Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-15
Country Farming and City Editing.

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full and attractive as the other, | re-
specially non-concur. Laughter and
applause. As to city editing, have
had something more of it than | have
desired, and more than | could enjoy.
AS to my farming, there are gentlemen
who have spoken Of it rather more
freely than their limited knowledge of
the subject would admit. | think |
have seen some elaborate statements
Of the cost of each turnip laughter
and these statements were made bv
gentlemen who | was not aware were
so attentive to the cost of things as
these calculations would seem to i'm
ply. have not made any such calcu-
lations myself, for l have been little
shy of doing so. Laughter. Let
me, however, say q few words about
country farming, which is a thing |
very much believe in. Having done
some share of work in the world, |
lay down this proposition: That any
man or woman who can get their
work done by s o'clock at night need
not consider their condition a hard
one. But when the work stretches
far into the night, to eleven, twelve,
one, two, three, begin to find it irk-
some. | am not now so fond of sit
ting up with a newspaper all night,
nor with anybody else, as | was TWEEN
ty years ago. This, then, can say
for country farming, that while it has
some rugged aspects, and does not
promise any such brilliant and rapid
advances to fortune as some of our
friends suppose themselves likely to
achieve in Wall street, it is Just about
the safest and surest thing any one
can engage in; and it is, moreover, a
tranquil and certain delight to any hu-
man being who can endure his own
society. Laughter and applause.
My little place, while it is nothing to
brag of - laughter there is this to
be said about it. | have got the most
delightful barn full ofcorn, rich, gold
en- corn, that ever you saw in your
lives. Now, that is something achiey-
ed, something to look at. | have
been at work on the press, man and
hoy, for forty years; and | can see
nothing that | have accomplished
You work for days, and months, and
years, and what have you to show ?
Something perhaps in mental growth !;
something in frmness Of purpose !;
something in clearness of intention !;
but outwardly nothing. How can
your labors compare with those Of the
man who has produced book? And
here let me say that, in my judg-
ment, no good book ever was or can
be produced on the instigation Of a
10000 check. Such books as that of
John Bunyan have been produced by
authors who never thought they would
get a dime for them. Applause. !
Those are the books that live. The
books that the 10000 checks will
buy-they sell, hope; but the world
is charitable and soon forgets them.
/ Laughter and applause. Country
farming will help also to develop one
of the phases of the question of wo-
mans rigbts-wherein | have not SO
full part perhaps as some of our
friends would wish. Country farming
gives Just the right field for the de.
velopment of your energies. Laugh.
ter. Lots of you are wanted to take
your part in country farming. Re
newed laughter. You need not dispute
nor clamor-there it is. "The world
is all before you where to choose.
| Ii any lady wants her rights-I am a
wood-chopper myself-my axe is at
| her service. There are plenty Of op
portunities so, then, why don't some
of our friends who want their right:
come out into the country and take
them? / hope that some of this dir
and controversy will roll itself abroad
in the world and our excellent friend
"the last best gift and so on, viii
achieve her rights with her own RICH
hand. Great applause.
James NJ. Eddie, whose disappear
ance we noticed last week, has beer
heard from, but his whereabouts arr
still unknown. He was in New Yorl
, or the oath inst, out what he wa
after or where going, nobody knows
The idea that he has strayed ava,
and don't know where he is himself
is not generally believed. Before tn
war, Mr.. Eddie was an employee 0
} the Fairbankses. Some 10 years age
! he came into possession, through som
} lottery or gift enterprise concern c
. $40, 600 or So. 900. The day h
< received the money he quit work an
t soon after got E. G. Redington to il
! vest his money in bonds. Since tina
5 time he has lived on his income an
b. done nothing. But it is generally III
1 derstood he has reduced his principe
e considerable aud it is supposed b
:, some that he is in New York, wit
}, the determination to improve h
j. purse, if possible. He is a close con
= munion kind of man, and nobody bl
Y himself knows his intentions. Som
: think he will never return but can a
e sign no good reason why he will no
e Union.
l. A FRANK AND MANLY REBEL--Pe
y tinent to the prevailing cry in Dem