The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1873-05-01

machines resolving on axles, many O.
them it is true sufficiently awkward
and useless, while many of them are
good. But how easily any man Car
take the whole years wear out of al
such machines, and a whole weeks
supply of this precious nerve.powel
out OF his team by simple neglecting
at the proper time to grease the
axles. Q
Then comes food and shelter.
How many men suffer the cold winds
and rain to blow and wash more
value OF this horsepower out of all
their domestic animals in a single
night, than they can themselves earn
IN whole week.
! There too, is irregular and slovenly
feeding. 1t is all important in pre-
serving to the utmost this brain pow
er that no animal should be allowed
10 become anxious about anything
whatever; for anxiety wastes and dis
ipates it very fast. All animals should
be put in "full assurance of faith"
in perfect confidence that at the
right hour the master will be around
to see to it promptly that they have
all they need, without any anxiety
on their part. Salvation by faith is
as true gospel for the four.legged
animals beneath the human, as it is
the two legged ones beneath the
Divine, and true man must keep
faith both ways alike, above and
| below.
But if all this and much more is
true of the lower animals, what shall
say of the human beings with i'm
mortal souls, with human passions,
hopes and fears like our own, univer-
sal in their sweep, terrible in their
power, thrown wholly under our care
and control as day laborers in our
homes and our fields ? Here again
waive all possible consideration of
piety and humanity, that sweeps
over all possible worlds and eternally
exalt or degrade all possible beings
in this world ; and all other worlds ;
and will look only to the least of all
the questions in the premises the
mere question of economy of dollars
and cents-cash in hand. And how
stands the account? That human
animal, the laborer like yourself, and
like your horse, has certain amount
of this cerebral or brain nervous
power, he can employ in your behalf,
and only certain amount, no more
and no less.
True, IN different men it varies
vastly and endlessly; but in each
particular man it is a fixed quality !;
his particular personal ability at any
particular time be it more or less
cannot be materially increased. But
unlike your horse he has terrible
memory terrible power of looking
right into the very bottom of your
soul, and seeing and feeling from
hour to hour, all the nobleness OF
meanness that lies slumberlug there
and you cannot long disguise it from
him. He will soon be racked and
tortured with terrible passion against
you, or he will be moved to self
sacrificing devotion in your behalf,
and in behalf OF all your interests, in.
stead of contemptous indifference
to all within you or about you. Which
shall it be? 1t is mainly for you to
determine as you shall show your
self human, considerate, intelligent,
self governed, manly and magnani-
nous or passionate, careless, mean,
selfish and stupid in their presence.
Will these two different conditions
of affairs make no difference in the
results of the income from all the
varied and delicate interests of a
farm in a year? We need not stop
to reason with a man who should
suppose it otherwise He is simply
an ass. Let him 90 and learn wis
dom from the asses. Nothing ls
more certain than that the different
modes Of managing set of hands
amounts to the sum total, and often
to more than the sum total, of all the
profits on their labor; an old hand
we'll trained on a farm is otter
worth half dozen new and untrain
ed ones. A we'll trained hand il
care, watchfulness, labor and sympa
thy, throws the whole amount of hii
brain force as hearty free will offer
ing into his employers service /; and
he is in all places worth his weight
in gold /; while an unframed man, out
of sympathy, and out of sorts with
both his employments and his EN-
ployers, is nuisance wherever you
put him; quite as likely to expend
his best force against, as in favor ot
his employers real interest; and al
best, he will be nothing but an eye
servant, which is simply to be good
for nothing. Who wants horse OF
a man about him that he must watch
night and day as ne would a game
of chess, in order to get anything
out of them.
To secure this rescue of the entire
service of a man, soul, body, and all
is in one sense not easy; and in an
other sense it is the easiest thing il
the world. In the first place every
man or woman in your employ must
be made to feel that they have {
home, and at least one true friend
on the earth. For no man, woman
or child can be good for anything
who feels that they have no home
and no friends in this world, who Cal
fully appreciate all their good quail
ties and pass lightly and charitably
over their faults and failures. Prop
er care should also be taken tC
supply the workmen with the bes'
OF tools of all sorts, so that he Car
accomplish his task with the utmos
ease to himself, and with the great
est celebrity and dispatch for hi
employer.
The best and easiest method o
getting hold of the work, so as tt
dispatch it with ease and rapidity
should always be suggested by tn,
employer, without attempting tt
dictate and domineer over every mo
ton and every step. A good work
man always wishes to look back upol
the day and see that he has really
accomplished something, and don'
it well for his employer. But Will
poor tools and bad methods, he il
necessarily baked and hindered
and feels that ne is spending all hi
strength for nothing. At night b,
is badly tired he has worked hare
and still sees that little has beer
done. The fact is that through th'
whole day more than half OF hi