mix 9. 



MOORE'S RURAL HEW-YORK3SR. 



225 



Sjjitc from JXciu Cooks. 



Mineral Bpring*, Btjathpefior, Seotlani 



I DC9CBSDKO the lull, and after joining 

 fntadaal tlic Straibpeffi 

 company of ntj old (need, liie m-oiiW ° n 

 Tl.eihoronsl, ideal,.; Of U» I"'"'" 1 ™5" 

 U.al Dill Ibe iiumproom. irW Inalofa """"J 

 bolUmlaid bart in „ann »«•««' ' 

 In tl,o dwollor on the aoa coa.1, '"7 sinking,-: 

 identity, not mere reaMnblancc. In mi,8lca>es, 

 otnanic inbslancea undergo great changes in tbe 

 bowel* of tbe earth. 



The m.neral matter of tbe Caithness ichthjo 

 lite* exial* for instance, as a hard, black, inaola 

 hi. bftaBUHj which I •»« u « d oftcner than on« 

 a* noting wax ; ""* vegetable mould of tbe Coal 

 Meaaore*, has been converted into a fire-clay, at 

 ■Itoed in .r-juicpobuluni, animal and vegetable— 

 whence it derived its fertility — that, even when laid 

 Opn for JtKt to the meliorating effects of weather 

 and the visits of winged seeds, it will not be found 

 bearing a single spike or leaf of green. But here, 

 in smell at leant, that ancient mud swam over by 

 d„. Diplopienu iniftn DIp.UMrtb.DB, end in which 



the Coccoatciis and I'tericblhys burrowed, baa 

 undergone no change. The soft bog has become 

 solid rock, but iu odoriferous qualities remain 

 i lciI rUtted un excavation a (few 

 hundred ..nrds OD the upper side of tbe pump 

 room, in Which the gray, fetid breccia of the Strath 

 !iu been quarried for dyke building, ond examined 

 tin- rock with tome degree of care, without, how- 

 ever, detecting in it n single plate or scale. De- 

 tached scales and opines, however, if carefully 

 sought for in the various openings of the valley, 

 might still bo found in the original limftTIB of tbe 

 fragments. They must have been amazingly abun- 

 dant in it once ; for so largely saturated is the rock 

 with the organic matter into which they have been 

 resolved, that when struck by the hammer the im- 

 palpable dust set loose sensibly ulTects tbe organs 

 of taste, and appeals very strongly to those of 

 smell, ft ia through this saturated rock that tbe 

 miner ul springs lake their course. Ev D tbe sur- 

 face waters of the valley as they pass Jver it cou- 

 luu'l iii ii perceptible degree Hi peculiar taste and 

 Odor. WItll a little more time to spate, I would 

 fain have made this breccia of Ibe Uld Kcd Sund- 

 stono the subject of a few simple experiments, 

 1 would have ground il into powder uud tried upon 

 it the effect both of cold and hot infusion. Por- 

 tions of the water art sometimes carried iD casks 



inul ll.llll,-, i ■ . . i.tli, ,-, I. Ml il IS 



ijiiite possible that a little of tbe rock, to which the 

 water owes its qualities, might, when treated in 

 this way, have all the effects of u considerable 

 quantity of the uprinij. 



Ii might be of some interest, too, to ascertain its 

 quolmes when crushed as a soil, or its effect on other 

 soils. Whether, for instance, like tbe old sterile soils 

 of tbe carboniferous period, it has lost through its 

 rock-change Die feiini..ing properties which it once 

 possessed, or whether it still retains them, like 

 ctiroe of the OOprolitio beds of the Oolite ond Green 

 Band, nnd might not, in consequence, bo used as o 



In mentioning at the dinner table of my friend 

 my scheme of infusing rock In order to produce Spa 

 water, I referred to tbe circumstance that tbe Bel- 



ciuile of our l.iu-ie deposit*, when ground into 

 ji'in.ii-i. ii,,|>,irtj to boiling water a peculiar taste 

 and smell, and that the infusion, taken in very 

 small quantities, sensibly affects both palate aud 

 stomach ; and I suggested that Releuiite water, 



dee d snri'ieigii nf old— when the Belemite was 



regarded as a thunderbolt iu Hie cure of bewitched 

 cattle— might bo in reality medicinal, and that the 

 ancient supers! 1 1 ini might thus embody, as ancient 

 superstitions mil mifrcqtu utly do, a nucleus of fact. 

