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Year: 1874

tend that the race course is no more an ally
Of agriculture than that the constellation in
the heavens which is called the Great Bear
is component part of farmers stock IL
is an entirely separate institution from
fair, has different laws, different associations,
and totally different result. When hun =
dreds Of dollars are offered for the fastest
trotting horse and only $40 for the best
COW, SO for the best sheep, S3 for the best
exhibition Of fruit, So for the best butter,
and 81 for the best vegetables, farmers may
well conclude that their products are at
discount with the managers of fairs.


The horse is u noble ANIMAL and it is an
indispensable adjunct of the farm, but a
trotting horse, one of the 2:40 kind, in no
sense belongs to the farm. No farmer can
afford either TO tend or use trottlng horses,
and when it is pretended that the race
course favors the breeding of superior ami
mails, it is all fudge. What the farmer
wants, and what fairs should give premiums
for, is good family carriage or farm horse,
worth 5000 or $500; one that can draw a
pow all day, and cat and sleep well at
night; that can move on the road at the
rate OF five to- six miles an hour for four or
i've consecutive hours without excessive fa-
tiguc. Speed is not the great criterion Of a
good horse, as the large premiums offered
would seem to indicate. Neither the owner
nor spectator gains anything by this forced
2:40 speed. 1t is a mere momentary spurt,
aud for its production an amount Of training
is required which no farmer can afford.


Will the objection be raised, awe must
have a little fun ?" We do not object to
fun and plenty of it; but who can posi-
bly, derive fun from witnessing horse
goaded on to oxertion beyond all reasonable
bounds in order to compass mile in an in.
crediby short time? There is some excitement
about race, we grant, and if there are
those who must live on excitement, let them
have a race course away from the fair
grounds. The fair will flourish more, aud
accomplish its legitimate results better,
without than with racing. If the exhibition
of good stock. farming tools and farm pro.
ducts, the meeting of friends, and the gener-
GUS rivalry for premiums do not furnish at.
traction aud excitement enough to draw out
those interested in agriculture, then it is
time that our fairs should cease, and it is no
longer worth while for the state to patronize
them with large subsidies.-Canada Farm.
Year: 1874

Many persons denounce our agricultural
papers and refuse to subscribe for them for
the reason that they believe them to be more
in the interest of the middlemen than of the
farmer, and for proof refer to the market re.
ports therein, as they many times sell their
produce at home as high as quoted in their
paper as Boston prices. The same is true
of the market reports in the FARMER for
farm products. Many of our farmers have
sold their butter all summer as high as quot
ed in the FARMER. They see in last weeks
quotation, butter, extreme Boston price "a
cents, st. Adams, selections "a to 80 cents,
Vergennes, selections "a cents. This butter
is all bought for Boston market, hence your
report is denounced in terms not proper for
me to write. "Why does he thus report ?"
they say, "if he is honest" "Why will the
FARMER, so honest and outspoken in regard
to the merchants high prices, not give us
the highest Boston market prices, that we
may not be cheated in selling our produce
any more than in buying our merchandise ~


Perhaps l eau give a little explanation
that will help our farmers to bOtter under
stand the market reports and free your city
reporter from blame.


We will take, for illustration, butter that
being one Of the principal marketable prod
ucts from this cOunty. Your reporter is a
commission man, and quotes the price cor
rect no doubt, but he sells to the jObber, the
jobber to the grocer, who sells to the con-
sdmer. Now let us follow shipment Of
Year: 1874

Fried CucumJers-Takc aripe, full-grown
cucumber, pare, and slice it quarter of an
inch in thickness. Dip each slice into a
batter made of one egg, three tablespoOniuls
Of -four, and little water, just enough to
make it a stiff batter. Fry in very hot lard,
and plenty Of it. Serve hot, with slices Of
salt pork freshened in sweet milk over night
and dipped into the same batter. This
makes a nice dish for breakfast.
Year: 1874

The potato digging machine improved by
S. w. Tyler of this city, was worked on the
farm occupied by Garret Ives in the town
of Brunswick on Tuesday last aud although
the extreme drought had rendered the
ground so hard that many farmers in that
vicinity had been obliged to give up plowing,
yet the machine worked with such wonderful
facility as to astonish all persons. Many
Of the farmers already regard it as being
equally necessary among farming imple-
mcnts to the moving machine. Steps are
being taken to form n stock company for
the purpose of manufacturing these ma
chimes. Notwithstanding the limited trials
that have been given to these machines,
many could be sold at once if they were to
be obtained. This machine can dig from
twenty to thirty barrels of potatoes per
hour with ease. Other exhibitions will
soon be made on the same and other grounds.
Troy Wing.
Year: 1874

