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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
Maxims for the Farmer.

l. Only good farming pays. He who
sows or plants, without reasonable as
surance of good crops annually, had bet
ter earn wages of some capable neigh
Der than work for SO poor paymaster
as he is certain to prove himself.
2. The good farmer is proved by the
steady appreciation of his crops. Any
one may reap an ample harvest from
a fertile virgin style; the good farm r
alone grows good crops at first, and bet
ter and better ever afterwards.
3. It is far easier to maintain the pro-
ductive capacity of a farm than to re-
store it. To exhaust its fecundity, and
then attempt its restoration by buying
costly commercial fertilizers, is wasteful
and irrational.
4. The good farmer sells mainly such
products as are at least exhaustive. Ne
cessity may constrain him, for the first
year or two, to sell grain or even hay
but he will soon send off his surplus
mainly in the form of cotton, or wool,
or meat, or butter and cheese, or some
thing else that returns to the soil nearly
all that is taken from it. A bank &C
count daily drawn upon, while nothing
is deposited to its cridit, must soon re
spond, mo funds )" so with a farm
similarly treated.
5. Rotation is at least negative fertil
ization. 1t may not positively enrich
farm; it will at least retard and post
pone its impoverishme He VIII,
grows wheat after wheat, corn afte
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
Quality VS.. Quantity.

am not prepared to suggest rem
edy. | leave that to ADLER men. But
one thing feel certain of, farmers need
not abandon their business on account
of temporary low prices. There is a
chance for US yet. Let US study to raise
good crops, improve our stock, keep up
the fertility of our farms, vote Tor honest
men, and we need have no fear that the
country is going to the dogs, or tn t
agricultural products on the whole will
not sell for what they are worth.
We want to raise better wheat, better
beef, better pork, better mutton, better
cheese, and better butter. The best is
the cheapest, and l think consumers
are beginning to find it out. am told
that the demand for the choicest white
wheat -four is by no means confined to
the wealthy. One of our large Roches-
ter nurserymen tells me that his men,
almost without exception, prefer to buy
the best flour they can get, even at the
almost extravagant price asked for it
They find it g goes farther" and is real
ly cheaper than common brands of fioul
that can be bought for two or three dol
lars a barrel less money. The millers
tell me, further, that it is exceedingly
difficult at all times to find really choice
pure white wheat.-Col. Waring, i,
american AgriculMrist.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01

temporarily left the journal with which
associated.
In 1866 or the early part of 1867 he
determined to go to Europe and enlist
in the Cretan army as volunteer,
making arrangements before leaving
New York to send occasional letters to
the Herald. He was, however, greatly
disappointed in the character of his in
tended companions in arms. and soon
changed bis plans. He then, in COM
pany with three travelling compatriots,
one of whom was his step-brother, arrang-
ed for a walking tour through the heart
of Asia, passing through Asia Minor, the
provinces of Russian Asia, the Khane,
ties, Bokhara and Khiva, Eastern Turk
estan, and SO through China to the coast
This project, however, came to a disas
trous end. The little party had pene-
trated only hundred miles from Smyr-
ma when it was plundered by brigands
and compelled to return.
The next year Mr.. Stanley spent in
travelling about Europe. In 1868 he
accompanied the Abyssinian expedition
to Magdala, and contrived on several
occasions to get important news through
to New York ahead of the dispatches Of
the British Government and of the civi
correspondents. These successes, o.
course, strongly recommended him te
the favor of his journal, and when the
Herald determined upon its quest O
the great explorer, Mr.. Stanley was
selected to head the expedition.
Mr.. Stanley is now about twenty nine
years of age. He is thickset, power
full man, though, like William the Con
qaeror and other celebrated people, ht
is short Of stature-only about five feet
seven inches. A sure shot, an exper
swimmer, a practiced horseman, anc. {
trained athlete, with very wide anC
varied experience of "roughing it," h'
was admirably fitted for the duty h'
has calamity and successfully per
formed
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
A Mechanical Cat.

