The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1858-03-12

be well Win ner Cuhuicn e"u h"soshu.
He did not think that she was sacrificing
herself He thought not how much she |
needed help, among so many cares aud Ia
bors. She always had 4 smile for him
and il her children leased her she only
smiled the more sweetly. All! and tins
rood farmer loved his wife, but he did not
arrange the interior Of his farmhouse so as
10 make her work as easy as possible. lie
procured labor-sa,ing machinery for the out
door work. IL would save money; II was
good economy. But be procured none for
the inn-door work; and the more delicate
machinery, that did IL, broke down. lie
was much abroad, aud prot,ed by the ex-
hilarating influences Of nature; but, little
thinking how much his other half needed
those influences, he seldom rendered to her
the cfier OF ride about the country, or
few DAYS visit to her mother and friends.
II was notwithstanding more. Per-
haps he did not think how spirited woman
dislikes TO be teasing her husband for some
thing she really needs; how much rather
she would that the use Of horse, visit
to her friends, a temporary release from
cares, anything that would DO her good,
should come gushing to her voluntarily
from loving heart. The rest is told. Too
close confinement, too little change, a want
OF something 10 cheer aud enllyen, more
than hard labor, eft the good man TO
mourn. Il is now too late for him. lie
cannot repoSsess what he has lost, but others
may profit by him, as an example and
warning.
How much have you lost BY not attend
ing more wisely to the improvement OF your
own mind, and TO the education OF your
Children? A man will be respected very
much in proportion to his intelligence. You
may say this ought not SO to be. But II IS
SO, and neither you nor we can prevent. II
YOU furnish yourself with the best OF read
Ing for spare hours, you will occupy a more
commanding position IN society. Your chill
dren will be more amenable to your initu-
ence. II you furnish them with plenty OF
good reading, and II you give that attention
TO the school in your neighborhOOd, which
the owners of the soil should, they will be
more easily kept in the right way-will
have more Of the man and the iromdn IN
them, and less OF the mere ANIMAL How
is IL with that son OF yours, who Is getting
JdSi,-so fast, we fear, that you will never
oycItake him, 10 bring him back TO the Just
restraints Of reason and good morals aud
religion: May il not be, that II you had
looked more TO bis school and furnished him
more entertainment in books and period
icals for his rainy days and winter evenings,
he would have been less an object Of anxi-
ETY. to you and more Of hope: And il you
have e daughter that is growing pOuty and
proud, ashamed that her father is a farmer,
advising her brothers not to be farmers, and
quite sure that her future husband shall not
be, may there not have been mistake on
your part? We are glad TO see the old no.
tion, that farming is low, drudging busi-
ness, dying out OF the country; but we are
sorry to see that II dies hardest in the iami-
lies Of farmers themselves. Let every farm
er strive so to rear and educate his children,
that none Of them shall lament, in after life,
that their early discipline was received IN
the farmhouse.
When Paul told his son in the Christian
faith to "let no man despise him." he did
not intend that Timothy should knock down
the first man thSt treated him with disre-
spect, but that he should behave SO much
like a man and Christian, that II would
not be in human nature not TO esteem and
respect him; and when he spoke Of magni-
flying his office, il was not that he would
brag OF II, but that he would GIL II well !:
and SO we apprehend 1t Is to be with any
calling. To fiji it well, and TO tTuin the
children born in il TO I'LL well II or some
other useful calling, is 10 magnify IL; and
there is very little danger but that, when
the farmers Of this country honor their own
calling, aud rear their children to honor
whatever is good and useful, the world will
appreciate II and them.
But to come little nearer TO the soil,
how much did you loose, the past year, by
not having your plans for the sumner
months premedi,aied and settled pretty de-
f;nitely, SO that, when the working season
came, you could work without hindronee
and employ your hands-we mean your
own and those Of your hired hands-advun.
tageouslys This is an important item, and
we want you to think II over. What was
lost by having wood to cut, when seed was
10 be planted by not getting tools I'LL the
day you had to use ihemS BY not having
the old tools repaired when the work was not
crowding; by sowing oats ON field, when
il would have been better 10 have planted
corn? by manuring one field stealthiully,
when n little more manure would have
warmed up the ground and made II produce
not only more, but more ia proportion to
the cost? by keeping inferior animals, when
better ones would have made better re-
turn for extra money paid for them and
their keeping? by mending fences after,
and not before, mischief was done! by
Singing your barn after, and not before
the crops were injured? by letting your
cattle suffer with the cold, so as TO eat
great deal, and grow but little; by abusing
animals in the yoke or harness, or leaving
them 10 be abused by scme senseless driver.
instead OF securing kind usage for them:
by being oyer-indulgent, CT not sufficiently
indulsent, TO those IN your employ; by
using a WORKOUT harrow, at an extra en-
pense for teamwork beyond the cost Of a
new one, bad plough instead Of good, or
a heavy old iron pitchiork when a light
steel one would have been cheaper? by
Withholding more than was meet, IN various
points, so that it tended to poverty {? by
purchasing costly fertilizers, when you had
not sufficient evidence that IL would pay: by
refusing to expend one cent for manures,
when, II you had expended an hundred dol
lars judieiOusly, you would have had an
hundred dollars worth Of additional crops,
and half as much more in the increased
value Of your land by a great many things,
large and small, which We have not time to
name?
1t is easier, We admit, TO ask than to an.
swer questions. We think we have shown
ourselves pretty good at asking; and now
we want you should do still better in an-
swering. You may not only answer the