Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1874 — “If I Had Leisure.” [ARTICLE]

“If I Had Leisure.”

“If I had leisure I would repair that weak place in my fence,” said a farmer, lie had none, however, and while drinking cider with a neighbor the cows broke in and injured a prime piece of corn. lie had leisure then to repair his fence, but it did not bring back his corn. “If I had leisure,” said a wheelwright last winter, “I would alter my stovepipe, for I know it is not safe.” But he did not find time, and when his shop caught fire and burnt down lie found leisure to build another. “ If I had leisure,” said a mechanic, “ I' should have my work done in season.” The man thinks his time has been all occupied, but he was not at work till after sunrise; he quit work at five o’clock, smoked'a cigar after dinner, and spent two hours on the street talking nonsense with an idler. “ If I had leisure,” said a merchant, “ I would pay more attention to my accounts and try and collect my bills more, promptly.” The chance is, my friend, if you had leisure you would probably pay less attention to the matter than you do now. The thing lacking with hundreds of farmers who till the soil is not more leisure, but more resolution—the spirit to do, tO do now. If the farmer who sees his fence in a poor condition would only act at once, how much might be saved? It would prevent breacliy cattle creating quarrels among neighbors that in many cases terminate in law-suits, which take nearly all they are both- worth to pay the lawyers. The fact is, farmers and.mechanics have more leisure,than they are aWare of for study and improvement of their minds. They have the long evenings oiK winter in which they can post themselves upon all the improvements of the day, if they will take ably-conducted agricultural journals and read them with care. The farmer who fails to study his business, and then gets shaved, has nobody but himself to blame.— Cor. N. E. Farmer.

The following extract is from an Editorial' Article which appeared in the Buffalo "News" of May 3,1874: A Mammoth Establishment anti an Enterprising Proprietor. It is hardly necessary for us to call attention to the whole-page communication from Dr. It. V. Pierce, of the Worlds Dispensary, which appears in this issue, as at least every invalid suffering from Chronic Disease must see and take a lively interest in the sound, commonsense ideas therein set forth as well as in the indisputable evidences of wonderful cures that are given, Buffalo has several business establishments of which she may justly feel proud, but few, if any, indeed, that has acquired such worldwide fame and reputation as that of Dr. Pi erce —“ The World’s Dispensary.” This establishment well merits its appellation, “ The World’s Dispensary,” as it is without doubt the largest and most complete of its kind that can be found anywhere, and medicines are prepared within its walls that find a ready sale in every' quarter of tiie globe. In fact the foreign trade forms no small part of the business. A visit to the shipping department, which is on the first floor, gives one a slight idea of the colossal proportions of the business there transacted. Here the Visitor may see, as we did, huge piles of boxes being shipped to wholesale houses in every' part of .the land, also to foreign countries —even China and Japan contributing to the demand for tliesio popular medicines. The Doctor has achieved this immense patronage and demand for his celebrated remedies by hfs greatskiil as a physician, the superior curative virtues of the remedies he has discovered, and his honorable dealings, indomitable will and ceaseless industry. Tha cures that lie has effected have often been wonderful, in fact almost miraculous, having frequently been effected, as be has shown us by ample evidence, after many eminent physicians in succession had failed. This success has had the effect to give him an immense practice at the World’s Dispensary, so that, in a single month, he probably treats and cures more eases of inveterate Chronic Diseases than most physicians, in ordinary practice, treat in a whole life-time. His practice has become so large that lie is obliged to employ four physicians to assist him in the examination and treatment of cases. And in the selection of his professional assistants he has spared no expense to secure men of thorough medical education, and who have been well skilled in the school of experience; Each devotes Iris whole time and attention to a specialty, while Dr. Pi euce, who lias not only received degrees from at least two of the first Medical Colieges in the land, the evidence of which, in the shape of Diplomas, we noticed hanging in his office, but lias also the advantage of an immense experience, is in constant consultation with them over the more difficult cases. Thus the patient has not only the ben” etit of Dr. Pierce’s large experience, but also that of a Council of Physicians, each skilled in his particular specialty. Besides all these assistant physicians, in the dispensary department are also employed a short-hand reporter to assist in correspondence, and dispensing or drug clerks, each skilled in liisbusiness, that the Doctor’s prescriptions may, be compounded with the greatest care.. Whoever has observed, as we have, thmerowd of patients almost constantly in the reception-rooms at the World’s Dispensary, and lias heard the heartfelt expressions of gratitude and praise which they lavishly bestow upon the honorable and worthy proprietor,' cannot fail to agree with us that the diligent medical devotion, patient industry and unconquerable energy that have enabled Dr. Pierce to achieve so much have at the same time conferred a real blessing upon suffering humanity. We publish the above, not as a “ paid puff,” but as only a fair representation of one of the first business men of the land, whose fame is becoming world-renowned and whose enterprise contributes in no small degree to the prosperity of the city, giving employment to large numbers, and in other various ways promoting the general welfare of the people. Imitators should never be encouraged. Their goods are always inferior in quality and intended to deeeive. Buy the genuine 'Elmwood Collar. It has all the edges folded so that they will not turn out. A survey for a branch road to Hot Springs,'Ark., leaving the main line of the Cairo &, Fulton Road thirty-one miles south of Memphis, has been completed.

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