Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1879 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. * ■■■■» ■■ - RENSSELAER, • INDIANA.

THE LANDMARKS. ■«—- k» - | P' ' Through the streets of Marblehead Flint the red-winged terror aped; Diluting, withering, on it oamo. With iU hundred tonguee of flame, Where Bt. Michael's on ita way Stood like chained Andromeda, Waiting on the rock, like hor, Swift doom or deliverer!— Churuh that, after nea-mom grew Over walls no longer new, Uounted generations five, hour entomMd and one ftlivrf; Heard the martialcd thousand tread Battleward from Marblehead; Saw within the rock-walled bay Treville’s lilied pennons play, And the fisher's dory met By the barge of Lafayette, Telling good news in advance Of the coming fleet of France!— Ohoroh to reverend memories dear, Quaint in desk and chandelier; Bell, whoso centurv-rnsted tongue Burials tolled and bridals rung; Loft, whose tiny organ kept heys that Bnetcler’s hand had swept; Altar, o'er whose tablet old Hinai s law its thunders rolled 1 Suddenly the sharp cry came: look! lit. Michael’s is aflame!'’ Bound the low tower wail the fire Bhiike-liko wound its coil of ire. Sacred in its gray respect From the jealousies of sect, " Save it," seemed the thought of all, Save it, though our roof-trees fall!" Up the tower the young men sprung; One, the bravest, outward swung By the rope, whoso kindling strands Smoked beneath the holders hands, Smiting down with strokes of power Burning fragments from the tower. Then the gazing crowd beneath Broke the painful pause of breath; Brave men cheered from street to street. With home's ashes at their feet; Houseless women kerchiefs waved; Thank the Lord! St. Michael’s saved!" »• In the heart of Boston town Stands the ohurch of old renown. From whose walls the impulso went Which set free a continent; From whose pulpit's oracle Prophecies of freedom fell; And whose steeplo-rocking*din ~ Bang tho Nation's birthday ini Standing at this very hour Periled like St. Michael’s tower, Held not in the clasp of flame. But by mammon’s grasping claim. Hball it be rs Boston said She is shamed by Marbleheaa? City of our prido! as there. Hast thon none to do and dare ? Life was risked for Michael’s shrine; Shall not wealth be staked for thine ? Woe to thee, when men shall search Vainly for the Old South Church; When lrom Neck to Boston Stone, All thy pride or place is gone; When from Bay and railroad car, Stretched befoie them wide and far, Men shall only seeja great ll W ilderness of brick and slate,' ,-ai 11 Every holy spot o’crlaid By the commonplace of trade! City of our love! to thee Duty is but destiny. True to all thy record saith, Keep with thy traditions’ faith; Ere occasion’s overpast. Hold its flowing forelock fast; Honor still the precedents Of a grand m unifioence; In the old historic way Give, as thou didst yesterday At the South-land’s call, or on Need’s demand from fired St. John. Set thy Church’s muffled bell Free the generous deed to tell. Let thy loyal hearts rejoioe In the glau, sonorous voice. Kinging from the brazen mouth Of the bell of the Old Southltinging clearly, with a will. ‘ What she was is Boston still!” ' • —John 0. Whittier, in March. Atlantic.

IN DISGUISE.

