California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



duty of home and lost no grace of tenderness 

 and* love. She has become a better mother, 

 daughter, sister, friend, by just that enhvrge- 

 ment which it was predicted would uuscx her. 

 Experience has shown, that as woman is made 

 to be worth more to society at large, she be- 

 comes richer at home, and is capable of build- 

 ing it better and administering its duties more 

 skillfully and retinedly. Woman is not best 

 in the family in those communities where she 

 is most secluded. She is richest in all house- 

 hold excellencies in those which grant to her 

 the liberty of widest activity, and motives to 

 the exercise of lier talents upon the largest 

 scale. That vulgar and threadbare maxim, 

 that " a woman ought to stay at home and 

 take care of her husband's clothes and pro- 

 vide her children's food," is, as it were, a 

 switch cut from the great tree of Arrogance, 

 under which the despotic have always sat, and 

 from which the strong have always cut their 

 bludgeons and cudgels wherewith to strike 

 down or chastise the week. A woman is bet- 

 ter fitted for home who is also better fitted for 

 something else. It is generous culture, it is 

 power made skillful by exercise, that makes 

 both men and women rich in domestic life. 

 Whatever makes her a better thinker, a larger 

 minded actor, a closer observer, a more po- 

 tent writer or teacher, makes her, by just so 

 much, a better wife and mother. No one is 

 o better friend for being ignorant — no one a 

 more tender companion for being weak and 

 helpless. Our homes demand great hearts 

 and strong heads. 



Woman has proven her worth. Her motto 

 has been onward, and to-day she stands not 

 in man's shadow as an inferior being, but by 

 his side as his equal. She is ever ready to 

 share his prospefity or his adversity. She 

 has a smile for his joy or a tear for woe. All 

 nlong the earth-path, from the cradle to the 

 grave, woman is man's ministering angel. — ■ 

 Mrs. J. B. 11. in Rural World. 



An Oft-Forgotten Fact, 



A workiugman once said, when the woman 

 suffrage amendment was under discussion; 



" Wh( t shouhl my -ivife want to vote for? 

 She doesn't earn a cent." 



I suppose the man had the idea that the 

 vote represented mainly money interest. 

 Since his wife had no property and did not re- 

 ceive any money except through him, what 

 rights had she? 



" How much do you earn?" asked Miss H. 



" Twelve dollars a week." 



" How many children have you ?" 



"Five." 



" Any hired girl?" 



" I should think not, with five children to 

 support on twelve dollars a week." 



" Then your wife washes, sows and cooks 

 for j'ou all?" 



" Of course." 



" How much do j'ou suppose it would cost 

 to hire all that done?" 



"Oh, I don't know; a great deal more 

 than I can earn." 



" And yet you say your wife doesn't earn a 

 cent." 



" Well, I never thought of calling that earn- 

 ing money." 



" She does just as much toward keeping 

 the family together as you do, and has just 

 as much interest in what affects your trade or 

 your children's welfare." 



The man looked thoughtful, as if a new 

 light was dawning upon him. 



TnK gold dollar gets its value from arbitra- 

 ry law and consent of the commercial world, 

 am\ it makes no difierence whether a day's 

 labor produces from the mine one dollar or 

 one! hundred dollars. The power that fixes 

 the value of the dollar in gold can as easily 

 fix that vabie in any thing else it puts its 

 coinage stamp upon. 



Overcome evil with good. 



'^li^ccUann. 



