The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-10-18
Precautions,

| Foresight y hefttr than htndSighL'
but yet the majority or persons view
their affairs by the latter, and they suf-
Ter many vain regrets. How many
y hen suffering disaster from a want OF
| foresight have for their comfort only
thai well-worn unwise adage, '.it is no
use or, ing over spilled milk" That
is where such persons make Il grievous
mistake. Experience ought to teach
us. it does teach IIs, if we will only
/ learn lis Lessons. Also We go on
through our lives, losing o. portunites,
suffering damage, il not disaster re-
peatedly, simply because Ee will not
use our foresight and take precautions.
The farmer has greater need of precau-
JiOn- No one more than he has need
Tor this, because no one is more subject
TO accidents and sudden contingencies,
which, when they come upon him una
wares, usually involve serious damage
and losses. Men differ widely in this
respect Some go about with theireyes
open continually, and others only open
them when they run against some OF
stacle which hurts them, and then they
see how very Little precaution might
have enabled them TO avoid the injury
Accidents are all preventible, notwith- |
standing the adage that they will hap |
pen under the best management.
Management is merely a syst,-m of |
precautions against accidents, and il is |
good or bad as the system is complete |
and eiIt ctive or incomplete and defect
i've. A belief in luck is tile worst of al
heresieS Men make their own luck
that is, they take risks wiliully, trust I
ing To the chance OF escape, and when
they do not escape they blame their
luck. Farmers and other cult Vators of
the soil have TO contrued with many
things which they cannot contro', at
the welther, the attacks OF insects, etc,
but ii they can not control these they
can generally avert i'll consequences
In sGme insurance policies it is common
TO write that the company do not hold
themselves responsible Tor san act of
God," meaning that if lightniny strikes
a house and it is burned, or any other
catastrophe happens to cause
loss OF property, they are not to be held
even flash of lightning,
because even this terrible and resistless
agent can be controlled by such simple
means as lightning-rod, if it is prop
erly provided, and the electricity goes
harness to the ground without dam
age or injury.
But it is in the smaller affairs of life
that one sees more particually the
necessity of precaution. A farmer be-
gins his day about sunrise, and until
sunset he may be suffering annOyancesI
and losses OF the most veXatious kind
simply because he gives no thought TO
the future, or if he does he neglectS TO
provide against accidents, and take the
risks. And so as about daylight he Wis
its his chicken cOOps he finds the setting
hen left carelessly on a self made nest
in the yard, torn and killed by some
wild animal, and her eggs cold and
spoiled. son, it's only hen," he may
say as he kicks the poor bird aside and
passes on, but it may be three dollars
lut of his pocket. Then he goes to the
1arn and finds his horse loose, not
having been tied, and the mate badly
licked and injured and laid up from
work for a week or two, and the loose
lorse lying grooming beside the open
neal-chests to which he found the way ;
through a door carelessly left open. {
Then the farmer begins to blame his |
,ad luck, which happens just at the
busiest time too and which is ''just his {
uck." OF course he never blames his
Wn neglect and carelessness in not l
afely securing his horses when he put {
hem in the stalls, which is the right
nd proper time; nor his thoughtless-
pen, when he should have shut it as
Don as he passed through, and made an
practice of doing this, as well
IS of closing and securing the feed-box.
Then our unfortunate friend or neigh
lor may 60 to the COW stable and find {
of the same kind there hap
,ened, or into the field and find dam
lge done there by bars LETT down or !
rates left open and stray cattle, just as
let loose by neighbor, in
lis corn or wheat.
But one can not think of the too
Ous-to-mention cases which are
continually; of the vast
osses by reason of work not done for
want of seed, or of tools, or of repairs
needed at particular time, and these
lot being at hand the work goes over,
S badly or unseasonably done, or not
lone at all, or perhaps some serions ac-
,ident may happen which will destroy
he peace of mind and leave sorrow in
ne heart and painful memories tor life.
II. Stewart, in N. Y. Times.