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Year: 1875

George Wells. wealthy citizen Of
Monona County, Iowa, lives next
door to a very high windmill. Mr..
Wells has a little eight-year-old
daughter, whose curiosity the mon
ster wind mill excited. She wanted
to get the nearest possible view of it,
SO she climbed and climbed, and
never thought how far above the
ground she was getting. That even
ing when her father came home from
journey to a neighboring town his
little pet daughter did not run out
to the gate TO meet him as usual,
and at this he wondered. He feared
something must be the matter with
her, but was not left long in doubt,
for q little musical voice which he
we'll knew came to him from afar,
and it seemed from on high. 1t was
as If an angel had spoken and the
father was almost afraid to look up
lest he should see his darling daugh-
ter floating away from him on angelic
wings. But he did look ia the direc-
tion of the sound, and. Co bis con-
sternation. beheld his little girl away
up on the side Of the windmill,
standing on a ladder just under the
vanes, and evidently at some loss
how TO get down. The top OF the
ladder looked not much wider than
the tines Of d table fork. and slip
would have occasioned her q fall Of
one hundred and twelve feet to the
ground. The huge vanes were re-
volving rapidly enough TO make one
dizzy, Just above her tiny head. The
father summoned al his presence Of
mind and treated the situation light
ly. He shouted to his child g Bravo"
to give her confidence. A CHEEKY
little ss Hurrah'' came down from
above, The father then shouted,
" Nellie, haven't you got it about
fixed?' "Oh yes, papa" came float
ing from the dizzy height. "Well,
then, come down, DEAR" The child
commenced the descent. 1t was D
critical moment. A few rounds of
the ladder made would give her con-
fldence. The father stood breathless
as nearly under his child as he could
get, thinking he might save her if
she we're 10 lose her grasp and foot
ing. She made it in safety. and ac-
knowledged she was just little bit
scared away up there towards heav-
en-, and nobody near to pull her In.
NeIlie's father and mother told her
never to go so near the windmill
again, and especially not TO make
herself a little tomboy by climbing
ladders.
Year: 1875

We have had a month Of tough weather
plenty of snow and heavy winds which have
piled the snow into the roads until we have
it now by the road.ful, and in consequence,
for a large part of the way, the roads have
been abandoned about the country and paths
are made through the fields. We have been
taking sleigh trip for 30 miles to Dan
vile, and as it was business and not pleas
ure which took us there, we were obliged TO
60 during one of our heaviest blows and re-
turn through the peltings Of another. We
had for the most part to break our own
roads, which we did by wallowiug paths for
the horse or taking down fences and cutting
bushes to make our way along IA bit Of ex-
perience to give one relish for good roads,
or better comfortable freside these buster
ing times


Business in Coaticook is still dull. The
CoaticoOk Manufacturing Co. will move in
to their new machine shop in a few days.
Mills all about are stopping for went Of
water Rain is expected in few days


You ask me to tell you about the markets
of Coaticook and Sherbrooke. Your Opin-
ion is that these markets control the prices Of
beef, &C., or that the establishment of one at
st. Johnsbury would bring beef down there,
but the law that regulO tes these matters is
that of supply and demand. When the
supply is in excess of demand then low pri.
ces rule, and when the demand exceeds the
supply or is we'll up to it, then high prices
are the rule. There has been in Canada
since the tariff was put on cattle, &C., larg-
er supply than was demanded and the ell
feet of abolishing the reciprocity treaty has
been to make beef cheaper here but since
l wrote you last it has received an upward
tendency and now quotes al 81 and So per
hundred, there having come to be a larger
demand for it than formerly, The occasion
Of the demand is this The Canada Meat
Co., located in Sherbrooke have gone into
operation with large capital and immense
buildings, with men and machinery to do an
enormous amount of business. Their build
ings are three hundred feet long the largest
perhaps so feet wide, with smaller ones.
Matters are so arranged that an'Ox can be
driven into one department Of the building
and carried out from another in tin cans,
boled and seasoned, ready to be served on
the table. Much of this canned meat is 70
Year: 1875

