The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-08-11
On seeinp. Thinps

Farmers should have their eyes open.
and should use them for tho purpose of
seeing things. They should see every
part of their farm as often as practica.
bic; their fields, fences, crops, stock :;
see their horses, cattle, sheep and hogs !;
see their tools and implements, and
whatever occurs around them.
The most important sense depending
on special organs Is that Of sight
/" Eyes they have, but see not" may be
truly said Of the majority OF our race.
Millions upon millions had seen the
steam of the pot or kettle as it was
boiling over the Gre, in its efforts To es.
cape, had seen it shaking and lifting tn.
cover that confined it. Watts saw it,
too, and he saw II Young Hercules in
he escaping vapor. He saw in it that
giant Of tremendous power--the steam
r"ginr; a force which might be har.
messed to human industry Ear greater
than thousands human muscles could
exert force adequate to reud rocks
asnnder, aud make old earth quake and
tremble.
Newton sat in his garden and saw an
apple fall from a tree. Millions upon
millions had seen tho same thing before,
but Newton saw far more than the
millions. He saw III il law of universal
nature. He inquired what caused the
apple to fall, and found that that very
cause. that attractive force, which IS
the property Of all matter, rolls the
rar'l, on its axis and mpcls it around
the sun. He thought, but tho millions
did not think. Before the days of New.
ton. m'l;ions had seen morning peep her
blue eyes in tho East, and The rising
sun fling around him his arrows Of
ligh',
Which, ronding the pail o'cr Tie universe
| spread,
Wake nature in beauty and bloom from the
! dead"
But the millions never thought of catch
| ing those arrows Of light and analyz,no
them, or ,nqniring why they make grass
appear green, or the skies blue. But
Newton found out. lie outwitted all
the shining robes Of the day, and made
| known the texture OF that magic gar
mcnt which the God of nature has kind.
ly spread over the surface Of the visible
" orld
Millions upon millions had seen the
red forked lightning shoot athwart the
sklns and the loud revcrberating thunder
roll I'LL the earth trrmbled and shook
like an aspen leaf. But none of these
millions had thought Of catching thcsc
thnnderbolts, and make a play,hing of
tho lightnings; of bo'tling them up IN
sport, and charming them into obedience
to "nr high behest, till our own Frank
lin set the examp And mono thought
OF harnessing them up and making
them our post horses, Till Morse con-
trived tho harness and had them doing
service.
Mono but The geolcgist looks upon the
sands and the rocks of old earth with an
educated eye; but every pebble by the
way-slde talks to him. II tells him of
the formation OF our globe, and tho ar
rangcment of its different strata, the
convnlsions it has received and the
shocks and foundations it has undergone.
1t real to him history Of that remote
period when no flowers grew, nor ami
mails roamcd on cur globe; when no
vegetation clothed the fields OF earth,
and no animated being trod It's bcnisht-
ed dust. He finds
Sermons in the stones, books in the run
ming brooks,
And good in everything"
So none but tho bo!anist sees the
plants, the flowers and the trees which
are around us. At least he sees more
in them than others see. They speak
volumes to him, while to others they
do not utter angle word.
A great deal may be learned from
The humblest plant that springs up in
our pathway.
81 bladc of grass is no great thing,
Yet In il we do find