Farm Life For The Aged

It is eft-fri said thut, farm Hfe is hard, and itsirofUs tin uil ; tb ut a. commercial liffl is au Piisy oih, and that it is in thwulks of trade and oomraerce thnt monei is to bo made. Those of us who have ha'1 pppripnce know th:it ihis i not true ; that thou;h itwni work is hard work n' ::i::in sortsons, it ix not BO hard on tl lystem ai tbe constant we of city anri iffipo lifa is; and althóu$h the fiv' Dhanoes i& one hunrlrod of gettilljj om hundred thonund dnliara for on I an'l in years, doos not huppen g oftnn on the farm as in tho counting room, vet figures show that in twtii vean, of one bnndreil farincrfl and ono huadred tnerchants who gtarted life to([ether, tne ooHective worth ■'■' the pro i'rty of the farmers will be flva tínica t'j, ■imount of their meroantile friondi. Nor can it be said that there Ims brpi ■my great recompense in ptcasure to the oitizfin as he goes aloncj. City life is fasninatinsf for awliile, bot it soon p I's ind it is very rare indeed to fin,! a porton who has lived a few years in tho t who dots not pant nftcr a life in tbe ■nnntrv, as, in tbe languag-e nf the Psalmist, tho " hirt pnteth nftt-r the livin; wate -s ;" while not in a thousaud immers who have spent the early part o their lives in the country, wil there bi found one who has the slightest ing after city life. And, after all, what is wealth usually ■ious:ht_for bul that we mi y get a, oom petenoef" so that in the latter en 1 of lifv re may tako the world easy, and enjoj quietly tbc glorióos sun of our existence U il goes down. But "competence" ilone is not all that is required to carry ns through the peaceful valtey. Habits of industry, the lovo of doing gomething - it' it be only a little - is for moro necesBary to the heulthy old man than to tht1 one of iuidJlo uge. There ia notüm which conduces to these exoellent hbitf like the life on a country place ; and it if one oí the greateet inducemoTits to thosc yunng uien wbo are tempted by tho appareot bnlliancy of a city eureer, to remember that oíd age will in all probibility reach them, awd tliat a taying up o a store of pleasure for that timéis quiti as wort h y an oliject as tho getting to ■rethor of money for immediate efiect and show. We have Tiiiown of maiiy wlio bare feit while pursmng mercantile affaire, that il they cotilil only enjoy nature in their advam.'ed days of lito, they wou'd be su premely hippy ; and large nuinhers hav, Hiilfid early and late at their desks to fret raoney that they nsight buy a place in the country when their day of rest came. But when that time nrrived, umi tb' farm was boujrht, there wns no taste left for natural enjoyment. The wmit of cnltivation will as surely destroy the monta! growth as it will the growth of our field?, ind we have peen some of these poiiitea mea wbose lot was melancholy indeed. We hope tbat these remarka may enooin-Hg) tnoe who iuay be inclined to think farm lii'e u. haixl ono, and that it is deprived of the pleasures afid attractions they might find elsewhere Any one will teil them that f'or the decline of life thert is no place like the country ; but to get all the pleasnres from it which it is eapable of giving, we must live up and grow with it. We have boen drawn into these reinarks reading the report of a recent meeting or reunión of some ot' the origi nal uiembers ut' the Massachnaetta Agrioultural Club. It might uot have interested U3 so mach, but we hsppened to know personally inany of the hale, Éwarty sld i'ollows who oompose the association. We questioh very innch whether a mia cclianeous lot of mero city men could ever be brought together of the sami M most ot these are. of the Bauie strengtfa and vigor, physically and ntellet'.tually and who enjoy life - old ttged hfi thoroi.gly as they do; and we know that this bas been brought about 10 a gn at measure by their early and love oí' rural lite.-