Sheep should have warm, well ventila-
ted, dry place. Nothing Is worse than
damp, close place, nor will any stock do SO
poorly in such. A roomy yard in which to
exercise, and be fed in OH fair days, should
be provided. Oats are preferable to corn
for proveuder. Sheep will winter we'll and
come out in good condition if fed regularly
one gill Of coru, or one pint OF oats per day
and wheat, oat, wheat or barley straw or mead
Ow hay they care to pick over. There are
too few sheep kept in Maine and no stock
pays better or yields returns sooner. Change
of diet is useful to promote their health and
vigor. II good hay is fed a few roots or
potatoes each day will be found useful. If
coarser aud poorer fodder is fed, bran, oats,
corn, buckwheat, or barley should be fed with
a mess of roots twice per week. A good
dog law Of a more stringent nature is needed
to protect the sheep interests Of Maine.


J. w. l..
Year: 1875

i am farmer and wish to ask some ques-
tions in regard to blowing in n crop Of buck
wheat rs fertilizer. wish to get over my
land faster than l can in the ordinary way of
blowing and manuring, and | am thinking
of sowing buckwhcat rs early as can and
by so doing turn in two crops in year.
Can any Of the readers of the FARMER tell
me of u better plan, or how many loads of
manure to the acre would two such crops of
usual growth be worth? r. S. GALLUP.


Cddys Falls, ".


If Mr.. Gallup had described his soil,
whether dry aud sandy or moist and clayey,
or a good loan, and the kinds Of crops which
have been raised on it, with treatment Of
soil aud amount Of crop produced, it would
have been possible to answer more definitely
she q uestious he asks. We hope those of
cur readers who have any light on the sub
ject will give the FARMER the benefit of it.
For our own views we refer our correspond
ent to the editorial columns.
Year: 1875

The sun is just making his annual visit
there, these days. Every one has TO visit
this wild link in Vermont history at some
time, though few choose this season for it.
But as we view it this morning, all wSrmed
and lighted, clustering and sparkling as the
sun comes peering up between the high alb
rupt ending Of the mountain on one side and
the hills on the other, it looks as though it
might not be an ill.chosen time, after all.
And from our stand point, we should judge
that Nature cut that causeway just wide
enough, and for the express purpose OF the
suns advantageous appearing; but more
probably, that he might for few times in
the year, at least, get au early peep over in-
to Trout River valley; earlier than by com
ing up over the tops of those high noun
tains that shut out its risings as the
would be mountains opposite shut out its gill
dsd settings. Whatever may have been Ma
ture's pleasantly in giving us this portal
through that foreground of interminable
hills, We gratefully accept the gift.


One side of this notch rises perpendicular
ly about 400 feet, bare rocky mountain.
The sides Of the mountain have little more
of slant, crumbly, and very difficult to
climb though many have succeeded in do
ing ii. Farther back, there is shrubbery,
and more gradual ascent, 50 that it is quite
easy reaching the top by this way. Close
at the foot of this mountain, on the perpen'
dicular side, runs the Hazen road then the
land falls of into swamp, some trees and IN.
Year: 1875

An article in the last number Of the
Western Farm Journal puts an old preju-
dice in a strong form. 1t represents the
farmer as working at greSter disadvantage
than do men in other occupations, because OF
the curse pronounced upon the ground for
Adams sake. There has been quite enough
of this senseless and injurious tWaddls
among wOuld-be preachers, without a pro.
fessOdly scientific aud progressive journal Of
agriculture reiteratiug the slur. ...


Whatever mau enjoys Of material wealth
is derived from the soil, and more particu'
larry his food by which he may live though
deprived Of every other comfort. Ifit is a
cursed calling to till the ground, and derive
bread from nature direct, then thrice cursed
Year: 1875


Ye Workingmen of power,
Press onward to The fight,
Say, shall your spirits cover
When pleading for the right
Be firm and yalient-beaTted,
Lake warriors true and brave,
And strive with real undaunted
Humanity TO savo.
Yet nAught OF blood and slaughter
Shall stain tho battle plain,
Where mother, wife and daughter,
Weep over many slam
No. stainless is our banner
Letpeaes our garland twinei .u-r.
Our deeds with fadeless honor,
In future days shall shine.


