May, 1879.
THE WEST SHORE.
'43
A STORY AVT POMMRNT9.
A younii man was very anxious to secure piece of
proierty which u Just thou (or talo on very advanta
goous terms. Ho went to confer with Irlond ol his, who
wu a banker, about the matter, ami to Inquire wholher
It wouhl Iw prudent to borrow the requisite mm ami pay
it In regular instalment. He thought he ahoulil le ana
to manage all hut the Drat instalment. He was advised
10 hnrrow (rum the liank a sum enough larger than ho
uiidiod to raise to cover the first ieymoiil, lat It strictly
aalds anil then go ahead. " Hut," said his friend, " you
must sH'iid literally nothing. You must llvo off your
place. You must make a box and drop In it ail the money
you receive. " The young man and his wife went bravely
to work to follow his ailvlce. If it was necessary to dine
off a head of bolloil cabbage and salt, they did so and
never grumbled. Kvery payment was promptly mot
The egg money, and the butler money, and the corn and
wheat niunev all went into the wyuient box, and at the
Bpecirieil time the place was thelr's. There was an Invisible
wealth shout such hard-earned pososlnn that common
observers knew nothing of. On the very day of tho last
pvyiuuiit the young man presented hllusoll Mora his
friend with a smiling face and with theiiiouoy in his hand
There were no rags to he seen, hut his clothing was well
covered with darns from head to fool. " You see I have
followed your ailvlce," he said, oasling glance over him
self, "and my wife looks worse than I do. Hut I have
earned the farm and now 1 know how to earn another." -Cincinnati
Timri.
The above touching narrative ii doing regular
sorvice in our exchanges ai a true story of the
experience of a young man in agriculture, anil
the conclusion ia that other young men are ox
bortad to 1I0 likewise. This being ita manifest
purpose, we caunot let it go unchecked, becauie
it ia, even if true, wholly inapplicable to the
caaea of the vaat majority of the young men to
whom it is bold nut as a precedent. Wo beliovo
in uxhiirting young men t go forward and in
urging them to take earneat hold for themselvea
of tho problems of home and livelihood, but it
ia wrong to iueite them by recitals of exception
able rx'xiriences.
In the first place, not one young man in a
thousand who haa to make a start fur himself,
can Mud a bank which will loan tho full pur
chase price of a piece of property to anyone
unless there lie ample collateral security. This
young man happened to have a friend who wan
a banker, and who lent thu money aa a friend
and nut as a bauker. The impliod advice would
lie, then, young men, go to your rich and gen
erous friends, and get them to accommodate you
to an extent lieyond what ia usual in business
transactions, f couiae, this advioe is, gener
ally, impracticable, becauae moat young men
cannot llnd such indulgent friends.
The hanker a advioe to the young man about
the Howl of systematic economy and hustiandiiig
of every dollar which may lie received, ia ex
oollenl Thia, counted with the diaiHwition to
work, will accomplish wonders. We can be
lieve almost any account of individual aueoraa
by such methods, but it is not wiae to draw
general oonelusiona from occasional individual
instances, because moat young men, or old men
either, do not possess the genius of self-drnial
or accumulation which is requisite to thia man
ner of success. It ia alao true that since the
productive industries of thia country entered
the area of low values which nnw prevails, a
farm, which, year after year, gives a livelihood
to the farmer and returns a surplus equivalent
to the interest nKin the value of the iimperty,
is batter than the average of farma. Still more
exceptional ia the farm which will do both theae
things, and in addition yield an instalment of
ita purchaae price. Of ooarae it ia done in cer
tain esses, but such ia not tb- rule. Sometimes
a single crop will wall nigh pay for the land on
which it ia grown, but such eroie are lika visits
of the angels. No ; a yang man who starts
out to pay for a farm which haa a mortgage aa
large aa the deed, will, in moat cases, lite! his
task hka that of lifting himself by hie boot
strapa. It ia hard enough to clear off a mort
gage whan a good part of tbs land is free, bat
this may, in some nasaa. ha wisely undertaken
Whan it is more than tins w should want to b
vary aura that than was a friend in the bank.
