Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1880 — Page 10

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1880-SUPPLEMENT

toilers.

' ST amos. . ,Wl) tries; from the earth Ita choicest pm The ore that make the rich wut gain? Who fashion crow us and diadems, That kings and queens may reiga? Totler they are ia hnmble (tat. - Who work nnhonorvd and unknown. While mere pretence it ranked at treat; Thus ia the world to full prone. The thing men prise a good or fair. And which tney lavish gold to gain. Bat Come throunh patient labor's care The product of tite band or bmiu. Till labor d-th its grace impart. The ma bio's beauty i auknown; Ire transformed by the cnlpu.r's art, Ti bat shapeless mui of stone. The mocaroenta ia Egypt placed At some forgotten king coa maud, Bar still the marke the builders' traced. And prove the might of labors band. We care not tT the kingly race Who aoognt a niche of fame to fill, Bat ia thoe mighty work we trace The wonder of tb toiler' kill. Cltlea are boiltby men unnamed Tu earth gigantic forests hurled; By labor' stroke the ehip is framed That waft the commerce of the world. Toil it ia that doth tb nation feed. And gives to commerce all it gaio; The baud that plow and plante tbe awed J bis whose life i not in vain. Natur the toiler's will obeys. And ylfld ber secret, loug denied. The lightning' flaah his thought convey O'er continent and oceans wide. By research and by patient toil, Xarth' rarest treasure are revealed. And land and ocean yield their spoil from itore loog hidden, now unsealed. The field of nsefol toll are free. And wise m-n bold It is a untrue, That man was merely made to be; Iii nobler ImpuUe 1 to do. Toilrr errate tue nation's wealth. And by their work the tradesmen thrive; Idler are drone who live by stealth Mere useless tenants of the hire. MISPLACED SYMPATHY. BT IDXA C. JACKSON1. Simon Mix and his wife were sitting at the breakfast table, which, being an everv day occurrence, seem? unworthy of remark, There was evidently a slight misunderstand ing between them. Perhaps that, also, was an everyday occurrence, but "deponent saith not. lhey were not quarreling oh, no Serena Mix was far too gentle and yielding to quarrel, however much her coarse, prosaic brute of a husband might rasp her sensitive poetic nature. She was wont to remark, in her sweet, tearful voice, that only once in her clouded life had she mt a kindred spirit; one who understood and sympathized with the finer feelings of her soul perfectly her first husband, Stephen Buzzard; '-but" and here ehe sobbed he was snatched awav, and he was glad to go. I was left to tread the weary way alone, tor Simon never understands me, poor man! but he means well. J3ut all this time Simon has been stirring his cold coffee with a sulky jerk, and his wife sits over her untasted roll with a smile on her face, much like John Rognrs must have worn at the stake. She choked back a sob and remarked sadlv: "Never mind, love, don't let my wishes conflict wilh your pleasure. It is of no con sequence." "But, Serena, I tell you I can not afford it. If I satisfy all of your demands I might as wu gf into bankruptcy. "Simon dear, reproaentuiiy, ''üo l ever demand'? No, I merely made the request; but, stifling another sob, "it is no matter, "Where is the blue silk you wore to Em erson's party? Surely it is not worn out She smiled heroically. ''It is out of style, love. Rather than have the rematkä repeated, which I hearine that evening, about my cloean at, I will remain at home.' Simon looked uncomfortable. could not husband's .He would not, for the world, wrong tbe gentle lady by , jV .1 , intimating inai inai was tne way sue want ed him to look. "But we are to poor, Serena, to keep up with the styles, and if our quarter's bills are not paid to-morrow, even our credit will be gone.'' 