The morning news., 1889-02-18
.cprcrLrURAL DEPARTMENT.


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The Field, Farm and Garden.
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A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss.
Orr long confinement, says Thomas d.
Did Of Kentucky in the Southern Cult
-,4to,. seems to give US clearer insight of
tbo restless and discontented disposition ex-
Lil,;tad by many farmers, who always seem
- tbink they could do much better in some
.+har ranploymentthan that in it which they
~, ENGAGED, and who are constantly shift
~, +beir business, or think they could do
to++ar somewhere else, and are constantly
o,i,g Such men, we find, are no better
~ today, than they were twenty years
o,ro because they are always learning new
,i,ds of business, and are not engaged in
ono kind of business long enough to acquire
ttot spperior skill and knowledge in which
can alone enable any one to carry 1t on ad-
vsntageously, especially where there is COM
,o,ition to contend with, or because they
bova moved so often that they have not, nor
ran. accumulate property.
Since our country is suffering from Sc
vara drought, we see the farmers are show
inc greater disposition to change their
business. or move from place to place. We
wish that we could say something that
~ro,,Id induce the farmer to overcome this
d;snosition. and stick to the farm. Remem-
bor in taking a load to market you will find
hat vvill civ rd
mills. but you must endure them and keep
copg on the same road, or else you will
Dover get to market. Just SO with farming
If Won meet with tight places, pull the
harder, and you may expect surer success.
Peaple in the country generally seem to
think those in the cities soon become rich,
and that city life is an enviable one, and If
thew were only moved to the city, they,
too vyouId soon become rich and influential.
Hence we often see those who possesses
rood farms and are getting along well, and
ought to live contentedly, selling out, and
with the money thus obtained, commencing
new business in the city that they know
nothing about The almost invariable re-
suit of this attempt to carry on a new bust
ness IS a failure, bankruptcy and sad dis
appointment.
Country people cannot entertain more
erroneous idea than that men in the city are
all rich, at ease, and are happy. People in
the city, many Of them, may seem to be
rich and free from care, but at the same
time are undergoing more privations. and
labor harder than you do in the country
Their risks are also much greater; their
cares and anxieties greater than of men on
the farm. 1t is true that we sometimes see
men in the city become possessed with
large fortunes, but, to compare them with
the whole number who start in the race of
competition, how few there are who are
thus successful. The thousands who fail,
drop by the wayside and are crushed by the
moving mass, and are never heard of. But
how often we see those who have been sue
cessful in heaping large fortunes, that have
excited envy of the farmer, suddenly
hurled from their proud eminence by re-
verse of fortune, to the depth of poverty
and wretchedness. How much happier is
the farmer, who plows his fields, tends his
crops and eats his bread sweetened by the
sweat of bis brow.
Men with the idea that if they were at
such place they could do better, will never
be contented to stay long enough at one
place to do any good. Two cases l will men
tion which came under my notice. One was
afarmer doing quite well. who moved to the
city and went into the hotel business. After
trying it for one year he found it a new
business to him. He was not making it
success, and after sustaining a considerable
loss in the change Of business, he moved to
the farm again. The other case: A farmer
sold his farm for 81 900, moved to another
state, spent two months in seeking the
place of his wild fancy, but failing to find
it. returned to his old home, paying 81, 200
for it. His loss was about $4O0, but it did
not break him for his moving disposition.
He soon overcame his sad lesson and was off
again and is worth nothing to this day. A
person should cultivate contented disposi-
ion, endeavoring to make his home fill the
deal of his fancy, and success will crown
his efforts.