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T(cere's something in the “parting hour” Will chill the warmest heart, Yet kindred, comrades, lovers, friends 'Are fated all to part; But this I’ve seen—and many a pang Has pressed it on my mind— The one who goes is happier Than those he leaves behind. No matter what the journey may be, Adventurous, dangerous, fair, To the wild deep or bleak frontier, To solitude or war, Still something cheers the heart In all of human kind. And they who go are happier Than those they leave behind. The bride goes to the bridegroom’s home With doubting and with tears But does not Hope her rainbow spread Across her cloudy fears? Alas the mother who remains, What comfort can she find? But this—the gone is happier Than the one she leaves Behind. Have you a friend, a comrade dear, An old and trusted friend? Be sure your term of sweet concourse At length will have an end ! And when you part—as prat yon will— O take it not unkind That he who goes is happier Than those he leaves behind. God wills it so—and so it is ; The pilgrims on their way Though weak aud worn, more cheerful are Than all the rest who stay ; And when at last poor man subdued Lies down to death resigned, May he not still be happier far Than those he leaves behind? SPEECH DELIVERED BEFORE THE JEFFERSON AGRICUL TURAL SOCIETY. Wood Lawn, Jefferson Cos., Ga. ) July 26th, 1876. < Mr. R. J. Boyd: Dear Sir. —The Jefferson Agricultu ral S.ocjety, and audience * having listener! with the greatest pleasure to the very able and appropriate address delivered by you to-day, (in response to a unanimous request of the Society) on the occasion of their annual meet ing, the Chairman, carrying out the desire of the Society, have con stituted us a commtitee and made it our pleasant duty to request you to have the same published in the News & Farmer, and allow us to say that believing as we do that its more general dissemination is calculated to subserve the public good, we urge you to comply with tills Reasonable request at your earliest convenience. Respectfully, R. 11. CIIAPLER, J S. R. McNair, C Comm’t. J. W. Brinson, j Gentlemen :—I did not expect this request, and while I would not occupy a position that would make me appear conspicuous by any act of my own, es pecially when it is known that the paper you name I am interested in, yet by your kind note I am left no alter native but to comply, and thanking you very much for compliments <£c., I am very respectfully, R. J Boyd. Ladies and gentlemen of the Agri cultural Club of Jefferson county: I am here to-day at your kind solicita tion, and when I come to consider the the great importance of the subject that is engaging your attention, and which you have asked me to address you upon to-day, I feel more than ever my inability to do justice to the subject, and taking into consideration the indi vidual positions you occupy as planters, my still greater inability to do you jus* lice with the ocoasion that ha3 called you together. But when I come to think of the groat compliment you have paid me, and when the sense of the duty that devolves upon every man to do something for agriculture, presses itself upon me, I feel myself constrained to respond, as best I can, to a request unanimous with your body. I have said that the subject was one of importance, and the repetition of that truth is not necessary to impress it upon you. All classes everywhere are impressed with this fact. Men everywhere are not only impressed in regard to this truth, but they are deeply, forcibly interested. It matters but lit tle whether a man makes shoes, deals In merchandise, sails upon the sdas and directs the movements of the ships, that bear to and fro, exports and imports across the ocean, whether or not ho be an editor, or a dealer in stock, a lawyer, or a doctor, he watches the prospects of agriculture, as they swell or sink, as they advance or decline, for in them he sees his future, and that of his fam ily, and the future of his country too. He takes these in view, and in propor tion as the agricultural interest pro gresses, or retrogrades, just in this proportion is he supported, encouraged or discouraged. Thus wc see in its im portance, and the propelling influence it has over every department of busi ness, a stimulous engendered, that vi brates like the pendulum of a clock, and keeps all the machinery of bnsi- ness and trade alive and clicking. If its wheels clog, if its mainspring be come detached or bro .eu, no longer can it bo pointed to as an index of time, enterprise lags, and all the arte ries of commerce and national growth become as sluggish as the waters of a stagnant pool. This, however, is an axiom. Every body knows that the heart is the great centre of life—that by its throbings the blood is pulsed into every part of the body, feeding and maintaining, and evermore rt-supplying that sustenance which if withheld or withdrawn for a momeut, would cause existence to ebb into eternal night. Everybody knows equally well that if agriculture is with held that the blood of the land is sapped, and it ceases to