THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



         THE HOME.

               "At the Last."
   The stream is calmest when it nears the tide,
   And adowers am sweetest at the eventide,
   And birois mcst musical at the close of day,
   And saints divieast when they pass awa.
   Morning is lovely, but a bo'ler charm
   Lies folded close In livening's robe of balm;
   And weary man must ever love her best,
   For morning calls to toil, but night to rest
   She comes from H-aven, and on her wings doth bear
   A holy frageanee like t. e bes, h of prayer,
   Footsteps of aniels follow In her trace,
   To shut the weary eye of day in peace,
   All things sre lawhed before her, as she throws
   O'er earth salw siy her mantle of repose;
   There to a caxm, beauty and a power
   That Morning 1,nows rot, Ia the evening boor.
   t; Until the evening "v we must weep and toil,
   Plow lier' stern furrow, dig the weedy soil,
   Tread wihb *sd f, et our rough and thorny way,
   And bear the h-a, aud burden of the day.
   Oh! when our sun Is Petting mlay we glide,
   Like summer eveuing, d mwo the golden tide,
   And eave "ehtbid un, as we paso away,
   Sweet, starry twilight rouud our sleeping day.
                               -Indepeadent.

                  Xarriage.
  Love is the toaster passion of life, but its
sweets must be gathered with a gentle hand.
The kindly laws of nature set woman to man,
       " Like perfect muaic unto noble deeds."
But the harmony to be preserved, must touch
the heart and purify the senses. Therefore the
sacred institution of marriage has been or-
dained to strengthen and dignify the union.
The uses and duties of this holy state have ev-
er been a subject of interest to mankind at
large; and in almost every age marriage has
been regarded as one of the great agents in the
improvement and cultivation of the human
family.  Morally and physically its infuence
for the benefit ot mankind has been enormous;
for, independently of its original purpose, the
perpetuation of otr species. it has those high
claims to our regard which are born out of the
noblest and loftiest emotions of the soul.  It is
the foundation of all love and friendship, and
creates a sentiment in the mind out of which
spring the elements that foster and promote
civilization.
  To quote the words of one of the most elo-
quent of our prosewriters. Jeremy Taylor:
-Marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house
and gathers sweetness from every flower, and
sends out colonies, and feeds the world, and
obeys kings, and keeps order, and exercises
many virtues, and promotes the interest of
mankind, and is that state of good things to
which plod hath designed the present constitu-
tion of the world" The learned bishop might
have gone flurt her and slated that marriage was
the author and encourager of almost every vir-



tue we possess, and that as it was the first en-
gagement into which man entered, so it has
ever since remained the grand leading event of
his life, and one intimately associated with his
temporal and eternal welfare.

               Home Tyrants.
  For his rule overhis family, and for his con-
duct to wife and children, subjects over whom
his power is monarchical, any one who watch-
es the world must think with trembling of the
account which many a man will have to ren-
der. For in our society there is no law to con-
trol the king of the fireside. lie is master of
property, happiness, life almost. He is free to
punish, to make happy or unhappy, to ruin or
to torture. Ile may kill a wife gradually and
be no more questioned than the grand seignior
who drowns a slave at midnight. lie may make
slaves and hypocrites of h is children, or friends
and freemen; or drive them into revolt and
enmity against the natural law of love. I
have heard politicians and coffee-house wise-
acres talking over the newspapers and railing
at the tyranny of the emperor, and wondered
how these, who are monarchs too in their way,
govern their own dominibas at home, where
each man rules absolute. When the annals of
each little reign are shown the Supreme Mas-
ter under whom we hold sovereignty, histories
will be laid bare of household tyrants cruel as
Amurath, savage as Nero, and reckless and
dissolute as Charles.-Thackeray.

          YOUTH'S CORNER.

               About Icebergs.
  Every little boy or girl who has studied Ge-
ography knows that in the great oceans which
surround the north and south poles of the
earth it is cold, that immense bodies of ice
must form, if they do not, indeed, freeze over
those seas entirely. It is just as if there should
be no more summer in Wisconsin and the ice
on lake and river should continue to get thick-
er and thicker until bye-and-bye the water
should all have become ice.
  You have seen pictures, perhaps, of Green-
land orIceland, with scarcely a tree in sight,
and here and there a great white bear, hunted
by a band of dwarfed and muffled-up men.
What then should you expect still further north,
where the rays of the sun fall so slantingly
upon the earth that they are never able to warm
it up to a temperature above fifty degrees be-
low zero, by the thermometer-in other words,



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