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Hon^ to be rich. — A Good Hint. 



Vol. VIIL 



tion. The display of implements, and of 

 produce, was hig-hly creditable for so new a 

 country, but not to numerous, or so various, 

 as at Albany. 



Having- g-iven a sketch of the animals, 

 &LC., comprising the show, it remains to say 

 something- of the people and their doings; 

 but as the news-papers have been showing 

 them off, on all hands, it must suffice to re- 

 mark, that the energy and enthusiasm which 

 distinguish the New Yorkers, were not want- 

 ing- 



After fully enjoying this rich display of 

 agricultural wealth, as well as the generous 

 hospitality of the New York farmers, we 

 wended our way homeward; and, to see 

 something of our native State, left the rail- 

 road at Geneva, where we took steamboat 

 and sailed up Seneca lake, whose beautiful 

 and gently sloping borders, are fertile and 

 highly cultivated. A stage ride from the 

 head of the lake, through Elmira, soon 

 brought us to the Pennsylvania line ; and 

 pursuing the course of the valley to Ral- 

 ston, the rail-road helped us on to Williams- 

 port. The route from VVilliamsport to West- 

 ern New York, is remarkably straight and 

 direct. A continuous rail-road to Seneca 

 lake, would doubtless, command a great 

 amount of trade and travel. We were 

 particularly struck with the rapid increase 

 of population, throughout this line of road. 

 Nearly one-third of the houses have been 

 built within two or three years. 



A break in the canal compelled us to take 

 stage to Northumberland, whence the canal 

 and rail-road served to convey us home. 

 There is a great deal of business doing on 

 the Pennsylvania works, and the receipts 

 this year must be large. In New York, 

 we travelled over a rich and productive 

 land, with a vigorous population, where com- 

 fort and neatness abound. Their dwellings 

 are handsome, and mostly adorned with gar- 

 dens, shrubbery, and shade trees; all look 

 liappy and prosperous. But for superior 

 farming, fine fields, good and clean fences, 

 a high state of cultivation, noble barns and 

 abundant granaries, our enterprising neigh- 

 bours cannot approach the Pennsylvania 

 farmer. No where in the Union, is tiie cul- 

 tivation of the soil so perfect, as in the rich 

 plains and valleys of old Pennsylvania. In 

 the ride from Harrisburg to Philadelphia, 

 we saw abundant evidence of the highly 

 advanced state of our agriculture. R. 



Philadelphia, October 2nd, 1843. 



Early rising is indispensable to the farm- 

 er. If he rises late, he must run after his 

 business all day, and will scarcely overtake 

 it by night. 



From the Maine Farmer. 

 How to be Rich. 



The secret is not in earning, but in saving, 

 — almost any man can earn money, but few ■ 

 can keep it. A small sum is disregarded ; 

 yet a large one is only several small ones 

 united; unless little ones are laid together, 

 how can there ever be a great one '\ 



Suppose a person save a cent a day — at 

 the end of one year, he has three dollars and 

 sixty-five cents — at the end of 20 years, one 

 hundred dollars, including interest. How 

 easy it is for a man to save a cent a day; 

 how many can save ten cents a day — or thir- 

 ty-six dollars and fifty cents a year — or about 

 one thousand dollars in 20 years, including 

 interest ? 



He who spends seven cents a day, upon 

 some idle fancy — for instance, in drink, ci- 

 gars, fruit, &c., should at the same time re- 

 flect that he thus throws away the interest 

 of a dollar a year. Are there not often oc- 

 casions in the course of a day, when a per- 

 son spends three cents, two cents, or one 

 cent, which he might avoid, without feeling 

 the worse for it 1 Then goes his ten cents 

 a day — his one thousand dollars in 20 years 

 — the very interest of which would afford 

 him and his heirs, a clear profit of seventy 

 dollars a year. Many grow rich by saving, 

 with but very little faculty for earning; some 

 old men who have always lived well, are 

 very rich from mere saving, who did not 

 earn so much daily, as their poor neighbours. 

 Edwin Payne. 



West Turin, April, 1843. 



A Good Hint. — The celebrated Dr. Ab- 

 ernethy once said : " I tell you honestly, 

 what I think is the whole cause of the com- 

 plicated maladies of the human frame ; it is 

 their gormandizing and stuffing, and stimu- 

 lating the digestive organs to excess, there- 

 by creating irritation. The state of their 

 mind is another grand cause — the fidgeting 

 and discontenting themselves about that 

 which cannot be helped. Passions of all 

 kinds — malignant passions and worldly cares 

 pressing on the mind, disturb the central ac- 

 tion, and do a great deal of harm." 



Dry wood will produce on a moderate 

 estimate, twice as much heat as the same 

 amount of green wood, and saves much 

 trouble in kindling fires on cold mornings. 

 To prevent its burning away too rapidly, 

 the sticks should be large. To suppose that 

 green wood will actually cause more heat 

 in burning, than dry, is as absurd as to sup- 

 pose a vessel of hot water will freeze sooner 

 than a cold one. — Cultivator. 