Leonard, of the Cleveland Leader, has
invented a sheet iron cat, with cylindri-
cal attachment and steel claws and teeth.
1t is worked by clock-work. A bellows
inside swells up the tail at will to bel
ligerent size, and by trornolo attach
ment, causes, at the same time, the
patent cat to emit all noises of which
the living bird is capable. When you
want fun, you wind up your cat and
place him on the roof. Every cat within
half a mile hears him, girds on his armor,
AMI sallies forth. frequently, fifty or
one hundred attack him at once. No
sooner does the patent cat feel the
weight of an assailant than his teeth and
claws work with lightning rapidity. AID.
yersaries within six feet of him are torn
to shreds. Fresh battalions come on
to meet similar fate, and In an hour
several bushels of hair, toe nails and
fiddle strings alore remain.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
The Railroads of India-LOcOmOtives
as EvangeliSts.

Mr.. Brooks, in his Seven Months
Rum" writes as follows:
The railroads of India are doing more,
it seems to me, for the conversion of
Hindoos, if, not Mohammedans, than
all the missionaries and if the English
Government here would give little bit
of preference to the Holy Bible over the
shastras, and vedas, and the korans
(only little bit), should have some
hope that the railroads would do what
the missionaries have, for now two cen
turies, not done-that is, turn the
people from the error of their ways
The railroad is breaking down slowly
the Hindoo castles. The proud and
lofty, and blue-blooded Brahmin must
now go into the same car with the poor,
despised pariah, or not GO at all. The
hard-hearted English conductor pushes
in, or tumbles in, pariah on top of
Brahmin, and Mohammedans among
them too. Each wraps up his garments
around him, and preserves himself as
much as possible from the horrible con-
tamination; but, when once holy Brahmin
is in the car with polluted pariah, go he
must or jump out and die. The railroad
now has become here the great vein OF
life, the heart, as it were, of the geograph-
ical anatomy of the country and hence,
this mixed circulation Of all those
various religious sects and bloods in il
is amalgamating slowly, despite religion,
caste, and creed. And this is happen
ing in land, too, where, if even the
shadow of Christian or Mohamma-
dan pariah should pass over the food of
Brahmin, he would not eat it, or over
his body. he would feel himselfpolluted
Railroads are great Jewelers. everywhere
but railroads in India are leveling heath
onism, and may, by-and-by, bring it VI
to Christianity. What conquers caste
here, equalizes. What equalizes heather
ism here, strips it Of its pride, selfshness
exclusiveness, etc, and thus prepares i
for something better than itself
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01

Cows and sheep should not be pastur-
ed together. Horses and sheep form a
more suitable partnership, as their graz
ing habits are similar.
IT is recommended to place iron filing
or bits of iron in the soil about rose
bushes. 1t increases the vividness of
the bloom. The sweepings of black
smith shop are excellent for this pur-
pose.
ONE of the most important principles
established by Liebig is rotation of am
monia,collecting with ammonia-dis-
persing crops-that is, root and green
crops alternating with cereals.
HOE frequently around newly planted
trees. 1t is better than mulching with
any material, as the fresh stirred soil
admits air, light and heat, and absorbs
the dews of every night.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen
tyeman says that even where land was
too poor to grow clover to amount to
anything, blowing under two crops OF
rye brought the land in good condition
! FOR clover, and this, plowed under, put
the land in good order for other crops.
GONE who knows" makes it point
to select COW with yellow skin. One
whose skin is pale or colorless is not
he says, half so likely to produce good
butter.
THE Ne,o England Farmer says that q
gentleman used saltpeter in the kitchen
and flower garden, where it increased
the beauty and prolonged the bloom Of
= 1 ~ 70 IF n
pounds per acre, on crop of horse
radish, he experienced the most bene
fetal results. 1t presented mildew or
early peas and wall fruit trees. Or
| gravelly grass lands the results were
exceedingly satisfactory. On calcar eou:
or limy soils. the effect of saltpeter was
excellent. Its application to red clover
was attended with the same success.
THE best buyers of wool do not like
wool to be put up in square package
and tied around twice or three time
each way with strong Irvine. They pre-
fer the feeces to be rolled up neatl,
and left as loose as possible so tina
each fleece will be springy and light ant
elastic to the hand, not solid, hard
square. compact masses in which tn
wool Il pressed together till the tieec
feels like a brick. Then one twin
tied across to keep the rolled up heec
in its place and two .twines the othe
way.
| THERE is hardly a more valuable plan
in the garden than sage. 1t is easil
raised. The plants should be set abou
eighteen inches apart in rows three fee
distant. Sage will grow on almost an
land we have in the West, and if prop
erly mulched will stand our coolest an
most severe winters. 1t is very nece
sary that the plant should be cultivate
frequently, and no weeds should be pc
mitted to choke the sage. 1t alway
brings good price in market, and
small, or, for that matter, large pate
usually pays the farmer.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
A Defense of Pr city Women.
From the Saturday Review.


