Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-01-23

ing father write out bis accoun'r, "a
,,..-e.t in his buAnesH, snu
! q The .amr tina improve 49,
| AID m business cspacny Ia be I'm nj. On II.
! f"ms. end rot requiring too nueo
" u"as mart Of The farmer. In inc
stnny OF ,hsre should beea plan OF the
nfs' ps..sn toa scale, locating the ba'la-
i...' IA all other improvements; have eaeh
n nsi A, sisnaied, with all drains and other
,,a,royeinents. aud those In contemplation
mara cd thereon: then should follow an m
yen,or. II all the farmer possesses, s'ocA'
demands. Together With accounts anu fec-
ord. embracing agTeemcats ana fecou""
IN help; each ct wi,h ieco'u ~ 'n'
n,ave,n.5,ts made. etc /, crop, klnd ana
variety uf stock, faint ' expenses. p'o.' az
loss, individual account. eic- III sNss
should, 10 bs complete, embraces IN aecoohe
and record Of everything that couios oy
possibility, 10 Of interest in our iutnre OPP
eraiions on the farm or 10 cur SUCCESSORS
Such accounts will ever be vsluabie-iuf-
nishing the most useful information that
can pos .ibly be had.-W. H. WnIrE, Son'h
Eindsor. Cons.
TaE DRUpos.- There is many drudge
who commences life % one, who ccnt'nns
TO be one through his youth and manhood
drudges Oh 10 his declining DAYS. ana diss'
bowed down By . lifetime Of hard labor, MS
res, for wears preceding his demise having
been broken BY a chronic cough, and bis
locomotive powers impeded by Tong stand
iuv. settled and pasntnl rheumatism.
drudge has had it ins'ilied into his
mind by education and by religion. by ex-
ample and precept, that every man ought
To- earn his daily bread by the sweat OF
hi. oiow''-thst, by right, every man saouio
labor with his hands % the full extent Of
his bodily powers.
The drudge WORKS on, and as 'afmer soon
relies on his power Of enduring hard labor
to carry him on to state OF indie iendence,
and If a temperate man and economical, he
will accumulate sufficient property to end
| his days in esse and peace; tut The haoi'
has 30 settled on the good old soul, that hs
cannot rect By day CT plght-he must b'
doing something, and in spite Of cough ant
rheumatism, work he must and work ~
will, and 50 he lives sad so he dies,
drudge. Ii this man has aught TO sell, h'
will take il 10 a store, or take what IS offer
ed by some Grover. and being but little &C
uuainted with ma ket rates, and having N
opportunity Of acquiring any correct jude
ment in trading, he probably loses NOR
than enough in this way to pay an exir
farm laborcr oil the year round.
Industry is undoubtedly virtue oil th
first order, but many man supposes
only applies to bodily labor, and many me
, have passed through life in insgnlficanc'
! who, by industuiously cultivating the
{ minds, might have risen to eminence, an
. done much more to benefit their fellow b
I ings; and probably their application Of MINI
. wisely directed, would have been OF veI
c great advantage 20 posterity. Thus ever
\ parent is sadly deficient in proper feeln
E II he does not give his children the chan
. to expand their minds ~ well as 10 devel'
e their muscle, and any man or set OF ms
{ who only keep q school open for two
y three months in the year. and that at
4 time when the weather ~ too Indictment I
, constant attendance, ough to be secuted
l. the best society, Us mean, contemrti'
: crew. The drudge says: IL had lis
!, education, and have my farm free
l. mortgage. and SO have q dozen OF my
y quaintances therefore. depend upon 1t, y
ir will unfit your boy for work by go mn
s. learning
a There are men, though, worse than
a. drudge-men who, by inheritance or
as sn,nc lucky circumstance, have come II
~ wealth, who think that because they
at fortunate, everybody less 80, ought
IN drudge and bc kept down. q. u
So 80
WHERE TO Gar Coon GnoorsiHs.-By
mt ING to Parks 4 Eosmer's. one cannot
ed TO be well served 1t has long been kno