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Year: 1875

With the outer wrapping, in which it had been
carefully enveloped, partially burnt off, Mr..
Maxwell, an acute man of business, had per-
ceived, at once, the important nature of the
paper, and, without saying word on the sub
ject, quietly retained it in his own possession
until he could, himself, place it in his friends
, hands.


Estelle stands before him, white to the lips,
but with defiant CLEAN in her eyes, and a
hard, compressed look about the set mouth,
that betokens no softened feeling or remorse.
The decree has gone forth that she shall leave
"The Cedars," at least for time, until she
has manifested penitence for her sin, and
proved herself worthy to be again received
under the roof of the guardians whose kind
ness and loving care she has so basely repaid.
But she will never return, for there is fixed
purpose in her heart to revisit no more the
scene of her disgrace; and after listening, in
absolute silence, to the parting words of coun.
sci, of forgiveness, which her adopted father
even now, cannot withhold, she passes, with
erect head and unfaltering step, out of the
room, and out of these pages, forever.


The second scene is some months later, in
the twilight of a soft summer evening, be-
meath the ancient trees in the broad shrubbery
at The Cedars. Here stroll a youthful pair,
Edmund and Carrie Her hand rests lightly
upon his arm, lovely color glows in her
cheek, and her lips are parted by smile as
she listens to the words he is murmuring in
her willing ear. 1t needs no penetrating eye
to discover that they are lovers-not in name
only but in very truth; and though her father
says two more years must pass before he can
give his darling up, they are content to wait,
in the knowledge that the love they bear each
other can never grow less, but will rather
strengthen and ripen with each succeeding
month as the golden years pass on.


Restored to her own home, surrounded by
all the happiness that love can shed upon her
path, and yet not parted from her true old
friend-for uncle Dan, tired of his rowing life,
is established in cottage near by-Carrie
thinks she has nothing upon earth to wish for !;
and so she is saying to Edmund, as they walk
in the sunset through the fowery paths.


"And to-day, of all days, I am so happy,
because ofmy letter from Susy-dear susy,
who used to be such good friend. How de-
lightful to think that she and Leon are going
to be married at last! She was always fond
of Leon, though 1 was silly enough not to
know it, How nice it is for everybody else to
get what they want, as well as myself! But
I never dreamed, Edmund, when you flung
me that white camelia, and felt so glad as 1
put it in my hair, that Nita, the Circus Girl,
would one day be your promised wife!'


THE END.
Year: 1875

ANDY WOULDN'T PARDON H1M.-While
he was President, pardon case was brought
to him by an East Tennessee lawyer, his
neighbor and friend. The case was one Of
unusual hardship, involving the remission Of
a wrongful fine. The lawyer had got it
through the Department of Justice, and car
ried it direct to the President in order to Sc
cure his client against imposition and extor;
ton, as the document should be returned
through its circumlocutious official channels.
johnson had the pen in his hand and was
about to sign. "Bob," says he, "nobody il, is
going to make anything out of this, is there r
"Not cent, except my fee Of two hundred
dollars" johnson Immediately tore up the
pardon and threw it into his waste basket,
saying, "ifyour man is able to pay for a law
yer, he is able to pay his fine to the govern
ment."
Year: 1875

DoN'r ScoLD.-For the sake of your chill
dreu, don't do it. 1t is great misfortune to
have children reared in the presence and un-
der the influence of scold. The effect of the
everlasting complaining and fault-6nding of
such persons is to make the young who hear
it unamiable, malicious, callous- hearted, and
they often learn to take pleasure in doing the
very things for which they receive such tongue
las6ings. AS they are always getting the
blame of wrong doing, whether. they deserve
it or not, they think they might aa,Hell DO
wrong as right. They lose all ambition to
strive for the favorable opinion of the fault
finder, since they see they always strive IN
vain. Thus scold is not only nuisance,
but a destroyer of the morals Of children.
If these unloved, dreaded people could only
see themselves as others see them, they would
flee to the mountains in very shame.
Year: 1875

pa Three Saginaw girls Of the Methodist
persuasion having met together, concluded to
pray for the welfare Of their lovers, but the
first one had not got very far along in her Pc
tition when it was discovered that they were
all engaged to the same man. The religious
exercises were at once terminated and an in.
dignation meeting organized, the result of
which was that the gay deceiver was obliged
to leave.
Year: 1875

sg Be not ashamed to confess that you have
been in the wrong. It is but owning what
YOU need not be ashamed of, that you now
have more sense than you had before to see
your error, more humility to acknowledge it,
and more grace to correct it. ~ s5,ss!
Year: 1875

