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Year: 1877

Far MANY wears it has been belieN ed in
New England that Nheat is not profit
lhlv crop tu raise. nI at least that it could
uul h- raised "t good quality to any en-
1ylii- And So our most successful farmers
have not rcckoned ii in their plan for
Seeding. Hence, while they have raised
.u abundance almost everything else, they
h1,c had ~ buy their flour Perhaps We
ought lu make Il partial exception Of corn,
ivr while most farmers have planted 1t
piece ut corn each year, hardly any of
Them have depended upon home raising
loI Then supply; consequently they have
had i" purchase a large proportion, and
have not USED nearly as much us it is
profitable L. do.


But We are glad to learn that the fail
are 10 raise at least enough bread -stutfs
i"r home consumption is being considered
hT many farmers as Il serious mistake
We talked with Il successful farmer of
Eastern Maine lately He said that for
twenty wears of his farming life he did
not think of sowing wheat. and he only
planted a small quantity of corn to Get
Northern meal for the table use, and be
Cause of the value To the land of the care
inl cultivation for the corn crop. But
NON he raises more wheat and corn than
lac needs for home use, and feeds three
times the amount of corn he formerly did,
but 10 great advantage. We asked him
the cause of this change, which he said
was becoming common in his section. He
said that twenty five years ago, for sever
al years the wheat crop was failure
owing to the prevalence of rust, mildew
and the weeril. Farmers got discouraged,
and thought that from some change in the
climate, or something in the nature of old
soil, wheat could not be successfully raised
in this part of the country. But the high
price of flour for few years past has
driven them to make the experiment, and
wheat raising is again a success Corn
has not been raised to any great extent
because some years Western corn can be
bought 50 cheap that it is more profitable
10 buy it. But farmers are learning that
Year: 1877

taking one year with another corn is a
profitable crop To raise, as its culture is
the greatest advantage to the land. and a
plentiful use of it in stock-raisng. milk
producing, and butter making, is profit
able.


We give the experience and opinion Of
this intelligent we'll to-do farmer, because
we have long believed the neglect to SOW
wheat and plant corn to be great mis-
take in farming. The land for sncf crops
should be we'll chosen. thoroughly pre-
pared, heavily manured with carefully
chosen fertilizers, and cultivated with as
slduous attention. The largest and best
piece OF corn we ever saw in New England
was raised on sward ground. \ large
amount of barn manure was spread on
the surface, and then the plough turned
it under at least ten inches After re-
peated narrowing ii was well furrowed, a
large shovelful Of compost put in the hill,
the hills and rows running three and a
half feet apart. The corn came forward
rapidly from the stimulus in the hill, and
when that had expended itself the rich
barn manure under the sword was ready
To send it up to Il harvesting of Il hun
dred bushels per acre. The next year
such corn land is ready for a large crop OF
wheat. Golden Rule.
Year: 1877

Bayard Taylor in Cincinnati (ommercH


If you could in some way help To- make people
understand that no author who is not ndrprdrnl
ly rich can possibly respond to the claims made
upon hm-and that wealth is never attained in
this country, perhaps any other by the highest
puest and most permanent of literary labor vuu
will do Il real service t. our guild. Emerson Is
low seventy four Years old, and his last volume l.,
the only one which hns approached rrmunrlaliNr e
sale. BRYANT is in his eighty third wear. and lie
could not buy modest house with all he ever rr
ceiycd III his life from his poems Washington
Irving nearly seventy Years old before the sale
of his works at home met the expenses of hl-
simple life at SunnySide | have had no reason tu
complain of the remuneration formerly derived
from those works which know to possess slight
literary value But the translation of Faust. to
which gave all my best and freshest leisure dur
ing period of six or seven wears has only vleldcd
me about Ms much as II iortnghtS iccturng.
have spent two or three wears in collecting the
material and making the preparatory studies for Il
new biography of Goethe, and | have been wait
ing two years longer for the fitting leisure to he
gin the work. In order to undertake 1t must own
my time i'll advance No matter how successful ii
might be considered it could not possibly bring
me more than Il tithc of the amount which tlruda
cry for the markets of literature would return in
the same time | furcsee that shall finally be
obliged to return to Ccdarcrot, to write the biogra
ply If all this interruption and consequent wear
and tear won't let me alone must get ont of il,
way. When happen To speak of it. people limo
Gently say: why don't you keep secretary ;,
Great heavens! I'd rather take Il Sccrctarvs SALARY
and buy up two or three months of my own time.
Some critics have charged me with attempting too
much-trying too many fields. Trying '-whenit
was a matter of shear necessity! should only be
too happy, if | i'll condition to give up
everything but the one path OF literary labor
which know was designed for me-if any ever
Year: 1877

