Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-09-21

Ichanged man, related to Ellen what hal
occurred, and pledged his honor that h
had played his last game.
One year has rolled away, and Henri,
Lawson is again in the full tide of sue
cessful practice. He has scrupulousl,
kept his promise, and avoided gaminl
shops; and promising the reader tina
his future life Will be prosperous ant
happy, we will drop his history.
A WORD TO You've FARMERs.-Ther,
are multitudes of young men who ar
hired out at 12 to Sl6 a month Il
work upon farms. They are active, in
telligent and enterprising, and are ear
nestly desiring to get along in the world
but they do not quite know how to sc
about improving their condition. lie
us say to such, that we have know
many in Just such condition, who ar,
now hourishing. well to do farmers
Indeed we can point to more than ont
of our present subscribers, who twelve
years since, were working at Sig {
month, and now they own farms of 10(
to 200 acres, valued at $50 to $50 PEI
acre. But. how did they accomplish
this? We will relate briefly the history
of one, which will indicate the course
pursued by the others.
George c., or George, as we ia
miliarly called him, was the son of pool
parents, in the western part of the
State. In 1910, he was 81 years old
and hired for year for S195. At the
end of the year, he engaged with the
same man for two years longer, fol
$500. During these three years, he
pursued course of strict economy with
regard to clothing and other expenses,
and managed to make Sl25 cover his
entire outlay. In l843 he went to
Michigan, and with $500 paid for leo
acres of government land, and COM
menced work. During the first year he
cleared and planted about five acres,
besides working out two months at the
season of highest wages. At the end
of the year he had put up a convenient
log dwelling, and returning to New
York State, he took to himself help
meet-a poor, but healthy, enterprising
girl, who had, with a little aid from
home, saved enough to purchase COW,
seven sheep, and supply of plain fur
niture.
We will not stop to detail all the
particulars of their future course-how
they spent their honeymoon, winter and
first year with few conveniences; how
their food at first was chiefly furnished
by the corn-feld, COW, and rifle, and
how they worked along for nearly ten
years; but this much we learned from a
friend who had visited them last month,
viz: that Mr.. C has now a con-
venient dwelling and barns; has 104
acres of cleared land, well fenced and
bearing good crops, and has refused
S45 an acre for his farm. We also
learned that he has healthy family of
children growing up around him, and
that being an industrious and moral man
withal, and one of the first settlers, he
holds a station of no little influence in
society. On being asked ''if $1,000
cash would buy him out of house and
home" his answer was, that "his land,
stock, &c, would bring him little short
of $4,000 in the market, and that he did
not suppose he could better himself
with $4,000 in hand; at least he had
no disposition to leave the scenes of his
first hardships, and birthplace of his
children" Our friend and informant,
who has been for twenty years tossed
upon the busy sea of speculation, and
has accumulated $4,000, 'or more, re-
marked to us with a good deal of en-
phasis, Chow gladly would l exchange
situations with George c." "Yes," F"
said he, 'I would throw in the odd
$50, 900 to exchange children with him;
that is, to see mine as healthy and vigor-
GUS as his are" -.
Now we shall be told that George G.
was Fortunate had good luck DC,
but we think his success has not been
greater than that of perhaps a majority
of the steady, temperate, economical
young men who entered upon farmers
life fifteen years since. Let it be kept
in. mind, that the savings of the first
years are the foundation of success. If
George c., like majority of young
men, had spent half or more of his
earnings in carousals, parties. Sunday
clothes, &c., he might still be farm
hand instead of an employer.--Aneri-
can A0riculturist.