The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-09-15
Make Farm Life Attractive.

JUST now, when the cotton ma.
MIA prevails so extensively. and
men are not disposed to heed
Solomon's advice about making
haste to got rich, wo publish tho
following beautiful and truthful ex-
tract from speech delivered by
Hon. H. Seymour, at al agricultu.
raj fair last year, with tho hope
that it may induce some poor
voyager to pause ere he wanders
too far from his mooorings.-~EDs.
So. CULT.
1t not unfrequently happens
tha. a man Of fortune who has
given himself up to the love Of
gain, or who, may live in n magni.
ticent house, we'll filed with cost.
~ articles, after all this may still
he the dweller Of q dreary, un-
furnished world. His poorer Lut
more intelligent neighbor may
see from his porch grea or beau
ties and objects Of deeper interest
than wealth eau give.
We can SOC, thcn, why country
life is dreary to one and full ofpleas-
uro to an other. W. can see why
we have not put the farmer upon
the highest grounds when we
nave morcl y taught him the skill
OF a husbandman or the art ot
making money. These do not
meet the demands of nature when
our vital powers begin to give
way. They do not meet the call
tor mental interest when time
shall have laid it's hand upon IN
and disabled us for physical toll.
10 lift up agriculture to its bes,
and highest estate, those who
follow it must have q measure of
taste and Of education which will
make them happy upon their
farms through all periods Of their
lives. II these are wanting men
will abandon the country for the
excitement Of towns. We now
aoe why tho great men to whom
alluded sought homes amid
the remote scenes Of nature.
We also soc whence springs this
hurtthl and unhealthy passion fo,
city Tito. But it may be said hat all
men cannot become learned in the
mysteries Of nature. 1t would in.
deed be ~ mockery to tell tho maj.
who begins in tho humblest posi-.
tions, without the aid OF early cdu.
cation, and who il toiing on to
wiring out u support by his farm
labor for himself and family, that
he must become either an astrn.
onomer, or geologist, or botan
lst, to be happy in his home. No,
arc those things necessary. The
Almighty has been too kind to
demand of uny for their happiness
that which is beyond thor reach.
But he does require them, ifthey
would enjoy tho beauties Of His
world, that they should open their
eyes and look. Ho does demand.
if they would have habits OF
thought and mental pleasures.
that they should cultivate their
powers OF observation and learn
the lessons which He tries to
teach them in every bush or flow.
er, in evory stone or stream, and
in all animated uatIro that sur
rounds them. 1t needs no more
knowledge than every man can
gain who will look and think, to
make rural life full Of onjoymcnts.
lilo who will not do this cheats
and wrongs himself. In the order
OF nature love Of the country ia Il
natural enjoyment in our declining
years. All men should bear in
mind that their tastes outlive their
intellectual power. Thoy should
therefore cultivate those tastes
which can be easily gratified,
that are not inconsistent with
weakness Of age, which mako no
heavy demands upon our powers,
or which we hold by an uncertain
tenure. Objects ofart or wealth
aro frequently J. stripped from mon
whom their powers begin to fail,
but he who loves Gods works is
happy in tho scenes OF nature, and
has pleasures moro certain and
lasting than fortune can givo. It's
u good investment to cultivate the
tastes. | care not how humble
they may be. Tho man 10 untrue
to himself, amidst tho labor Of the
farm, when following the pIow
or busy at any other work, who
doos not teach himself to love
what is beautiful, and who does
not exercise and strengthen his
mind by observing all there il
about him. He lives in the midst
ofGod's great museum Of wonders
and he cannot say he was never
taught, for oil the world about
him is teaching, if he will but
loarn truths that will mako him
content with his lot, that will
strengthen his mind, purify his
taste, and lift him up III his
whole nature. I have soon and