Show THE ROLLING STONE W WHEN HEN Erwin was twenty four he married and his father settled him oa oz a little farm rea reasonably sun ably well well- stocked and started him out in what seemed to be a n prosperous career The boy had a good mind and a n strong string health healthy bo body he was somewhat better hetter a educated than the tire fellows of his acquaintance he was wn not afraid of I work and und ho he was absolutely honest I nn and dependable The girl whom he married was capable Intelligent i and ad loyal to him In the extreme But Erwin was not satisfied He De wanted a n bigger so II he hc s sold M his its farm shortly for less than It was worth and moved mo to Texas The The soil soil was gummy his crops burned up his two children were malarial and he came back within a year eur or so richer in experIence experience experience ex ex- ex- ex but poorer in pocket He lIe decided to give up farming fanning and bought hought a n little store In time the th village near which he hind had lI e lived lie He soo-a soo saw however that he was no flO storekeeper lIe ben e n b lir n u up on tho ne farm and farming was the only anly game ame he knew so he he- he disposed t ed of the time tore store s and rented a large lurge farm Carm which he was to manage on shares Disaster pursued him his stock died the tho place wasn was more than n he could manage and Just as he was getting things in hand to make a little mone he money decided to move back to town and run a grain rain elevator and sell farming Implements This w was ns not a n bad venture He lIe had a wide circle of ot friends and acquaint anCOS ances nt he ryas ns a r practical i machinist t and he Mon oon began n to prosper But his bo boys s were growing up there w was as a tor or them to do the responsibilities of ot the new business weighed d on lin him tremendously tre- tre tr He lie sold soli out and hou bought fi i rf a d donly hIs bis farm boys lh Ih Minnesota only to Lad Had that did not care for tor farming That was twenty years ago ao when he hl f was past fifty lIe He has haR t tried ried a u dozen ventures since then always Ivor workIng ing hard nl n always s 's hopeful always fi In nc at a loss with the time ex expectation expectation that the he e next move e would put him on his its fee feet and nary make he his fortune Now at seven seven- four ty-four his strength gone his ambitions ambitions ambi- ambi cooled he Is poorer than h he e was fifty years CIU I ngo The farm that he sold at that time Is worth today tollay ten times more than h he e receIved for It if It takes courage to stI cm to a task that Is difficult cult and matter n no o what It Is adjacent pastures often 9 seem seem greener than thon other our own I Job h hns arse tractions as its It deceitful at but whoever Jets fiats Anywhere l must sUck k persIstence to th the e road even when It leads h him m through muddy swamps and over tedIous hll hills ls |