Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-06-05

nous mills, miles OF rich mines, all
adjacent to fertile farms, all owned
by men who today are living from
hand to mouth in precarious existence
in the crowded, sordid and pestilential
tenements of all our teeming cities. 1t
is the saddest illustration of the grim
irony Of nature in rebuke of mans folly
and blindness that In our crowded
cities the poor huddle together over
puny fires made from the refuse of
lumber yards, ship yards and railway
tracks, while in the magnificent forests
of the South millions upon millions of
the choicest cords of wood lie rotting
for want of man to use them.
The assessed value Of property in
the Southern States since the year 1879
has increased $900,000,000; 1900
miles of new railroads have been built;
the number of cotton~mills has doub-
led; the number of cotton>seed oil-mills
has quadrupled; the produced Of pig
iron has doubled; 100000 tons of
coal have been mined. 1t has been
demonstrated that the profits made in
the manufacture of cotton in the South
have far exceeded those of Northern
mills.
Suppose man has family, hun.
bred or two dollars in money, with
good health, and can swing an axe,
can perhaps do rough carpenter or
masonry work. He takes his family
to the South. He needs an axe, a
spade, a hoe, saw, drawshave, plane,
ETC., when he gets there, and few
pieces of lumber to make doors and
windows to his log house. He can cut
his logs for his dwelling and for his
stable, if needed, upon the ground
where the buildings are to be erected.
As soon as this is done his neighbors
will assemble and assist him in raising
his house. The climate is so mild
that, even if he gets there is the win,
ter season, ample fuel to keep his group
of dear ones warm can be gathered all
about him. In the course of few
days he can have his house up, and he
is then ready to prepare some ground
for corn and vegetables in time for the
early spring planting. No heavy pillow
or two.horse team is needed to break
the ground. A light one.horse pillow
will stir the loose earth sufficiently to
plant and SOW in. Then, if he needs
a little money and is a good axeman, he
can split rails, get out spoke timber OF
wagon axles, fence-posts, shingles, bolts,
etc., which will command a ready sale
and yield him a moderate but steady
income, and part of his time he car
attend to his growing crops. In this
simple and inexpensive manner any
man may be under his own vine AND
fig tree, exempt from the haunting
dread of the landlord, the coal mer
chant and the butcher. His children
grow up under the unrestrained liberty
of nature. He breathes the pure all
of heaven, unobstructed by brick wall;
and dense, grimy clouds of coal smoke
The water he drinks from a spring o.
which he is the sole owner, is uncon'
; taminated by garbage and more un
mentionable ofenses to the smell or the
eye. The lowing of his satisfied kline,
with their tinkling bells, will be sweet
! err music to his ears than the harsh
discordant jangling of city sounds. L
I the advice given by Mr.. Greeley nc
I longer is of any benefit to young men
the sunny South holds out her gentle
invitation to them. Her bright skie'
smile over fertile but undeveloped soil
, . that lie in wait for our vigorous anC
homeless young men Of the North.
.. Then 60 South, young mani TAXI
, your wife and your children with you
Plant your hearthstones there among
those cousins of ours of the South
> whosehospitality is universally proven
-. bal; whose welcome isextended warm
, ly to all good people from every quar-
fer