live, enterprise dies, commerce rots upon her seas, and the mighty cities of the plain crumble into dust. I have have spoke of its general, now I will speak of its individual im portance. You have often heard the remark that it “takes all kinds of peo ple to make a world.” It takes all kinds of vegetables to make a vegeta ble world. This is also true as regards the mineral, as well as the animal kingdom. How doubly true is it then that the occupations and pursuits of life must be varied. Of the different pursuits, agriculture is what claims your attention, and it is not only one of the absolute necessities as to occupa tion and progression, that in its proper elevation and legitimate results, makes a people all that they are ever expected to be, honorable, intelligent, prosper ous and happy, but it does this for every man that engages in it. If you, as a community, depended upon some thing else principally-, some other great industrial cardinal pursuit, such as mining or manufacture, why then I would urge you, in all the ardor of my nature, to make it all that it could be made, continually labor to perfect a system of thorough and easy access of accomplishment to the cuds aimed at. In agriculture, it is doubly im portant. As individuals, this is the industry of your life, it is the great industry of your country. In your minds it has occupied the past. It is absorbing the present, and it takes hold upon the future—the dark uncer tain future—dark at best, look at it as we may, but with very little pro gressiou in this all important matter, and this all .absorbing pursuit, in terminably dark. In everything that engages our atten tion there is a just pride to excel, say nothing c>f necessities pressing themselves upon us, and this pride is not only just, but; it is, in a high degree, commendable—the spirit ot emulation that stirs up the lagging en ergies of the professor in sciences —tne merchant in his fabrics, and the rail road kings submerged amidst rolling stocks, threatened monopolies, and more direct routes. I say that outside of the necessity which usually exist, (and which does exist among us) there is a pride or a rivalry, or call it what you may, that wake men up to a spirit, of energy, that cause them to compass difioulties wherever and however met.l The invincible spirit of Napoleon im polled him to say “Tnere shall be no alps,” aud he built his perfect roads, climbing by graded gal.eries, the steeli est precipices, until Italy was as open to Paris as any town in Franco. And think not that this was a step of im petuous progress, one of the accidents of fortune in the life of a great man. Napoleon was a great calculator. It was the action of matured thought. It was one of the well defined projects ot a great mind and a powerful will. Now, gentlemen, speaking of the in dividual importance of the pursuit and the industrial life that we lead as a people, it is essential that we have the pride which I have spoken of, for it will press us forward to possibilities that will open up to us a plentitude of garnered treasures, that will at first astound us. It is essential that we have the spirit that actuated the great hero of France aud of the world, that I have spoken of. Let us know what is possible in this pursuit and this life that we have taken up, and then let no impediments stands in our way. I have spoken of certain feelings and causes that should actuate us as indi viduals in onr etforts and in our ener gies, to press forward towards progress, and towards results that the whole country languishes for, from one ex treme to the other. If the country languishes for results of’prosperity and plenty, then this demand of the country intmiates, it does more—it cries aloud from the house-tops tiiat there is a ne cessity, as I have said before. It -is a strong necessity, and we cannot evade it. Everything in the way of honest livelihood depends upon it, the-future of our children depend ’upon it. Shall we leave them beggars, on a barren soil—shall we leave them no experience of thrift, no bright record which may guide them and encourage them iff the pursuits which they must follow after us? Shall we leave them an inheritance that, brings no income and that they are ashamed of, because it has kept their grand-fathers, and their fathers’ noso to the grindstone ever since thoir memory serves them in the matter, and which promises them a like scanty sub sistence, that looks far away into a more desolate future; that has kept them in partial darkness in the very midst ot light, that has effectually warded from them the benefits that ao erue from enlightunent and knowledge, and the great good that comes of social I and intellectual advancement? The answer to these questions in every man’s mind must be nay. Yet to avoid ,it we must wake up to the necessities of the hour, and shake off the shackles that bind us as slaves. We all sigh for a happy country, dotted over by green farms and good orchards, aud a population that live in plenty and peace and harmony at home, with educational ad vantages, that come a3 surely in the track