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SATURDAY,  JULY  15,  1876. 
SKILL,  OK  NATURAL  ADVANTAGE? 
Is  it  sldll  or  natural  advantages  of  the 
locality  -which  insure  a  man  success  ?  We 
are  inclined  to  tJiink  it  is  more  frequently 
the  former  than  the  latter,  although  there 
are  few  persons  who  can  be  made  to  con¬ 
fess  this,  inasmuch  ns  it  would  disarm  all 
grumblers  and  leave  them  helpless  upon 
an  altar  built  of  their  own  shortcomings 
nnd  weaknesses.  Of  course  we  axe  not 
inclined  to  ignore  disasters,  which  do 
sometimes  befall  tlie  most  industrious  and 
worthy  men  and  women. 
A  man  may  be  struck  by  lightning  or 
have  his  property  swept  away  by  floi^s 
or  fires  ;  but  these  are  occurrences  which 
would  be  considered  exceptions  to  the 
general  disadvantages  to  be  met  in  the 
ordinary  channels  of  business.  But  if  we 
leave  out  of  the  question  what  may  be 
termeil  the  accidents  likely  to  befall  man¬ 
kind,  it  will  be  found  that  success  in  life 
depends  more  upon  the  man  or  woman, 
than  anything  which  can  bo  discovered  in 
their  surroundings,  no  matter  where,  or 
under  what  circumstances  tliey  may  be 
placed.  Men  must  not  all  expect  to  se¬ 
cure  the  wealth  of  an  Astoe  or  Stewaet, 
or  count  their  acres  and  herds  by  the  ten 
or  hundred  thousand,  like  some  of  our 
Western  farmers  and  stock  raisers ;  for 
these  are  exceptional  cases  of  vast  accu¬ 
mulations  so  far  above  the  average,  that 
they  scarcely  to  bo  taken  into  account 
when  speaking  of  what  the  ordinary  fanner 
or  business  man  is  capable  of  doing,  pro¬ 
vided  he  possesses  tlie  required  skill  and 
industry. 
We  have  only  to  look  about  us  to  see 
hundreds  of  worthy  examples  of  what 
men  and  women  may  do  in  the  way  of  ris¬ 
ing  in  the  estimation  of  their  fellow  beings, 
as  well  as  in  gaining  moderate  wealth 
through  their  own  individual  exertions. 
Poverty  and  advei-se  circumstances  of  va¬ 
rious  kinds  may  have  stood  in  the  way  at 
the  outset  of  their  career,  but  these  have 
all  been  pushed  aside  by  an  indomitable 
wKl  and  perseverance,  with  a  certain 
amount  of  skill  which  can  neither  be  ana-  [  i 
lyzed  nor  described.  I 
Borne  persons  call  success  under  adverse  1 
circumstances,  “luck;”  but  we  might  as 
well  call  the  dollar  earned  by  the  day- 
laborer  a  “  find,”  for  both  come  through 
a  legitimate  channel,  equally  open  and 
accessible  to  all  who  may  choose  to  enter 
and  labor  therein.  Just  as  soon  as  a  man 
or  woman  commences  to  earn  one  cent  a  | 
day  or  week  more  than  they  spend,  that  j 
moment  do  they  commence  to  be  success¬ 
ful  in  life.  1 1  frequently  requires  as  much 
forethought,  skill,  industry  and  self-denial 
to  save  a  penny  per  diem,  as  it  does  a  dol¬ 
lar  ;  but  the  principle  is  all  the  same,  and 
if  persisted  in,  a  person  is  sure  to  win  in 
the  end. 
Now  the  man  who  works  for  a  stated 
salary  can  better  guage  his  expenses  to 
corresjiond  with  his  income,  than  one  fol¬ 
io-wing  a  business  liable  to  fluctuations  ;  j 
therefore  the  latter  should  be  the  more  i 
careful  of  the  two,  but  as  a  rule  he  is  not, 
because  it  is  tto  pleasant  to  predicate  final 
results  itpon  occasional  successes  in  any 
business. 