Incidents n the litre of Napoleon* Napoleon was very fond of walking in the streets of Paris incognito in search of adventures. On those occasions he generally wore a round hat and long blue great coat, in which his appearance was not altogether prepossessing. In consequence of this he was occasionally received with a coolness and indifference, to which, in propria persona, he was unaccustomed, —One morning shortly after Christmas he rose as early as seven, and accompanied by Duroc, Grand Marshal of the Palace, who wore the same sort of disguise. as Napoleon, left the Tuileries just as day was breaking. After a through the Place Vendomo, thence to tho Rue do Napoleon, where he much admired the splendid mansions, which had recently been erected there, chatting familiarly with Duroc, he observed: “It seems to me that'lhe Parisians in this quarter are very lazy, to keep their shops shut at this time of day.” Discoursing thus they arrived at the Chinese bath rooms, which had been recently painted and embellished. As they were criticising the decorations of the exterior, the case which belonged to the establishment opened. “Suppose wo enter and breakfast here,” said Napoleon to Duroc. “What do you say? Has not your walk given you an appetite P” “Sire, it is too early; it is only eight o’clock.” “Bah! bah! Your watch is always too slow. As for me, lam quite hungry. Afterward we can return home.” And without waiting for an answer, Napoleon entered the case, took his seat at a table, called the waiter, and ordered some mutton chops and a bottle of Chambertin wine. After having breakfasted heartily, and taken a cup of coffee, which he protested was better than bo was supplied with at the Tiiileries, he called the waiter and demanded the bill, saying to Duroc: “ Pay, and let us return now.” Then, rising and going to the door, he began to whistle an Italian recitative, and endeavoring to appear at ease. The Grand Marshal rose at the akme time, but, after fruitlessly searching bis pockets, found that, having dressed in haste, he had forgotten hts purse, ymet. immwmvtm carried money about him. Neverthet less, tbejwaiter came and presented the bill to the Grand Marshal, who gtrutd mate with-surprise at not being able to

discharge it, although the amount was only twelve francs. Napoleon, not knowing what detained Duroo, and not accustomed to be kept waiting, re-entered, saying, impatiently: “ Come, make haste, It is late.” The Grand Marshal, now comprehending the unpleasant situation ih which he was placed, and thinking that tho best way to get out of it was to avow frankly his Inability to discharge the debt, approached the mistress of the case (who sat silent and indifferent at the counter), and said, politely, but confusedly: “Madame, my friend and myself left home this morning a little precipitately; we quite forgot to bring our purse --but I give you my word that in an hour I will send you the amount of your bill.” 1 “It may be so, sir,” coldly replied the lady; “ but I know neither of you, and we are every day taken in in this manner. Do you think that ” “Madame,” interrupted the Grand Marshal, reddening with rage at this answer, “we are men of honor—we are offioers of the guard.” “Oh, yes! fine excuses, truly—officers of the guard, indeed!” At these words men of honor and officers of the guard , which Napoleon had qyerheard, he turned round, and, in a voice which had caused heroes to tremble, demanded: “ What Is tjiis all aboutP” But at a sign from Durpc, he remained impatiently Where he was. The waiter now stepped forward and volunteered to be answerable for tho debt, with which assurance the mistress of the case was satisfied. Duroc regarded the young man with surprise, and, drawing from his pocket a gold watch encircled with brilliants, said to him: “Mv friend, you have acted nobly; keep this watch till I return to recompense you.” “Sir,” replied the waiter, “ I have no wish to take it; I feel convinced that you are men of honor.” “Good, my friend,” said the Grand Marshal, v you shall never repent your confidence in us.” ______ He then rejoined the Emperor. On their way to the palace, Duroc recounted tho particulars of the adventure to Napoleon, who laughed heartily, and was much pleased with the generosity of the poor waiter, who had become security for them without knowing who they were.

On their way to the palace, they came to the Passage des Panoramas, which was then one of the most elegant passages or covered ways iu Paris. There a shop attracted the attention of Napoleon. Itoontained aline collection of porcelain vases. Two superb vases were exposed to view, and, appearing to- the Emperor very tasteful, he entered the shop and demanded the price. The mistress of the shop, with a sneer on her countenance, coolly asked him if he wished to purchase them. “ Why, madame, I should not have asked the price unless I had thought of purchasing them!” exclaimed Napoleon, irritated at the cool impudence of the woman, “ Four tEousand francs—hot a farthing less, monsieur.” “ Four thousand francs! That is horribly dear, madame—much too dear for me.” And touching his hat, he was about to leave tho shop, when the marchande, with her hands in her pockets, added sarcastically: “ They cost me five thousand, but it is better to sell at a loss in these times than starve. These are fine doings nowadays!—always war—all the world complains! Business is a,t a stand-still now, and the shopkeepers are ruined; but we do not pay less taxes.” < Ljuring this address Napoleon’s countenance became highly expressive—his eyes dashed, his cheeks were flushed with rage. At length he interrupted her by saying: “ Madame, have you a husband? Where is heP Can I see him?” “Eh! la! la! do not be angrv, monsieur! I have a husband, thank heaven, but he is gone to seek for money. But what do you want of him when I am hereP” “Enough, madame, enough!! wished to tell your husband that —perhaps I should send for these vases ” He then left the shop, disgusted with the marchande, whoso coolness ancF politics had so much exasperated him. “Faith!” said he, when he had rejoined Duroc, “I have had a sound lecture from a foolish woman who seems to attend more to politics than her business. Oh! I will have her husband’s head shaved; it is his fault.” Tho Emporor and the Grand Marshal now returned to the Tuileries, having both met with adventures, the one with a shopkeeper and the other with a waiter.

