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At the end of the first year which boy made most progress? Not 

 the boy that had the checks and the good time, but the one that re- 

 ceived no checks and knew why he was sent to school. The second 

 year the two boys stand still farther apart in their studies and they 

 keep on drifting away from each other. During the same time that 

 the farmer's son is gaining his companion is losing, and when gradu- 

 ation day arrives the farmer will be found standing at the head 

 of the class, while his partner may have been excused from class, and 

 may be a wreck for life. If the rich man had instructed his son in 

 early youth to depend upon himself rather than on money, he too 

 might have turned out to be an industrious and useful young man. 



If it would depend on the financial standing of men, this country 

 would be governed by millionaires and very few farmers would get a 

 chance to enjoy any public office. But since it depends on intellec- 

 tual abilities, the farmers stand in equal rank. 



What kind of men does this nation of ours need? It wants honest, 

 reliable and industrious and intelligent men, such that can help to 

 lift our country higher and higher, until it stands as the most en- 

 lightened country on the globe. We never had a Vanderbilt nor a 

 Gould at the head of our nation, all because they value the love of 

 money beyond anything else. 



A farmer's life is despised by many people because it is thought 

 that no happiness could exist without a large sum of money. Those 

 people do not know that the truest happiness is often found 

 among the poorest classes of people. Happiness can exist in the 

 lowest class of life. The birds may be compared with the latter. 

 How much can they call their own? Yet they are considered to il- 

 lustrate the lowest and yet the happiest form of animal life. 



The millionaires are not happy. They fear that they might lose 

 some of their money, and so invest none because they might be 

 minus a few dollars at the end of the speculation. They give nothing 

 to the poor and never try to help along a good cause. What man is 

 more happy than the one who tries to make some one else happy? 



The term farmer, too often is used as a term of slang. When a 

 person, no matter what his occupation may be, is rather slow or awk- 

 ward, the term farmer will be applied to him. That is to show that 

 all farmers were distinguished from other people by those qualities. 

 The expression "Oh, he is a farmer," which is so common among our 

 city people, should be strictly abandoned. The farmers are less 

 guilty of that crime than many others are. The farmers even if they 

 are called slow have often obtained such positions of which very few 

 are held by city people. 



