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WHOLE NO. 950
MIL.TOX S L.AST POEM.
The following poem is from the Oxford edi
lioa of Milton's last works:
I am old and Mind !
Men point to me as smitten by God's frown.
Afflicted, and deserted by my mind;
Yet I am not cast down,
I am weak; yet dying
I muTniir not that I no longer see;
Poor, old, and helpless, I the mora bolong.
Father supreme, to T hee.
Oh Merciful One!
When men are farthest, then thou art noar;
"When men piss coldly by my weakness shun, .
Thy chariot I hear !
Thy glorious face
la leaning toward mo, and its holy light
Shines upon my lonely plae,
And there is no more night !
On niy bended knee
I recognize Thy parpos? clearly shown;
My vision Thou haat dimmed, that I may see
Thyself Thyself alone.
I have naught to fear.
This darkness is the shadow of Thy wing.
Beneath it I am almost sacred here
Can come no evil thing.
Oh : I seem to stand
Trembling where feet of mortal never yet have leen,
Wrapped iti the radiance of Thy sialess'hand,
Which eye hath never seen.
Visions come and go;
Shapes of resplendent beauty round me throng:
From Angel's lips I seem to hear the flow;
Of soft and holy song.
It is nothing, now.
When Ileaven is opening on my sightless eyes
When airs from Paradise refresh my brow
That earth in darkness lies.
In a pure clime
My being fills with raptures, waves of thonght
K"ll In upon my ppirit; strains sublime
Break over me unsought.
Give me now my lyre !
I feel the stirring of a gift divine,
Within my boson g!ws unearthly fire.
Lit by no skill of mine.
$ 0 m m u n i jc a i t L
For the Advocate.
HISTORICAL. JOTTn'OS. -0. 2.
Toe descendants of Elaui previous
to tiie lune of Job bad construe ed no
idols. They gave reverence to the
sun aa the emblem of Divinity, and
supposed that air, earth, and water
were the means by which the power
of the Divinity was displayed. The
ancient Magi, or wise men, probably
of Chaldean origin, also rejected idol
worship, but used fire as a symbol of
Deity. How natural for men to rev
erence those things from which they
desire comfort, and by which they are
supplied with the necessaries cf life.
Ia the absence of a direct revelation
from God, such a religion would seem
to be the most reasonable. And as it
was the religion of the wisest men
outside of those nations blessed with
the revealed word, we may reasonably
conclude that without a revelation,
the mind of man would never have
conceived any better idea of the
Daity.
It is a sad thing to notice the de
moralizing effects of luxury and a
pompous life. The early Persians had
been taught by the 3lagi that, ' all
men should adhere rigidly to the
truth, and observe chastity and puri
ty of soul as among the highest vir
tues." But -when Cyrus conquered
Babylon, the vices of thos e people
were soon imported into Persia.
Babylonish luxury and licentiousness
brought upon the Persians much in
jury and degradation. It would have
been better for the Persians if Baby
lon, with all her wealth, could have
been sunk in a sea of fire, as soon as
it was taken, than for its evil influ
ences to have been introduced among
the conquerers and carried home as
a pestilence to sink the people who
were before capable cf mastering the
world.
The condition of the ancient He
brew women wa9 higher in the social
scale, than in any of the surrounding
nations. There being no public schools,
education was a family matter. The
mothers were the teachers of the chil
dren. Hence Hebrew literature, is
the most chaste, the most eublime,
and the most educated in a moral
point of view, of all the nations of the
oast
The Greeks were quite as intellect
ual as the Hebrews, but it was brain
without heart; intellect without mor
als. The Hebrews taught their chil
dren to be honest; the Greeks taught
their children to ba cunning. The
Hebrews impressed it upon their chil
dren that their lives were to glorify
God; the Greeks taught their children
to live to the honor of the nation.
The Hebrew child was the property
of the parents, the Greek child was
the property of the state. The He
brew child was subject to all the mor
al influences of a home education;
the Greek child was thrown into the
vortex of tha public rabble and learn
ed the evil of his associates faster ilun
he learned the lessons of Lis teacher.
Hence there is a rnor.il dignity about
Hebrew characters senium or never
met witn am jug grec. cuaraciers. j
Socrates with all his m arality on pa-
per, was far beneath Samuel and the
prophets, and destitute of dignity
when compared with Abraham.
