The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-02-16

went 70 tho woods first and cut down
the hickory saplin and made Q handle
for the axe ut home.
when was boy If . man didn't
have money enough to use store-bought
tobacco and pay for it in spot cash, he
would pitch in and raise him q patch of
the weed at home, and then use plain
Red Alcclx three hundred and sixty-dve
days in the year.
when was a boy one box of match
es would run the family six months,
whereas today there is many q farmer
In this country with a yearlin boy rum
min loose on his place that will burn
up . box of matches in six days smokin
cigareets. With many pecurious
people in the land it amt no wonder
ment to me TINT you hear SO much talk
about skeercc money and hard times.
To he certainly of course Uncle Dan
tel never drcampt that his plain and
homely words would find their way
into the public prints. But they sound
ed to me like many great big gobs
of truth and common sense. and give
them out to you as he give them in to
worth.
Young Man, Stay South.
Whereas, the words of truth and So
berness that fell from Uncle Daniels
lips that day put me to .hinltiu along
another line. There is nothin in par
ticular the matter with the country we
live in. The mainest fault, young man,
is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
And that's what makes me tell you
what do.
Stay South. young man, stay South
Turn not to the right hand nor t< Il -
left. Stick to your bush. Stand by
your colors. Stay South. Don't get in
the habit of changing your base. 1t is
bad habit. 1t is like so:vin to tho
wind or buildin on the sand. 1t is I'M
certain and risky and dangerous. Settle
ideas and opinions and convictions of
your own, and then honor them and
press them till the COWS come homo
and the evenin stars sing together.
Pay your way. Staud up to the rack,
fodder or no fodder. Play for keeps.
And stay South.
What this country wants and what
men-men of energy and horse sense
and plenty of push and go. Here, as
elsewhere, and in fact, everywhere,
there is profit in all labor. Pull Off
your coat and roll up your sleeves and
spit in your hands and take hold true
low it to the end. Chalk down your
line and then come to tayv. If you call
yourself farmer be a farmer from
Farmersville. Meet the issues as they
come. Stand up like a man. Look the
sun in the face. And stay South.
When you come to think about it
right serious and sober. this is a great
country anyway you take it. 1t always
was. 1t grows on you. SO to say. For
tunes are now wrapped up in it's hills
and buried down under the sod and the
daisies. It's storehousc is the gr:een
earths mother breast. Take the keys,
young man, gnd git on the ground
ride bubble back to the unknown
and leave the world to wonder why
you were ever born at all. Dig while
you can call it day. Make haste while
the sun shines. Do about diligently.
Git a waterbury movement on you.
Beat old Eli gettin there. Think and
work and sow and reap. And stay
South.
No matter who you are, or where you
come from, or what you mean to do, or
what you hope to be, young man, stay
South. You can't improve on the
country. There is none other like it.
And in the South there is so much yet
to come-so much good work for the
clear head and the honest heart md
the stout arm and the willin hand to do.
Men are what God and good mothers
and opportunities make them. But
there is comfort in the thought that
come to all men sometime
and somewhere down the line. Every
day brings It's troop of opportunities
Like the ruthless rider of the pale
horse, they go in at the cottage gate
and up to the palace door. They will
come to you. Don't waste them or neg
lect them. Embrace them and make
the best of them. Watch all the points
and keep up the corners. Weed your
own row. Shoot high if you hit the
moon. And stay South.
Make haste slowly when it comes to
playin quits with the old home and the
old country you live in. Let your days
be many and peaceful in the land OF
your fathers. It is the Sunny South.
1t is the same dear old South. And
there is plenty of room in the old land
yet.
Thank God for the rest where none modest,
And none can make afraid,
Where peace sits down plenty's guest
Beneath the homestead shade.
RUFUs SANDERS
Orange Pie: Beat the yolks of
;hrce eggs with pful of sugar, and
when light add a tablespoonful of but
'er. Stir in the pulp and juice of two