Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-05-09
Saint NarlIs Beacon.



proofs Of healthy reaction in favor
Of country life and rural pursuits.
"God made the country and man
made the town" 10 q true saying
that will never lose its force. For
there may, at times, be an unnatural
influx Of people to the cities, drain
ing the country Of youth and man
ly strength and productive energy,
but o reaction is sure to come.
When hard times prevail; when
disappointment and despair seize
the honest toiler on the farm, he
begins to think he will have better
opportunity for success in the city.
and of he goes. In nine cases out
of ten the change proves disastrous.
and he who was once the independ-
emit worker in his own fields, az
free and untrammeled as the air be
breathed, becomes the humble en-
ployee of some soulless corporation
IA service exacting in it's demands,
inimical to personal liberty and de-
structive of all the noblest aspira-
ton Of true manhood.
And then he who fed to the city
to escape the horrors Of the country
longs for his old home. He re-
members his JOY as q boy rambling
over the farm, listening to the song
birds and the babbling brooks,
making pets of the young animals,
and enjoying all the many pleasures
of the country boy. Much would
he give to have his own children
participate in the pleasures and en-
JOY the health-giving advantages Of
a home away from the bustliDg
city's din. With his savings, he
buys q small suburban lot, builds
himself a cottage, plants a few
trees and vines in humble imita-
ton of the rural home he holds in
sweetest memory. II, perchance,
the once country boy has met with
commercial or professional success
in the metropolis, and amassei q
fortune, his most natural impulse
seems to be to have his sumptuous
country home, to stock his farm
with improved breeds of cattle, and
lavish his wealth in adding to the
beauties and blessings Of nature.
Thus in every sphere Of life, man
instiuctively seeks the country. He
may not care 20 make it always and
at all times his home, but his life
seems unsatisfactory, his joy in
complete, his recreation imperfect,
unless he can get where the cows
low and the lambs bleat where
noises sometimes cease, and where
with unobstructed views he can see
''the morn in russell mantle clad,
walk Ger the dew"
With the advent of rapid and
convenient transportation, the city
is becoming more and more the
place for business and the country
the place for living. Every year
marks the almost magic appearance
of the hillsldes and in the dales OF
hamlets where the restless popula.
ton of the cities find o semi.rural
condition Of life. The near future
is destined to bring Q greatly in
creased demand for small farms,
and with the small farms will come
greater thrift, higher cultivation,
more scientific methods, better
roads, and proportionate comfort
and pleasure in living in the
country. The day of the large
plantation, requiring q force Of
laborers and boss to superintend
them, is passed-certaiuly except
in sections very remote from cities.
The small farm, fully equipped,
thoroughly stocked, highly ferti-
lized, with its permanent pasture
lots and orchards. with improved
appliances for the dairy aud modern
conveniences for poultry raising,
with bountiful garden, and, lastly
but not least, with ITS attractive,
commodious, convenient and com.
Portable cottage-makes the ideal
home of which poets may sing and
lovers dream. IL the master oil
such o home is q practical farmer
himself, fully informed, as he should
be, in the mlnutie of crop raising,
in horticulture, in the care Of live.
stock, he can with unskilled heir
conduct his business with success
and pleasure. II he works with
intelligence, thrift and frugalisy,
he will always have something to
sell, be thoroughly Independent