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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1872. 
REFORM FOR WORKINGMEN. 
A prominent Land and Labor Reform advo¬ 
cate asserted. In our presence the other day, 
that one of tlie chief obstacles iu the way of 
the success of all elf oris in this direction was 
Ignorance. Ho asserted that not one in ten of 
the la boring- mew of the country—those hired by 
employers—had the moral amt Intellectual quali¬ 
fications necessary to render thorn independent, 
of their employers. Neither their intellects nor 
their Judgments had been educate* They 
knew nothing of the laws which govern all so¬ 
cial relations, hud no business forecast nor tact, 
and were as powerless in the hands of their em¬ 
ployers as If they were the veriest slaves. Hts 
panacea for their ills Is education — that sort 
which will enable them to think, calculate, fore¬ 
cast and co-operate with caoh other, and at the 
same time give them self-control. For in too 
many cases the men of ability, of judgment and 
forecast among the working classes, nre men 
without self-control — men who are neither 
economical, temperate nor virtuous. Prosperity 
destroys them. They compel themselves to 
subordination to others. Their habits enslave 
them. No man who falls to control himself caji 
control others. 
It seems to us that our friend struck the key 
of reform and emancipation so far as the labor¬ 
ing classes are concerned — Education in busi¬ 
ness, und Self-control. In other words, the suc¬ 
ceeding generations of laboring men, if they are 
to be disenthralled, must be different men. re¬ 
modeled and regenerated from the type of the 
present. They must be educated bow to do 
business. They must be taught early how to ex¬ 
ercise their Judgment and rely upon it. They 
must be instructed in the first principles of t rue 
manhood. They must be impressed with the 
fact that they cannot control others until they 
learn to control themselves; and that in just 
such proportion as they fail to exorcise self-con¬ 
trol, in just such proportion they can be made, 
and must be, slaves both to themselves and 
others. 
No matter how nmoli we may sympathize with 
the sufferings of classes of workingmen, con¬ 
trolled and enslaved, If you please, by the brains 
of bettor thinkers and the capital accumulated 
by generations ol' labor, we never expect to see 
these conditions changed by the denunciations 
of, acd appeals to the passions and prejudices of 
the oppressed classes by, so-called reformers. 
No man can be enslaved unless the qualities 
which make biro a slave are inherent in and tie- 
long to him. Any man qualilied for the best 
life finds it if he wills. And workingmen will 
disenthrall themselves when they co-operate to 
build each other up without attempting to pull 
anybody down—when they shall have acquired 
the strength which isborn of Intelligence, mo nil j 
judgment,self-control and n mil tobeindepend- 
ent. Iu this they must co-operate with each 
other. It is their own specific gravity that 
keeps them under the surface now. Let them 
diminish it by careful culture of all the higher 
qualities of mind and heart, 1 oaring the preju¬ 
dices and passions to die of inaction. No one 
man, nor any class of men or circumstances, can 
keep them under when they do this. They will 
rise because they must, not simply because they 
want to do so. We never knew a man to stay 
In a place which he had grown too large for. 
OBITUARY, 
William M. Ely. — It becomes our painful 
duty to chronicle the death of the Hon. Wm. 
Mather Ely of Binghamton, N. V., which oc¬ 
curred Feb. 7. Mr. Ely was born In Binghamton 
in 1818, and was educated at Amherst College. 
I'or many years he was a merchant, but after 
acquiring a competency lie engaged, on uccount 
of falling health, in farming. He was deeply In¬ 
terested in Agriculture—was for years promi¬ 
nently connected with the State Agricultural 
Society, and for some years one of its Vice-Presi¬ 
dents, which position he occupied at the time 
of his death. Mr. Ely was likewise a member 
of the Legislature, as lie had been for two or 
three years, i fe was considered an industrious 
and intelligent, legislator, haring acquired exten¬ 
sive knowledge of State affairs. 
