Year: 1872

The warm and genial sunshine of q


fully burst spring has gladdened all ma


turf, and Winter retires cross and seowl-


ing over the usurpation of his gentle
cousin. Soon the trees will bud forth,


the blossoms come, and the grass grow


in luxurious green. Even now little


modest flower plants are springing up


from their iee-bound beds, speedily to
bloom and charge the balmy air of
April and May with the fragrance of
their blossoms. As much as the advent
of Winter is welcomed in the warm
gladness and glee of the heart when
the beautiful snow-flakes fall like fea-


theirs plucked from the white wings of


myriads of redeeming angels to hide


the filth and folly of the world, AS


with transitory friends found false, the
hoary headed old sovereign of the sea-
sons is bid adieu with most hallowed
cordiality. Those who rejoiced at his
coming are none the less glad over his
going. The sweet advent of smiling
Spring in the city is marked generally
with peculiarly bustling joy, with
business activity, an awakening out of
the dull sleep of idleness and inertnsss
that Winter puts upon the merchant
and tradesman. The warm sun, the ex.
hilarating breeze, the presence of Gus
TONERS who make a new commence
ment of the year, are circumstances
which blended together make happy
the city merchant and awake him into
new life and activity. But with beau
titul and charming Spring time there
invariably comes into the crowded
marts of trade an element of dissatis-
fed humanity for whom there is no
room-as placards at places of amuse-
ment read, NO standing ROOM" These
are stalwart country boys. They have
been raised on the old homestead farms
of their fathers, and just verging into
manhood, feel that it is nobler to branch
out, on their own accounts, into the
broad and busy world than to
stick to the plow. With q contempt
quite natural, as it arises from familiar
ity with the tedious routine of farm Ia
Dor, they turn their backs upon the no.
BILE work, and resolve to find in the
busy city some more genteel work. In
isolated cases they may succeed in find
ing lighter work, but hunt the world
over they could not obtain more emo
bling labor than the tilling of the soil.
1t is truth that some of our very best
merchants and shrewdest business men
have struggled from the farm to the
city, but per contra il can be asserted
that nine out of ten of the boys who
desert the father on the farm for the
city do not succeed half so we'll rs they
might have done by sticking to the old
folks. There are no truly Independent
sovereigns in this free country of ours
other than farmers. They labor against
few uncertainties and are always sure
that the earth they till will afford them
living. If they have not the question
able luxuries of city life, its constant
excitements, its shallow and soul-per-
verting amusements and sensations, they
have what will compensate for all an
abiding content, peace .and tranquility
of mind. On the threshold of Spring,
before the tide of immigration from the
agricultural districts has fairly COM
menced, we earnestly tell our country
boy friends that unless their discomfort
is uncomfortable that the very best and
wisest thing they can do is to stick TO
the firm