Year: 1860

The following article, which we find in
the Valley Farmer, Western agricultural
periodical, we commend to the attention of
every farmers boy Parents should, also,
point it out to their sons, and if necessary
read it to them carefully, and then hand the
article over to them, without comment, un-
less the remarks be of mild, pleasing ma
ture:


s'In the wide world there is no more i'm
portant thing than farmers boys. They
are not so important for what they are as
fer what they will be. At present they are
Of but little consequence too often. But
farmers boys always have been and we pre-
sumo always will be the material out of
have health and strength; they have bone
and muscle; they have heart and will they
have nerve and patience they have ambi-
ton and endurance; and these are the ma
terials that make men. Not buckrams and
broadcloth, and patent leather and beaver
fur, and kid gloves and watchscals, are the
materials of which men are made. 1t takes
better stuff to make man.. 1t is not fat
and flesh and swagger and sclf-concelt; nor
yet smartness, nor hippancy, nor foppery
nor fastncss. These make fools, but not
men nor men such as the world wants, nor
such as it will honor and bless. 1t is not
long hair, nor much beard, nor cane, nor
pipe, nor cigar, nor quid of tobacco,
nor an oath, nor glass Of beer or brandy,
nor dog and gun, nor pack of cards, nor
a novel, nor vul gar book of love and MUIR
der, nor tale of adventures, that makes a
man or has anything to do with making a
man. Farmers boys ought to keep clear
Of all these idle, foolish things They
should be employed with nobler Objects
They have yet to be men of the clear grit,
honest intelligent, industrious, ambitious
men, who shall love their country and their
kind. With the means they possess how
easy for them to be in fact the first clas:
men. They have land and stock and tools:
they have health and time and mind; they
have schools and churches and papers they
have books and perseverance and the heart
and hand for work. More than this they
need not. Let them awake and work and
read and study. Tt is not all work, nor yet
all study, that will make them men of the
right stamp. They must work intelligently
and study with an earnest purpose of being
benefited, and then they will become what
| they ought to be, the real men of the world y


re" AS one Of the Dover, England, vol
untecrs. was passing along, rifle in hand, he
was accostcd by precocious urchin, who
called out


WHO shot the dog?''


This saying our friend appeared by nc
way to relish so turning, he said


elf you arc not off very soon, I'll shoot
Donkey


Whercupon the boy calling out to one Of
his companions, rcioined-


Il say, Bill, look hcrc-this ere fellow
is going to commit suicide"


Madam said druggist, the other
day, to lady who was examining some
cologne. Il assure you it is an excellent
article and if you will approximate the ex-
tension of your proboscis to the incloscd
orifce of the bottle, you will perceive the
truth of my assertion


Ezy"A gentleman was called upon to ap-
pologize for words uttered in wine. Il beg
PARDON" said he, Il did not mean to say
what [ did but I've had the misfortune to
lose some of my front teeth. and words get
out every now and then without my know
ledge"


Ey"Said a certain individual to wag,
.sThe man who has raised a cabbage head
has done more good than all the mctapbysi-
o;,,s IN tho world - t|Thon +" rnn1icd thn
wag, ''your mother ought to have the pre-