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 DOES IT PAY A CITIZEN 
 TO TURN FARMER ? 
 
 (Reprinted from the Mirror.) 
 
 NO ! certainly not ! WHY 1 Well, that must be quali- 
 fied before answering. Does it pay a man brought 
 up in the bush all his lif*^- to turn citizen, and to start watch- 
 making, upholstering, cabinet-makino:, type-setting, tailoring, 
 shoemaking, or any other of the skilled trades ? Do you for 
 a moment think it would p&y him 1 Oh, but a citizen knows 
 all about flowers, lettuce, and onions, and lots of things 
 about farming, and why should not the farmer know all about 
 city life ? So he does He knows how to monkey around 
 with a monkey wrench and a glue pot. But if a farmer comes 
 to the city with $200, starts a business and employs labor, 
 his ^200 will disappear in no time. The more labor he em- 
 plays the sooner will his capital go. Shakespeare tells us not 
 tofiy from the ills we have to those we know not of. If every 
 man expects an extreme change to pay, some are certain to 
 be disappointed. If you have played the fiddje eight hours a 
 day for twenty years, you will easily beat a man just begin- 
 ning, and it will take him a long time to catch up to you 
 to make it pay. 
 
 By the way, do you know why it is called a monkey wrench? 
 No. Well, the man who invented it was called Monck, and 
 folks change it to monkey as it is more easily pronounced. 
 . Anything for ease in this life. Did you ever notice a boy 
 selling newspapers on the street, how his voice goes up and 
 down like a song 1 Well, that'B for ease. One long pitch is 
 a very hard strain on the throat ; therefore they sing it out. 
 We are all on the search for ease The gaols are full of folks 
 that went in search of ease. A man willing to lay one dollar 
 on the top of another, diligently plodding along, is seldom in 
 gaol. Ninety out of a hundred are trying to make a dollar 
 

 mare easily than by digging in a ditch for it, still, you must 
 not think people are naturally b*d, as some think. You offer 
 a man that makes a living by thieving $9 a week, a tolerably 
 decent job, and see if he will not accept it. Of course, we are 
 all naturally discontented, This is a good job. If we ware 
 all contented, we would be dressed in bear skins, n.nd living 
 in mud huts instead of brick houses, with organs. 
 
 Well, why do you stay at farming, if it does not 
 pay you ? Ah, now you ve struck it. I am not so 
 very anxious about the paying part of if!? and that's the 
 secret. But here is where I am enjoying it. I have no rent, 
 firing, water or food to buy. An occasional dollar buys what 
 I would call unnecessaries. I rise when I like and lie down 
 when I like. I work when I like, and if T sell my surplus 
 produce, it is b^^cause I do not want it. • My good lady goes 
 wandering round her garden, weeding and planting, or sits in 
 the rocker in the porch reading her book. Animal and vege- 
 table are year after year producing so many fold after their 
 kind. T have all the land I want. I can get more if I 
 want it for fifty cents or a dollar an acre. Among good in- 
 tellectual neighbors, who have their organs, pianos^ guitars, 
 and banjos, their books, magazines, a.nd newspapers, who can 
 play and talk, and who have sense enough to be good lis- 
 teners in their turn, I enjoy life. I do not see the sense of 
 breaking up home, selling off, and going thousands of mfles 
 away from fwends, amongst Poles, Hungarian?, Esquimaux, 
 Finns, or honest Injuns. Did you ever think of the serious- 
 ness of the thing % Let us hear what you would do with your 
 wife and children at a wayside station twenty, thirty, o r even 
 fifty miles away from your land — land that you have bought 
 on paper but have never seen ? How do you find your land 
 Who goes to show you ? How much will you have to pay to 
 have it just shown to you, and how much to get your family 
 on to it ? When you get there, what then ? Why, when you 
 see your neighbors, oh, my ! And how are you going to live ? 
 You run to a large town and get work at any wage you can 
 get. You want $15, what ^ou have been getting, but you 
 take $7, for you are dead broke. That is the* secret of the 
 low wages of the present day. Of course, your money has 
 gone to support non-producing real-estate agents. They are as 
 thick as taverns everywhere. For my own part, I hav3 no 
 
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 land to sell for myself cr anybody else. Thave no axe to grind 
 in that form. 
 
