The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-03-27
Hill Country of Judea Items.


Messrs. Theodore Pace and John IL.
Baker started to Baltimore on Monday to
lay in stock of goods. They will set up
in merchandising in Burktown. Mr.. Pace
has had long experience in the business
and is one of the best statesmen and account
ants that we have ever known. Mr.. Baker is
the only son of Isaac Baker, Esq, one of
the most successful farmers of Judea.
Young Baker is man of strong common
sense and has good business qualifications.
We wish him much success, but regret
that the noble pursuit of farming has to
lose him. Strange what passion young
Americans havefo the mercantile business
In spite of the fact that ninety-fiye per
cent OF all who engage in it either fail OF
give 1T up in disgust. The trouble with
nearly all our young men is their too great
haste to get rich. They are not contented
to accumulate money by the natural, most
honorable and only sure industry and
economy. This is the chief reason why
young men have such passion to leave
the farm. With young farmers who have
but little means. money-making is ut first
slow business. but they should be encour-
aged ly the fact that the best paying pur-
suits for life are always the slowest in the
beginning to Yield return. Let them
master their business, be industrious.
strictly economical and contented, and
their reward will fayorably correspond
with any other pursuit. Young mon are
too much enam0red of handling money in
trade. They think that this is the only
way to wealth, and foolishly believe that
they are masters of traffic without any
previous training OF experience. How mis-
taken an idea. We frequently hear young
men who thoughtlessly spend every cent
that they earn, Boosting how they could |
roll up a fortune if they only had few |
thousand dollars to set them up in trade.
How foolish. What a grave mistake
What would be thought of an ignorant
man wishing for a professorship in some
institution Of learning? How ridiculous
it would seem. But this is only parallel
with the case of the young man who does
not save a cent of his earnings, longing
for thousands to set him up in trade
What, indeed, would such an one know
about successfully handling money ? To
be able to use money successfully in trade
in this shrewd age, a man must be educated
to it. His mind must have been thoroughly
drilled under a master as by large indi-
vidual experience. Parents should be care
full to teach their children business and to
drill them to it. Strange it is that parents
rarely ever even impart their own expert
enee to their children.
The Hill Country Of Judea Graded school.
which had been ably conducted by Prof.
Obaugh and the accomplished Miss Nellie
Baker, closed on Friday last. On this oc-
casion some very excellent and appropriate
remarks were made by the principal and
Prof. Landes. Few schools have given
more general satisfaction than our Graded
school. The principal and assistant both
deserve much credit.
Mr.. John A. Picker who had been for
several years in the employ Of d. M. Ferry
Z Co., Of Detroit, Mich, returned to his
nome in Judea December last. Shortly
Utter his return he built a large green
house and stocked it with an excellent
selection of choice flowers, and besides
planted in it variety Of garden vegetables.
he has managed the house very success
ully. The flowers are now beautiful, and
several varieties of vegetables are ready !!
or the table.
A short time since, Mr.. Samuel Byers, s
II Shamokin run, brought ON from Penn t
'ylvania three thoroughbred Clydesdale
lorses. He now has four with the one he
las had for year. They are the finest t
leavy draught horses in Virginia. They
ire valued at $250O piece. Each horse
weighs 1900 pounds. They will very much {
improve our grade Of work horses. Such {
men as Mr.. Byers are of inestimable bene- s
it to county.
Mrs. S. F. Huffman, of Gamble Run, is
low visiting friends in Judea.
Mrs. James R. Trout, OF Spring Hill, is
pending the week with her uncle Mr.. (,
Andrew Young, AGRICoLA.
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