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Year: 1874

Farmers are the most independent class.
1t matters not whether their products bring
a small or high price-thcy have in their
granaries a sufficient store. There is no
other class that enjoys so much of the best
of earth's products as those who till the soil,
and further, there is no class better paid.
| DO not wish to be understood that every
man who works upon the farm receives as
much in return as many merchants, profess
siona men, and the like, but simply this:
Men in all pursuits are paid just for the
amount Of talent-mmd-use in their busi-
ness. A man may not be able to read or
write, yet he can dig ditch and receive pay
for what physical power he has used. Dc.
velop the man and you find him receiving
large prices, because brain instead of Drawn
is employed.


The only class of farmers who complain
are those who make slaves Of ofthemselvcs and
their families, with no time to rest, with no
time to attend social gathering, nothing,
in fact, but to delve on the farm. Now
these men will ever complain Of hard times,
aud the poor pay the farmer gets, and won
der they cannot be as lucky as their neigh
bors who do not work half as hard. Such a
man ought to give up his fOrm altogether,
as his lucky neighbor would employ him and
pay him price for his labor that would feed
and clothe him and his family better than
he is able to do when trying to manage a
business he is not adapted to. Many a man
has made the great mistake Of choosing a
business for which he was not fitted, Thus
merchants fail, professional men are without
employment, aud farming is degraded in the
eyes Of the young by the bad management oI
few.


Let the farmer attend to the business OF
the farm with the same care and attention
that the successful merchant or manuiactur-
ers gives to his business and he vii! find br
little to complain Of, nor occasion to envy
those men their success.


Why is it that farmers are so dissatisfied
with their condition ? Are their complaints
real or Imaginary Is it not rather the re
suit of increasing wealth and an improved
condition in all their surroundings Intel
ligent enterprise will always bring success
while enterprise without intelligence will al
ways bring its possessor to want.


Dell Farm, PaSsumpsic. II.
Year: 1874

Your correspondent rs. f." assumes that
civilized governments make two kinds OF
money, wiz: paper and metallicl but in
point of fact paper never has aud never can
amount to anything more than evidence of
contract. The fact that people are forced
to make promises a medium Of exchange
does not make the said promises the reality
they undertake to represent, the reality
being a certain weight of gold or silver.


Authority cannot afix values; it may
affect them to limited extent. The value
of promise to second party must always
depend upon the confidence that the first
party will fulfill the promise or contract,
and gold having been since prehistoric times
the most constant in its relative value to
other property, its price in open market in
exchange for anybody's promises is sure
indicator of public opinion in regard to said
promises.


The refuge of parties forced to exchange
property Of intrinsic value for promises OF
doubtful value, is to enhance the price.
Thus authority holds but one end of the
rope, while the people hold the other
Creditors have been forced to take govern
ment promises at par for all debts prior to
1861; these promises they have exchanged
for other promises of government bearing
interest aud thereby become bOndhOlders.
The fact that both these promises have been
worth less than par IN open market has no
bearing whatever in the case, for the bonds
were paid for in what should be an honest
mans most acceptable currency, to wit :
Year: 1874

silver was used as a common standard, TO
place commodities in any definite relation of
value to one another; although the hoard
ing, Of gold in particular, was step toward
this further development.


"The only commodity which approxi-
mates in the actual usage exhibited by the
poems, to a measure of value, is the OK;
for in this alone are other commodities
priced. The arms of Diomed are worth
nine oxen; those of Gancos are worth
hundred.


"And VIC have from Aeschylus, in the
Agamemnon, that the figure Of an OK was
the sign FIRST imprinted upon a coin; doubt
less one intended to represent the equivalent
in the metal of the animal"


There is no doubt that the earliest coins
Of Rome were stamped with the figure OF
sheep which, as every Latin scholar knows,
is the cause Of the application of the name
pecunia to money. In this case, too, tho
coin doubtless represented the value Of the
animal whose impress it bore.


