The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-02-13
HARD TIMEs-THE RESULT.

HAND LIN he REO !
What are called hard times produce very diff
ierent effects on different individuals. Some
lenti some grow frugal and careful, Others care
lees and desperate; some never appear so honest
as when brought TO the pinch, but many men
seem honest UNTIL they are brought to the trial
and then give way. Hard-times are gradually
passing away. As a community are we better
or verse of than before? A few particulars may
help US to form some judgement.
Fewer goods are bought at the store, and
more are manufactured at home; spinning
wheels and looms have renewed their youth
and so have our mothers, who,aitera long dis
use may now be seen working as merriIya at them
as they used to do when they spun and woge
their wedding neutrality-suspicious. they have
not now any such rosy hope to quicken their
aged fingers. Men have been obliged to rely
more upon their own ingenuity-for want OF
money to pay the carpenter, the blacksmith, the
shoe maker, &c. Old clothes, old tools, have
been made to serve through an additional cam
puign.
The leisure of dull times has been improved
extensively in setting out orchards and we
hope this practice Will be continued in busy
times. Of this we shall speak in future num-
Der. No one has, during ihePREsSURE, suffered for
food, raiment or shelter. Indeed, it is supposed
that not a pound less Of sugar, tea and coffee,
has been used by the farmers of Indiana than
hitherto. Probably the quantity has largely in
creased.
Debts have been gradually contracted or dis
charged. Men have seen the end of specula-
lions to be sudden disaster-and tot all things
on earth) Notwithstanding has received its
reward. Men contented with mail gains-in-
dustrious, frugal and prudent men, have suffer
almost nothing.
But is it TO be feared, that under the influence
of Bankrupt Laws, (Which, like all others
may be sadly aouseds and taeft reputation,
men have lost much conscience abut DEBT PAY
ING!
As there was little or no markst for grains
during a few years. farmers were discouraged
they cultiy ated with less CARE; felt liuIe inter
est in improved grains, or implements of hus-
bsndry. When nothing PAYS, one thing is as
Eoou as anotheF. 3d. at lcust, lHougHt q
good many. This has made habits, before no
too good, even more careless and t~hriftless.
The want Of a market left large quantities 0
produce on hand--andi induced if possible. NOR
wasteful habits Of using than prevailed before
A stock of hay is left open, and cattle help them
selves at theiI own discretion Il. Corn is squan
dered-is fed out because il is ensier to furnisl
than something which would be better Tor tn
stock or il is fed in too great quantities waste
July. Such has been The abundance of graf
and grass in The West, that economy in the US
oft, for man or beast, ia hardly regaSded as re:
pectable.
The time is not far ahcad when these thing
will be felt; the children who ore reared wit
~shif,less habits, will become OF age just abor
the time that the necessity Of economy and car
in farming will he felt. aud viii have all the
habits TO un-learn or else TO sn(Ter for it all the
life. The waste OF a hundred bushels Of cor
is not much-but the habit of wasting is III
evil.
SIS We anticipate a great change in the farmiu
Operations Of this region on tho compile tiOnof ii
railroad to Indianapolis; but Of this we mean
speak in a separate ursicle.-la. Farmer al
Gardener.
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