Year: 1876

| or can buy one, and know more about
farming than any other profession
stick to it, The trades are over
crowded. Only superior talent push
es IFS way up in them. Young men
are apt to get grander notions than
they are able TO b ok up. Don't
bother thinking of what you would
do If you were some one else. You
are yourself and you can't be any
body else, so go to work and be your
honest self to the extent OF your abil-
ity. known that it is quite apt for
farmer boys to think there must be
some easier way TO get living than
by farming, but easy work is some
thing no man ever found. Work is
work, the world over-nsver play.
If you lave been brought up on a
farm think thousand times before
you leaye it. 1t will yield You bet
ter living. year in and year out, than
any of the trades yon could get into,
unless you have that superior talent
for them which / referred to, which
you probably have not II you have
this ability to make yourself master
OF any profession, then 60 into it,
heart and soul, but don't mistake the
wish to be something in any particu-
lar vocation, for the ability to be it.
Don't give up certain means OF get
ting living for the sake of trying an
ex xperiment which you may have the
ability 10 make SUCCESSFUL presum-
ably not. 1 have known scores Of
boys who forsoOk the farm for the
city, and in nearly every instance
they have regretted the step they
took and would have been glad to be
back where they were, with the les
son their folly has learned them to
serve them as a warning. A farmers
is the healthiest life in the world, il
he sees fit to make il so. There is no
profession which can be made more
pleasant aud attractive, il he will
read and study how to do his work
scientifically. Put the same amount
OF brains into it that the other pro-
fessions demand. and it is second to
none of them. IT is the most noble



work, and the young man who quits
because he has got the idea into his
head that it is beneath hin, will very
likely see the time when he will wish
he had been less hasty in giving up
what he could do for something he
finds, when too late, he can not do
well. And il he gets into business
he has no special adaptation for he
must always remain at the foot Of
the ladder. So be quite sure you
have talent for what you undertake
before you leave the farm.


You say, in common with most
youhg men, that you intend to settle
down "some time. Then why not now?
The fact that most men do intend to
settle down some time shows the
general opinion is that married life
is the tue life. 1t is. You can never
be the man without a wife that you
can be with one. The sooner you
make up your mind to be such man
as you were intended to be, the bet
ter for you. Don't waste years in
knocking about" ~Don't put off un-
I'll a more convenient season" that
which constitutes the crowning act
OF mans highest, noblest manhood,
but find some one you can love for
life and make her your wife. Then,
and not till then, will you under
stand what the possibilities of your
life are. @4t


Boys, don't "knock about" Get
married and make yourselves home.
II you take this prescription for fu-
ture happiness. resolving to do the
@best that in you lies" to make the
most OF life, you will never regret it.


Sincerely, Do LEWIS.