When we look at the morality incul
cated by the Greek philosophers, we
are inclined to ask whence they ob
tained such views, such elegant no
tions of morals as they put upon
record, for they wrote better than
they practiced. We must remember
that there was a great deal of inter
course between the learned men of
Egypt and Greece. Nearly all the
Grecian philosophers visited Egypt.
And Pythagoras, after being instruct
ed by Thales and Anaxirnander, spent
many yearg in Egypt and other eas
tern mtions. In these extensive
travels and long residences abroad, it
is hardly possible that he should no
where have lecrned anything of the
teachings of Hebrew writers. There
was frequent intercourse between
Egypt and Judea. Solomon especially
had frequent intercourse with Egypt
and also with Tyrians at the head of
the Sea. It is next to a moral impos
sibility that Hebrew literature should
have been unknown to the Grecians.
So when they talk about "the har
mony of the universe, chastity, purity
of soul, devotion,' and such things as
ar necessary to the good of mankind,
we may readily understand that they
have' drawn ' many of their ' best
thoughts from a fountain that their
pride would not allow them to ac
knowledge.
The Pha-aicians, who were the car
riers of the world's commerce at that
time, were familiar with the customs
of all the civilized nations of the age
in which they lived. And through
them one pfople would often learn
much of the manners and customs of
another people. The philosophers
had every opportunity of learning
from them the Hebrew methods of
life and thir doctrines. So Grecian
morals were the twilight rays of reve
lation, borrowed, but not confessed.
PniLO.
For the Christian Advocate.
LETTER FROM OUR IRISH
CORRESPONDENT.
The Rev. Thomas Binney of Lon
don attacked ministerial beards in a
recent number of the Evangelical
Magazine. His onslaug hi called forth
a host of zaalous defenses. In the
current number of the same serial,
the venerable and distinguished divine
refers to his former essay thus:
"Even the slight passing breeze
that stirred the 'baards' of our mod
ern Nazarite3 produced no ill feeling,
or none worthy of remark or resent
ment, while in some cases it blew off
some superfluous growths, and reveal
ed, in its angel aspect, 'the haman
face divine.' This language may be
justified by an old legend an a modern
instance. In the far East the tradi
tion is, that Adam, being created but
a little lower than the angels, had, of
course, no beard in his original state
of virtue and innocence; but that as
his fall consisted in yielding to a
temptation that attacked him through
the Benses, the animal or brute na
ture became predominant, the visible
sign of which was the outburst of a
beard the stigma or mark of the
beast! This may be an Eastern ex
travagance, but I met with a curious
illustration of it the other day. A
minister who for some time had hid
den his face behind a thick black
growth, with an ill looking scarlet
slit in the middle of it, appeared one
morning with the mask taken off ! It
was an unveiling an apocalypse
the effect of which was extraordinary I
It was said that the people used to be
disturbed by what they saw remind
ing them of the words of Asaph, 'So
brutish was I. I was as a beast;' but
now their feelings found expression
in the words 'All, looking steadfast
ly on him, saw his face as it had been
the face of an angel.' The same
Eastern sages to whom we are indebt
ed for the above mentioned legend,
were probably the authors of another,
to the effect that the world itself was
so injured by the fall, that to render
its habitable parts sightly and salubri
ous, civilized man has had constantly
to shave the face of Nature ever since 1 '
It is certainly singular that ia this
very number of the magazine in which
these strictures on beards occur, there
should be found a practical refutation
of them in the portrait of the Rev. H.
It ibjohns, a popular and able minis
ter of the congregational body, at the
beginning ot the same. Mr. Robjohns'
portrait is an excellent one, and the
fine beard and moastache which
adorn his intellectual countenance,
must lead even Mr. Binney to reflaet
whether there may not be some hairy
angels after all.
The Joint Committee of Convoca
tion appointed to consider the ques
tion of the Athanasian Creed met yes
terday, and rejacted by large majori
ties every proposal to alter its Work
ing or interfere with its use.
The life of Gideon PreseJey is soon
to be written by the Rev. Wm. Ar
thur, A. M. It is expected to be a
most fascinating book.
