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The Grange advance., 1874-03-25
Master CudW0rth's "Cross'' - Colt.

Very few horses, especially four-year
olds, are naturally cross toward those
who feed and care for them, however
roughly they may treat strangers. If
the colt be really cross, it is almost GER
tain that somebody has been in the habit
Of annoying him in some way. He is
probably only playful and does not mean
to hurt his young master, but ntps and
makes pretense Of biting. Still, As play
may be too rough, and should he, nip the
skin no doubt it would hurt. To- cure
him Of his tricks, first see to it that no
one who will poster him comes anywhere
near then, whenever you go to him,
and go as often as you can, take a car
rot, an apple, lump of sugar, an ear Of
corn, or some such thing that he likes !;
give it to him and pat his neck, pet him,
and take up his feet, talking to him all
the time. In all probability you will
find that soon he will call for you and
show every mark of joy at seeing you or
hearing your step. Nevertheless, if he
happens to be ticklish, he may nip and
60 through the motions Of kicking when
you curry him under the belly and upon
sensitive spots. IF SO, lay aside the cur
y comb and use only the brush over
those parts. Still his habit Of nipping
may possibly have become 50 confirmed
by bad management, that you may not
feel quite safe if 50 it is easy to control
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25

VAsA, Goodhue County,
March 18th. 1874.

DEAR EDITOR This is the second
time have written for your paper. I
like to read the little folks letters. I
will be fourteen years old next May. T
nave lived up in Duluth three years,
out l didn't like to live up there very
much =. 'h because it was so cold. The lake
I makes it cold. There are good many
fishermen up there. They catch awful
many fishes. I was w1ith i fisherman
onoe, fishing He had big boat,
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25

Where all the horse hair comes
from of which chignons are made may,
perhaps, be explained by an active per-
son who has been careering about Eng
land, cutting off the tails of innumera-
bic horses without the slightest regard
for their feelings and appearance. This
gentleman, it should be observed, COM
bined extreme piety with his stealing of
horse hair, being known to devoutly st-
tend chapel in the morning, and to cut
of 80 tails or so in the afternoon. It is
gravely said of him that he I" has no
front teeth, but has little Wesleyan
hymn: book y which statement, though
remarkable, doesn't seem to account for
his naughty conduct. -...
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Making Tracks.

A light snow had fallen, and the boys
desired to make the most of it. It was
too dry for snow-balling, and not deep
enough for coasting. 1t did very we'll
to make tracks in.
There was a large meadow near the
place where they were assembled. 1t
was proposed that they should go to
tree which stood near the center Of the
meadow, and that each one should start
from the tree, and should see who could
make the straightest track that is, go
from the tree in the nearest approach to
a straight line. The proposition was
assented to, and they were soon at the
tree. They ranged themselves around
it, with their backs toward the trunk.
They were equally distant from each
other. If each had gone forward in a
straight line, the paths would have been
like the spokes of wheel-the tree rep
resenting the hub. They were to go
till they reached the boundaries of the
meadow. when they were to retrace
their steps to the tree.
They did so. I wish I could give
map Of their tracks. Such a map
would not present much resemblance to
the spokes Of a wheel.
Whose is the straightest ?" said
James Alison to Thomas Sanders, who
was at the tree first.
"Henry Armstrong; is the only one
that is straight at ALL
"How could we all contrive to 20 so
crookedly, when the ground is so smooth,
and nothing to turn us out of the way?"
said Jacob Small.
"How happened you to go so straight,
Henry?" said Thomas.
II fixed my eye on that tall pine-tree
on the hill yonder, and never looked
away from it till I reached the fence"
II went as straight as I could: with
out looking at anything but the ground" :"
said James.
$50 did l." said another.
$50 did l." said several others. It
appeared that no one but Henry had
aimed at particular object.
They attempted to go straight with
out any definite aim. They failed.
Men cannot succeed in anything good
without a definite aim. In order to
mental improvement there must be a
definite aim. In order to moral im-
provement there must be definite ain.
In order to do good there must be q
definite aim. General purposes, general
resolutions will not avail. You must do
as Henry did !; fix upon something dis.
tinct and definite as an object, and 20
steadily forward to it. If you wish to
be Christ-like, look at him, and copy
his Wavs. Thus only can Won sncceed
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25