 Naturally, we all like plenty of neighbors. There is room 
 
 in this world for every one. Billions of acres are waiting for 
 
 man to till. In.Ponsonby, where I am staying, about GO or 70 
 
 : miles or less from Montreal, there are upwards of 300 vacant 
 
 V lots, 100 acres each, at about 50 cents an acre. What cheaper 
 
 ' land do you want? There are hundreds of merchants and me- 
 chanics in Montreal who have their summer lots of 1 00 acres 
 
 * there, where they rusticate, plant fruit trees, etc., not knowing 
 the day they may decide to settle down from the worry of city 
 business. There are, too, to my knowledge, many men in this 
 
 ' neighborhood who could get their |15 a week if they went to 
 the city, but they won't move from here. I know many who 
 have come back from Manitoba with the last }i?200 or $300 
 saved from the wreck, but who are as well off to-day as princes 
 or lords. One old man has fifty sheep ; he gets one or two 
 
 : lambs a year from each, worth $4 in their season. What more 
 does he want ? He has ho trouble with them. They feed 
 themselves, and if they need a little care from him he does 
 not grudge it. They are grateful creatures, — more so than 
 cousins or nephews, nieces or aunts, or friend' generally. 
 - You break up your home, go thousands of miles away, and 
 you are not able to come back. There is an old saying and a 
 true one, "Never reach your arm out farther than you can 
 draw it in again" Of course, the farthest away hills look 
 always the greenest ; but bread and butter first, poetry next. 
 It would cost you more to take your organ to the west than 
 you would buy a farm near Montreal for. You can go and 
 - ' come yourself, leave the family till you see the way to reach 
 your' arm out full length ; never lift one foot till you have 
 fastened the other. Ho, for Ponsonby; plenty of room, as they 
 .w/ in the street cars : "Room for one more ; push up there!" 
 
 "^Jubt you start for Montebello, on the C. P. R. It is about 
 sixty milos from Montreal, and it is a quaint little village. 
 Start, say, two, four, or six of you together. Take with you 
 soma biscuits and canned food, a drinking cup, and some smaM 
 change. Start from Montebello, and walk or drive about 
 eighteen or twenty miles through primeval forest, skirt lakes, 
 crops streams, hills and valleys. You will find it the prettiest 
 walk you ever had. Soon the rail will be within six miles ; it 
 
 
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 is being laid. Call on the School Secretary, W. Wilson, 
 at the first house pa^^t the Post Office, or on the Town- 
 ship ii^cetary, T. Chambron. They will tell you what 
 lots are for sale. They know who are behind with taxes, the 
 non-residents, etc., or they can show you Government lots for 
 sale. They will charge you $2 a day to pilot > ou round and 
 show you the lots, and if tnere are four of you it will only 
 c (it you fifty cents a day each. Th^t won't brea^ you. If 
 they cannot go, th-ey will find some othey qualified person to 
 go with you. 
 
 Ponsonby is full of everything a man needs ; of timber, 
 there is beech, tamarac, pine, maple, spruce, oak, — in fact, 
 nearly every tree you can mention. Lake, stream, rock, hill 
 and dale, beaver meadow, and rolling upland — you can choose 
 what suits you. And you do not buy a pig in a poke either. 
 And when you return from your trip, I doubt if you 
 will find that it has cost you a five dollar bill. We 
 have two saw-mills, planing mills, grist mills, four or 
 five post offices, s^chool-house8, and Little Bethels in ga- 
 lore of every creed and denomination. They even have a 
 Protestant Dissenting School. Whal> that is I don't know. 
 Perhaps the Editor can tell us ; they are generally walking 
 cyclopedias. But good bye. I must catch the train for 
 Montebello. My boy is waiting there to leisurely drive me 
 home free from care. Ta, ta ! 
 
 Stay a minute, you say? Well? But are we not dread- 
 fully dull in tht wintertime? Why, no. We have more 
 company than we vant both summer and winter. People 
 here have so much time on their hands that they do not know 
 what to do with it, therefore they visit. Why, I have seen 
 some fools drive ten miles to get a bottle of whisky, and teu 
 miles back, making twenty miles. How many of you boaste 
 citizens can afibrd to waste that amount of time and energy 
 on such a frivolous matter ? Could you do it ? Not much. 
 Yet some of these m^ n would not take $1,000 for their little 
 farm. How many of the common chumpy workmen will you 
 find who have a bank-book or a house they would not take 
 $1,000 for ? Hp, ha !' Farewell ! All aboard for the Ottawa 
 train ! So my droll friend was gone, and I am itching to 
 follow him. 
 
 
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