H, P. Randall. While closing this paper for 
the press, we learn from the Chenango Tele¬ 
graph, that on Jan. lilst Mr. H. P. J?axt»all, 
youngest son of the Hon. Henry S. Randall 
(one of the editors of the Rural New-Yorker) 
was thrown from his buggy (by a collision caus¬ 
ed by i be carelessness of two men drawing lum¬ 
ber) und sustained Injuries, including a severe 
wound in the buck of the head, which rendered 
him insensible, in which condition he remained 
until Ids death on the Friday afternoon follow¬ 
ing. Thousands of the friends of Dr. Randall 
and his family will feel with us sincere sympa¬ 
thy, and join with us in expressions of condo¬ 
lence on account of this sudden and most sad be¬ 
reavement. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
How to Remit for the Rural.- We print in 
every number of the Rural New-Yorker, un¬ 
der head of Terms, (Inst, column of Editorial 
page, this significant, sentence;— *• Drafts, Post- 
Office Money Orders anil Registers I Letters may 
he moiled at our risk." Tills means, what we 
have often stated in tills paper, Dial we are not 
responsible for money otherwise remitted 
through the mall and yet people (both Agents 
and old subscribers, us well as strangers,) will 
persist In taking their chances and losing their 
money. We have stood or divided losses long 
enough being “out" from $500 ui per 
annum lor many years and now give notice 
that those who do not send by Draft, 1*. O. Money 
Order, or Registered Letter, must stand the shill¬ 
ings enroute, or at either end of (he line. We 
believe our own cashier and clerks are honest, 
but cannot affirm as to other people. Will not 
all of pur readers “mukc a note" of the above. 
Beet Sugar in Europe.—A Liverpool, England, 
commercial circular, dated Jan. 5,1872, places tho 
imports of beet sugar during 1871, into Great 
Britain, nr 100,447 tons.against 77,000tons In 1870: 
38,000 in 1809, and 4J,000 in 1868. Thus it will be 
seen that nearly one-third of the sugar consump¬ 
tion of Great Britain In 1871 was of beet sugar 
from the Continent. This fact is attracting the 
attention of Englishmen, who are inaugurating 
the culture of the sugar beet and its manufac¬ 
ture. Tt is also stated as a fact, that, while the 
fact that the Cuba crop of sugar had fallen off 
150,000 tons had no perceptible effect upon prices 
in Europe, tho falling off in the estimated beet 
•-ugar production of 100,000 tons caused an ad¬ 
vance of 2s. to 3s., which has been everywhere 
maintained. The following table shows the beet 
sugar produet of Europe the past live years, in¬ 
cluding the estimate for the present season: 
Tons 1871 72 1870-71 1809-70 1868-69 1807-68 
Zolvercln.300,000 250.000 215,107 208.140 105,014 
franco. 810,000 :VO,iK)Q 285.146 213,9(8 224.767 
BUSINESS INEORMATION. 
Failure# in 187!.— A circular ol one of the 
most prominent und reliable mercantile agen¬ 
cies In the country furnishes us a statement of 
the number of failures, und the amount of lia¬ 
bilities, reported during 1871. From it we find 
that in Alabama there were a; fujb>L-*s. with lia¬ 
bilities amounting to $535,000; Ai ku/isas. 59 f. and 
*95,000 I.; California, 89 f., $4,279,0001.; Connecti¬ 
cut, 77 L. $3-915,000 1.; Delaware, 1J. f., $358,000 I.; 
District of Columbia. 9 f.. $158,0001.; Florida, 3 
f.. $11,000 1.; Georgia. 42 f., $964,000 I.; Illinois, 172 
f., $5,820,0001.; Indiana, 00 f., $860,000 I.; Iowa, 09 
f., $797,000 ).; Kansas, 58 L, $790,000 1.; Kentucky, 
80 f., $1,108,000 1.; Louisiana, 45 f.. $2,437,000 1.; 
Maine, 81 f., $1,420,000 I.; Maryland, 61 f., $1,194.- 
0001.; Massachusetts,210 f., $8,841, MO 1.; Michi¬ 
gan, 135 f., $1,521,000 L; Minnesota. 37 f- $471,00(1 
1.; Mississippi, 30 f„ $355,000 1.: Missouri, 99 f., 
$1,995,000 1.: Nebraska, 11 f- $251,000 1.; New 
Hampshire, 21 f„ $129,000 1.; New Jersey, 72 f. t 
$597,0001.; New York, 321 f., $9.051,0001.; New 
York City. 334 f., $20,740,000 l.; North Carolina, 
35 f., $390,000 l.; Ohio, 189 f„ $4J[77,000 1.; Penn¬ 
sylvania, 357 f.. $7,110,000 U Rhode. Island, 31 f.. 