The French Society for the encour-
agement Of National Industry offers a
prize of 5000 francs for the suggestion
OF practical plan for diminishing the
expense Of harvesting grain the reap
ers used not answering the purpose.
Also, prize of 1900 francs and medal
valued at 500f:, for the best plan for
managing and utilizing mountain sides
and slopes. Also, two prizes Of 2,O0Of.
and 8, ,OOOf: respectively, for best plans
for irrigation in mountainous regions,
which are arid, by water from melted
1Hs; and on lower regions, BY tlhee, use
dls spring, rain, and river waters ID il the
formation ofsmeadoxs. /,
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about. Is feet long, and he lad his net
set about fifteen miles out in the lake
his net was one mile and half long,
and he caught $50 fishes that time,
when I was with him. / remember
sometimes when it was stormy it seemed
as if great high hills came rolling on
the lake. I saw three ships wrecked.
It was an awful storm, the wind was so
strong that it blew the ships right on
the rocks. One of them split right in
two pieces it was an awful sight to see.
l guess I will have to stop writing now,
1t is getting late.
CHARLES EMIL JOHNSON.
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25
Thoughts for Parents.

l. Be what the children ought to be.
2. Do what the children ought to do
3. Avoid what they should avoid.
4. Aim always, not only in the pres
ence of the children, but also in their
absence, that your conduct may serve
them for an example.
5. Are any among them defective? ?
Eramane aohat you are yourseLf, what
you avoid-.in word, your whole con-
duct.
6. Do you discover in yourself defects,
sins, wanderings? Begin by improving
yourself, and seek afterward to improve
your children.
7. Think we'll that those by whom
you are surrounded are often only re-
fection Of yourself.
8. If you lead life of penitence, and
seek daily to have grace in you, it will
be impaired to you, and through you to
your children.
9. If you always seek Divine guild.
ance, your children will more willingly
be directed by you.
10. The more obedient you are to
God, the more obedient will your chill
dren be to you thus in his childhood
the wise Solomon asked Of the Lord "an
obedient heart" in order to be able to
govern his people.
II. AS soon as the master becomes
lukewarm in communion with God, that
lnkewarmness will extend itself among
his pupils.
IL. That which forms wall of sepa-
ration between I'D and yourself will be
source Of evil to your children
13. An example in which love does
not form chief feature is but the light
of the moon-cold and feeble
IA. An example animated by ard,nt
and sincere love shines like the sun; it
warns and invigorates.
The OLD MAN.-There is no more
sad and touching picture than the weary
old form, as it sits and ponders upon the
days that are past and gone, never more
to return. We instinctively revere {" the
old folks at home our grandfather and
grandmother, and we commend to the
young and giddy the very good advice
given below:
"Bow low the head, boy !; reverence
the old man. Once like you, the vicissi-
tudes of time have silvered his hair and
changed the round, merry face to the
worn visage before you. Once that
heart beat with aspirations equal to any
that you ever felt; aspirations crushed
by disappointment, as perhaps yours are
destined to be. Once that form stalked
boldly through the gay scenes of pleas
ures, the beau ideal Of grace now the
hand OF time has warped that figure and
destroyed the noble carriage. Once, at
your age, he possessed the thousand
thoughts that pass through your brain
now wishing to accom- plish equal to a
book Of fame, anon, imagining, like a
dream, that he then awoke for the bet
ter. But he has lived the dream very
near through. The time to awaken is at
hand, yet his eye ever kindles at old
deeds of daring, and the hand takes a
hrmer grasp Of the staff. But bow the
head, boy, as you would in your old age
be reverenced."
The French Society for the encour-
agement Of National Industry offers a
prize Of 1000 francs for the suggestion
OF practical plan for diminishing the
expense OF harvesting grain-the read
ers used not answering the purpose
Also, prize of 1900 francs and medal
valued at 5OOf.. for the hest nlan fo,
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him: Keep ! well fitting leather halter
upon him and good circingle. While

