The Brussels Post, 1892-6-3, Page 66
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AGRICULTURAL.
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Mute te DairVneen.
itv osto. 11. i1iWl1LL,
Most of the dairies are but recently par.
turiont and are more suseeptible to ultanges
-of temperature than they were a mouth ago.
It is a greeter risk to allow a new mileh
animal to shift forhereelf tebout the liernVerd
LOW t111111 it W0111)1 to h11,V0 so neglected lieu
before celving. A warm well- ventilated
stable, with a few hours daily t x enlists in it
aunty yard, and an ensilage diet, or gvain
and hay, i whet. Is making many dairies
Profitable here early in the season,
These same dairymen make it 0 rule that
their ilOWS shall " keep off t lw erase " until
the grass is high enough to support .11mm In
this northernnee 1 1
ta.s ewes 1101 Often
OVC111, till well into -May, evil letee known
matte: careful dairymen to give st grain ration I
-also Into 1 000
The 1100.1 experieneed, however, tleelare
that feeding grain 10 eOWS 111 the :lush of
grass never seemed to pay financially, al-
though it often did iluting a droughty
August or September. It certainly pests to
feed grain now, however, and there are but
few dairYinen unless they have plenty oi
ensilage brit what aro se doingin a greater
or lees degree. . Even many ensilage Seeders
give a grain ration besides, end get their
money back Nett h 8 protit.
There are two period0 of the year here
when the majority of the COWS are in milk
that it pays to feed heroically. and that G
111 Sprinetime and Keii. Cheeee.lietter and -
milk ere' 11011 usually higher in Ink.) then
through midsummer, end the wise dairymen
take advantage thereof.
Of eourse in Winter dairy petees rale the
highest, but Winter tiairiee ere nes Vet 111
the majority, and do net Auwe unefer snar
present °beery:Item
Ocoasionally we dud tr. deiryteen wte
still makes up ins milk at :term tato iseeese.
Unlees emit it estater 'Li fee remiseed fro=
O factory. I dostetesz et nays etee tf1)1
extra, laissr hv 'tved io nen eases ea
equipment 0.1 a:caret...le einemeesset, svite
it$ ecneequent internee 111iassrestee, ep. etei
his time nest he viand:led. Pee were. in
hand foe from see to neet hems deity.,
The reenit tiaturaily ties sase '1,11 1
leave the meek to an etreed tes 'vette h -e es
called to a distant pert el ,ses laro 2ree
town on businese.
As " teeny .meits spot1 tee haNth."
especially when some es' seem aae very in.
experienced, the leismeneseie :idesee is etten
liable to tarn set badly SS za tmegettze,ss oi
• quality. I d not mean et he emderatood
as :intimating that :lee eseesise .sennot be
made on the Gun, for it is poesible to pro-
duce just as good o'ueee.e at bum as good
hitler.
I do say, however, that the general con-
ditions are not favorable for such a result
In average cases, if the dairyman gives
proper attention to the cheese room, he is
obliged to neglect some detail of labor
abont the premises, and vice versa. The
steady confinement:, too, over so small a
quantity of milk for manufacture grows
irksome, and the amount saved by home.
making rarely pays for all of the trouble
involved.
Dairymen should not this Spring fail to
make preparations for planting or sowing
the usual amount of fodder corn. The cus.
tom originated 08 00 offset against droughty`
seasons, but now it has been learned that
the most favorable season could not supply
a grass substitute equal to it. In regard to
the immense yield of fodder that may be
taken from a small area of ground, combin-
ed with excellent quality, makes Indian
Corn one of the best friends of the dairyman.
Provided there is an unfavorable season for
grass, it becomes doubly serviceable in mak.
ing_up the deficiency.
HOW many datrymen have ever dragged
their pastures over in the. Spring with a
commou Interest,: We do 1101 1)1500 a epring-
tooth harrew that would tear up the turf
badly, but a drag with straight iron teeth.
In some part of the country where Winter
wheat is largely raised, farmers very often
drag their wheel fields in the Spring to in-
crease the yield, which it is stud to do ma.
terially. Dragging pastures has also been
tried, and with good success, It loosens
the soil about the grass roots and sets the
feed into a thuifty, vigorous growth. Try
it on a small scale with a sharp, short.
toothed drag that will not dig into the roots
too deeply.
Raspberries—A ReVie w.
Fifteen to twenty years ago there began
rapid increase in the planting of blackcap
raspberries. The facility with which they
could be evemorated and in evaporated form
seek distant markets, and the high prioes
commended, led many to believe that their
culture could be extended almost without
limit, without overstocking the inarket or
greatly reducing the price, Farmers plant-
ed twenty.five, fifty, seventy-five and in
some oases 100-aore plantations, with the
result, I think of a much greater proper.
tion of failures among raspberry growers
than among growers of ordinary farm crops.
Causes of failure were numerous—soil in
poor condition, weak plants, careless plant-
ing, indifferent cultivation, lack of capacity
to manage numerous employes to advantage,
unfavorable seasons, decline in prices, etc.
