any further advice, nor will he seek to justify wrongdoing. Happiness doesn't live at the end of the road; she's a gypsy, wandering with us unseen; ready at our call to share with us her gladness. Give boys and girls plots of land for garden of their own. They will take more interest in things that are their own and perhaps this interest will spread. |