Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1880 — NEIGHBOR JONES. [ARTICLE]

NEIGHBOR JONES.

!*■ «tfe, of Neighbor Jones, the man with the atahrartana— Be Brea ta peace and plenty on a forty-acre When aaeai are sU sronnd aa wttfc toerte and hands naore. Who ova two hundred acres, and still are wanting more. He has a pretty ttttte farm, a pretty little He has a doring wife within, as quiet as a His phty around the door, their father' i heart to chans. Looking just as newt and tidy as the tidy Uttle farm. ' c T / \ . Ho weeds are in tbh cornMd, no thtotlas in the oats; I The horys show good keeping by their toe The ’meadow, resting 'neath thebeeehen shade, Leswnall their gentle manners from a gentle milking maid. Wtthin Um fleM on Saturday be leaves no x- To the morrow, for fear of cominf rain; He livre infoy and gladness, and happy are hte days; He keeps the Sabbath holy, his children learn his ways. He never had a lawsuit to take him to the For tbs very simple reason there are no fences down; The bar-room in the village for him has not a charm; • I can always And my neighbor on his forty-acre farm. His acres are so few that he plows them very “Be htsown hands that turn the so<L- ‘tis hfs own hands that reap; He baa a place for everything, and everything in place; The sunshine smiles upon his fields, content* x meat oa his fees. Hay we not learn a lesson, wife, from prudent neighbor Jones, And not sigh for what we haven't got-glve vent to sighs and gruansf - The rich aren't always happy, nor free from But blest are*t'hnte who live content, though instil may be their farms. Atlanta tGa.i Constitution.'