The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-27
or Ye 0lden Times Furnished by
One Who Grew UP in a
Pioneer Home.
Incidents Illustrating Customs of
the Early Settlers of the
County Are Entertain
lngly Reeounted.
[continued from last week.

nate and unaccountable that so many
men, both married and single, who
we're raised on farms and had never
shown any signs of business talents
except that along lines of agricul-
ture, (which by the way requires
intellect of high order to succeed
the best) yields to the temptation, by
promise of higher wages, to leave the
farm and go to large towns or cities,
where the main opening for them is
to entertain the street car service.
Where, instead of the beautiful
songs of the birds and the merry songs
and whistle and laughter of the labor.
er in the fields, he hears nothing from
morning till late bed time, but the
clatter, clatter of the machinery and
the chatter, chatter of the multitude
around him, of whom he knows moth
ing and cares but little. All such,
soon find that their work leaves them
much less time that they can call
their own, than they found on the
farm, as their crops we're maturing.
They alec find that rents are so
very high, that If married, they are
compelled to take rooms in second or
third stories on some narrow dark
street In which to shelter their wives
and little ones, which could never In
the future be looked back upon and
remembered with pleasure by his
beloved family.
And If the expense could be afforded
be could but seldom find the time to
take them even for street car ride
out into the subbur bs to obtain little
Of the pure air, which they had almost
entirely been deprived of since leav.
ing their country home.
And live as economically as posi-
ole, he could snare but little of his
earnings to spend on the numerous
attractions all around them, which,
with the promise of higher wages, had
peen temptations too great to be re-
ss'ed, and had caused him to fOrsake
he profitable and delightful and
Iealthful vocation Of farming, and 60
u the city, where too many are livirg G
Il starvation rates, both physically
ma mentally, for they do not find the
rime TO read and gain information
hey found while farming
To all such the cry should be raised
md IL should be echoed by all whC
love humanity, and especi lily by al
Who love children, to go back to the
country and 90 TO tilling the fallov
fields again, even If you have to do il
as a tenant, for there the pure air il
As free to you as to the wealthies'
land owner. And there you and YOU
family could fad many leisure hours
To spend together And there you
could ofTord an abundance of pure anC
wholesome milk and butter aud frest
vegetables, and the dear little child
rem would have all outdoors TO plal
in and be as free and happy as thu
birds.
The country Is the natural plac,
for man, and he obt aims more strength
and vigor and real pleasure from
direct contact with the soil of mo tn
er earth than in any oth'r way Blu
he necessity and advantages of town
and cities should not be disparaged
We must nave them with their might
marvellous industries and gloriou
churches and benevolences and gran
institutions of learning, libraries
etc and also their numerous place
OF fine innocent amusements, whlc
are as necessary as the industries
And when men are certain they hav
the qualifications and inclinations t
warrant them In expecting success
they are justified in leaving the farm
and going to some town or city an
engaging in some business or profet
sion, and it Is these country me
generally, who are the most success
full ones.
All such men, (of Highland county
at least,) who are contemplating RI
moving into some town, would b
wise to select their beautiful, health
full and prosperous county seat, Hills
boro, in preference to some city
Here the best of houses with a
modern improvements can be bough
or rented on reasonable terms, hay
ing large gardens, chicken parks an
large yards, with 80 many fine fores
trees all around and In front of th
houses, 80 as 10 almost hide them an
giving our town the appearance of
lovely forest such as Is delight
every man and woman, who has a
appreciation for the grand and beal
tiful, whether they we're city {
country bred
ITO be CoRtinued.l
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