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While there is a part that dwells too much upon the 

 past, yet there is much that has come down with the heir- 

 looms that is worthy of our emulation. While we em- 

 ploy all new inventions that lessen labor in our chosen 

 callings we may ponder with profit upon the lives of our 

 ancestors, who, with lesser means and with ruder imple- 

 ments made their lives successful and their influence 

 salutary upon those who followed them. 



These thoughts are trite, but when we observe the 

 mad rush of life in cities, hearts broken and lives wrecked 

 in the constant reverses of business, it is meet for the 

 farmer to reflect upon his life so near to nature, so near 

 to the things which were dear to his kin, so free from the 

 corrosion of all other pursuits. 



