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THE FARMER AND SOLDIER.
"I have been reading the life of Alexander of Macedon, and also a good deal about Napoleon Buonaparte. I think they were the greatest men that ever lived. There is nothing in this world, like the glory of the warrior."
"It does not seem to me glorious, to do so much harm. To destroy multitudes of innocent men, and to make such mourning in families, and so much poverty and misery in the world, is more cruel than glorious."
"O, but then, John, to be so honored, and to have so many soldiers under your command, and the fame of such mighty victories, what glory is there, to be compared with this?"
"James, our good minister told us