The ''eel-skin' dress is now the great
rage both III London and Paris. In the
widest days of the tie back or pin back
mania, there never was seen such a tight
hess in the matter of skirt as now prevails
Whatever the paucity Of folds in the pin
back III It's frontier part, iii the enormous
eXuberance of the panner or hustle the
balance was struck. But now, not only is
the hustle Il thing ofhorror, but even the
necessary underclothing is considered de
tOp. TO lengthen the waist far beyond
its natural proportions, Il stiff webbing
of elastic is fastened to the stays to the
depth Of half 4 foot and to this, ut first,
narrow skirts were buttoned. But even
this is now abandoned for another scheme
to acquire Slenderness. Mrs SWisshelms
much-rldlculed chemiloOn is in demand,
and garments made in this way are sold
at the furnishing shops, and patterns of
it pass eagerly from hand to hand among
lady friends. Some ladies have had reg
ular stage tights made in thick webbing,
and over these they wear nothing but the
outer dress, underskirts being simulated
by pleated ruitles of white muslin, sewn to
the edge of the dress, which is then tied
back till the woman within is sllackled
almost like 4 convict in chain-g gang
No more uncomfortable fashion ever was
devised; for not only are the limbs confined
by the binding dress, but the wearer must
constantly concern herself about the con
ditlon of the bodice, that portion being in
lnceSsant danger of turning itself lp be
hind, wrong side out, like an umbrella in
Il WindstOrm. The desired effect of youth-
iu slenderness is generally obtained by the
"eel-sln, but at good deal of sacrifice
OF personal ease. Paris letter.
Year: 1877

He was sitting silently by her side one
chilly evening last fall thinking of some
thing to say. Finally he remarked, "IIow
sad it is the frost has come, and it will
kill every thing green" Thereupon the
young lady extended her hand and said,
in q sympathetic tone, .Good-by.'
Year: 1877

Twenty ladies voted on the question: Has a
young lady the right to kiss gentleman with
whom She takes an evening drive = There were
nineteen affirmative votes The one negative vote
was cast by woman with red hair and a glass eve
Year: 1877

A backwoods ehsp sent an Iowa editor
poem. The next day the paper poarsd
put halt a column OF sarcasm against the
Young man. aud -aid that the poetry was
not worthy of an eight y~ar-old school
10Y. Then the rural lad sent the editor
copy Of lIorac-'s Odes. with the leaf
turned down whence he bad copied the
trashy poem"
Year: 1877

ON Christmas morning poor dove, slain by
some ruthless hand on the day Of which its purity
and innocence is Typical, lay dead in the street.
belfast Journal


And, perchance, same ragged ufchin, happen-
ing by, picked 1t from the spot in which it lay
and taking it to bis mother had thus an unex-
pected Christmas dinner.
Year: 1877

To those persons who are seriously contemplat-
ing the organization of a croquet club for the
remainder of the season" we would say that it
will hardly pay, as this weather cannot always
Year: 1877

One hundred unemployed laborers waited on
the Mayor of Toronto to-day and stated that they
mu 81 have work or their families would starve.
The majority of them vii. be set to breaking stone
to
Year: 1877

The great success of the late COmmo-
dOre Vanderbilt in steamboating and
railroading, whereby he amassed larger
fortune than any other private person
during lifetime, has naturally awakened
a strong desire to learn the secret of his
uniform and most surprising achieve
ments. The commodore himself, when
questioned upon the subject during the
latter years of his life, gave various ex-
plantations of it, To one young man,
who was about entering upon the career
of a Wall street broker, and who had
sought his counsel, he said Sonny,
don't never sell what you haven't got.
which was an excellent piece of advice
for a stockbroking adventurer, notwith-
standing its defective grammar. To an
other he said "Sam, don't never put it
into any mans power to ruin YOU" And
this might be put in letters of gold over
the desk of every one who takes financial
risks, whether in Wall street or else
where, and it would be an excellent
maxim also for a politician, To another
aspirant for fortune, who had asked his
advice, he said : "DOn't never buy what
you can't pay for"


