The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-12-08
VOLUME XvII.---NO. %.
LIFE ON THE FARM,
The Town Is Poor Place to ltaise Chill.
dren.
Dirie Farmer.

|, Dixie Farmer.
Two thousand years ago philosopher
} by the name Of Horace wrote a great
deal about the town and country, and he
weighed 'em both and thon SIM med up
MS conclusions by saying that the town
was the best place for the rich man to
1--we IN and the country WAS the best for
poor man TO die in, and inasmuch as
riches were uncertain ard death WAS sure
man had better settle down in the
country es soon as ne could and be CON
tent: That is very good advice but the
trouble Is III being content. No man is
content until he gets old enough TO be
aphilosophcr. Young people are restless
and ambitious. The world il very lovely
to them, and don't blame 'em for want.
ing to enjoy it; but I've noticed that
those who have the best time in their
youth have the poorest in their old
age, and like Solomon, are ready to
exclaim, VANITY Of vnnitfes, all is van.
ity."
The best way is to raise children to work
to earn their living-and tho best
place for them is in the country oil q
farm: Its n GLOW way to mako money
and it's all the better for that Money
made slow Is money made sure. a dol
lar dug out of the ground is worth five dol
iars made IN town, and is better than n
hundred dollars given to a young man.
Habits are formed in our. youth, and
town habits are to spend all that is made.
n young man who is clerking ut fifty
dollars month will spend it all in going
to shows and frolicking around, which
ain't so bad, if it wasn't for the habits.
lie gets so after while that he is alwnys
hankcring after shows and some new
excitement. The country to him is an
awful dull place. He has more time to
study but town boy doesn't want to
think. It's not his brain he wants to
! exercise, but it's his emotions and pas.
sions.
| Il young man out to spend three or
four years in the country, if for nothing
else but his good health-his cunstitu.
tion. 1t will build him up and expand
him. A country boy can't dance rs
gracefully and skip round cat-like rs a
town boy, for he don't walk on pavoments
| all the time. A country boy walks OIL a
dirt floor. He woTks ali over and
| he dances all over. A town boy can fight
n right good fight for two or threc min
ntes, but country boy can fight all day.
| They say the town-boys made the most
| spirited soldiers in the war, aud I reckon
they did, but the country boys had the
most endurance. mean the country boys
who had beer raised literally 'Thero
were lots of poor fellows who never had
good meal of vittels, and grew up pale
and sickly, who gave out pretty soon, for
they were cowed and hacked before
they started: but noticed that the sons
nj nit rfal,l G., L. y
ter than anybody. They had better con.
getting out of order, and n town girl
don't eat much of anything but candy
and ice-cream and cake, and by the time
she has lad two Or three little weasal-
faced children, which have to be raised
on the bottle, she is pretty we'll used up,
and has to go to the springs every summer
and be doctcred and physicked the bal
lance of her career. Who ever heard of
country folks going TO the springs for
their health? There are lots of good,
strong, healthy ncT iii the cities, put
they were not raised there.
Farming has been sorter under the ban
ever since l can remember. The me-
chanic ranked the farmer and the mer-
chant ranked the mechanic, and the law
yers and the members Of congress ranked
everybody but tho farmers are COM
ing to the front, and the lawyers losing
ground. @ modern lawyer can lose the
papers or bribe witness, or fool the
jury, but n farmer can't fool the soil
he works on and oil his labor aud toll
and sweat is honest There is no cheat
ing the ground out of crop nor the
Creator out ;if q shower. He feels his
dependence oil the time, and it keeps him
| l,,,. IL IL
had to make his living that way he would
Farming is the oldest business we have
any account Of Old Father Adam en-
tailed on us the power of thorns and this
| ties and bull nettles, and cuckle burs,
and tread saft, and Cain disgraced his
occupation by not giving to the Lord tho
choice of bis crop, but it is the salvation
of all civilized ccGhtries and first class
farmer comes nearer fulfilling mans
manifest destiny than any other profes
sion. But wouldent farm OIL poor land
| nor with poor tools and poor stock
I'd live in town first-I'd hire out on the
railroad; or dig iii the mines at dollar
n day, or clerk in cross roads store, or
run for the legislature. Ten acres of
good land is worth more than hundred
of poor land A rich man can afford
to own some poor land and improve it,
but poor man can't.
| Well, I've got nothing against the
cities or towns. know we are obliged
to have 'em, but they are poor places to
raise children in. It's an accident if
they make good citizens and grow up,
healthy. never saw man get rich In
n city By trading aud specializing that
didn't banker after a home in the coun-
try with springs and branches and
meadow and fine colts and calves. and
sheep grazing around when he gets sur
feited with theatres and travelling shows
and Salveny and Sal Burnhart and all
the other SAILS, he longs for the solitude
and innocence, and quiet Of country
home. But then its most always too
late. His children have got taste for
society with its follies and excitements
and they can't give it up, and as for work
they just can't do it and they won't. A
rich mans children raised up in city
are about rs no count rs the average
young man who has got through col.
legc and received diploma printed in
Latin which he couldD't translate if he
was going to be hung.-BW drip.
= Cadet Whitaker says that he will
fry to antar- tho Rritiah arm va ipst ;ca ia