The Rev. James Dixon's Biography
is being written by his son in-law, the
Rev. Mr. Jackson, Governor of Deds
bury College, Manchester and the
Rev. Richard Chew of Sheffield has
been appointed to write the biography
of the late Rev. James Everett. Bi
ographical literature is thus to be in
creased and possibly enriched. This
must be so if the writers do their
work well.
I did not receive the Advocate con
taining my last letter and do not re
member the exact words I used, but
if Mr. Fall ia correct, his correction of
my reference to the two chief offices
of the English Wesleyan Conference is
simply an illustration of being accu
rate over much. There were more
than one candidate for each of these
offices at the last Conference. Mr.
Smith received 100 votes for the Sec
retaryship, and Mr. Parkes more, and
was elected. At the Conference of '71,
Dr. James had only a very small ma
jority over Mr. Wiseman. There is
no formal nomination of the candi
dates, but they are none the less can
didates on that account. Mr. Fall
says 'no canvassing is allowed.' There
i i no law forbidding it. And for no
ecclesias ical office in any Church, is
there more canvassing, direct and in-
direct, aye, even private caucuting
than for these offices during the past
ten or twelve years. Before long, the
candidates will be nominated as in the
Conferences of the minor Methodist
bodies.
John Knox.
Dec. 9, 1872
For the Advocate.
THE WAY OF SALVATION.
No. 1. By Akthropos.
It is possible that many of our peo
ple who imagine themselves well in
structed in the Way of Salvation, may
yet, nevertheless, havi very imperfect
views of the plan.
Nor does the fact of one's having
been converted remove the darkness
which somewhat of necessity hangs
around this subject ; for in that act
man's spiritual nature is most pow
erfully exercised while his intellectual
nature remains inactive, only in such
a degree as to recogniza his true
moral status by the light of the Holy
Spirit.
The great want of the human soul
is a recognition of the Infinite and
Perfect in a reconciled state. This
cannot take place, however, while
God and the soul are sundered by sin.
This separation places man in a spir
itually abnormal or unnatural state,
and is the ground of all his miseries.
It is in fact, a negative state in which
the soul, li e a grand complicated
spiritual machine, is wholly without
its proper motive power.
In a state of sin there is, therefore,
a separation of God and the soul. In
a state of salvation a union of God
and the soul must have been effected.
The Way of Salvation implies, not the
means by which the work is done, but
the manner in which it is accomplish
ed. That is, does God come to man,
or does mail go to God in the act of
regeneration and salvation ?
Here is where many have a miscon
ception of the Way of Salvation.
We think that aside from direct
scriptural declaration, a proper com
prehension of the natures of the two
beings at variance, together with cir
cumstances attendant upon the Fall,
indicate plainly the Way of Salvation.
Man retired from God, and not God
from man, as most people believe ;
hence, in the Way of Salvation we
should expect man to move to God,
and not God to man.
If this position needed proof, we
might refer to the fact that it was
Adam who left the Garden, the home
of God, and not God himself. It will
avail nothing to say that God forced
Adam and Eve to depart, for of their
own will they had previously render
ed themselves unfit to remain in the
Garden, and in the very philosophy
of things it was proper and right to
expel them from the Garden. This
act, too, seems to have been in keep
ing with the feelings of our first par
ents, for while they remained in the
presence of God, they were afraid and
sewed fig leaves to make themselves
aprons, and did hide themselves from
the Almighty.
The case of the Prodigal Son is di
rectly in point. He took his portion
of goods and departed into a far coun
try. Here it was the son who went
away from the father, and not the
father from the son.
Again, in the act of his conversion
he saiil, ' I will arise and go to my
father.' This certainly implies a mo
tion of the soul toward God, and not
a movement upon the part of God
towards man.
The scriptures abound with pas
sages proving this great fact. Among
those texts may be found such as the I
following: ' Ye will not come onto me
that ye may have life.' Whosoever
will, let him take of the water of life
freely.' Whosoever cometh unto the
Father by me, him in no wise will be
cast out.' 'Let the wicked man for
sake his way, and the unrighteous
man his thoughts, and let him return
onto the Lord for he will have mercy
npon him, and to our God for He will
abundantly pardon.'
t Bui in the very nature of God we
see this idea fully set forth. How can
an infinite and perfect being change ?
God is the same 'yesterday, to day,
and forevermore.' He cannot change
to meet or accommodate the sinner ;
nor does He change towards the sin
ner when the sinner turns from Him.
