PERSONALS. 
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, has on his 
Wayne Comity farm a log house furnished 
with articles taken from the New England 
home of his ancestors. The spindle used by 
his grandmother, the bed in which his mother 
slept when a girl, and the tall clocks, old 
china, rag carpets aud cane chairs all are 
there. 
P. T. Barnum has just purchased an enor¬ 
mous amount of real estate in Bridgeport, 
Conn., on which five churches, the old Court 
House, six livery stables, throe bank build¬ 
ings, all the stores on the west side of Main 
Street aud more than 100 private residences 
and dwellings are located. The property is 
worth over 16,000,000. 
M. Louise Thomas aud Elsie P. Bucking¬ 
ham are two women of business. The first is 
one of the most successful bee raisers in tbe 
country, and it is said that her bees produce 
10,000 pounds of honey yearly. The other is 
the successful manager of a fruit farm of 
several hundred acres in California, and ad¬ 
vises all women who can to take up this line 
of busiuess. 
Hon. Harris Lewis, of Herkimer County, 
died Wednesday morning from Blight’s dis¬ 
ease, at bis house in East Schuyler, at the age 
of 71 years. Ho was a member of the Assem¬ 
bly in 1857 and 1859, and ran for Governor on 
the Greenback ticket in 1879. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the State Agricultural Commission at 
the Centennial Exposition, aud also ex-presi¬ 
dent of the .State Agricultural Society. 
Senator Evauts has lived in Windsor, 
Vt., for 80 years. Everybody in the neigh¬ 
borhood of that quiet place knows him, and in 
his slouch hat and ancient coat he does not 
awaken the antagonism from tbe farmers 
which a more elegant attire might provoke. 
While he is at home, he finds his pleasure in 
his library, his guests, bis 10 horses and the 
hills and valleys of his thousand-acre farm. 
Dr Peter Collier has been elected Director 
of the New York Experiment Station iu place 
of Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant, resigned. Dr. 
Collier was born in Madison Co., N. Y,, and 
is a graduate of Yale. Was for tome time a 
professor iu the University of Vermont aud 
was the first Secretary of the State Board of 
Agriculture when organized in 1871. Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture Le Due appointed 
him Chemist of the Department in 1878, a po¬ 
sition which he held for five years, distin¬ 
guishing himself greatly by his strenuous 
advocacy of sorghum sugar making. In 1884 
ho published a 000-page octavo volume on the 
subject. Will assume office when Dr. Sturte- 
vaut has finished his annual report—probably 
about December 1. 
LITERARY NOTES. 
A dozen or more years ago Miss Elizabeth 
Stewart Phelps wrote “The Gates Ajar”—a 
book which attracted great attention from 
thoughtful people. It was supposed to de¬ 
scribe the efforts of the fevered imagination 
of an invalid to look beyond the grave and to 
describe with nil practical details the life of 
the “undiscovered country.'” A few years 
ago this volume was followed by “The Gates 
Beyond” describing wit h more minuteness the 
conditions hinted at in “The Gates Ajar.” 
