fant4 Cita RABBI BER ESItAIDtATII-SOIG IR BOYE. Rabbi Ben Erma, the night he died, Called sons and sons' sons to his side. And spoke, "`'phis world there has b nee een harsh c hange . and strange something is wrong : deth a But what or where ? at the last, or first ? In one point only we sinned, at or " The Lord will have mercy on Jacob yet, And again in his border see Israel set. When Judah beholds Jerusalem, to t The stranger-seed shall be joined hem To Jacob's house shall the (U sons believe. ndies cleave. So the prophet saith and his a 11 11, 1 , ir . . onr er . ,„„ ~ Ay, the children of . tigtedelehmosetno t r h a e c i ! 3 ; l .' ' e, , .. . shall carry In the land oafnatliberiLn.in-Oradidssh Bondsmen and d When the s l a ve h s ti c ri nsla.ve , t i lft° keep; , The oppressor triumPlolii,lllle9lll it ri,• n each and watd," t • 4 " i, God spoke, and galift4lnY. galleel. 'Bade never ftilcltihe watch was set: 'Mid faithlessAbk-crow, we keep it yet. Till Christ r._.:, l ' ' - ,' „" , hrmii BY thee' 41 , 4010. 1 1 W, latch came Thong I IllillI*11; MAX.4P 1- arae ? eavy with aleep4:o4oo rash . thou,.ifilenenfartyr-gash otort i o hNoo . sp:9og r Atikkt i tp i ne own. e 'gal% ffieoloirwhen we owed the throne -4oliitiAltlfifle::ife are bruised thus. - Bilt, am Jud gment oVer, join sides with us ! Thine, too, 4003M:we I and not more thine Than ours is the work of these dogs and swine, Nititottline,litighs through and spits at their creed, Who maintain thee in word and defy thee in deed! ..iy ikg rAthstood Christ then? be mindful how , . At least we withstand Barabbas now! .Was our outrage sore ? But the worst we spared, To have Stilled these—Christians. had' we dared! Let defiance to them pay mistrust of thee, • And Rome make amends for Calvary ! . 6 ; By the torture, prolonged from age to age, By the infamy, Israel's heritage,,, . . ,„ By the Ghetto's plague', by . oo,giabi aisgrade, • . By the badge of shame, by the felon's place By the branding4tool, the bloody whip, And the summons to Christian fellowship,— • " We boast our primf that'at least the Would wrest Christ's, name from the, devil's crew; Thy face took never so deep a shade But we fought them in it, God our aid! A trophy to bear., as we march, thy band South, East, and on to the Pleasant Land !" =Robert Browning. TWO OF A I TRADE, When I was a young mad , ,a good while ago, and living in .an 'obscure mountain county, in West Virginia, my uncle was the only physician for miles around, and had maintained' the ground alone for upwards of thirty'years. Although he was over sixty, yet he was still vigorous and active. He lived in, a small white house, exceedingly neat and clean, in the right wing of which was his " Doctor shop," con fided to the care of a very timid and rather sparsely edudated ydingi naniiid Sim mons. Many persons were surprised that the . Doctor di,d nob take paiAner 4 but he donld-not Vol:14x The idea of ceasing to be the only physi cian in the neighborhood, was ,insupporta ble. No other-manovithlis,consent, should ever feel a pulse, or prescribe a dose, in that village. Poor Si rti rnon4 was prod's* the help he waned, and -no other. . . • He had a daughter an only child, whom he loved as the apple 'oft his eye, and the whole aim of his life was to amass a nice fortune for her. To accomplish this Fur pose he worked in *filch'. he , was se cond se conded by my aunt . his:sit3ter Margaret, who had kept house for him since the death of his wife. Deprived ar.in he* i!)trlie;.; Oboe 4rdiririf/il - the daughter, •Rebeeda, , bad! been reared in a fashionable boarding school, andatoev e nteen had returned botne, ace.on?pgshek young lady, that is, possessing diVers,nseless attainments, little" solid knowledge, and much less judgment. She was in peril of dying of inanition in t our ;stupid, when an unforeseen event disturbed the.. habitual , 9eßittniAVT# o ellfaflYl and miised EoatoM bgiak) emotions in the kearl of, ,t,h r. ,g, ppgtty little Beck y' '.. 