Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-02

Where the gate swung back or leathern
hinge
/ stand and gaze on the far off plain.
No more we list to the music low
OF the crystal stream as it ripples on,
And the apple trees in the pasture lane
Is but a dream Of the days by-gOne.
GRAsPALL AND HIS Son." Come, broth
er farmer, tarry a moment, though quaint
and wOmanish as | may appear in your
eyes, let me get my finger in the button
hole of your old blue frock and hold you
back from the imaginary cares of this life
which appear to press so heavily upon you.
Yonder sun that is now peeping through
the snow cloud will rise and set tomorrow
in all its regal splendor, even though you
should let your cattle rest few minutes,
while breaking out these drifted roads,
Thank heaven the course of nature is not
affected by the standard of our views Of
right or wrong for if 50, who could paint
the confusion? But who is that lad ! see
coming up the road with a shovel over his
shoulder muttering to HIMSELF"
THAT is my son" said farmer Graspall,
"and he is Stacker than our January tbaw
this year; he is a perfect making up of
discomfort like most of the boys in Orleans
County nowadays; he likes anything that
amt work, and that don't go down with
me Tom must either work or tramp.
gives him the blessings Of labor, and a
fathers love, so he must work close in the
morning of life while he han't got the rhu-
mats. Work will keep him from the poor
house. goes in strong for working boys
They wants work to make them steady Il,
colts wants driving to make them safe
The whole thing is, boys needs work to
make them sharp for life. All that they
are made for is to work, and have thing,
done up. | don't go in for their spending
their young life in school housen, getting
women's notions into them, no, | don't
50 Tom may mutter, but he must work if
he expects fathers blessing"
At this moment the lad approached u,
and asked his father what he wished him
to do next.
Il want YOU said farmer Graspall 'tC
get that sled-length wood into the shed Sc
that when it storms you need not be idle.
That wood is so large" said the boy t.
his father that am not able to move il
alone; may take the cattle to draw it il
WITH"
Mop stormed out the parent, 81 an
not going to have you drag the flesh off my
cattle getting in that wood. If it is too
long or too heavy, cut it in two where it is
and then move it to the shed for work"
The boy looked up to his father and thel
to me, with tears in his eyes, as much a
TO say-"in a few years more this inhumaI
bondage will cease; your sordid avarice
and your contracted soul will no longe
thwart the longings of my boyish natur
to be humanely treated"
Times harant as they was when was
boy said farmer Graspall, as the boy lief
for his axe to chop the logs, ''then we haC
to work; but now boys fancy they are dis
graced by working on the farm"
This" said |, farmer Graspall, is
partial view Of the matter The cours
you are pursuing with your son is calculat
ed to wean him from the farm and thos
pleasurable labors connected with rura
life. The absence of kindness, the drudg
cry Of mental labor without even desir
on your part to explain its necessity, will
soon dishearten your child and fit him 70
the chances of the sea, or the city, tn
ranks of the invader, or the semi-civilize
existence Of the wandering Jew or Arab
Suitably selected labor intelligently ex
planned to any boy is indeed blessing, 70
thereby he soon comes to feel that you de
sire his real good as well as his work
Study his likes and his dislikes, and yol
will soon discover in what he is likely t
excel. If in the department of stock, frui
or flowers, crafty his taste by selectin
from your own barn-yard, or elsewhere,
creature in which he would be apt to tax
delight-give it to him, requiring at tn
same time that he shall take the best car
oft. Go with him to the woods and as
sist him in selecting and removing sue
trees as he may fancy to plant around tn
farm or dwelling; tell him of their utilit
for winter shelter and for summer shade
Despise not his love for flowers should yo
discover it, but try and love them too,
but for his sake for, sir, the love of flow
ers Is sure index of sympathetic and
generous nature. Build him a fish pom
by the brook that passes the homestead
Erect bird house on the knoll by the cor
crib, a swing among the elms in the mead
Ow, and an orchard on the hillside, O
BRYANT's BEST GRATED TREES. In
word, afford him a chance for miniatuI
farm if his inclinations point that way
and if they do not it would be cruel in til
extreme to keep him i'll a position whic
he is not naturally qualified to fill. L
firm, kind, and just to your boy, and if i
the changing events of life that son is Gale
to pass from the parental root, he will /
likely TO exclaim-
Home of my fathers fare-thee-weIII
Still brooding memory loves to dwell
Beside my fathers humble hearth
To me the dearest spot on earth.
Around that hearth still there are hear
To which my name a pang imparts,
A tender throb, nameless glow;
A feeling none but parents know
And | am bound, where ere roam,
To thee, my first, my happiest home,
By ties as strong as those of love,
Ties, warm and pure as ever wove
Their dear enchantment, holy, chaste,
Around the case of brothers breast.
Home ofmy fathers far awayl
Accept wanderers native lay;
Accept the tear by memory shed
Der former joys forever fed"