New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-19
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY, OCTObEh i' io'o'


any other ties that promise be eniurlng Though II
be- bn, hut patch of earth. h; It be your fixed
home eyermore, and h-Sn u; once - improve and
t,auiify in every hour thai b. spared from more
pressing avocations and needful repo. 81 shall yoar
later years be calm and tranquil-so shall you realize
ard dffu-e the bessedness which inheres in that
cred temple, Hsmel
Tie one great point Of .u.eriory erjoycl by our
corrtrv1nen over their cousins in Western Elupes II
the facility wherewith every American who is honest,
Industrious and sober may acquire, if lie does mol a.
reaiy possess. homestead OF his own-not a lease
hold irr,u some great capitalist or eudal baron. but
s,ot Of earth q: which ne man may fghtiuly d.spcs
.ss him 80 long as hs shall slun evil courses and i've
within his means In Europe, on the other hand save
in France. but small minority Of the workers own
,le lands they till the dwellings they inhabit, while
large proportion even Of the thrifty snd forehauded
incn8ipg some who would here be deemed quite rich,
cauro, cal one foo; Of earth their own To own arabic
land in Great Britain is mark of social distinction
hodge Of high caste so that estates held al prices
which hardly Weld three per cent to the producss
and only the very wealthy can really affordto be own
ers of land. But here there not youth Of eighteen
today who cannot, by simple industry economy anF
Temperance, have h.s own farm of fifty TO hundred
acres of fair land by tho ting he shall have attained
tie age ID twenty -fve and is amazing fact thst
two thirds of our youth utterly needless OF this
opportunity, wasting their days and their dollars IN
fivolou. amusemen,s orrash specuG;ions and suffer-
Ing ripe manhood to creep upon them while still drift
ng with the tide with greedy ears for every tale OF
new California, Australia, Sonora Nicaragua, bat
blind To the truth that TO the instructed brain and
willing hand erery field is placer and tha; gold Is ac
quired far more surely iu Indiana than IN New Gale
dona. Youth being thus squandered on deusve hopes
and vain adventures the and burdens of an IN
crcasng family bar the way future acquisition and
the mistaken dreamer who in bis youthful prime re-
garded the slow aud arduou gains of the hired worker
with contempt lives to drag ont forty years of grudg-
ing toll floating from farm to farm, never rising above
that necessity of living from hand to mouth which he
might, while still young and single, have vanqushed
forever by FIVE years patient, podding industry.
Again let me exhort you, young men! to choose your
future homes-chooSc whore you viii, choose careful
y but choose soon, and resolve by years of quiet en-
ergy and patient thrift TO make them your own for
you shall be weighed down by the heavy bur
dens of rper years You cannot deliberately choose
to pass your lives other mems hirengs; yet this s
the end to which you drift if YOU set sail from the ha
of youth without the ballast of uest-egg
fairly earned and saved, the nucleus of futur.
austions The rule is almost infable that the young
man who has saved nothing out Of the earnings Of his
first year ofndependence will never and any
thing. So on the other hand. he who can say on his
twenty-second birthday :" have fairly earned what
could during the past year, have saved fully half
of it, and owe no man dollar" is morally certain,
if his life and health be spared to win his way stead
/ ly to independence and competence II is the first
/ step that counts well costs: let our young men
be entreaed to take that step thoughfuly and in the
/ right direction.
! How light the occasional labor and how great the
success with which even the humbles home may be
rlched and beautitcd, especially by TreeP anting is
yet but mperfectly realized. Only the few live in
Ordly mansions; but roadside elms which shade the
lowiest cot may be stately and graceful "a any
that stud the park of the weathiest merchant the
proudest earl. As l am whired through our rural
districts and see house after house unsheered even
by single tree mourn the heedlessness the blind
ness, which thus denies them ornament and
fort completely within the reach Of the poorest.
The farmer who goes to mill or to market may
turn with spling which, once fairly planted land
it is good half-days work to prepare the ground
for and properly plant tree and eflectually shielded
from injury, will be solace and joy to his family
and their successors for centuries. In country
whose forests are 80 rich in admirable trees are
ours-where the Buckeye, the Tulip, the Elm, the
Maple the White Oak aud the Hickory easily
prooured-it is a shame that even human habita-
tion 20 much as a year old should still be unbest by
shado-trees. Every school-house, every church-at
least where land still bo bought by the acre
should be half hidden by grove of the most umbra
geous, hardy, cleanly trees, and every schooboy
shonld consider himself debtor by at least one tree
to the little edifce in which the rudments of know
edge first instiled into his understanding until
such grove shall there have been completed
y. In caprcious, fervid climate We need shade
trees but not these alone. The death of Fruit espe
caly in the West Is still almost universal Not one
dwelling in ten is fanked and backed by such belt Of
Apple, Peach, Pear, Cherry Ounce aud Plum trees as
should thrive there. OF Grapes there is not O vine
where there should be hundred. Even the hardy
and easily started Curant-bush s not half 80 abundant
a. It deserves to be. Most farmers would deem it
waste 10 devote two square rods Of each Of their gar
dens to the Strawberry; while the bare idea of cult
waiting Raspberries Blackberres strikes large ma
jorty Of them as intensely ridiculous. Now there is
no dispute as to the folly Of cutvating that which
abounds every eide and may be obtained without
labor care; and judge, from observations on the
fence-sides and corners Of many farms that the cu
walton of anything of the briar kind on those farms
would be u most superhuous undertaking. Yet do
lot Me les insist that az people have far too lit
Tie Fruit ard that most OF this Is Of needcssly inferior
quality that the grossDess Of food is the cause of
many painful and disabling diseases which free aud
irequen, Use of good fruit would prevent that even
regarded solely in the light of profit our farmers ought
to grow more and better fruit both for their own use
ana for sale and that noble orchard A. VOL as f,r