But the oases may be summed up in the
helm° to keep plantations up to maximum
yields. It is possible, under good, intense
culture, to make blackcaps yield at the rail°
of 150 bushels per acre. This, allowing the
rows to be six feet apart and plants three
feet apart in the row, 2,420 plants to the
acre would be only two :parts to a hill.
At ono cent net a quart 150 bushe's would
amount to 848, a good paying rate. Bet
come to reduce the yield one half or two•
thircle, which would more nearly represent
the average yield during the existence of a
planbation—say Silt years—and you have
but 824 and 116 an acre—rather poor pay
for a business requiring so much expendi.
ture of capital end brain effort,
The history of a blaokottp plantation is
something like this: First year, all expendi.
tura, no return ; second year, small yield,
perhaps one-fourth quart per hill, about
twenty bushels per acre, insufficient to pay
cost of cultivation marketing or evaporat.
ing ; third year, half to two-thirds of a
maximum crop, if under excellent effitiva.
tion; fourth year, maximum crop; fifth
year, decline of onesthira in yield; sixth
year, decline of one.lialf, no longer pays.
Time was when the profits from sale of ber-
ries oould be supplemented by Halo of plants,
but of late years prieee of plants of ordin-
ary varieties have ruled so low De hardly to
covet:cost of extra labor, diminution of yield
of fruit, selling, slapping, etc,
Now, the only way, in my opinion, to
reale blackoape pay, ist to plant every year
a small plantation, on land under high oul.
ture, grow between the rows—the first year
—a mop of potatoes, oebbages beans or
sweet norn, to pay rent of land and of oulti.
voting mines and vegetables; orowd the
canes to their mmximum yield as onTly as pos.
81110, practice rigid economy in every minu.
tiest,and, 00 soon as the yield decline:1 much
below Om maximum, tear out the roots and
sow grain mope, seeding down to °lover.
Tho temptation to continuo a plantation
OM' 11,. piers it:ter prof •
halite is irreeistiblo, but yielded to 11 lever.
iably Gaels to luso,
I have dwelt especially upon thebleekettp
bemuse that is the species that hes been
planted mon extensively by farmers, anti
has been the steam of greatest loss. The
same principlee are ap 'livable, to a limited
extent, to the red veep serry, but Inasmuch
as that sprents trete its romo instead of
growing out from a siugleroot its prolanhkt
existence may be longer prolongedbyjudin-
otts selections of sprouts for bearing canes,
promptly end relentlessly treating all others
att weeds, and keeping highly fertilised,
cultivat et1 mei pruned 111100 Ithown red
raspberries to yield very fair erops from
pin» 81 1,1,0 sot :11100 years. Growing
easel wins is properly le/then-Imre, 18111 up.
plemg attrienitural methods to tile 1111$1110AS
011110.1 invariably lettils to dienster,
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Plowing Under Manure.
How deep shall manure be plowed under?
It is all 11111101111M tilleRti011 alld dle answer
mast depetid on many widely differing eir-
cultist:taws. Manure freshly spread en the
surface in Spring or 1311 10 usually plowed
too deeply for the greaten benefit to the
fleet crop. If applied in the Tall it is ben
used as a top -dressing, as all the tulles., e.
during the Winter moeths is to until its fer-
tility downward still farther. 1 f ,8p1110.1 it
spring it had beet on plowed under net very
deeply for etill another reason. Tow con.
etier how smell a depth ordinary Summer
reins penetrate. After a smart shower the
soil is not moietened mom than three or four
itteliee ,leep, eften not half that. If the nta.
nese le plowed under RIX or seen) inehes
deep i: centinues dry all S'umneir and dues
little good to the first crop.
if tee re inure has been spread upon the
grout -pi 114 ttlat Winter snows anti Spring
rains have iserrie-1 emett of its soluble matter
lute the set. it is, still better mu to plow
steeely. Rees: within reach of Sutntner
73100 end In '0,:i12212i11 with soil that has re.
seieeit .0.110.1) portlens, it will torment
more dtly. Still nore important than
tees. it is in ration to be thoroughly mixed
the surfaee soil by deep cultivation
early al the season. We hold that the first
setssatien of corn or potatoes should be
deep, sesing down to the bottom of the fur-
row. end miegling with: the soil through the
whele depth by this first cultivation is -pre.
parel thereaiter to do whatever good it is
C.3.p4.0 of doing to the crop.
This is equally important to the owner
and to the renter of land. The old idea
that if somehow a considerable part of op -
plied manures is not used by the first erop
it is held for subsequent years has been
pretty thoroughly exploded. What soil
fertility is made by deep plowing of ina.
nue in the bottom of the furrow is carried.
downward by rains and melted snows. If a
clover crop at once follows it may being
something of it to the surface nein. Deop
plowing scarcely will though it brings to
the surface the remains of manure froin
which most of its fertility has been weehed
out.
In either case then shallow Spring plow-
ing is best. It keeps the manure and the
richest part of the soil near tho surface, and
within reach of plants as they start. Every
farmer knows that much depends on giving
his crops as vigorous a send-off as possible.
