Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-11
Two Characters.

A man who has lived as long as the
agricultural editor, and has had his eyes
open; has seen many good lessons fully
demonstrated. Let US take two actual
characters, young men who married and
started in life about forty-ive years ago:
One was the son of a rich farmer who
had been able to raise his children to in
dustrious habits, and finally finish their
education by sending them to college.
About the time of the end of the school
ing the father died and left his son with
a four-hundred acre farm close to town
Unfortunately, with good buildings and
the farm we'll sto ked. Soon after,
he married a worthy whom
he became acquainted with at school.
He took charge of the house and farm,
hired 8 large number hands and wa APP
parently prosperng. He had enough TO
superinlend his farm and visit town.
The product of the farm probably paid
the hands. though doubtful. His credit
was good and he used it. He had no bad
habits, was recognized as an acceptable
member of IN orthodox church. Debts,
as the sequel showed, were constantly
accommodating, but, his neighbors had nc
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he could carry a large debt without
their aid. AT the end of twenty years
he was sold ont by the Sheriff, and he
had to resort to the occupation of a
hired hand to support his dependent
family.
During the lifetime of his father, there
was on one corner of his farm a faithf full
old tenant. He had some worthy, hard
working boys, who went to the common
school in winter and worked on the
farm IN summer. John, one Of the ten
ants sons, q year after he was of age,
married a wife his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
economical, was a model housekeeper.
She was a daughter of a tenant on a
neighboring farm. He rented a farm Of
eighty acres in the neighborhood. Be-
tween the time of coming age and mar
rying John had saved his earnings and
had purchased a span of horses. With
the aid of his wife John cultivated the
entire farm and had good crops. No
hired hands to pay, When bis crops
were sold he had a considerable sum of
money. He invested it carefully, with
the ardent hope that in a few years he
aid his true wife would own an eighty
acre farm Of their own, the height Of
their ambition. At the end of three
years of hard toll, but happy life, he had
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the desired farm. At the end Of five
years it was all paid for and a good com
Portable house erected on it. They were
then rich, til y were happy. But John
and his wife did not relax their industry,
and though more liberal in their family
supplies, yet at the end of each year
there was a Large balance in their favor.
Soon they added another eighty acres.
Now be had to hire help, but he stayed
home and worked with them. Afte-
this he added yearly at least eighty acres
more to his farm. At the end Of twenty
years, the period at which his neighbor,
who started with his hands full, va sold
out, John owned a farm of fifteen hun
dred acres, and had considerable rail
road and bank stock, and was a kind
hearted man. aiding literally in sub
scriptions to build churches and ready
open hand to help the poor. And he
and his wife are now living a comfort
able and happy old age, we'll known to
the writer. Are these two cases a result
of luck, or of honest industry and wise
management? ANY young man starting
now can travel in the track of either Of
these characters, whichever they choose.
-DeS Moines Register.