Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1886 — The Delights of Rural Life. [ARTICLE]

The Delights of Rural Life.

“What a delightful existence it is, Farmer Robinson,” said his city guest; “out here in the country. How crisp the air, and the fragrance of new-mown hay pervades all. I should think you would feel like chanting p&ans of praise to the Creator the year ’round.” “It is sort ’o nice, miss, I grant. But I never feel so much like thanking heaven as I do when I’ve scrimmaged about and got money enough together to pay the taxes.”— Hartford Post. According to Dr. Tipton, of Alabama, the negroes before the war in the South never had phthisis, but now it is the greatest scourge among them. He also says that the negro is rarely if ever near-sighted.