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The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31
BEE-KEEPERs CONVENTION.

A call for Bee-Keepers' Conven-
ton, of the State of Mississippi, to
meet at jackson, at the Aparian De
partment, on the Fair Grounds, at
two o'clock P. M, on Thursday, the
18th of Nov, 1873, for the purpose
of acquiring and disseminating aparian
knowledge, and to protect ourselves
from the various humbugs on bee.
keeping that may be offered for sale
to our people.
w. F. SrANDEFER, Kinds.
ED. JACK, Rankin.
7. F. SIMS.
September, 1873.
The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31
The Paper Dynasty, and She
Farmers.


Railroad managers, bankers, and, in
fact, every class of men with whom IN
telligence is a moving force, perceive,
acknowledge, and act upon a common
interest, and why not the farmersY
The moment the farmers are called
upon, or rather forced, to combine for
the preservation of their rights, for
sooth, the community is in danger !!
Property is no longer secure, and life
is in jeopardy. This cry Of Commune!
and cant, has descended to us from
those times when the farmers and la
boring classes had no stake in the
country; when all the landed pro-
perty was vested in the lords and
barons, and the people had no rights
except such as they could acquire by
force. The tipes have changed,
though the cadt remains the saEneA
The scrip and bond nobility of this
Republic have adopted towards the
free and should-be Independent far
mers, the same manners and Ian
guage which the feudal barons used to-
wards their serfs and villains, as they
were opprobously termed.
These would-be lordlings of the
monopoly and paper dynasty, can not
or will not perceive that there is vast
difference in the situation and feelings
of the people of this country and those
of the despotic governments of Europe.
They forget that at this moment our
people, we mean emphatically the
class who dig the wealth of this nation
out of the soil, is in possession OF a
greater portion of the property and in
telligence of this country, by tenfold,
than all the creatures of the NOR opoly
paper-credit system put together. Their
property is more widely and equally
distributed among the people than
among the phantoms Of the monopoly
system, and SO much the better. As
to the intelligence of the farmers. lei
any man talk with them, and if he does
-
not learn something it is his own fault
They are as well acquainted with the
rights of person and property, as thu
most illustrious of the bond and scrll
nobility, and have great deal mor'
regard for them. And why shoulC
they not? Their interests are vested
in the lands upon which they live, anC
from which they produce the aggre
gated wealth of these money lords G
the nation.
Who and what are a great majorit.
of the wealthy people of this coun
try? Are they not 1--WE say it in n
disparagement, but in high common
dation) men who began the world CON
paratively poor, with ordinary educa
ton ndlimited means? What shoul
make them so much wiser than thei
neighbors2 Is it because they live i
better style, ride in fine carriages, an
have more money, or at least NOR
credit than their poorer neighbOrs
Does a man become wiser, stronger
The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31

Bro WALL. Shut in by rain from out
door labor ask the privilege Of a desultory
talk with the VINDIcAToR.
In this part Of the vineyard the weather
thus far has been very favorable for gather
ing crops.
Except where there was a small crop
planted ITO the hand, and industry and en-
ergy exercised in the cultivation, the yield
does not exceed half crop-say 400 to 5OO
lbs of seed cotton or Is bushels Of corn per
acre. There is not sufficiency of corn
made to supply us another year. A few
weeks more of good weather and the cotton
win all besready for market.
The price is low. The crop being very
Short money will necessarily be unusually
scarce Economy must be the "watch-word
with all good Grangers- Economy in the
broadcast Specification of the term.
There has been greater inquiry for seed
wheat and rye than have known for sew
eral years. This is a step in the right direc-
ton.
And would suggest that it is economy to
prepare the land well designed for small
grain, as well as any and all other crops.
] prepared my land for wheat by running
subsoil plow in every turn-plow furrow.
Then narrowed well, sowed the grain broad
cast and narrowed it in. There is now "a
fine stand" up; and intend in February to
SOW five quarts of red clover seed per acre,
and when it is up, with from to 6 leaves,
sow on the wheat and clover about 100 lbs.
Of plaster (gypsum) per acre.
The land is thin, would not produce more
than 20 bushels of corn per acre, yet feel
certain of from 20 to Is bushels Of wheat
from this crop, and stand Of clover on the
| land, whichn no hot summers sun, no drought
will injure.
The land having been well prepared, the
application of plaster enables the tender
clover to survive the most unfavorable sea
son.
Each succeeding spring give it the benefit
of about 1856 lbs. Of plaster per acre, and fol
two years it will yield tons of hay pei
acre.
/ would, however, recommend that the
second crop (the third year from time o.
sowing) be turned under with two-horse
plows-to be planted ensuing spring II
corn the corn to be followed with wheat
and without any expense for clover seed
YOU will have better stand than ever, thu
preparation for putting in the wheat having
brought the clover seed to the surface.
Before closing, will your modesty allow
me to saw . fewSwords Of our Organ, The
~ ovisit Grange fsoms
( il = 1agess,,sss svugin, and 1earne9 viii
regret, hs. Jew inevery Grange were
subscribers II that paper, which above al
Others it is our duty 70 sustain literally be-
cauae,
4 1st It's the Organ Of our Order in til,
4 State. fa
4 I'd. Its Editor was the only member o
the Press, who, when we were in our IN issilcy
when we were weak and needed assistance
and support dared openly and boldly t.
advocate our cause in Mississippi.
3d. 1t is the cheapest paper in the State
Now that we have grown strong-2becom'
a power in the land--What Press is it tina
does not sound our praise
T Will not the Order step forward at ono
and strengthen the hands of him who fur
nishes us with an Organ of which we shoult
all be proud?
. Fraternally yours,
The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31
To THE UNINITIATED.

