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Owners or Tenants—Which?
Southern Cultivator.
This is an important question
! ior a large part of our Southern
white farmers. Thousands have
•been renting for a number of
'years and seem to have made up
their minds to continuo to be
ranters.
Well, it is no disgrace to rent
land. It is as honorable to rent
land in the country as it is to
rent houses in the' cities and
towns. It is as honorable to rent
land as it is to own it. We do
not wish a single word we may
gay in this article or elsewhere to
be construed into a reflection up
on the respectability of those who
farm rented lands.
Bnt we do say that it is a re
flection upon your business man
^genit for you to continue to rent
It is better for you and your chil
■dren that you should own land
It is better for the city laborer to
own the house he lives in, evon if
tie has to get help fron a building
and loan company. The same is
true of n farm laborer. You hac
better have a claim, though the
mortgage be heavy and cost a lit
tie more than the rent would be.
It is worth something to feel
the throb of pride which is insep
arable from the idea of owning
and building up a home. You
feel a different interest in the
soil,you feel more lilco taking care
of it and striving to build it up.
It is useless to say this ought to
bp so. It is so; it will continue
to be so. Humanity is built up
"that way.
There is something in the very
idea of ownership that is uplift
ing. It encourages patriotism
and helps to make a man a bet
ter citizen to know that every
day’s labor may bo made to help
increase the value and happiness
Af his home.
The very idea that they are
.going to move begets careless hab
its in children. It fosters waste
fulness Jin every thing done. If
itjeySur home, every seed or
flower or fruit-tree will have a
new value, and you will plaut
many that you would not have if
yon expected to. move. After all
it is the smell accumulations that
mke us comfortable and well-to-
h! >.
A pig, a calf,'ft lamb, chick
cn$», fruits, vegetables, help -to
make living comfortable and keep
dovyn oxpences. Little by little
these things make you happy and
prosperous. A constantly mov-
ng tenantry oau never build up
j^rmanent prosperity.
If the masses own their home9
:he land will be divided among
ijgny owners. The farms will
■mh .be smaller. A number of
-unndl far ins makes possible a
ig'ier state of culture and a
noire permanent prosperity than
a few large land-owners. Indeed,
. 'io South is suffering greatly
i run the size of her farms. The
•wners of much of our farm-land
lo not live upon their farms;
?boy are in the cities and towus.
/uncus reasons have caused them
to go to town, but the couutry
has Buffered and will continue to
suffer from this farming at “long
taw.” Small farms with owners
thereon will bring individual
prosperity and general content
ment. f, The master’s eye” and
■ Im owner’s hand will solve many
' the difficulties in successful
fanning.
Our Jarge land-owners should
encourage our young men as they.
<■ iter life to buy homes and settle
fl nvn to business. They can do
vliis by offering them small tracts
of laud at reasonable rates and
w interest and plenty of time,
■’hey would run no risk. The
•? ' f would still be in them. The
.a 1 would be better cared for,
; more improvements put upon
’ tiem than if rented. If they pay
up much good is done. If they
fail no harnrwill come from the
effort.
• These men owning the land will
neel more interest'in the schools,
churches andall community en
terprises. They will be far bet
ter citizens.
So we urge our renting class to
Jmy land now while it is cheap.
3t will soon be much higher.
-Purchase a small farm, work it
wrell, and if you succeed you can
sidd to it later on.
This course will help to settle
the labor question and many oth-
t ; r-questions in Southern farm life.
When Do We Get Old?
Atlanta Constitution,
The death of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton ill her 87th year again
suggests the question, “At what
ag* 1 does one heo'-mo old?” Very
few people in America seeing her
name so often quoted in connec
tion with current reform move
ment, or attached to magazine
and newspaper articles, or being a
speaker in some public meeting,
have stopped to think of her as
an old woman.
In antediluvian days it is dear
that a person could not be deem-
old until he had passed the five
hundred years mark, for he died
at a ripe old age somewhere be
yond nine hundred years of mor
tal toil and troubles. But the
longevity of mankind diminished
gradually with the increase of
civilization imtilfive centuries ago
a man was deemed old at fifty
years and those who held out to
three soore years and ten were
counted especial favorites of prov
idence.
But statistics show that within
the last century ther art of living
even among the heat and friction
of civilization, has become bet
ter known and the period of lon
gevity entended among those who
are careful, prudent and temper
ate, so that moBt men and wom
en, not overtaxed by phisical la
bors or diesapatiou, are yet young
at fifty years.
Those who are well-known in
the world and who have outlived
Mrs. Stanton are few. Among
them may be recalled General
Cassius M. Olay, the old Furioso
of Kentucky: PopeLeo XIII, ex-
Senator Regan, of Texas and the
Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
dn the other hand she lived
more years tham General Wade
Hampton, ex-Senator Evartts,
Queen Victoria, Criopi, Professor
Viiohow and many others who at
tained great celebrity and yet
were counted old when they died.
Mrs. Stanton was four years ol 1
when Victoria and Crispi w :
born and both died more than »
year ago. And of the living s!i.
ante-dated the births of a hum
the worlds notables who are i
ready accounted as the old peo
ple of the times.
