The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-08-16
From the Nea0ark Daily AdrertiSer.]
XVinieris Caminc-Prenare for il

From tie NeaCGTE Ddaty AdgeTtaSer.
Winteris Coming--Prepare for il
We must not wait for cool nights and
mornings before making ready for winter.
Nature herself is preparing for it all sum-
mer, and to be wise We must follow her
example. However difficult it may be to
conceive or admit the truth of such thing
this sultry weather, still in this latitude it
may be said with almost literal truth that
there is but one season in the year, and
that is the season of cold weather We
do not live within the frigid circle, or a
bove the line of perpetual snow but we
do most of the year in the neighborhood
of both. A little farther north one may
see the white crystals in the field every
month of the twelve, and at the last ac-
counts Mount Washington could still show
a few of his cold white mountain lilies Of
the last years crop.
Such being the case, a wise man will
not neglect the lesson of wisdom and ex-
perience. Men do not keep up with events
but seem continually toiling after time,
and good way behind, too. Few take
him by the forelock. The farmer does
not cut his grass till it is dead ripe, and
hard as wire, when it ought to have been
in the barn long before. He looses much
of his grain in the same way. He is
rarely aware that it is ripe enough to
reap till it is almost ft to be ground
A long rains comes, and he suffers serious
loss, which might have been avoided
Such is this very years sad experience !;
and it is that of many others, indeed of
almost every year. for which no apology
could be, as now, set up in the scarcity of
labor.
This procrastinating spirit is carried
into other spheres. A parent is slow in
perceiving that his boy has become a m an
or his girl woman. Here they may be
half right, for many of neither sex ever
become so at al, though to take their own
word for it, these children are men and
women at fourteen. But that is only to
work and suffer and be useful. In that
sense they are often infants long after
reaching 2l. They are, indeed, old e.
nough for taxes, but not for tasks.
Before the almanac says in its wise col
umns Hook out for frostS, it is time to have
the winters coal snug in the bin, which
should be constructed so as to hold just
ton, two tons, or some certain quantity
There is no harm in providing this check
of the eye upon the capacity of the coal
cart. Money in this season Of full en-
ployment and diminished expense, should
be laid up somewhere-the Savings Bank
is good place-for the purchase of ne
cessary and for such other domestic pro-
visions as can be made in the autumn
without injury by keeping; such as an
ample stock of potatoes, and some other
vegetables, apples, -four, etc. Lay up
reserve of money from present receipts
for the scores of wants that will make
themselves known fast enough from week
to week, from New Years to Candlemas-
day, when the farmers should, but fire.
quently do not, have "half their corn and
half their hay" When they comply with
this adage, they will, of course, be provi-
ded for; but We speak for other classes,
HICSh"UIOs; ldDOlGISJ anu tue Ilhe, MuOSe
income does not flow from the riches of
the ground they own, but from the work
or ingenuity of their hands or brains
To all such it is of the last Importance
that reserved power shall be accumula-
ted somewhere, while the skies are mild
and propitious, and industry is wanted
and rewarded, to meet the demands of ac-
cident, misfortune, sickness, and even the
ordinary vicissitudes of the approaching
seasons. Wait not to be pinched by the
cold before the comfortable garment shall
be procured, depend not on the chance
surplus of the next month, if saving can
be made from the profits of the present.
1t is said, oman is endowed with rea-
son, looking before and after" Yet he
is not apt to remember a very recent ex-
perience, and is extremely prone to shut
his eyes to the necessities of the future.
A great many have long since forgotten
the horrors of the last winter, and as ma
ny do not and will not trouble themselves
with the prospect of the next. This must
be avoided. Such Indifference to the past.
and recklessness of the future, are sheer
madness. We must treasure up the pe-
we're lessons of the one, and be stimulated
by them to proVident study of the re-
quirements of the other,