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Farmers' Girls.
TJp In tha early morning,
Just at the peep of day,
Straining the milk In the dairy,
Turning the cowl away
Sweeping the floor In the kitchen,
Making the bed up atalra.
Washing the breikfaat dlihei,
Dusting the parlor chain.
Starching their dresses for Sunday,
Churning their anowj cream,
Illnilng their palla and atralner
Down In the running atream
Feeding the geeae and poultry,
Making pudding and plea.
Jogging the little one'a cradle.
Driving away the fllea.
Orace In erery motion,
liuslc In erery tone.
Beauty of form and feature,
Tbouaands might coret to own
Cheeka that rival the roaes.
Teeth the whitest of pearla;
One of these country maids la worth
A score of your city girls.
The Coming Man.
By Elisa . Axthoxt.
The coming man will not ridicule woman's
rights, but will allow bis wife all the rights she
desires, and perhaps more when occasion offers.
He will cot smoke, out of deference to her feel
ings; will draw off his boots before entering the
house, so as not to waken the baby ; and daring
the night, at a nudge from his sponge, will rise
and walk the floor with the aforesaid cherub,
and will sing "lullaby" for hours without a
murmur. He will cot call his wife to account
for a certain ten cents that he gave her three
months before; and she will not bo roused from
her dream by hearing him shoot in her ear:
"Say, Maria, did your shoe strings cost five or
ton cents? I've been wondering what on earth
you did with that money,"
The coming man will not tell his confiding
partner that he is going to the lodge, and in.
stead go to his club, or play "poker" with
his friends. He will not leave her at home darn
ing the family hose, and sewing on buttons on
his ahem I shirts, while ho cultivates the ac
quaintance of Miss Oolightly.
The coming man will not stand on the street
oorners ogling ladies, and making insulting re
marks, or puffing cigar smoke into their faces.
He will not sneer and sooff at his own sister,
and bo polite and deferential to some other in
dividual's sister. He will not part his hair in
tho middle, perfumehis moustaohe, wear gaudy
red or green neckties and a profusion of oheap
jewelry, but will be neatly and becomingly at
tired. Tho coming man will not consider it neces
sary to allude to his respeotod sire as "tho
governor," nor to his vonerable mother as "the
old lady," but will reverence his elders, spoak
ing respectfully to and of them. He will not
think his education completed when he reaohes
his nineteenth year, but will discover that he
meets many persons that know more than be
does singular and mortifying as itmay appear
to him and will learn something new every
day despite the fact "that tbore is nothing new
undor the sun." He will not consider labor a
disgrace, and fearing to soil his hands, prefer
measuring tape behind n counter to learning
one of the many useful trades atul professions
which render a man independent by houost
labor, whother said labor is of tho head or
bands; ami Anally, in marrying, will Hi his
ohoice not upon a girl whoso thoughts are
solely of lino clothes, excitomont and luxury
but upon a modest, blooming girl, who is do
mestic in her tastes, ami can render both hus
band and home comfortable ami happy; who is
accomplished in tho parlor ob well as in tha
kitchen, "the hoart of her husband doth de
light In hor."
When tho coming man reaches tho above
standard, the world will bo a Utopia.
' Hit Him Again, He has no Friends."
A thief wm arrested iu Detroit, n few davs
ngo, and tho sheriff, on searching him, found
pnsioa lusnio 01 uh nai me following maxims,
out from some nowspaper: "ltemember that
truth is a jewel; do not covet; respeot old age;
be content with what you havo; live so that
men will tako your character for au example."
In cousidorationof the excellent principles gov
erning tho man's life, the court allowed him to
retain his printed slip during his year's sojourn
in the penitentiary, Ex.
Upou tho abovo tho Phrenohiilcal Journal
comments as follows; Now, is it not suppos
able that tho man really cherished those
excellont sentiments? Was it not a slip,
rather than a habit, that he "took" this once,
that whloh waH not his own? Hut all his good
intentions go for uolhlug, now that he has vio
lated tne civil law, and ho is "chunked" into
prison among hardened orlminnls. wmnn lm
will probably graduate an oxpert at the end of
a year, ana inoiioe uecomo a "terror" iu bo
cloty. )'t think those "niailnm" nn.tn.l i..
tho man's hat wero the proiuiso, at least, of
kuou imuuuoiiH, iiKoiue temperance "pledge"
to a driukiug man; and, like mauy another, he
forgot his good maxims for tho moment, and
was tempted. To the one who jeorlngly casts
a pitiless slur on the good motives even of a
thief, wo mar quote these words
"That mercy I to oXhm show,
'That mercy shuw to me."