Well,  says  the  farmer,  how  about  my 
calling,  which  is  one  of  the  most  uncer¬ 
tain  of  all  uncertainties — at  least  we  think 
so  ;  wheat  frequently  fluctuates  to  the 
extent  of  a  dollar  a  bushel  in  a  year  and 
the  price  of  other  products  goes  rambling 
up  and  down  to  almost  as  great  extremes. 
All  this  is  true,  and  your  only  safety  is  to 
base  all  estimates  for  future  operations 
upon  the  lowest  figure ;  then  a  rise  in 
I)rioe  will  put  you  just  so  much  ahead, 
and  right  here  comes  a  test  of  the  skill  of  j 
which  we  have  been  speaking.  ! 
If  you  cannot  raise  a  crop  of  com, 
wheat  or  potatoes  for  less  than  it  com¬ 
mands  in  market — no  matter  Avhat  the 
price  may  be — then  better  give  up  farm¬ 
ing  at  once.  Do  not  say  that  this  or  that 
cannot  be  done,  for  by  looking  about,  you 
can  see  that  it  is  done,  and  the  very  men 
doing  it  are  gaining  steadily  agsinM,  what 
others  might  call,  an  inexorable  fate.  Per¬ 
haps  some  of  our  readers  residing  in  Ne¬ 
braska,  Kansas  and  Minnesota,  may  ask 
us  how  much  money  there  is  to  be  made 
in  raising  corn  at  ten  or  fifteen  cents  a 
bushel  ?  Not  much  if  the  com  is  sold  in 
bulk  as  gathered  from  the  field.  But  why 
should  a  man  sell  com  at  such  prices 
when,  with  a  little  skill  and  additional 
labor  he  can  convert  it  into  butter,  cheese, 
lard,  pork,  beef,  eggs,  poultry — all  of 
which  are  wanted  in  our  Eastern  markets 
if  not  in  the  Western.  By  doing  this  the 
excess  of  freight  on  a  bulky  over  a  cheap 
article  is  avoided, 
Nebraska  butter  and  cheese  wiil  fetch 
as  much  per  pound  in  New  York,  Boston 
or  Philadelphia,  as  the  celebrated  Orange 
County,  provided  it  is  just  as  good.  Rep¬ 
utation  is  worth  something  in  the  markets 
of  the  world,  but  not  without  accompany¬ 
ing  merit.  If  the  farmers  of  the  Eastern 
States  can  afford  to  pay  sixty  cents  to  one 
dollar  per  bushel  for  com  and  a  corres¬ 
ponding  price  for  other  kinds  of  food  for 
their  stock,  the  Western  man  should  cer¬ 
tainly  be  able  to  compete  with  him  while 
the  cost  of  freight  upon  condensed  articles 
between  the  two  sections  is  so  low.  It 
seems  to  us  that  if  there  is  any  advantage 
in  locality,  it  is  in  favor  of  the  Western 
'  farmer.  Still,  those  residing  in  the  older 
'  States  complain  least  of  hard  times  and 
loAv  prices.  Is  it  skill  or  natui-al  advan¬ 
tages  which  causes  this  difference  ? 
experiments,  many  of  which  are  fruitless, 
while  others  produce  results  amply  com¬ 
pensating  for  all  failures.  The  great  feat- 
I  tire  of  this  year  is  the  automatic  Binder, 
of  -which  there  are  several  now  in  the  field. 
We  are  sorry  to  see  also  a  further  report 
upon  the  causes  of  tlie  e-vident  neglect  of 
the  Agricultural  interests  at  the  Centen¬ 
nial,  If  this  argument  of  the  light  snb- 
I  scription  to  Centennial  stock  by  the  Rural 
population  is  the  prevailing  reason  in  the 
Commission,  we  regret  that  such  a  set  of  | 
I  men  were  ever  appointed.  Perhaps  our 
ooirespoddeut  has  not  reached  the  root  of 
the  matter  yet ;  but  if  he  has  and  this  is 
the  actual  cause  of  the  general  snubbing 
to  which  this  Department  has  been  ob¬ 
liged  to  Bubmit,  our  readers  will  fully 
understand  witli  whom  they  have  to  deal. 