He can do this by coneentrating as much as
be can the fertility of the soil within a few
inches of the surface. Its is o,s had farming
to make manure cover a largo amount of
land vertically as it is horizontally. Iu fact,
11 15 worse, for too deep plowing carries
with it not merely the applied manure, but
inneh of the natural soil fertility where the
roots of plants cannot easily reach it.
A Home -Made Refrigerator.
Now that ice is furnished at such reason-
able rates nountty housekeepers bare cuts -
ed to consider it 0 hmury. But, ottentimes,
a woman who needs this help tn simmer
housekeeping is prevented for lack of 5, le
frigerator. The patent ones ere eepeesit e,
and mere or less troublesome. ‘Vi /bout the
greatest care there is always a close, musty
smolt about them, which makes one beep
tate to put in them such absorbent food as
milk and butter.
As the writer has used a home-made ice
box for several years, she would like to give
her readers the benefit of her experience,
with directions for making this most sada.
fautory artiole, 1110110 built directly on
the =Andy cellar bottom, and was really
nothing mere than two square boxes, ono
about a toot entailer thau the other, with
the space between packed with sawdust.
Each box had a hinged cover. The ice
VMS placed on a reek at the bottom of the
inuer box, whenee, as it slowly melted, the
water sank into the soil. This imer
box was im arranged that the shelves might
be placed at different heights, according to
the amount of ice, On these shelves the
food wits placed, and the only inoonvetsienise
of the whole arreugement came when t resit
ice must be put in. Then a part or all 01
the shelves had to be takeu out ; but this
had to be done far lees often than in any
ordinary refrigerator, as the ice wasted
very slowly. The air in the me was al.
ways pure and sweet, and the the food Was
kept at a lower temperature than in MOSt
ice boxes. Enough simple board sheivee
were provided so that one set could be scrub.
bed and dried in the open air each week.
Making and Keeping Manure.
If the farmer cannot draw his manure to
the fields as fast as it ie made, it should be
piled, free from sinkholes, and to guard as
far as possible against the evil and malarial
consequences of being too Dear the barn, I
am absolutely opposed to manure basements
under the amble. Experience taught me the
da»gers of the manure heap. My barn had
O largo manure pit direetly below the cows.
The cellar was below the ground surface
and the surfaoe water accumulated. In
driving the cows to the field one dropped
dead. A veterinary surgeon could not dia.
cover the came. The next day another cow
dropped deed. 1 went right, to work, took
up the stable floor, drew every particle of
the manure out, whitewashed everything
put the floor back and never a siek animal
alter that. The poleonons gases from the
mature stable wore the sole muse of sick-
ness and death.
Keep your manure away from your
buildings. It breeds inaleria, sickness and
death, I do not believe in liquil vault%
but bed and litter the cattle thoroughly
with out straw. Keep everything clean
and get it away frotn the been. Do not
house the manure under eover, but draw
it directly to the ilelde. Let the sun and
tho rain return i1 again to the earth, to
bring forth the wealth of the soil.
Eminently Proper.
Protby Giel e "Do you think it would bo
immodest for a woman to propose during
leap year S"
Old Bachelor (fervently) 1 "No, indeed ;
no, indeed, I think it would bo eminently
sensible,"
Pretty Girl; " That's just what. / told
old Mrs. Sourface, who admires you so
much 1 but she mid you'd be ehocked. PE
ran end toll hen"
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PEASIS 02 TRUTH.
Parents cling to their child, not to his
gifts.
rodeo sohoining demands omniscience.
Sel(-respeet is the corneratone of all vir
John Herschel.
Patietoe, Wisdom and Outtmg, ese three
mains who never turn beck for itnything.
No man is wholly intolerant ; everyone
forgives little errors without knowing 11,
'rime, are few doors through which file
etetlity and good humor will not thul their
way.
A grateful mind iR 1101 0111 till) greatesl
a virtues, but the parent a all the other
V..tu
Not seldom tho snrest remedy for an evil
consists in forget tilIg it.
He Wilt) ileRiliSt0 111111111illd will never get
the best eut of either othere or himself.
We have got minds and souls as well as
hearts 1 anibition and talents as Well ail
beam), and aecomplishments ; and we went
to live and learn ad well as love and be
lot ed.
Nothing is mere expensive than pentri-
ousnass ; nothing more anxious then care.
lesmess ; and every duty which is 1)itltieti
' to wadi, returns with seem fresh (luau at
its back.
All Msellief conies from our not, being
able to be alone ; hence play, luxury, dire
sipetIon, wine, ignorance, calumny, envy,
forgetfulnese of one's self and of God.
It takes so little to neeke a ohild happy
that it is a pity, in a world full of suuseine
• and1 t thi Ott thve esheuld be
p ocean ngs,
, env wistful faces, empty hands or lonely
young hearts.
" Mutt mortal is there of us who would
!foul his satisfaction enhanced by an oppor-
tunity of comparing aliopicture he presents
to himself of his own doings with the picture
they make on the Menial red um of bis neigh.
bors.
Many men to whom the community is
very largely he •.'sied do not aotuelly con-
tribute lenge atemmts of motley to Merit ies
but giro the eoUlettleat in Service and in
thoughtful enpettvision of orgaeleed efforts
to help those in distrese or in used.