These statements sufficiently suggest to
the thoughtful reader the conditions of so =
ciety where the method of exchange is by
barter, and the difficulties attending trade
where the only measure of value is in cattle.
The inconvenience need not be described,
nor do we need to prove that piece Of sill
yer stamped with the image of an OK or
sheep aud equal to it in value is far more
convenient. If man did not wish for an
OK in exchange for his commodity, nor yet
for an equivalent barter because unable to
dispose of it, he could dispose Of the stamped
metal. Thus we see the initiatory steps in
the formation Of currency. This currency
is superior not only for its increased availa-
bility in the conversion into desired commod-
tiles, but because less unwieldly, causing less
fruitless care, aud less liable to sudden and
unforeseen losses.


Other reasons there are though not al
may here be mentioned. These metals are
not liable to sudden changes of value; il
would take a long time to add enough tC
the circulation in the world or to withdraw
enough to make an appreciable difference in
its value, while in a single year the cattle o.
a country might be more than decimated by
disease. Again the waste and wear Of th'
precious metals by use is remarkably small
But what very greatly enhances their util-
ity as a medium Of exchange is the fact that
their use does not withdraw one particle o
useful production of wealth. This does no
exist in the case Of any other object of val
ue which is in sufficient abundance TO bt
used as currency.


These and other reasons were eff ;ient il
forming at very early date the currency
OF precious metals. Various stages of thi
development have been indicated. In fac
all stages of this developement may be seel
at the present day.


The question is suggested how gold doe
measure value and what value is, but spac
forbids further discussion. ID.


81. JohnSJury, W.
Year: 1874

Being farmer, and an ignorant one like
the majority of small farmers, | would ask a
few questions, and perhaps make few sug-
gestions through the FARMER.


Why does Vermont spend SO much money
to so little purpose in agricultural lectures ?
In electing officers but very few are men Of
science they cannot tell you what mineral
property is necessary to have in the soil to
grow perfect cabbage head or to properly
develop the wheat kernel. Having a few
lectures in the state does not benefit the
mass of farmers. But very few 60, aud that
few have way % farming as their fathers
had. Would it not be better to spend money
in educating boys not only in theory but
have them apply that theory to practice, and
90 before their brother farmers clothed with
knowledge, to convince them that their way
Of practical improvements is successful.
Fertilizers arc scarce. Let practically set
euti6c farmers be made Of our boys. Show
them how to make more and better fertili-
zers, and what to substitute for manure in
the growth of the several crops.


If the state would organize farmers clubs
in every town and procure suitable standard
agricultural works, and get farmers interest
ed, aud bring out their talents and the ex-
perieuce OF some experimentalsts, which |
think is more valuable than some imagine in
every community, it might be of great ad-
vantage to the farmers Of this state, when
they become conscious that they can grow
three spears of grass where one grows now.


IGNoRANCE.


C,eor1i1 Nop 30
Year: 1874

Hon 10 make Cloth WaterprOof-In a
bucket of soft water put half pound of
sugar of lead, and half a pound Of powdered
alum stir this at intervals, until it be-
comes clear, then pour it off into another
bucket, and put the garment therein, and let
it be in for twenty-iour hours, and then hang
it up to dry without wringing it, An Eng.
lish writer says that Scotch tweed can by
this process be made perfectly waterproof, so
that garments of it treated with the solution
will protect the wearer against the widest
storms.
Year: 1874

Anybody who wants to experiment in
hatchiug salmon trout and white fish spawn
will be sent few hundred on receipt of so
cents Ito pay for tho packagO,) by address
ing Seth Green at Rochester, N, Y. par
ties wishing to experiment in rearing the
young of the California salmon will be given
a few hundred by going to the New York
state Matching house, all applications to be
made during the month of December.
Year: 1874

