The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-09-09

dollar for fifteen cents; ssthe horse
men" must pay seyenty-fve cents
on every dollar they receive. Should
there be any complaints, and if so,
from whom would we naturally ex-
pect them to come? 1t is said you
may work for days and weeks upon
an article and then only receive .
mere pittance for premium. To
whom does the article belong
when made ? Do you expect the
Society to pay you for making it for
yourself? If SO every one should
have a premium. We would sup
pose from w. II. BIS. sorry picture
of affairs that everything is going
down hill except horse racing. Now
If you take the pains to examine the
premium list, you will find decided
improvements over the inducements
held out last year. Many new
names have been added to the list,
and you have the assurance of the
Society that as your patronage and
interest increases, the premium list
viii be extended, and additional
buildings erected for your CONVENE
ence.
Then, in the language-but not
in the spirit-of w. II. B., fill the
Pavilion with articles useful aud
ornamental, things to crafty tie
eye and the palate. Who will reap
the reward and whose will be the
enjoyment? The Society has paid
you hundreds of dollars more than
your entry fees. They have thous-
ands of dollars invested for which
they do not receive a cent of income,
a fact of which w. r. b. seems
quite ignorant. Ladies, may a more
noble motive than the mere love of
money be your ruling passion. Let
the pleasures Of joining in mutual
admiration of those articles useful
and beautiful be to you a greater
joy than to carry away few paltry
dollars.
A word to mechanics. Your
premiums are small, says w. r. b.
Has it been so long slIce lie came
from the "East" that he has forgot
ten that there the highest premium
awarded the most of your works is
a diploma ? Is it not to Your inter
est, without any premium, to offer
finished specimens Of your skill be
fore the hundreds of those who are
your patrons?
Farmers, some of you, like w.
r. B., complain that the ''horSe
jockeys" have all the advantage !;
look at the record last year. You
were offered $50 1st aid S25 End
premium each for the best five
acres of Fall and Spring wheat,
more than fifty per cent. larger pre-
miunls than any for running. What
was the result? ? One farmer, and
one only, would take chances in
competition /; and this is just the
reason why the Society can afford
to offer large premiums to the
s'horSe men" and not to you. They
will take chances in competition.
and you will not. A few words to
w. X. B. We think we have
shown you how and why the Board
of Directors can afford to offer such
liberal premiums to the ssPolitely
Dubbed :" but if thisis such great
bugbcar on the premium list, we
will cut it out and see how it looks.
We have s2,71s.75 left, to be divi-
ded among the various otller classes,
none to which you seem to object.
This we think would read pretty
well for County Fair, and if this
looks shanay to you, Q how slom5-
shansy the other premiums look to
your critical eyes. But, w. X. B.,
we don t want to see you spite your
self by staying away from the Fair.
If you think it a very cruel thing
for a horse who has been months III
training to run or trot as fast as he
can. over the best track in the State,
we won't insist on your engaging IL
that stlyle of equestrianis1n. We
have a race in which the locolnotIor
will accord more nearly with youl
ideas of progress, and this is the
walking match. But perhaps yor
are down on horses in general, if sc
we will give you a chance in the
foof-race. BUZ.
The old spelling schools. Have yot
| forgotten them when from all the
region about they were gathered in tilt
| log school house, with its huge fire.
place yawning like the entrance of Av
erlus? How the sleigh bells. big u
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