Bil KB WHITKSK
'l rTr will marrj." shs taiJ she said
"lnlfs a j-oudic mun thut jut sun me I
find:
TI'T ths I by at U-at lialf a taeail
Ht aarrly must be vitfa a, fin bright and
kino;
Hi eye 1 d preter of a violet bin.
His hair a light browa or a very warm
gold:
He most sing a fine lent) or and dance nice
ly, too.
And tell a pood stories a ever were told.
Ho smoking allowed, for the weed i detent.
And of rourse ao remark that are rude or
ill bred,
And I'd like him to be always gtylUhlj
dreed.
The young mau I marry," he said she
said
And then the maid married she did, shs
din
A three sHre old fellow much shorter than
!,,
Who wore a short witf that but askwurdlv
hid
A note thut no balder eould possibly tx;
And his von as a creak, and he danced
like a bear,
And his now it was red, and dull gray were
his eves, ,
And he d sr. by the hour and stupidly stare,
And he never said anything witty or wise,
And he smokit: a i lay .i, ami from morning
till night
In his mouth held of strongest tobacco a
quid.
And he dreHMd but enough, Tie had two
millious, quite.
And she married him gladly she did. she
did.
Harjier's Bazar.
IDENTIFIED.
BY AS OLD LOCKSMITH.
NE day in the au
tumn of 18 52,
while I was work
ing as an appren
' tlce to a promi
nent Boston loek
smith, a man
came into the
shop to get Mr. Senrle, my enipIoyer
to open a safe, one of the keys of
which had len lost, and the posses
sor of the other being away for some
days.
Mr. Searle questioned thernan con
cerning the make of the safe, and by
his replies understood the character
of the lock, and lieing too busy to at
tend personally to the job he called
me, gave the necessary directions,
and t old me to accompany the mes
jsenger. 1 was at this time seventeen years
old, had been some two years at the
trade, was apt and had acquired un
usual skill in it ior so brief a
period, and Mr. Searle, pleased
with my progress and interest
in the b sinews, had confided
much of his own secret knowledge of
the craft to me,' and particularly of
his method of ascertaining the in
terior mechanism and arrangements
of locks of rival makers, by which he
was generally enabled to pick even
the most difficult of those then in use.
I went with the man, who was a
messenger in a broker's office on
State street where the locked-up safe
was, and on arriving proceeded at
once to my work. Several persons
besides the proprietor were present,
and ull watched with much interest
my movements, for which I did not
care bo long as they did not interfere
with my space and light.
The safe was one of the best
fire-proof makes of that time,
and the lock an excelient
one of the "lever" kind, so
called; but in less than half an hour I
had flted a key to it, roughly made
but sufficient to unlock it, and great
were the expressions of wonder and
admiration at my skill.
Now, without making an effort to
do so, I had, during the operation,
noted the various persons present,
and amongthem was one young man,
who said very little, but watched my
efforts with marked interest, and
whom I judged to be a clerk in the
office. He was not over thirty years
of age, wan of medium height, of
light complexion, with nothingstrik
ing about his general appearance to
distinguish him from ordinary men,
but, as on one occasion he turned his
head aside to answer some question
of the broker's, I saw a small, bright
red mole on the back of his ear, or,
rather, there were two moles joining
so as to form an outline of the figure
8 inverted.
I had been taught by Mr. Searle
that, in a job of this sort, my work
was accompliibed with the picking of
the lock, and that it was no part of
the locksmith's business to afterward
open the door, unless at the cus
tomer's request. Therefore I arose
and said to the broker:
"There, sir, it is nalocked. You
can now open it."
He at once did so, and revealed the
contents of the safe, which consisted
principally of papers and books, but
I noticed in addition laid in one
corner where there was no shelves a
small steel box or chest, which I
recognized as one which I had about
a month before fitted a key at the
shop, However, I did not wait, but
after the broker hod given me an or
der to make a suitable key for the
safe, which I could do, of course, from
the skeleton I had made in unlocking
it, I went "back to the shop but the
mole ob the clerk's ear still haunted
me.
