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east, and nearly Oppoiiile the Wright house.
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series, Queensware, Ilardwnre and Notions, tippositti
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1861-Iy,
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GEES
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"Parmer's - and I rover's !lank." Every style ot
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Sept, 11, 1861-Iy.
GROCERIES & VASOLIETIES.
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Witheheii and Jewelry.
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IWGERS res'oecefully inform his friends and
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• akientbuig. FIE where h e will alwaY4 be
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Dean Alford's Harvest Hymn.
tome, ye thankful people. come,
Raise the song of harvest home:
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the win'ter storms begins
God our Maker cloth provide
For our wants to lye supplied:
Goole to God's own temple,. conic ;
R a i se Ole song of hatted homef
t)urseives are God's ow n . fi e ld,
Fruit onto his praise to yield::
Wheat and tares together sown,
Mit° joy or sorrow grown:
First the blade, and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear:
Grant, 0 Harvest-Lord, that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be
.1 0. PITCIII6
For the ball our God shall come,
And shall take his harvest home:
From his field shall in that day
All offences purge away;
Give his angels chargeat last
In the fire the tears to mkt;
But the fruitful ears to store
In his garner evermore.
Then, thou Church triumphant, come,
Raise the song of harvest home:
All are safely gathered in,
Free from sorrow, free from sin:
There, forever purified,
Jr. God's garner to abide:
Conic ten thousand angels, come,.
Raise tirslgh;rions harvest Lome:
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Gently, nwtl,•c.r, gently,
Clii[le thy little me
'Tis a toile,ome jo.irney
It has just begun:
Many a vale of Sorrow,
Many a rugged step,
Lieth in its pathway,
ALA full oft 'twill weep,
01, then, gently, gently,
Kindly, mother, kindly,
Speak in tender tone;
That dear child. remember,
Echoes back thine own,
Teach iii gentle accents,
Teach in words of love,
Let the softest breezes
Its young heart strings move—
Would'st thou have the setting
Of a gem ino:4 fair,
In a crown of beauty
It were thine to wear?
Mother! train with caution
That dear little one;
Guide, reprove, and ever
Let the work be done
Gently, mother, kin dly,
niutliaittiouo.
The Bishop and the Battle-Flag.
The recent session of the Pittsburg
Annual Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church was characterized by
an incident of patriotic and thrilling in
terest. Bishop Simpson followed the
introductory exercises with a speech an
hour and a half long, without manu
script, in which he held his vast audi
ence of cultivated Christian gentlemen
spell-pound under his discussion of the
four questions—" Shall our Government
be destroyed and swept from the earth ?
Can we be divided into two or more
Governments? Shall we have a new
form of Government? Is not the na
tion to rise out of its present troubles
better, -firmer and mire powerful ? '
During the whole of the address of this
wonderful orator the assembly, in deep '
silence, hung upon his lips, save when
applause was struck out of them as with ;
blows of magnetism. But a scene en
sued in the - delivery of his peroration
that will make this Conference memora
ble to every one who attended it. An
eye-witness says:
" Laying his hands on the torn and
ball-riddled colors of the 73d Ohio, he
spoke of the battle-fields where they
had been baptized in blood, and de
scribed their beauty as some small batch
of azure, filled with stars, that an angel
had snatched from the heavenly canopy
to set the stri e es in blood. With this
description began a scence that Demos
thenes might have envied. All over the
vast assembly handkerchiefs and hats
were waved, and before the speaker sat
down the whole throng arose, as by a
Magic influence, and screamed, and
shouted, and saluted, and stamped, and
clapped, and wept, and laughed in wild
excitement, Colonel Moody sprang to
the top of a bench and called fbr the
Star Spangled Banner, which was sung,
or rather shouted, until the audience
disperse . 1, as it had to disperse."
