The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-01-24
GOOD ADVICE.
STAY SOUTH, YOUNG MAN, STAY
SOUTH.
There is No Other Land SO Fair and
Promising as This-Its opportunities
and Advantages Unsurpassed-SO
Says the Zone Gallus" Philosopher,
Rufus Sanders, of Georgia.


sobe.ness that fell from Uncle Daniels
lips that day put me to thinking along
another line. There is nothing in
particular the matter with the country
We live in. The malnest fault, young
man, IS not in our stars, but in our
selves. And that's what makes me tell
YOU what do.
Stay South, young man, stay South.
Turn not to the right hand nor to the
left. Stick to your bush. Stand by
your colors. Stay South. Don't get
in the habit of changing your base. 1t
is a bad habit. 1t is like sowing to
the wind or building on the sand. 1t
IS uncertain and risky and dangerous.
Settle up, and then settle down. Have
some ideas and opinions and convic-
tions Of your own, and then honor
them and press them till the COWS
come home and the evening stars sing
together. Pay your way. Stand up
TO the rack, fodder or no fodder. Play
for keeps. And stay South.
What this country wants and what
the time demands is more grown up
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
heartedly. Choose your way and fol-
low it TO the end. Chalk down your
line and then come to taw. II you
call yourself a farmer be farmer from
Farmersville. Meet the issues as they
come. Stand up like 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. Fortunes are now wrapped up in
its hills and buried down under the
sod and the daisies It's storehouse is
the green earth's mother breast. Take
the keys, young man, and get on the
ground floor. Have a finger in the
pie. Don't ride a bubble back to the
unknown and leave the world tc
wonder why you were ever born'at all
Dig while you call it day. Make haste
while the sun shines. Do about
diligently. Git a waterbury move
ment on you. Beat old Ell getting
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 tC
do, or what you hope to be, youns
man, stay South. Iou can't improve
on the country. There is none othe
like it. And in the South there is Sc
much yet to COme-so much gOOC
work for the clear head and the homes
heart and the stout arm and the willing
hand to do. Men are what God anC
good mothers and opportunities make
them. But there IS comfort in tht
thought that opportunities come to al
men sometime and somewhere dowr
the line. Every day brings its trool
of opportunities Like the ruthles
rider OF the pale horse, they go in a
the cottage gate and up to the palace
door. They will come to you. Don
waste them or neglect them. Embrace
them and make the best of them
Watch all the points and keep up th'
corners. Weed your own row. Shoe
high If you hit the moon. And sta,
South.
Make haste slowly when it comes t
playing quits with the old home anC
the old country you live in. Let you
days be many and peaceful in the lant
OF your fathers. 1t is the Sunny South
1t is the same dear old South. Ant
there is plenty of room in the old lan'
yet.
Thank God for the rest where none moleSi
And none can make afraid,
Where peace sits down as plenty's guest
Beneath the homestead shade.
RUFUS SANDERS.