"You mild never think you oen tarn over
any old fasehood without. a terrible squirm-
ing and scattering uf the horrid little papa
Patton that dwells under R.—Every 1001
thought on every real sebjeot k nooks the
wind out of somebody or other,"
Olimatio Ghanges.
The changes of terrestrial climate have
been many and various. Myrtles and tree
ferns once flourished 111 Greenland ; coral
insects built on the shores of Melville Is.
laud ; nautilmos saled over what must
then have been the tepid seas about Spitz-
bergeu. But with the him of ages the
scene changed, and worse than Retie rigors
spread in regions now enjoying temperate
climates. Possibly not for the first time.
ThePermian was certainly en inclement age,
and its inclemency seetns even to have
reached the point of glaciation in the west
of England and Ireland, yet it was preceded
and succeeded by a long peevalence of trope
ical conditions. These assuredly reigned
without interruption, in north temperate
and polar regions throughout the vast ex-
panse of Tertiary time. Palms and oyeads
then sprang up in the room of oaks and
beeches in N.Ingland ; turtles and ormodiles
baunted English rivers tied estuaries ; lions,
elephants, and hyouas roamed at large over
English dry land.
In Switzerland a mean temperature equal
to that of North Africa at the present time
is shown by its fossil flora to have prevailed
during tho Miocene or Middle Tertiary
epoch. Anthropoid apes lived la Germany
and Trance, fig and cineameu trees flourish-
ed at Dantzia ; in Greenland, up to 700 of
latitude, magnolias bloomed and vines rip-
ened their Ault, while in Spitzbergen and
even in Grinnell Land, within little more
than 80 of the pale, swamp cypresses and
walnuts, cedars, limes, planes, end poplars
grew freely, water blies covered over stand.
ing pools, and trieee lifted their tall heads
by the margins of streams and rivers.
RAILROAD RUM SLINGS,
Russia, has a 408 -mile electric railroad.
Our railroads own 27,000 passenger car s
Baltitnore is to have an elevated railroad
costing $1,000,000.
Four railway companies, the Great West-
ern, the Great Eastern, the Southwestern
and the Northwestern, bring into London
about 20,000,000 gallons of milk every day.
It is proposed to run from Now York to
Chicago, at the time of the dodicetion of the
Expoaition buildings, ten speidal trains, ten
minutes apart, each train to have elaborate
decorations and music. It is believed that
fully 5,000 people will wane to melte the
trip.
Electricity is now being used in Georgia
or ginning 0011011.
If you are a thorough Christian you will
be an attractive one. Be joyful—that is,
full of joy. Carry joy in your heart and
let its light shine in your countenance,
The floats scrgeon
Of the Lubon Medical Company is now at
Toronto, Canada, and may be consulted
either in person or by letter On all chronio
diseases peculiar to mem Mtn, young, old,
or middle.aged, who find themselvee nem
oue, weak and exhausted, who are broken
down from excess or overwork, resulting in
many of the following symptoms : Mental
depression, premature old ago, loss of vital.
by, loss of memory, bad dreams, dimness of
tight, palpitation of the heart, emissions,
Jack of energy, peen 10 the kindeys, head.
isohe, pimples on the face or body, itching
or peculiar sensation about the scrotuin,
westing of the organs, dizziness, spooks
before the eyee, twitching of the muscles,
eye lids and elsewhere, bashfulness, deposits
in the urine, loss of willpower, tenderness of
the noalp and spine,weak and flabby lunacies,
desire to sleep, failure to be rested by sleep,
oonatipation, dullness of hearing, loss of voice,
desire for solitude, excitability of temper,
sunken eyee surrounded with LEADZir 0111000,
oily looking skin, ole., are all symptoms of
hervous debility that lead to insanity and
death unless mired. Tho spring or vital
force having lost its tension every function
tames in con:sequence. Theiie who through
raue csommitted m ignorance may be pee-
nently cured, Send your addrese for
;took on all dieeases peoulier to men.
Booke sent free sealed, Heardisemse, the
symptoms of which are fsAntspolls, purple
lips, numbness, palpitation, skip beats,
hot flushes, lush of blood to the head, chill
pain in the heart with beats strong, rapid
kand irregular, the econd heart beat
Vaster than the first, pain about the breaet
%ono, etc, can positively bo cured. No oure,
tie pey. Send- for book, Address, IL V.
:LIMON, 2 Macdonoll A.vo. Toronto, Ont,
Yvette GAIL ort, tile Parieian mustiedsall
Singer, 11181115 111.0,000 Et year. -
Agricultural Depressiou in the 'United
BLutor; Oatmes and Ouro.
lir ioN, 10, 1 8asicAnoN,
liy mow woll-ineaning people it le not be.
tiered that there is :my real dopeoseion 111
agrieult nee, peels:me largely growing out of
tho faet tint pole ical necessity esteem to re.
quire party ergene to 100011 the niatisee
otherwiets, Must of space and time will
prevent, my going largely into details, I
fnaleitts' ,1"t)%%•rli(i \t:17, glivtlialtrt,'"e'lteloitiTymti.;10v8‘:01.1i1bit
position I have assumed.
