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I' IN ———— Farm, Garden and Household, Iceland and America. The old story of the discovery of Ameri- Two Kinds of Farmers. ca by Norsemen, long before the days of Columbus, is told anew with enthusiasm Forrest Moreland, of N. lleuvelton, Y., and confidence Mr. Anderson ot the Uni- in to the by writing Country Gentleman versity of Wisconsin. His book, “America says: not Discovered is an his- file farm of the by Columbus,” careless, slothful, ig- torical sketch of the earlv to ami norant farmer, is voyages separated from that of from Iceland, it is and viva- Ills more interesting intelligent neighbor by bounda- cious, with sonic ineleganeesol ries ni«,re than line Republican expression plain fences'! Mr A Journal. which set in to mark a foreigner who has while driving a poor team attached to an VOLUME 45. not quite mastered English Mr. Ande rson inferior by a BELFAST, MAINE. OCTOBER NUMBER drag malicious harness, THURSDAY, 20, 1874. 17. lias the most ardent praise for everything which had already taken its rev0110*0 on Icelandic, even so tar as to say that tie animals How to Fatten Cattle. going poor by in numerous The Undiscovered So she sat and tlie literature of Iceland is to galling Country. still, watching waiting that I gained a deal so she's early equal p laces, strikes a great by making up ladylike and refined and delicate; affection for herself. Carry eoiud remem- suddenly stone and breaks The ol' cattle fattened for market lor an opening, and meanwhile such my mind that of ancient and that while lit- price < ouId we but know doing beforehand.” just like one of the tall tree-ferns we. ber very little of her former life. She Greece; ‘‘rao >in<v a 1 as came to hand. of .ltfsorving pension the of the anima lie“land that ends our things That's as as erary darkness the whole I t depends upon symmetry dark, uncertain travel, just true you live. What have down in our and 1 am like told in her of her overspread previous To as '\ lie re to her Ira parts, imperfect English papa were injuries. quote Mr. A.’s well as the fat “style,” as tern lie those happier hills and meadows According third cousin, a nice woman she is !" ruminated the Europe for many centuries, letters vvu shippers cap- nothing but a concluded and Madrina and tin; and poor words. This i- luck." In it. 1 want hero to low, Horton, there was neud of all this watch- great—walrus,’ big ship, just my stale that good blow tain as ho took his way to the boat. "1 highly cultivated in Iceland. The voyages iact. as last Ah. if the Captain Matthew Madrina in the water, and then as his tools grow old from too is but not beyond spirit's inmost eavit and “It stood to reason,” despairingly. invariably and discoveries of the Norsemen important, absolutely A ing waiting. suppose she’s too tine and delicate for : so during much to necessary, light of that country could we surely know. Elizabeth smiled never saw a wal- came .such a rush of leer and horror, expostu the w eather and lack of to make what is termed a to that very well-to-do and common tlie tenth and eleventh centuries were good seller, ii Who would not according use, like my wife's old china. rus, but thee doesn’t resemble mv notions and to '“■l O’! it- is go? much passionate clinging jusi his luck to have order to fatten a steer tanner, “that there was no sense And weeping written in which are that he may bring prudent yet 1 don’t know; that same china of the creature.’ her that Miss Fitch ceased to Sagas, only recently 1 we but when lit is in a hurrv. the market lie Might hear -in Mary Anne's a house which has protector, known to the highest price must be I he occupying outlasted a good many sets of earth- "Hut do think there her. As health becoming scholars, through ‘his .. kept hovering angels’ high imagined ehorus. really, now, you question Carry's improved means uncommon accident. in a condition from a she could rent for two hundred a and enware." celebrated Codex a skin-book growing calf, and in Or eafeh, hetimes, with wakeful eves and year, would be chance ?' the in her shoulders Ftatceensis, lm and a any stoop disappeared, finished in espiti the horses, no case allowed to cl ea keeping that old black woman, not worth 1387. The is in the go hungry. It is tin r, “1 am not given to poetry,’ and