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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-08-02

LORD NORTON ON FARMERS
PROSPECTS.

Lord Norton, writing to a contemporary with respect to
the existing agricultural distress, says :
The fact is that many of the larger farmers now
failing have never had really capital enough to make
their tarms pay. Landis only a medium through which
manure is turned into crops. If no manure is put on it
it will soon make no return at all. If kept vigorously in
heart it will make almost unlimited return. There are
temporary checks from bad seasons, and a succession of
fourbadseasons in now causing an unusual and terrible
check to agricultural profits. The bringing of new fields
of virgin soil into available competition must also divert
our home system into new arrangements. Fashion does
this injury much more largely and capriciously to trade
and manbfactures. But will the Royal Commission now
promised he able to tell us how to avoid bad seasons,
or control discoveries of and new accesses to virgin
corn fields of vast capacity? Prudent farmers should
be rather intent on a change of treatment of the old
land, to avoid the competition of the new, using each
for its own best purposes. It is notorious that farming
capital is, even in the best English farms, not turned
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over as quickly as n Scotland. These are the right
considerations for all interested in the land of this
country at the present crisis. The greater security
the Scotch farmers enjoy for their capital of the many
aorfe
lannodt pooonpusila4orr.
Let owners, occupiers,
thousands invested m their farms is generally re-
pudiated in England, leasesw,nhedrewoe
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.m the Legislature,
no of the business they are all together in-
terested in, with no vain hopes from slature,
of producers at the coat of the community."
no mutual jealousies, no thought of recovering profits
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-08-02

A CURIOUS TOMB IN HAMPSTEAD,

In the south-east corner of the parish churchyard of
Hampstead, in the north of London, stands a large
family ..nausoleum, to which a singular history is at-
tached. It appears that OOMO seventy or eighty years
ago, when the district of Pimlico was little more than
an open field, there lived in it a certain Mr. Henry
Lower, who was largely connected with some mercan-
tile house in the City, and was equally wealthy and
respected. He was also a man of taste, and one whose
commercial instircts and habits taught him to look
forward with a discerning eye to the future. It is
recorded in the annals of Hampstead that one fine
summer afternoon, many years before his death, this
Mr. Lewer took a long walk from Pimlico, through
Marylebone-fields and St. John's-wood, up to Hamp-
stead, and sat himself down to rest on a tombstone
under one of the yew trees in the churchyard, and
that whilst there he was so struck with the beauty
of the spot and the fineness of the view, embracing
as it did, and still does, the whole panorama of the
Surrey hills from Caterham to Guildford, that he
resolved, if he could not become a resident of Hamp-
stead in his lifetime, he would make it his last resting
place when dead, Accordingly, having feasted his eyes
with the beauty of the spot until the sun began to set,
he went home, sent for his solicitor, and made his will.
In this he declared his desire, wherever he should die,
to be buried in no other place but Hampstead, and in
one particular corner cf the churchyard.—Builder.