Dfrigo Rural
Year: 1875

Progress is the law of nature. From the
earliest dawn Of creation there has been
constant series Of improvement, Of progress.
Geology reveals that the lower orders of
sensitive beings gave way to those Of higher
grade until the last result of physical crea-
ton was attained in the creation Of man,
whose improvement as a rational creature
and an immortal soul is still destined to be
onward and inward
Year: 1875



 The materials for the new town hall are sflM being brought upon the ground and as soon as the frost will admit, the work IS be commenced.

 -Labourers at this time are willing to iabour at about half the price that were paid last year (s2.5O day).

 Here, as in many other towns, there has been large sums of money invested in Western Railroad fonds with the promise of ten per cents interest in gold, semi-an- nuallY, which promise has very rarely been kept, and 1t IS believed that large amount of the money thus invested will never be returned, either interest or principal. By this unwise movement tine interest on money has been raised from six to seven per cent, thus imposing heavy burden on the debtor class of community who ought Tn justice to themselves to demand that the rate of interest should again be brought down to its former rate of six per cent. ZERO.
Year: 1875

The Republican victory in New Hamp- shire, last week, was chiefly owing, it now appears, to the return of Temperance vo- ters to the party with which they used to affiliate Last years Democratic legisla- ture in that State repealed the prohibito- ry law, and made direct issue with Tem- perance. The result is the defeat of their party At the polls by the union of Temper ance men with Republicans.

 In this State the Democracy have un- willingly given the people more effec- tive prohibitory law under the name of License, than the State has ever had be- fore. The clauses allowing conviction on reputation, and making it the duty of county commissioners to appoint prose- cutting agents, have given liquor dealers more trouble in one year than the old pro- hibitory law did in ten. We even read in the papers that dealers living in the north ern tier of Connecticut towns remove just over the line into Massachusetts, and pur- sue their business there in preference to running the greater risk of prosecution here. Under the present law, too, iuries show a willingness to convict on reasona- ble evidence of guilt-a vast improvement on their practice under the old prohibito- " statute.

 We think we do tine Democratic party no injustice as body when we attribute their recent effective temperance legisla- ton to exceptional influences rather than to any permanent, earnest intention to check the liquor traffic. No doubt large portion of that party would welcome any such result, but the liquor interest is so influential with an equally large section of the party, especially, those of foreign birth, that we confidently anticipate modifca- ton of the present law in case of another Democratic victory this spring. We clip the following from the Sharonlc dence of the Amenia Times, Democratic paper published just over the New York line:

 The trafficers in liquor take a greater

 

 preceded it for years, from the fact that they regard the present law tyrannical, H. legal, oppressive and unconstitutional, ,and aimed directly at their individual inter ests. They want the act of last year re- pealed, as to certain sections; and being an influential and powerful class, especial ly in large towns. they will exercise a con- trolling power in our nominating conven- tions. "Put none but good men on guard tonight, will be their motto.

 We doubt whether any Democratic pa- per published in Connecticut would have allowed any such plain statement of fact and purpose to appear in its columns. That the present law does attack the ''in- dividual interest" of the liquor seller no one who has watched its working can doubt. That this individual interest will be strong enough in Democratic legislature, if one is elected, to take the stIng out of an effective statute one may reasonably expect Will not Connecticut Temperance men. therefore, do we'll to initiate their New Hampshire brethren in electing legislature that will at least sclet we'll enou0h alone9"
Year: 1875

A debt of over an hundred millions is the legacy left by Tweed to the city of New York. Still that wealthy city is much better able to bear such an infiction than the impoverished communities of South Carolina and Louisiana who are now en- toying very much such a government as 3he Ring gave New York.
Year: 1875

