| Show 0 OF THE SOIL r oneff ne of the distinctive features to the of the soil soa people who re ite principles and eastin cast in X lots with its people are advised ame proprietors of at least enough land to build a house upon and to cultivate as a garden spot farming is considered one of the most honorable of occupations and those who till the soil are counseled to be owners of the following words of edward everett are commended to the notice of our agricultural friends the man that stands upon his own soil who feels that by the laws of the land in which he lives by the laws of civilized nations he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land he tills is by the constitution of our nature under a wholesome influence not easily imbibed by any other source he feels other things being equal more strongly than another the character of a man who is the lord of an inanimate world of this great and wonderful sphere which fashioned by the hand of god and upheld by his power is rolling through the heavens a part is his his from the centre to the sky it is the space on which the generation before him moved in its round of duties and he feels himself connected by a visible link with those who follow him and to whom he is to transmit a home perhaps his farm has come down to him from his fathers they have gone to their last home but he can trace their footsteps over the scenes of his daily labors the roof which shelters him was reared by those to whom he owes his being some interesting domestic tradition n is connected with every inclosure the favorite fruit was planted by his fathers hand he sported in boyhood beside the brook which still winds through the meadows through the field lies the path to the village school of early days clays he still hears from his window the voice of the sabbath bell which called his father to the house of god and near at hand is the spot where when his time has come he shall be laid by his children these are the feelings of the owners of the soil words cannot paint them gold cannot buy y them they flow out of the dee deepest t fountains of the heart they are t the e life iffe spring of a fresh healthy a and generous national character |
