| Show FARMERS SONS ap i the important inquiry was m made a d e in the wistern rural some time since how shall we train our boys so that they will be farmers when they are men the query is partly met in a subsequent number by the remarks of a farmer who found no difficulty in retaining his boys at home simply by giving them pleasant occupation there please permit some further suggestions make farm life attractive to them wplie walle walie young an existence of mere mechanical drudgery like that of the treadmill is illy fitted to retain an intelligent youth in any occupation which Impo imposes it pour around your calling the light of science bring to it the refinements of culture and the excitement of intelligent and practical investigation ti particularly let the mother be interested and informed and by daily conversation infuse her own enthusiasm into the spirits of other her sons make the farmhouse farm house a place of delight to the senses and an inspiration to the soul this will assist in encouraging an interest in your own noble calling which will be likely to bring forth fruit in afterlife after life but if after all some of your sons should steadfastly incline to other pursuits do not attempt to thwart nature for she does not mould all minds alike in the same family may be found a great variety of talent and inclination if you try to compel a boy to an occupation ti I 1 on which he seriously dislikes you not only discourage or di disgust bul but but perhaps prevent the life of usefulness which he might lead in another lend him a helping hand in whatever calling he may prefer showing him that his interests are your interests tb that at although yo your ur own favorite pursuit is not his choice you are yet willing to assist him in usefulness and honor in another there should be a mutual confidence between parent and son let the father listen patiently to the boys plans plana and hopes and encourage him to speak of them what if they are chimerical what if a ripe experience sees that they can never be realized let the father be in no haste to dampen the ardor of the boy but by degrees unfold the subject in its proper light and by cautiously changing the current of his mind lead him not drive him from his unwise purpose A son who makes a father eis his confident e t if that father be wise will be in much less danger of acting rashly than if he should kee keep his own counsel or only counsel with ath those whose experience has been no more extensive than his own SOME of the british off omm meers officers in india have successfully tried a novel expedient for making the idle and vicious in districts under their control become honest and industrious members of the community the experiment was begun in 1860 in the punjab through the instrumentality odthe of the police those persons in the various villages who had rendered themselves obnoxious by thieving or begging were placed in a villa village e by themselves where land was given ethein them wells were sunk and they were furnished with agricultural implements clements ts they were then informed that they must henceforth depend on their own exertions and that whether living comfortably by their own industry or dying with hunger from their idleness they would not bo be allowed to quit the spot where they had been placed at first as may be imagined there was great grumbling much turbulence bu lence and many threats but when the men found that these were all in vain and that the government intended what what it had ordered they gradually took to their work and after a time settled down into a peaceful and industrious little community The they have acquired a pride in their cottages cetta cotta and allotments are better clad more cleanly in their habits and in every respect much altered for the better indeed they have become so reconciled to the change in their mode of life that they one and all declare that they have no wish to return to their former career da career reer in another case a predatory tribe were compelled to settle and cultivate I 1 under penalty of the lash iash and at the end of two years the off omm meers officers were invited by their reclaimed thieves burglars and fortune helleis to a feast anthe on the fhe produce of their farms the sandwich island government h has haa as ado adopted feted the same system in regard to the e le lepers pera pere on those islands who have been colonized by themselves and are obliged to cultivate the he ground for a subsistence |
