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HE HERALD. THE HERALD. i-iT.LTsnKD cvnnv tiiiksday AIVi:llTISI4 IUTI.H. iATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA i ! space. I w.j 2 w.i 3 r. t in. 3 in. 6 in. 1 r. $1 on US1 Sift:?2 "tO.S.IWij' 10;U 00 2 7f: ;i ;.V). eilowt l lie 4 0O 4 7"i R0 13 00 80 ( Mini1 12 00j 20 00 VMWi v 00 t." OO1 IS ! ill 00 40 001 60 00 gl IW; 'iS () 40 uoj " ou iw no I 60 OFFICE: ' ice St., One Elock North of Main, Corner of Fifth Street. 2 00 2 7.V i 001 8 00 8oo) i a oo 15 00 1 IS 00 1 l-AH Advertising Mils due quarterly. r""Tr.insieut advertisements must be paid for in advance. JNO. A. MACMURPHY, Editor.) " PERSEVERANCE CONQUERS. (TERMS: $2.00 a Year. Fnn.llj IMPKR OF CASS t'OI.VTV. Terms, i.i Advaocs : v.iv. one year vst.six month i;v, throe months. VOLUME XIII. . PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1877. i NUMBER 3. Extra copies of the If frai.d for sale 1 y J. I. Young, rostrdbee news drtot,--nnd . J-". Johii son.corncr of Mailt and Filth Stive!.-.. . 1.00 . .50 1 snr... 2 stirs.. 3 sir . ! col.. ol.. 1 eol . . . FIRST National Bank tT i'LATTSMOUTII. NEIiKASKA, PL CCKXSOIt TO - ;'nzi-iAi.o Pre.ident. -ivitv N ice President. ' '! I.AI 'illl.IX Cashier. '!;oei(ii K Assistant Cstshier. :'. ink Is now open for business :it their ' si.O'.intir .11 aut and "ixth streets, hud . vt t: transact a general HANKING BUSINESS. -i. -in'i, G-.dcl, Government aad Local Gecuritie i1. i:;i:t xi) 501.0. '-. n.yn'C'-'l and InUrest Allnir- I on Time f. rti urates. 'IV iart of the United St.t(;s and . ;..e Vi ;in.-;ri.ii Tt wru awl t'il:as oi 1 "irope. CELKKRATED h-Lins and Allan Line STKA3IERS. uns to briiy; out iiieirfrittids TiOin 1. n.-liAfnilrKflS FROM U ?i r tj to PUItmitntli.' Fleming & Rac DEALERS IN ,i ll Wj c-s ti ? i GROCERIES, '"'and notions. t (Miuur) tilt; ti aJ .teTi f.i Mri rilFAR. "::V Ui ONCE, AND $EH ! xr.E"TNG y.ti:ji. nl'l !;o6lsior Barber Shop. J. C. BOONE, '' ' - ' top;;:- Zaun-Mrs House. a - i V W A. i J U W J . r IA!. ATTJ-JXTiGX G I Y i'X TO i It I Ii!: ifi'-i vtmi gs.iCUS i-'a ; e . A i.l i:-' :"'- 'ie i i v. K.';m :i:ft u. :t or ? r r: S? ii j M i ti i: S f.' , i. IN TOWN.- 4,' runni! KTHK t'K BILLIARD HALL. -'.'. n Sr., oast (.f First X;.t. I'.;.n!;.) v i-.AU is si.rn.irn t.':tu inn BKoT WINES, LiaUORS, S' 1' X P " V AND l-UTTJMul'iii, N::n., :' St-jma Engine, Doihrs; .S' .v Crist J! ills, A! STF.fr! ITTTI;. : Ii.m I'!". Forco :ind Lift rii.cs.Sia:.: 'c. Safetv-Ynlve G.ivei nors. and ail In-.'.s tf I'.hlss Ermine Fittings, repaired on siioil noti'-e. A. R M MACHINE it Tt 1 on Short X'otice. ; 1 O UNG!" 0 0 3 .- niirayx be found at Halt's Old rtndj to stll the best J feats. . V nm s 11, 'ii I ill I .1 I I t' i l!'f', 11 "U X . . j Mont t.-tc i.ii.'iieiN etciy a.i, ai:u ots r : J waj s "nod. .: j r. f .v;;. a.xd fjwl. ix seasox r,y. AGE BROTHERS, 9 . ETC., ETC., ETC. ; uvir East of the Tost-Oir.ee, r!.;ttsn;,n;th, Nebra.-ka. ... : O : rraelic;:! Workers i:i T-.T. m-ir rr rv i m T -e- ti n i y f to. i . .1 ( . - i . ii,.- . ZIERY.dc, dc Large assortment of Hard una Soft ZJO-A-H- STOYE3, Wood and Coal Stoves for Always on Hand. V. y variety of Tin. Sheet Iron, cir.l Zinc Work, k pt in Stock. T 1 17TMn. A TTT1 "DTT A TT TIM ii .it.-lIUUU illlU i k. 1 J L A i, II. - j Done on Short Notice. . ' TZRYTI1IXO WAUIlAXTEn ' .n ? PIIICF! I.OYT lOWV. SAGE BROS. E E H , ETC., ETC. 4?'vl I NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. QC 1-"A"V"V CAItOS. 1(5 -tvles with name iCU loots po.-a paid, J. 15. JIusted,Xas.sa.u, Ken. . X. Y. 1H Card no two alike 10c. 40 of came in handsome double can; 2" cliroiim .!"., 0o line while l."e., ,V) Cardinal l!ed IV- 'r Jet infold 2"k.. vonr name on ail. 1 he whole lot for ?'l. Samples of card'1 and ;i 52 column weekly paper for 30. e. 1J. I'i.l. ! a v, 1 1 Winter St.. T'xtston, Miss. f RIFLING WITH A COLD IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS. USE W ELLs' CARBOLIC TABLETS, a nitre remedy fr COL'OHS. and all diseases of the THROAT. LUXOS, CHF. iT AXL) MV-f'U'.-f MF.MIlltAXE. I'LT VI' ONLY IN IT..Zi" IJOXES. SOLD T.Y ALL DRUGGISTS. JC. N. CRITTENTtiX. 7 SUth Avenue. N. Y JiiA inoiilh. A-;e ids Wanted on our" three O""" "groat -2 I'.ookK. STiItY ol ttEAUM.Y ESOSS. a f i.ii a . tii..it of t'iiis i-ai in -.h i . written by his I ei t ; heat" Kohiiisoii t'tunot; in thriiliirj inf-resf. Tlie iilusi rated Iiaiil-Uoiik t all !' I ilitlis a complete aeeieitil Of ail denoiiii eai ions and s'H is. ;:.-, i i; ii i !;!i-. Also the ladies' inedie.tl rnide. liv Dr. I'anenast. l"t ii histrjtiotis. 1 hese bo iks svll at sit.-l.t- Male and i -Villain Aj'-nts coin money 0:1 tliem. I'ar-ti'-ulars fte. i v.pies liv mail ?J each. John E. Rolter& Go.. riii!:;dclidiia. A LUCRATIVE BUSmSS. We inant 500 more fast-class Si-jcinj Machine .yen.-, and 500 men of an ' r.ii) and ability to I 'arn the Lwsi lifiss of XiWiij ZSetrinn JTa'-hines. C'otri pinsntion Libera!, but cinjinrj accord ing to Auilil j, Charncttr ind Qualifi cations of the Ajnt. For particulars, Addn-s- Wi!-3ca Sawini MacMES Co.Ciicaso. f'27.1 .'