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Year: 1877

STASILFTY.-lne history OF success III any
business pusuit, as wellas in any great under
taking, is simply an account Of great stability
of purpose, perseverance and conquest over
difficulties. There is nothing in life thatis so
formidable that we cannot overcome it If We
but pursue steady and determined course.
How many begin business under favorable
auspices, who, as soon as the first cloud OBJ
scures the way, become disheartened and are
ready to give up, thinking that q change to
some other locality will be advantageous.
Such men never gain what they seek-a pleas
ure ride to the temple Of fortune. It is the
power of steam in that little chest, constantly
renewed, that takes the immense loaded train
up that steep grade against the steady force of
grsvitation. Stability, perseverance, deter.
mination will bring us to the summit Of our
hopes nothing else on earth will.


It is very common thing for farmer to
get dissatisfied with his business and want to
change it for some other something that is
easier and more lucrative as he thinks; but
he will surely make mistake. The pros
poets which he sees at distance are illusory,
and he will never realize his expectations.
Late in life he will find himself at the bottom
of the bill, with scarce courage enough left to
undertake the weary ascent.


We want to say to young farmers, stick to
your business and your farms. Do not tear
up and move unless you have the best and
wisest of counsels and purposes to sanction
the change. Work and care and constant
watchfulness are the conditions of success ev-
erywhere. Do not allow yourselves to get
uneasy. Mark the men who do not get anead,
and you will find them to be men who never
stick to any one business great while, but
are always dropping out of the ranks just as
the favorable point is reached. Pursue your
calling faithfully and persistently, and if you
should never acquire great wealth, You will
acquire and leave behind you noble charac.
Tribune u" % 3@l'..
Year: 1877

OATHs.-Men swear by the objects which
are most precious to them. The natives of
New Guinea swear by the sun, or BY certain
mountain, or by weapon. The savages Of
the Brazilian forests raise the hand over the
head, or thrust it into the hair, or they will
touch the points of their weapons The New
Guinea savage, holding up an arrow, calls on
Heaven to punish him if he lies. An Abyssin-
ian Chief, who had sworn an oath he disliked,
has been seen to scrape it off his tongue and
spit it out. There are still places in Germa-
nv where the false witness reckons to escape
the spiritual consequence of perjury by crook
ing one finger, to make it, I suppose, not
straight but a crooked oath; or he puts his
left hand on his side to neutralize what the
right hand is doing.
Year: 1877

Do NOT FRET.-One fretter can destroy
the peace of family, can disturb the harmo-
ny offs neighborhood, can unsettle the coun-
ellis of cities and hinder in legislation Of ma
tions. He who frets is never the one who
mends, who heals, who repairs evils; more, he
discourages, enfeebles, and too often disables
those around him, who, but for the gloom and
depression of his company, would do good
work and keep up brave cheer. The effect
upon sensitive person in the mere neighbor-
hood of a fretter is indescribable. It is, to
the soul, what cold, icy mist is to the body
more chilling than the bitterest storm. And
when the fretteris one who is beloved, whose
nearness of relation to US makes his fetting
at the weather seem like personal reproach
to US, then the misery Of it becomes indeed in
supportable. Most men call fretting minor
fault-a foible, and not vice. There is no
vice except drunkenness which can so utterly
destroy the peace, the happiness, Of home.
Year: 1877

The essence of he Hindoo religion is
Precipitation. The native mind has a
practical turn, and wishes to attain
definite purpose in its sacred rites. 1t
is willing to 60 through any amount of
trouble in its observances, if some clear
gain is to be got by the process. The
clearest gain that the native mind can
picture TO itself is the averting of evil.
And its fertile fancy has been set to
work to imagine all the sources of evil
possible. Every conceivable calamity
is attributable to some evil agency,
either god, or a devil, or deceased
man. There are good agents on the
other side, and they may be propitiated
to fight against the bad agents. In
dim way they recognize a Supreme
Being; but they argue that he is too
good to hurt any one, and 50 he may be
left out of the account. With this ex-
ception, everything that produces the
notion of power is worth Precipitation
consisting in depositing little offerings
of food or OF anything that the agent, If
alive and in human shape, might be
conceived to like. Thus, on the tomb
of one English official, who had terri
fed them during his life, the natives
deposited little offerings of brandy and
cigars, hoping that he will still like
these luxuries as much as he used TO do,
and that as long as his spirit could
smoke and drink 1t would not occupy
itself In annoying them. Again, offer
ings were deposited on the tomb of
another Englishman who had In life
been famed for shooting tigers, In the
hope that his turn for worrying tigers
still survived, and might be somehow
put to good account. London Spectator,
Year: 1877

