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given, for I would have every farmer to be a cour- 

 ageous man, a man alive to the evils and wrongs 

 that abound, and possessed with the spirit of 

 righteous indignation and expression against 

 them. Don't drift with the indifferent, unthink- 

 ing, backboneless crowd. Be a kicker among the 

 kickers, that do the kicking that pays. Kick 

 against the trade and marketing evils that beset 

 your business. Kick against the liquor traffic, 

 child of the Devil, that has always shown itself 

 proud of its parentage and ever the foe to your 

 best interests, and kick from your farms any bad 

 condition that hinders true progress, mars the hap- 

 piness of yourself or family, and remember, while 

 you are kicking, that kicking will never make a 

 "dry day wet" or a "wet day fair," restore the 

 spilled milk to the overturned pail, "mend the 

 broken treasure," but that the "smiling air" will 

 dispel the gloom of the wet and the dry day, fill 

 another pail with milk and repair or replace the 

 broken treasure. 



In fine, we should get into the game of life and 

 play it with the vim and vigor exercised by the 

 athlete. Inactivity is a mental state and disease, 

 caused largely by discouragements, and God pity 

 the man or woman who falls under its deadly in- 

 fluence. 



It is said that the white blood corpuscles in the 

 blood of man are the big policemen that accom- 

 pany the blood through our veins, arresting and 

 destroying the bacteria that brings disease and 

 death to our bodies. They are active in the body 

 of the man or woman full of life and activity. So 