During the drouth, those farmers who had
a good patch of corn fodder got full pay for
their labor. In five cases out Of six, how
ever, farmers in this neighborhOod SOW their
fodder corn broadcast, and in a dry season,
when the green fodder would be Of most val
ue, the crop is burnt up. There is no fact
more clearly proved, think, than that corn
for fodder should be drilled in rows, and the
land kept clean and mellow by the frequent
use Of the cultiyator. Walks and Talks.
Year: 1874

large meeting OF the democracy OF the Six
teenth Assembly district took place last evening
in FIRST avenue and Seventeenth street A large
stand had been erected ON she corner, opposite .
liquor store, and had been very neatly decorated
with American nags. The crowd, both on the
platform, In the liquor store and on tue street,
was very large, and, II one might judge nom the
cheering, the enthusiasm was up to the proper
marx.
Year: 1874

WHY don't our livery stable men, or
our hotel keepers. OF in fact, any body but
ourselves, 60 to work and build good car
riage road to the top Of Barn Bluff and
then make nice drive way on the top.


We understand that the right Of way can
be had free. No ono ever comes to Red
Wing, who is not seized with desire to
place that bluff beneath his feet. II has
done more than anything except the wheat
business to make Red Wing famous A
good carriage way to the top, Of Barn Bluff
would do full as much as first class hotel
to make Red Wing .fsyorite resort for
tourists, and health seekers. Let souebGdY
swaks up upon this matter at once.
Year: 1874

On Tuesday night last, Mr.. Hart
Perkins of Featherstone, had 35 fine sheep
mangled, wounded, and killed outright by
dogs. Many of them were so terribly mu-
tilated that they had to be killed at once.
Mr.. Perkins bought these sheep on account
Of their superior stock and merits, and
would not have suffered this disaster, prob
ably, for three times the value of the sheep.
At the last term of Court our jury found
the value of dog to be $50. At this rate
sheep are absolutely worthless, for, gentle
men, it is law as fixed as the Laws of the
Medes and Persians, that as the value of
dogs goes up the value of sheep must
come down.


No more will the genial countenance
Of David Watson be seen behind the grated
windows Of the jail-no not Jail, but post
Office, we mean. He has deserted the SER
vice of the United States, and ought to be
arrested Immediately in his wild career by.
some young eharmer capable of detecting
his merits, led to the altar, and there hand
cuffed and bound in the clanking chains of
matrimony, and sentenced during the term
of his natural life, according to government
survey, or words to that effect. In order to
aid his discovery and arrest we would say
that our reporter found him among the bolts
and bars of C. Betcher & Co.'S hardware
store.


SAD indeed have been the tidings to
many a heart in Red Wing that Martin
Rockwell is dead. Kind, genial, Social
friend to everybody but himself We need
not now refer to the terrible habit that like
strong man bound him in chains Of iron,
and led him captive through Life, and finally
plunged him into premature grave Many
are familiar with the Intellectual struggles
which he made to regain his freedom and
establish his manhood. It was probably
with view to avail himself of the assist
ance of the stern discipline of the army
that he enlisted on the Goth day Of June
last. He was admitted to the hospital
about the middle Of December last. On the
first of January erysipelas set in, followed
by q large tumor, which finally ended in his
death. He died on the 18th day of Febru-
ary. The attending surgeon was satisfied
that he had long been addicted to the use Of
opium to fearful extent, superinduced,
undoubtedly, by the terrible craving of his
system for strong stimulants. During his
illness he received every attention which
the many warm friends he had made could
bestow, and was buried with military hon.
ors. If his faults were grievous, most
grievously hath he answered them.
Year: 1874

The woes ef women in sleeping-cars
form the subject of vigorous woman pro-
test in the Graphic. After alluding to the
trial to a woman of delicate feeling in be.
ing obliged to sleep in the same room
with twenty or thirty men, the writer de-
scribes vividly The incidental annoyances
of such situation. "She cannot undress
in public. Of course, and therefore has to
| rid herself OF her outer garments after she
has climbed into her berth and drawn the
curtains. OF the difficulty of this opera
tion any woman who has tried it can speak
in pathetic terms; but it Is easy in cam
parison with the difficulty of getting into
ones clothes in the morning. When this
| task, however, has been accomplished,
the unhappy lady passenger, with frowz-
led hair, tumbled clothing, and face d.
versified with coal-dust, has to run the
gauntlet Of dozen or two pair of mascu-
line eyes before she can reach the wash
room at the end of the end Of the car"
But according to this vivacious lady, the
annoyance which she suffers from being
compelled either to sleep in her clothes OF
else to shed "her boots and hoop-skirts In
the presence of car full of horrifed
men, is not greater than that which comes
from the necessity of contemplating q
crowd Of "halfdressed men, who are en-
gagged, with the charming indifference OF
their sex, in putting on boots and collars,
or in watching with anxiety for glimpse
at some lady similarly occupied" and she
protests with vigor born Of righteous ma
ternal indignation against system which
forces young girls to become thus "famil-
iarized with that unattractive object, 3
sleepy and unwashed man."
Year: 1874

