The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-08-31
For The Cecil Wing.
Country scenes and Thoughts.

This bright, calm July morning we stand
at the yard gate of the farm house, just as
the beams Of the rising sun glance over the
distant hill top and pierce through the inter.
vcnng foliage. Around us the preparations
for the day lahors are going on. Up with
the sun and to rest with the early starlight,
is the rule here. The injunction, work while
it is day, must be obryed. There go the
cows being driven aGcld by lad who looks
rs though he was but half awake: bare
footed, in shirt sleeves, and with but one
suspendcr, he sauntcrs along atlerth cattle,
now and then giving yell ut some tagging
one, which, floating on the morning air, is
heard at the next farm house. His young
blood is not stirred up yet. In every direc-
ton we behold beauty and loneliness and
pervading the air is vitality that inspires the
soul and lifts if above the common anXieties
of life and nearer its Great Source, by which
we obtain a broader view Of life and its
duties.
Contemplating this sccnc-but one of
thousands such-and comprehending in q
measure how much its magnitude may be,
increased, the question comes up: Why are
so many of 2 young men fleeing from the
farms to the cities and towns? Before an
swering this question, or utierinG the
thoughts it suggests, we wish to say that we
,ro ncouointed practically with the labor
inseparable from this country life. And
this knowledge enables US the more readily
to correctly answer the question.
The real motive is the great desire, with
which all classes Of society are carried away,
10 make q living-to a,nass wealth-with as
little manual labor, and as quickly, "a pos
sible, and by some Of the means which some
how or other have become to be considered
more respectable than farming Instead of
remaining ot home AID assisting to make
,w v stalks Of # Grain crow where Int one now
stands and in time Themselves becoming the
owners or masters of farms, these young
mer; are docEino TO the cities and towns in
,ha on,,octy NJ cl.,ls and ike emnlovmonts.
who're derived Of The restraints Of home,
MANY If Them fail into the snares with Which
,hav oro so tb;cEIv beeot Or. If their
,ny are oble 70 Owe them a little more
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ofLnvso thny and n nloce IN Iawver's or
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a',d Gnu,b rate men many Of whom. he.
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