The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-09

20 get and keep cash, that is, to make the
country Independent by living at home
Just so long as we depend on the west
for our supplies of bread and meat and
forage. just so long will We be IN bondage.
The road to prosperity and independence
lies through big fodder aud hay stacks,
we'll filled barns, overlooking corn cribs
and smoke houses piled run of well cured
homemade meat.
Corn, oats, hay, fat hogs, cattle sheep,
goats, chickens, ducks. geese, milk but
ter and eggs in abundance good gardens.
fruit in great variety from strawberries
up, are all in reach of any man who win
take the trouble to plant ana cultivate
them. The experience Of farmers all over
the state prove the truth OF this as
sertion.
There is no fabulous profit in farming,
but there is good profit and one that Will
make every farmer independent. and in
time rich. The trouble with all men is the
over-weaning desire to get rich quick-peo-
pie are not content 70 follow the slow but
sure road trave,ed BY our fathers and the
people of the old world. We see and read
of men who have made their millions al
most by the turn of a hand and in as short
a time. and the wild desire to do something
OF the same sort SEXES hold of us with al
most irresistible force. The mania for
speculation runs riot in the blood whether
it be in stocks or bonds. vegetables or
fruit, and we follow this viii o. the wisp
until the crash that wakes the victim the
miserable fact that the little he had has
vanished. leaving nothing but the mania
for gambling behind il. This hangs on
and waits for another chance to deiude its
victim, the opportunity comes with the
first few dollars that is accumulated or
the chance to get mao debt on a specula-
ton. then the debt STAYS too
If all men could give up the idea of
getting rich" and settle down TO secur-
ing a good comfortable living and being
Independent each year, they would Ia the
end get what they are 50 wildly and I'M
successfully reaching after. To get rich
by this process is slow, it takes years TO
compass it, but it is sure and with this
overwhelming advantages. 1t assures the
man and his family comfort, health and
ease while the end is being attained.
1t is not necessary to go far for proof.
Look around The farmer who produces
surplus OF provisions every year, who
has fat horses, hogs and cows, Away
has money he is out of debt, he dresses
himself and his family well, sete a good
table, and always has time to entertain
the friends who find il pleasant TO he
guests at such home.
The low price of cotton, fruit or Vege-
tables has had small effect on him. He is
not obliged to sell, he is Independent prac-
tically of markets and prices.
To this beatiic condition every farmer
can attain if he viii. lie can raise his
own supplies, everything, almost,that goes
on his table or to his stock, so that very
few dollars will fill every want and fur
nish many comforts, and even luxuries,
for the home.
After all is said the best plan Is to pos
eeee tho soul with DAtience work faith
fully and accept with content our lot. re-
solved to live at home, to be independent,
to do every duty cheerfully and leave the
rest to Providence, with a positive assur-
ance that success will, in the end, crown
every effort