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Year: 1877

One Of the most important questions
that should interest the farmer, Is that
Of selecting the most perfect seed for
planting and sowing. The question
how viii become pertinent: Why
should not farmers use the same care
in growing and saving their seed, and
in experimenting ~ regards excellence
in quality. a. do che seedsmen engaged
in growing vegetable and flower seed
for sale Z


We know from actual experiment,
not only that any given variety Of
grain may be brought to . high stand
ard Of excellence, but this attained,
care must be used in keeping the
standard good, else it will degenerate
in far less time than Vas required to
bring it up.


The means to be used to breed up
grain or other vegetable products Of
the farm sre precisely those used BY
the breeders Of animals. That Is :
careful selection. and breeding to .
type. This, and attention in selecting
only thoroughly ripened seed, With
good cultivation, will, in . few years,
increase the yield on any farm from
fifty to one hundred per cent.


From our experience, We know that
one of the great disabilities in the ger.
mination Of seed corn, is the practice
Of many otherwise good farmers, who
select their seed from the field as soon
as the grains are glazed, trace it up,
and use this for seed. Il is true, this
will tend to earlier ripening, but At the
sure expense Of both quality and guam.
tity. The same is true of our cereal
grains generally, and of every other
product of the farm.


From this, We see the necessity Of
examining not only into the perfect
development Of the seed as regards
quality, but also that the seed be per-
sectly ripe.


Let US take . case in point. A
farmer, we'll known for his care in the
election Of his seed.
made it . practice to set apart, each
yea., 2 certain portion Of his fields for
tie raising of seed. Upon these seed
plates mono but the best select seed was
used, and Of given quality. The
best cultivation was given, without re-
gard to cost, and the product of these
seed plats was used for the general
crops; the top Of extra grain being
carefully sorted each year to be again
sown for future seed. Thus he always
had none but the best and most ma
ture seed for sowing, and always oh.
tanned an extra price from others, for
seed from his fields. But his own se-
lected seed for these seed plats could
not be bought At any price. Any
iarmer may do this, and if all would
do 50. the careful cultivation required
in these cases would soon educate the
individual to more careful cultivation
in his general crops intended for mar
ket. 1t will pay.
Year: 1877

The other evening, as patient police
man was pacing his beat on Howard
street, a young man passed him and ran
up flight of stone steps and rang the
bell. The officer heard the door open, a
young lady's voice sing out, and he said
to himself:


"'Tis loves young dream"


He was Just moving on when another
young man approached looked up at
the house, and in a sheepish way asked
the officer if he had seen any one go in.
He was informed of what had occurred
a moment before, and he gasped:


at was that sneaking chap from Cass
Avenue''


He walked on and the officer walked,
but ten minutes later the young man
climbed the stone steps with a pail of
water in his hand, and emptied its con-
tents over every stone. He was sitting
on the hOrse-block opposite as the offi-
Ger came back, meaning to stay there
until his plan unfolded, or until he froze
to death. He didn't freeze. In about
ten minutes the door opposite opened,
two voices were heard for q moment,
and then the young man from Cass
Avenue came down the steps on his ear,
his elbow, his shoulder blade, his heel,
or on most any other part of the human
makeup.


He struck the sidewalk, shot across it
| to the gutter, and came to a standstill
with his head in the snow.


There was peal of laughter from the
house as the door shut, and the watcher
on the hOrse-block chuckled and re-
marked


"That heartless laugh was not ut
tered by woman who loves. I'm
hunky ~


Five minutse later he carefully
crawled up the icy steps, and the gooC
policeman heard him cordially greeted
and unused:


"Well, if there amt more'n seventeen
different ways of finding out If gir
loves youw
Year: 1877

