The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1841-09-01

pecuniary loss Is not tn be put III compe-
tition.-Coleman's Surrey.
AN HONORABLE PURsUIT.-That man
| is unfortunate who permits the season of
youth to pass away, without acquiring the
knowledge of some useful pursuit. He
may possess wealth, with all its attend
ant pleasures, and his riches may exert
an influence upon all around him, yet
without the knowledge of some useful
calling, he will at times experience an
aching void which his riches can never
fill. However exalted his rank, however
enlarged and cultivated his understanding,
true happiness will be to him an unknown
feeling, unless he can fix upon some pur-
suit in life, where the energies of his bo-
dy and mind be called into action. Des-
titute of any object to urge him onward,
he must be miserable. Labor-not gold
is the price of happiness.
Health is one Of the greatest blessings
of heaven. Without it, the luxuries,
pleasures and rounds of dissipation which
can be bought with gold, are but thorns,
penetrating deeper and deeper, and SUBJ
stracting more and more from the Grim
son current of life. Yet the fact that la
Dor is the price of health and happiness,
is generally understood.
Thousands of young men in this coun-
try throw away the precious season Of
youth unimproved, and arrive. at man.
hood without the knowledge of any ho-
norable pursuit. They grow up in habits
Of idleness, and are at last thrown upon
society, too often the victims of immor-
atty and vice. The great fault lies with
those parents, who, instead of training
their sons for some honorable calling in
the departments of agriculture, mechan-
les, or trade, allow them to come up
in a manner to suit their own
evil inclinations. Agricultural and me-
chanical pursuits have heretofore been
considered unpopular. Hence parents
who have sons unwilling to study pro-
fession, permit them to arrive at man
hood without gaining a knowledge of any
occupation-mere 'loafers' or hangers on
IN society.
But the idea that agricultural and me-
chanlcal pursuits are unpopular, is false.
True, ey are laborious pursuits, but that
very fact should render them POPULAR
1t is said that the very necessity which
overcomes our natural sloth, is blessing.
We are happier with the sterility which
we can overcome by industry, than we
could have been with spontaneous plenty,
and unbounded profusion. Labor gives
enjoyment both to body and mind. Our
sleep is thousand times sweeter-our
food is consumed with an additional relish
and our enjoyment receives new and
peculiar enhancement when purchased by
unremtting toll. Industry will yield plea
sures which, wealth cannot buy. In the
cultivation of that soil, new objects are
continually brought to view, calculated
to exercise the understanding and i'm
prove the heart. Art may be brought
forward to aid in the labor of the field;
and every opening bud and tender plant
affords rich lesson in the science of ma
ture.
Of all the false notions ever entertain
ed, the idea that agriculture is low call
ing, and therefore unpopular, is the most
absurd. There is no other department of
labor so productive of substantial happi-
ness. The agriculturalist is constantly as
sociated with all that is pure, and rich,
and lovely and majestic in nature. The
productions fthe earth, both animal and
vegetable, he has the best opportunity OF
New wonders in science are
continually presenting themselves to, his
view. In short, he lives, moves and
breathes in temple, whose lofty archis