About six weeks after these occurrences, Napoleon said one evening to ■Datoo!' “ I have nothing to do now; suppose we go and see how the shops look. By-the-by, how did you settlo that affair at the Chinese baths?” “Indeed, Sire, I am glad you have mentioned the subject, for I had quite forgotten all about it” “ That is wrong, Duroc, very wrong. I may be allowed to forget such triiles; .but you—” “Sire, I will immediately make the amende honorable." “ Yes, do, and let it be done in a way whioh will please me; you understand. At the same time let; the female politician be ordered to send her husband here, with the two vases lyhich I looked at when 1 paid her a visit: lam somewhat iirbex debt. Ah! ah! ’tis my turn now, and we shall see!” Duroc having given precise directions to one of the imperial footmen, despatched him to the Bains Chinois, when he thus addressed the mistress of the case: n “Madame, did not two gentlemen breakfast here about six weeks Bince, without settling their bill?” “ Yes, monsieur,” replied the lady, very much troubled, seeing that the inquirer wore the livery of the palace. “ Well, madame, those gentlemen were the Emperor and the Grand Marshal of the Palace! Can I see the waiter who bepamosecurity for them?” “ Yes—certainly—sir." The mistress rani tha.bell and felt very uneasy; she tnought of nothing less than going to the palace to implore tho forgiveness of the Emperor. When the waiter appeared, the footman gave him a roll of fifty Napoleons, and said to him: “In addition to this, the Grand Marshal of the Palaoe lias charged vne to say that if you have any favor to ask lor yourself or friends he will be most Hrrtfirilliirtipiiiiii'iiii ' gens; he htpijbUMd to ocifept the kind offej,, »f the Grand Marshal, who in--1 Stantly made him one of the Imperial j footmen. He soon gained the confl-

