The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-20

Now. when go to Nature, the greaI pdIeh'
of cosmic life, and learn the lessons she mas
taught in her most cure and uncorrupted forms,
we get quite an to the question OF parental
obligations quite opposite to that practlced by
these fathers. Take the little weed growing by
the wayside When it's seed are matured they are
cast upon the ground and it's foliage shed over
them to protect them from the birds and beasts
during the winter season, and to nourlsh them
into life and fruitage in the following spring and
summer Thus we see that the little weeds whole
life was spent in maturing its seed and then all
of it's material form. the beauty of its leaf
and the fragrance of it's bloom-whlch were given
as it's part in beautifying the world-was sacri-
feed to their future wellbeing.
When we realize the wretched state OF mental
servitude lived in by the average run of the hu-
man family we can but ask with the poet:
''This question comes to me, across the soundess
The.viewless sea of thought, full many mile.
'To live this weary life, full of sorrow and of
strife,
Teacher, poet, tell me, is it worth the while?"
As the unwilled child is begotten by its father
and committed to life in a world where the
rows nearly co-equal with the Joys as to
render life in it scarcely worth the while, it
ly is incumbent upon the father to labor and toll
all his days rather than the child should not
find life more beautiful than he himself had
known.
The all-wise Providence never intended that His
imaged beings should grovel in the cellar
gloom, when there is a stairway leading to the top
of the tower where the pure air and the sweet
sunlight of heaven may be enjoyed; or to live and
die in such condition of squalid ignorance as to
render life barely worth the while, when just be-
yond the horizon of their atrophied vision is life
beautiful that may be attained through the simple
medium of developed and cultured mind.
Comparatively speaking, it is possible, and
God intended it, that every child should know the
blessings of the higher education college train
ing develops latent power of the soul which en-
ables boy girl to regenerate themselves after
a fall. Statistics show that when college-bred't
man woman has fallen on the highway of life
by yielding to the dread tempter, disappointment,
financial failure or otherwise. they generally, |
Phoenix-ike rise and once more reinstate them
selves in the good graces of their fellow-man; |
while when those with the resources of their souls
and minds undeveloped by the higher education,
once fall, they commonly fall like Lucifer, never
to hope again.
The father that wantonly sends forth his chill |
dren upon the journey of life without thorough |
knowledge of that life and of the world they are
to journey through, forfeits obligation to his
children, his country and his God
Every child should know of the earth, air and
heavens, and all that is in them from the smallest
atom to the "numberless stars in the beautiful
sky" They should know about the birds, bees and
beasts; the growing grass, blooming flowers and
ngs clouds and falling rain, and of the sun, moon
and stars; know how they live, grow and move
In one harmonious whole; know their conforma-
tlon, and relations to each other to mankind and
to their Great Creator. Because, in learning to
know them, they will learn to love them, to love
their fellow-man and their God, and thus find in
life that was scarcely worth the while, the life
beautiful" W. II. CALDWELL.
Wayne Co., N. @.