The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-01-01
Leaving Home.

the moving power OF Natlon SO long Will the
tenderest memories of the individual cluster around
Home Who of us have not been moved to the
depths of our nature by reading, especially in our
childhood the sad partings at the threshold of life
Those of us who have spent our lives in the North
ern States of America recall the great depth of
sympathy brought into being on reading the des
crptions of Uncle Toms Cabin, where the homes of
childhood and manhood were broken up without
mercy. The appeal came back to mankind in CON-
mon and you may say that the central thong which
kept the agitation of the slavery question alive
that deep sympathy for race of beings that could
by law be forever debarred from the privileges of
Home.
We are led to these thoughts by seeing the daily
arrivals of men and women coming to Rugby to look
for home, or to determine for themselves whether
or not they can leave the home they now possess,
and attempt the formation of new one. James
Russell Lowell says in one Of his quaint humorisms
"May Day seldom looks
Up in the country as it does in books"
We never understand the value of Home until we
leave it and while we are sitting there, quietly
thinking and planning how we shall find thingsin the
y,
own home does not seem much of a home to u.s.
for we have been quietly thinking for the past few
years about going way down in Tennessee to prospect
for new one And we have been eager to catch
every little newspaper squib relating to the country
there. We have slept and dreamed on the reports of
the different committees who have been sent there until
we have come to live more there than at Home IT'S
true we have tried to be sensible about the hing nd
when we havetalked with sympathizng friends have
agreed thatquitekely the pictures overdrawn and
we do not take such great amount of stock in those
reports Nevertheless, the fact remains, especially
if we are gifted with quick imagination, that our
real self has been living the greater share Of the time
away down on the Cumberland table lands in Ten
nessee, for we have come almost unwittingly to care
for no other section of country. Kansas, Dakota,
Missouri Texas, Oregon, California, even Alaska,
each in their turn have been disposed of like so
many loves; each have had their day. We have
lirted with them all, but to Tennessee have we at
last given our heart, and as soon as we can salts
facorly arrange matters we propose fp.aav her cur
hand and, like an earnest, honestloSer, we can
see no faults in the one we truly love-
To some extent, at least this picture is true, in its
application to the subject in hand, and from this point
we are at liberty to make some further reflections,
relating the general facts and ances of the coonist
for, like the ardent lover, when he to marry
he awakes to find that his darling does not always
comb her hair, and put clean collar before break
fast and small as the omission is, it brings pang
of regret So with these thoughts in view it is easy
to see that, however closely watch ourselves, we
have really set heart upon the section we have
determined to visit, and, whether we will or no, we
must be prepared for some disappointment And if
the pioneer will sit right down, before leaving his
present home, and think the whole matter all over in
the light Of his present home-think Of all the dis
agreeable things in his own county, town, neighbor
hood and even in his own household-or, at the best,
we are all filled to overfowng with the petty cares
and annoyances of this lfe--and say, calmly to him
self, Mw, ue,sgvy 90, Imust 70 great extern, TAXI
all these cares and anno,unfss acaA me, then he will,
be ~ RI thinuc