Mrs. RuMBoLD Is prepared TO BLEACH
and PRESS hats and bonnets in the most
approved style, and in a manner to give
entire satisfaction. Gall at her residence
on Fifteenth street between Walnut and
Cedar. 236-3-l5.tf
Year: 1874

Frank Kratkv desires that the public
should know that he is prepared to deliver
bread of good quality and quantity, for
little money, in any part OF the city.
Give him your orders, and then look out
for the


RED WAGON


by which he will deliver to you the staff
of life. 27l-3-G8-1m
Year: 1874

Among the proposed amendments of

 one Constitution reported in the IegisIa- lure, IS one forbidding town subscrip- tions to railroads. There is no doubt that m few instances in this state com munities have been induced to subscribe more largely than the result has proved to

 be for their good. Middletown. town and city, is now loaded with debt amounting to near sixteen per cent of her grand list; Chatham is burdened to the extent of near thirteen per cent. and Middle sex countya as whole, has municipal in doubtedness equal to about ten per cent on its grand list. Most of this indebted ness was incurred in helping the construe- ton of the Air Line railroad, aid it will be many q year, probably, before Middle sex county Hill receive incidental aavan- tages equal to its enomnns outlay. The difficulty in this case was that the and first voted proved insufficient to build the road. and the money put in would have been substantially lost had not further sums been voted. There is undoubtedly q great difference, too, between the burden of heavy debts amounting to eight or nine per cent of their grand lists upon thriving places like Hartford, Meriden, and Nor wich, and that of a simular debt on a town that IS retrograding in population, if not In wealth, as is the case with most of our agricultural towns

 Still, so important IS railway commni- cation it these days, that We doubt wheth- CT there is one of the many towns that have incurred indebtedness III aid of rail- roads, except perhaps town or two Tn Middlesex county, that would to-day vote to give up their railroads and take back money those railroads have cost them The two most heavily burdened towns in this county are Norfolk, indebted over eight per cent of its grand list and Wash ingten, indebted about 6 per cent. Yet both these towns, before isolated, and abounding in useless waterPower, are now trayerSed by railroads, running along the streams that must be utilized sometime for manufacturing purposes We have no doubt, heavy as the direct and Incidental expense has been, that both these towns acted wisely in aiding the construction of the railroads that will eventually build them up. Still, where growth i'll business or manufactures IS not likely to result from the building of 2 railroad the adyan- tage it will bringing to farming towns is not so great as to warrant very large town subscriptions.

 Our idea would be, therefore, that there ought to be no absolute prohibition of town aid to railroads engrafted on our constitution. There ought, however, to be some provision, statutory or constitu- tional. that town money shall not be paid over till it will ensure the building of the road aided. Furthermore there should be constitutional limit to the amount towns should be allowed to subscribe; and that limit should be much lower in towns with decreasing or station ary population or grand lists, than in towns showing growing population and property. With some such restrictions, and with sufficient security that those owning a majority of property taxed shall favor subscription. we sec no req son why. town hid to railroads should not be permitted in the future as in the past.
Year: 1874

The advent of the Democratic party to power in Texas has been followed by a carnival of crime and lawlessness. Even the Democratic papers of that state are crying out against the murders and incl dental lynchings that have occurred there of late.
Year: 1874