The great extent of the United States
was never before made quite so easy to
grasp as at the late Exhibition. The
agricultural products were from every
range of climate between the sub-trop-
ieaI and the sub-frigid; from the oranges
and bananas of Florida to the apples
and the cereal grains of the far North.
In the time to come, people extending
over such wide limits, yet knit to each
other by a common history and a COM
mon language, with facilities of inter-
course by railroad, telegraph, and possi-
bly, balloon, cannot fail to develop grand
national characteristics that shall dis
tinguish them above all the peoples that
have gone before. Our great standby
throughout the centuries must, how
ever, undoubtedly be agriculture, as
that alone can support the teeming mill
lions that will eventually enjoy the
blessings of free government within our
borders, and it is safe to say that the ag-
riculture of that period will be such and
on such a grand scale as the world has
never yet seen. Naturally being young,
and settled by an eminently progressive
people, and with more of their interests
depending upon it, the Western States
will take the lead in these pursuits, and
their Inhabitants will raise for them
selves golden mountains of grain worth
more to themselves and to the world
than the shining dross they receive in
exchange and flowing forth for the feed
ing of the nations.


These reflections I was led into by ex-
amining some oats and sample of Oat-
meal sent to the Exhibition by McLeran
Bros, of Portland, Oregon. The ex-
hibit is perfectly matchless of its kind.
The oats of Oregon must reach a perfec-
tion unknown to the rest of the world,
and they make into meal of wonderful
strength and substance. A distinguished
chemist, who likewise examined this
display, told me that the meal which
these parties showed had from ten tC
fifteen per cent. more gluten than any
he had seen, and that it was possessed
of nutritive properties directly proper.
tionate. The weak and effete soils o
the East cannot grow such breadstutf'
as these. In addition to these natura
advantages, the McLeran Brothers have
thorough knowledge of the business
employ first-class machinery, and pu
brains as well as oats into their product
| The Jury of Award were highly pleaset


with the great merits of this meal, ant


awarded to it a diploma of the very
highest merit, with the grand medal o
houor.-COr. Boston Journal Of Com
! nIerce,
Year: 1877

The senior editor of this paper is, or
dinarily, a plain, unassuming man, bnt
the appointment of postmaster has COM
pletely turned his head. When we were
first associated with him, an ordinary
No. 5 pencil, harder than Pharaoh's
heart, and the rear side of telegraphic
"clip," were good enough for him TO
write anything on, from Mrs. Parting
ton joke to a heavy editorial on the sit
uation; but now, with the great ex-
chequer of the United States at his back,
he turns up his nose at the old appli-
ances of journalism, and writes edito-
rials on immense sheets of wrapping
paper with green ink. These sheets of
paper are the same that grocers wrap
around brown sugar and Goldfish, only
they are larger. When the compositor
spreads them on his case, they cover up
every letter of the alphabet, and extend
over into the job office. When one of
these broad editorials are hung on the
hook, it has the appearance of circus
poster, and, written in the close eharac-
Iers af the "BOss," generally contains a
perfect encyclopedia of instructive read
ing.


Day before yesterday, the day force
commenced on one of these little billet
dOuE, intending to set it up before din
ner. They didn't stop for feed or water,
but worked until dark, when they were
carried home on a shutter. Then the
night force commenced on it. One COM
p0sitor would take his stick and tread
the length of his beat, setting as he
went, and then the second relief would
commence where the first had left off,
and set until he got where he couldn't
reach his case. In this way the line
i yyOnIl ha t1N xub bnTa tho or
end of the line would yell out to the man
on the starboard watch, "Pve got out.
Pve set to where the feller asks the girl
to marry him, and she has referred him
| to the old man."


! Meantime, the fashion editor would
go down town and play game of bill
lizards. Play ing game of billiards with
the fashion editor of this paper, if he
has man to match him, is equivalent
to taking long, pleasant vacation from
work, aud giving ones self up to pleas
ure and rest. But the fashion editor
would pay for the game, (he always
pays for the game from force of habit,
then he would come back, aud the COM
pOsitOr on the outpost would just be
shouting through speaking trumpet at
the first man, "If you've got your case


thrown in, start up again. Pve just got


to where the young feller shot his


mother-iu-law."