11 will not he ..lispoted 111181 ix; the host,
twenty years the eggeegat 0 w).,11 1) of tho
temetry hae inereased move rispiilly than
ever before. This being true, it would
naturals, fellow that farmers slued:1110w be
hell er inorc prosperous, awl [twit. lands
worth reiatively more than in the past. Fur
11 will it"' b" denk'd 111111 Om lexe"es 1 Pert'
of the watith of the nation comae teem the
growing, harvesting and distriblitiOn of the
products of tho soil, This beiug 1110 time,
with a fair distribution of the pieweeda
farming ought to be, and MAIM he, a VMS -
porous and everduereesing profitable busmen
to those engaged thane Unfortunately,
fact% experience and statistics prove exact-
ly the contrary,
Forty years ago farmers owned 0 very
much larger proportion of the nation'a
wealth thin now. Farmers owned of the
wealth of the Imam :
In 1830, five.eightlis ;
In 1800, lees than onc.half ;
In 1870, IL little over une-third ;
In 1880, a little over one.fourili ;
In 1800, less than one-tif tie
This, too, while farmers compose over 00
per cent, ofthe population and pay over 87
per cent. of the lanes, from which (if you
will allow the digression) it will be emu
that tbe application of the Henry George
land -tax scheme wonld not senously afoot
us if we paid the other 13 per cent, and let
the "world go free,"
These peculiar hardehips to the farmers
will be further and better understood when
WO nate the feet that while the total wealth
of the nation is given as 805,000,000,1,03 in
round numbers, only 817,000,000,000 is tax.
ed, tencl of this 814,000,000,000 18 charged
up to the farmers.
Statistics also show that while manufac.
tures anti general commerce have greatly
inorensed, agriculture, while large In volume
has, notwithstanding our marvelous agicul-
tura! growth and expansion into the almost
illimitable farming lands of the 1Vest and
Northwest, 1 al len off fearfully in oomparieon
-eith other industries. While to many it
would seem but fair to conclade that with
Proper treatment and proteution agriculture
would have maiutained its original high
position, I presume uone will deny that
nothing but most oppressive and inequal
burdens conkl have reduced it to its
present humiliating and unnatural rola.
tion. As further proof of our rapid an.
slavement through the reduction of tile cue-
reney, through railroad pools and other un-
godly combinations hereinafter referred to,
other ssetisties show that while in 18137 the
average value of wheat per acre was 123.05,
during the ten years ending in 1800 the av-
erage Nalue was only 810.58 per acre—less
than half of what it was in 1807. Corn Since
1807 has gradually come down from 518,87
per acre to 88.82 in 1888. In 1807 farmeors
received from the05
cultivation of ,000,050
acres $1,284,037,300,while from 141000,000
acres in 1887 they received only Si ,204,281e•
370. Thus from the cultivation of more
then double the number of eaves, and con.
sequently of more than double the expense
and labor, farmers received about 580,000,-
in.0001 sle6s7H in 1887 than for the 05,000,002 acres
The further beneful effect and enamel re-
sult of these facts and this experience have
been to seriously affect the value of our
farms—for like any other property farms
are only valuable iu proportion to the urof-
its derived therefrom—so that where it,
takes two acres to yield what ono did be-
fore, the two are worth no more, but less
than the ono was Irene° NVe find that in
the lands of this State, Womb Virginia awi
others of which 1 1111010, there is a domes-
sion or loss in value of from 40 to 00 pee
cent. from tyliat these lauds were worth 20
3, ears ago. To illustrate I give the resitle of
actual taloa whioh have come under my owu
observation :
A 120 -acre farm near Flemington, N. J.,
sold in 187(1 for 110,000.
The seam farm sold in 1889 for 85,280.
A farm of 25 acme sold in 1870 for 55,000.
The same farm sold in 1886 for 13,000.
The same farm sold in 1880 for 82,000.
A farm of 218 neves sold in 1880101' 1)17,876.
The same farm sold its 1 890 for 18,001.
A farm of 200 novas sold in 1072 for 521 ,000,
The same farm sold in 088! for 11 0,400.
The seine farm sold in 1889 for 88,200
A farm of 98 agree sold in 1 877 for 88,882,
The same farm sold in 1 800 for 14,132.
Allowing for variations in surroundings
and eircumstaucee, 1110111 bo seen, as shtted,
that farming lands have decreased in wane
abont one-half in the lest 20 years. Now
for the en.use.
First, from the sin of °minim:ion. During
the war, and jest after, immense wealth was
°rented and thereby the great enteral greed
of gam of individuals and cornet:atone
wonderfully excited and accelerated. There
being jnet after the war no vett moral
issue espoused to keep pure by agiettion
the political atmospeere—tho people, as
represented by the dominant party (of
which your oorresponilent was a member')
oongratulating themselves on the grout evork
that; had boon done and forgetting thee
eternal vigilance everywhere, and in every
age, is ithe priae of libet by—scomingly de.
termini:el to take a long root, thus leaving
in abeyance thab gthater ourse—the abo-
lition of rum, which, in 1854, Horace
Greeley declared to be the meet itnportant,
far.reaching end urgent of all the questions
coaeouting the Notion.