Together we walked in the evening time,
Above us the sky spread golden aud clear,
And he bent his head and looked ia my ewes,
As If he held me OF all most dear.


o. it was sweet in the evening time
And our pathway went through fields OF wheat,
Narrow the path and rough the way.
But he was near and ths birds sang true,
And the stars came out in the twilight gray.


o, it was sweet in the evening time
Softly he spoke of the days long past,
Softly of blessed DAYS TO be
Close to his arm and closer pressd-
The corn field path was Eden 10 me.


o, it was sweet in the evening time
Grayer the light and grayer still,
The rocks fitted home through the purple


shade.


The nightingales sang where the thorns stood


high


As | walked with him in the woodland glade.


o. it was sweet in the evening time
Aud the latest CLEANS Of daylight died,
My hand in his unfolded lay;
We swept the dew from the wheat as we passed
For narrower, narrower wound the way


o. 1t was sweet in the evening time
He looked in the depth Of my eyes and said,
Sorrow and Sladness will come for us sweet ;
Buttogether well walk through the fl Ids of life
Close as we walked through the field OF wheat
Year: 1877

importance with the gossips ofthe Latin
Quarter. 1t was called the "Suicide's
Hotel" and had a most unenviable rep
utatiOn. Ii was an hotel meuble, and
became infected some ten years ago
with suicide mania. 4 young student
despairing and in love, blew his brains
out in the room he occupied, and just
one year after another student, in the
same house and the same room, COM
mitted suicide i'm the same manner
after losing his money in a low gamb-
ling house. The owner of the hotel,
alarmed at the fate which had befallen
the two occupants of the room, refused
to allow any one to live in it, and
caused il TO be transformed into box
and lumber receptacle. a few months
afterward the waiter, accused of hav-
ing purloined some articles Of wearing
apparel from lodger, stole away to the
lumber-roOm, where he was found
hanged, and the owner of the house, in
despair, sold his lease and left place
where the demon of suicide seemed to
rule supreme. The hotel was sold
again and again, but none could keep
it. A strong-minded druggist took the
premises and carried on his business,
despising tradition and laughing at the
old gossips, whose stories had enabled
him to make such bargain. Domestic
misfortunes shook the cynicism of the
unbeliever, who, finding his wife had
deceived him, retired to the room which
had become the chamber of death, and
there poisoned himself with his own
drugs. The whole quarter was up in
arms, public opinion demanded that
the fatal room should be walled up, but
the new owner laughed at the fears of
his neighbors, and declared that he
meant to occupy the chamber in ques-
ton. At last notice was given that the
place was about to be pulled down to
make room for the Boulevard Saint
German. An indemnity of tlO,OOO
was demanded, but refused, and the
jury having decided that f3,5OO was
ample compensation the owner grew
despondent and declared he was a
ruined man. He was compelled to ac-
cept the money and was elected in due
course, but few days ago he asked
permission to visit the old premises be-
fore they were pulled down. His re-
quest was granted, ana nothing more
was heard of him until the demoliSSeurS
went into the place, where they found
him hanging by the neck in the fatal
room.
Year: 1877

out yonder with hsr mother, picking
fruit; the little trim figure in pink
with just the same sort Of white sun
bonnet on her head that she wore that
night ten years ago. She is girl that
was worth saving sir, though | say it;
and God knows that as long as my life
lasts shall be thankful that came on
home that night, instead of staying in
the town
Year: 1877

