The Times. — If anything were wanting to place tlae employments of country life in strong 

 and favorable contrast with those of our great cities, it has been the crash of stocks, and 

 pecuniary losses in the latter, since our last issue. "We then recorded the general appear- 

 ance of smiling faces among the country-dwellers ; in a few days, all smiles faded from the 

 cheeks of the city. Broken speculators, broken banks, broken trusts, merchants, manufac- 

 turers, railroads, and other corporations, were tripped up by events as unexpected as the 

 tornado and hurricane. Country folks continue to exhibit countenances unsullied by 

 anxiety, because they have kept within their legitimate business, and have not permitted 

 body and soul to be absorbed in growing suddenly rich. The contrast is instructive : while 

 the speculators' coffers are dried up, the farmer and gardener has his barns 'and his cellars 

 teeming with the produce of his land, and has no one to make him afraid. Let the people 

 take warning, and learn that the non-producer who endeavors to live without the labor to 

 which man is doomed, is, in the end, the unhappy being now so often met with in streets 

 and exchanges, borrowing money — his independence destroyed, and all but overwhelmed 

 with a sense of his obligations to others. 



The Rcral World. — A specimen number of the Rural World will be issued about the 

 first of December. Of this number 30,000 copies will be published, to which the attention 

 of advertisers is requested. Its price will be one dollar a year. Address the publisher of 

 the Horticulturist. 



The Agricultural Exhibition at Louisville. — We have watched the proceedings of this 

 Society with great interest, from day to day, as the papers brought the detail of its import- 

 ant events. Col. Wilder was, as usual, very happy in his speeches and his actions, giving 

 spirit to the whole programme. For the details, we must refer to the published accounts, 

 only remarking that the floral hall and pomological portions of the exhibition, appear to 

 have excited universal approbation. The whole affair has marked an era of good feeling, 

 and has been productive of so much emulation as to have inaugurated a new order of pro- 

 gress in the West. Who shall say as to what great ends this jubilee in the great valley 

 may lead ? When looking forward to the enlargement of the area of agriculture in that 

 vast region, it is difficult to form correct ideas as to the importance it will attain. Situated 

 between the extreme North and the extreme of the South, with steam to transport its pro- 

 ducts, and to receive returns to suit the wants of its inhabitants, the valley of the Ohio 

 has a destiny — peopled as it is with intelligent men and women — which it would be dan- 

 gerous to foreshadow, even in prophecy. The populousness of the valley of the Nile will 

 have been its only counterpart ; but, unlike that once happy region, our great valley has 

 the blessings of Christianity and education, and, in the possession of these greatest bless- 

 ings, is destined to prosper beyond the dreams of the most sanguine. 



Keepiko Grapes. — Dr. E. Liffingwell, of Aurora, N. Y., assures us that both himself and a 

 ghbor have no more difliculty in keeping grapes than apples. Gather them carefully on 



