The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-04

Southern Cultivator.)
do not agree with those who be-
hcve that boys reared on the farm
should be made, uniformly, to re-
main on tie farms; and boys reared
in the cities and towns should be
made professional and business men,
Every bog is created with special
talent and special fitness. These
should be closely studied and scru-
pulorsly followed.
1t does not follow that a boy
eaould be made farmer simply be-
cause he was born aud reared on
farm. Nor, on the contrary, that
Young man should become a mern
chant or banker because he was rear
cd or trained in a store or in the Of.
flee Of q bank. Men are born farm
ers, merchants and artisans just as
they are born poets and orators. A
musician that is made q musician
without talent, is musician without
soul after q deal Of mechanical toll
A farmer who is made q farmer by
force Of CIRCUMSTANCES is continually
longing for better life, and weario
ness of the flesh begets disgust CT
enirit and eventual wreck of busi-
ness. If the young man has no
taste for farming let him find what
he loves and his life will be cue
cess, whether as mechanic, q law
yer, a merchant or q physician.
Some years since had the pleas
u;e to know young boy of remarka-
bic mechanical talent. God gave
hlm to the world with wonderful
talent for construction. With the
simplest tools be aatonished his
friends with his ingenuity. Unfortu-
natcly for him and for the State he
thought the position OF mechanic
hardly becoming his station IN life
and he studied to make o doctor Of
medicine. Th4 result has been &
miserable failure and q grevious dis
appointment to his friends. | knew
another young man with passionate
fJndntss for stock and a remarkable
love for the farm, who thought well
Of possible distinctions at the bar.
He studied law. His heart WAS in
the fields. God made him to beau
tify the earth, and make fertile the
fields and abundant their crops, but
he made himself q lawyer without
briefs and q pIeader without clients.
In the course Of my own life, as
coming under my own observation Z,
I could give countless cases of fail
ure in all professions, bus iness and
trades. not from lack of energy and
untiring effort, but from lack of
adaptation and natural fitness and
consequent pleasure of pursuit,
Oa this matter, the business aud
professional world is all disarranged,
occurring sometimes by mistake,
sometimes by family pride and
sometimes by, what seems to be,
convenience Of location and sur
roundings.
To avoli mistakes, the character
end capacity and natural bent of a
child should he watched from Its
earliest youth. These should he
developed and cultivated intelllgent>
" and asslduouslg not exclusively
on one single line, but all the diff
ferent avenues, as fer as possible,
should be opened up to the young
mind, that an opportunity may be
given to follow, without hinCrance
the natural inclination. When this
is done boys will go from the conn
try TO become merchants, bankers
and railroad officials il tee towns
and boys will come from tue towns
10 gladden. the face of the fields and
make prosperous the land in ahund-
ant harvests and fertile soil. Every
man has bis own place in life and
he makes mistake if he takes the
place Of another and not his own.
Again, family pride often has
much TO do with the business or pro-
fession yonng man enters upon. It
is unfortunately true that labor aud
manual effort are not considered re-
spectacle By some people, who have
very mistaken ideas of life. The end
Of life is found in Is Success and
noS simply in the character of bust
nass pursuits. Ali honest effort.
whether in mechanics, agriculture or
law, in the minds Of all right think
ing people, is respectable and to be
commended. lie makes the most
and the best Of life who, by his own
personal connection and personal
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