'Mv sainted Buzzard used to remark that it was his pride to owe no man, and with euch a wife as vou are, Serena' " but tears choked her, and for a few moment. the silence was unbroken save bv the sound of her weeping. Simon pushed back his chair with a crash "How iauch do you want?" he snarled. "Nothing unless given willingly," quivered the martyr. "O, Buzzard, how you en joyed seeing your wife well dressed!" "Go to Miller's and get what you want," growled Mix, and slammed the door vicious ly, as he was dragging his coat on in the hall. A voice gentle as a summer zephyr was wafted from th'i dining room: "Simon l" lie hesitated. "Si-Simons! !" He went back. "Are you going to leave submitted to a watery kiss. me so He She gave him an imp'oring look. "Don't go to Martin's to-night for sake!" my .This was the last straw on the earners back. Mr. Mix dashed out of the house, kicking over a chair in hU exit, and making the air blue with unscriptural language, and followed by a frantic wail: 'Oh my Buzzard! my Buzzard!'' Now what induced Mrs. Mix to repeat this request of her husband was known ernly to herself, Mr. Mix being a strictly morafand upright man. Mho never had see'n the inside of a drinking and gambling den, as Martin's was. Nevertheless, she persisted in believing and making a large circle of her friends believe that it was only by bei saintly example and influence that Simon Mix was saved from rushing headlong to a drunkard's grave, with Martin a for his starting point. He walked into his ofuee without noticing his partner and chum, Dick Wilkins. The latter watched him in silence a minute, with a smile on hit round, jolly face. At la.t he burst out with : "Mix! By the great horned spoon! you look as if you had been dieting on bowie knives. What's the matter? Wife been bullyragging you again?" "Bullyrag I" returned Mix. spiU-fully; 'how I wish she would. If be would only get mad and storm I would- 1-e happy; but she don't She just weeps. Dick, did you ever feel too iittle and mean and contemptible to live, and still wot know what you have done to merit such a lo? of self-res-pect?" "No, Mix," answered Dick, coinrniseratingly; "I was never married, you know." That's so," sighed the poor fellow; "but how that woman docs run on. I believe she U worked by water power." "Darn her!" suggested Dick with more fore than was strictly neccsarr. A taint amlUe flitted across the gloomy, face. "There

would be a freshet if I did. But I wouldn't

miad that so much if the wasnt't all the time ! throwing up Buzzard. I have Buzzard for breakfast; Buzzard fordinner, and Buzzard for tea; she says I don't sympathize with her in fact, I don't do Anything like that pink of perfecton, Buzzard." "Mix, I have a plan," exclaimed Dick, lowering his voice confidentially. We will drop the curtain for the next half hour at the end ot which behold Mix with a gleam of hope lighting his sad visage, but shaking his head dubiously. "I will try; but I never was good at acting. Do you remember the time I tried to take the part of Hamlet? No? "Well, you see the man who had the part was taken suddenly ill just befor the time set for the evening performance; I was afflicted with stage fever and hid learned the part right through, so I went to the manager and offered my services. He accepted, and was to stand behind the scenes to give me the cue. I got along swimmingly, at least I thought I did, until we came to that part where Hamlet says to Ophelia, "Go, get thee to a nunnery." I heard the manager's voice repeating energetically, ''Skin outl and sell peanuts for a living, you lantern-jawed gorilla!" Now I was morally certain that was not in the play Dick, but 1 thought be ought to know, and in the confusion well, I repeated it to Ophelia." He paused a moment. ''How that audience laughed and cheered! the manager rushed on, collared me and well, the play did not go on that evening." Dick'laughed heartily: "Never mind, old fellow." said he, "this don't call for much talent." "Ah! Dick," said Mix, putting on his hat to go out, "you was never married; but I'll try." One morning about a week after this conversation, Mrs. 31 ix came down to breakfast in an unusually cheerful frame of mind. Her new dresg was stylish and becoming; the morning was lovely; Mix obedient, and she came very near humming a tune as she desetmded the stairs to the parlor; but at the door she stopped in amazement. Simon laid on the sofa in his shirtsleeves, hair in a wild tangle, and a handkerchief pressed tight over his eyes. Her lace dropped down to low water mark immediately. Simon," she said, plaintively. No