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security will be better every day, and fight for 
easy terms and for a long mortgage. You can 
get the privilege to pay off any time that you 
cannot use the capital to better advantage. 
Let some good lawyer examine the records 
and see that the papers are all straight, and 
guarantee the title. If there is a local title 
insurance company its policy is worth all 
it costs, and will help you greatly should you 
want to sell or to raise another mortgage. 
Buy your land—don’t rent it; it does not 
pay to put your work into another man’s land. 
Every improvement in the condition of the 
earth—agricultural, mechanical, ethical, edu- 
cational, political or even religious must go 
eventually and mainly to the benefit of the 
owners of the earth; therefore get hold of a bit 
of the earth, so that everyone who does good 
will do that good for you. 
Get a small bit of land near the market rather 
than a big bit away from it, because the more 
people there are near you the better you can 
live and the more money you can make. Be- 
sides it is much pleasanter and better for the 
wife and children, as well as for yourself, to be 
near schools, libraries, proper company, stores, 
than to be away out among stumps. A grow- 
ing town will make you rich when it grows out 
