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... farms , had pur- chased a 160 - acre farm for him and turned it over for him to pay . This young fellow , who stood five feet ten inches , and weighed 180 pounds - a MISCELLANEOUS 23.
... farms , had pur- chased a 160 - acre farm for him and turned it over for him to pay . This young fellow , who stood five feet ten inches , and weighed 180 pounds - a MISCELLANEOUS 23.
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... farm , for which he had agreed to pay $ 7,000 , and which would have re- quired most farmers eight to ten years ' time to pay , took him just two . In 1897 , while making one of my monthly collections in that town , I met a long line of ...
... farm , for which he had agreed to pay $ 7,000 , and which would have re- quired most farmers eight to ten years ' time to pay , took him just two . In 1897 , while making one of my monthly collections in that town , I met a long line of ...
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... farm , he would not have been satisfied . The next 160 acres he would have tried to pay for in half the time that it ... farms to raise more corn , to fat more hogs , to buy more farms . " Sixty years ago the people traveled from the ...
... farm , he would not have been satisfied . The next 160 acres he would have tried to pay for in half the time that it ... farms to raise more corn , to fat more hogs , to buy more farms . " Sixty years ago the people traveled from the ...
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... farms or their city homes and have money out at interest or in the savings banks , and ten years will be added to the life of every citi- zen . If the spendthrifts of the state of Illinois will take a six months ' course at our COUNTY ...
... farms or their city homes and have money out at interest or in the savings banks , and ten years will be added to the life of every citi- zen . If the spendthrifts of the state of Illinois will take a six months ' course at our COUNTY ...
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... farm can be purchased for a cash payment of $ 500 or $ 1,000 , and the balance on or before twenty years at 5 per cent interest . There is no excuse under heavens for a man remaining poor with such prices THINGS TO THINK ABOUT 71.
... farm can be purchased for a cash payment of $ 500 or $ 1,000 , and the balance on or before twenty years at 5 per cent interest . There is no excuse under heavens for a man remaining poor with such prices THINGS TO THINK ABOUT 71.
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A Pound of Brains: Thirty Years' Observation of Horse Sense (1908) George M. Fadner No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 411 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 15 - I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 15 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 83 - Master of human destinies am I. Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait; Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock, unbidden, once at every gate. If sleeping, wake. If feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 34 - For men are prone to go it blind Along the calf-paths of the mind, And work away from sun to sun To do what other men have done. They follow in the beaten track, And out and in, and forth and back, And still their devious course pursue. To keep the path that others do.
Page 16 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 412 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 33 - Since then two hundred years have fled, And, I infer, the calf is dead. But still he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my moral tale. The trail was taken up next day By a lone dog that passed that way; And then a wise bell-wether sheep Pursued the trail o'er vale and steep. And drew the flock behind him, too, As good bell-wethers always do.
Page 18 - If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing...
Page 411 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife...