10 Herds and Flocks and Horses. 



beckoned him away from his rich wife, and a divorce has left 

 liim where he was a few years before, with no friends, no 

 mone}^, and worse than that, no business or profession; the 

 best part of his youthful days gone, too old to learn anything, 

 no inclination to take off his coat and put his shoulder to the 

 wheel, and in short a derelict upon the restless waves of life. 



The other, begotten in poverty, born in poverty, reared in 

 poverty, and steeped in poverty, tinds himself in control of 

 hundreds of thousands of dollars to be juggled into millions. 

 The game is a tempting one, too alluring for such a brain to 

 withstand, too great for such a man to control. He "plays the 

 game''; it goes against him; and now, like hundreds, yes! 

 thousands more, at forty years of age he is serving out a peni- 

 tentiary sentence that will leave him sixty when it is over, a 

 wreck on the Rock of Time. 



Not all turn out like this, however, but the percentage of 

 those who succeed is but as a thousand to one as against those 

 who fail. Nor is this to be wondered at. The cause is obvious. 

 What are the chances of the farm bred boy against the son of 

 the millionaire city man? A splendid school and college edu- 

 cation, an inbred business instinct begotten of his father, a 

 business training from the cradle to manhood, and a burning 

 desire to follow in his father's footsteps; and through his 

 superior education, and modern methods and environments, 

 determined to improve and increase the business that has been 

 left him, and double and quadruple his father's millions. 

 The country man will find it a pretty hard game in these days 

 of lightning rapidity, and amidst such surroundings, to buck 

 against a combination such as this. 



Now let us for a moment reverse the question. Let us place 

 this millionaire city man's son with his college education and 

 drawing-room accomplishments, on a great Western ranch, 

 in the open air, with all its bracing effects and exhilarating 

 influences; its balmy breezes, the fragrance of its flowers, its 

 glorious dawn, and its wonderful sunset. Let us place him 

 there on the top of this rich, generous, fruitful soil, among the 



