The Newtown bee., 1896-01-31

the body" is the beautiful sentiment of our ritual. Let us sketch the home of the gentleman farmer, and take a few lessons from his example. There is thrift and beauty. Trees by the road side, shrubs and flowers in the house. yard, clumps of trees on the knolls in the pasture lands, bits of forest preserved in the backgrounds, lakes and running brooks in the valleys, everything in order and picturesque.
 The farmer comes home from his busi- ness in the city, takes his cane and favorite dog, walks over the farm with quiet sense of freedom and delight. He likes 10 watch the colts and calves grow, he admircs the fields of grain springing up, he enjoys the cream and butter made from the milk of a thousand dollar COW.
 The man who has really succeeded in life and knows what all this world is good for, comes back to the old homestead or seeks some quiet corner of his native town and makes a home for his soul there, even though he feels that at best he is but sciourner here, hastening to 8 better country. "But it takes lots of money to do all that" some one will say, and there is no doubt about that l will agree. It is we'll that we should know what money can do, and it is also well to know what can be done without money.
 Money is very useful and by no means to be despised but intelligence, taste, and a real enthusiasm for rural home life. | will do a great deal without much money. ] In many cases it would cast no more to d. the tasteful thing than the untaSteful.
 The woodpile for instance might be in
 the back yard with as little expense as in the front yard: the broken down cart or
 wagon mighr just aa economically be left
 behind the barn. UT under the shed as by
 the roadside. IC would cost little more to cut the summers or winters wood in
 he woods and leave the clumps of trees
 in the pasture. Is costs no more to have
 buildings painted with colors which bar- monize with each other and with the face
 of the country. The
 PIG.PEN NEED NOT BE ON THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE NEXT TO THE pARLOR
 so far as economy is concerned. There
 are thousand things in which comfort
 and convenience and taste may be com
 bined without the question of expense
 and in reality, the least economy is not
 merely a matter of money, but ques-
 ton of the convenience and health and
 happiness of the family, which give value to all the things we possess.
 There is no good reason why the road sides of farm should be unsightly with
 filthy dtches, rocks rumbled together in confusion, old tin and earthen ware,
 ,hickets of bushes and brars, ruined
 walls topped with crazy rail fences, and
 without reason why the roads should not be smooth a-d hard and we'll drained and cared for so that the farmer can get to market and to church without danger to life or limb, and with espatch and per sOnal comfort. There is no good reason why the farmer should be isolated and ! lonely and unsocial. No body of men in the world has need of any closer com munity of interests. The country makes the city, and supports it. The farmer feeds the world. When his business fails Ill business fails. And yet the farmers
 gre about the last members of the con- monwealth to associate themselves to- gether to protect their interests and inn prove their conditions.
 The home of the soul must have it's social center and the patron of husban- dry finds that center in the Grange where there is mutual interests of the same kind-commercia as well aS intel Iectual and social and moral. Isolated farmers are competitors and enemies to each other, the prey of sharks of trade; farmers associated, with all the mutual aids of intelligence, inventions and ex- perience are a power for good not only to themselves but for the commonwealth and the nation. The time has come when the patron of husbandry must be intelligent. Agriculture is science which demands the highest talent and rhe best devotion of the strongest men. More and more will be exacted in the way of education and skill. of each sue, ceeding generation of those who shall
 ENGAGE TO CULTIVATE THE SOIL,
 More and more it will become the duty and interest of the farmer to fight for the maintainance and improvement of our public schools, as vital element of our free instutlons and national life. The home of the husbandman is comparative ly permanent, and his patriotism in the nature of the case lies at the foundation of all government. When man fails to protect his own home and family he has failed indeed to have any love for his i country.
 believe in our system of public schools 1 because it is an essential factor of our social and political life. Public educa- tion is free to all and is common and mutual benefit to all sorts and conditions of men; and carries with it the sanction and authority and blessing of the state Public education preserves and perfects the state by promoting common intelli- gence, social equality and mutual re- sponsibility of citizenship. Let those who wish to pay, out of their own pockets, tor private or denom national education. do so, providing they give the essential instruction required by the common wealth; but let us as patrons of husban- try see to it that so far as we have any power, the public school is protected and so that each succeeding genera ion may have the best preparation possi- nIa fnr thn dntias If Iiea It |. tAosn :