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Show iswr-- ! 1 eiunuuy. Utilizing Various cf Land Not Suitable Ordinary Cultivation. hols n I''r a:, a portion of a .'loimh at veiy small e- police. During a dry time a portion of tlie earth ean be' moved with a -- craper. so a- - to make an excavation deeu enough for a ti.--h pond.rai-e- The earth a can be ued to part of t Inland higli enough to be ef value in rais- ing cultivated crop.-- . In Michigan im- the bogs have been during EjIJs Its Price Better Than Any proved vv hieh pa- -t few years for rai-in- g celery, Farms. Western of evli r btr Product di)es ls-s- t in a moist -- etil. In New York j improved bogs have leen used for and 4 onions for the market. Many XT id tinging I'wr small bogs so situated that the surface 1 hir. juost every farm of the extent of ean be Hooded during the winter might section or more there be made very valuable for raising cranjt,r 0f ,erai acres of land from x hieh berries for supply ing the family. As a PrJ are received. I hat is rule cranberries are only raised on an extensive scale, but there are thoiisand.-o- f h onl.jj tnrnjs greatly injure the appear- small bogs in the west that might hi tllatY, f the farm ami diminish its made to pruduee lvrries enough to supvalue if it is offered for sale. It ply local markets and meet the want-o-f private families. shi'bsaid th:lt 1h''se "!lstc 1laces as of ,lle f:,rm cover V 'VIHr nlhing, Kxtravagant Statements. Uu.:t m b neither time nor money in house committee on agriculture The is 'ith . y.Y them. Such, however, on Sat ur Jay, April 3, gave a hearing ti e 0 h like other taxed are , fact. They n several representatives of the butter-makins, and as a rule they are sur-'Tjindustry of the country. These .?(j j,v fences. They call for an went to Washington to urgt k gentlemen outlay of time and money, and the n of a hill that will, if enfore--ed- , passage e nor plea-tir'rflbrd neither gain. I Olluc, suppress the manufacture of imitawaste places are high, tlie iir, Imes the tion butter and put a stop to adultera , o I, and rocky, or have had the pro-It is certainly desirable thal it. ting e soil removed from them by the inr sold be true to name, every commodity that follow eccsof: tied washings heavy and this is especially true of all articles Id ban low are and times they At other used for food. If a nationa. i8 or and have no natural outlet f,.r that are 61,1 ' j, result in making every body law would rater that collects in them. In 11 00111 honest congress should lo-- e no time in V lie drained not can cases they it. If oleomargarine, butterine, lonn ot the consent of the ow nor of the passing is as desirable for food as buttei suine or the property. Oecu-ional- ly made from cream, if its llavor is as rathen - I miT is chiefly, occupied bv a its and color and odor as attrret-ive- , good, le 1,54 ; that, is annually growing wider it should, after all, he sold under its atia deeper for the reason that the name. true Vessels sailing under false eh a r t and bottom are not protected as colors are as piratical crafts, regarded ?d:T-nig- ht be. 1 ljt' sre are. few sorts of land that can and the practice of selling any article 'rniV e ntade productive of either pleas-l- o under a false name is fraudulent. The of many to all imitations of ' f prollt, and which would not be opposition pj butter may be the result of unreasona'j to afford both if they were in ble n but even prejudices are prejudice, is scarcer and where land ,n. Ties ' entitled to It may be that an respect. and However more plenty. steep Ollli' , an epicure may not be able to or expert bn it be ean to made hind may sixari f imitation butter from the r, put .lie tru s that are both useful and distinguish hut that furnishes no article, genuine ton os There are u-- od pre-duei- t l'r g U scarcely any good reason for attempting to deceive him in regard to the composition of the substance he buys to eat. Many of the statements made before the committee referred to were extravagant, if not altogether void of truth. For instance, Mr. Joseph II. Real!, whose dairy farm is elegantly located somewhere on Fifth avenue, New York city, and whose creamery is presumed w h nutbearing trees and ever- - to be situated cm Broadway, said: The a very beautiful appear-- 1 fraudulent sale of butterine will, unless ; J I, naments a farm better than stopped, drive out the sale of butt r enbuildings do. Many hardy tirely; tirst, because it always has been f s and grapevines do well on anil always will be sold for' butter. It v elevations. r The like is true is a perfect counterfeit, and consumers m and cherry trees. A hill are not microscopies or chemists. Hon.h trees and vines will soon est butter can not compete with it. It ource of delight to the occu- can lie made and sold at 10 cents per lt farm. If they are from a pound wholesale and retailed at 15 0 forests abound it will recents. While we can sell butter at a of their old home. It will low price it can not be sold for this. ul ep.m,." u 'd admired by travelers