Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-16
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A Governor I'm . HAY Dlow-A Leg.
isIator I'm q Night Cows.
The Junior editor of the Farmers
Chronicle writes me strictly confden-
ttial note urging me, as one Of his old
ltime friends. to give him an article for
his next number on thoroughbred cattle.
The atmosphere of this old farm house
from which write, bright now with the
rich, tints of Christmas just past, and
a new year just introduced, is not con-
genial to the consideration of such a
subject I have been SO thoroughly bred
| in the traditionary laws of the farm
house holiday season, that i would as
soon think of carrying rifle into a Qua
ker meeting as of attempting to write
about thoroughbred cattle at this time
and in this place. submit, however,a a
proposition that am sure will be lac-
Icepted. Let the editors of the Chronicle
set aside for me corner in their paper,
an unpretentious one, devoted to nothing
| in particular, to every thing in general /;
| a place where I can hang up for theread-
ler's view, farmhouse pictures, freside
scenes, and where 1 can reproduce the
tales hear at every country home I
visit. ,is,'l'as =, -sis q i'e -, =
1 Years on years ago, the charm of life
to me was Fcentered in young girl just
budding into womanhood. The girl be-
came my wife, and life had new charm
in the home existence she created.
Children came, and / had no other am
bition than to be at home, SO great was
the charm. The wife went from me to
better children went from me to
other homes, and life for time had not
a single charm. The favorite cows, my
children's pets, the old dog that COM
menced life with my marriage, the old
horse that as a prancing piece of perfec-
|tion had BENNY .wife's wedding present,
still fingered at the old farm and I could
not desert it. The love that had for
the human seemed to turn in part torthe
brute friends, and hence / became a
stock fancier. I grew, into an enthusi-
asst and found that life had another
charm. This could not last. It was
but the reaction that was to. save
me from gloom. An old man now
only in years with heart as warm
as when / first loved. with a sacred
presence always seeming to hover about
me, with the memories of pleasant
home ever present, the charm of life to
me now is to find home circle that looks
as mine. did before the presiding genius
left it. There are dozens of such circles
to which l find a hearty welcome. and
lso great is my happiness that fain
would have others see it and partake of
it ]. always go to, such places with the
determination to remain but two days,
bat always by series of resolves and
ire-resolves, manage to remain two weeks
Toone who has seen as I have seen,i a
honIe fade away from him, the spirit of
this old farmhouse circle becomes pc
culiarly. soothing. When boy I built
air castles with an intoxicating sort of
energy + revel now in realities that are
pleasanter than my boyish dreams. IA
Without being personal, desire to
have the reader see our fireside here. A
young fellow josthome from Oxford seems
to me to be just now the autocrat of the
hesrthstone. His four sisters think he
is perfectly splendid" and listen with
open eyes to his slightly exaggerated
stories of college life. The father and
mother. and the grandmother, the best
knitting machine i ever saw--aeknow-
ledge his authority, under athe suspen-
sion of rules. His two. younger broth
ers, in the terse language of the younger,
acknowledge nothing" and two old
gentlemen. hale, hearty and sixty, with
Judge and Hon. prefxed to their names,
depose him whenever they come in, and
this they do very frequently. The great
old wood fire is always glorious, the
cider pitcher always full, the apple bowl
always piled full and high and the sup
ply ofhickory nuts apparently inexhaust-
ible-a These are inspirers Of almost any
thing good, and when the evening is
half gone words flow freely and pleasant
tales are told.
Fancy now the jolly, round-faced,
grey-haired Judge sittiug astride his
chair, back in front, with his cane held
in one hand, its silver head under his
chin or nose, or tapping his forehead as
the case may be, and you are ready for
the following a@
| "a. chance for warm tussle this year
| in the Legislature, says our young Ok
ford friend. 3" You will see the inaugu-
ration 1 suppose, Judge" = ~ -
9"Of course, sir, have been present
at every inauguration for the last TWEEN
ty years. 1t does one good, sir, to go.