Connecticut western news., 1879-02-19
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

~~ u-AS@S PASD"OAJ oO AheASAA AAOAASJ "cSeSO as in advertising, and in no department are good judgment and experience more requisite. Twenty five years experience has clearly demonstrated the superior ad vantages and economy of newspaper advertising over all other mediums of- fered for that purpose" Notwithstand- ing such testimonials as this, and hun dreds of others that might be given in favor of newspaper advertising over any other, there are people who still believe that they can reach the public through 8 almanacs, guide books, hotel registers, etc., better than through the legitimate channels. In proof of the fallacy of this idea, it is stated that recently junk dealer in Albany sent to New York city for sale as old junk fifteen tons of almanacs, and advertising guide books for 1879. This was only one of just such lots, and old stock dealers will tell you that good share of their profit comes from this class of business. After spending their money on these things for time, advertisers viii learn that the only legitimate way for their favors to reach the people tbey seek is through the columns of the ne ewspaper.
 A terrible accident occurred at Kansas City, Mo-, by which seven men were killed and four others seriously injured. A railroad company made a cut through an embankment. The walls were left nearly perpendicular, although the bank was in some places over ninety feet high. While gang of men was at work in the cut the earth gave way, cov- ering the men, with the sad results noted above. Kansas city is most peculiar place so far as grading is concerned, and to build the town an immense clay bank had to be cut away. The streets were cut through, leaving the high banks on each side. As buildings were put up room was dug in the bank for them, and it was 8 usual thing to be able to step from the third or fourth story of building on to the ground, where it had not been excavated. There were plenty of low places to use up the earth taken ssout. The clay walls would stand like rock, although cut down perpendicularly, and from forty to eighty feet high. In the case above no danger was felt by the workingmen, although the rains had weakened the embankment considerably. A correspondent who has been among | the western farmers, has been figuring out the cost there of raising wheat.
 While in the older settled portions of the country wheat cannot be proftably raised at less than $1 per bushel, in the west, he says, that fifty cents per acre will pay the actual cost of raising. He says that each acre costs the farmer $7.50, and averaging fifteen bushels to the acre he shows the cost over and above the fifty cents per bushel is profit to the farmer.
 Echo Farm, near LitchfeId, Conn. !, contains four hundred acres. It is de- voted to dairy purposes. The COWS are turned out for an hour or more every day. They get this exercise and fresh air regularly, even in the coldest wealth CT, except during severe storms. An abundance of pure air is provided in every department in which live stock is kept. The system of feeding followed is very simple: Mixed bran and meal are fed upon cut feed twice day. One good meal of roots is given by them selves. Mangels and sugar beets are the only roots used, and the COWS have
 beside all the dry hay they will eat. It is an inaexible rule that all the animals shall be treated kindly and gently. No shouting, hallooing or alarming demon strations are made; hence they grow up docile and gentle. All the animals are kept clean the COWS brushed or carded
 daily their stalls not only cleaned out,
 but swept out and sanded. The temper ature of the stables is regulated, and
 thermometers are hung where they may
 be conveniently inspected.
 Charles Etheridge, of St. Paul,
 Minn., defrauded bank of forty thous-
 and dollars and fled from the State. He
 was overtaken with remorse, and has
 fully reimbursed the swindled institu.
 tion by turning over to it the bulk of his real and personal property, and he now !, asks to be reinstated in the church o1 which he was member. In letter tc
 his former pastor he says of Lis crime
 that "the step was one born of despera
 tion, leaping blindly as it were off the high ground of integrity into the deep and to me, unknown, abyss of crime ; and he adds that atonement for weak
 ness in yielding to temptation, ,and praye , to be sustained in that object and tc
 keep me from temptation will be dail. and hourly self-imposed duty" Ether
 idge appears to be really a peniten u man, proving his repentance by works.
 Some very startling accounts ar given in the report of Superintendent 6 Raymond, of the Brooklyn Board o l Health, who has inspected the stables o t the distilleriesse.. in his district, as to tn n miserable condition of the animals n caused by the outrageous treatment t v which they are subjected. Imagine 80 t COWS living in wooden stables, withou t any ventilation, ranged in stalls varyin e from thirty-seven to forty-two inches i l, width; their heads tied with ropes barrel h long enough to permit them to lie down g fed on distillery slops, and there fated
 remain from the time they enter unt IS they cease to give any more milk, whe u they are driven to the slaughter-house o The result is that so long as they renal
 alive their milk contributes to the nrons