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THE CULTIVATOR. 
doubts are entertained of the state of the atmosphere which a parti¬ 
cular species may require. 
138. Leaves growing in air are covered with a cuticle. 
139. Leaves growing under water have no cuticle. 
140. All the secretions of plants being formed in the leaves, or at 
least the greater part, it follows that secretions cannot take place 
if leaves are destroyed. 
141. And as this secreting property depends upon specific vital 
powers connected with tlie decomposition of carbonic acid, and call¬ 
ed into action only when the leaves are freely exposed to light and 
air, (279.) it also follows that the quantity of secretion will be in di¬ 
rect proportion to the quantity of leaves, and to their free exposure 
to light and air. 
142. The usual position of leaves is spiral at regularly increasing 
or diminishing distances ; they are then said to be alternate. 
143. But if the space, or the axis, that separates two leaves, is re. 
duced to nothing at alternate intervals, they become opposite. 
144. And it the spaces that separate several leaves be reduced to 
nothing, they become verticillate. 
145. Opposite and verticillate leaves, therefore differ from alter- 
nate leaves only in the spaces that separate them being reduced to 
nothing.—( To be continued .) 
Yountr Men’s Department. 
HINTS TO YOUNG FARMERS—No. VI. 
POLITICAL DUTIES. 
In a free country, offices are created for the public accommodation— 
not lor individual emolument. They are generally considered honorary; 
and, when spontaneously conferred, are among the highest rewards of 
merit. To deserve them, is worthy of your ambition;—to crave them, is 
debasing, and implies a willingness to surrender that independence of 
mind which is the high prerogative of freemen; and to depend upon them 
for a livelihood, is to sell yourself, unconditionally, and the noblest facul¬ 
ties of your mind, for the fickle, unsubstantial smiles of power. A thirst for 
office is almost as bad as athirst for rum. The more either is indulged in, 
the more insatiable are its cravings. Every repetition of the potion 
but begets new desires, until, finally, the passion,in one case, terminates 
in delirium tremens, and, in the other, in delirium carutidatum. I have 
known many a worthy man ruined in his usefulness and in his fortune, 
by this latter disease, and ultimately terminate his career under the com 
plicated horrors of both maladies. 
In selecting your public agents, adopt the same caution that pvudence 
would suggest in your private affairs: choose those who are acquainted 
with the business in which you mean to employ them, or who have ho 
nesty, industry and talents sufficient to perform it faithfully; who know 
your wishes and your interests; and who have shown an ability to manage 
a public trust, by having conducted creditably and successfully their pri¬ 
vate affairs. Such men possess civic virtues, and merit civic rewards.— 
But the man who cannot, or will not, bating unusual casualties, provide 
for his own wants, by his own industry, is unfit to be trusted with public 
matters. Distrust him who reiterates his importunities for your vote or 
your influence, as wanting either good habits or good principles. Good 
habits should render him independent of public _gid, and good principles 
should make him ashamed to ask for it. 
Are we, then, to reject, as the bane of happiness, the honors and emo¬ 
luments of office? No; accept them, when proffered from worthy mo¬ 
tives, as a duty, not as a source of wealth; as a compliment to your me¬ 
rit, and as the requital of an obligation which you o*e to society;—but 
never accept them with conditions, express or implied, which would dis¬ 
honor you as a freeman. Accepted under a sense of public duty, ihe du¬ 
ties will not seem onerous, nor the emolument become seducing. And 
when you have enjoyed the honors, and fulfilled the duties, sacrifice nei¬ 
ther your political nor your religious sentiments to retain them. The 
spirit of a free government forbids monopoly. Whether they impose a 
duty, or coffer honor and profit, offices ,'hould be shared by those who 
are capable and worthy, whatever be their creed in politics or religion: 
for, to make one’s professions the passport to office, would be to patron¬ 
ize duplicity and servile meanness at the expense of honesty and sturdy 
independence. 
I will close this lesson with the brief history of a school-mate. Job Ah 
l<rton, commenced life under the most happy auspices. His farm was a 
pattern of neatness—his fields well cultivated, his cattle in fine order, his 
fences in repair, and his buildings tidy and comfortable. Job owed no 
man, and had a snug sum at interest. His children were growing up, un¬ 
der the parent’s example, models of industry and good breeding. Every 
thing throve under his care, and he was pointed to by all as the best farm¬ 
er in the town of S. His good habits, and the influence which these pro¬ 
cured him, at length brought him into political notice, and he became a 
s iccessful candidate, very much against his will, for the assembly. He 
returned from Albany in the spring with some new notions, but the ha¬ 
bits of the farmer still preponderated. To a second nomination Job had 
less objection; nay, he secretly intrigued for it, for, as he told his friends, 
he thought he was then qualified to be useful. The second triumph, and 
the consequence it gave him in the political and fashionable circles, turn¬ 
ed his head, and he came home an altered—an infatuated man. He sunk 
the farmer —and took upon himself the political charge of his town and 
county. He discovered that he was destined to become a great man, and 
politics and office engrossed his whole attention. He floated upon the 
surface until he had passed through the several offices of judge, senator, 
and member of congress, and then sunk so low, that those who had ho¬ 
nored him once, knew him no more. 
In the mean time the farm, no longer accustomed to the call of “ come 
boys' ” showed the absence of the master; the fences were prostrate, the 
cattle neglected, and the buildings were verging to ruin The boys, too, 
as boys ever will, aping the habits of the father, began to strut a3 gentle¬ 
men, and to look up for office and dignities. As industry departed, pro¬ 
digality entered, and soon wasted the frugal earnings of former years. At 
length the illusion vanished, and Allerton saw, once more, things in their 
true light. He found himself deeply in debt, with slender means, and 
without office, with an indolent extravagant family upon his hands. Of¬ 
fices had ruined him, as it has thousands of others, who have abandoned 
good business to follow in its delusive train. In his distress he mustered 
resolution to do what many others will now have to do, or do worse: He 
pulled up stakes, and with the wreck of his former fortune, fled to the 
wilds of Indiana, resumed his former habits of industry, curtailed his ex¬ 
penses, and again prospered—leaving his official habits and official pride 
as a beacon to others. 
Who is there, that among his acquaintance does not now recognize a 
Job Allerton? 
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