Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-09-23

Country lads often feel that their lot is hard one
They city bred youngsters their travels and their
sprees at the age OF fourteen vertable young gentle
men, with finished exterior, a segar and The
young farmer at the same age finds himself with a hoe
in hand and cheap straw hat his head, sweating
among the hills OF He frequently envoas OF his
city whisking past him in the with kid
gloves, delicate ringlets and plenty of money in bis
pocket.
Mind your corn boy hoe it out Clean keep steadily
to the labor you have in hand, do it well, and in time
your good days will come too. II you find farming is
not suited to your taste, your strength, crcum
stances-if you like mechanism better have capac
ity for business, whatever eventually you may engage
ill., it is all the same, you have begun right. The city
blades have begun wrong and in due time you will see
it. Their fathers and WILL in the end see it too
Do not feel envious Of the pleasures that dollhouse
enjoys but remember not liz malicious, but sober spir
it, that such plants wther early By the time you have
acquired fixed habits of industry, and acquired
pondng perfection Cfmind and body your decatey rear
ed contemporary of the town begins to feel the facilitating
effects ofdeness and dissipation Heis not alone to blame
for weak body and prOfess mind it is the result of
system but he cannot escape from its effects these he
must endure for himself IN his person His father may
be professional man, adnerchant or may be merely
rich the chances fifty against that the son will
not replace his father Such is the result OF well settled
experience business falls into the hands of those who
most competent it does not descend to heirs 1t is the
country boys after all who do the city business Observing
have often stated this tact and inquire into the
gin of Cleveland Boston, n. Y, you will find to
be All external circumstances n favor of the son
the clerk succeeding to the trade of the old m but the
seldom almost dies in the position of part
ner of the house Why is it? Simply because habitual
industry is wanting habtual indulgence is not want
ing. With all the external odds against it, the country
furnishes the cities their principal business men, If in
telgen faithful and persevering and above ALL cheer
full AID perseverng cheerful and contened the chances
are that the lad with the will eventually do the bu-
of the father of the lad in gloves who is now lux
uriating in his traves-Ohto Farmer
MEMPHIs-Ihe receipts of cotton at Memphis the
last year 325480 bales, an increase of on
last year. The value of the crop estimated at Sl8
100000. The total business of this Furnishing city is
believed to have amounted to $4OOOOO0O during the
past year. increase of 50 per cent that of the
previous.
Railroads have done it. Ten years ago Memphis had
railroads. and the to1cn of Memphis had but popua-
ton Of five six thousand. Now, the city of Men,
phs has population OF about thirty thousand and the
present year $30,000,0O0 worth of buildings will have
been erected 1t was at first hard struggle for Mem
phs to build sing lie railroad but she was alter that
finished, able to build second much more easily
aud now she is able build them whenever she peases
and she keeps on building them !-Montgomery Mail