' His property is always to have mer
cy. His nature is to bless the worst
man on the earth, as well as the best
Christian. Oar sins cannot affect
Him but ourselves, and consequently
all the changes necessary to unite
God and our nature must take place
in man. God is a great spiritual sun
whose rays pour down in endless pro
fusion upon all moral natures, and
though morally abnormal states may
sometimes exist forming a veil im
penetrable to His spiritual rays, yet
He shines no less powerfully in that
direction.
PROCEEDINGS OF TIIE CHAT
HAM EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIA
TION. Pursuant to the notice of tho Exec
utive Committee, the Chatham Educa
tional Association commenced at 11
o'clock A. M., Sept. 2Gth, 1872, at
Ruffin Badger Ins'itute, and was call
ed to order by the President, Maj. R.
W. York, A. M.
On motion, the Associa'ion wa
opened with prayer by the Rev. L
Branson A. M.
The President announced the fol
lowing committee on Proposals for
membership to wit : Messrs. A. Mor
ing, S. B irbee and J. H. Boothe.
The following persons were report
el, and elected members of the Asso
ciation, viz: Rv. L. Branson, C. J.
Green, Esq , R. Massey, M. C. Hern
don, H. G. Herndon, G. E. Boothe,
A. P. Barbee, W. C. Cole, and Miss S.
P. York.
The President then submitted his
Annual Address containing matters
of much importance to the Associa
tion. On motion of J. H. Boothe,
Esq , the address was referred to a
special committee consisting of Messrs.
J. H. Boothe, L Branson and C. J.
Green.
The President announced the fol
lowing as the committee on unfinish
ed business, to wit. S. Barbee, A. M.
Moring, and W. C. Cole.
On motion the Intrcductory Ad
dress of the Rev. Dr. York was made
the special order for 1 1 o'clock P. M.
On motion the Association adj jurn
el lid 1 o'clock P. M.
EVENING SESSION.
The Association met at half past
one o'clock P. M., and was called to
order by the President.
The Rev. Brantly York, D. D., then
delivered the Annual Introductory
Address. His subject was "Educa
tion considered in connection with
the Progress of Civilization " The
address was eloquent, and highly in
structive. W. F. Guthrie of Orange was pro
posed and elected a member of the
Association.
The special committee to whom was
referred the Presidents address, re
ported, and in accordance with said
report, the following committees were
appointed by the President.
1. On Common Schools, Rev. B.
York, D. D,,H. G. Herndon and R.
Massey.
2. On Teachers Institutes, Rev. L.
Branson, A. M., W. C. Cole and M. C.
Herndon.
3. On Reorganization, J. M. Boothe,
Esq., A. P. Barbse and L. W. K.
Faucette.
4. On Treasurer's Account, A. Mor
ing, C. J. Green, Esq., and A. M.
Moring.
5. On Rewriting the Constitution,
Messrs. W. F. Guthrie, G. E. Boothe
and H. G. Herndon.
C On Finance, Messrs. S. Barbee,
A. Moring and R. Massey.
7. On State Educational Associa
tion, Rev. L. Branson, A. M., J. H.
Boothe, Eq., A. Moring, S. Barbee
and W. F. Guthrie.
8. On the Death of Gen. W. P. Tay
lor, Rev. Dr, York. E. B. Fearington
and W. C. Cole.
On mo'ion of Mr. A. M. Moring it
was resolved that the Association pro
ceed to the election of a temporary
Vice President. The Rev. L. Bran
son, A. M. was elected.
The Rev. L Branson, A. M. gave
illustrations of Black Board exercises
for Sunday schools which were highly
interesting and instructive.
The Rev. B. York, wi:h a class of
students from Ruffia Badger Institute,
gave illustrations and explanations of
rapid calculations in arithmetic, which
were highly appreciated by the teach
ers present.
The committee on unfinished busi
ness repor '.ed,and report was made spe
cial order for to-night at 7 o'clock.
On motion, the Association adjourn
ed till 7 o'clock to-night.
NIOHT SESSION.
The Association met at 7 o'clock,
and was &Jled to order by the President.
The special order, the report of the
committee on unfiulrbed business was
taken up. The report of a former
committee on remuneration of teach
ers, and resolutions, were discussed
at length by Rev. Dr. York, Rev. Mr.
Branson, and unanimously adopted.
