Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-09-11

one, at all interested in the improvement of
agriculture and the arts, and by no means for
getting to bring with them their quiet, gentle
housewives and sweethearts, happy in all their
daily round of cares, duties and pleasures, but
yet, who viii enjoy the days relief from the
ever recurring round of household labors.-
Other holidays may be more exciting and stim-
ulating, yet we cannot call to mind any that
one so uniformly productive of innocent and
healthful enjoyment.
Says one who has ever taken deep inter-
est in the Fair, held throughout the Country:
"And blessing that Fair is-or should be,
may be, to the whole rural population of this
or any other country nay, to the entire COM
munity. Life, that is, the life of the indnstri-
Gus, the produce is apt TO be too prosaic,
too plodding, too sordid, too drudging. That
"maE should not live by bread alone is a
truth, which has many more sides than have
yet been commonly contemplated. Man should
not live for bread alone, nor for that which
| buys bread; to live merely to delve, to grab,
to garner, TO hoard, is neither manly nor God
| ". Industry is noble is imparitively requir-
| ed; he is not honest, much less christian,
who sbrns work and lives indolently, uselessly,
or on the products of others sinews. But that
! life is more than meat, aud each should live
with this truth fully in view. If an intellect
ual being is to labor cheeriully, vigorously,
resolutely, be must have some end in view be-
yond the mere physical products Of his toll, to
incite him to work with buoyant alacrity and
steadfast perseverance; he should have the
prospect before him of calm, comfortable old
age-a period of exemption from the wear
and strain of daily care and exertioD; season
of calm and placid enjoyment. whereof fore
taste is afforded by the agriculture Fair.
| Yes the Farmers Festival is good thing,
and may be just as good as the people have a
mind TO make it. Let every farmer, Farmers
only, no, let every one feel that they have
something to DO to make it what it should be.
Many attend only as spectators, and critics,
| when they should be exhibitors also; and such
( often grumble at the management of the Fair,
or at the meagerness of the disply, without
rejecting that they are IN some measure re-
sponsible for, and your hear them going about
saying ''what a sorry show of fruit this year;
why l could have beaten it myself; or, "wbaL
a miserable show Of hogs; why I have half a
dozen that would beat anything their is here
Why didn't you bring them then What
prevented you from presenting your fine fruit ?
Let me say to you, you are grumbling at
your own delinquency, and nothing else
Those exhibiting sent the best they had; had
you done the same, there would have been
nothing to grumble at, and let me hear you
say one word for The managers, for have had
considerable experience with many different
boards; have never found one that did not
do all they well could 20 make the Fair both
pleasant, USEFUL and profitable to the greatest
number.
Then come one, come all, to the Delaware
County Fair this fall, and bring the best you
have, not alone for the premiums, but for COM
parison, instruction and improvement.
r. E. H.