Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-04-29

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the best. 1t keeps it from blowing down
and keeps you and your neighbors on
good terms by having a good fence. l
think by this time you can keep away
from town ten weeks without straining
yourself.
If you have to 60 do not go on Satur.
day, for every triaing, indolent person is
there to hinder you from attending to
your business. Whenever you enter the
door, ask for what you want, get it all,
and then 60 home to your wife and boys.
BY staying all day and going home in the
night you are apt to cat too much, and
not apt to work enough in the night to
make it digest well, which if you had
gone home when you should, you could
have packed the same load and had time
to have worked it off before night, and
not have hurt you. Take care to do all
your work in the proper season. Ground
plows much easier and lighter for your
teams when plowed in the proper season
than it does out of season. DR.. Frank
lin says, "Riches are like the oak, the
growth of it is not in one year. The daily
additions of pence in time makes full
purses"
If l understand him, he means, if you
cannot get five dollars per day. lake what
you can get, rather than do nothing, and
get into mischief, as many an idle fellow
does, for it takes many hard year of
labor to pay the penalty of crime, be-
sides the loss of character, which is the
worst of all, when had they been at work
for two bits day, it would be much
better for them and would have saved
their friends from distress.
When l was about sixteen years old
went to rake hay in Pennsylvania for
Jacob Rush, much the wealtbiest man in
all that country. l worked from the
time the dew was off the hay, close and
tight, until dark, and went two and
half miles after my money, and got seven
and quarter cents for my days work,
together with great deal of praise for
being good boy My father, Josiah
Strawn, died by the side of Mr.. Rush.
Jacob Rush bought all his sons, ex-
ccpt Reuben, the best and largest farms
in that country, and gave them every
thing to work them besides. And if
am rightly informed, there is not one of
them Going we'll. Reuben Rush had
just brains enough to work. On Monday
morning he would get up at twelve
o'clock, and thrash wheat until twelve
o'clock at night, and then half of the
night all the week
think it is much better to bring up
our children to steady and industrious
habits, and give them good common
education, if we cannot give them one
dollar. There is being educated in jack
sonvillc, Morgan county, enough law
yers, doctors, and fools to supply the
globe. A child whose head is not right,
it only Injuries to crowd in dead Ian
guages. Common English education is
the best, Unless their heads are right,
and they wish to study profession.
When you wake up, do not roll over,
but roll out. 1t will give you time to
ditch all your sloughs, and break them
up, and harrow them, and SOW them with
timothy, with small portion of red clio
yer seed with it. One bushel Of clover
with timothy is sufficient. March is a
good time TO SOW; but August is the
best, if there are any rains after that
time. / do not remember of ever failing
to have good stand, when / sowed my
seed in March, with nothing in it. If
you do not need your money until June
or July, feed peck of good corn planted
in April, at two feeds. Feed in the
morning few minutes after the sun
rises, and the other feed long enough
before night so that they can get done
eating before night. Try not to vary
ten minutes in the time OF feeding each
day. Make your fence high, tight, and
strong, SO that it will keep your cattle in
and pigs out. Some of my neighbors
who bought cattle last fall, had such poor
fences that the cattle jumped into the
cornfield and eat until they were founder
ed SO badly that they will not get over it
this season, besides destroying much
more than they eat. II you have brush,
make your lots there, and be sure to keep
pigs and hogs from the cattle, for if the
corn is clean they will eat it much bet
ter. Study your interests closely, and
do not spend one-twenticth part Of your
time in electing Presidents, Senators,
and other small officers. and talking Of
hard times, while spending your time in
town sitting on store boxes and whiting
all the soft wood up, instead of leav-
ing it to kindle fires with, SO they can
get 10 business.
Be sure to get your hands to bed by
seven o'clock, and they will be compelled
to rise early by force Of circumstances
Pay hand-if he is a poor hand-all
you promise him; if he is a good hand,
pay him little more it will encourage
him 10 do still better. When / was
younger, ana employing a great many
hands, q have worked over two hundred
day. | made it a universal rule all the
time to pay good hands more than pro-
missed chem. l thought it brought me
more interest than any money / ever
handled. Extra pay is appreciated by
good young man much Always feed
them as well as you feed yourselves, for
laboring men are the sinew Of the world,
and ought to be well treated. All our
wealth and fine clothes come from hard
labor. Even our pianos and all our mu-
sic, which our girls prize SO highly, come
by hard labor. Our best girls if thoy
would 20 to bed two hours earlier than
their usual time, and get up an hour
sooner. which would give them ono hour
more sleep than they now get, and when