The slogan is sounding, all hail brothers, hail
BY the mountains tits echoed, It's borne on the gales
The dark CLOUDS are lining, the mists clear away,
And soon through their rirting will dawn the bright


day.
What, What is the watchword that's borne on the


air,
That with rOsc-tut of hope glds the clouds Of de-


spair,
'Tis no license the ath.doaling liquid TO SELL
No license to pave the dark pathway to hell.


H.
No license; ne license oh brothers, take heed
No license to further make broken hearts bleed;
No license No license Raise higher the acclaim,
Still further to pander to fIlsehood aud shame.
'Tis the first dawnng ray Of the "rulness of time :"
No license for murder; no license for crimes
No license to purchase, to make or to SELL
No license to pave the dark pathway to hell
. Ill.
And whence comes the slogan that breaks on our


ears,
And gllds with sweet promise the dowry of tearsl
Was it born in the halls of the wealthy great,
Did it spring from the mentors who rule for the


state
Or from "publc opinion" which claims to be right
Did it spring IN full armor resplendenv and bright
No! Never such glory their fame can yet swell,
AS no license to pave the dark pathway to hell.


. w. ..rrHs...
No Twas born from oppressiOn-'twas nurtured in


grief,
Till from suffering and sorrow it sprang for relief
Like Gethsemane's martyr from almost despair
1t arose to the light on the piniOns OF prayer.
For the wall Of the millions, who sorrowOd alone,
Now breaks in one billow, swells in one tones
And this is the Judgment tits destined TO toll:
No license to pave the dark pathway to hell.



Arise to the rescuel In manhood come forth
Let the land of the sunset respond to the North
For woman has bowed before God and the Throne,
And led where proud man dared not travel alone.
Come orth with the ballot" fulfill the "decree,"
And hencefOrth from the Wine-king's dominion be


free;
Let it sound in the of the tyrant knell;
No license to pave the dark pathway to hell.


vi.
Come forth to the rescue Ennoble your life
Cast the ballot to end, not engender, foul strife;
Redeemed from the passion and baseness of earth,
Prove your lineage immortal, and honor its birth
Ts the King Of the Monsters, and till 1t is dead,
We shall walk in the shadow, in darkness be led,
For the "Chld Of the Ages" excel
While there's license TO pave the dark pathway to


he'll.
Year: 1874

SAN FRANCISCO, August "a. A
young man named John White was
found at an early hour this morning
on Second street disemboweled by a
frightful cut across the abdamon. He
was alive and has been taken to the
hospital, but was unable to give the
name of his assailant. He cannot re-
cover.


The weather to-day is clear and
warm.


There is very little excitement in
stock circles. The market is badly
depressed.


A large party of Eastern visitors
who arrived last night will visit the
fair this afternoon and evening.
Year: 1874

More Of the Drive in the Country aoith Jottings


By the Way.-Lost IN the Woods


At about five p. m. we left what is known
as Roscoe Center, in Goodhue Co. The road
took us across the fields, the sleighing was
good but the weather cold; being bundled
up to keep off the cold, we missed the road
and soon found ourselves in the midst Of
the woods, and yet being on we'll beaten
wood road we were unsuspicious of any
thing wrong. The sun had gone down, the
moon shown forth in the fullness of its
beauty, the snow in its unstained purity
gave back the mild light, the forest trees
stood up straight and tall and round like
perfect pillars in temple builded by the
Master Architect of the Universe. Our
thoughts were full of the quiet beauty and ST.
lent grandeur Of the scene about us, and with
the wise and benefcent provisions Of the
Great All Father who had so wisely provid-
ed these woods to afford shelter and warmth
for his children. Then in our thoughts we
looked in upon the many family circles
gathered around the home hearth, made
warm and happy by the mysterious destruc-
tion Of some Of the trees that but the day
before stood up in all their strength and
beauty in this forest. How past under
standing are some Of the processes Of nature.
Such is fire. and yet how dependent upon
this is the happiness and the very existence
Of man. Our thoughts were lost in mys-
terry. and here our road ended in pile Of
brush, where tree had been cut and
hauled away, and we were lost-lost in the
woods, miles from any human habitation.
What should We do? try to find some new
way through this, to US unknown forest, and
thus reach our destination? This is very
often the course pursued by men whe find
that they have followed q wrong system OF
false theory, but is it safe? We think not,
and consequently we did what We think
men always better do in this life when they
find that they wrong, retraced our steps
took the back track until We found the righ1
way. We found place in one Of thos,
Year: 1874

