Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-03-09
JONESBOROUGH, TENNESSEE THURSDAY, MARCH g.

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ways pay promptly.
1 would here suggest that you take spe-
cial care of your earnings. You will find
money your best friend at all times and
in all places. 1 do not mean by this that
you should not spend any thing. for this
you will have to do, but l mean that you
should only spend for necessaries, and
notfor superhuous articles to crafty your
pride and vanity. Keep good company. es-
pecially that ofhonorable, pious old persons
from them you can always learn some
thing of value, fom them you will acquire
habits of soberness and morality.
To the young mechanic would advise
you to spend your few leisure hours in stu
dying good books, such as Paley's Philoso-
ply Knigge's Art of Conversing with Men,
The Life and Writings of DIR. Franklin,
Seneca's Morals, &C., and by no means
forget to have your Bible IN convenient
place, where it will always be easily come
at
If you have family it is your duty to
keep them comfortably and decently pro-
vided for, but do not go beyond your
mcans-see that your children go to Sun
day School and Church; if you are not
able to dress thenfas fine as those who pro-
fess to belong to the fashionable world, no
difference for that-they will always find
good men and women, who will be just as
ready to teach them, as if they We're dress
ed in silk and cloth. Never loose conf
dence in yourself, for on that depends
great deal. Always have proper respect
foe yourself and family-remembcr that
YOU are one of Gods creatures, and that
the salvation of your soul is worth as much
as that of Prince or King. You are one
of the small but important PARTICLES that
make up great community. that sets and
keeps the wheels of the American Govern
ment in motion, and as much depends on
you playing your part as the greatest
man in the nation, for society and educa-
are the great moving powers.
Take good care of your earnings for you
will always find ready money with double
interest, frequently you can buy something
you or your family need at g-eat bar
gain by having little money-otherwise
YOU must stand by and see others buy
and pay an enormous percent. because you
must buy OH a credit. If you always pay
down for what you get, you will find that
you can buy your goods from ten to twen-
/ tv per cent lower than the man who gets
his upon a credit, no matter how much he
is worth, and we think the dealer is justi-
fiabe to some degree in this, for when he
sells his goods for ready money he can
then invest it again and again, and per-
haps turn it over four times in year,
when if be sells on credit he will pro-
badly not be able to invest again in twelve
or eighteen months. DIR. Franklin says
.:a nimble sixpence is worth more than
slow shilling"
Do not be ashamed of your occupation
or calling, but try to make it honorable
by your industry and integrity, for obser-
vation will surely teach you that the course
things are taking in the political world
that the working people are bound to rule
and govern this great nation, and that be-
fore many years. Although circumstan-
ces. and the great rebellion have placed
great many corrupt men in power who
have nearly sucked out, the life blood of the
Republic, and reduced the scOrking class
es to poverty by taxation, there is small
cloud now rising in the political horizon
(the working mans cries,) which In short
time will create such storm that those
blood suckers and political demagogues
will be hurled from power, and be sTal-
lowed up in the whirlpool of destruction,
from which we pray God they may never
be extricated. Y.