her face rounded out and lost the ter- original uev to Mt A.’s favorite haunt—the the first, and One radiant vista of the realm above— her salt. There was else she quoting archives, and a in the starving second winters, whiel: enough III. said i’ll which had Copenhagen copy blacksmith-' With one moment to see and hear Elizabeth, -but, Matthew, repeat ribly old, suffering expression shop. wilts and shrivels a rapt might do.” So argued Ira, whom Miss Miss library of tlie of Wisconsin. up steer, that cause? Fitch was sitting in her pleasant thee a verse 1 read in one of Anne's made it so to look She be- University i.uMic; wen ifiireu ami Ah. who would fear'- Fitch came as Alary painful upon. Mr. be him to be sold at a disliked, and near hating as window on a child's Anderson thinks there can no reduced price. JSc parlor sewing pink books! came a very attractive child, and bh lit d ie observed sev- amount ot we her nature and Christian lively, doubt that with an Icelandic crew ianii, will make him a first- Were quite sure gentle principles frock, tiic little had lijarne feeding stranger who fallen •'He either fears his fate too much. who had hv at ls( ii class To tind the friend who left us would and that for several reasons. people begun wondering discovered and gaged prepar- seller, no difference what his 01 peerless lonely. allow; into her hands two weeks was Nantucket, Nova Scotia 1 1 color before Ur liis deserts are Fitch a on Or there, some celestial aw small, Miss for taking such burden u I .wing grain, but in quite blood An by stream pure. He was the to med- Newfoundland in the but did not animal well-led—1 care not To in always assuming right bolstered up in one corner of the com- That dares not put it to the touch so year y*0, ■ gaze that here were iovelit to think she iiad not been dith ''' ( Mu* a well- eyes only. dle in her her herself, began land at driving wtiat the Texas or 1 affairs, he call- fortable sola. To gain or lose it all." either Their stories excited blood, not—from a call his weary mortal coil—were we sure. annoyed by old She was provided with foolish alter all. place. i*oi nr !■ -tched ) the cultivator on quite her lie tlie until the he is three Who would endure? ing Alary Anne, and wanted to a a and a kitten Matthew rose and interest of Leif Erikson, and in the spring old, wil doll, picture-book by went to the window. a it* uiuuria » vi c .u unit uu ti accuuu h«- was It i- years way I riding an improved be marry her. Ira had lost three wives in of As year 1000 iie and with smooth, with bones well covered, am amusement, but she seemed to find her lie did so lie heard the whistle of the time when Miss Fitch anil her bought Bjarne’s ship .\hi.*h ie on nurseling a crew gen frequently caused will sell at a Kioin years, and the two first bereave- of 3o men set sail lor the new coun- protit: while a half-starvei Lippincott’s Magazine. twenty greatest pleasure in at Miss Fitch City ot Bridgeton on her the a some M: A a ndcr on looking way up went to make visit of days’ dura- why airth Mr. B animal becomes Miss Fitch. ments, after an interval of some months, as she sat in the river, lie turned try, and landed near Fall Kiver in tlii- crooked in the baek.bone? window. and seized iiis hat tion to a triend in Greenwich. Klizabeth i ultivator lie had ottered himself to his cousin, lb- State. Ho called tlie ami and shriveled takes tin had made all due in- ••Is thee to on place Finland, projecting, up, TV I.l ( V Captain McGregor going up Bridgeton the Howell was a maiden like herself, od Big *ulti- FI.LEN i.l’EKNSEY. had not the offer since the lady tiie wint -r there. After ties! part of the summer to ill condi- yet repeated quiries, but lie had learned little. boat:” asked Elizabeth. passed this, voy- ■' get very but of more than twice her She was t!i• in condition demise of Number but Miss Fitch age. to America were until ground good tion to live, and will not be in condition I. Three, 1 ho woman had come from New York Tlte was of another ages frequent 1317, 1 ‘he '.MH-r*. ve«l captain guilty slip. a 'Friend.'’ and lived in the old house grain drill seen in an- tor market until knew the event was impending, and she with the child a He when the blae' over he is four years old, ami “1 think.

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