complete and permanent, and that they
may therefore lay down their arms and
abandon the field. The enemy has not sur.
rendered, but simply retired to his fast
nesses and secret places. shrewder gen.
eralship, and greater vigilance is necessary
to rout the ambushed enemy than to meet
and vanquish the army upon the open field.
Let no watchman sleep upon his guard
If ever it was true, it is more especially
true now that g eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty.' 1t must be an intelli.
gent vigilance, and not a vigilance Of the
few but of the whole.
Year: 1874

We thought everybody in the State knew
that we We're deaf, but once in while We
find one who is not aware Of the fact. a
female book pedler came to the Office the
other day. She wished to dispose of book.
She was alone in this world, and had no one
to whom she could turn for sympathy or as
sistance hence we should buy book. She
was unmarried, and had no manly heart in
which she could pour her sufferings, there
fore we ought to invest in her book. She
had rec,ivcd II liberal education, and could
talk French like native; we could not, in
consequence, pay her less than two dollars
for a book.


We had listened attentivcly, and here
broke in with: "What did you say? We're
deaf"


| She started in loud voice and went
through her rigmarole. Whom she had fin
ishcd we went and got roll of paper, and
made it into speaking trumpet, placed one
end to our car, and told her to proceed. She
commcnced





SIT doesn't make the slightest difference
to u.s. We are husband and fatLer. Bigamy
is not allowed in this state. We are not
eligible to proposals."


ooh, what u fool the man is,' she said,
in n low tone then at the top of her voice,
81 don't want to marry you; want to sell
n book"


| This last sentence was howled.


1--WE don't want cook We remarked,
blandly Sour wife does the cooking, and
she wouldn't allow as good-looking woman
as you to stay in the house five minutes.
She is very jealous


She looked at US in despair. Gathering
her robes about her, giving us glance Of
contempt, she exclaimed, 81 do believe If a
300 FOUNDER were let off alongside that
deaf fools head, he'd think somebody was
knocking at the door,"


Slamming the door she departed.
Year: 1874

The SWEDISH EXPEDITION TO THE NoRTH
PoLE-M. Nordenskjold has recently found
in the ice and snow OF the Arctic polar sea, a
black dust. This he had melted, and sub
sequently submitted it to chemical analysis,
which has proved that it is composed of
nickel and cobalt, and similar in constitu-
ton to the meteorites. 1t seems probable,
therefore, that the powder is actually due
to the disintegration Of these aerial bodies
at short distance from the earth.


The regions which this intrepid traveller
has lately explored are the most inhospita-
bic on the globe. lie has traversed ice seas,
the level of which rise, t, over three thou
sand feet above that Of the ocean, and which
are rent with huge creyaSscs often entirely
concealed by snow and fog, rendering their
exploration an enterprise of the greatest
danger. NJ Nordenskjold is now organiz-
ing new expedition to start in the spring
of 1873.
Year: 1874

The Louisville Courier Journal has the
following sensible remarks regarding the
management Of newspaper:


Some people estimate the ability of Il
newspaper and the talent of its editor by the
quantity Of original matter. 1t is compar-
lively an easy task for frothy writer to
pour ont daily ii column of wortls-words
upon any and all subjects. His IDEAS may
flow in one weak, vastly, everlasting flood,
and the command Of his language may cna-
BILE him to string them together like punches
of onions, and yet his paper may be a
mcagre and poor concern. Indeed, the mere
writing part Of editing paper is but q
small portion of the work The care, the
time employed in selecting, is far more im-
portant, and the tact of good editor is bet
ter shown by his selections than anything
else; and that, we know, is half the battle
But, as We have said, an editor ought to be
estimated and his labor understood and ap-
preciated by the general conduct Of his
papcr-its tone, its uniform consistent
course, its aims, manlness, its dignity and
its propriety, To preserve these as they
should be preserved is enough to occupy
fully the time and attention of any man.
II to this be added the .cncral supervision
of the newspaper establishment, which most
editors have to encounter, the wonder Is
how they and time to write at all.
Year: 1874