upon him and good circingle.s While
you are cleaning him, tie the halter strap
to the circingle on one side while you
clean the other. A still more efficient
way is to have short leading staff, with
a snap hook on one end and strap at
the other. The staff must be just long
enough to reach from the hand to the
girth. It is to be snapped into the hal
ter-ring and then buckled to the circin-
gle: Keep up the patting whether he is
really cross or not, and at present do not
attempt to punish him. By and by if
moral suasion fails, carry strap doubled
in your hand and if he attempts to bite,
crack him across the nose with it, at the
same time speaking loud and sharp.
Then renew the patting, to let him know
that he need not fear you if he behaves
himself Never, never, show either fear
or anger IN. G. Weld, Bergen county,
n. J.
Approach the colt entirely fearless
but guarded, and when he comes take
good aim and meet him square on the
muzzle with heavy hand, and severe ac-
cording as the case demands, and use
some judgment lest you make him bad
halter-puller. This plan I know to be
good if we'll applied.-[B. J. F., Rut-
land, VII
CARE OF Cows-Mr Arnold says IN
The Tribune: " In breaking heifers it.
is important to start their habits right
in the first place." Nothing is truer
than that the cows capacity for milk is
influenced by the treatment of the heifer :,
beginning with the calf. Treat the
young animal kindly and with familiari-
ty, and you will have kind and af--
fectionate cow, satisfied with her con-
dition, which is always an advantage,
the lacteal secretion being influenced by
affection. The difference is consider
able between such COW and one trained
to wiIdness. Early maternity is another
advantage, as connected with it is the
early secretion of milk, which thus be-
comes habit near the beginning of life,
the habit growing with the growth Of
the animal, enlarging and strengthening
the capacity for milk. But the animal
wants to be fed literally and we'll taken
care of, so that it can stand the early
strain. In this way what would be an
ordinary COW can be made a superior
one. 1t is therefore best to raise your
own stock, only however when: care is
taAen with it. In treating both the
young animal and the COW, the doctrine
should be, never overfeed, never under
feed, but keep up the condition and the
milk. The machine, the COW, may then
. be kept in order, and do work, good
work, for many years the second
to the 18th or 18th year, and sometimes
2 longer. I have had COWS that at Is
were as good as at any previous time.
!: Blood tells; but most is in the care,
l early begun and continued, making do
t cile, making early mixers. keeping up
$ milk and flesh, avoiding the severe heats
of Summer (by stabling and soiling), the
great cold in Winter Coy proper shelter),
e and the cold Autumn and Spring rains,
: especially the melting SHOWS of these
r periods.-[F. G., Fort Plain, N. VI
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25

Paper flour barrels are the new ar
tioles to be manufactured at Minneapo-
lis. :. 8
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25
OUR YOUNG PATRONS.
WATERFORD, March 10Th, 1874


