Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-10-02
THE ATTRACTIONS OF AGRI-
CULTURE

CULTURE
We believe all men have a nat
ural and inherent love for agricul-
ture II may be perverted by ambi-
ton or the thirst for wealth and
powes, or smoihered by love oil
ease and luxury but in the MAORI
~ of cases, 1t still exists, and the
nobler and more elevated the man,
the stronger Is this love for the out
ct and peaceable pursuits of the
farm. See that prominent lawyer
working from day to day, and year
after year, over dusty briefs, and
ASK him what he labors so hard for.
lie may answer, "For the good OF
my CLIENT but could YOU read his
heart YOU would find that he intends
some day, when rich enough, to
buy iarm-perhaps the very one
on which he was born-and spend
the remaining years Of bis life amid
the pleasures and pursuits ofthe
country.
A few days since we saw one Of
the ablest lawy ers of Western New
York, on the farm to which he has
retired, digging an underdraini
every farmer Eay not become
President, but 1t Is .act that ev
cry President becomes farmer"
Gov. SEYMOUR, in a recent agri.
cultural address, says he has taken
pains to inquire, and believes this
saving is true.
'The late AMBROSE SPENCER,
he said, chad welded more polit-
ical power in TIE State of New
York than any man who lived with
IN its limits. For twenty years
that man was almost despotic.
His huge frame, strongly marked
features, and Indomltable will cor
responded with his position. At
the time 10 which | allude, his in
suence and power had passed away.
lie was an old man, in the decay
of life. i asked him what interest
he then ielt-ln what he employed
his mind? | was anxious to know
what could occupy the mind of a
man whose career had been so
stormy, so vigorous, so important,
so valuable as his own. He said
he was entirely engrOssed with his
farming pursuits, and that he wit
messed the processes of nature
which they unlolded with the live
Hest pleasure.
81 slwChancellor KENT, then at
the age of so, almost at the same
period. lie was a mild, studlous
and intellectual man, prominent as
the other, but Of very different
type. Both Of these old men |
found, at the close of life, en-
gagged In the same pursuits, and
full of zeal and pleasure in agricul-
tural occupations at an age when
some farmers are tired of them.
These men had cultivated their
minds, and they looked on farming
pursuits intelligently.
Every wise man will lay up
provision for his old age-not
alone in wealth which may be all
idle and useless to him. Let us
lay up, not only that preparation
for another world which every
man should make, but that which
grows out of p cultivated mind.
Taste outlives the intellect.
have in my mind at this moment
one of the most beautiful and
touching illustrations of that fact
that could well be presented: My
own mother, when her intellect
was gone, and her mind all a. ar and
aStray, preserved all the love of ma
ture which she had acquired in the
morning of her existence. Next
door to us lived young man, strick-
en- down and rendered helpless by
disease. Often have looked out
To the adjoining gardens, and seen
the old woman, my mother, in the
last stages OF life, making herself
happy with taste that had out
lived her intellect, and also the
young man, stricken down in his
strength. happy and cheerful, be-
cauae at the right time he had cul-
tivated his taste, and had the I'M
failing resource of agricultural &C.
cupation.'
GENESsEE FARMER.