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FARMER JOHN.
BY J. T. TROWBRIDGE.
Home from. his journey Farmer Johny} ii
Arrived this morning safe and sound.
Hig black coat off, and his old clothes on,
“Now I'm myself!” says Farmer John ;
And he thinks, ‘I'll look around.”
Up leaps the dog: “ Get down you pup!
Are you so glad you would eat me up?’
e old cow lows at the gate to meet him ;
“Well, well, old Bay!
Ha, ha, old Gray!
Do you get good feed when I am away ?”
“You have not a rib !”’ says Farmer John,
“The cattle are looking round and sleek ;
The ool is going to be a roan,’
4 beauty, too, how he has grown! |
Won Wen thie calf next week SYR £14
Says Farmer John, ¢ When I’ve been off,
To call you again about the trough, i]
And swateh you, andl pet! you, while ‘youl
drink, :
Is a greater comfort than you can think!”
And he pats old Bay,
..1 And he slaps old Gray ; J
‘““ Ah, this is the comfort of going away!
‘*For'after all,” says Farmer John, ' * '
‘‘ The best of a journey is getting home.
I’ve seen great sights; but would I give
This spot, and the peaceful life I live,
For all their Paris and Rome?
These hills for the city’s stifled air,
And big hotels all bustle and glare,
Land all houses, and roads all stones,
That deafen your ears and batter your
bones?
Would you, old Bay ?
# “Would you, old Gray ? vi
That's what one gets by going away 1”
‘““ There money is king,” says Farmer John,
‘“ And fashion is queen; and it’s mighty
ueer ;
To see how sometimes, while the man,
Raking and scraping all he can,
The wife spends every year,
Enough you would think for .a score of
, Wives,
To keep them in luxury all their lives!
The town is a perfect Babylon
To a quiet chap,’’ says Farmer John.
‘“ You see, old Bay,
© “1 Yon see, old Gray, ;
I’m wiser than when I went away.”
“I've found out this,”’ says Farmer John,
¢ That happiness is not bought and sold,
And clutched in a life of waste and hurry,
In nights of pleasure and dayk of worry;
And wealth isn’t all in gold,
Mortgage and stocks and ten. pei cent.
Few wants, pure hopes, and nobie ends,
Some land to till, and a few good friends
Like you, old Bay,
And you, old Gray,
That’s what I've learned by going away.”
And a happy man is Farmer John,
0, a rich and happy man is he;
He sees the peas and pumpkins growing,
The corn in tassel, the buckwheat blowing,
And fruit on vine and tree;
The large, kind oxen look théir thanks
As he rubs their foreheads and strokes their
flanks ;
The doves light round him and strut and
00.
Says Farmer John, ‘I'll take you, too,
And you, old Bay,
And you, old Gray,
Next time 1 travel so far away !”’ |
—New York Tribune.
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LET IN THE SUN! To
‘‘Blest power of sunshine, genial day !
What balm, what life are in thy ray !
To feel thee is such real bliss,
That, had the world no joy but this,
To sit in sunshine calm and sweet,
It were a world too exquisite :
For man to leave it for the gloom,
The deep cold shadow of the tomb,”
Moore.
Few, very few, properly estimate the
value and potency of the full force of
the sun. The sunbeam is the most im-
portant beam in a structure designed for
the abode of animals, whether it be a
dwelling, a stable, a sty or a kennel.
Yet how often do we see. it as carefully
excluded from the dwelling as if its gen-
ial, balmy and vitalizing influences on
the lower order of animals were unimpor-
tant! A truthful exposition of the sad
consequences of the exclusion of the
sun from dwellings, would astonish those
who are ignorant of the fact, that from
this cause thousands have suffered, and
hundreds have died outright. In de-
signing both dwellings and ‘abodes for
domesticated animals, I make it a point
to provide most liberally for the admis-
sion of the direct rays of the sun, and
endeavor to impress on the minds of my
clignts the great importance and econ:
or ‘of this\much- neglected" feature in"
such structures. I have carefully observ-
ed the influence of the sun on both
plants and animals for a period of more
than forty years, and am thoroughly
convinced that the hygenic influence of
fhe sun on both can scarcely be overra:
ted.
By observing the development of trees
on the margins of woodlands, it may
readily be seen that the profusion, vigor,
and brilliancy of foliage is strikingly
greater on that portion of them enjoying
the fullest degree of sunlight. The same
influence is visible on the standard trees.
The north side is almost invariably
dwarfed more or less, for the want of just
what has occasioned a more vigorous
growth on the sanny aspects. The effect
is especially observable on fruit trees, in
both foliage and fruit; the latter is bet-
ter developed, and richer in flavor and
color,
This influence is no less striking in the
department of Flora. The maximum
richness of tint and fragrance is depend:
ent on a proper degree of sunlight,
How great is the contrast inf the ap-
pearance of peasant children, rdared in
the open air, with bare heads and feet,
and often half-naked bodies, all well
sun-bronzed, when compared with that of
children reared in fashionable, sunless
affluence, enveloped in furs and flannel
from crown to sole—the pale, puny spec-
imen of parasol production ! :
The same effects of solar influence are
equally visible on animals of the lower
orders. Young chickens and turkeys
kept from the sun will be dwarfed, their
feathers will stare, their appetites will be
feeble, they are subject to disease; and
are generally infested with vermin, pre-
senting a striking contrast, when com-
pared with those of the same age, that
have enjoyed the genial, invigorating
effect of the great vitalizer.
The very great economy derivable
from solar heat in dwellings, and in
abodes for our animals, if availed of in
the fullest degree, well compensates for
the slight additional cost of glazed walls.
The fear of fading carpets by sunlight, is
giving to many a luxuriant dwelling the
gloom of a prison, and giving support to
a hoard of doctors, who gither know not;
the cause of the non‘hygenic condition
of many households on whose misfor-
tunes they live; or knowing the cause,
selfishly withhold an explanation of it
from the unfortunate slaves of fashion.
Thousands of as promising children as
ever were born, have been hurled into
untimely graves by maladies produced
and intensified to fatality by depriving
them of those freest gifts of heaven, pure
air and sunlight, and such wholesale
ents are ignorant of the true and all-
essential influences of those vitalizing
elements.
God speed the day when that dark ig-
norance shall be banished by the light of
lights, and when died for want of sunlight
would, if embraced in them, cease to be
the truest line in infantile elegies.—/J.
WiLKINSON, Baltimore, Md., in Country Gen-
tleman. .
Strat minim tet) Eterm
A FarMER complains that a hook and
ladder company has been organized in
his neighborhood. He states that the
ladder is used after dark in climbing into
the hen-house, after whieh thé hooking
18 done.
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Easy keeping an orchard when nobody
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DEALERS IN
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