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Show I'UBLWIEK MANTI, OTHERWISE: miMKSTIf - of Offering PreTo Ba Novelties for miums Exhibited at Fairs. UTAH. AND PERSONAL. Hlnrt Gkr;k is 47 He yours old. Akabi P.wi.v is teaching school in Ceylon. CN(;i;ksmas reagan is said to ba I ventriloijuist of no ordinary power. It is reported that the Order of the Carter w ill be conferred upon the emperor of China. Dtnuv philanthropist, Timothy oi benefit (XX) for the left $40, Sexton, A intinu preachers. T. W. IIigginso.v, the writer, because of delicate health, does not allow himself to go out after dark. The eldest son of Secretary Bayard, it is stated, will wed in June a Mis. Deacon, of Fort Pendleton, W. A a. has passed over t francs ir with 3,000,000 purse, golden it, to the French Academy of Fine Arts. Mme. ECO XU 31 V. me Advisability AT - - (henevard fr Take Necessity of Educating Men to Hoads, Earth Charge of Common Making Fairs Useful. That the various state, district, and held in this county fairs that have been the years have fifty past country during been productive of great good, none wili denv. They have enabled foreigners who come here for the purpose of engaging in farming to sc the productions peculiar to this country and to learn much in relation to the ways of raising them. They have served to bring up the quality of all our dairy products. They have exerted a powerful inilucnce in increasing the production of orchard, vineyard, and garden fruits, and improving the quality of them. They have been of considerable value to Horticulture and vegetable gardening. Persons who have visited fairs have seen new varieties of fruits, vegetables, and flowers, and have engaged New and improved in raising them. .gricultural implements have been made brought into notice by the at fa rs. At one time tin competitive tests of the ditlerent kinds of impleor in fields ments in the in the vicinity enabled farmers to judge Most tann tif their respective merits. fairs have learne ers who have much by conversing with exhibitors of slock, machinery, lield, garden, and products. Probably the most good lias resulted from the displays of .specimens of improved breeds of liors s, cattle, sheep, pigs, and fowls at fairs. All farmers of intelligence have read descriptions ,1 Hosf. C'ogiilan is a neighbor of Samuel J. Tilden, having recently purcha-e- c a villa adjoining that statesman's home. ys fair-groun- Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says -- it is like waiting for your epitaph tc wait for accepted articles to be published bv magazines. Mrs. Jit.iv Ward Howe ceed her daughter, Mrs. Anagnos, it: the presidency of the Metaphysical club of Poston. will suc- 1 vi-it- un-har- Mark Tavaix told a recent visitor of improved breeds of faun animals that he could print single copies of (Jen. and have seen illustrations of them. cents each. Hut it is necessary to see the animals (irant's book for themselves and to compare them with The selling price is $3.50. common stock in order to become conMrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps vinced of their superior merits. The can write better than she can dictate, exhibitions oil fair grounds enable some articles farmers to do this. The displays of and in order to fumi.-dNorman horses in the show-rinserved her is at work wiln to make these animals she prom'-icby in all popular her arm in splints. The wrrist was parts of the country ami to produce a great demand for them. Farmers besprained in a fall not long ago. came dissatisfied with scrub cattle after they saw line specimens of the Prince BreM U;ck failed to get his shorthorn and Hereford breeds. Dairv plover eggs this spring. Ono hundrel fanners decided to improve their milkof those eggs have been sent to him ing herds after they had seen Ayrshire, Ilolsleins, and Swiss cows. from Jever on every birthday anniver- Jersey, Fork raisers were inclined to give up s for ureon but this many years, sary s after they laid keeping the long winter kept the plovers in the visited fairs at which s were A similar effect was on exhibition. south. produced by the displays at fa:rs of the Tin: students and alumni of Cornell ren university are clrcrnnrmg to a distant fair in order to obtain hoard of trustees to penthe questing accomplished a good missionpremiums sion Prof. Hoe h rig, the noted linguist, ary work. He on his retirement from the faculty. It is certainly advisable to continue has been at tho head of the Oriental the display of all kinds of live stock as in that college for seventeen Well as all kinds of lield, orchard, and garden crops, and to encourage exhibiears. tions by the offer of