Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-12-27

jeremiah Smith. Rain water cisterns were
tried, but the buildings from which the water
came were surrounded by trees, the leaves of
which filled up the conductors and spoiled the
water. So for years, every Monday, the team
and man were employed to haul the supply
from the spring up troublesome hill. But
the present proprietor, taking advantage of one
of the most interesting inventions of modern
times, has erected small dam, so as to raise
little pond by the same old spring, put in
pose. more than all the oxen in the county.
This little machine, which costs but trifling
sum in itself, besides the pipes which convey
the water, throws portion of the water, by
its own action, to any desired height, keeping
up an unceasing motion, like the pulsation of
the human heart, day and night, until the ma
chine is worn out. The water is thus thrown
into the kitchen Of Mr.. Cilley's house, where
a large reservoir receives it, from which the
waste water is conducted under ground, TO
supply large stock of cattle in the barn yard.
AHSAS "AS hiohJ proves WuCio "otOi thuo
be brought to our buildings, many where it
may be brought in common aqueducts, or
pumped up by windmils, both for ordinary
uses, and for irrigation, in seasons of drought.
We hardly know of any particular in which
true comfort and economy may better be pro-
NOTED, than in avaiing yourself of modern in
ventions in raising and conducting water.
While we would discourage expenditures
for that which merely gratifies taste for dis
play, we would encourage liberal outlay for
such conveniences as lessen human toll. 1t
has been well and beautifully said, that They
are the heroes of the race, who abridge the
time of human toll, and multiply the results.
Their place is high above those who command
armies. They are the true benefactors. This
is especially true of New England. We have
here no servants, and want no servle class.
Let us adapt our habits to the republican the
ory of society, and so arrange our houses and
affairs, that all our labors may be seasonably
performed, independent, as far as practicable,
of assistance outside our own families. The
family which can perform its own labor, with
out and within, unaidcd by others, has reached
point of independence, which they can never
attain, who depend on hired help.
Many attempt this independence, but in the
wrong way. Having commenced in large
and inconVenient house, they attempt TO per-
form all the labor, which is beyond their
strength, and the wife and mother is soon pros
trated by ill-health, pain, over-exertion and
care. Adapt your load TO the strength OF them
at the start, and do not try to drag double
freight through life, especially OF useless tim
Der. There are thousand little conveniences
of infinite importance in every dwelling, which
are too often neglected, because the money
has all been spent for the house and parlor
furniture. Among those, most prominent,
perhaps, are the appliances for warming, and
supplying with water. Then follow conven-
lent milk rooms and store rooms, bathing
rooms, cooking apparatus, washing, drying
and ironing places and implements, and the
hundred little articles of kitchen utensils,
which your wife will enumerate to you, when
you are ready TO procure them.
A New England farm should be little re-
public of itself, where every citizen should
take his share of the burden, and everything
be arranged so that intelligent, educated labor
should be able TO manifest its superiority over
mere brute force, and where display and fash
ion should yield at once, to the demands of ra-
tional beings, for some leisure for intellectual
culture.-N. E. Farmer.