Randolph County journal., 1859-06-30
agricultural.
Cow.-Lettcr from Henry WARD
Becchcr tn the Once Editors OF
the Independe mt.


the Independe
Dean Sins: Do You own COW?
Every good man ought to. For COW
is the sain, of the barn-yar'l. Not one
of those final saints, who arc born aiar
of from goodness. and fight their way
to il. bat one OF those mild. meek.
harmless, natural saints. Ii homcli-
ness is necessary to goodness, (and
there is strong presumption for the
theory. COW has this prime qualifi-
cation. For nothing can we'll be more
devoid Of oil beauty than genuine
mixer. There il not one line OF
beauty. There is not one limb that
seems to have regard for another.
The muscles are thin, the shoulders
and neck fiat and poor. the hind quar-
tcrs wide across and gaunt, anil the
whole form is meager, lathy and pow
erty-stricken. But when we reflect
that all this comes from a cows he-
nevolence. and that she eats, rumi
mates. digcsts. and, in short, lives for
the sake Of others. our sense of her
benevolence at length clothes her with
a kind of moral beauty. She could be
fat il she would only be selfish. But
she economies beauty that she may
be profuse in milk. Blessed saint!
And yet. in all tho symbolism of
saints, we do not remember a single
instance in which the COW is advanced
to signify any thing in holy figure.
Bulls and oxen. sheep aud lambs, and
holy rams. abound in pictorial legends.
Lions and bears, dragons and eagles,
serpents. bees, doves in endless repeti-
tion. stags. horses, growing cocks, fall
cons, ravens. wild geese. fish. dogs,
anil wild boars, and we know not how
many other creatures that swim, or fly /,
or walk. or creep. have been made
glorious in stone. and wood. and paint,
for some sake or other OF the great
multitude Of saints whom the books
record. But this noblest symbol of
all, the very ideal and pattern of a
saint. who is as poor a If living q
life Of maceration, who gives her
whole strength to lacteal henevolcnce,
who is patient, gentle. guileless. con
tented-and yet, with two exceptions,
no saint can be found (by us. at least
with COW. These two saints are,
St. Ello and st. Perpctua. The Sec
ond has wild cows by her side, and
the first has cows with oxen about
her. Let dairymen pay respect to the
shadowy memory of st. Ello and st.
Perpetua.
Ii we were to speak of the musical
voice of COW, people would laugh.
But the sound will depend upon cir
cumstances. Let n man be lost in the
woods, and suffer the terrible excite
ment which comes with the firela>h
of conviction that he is lost, let him
dash wildly forth. and after an hours
running and hoarse hallooing, find
that he has only swept circle and
come back to the very spot from which
he started; let him, towards the going
down of the sun. weary. famished, ans
vet wandering. hear the low of cows
not far Oft No trumpet was ever 50
sweet on the march, and no lutte ever
charmed n lover with more delight
than this uplifted sound of a cow to a
wood-sick man. And when, running
10 the sound, he comes out near some
farm house. If tears gush. and he would
fain throw his arms around the neck
Of homely old brindle, let no one
laugh or tleri,le. Go and try the ex-
pcrimcAt. and see If you would not do
il Yourself Besides the face of COW
IS handsome. 1t is the only thing
about her that is beautiful, except by
association
But we neet not go to all the trou-
bic of being lost to reach the conclu-
sion that cow has a musical voice
Sitting on Summer evening on the
swar,l. under the high pendant elm ;,
only enough conscious of being in the
body TO receive through it the mos;
ineffable sense Of the beauty of sights
and sounds, and then, while birds are
carrying the alto, and bees are making
tenor. let the long and repeated low OF
COWS coming home. and longing fol
their calves, rise as bass, and tell
me whether a COW has not a musical
voice.
II one is OF a devout turn, and
would like some Scriptural associa.
tions. we can almost give him some
For. although oxen it was that were
about the manger. according to all
pictures. vet cows are the mother oi
oxen. We read, too, in Scripture ot
1.-The pure milk Of the Word" and the
qualifying adjective would seem to
imply that teachers in those days imi-
tated the milkmcn of ours. and gave a
diluted article.