The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30
OPPORTUNITY.

It is the constant plant of the pes
simist that the day of opportunity is
past. Especially do they deplore the
fact that the time has come when the
young farmer can no longer file on a
quarter section of good land and in
five years time become the owner of
the same.
There never was more mistaken
idea than that the early homesteader
"Got his land for nothing" or obtained
it without paying high price there
for.
There is not one Old Homesteader
in any part Of the country that will
not bear us out in the statement, that
counting hardships endured, the incon-
veniences passed through and the
hard bone labor, such as the present
generation knows nothing about, put
in on those early claims, when owner
ship was finally secured they had paid
a higher price for the same, than the
best improved farms can be bought
for in this region at the present time.
There are thousands and ten-thous-
ands of young men, especially, and
renters in the older states who declare
that If they could take government"
land as their fathers did they would
have home of their own but under
existing conditions they are doomed to
put in their lives working for the
more fortunate.
These men are paying from $500 to
$1,000 an acre rent for their land, or
are giving from one third to one-half
the crop and furnishing everything.
It is possible, yes, more than pos
sible, it is easily practicable to come
right to this locality, locate among all
the advantages and accessories OF
CIVILIZATION, such as the early settlers
never dreamed of, and purchase a
farm, and by setting aside the crops
on one quarter of its area and plant
ing the same to potatoes or some
other profitable crop, and strictly ap-
plying the proceeds of the land so set
aside to the payment OF their S'sr-
chase, to become actual owners OIL the
same in the time that it took their
fathers to become fee owners OF their
homesteads.
Instead of there being fewer op-
portunities than formerly there never
were more and better opportunities
for an industrial and frugal man to
acquire farm home, right here in the
best part of the world, than exists at
the present time.
Spare us if we suggest that the
Governor is liable to knock Lehigh.
Men never boast of their business
when that business is discreditable.
A "gusher" or a "howler" never
makes a good accomplished.
An editor to suit everybody must
have as many styles as he has sub
scribers.
A woman can lead man with a
hair but she can't drive him with a
bull whip.
Everybody knows just the right way
to bring up children except fathers
and mothers.
The weather never becomes so dry
that the housewife wants it to rain
on washday.
All of us think that we could reform
the world if the world would come to
our standard.
No woman ever becomes such a
man-hater that she does not enjoy be-
ing proposed to.
We hasten to inform an inquirer
that men do not become corned by
eating corned beef.
There is one mighty good thing
about dog, he never bites while he
is wagging his tail.
The man who can least afford to
lose is always the one that gets stuck
in the rhummy game.
A woman who saves three cents in
buying an article she has no use for
thinks she is practicing economy.
If Mr.. Lindbergh would put a "Wp
before every 81" in his effusision; it
would be mighty "WI's" production.
The bulwark of the "anti-machine"
forces is bills: "Bill' Lee; "Bill"
Nolan; "Bill" Rich; and dollar bills.
Men have become grandfathers ever
since the world began; but every new