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The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

In the Supreme Judicial Court at Farm
ington Il verdict has been rendered in tav-
or of the defendants in case Of Ashbury
Life Insurance Company vs.. A. &. War
ren ct ais. The suit was to recover back
$4,000 which the company alleged had
been traudulently obtained by defendants
in etfecting Insurance on the lie OF sis
ter of Warren, who was at the time sick
with consumption and died q short time
alter the insurance was effected. The
suit was brought against A. B Warren.
Luther Curtis and Il. Henderson. 1t will
be remembered that Curtis and Warren
are the same parties who We're convicted
year ago OF the crime OF conspiracy to
cheat the company by false pretences.
Alter a new trial had been denied, peti-
ton tor the pardon of Curtis, signed by
almost all the prominent business men of
the county was refused upon hearing be-
fore the Governor and Council. The pre-
sent verdict is received with great favor
by the community as it is virtual rever-
sal of the decision by which they We're
convicted
The llte Commander Sanders of the
English Navy was in or about the year
1903 q lieutenant on board the Statira,
engaged in "cutting OUT a French priva-
teer. Two armed luggers came to the
rescue of the latter, and the lieutenant
was shot in the head. the bullet passing
clean through from ear to eye. He lay
for dead on the deck Of the Frenchman,
and was just on the point of being thrown
overheard when the French surgeon of
the ship asked to have the Englishman
sent down to his cabin that he might
make an experiment upon him. This was
done, and in the cabin Lieutenant Sanders
revived to the amazement of every one.
The French doctor took all care of him,
and at the end Of five years detention as
prisoner of war, he reached England
sound and well, with the exception of the
loss OF his eye. He after this lived to the
good old age of ninetyone, and died only
few days ago.
The Republican journal., 1876-03-30

The price of hay in Maine is said 10 be
less than tor 80 years In Lubec the best
quality is selling Tor Sc per ton, In Yer
mont, however, hay is said to be very
scarce and farmers are obliged to teed
meal
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-29

the comfort of all in his employ. Bui the
bargain made between the employed and
the employer concerns them and them only
1t is well, perhaps, that none other Should
know what it is lest there be petty jeaous-
les aroused, as in the parable Of the lalorer
in the vineyard, where those who had brne
the burden and heat Of the day complained
that others who had worked less time re-
ceived the same pay, seeming to forgetthat
they'had contracted fora certain sum Tery
just was the reply =" Friend, I do the no
wrong; didst thou not agree with ME DR.
penny? Take that thine is and go thy vay
Is it not lawful for me to do what will
with mine own?" These grumblers we're
of the class that will have but one part to
bargain and that party themselves. rhe
family is large one and some of it's rere-
sentatives are to be found in almost evry
Northumberland Neao Yorker.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-29
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

Alspice is a native of Jamaica. In 1874
there were over one thousand acres devoted
to the cultivation Of allspice trees. The ex-
million pounds per annum.
New varieties of potatoes are still in order,
but one with leaves which would resist the
attacks of the potato beetle would just now
ha extremely valnahln
Ille larvn of the asparagus beetle is a
small, blackish, slug-like worm, and is read
ily destroyed by dusting with freshly-slaked
lime siliy
1t has been frequently stated that the farm
ing lands OF the New England States were
decreasing in value; but the census returns
assert the contrary, showing that even in
much-slandered New Hampshire the valua-
ton of such lands has increased thirty mill
ion dollars in the past twenty-five years.
e. Ballaine, of Crawford county, Kansas,
has planted six hundred mulberry trees, and
intends raising silk. He is enthusiastic, and
believes that sllk-raising can be made one of
the best paying industries in the State.
Experiments recently made in England
indicate that wagons are most easily drawn,
on all kinds of roads, when the fore and
hind wheels are the same size and the pole
| lies lower than the axle.
| Speaking Of sunflowers, the Maryland
Farmer says: For absorbing malaria and
preventing diseases caused by malarial in
fluences; for' prime food for fowls; tor a
home remedy, sure and safe; for founder in
your horses; and for market as profitable
seed to be sold for making oils--be sure to
sow sunflower seed.
A curious discovery is announced by Prof.
P. B. Wilson, Of Washington University,
that minutely pulverized silica is taken up
in free state by plants from the soil, and
that such silica is assimilated without chem
ical or other change. The experiment con-
sisted in fertilizing field of wheat with the
infusorial earth found near Richmond, Vir-
ginia. This earth, it is well known, consists
Of the shells OF microscopic marine insects,
magnifying power, reveal many beautiful
forms that have been resolved, classified and
named. After the wheat was grown, Prof.
Wilson treated the straw with nitric acid,
subjected the remains to microscopic test,
and found therein the same kind of shells or
diatoms that are present in the Richmond
earth, except that the larger sized shells
were absent, showing that only silica parti-
cles above certain degree Of tineness can
ascend the sap-pOres OF the plant. This dis
coyery opens up new line of research in
agricultural investigation, from which inn
portant results and very much additional
knowledge may accrue-Scientyic american.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-29