The resolution of A. M. Moring in
troduced at tha meeting held at
Hank's Chapel was next taken up.
The resolution is as follows.
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
Association that corporal punishment
should not be U89d in schools.
The resolution was thoroughly dis
cussed by all the teachers presen,when
the Rev. Mr. Branson offered the fol
lowing resolution as a substitute,
which was adopted, viz:
Resolved, That, while we regard
corporal punishment as sometimes
necessary, yet it should be judiciously
and sparingly used.
On motion, the address of the Rev.
Mr. Branson, A. M. was made the
special order for to morrow at 1
o'clock A. M.
O j mo'ion, 9 o'clock A. M. to
morrow was made tha special order
for the announcement of schools.
The committee on teachers Insti
tutes thro' their chairman, Rev. Mr.
Branson, reported, and the report was
adopte 1 (directs the Executive to make
arrangements fo a Teacher's Institute
during next summer.)
The committee on the death of Gen.
W. P. Taylor, through their chair
man, Rev. Dr. York reported. Elo
quent tributes were paid to the mem
ory of the deceased by Rv. Dr. York,
Rev. Mr. Eranioa and Maj. R. W.
York, when the reports and resolu
tions vue u'la'uim rasly adopted.
Tbo codimil63 oi reorganization re
ported, and after considerable discus
sion was adopted. (Leaves the mat
ter in the hands of the Executive
Committee.)
On motion, the Association ad
journed till 9 o'clock A. M. to morrow.
September 27th 1872.
MORNING SE3SION.
The Association met at 9 o'clock A
M , and was called to order by the
President.
The special order, the announce
ment of schools . was taken up. The
following schools reported. Ruffin
Badger Institute, Gate 3 Academy,
the school at Listra, Merrit's Chapel,
Chapel Hill, and Wesleyan Mala
Academy.
The committee on Treasurer's ac
count reported, and after some dis
cussion the report was adopted. (Di
rects the President to take steps to
recover the funds of the Association.)
The committee on common schools
through their Chairman, the Rev. Dr.
York made an able and lengthly re
port, which afcer much discussion
was adopted. (Recommends that all
changes should be suggested to the
State Superintendent of common
schools, and the members of the Leg
islature with reasons therefor, and
recommends fostering care of com
mon schools to all.)
The Committee on Rewriting the
Constitution and Bylaws, thro' their
Chairman W. F. Guthrie reported,
and their report adopted. (Recom
mends a rewriting, embodying the
changes and amendments made since
its adoption. )
The committee on State Education
al Association through their Chair
man, R9v. L. Branson reported. Af
ter amendment by Mr. A. M. Moring
the report wrs adopted. (Directs
the President to appoint ten delegates
to represent this Association, in any
convention which may be called to
form a State Educational Association.
Rev. L. Branson, Vice President,
was called to the chair.
Maj. R. W. York introduced the
fol'owing resolutions with appropri
ate remarks, which were unanimously
adopted.
Resolved, That it is with pleasure,
that we have witnessed the promotion
of the Hon. Alexander Mclver, A. M.
late Professor of Mathematics in the
University of North Carolina, and a
member of this Association, to the
high and respectable position of Su
perintendent of Public Instruction of
the State of North Carolina.
Resolved, That Prof. Mclver carries
with him our best wishes for success
in his new field of labor.
Resolved, That a copy of these reso
lutions bo forwarded to Prof. Mclver.
The President, R. W. York resum
ed the chair. Rv. Mr. Branson in
troduced the f jllowing which, after
complimentary remarks by all teach
ers present, were unanimously adopted
by rising vote.
Whekeas, We hare heard of the elec
tion of Rev. Dr. York (one of the
oldest and most distinguished mem
bers of the Chatham Educational As
sociation to the Professorship of
Logic and Rhetoric in Rutherford
College.
Reeolved, That we art highly grati
fled at this promotion of Rev. Dr
York, and while we regre t to loose his
counsels in this Association, we con
gratulate Rutherford College npon
the acquisition of a Professor so emi
nently worthy of a position in any
College in our country.
Resolved, That a copy of these res
olutions, properly attested, be sent to
Dr. York.
The President read a communica
tion from Rev. S. Pool, A. M. Presi
dent of the University of North CarO'
lina, accounting for his failure to be
present an account of severe illness;
also a communication from Hon. Al
exander Mclver, A. M., accounting
for his failure to present an account of
official business.
