The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-13

Advice is about the cheapest com
modify in the market and generally
speaking is worth about what ii
costs. The most willing gratuitous
counsellors are those who know
the least about the subject they I'M
dertake to shed light upon. Unso-
Heited advice as rule is nothing
more nor less than good old fash
Toned meddlesomc impudence.
The doctor, the lawyer, the teach
er, the preacher, the merchant, the
banker, the peddler and the Sun
day school teacher all feel the i'm
perative call of duty to guide the
farmer through intricate ways and
means of coaxing mother earth To
generously remunerate him for his
labors. There is nothing strange
about it for | never saw an Old
maid who could not give the wives
of the land full instructions in the
are of managing the most refrac-
tory husbands, nor a bachelor but
that was fully competent to train in
the way they should go as many
boys and girls as could get around
him.
If we could understand the de-
tails of own business as well as we
do that Of our neighbors there
would be no failures, there would
be no domestic troubles, there
would be no disobedient children,
and there would be a continuous ride
on the merry go round minus the
dizziness. If some power would the
gift give us to see ourselves as 9TH
ers see us we would either become
bedlamites or the millennium song
would burst forth from the four
corners of the earth.
| never give advice unsolicited
infraetion of rule of a life time.
However, l believe I am safe in as
sorting that Their is no vocation of
man that has reached that high
state of development where i'm
provement is impossible.
Having been born and reared on,
the farm and having been associa-
ted with the tillers of the soil more
than with any other class of work
ers, l believe l am Qualified as
witness touching their work and
their thoughts. would not pre-
sumo to suggest any thing concern
ing the details of crop raising. All
could suggest is that each and
every farmer like the followers OF
other vacations give his work his
besG and most earnest thought and
chat he investigate all theories at
tainable and after exercising his
best judgment test to a limited ex-
tent such as seem reasonable. The
lawyer subscribes for and reads the
law journals and reads the latest
decisions of the higher court, the
doctor reads his medical journals
and tests such treatments as seem
reasonable to him; the clergyman
eagerly seeks for tho latest thought
On altruist theological questions,
the machinist looks with eager
pectation for each number of his
scientific journal for the latest in
vention of pratieal appliances; the
teacher consults every available au-
thor on the topics coming up in the
lessons for the morrow; but the
majority of those upon whom we
depend for food and raiment depend
upon the propitious smiles OF the
god of the harvest and the customs
of their forefathers for their sue
cess. One of the greatest factors IN
the production of discomfort in the
ranks of any class Of workers is the
fact that they consider their en-
ployment rather in the light of en-
forced servitude than as a field
for unlimited investigation. NO
man ever extracted any pleasure
from any vocation II he considered
that he was only fighting for exist
ence. If we are not in full harmony
with our labors we are indeed and
in truth in bondage and necessity
is our taskfnaster If we engage IL
work with affirm conviction that
our vocation is imperfectly known
that there are truths connected
with it not yet discovered and thai
within US lies the power to reveal
to mankind new beauties and ne"
utilities thereby lettering our own