The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16


wood" and directed to look well TO
your cattle and see they are well shell
tered" finds himself addressed thus:
Come. Mr.. Dumps, It's time 10 stir
your stumps; see that your woodshed
is we'll filled before the winter close.
Go to- get thee up in the morning and
HE TO thy barn; peradventure thy OK
or thy ass may stand in need Of thy
aidP' In 1919 West. Richardson & Lord
are the owners Of the copyright, and ].
H. A. Frost is the printer. The name Of
West is dropped in 1921, and that of
Holbrook added in 1880.
The first mention of railroads is in 1881
when a map of New England is given
with the accompanying note, that the
direction of the several railroad routes
which have been proposed, leading from
Boston, may be understood by reference
to the following map. The principal
routes are: % From Boston, through
birmingham, Worcester. Springfield and
Pittsfield TO Albany; % from Boston
through Waltham and Fitchburg TO
Brattleborough; 81 from Boston to
Lowell, thence through Concord and
Montpelier TO Burlington, and thence
westerly to Ogdensburg; (D from Bos-
ton to Providence" In 1888 Carter, Hen
dee & Co. appear as owners Of the copy
right, the printing is greatly improved,
and a continued autobiography of the
author is given. The Farmers Cal
endar" assumes a serious and philosoph-
ical air and has more TO do with the
armament OF heaven than the planting
Of turnips. Temperature also becomes a
prominent theme for discussion and the
declaration of seventy-five physicians
of Boston signed in 1882, appears, Civ
ing il as their opinion that men in
health are never benefited by the use OF
q GnirirG-fh9r IN
use Of them is a frequent cause Of dis
ease and DEATH
Evidently the serious strain Of the
Farmers Calendar was too didactic for
popular taste, as the humorous vein is
resumed in 1885. Two years later the
almanac is published and sold by
Charles J. Hendee," and portrait of
the author appears which proved so
satisfactory that it was reproduced in
the next number Hendee continued
owner of the copyright in 1910, but the
publishers were jerks & Palmer. In
1876 new and improved map of New
England and Canada appears and is con-
tinued in subsequent numbers. Accom-
panying il is a list of the cities. towns
and villages passed through by railroads
from Boston, with the distance of the
various stations from that city" The
stage routes and list of innhOlders.
which had gradually been confined to
New England instead of embracing the
continent, as at the beginning, were
dropped, there being no further use for
them. The railroads mentioned are the
Old Colony, Worcester, Western, Low
ELL Nashua & Maine. Eastern &
Fitohburg.
The fifty-ffth number of the almanac
contains the melancholy announcement
of the death of its founder May 10,
1876, aged eighty years. In the address
to patrons and correspondents the pub
ffcha aaf 70 h
DRY of Mr.. T., who first planned the
almanac and has edited it so long, and
whose name is associated with il in the
minds of the friends of the work. that
name will always be connected with IL
in future as in past time" This prom
Use has been religiously kept by all sue
ceeding publishers, and the very next
number for the year 1S4S contained a
fac-simile Of Mr.. Thomas's signature.
which was ever after appended to the
address to Patrons and Correspond
ents." The word odd" in parenthesis,
is also added to the title, making il read
1.-The (Old) Farmers Almanac"
The last half century in the United
States is reviewed by the author in 1850
in a page of fine print, and in 1852 jerks.
Kicking & Swan are the publishers. In
the following year Aquarius appears on
the title page in a slightly different garb
and the categorical figures over the
months are much improved in design and
engraving. The name of jerks is
dropped from the firm Of publishers in
1855 and that of Brown substituted
and in 1856 a list-and a pretty long one
II is-of worthless and uncurrent bank
notes in New England is given. An
other change in the firm of publishers
is noted in 1858, when the name of Brew
er takes the place Of Brown. In 1861
Hickling gives place to Tileston, and the
firm as thus constituted own the copy
right.
Many illusions to the rebellion are to
be found in the number of 1864. and in
1865 several changes are TO be noted. A
higher literary tone is given to the al
manac by using for the motto on the
title page and the stanZas at the head
of the calendar pages selections from the
poems Of William Cullen Bryant.
The address to patrons and correspond
ents in the eightieth number Oor 1922
mentions the great changes that have
taken in the development and growth
of the country in these eight decades.
1t says:
our domain has been increased five
fold: our population tenfold. What Won
derful inventions and discoveries have
been made-railways, steamboats,, tele-
graph sewing machines, reaping ma
chimes, steam plows. photography, an
aesthetic agents! What great questions
have been settledp' But yet the tele-
phone electric lights and electric cars
were yet to come. The name Of the
present publishers, William Ware * Co.,
appears on the title-page Of the number
for 1877, William Ware being the owner
of the copyright. AS in all previous
changes, no other allusiOn is made to
the new proprietOrship. The almanac
for 1885 was for the first time computed
in standard time, sixteen minutes be
hind Boston local time
In 1892 a centennial number was pub
lished containing an excellent full
length portrait of it's founder. Robert b.
Thomas, accompanied by biographical
sketch written by DR. Samuel A Green
,f fl,.a Of