The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-11-20
THE FARMERS LIFE.
BY H. Coleman.--An Extract.


What means Of imparting pleasure is inn
proved agrlcultue. How many charming exams
pies present themselves among us of improve
ments which every eye gazes on withunming-
leo delight. Let man, according to his pow.
or, take his ten, his twenty, his fifty, his hun-
dred acres. Let him comb the hair and wash
the face Of nature. Let him subdue clear, cuIp
tivate, enrich and smbellishit. Lot him smooth
tho rough places, and drain the wet, fiH up the
sunken, and enrich the barren. Let him enclose
il with neat and subs,antial fence. Let him line
its borders and road sides with ornamental trees
and let him stock every part with proper vines
and fruits. Let his field aud meadows wave
with their golden harvest, and LET the hills be
covered with the herds rejoicing in the flIness
with which his labors, under the blessings of
God, have spread their table. and who, when he
goes among them, hasten from all sides 10 meet
him and gratefully recognize in him friend and
benefactor, and lick tho hand which is accuse
toned 10 feed and foHdle them. Here now LET
US see the neatly painted cottage, within green
shades, its piazzas rasseled with vines its sides
covered with the spreading elm and flowing &C
acia, with here and there the beautiful fir shade
the picture, and the mountain ash showing its
sich clusters of crimson fruit among the deep
green foliage, and the yerdant lawn stretching
itS smooth and beautiful carpet in font view;
then look again and see the parents.at the close
Of the day, resting from their hbors and enioy-
ing the calm evening, with the pledges of mutu-
al and devoted affections, riotlGg before them in
oil the'bouyancy of youthful innocence and de.
light, and if at such an hour as this, YOU can
hear the hymn Of grateful praise singing from
this humble abode Of peace and love, and its
charmingnotes mingling with the music of the
gnrgliRg brook that dows near by, or broken by
the occasional shrill and hollow notes Of the
gentle and fearless birds. which deem them>
selves members Ofthis loving household; if then
whether traveller or sojourner, your heart is not
touched with this charming and not unusual PIC
ture Of felicity, cease to call yourself man. IL
saityou sigh for the bgstle and the noise and
the cenfn Eent of tho city, with its impure wa
Ger and offensive odors; with its despieable affec
tioHs, withits heartless formAties; with its VIC.
leut sKcitenents, with its midnight festivities,
with its utter destitutiOn of sympathy, with its
low poverty, its multiplied wretchedness and
crime, its PRIDE eitsyanty, its ambition, its pomp,
its severity; then 60 back to your gilded prison
house, and 20 pleasures, which an uncorrupted
and refined taste, accustomed to drink in the
free air Of heaven, aud to appreciate lis fresh-
ness, itsPurity aud Its salubrity, will find no oc
naslonto coyet or envy. The man who by his
cultivation and good husbandry, presents such
"a picture TO the pssser-by, shall he not be called
"a benefactor to cemmunityi Has no act done
much 10 improve aud bless society by his exam,
pte1 fHis he no; built monument to his'honol
,A,Ore eloquent than the marbtef