 The charm, I added, might amount to no more 

 than simply the uilmiiiislniluni of a medicine to 

 sick cattle that did harm in no case, aud good at 



tim. !.— Boon Max.] bb'b " Rambla of a Otolcgut." 

 Acclimating a Plow. 



Tna other day we were riding pust a large 

 farm, uod nn much gratttied ot a device of tbe 

 owner for tbe preservation of his tools. A good 

 plow, apparently new iu the spring, hod been left 

 in one corner of the field, standing iu the furrow, 

 just whore, four months before, the boy had finished 

 his ttint. Probably tbe timber needed ."taxoning— 

 it was certainly getting it. Perhaps it was left out 

 for acclimaliou. Hay-he the farmer left it there to 

 save time, in tbe hurry of the spring work, in drag- 

 ging il from the ahed. Perhaps ho covered tbe 

 share to keep it from the elements, and save it from 

 rusting. Or, again, perhaps he is troubled with 

 neighbors that Sorrow, and had left it where it 

 would be convenient for them. He might, at least, 

 QftTabulll ■ little shed o.er it. Can any one tell 

 what a farmer lea. es a plow out a whole season for? 

 It is barely possible that he was an IrUhman, and 



■ spring crop of plows. 



After we got to sleep that night, we dreamed a 



dlwtD. We .vent into that man's barn; boards 



wore kicked off, partitions wen- half broken down, 



racks broken, floor a foot deep with manure, hay 



BWUpIed underfoot and wasted, grain squandered. 



>gon bad not been hauled under the shed, 



11 ma raining, The harness was scattered 



' "' place, the breeching in 



!^7 . 7 cr ° *•* {or iattm. We went 



hard by, in which a 

 ife and daughters to 

 1 appropriated it as a 



"ONWARD!' 



by O. A. Arclier, 



tli... 



family wagon was kept f, 



go to town in. The bona 



St, and however plaj n 



„,.-,! 



tad i 



W. ,,... 



smoke-house, but o 

 saw ! A Chinese Museum is nothing to a. Ooi«ds' 

 soap-grease, squaahoa, bogs' bristle*, wpi old ' 

 iron, kettles, a broken spinning-wheel, a churn 

 grindstone, bacon, bams, wasbing-tubs, a barrel of 

 salt, bones with the meat half cut off, acraps of 

 leather, dirty bags, a chest of Indian meal, old 

 boota, smoked sausages, the ashes and brands that 

 remained since the last "smoke, stumps ol 

 broonu, half a barrel of rotten ippli 

 with rata, bacon bugs, earwigs, sowbugs and oilier 

 b collw. in damp dirt. We started 

 ; the window near the door had 

 twelv, hghu, lwo of wood ^ ^^ of ha[ ^ four 



" bum-h of rag,, one of a pillow, and 

 * of g U„. U|rfw i( -Uwd ^^ Ci)oking 



On - ward from its crys - tal foun - tain, Speeds the lit - tie stream - let free; On - ward flows the no - ble ri - ver, Till it m i„ . g i elh wj . h (ht . 



.>"?> 



2. From the mind of 



HS^B^g^ g^£gl ^5fe; 1 1 



Soar • ing up - ward in iu flight; Burst - ing through each bond and bar - rier. That de - tained it long 



&W!±aM ^iJ-t ±t^ ^^^^^m 



3. In the fu ■ lure stretch - ing for - ward, No ho - ri - 



Bound - less as the fields of hea - ven, Bright and glo - 



m^^Mi^i^m^mm^^^m^ 



a. On -ward ill tbe path, of pro - »rcsa! Let us bold . ]y take our Hand: Be for truth the rea - dy cham . pion. Stn - ving with our heart and hon 



■usu^ ^ ^^&j^^nr^w^ 



Be like bub - bles 



^S ^^ ^ 



On - wajdl let it be our watch - word: E - 



climb. On- ward! let 



■ cho From each pase - ing step of 



and several that were not cooking. As we 



meditating whether to enter, such a squall 



from a quarreling man and woman, that we 



awoke— and lo ! it was a dream. So that the man 



o left his plow out all the season, may live in the 



ile-t huusf in Ibe county, for oil that we know ; 



lj, wus it not strange that we should have 



dreamed all this from just seeing a plow left out in 



the furrow? — Ubnrt Ward IIbkchek's "Fruit, 



pftflWT '''■"' Thrming. 