REMEMINIANCES.—The memories of
childhood, the long, fir-away days of
boyhood, the mother's love and prayers,
the voice of a departed playfellow, the
ancient church and schoolmaster, in all
their green and hallowed associations,
come upon the heart in the autumn'time
lite, like the passage of a pleasantly
remembered dream, and cast a ray of
theit own Otrity and sweetness over it •
WA
Speak Gent!y
SBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1864.
Talks About Health.
DRESS OF OUR EXTREMITIES,
BY DIO LEWIS, IL D
During the damp and cold season
deficient dress of the feet and legs is a
fruittUl source of disease. The head,
throat, and liver are perhaps the most
frequent sufferers.
The legs and feet are far from the
central part of the body. They are not
in great mass, like the trunk, but ex
tended and ,enveloped by the atmos
phere. Besides, they are near the
damp, cold earth.
For these and other reasons, they re
qurie extra covering. If we would se
cure the highest physiological condi
tions, we must give our extremities
more dress than the body. We men
wear upon our legs, in the coldest
season, but two thicknesses of cloth.—
The body has at least six.' Women
put on them four thicknesses under the
shawl, which, with its various doub
rings, fitrnishes several more—then
over all thick, padded furs: while their
legs have one thickness of cotton under
a balloon. They constantly come to
me about their headache, palpitation of
the heart, and congestion of the liver.
Yesterday, one said to me, "All my
blood is in my head and chest. My
head goes bumpety-bump, my heart
( - roes bumnety-bump." I asked, "flow
are your feet ?" "Chnnks of ice," she
replied. I said to her, "If you so dress'
your legs and feet that the blood
can't get down into them, where can
it go'? It cant go out visiting. It
must stay in the system somewhere.
Of course, the chest and head must have
an excessive quantity. S.) they go
bumpety-bump,' au l so th-y must go,
until you dress your legs and feet in
such a way that thev snail their
share of blood. In the coldest s . :l 4) ori
of the year, I leave Boston 14 a bit of
a tour before the lyceums—going as
thr as Philadelphia, and riling much in
the night without an overcoat : but I
give my legs-t wo or three times their
s ell dress. During the coldest weath
er, men may wear, in addition to their
usual drawers, a pair of chamois-skin
drawers with great advantage When
we ridelia a sleigh, or in cars, where
do we suffer' In our legs, of col.r.se.
Give me warm legs and feet, and I'll
hardly thank you for an overcoat.
"My dear madame, you have a head-
ache, a sore throat, palpitation of the
heart, congestion of the liver, or indi
gestion? Wear one, two, or three pairs
of warm woolen drawers, two pairs of
warm woolen stockings, and thick warm
shoes, with more or less reduction in
the amount of dress about your body,
and you will obtain the same relief per
manently that von would derive tem
porarily from a warm foot-bath."
I must not forget to say that .a thin
layer of India-rubber cemented upon
the boot-sole will do much to keep the
bottom of our feet dry and warm.—ln
tkpendent.
We Never Drink
A correspondent of the Bangor Whig nar
rates the following incident, which recently
came under his observation :
'On the stage were seven or eight soldiers
from the Bth Maine regiment—civil, well be
ha-ed, intelligent men, as was apparent from
their conversation. While at the stage
house in Lincoln, there came into the office
a poor old blind man—stone blind—slowly
feeling his way with his cane. He approach
ed the soldiers and said in gentle tones,
`Boys, I hear you belong to the Bth regi
ment, I have a son in that regiment.'
'What is his name ?' 'John —,' 'Oh yes,
we know him well. He was a sergeant in
our company ; We always liked him. He is
now a lieutenant in a colored regiment, and
a prisoner at Charleston.'
For a momeat the old man ventured not
to reply ; but at last slowly and sadly, he
said : 'I feared as much. I have not heard
from him for a very long time.'
Without waiting for another word, these
soldiers took from their wallets a sum of
money, amounting to twenty dollars, and of
fered it to the old man, saying at the same
time: 'lf our company was here we would
give a hundred dollars.'
