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is impute, whom) conduct is that of a beaut, and whose
daily lifo inflicts npon his enforced associuto almost unen
durable mental and physical tortures, is contrary to our
most feeble sense of juBtice. That the courts should
iiiHluntly grant a divorce in Biich a cubo is freely admit
ted; but should they leave the offender, thus judicially
decided to le an unfit person to sustain the marriage
relation, free to enter it again? Should ho be permitted
to thrust his vilenoBS upon another a vileneBS all the
more revolting becatiBe, perhaps, uuknown to the victim
until too late to retreat and plunge her into a state of
misery from which sho, iu turn, must apply to the same
court for relief? Does tlio well being of society demand
that such a man bo permitted to enter the married state
at will? Does it not rather require that he be forever
debarrod from again debasing that relation, the purity
and honor of which should be jealously guarded by the
law?
Lot us point, as an example, to an aggravated cnse
recently occurring in this city one which, it is safe to
say, has had but few parallels in the world, though dif
fering only in degreo from thousands of others. A cer
tain man had been married four times. Two of his
former wivoH had been released from their revolting con
nection with him by decrees of divorce, and the third by
a merciful ilenth. Tlio fourth was marriod for the nll
Bullloiont reason that she was the poHsessor of twenty-five
dolla-B, which sho was willing to spend in a disgustingly
convivial celebration' of the event It was not long before
his lastly nature rendered his conduct unendurable
even by one who was as unrefined as the circumstances
attending tho marriago proved her to be, and she also
applied for a divorco, alleging conduct on his part too
indecent for publication. A decree was granted, and the
very next day this man, who had Won throe times judi
cially decided to Im too degraded and vile to continue in
the marriod status, was married for tho fifth time. If
there is anything sacred and noblo in tho social relations
of mankind it is the institution of maniage, and our
Mter natures revolt at tho thought of our courts of jus
tice thus becoming the accessories of it degradation. It
is not contended that no divorces should lo granted, for
it is evident that such an extreme would lo provocative
of as much evil as that complained of, but that they 1h
not granted mih.ii trivial and technical grounds. The
remedy lies not so much in lessening tlio numltcr of
divorce as in guarding more closely the pathways lead
ing to marriage; not in closing the exits, but in contract
ing the too expansive entrances. A orson who has so
demonstrate an unfitness for sustaining the marriage
relation that it has Wn necessary for a court to m
decree, should forever dclmrrod from entering it Kain.
l r is surprising, in view of the continued high price
of da.ry products, that more dairying is not done by tho
settler, on the meadow. f 1U H,u.u. With ,,mu.
dance of ffsxl water, gran. ,s-n iy Kr(M)li
U. for reaching market good, there so, to I nothinu
lacking U make the bnsines. highly pn.fiy.h,, a "
binution is the secret of large and successful dairy opera
tions. Let the.settlers of a neighborhood form an asso
ciation for the manufacture of butter and cheese- lot
them select a central or convenient location offering all
the requirements of a good manufacturing and shipping
point; let each one keep ns many milch cows as he can
attend to properly or has good grazing for, and every day
take his milk to the factory and receive credit for it; let
the factory be under the management of a competent
dairyman, and the business affairs under control of mem
bers of the association selected by the contributors; then
lot each month's business be kept separate, and as soon
after the expiration of the month as possible let each
man be paid his pro rata of: the profits, based upon the
amount of milk turned in by him during the month.
This is the method of conducting those successful mutual
dairies so numerous in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and
other Eastern States. Some of those dairies consume
from thirty to forty thousand pounds of milk per day,
and have an established brand of butter well known in the
trade. Other factories are owned by private individuals,
who, previous to building them, secured the promise
of a suflicient'daily 'supply of milk from the surrounding
farmers. There is a market for all the good butter
woll worked and put up in marketable shape that can
be produced; and beyond question there is large profit iu
the business when properly conducted. Factory butter
rules several cents per xund higher than the home-made
product, for the simple reason that it is better, of a uni
form quality, and the same brand can be hod in any
quantity to suit Not only should such enterprises he
inaugurated on Puget Sound, but throughout the whole
region west of the Cascades, where the conditions are
uuiformly favorable. There is little danger of producing
too much butter in a region that annually imports tons
of it
It is a matter of common acceptance that the stock
interests of the United Statessuch as are represented by
the groat ranges of the West, are very great, but the
totals indicated by the great conventio . which has just
Wn in session at St Louis must astonish even those
largely engaged in the industry. Delegates were present
from Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah,
Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming, Dakota,
Indian Territory, Louisiana and other States, as well as
from Mexico and Canada, representing upwards of five
million cattle, vast bands of horses and countless thou
sands of shooi, property aggregating in value some three
hundred milium dollars. Many questions affecting the
stock interests were discussed, the most important being
a national cattle trail crossing the country from Mexico
to Canada, to bo forever kept open to the free passage of
stock. This was especially desired by the delegates of
Texas and other southern ranges, and as they were in
largo majority, the resolution to Congress to that effect
was easily iMuwed, though opposed by representatives
from association, further north. The growth of the
"took Industry has been mamloua, but it U maintained