-'3 R.iad-.var. X. Y. . or Xr Ovle ins. La. A EOME AND FARM OF TOUE. OW1T. Oil the til'' i fa Gicat R loioad with ood m;'V ki ts hotti E;i-1 and Went. N 0 W is t ho TI ME to SECURE it .VIM CMr.ntr. I'erte Soil, he-t Covtifry for m-'-ck l:-:i:n:i ia tU l"n.tel Siate. i' o'r. . M;ri. i'li l i::i)imat!;iii. a'so "TIS J! lIi-.::ii.'" sent tree to j.il j.art .i the v..:ld. Addics.-J, O.F.jAVIS. Unad Coin. U. I'. !:. II. Onialia. Xeh. DRY AN d CHAMBERS, Mjiu.r.K'turers of and Dealers in fl"- fT- 5-i Jti. SAD PL K H, COLL A IIS. HALTERS, whips, ETC., ETC., ETC. IllSPAIMNG Dono witli Neatnc:si Dispatch. T7 f T7--,' If r;7-niT i"1 7-V ELATTjIuUTH. .'; tiir. fvTcr.r, -o r- ; - " i' ' L I RE'S M .-.;i:i.: it HI !'.-;t open b CI a AHS. TOBACCO. dC WHOLE tALE d- HEYA1L. v. s- k::m' Good Goods, Buy Largely A ml ir: Ite tia-.ls To cvM r.iid examine, ltf h ft f: '::n"t lie :-'.a le l-v every itront evrry I ' ' i ii'iio'ii ii in t:,.- Itchiness v.e fuiiiisli, hnl til vJiJil hose v. ill:::;; I i work can easily earn a n y.-xi l-U.rs : day ; :'!:t in th. ii own Ifwa!ii!,s. H.i'. e iio room t c-.pluin here. r.:iii:i'-.s p.'eas-n:-t r.'i.i lioaora'.d.'. Vt'onien. 1st;, s and irirls ! ;s v. i-!l as We v. i!l liu'iiih Vail a Cniop'ete oiitiit free. T".e on -iin-s p.iys hetti-r ti;an any iiiii; ; !,!. V.Vwiil lij-ir ixprnse ff Martin-; y-i:i. I ii ;!o il:ir f.-. e. Write ar d S'-e. I'arni-i-is ar-I fit .-''ii'i'ts. th.ir !ns niel 'ianiii ei s. r.r.t! a!! c":::-.--.e-: i,i i;c; ; ei p.:yi:;it w.dk. lit home, s'io-iM I- to ns .tad leant ail ahoat tite work lit (V)-i-. Xo-.r is tie' linif. Don't de'.av. A1 (Iress ''" -:t !' A ''.. August a, Maine. 1M ilia Bis G.-od fresh lnii! DELIVERED DAILY I AT k -1: i; r no r T's jioaigi x n.i ttsm oittd IP TtlKY WANT IT, RY . sr.Nit is yd;-!-. riniir.i! avi i wit.i. tky ani iavK YOU IP IT ISIS IIVlXjLjIK: 4'yl an.l rn-vp ynn rpjrii'rrly. FOR 0Uti Choice Winca, Liquors, BE Ell. ETC., ETC., GO TO II R A DOUAIITERS. THE Cheapest Place in Tovn. r.i'fs' A l-c on draught or by the IZ-,'."e. Faint) 'it s Suf plied by the Boxen. s'jti r. b. jfunnir. O. F. JOHNSON, DEALER IN Drugs s.m l? Mi Ml 'I I AND k"- All Paper Triinirxecl Free of Charge. ALSO DEALT" II IN SGOE5, Stationery, Magazines, AND Latest PnMications. l'rexcrlptioHS Carefully Compounded ly an Ixitrrleuc4".l SrnRcI.st. REM EM HER THE l i.AC'E. COR. FIFTH d- JIAIN HI BEETS rr ATi?:,:ouTH, neb. 20 ... . : i 2 PliOFESSIOXAl. CARDS It. It. XV I XI II AM. ATTORNEY and Counelor at Lw. Real pstattt Itnuht And sold. Taxes paid ; and spe cial attention ejven to collections. Office over Dr. Chapman's Drutr Store, 1'lattsmoulh. 37yl HAM .11 tllAPJIAX. ATTDKXEY AT LAW and Solicitor in Chan cery. Office in Fitzgerald's Rlock, l'laltsmout h, Nefira-'ka. WUKKIiSKA ISF.AXETT, REAL ESTATE and Tax RayitiK Asents, No taries l'ulilie. Fire and Life Insurance- Agents, Ulattsmonth, Nebraska. 11 It MVIMHTOX, rilYSrCIAN & SURGEOX. tenders his pro fessional services t the citizens of Ca-ss county. Residence southeast corner Sixth and Oak sts. ; onice on Main street, two doors west of Sixth, i'ialisuioulli, NcbraskB. t'KO. S. SjaiTlI. ATTORNEY AT LAW and Ileal Estate r.ro ker. Special aitentioti Riven to Collections and all mailers atlectin the title to real estate, OUSce on -Jd Iloor, over I'ost ttlU-e, I'lultsmouth, Nebraska. 40 1. JOS' AV IIAIXI B JUSTICE OF THE TEACE, aim collector of debts, collections made from one dollar to one thousand dollars. Mort:ii;es. Deeds, and oth er instruments drawn, and ail county business usually transacted before a Jnstieeof the I'eace. Rest of reference riven if required. OiTice on Haiti street. West of Court House. 4t-yl JOHN W. I1AIXES. IK. J. AJ. VATKK3!A, Physio- - Medical Practitioner. J.y.isville, f'a.',-t Co., Xch. Cr-A!traj-s at the office, on Saturdays. 40yl PL ATTS MOUTH MILLS. I'LATTSMOUTH, NEB. C.HEISEL, Proprietor. Flour, Co:-nll;Rl, & Feed Always on hind and for:;.i!e pt lowest cash prices. The highest prices p:iid lor Wheat aud Corn. Particular attention given custom work. SAUXDKRS II0USE. .. S. CHEGOIl V, - - - Proprietor. ItOt-atiori Cci;t!-;-.l. Gooil .i"ani)le Roo-n.. I'ree f.'otiveya.-iee to and f"oni the De!ot at l.'imS " ri:ttts:uoutli, Xt 1). C03I3IERCIAL HOTEL, LINCOLN, XEI)., J. J. I II II OFF, - - - Proprietor. The best known and most popular Landlord ia i'K- SiatL'. Aiv. ays stop ar t lie Couiiuercial. 'GRAND CENTRAL' HOTEL, J-tveft! C'!iic:t!ru and i-'iizi I'mnvl sc a. GEO. THRALL, - - Prop. O.MAIIA. NEIJ. O. K. SALOON. I ::ci';i con.-tar. ily on h-i:i l IScsl-s 3i?vr;i;ikoc Rrcr. V.it:;-'.: C;V1 be lifd t !!' other PLACE iM THE CITY. A 'so t !.e best of - IXKS, Ll'iCU'iS, AXn riVAllS. Siwi !ti. t'ttv-enliaci?!. LENHOFF d- BONNS, ZlovnUiiX Dew Hulooii ! Oae ihoi er.st if tl.e r.,-. tin .Its Hotse. We ke-.-p the l.-est of Beer, Winci?, Liquors & Cigars. 3.'mC Cour.tatitly m Hand. A UriT.i lie.ttictio.-i in I'i-ie-n of GUHS, REVOLVERS, &e. I'riees red 'ier-,1 froin i-o to 3t i.er c-i:t. Sii!e for IlIustraTeil Catalogue, wiili reduced jirices lor 1X7 L AiMilvss, GflEAT WESTERN GUN WOflKS, Vl SuiithfieM St., I'itt.sl.ursh, I'a. is 1 H. A. WATERMAN & SON, Y"iiolc-a"o and Rrtnil Dealers in s Sash, Doors, Blinds, ETC.. ETC., ETC. . r.la stret. Corner of Fifth, I'LATTSiiOUTII, --- - NEB. St i 11B ot te v Rates for Lumber. STilKKJHT & 3S.ILLEH, Harness Manufatlurers, 3ADDI.ES BRIDLES, COLLARS. and a'l kinds ot h.