The Hartford herald., 1875-10-13
FROM LOUSY lille.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. II.
EDIroR HERALD:-Outside of the con-
tinual wrangliny over the Mayoralty can
vass, there is little to disturb the quiet Of
the city.
The favored ones, who are now on the
topmost part of the wheel of prosperity,
are looking forward with pleasure in an
ticipation Of tine winters gayeties, while
the less favored are considering the ques-
tion, how to live through the winter with>
out suffering from cold and hunger. God
help the rich, the poor can beg" and
many Of them do beg in vain for a mere
pittance, while hundreds are spent in dis
sipation.
II the winter proves severe there will
undoubtedly he great suffering in Louis.
vile. Fuel is cheap,-thanks to the Pa
ducah road-and that will ease the bur-
den o! many a poor man. Coal is now
selling for eleven cents, delivered as cheap
as you can buy it in your own town of
Hartford.
/ have had many letters from old frIend-
and neighbors, asking about the chances
for employment in the city. To all such,
I would like to give this little bit of adj
vice. stay away. There is something ias-
cinating about the city that entices the
unsophisticated, like the light OF the can.
die attracts the fly, and with like results
While it is true that the wages Of mechan
les are often higher than in the country,
their expenses are proportionately greater,
and the wages of ordinary laborers are
not so good, all things considered, as are
generally paid to good farm hands. Take
the employees of the Louisville Transfer
Co., for instance. they get forty dollars per
month, which after deducting board,
washing and numerous other little expen-
ses, leaves them perhaps twelve dollars,
for working about sixteen hours a day for
thirty or thir,y-one days, as the case
may he, in all kinds of weather. Rail-
road employees are about the same, and
all labor under several task masters. The
same might be said Of all classes OF labor
ers in the city.
1t is good place to spend money, to
dissipate and become demoralized gener>
ally, but if you want to live happily, stay
in the country, where your wants are few
and easily supplied, where neighbors are
neighbors indeed, and if you don't see so
much of the glitter and glare of wealth
and fashion as you do in the city, your
mind and morals are all the better. |
have lived in the country, got fifty dollars
a month, and lived better, was better sat
Isfed, and | know was better off moral
ly, physically and financially, than | am
in the city with hundred per month.
Take this advice young men, from one who
has tried both, and stay in the country,
till the soil. be independent and happy.
lie seeu Ol ulsCOUleul Is OIten 5OWn I'D The
minds of young men when they are sent
from their country homes to the city
schools, where their parents fondly hope
they will acquire an education superior to
that to be had in their own community, a
hope that firmly believe is seldom real
zed, as the young men who are schoo!ed
in the country where good teachers are
are better fitted for usefulness
han th hose who have been sent away to
he city, where they meet with tempta>
ions, are led astray, and seeds of clissipa-
ion are sown, which too often out-grow
md choke-down that little morality and
'irtue they have left. Think of this, pa
ents, when you send your children away