Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-06-11

The sight of the wonderful loveliue..
that juno brings to Vermont, aud puts over
our heads aud all around US, is Of greater
usefulness to Us than we sometimes imagine
There is not farmer, however rough, who
does not take peculiar delight in the bios.
SONS Of bis appletroes in the growth Of
his Indian corn, or in .ho waving lines Of bis
wheat or barley as the wind moves them
back and forth with its breath. From the
FIRST moment that the spike Of the corn
breaks through the soil, to the last moment
when its yellow car. Gil his baskets aud
give him hope Of plenty in the winter, he
finds a special satisfaction, not only in its
utility, but also in It's beauty. Men like
to see splendid fat oxen their hair shining
like satin, aud their huge backs and sides
rounded ingraooiul curves, aud giving hints
Of juicincss and pleasure to the palate
Other things being equal, all men like
handsome horses Beauty is one Of the
finest points ia q horse, and we have known
many a spawn hidden beneath a glossy
coat and a neat turn of the limb. A ring.
bone or weak knee never seems half 50 bad
on a beautiful animal The boy lies wake q
nights to hear the plump apple that he has
been forbidden ic pick, and which his
watering mouth has been watching all the
lall, drop to the ground, and runs out in
the moonlight to seize the booty. Some
persons there are 70 weak as 90 wake before
the sun rises in order to listen to the song
Of The birds, the sweetest concert in all tho
world, whose voices, which God only has
trained, pour forth unconscious music thai
falls down on the earth like the drops oil
the rain or like the simmer Of the stars
Such persons see The high use Of material
beauty wherowith God enyirons US round
in the heavens above US and in the earth under
our feet. If they do not see it, they fee
it, and are the better aud happier for it
1t is the one month Of june in this Stat,
that makes all the other months tocrable
We get beauty enough here to last US round
And yet it is possible to increase natu
raj beauty, as it is to soil and deIact
it. The enhancing pictures in natura
scenery all over Italy are marred by
troops Of beggars and by mserably di
lapidated novels. An ugly house, bull
in remote generation, and sunk to the
ears in the ground, with roof patched anc
rotten, and ell aud she'd spreading out theil
timbers as If uncertain which way to fall
yet determined to fall if it can, is spo
and a stain on all the other houses Of (
town. 1t is the dead fly in the ointmen
which makes the whole unsavory. Broker
and careless fences, grounds covered will
weeds and docks, unwholosome pens onr
sites thrust under the eye Of the passcr-b,
on the streets, are the ounce Of ugines
that spoils whole streets of beauty. A mai
wants farm, n beautiful farm with ricl
pastures aud soping fields and shady forests
and aocks and herds grazing on the hills
ard dwelling and barns filed with beautiful
children aud cossot colts aud calves am
lambs. Well, he can take the wild forest
splendid as it is, as it came from God
hand. and make it for himself, increase tn
beauty Of nature hundred fold with tn
skill and resources Of art. He pray,
Lord give me a farm" and the Lord sayi
There is land enough aud streams OF run
uing water and mighty forests. Take ther
aud make such farm as you want.
will furnish soil anl light aud air, IN
change tue inclination of the oarth's axis
and turn the face Of your farm to the vel
tical rays Of the sun. You may cut tn
trees, and dress the land and make it a
rich and beautiful as you please" Ma
wants summer roses and climbing vines an
heliotropes and iessamine, AMI the Lor
says, Rear them just as you will" So
man can make his house, his garden, h
farm, just as be wants it. His hand ca
bring out all the beauties which God hi
hidden in earth and sky lie has pow,
over matter TO create new Paradis
The laud Of industry is the land Of beaut,
and toll restores the Eden of the past
! We have an idea that the beauty whc
man creates in the earth out of the mat
) rials which have been furnished, is the mea
ure Of his civilization. God never Civ,
US the highest beauty outright. We hay
to work for it, toll for it and suffer for
, We have to gain it with the sweat Of I'll
brow. We can build cur houses, our fan
lilies, our churches, our gardens and orcl
ards and farms just as beautiful as we lik
and the result we reach both develops OF
own powers in reaching, and is the measul
J of our civilization.