premiums. AlLieut. Gov. Ames, of Massachusetts though most farmers have seen specimens of all the improved breeds of catgave away trees on last Arbor day to tle, sheep, horses, pigs, ami poultrv, it any North Easton people who would is desirable that they see from year to set thorn out. He gives the town this year the improvements that are made year $2,000 to be used in planting shade by skilllul breeders. Still, an agricul-tura- l fair should be something more trees along the public highways, anc sliovv. Good hundred trees than a lias purchased twenty-livfarming is necessary to produce crops for ani for that purpose. mals to cat, and for land to bo made it is necessary to preserve Admiral Maxse, of the English productive and apply manure properly, to prepare rooms a for week 'his $115 avy, pays the soil so that plants will make a vig; a New York hotel. Ilis service and orous growth, and to cultivate it so that leaks are extra, and must bring his wends do not make their appearance. ill up to nearly $200 for himself alone. In this part of the country it necessary ,t another hotel a retired Californian to provide shelter as well as food for and at stock, the present time furnishays $80 a day, and John W. Mackey's ing shelter is attended by large expense. ooms cost him $100 a week. Without doubt the price of lumber will increase from to year till the time The duke and duchess of Atliole are will come whenyear farm buildings must be anxious that the Gaelic language should made of stone, brick, iron, or concrete, not die out, and for some years past lhiilding materials have increased in they have been in the habit of giving price ami the wages of carpenters have advanced during the time that nearly prizes to the young people on their es- all products have been on the decline. tates for protieieney in the old tongue. It seems to be time for the managers This year's examination took place at of agricultural affairs to turn their Blair castle, when fifteen girls and bovs cut ion to new things. The breeders t of line stock have boon appeared to compete for two very encouraged bv oiler of liberal and so prizes. The duke and ditches art the premiums, have the persons who have introduced both excellent Gaelic scholars. new and improved varieties of fruits, vegetables, and flowering plants. A Cincinnati gentleman was walk- grains, 'There are other things that need ening along tho street the other day with couragement. We want belter builda young lady hanging on each nnv ings on farms, and we need those that when a thief stepped up and relieved can be constructed at a small cost for him of his watch. The young man saw materials and work. Rural architecture has been sadly neglected in this the deed and strove to catch the thief, The great majority of farm but the alarm of the girls for his per- country. are unsuited to the buildings sonal safety was so great that they clung for which they were designed,purposes while to h s arms and implored him to desist, they are very costly. The offer of libas the robber would kill him. Of course era premiums for the best and cheapest lie had to stop aud argue the case with buddings that would accomodate a certain number of horses, cattle, or the ladies, and in tho meantime the sheep would set mechanics at work in thief escaped. preparing plans to be submitted for ex. animation. The erection of one cheap A toe NO man in Athens, Ga.. has a convenient, aud substantial building valuable diamond pin with a liistorv, would be the means of causin' nnnv which ho evidently isn't ashamed of. to be erected. It would have the same influence on the barns that would be His grandfather was a slave holder, up during the next few years that and one day saw a young wench wear put a line horse will on animals that will be ittg a diamond pin. lie ashed hot in the same neighborhood where she got it and what she'd tak Shelter belts are of so much importfor it. She said she had picked it up ance on western farms that it would be in a street in Montgomery, Ala., and wise to oiler premiums to tluree that are would trade it for a red handkerchief. of the most service, that are the mo-- t quickly grown, and are proWhereupon the honorable Georgian duced the least costwhich The const u it and for slave the $5 hamlet o girl , gave and cis down to his admiring posterity. iifty-liv- e i g d razor-back- Perk.