About a fortnight later I was one
dight returning home from the old
National theater. I had just tamed
from Hajmarket square into Cross
street sad gone a few yards when, in
a dark part, I kit myself firmly
Mixed, a doth teadftge thrust over
my eyes, and a rough voice, in su
pressed tones, said:
"Make no noise, loy. Wo don't
want ter hurt ye, but 11 hev ter 7 yer
don't comenlongquietly. We'vegot
a little job lor ye tcr do 'fore we go
home, 'n' ther's a knife stickin' right
toward ve 'f ve make the least troub
le." I had already ceased what little
resistance I had attempted at first,
tor I was neithera large nora strong
lad of my age, and I felt that I was
in the grasp of at least two strong
men; so I allowed them one on each
side, to hurry me along. The night
was a cloudy one and the stores were
all closed, so that the streets were
darker than usual and I knew there
was little likelihood of any one in
terrupting our progress.
I knew that we had not turned, and
therefore 1 was lieing taken in the
same direction I was at first moving,
that is, toward Salem street, and
was aware when we crossed that
thoroughfare, and when we passed
Hanover street without turning, and
that the next street would be Ann.
which had not thenlieen rec'nristened
North street. Then I feared I was
being kidnapjied to be,taken out to
sea. 1 had heard of such things oc
curring to boys.
"Gentlemen," I began, "what have
I done. Where are "
"Shut yer yawp, younker, oryer a
goner, anil 1 telt something pointed
pressing airainst mv side. "No
harm '11 come to ye, I tell ye, if ye
mind.
We pass Ann street, still on Cross,
but after proceeding a few paces
farther we stepped off the sidewalk
ontotlie cobbles and took several
turns before regaining the bricks, and
when we again went straight
on I knew bv the slope of
the sidewalk that the buildings
were still on my right, but
whether on the suiue side of the
Btreetor in thesamestreet I could not
determine. Presently, however, we
turned a corner to the right, und as
we proceed-ed the occasional sounds
of coarse laughterand drunken voices
and violin pla ing issuing from places
we passed showed that I was onAnn
Btreet or one of its equally disrepu
table interactions.
We now crossed ,one more street
and had proceeded perhaps 100
paes when my nostrils were assailed
by a peculiarly disagreeable but
familiar odor that enlightened me
at onto as to my locality.
lu one part of the city stood an
old tenement building of the vilest
class, the ground floor of which
was occupied by an Italian junk
dealer, while the basement or cellar
was used by a cheap dealer in
hides and pelts; and from
these two places came two distinct
effluvia, which, combining, made a
most indescribable but sickening
stench, such as I never encountered
elsewhere, and which generally in
duced me to pass on by the other
side. So, as my capors hurried me
away, I recognized this odor and
knew where I was.
However, we had scarcely passed
the point of effluvia when I was
turned sharply to the right, and, as
1 judged from the echoing of our feet
andthe closerpressing of my guards,
conducted up an alley for a few rods
when a left turn brought me against
some stone steps, which we' ascended. (
A door was opened and we entered a
house.
Up two flights of stairs and a turn
to the right und we entered a room,
where my captors, seating me in a
chair, for the first time released
their grasp on my arm.
"There, !" exclaimed one, "that
job is safely over."
"Yes," returned the other, "but
where's Clint? I thought he'd get
here first."
"There he is now," said the first
speaker, as a light step was beard as
cending the stair, and soon the door
opened and a third person entered.
"Hullo, boys! So you've got him,
I see. Well, that' lucky for I did
hate to have to force the damned
thing," said the new comer, and I
heard him place something heavy,
apparently, on the table. "You see
I've got our prize, too. Take off his
hoodwink and let's proceed to busi
ness." I could hear some slight movements
and then one of them enmetomeand
removed the bandage from my eyes.
My companions nil wore masks of
black cloth, so that I could form no
idea of their faces.
