Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-24

the ground in answer to his shake; who
never stood on bending limb and pick.
ed the ripest cherries; who never breath
ed the fresh morning air as he beat the
sun to the field; who never drove up
the COWS, turned out the colts, penned
up the sheep or heard the music of
cracking corn in the hog pen; or lis.
tening to the welcome sound of the old
dinner horn.
lpity the fellow that has in memory
no bubbling spring, or babbling brook
or moss covered rock, or hard beaten
path, or wild violet bed, or favorite ap-
pie tree, OF pretty, blushing country
maid. | pity the fellow who has no
memory of the first ripe fruits of the
summer, the fist big snow of winter,
the first fall fire whose mellow light
bathes the old home wall and the old
fashioned pictures and the loving fea-
lures OF the father and mother and
brother and sister. pity the boy who
has no memory of the first spring day
he doffs his shoes, discards the foot
log of the creek, and with pants rolled
up to his knees wades the creek and
watches the soft mud squirt through
his toes, who has no memory of the
laying by OF the corn, the waving har-
vest, the scent of new mown hay, of the
fruit gathering and hog killing season.
1t is pleasant to have been country
boy, but outside of all these pleasant
memories, these guileless, simple pleas
ures, there is something more important
to me than simple pleasures of a coun-
try home. believe that in these coun
try homes are reared the men and wo-
men who most help and keep aud bless
our land. l am sorry that the country
people are getting dissatisfied with
country homes, and are longing for the
life of the cities and towns. am sorry
that so many of our poor people have
crowded into the slums of the cities
whose air is foul with oaths and reek-
ing with vice. 1t is better to live hum
bly IN the country, serve God and bring
up your children in a country atmos-
phere as pure in morals as in physics,
than to seek great wealth and prosper
ity in the perils of the town and city
life.
l would rather have sober boy
dressed in jeans than a drunkard dress.
ed like dude. l would rather nv
daughter would have the pure, simple,
unsophisticated airs of q country girl
and love God and do right, than to be
belle in the city ball room, marry a
devotee of fashion, drift into worldli.
ness and sin and drink at last the dregs
OF worldly, sinful, mispent life. AT
ter all the United States must depend
upon her country homes for the men
and women who take care Of the affairs
OF this country. Our greatest lawyers,
doctors and statesmen and preachers
look back with pride upon the old
fashioned country home.
Others may court the favors and the
society of the mansions, but here is my
ideal home-a plain old fashioned
building, nesting in grove of forest
trees near the brig spring, surrounded
by fertile fields, kept by plain, old
fashioned, honest and pious husband
and wife surrounded by large family
of strong, healthy, kind, industrious
and pious sons and daughters, where
peace and plenty may be found, the
home of God and the home of happi.
ness. A home where manhood finds its
richest soil in which to grow and its
broadest circles in which to develop; a
home where industry, common sense
and virtue live and grows as certainly
as the delta of the Mississippi grows its
tremendous crops of cotton and corn; a
home free from intemperance and the
many other vices which characterize
city life.
1t must be home like this around
which the angels of God pitch their
tent: it must be home like this that
fits and qualities immortal men for the
home in the skies; the home of my dear
old grandfather and grandmother, who
served their day and generation by the
law of God and fell asleep; the home
Of thousands of our best people today
in America; home like this, where
nature makes us natural and grace
makes us akin to the Divine. If every
boy in America could be reared in q
home like this America could be revo.
lutionized in the next generation
Sam P. Jones, in Chattanooga Times.
Are You Made
miserable by indigestion, constipation
dizziness, loss of appetite, yellow skin!
Shiloh q VitaliZer ia n nositiva curo