So it went on until midnight, when it
was found that the article was monopo-


lizing the local page, crowding out the


advertisements, and begging for chance


on the telegraph page, and still the long


green lines stretched out into the realms


of fancy. Along about daylight the
fashion editor stole home to his bed and
, cried himself to sleep. In the afternoon,
when he got up, he went down to the


office and found that the editor-in-chief
had just paid the express charges on a
car load of building paper. He said he
always felt kind of hampered and cir
/ cumscribed when he used that wrap
, ping paper, by gracious Peter.-LGran1ie
Sentinel.
Year: 1877

The recent Bennett-M May quarrel is
reviviug the discussion of duelling.
And it is certainly pleasant to see hGw
generally this relic of barbarism Is con-
demned by the press. NOthiGg is more
indefensible than the dU5i, and its alb
surdity aud baseness lave been so fire.
quently exposed that the public senti-
ment is decidedly against it. But it
finds now End then fugitive defender.
Thus, one newspaper correspondent
writes that it is great hardship that a
man must be cast ont of the society in
which he moves if, when insulted, he
does not fight duel, and if he does he
incurs the penalties of the law; and he
urges that the laws against duelling
should be repealed. But far greater
hardships might be shown. 1t is a
hardship that a man must sometimes
starve if he does not steal, and be put in
prison if be does. Shall we therefore
repeal the laws against larceny? 1t is
by the growth of humane and just sem
timent that duelling has been placed
under ban; and we shall not turn back
ward to the practices of savage society
to suit the whims of all the fashionable
raseals in Christendom.-NeaOA Age.
Year: 1877

for Roses room, only to be met by such
q strong turbid mass of moving dark
ness and noisomeness and suffocation,
as to stagger back again single mo-
ment before it. But almost immedi-
ateIy he was bounding through it,
throwing open the doors between, and
all at once, as he opened the third one,
great binding glare fell from above,
and there was the monstrous horror of
flame towering and soaring, like an evil
spirit that wiped matter from existence.


But Roger did not pause to think
what it was like; he only thought that
it was sweeping through an upper floor,
that in a moment the floor must fall,
that be must reach Roses room. The
house had been struck by lightning in
the storm, and the smouldering spark
had been making headway in the lonely
upper rooms all the delicious summer
evening, all the time that he had been
leaning on his balcony drinking the
balmy air, all the time that Rose had
been folded in her sweet slumber, all
the time he had been hearing that tiny
crackle, and thinking it was the rain
dripping from the leaves upon the walk.
Another moment and over its dull roar
came a cry, "Roger! Roger! Oh, my
dearest my dearest! where are you
do you know it ?" And Rose, with a
cloak thrown over her, burst through
her door, and was caught in his arms as
| he leaped down the stairs at one vault
and bore her out into safety.


They had barely reached the gate
when the roof fell in, and though the
neighbors came thronging round, and
the engines were presently at play, they
stood there with the rest, and saw thai
! it was no use, and the blaze of the home
of their childhood and their youth wa;
ascending like a smoke of sacrifice
Rose stood folded in the arms of Roger
hiding her eyes from the dreadful sight
as a child might stand beside the grave
of a mother while it is filled. "Let il
go without tears, darling-let it co.
Roger whispered. at is a kindly
flame. The old house is still protecting
us; it has lighted our way to each other
Without it, we should still have beef
cropping in the dark. I should neve
have dared win you; you would neve
have known loved you"


"You are coming right home will
me, children" said Mr.. Vance, ''till w
can turn round and see what's to b
done. Is the house insured? ? Where
your papers ?'


'rThey are gone" said Rose, "witl
every thing else. We are utterly penni
less r'


1t was just fortnight after that
when Roger entered Mrs. Vance's hous
one night, Rose ran and clapped a bit c
paper before his eyes so closely that h
could see nothing. When he steppe


back, she was holding it over his lips
and then half bashfully tiptoeing u
and kissing him through it. "Do yo


see what it is?" she said 'It is chec


for twenty-five hundred dollars from th


Safety Insurance Company, who hav


taken the circumstances into account
1t is the insurance on the buildings, an


the lands are still left. The old house
taking care of us yet, Roger. Tw
thousand for your business, and th


rest" she whispered, shyly, and blush
ing like a rose indeed, "to furnish th
new house. ."-Hd1per' BGzGr.
Year: 1877

