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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11
OHefFRin Of tho Grange

The Iowa Homestead mentions fle i1I
ready accrued by reason Of the institution
Of the Oranges:
The per ceutage saved the Grsug,s by
purchasing through their agents NAV 1r
judged Of from the following figure, which
are official:
SEWING MACHfNts,
No. 3, regular price $50, Is offered Grange
for $50;
No 6. regular price 500. flr 1913;
No. 7, regular price $50. for 1886;
No. S, regular price 500, tor $50
These are the rates for one machine; tUr
name ofthe manufacturers am prohibited
from publishing. Following arc the rates
for another machine:
Price $50. Is offered Oranges for $50;
Price so, Is offered for g42;
Price S73. Is offered for s43 80;
Price SS3 is offered for SO 50;
Price 800 Is offered for $50.
Corresponding reductions are made Iu
higher priced machines:
A certain organ mandatory oilers tu
furnish instruments 70 Oranges 40 the iol-
lowing rates:
No. 20, Grange price Sl3j, retail Sl1J;
No. 9, Strange &l5J, retail. BZlO;
No. 40, Grange Sl6s, retril 1925;
No. %. Grange $3.50. retail $3.50;
Grand church organ, Grange price $500,
retail, 500.
Agricultural Implements and machines,
such as .plows. cultivators, hay-forks, NOW
ers, reab ers, threshing machines, fan mills,
etc, are discounted 20 Grange or their
agents from twenty-five 20 thirty per cent,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Civility costs nothing and buys every
thing.
Do not NEEDLE with things you know
nothing of.
When mans necktie is united how
untidy he looks,
Consult more what thy duty is than
what thy difficulty is.
Chemists say no matter is ever lost.
Printers deny it.
About fifty cold benders" have been
arrested in Kansas.
There is law firm in Boston called
Steele and Gamble.
Melancholy attends on the best joys OF
merely ideal life.
Economical Syracuse ladies fortify
their trails with sheet iron.
A drove of sixteen hundred goats late
ly passed through Dallas, Texas.
A Cincinnati man has invented a new
street car, which dispenses with the use
of tracks.
A Rochester girl, of uncommon love-
illness, has had 5000 photographs of her
self taken for sale.
An old Western gamester wants to
know if the vote of ''no more passes" APP
plies to railroad euchre
To cure nose-bleed, the Semitic Amer
lean says, vigorously move your jaws
Mothers-in-law never have it.
The scholar without good breeding is
pedant; the philosopher, cynic the
| soldier, a brute; and every man disa-
greeable.
A CINCINNATI brewers wife papered her
trunk with costly revenue stamps, and
the brewer is in Jail for the waphe took
on about it.
The overseers of the poor in a Yer
mont town set down in an annual report
charge of three dollars for taking pau
pers to the menagarie.
A Dubuque reporter has such long
ears that he heard man, the next day
after his wife was buried, sing Ten
thousand miles away.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11
Managing a Husband.

A Pennsylvania lady has a most romantic
and ingenious way of managing the gentle
man so happy as to be her husband. Exas-
perated by her persistent conversation, he
ungallantly boxed her ears the other day.
The wretched woman cast but one lingering,
reproachful glance upon her lord and fed,
simply observing as she departed that the
briny deep should wash away the insult.
Leaving behind her everything most dear to
her-the home of her married life, full OF
beautiful and cherished memories
heart-broken woman rushed frantically to
the canal, and with one parting sigh, threw
in a large stone with mighty splash. Then
she went and hid herself in the bushes and
giggled. while her husband and twenty other
men hurried up, with horror depicted on
their countenances, and wildly dragged the
canal for her body. When the injured one
became convinced that the wretch had SUI
fered enough, she appeared from behind the
bushes and led him home, resigned and
willing victim.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11
THE LOST RAILWAY TICKET.
A Travellers Story.
is this seat enpaged. sir ~