The old man replied, 'Boys, you must put
it in my wallet for me, fin• lam blind:
But mark what followed. Another indi
vidual in the ro wn who had looked on this
scene as I had, with feelings of pride in our
citizen soldiers, advanced, and said : 'Boys
this is a handsome thing, and I want you to
drink with me. I stand treat for the com
pany.' • I waited, with interest for the re
ply. It came—`No sir, we thank you kind
ly. We appreciate your offer, but we nev
er drink !' The scene was perfect—the first
act was noble, was generous ; the last, was
grand.'
Tits SEA A GREAT CEMETRY.—The sea
is the largest of cemeteries, and its slum
berers sleep without a monument. All
other graveyards, in all lands, show
some symtiol of distinction; between the
great and the small, the rich and the
poor; but in that ooqau-cemetery, the
king and. the clown, the prince and
the peasant, are alike undistinguished.
se-What eaii you get by bad com
pany? If yoAairtruly "obd, they kPrill
either-taont yo 4tiii despise •you.
Milton's Account of the Mann* in
Which he Lost his Sight.
In the works of Milton there are
many affecting references to tne loss of
his sight : a calamity which must have
been extremity painful to a man of his
literary taste and habits. In regard to
the immediate cause of this affliction he
says :
"When I was publicly solicited to
write a reply' to the defence of the royal
cause ; when I had to contend with
the pressure of sickness, and with the
apprehension of soon losing the sight of
my remaining eye ; and when my med
ical attendants clearly announced, that
if I did engage in the work, it would
be irreparably lost ; their premonitions
caused no hesitation, and inspired no
dismay. I would not have listened to
the vo ce ofl , ]sculapins himself from the
shrine of Epidattris, in preference to the
suggestions of the heavenly monitor
within my breast. My resolution was
unshaken ; though the alternative was,
either the loss of my sight, or the de
struction of my duty."
In a letter addressed to Leonard
Philaria, the Athenian, and written in
the year 1654, he thus describes the
manner in which he lost the power of
sight is now, I think, about ten
years since I perceived my vision to
grow weak and dull. In the morning,
if I began to read, as was my custom,
my eyes instantly ached intensely; but
were refreshed after a little corporeal
exercise. The candle which I looked
at seemed, as it were,
encircled with a
rainbow. NOt long after, tile sight of
the left part of the eye (which I lost
some years bofore the other) becam'e
quite obscured, and prevented me from
discerning any object on that side.—
The sight of my other eye lia-; now
been gradc.illy and sensibly vanishing
away for about three sears, Some
n1: 1 / 1 11!,'., LyiOre it entirely perished,
though I :.:ood motionless, every thing
which I looked at seemed in motion to
and fro. A still cloudy. vapor seemed
to have settled on my iltreheal and
temples, which usually occasions a sort
of somnolent pres:ure upon my eyes,
and paqicularly from dittn?r till even
it'll:. So that I often recollect what is
said of the poet I'hineus, in the Argon
anti et :
A stapor tIL-:1> honn,l ,
And when lie walk'd, he seeni'd as whirling
round ;
Or in a feel ~le trance he sleeple6s lay.
Is Man's Stature Diminished ?
Sh:u•h observers notice a tendency in
city life to diminish the size of the hu
man tbrm, but there seems no founda
tion f br the common belief that men have
deteriora'ed from earlier ages, The
Scottish Guardian says:
It is a very common opinion that in
the earlier ages of the world men in
general possessed superior physical pro
portion, and were of a greater size than
they are at present, and this notion of
diminished stature and strength seems
to have been just as prevalent in an
cient times as at the present: Pliny
observes of the human height, that "the
whole race of mankind is daily becom
ing smaller,"—an alarming prospect if
it had been true. Homer more than
once makes a very disparaging com
parison between his own degenerated
eonl emporaries and the heroes of the
Trojan war. But all the facts of the
circumstances which can be brought
forward on this subject tend to convince
us that the human form has not degen
erated, and that men of the present age
are of the same stature as in the begin
ning of the world. In the first place,
though we read both in sacred and pro
lime history of giants, vet they were, at
the time \ellen they lived, esteemed as
wonders, and far above the ordinary
proportions of mankind. All the re
mains of the human body (as bones, and
particularly the teeth), which have been
found unchanged in the most ancient
urns and burial places, demonstrate this
point clearly. The oldest coffin is in
the great pyramid of Egypt, and Mr.