"Now, my young friend," said the
leader, addressing me, "we mean you
no harm if you do what's wanted
without making any fuss." I said
nothing, for I was still dazed and
somewhat frightened, and I observed
that he held a pistol in his hand and
that ono of the others was fingering
somewhat ostentatiously the handle
of a sheath-knife, and he continued:
"You see this box? Well, the
quicker you do your work the sooner
you'll get home and into bed. We
want you to open the lock without
doing it any injury. That is all, and
then you can go."
As he spoke I looked at the box
which lay on the table, and at once
recognized it as the one I had seen in
the broker's safe, but I made no sign.
"Come, boy," said the man with
the knife, advancing with a threaten
ing manner,"git about it d d quick,
for we ain't disposed to put up with
no delay."
'But I have no tools with me," I
said at last.
"Oh, that's all, is it?" he answered.
"Dick, fetch our tool-chest."
The fellow ao dressed, and who had
not yet spoken, went across the
room and, unlocking and opening a
mall iron door in the wall, disclosed
one of those wall-eafes . which are
still to be found in many old build
ing and brvbght'thence i wooden
box containing a great variety of
J machinists' toils, picks, skeleton
kevs. and iimrsies in fact, a com
plete burglar' kit.
"There, lockev. said the man
with the knife. ' I gness you'll find
what vou want among them."
"A ml mind," added the one who had
brought the steel chest, "don t hurt
the lock in the least if you don't
want to be hurt vourself."
As 1 have said, I had once fitted a
key to the box and therefore fully un
derstood it. I felt certain thai rob
bery was the business in hand and
hesitated about lending my aid, but
reflecting that I could not prevent it
and refusing might cost me my life,
while liberty might enable me to as
sist in discovering the thieves, I de
cided to do as they wished. So select
ing the necessary implements, which
I readily found in the kit, in a very
short time the villains hnd the satis
faction of seeing the lid fly open, for
it was a spring lock, which secured
the lid by closing but had to be
oiencd by a key.
"Uood! that's your sort,'" said the
man who had brought it; and as he
reached forward to examine the con
tents the light of the lamp,
held by one of the othes to
assist my work, fell upon the
back of his head, and I was startled
at seeing the mole on the ear that
had so tenaciously haunted my
memory ever since my job at the
broker's. It Mashed upou me in u
moment. The man's height, figure,
hair, all tallied he was the broker's
clerk!
A brief glance as the lid flew open
showed me that the chest contained
several packages of bank bills and
many rolls of coin probably gold.
However, my survey was short, for
the clerk said:
"But come, get the boy out of the
way. He's wisely given us no trouble,
aud. I guess, can do us no harm; so
let him go. Here, young fellow, take
something for your trouble, and if
you say nothing about the matter
outside it'll be all the better for
you," and he handed me a ?10 note
which he took from the box.
I unhesitatingly took the money,
for by this time, finding that they
evidently had no intention of harm
ing me. I had resolved that, know
ing so much already. I would acqui
esce in everything that would not
implicate me as a participant, in or
der to learn more, with a view to aid
in bringing them to justice.
"And now, lockev." Baid th5 one
with the knife, "ye'll have to have
yer blinkers dowsed agin.
I submitted while he again put the
cloth about my eyes, w hen I was con
ducted out as I eum but by this
time I was calmer and paid more at
tention to my course. I counted
my paces to the stairway from the
room, noted every turn in descending
and when we emerged from the outer
door I noted that the steps to the
ground were three, and that the mid-;
die one appeared to lie split length
wise, atf my beet sank as I stepped
upon ' it, and at the bottom on
the ground lay a piece ol loose board.
As vi- passed out of the alley I no
ticed Th.it we turned to the right, so
that 1 know I was not being led back !
as I come, and we afterwards made
several turns which confused me, but
at last my conductor for I was
aware that only one had latterly ac
companied me halted, baying as he
let me go:
"Wait a bit, till J see if we are
watched," and apparently moving
oft.