Is this seat engaged sir?"
glanced up from the paper ! was
reading, and met 1.-The smiling regard OF
a, genial looking gentleman, apparently in
the prime Of life.
at is not, SIR"
with your permission, then" and he
seated himself beside me-
The train had already started, and pres
emily the conductor made his appearance,
collecting the tickets. Reaching Us. he de-
tached the appropriate coupons from our
tickets, handing back the remainder with
| the usual checks"
! pardon he" said my companion, "but
perceive that you place your ticket in your
wallet"
Eyes"
at is unwise, unsafe"
"Why do YOU consider it 10 % l inquired
with some curiosity, returning the wallet to
my pocket
Suppose through carlessness, or we will
/ say accident, your wallet is lost Your
pocket may be picked, for instance %
ayes"
"Your money and ticket are both gone
Probably you do not appreciate the mani
fold beauties of such position; / do not
think it possible except by experience"
at would certainly be an undesirable
situation / can see that clearly enough.
Pardon the question naturally suggested
We're you ever 50 placed ~
"Once, only once"
Chow was that ~
"YOu wish TO profit by my experience?
Well, / don't know that / mind telling
you the story Ii may serve to amuse YOU
if nothing more" And he continued as
follows
sit occurred quite number Of years ago,
and over what road 1 was travelling at the
time is Of little consequence. / had taken
the early morning express train, and being
somewhat tired and altogether sleepy, had
stretched myself upon the seat for as com
Portable nap as circumstances would admit.
/ slept soundly, for / could in those days
sleep well almost anywhere, and did not
awake until the conductor came for my
ticket. The essential bit of pasteboard
could not be found. | was positive / had
purchased a ticket indeed, | remembered
distinctly having shown it TO the baggage
clerk at the time of checking my trunk
The conductor grew impatient, passed TO
the end Of the car, and returned 20 me. l
had not found the ticket, but had made the
discovery that my pocket book also was
gone. explained to the conductor that my
pocket had been picked, and in proof of my
story showed him my baggage-check. 1t
was useless. If you have Travelled much,
you are aware that virtuous conductor
takes no mans word in fact, all men have
designs upon the company's dividends ex-
cept himself 1t was perfectly natural
therefore, that the faithful steward in ques-
ton should say-'The check is all right
but how do / know that it belongs to you
1 will take the money for your fare, or
stop the train and put you Off as you
choose"
"What could / do? Protestations amount
to nothing, and my feIlow-passengers, with
the usual tendency of humanity to trample
upon fallen man, showed clearly by their
looks and expressions that they thought me
a sneaking rogue, who would steal passage
if could. They had paid their money;
why should not l pay miner Few men
would ever see heaven if judgment were rem
dered by jury-except themselves.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11
what the birds Say.

Numerous others of our birds would
seem to challenge attention by their calls
and notes. There is the Maryland yell
low-thrcat, for instance, standing in the
door of his bushy tent, and calling out
as you approach, Switch way, sir!" If
he says this to the ear of common folk,
what would he not say to the poet? One
of the pewees says ''stav there!" with
great emphasis. The cardinal grosbeak
calls out what cheer" what cheer !"
the bluebird says ''purity," purity"
purity !" the brown-thrasher, or ferru-
ginous thrush, according to Thoreau,
calls out to the farmer planting his corn,
drop it." ''drop it," ''cover it up"
"cover it up" The yellow-breasted chat
says who, and ''tea-boy." What the
robin says, caroling that simple strain
from the top of the tall maple, or the
crow with his hardy caw-caw, or the pc
destrlan meadow lark sounding his pierre
ing and long-drawn note in the spring
meadows, the poets ought to be able to
tell us. only know the birds all have
a language which is very expressive, and
which Is easily translatable into the hui
man tongue. From The Birds of the
Poets J" John Burroughs, Scribner's for
September.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11
Objects of the Changers.