denoe of the Empress Joaehtne, and became her special attendant After her divoroe he accompanied her to Mafiftaison, and—singular destiny of men of his time!—eventually entered the servloo of Wellington in 1814. After the visit to the Bains Chinois, the Imperial footman reached the Passage des Panoramas, when he entered the shop of the voluble marchande. “Sir, said he, addressing the master, “you are requested to go to the palace tt\is instant with the two vases which the Emperor inquired the prioe of about six weoks since in your shop. His Imperial Majesty is now waiting for you.” . *;*.*'♦ “Heaventf!” he cried, “I shall b* shot.” Then addressing his wife, who was terribly frightened and unable to speak, he said: “ I have no doubt that you, madame, have been talking politics to the Emperor, speaking Hi of his Government, as you always do; and this to tho Emperor himself! When will you cease your cursed babbling? Ah! mon Dieu! 1 am a lost man, I snail be shot.” Here fright nearly overpowered the Eoor man, who seemed shocked that is wife should have taken the Emperor for a police spy. However, he mustered all nis courage and arrived with the vases at the Tuileries, where he was immediately ushered into the presence of Napoleon, who thus addressed him: “ So, sir, I hatfe found you at last— I am glad to see you here.” Then, taking from a drawer in his desk eight bank notes for a thousand francs each, he presented them to the dealer, who was trembling with fear, and with difficulty advanced to receive them. And now, with that peculiar sarcastic brevity with which he invariably spoke when he wished to reproach, he added: “ I went the other day to your shop. I bargained for two vases; your wife asked four thousand francs, telling me that they cost her five thousand. Well, although that was a falsehood, I now five you eight thousand; take them. here are four for the vases and four for yourself. But tell your wife that if she does not attend to her, domestic atfairs, instead of politics, morbleu! 1 will send her where she wiil be taken care of, and you, too, to teach you both to be more silent. Go, sir; that is all 1 have to say to you. Good day.”— Qen. Hillaire's History.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—London papers speak of the Marquis and Princess Louiso as the Viceroy and Vicereine of Canada. The Princess Louise, following her mother’s example, pays a bounty of $5 apiece for triplets born in the Dominion. —M. Grevy, as President of the French Republic, will get SIOO,OOO a year as salary and $50,000 for household expenses. —Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes used but one pen for all his literary work between 1857 and September, 1878. He has just sent it to be repaired. —Four of the new United States Sen-ators-elect—Messrs. Vest, of Missouri; Call, of Florida; Walker, of Arkansas, and Jonas, of Louisiana—are ex-resi-dents of Kentucky. —Mr. George W. Childs is said to have ft peculiar fondness for clocks. He has more than ferty of the scarcest kind, and has one in his business office that is sajd to have cost $6,000. —Mrs. Ursula Humphreyville, of Northfield, Conn., is in her one hundred and first year, and is still able to be about. Two years ago she rode on a mowing-machine, driving the horses through the field. —Prof. Swift, of Rochester, N. Y., has been for years carrying on his astronomical studies in an old ciijpr mill, but the citizens now propose to build him an observatory, the plan of which be has approved. —The person longest in the employ of any of the Departments in Washington is Lindsey Muse, a messenger at the Navy Department, who was first appointed to that position by Sec’y Southard during the Administration of John Quincy Adams, in 1828, and has served there continuously to the present time. He has autograph letters from almost all the Secretaries of the Navy during his service. —A sudden wedding in high life took place in Niles, Mich., last week, between Ex-Gov. Miller, of Minnesota, a widower sixty years old, and Miss Elizabeth Magoffin, niece of Ex-Gov., Beriah Magoffin of Kentucky, a young lady twenty years old. Miss Magoffin was accompanying Gov. Miller from New York to Minnesota, to be governess in his lamily, and tho match was agreed upon in the cars.— N. Y. Evening Post. —A friend of Richard Henry Dana thus described his personal appearance: “ His whitened locks and flowing beard attract attention on the street. His forehead is high and broad, and his head, altogether, I should judge, is one that phrenologists would place fn the highest class. Of slight person and a little below the medium height, about that of Milton, he is neat and old-fash-ioned in his dress, which corresponds with the real gentility of his manners |md surroundings.”

Misadventure of a Rochester Traveling Man.

William McMills, wholesale produce dealer of Rochester, N. Y., is very anxious to sqe “Texas Jack.” Not the dramatist who every season slaughters moro Indians on the stage than tho combined tepees of all the Plains’ tribes ever sheltered; but a very different person, as will shortly be seen. The police of New York and Rochester are equally desirous to meet tho gontleman from the Southwest. So far, however, they have been by no means successful, and Mr. McMills’ opinion of the matter is well summed up in his remarks to a Mercury reporter: “To blazes with your detectives. Pve seen the last of my eighteen hundred dollars and do mistake.” On Thursday afternoon Mr. McMills left Rochester to supervise the transportation and sale in Mew York of some thirty-odd thousand bushels of potatoes. After passing Oswego an unexpected accident of some sort brought the train to a halt After it started again a young lady entered the Car in which the produce dealer was and, ’'commenced looking anxiously about. ShejWa* a' very pretty young lady, with light blonde hair and excessively glossy silks and sealskins, and, as Mr. McMills fancied at the time, a most confiding-bios eye. The gallant WwliPpimi 6e“#as*irithfesreS:' ir<r watched the young lady narrowly, and suddenly found the meliingorbs directs ed full upon him. They were auffhsed in tears, and Mr.‘McMills instanta-