of these blessing and acquire ments, as germination follows the re turn of spring, or as the harvest is the sequel of a fruitful season and a gra cious providence. I say we sigh for a happy country, harmony and good will and plenty, and its attending concomi tants. - I am inclined to look on the bright side, and I think it so much bet ter that all men should, not ignoring however, the stern realities of life that, they must meet, and becoming indifer ent to the storm clouds that threaten and howl overhead, not neglecting to seek some safe harbor, where the boot ing billows surge and swell and sweep around and about. This would bo madness. But every cloud has a sil ver lining, every night has its daign, when the darkness is shut away, and the light come3 in on us in its glory. The great trouble w ith the peo ple is that they do not “make hay while the sun shines.” 1 would rather not speak of the evils that have brooded over this land like the dark wings of a lihriit bird, and that have settled upon it and oppressed it, politically, morally aud religiously, like a horrible night mare, but it is unavoidable, for° in drawing comparisons, contrasts are al ways necessary. The people started out after the civil trouble was over much like many of us went into the army, they were afraid it would all be made be ore they would have a show ing at it. El dorados stretched out for them in broad inviting fields, fortunes seemed to be at easy grasp. J ÜB c one or two cotton crops and the work would be done. This induced extravagance, and men could get what they wanted, wheth er they had any property or not. It. produced speculative farming, specula tive merchandising, and a quantity of cotton that overstocked the market, but did not reduce their meat stuffs and bread stufis in price, which they con tinued to buy, and to a great extent do yet. The fact was soon patent that this country. as a people, were in debt, and with political evils, in connection aud with a.species of labor that worked about one-half of its time, which in thousands of instances have been con stituted responsible land tenants, and set up in business without one dollar in hand to secure the risk thus taken, often leaving the owner of the land the bag to hold; caused trouble and dis trust. These are some of the mis takes. These mistakes have caused pressure and pressure has caused evasion, of one kind or other.— In fact, fellow citizens, the State of Georgia has actually, in some instan ces, to the detriment of its financial security and the safety of the property of its sovereign people, made laws to shield property from the claims of hon est creditors. It has all the time, too, in the face of this, held out every in ducement to encourage the contraction of debts. The laws I refer te, you are familiar with. They are bad laws, and while they may not have been intended to carry with them this inotly train of disease, distemper, and dishonest)', they have be in the consequent attend ants. Some will say agriculturally we are at a low ebb. Financially, wo are at a low ebb, morally and religiously wc are at a fearfully low tide, for among churches and societies and brother hoods that exist all over the land, and whose membership is in name legion, and whose object is reform and relig ion, we find that there is but little fellowship of feeling, and you will scarcely find one man but what be lieves his next door neighbor would cheat him if lie gets a chance. Igno rgin wo might say, after all the mighty army of brotherhoods, ignoring the golden rule that should be.found in every man’s heait of hearts, like “ap ples ol gold in pictures of silver,” “Do unto others as you would that othei'3 should do unto you.” This is a part of the dark pict ure, and only a part of it, and I would to God to-day, that I could roll hack the dark scroll from our country’s escutheon that hangs there with its pall-like presence, yet threat ening this people's prosperity, and that 1 could write upon its folded page the words that were written upon the wall of .the mansion of the doomed king Belshazzar, “menk, mene, tekel, Upiiarsin !”—it is divided, it is weighed in the balance and found wanting, it is finished. But let us look up. Let us try the bright side. The old philosophers used to look into the heavens to des cry signs. They watched the stars and the moon, aud there read alike the des tinies of nations and of individuals— there they read of events that be longed only to the yet to come, some clouded by the dark shadow of resist less fate, and soino bright with coming glory and joy, as the bow of promise, or the smile of a cherub. ‘We toad of an old fellow who fell in a ditch while star-gazing. Now we hope that none here will go that far with it. I say to you here to-day that the signs in the heavens augur good. We compare the past with the present j anil we find that we are really no bet ! ter off than we were when the war closed, financially, only that wo have more experience, which reminds me of a story I once heard on a Dutchman : Mr. Smit, I docs go into pardnership mid a friend down next