The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-04-24
EsGssssv,,s xRoNsAks.
Communicated.

is the price Of al success, and till.
ing the soil is the foundation Of
all industry, and pays the highest
! premiums on Intelligent labor
"Waste makes want" and q nlin
wl.c fails TO Use economy III ti9ac
and expense is /. ?Htl5tor and sure to
come To- tcGn{. Tho most gIarin2
and objectionable Extravaganza
is met with III the rural walks 81
life, especially IL ,,Iie lower class OF
EaHorcrs. There is no need to look
al the balances due on merchants
books to know a ,cG5fetUt farmer,
His constant surroundings and
general bearing III active society
tells the tale. See TIE rostes' OF
The s'ugga,'d at home and abroad
and YOU know him. There is an
intuitiye knowledge Of his unfit
ness ioI things. Bat the indus
tr;oas nan is accepted every where
as Il ''lord of creation" and all IA
lure pays honorable tribute 20 his
merit. Habits Of industry and III
tlolence leave their marks nnnlis-
takably impressed upon every sur
rounding thing. "Lift jsreaI. and
life is earnest" and an honest in
dustriouS man is a JOY INTO Iils.
Lord, but lazy man is al abomi-
nation: and Of ALI worthless men
there is less excuse for The iDdolent
farmer than any ether. because he
is, by ayocatioIl, brought into
closer relationship with natural
laws ard made more sensible Of
the necessity Of labor. The coli
slant application Of hald and intel
ligent labor will surely crown all
honorable efforts with the greatest
success. When all the energies
are bent to the accomplishment Of
one thing man knows not what
failure is. Always do your best in
any undertaking. Whatever is
worth doing at all is worth doing
well."A man who fails to do bis best
ought not to succeed, because he
is not living mp to the full measure
of his duty. The soul and body, |
both, must be enlisted before great |
results can be accomplished. Men |
are SO constituted that they can
not energize al their faculties un. |
less they find pleasure in the dis
charge of duty. This is just rs |
true IN regard to farming as any !
,ther ayocation. If one should |
follow farm life simply from the
'ock cf necessity be need not ex- |
,cct more than Il mouthful of bread |
and meat as his portion. "As a
nan sows so shall he reap" But |
si,en The back bends and the brow
swea!s III honest toll, God, Him
self, gives II just reconpensc. 1t
y then, and only then, that mother
.aIth yields in richest profusion
Ter pleasures TO inei. The choic-
'st blessings fall only npon tha
rnly lneritorious !,ut earth is 30
,ountltn! in benevolence that all
.lings can sup and live at her
able. The man who farms never
lDngers unto death. Daily bread
ias never been denied TO ti!ler
# the soil. Even the most thrift
ess farmer has 10 fears Of starva-
ion. The sluggard continuously
sati,ers unto himself crumbs which
!rop from industrious hands: he
'reaths and eats and dies worse
han nothing. And SO with all
nnn who fail to render reasonable |
eTyice. But not SO with the good
nan. He has 4 iaudable desire
Or sonnet hing more than mere
1eat and hreati to sustain ANIMAL
ite. Ambitious to surround him.
elf with all the good things of
arth, he makes his life both pleas |,
ut and protta BILE and he ay5lls 10
o, o1sd he does 1t; and he is a great
,an, and his head is crowned With
II the honors OF the world. Such
lie is tar beyond the cofnprehen-
ION OF ignorance and not within
ne possibility ofindolence. Those ,
The are content TO live upon al
dead 'erel," and only take What :
hey can get without effort and
ithont price, are too jow and s
,nobIe to ever catch the smiles of /
'Itnne. They can never touch | I
le shadow much less realize the :
distance Of wealth. They are i
omplete failures in every sense of !
10 word. They are but living c
of the folly of the one {
no buried his talent i'll ancient
mes. 1t is passing strange that /
tellectual beings would do this,
I'D yet It's true, and one can't tell
by; men Will bury their talents ::
nj still expect the price Of honest :
II. The acill to do is worth more =
man than shining gold; 1T is the :
cret key which unlocks all the !
dden treasures of the earth, To .
ri and f,,ry, fbot E..,, x-oc -, III