Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1871-06-24

, lilOW, or aE7, % YOuE neishD0I
inake, Ia pEefegeneo lo0Ue brlushI
/ Ir0m abroad-sl0ali take aEl pal
lea some irsl-Fuio Texas jogTnal b.
fore looking Gtp0ll for a better
llaying Ties done Yono daly ly lA,
eommanily where's y0n aFs : part
ify0a are able amt Wi,,ing 10 take
4 second Journal, might possibly
aid you In IniiRg a coed one,
4 Is Agriculture = repa,zivo PnF-
suilg That what has bssn called
Farming has repealed lnaRg OF lhe
youth Of onr day, ! perceive, sni
glory ia tho fact, An American
boy, Who has received a G,iF s1m,
mon school education, snl has an
active, ihquirlng mind. does Rai
willingly consent merely 20 drivl
oxen and hold a pl0w forever lis
will 10 these with alaorily II they
come in his way; he will not accept
them rs tho be-all aud the ond,all
Of his career. ilewill no, II. down
IN a rude. slovonly, naked home,
devoid 0f flowers, and trees, and
periodicals. AMI intelligent, inspir,
ing, refining conversation, and there
plod through u life Of dralgcry as
hopolossand eheorleSs as any mules,
lie has needs, and hopes, aud aspir,
alions, which this lifo does not aud
ought not 90 satisfy. This might
have served his prOconitor Ia the
Ninth Ccntury, but this il the
Nineteenth. and the young Amori.
can krows Il. lie needs TO feel the
intellectual lifo Of the period flow
ing freely into and through him
needs 20 feel that, though tho city
and railroad are out OF sight, the
latter is daily bringing within his
reach NIL that is nOblcst and best IN
tho achievements and attractions of
the former. llc may not listen 10
Summer and Thurman IN the Senate,
10 Ward Bceehcr ard Tying in the
pulpit; but tho Press mdltiplics
their best thoughts and most iorci.
bio expressions at tho rate of ten 10
twenty thousand copies per hour
and its issues arc within tho reach
of every Industrious family. Amy
American farmer, who has two
hands and knows bow to use them, |
may, ut fifty years Of age, have n
better library than King Solomon
ever dreamed of, though he declared
that "of making Of many books
there is no end" any intelligent |
farmers son may haye n better
knowledge of nature and her laws /
when twenty years old than Aris- |
totlo or Pliny over attained. Tho !
steam engine, tho electric telegraph, |
and the power press, have brought |
knowledge nearer to tho humblest |
cabin than it was ten centuries since
to the stGtelicst mansion let tho |
cabin be careful not to disparagc or
rcrel it. TO arrest the rush Of our
youth to the cities, we havc only |
to.diffuse what is best Of the cities
through tho country; and this tbs
latest triumphs of civilization cna-
Bile us easily to 10. A home IRA
dated by the best thoughts of sa-
ges and heroes Of ull time, even
though these bo compressed within
u few rusty volumes, checrcd by
the frequent arrival Of two or threo
choice periodicals, and surrounded
by such floral evidences of taste
and refinement as are within the
reach of the poorest owner Of The
soil ho tills, will not be suborncd rs
II prison by any youth not thorough
ly corrupted and dcpraved.
But thousands Of farmers are
more intent on leaving money and
lands to their children than on in
forming and enrichihg their minds.
They starvo their souls in order to
pampcr their bodies. They grudge
their sons that which would make
them truly wise, in order provide
them with what can at best but
make them rich in corn and cattle
while poor in manly Purposes and
generous ideas.
1t may seem presumptuou9 III me
to speak to you Of the preservation
and diffusion of Trees in II State so
new as yours, and of whose altcr-
nations of hill and valley, forest
and prairie, you know SO much and
so little. But there are laws eve
rywhero potent, needs everywhere
folt, and errors very generally COM
mitted; and of these last the most
pervadins is tho reckless cxtermi-
nation Of trees. It is not peculiar
to this continent fer France and
Spain, Italy and Portugal, have for
the most part been denudod of for
eats, aud suffer for it not only in
the scarcity of timber and fuel, bat
in the severity and duration Of their
drouths, the tierceness and devas-
tation Of their gales, the violence
and aesravation of their foods
All of them have timber on their
rugged, sterile mountains, where it
is scarcely accessible, and where it
Is least available to their dcnser and
more active communities. But if
one.tcnth of the surface of each ar
able square mile were now covered
with stately and serviceablo forest
trees, those countries would be bet
ter fitted to maintain a largo popu-
lation, and their inhabitants would |
be moro thrifty, efficient, and COM
Portable than they are. My own /
section. OF this continent has dc
stroycd trees too eagerly, reckless |
ly. and planted them too tardily, 1
too sparingly. My county Of West
chester, New York; began to bo I
inhabited by our race fully two |
hundred and fifty years ago ; it has I
been divided into farms from one
to two centuries, and its people arc |
not behind others in sagaeity and
intelligence; they still have much
land covered with mainly young
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