Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-05-31

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sFARM LIFE, A SCHOOL OF TRUE MAN.
HooD.-The men who have left their mark
upon the ages in which they have lived,
have done great and noble work for the
race, have been, with few exceptions,
men of noble physical mould. The foun-
dation of their greatness and of their fame
was laid in the patient training of their
physical powers. Such man was Wash
ington, and most ofthe worthless who were
associated with him in the struggle for our
liberties Such were Clay and Webster,
and many of their contemporaries in our ua.
tional Senate. Their early days were spent
on the farm, and the thoughts Of their de-
clining years were given to the improve
ment, and the cultivation, and the estab-
lishment of their respective homesteads.
Ashland and Marshfeld will long be scenes
of pilgrimage to the husbandman as we'll
as the patriot
The whole tendency of farm life is to
develop the body healthfully and symme-
trically. The child is not peut up in the
narrow backyard of a city dwelling, nor
turned into the strong and filthy streets to
persue his sports. His eyes open first upon
the green fields and fragrant meadows, and
his first football out of doors is upon the
matted grass beneath the shadowy trees of
his rural home. He drinks in health from
every breeze, and all the scenes around
him call forth that playfulness which per-
forms so important an Office in our early
training
$50 this leads us to speak of the infu-
ence of farm life upon the home virtues
No occupation can be more favorable to the
cultivation of those qualities which are the
charm of the domestic circle. The farmer
is much more at home than is possible with
any other men. How many are there in
our cities who only see their families at
evening, or on Sunday? They live for their
business, and this, from its location, takes
them from home early and late. How many,
from the same cause, forsake housekeeping
and bundle into boarding houses and ho-
tells, where the charm and beauty of the
family, as God instituted it, is entirely lost !;
and children fall under thousand unfriend-
ly influences, that would never touch them
at home! With the best arrangements
wealth could command in the city, it is well
nigh impossible to keep children under the
influence of their parents, so that they shall
have distinct family character, and bear
the moral, as they do the physical image of
their progenitors Parental influence is
dissipated amid the varied social influences
to which they are subjected from their ear
liest days. Then, what perplexities harass
the man of business in the city-his capi-
tai often invested in proftless enterprises,
exposed to the depredations of dishonest
men, betrayed, cheated, and ruined by
knaves and bankrupts From the very char.
acter of his business, he has to trust far more
of his available means to the integrity of
his fellows than the cultivator His debts
are often scattered over wide extent of
territory, and collections are not only ex-
pensive, but exceedingly uncertain. But
this commercial credit depends upon this
uncertainty, and he is often compelled to
fall back upon nothing, ruined man.
'Ninety-fve failures in hundred, among
most business men in the city, tell sad
tale of the perplexities and sorrow, the cor.
roding cares and anguish Of mercantile life.
How can father, goaded with these ankle.
ties, from the beginning to the end of the
year, do justice to his children, even if his
business allowed him to be with them a
part of the time? He is not in frame ot
mind to supcrintend their education aud te
perform fathers Office.
The farmer preserves the family in it!
integrity. The home has in it that charm
ing word, and that more charming thing
the freside, around which parents and chill
dren gather, and where the bright ant
cheerful blaze upon the hearth is but
true copy of the flame Of love that glows il
every heart. The parents have been draw
together, not by sordid motives of wealth
ncr the ambitious desire of social display
but by the personal qualities seen in eacl
other. The glory of the tireside to the hus
band is that the wife is there; and to tn
wife that he is there who is head of tn
r woman, and the band is that home circle
Here they gather at morning and evening
o and at noon. Their board is always sur
rounded with the same circle, and here the
spend the long winter evenings together"
, The PEA BuG.-We quote the follow
ing from Prof j. P. Kirkland, in the Obi
Farmer We have used oil of turpentin
), and camphor to kill these insects and hav
e found either will destroy the pea bug, AM
d the smaller bug that attacks the bean. Pu