The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-19

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Believe me the outlay will repay YOU
tenfold, for by so doing you will not only
promote the happiness of your wife and
family, but your own, as nothing so con.
| duces to the true happiness of man as
| cheerful and contented home, in which his
family loves to dwell, and to which he car
ask a friend with true hospitality and
manly pride. And such homes will dc
more to make your daughters contented
with the country and keep your sons from
longing for city life, with it's many excite.
ments and designations, than anything
which can be devised. And firmly believe
our country will never again be truly pros
porous until the farmers not only regain
their wonted prosperity, but there are more
OF them; and some of our boys and young
men instead of crowding into the cities to
seek professional, mercantile or mechanical
employment, turn their attention to agri-
culture, and having fitted themselves by
proper theoretical and practical training,
become skillful and prosperous farmers
1t has been we'll said that he who makes
two blades of grass grow where only one
grew before is public benefactor and
there is room enough in this country fol-
thousands to become such. And they are
within the reach of nearly all. Of course
they must vary, with the means of theil
respective owners. but while none should
be extravagant, all can, with the exercise
OF little care and attention, be made
comfortable and pleasant. Real homes
where will centre your best affection, and in
which you will spend your happiest hours
there you will rear your family, and fit
your sons and daughters to play their part
in life's great drama. And when they
leave your roof tree, to seek other homes,
their hearts best affections will always
cling to the old homestead, and the lessons
OF piety and wisdom they learned there
will guide them through life.
trust | commit no sin when envy the
owners of happy country home, for 1 of.
ten do 80. None but city man condemned
to toll amid bricks and mortar, can realize
the happiness he feels when he is able to
turn his back upon the town, and gain new
health and strength amid the pure air and
peaceful scenes of the country. One touch
of his mother earth renews his energies
and gives him new strength for the battles
of life.
1t has been said God made the country,
Dut man made the town; which means, as
suppose, we may expect more purity in
the country than in the city. And I be-
lieve it is to the farmers of America we
must look for the wisdom and virtue which
will, if any thing can, restore the integrity
of the fathers; for they have time to
think, even in this age of steam and tele.
graphs, and can estimate at thier true worth
the bulls and bears of financial circles, and
readily distinguish between the true
Statesman and noisy demagogues. The
farmers and planters of America furnished
most Of the great leaders of the Revolution,
and it is to them we must now look for
the men of the period, who are to elevate
politics from scramble after the spoils of
office, to the science of Government And
| feel sure that the farmers of Hartford
county will not neglect the duties of their
vocation, OR prove laggards in the race.
In your peaceful homes you can fit your
selves for every duty. And amid the love-
ly surroundings of country life, look from
Mature up to Natures God p
"Find tongues in trees; books in the running
brooks;
Sermons in stones, and good in everything"