-.rnerg stock, constantly ou hand. Fruit Confectionery, A XD Grocery Store NUTS, CANDIES, TEAS COFFEES, SUGARS, TOR.-VCCOES, FLOUR, X0. Remember the pt?ee opposite E. G. Dovey's on lov.or Main Street. 2U?j XTREIQHT d- MILLER. LANDjAND! BEST FARMING LANDS IN NEBRASKA. FOR SALE BY IX XKIJKASItA. Great Advantages to Buyers IN lb!7. Ten Years Credit at C ptr cent Interest. SLr Years Credit at 0 prr cent fntcrest, and 20 per cent Discount. Other Liberal DUconpt, Kr CaIi, Itebnte. on Fares and freiylitt. andi l'rntiiinis tor Imorove iarnt. Rtn.'ph'eti1 and .'"fsps. containing: fu'l r.'irth ular, will be niailrd free to auy part of the world on implication to LAX D COMMISSIONER. R. i HI. K. R. 1051 lATieoi, Xekkakka AFTER TWENTY YEAKS. Although you've been a husband true. 'l is many a year pone by. John, And I'm a faithful wife to you And will be till I die. John), We led a lonely sort of life. With uo sweet child to bless us. Till I Jessy came last Christmas day. To condort and carets us. Our baby has a father gray, A unit iter none to young. John. And ycijit seems the time of Hay. E'er since our birding saii, .Joint. She brought new life into the house, The little, prattling stranger. And, Joint, she binds you to your home Who might have been a ranger. Ouce every chair was la its place. And not a thing awry, John, Yet we two, silting face to face. Would often breathe a sigh. Joha, I.ut now upon our ample board Is daily placed between us A pit ture-plate ami porringer, I'rot.i loneliness to vean Ur.. While fchc, our little baby queen. With eyes so like your own John, (The brightest, bluest ever eeen). Eats with us on Iter throne, John. Heaven guard our precious hltie tnc Slay angels fair, that brought iter, I'rotect from everv t hreat'iiins ill The "old folks' r little daughter. FAXLU-YILLAGES. CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. This part of the subject, however, is foreign to the present purpose. If the desirability of village life for farmers can be established, the ways and means may safely be left to those interested in securing it. The influences now at work to make tha farmers' child seek a better social condition, together with the necessity which confines them to some form of agricultural work, must be depended on to secure the re lief sufrested unless some better re lief can be found. In this case, as in every other of vil lage construction, the original plan should include some quality of feature that, while appropriate to the modest end in view, ill give character to the place. Every village has in its situation, its uses, or its origin, soma characteristic which may be developed in a leading and an attractive feature. Especially when the work is to be begun frttm the foundation, and when there are no buildings to be torn down or removed, a consistent and dignitied result my be planned for at the outset. The characteristic feature of the vil lage we are, now considering is that it is to consist of a single long, straight street cut off at each end by other roads. After removing one unimpor tant house, there remains no obstacle to the laying out of one straight street 2'Jti feet wide, with either two or four rows of spreading elms. This f ttet.-t, 2,000 feet long, mainly in we-I-kepl grass, wi'.li only t lie necessary width of road an 1 the requisite paths, having a well-kept and home-like perhaps private place opposite each other of its ends, would stamp ths village at once with an attraction which would !::;ve i constant civilizing effect on those living under its iniluencc. Such a village street, entirely with out costly ornamentation, and requir ing only ih' simplest care, would soon take on a look, of sippropriate neatness 5ind freshness, and sis the trees grew, it would acquire a dignity tuul beauty which could in no other way be so well secured. The church and the school-house, being placed in broad recesses opposite the central point of tli3 street, would gain importance from their position; smd these main features being attend ed to, the character of the village would be fixed, and it would be ditii euit to make any arrangement of its private places which would spoil its beauty. Neatness and 51 reasonable care in the matter of house-gardening, tho planting of llower-beds. vines, etc., are all that would be needed. With so wide a street, it would be as well to bring all house-fronts to the street line, completing this l'ne with simple fences, svnd paying some :itten tion to the ornamentation of the in closed yards. In this villace ;ts in the others, till meretricious ornamentation should be avoided, whether public or private. All money available for such improvement should be spent in securing perfect neatness. In fact, the two radical re quirements of good taste in all such cisas are absence of obvious money spending and the evidence of constant care and attention, "howiness" i3 common in every trumpery village in the land. What wc .should seek in our farni-vil'.siges is the most modest sim plicity, shining with the polish of an affectionate care. Every spot should breathe of homely influences and mor al peaeef nlncss. Figure G shows the general plan of the village. 