1u6S6 M6I6 bllIGS
for business, adds the New York lSOl,
and he probably acted through his long
and successful career in strict conformity
with them. He never speculated, nor
made any rash ventures. But his favorite
maxim, the one upon which set the high
est value and most seriously inculcated
upon those who were ON the most init
mate terms with him. was a condensa-
ton of one among the wisest of the pro-
verbs of Solomon "In all labor there
is profit but the talk of the lips tendeth
only to penury" The commodore had
probably never read this golden proverb,
and he can hardly be said to have para
phrased it in putting it into his homely
advice "Keep your mouth shut" This
was what he said to his young grandson,
upon whom he based his hopes of found
ing dynasty, only few days before his
own mouth was closed forever. He had
been giving the young man some words
of serious advice, and he ended by say
ing "But, above all, keep your mouth
shut" He used to say that he owed
most of what was called his good fortune
to the practice of keeping to himself
what he meant to do until he had done
it. And this has been the rule of all
great men who have done anything dur
ing their lives to excite the wonder and
admiration of their fellow beings.
Year: 1877

To eat, drink and be merry, because tomorrow


we die;
The Masters talent to bury-a gift laid idly by !;
To scrape with grim persistence the grains of a


golden store;
To dig for bare subsistence, that keeps the wolf


from the door.
But whether in purple and riches, we feed on the


fat of the land,
0rup to the middle in bitches, live hard by labor


of hand,
To wrestle for ease and pelf, in hunger of
great and small,
Where it's Every man for himself, and God,


if He will, for us ALL,
With greed that carries pollution of base and


pitiful strife,
Can this be the true solution, the end and aim


of a life?
No. Surely sparks celestial the seraphim share


with us,
By instincts coarse and bestial can never be


stihed thus
And surely within the portals that bar their


brighter sphere,
They yearn for fellow immortals though grov-


cling worm-like here.
The helping hand to reach u.s. that. guide with


tender care,
The loving lesson to teach us, of holier future


there
To whisper how fair and ample the field we hus-


band below
10 tell of the great example, the Man of COM


passion and woe;
OF footprints left behind Him, who straightly


walk with God,
Who bend their backs to labor, and bend their


knees to pray
In honest love for their neighbor, His one


command obey;
Who freely bear for others the burden sorrow.


hath laid,
Accepting all for brothers that need brother


aid
Rejoice in the gain resulting from every mile


stone passed.
And travel the road exuting, that brings them


home at last.


q. j. Whyte MelUjNe, IN Temple Bar
Year: 1877

DR.. Henry Pigeon writes to the Lon
don Lancet as follows: The marvellous
success which has attended my treatment
of scarlet fever by sulphur induces me to
let my medical brethren know OF my
plan, so that they may be able to apply
the same remedy without delay. All the
cases in which l used it were very well
marked, and the epidermis ON the arms
in each case came away like the skin of
snake. The following was the exact
treatment followed in each case: Thor
oughly anoint the patient twice daily
with sulphur ointment; give five to ten
grains of sulphur in a little jam three
times day. Sufficient sulphur was
burned, twice daily (on GOALS on a
shoveD, to fill the room with the fumes,
and, of course, was thoroughly inhaled
by the patient. Under this mode of
treatment each case improved immedi-
ately, and none were over eight days in
making complete recovery, and l
firmly believe in each case it was pre-
vented from spreading by the treatment
adopted. One case was in large
school. Having had large experience
in scarlet fever last year and this, l feel
some confidence i'll my own Judgment,
and | am of opinion that the very mild
est cases L ever saw do not do half so
well as bad cases do by the sulphur
treatment, and, as far as | can Judge, sui
phur is as near a specific for scarlet fever
as possible.
Year: 1877

