Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-05-19
2fericultmral Department
I. d. R. COLLINS, Editor.
DON'T BE PERSUADED.

DON'T BE PERSUADED.
What blessed faculty is that which
enables a man or woman to say No. aud
then to stick to it OF course, one who
practices the positive, must also learn to
think before he speaks, else he will be
be unjust to himself as well as others
No one class of our people need to ac.
quire this habit more than farmers, and
when they have become accustomed to
use the word more frequently and en-
phatically than they do at present, itin-
Grant peddlers and agents will find their
occupation gone, or at least slightly less
remunerative.
The patent gate or bee hive man calls
on the farmer and asks him to purchase
his wares, or the right to use them the
farmer, knowing that he does not actual
ly need them, says no; but the smooth,
oily tongue of the agent soon gets a de-
cision in his favor, and there are two
sales effected instead of one-for the
farmer is sold and the agent sells his
wares. When we glance over the list of
patent gates, bee hives, OK yokes, churns,
fences, and thousand and one other
worthless things that have been sold to
farmers, and are at the present time be-
ing hawked about the country, we cam
not help urging every man to acquire
the habit ofsaying no
There may be one or two better churns
than the old fashioned one used by our
grandfathers, but how many thousands
of worse than useless things have been
sold under the name of improved pa
tent churns !" The same is true of
nearly all of the smaller implements
used about the household and farm; the
Inventors, manufacturers, and peddlers
of the same having fourished amazing
ly, simply because farmers could not Or
did not say no. All the vile nostrums
that are distributed through the country
we're sent there by the manufacturers
simply because they know the weakness
of the masses and swindlers of all
kinds, from wine plant peddlers down to
counterfeit money dealers who send box
es of sawdust to their dupes, flourish fol
the same reason.
1t is passing strange that linen and
women who possess any intelligence, car
for moment suppose that any country
quack or city quack doctor, possesses
opportunities or the brains to coEcoct {
medicine of more value or potency thar
the thousands of learned men who grace
the profession. The same is true in re
7 gard to plants; and if farmers will re
member this one thing, that no travel
ing agent ever did introduce new plant
fruit or vegetable. they will be dupet
less often. When any one calls on yo1
and pretends that he has something new
that our regular nurserymen or florist
do not know all about. set him down a
swindler, and not only sa no. Blu
hasten his departure from your premises
If our farmers had so served the peddler
of Altakengs. or strawberry tomato
wine plant, coffee plant, and hundred
of other such wonders, they would nc
only have saved many thousands of dol
lars. but have had far better oplnio
of mankind in general.
Learn to say no to all this class. an
never purchase thing which you d
not actually need, and then only of thos
who can prove positively that they al
the accredited agents of reliable firm
Cultivate this habit until you can say L
to habitual borrowers, and to the me
f chant or grocer who asks you to run !
! debt for things which are not positivel
necessary to your own comfort and hal
piness and that of your family. "
know how hard it is to say no und,
certain circumstances, even when evel
attribute of our nature tells us that it
right. Half the miseries of mankir
arise from this source, and they mig
easily be obviated if each person wou'
: only be honest to himself first, and thu
to others. -RmaI NeaU Yorker.