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by the severe work of the pale diver. 

 The elements of learning are within 

 the reach of all, ami obtained by very 

 little effort; but the higher attainments 

 of art and science are the result of labor 

 and industry only. If a person wishes 

 a high moral character, he must work. 

 Good thoughts and noble deeds never 

 come by idleness. 



I do not mean by work, necessarily 

 manual labor. A man may work just as 

 hard, and even more severely, with the 

 brain than with the hands alone. If one 

 would write a good book, it is only by 

 years of labor that he can hope to suc- 

 ceed. It he would be an artist, a musi- 

 cian, it is only after a long time of toil 

 that he wins success. Think you that 

 Raphael painted his glorious pictures, or 

 that Shakspeare wrote his wonderful 

 traaediesand comedies without labor. In 

 history do we find one instance where a 

 great advance in improvement and civil- 

 ization has been made but by toil, sacri- 

 fice and bloodshed? 



Now, if all things noble and beautiful, 

 if every step in the road to success is the 

 price of labor, can work be called a curse, 

 a punishment? No! a thousand times. 

 No! It is one of the blessings given to 

 man. Go to heathen lands, where man 

 lives almost without labor, see him in 

 his degradation and tilth, and then ques- 

 tion, it you can, the wisdom of an all- 

 wise Creator in requiring man to work 

 for his maintenance. Work is, in reality, 

 rest — rest from the sorrows, the petty 

 vexations, the temptations to evil which 

 are caused by, or more felt in idleness — 

 for, are not those days in which we 

 lounge about with no particular aim the 

 most unhappy? Finally, let us work. 



Worls for some good— be it ever so slowly; 



Cherish some flower— be it ever so lowly; 



Labor— nil labor is noble and holy. 



(SjtluQitional 



SUCCESS REWARDS MERIT. 



BY ECONOMY. 



ITnity. 



Thought is deeper ihan all speech, 



Feeliug deeper thaa all thought; 

 Souls to BoulB can never teach 



What unto themselves was taught. 

 Like the stars that gem the sky, 



Far apart, though seeming near. 

 In our light we scattered lie; 



All is thus but starlight here. 

 Only when the sun of love 



Melts the scattered stars of thought. 

 Only when we live above 



What the dim-eyed world hath sought, 

 Onl y when our souls are fed 



By the fount whicU gave them birth, 

 And by inspiration led. 



Which they never (U'cw from earth, 

 We, like parted drops of rain. 



Swelling till they melt and run, 

 Shall be all absorbed again, 



Melting, flowing into one. 



— [C. P. Crauch. 



A Xiesson. 



Last night I weighed, quite wearied out. 

 The question ttiat perplexes still; 



And that sad spirit we call doubt 

 Made the good nought beside the ill. 



This morning, when, with rested mind, 

 I try again the self-same theme, 



The whole is altered, and I find 



The balance turned, the good supreme. 



A little sleep, a brief night's rest, 

 Hub changed the look of all that is! 



Sure any creed I hold at best 



Needs humble holding after this. 



— [Chamber's Journal. 



"That." 



In the following lines the word that is used to 

 exemplify its various significations: 

 Now. that is a word which may often he joined. 

 For that that may be doubled is clear to the 



mind; 

 And that that that is right is as plain to the 



view 

 A8 that that that that we use is rightly used too; 

 And that that that that that line has is right, 

 In accordance with grammar, is plain in our 



sight. 



(^jrHERE is no more a royal road to for- 

 tune than to knowledge. He who 

 uses not the judgment, and puts 

 not forth the effort necessary to 

 success, deserves not to succeed, j 

 Success is the reward of merit. There is | 

 no such thing as lack-. Life has no acci- 

 dents. There are misfortunes, it is true, 

 which we neither forsee nor avoid. 

 Events there are whose causes we can 

 neither forsee nor control. But these 

 are the exceptional cases, and their re- 

 sulting disasters may usually be over- 

 come by other and greater success. 



The more we understand of Nature and 

 her laws, the better able are we to pro- 

 vide against misfortune. The more we 

 understand of the principles and laws of 

 trade, the better able are we to foresee 

 financial changes, and prepare against 

 financial disaster. 



The farmer who neglects to p'.ow and 

 plant at the proper time, and to cultivate 

 in the proper way, or to take proper care 

 of his harvests when grown, may not be 

 an eminent success in his business; but 

 for this he is not to blame his luck, but 

 himself. 



