Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1890 — FARMERS HAVE AN EASY TIME. [ARTICLE]

FARMERS HAVE AN EASY TIME.

An Ohioan Who Envies Their Lot as Compared with That of Business Men. A tired man of business was going homeward on a Columbus street oar the other evening, and, moved, perhaps, by his fatigues and cares, said to a friend: “The farmers are often supposed to be the class of all others in the general community who have a hard time and little pleasure. I think that a great error of judgment on the part of those who study the condition of mankind. We who live in cities may have more amusement, and on the whole more comfort, but we do not have the peace of mind that is the farmer’s most valuable possession. They have no cares like business men; they do not lie awake at night thinking of the business of the next day. “A farmer has his daily work, and after that Is finished he is free until the next day. They have hard work, with the accompaniments of pure air, refreshing and dreamless sleep, and general indifference to everything exoept the weather and the crops. No, indeed; a business man may have pleasure, amusement, and many comforts, but mentally and physically the majority of farmers have an easier time.