After A lev; minutes I felt convinced
that I was alone, and slipping the
bandage from my eyes I found my
self standing in an old carriage shed
lookiriyou the water front. Starting
out I discovered that 1 was on Com
mercial street and not fur troiu Han
over. My resolution T.usinstatitly taken.
I proceeded straight to my employ
er's house, ari'l after I had ru!;- e.
eral times Mr. Searle himself cum-j lo
the door. In as few words as jiossi- I
Die 1 told him my adventure.
Mr. Searle dressed as speedily an
possible and together we .proceeded
to the nearest police station, where,
I rehearsed my story to the officer in
charge. He asked us if we were will
ing to follow up the matter at once,
adding to Mr. Searle.
"I think, since your young mun
has done 8y well, thai the tliievesare
already halt taken, und tun lie en
tirely so. I believe 1 know who at
least one of his captors is."
We at once expressed our willing
ness, and the captain, calling a ser
geant, gave him some instruction
and then requested us to accompany
the officer to the residence of Mr.
Gould, the broker, whose satelhnd op
erated. Arrived there we learned that
Mr. Gould had gone to Portland the
day previous and wo.uld be away a
week or more. His son, whowasalso his
business associate, was at home, how
ever, and on his hearing, w ith much
surprise, my story, said:
"Gentlemen, the box wns my fa
ther's private affair and he always
kept the keys with him. He often
had a large amount of money in it
and I think there was considerable
when he went away. I have the du
plicate key of the safe and locked it
myself last evening. The chest was
then in it and we can go to the office
and learn, at least, if it has been tak
en out."
This we decided to do, and started
thither, and on the way the young
broker gave some further informa
tion. "Mr. Allen, the clerk, was to go to
New York last evening on the 5 o'clock
train to be married in a lew days, we
understood, aud takea wedding trip.
He has been with us six months, and
although he hus never had charge of
the safe nor the handling of funds, it
was not because we distrusted him.
for he always seemed faithful ana
' efficient, and " were perfectly satis
fied with him." . . .
On our reaching the office, wind
was on the ground floor and opened
on to the stm t. Mr. Gould at once
unlocked the safe, and us the door
was pulled open we a II eagerly look?I
in, and there, sure enough: was the
box! Iwasattirststuiietied.
"The boy was mistaken, it seems,
saij the broker.
"o, I was not." I persisted. 1 hat
is the same box, I know, that I opened
to-night. Se if the money is there.
"I'nfortunntely." he said, "my
father has taken the keys with him.
But if this box was really taken
awav. whv is it here now?"
"Shall l'open it?" asked Mr. Searle.
"Certainly, if you can." replied the
broker.
Mr. Searle at once produced a small
collection of picks.
"I geiierlly keep them with me, he
explained, - for emergencies like this. '
In a tew nomeuts the lid of the
chest flew ojh'11 und the. contents
were revealed. Instead of money
they consisted of several packages of
oaiM-r. nieces of iron, and other sulj-
staneeg to produce weight.
"The boy was right, Mr. Gould, af
ter all." sa'id the police officer. "Now,
my lad, can you take us to the house
where the thieves took you?''
'1 think Icon," said I,"tothe very
room.
"Verv well, lead the wav. You need
not accompany us, unless you wish."
The voting broKcr, However, om
wish it. and we set out. I ho officer
and I prered d, walkingtogether, Mr.
Searle and .Mr. (iouid close at our
heels. In a short t imp we had reached
Ann street. Asweneared the locali
ty where I believed I had been
taken I observed two figures,
who hhd lieen lurking in the
shadows, fail into our rear as we
passed, and we called the officer s at
tention to the fact.
"They're all right," said he.
"they're mv men: we may need 'cm."
When we reached the houss of
odors I said in a low voice:
'It is somewhere about here on!
this must be the alley."
