The Elbert County tribune., 1903-12-03

Nithou' oht- ihey ddu greatly 10 tue
attractiveness OF farm life.
Frequent ''socials." church and
otherwise. tend to keep the young folk
In 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 1t
pleasant for them when they come
Let them know you enjoy their pleas
ure. 1t will tighten their lives as well
as add to your pleasure. There is no
recollection that comes TO us In later
life more vivid and attractive than the
remembrance OF the home of some hos
pitable 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 go far to give 1t that
attraction that shall keep the boy on
the farm. and IL he stays there. he will
see to 1t that one good girl stays with
him.
The most powerful attraction to the
boy for farm life is the matter OF
pride. Let him feel that his fathers
farm has on 1t better cattle, handsorner
horses. finer hogs and better crops
than are TO be found ON the farms of
the neighbors. and he would be less
than human IL he was not interested
in them. The live farmer of the TWEEN
tieth century viii raise only blooded
stock. There are two reasons for this.
First. it is more profitable; second,
there is pleasure in 1t not to be found
in the rearing of scrub stock. At pres
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tainable by any enterprising 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
ial purpose in view. The farmer that
lives with n purpose and has no cspec-
ial aim will be likely to rear boys like
himself. Like produces like
By the time n boy has reached the
age of eighteen or nineteen years
(oftcn long before that time) he will.
If he have within him the material of
which men are made. have made n
selection of his life work. If after
having passed his early life amid the
attractions and pleasant surroundings
of farm life he has n strong preference
for 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 not
going to stay on the farm. Some of
them are needed for other fields OF ac-
ton, and when they have strong ma
tural inclination for that other field
the sooner and more actively they be-
| gin their preparation for II the better
II one decide for farm life the prep
aration for IL should be thorough and
careful. The day has passed for the
energetic boy to be satisfied with in
different preparation for any bust
ness, whether professional or pastoral
He must be educated in nny line 10
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 win take In 1t.
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 1t costs less
for a proper fitting for agricultural life
than is required in any other profes-
sion flor farming is n professionl.
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 ad-
vised with as II 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. 1t
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-
ist. in nine cases out of ten the fault
will be. found at the parents door and
due to their example.-New York Trlb-
une.
Newspaper Man Writes with His Teeth.
Louis Schuelke. Jr., is probably the