The Baltimore County union., 1875-02-06

The TRUTH-A GooD ExAMPLE.-A lady cor
respondent of the New England Farmer, writing
from Tamworth Iron Works. utters self-evi-
dent truth when she says: "When men put
more pride, more education, more taste and ap-
probation into their farming, their daughters
will not sigh for the small talk and peacock airs
OF the counter jumpers neither will their sons
leave homesteads in search of professions where
brains stand better chance than mnscle'
In the same letters she refers to the influence
in neighborhood of the example set by thrift
ty and energetic man. She says:
"My host bought this pleasant retreat four
years ago. 1t was then in the common condi-
ton of many New England farms-the buildings
were weather-beaten and dilapidated. the land
generally used up, the fences but crazy apologies
to prevent the intrusion of cattle. He went to
work, and now there is not prettier place or 10
cation hereabouts, and better still, this home.
stead has doubled its value Not only that my
host, by the assistance of prudent, willing
helpmeet-and man without a true wife "a per-
feet woman, nobly planned, to warn, to comfort.
and command, might as we'll stop living at once
has become very forehanded,' and enjoys his
well-spent, well-earned substance with comfort
changed and improved. The farms are well kept
and trim, the orchards free from rubbish, the
lands cleared of stubble white fences dsplacug
the crazy old boards, ornamental trees, clean,
comfortable barns, and cosy white houses-every-
body taking pride in their homes and surround
ings, just because one man of thrift, energy and
taste, apprecating the object of living, chose to
enjoy neat, comfortable, and consequently, at
tractive and pleasant home. ."-Dirego Rural.
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The IDEAL FARMER.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,
in his essays, thus portrays the glory of the farm
er:
fhe glory Of The farmer is that, in the diyi-
sion of labor, it is his part to create. All the
trades rest at last on his primitive authority
He stands close to nature he obtains from the
earth the bread and the meat. The food which
was not he causes to be. The first farmer was
the first man, and all historic nobility rests on
the possession and use of land.
'Men do not like hard work. but every man
has an exceptional respect for Ilage, and the feel
ing that this is the original calling of his race
that he himself is only excused from it by some
circumstances which made him delegate it for
time to another hands. If he had not some skill
which recommended him to the farmer, some
product for which the farmer will give
his corn, he must himself return into his due
place among the planters And the profession
has in all eyes this ancient charm, standing near
est to God, the First Cause
"The beauty Of nature, the tranquility and
innocence of the countryman, his independence
and pleasing arts-the care of bees Of poultry
of sheep, the dairy, the care of hay, of fruits of
orchards and forests, and the reaction of these on
the workman in giving him strength and plain
dignity like the face and manners of nature, all
men acknowledge. All men keep the farm in
reserve as an asylum, where, in case fmischance,
TO hide their poverty, or solitude if they do not
succeed in society. And who knows how many
glasses of remorse are turned this way from NOR
tilted pleaders in courts and Senates, or from the
victims of idleness and pleasure? Poisoned by
town life and town vices the sufferer resolves
"Well, my children, whom | have injured. shall
ge back to the land to be recruited and cured
by that which should have been my nursery,
and shall be their hospital"