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be unwelcome to some, but it will be in the far future 

 when the Yankee farmer yields up his supremacy amidst 

 the hills, dales and intervales of old Essex. 



Washington Irving has painted with loving minute- 

 ness the master of Bracebridge Hall. 



His certain life, that never can deceive him, 



Is full of thousand sweets, and rich content ; 

 The smooth-leaved beeches in the field receive him 

 With coolest shade, till noontide's heat be spent. 

 His life is neither tost in boisterous seas 

 Or the vexatious world ; or lost in slothful ease. ; 

 Pleased and full blessed he lives, when he his God can 

 please. 

 The genial squire lives in real life in every hamlet in 

 this picturesque region of ours, from the serpentine 

 Saugus to the majestic Merrimac. 



The farmers of Essex are not forced to lead isolated 

 lives, as is the case in most rural districts. The steam 

 railroad penetrates every town in the county, save 

 Nahant, and the people there much prefer to be without 

 the luxury. 



In the near future the electric car, both for freight and 

 passengers, will stop at every farm house. This is not a 

 Utopian dream, but a practical scheme, which the Engi- 

 neering Magazine is strongly urging and which is already, 

 so far as passengers are concerned, in actual operation in 

 many towns; and on one line at least, freight cars run. 



The constant passing of cars over city pavements 

 between brick walls is not an unmixed blessing, but 

 stated trips of such cars will be a great benefit to the 

 farmer and his family, especially in those seasons of the 



