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inferior animals, their physiology, diseases
ard remedies, present to him SO many fields
for research, no less useful than entertaining,
while medical repositories and more eabo-
rate works, without number, serve at once
to illustrate the never-ending discoveries of
the active practitioner, and to stimulate and
feed the voracious curiosity of the ambitious
student. In numerous colleges, again in
corporatcd and literally endowed for instruc-
tion-bc gathers the fruit of ages of practi-
cal experiment and scientific deduction.
There stands the skiIful surgeon, with his
is knife and nerve Of iron, to rip up and
lay bare the very fountains of life and thought;
and at his side the chimist, with his cruciblc,
to extract medicine from the rudest mineral,
or, in the simplest plant that grows upon
your way-side, to detect "poison more dead
ly than the mad-dog's TOOTH" Put into his
hands the exqusitey delicate and beautiful
poppy, and he will quickly draw from its
stem charm that can assuage or put an end
to the bittcrest agonies of the body or the
mind
The LAWYER, again, after reaping all
the advantages of established and we'll
endowed ldv schools, is forced to keep pace
whether he will or not, with the vulumnous
decisions OF the courts, and the evcr-varying
enactments of the Legislature. To these he
generally adds some knowledge of the
sciences, and close familiarity with classical
literature, and the lighter contributions of an
ever-teeming press. From these sources the
late Mr.. Pinkncy, whose ambition of intel
lectual ienown no measure of glory could
satiate, was wont to derive lis wonderful
powers of illustration, as well as the choicest
flowers of his oratory. His very last mo-
ments, accelerated by an extraordinary ex-
ertion Of the reasoning faculty in case Of
! great importance, were bcguilcd bv new
| charming fiction from the pen of the Great
Unknown. Thus did reason and imaeina-
ton alternately sway and beguile the mind
OF that great advocate, and lend clulgence
TO the last moments of his brilliant career, as
clouds are gildcd by the rays of tho setting
sun.
The MERCHANT, lie whom the Farmer
supposcs to con6ne his reading to prices
current, and his pen TO bookkecping-evcn
he, too, of late years, is seen forming "mer-
camille library assOeiaticns," TO provide a
collection of authors, add succession of
learned lectures on mercantile law, the cur
rency OF different nations, and on all the arts
and productions which furnish for commerce
its materials, its security, and its profits
While too many young Agriculursts are
wasting their leisure hours in idle amusc-
mrnts, or DOING them away in lstCss va
Guilty, the Merchant is study @, among the
wants and the fabrics of foreign countries.
where he can iind the best market for ali the
productions Of American agriculture, and
here he can buy on the best terms all those
articles which he well knows tho Planter
Farmer must have in exchange for the fruits
OF his own labor. Take, for example, an
article oil extensive trade and consumpiion-
COFFEE. Does the agricultural consumer
suppose that the Merchant, vino supplies
him, is as ignorant of the History of this va
liable product of tropical climate: as ho is
(alas too oiien) of the most common staples
OF his fields! Far from it. If the Young
merchant be man in whom the intellectual
would rise above the mere money making
animal, the inquiries naturally suggested to
every active mind, euifiratiag or dealing in
valuable commodity, will have taught him,
in this case, that Cotte is native of Yemen,
in Arabia and that, on the wings of GEM
merce, Cha, great dissemination of improve
ments and blessings of every sort,) this III
gredicnt of delightful beverage and potent
auxiliary of the temperance cause was borne
TO be propagaied in the southern extremity
of India, in Java, in Brazil, and the West
Indies. He will have learned that, though
now in such general use over the habi,ubc
globe, like the Irish (American) potato, nc
mention is made Of either by ancient writer's
nor by any of the modcrns previous to the
10Th century. The first public co0rc-house
was opened in London as late as 1862
when Il Turkey merchant, having brought
with him some bags Of it, and a Greek ser.
want accustomed 10 making it, his house wa,
thronged with visitors, to see and taste thi,
new and curious liquor. To CRAFTY hi,
friends, without Inconvenience to himself
lie allowed his servant to sell coffee publicly
and thus we are told was the first coffee
house established in London, where til,
Virginia coffee house now stands. From
such legnning, Il is remarkable berry grew
into general use; So that, in 1928, the guam.
tity received for home consumption in Eng.
land was 16.522,42 pounds. In 1000 !
plant was sent to Europe, from the berries
of which were derived the first coffee PLANTED
in the West Indies. But let me no, wan.
der from my leading object, which is t,
hold up to ogricaltaists the examples of til,
followers of other pursuits, and in pointing
among all of them, to the organization o
soc eties and Of ertensire libraries far M
diffusion Of kmoriedge, incii. American
husbandmen to reflect seriously if it does no
bchovc them to go and do SO ikcwise. NJ
only is # to be feared that there is lamen
table absence Of all regular association q
mind and of means, for prosecuting the in
quiries and promulealing the discoveries an
Improvements of which agriculture is sus
ceptiblc, bu! that even the codes and jorr
mails dedicated TO their particular use AN
instruction. are not in the rising generatio
OF husbaidmcn. How many have read eve
the Farmers series Of those excellent wor;
published in England by tie society for til
f diffusion of useful knowledge, telling, as the
q do, all about horses, cattle, sheep, grains
g grasses, implements, buildings, &C.! Eve