The address of Rav. L Branson, A.
M., was then listened to with great
pleasure. His subject was "Active
Teaching." It was able, earnest, and
replete with practical allusions.
The Committee on Finance asked
and attained further time in which to
report.
Rev. L. Branson, A. M., Vice Pres
ident was called to the chair.
Maj. R. W. York, A. M., introduced
the following resolution, which was
adopted.
Resolved, That the President of
this Association be requested to corre
spond with those in charge of the Pea-
body fund, relative to a reduction of
length of session, attendance, and
average attendance of the schools,
and a propotional application of the
funds.
Officers for th9 ensuing year, to wit:
Maj. R. W. York, A. M-, President,
Rev. Isom Cox, B. J. House, Eq.,
Prof. D Matt. Thompson and Rev. L.
Branson, Vica Presidents, Col. C. B.
Danson, A. M , corresponding secre
tary, J. H. B jythe, Esq., Treasurer.
J. H. Boothe, Esq , introduced the
following resolutions which were
adopted.
Resolved, That the Secretary of this
Association be requested to furnish
an abstract of the proceedings of this
meeting to the Sentinel, News, Era,
Advocate, Biblical Recorder, Christian
Sun, North Carolina Presbyterian,
Tobacco Plant and Friend of Temper
ance for publication.
On motion of W. F. Guthrie the
thanks of the members of the Asso
ciation were returned to the citizens
of Ruffin Badger and vicinity for the
hospitality extended to them.
On motion, the Association then ad
journed subject to the call of the Ex
ecutive Committee.
R. W. York, President.
A. M. Moring. Rec. Sec.
Young ladies an :! gentlemen, in in
digent circumstances, desiring to
avail themselves of the resolutions
adopted at the Annual meeting at
Mt. Vernon Spring in 1870, and for
information relative to assistance in
obtaining a literary, law or medical
education, should address thG Presi
dent of the Association, Maj. R. W.
York, A. M., Morrisville, N. C.
A. M Moring, Rec. Sec.
Ruffin Badger Institute, Chatham
county, N. C, Sept. 26, 1872.
A Boy's Love fob his Mother. Of
all the love affairs in the world none
can surpass the true love of a big boy
for his mother. It is a love and no
ble, honorable in the highest degree
to both. I do not mean merely a du
tiful affection. I moan a love which
makes a boy gallant and courteous to
his mother, saying to every body
plainly that he is fairly in love with
her. Next to the love of her husband,
nothing so crowns a woman's life with
honor as this second love, this devo
tion of the son to her. And J never
yet knew a boy to 'turn oat' bad who
began by falling in love with his
mother.
A True Lady. I was once walking
a short distance behind a very hand
somely dressed young girl, and think
ing, s I looked at her beautiful
clothes, ' I wonder if she takes half aa
much pains with her heart as she
does wi'h her body ?' A poor old man
was coming up the walk with a loaded
wheel-barrow, and just before he
reached us he made two attempts to
go into the yard of the house; but the
gate was heavy, and would swing
back before he could get in. ' Wait,'
said the young girl springing forward,
'I'll hold the gate open.' And she
held the gate until he had passed in,
and received bis thanks with a pleas
ant milts as she passed on. ' She de
serves to have beautiful clothes,' I
thought, ' for a beautiful spirit dwells
in Ler breast.'
By taking revenge a man is bat even
with his enemy; but in passing over
it he ia superior. Lord Bac jn.
crrr fools in toe country
BY T. DE WITT TALMAGE.
T ...
because a man is wise in some
places, we are not to conclude th it he
is wise everywhere. You find men
grandly successful iu the countio
room and at the board of trade. whose
common-sense forsakes them as they
cross the city limits.
During the last few years, a multi
tude of men have left town for coun
try life, with the idea that twenty
thousand dollars, and a few books on
agriculture, would make them success
f ul farmers. They will take the prizes
at the county fair. They will have
the finest cattle, the most afflient
hens, the most reasonable ducks, and
the most cleanly swine. Thair re
ceipts will far outrun their expenses.