The starfish is reddish, looking some
thing like sea spider. He is connois-
sc,lr aud glutton. He has the shape
of a five-pointed star, from three to six
inches from tip to tip, but sometimes
grows to ten inches. The starfsh travels
in schools, although solitary feeders are
occasionally to be found. His nOdus
opera,adj is as follows A school will
settle down on an oyster bed. Each fish
will tackle an oyster and surround it
with his feelers. When the oyster opens
his mouth to feed the wicked starfish de-
hberately sticks his feelers inside and
pulls out the oyster. Then he eats it and
then tackles another oyster. A starfish
can beat any man eating raw oysters.
Last summer and fall they committed
many ravages in the East river and at
Oyster bay. Oystermen now are on the
lookout for the starfish. They often rake
over their beds and if any starfish are
found they are raked offand carried ashore
for manure. Sometimes schools of star
fish are found three or four feet thick.
Such school will ruin an oyster bed III
few hours. Sometimes the starfish will
sail in and spoil an oyster bed and then
90 off and leave one next to it untouched.
In every oyster bed two or three are sure
to be found. The starfish commits his
devastations in the winter. They mostly
frequent the East river, City island,
Oyster bay and Cow bay.
Year: 1877

A MIGHTY journalistic feat has been &C
complished in England, and the whole nation
especially that portion of it which processes to
know about the newspaper business, is for
the time being convulsed with admiration.
1t will be well before our readers begin tor
speculate upon the peculiar nature of the re-
markable piece of enterprise, to hurry on to
tell them that it consisted of-no, not the
fitting out of another North Pole expedition,
nor the departure of an African exploration
party, nor even the reception of important
news from the seat of war-but of the publi-
cation by the London Times of IA two column
dispatch from America on the subject of the
strike.
Year: 1877

IT should be the object of workingmen not
to separate, but to identify, their own inter
ests with those Of the whole community
When they propose party of their own,
they act as if their interests were distinct
from those of the people at large. That is
neither good sense nor the real truth.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

OPPOSITION OF EXTREMIsTs- EFFORTS TO


DEFEAT THE MEASURE.


The Hrrald'S Washington correspond.
eat says


Extraordinary efforts are made by SEN


ators Morton and Sherman and General
Garfield to secure votes enough in the
Senate to defeat the Electoral bill. Sem
ator Blame, who arrived yesterday, has


been under heavy pressure ever since
to induce him to cast his influence against
IT. All the petty and large jealousies
among Republican Senators are stirred
up and utilized to foment division and
disagreement.


"A good deal of unfavorable comment


has been caused by the bitter opposition
of the Columbus State Journal, Governor


Hayes organ, to the bill. 1t is said by


prominentR ntRepublicans to be grave error
of the Governor to allow himself thus to


appear as taking sides about the matter.
"There is no longer any doubt that
opponents of the bill will make a strong
effort in the Senate to defeat it Messrs.
Morton and Sherman are said to count
in the votes of nearly all the Southern
Repu blicans Senators to help them. How
far they have succeeded in committing
them is not yet known, but the voice OF
the country-begins to be heard very
plainly and urgently down here by SEN
ators and Representatives of both par
ties, and the almost universal demand
for the adoption of the bill, as fair and
honest settlement, has a powerful effect
upon them, The extreme men OF both
sides grumble and threaten opposition,
but the moderate men say that any thing
is better than new war; that this bill
proposes fair way of deciding the dis
pute, and that whoever opposes it plain
ly does not believe his side to have a case
strong enough to bear scrutiny. 1t is
admitted by men who say they do not
like some OF the minor features OF the
bill that the alternative is new war;
that the danger to the country was and
is very grave, and that in the face of such
perils it is the duty OF men who love
their country to come to.laR agreement
and adopt the bill without change or
amendment as quickly as possible. 1t is
evident that the absolute fairness of the
proposed committee is what makes it
most distasteful to its opponents. They
cannot feel sure that their candidate, be
il Hayes OF Tilden, is going to win, and
these extreme men are unwilling to give
up their hopes OF Office and patronage
under any circumstances or to.leave them
to the hazards of a tribunal SO fairly


constituted that they find it impossible
to forecast its decision, That is the


main difficulty and source. of opposition
now.
Year: 1877

The proceeds of the concert, given by
Millard Club, on last Thursday evening
at the Opera House for the benefit Of the
Young Ladies Relief Society, ,netted them
about S400. The society desire to return
their thanks to the club for efforts in mal
ing it a success.
Year: 1877

