The Republican journal., 1869-01-28
CIR ETING.

i'm saving our first words to the many friends
whom we hope often TO meet in these coiumns'
..rbaps no word will more include, or better
elnress the great variety OF topics upon WHICH,
tirle at a time each week, we propose to treat
lan that dear, old familiar word HOME. How
rar reaching its import; for whatsoever we
.a-yhether to compel the soil to yield It's
Generous fruits The sea its treasures, and the
numerous arts and sciences their benetcent
works. their ultimate object and meaning are
home
Aud among the multitudinous Ideas thus sus-
eested our first great duty shall be towards
taat great business by which we all subslst,
Agriculture first In the order OF time and
usefaneSs among the employments OF men.
For who would not be benefactor? And
great philosopher has we'll said that he who
.4uses two blades OF grass TO grow where on
y one grew before, is q benefactor of his race.
Therefore, SO far as we may be able, to show
tle producer how to produce more with less ex-
u ndture OF means shall be our first carei and
aur second, though scarcely less important than
the FIRST, to show the consumer how to con-
sumo less with a ldfger amount of pleasure and
ai profit.
70 the former, the agricultural producer, be-
.oyg the ideas of soil, its origin, nature, and
&. atious to plant life,- plunts,-their nature,
laws and means of growth, Involving ordinary
arm production, gardening, flower and fruit
raising. &c. animal life also-reating to
stock and stock-raising. To the producers
IouDd among the mechanical maritime, and
irofessloua industries, it shall be our endeay-
Ito bring, i'll their aid, the vast help which
the Sc ences and the arts are constantly be-
sowing on the world.
IJ he equally numerous class OF consum-
.ls 10 consider how 10 employ these various
products so as to extract their true essence and
highest vitality. To this belongs the great
lActs of food, lis why, whence and what,-lts
9naity, quantity, proper proportion, &C. Cloth
lg its quantity, quality, supply, make up, &c
Heat and light; their nature and origin,-uses
and abuses this will include the great ques-
5.ons heat and light giving substances. Health
measures warming, ventilation, bathing, cloth
ug exercise, amusements, medication, &C.
Means for mental, moral and social lmrove-
uant books and their contents,-what and
low ,o read. Architecture; its styles and util-
ucs Political economy, which instructs alike
the producer and consumer Us to all the great
principles OF the exchange Of values,-hoW
and when to sell and to buy; especially as to
tla, great absorbing question, the true relation
l' capital to labor, SO that each, so necessary
tU The other, shall receive its just reward. In
Inc, our work is to try to bring from the great
Lore house of knowledge whatever from our
uwn best experience and reading, and the sug-
gestions OF others, may seem likely to improve
,le condition and enlarge the happiness of man.
Ana IN "A work SO vast, SO myriad in forms,
embracing every fibre and interest Of society,
ooiF itue must be the work any single person
ttu 80. In a work therefore, undertaken more
il The public, than from personal interest, the
public Invited to participate and assist in
aus doing its own work; and contributions
and suggestion, properly belonging to this de-
q4rtment, TO be sent to the editor at Searsport,
are respectfully solicited, and will receive due
respect and consideration. And it is not so
much great facts and discoveries, one in an
age that the world is waiting for, as many lit
Tie ones, each of which, if not Itself SO, may
lead to something great For the humblest
pebble beneath our feet, or the desplsed thistle
10y the way side, may contain or suggest germs
NJ truth, which, followed out whittier they
ead, may change the destiny of the world.
The rising and falling of the teakettle cover by
the steam within, led to the invention Of steam
machinery, and all its wondrous results; the
Quiyerng OF frogs limbs to the discovery Of
.alyanism, almost the best Of whose glories Is
the electric telegraph and its wonderful achieve
ments; and when in mid ocean his crew were
disheartened and mutinous bits OF worthless
sea weed, like q divine hand, beckoned Colum-
aus onward in faith and hope to New World