SAMPLE (P). 
LATE. Somebody hold my coat while I jump up and 
yell till I get your ear and tell you of Sample. It's 
no use. You will be a doubting Thomas until you thrust 
your hand in among the plants and see the big, blood red 
shiny fellows piled up, well, it's hardly safe to tell the 
truth because people will doubt it. Did it ever fail? 
Perhaps so, but I never heard of it. Enthusiasm, well 
I am not the only one suffering from it. Every one 
goes wild over it. Eight year i)edigrec. 
letter. They cannot receive attention if writ- 
ten on the order blank. Do not fail to give 
name and post office address in full every time 
you write. If you fail to get an answer it will 
be because you forgot these things. Write 
your name so plain that we shall not have to 
guess at it. 
If you really cannot write your name and 
post office plain, oblige me by letting your 
wife or daughter write it. We are obliged to 
guess at many names and addresses and many 
forget to put them on at all. 
PLEASURES or BERRY GROWING. 
Pleasure comes from success. Success 
■comes from complying with the conditions of 
success. There are certain laws which nature 
has provided for the government of all life 
and for the operating of all machinery and 
"these laws must be complied with and, if this 
is done, success is sure to follow. It is not the 
fellow who works the hardest with his hands 
that gets rich the quickest. It is the combina- 
tion of brain and muscle and this breeds en- 
thusiasm which spurs the man to activity. 
John D. Rockcfellow has millions and mil- 
lions of dollars which can in no way contri- 
bute to his happiness, and yet to-day he is 
working harder than any day laborer. He sim- 
ply finds more pleasure in making new combi- 
nations of muscle and brains and enjoys the 
success arising out of it inore than spending the 
money. 
A fellow who hears his berries praised by 
every one and finds his customers will pay 
whatever he asks for them is spurred to bet- 
ter them in every way possible and will do 
better and better. He will enjoy the world 
SEAFORD (P). 
LATE. There is a marked difference betweeen Sam- 
ple and Seaford, both in foliage and fruit, but there is a 
sort of neck and neck race between them for popularity, 
both having admirers and so for the sake of variety you 
should have both. It has an eight years' pedigree. 
hugely while the fellow who can never see the 
eternal fitness of things and cannot recognize 
true value, who thinks one thing cheap at a 
cent and another dear at a dollar will always 
have pennies while the discerning man gets his 
dollars. 
It is one of the happiest thoughts of my life 
that my old age is to be spent among fruits 
and flowers. I have a beautiful home and 
abundant means and I am in debt to my berry 
plants for it all. They are my pets and I love 
them dearly. I never go to a ball play or take 
vacations because 1 find more pleasure in the 
field. You cannot make me feel that these big, 
fat, lusty plants do not recognize me when I go 
among them. They nod me a pleasant "Good 
morning," and when I relieve them from the 
presence of a troublesome weed and fix up the 
soil around them, the "Thank you," which my 
imagination hears is appreciated as it was 
when it came from that lovely girl, Orrilla 
Richards, whom I courted and married. 
GOD BLESS THE RICH. 
I despise the miser, the man who has a great 
faculty for squeezing the poor and making 
money, lives in rags and apparent poverty, 
hording his gold in old stockings or in the 
ground and finally starves to death because 
he is too stingy to buy bread. Bury him in a 
fence corner and take his gold and build hospi- 
tals and factories where people who have not 
learned how easily they can build up a business 
of their own, but must struggle on as wage 
earners, may find employment and means of 
supporting their families. 
I have absolute contempt for the dude who 
sneers at me because my hands are calloused 
with honest labor. A man who labors day by 
day, sui)i)orts his family and educates his 
children and contributes to the world all he 
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