The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-29
Repair Shop on the Farm.


cal genius should have some place
where In rough or stormy weather ho
can 60 in and mako such repairs on his
farm implements as his knowledge of
mechanics will enable him TO do well. Ii
the farm be large and the farmer skill
ful, 1t pays to have small building by
Itself, whore nos only carpenters tools
are to be found, but also blacksmith's
forge, with few of the most important
tools. The farmer who can turn his
hand so as to uso successfully both the
carpenters plano and the blacksmith's
hammer, is truly fortunate, because it
enables him to not only mend his farm
implements during leisure hours in tho
winter, but 1t also enables him to repair
sudden break down in the busy season,
much quicker than he usually could if
he had to depend on others living at n
distance. 1t is not, however good policy
for the farmer to turn his attention so
much to mechanics as to neglect his
farm there is a point beyond which it is
neither profitable nor good policy to go.
Farming should be the principal busi.
ness of the farmers life; to this occupa-
tion he should give his principal and his
best thoughts; whatever other business
he may engage in, no should treat as u
with his principal business. He who
lets tho weeds grow while he is build
ing wagon, had better be without a
repair shop, but he who only spends his
leisure hours in repairing farm inpie.
ments, will find his repair shop among
his best investments.
On farm where there is q family of
boys the repair shop Is necessity, if tho
boys are to receive thorough instruction,
and the farm is to be made attractive.
Tho boy who is able to make his own
sled feels an independence which is un-
known to the boy who has never had an
opportunity to become acquainted with
| the use of tools, and when he has u
farm of his own the practice which the
| repair shop gave him, will enable him
| to readily make most Of tho repairs ON
| the farm, and if he has leisure, make
many new improvements. A repair
! shop 81 ould always be % building by it.
self, because if in connection with 9TH
ers, it increases the risk of fire, and
makes the rate of insurance very much
higher NQssdchuSettS Pioatqhndn.
Chest Development.
It is stated "that during tho last
twenty-five years not B. single singer hns
died Of consumption ut st. Petersburg,
J although this disease has outstripped all
| others, and now holds the first place
among the causes of death at the Rus
sian capital" From this and other facts,
DIR. Vasilieff draws an inference in favor
OF the exercise involved in singing, as n
| preventive measure against cOnsump-
ton. There would seem to be room for
question rs to the relation of cause and
effect 1t may either happen that sing.
ers are not cOnsumptive because they
can use your chest and throat freely,
or that consumptive persons arc not
slngcrs because the weakness which pre-
cedes incapacitates the chest and throat
from action. Both of these hypothesis
are true to n certain point, but neither
J holds good in oil cases. A very little
observation will suffice to show that ~
good singing voice may corxist with n
weak or disabled chest, whereas the per.
fectly healthy may be unable to sing.
ago, to give consumptive patients q
Specially-arranged tubo to breathe
through with view Of eX :rclslng the
chest. We venture to hope the expert
ment will not be repeated Chest
development can only be nc
complishcd in manner cou
Bistent with health during the grow
ing stage of childhood, and then tht
most natural and convenient methods O
exercise are the best. Later on in HiC
great mischief may done by undul>
Straining the muscles of the thOraX and
those of the throat, beside the peril ot
mjuring the smaller tubes and nir-vcsi
cles of the lung by violent cxcrtion, fnl
which the organs of respiration nnC
voice arc not adapted because they have
not been early trained.