In the theatre the audience prepare
to laugh as soon as his voice is heard
behind the scenes, before he makes his
entrance; nobody gets so hearty well
come, nobody is listened to with more
delight, nobody gets more humping
benefit. Behind the scenes he is
scarcely so well liked he gets too much
the lions share of the popular favor to
be quite loved by the actors; to say the
truth, he is little inclined to ride over
peoples feelings roughshOd, and is not
too particular about making joke at
his companions expense, both on the
stage and off. To the leading man the
low comedian is specially objectiOna-
Bile. and the tragedian regards him
with ill-concealed dislike and secret
bitterness; for the solemn air and ma
jestic pretentions Of the high artist offer
innumerable openings to the shafts of
wit of the professional joker, and of
these he freely avails himself. No man
likes to be laughed at, certainly the
great man does not; and so it comes to
pass that the two players are seldom to
be seen together, and when. they are
obliged to meet at rehearsals a con-
STAN sparring goes on between them,
especially in the arrangement of any
scene where both are present, since the
comic man has no scruple in being as
funny as he can, and "gagging" most
numerically, even while the hero of
tragedy is on the stage. Still we should
all miss him if he left us, for he is very
amusing; for theatrical work is duller
than most people imagine.-[ Tinsley'S
Mdgdzine.
Year: 1877

Morality without religion Is only a
kind of dead reckoning-an endeavor
to find our place on cloudy sea by
measuring the distance we have run
and without any observation of the
heavenly bodies.
Year: 1877

Readers of daily papers who are
also subscribers to the weeklies, will
sometimes come across paragraph
in the weekly which they had previ-
ously read in the daily. In such cases
they are apt to throw down the paper
in disgust and exclaim, "Pshaw!
that's old" They forget that week
ly paper has many country SUBJ
scribers who never get sight of a daily,
and who wouldn't have time to read
it il they did.
Year: 1877

"All the pool is black and glimy,
Green and Shiny,


Foul with mud;
Nothing pure can ever blossom
On the bosom


Of this food"
While I spoke, error found me;
All around me


On the flood
Were white water-lilies, blooming
And perfuming,


In the mud.


Salem Register
Year: 1877

vile remarked that he had become satisfied
that raising and feeding corn upon the old
plan was losing business, aud not being will
ing to give up the crop he planted few acres
and instead Of allowing it to mature, when
fully in the milk he cut and cured in the or.
dinary way and fed without husking. Cows
in milk increased the quantity and quality,
and beef cattle put on fat faster than upon
any other feed he had tried. The farmer, in
his opinion who hires his corn husked, car
ries il to mill, pays for grinding and feeds to
stock loses money every time. In relating
this radical method Of Drew's to a cattle buy
er, he gave q fact that confirmed the position
Of MIR. ID. Afarmer wished to sell him yoke
Of oxen be called good beef The buyer said
they should be fed longer to be worth the
price asked Told him il he would feed them
ten days with as much corn (tben Just in the
milky as they would eat he would take them.
To this the farmer agreed, and the buyer said
he never saw pair of oxen gain as much as
those did on that corn.


We shall give the experience of other
farmers on the corn question to be followed
by new departure upon growing and feed
ing the oat crop.
Year: 1877

Farmers and dairymen must be their own
judges in the selection of the breed of COWS
for their several farms. From one hundred
and ninety to two hundred pounds is about
the yearly average Of butter for an Ayrshire
COW.


And what better way is there to reach
so desirable an object, than to bring the
question before our next State Grange, and
have it take such action as will tend to call,
not only the members of the order but all
who are in any way interested in the subject,
to unite and make themselves heard and felt
in the next Legislature.


When VIC SOW wheat we can not tell what
the weather will be, or how much growth it
will make A wise man will SOW in season
to enable it to get a strong, healthy start in
the fall. If it is growing too fast, he will
turn in calves or cattle to keep it in check,
if the field is dry enough to make it safe to
do so.


Some milk will throw up cream which
is extremely porous Sometimes 20 per
cent. of cream rises not q per cent. of which
is butter. The only satisfactory way to de-
termine cows value as butter producer is
to set her milk separately and churn it by
itself.


The saying that it costs no moro to keep
a good COW than a poor one, is false. The
COW which can manufacture the most food
into milk is the best one.