This was a few steps further on,
nnd as we turned into it, trending
softly and I leading the wav, I, notic
ed that one of the other officers had
closed up with us. his companions
staving outside. At the end of the
allev. without anv hesitation. I turn
ed to the left, and therewerethethree
steps and the loose board at the
loot, and on examination we found
the middle step broken, as I had
thought. The officer was delighted.
'You'd make a good detective,"
he said.
The dour was fastened. Mr. Searle
prosjH-cted with his picks and soon
removed the key from the inside and
threw hack the bolt. Fortunately
the dour was no! bolted within, and
we all entered without any trouble.
On ascending to the third floor the
otfh-cr exposed a dark lantern, and
we locked at it.
"This is the room." I whisiured. as
I tuni'il in a certain direction and
counted my paces.
"Are you sure?"
"Quite sure."
He tried the door and found it fast,
and by pressure Mr. Searle. who also
tried it, knew that it had a slide boll
on the inside.
"'Then soinbody is there,'' said the
sergeant, "and 1 s'pose we must
force it. Hut first I'll try persuasion."
He knocked gently, but had to re
jeat it several rimes licfore any re
sponse was heard. Finally there w as
a sound of movement within, and a
gruff voice, which I recognized as
that of my late captor with the
knife, culled:
"Who's there?"
"It's I Clint, said I, with a sudden
inspiration, and as nearly as I could
imitating the clerk's voice.
The
vou say!
Quick, I returned, "let nie in.
The game's up," And I rattled the
knob impatiently.
We heard him now carefully draw
back the bolt, and the door opening
showed the rascal standing in his
shirt und staring in amazement as
the light, now held by Mr. Searle,
was thrown full on, and the officer
confronted him with a revolver, sav
ing: "You're caught, 'Jimmy.' Put
your duds on as soon as you can.
I'll wait. Who's your pal? I don't
rememlter seeing him Ijefore."
He referred to my other captor,
w ho wa still on the lied, but had
started half up, equally wondering
and staring at us wide-eyed.
In brief, the villians recognized me,
knew what the visit meant, and see
ing also that resistance would be
useless yielded, with a good grace.
The one whom 1 have designated as
with the knife" was an old offender;
well known to the polk and prisons)
named Daggs. From the wall safe
the officers secured tho entire burg
lar's kit anil about one-third the
whole sum (about $12,000) tnken
from the broker's box. The rest the
clerk, Allen, had retained as his
share.
The latter war arrested early the
next morning at the station, where
he was about to take the train for
New York, and the remainder of the
stolen money was recovered with
him. All three were convicted of
....
uurgiuijr received sentences. All
the preliminary examination the
reason transpired why such
care wns taken in owning the chest
and afterward replacing it in the
safe.
It appeared that Allen wns really
about to marry n young Indy of re
spectable family in New York and
was going thither for that purpose,
and had engaged passage for himself
and bride on a steamer to sail for
fcurope the Saturday following. He
knew, of course, that Mr. Gould kept
a large amount of money in his nri
rate ca.h-bo,'und had Vwg Sjfi
a favorable opportunity to rob rs.
The broker had really lost thekev Vi
his safe at the time my services had
been used to unlK kit, but since then
the clerk had jound and secretlj re
tained the missing key. Mr. Gould's
projected abseuee for a week or tlo
hapi-ned opportunely at the time
set for Allen's marriage. The
latter knowing that only the broker
himself has access to the stevl box,
ami that if the contents could be ab
stracted without the chest disappear
ing, there would be no discovery un
til the elder Gould, return, when Al
len wonld 1 with his bride well on
his way to Kurojie.
Therefore he promptly arranged
with "Jimmy" Daggs the plan which
had so nearly succeeded.
1 will add that this affair was by
no means Allen's firs offence, but
that his new trial drew cut the fact
that he was an esenjied forger whom
the officers of a western state wei"
then looking for, and I was always
glad that 1 had la-en the mean not
only of bringing him to justice but if
saving a probably estimable lady
from allying herself to a convicted
felon.
Not in the Statute.
