The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25

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not only is healthy, but that it has done
away with many low forms of fever in
the great cities. Every farmer should
have ice water; and he can have it with
an expense SO trifling that the very
poorest could scarcely feel it.
Make your homes pleasant. Have
your houses warm and comfortable for
the winter. Do not build story-and-
a-haf house.. The half-story is IN oven,
in which during the, summer You will
bake every night, and feel in the morn
ing as though only the rind of yourself
was left. Decorate your rooms, even
if you do so with cheap engravings;
they are better than none. Have
books; have papers; read them. You
have more leisure than the jewellers in
cities. Beautify your grounds with
plants, with flowers. Have good gar
dens; and recollect that everything Of
beauty tends to your elevation. Every
little morning glory whose purple
heart is thrilled with the light of the
morning sun tends to put blossom in
your heart.
can imagine no condition that car
ries with it such promise of joy as the
farmer in the autumn, with his cellar
full, with every preparation made for
the winter, with the prospect of three
months of comfort and rest, three
months of fireside and content, three
months of home and family. three
months of pure, solid comfort. Make
your houses comfortable. Do not hud-
die together in little room around a
red-hot stove, with every window fast
ened down; do not live in this poisoned
air, and then when one of your chill
dren dies, put a piece in the paper
commencing with, Whereas, it has
pleased Providence to remove from our
midst" Have plenty of air and plenty
of warmth. Let your children sleep.
Do not drag them from their beds in
the darkness of the night. Treat them
with infinite kindness. There is no
happiness in house not filled with
l0ve-where the man hates the wife OF
the wife hates the husband-where
children fear their parents - where
parents dislike their children. Every
such home is simply hell upon earth.
There is nothing in the cultivation OF
the soil to make men grabbed and un-
Just. To look upon the sunny slopes
covered with daisies does not tend to
make men cruel. Whoever labors for
the happiness of those he loves elevates
himself, no matter whether he works
in the shop or plows in the perfumed
fields.
In conclusion, let me say to farmers,
do all you can to make your business
attractive. DO not 60 in debt for land
that you cannot cultivate. Cultivate
we'll and without waste. See that your
houses are warm in winter and cool in
summer. Plant trees and vines and
flowers; beautify your homes. Occupy
your leisure in reading, in thinking, in
improving your minds, in devisinS ways
and means to make your business prof
liable. Have bathrooms, ice-houses,
good gardens. Treat your families
with infinite kindness. Without love
there is no happiness in this world;
and if you are not happy you had bet
ter be dead. Be friends with your
neighbors; build your houses near to-
gether; cultivate sociability; come oft
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relations possible. Make your lives at
tractive, and your children will grow
up in love with the old fields and the
old home. Remember that You are in
partnership with all other labor, and
be ready at all times to join hands with
all other laborers for the protection of
honest industry. As for myself, I envy
the man who has lived upon the same
broad acres from his boyhood, who has
been familiar with the same scenes
year after year, who now lives upon
the same farm upon which he was
born, and occupies the home of his
fathers. can imagine no happier way
to end ones life than in the quiet of the
country, far from the demands of bust
ness, out of the mad race for place and
money and power. In this way, sur
by pleasant fields and genial
friends, hope to end my days. And
this, hope, will be the lot of all who
hear my voice, to-day. hope you will
end your lives in the country, in houses
covered with vines and clothed with
flowers. 1 hope that you, looking
upon fields of corn and wheat, over
which run the sunshine and shadow,
by friends and crowned by
honor, will pass away from earth Sc
renely as the Autumn dies.