1 4..;) 1 1 r , e v A One day,. as - the octor was reading a medical journal, while waiting for his din ner, my aunt Martgasetrp sheditn to - ;the rpom and exclaimed : " What's to be done now ? What do you think of thittfril_ " Well, Mag," said tlko Roctor, without moving, the iniett4.? Is the house on. fire ? Have you seen thieves in the cel lar ?" " Worse than all that ! the old house near the church has just bopn r rented . , and il . twou t k now - Ito whenhf Ylly4 l'ci.:42l9lto * r j k. who calls himself J... 3 0ifttaFi1P.9.1.5 f • • " The mischief seize him !" exclaimed my Uncle, in dashing - down-the journal. "The' poor fellow had "beltei go - vi,fierehe came from. I have lived . here .. too long to: fear him. Give him my compliments. Hal hal ha .A.,foocl,,jokt3; eisfl —Poor Jerome Fane I resin" , I Abiry fu ture is not very brilliant, 18 'it Welty ?" " It is a shathe; 4isgracer said the daughter in shaking 'her; long: Fong curls. "I already detest this Jerome Fane—what bu siness had he to come here ? Is he fool enough to think that people *ill go to 4 not, suit him when they have my dear father 'at hand ? But a thought strikes me, Atint Maggie. This stranger will have . the poor people as patients„and then papa can stay at home with us longer." "Not, a 4 bad, idea, it y l" ,said the Doctor. " I hope the poor fellow has not a large family, for he can't livelong here!" Miss Margaret had learned that the strangett . .wag a. youngt, , Dotitor , froni Rich-) mond, where he had a good practice, but that he wished to- brElei 4 t h 0. : 11)1 mountain air —that Vl7ao a.single man, r and his mother was to live with him, but she was mortified almost to death to think that any body should come to isupplant her brother, The young Doctor 'was the subject of dal. ed were the seveteithings earance, h that hira. Ills app all , l e y is con . pre wereversratuionnele'nbrai. tensions, m y pOO _ _„ the fain' T Y.;re eltir of A n ers;and his his ,hers, criti ,o rest. Every where encountered Fmud, s w,ti e the new Doc be .: h; fi Doc was s piasue...... 0... oxt.n ..s —ne new w t:r dashed nated to)..see him in church, \ cario l e . Alargaretewas afraid of leaving and ,t,t she niikli't meet him, whilst my ho . cousin Ne,ly could not understand it watt,„ll4a, she saw the hateful man , ss, whenever she looked into the street. The funifierat feature was, that in the midst of thke.,painful circumstances, she always had to be at the window. --The other villa aers did not share in this an , mosity. Our minister and.'llis family called 4on , Mrs. Fane, and found her a very ami able, and intelligent lady,' and sooit after she) was visited by all theleading people of the village. The young men began to think 1114, ow:dolmdagniyg Dr. Fane a - fine fellow, for he was sociable, jovial, and not tlie leatait' stfick'-iip;-ak- they express it. '. - . One day, whilst Uncle was visiting a pa tent, some miles from home, a' child seized the occasion to sy t rallow ayin, - which stuck in its throat. . The'fathe'r omit for' Di% Fan e, in the absence of the old gentleman, who relieved the sufferer with great skill and promptness. The enchanted mother on the spot consultedhim about her nerves and requested' hira to 'call next day. The father, howeirer,lett'it'his'duttto explain the af fair to my Unele ' .but the latter absolutely refused to !see li in itiotrite i;liglitntnd said they should have waited till he returned, and, moreover, .that if they,preferedt,he, new Doctor, they might take him and go much., furtjaer ,than. legicho• . ~ , The old' gentlenlan. 'had' no' idea' tha t he would Lie taken.,,u.t..h , io word. The ...next week s s!carlet:','.feyer; seizcidl sek4l o!ther children in this family, and it went' the rouinq,,oi the whole i lipsehOlili;, Jr cFana was-talled 3 iIL and for several toOti,hs Ike flext tlMi Yibaer 4 hi tretibilhiii.' his lvta'a*ter rible blow for the old Doptor, for he keenly felt that he now hid a forMidable rival in deed. . .. i i q owlvu'r,.A tint 311#rokr",ct theit slcionkl6i3 - arid - said sthienttpostor would soon be, unmasked: ißecky rue lent noiv i 4ilditbe iinevf,44whY. Fr A , I lit wingoiiiihrikdolad look into Dr) d and obserfe . m9veme e nts,,ivi.hen he was at home. he that'he was very at tentive to his mother 