The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-01-18

ABOUT HOME MATTERs.-We feel at
considerable loss this cool Thursday morn
Ing for something Of Il local nature. On
all sides We hear the cry Of hard times and
dull times. The merchant is in a semi
gloomy state because customers do not
pour in and pay him tor tue goods winch
lie rs dead capital upon his shelves. He
thinks about the MONEY those goods cost
him. and wonders il necessity will not
drive the needy to come IN and pay him
Il profit. lie signs in vain. for The custom
ers do not come, and to a lvcrtisc Tor them
to come seems like so much money thrown
away, and SO the newspaper publisher
suffers, And the newspaper publisher
wonders why the merchant does moi see
the necessity Ola little ctor ,ao the temale
advisers OF poor Mrs. Dombcy so often saw
was so necessary tor the life Of Mrs. D.
wonders why they can expect customers
when the six or seven hundred copies of
the Home journal that circulate in lhis
and adjacent country contain 10 adyer-
tiscment that such . merchant is in exiS-
tencc. This is the wonder which fills the
mind of the publisher And the farmer
and mechanic read his paper and wonder
why there is no evidence Of life in TOWN.
why there is no merchant making an eff
fort to keep up trade, or Offering induce
of articles necessary for tie support of
man and beast. And 50, all of lis become
dull and Indifferent. There is no cnthu-
siasm aroused. and each one concludes TO
try to barely get along until something
turns up to do away with the general stag
nation-until something occurs to agitatc
the dead-sea waters OF socic y.
And thus, like Micawbers. We are david
ling ava, the precious moments Of
time which should be devoted to energy.
This reprchcn>iblc luactivity--tllis perfect
despondency--is the prrcur'or Of idlencsS.
and idlencss begetS drunkenness and men
tai torpor. And so We see our streets
filled with stout young men and old ones,
too, who have nothing to do. And since
man is a social being, and must herd with
other men. Just as birds and beasts flock
together, 50 these idlers are on the hunt
for company. And 50. likewise, a thing
becomes fashionable whenever Il majority
of the people adopt it. Shall we say then
that idleness and lcthargy have become
fashionable in dear Old " inchcstcr? Vcri-
". it might be said without Infringing the
truth, and We are sorry for il. Can we all
not wake up? Talk about hard timcS!--
why we only need Il littlC more spirit.
You may call it blowing, sensation. or
what you pie ase, but, ceres, We need some
sort OF an aualrptiC, or the disease OF lcLh-
argy will sap the foundations OF our con-
munity. No wonder young men talk OF
going elsewhere. No wonder they want
to 90 several hundred mile, away in order
to try the world. And yet this very spot,
called home, is just as good Il place to try
as some other place three hundred or Il
thousand miles off. Go to rOr6. Tails
manic words, and prcservatiye against the
ills we complain of! But will they 20 to
work? Aye, there is the rub. They want
to show their genius, but they don't want
10 work in order to do 50. ttley live on
a farm they want to leave it and come to
town, and put on style. And very soon
they imagine that town is too insignificant
d place for them, and they must 80 10
Nashville. or some other big city Poor
fnnls' N1.., tI,,,- I,,,.n, l,ttt.nI tIpIr ten
der heads against the rude angles of the
world, they will find that talent ana ge-
Mus can shine Oh a farm. or i'll q black
smith shop. Just as well as III the city
They will find that an humble sphere
would have been Il safer one for the man
Hesitation of their genius. Oh, IL they
would all - to work! flour business men
were only business men in tdctl If indus
try and energy were only so common III
oar community that to be idle would be q
burning shame and disgrace! ltcnterprist
would combine and take a few risks. l.
home productions were encouraged! l
there could be a combination of effort in
all branches of industry five could have
a revival in business society something
like the ~revivals of religion we have some
times witnessed! But we are all stagnaht
We have scarcely any business men, ah'
the cry OF hard times is very natural
And yet God Almighty has scattered al
around us elements which may be turned
TO accoun:. lie has given us the cruo'
material and we are too lazy to work, ant
too stingy to see prospective profit. Ant
80 We gang" Terrible! terrible!
The thriving (?) town of Winchester, IN
the grand old county of Franklin. l.. rs We
learn from the Winchester Home Journal
without Il hotel to accommodates a chahce
'~lsltor.-JdckSon (Tenn Wing.