Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-09-20
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SIGNS OF A PROSPEROUS FARMEH.-
When lights are seen burning in his house
before the break of day, in winter especial
ly, it shows that the day will never break
on the breaking in of the winter Of adver-
sity.
When you see his barn larger than his
house, it shows that he will have large prof
its and small Affections.
When you see him drive his work in.
stead of his work driving him, it shows
that he will never be driven from good res.
olutions, and that he will certainly work
his way to posterity.
When you see in his house, more lamps
for burning lard or grease, than candle.
sticks for more expensive purposes, it shows
that economy is lighting his way to happi.
ness and plenty with light which should en-.
tighten every farmer in the world.
When he has a house separate from the
main building purposely for ashes, and an
iron or tin vessel to transport them, it shows
that he never built his dwelling for a fune-
raj pile for his family, and perhaps himself.
When you see his %hog-pen boarded in
side and outside, it shows that he is going
the whole hog in keeping plenty inside
his house and poverty out.
When his sled is safely housed in sum-
mer, and his farming implements covered
both winter and summer, it plainly shows
that he will have a good house over mis-
head in the summer of early life and the
winter of old age.
When his cattle are properly shielded
and fed in winter, it evidences that he is
acting according to Scripture, which says
that "a merciful man is merciful to his
beast
When he is seen subscribing for a news
paper and paying for it advance, it shows
that he is speaking like c book respecting
the latest improvement in agriculture, and
that he will never get his walking papers
to the land of poverty.
ELEVEN MODES OF SUIcIDE.-First
Wearing thin shoes and cotton stockings on
damp nights, and in cool rainy weather.
Wearinginsuficieut clothing, especially up
on the limbs and extremities.
2. Leading a life of enfeebling, stupid,
l~aziuess, and keeping the mind in an un-
natural state Of excitement by reading trashy
novels; going to theatres, parties and balls,
in all sorts of weather, in the thinnest pos
siblc dress. Dancing till 10 a complete per-
SEPARATION, then going home withoutsuficient
overgarments, through the cold damp air.
3. Sleeping on feather beds in 7 by 9
bedrooms, without ventilation at the top
Of the windows, and especially with two or
three persons in the same small, unventila.
ted bed room.
4. A surfeiting on hot and very s~tinula-
ting dinners; eating liz a hurry, without
masticating the food, and eating heartily
before going to bed every night, when the
mind and the body are exhausted by the
tolls of the day and the excitement of the
evening.
5. Beginning in childhood on tea and
coffee, and going from one step to another,
through chewing aud smoking tobacco, and
drinking intoxicating liquors, by personal
abuse, and physical and mental excuses of
every kind.
6. Marrying in haste and getting an un-
congenial companion, and living the re
mainder of life in mental excitement ; Gull
tivating jealousy and domestic broils, and
being always in mental ferment.
I. Keeping children quiet by giving pare
goric and cordials, by teaching them to suck
candy, and by supplying them with %raisins,
nuts, and rice cake when they are sick, by
giving mercury, tartar emetic and arsenic,
under the mistaken notion that they are
medicines and not ~irritant poisons.
s. Allowing the love Of gain to absorb
our minds, so as to leave no time to attend
to health. Following an unhealthy occupa-
tiou because money may be made by it.
8. Tempting the appetite by bitters and
~uiceties when the stomach says no, and for
cling food into it when nature does not de-
mand, and even rejects it. Commanding
between meals.
10. Contriving to keep in a continual
worry about something or nothing. Giving
way to fits of anger.
IL. Being irregular in all our habits of
sleeping and eating. Going to bed at mid
night aud getting up at noon. Eating too
much, too many kinds of food, and that
which is too highly seasoned.