JAN. 22 
57 
(Continued from page 55.) 
This language occurs on the first page of the 
above-named Executive document. Following 
it are the circular letters quoted above. Out 
of 2 447 (the number of counties composing all 
the States and Territories of the U. S. at that 
time), returns from 1,125 were received, from 
which a tabular statement of losses for the year 
was compiled. This statement may be found on 
page three of Executive Document No. 35, and 
is the more valuable because of its being the 
first statement ever made relating to the annual 
losses of farm animals bv disease. The 1,125 
counties reported the following losses for the 
year 1877: 
No. of hogs ratsod.. 
No. a (footed with various diseases...... 2.599,n« 
Proportion of those attacked that died.. -6SS9 
Money value of losses among swine .. . 810 , 081 , 
Money value of all other classes of farm am- 
male annually lost by disease ... $5,01)1,915 
Total value of annua! losses of all classes of 
domestic animals.. 
Again (quoting from the Commissioner’s 
letter of transmittal, page three of the same 
document), we find him using the following 
language: 
" Our wide extent of country and Its great di¬ 
versity of temperature and variation of climate, 
the severity of frosts In some sections, and the 
Intensity of heat In other localities, render farm 
stock liable to the attacks and ravages of almost 
every disease k uown In the history of domestic 
animals. Tills Interest la too great to 
be longer neglected by the general government. 
Not only the health of its citizens, but one of the 
greatest sources of our wealth demands that it 
should furnish the means for a most searching 
and thorough Investigation Into the causes of all 
diseases affecting Uve stock.” 
And now as to the character of this Senate 
Executive Document No. 35, 2d Session,Forty- 
fifth Congress. It is a volume of 150 pages of 
closely printed type, and contains all the 
letters of any importance received from 
nearly 1200 practical farmers in all sections 
of the country. Of the information contained 
in these letters the Commissioner says that, 
if heeded by the farmers and stock growers 
of the country, “it will result in a better san¬ 
itary condition, and a consequent diminution 
of disease among all classes of domesticated 
animals.” As but a small edition of this 
work was issued by the Senate. Gen. Le Due 
considered it of sufficient importance to re¬ 
print the more important portions of it, to¬ 
gether with much valuable information re¬ 
ceived subsequently, in the annual Report of 
the Department for 1877. As 300.000 copies 
of this work were published, no editor of an 
agricultural journal should plead ignorance 
in regard to what it contains. 
First Official Notice of Fteuro-Pneumonla. 
Among other things contained in this Ex¬ 
ecutive Document No. 35, are several letters 
giving information as to the prevalence of the 
disease kuown as pleuro-pneumonia of cattle. 
This was the first information of an official 
character published in relation to the exist¬ 
ence of this disease among our cattle, and it 
not only attracted the attention of our own 
people but alarmed foreign governraents.some 
of which at once commenced an investiga 
lion through agents sent to this country for 
the purpose. The Agricultural Committee of 
both the Senate und House of Representatives 
begau to see the importance of some action 
on the part of the general government, and on 
the 14th day of February, 1879, after Ameri¬ 
can cattle bad been scheduled by the British 
Government, the Senate asked for additional 
information on the subject. As General Le 
Due’s letter of transmittal,which may be found 
commencing on page 219 of Special Report 
No. 12 of his Department, and of which 115,- 
000 copies were printed in accordance with a 
special Act of Congress providing for the 
same, was one of the most valuable works 
ever Issued by the government, our excel¬ 
lent contemporary should not be ignorant 
of its contents. The letter is addressed to 
Hon. A. S. Paddock, the then Chairman of 
the Sod ate Committee on Agriculture. It 
would fill scarcely less than three pages of 
this journal, so that its publication here is out 
of the question. 
The evidence it offers, however, would seem 
to be sufficient to disprove the unwarranted 
and unjust assertion of the editor of the Ohio 
Farmer that Gen LeDuc gave no public proof 
of knowledge of the existence of contagious 
pleuro pneumonia among ou.’ cattle, but we 
have something to offer in rebuttal of the de¬ 
claration that he did not comprehend the 
“ magnitude and dangerous character" of the 
disease “ till private, State and national enter¬ 
prise had definitely marked and mapped out 
the territory" over which it prevailed and 
“ hemmed it in." 
