The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-22
.Haefspu gate!tigenter.
The Advantages Of the Farm.

The Advantages Of the Farm.
"Well, fhave at last traded my place
il the city for q small farm twenty-five
miles zout-on the.railroad."
So spoke man ffty-twc years of age
to the writer. he had lived in town all
his life. He had always been sober and
industrious, and while he had not acquir.
ed much property. yet he had by indus.
try and frugality, managed to secure for
himself and family a home in the great
:city.SA place worth, perhaps. four; or.
five thousand; dollars.
BUTT vas vas a home only in name; a
place to stay. A fairly commodious
house, a small front yard with a little
grass, q few flowers and tree or two,
and the bare back yard with the usual
out. houses.
The speaker was q man Of average
intelligence, strictly henest and upright:
He had ne4ef FLIED any very important
position, but had always held q subor.
dinate cIerkahip or bookkeeping job,
with a fair salary attached. just such a
place as thousands of other good, honest
and faithful men occupy in the great
Cities;
This man had brought up family Of
;childsen within the small space of ground
. he called home, and had managed to
fairly educate them. The children had
done Only fairly veil, however. The
boys, reared in town, had turned out
S''fast." and one,u physical wreck at an
early age: had come. back to his father
for financial aid and support. One ofthe
daughters had married unfortunately, and
lshe, with two or three children, had also
returned to the parental roof.
: These misfor;aaes, with advanced
years and failing strength, made the
father feel that his burden was getting
too great for him to bear. He felt that
he must fnd a cheaper place to live, and
place where all might work and by
their.labor help him to bear tho bur-
der.
His place in town yielded him nothing
but his rental. It was worth to him
what q similar place would have cost
him in rent; simply that and nothing
more. s3sss +. Is. VI
There was mo soil to yield its harvest,
no fruit to gather and no live, stock to
increa SO and multiply as the months and
years rolled by. This was three years
ago. But only fen days ago the
same gentleman met the writer and
said
aI feel now that am living, and my
only regret:is' that.I did not go to the
country twenty .fyo years ago instead Of
three.
"Peter this sony has nearly .egained
his health, and he does all he can to help
me. Atpresenl he is in town peddling
raspberries. We have ine, large patch
of this fruit. Most; Of the vines were on
the place when we traded for it."
he went on for some time, speaking Of
the advantages Of farm life, naming his
two mares and their colts and his pair
of mules, of the fine yield of milk and
butter from his grade COWS. How every.
body aand the cook" we're kept busy on
the farm.
He said he, did not give up his posi-.
)tion in town, but still held it, going back
and forth on the train morning and
evening, but that he thought he would
quit town life. entirely in "a short. time.
Said he's a.s ;,.5 i s ii..i. IS j
'sIt was 'go.to the country OF go to the
poor house, and I'm mighty glad I went
when I did" 55ss
NOT one man IN twenty-five IN the CITY
does better than this man did, as regards
salary, property, etc, and yet be realized,
.asihe grew older, that he must have sup.
port other than his own enfeebled
strength, and be, wisely turEed TO the
country 10 find it. -
The writer was born on farm, raised
on farm and thanks God for it. In
later life he has been through the mill and
seen the elephant, but he now pays taxes
| on q farm, and the Lord willing, shall
end his days on q farm.
City life is a shan, and hollow mock
cry. There is some good in it, but the
good is hidden SO deeply, is 50 encrusted
with vanity and pretense and false theo.
ries and ideas, that the heart that is long.
ing for the real, the good and the true,
together with the brightness and fresh.
ness ofnature, must turn to the country
to find It'll. B. G., in Southern Cult
GATOR.