'and kind to his servants. He even' tenderly petted the old cat; and Be -could not ibel,ptylTips i ltbatwasa L t, and one bight st e althily plUc§ii a saucer of milk for 'it upon the garden wall. The animosity of the old folks conatautly increased, and when, ; , they met, the young Doctor in the street, they returned his po- lite salutation with disdain.. Howevieri or all-;they, didt,,and said, Dr. Mule's prat VQ...fhtkieris:fAh OA:OAV *l4l-teiliO!ilcAlßA7 employed hiri„ an k ,cl Asentkie,,liired girls sometimes fanciA - thWkW - itnte',daliome doc tor- stuff,"- 'and consulted' him. r The winter came, -and during this 86E113011 our villagers had concerfe i , ttfterd'fazihinzi,. and - taiSleaux, ant'sbnietimes even a lecture Uncle : Reys, went,,tq4kese githeringth Ault he perinitted cousin Becky go in company with the neighbors: It always happened bLaccident ll that ; 4 / .1)10 c txeor the Y'Vng Y ht S l lo,ll l -:-.7OVi V. 41 Y'A r ,i e lite anc l"• - entertaining. t•Conet - ZIP fit' dr nate was WeEbe it , wir stfbet, x anhonnieniten k t k ittythe lags'store, wound. tune 'that nigh l t(*bliktnistrY. wink inG di 'pant,his'retifn libme he pefempt tOly forbade: l l;okt fret& attending. tha No Ve rson in his 'hone° should'o47 conrage thiC noti done! Vial Becky begged. and Wept—rust this once slit never , dotild-go- again. was in= exorable. At length Aunt Mag . took it in hand, and begged she mightgo Just to wit ness the lecturer's Winn?, and help to laugh and hiss him doivn,' If rained harel r but that did not stop her. On entering the'sdbfiok house, Mrs. Fano gave her a spit li'e de hereelf. The lectute began the;. Doe Mr's voice- as fall and sonorous, his selfrMes sion so great, and hrs' v k'niirwlegli'*the' ' subject so profound, and yet so.fileat.,that the audience were: rapturous in their up-, plante, though many of them understood very little of,what he said. He illustrated his lectifii% ainueint'aphirireents, which set the house in a roar, and some of them almost broke, the: benches and desks by their obstreperous stamping. In the midst of this general hilarity, the door was suddenly opened, and a man, in common working-clothes, struggled through the crowd to , reach the desk where the lecturer stood. The stranger had whispered but a few words•to him, when his countenance betrayed the - most lively alarm; he spoke a few words to his mother in a low tone and precipitately left the room. " What's the'matter? Is anybody sick?" asked Becky. "My poor child," said Mrs. Fane, "be calm and prepare yourself for a shock. The fall ing rain has frozen since we are here, and your'father, his way to ,see a patient,' has hurt himself seriously, by a fall, and they have sent for my son to relieve him." This was the fact. The old gentleman had slipped, and. 'hetiVily-7--hie head striking violently against a stone and one leg doubPd, tip under the other!' .He was found ihsensible ' and carried home nt . a set tee. M agfainted outright, wheir.they conveyed the unconscious body of •her broth er into ;the 'hotiA. -INO.ipti'rson tbe4citise appeared to have maintained the least pre sence of mind except poor Becky, who, pale and trembling, made herself ,tugefiil; in obeying every order of the young , Dector. A bed was soon preiiared theiparlor'for the wounded man—bandages and splinters were brought and Fade carefully examined the injuries of the patient Hii 'head, bad THE AISIERICAN .PRESBYTERIAN THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1866. several deep, though not dangerous incis ions, but the right leg was broken in sever al places, besides having received some terrible contusions. Faue calmly and skill fully dressed the wounds, soon after which Uncle recovered consciousness. " Send for Dr. Morton," he feebly mut tered, (Dr. M. lived about five miles from our village.) "I don't know what has hap pened," he continued, " but it seems to me that lam sick. But on no account let Fane come. He shall never enter my house." The minister who had come, replied : " Dear, Sir, it is impossible to send a mes sage to-night for Dr. Morton. The roads are impassable. You have fallen on