The Dawson journal., 1885-01-08
FARMING AND GETTING RICH.
Farmers Have Requisite Resources
of Wealth in Their Own Hands.

to stem the tide that is rising
with such force in this country
in favor of mere riches, but in the
case of farmers it is as we'll to lay
the simple truth before them as
to withhold it. Without in the
least presuming to dictate motives
or aims to any class of men, we
may, nevertheless, say, with per-
feet truth and respect for their
status and privilegs, that farmers
of all men are the very last ones
who need to trouble themselves
about riches as others do. Pos
sessing and living upon their
own productive acres, they have
all the requisite resources OF
wealth constantly in their own
hands. They are sure of shelter,
of food and of needful clothing;
to toll and moil, pinch and screw,
starye and deny, merely to be &C.
counted with a certain amount of
money, is only wasting the pre-
cious term of life which might be
used to far better purpose.
We shall indulge in no moral
izing on the subject further than
to say that to go without in order
to scrape together a certain sum
of money, and then to leave it be-
hind without ever having the pro-
ductive and enjoyable use of it, is
the folly of childishness itself. To
provide, with prudence and indus
try, against the accidents of life
and the infrmities of possible old
age, is, of course, every mans du-
ty, and should supply the health
full stimulus of exertion; but to
become slave, to starve the
higher and better nature, and to
deny rational enjoyment to ones
self and family merely to be reck-
oned worth so many dollars, is fol-
ly indefensible.
A man on his own farm, we'll
cultivated and kept, well stocked,
with good modern dwellings and
barns and out-buildings, master
of both time and acres, tied to no
hours by the call Of bells or whis-
ties, free to come and go accord
ing to the necessities of none but
himself, mostly in his own fields
and performing bis healthful la
bors in sight of the smoke of his
own chimneys, is surely as rich in
the genuine sense of that as any
man can be. He has nothing to
fear and nobody to envy. OF one
thing he is sure all his days, and
that is a sufficient living; and that
is what other men are never sure
of without single pang of doubt
or appr ,hension. There is his
land; there is his home; there'is
all the animate and inanimate ma
chinery Of his establishment; and
for the rest he looks in profound
trust to the bounty Of heaven.
Instead of this unworthy and
demoralizing anxiety to get rich,
il the average farmer, once being
solidly established, would resolve
to enlarge and exalt his life as it
is, to make more out of that, to
enjoy as much as possible of what
there IS to be enjoyed, to adorn
and beautify his home that only
paradise on earth-within and
without he would find all his dai-
" tasks far easier, even to the ex-
tent of being delightful; he would
feel rich where now with more
money he feels all the time poor,
and he would rid himself of a
false tryant in the form Of increas-
ing parsimony that holds his nose
to the grindstone till he is flung
into his grave. IL farmers only
knew it, they could easily be the
richest men on earth.-Massachu-
sets Ploughman.
PITTS CARMINATIvE-Havine
lost our first babe in the teething
period, my wife and myself suffer-
ed great uneasiness with oar 9TH
er children, until the above medi-
cine was introduced into our fam
lily. 1t had always proven to bs
such a faithful and speedy correc-
tive, that former fears are but lit
tie felt. My wife is the Judge in
our family in such matters, and
she unhesitatingly puts Pitts
CARMINATIvE ahead of the world