Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1884 — Do You Know the Plants? [ARTICLE]

Do You Know the Plants?

It is not only a pleasure, but very useful, to know the names and qualities of trees, plants, herbs, and flowers. All this you can learn only by keeping your eyes open. Many a time you will need such knowledge. A vessel was once wrecked in the English Channel. Only four persons were saved. No one could seo them for the darkness, nor hear them for the noisy storm. They climbed from rock to rock till they could get no higher, but just then one of them, by a flash of lightning, saw a samphire plant. By this he knew they were safe, for it never grows in a place which the tide can reach, and then they conld rest. So life might often be saved if you knew certain common herbs and plants that are cures for diseases. Keep eyes and ears open as you pass through life, and you will learn much that may lie useful to you. Then, too, such knowledge is, in itself, a pleasure, even if you never need it.— Florai World. Love does not ask for perfection; it asks only tor He own. You cannot propitiate it with gifts nor satisfy it with all the virtues, if you cannot pay it back value for value, in its coin; and if this t ibute be paid it will forgive every weakness, ' Music does not Change the disposition of «*ur soul; it makes ns feel what we think. *