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ranche to cultivate the society of neighbours at long distances. 

 Friendly, responsive, and ready at all times to lend their 

 experience for the benefit of the newcomer, they will welcome 

 and assist him with a general good feeling that he could scarcely 

 find in any other community. 



II. 



MAN-OF-BUSINESS is, in the Western world, a generic term 

 covering a multiplied variety of pursuits but always, be it 

 understood, of the pursuit of dollars. And it is in Business more 

 than in any other relation of life that the code of social equality 

 in vogue in America is most fully asserted and accepted. A 

 man-of-business must have the advantage of some education, 

 and a share of natural astuteness and method (gifts in which, 

 it is only fair to add, few Americans are found wanting). 

 Starting with these, it by no means follows that he should cling 

 to any particular groove, as is customary in the Old Country. 

 Thus a man may be a public functionary, such as county re- 

 corder, sheriff or road-surveyor one year, and the next may be 