The mechanic who has not learned his 

 trade well, and turns out poor work for 

 his employers, fails, as a matter of 

 course; but it is not his luck or his mis- 

 fortune, but his fault that good paying 

 jobs pass his shop for his next neigh- 

 Ijor's. 



The man who is wasteful and extrava- 

 gant in his living, spending more than 

 his income, is not unlucky, but unwise; 

 and should blame himself, and not his 

 fortune or his stars, when he finds him- 

 self owing more than he can pay. 



A young man starts in lite with the 

 intention of acquiring a competency and 

 living in comfort. He marries a young 

 wifr>, and both have the same aims and 

 purposes. Both are industrious and 

 frugal. They waste no time. They 

 spend no money unnecessarily. They 

 easily make their income exceed their 

 expenditures. To them the progress to 

 fortune is an easy forward march. 



This is not luck. Their success is not 

 an accident, but a result — precisely such 

 as must always follow such causes. 



Another young man has also married 

 a young wife. But they have no ideas 

 of economy or habits of industry. In 

 their stead are notions of extravagance — 

 fashionable attire, fine houses, fine fur- 

 niture, high living, and gay society. 

 They fail, as a matter of course. Their 

 expenses exceed their income; and the 

 occasional visits of officers with writs to 

 their house admits of very easy explana- 

 tion. If they do not learn wisdom from 

 their failure, and change their habits, 

 they can never take the first step on the 

 ladder of fortune. 



This reckless running into debt — this 

 spending of money before it has been 

 earned — this silly vanity that apes the 

 life and habits of those of greater wealth, 

 is wrong in itself, and must keep even 

 the most industrious in life-long poverty. 

 Persons of such habits fail, and ought to 

 fail. It is not right that one should 

 reap the rewards without practicing the 

 virtues of industry and economy. In 

 business, as in nature, this is an inevita- 

 ble law, and no one can succeed who 

 disregards the necessary conditions. 



Failure, like physical pain, is for our 

 good, warning us to make amends by re- 

 moving the causes that have led to it. 

 Nature is right. We should not com- 

 plain of her laws, but accommodate our- 

 selves to her inexorable conditions. 

 " But, " says some one, " Old Mean- 



ness has succeeded. He is rich. Has 

 success rewarded merit in his case?" 

 This is a great mistake. He has rot 

 succeeded. He has amassed money, it 

 is true, but his life is one of the most 

 pitiable of all failures. See him as he 

 walks the streets, preyed upon by the 

 miser's demon. Does he look as if his 

 life had been a success? 



Knaves and rogues and swindlers may 

 amass wealth, and often do. But God ' 

 has linked to every offence its appropri- | 

 ate penalty, and there is no escaping 

 consequences. Stand up Old Meanness 

 by the side of Mr. Honest Man, whom 

 he has wronged out of house and home. 

 Look them in the face. See the honest, 

 happy expression of the one, smiling 

 even in his misfortunes; the other — the 

 demon of avarice at his soul has carried 

 its contortions to his very countenance. 

 Look at these two, and say which has 

 been the successful man. Which of the 

 two is the more worthy of your respect 

 — the honest man, ujuight in his losses, 

 or the fellow who has stolen himself 

 rich ? 



But property is necessary to comfort. 

 A man may be happy without it, yet.with 

 it, he and his family will be at least 

 more comfortable. Mr. Honest Man 

 made a mistake. He should not have 

 placed himself in Old Meanness' power. 

 Though his failure has not been so great 

 as that of the rogue who wronged him, 

 he has, nevertheless, failed where he 

 should have succeeded. Though it will 

 be a great comfort to him, as he looks 

 back on the transaction, to feel that he 

 has not sacrificed bis integrity, the loss 

 of the hard earnings of the best years of 

 his life must furnish unpleasant recol- 

 lections. But if he goes to work with 

 energy, economizes his time and earn- 

 ings, makes his dailj- gains exceed his 

 daily expenses, he will soon recover from 

 his losses, and jjossibly have reason to 

 be thankful for the dear lesson experi- 

 ence has taught. 



Industry and economy- these are tal- 

 ismauic words. He who has learned 

 them is already on the road to fortune. 



