The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-21
A Field that Is still Open.

A IIclu that ID GUN VPo"
Young mon are disposed and with
some Justice nowadays 10 complain that
all the yocations are oyercrowded, and
that for every vacant clerlkship there are
n score Of applicants. 1t is also made a
theme Of lament that the professions are
too full, and young men who have
moderate capital and some business
capacity and experience, declare that
in mercantile pursuits competition Is
ruinous and that small sum OF money
is of little account in the settled COM
munities. Granting that these com,
plants are well founded there is a field
still open for energy, skill and ambition.
The problem of how TO make n living
can be perhaps more satisfactorily solved
by falling back on the soil than by any
other experiment. There are still cheap
lands in the West and South, and il q
young man lacks money to farm on big
scale, lie can begin in smaller way,
aud by stock raising, small fruits, truck
Matching or some other limited essays i'll
this wholesome and useful field OF agri-
culture secure living, and, with reason
able fortune, III time competence.
There are hundreds Of young men in
cities who could, in few years, save up
enough money, if they were 30 inclined,
to buy little place and devote them
selves TO raising food for the ever.in-
creasing millions Of consumers IN tho
country. With all the hardships OF farm
life, aud they have been greatly exagger-
atcd, it is the happiest life known to
men. 1t is freer from the chickering's
and the worriments and the tortuous de-
vices and tho selfish rivalries and the an
tagonisms that mark the struggle OF hui
mainly for food, shelter and clothing
than any other mode Of existence. 1t is
Il life which is commonly attended with
health, with good appetite and digestion,
sound sleep, clear complexion, expanded
lungs, firm muscles, an open mind and
an untroubled conscience. The man
who gets fairly under way in this rur-
suit with his house, his lands and his
crops unembarrassed is certainly an i'll
dependent man, if such a being exists.
In the genial Southern climate he es-
capes tho seventies of winter, and his
lot is a still happier one. He is sure Of
food, and if he be decently prudent he
never need know what debt is. There
are localities in Kentucky, Virginia,
Tennessee, Georgia, AlabamaGnd Florida
where an energetic young man, with lit
tie capital, could do better at farming
than lie could possibly hope to do in any
city at any other vocation, and out i'll
those far regions of Oregon and Wash
ington Territory there are splendid OPP
portunitics for young men to begin now
career useful, happy and prosperous in
filling the soil under the open sky, away
from the contentious of cities. The
temptations i'll cities which invite reck.
less waste of money are apt to keel
those poor who do get good salaries, anC
then II salaricd position is always one o
more or less dependence and precarioui
in its tenure. To be ones own master il
u thing to be coveted and sought after
The brave and energetic young fellow
WHO has made good selection of q littl,
farm in well-watered valley, and VIII,
means to be forehandod and avoid deb
and slavery, can in time, unless ho i
signally unfortunate, be his own maste
IN every proper sense, and he will fine
this free and beautiful opcn-air life
thousand-fold happier than the artificial
life of towns. Here there is field tia
is ever open. There is no danger Of it
being oyercrowded. There will Away
he Il tendency to rush iuto the cities 70
the excitements which flourish there
ant the wise and ardent young men VIII
turn their backs on these false show
and go stMghtway to nature will com
ont best in tie long run. They will hay
made good and substantial living
whilst the spendlhrifts Of the towns IN
stll wondering, with empty heads an
purses, how it can be done. The Sout
and the Northwest still offer welcome
and the generous soil yet contains re
wards for those who are deserving
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