The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1901-12-12
Red Rock.

place where family can be rear
ed with any prospect of adding
honorable men and women to the
community. The man who owns
an unmortgaged farm is the most
lndepeLdent man OH earth. No
body owns him; nobody orders
hlm to do this or that; he can
have his own political views; NO.
body can tell him how to vote or
pain of discharge He laughs at
the party boss with his whip and
kick. Almost every boy and girl
desires to be rich, but their ideas
OF what constitutes wealth are en-
tremely crude; tell them of clerk
IN the city who gets $500 year
and they think how rich and hap
Ply he must be; they would change
their minds if they could look IN
to his pale face and hear of his
trials, how hard it is to live upon
his income and how he fears every
day he may be discharged and his
family left without bread. Tell
them of Vanderbilt or an Astor,
OF their palaces, their servants and
millions, and their eyes open wide
and they imagine those men live
IN Paradise on earth. If they
knew half the troubles of those
aristocrats, what veritable slaves
they are to their millions they
would pity, not envy, them. Tell
them OF the city merchant who ad-
vertises III our papers and they
think how fine; but alas over
ninety per cent of them fail and
such are the risks and anxietles of
our merchants, they soon grow
gray, wrinkled and maturely old.
Our cities are full of the boys and
girls, wrecks, who once thought
the farm too slow for them. Who
then is rich? Every man who has
forty acres of good land not mort
gagged, with a comfortable home
upon it, is rich, but the ambitious
boy says, l must have more land,
no forty acres of land for me, 100
at least. Alas, my boy, you know
not what you want or leed, 40
acres are enough and better than
more. Why kill yourself out doors
and your wife in the house, why
impose upon yourself and family
q life of drudgery that will dwarf
your heart and eclipse your brain
and wear out your body. Seek for
the profits of your own industry
and give others chance to do the
same, then you will prosper. Your
share Of good land is about 40
acres and it will pay better than
more if properly farmed. How
many foolish people grasp for more
land than they can till and live al
their wretched lives under the
blighting shadows,of a mortgage
rather than sell what they do not
need and be free. Young men,
seek firsta foothold on earth and
business which George Washington
described as the most healthful,
most honorable occupation of man.
| wish for every young American
attaining his majority as his
greatest boon and truest wealth,
A little farm we'll titled,
| A little wife we'll willed.
| DIED-Mrs. George Reed, the
9TH inst, at her home.
Christmas will soon be at our
door. 1t brings it's cheer and Joy
year after year to little ones of the
household, but the time comes
when they are supposed to be
grown up beyond desire for the
Christmas tree. One of the jolliest
Christmas celebrations possible,
however, is to have a Christmas
tree for the grown up folks.
Stylus" you corrected my mis-
take made by the press. In my
last issue you said brother" l
am "sissle," school girl.
Prof. John Kemp is having a
fiourishing school at Sandy Flat
academy.
Miss Lille Bell Lewis is very i'll
ct this writing. MABEL.
CA 9T0RrA.
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