the ice and have broken your leg, but it is already set, and we hope, with God's help, that you may soon recover." "Nonsense I" replied Uncle, in an ener getic tone. " I tell, you to send for Morton. Nobody shall touch my leg until he comes." Becky threw her arms around her father's neck and implored' him to allow Dr. Fane to attend him. The old, man tried to sit up, but fell back with a deep groan, his countenance betray ing acute agony. The ministor begged him to be calm and not to object to the surgical services of Dr. Fane. "But my patients! what will become of them !" exclaimed poor. Uncle, with pro found anguish. "This fellow will take.them all away, and I shall be a ruined man. My' poor daughter will become a beggar:" " I shall not interfere with your practice at all, Sir. Give me your orders and I shall obey them. a I hope ,you will be calm, for you require rest," said the young. Doctor with dignity. The , old gentleman did-not reply immedi ately, but soon afterlextended his hand to, his yOung colleague and with tears said with deep emotion, " Sir, I. am in your power.. I shall be confined to this bed for many weeks, and shall never be what I was be fore this accident. You can do with my practice as you like. I cannot prevent you. " Thank you, Sir," Said Fane, tranquilly. "Now, Sir will go and see the patient you were on the way to, visit when you fell. My mother will remain here all night, and she is a capital nurse." Every day he received directions and ad vice from the old Doctor about his patients, thiziligh he did not always follow them. In a few days Dr. Morton came to see his old friend, and after examination, said he had been most skilfully treated by the young surgeon, and that he might consider himself happy in having fallen into such able hands. "Yes, yes, that is all fine talk, but I am a used up 'man, Morton. I am too old to recover perfectly and this. young Fane has gained the confidence of all my patients, but I must eonfOss he is very intelligent and un derstands his business." " Then, why don't you take him as a part. ner ?" said Dr. Morton. " That. is what everybody says," replied 'the old man, " but do you think he would be fool enough to divide the, income - with, me, when he might have, it all himself: lie is young, and I.am old;. .is a mew man, and .I an old., fogy:" -4g Oh, papa 1 'dear papa! do not speak so of Dr. Fane. I know:he will be glad to - be yoUr partner, and - do everything to make hiinself useful and:agree - able to, you," ex claimed Becky.. "How do you know that, my little lady? Are you in the confidence of Dr. Fane ? Why do you blush'' so ?- Come,' daughter, tell me why you think that lie would rather be,my partt er than my'rival?" "'Here comes Dr. Fanelimself, ask him!" said. Becky, in,going to conceal her blushes behind her father's bed-curtains. •" "That which I ask," said the young Doc tor, - advancing with a firm step, "is to be your son, rather than your partner, and if you allow me, to be both,,l shall be, very happy. 'Permit me to - help yoU in working, for our dear Rebecca. Toui cannot be more devoted, to her., interests than I am. Be- Sides, I am not a poor man;llchave an annual income :from , my father's listate of 82,,006. Will you now give me the hand of your daughter?" - "What's the use of asking her band, young scamp.?' -.said-I/n(44; -EL-you-have-evidently gained her heart... Irhavnit a yvp44 ,- to say ; 03 ni .1 am van quts Ltie you ? How could you play such a trick - on your. poor sick father 2--..up.y..puAot,:ashamed ?" "Not the least in the :world, papa I for you are to blameloilt ii,11," said Becky ; "if you had pot .abused Dr. Pane all day, I would not have defended him or thought of him 1r `1`)J:::.V1 g oog , ,exclai l ned,he, " and I am thankful toyourfatherfor abusing m'e" "„'Well, well, do ..aa'You.like," said.the old. _Doctor, " I surrender at discretion. Make your own conditions,tfOr I have been an en vious, jealous this'ivowal to you, Fane, and Kit isany,,consolation to you, you have heqp i ett GA IS of fire upon. ruy_ head!' PAX . "To-morrow isChriutirias," observed Bec ky, in gently placing the hand of her be trothed in that of her fUther, "and we will then say, 'Peace and, good will toward men.' HE AITEI.I.