Bro. WALL: Many not informed with
regard to the working of our Order, are Of
the opinion that when they join a Grange
they will be obligated to trade, sbuy and sell
through the Grange. Others equally unin-
formed, think that a property qualification
is required.
Assurance, through THE VISDIcAToR, Of
this error, will relieve all such of their mis-
taken views.
Fraternally yours,
GRANGER.
a 40 1o-n
The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31

THE Georgia Grange says: From the
official returns of crops from forty-four
Oranges in this State, we find the number
of acres planted in cotton to be 65,390, and
the number of bales of cotton that will be
made on the same at 20878, or an average
of about 3I acres per bale.
The acres in corn-47 091 probably yield
422006, or nm average Of little overs bushels
per acres
The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31
October %, 1873.

WE are informed by Bro Williams
Secretary State Grange of Mississippi, that
4l6 Oranges had been organized up to 0cto-
Der %, 1873.
The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31
NOTICE TO EXCHANGES.

Our exchanges will please send their
favors only to the VINDIcAToR, as it
will take the place of the Fsed and
Factory.
The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31
For the Farmers vindicator.]
The, Situation, and the Planters
and Merchants.


heard amid the universal clamor for
the planters to hurry their cotton for
ward and pay their debts, which has
come from boards of trade, cotton ex-
changes. and merchants generally
throughout the South, without the
least regard to the sacrifices and loss
the planters must necessarily be sub
iected to, under the present deranged
state Of commerce arising from the
crisis in financial affairs, which has
driven currency from sight, and rem
dered the negotiation of exchange an
impossibility, except at a ruinous dis
count, leaving the cotton market, and
the interests Of the producers at the
mercy Of few heartless spectators,
who can and will dictate their own
terms. To this appears in pointed con-
trast the following resolution Of the
Meridian Board of Trade:
Resolued further, That it is the sense
of this Board, in view of the financial
crisis now upon the country, that the
agricultural interest of this section
should be regarded as paramount, and
protected, if possible, against the ope-
rations Of sharpers or monetary panics,
whatever fate may betide other inte-
rests.
The authors of this resolution only,
appear to have properly comprehend
ed the situation. and its bearing upon
their own interests, and the paramount
interests Of their section generally, in
recognizing the fact that agriculture is
the predominant interest, and on
which all others depend, and therefore
should be sustained.
This is so clearly a self-evident fact,
that it needs no argument to support
it, and it seems strange that men so
intelligent, as our merchants as a class
generally are, should SO far loose sight
of their own, and all other local inte-
rests, in the future, as to be willing in
struments in the hands Of Northern
money rings, to sap the very founda.
ton ef tosir ow,' br'-'sAss n This sacri
Y W ar9
To- edncs,a n
the will ana j. mas
tiers for alltime tJtA.o, .,.a...sr should
tb;s attamnt he successful an annual
...: L o..,,oo+ad
iePo'''iot' - = q s'
Inc universal cal On lhe pianler'
that comes from the merchants, IS
clear admission Of the entire depend
enca Of their bnsiness on agriculture
Is..,, ~ !. t;,,as J,
anu y 'he ia'seh has ns'u Z. s :
call upon the former for assistance, Il
should not be set down as admitting ii
;nfar;or or sarv;le relation to com
$500 ~ ,oost all, that .
ineice' pu'' g 'no 'e
equals atfording mutual aid 1or mutua
profits. But this clamorous demand
has the sound of the sharp crack of tn,
masters wbin II If. and is not of tina
$50, ;, =. i, ia, NIL shorl,
COMPROMISING onai "r o
exist between equals, wnen IL become
necessary to meet difficulties and bea
a proportionate part of the burdens
We have no where seen any PROPOSE
ton looking to remission Of interest
and profits on advances, or to the re
ductiion of commission and charges, b,
which the sacrifices the planters ar
expected to make could be reduced
thereby tending to an equitable division
The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31


