The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-14

stingIness in the place of economy. Free
economy Is the management and regulation
of ones affairs to the best advantage. man
may save. and yet be poor economist. Here
is one who leaves his cow without shelter
summer or winter; for water, she drinks the
drainage OF the barn yard and manure pile; a
brush or curry-comb never touched her back
or sides since the day she was calved; for feed
she has half dozen nuobings morning and
evening, to induce her to stand still while his
wife or the hired girl draws from her
liquid so blue that a spoonful of IL will do in
this stun is called milk ana given TO the
children TO save tea and coffee. This man has
saved his oil cake and bran aud meal; saved
his lumber to build a COW stable, saved the
time he ought to have spent in currying and
brushing the COW, TO waste in the grocery or
In talking pollticalinonsense st the postoffice.
But the March wind killed the COW, the baby
died of diphtheria from drinking the stuff
called milk, and the man paid one doctor SIS
for curing one child OF typhoid fever, and
another $40 to save another child, who had
scarlatina-all from drinking manure tea
strained through cow. He was poor econ
Omist. Study economy, then, is my next
hint.
Finally, be industrious and energetic. Most
people think that industry and energy are one
ideas is the FAULT of the farming community
generally, and this confusion arises, in large
measure, from their failing to apprehend the
ideas conveyed by words.
Now, industry is simply diligence. II is the
opposite OF idleness, aud, SO far, is emtnentiy
faculty of giving effect to work A man may,
and many men do. work all their lives without
the attainment of any good end. The large
majority of the human race simply make
living. This Is particularly true OF farmers.
The loss OF one crop Expresses them; the loss of
two or three crops In succession would bank
rupt nine out of 10 farmers. The evidence of
this is found in the mortgages many
farms in our own and the adjoining states,
and in the further and equally lamentable
fact of the few highly improved farms; and
yet our farmers can not be said to be indolent,
as a class There is industry sufficient, If made
effective. 1t Is the want OF energy, the want
of power to attain the desired end. 1t is In the
very nature OF power to grow and develop.
Money makes money, and power makes
power.
II, then, industry is constancy in work, and
energy is power, what is IL their combination
will not achieve2 There is nothing short OF q
miracle which they will not perform. And be
sure that industry is as necessary to energy as
energy is to industry. Take the two together.
Spasmodic power is power shorn of half its
value, and is as useless as constant labor with
out any adequate return. Industry alone is
the traditional pony that can gGllop all day
and never yet pass beyond the shade of big
tree; whilst energy alone is "A big fat man too
for him. And now to recapituate: First, pa
thence; second, knowledge; third, good JUG g
ment; fourth, economy; fifth, industry and
energy. These are the elements OF success, and
in combination are all-pOwerful. The man
who possesses them has a fortune; nay, he has
English lord or French count. He can't be
robbed. for his property is in his brains and
his hands. The bank may break, but he will
go through: the railroads may Cypress him,
but he will conquer them. Hard times may
brood over the country, but his corn crib and
them, but whilst others sleep he Will replenish
them.