Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-01-04

| provided, always, your wife takes fancy to
go J hire gardener and farmer who under
stands his business, and pay him two-thrds
the ordinary salary, with the addition of FIVE
per cent. of all the cash proceeds of The place,
| in order to make him work and c0ntrive how
he can best and quickest make fair salary.
Keep horses, cows, hens, ducks, pigs raise a
great variety of vegetables have an ice house,
if you can get ice, and now let us see where
you are. Are you not Independent!
Milk, eggs, butter, and fresh, sweet vege-
tables are luxuries in town-and these you
will have in abundance at the first cost Of rais-
ing them, fol- you pay your farmer no five per
cent. on these. Your family can havea horse
and carriage to ride with--a luxury you sell
dom dare TO indulge in when in town. Your
house-rent is cheap, and if the farm does not
pay in S4OO per year, you still will have $4OO
or $500 left of your ordinary expenditures for
living to lay by, or pay off the mortgage, or
improve the farm. II you have no fruit on
the farm, you may have plenty Of it by plant
pears, peaches, grapes, strawberries, raspber-
ries, &C., enough to eat freely, and to sell TO
profit Your family get fresh air, pure water,
I plenty of exercise, and live. in simple and
inexpensive manner, free from many of the
evils of great city. You may combine with
this the advantages Of good schools, churches,
and pleasant society; and may let your family
60 to town often enough to keep the city pol
ish from entirely off. As for yourself, the
pleasure of visiting your place two or theree
times a week, or oftener if convenient, and
spending the Sabbath in the country, will
more than repay you for the Inconvenience Of
even partial separation from your family,
should that be necessary. You will have lit
tie trouble about the working of your place if
you give your farmer per centage on sales,
for have tried the plan and know how it
works. Only remember this-get a good
man, and one who thoroughly understands his
business.
Now where are you! Are you not inde-
pendent! If you die, and keep up the life in
surance (Which will cost you less than 800
per year,) you will leave your family $4,000
In cash and the farm, to say nothing of your
business. If you put all your fruit and best
improvements on one side, or one-half Of your
farm, your heirs can sell off one-half the farm
and pay the mortgage if it is not paid, and
have the best half of the farm, and all the cash
left. If you have no sons, and your wife is
| moi Sl,illad in husinaSS hot u,nuh ha he hot-
ter plan. Then, with neat house and good
garden, plenty of fruit, a COW, pig, poultry,
horse and carriage, and the income OF S.
600 how comfortably the family could live, at
home, as long as they should survive. And all
this can be done for 81 900 to 50 200. There
are hundred other suggestions which rise to
my mind, in connection with this subject. but
| will not write them out now. They will oc-
cur to every reader.
Why, then, toiler in the city, wait till you
acquire a fortune OF $40, 900 or 900 before
you resolve TO become independent and make
your family sol Why not look out for home
in the country and make yourself independent,
with 81, 900, as as possible. know Of
HU OlHGl way tudt you CdH w IL ~
1t is great deal better than going 10 Califor-
MIA in search Of gold.
MEDICINAL Properties OF ARSENIC -Bu-
: din, Physican-in- Chief Of the military hos
; ptal du Roul, is said to treat almost all lin
; nenic affections, regardless Of symptoms, with
arseneus acid. This distinguished French
Surgeon says that after having commenced 10
; administer the twenty-fourth part of grain,
he gradually became convirced, with many
other physicians who had obtained similar re-
suits, that arsenious acid preserves, even at
The small dose of one hundreth part of a grain,
all its medicinal energy, not only in The treat
n ment Of marsh ntermlttents, but also in that
of a number of other diseases. Dr. b. says
that with single dose Of the one hundreth
: part of grain he has often removed, radically,
a feve-s contracted in Algiers or on the Senegal,
: which had resisted the ulphate of qniuine and
e change Of climate.
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