$303,000 1.; South Carolina, 30 f., $801,000 i. ; Tcu- 
tiesee, 42 f.. $360,0001.; Territories, 4 I'.. $158.0001.; 
Texas, 881’., $073,0001.; Vermont, 35 f., $282.0001.; 
Virginia, 76 f., $1,728,1X10 1.; Wisconsin, 61 f„ 
$386,0001.—a total of 2,015 failures, with $85,252,- 
000 liabilities. In 1870 there ivero 3.551 failures, 
with $88,342,000 liabilities, und in 1869 2,799 fail¬ 
ures, With $75,054,000 liabilities. It would be 
interesting to know how this statement com¬ 
pares with The number of failures and amount 
of liabilities of the agriculturists of the United 
States. 
Advice to Patron# of Husbandry.—We see it 
stated that the “ Lecturer " of this Order in Iowa 
“is advising farmers no longer to communicate 
through agricultural journals—without pay." 
Now that lecturer ought to go a step further, lie 
ought to advise farmers to make their inter¬ 
change of experiences and practice with each 
other, verbally, a matter of bargain and sale. 
Thai man, whoever he is, must he eminently 
qualified as a “ Lecturer 1" We advise the Pat¬ 
rons of Husbandry in Iowa to be careful how 
they place faith in a man whose brain is not 
large enough to know that the farmers of t he 
country to-day owe more of their prosperity and 
knowledge of agriculture to their free inter¬ 
change of experience through the Agricultural 
Press, than to any other cause whatever; and 
who does nor seem to know that, but for the Ag¬ 
ricultural Press, such an Order ns the Patrons of 
Husbandry would never have had an existence? 
We warn the influential men hi the Order—those 
who are really at work pro ho no publico, and not 
for their individual aggrandizement— that such 
kind of teaching will not strengthen the Order 
financially or otherwise. We wonder if Wm. 
Saunders, the “head-center" of the National 
Grange, and Secretary Kelley, indorse such 
counsel to the Patrons! If so, we are mistaken 
in these men and in the real motives which ac¬ 
tuate them. 
Zolvercln.200,000 250.000 215,107 208,140 105.014 
trance.310,000 :«0,000 285.146 213.904 224.767 
Austria.150,000 L.-.OOO 152.205 101,601 134.06* 
Russia <fc Pol 'nd.. 120.1X0 185,006 1.22,.VO 97,700 113,500 
Belgium. 55,000 60,000 40,552 37.078 81,089 
Holland and oth¬ 
er countries.... 25,000 15,000 12,500 10,000 7.500 
Total.BOO,000 925,000 841,310 8582823 CfiLSfci 
Our Story —Back Number#.— The Story, “11c- 
fnrcawl After," which we are publishing, is at¬ 
tracting much attention, and we arc daily asked 
if back numbers from its commencement can be 
obtained. Yos; as we electrotype the Rural, 
new subscribers can bo furnished so that all may 
have the absorbing Story complete. Tel) this to 
your neighbors and other friends, and advise 
them to subscribe singly, or form or Join a club. 
How many of our readers will help the Rural, 
and benefit, friends, by aiding as above ? 
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Ami- W eed Law In Pennsylvania_The Ger¬ 
mantown Telegraph announces that a bill is be- | 
fore the Legislature of that State by which 
owners, occupiers or lessees of land arc to be 
compelled to keep not oniy their farms free from 
such weeds as mullens, wild carrot, Canada 
thistle, horse nettle and ox-eye daisy, but those 
portions of the public roads which pass through 
or adjoin their properties. Railroad companies 
are to be amenable to the provisions of the act. 
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<;«« from u Well Tor Rochester.— In West 
Bloomfield, .V. Y., a gas well lias been discovered, 
the flow from which is estimated to lie HuO.iKX) 
ruble l'eet per twenty-four hours. Prof. S. A. 
