The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1858-04-01
AN IDEAL RURAL HOME.

Lion. Edward Everett, of Massachusetts,
delivered an agricultural speech at Buffalo,
last fall, before the State Agricultural So
ciety of New York. We annex the conclu.
ding paragraphs, descriptive of an improved
Rural Home i'll the country:
"One more suggestion, my friends, and I
re!!ye your patience. AS work of art, !
know few things more pleasing 10 the eye
ormore capable of aifor,ling scope and graf
ifcation to taste for the beautiful, than a
well situated, well cultivated farm. The
man of refinement will hang with never
wearied gaze Oh Il landscape by Claude or
Salvador; the price Of selection of the
most fertile land in the. West would not
purchase few square feet of the canvass
on which these great artists have depicted
q rural scene. But nature has forms and
proportions beyond the painters skill; her
divine pencil touches the landscape with
living lights and shadows, never mingled on
his pallet. What is there on earth which
can more entirel y charm the eye or CRAFTY
the taste than a noble farm? 1t stands up
on southern slope, gradually rising with
varlegatc ascent from the plain, sheltered
from the northwest winds by the woody
heights, broken here and there with moss
covered powders, which impart variety and
strength to the outline. The native forest
has been cleared from the greater part of
the farm, but suitable portion, carefully
tended, remains in wood for economical pur-
poses, and to give picturesque effect to the
landscape. The eyes range round three
fourths Of the horizon over fertiel expansc
bright with the cheerful waters of rip
ping stream, generous river, or glcam-
ing lake-dotted with hamlets, each with
its modest spire-and, if the farm lies in
the vicinity of the coast, a distant glimpse
from the backgrounds, of the mysterious,
everlasting sea, completes the prospect. 1t
is situated off the high road, but near
enough TO the village to be easily accessi-
ble to the church, the school-house, the
post-ofiice, the railroad, a sociable neighbor,
or a travelling friend. 1t consists in due
proportion of pasture and tillagc, meadow
and woodland field and gar]an.
"a substantial dwelling with everything
for convenience and nothing for ambition
with the fitting appendage of stable, and
barn, and corn-barn. and other farm build
ings, not for4 citing spring house with Il
living fountain of water -occupies, upon q
gravelly knoll, a position well chosen to
command the whole estate. A few acres
OH the front, and on the sides of the dwell
ling, set apart to crafty the eye with the
cho1cer forms Of rural beauty, are adorned
with stately avenue, with noble solitary
trees, with graceful clumps, shady walks, a
velvet lawn, brook murmuring over a pcb
bly, bed, here and there grand rock, whose
cool shadow at sunset streams across the
field; all displaying, in the real lovclincss
OF nature, the original Of those landscapes
OF which art in its perfection strives to give
us the counterfeit presentmcnt. Animals
of select breed, such as Paul Potter. and
Moreland, and Lands eer, and Rosa Bon
heur never painted, roam the pastures, or
till the hurdles and tile stalls; the plow
walks i'll rustic majesty across the plain
and opens the genial bosom of the earth to
to the sun and air; natures holy sacrament
CT seed time is solcmrizcd beneath the vault
ed Cathedral sky; silent dews, and gentle
showers, and kindly sunshine shed their
sweet influence on the teeming soil; spring.
ing verdure clothes the plain; golden wave.
lets, driven by the west wind, run over the
joyous wheat-field; the tall maize flaunts in
her crispy leaves and nodding tassals, while
we labor and while we rest, while we wake
and while we sleep, Gods chemistry, which
we cannot see, goes ON beneath the clods:
myrads and myriads of vital cells ferment
with elemental life; germ and stalk, and leaf
and flower, and silk and tassel, and grain
and fruit, grow up from the common earth
tile moving. machine and reaper-nute
rivals OF human industry-perform their
gIadsome task; the elI-piled wagon brings
home the ripened treasures of the year; the
bow of promise fulfilled spans the fore
ground of the picture, and the gracious GOV.
enant is redeemed, that while the earth re.
maneth, summer and winter, and heat and
cold, land day and night, and seed-time and
harvest, shall not fail"
An hnvention Wanted.-One of the most
useful inventions positively wanted by the
gas light using community, is some method
Of positively preventing. the gas jets from
Gas regulators have been in
vented to graduate the quantity passing
through the. tubes under varying pressures
Of the gas, but none which provides for a
steady flow to the burners. The vibrations
Of the gas light produce similar vibrations