Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-30
Farmer Crumple's Croakings.

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about the yard, and the snow cut
mans face like knives, as he faced the
wind.
ooh, cattle won't be as healthy to
stand in the stable all day; they want
to get out and stretch their legs; it
does them good"
$50 it does you, Tim ; but after you
have stretched your legs in the morn
ing, notice you don't stand out beside
the barn all day, when You can snuggle
down beside good fire."
I mention this for the sake OF saying
that there are too many men who forget
that brutes can suffer, and who do not
seem to know that the little, almost
costless, comfort that they can give
them is not only appreciated but paid
for-that it is naturally economy to
give this comfort.
Of course I've croaked about this be-
fore, but I couldn't help recurring to it
again, reminded Of it by the frost on
the window panes, and the thankful
consciousness that everything is snug
in the Crumple barn. Somehow 1t
makes me feel happier and more con-
tented. Then I Thought I would
TALK ABOUT TIN BROWN.
He is q representative farmer-that is
to say representative of certain class.
He is one of those farmers who require
q ten-acre lot to turn a common farm
wagon around on Gf he has q team
hitched to it1, and yet will putter a
whole season on two-acre field. He
has about as much comprehension OF
the possibilities of farming and farm
life as hen has of problem in Euclid.
He turns his cattle out into the cold at
certain time of day, because he was
always used to doing so ; it's a habit ;
and what has once been adopted must
always be practised by him. There are
no "short-cuts in his life, He will
make hills to his potatoes as big as a
bushel basket, and do it all with hoe.
He plants his corn, year after year, on
the same piece of intervale. He wGsts
till the foliage is killed by frost before
he cuts up the stalks and as soon as
the fodder is thus destroyed, hurrah
boys! he goes into it, and with great
care sets it up in stocks and binds it.
He never gratis an apple tree, but grows
what he calls "cider-apples," which he
rarely gathers until after the first snow,
and then picks them up with mittens
on his hands and hauls them of, half or
quite frozen, to the cider-mill, four or
five miles away. He never has more
wood cut, winter or summer, than will
last the family one day. He goes into
the woods, cuts down the most con-
venient tree he can find regardless OF
the fact that it may be too valuable to
cut, rolls one end OF it on to bob-sled,
and hauls it to the door, then he com.
mences at the butt, and chops and
splits it up as the family requires it
and sometimes it is required when
neither he nor anyone else is by, when
the kitchen fire must be fed by "pick.
ing up chips" So it goes. And thi>
all preliminary to
PEEP E;sDR THE HOUSE.
Five boys-great big, burly, bolster,
Gus fellows, full Of the vitality which
belongs to their class-are there three
girls, kind-hearted, active, fun-loving,
untutored, and with the affectation
which only accompanies conscious ig'
norance!. All these with mild, spiritless
care-worn mother upon whom all make
the most exacting demands. And there
is not paper taken among them! The
boys whittle, trap, hunt, skate, 60 t.
school when they please, play cards,
and range all over town at will. The
girls help their mother some, read sick
" novels, go to dances, spelling schools
parties, sleigh-rides, &C., and are con
stantly wishing for and devoting them
selves to some excitement that will re-
lieve them of the monotony of q home
which is not one of comfort, culture
refinement and pleasure. Its tasks are
onerous. There is little or no love-light
in it ; none of the delicate courtesie'
and attentions which brothers should
bestow upon sisters and sisters recip
rocate no music, reading, sympathy
really no home atmosphere! And ye
some people think it strange that
FARMERS CHILDREN DO NOT STAY AT HOME
This is Just what I am coming to
This is the kind of education too man.
Young men and women receive on ouI
farms. This is the way they are taugh
to love farm life. This is the materia
of which too many farmers $50 called
are made. This is the sweet pastora
life of which poets sing. This is the roat
many farmers take to reach the usurer
and in q direct line beyond him ar'
mortgage foreclosures and "change O.
base. This is what drives hundreds O
Eastern men into Western pioneer life
OF course it is all right such should
be driven hence. 1t is blessing t.
the neighborhosd whence they remove
But it is q very sad thing, Sir!-ver.
sad For out of just such management
or mismanagement is born misery, suf
fering, vice. This is propagated from
generation to generation! The inheri
tance, unfortunately, too often clings t.
the inheritors. There is missionar.
work for every intelligent farmer to d.
lin such families. No good farmer cal
afford to have such neighbors! He car
better afford to spend 500 each year IL
providing them with the best papers
magazines, and books ; he can bette
afford tG spend time stimulating tn,
pride of such boys and themselves t.
take an interest in improved agricul
ture, and in teaching them methods
that will be profitable to them he cal
better afford to encourage his Owl
daughters to cultivate the friendship o
such girls, with view to lifting then
ont of such an aimless life into one o