Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-01-19
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How Much How much better is your farm
than it was year ago? ...,..,. .,.-,I
How much better are your implements?
How much more lovely have you made your
home by the planting of trees and shrubs?
| y How much have you added to the value of
your property by the planting of orchard trees
| and small fruits
How much better is your stock of horses, of
sheep, of eattle?es9J bo9~ } 91i ,aa
How much Of error have you discovered in
your, mode of treatment Of the different crops
you have grown
r How much have you learned from your neigh
borsq from your agricultural papers, from your
experience in relation to your farm operations ?
How much have you done to aid your wife
Fand daughter in their household duties BY fur
nishing them with improved household uten-
ss and the better location of wells, cisterns,
wood piles, cellars and dairy rooms? y -
IL How much of kindness and charity have you
exercised towards the needy and the helpless?
+ How much better husband, father, brother,
man are you than you were one year ago?
f Reflect on these things. and if you have been
direct in your duty in the year that has now
! faded into the dim past st'-turn over a new leaf
and resolve to do better the coming year.
f. BEAUTlFUL. TIE following is from the pen
of Watson, the poet editor of the Atlanta Era
land is very pretty SO glssd Z adcb
/ The old year has slid noiseessly out at the
back door Of time. How like that of an old
man was its end It had its second childhood
Its face grew sunny, and there wasia pleasant
ali about it that almost smelt Of clover. The
old fellow seemed ready to rollick over prim-
rose beds and violets. Pleasant winds famed
his locks, and his breath was warm, and would
have been sweet but for the aroma OF. decay
that was borne upon it. But disease was only
lrallying for his fnal attack The old frame be
gan to qniver. A shiver ran across the face of
the earth.-The fabric of the old year went to
pieces like weather beaten wreck. and amid
the wreck and ruin of storms, and mantled
with snow as with shroud he dropped into
the past Let him lie We have had his ben
efts and rebuffs We have had his sorrows
and his pleasures He has given us tears, but
lac dried them with smiles. So let him rest,
and as we turned to him with hopeful anticipa
tons, so do We turn to the latest child of time.
| THE LITTLE ONES. DO you ever think how
| much work a little child does in day /? How,
from sunrise to sunset, the dear little feet pat
| ter round-to us so-aimlessy. Climbing up
| here, kneeling down there running to another
place, but never still Twisting and turning,
rolling and reaching and doubling, as if testing
every bone and muscle for their future uses.-
| It is very curious to watch it. One who does
1 so may we'll understand the deep breathing of
the rosy little sleeper, as, with ore arm tossed
over its curly head, it prepares for the next
days gymnastics. A busy creature is little
child. }..''} FL.
A MERRY LIFE. Lord, with no very
large portion Of either wit or wisdom. had very
exalted opinion of his own powers. When
once in large company, and expatating about
himself, he made the following pointed remark:
"When | happen to say foolish thing [ al
| ways burst out a-laughing. 81 it.Gara5a
Il envy your happiness, my Lord then, >
said Charles Townsend, for you must certain
| " live the merriest life of any man In Europe y
| A PAPER tells of a visit to cave near Au-
gusta, Georgia. While the party were within
! investigating the dark interior, there was no.
ticed an old colored man standing ON the out
side, who was asked: :seg .ba 5.ai-a2.d .,G /.
Say uncle, why don you go into tie cave?'
"Ah, my master P" said he de Lord knows
[ see trouble enough on the top Of the earth.
| don't go in dat hole a sarch arter misery
MAsTERLY INACTIVITY. Two or three years
ago some writers were tracing the origin of the
idea used by Mr. Calhoun, in the words mas
terly inactivity, ascrjbing it to Sir John Mac
intosh and Edmund Burke. Perhaps it found
| expression in the seventh verse of the thir-
| teenth chapter of Isaiah: FOR the Egyptians
| shall help in vain, and to no purpose j there
fore have | cried concerning this, their strength
is to sat still. ...5s...t ..as,s t5 esa-s s.o
A musician, whose nose had become distinct
| ly colored with the red wine he was won't to
imbibc said one day to lis little son at the ia
ble-''Y ou must eat bread, boy bread makes
your cheeks red y The little boy replied
Father, what lots Of bread you must have
snuffed up,
| ITs,-Perhaps it is not generally known as
it should be that salt put in the mouth will in
stantly relieve the convusive movements in fits
either Of children or animals. a sl'
Sinful habits are the channel of sinful
thoughts If we would have the thoughts to
cease to fow we must close up the channels
Florida has double her sugar crops this year.
Syrup is selling in Middle Florida for fifty cts.
a gallon. 145 So siaoai
The total production of corn In all the States
of the Union, for the year 1868, was 905, 5,17S-
600 bushels.
Rire strawberries raised in the open air were
brought to Jacksonville, Fla, few days ago.
If through any loss we grow wiser and better,
that loss becomes gain and blessing.
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