While every farmer will admit the truth of
the above proposition, not one in ten keeps
any record of expenses in order to ascer-
tain exactly what it costs to produce bushel
of grain or a pound of meat. When as
accurate and thorough systems of book
keeping are practiced among agriculturists
as in mercantile pursuits, we shall have
better basis to make estimates of the COM
parative profits between the two in proper
ton to the amount of capital and labor ex-
pended. E .5 #a,f f..s
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CONGRESS-
This body will hold its fifth annual meeting
in Philadelphia, on the 10Th, 18th and l4th
of September next-the week of the closing
of the exhibition of horses, and the week
in which the main exhibition of the fruits of
the northern States will be held The Off
GERS are w. G. Flagg, Moro, ILL.,, President; !;
Geo. E. Morrow, Ames, Iowa, Secretary,
and J. 0. Griffith, Nashville, Tenn, Treas
urer. aifsa.s-.f55
They will issue programme containing
subjects and names of such persons as will
be expected to deliver addresses. This
meeting will be in very pleasant season of
the year, and will also be good time to see
the Centennial Exhibition.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-29
AG RICU L 7 i R AL,
THE LABoRER AND HIS HIRE,

II - Oil o1u saying CIldI " Ii takcS TWO 10
make bargain.' And while the truth of
this is universally acknowledged in theory,
how often in practice is the attempt made to
abrogate it and have the bargain conform to
the wishes of one-and nowhere is this more
noticeable than on farm. When laborer
engages to serve a farmer for a certain sum
per day or month, he contracts in effect if |
not in words, to give for the sum agreed up
on his best and entire services. He makes
complete sale of his faculties and powers of
mind and body so far as they can be em-
plOyed in the business for which he is EN- |
gagged to work. If man is machinist by |
trade, while he would not be expected, if
hired as farm laborer, to go to work in
shop as mechanic, it would be his duty to
use his knowledge and skill as machiilist
so far as he could in keeping in repair the
tools and machines of the farm-plows, hag- |
rows, rakes, reapers, mowers and steam
engines, if such there were. If tits claimed
that one capable of doing this is entitled to
higher pay than an ordinary farm hand who
can at best pleM and hoe and drive the team
;lfeld, we assent, but assert that the claim
should he advanced when the contract is
made. Every one has right to his own
Labor, to use it for himself and receive di-
rectay the avails of it, or to sell it to another
for such sum as is agreed upon; but when
the contract is made and the labor is sold.
lie has no more right to withhold anything
he can do than he would have to withhold
any portion Of a hundred bushels of wheat
or thousand pounds of cheese that he had
agreed to deliver for a certain sum OF money.
Neither should the .aborer think to quiet
his conscience with the thought that he can
do fair days work without giving his best
efforts; nor that if he hoes his row as well
and as quickly as his companions in the
field, no more should be expected of him.
What he is to do or not to do is not to be
measured by the doings OF another, unless
it be so stipulated in the bond. If his bar
gain is that for two dollars day he will
work as many hours at the same kind Of
labor as Tom, Dick or Harry, and will per-
form as much and as well as they do, 1t viii
be in his business to see that he does just
that and his employer will have Deither rea
son nor right to ask or expect more. II yol
sell days labor and perform in the day
only what you could without extra exertiol
do in half day, you have stolen the valu
of half a days labor from your empIoye
just as truly as if you had taken the sam
value in money from his purse.
The other party to the bargain EN-
ployer-has lis. duties beside the mere pay
ing of the sum agreed Heis in duty boun
to see tt.at the labor he requires shall D
performed with as much ease and as littl
waste of physical force as possible; and
this end the tools and implements ne I'LL
nishes should be of the best quality all
Inost improved patterns, and he Will Nh
his interest promoted by having thought Il
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-29