After all, is the world SO very absurd
in its love of pretty women? Is woman
SO very ridiculous in her chase after
beauty? A pretty woman is doing a
woman's work in the world, but not
making speeches, nor making buildings,
but making life SUMMER and more beau
tiful. Man has forsworn the pursuit of
beauty altogether. Does he seek it for
himself, he is guessed to befriyolous, he
is guessed to be poetic, there are whis-
pers that his morals are nc better than
they should be. In society resolute to
be ugly there is no post for an Adonis
out that of model of guardsman. But
woman does for mankind what man Las
ceased to do. Her aim from childhood
is to be beautiful. Even as a school girl
she notes the progress of her charms,
the deepening color of her hair, the
growing symmetry Of her arm, theripen-
ing contour of her cheek. We watch,
with silent interest, the mysterious
reveries of the maiden; she is dream
ing of coming beauty, and painting
for the glories of Is. Insensibly, she
becomes an artist her room is a studio
her glass an academy. The JOY of hel
toilet is the joy of Raphael over his can.
vas, of Michel Angelo over his marble.
She is creating beauty in the silence anc
the loneliness other chamber; she grows
like any artcreation, the result Of pa
tience, of hope, of thousand delicat,
touchipgs and retouchings. Woman il
never perfect never complete. A rest
less night undoes the beauty of the day
sunshine blurs the evanescent colorin,
of her cheek; frost nips the tender out
lines of her face into sudden harshness
Care plows its lines across her brow
motherhood destroys the elastic light
ness of her form the bloom of he
cheek, the quick flash OF her eyes, fad
and vanish as the years 60 by. Blu
woman. is still true to her ideal. Sh
won't know when she is beaten, and sh,
manages to steal fresh victories even il
her defeat. She invents new concep
tons of womanly grace she rallies a
40, and fronts US with the beauty Q
womanhood; she makes last stand a
80, with the beauty of age. Sh
falls like Cesar, wrapping her mantl
round her" buried in wooden 'twoul
saint provokew Death listens pit
fully to the longings of lifetime, an
the wrinkled face smiles with some
thing of the prettiness of Is.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
Horse Notes.

JOHN HARPER was offered $4,000 for
Longfellow the day before he was beaten
by Harry Bassett. Old Uncle John said
twice that sum couldn't buy him.
NINE races have been won at Long
Branch by horses which originated in
Scott county, Ky.
THE stallion, Bonnie Scotland, owned
by c. G. d R. 81. Parks, Waukegan, ILL.,,
has been sold to Tennessee parties for
$4,000.
1T is believed Longfellow will never
run another race, although he will be
most valuable in the stud.
A HORSE in Geneva, n. Y, last week,
became so frightened at a circus tent
that he ruptured blood vessel and
bled to death.
UNCLE JOHN HARPER is said to be com
pletely overcome by the defeat of his
idolized Longfellow, and walks about
with sorrowful looks, refusing to be
comforted.
AT the Saratoga races, July Is, Hun
ter & Travers' three-year-old bay colt
Alarm, by Eclipse, made the fastest three
quarters of mile dash on record. There
were ten entries, including Kingfsher.
Ortolan and other noted flyers
Alarm won the race easily by foul
lengths, in lilo.
The annual sale of Mr.. Alexander
yearling colts and FLIES occurred a
Woodford Farm, KY, the last week il
June. Forty-three head were sold
averaging 1897 each-the highest sail
of yearlings on record.
A SARATOGA letter of July II, says
"Poor Longfellow, in his stable thi
evening, presents the picture of misery
There is a complete circle cut from tn
center of his hoof, extending around tn
coronet ring to his heel. His middl
tendon, tonight, is three times the nat
ural size. 1t appears that he broke tn
shoe-plate on one of his hind feet at tn
half-mile pole, when he was lappin
Bassett, and cut his fore foot with i
No doubt exists in the minds of expt
rienced tt1rfmen that he is completed
broken down, and will never appear
public again.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
The Age of Man.