The x^GBictTLTUKAL Pkess. — One hun- 

 dred years ago it was unknown, to-day 

 it has no superior. .\nd as we enter 

 upon our centennial year, it is with pride 

 we refer to it. We mean when we say 

 the agi-icultural press, those who write 

 for the benefit of the tiller of the soil, 

 and those papers published in the inter- 

 est of the farmer. The farmer to-day 

 has access to a literature as pure, as ele- 

 vating and instructive for his calling, 

 as any other profession. This is the 

 more wonderful, when we remember that 

 fifty years ago, " book farmers," or sci- 

 ence applied to agriculture, was sneered 

 at by ninety -nine of every hundred far- 

 mers in the land. Now "the farmer that 

 has not one or more weekly papers on 

 bistable, is going to the wall, "or west." 

 It is a truism, he cannot grow nor sell 

 and compete with the well read, well 

 posted farmer. It is plain to us that in 

 the future there is still greater achieve- 

 ments for this press. The portals of 

 science just begin to reveal the wonder- 

 ful storehouse of nature to the tiUer of 

 the soil. Chemistry just begins to shed 

 its light on the first great occupation of 

 man. Entomology, botany and other 

 kindred sciences liave a storehouse of 

 knowledge so full of interest to the tiller 

 of the soil, that though the next centen- 

 nial may seem a great way off, they will 

 not have scarcely began to unfold their 

 wonders, when our second centennial 

 shall herald its coming with bells and 

 cannon. See what has already been 

 done in perfecting animals, fruits, flow- 

 ers and vegetables! And yet no one can 



deny that we have but just entered this 

 field of progress. It needs no prophetic 

 vision to assure the farmer that his mis- 

 sion is coming to the front, and that the 

 agricultural press has but just begun its 

 career. Onward to duty, is the watch- 

 word.—^, a. Moss, Cltautauqua Farmer. 



Every Fabmee Shoth-d Do His Owx 

 Tai-vKiNa. — The Country Gentleman very 

 truthfully says that it is only within a 

 recent period — at least as compared 

 with the epoch of positive assertion, 

 thirty or forty years ago — that we have 

 found out in farming how comi)letely 

 truth too broadly asserted becomes false- 

 hood, with how many qualifications and 

 limitations theories must be hedged 

 about, and what folly it is to lay down 

 any single dogma for the universal ac- 

 ceptation of all. And, as a natural con- 

 sequence in our agricultural literature, 

 the tendency is no longer to pronounce 

 upon this or that practice as right or 

 wrong in itself, but to elicit from those 

 who are successful the modes by which 

 and the circumstances vinder which suc- 

 cess was reached, and then to leave each 

 reader to judge for himself to bow great 

 an extent a similar course of action 

 would suit his own case, and wherein it 

 might be hazardous to his interests. 

 What we ask, in a word, is the experi- 

 ence of others — what we •«ish to teach, 

 that each should think for himself. 



Faemers, mechanics, merchants, give 

 your sons a moral and intellectual edu- 

 cation as well iis an education of facts. 

 Put not a single dollar away for one of 

 them, to be given after you are gone — 

 while there is a school where they cotild 

 learn, spend it there. Put it where the 

 Sheriff cannot take it from them, or the 

 money changers get it through their ig- 

 norance. Put it in the mind, in the 

 brain, and when you are gone, they will 

 rise up and bless you. But above all, 

 don't say "we have got along without 

 education, and our children are no better 

 than we are;" that would be a disgrace 

 to the age in which we live, an insult to 

 intelligence, a slander upcn common 

 sense. 



The Indiana Farmer of Xovtmber 6th 

 says: In all our struggles for gain — our 

 desires for fine stock, tine strains, and 

 development of stock — we should not for- 

 get that our sons are also developing into 

 better or .worse men, in proportion as we 

 care for and train their minds. X taste 

 for good reading and habits of thought 

 should be cultivated in their younger 

 years. 



" Yes, I know it; I said so; uncomfort- 

 ability of temper — them's the words that 

 does it. Well, is there not alkrs nncom- 

 fortability of temper in every family, and 

 allers has been and allers will be? Only 

 in the good old times they used to screw 

 it down and keep it under, and they 

 managed to get along without and of your 

 divorces." 



The wheat crop of the United States 

 in IfSTO, according to the census, was 

 288,000,000 bushels. In 1872 it was es- 

 timated at 240,000,000, in 1873 at 287,- 

 000.000 and in 1874 at 30(t, 000, 000 bush- 

 els, and the average for the last five years 

 is about 280,000,000 bushels. 



These seems to be a law of animal life 

 that each individual, to be healthy and 

 strong, must have, at least, a certain 

 amount of room. That whenever this 

 law is violated by crowding too many in- 

 dividuals of the same species within a 

 certain space there results disease and 

 degeneration or death. 



