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NEW YORK, AND ROCHESTER, N. Y„ NOV. 16, 1872. 
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*2.50 PF.R VEAIt. 
VOL. XXVI. NO. ‘20. 
WHOLE NO. 1100. 
EMPLOYEE AND EMPLOYE. 
There appears to be a great diversity of 
opinion on the question of hired help, if 
the articles which appear from time to 
time in the Rural New-Yorker are rep¬ 
resentative views; so I will give you mine. 
Having had experience on both sides, as a 
mochanio and farmer, 1 am satisfied that 
there is wit h each class much that needs re¬ 
form. There are, strictly speaking, two 
divisions of each. I will endeavor to de¬ 
scribe them as found among my acquaint¬ 
ance. 1st. The worthless man, who can 
never be depended upon, who renders only 
eye servico and spends what he gets in the 
rum shop or the saloon. Fortunately this 
division is small. 
2d. Those who, having no farms of their 
own, must, for want of trades, become farm 
hands. This division Is generally either 
young men, just earning their first money, 
or men with families to support. Of the 
second class I will speak first of that divis¬ 
ion who are determined to get rich, let who 
will suffer; and this elites of employers are 
always complaining of their help. I know 
men who are always up, ready for the field 
by sunrise, during the longest days; take 
one hour to eat and rest at noon, hurry 
from the field to supper, eat in a hurry and 
back to work till sunset; and if it is possi¬ 
ble to have a load of hay to finish, or some 
wheat to shook after that time, so much 
better. They pay grudgingly the small 
sum of ten or twelve York shillings for this 
day of fifteen hours. 
These farmers are often vexed and wor¬ 
ried because their “man don't come ’’ as he 
agreed to, or won't work without watching. 
Another matt comes along—one who knows 
what a day’s work is, and how to treat a 
human being. Ho can always get help, and 
the very best. If he is with his hands in 
the field, they feel free to rest if tired, and 
work moves on easily and steadily; no 
extra haste; all are cheerful, and at eleven 
o'clock comes the call for dinner. Ample 
time is given to cool the heated system be¬ 
fore eating; then the hour’s rest, and all 
return to the field cheerful and refreshed; 
and often before the sun has disappeared 
(but never after) he calls out, “Boys, wo’vo 
done enough.” He pays those who desiro 
it each evening, and all feel well pleased. 
Now, you that complain of your help, tell 
us if you ever know a man treated in this 
way who was mean enough to leave his em¬ 
ployer with a load of hay out or a lot of 
grain down that he wished to secure—even 
if it became dark before completed. When 
T hear a man always complaining of his 
help, I am just so foolish as to think he is 
too mean and penurious for any man to 
work for who has spirit and energy enough 
to make a good farm baud. .r. c, h. 
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THE AUSTRIAN INDUSTRIAL EX¬ 
HIBITION. 
Readers of the Rural New-Yorker 
are aware that a great International F.xhi- 
bition is to beheld at Vienna, Austria, in 
1873, for which preparations are made on a 
scale surpassing any that have been held 
hitherto under the auspices of other Euro¬ 
pean governments. This Vienna Exposi¬ 
tion Is to open May 1, 1873. We give an 
illustration of the building and grounds in 
which it is to be held. The main building 
is nearly 3.000 feet long by about 700 feet 
wide, from the center of which rises a dome 
over 250 feet high and 330 feet in diameter— 
the largest dome in the world. The ma¬ 
chinery department will bo a mile long. 
There are to bo pavilions for all sorts of 
purposes, including one for the display of 
the Imperial Treasures of Turkey. The 
grounds adjoining are to be laid out after 
the most approved principles of landscape 
gardening, with fountains, lakes, etc., ad¬ 
ded. Altogether the Exhibition will cover 
four or live square miles. It is under the 
control of Baron do Schwartz Henhokn, 
who was Controller of the Austrian De¬ 
partment, of the World's Exhibitions in 
Loudon in 1851 and 1802. 
This Exhibition is located in the beauti¬ 
ful park and promenade known as the Cra¬ 
ter, which is the private property of the 
Emperor. Tt. will attract tourists next 
year from all parts of the world. Repre¬ 
sentatives of the Blood Royal from every 
Court In Europe are expected to visit it; 
also the Sultan of Turkey, the Shuh of Per¬ 
sia and the Tycoon of Japan. It seems to 
be another step in the grand march towards 
universal brotherhood and the universal 
homogeneity of all races in interest, pur¬ 
pose, thought and fraternity. 
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FROM ALABAMA TO GEORGIA. 
From Montgomery, the capital of Ala¬ 
bama, to Atlanta, the capital of Georgia, 
the distance is nearly two hundred miles, 
northeasterly. This route lies across the 
favorite cotton Holds of the Alabama, Tal¬ 
lapoosa and Chattahoochee Rivers, but 
rather north of the best cotton lauds of 
Alabama and Georgia. On this route 1 
saw a very largo acreage of land in cotton, 
and very little in any other cultivated 
crop; the yield is about one-half what may 
be called an average full crop. A t Auburn, 
near the Tallapoosa, is the site of the Agri¬ 
cultural College of Alabama. The premi¬ 
ses now occupied by this embryo institu¬ 
tion, were formerly the property of the 
East Alabama Methodist Conference, and 
were made over to the trustees of the Ag¬ 
ricultural College, to be held by them so 
long as they should be used for that pur¬ 
pose. An academic school is now in ses¬ 
sion there, hut it is intended to open some 
sort of an agricultural department this 
Fall. I judge it will be rather a weakly 
concern, in the hands of a corps of super¬ 
numerary clergymen, but perhaps they 
may do better than I predict for them. 
Auburn is not much of a town. 
Opelika is a right handsome and tlirifty- 
looking town, on this route, some seventy 
miles east of Montgomery. The town (of 
some 1,000 inhabitants) lies up on a beauti¬ 
ful elevation, and iH at the junction of the 
roads to Coiambus on the south, and At¬ 
lanta on the northeast. I met an enter¬ 
prising gentleman of Opelika, Mr. J. J. 
Green, who has two extensive fish houses 
on his premises, well stocked with perch, 
bream, catfish, and other varieties peculiar 
to the South; he lias orchards of excellent 
fruits—apples, peaches, quinces, pomegran¬ 
ates, etc., etc.; his peaches of different 
varieties come in season in .June, and last 
till the frosts of October. Ho has, also, 
all manner of farm stock—horses, cattle, 
Angora goats, fowls, etc. Ilis residence is 
a plaoe of beauty, as well as of plenty. Mr. 
W. C. Young, a neighbor of Mr. Green, 
has a fine deer park well stocked with 
deer, also fish ponds and other rare im¬ 
provements. The price of lands at Ope¬ 
lika is from 860 to 8100 per acre. 
1 spent several days in and around At¬ 
lanta, which is a growing city, and shows 
many large and elegant buildings, which 
have been erected since my last visit, a year 
and a-half ago. The Georgia State Fair was 
in progress while I was in Atlanta; the 
managers had set out to run it. on a strictly 
respectable basis, by ignoring everything 
more attractive than a basket of potatoes 
and a pen of sheep, and the consequence was 
they lmd run it into the ground. On the 
second duy of the Fair the attendance might 
have been two hundred, with the most 
splendid weather that ever blessed the 
earth. On the second day, the Mayor of 
Atlanta issued his proclamation for the cit¬ 
izens to turn out on Thursday, and the 
THE PROPOSED UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION OE 1873 -AT 'VIEISTTST-A.- 
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