Our ialUoa la then, concerning the fact de
sen bad ia the narrative, that it ia impracticable
as a rats, Brat, becaaas it b impossible to gat
lou ouu ,u u,u way uweuriowu ; saHHiuil, it any
second oould follow a primal impoasibility, it
would bo impoasihle to keep it if it oould be had.
Wu have now a lesson to read this successful
youug mau. Me did well to allude to the econ
omy he aud his wife had practiced to aociire
the end in view; aud that hia wife waa won
utr in pniut of apparel than waa he, ia only what
is commonly the ease wheu a true woman seta
out, with womanly devotion, to aid her hue
hand in Ins - In one securing enterprises. Ilut
with this fact iu uiiud, the young man con
cludes: "but have earned the farm," etc. lie
waa wrong and egotistical beyond measure.
Mis weary and eollaaerilluing wifu had doue
fully aa much aa ho hail toward their mutual
success, and his words should havu been " He
have earned the farm." Do not forgot this fad,
successful youug men! When your devoted
wivea labor during the lung daylight hours in
thu homo and its attendant industries, the dairy
and the poultry yard, and probably sit up half
the night, while you are sleeping, toiling with
tired lingers to give your worn garments a sem
blance of respectability, neglecting their own
wardroboa that you mav lie saved from raga
never forget to say " Wt earned the farm. "
'uifft'c Rural I'rtiu.
BOYS WANTKD.
There sro alwaya boys onoiigb in the market,
but some of them are of little use. Tho kind
that are always wanted are: I. Honest; ',
Pure; .1. Intelligent; 4. Active; A. Industrious;
6. Obedient; 7. Steady: H. Obliging; II, I'olite;
10. Neat
One thou s.i 11. J first-rate places are npe-n for a
thousand boys who come up to this standard.
Many of these places of trade and art are al
ready tilled hy Imye who lack aome of the mint
important points, but they will soon be vauant.
One haa an oHIoe where the lad who haa the sit
uation is losing his H rat miht. Mo likea to
attend the driuking saloon and the theater: this
costs more money than ho nan afford, but some
how he manages to lie there frctpwnlly. Ilia
employers are ipuotly watching to learn how he
geta so much spending money; they will soon
discover a leak in the money-drawer, detect the
dishonest hoy, and his place will lie ready for
some one who is nnw getting ready for it by ob
serving point No. I and lieing truthful in all his
wave.
Some situations will soon lie vacant lecaiias
the boys have been poisoned hy reading had
hooka, such aa they would not dare to ahow
their fathers and would he ashamed to hsve
their mothers see. The impure thoughts sug
gosted by these books will lea. I to vicious sots:
the boys will be ruined, and their places must
be tilled. Who will be ready for one uf these
vacanciea ?
Distinguished lawyers, useful ministers, skill
ful physicians, successful merchants must all
soou leave their places for somebody else to till;
one by one they are removed by death.
Mind your HI points, hoys; thsy will prepare
you to step int.. vacanciea in the front rank.
Iliui-.r MatiIkmatics. To estimate what a
bridge will cost any city if It la done by con.
tract: Take the highest figures presented by
auy engineer and multiply them by the length
of the bridge in inches, point "IT two place, and
then sld enough to prosecute any one who baa
anything to do with handling the funds, and
the result is that the bridge is an olsUrurtion
to navigation, ttorail Ft "rest.
"Yor bigoted nigger," said Ham to Peto,
"Kig-gotad, what do yoa mean by dat" ssked
Pat. "Why," reps ted Ham, "bigoted means
yoa know ton much for on nigger, and not
enough for two,
111) used on a railway atgmfie danger, and
says "stop." It it taw same thing displayed on
A SlUKY POK tl(M)l) LITTI.K OIKLS.