l.rMINovS SIGNAL FOR GEoDEsIC OPERA
TIoSS.-M. Lau>Sedat proposes, for the
above purpose, to direct spy glass from
one station toward a second point, to which
the signal is to be transmitted. In the
focus Of the instrument, he places dia-
phragm having very small aperture; so
that, on looking through, the field of vision
will be restricted to the tower, steeplc, or
other locality at which the receiver of the
signal is stationed. The eye piece of the
telescope is then removed, leaving the da-
phragm, and behind the latter is placed, in
the axis of the instrument, n light, the con-
jugatc image of which, produced by tho
conveying glass, falls precisely on the open
ing of the diaphragm. The luminous ray
transmitted through the telescope will fall
directly on the ediiice comprised on the re-
strcted field of vision, and not elsewhere,
and the light is therefore invisible to all
without that field. The observer will per
ceive the objective of the telescope illumina-
ted over all it surface and necessarily the
larger the diameter of the glass, the farther
will the signal be visible.
Year: 1874

The Fish of Paradise is one Of the most
peculiar of Chinese fresh-water fish. 1t is
small in size, n pale grey in color, and ut
first sight having little about it to attract at
tention. As soon as the animal becomes
excited, however, the long fins on the back
and belly straighten out and assume n rich
purple hue tinted with green the long and
fork-shnped tail spreads into kind Of fan,
and the stripes upon the sides of the fish be-
come yellow, red and blue, constantly chang
ing in color. The scales seem to become
opalescent, and reflect the light with the
greatest brlliancy, while the eyes appear it,
Illuminated with bluish-grcen fire. The
habits of the animal are rs odd rs its appear
ance. The males take charge Of the young
and build the nest The latter is simply
clot Of foam floating upon the water, and is
made by the fish rising to the surface and
alternately absorbing and expellng air, until
little cluster Of fine bubbles, hardly three
tenths of an inch square, is formed. Tho
female then deposits her eggs, which are at
once seized upon by the male. who carries
them in his mouth to the nest Then he
watches their incubation, carefully guarding
and distributing them with wonderful saga
city throughout the mass of foam. When
they clot together, he pushes them apart with
his nose, and, besides, keeps up a continued
manufacture of bubbles until the eggs are
lifted up above the water and rest only upon
their soft couch. As soon as the embryos
appear, his care is doubled. He watches
that none escape, and in case some become
separated, he clraseS them. catches them in
his mouth, and replaces them carefully in
the nest. If one becomes injured, he re-
moves it from the others, and gives it sepH-
rate bubble by itself, and apparently nurses


until it regains strength.
Year: 1874

A CUTTLE-FIsH has been caught at Olym-
pia, Washington Territory, measuring
eight feet from tip to tip of its eight long
arms. The arms we're of gristle and were
lined upon the under side, their entire
length, with saueer-shaped suckers, varying
from the size Of n pea to two inches in
diameter. This is said to be the largest
cuttle-fsh caught in North America of
which there is any official record, and it is
quite q monster of its kind
Year: 1874

To be perfectly healthy and happy one
must have friends. They need not be in
large numbers but one, two or three kind
red spirits with whom one can commune,
shape joys and sorrows, thoughts and
feelings In choosing friends great care
is necessary There must be some com
mon bond of sympathy. 1t may be NOR
al, intellectual or social but even these
bonds are not sufficient. A weak y person,
an invalid, needs healthy friends timd
one, brave friends Those who are blessed
with good friends are healthier and hap
pier than those who have none.
Year: 1874

The following comes from very grace
fully written sketch of the great Ameri
can prima donna, from the pen of Lucy
Hamilton Hooper. A singular and mourn
full little romance is connected with the
earlier portion of the fair singers career
During the last year of the war, and after
one of the last great battles, the chap
lain of one of the Massachusetts, regi
ments, was rendering the last services to
the dying, when he came across a young
lieutenant, lying by the roadside, and
evidently desperately wounded. The
chaplain proposed to summon medical aid,
but the young man declined the offer,
saying that he was dying, and that he
preferred to be left to pass away without
further suffering. After doing what he
could to make the sufferer more comfort
able in his last moments the chaplain ask
ed the dying man if he wished to send
any message to his relatives or friends
mo, he had ueither-he was alone in
the world" "Was there no one," pre-
sisted the chaplain, "to whom he would
like to send word Of farewell 2" The
young officer hesitated "Yes," he an
swered "thcre is one-Mss Clara Louise
Kellogg She does not know me, nor
have | ever met or seen her off tho stage


