The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-03-01
Prospects,.

We may fairly presume ual VIC diS "CH HSh
through what is admitted to have been the severest
winter within the memory of any inhabitant of these
parts. who has not entered on his second childhood
We may also presume, though with less confidence,
that we have lived down the worst part of cur ice
norther" of cavil and criticism, to which the kind,
lin some cases overkind) notice of us by our friends,
and the spirit of contradiction strong in villan-
GUS man, naturally gave rise. And it is well that
we should have had the but-end of each sort of cold
at the same time The severe season once over will
afford continual source of satisfaction to the 'orgl-
nal settler" who, in the days to come, when any
newly arrived Rugbeian ventures to hint that the
Probabilities Bureau" is behaving badly, will
chucke out " All, my dear boy you think that this
is winter weather You should have spent the season
of So-S here in green wood shanty, with the Their
mometer below zero, and old COW your holiday fare"
And the other cold blast? Well, as it had to come at
some tme it was far better that should come early
1t may have prevented, and may still prevent now
and again. migration to these parts of some middle
aged gentleman with a competence, but we who
can exist without hot water bottles to our feet and
who do not feel desolate because roads have way
of being muddy in winter, accustom ourselves to
the thought of even that privaon, and rejoice that
our short comings, and the difficulties with which
we have to contend, have been pointed out to us in
the early days of settlement before long
of patting on the back has made think all the
world" of ourselves and the habit has grown on us
of surring over difficulties, instead of facing them
boldly and overcoming them An instance occurs
to us of body Of men who had not this advantage,
and who suffered accordingly. For years after
the Growing of the French colonies had resuscitated
the British volunteers they assured by their
compatriots that they were very fine fellows indeed;
and no one either in the press in society," was al
lowed to hint at their being anything short of efficient
soldiers, without raising storm of indignation and
having thrown in his teeth that he 'unpatri-
Otto" At last came the faseo of the Windsor Review
and next morning the citizen soldiers woke up find
that they had been all those years living in fools
paradise; that they were like the rest of mankind
poor creatures after ALL and had not as body even
seen the difficulties in the way of learning the kill
invadersof your country quickerhan they can kill
you art After the first shock of the pent up crit-
csm of years was over, those among them who
meant business set about mending matters, and made
their force is to this day. really efficient one
But the pill was bitter one to swallow even for
them, and choked all the fair-weather drones Now
av have had to take our pill early, and it is our
own fault if we are not the better for it. We all
know, or ought to know, that we no better than
other less discussed people; and those of us who
have come here to live by agriculture must be aware
by this time that they will have to live on "corn
dodgers" and pork for the most part, and dispense
with most of the comforts and all of the luxures of
life, unless they work hard and take few holidays,
and carefully use their brains in determining how
they going to treat their land and what crops they
are going raise upon it, Let us be thankful there
FORE that these and other truths have been put clear
ly before us now and that we have not been left to
find them out by bitter experience And this said,
let us suppose for moment that there is no other
industry but that of agriculture open to the man who
from the old country and from other parts of
the new, to settle on these Cumberland highlands
Granted that he has average intelligence, and in