PROFIT IN FARMING There is buDne
way to make farming profitable, and tt is,
to find out how to produce an article faess
than the price it commands in the nket.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-29
no R 7 | c ! 1T ] R Z
HOW I PLANTED MY RAspRERRIEs. \

HOW PLANTED MY RASPBEKRIES.
Last week, about the middle of May, we
transplanted lin the vicinity of Rochester,
N. W little more than half an acre of
Mammoth Clusters, and this is the way we
did it: M Fl st4 ~ zsNH.a a3Ea
We fitted the ground; with a horse and
small plow, and stakes to guide us, marked
it out into rows, six feet apart; then with a
light spade, one hand took up the plants
carefully, suffering all the dirt to adhere to
the roots that would, and preserving the
sprouts, which were three or four inches
above ground, intact, putting as many plants
at a time in market basket as possible in
single layer, while another hand proceeded
to plant them. In planting, all the imple-
ments needed are those furnished by nature:
two nimble hands to draw the fine soil upon
the roots, pressing it firmly, and burying
the junction of stem and root about one
inch below the surface. We have practiced
setting the plants three feet apart in therOw,
but are inclined to believe that the method
pursued by some intelligent fruit-growers,
Of setting them about eighteen inches apart
in the row, is the better way. . .e4gfa M
After the piece was planted, the plants
stood up straight, and have remained SO
since, and we have not the least doubt that
they will be on the first Of October, tar
ahead of those planted in April. 8,lt.,H
The same principle holds good with red
raspberries. From joints in the roots of
parent canes, sprouts started last summer,
| forming vOunr canes When flup YOU find
a piece of the parent root with more or less
rootlets growing out OF it, and around the
base Of the cane one or more buds of tender
sprouts. If handled very carefully, these
young buds will grow, and soon appear
above ground, making strong canes during
the season, fitted to bear fruit next year.
But if they are broken off in transplanting,
it will be some time before the incipient buds
will start and appear above ground, and the
years growth will be proportionately small
er. If transplanting of these is deferred
until the canes are two or three inches above
ground, they will be tougher, and less liable
to break off.
.a The reader will perceive, from what we
have written, that if we could choose our
time, we should prefer to have tho young
plants grow two or three inches above
ground before transplantlng; and although
we have never tried blackberries in that
way, we know no reason why they should
not do as well as red raspberries, as their
manner Of growth is similar.-Cor Raual
Home. s.
SELECT THE REsT-In the ranort If fha
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-29


SELECT THE BEsT.--In the report of the
Texas State Horticultural and Pathological
Association we find the following good adj
vice to Southern growers of fruits and vcge-
tables which is alike applicable to cultivators
in other localities:
Letus commence at home to make inquiry.
Are our fruit and vegetables Of the very
best varieties, and such as are best adapted
to our soil and climate? Have we properly
cultivated them, and was the season such as
to bring them to the greatest perfection?
Did we select only the best, (such as we
would be willing to pay top prices for,) and
carefully pack and ship them without delay,
so they might reach market fresh and per-
feet? If all this has been done, and results
were not satisfactory, then we must look
elsewhere for the cause, feelisg satisfied it is
not with the producer. But, rest assured,
that just in proportion as you cannot an
swer the above questions affirmatively to
yourself, just in the same proportion the
fault is your own, and the remedy should
begin at home. "N
The secretary Of the Pathological society
of Michigan reports the most promising
prospects for full crops Of peaches and APP
pies in that State the present year. The
Michiganders are lucky birds this time.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-29