Coiutuiutloner Le Due Ahead. 
In August last the Department issued its 
Special Report No. 22, being one of a series of 
Reports relating solely to an investigation of 
diseases of domesticated animals. One hun¬ 
dred thousand copies of this report wore also 
printed by Special Act of Congress, but the 
information it contains was regarded as of 
sufficient importance to be embodied in the 
annual Report of the Department for the year 
1879. As this gives an edition of 400,000 copies, 
surely no editor of a leading agricultural jour¬ 
nal ought to plead ignorance of its contents. 
This Special Report, No. 22, contains all the 
information attainable np to tbe time it went to 
press touching the progress of measures for the 
eradication of pleuro-pneumonia in the States 
where it exists. As no “ national ’’ action has 
as yet been taken by the government for the 
suppression of tbe disease, one can see wbat 
truth there is in the statement that Gen. LeDuc 
took no action “ lid private, State and na¬ 
tional enterprise had definitely marked and 
mapped the territory and hemmed it in.’’ 
Bear in mind that Gen. LeDuc’s investigations 
commenced in August, 1877, and that in tbe 
month of February following he forwarded to 
Congress a communication informing that 
body that this dreaded disease of contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia existed at several points in 
the United States. He not only furnished this 
information to Congress at that time, but he 
followed it up by urging in tbe strongest pos¬ 
sible language immediate action upon the part 
of the General Government. At that time net 
one of the infected States had a law on the 
subject. It was not until April 15, 1878, that 
the State of New York passed a law for tbe 
suppression of the disease, and no measures 
for the enforcement of this were attempted 
nntll Feb. 12, 1879. New Jersey passed a law 
on the subject ou March 13, 1879 ; Pennsylva¬ 
nia, ou May i, 1879, and Maryland in the Win¬ 
ter of 1880. For the text of the laws of some 
of these States, and the progress of the meas¬ 
ures for the suppression of the malady, the 
reader is referred to Special Report No. 22, 
Department of Agriculture, pages 152 to 102 in¬ 
clusive, aud the Anuual Report of Department 
of Agriculture for 1879, pages 440 to 455 in¬ 
clusive. If the editor of the Ohio Farmer lias 
not these volumes in his library, he of course, 
is well aware he can procure them by writing 
to the Commissioner of Agriculture. On page 
163 of Special Report No. 22 commences the 
report of Dr. Chas. P. Lyman, who visited, 
under the direction of the Commissioner, the 
localities where the disease prevailed at that 
time, and he is the only one who has thus far 
“ mapped out ” the infected districts. 
EXTENDING THE FERTILIZER TRADE. 
Mb. L. L. Ckocker has put up large and 
extensive works at Indianapolis, filled up with 
the latest and most improved machinery for 
drying and handling animal matter for his 
fertilizer works in Buffalo, N. Y. He has 
made contracts to last during the next three 
years for the products of over 1,500.000 hogs 
every year from Bloomington and Peoria, Ill. 
Louisville, Ky.. Indianapolis, Ind., and several 
other points. The general advance in the ma¬ 
terial used in the making of commercial fer¬ 
tilizers the present season over the prices last 
year is from five to six dollars per ton. By 
this enterprise Mr. Crocker will be enabled to 
put his fertilizers on the market at the same 
price as last season, and at the same time re¬ 
tain fully as high an analysis and their former 
value. At Bloomington, Peoria and Louisville, 
the firm has in fall operation steam presses for 
extracting the moisture and grease, after 
which the taukage is forwarded to Inclian- 
apoliB to undergo the final treatment iu the 
driers. Mr. Crocker has lately contracted with 
Eastern buyers for 500 tons of atnmoniucal 
matter at $60 per ton, delivered in Now York. 
