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Title: American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household
Year: 1868 (1860s)
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Subjects: Agriculture--Periodicals
Publisher: New York: Orange Judd
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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lead-ing ideas remembered.When it is known howmany pages can be thusmastered per hour, itwill be easy to calculatehow much will be ac-complished in ten;Perhaps iu ciphering itout, the total will proveBO important that somethoughtful boys and girlswill take the hint andeuro lie bent lit of afund of infor-mation. * if cott iod thai instruc- history, biography, works on natural Bci- liall be amount of soli p, may he cultivated in ten years,by persis utesi lf- denial, in some one particular, each day? The )iij>-er subjects to exercise in are those where one i in doubtwhether thcyare fighl or best. Indulgence orthe palate,of vanity, pride, and especially of anger, and it- i all profanity, will give pitnnitics to given by the Wi-r Man. that. lie who raletll his spiriti- better than he who takcth a city, ten yearssuch practice would make a mighty man. It i^ awell known fact in the lives of the great that self-mastery is the i in mastering others. •420 AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. (November,
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UNEXPECTED COLLISION. Here is trouble enough for the youngsters who werehaving snqh a grand ride with their four-goat team. Theirhandsome, well-trained animals have been set upon by alot of untamed, ill-bred street goats, the harness is broken,and the pets are suffering severely from the cowardly at-tack. We can all sympathize with the plucky fellow whorushes to the rescue, and belabors the vicious brate withhis tiny umbrella. What could have provoked such a fierceattack? We have seen something like it among boys.The well-dressed and well-behaved are disliked by theragged and the vulgar, who do not enjoy seeing othershave what they do not possess. This is the hateful spiritof envy, that would drag others down to ones own level,instead of striving to rise to theirs. It is at the bottom ofmany of the quarrels and much of the mischief in theworld. In a goat it may be less hateful, although eventhere it entitles the trespasser to a sound beating; but ina boy or girl, it is difficult to fi

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