LUNGS FULL OF HoLEs.-In tubercular Consumption the poisonous vomic@ eat numerous little holes into the lungs until they present an appearance not unlike that of 8 honey-comb. To this frightful condition people are often brought by not attending to those ''simple" coughs and colds that give rise to the pulmonary irritation which precedes tuberculosis. Thus it is that numberless graves are fill ed with the victims of Consumption, and yet thousands. who are aware of the dan ger of delay where cough is concerned, postpone medication until it is too late. Professional aid should of course be call ed in when a x pulmonary complaint as- sumes critical phase; but even when 1t does, Hale's Honey of aorehound and Tar is often found sufficient to remove it; and in the ordinary stages of bronchial inflammation, the persistent use of this compound produces such restorative eff fleets as to render medical attendance al- together unnecessary. The Honey of Horehound and Tar is extremely agreed as we'll as effacacious.
Year: 1875

Night before last three 'sports" beat
faro game here by strategy. One
asked the dealer to take a drink, and
in bringing the drink he carried it in
huge waiter, which he held close to
the dealers breast. White the plat
ter was there held, another of the trio
changed faro boxes, taking away the
box from which the deal was being
made and leaving in its place box in
which the cards had been stocked.
This trick not being observed. the
men who played it had things all their
own way, and had drawn from the
bank $l,450, when a partner in the
game came into the room and discov-
cred the trick that had been played.
A trick of this kind Is considered fair
in gambling any way to get the
money out of the bank, SO long as you
don't take club and knock the dealer
off his seat.
Year: 1875

The new postal cards will be unlike
those now in use. The color will be
violet blue. The border and all direc-
tions as to where and how to write
name and address will be dispensed
with. A monogram of the letters gu.
81 will be printed on the card in
black ink. This will be on the upper
left-hand corner, across which will be
the words "Postal Card" The Wig
nette-Liberty, with her luxuriant
tresses hanging down her back and
confined by cap-adorns the upper
left hand corner. The new cards will
be identical in size with the old ones.
They will cost $139 to manufacture,
and will be ready for delivery about
the middle of April.
Year: 1875

When the sixteen weeks are made out the
child is suffered to go back to his kernel TO
take no higher rank than the dogs OF the
street. Whether he is to live during the thirty
six remaining weeks by beggary. theft OF
reputable industry, Is problem left for him
and Providence to settle at their leisure.


We suggest that ut this time instead Of later
our State Legislatures should examine into the
system of industrial schools. which have met
with such exceptional success in Great Britain
and France. In them the 'truant" who viii
not voluntarily attend school is taught not
only the rudiments Of sound English educa-
ton, but trade, By which he is qualified on
dismissal 10 earn his livelihood honestly
These schools are either maintained wholly by
the Government, or If they are under church or
private control, receive a subsidy from the
public treasury. When necessary the children
are fed lodged, and clothed. The industrial
end training schools Of this city were formed
ON this model the technical school of Hoe u
Co., of which we lately published fnll ac-
count. takes rank "a of the same KIND, Dut or
high degree. Compulsory education is as-
suredly to be commended as far as 1t goes !;
the only objection to 1t is that 1t does not go
far enough.
Year: 1875

Every few days rumOr comes from wash
ington OF New-0reans that the friends ana
the adversaries Of the Louisiana usurpation
have agreed upon some form OF compromise"
which will settle the whole trouble. Kellogg
and McEnery, the dispersed Legislature OF
Wilt and the fraudulent Legislature of Hahn,
are to come to an understanding, through
their deputies and attorneys, and proceed to
divide the offices. Kellogg shall keep the
Governorship Oh condition that the next
valuable Office goes to Penn. Somebody else
shall take possession Of the State Treasury.
The minor places shall be impartially distrib-
uted between the rival claimants, and the
two Houses of Representatives shall make be-
heve that nothing has happened since the
first of January, and organize afresh under
such terms as may be agreed upon by the
contracting parties In short, the struggle
between the people Of Louisiana and their OPP
pressOrs is to be treated as a mere battle of
factions to be settled by fair division of the
plunder, on the principle that they shall take
who have the power and they shall keep who
can.