-A. living: divine .says : "When I . was a boy, I. thOught of heaven as a great shining ,city, iikh' vast Walls, and clqrnee, and spires, and - *lt% nobody. within if except white angels, who were strangers to me. By and by inylittlArother died; ' a I theught of a great city, with walls , and domes, and sPires, and a flucknf cold, unknown angels, and one little fellow that I was acquainted with. Then, another brother died, and there were two I knew. Then my ac -quaintanoes' began' to die,and the flock con tinuallx g q , l7) . But i , it was not till I had sent one of my'little.children to his gran& parent—God—thatyl. began to think I bad got 'a' littkrin -thyself: A iieeeiid went, a third went, rad.fouttlr' went; and by that time r bgit rsoi?-lU4i acquaintances ::in, hea ven, that kdrd.ttof 'See any more walls, and domes, and spires. I began to think of the residents of the celestial city. And now there have so many of my acquaintances gone there, that it seems to me that I know more in heaven than I do on earth." gtitittiftr. FEARFUL VOLCANIC ERUPTION. An American Missionary to the Sandwich Islands, gives the following account ,of the terrible volcanic eruption in Hawaii. In awful sublimity this is something which has been rarely equaled in action, and the ruin which has been wrought is truly seri ous. We extract from a letter recently re ceived at the rooms of the American Board: About midnight of March 27 , we began to feel shocks, of eartfiquake. These con tinued until noon of the. 28th when we ex perienced a shock more severe than any we had felt before. By this the chimney of our cook-house was carried away, fences prostrated, stone houses injured, and much damage done to property, but no lives *ere lost. We were at the dinner, table at the time,. Startled by the severity and length of the shock, we made for the door, and all escaped in safety, with the exception of a little native girl, who was slightly wounded on the head. This was the begifining of the trouble. On the 29th of March which was the Sabbath, the people met I,or,.worship, but feared to remain in the church, so we held our meeting under a Kukui tree. The shocks still continued at short intervals. On Monday and Tuesday the shocks were fewer and we began to think the worst was over. Vain thought! On Thursday, .A.prll 2d, we held our usual weekly meeting in the church. The meeting having been dismissed, and the people returned to their homes, a shock came, compared with which the former were mere child's play. In a few seconds all the stone houses in the District were Prostrated; among them three churches, one at Punaluu, one at Waiohinu, and one at Kahuku.• The framelouses stood better, but were more or less injured so that the occupants were forced to foriake them and' take shelter in tents and booths erected in the fields. About the time of this shock an eruption of red mud from the side of a mountain took place. The mud was thrown with such force as to pass like a ball from a can non the distance of four miles, then falling, covered a' space of half a mile in breadth, and fifty` feet deep, swallowing up" men, women, children, horses, cattle, etc., etc., separating husbands, and wives, parents and children, friends and enemies.: This oc.mrred.some twenty miles bast of us. A native pastor has charge of that'part of the field. The people had come together yfor prayer. It is remarkable =th that 'one who, attended that meeting perished while soine who had been invited to the meeting; and refused the invitation were carried away and, buried in the .flowing 'earth., the same time a tidal:, ware'came inTroin the' sea, which is described by the' natives as being as,lijgh as the cocoanut frees. This• swept away all the - Villages On . the, coast for Miles in extent, Honoapo, the,largest :Vil lage upon the seashore in this part, of the district, was completely .:destroyed.; two' houses only being left, one , of which Is a frame meeting house built by' Mr. Shipman. This is the only Protestantphice