The lirst year they are disappointed
The second year they collapse. The
third year they tack to a post the
sign, "For Sale!' They knew not
that agriculture is a science and a
trade, and that a farmer might as
well come in with his carpet-bag, set
it down in the engineer's room of a
Liverpool steamer, expecting in ten
minutes to start the machinery, and
successfully guida tue vessel across
the Atlantic, as oae, knowing nothing
of country lifa, to undertake to en
gineer the intricate an 1 outbranobin?
affairs of a largo farm. As well set
the milk maid to wiite a disquisition
on metaphysics, a rau-picker to lec
turing on .-C3the'ici.
The city fool hastens out at the first
beck of pleasant weather. He wishes
to sit in what poets cull "the lap of
spring. We have oureclvea sat,
several times, in her lap, and pro
nounce her the roughest nurse tha
ever had anything to do with us.
Through March, April, and May, for
the last few years, the maiden seem
to have been out of putionc, and sb
blows, and frets, an i spits in your fac
ith storm, till, neemingly exhauster!
with worriment she lins down at the
feet of June.
The family of the cily fol are, for
the first ten days a't ;r (toiog into the
country, kept, in tho Iioiisa by bad
weather. It is tho Pir.ilise of mnd
The soft ground, eur.ip'urod with thj
dainty feet of tha city bello, takes
their photograph all up .and down the
lane, and secure3 it yy by abstract
ing one of her overshoes up by tb
barn, and the other by the woods.
Mud on the dres. Mud on the car
riago wheels. Mud on the door step.
A very carnival of m id I
The city fool has great contempt
for ordinary stock, and talks only of
"high bloods." His cattle are all
Ayrsbires, or Shorthorns, or Devons.
But for some reason, they do not give
half as much miik as the awkward,
unheraldic, mongrel breed that stand
at nightfall looking throngh the neigh
bor's bars.
The poultry of our hero are Golden
Hamburgs, and Buff Dorkings, and
Bengaliers, and Cropple-crowns, and
Black Polands and Chittaprafs. But
they are stingy of laying, and not
withstanding all the inducements of
expensive coop, and ingenious nests,
and handsome surroandinga, are
averse to any practical or useful ex
pression. They eat, and drink, and
cackle, and do everything but lay.
You feed them hot mush, and throw
lime out of which they are to make
the shell, and strew ashes to kill the
lice, and call on them by all the glo
rious memory of a distinguished an
cestry to do something worthy of their
name, but all in vain. Here and
there an egg, dropped in the mud in
preference to the appointed place,
gives you a specimen of what they
might do if they only willed. We
owned such a hen. Wo had given an
outrsgeous prica for her. We lavish
ed on that creature every possible
kindness. Though useless, she made
more noise than all the other deni
zens of the barn yard, and, as some
faithful hen came from her nest, would
join in the cackle, as much as to sny,
"Ain't we doing well? ' We came to
hate the eight of that heu. She knew
it well, and as she saw as ouiiug,
would clear the fnce with wild
squawk, as if her conscience troubled
her. We would not give one of our
unpretending Dominica for three full
b'.oodel Chittaprats.
The city fool txpejls, with small
outlay, to have betwitching fchruW
bery, and a very Fontainebleau of
shade-trees, and pagodas, and sum
mer houses, and universal arbore
scence. He will bj covered up with
clematis and weigelia. The paths,
white gravelled, innocent of weeds or
grass, and round-banked, shall wind
about the house, and twist themselves
into all unexpectedness of beauty. If
he cannot have a Chatsworth Park,
nine miles in circumference, he will
have something that will make jou
think of it. And all this will be kept
in order with a few strokes of scythe,
hoe, and trinvmirg-ktiife.
The city fool selects his country
ace without reference to soiialitic.
He
wi l briDg a pocket full of mwn
fr
fi
oui the B'oro, which will be all hi.
uuily will want to know of soci.-ty
an
world; then a hculil.r
lib
rary, f r ui which look down
;1
the historians and i.oeta will
hem a surfeit of iut;l!ectu ilitu-s.
fie does not know whv In ulf.. i
daughters want to go back lo town.- -
hat could be more civ? XUL.i.
wagons pacing the door, and f ,r:n rs
;oing with grist to the i:u. I
occasional thunJer storm l..
ungi lively, and the bawhW ,.r n.
cow recently bereft of hr cilf r
ing horns besweated from the blorj,
'gut, the father finds the f ,.!....
crying ou the piazz. What bettor
concert no tliey want than the robin ?
uai livelier beaux than tho hidgjs
syringa? With a verv w,n1 f ,
they cry out to the exasperating hu-
uana aaa lather:
"We want to see soinathingl"
"Good gracious I" ha shni,.
forth and look at the clouds, and the
grass, and the Southdown f
-r AAW
breath of this evening air h worth all
the perfumes of fishiouable society! "
There is apt to ba disaonoinh.mi.
in crops. Even a stupid turnip knows
vu.) iooi as soon as it sees him.
