COUNTRY. Total population. Total occupied in agriculture. United States, 1870 38,558,371 5,922,471 Prussia, 1867 19,607,710 3,286,954 Europ. Russia, exclud. Baltic Provs., 1863 59,097,859 26,362,435 Of whom Percentage of female Males. Females. to male agriculturists. 5,525,503 396,968 7 2,232,741 1,054,213 47 13,444,842 12,917,593 98 To every 100 men employed in field-work, there are in Russia 98 women, in Prussia 47, and in the United States but 7; and of the latter, nearly all are freed-women of the African race. I have heard men sneer at this statement, which I regard as matter for boasting--men who regretted it was true: "You Americans make too much of your women. You educate them above their rank in life, dress them like dolls and keep them for show. They are idle, and become enfeebled and vicious, and their progeny, if indeed they have any, partake of the same characteristics." It is not alone foreigners who hold this language. There is among our own countrymen a growing class of admirers of what they are pleased to term the robust female, and "robust" with this class means hard-worked. We have already seen the debased condition to which field-work, apparently, has reduced the peasant-women of continental Europe: we have seen that they resemble animals as much as they do women, so heavy and unremitting is the toil with which they are burdened. "This only makes them hardy," cries the advocate of the robust school, who believes that hard work is good for everybody, even for women, yet carefully avoids it himself--avoids even hard thinking, which might teach him better doctrine. "It is thus that women become the mothers of a race of heroes." Heroes! Moon-calves, rather; but we shall see.