THE AMERICAN OF THE FUTURE.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1671, 22 March 1883, Page 4

THE AMERICAN OF THE FUTURE.

iff?. '5 " "^A Thus preacheth tiffiSptanltfj/'lty'view from the text of Mr Bpeuj;er.*+dbjiveranne on ove *work in America :—: — - - • Pokec,'l,yat<Shiug,< ( Hunting! f GptnTfltog unit , base-ball and limitless flirtation arc recdgniseilSMJ^rjWniiistitmtioupjh'JtJjOnffli permpa ft little gay.' In these surely the -ariv' i'elnxbtfon enough. ,; We^cailfiot) 1 shai-e MuSf) cubfer'a gloomy dread that the, Americans, the people of Hftnlun: an<V Myers, may become degenerated by reason of oWlvoi'kdiuUts effects on tlic Offspring of the toilsome. „I ndeed but a ( fe\v days since, M!r, §pencer ttjok a,- much moi-e rosy \ viwl He foresa\V the tjuie \vhbri?th'e" I '(JMtic,- Teutonic and otlW Aryan elcm6n'ts of the American nation wohlil be fused into a- maguitioient',and previously 1 unparalleled race, eatable' of living up to republican institution?. Thji evidence of ;the whole seems in favour of >a futnrc'ntobk of highly cultivated' gja^it s',5 ', all an strong as Mr Bonnet*, as swift as 1 Mr Myora and ns gifted' i ok Gttted Hopkins. These will occupy tiic Continent ; nor will New Yorkers ddgenerate into Fuegians, dressed only lh I clam shells, and eating only oysters without 1 pepper or vinegar. That would be the result of overwork if carried ■ ' f.ir enough, but we look for nothing of the sort. There is such a thing as being tdo careful ; of intellectually mollycoddling one's self, if the expression may be permitted. The New York poet must not be daunted by Mr Spencer. Do not let him retire to the woods, or to bed for months, after contributing a sonnet to the Century, The hard workers of the Continent have worn, well. MtvJHolmps, Mr Longfellow, Mr Whittcr, Mr Bryant, Mr Emerson are examples of patriarchal tollers, Mr Lowell has not everstocked his intellect, and generally speaking, American men of letters ' have lived put all the length qf all their days,' 91- seem in a fair way to do so much. Bi\t Mr' Howells must be very cautious, and so must Mr Warner. The sword, when it is as biilliantand keen as their b.\ttlo blades, wears out the perishable sheath; and writers who have supplanted Dickens and Thackeray must ucwaic of the excessive toil which appears to have shortened the days of the author of ' Pickw ick.' 1 We cannot spare bis American successors, in whose hands fiction lias become a finer art, and who have taught us to find the playeS-out master of your youth no longer endurable. As to tho statistics of work among Americans interested in lumber, we have no information. Indeed, if American city men work themselves into idiocy, no traces of it are yet observable in their management of railway and other stocks. The Caucasian of the West is not yet played ont, nor his bag of tricks yet exhausted."