neously sympathised with their distress. . >• “ Can I do anything for you, miss?*’’' he asked. “My father, sir,” responded the young lady, anxiously; “he got off to see what was the matter, and I’m afraid he has been left behind. I am so worried.” To Mr. McMills to think in such a case was to act. Gallantly seating the young lady in his seat, he took mental notes of hor missing parent’s description and went in search of him. Tho auest was a vain one, and he returned disappointed to find an elderly person in an ulster and a soft ensconced ’at hfs fair friend’s side. “O, papa! here is tho gentleman now,” exclaimed the young lady. “Do thank him, you naughty wanderer. You don’t know what trouble he has taken to And you.” Then the gentleman in the ulster did ample justice to his daughter’s command. His thanks were as profuse os they were ardent, and the three wore soon upon the best of terms. The stranger presented himself as Joshua Strucker,* an opulent cattle dealer of Buffalo. Ho was on his way to New York to purchase a trousseau for his shortly-to-bc-wedded daughter Julia—otherwise the young lady of the sealskins. His bonhomie and his ready conversational gifts charmed the Rochester potato merchant as much as his daughter’s beauty had, and the little party became a very merry one indeed. At last, when the conversation began to flag, a game of cards was suggested. The young lady assisted in a tew hands of railroad euchor, and pleaded weariness and adjourned to a sleeping berth. Her parent produced a pocket flask and extended to his new friend the courtesy of a drink. Meanwhile the game continued. No money was involved, and Mr. McMills was a constant winner. At last the Buffalo man threw down his cards impatiently. “It’s no use,” he said; “you beat me as bad as that fellow did at the game, so I give up.” Naturally curious, Mr. McMills inr quired '•what the game was. The stranger reKictantly confessed that it was monte. He had been beaten out of SIOO at it while the train was stopped. Here were the very cards he had lost on and which he had bought from the sharper for an odd five dollars. And he produced three well- worire&rds, one of which bore a very palpable grease spot on its back. “Ho did it in this way,” he exclaimed, and forthwith commenced to mix the cards up so clumsily that a strabismio child would have detected each one. Now, Mr. McMills had heard of monte before, and had read of It, and knew, as he fancied, every point of the deceptive game at which so many confiding natives of the country districts have come to grief. But the Buffalo man evidently knew less, and his new friend kindly undertook to explain its mysteries to him. While the explanation was in progress the young lady returned. She was afraid to remain alone in the sleeping-car, and demanded that pa should come to her protection. The new game interested her. It was so very funny! Wouldn’t the strange gentleman explain it to her, too? Of course he would. And he did. The result can be quite as readily imagined as described. A small bet was offered by the young lady. She lost. Mr. McMills gallantly offered another to indemnify her. But he won, much to his disappointment*. Then papa took a hand in, and then a.gentlemanly stranger in the next seat begged leave to look at the performance. To make a long story short, Mr. McMiUs went to sleep at one o’clock minus S9OO in money and two checks for S9OO more, but with enough of his Buffalo friend’s whisky in him to sleep soundly in spite of his losses—so soundly that when he awoke and went to his late friend’s berth to rouse him he found it empty. All that he could learn w«3 that Mr. Strucker and his charming daughter had got off at three a. m. at a way station. He applied to headquarters as soon as he arrived here, and from his description his Buffalo acquaintance was recognized as Texas Jack, who, under a score or more aliases, has been illustrating the beauties of monte over all the railroads of the United States for the past thirty years. The female who so cleverly impersonated his daughter is supposed to be a well-known shop-lifted of this city, known to the police as “ Blonde Madge,” who shook the slush of New York from her feet some months ago, leaving a couple of unserved warrants behind her. • j One of the two checks which the sharpers succeeded in extracting from their victim was payable to bearer, and is probably a loss. * The other, drawn to his order on a local hank, has been stopped.— N. Y. Sunday mercury.

The Metric or Decimal System.