street. Don’t you hear pout it! No, llaus. How is that? Veil, he poots in de money, and I poots in de hexpericnce. Next Christ mas I vill have do money and he vill have de hexperienee. How is dat, hah ! Wc have the experience of the past and somebody else has the money. It stands us in hand to make the most of it. Well, what have we teamed. Bob Toombs says that figures will lie, let other people say what they will. They have lieil to hundreds and hun dreds of planters since the war; but I am not prepared to say whether it was the fault of tin* figures or the fault of the planters, if am inclined to think that the planter is the one to blame. Men have tried to drill themselves in to the belief that the plan to make money was by making cotton and buy ing moat and corn, and everything else that they needed. This has proved a lamentable failure. Defeat, chagrin and disappointment lias been placarded on the escutcheon of every man’s pros pects who have tried it. Here is what the Commissioner of Agriculture of Georgia has said: “Since cotton at the present price docs not pay the cost of production, and has caused a neglect of the grain crops that come from the west, instead of our farms, it is a necessity that wc must make supplies, and raise stock, and that the cotton become a secondary and a surplus crop, instead of being the principal and all absorbing product. In fact the time has come when men must not only become planters, but farmers. It is only this class of agri culturists, that have prospered since the war.” This has been verified in every farm that lias adhered to this plan, and ask o l ' the sections hero and there all over this beautiful South—some of them as desolate as the sandbars of Flori da through the blight of the bad polu oy of cotton planting, and their experi ence will tell yon, the men who have made money everywhere as planters, have been the men who have adopted the plan of making supplies at home, aud cotton as a surplus. A man though a way farin'* fool, may read this, and yet meu calculate and calculate, and their figures lie, and year after year they come out a little farther behind. But I must not for get that l am on the bright side. There i3 something else that the people have learned, but they have not learned it well enough. Mercan tile fertilizers, as a general thing, have done harm. I have not much to say upon this subject. It needs but little to be said when you calculate the cost ot hauling from depot, the cost per ton after all expenses have been paid, which is never less than fifty dollars if it is a standard manure, (oftentimes finding by its results, or its non-re sults, that it is worthless,) and then calculate how much valuable homo compost could bo made by fifty do!-; lars worth of labor, which would per manently build up your lands from year to year, and there is no further argument necessary to prove the posi tion that commercial fertilizers have done harm and ought, as a general rule, to be abandoned. But tnen say they can’t afford to make manures at home. It takes too much time. You must afford it. You are learning to af ford it, for it is pressing the necessity upon you. You are learning to make more i grain, to plant more oat3 97 per cent of the farmers in Geo-gia planted | an increase i area in small grain last Fall, aud it is weil they did, for last year there was 25 per cent lass than the necessary supply of corn mile. Just think of it. One fourth to bo sup plied from abroad and paid for out of a miserable profitless crop of cot ton. The sequel is plain. The people are learning bettor, and I consider the fact that they are learning better and doing better a significant l'act. It is a bright May day morning overlooking the agricultural arena of the State, as well as tUo whole South, and bath ing in the glad sunlight of plenty, prosperity, aud new life, the land that we love so well. Let the glad re frain ring its harvest anthems out over bill and dale till the echoes take them up and give out a joyous response that will reach from one extreme of the country to the other, and with the providence of God the 25 per cent gap will be filled up and the people will cease to pour their coffers in the open lap of an expecting \Ve3t. It is neces sary that you do club together and work together and let there be unity of pur pose as well as action. There are many reforms needed that should de mand your attention. Go about them candidly and earnestly and accom plish wlnvt you commence. Speaking of reforms, what are you going to do with the dogs—the num berless troops of dogs of every variety, shape, size, breed,, and complexion, with every other freedtnan on your place looking to see if anybody has another purp to spare? The fact is just this, the supply is not equal to the demand, and both are increasing at a fearfully *tapid rate. I don’t know what you all think about it but my opinion is that wo must get rid of them in some way or other. [Voice in the audience] “Give ’hem strichnine !” Well, by that way, or otherwise, the necessity is pressing itself upon us. Not wishing to tire the