Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-11-05

the mistakes made last season, and
TO decide not 10 repeat them. This
vegetable or that, was perhaps, plant
ed in the wrong place, planted too
soon or too late. The ground was
not prepared just right. 1t should
have been broken earlier and deeper,
perhaps. These, and other questions
and matters are better settled now,
and n definite course OF action mark
ell out i'm advance. What kind, IL
any, fertilizer will you use next
psrng? What kini of fertilizer do
you need?is an important question.
All these, and perhaps other ques-
tions should be settled now, while
there is good time and plenty OF lei
sure. Look about you. Each man
must do for himself what is best and
not best, 10 do, according TO his own
individual condition and surround
ings. One thing however, we must
all decide upon, and that Is, 10
raise more and better stuff than we
ever did before on the same or less
acreage.
IS HE A WISE MAN?
n man drove into town "A few days
ago with load OF grain, which sold
for n good price, and deposited his
money in the bank on top OF other
deposits of the same kind which he
has been piling up. He is what is
know n as n haTdworker. His father
before him was industrious and eco
omical, and his son inherited his
fathers traits in this regard, and the
son, now perhaps forty years Of age,
has worked hard all his life. His
farm. poor when bought il ten years
ago, is clean, well tended and pro-
ducli"e. His wife milks four cows,
does the cooking for herself, hus-
band and five children and the hired
help, also the washing for the fam
lily. She is about 30 years of age,
but looks to be about fifty. On Sun
day morning neither he nor his wife
were ut church. nor was his children
nj Sunday school. He was too tired
to get up on Sunday morning in
time. and his wife, by the time she
got up, kindled the fire in the kitch
EN- stove, prepared breakfast and
milked the COWS. didn't have time t.
10 Ill L u
Sunday school, and they played out
doors all day-he slert-his wife
nursed and cared for the baby anC
got dinner He didn't shave, MOI
even, put on n clean shirt" until
late in the afternoon. When night
came he fed. his wife MIXED the
cows, got supper, put the children
10 bed, worried with the baby half
the night, got up early Monday
morning and started OH the same
round again. His wife hasn't "been
off the place for year, and her
husband hasn't heard sermon fol
five years, so his neighbors say.
Nevertheless, he is "a good -]2n :,
l.
"0>d uTnk cheat nor lie, and
- Kind, after his fashion and nc
commodating. He has good horses,
good implements and always makes
good crops. Ills clothes are COM
mon, his wife dresses plainly. lie
has no buggy, takes no newspaper
or magazine, and hasn't two books
in his house. If you met him in
the road you'd think him "A tramp.
And yet, lie is intelligent cheerful,
ami apparently happy. DO you know
this man? There is more than one
OF him on This earth. The question,
is, is he IA wise man?" Is he do
ing tight? Is he treating himself,
his wife and children right? Is il
wise To spend ones whole life i'm
this way-a slave himself and en-
shaving his family? In fact, isn't
he missing not only the best part
but really all of life? There is n
passage in an Old book which saws,
" a mans life consistent not in the
abundance of the things which he
pOSSeSSeth -