Grcaves observes that this sarcophagus
hardly exceeds the size of our ordinary
cottiMs. being scarcely ,slx feet and a
half long From looking also at the
height of mummies which have been
brought to this country, we must con
clude that those who inhabited Egypt
two or three thousand years ago were
not superior in size to the present in
habitants of that country. Lastly, all
the facts which we can collect from an
cient works of art, from armor, as hel
mets and breastplates, or from buildings
designed for the abode and accommo
dation of men, concur in strengthening
the proofs against any decay in nature.
That man is not degenerated in stature
in consequence of the effects of civiliza
tion is clear, because the inhabitants of
savage countries, as the natives of Amer
ica, Australia, or the SJuth Sea
Islands, do not exceed us in size.
CURE FOR .t FELON.—As soon as
the part begins to swell, get the
tincture of lobelia and wrap the part
affected with cloth saturated thoroughly
with tincture, and the fellon is dead.
An old physician says he has known this
to . cure in scores of cases, and -it never
faibif applied in season.
ikeourtrtirry OR PRAYER---A man
may pray ten times and be denied;
and „yet, by praying ten times more,
obtained the blessing. _Had the Syro
pinecioian woman ceased after making
three applic4tions to Christ she world
have gone sway anty; but; by applying
once more, she Obtained all she asked:
Profanity.
Why will men '•take the name of
God in vain?" what possible advantage
is to be gained by it? And yet this
wanton vulgar sin of vulgarity is evi
dently on the increase. Oaths fall up
on our ears in the cars, and at the cor
ners of the street. The North Ameri
can Review says well: "There are
amongst us not a few who feel that a
simple assertion or plain statement of
obvious filets will pass for nothing, un
less they swear to its truth by all the
names of the -Deity, and blister their
lips with every variety of hot and sul
phurous oaths. If we observe such per
sons closely, we shall generally find the
fierceness of their profanity is in inverse
ratio to the affluence of their ideas.
We venture to affirm that the pro
fanest men within the circle of your
knowledge are all afflicted with a chron
is weakness of intellect. The utterance
of an oath, though it may prevent a
vacuum in sound, is no indication of
sense. It requires no genius to swear.
The reckless taking of sacred names in
vain is as little characteristic of true in
dependence of thought as it is of high
moral culture. In this breathing and
beantiffil world, filled as it were with
the presence of the Deity, and fragrant
with increase from its thousand altars
of praise, it would be no servility should
we catch the spirit of reverent worship
ers, and illustrate in ourselves the sen
timent that the Christian is the highest
style of man."
The Conflagration of the World a
Scientific Possibiliiy.
If we know the velocity and weight
of any projectile, we can calculate with
ease the amount of heat developed by
the destruction of its moving force. For
example, knowing as we do, the weight
of the earth. and the velocity with
which it moves through space, a simple
calculation would enable us to determine
the exact amount of heat which would
be developed, supposing the earth to be
stopped in her orbit. 'We could tell,
fur example, the number of degrees
which this amount of heat would im
part to a globe of water equal to the
earth in size. Mayer and llemholtz
have made this calculation, and fbund
that the quantity of heat generated by
this colossal shock would be quite
sufficient not only to fuse the entire
earth, but reduce it in great part to
vapor. Thus by the simple stoppage of
the earth in its orbit the —elements"
might be caused to "melt with fervent
heat." The amount of heat thus devel
oped would be equal to that derived
from the combustion of fourteen globes
of coal, each equal to the earth in mag
nitude. And if after the stoppage of
its motion, the earth fall into the sun, as
it assuredly would, the amount of heat
generated by the blow would be equal
to that developed by the combustion of
5,601 worlds of solid carbon.