and Genuine butter must therefore beelriv-e- u in from the market. We can make g several miles from it. bout t tr y eces of land that are too pork ac3 cents, beef at 5 cents, wheat leg'll t r ken, or unproductive to be at 50 cents, corn at 25 cents more sucins d r 'i c o be made to ve produce certain cessfully than we can butter at present v d out much expenditure of figures, and God knows none of these or ti oney. Good crops of pump- - prices pay the, farmer. We ought to . k melons, and encumbers have 50 cents for good butter. It is an niii. r e(j on an,i C)f which not expensive article to make, but we can reein et' part is worked produce the finest for 30 cents on the u 'lenient. a ver hills ean bo average. That is the bottom, and wo Large fr' i use of the spade, pick, or have been forced to find that bottom. 1.. a liberal amount, of stable Now, it is not true, as every intellij; ai plied and tiie best soil mixed gent farmer knows, that it is more !n this the seeds of the vines profitable to make pork for 3 cents, eled and the young plants beef at 5 cents per pound, wheat at 50 r. the usual manner. As the cents, and corn at 25 cents per bush 1, ase in length they will pxtend than butter at present figures, which hard earth and do quite as are from 25 to 33 cents per pound. h y would on the most fertile Farmers very well know that butter ' pkins, squashes, and melons keeps its price better than any article .Uncly if they lie on high and they produce. On this account thouThese vine crops are gen- - sands of them are giving up g ' looted and the production of beef, pork, by western farmers be- are voted a bother in corn-- i mutton, wool, and fruit to engage in for the additional reason that dairying. A pound of good butter can do not like to devote good be produced much cheaper than six to their production. Toma- - pounds of fine beef or ten pounds of fat do very well if planted in pork. If dairymen ought to have 5U and the fruit ripens cents for good butter, the grain-raisen n r than in comparatively low certainly ought to have more than places. that sum for a bushel of good wheat lycn can be utilized in xrarious and more than 25 cents for a bushel of 0 t t irae that are quite wide and corn. t it i banks can be roofed over and id'l There Again Dairyman Reall says: rotec-- all kinds of farm stock. is no limitation to the amount s of tine cloiT' is used ravines for the pro-i- d butter we ean make. By line butter 111'- -1 their ponies long before this he means butter that will sell for 50 on'T"'T8 discovered and occupied cents per pound. He is probably right tes. Some ravines that have lsd. instating that there is no limitation to M, t and bottoms can be used tor the amount of ,1J expensive butter that l)elE ,,'C3 of water to use in time of can be made, hut there is certainly a d. AH that is ffsfo necessary to con-- e limitation on the amount of it that 1 bei into reservoirs is to build a bo sold, at home or abroad, at the . of stone or timber, and to he names. Men who are earning it with a discharge pipe, and a price but $1 per day and women who receive t for carrying off the superfluous but half that sum can not afford to inIt is easy to prevent ravines dulge in a table luxury costing 50 cents m in size the per pound. If they can not obtain butu n s v. . it the seeds ofby sowing that ter for less than 50 cents per pound grasses of : g and tenacious roots. The they will use some other article in the never be of any value as food place of it. tit f ' Sugar of the best quality -- ols. but it co . "r will protect the is very cheap, and so are all kinds of ' Td will help make them beau-)i- n canned and ole dried fruits, jellies, jams, li will grow in ravines, and and preserves. Fish preserved in varindor varieties will do better in ous lb f J xvays, and which are excellent con' in places where they are ex- diments, and are also cheap as compared !l ie sun aild po ldgh winds. with butter at 30 cents per pound. " fveral writers have advocat-itli During a large portion of t lie summer I gooseberry and blackberry strawberries can be obtained in towns iim ',Ifn ravines. They state that they at from 5 to 10 cents and i cr protected in them, and that most persons would per quart, prefer them to .C3 more and better fruit if butter at the ,tC'? price named by Dairyman T ill partial shade. Reall. After strawberries have disap1. (aces can not be drained so peared other berries and larger fruits rifi so'd apable of being take their and are sold at low places r ' ' ' ort a. should be made to make :ii for other purposes. A prices. The statement was recently made to d.'J n ' 'a,lu "O t'r carp and somo a gentleman, xvho stands high as a , o hshraising j,. can open 0 ja statistician and economist, that half iuents. Tit as cr niountains in this country that k covered with trees, shrubs, and i, if they have been protected from T1 i Fho roots of trees and hardy J tfnd their way among rocks and Ip all the nutriment they require. a h1!' he mitiicaring trees do exceedingly an . So do j)n these rocky' elevations. 