The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-09-11

ieeSonaple because she is not satisfied
with a good home and good providcr
an argument is made with him O, IN
SUBJECT his last word usua ly is that sb
ooes not have to work any harder tn
other 1arm women. Indeed, she doe
not, ana there is the pity of it
ALLOW me to sketch an average moo,
FARMERS family In the west-I will sa,
anywhere within two hundred miles o,
.ne missouri river: Tom Miller worked
nara on al Ohio farm from the age of
.weiVc until he was twenty-five. He
.hen married and succeeded in reaching
.ne new lands and in getting his suaT'
'er-scc'ion 'homesteaded' and his so call
ed ha6ltable dwelling built on it,.
When ne swore it in at the land -affina
t-ee.~<s--t}<rlu.yvir nrrnDvscs1 coast sneereds
| That's the way the government is de-
fraudcd;' but hab table or not Mr.
Miller has lived in it ever since. He is
not given to drink, and his only extrava-
| gancc is tobacco. He married a fairly
| good-lookiDg farmer girl in Ohio, and
| she has workt dit would be nearer the
truth to say has 'slaved-on that prai-
rie farm ever since; and how little she
| has had to show for il, Both have
struggled in almost hopeless toll fifteen
years in mud, and sun, and wind, and
rain, and snow. His farm is mortgaged,
his hands are hard all the poetry and
the sentiment of youth have long since
gone out of him, and, worst of all, he
has become used to it."
l. Then he shows the monotony of farm
life, which has sent so many farmers
wives to the insane asylum, while il
made billiards of their husbands. To
cure all this, he proposes that the far
mers of district, five miles square, 10.
cate these dwellings in a central village
where several hundred families would be
grouped. with all the economical intel.
lectual and social advantages of the as
| sociation.
To show these advantages, he goes
somewhat into details, pointing out the
advantage and economy of living where
the division of labor may go on econ
omically. There are some things far
mer must have, though the tools or the
arrangements. for it are more expensive
than one household should be called
upon to buy. They might do the work
Of village, but the isolated farmer must
have them. Among these arrangements
he cites the laundry, the village bakery
and the butcher At the lone farm
house it is hard to get laundry work
done; at the village laundry it may be
done well and cheaply with little trouble.
So with the baking of bread 1t is a
well known fact that farmers have much
less fre'h meat than people in towns or
cities. You cannot kill beef for one
family; so with other meats. For this
village farming the butcher rwouYd al
ways have fresh supply. Much time
Nd expense would be saved in get.555,s..
to tho blacksmith, the doctor or the
store. In the same way as the bakery
the creamery would be great conven-
ience and labor-saving arrapg ement
Then comes the intellectual advantages
of the village community. Mr.. Book
walter saws:
'In an intellectual way the list of pos
sibilities stretches to n great length
The village club and evening school, the
village schoolhouse, the library, the
music hall, and the reading room-why
should not o!i these come as natural pro-
ducts of associated effort? Are we to
believe that there is something in farm
life and work which necessarily forbids
the development of those conditions
WHICH S"cctcI duu bitSllcu human llle
| in most other pursuits? Is the farm er
doomed to have poorer social life than
men of other vocationse Must his fam
ily suffar aven more than. himself? And
must the inevitable questi on be despair
ingly asked, why don't the boys stay
on the farm''
| "The village church being near at
hand and silly accessible, the habit of
attending it would be greatly stimu-
lated; the music and the atmosphere of
quiet mental calm even now make it at
tractive to many not directly influenced
bv religious motives; and surely it is
we'll that religion should call to its aid all
| innocent forces, especially such as effect
the young. In the long catalogue of ad-
vantages secured by the farm village and
its associated energies, many will place
the ouickening of church life as the first.
The habit of minSling together, and the
discussion of public and other questions.
would soon arise with the good effects OF
mental attrition. Ion sharpencth iron,
so a man sharpeneth the countenance OF
his friend"
The West Virginia State Alliance
elected the following Officers: fresi.
dent, r. A. Houston; vice-president, j
r. Thayer; secretary and treasurer, b. J
Parks; lecturer joel Johnson; business
agent, II. NJ. Sidenstryker; representative
TO National Alliance, NJ. Fish. The sec
retary's report showed thirty eight coun
ty organizations, an increase of eigteer
within the year. while there are 500 loca
Alliances, with IS 600 memb'rs ResO
lutions were adopted reatfrming The
Ocala platform; lcaviog the question o!
third party open: favorlng tempe an",
and urging the importance c. farmers
exchange and appointing committee t.
work to that end.
|
Although cars have been generally dis
tributed by the railroads of Illinois, bu
very little wheat is flowing eastwar
from that State. Alliance leaders al
tribut this to the circular sent out fror
Washington advising the farmers to hel