I hope we are all agreed that very deep
disturbance of the soil, so that it may derive
the advantage of communication with the
air, is, after drainage, an essential agricultu-
raj basis. But there is a very general belief
that for wheat the surface, at all events,
should be solid and the plowing shallow
[ remember that the late Rev. Samuel Smith,
of Lois Weldon, could only get Rivett
(bearded) wheat to stand erect on deeply
cultivated soil. My practice has been to
subsoil very deeply, and manure heavily for
mangel, kohl rabi, cabbage, and turnips but
to take wheat or barley after these on sin
gle blowing with q pair Of horses. The
effect Of deep cultivation Immediately before
wheat sowing, causes the plant to be very
vigorous and foliaceous, and pleasant and
profitable in appearance, but at harvest,
especially in such a season rs this, we find
the straw ''plus" and the grain '.minus."
We are apt to condemn q non-leaty and
rather open looking wheat crop, but it often
comes well out of the threshing machine,
and it is a common saying that the wheat
after mangel rises well in proportion to the
straw.


In 1868 my nine acres of wheat followed
three different crops :-tares moved, and
the land manured with shed manure, one
and half acres of cabbage, the rest peas,
half picked green for London, the other half
seeded. Well the wheat after tares was
rich, thick growth of leaf and straw, and
every visitor, as we'll rs ourselves, pro-
nounced it to be or. per acre. The piece
after cabbage looked thin and comparatively
unyielding, and being on hillside was yisi-
Year: 1875

animal and vegetable life and growth brought
to light and proclaimed throughout the
earth. And the agricultural college ought
certainly to lead in this work, and will if
you will make them also agricultural eXper-
iment station


AS men differed in regard to what the ag-
ricultural college was to do, SO they differed
in respect to what it ought to be. Some
would have made it a mere school of prac-
tice. Others would have resembled it to the
law school and medical school, making it
merely professional and purely theoretical.
Others wished to see a college for farmers
sons where they might continue to labor
while they studied. And others still wished
a college where the sciences relating to agri-
culture and the mechanical arts might be
taught thoroughly, with their practical ap-
plication to agriculture, ETC., clearly exhib-
tied and enforced.


[ need not further enumerate the different
notions which prevailed and have been urged
upon the boards of trust of these colleges,
and through the press upon the country at
large. Their number is legion, and their
aims so various, that the combined wisdom
of the world could not reconcile or satisfy
them all. They are only mentioned now,
because of the difficulties they haveinterposed
in the path Of agricultural education on this
continent. Every disappointed hope, and
every defeated plan has become an obstacle
in the way of success by alternating friends
and discouraging supporters of agricultural
colleges. Most men will much more readily
conclude that the management has been bad
than that their expectations were unreason-
able, and the failure to carry out their par
ticular plans is failure to do anything wise
or worthy of praise.


But there remain q valiant and far-seeing.
few (may their numbers increase) who clear
ly discern that the fundamental ideas Of ag-
licultulral education are as sound as their
aim is far-reaching and benefcent, and whose
faith is as firIaa as the solid scientific truths
on which it rests. And while others are
searching for supposed causes of hypotheti-
cal failures, these are seeking to understand
and measure, and if possible, to remove the
obstacles to more complete and widespread
success.
Year: 1875

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR


The ROCKY MOUNTAIN HUsBANDMAN is designed
to be, as the name indicates, husbandman in every
sense of the term, embracing in its columns every
department OF Agriculture, Stock-raising, Horti-
culture. Social and Domestic Economy
Year: 1875




Should majority of the voters ol
the state decide that II constitutional
convention is to be called, Of which
there is little doubt, it is quite certain
| in the present conservative temper OF
the people, that ultra views ana eN-
detrimental tampering with well eolah'
lished principles, will have little place
In the deliberations of the convention.
In fact, there will be little more TO do
thanlto rcenact the constitution we had
before the war, with such m Naifications
as may be necessary to put it in accor'!
with our changed relations with the
negro race, and some provision for the
encouragement of emigration.