at recent picnic of farmers in Mis-
souri,, Mr.. 7. R. Allen, Master of the Stat
/ Grange, delivered a somewhat elaborate
| speech, in the course of which he described
| some OF the objects of the organization, a!
| follows:
First. and not among the least. is it's soeia
| feature. Heretofore we have been to iso
| lated and scattered. We have seemed tC
take no time for recreation. social amuse-
ment, or the proper ENJOYMENT of life. We
have too much given ourselves up 70 dig
ging AMI delving in the ground, and nurs-
ing petty preindiccs that from mole hills
grow in time TO mountains, estranginQ us
from each other. This organization brings
us into close contact encourages a spirit oil
fraternity and sociability-makes us, in
fact. acquainted with each other. This fea-
ture alone. if prODerly attended to, would
be worth the trouble and expense of sus-
tanning the organization. But this is not
all. The organization has an educational
feature. We encourage schools for our chill
dren. but some of us. although too old to 20
to school. are deficient in education. Every
Grange is a school for mutual i'm provement,
in which we endeavor to encourage each
other to read. TO think. to investigate. and
to discuss subjects that pertain to our own
interests in familiar way. We expect thus
10 teach our people to do their own reading,
thinking, investigating. independent of
leaders. We expect them to throw aside all
prejudices of a political or religious charac-
ter. and to discuss questiongcoolly, calmly,
dispasslonately. with an honest intention to
search after the truth. If we have lost caste
and there is any real or just cause for other
classes of people to look down upon US. il
has been our own fault and results from the
want of social and intellectual culture. We
have been allowing others to do our read
ing, thinking, speaking. voting, law making.
We have been executing the laws by proxy,
instead of doing it ourselves
| will not touch upon some of the more
material benefit Is Of the organization. These
are so numerous that can only aIlude
briefly TO q few. In the purchasing of our
supplies, especially agricultural Implements,
it has already been decided and proven that
great pecuniaFy advantage may be gained
by purchasing directly of the manufacturer
instead Of from his agents. The advantage
Is 50 obvious that need not dwell upon it
at great length. The matter OF crop reports
requires more extended explanation. These
are of the first importance, and be obtained
in no way so well ms through our organiza-
ton. BY crop reports mean crop statis-
tics, and it is q remarkable fact that our
Government has never supplied as with any
thing reliable on this subject, or anythin I
that was of any value TO as. The manner in
which the present crop reports are made up
shows to every thinking man that they can
not possibly be corfeck The system Is
itself wrong and bad. The sending out
over the country printed slips with ques-
tons, and blank places for answers, to be
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11
The Turkish Ladies.

Orders have been issued from the
Turkish Ministery of Police renewing
the prohibition against Turkish ladies
entering shops for the purpose Of making
purchases, whether the shops be kept by
Turks or Christians. This prohibition
was first issued at the beginning Of the
present Sultan's reign, but has for some
time past been allowed to fall into disuse.
It is now formally renewed in a communi-
cation addressed to the foreign legations,
and direct order to Mussulmrn shop
keepers, and Turkish women must for
the future make all their purchases from
carriages, as the majority of the better
class do at present, or, where they have
no carriages, at shop-doors or windows.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11
Intelligent Farmers

It is enormously supposed by many
that it does not require large amount of
intelligence to constitute good farmer.
If the whole business consisted in turning
so many acres-planting or sowing, reap
ing or threshing just such quantity,
and this was the end of his duty, it would
be quite different. But farming is now
becoming a science To judge Of the
adaptability Of certain crops to peculiar
kind of soil; to prepare for the effects of
certain seasons and weather.; to mathe-
matically study out the relative value of
various crops in home and foreign mar
kets; to solve the probable value at some
future time of a specific article, in view
Of the supply; to forecast the safety of
crop of grain, roots, meat, stock, dairy
products, wool, fruits, de-; to solve the
great questions of financial and political
economy, as to the probable price of any
one article in case of financial changes or
political revolutions to know how and
where to market; to correctly decide
from private and public statistical tables
what articles will have a surplus and
what deficiency; to grapple with these
and a thousand other questions, and to
contend successfully in trade and traffic |
with the worlds most shrewd men-if all |
these questions and duties require but
little talent, then anybody will do for
farmer But these questions have to be
met, and these intricate problems have to
be solved, or the tiller of the soil will be
he mere servant of the sharp brakeman,
,r the dishonest middlemen. MOI Farm
ng requires a greater diversity of talent,
more close investigation of cause and eff
ect, a more intense wrestling with
bought, and closer application to bust
less, than any other occupation of man.
The ripest specimens of the race ought to
cad in the worlds best employment
owa State Register.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11
anYERTTsTNG AGENTS.
| HEART-SONG.
BY SAMUEL W. DUYr1ELD.