Secret of Pulpit Eloquence. 



The real orator nhould have but what is true 

 iew; he should blot himself out in prescoccof 

 truth and make it alone appear, — as happens 

 rally, spontaneously, whenever he is pro- 

 foundly impressed by it, and identifies himself 

 t, heart and mind. Then he grows like it, 

 great, mighty, and dazzling. It is no longer he 

 ,-ho lives, it is the truth which in him lives and 

 cts; bis language ia truly inspired; the man 

 anishes iu the virtue of the Almighty who mani- 

 fests, himself by Mis organ,— and this is the Speak- 

 r's noblest, his true glory. Then are wrought 

 he miracles of eloquence which turn men's wills 

 ml etiiniL'!' their souls. Such \s tbe end at which 

 in OtuaBUan orator ought to aim. He should try 

 o dwarf himself, to annihilate himself, as it were, 

 n bis discourses, in order to allow Uim, whose 

 □ inister he is, to speak and to work, — a result 

 iftenest attained when tbe speaker thinks he has 

 done nothing, on account of his too fervent and 

 .tural desire to do a great deal. 

 you who have taken the Lord for your in- 

 nce, and who prefer the light and service of 

 heaven to all the honors ond all tbe works of earth. 





you. particularly, who arc 

 bo glow with tin 

 meu the word of God, i 

 no than any where el-.>, i ii 

 tsleilncss, and power iu 





abnegation of self. 

 triumphs of eloquence if they 

 thing only,— the glory of God. 

 If you have the gift of touching the souls of others, 

 thing only, — to bring them, or bring 

 them back to God. For this end repress, stifle 

 within your heart, the natural movements of pride, 

 which, since the days of sin, would attribute all 

 things to itself, even the most manifest and the 

 most precious gifts ; and each time that you have 

 lo convey to the people the word of Heaven, ask 

 urgently of God the grace to forget yourself, and 

 to think of Him and of Him only.— Bautaix on 

 EsUmport Speaking. 

 The Alpine Heights. 



The pen and pencil may attempt, and uot 



unsuccessfully, to reproduce the soft gradations 



of tbe beautiful or the abrupt contrasts of the 



picturesque, but they are alike powerless and 



paralysed before the awful grandeur of the Alpino 



Heights, where there is neither life nor motion - 



where a stern, unsmiling sublimity has molded 



every form, and stamped upon the scene the (rown 



of a perpetual winter. There is nothing in tbe 



duiary aspect of nature that prepares us for 



what we see when we have entered the region of 



perpetual snow. Here is no hum of insects, no 



tie of foliage, no pulse of vitality. There 



no provision for animal life in the pitiless 



nitc. ice, and snow, that make up the land- 



pe. The solitary engle, whose slow circling 



m is painted on the dark sky above, seems but 



uomentary presence, like ourselves, and not a 



■nd twDeuc,.,,. mother, but a° s 





and tremble, 

 n and garden, 



WORK AMU STUDY. 



Eos. Rijiial:— In a late issue, Vinton asks if a 

 person con follow farming and a course of tttuditx 

 at the same time. I would ask Vintov, can you 

 follow farming constantly and pleasautly, without 

 permitting a single thought or care, not Jirtctt;/ 

 rilulinij thtnto, to enter your mind? Then, in our 

 natures, you and I differ most materially. In 

 these long days, after the sun has gone to seek a 

 different scene in tbe farther west, don't you feel 

 a little lonesome and much wearied after having 

 applied yourself, both physically and mentally, 

 within the limits of your own farm? Then seek 

 relief in the ttudits you love! Study is a very 

 essential ingredient in tin.' composition of a useful 

 life, though it ii ril little value unless uccompauied 

 by physical exercise and a searching mind. 