11 eTtv'i it tii s of evergreens. A hill cov- -' 11 1111 n-e- nts ! 1 s (I,, Si t 3 ) 1 in f 1 (1 th V i ! sam 1 . grain-raisin- 1 sim-dion- s, er f! ' t 1 c 1 itcn-1- B.-- 'i ! 31 1 -- o r fr s to. ' s j" ft the e 5o cents LAFAU AiVS LOGIC. in the United States live on a day per can.t.i. Jlic-- e Boli Ingersoll. simply !,( Ingr'in had been that can not eat 30. lawyer of I'curia. even cents per at K 50. or a r. pliih.'ophi LI. Ifi xva' one of the . cat tlu-imust republican delThey It - human nature to commit sin to the bic:-Cim egate, hmati without butter or obtain an art convention of lir-t and learn its penalty afterward. e tiiat is cheaper Hum and a .strong Blaine man. lie ar1S6. - co-- t- I p to a reasonably a- -t jKiu-id- gilt-edg- creamery. If the price of butter was raised to 5(1 cents a pound on account of the abolition of thexarious substitutes for it, the price would nothing Kverv farmer who could contiuuc. buy cows would engage in milk production, and there would be a creamery at every road crossing in the country. If an end was put to the manufacture of the substitute for butter, there would lx a greater ditlerenee between the prices of that artiefe and tiiat of beef and pork than there is at present, because oleomargarine, butterine, and suine arc made from suet and lard. It has been repeatedly stated that the manufacture of these articles has resulted in adding $5 to the value of the average fat steer and .2.50 to the value of a hog weighing three hundred pounds. Increasing the price of butter and decreasing the price of meat would cause people to eat less of the former, for butter is not absolutely essential to human existence or happiness. A careful comparison of the prices in commercial papers show that the price of butter has not dxdineij since Move discovered a substitute for it. Neither has the da'ry interest in any country declined, hi proof of tl is an extract from Mr. Read's address mav not lie out of place. Referring to the great growth of the industry lie saxs: Dairying has made rapid strides, not only in increased production, but in the quality of the products. The quantity of butter and chees made iu the United States quadrupled in the twenty-fiv- e years before lxso. Commercial dairying was formerly eonlineil to central New York and small districts in Vermont and lYnnsy Ivania. It was then introduced into Ohio, then into Illinois and Wisconsin, and later into Iowa and Minnesota. Fifteen years ago (he first creameries were started in Illinois. Now that state exports over 100,000.000 pounds of butter cheese and annually. in were Iowa started They still later, and that state has now six hundred creameries and makes as line butter as is produced in the world. The industry is a leading one in Wisconsin, and is lieing introduced in Minnesota. Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Indiana, and Tennessee. Five years ago I pointed to the regions of Kentucky' for the dairy. Since then creameries have been introduced in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, and Arkansas will produce more buttei-- . cheese, and lieef than the whole south has ever raised of cotton, and with much greater benefit to her people. And her production will not interfere with tiiat of the eastern, middle, and western states either. Tennessee and Mississippi have introduced creameries and are making a fine product, and recently I had some butter sent me from San Antonio, Texas, made from a herd of Jerseys, that w as of line As wre extend this industry quality. and it will extend by natural forces if there be nothing in the way we improve the general condition of the people directly affected, their land and farms, communities, towns, villages and cities, and, finally, of the whole state in which they live. Michigan and Indiana, Kansas and Nebraska, Missouri and Tennessee are now great states, but without dairying they have readied the has period of decline, for had its run and exhausted their soils. blue-gra- grain-growin- Chicago ss g Times. Some men, between two evjls, choose both. Fashion soon tires of every thing except a plug hat. The only' school board that it spoils to wash is the blackboard. A spring mattress, like a spring chicken, is in season all the year round. If every woman could have a hus- band, female suffrage would cease to agitated. The barber dies a while another dies but is far from grave. The man who never is courting the woman boking-glas- thousand times once, and yet he wore light boots who never saw a s. The man who is waiting for something to turn lip generally finds it when he steps on a barrel hoop. If von had all the gold in the world you could gild over the entire earth. Perhaps you wouldnt do it, though. n A statesman is spoken of by an exchange as a man of quiet tastes. Takes his bottle behind the wood-sheeh? An English paper states that women are too much inclined to touzle the hair, a sentiment tiiat most married men will endorse. A doctor says whenever a person sneezes he should take a drink of water and he will not