If milk is reduced to a low temperature
before the cream rises the cream will rise
more rapidly and be more frothy than when
it rises at higher temperature.


If one wants plenty of fresh eggs from
his hens in winter, they must not only have
warm shelter, but plenty of nutritious food
to produce the eggs.


If one wants plenty of milk from his cows
In winter, they must not only have warm
shelter, but plenty of nutritious food to pro.
duce the milk.


What the people want is a speedy settlc-
ment Of the presidential controversy, but by
such an application Of sound prnciplesland
good faith as will bear rigid scrutiny aud
command the respect OF the World.-BostoR
Post.


Suppose Grant should die before the 4th
of March, aud the senate recognize HAYES,
and the house should stand by ,Tildeu, and
Indians should scalp Sheridan, and the house
should impeach Sherman, and the bull-doz,.
ers shoald capture Don Cameron, aud the
European war should homologate Secor
Robson, and the supreme court should 10
crazy over the complications, then who
would be President st Alban Adeer.
tiSer.


A thiefiu Evansville, Indiana, stole tho
box out Of church. He evi-
IDENTIFY went there to prey.-NeD York
Commercial Advertiser.
Year: 1877

do not think the cream growing bitter
10 winter is due entirely to the neglect OF
the housewife. As the cows are drying of las
farmers call it) if the milk is not heated it
will soon become bitter, but it is very differ
ent with the milk from a new milch COW.
l cannot explain the difference or tell why,
but from years Of experience know it to be
SO. have no trouble in making good, sweet
butter in winter time. True it is not like that
made iu June or September, but their is no
bitter taste or favor from the scent of the
barn.


When the milk comes to the house it is
strained through the strainer in the pail with
a cloth over it,into tin pail and set in boil
er Of hot water and heated to 1905 or
about half way between milk warm and boil
ing heat, then turned into pans and set to rise.
Be careful not to allow it to boil as that
prevents the cream from all rising by heat
ing more cream rises on the milk, makes bet
ter butter, aud when churned comes to butter
in few minutes, which more than pays for
the time and trouble of heating. 1 think no
one that will try it for few weeks will set
the milk without heating. churn once a
week. MRS l.. y.


Dscembsr Or
Year: 1877

PURE lcE.-ln addition to what VIC have
already said respecting the necessity of get
ting pure ice, we add the following testimony
from experts, who know of the facts. II
only shows how we'll and healthy people might
be if they were not SO careless in contracting
diseases. Read it before you all your ice
house


An epidemic of fever aud diarrhea at one
OF the hotels at Rye Beach last summer has
been clearly traced to the ice. This had been
procured from a pond Of which tho outlet
had in recent years been closed by sand and
stones washed up from the sea, the pond thus
becoming standing receptacle Of mud and
Year: 1877

The corn crop was, 10 former years, one
OF the best paying crops in Vermont. When
it sold for Sl.25 per bushol it paid well to
grow 1t, but now when the railroads will set
down western corn at our stations for from
10 to 80 cents per bushel, corn raising as a
paying crop is "played out" Many of the
farmers in favorable locations will raise corn
without inquiring whether it pays or not.
Twenty-Five hundred bushels Of corn were
grown upon the Evarts farm at Windsor the
past season, and we noticed 10 our recent Wis.
1t to the farm that about one-half of tho fod-
der was rejected by the stock and spread
over the yards to be converted into MANURE
by the trampliug of the stock. We propose
to give the present position of several of the
many good farms in this county in their new
departure in growing and feeding the corn
crop, and hope that thosl farmer of the state
who still pursue the old method will give
their facts and figures for the benefit of the
readers Of the FARMER.


During discussion upon tho best method
OF feeding the products of the farm to stock
at meeting of Pomona grange No. 2, at
West Concord, Geo, Il. Drew OF North Dan
Year: 1877

"ou'u ING W iuqulre Jnrougn the coll
umns Of the FARMER if it is injurious to the
iiavor and keeping qualities of butter to set
the milk, in hot weather, after milking in
cold water until 1t is thoroughly cooled.


L.J.w.


