The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1869-05-21
wtyI Want the Boys 10 Learn
Farming.
BY HORACE GREELEY.

"
20 ne sustcnancc. com fort, or enlighten'
mont of mankind is honorable ana laua-
allie. That is a narrow and esschtiaii!
talsc conception which regards the isrni- :
or as more a benciactor than bcnchcia-l
Nv. and stigmatizcs as droncs ana cor
-, Grants ali who do not directly contflo.l
utc 10 the production and increase Of
material wealth. The upright. able law
ver. The stndious, skilfNl physician. inc
,,ious, loving Clergyman, are workIhg-
mon as truly and quite rs nobly ~
thonvh they were wood-choppers OF
hr;cL,svcrs. He who. by whatever
mems. helps TO diminish the fearful ag-
.rrcgatr OF ignorance, sin. ana suffering
In the world. and diflusc instead knows.
cdcc virtue. and happiness, is worthy o.
al honor. and far from me be the WISH
IN discourage and degrade him. Ana
yct hold il the duty of every father 70
look well 10 the physical and industrial
,rsin;ny of his sons and daughters 70,
,co that each of them is early innrcu toI
some form of manual labor, and thor
nurhly trained TO efficiency in some pur-
sn;t which ministers directly to the ma
,orial or physical needs Of MANKIND
NV reasons Tor this conviction arc sum-
med up as follows:
1 The demand for intellectual labor
or TIA products. and even for mcrcantilc
ronac;!y, is exceedingly capricious. IN
q season Of commercial prosperity,
great city affords employment to thou
sands as clerks. book-kcepers, teachers
OF music. languages. etc., etc.. wno VIII
ncarly ali be left high and dry by the ebo
OF the tide War. pcstlcnce, pad mar
vost. 4 business revulsion, throws them
suddenly out of employment. ana no
merit or excellence OH their part can
.rert the catastrophe. would have ev-
cry one so armed and equipped for ING
hattie of life that. if suddenly endorsed
he can fight OH efficiently and undismay'
ctlly on foot.
III. The professions are fcarfully over
crowded. a Western village is half peo'
pied bv doctors, lawyers, and clergymen
who have rushed in ahead of the eSpect
ed Hood of immigration. Like minef'
5n the Sierra Nevada or Rocky Noun
tains. they have sevcrally stakcd out thei
claims. and are waiting for others u
come in and help develop and work tnen
10 mutual profit. But while the gras
grows. the seed starvcs.' Whatcvcrma.
be their fortune ten or twenty year
hence and events are constantly inter
posing to blast their sanguine hopes
doctor, lawyer. minister, are often WIN
ning but a meagre. precarious supper
for The present Il cannot dig: to be
am ashamed" is the plant which man
vonld inter if they could afford to ,
frank and outspoken. Thousands suite
mud stagrcr on. oppressed by want an
cver-incrcasing debt, who would gadl
lake refuge in productive industry
thev had been trained 10 familiarity Wit
pitch forks and plough-handles. The
would outgrow their present cmbarrass
rnents if it were not for the new doctor
LAWYERS. and clergymen annually groun
ont TO compete with them for practice
PARISHES, and whose training IS as hell
iesslv one-sided az their own. l woul
qualify the professional men who sha
henceforh be trained for broader an
more assured usefulness than that
their elder brethren.
III. New-York City swarms with hii
gry. needy, shivering, covering, cr!neir
feilow-mortals, all in eager, implor2al
hopeless quest of something to do. =
the reproach OF what passes for educ
tion. must say that majority OF the
have had considerable money spent
schooling them for lives Of usefume
They arc qualified Il presume) to ke
books or copy manuscripts, or teach Y =
guages. or act as govcrnesses, or folit
some other of the frightfully over-stot
ed yocations. But when ] say to one
them, ssThe work you seek is positiv'
not to be had, since ten want to &c
where one wants 1t done; you m
strike off into the broad, free count
and ask farmer after farmer to give y
work till you find it," the general
Spouse. Il know nothing Of farm'n
strikes Oh my car like kncll. Even
seasons when the farmers were intcns
hurried by their summer harvest,
ready to pay largely for any help 7
Was not hindrance, have known
CITY TO be thronged with weary, sad
titioners for something to do" II
current education were not plundeI
fraud, this could not be.-tHearth
Home.
SURFACE MANURINc.-T The best Z
lish farmers concedc that, i'll very
cases. manure acts better for being pl'
ed in. In case of long, that is, stra
manure, it must be covered. that 1t