Smyrna times., 1867-09-25
WHOLE NO. $50


est mistakes that can be made. The mere fact
that man is obliged to labor is not misfor-
tune, neither is the fact that labor may pro-
duce slow results. No man should be ashan-
ed of the spot i'll which he is placed, and what
ever he may lose, whether money or rank, he
should be careful not to lose manhood or cOur-
age, honesty or truthfulneSs. They are among
the essential necessaries of this life. A man
should always honor his calling whatever it
may be. Henry Ward Beecher writes that he
never likes to hear a man dispraise the vOca-
ton to which he is called. 1t is not a good
and wholesome sign. Men are perpetualy
making mistakes in regard to their pursuits in
life, and man may perceive that II he had
had an opportunity, and could have followed
this or that occupation he would as he is Or
ganized, have been more i'll harmony with his
work but man might as we'll repine because
he is not Erenchman, or an Italian, and is an
Anglo Saxon, as mourn over his lot III life
When Il man is born, it is done with, and he
cannot help it. You have got to be what you
are. And as a man has been educated, so he
must pursue life. And to murmur at his oc-
cupatiOn, and look wistfully at something else,
and spend his time thinking what he would
! like to do, and to cover that other pursuit with
his imagination, and make tanoied flowers grow
upon it, and see abundant and varied fruit
hanging from it's boughS, while making his own
! business as barren and hateful as possible, by
asSOclating it with dust and wet, and lRexora-
bic necessity, and rising in the morning to say,
Must L go to work to day? and, going home
at night, to curse the days work. That Is un-
manly and mean for a man that God has en-
dOwed with the many faculties of his mind on
purpose that he may clOthe his tasks with fam
cy, and plan them with variety, and till them
with blessings. | love to see some sturdy
smith, or laburiOus mason, or carpenter, or del
vcr i'll the soil, who, although he percelves that
there are occupations that would have given
him a larger sphere, and more agreeable re-
suits, yet honors and dlgniies his vocation, and
makes every man that comes after him bet
ter man-bccause he has left with his pursuit
an honorable name
WHAT Coop WIFE Is WORTH-A Ken,
lucky farmer furnishes the following evidence
OF the money value OF wife:
" | have been farming twenty-five years.
The first four years | was unmarried. be-
gan farming with two hundred acres; in the
blue grass region. handled cattle, hogs, sheep
and horses principally the first two named-
and lived | thought toerably economical, spent
none OF the money for tobacco i'll any way, and
yet at the end of four years had made little
or no clear money, then married a young
lady eighteen years OF age-one who had never
done any hOuSewOrk or work OF anV kind, ex-
cept make portion Of her own clothes. She
never HlduC SIllTl, uTdNCTS, pants VI HdlSb-
t coat, or even sewed stitch Oh a coat, and yet
| before we had been married year. she had
l made for me every one of the articles of cloth
ing named, and knit several socks for me-yes.
e and mended divers articles for me, not except
t ing an old hat or two She had also made
/ butter, sold eggs, chickens, and other fowls,
0 and vegetables to the amount of near 5000 IN
| cash, at the end of the year; whereas, during
/ the four years that was single, L never sold
n five cents worth; besides making ME purely
happy and contented with, and at my OWL
n home. And as to making money, We have
e made money clear Of expenses every year slnce
i we were married in everything thai We have
/ undertaken on the farm, and she has made
i from $3.50 to $500 every year except one, du
II ing the time, selling butter, eggs and market
II ing of different kinds My yearly expenses fo
fine clothing, &c, before was married, were
:, more than my yearly expenses were after WA
n married, combined with the expenses of my
d wife and children, and our farm increased
from 80 to 800 acres; and believe that if
g had not married it would have increased bu
a little, if any, and | have never been absen
g from home six nights when my wife was a
l. our home since we were married, and he
o cheeks kiss as sweety to me as they did The
n morning after | was married.