answer; and both hands went up in mute appeal to heaven.' "Oh, my poor husband; just as I was beginning to be so thankful that you were reforming. Oh, Buzzard! can you look down from heaven and view your unhappy relict a drunkard's wife?" There was a smothered sob from behind the handkerchief. She whs really frightened now, and cried: "Simon Mix. do you want to drive me dis tracted?' "My poor Serena!" another sob. "What do you mean?" A perfect torrent of grief answered her. and, as if unable to control his feelings any longer, Mix arose and commenced pacing up and down the apartment, wildly uttering the most neari rending groans. "Oh! how bad I feel. Sim!" Twa just ten years ago to-nicht, love: Since 1 became your happy widow." "That ain't just right," shrieked the mourn er; "but I mean well." "You brute! what do you mean?" "Serena;', reproach full v: "I am sympa thizing with you. Have you forgotten what vl rj ,fc ;ct7 'O.fc any hattet, alt at 1 1 ' It is Wednesday, vou idiot!" "No! no! it is not Wednesday, nor Thurs day, nor Friday, nor any other day of the week. It is the tenth anniversary of Buz zard's demise; the 23d day of March And his soul gos merch'Dg.' " O, you villain! vou wretch: screamed Serena: "to make tua of my painted Buz zard!-' Make fun, Serena! no, no; it is stern reality to ine. Death loves a shining mark, but why did he bring down a buzzard?" '-Buzzard, thou wss't mild and lovely. Gentle a a summer breeze." Serena stepped up to him with blazing a w eyes. "You f'Xl! what are you mourning for." "Thftt is so," returned Mix with a miser able snif3e. "He is at rest: our loss is his gain; but oh, Buzzard, why did you die?" In the scene that followed there was little chance for accurate description, but at the end of 10 seconds a woman lay in hysterics, amid a mass of broken furniture, and wreck of humanity set out under the window picking pieces of glass out of his damaged epidermis. In the annals of that judicial district is a record that reads: "Mix vs. jlix; divorce; granted. Incompatibility of temper." Mix, however, insists that it all came from trying to sympathize with a sensitive woman, and adds. "Darn a sensitive woman, anyhow. ' The Feminin Mouth. A person who has made the feminine mouth the subjt ct of much study volunteers his col elusions to males with sweethearts. lhey are as lolJows: li her mouth is very small there is not much mind, but over-much shallow sentiment. Ifshehasa very larire mouth, she will possess a good brain, but the trouble is in kissing it. Large mouths put a man to an artistic test; he will be driven to his wits end whether to begin at one cor ner and conclude on tbe other, or to make a heroic dash at the 'middle and endeavor to reach both corners. But if you are a kissing artist it can be covered nicely enough. J t your sweetheart has a coarsely formed mouth she will be sensual and full 01 strong, coarse points of character, and will raise a row in the family. .If she has a delicately formed mouth, with rounded lips of a velvety color, she will have much sentiment and perfection of character, but will not astonish by brilliancy of conception or execution. It is a good mouth because it is kissable and submissive. Shun blue-lipped and thin-lipped women; thev will bore vou to death with literature or woman's right", theorize while you want your dinner, or spoil j-our toraper by their red-hot, scolding tongues. People in China are not only allowed to corntmtt suicide, but thoy even advertise their determination beforehand, stating when and where they intend to effect their purrse. At least the Foochow Herald tells of voung widow who baa promised to hang herself at a certain spot on the 16th of last month, rather than yield to the wishes of her "inhuman parents," and marry again. The sacrifice was actually consummated in broad daylight. The girl "duly hanged her self in the presence of an assembled crowd of friends and admirers. The tragic ceremony was preceded by a reception of visitors on a platform erected for the occasion, after which the poor young creature mounted a chair, placed tbe rope around ner slim neck, and biding a final adieu to this unsympathetic rorld, launched herself into fteraity, ,

A SEl'ilOÜß ADDKESS.

Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour Fanners of New Yoik. . to the The Existing Agricultural Conflict tween This Country and Europe. He-Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour delivered an add;ess on Wednesday at the antual meeting of the New York State Agricultural societv, marked by the superior intelligence and breadth of view which he always brings to such discussions. THS ADDRESS. ' Mr. Seymour commenced by saying that agricultural rises above all other of our pursuits in interest and Importance. Ever beneficent, it carries life and comfort into the homes of man. It usually bears the aspect of an humble servitor, and is seme times overlooked when the public mied is Glied with more exciting topics. In the end it asserts its value and brings the world back to a sense of the truth mat all wealth and prosperity are based upon the soil and the labor which bring forth its products. "We can." he said, "find in history no instance when this fact has been brought home to men's minds in away mora striking, or on a scale so broad, or with influences so far-reacning, as by the present condition of agriculture on the continent and In Europe. Here it displays its bounties. There nature withholds ia a cunoinod producta and want and suffrrii g creep iato the homes cf labor. On this cjn.lnent it has Riven life and energy to all otbr pursuits and industries. It has hted the burdens of debt from our country, uiven it credit with the world and honor in tbe eyes of ail nations. In Europe tbe want of ft od has hindered industry and embtrrassd i:s governments. In this country it has solved problems in finances which p-rplxed our legislators. While they doubted and dispute J, the statesmanship of the plough found the remedies for our troubles The tillers of the soil have done the work. They followed God's fiat and not that of men. The sweat of the brow and not the schemes of the brain have rescued us from our perplexities In Europe the cooditioa of agriculture maks suffering which threatens grefct social and political charges." After briefly adverting to the possible significance of those portents and the difficulties to be encountered in trying to forecast the future, Mr. ßeymour sid: "The immediate causes of our prosperity have been the abundance of the crops and the failure cf thoee in Europe. We can not count upon these in our plans for the future. The next summer may reverse the fact, and Europe may produce an abnruiance, and we may ics? from unfavorable influence s upon our riblds. Will tht-y puss away with tne year just clcs? i, or has there been developed underlying conditions which have been gradually terming, end which are now to show themselves with great power atd grf at proportions? This is for ua the overshadowing question of tne day, and it will lead us into many inquiries and investigations before it is solved. It is the most important that can be pressed on the minds of tbe people. It concerns every citizen, every family, every pursuit. If we push on blindly aud pre same the coming years are to make plenty here and want elsewhere, we may be speedily overwhelmed by disaster." He beüev d, nmmvr K wr oantry had entered upon a new era in its relationship witn cuiopa and while it was not probable that our ex pons of food next year will equal those of the past, still tbe channels of com m er wh'ch have been opened will gradually grow !J 1 J wiuer nuu ueeper. RESULTS OF MODEBS APPLIANCES, While duelling on the results of steam ships and electric Cibles, as all important factors ia the irrowtb of trade and com merce, Mr. Seymoursaid that when America was discovered it was so remote from hu rope, in view of the difficulty of reaching it. that it was called a new world. Measuring distance by time it was a year s purney from Europe. Art and science, however, have as to time and intercourse, drawn the continents together until thsy are ao closely moored that it is easier to pass from one to tbe other than it is to traverse their respective territories. The fact that North America, with its vast ex tnt of Jertile lands, now almost touches Europe, with its overcrowded population, is one which excites the most varied specu lations with regard to the result) which must follow, bearing upon all phases of civilization, politics and power. History, he said, tells of no event more striking or nificant. There is now what properly may be called a conflict between our agriculture and theirs. While the abundant food sent from here to Europe last year may relieve famine it also excites lärm in many quarters by its efficts, not only upon their agriculture, but also upon social and political organizations. It has become a contest between American farmers and European land-owners. In comparing the power and resources ot the combatants Mr. bevmour contrasted tbe excess, in extent and fertility, of North America with those of Europe, the particular adaptation of our soil and climate to abundance and variety of food, and variety of our farm products, as a protection against disasters from unfavorable seasons. THE GROWTn OT OCR POPrtATIOJf. In regard to the growth of our population. he said that while tbe number of people in the united abates luu years ago was .i uou.uuo, we nave now 50 000.000, and less than the usual ratio will give us C2 000,000 in 1SX). He said . "If the rulers of Europa continue their po!i cies of ambition and wars, if their inhabitants continue to fly from thfir homes, if their governments are pestilential in their destruction of life, we snail see greater movements to our shores than any neretowre witnessed. In onr contett with Europe we have and will continue to take each year by immigration