This will show the great advance iu this ma¬ 
terial. The advance in everything entering 
into the manufacture of commercial fertilizers 
has been very great, excepting only South 
Caroliua aud other rock phosphates. While 
enterprises of this soit contribute largely to 
the prosperity ot the firm that undertakes 
them, they are also of decided advantage to 
the public, inasmuch as they enable the manu¬ 
facturers to place upon the market within reach 
of all who may need them, strictly first-class 
goods at reasonable prices. One of the great¬ 
est evils the farmer has to encounter, is the 
sudden fluctuations iu the prices of the goods 
he has to buy, due mainly to speculative move¬ 
ments ou the part of dealers or manufacturers, 
and it is a decided benefit to the agricultural 
community that his present enterprise will 
enable Mr. Crocker to supply them “ with a 
first-rate article at a steady price. The Honest 
Fertilizers" muBt have a greatly increased sale 
during the current year. w. n. k, 
- - - 
<• Of Making Dooka there is no End.” 
During the year 1880 the American Book Ex¬ 
change alone manufactured in their binderies 
nearly 750.000 volumes and put into type and 
electrolyped about 40.000 pages of new books. 
As many as 300 pages, containing nearly half 
a million priuter's “ ems,” went into type iu a 
single day. The cash sales for the year foot 
up to $414,243.15. Surely Americans must be 
a reading people. 
-——♦ + ♦-—- 
B. S. Williams &, Co., Kalamazoo, Mich., 
have just received an order from South Africa 
for five Stover Wind-Mills. They nave also 
lately made several shipments to South Ameri¬ 
ca and their foreign trade is rapidly increasing. 
litfrarg UUsttUattg. 
DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR. 
ALFRED TENNYSON. 
Full knee deep lies the winter snow, 
And the winter winds are wearily sighing. 
Toll ye the church bell Bad and slow, 
And tread eoltly and speak low, 
For the old year lies a dying. 
Old year, you must not die; 
You came to ns so readily. 
You lived with us so steadily. 
Old year, you shall not die. 
He lieth still; he doth not move; 
He will not see the dawn of day 
He hath no other life above. 
He gave me a irieud and a true, true-love. 
And the old year will take em away. 
Old year, you muBt not go; 
So long as you have been with us. 
Such .joy as you have seen with us. 
Old year, you Bhall not go. 
He frothed his bumpers to the brim; 
A jollier year we shall not see 
But though his eyes are waxing dim, 
And though his foes speak 111 of him, 
He was a friend to me. 
Old year, you shall not die; 
We did so laugh and cry with you. 
I’ve half a mind to die with you, 
Old year, you must not die. 
He was full of Joke and jest, 
But all his merry quips are o’er. 
To see him die across the waste, 
His son aud heir doth ride post haste, 
But he’ll be dead before. 
Every one for his owu, 
The night is starry and cold, my friend, 
The new year blithe aud hold, my friend, 
Come to take up Ms own. 
How hard he breathes ! 
I heard just now the crowing cock, 
The cricket cMrps; the light burns low; 
'Tis nearly twelve o’clock. 
Shake hands before you die. 
Old year we’ll dearly me lor you; 
What is it we can do for you? 
Speak out before you die. 
His face is growing sharp and thin. 
Alack ! our friend iB gone. 
Close up his eyes, tie up his chin; 
Step from the corpse, and let him in 
Thut standeth there alone, 
And waiteth at the door. 
There’s a new foot on the floor, my friend, 
And a now face at the door, my friend. 
A now face at the door. 
-- 
INMATES OP LESTER HALL. 
(Continued from page 2ti.) 
CHAPTER XXXIII. 
•‘And she?” said Sister Monica, eagerly, her 
fair face flushing as she leaned forward. 
"She? She laughed him to scorn 1" he laughed 
bitterly. 
“Ah’ cruel! how could she? how dared she?” 
said the gentle nuu, clasping her hands eagerly. 
“It was very wrong.” 
“There was one excuse lor her," he said, hur¬ 
riedly. she had a brother, whom she loved 
dearly, and he had been led astray by the bro¬ 
ther ot this man who loved her; he died a bro¬ 
ken down ruined man, and she vowed to revenge 
his death. To keep this vow, she won the doc¬ 
tor’s love -to avenge her brother's death, she 
scorned It!” 