Ik-milk Sociktt. It is bettor for you to
pass uu evening once or twice a woek in a
lady's drawing-room, even though the conver
sation Is slow, aud you kuow the girl's soug by
heart, thau lu a club, a tavern, or a pit of a
theater. All amusements of youth to which
virtuous women are not admitted, rely on it,
are deleterious in their nature. All men who
avoid female society have dull perceptions aud
are stupid, or havo gross tastes aud tevolt
against what is pure. Your club swaggerers,
who are suoking the butts of billiard cues all
night, call female society insipid. Poetry is
uninspiring to a jockey; beauty has no charms
forablind uiau; musio does not please a poor
beabt who does not kuow oue tune from
uother; but as a purs epicure is hardly tired
of water-sauces and brown bread and butter, I
protest I cau ait for a whole night talking with
well-regulated, kiudly woman, about her girl
Fauuy or her boy Frauk, and like the evening's
ontertatuuient. One of the great benefit that
a man may derive from a woman's society is
that he is bound to b reapootfat to her. The
habit is of great good to your moral man, de
pend upon it. Our education make us the
moat eminently telnah tueu in the world.
Tkukrray,
A mam mutt itet himself near at hand
and in common II iugt, and be content with a
toady and mod. rt return. If he would know
the blaaaednesM mi a cheerful heart, aud tha
weetneM of a a'k ova the round earth. This
U a lesson Um American has yet to tears-th
capability of auiuesMat on low key.
Religious Excitement
England.
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Scarcely for a hundred years, oertainly cot
during the present century, has England ex
perienced such a popular religious excitement
as now prevails there under the labors of the
two American revivalists, Moody and Sankty.
That country hag not been wanting in great
preachers, some of whom have developed
powers as pulpit orators and popular teachers;
but none of them since the days cf Wesley and
White&eld have produced effects at all compar
able to those produced by the two Americans
above named. Moody is a native of Massachu
setts, but for some time a resident of Chicago,
where he was pretty well known as a working
member of the Young Men's Christian Associ
ation. He is not an ordained preacher, and
was never supposed to have any special gifts of
oratory, being noted only for his earnest devo
tion to the work of evangelization and bis
boldness in proclaiming Gospel troth. Mr.
Sankey is from Pennsylvania, and does not
preach at alL but lings. He fills the intervals
of Mr. Moody's talking by singing revival
hymns with great earnestness and pathos, ac
companying himself on a cabinet organ.
Almost from the very beginning, their labors
abroad have been attended by wonderful re
sults. The great cities of Scotland, like Edin
burgh and Glasgow, then of Ireland, and now
of England, have witnessed a religious excite
ment far surpassing anything in the memory
of those now living. Their fame soon spread
throughout the kingdom, and wherever they
went great crowds have flocked to hear them.
Their congregations, generally numbering many
thousands, have embraced all classes of society,
and vast numbers of persons have made their
first publio professions of religion under their
ministration. They recently arrived in Lon
don, where they are no w addressing immense
audiences with the usual results. The stolid
English people are stirred as they rarely have
been stirred before, and the movement has
already become one of the most remarkable of
modern times. Indianapolis Journal.
Polite Children.
"Thank you, Charlie," said Mrs. Brown, as
her little son handed her a paper he was re
quested to bring.
"Thank you, Bridget," said the little fellow
a few hours after, as he received a glass of wa
ter irom nis nurse.
"Well, Mrs. Brown, you have the best man
nered children 1 ever saw," said a neighbor,
"I should be thankful if mine were as polite to
me m yours are to the servants. You never
spend half as much time on your children's
clothes as I do, and yet every one notices them,
they are so well-behaved."
"We always try to treat our children politely,"
was the quiet reply.
This was the whole secret. When I hear pa
rents grumblins about the ill manners of their
children I always wish to ask, "Have you al-
VftfB frnftlnil IliAm ivtth nnlitonAoa? '
Many parents who are oolite and nolished in
their manners toward the world at large, are
perfect boors inside the home circle. If a
stranger offers the slightest service, he is
gratefully thanked; but who ever remembers to
thus reward the little tireless feet that are
traveling all day long up stairs and down, on
countless errands for somebody? It would be
policy for parents to treat their children politely
lor the sake of obtaining more cheerful obe
dienoe, if for no other reason. The costless
use of an "if you please," and "I thank you,"
now and then, will go far to lighten an other
wise burdensome task. Say to your son,
"John, shut that door," and with n scowl, he
will move slowly toward it, and shut it with a
bang. The next time say, "John, will you
shut the door, please? " and he will hasten
with a pleasant smile to do your bidding.