1iHE ritual and manual pf lsserder Of
tholppfrons Of Hushanary & 70 BIZ translate
cd ia'S German, and II is said German
Lodges are to be formed in the West
The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31

For all local and legal advertlslng, we
charge 81 so per square for the first inser,
ton, and 81 90 per square for each additional
Business cards, not exceeding one square
in length, $l5 90; two squares, 40 w per
year.
The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31

10 Ten lines minion, or one inch in
length constitutes q square.
Nas~ Special notices double the above
rates
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-17
In the Woods.

The sun is savage I'm sultry hollows,
The hillside quivers with pulsing heat;
With dusty wings the dropping swallows
Are dottlng the fence that lines the street.
1 leave The town with its hundred noises.
It's clatter and whiz OF wheel and steam
For woodland quiet and silvery voices.
With forest camp 10y a crystal stream.
o, shrewd are the ways of town and city.
Cunning in commerce and worldly wise;
But hearts hardened 10 human pity,
And tongues are given TO thrifty lies
The feathery arms OF frs and spruces
Bend oyer the waters that glide beneath
And the marsh flowers by the quiet sluices
Infold their sweets in golden sheath.
And a little canoe Of fairy lIghtness
Floats silently down the iimpid stream
Where the Norland birch, in its snowy white
ness,
o'eThangs the ripples that glance and CLEAN.
o, peaceful and sweet are, forest sIumbers,
The fragrant couch with The stars above,
As the free soul marches 10 dulcet numbers
Through dreamland valleys OF song and love.
Forever at night a Dorian Goddess
Glides into my camp with Lird-lille song;
In lOosened tresscs and starry bodice
She rests by my side the whole night long.
She cools my forehead with dainty fingers,
And smooths the wrinkles from brow and
face
With a gentle palm, whose memory fingers
About nay spirit in every place.
On emerald banks thick strewn with pansies
We loiter away the dreary time,
And She dowers my soul with woodland fan
cies
That sprout and blossom in rustic rhyme.
Why should covet the laureate guinea,
Or esvy the muse that is held in ief2
sing the ballads she prompts within me,
And have no spite for the ''greener leaf"
With the loftier bards have no quarrel,
envy no brow its wreath OF bays;
know it is mine 20 miss the laurel
And the 'greener leaf' that hangs-and pays.
Poor? lam poor as the mice in churches,
And cramped and harassed by want and debt,
Dreading the chill east wind that searches
My tattered clothing in cold and wet,
But well content if the golden hours
And the sylvan pleasures will only hold,
For If wealth were the highest OF earthly
dowcrs,
think should have more land and gold.
And I rest in the faith that each good fellow
Win sometimes dwell In another land,
Where hearts that are generous, true and mel
low,
VIII know each other, and understand.
1.-THE Aldine.
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CHAPTER XxXvnI.