do not see the propriety of woman
being ruled by her husband or he being
ruled by her. My ideal of a happy
home is one in which there is indisput-
able love, and where neither rules, but
where their hearts, their fortunes, and
their beings blend. 1t is not the cOarser
tie of human law that binds their peace,
but harmony itself. 1 think there
should exist between man and wife a
boundless confidence in one another,
and that the wife should be consulted
on all her husbands business plans, and
give her advice; for woman is mans
"best friend" 1 consider it a wOman's
duty to look after her domestic affairs,
mot trust to servant girls), be economi-
cal, and make her husband and chill
dren a pleasant and cheerful companion.
1t is stated that "the law might allow a
man a half-dOzen wives, but yet he
would have no right to more than one"
Why would he not have right to them
all if the law allowed it? But the law
strictly forbids man having more than
one wife, and he or she who has more
than one wife or husband is a bigamist
and should be punished. [ hold that a
man and wife have a moral right to sep
arate and be divorced, provided there is
reason for it. If man is cruel and
harsh to his wife without reason, do
not think she should bear it uncom-
plainingly, after she had tried with all
| her ability to win him back to kind
ness. A woman will never be false to 8
man if he is a good, kind, and affection
ate husband, and provides for his fam
lily as well as his means will allow hin
to. If difficulties do arise between mai
and wife, and cause a separation,
think he should still continue to sup


port her and her children-if they are 81


Unfortunate as to have any-as long a
they need his assistance. And the Law


should be that neither should MARI!


until death makes the second separation
Year: 1877

ANOTHER VICTIM.-Rapherty of the
Cheyenne Leader, has been married re-
Gently. He came up here to consult
with US about the new life he was about
to enter, and we called him off to one
side, and told him a great many things
which we knew would be of use to him.
Among the rest, we told him that if he
went home on these cold evenings and
found the bed cold, that he must keep
his grief to himself, and not make a
newspaper article out of it; but he has
forgotten our well meant advice, and
came out yesterday morning in this
way: "Hhese are the nights when the
married man whose business keeps him
up late rejoices, upon reaching home, tC
find that his wife has gone out to stay
with her sister, leaving behind chill.
ingly cold bed. .n-SentineL.
Year: 1877

Although an investment in real estate
may not at once prove lucrative and
yield an immediate income to the pur-
chaser, we have found, from many years.
experience, that all judicious invest
ments made, either in farming lands or
suburban property adjoining a growing
and prosperous city, invariably result
in fine speculation, or at all events in
one that is doubly sure for good pay
ing investment.


In the products of the soil all wealth
has it's origin. The industrious farmer
must always have a market for his
wares. What he has to sell are the alb
solute necessities of life, aud he that
does not produce them must obtain
them of him who does.


Whatever may be a mans business,
however much money he may control,
he must look to the tiller of the soil for
that which will sustain life. There
may be local arrangements, but on the
whole there is of necessity a market for
every important product, and the pro-
ducer must always be sure Of his living,
so long, at least, as he is the owner OF
the land he cultivates. In every de,
partment of life sunshine and shadow
alternate, but if the foundation fails
the ruin of the superstructure is newt.
able.


The possession of real estate is a sub
stantial capital. If ones title is good
no thief can steal it; it needs no insur.
ance policy to make it safe; nothing
short of an earthquake can swallow it


A good farm or suburban garden, will


rich roll, judiciously managed, whethe


its commercial gold value go up o
down, is still the source of good ant
comfortable living. Whatever else
man may possess, he cannot afford t,
, do without real estate sufficient to max
himself and family, if he has one,
good home.-St. Paul Business ReporteT
Year: 1877

An exchange says: What this coun-
try needs to have right off is religion
which will make man feel that it is
just as cold for his wife to get up and
build fire as it is for himself.
Year: 1877

NEW CASTLE, June 9.
From Our Regular Correspondent.


The steamship Switzerland, of the
White Star Line, passed down yesterday


The Active and Vollum base ball clubs
will play this afternoon on the Shaw
town grounds.