Thereafter pampered, rather than ham.
pored, by the Government, this mighty
agency of the devil, finding the people 0,1
ease and asleep, found in tho selfish greed
of individuals and corporations, with little
or no moral force in the body politic, in:4
the poluted political miasma to germinate
and rapidly perfect, through cosoperation
with the soon.to-be-enthronod corporations
end Money Power, the political combine.
tions that now, in conjunction with those
oorporations, combines and trusts, have re•
duced us to a serfdom and slavery snore op-
pressive and degrading than that from which
the patriot, sires of '76 delivered us, mut
much as no other republic in modern times
has ever endured.
The late honored Searffiney of the Teem.
tley, William Windom, said notIong before
Ins death that, directly and indirectly, this
mighty cierse---the liquor traffic --cost the
Notion one billion three hundred and fifty
million dollere per annum When you re-
member thate even with the "I3illionsBollar
Congress," the total expenses ef the f lovern.
inent aro now loss than ono.thirci ef that
sum, you eat form 801110 idea or
nor's 14.101 consumption and see , •
wane of rem material resources .; if
1,10`13 abilted (111d illiS moonlit three s
into tho logithitete trade of the Netten
would 10 infinitely More to restore oer
financial prosperity then all the remedial
patiamits now so uvgently advocated by the
great poll t ical woolcl.hs finanoiers 111 or out
of e'en:teas% Tholes feeds justified the honor-
ed eateseteasy's declaration in a Fourth of
J 111 y address; that considered either " 11 nen.
Melly, socially or morally," the eillfin'oesion
of the liquor linen° wait the gleittest of all
brines before the American people, and that
the doetrtietion of t crime 'moil next, on
he eitleitilee of the world's pregress.
With this worse than the " tout of all
villainies, driving seen to hell like sheep,"
mei with a full hand driving the chariots
a both the great parties a um (mantes, up-
held and suppoettel by it e 1851111121 181(110, OM
enthronetleorporations, (111510and eon-11;11We,
the wonder hi that WO IWO 1101 01/10.0)17001 tilld
plundered worse than We aro,
Statietice show that them. fifths of the
entire wealth of the 00111 113' is now owned
by one-twentioth of one per mut, of the
people, there boing over 1..),01)11
where We had lint two thirty yome ago,
We are wont to believe that aristetwatio old
England Is the land of rioh lords and rover.
ty.strilten masses. We need not, longer
WaSte Our sympathies on her.
Permit just one illustration of how these
monopolies 10 oonjunotion with the vein]
politicians' elected by tho liquor tragic: have
subjugated and robbed us. lea after the
war the coal oil men found that by quick
combination and eoncentration of capital
they coula, with the co.operation of the rail-
voads, monopolize that trade. Tho loading
Republican mine a our State lately, in
referring to this matter, mks telly it it that
noW that crude oil is down to almost noth-
ing (a fraction over a cent per nlion), the
mace of relined oil is kept so high 1 I am
told that 2 :tents per gallon is a liberal al.
lo ;ranee for reeninu the oil. Then, Bay
with original con, and carriage 010 put the
crude oil at 13 cents, we have cents as the
cost. Atld 50 per cent:as profit to the refiner-
ies, you heve the oil etll cents. Allow the
meramit 38 per cent, for dealing it out to
00would give 11`, t 113 oil at 8 cents ; whereas
the facts aro tint in most places we pay
nearly double that price -13 cents per
gallon. Thee, the farmer goes to market
with his bushel of corn'tho price of which
Is lixed tho ineroliont, and gets his 0011
of oil,stty three galena for 43 00018,24 eents
of which is fair legitimate trade, tbe other
231 mute the robbery resulting from 100801).
011'.
Some of my agricultural brethren will
say. " You may forget that the reduction
of tho 001051103 11111 denffinetizateen ol silver
is the came of our troubles." These are
sot the cause, but a consequence 01 1110 00.
premaey of the money power, aided by. the
saloon politici ms, whose interest it is to
make money scarce aud high and property
low. Others will say 11 10 exhorbitant freighe
and othet, corporation Charges that are tho
eauSes of tom depression. But these aro but
the natural outgrowth of a corrupt political
supremacy.
One party insists that the Sub. -Treasury
plan would be the great penmen, for all our
troubles, forgetting that with the corpora-
tions, trusts and combines, enthroned Sub.
Tree:allies would be used by them for the
further robbery ot the people.
Another says Bile more currency that will
bring prosperity to the people. Granting
the absolute necessity fee such increase,
without a radical change in the politioal
government of the Nation, this tvould be
&unsettlecl by the same sharks that are now
devourmg our substance.
Perhaps in this dire extremity you may
look to the Democratic Party for relief. But
what have you to Moe for in the way of
moral reform without which flea:mine bete 1
terments is an iinpossibility from a party
perfectly subservient La the power that has
debauched the body politic, creating the
malaria from which the germs of political
corruption have developed into the insati-
ate wormy power that new enslaves us?
