The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26
WEEKLY STATESMAN
Home and Farm,

BUILD UP A HOMESTEAD. The feeling
that you are settled and fixed will induce
you to work to improve your farms, to plant
orchards, TO set out shade trees, to enclose
pastures, to build comfortable outhOuses
and each successive Improvement is a bond
to bind you still closer to your homes. This
will bring coDtenlment in the family. Your
wives and daughters will fall in love with
the country; your soDs will love home bet
ter than groR-shops, and prefer farming to
measuring tape or professional loahng, and
you will be happy In seeing he cheerful
and contented faces Of your families. Make
your home beautiful, convenient and pleas
ant, and your children will love it above
all places: thew will leave it With regret,
think of il with fondness, come back to it
ioyfuily and seek their chief happiness
around their home Preside. Women and
children need more than meat, bread and
raiment; more than acres of corn and cot
ton spread around them. Thier love for
the beautiful must be satisfied; their taste
must be cultivated; their sensibilities hu.
mored, not shocked. To accomplish this
good end, home must be made lovely, con-
Venience multiplied, comforts provided,
and eheerfulness fostered. There must be
both sunshine and shade, luscious fruit and
ton. The mind and heart, as well as the
fields, must be cultivated, and then intelli-
gence and contentment will be the rule in
stead of the exception. Stick to, improve
and beautIfy your hOmesteads, for with
this good work comes contentment.
FAMILY BoND.-Family ties are formed
of the innumerable ramificaIions composing
all the direct and indirect afiinitIes be-
tween heart and heart, and preserve in the
widest circumference Of the increasing
circle a portion of the temperature which
warmed snd illumined the first fresidc.
The same blood drawn from the same
veins; the same milk imbibed at the same
breast; the same name borne by each, and
of which each is bound to maintain the
honor whether obscure or illustrious sig
nifies nothine), and which cannot be tai
nished or exalted in one without rejecting
on the rest; the common fortune, which
bestows ahuent or common means, as 1t Is
amassed or subdIvided amidst the inheri
tors, according to the number of children !;
the same paternal mansion, whether in
town or country, whose roof has sheltered
their cradle during infancy, and the shad-
owy remembrance OF which is impressed
on the mind TO the last moment of exist
ence; the same traditions, that common
consent OF mind which binds together the re-
ligion, the customs, manners and innate SEN
timents of the hereditary group; finally,
the same remembrance of lessons, CONVEX
sations, hospitalities, ease, WEAKNESS, births,
deaths, hopes and disappointments-sad
and Joyous secrets of the domestic hearth
all these form, unknown to ourselves,
around our hearts an atmosphere of lnef-
faceable impressions, which per 'ades equal
ly our moral and physical senses; from the
influence of which escape is impossible,
and which, though it does not bear the
cold sternness of legislation, displays the
Irresistible force of nature.
LAMARTINE.
The grain crop of Europe Is conceded to
be short. Russia, the great wheat-export-
ing country of Europe, Is itself short of the
usual quantity this season, and the dehcien
cy will have to be made up from this side
of the Atlantic. The rye crop of Europe
is much below the avera &c as well as the
wheat, and an extra quantity of the latter
grain will be needed to make good the de-
hciency. Great Britain will be in the mar
ket for 10000, 900; Germany, France,
Switzerland, Belgium and Italy will want
about 40, 900, 900 bushels. or this demand
Russia will not be able to supply more than
40, 900, 900 bushels. British India, Chill,
Australia, Austria and Hungary may fur
nish together about 20, 900, 900 bushels.
The deficiency will have to be made up
from America, which will be called on fol
from 10000, 900 to 90, 900, 600 bushels.
American dealers in grain anticipate good
demand, but not unusually high prices.