The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-01-01

: Oy SpectuC PERMISSION.
thirty is not better off than he was
at twenty. It is a simple process,
and for its non observance there can
be no possible excuse Let the boy
or man live so economically that he
always has something to lay by, and
he is certain to have, in the end, a
competence to protect him against
all ordinary worries. OF course,
there may come unavoidable acct
dents but even these will be more
easily combated if, as a young man,
the habit of ecOnOmizing has been
cultivated. l wonder constantly,
when 1 meet examples of misery
caused by unthriftiness, how such
things can be with a human being
whose brain is normal.
Much of the fault lies in the siren
uOus and unnatural life that we find
in cities. County people rarely suffer
such extreme poverty as we find in
the great centres of population.
The farmers boy is instinctively
saving and careful. He sees all
about him examples of husbandry.
The bees, the ants and the squirrels
all provide carefully for a rainy day.
Man alone violates this natural in
stinCt, and he violates it more gen.
orally in the luxurious life of the
city than in the palmer and simpler
life of the country.
AVOID the sRRBARIsM OF LUXURY.
A man should at no time spend
more than is necessary for decent
living. Extreme luxury and lavish
ness are signs, not of cultivation,
but of barbarism. Their existence
sets a very vicious example. It is be-
cause they e on all hands such an
extreme waste of money that the
youth who grow up in cities go into
the world with perverted ideas. They
want to dress beyond their means,
eat beyond their means and live in
houses that T beyond their means.
No matter how fast Il man may
make money, he owes it to society
as we'll as to himself to be ecOnOmi-
cal. He should always make all the
money he can in an honest, legiti-
mate way, and save all he can. He
should try to live not for himself
alone, but for others. He should
manage to give away something to
charity. If his income is so limited
that the can afford only ten cents ii
week for charity, let him give that
ten cents. Besides doing good to
others, he will stimulate himself and
help his own character.
Nothing is more harmful and moth
ing is sillier than the endeavor to
emulate others in the spending of
money or in eXtravagant living. The
young man working at a desk wants
the most stylish cut of clothing and
the most expensive pleasures, simply
because his neighbor INDUCES in
these extravaganza fancies. He is
not strOng-willed enough to resist,
and of course that leads to inevita-
BILE ruin.
I am no prophet, but I venture to
assert that any young man who
will live up to the following set of
rules will get more genuine happi-
ness out of life than his neighbor
who violates them. I will also
prOphesy that he will inevitably win
success. Not, necessarily, such sue
cess as will lift him above the seventy
five million people in this county,
but moderate, comfortable uccess
FOLLOW THESE RULES or LIFE FOR SUCCESS.
Out of every dollar earned save
twenty-five cents. Save seventy
five cents if you can, but never less
than twenty five.
Get up at a regular hour every
morning, and work until the things
that are before you are finished.
Don't drop what you have in hand
because it is five o'clock.
Be honest; always have the Our
age to tell the truth.
Don't depend on others. Even if
you have a rich father, strike out