The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1869-04-16
THE DIGNITY OF LABOR.
A Short Chapter for Young Men with
Sun Burned Faces.

A we'll dressed young man, who lives
some miles from the city, called at gTo-
Gerry store the other day with pair of sad
dle-bags on his arm and calling the mer-
chant aside, told him that be had six
pounds of butter on his arm, which he
wished to leave for sale. He conversed in
a low, hurried tone, and seemed abashed at
being in such a small business as selling
butter. The merchant did not want to buy
the butter himself. but promised to dis
pose of it at the highest market price
When the young man left, the butter was
examined and found to be of the very best
quality-rich, yellow and hard-such as
is never seen at any hotel or restaurant, or
common boarding house better worth a
dollar per pound than The common lard.
-four and chalk mixture, yclePt butter, is
worth ten cents, and far superior to any of
your Goshen or Western butter. Yet that
young maa was ashamed to be seen selling
the butter, which, perhaps his mother had
churned, while he was building fences or
choPping wood, and repiniug at his lot
We have seen hundreds of such young
men, and look upon them as the nobility
of the land, the pride and hope Of the ma
ton. But many of them are mistaken sad
ly in their ideas of responsibility and true
manliness. 1t is better far to work at the
veriest drudgery and be out of debt, than
to strut in fine clothes, as many do in the
crowded cities, and be in debt for board
and washing, and everything else. The
sooner the young men of the South break
the trammels Of custom and folly and &C
cept the means of working out their own
glorious destiny the better for them and
all around them. Following the pillow is
as honorable as any of the learned profess
sions. This is practical age when men
have to make their mark by welding ma
terial forces, and nothing ensures more
satisfactory return than welding a pair of
horses bitched to big turning pillow. 1t
also gives health and appetite, firm muscles
and sound sleep.
Young man, bringing to market the pro-
ducts fyour honest toll is as honorable in
the eyes Of all sensible people as standing
behind the counter, and all the day long
taking down and putting back calicoes,
silks, and cOrsets for every peevish visitor
y no chooses to worry you. Perhaps you
envy the young men of the city their white
hands, small boots and fashionably cut
clothing? There you are wrong. You
are as good as Trey are, and have more
common, hard sense, and nine chances to
one you have read more good books. You
are thinker necessarily, and your ideas
are clear and practical. Your calling is as
noble as any secular business. Away with
your fastidious ideas and dread Of sun
burned brow, for that is ths insignia of roy
al manhood. Be eontented with your lot,
and make it an enviable one by improving
the soil and your mind at the same time.
Build up a home and make it a cheerful
place, where king might be glad to find
a refuge and drink fresh buttermilk. And
never again shrink from the gaze of the
beauty or dandy when you come to town to
sell six pounds of yellow butter. Yours
is the glorious mission TO rebuild the for
tunes of the country.--Aena. Ledger.