LUcERNE.-Having had considerle
experience with lucerne or alfalfa, in le
river Plata region of South America, I'd
also here, write to say that think ihe
most valuable grass sown. It will yld
four crops a year here, aud all stock are ad
of it, and it does not salivate like cloverI 1t
should be sown ON rich land, well prepad,
twenty pounds Of seed per acre broadst.
1t is time, land and labor thrown awsto
drill it or to work it. The first crop ay
have weeds, and the second few, buhe
third will be clear lucerne; this used be
my experience in South America, wre
weeds grew faster than in any other pl |
ever knew. l think spring the best tinto
sow, but it will do in the fall. Isowed ne
the 9th of last October, and in week'sne
will begin cutting the fourth crop. Itsbld
not be grazed, and when cut it shoulbe
cut off even with the ground, SO th:no
stubble will form. 1t makes excelleDay
when properly cured.-A. 0. B., Acaac
C. H., Ea., IN Neao York Tribune.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-29
IRISH POTATOES.


a very small figure in American farming
but that day is past, and its universal useas
an article of food, supplying as it does mre
nearly than any other vegetable the placeof
bread, has made it about as hard to fin
farm without potatoes as to find one withut
corn.
Like other crops, too, potatoes, so log
free from the depredations of insects, hse
now very formidable enemy in the Coo
RADIO Beetle. For few years back, in sole
parts of Indiana and in portions OF soie
other States, it has been almost impossible
to save even a few as luxury from thse
hungry pests. In regard to these insectit
is most emphatically true that C. stitch Ia
time saves nine" and if only the usual nkln-
ber of POTATOES for family use have bet
planted, little watchfulness and labr
when they first appear will Danish them ad
save the crop. If large crop is n.ante,
the use of Paris green must be resorted 1;
this is dangerous and great care must e
observed to avoid accidents. Take any col
mon tin can holding fro..n pint to qua,
with lid that tit.s on tightly, throuh
which small holes have been punched as VI
would do for flour duster; this box fasn
to eaLdle about six feet long. In apV-
ing The poison invert the box over the IL
end tap lightly with the hand; with IN
die of such length, and by. keeping to le
windward side, there is no danger.
The mixture as generally used is one Irt
Paris green and four parts of -four, vi
mixed. Potatoes should be well hoed i'd
kept free from weeds until in bloom, anus
we think of almost all crops, SO of this @,
in any locality subject to drought, the lei
culture will succeed the oftenest.-Jou,l
| of A03icultu5,e and Fy79ne7.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-09-13
EddystOne Light.

The famous Eddystone Lighthouse, off
the coast Of Cornwall, England, was first
built in fauciful way. of wood, by the
learned and eccentric Winstanly. On its
sides he put various boastfu inscriptions.
He was very proud Of his structure, and
from its lofty balcony used boldly to defy
the Storm crying "Blow, o winds rise,
o ocean break forth We elements, and try
my work !"
But one night the sea swallowed up the
tower and its builder. 1t was built second
time Of wood and stone by Rudyerd. The
form was good, but the wood gave hold for
the elements, and the builder and his struc-
ture perished in the flames
Next the great Sneaton was called in lie
raised a cone from the solid rock on which
it was built, and riveted it to the rock, as
the oak is fastened 10 the earth by its roots.
From the rock of the foundation he took
the rock of the superstructure lie carved
upon it no boastful inscriptions like those
Of Winstanly, but on the lowest course he
pat, Except the Lord build the house. they
labor in vain that built it; and on its key
stone above the lantern the simple tribute
LdS Dec" and the structure still stands,
holding up its beacon light to the storm
tossed mariner.
Fellow-workers for the salvation of men
Christ, the Light, must be held up before
men, or they will perish. Let us then place
Him upon no sIperstructure Of our own de
vice. Let Us rear no tower of wood, or wood
and stone. But, taking the word of God
for our foundation, let US build our structure
upon its massive, solid truth, and on every
course put Smeaton's humble, trustful in
scription, and then we may be sure that the
lighthouse will stand.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-09-13
Make Your Own Sunshine.

