Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-05-07
COMMUNICATED.
TO THE FARMERS OF JEFFER
SOMA SYSTEM

1t is astonishing how much time and
labor are thrown away by some farmers
solely for the want of a system. They
go to work Just as it happens, in
wrong time perhaps and in great haste,
halt do the work, or leave it unfinished
and then suffer the consequences There
is another thing very rcprehcnsibIe and
that is leaving everything where 1t was
last used and where it is wanted for L. e
AGAIN, sometime mast be spcut in find
ing it, to say nothing OF the injury done
% the implements by leaving them all
the time exposed TO the weather. \
place for everything and everything in
its place, is the true doctrine for far
mcrs.
The above applies not Only to farm
ing but almost 10 every other occupa-
ton of lie, for as farm does not go on
prospcrousy without system, so does
hardly any other occupation. l make
no exception with regard to any trade
! OF branch OF business; tor neither of
which will be conducted properly with
out iudicious regulation. Man is too
prone to fall into bad habits, without a
system in regard to his business, he
must in a manner bind himself to good
rules, so as to DO his duty regularly in
his daily occupation. Man is an imita-
tive animal and nothing is he 50 apt to
initiate as pcrnicious habits, which
allure the body to idieness or ease.
Those who observe no system in their
affairs fatigue themselves far more than
others who dc five times as much work,
but sy systematically. The former always
are III u hurry, owing to their having
begun at the wrong time and in the
wrong manner; the latter proceed in or.
der, their whole minds being present.
collected for the performance OF what
they are aboul; the former rccolIcct
many things which they left unfinished,
promises untutilled aud many articles in
the house unattended to and these sew
eral ncglccts, during different ways,
comprise their minds or in other words
bother them, the latter having riscd at
the proper time in the morning and en-
tered upon their duties in earnest, are
not behind hand in anything, they have
everything in order and can .eethrough
their affairs a; glance. y system not
only leads the way to wealth but also
to happiness. Where everything is in
order the temper is not soon rUtflcd, I'M
amiable as it may be by nature.
In studies the same system is neccs-
sary in order TO make real progress. To
dip into the classics By reading little
here and little there till curiosity is
satisfied is bad practical practice
which it is doubtful whether it does
more good or more injury to the mind,
nothing like q whole is attained by il;
the mind is distracted among many
things, without being much improved
in either.
BY such snatches in reading, one dis
qualities his mind for close and iaborious
Investigations for where the mind has
once become accustomed TO such light
rambles, it will soon tire of anything
that requires persevcrirg application.
When reading is entered upon in book
let an eye be had to u whole, whether it
be on a small or large scale. An entire
Ode of Horace is a whole, so is an
Eclogae Of Virgil. The same holds
true in regard to English books.
To a system it is owing more than to
anything else, that some men so far get
the start of others in getting along in
the world. The most prominent men
before the public who made their for
tunes themselves were remarkable for
the system which they observed in their
affairs John Jacob Astor and Stephen
Girard are striking Instances.
w. J. X, JR.