The  Harvesting  Trial  was  a  Ruecess  so  far 
as  it  could  be  made  one  by  the  Exhibit¬ 
ors,  who  did  most  of  the  work  and  bore 
most  of  the  expenses  individually.  A 
new  idea  seems  to  have  struck  the  Cen¬ 
tennial  Managers  in  relation  to  the  Live 
Stock  Exhibition,  for,  as  will  be  seen  by 
I  the  regulations  printed  on  another  page 
of  this  issue,  they  are  extremely  liberal 
and  make  it  an  attractive  feature  of  the 
Exhibition  and  one  very  invitiug  to  breed¬ 
ers  and  erfiibitors  generally.  Perhaps 
they  read  the  papers  occasionally  and 
begin  to  discover  that  they  have  made  a 
mistake  in  putting  in  the  background  the 
solid  producing  industries  of  this  country. 
Live  and  learn,  gentlemen  !  We  are  none 
)  of  ns  too  good  or  too  old  to  do  that. 
THE  MONTANA  MASSAORE. 
THE  FIELD  EXHIBITION  OF  REAPERS. 
From  our  Centennial  Correspondence 
we  discover  that  the  recent  Exhibition  of 
Reapers  attracted  much  attention  and 
developetl  many  good  results.  Novelties 
in  this  class  of  implements  were  niunerous 
au(i  interesting  and  the  whole  aftair  was 
of  much  more  importance  to  our  readers 
than  was  generally  anticipated.  No  one 
can  read  the  report  and  the  articles  de¬ 
scriptive  of  the  machinery  without  appre¬ 
ciating  the  fact  that  immense  labor  and 
sums  of  money  are  annually  expended  in 
OcB  readers  have  been  made  aware 
through  our  news  columns,  of  the  disas¬ 
trous  defeat  of  our  soldiers  by  the  Indians  , 
in  Montana  and  the  massacre  of  General  ^ 
Cus-fEB  and  more  than  three  hundred  sol-  i 
diers  under  his  command.  The  announce-  i 
ment  stmek  the  whole  community  with  ’ 
surprise,  horror  and  indignation.  Siir-  j 
prise,  that  so  gallant  and  heretofore  vie-  ^ 
torious  a  General  should  have  been  de¬ 
ceived  to  his  death  ;  horror  at  the  thought  , 
of  the  outrages  and  mutilations  our  brave 
men  received  at  the  hands  of  these  Indian 
de-vils ;  and  indignation  at  the  imbecility 
of  a  Government  that,  by  inaction  and  dis¬ 
honesty,  has  gi-ven  a  cause  for  hostilities 
on  the  part  of  the  Indians.  We  do  not 
propose  to  go  into  heroics  over  the  noble 
man.  Mf>ck  humanitarians  and  pseudo 
philanthropists  may  have  the  field  to 
themselves  -without  oiu*  interference.  Nor 
arc  we  desirous  of  combating  the  general-  . 
ly-received  idea  that  all  things  are  created 
for  some  good  end.  But  we  admit  that 
our  mental  -vision  is  not  sufficiently  acute 
to  see  of  what  good  to  Ihemseives  or 
to  anybody  else  are  the  American  Indians. 
