Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-22

ton Emerson. A ~city-born Emerson would
be an anomalous impossibility. Hawthorne
was the subtlest of American novelists.
Born and bred in a city, he would
never have been heard OF. The pro-
f~essions are crowded by young men
from the country who run away from the
serenity and tranquility of country life and
engage in the activity and noise the city,
deluded by the belief that fame and fortune
can be secured only by turmoil and excite
ment. 1t is a mistake to suppose the country
is 6lled with Ounces and fatal to the expaa-
zion and development of genius. OF late
years the young men of the country have be-
come frantic with the insane desire and rush
for the ceassless hum Of city life. INC the
great masses who have bean reared in our
larger towns and cities look Upon country
life a. little better tho prison confinement.
1t must only be thought Of for q few weeks
in the summer, and then thought Of a. . nee
essary evil; a sort Of ~sugar-coated prescrip-
ton. at is 90 lonelyP' "Nothing to take up
one's time" "NothiDg going on" "Intoler-
ably stupid" such are the words We often
near from those who are forced 10 spend a
few weeks largely in their own company and
with nature. 10 all such we would commend
DR.. Marshalps able letter and Lord Byron's
lines OF "Human Solitude"
ITO sit on ROCKS, TO muse DER hood and fell,
| To slowly trace the forests shady scene.
Where things tnAt own not mans dominion dwell,
And mortal loot n IN ne'ef OF rarely been;
10 chnb The Lackless nlDurtain all unseen,
Vito the wild HOOK that never needs 4 foid
Alone DER sleeps and f1aming falls TO lean,
| This is not solitude; lis but 70 hold
Converse with n2ture's charms, and view her store.
But MIDST the crowd. the hum, the shock of men,
To near, 70 see, u ieel and To possess,
and roam along. the world = uneo denisen,
Minions Of splen1or shrinking from distress,
None that, with kindred Consciousness endued,
II we we're not, would seem t. mile the less
OF all that fatE-red. followed, sought and sued;
ThlsiA 10 be alone; this. this is solitude"
The desire to grow suddenly rich is an
other cause which induces young men to
avoid the country and seek employment in
the cities. Young mon consider delays
tedious and burdensome and are not disposed
to wait. They see that we live in an age OIL
rapid thought, rapid work and rapid travel
That haste is the passion OF the hour, and
hence they want to go up Ike rockets, t.
build hne houses with the rapidly with
which mushrooms grow. No young mar
seems to be living where be expects to die
and instead OF cu%ltivAtipg the philo-opby
Of waiting for results are rushing after sud.
den wealth. But thev will Tearr 20 the enc
hat great growths have alwsys been slow
that great bodies move slowly, aud thai
haste has made waste. The young mar
who sdops the suggestions Of DR.
Marshall will become prosperous and happy
BE may not become suddenly ricb, bul
he will surely acquire a competency. Pur'
chase a home, for q debt on it is an incenliv.
for saving. Henry Ward Beecher said: I'll
a young man will only get in debt for soms
land and get married these two things viii
get him straight or nothing will.n Tn,
wealth Of the world is in the soil and no
where else, and he who possesses only a few
acres Of the source of all wealth has nothing
L IN fear