audience I will just oay further that the pursuit of 'agriculture is a noble and a grand one. No young man should be ashamed of it, for it is elevating ir. the highest J sense. The ladies have done much to ward bringing it up to a proud and high standard. It promises more to young men than a groat many professional occupations that they frequently cling to with a vain hope of the little honor and the less income sometimes attain ed, keeping them too often in perplex ing and protracted poverty, because | they arc ashamed of the farm and not | fit for the profession. Go at it, young ! man, and stick to and learn something ; about it and it will be the making of yon I am told that you have a Sun] day School hare. I have but to say | that I am not only in sympathy with you in this good r.fovement—this re ligious school where young minds are moulded for heaven, and ma le to resist the passions that assail them in so many tempting forms, but whenever there is a man or woman that feels for the welfare of this country and tiie lasting good of the young, they are and must be in sympathy with you. It. may seem to some to be insig nificant in its operations,'but so far is it from being insignificant that it reaches in its importance, from the earth to the sky, and while we com mend and praise and appreciate, angels whisper of love and admiration an 1 smile in approval of the good work. “Kind words can never die, never die.” The influences of this School, if-prop erly conducted, will never die, never die. Children that are bore to-day will per imps live to be old meu an 1 women, and their locks that are now tinged with the mellow sunlight of youth, and whose eyes are bright with the lustre of joy, will be changed by age, an and their eyes will grow dull, their stops will be unsteady, and the snows of years will cluster about their temples, yet impressions fixed on their young hearts will grow with the growing years more fixed and indelible a. Saviour’s love eustarnped there, and it will light their the night of death up to tle blest rea'n: • of eternal day. And of the office of teachers: Let me tell you of ail the titled appendages to of fice ; I can conceive of none that are so honorable and withal so responsible. . None carries with them such a labor of* love, none promises in the far off bright future, such a glittering diadem e the crowned reward of duty and devotion that will wreathe your brows in eternal glory. Let it. be your ambition, Super intendent and teachers, to vie with each other in this blessed work, as to who will win for his or her coronet, the greatest number of stars. Allow me to say Urn I am an bumble teacher and if there is one duty and one service that i a dearer to my heart than another it is tins. \Y r e arc not placed here for self ish purposes; every one should try to do some good—to lighten somebody’s burden; to point out a path that leads upwards, for all her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are paths of peace. Continually struggle to keep alive in your hearts the light of i a divine love, and in the darkest hours |it will illuminate your beings with a | pure ineffable joy that no adversity can dim o>- cause to cease to glow on j earth, and that will burn the brighter j throughout the ever unnumbered years |eternity. THE STORY 01 A RAILROAD KISS. Croker vs. Noth we stern railroad com pany, in thirty-six Wisconsin, it is hel l that it is unlawful for a railroad corpo ration to kiss a female passenger against her will. The plaintiff was a school teacher, about twenty years of age. Being the only passenger in the car. ihe conductor natural)' supposing that she would be lonely, sat down by her aud engaged in conversation. The rest of the affair she thus narrates: He said, “I suppose you are married, like all the rest of the school inarms?” j 1 said, “No I am not.” Then he sat up nearer to me, and put his bond in my muff, and said : “There i3 room for two hands in this muff ain’t there?’ I said ; “No, sir ; there is not for yours,’’ aud jerked my muff away. He then said : “My hand is pretty dirty, ain’t it? L looks as though it needed wash ing.” 1 told him to wash them, as water was plenty. Ho then said. It’s thaw ing considerable, that’s so.” I had the tassel of my muff in my hand tossing it and he said, “Ifyou don’t stop that you’ll wear it out” I said, “1 don’t care if l do” lie then said, What makes you look so cross?” 1 didn’t answer him but turned away. Pretty I soon he got up and I supposed he was going away.. He stepped to the side of my chair, threw his arms around mo and ’ held me down. I said, “Oh ! let mo go! You will kill me !" He said, “l am not going to hurt you.” Thou l said, “What have I ever dona to you that you should treat me in this way?” After he had kissed mo five or six times he said,” Look me in the eye and tell me if yon are mad.” I said,” Ye3,l am mad,” And she was, for she sued his em ployers and got SI,OOO damages. A negro insisted that his race wa3 mentioned in the Biblo. He sal 1 13 heard the preacher read abo’ut him. “Nigger Comas” wanted t. pe bom agin. NO. 13