The following simple tablo gives all that there is in the metric or decimal system of weights and measures: MONEY. 10 mills make a cent. lo cents make a dime. 10 dimes make a dollar. > 10 dollars make an eagle. . ‘ LENGTH. 10 milli-meten make a centimeter. 10 centi-n.eters make a decimeter. 10 deci-metcrs make a meter. 10 * meters make a decameter. 10 decA-messrs make a hectometer. 10 hccio-metlers make a kilometer. 10 kilo-meters make a my name ter. WEIGHT. 10 milli-grainmes make a centigramme. 10 eenti-gminme# make a decigramme. 10 deoi-grammes make a gramme. 10 t iirammes make a decagramme. 10 deca-grammes make a hectogramme. 10 hecto-grammes make a kilogramme. 10 kilo-grammes make a myriagramme. CAPACITY. 10 mil H-liters make a centiliter. 10 centi-liters make a deciliter. 10 drc'i-litera make a liter. 10 i liters make a decaliter. 10 deca-liters make a hectoliter. The*’'square and cubic measures are nothing more than the squares and cubes of tho measure of length. (Thus, a square and a cubic millimeter are the square and the cube of which one side is a millimeter’in length.) The are and stero names,for the square dekametcr and the cubic mdtor. — Boston Transcript. * A meter is equal to 89.560 American inches, t A gramme is equal to 15.130 grains troy or avoirdupois. ' v $ A liter is equal to 2,110 American pints. ■<, A man rusty beard that ran down to a peak, and a rusty hat that rap up to a peak, boarded a western train the other day, took the seat near the stove, and fell into a gentle slumber. In a few 'minutes a brakeman opened a door and shouted, “ Queens!”. The slumb'ering 'passenger slightly shifted“liis position, ana muttered, “ The pot’s yotmr, l staid ia on jacks!” (Tt. T. -***“ ' It must be good, for everybody recommends It, and the doctors prescribe it. We meau Dr. Bqjl’s Cough Syrup. Price 85 cents.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

-* —The following are taken from the lowa Stale Rsgisler: , Some imagine that the perfection of farming consists wholly in aptneap to labor and strength of mujclo. President Welch says “a man’s character is modified by the food he eats and the life he leads.” An excellent farmer says that for every sheep he kept last year he sold, in lambs and wool, an .average of $5 worth per head. He said also that his sheep paid him better than anything grown on the farm, The highest order Of practical knowledge is absolutely necessary at every step for success in any enterprise. But this is far more necessary in agriculture, which has more diversified interests than any other industry. J. Burnham gives the Prairie Farmer an account of some experiments of his own, and of a neighbor with girdling fruit trees to cause abundant bearing Different modes were tried, some by simply cutting well through the bark, and others by cutting out a small ring of the* bark, a sixteenth of an inch in width. The first has proved most satisfactory, and limbs thus treated on trees long barren have given profuse crops. ' Tne work is done in spring. Cutting around the trunk o t the tree is preferred to treating branches only. Mr. B. recommends this practice for trees otherwise worthless from sterility. Sow clover. “It furnishes the most perfect protection to the soil during the fierce dry heats of summer. Being a constantly deciduous plant, its leaves are perpetually falling, and soon form a delicate covering for shade, and easily penetrated at all points by the air, which is the greatest carrier to the worn-out soil of those atmospheric elements that are to enrich it. In this way the clover plant not only contributes directly to the fertilizing of the soil by giving its own substance to it, but furnishes a protective covering to the entire ground, which encourages and stimulates those chemical processes by which the hungry and exhausted soil is recuperated from the vast supplies of nutriment that are held in the atmosphere. It becomes to the farmer the most valuable fertilizer in the world, as it imparts fertility to the entire soil.”

Adaptation in Agriculture.

One of the most prolific sources of disappointment and loss in agricultural pursuits is the failure of those engaged in them to comprehend what may be termed the principles of adaptation. ( These apply not only to the adaptation of certain plants and animals to certain soils and climates, but to the various conditions under which the farmer finds himself obliged to labor. Overlooking these considerations, farmers are constantly going astray, and wasting time and labor in trying to do what had better be let alone. They will perhaps try to raise wheat and oats on land only .adapted to rye and buckwheat, and then wonder why some of their neighbors succeed while they constantly fail to make such crops profitable. Experience has shown that there are extensive regions or belts of country adapted to wheat—others to corn, cotton, rice and similar staple crops; and, while these crops may grow in localities outside of the more favorable regions, they seldom or never reach such a degree of perfection as to enable the farmer to derive any considerable profit from their cultivation. The same is true of fruits, there being extensive apple, pear, plum and peachgrowing regions, where, perhaps, several kinds succeed equally well, and seem to grow almost spontaneously, while even in as rich a soil and apparently better climate, not many miles distant, they fail to produce remunerative crops, or the trees refuse to grow at all.

