late fortunes in enterprises which are of doubtful, even if any, benefit to soc - 

 ety. The best pay is the lifting of the laborer into the highest and purest life, 

 and in making the world better by its means. Two things have contributed to 

 drive away from the farm a large amount of talent and enterprise which ought 

 to have remained. One is, that farming is not as refined, elevated, honorable 

 a calling, as those of a so-called business or professional character. The other, 

 that it is not a money making, occupation. A better education given the far- 

 mer will materially change this opinion, in two ways, at least. First, he will 

 have a larger and better idea of manhood, and live more in and up to that idea. 

 Secondly, with a just and honorable self-respect be will make his caUiug as 

 honorable as himself, and by increased knowledge and skill make money by 

 it. There is a distinction with a difference between making money and accu- 

 mulating it. In a brief sketch of a citizen of New York, I read this: "He 

 is a gentleman of fortune, and of elegant mien and manners." Elegance of 

 mien and manners is the prerogative of the true gentleman, whether in posses- 

 sion of a fortune, or working honestly to win it, whether on the farm or in the 

 exchange. Nothing is more contemptible than to see littleness and meanness 

 occupying a position that legitimately belongs to and can be properly filled only 

 by an elevated and generous character. No enterprise possesses any special 

 grandeur in itself, but the greatness lies in the great and grand power and 

 genius which it develops in execution. oWby is it more honorable or refined 

 for a man to gamble with gold, or bet on the price ot stocks, than to honestly 

 raise potatoes and with a clean conscience eat them? Why more dignified to 

 teach from the pulpit than from the teacher's platform ? If God calls to the 

 one, may He not to the other ? If He adapts man to the oi*. does He not equal- 

 ly to the other? Suppose that the head should say to the foot, you are not of 

 the body ; is it not therefore af the body ? And I respectfully ask, why is it 

 more refined or womanly to rock one's self in the parlor, than ^o rock the cradle 

 in the nursery ? Or to arrange the drawing room for guests, than to cook the 

 dinner for them ? 



"■ The rank is but the j^uinea's stamp ; 

 The man's the gold for all that." 



And the woman is the diamond set in gold, (or ought to be,) whether in the 

 kitchen, nursery, or parlor. There is money in the business of farming. Giv- 

 en the same genius and adaptation ; equal education and skill ; knowledge of 

 the nature of the business and enterprise ; and the mone}^ result will equal any 

 other staple industry of the country. And no class of people can directly con- 

 tribute so much to the general adornment of our towns and smaller villages as 

 the farmers. A sculptor stood - beside a rough block of marble just depos- 

 ited in his work room. A little boy who was his favored companion saw 

 him standing thus and looking intently at the block, by and by said, "What 

 do you see that makes you look so earnestly ? " He started, then turning to 

 the boy with a smile :" I see a beautiful angel in that marble." "O," said 

 the lad with animation, " can you get it out, and may I see you ? " Months 

 after the boy saw the marble angel, so complete in his eyes that he almost 

 thought that it would fly away. If that artist could not have first seen the 