Generosity of a Highland 1 Proprietor. — A correspondent of a northern contemporary writes that Mr' Darrooh of Torridon, Shieldaipr, Rosa-ahiro, in addition to a reduction of rent by 25 per cent., has given back to the tenants of his estate «t Torridon the pasture or grazing of which they' were deprived years ago. It is pleasant to .observe that those hills and tine pasture, on which neither sheep nor dog could be seen or heard during years, will now bo occupied with sheep and cattle* After justly eulogising the great French statesman, whose death was recorded a short time ago, the San Francisco Neict, Letter proceeds:— Yet it is astonishing what rough things are being said of him by journals opposed to his course. Here are a few specimens. The FraiicaU (Orleanist) says : "M. Gambetta is stricken down at forty-five, in the midst of an open war declared against 'Christianity, and on the morrow, as it were, of a defiance hurled against God." The Legitimist Union thinks that the Republic is virtually decapitated by his death. The GuzvtU dc France says : "It is not only M. Gambetta, but the Republic that disappears. 1 The Fays (Imperialist) says : ' ' Leon Gambetta is dead. The hand of God is there. He falls in the prime of his life, in the full ripeness of his manhood, iv all the pride of his strength. He dies poisoned by his own blood. He set himself up against God. It is fearful, but it is just. The Clerical organ Vatcrland lenmrks that "he died as he lived -without religion ; and his political activity consisted in combating Clericalism. It is a marvelously providential coincidence that the man ' whose God was his belly ' died through a mortal disease in that part of his body." That is all false, cruel and outrageous, and only shows to what lengths partisan strife leads. The utterances we have quoted are those of the enemies of Gambetta and Republicanism, and as such they are perhaps , bis best eulogy. • He was a great man, with greai gifts. France could badly spare him. The Republic, in his death, suffered a loss that may hardly repaired. — An interesting lecture has been delivered at the College of Agriculture, Dowhton, by Professor Jv P, Sheldon, on "Some Features in Dairying." The lecturer said that in many places, specially in winter time, milk is produced by the help of brewers' grains, cotton cake, and various compounds which AVer© formerly waste or next to waste material. In come countries — notably in France, in Austria, and in America, grass and othev green crops are stored away green and full of sap, ns they are when cut, m pits for winter using. Indian corn, sown thickly in the soil and cut Avhen three or four feet high, is a favourite crop for storing away in this manner solidly trodden down in "ailos," as they aje called, and covered over with something or other that' will exclude ,the air and subdue fermentation. Some enthusiasts, and notably infatuated Americans, declare this ensilage to he an extraordinary tliing.and one man went so far as to aver that it Avas destined to revolutionise! dairy farming. This statement, to say the least, is startling,; b.ufc we know that our Yankee cousins have a playful habit of rushing to the .wildest conclusions from the narrowest premises, and of drawing general inferences from isolated instances. Systematically and intelligently carried out, th\B ensilage business no doubt has some good in it, but after, all there's nothing like sun and Avind for preparing vegetable f,ood for winter use. There are very few who will not agree Avith this. On the subject of the middleman— the greatest agricultural curse of the time — Professor Sheldon gives ttsj a very good note. He points out that it lias been often saidthe farmers should form themselves jnto companies -for the sale of , their milk direct to, those who consume. ,it ; that they, should, become,, in poini.of fact, their own, middlemen. £his ( ,<plan no doubt, if intelligently carried ,gut, Avould be a good thing. But if farmers; joining such a , movement , became their own shareholders, which they no, doubt would aim at, the , probability is tba^of course of time the shares, would,gra\j}.tate into fower,hands, that the milk would come to be purchased* from the remainder at a given price, and that th,e middlemen's profits, which i at the , onset weije n sgught to be divided equally, would concentrate among a few to be Capitalists. It- is, .consequently, extremahft difficult to devise any, plan that, would effe<iiiua.ily ( meet I^he 'reqiiirement| of the case, and, W may feafi nothing at j pj^sepj;,, qan.be d,one to , place .t^e, jtrade j on aatwfaotbry foptrog. At tile Ibflfc it.ii.Jt. ponderous and 7 &WwM' precarious trade 1 liable to Ipif'sei h-pnfe way, ,6r another, and 1 to fiuctqa l tltfns>'s pu&c de'ipiH-^^- : "':Xs«i»i ♦Among ijthe, ordinance* ; of o*9? j yyq - c Ghftfpev of/, Wilmington, I>£l^ j », > 9i9 i n i e, t iij f , deumifyintf -citizens ; a'gainAi.dan^ag^ or property,, causey). ;tdepMifc,. } qfootrio, itg^p.r^Jelggrap^ wires or pole*. „$he (1 compkny ;ityns'S for permission to erreot ppuw ip Jhgjcityj. rwilf^rA^BJre I di^,dep9sit-a^jU)ae^nlh-jcatioabond, whi^h, ,mtyf|o<s. ffti^ngd ;a %<jLjput;o:f r^hicti^)ioi»^tojuif ; »4 W