ZgrindturaL
The Life of the Farmer.
[From an address at the Annual Fair of the
Agricultural Society of Greene county,
Sept. 30, 1861. By Rev. Charles Rock
well, 1). D., of Catskill, Y. V.]
The highest hope and ambition of
multitudes of those in large cities is,
that they may live to see the time when
they shall have a home of their own in
the country; if nothing more, at least
A little barn, a little farm,
A little horse to till it ;
A pretty yard, a pretty house,
•
A pretty wife to fill it.
The farmer, on the other hand,' has no
such wish to gratify. Erom his own
land and dwellin: , , he may ever freely
gaze on the broad and living page of
nature, with lessons of heavenly wis
dom everywhere around him. No
-close confinement of workshop or of
study shut him in. No thick dark
clouds of city smoke and noxious vap
ors overhang and surround him, pollu
ting the air, and obscuring the bright
sunlight of heaven. No lofty dwell
ings with narrow streets hide from him
the fare face of nature around. No
dust-laden, heated, stifling air of busy,
crowded rooms weakens or exhausts
him. No noisy din of hammers, nor
whirl '3f wheels and spindles, confuse
the brain, or drowns the voice of reflec
tion within him. For him, more than
others, the sun shines, the pure and
healthful breezes blow, the night dews
fall, the rain descending from the clouds
feeds the mountain springs, and sends
' the leaping rivulets to enrich the plains
below, soothing the spirit by their gen
tle murmurs, or rousing to joys effort
by their ceaseless activity and motion.
For him the glittering rain and dew
drops on the leaf and plant of flower,
like unnumbered gems of brightest ra
diance, dance and tremble in the morn
ing sunlight, as if full of life and joy.
For him the brilliant glories of the
rainbow are painted, by the hand of
God, on th 4 misty curtains of the even
inn- sky. The joyous singing of the
birds of spring is his. For. hini the
flowers breath; their sweetest fragrance,
and the golden fruits of autumn yield
their richest stores. • For him the fields
of summer wave in graceful beauty be
-heath the breath of mourn. and the rust
ling leaves of autumn sing their plain
tive song of ruin and decay.
It is farther true, that he who tills the
earth, as the minister of God, stands be
tween his Maker and his fellow men, to
convey to them rich bounties of Provi
dence. Thesis he the priest at the al
tar of nature, who receives and spreads
widely around him the gifts which God
is ever placing there. So too should the
constant growth, and no less constant
rain and decay which the farmer sees
around him, lead him deerly to feel that
man is frail and mortal, lowly bending,
and quickly hastening to his native dust-
We live on the ruins of the former
generations, and like the grass which
withers and the flowers which fade, shall
soon be mingled with the earth be
neath us. Death is the price of life, and
men, and trees, and plants moulder and
decay, that other men and plants and
trees may live where they died.
Sin has brought us into sad cemmu
nion with the dust on which we tread,
and the monuments which mark our
graves look out upon the fields our
hand. have tilled. By war, famine and
pestilence too, the earth is thickly
strewn and mingled with the dust of the
dead, and the blood of the fallw has
enriched the soil of a thousand battle
fields. Soon we too, like those who
have gone before us, must mingle with
our native dust. The clouds of the
valley will cover us, and those undying
spirits which now give us life and mo
tion, will ascend to Him who gave
them. God grant, that i t u the Harvest
Home of Heaven, the angel reapers, as
a shock of corn in its season may Bath
' er us in, and with us, many whom we
shall have turned unto righteousness ;
for sure indeed is the promise of God,
that "What a man soweth that shall
he also reap ; that "He thaegoeth forth
and weepeth, bearing precious seed,
steal: doubtless come again with rejoic
ing, bringing his sheaves with him."
A Few Maxims for Farmers.
1. The Eirmer who does not return
to his field a dressing more than equiv
alent to the crops gathered therefrom,
is as unwise and thoughtless as it he
would neglect to feed the horse that was
to carry him on a journey. In both
cases diminishing the ability of a faith
ful servant to minister to his wants.