A Truthful Sketch.
Let a man fail in business, what an effect it
has on his former creditors! Men who have
takou him by tho arm, laughed and chatted
with him by the hour, Bhrug their shoulders
and pass on with a cold "How do you do? "
livery tnue ot a bill is hunted up and pre
sented, that would not havo seon tho light for
months to come, but for tho misfortunes of the
dobtor. If it is paid, woll and good; if cot, the
scowl of the sheriff, perhaps, moots him at the
corner. A man that has never failed knows
but little of human nature.
In prosperity he sails along gently wafted by
favoring smiles uud kind words from everybody.
He prides himself on his name nnd spotless
character, and makes his boast that he bat not
an enomy in tho world. Alas' tho change.
Ho looks at the world in a different light when
reverse comes upon him. He reads suspicion
on erery brow. He hardly knows how to move
or how to do this thing or the other; there are
spies about him, a writ is ready for his back.
To know what kind of stuff the world is made
of, a porson must be unfortunate and stop
paying, once iu his lifetime. If he has kind
friends, then they are made manifest. A fail
ure is a moral sieve it brings out tho wheat
and shows the chaff. A man thus learns that
words and protended good will aro not aud do
not constitute roal iriendsnip.
Companionship. All well formed human
beings are adapted to society. Whon we find
a roolnse, a hermit, or one who seeks and pre
fers heolusion, it is safe to infer that there
must be something lacking, or that the person
is warped and in au abuormal condition. God
did not make him so. He is the creature of
misfortune, or of perversion, and more to be
pitied thau blamed.
No one lives alone from choioe, with the ex
ception of those morbid specimens. Even
horses hare friendships, and plue for the ab
sent one. So do domestioated cats aud dojts.
Carry Kitty away to a strange place, aud she
loses her appetite, becomes til from houie-Mck-nes,
and really suffers from a disturbance or
breakiugupof her social or friendly relations.
Tho horse worries, frets and refuses to eat till
his mate returns. But these are as nothing
compared to the stronger, deeper, and almost
inseparable ties which unite human hearts in
the bonds of friendship.
A good mau once said: "The greatest gift
God gave the world, after he gave his beloved
Son, was the marriage covenant. "
How to Economize. Ladles who wish to
tnoderinlze plalu basques, or change cuirasses
luto the new fashion, can now do so by adding
to the lower part of the two middle forms a
Btroigbt piece of Bilk, laid in from twenty to
twemy-nve flue plaits. Breast pockets are
again in vogue, aud there are also reticule
pockets made to bulge out as it the oval pouch
was nearly filled.
Tun sun is full ot heat and light, and it asks
no questions as to how it shall do good, but is
perpetually pouring out its golden flood. The
spring that sparkles at tha foot of the hill it
full; aud asking leave of no one, it forever
welliug forth IU tweet waters. So tha Chris
tian, if only fall of the love of God and man,
and shedding around him benign influence as
a natural result, cannot help doing good.
Tit only way to make the mass of mankind
tea the beauty of jostle U by showing than in
pretty pUim tarsi Um oonseqiMao of injoetiee.
The Great
WILLAMETTE FARMER.
Yoi)(Iq Folks' CoLUpfi.
For the Little Folks.
Dear children, I want to say a few words to
you on a subject of which I hay just been
thinking much, viz. : The intercourse of children
with each other, and the rules which should
govern their conduct at all times. All of you,
or nearly all, aro sometimes, if not daily,
bropght in contact with others besides your
brothers and sisters. You meet in social life
you meet in your places of instruction. All are
not lovely in their character or conduct. You may
teach them, by your manners and habits, to do
better. Some are placed in very different cir
cumstances from yourselves. Now, I will give
you a few simple roleB, which, if you will try to
remember and be governed by, you will be
happier for it, and do good:
1. Be gentle and kind to all.
2. Be slow to believe an ill report of any
one.
3. Never repeat an unkind remark made in
regard to any one. Never be a tale bearer.
4. If any of your mates have a bodily defeot,
such as the loss of an eye, a lame foot, a dis
figured face or limb, from accident, never injure
their feelings by alluding to it in the presence
of another person.
5. If any of your mates are so unfortunate as
to have an intemperate parent, never allude to
it, or in any way let them know that you are
aware of it.