Without both labor and capital, our
vast natural resources must remain
undeveloped for years to come, ana Il
strict watch ought. to be kept over
theorists and crude doctrindi,cs
to preventive Introduction of any per-
niriols provision that would discourage
the one or drive the other from the
state. Nothing would more surely and
eilectually do this than any tamper-
ing with the rights of corporations, ac-
quired -y solemn compact with the
legislature of the State. The wild idea
that these contracts are subject to re-
vision ly the legislature, without the
consent Of the other party, If carried
into effect ly constitutional provis-
i'm, would strike Il fatal blow 10 the
prosperity Of the state. IT is just here
that cautious and thinking men feel
most apprehension and before we
eau consent 10 east cur votes for any
can litlutc for the constitutional con-
vcution, we must have the most nne-
quivocal expressions from them on
this point.


We know nothing Of the opinions of
Colonel Mccoy, Major John Henry
Brown and Judge Ferris, the only
three candidates who have yet an
nounccd their candidacy, on this sub
ject. With sound views on this point
all three would be well qualified to rep
resent this district. The two first named
gentlemen have spent the larger por-
ton ola generation in this state, and
have had large experience in public
affairs, and in both the framing and
in the execution of the laws. The
same may be said of Judge Ferris, we
LeIieve, although we have no
personal acuuaintance with him.
They are gentlemen of integrity
and culture, and would do credit
to any constituency. But the people
of this district will do well to have II
distinct understanding us 10 their
views in advance OH these and other
important questions.


Again, what are your views on the
usury laws? Our columns are open to
you, gentlemen, for any declars tion of
principles and views you may think
proper to lay before the people Of this
representative district.
Year: 1875

Our prospects for the coming year
were never brighter. The largest wheat
crop raised in many years, now awaits
the reaper. The corn crop is simply
glorious in its promise, while cotton,
which has been retarded much 10y the
cold spring, is now rapidly growing,
and with fine prospect of giving a
good yield. The financial condition of
our merchants is equal TO the situation,
and what with large emigration this
fall, the completion of the Texas and
Pacific railway to Fort Worth, and the
constant influx of capital, Dallas will
continue to make more rapid strides
than ever on her road to wealth and
population.
Year: 1875

Attorney General Pierrepont COM
plains that there is too much wasteful-
ness by district attorneys and United
States marshals, and says the govern
ment cannot stand it. He says that
hereafter the district attorneys will be
held responsible for the number of
witnesses who attend the courts, and
marshals will subpoena such witnesses
only as the district attorney may in
writing direct. The order of the dis
trict attorney directing the marshal to
subpoena witnesses must state the
names of the witnesses and the
time when their attendance is
required. Each marshal must
keep q record of the names of all
witnesses who attend, and the exact
dates when they attend, and he
must obtain O certificate from the
clerk of the court, stating the day on
which each witness testifies. Such
certificate of the clerk and direction of
the district attorney relating to wit.
nesses must accompany the marshal's
account when sent for audit. The at
torney general respectfully calls the at
tention of the circuit and district
Judges of the United States to the act
of February 3, 1875, relating to fees
and costs, and asks the especial aid of
the courts in compelling a strict en-
forcement of the statute. The attor-
ney general will hereafter require
duplicate of every account certified by
the Judge under the act of February
%, 1875, and which is forwarded for
audit and payment, to be filed with the
clerk of the court when such account is
certified, and evidence that the same is
SO filed must accompany the account.
Year: 1875

SUFFERING KANSAS is bound to lose
her unplcasantly suggestive desig-
nation this year, ani will be known
as the land of plenty and prosperity.
The acreage of wheat crops, accord
ing to the last monthly report of
the state board of agriculture, is
about thirty per cent greater than
that of any previous year, and the
general yield of wheat promises to
at least thirty per cent greater than
ever before. Other crops, and
cattle generally, are nearly up to
the mark of former years, and fruit
promises more than u three.fourths
crop.-[St. Louis Democrat.
Year: 1875

awe went to the low shore, where grow


mass of moss and river weeds;


We heard the waters flow and dance,


And dance and flow among the reeds.