In giving the cause of agricultural depres-
shm as political sill and corruptiom we in.
(Beate the cum—political eightennsuees and
morality—"A corrupt tree amulet bring
forth good fruit." ;Neither do men gather
grapea teem thorns, 1101' figs from thistles,
As farmers we shall just tw soon fill our bins
in Ohl way as we shall reap 11101 whiell 38
our due from the wealth we produce, while
the government is controlled by either of
the great spoileseeking organizations of to.
day.
Then do you ask is there no way to remit
a cure ? Yes, there is a way, and that is
God's way, and there is no other way. And
though we may, like the unjast judge,
neither fear God me regard man, we wilt
remain in the tionds of iniquity (financial
ruin) and the gall of bitterness (political en-
slavement) until we accept his way, which
we steadfastly believe to be, Ent by our
influence, prayers an1 votes, wo make the
dominant political issue the abolition of the
!optima liquor traffic, the destruction of
widish we most earnestly believe stands
next on Go Ps calendar of the world's pro -
geese.
Upon thio issue,by the blessing of God,
either through the Prohibitien Party or
some other =boded:so 110 primiples, there
will, in GOd'S Own good time, come to the
throne of power in this lend a party that
will execute the will of God in the &sum.
Ron of this crime of critnes, aod by the
moral force resulting therefrom, turn out
the money changers, dethrone corporations,
trusts ittel combines, and bring beak to us
that righteoneness that exalteth a Natiou,
and brings peace and prosperity to the
people. Dell will come as did the abolition
of human slavery—by the dynamite of God
Ahnighty's wratle—Madicial Hill, Keyser,
W, Va, N.Y. Voice.
Silk Stookings,
Wo venture to say, says the Philadelphia,
Times, that 11 0113 girl were to come into a
sudden forbune and were asked what she in.
tended to buy first she would reply,
dozen pairs 01 silk stockings." Silk hosiery
and underwear meet with a responsive chord
in a woman's heart thais even diamonds ottn
not touch. What 11 15 eo me knows.
Why silk should bo so far more appreeiat-
od than the finest lisle thread which may be
equally expensive, is a problem past finding
out. 13ut the feet remains, and. Paris ahop
dealers, reoognizing this failing, keep all
sorts and grades, but nevertheless silk, so
that 01,518 moderato purses eon revel 10 pur.
domes of the one great luxury of an essen.
Melly feminine woman. There is a won.
dean' satisfaction in knowing that one is
dressed even better undorneath than outside
and as a very pretty girl remarked : "1 al-
ways think of befog thrown ou1 of a car-
riage or having a fit or something that
would necessitate the exposure of my petti-
coats ; therefore, whether in gingham or
velvet I mem to have my vest, corset,
stockings and poistiooet of alit."
Some wanton will &donne° the argument
that they oto cooler for summer, buts they
have nothing to sey when they are accused
of wearing tho seine weight through tho
winter month% Go whore you will end
question whom you like, you will ilio.
over tint above pretty 3e2115 aim bonnets,
dainty fineies and even jewole a woman
gonninely 'enjoys the luxury of wonetug sillt
docking%
llouse C:o.miug Time,
The ,Alver of t he 'harry No WON,
th, hough,
.^11ilirnit 41.'11 lir ditiniffile
(1.1,111,1 the
But. for 1110 41: 1. 1 tas gold
must !Mt, 01, nor
Thor come -1 Ile painter w 111 his
The 11'101011,1•01 00111 10
O. who! a 1110010,1'y 1R 1001 --
Tim 11,11 1011100 dewy prime,
The fairestday, or earth and sky,
Ate, /sal "hens° cs matte Minn
effil 11 more tif rapture 111 their note,
Than in ail human werds,
Loud sing 10111)0 the tasseled. wonas
'Me semi r or ilto birds.
lint 1101 for 0 0 1 1101r morn, songs,
Or blooming of the tram, -
Ti lc aiond of carpethrating come,
11,0.. In on every hrecret
Alld1 11111)4 1)1'11.11 UM eolmobs down,
And PIV tho busy broom,
111,1 strew, neatenthe lurking moth,
wu h ininsinc all tha room!
ThiN,111hileo 01 00111 and all',
80,00t A131.1111;'a ertlgrallt prime,
w h v is it that IL brings to me,
Alas: "housenleaning timer
innmi,Ass.
The Emannipation of a Wife,
The diecueslons of the General Federation
of Women's clubs, hold recently in Chicago,
covered a broad area of topies, ranging from
the ernaneipat on of women to the cleaning
of alley% front female suffrage to kinder-
garten% from the qualities of the Greek
811010011 ill Homer to the most deleetable
methods of making manneledes. Nothing
It has done sluring tho litst two years, how-
ever, nothing it has 1a11 out to ilo during
the next, two yeare, 0011 aompitre eithee 10
female fortitucle or in advantage to woman
as a wifo, struggling to fruetrate the schemes
of the tyrant man, with thetask which Mrs.