6. Never repeat, at your own home, the his
tory of any unpleasant occurrences in your
school during the day, which may have in
volved any of your mates in difficulties, or re
sulted in their punishment.
7. Believe the wants of all needy children,
as far as in your power.
8. ' 'Do unto others as you would that others
should do to you."
Flowkbs. Who does not love the flowers?
Who cannot find some charm in each one of
them? They spring up everywhere, to gladden
our hearts by their beauty and fragrance; and
they should make us thankful for God's love
-and kindness in thus beautifying the earth for
us.
Let us first look to the fields, and see what
they can produce. At the first appearance of
bright, beautiful Spring, the brown fields put on
their green covering, and the warm bright sun
brings out the wild flowers and the fern:.
Soon the leaves appear on the branches of the
trees, and the little pink and white blossoms
peep forth. By and by the grain springs up to
gladden the heart of the husbandman, who re
joices in the prospect of an abundant harvest.
The field flowers, in their simple and bashful
beauty, peering out from the emerald ground,
have a charm for all lovers of nature. The
little sky-blues, with their delicate tints, look
as if tbey had been colored by the reflection of
tho sky for which they are named. The dear
little violets, so fragrant and yet so modest.
bend their graceful heads among the thick
grass, where they grew; and yet they are loved
by all, and are sought for by every one.
The lily, though last mentioned, comes not
least. Proudly its graceful head is held up to
the bright rays of the warm sun, and is one of
tne most ueautltui oi nowers. it is pure and
white, and its golden petals looking inquisi
tively up from its white surrounding, make one
think now truo is that verse of scripture:
"Consider the lilies of the field how they grow,
they toil not, neither do they spin. Yet I say
unto you, even Solomon In all his glory was
not arrayed like one of these." Mills Quar
terly. The Comino Girl. She will be of some use
in the world, will cook her own food, will earn
a living, aud will not die an old maid. The
coming girl will not wear the Grecian bend,
dance the German, ignore all possibilities of
knowing how to work, will not endearor to
break the hearts of unsophisticated young
men, will spell correctly, understand English
before eho affects French, will preside with
equal grace at the piano and the washboard.will
spin moro yarn for the house than for the street,
will not despise her plainly clad mother, her
poor relations, or the hand of an honest worker,
will wear a bonnet, speak good, plain English,
will darn her old stockings, will know how to
muKe douennuts.
The coming eirl will walk five miles a day. if
neea te, to Keep uer oneeKs in glow; will mind
her health, her physical development, and her
mother; will adopt a costume both sensible
and conducive to health; will not confound
hypocrisy with politeness; will not place lying
to please instead of frankness; will have the
courage to cut an unwelcomo acquaintance;
will not think that refinement is French dupli
city; that assumed politeness where hate
dwells in the heart is better than outspoken
oondemnation; will not confound grace of mo
tion with silly affectation; will not regard the
end of her very being to hare a beau. Ex.
Tub Mothmi and iieb Child. Somo mothers
make it a practice to go themselves to fetch the
candle when the children are in bed; and then.
if wanted, they stay a few minutes, and hear
any confessions or difficulties, and receive any
disclosure ot wkion tne utile mind may wisb
to disburden ltsell berore the liour ot Bleep.
Whether then, or at any other time, it is well
worth pondering what a few minutes of serious
cousulation may do in enlightening and rous
ing, or calming the conscience; In rectifying
and cherishing the moral life. It may be ow
ing to such moments as these that humiliation
is raised into humility, apathy into moral enter-
Srise, pride into awe, and scornful blame into
bristian piety. Happy is the mother who
can use such moments as she ought.
Sinodlab Fact in Rkoabd to Dbiftinq Ice.
Lieut. Weyprecht, of the late Austrian polar
expedition, made the remarkable discovery that
the ice never drifted straight in the direction
of the wind, but that it always deviated to the
right, when looking from the center of the
compass. With N. E. wind It drifts due W.
instead of S. W.; with S. W. wind It drifts due
E. instead of N. E.; in the eau-o manner it
drifU to the north with S. E, wind, and to the
south with N. W. wind. There was no excep
tion to this rule which cannot be explained by
currents, nor by the influence of the coasts, as
with these cause there would be opposite
results with opposite winds. Another interest
ing pbenomeuon was the struggle between the
cold notthern winds and the warmer southern
ones in January, just before the beginning of
the lasting aud severe cold; the warm 8. aud
S. W, windt always brought great masses of
snow and produced a rise in the temperature
amounting to 76-95 degrees Fah. within a few
hour.