Said !, ah would ii not be sweet,


flour two lives coula meet and go


On one long dreamy starlit dance,


Just as the shining waters fiow?"


This is very pretty and poetical, so
much so that we are not willing to
spoil the effect by giving the conclud-
ing lines of the original.


Lovers do and say many silly things,
no doubt, in their green youth, but,
after all, it is by no means certain that
even that is not better than the sordid
pursuits and cold cynicism that often
comes with age and contact with the
world.


Our young poetess evidently has
some talent for versification, but she
will pardon us for suggesting that the
true poetical faculty is not to be ac-
quired by an attempt to make what Is
pure and true ridiculous. The tree
of life bears so much bitter fruit
that we can not afford to spoil the odor
of its spring flowers.
Year: 1875

Every housewife thinks she can
cook green's 1t is the simplest of
all dishes, and yet, in most cases, they
are not well served, for much depends
upon the manner in which they are
boiled. The water should be soft, and
a tablespoonful of salt added to large
sized pot of it, which should be boiling
hot when the greens are thrown In, and
then 1t should be kept on the boiling
gallop, but uncovered, until they are
done, which can be told by their sink
ing to tho bottom of the pot, and they
should be skinned out as quickly as
,-Issible into a cullender, 50 that all the
water will run out. Press them with
small plate, then turn upon platter,
add large piece of butter, and cut up
fine. Serve while smoking hot.
Year: 1875




To the Editor of the Dallas Herald:


You will confer great favor by ill.,
forming number OF your patrons by
what standard the weights of the city
and county of Dallas are regulated and
who are authorized to regulate such.
Please inform us in your mkt issue
and oblige, GRANGE.
REPLY.-'The official standard OF
weights and measures is kept at the
office of the county court clerk, and all
scales and measures are required, by
law, to conform to them.-[E EDITOR OF
TIE HERALD.
Year: 1875

FORT WORTH, June D, 'SiO.
TO the Editor OF the Dallas Herald:


The fears of our people in respect to
another drought are all dispelled. Re
cent rains have settled the question
for this year, at least, and our farmers
are cxultant and happy over the crop
prospects and consequent results. The
outlook for the farmer is indeed grati-
fying. Wheat is now being harvested,
and is turning out absolutely good.
The yield will run from twenty to
thirty-five bushels to the acre, and the
grain is plump and fair. The oats in
this section, that ten days ago were re-
glr,led as II total failure, are develop
ing into nearly full crop. Barley,
like the wheat, is exceedingly fine,and
the crop will be heavy. Corn shows u
prospect far in advance of any of the
five or six previous years, and alto
gcther we have great reason to rejoice.


The newcomers are well pleased
with the country, land there is every in
dlcation of heavy immigration of
substantial men with means this fall.


AS is always the case, those who
are selling out are moving further
west and the county generally is filling
up and in prosperous condition. Just
at this time Archer and Wichita





counties are attracting a very consider
able attention. A party of about
twenty families are preparing to take
up their residence and build them
selves homes at the well known "three
forks of the Little Wichita" in Archer
county. One man, Mr.. Frank Adams,
contemplates opening and planting
one thousand acres of winter oats on
ranche near the well known copper
mines, at the "three forks" He goes
with train load of tools and supplies
and fitted out to run ten plows. Ills
efforts will form nucleus for large
settlement in that region, which will
develop into rich agricultural, as well
as mineral country, and add largely to
the general wealth of the state.


The excitement in reference to the
delegate to the constitutional conven-
ton has not as yet run very high.
There seems to be lack of interest in
the matter on the part of the indepen-
dent sovereigns of the county, or at
least, if there is much interest felt, it
has not yet come to the sur
face. There may be an under
current that will ultimately un-
cover itself with favorable results.


The grangers of Tarrant met in coun-
Gil on Wednesday last, at this place.
and served up a bounteous dinner,
which we are told done great credit to
the order. They fed the multitude,
and had "grub" to spare.


