The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-01

upon us and stamps wrinkles on
our foreheads, and crows feet at
the corners ofour eyes. He takes
away our teeth and dims our eve
sight, and stops up our ears and
snatches US bald headed, and dyes
our dark hair gray before we know
it. He is sly, devilish sly, and new
er sleeps or gets drowsy. He is
mean, too, and stingy, for when we
are happy and having a good time,
he cuts. the hours short and cramps
up the minutes and hurries us
through, and so we say time flies,
but when we are sick, or in pain,
or in prison or having grief and
trouble, he fingers along slow, so as
to lengthen out our misery. But
there is way to get even with him,
and that is to defy him and laugh
at him, and have a good time in
spite of him. The way to do this
is to always look on the bright side,
and never cross the bridge of sighs
until we get to it. 1t don't pay to
borrow trouble. There will be
enough for our share without hunt
ing for it. Did you ever look back
and see how much misery and mis-
fortune you had dreaded and wor
ried over that never came? Some
times it looks like there is a big
mountain of it just ahead of US, but
somehow or other it disappeared
just before we get to it. We farm
ers thought we were mighty nigh
ruined year before last, and we
granted and groaned around amaz-
ing, but with last years crop we
got out of that scrape pretty well.
The fact is that farmers. in the
south never did go into winter quar-
ters better supplied with food for
man and beast. But we must keep
a digging, plow deep, and harrow,
and roll, and ditch, and drain, and
intensity, as Mr.. Furman says. In
tensify is a good word about any
kind of labor, whether of mind or
body. We have got to intensity
sooner or, later, for the world is fill
ing up mighty fast, and there used
to live a philosopher by the name
of Malthus who said that mankind
would finally be destroyed by star
vation, for the world didn't grow a
bit and folks were increasing every
day, and 1t was only question of
time when mankind would starve.
1 don't know about that. Man is
mighty smart animal, and Provi
dence never made a mistake, and
there will be some way to feed US,
sure. There is no telling how far
this intensifying business can go,
on and we have already found out
that the air feeds plants more than
the soil does. ~
Clothing was getting pretty
scarce when the cotton plant was
discovered and the loom and the
gin were invented. Wood was near
ly all used up in Germany when
coal was discovered. Steam came
along in a good time but steam
takes too much fuel and will play
out before long, and electricity take
its place. The sewing machine was
invented just when the women were
mighty tired of plying the needle
and thread, and so 1t is with every
want. They are always supplied
just at the right time, and that
gives me faith to believe they al
ways will be. Faith is a good
thing to have-plenty of faith.
Providence hasn't failed to provide
the ways and means for six thou
sand years, and we can afford to
trust Him awhile longer, [ reckon.
Mr.. Malthus never dreamed of five
bales of cotton to the acre and 150
hundred and hundred and fifty
bushels of corn, but it has been
done-done by intensifying. Bay
ard Taylor wrote about two Indian
jugglers who planted an orange
seed in the ground before him and
covered it up with tin can, and in
two hours it came up and putting
out its leaves and branches, and
bloomed and bore fruit, and he
pulled an orange from the little
bush and cut it and eat it, and he
says it was no fraud or deception,
for he watched them every minute,
and he said the only solution was
intensifying the elements of nature
and forcing her to do her work
quickly. How's that? 1t takes
us all summer to raise an ear of
corn, but suppose we knew the Sc
cret of the Indian jugglers and
could raise it in day., what then?
Nobody would starve would they?
We know that we can hurry nature
by fertilizers and stlmulants, so if
we can hurry her some, maybe
there will a way be found TO hurry
her good deal. We don't need it
now, but the time will come when
we will and then it will be found
out. ALPS well that ends well. This
world fits us and we fit the world,
and there is no danger ahead.
When the world is destroyed or
comes to an end, humanity will
have another and better one all
ready. 1t would be like moving
into a new house. So let the years
roll on, and let every man do his
duty to God and his fellow men
be calm and serene. That's all.
l wish everybody a happy new
year. BILL ARP.
Bogus Titles.
NOtbiDO Ia daarer t0 the West