United States Land Patents 



GREAT many persons in Cahfornia are 

 'Js uninformed of the true import and legal 

 ftV, effect of a land patent of the United 

 ^'^rt= States. They believe that such docu- 

 ^§d ment conveys to the patentee a clear, 

 perfect and unassailable title to the land there- 

 in described. This belief is erroneous re- 

 specting Mexican Governments to their sub- 

 jects and citizens in California. A patent 

 from the United States for such lands is a 

 writing given by the authority of the Govern- 

 ment, duly authenticated by the proper offi- 

 cer, ceding to a certain person or persons all 

 the right, title and interest of the United 

 States in certain lands, held under genuine 

 grants or titles from the former government 

 of California. Such patents are simple quit- 

 claim deeds from the United States, ceding 

 all the said rights of our Government in and 

 to all such lauds particularly described in 

 each patent issued to the respective patentees 

 without prejudice to the rights of all other 

 parties who may contest such patents in any 

 court of competent jurisdiction, either on 

 the ground of fraud in obtaining the same, or 

 on allegation of holding a prior legal posses- 

 sion of portions of the land described in such 

 patents. It is a notorious fact that great 

 frauds have been perpetrated by astute land- 

 grabbers and their associates for obtaining 

 United States patents to lands in Cahfornia, 

 and many thousands of acres that really be- 

 long to the public domain, have thus been 

 stolen by the connivance of lawyers and offi- 

 cials, who have procured and permitted the 

 illegal extension of Mexican grants and min- 

 eral lands far beyond the true boundaries 

 thereof, by .rtoaiiny the former over immense 

 tracts that never were comprised within the 

 limits expressed in the grants made by the 

 Spanish and Mexican Governments, and by 

 changing the true location of the latter, or in 

 augmenting the quantities of the same, by 

 the use of fictitious names, for obtaining 

 more of such laud than the law allows for 

 each mineral claim. Settlers, who in good 

 faith have occupied such public lauds to the 

 extent allowed by law, in the absolute cer- 

 tainty that their claims were situated upon 

 public lands, and confiding in the probity of 

 government officers for the protection of the 

 same against insatiate land-grabbers, have 

 been much harassed by lawsuits instituted by 

 the latter for depriving the settlers of their 

 lands thus pre-empted; and after much an- 

 noyance and expense, all their remonstrances 

 and allegations have been disregarded. United 

 States patents have been issued in favor of 

 the land-grabbers, embracing hundreds of 

 pre-emption claims situate upon Govern- 

 ment lands. The settlers upon the same 

 have been sued in ejectment and for damages 

 in fabulous sums. The grabbers, as plain- 

 tiffs, triumphantly exhibit their United States 

 patents to the same lands as positive, unde- 

 niable proof of their title thereto, and an ir- 

 resolute or indifferent, ignorant judge decides 

 in favor of the grabbers; whereby the settlers 

 are compelled to accept the alternative of pur- 

 chasing their claims at the arbitrary prices de- 

 manded by the grabbers, or of abandoning 

 the same to go forth with their wives and 

 children in search of new homes, and per- 

 haps again become victims of oppression. 

 There is no exaggeration in this statement. 

 It is a true but lamentable account of cases 

 that really have occurred in California. Wo 

 say that such oppression is lamentable be- 

 cause it is illegal, and consequently unjust, 

 that the rights of American citizens should 

 bo so scandalously disregarded by the oflicials 

 whose sworn duty it is to jirotect land claims 

 legally acquired, and also tt) defend the pub- 

 lic domain from the uuscrupidous robbers 

 thereof, to the detriment of honest settlers 

 and of the Government. — Aeios Lellnr. 



How a Settler was Outraged by Law. 



On several occasions we have drawn public 

 attention to the uncertainty of results when 

 one goes to law without money. Nowhere has 

 this fact been more fully impressed on us 

 than in the ejectment suits started by Jack 

 Sutherland. Mr. Hall was a neighbor of 

 BuUard, whose land was recently in contro- 

 versy, and had filed upon a quarter section, 

 three-fourths of which was involved in the 

 same controversy. When Bullard was dispos- 

 sessed. Hall was dispossessed of these three- 

 fourths also, by having his personal ettects 

 placed, by the "sheriff, upon the undisputed 

 fourth of government land. And since he 

 intended to contest further for the whole 

 quarter-section, he thought it not advisable 

 to pay out for the fourth. He soon found his 

 home covered by a new tiling, and to-day he 

 finds himself in the county jail, working out 

 a fine of fifty days for having trespassed up- 

 on this land. Here we have the case of a man 

 who entered upon a piece of land regularly 

 surveyed by the United States authority, and 

 knowing that for the last twelve years it has 

 not been submerged. His filing was accepted 

 in due form at the United States Land Offlce; 

 and then, inch by inch, a swamp land claim 

 shoves him from a home he has occupied fur 

 years, and incarcerates him for having been 

 there at all. 



Alas for Freedom I if her sons 



MuBt liii^'er in a felon's cell. 

 For (luring to as&ert the rlMlits 



For which our fatberu luught and fell. 



— [ VisiiUa Delia. 



Short Weight Cheats. 



The Pacific Orocer which is fighting against 

 short weights etc., thus aims a shaft at "ye 

 honest producer." 



We have been rather free in censure of the 

 course of manufacturers and packers in put- 

 ting up short weights and measures, adulter- 

 ating, etc., and we now send our greeting to 

 those self-constituted models of honesty, 

 purity, and simplicity— the Grangers. There 

 is perhaps not a box of butter carried into 

 this market containing full weight as repre- 

 sented by the number of rolls. This butter 

 cheat is one of the favorite tricks of your 

 " Mr. Hayseed." We have known him to 

 refuse to have his butter put on the scales 

 when trying to make a sale to a country mer- 

 chant. He will say, "If you can't take my 

 butter by the roll you can't have it at all ;" 

 and straightway he moves on to find some 

 dealer who will take the butter, which will 

 not average more than one and three-fourths 

 pounds, at two full pounds each, and pay a 

 high price for it. Again, Mr. Hayseed, wa 

 call your attention to your uniform method of 

 sacking potatoes. You always put big ones 

 on the sides, top, and bottom, and fill in with 

 worthless little things, with a liberal ipiantity 

 of clods of earth, small stones, and the like. 

 Your apples, peaches, strawberries, and other 

 fruits, are put up much after the same 

 method, while your cord of wood usually con- 

 sists of about three-fourths of the standard 

 measurement, cunningly packed into a narrow 

 frame so as to represent the appearance of a 

 large bulk. Then your hay bales have been 

 found to contain many jiounds of adobe clods, 

 with a liberal sprinkling of worthless rubbish 

 from the baling ground. It is also currently 

 reported that a rotten egg is considered as 

 valuable to you as one fresh laid, and that it 

 is the loyal "duty of your fraternity to sell off 

 the sick chickens "to the good-for-nothing 

 town people, so as to realize on them before 

 they die. 



The largest field of pineapples in the world 

 is one in the Eastern District of New Trovi- 

 deuce, in the Bahamas. From one spot can 

 be seen, at a single glance, 1,200,000 pineap- 

 ples growing. 



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