12 other public buildings are needed, they might very well be placed opposite the ends of the main street. It is not possible, in remodeling an old ftirming district, where boundaries and roads are irregular, to apportion the division of land among the popu lation 'with especial reference to its distance from the village; so, for ex ample, that the r.mall farmers, who have little team force, shall not have so far to go :is the larger ones who are better equipped; but even in this case, the most distant farm will be rarely a mile from the village, whero all the farmers, their families, and their work people, stnd their llocks smd herds, would be gathered together, under the best circumstances for getting out of their lives sis much good as the need for earning a living by arduous work will rtllow them to get anywhere, more than they could hope to get in the insolation of the distant farm house. Having now considered the methods by which farmers may congregate their liomes and their farm-buildings, and live in villages, let us take up the more important question of policy. Which would be better for a young man, just starting in life with a young wife, to go to a distant farm-house to found his home, or settle in a well-ordered farm-village, under substantially the conditions described above? There is much more to be said, on both sides, than there is room to say here, but certain points are worthy of consideration. There is no doubt that in a strictly money-making aspect there is an ad vantage in having the animals on the land from which they sire feed, and the men on the farm which they are to work. It is certain, also, that the men and tha women must be near the stables, that the early and late work of feeding and milking may be promptly and regularly performed. If the farai- m is to live in the village, the cattle must live in the village too. This in volves the hauling home of all the hay and grain, and the hauling out again of all manure, no slight task. If the work is all concentrated on the farm, under the immedisite supervision of the farmer, there will be a certain con veni enco and economy of time. The same principle holds true in sill other relations. The merchant would find si certain advantage in living at his warehouse; the engine builder sit his factory; the cotton-spinner at his mill; the carpenter at his shop; smd the gro cer at his etore. All o these, have found that, so far as may be, they get certain other, and greater, advantages in living siway from their business. One and sill carry to their homes, at least occsisionally, books, papers, and plans for work that need attention out of the regular business hours. The farmer alone :tnd in this coun try especially disregards the benefits of living away from his shop, and pass es his whole life dsiy and night in close contact with his field of operation, lie might, if he chose, make his home nearer to other homes, taking with l.im so ruueh of his work as is not necesssi rily confined to the farm. For his own sake, it does not make so much difference, but for the akes of his wife and children it makes all the difference between life and stsigna tion. The business needs whic ; call him to town, and the habit he . as of passing his evenings at "the store," pi ve him a certain amount and a certain kind of social intercourse which keeps him from absolute rust. The amount of society avail.ible for his family is not usually great, and the dullness and confinement of fsirm house life need no inscription. Tho main teason for preferring vil lage life is principally because it is bet ter for the women stud children, but there are reasons, '"n the same direction, why better social conditions would give the f sinner himself decided benefits. The life, too, would be more attractirc, for both boys smd girls, sinJ would be divested of that naked and dismal gloom and dryness which now drive so much of the "best farmer blood of the whole country to work benches and counters, to any position, in fact, which prom ises relief from the stilling isolation of the country. While conceding that, just a cabinet maker would msike more money if lie lived in his back shop and hsul litt e thought from early dawn until late evening except for .his work, so the farmer may make more money if lie lives on his farm than if he lives sit a distance, "till it must be said that the difference in profit is by no mesms sis great sis would be supposed. It n;;! be fairly stssuined that, at least in "the more thickly settled farm ing ivgions at t'u; East, the average dis tance sit which farmers live from the center of population thatsnnplies their "shopping," smd f otn church, is not loss than three nuk-s. The visilingucquain tance of t'n family is nearly or quite a remote, and there is, altogether, so much driving to be don", sis to make it necessary to keep a decent carriage ami horses, and to supply a certain amount of extra horse service. Indeed, among those who are tolerably well off it would be moderate to set down the to tal services of one good horse sis needed to supply the family's deinsmd for trans portation. T en too, the need ef the farmer him self to go to tn'.vn to sell stud to buy, to tret it pairs and :nformi'.ion. nd a taste much more genenilly gratified than he would