Nebraska advertiser., 1861-11-21
Hard Times.

rr experience when people did not com
lain Of hard umes.". Some years we
ala coed deal Of business at collecting,
md tie constant cry always was "hard
,n.s" Even in. 1857, when times
,-ere more "nush" than they had ever be
f,re been in the United States, there was
h. ara from a certain portion of commu-
r,v Is much grpmblIng as ever about this
aerpal grievance. With many people
he money market is always light, and
ormes" always hard"
We do not mean 10 argue that hard
times are not now upon us,
Fer many days they've wandered
Around cur Cottage door.
BIT even now il Is not as bad as some
p.aie Try to make out. The farmers
IS q class, are The greatest sufferers
There never was n Time in the West,
when Mechanics. laborers and others,
could buy their provisions cheaper than
pow. Groceries, his ,rue. are dear, bul
lhey are not really a necessary of life.
AID altbougli the haiti of using them,
has. ulh many, become almost a second
pl,ure, sui ali can practice rttrenchmsnt
Ii. y "a. ai.nla,,g o. Sorghum almost
supp. s,a,. .,. q. sugar; our farmers
wa. nave had ia. ,,lay 10 pare, have sup
pied themselves with an abundance Of
Nebraska Salt, from Saline Greek; so
thai tae only groceries much used in this
community, for which money IS required,
are tea and cgfFee-and even domestic
substitutes for these are useo ty many
families in this county.
If we could only persuade ourselves
to adopt some Of the simplicity Of our fore
fathers IN The way of diet-if we could
dispense with the use of coffee, and sub
stituted "mush and milk" as was gener-
ally done during the Revolution, and du-
ring, and for several years subsequent to
the war Of lSl2-it would not only save
in The community a vast amount of money
bat we would have better health We
would have more strength and energy,
and the average length of life would be
prolonged.
To farmers we would say that "the
signs of The tines with regard to prices
are encouraging. There Is now a great
eKrorlauon of grain to Europe. Mer-
chants are beginning to find that there is
not the surplus in the country that was
supposed, and that surplus will soon be
exhausted, when prices will rapidly rise.
AT Chicago potatoes are rising. The
amount raised in Illinois and Wisconsin
is very much smaller than was supposed.
Our farmers should be careful and a
every bushel of potatoes. They will be
fifty cents a bushel in the Spring.
Farmers should keep up their spirits,
not get Discouraged. Save all your pro-
duce, and if you cannot trade 1t of SO as
20 paw your debts, or to buy something TO
improve vour farm, store II away. Il
will sell readily as soon a navigation
opens IN the Spring. d. Industrious and
economical; don't 90 in debt; deny your
selves unnecessary Injuries; (hut don't
stint Yourselves or your children of any
thing really beneficial, this would be bad
e~couomy;) eat more mush, hOminy, po-
taioes. and less coffee and spices, there
bv saving half your doctors bill; patch
M your cid clothes; save with the ut
most care all the stock and hogs you have
got or can get; keep your hogs over for
another year aud feed them your corn,
and damaged wheat, If you have aDy, and
make hogs that would weigh go pounds
it batshered this fall, weigh 500 next.
We know il is not always good policy u
keep hogs beyonl a certain age. But
when stock hogs are scarce, and corn a.
bundant and the price low, it is better 10
keep the hogs over than to sell the corn.
If the readers OF this article will fol-
Joy our aiyice. though it may not enable
chem to handle lauch money at present
still It will pay hem in the end; they vii
be making asmueh as tbey have any sea
sqq SINCE they came 10 Nebraska. unleS:
they are in debt more than they are worth
and paying a high Interest on what they
owe. For such there is no hope! The
sooner their creditors "close up" on theu
The better, both for themselves end com
munily. 1t viii enable them TO commence
anew, when they can profit by their valu
able. though dearly bought experience.
The Government has expended durin,
the las, three months in The city of ST
Louis, alone, over twelve million of dol
lars! and a. other places west Of III
Mississippi half as murh more, in ad
dfiaa 10 lhe monthly wages Of soldier.
THIS viii certainly make money plea.
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