They  fill  a  place  in  the  history  ot  the 
world — but  apparently  that  place  is  now 
wanted  anti  they  must  give  way.  We  are 
believers  in  Manifest  Destiny  to  the  ex¬ 
tent  that  reconciles  us  to  the  idea  of  their 
entire  and  speedy  extermination.  A  race 
that,  in  so  long  a  time  as  it  has  been  known, 
has  mode  no  progress,  has  not  shown  one 
particle  of  inventive  talent  and  that  proves 
incapable  of  civilization,  is  certainly  of 
but  little  use  in  this  world.  It  is  possible 
transplanting  may  be  of  service  to  them 
and  that  in  their  happy  liunting  grounds 
of  an  unknown  future  they  may  attain 
mental  and  spiritual  growth.  The  chance 
is  worth  something  and  the  sooner  they 
try  it  the  better  it  will  be  for  all  concern¬ 
ed.  The  cave  dwellers  and  inhabitants  of 
the  Lake  regions  and  all  other  prehistoric 
races  who  have  gone  before,  will  doubt- 
les-s  give  them  welcome  and  we  shall  gladly 
hand  them  over  to  such  illustrious  com- 
pany. 
We  are  not  disposed  at  this  time  to 
glorify  the  Caucasian  so  much  as  to 
claim*  that  God  made  the  world  and  all 
that  is  on  it  for  his  especial  use  and  pleasure. 
We  know  as  little  of  what  is  to  come  after 
as  what  has  preceded  ns.  The  law  of  the 
survival  of  the  fittest,  which  we  think  is 
now  so  well  understood  and  conceded  as 
to  require  no  ai^ument,  shows  conclusive 
]y  that  the  Indian  must  give  way,  and  his 
entire  extermination  is  only  a  matter  of 
time. 
But  with  all  this  there  is  sometliing  to 
be  said  for  the  Indian  of  the  present  time 
and  in  the  present  state  of  affairs.  So  fai- 
as  they  have  rights,  tliose  rights  have  been 
disregarded.  They  have  been  cheated, 
abused  nnd  deceived,  and  it  is  not  at  all 
suiprising  that  they  take  their  revenge. 
Even  civilized  nations,  in  the  full  light  of 
the  Gospel  and  in  spite  of  all  the  moral 
and  religious  teacliings  of  a  thousand  pul- 
Eits,  have  been  known,  for  less  cause  than 
ave  these  Sioux,  to  make  war  in  which 
were  sacrificed  not  only  three  hundred  but 
three  hundred  thousand  lives.  Let  us 
give  the  Indian  his  due.  The  -vilest  worm 
will  turn  to  sting  you  if  attacked  and  an 
Indian  if  not  in  the  fullness  of  manhood, 
is  more  than  a  worm. 
The  end  is  not  yet.  There  -will  be  more 
fighting— vindictive,  revengeful  fighting 
— in  which  many  more  lives  wUl  be  lost 
and  mueh  money  spent  which  could  be 
put  to  a  better  use.  But  it  will  not  be  all 
in  vain  if  it  shall  teach  us,  nationally  and 
individually,  tlds  truth — that  most  of  the 
great  troubles  in  the  world  have  their  root 
in  dishonesty — and  instill  in  us  a  desire  to 
do  justly,  to  love  mercy  and  walk  humbly. 
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RURAL  NOTES  AND  OUERIES. 
The  J>routh.— While  in  the  Western 
and  some  of  the  more  Northern  States 
there  has  been  a  superabundance  of  rain 
the  present  season,  we  are  are  hereabout 
tin  the  vicinity  of  New  York)  experienc¬ 
ing  the  severest  drouth  known  to  our  old¬ 
est  inhabitants.  Meadows  and  lawns  are 
burnt  to  a  crisp  and  shade  trees  dying  by 
the  tliousands,  all  for  the  want  of  rain. 
In  a  recent  -visit  to  Philadelphia  we  saw 
hundreds  of  acres  of  meadows  and  pasture 
lands  adjacent  to  the  railroads,  all  burnt 
over,  having  taken  fire  from  sparks 
blown  from  locomotives ;  and  in  several 
instances  beautiful  lawns  and  shade  trees 
Sowing  thereon  had  been  destroyed  by 
e  from  the  same  source.  Along  -with 
the  scarcity  of  rain  the  heat  is  also  op¬ 
pressive — 98  to  104  degre.  in  the  shade  is 
about  how  the  merciuy  has  ranged  for  the 
past  two  weeks. 