-hire- r live-stoc- e k i at-- band-som- e rai-e- d stock-pond- jt tt " at'T terns for holding ol ing the attention of the management reagricultural ailulre. P'rei..ir.' has of ceive little attention ill most parts the reason that the we-- t. elm fly farmers do not know how to construct and till silos. A somewhat liberal premium for the be-- t silo would be likely to be the nmans of having several constructed and Idled, and fanners would have an opportunity of visiting them aud gaining an idea of their value. Of late most of our agricultural fairs have been lacking in the element of novelty. There are changes in the premium list in the course of a dozen years. It would add to their interest, while it would greatly increase their value, to offer premiums for some new thing every year. Special pains should be taken to ascertain what department of agriculture most needs encouragement. This is the plan of the leading agricultural society in Great Ilritain, and it is productive of excellent results. XV by Roads Are Poor. That the roads throughout the prairie region of the west are very poor is a fact known to everyone who has occasion to travel over them. No one rides for pleasure through the farming districts except at certain seasons ol the year. During the summer and the early part of the fall horses delight to trot over the surface of the prairies, and the wheels of any sort of a vehicle move very easily. In fact, there is no than that formed by dry better road-behard and prairie soil. It does not tire the feet of horses like a road covered with pavement, crushed stone, or gravel. It yields just enough to allow the animals to secure a good foothold, and not enough to interfere with their free action, it presents hardly an impediment to moving av heels. It occasions no jolts to persons who ride in carriages. In its best condition it leaves scarcely any thing to be desired. I5ut it is in good condition only a few months in the year, and during this period farmers are generally too busy with their crops to allow them to ride for pleasure or to do teaming. When their crops are harvested the soil is saturated with water or the uneven surface is frozen solid. When in either conditions it is almost impossible to drive over it From November till May, a period embracing the months that farmers are obliged to do most of their teaming in, the roads are in no condition to be treed. Water accumulates in all the low places, and although there may be bridges over the streams the approaches to tlreiii are generally submerged or so soft as to be dangerous for teams. A team that will pull a ton over a good road without showing any signs of fatigue become tired after drawing an empty wagon a few hours over ono dt these apolgies for a road. -- THE HOME SENTINEL. n,c-tio- s, w d lie is called to the nrserable condition of the roads. The papers discuss the matter at great length. State and county conventions are called in the interest of good roads. At these gatherings resolutions are passed and much The proprilegislation recommended. etors of tile factories, the owners of deposits of gravel, and the patentees of road making machinery all present their plans for making and keeping up good roads. If resolutions, legislation, speeches and appeals to the public would insure good roads the facilities for travel would be most excellent in all parts of the west. All these agencies, however, appear to exert vcrvTit-tl- e influence on the condition of the public thoroughfares. Most of the plans suggested for making roads in the country are too costly to be put in practice. They require the expenditure of a sum of money that can not be raised by farmers, many of whom are heavily in debt, and nearly all of whom are desirous of improving their places, erecting new buildings, buying new stock, and purchasing implements to work the soil and harvest necessary crops. A tax that would put all the. roads in a new country in good condition would result in the ruin of most of the farm- ers. Hoads are poor in m ist parts of the west, not because little money is raised to improve them, but bccairee it is injudiciously expended. Much labor is spent on roads to very poor advantage, lhe men who know how to make maid bridges and culverts for earth roads, or to grade the roads are somewhat scarce in every county, and they are seldom selected to superintend these A man is generally chosen operations. commissioner of highways, or district road surveyor, because he is a member ln good standing in some political partv, or is known as a clever follow'. He would- not be employed to make plans for a man who wisfied to construct private roads or to superintend workmen engaged in making tiiera. lle is generally free to aeknowb e'ge that he does not understand the rut of planning and constructin' roads briih"- - and culverts; that he has iven little 'cry attention to these matters, and that he has no taste for them. It is likely that there are more men in this country w ho