Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-01-03
RURAL ECONOMY
HINTS TO YOUNG FARMERS.

Several numbers, being Hints to Far
mers." were written by the Conductor,
and published. some three or four years
ago. To give them more extended
circulation, we intend to transfer such OF
,hem occasionally, into the Cultlvator,
as NAV seem most worthy OF the notice
of our young readers.
On leaving the parental roof, 10 seek my
fortune in the wide world, when about -
wears Of age, my father gave me this par
ting admonition MY son, take care al
ways TO let peN enough alone" The oc-
casion served to impress the advice deeply
on nv mind, and amid the diversified scenes
ofthe subsequent thirty five years, 1t has
seldom been forgotten land | have reason
70 believe it has had a very salutary intlu-
ence upon my prosperity and happiness. 1t
has afforded, withal, something of a sian.
dard by which to guage the indiscretIons OF
others. How often has a disregard, IN 9th
CTS, to this maxim, reminded me OF the
Italian epitaph :" was well, wished to:be
better, took physc, and mere am." The
true philosophy Of happiness is to depend
on ones self for the bIesSing-on the lively
exercise of the virtues which can alone con,
fer it. The man who is industrious and
frugal, and who scrupulously lnhls the re-
latve and social duties, whatever he his
condition or profession, stands the best
chance Of enjoying u gcodly portion OF the
comforts and pleasures of life, and Of per-
pc.uating in his children his habits and MS
virtues. While he who would live by the
Industry of others, or who expects to ind
happiness in the frail applause which wealth
or ostentation may extort from those around
him, seldom succeeds in his desires.
Tom Tape was my schoolmatc. Tom
had rather high notions from his boyhood
and persuaded his father to put him TO a
merchant. In due time Tom became the
master OF shop ofgoods, was attentive and
fortunate, and acquireda snug estate. Had
he lei sceU enough alone, he might now have
been the head man of our town. but
pride 20. the better Of prudence, and per-
suaded him that he might do better at Ne"
York. He went there, figured rs waole.
sale merchant, for which neither his capital
nor his experience were adequate, for three
wears, and then came the notice lr the state
naper for his creditors to show cause, DC.
Tierck Vessels farm joined minc. tic
acas one of our best farmers, and under
stood the value of come boys" as wei! as
auy one. Good luck was SO constantly by
his side, that he considered that any man
might get rich who had mindto. Yet he
could not let ,ceH enough alone-he wished
TO DO BETTER. And therefore he removed to
the village and opened Il tavern, and had
the promise of the Justice courts and OF the
stare custom. "Go boys" did not improve
the farm, and it soon became neglected and
unproductive. BY and by the courts were
removed by law, the sage went to the new
hotel, and the temperance era wound up The
tavern business. Tjerck has got back to
the farm, with habits very much altered
and his fortune not little impaired. YET
he consoles himself, that he is not halt SO
bad off us
Joe Siedge, once our master blacksmith
afterwards merchant, and now L Journey
man. Joe was so famous for his edge tools
that people came to him from all parts. tic
had his journeymen and his apprentices, anc
was always present to oversee them, aIo
to be seen by his customers, as all master
mechanics ought to be. Joe got rich, be,
cause he was adapted to his business, ano
his business adapted to HIM. Joe though
with Sam Patch that some things could
be done as well as others-and that be-
cause every body liked hi as black
smith, they must like him as any thing
else, forgetting that it was his trade, ano
not his mind nor his person, which hac
brought him into notice. And as merchant
was rather more respectable than mechanic
and withal more tidy employment. he IL
fact, sunk the blacksmith, and became q
dealer in tapes and sugars. 1t fared Will
Joe as it generally does with others who
embark in new business, Of which they
know nothing, after they have arrived al
mature manhood. Those who had been
bred TO the business, proved successful RI
walls. and the sheriff finally closed his mer.
camille concerns, by selling the entire effects
of"a merchant unfortunate in business. y
Joe insists to this day, that if he had let aceh
enough alone, he might have been as well
off as the bcs. of his ncighbors.
Time would fail me 10 narra'c hait me
cases which have come undermy ooser'a;
ton, of men abandoning steady habits ano
fair prospects of wealth, in the employhen:'S
in which they had been educated, anu IN
which thew were bes, calculated TO succecd'
e,r tho y"rv hazardous charr" OF dong