Judge C , of Vermont. wih
fond of a joke, when ft could be
"done" without special injury to
public or individual rights
On one occasion, as lie ns tra cl
ing toward the southern part of the
state, to hold a term of court in tho
county of W , he came to a pub
lic house where a Justice's court was
in session. As it was late, ;:nd the
weather cold and wet, he concluded
to put up for the night. Sending
his horse to the stable, he entered
the barroom, which he found crowd
ed with people, who seemed greatly
excited about the case on trial. Iln
had thrown ofl his outer garments,
and was composing himself before a
good old-fai-hiomiii blazing fire, when
a young man came up to him, and,
bow ing to him very respectfully, nak
ed his assistance in the case.
"The evidence," he said, is nil agin'
me; but they .say Yer Honor is deutli
on des rit cases, and initio ain't so
bad as it might be, after all."
1'pon inpuiry, the Judge learned
that his applicant had Issii arrestinl
for anntonly upsetting a churn of
sap in his neighbor's sugar-lot. The
yonnsrsfer had Un caught in the
very act by two respectable wittness
ps, and thus t he evidence was. as bo
had stated, clear agin' him."
Alter hearing all the (acts, the
judge iuloruiecj him that it was
P-allv a d.M-rate case, but he add
ed: "1 wili watch th? pr.igrcsn (,f the
t rial and if an opportunity presents
itself I w ill h -lii you "
Accordingly he threw open I bo
door leading from his nppart incut
to the room where the trial was go
ing on and sat a careless spectator
oft lie proceedings.
Tiiecounsel for thcStale. put in his
testimony and proved the charge
conclusively. Thereupon the magis
trate turned upon the respondent and
w ith a stern oice asked him if he had
"got anything to say to all this 'ere
evident ial testimony?''
The prisoner was dumb, but look
ed imploringly toward the justice,
who at mice arose aud approached
the table at which tho Justice was
sitting.
"You ms'iln't think ye can do any
kinder good here, for' the mind of
Ihis court is entirely made up about
this consarn, that i can tell ye, mis
ter." "May it please Your Honor," said
the Judge, bowing very gracefully,
"it is no doubt true that the charge
made against the respondent is fullv
sustained by the testimony. 1 do
not deny it, but for all thut ho has a
defense."
"A defense! What is it?" growled
the court.
'And, lour Honor, it is this: I
profess to know a little about' law,
having practiced more than thirty
years past, especially the statute
laws of Vermont. Now. Your Hon
or, I may lie mistaken, but I nm
confident there is nothing in tho
statute books of Vermont against
upsetting either an empty churn or a
churn full of sap, I teg of the court
not to rely upon my word, but if
Your Honor is not satisfied upon
this point I would recommend an ex
amination of tho statutes."
The counsel of the state rose to re
ply. "Stop! stop!" vociferated the
court, "this p'int must be settled be
fore we move another inch."
And thereupon, seizing the statute
book and turning to the index he be
gan Kearching uuder the letter C for
hum. Not finding it he next look
ed under S for Sap. Not finding
sap ' he continued his search under
C for Upsetting. Still unsuccewifnl
he looked under tho title "Crimes
and Misdetnenors." Finally he ruin
nged the book from beginning to
end, nnd finding it silent upon the
subject of "upsetting churns" ho
arose, and addressing the prisoinor,
said: '
, ''Voung man, this 'ere court is sat
isfied that there ain't nothin' in the
laws of Vermont agin tippin' over a
chiirnsfull of sap, There ain't notli
m about churns, anyway nor sap,
nuther. Hut I want ye should re
member ono thlng-that this 'ere
court has made up its mind that it's
a shame that there's so many maple
trees in the State and no law agin'
tippin' over sap."
wereunoB the prisoner was re-
Blue grass will bear pasturing'
( lightly earlier than almost any other
' grass. Its roots lie near the surface',
' and ure quickly started into "growrh
I in tlie Spring if the land is rich
'enough. For this season too they
I are more easily reached by light
jshowers. Later in the season it may
suner irom drought, out hardly more
so than other grasses and clovers
that strike into the sulmoil and thor
oughly exhaust its moisture 1 ng be
fore the Summer drought has ome.
