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NEW ENGLAND FARRIER. 



Nov. 



From Harper's Magazine, for October, 

 HOW "WE KEPT OUB TKYST. 



The golden summer months had fled 



Beliind a veil of silvery Ir.ize; 

 ■Witb stately mirch Sr;ittniber led 



In narrow tile the Autumn days. 



By many a path her steps were seen 



In tields where late the Summer strayed, 



And wliere the woodlana's Itafy screen 

 Flecked every winding walk with shade. 



Her light breath, moved to gentle gales, 

 Stirred the long tasi-eis ot the corn. 



That nurturt d 'mid the sheltered vales, 

 fchone in the golJeu light at morn. 



Within the hemlock's feathery top, 

 Tiirough nil the swec t t^epterauer day, 



VTith k'litjlhened trill and sudden stop, 

 The blackbird piped his mellow lay. 



An unseen Influence working change 

 A thin veil o'er the landscape drew; 



More diitant seemed the mountain range; 

 Uhe clouds to towering castles grew; 



And coloring every shade of thought. 



Each fliiilit of fincy ttrave or gay. 

 With sulitle wand of wizard wioutht 



Borne new encha tmeut day by day; 



A"d in the maple's fretted leaf 



Kindled a ciimsoD-iinted flame, 

 As nearer, now the days t;rew brief, 

 • October's b innered legions came. 



So, in September's soft decline, 



Wh'n thitker grew the Autumn mist, 



And swiilien were th • grapes with wine, 

 i sauntered towards our place of tryst. 



By pleasant paths my footsteps lay, 

 Tiiough liL■lrt^: that slowly gathered brown, 



Where, failirg past me on its way, 

 Floated the liiistle's ghostly down. 



Twixt stately orchard rows I strolled; 



Before my steps the robin fled; 

 With glims of ru-isct and of gold 



The apples ripeucd over head. 



A sudden turn, and full in view, 

 Across my path, the low ftile stood, 



Where one wi Je spreading chestnut grew 

 Right in an angle of the wood. 



And seated, waiting there for me. 

 Half in the tu:. light, half in shade, 



Berieath the chestnut boughs was she, 

 The one with whom my tryst was made. 



Oh. sometimes, love, do you recall 



That hour, though years since then have fled; 

 Anrt do yun still renr.eniber all 



The fond, the fooli: h words I aaid? 



But let them pa?8 (I think we may); 



Their a'leence here will scarce be missed; 

 What need of more, since on that day 



It was for life we kept our tryst. 



Wages at the West. — A correspondent 

 •who informs us that he has been travelling re- 

 cently "in pursuit of a home," closes a busi- 

 ness letter with the following statement:— 

 "One thing I think should be made public 

 through your columns, and that is a warning 

 to the laboring people and mechanics of the 

 East not to expect great wages at the West, 

 for they will be dij^appointed, as wages for 

 laborers are from $1.25 to $1.50 per day at 



harvest aiid only a limited demand at that, with 

 board at $5.00 per week. The country is 

 overrun with men seeking work, and "few 

 there be that find it." He does not state to 

 what particular portion of the "West" he re- 

 fers. 



CATTLE DISEASE. 



The disease generally called Texan fever, 

 or Spanibh fever has been long known among 

 the cattle of Mexico and Texas. It was 

 known in the cattle ranches when that country 

 was under the government of Spain ; hence 

 its name, Spanish fever. 



The idea that the disease does not exist 

 among the Texan cattle themselves, but that, 

 in some mysterious way, they carry with them 

 the seeds of the disease and communicate 

 them by infection to cattle born and living in 

 more northern latitudes, is undoubtedly a de- 

 lusion. The fact is that the Texan cattle 

 have the disease, though in so mild a form 

 that it rarely proves fatal. Driving them for 

 many successive days, in large herds, in hot 

 weather, or crowding them upon the decks of 

 steamboats, under a scalding sun, increases the 

 intesity of the disease, and renders it more 

 infectious, so that northern cattle, which have 

 never been acclimated to it, take it from them, 

 and undergo it in a form that in many in- 

 stances proves fatal. 



The disease was introduced in the early 

 part of the present season into Southern Illi- 

 nois by Texas cattle brought up the Missis- 

 sippi in boats to Cairo, and at once it spread 

 through that section, creating a great panic 

 and occasioning a great loss of property. 

 The weather was very Lot and dry in that 

 region when the cattle began to arrive. It is 

 well known that all Typhoid diseases prevail 

 with more intensity during dry and heated 

 periods. This doubtless had an inlluence in 

 rendering the disease more fatal. But the 

 mode of moving the cattle probably had still 

 more to do with the outbreak. 



Until recently few or no cattle have been 

 brought from Texas on boats. They have 

 been driven through the Cherokee Country 

 and Kansas, starting in February and March, 

 moving slowly and stopping to rest and feed, 

 and reaching Illinois in April and ^lay. Here 

 they are turned upon the prairies till July 

 and August, when they become fit for the 

 market. By this slow process of moving, and 



