Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-12-13

Alnai How EaEi1y Things go Wrong,
Alasi how easily things so wrong;
A sigh too much or kiss too long.
and there follows a mist and weeping
rain.
And life is never the same again.
Alssi how hardly things go right
'Tis hard TO watch on a summers
night.
FOR the sigh viii come and the kiss viii
stay
And the summers night is a winters
day
AMI yet how easily things so right.
II the sigh and the kiss of the winters
night
Come deep from the soul in the stronger
TINT Is born in the light OF the win
tiers day
And things can never go badly wrong
II the heart be true and love be strong;
For the mist. II il comes. and the weep
ing rain
WIN be changed BY love into sunshine
George Macdonald.
We we're talking about the peach
trees on q certain. place and I said IT
seemed a pity to let them waste. II a
little tine and money would not make
me fruit they should be cut down
and better sort planted. one OF the
ladies' said that the trees are all right,
that she lived there three years, and
knew that IT was neglect that had
caused them TO fail to make good
fruit.
After the ladies' had gone home
got 10 thinking OF places that had been
rented to the same people for years;
some had improved. or kept up the i'm
provements. but the majority had lived
from year to year with no thought OF
putting back in the soil even tenth
Of shat they got out OF IL Because
tlrey are paying rent and do not ex-
pect 70 live there any longer than they
must IL seems TO them fooIishness TO
improve other peoples property.
II know that there are some tenants
who always leave a place in as good
condition as they find il. Such people
usually have landlords that appreciate
them and help them in every way POS
heard q man say that certain
family had been on his plantation al
most thirty years. They have been
there long enough to raise family
and a younger son now has charge l
suggested the idea that IL could have
bpes bought in that time But. the owner
laughed and said IL had paid all parties
best as il was The children had been
given good advantages. and the owner
mad only cleared about per cent on
his money. A certain amount OF the
fruit is taken TO the owner, not because
ne has eyer required II. but because
there has always been plenty to share
with him.
sometimes get letters from people
who are dissatisfied with their homes
and want to come TO town wish that
I could show all such the folly OF a
change. Satisfaction is not something
that a change will produce know a
family in Atlanta that has rented the
same house nine years. About once a
YEAR they fall out with their landlord
and begin TO hunt for another place. At
least one month Is spent house hunt
inz. one house is found that just suits
them. but the rent IS too much or the
.neiehbOrhood is not good OF it's toe
far from the husbands <. and 50
IA rCes. I can see that LEY should
have some things done FOR them. but
also know that the rent they pay does
not Justify any great outlay. And so II
L. in the country; conditions are about
the same.
This lection OF the country is not In
4 class by itself. / was talking 70 a
nan In Florida last year and he told me
Of half a dozen places that rented for
Just enough TO pay per cent on the
investment. In the rich sections OF the
middle vest Investigations have shown
that the tenants are making greater net
Gains for themselves and carry larger
labor incomes than the owners OF the
same farms. Statistics show that rented
farms lose in fertility; for one or two
years the soil is enriched. but the ten
ants plant crops that take all and re-
turn nothing to mother earth Schools
usually are poorer in rented districts
As much money is appropriated. but the
renters. as a rule. do not take the per-
sonai interest that they should The
children are not sent regularly enough
10 keep them interested and they are
allowed 10 find all manner Of faults IN
the teacher Where actual poverty i:
the cause that keeps a child at home
sft is pitiable. but too many parents
especially among the renters, are no
ambitious. in fact. some OF them say
that they have got along without ar
education and the children are no better
shan they are. Churches also suffer il