Frank Leslie bee sot berself about to com-
pass. 11 0110 succeeds, it will be the most
notable victory for her sex woman has ac-
complished yet ; if BM bale, ho cause of
100111011 ill this direction will languish for
Home time yet, 01 1111111 seem more puissant
ulinanpion of woman's rights shall come to
light.
The exact task which Mrs. Leslie has set
out to aeminplish is to vegetate a lazy hus-
band and make him work. It will be re.
membered that after many vicissitudes of a
marital character Mrs Leslie succeeded re-
cently in landing Mr, Willie Wilde as a
husband. Mr. Willie Wilde belongs to a
family over which the stetely Lady Wilde
presides and in which the sunflower end
green pink Oscar posee foe the admiration
of the lean end clinging esthetes 01 1110 other
sex wile worship at his eccentrie shrine. The
nobility of labor has not seriously impress-
e,l this family, whieh is more addicted to
languishing and lolling than to hustling for
a living, and since one of its scions has allied
hintsell with the rich American widow the
disposition to indulge in ecstasies and lilies
has been encouraged still further. This
view of the 000e has particularly impressed
itself upon Mr. Willie Wilde, who, now that
he finds 111111801f learned Loan active woman
of business with a handsome fortune, does
not see why be should not be suppot tett by
her and allowed to recline in rosy beds of
014110. Mrs. Leslie, howeeer, does not share
this conviction with her husband, and pro.
P500 to apply the berme remedy. Before
she married NY illie ho had shown an earning
power of about 50,000 a year. She is re.
solved he shall continue to retinal. OM,
er a remonableamouut by labor or)o sh Minot
have a cent of the money. Woree than that,
he will not only have to bustle for himself
but ho will linen to quit the Leslie Muse and
seek lodgings elsewhere.
To solve OM problem Mrs. Leslie has
taken Willio with her to London, 111111
her case squarely before the Wilde family,
which is new sitting in selemn conclave
upon the =Ater, trytng to devise means tio
serve the situation, for, 10 10 said, the RUB.
tere Lady Wilde does not enjny the prospect
of losing her new daughtcr-indaw, and the
dawdling Omer still lees enjoys the pros-
pect of losing such a charming and well en-
dowed sister.indaw, whose elegant home
protnises to be an ad vantageous headquarters
when next he comes to this uountry to make
further conquests 01110113 )to languishing
esthetes. Iles. Leslie hes given the Wildes
a reasonable time to make a 1100101011. If
Willie decides to go to work and earn his
55,000 per annum elle will bring him back
with her and allow him to share the luxur-
ies of her elegant home et Garnett, for
boarding at which 5.5,1.03 a year is not an
exorbitant stun. If he declines to do it,
then she will leave him behind in London,
free to live where he pleases, to do what Ile
please% and to pay his board ea he best can.
Such is the situation. Willie Wilde must
learn to work or be must cease to be May
Leelie's husband. It is due to her to say
that she did not tweet, to thie crucial tests
until she bad labored with the young man
long and earnestly, seelcing to impress upon
him the idea of the nobility of labor.
lloral suasion failed to have any effect upon
the young gentlemen, however, as ho bo.
longs to a lazy, dawdling lot, whose heaviest
work here been to lean on mantel pieoes
1e01 languorously contemplate green pinks.
This sort of foolishness, however, will uot,
go down with Mrs. Fmk Leslie. Willie
muse earn his board or quit. The result of
the experiment will be watched with much
interest, and there will be no oecesion to
sympathize with Mrs, Leslie. Her loss
will be on the other side. If she carries
her point, however, ib will be a distinct gain
for women, paretoularly 100111011 who have
made the mistake of marrying foreieners
who have contended the matrimonial al-
liance for the money there's in it. If Mrs.
Leslie succeeds, why should they not also
notify their titled lords that they must go
to work aud earn their board or quit?
Compared with the experiment in clomesbie
economy inaugurated by Mrs. Leslie, all
that the Federation of Woman's Clubs no-
complished was of small amount—provided
elm succeeds. And eve believe alio will, for
she is a woman of energy, business talent
and considerable experience in managing
the masculine animal.
Brooding an Unwholesome Occupation.
What le called in common parlance
"brooding" is a very unwholesome °coupe,
tion of the mind and leads to most milieppy
consequences. If one should stand for a
continuous period on one foot he would
after a thee grow one-siclod. Readers of
"Ben Huts" will remember that Bon Hur
Secured the privilege of vowing firsb on one
side of tho galley and then on the other,
that Ito mighb not lose the perfect symmetry
of his phyaioal development, Wo need to
use all the faculties of our mind ill 10110 to
keep ourselves in poise and not to lose the
use of any faculty. 13rooding on one sub-
ject breeds inelanoliely, and melancholy fro.
quently results in insanity.
A. man in earnest finds moans, or if ho
cannot find them creates them,
I ask little from most; men 1 try te
render them 1011011 and to expeob nothing
111 , and T. got vary won out of the
In everything Ewes ist repeated daily there
mug be throe periods t Jet the first it is
new, then old and wearinonto 1 the third 10
neither, 11 is habit