Hast thou song. q singer Of mine,
4 little song to cheer the heart;
I Ike well-wrung drops Of choicest wine,
Pressed in vineyard far apart?
one that was caught in flying by
little song to cheer the heart:
like the soice of bird, OH branches high,
Deep i'm a forest, far apart.
one that has come like morning air
4 little song to cheer the heart;
Like the breath OF kiss on the brow OF care
Blessing life that dwells apart.
Sing me that song, o singer of mine,
That little song 10 cheer the heart;
Whisper IL light as a word divine
| nro watcher tar apart.
-Scribner's for Septem Der.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11

A Pennsylvania preacher, while holding
services recently, gave thanks in a feryent
prayer for the prosperous condition of their
crops, excepting, o Lord, the corn, which
is backward, and the OATS which are mighty
thin in spots"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11

A father, in consoling his daughter, who
had lost her husband, said az don't wonder
YOU grieve for him, my child; you will never
find his equal" II don't know as can"
responded the sobbing widow; "but Pll do
my best"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11

1t rained the other evening, and there was
an entertainment. A young gentlemen said
t0a young lady: ssMay have the pleasure
of protecting you with my umbrella p And.
looking full into his. Put up your rag We
like TO see people sOcIable.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11

Inasmzch as the King of Denmark
who came to the throne only by adoption,
is the poorest Of all the European SOW
ereigns, Except his own son the King Of
Greece, no dowry is TO expected with the
Princess Thyra, save goodness, beauty
and youth. She will be twenty years old
on her next birthday.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11

dDsh Billings gives the following advice
to young men: sDon't be discouraged If
yer mustach don't grow. 1t sometimes hap
pens that where q mustash duz the best
nothing else duz so we'll"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11

''Ben Bolt has gone out, and the pop
ular air in Massachusetts, now Is "b0lt
Ben"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11

at recent picnic of farmers in Mis-
souri,, Mr. 7. r. Allen, Master of the State
Grange, delivered somewhat elaborate
speech, in the course of which he described
some OF the objects of the organization, as
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-12-30
pbe Farmers.

No class of people may better rejoice
in their lot in view OF the pinch that is
now upon men engaged in other call
ings in the cities and villages, than the
farmers. They will have enough for
food and raiment, come what will. If
what they raised brings less on sale,
they will buy what they want at lower
rates. Their scrip and bills may be
less, but their real ability to obtain all
neediul supplies for the comforts and
even the Injuries of plain country liv.
ing will be none the less. Thousands
in the cities and used to the factories
and the shops would gladly exchange
lots with the farmers; and IL seems
quite likely that not a few Of the bows
and girls that have LETT the old home in
the hope of doing better in other EN-
pigments will be thankful TO find an
open door for them at the old home
stead this winter. Let the farmers be
content with comparative exemption
from tribulations that are now upon
thousands in our land who have been
engaged IN other pursuits. Thanks,
now, for the farms and the quiet homes
of those hills aud yalleysl- VaHeg
Farm.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-12-30
Items.

LYMAN FISK of Barton, Vt, raised
ffty.fve bushels Of excellent wheat
from two acres and eight rods of land.
THERE is nothing that adds more to
the comfort and attraction OF home than
plenty of fruit trees and shrubbery. A
good orchard and fruit garden, and q
well arranged door-yard, tastefully
planted in ornamental trees and shrub
berry, will add more TO the valne OF a
farm than the same amount invested IN
any other way.
BIZ very careful TO keep your trees
clean and free from worms, horers and
rough bark, you eyerexpect to make
ANYTHING from your orchard, and no
branch of farming is of more profit on
benefit than the fruit portion, # well
managed. Wash every spring or fall
with strong soapsuds, scraping of the
rough bark with an old scythe or other
instrument.
ONE who has tried it writes as
follows 20 the American Farm Journal
eff any farmer wants a convenient
and cheap cushion TO ride on, let him
take n sheep skin as soon as II is taken
from the sheep, and scrape the flesh of,
then lay il in smooth place. Pulyer.
ize one pound OF alum and the same OF
salt, and cover the flesh side Of the
skin and let it lie for week or two,
and il will be well tanned. They make
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-12-30
rIanurs and Tillage.

