St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-09

ing them are right, his friends will be
many and firmly attached to him, and
he will 60 through life respected by all
that learn the good qualities of his soul,
and pleasant way in which he goes
about his daily affairs.
Sometimes overwork and exposure to
weather changes will send such a boy
to the couch of long illness from some
form of rheumatism that leaves him in
a crippled condition or that dread dis
ease, consumption. carries him to the
grave.
Such boys never seem to be appreci-
ated while they live and toll by the par
ents. But after they are gone past such
work as they have done, then comes the
regret that never leaves their hearts
it is the raven that sings the doleful
song, "NevermOre! NeveTmOre
Will parents ever learn to keep a
watchful eye on such children and keep
them
CLOSE TO THEIR HEART
of hearts, for they are worthy of all
loving care and pralsewOrthy for their
cheerful toiling day by day, and it is
your duty to give them love and credit
for such tilial conduct. Give them an
opportunity to acquire good education,
and do not forget that they may need
plenty of reading matter for evening
amusement, or would like little recre-
alton with the young people OF the
neighborhOod as well as others. Do not
keep him constantly at work until he is
nothing but drudge to you, and the
truth comes home to him, and dlSguSted
with the weary round of unending farm
work he takes final leave of you and
the farm.
There is another variety of boy on the
farm that needs the guiding and guard
ing of parents, but not to keep him from
overw0rking. Not at all! He would
not work at all unless told to do it, and
he must be carefully taught to know
that he must toll for his living as well
as others, and to such child one may
after a deal of talking make him see
that he must toll to live, and that a
farmers life is the one life where a
man who must toll for his living is his
own master, and perfectly independent
of others as to the hours of his labor, so
far as other people are concerned.
No bell calls him to work: no one can
designate the hour to begin or end the
day of his working. There is no one to
dole out what is considered the worth
of his labor, or deduct from it the few
minutes lost, if such fate happens to
HIM. He can take his after dinner
map" and no one to say him nay. He
can leave things undOne and no one
will complain or send him adrift for
idlenesS or neglect, for the careful
farmer knows when his business must
be attended to, and will not neglect it;
and boy may be kept busy and yet
learn to love the farm.
Very true it takes time and great
deal of patience TO teach some boys all
this and more too. but no farmers son
should ever leave the farm to swell the
throng that crowd each other down INTO
the cesspOol of iniquity and crime, or
drag life out in a constant want of
much, so much that makes life only
half life to live in hopeless poverty
and dread of the coming day when he
can no longer toll for even half loaf of
bread, or even that.
Parents on the farm, teach your boys
to love it and to keep at the work
which Will feed and clothe them, shell
ter them when crop fails. and keeps
them from hunger or the wherewith to
obtain the most essential needs of the
body, for no farmer that is real
farmer ever lacks for friends to
help him in the hour that he
may need helping hand. Teach the
boys that many prominent and eminent
men have lived, and still live on farm,
and in their youth studied out the lesson
of their greatness in the spare hours
which comes every day in the year to
him that looks for them and tries to
find themat home.
Give the boy all the opportunities
that lie in your power, and teach him
diligence in study as we'll as in his
working hours For you must render
up your stewardship to the giver of all
the good gifts in your possession.
and He has placed in your care
an immortal soul, never-ending life to
be guided rightly or left by you to go
down to perdition for the want of prop
Ell training at your hands. What
father or mother can sit down and con-
template this subject of leading his or
her children Alright and feel the weight
of it all without shudder, wish that
they were childless or something
strongly akin to it. and shrink aghast
from the subject? What parent that
has laid the little child away from 81 chit
forever and in time hath not said: He
gave and He hath taken away, blessed
be the name of the Lord" when con-
templating the sins of this world?
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL.