A L A N I) - L V E II AND HIS LAND 



The owner of it regards it as his most 

 profitable investment, - this finan- 

 cially, no less than spiritually. In the 

 deep peace of its winter evenings, he 

 has thought out straight things other- 

 wise very puzzling. He has also 

 thought out things of use and value to 

 himself primarily, but of more use and 

 value to the world at large. His farm 

 and his farming, instead of causing 

 him to lose time from business, save it, 

 by enabling him to do, in one busi- 

 ness hour, the work of two. Should 

 encroaching trolleys and apartment 

 houses ever drive him from North 

 Castle, it is safe to say he will find a 

 farm in regions more remote. 



His example is beyond the mass; 

 still, there are business men, in thou- 

 sands, who might follow it. Plenty of 

 them pine to do it, yet are deterred by 



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