suwavs care to contess to his wife to satisfy his craving af ter intercourse with his kind : win shsill estim.it the aggregate of sill this travel or even of that part of it which, un der the pretext of business, is really only an habitual going for gossip. All of this driving is confined to no season; it is perennial. in good weather and in bad, and it costs an amount of time smd money that few farmers would care to put down in black and white and charge to their expense accounts. It would form one of the most serious items of their budget. Did the farmer livo in a pleasant and attractive village, among neighbors and friends, nearly all of this driving would be saved. The applismce for the fami ly's pleasure driving might be entirely dono awsiy with, for the wife and dsiughters would gladly exchango the means for occasional visiting and for distant shopping for an sigreeable cir cl of friends near at hand ami a good village store and post-ofiieo within live minutes' walk. In such a settlement as is contemplated, most of the. business need3 of the farmer would be ainp'y supplied, and he would find the com panionship sit hand even more satisfac tory, becsuise more familiar, than that which he now finds in the town. It is not worth while tocaleulate the cash saving that would come of this re duction of road-work. It is enough to con ider it as an important offset to the cost of carrying men and manure to the field and cf bringing crops to the vilhige. Under the present system the women have the worst of it. They have the confinement and seclusion and dullness. Under the v 11 age system the men would have the discomfort, and this is why it will be less e.isy to secure its adoption, for the men control, and pre fer not to have the heavy end of life's log to carry. Under either of the plans give here with the greatest not the siverage distance from the house to the farm would be less thsm one mile, and H would have to be traveled only during the working weather of the warmer months, and during the good wheeling of winter. In summer sill hands would have to set off early smd come home late, often carrying their dinner with them, as mechanics do; but when field work did not call the .. out, as during rains, or when the ground is too wet to be disturbed, The bsirn-woik and shop work would be at home, and sill the wintei through, the ouly" road-work to be done would be to send the teams to haul out the manure smd to bring home the hay, which would be best stored under "Dutch hay-barracks" in the fields when it was made. This work would be systematic and simple, and it may fairly be question-d whether it would not, in many csises, simouut to k than the cost of the "driving" that is ntiw done, and which, in the village might be foregone. Especially would this be the case when all -the hesivy farm work is done by oxen, which, when idle, instead ef eating their heads off li ;o horses, are accumulating valua ble flesh. With sufficient ox-power to do the work easily, the whole transpor tation of tools and ii.en, and all the hay tending and hsiy-nikihg would esisily be dono by one horse, with leeway enough to allow a fair amount of busi ness or plestsure travel. So far as ths presence of the fanner himself is concerned, it is to be con sidered that if his farm and cattle are near his house in the village, he will be within easy reach of them very of ten at times when his visits to the dis tant town would tsike him away from them if they were on the farm. In the village, during the whole winter, and in bad weather at other sesisong, he would have little necessity or tempta tion to absent himself from home. In deed, those who have hsul sin opportu nity to wsitch he life of the exception sil farmers, whose houses sind barns smd stables are in a village, cannot have failed to notice how much more home like and engaging is the whole farm es tablishment than it usually is in the conn ry. It is hardly too much to say that the few instances that we have, as in the farm villages of New England, show thsit these vilhige-living farmers are apparently more attentive to their h me duties than are their isolated brethren, at least in the matter of tidi ness. To complete the comparison with the merchant or manufacturer who takes his papers or plans home with him for work out of regular hours, one might ssiy that the fsirmer who lives at a dis tance from his land, with hiatlocks and herds gathered about his homestead, has such of his work as needs early and late close at hand, while his regular workshop, the farm, calls him away for certain regular hours and regular du ties. It is not worth while here to enter into the details of the question. They are of serious moment, and involve simong other things the driving of ani mals to smd from pasture versa the raising of soiling crop to be fed in the stall or yard. All of these questions have been sal isfactorilv solved in the ) experience of many exceptional cases in this country, and of the ar.nost uni versal conditions obtaining in Europe. Thv present no practical difficulty, and ne d const itute no serious objection to the general plan. The items of economical working and inoney-msiking being fully weigh ed, the mort serious considerations