of worship left in this figid. .In the adjoining field, however, there is, another. • Twenty-seven persons were car ried to sea from. this village, and perished in the waves.. Thirty-three ' , at Paliuka,; thirteen - at Ar_akaka; four Punaluu and three at lest, their lives by the mud eruption, an4'the tidal wave. Perhaps not less i than one hundred have beentaken away from us by this awful judgment. The land and 'ocean seemed combined to sweep the people from•the face of the earth. Thus far .we had seen no eruption of lava: From the second of April till the seventh, the shocks continued more or less severe day, and. night. • The number of shocks, which Occurred , at Waiohinu from March 29th to Aprillo, is said to have been .upwards of two thousand; there having been some days three or four hundred. theVW...TAP' lig 1 #,:e 4 a,1:9 , . 8 1.kulY1.rf9.4 11 d the surface of theeart covered with a very fine sand, or rather, asheS. This , was the: oedasion some -6,larni, as' we - kneW. not from whence it came. About six o'clock, P-M., of the same day we saw from our house in - the west.what we siipposed to be rays'from( the setting sun; but soon _ discov ered our mistake. An eruption - had - taken place about Bi - * or seven miles to the west of us, 'and was flowing with great rapidity towards the sea; a river of fire some fifteen hundred feet wide, rolling in its course at a speed of not less than ten miles an hour. This eruption was at Kahuku.• In that dis trict lived a foreign family, Brown by name. Two 'Miles above their house, and three thousand feet above the level of the ocean, this new volcano burst forth, scattering de struction in all its way. The crater is said to be two miles in diameter. Mr. Brown was in his house reading, when, hearing a noise like the grinding of a corn mill, he looked up and saw the molten, fiery flood pouring down towards his house. His fami ly, consisting of a wife and six children, fled for their lives, not even waiting to take any thing to protect them from the cold of the night. THE statue of Luther at Worms is due to the chisel of the celebrated Rietchel who died before the work was completed. Among the numerous speeches pronounced t the late inauguration, notes was specially ''taken of. that of tl:te burgomater of the town, M. Bruck, a Roman Catholic, who in accepting the monument in the name of municipality, enumerated the many services rendered to huManity by the great reformer, his great moral qualities, and the happy in fluence which he exercised in'the deyelop ment of the German language. . 11,ural gontiimg. ENGLISH CHEESE. At the meeting of the American Dairy men's Association at Utica, N. Y., a very interesting paper was read by Mr. Webb, of the firm of Webb & Turner, dealers and shippers iu New York, on the subject of the cheese trade, especially foreign. From Mr. Webb's statements it appears the amount of cheese made in the British Islands the current season is, in round num bers, 170,000,000 pounds, an increase over last season of 30,000,000 pounds. The cause of this increase is attributed to the high price commanded by the English cheese over that of this country make. The qual ity of English cheese has not improved, but rather decidedly deteriorated for the past seven years, owing to carelessness on the part of , the makers. As the farmer has be come richer, the labor of the dairy has be come distasteful , and disagreeable to the wives and daughters of the cheese-makers. The dairyman in England has been en abled to acquire competence rapidly, on ac count of the high prices his commodity has commanded during the same years. Their cheese found ready , buyers, and hence they grew careless of making the best quality. This deterioration has gone steadily on till the present season, when they , appear to be waking up, to the true state of their trade. The prospect for cheese-making in England in the immediate future is decidedly against a. large production. . . The low prices for cheese, together with the poor quality made, are sure to drive the smaller, dairymen out of the business and into wheat raising, since wheat