Ia it possible that any Conservatives OF in
fluonce and respectable position in New
Orleans, after their long, arduOus, and gallant
resistance TO the usurpatiOn, are willing to
surrender all the ground that they have con-
ouered and diSavow all the principles for
which they have fought, by acceding to this
contemplate and debasing compromise y
Between the armed invader, who attempts to
seize the Government, and the people who
maintain their rights, compromise is impos-
sible Give up to the lawless claimant one
jOta of authority to which no is not entitled,
and you surrender everything. The North
svmpathizes with The msfOrtunes of
Louisiana, burns with indignation al
her wrongs, aud has just struck q
telling blow at her oppressor., because it feels
that republican government is outraged in
her person, and the whole Union is oppressed
when one of the States is deprived of its
rights. But il cares nothing for McEnery and
Penn. 1t has never even asked the names of
the members whom Gen. Grant turned out Of
the Legislature, and does not know what par
ishes they represented. 1t does not vex itself
at the bad character of Kellogg. IT has no
commiseration whatever for the various fIlnc-
tionar1cs whom lie has tricked out of their
offices. Our only concern is for the cause OF
constitutional government. If the people OF
Louisiana consent to degrade this great issue
into a mere tussle for the powers and emolu
ments of Office, to barter away their political
liberties for mess of pottlgc, they may fight
their battles henceforth alone.


We presume, however. that the reported
compromise is mere trick, like everything
else the Kellogg Government has put before
the world, and we take it for granted that the





into the fatal blunder of accepting it. Let
them wait with the noble patience they have
shown so long, and their ultimate triumph is
assured. Against them stand few thousands
of Office holders; with them are almost all the
rest of the American people. Is there any
doubt which will prevailf
Year: 1875

well informed Washington correspondent
lifts to-day corner of tho vail which has
long been understood to cover the operations
Of a formidable Ring of suASidists operating
in behalf of the Texas Pacific Railroad. We
have had the most confident predictions OF
late in various newspapers that tho subsidy
was certain to be recommended by Committee,
AM, ;;hs promoters of it have bOasted freely
that it would command heavy majority IN
Congress. Perhaps it will but after the dis
closures which we make this morning 1t Will
he n delicate matter for members who value
their reputation to range themselves with Mr..
Thomas A. SCOTS men.


1t appears that the Texas Pacific Railroad
has Construction Company attachment, on
tbc precise principle OF the Credit MOollier !;
and the chief purpose of tho subsidy Is to
Give value to the stock of this Company
which has been placed of course where 1t VIII
do most good. Some of the names of the
Ring are highly suggestive, and though there
is great deal Of secret history yet to be dis
closed it will be easy enough to guess where
some of the Construction stock has found It's
way. Gentlemen who purpose to vote for this
scheme will have to do so with their eyes
open.
Year: 1875

The duration and intensity Of the present
foreign drain of our gold coin entitle the
movement to very close attention from those
who concern themselves about the future of
trade and fnance. The drain is now in its
third month, and it has so far taken from us
nearly twenty million dollars in gold coin
and bullion, or about two-thirds of our pres
ent annual gold production. The commercial
supply is already reduced to much smaller
quantity than usual, as it appears from the
following statement of the average amount of
specie reported by the New-York banks for
the third week in January in each year since
1890.
Year: 1875

And on Saturday nearly three millions In
gold were exported, the loss of which has not
vet been felt by the specie average. In 1873,
the only year when the commercial supply had
been drawn down as low rs it has been this
wear, the gold premium ranged from 10 to 10
until the middle of August, when it was finally
broken by the profuse sales OF Secretary
Richardson Onr importers and exporters may
well ask themselves. How Is this drain 0f
Year: 1875

press. besides avoiding this difficulty is less COM
plicated than anything previously manufactured in
the way Of fast printing machine Ameriesa
industry in this department has long been without
1vsl. and it is peculiar pleasure TO find that Col
Hoe rs able to maintain its preSmin ence.
Year: 1875

The proposal of the Louisiana Conservatives
70 submit the returns of the late election to
arbitration by the Congressional Committee
now in New-OTleans is, at least, an evidence
of their own belief in the Justice of their
cause. But the Republicans are not disposed
to accept such arbitration; the Retaining
Board counted to their satisfaction.
Year: 1875

After a long period of apparent inactivity
Mr. Carlyle has resumed his graphic pen and
commenced the publication of work upon
the early history of the Kings of Norway
The subject would be one of especial interest
TO men OF our race, even without the magic
of the authors style. We print this morning
copious extracts from the opening number OF
the history.