Six or eight hours is enough to sleep. Then 

 you have several spare hours, morning and eve- 

 ning. Through the whole season, you can do as 

 much work from six to six, including an hour's 

 nooning, as from daylight till dark each day; and 

 in that hour after dinner, you might learn much 

 from reading or some light study that will not re- 

 quire deep thought. 



Kxperience tells me that neither labor nor study, 

 aioue, is at all pleusant , but with both, all glides 

 smoothly utid swiftly ou. As tbe Editor tells us, 

 we need mental discipline to teach us to turn our 

 attention from one thing to another, nnd to take 

 hold of the different ones with a will that shows 



Most certainly, one thing at a time is enough. 

 But it does not follow that that thing need L> ' 

 forever. For, at day-time we can work upon the 

 farm, and at night, forget the day, aud turn our 

 attention towards some other object of a different 

 nature. Then, Vinton, you can go to town with- 

 out forgetting your errand there, and return to 

 with your mind refreshed by 



. Try. 

 In, June 



not quit 



Euoi 



. Cun i 



t the ; 



be a fanner without being 



'/•"'/ I would judge from D.'s argument, that 

 farming required nothing but t/u physical nature 

 of man, for we understand o farmer to be one who 

 manages a farm, and that his intellectual nature, 

 aa he terms it, would be free to cultivate the arts 





Nol 



without iiinwi.'.' I.i 

 ual capacities to bear upon it, equally with his 

 physical ; or for a man to engage in any business 

 profitably, without exercising his mind toward 

 the object, particularly a fanner, who mutt study, 

 and ftudy diligently, the low* of A'ature. Again, 

 can a man be a student at law or medicine, and at 

 the same lime a farmer T I say he cannot, for his 

 mind will be divided He will either do injustice 

 to the one or the other; he will have to entrmt bis 

 work on the form to a hireling, and "a hireling 

 carelh not for the sheep;" or, as Poor Richard says, 



Thus, I argue that for a man to be a farmer 

 the true senteof the word, he must direct his mil 

 toward this one object. Yet this does not hinder 

 the development of the mind; by no means. As 

 I said before, he must study ditigtntly the "beau- 

 tiful" in the great book of Nature, aud all subjects 

 relatire to tbe occupation of bis choice ; and if for 

 his motto he has "Program* and Improvemen 

 will expand the better part of his nature, and he 



ill drink deep from the fount of knowledge and 



« i.-ilom 



Ore, 



plnced i 



i the ,)»},!■>;, 





f I understand by t 

 g of any prescribed course of study, 

 ir want of time ; for when a man e 

 or for another, he expects, of cours 

 io will be spent to his (the farmer' 





■1 day light 



be must be up and doing. At least it is so in this 

 part of the country ; and when Night throws her 

 gloomy shadow over the earth, we welcome "tired 

 nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep." Yet we 

 find a few moments for reading aud to gather in- 

 tellectual food to digest while at work. 



BOYS, DON'T KILL THE BIRDS. 

 "Tnx robin red-breast till or late bad re«t, 



At the present time the animal kingdom seems 

 tube gaining the ascendeucy over the vegetable. 

 in the form of insects that vie with each other in 

 their depredations upon vegetable products. A 

 few years ago, tbe various kinds of grain, fruit, 

 und flowers, were grown with little difficulty from 

 that source, but now, almost everything that is 

 planted or sown in the garden or held, is attacked 

 by some villainous insect, that prevents tbe naturul 

 growth and development of tbe plant, and these 

 pests of vegetation, are alarmingly on the increase; 