Lattimoke of Rochester University, lias made 
a careful photometric test of its illuminating 
power and found It to be 14.42 candies. A main 
to convey this gas to Rochester is being rapidly 
laid, and it Is thought the city’ will, ere long, de¬ 
rive all its light from this well. It is about 23 
miles from Rochester. 
THE SEASON. 
Buttteil, Iowa, .Inn. 30.—Wc arc having a hard 
winter so far; ground frozen up in November, 
and IMS not thuwod to the depth of two inches 
since. Jan. 28 was the coldest day and night for 
a number of years. 
Quaker C'iiy, Guernsey Co., O.—Weather very 
cold during the week ending Feb. 3, thermome¬ 
ter ranging in the neighborhood of zero all the 
week; on Tuesday morning 8" below. Have had 
a very dry, cold winter. Fears are entertained 
for the fruit crop of 1872. Wheat looks very 
badly.— n. 
Polk CM tv. Iowa, Jan. 20.— Weather very cold; 
snow six inches deep. Corn. 15e.; oats, 20c.; po¬ 
tatoes, 80c.; wheat, $1; apples, $1.25; hogs, $3.50 
perewt., gross; tattle, $3..50<&5; milch cows, $20 
@35; horses. $60@125; farm labor, $15(520 per 
month; last year’s corn crop very heavy—aver¬ 
age, 50 bushels per acre. 
Clarence, Iowa, Jan. 30. — Moderate winter 
until the past week; considerable sleighing. The 
Davenport and Kt. Paul und t?abula and Ackley* 
Railroads have just commenced doing business- 
four and Reven miles distant respectively, und 
ftre in competition with the old Chicago und 
Northwestern. Wheat, $10.1.01; oats, 24o.; core, 
shelled. 27@28c.; in ear, 34@25c.; eggs, 20e.; but¬ 
ter, &S 15c.; liv e hogs, $3.50@3.65; Timothy seed, 
$202.25.— D. E. B. 
Jersey villc. 111,, Feh, 2.—Wheat is worth $1.50 
per bushel: core, 40e.; oats. 35c.; Irish potatoes, 
$1,25; apples, 50c. per bu.; butter, 30c.; eggs, 15c.; 
hay, $16 per ton; clover hay, $10; clover seed, 
$7 per bushel; timothy seed, $3. We think we> 
have the best land in the country; In price it 
ranges from $25 to $125 per acre, according to 
locality; soil is blaelt sandy loam, with yellow 
subsoil. The ground is frozen very deep, and 
we are having the dr.vest time now that has ever 
been known in this country; almost every well 
is dry; springs are dried up; stock sutlers very 
mueli for want of water. Winter grain looks 
very well.— d. r. r. 
bouth Trenton, N. Y.—Thermometrieal aver¬ 
ages for January, 1873Highest point attained, 
the 30th, 38° above zero; lowest, on the morning 
of the 15th, 10° below zero; 13)4 inches of snow 
fallen on 8 different days; melted, it makes 1% 
inches of water. Not a drop of rain fell during 
the month. Average temperature at 7 A. M., 
17° 9"; at 2 P. M., 23° 6'; at, 9 P. M„ 9.18°: average 
for the month, 19° 33", Three days below zero; 
26 days below the freezing point and 5 days 
above. Januar.v, 1873, was not as cold by 2° us 
January of 1871, but the steady cold weather ex¬ 
ceeded that of last January. There is. on an 
average, about 11 inches of snow on the ground, 
but very badly drifted. Prevailing winds, west; 
some famous blowing days, doing damage to 
fences, trees, roofs, &c. Water in wells and 
streams very low indeed.— Storks Barrows. 
A me# Plow Company’# Catalogue of Plows. 
—We have Just received a handsomely printed 
and Illustrated pamphlet, entitled “ Catalogue of 
Plows made only by the Ames Plow Company, 
manufacturers of Agricultural Implements and 
Machines, dealers In Seeds, Fertibzers, and other 
requirements of Agriculturists and Agricultural 
Districts. Warehouses: Quincy Hall, Boston, 
and 53 Beckman Si., New York—1872.” All in¬ 
terested should procure a copy of this Catalogue. 