Now we have "The Gates Between” dealing 
with another phase of the same subject. It is 
a strange, thoughtful volume that leaves a 
curious mixture of feelings on the mind. The 
hero, if we may call him so, is a succes-ful 
city doctor. He has a wife that he worships, 
a little sou that he idolizes. He is a man of 
the world—too busy to tliiukof religious mat¬ 
ters, too proud of his own strength of mind anil 
^body to ask udvico aud without a friend 
manly and generous enough to point out his 
faults and ask him to correct them. This 
man comes home at night weary and half 
sick, lie speaks angrily to his wife aud for 
the first time leaves her with a harsh word 
On his way back to his ollico his horse runs 
away with him, aud be is thrown from his 
carriage and killed, llis mental faculties go 
on the same ns before his death. He can bear 
and see his friends but ho cannot communi¬ 
cate with them. Some mighty power keeps 
him from his wife. He cannot see her, ho 
canuot tell how his harsh words have cut her 
heart, The unseen power sto[* him just be¬ 
fore he reaches a point whore ho could see his 
old homo. So he waudors in the shadow. Mon 
go on before his eyes fighting and toiling for 
fame and wealth, lie eau realize all too well 
how useless all their struggles will be when 
they pass into bis condition. Ho would 
gladly rush into their midst and tell them how 
useless their toil and worry after money must 
be. But they runnot hear him, they cannot 
see him, they can only learn their folly as ho 
learned it. It was deeply humiliating for 
this proud aud self-reliant man to find himself 
rated lower in this new aud strauge country 
than the beggar who lived upou his bounty 
on earth. He found his little boy in this 
strange land. With what shame did he real¬ 
ize that he had done so little on earth to give 
him influence and wealth now. It was the 
keenest punishment that he could have known. 
The story of his penance, his slow growth 
into the new life aud the great happiness that 
came to him at last will leave a deep impres¬ 
sion upon the mind. It is a strauge, thought¬ 
ful book, a brave effort to purify the deeds 
aud thoughts of men. 
A few weeks ago we gave the sentiments 
printed on the back of a ticket of admission 
to the Anti-poverty Society. Here is a copy 
of the remarks printed on the ticket for the 
meeting held October 23. This sentiment is 
credited to Heury George, It states what, we 
have repeatedly pointed out—that the basis 
of the George theory is the assumption that 
land should be free to all. 
“Natural religion and revealed religion 
alike tell us that God is no respecter of per¬ 
sons; that He did not make this planet for a 
few individuals; that He did not give it to one 
generation in preference to other generations, 
but that He made it for tbe use during the 
lives of all the people that His providence 
brings into tbe world. If this be true, the 
child that is born to-night in the humblest 
tenement in the most squalid quarter of New 
York, comes into life seized with as good a 
title to the land of this city as any Astor or 
Rhinelander,” 
We are glad to see that Lee & Shepard will 
soon issue a cheap edition of Henry Wood’s 
Natural Law iu the Business World. We are 
glad to commend this work as a sound and 
practical volume; as good an answer to the 
vagaries of Henry Georgism, or the mouth- 
ingsof foreign born revolutionists, as can be 
readily secured. 
Thousands of boys and girls of 30 years 
ago were delighted with Hawthorne’s “ Tan- 
glewood Tales.” These stories are really about 
the purest and best of their kind. Men and 
women who read them years ago ought to 
read them again, and Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 
have issued just the edition to suit older read- 
ex's. It is a beautiful volume, with fine paper, 
large, clear type and elegant illustrations. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Victory Corn Mill. —Circular from Thos. 
Roberts, Springfield, Ohio.—Important im¬ 
provements have been made in the Victory 
mill this season. Every pait of this mill is 
duplicated, and the cost of replacing broken 
or worn-out parts will be very light. Feed 
mills are becoming more and more popular, 
and hundreds of farmers will use them this 
season for the first time. It will be good 
policy for them to investigate the merits of 
tbe different mills offered for sale. We urge 
them, by all means, to look into the merits of 
the Victory as shown iu this pamphlet. 
The Oil Test for Cream.— Bulletin No. 12 
from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 
Wis., gives an account of experiments made 
with the “oil-test chum” to determine the 
value of milk. These experiments are of con¬ 
siderable value. “At present,” conclude the 
experimenters, “it would appear that, while 
the oil-test churn is capable of showing the 
difference between good aud poor cream, it is 
questionable whether it can make strictly ac¬ 
curate distinctions between different grades 
of good or of poor cream.” We are promised 
further work in this line. We suggest to 
creamery men the advisability of securing this 
bulletin. 
