The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-03-19

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try homes, and note the difference;
some We must class as a success, and
some we must call failure.
There are some persons who haYe
but one object in view, and that is
to possess a large amount of this
worlds goods. Home and its sur
roundings, education and every
thing else, is neglected for this.
They must economic. 1t would be
too expensive TO try to beautifY
home and loss Of time to acquire
an education. These persons should
stop and think that wealth is only
borrowed, and that when swept
away by the storms of adversely, as
it often is, they will be left a mere
blank in society and die uRregret-
ted.
And we have another class Of
persons who are always going to
live and have everything they
should, but they never do it. After
a while this man will do so and so
next summer, perhaps, or some
time in the future-snd as year at
ter year rolls around NE see him
just where he started in life. He
seems to have forgotten that "Pro-
crastination is the thief of time"
And again we have an INDECENT
class of people that seem TO think
the world owes them a living, and
that they can get it by a life of
Idlensss. Notice the farmer of this
class. He spends his time in the
nearest village, loafing around and
smoking, or sitting in the shade
watching his half-starved stock
trsespass on his more fortunate
neighbours plantation. Everything
is in half repaired condition; his
fences are all down; his farming
implements where he quit using
them; while the weeds in his gar
den grow thicker and higher.
We also have a class seeking for
future greatness which includes
some of our farmers as well as men
of other professions. They have
their farms under the care of an
ovsrseer, while they will run all
over the country to find a place
where their influence can be felt
and their talents appreciated. In
the meantime take a glimpse at
home, while this lord of creation is
absent. Everything has the appear
ance of caVelessness. Somehow
things would get out of place and
mislaid. Nothing is in order, and !
there seems to be no system in the |
management of his affairs. If he
longs for sphere in which he could |
make his life tell for good, he had |
better cease talking about and look
ing for it and stay at home and 60 |
to work and make it.
And, last, we have the honest, in
dustrious, progressive man, with
his orderly home and neat surround
ings. His farm is well kept, his
stock is in good order, his orchard |
is we'll trimmed and his fence rows |
are free from briars. His house is
a model of neatness and order, q
home in the true sense and not 8
hermitage
The Projections Of home come not
so much from its outward finish as
it's inward completeness. The ideal
home is not ono of those princely
palaces, where the innocent amuse
meHts are as unknown and foreign
as quadrille il a church. Make
these amusements lawful in the
home, and there will be less attrac-
ton at the billiard table and IN the
saloon. Let each home have
we'll filed library Of good and use
full books, and encourage the young
er members Of the family to cult
vate taste for good literature.
Remembering the past and look
ing forward to the future, shall We
not renew our purpose to make the
home more true, more pure, more
Just, more beautiful?-to make it
more the place of highest affections,
the fairest culture, the noblest dis
cipline, the most consecrated joys,
transfigured SORROWS, the sincerest
religion? Then 1t will be in itself
a better world in which we may
take shelter from evil tongues, ex-
hausting work and wearing dissp-
CONTAMINATION hollow hearts,
falling fortunes or unsatisfying am
bitiens. 1t will be the foretaste of
and preparation for any better
world on earth or beyond. In the
blessed sympathIss and disciplines
of home is man trained for life here |
and hereafter; and as we find no
trusr name for God than Father, so
we can give to the Heaven we hope !
for no better aame than Home.
If one half the grain that is fed
to hogs was given to poultry in
stead, it would secure much better
returns. A bushel of corn will
make, say, six pounds of pork; at
ten cents.s pound this would be six
ty cents. The same amount fed to
a hen would carry her through the
winter as layer. She will produce
tour dozen eggs iin the three
winter months. Three dozen OF
these will sell for rs cents. This
is placing the eggs at % cents q
dozen--the very lowest estimate for
this season; the other dozen should
produce eight spring chickens
worth Is cents each-$I,20 which
added to the Is cents fer eggs will
make $l.95 cents to the hens credit.
1t is much easier, however, 10 figure
out profit at any kind of business
ON paper than it is by actual work,
and in making the above estimate
all the little contingencies -such as
suffering from cold, neglect in feed
ing, frozen eggs, poultry diseases,
etc, that are most likely to cut
down the profits-are not included
in this calculation. But divide the
amount by half, and there still
would remain a more handsome
profit in poultry raising than any