The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-07-07
BEAUTIES OF THE COUNTRY,
SEEN THROUGH
AroTH E. CARY.

Oh country life is glorious life,
VAIN Ills hoeing, moving hustle;
Whefe the farmer sweat for all he gets
And life depends on muscle.
Among the many things we love (for oul
: loving nature takes in most anything from
a hcorice drop to dynasty) is the country
There is music in the lowing of the bees
the whimpe,ing of the COWS, the gentl.
below of the egg-manufacturing fowls, ani
the noisy songs of the yariegated butter
flies.
There is beauty in that majestic tree of
the forest which, year after year, carries on
the foliage business in all its branches.
Ihere is grandeur in the hills, greenness
10 pe valleys, and geese by the roadside.
mere is something in the quiet beauty of
rupl prospects and rustic scenes that finds
itsWay into our heart. filings open the door
of that spacious old ark, and, like Noah Of
old, bids the occupants go out to brouse.
Fascinated with the inexhaustible delights
of Natures broad conservatory, we can lay
down our CARPET satchel of care, and, for a
time, forget the dunning letters, grocery
bills, protested notes, and all the similar
rubbish that mark the path our trusting
feet have trod.
We love to have the light blowing, oxy-
genated zephyrs step up and kiss our mid
dle-aged countenance; Or, if it happens to
be backward season for those kind of
zephyrs, we like to have the kissing done
by the azure-eyed, rosy checked, auburn
haired zephyrs that blow around the farm
house, and weigh upwards of hundred
and twenty pounds avoirdupois.
The man who, amid the wide extending
beauties of rural surroundings, cannot
loosen the corset-string of his mind and
give it the unlaced privilege of expanding,
is not child of Nature; he is an evoluted
development and back in the Devonian age
his ancestors were all fossilized CLAIMS.
As one walks through the luxuriant
| meadows climbs over the brow and sits on
the forehead of the hills, or treads the ver-
duous pasture-lands, there is something ell
evating, something that lifts him up; it
may perchance be the animated landscape
with it's varied loveliness, but it is more
likely to be the belligerent bull or the
bellicose gsat that butt the just as well as
the unjust
But the real objects of interest in rural
landscapes are the Changers. An overall
race of benevolent philanthropists, brow
finn fn 1,rousAa IL.
comforts and luxuries of life. A race that
tread the fowery meads in cowhide boots,
eat onions, and vote the Republican ticket.
They spend their summers in getting some
thing to eat and their winters in eating it;
tho pleasure of one and the profit of the
other makes the life of the Granger desira-
BILE. We have seen Grangers whose lives
were desirable, but the fear of capital
punishment kept us from taking them.
With one exception, tilling of the soil is
the sweetest employment in which the sons
of men can engage that exception is the
eret1f 4 refining bu siness, which is consid-
appreciate nlsz z.setar B.,t-;,sa-.as..-4eAs. s.,l1u
first get his lot. Then he should set about
the requirement of good botanical educa-
tion and devote a large share of his time
to the classification of plants, and the ex-
animation of those
Soft, sweet, petaled flowers,
That bloom in Natures bowers,
And fill this world of onrs
with hanging baskets, bridal wreaths, and
bonnet trimmings. Every farmer should
cultivate taste for flowers and, whether
in the barnyard or sitting room. in the
cornfield or pig-pen, always wear upon his
bosom button-hole boquet.
Farmers should also be biologists, and
give few hours of each passing day to the
careful study of the growth, instinct, and
usefulness of the animal kingdom. No
farmer should think of dying without pre-
yiously writing at least one book on Natu-
raj History, beautifully embellished with a
steel engraving of the author.
A thorough knowledge Of surgery should
also be invoiced with the farmers assets.
The trees, with their limbs constantly ex-
posed to fractures the hens that require
frequent setting; the hogs whose shoulders
need so much curing, and the liability Of the
Granger himself to get corn in the ear, all
seem to demand the attention of practi-
| cal surgeon.
Thus the farmer can, with the book of
| nature spread out before him, and ons or
two hired men to turn the leaves, make
rapid strides in the sciences, and let his
moral nature go on toward perfection. But
alas how often do we find that with all
his salutary and wholesome surroundings,
the farmer is covetous, ,penurious, and fault
finding. Some are even sunken SO far in
the valleys of degradation that they chew
| tobacco, run for Office, and raise care.
| Mid sylvan scenes
And kindneY beans
The farmer sweats around:
In homemade clothes
| And sun-burned nose
/ He spends his days
| In trying to raise
The mortgage that covers his ground,
THE END.
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