...Hence, no other temporal blessing is of greater importance than an adequate supply of soft water; and if he "who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor," then how eminently is he also a benefactor who is instrumental in securing abundant...

...fields of labor and open up additional channels of trade and commerce. It has been often -well eaid that he who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to the human race. How much more, he who creates a new means of employment for hundreds...

...fields of labor and open up additional channels of trade and commerce. It has been often well said that he who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to the human race. How much more, he who creates a new means of employment for hundreds...

...they will insure substantial sympathy from those who are capable of their interpretation. If that man who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before may justly be considered a physical benefactor of the race, then that institution deserves to be esteemed...

...of the past. As I close, let us all remember how truly and wisely it has been said, " He that maketh two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor of his race." THE PRESIDENT. We have been listening to the sons of Croydon. I propose...

...turf, in time produce ennui ; but the satisfaction of causing — or of thinking that we cause — two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before is unequaled by any that these purely pleasant pastimes can originate. It gives us an importance in our...

...home, or he who causes his broad fields on the prairie to bloom and whiten in richer loveliness, but " he who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor," then truly such work should be regarded as ennobling. We cannot fully estimate its importance....

...be obtained during our fair week, and each evening could be spent profitably to all. It is said that he who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor of his race! How much more, then, is he a benefactor of his race who can add a thought...

...improvement." Mr. Holmes presented the following, on THE VEGBTABLE GARDEN. It has been said, that " he who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor ;" and he who will induce one person to cultivate a vegetable garden, who never...

...all these minds and souls and bodies, with their untold possibilities of good, the State has, in my opinion, a sort of right of eminent domain, and not...polished intellect for blind and stupid ignorance ? Is not the one blade of grass thereby multiplied an hundred-fold ? To do this on the grand scale...