Prof. Farraday adopts Flourin's phys
biological theory that the age Of man is
one hundred years. The duration of
life he believes to be measured by the
time of gowth. When once the bones
and epiphyses are united, the body
grows no more, and it is at twenty
years this union is effected in man.
The natural termination of life is five
removes from the several points. Man
being twenty years in growing, lives five
times twenty years, that is to say, one
hundred years the camel is eight years
in growing, lives FIVE times eight years,
that is to say forty years; the horse is
five years in growing and lives twenty
five years, and go with other animals.
The : an who does not die of sickness,
lives anywhere from eighty to one hun
bred years. Providence has given man
century of life, but he does not at
tain it because he inherits disease, eats
unwholesome food, gives license to his
passions, and permits vexation to dis
turb his healthy equipoise he does not
die, he kills himself. The Professor di-
yides life into two equal halves, growth
and decline, and these halves into IT.
fancy, youth, virility and age. Infancy
extends to the twentieth year, youth to
the fftieth, because it is during thii
time that the tissues become firm viril
ity, from fifty to seventy-fve, during
which the organism rem aims complete
and at seventy-five old age commences
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
Feeding Poultry.

The influence of the food of poultry
upon the quality and flavor of their flesh
and eggs has not generally been taken
into consideration; out it is now well
ascertained that great care should be
exercised in regard to this matter. In
some instances it has been attempted
to feeo poultry on large scale in France
on horse flesh, and although they
devour this substance very greedily, it
has been found to give them very un-
pleasant SAVIOR. The best fattening mate
rial for chickens is said to be Indian corn
meal and milk; and certain large poul-
try establishments in France use this
entirely, to the advantage both of the
flesh and of the eggs.-Seientifc Amer
lean.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
steam Cultivation.

An extensive English farmer, who
has long practiced steam cultivation,
thus testifes to its advantages: On two
fields he has grown fifteen crops OF
grain, wheat and beans in succession,
without fallow, and last years crop of
wheat was forty bushels per acre; on
two other fields he has grown fifteen
successive crops of wheat, the last crop
quite equaling forty bushels per acre
Under horse cultivation the average
crop of these fields was twenty bushels
The total cost of preparing the land for
the seed is only $l.00 per acre. Much
similar testimony is now coming in.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01

corn, for twenty years, will need to en-
igrante before the term is fulfilled. The
same farm cannot support NOR endure)
him longer than that. All our great
wheat-growing sections of fifty years
ago are wheat-growing no longer, while
England grows large crops thereof on
the very fields that fed the armies of
Saxon Harold and William the Con-
queror. Rotation has preserved these,
as the lack of it ruined those.-Bostoa
Journal of Chemistry.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
English Agriculture,

An idea of the position of agricultu-
raj labor in England may be gathered
from the fact that lately some labor
ers Struck" and refused to use double
furrow plows on farm, for the reason
that they tended to reduce the need for
men. When brought up in court on
complaint of their employer for not
obeying orders (thus punishable in Great
Brittany they were fined ten dollars,
and costs two dollars, each. The judge
said, this thing must be put down, OF
farming must come to dead stop, which
shows that across the Atlantic "their
ways are now our ways"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
Pruning Fruit.

The evil Of overbearing is particularly
apparent in dwarf pears and grapes. AS
a general thing, there is rarely grape
vine but would be benfted by having
half its punches cut away, and some of
the fruit-bearing dwarf pears might
have from one-third to one-half. The
grapes may be cut away as soon as they
can be seen; but the pear should be left
until somewhat grown, as they often
fall after they are pretty well advanced.
1t not only helps the size of the fruit
left, but is gain to the future health
of the tree Germantown Telegraph.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
Measuring Corn in the Crib,

S. Fuller, Greenville, ILL.,, gives rule
for measuring corn in the crib, as fol-
lows: Multiply length, height, and
breadth of the crib in feet together,
then by ~, and divide by ten; the
result is bushels of shelled corn. This
may do for some localities, but as ears
and shelled corn bear as many relations
to each other in quantity as there are
localities and sorts, the safest way is to
reduce the contents of the crib to cubic
inches, and take $3.50 of them for a
bushel of ears.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Cold in Fowls, Throats.

