The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-07-11
SUCCESS AND TIME TO ENJOY

said at an Institute last winter that many
farmers might well have this inscrip-
tion on their tombstones: "Stopped
dong chores on such u date" instead
OF saying they died. This is rather
startling way OF putting great truth
Bu' the trouble is that those to whom
Cur text carries lesson will not hoed
any ordinary message. They are doing
certain way, have done 1t for long
time, and it is no easy task to make
them think there is Il better way. Now,
my good friends, throw aside for
few minutes your inherited notions,
your prciudices, and listen to me and
see if there is not sound sense in what
| say. Thousands of you have so
many thn"a to DO well you simply can
not do al! OF them well. You have so
many cnorcs and little jobs outside of
the regular large ones that the hours Of
| daylight, even III summer, are hardly
long enough to enable you to get
through. As Henry Van Dresser, of
N. Y, says: "1 on 90 to bed tired out
and then have to get up before you are
rested You have little time for re-
creation and social intercourse. OF
course there is an excuse for such
persistent work when one Is IN debt
and trying TO pay for his home. But
even then there is Il question about its
paying. | believe one can usually 50
manage us to get along Just as fast and
not be 50 much tied up TO this work.
And then he can get more out of life
as he goes along. When The best Of
ones life Is spent in working early and
late aud almost constantly to get ahead,
the habit is Likely TO become so fixed
that one will not be able to take
comfort in later years when he be-
comes abundantly able TO. Can not
you think of maby who are in just this
fix do-day? DO you not know many
men and women who will work and
drudge and save TO the very end, never
fully enjoying the fruits of their in.
dustry, only to leave much property,
that will usually Dc curse to the
children who were thus brought up?
"As the twig is bent so the tree in
clincs." Work, and work hard and
persistently, dear friends, for a reason
able amount of the comic orts and luXur-
les of this life, but do itwthin bounds.
Take time for rest and recreation as
regularly as you work.
There is no longer any money in
half doing any thing. a few things
thoroughly well done will actually pay
you better than more things part of
which have to be sighted. BY working
this line you may really be able to put
on in less hours than you do now and
still make more. And many Of you can
now purchase some things you produce
and be the gamers. You can thus get
rld Of little cares and worries and make
as much by simply doing a little more
in some big line, where you will not
notice the difference. The writer has
worked this all out yeas ago, on
his farm. beginning when he was
badly in debt he worked his way out
on this plan. The regular work in
summer began al I a. m. and ended
at q ?. m, as rule, with an hour out
for dinner. In order to have as few
chores and odd jobs as possible for
all pigs and chickens and many other
things. We did not make our own
butter at all Two men were kept, as
a rule, and they only had to feed and
clean the horses and mix one cow i'm
the morning, and the same chores
after at night. Thus we were able
to have Breakfast and supper at $50,
with little work before the one and
none after the latter. Our crops were
so planned that there was no great
rush necessary ut amy time. We found
that good men, such as we kept, would
do as much in 10 hours as men or
dinarily did who worked from sun to
sun. The truth is, believe we made
more money working this way. |
rarely did anything myself before I
O'Clock or after &. Wife and | were
often out driving when some farmers
were still working, and think we got
ahead about as fast rs any of them
Now don't say we were favorably
situated. We were not at first. We
have worked from daylight in the
morning until dark at night-bcgan that
way, and then we determined to make
the situation change.
For nearly quarter Of century we
kept no pigs or chickens, had no gar
den to speak of, made no butter, but
just raised clover, potatoes and wheat.
One COW was kept TO give us milk and
cream. We dispensed with calves,
colts, oats, corn and lots of other things.
We bought what we needed that we
did not raise, and paid on our debts or
laid up nice sum of money yearly,
and had considerable time 10 en- Joy life.
Some five years ago | wished to get
out of potato growing and the hard
work connected with 1t. We had
made enough, SO it was not necessary
to look to the financial part as closely.
SO we began a gradual change, and
our son has been working into dairying
instead of potato growing. Some
thought we were going to add to our
sources of income, but they were mis-
taken. All that is done on the farm
now Is to care for the dairy andNrow
hay for them and wheat. Th(& are
no chickens, no pigs, practicall Nh.
ing else only that we must RAJ, 2
or four calves in order to getbtHc best
| cows Robert, Of course, cannot bring
his work quite as nearly within the 10
hours as we did; he must milk before
breakfast, but on The other hand he is
not crowded as much during work
hours part CT the season as we used
to be. Now, L am not telling of these
things expecting that you can do just
as we have, but rather tU show YOU the
principle that will bring you success
and give you time TO enjoy it. In re-