Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-10-24

ness. They must educate their chill
dren how to cultivate the soil. They
must not be educated simply to be min
listers or lawyers or doctors, but they
must be educated to be farmers. 1t must
be understood that. education is as ne
cessary to till the soil as to follow any
other business or profession in the
world. We must get rid of the idea that
a little education units one for labor.
There are to-day hundreds of graduates
of Harvard and Yale and other colleges
who are agents of sewing machine COM
panies, solicitors FOR insurance, clerks,
copyists, in short performing menlal
service. They seem to be willing to do
anything that can be done in the house
OF in town, but avoid farming as they
would leprosy. Every young man
educated IN this way is simply ruined
! What little good sense he had is edllca-
ted out Of him. 1t is thousand times
bette, to have good sense without edu-
cation than education without good
sense. Give your sons an education
that will enable them to help them
selves that only the useful are honora-
Bile.
MAKE FARM LIFE PLEASANT.
! you want more men and women on
the farm you must do something to make
farm life more pleasant than it IS. One
difficulty with life more pleasant than it
is lonely. In these days, when the
country is covered with tramps, when a
man leaves his wife and daughters and
goes of to some distant field to work, a
shadow of fearis upon his heart all day,
and the same shadow is at home. In
the early settlement Of this coantry the
farmer had to take his family, his axe,
his dog and his gun ana 60 into the far
West into the wild forest, building his cab
in miles from any neighbors and see the
smoke Of his home go up alone in all the
wide horizon. The Angle Sa1ons are
the only people that have ever had the
pluck to do this thing. But this neces-
sity has passed away, and now, instead
Of living so far apart as you do upon
your farms, you should live in little
villages and the time is coming when
it will be done. With the improved
machinery which you have you can now
afford it.
+ ABOUTCATCaTNG THE WORM.
It's not necessary in this age Of the
world for the farmer to rise in the middle
Of the night and begin ks work. This
getting up so early in the morning is a
relic Of barbarism. 1t has made hun
dreds Of young men curse the business.
There IS no need Of getting up at three
or four o'clock ola winter morning
The farmer who persists in doing it and
persists i'll dragging his wife and children
from their beds ought to be visited by
missionary. 1t is time enough to rise
after the sun has set the example. For
what purpose do you get up? To feed
the cattle? Why not feed them more
the night before? It is a waste oflife.-
In the old time they used to get up
about three O'Clock in the morning and
90 to work long before the sun had risen
with healing upon his wings, and as a
just punishment they all had the ague !;
and they ought to have it now. The
man who cannot get living on Illinois
soil without rising before daylight ought
to starve. Eight hours day is enough
for any farmer to work, except in harvest
time. When you rise at four and work
/ till dark what is life worth? Ofwhat use
is all the improved machinery unless it
tends to give the farmer a little more
leisure. What is harvesting now COM
pared with whatit was il the olden
times: Think the days Of reaping, Of
grading, Of raking and binding and
moving! Think of threshing with the
fail and winnowtng with the wind! Aud
now think of the reapers and mowers,
binders and threshiug machines. the
plows and cultivators upon which the
farmer rides protected from the sun. Ii
with these advantages you cannot get a
living without rising in the middle OF
the night, go into some other business.
You should not rob your families of
sleep. Sleep is the best medicine in the
world. 1t is the best doctor upon the
earth. There is no such thing as health
without plenty of sleep. Sleep until
you are thoroughly rested and restored.
When you work, work; and when you
get through, take a good, long, and re-
freshing rest.
SOCIETY AND FASHION.
As 1 said before, you should live in
villages so that you can have the ad.
vantages Of social life. In your little
village you can have reading room
| You can take papers and magazines
You can have plenty Of books, anc
each can have the benefit Of all. Some
of your young men and wemen car
cultivate music. You can have socia
gatherings you can learn from eacl
other; you can discuss ali topics o
interest, and in this way you can make
farming as delightful business as there
is in the world. You must keep up wifi
the age in which you live. The way t.
make farming respectable is for farmer:
J to become intelligent. They must live
intelligent and happy. The business
must be attractive and it never will b.
as long as the farmer has no leisure.
1 am believer in fashion, and l wan
every woman to make herself as beauti