“it was cruelly unjust!” said the nun, gravely. 
“ No, no 1” he said, quickly, lie could not hear 
Cecil blamed. “ She thought that he, the doctor, 
was the guilty man who had ruined her brother.” 
Did he not undeceive her?” asked the nun. 
"Chancedid afterwards,”he answered, weari¬ 
ly. “ Perhaps I ought not to say chance to you, 
my sister ; and she, In her nobility, wrote to the 
man who had loved her so madly, and asked his 
forgiveness.” 
“And he?” 
“ He forgave her,” he answered, feebly. “ He had 
no room for anger in his heart against her, it was 
too full of love-" 
“Well, and then?” said Sister Monica, with 
her bright, eager eyes full of tears at his pathetic 
words. 
“ When she wrote to him,” said Lawrence, his 
face contracting with pain, “ she was the promised 
wife ot another.” 
Sister Monica uttered a little broken exclama¬ 
tion, and there was a silence. 
" That Is not quite all,” he continued, in a mo¬ 
ment. *• It so happened that they met again; they 
were staying together at the same hoa e, and the 
man whose wife she was to he was there also. 
They met daily, although they had but little Inter¬ 
course with each other. How that madman suf¬ 
fered when he saw her with the man to whom she 
had given a right to love her, and who had per¬ 
mission to touch her hand, her cheek, her Ups 1 
One night she came to him and they were alone, 
and she told him that, betrothed to another 
though she was, she loved him—loved the man 
whom she had scorned—loved him with her whole 
life and belog! Can you guess what the tempta¬ 
tion to him was then 7 He resisted It fiercely, and 
rejected that love, refusing even to touch her hand 
—because, poor fellow \ he dared not, Was it not 
another’s?" 
• “That was very noble of him,” said the nun, 
gently. “Well?” 
“They never met again; the doctor oarne 
abroad; he dared not trust himself to look upon 
her face again.” 
‘ 1 And she ? Is she married ? ” 
“ l do not know. The day was fixed for the 
wedding, but she was taken ill—not dangerously, 
but sufficiently to prevent any marriage taking 
place." 
He closed bis eyes wearily, and Sister Monica 
said no more, but when she next glanced at his 
face large drops of water were shining on the long 
eyelashes, and rolling down the hollow cheeks ; 
and as she left him, going to prostrate herself be¬ 
fore the altar In the little chapel, and while she 
prayed that the dark shadow might be lifted from 
Lawrence Carewe’s life,there mingled with her 
prayers a chord of thanksgiving for the calm and 
peace of her own existence 
CHAPTER XXXIV. 
A STRANGE RETURNING. 
Sorrow rarely kills. It Is wondertui how much 
this frail humanity of ours can bear without sink¬ 
ing under the burden which at first threatened to 
overwhelm U9. At first, when the trouble comes, it 
seems as If we should never know Joy or peace again 
—as If for us the sun was darkened, the earth had 
lost its beauty, the flowers their fragrance; but 
by-and-by we lift up our beads again. Much has 
been taken from us, but much has been left, and 
we discover that 
“ Life lias more thing's to dwell on 
Than just one useless pain!” 
And we go about our usual tasks, and resume our 
usual occupations, heavily Indeed, It may be, but 
even the effort Is beneficial to us." 
The shock of Lawrence Carewe’s terrible death 
did not kill Cecil Lester, although those who loved 
her at first feared that It would do so ; but when 
she first left her room after the nervous illness 
which prostrated her tor a time, those around her 
were surprised how well “she bore It.” She 
neither wept nor walled: no word of lamentation 
or moanlug esoaped her 11 pa She was very quiet 
indeed, but more gentle, more patient, than she 
had ever been before. Thus she was outwardly ; 
It was when she was alone that she suffered an in¬ 
conceivable anguish. 
