unless she can be taught at home, as you and 
Emily were, and even then they had better 
study at school, too; and every boy should be 
taught something about the Mature of the soil, 
and of plants and animals, and of mechanics 
and so forth, at school, as well as of mathe¬ 
matics and languages. The ordinary things 
of our common every-day life ought to be 
made a thorough study at school.” 
"But, then, how can it be done ?” “ I don’t 
see,” said Uncle John; “I have been a 
school trustee for years and have thought over 
this matter a great deal. There are no books 
and few teachers that are qualified for it. It 
seems to me that the many good papers we 
now have are doing an excellent service in 
this way.” 
•* You must not expect, Brother John, that 
all these things can be taught and learned at 
school. A young mind cannot appreciate 
them; just as a young animal must be fed 
upon milk and cannot digest bay or corn, so 
the young mind requires simple, easily-digest 
ed food, but such as will give it strength and 
ability to digest more solid nutriment after¬ 
wards. And just there comes in the benefit of 
a course of study the exact connection of 
Casibianca, or Cato’s Soliloquy, or, Mark 
Antony’s "Friends, Roman’s Countrymen 
end me your ear3,’ &e., &c. I know from 
my own experience how much better a man 
may plow a field, or feed or milk or care for a 
cow, or even spread manure on a field, or 
manage it in the yard when he understands 
the real natnre of all these things, or has his 
mind so trained that he can learn all about 
them very quickly. In fact, a knowledge of 
drawing geometrical figures alone will enable 
a man to plow a furrow straight and even, ii» 
One day’3 practice, better than in a year’s 
work without it, simply because the mind and 
the eye have both been educated and can con¬ 
trol the hands. How can a man that cannot 
tell when a marking pole is straight up and 
down, know when his furrow is not straight?’’ 
“ Yes, George, you are right,” said his 
father, and nob only such practical study as this 
is required but also study such as disciplines 
the mind and teaches it to observe and think; 
so that the child may finish in after life the 
education of which only a foundation can be 
laid at school. There are four million farms 
in the United States and doubtless 25,000,000 
persons living and depending upon farms. How 
_ much better would the country 
I be governsd; how much more of 
honesty in public affairs; how 
much more even a distribution 
of wealth,how much more virtue 
and how much less vice, were all 
I these 25,000.000 people as well 
I educated as the lawyers and the 
business men who now control 
legislation and public affaire and 
do the governing of the coun¬ 
try. A farmer’s child should 
have an equally good education 
as the child of a mechanic, or a 
lawyer, or a merchant, or any 
•— ,,„W professional man. And if the- 
HdflfiM farmers, as you sar. cannot a f- 
"Ah, why, indeed,” replied George "and 
what is the use of a young man spending 
his time in studying dead languages when 
there is so much of living interest about us 
that we need to know about.” 
“Now, George, you are a lawyer, you know, 
or think you are, as all young lawyers do, and 
think you know a good deal more than any 
old fogy in the profession; and just tell me, if 
you can, whether or not you could have done 
as well here this year, or if Emily could have 
done all this cooking and confectionery here, 
or have set out this table in this elegant sty le 
with these flowers and fragrant tea roses and 
fruit, not to mention the dishes, if both of you 
had not bad the education which has brought 
it all out of your brain. Was it not the dis¬ 
cipline you have gone through in those years 
at school and college which has given you the 
ability to do all these things in a better and 
more effective manner than an unedu a ted 
person could do? Why, my dear niece, you 
don’t forget what you learned in your despised 
geography lessons, that nutmegs are grown in 
the Spice Islands by the Dutch planters, and 
that cloves come from Zanzibar, and vanilla 
is produced in Mexico, and when you are put- 
THE STORY OF STONY BR00E FARM 
HENRT STEWART. 
CHAPTER XIII. 
(Continued from page 690.) 
It had been a busy day. There was much 
to be shown and much to be seen and there 
were consultations arao”g the bouseke- pers 
in doors and among the fanners out cf doors, 
and it was hard to say which of these re¬ 
quired more time or discussion. And there 
were such breaks in the various subjects 
spoken of and so many new ones came up be¬ 
fore the old ones were disposed of that every 
one of the party found it to be a rest v hen 
the work was done, the cows fed, .the chick¬ 
ens all at roost and the simple but elegant 
supper provided was ready. There was 
chicken salad, potted trout from the spoils of 
the brook; sweet cream cheese, delicious 
peaches from the orchard with ice cream; 
apples, pears and grapes; French 
rolls, which Mrs. Bates declared 
she had never seen equaled in 
France; jams and jellies, and 
custards which the cousins said a 
they must get recipes for, and 
butter which they and their 
father tasted with the air of con¬ 
noisseurs, looking at each other 
in the way of experts and nod¬ 
ding their heads as much as to 
say, "this will do. 
i,” and finally 
admitted that it was better than 
they could ever hope to attain 
until they had a cold spring 
house and changed their churn 
for a Blanchard or a Rectangu¬ 
lar they didn’t know which for 
they had seen both here and 
could not yet say which wn9 
the better; and there was new 
sweet cider made from the ripest 
of the " Boughs” and the Por¬ 
ter’s; and iced milk ; and all 
served without any fire or cook¬ 
ing on that hurried day ; and 
every thing was the product of 
the farm, and cost nothiogjin the 
way of money more than for 
the sugar and the salt and pep¬ 
per and few spices which of 
course had to be purchased. 
