The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-12-09


have been long time coming. but
they ale here. They are the gift of a
kind, wise and beneficent Providence,
and the people should be thankful.
grateful. and enjoy them.
God never gave people prosperity to
be boarded. but to be enjoyed. Not IN
riotous living, of course; but IN full
measure to all the comforts and all the
innocent pleasures their means may
afford, and the unselfish dispensation
OF pleasure to others. That life that
boards all the good things that comes
Its way, and gives no pleasure to
others. is not worth living.
1t is worth while for us to stop and
think how prosperous we are. Nearly
everything that can DO raised. is grown
In Maury county; and this year nearly
every crop has been good one. and
the price on everything is up. The
hard times few years ago. taught
some good lessons. out of which has
grown much of the prosperity of today.
It taught the people for one thing. to alb
hor debt. 1t taught them economy. 1t
taught them to utilize their idle hours
In useful ways. highly profitable.
Not many of the good women knew
how to raise turkeys until they had to.
Now they delight in it, and what al
Industry it has become. Little or no
attention was paid to chickens and
eggs. Now grown young ladies clothe
themselves from their own chicken
and egg money, and few ambitious |
boys in the county are educating them
selves with chicken and egg money. |
The farmer has his mail brought to
his gate he telephones from his own
freslde tC the centre of trade for his
market reports. The fat of the land IS
his
His prosperity spreads to the town.
His money crowds the bank vaults.
The great stocks of goods crowding
our stores will soon be his. He and
his wife and his children will buy
what they cannot raise, and his money
will 90 on its way to make healthy the
life current of trade.
That is prosperity! And Maury
county feels and enjoys 1t today MS it
has not felt and enjoyed before for
forty years.
Why not enjoy it? What is money
ior but to buy with? Better spend
thrift be, than a miser. For spend
thrift's money helps trade. while
n iser's gold cankers his soul.
OF all the seasons of the year. the
lime to enjoy ones prosperity is the ,
Christmas tide. The man who has
worked bis way by hard ticks to where
,e may enjoy the fruits of his labor.
lhould do so. He may be dead before :
mother Christmas comes. The good !,
woman who has helped him along the
teep and rugged way. should share
lis comforts and his pleasures with
Tim, ! It is no more his than hers. and +
I he is half man he will not consent
hat she shall eat of the crumbs that
all from his table. She should not
/ beggar be, but a partner in his pros :
,erity. And who would begrudge al =
hid of his own the sweet memories
70 may coin for cid age out of the !, !,
Apply hours of childhoodf Buy for y
hem. give to them. make them happy.
hey may not be with you always; let
hem love you while they may. And
My he who is blind to the possiblli.
les of life will conine his giving to
Is own. Such an one will pass =
trough Christmas and never know n,
he glow or feel the thrill that comes III
, an unselfsh heart for every kind III
ess done. III
Prosperity is trust fund from the v
liver of all good gifts. As individ