understand the construct- aj tracks, bridges, and culverts are constantly watched and are re paired as soon as they are out of good condition in auv way. It is not l.krly we shall ever have good wagon roads till they are bu It and kept in repair in the same manner that railroads are. Men must be educated and trained for the work of constructing and repairing earth roads and the bridges and culverts that must be built in connection with them. In order to prepare them for this immust have suitable portant service theyand to study proper teachers to teach them. They must be employed in the capacity of experts by county anil town ollieials in the same manner that engineers are secured by the directors of railroad companies. Chicago text-boo- Tunes. CHAT WITH A BRAKEMAN. Hangers, Incidents, and Fascinations of the Road. Brakeiuan? Yes. What of it? Just wanted to know how tho old thing works. Works! Well, it works all right e with an crew, but get one ol in and these aggravatin green-horn- s setill knows the result its nobody F(re Gen. Gran Iaill the Or ir Z'Ly A British p,.r; tioitthe od.tr anl t! of aV one for an ; ke force thousand words, tire were n of about $ ii,. r ttiMn, th Wlth 1' stone had declinei 1 extract, said that surprised that Mr keep i: :'mI g1011 have refused to lI',; writ, ct ores. ! he a Oeeupvim as of prime minister offered seeim-- to I he ad ant age 0f jj ( . hng Iur as a contributor have been worth the f even if he did not traTth-of the publishers J;, back on the paa Vi r -- 1 1 ,!i mldri'T"1 Wtoiffi t0tibra-'- t t Jf.l;,.rton vnlturij more than $10 per ija. hratiot writings bv nopuhtr snt trot an unusual thing t0pa,.j f impre net of only fourteen linT' to the double that per line oJe.T, and state oliieer of the BritUi dlernpl than $8 per line hash, he im owners of magazines h r has ttled.' catch on running a period of p.nre bin Don't the year, if found readable., m was readily? Readily? No. Warily would lie a merit, or written by , j. for would give it w fully d better word. I will try to tell you how they do it. The whistle blows for cially is this the ease in ,'i the 13 time brakes and all hands scramble for books written fora I them. The greens, always having the connected with the An 1 think instance caboose. from the try. start niuvW snap, I see one of them warily feeling his cnee to the recent tvoii to for way up the ladder to the roof of the Gen. Grant's Memoirs. le e lirst ear and contemplating the pros- two volumes, and has '- withou early stage of the public; elcme pect in abject terror. Forcible expletives from the rear the general's widow a sic to t!ie result impel the progress of the recruit, and does not exceed, $20 p.g as lie contemplates the yawning chasm net her a much huger as between the lirst two ears lie ever Clevelands book wh which one will auze tc. jumped horror is written on his face tionatc amount of moire tod, cl aud reluctance halts his step. Yes, its common. They all look at far exceeding that oll'eredil f1 oun" the fearful leap, grit their teeth, make for the article alluded a wild jump that lands them about tho paper extract. Durinc tj z, middle of the next car, and thereafter of The New York Loljn jT'0' 01 attack duty with the confidence born Bonner was noted for g.v'r 0 Ore. of money to authors wire of such experience. Keith, considered of more Where are you recruiting the brake-mejva of amount from? printed A the t! Almost without exception from the result of their pens. j he pai tv-c country towns. The kids, in defiance writers to whom be to almot of law and marshals, disport themselves appear lira T' then not o Well ire ,T about the trains while passing or shiftis j, ing till the habit becomes a passion, as Mr. Gladstone and maturity makes its gratilication were prominent eiioti;rhfc.'m;p' to desire that they ...ra possible. Accidents? Well, they are largely as contributors to his pr one aecasion he paid toll due to either carelessness, drunkenness, or overconfidence chiefly the latter. now poet laureate of Ea!; of $5, OilD for a An occasional funeral is promoted bv Jt( wo m - twi.nty lines in the snapping of a without warning, a train parts atacrit- - was at the rate of $250 r rtie wnole brakcmeii that would almost seem: ,rv e7 make no specially foremost figure in the yalue of any written f'morn railroad fatalities. (Julvcston News. .then Fes, in one wav were tough, but we ie me work hard for small wages, aud when Pasteurs Treatment a'u the we relax we do it hilariously. E till Russian Three Suppose you have 'many dose calls? ft IT taken who were nineteen FV ( ell, the fact is we re on the rag-re' edge about every minute of running labratory, March loth, for