greater number of 'prisoners of peace than war has ever wrested from one cation and forced nnder the domination of ancther. They are not victims of force; tbeyare not unwilling captives; they join onr side and help us on t3 greatness and power; they bring ns arts and skill and labor; they enlarge the minds and sympathies of our people by lifting them above mere provincial prejudice. The mingled European races have a vigor superior to any single lineage. e are forming what is not yet fully devel opedthe American character." POLITICAL COKDITIOW OF EUROPE ASD AMERICA. He then proceeded to elucidate the Influ ence for the common welfare of a heterogeneous population, saying, among other things, that the citizens of Rome were not merely Italians, and that Immigration is better than Invasions and conquests. Im migrants bnng wealth as well as numbers. and this wealth may be utilized by the im migrants themselves on the millions of acres of rich lands, a portion of which the Government eives to actnal settlers by our homestead laws. "Wealth." said Mr. Seymour, "can not

gTow in this way In Europe. Their prices at which lands are bought and eold .vary but little in tua course of a lifetime, and all that the owner gains is the value of what he raises. - He can not, as is friquently the caae with ns. spend each year all he earns and then leave to his family land which bas increased fifty or a hundred fold in value since he became its owner. It is this fact which gives our country ita swift increase of we alt a. This is known to the people of Europe, by the constant correspon dence between those that come here and their friends at their eld homes makes them more intelligent about our affilrs than their rulers or the wealthy closes. For tbess reasons, thousands of youog Germans, in the yigor of youth, to escape the burden of military duty, get away from their native country to ours. Every aitmot to hold them by force makes their Government odious in their eyes." He then glanced at the political conditions of tbe two continents, showing the disadvantages Europe is laboring under through its being cut up into many nationalities, whereby the barriers to intercourses are aggravated by difference of langnjand laws, and the burdens of great armlet, the evils of national bates and the curse of bloody wars. Of European ru'ers he said: "In the light of present civiilzitiou their diplomacy has sunk so low in regard to truth and honor that it tend to demoralize the world with the idea that ministers of state may use tricks and stratagems which would be deemed swindling in private affairs." Speaking of the division of our agriculture into grand departments, and the effects of this upon farming and farmers, he alluded to the various produces of the soil in the North, Sou'h, East and West, each shaping the business, commerce and transportation of its regions in ways which cheapan production and the cost of reaching markets. In thii connection he added: "When the Pacific States get rid of their gold there will be another development of agriculture more enriching and beneficial than ail that can be dog from mines. God's blessings di not go with tbe gambliog chances of fiudii g lucre in the bowels of the earth, as it does with the industry which works with Him in bringing forth the fruits of the soil." This system, he said, improves not only farming, but the farmers as well, and tbe in fluence of the great departments cf agriculture are not more striking in their resuhs upon production than they are upon ttie intelligence of the producers. He then pro ceeded to explain the qualities which should Da possessed by farmers in order to insure success, s-ylng: INTELLIGENCE OF FARMERS. "We see energy, courage and Intelligence developed and displayed in their exacticg pursuits. Those engaged in them must not only exercise wisdom in the care and im provement of their herds, but they must know much about the wants and markets of tne East and Europe. Thpy are active in cut1 ing down all uncalled Ijx charges', and in opening new railroad and water routes. Those who dtal in making and selling articles which are med through out the world are made more intelligent than those who deal with local markets Tney must learn the condition and wants of other people and the laws of commerce. This not only promotes forming, but it iai troves the mind of tbe farmer when he thus deals with States aid cations afar oO The same truths aply to those who make provisions in 8'atfS where Ia dian corn is the chief product. In their packing houses they learu how pork mast oe cured and packed to meet the views of different markets; how every part of the animals they kill is made valuable by a knowledge ot the uses to which it can be put. Tne hair is sent in one direc ijn, th feet in anoilif r, and Ten Uio blood itntre-

fully preserved, for use in some remote quarter. Wheie wheat is raist-d on a large scale the same truths are manifested. Id none are they brought out so distinctly and in such details as in dairy regions. As most of the cheese and much of the butter made by us is sent to Great Britain or to tne countries on the Continent, it is neces sary to consult tne tastes ot foreigners. With regard to these articles they are critical. They are apt to vary in quality, and if this is inferior they will ouimaud but small prices. Skill is required in their production, and the details coucsrn many problems in chemistry and with regard to animal and vegetable life. To meet all these questions numerous societies are organized, where all things relating to this business are discussed. Those engaged in it have been ed acated upon many subjects which do not upon hrstviewsaem to be connected