The Columbus journal., 1881-01-12
Extracts from Ingersoll's "Farm-
ing in Illinois"

ing in Illinois"
If you wish to raise a good boy
You must give him plenty to eat, and
treat him with kindness.
Every farmer who will treat his
cattle kindly, and feed them all they
want, will, in a few years, have
blooGed stock on his farm.
Every man should endeavor to
belong to himself.
Man needs more manliness, more
real independence. W. must take
care of ourselves. Thie we can do
by labor, and in this way we can
preserve our independence. We
should try TO choose that business or
profession the pursuit of which will
give US the most happiness. Happi-
ness is wealth. We can be happy
without being rich--withOut holding
office--without being famous. | am
not sure that we can be happy with
wealth, with office, or with fame.
1t is a thousand times better to
have common sense without ed uca-
ton, than education without the
sense. Boys and girls should be
educated to help themselves. They
should be taught that it is disgrace
full to be idle, and dishOnOrable to
be useless.
People who live much alone be-
come narrow and suspicious. They
are apt to be the property of one
idea. They begin to think there Is
no use in anything. They look upon
the happiness Of others as kind of
folly. They hate joyous folks, be-
cause, way down in their hearts,
they envy them.
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. The
man who cannot get living upon
Illinois soil without rising before
daylight ought to starve.
1t elevates a man to own home.
A man without home feels like
passenger. Homes make patriots.
He who has eat by his own fireside
with wife and children will defend
il. Few men have been patriotic
enough to shoulder a musket in de-
fence of boarding house.
Raise your sons to be independent
through labor--to pursue some bus
mess for themselves and upon their
own account--tO be self-reliant--to
act upon their own responsibility,
and to take the consequences like
men. Teach them above all things
to be good, true and tender hus-
bands--winners of love and builders
of homes.
The laboring people should unite
and protect themselves against all
idlers. You can divide mankind
into two classes: the laborers and
the idiers, the supporters and the |
supported, the honest and the dis
honest. Every man is dishonest
who lives on the unpaid labors of
others, no matter if he occupies |
a throne.
Treat your wife and children with |
infinite kindness. Give your sons
and daughters every advantage in
your power. In the air of kindness |
they will grow up about you like
flowers They will fill your homes
with sunshine and all your years
with joy. Do not try to rule by
force. A blow from a parent leaves
a scar on the soul. | should feel |
ashamed to die surrounded by chill
dren | had whipped. Think of feel
ing upon your dying lips the kiss of
a child you had struck.
See to it that vour wife has every
Make her life worth
living. Never allow her to become
a servant. Wives, weary and worn,
mothers, wrinkled and bent before
their time. fill homes with grief and
shame. If you are not able to hire
help for your wives, help them your
selves. See that they have the best
utensils to work with. Women
cannot create things by magic. Have
plenty Of wood and coal--good cell
lars and plenty in them. Have good
things to cook, and good things to
cook with. 1t is just as easv to have
things convenient and right as TO
have them any other way. Good
cooking is the basis of civilization.
Treat your children with infinite
them as equals
There is no happiness in home not
filled with love. Where the hHs-
band hates his wife-where the wife
hates the husband; where children
hate their parents and each other
hara ic q hplI upnn Garth
Nothing can be noble than to be
useful. Idleness should not be re-
spectacle.
| can imagine no sweeter way TO
end ones life than in the quiet of
the country, out of the mad race for
place and power--far from
the demands of business--outo of the
dusty highway where fools struggle
and strive for the hollow praise Of
other fools.
Surrounded by pleasant fields and
faithful friends, by those | have
loved, | hope to end my days. ]
hope that you. in the country, in
houses covered with vines and
clothed with flowers, looking from
The open window upon rustling
fields of corn and wheat, over which
will run the sunshine and the shad-
DIV, surrounded by those whose lives
you have filled with Joy, will pass
lWay serenely as the Autumn dies.