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purpose, the quickest and the most enduring in re- 

 sult is the kind "word spoken in season." "How 

 good is it!" exclaims the Wisest of the sons of 

 men. The most boorish obduracy melts at last 

 under its repeated influence, though, hard and rough 

 at first as the unsmelted ore. Horse-power is con- 

 venient of appliance, Wind and Water power are 

 cheap, the power of Steam is great, the sordid power 

 of Money greater still ; but of all the powers that 

 be, to rid the tiny weed, or fell the stubborn oak, 

 the greatest agricultural power is that which can 

 gear on mind to matter the WORD and LOOK of 

 KINDNESS.* 



* No amount of instruction which our author could im- 

 part, would command from us a higher respect than this 

 delightful specimen of his Humanity. ED. 



