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Year: 1873

THE SEAsoN.--It seemed last week
that we had almost come upon Indian sum
mer, that aggregation of soft dreamy days
that lie so close upon the wild and dreary
edge of winter, but that tickle dame, the
weather, whose ways are past finding out,
passes with reasonable certainty through
great circles that have boundaries in fixed
and irrevocable laws, within whose limits
are opportunities for numberless and con-
stant minor variations, which this irresolute
dame improves upon all occasions. Sum
moning Boreas to her aid, she has within
the last twenty-four hours thrown aside
Old Probabilities himself, with all his
signal stations and his machinery of ther-
mometer, barometer, hygrometer and
many other ometers, and given us a touch
of winter.


We see now no great sun hanging red
upon the verge of the horizon like q ball
of fire !; nor do his rays come
to us softened and tempered through
the hazys air. No dreamy mist
now settles down among the houses
and amid the trees, nor does the atmos-
phere cling about us soft and silent, and
the individual who would hold communion
with nature in her quiet and pensive mood
if he desires to do so comfortably must
take along portable fire, not to speak of
one or more ticklers Of Bungardner. To
our comprehension it is cold. Autumn
and winter are clasped together in ore
tender embrace, and that little season
called Indian summer, meant for medita.
ton and for memory, and which recalls
through the mist of years the golden
memories of other days. gone glimmering.
Back it may come from the realms of
waving foliage and green fields once more
to visit the barren and withered world
before the cold mantle of winter covers it
from all eyes, to give it one more kiss. but
the happening is doubtful, and doubtful
things, as we are told, are very uncertain.
II is winter time, to-day at least.
Year: 1873

FRUIT TREES. "A good evidence of the
prospective prosperity Of the south is to be
found in the large sales of fruit trees made
by our nurserymen. The extent of this
trade we do not know, bat have. reason to
believe it to be unusually large this season,
Judging from the enormous loads of trees
we see going through our streets to the
several depots for shipment. Scarcely
less than car load a day mus the sent away.
We are gratifed to note this. 1t shows a
growing interest in fruit culture that be-
tokens increasing wealth and thrift among
southern planters and farmers. Fruit cul-
tureis destined to become leading feature
in our future development, which inspires
hope for the happiest results.
Year: 1873

RUNAWAY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS horse
attarhed to sewing-machinc wagon, while
standing unattended before the door Of the
store at the corner of Ninth and Franklin
streets, became frightened, without any ap-
parent cause, and ran down Ninth to Main
street, and th,nce by way of Tenth TO Cary
street. AT this point the wagon came in
contact with the curbing, and was overturned
and demolished. A sewing machine that
was in the wagon was broken into small
Fragments
Year: 1873

commence trade, would not deserve
pity, if he did fail in business and
yet this is just what a majority OF
our farmers are doing. The result
of such a system is u slavish life
for term of years in order to pro-
cure stock, implements, barns, and
finally, comfortable house for the
wife and family.


Now, there is but one way to
remedy this widespread evil, and
that is TO own less land; make il
produce better crops, and thereby
prevent waste of time and labor.
A man should never put more than
one half his capital into land, no
matter how much or how little he
may have. We can offer no better
proof Of this wide spread evil OF
owning more land than can be iu-
dIciously cultivated, than the aver
age yield Of any of our principal
farm products. The average yield
of corn, for instance, in some of
the Middle and Southern States, is
not above ten bushels per acre, and
in Illinois seldom above twenty ;
while those farmers who plant on
good, rich land, obtain from fifty
to one hundred bushels per acre.
These results prove, conclusively,
that thousands Of acres are annual
ly planted with this grain, and the
labor expended thereon is almost,
if not entirely, wasted. The same
is true in regard to all kinds of
grain cultivated in this country.
A man starts out in spring to plant
twenty acres Of corn, when really
he has not sufficient help to put in
ten, and the result is a very small!
return for the labor expended, and
less corn than would have been OBJ
tanned upon ten acres, with seventy
per cent of the capital expended
thereon. Manure is wasted by
being spread so thinly over a large
surface Of the ground that the ben
eft is scarcely to be perceived,
while if II less area received the
amount, it would not only bring
immediate and large increase in
the crop grown, but be permanent
Iy cnriched.- Nashville Rural Sun.
Year: 1873

