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Show Fum Life. I "(iod made the country, and " made the town, "cntalni abort nint h j truth aa "itod lendi meat an' the Ievil end! Cooka." We would diajenae1 't towm no mori) than with c.xll.,",, " n. ii.. mine that the advantae" "' 'own are io mtii-h more felt hy the poorer clan -i. Immigrant and oati". '""n the chnrmiol country hie. Anything wbiib niakea farming more attrtrtire Increaaea nutional liability. Miirh hat made farming dunial it growing le". W'agei are advancing. Houri an ihortenlng. Iatior, with the new macl.inery, ii now light and interesting. Irolatioli and ennui have decreased wlib rinaitlHC- ilitlea, oewapapera. aud rheap book. Our leho ila and collar ihonld do their ahare to lend aiirntioni to the farm, not only in agricultural coura I and agricultural co!!i-g-f, hut in ordinary ordin-ary text-booka, whl-b ihnold I pernie- ated aa much with agnruHure i with commerce, Arlthuiatici keepe boy celculating how many vardi of cloth they could buy at twenty renli a yard compared to the nun. I" ol barreled cement at two dollan a t urret, but e,g and potntoea, thoe rly itaplea, are alout the pnly rural prnducta in our elementary ele-mentary text-booki. Otntry life haa aipecta wb c i have ran 1 devotion from the bigheat nim li. Now that the firat fever of commercial real promiieato abate, tbla love of natiru may develop In enough of our contilr) men to lupply 1 the farming dictrh-ta aitb a large and aterling population. It wai "tbeem-UHtiled "tbeem-UHtiled farmer!" who ton our independence. indepen-dence. Enlightened lalriotlaui to-day calla forevery favor tofouutry life. The manufacturer and tbe laborer, rather than the farmer, havtthui far received help from the Govemaent and from the nitlon'l thought ami Ingenuity. Our hordpa of toiithernl.iropeni would be more welcome it, initd of pronouncing on the iIhoji, thay nkterd themielvei through tbe broad laid an t learned attachment at-tachment to tbt loil.-Collier't Weekly. |