But she is the one, the only woman that
| ever loved | saw her in opera re-
peatedly when | was last in Boston, and
the effect she produced on me was in-
stantaneous and ineffaceabe. And |
should die happier did | know that she
would one day learn that had existed,
and that | had loved her" A few brief
lines were penciled by the failing hand
on leaf of the chaplain's note, book, a
single dark curl was severed from the
locks already growing damp with the
dews Of death, word or two of thanks
were family spoken, aud then the dim
eyes closed, and, the brief romance and
the young soldier ended together. In
due course of time the letter aud the lock
of hair were placed in Miss Kellogg S
hand and if the spirit of the sender, at
the moment of receiving them, was hover.
ing near, he had at least the joy of know


ing that, though unknown to his fair lady


love, he had not died uuwept by her.
Year: 1874

1t is pleasant to see a young creature
come into horse car, seat herself for ad
miration, look happy for five minutes,
and then wake up to the miserable con
sciousness that there is a rip in the mid
de finger Of her right glove.
Year: 1874

Girls in treating dssipated young men as
equals. do wrong that they can scarcely
realize. Such men should be made to feel that
until they redeem themselves, until they walk
with correctness and honor in the path OF
right, good people will stand aloof from them
Girls who respect themselves will not be seen
with such young men, and will decline to
receive them on the familiar footing of friend
ship. 1t is a mistaken kindness to poultice where
caustic is needed, and am inclined to thlnk
that a little sharp decision on the part of the
girls of to-day would go far to correct the gen
eral looseness of the morality among the young
men.
Year: 1874

HOIST WITH HIS PETARD-The London
Spectator tells an amusing story which has
very perceptible point to it. A meterialistic
lecturer and city missionary met before
very intelligent audienceto discuss the question
Of personal responsibility. point to which mod
crn theorists Of the advanced school incline
negatively To illustrate his theory, the mate
rialist pointed out to his hearers the fact. now
pretty generally admitted, that in seven years
the atoms OF the body have undergone COM
plete change. and punishment awarded to one
body for deeds done by the other was mani
fest Injustice The city missionary, in reply,
EXPRESSED his sorrow that he should be engaged
in discussing with man who was living with
n woman 10 whom he was not married. Ihe
materialist rose angrily to his feet to repudi-
ate the assault upon his wife. The missionary
rctorted that according to his own showing.
the ma,erialist was by no means the same who
vowed eternal constancy to a woman at the al
tar twenty years ago. nor was bis So called wife
the same woman. AS the two existing per-
sons had never been married, they were living
in a state which he could not countenance.
The retort was ingenious as illustrated in the
absurd conclusion to which the arguments OF
the sheer materialsts must bring them.
Year: 1874

DEAN STANLEY, following mp the ao-
ton taken by him last year in inviting
a distinguished layman to lecture in
Westminster Abbey on the occasion of
the intercessionary services for foreign
missions, this year invited Principal
Gard, of Glasgow University, to lecture
in the Abbey. The subject was Chris
tian Mission, and the very unusual
scene of a great Presbyterian divine
lecturing in an Episcopal cathedral
was the occasion for the gathering of a
congregation which filed about two
thirds of the nave Of the Abbey.
Year: 1874

GUIzOT's heirs have discovered the SUIT
which was the last expression Of GuizOt's
pride. His idea was that neither himself
nor his family should be inGtbted to the
Empire which he hated. One Of his fam
ily was thus indebted, and had accepted as
sistanee from the Emperor, and the suit was
that the Emperor's heirs should Be cem-
PEELED to accept repayment from Guizot-
In this material time il is rare TO see a suit
maintained on one side to compel the ae-
ceutance Of $4,000, and On the ether up
holding the right to refuse the sum,
Year: 1874

A CORRESPONDENT argues that the
duty of the rich is to spend money, not
to hoard it. They used to preach that
doctrine in the dark ages, before it was
learned thatmoney could be made to in
crease itself in the way OF interest.
Year: 1874

MONEY is flush at Columbia, S. c.,
and votes that cost only SO at the last
session of the Legislature are now
worth 500. Under carpet-bag rule,
the man and brother is being rapidly
educated up to a proper appreciation
of his market value.