Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-13
ONE CAUSE rOR HARD TIMES.

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When an advertisement appears in q
paper for a book.keeper or clerk there
are on an average from fifty to one hur.
dred applicants for it. In large cities
the rush is still greater. The trouble is
that our towns and cities are overstocked
with young men seeking soft places
who ought to be in the fields at work.
The ambition Of nine-tenths of the
country boys is to get away from the toll
Of the farm and secure easy work in town,
where they can dress well, Ehiten their
hands, 90 to the thester, carry a case,
get into fashionable society and have q
good, easy time. When they once get
into a city and fall into its ways they be
come unfit for the active labor Of the
farm. and rather than 20 back and learn
over, become hapgers-on about the
stree. corners, picking up a little job
here and there at q low price, borrowing
from their acquaintance and the old
country friends they despise Il be seer
with. and thus drsg out q useless and q
miserable existence. Yet these same
men BY a few years Of industry and
seonomy might have become respected
and independent citizens Of the solid
substantial class who contribute most
to the real wealth AID strength
Of 8 commonwealth Even those who
secure good situations are not
always to be enEied. They are often sub.
jet 70 the espriees Of overbearing en-.
rlsysEs. and are liable to lose their
places or have their salaries cut down to
LDOEi = starvation point at any tire on
see1unf Of the fluctuations Of business
To ssTs money ont Of an ordinsry sal.
AT Il almost impossible, and the chances
q Gyo1DE man going into business Oh
kI vi account seem { diminish every
ysEr. The novelty Of city life sson wears
ont bit It's chsins sre herd to break
Nhers one yOuDg mar fresh from the
COUNTY succeeds in a city twenty fail
and become consuming droDes on soci.
ETY.. Land is cbesp ia this county, AND
3 good living can be made upon a few
acres properly cultivated. There is al
ways 3 good cash market for everything
that 3 be raised, from a dozen eggs Up
to = bale Of cotton or 3 blooded bull.
Farming can De made profitable, rot By
running in the same old red iurross,
but BY improving the soil and d.
v~ersiiying crops, raising bread and
meat at home and q surplus Of sone.
thing, fruit, stock, cotton, or whatever
will pay best, according to location and
circumstances for the market. Let thii
be applied to more scientific farming
aud to identifying homes until their al
fractions outrival all the Vaccinations o.
town or city life. Young man, stay on
the old place, be independent and intel.
ligeut, take the newspapers and
buy good books, marry your sweet
heart if she will have you without waitin,
to get rich, and depend upon II you vii
be a more useful aud a happier man, vii
sleep sounder and eat heartier, hav,
more to eat and to wear and live lopge.
than most of your class who rush to th,
city looking for situations. We have TOT
many here now, and there is a big crol
of the younger generation at their heel
expecting to fill all the places that ma.
be open for the next fifty years. Whe.
people learn to farm well, and that tbi
is really the noblest and most indepenC
eat occupation a mau can follow, ther
will be less grumbling about hard time
and an era of prosperity, such as "
have not known, will dawn. n