The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-04-09

education as necessary to farmer
/ as TO man Of any other vocation.
Although silcnced, they wei.
not convinced.
Il think it u shame!" excIaimc &C
Henry Granger that evening
after full five minutes Of silence
and deep Thoughts silence by
the way, very long for him.
."What is SO very dissracetui
Hcnry?" and his sister looked "
inquiringly.
"Why, there's Fred Mei!er, the
best scholar in our class, has
splendid talents, and we'll fitted to
make his mark in the world, you
would not think but that he would
! be eager to secure some honorable
position, which he is so well fitted
to fill, (she did, thought well
what is he going to do but bury
himself in some wilderness and
actually become . farmer. | dc
believe the fellow has not g
particle Of ambition"
"Perhaps he has much, tot
however. for the tickle applause 0:
men, but to raise that noble EN-,
ploynvnt from the low cstimatIo. J
in which it is now held, and cause
it 10 be regarded, as III truth it is,
an honorable profession"
"Honorable profession! Amy,
I believe he has been instilling
some Of his absurd fancies into
your little brain, but we shall
never consent to your being car
ried off to die of hard work and
intolerable ennui on farm. Re-
member that!'
II do not see why one need to
fall a victim to eithels OF those
things because one lives on a farm.
Work may be little harder and
visitors little fewer, but they
may both prove but blessings in
disguise.'
You would soon find they are
not, and we will take good care
not to give you trial."
But whether in view Of Fred
MelIer's "splendid talents" or
whether Miss Amy possessed a
share Of self:will, l know not, but
! it is certain that Amy Granger
did become Mrs. Frederick Meller,
and that soon after the happy
event she did accompany her
husband to the veritable farm.
1t was not a place that looked
inviting to the romantic views Of
q city lady. Yet she knew the
mind anu heart of him to whom
she had entrusted her young life,
and held the meaningless form
and glitter of society Of little vaiue
in comparison. And it is my
| opinion that Mr.. MelIer considered
this lady with q cultivated mind.
and q refined, loving heart. worth
a dozen years Of study. If he did
not, he should.
Mr.. Mcllcr's farm was, as l have
said, by no means the most pro
missing. 1t had been under the
care OF tenants for several years,
and fences, fields, buildings, all
bore evidences of neglect. But he
went to work, determined that a
few years should make a great
difference in it's appearance. He
| did not follow in the time-worn
channels of his predecessors, along
which most of his neighbors were
still plodding, but took advantage
of all the facts which investigation
and experience had laid before
him, and his own knowledge ac-
qainted him with the soil Of his
fields and its adaptation to the
different products.
The neighbors ridiculed his
::new fangled' notions, but in vain.
knowledge is power, and he felt
it, his fields provedit. AS time
passed, those who had first ridi-
culed, began to open their eyes to
the fact also, and queried among
themselves by what means that
old farm had been transformed
into such q beautiful place.
"How is it," one asked, "that
YOU have now better farm than
any of US; you don't work as hard,
and yet your crops are always
better?"
II know not, unless it is that l
have learned the science of farm
ing, for my pecuniary means were
small"
II did not know there was q
science about farming. But if \
little study can make my boys
better farmers, they shall have 1t.
There's Jim been asking ne to go
to college, aud I told him it was
of no use for farmers. But,
father says he, don't you think
Mr.. Meller is better farmer than
the rest round here, and he's been
10 college, So thought l would
ask you"
The consequence was another
mind fittod to battle with lite.
Was it worth nothing to be able
by example to satisfy the craving
Of young miHda2 BE who t5s1Ss