The Portland daily press., 1866-02-14
Farmers Sons.

When a farmers son leaves home to become
a clerk in some village or city store OF to ell
gage in some other business, in three cases Ill
four he takes the first step towards his pecunl-
ary ruin. Occasionally, young man thus
oefs into A business in which he becomes a
Partner or owner and makes money; but such
cases are rare.
Let us suppose case. A young man hears
of the high salaries clerks gets in New York.
fifteen hundred dollars year in some cases,
and he gets the New-York ''iever," and taking
fifty dollars in his pocket, he bids his parents
farewell, and leaves home in high spirits.
When he gets to the city, he inquiries for
clearinghouse; he applies TO several and finds
the price CT board from six TO ten dollars
week-the cheapest, with fare he would not
be satisfied with at home, being about six dol
lars He takes board at this rate, and begins
to look for a situation-sees advertisements in
the papers for clerks but hundred get the
start of him. some of whom write splendid
hands-and, OF course they get situations
In few weeks his money is all gone, and
he writes home for more; and the result gen.
erally is, that after spending from one hun
dred to two hundred dollars, and seeing the
eIenhant.n he comes home disguised with city
fife. and is willing to stick to the farm, or
awaits a new outfit for second trial for sue
cess.
Such an aspirant for money-makiDg has his
ardor somewhat cooled when he learns OF city
merchants that they pay their green hands
only about enough to board them; say from
three hundred to five hundred dollars for
smart active hands from eighteen to
TWENTY-FIVE years old. The rule is to increase
salaries from fifty to one hundred dollars
a year. till clerks become fully acquainted with
the business, when some fetc-the most eflici-
ent-perhaps one in a hundred-set salary
that enables them to lay up little money If
they are economical.
Ii. however, we turn to the histories of most
yy, auns; sp who leave good homes to obtain
nine in a hundred isssad m realize their antici
nations. and have died pS. te are ' now Ivine
on less means yearly than good 80 affords.
while their lives are continued curre.->~af
cares that render life anything but happy.
In our younger days we had practlcal eApe-
rience In this matter and left New YORK with
shattered constitution, brought on by close ap-
plication to business, without compensatory
reward for the loss of health; and to escape
premature grave we fled to the counefy, tnere
to get new lease of life by tinias, , ane sou.
Here are a few r req fffom the Rural World:
subject which Miners fm commonly think their Il.
- NJ 09,H one. Unlike most city youths,
i4t Is are compelled to perform daily TOLL
their life is not one of constant amusement
They cannot see and hear as much as their
Guy COUSINS. 81 Ihey do not dress in as fine
clothes-can not treat and be treated at the
popular saloons, or visit the costly gambling
resorts which abound in every city: They feel
that their lot is indeed hard one, and the
highest ambition of many of them is, to arrive
at that age when they can go to the city and
see the sights 9 s H-fr
"But let us talk to our farmer boys. You
are in the right place. You are learning hab-
its Of industry and frugality. BY your daily
toll you are acquiring a sound constitutions
most important matter. And this is one of
the reasons that our great men have all come
from farmers sons. They have grown up ro-
bust, with constitutions that could endure
great amount of mental labor, which youths
from the city, with weak and feeble frames,
could not stand. ... =. t-5T IN
IF you cannot see as much as city youths,
neither are you exposed to the vices and temp
tations of the city life, which prove the de-
struction of nearly all raised in the city. You
are then on the right track-go ahead. Re
solve to form no bad habits. Indulge IN no
Intoxicating drinks. Iyou form a love for
them, it is almost impossible to subdue it.
DO not acquire the habit of chewing or smok-
ing tobacco, or taking snuff Read good
bookshelf no opportunity for improvement
pass away--and you will grow up useful, intel
lgent men, RuIal American. orr o.