The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-07-18

ty in the cross timber, a county OF
wild woods, romantic in it's own elo-
quence -land of sunFhight. prairie,
beautiful as his own Emma's sweet
face, commentaries his name-the
name of a transcendent star that
set too soon, which had how been
the first luminarY In the political
sky of Texas, Il not ia the circle Of
the whole Union, for he was natures
Dcmosthenes Of the Western woods
Z.-sso-.-A--
The Secret Of Yankee Prosperity.
A Southern man, after having
made a flying trip through the New
England States, comes back filleu
with astonishment at what he has
seen, and perfectly discouraged with
his own section of country. There
ne saw little villages sticking in the
midst of barren and uninhabitable
mountains, with no. surroundings to
support them, eVineing a. spirit Of
life and prosperity unknown to even
our large townsville recognized
trade-eentres of our best agricultu-
raj regions. And in the country he
saw little farms producing ike first
class English gardens, though on
soil originally too poor to have
grown bear grass, and in situations
q Southern man never would have
thought capable of being converted
into a goat pasture. The people all,
as a general thing, seemed content
ed and prosperous; and if he had
enquired into their circumstances
he would have found, strange as
1t may appear, everybody in these
little villages well off and making
money, and the little farms, with
their stone piles here. and there, and
their stones constantly working to
the. surface. to beFcarried off into
other piles, and their annual call for
fertilizers to the extent of one hun
dred and fifty dollars per acre, actu-
ally clearing, their owners from two
to three hundred dollars ON every
acre enclosed. No wonder that he
is,disceuraged when he looks from
tins picture upon our favoTably ylo-
Gated towns and notes ltheiryinactiY-
ity, their poverty sHd. general delap7
idation, and upOn our broad and
fertile acres. and reflects that they
are really, in many instances, not
paying the expenses, of culture, 5a9'
One would naturally conclude that
there must be some secret connect
ed with all this, and 50 there is.
At the village station the close OBJ
server would notice piles of cotton
bales, circumstance calculated TO.
create no particular interest in the
South, bat there, thousands of miles
from where cotton conId De grown,
it would take the form of a mystic
ry. stepping outupo the platform
in quest Of a solution, his ears
would be greeted by a sound as Of
a water fan having a peculiar hum
ming accompaniment - spindles
The case would he made plain-the
strange little village would be rec
Ognized as a manufacturing point
and then he would know that zoe, in
q far off section, were digging its
prosperity from our soil-feeding
it into vigorous life upon the very
food for which our towns were
starving; and asking it nothing in
return. ~ Actually shipping it our
cotton al oar ot0R expense, and then,
in order that it might grow fat on
its business, buying its fabrics at
its own profitable figures and paying
transportation on them to our
houses. What a kind-hearted peO-
pie we SoutheFners must be. g "A
Then for the secret of success
among the farmers: : Passing through
the country with his eyes open, the
close observer would at the proper
season soon have his attention ar
rested By an improved mower
sweeping over the meadow under
the exclusive management of n
youth of, say, sixteen; and accom-
plishing more in a day than could
in that time be wormed ont of a
dozen freedmen with their scythes.
A little later and he Would see the
younger brother of the youth driv-
ing through the field on a ''tedder,
turning the hay; and then in due
time would come a still smaller boy
with a horse rake, followed by a
trie Of little fellows hayingFall sorts
of fah as they, with e hay fork :
stored away the crop in the .hayloft.
In everything done on the farm
in New EnglnHd this sane plan IS
resorted to. If the soil must be
prepale ed, instead OF setting a dozen
freedmen at it with their mules and
plORs. to sweat through 4 week, as
we would do, ont comes a machine
managed by q boy or two, and infan
incredibly short space of time the
lob is done. aud lssH done. A lot Of
seed is to be sown that would give
our hands q long. tedious task, but
then a stripping with s seed sower
puts it down exactly right and in
very short order And when the
crop is ready to be hoed, instead Of
charging it with a black army 70
plav for pay, a boy harnesses lis
iag to horse hoe, takes his seat
as in = 5ulky, and rides about over