of tlie mode of life and the good to be got from it demand even greater attention. It may seem a strange eloe-trine to ba advsinced by a somewhat enthusiastic farmer, bat it is si doctrine that has been slowly accepted sifter many years' observation, a conviction that lias tsi ken possession of an unwilling mind, that the young man. who takes his young wife to an isolated farm-house dooms her and himself smd their chil dren to an unwholesome, unsatisfacto ry and vacant existence, an existence marked by the sibsenee of those more satisfying and more cultivated influen ces which the best development of character and intelligence demand. It is :i common experience of farmer's wives to psiss week sifter week without exchanging si word or si look with a single person outside of their own fam ily circles. The young couple start bravcl, and with adeterminat ion to struggle against the habit of isolation which marks their class; but this habit h:is grown from the necessity of the situation ; and the necessities of their own situation luing them sooner or laid' within its bonds. During the first few yesirs they adhere to their resolution and go rffju larly to church, to the lecture, and to the. social gathering of their friends; but home duties increase with time, and the eagerness for society grows dull with neglect, and those who have started out with the firmest determi nation to avoid the rock on which their fathers have split, give up tho struggle at last and settle down to a humdrum, uninteresting and uninterested perfor mance of daily tasks. In saying ail this and I speak from experience, for 1 have led tlie dismal life myself it is hardly necessary to disclaim the least want of appreciation of the sterling qualities hich have been developed in the American farm household. lint it may safely be insist ed thsit lhests qualities have been devel oped, not because of tlie American mode of farm life1, but in spite of it; and as I think over the long list of ad mirable men and women w hose ac quaintance I have form d on distant and solitary farms, I am more and more impressed with certsiin short-comings which would have b en avoidable un der better social conditions. If any of these is disposed to question the jus tice of this conclusion, I am satisfied to leave the final decision with his own judgment, formed after a fair consider ation of what is herein suggested. If American agriculture has an un satisfied need, it is surely the need for more intelligence and more enterprising interest on the part of its men and wo men. From on? end of the land to the ether, its crying defect recognized by all is that its best bl od or, in other words, its best brains and its best ener gy is lesiving it to seek other fields of labor. The influence which lead these best of farmers' sons to other occupn tions is not so much the desire to make more money, or to find ;i less laborious occupation, as it is the desire to lead a more satisfactory life, si life where that part of us winch has been develop ed by the better education and better civilization for which in this century we have worked so hard and so well, may find responsive companionship and encouraging intercourse wita others. It so happens that the few farm vil lages to which we csin refer such as Farmingtow, South Hsidley, and Deer field have- become so attractive bv means of their full grown beauty, or have been so encroached upon by the wealth that has com" over the district to which they belong, that they are no longer to be" taken as tvpes of pure country villages; nor do I recsill a sin gle, village in the land which is precise ly what I have now in mind. Assuming that a farming neighbor hood two miles, or. at the utmost, 3 miles, square bad been so arranged ! as tn have sill of its buildintrs fwith the exception of hay-barraeksjn the fields, and cattle shelters in the pastures) in a village, let us consider what would be the advantages in the manner of living wfcich it would have to offer. I I lie social benefits and the facilities for frequent, neighborly and infornud intercourse are obvious. To say noth ing of the companionships ;md intima cies among tho young people, their fathers and mothers would be kept from growing old and glum by the con stant friction of their kind; and in so far as a more satisfactory social rela tion with one's fellew-men gives cheer fulness smd the richness of a wider hu man interest, in that proportion would the village life have a wholesome mel lowing effect that ia not to be found in the remote farm-house, nor even in the sort of neigh'.iorhood we sometimes find in the country, where several farm houses are within a quarter of a mile of esich other. The habit of "running in" for a moment's chat with a neigh bor is a good one, and it gets but scant development among American f sinners. This view of the csise will suggest it self quite naturally in the first consid eration of the subject. If the first need of the rising genera tion the men smd women of the fu ture is education, then the village beats the farm by long odds. The country school district, sparsely set tied and chsiry of its taxes, is apt to obey the law in the scsiutiest way possible. Three months school in winter, smd