The mp train on the Housatonic railroad, Thursday of last week. ran into an extra freight that was crawling along ahead of it. The cabooso was sent up on the car in front, and there was general silver ing. The engine was but slightly dam aged. After delay of an hour and q half the passenger train went on it's way Herald.
Year: 1874

A bill, which we believe has passed both branches of the legislature, allow criminals trial by court instead of jury, it they prefer it, Our practice does not al- low change of Ve,aue Cor place of triaD ill case of local prejudice against prisoner, and this bill would seem to provide suf- ficient safeguard against that prejudice by trial by the court.
Year: 1874

We all Consider Iron the embodiment of strength and power, but now few arc aware that it is this same element in the system that gives us strength and vigor, and that an insufficiency of 1t causes weak ness and debility. The Peruvian Syrup, a protoxide of iron. is prepared expressly to supply this vitalizing element
Year: 1874

Last week, on Tuesday evening, while sitting in his shop engaged in conversa- tion with friend, without a moments warning, Mr. Frederick Beardsley instant ly expired. In his death this place suffers a great loss. He was one of our mos! trusted and worthy citizens. No other man in or about the village has been more useful in counsel and help in doing such legal business as did not require { professional lawyer. As selectman of the town, as a justice of the peace fol many years, and as guardian of many per

 sons and interests he was ever faithful

 He was also interested in the moral and was remarkably regular in his attendance upon the public worship of the Sabbath

 He was wakcfuI and attentive listene! to the preaching of the word and while i is known that the preacher did not alwayl preach just to his liking, still he could al

 low so much liberty in the pulpit and wal not critic and fault finder and unsettlel of the minister, but on the other hand friendly and generous supporter.

 large company convened to attent his funeral, attesting thus their respec

 for him as a man and fellow-citize1i ani sense of loss in his death. His pasto

 was glad to bear witness to some of tn, excellent traits of his character such a

 those of industry. peace, hospitality, so ciabiiity, integrity, and independence. 1 man of sterling worth has passed ava, from our midst. His place cannot easil,

 be filled. His bereaved family have ou

 sympathies. His age was 65. c.
Year: 1874

The Winsted Herald proposes that a wooden track be laid over the Lee x New Haven railroad which could be done, it thinks, for $15, 900 mile and be adequate for all present necessities of travel and traffic. An engine with wooden wheels and sheet iron boilers and few old omni- buses for passenger cars, would complete the equipment of this economical line.

 Our Reform legislature does not favor checks on fraud at the polls. It proposes to repeal the most effective provision of our present registry law-that which re- Quires the names of electors "to be made to be registered for examination some days before they are admitted. The res toration of the certificate system will also open the way for the many frauds that were formerly practical under it.
Year: 1874

We look with much curiosity for the action of the legislature on tho bill allow

 ing single women, who pay taxes on $500

 worth of property, to vote at town meet ings. There can be no possible reason urged against the passage of such bill and it would seem 10 be sufficiently conserva- tive to disarm prejudice. Some of our woman suffrage friends tell us that Con- necticut Democrats arc more liberally dis posed towards that reform than Connect icut Republicans. We shall soon know.
Year: 1874

the same proportion. But, more than all that, the corrupting influence of the dram shop would find its natural antidote in the opposing influence of woman-an infiu- ence the power and earnestness of which is indicated by the Crusade.

 We shall not expect any permanent re- suits from the Crusade beyond it's demon stration of woman's immense moral force and earnestness- hitherto turned to little, soeial- aud no paitisst, aGsQpRsT7sAd its before notably declining. Much of the special effort of the Crusaders we cannot but consider entirely misdirected. When the majority of the voting population ask for liquor. they will always get it. Even where the women of Ohio had succeeded in shaming men with consciences out of the traffic. their places have no doubt been supplied by men without consciences. Real reform must begin farther back with the man who drinks rather than the man who sells; so far as it dealt with such, and so far as it relied on persuasion rather than coercion, the Crusade has led the way in return to true principles; but we believe that it's best results have been in its opening the eyes of many almost as conservative as Dr. Holland. to the grand opportunities Of the Woman Suffrage re- form