This disease is manifest in fowls by a
noise as if some substance had stuck in
the throat -phlegm is present in the
throat. The following remedy is highly
recommended: A tablespoonful of
water containing two drops of the tine
ture of aconite, given two or three times
a day, and plenty of fresh water to
drink.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
French Emigration-A Novel Project.

The French emigration scheme on be-
half of the Paraguayan Government, for
which loan was recently obtained in the
London market, contains some details
of organization and arrangement which
are novel and worthy of notice. Five
| hundred selected colonists proceeded
from Nantes on July Is, to be followed
| by 800 more month later, with their
wives and families. Each person will
practice some calling, agricultural or
handicraft, and will furnish certificate
of morality and good health, A certain
proportion of the emigrants will consist
of single men and women. The mar
ried men must not be older than So,
and single men from Is to A single
women from II to So only are qualified.
The concessions in land are extremely
liberal. A married man, or widow
with son, or single man aged be-
| tween 20 and As, will enter into posses
sion of 40 acres of land situated between
rAsuncion and Villa RIGA. A youth
from Is to 20, or from 10 to Is, will have
20 or 10 acres respectively; girl from
Is to 80, or fro Il II to Is, will have like
wise 20 or 10 acres and for each child
under 10 the parent will be assigned
acres in addition. The cost of transport,
food, etc., and the loan of all animals
and necessary implem ents for the colo
nists will be betrayed by the authorities,
together with food, fuel and wood fol-
the construction of houses until after
the first harvest. Therepayment OF the
sum thus expended will not commence
until after the first harvest, and will be
in five installments, extending over siz
years. Any colonist paying his entire
debt before the expiration of this term
will have a preferential claim for new
land.
The other Sabbath, as Lewiston, Me.
clergyman had reached the climax o
his sermon, yellow dog thrust his nos'
into the church, and with good deal Q
bark strobe up to the pulpit. The min
lister stayed his climax for a mon emf
/ gently seized the cur by the loose hid
r of the neck and bore the animal out O
3 church, returning with imperturbabl'
f self-command and finishing his sermon
Both subjects were handled well.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01

The scientists state confidently that a
large subterranean stream runs under
the Colorado desert, and that the entire
region may be reclaimed by means of
artesian wells.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-02-08
HnLRO1D T4x.

p>titious Of 1ne sthird Of the resident
tax-payers Of theTcvnship efSpring Greek,
in the Co nty Of Tans, in Tie State Of Iowa.
asking the subnission by NJ 70 the legal
voters Of said, township Of the question OF
aiding in ~, cou~struction q the Railses6
Of the Burliagton, Cedar Rapids & Minne>
sofa Raiivly Company by the levy Of q tax
ON the property, taxable in said Iownship,
having been presented 10 NJ.
New, thorefore, notice il hereby given.
thet q the Finch School House, in said
Township, on the tenth day Of February A.
D., 1872, . Special Election will be held. at
which The polls will be open a. provided for
general elections; and at which election the
Question #. aiding in the construction Of
said Railroad by the levy and collection Of
tAx Of i've rer cent. on the last assessed
value Of all p. operty in said 70 Snship 10 be
| paid tc said Railway company as provided
| 81 law, and BY it expended only in the con-
struction Of their said railroad, within
! Sprinx Creek Township in said county, will
| Be submitted 10 the legal voters ofsaid Tpi in
| said county, Those In favor Of aiding in the
| construction Of said railroad IN the ranner
b~ereiubeforc Get ont. will have written OF
| printed on their ball ts, Taxation" and
those opposed thereto will have written OF
printed on their bsllots. .No Taxation.'
Said tax to be voted on the following con.
ditions : That the Company shah bui'd AMI
maintain one Depot and but ono within said
township, which shall DO located within on,
half mile cf ! line running north and soul
through the center Of the township. that til
road shall DO completed within enc year
and that the tax shall not become aelin
oueut until the road 10 completed. ia
Witness our hands this 9th day Of Jauu
airy. 1872. s
.n niE WI. SHATrUCK, 81
1851 G. NJ. FINCH,
s. S. MANN,
Trustees Of Spring Greek Township