Discouragement too often oyertakes those
whose lives pass in the petty details Of com
mon existence The mother whose narrow
round of duty confines her to the range of two
or three rooms; the primary teacher whose
life passes in the monotony of the school ;
the mechanic whose days are filed with ac-
tivity that never varies-these typical indi-
viduals find it hard TO keep buoyant, hope
full, fresh and resolute But this is just
what they must do, or dwindle into ciphers.
OF all things, when the mood of discourage
ment overtakes one, he should think of any
thing else than his own troubles, and, more
than this, should take measures at once to
follow new currents Of thought and feeling.
Sometimes it is purely the result of bodily
conditions, and requires for its cure sleep,
or exercise in the open air, or change of diet,
or a simple waiting till it passes away Of it
self. When it springs from causes not con
nected with the body, then the cure must
be spiritual or intellectual An intensely
interesting book, visitations among the
poor, constant intercourse with fresh minds,
change of scene, travel the study of science
new TO the patient, anything that will abb
sorb the brain and keep it from consuming
itself, is good medicine. The world is full
of beauty and sunshine at is right, meet
and our bounden duty" that we should open
our hearts to all the soothing healing, invig-
Grating influences OF the sky that bends
over us in unchanging love, the balmy air,
the ten thousand voices with which nature
speaks 10 him whose ears are opened to re-
ceive her gentle teachings.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-09-13
Take Care Of Your Health.

Mr.. Money-Get works and delves his sixty
years, and makes enough to satisfy himself F;
but he does not see it so. He wants to put
another thousand out at ten per cent, and
on he goes day after day, hard at work, a
slave TO money. until one day he dies sud
denly in his work, his poor heart tired out,
and his friends find him in his old working
suit, a very sincere offering to wealth.
Verify he might, with care have held out
for years, but he could not afford TO stop
and enjoy his possessions for little while.
Mr. Thrifty is in position TO spare himself
little, now at forty-tive; but he wants to
be very speedily in the scale of "upper ten, s.
and he rushes on in a very rapid way, al
though he is aware that he is overstraining
his frame, and that his constitution, now
injured, needs rest aud care. No matter for
that, harvest must be rushed TO its compile
ton. lie is taken sick, but he works on in
the hot sun until he falls, is helped to his
bed, and in four days is corpse. His dear
wife, overworked and heart-broken, dies a
week afterward, and they leave the thrifty
estate and sweet babies to the care of others.
Oh how many fatherless and motherless
children and desolate homes attest the neg
lect of the subject of health Everything
but this People study all kinds of science
but this. They become men and women,
enter life and die before they attain to old
age, often die young, aud the probate settles
the estate and appoints guardians for the
children.-HedlM Ref0rmer
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-09-13

Some time since clergyman, living in a
community where skepticism and inidellty
had led many astray gave series OF dis
courses ON the evidences of Christianity.
OF course more or less of his opposers were
nresent. and on the last night OF the series
nromineut infdel came in. At the close OF
a very impressive meeting the speaker said
in a spirit of tenderness
"There may be, and doubtless are, some
here tonight who do not believe as ! do, and
who do not except the truth OF the blnle
If there are any SUCH or if there is one Will
inc 10 come forward and test this question
of such vital interest to every soul, invite
him to the platform.
On the instantthe inGdel referred to came
forward and said
81 do not believe your doctrines-l can
not accept them.'
"But,h says the clergyman, "you have de
nounoed for years that which you have never
tested. Are you willing that |, who nave
tried Christianity. and feel its truths, shai
be your teacher, and will you submit to my
directions You say that you are honest
in your belief and in an honest spirit you
will meet me-
81 do thus meet you, and VIII al'o" you
to be my teacher. l..
"Then," said the godly man, kneel py
nv side and repeat the simple words "oo
be merciful to me, sinner
"But," was the reply, ." do not believe
in your teachings.
sWell, YOU say YOU are honest and arr
willing to test this question II so, you VII
heed my directions