For instance she was five years
old when Susan B. Anthony was
born ;seven years old when Ed
ward Everett Hale ,Abram S. He
witt and Dr.Theodore L. Cyler
come into the world; eight years
old when prerent Congressman
Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylva
nia, was a new born babe; four
teen years, old when General
Booth, of the Salvotion Army,
first saw the light of earth ; seven
teen years old when General John
B. Gordon was first laid in his
mother’s arms; twenty years old
when “Mark Twain,” ex-Secre-
tary Carlisle, Andrew Carnagie,
Bishop Potter, Alfred Austin,
Geuenal Shafter, Fitzhue Lee,
Richard Olney and ex-Vice Pres
ident Stevenson arrived on the
mortal stage; and twenty-two
years old when Grover Cleveland
entered the earthly arena.
So after all, perhaps the ques
tion is really unanswerable and
until the end of the world a wom
an will be as old as she looks and
a man as old-as he feels. But it
is a consolatiou to know that a
dean life, a good conscience and
a merry heart are great prevent
ives of “that tired feeling” which
makes one feel old ahead of time.
Startling But True.
“If every one knew what a
grand medicine Dr. King’s New
Life Pills is,” writes D. H. Turn
er, Dempsey town, Penn., “you’d
sell all you had in a day. Two
weeks’ use has made a new man
of me.” Infallible for constipa-
tioni stomach and liver troubles.
25c at Holtzclaw’s drug store.
Eggs Consumed in England du
ring the past twelve months
would, it is computed, fill upward
of 40,000 railway trucks. Of
these only one-third were English,
and in consequence an enormous
sum of money was sent out of the
country that migot bo kept there
had those engaged in rural indus
tries been alive to their opportu
nities, says an exchange.
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Boer Colonists Coming.
Atlanta Journal
Arrangements have • been made
for colonizing three thousand Bo
er families in Missouri about six
ty miles from St. Louis.
The Rev. Otto de Thompson,
who was a field colonel iu the Bo
er army during the South African
war, is now in Missouri inspect
ing the country around Monnett,
and will shortly be joined in his
investigations by Dr. Reitz, sec
retary of the late Transvaal repub
lic, who is now in this country.
We are not surprised at this
movement. In fact it is surpris
ing that the emigration of the
Boers to the United States on a
large Rcale has not begun long ago.
Most of them will never feel at
home in the Transvaal country
again, and they have received the
heartiest assurances that they
would be welcome in the United
States.
A large sum of money has been
raised in this # country for the pur
pose of assisting this brave and
unfortunate people, and there can
be no doubt that as many of them
as may desire to come here to
live will find it possible to obtain
lands and a start in the new world.
The Boers are great farmers
and cattle raisers. Oil the fer
tile but cheap lands and the salu
brious climate of the southern
stases offer just such conditions
and inducements as would appeal
to and satisfy them.
. The grasses grow abundantly in
most parts of almost every south
ern state, aud cattle raising is
bound to become a very profitable
industry in this section.
We predict that this first Boer
colony will prove such a success
that others will follow in swift
succession, aud it may be that a
very large part, if not a majority,
of the Boers will in the course of
twenty years find their way to the
United States, most of them to
settle iu the south.
The British Museum owns the
lurMst book in the world and the
- n.illest. The largest is an atlas
• >t the fifteenth century. It is
seven feet high. Between the gen
erous leaves a tall man’s head is
hidden. Its stout binding and
ponderous clasps make it seem as
substanetal as the walls of a room.
The smallest is a tiny “Bijou al
manac,” less than an inch square,
bound in dainty red morocco, and
easily to be concealed in the fin
ger of a lady’s glove. These two
extremes of the printer’s art
might well stand at the beginning
and the end of the amazing thir
ty-seven miles of shelves filled
with books, which make up a part
of the printed treasures of the
great English library,
London is gloating over the
failure of the Morgan interests to
absorb the city’s electric railways.
The American financier is not
popular with our British cousins
and they seem to take a special
delight in crowing over his dis
comfiture. Mr. Morgan seems
rather indifferent to the applause
of the crowd, but if this outward
indifference covers a roal desire to
be liked it would be well for him.
to remember not to 1 prick a man’s
or a nation’s vanity.
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In late years men have made
fortunes out of the tailings of gold
mines. The mim in which the
ore formerly was' crushed aud the
crude processes then in use allow
ed a large percentage of the pre
cious metal to escape, and that
loss amounted in some cases to a
fortune. The stomach is just like
a stamp mill in this respect, that
when it is not in perfect order it
allows the escape and waste of
much of the precious nutriment
contained in the food. That loss
when continuous means the loss
of man’s greatest fortune,—health
Science offers a remedy for this
condition in Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Diseovory, It corrects
the “weakness” of the stomach,
prevents waste and loss of nour
ishment, and puts the stomach
and organs of digestion and nutri
tion into a condition of health
which enables them to save and
assimilate all the nutriment con
tained in the food which is eaten.
In all cases of constipation the
use of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pel
lets will speedily and permanent
ly cure the disease-
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