Not less than twenty per cent of
the entire capital employed in
farming in this country is wasted.
This is low estimate, for on many
farms tho amount Of waste is
double the amount named. Perhaps
scarcity and high price Of labor in
n few localities may be considered
II reasonable excuse for this loss,
but we hold that no man should
undertake more than he can accom-
plish without waste. The first and
most prolific source of waste can
readily be traced to large farms, as
nine out OF every ten OF our farm
ers own or undertake to work twice
as much land as they are able to
do, with any sort Of credit or profit
to themselves or others.


In spring more corn, potatoes
and other crops, requiring culture
during the period of growth, are
put in than can be attended TO, and
the results are that haying and
harvesting grain crowd upon the
hoeing, and waste occurs on all
sides. Scarcity of labor is always
put forward as an excuse for this
waste, but the farmer was well
aware that he could not obtain the
required amount long before his
crops were put into the ground,
and should have known Just how
many men were required to take
care Of and harvest any certain
number of acres of any particular
crop. We are not disposed to ex-
cuse a man for waste on the score
Of ignorance, especially in farming,
because the business is one that
should be well understood.


Contrary to the general idea, We
believe that the curse of American
agriculture is cheap lands, produc-
ing low standard of farming, and
encouraging u grasping disposition
to possess broad acres, with a cor.
responding neglect of the same
when once they are obtained. The
first thought OF a farmer or his sons
is, how much land can | purchase
Not, how much will my capital
permit me to buy and improve
In ninety-nine cases out of every
hundred man puts his entire cap.
ital into land, and then runs in debt
for few acres more, reserving
nothing with which to make i'm
proycmonts or purchase stock. A
merchant who would put his entire
capital into a building, and leave
himself no capital with which to
Year: 1873

/ Correspondence New York World.l


For fifteen years Mr.. Hoe and Mr.
Conquest, the London manager OF
Mr.. Hoes works, have been endeav.
oring to perfect 4 perfecting print
ing machine" and they haye at last
succeeded. The last difficulty which
stood in their way-thc perfect de-
livery Of the printed sheets from
the press-was only recently sur
mounted. Now their machine, in
their belief is perfect; and that it
is perfect also in the opinion of 9th
ers may be judged by the fact that
the prorretors Of the Daily Telc-
graph to-day decided to have ten
of these new machines Immediately
constructed for them, and to have
them placed in the new Offices which
they are about to erect in the rear
Of the present premises. The ten
machines can be constructed in
about ten months, and in a year
from this time the Daily Telegraph,
With its "largc stcirculation in the
world" will be printed upon press
es each one Of which will be capa-
bic of delivering $4,000 completed
sheets per hour. Does not that
take your breath away?


This new press seems to be an
Improvement on the Walter, the
Bullock, the Marronnitti, and all
the other periecting machines in
existence. One of its peculiarities
is the width ofcylindcrs for they
are so wide that each cylinder will
print two copies a. once-the roll
Of paper being made double width,
and the paper being cut in two by
a very ingenious device, immedi-
ately before it is delivered. Anoth-
er peculiarly is the perfect manner
in which the perfected sheets are
dolivered-they arc laid down in
piles so accurately that one would
think the sheets had been put into
a press and trimmed. The Walter
press on which the Times and
Scotsman are printed-compels the
pressman to change the blankets
once in each two hours-this one
needs no such change. The whole
force necessary to each of these
presses is two men and a boy
with them twenty-five thousand
perfect copies are printed in one
hour; and the saving of wages, as
between this and the ordinary ten
cylinder Hoe, is as fifteen to eighty
four. The only one of these press
es now complete has been built for
Lloyd's weekly newspaper, and TO-
day At Lloyd's paper mills, at Bow,
its performances were witnessed by
a number of experienced nowspa-
per men, among them the proprie.
tor and engineer of the Daily Tele-
graph establishment. The press
did the work it was engaged to do.
1t printed twenty-thousand copies
Of Lloyd's paper in sixty minutes,
j and never was there better print
Year: 1873