As a rnle, the men who have the
cleanest farms make the most manure.
l know q farmer who feeds Q great
many sheep every winter, and makes
large quantity of manure. He has sue.
ceeded IN bringing his land to high
degree of productiveness. But Ut IS
very foul. The weeds rob him of half
his profits. This farmer makes all the
manure he can, but does not cultivate
his land thoroughly. Now the point l
want to make is this; A man may
make much manure and not cultivate
his land but did you ever know man
who took special pains to kill all the
weeds on his farm and get his land mel
low and in the best mechanical condi-
ton, who did not aim to make and use
all the manure he could And so when
/ recommend good tillage | take it for
granted that the extra crops produced
will, to q great extent at least, be used
for feeding stock and making manure.
There is a sense of course, in which
tillage is an exhausting process. 1t
develops the plant-food lying dormant
in the soil. If you develop this plant
food and convert it into corn and Glow
er, and then sell the crops, you impo
verish the farm more than i if you did
not cultivate the land so thoroughly
But, on the other hand, if the corn and
clover are fed out on the farm, and the
manure saved and applied, the good
tillage will make the farm richer in
available plant-food. This process
will soon enable farmer to double his
crops and quadruple his profits.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-12-30
Bees as Architects and Mathemat-
icians.

lcl0nS.
Man is Obliged to use all sorts OF en-
gines for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, rules
plump llnes-to produce his buildings
and to guide his hand the bee exc
cutes her work Immediately from her
mind, without instruments or tools of
any sort. "She has successfully solv-
ed a problem in higher mathematics
which the discovery OF the difierential
calculus, century and half ago,
alone enables us to solve at all without
the greatest difficulty" The inclina-
ton OF the planes of the cell is always
just so that, Il the surfaces on which
she works are unequal, still the axis
running through it is in the true direc-
ton, and the junction of the two axes
forms the angle of 60 degrees as accu-
rately as if there were none.
The manner in which she adapts her
work to the requirements of the mo-
ment and the place is marvellous. In
order to test their ingenuity, Huber
glazed the interior of a hive, with the
exception of bits of wood fastened on
the sides. The bees cannot make their
work adhere to glass, and they began
to build horizontally from side to side;
he. interposed other plates of glass in
different directions, and they curved
their combs in the strangest shapes, in
order to make them reach the wooden
supports. Hesays that this proceeding
denoted more than an instinct, as glass
was moi substance against which bees
could be warned by nature, and that
they changed the direction of the work
before reaching the glass, at the dis,
lance precisely suitable for making the
necessary turns, and on the outer side
greatly, and on the inner side diminish.
ing them proportionately. As the diff.
ferent insects were working on the diff.
ferent sides, there must be some means
of communicating the PROPORTION to be
observed while the bottom being
common to both sets of cells, the diff
Guilty of thus regularly varying then
dimensions must have been great in
| deed. american.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-12-30
Honey for winter Use.

The luxury Of honey with buckwheat
cakes furnishes Of itself sufficient In.
ducement to the housekeeper to make
provision for its supply. Honey
brought TO table in the comb makes n
very pretty dish, but can only be thus
served during a short season. If pur-
chased in any larger quantity, expos.
uIe TO heat causes honey TO ierment and
become thin, while the first severe cold
weather hardens it into a solid white
mass, uninviting in appearance and
rough 20 the palate. Pour all yonr
honey together into clean colapder
support the ears Of the colander by two
rods resting on the rim Of the bowl.
Cut the comb transversely and repeat.
edly, then leave il TO drain. This will