The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-01-25
The Country Boy.
tho Macon Comfy Citizen.

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Since the days when Greece was forced
to call a sturdy old farmer from his pillow
to take command of her armies and save
her from an invading foe, the farm has
continued to furnish the greatest minds,
strongest personal characters and most
prominent and successful men of the
country, both civil and military.
Another rather remarkable fact is that
the sons of great men seldom become
great. Only one president of the United
States raised a son to fill his high posi-
ton.
Why the country boy generally out
strips his city cousin in the rugged as
cent 20 the dizzy heights to glory and
II fame, as well as in the race for business
success, seems to be a great puzzle to
philosophers and savants as well as to
casual observers.
There is something about the early
training of the country boy that seems
to better prepare him for holding steady
balance as he climbs the shaky and I'M
certain ladder that leads to the lofty pin
acle of mans ambition.
The country boy, injured to hardships,
economy and plain living, keeps in touch
and sympathy with the common people
as well as with the upper tens, after he
has reached the more exalted stations in
life.
Having no illustrious ancestors to look
to for reflected glory, he relies upon his
prowress and merit.
Inheriting none of that yaulting ambi-
ton that bounds beyond its capacity to
grasp and hold on, he starts out in life
with steady, easy gait, his aspirations
reaching no further head than he can
see and accomplish, but steadily expand
inc as he reaches given points.
When man thus gradually reaches
eminence either in business, statesman
ship, authorship or military glory, he
does not lose his head, but is generally
able to hold his ground.
Commenting on matters ON this line
our esteemed Atlanta contemporary, the
Constitution, whose greatest sin is its
propensity for purloining the editorials
of country editors and inserting them as
original matter under the head of ''spe-
ciaIs," makes this candid admission:
The Ladies of Sorosis at their last
meeting in New York discussed the
merits OF town and country life.
1t was very able controversy. Fash
ionable society was duly roasted, and,
on the other hand, the alleged narrow
ness of country life was strongly pre-
sented. One side commended that the
country developed our best men and wo-
men and the other side was positive that
the people were at their beat in the
towns.
People have been wrangling oyer this
old question ever since the dawn Of his
tory, and they have not settled it yet.
Both town and country are good places
for good men who are trying to do their
level best for themselves and for others,
and they are very bad places for bad
men who are determined to do evil.
Vice and crime are neither caused nor
banished by crowded streets and open
fields. Saints and sinners are confined
to no one place. They are active in
large cities and in the rural districts.
But one thing is certain-somethins in
the influence of country life develops
the men who achieve the greatest success
in life and leave lasting impress upon
the thought, the literature and the leg
islation Of their time. Take any list of
famous men in America, England or
France, or any country, and the great
majority will turn out to be country
bred. AT It's next meeting Sorosis should
take hold of this interesting fact and in
vestigate it's causes and conditions.
An unfortunate man gained access to
a rich nobleman. He depicted his mis-
fortunes and miseries in so moving a
manner that the noble lord, with tears
in his eyes and his voice choked with
sobs, called to the servant: John, put
this poor fellow out into the streets, he
S breaking my heart"
Women marry at fourteen IN the state |
of Washington. There are many women
much older than that in these parts who
are not married vet.