Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-03-10
agricultural Column.
Farmers Sons.

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When farmers son leaves home
10 become n clerk in some village or
CITY store, or 10 engage in some 9TH
er business. in three cases in four he
takes tho first step towards his pc.
euniary ruin.-Occasiorally ,ayoung
man thus gets into business in
which he becomes " partner or own
or, and makes money; but such
eases are rare.
Let us suppose ease. 4 young
man hears If the high salaries clerks
get in New York, fifteen hundred
dollars q year in some cases and he
gets the New York fever and
taking tiny dollars in his pocket he
bids his parents farewell, and leaves
home in high spirits.
When he gets to the city he in
quires for boarding house he APP
plies to several and finds the price
of board from six to ten dollars n
wcck--the cheapest, with fare he
would not be satisfied with at home,
being about six dollars. He takes
board at this rate, and begins to
lrok for sitEation-sces advertise
mrntS in the papers for clerks, but
4 hundred get the start Of him,
somo of whom write splendid hands
md of course, they get the si'uo-
ton.
I'm few weeks his money is all
gone, and he writes home for more
and the result generally is, that af-
ter spending from one hundred to
two hundred dollars, and seeing
the elephant" he comes home dis
gusted with city life, and is willing
to stick to the farm. or awaits new
outfit for second trial for success,
Such an aspirant for money max
ing has his ar,ior somewhat cooled
when he learns of city merchants
that they pay green hands only a
bout enough to board them say
from three hundred to five hundred
dollars for smart, active clerks, from
eighteen to twenty five years old
The rule il to increase salaries from
fifty to one hundred dollars a year,
till clerks become fully acquainted
with the business, when some .teu-
the most efticent-pcrhaps one in a
hundred-get salary that enables
them to lay MP q little money If
they are economical.
II, however. We should turn to
The histories of most young men
who leave good homes to obtain sit
nations in cities we should find that
ninety-nine in a hundrci failed to
realize their anticipations, and have
died poor, or are now living on less
means yearly than good farm at
f,r's, while their lives Il continued
current Of cares that render life
anything but happy.
In our younger days we had par
tisl experience in this matter. and
left Now York with shattered con-
stitution, brought on by close ap-
plicaton to business without COM
pensatory reward for the loss of
health and to escape n premature
grave we fled to the country, there
to get n new lease of life by tilling
the soil.
Here are few remarks on the
foregoing subject, which we clip
from the Rural World:
'T'a sons e inr"crs commonly
think their lot is hard one. I'm
..a ..., c.ty yout;.s, they are
compelled to perform daily toll.
Their life is not one Of constant
amusement. They cannot see and
hear as much rs their city cousins.
They do not dress in as fine clothes
cannot treat and lie treated at the
popular saloons, or visit the costly
:-a',i''.., r"eo-.s which abound in
every city. They feel that their lot
L. .nur..i hard one, and the high
est ambition of many of them is, to
arrive at that age when they can go
to the city and see all the sights.
But let us talk to our farmer
boys. You are in the right place.
You are learning habits of industry
and frugality. By your daily toll
YOU are acquiring sound constitu-
tion-a most important matter.
And this is ono of the reasons that
our great mon have all como from
farmers sons. They have grown
up robust. with constitutions that
could endure great amount OF
mental labor, which youths from
the city. with weak and feeble
frames, could not stand
"If you cannot see as much as
city youth, neither arc you exposed
to the vices and temptations Of the
city life, which prove the destruc-
ton of nearly all raised in the city.
You are then on TIRE right track
90 ahead. Resolve to form no bad
habits. Indulge in no Intoxicating
drinks. If you form love for
them il is almost impossible to Snb-
due il. Do not acquire the habit
of chewing or smoking tobacco, or
taking snuff. Read good bookshelf
no opportunity for Improvement
pass away-and you will grow up
useful. intelligent men. '-Rurdt
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