Year: 1875

We venture to assert, though not
without some m1sgivings, that winter is
fairly over and that spring is with US in
something like it's normal condition.
The plough has already bugun its use
full work, and the farmer, throwing off
the winter torpidity, has become a man
Of action The floods are over with,
and no damage has resulted from them
in this part of the country. The cleo
tions are over, the Beecher trial has grown
stale, and there seems to be nothing to
prevent everybody from attending to
their own business, and putting In
square years work. The season is
more important to the agriculturist than
anyone else, and the agricnlturist IS
more important to mankind than any
one else. We could spare every other
employment better than his, and George
Washington said it was the noblest cal
ling of MANI George commenced telling
truth very early, and he was certainly
correct. Therefore we may conclude
that the world is more directly concerned
with spring than with any Of the other
seasons. We might have a glorious
summer, a sublime autumn, and cheer
full winter; but they would bring us
little OF no food and happiness If we





right direction with. If last winter, for
instance, had carried out its threat to
take us along through the three months
usually allotted to spring and pumped
us right down into the middle of June
with our overcoats on, we should be in
a sad plight indeed. By little Ieason-
ing of this kind the contemplatiye mind
can realize that spring is really season
to be respected and venerated, and that
the poets are fully justified in frequently
alluding to it in terms Of admiration,
though if we had the makingup of the
calendar it should hereafter begin on
the 1st of April, and not day sooner.
But we can't have everything right.
The season making business has been
left to the hands of Popes and astrono-
mers, and if they make mistakes it Is
probably because they have had too
many other things to attend to.


Byron says it is the season when
''Mighty nature bounds as from his
BIRTH and In sympathy with nature
mankind takes with it q start forward.
The increasing warmth Of the suns rays
warns the animal as we'll as the vegita
BILE world INTO life, and a universal ac
tivity prevails. The harvest may be
good or i'll. We can tell nothing about
it now, but we know that on it hang our
hopes and fears. It is seed time, and
our responsibility ends for the present
In sowing right. We may SOW right
and reap poor results, but if we SOW
wrong we shall be sure to, and SO we
enter yearly upon sea of uncertainties.
If we escape drouths, grasshoppers and
other evils, and have good crops ali
over the country this year, it will go far
to relieve the depressed condition Of
business. Food will become cheapened,
and the cheaper we can live the more
prosperous we are. Low wages then
will not distress the lahorer, and low
wages encourage capital to undertake
great enterprises employing labor.
When we come right down to close rea-
soning we find that the price of food
depends upon its quantity, and hence
upon good or bad crops depends more
or less the prosperity of every branch of
human employment. 1t is not the far
mer alone who is interested in boun-
teous harvest; it is the whole world.
Plenty tends to extend railroads, build
factories, enliven trade and develope the
country Business of all kinds acts in
sympathy with the farmer, and hence
the work which he is now entering on
bears with it, for better or worse, the
welfare of the country. An uninter-
rupted series of good crops for ten years
would solve our financial problems for
us, almost obliterate the public debt,
and heal our sectional difficulties by
giving al employment and putting
everybody in good humor.


We expect to see the discomfort and
general grumbling and growing which
has prevailed in city and country, in the
newspapers, in taverns and around the
stove in the store at the cross roads,
during the winter, vanish to great de
gree in the healthy reaction which a
return to work always causes. Constant
ly moaning over hard times is q cheerless
and unsatisfactory business, but it is
one that has been INDUCED In without
stint for some time past, and it is about
time that it was stopped. The people
want to take off their coats and go to
work with hopeful disposition. Spring
is the time to rub out the old and begin
the new. It is the threshold of new
era, which must write its own history,
and which will have enough burdens of
its own to bear without retaining any of
the old; and if its burdens are fewer
than common SO much the better. Spring
is a noun but it is also verb III the i'm
perative mood.-,Sesatiaael.