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Show ONE NEED OF THE FARMER. Not long ago a gentleman called at our oltlce and wished his paper stopped for the summer. "You see," he said, "1 am a farmer and I will soon commence com-mence putting In crops, and I am so busy all summer that I never get to look at a paper, and there is no good having it in the house If 1 don't look at It." Was he wise in his decision, says tho Provo Enquirer? In the llrst place, Is there not something wrong somewhere, If for eight months out of the year a man's work Is so arduous and continuous that he docs not get time to look at a paper, a magazine or a book? Arc we doing Justice to the best that Is in us when we forget to spend at least a little time everyday to cultivating our appreciation of other things except our work? Are we not very liable to drop Into a rut if we keep exclusively at work on one thing? It is true that the life of the farmer is a free one and he Is brought Into actual and constant contact with nature, na-ture, and can study her and learn mucli from her. Hut is it not necessary neces-sary that his observation be directed to a certain extent, and the posslbill tics of all that lies around him be opened up before he can fully appreciate appre-ciate them? There are, It Is trne, many who labor thus near to nature's heart that fully appreciate all that Is in her, but these, always I am safe In saying,love and find time to commune with those master spirits who also loved nature and put all they saw-and felt down that others mlL'ht sec and appreciate alsd. We are well aware of, and gladly acknowledge, ac-knowledge, tho varied and valuable advantages of the country; but'ls It not true that life in the country Isolates Iso-lates one to a large extent from the great pulsating heart of the universe of activity? And, If one is not careful, Is there not a tendency to fall out of the race and drop behind tho times? This, of course, Is not a necessary sequence se-quence of country life, only one of the dangers to bo guarded against. How better can this danger, not only be minimized but wholly obviated, than by placing at least one good newspaper and one or two good magazine; in the country home? Tho mere fact of their being there is something, and If they are at hand, tho busiest man has thno to pick them up and look them over now and then. Should he," however, be so busy that he thinks he has not the time, to read, ho should consider his family and not deprive them of tho privilege of keeping keep-ing up with the times by refusing to subscribe for papers and magazines. There Is no sturdier," moro independent indepen-dent class of people in the United States today than the farmers and no class that. needs good newspapers and current literature more than they. |