The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-10-31
HORYICULTURALISTS
Hold a Meeting of Rare Enjoy
ment and Great Benefit
AT FARMER SHAFFERS.

day, October 10.
About one hundred members and
friends of the society met at the beautiful
farm home OF Andrew J. Shaffer, near
Freeburg, and inaugurated day of pleas
ure and profit. No session was held before
dinner, but after about seveny-fve people
had done ample Justice to the great feast,
and the hour for the afternoon session had
arrived, in the absence OF the president and
vioe-president Father James Bayllss,
nearly SO years old, and charter MEM
bcr Of the society, was called TO the chair.
Reading of minutes was omitted.
J. ". Teeters andWllliam Shaffer were
appointed to collect membership fees.
COMMUNICATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE.
The secretary read communication
from Secretary W. W. Farnsworth, of the
State Horticultural Society, with refer
snoe to the meeting TO be held by the
State society in Canton on the second
Wednesday and Thursday Of December
S. II. Rockhill,J. +. Roth and G. A.
Krider were appointed to make all
arrangements for the meeting.
BY vote of the society, Mr.. Harvey
Slusser was asked to prepare an essay,
ON some practical horticultural topic to
be read at the state meeting.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE.
A. McGregor read the following report
In memory If our deceased member j. A.
Borst:
The death Of ]. A. Borst has made
another gap in our membership that will
no soon be filled. We all realize the loss
and will long hold him in grateful re.
membrance. He was man of energy and |
devoted his efforts to useful pursuits |
causing the desert to blossom and pro.
duce to benefit mankind. His example |
had its salutary influence and induced |
neighbors to follow the same and profit |
thereby. In all this our deceased friend |
was q model for his fellow man and
hence is worthy Of honorable mention not |
to say praise Our friends special field |
was the cultivation Of celery, veget-
able that has been Of late growing in pop
ularity and getting more and more into
general USE It Is universally acknowledged
NJ most healthful article OF diet anu
Its cultivation Is likely to continue TO OK.
tend. The writer hereof well remembers
the unseemly marsh near Greentown that
no one seepcu 20 think Of 0fimprovlng until
hr ,Borst undertook the task. 1t took
much labor and some two or three years
of time to get the soil ready for growing
celery But in time II was an eminent
spocess and all who looked upon 1t saw
and realized. Here was another example
Of finding at home occupation and wealth.
Oftentimes mankind rush away to search
for the diamonds that are lying about
home and in abundance. Mr.. Borst's
career furnishes valuable lesson In this |
respect a lesson that should not be lost |
OH those of us who knew and appreciated |
the man. He has left valuable inherit |
ance to his heirs that with proper care
will continue to give good returns. The
number of acres in celery this season In
Mr.. Borst's grounds is about one hundred
and gives great promise and Is assuredly
sight of beauty.
We therefore recommend the adoption
Of the following in honor Of our excellent
and worthy friend and as an expression
Of sympathy with the widow and trends;
Resolved, That in the death Of j. A.
Borst this society looses a valued, useful
and worthy member, his neighborhood a
good and useful citizen, and his wife and
offspring a kind husband and father
Let us long cherish his memory and ap.
probate his example
A. McGregor
j. +. Roth.
Marsh Hicklen read the following
ESSAY:
We can all do little better than we
have been doing
This remark applies to every depart
nent of human effort. In our struggles
TO secure the means Of material support,
In our labors in the field of intellectual
research, in our striving for the greatest
moral excellence, in our aspirations to-
wards the highest spiritual good, the same
law of progress prevails, the same oppor-
tunity Is afforded for advancement TO-
wards better conditions, greater achieve
ment and higher development Of all the
faculties of our nature.
1t has often been said that man Is the
creature of circumstances, that his present
condition is the result of the circum-
stances of his birth, his education, and all
his environments. Conceding the truth OF
this proposition, that we are very largely
controlled by circumstances, 1t does not
follow that we can make no advance; it
does not close to us the avenues of prog
ress. For progress Is "a law of our being
and the elements of growth are inherent
in our nature. All our powers may be
strengthened by cultivation and exercise.
Even the will power, the great propell-
ing force of our nature, one Of the main
elments of success in all our efforts, is
subject to growth, and may be cultivated
and strengthened as all our endowments.
The old saying so often repeated, that
where there is a will there is way, IL not
strictly true, yet it is certain that strong
will often makes its way, and surmounts
obstacles before which a weaker nature
would sucoumb. 1t is true that we cannot
make radical change in our nature, we
cannot Immediately raise ourselves much
above our present condition. All such
Improvements must be by growth, as
can only be made within comparatively
narrow limits. 1t is impossible for the
average man or woman to become graet
statesman, a great scientist, reat phi
losopher, or minister Of the gospel, or to
distinguish himself In any OF the oallings
or profess. ons Of life. For as has been
remarked by an eminent minister the
mass of the people cannot from the
nature of the case be distinguished, for the
very idea OF distinction il that a man
stands out from the multitude. What we
claim is that we can all make some ad-
vances beyond our present condition In
all our relations. No persons possessed of
sound mental organization are so low
that they are incapable of making some
Improvement In their habits their intel
lectual capacity their sense of moral obli-
CATION or their ability to dicharge all the
duties OF life; none are so far advanced in
intelligence, In moral elevation or in
spiritual unfoldment that there are not
greater heights 70 which they can aspire
And every step we take In any branch OF
human progress prepares the way for