Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-10-21

Mn. PRESIDENT. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN !:
You have finished the harvest. Bend
ing beneath the weight Of our sheaves.
you have come up from your fields. with
he,r!s oveffowing with gratitude and
thonksgiving, to celebrate the Feast of
4pgatherirg."
Uheerfully have you watched the shift
int Fageant of the year, FROM the first
quick flush Of April. through. the deeper
green and richer bloom Of May and June,
until, at last, among mcllo@ fruits and
golden grains. you behold the year stand
perfect in autumnal grandeur. With your
vision fixed upon the rainbow of promise
iu which you read the hand writing of
the Great Giver of every bounty, you
have industriously aud hopefully planted,
cultivated aud gathered bouutiful har
vest. This Fair Ground, alone. presents
ample proof from the multiplied depart
mcnts of Agriculture, that you have been
idle neither in seed,ilne nor harvest. aud
that your labor has teen abundantly re.
warded.
Your Floral Hall. fragrant with the
incense of flowers and fruits. dazzling
with its countless getns Of the needles
haEdiest WORK, and vocal with the sweet
cadcnces Of birds aUa babies. convinces
me that you justly appreciate and value
the comforts snd luxuries of life Aa |
crowded through beneath its almost "star'
ry deckcd canopy" was compelled to tx
claim. as did Solomon. F" Many daughters
have done viltuously. bat thou cxcellcst
them sll!y sd tFf fs Ere a
Has the annual farm work beaet you
as an irksome Gredgery Has the farm.
er's busy care hung upon yonr hands as a
heavy. crushing weight? Your genial
countenances. beaming with intelligence
and delight, as you assemble on this ies
tive occasion. to compare the first fruits
Of field aud Aock. answer most emphatic
ally MOI" | know that the farmers
work is not merry roend Of play or
pleasure from the risirg ran to the falling
dew. know that he who successful y
tills the the soil. must often oyertax his
muscle and hi. brain must often face
the searching wind. the pelting rain ana
driving snow. but these petty battles with
the clements, only make him tough, hale,
and hardy. like the mountain oak, whose
arms have grapplcd with the storms aud
blasts of ages. ga d eaa nsg aa
Too many times have | filled the cart
in the spriag time, too many times moved
away the fast tumbIing hay, with head
beating against the sun heated rsfteIs,
too many times felt the oid cows tail.
(ueyer too delicious. OF the bcst) thump.
ing across my proboscis. and closing my
eyes in terror. not TO know that farming
is not oil poetry. Yes. farm work is Sc,
we're, uncompromising incessant labor
Between man and the earth. there is no
room for compromise or treaty. II he
would have dominion, he must fight for
it.; 6gbs for it. early and late, summer
and winter. The plow aud the sickle
have their captains and their heroes lheiI
.bummcrs" and their sneaks, no less than
the sword and the musket But Nature
History and the Inspired Voluue al
unite 20 teach us the lesson that work
IL tho price Of property. OF health, Of no
esty, aud, Ia short of all temporal OF
eternal bliss Beads yf honest sweat are
the glisterlng pearls Ia the great man. :
crown. II for no other teascn, then, isf's,
Ing is highly commcnda bic. becausu u y
labor How better. therefore, can w
spend the hour, than in answering ID,
question chow shall farm labor be lifted
from the low plane Of drudgery and Egypt
ian task, to its true position Of inviting
voluntary, aud worthy employment Y''-