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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[November 



ing of the mystic wire in old ocean's bed, 

 or threading it through Behring's Straits 

 and winding it around the globe, is too great 

 for the capital, energy, or intelligence of 

 the present generation. 



How wonderful the scale of development 

 in modern society ! The old wheel and 

 hand-loom of our mothers have passed away, 

 and given place to the busy hum and clatter 

 of our princely manufactories; the needle 

 of the weary housewife, plied by day and 

 night for clothing her family, has been ex- 

 changed for the ingenious sewing-machine, 

 turning off its ready-made garments, and 

 performing the labor of months in a day ; 

 the old printing-press of our Franklin, work- 

 ing off by the sweat of the brow only a few 

 hundred newspapers per day, has yielded to 

 the steam-press of our time, throwing off its 

 twenty thousand impressions per hour; the 

 brush of the artist patiently filling up his 

 outline, touch by touch, through toilsome 

 da}\s, to the pencils of light in the hand of 

 the king of day, picturing at a flash the 

 image of yourself, and of all around you; 

 the coaster, creeping cautiously along the 

 shore, dependent on wind and tide, to thou- 

 sands of steamboats which now dash ever 

 our lakes, rivers and oceans, despite of cur- 

 rent or tempest ; the old stage-coach, mak- 

 ing only fifty miles pqr day, to our despatch 

 and lightning trains, running fifty miles per 

 hour; the horse express and carrier-pigeon, 

 hailed as wonders in their time, to the elec- 

 tric telegraph, which, quick as thought, 

 speaks with a tongue of fire, the languages 

 of earth. 



Discoveries, inventions, and improvements 

 equally remarkable, characterize all the arts 

 of husbandry. Witness, in place of the 

 forked stick of the ancients, or the wooden 

 plow of our boyhood, the improved iron 

 plow of every model, and adapted to all 

 kinds of soil and situation ; and, still more 

 marvellous, the Steam Plow, moving as a 

 thing of life across the broad prairie, turn- 

 ing up its numerous furrows at once, and 

 leaving behind it a wake like that of a ma- 

 jestic ship. Witness also, instead ot the 

 rude hook, the sickle, or the scythe of the 

 farmer, slowly and tediously gathering his 

 crops, our mighty mowing and reaping ma- 

 chine, cutting down its ten to twenty acres 

 per day. 



The great industrial pursuit which this 

 Society seeks to promote furnishes testimony 



of progress not a whit behind the most fa- 

 vored of the arts. 



Behold the improved methods of cultiva- 

 tion ; the vast number of nurseries and or- 

 chards, springing up everywhere, as by en- 

 chantment; the novel processes of repro- 

 duction, multiplying plants in endless profu- 

 sion, and as by the stroke of a magician's 

 wand. Witness the interminable lists of 

 varieties now in cultivation, increasing with 

 each revolving year ; the restless and anx- 

 ious desire to obtain everything new and 

 promising from whatever country or sea-girt 

 isle it comes ; the refined taste for choice 

 fruits rapidly extending through every gra- 

 dation of society ; the standard of pomolo- 

 gy, like the star of empire rising in the east, 

 moving still onward to the west, and excit- 

 ing the attention and astonishment of man- 

 kind. 



But this progress results from no super- 

 natural power. It is rather an illustration 

 of human capability, acting in conformity 

 with natural laws, and in harmony with the 

 benevolent designs of the Great Husband- 

 man for the amelioration of society, and the 

 display of his infinite wisdom and love, 

 " sought out of those who take pleasure 

 therein." It exhibits the conquests of mind 

 over matter, the dominion of man over na- 

 ture, improving, adorning, and elevating her 

 to the highest and noblest purposes of her 

 creation. 



Inspired with these sentiments, let us 

 take encouragement, and press on in the 

 career of improvement, ever remembering 

 that study and experience make the man ; 

 and that, for the highest attainment and 

 the greatest success, we must depend upon 

 the culture of the mind as well as of the 

 soil. 



"Survey the globe through every zone, 



From Lima to Japan, 

 In lineaments of light 'tis shown 



That Culture makes the man. 

 All that man has, had, hopes, can have, 



Past, promised, or possessed, 

 Are fruits which Culture gives or gave, 



At industry's behest." 



To cure burns or scalds, cover them at 

 once liberally with wheat flour, sweet and 

 nice, let them remain. They will heal rap- 

 idly, and all heat be drawn out. 



The knowledge and fear of the Lord are 

 the beginning of wisdom. 



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