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��ue — that but few men would care to take, and hence we must dodge the sub- ject with the commonplace remark that • we hope the times will be better, that they will soon be enabled to earn the honest dollar of their daddies and be re- lieved from the annoyances and embar- rassments which now surround them.'

THE FARMER.

Those who have read this article to this caption will not expect ' sound ad- vice ' from us in this paragraph, and al- though we should chance to ' hit the ex- act truth,' would be slow to acknowledge it. We will therefore be brief. That farming is hard work is an indisputable fact. That farmers have cares and anxi- eties we will admit. But farming has. to a large degree, been reduced to a sci- ence, and the man who uses the intelli- gence which is easily obtained succeeds better than those in professions and nu- merous other callings, and although he may not have so much ready money, he has that which answers the same great purpose and which is about all the mul- titude can hope for at any time, viz. : 1 the creature comforts.' He is also, as a rule, free from embarrassments; is sub- ject to no man's caprice; is in no fear of a sheriff; can have a holiday now and then without losing his pay.: and il he is a willing man in the l seasons,' may

��place his family beyond the pinching and worryment that come to those who are dependent upon k quick ' or ' glutted ' markets. All these possibilities, with many other advantages — such as distance from the temptations of the grog-shop, the society of dead-beats and loafers, the familiarities of vice, and animosities and jealousies — are less, and why, in view of all that has been said and writ- ten, there is such an unsolved problem as ' How shall we keep our young people upcn the farms?' is beyond our compre- hension. We note, however, that multi- tudes of mechanics, traders and others have become disgusted with the tread- mill of their chosen callings and com- pelled to acknowledge from the ; book of experience ' that the most reliable feeder of the family is the soil, and the farmer who ' means business' quite as honora- ble and more profitable than the average. Therefore, young men, consider well your situation and your opportunity. Let your k air castles' in which wealth abounds be but the dream in the dark. Let your judgment master the situation. Consider that there are more applicants than places, more blanks than prizes, and if you have a gloomy outlook, stick, make it bright, and by your grit and industry make it pay.

��DYER HOOK SANBORN, A. M.

��The writer of this sketch and 1854, a mechanic, working in Hop- kinton. In his frequent visits to the stores and post-office he was accustomed to meet the students of old Hopkinton Academy, with Greek and Latin books, an algebra or geometry in their hands, which they were supposed to be study- ing. Subsequent developments have shown that, in some cases, there was no fact in the supposition. But at that time they seemed to the writer to be of auoth-

��BY REV. SILAS KETCHUM, WINDSOR, CT

was. in 1853 er order of beings.

��Some of them have since become such — eminently. And the supposed ecstacy of their employment, and profundity of their learning, excited ambitions and aspirations which he then had no means of gratifying or promot- ing.

The teacher at that time was Prof. Dyer H. Sanborn. To get him from Tubbs Union at Washington was thought by the trustees and townsmen a consid- erable acquisition. His fame had pre-

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