Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-09

The author Of the communication on "Far-
mcrs' Schools" seems to have arregated to
himself rather more atteation than the arti-
Gle on "The Self Seeking" was designed to
direct to him. Though no names we're men.
toned, he regards himself as the most con-
spicuous Of the aggrieved and puts the coat
on. With his references to any defects or
DEFICIENCIES in the schools at Fairfax, Water
bury Center. Lyndon and Mortified, no fault
has been found, nor had we the author espe.
cially in mind while preparing that article.
To select out few sentences or phrases,
stripped Of their connection, and thus wrench
from them false construction, is 4 mode Of
argument that ought to be confined to a ju.
venio lyceum. We beg the author to make
the application intended, for so long as he
considers the subject of a farmers school
without attempting to destroy, we are salts
fed. What the times need is not destruc-
ton but reform, rather, and reform begins
whenever there is a general demand for it,
-.s.-
1t is emphati,ally fast age. The rapid.
ity of the Palmer train which crossed con-
tinent in three days, is significant of the man.
ner in which everything is done. The time
element--the measure of act and enterprise
by hours and fractions thereof-cnters into
every undertaking whether civil, mechanical
or ecclesiastical. Men talk about being half
an hour from this or that city, as if time
were the most exact measure of space. But
something especially transcendent must be
accomplished this year. We have seen an
emperor flying over our continent now here
and then thousand miles away, travelling
like the plain citizen that he is, and by his
dispatch deIying all efforts to lionize him.
But that what was a romantic fiction should
be attempted with the fairest auguries of
succcss-spanning the world IN eighty days
surpasses our dreamiest expectations. The
fast mail inaugurated new era in quick
transportation, but the Jarrett K Palmer
train, averaging its A. miles for SO success
sve hours seems almost to annihiate space
and time. Nothing in the railroad feats Of
the Old World compares with this achieve
ment. And there is something grand about
it all as being suggestive Of the possibilities
nay, one might say with propriety the
actualities-of modern invention. Compar-
son is naturally invited Of the methods Of a
half century or even decade past with those
Of to-day, and after the survey no one regrets
having been born in this age. The appica-
tions of the two great forces, steam and cleo
tricity, in modern civilization have, as often
said, completely revolutionized our modes of
communication, and it would almost seem
as if life itself were marching forth and keep
ing step with these two powers.
And is not this too fast an age? The habit
of accomplishing material results with a
dash and whirl, and all in a moment, has
impaired an artificial caste to certain other
customs whose best effects are not instanta.
neous. The sermon is rksome whose deiv-
cry occupies more than a half hour, while
the prayer not compassed by ten minutes is
deemed laborious, out-of.taste and Intellectual
TO trespass in any religious exercise beyond
the allotted limits OF time is to weary and to
vex. Whatever is slow, deliberate and
counted men are prone to ridicule, lavishing
their choice praises on whatever bristles with
sparks in its execution.