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Show GREELEY AND THE FARM. ! jj Jrj H Great Editor a Lover of the Soil All H His Life. I ;);!' it I H "I would havo boon a fanner, had i'liw i I H nny sclonco of farming been known to ijj j jfl thoso nmong whom my early boyhood vg W JH was passed," Horace Orcoly wrote In t M H I8G8. "Farming, as understood and at ; H practiced by thoso among whom I jW ml1',' H grow up, was a work for oxen; and for I'Mv Ji H men tho lifo of an ox had no charms." j Ml W H And, in tompornmcnt, Horace Greeley Pmi ej! H was a farmer all his life. Ho was wm aj born on a poor llttlo fnrm In New if H Ilnmpshlro, nnd his childhood exper- m H Icnccs of tho vocntion were thoso of ffri, H terribly hard work, nnd n meager liv- gy$J lj; . H ing ns its reward. It Is no wonder Mffl - ' H that printing scorned moro promising IfMUi" ' H to him. Mr. Oliver Branson Capcn In PriftfijU H Country Lifo in America. tr& i 1 H |