CoNTINUATIoN OF THE LIFE OF MAGGIE
HEWITT.
81 was about sixteen years of age
when Sanutee was called to his fore
fathers. Although an Indian and no
friend to the pale-faces, still loved him
as well as though he had been my own
father; and though he often made me
tremble with fear when he uttered the
war-whoop or welded his tomahawk,
yet ] always loved him for his kindness
TO me. He was proud Of my skill in
the use Of the bow and arrow, and took
great pains in teaching me. 1 grieved
in reality when / lost him. His place
was soon supplied by another, but by
one who held no place in my affection.
On the contrary, not only feared him,
but l hated him. Think not my Ian
guage too harsh, but consider my In
dian training, to either love or hate,
which passions I fully lived up to, and
which caused me much unhappiness
and great deal of yours, for it was
through my aid that Sonora, my own
beloved niece, became the captive of
Hard Heart.
"You recollect," turning towards So
nora, show Sanutee was killed by a
wild beast, and how my own life was
saved by the timely interference of a
handsome young stranger, whose name
was Lenardo, and whom l learned to
love. Yes, for two months after nv
supposed fathers death was perfectly
happy, with but one exception, and
that was the presence Of my step-father.
as ! called him, for hated him on ac-
count of his passion for me, for, though
the husband Of her I called mother he
confessed that it was only to gain nearer
access to me. His presence to me was
odious enough, but doubly so when ]
learned Of his duplicity towards Patty
will not repeat the joy 1 felt in Len
ardo's presence; suffice to say thos
Were the happiest days Of my life.
eagle Eye, which was the name O
my tormentor, was cruel in the eX
treme, and often threatened me witt
his vengeance if I did not return hi
love. This troubled me but little, as
always felt secure under Patty's protec
tion, who was one OF the kindest o
mothers to her 'piccaninny,' as she al
ways called me.
''Soon after Lenardo's departure Ea
gle Eye removed with US to Kentucky
Here / soon became great favorit
with the Indians on account of m,
singing, which was a favorite amuse
ment when 1 was young.
II had not been long in nv new
home before Goodspeed, youp,
chief, fell in love with me. Although
for a long time unknown to me. !
served only the more to embitter FacI
Eye, who, as his name indicated. tool
in everything at a glance. PATTY "a
vOred Goodspeed, and would have bee
glad to have seen US married. as sb
told me when dying. Her greatest wo,
riment was that some time, true to IN
instinct of nature, I would meet wit
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-17

Mrs. Minnie Myrtle Miller is creating
literary sensation by lecturiug on her
divorced husband, joaquin Miller, the
oaru oi Oregon. She is thus honOrably
supporting herself, her children and her
aged mother. The idea that Mrs. Miller
Is Iradlng upon the reputation of her
namoy pamby husband of the past must
oe dIspelled, for she has established 4
reputation on her own account A. :
lecturess she is a success. She unmerI
cifully lashes the great American poet
from the wilds Of Oregon; and dos + -
skillfnlly, so judiciously, that her praise
is most damning censure. a woman.
wit is like a tailor's needle, not verv
ponderous, but it perforates the hids
with a vicious smarting. As to Joa.
quin, we say this without wincing: a
man who will desert his wife and loving
children, leaving them helpless and il
poverty, is thing whom we would not
dignity with the title Of a Christian
dOg.-PioReer.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-17

y NICE BIT OF IRONN.-Here Is q
nicely prepared little cap, that many q
man could wear with perfect impunity:
'The lOnesOmeness of some married
men when their wives are away" said
simple-minded lady, speaking OF the
summer fights, "is awful. There now
is Mr.. Iimmeny. He is so cast down
that he never comes home except with
a latch-key, and then he pounds his poor
lone hands on the gate for an hour be-
fore he can get in, and his voice is SO
lost in the gloom that all his words run
together, and nobody can understand
what he says this time o night. And
then, too, he goes down to the lake with
a lady in the buggy, to console him for
the absence of his wife, and he don't get
back-it takes so long to mollify lone
husband you knOw-until the soda
water shops are all shut. Then, too, he
comes home with three or four married
men whose wives are gone summerin',
and he turns on the gas in his house, t.
make it look cheerful, and they all put
their legs over the front of the gallery,
just TO cure their terrible loneliness, and
then they sing-O, such sOngs-if i
didn't know their wives were gone, and
that they were really n tryin' to kill
melancholy, l should think they had
drank q drop too much. But | know
that can't be so, for their wives don Ike
it, and they wouldn't do anything when
their wives are gone, that they scorned
to do when they were here"
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Important and True.

