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. PAGES WEEKLY,' 1884. A YEAR. TOPEKA, KANSAS, AUGUST 13, {SIXTEENPRICE, 81.50 . educa "Business andme We SCOlf;!' ,be.. 'Children of the most ennobling 'of all, uary 1884. I� an article on complaint Is just. the Best Business, 12, childhood and cause we think bankers and railroad men tion, a real 'home, a happy Fa�ming failures of 1883," we find Rome interesting man that IS raised on a a successful , If y,oung the best for life, every, statements. The total number of "leglti and capltallsts generaliy are making money youth, training made to understand' the and for farm could be real, faster than we. The truth that agtlcnl the best protection against vice, mate trading concerns recorded In the is, there would be, of value of hls knowledge, -II' ture than anv other reg what? To leave a number of hundreds Bradstreet is as compared pays larger profits and agency more and better farmers in the country, 8�,823, ular business. Take manutaeturers. There acres to be sacrificed forsooth under the Sher with 548,180 In 1873, a gam of 290,646 in ten there would be less disposition to change real iff's hammer. to demands Total number of, failures in 1888 is not an average of 10 per cent. profit Duty humanity inducement to years." for vocations that offer little Ized in that Take rai.roadlng, and that every acre a man hold.s shall be bJ,'ought 10,299. The average amount of liabilities field. what is called sue- promotion or commonly cover in its and the net to the highest possible state:of produetive by every one of the falllng traders any period history now owing cess in life; and If every man engaged in have not averaged 6 per cent. More ness, but that is putting It too mildly., Every was about $17,000, a larger average than profits the measure of reach its and there Is in fanning appreciated fully over than one-half the railroads in the United foot should possibility, , any former year. Taking the country be more con- his opportunities, there would States have been in receivers; hands within iii' positive limit to the number of feet the av there was one failure for every 82 traders. farm life would and tentment in rural homes or twelve road in farmer can thus properly develop, the sections, the fallures the past ten years, Every erage and Taking country by grow more 'and more attractive, agri- Kansas the A., T. & &. F. has been In ev.ery foot he holds beyond that amount werc: In New England, 1 in 61; in the except worth-as. culture would be rated at Its true The Union Pacific' is many mil he Is defrauding the country of the blessing Middle States, 1 in 104; In the Southern bankrupt. the best business known among men. lions behind. The aggregate debt of the th.lt development would bring, and depriv States, 1 in 69; in the Western Statt.s, 1 In The earth was given to man for a l],o'me. United States railroads is greater than the ing some one else of the opporumlty to pro 99; in the Pacific States, 1 in 30; in the Ter It costs him notlnng onlv as It seems neees- of the nation. Once in about duce that development. The man of large 1 in 15. More than three-fourths public debt to the of rltorles, re sary among men protect right ten we have a breaking up all estate will usually leave undeveloped of the failures were for sums less than ten years general What one for a title deed him that would be possession. pays over the but the farmer sticj[s. He sources convenient to thousand dollars. Tl;lirty-three firms failed country, rather a from to a portlou of the earth's surface is does not break. His profits are from 10 to more than equivalent to his real Income for more than thlr-ty-seven millions. him from disturbance the to loss rent fee to save by 25 cent. on the capital invested-often remote parts; 'besides liability The capital invested by commercial per other But whatever the purchase the from from misapplied or negligent persons. firms In 1880, much more. Government bonds, yery accident, call houses and manufacturing when Is, or whatever one may choose to now from Is very largely Increased ooyond price was about seven best money investment, brings labor, according to census reports, the it, the amount is no greater than he regards cent. What farmer would ex the eye of the owner, to say nothing 'of uuand million dollars. Total liabilities 3 to 4� per when he has it tho and en the possesalon worth. And his land for bonds at that ,rate? WOl'ry and care. True gl'atlfic�tlo� the traders In that year change Investment that of failing reported come from and It Is paid for, he has an .,farmer would his home In joyment In farming thoroughness of and What give more year was upwards fifty-seven million, of hidden returns him an income greater, better, 2 cent;railroad or 10 operations, from develop,ment hundred and sev exchange for per stock, o� in life. in 1883 It was nearly one of and' ca certain than that of any other class cent. shares?' An average resources, concentration power million. In the list of failures we per banking men do not enty-six farmer looks with This Is a grand truth that many Kansas farm, well improyed, worth, say pacity. Thus the feelings find one hundred and thirty-two, �Itferent and yet,a little thoug1tt and comparl- of of and satisfaction upon a perman�t accept, balters, S5,O!lO, will return, an average -net protit pl'14e We classes of business re son would convince the most skeptical. represent�dJ ,!S exclusive of the �mlly keep. That an�tbofOfigb .....i'mprovelll1mt-a swamp goods, groceries, 81,000 mean to out lndl- bankers, dry .,llquors, clean a barren brought to do not point particular Is 20 per cent. profit and a llvln� claimed, rocky point woollens, eOO.,-one hundred and thirty-two for vlduals unlike 111 temperament and habit as other and legitimate to be 'a thing of beauty, a joy over besides. No regular ferUhty different branches of trade, fnrnlshing five acre field of well as in employment, for that is obvionsl¥ that In profits. 'Twenty ever.' He .Iooks upon a tatturea In a single year (1888) calling approaches a thousand or a ten thousand bushels to the unfair. John may gain acres of wheat at 25 bushels to the acre, wheat that wUl yield lorty to little short of five transae- with liabilities amouuting which he never million dollars In a single mining corn at 50 bushels per acre with a satisfaction with In this $500; 25 acres of two hundred million dollars. large size and half the tion on a that a cipher would repre- 10 acres of oats at 50 bushels per can view one of twice the capital and of acre, $400; of aggregate of ten thousand upwards of sent, and James may spend the best years $lOO,-making a total of $1,000 from yield. Leaymg ont the qnestlon profit, there is not one fM/lter-not one. acre, and In mountains failures, acres on the are the are condnclve his life boring blasting 60 acres, an even 100 and these feelings th.at men that and leaving become Let young study proposition, see the and always be poor. So, Peter may section for .other uses, One thous to health and hauplness. We happy men talk its lesson to their children. quarter with fields let old about near his a successful, wealthy farmer, and dollars on three items, using only farmer developmg his competence The value of farms In the United States and herds. and Paul may n_ever get beyond of the farm. Use the whole farm, where he can hear thejovous laugh not one-third dwelllng 111 1880 was $10,197,000,000. That does to a renter's estate. But, take business In its and it is the best and song of his family, and can' respond but malting every part useful, - Include any personal property-nothing of the dinner bali to join tbe great departments Oommerce, Mlnlng, paying business on earth; the first tap what would go to a purchaser if he would Manufactures, Railroading, Banklnz, Mer- happy group for an hour's social enjoyment, the farm. The capital Invested in busl chandismg, Farmmg, and note the successes buy A Hundred Acres Enoue;h. and when the elements becomeunpropltloua real water power, in and failures In them, Watch the weekly ness, including estate, for his he Is soon safe and happy writer-In the NationaL Stockman sa)'s labor, in' the United States in 1880, was A of failures in business. They are I ete., hIS home. Social contact is always regarded reports the one hundred acres are enough, and he begins The I not as' much as ' and this Is astounding when we stop to co_nsider. $9,881.,000,000, as essential to social culture, why and vet more his reasons by asklng- number of failures the week in naked, farms were worth, cousins are to regard us as un average by what? For the average our City apt five thousand business houses 'failed "Enough for the United States is about two hundred. than cultivated socially. In the old countries the I farmer. Farm for what? A living.

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