Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-06-24
THE GAZETTE.
FRIDAY MORNING.. JUNE "A. 1859.
BEECHER ON COWS.

BEECHER ON COWS.
The Independent" milks the COW in good
style. We quote:
''Do you own COW! Every good man
ought to. For COW is the saint Of the barn.
yard. Not one of those final saints, who are
born afar of from goodness, and fight their
way to it; but one Of those mild, meek, harm
less natural saints. Ifhomeliness is necessa-
nv to goodness, land there is q strong pre-
sumption for the theory,) q COW has this
prime qualification. For nothing can we'll
be more devoid Of all beauty than genuine
mixer.
If We were to speak of the musical voice Of
a COW, people would laugh. But the sound
will depend upon circumstances. Let a man
he lost in the woods, and suffer the terrible
excitement which comes with the first flash of
conviction that he is lost; let him dash wild
ly forth and after an hours running and
hoarse hallooing, fnd that he has only swept
a circle and come back to the very spot
from which he started; let him, toward the
going down of the sun, weary, famished and
yet wandering, hear the low of cows not far
of! No trumpet was ever so sweet on the
march, and no lutte ever charmed lover with
more delight, than this uplifted sound of u
COW to woodstock man. And when, run
ing to the sound, he comes out near some
farm house, if tears gush, and he would fain
even throw his arms around the neck of
homely old brindle, let no one laugh or de-
ride. Go and try the experiment and see if
you would not do it yourself! Besides, the
face Of COW is handsome. 1t is the only
thing about her that is beautiful, except by
association
But We need not go to all the trouble Of
being lost to reach the conclusion that a COW
has musical voice. Sitting on a summer
evening on the sward, under the high pen
dant elms, only enough conscious Of being in
the body to receive through it the most in
efable sense of the beauty Of sights and
sounds, and then, while birds are caroling
the alto and bees are making tenor, let
the long and repeated low of cows coming
home and longing for their calves. rise as a
bass, and tell me whether COW has not a
musical voice?
If one is of devout turn, and would like
some Scriptural associations, we can almost
give him some. For, although oxen it Was
that were about the manger, aecordi ng to all
pictures, vet ows are the mothers of oxen
" g Icdu, tOO, ia SChiptohCs VI thS pun
of the Word;" and the qualifying adjective
would seem to imply that teachers in those
days initiated the milk-men of ours, and
gave diluted article From this great COM
pany of patient creatures. let us mention
few more eminent, such az st. Alderney. st.
Ayrshire, St. Durham, and st. Homebreed:
these are the most illustrious of milk saints.
But goodness is not confined to any of these
denominations. There are capacious udders.
patient dispositions, mild-eyed mothers,
homeloving and pasture browsing saints,
without name and fame, in every neighbor-
hood.
And now, do you ask, wondering reader,
what all this preludes? just this. that we are
q three-cow gentleman farmer. Again, we
know what is the real taste of milk. We
have once more. before we die, seen cream!
Twenty-six pans of milk were skinned this
very morning; and now, if You were riding
past, you should see twenty-six inverted
pans on the fence, in the sun. shining like
silver, and sweetening themselves all day,
in the air and sunshine, for the nights milk!
Even the pigs fare better here than citizens
do in New York. For although we take off
the cream, we never think of giving them
anything weaker than skim milk,,-four
pigs, that once were longer than broad, but
which are rapidly growing to the shape ola
marble"