Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-09-10

An old farmer said to his sons: Boys,
don't you ever speckerlate, or wait for
something to turn up. You might as we'll
60 an sit down on stone in the middle
of medder. with pail atwixt your legs,
and wait for COW to back up to you 10 be
MIXED"
The Mi.sissippi Valley Reviear, an able
mercantile journal PUBLISHED at st. Louis,
ends a column article on Labor Associa
tons" with this reference to the needs Of
the West. and how they are to be ulti-
mately supplied:
"The writer has first aud last met with
scores of men now in Western States and
Territories who have left the manufactur-
ing districts of the Eastern and Middle
States, and are now at work. for them
selves, either at farming, stock-raising,
mining, manufacturing, or in trade or
commerce. This wide West is to be peo-
pied, and every railroad that penetrates
new region presents new opportunities tor
various branches of business. NO pent.up
Utisa contracts our powers to immigrate,
settle and cultivate; and the question in
the over crowded cities as to what shall be
done with the increasing population, finds
a ready answer as We contemplate the mill
ions of acres of virgin soil in the West to
be subdued and improved; the thousands
of new towns to be built and supplied as
trade centres, with businessmen, trades
men and manufacturers the mines Of
iron, copper, lead, silver and gold, to be
opened and their ores to be utilized. Here
in the West, outside very narrow limit
of industries, the demand for laborers far
exceeds the supply, and from present pros
poets, no one nov living nor even their
children's children, will ever see it other
wise"
OF the farmers vocation, Mr.. Greeley
says in his q Notes." [...
There is no other business in which
success is so nearly certain as in this. OF
one hundred men who embark in trade, a
careful observer reports that ninety five
fail and, while think this proportion
too large, l am sure that large majority
do, and must fail, because competition is
so eager and traffic so enormously over.
done. If ten men endeavor to support
their families by merchandise in a town
ship which affords adequate business for
but three, it is certain that majority
must fail, 20 matter how judicious their
management or how frugal their living
But you may double the number of farm.
ers in any agricultural county ever ira
versed, without necessarily booming any
one to failure, or even abridging his gains
If half the traders and professional men in
this country were to betake themselves to
farming Tomorrow they would not render
that pursuit one whit less profitable, while
they would largely increase the comfort
and wealth Of the entire community; and,
while good merchant, lawyer. or doctor
may be starved out Of any township simply
because the work he could do we'll is alrea-
dy con6ded to others, never yet heard of
atemperate, industrious, intclli gent, frugal
and energetic farmer who failed to make
living or who. unless Frustrated by dis.
ease or disabled by casualty, was precluded
from securing modest independence be.
fore age and decrepitude Invested him Of
the ability to labor
IMPORTANT FOR Pre- EMPTORs.-The
following Act of Congress, approved July
l4th, 1870, should be read by every set
tier. 1t will be seen that pre-emptors
must pay up with the time limited, in
stead Of at any indefinite time as hereto
fore:
Be il enacted bv the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States OF Amer
lea in Congress assembled, That the privile-
ges of the Act of May 3oth, 1862, entitled IAN
Act to rednee the expenses of the survey and
sale OF the public lands in the United States"
be, and the same are hereby, extended TO Col
orado ; and the proviso Of the first section of
the Act approved June %, 1862, entitled "An
actto establish land Office in the Territory
OF Colorado, and for other purposes, is here
by repealed.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no.
thing in the act of Congress approved March
27sh. 1884, entitled " An Act for the relief of
settlers on lands reserved for railroad purpos-
es," shall be Construed to relieve su n settlers
from the obligation TO file the proper notices
OF their claims, as in other cases, and all
claimants Of pre- emption rights shall hereafter,
when no shorter period Of time is prescribed
by law. make the proper proof and payment
for the lands claimed. within eighteen months
after the date prescribed for filing their derlsr.
that where said date shall have elapsed before
the passage of this Act said pre-emptor shall
have one year after the passage hereof in
which to make such proof and payment.
The Sex OF EGGs-Is there any way
OF foretelling the sex of eggs? Yes:
when examining an esg. by holding it be.
tween the eye and the light of the sun or
Of candle, the vivifying speck is seen
exactly on top; such an egg, it is said,
will produce a male bird but If. on the
contrary, the speck be on one side, it will
produce a female. 1t is said, also. that
the sex Of the embryo bird may be dis.
tinguished by the shape of the egg; as. if
the egg il elongated 10 shape. it will con.
tain male. but if more globular it will
contain female. So that If these indica-
tious be true either sex r,sv he cror.,...s