The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-08-24
Labor the Road to Independence.

pers an account OF farm sixty miles
beyond It. Paul, Minnesota, which is
worked by seven sisters, whose pa.
rents, both iuvalils and very poor,
went from Ohio to Minnesota barely
three years ago for their health. Un-
der the hom estead law the family
secured presumption claim of the
usual hundred and sixty acres their
neighbors helped them to put up log
house, and they were ablo to hire
men to split rails for fencing and to
plough tho land. All the rest of the
work it is said, has been done by the
seven girls, and last year they sold
nine hundred bushels vf potatoes, five
hundred bushels Of corn, two hundred
and fifty bushels of wheat, and some
six hundred Of miscellaneous ycgeta-
bles. They are now comfortably off.
These facts are not mentioned for
the purpose of teaching that such
occupations are suitable to women,
(says the Baltimore Sun, though con
trary to American ideas as they may
be, they are more becoming, from the
honest spirit of Independence which
dictated them, than tho exhibitions
made in Wuman's Rights Conventions.
lndeed,if those oratorical females who
are most clamorous for their rights,
would give somo such proof of their
capacity to do the work Of men as the
Minnesota women, they mi .ht demand
with more show of equity the priv,
lcge of suffrage, which, however, the
seven girls of Minnesota do not seem
to he concerned about. Mrs. Stanton
aud her coadjutors would look upon
family like that as available for some
votes, but they themselves treat their
members more practically, as good
for "nlne hundred bushels of potatoes,
five hundred bushels of corn, two hun
dred and fifty bushels of wheat, and
some six hundred of miscellaneous
vegeta blos." And the most of the
calious and materializiug male sex
would look with more approval upon
such substantial results than upon all
the oratory wasted upon female suf-
trasc by all tho masculine women and
feminine men in the United States,
from Abby Kelly to Theodore Tilton.
The valuable lesson, however, to be
deriveI frtm he above is that, if u
family OF women can accomplish in
two Years such results as these, the
abic-bodicd, loaiing persons, by cour-
tesy called men, who iulest the older
portions Of tue country, and seem to
complain that the world owes them
living whether they earn it or not, or
who perform such light duties us
could as we'll be performed by women,
might prove that they were born for
some other purpose than to consume
the fruits of. the saith. Thore is q
call for labor even in those parts Of
the country whore land can not be
had gratuitously, and such is the de-
m"nd in some PORTIONS of our own
State, Virginia and other parts of the
South, that by industry and economy
an energetic man might soon be in u
position to become the owner of a
farm, or at least sufficient land from
which to wrest asliving. Indepon-
dcnce is within sure reach, from small
| beginnings, by those determined to
accomplish it, 5oth in the agricultural
| legioDs of our own section and the
| West and South. 1t is strange, in
view of the increasing density of city
populations, and the future decrease
of wages that may be the result, ma
ny sons,do not seek independ once,
health and comfort in agricultural
pufsuits.--C Charleston Courier. %
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| The OPposINa The
Prussians seem to be proving the
truth again Of what was exemplified
in our war-that young men are tho
best generals. Prince Frederick Will
liam, "Old Fritz" who administered
to the veteran Mcmahon such whip
ping on Saturday, is but thirty-nine
years Of age. His cousin, Frederick
Charles, who commands the right Of
the aru,y, is forty-three, and is believ-
ed by many authorities to, be the best
military strategistin in the world. The
remainder of tho Prussian comman-
ders are generally we'll advanced in
years-Von Bittenfeld and Won Stein
metz, the latter Of whom won the VIC
tory at Saarbrucken, having oach
marched into Paris with the victori-
Gus allies in 1915. The French have
not young man in prominent posi-
tion, if we except Trochu, recently
made Major.Goneral Of tho army.
The army and Many Journal two
weeks ago predicted that lie would
win the laurels of tho war, and he
now has an opportunity to show his
ability in, releasing the French army
from, its disastrous position. - :, y
! TIN: FRANKS or Hlaif CoNsTABLE
| 1'FIuhBARD, : On the 10th of May last,
4 William hernandez received an appoint.
,nent as special constable under State
j jConstable Hubbard, at three dollars a
| J,v ,i,nI om tba OOj nf Iu1v n HIN "a,