Ci p time. Of course, we take no thouglit against the development .,j,,i; of such things, but no doubt our lives bia, died of that disease, V oik or limbs are imperiled unwittingly doz- effect of the inoculations. lret,ii' ens of time every trip. beginning the treatment. I.'1,1; How does it so often happen that reported as doing well. Iff j are either killed or maimed? had boeu bitten by u , Just because the older the hand the bents in arm The difliculty great more reckless he becomes. Habit makes in reference to y11 the dangerous dut es of the railroader conclusion of such H of treatment kind as routine and common-plac- e as those of one hundred persons IfcU'.ff of a carpenter. drophobie animals only a 'iiiat fellow with his hand y are liable to have the enveloped in a store is an example. lie and if the disease should fai has been twenty years on the road, ami in any of the remaining si f ten of them a conductor. Of course, now in Pasteur s sians With ordinary care he could j ti. cars would prove nothing for for ten hours at a stretchcouple without, of treatment, for it M"'' f, seiious risk, but familiarity breeds conthat of nineteen pqrsons tempt for danger, as for other thine-s.... three should have the hydroi and in that way he lost half his I' circumstances. riht der y,.. any hand. thus far have j, Once a railroad man always one? periments inoau .j y his that preventive Yes, thats about the extent, of it! There ever a' can not that they fail, f y is a fascination about the life and Health Month. Dr. T'oulc's w hich is rarely shaken off and f auscarcely ever sought to be voluntarily. jyo Pliofogr-ipMOilicial advancement is about the Expert only thing that ever finally divorces a twister Muybr.dge Mr. Eadweard ff. o Iran the wheel, and that sort of thinho happens with a rarity like the discovery pert photographer of Tret the in way wonders of a new planet. Cincinnati Sun. animals in motion, lus objee run- b show how they move, Men All Alike. at w vvork at etc. He is now is It very seldom, said the waitsitv of Pennsylvania, "ncr.l pr ress, that you meet one man different eeeded in taking 20 00i, In record. ng tiie 1)Ht from the rest. They are all tuned to seconds. lie made lib en, of a bird the same key, and that one t,;lP key is conceit. wil during I here isnt a man who comes in here negatives ; we On examining them lie k' ' regularly but believes that all us girls feather performed ,,' ng are dead gone on him. Doesnt matmovement like an oar m0 fl.,i ter how old, how poor, or how explains how birds an lr,.. the air without the man is, he still thinks thathomely through uwhermi a thing which ever he goes lie leaves behind motion, him zled t'-g; ornithologists. woman. I spose vou . llculth Monthly. think men com here just to eat. Well, they do but any bo ly to look at them A Slight Mistake aa would think that their chief purpose on tbe ft lV-Trrrer.c,;hitcl,at to the waitress They were sitting every time she passes. It was on tho dunimAnd they are all alike, married or cm sin-- g the climate a res e. it .u home they only knew how tired it given and they were going makes us, perhaps would quit I they Anderson. tell you it is .. ,rc(jtotff;. refreshing when, once in a Dont, she onS lime, a man conies in who really Dont what? hnd s0 ba' appears to have come in for the P- -e Dont of hav SnVo press m.v Vn ndes the grub and enre '.mtto take away your armWhat do you meanmore than if we w across lit and S01t of a man strike's Th pVic? and otherglared side. lpav'es it without any of the 1 , the t; . flirty jam t please? tricks of the general run v ttle Fare, ris lust ' g , found she ha uo admire hint, and wouldnt mi,,,' i re and she a little more sociable. -T- oronto the conductor s hand, anIPi..i- y humored her. Ihuaj old-tim- new-come- rs s; T a- : a- -n to vair- n mar.-- ; j. shotti-!'-,,- rrVi-su- t- brake-chai- I'lire.-y,,,- . n; 1 , t, of o: old-time- rs . , re v- disea-- - dry-goo- . Is b , on- itsex-penen- ee pi11-- ' t,-- .l - n'i-rl- - .v,-- , - broken-hearte- d S ion railroads than of common earth There are ten books oil the construction to one on the matin; of dirt roads. ivl ,o a great corpora- tion wi1 th;directorsof 1 COnstn!et 3 rallroa'1 cnijdoy a competent engineer to al! tL work. He. .re.u1 .1 the andable assistants and special tion?'8' JT1,are3 Plaus anJ speeilica- the work to contractors. Ihe roaa in suitable repair by kept - direction of trained experts. These ads are constructed and kept in good il-- - - - of roads. C'linliticil by the expenditure ot the un.m.iihret amount of mon- y po road-beds- , 'lhe ciivuuretanee.s. the der sub-railro- ad S - - al-- who i s., - Kany - ; . 1 - , 1 |