Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-11-10

THE Farmers Lfc.-What means of
! lmparting pleasure is an improved agricul-
turer. How many charming examples
present themselves among US Of improve
ments which every eye gazes on with UNI
mingled delight. Let man, according to
his power, take his ten, his twenty, his fif-
ty, his hundred acres. Let him comb the
hair and wash the face of nature. Let
him subdue, clear, cultivate. enrich, en-
belIish it. Let him smooth The rough pla-
ces, and drain the wet, and fill up the sun
| ken, and enrich the barren. Let him en-
close it with neat and substantial fence.
Let him line It's borders and road sides with
ornamental trees, and let him stock every
| part with proper vines and fruits. Let his
fields and meadows wave their golden har-
| vest, and let the hills be covered with the
herds rejoicing in the fulIness which his
labors, under the blessing Of God, have
spread their table, and who, when he goes
hasten on all sides to meet him and CRATE
fully recognize in him friend and bene-
factor, and lick the hand which IS accus-
| toned to feed and fondle them. Here now
let US sec the neatly painted cottage, with
| 40 AONA Sii0uSS, ITO PIdELuo tACSSGISu WIN
vines, its sides covered with the spreading
| elm or flowing acacia, with here and there
the beautiful fir to shade the picture, and
the mountain ash showing its clusters Of
| crimson fruit among the deep green foliage,
and the smooth and verdant lawn stretch
ing its smooth and beautiful carpet in the
front view; then look again and see the
parents at the close of the day, resting
from their labors and enjoying the calm
evening, with the pledges of mutual and de-
voted affections. rioting before them in all
| the buoyancy Of youthful innocence and
delight, and if, such an hour as this, you
can hear the grateful praise rising from
this humble abode of peace and love, and
and its charming notes mingling with the
music of the gurgling brook that flows near
by, or broken by the occasional shrill and
hollow notes ofthe gentle and fearless birds,
which deem themselves members Of this
loving household /; if then, whether travel
er or sojourncr, your heart is not touched
with this charming and not unusual picture
of rural felicity, cease TO call yourself a
man. If still you sigh for the hustle and
the noise and the confinc ment Of the city,
with its despicable affectations, with its
hcartIcss formalitics, with its violent excite
mcnts, with its midnight festivities, with
/ its utter restitution Of sympathy, with its
low estimate Of human life, with its squat
lid poverty, its multiplied forms Of wretch
edness and crime, its pride, its vanity, its
ambition, its pomp, its servility; then go
back to your gilded prison house, and to
! pleasures, which an interrupted and re-
fined taste, accustomed to drink in the free
air of heaven, and to appreciate its fresh
ness, its purity, and lis saubrity, will find
no occasion to coyet envy. The man who
by his cultivation and good husbandry, pre-
seats such picture to the passer by shall
he not be called bcnefactor TO commune
ty? Has he not done much to improve
and tless society by his example ? Has
| he not built monument to his own honor
more eloquent than the marble 2