During the day she tried hard to be calm and 
composed—she drove out with Mattie, saw a few 
visitors, who accounted for her altered looks by her 
late illness, and who never dreamed that the Ill¬ 
ness was caused by tbe announcement, which 
some few bad noticed, of Dr. Carewe’s death in 
the East. She was never Idle; she tried to read, 
she tried to work, she tried to practice, with a 
feverish desire for occupation, hut she could fix her 
attention on one subject but for a short time ; she 
grew dreadfully restless, and grew thin to ema¬ 
ciation, pale and haggard. 
1 think what saved her reason. If not her life, 
was a faint glimmer ot hope which lay deep In the 
inmost recesses of her heart—unconfessed even to 
herself, but living. There might have been some 
mtstake-a case of mistaken Identity, perhaps; 
such things had happened ere now. And there 
never eame a knock at the hall door—a carriage 
never stopped before the house—but Cecil started 
to her feet with a sudden eager, hungry light in 
her eyes, and a wild hope In her heart, that when 
the door opened sue would see the tall proud hg- 
ure, aud the grave, gray eyes she loved so well. 
It went to Mattie’s heart to see how despairing 
the great eyes would look when the hope proved 
as it always did—fallacious. 
Once, seeing the effect this endless excitement 
was having upon her health, Mattie gently re¬ 
monstrated with her. They were slttlDg to¬ 
gether in the boudoir, where they had spent so 
many happy hours during their girlhood, and 
Mattie had her baby in her arms, and made as 
pretty a picture In her dainty motherhood as 
eye could wish to see. They had been silent for 
some moments, and Cecil was watching her sister 
with sad, tender eyes, and a little 3mlle on her 
Ups. the book she had been reading lying un¬ 
heeded on her lap, when suddenly there came a 
peal at the bell which rang through the house ; 
and Mattie saw how her sister started, and pressed 
her little hands to her heart, and bent her head 
forward to listen, and then, when a servant came 
La with some trlfllDg message, how she sank back 
wearily on her cushions, white and still, exhaust¬ 
ed by the agitation she had undergone. 
"Cecil, dear," Mattie said softly, speaking In an 
undertone out of consideration for the sleeping 
child on her lap, " do you know that you make us 
very unhappy ?” 
*• Unhappy !” said the voice; “ I am sorry, dear. 
How?” 
"Cecil, do you not think,” Mattie replied, an¬ 
swering one question by anotber, *• that It would 
he wiser to give up hoping as you do 7 Dear, If he 
lived, do you suppose we should not have heard It 
ere this?” 
it was the first time she had ever mentioned the 
subject, and Mattie’s voice was very unsteady as 
she spoke. 
“Do you think that I hope, Mattie?” Cecil 
said, wearily. “ Do you think that I dare hope— 
and yet—oh! Mattie 1” a sudden passion breaking 
up the stony cabn ot ner face, “it I did not, I 
should die l” 
she rose from her seat and knelt down by 
Mattie’s side, speaking in a low, hurried tone of 
anguish. 
"Ido not hope," she said, faintly. “I know 
how vain such a hope would be—but sometimes I 
cannot help thinking I shall see him again—such 
strange things happen! We have known it, have 
we not, dear, that people have come back from 
wars, from captivity, so many years after, that 
their own relatives did not know them ?” 
“But not from death, Cecil!" said Mattie, her 
eyes ailing with tears; and Cecil's head sank un¬ 
til it rested on her sister’s knee. 
" Think how hard It la for me, Mattie,” she said, 
in a moment. “ 1 loved him so passionately, and 
ho never knew Id When I told him so, passion¬ 
ately, he never knew It! When I told him 
so, he did not believe mo. We never had even one 
happy day together 1 If I could have seen him 
once—If I could have heard him say he forgave 
me—it l could have been with him when he died, 
I should not have felt It so hard, but as it is, Mat- 
tie, l cannot bear It 1” 
She flung herself away from Mattie and on the 
rug, lying there on her hands for some minutes ; 
while Mattie sat silent, powerless to console, pow¬ 
erless to help,with tears running down her cheeks, 
and falling on the baby s dimpled hands. 
