Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1858-01-09

farm, nourishlng nothing but reptiles and
coarse grasses, How beautiful they
would look dtched and drained, luxuriant
with clover and nodding with the plumes
of herds grass. Shall art do the work
of frost, and make these acres solid in
Summer
The husbandman is not merely a tiller
Of the soil. He sustains other relations,
and this covering Of snow should remind
him of other duties. How kind is Nature
in bestowiug this mantle upon the earth in
this incloment scasonl The lowly plants
that nestle in the woods, the grasses and
the tender shrubs, and all 81 eltered from
the fierce winds and the cutting cold.-
Benca'h the banks along the fences, the
ground hardly freezes. Multitu6es of
plants, that would otherwise perish, are
only invigorated by their hybernation, and
are prepared to bust forth into new life
and beauty with the opening Spring. She
has forecast, and sees, that though she
needs not these plants now, she will need
them in the future. Thus they are shell
tered and saved.
There are tender plants in the human
family that will need shelter this Winter.
! Whatever the husbandmans circumstances,
he should not forget the poor around him.
He will need them in the future if he
does not now. A little labor furnished
now, or charity if needed, will bring
warmth and comfort to their homes, and
carry them through the WiGter safely.
In such n world So thorny, aud where none
| Finds happiness urbligh:ed, or, iffound,
Without some thistly sorrow at his side
1t seems the part Of w sdom, and sin
| Against the law of love, to measure lots
With less distinguished than rselves that thus
We may with patience bear our moderate ills
| Aud sympa,hize with others suffering more"
Gratitude for all that Providence has done
for him, should prompt the farmer 10 be.
friend the poor.
But the snow is a spotless tablet, as well
as covering. So is this new year upon
which we have entered. 1t is a blank
now, but is all to be filed up with busy
thoughts, words and deeds. What shall
be written upon these unsoiled pages 3
What new improvement shall be introduced
upon he farm, and what old ones shall be
prosecuted with new vigor! Whose hear
does hot swell with hope and with gene
rous ambition, to make only fair marks
upon the coming days and months. In
our secular affairs, as in our spiritual, it
will quite likely be unto US according to
our faith The faith that works persistently
and with energy, will in due time, trans.
form barren acres into fertile meadows,
rocky pastures into smooth fields, and miry
swamps into solid land. 1t will realize
in more glowing colors than we have
painted.
AS We look over our books we find
many names against which have been
written during the past year that omiuous
word deceased" And how many more
of The Agricultwia family, unreported to
US, have since this day twelve months,
fallen in life's battle field. This year will
bear the same record. Ofthe thirty thous.
and or more, regular readers who begin
the volume with us, in NIL probability
thousand or more will fall by the way.side
in the year upon which we are now enter
ing. No one of us can say it will not be
|. Let US, then, start now on new course
of life, resolved to spend this year as if
assured that it is to be our last If we do
this, however the event may prove, it will
truly be, what We now heartily wish to
every reader,
A HAPPY NEW YEAR.