 "see their numbers, how they swell." They are 

 already formidable, and if they are permitted to 

 proceed much further in their conquests upon the 

 vegetable domain, it is evident, that they will sub- 

 vert the kingdom, and Ceitus will be despoiled of 



Tbe most prominent enuse of this embargo upon 

 vegetable nature, lus been the indiscriminate and 

 cruel massacre of the birds, for tbe last few years, 

 by boys nod itinerant sportsmen, who have de- 

 stroyed yearly, tntl "f thotwmeU of the iusect-eat- 

 iug birds, in consequence of which, some species 

 have become nearly extinct. If boys must arm 

 and equip for sporting, they should retire to some 

 back field, or to the margin of some swamp, and 

 shoot at a mark, and the ones that return without 

 injuring their comrades, or molesting the birds, 

 ought to be called the bttt ftllote*} 



Tbe birds are the natural enemies of insects, aud 

 they seem to hate been created to keep the odious 

 vermin within proper limits; and if the moral and 

 intellectual faculties of Young America, remain so 

 obtuse, as to cause their possessors to take pleasure 

 in pestroying the singing birds we should have 

 stringent laws enacted for their protection. 



The crows are perhaps the most useful of the 

 feathered tnbe, for thev destroy worms, gru s, 

 mole*, mice, beetles, Ac, through the summer, 

 b«id« removing the putrid flirt from dead ani- 

 ields, thus preserving the 

 iuld otherwise become de- 

 It hu been ascertained 



purity of the a 



seven hundred or a thousand flies per day, and the 

 other birds are equally useful in their respective 

 spheres. Nothing was made in vuin, especially 

 the birds, whose presence and cheerful music ant- 

 mates and enlivens the scenery of earth. 



When " the morning stars sang together," these 

 atrial ministrels undoubtedly performed a grand 

 oratorio, in the bowers of Eden, tbe bird of Para- 

 dise presiding as chief director to the musical 

 throng, whose enchanting melodies were in har- 

 mony with the most grand and imposing event re- 

 corded in the annals of the Universe 



When spriug returns she is accompanied by these 



tbe air, while old Boreas retires to bis arctic homo. 

 Aurora's approach is announced by a prelude from 

 the sylvan songsters, while nature echos with more 

 than dulcet symphonies her greeting to tbe orb of 

 day. The farmer is welcomed to the field by the 

 songs of the robin and lurk, whilo the thrush sits 

 upon the topmost bough of aomo monarch of tbe 

 forest, and gives utterance to the exuberant feel- 

 ings of his nature iu a clear, sweet and eloquent 

 song, interspersed with brilliant variations, that 

 never fails to delight bis auditors. The birds form 

 a charming link in the great chain of animated be- 

 ing, that cannot be broken with impunity, for, 



THE SUPPLY OF STREAMS. 



Tiieiia seems to have been quite a little disci 

 sion going on, io the Young Huralist, in rega 

 as to from whence comes the water wine), lill,-, o 

 streams ; and in a late number of the Uural, 1 

 SI. Mason holds forth a new theory, at least to n 

 aud which seems to be slightly absurd. 



Rain and snow not only contribute to supply o 

 springs and streams with water, but arc tbe 01 

 contributors. Rain falling upon the earth 

 eiihcr ibWubBd by it or trickling through it, dr 

 by drop, each drop uniting with other ixopj, unl 

 forming a small stream, it bursts forll 

 is called a spring, and from thence £ 

 surface; or when the rain falls very fast, runs off 

 immediately, sometimes causing floods. The idea 

 that the water from the sea filters through and 



on the 



of the great lakes, is absurd. 



There is also another wron 



seas. These are salt-water loki 



and herein lies the reason of 



Ml'i'- ii 



lissolved state, salt and other mineral 

 )f the soil, which are left on the evap- 

 e water. The evaporation goes on as 

 ics iu. This will also account for the 



iou of the waters, in tbe rain falling 



urses, the hand of the Creator, sup- 



Thec 



i did not stop v 



the first seven days, but through the laws of No 

 ire then established, has been continually going 

 ii, ond is still going on, and will go c 

 id of time. 



Washington, dun., June, K'.J. 



Oijb happiness depends very much u pot 

 tote we form of lire, and the ell 

 bring ourselves into harmony with 



me Who are Hub ■;■; 



adopting a philusophy which Jifs . 

 the face of things, and imbues all 



-itb a coloring ,;.] vi.iiio.--. These . 



■the negative of thing- Who th.m. present joys 

 e ever darkened l... m„ Endows ol future gnef. 