City Council met last evening. The
clerk presented copy of city assessments
which he was directed to hang at the
door Of the Court House and give notice
by posters that Council would sit as a
Court of Appeals ON the evenings of the
25th and 21st and on the afternoon and
evening of the 22d.


a memorial was presented from large
number of citizens setting forth that the
opening of Sixth street as petltioned fol-
at the last melting, was unnecessary and
uncalled for, and that by opening Ire.
mont and Eighth streets, the public
would be better served.
Year: 1877

it in--imagine a succession Of such i'm
plements Of general destruction working
at intervals along the course of rivers and
bay shores, hauling on every tide some
times for months, and then try to conceive
by what happy accident any fish at all are
left in our waters. Other States have
made war upon these things, and upon
stake nets and gill nets that are too long
also, and it is time that our legislature
should do likewise se.-Baltimore EUeaiRg
Bulletin,
Year: 1877

An English barrister named Missing
was defending prisoner charged with
stealing donkey. The owner had left
the donkey tied up to gate, and when
he returned it was gone. Missing was
very severe in his examination Of the wit
ness. "Do you mean to say witness, the
donkey was stolen from that gate ?"-''I
mean to say, sir, giving the Judge and
jury sly look" the ass was Missing"
Year: 1877

When farmer Bulge read that bull
painted by Rose Bonheur, the great pain
ter Of animals, sold for FIVE thousand dol
lars, be remarked to his wife that he didn't
see how coat of paint could so greatly
enhance the value of the animal, but if
Rosa didn't charge more than ten dollars
he would get her to paint his bull in the
spring; and his economical wife replied
that she thought he might paint it him.
self and save his ten dollars. The indica-
tons are that the bull will be painted
Norristotoa Herald.
Year: 1877

A negro witness in trial the other
day, was asked what he was doing in a
certain saloon at certain time. He ex-
planned that he had gone there to achanpe
his breff." The explanation was accented
Year: 1877

A lady tells US that when man talks
Of how good his wife is and ,brags 50 much
Of her good qualities, he is sure to be one
of this kind that makes her carry her own
wash water and chop her wood herself.
Year: 1877

LEARN THE VALUE OF MoNEY.-A
silver dollar represents days work of the
laborer. If it is given to a boy, he has no
idea of what it has cost, or of what it is
worth. He would be as likely to give a
dollar as dime for top or any other toy


But If the boy has learned to earn the
dimes and dollars by the sweat of his face


he knows the difference. Hard work is
to him a measure of values that can never
be rubbed out of his mind. Let him learn
by experience that hundred dollars re.
presents hundred weary days labor, and
it seems great sum Of money. A thou.
sand dollars is fortune, and ten thousand
is almost inconceiyable, for it is far more
than he ever expects to possess. When
he has earned a dollar, he thinks twice
before he spends il. He wants to invest
it so as to get the full value of a days
work for it. 1t is great wrong to socie


ty and to boy to bring him up to man
estate without this knowledge. A fortune
at twenty-one, without it, is almost ineyi.
tably thrown away. With it, and little
capital to start on, he will make his owr
fortune better than any one can make il


for him.-Huat's Merchants Magazine.
Year: 1877

lngratitude in a superior is frequently
nothing more than the refusal of an un,
reasonable request, and if the employer
does too little, it is often because the de,
pendent expects too much.
Year: 1877

Ulysses Grant was the guent of Victoria of
England this week at Windsor Castle, and
was given rooms next adjoining the royal
sleeping apartments. The queen was much
surprised at hearing him ring the bell violent.
ly at about o'clock in the morning, and still
further startled when the royal house maid
woke her up and asked her tor the keys OF
the cellar. The Gen. sent his compliments,
and couldn't sleep without good. stiff toddy,
and il they had any mint he would be glad of
it. To show what perfect lady the queen is,
she got right up and put on her slippers and
wrapper, and went down into the kitchen
herself, where she mixed the ex-President a
bowl of old Jamaica punch from splenid rum
that had just been sent to the Prince of Wales.
With delicate appreciation of the Generals
habits, she also placed pack of cards on the
tray, apologized in pencil note for their be-
ing little dirty. Gen. Grant says of all the
kind compliments which be has received in
England this touched him most deeply in the
right spot. He thanked her majesty in the
name of the American nation the following
morning, stating that he accepted her COM
pliment not as directed personally to himself
but as an. evidence of the perfect harmony
existing between England and the United
States. San Francisco Neaos Letter.