Experiment Work in Colorado. —Bul¬ 
letin No 1 from the Agricultural College of 
Colorado. —This has to do with the experi¬ 
ments in the department of physics and engi¬ 
neering, and deals with nrigation. Au effort 
bus bocu made to ascertain the amount of 
water that will run through a given space 
per hour or day, the amount needed to irri¬ 
gate equal areas of different soils, aud the 
amount lost by evaporation. 
Mexican Labor and Prices.— In report 
No. 45 issued from the Department of Agri¬ 
culture considerable information regarding 
the agriculture of Mexico is given. It is well 
to keep informed as to Mexico. She will play 
a strong part in future American history. 
Parasitic Fungi of Illinois. —This is a 
bulletin of some 50 pages, issued from the 
Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 
Champaign, Ills. It is prepared by T. J. Bur- 
rill aud F. S. Earle. 
THE POST OFFICE CLUB. 
Henry George seems to have made some 
converts in our neighborhood. One great 
trouble iu our part of the country is that there 
are a good mauy large farms lyiug idle. 
Most of them belong to old men who don’t 
want to work them and yet won't sell at auy 
reasonable price. They want to hold them 
until the city grows out to us when they can 
be split up iuto building lots and sold at a high 
price, and so the fields stand to grow up into 
weeds and waste. There is no chance for 
young men to buy them and make them into 
farms. They are assessed for about one-tenth 
of what the owners ask. If this land is to 
have any great value it will have to come 
from the buildings and improvements which 
other people will put up nearby. Some of 
our folks have gained the idea that if Henry 
George's theories were in practice all these old 
fellows would have to pay taxes on tbe prices 
at which they hold tbeir land, and that they 
would have either to sell the land off or pay a 
great many more dollars for taxes than they 
now do. Jack Pennywise was explaining the 
Henry George theory at the store the other 
night. He had it a little twisted, but it an¬ 
swered well forgetting the discussion started. 
Uncle Jacob waited until all the rest had bad 
their say. “Hennery George is a very sebmart 
man I supbose, UDd I haf no doubt dere is 
blenty off goot thingsin what be says, but dem 
goot tings vas so tied up mit tings dot would 
shust upset dis goundry dot I thing it would 
hardly pay to dry uud pull dem goot tings out. 
Hennery George would like to divide all der 
broperty out und fix things so dere would 
nefer pe any poor beeble. We would all like 
dot I am sure. Nobody wants to see boverty 
or suffering. Hennery George says dot when 
he gets down und taxes der lant, he strikes der 
bottom off der matter, pecause der lant can’t 
run avay. Now deu, I glaim dot Hennery 
George don’t get mitin eye-sight off der bot¬ 
tom off dis subject. He goes on der brinciple 
dot all beeple vas shust alike, ven 
we know dot dere is lazy folks und 
schinart folks, folks too broud to work 
mit dere hands und folks dot dry und 
hf on vits so schmall dot it vas shust like fif¬ 
ing on noting. Dere is too many folks in dis 
world dot exbects to sit down mit a chair und 
let somebody else do der work und divide up 
der brofits mit dem. All dese folks was Hen¬ 
nery George men. Dey does most off der 
talking in dese times pecause der oder fellers 
haf too much work to do to keep up mit dem. 
All dese fellers dot stands around mit der 
streed corners und talks bobtics, while shust 
as likely as not der wives off der family is doing 
work mit der washtub, vas Hennery George 
men. Dey vants to lif on der lant. Yell, we 
needs good men on der farm und good girls in 
der house to help our wives. Will dem city 
beeple come out und work on der laud? Veil, 
no; dot is not the kind off land theory dey 
vants. Dey vants der farmers off der gonn- 
drv to do der hard vork, pay all der taxes und 
den divide up what vas left mit dem. When 
dem brinciplcs off Hennery George vas come 
around, I gifs up farming right avay, pecause 
shust as near as I can see, dese oder beeple vas 
going to haf all der fun in dose days. 
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Secured .also by the entire paid Up capital of 81.000,000. 
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