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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. ♦>» —- The Only Guaranteed Kidney Care is Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure. Your drug gist will refund your money if after tak ing one bottle you are not satisfied with results. 60 cents at Oater’s Drugstore. 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. ___ 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- Subsoribe for the Home Journal IF YOU W-A-3sTT Books. Periodicals, Stationery, Art Goods PIGTTTJtc-bJ -t 1 call or write. OLD SCHOOL BOOKS Bought, Sold and Exchanged. Our Circulating Library Plan is just the thing, and cheap. 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