The following from the pen of q lady
correspondents of the Portland Transcript
is we'll worth the attention of hotel
keepers everywhere:
1t is a notable fact that strangers will
inquire of hackmen and expressmen
(which is the highest-priced hotel,n
and that seems to establish the fact that
it must be the most desirable, and find
later that they reckOned without their
host. First-class hotels charge five dol
lars per day including fire; second class,
three dollars and q half 1t seems to
me that one dollar per day for fire is
enormous, and | wonder how long the
travelling public will allow themselves
to be swindled in this manner. There
is always q protest against it, but how
does it end? "What is everybodyis
business is nObOdy's."
Ina second class hotel there is greater
attention paid to the comfort of the
guests, fewer subOrdinates coming be-
tween them and the powers that be. \
great deal of false pride is manifested
among travellers in this matter, and it
seems that protest by the public in
general to the hotel proprietors, would
reduce the enormous rates, and would
be better for the whole community; for
thousands of people are kept from trav-
cling for that very reason.
While l am on the subject / would
suggest to hotel proprietors, that n little
more attention be paid to the comfort of
ladies. 1t is very provoking to walk
into the Ladies' ParlOr and find nothing
but a Photographic book of advertise
ments, rs the only alluring bait held out
to keep one from dying from cHnui. 1t
matters not how many ladies cOngregate
in this room day after day, they sit
looking at each other with that in
Z describable woman look of half con-
temptuous inquiry, and the close criti-
cism from head to foot which follows,
may serve to amuse some women, but
not all.
! The peep that one gets into the "Gen-
tlemen's Reading Room" is Paradise
with Eve kept out. All the newspapers
of the day, accommodations for writing,
comfortable easy chairs, etc.-all this
for the stronger sex, but the weaker are
/ supposed to be strong enough to be
above being entertained. Any lady
/ friend will agree with me when they
recall hours spent at hotel windows
reading the sign-bOards in view, or
walking up and down the parlOrs, Sored
/ to death for want of something to do. I
have never found one exception to this
| general want, from Maine to Texas.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-17

Mrs. Sands is bright little widow
who lives near Oil City, Pa, and has
made n comfortable fortune in a specu-
lation in oil lands. Representing her
self as poor woman, as she was, with a
family to support, she induced New
York company owning lands near her
residence, to sell her 200 acres for 81, 500,
paying a small sum down. She imme-
diately sold part interest for $4,000.
put down with the proceeds what has
proved one of the most successful oil
wells in the oil territory, and now asks
for the property round half million OF
dollars.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-17

One of the saddest instances of wom-
ans faithlessness with which we have
ever met was that of the wife OF a man
in Syracuse. 1t seems that the couple
had arranged that for six months the
husband was to get up in the morning
and make the kitchen fire, and that the
wife was to perform the task for the
succeeding six months. The mans half
year expired on the 2d, and the morning
of the Sd the woman suddenly died.
He is nearly brpken-hearted over his
aflliction. He says if he could only
have foreseen this bereavement ne
would have shufiled her out Of bed aJ
daylight every morning since January
And to think that she lay there snoo%-
ing all that time in comfort, when sne
wasn't going to take her turn, makes
him feel as if he would either nave ~
wrap about sixteen yards Of Grape aIoulQ lt
his Sunday hat, or burst. Ana ~, Seo
there are people who say thaI 3Iie9o
women haven't their rights foTsooIn'
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Finance and Ship Building.

THE WAY To RESTORE OUR GREAT
LOST INDUsTRY-THE FINANCIAL DE-
MOBILIZATION.
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SONORA HEWITT.
Hv MRS. SUSIE wTHEEELL.

Entered, according 10 the Act Of Congress, in
the year lS72, by Mrs Susie Wifherell, in the Of
fee Of the Librarian Of Congress at Washington
City1
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-17

Half the depositors in the Massaehus-
etts savings bank are women, and $685.
100000 is the sum total of the amount
deposited by these delightful darlings.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-17

AT the competitive examination !%o ne
fore the London University lOi - ~
Ricardo scholarship for political ,eS5 econ on
omy, Miss Orme won the prize ,-ann'5 dngle
were seven contestants, Iour SouiiA
men, and three young womeh'
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-17

Correspondents writing over assumed sigma
lures must make known their names to the
Editor, or no attention will be given to their
communications.
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gle 'te'u Aort5,ve5f. {.

a Journal for the People.
Devoted to the Interests Of Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Rellsion.
Alive to all Live Issues, and Thorouob1,.
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the WRONGS
of the Masses.