Ma-ry waa a good girL She loved bar
dear broth-en and sis. ten. I will tall yoa on
mce thing aha did. Her moth ei waa vary sick.
She hail to stay in her bed all night and all day.
Ma ry's father told her one day, "Mary, yoar
moth er is too sick to leave her bad. Yoa
must hit a ninth -or to your lit tie broth .era and
I. is And Ma-rv said. "Yaa. n.na." Kn
her fsth er gave bar money. He tohther to buy
bread and meat and eeo that all hail e nough to
eat. Ma ry took the mon ey. When her fa
1 in-1 had gone to hia work aha called her broth
en and sis-tan togoth-er. She said "Yon lika
can dy and cakaa and doll, aud bs by raga.
You shall havo can dy and cakea and dolls aud
ha bv raga. " And theshildren oriad, "Oh. tlvi
win Iw so nice ! Then Ma rv took some rve.
meal and matin aome nioe pod ding. Wit the
mon ey her fa ther hail giv en her aha bought
candy ami cakea anil dolls anil ba by raga. The
iieai nay tney nan pint Ming for break fait.
rnriiin nor tney hail pint .ling, they hail nod.
ding for sup tier. They hail nuddlnu three
times a day for two weeks. Wheu their moth .
got well they did not tease her for oaa-dy
d cakea and doll, ami U bv rain. No. tksv
be haved lika good children And whan meal
time came they did not turn up then lit tin
110-aea at what waa aet lie fore them, aa I have
seen some chit .In u do. They at of what their
ttear moth er of -fered them. Ma-ry waa som-pli-metit
otl on her man ait menl id ohil dren.
Those chil dren were never af ter-ward known
to cry for ryo-puddiug.
HOW TO PltKVKNT DIHKAHRH AMONO
tllll.l'UKN.
A com I. ni of the New York 7'osaj say
that he haa followed a recommendation from a
l,d-, to evaxiriaa a little oarbolio a. id daily la
the heaters ss a disinfectant ami a preventive
againat contagious disease, and the results as
been most satisfactory " hate a large school,
and nut of the whole number only two pupils
nave iioen sick with acsilet lever, and even
these caaea ware indirect one. In my owa
family, which consists of U children farta
nately not all my own and live adults, not una
haa been afflicted with any malady, not ve
with a sore throat, for longer than a day or two.
We certainly keep the house minutely clean,
ventilate it thoroughly every day, and never
heat tin- r. Mini, above on Pah. Duriag my 10
yean' experience I hav never seen the Ilk."
We think It pmheiile that lh us of a small
uantity of . ai'... I:, acid in the manner there
mentioned may, in some oeeae, be beneficial.
Ilut if it were the golden rul in every family to
keei, the houae minutely clean, ventilate it thor
uglily every day, and never heal above (10
rah , there would probably lie little need of
earbolio aeid or any othr drug.
CaJTiui Hoar. The reason that oaetile aoan
ia an ettoaaively advised by physicians la b
esuse of It purity ami freedom flora alkali la
the manufacture of uaallle soap, vegetable oil I
11 sett Instead of animal fat, aad great ear I
taken to avoid an aloes ol the antlai oaly
enough laving used In lake Bp or neutralise lbs
ml. Thia soap, therefore, la mild aad gaatla,
ami can be used on irritated surface or wounds,
where mammon sssp would give paia, per heps
reaston injury. The inotUad sorts of casta
soap ar mad by lh addition of a small iiuaa
tily of sulphate of iron copperas. Thia tem
peras in solution is stirred into lh soap while
in a fluid state. At Drat the aulor ia Mulsh, on
espoaur to the air it chsngaa la a fad. This
eoep waa called "raattl," for la rssana that It
waa largely made la the previa i Naaia a
called. Ths Largest amount, howsvsr,
from lh south of Fraaaa, aad la karoo lei
variety of aoan is more gsaiially known by Ik
nam. of Msrweillaa than castll.