Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-24
GOING 70 rowN 70 BE soMEBopY.

GOING TO TOWN TO BE SOMEBODY.
Boy, young man-you in tow trowserJ and
hat that came out Of a hons. built straw-stacl,
last year, you that go barefooted and brown
handed in warm weather. and wear blue cIou-
ded stockings and striped wooden miltens in
cold There was a daShing young fellow from
the coy in yoar neighbo;boad the other day.
WASN'T therv?- A sprig in broadelOth and fine
linen, with more "airs" than a baud organ;
with rings on his fingers, and, for anything
you know, with "bells on his toes;" human
posy fragrant with essences, extracts and oils:
flourish Or whose handkerchief came near
putting you h0rs du combat with the smell Of
musk; who smoked what seemed to you to be
a cigar, but which he denominaied punch"
and who patroui-ei you at no small rate, and
told great many things that you never knew
nor he either, for that matter.
Now you ought to be ashamed Of the shame
you felt in the presence Of that bitterIy.@
You broke one Of the ten commandments all
to pieces while he was there. for you envied
him the fine times he sad he had and the fine
things you sqw he had. and half promised
yourself that if you could manage to get out
VI AHC SAIL VI tilC uoluIHLCaAy N'4 HOu-h u
butterfly too, and live in the city, and de-
Sccnd upon yopr country relations, now and
then avery Magnrs Apollo.
You did this and dreamed that and it new
or occurred to you that the young fellow de-
served your hearty commisseration; that he was
SORT ot second hand young fellow, drought
mp Fkea a motherless lamb. and kept in The
pound Of town. lest, if he ventured country
wards, something shonld bin; if not bears,
Then Famine anil Dtsgracei that The sun
would wilt him, the wind tan him, the work
spoil hands, and for all this he could not
earn lte savor OF The salt for h's pnrage; aS
Hsc'Ss-as a,lisih shae toa wagon. There Is
chr,h'c acriclI in his back and he does NOT
know wheat from oats in the sheaf, and de-
sp;sts "wag,." though be 'urishes famously
ON "sahfy7
Bat be is not 10 he ban i for all this; hc l.
vicim or a system thai treats children Ike
exniics; he is a martyr ilr'ush he never g Is a
crown; he lives in a hive anil never mjstgu~t-
that The honey is borne from clurtry fields 10y
country bees. Now, The fl her may be dis IN
guisiled but the son l. q lite liz Iy 10 he er-
ringnished. Generution- in great cities often
grow as lighted candies dl--down and small;
small mentally and physically; move them ca
crrrricaliy and they flare" AMI run dlrn "
unI it is cut 'briet candle with tllem At
Cncc
Aswoyld of words is annually expended to
set forth the honorable nl'urr Of Agricultural
lu~-uits as If they nee,led a p.rioiic bolster
iig intu resprcability. People talk about
f.rmiag boast as the fellow did, in Chlrl s
Ltm presence, about irlneSiy IL. Iaud2d
it rs viriu"; en- 'ogiz d them that possessed it;
h. varied the ward aud landed and euog
uaaii anil "a er he had Iinishcl BIS discourse,
II IL removed his pip from h : mp1jh and
simply, asked Inn: 'do yoI N an 10 say thai u
rogre is not g1ol man," 1'hn question sal
snugly down over the biaz. of talk Ike an rx-
tng,isler.
Nav, Agriculture is honorable if you make
it so, ii is a noble calling, il noble men engage
in it, The dignity Of Agriculture will take
c,rc of itself: it is the dignity of ths Agrl-
cul'urist That is a matter ui concern.
Batif like our yonng men in tow lrows,rs,
one is ashamed Of the bnsiness. 1t is hgh t N
h. left for the city, foe the business il asham 4
of IN; he is no credit 10 the country. Let
him mike up a bundle and set forth; let him cl-
how as. way through the crowded and crooked
uverues, bdt we can tell him that the vigor Oi
ciies is not composed Of su.h stuff True
Us as The honey Tor tie hive comes from the
fields. SO does lhe real working element that
keeps the Town from decay come from tn,
country People get faith there, patienc,
there. habits of industry there, bodies there
ihcn'if they are very patriotic, they ride like
th2 Roman into the gulf in the Forum; they
fill mp the broken ranks Of the city, and bust
ness moves in close order again. The country
is a grand place to manufacture men in, an,
the town is a grand place 10 wear them on
in.
The best education for city life is obtaine,
not in the crowd, but in the cornf.ld, and h
who begins right, there, viii enl right, euerg
where We thought the foolish story tha
used to be told country children about Lon
Clon-Dick Wilmington among them-wa
worn out long ago, but we thought wrong
Muititules yet believe that great city is liS
Heaven, paved with gold, and that once there
they can have it Just for the trouble of picking
it mp. But if industry Is something in coun
try, it is everything in town; work is the cor
difiOn of success; work that is akin to strus
Cling. On the farm, Nature helps you; gras
will grow and grain ripen while you are asleeT
but in the city you help yourself, you elm
the ladder, but you must put in the round
as you go.--B L, TAYLOR.