We know of no reason why it should be,
unless the water should be too COOL indeed it
should be cooled some way SO as to rid it of
the animal heat. The theory Of the "large
pans" is that of cooling the milk down to
certain temperature and keeping it there till
the cream rises. The plan Of "deep setting"
Mr.. Hardins favorite method, is that of re.
ducing tho temperature and keeping the milk
from both light and air. We saw the "deep
setting" last June 10 good dairy in Whit
ing The milk was set in pals, deep and no
larger around than an ordinary tin milk pail,
aud set into tank of cool water till the
cream was taken off. Many people think
the milk must stand till it sours, but there is
no good reason for that it wants to stand
till the cream rises and no longer; every
hour after that the butter is injured. We
never tried "deep setting" aud wish those
who have would give us the results Of their
experience, .......
Year: 1877

ln the production of good cows we do not
underestimate blood and good breeding, but
what we wish to impress upon dairymen is
that there must be something more than this,
and that is that kind care and iudicious
treatment are often capable of making su-
perior mixer from an animal with no "royal
blood in her veins" while the reverse makes
a poor mixer out of the best COW in the land.
-RurM NeW Yorker.
Year: 1877

sawdust, there being two saw.mis on the
stream above. The ice was subjected to
chemical analysis and was Iound to contain
putrescent vegetable matter The hotel
stopped using this contaminated ice aud there
was an end to the sickness among its board.
ers
Year: 1877

When the treatment and food is only or
dinarily good, the Berkshires and their
crosses are uudeniably the best, especially as
the flesh is more meaty and not SO inclined
to fat as are the Yorkshires.- Home.
Year: 1877

Agencies may be exceedingly useful, but
when We undertake TO establish them we arc
very likely to meet difficulties for which we
are unable to provide. Good business talent
in mercantile matters may exist in every
farming community but without the requisite
training it is sure to get worsted when it is
sent into the great commercial centers."-
Elmira HuSbandmaH.


The grange, or some other form of far
mers' club may be made one of the efficient
means for the dissemination of information
among farmers. Aud now that the long win
ter evenings are on our hands these meetings
should be attended as often as possible.
Where there is no club already in existence
a few public spirited ones should at once
proceed to organize one. Almost every one
may be induced to take hold of one in some
shape.-KanSaS Farmer.


As yet there is nothing 10 all history to
warrant the hope of a very great degree of
success Of the mass of men in any Kind of
business. The great mass eau onl succeed
to the extent of making living, while for
tunes are beyond their capacity, at least ud.
der the present system OF education, and the
regning spirit Of society. eatucky Stock
Journal.
Year: 1877

And now comes the Virginia
(Ney.) Enterprise with the follow
ing story Of how the late Senator
Nye lost a horse: He was telling
us of incidents of a journey to
Europe, from which he had lust
returned. Among the rest, he said
the Sultan of Turkey ordered in
his honor, as a senator of the
United States, grand review of
the army in Constantinople. On
the occasion the grand vizier
mounted the senator upon q steed
which he described as magnificent.
Said Nye; "He was pure Arabian.
He had coat like velvet; he felt
like a myriad Of steel springs be-
meath a man his eye was between
a liens and a woman's, with all the
courage Of the one and all the
human gentleness and beauty of the
other blended; you could put your
hand in his nostrils; and yet he
knew | was an old man, and was as
tender of me as a child. When
| dismounted | could not refrain
from expressing to the grand
vizier my admiration for the in
comparable creature. He heard
me through an interpreter, and
then, bowing low, begged me to
accept the horse as mark of the
profound regard which the sultan
entertained for me-" "Did you
accept him, senator 2" we asked. A
peculiar look came into the old
mans eyes as he replied; 81 made
a rapid calculation, and saw that |
had not enough money and could
send to no place for enough money,
to pay the freight on the animal to
New York, so ! took high ground,
| bowed low in return to the grand
vizier, and bade the interpreter ex-
plain to him that while touched to
the heart by this appreciation and
generosity Of the sultan, it was, |
was sorry to say, against the laws
of my country for a senator of the
United States to accept a present
from any foreign prince, potentate
or power"