Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1850-11-06


81 and soon became as MUCH interested
preceding number.
Alter supper that evening Peter took
up The paper because he could not help
doing so-iae very sight Of i producing
j desire to know more Of what i, contain
90! He was reading 70 himself when ne
paused. and looking up SAID. thought
tally
can that really be so!'
Can what be so!' asked Hannah.
-Ifnhat is said in this paper be true.
replied Peter. i can pax Oh sny mortgage
in two years.
.N hat does il say?' enquired Hannah.
looking surprised.
IL says that swamp muck. treated IN
certain way makes a fertilizer equal IN
value. to lands Of certain character. 10
the best stable and barn-yarl composts.
i this really be -, can. as Just said.
pay OF the mortrase in two years For
mere are thousands Of cart load~ Of muck
ID that swamp across the orchard There
: liule book, il IS further stated here.
- Be had il Cincinnati, called The
Muck Manual Ii treaty seems TOO good
10 ba true
The Muck Manual was sent for and
obtained. and Peter studied il day and
nigh, for week. By that time he under
stood the matter thoroughly. and it was 10
him like light aheal.' Already the
pressure OF gloomy despon!encv. as he
looked into tac future. was 20 a great ex-
tent, removed. II his vineyard, now
tour Years old. produced good crop next
of Two or three hundred dollars. More.
over. If the Muck compost answered as
Wei as he WAS inclined to believe that it
would, one OF two hundred dollars would
be made by using II.
Week amer week came the Gazette
by post; but il did not, as at first. bear up
on lis margin tAe name OF Benjamin
Hicks. for tne old gentleman. instead Of
sending his own copy OF the paper, had
ordered il 10 Be maji"i 10 Peter from the
the office in Cincinnati. ~ longer, III
the mind oil the latter, were unpleasant
emotions excited when the Postmaster
handed him out regularly. on Saturdays.
the .Gazet;e' He would have felt a dis
appointment had there been any failure
of the paper 10 reach hiin with is acCus-
toned regularity.
il is wonderful what change was
wrought IN the whole family OF Peter
Ai-i4-- =, .s4~.' -.!.ast Snace Of tme by
the Introduction Ut .,,,apapr.. -
carefully sclect,.f -t,..-s ever jAculcatiug
some GOOD principIc-or awakening the
feelings to warmer sHmPathies i.s cur-
relt history of passing events: Is IIaa--
ant nalauge of wit and namor. au. il.
crave lessons 81 truth 10 The understands
ing. and rood impulses 10 the heart. gave
alinent 10 he hungry minds of the pa
rents and children. Il The same time tAat
i elevated them INTO a higher, purer ana
healthier region.
IL Hannah. na3 al1re.ines used 10
warD.e ilk a bird. from morning til night,
the sweet voice 81 music had become
dumb. Bat ere the Spring opened. tina,
voice was occasionally heard again break
ing forth III suatcaes Of old melodies Il
sounded strangely familiar and pleasant
20 Peter. when this happened; and ii his
heart awobe tHousa and dear, responsive
echoes.
Peter himself had become a different
man. and was looking hopefully forward
10 the coming summer. waen the expert
raents, he was going to enter uoon would
be tested The change III llIen and
Henry was quite as apparent. Eola be-
came excited to se!t-impr and 20;
their father = procure them some books,
Ii. when they studied lessons daily, wita
the regularity of scholars Il school Their
hearts being III what ta-y were doing,
they improved wonderfully. This fact
pleased J5,a their parents. ard increased
a gt1erffIE mess .. fa-. .=g itf1 which