Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-01

| plunderings of that sort. we're talk ing of business honestly managed. . l think, if the records were obtain able, we should find that. even in the past, the percentage of farmers who have succeeded-in the money maklng g sense alone of that words just about as great as the percentage or business men who have succeeded. l think we should find that the percent age of business men who have failed IS fully as great as the percentage of farmers who have failed Leaving out the big buccaReers of business, Of course
 as & duck takes to water. And some do not Dave Rankin used to admit that he was "a twister in money mat ters, even when a young man And he --twisteds over ss,o00.oeoo out of farm ing, raising corn and fatteniHg steers and hogs in Missouri. So far as know he was never accused of any dis honesty. He was simply money maker by instinct and training. Very few men in business have made any more, with less suspicion against their methods.
 1t looks to me as if the question be- fore the average young man was rather one of what he may be fitted for and may be most desirous of If he really wants to make money, more than any thing else, he can make it, either at farming or at business. All he has to do is to think talk and dream money and work for it all the time like the very Old Scratch David Rakin went barefoot every summer of his life till he was 2S and had two children, be- cause he would rather spend money for corn and for steers than for boots and shoes He wasn't a '-stingy" man; his family had as many comforts as their neighbors; but he himself cared more for the money for his steers than for bare feet and stone bruises. He had his choice and took it. When he had got his money he gave IL away by the, hundred thousand. It wasn't the pos session of it he craved. but the fun of making it. . Right there is ths difference tween folks. It wouldn't seem pleasure to me to go barefooted every summer for the sake of saving few dollars to put into another steer. For which reason among others-I shall never have S3,- o00,000! There are a whole lot of us in that same boat. We want money ch, yes, of course who doesn't t?-but we want several other things quite as much and, for the time being, a other things and let the money go. Re suit by and by we are short of money and the David Rankins are rolling it up.
 
 Tn this very hard shelIed old world and these very. strenuous years. one race is about all any one of us can at tend to at a time. We can't compete on the track in the ,2.04 class and in the blowing match back of the grandstand at the same moment and with the same team. Not even a trained circus-rider can ride two horses at once, if one is galloping up Washington street and the other is cantering down Broadway You've got to know where you're going and why you're going there, and you've got to put everything that is in you everything-in the task of getting there.
 If it's money you're after, money alone, you can make it on the farm, and you know it. But you can't make it, either on the farm or anywhere else.I not by honest management" that is unless you hold it the end of your life5 the one object always before you.
 There you have your choice. The portunfties than it is today for the man who can see and use them. Elm erson once said, in effect, that no mat ter what you make, if it be merely and your shop a cabin in the wilderness, the world will wear a better shoe-pegs than anyone else. No one ever made big money at farming, i or at anything else. byfjust doing the things everyone else does in the aver 1 age awy. The business man who at tains great wealth usually does it by 1 out new path for himself; 1 the young farmer may well do the 1 same. Do something that no other l farmer does: or do it in a better way than any other and Emerson's s world 1 will come to your door to leave it's l money, if it has to drive it's automo- piles over a stump-Iot and through the 1 brook.
 THE FARMER