The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-03-22

demnation at sight of the h0mely
word, | repeat 1t most emphatically,
give them trade, No matter what it
is, so long = it will earn good, hon.
est living ',r them in Case they should
ever need and even if they should
not need 5, the feeling Of comfort and
independence that comes with it is
very satisfactory, and not 10 be attain.
ed in any other wav whatever.
But" | hear yon say, "whRt does
my daughter need Of atrnde? Has she
not everything that she can possibly
wish? And, besides that, all girls
marry; she will probably be no excep-
ton TO the rule, What need, therefore,
that she should trouble herself as to
ways and means?"
Now all ~uch logic ia wei enough for
some, and no doubt many are content
TO let it go at that; but the average
girls pride rebels at the idea of being
| dependent, Theu, too, suppose your
riches should take wing, as riches have
/ u disagreeable habit Of doiny occasion.
ally; wonld not the knowledge that
your daughter held in her fair hands
shield and sword with which to pro-
test herself and keep the grim foes,
! Want and Distress, at distance prove
comfort and blessing, not only to her,
hut to yourself rs we'll? It's true that
all--or nearly all-girls marry and
let me tell you right here, that then is
the time, of all others, when girl
longs for few dollars of her very own,
that she may add few straws to the
home nest that is to be hers, and fee!
free to exercise her own judgment and
Taste in so doing. No one except those
who have experienced it know what
a humiliating feeling possesses one
who has to stand idle while her belong
ings are bought for her with money
that somebody else has earned and
Give the Girls q Chance"
in Demorests Magazine for April.
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CAPITAL The
following suggestion from an editorial
in the March number of the Southern
States magazine of Baltimore, Nd,
might be utilized by Southern inves-
tors and not be left to the Financial
centres"
Outside of these agencies, then, how
is the cause Of immigration to be ad-
vanced? The questions and the con-
ditions giving rise to it. suggest an op.
portupity for capital and enterprise.
In almost any part of the Sou. III very
large areas of land may be gotten to-
gether at very low prices. With
money enough to buy and properly
develop farm lands, and with judicious
management, there is hardly any limit
to the profitable business that could be
done by immigration or colonization
companies. For example, company
that could buy say 10 600 or more acres
of land in a body, or make up this
acreage by consolidating nu1lber of
farms bongh from different ers,and
then divide this up into small fan ms of
twenty, forty. eighty or more acres,
construct roads throughout the entire
area, drain the whole Of it, put it all in
the best shape for the most advanced
farming or pardening operations, build.
ing houses, &C., and then direct them.
selves to the work of colonizing it or
selling to individual settlers, such a
company, with sufficient capital and
properly managed, could quickly settle
up almost any area of land and make
enormous profits for the stockholders.
Besides the tracts sold as small farms,
there would necessarily be one or more
centrally located village sites which
would become Immediately valuable as
town property There is nothing easier
than getting Northern farmers to go
South. The conditions Of farming and
of life at the South are go incomparably
superior to those at the North that
they need only to be pressed upon the
attention OF Northern farmers to be
availed Of In it's millions of acres of
cheap lands the South has the advan-
tage of an entirely new and undevel-
oped country, and was with this all
the advantages and comforts and at
fractions of an established and advanc-
ed civilization. The South is in the
main more healthful than any other
part of the United States, its range of
farm and garden products is great, it
offers better opportunities for profit
able agriculture, and it is in all respect
section where life can be lived in
greater comfort than at the North.
Convinced of these facts, hundreds of
thousands of substantial and we'll to do
farmers in other parts of the country
would quickly move to the South. In
fact, there IS even now, all over the
North and Northwest disposition to
60 South. AS was stated in letter
published in the January number OF
the Southern States, "there are thou
sands who would move South if some
body would start the ball rolling"
These are the conditions. Properly