Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-04-10
LOCAL NEWS.
Guildhall.

To fully compare New England with the
West and tell all the advantages or diSad-
vantages of each would occupy many
numbers OF your pap But so often
have been asked of opportunities for the
farmer, mechanic, teacher, in short, for
everyone, that it begins to seem as if al
most all our people were looking toward
the land of sunset. That far too many of
us look and go there the state Of oar viii
lagos churches, schools, and other sur
rouncings plainly tell We love to think
of some place we shall SEEK where we
may live about as we like and work only
what we think reasonable. Bat living as
we like usually includes the neceSsaries of
life with jast a few mora of its luxurieS
than we possess, while working reason
ably is to each of us little less than we
do work, and no doubt the native of the
land of bread-fruit AID cocoanutS dreams
Of isles where fruits a little nicer and
sweeter grow on vines and bushes that
yield the treasures without toilsomc
climbing, and where bark coats of finer
texture and color grow already peeled
from the trees.
In wanderings that included not the
whole West but some widely separated
portions Of it, | did not find the land
where books, pictures, fine houses and
furniture, ETC., grow like weeds, and once
gathered were speedily replaced by a new
crop. Somewhere read that man shall
cat his bread in tn. sweat of his brow,
and if He who so declared has formed
a place on earth to make His words
false, have yet to see it, and | firmly be-
lieve that no where can be found happier
homes, more intelligence and content
ment than among oar hills and .mong
those who have grown amid New England
ideas.
There are reasons for th5 that we
might more easily perceive would we
bat con 'ider some apparent disadvantages
as but blessings in diSgGiSe. Such are
our long and snowy winters lii this
long season of at least partial leasure We
can read. The habit of doing something
formed i'll the busy Summer leads us to
employ oar tine and not sleep away our
leisure rs we might if not obliged to cul-
tivatc habits of industry large part of
the year. We might otherwise employ
our surplus energy did not nature forbid
coming it into dollars and cents, aid the
reading up of every available book and
paper-the knowledge we have gained
the solid comfort we have taken in our
homes or occasionally with neighbors
when we choose 90 abroad and roads per-
nit, are evidences that Il little rest hasn't
hurt us. We have learned to prize home
pleasures and make home bright till some
Among us almost feel that time spent ell &c
where, as i'll visiting, is lost to the best
enjoyment. Do not conclude that such
care little for friends; rather they care
the more for home, and does not the
strong love for their own home circle
argue strength of affection to give others
they may esteem. The second place in a
warm heart may be better friendship than
the first in colder one. But this is di-
erosion. If the busy summer makes us
ready to enjoy the winters rest, docs it
follow that we enjoy the warm season the
less?
Oar work must b. more quickly done
than where the longer season gives the
farmer and his crops more time, and per.
haps in that shorter busy time we work d
little harder. am not so sure about the
harder work as before seeing the West
for there are the busy marrying seasons
there, too. Bat more of thi further on
Perhaps some will think | have beer
dreaming of a better Vermont than really
exists while writing some of this. That
we have amoag US homes that are not ex
actly fragments of heaven, and feeling:
among neighbors not always quite angelic
we all well know, and it Is natural to look
on OR oWl sorrows as the worst or
earth. ID Us they are. NJ other persons
aching teeth ever IN lde M half wild or
dove M to the deltist's chair, bat my
own have.
FIt away and seeing much of home life
wherever w1lt, neiS hborhood jars anC
strife would speak out-would occasion
ally be displayed even to stranger. AL
m lnkiud seem to b. possessed OF hlnll
nature and u little sellshncSS or more is
part of that as we'll as readiness t,
speak OLE thol5h5s, especially the ugly
ones. M,ly family, feeling that som,
place on earth ought to be better than tn,
one they are in, change their home look
ing for the favored spot, perhaps evel
feeling that no change can be for til,
worse, for when we are weary of neigh
borhood talk about neigbors, OF GOSSIP
that, whether true or false, seems like i'm
pertinent meddling, or the strife that sucl
gossip creates it will seem as if we ha,
been unfortunate in selecting q dwelin;
place. But it would be far more to tn
purpose to change our manners than OH
residence. We should be apt to lose, no
gain, by DESERVING New England on thi
account. Not the least Of New Englan
advantages should be counted social SUI
rounding aud influences almost Away
strongly in favor of intelligence and rect
tude-never wholly the revcrse-whll
our churches and sabbath schools heI
those who choose the right and ten
to deter others from the wrong if in n
other way, by the sentiment they cheris
and how much we are made by our oi,