What is true of different kinds of grains and fruits is of animals, and the farmers of one State may be able to produce beef, pork, mutton or dairy products for much less than those of an adjoining one, the difference not being due to skill, but to the better adaptation of the soil and climate to the animals or the plants required for their sustenance. Looking at the subject in this light, it might be supposed that when a farmer discovers what kinds of plants or animals are Best adapted to his locality, he would make these a specialty to the exclusion of all others. As a rule, this would be the best thing for him to do, but there are exceptions which deserve careful attention. For instance, he may have a soil and climate especially adapted to raising hay, and at the same time be so situated that there is no market for this crop, or he 'tnay be able to raise 000 bushels of potatoes per acre, and then not be able to get as much for his crop as the man nearer to market can got for one-fifth of that number of bushels. Corn is now selling at ten cents a bushel In some of the Western States, and, although it may cost less to raise than in the Eastern States, it is not worth as much; consequently, the advantages in the way of producing the crop are more than offset in the price when sold. The farmer must not be satisfied in determining the most productive crop, but must look further and ascertain which will bring him the most money. If near market he can take advantage of his location and raise perishable articles, or those which will not withstand being transported long distances, and thereby avoid, in a measure, competition with those who may possess cheaper and better lands. It would be idle for the orchardists of Central New York to undertake to compete with those of Florida in raising oranges audjeinon** and equally so for those pf the latter State to attempt the cultivation of pears and apples. Numbers of our subscribers in the Southern States have written that there was nothing to prevent the making of butter and cheese and the raising of dairy stock to an unlimited extent in the region of country from which they address us; but we fear they overlooked this little, matter of adaptation, and the fact that no warm climate has ever been noted for its dairy products any more than cold ones have for their yield of tropical fruits. Every State in the Vnion has its peculiarities in both soil ana Climate, as well as its advantages andtjisadvantages in the way of means of' transportation and convenience to markets, and the farmers in each have only to study theso carefully to ascertain, just what cropsdt is best for them to raise in order to obtain "the best return for their labor. -There Is not only an adaptation trpiKßtrwa aonnais-to soils- andolimates, but an adaptation of men to certain kinds or branches of business. Some men seem tV, delight in raising animals, Or, to use a common phrase,

, * , be especially cut out” for that branch of farming, and, in such oases, thev are far more likely to succeed as stock or dairymen than those whose taste or inclinatlpn. is for raising grain. We do not believe-therfe is any material difference in regard to the profitableness of either branch; all more or less deKinds upon the men conducting them. either have we ever been able to discover that anv one State or any particular region of the country possessed a majority of the natural advantages common to the whole in the way of climate and soil, but the success of the residents was due more to their study and Agplioation of the principles of adaptatiotrofmeans to produce certain results than to anything else.— N. Y. Sun. WaKMTti and cleanliness will keep the. young calves in a good conditioi with light feeding, while, without these he*vy feeding will do more harm thar good- It is useless to over-feed young animals in the effort to make up fo> the want of care.— Stale Register.

A Good Account.

“Tosum It up, six long years of bed-rid den sickness and suffering, costing 1200 pel year, total, 11,200—a1l of which was stopped by three bottles of Hop Bitters, taken by my wife, abo has done her own housework foi a year since without the loss of a day, and I want everybody to know It lor their benetlt. ‘“John Weeks, Butler, N. Y.”

The Value of Time.

As In a Are, the loss ereally depends upon the time required for efficient aid to arrive, so the result of catarrh ereatly depends upon the speedy use of efficient remedies. For over a quarter of a century, Dr. page’s Catarrh Rem edy has been the standard remedy. The positive cures it has effected are numbered by thousands. Each year has witnessed an Increased sale. Its reputation is the result of superior merit. If the disease has extended to the throat or lungs, Dr. Pierce’s Uolden Medical Dlscov* ry should be used with the Catarrh Remedy. These two medicines will speedily cure the most stubborn case of catarrh. See the People’s-CommoD Sense Medical AdrUer, a work ol over 9uo pages. Price, 1L.60. Address the author, R. V. Pierce, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.

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