The City of Birmingham, England,
suffers from an embarraS deS richeSseS.
A gentleman recently deceased, who
seems to have possessed more money
than brains, bequeathed valuable dia-
mond to the corporation, and the men,
bers of the Town Council have been
puzzling their brains to decide what
they should do with the legacy. One
of the Aldermen suggested that the gem
should be placed il the art gallery, but
it was objected that it would not be safe
there, and would be altogether too
tempting" The Mayor thought it
would probably "be better in public
hall, while one of the Council express
ed the hope "that it would not go forth
to the town that the Free Libraries
Committee were afraid to trust the dia-
mond in the art gallery" After much
discussion it was decided that the dia-
mond should be placed on exhibition in
the art gallery, but that His Honor the
Mayor should have the privilege of
wearing it on such occasions as he may
desire" The Importance of the Brum-
magem civic functionary will doubtless
be much enhanced by his appearance
under the shelter of the corporation
GEM
Year: 1873

Col Cochrane, Grange officer, says
to a reporter that the cost OF farming
has been greatly increased by the
building Of railroads, or at least since
their introduction. Before the war ne
could hire men who were capable OF
conducting his farm, without his super
vision. for ess money than he now has
to nav for hands who hardly know
enough to hitch up q team and go into
the field to work unless somebody tells
them how to do it. The only hands ne
can now hire are Germans, and they 40
only about half as much work as tne
Americans he used to get. The same
is true of work in the houses; no matter
how able and willing the farmer may
be to hire servants, his wife must De
drudge. -, s,d ho
said, a girl who knows enough 70 cook
a meal, and who will hire out 10 90
housework. The servants are the most
inferior kind, and even they can't be
denended on to stay at the very time
thew are most wanted. II you make
contract with them in the spring for
t,, the season, and agree to pay them 50 a
week and board, when the hot weather e
comes they begin to grumoie' ana a wnea
the harvest begins they can stand
the work any longer" and the neA1
thing YOU hear they are binding In the
harvest field for q dollar day, while
the farmers wife is left alone with from
n dozen to 25harvesters to provide for;
These hardships the Colonel attributed
largely to the railroads-they paid un-
skilled laborers better wages than tns
farmers could afford to, and they opened
up new country for homesteads for tne
better class Of men who formerly worked
out by the month.
Year: 1873

Gerald Massey, the English poet and
lecturer, appeared on Sunday evening
in New York before a large audience,


his subject being the words of Robin
son Crusoe's man Friday: eff that
God so strong why He not kill that
devil ?" The lecturer stated that in
this passage of De Foes there was
more food for thought than in any other
he had ever written, and the expecta-
tions of the audience were great when


he started out in a very intelligent
manner. Before going far, according
to New York papers, the lecturer
plunged into sea of mythology, He.
braic and Egyptian, from which he did
not return even at the end of the lee
ture, leaving his audienceso completely
bewildered that nobody had any idea
what he was talking about. A city
paper says "Mr. Massey's learning
will claim him recognition as lecturer;
but'if his other lectures are as mystical
as why Does not God Kill the Devil .
very few of his auditors will under
stand, although they may admire him. "
Year: 1873

At an English theatre, the other eve-
ming, an actor playing King Henry V.
struggled bravely half through the play
with evidently severe indisposition. AT
last the poor fellow gave up the battle,
and, white as death and almost breath.
less, came to the front of the stage, and
in a nearly inaudible whisper said that
he "felt as if his last hour had come.
He chad struggled for three weeks,
and suffered God only knew what, in
his endeavor to keep that engagement.
He had come on the stage that night,
knowing that it was at the risk of his
life. He was no craven, but he was
now entirely defeated, and could not
proceed. he asked for their sympathy
as Christian men," And he had 1t, for,
as he was carried fainting from the
stage, his audience gave him the hearty
evidence of their sincere alarm and in
terest,
Year: 1873

The New York World, in q review Of
the labor market and the progressive
shrinkage of values, says:


The Typographical Union will use its
influence to persuade all employers
throughout the city not to discharge
their operatives, but rather to reduce
the wages Of all, or put them on short
time. This plan, they think, would
prevent much suffering which can in no
other way be avoided. The same men
will advise all their confreres to assist
the employers by willingly working a
little longer for the old wages or ac-
cept a reduction of pay. This is no
time, they think, for employers and en-
ployed to be at war. The panic is a ca
famity to all, the rich as we'll as the
poor, and they contend that all ought
to help one another to weather it
through.