2. The husbandman who obtains
from a field not properly mannred, a
small yield of grain, when by sufficient
manuring he might have obtained a
large one, is selling his labor at halt its
value.
3. In all cases keep the best pro
ducts of your farm, whether of grain or
stock, for your own use, that improve
ment iu each may result therefrom.--
If three poor sheep will bring as much
as one good one, keep the one and sell
the three.
4. Do not permit the remains of
animal or vegetable substances to decay
about your dwelling, but incorporate
them with.the soil or the compost heap,
thereby securing the comfort and health
of your family and adding to the attrac
tiveness of your home.
5. Having things "near enough,"
often causes much trouble. The head
board to farmer se's cart was a little too
short, but it was "near enough," con
sequently it came out in passing aver a
jolt; and with it half the potatoes. The
keys to Mr. Rs wagon thills were rath
er small, but they w ere "near enough"
—so they worked loose, the thills came
out and the wagon and horse got wreck
ed together in going down hill. The
bar to Captain Cc cow pasture was too
short, and yet he thought it "near
euongh"—but it dropped out one day
and the cattle got through and destroy
ed his grain. It is better and cheaper
in the end, even if it does take a little
more time, to have things just right.—
Maipe Farmer.
What Grape Vines to Plant.
A gentleman says: "I want to put
out '2OO vines to raise grapes to sell l i p
the most profit." We advised 20 Creve
lino-, 25 Hartford Prolific, 80 Concord,
30 Delaware, 20 Union Village, 10
Diana, and 15 Allen's Hybrid, and for
the following reasons: The Creveling
is a fair grape, and being one of the
earliest, will sell well on this account
alone. The Hartford is the next earliest,
very prolific, of fair quality, and will
therefore sell well. The Concord will
yield more pounds than any other for
the same trouble and number of vines,
and is also of good quality, so that most
people will buy it also. The Delaware
grows slowly, and does not yield
largely at. first, but its superior quality
will command a good price from a
considerable class of persons. The
Union Village is very large, of fair
quality, and will sell well for its size
alone. The Diana is of peculiar flavor,
light color, and will suit a particular
class of buyers who will pay more• for it
than for the black grape. The Allen's
Hybrid is the most promising hardy
white grape we have, is delicious eating
—the fruit will sell at a high price.
The above list we submitted to a large
meeting of Fruit Growers, and it met
with almost unanimous approval. Two
or three objected to the Diana; with us
it does very well.—Am. Agm'cultarist.
a Agriculturel feeds u‘; ; ti a great
degree it clothes us; without it we
could not have manufactures, and we
should not have commerce. These all
stand together, but they stand together
like pillars in a cluster, the largest in
the center, And the largest is agricul
ture.—{Daniel Webster-
NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6, NO. 22.
"Ten Acres" devoted to vegetable
culture near a city may be a miracle of
plenty, but in the ' outlying rural dis
tricts it is not quite "Enough," though
infinitely better than nothing. A man
with 10 acres of anywise decent land,
need never feed the poor-house, if he
works it well. His family may out
number the nine digits, but there will be .
corn in Egypt for all that.
,
Now we hold that fifty acres of good
land, or that which can be made good,
is enough; unless a man wishes to shams
out his whole life in toil—digging till
his old back is as crooked as a rainbow
—till 11;s muscles crack with the - dim
-
: matism, and his joints snap with artchy-
I osis. Some penetrating genius has dis
covered that man has but one life to
live on cart h—wliy toil incessantly cat'
the bread that perisheth .? In the.
sweat of our brows are we to 'get our
bread, but don't let's sweat iramoder
ately for mammon. ' Enough is all we
can use. We know a snug little from
of 34 acres of cultivated land, and 1.1
of rocky pasture, which yields a preftt
'much larger than any 1.50 acres .we
know of. It upholds a snug little cot
tage of eight rooms, a large barn with
modern useful improvements, 3 acres
of splendid orchard of all valuable fruits, •
half an acre of excellent garden, an acre
and a hall more devoted to carrots, turn
nips and onions—the fences are all
post-and-rail, bushes and reeds are in
external exile, and the whole • place ri*
exceedingly fair to look upon, and to
live on. This man is getting rich by
being thorough in everything. His
hen-house is perfect, his hens lay, and
no droppings are lost His pig-sty is
well supplied with muok and the house
slops run into it. After taking -the
first premitun he puts about six acres of
corn into pork, which makes manure—
his carrots and turnips he puts into.
