Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1871-01-21
Our Young Men.

The following from the Florida Er.
press, will apply to many other places
as we'll as Pensacola, and we commend
il to the consideration of the class for
whom it is specially intended:
In conversation with a gentleman of
cultivation and large experience, as we'll
as life resident of Pensacola, in our
sanctum the other day, of the future
prospects of the city and her citizens,
he used an expression in regard to the
young of the city, that was of such a
character, having so much truth in it
that we do not hesitate to repeat it for
the benefit of those interested.
He said :" How can you expect our
city to improve with SO many drones in
the hive 7" No city in the country has
SO many young men it, WI can, if they
have the enterprise and industry, con-
tribute to the wealth of the country IN
which they live. Our Ian Is are cheap,
of easy cultivation, and from actual ex-
periments, produced abundance of the
natural growth of our climate. Ifthey
would throw off their coats, and take
hold Of the plow, mother earth, with
proper care and cultivation would yield
them a bounteous return for their
labor"
This is no idle dream; let any one
of them who has energy to become
producer, instead of consumer, make
the inquiry of any who applies intclli-
gence with labor in the cultivation of
our piny woods soil, aud they will be
astonished at the returns that little
hard labor will make; not only the re-
turns which result from it, but the in
dependence that the idea of being able
10 support themselves well and TO con-
tribute TO the general Welfare of the
community in which they live, will in
fuse into them--giving broader and
more expanded idea of the duties
devolving apon them as men.
To be sure this requires labor, time,
care and patience but who is not will
ing to labor, for the benefits derived
from it in the future. Nearly every
employment in the city is overstocked
with labor, and here is q field of indus
try that is open to any one who will
work intelligently and with q will, a
sure investment all that il requires is
labor p erseverence to bring forth its
reward, and perhaps there is no country
in the world where SO many inducements
are offered for the soil, where the re-
turns are SO liberal, and where it is
treated with so little consideration as
around Pensacola.
:, It has become q common thing
among our people and those visiting US,
TO speak of our " poor pine lands,
when, in fact, these lands are valuable
for cultivation, and can, with proper
handling, be made to yield more in ac-
tual valuable than the rich lands of
Alabama.
This statement Of ours will seem to
some of onr people absurd and vision
AIRY but we hope to be able, in few
days, TO furnish facts and figures that will
convince the most skeptical of the trnth
OF the statement.
CAsUALTY.--George Bidwell, a stu
dent in Christian College, while cutting
wood for the fire, last Saturday evening
] By an unfortunate glancing of the ak,
made trightful cash in his foot, sever
ing the bones of two of his toes, the
blade passing up into the foot. DR..
Thomas. w. Shelton was very, for.u-
nately, in the village, and promptly re-
placed the toes and dressed the wound,
10 that the toes will proably be saved.
-Messenger.
jenkins undertook to quote poetry
in praise Of woman, but got his author.
ity slightly mixed, as follows.
20 woman In our hours Of ease,
Uncertain coy, and hard TO please;
Bnt seen too off, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace"
An author, ridiculing the idea of
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