The coopers are the only workingmen
on strike at the present time. Aelarge
number of that very numerous class
have taken exception to the course pur-
sued by the firm of Havemeyer Il Elder,
aad are trying to make them yield to
the demands of the workingmen by
uniting on strike. Thus far the firm
have stood their ground, keeping their
shop in working order by importing
coopers from the country.


About 200 parasol-makers, girls, are
at present idle in consequence of a
strike. The employers recently reduced
the prices from 7 and II cents apiece to
5 and 10 cents.


At one book printing company and
binding establishments in Williamsburg,
the largest in the vicinity of New York,
the operatives have been put on nine
hours time. In the various job offices
the expenses of running have been cut
down to the lowest.
Year: 1873

People who prefer wetting the winters
store of coal to lay the dust on putting
it into their cellers, do not generally
know that they are laying up for them
selves store of sore throats and other
evils consequent upon the practice.
Even the tire-damp, says an exchange,
which escapes from the coal mines,
arises from the slow decomposition of
coal at temperatures Of but little above
that of the atmosphere, but under aug
mented pressure. By wetting q mass
of freshly broken coal and putting it
into cellar, the mass is heated to such
a degree that carbureted and sulphu-
retted hydrogen are given of for long
periods of time and pervade the whole
house. The liability of wet coal to
mischievous results under such circum-
stances may be appreciated from the
fact that there are several instances on
record of spontaneous combustion OF
coal when slowed into the bunkers on
holds of vessels. And from this cause,
doubtless, many missing coal vessels
have perished.
Year: 1873

Some one has given the following
reasons why people should dress plain
ly on Sunday. These reasons are as
valid any other day in the week.


1t would lessen the burden Of many
who now find it hard to maintain their
place in society.


1t would lessen the force OF tempta-
tions which often lead men to barter
honesty and honor for display.


If there was less strife in dress at
church, people in moderate circum-
stances would be more inclined to
attend.


Universal moderation in dress at
church would improve the worship by
the remittal of many wandering
thoughts.


It would enable all classes of people
to attend church in unfayorable wea-
ther.


1t would lessen, on the part Of the
rich, the temptation to vanity.


It would lesson, on the part Of the
poor, the temptation to be enyious and
malicious.


It would save valuable time on the
Sabbath.
Year: 1873

All who go West do not find tie
happy home expected. One man who
was doing we'll in the East relates his
experience as follows:


I thought could do better, 30 sold
out, pocketed my money and started
for the West. When I arrived there
things were not as I expected to hnd
'em. But / wish to say to all your
readers who have had similar expe'
rience. and are homesick, don't come
back after the manner Of one poor fool
T know of. I tell You the railroad com.
nanies cot over s2OO for cartipg me and
mine out and back. Now don't be a
lunatic, as was, but "stick." l came
back to please wife's relations, but
when I had been back three weeks they
wanted to know what I came back for;
now then I can 90 here and there to get
a days work and get my pay-weli'
some time. -, ,...