Led. which makes more manure. Alas:
!lure and thorough tillage are the grand
secrets of ail farming—in New England
at least. This man lives Ivell—no pork .
diet for Lim—he eats turkeys, eats eggs,
eats lambs and the first of his fruits and
herd-, , . He dresses well, rides in a car-; . '
riage, has a good pew in church, and
sends his children to the first institu
tions of learning. His wife isn't work
ed to death, and has a piano iu the par
lor tie pays about ~;, : 30 a wear for
help—visits his neighbors and know*
how to fish. No rich uncle ever, left
him any property—he began life by
owning about half his firm, without
any 'buildings upon it, and ;;,;',5,000 .
would not buy his real estate to day.—
This farmer is no myth ; we know him,
and more m-nute statistics might be
h
gi ven to show that 50 acres isenoug h— e ,
enough unless a man desires to dig and
scrub over a large farm of half-tilted
acres, and perhaps not be any better or
in the end than my easy friend with a
small farm.
It is a fact that a 200 acre farm might
be made equally good, but it is anothev
fact that they seldom arc. Thorough
tillage cannot usually extend over
multitude of acres. Ffty acres of rich
land (it may be made rich if poor now.)
with a sling house in a spacious -yard,
with an abundant fruitage, and every
thing as perfect as a man can make
around it, is a working man's. paradise.
There is a vine wreathed arbor in which
to read his papers or a Summer day
eve, an I behold the sun sink down
through the golden gateways of the
West the while—there is everything
beaatitul and bright around him in the
house and out of doors, and why is it
not all the paradise earth can give?
We hold that a man who makes an
acre of this earth more beautiful or
pa9ductive is doing heaven service, and
if he has not over fifty acres, he can
make it all shine with fruition and beau
ty, ane never ask discount besides.
Why Bees Work in the Dark.
A lifetime might be spent in inveati
gating the mysteries hidden in a bop
hive, and still half of the secrets wottel
be undiscovered. The formation of the
cell has long been a celebrated problem
for the mathmatician, whilst the changas
which the honey undergoes offer at least
an equal interest to the chemist. Every
one knows what honey fresh from tlte
comb is like. It is a clear yellow syrup,
without a trace of solid sugar in it.—
Upon straining, however, it gradually
assumes a crystalline appearance,it 'wa
dies, as the saying is, and ultimately be
nomes a solid mass of sugar. It, has not
been suspected that this change was due
to a photographic action; that the same
agent which alters the molecular, ar
rangement of the iodide of silver on the
excited collodion plate, and detennines
the formation of camphor and iodine
crystals in a bottle, causes the itnney
syrup to assume a crystalline= form.—
This, however, is the case. hi. &hear
ler has enclosed honey stoppered, thadts,
some of which he has kept in, perfect
darkness, whilst others have, been ex
posed to the light. The invariable
,r,e
suit has been that the sunned portion
rapidly crystalized whilst, that kept in the
dark remained perfectly liquid. We
now see why bees are so °arena' to work
in perfect darkness, and 'Why 'they are
so careful to obstnre the glass windows
which are placed in their hives, 'rho
existence of the young depends on the
liquidity of the sacharine food presented
to them, end ifliglit were allowed.nceeso
to this, the syrup would gradually, ac
quire .a more or less solid exmaisteney i
would seal up the cells, and,in all probabit
ity, prove fatal to the inmates of thehive.
fence ;
Fifty Acre& Enough.
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