"And some people suppose, 
said Mr. Bates, 1 ‘ that farmers 
are obliged to live on salt pork 
and store mackerel and have in¬ 
digestible hot biscuit and cab¬ 
bage and beans and the poor 
wife must come from the hot 
stove with scorched face and all 
over-heated and serve the really 
costly meal prepared so labori¬ 
ously ; and they actually pity 
them. In all our year and a 
half s travels I don’t remember 
having so well prepared and de¬ 
licious a meal as this.” 
I an education, it proves very' 
clearly that they are not getting, 
their share of the general wealth 
which they create by their labor. 
For their work and labor pro¬ 
duces the very base and founda¬ 
tion of all the wealth of the 
world. But they will not be 
able to secure tbeir proper and 
just share until they are as well 
educated and as able to take an 
equally high position in society 
as those can and do whose wealth 
comes out of the farmers’ labor. 
Farmers own twenty-five thou¬ 
sand million dollars’ worth of 
property; the value of which is 
actual and not in any way ficti¬ 
tious as city property, stocks, 
and bonds are. What would fc ap- 
pen if farmers were to stop work 
for a year and feed only them¬ 
selves and not sell a bushel of 
grain as they very well could do 
if they thought proper to do it 
and combined to do it? And 
being thus the most numerous 
and the most wealthy class, they 
ought to be the most intelligent; 
well educated; the most power¬ 
ful; in fact the ruling class and 
should enjoy an equal share of 
comfort and luxury with any 
other class in existence. That 
they do not, is simply because 
they do not seem to perceive 
their rights; do not claim them 
or combine to secure them.” 
“But we are very glad to get 
home, and as American farmers 
_ _ are so fortunate and so much 
l||§f§|pfl to be envied, and admired, we 
= — propose to become Americau 
farmers too, and take up our 
pgtlllSP abode here for the future and 
enjoy ourselves all we possibly 
can,” said Mrs. Bates. 
"Oh, mamma, you don’t mean 
it! Papa, is it true?” 
"It is your mamma’s wish, 
Emily, and I am satisfied. I 
-g gs | s h a ]i have to be away often, and 
‘ for a considerable length of time 
at intervals, and your mamma 
will be at home here with you.” 
“Ob, how delightful, George why don’t 
you say something?” 
"Ah, you see, I suspected it all along. But I 
am quite as glad as you are Emily.” It is the 
one thing we needed to complete our comfort 
here. We shall now indeed be a happy family. 
“As happy, I hope, Emily, as Uncle John’s 
family. You remember once that was your 
wish, and I don’t think you can be much hap¬ 
pier here than we are at our home; what do 
you say, girls?” 
"If Cousin Emily can Had as much pleasure 
and enjoyment and happiness here as we at 
home do, she will have indeed little lei to 
wish for.”—{To be continued.] 
"Ab,” replied Uncle John, 
"there are farmers and there 
are farmers; and housekeepers Fg? 
too differ; and then you must re¬ 
member, that there is more 
knowledge and skill involved 
in the getting up of a single but 
elegant meal than in a plain and 
poor one such as yon bave de¬ 
scribed. What we want in our 
farm-house is more knowledge 
of the art of cookery, more sci- ^, 
ence, in fact. For instance, ggStp&ftifp 
here’s some potted trout which 
is a delicacy, and a chicken sal- 
ad; which I w ill say, is a delicacy 
too; now it requires more art to IfiiGpPfSlp 
pot half a dozen trout in this 
way, although it is done, I see, 
in a second hand potted meat 
can—to save expense I suppose 
Emily—and to make a really 
good chicken salad, although ^ 
there are no more in it than the — 
cold fried chicken—well, yes, 
< fricasseed.’ Emily, I beg your 
pardon—fricasseed chicken, hard-boiled eggs, 
some lettuce and some celery and the cream 
dressing (of which the less I say the more 1 
may be supposed to know about it) than to 
stew or roast those chickens, or to fry those 
trout in gi-ease and spoil them. And more 
than that these dishes may be prepared at a 
time when other work is not pressing and are 
served cold and yet fresh and new, when 
work impressing.” 
" Why could we not learn all that at school” 
asked one of the cousins, " instead of fussing 
with grammar and analysis and geography 
which we forget before we get our gradua¬ 
ting diplomas framed and put away t" 
Autumn Leaves —Fig. 394. 
which, with the daily work of the after life, 
may not be apparent at once. But you find it 
out afterwards.” 
" I have thought,” said George, " how much 
good it might do in schools if something was 
read from a good paper every day. For in¬ 
stance, here is the Rural, New-Yorker, that 
mamma is poring over just now, there is read¬ 
able and useful practical information in every 
column for both farmers and housekeepers 
which might be made of the greatest use to 
boys and girls, being related to things which 
are going on about them every day of their 
lives, and in which they would take a personal 
Interest. That would be better than reading 
ting these things in your custard you do it 
better just because you know all about them, 
and having weighed them all in your mind 
when you were at school, you weigh them now 
more accurately in your scales, and so by the 
skill gained in this way you make a better 
custard or cake than poor Biddy, who was 
raised in an Irish cabin on a bog, ever could 
do with all your teaching. No; a housekeeper 
or farmer can never learn, study or know too 
much, and the more the mind is trained the 
better the hands can do its prompting. But 
you are quite right, my girl. Every girl 
ought to be taught to sew and embroider, and 
to cook and do other household work at school 