People who go West with no definite
idea Of where they are going and what
they expect to do when they get there,
Wilt in nine cases out Of ten be badly
disappointed.
Year: 1873

The daily papers are just beginning
to find out what business men knew
about the panic, namely, its influence
on manufacturing enterprise, and now
that the worst part Of it is over, they
are filling their columns with details of
the ste ,page of manufacturing, etc.
Those Who are at all acquainted with
the boot and shoe manufacture know
that we have now arrived at the usual
season for stopping between the fall
and spring trade, and If the panic has
cut us off from three or four weeks
trade, the full influence of that was dis
counted three or four weeks ago, and
only i'll effects can result from an at
tempt now TO revive the general dis
trust and want of confidence which pre-
vailed toward the latter part of Sep
tember. We have now, we trust, got
beyond the influence of any such efforts,
and we are sure that, in the boot and
shoe trade, the prospects of alarge and
profitable business. in the near future
were never better. Collections are rea-
bOuaDly BOOu, DSCauoO anuAaOouAoic 2
have made up goods only on orders and
have not over.suppIed the market,
so that they have no surplus on
hand. The country is, also, notoriously
short of goods, which they must and
will have as soon as money becomes
easier throughout the country, as it is
now fast becoming in New York city.


Manufacturers and leather dealers
are showing their confidence in this
prospect by their preparations for the
future, and by the frmness with which
both the raw goods and manufactured
articles are held, and those who base
their action on the newspaper reports
so far as to presume that we are going
to have dull, hard winter in the shoe
and leather business will, we are con-
fdent, find themselves mistaken. We
have had no failures of any consequence
in the trade, and with the money market
daily working easier, the distribution
of goods must be accelerated in the
future to make up for the deficiencies
thus far experienced. --Moe and Leather
Chronicle.
Year: 1873

A shool-examiner lately gave q bright
looking boy this sentence to correct :
"Between You and I this is good but
ter" The boy shortly returned the
slip thus marked: incorrect the
lamp-post is omitted"
Year: 1873

,sw that a baby was hid in that house,
Tnough | saw no cradle, and heard no


cry,
the husband went uptoeing round


like mouse,
And the good wife was humming soft


lullaby;
M there was a look on the face of that
mother
.t knew could mean only one thing,


and no other.
The mother" l said to myself; for l


knew
rbat the woman before me was Ger.


tainly that.
br there lay in the corner a tiny cloth


shoe,
And saw on stand q wee little hat
'd the beard of the husband said plain


as could be,
Two fat, chubby hands have been tug.


ging a. me-"
nd he took from his pocket a gay picture


book.
And do. I, hat would bark if you pulled
on u string:
nd the wife laid them up with such a


pleased look:
And said to myself, There is no other
thing
N A babe that could bring about all
this, and so
bat one is in hiding here somewhere, l
know"
stayed but moment, and saw nothing
more,
[And heard not sound. yet l knew l
was right;
That else could the shoe mean that lay
on The floor
1.-The book and the toy. and the faces SO
bright?
hd what made the husband as still as
q mouse?
km sure, very sure, there's a babe in that
house.
Year: 1873

The police of New York report that the
hanging Of Foster has already had whole.
some results in tho diminulion Of crimes
Of violence. and that fewer arrests for
crimes Of that class have been made since
the execution than in any corresponding
period for long time before.
Year: 1873

ss:2' If orc- there was good excuse
for not getting paper out in time, it is
that offered By the Panama Star and
Herald. The editor said that the gov
ernment troops were keeping up con-
tinuous fire on the door OF his sitting
room, and half dozen shots did not
vary three feet in striking. To this
annoyance" he says, we must attrib-
ute our delay in getting out this edition,
for it is hard to pursuade men to work
under steady and dangerous fire."
Year: 1873

w If if be asked what the Patrons
ot Husbandry have already accom-
plisbed, let it be told to their credit
TINT tho progress of their movement
has led to reduction of the passenger
tariff on the Illinois railroads from FIVE.
to three cents mile.
Year: 1873

SEC. l. There shall be elected by the legal
voters Of the respective counties in Washing
ton Territory, county superintendent of COM
mon schools for each county. who shall be
elected at the general election of 1872. and at
the regular election held hiennially thereafter,
who shall hold his office for the term of two
years and unit! his successor is elected or ap


pointed and qualified. And in case of a va
cancy- occurring in said Office by removal,
death or otherwise, the county commissioners
Of each county are authorized to appoint
county school superintendent as in all other
cases Of vacancies in their respective counties


who .hall qualify in tho came manner a. the