lifting them, in imagination from their 
'squalid dingy room to broad green acres of 
the country, where the din and noise of the 
great city is unheard. The hint is given. 
You will find the plan an easy one to put in 
to execution and productive of much good. 
Try it and see if you cannot learn your 
scholars more good lessons than by any 
other method and by the refining influences 
of flowers make them better and nobler 
boys and girls. 
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Don’t Whine. 
Don’t be whining about not having a 
fair chance. Throw a sensible man out of a 
window, he'll fall on his feet and ask the 
nearest way to his work. The more you 
have to begin with, the less you will have 
in the end. Money you earn yourself is 
much brighter than any you can get out of 
dead men’s bags. A scant breakfast in the 
morning of life whets the appetite for a 
feast later in the day. He who has tasted a 
sour apple will have the more relish for a 
sweet one. Your present want will make 
future prosperity all the sweeter. Eighteen 
pence has set up many a peddler in busi¬ 
ness, and he has turned it over until he has 
kept his carriage. As for the place you are 
cast in, don’t find fault with that; you need 
not be a horse because you were born in a 
stable. If a bull tossed a man of metal sky 
high, he would drop dowm into a good 
place. A hard working young man with 
his wits about him will make money while 
others will do nothing but lose it. “Who 
loves his work and knows how to spare, 
may live and flourish anywhere. As to a 
little trouble, who expects to find cherries 
without stones, or roses without thorns ." 
Who would win must learn to bear. Idle¬ 
ness lies in bed sick of the mu Li grubs, 
where industry finds health and wealth. 
The dog in the kennel barks at fleas; the 
hunting dog does not even known that they 
are there. Laziness waits till the liver is 
drv. and never gets to market. lr\, 
swims it, and makes all the trade. “Can t 
do it” would not eat the bread but for him, 
but “Try” made meat out of mushrooms.— 
John Plowman. 
Fancy Farmers. 
No class of men have been ridiculed so 
much, and none have done so much good, 
as those who are denominated fancy far¬ 
mers. They have been, in all times and 
countries, the benefactors of the men who 
have treated them with derision. They 
have experimented for the good of the 
world, while others have simply worked for 
their own good. They tested theories while 
others raised crops for market. They have 
given a glory to the occupation of farming 
it never had before. Fancy farmers have 
changed the wild hog into the Suffolk and 
Berkshire, and the wild cattle of Britian in- 
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to Shorthorns; the mountain sheep with its 
lean body and hair fleece, into the South- 
down and Merino. They brought up the 
milk of the cows from pints to gallons. 
They have lengthened the sirloin of the 
bullock, enlarged the ham of the hog, given 
strength to the shoulder of the ox, rendered 
finer the wool of the sheep, added fleetness 
to the horse, and made beautiful every ani¬ 
mal that is kept in the service of man. 
They have improved and hastened the de¬ 
velopment of all domestic animals from 
which they sprang. Fancy farmers intro¬ 
duced irrigation and underdraining, also 
grinding and cooking for stock.. They have 
brought guano from Peru, and nitrate from 
Chili. They introduced and demesticated 
all the plants we have of foreign origin. 
They brought out the theory of the rotation 
of crops as a natural means for keeping up 
and increasing the fertility of the soil. 
They first ground up gypsum and bones, 
and treated the latter with acid to make 
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manures of peculiar value. They first 
analyzed soils as a means of determining 
what was wanted to increase their fertility. 
They introduced the most approved meth¬ 
ods of raising and distributing water. 
The man has not lived in vain who plants 
a good tree in the right place; and the sen¬ 
timent which prompted the tree-planting 
organizations at the west, and caused a day 
to be set apart for a united, voluntary pub¬ 
lic effort in this behalf, is akin to that 
which set on foot our charitable and mis- 
sionarv societies. 
