Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-03-01

an educated man. I run aside of big
figures and live in sight of educated
men, and see them fail but can pay
one hur drcd cents on . dollar, and
that at sight and no discount. l came
to this country as poor as any body,
and many others as wsll as myself
that don't hang on the coats Of any
body. When I travel l can tell
whother a farm is rented or given to
them, or whether the man paid for II.
II he paid for it he takes sood care
of that farm and cannot afford to let
it run to waste But there is so much
pride and freedom that all Henry
Ward Beecher or D. s. Wright can
say on industry, cannot change the
programme What shall this coun-
try build its hopes upon? industry?
Work the hands and the head th-re
are too many idlers looking for light
work, work that the females could do
and ought to have the chance to do.
| never stood at the foot of tie ladder
looking for something better if | had
l should be there now, where many
stand Those that accumulate wealth
without labor never EN- joy it. The
fruits of labor are health, wealth and
happiness.
l often walk out t. look at my cab
bage field, and like to see good heada.
l do not know as any one does spend
any money fool SHY, butif they do,
they get no interest on it.
AS regards to husking corn when it
comes to q starving point, some will
husk and get the corn the next day,
but man ought to have credit to
lease or take piece of ground on
shares and have part cf the crop.
Commence in the spring and bear the
burden and Ike heat of tho summer.
They that put oil in their lamps wee
wise.
The necessity of aelfreliance and
labor is to be learned at home from
their father and mother If children
do net get their right training at home
all the teaching at college will be like
feeding them on husks.
Go among your acquaintauces and
which aprear happy, the idlers or
those that work? Those that are
idlers are nero machines; they don't
run unless they are wound up like a
clock.
Look over the broad land and see
the panic sweep the country; rich yes
terday and poor tomorrow. Then
look at the farmer, the backbone Of
the country, he can live and be happy.
So many idlers bring too much bur
den on real estate.
Farms for sale and no buyers, be-
cause it takes work. The day must
come when tillers of the soil will be
looked up to as the best men of onr
country. The reason farming don't
pay, was because in war times there
was plenty Of money, and farmers sons
had to 80 to college and the girls to
boarding school, and nobody to work
the land. The land will not pay tax
es and let idlers exist, and was sold
I had big scholars and big figures live
in sight Of me, moved off their farms
because they had nothing to figure on
There is class of ment that will pros
per, and they are that class that have
self-reliance and industry, that dom
hang on the skirts of any body, bu
pluck and muscle to work. That ha
seen the name Of your humble servan
and shall be through life. A man sale
to me, Wright, don't those big gardel
seed firms hurt you? I said yes. By
breaking their own necks. Four o
them have broke up in Rochester, bu
D. S. Wright can advertise to pay al
bills at sight.
} My motto, whatever the hands fn'
to do, do it with all thy might.
never knew man to forge note tha
} could not write his own name. Co.,
scholars sometimes eetin Jail. | hav
} seen them in the lock-up-lock-up 70
, tomorrow. This fall I plowed fftee1
, acres of ground, and sowed it in whea
| and done all the work we'll and I psi
+ all, but l have not got my pay yet
t but it looks beautiful, and l hav
| strong faith in the Lord that all vii
, be we'll. | may never reap the har
f vest, but it will be bread for somebody
| and the straw will make beds--if til
[ wheat fails then the grass will max
milk and butter. see farms for sal