He is useful and admirable in his relation to this world, and he is not without value to the next, for popular belief has credited him with the office of warning revisiting spirits to retire from the earth; and when he crows all through the night, the Katie Kings and other ghostly persons who come from space to rap upon tables and evoke discordant twangs from guitars are deaf to the seductive entreaties of the mediums.

When "This bird of dawning singeth all night long, ...

then they say no spirit dares stir abroad." Perhaps the true method of expelling Satan from the land and of reforming the corruption which afflicts the country is to place the cock upon our standards and to offer him inducements to crow perpetually.

There should be something to that effect in the political platforms.

A goose saved Rome; why should not a rooster rescue America?
Let the patriot who curses the noisy bird which crows him from his drowsy couch at an unseemly hour think of these things and allay his wrath with reflections upon the well-deserved glories of the matutinal rooster.
I have one neighbor who does not regard the crowing cock with proper enthusiasm--who is indeed inclined to look upon it with disgust; but as he has been a victim of the bird's vociferousness, perhaps his sentiments of dislike for the proud bird may be excused.
The agricultural society of our county held a poultry show last fall, and Mr.Butterwick, who is a member of the society, was invited to deliver the address at the commencement of the fair.