Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1876 — Boys, Do Something. [ARTICLE]

Boys, Do Something.

We want to say just a word to the boys of the farm. We have no sermon to deliver, no lecture—just a bare suggestion—and we hope .every farmers’ boy will heed it. Make a beginning for yourselves this Centennial jear. The time will finally come when you must look to your own exertions for a living. It is your wisest course to fit yourselves early for ithe battle of life. Solicit from your father the right to plant and cultivate some .certain plot of ground, be it ever so email, the product from which shall be your own. Prepare, it most thoroughly, plant it with care, keep it clean of weeds, harvest the crop and sell it, .putting the proceeds at a fair rate of interest, so that when you “become of age,” you wHI be able to begin your business career as independent, well-to-do citizens. Suppose you are ton, or twelve, or fourteen years of age. Just sit down and figure up what the mete trifle you may earn for yourselves this year, at compound interest, will amount to by the time you are twenty-one years old! Then if you add to it eaeh year, in a proportion to your efficiency as farmers, you wiil he astonished at the result. Do not fear that your parents will not second your every effort. Nothing will please them so mumt as to realize that you .are really a young farmer, with great hopes of the future and a great ambition to excel. They know that the farm house k the real home of happiness and comfort, if within it are found contentment and high aspirations. Tbetime has fullycGiSe when the lorcS of the soil are the lords of the country. With careful lives, with good edneation, with even fair ability, the farm boy may hold any and all positions, when in manhood’s prime, and it is to him that the Nation, in these days of corruption, must look for true manhood and true patriotism. The beginning of nil this future brilliant career Is dependent upon early self-exertion more than upon all other things. Whether, your parents are rich or poor, does not matter; it is individuality that wins. Strive to have and to be something, while the bright son of youth lights the way .—Prairie Farmer. When Brigham Young finds that the biscuit are burned and the meat is over, done, he pats on his hat and goes out and brings home a new wife. This course is calculated to make his wives careful. The acreage of cotton in the Sooth this season is 9,51£,000,