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Show EASY COME, EASY GO A great man farmers are like tho Timber Ja k who. after working hard all winter in the wbods without with-out seeing the face of auj human being be-ing except his fellow workmen, camo out In the spring with his season's wages Intact In his pocket- After two weeks of drunkenness and debauchery he woke up one morning with 25 cents In I1I3 pocket, tho last cent ho had. Walking into a saloon ho threw the coin on tho bar, ordered two drinks and quickly dlsposod of them. "All In?" said the barkeeper. "Yla, yls." said Jack; "no matter, alsy come, aisy go," andhe walked out to Join n gang back to tho woods. Many farmers operato on Jack's plan in regard to the uso of their valuable val-uable machinery. They woi- hard to get tho money to buy plows, reapers, and other labor-savers, and then deliberately de-liberately squander tholr savings by leaving their machinery to be 'destroyed 'de-stroyed by tho weather. On ono farm the writer saw at least $400 worth of mnchinory which had been rendered practically useless within with-in two years by exposure to tho weather A fino reaper which was only throe and a half years old was left standing aftor the last wheat cutting, cut-ting, and Is already so rusted and warped and weather-beaten that It can never again be usod. |