Name and breed alone are not the
passports to high prices, but indi
ridual merits cuts tfie figures now
that its importance deserves. This
promises well for future excellence,
for when all breeders begin to dis
criminate in the quality of their ani
mals, liegin to realize thnt it is pos
sible for them to le purely bred yei
be without particular excellence or
value, we will begin to see a more
rapid improvement all along the
line. Farm and Home.
Whether farming pays can be
answered in a variety ol ways. I was
recently talking to a fanner who was
harrowing by the rqadside, using an
old-fashioned A harrow, with wooden
teeth twelve inches long nnd two
inches in diameter. His wugon stood
near, with one odd wheel. This mun
remarked, with n groan, that farm
ing didn't pay. When spoken to
about better implements, he replied
that he wasn't going to have any ol
those new-fangled things on his place,
A farmer who rears extra fine calves
never turns them out into a pasture
for the first year. They are kept in
a stable and fed clover liny, wheat
bran, oil meal nnd perhaps some
oats. They grow finely and do not
have the adverse circumstances of
the hot sun, flies and rainstorms. It
takes less time to feed them than
when in afield ami they do not waste
as much. They get well broken and
gentle, losides making u fine lot of
manure. We must feed more to make
manure. The soil needs it.
The managers of Central Park in
New York city, are finding out what
most farmers' boys could have told
them, that the squirrels which they
have introduced as companions of
tho birds are destroying their eggs
and young, and driving away all ex-
icept the (M-rsistent English sparrow.
J he fact that in new set tletiients
birds leave the woods, und cluster
around human n-sidences.is not from
their love lor man, but rather from
their fear of the snuirrel. In tho do-
inest ic cat, however, most farmers
harbor an enemy of birds that if not
; fed more than squirrels usually
must . prove quite as destructive as
thev.
!
Column's Hural World accounts
for the depreciated valueof cattle as
follows: One would think there was
no market for western cattle but
Chicago, to sis the manner in which
they are crowded to its stock yards.
When yeurs ago every country town
had its own slaughter houses and
every city was a market, men met
with eotniictition among buyers,
but nowadays when everything is
collected together and shipped to
tho great central stockyards they
! find but few buyers aud these able
to hold the market nnd control
prices. This system has nearly
ruined the producers' business awl
we are assured that the end is nearer
than most people imagine."
An Opening for Americans.
It is stated as a matter of statis
tics thut 742 professional gardeners
have come to this country from
Europe within tho past year, of
whom 309 wcro from Germany, 28
from England, HO from Scotland, 40
from France, 2:1 from Austria, and
Bohemia, and 2 from Belgium. This
seemingly disproportionate number
of skilled hort iculturists among the
immigrants is partially accounted
lor by the fact that many who
class themselves . as gardeners at
Castle garden are really scarcely
more than farm hands aud go to
work as such in this country. On
the other hand, there are many
gardeners who come to this country
in the cabin instead of the steerage,
and of whom, of course, no accurate
record is made.
Mr. Henderson junior of Peter
Henderson & Co. once said that
fully 00 per cent, of tho profes
sional gardeners in this coup try were
of foreign birth and that they came
in about the proportion indicated
by the statistics for last year, the
most from Germany, Englishmen
being second nnd ricotchmen third
in numbers. At ono time, he said,
there was scarcely an American-born
gardener in the country, but tho
proportion of them is continually
increasing. Horticulture is a much
older science in Europe than In this
country, nnd it is natural, he said,
that professional horticulturists
should chiefly come from there.
Whatevor the foreigners do here, how
ever, is an object lesson to American
gardeners, and the foreigners them
selves become Americans in the
second generation, so that it is only
a matter of time when American
gardeners will rank with that of oth
er countries in skill as well se in
numbers. New York Run.