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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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Education found in him a powerful advocate, and fast 
friend. Having experienced its benefits, he endeavored 
to inspire all within his reach with a love for sound learn¬ 
ing. One of his highest solicitudes for his children was 
that they should be well educated, as a principal and 
efficient means of personal respectability and permanent 
usefulness. He considered no effort too great for him 
to put forth on behalf of the intellectual culture of his 
family. Upon the education of twelve children, he ex¬ 
pended, of the hard earnings of an industrious energetic 
life, the sum of $50,000, thus laying them under lasting 
obligations to use well the advantages so kind a father 
had procured them, at such cost. His efforts did not 
end with his own family. He delighted in encouraging 
poor deserving young men in a course of study, and 
helped many by communications from his own large ex¬ 
perience, and by loans of money. As President of Ber¬ 
wick Academy, he was constantly watchful for its pros¬ 
perity,—so managing its funds as to-make them increase 
a thousand dollars in his hands,—was solicitous of the 
welfare of all who came within its walls, personally ex¬ 
amined the qualifications of its various teachers and of 
the successive classes of scholars about departing to high¬ 
er seminaries, always imparting to them wise counsels 
and kind encouragement. 
Our friend was a great lover of the useful , and taught 
his family to love and seek the same. He was untiring 
in his efforts to impress the minds of his children with 
the importance of setting before themselves virtuous 
useful ends, and of bending every faculty to their at¬ 
tainment ; telling them that in the path of duty,—that 
in duty performed,—they must alone expect that mea¬ 
sure of happiness this life can give, and felicity hereaf¬ 
ter. It was a favorite maxim, often repeated by him, 
that “ Doing makes the man.” He would say that 
doing —making earnest effort—strengthens the judgment, 
enlarges all the faculties,—that wisdom may increase by 
effort, as well as muscular activity. Another maxim, 
derived from Solomon, he frequently rehearsed to his 
sons, with great emphasis: u Seest thou a man diligent 
in business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not 
stand before mean men.” How much of the true pa¬ 
triot, as well as the wise father, was exhibited in the 
domestic life of our departed friend! Surely there can 
be no safe-guard to the institutions of our country, at 
all comparable with such family training. He con¬ 
stantly held up the idea to his children that their future 
usefulness and success depended upon themselves,—that 
their characters and standing in life were entirely at their 
own disposal. He taught them by precept, and also by 
his own shining example, that education does not end 
with youth, but is rather the business of a life-time,— 
that they must be always learning, always seeking for 
and storing up knowledge, always turning it to useful, 
practical account. A great writer well remarks,—and we 
here find a practical illustration of his remarks—“ that 
judicious education anxiously displays to its pupils its own 
insufficiency and confined scope, and tells them that this 
whole earth can be but a place of tuition, till it become 
either a depopulated ruin, or an elysium of perfect and 
happy beings. Its object is to qualify them for entering 
with advantage into the greater school where the whole 
of life is to be spent, and its last emphatic lesson is to 
enforce the necessity of an even watchful discipline, 
which must be imposed by each individual seZ/,'when 
exempted from all external authority. The privileges, 
the hazards, and the accountableness of this maturity 
of life, and the consignment to one’s self, make it an in¬ 
teresting situation. It is to be entrusted with the care 
of a being infinitely dear, whose destiny isyetunknown, 
whose faculties are not fully expanded, whose interests 
we but dimly ascertain, whose happiness we may throw 
away, and whose animation we had rather indulge to 
revel than train to labor. * * * Everything is edu¬ 
cation; the trains of thought we are indulging this hour; 
the society in which we shall spend the evening; the 
conversations, walks, and incidents of to-morrow. And 
so it ought to be; we may thank the world for its in¬ 
finite means of impression and excitement, which keep 
our faculties awake and in action, while it is our impor¬ 
tant office to preside over that action, and guide it to 
some divine result.” 
A lasting monument of Judge Hayes’s usefulness may 
be found in his life as a farmer. He had been settled in 
the practice of law but a few years, when he purchased 
160 acres of land situated a little out from the village, 
moved immediately upon it, and there reared his family. 
It is one of the oldest settled tracts of land in that part 
of Maine; and at the time of his purchase, it was 
thoroughly worn out, and turned mostly to pasturage. 
He determined to make it gradually more productive, 
by steady, but at no time extravagant investments of 
capital,—a principal and favorite idea with him being to 
set an example in farming that any man of moderate 
means and some enterprise might follow with safety and 
advantage. He once remarked to me, that after his 
means became ample, he often felt a temptation stealing 
over him to enter largely into investments for the im¬ 
provement of his estate; but he had permitted his origin¬ 
al idea to prevail, and the farming had not been suffered 
to run in debt to him. He was a pioneer in his state in 
what is denominated The New Husbandry,—in the mak¬ 
ing of compost manures, the systematic rotation of crops, 
the introduction of improved implements and farm-stock, 
in reclaiming wild wet land, and in restoring fertility to 
old worn-out land. He was in the habit of devoting the 
early hours of day to the farm; and this not only ex¬ 
tended his sphere of usefulness, it also added length of 
life, and enabled him to bring freshness of mind and a 
robust body to the discharge of professional and other 
duties. In advanced life, he found high enjoyment and 
grateful recreation, in surveying the improvements that 
had been progressing for a life-time, and in carrying 
those improvements forward to a completion. He went 
forth to the fields, armed with all the theories cf agri¬ 
culture ; and so far as science has yet been able to ex¬ 
plain, he could explain the principles by which nature 
operates; which, added to his own keen perception, and 
a scrutinizing observation which saw everything, fitted 
him to be, what he was, a model farmer. Anybody— 
no matter who—could learn something in a day spent 
with Judge Hayes upon his farm. 
Thoroughness, systematic arrangement, and an adapta¬ 
tion of one thing to another, were characteristics of our 
friend’s farming. He would do things thoroughly on the 
score of economy, if for no other reason, and in all ex. 
