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Show iHtoun,ii:i i'i:oi'm:. . 1 Many n ilrong man who has met - . ' ''4 with accident or misfortune has given v. np tho druggie and allowed the burden 41' ol making a living to fall upon his wife, 3J Hald a big, lusty fellow. "Ill bad'nt taken sick and alionl lust my crop ol 1 cotn lad ycae 1 would now be In lota fl bellercircumilanceilhanlam. When J tbey saw my crop was a failure they 1 closed In on mo and took all I had. No, , ' I ain't doing anything now, I'd like to f get a good Job lomtwhero, but it teems ' like they don't como my wsy," Hiss wife wns then taking In wattling to provide pro-vide food for the family, while he felt ? too discouraged to even make a garden. 3 We can find these "discouraged" pes- ' li pie In every town and village. Some 49 slight misfortune 01 accident has so $9 "discouraged" them that they havo fJ turned the matter ol making a living "m over to their wives while th.y foal about S town and prattle politic! and peddle . fl gossip, w Contrast the aimless, orthlen livac n ol these "discouraged" loafen with that Ml ot the man who wrote me the following jjl letter 1 "I am a one-armed man, ilxly- ?-fl teven yean old, and the last eight years .3 I have cultivated about one acre of gar- K4 den. As toon ai tho land Is cleared ot truck In the fall I begin wheeling en inanme with a wheelbarrow. I put on 1 Irom five hundred to eight hundred J wheelbarrow lonli and then ipaJi It In. 1 It the grass seed In the msnurs springs np I ipade the ground over again, and P. again In tke spring. My main tools lor H cultivating the ciops aro a handcultl- B vator and an iron rake, and I never el- W. low a tingle weed to go to iwd. When K I began cultivating this laud Itwat all Di ridges and (urrowi and Oiled with woedj J itcdi. It took me two yean to level It l and clear out tho weedi. Now It Is as 1 level as a floor and not a weed In It."' M Tbe writer of the aboto It an old man IP and hai only one arm, and the left one TB atthat.i l h l.aabiavl r " - -' - t t j in pmmml '-biiiSi j among the loremost ot the wotl'JiNJoiv-' Aj en, Instead ol weakly giving up tho rl struggle, like the "discouraged" loafer a I bare spoken of, and frittering away thogoldon hourief Ufa In Idle prattlo 4 and mischief making, he manfully aeti himself to making a living, and in io I dilng winning the prlcelesi boon of I health and the sound, restful iluuiuer j of the honest toller. 8uch an example ol spirited energy and perseverance la enough to ibame the big, lubberly, able-bodied loafen who havo weakly and cowardly given up the struggle be- - cause "lack" teemed to be against thetn clean out of light of mon, ll'red Gruody, in Farm and Fireside. |