Honey  at  the  Centennial.— If  we 
are  not  misinformed,  the  bee-keepers -were 
quite  anxious  to  have  honey  recognized 
by  the  Centennial  Commission  as  one  of 
the  great  and  sweet  products  of  the  land. 
Their  wishes  were  gratified  so  fan  as  re¬ 
gards  an  opportimitj’  to  show  what  they 
could  do  -with  the  “  nectarine  product ;  ’ 
but  the  time  set  for  the  display  has  come 
and  gone  and  not  one  ounce  of  honey 
was  exhibited.  How  is  this,  Apairian*  ? 
Will  you  do  any  better  next  fall,  at  the 
time  set  apart  for  Special  Display,  from 
OoL  25  to  Nov.  1  ?  We  -wiU  wait  and  see  ! 
Tlie  Basket  Worm.— A  very  de¬ 
structive  insect  known  by  several  common 
names,  such  as  Bag  or  Basket  Worm,  but 
scientifically,  Thyridopt^r^x  epheniercB- 
formis,  has  appeared  in  immense  num¬ 
bers  in  parts  of  Marshall  and  Maury 
Counties,  Term.  The  cedar  trees  in  the 
regions  referred  to  are  said  to  be  literally 
covered  with  these  worms,  which  soon 
strip  them  of  every  leaf  and  of  course 
death  ensues.  The^  worms  often  appear 
in  the  Eastern  States  and  in  gardens  as 
well  as  forests,  generallv  confining  their 
ravages  to  the  common  Arbor--vit». 
RURAL  BREVITEES. 
At.t.  who  are  interested  in  the  Exhibition  of 
Live  Stock  at  the  Centennial,  should  read  care¬ 
fully  the  regulations  upon  another  page  of  this 
issue. 
The  American  Association  for  the  Advance¬ 
ment  of  Science  meets  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  next 
month— the  day  not  yet  fixed.  Scientists  will 
please  take  notice  and  get  their  “  papers”  ready 
and  send  in  the  title  of  the  same  to  F.  W.  Per- 
NAM,  Salem,  Slass. 
The  Bo-oalled  Japan  Pea,  advertised  exten¬ 
sively  for  field  culture  at  the  South,  is  almost 
worthless  except  to  plow  under  green  for  ma¬ 
nure.  We  say  let  it  alone,  unless  wanted  for  the 
Siu-pose  named  or  for  feeding  to  hogs,  and  for 
tie  Wter  purpose  com  is  cheaper  and  better. 
The  Cork  Oak  appears  to  succeed  as  well  in 
California  as  in  its  native  country.  Trees  plant¬ 
ed  in  1861  and  sinoe  pruned  up.  are  now  twenty- 
five  feet  to  the  lower  branches.  The  bark  on 
these  tree*  is  from  one  and  a  half  to  two  inches 
thick,  and  the  peeling  process  may  soon  com¬ 
mence. 
Brach.  Son  &  Co.  send  us  a  flower  of  Lilium 
Auratuin  Virainalis.  It  differs  from  the  type 
in  the  possession  of  brighter  and  wider  golden 
bands  and  in  having  few  spots  which  are  of  the 
same  color.  For  those  who  delight  in  Lily  cul¬ 
ture  and  who  aim  to  possess  aU  which  thrive 
without  protection,  this  is  a  charming  variety. 
The  Exeentive  Committee  of  the  Michigan 
State  Agricultural  Society  are  reported  to  have 
declared  that  the  trials  of  speed  at  their  annual 
fairs  cuuld  not  be  attempted  without  bringing 
in  all  the  objectionable  features  of  gambling 
incident  to  regular  horse  trots^  and  have  docidea 
to  abolish  it  accordingly.  lUinois  has  foUow’ed 
suit. 
BUSINESS  NOTICES. 
The  best  house  painters  prefer  Eckstein,  Hills  & 
Co.’s  “Plianlx”  brand  Pure  White  Lend  to 
any  other  in  the  market,  because  it  1*  whiter,  finer, 
and  will  cover  more  surface. 