By the way, the Sessions A Knox’s Patent Hard 
-•eel Plows, made by this Company, arc becom¬ 
ing very popular. They are in our Premium 
List, and are more frequently selected than any 
other plow we ever offered. 
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The New Remington Riile.—We recently ex¬ 
amined a “copy” of the Remington Rifle, the 
arm recently adopted by the State of Now York 
for its National Guard, nud wore most favorably 
impressed with its simplicity of construction 
and general elements of excellence. It has been 
adopted by the Army and Navy of the United 
States, after a severe and prolonged test, in 
which its decided superiority was manifest. 
More than half a million have already been man¬ 
ufactured, and “the cry is still for more.” It 
has received many certificates for its great ex¬ 
cellence, and Is apparently the best single breech¬ 
loader now in use. 
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Good Idea In Advertising. —In the advertise¬ 
ment of Messrs. B. K. Bliss & 8ons, the great 
Seedsmen and dealers in Horticultural Imple¬ 
ment-, ol' Park Place, New York, we read this 
sensible sentence:—“We will send a packet of 
choice Flower Seeds to persons ordering cata¬ 
logues, if they will state the name of the paper 
in which they saw this advertisement." Of 
| course our readers ordering t hese fine catalogues 
should not overlook this offer, for if they do 
they will fall to receive some choice Seeds. 
The New York Life Insurance Company has 
issued its 37th Annual Report, from which It ap¬ 
pear* Ihui its net ea.-h assets are Over fifteen and 
a-half millions of dollars; its receipts amount to 
nearly twenty-three millions of dollars; its cash 
assets arc nearly nineteen millions of dollars, 
and i lie di\ falble surplus is $1,488,134 43. During 
1871, 8,908 policies were issued. The trustees of 
I Ids Company comprise some of our best-known 
merchants, bunkers and publishers. 
Catalogue# Received.— From ROBERT DOUG¬ 
LAS A Sons, Waukegan, Ill., Catalogue of ever¬ 
green and ornamental tree seedlings. From 
It. G. Hanford, Columbus, O., spring catalogue 
of now plants. From R. H. Allen A Co., 189 and 
191 Water Ht.. N, Y. city, retail catalogue of gar¬ 
den. flower and field seeds and grains. 
RURAL BREVITIES. 
L>. R. R., Jerseyville. III., asks where ho can 
buy pure Cotswold ewe lambs. Let advertisers 
answer. 
J. F.. B., Champaign. 111., asks what is the best 
wagon dog u peaceable, yet self-respecting, 
watchful dog? 
J. P. Manlovb asks if he can procure black 
bass ready batched, with which to stock a pond 
of spring water, and at what cost. Who can tell 
him? 
Hon. M. I reland has resigned the position of 
Treasurer of the National Grange of Patrons of 
Husbandry, and J. R. Thompson is elected his 
successor. 
M. D.C., HompsteAd, L. I..is informed that we 
do not know of any Curpenter's Dictionary. We 
have for sale a Carpenter’s and Joiner’s Hand- 
Book, price 76 cents. 
Tikis. G. Williams questions on floral topics 
will be answered, if directed to this office. we 
recommend Brock's Book of Flowers, price $1.75, 
for sale by us. 
In the Senate of the Alabama Legislature is a 
proposition to divide the Agricultural College 
fund of the State, and endow two Colleges—one 
for whites and one for blacks. 
Gov. Merrill of Iowa, in his recent message, 
recommeuded an appropriation of $100,000 for 
further buildings for, anu improvements in, the 
State Agricultural College—till of which looks 
like business. 
PUBLISHER’S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
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new clubs. Agents and Subscribers (both new and 
old) can do this with little effort—and secure good 
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volume-tfuiB securing all of tlie Thrilling Romance 
we are publishing, beside many excellent articles und 
beautiful illustrations. 
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in ones, twos, fives, tens, or more, A host of people 
are subscribing for papers about these days, and we 
hope our Agent-Friends will give everybody an oppor¬ 
tunity to subscribe for the best. 
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Rural New-Yorker sent free. 
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Whitcomb’s Asthma Remedy.— In no case of 
purely Asthmatic character has it failed. 