Delays being dangerous and the time
precious the counsel for the other convict
John Fulton, will tomorrow bring his
case prominently before the Supreme
Court on application for release on a
writ of habeas corpus. claiming thai,
being pardoned by Governor Chamber
lain, he is illegally detained in custody
by the Superintendent. By this move
Judge Carpenter has lost his grand op.
portunity to decide and solve the dual
government problem.
Year: 1877

tine IKE many OF those present, as he presumed .
disoclever IN the saving OF temperance but ne
had been wounded seven times In the Crmean war
when leading on the household guard OF Napoleon and
ne found tho cold water euro the only one that
helped his case. Not that there any cold water
thrown upon him BY the Emperor with whom he
frequently partook or y roi -du-Uent in the Palais
Royal Par-ee, but ne found In adversity and
prosperity and he had enjoyed the poles of man
perierce that cold water could be ducrnted in
civilized countries except with whiskcy He told
Queen Victoria that whiskey-hot Scotch whiskey--
was bad for her complexion, and she laughed but ~
reasoned with hcr aud she gave It up ssAnd now
exclaimed the Count, with ecstacy, "where is shef
Why, she Is Empress OF all tho Indies"


WHAT A DUrCHMAS


Whom the Count subsidized ''the Happv Dutcbm,n -
as he Is called, Wippeiow. came forward and said he
had been drinking lager for seventeen years but he
shwore OIL aud shust didn't care now one SOLITARY
pretzel for all the lager the land Wippclow an.
peared to DO about three hundred pounds weight aud
when he said be didn't care Tor another glass or lager
$50 help him God, half tho audience Uttered, ant
bets were made that Wippelow would tackle a
schooner tho moment he left The tent He was
100 iat ana happy 10 appear able TO get along
on Crotou water aud all the boys said so Wippelow
like the other reformed tipsters fell into the can,
about supernatural influences and no one who stood
up during the whole afternoon had tho pluck To saw
that no foresworc drink OF his own individual voIitior
"fhc melancholy truth must be stated said n gentle
man TO the HERALD reporter during the meetnv


rhat the Gospel Tent however good It's iutentions
will win but very few converts to total abstipence 80
long as appears necessary 1or each ono making his
renunciaion Of drink 10 profess religion at the same
tfmev
Year: 1877

uaceabe TO the great central fact OF Christ and His re
surrection.


They would remember this saying, "If be lined up
shall draw all men into me.n Tho next element OF
power In Christianity Wac tho great discovery OF the
OF God 10 man in the gilt OF HIS Son. There could
be no greater demand upon the crcduity OF man than
Christlcss Christianity Those who deny this have
no place In Christian Church II they would be hon
est they would ieaveit Mr. Mccarthy then proceeded
10 show the evidence upon which the doctrine
timony was remarkably counrmatory OF the truth
OF the resurrection and conclusive that It seemed
to him impossible that II could be rejected Mf.
Mccarthy concluded with the relation OF personal remi
niscences In connection with the preaching of his SER
mon at tho Bleecker Street Church, and said that
crimes had been committed connection With that
church That were worse than thoso OF Judas for he re-
pented, but these men ha1 not repented In reier-
ence Unversalsm he said that while tho principles
Of the denomination are making rapid progress among
the churches generally the denomination itself Is IN
decay; that II has ialer away considerably IN this
ciy that all the churches debit that they are
unable 10 keep even reading room open TOR the
only public reading room the denomination had was
closed during the last twelve mouths
Year: 1877

FIGHT your own battles. Ask no favors
of any one and YOU viii succeed FIVE
thousand times better than ona who is al
was hssaeching ones patronage. No
one viii ever help you as you help yourself
because no one VIII be so heartily inter
ested in your affairs. Men who win love
do their own wooing. Whether You work
for fame, for love, for money, CT FOR any
thing else, work with your hands, heart
and brains.
Year: 1877

We have never heard such a cry for labor. It is a universal com plaint with our planters that they cannot get cotton pickers. Although the price of the staple rules low many of our planters are offering $1.O0 and $1.10 per hundred for picking, and we have heard some say that they would give one half of their crop to get the other half pick ed out. Hundreds of hands could find employment now and make from $1.25 to $2.00 per day. The cotton crop is almost unprecedentedly good, but we now fear that considerable portion of it will not be gathered on account of the scarcity of labor. Would it not be sensible thing for some of the many who are rushing pell mell to Texas to change their minds and stop in this section of Arkansas where they can get ready employment?