Marrow fat peas f.ir!v rattle in tl..r
po.ls with derision as Le passes. Tho
fieljj are glad to impose npoa tho
aovice. Wauderin? too
ive with a book on honev-uikiuL'.
he got frlung in throu hIhp, h;0
caulillowers turn out to bo cabbages.
Ihe thunJer spoils his milk. The
;rass butter, that he dreamed ,,f i.
rancid. The taxes cut np his pro.l's.
The drought consnmys hii coru. Tha
rust gct in tif.t wheat. Tho j caches
tropon IMI... ..,.y ri.ct, Tha rnt
nkt's tho voM. Expecting lo
ltprise his bBuiV"Uod citv-fiind
with a present of a few earl v..t,i.
bles, he accidtntly hears thai tlioy
wive j.an new potaloas, and grosa
peas, an I sweet corn for a forini "lit.
rhe bay mire runs away withthn h -..
vagon. Jlis rustic Cito rrnt i' ,.(
order. Hw shrubbery j , t rp tn.lly
ne. ding tbe nhears. It seems aim nt
impossible to keep the gras out of
the serpeutini w;i'ks. A cow g.:s iu
and npsots tha vaiu of 11 ,Wi!ra. Tho
uog.i destroy tho waloraielonf. iin.l
'he gardener runs off with the vh,im.
berraaid. Everything goes wronrr.
and Tinning i8 a failure. It aKv .
a failure when a mia kuo u!jiu"
tbont it. If a man can afford to m iko
a large outlay for his own amm.iu..,,tf
and the health of his familv. li t I.;,.!
hasten to his country purchase. Bjt
uo one, save a city fool, will think f,
keep a business iu town, aud innko a
farm fuiancia'hj profitable.
There are onlv two ondition i..
which farming pays. The first.
a man makes agriculture a lifotiuioV
business, not yielding to the fital itch
lor town which is dnr.opulalinT thn
country, and crowdiug the city with a
multitude of men standing idle with
their hands in their own or their
neighbors pockets. The other nn.
dition, is when a citizen with surplus
oi means, and weary of the excite
ments and confinements of citv life
goes to the country, not expecling a
return of dollars equal to the amount
disbursed, but expects, in health, and
recreation, and communion with na
ture, to find a wealth compared with
which all bundles of scrip and pack
ages of Government securities are
worthless as the shreds of paper un
der the counting room desk in the
waste-basktt. Only those who coino
out of the heats of the town, know tho
full enchantmnt of country life -
hree years ago, on the nona of a
ong fork, with which we tossed the
hay into the mow, wo pitched awoj
our last attack of "the blues." Wo
can beat back any despondency we
ever knew vd i a hoo ban Uo. Born
and brought . 1 the country, we
have, ever siuco we kft it, Uiea Ioniz
ing to go back, though dooms I f.r
most of the tune to stay iu town.
he most rapturous lay of root about
country lifo has never coma up to o .r
own experiences. Among the grand
est attritions about the lltavtiiiv
City are the trees, an 1 the rivow, aid
the white horses. When we hud a
place in the country, the banqaet -
lastcu all summer, beginning with
cupa of crocus, and ending with glow
ing tankards of autumnal loaf. At
Be's'iazzar's feast the kncs tremb'td
for the finger that wrote doom, but
the hand-writing on our wall was that
of honeysuckle and trumpet creeper.
Generosity during life is a vtrv
different thing from generasUy iu tlo
nour oi de&tu: one proceeds frum
genuine liberality and benevolent,
tne other from pride ojfear. Houu e
Maxx.
Doctrines are of nse only as tht y
are practiced. Men may go to per
dition with their heads full of truth.
To hoi J the truth and fight for it is
one thing; to be eautifitd through it is
another. IL L. Hastisos.