ANNUAL NEPORT. 
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culture. Do not consider that you are engaged in menial service, 
if you even assist in the labor of the farm or garden which you are 
physically able to perform, if your labor is not required in household 
duties. The service you can thus render may remove a mortgage 
from the homestead, instead of placing a second one upon it by 
earning nothing and spending the season at some fashionable 
watering place or summer resort. It is said to be very fashionable 
among ladies now-a-days to have a brown tint to their complexion 
in autumn, showing that they have spent the season at the seaside 
or'mountain resort, and of course have secured this color bv the ex- 
penditure of hundreds of dollars. This certainly is pleasant, and I 
find no fault with it, if it can be afforded. This money can all be 
saved, however, and I will guaranty the requisite tint given, by 
labor upon the farm or in the garden, and additional health and 
strength secured; and added to all this, should be the rich con¬ 
sciousness that they have, by labor, contributed something to the 
general welfare. Why is it that our foreign-born citizens seldom 
lose their farms, if mortgaged for one-third to one-half their value, 
while our native-born do not, in a majority of cases, meet such lia¬ 
bilities? It is because the family of the former class, girls as well 
as boys, do all they can to earn a living and to keep that monster, 
interest — at the rate paid in this country — from taking their 
possessions. 
Lessons of economy, frugality and industry must be taught our 
young women as well as our young men, and a desire inculcated to 
do what they can, do something for the common support of the 
family, and that labor in all the varied channels of legitimate in¬ 
dustry is not only respectable, honorable and highly commendable, 
but is a blessing to themselves, and the great foundation element 
of progressive society. 
The prosperity of a state or nation is governed, to a great extent, 
upon the success attending the producers of those things which 
benefit mankind. They who, by hard study, solve a problem or 
establish a principle, the object of which is to secure happiness and 
prosperity to the people, are producers and aids to society. The 
merchant, mechanic, manufacturer, and all who use brain and 
muscle in contributing to the legitimate wants of society, are in 
the true sense as much producers of wealth as he who produces 
products from the soil or ore from the mine. The farmer, however. 
