Connecticut western news., 1884-10-01
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
THE UNwHsE FARMER.
AN ALLEGORY,

A western farmer once owned valu- able farm, but for @ number of years neglected to properly cultivate it. He allowed most of his fertile fields to grow up to bushes, briars, and weeds until they become the abode of wolves.
 This mans family, also his neighbors were in constant danger from these wolves, and they frequently remonstrat- ed with him for allowing his fields to remain uncultivated and in possession of the common enemy, but their expos tulations were in vain. Not until his oldest boy had fallen a prey to the wolves, other members of his family narrowly escaped being de- voured by them, and himself seriously wounded in an attack they made on him did he become fully aroused and resolve to remove the common danger which threatened his family and his neigh bors.
 He hired number of men, cleared h1s fields of the bushes and briars, cap tured some of the wolves and drove the others away, plowed the land and sow ed wheat thereon. The whole commu- nifty rejoiced at being relieved from the danger which had so long threatened them, and his family also rejoiced at the bright prospect of rich wheat harvest.
 Horvaut lima oao,a and thia farm r went forth to reap the reward of his toll. Arriving at his wheat fields, he began to figure what his wheat had cost him. He recollected he had em- ployed some men, whose unwise man. agement had caused an outlay he had not expected, therefore this first crop of wheat had cost more than it ought to. Loosing sight of the fact that in future the land would not have to be cleared of bushes and brambles, and by no pos sible management could another crop of wheat cost what the first one had for getting also the uncalculable benefit re- sulting from driving out the wolves, he kept breeding and mourning over the cost of this one crop of wheat until he became angry and In his blind and fool ish rage, said, :" I will not harvest this wheat, I will set fire to it and destroy it, neither will raise another crop on this land, 1t may grow up to bushes again and be occupied by wolves. He set fire to the wheat and soon those beautiful fields of waving grain-tAat golden harvest-was destroyed, and thus this unreasonable man wronged himself, his family, and the community by de- stroying the harvest. He was willing to undo all the good work that had been accomplished, and willing that his fields should again become the dwelling place of wolves, and that his family and neighbors be again placed in jeopardy just because it had cost so much to re- claim the land and raise the first crop.
 Reader, we must censure this farmers action in destroying the harvest, but lei us beware lest we initiate it, for this al legory has a moral, which is, Don't de stroy he hdrUest.
 Voters of North Canaan { or an, other town that has had no license thu past year): don't destroy he harUeSt
 It may have cost North Canaan anC some other towns, more during tn past year than necessary to suppres illegal liquor selling, but don't dest,o the haruest. "The goodly land of C. naan" has been reclaimed, and in fr ture, at a trifing expense we can hay an abundant harvest of temperanct good morals, and all the blessings ths go hand in hand with them. Don't d st'oy he harUest.