three months more in summer, under the supervision it can hardly be csdled the instruction of si young Miss who is Ty no means well educated herself, and who is entirely without training as a teacher, gathers together sdl of the school-going children cf a wide neigh borhood. Eig and little boys and girls, are huddled together in a sort of men tal jumble, where the best that the most skillful manager can hope for is to regulate the instruction and the dis cipline to suit the sivt raye of the schol ars. The best result attainable is to secure a certain amount of schooling; the word educsition would be quite mis applied here. In the village, the number of schol ars would be sufficiently large to war rant the establishment smd to bear the maintenance of one good school, with one, if not nore. testchers, regularly employed and worthy to be called teach ers rather than "school-marms." Pu pils wo n 11 be graded according to their ages and acquirements, .and a u;io use could be made of the stimulus of com petition. A real school a real instru ment of educsition would take the place of the noisy congregation of un controlled boys smd girls who, in the country district school, are apt to ac quire less of valuable learning than of the minor vieiousness that prevails among country children. In this connection, I was forcibly struck with the announcement of si German farmer once in my employ, whose reason for leaving me, after his children ban reached the ages of seven smd eleven, to return to his little village in Gt-imany, was that it was impos i ble in this country and this, be it re membered, wsis in New England to secure satisfsictory instruction for them. He thought that in their experience at school here they had gained but little beyond a familiarity with English, and with a large admixture of "bad words" at that. At home they would have, within the eiementsiry range of a pri mary aehool educational thorough trsiin ing and a severe drilling which lie could not hope for here, sind without which he was unwilling that they should grow up. I have seen his villsige school in Germany and the cloud of tow-headed children who fill it, and I am prepared to believe that his preference was not without foundation. Of course we have all the material for as good, or better, schools in this country. What we need is longer terms, better trained and educated tesichers, graded classes, ;md better books and appliances. These csmnot be afforded in the smsill country school district. They esin be had in their perfection in even a small villsige, sind this consideration aIon, even if this were all, should be a controlling argument in favor of villsige life. IJut this is by no means sill. Another great benefit is to be found in the post office near a; hand, with its daily mail as itn encouragement to correspondence and to interest in ihe si ff airs of the out side world. A village, such sis is here pictured, coiuu auoru its weekly or semi-monthly public lecture, furnish ing a means for instruction and enter tainment, and for frequent gatherings. The church, too, would probably be conducted in a more satisfactory way thjiin is usual in the country; and the conditions would be the bet suited for fostering that interest in the collateral branches of the church, the Dible-cl.iss, the Sunday-school, and the Dorcas So ciety, by which the women of the com munity j-et, aside from the other good that they receive and do, advantages of a character somewhat correspond ing to those which men get from their clubs. I should hope further, as an out growth from the community of living, for a inodest village library and read ing room. Indeed, if I could have my own way, I should not confine the at traction smd entertainment of the vil lage to strictly "moral" appliances. . It would probably be wiser to recognize the fsiet that the young men find an at traction in amusements which our sterner ancestors regarded as danger ous, and I would not eschew billisirds, nor even, "by rigorous enactment," the milder vice of social tobacco, Better have si little harmless wickedness near home and under the eye of parents than encounter the risk that boys, after a certain age, would seek a pretext for more uncontrolled indulgences in tho neighboring town. One might go on through the long range of incidental arguments such as lighted street", well-kept side walks, winter snow plows, and good drainage, and si wholesome pride In a tidy, cozv village, until even tho most close-fisted of all our class would confess that? the extra cost would bring full value in re turn, and until ho would recognize the fsict that the attractions of such a home as the village would make possible .would be likely to insure bis being suc ceeded in his whok'some trade by the brightest and best of his sons, a result that would surely ba worth more than all it would cost. 13ut my purpose has been only to sug gest a scheme which seems to me entirely, even though remotely, prac ticable", and in which I hope for the sympathy anil help of thccosintry-bound farmers' wives and daughters.