Year: 1875




PRIDE IN THE HoMEsTEAD.-The idea of
permanency should be an essential element
to be incorporated in the minds of all con-
cerned in the establishment Of homes. 1t
should grow with the growth and effort of the
husband and wife who are laboring to secure
one; it should be inbred in the child's mind
and become as fixed there as fixed star.
Home should be regarded as the nucleus of
all efort-the converging point toward which
all family efforts and interests gravitate-the
central point of interests, of pleasure, and Of
refinement for the entire family. We believe
in the cultivation of family pride in home
BY all proper means-that it should be re-
garded matter of honor that the homestead
shall be retained for successive generations in
the family, and that its past and present asso-
Citations shall become, and continue to be,
through the generations to follow, family
Inheritance.


More than aught else that we can think of,
is the absence of this idea of permanency in
the minds of families, the cause of their dlsln-
tegration-the reason why the boys leave the
farm and why old men who once had good
homes for themselves and families, are, at
later day in life, left wrecked and penniless
upon the worlds waysides. Unrest takes pos
session of men who do not cultivate strong
local attachment for home-who do not COM
prehend the real meaning and merit of the
word and the great advantages that result
from permanent anchorage, safe harbor,
sure refuge.


We have no law of entails but it were
wise if each family were to create system OF
their own by which this central spot in the
family history, the birthplace and nursery
ground of the children, this scene of struggle
for family subsistence, life education, social
position, and wealth, shall be retained unen-
numbered and in its completeness, in the
family.


THE S1sTER-No household is complete
without sister. She gives the finish to the
family. A sisters love, a sisters influence
what can be more hallowed A sisters watch.
full care-can anything be more tender? A
sisters kindness-does the world show US any
thing more pure? Who would live without
a sister? A sister that is sister in fidelity,
in purity, in love, is sort of guardian angel
in the home circle. Her presence condemns
vice. She is the quickener of good resolu-
tions, the sunshine in the pathway of home.
To every brother sheis light and life. Her
heart is the treasure house of confidence. In
her he finds fast friend charitable, for
giving, tender though often severe friend. In
her be finds ready companion. Her SYM
pathy is as open as day, and sweet as the fra
GRANGE of flowers. We pity the brother who
has no sister, no sisters love; we feel sorry for
the home which is not enlivened by sisters
presence. A sisters Office is noble and gen.
tie one. 1t is hers to persuade to virtue, to
win to wisdom's ways; gently to lead where
duty calls; to guard the citadel of home with
sleepless vigilance of virtue; to gather graces
and strew flowers around the home altar. 10
be a sister is to hold sweet place in the heart
of home. It is to minister in a holy office.


Do EVERYTHING WELL.-It is the result
of practical, everyday experience that steady
attention to matters of detail lies at the root
of human progress, and that diligence, above
all, is the mother of good luck. Accuracy
also is of as much Importance, and as an in
variable mark of good training in man, &C.
curacy in observation, accuracy in speech,
accuracy in the transaction of all affairs.
What is done in business must be done we'll,
for it is better to accomplish perfectly small
amount of work, than to half do ten times as
much. Yet in business affairs, it is the man.
ner in which even small matters are transact
ed, that often decide men for or against you.
With virtue, capacity and good conduct in
other respects, the person who is habitually
inaccurate cannot be trusted his work has to
be gone over again, and he thus causes an
noyance, vexation and trouble.


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p9 Trees of all kinds can be transplanted in
autumn as soon as they are done growing in.
dicated by the change in the leaf, up to hard
freezing. The earlier this is attended to, es-
pecially with large trees, the more certain are
they to grow. By transplanting early, the
roots have time before the season closes of
settling we'll in their new homes and taking a
good hold, which will sustain them through
the winter, prepared to take an early start in