The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-10-29

BY C. |. PECK.

phones, no farm home is complete
without one. They add greatly to the
attractiveness of farm life.
frequent "socials, church and
otherwise, tend to keep the young folk
III proper social lines. Above all, don't
allow yourself to lose interest in the
young folk Of the neighborhood. In.
vite them to your home, and make il
peasant for them when they come.
Let them know you enjoy their pleas.
ufe. 1t Will tighten their lives as well
as add to your pleasure There is no
recollection that comes to us in later
lie more vivid and attractive than the
remembrance of the home of some hos.
pltable couple whose house was the
gathering place of the young men and
women OF the neighborhood. Your
own children will be proud Of their
home, and it will so far to give it that
attraction that shall keep the boy on
the farm, and if he stays there, he will
see to it that one good girl stays with
| him. es;.s.
The most powerful attraction to the
| BOY for farm life is the matter of
pride. Let him feel that his fathers
farm has on it better cattle, handsomer
horses, finer hogs and better crops
than are to be found Oh the farms Of
the neighbors, and he would be less
than human if he was not Interested
in them. The live farmer of the TWEEN.
tieth century will raise only blooded
stock. There are two reasons for this.
First, it is more profitable; second
there is pleasure in it not to be found
in the rearing of scrub stock. At pres.
ent prices Of blOOded stock they are at
talnable by any entcrprising farmer.
and those bred for many generations
for the development of some particular
feature or trait are more desirable for
the man that desires to turn that trait
TO profit than those bred with no spec.
TAI purpose in view. The farmer that
Hves with purpose and has no espec-
lal aim will be likely to rear boys like
himself. Like produces like
by tie time a boy has reached the
age OF eighteen or nineteen years
(often long before that time) he will.
IL he nave within him the material OF
Which men are made, have made
selection Of his life work. If after
having passed his early life amid the
attractions and pleasant surroundings
o. farm life he has strong preference
Tor some other vocation, mechanical or
professional, he will be likely to bend
every effort to its attainment. All the
farm born and farm bred boys are rot
going to stay Oh the farm. Some of
them are needed for other fields OF &C.
ton. and when they have a strong ma
tu"al inclination for that other field
TIC c9oner ard more actively they be-
gin their preparation for it the better.
Ii one decide for 4 farm life, the prep
aratioA for it should be thorough and
careful. The day has passed for the
energetic boy to be satisfied with in
different preparation for any bus
ness, whether professional or pastoral.
He must be educated in any line to
meet the competition Of the age in
which he is to live and work. The
higher his education and the more
thorough his preparation for his WORK.
the more interest he will take in Il,
and the greater the consequent sue
cess.
There has never been a time in the
history of the present generation when
the prospects of the farmer were
brighter. Steam and electricity are
year by year bringing him in more
direct contact with the commercial
world and its markets. He can buy
cheaper and sell higher than at any
time for years Free agricultural
schools are to-day within the reach OF
every farmers son, and it costs less
for proper fitting for agricultural life
than is required in any other profess
sion (for farming is profession).
There should be free and full feeling
and sympathy between father and son
in the plans for work and the future.
The son should be consulted and adj
vised with as if he were a partner in
the business. By precept and example
he should be taught to respect his
mother and sisters and pay them the
little attentions to which they are en-
titled. 1t takes something more than
external surroundings to constitute
Home" Whatever they may be, they
are the mere adOrnments, necessary, it
is true, but, after all. home is what its
inmates make it, Mutual interest,
mutual confidence, and mutual love.
these three, and the greatest of them
is love, for where it exists the others
will be found Where it does not ex-
list, in nine cases out Of ten the fault
will be found at the parents door and
due to their example.-New York Trib-
une.
Newspaper Man Writes With His Teeth.
Louis Schuelke, Jr., is probably the
only newspaper man who writes with
his teeth. He is the Waterbury Comm
Republicans correspondent at Bunker