with their pursuits. In th country, upon the days when sales are made, the state of the London market - is made known by the uss ot the ocaan cable. The prices of gold and of freights are written upon a blackboard, where they can ba seen by all. I have on several occasions attended with men of prominence of our own or of foreign countries, thesaie of these products. acd they all expressed surprise when they earned the methods, the intelligence and the range of topics discussed by buyers and tellers The active and widespread intelli gence thus generated by our departments for the production and our methods for the sale of products gives assurance of our ability to hold tbe ground we have gained in the market of the world. The intercourse and intelligence which grow out of these great departments of agriculture do not merely elevate our farmers and give us commercial success, they make the bonds which hold our Union in firm compact. Party passions may threaten it; ambitious purposes may for a time siir np sectional prejudices; but since the late sad war the growth of agriculture, commerce and intercourse has mads a conservative, intelligent influence which will rebuke passions and purposes which threaten prace and harmony. It is pleasant and assuring to know that nature in ita forms and pursuit gives life and strength to our political association and inspires hope thtt our Union will have nature's endurance." OCR AGRICULTURE AN! EUROPE. While considering the tricots of our agriculture upon the social and political sys-t-msof Europe he said: "If all the statements I have made a e correct (till the (acts remain that the people of Europe have here tofore been able to raise most of the food they need. Why canthey not hereafter, with the same labor, on the same soil, ralsa enough to supply their wants, except for the small amount which they have hereto fore imported? Why can we expect, with ordinnry seasons, that we can sell them more than we have done' in pest years; that, although we may raise grain and make provisions for less than they can, will not the effect of this be to merely to reduce the price which, farmers will git, and no, tbe amount of food they produce? These questions bring into view some facts of great interest in many respects. In the first place, where farmers own their lands, as they do with us, all they can get for what ty sell goes to those who labor upon tbe soil. But es a rule in Europe, and particularly In Great Britain, what is made upon farms must support at least two, and sometimes four la sesof person- he tenant who does the woik, the landlords, and usu ally some agents or middlemen who hire and sub-let to tenants. .Church rates and many other charges must be paid. When onr cheap grains reach their markets, as they will here after, and govern the prices of produce, they

disturb the exisirg arrangements. Tbe t( nant must have enough to live npon then as now; taxes and tithes must be paid, and only what is left must go to the owners. This ciass are to suffer. If you read the debates in Parliament you will se that an attempt is made to excite sympathy for British farmers, Bat the parties who really are affected are British landlords. If the cost of produce fa'lj, rents must come down, for tenants can pay no more and land lore's will gt no more than prices will give. Tbe tenants' share can not be lees than It now la, and tbe loss must fall upon tbe owners." After adverting to the agricultual system of Greit Britain, where the nobility are landlords and are recognized as one of the estates of the Government, in which rank is heriditary end must be strengthened by heriditary estates, Mr. Seymour said that personal wealth is too evanescent to admit ot its being secured by entails. But the tenures of land can be arranged thai they may te held by families and made safe from divsions by laws of entail and primogeniture. Here the speaker quo'ed Mr. Gladstone: "Inequality of conditions and heredity of es stcsare not so much tbe creation ot Eogb'sh laws as the eource of their political institution." Continuing, Mr. Seymour said: England's teab or the united states. "Our cheap and fertile lands and the low cast of sending our producta to Europe may work grtat charges in the condition of the higher classes and the tenures of real estate. Tci expiatns the uneasiness they have shown when we send food to relieve the hunger of their people. It is not this merciful work, but the fear that hereafter we may rednca their resources, which disturbs them. If we do, their large estates can not be held by their present tenures; they must be sold or divided. It is not necessary to dwell npon the great changes this would make in the social and political aspect of Great B.-irain. The fear or this has already given birth to plans tor taxing all food brought fromother countries. This bas led to a coutroverey between the landed and manuf tc uring interest. Britain has been called the workshop of the world; but its artisans are now pressed by competition from niacy quarters, and are suffering from the low wages they get. How, then, can Gjvernments tax taeir food? If this harsh plan is adopted, it wi 1 rend many of its stilled workmen to us, while those who remain will carry on their trades with in creased cost for food, while they are subjeced to sharp competition by the vey workmen driven to tis country, where all the necessaries of life w 11 be so much cheaper. Iu the end they mu-t take our grain or give up classes of their people. We can not foresi-e what course they will take, for no one can read the debates in Farlia ment without beicg struck with the ignorance of members, cot only with respect io our States, but their Canadian