Be Thankful

The mauy coniplaints about slush and mud the past week, leads me to think that but few appreciate the immense value of a good snow storm in mid April, to our great agricultural resources. Chemically, this week's snow, gathered from the atmosphere, and deposited, broadcast over our lands, more valuable gases than a week's labor of all our men and teams could have done, by industriously cartiog fertilizers. Mechanically, the snow of this storm has protected, and possibly has saved from destruction, the tender plants which frosty nights would have lifted, and the dry winds of pleasant days would havo shrivelled out of vitality. Be ye thankful, therefore, for the slush and mud of this week. Philosophically considered, there are but few conditions without some cause for thankfulnoea. I have auiuuwhcr road of two culprits about to be hangcd on a hot summer day. While adjusting the noose, a mad buil carne tearing down the street which was crowded with men, women, and children who came to see the aanging. One of the doomed men - viewing tho scène with feelings of sympathetic horror - quietly, and sincerely said to the other, " Pat l it's a good thing we are not obliged to be in that crowd to-day. " Ifpossible, fiod cause for thankfulness. The thankful heart is clevated, while croakers depress and demoralize all with whom they come in contact.