The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-04-07
FARMER AND PLANTER.
TAKE GOOD AIM.
cause the GUN Was Aimed
THAT Way

something from excitement, haste, and
the fore of example. The trigger was
pulled too soon or too late. Not one
of hundred bullets in any battle are
ever aimed at any thing. They are
just fired off. When President Kruger
said, 1.-THE Lord will guide our bullets,
all we have to do. is keep cool and
take good aiul," he made wonderful
statement.
Soldiers that can keep cool and
take good aim" are the most danger
Gus men 10 fight. 1t requires a type
of bravery that few armies ever at
tain. No man can attain to it unless
he is sustained by strong faith in
the righteousness of his cause, and
in the help of a Divine Providence. 1t
is just little superhuman- The fear
full fatality among the British in
South Africa shows the effect of such
courage on the port of the Beers
Bullets go the way the gun is aimed.
-"They often go astray,
Because the gun was aimed that way.
BUT what has that to do with farm
ing? Very much. Our plans are the
very essence of our work. When we
wait until the season comes for active
work, and then begin to plan and
work all at the same time, we are apt
10 find that much of orr work goes
astray. We waste labor and money,
and get little or no pay, because our
work was aimed that way.
There is much closer connection
between the farmer and Providence
than between the soldier and Provi-
tience. 'sThe earth is the Lords. and
the fitness thereof" He holds the
winds in the hollow of His hands. He
guides the seasons in their courses,
and sends the early and the late
rains. Tie timely and the untimely
frost are the breath of His nostrils.
He makcth the earth to yield or not at
His good pleasure.
What we will make or not make is
not always together of our choosing.
We did not aim to make the short crop
of cotton in 1899. We intended to
make a pretty large one, but kind
Providence cut it just enough short to
help us to great wave of prosperity.
But if Dom Paurs soldiers did not
keep and take good aim, the British
would not have fallen in such fearful
numbers.
So il we do not prepare well and
plant well and work well, Providence
will not fill our barns. IL we plant
too much Gotten, Providence will not
give us bread and meat. While time
shall last there shall be seed in the
sower and bread to the eater, if we
SOW. the seed and sweat for the
bread.
The promises are sure and steadfast
that the iiligent hand shall be made
fat. But if we give our time and
strength and brain to politics, we shall
reap a crop of ''poIiticks. What a
man soweth that shell he also reap.
Many of us read five times as much
shout politics as we do about farm
ing. You can scarcely find house,
where no political paper is taken, but
can find hundreds without a good
farm paper. flour farmers would talk
as much about farming as they do
anout voting, farming would soon be
revolutionized.
You are vastly more interested in
what your next crop shall be than
whom your next president shall be.
Your happiness and that of your fam
lily depends very much upon what is
in your crib and sInokehouse next
fall, and very little upon who is pres
ident next term. If your crib and cred
ii are all right, you can be happy un-
der any president, if they are all
wrong. No president can make you
and yours happy.
So we say do not aim your gun at
politics if you wish your bullet to hit
prosperity.
Prosperity, like charity, begins at
home, and like charity, if it be of the
genuine type, it spreads all around.
Your prosperity is in your own hands.
II you aim right, that is if you plant
the right kind of crop, and attend to
your farm work as you ought, you
win be prosperous, and your neigh
bors seeing your prosperity will go
and do likewise.
One of our subscribers tried to per-
suade. his neighbor to plant potatoes
instt ud of cotton last spring. He
failed. but his neighbor, seeing him
receive more money for the crop of
pofafoes from two acres than himself