PATIENCE WITH THE LIVING

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 454, 15 March 1890, Page 8

PATIENCE WITH THE LIVING

Sweet friend, when thou ami T urt gone Beyond mirth's weary labour, When small sinll he our need of grace from comrade or from. uei*»lil>**ur ; Passed all the strife, anil toil, and care, And done with all the sighing, Wlint tender mill shall we have gained, Adas! by simply dying. Then lips too chary of their [ raise Will tell our merits over, The eyes too swift our faults to see Shall no defect discover. The hands that would not lift a stone Wlrcre stones were thick to cumber Our steep hill path, will scatter flowers Above our pillowed slumber. Sweet friend, pe:chance belli them and I, lire love is pa>t forgiving, Shoidd take the earnest lesson home— Bo f atient with the living. To-day's suppressed rebuke may save Our blinding tears to morrow', Tin n patience—e’en when ke< nest edged May whet a nameless sorrow'. ’Tis easy to he gentle when ID ath’s silence jdiames onr clamour ; And easy to discern the best Through memory’s mystic glamour But wise it were for thee and me, Ere love is past forgiving, To take the tender lesson home— Be patient with the living.

Says, the Taranaki, Herald :—Barking the posts—charring them and dipping them in coal tar, are very common and | opnlar processes, but, as unwise as they are common. Take post for post of the same quality of wood, and put into th. same kind of soil, the one with the bark on, and the other with the bark off ; those with the bark on will last considerably longer Ilian those peeled. Again, charring the wood, dobs not make the post last longer, hut rather otherwise. Charcoal, it is true, is almost indestructible ; but the wood of a post cannot bo all charred, and the charring only dissipates the resin in Ihe wood, and cracks the surface to allow the water and air to reach the inner unchanged layers' and destroy them. Coal tar, again, rather aggravates rot than preserves wood ; almost any other appliance is bi tter than coal tar for the purpose. Lime washing is a help ; tar is good. Crease, or oil of any kind, or turpentine assi ts in [deserving paling ousts and exposed wood'of any kind. The best of any kind, however, is that of creosote or oil or tar. .. ' i