Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-05
OCTOBER.
"The melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the year,

and listened to the wind signing
among the trees; but the great student of
nature, reyeling in the wonders of creation
and impressed with the divine fitness of all it's
works, sees beauty all about; in rocks and
hills, in lakes and running brooks, in spread
ing plain and forest shade, in fruit and vine,
in falling leaf and whitening plant. It is
the ripening time of Gods great heavens /;
the afternoon of the year. The woodland
songster catches, in the breath of autumn,
the story of the coming winter, and whis-
pers to his mate of sunny skies in southern
chimes. The thoughtful bee, in days ofplen-
ty, has laid up in store for the season of
storm. The farmer, it not slothful, is us
ing the time in preparation for the winter
repairing and restoring; garnering for the
coming month thoughtful OF all it's needs
in home, barn or storehoGse; erecting
guards against the frosts and winds of the
winter ~solstice; gathering The rich autumn
fruits that will enliven the evenings at the
cheerful fireside. October we give thee
greeting and bid thee welcome.
BIBLICAL WoRDs.-A days journey was
SO 10th miles. A Sabbath days journey
was about an English mile. A cubit is %
inches, nearly. A hands breadth is equal
of 81 inches. A fingers breadth is equal to
one inch. A shekel of silver was about fifty
cents. A shekel of gold was $500. A
talent of silver was $53S.32. A talent Of
gold was $l3,s0o. Apiece OF silver, or a pen
ny, was thirteen cents. A farthing was
three CENTS. A mill was less than a quarter
of a cent. A gera was one cent. An epha
or path, contains seven gallons andfive pints.
A bin was one gallon and two pints. Atirkin
was seven pints. An omer was six pints.
A bath was three pints. So 3s @
MUs1c.-Music is the great molitier of man
kind, and should be cultivated and encour-
aged. A song will do more to soften and
blend antagonizing elements IN the family
than council or reasoning. 1t is a refiner
Of coarse nature, and encourages the weak
and timid. AS the evening shadows gather,
the voice of music, blending with the grad
ual hushing of nature, steals in to the heart
as a new revelation and fills the soul with
inspirations and ambitions. Encourage
your sons and daughter to sing and play /;
provide the means for it, it will pay. Join
with them, and as you make music you will
make melody in your hearts, and add days
and years to yourlives.
The HOME OF TAsTE.-How easy it is to
be neat-to be clean! How easy it IS to
arrange the rooms with the most graceful
propriety! How easy it is to invest our
homes with the truest elegance Elegance
resides not with the upholsterer or the dra-
per; it exists in the spirit presiding over
the apartments of the dwelling. Content
ment must always bemost grateful; it sheds
serenity over the scene offs abode; it trans
forms a waste into d garden. The home
lighted by those intimations of a nobler and
brighter life, may be wanting in much which
the disconnected desire; but, to its inhabit-
ants, it will be a palace far outlying the
Oriental in brilliancy and beauty.
BEAUrY.-The standard of beauty differs
essentially in different races. The Chinese
admire black teeth and eyelids. On the
shores of the Mediterranean great cOrpulen-
CIV is preferred. Hair like Wheat,' the
s:honey colored hair"of Homer, is the
most affected Of late among us. Brown
in shadow, gold in SUM- y IS a beautiful shade
but Elizabeth's bright red hair, ''capelli DOR
as she called it, was inspiration to sycophant
pens In her time, and even lovely Mary of
Scots sacrificed her beautiful dark locks to
the "red fronts.' Lady Macbeth, and the
much maligned, beautiful and noble Luere-
tia Borgia, had hair light and golden. The
most beautiful women are not the happiest
ones; yet a lovely face is an excellent card
of recommendation all over the world.