Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06
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December.

While PhOpbu- grants q lnyHeutalv
Let bit a cloud broad ,hadow intervene,
And stifaned into gems the drops seen,
And down the turrcwed oaks broad southern side
Streams OF Gissoiving rime no longer glide
Though night approaching BIDS Tor rest prepare,
Stil! the daii echoes through .he frosty air
Nor stops til. deepest SHADES oi darkness come,
Sending at length the weary laboTST home
BLouMFELD's FARMERS Boy.
We have now reached the shortest days of
the wear. and every thing stands in striking
contrast with the long bright days Of June -
We have bare, desolate branches, for the sea
Of living green a robe Of snow on every
field, for the yerdant turf Sheeted ice on ev-
cry stream and lake, fer the ripping waters :;
cloud and storm for the sunny skies of Sum
mer. Nature BIDS ns pause and look back
over the vanished months. II is n time TO
onm up the results Of the year, not only to
square business accounts with our fellow men,
but to sit in judgment upon our own relations
to the soil, and to society. Ones manhood is
measured quite as much by his farming, as by
the Offices he fills, by bis plowing and sowing,
by his building and adoFnin-. as by his speech
making and voting. We may measure our
selves quite as well by the powshare as by the
badge Of Official place. : Justice Of the
Peace may Je greatly wanting in justice toward
his soil. \ deacon may be unrghteous toward
his farm and stock. A militia colonel may be
cowardy and ugiorious upon his own acres
A governor may tolerate all sorts of insuGor.
dinaton and bad citizenship among the sub
jccts Of his farm Weeds may grow rampant
and waste TIE riches Of bis soil in riotcus liv-
ing. Goodness and greatness in our relations
10 society, DO not impIy these virtues in rea-
ton to the acres that are given Us to be sub
dued, cultivated, and beautifed.
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this theme now. The cIod is frozen, and the
pow will not turn it. Al! the implements Of
husbandry have gone into Winter quarters
The tocks, the trees, the shrubs, the grasses,
are all hybcrlating. We can 90 little out Of
doors to advantage now, but We can do a large
business within, in these brief days Of Winter
The weather shuts Us up 10 self communion
and to reflection upon the events Of the past
The Winter with icy fingers seems to intcrro-
gate every tiiler Of The soil, what sort Of farm
er art thou? ? What sort Of virtues does yOur
business develop? 4 mans business has some
thing to 60 with bis character, but the priuci-
Piles on which he conducts it, have mach more
10 do with IT, You have reached another stage
in l.es journey, and have time 10 consider
what your business and your mode Of m2na-
ing it, are doing for you.
Are you G lgiSg man, tested By your business
capacity? II tie good OLD times when We
were boys they used 10 charge rs with having
eyes bigger than the stomach and the heap OF
unused food upon the plate vas an argument
IN favor o. that position, rather hard to meet.
There IS lot lj..ta farming slowing the same
kind Of wisdom. Tie t4.er Of the sol. IS AFT
10 La'c very large eyes, sGppo>iug THAT lie
adds tv Ills wealth. rs he ADDS TO bis acres