colonies. If their statesmen are as ignorant with regard to their dependencies in Asia and Africa as they are about those on this continent the British empire is in great peril of dishonor and disaster. The result p'obably will be that the land owners will find that they must not only reduce their retti, but thy must also change the characer of their farm products, hnl buy most of their grain and many of tte provisions from U3 aad our markets ia fuutre wdl be thu enlarged. If they tax Imported food they will break down their manufactures, des roy their home markets and bring disaster u,oq their country. If the Contirental nations tix food, in addition tomt.itary aud other burdens, they will drive away their youogaud active citizens and reduce their mi itary strength. Monarens will bs safer frjm bullets wnen food is cheap and abundant." OCR U0MK MARKETS. Thtj speaker said that whi.e dwelling on foreign matkets we muit not lose sight of dome transactions, which are still more important. He held that the prosperity which agriculture has given to all other

ladustnea and pursuits will now react in its favor and make new demands for its products. The belief entertained by some farmers that if it cost more to bring pro duce to the towns and cities by way of tbe canils and railroads farms would be lacreased in value, he considered a great error. "They would," he Baid, "turn away our commerce; they would tax not only the food of those engaged in reising industries; but of more than two-thirds of our farmers, they wou'd diminish the popula tion of towos aud cities, and thus drive away our best customers. Most of my own property is in farm and lands, and I have given much thought and study to this sub ject. If we suffer our canals to be broken down, and thus lose all control of the course of trade; if we consent to any policy which diverts it from our State, we shall undo the work of our fathers, who, by a wise commercial policy lifted it up from a low to the high ss position in our Union by drawing the enriching currents of trade through its Territories. Along the routes of these all pursuits and industries have been multiplied When these are cnppldd or destroyed, our farms will lose a large share of their value " Continuing this subject, he said that the great cities of the world are placed in a belt running round the earth, following a certain mean temperature There may be more fertile lands north and south of this belt, but their cities are not as largs or farms as valuable, and the reason for this is that there are the more activity and wealth where thero are the most wants. There can be no diffused wealth under the tropics, where men wear but scanty clothing, and where nature gives food with little or no labor. Farms are of little valne under the tropics. A similar condition ot things exists in the Arctic regions, where oil or the blubber of Seals and whales must be u?ed to keep up life and warmth. As we leave those extremes and travel toward the temperate zon we find Increasing wants and wealth unMl we reach the belt of tbe greatest variety of products of Industry, arts and sciences. After dwelling on the high civilization and business activity evinced bv the p;opIe of the United State, be said: "If all our people were farmers, and made the simple clothes and furniture used elsewhere there would be an abundance of food, but litt e wealth and activity S)tne of the smiller countries of Europe give usexamples of this state of society. The census of New York shows that in 1875 not one third of our population were engaged in raising food, and that more than two-thirds are consumers. This proves tbe importance of np holding our commercial interests, and of ir.creaürg the numbers of those who buy farm products. Mr. Seymour concluded as follows: CONCLUSION. "Although we enjoy bo many advantages we must bear in mind that these will not of themselves give ns prosperity. To gain this we must have intelligent and patient industry. Tbe lack of these make many drawbacks. I have no skill as a farmerbut am a lover of country life, and I hold roy neighnors in n'gn regard. I study their ways. I learn their virtues and I learn their faults. Did time permit I would speak of their errors and of many serious mistakes which tney make In the management of their affairs. I may do so on some other occasion. We have many things to learn and many methods to im Drove before farming will become what it ought to be in this country. To make clear the character of out continent, its fertility,

extent and climate, Et roc g terms have bten used, which mir wem tobe exaggerations, calculated to mülead In some respect. The future will show their full Icfiaences. It is cot probable we shall hire during the cur-

which have given us wealth and business activity duriDg the past six months. There ia danger that these will be followed by a reaction In the prices of all kinds of property, as they hare been carried above points at which they can be sustained. Prudent men will be caa'ions for a time, but the enduring facts set forth will govern in tbe end and work out their results. We do not r?gsrd them in any spirit of ill-will or rivalry toward otherconntries. We hope and believe our prospeii'y will benf fit all nations; that it will check abuses in Europe teach monarcbs that they must study the welfare of tteir subjects. The mioglir.g of all European lineages on our soil will soften prejudices and lrad the people of other countries to look more kindly upon their neighbors. We have been enriched by full harvests here and by their failure elsewhere. But these failures, while they may help ns. are subjects for deep regrets. If in the season befor us all tbe fields