Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-10-16

T in the long run extend The rich man, W
say, can speak the truth 1t is the boast tina
( was ever claimed for wealth, that it coul'
I speak the truth, could afford honesty, coul'
afford independents of opinions, action, ant
that is the theory of nobility. But under
stand this 1t is only the rich man in tn
true sense who can do this within his III
the man who keeps his outgo come.
The boys who watch the spindles in tn
English factories, to see that no thread break
or gets entangled, are called ''mnders. y
And in this great factory of our Copernlcal
Globe, shifting its slides of consultations, tide
and times, bringing now the day of planting
now the day of watering, and now the day o
reaping, and now the day of curing and stOr
ING, the farmer is the "mindcr." His mach
inc is of colossal proportions the diameter
of the water wheel, the arms Of the lever, the
poweriof the battery, out of all proportion
and it takes him long to understand its abili
ties and its working. This pump never sucks
These screws are never loose. This machine
is never out of order The piston and wheels
and tires never wear out, but are selfrepair
ING. Let me show YOU then what are his
aids. .-.
Who are the farmers servants? Not the
Irish, God help him. No, but chemistry
the pure air. the water-brook; the lightning
cloud; the winds that have blown in the In
terminable succession of years before he was
born; the sun has which had for ages soaked
the land with light and heat, melted the earth
dccOmposed the rocks and covered thcmlwitf
forests, and accumulated the stagmun which
makes the heat of the meadow. The students
of all nations have in past years been dedlca-
ting their education to universal science, and
they have reformed our schOOl-bOOks, and our
terminOlogy. The four-quarters of the globe
are no longer Europe, Asia, Africa and Am
erica, but Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen and
Nitrogen. The four seasons Of the year are
now, Grayitation, Light, Heat, and Electrici-
ty. Science had been showing how nature
works in regard to the support Of marine
animals by marine plants. So nature works
on the land on plan of all for each, and each
for all. You cannotsdcta any portion of its
forces and retain perfect nature. The flame
of fire that comes out of the cubic-foot of wood
or coal is exactly the same in amount as the
light and heat which was taken in the sun
shine in the form of leaves and roots, and
now is given out after hundred thousand
years. Thus lie in the farm ineXhaustible mag
aZnes. The eternal rocks have held their OXy-
gen and lime undiminished and entire as they
were. lNo particle..of oxygen can run away or
wear out, but.has the same energy as on the
first morning. The great rocks seem to say,
"Patient walters are no losers. We have
not lost so much as spasm of the power we
| received
| The earth works for man. 1t is machine
which yields new service to every application
of intellect. Every plant is a manufactory of
soil In the stem of the plant development
begins The tree can draw on the whole air,
or the whole earth, or the rolling main. The
tree is all suction pipe, imbibing from the
air by its twigs, with all its might The at
mosphere is an immense distlery, drinking
in the oxygen and the carbon from plants and
absorbing the essence of every solid on the
| globe 1t is the receptacle from which all
things spring, and intos which all return
The invisible air takes form and solid mass
Our sense are sceptics, and only believe the
impressions of the moment They do not
| believe what is demonstrated to tnen-that
| these vast mountain chains are made Of gases
aud rolling wind. They do not believe what is
true that one-half .lie rocks which composed
the great globe, every solid substance, the
soils we cultivate, are made up Of animals, and
plants, and invisible oxygen. Nature is rs
subtle as she is strong. Her processes of de-
composition and reconstruction might be fol-
lowed out il higher grades of existence, rank
into rank, to sentient beings. They burn
with internal fire which wastes while it works
The Great agencies work in man as in all.
There is no ssportcr like gravitation, who
will bring down any weight which you
cannot carry, and if he wants aid he knows
where to find his fellOw-labOrers Water
works in masses, and sets his irresistible
shoulder to your mills and to your shops,
or transports vast powders of rock thou
sand miles. But is far greater power lies
lest holes and pores. BY its agency the vegc-
table world exists, carrying in solution the
elements needful to every plant. Water =
that daily miraclc-a substance as explosive
as gunpowder-the electric force contained
in drop of water being equal in amount te
that which is discharged from a thunder
cloud quote from the exact Farraday
While the farmer has these grand fellow
laborers to assist him, and these majestic tool:
to work with, it must be owned that he i:
not quite competent to their direction Hi.
servants are sometimes too strong for him.
His tools are too sharp. But this inequality
finds its remedy i'll practice. Experience
gradually teaches him, and he is thoughtful
The farmer hates innovation; he hates tn,
hoe till he tries it, preferring to scratch will
a stick; he will walk till he has tried the rail
way car; but the Oldest fogies among us, nov
that the Atlantic Gable is laid would hardl,
, set out to dispatch letter across the Oceal
, by swimming with it in his mouth. Will
such great energies are working for the farm
, er, he is also to recollcct the great power tina
is in small things. 1t is very little that is re
quired. Its internal force consists in few
simple arrangements Look, for instance, a
= the powers of a chestnut. Look at that pra
ric, hundreds of miles off, not stick or
stone upon it, except at rare intervals. Well
t the farmer manages to put up a rail fence
and at once seeds sprout and crops rise.
was only the browse and fire that kepti then
= down. Plant fruit tree by the roadside an
G it will not produce, although it receives man
4 hints from projected stones and sticks, tha
: fruit is desired to come down, and thOug
: fruit has gone crude into the bowels of sma
boys. But put fence around it, the boy
Y will let it alone and you will have fruit so larg
S and luscious as to seem almost inviting you t
r take its picture before being sent to the HOl
# ticultural Fair
l. Nature drops pine cone in MaripOsa, an
t it grows three or four centuries, producin
# trees thirty feet in circumference. How wa
It it done !? They did not grow on ridge, bt
$ in basin, where they found deep and DIR
: soil, and where they could protect themselve
: from the sun by growing in groves, and fror
4 the winds by the mountain shelter The plar
S ter who saw them remembered his Orchar
at home, where every year destroying win
S made his pears and peaches look as bleak a
l. suffering virtue, not better than AbolitiOnist:
v while the fat ID emOcratS, that had Got the
l. tap-roots into the National Treasury, gre
IS stout and hearty So he went home an
n built highwall on the exposed side of h
n orchard, and after that his peaches grew
S thesize of melons, and his vines ran out of {
control.
IS have heard man say that he could ha,
of a whole farm in box rod square. I
d would take his roots into HIS library and fe,
a them with food they like Ifthey have a ia
d cy for dead dog he would let them have
m ba;n0 c1,ra thot tho fr,1itS would meyer rove