The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10

ded, but when they are suggested their
full recognition is the best policy.
! It is true, no doubt, that most of thos4
who live unmarried lose not only the
greatest happiness but the best dist
pline of life in never losing the conscious
ness of self ~ y
Love took up the harp of Life, smote on al
its cords with might. -
Smote the chord of Self that, trembling
pass'd in music out of sight.
The blessedness of perfect marriage
lies largely in the con sriousness that the
centre of self is in the other and dearel
half, and has passed to this centre "in
music; or, to use a smile which is ex-
actly in point, the two halves, like bin.
airy stars, revolve round cen ire com.
mon to both and common only to both
Each knows all the heart, all the thought,
all the being of the other; as the soul
and body are one, 81 the husband and
wife are one, in an intimacy as sacred
as it is pure and entire, and which in
the Scriptures is compared to the rela-
ton between Christ and the Church.
Then in the mother-love there is the
same or greater abnegation of self. The
mother delights in giving her life to her
child and for her child if need be, an
this devotion, tar from re luiring an ef-
fort it is impossible for her to repress.
"Can mother forget her child?''
1t is the want Of this discipline and all
that it implies. so pleasant to take that
it seems to demand another name that
prevents the majority Of '.old maids"
from being lovable and lovely. that
leaves, them narrow and narrowing
and particular" The loving wife east
ly learns to overlook or make allowance
for such faults as she may discover in
her husband, and to cure them if they
can be cured, not by direct attack. but
by gentle and wisely devised fang
movements. She learns also to have her
own faults corrected by a loving hand.
The mother submits almost with pleas
ure to pulling Of her hair, the disarrang-
ing of her dress, by the dear little hands
OF her baby, to its ''getting into things"
and the strewing of its playthings along
the floor, and even to the. prints of its
fingers on the window-pane. It could
be wished in some cases that the "ui-
vine phrensy"' Of mother-love were in
these matters less pronounced than it is.
this special kind of discipline.
Not even one little child depends on
her for happiness. What can she do?
What work will fill the empty bands
and hungry hearth" And vet orphan
asylums are full to overlooking. In
Vulnerable motheress waits are floating
about in society perishing for want of
loving care. In such a world as this
there is surely enough to do for all who
would relieve sorrow and pain and
bring JOY to the anguished heart and
Light to the darkened soul. Wisely in
deed, has the Mother Church" provid-
ed "vOcations' for the women in her
membership, and made it possible for
her whose heart overtlows with charity
and the desire Of doing good, but whose
hands are empty, to associate hers-K
with schemes Of organized benevolence
in fields that are ALWAYS "white to the
harvest" Some of our Protestant COM
munion have followed this example, and
the 'Sisters of Mercy" are happy in
their work. Lacking association Of this
kind, she who is really in earnest to
bring happiness to herself by creating it
in the hearts OF others will find the Way
openRs she advances.
Salt on Potatoes.
Mr.. Charles ]. Edic, of Marcy, Oneida
county, N. Y, informs us that during
the season of 1881 he tried salt on soil
in which he plantei potatoes. He broad
casted about 1900 pounds of salt to the
acre and narrowed it in. The potatoes
were then planted; and others were
planted alongside in the same field
without salt. The effect was most strik
Ing. Just as far as the salt extended the
potatoes were smooth, sound, and of
good size. The next rows adjoining,
whore the salt did~not reach, the psta- |
toes were small, wormy and rough. We
may add to the above that we have tried |
salt on potatoes without any such effect |
as that attributed to itSuse above.-Rur-
Al New YOrker