Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-11-07

A TRIBUTE TO FARMERs.-In his
address at the opening of the Wiscon-
sin State Fair Gov. Rusk said:
agriculture Is the foundation of the
business and prosperity of the whole
country. When the toll of the farmer
is utterly lost; when. after planting and
tending and waiting, the harvest. time
brings no harvest to him, every indus
try and every interest instantly feels it.
How completely series of crop failures,
or even of short crops, paralyzes the bu.
siness of the country! So a series of
good crops stimulates every business
and revives every dropping industry.
The railroad lines lengthen, the rolling
mills are busy, the iron mine, the saw
mill, the lumber camp, are all scenes of
activity, and every instrument of COM
merce is in use. The hum of the ma
to the songs of the harvest field. The
daily published telegram from the
money centre of the world is an uncon-
scious daily tribute to agriculture and
the farmer as the prime factor in COM
merce. They note and chronicle every
frost, every rain, every hostile insect, as
carefully as the physician the symp-
toms of his patient. Stocks go up and
down with the varying reports as to
wheat and corn. The Wall.street gam.
bier who never heard the meadow lark
in the field reads with an eager interest
the news from the grain. fields as one
fearing for a friend would read the cas-
ualities of battle. But such tribute is
temporary and compulsory. 1t springs
from selfishness mostly. and the crop
assured, Indifference to agriculture pro-
claims itself too often in an undue levy
upon the crop for carriage and in other
ways, which have not time to men,
ton. With the growth of the country
increased prosperity and the multiplied
aud splendid educational facilities, our
colleges, universities, academies and
other institutions of learning are filling
up with ambitious farmer boys, vigor-
GUS in body and mind, bent upon &C.
quiring knowledge. This is well. They
make good students and scholars, but I
have feared that too many of them
rather disdainfully turn from farm life
to the professions as being step higher.
I would like to impress upon such
young men that they are mistaken in
this. There Is in true sense no step
higher from the calm, thoughtful,
healthful, Independent life of the INTEL
ligent farmer"
TURNED OUT TO DIE BY GEN. MA
HoNE.-Richnaond, Va, October 90
Mrs. Pickett, widow of the late General
George E. Pickett, of the Confederate
army, is critically ill at the Exchange
Hotel, and reported dying Tonight
Through the influence of some of the
United States army officers who had
been classmates of her husband at West
Point, and in the Mexican war with
him, she was more than a year ago given
a clerkship at Washington. Some
months ago she was turned out by Ma
homes influence in order to make room
for some of his henchmen. 1t is under
stood that she was mainly dependent
upon her salary for support"
We take the above from the Baltimore
american, Republican journal, and
ask Virginians, especially those of Pick
ett's Division, what they think of Ma.
hone. % brutality towards this lady, whom
we knew as school girl in this 9th,
prior to the war-the daughter of
wealthy parents, who lost their property
by the war, SO that she is now depend.
ent, with several little children. o.!
what shame the Virginia Raider has
brought upon the name of humanity!
Can the people of his native State toler-
ate him longer ?-Lynch6urg Niryinian.
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