take cold. Some men well-know- d, would rather chance the cold. Love is deaf as well as blind. If it wasnt how could Hie tendrils of womans affection wind themselves about the man who talks through his ? The ablest minds claim that there is no such thing as originality possible. Nothing, they argue, has ever been produced by man that did not resemble something in the earth or visible heavens. The new spring hat is the nearest approach to an exception no-e- ah-olu- te yet discovered. - brag of. on tenacity'. legfiimnte persecution. It will even make Canada thistles pine for death as a release. It is not creditable for a dog even to bite the hand that feeds it. Ilowtoex-cti'- c man for the same thing is what puzzles me just now. I am not in fax or of writing obituaries. I11 niv mind they are foolish! Good people do not mind them, anil had ones do not deserxe them. The pleasing ceremonies of polite people are liable to be about show, yet are about as near the golden gate as mankind ever gets. AH begin at the bottom ami work for the top round of the traditional ladder, but I have never seen a person yet xvho know lieu the top round xvas reached. A truth of much embellish meat is necessarily xveak. Truth alone and simple is iieauty in the rough. I11 fact, it is all the virtue necessary for any one person. When on earth the Creator taught truth in simple and homely phrases, yet the simpleness of the language rendered Ilis xvords eloquent and more convincing. At sixteen all young men know more than their sires. This is natural. But if they still claim to xvear the medal at twenty-fiv- e they are gone beyond redemption. There is not much genuine happiness in the world, but those xvho do not mourn over what they have not got, and do not make fools of themselves over w'hat they have got, give happiness a close shave. Being either way lip in the attic of ecstacy, or way doxvn in the cellar of de'pair is had policy. Any fool can become comparatively happy in life if he, xvill take a position on the fence, and stick to it. No one ever fully comprehends the worlds nature, but many a man who has hail the bottom of his hopes and aspirations knocked into oblivion by t he unfeeling world has caught a faint glimmer of humanity. Chicago Ledger. I will bet in v last dollar It ie txvo-thir- xx Mining Camp in 4.9. The mines put all men for once upon a level. Clothes, money, maimers, family connections, letters of introduction. nex-e- counted for so little. The whole community xvas given substantially an even start in the race. Gold xvas so abundant, and its sources seemed for a time so inexhaustible, that the aggrandizing poxver of wealth was moSocial and annihilated. mentarily financial inequalities between man and man were together swept out of sight. Each stranger xvas welcomed and told to take a pan and pick and go to work for himseif. The richest miner in the camp was seldom able to hire a servant; those who had been glad to serve others were digging in their own claims. The veriest greenhorn xvas as likely to uncover the richest mine in the gulch as xvas the wisest of of geology; and, on the other hand, the best claim on the river might suddenly give out and never again jielil a dollar. The poorest man in tiie camp could have a handful of gold dust for the asking from a more successful neighbor, to give him another start and No help him hunt for better luck. one was ever allowed to suffer; the treasure vaults of bierra were too near To a and seemingly too exhaustless. little camp xf 1849 so an old miner a lad of 16 came one day, writes me footsore, weary, hungry, and penniless. There xve re thirty robust and cheerful miners at xx'ork iu the ravine, and the lad sat oil the bank xvatcliing them a while in silence, his face telling the sad story of liis fortunes. At last one stalwart miner spoke to his fellows, saying: Boys, Ill work tor an hour for At the end of that chap, if you will. the hour one hundred dollars xvortli of gold dust was laid in the youth's handkerchief. The miners made out a You go, list of tools and necessaries. they said, and buy these and come back. Well have a good claim staked out for you. Then you've got to padThus genuine and dle for yourself. unconventional was the hospitality of the miners camp. Mining Vamp. A LIFE STUDIES. be Ucees a proof of ability. Success not abused i a greater proof, howexer. Sue ess corrupts about as many as it to ones betbenefit', unless it apin-ater nature. Wit that comes natural and sudden, like powder out of a gun, is the most irresistible of all wit. Man is not lmrn xnth character. His ancestors good name is his only as long as he honors it. 