The influence of extremely low temperatures
upon the human body has often been exagger
ated. There are tale of difficulty in breath
ing, etc., that are caused by them. Lieutenant
Weyprecht and hi party did not notice any
thing of th kind; aud although many of them
had been born in southern dimes, they all
bore the odd very easily indeed; there were
tailor among them who never wore far. Th
ooldonlygete unbearabU when wind U united
to it.
Testing Iron and Steel.
With the exception of the experiments made
some two years ago by Col. Eads in connection
with the construstlon of the St Louis bridge
which experiments were noted in these columns
at the time very little has been done in the
direction of testing the tensile strength of large
masses of iron or steel. The method of test
ing heretofore employed has been the adoption,
as a standard of unit, the results given by the
extreme proofs of specimens having a section
of about one square inch, from which the
strength of large messes is obtained by theoret
ical formula qualified by the introduction,
as a factor of safety, of four-fifths of the re
sult, which is thrown away for possible errors,
lack of homogeneity, poor workmanship, etc.
Practice has found it necessary that this
great margin should be allowed when dealiog
with large masses. Col. Eads' experiments
also fully verified the necessity for such allow
ance. That so great a discrepancy between the
calculated and actual results as four-fifths
should be found necessary, has led many engi
neers to the conclusion that a new theory is
necessary for the estimation of the strength of
iron. It is held by such that a series of careful
testing experiments with large masses of va
rious diameters should ba instituted, in order
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i- rr.-narkable
spall effect being u the fact that the iron
work is painted wbi' r the very mirnose of
lessening the same, f
It has also been noticed that the change is
not always coincident V'ith the showing of the
thermometer, the result being varied at the
same temperature, by reason of the greater or
less amount of moisture in the atmosphere.
The effects of change of temperature are, at
the prtsent day, sajs the ItaUway World, taken
in account in all engineering calculations.
They determine the distance between the ends
of the metals on a railroad track; necessitate
the use of rollers at the end of bridge trusses
when the variation in their length, produced
by rise or fall of temperature, is perceptible;
require the use of expansion joints in long,
iron gutters and thn hot air pipes of a blast
furnace, and have driven civil engineers at
times almost to their wit's end for "compensa
ting" contrivances.
During the erection of Sonthwark bridge
across the Thames, at London, the structure
was almost ruined for want of observing this
natural law, the expansion of the cast iron of
the arches under the sun's rays producing a
strain cpon the piers which had not entered
into the engineer's calculations.
Since that time bridges have been more care
fully framed with respect to thermal Influences.
The engineer's endeavor is to have the expan
sion or contraction of one part counteract the
corresponding ohange in another part, so as to
increaae the stability of the whole.
Tuovis Hooo, the poet and punster, is now
accused of having been a cremationiat, because
he said, shortly before his death, that " he was
dying out of charity to the undertaker, who
wished to urn a lively Hood."
Ibox n thk Caammrui. BtnLDraos. The
quantity ot iron to be used in tha construction
of the Cotanil building will aggregate
about alx thousand ton, of which more than
flva-aixth will be wrought
Shrinking of Seasoned Timber.
The shrinking of timber works a greater det
riment to the wheelwright than to the work of
any other artisan, hence no one should be
more thoroughly informed with regard to the
character of the timber he is oalled upon to
manipulate than the wheelwright. A late
number of the American Builder contains some
hints in this direction, which we give below:
The various kinds of oak, and some other
kinds of valuable timber, will shrink more or
less every time the surface is dressed off even a
small fraction of an inch. Wheelwrights, ac
customed to work in oak, are well aware of
this fact, and a correct appreciation of it often
enables them to turn out work of a superior
character, even of ordinary materials, by first
blocking out the pieces roughly, then allowing
the timber to season, and afterwards working
the various parts by degrees, as the seasoning
process becomes more and more oomplete.
White oak spoke timber, for example, may be
allowed to remain in rough state half a score of
years, nnder shelter, without becoming sea
soned so thoroughly that the timber will not
shrink after the spokes have been dressed out.
Carriage wheels have often been made of the
ohoicest of oak timber after every spoke had
been seasoned for several years, and, to the
great surprise of the wheelwright, every spoke
wonld work in the joints before the vehicle had
run three months. The defect in such in
stances could not be attributed to inferior tim
ber nor to perfunctory workmanship; but
simply to this one circumstance that the
barts of the wheels were put together before
'.he timber had ceased to shrink.
