"the Horny Handed."

"In the sweat of thy brow halt thou eat thy bread," was the doom pronounced in holy writ upon the whola human race. Bat this, which seemed a curse, has been the greatest blessing. For all the advance that mankind has ever made from idle avagery up to the hlghest civilization has been the direct result of hard work, in the ever enduring effort to make life easier and better. If there is any one class of men more than others to whom the biblical doom applies, it is the farmers. In all ages and nations the tillers of the soil have labored early and late, have been exposed to sun and storm, heat and cold. Their toil has always been almost incaascnt. But, within the last generation mostly, science and invention have come to their aid, and have marvelously improved their condition. The modern farmer is not compelled, like bis father before him, to rise at the earliest dawn and toil till the latest daylight with the ax, the maul and wedge, the heavy old style hoe, the ancient backbreaking as well as sod-breaking plow, the flail, the scythe and the grain eradle. The mowing machine, patent reaper, sulkey plow and harrow, tedder, seeder, cultivator, thresher, sawing machine, and other Improved tools, have vastly increased his capacity and at the same time lightened his labor. And his wife's toil has also been lightened by invention. The modern farmer is both a mechanic nd a scientlst to somu extent. He breeds valuable blooded stock; he knows how to use machinery; he aids his wife and pretty daugnters to "dress like folks;" his home has its piano, and books, papers, magazines, carpets, curtains and good furniture. He keepa his carriage, has soma leisure, and he belongs to the intelligent classes. Still he is THE IIOP.NT HANDED. Invention and improvement cannot quite remove the ancient doom; they can only slowly change it more and more into a Messing. This is the national census year, therefore it is a good time to take stock of improvement, and note what advance has been made by and for the farmer in the last decade. The advance has no all been confined to new inventions and improvements in machinery, implements and appliances, though these have done much. The farmer has had a, great benefit from the general advance of the country and the world. There has been a LAHCK BEDÜCTION IX THE PRICES of almost everything he has to buy. A careful comparison made in the market prices for the month of April, 1880, and the month of April, 1890, in a village in the midst of a farming región - the data being obtained from the market reports for the two years in the same country paper, and also from the books of the same merchants - shows the following astonishing resul ts: Price 18 0. Price 1S90. Harvester (self-binder) . . . . $316.00 $128.00 Mowing machine 86 01 ,0.00 Twoseated spring wagon.. 110.00 60.00 Farm wao 87.00 48.00 14-inch steel beam plow... 2Í.00 12.50 Sulkey cultivator 45.00 2.50 Walkirg cultivator 35.10 18.50 Horse corn planter and cho k rower 76.00 36.00 Barb fence wiro per Ib lrt .04 Fence Staples per lb 10 MM Cut nails (irou) per keg, 8-p 5.7ó Steel naila, per keg, 8-p.... 2.78 Cookstoves 30.01 2200 Wash boiler 2.25 1.70 Horse shoes, per keg. 8.00 4.46 Piek axe with handle 1.38 .82 Plow clevia 20 .10 Milk pans, per dozen 2.25 1.00 Post augur 2.i" 1.15 Chain.per 21 .11 File 62H .20 Cistern pump 4.25 2.20 Wringer 7.00 2.80 Cutlery in general, corn shellers, harrows, and many oiher anieles reduced one half or more. Sugnr, nest grauulated, 8 lbs. for il in 18U; 16 lb.-.. for 81 in 18U0. Kerosene oil, Michigan test, 24 cents in 1880; 10 centa in l-90. Salt, per barrel, 2 in 1880; $1 in 1X). Reduction In teas, crockery, dry goods, boots and shoes, furniture, luruber, drugs, and most other goods. 25 to 35 per cent. Reduction In men's clutliing over 5U per cent. on the average. Not only have prices thus been reduced, but the machines, tools, and all goods are A VERY MUCH BETTER QUAHÏY than they were ten years ago. Steel nails have taken the place of iron nails. Mowers and reapers, corn shellers, cultivator, plows, wagons, harrows, and all the goods you buy, have been improved by tion, and machines are largely steel now where they were iron then To many persons this will be a very surprising showing; bnt they will find it substantially true in theirown market village or city; only, of course, gome of their prices may vary a little from those given, as the above figures are from a rural village, vrhich may be more favored than gome and less favored than others in distances from manufacturera, freight rutes, profits of local dealers, etc. What the farmer and his wife need is A CHANCE TO SEE AND COMPARE the latest inventions and improvements in agricultural machines and implements, household wares and tools, and also in most other manufactures; and a chance to loara factory prices as well as retail, so tliat he may know whether his home market is giving him a fair show. At the Detroit International Fair and Exposition to be held in Detroit, Mich., the last week in August and flrst week in September, will bo the largest exhibition of agricultural machines, implements, and also of all other tools, machines and manufactures, goods, wares and products ever collecten in America. He and his wife ■nd children can see and get prices on the best of everything they have to buy, from elothing to tools, and from luxuries to necessities, either for the family, housebold or the farm. And he can also see and compare the best farm stock - horses, cattle, sneep, swine and poultry - of the American continent, including the most costly and famous animáis; and the best grains, fruits, vegetables, flowers and other producís; besides iuruiture, carriages, piauos, clothing for both men and muien, and all rich and fine goods, jewelry, art goods; and everything that money can buy or heart wish, in enormous profusión. And in additiorj will be TKN DAYS OF PARADISE with the delights of a great international fair, and its games, concerts, spectacles. races, exhibitions, balloon ascensions and other thrilling shows of all sorts, a vast and costly art gallery with the most famous paintings and statuary on this continent. The city of Detroit is also one of the most charming cities in America to visit, with broad maple-shaded avenues; theaters, operas, deligntful river and lake ezcursions, the cheapest in the world; and a host of various attractions. At that time all roads will lead to Detroit, with big excursions oTer them, at low rates, and it will be in the most delightful season of the year to visit the lake región and its bcautiful qvieen city.