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Show BACK TO THE FARM. St. Louis Paper Thinks N Policeman Made Wlie Choice. After ten years na a St. I.ouln policeman po-liceman llui.li Mi Mnhon tired of llfo ' In a creat city and hus pouo back to the country. 1. 1 lie Clarence Iho Cop. i ho lias been "liaiuiferred nt;aili," but ! thla time ut hla oun wlrti. Ho hna pnio hai k Irom tho forro to the farm; irom politics lo potatoes; j from courts to carrota; from station to stable; from clubs to clods: from j "pliw:-uulicH'' to plows; from "pini lics" i to puisnlps; from mud to mcudow; from yiirbage to garden; frum bloc to blosiioms. Ho has gone back rrom wrrts to roros; from arrests to rent; from poolrooms pool-rooms to cool rooms; from siinntrokoa to,eunllowcrB and aunsets; from violence vio-lence to violets; from helmets to hollyhocks; holly-hocks; from dens to dnlsles; from ruo-nlng ruo-nlng crooks to running brooks; frum murderers to meditation; from quick tliiovca to quid thoughts, and from "green goods'' men to the green tilings of Nature herself. . Who shall sny that ho baa not choaen the better part of life? "God mailo the country and man made the town," and at tho very best, It sometime some-time looms, mun made a bad Job of It. St Ixmls rost'Dlspatcti. |