To prove that the best quality of oak will
shrink after a spoke has been dressed out, let
a tenon be made on one end and driven imme
diately into a mortise; after a few days' expo
sure in a warm workshop the spoke may bo
easily withdrawn. The same fact will hold
;ood in the manufacture of woodwork of any
kind where oak is employed for tenons. In
order to make joints that will never start, tha
oiece on which the tenons are to be made should
be dressed over several times, until the shrink
'ng has ceased. Then let the tenons be made.
fter these have shrunk, while exposed to the
trying influences of a warm workshop, the
.pokes, or other parts, may be driven Into
heir respective places, with the assnranoe
especially if they are dipped in oil paint pre--ious
to driving, that the timber will shrink
.o more.
Many kinds of farming implements, in the
manufacture of which oak and ash are nsed,ren
er very unsatisfactory service, simply because
he seasoned timber was not allowed to shrink
before the tenons were driven into the mor
jses. In like manner, oak chairs, and other
)ak furniture, will frequently shrink to such an
xtent that the pommels, rungs, dowel-pins
nd banisters will all work loose, if the pre
aution we have described is not observed.
International Exhibition, 1876.
Bureau of Agricultur ircular.
The Centennial Commission, realizing the
uportance of the agricultural interests of
is United States, and anticipating the de
mands that will be made for a proper represen
ition in the International Exhibition of 1876,
s making ample provision for the accommo
lation of this department,
lit has been organized as one of the bureaus of
tdministration of the exhibition, and will com
trehend the native and cultivated products of
he soil and of objects more directly derived
'terefrom, agricultural machinery and farm
pplianoes.
The building, most eligibly located in Fair
ount Park, will cover ten acres. There
ill be provided, also, ample and suitable
,conimodations for the shelter and display of
ve stock, which it is intended shall be exhib
ed during the months of September and
ctober.
The exhibition will open on the 10th of
(ay, 1876, and it is therefore necessary that
lose who desire to exhibit cereals, forage
tacts and tubers, should make their prepara
sea during the present season.
This exhibition, being international, will
-ing together for comparison the best products
jm every quarter of the globe; hence, evory
fort should be made to give just evidence of
e capacity of the varied climates, soil, skill
tillage, and the character of the live stock of
e United States; whilst the mechanical aids
agriculture should exhibit ingenuity, excel
ace of workmanship and adaptation to de
ed ends. The classification will more fully
-ike manifest the arrangement and compre
nsiveness of this department. Applications
r space should be made as oirly as prac
able, on the forms which will be furnished
the Chief of this bureau.
The prompt co-operation of State, county,
1 ether agricultural organizations, as well as
all individuals interested in the practice of
-al science, stock breeding and forestry, is
nestly solicited.
Committee of the Centennial Commission on
nf.riculture: Robert Lowry, N. C. Meeker,
liawrence Weldon, Robert Mallory, Eldridge
W. Little, Archibald Cameron, Andrew J. '
Dufur.
Resident Advisory Committee: A. L. Ken
nedy, M. D., Patoball Morris, Charles B.
King, M. D., Wm. B. Roberts, John R. Eby,
Lewis Weldln, George Blight, William Brioe,
Thaddeus Norris, George 1. Young, Charles L.
Sharpless, John I. Bishop, Samuel 0. Willetts,
BrjBNET LlNDBKTB,
Chief of Bureau of Agriculture.
A. T. Gosbobn,
Director General.
The Art of Drawing.
The art of drawing, by which we imitate
everything that is beautiful, and transfer to
paper or canvas the creations of our imagina
tion, is not only pleasing as an accomplishment,
but ia also of practical utility in every branch
of study. All cannot expect to attain to equal
excellence; there is no oue who does not pos
ses some little taste, which, with proper culti
vation, will develop itself in some degree of
artistio beauty. As in musio, bo in drawing,
to become a master of the art requires long
labor and constant application; and still it is
within the reach of all to aoquire suoh a knowl
edge, and such an experience, as to produce
pleasing effects and cultivate our taste for the
beautiful in art and nature. If we put our
mind and hand to the work we may feel sure of
the most gratifying results; and each succes
sive difficulty overcome, and every new idea
gained, will add knowledge, experience and
encouragement.
The proper material for drawing are either
black lead pencil, or black lead fixed in
port-crayon, charcoal, red, black or white
chalk, pastil or crayon, pen or hair pencil,
and Indian ink. Black ia as proper in th be
ing to practioe after the plainer line, etc., as
say other material, and th stroke it makes,
being smooth, will please the young beginner
better than what Is effected by orayoa.
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