SACRED POETRY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 80, 4 April 1874, Page 2

SACRED POETRY.

The concert described in the following extract from the JVeiv Zealand Jfferaljd of March 6, seems to have been agreat Bucceas, in co far as the number ■ wiiefr attended it is concerned :— " The Harmonic Society, pursuant to announcement; gave their moonlight concert last night on board the Golden Ckown, which steamed about the harbor for two hours. The experience of this occasion suggests that some better •; arrangements should be made to pre--1 V^faijtheHaily serious 'crush' that took 1 place in the endeavours of a very numerous crowd to get on the steamer. When onetbitiks of the unprotected slate of the < Jandißjgiplades, the /'act that there were at least 2000 persons swaying and crushing, first to get tickets, and next to get a seat on the deck of the steamer, the wonder is that no accident happened. As it was, several ladies fainted, and this circumstance, in the triidst of % large crowd, always creates ' confusion and no little dismay." It" iB an open question with many whether the use of common ashes will pay on the /arm. As bearing upon this^ a correspondent sends the Rural '^ S.omp theae facts :— During .the year 1847 a man named Arthur Dugan went to the town of Palermo, ' Oswego County, and bought sixty acres of light Bandy land, with here and there a little pertaining to gravel. He paid 1800 dollars for it. He knew nothing about farming, being a machinist by trade, and never held a plough. After paying for fcia land, he had 200 dollars left. He began, and found his land was worn out. His first crops were — wheat, five busbela: per acre; rye, eight bushels; jjbtato^B, 'severity-five; corn, mere no£hi<)g< The second year was even worse. He had to hire part of his sheep pastured out, he could not hold his own. But being a man of excellent judgment, and a great reader, his good judgment, aided by theories, carried him through. He began by buying ■ Jaßhesknd plaster, would draw potatoes ibrirteen mile, to Oswego, and load his team back with manure from the livery stables. His crops increased. His ashes were spread correspondingly thick. He raised principally potatoes and wheat. Now 2000 bushels of ashes per year is about what he buys. His potatoes, for several years paßfc, average 250 bushels per acre; bis winter wheat, thirty bushels and over; tintitle baß saved from his farm alone . till he now holds 12,000 dollars in bank isiock, ami would not sell his farm for 1 100 dollars per acre. He sold, in 1869, of pbtaioßß find Wheat, over 2300 dollars worth. He is known as the best. farmer in this country. Yet when ie /began buying ashes, old farmers ;«ho6k"th<ei^heatJ8 L and said ; "He Will know better when he has farmed it as much as we have." Josh: Billings on Silence. — Silence is a still noise. One of the hardest ' - thin^a man can do is to keep still. Everybody wants the world with ;nonflense. wants totalk^ : f»w want to tbink, arid nobody wants '$0 listen. -The greatest talkera among the feathered folks are the magpie and the Guinea hen, and neither of them rare ofmuch account.. If a man ain't sure he is right, the best card ' he can blank one. : I have known many a man to beat in an argument by jußt nod'cUng his head once in a while, Fand.Bimply sayiog "just so, just Ao. n HEt-takeß~a:greßtTnany blows to ; knock in a nail, bilt odo will clinch it. Some men talk just like a French pony trots, 'all day Ipbg, in a half-bushel measure. . Silence n^vermakesiany I (blunders, and . aiwaysigainsJas much credit as is due J bfttrmes more. When I see .a. man listening to me close, I . always sayrtQ-myseff, "Look; out, Josh, tha^ iellow is taking your meaßUre." I have heard men' arguo a point t*wo hours ani "a'lfklfa'nd iiot get any .further ferti where they? staged, than armule in a bjrkmill. ■ •.'},■. . . . ,