The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-05-07

TO terms.
PERMANENT HoMEs.-It may be said
of US, as people, that we are not yet
settled. Homes we have none as they
have in the old world. There farm pass
es from one generation to another, and is
a settled thing. Associations cling there
of an ancestry that counts scores in its
record. As much as can be on earth, this
is an abiding-place. But here with us is
no such thing. We are restless-we are
not yet settled; We are yet seeking our
homes This is in consequence of our mas
cent condition. 1t becomes us TO be ac-
tive-to seek our fortunes and establish
ourselves. This has not yet been done,
and will not be, till as a nation, we sub
side into quiet When we become salts
fed with our lot we shall have home.
A home What is home 1t is some
thing that we take qualification in-some-
thing that will satisfy our children. All!
there is the point-satisfy your children.
Unless this is done there is no home. We
must make our homes; we must make
them pleasant-make them so that the
sons will be induced to stay there-will
find something to attract. TO keep them
there; otherwise they cannot be said to
be homes. Now, what is wanted l will
not pretend to say, in all cases, what. l
need but refer to England, point to the
cottages there, buried-almost literally
buried-with flowers and vines, and in a
landscape that is equally inviting. Here
are homes. So the mansions of the rich
are homes, in the same captivating land
scape, with the same rural life around
them, and around them forever. Here is
permanence. Nature and art have COM
bined to make this so.
As soon as a home is the chief place of
attraction, so soon it is home proper
place to stay-else it is not home and
will not be continued. Let parents make
their homes attractive and comfortable,
and their sons will not be wanting to go
to the cities, or going there will not want
to remain. The old acres, with the old
domicil, viii draw more than all else be-
sides, and all viii become possession for
ever. This is what we want. We want
our children to have possession forever,
or if necessarily absent, as some must be,
the old home to 60 to, from the newly ac-
quired possession, which in its turn will
be home. Without home there is wan
dering, there is no real rest, no haven, and
no heaven which home is a near APP
proach to. Home is a nourisher of the
virtues. But wandering life is a wild, a
heartless life, not favorable to virtue and
pure feeling.-Co Country Gentleman.
The american Arti5Gn asks inventors
to turn their attention to the following
much-needed machines: a other that
will cut narrow ditch for the reception
of drain-tiles: an apparatus to be drawn
by horsepower and capable of laying the
tiles in the ditch when formed; a mole
plow which shall make a subterranean
drain that will not choke up in year or
two; an efficient potato harvester; a
stone-gathering machine capable of clear
ing field of stone, and piling the same
in winnows-the stone for walls, the field
for smooth-rolled meadows, fit for easy
moving with machine; sowing appa-
ratus that viii sow peas and beans as
effectually as the common grains are
sown; small machine for pulling flax;
small power-accumulating windmill, not
to exceed in cost to the user more than
SIS or $50, for churning, and similar pur-
poses; and an automatic sheafbinder, for
harvesters.
Notice.
o. CARTER, ESQ.,. is authorized, by