-a scheme which promises what seems the easi est, if not the only, relief for the dull ness and desolation of living which make American fanning loathsome to so many who outfit to glory in its pur suit, but who now are only bound to it by conimaading necessity. Mother- "Now, Gerty, be a good girl, and give Aunt Julia a kiss, smd ssiy good night." No, no! If I kiss her slie'll box my ears, like she did pa pa's last night." TKAtilC FATE OF A FATHER AND SON IN COLORADO. Ambushed and Assassinated by A Ne-' gro Desperado. From the Trinid td (Col.) Enterprise. One of the most dark, dreadful sind damnable murders that lias been re corded against this country, was com mitted in Colfax County, New Mexico on last Friday. The victims iu this horrible tragedy are Mr. William Max well and his son, and the manner of their murder is so far unknown. They were found on Saturday by parties who were passing, Mr. Maxwell in his house over on the Csirricosa, smd his son, r boyof seventeen, sonn distance oil near their team, which was harnessed to the wagon loaded with poles. IJoth were shot through the head, wo understood, and had the appearance of having been in that condition since tho day before. Mr. Maxwell had a negro working for him, named Win. lireckert ridge, who was latedy discharged from the army, Jii.s discharge papers bc-in"; dated at Fort Wsillace. Breckenridge arrived at Trinidad on Saturday even ing, riling Mr. Maxwell's horse. Ho visited his wife Saturday night, and on Sunday morning attending to business which had been intrusted to him by Maxwell, sis he says. All his actions hereappesir straight enough, or can be easily accounted for, and on Monday morning ns he wsis leaving town, going in the direction of Maxwell's, he was arrested on the strength of a telegram from the Sheriff of that country. When in jail he was visited by Dr. Gushing and Deputy Sheriff Wooton, to whom he gave a connected and plaus ible account of the manner of his leav ing Maxwell's and his operations here'. His story is. in substsince, that on. Thursday two Mexicans with burros, stopped to camp ncsir Maxwell's, and that Msixwell went or sent out and csilled them up to the houso, and told them they could use his wood and sleep in his hsiy pen, and that they done so. The next morning, he says, Maxwell invited the Mexicans to take breakfast with him, and he (Breekenridge) cook ed their breakfast and they site togeth er. He was to come to Trinidad that morning to get his wife and do some errands for Mr. Maxwell, and saddled one of Mr. Maxwell's horses immedi ately after eating his breakfast. Max well advised him r.s he mounted to come away, to carry either a gun or a pistol, and handed him si revolver, which lie brought along. He says he left the Mexicans there standing ntar the house, and beyond that knows nothing. When tho telegrams were received here and it was known thstt the darky had been arrested, there wsis for a few hours the most intense excitement, and had it not been for the calm counsel of cool men, there would have been an attempt sit lynching, which would have been met by force from men wli believe in law and order; but when tho circumstances connecrvd with Jlreck-e-n ridge's movements become public tho popuhir clsmior for a summary execu tion subsided. Beckenridge is still in jail here, and the Sheriff of Colfax County is also here awsiiting si requisi tion from the Governor of New Mex ico, to take the prisoner back to his Territory. Mr. Maxwell came to this country from Iowa, late last fill 1, and sifter looking about concluded tolocsite in Colfax Count'. Soon sifterwards he purehsised the Dimmit k herd of cattle tlnough the agency of Markley & Co. lie was in Trinidad two weeks ago, and in conversation with us at that time, left the impression on our mind that lie wsis not over well pleas eta with the silmition of affairs in hU immedisite locality. We have since learned that his cattle range w.os on the border of the sheep range of that Country, and that only about a month ago a sheep man living at Taos, who kept sheep on the Eagle Tail, was kill ed and his Lrother wounded. This oc curred near to Max well's ranch, and many suppose that Maxwell and his son were murdered iu retaliation. At the present time, however, suspicion rests upon the African, Brtckenridge. Later From T'd authority not from the officers, however we learn that Beckenridge confessed the double murder and also gavo the particulars. As we understand it, he first shot Max well just outside his tent; that when he took aim at him Maxwell saw the movement and turned his bead, and the ball entered the side of his head and went clear through. Tho black f.end then went down tho road and met the ly about three miles off, coming up wita a load of poles. Ho got behind him smd shot him through the hesid, and the victim rolled off on tlie ground. Maxwell was found by a man nstmed Morrise-y, anil a man named Gray found the team standing in the rosid some distance from the tent, the horses badly famished; he unhitch ed them, and after caring for tho horses started down the road and found the boy s.ome distance back. Wo silso understand that Breckenridgo has waived his right to a requisition, and hsis offered to accompany Sheriff Bur leson to the Taos Jail, provided ho and other well known citizens will pledge their words that he shall nst ha lynched. Subscribe fcr the Herald.