Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1884 — Always Ahead. [ARTICLE]

Always Ahead.

“Thar’s my eon Joseph,” said the old farmer, as he, cut off a liberal hunk of plug and dropped it into his mouth. “I brung him up the same as I did Dan’l, an’ I giv ’em both SI,OOO to ,start in life. Joseph went into speculation and Dan’l went into buckwheat.” “And how did they come out ?” “Waal, in the fust five years Joseph be made $30,000, and Dan’l he lost half his capital.” “And the next five?” “Waal, Joseph Jost all he had, and Dan’l ctodrolled all the buckwheat iteh in NiSw England. Tell you, stranger, atween raisin’ buckwheat an’ speculation in sheers, buckwheat is bound to git thar in the end. You know what to depend on. The market never slops over or wilts down. You bow, reap, eat, and scratch, add you’re alius ahead.”— Wall Street News.