of the world should yield unusual abundance we would rejoice and thank God for His bounties to our fellowmen in all quarters of tbe earth." A Mother-in-Law's Paradise. From tbe Globe. It is all the more remarkable that marriage should he so universal an institution amongst barbarous races, when it is considered how seriously in some cases the husband pledges his fortune, not only to his wife, but her relatives as well. There are of course, other cases, notably that of the North American Indian, who has no objection to half a dozen wives if he can obtain them. " "With him, if it is not "the more merrier, every addition is a source of profit, since it is another laboring hand on his estate. On the contrary, in parts of Southern Africa amongst the Makalolo, for instance the young fellow who takes a wife is almost a bond slave to his mother-in-law, and until he has children of his own is hers to command, to di; and delve, and cut wood, and fetch water. In her presence he must remain with his knees in a bent position, so as to avoid giving the old woman offence by sitting with his feet toward her. The New Zealander, seeking matrimonial blisg, is in a worse case still. With his bride he espouses the good or bad fortune of her family, and is bound to fight even against his own king, should trouble arise. The New Zealander's courtship is of a peculiar kind. Having fixed his affections on an eligible party, and announced to his friends that she is the object of his choice, he is bound in honor to make her his, or suffer the penalty for making tbe attempt. It is no ue trying to nesrotiate fir the damsel with her Deonle upon peaceful terms; under any circumstances, it a man wants a wife he must run away with her. The pair may understand each other properly, but certain commercial considerations must be recognized, and the "snatching," as it is called, must taka place. The man lies in wait, attended by a fewtrusty friends, and availing himself of a favorable opportunity seizes on the young woman and carries her toward his abode. If he is not an eligible suitor, her cries soon bring neighbors about her, and the ambitious lover either drops his prize and run3 for it, or his friends rally round him and there is a fight royal. Iteauty Everywhere. "We all of us, in a great measure, create our own happiness", which is not half so dependent upon eceneä and circumstances as most people are apt to imagine; and so it it for beauty. Nature does little more than furnUh us with the materials of both, leaving us to work them out for ourselves. "Stars, and flowers, and hills, and woods,and streams, are letters, and words, and voices, vehicles, and missionaries," but they need not be interpreted in the right spirit. We must read ana listen for them, ana endeavor to understand and profit by them. And when we look around us upon earth, we must not forget to look upward to Heaven. "Those who can see God in everything," writes a popular author, "are sure to see good in everything. We m8y add with truth, that they are also sure to see beauty in everything and everywhere. When we are at peace with ourselves and the world, it is as though we gazed upon outward things through a golden-tinted glass, and saw a glory resting upon them alL We know that it can not be long thus; sin, and sorrow, and blinding tears, will dim the mirror of our inmost thoughts; but we must pray, and look again, and by-and-by the cloud will pass away. There is beauty everywhere, but it requires to be sought, and the seeker after it is sure to find it; it may be in some out-of-the-way place, where no one else would think of looking. Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaC or creaps into the old ivy, and plays hide and seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face. Sometimes she takes the form of a bright cloud, and goes dancing over the green fields, or deep, blue sea, where her misty form, marked out in momentary darkness looks like thepassing shadow of an angel's wing. Beauty is a coquette, and weaves herself a robe of various hues, according to the season and it is hard to say which is the most becoming. A Kiss. A pont, and a part Ine of lipa they touch Tbat'i a kin la the b trace. It dm not fm much ; But where is ths language can rightly xrre-t it? What letteri can eonud it to help yon to gates it? What simile iugzMt, or what fancy reveal The mypteriuna blios it can cause one to feel? litre natnreassaredly won a diploma For fragrance of flavor and perlect aroma. A kiss is electrical comes with a start That tingles delicate shock to the heart. And sets the eyes twinkling with rapturous delight, 1ike stars in tbe sky of a clear frosty night. When 'lis over the ecstacy clings to you yet; 'Tis joy to remember and never forget. AH pleasure condensed in an instant of bites Can but partly describe what's contained in a kiss. By George Birdseye. An Awful Experience. $n Francisco Examiner. A fashionable lady of this city recently attired herself in a party dre.3, and had "a full length photograph taken. Enveloping her tightly laced finery in & balloon cloak, she descended to the street, hailed a street car, and seated herself within. When her street was reached she motioned to the conductor, and attempted to rise. But so tightly was the poor thing barneyed that she could'nt get up, and blushing scailet, shß told the conductor that she would go a ffw blocks further. "When the terminus of tie line was reached and the last gentleman had left the car, the conductor aked her if she wanted to ride back. "Jfo.sir;" the replied, with sweet simplicity, "1 merely want aome help, for I can't get up." The conductor set her on her feet, and she walked bon. a wiser woman, .