now rangehs.at double the price it did when cheese-making was at its most pros perous stage. Thus far, the factory system is entirely unknown or unused in England No farther attempt has been made toward introducing it than to call a meeting on the subject in Chester, which, however, resulted in nothing. In spite of the traditional pre judice in England against change, the low prices and American competition may even tually force English dairymen into the adop tion of the system.. With regard to foreign cheese, the main sources of supply for Eng land are the. United States, Holland, and Canada. In 1855, the ,total import from Holland was 36,000,000 pounds. This in creased in 10, years gradually till, in 1865, the import was 44,000,000 pounds, or nearly. The import of 1866 was still greater; but the past years has witnessed. a falling off ohaccoant of the cattle plague in Holland. The increasing demand by France upon HollancLno.w. offersa-serions competition to the English market. A new source, from WiffAtnia , raptiniaX SpO halbeittning to cdftie'iirSiiveden:''' "Here laborls &dap and the land thickly populated. The factory system has, atelyi„ been, Antrodeced, a„. d no pains, are, spared to make it do the largest aanfunt of work possible The bad flavor in tlie , Swedish cheese is rapidly being over come, sl that, in a few years, Sweden will, take the first rank among cheese-producing countries. The present season has been productive of a very large increase in the 'supply from Canada. This cheese is not so porous as that made in the States, and is in texture and appeara :lee, super*. Yet it does 'not command so high a pried in the English market, on account of the peculiarly bad flavor. which,pertanscto the most of it. The chief' objection to American cheese, by the English consumer, is its 'porosity, looseness of texture,, and bad flavor. One English writer , says iie considers that no, progress, has, been made in the, manufacture of American cheese for the pastyear. The cheeses do not , cut so solid as they did tvio years ago, or more. There is necessity for a great change in this direction, if American, cheese is to maintain its hold on the Eng lish consumer, and compete. successfully with homemake and , that brought from other. countries. The, production hi Hol land has nearly or quite reached 'its maxi mum. As yet no first quality of Chr.esehas been produced in Canada, hendeilie r i - ritil ,competition lies between the Englibli" dairy ,farmer and the dairymen of the United States. Since the introduction of the fac tory system, the competition threatens to become more• and more exciting, and will. make necessary greater watchfulness on the part of the American.producer. One item of improvement, however ,in _thiS . country, the past season, has been the ,use of better boxes for packing. The, plan of using doable hoops is a great improvement. Bet ter care, also, is exercised ' in shipping to "Y and storing in New ork. Little complaint has been made this season of heating and damaging by carelessness. The cheddar-shape cheese invariably brings higher prices , by two to four shillings per cwt., in, English markets than th4t made in other shape. Colored cheese is decidedly in fairor in Eng land over the' pale American cheese. In In London there, is no sale, whatever for white cheese. In closing, Mr, Webb urged upon the cheese manufacturers the great importance of not only maintaining their present hold upon the, rivalship with Eng lish manufacturers, but of improving their work, so as' to drive out of the English 'market the inferior qualities of the home prodaction, and thereby raise the prices of American cheeseln foreign ports. THE CROPS. Telegrams from a number of localities in the States of, Illinois, Wisescisin, lowa Minnesota, with two or three, eiceptions, announce the crops of small grains unpre cedented, both in quantity, and the corn never looked better. It.is asserted that un less' some blight should come, both the small grain crop and the, cup erpp will be the largest ever gathered'iri the North-west.
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