The Mena weekly star., 1913-10-09

. ana growing on u SOOu CIup, It
 was surrounded by unlimited free range for cattle and hogs, although ! there were a number of neighbors with from a quarter to miles. All
 this, with the crop, some tools and several stands of bees. the owner was willing to sell and relinquish for i only two hundred and fifty dollars. This was too great bargain 10 re- 1 fuse. but our farm was not sold yet
 and there did not seem to be a sale
 in view in the immediate future. Right here 1 decided to be silent partner no longer, and l told my
 husband: As you have spent your life so far in selling for other peo-
 pie, I know that you can sell this
 farm for yourself and save the
 commission and sell it right away. He must have put that in his pipe
 and smoked it, for when he went back to his blowing 1 saw that he
 stopped to smoke a long time at the
 end of each furrow. Soon I saw
 the blow horse in the barn and Nel- | lie saddled, while he came to the house to clean up. I decided that this was the time to be silent part her again. and asked no questions. I was satisfied though, when he asked me on his return: If a man wanted to make notes to net $500 when discounted at 10 per cent, would he make the amount $685. 33?" He was wanting the authority of the Book" as he sometimes called me, on his business arith- metic
 The next day both deals were closed, as he had found a man who wanted our farm and had team and wagon to trade in on it at S250, and would make notes for the bal ance, or S333.33; and this just suit ed the owner of the homestead to take the team on payments for his place. because he wanted to move overland.
 We moved right on the home stead; have lived there six years; have proved up and cleared land enough to produce feed to winter our stock and hogs We changed the old rail fences into wire fences, and are now ready to have timber cut to build a modern shingled bungalow, heated with big open fire in the living room and sys- tenn of pipes heating the other rooms Water will be piped into the house by gravity pressure from cold spring upon the north side of the mountain, with pressure enough to run water motor 10 turn the washer, churn and sewing machine.
 Our poultry yard has an abun- dance of chickens for frying and to produce eggs to go with a goodly supply of ham in the smoke house, while garden, orchard and cellar are filled with vegetables and fruits, so that the high cost of liv- ing is not worrying us. The noun tains are covered with the best of fuel and coal miners strikes have no terrors for us.
 Our assets are about as follows: Health of ourselves and children.
 Beyond Estimation 
 Independence ........ ........... ...............Be Beyond Estimation | Joy in seeing things grow. ....
 ............Be Beyond Estimation
 i60 acres of land at Si0 per acre ................ ............Sl,o ,ouO Team of mules ............ $50
 Cattle, hogs, tools, etc....... $50 Total ................... S2,oOU
 This is just 1000 per cent of the
 original investment of S250, provid-
 ing we wanted to cash in and leave
 the farm. Although we were driv-
 en to it. we couldn't now be driven
 from our farm in this land of op-
 portunity.
 The foregoing is a true story of the experiences of myself and hus-
 band on a forty-acre farm two and
 one-half miles east of Mena, Ark,
 and later on the farm on which we
 are now living, seven miles south
 of Mena, on the head of Two
 Mile creek. We sprouted something lbesides cabbages and turnips on
 our farms-new ideas and new
 views of life and living.