We are not a granger, but we believe
in upholding and fostering to the ex-
tent of our limited ability, any organ
ization which tends to elevate labor
and all the common industries of life.
We may become a granger yet-who
knows! WRIT.
Year: 1875

Forte days past we have had re-
markahly cold spell OF weather in the
Willanette valley. last Sabbath being
the colelsat day for at least - years.
The 18th day Of January. 1857. in the
morning. the mercury only got down
to three degrees below zero, with two
feet of snow on the ground. Never
since that time, in this part of Oregon,
has the mercury been so low till last
Sabbath, when it went down to de-
gTees below zero, with fonr inches of
snow on the ground. III this had con-
tinued for a week or two longer, I
think the most of farmers would have
seen the necessity of stacking their
straw instead of burning it. We
might expect and look for such spell
every winter and stock of good
straw would be welcome guest to a
bamI Of starving cattle, with their backs
bumped Hp like drodnel&fyss There
is noR'a great demand for straw and
=fttle in the market. Enigranss will
now see that Oregoris not all slIn-
shine; that there Is snow given like
wool, and frost scattered broadcast
over the earth like ashes. Job says,
by the breath Of God frost is given !;
therefore we may look for it In its
proper season, although it is very
cold kind of breath. There are many
poor cattle In Oregon that would be
willing to say, Lord, please hold thy
breath a little. IL Is seldom in this
valley that the mercury gets below the
freezing point, and when it gets down
to eight or ten degrees above zero it
continues but a very few days. 1t Is
very different from the Eastern ice
bound States. where they have their
two and three months frost and snow,
while here these cold spells only last
a few days. We were glad this after
noon to see the heavens covered with
clouds aud the rain descending to make
the grass grow for the cattle and the
herb for the service Of man. We pre-
fer The rain. J. FINLAYSON.


Jan. 10Th. 1875.
Year: 1875

The ice in the river gorgcd just
below this city early on Wednesday,
aud remained so until sometime in the
night. In the meantime the wafer in
the Willamette raised some eighteen
or twenty inches. Mr.. Backus who
crossed the river on the ice said It was
perfectly solid, and did not give or
tremble under his weight. In some
places where the Ice had been forced
one piece upon another, and then fro
zen together, the ice was fully three
feet thick. These immense masses OF
ice will doubtless do deal of damage
as they go crushing and tearing down
the river on their way to the ocean.
Year: 1875

The following clear-cut pen-and-ink
sketch of the Emperor of Germany and
Prince Bismarck is from the pen of Hep
worth Dixon:


"A stranger sauntering in and out
among the lime trees of Berlin may chance
to meet two men in earnest talk, on whom
his eyes will fasten with start. A plump
and venerable mana soldier from the
tip of his gilt helmet to the spur of his cav.
airy boo:-salutes with military quickness
as you touch your hat. Sedatc, little in
advance, and listening with curious
strain, he has the outer presence of man
to whom the weight OF life is not alone
the load of time. Though swart with sun
and toll, his features have something in
| them weird and mystical. 1t is a martial
and imperial face vet in the lofty look
too lofty for trace of ordinary pride
you catch, by surprise of the imagina-
| tion, some of the pensive and accusing
spirit of a monk. But even this fine fig
ure cannot keep your eye from wander
ing to the partner of his walk. Straight
as a pine and rugged as = larch is he; a
man in plain attire, yet martial in his
stride and gait as though he also passed
his life in camp. A man with ample brow,
| firm and massive chin, a head and brain,
trunk all nerve, he seems to pour out
floods of strong speech, yet with an eye
SO open and face so frank that he who
listens would not have him spare one
word. No dreamer, no self.searcher. no


dealist is he, but one who clings to fact,
to science, to the rule of three. No weak
ness fingers on that face; no doubt, no
superstition, no remOrse. When laughter
ripplcs down his cheek, it is the flash of
light on metal rather than the play of flesh
and blood. You feel at once that what he
does is right in his own eyes: that he will
never need to justify his actions to him
self. That elder parsonage, martial. med
itative, doubtful of himself, dependent on
unseen powers, is Wilhelm Hohenzollern,
victor Of Sadowa and Sedan. first Evan
gelical Emperor on this planet. That
younger though mature and sturdy per-
sonage is Bismarck, Chancellor Of the
new secular Empire in Germany"