'Idle very best that many persons could do that I kuow of would lx- to forget half they knoxv. We look into the present or future for our encouragement xxhen we should U studying the past for it. The true logic of fixing is to enjoy life if you got a chance, and, if you do not. not to hinder others xvho can. I do not see any object in jealousy, for teu to one if those xve are jealous of are not equally jealous of some one else. After all, beauty is like a fast horse it has its day. Take beauty out of some people and there is little left to r rived in Cincinnati with several other Illinois delegates m oral days before the convention assembled. The city was full of people, and they were having a high old time. The Blaine men had meet ings ex cry day, and did everytheir thing in their poxver to boom candidate. It xxas finally decided to Itux'e the nominating speech made by some Illinois man, and the Illinois delegation settled upon Ingersoll. There was present in the city Bobs favorite brother, who died a few years later, and at whose grave tiie great atheist defix ered his xvorld renowned oration, lie immediately told hia brother of his selection, and that he had promised to deliver the speech. The brother, xxho was somewhat tried to him not to try ner-xou- pcr-ua- s, di it. You are not famous enough, ho persuaded. You are getting along and making a reputation, but this U too big a thing for y ou. I fear you xvill make a dead failure of it. But Bob had promised aud would r.ot back out. Well, if y'ou are determined to do this, you must do your lest. You must make a r'leers. To Jo this you mu. t get at it immediately. Dont wait a minute. Go into that room and lock the door, and begin the speech. will do, urged Boh, Oli, and besides, I have promised to go with the boys Aud away he went, Tiie next day passed, and although his brother spoke about the speech sex eral times. Robert did not touch it. And so the time passed till the night before the convention. The brother, meanwhile, had got nearly frantic. Robert came in late that night, and, in ansxver, to , brothers solicitation, said: Oh, bother; lets get a good nights hi.-- sleep. And so they retired. Ingersoll says he never slept so soundly in his life as he did that night. Finally he xvoke up suddenly', and felt perfectly refreshed. He got up hastily and looked at his watch. It was three oclock a. m. lie went to the adjoining room very quietly and closed the door, so as not to disturb his brother, lie turned the fight down, and, closing his eyes, imagined the convention hall, and liis audience before him. Then he began to think of Blaine. Finally lie began to say his speech over to himself. When he had finished he took pen and paper and wroto it. out carefully as lie had said it. lie laid it axvay in the drawer to the bureau, anil went back quietly to bed. He very soon xvas fast asleep again, and did not wake up till past eight, when his brother xvas standing over him, rigorously shaking him. Rob, get up, get up! Its 8:30, and the convention assembles at 10:30, I thought you xx'cre going to get up early and get your speech ready. It xvill be a dead failure, and shall be disgraced. Blaine xvill not he nominated. It is too bad, too bad. Bob sloxvly waked up, and rubbing his eyes, urged that it would ho best first'to get their breakfast. But the brother insisted that lie should not leave his room until lie got doxvn to business on the speech. By this time Bob hail donned his pantaloons, and remarked: Well, you be the audience and sit oxer there, and I xvill see xxhat lean vx--e do. It is, perhaps, needless to sav that the brother was completely captured. When Bob had finished he rushiAl to hint, and putting both arms aiound hint, embraced him in the most enthusiastic xvay. It is simply sublime, he cried, but when did you prepare it? Oh, I scratched it off last night when yott were asleep. (Jo to the draxver there and you will find the man user ipt. While I dress please read it oxer and see if I delivered it correctly. The great point xxitli Ingersoll is that he is alxvays self possessed. lie never gets rattled. Some of the greatest orators in this country have trembled before so great an occasion as this. Bob Ingersoll never said anything that gave him so much reputation as that It has hit about the plumed knight. been quoted ever since, both by Blaine's friends and enemies. The convention went xvild over it. But it could not make Blaine president. Exchange. Peers That are Pensioned. It stated that relatives of peers have is received $500,000,000 of public money since 1855. Each Duke also has at relatives in public office. present fifty-si- x The 402 hereditary peers own an average of 35,000 acres each and draw a total annual rental of $60,001,000. The Duke of Richmond has made a specially good thing out of liis ancestors. A perpetual pension of 19.000 xvas granted to one of the dukes. To commute this consols worth 633,000 xverc purchased when consols were below par and the bonds were put aside for the Duke. These consols rose above par, wrere sold, and the proceeds invested in land, which now gives he duke 50,000 a year in place of 19,000 a year to which lie is entitled. To reform the present House of Peers there are some persons who advocate the Chinese hereditary system, by which a dukes son would be a marquis, the grandson an earl, and so on until the family either entirely lost its title for fresh services tQ or xvas the State1 - |