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Southland Times, Issue 1658, 5 November 1872, Page 2

Fabmebs' Homes. — A house on a hill, with no trees around it, looks, cheerless and unhomelike. Have grounds around the dwelling. Tear away the fencsß, they lost money and are useless — I mean the fences shutting the house up as if there was danger of its running away. Let there be not less than an acre of door yard, ten will be better. Make a rich lawn of this and cut the grass. Ifc can be no waste, bat it will be a thing of beauty, and " a thing of beauty is a joy for ever." There need not be any loss to be tasteful ; nature and beauty are synonyms; good taste and economy can therefore be made handmaids to each other. Set out fruit trees in this' enclosure, and dig around them with a spade each year and topdresa the whole ; and the trees will grow finely, and the grass will grow luxuriantly, and the house will grow beautiful, the children will grow contented, the fathers and mothers as they grow old will grow happy, the neighbors will grow to emulate and to excel, the township will grow attractive, and the young men and the young women will grow up to think and to feel, that there iB no place after ail like home, " Sweet Home." — American paper. Pedmbs' Certificates. — The increase of the charge for a pedler'a certificate from 6d to 5a has reduced by one-half the number of persons taking out such certificates. In the first two months of the year 1871 the 6d certificate was taken out by no less than 79,826 persons in Great Britain the object in many cases 1 being to obtain a pass which would enable a vagrant to beg in the country, and not ' really to trade. In the first two months of 1872 only 39,857 certificates at 5i were I taken.