Editors Grange Advance:
You like to hear from US young folks.
We have a good school this winter.
We like our teacher. I have two sis.
ters going to school, and three brothers
with myself. Our school is going to be
out in two weeks more. An exhibition
the last evening of our school. Our
Teacher gave US party this winter.
We return thanks to our school trustees
for four months school. We have a
good cattle law in Waterford, and I am
awful glad of it when I think how I
used to 60 after the cattle in mud and
water. My father has good pasture
for all his cattle and nice creek run
ming through it. With Gods help I
intend to NOW this season. am six
teen years old, and I intend to bind nv
station this coming harvest. My broth
er intends to cut IS acres with the
reaper. think I will close my letter.
Please excuse mistakes this time.
Please publish this.
Yours respectfully,
WILLIAM CLARK.
CASTLE Rock, Mimi,
March 18th, 1874.
M. Editor:
SIR II am little girl eleven years
old. [ thought I would write letter to
The GRANGE ADVANCE. It is the first
letter l ever wrote for paper. have
got two brothers. One is fifteen and
the other seventeen. We have got a
little dog about seventeen years old; his
name is Ducky. Don't you think that is a
pretty name. He followed pa down
to the Grange mill to-day and team
run over him and liked to have killed
him. One of my schoolmates is stay.
ing here tonight. We are having a
good time, all dressed up in mas clothes
[ forgot to tell her name which is Mary
Masters. Perhaps you would like te
know where live. We live on farm
in Eureka, a little grove around the
house that my pa planted out. W.
made sugar last year from some of thu
trees, and I gathered the sap. I vii
have to draw my letter to close now
I'm going to watch the paper and SET
whether my letter Is published.
LILLE L. WAGER.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-18
European Events for the Next Twenty
Years FOretOld by Monk.
A German paper publishes the follow,

A German paper publishes the follow
ing;
The prophecies of the Monk Tranquil
Wolfgang, died at Munich, 1873:
"1S74. Strengthening the Spanish Re-
public. Dissatisfaction in France. Gen
eral armaments in Italy A new Chief
of Government in France. Death of
Plus TX
1875. War between Italy and France.
The Italian armies besiege Paris. Defeat
of the French army. Italian occupation
of Algiers. National plebiscitum in Cor
sica, Nice and Savoy. foundations in
Austria.
1876. Paris surrenders in March. Rat.
ifcation of peace in Corsica, Nice and
Savoy, and Corsica Incorporated with
Italy. Revolution in Spain and fall OF
the Government. The pestilence in Rus
sia. Prince Fritz German Emperor
Revolution in England.
"1S77. Communism and famine in
France and Spain. European Congress
in Rome. The new Pope reconciled
with Italy. General armament in Eu-
rope. France divided into four States
foundations and hurricanes il Italy
Great cold in Germany.
"1S7S. A new European Congress in
Berlin. Death of Queen Victoria. New
Government in Spain. The Christians
in Turkey are free. Dissatisfaction in
Portugal, Poland and Hungary Cholera
in France. Discovery of n remedy fol
cholera in Bavaria.
"1S79. Great storms in England. Uni
versal peace. General disarmaments
Great discoveries at sea. The Pope re
forms the church and suspends the order
of the Jesuits.
1880 to 1890. Peace. The Pope
blesses all nations"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-18
The White Mans Party.

The Democrats of Alabama in their
recent State Convention adopted the fol
lowing resolution:
Resol0ed. That the radical and dominant fac
ton of the Republican party in this State per
sistently, by false and fraudulent representa-
tions, have infamed the passions and preludices
of the negroes, as a race, against the white peO-
pie, and have thereby made IL necessary Tor the
iohite people to unite and act together in self
defense and for the preservation OF Whtte ot0Ht-
cation.
In answer to this resolution the Repub-
licans of the same State, in their conven-
ton subsequently, held, having declared
themselves in favor of 1.-THE civil and po.
litical equality of all men, without dis
tinction of race or color" proceed to say;
We have not made race issue In the past
neither do we make or tender such an issue
What we demand for one man we demand Tor all
without distinction of race or color; ana we
point with pride and confidence 10 every line OF
our political record in proof of this declaration,
and we denounce the assertion that we have
made II necessary for a whole people 70 unite
and act together for selfdeense and for the pres
eryation Of white civilization as untrue, and an
emanation of that selfish spirit which In the past
demanded everything for one rae Tsee l ana was "h'
willing TO cOncede anything TO the other.
The population of Alabama in 1870
numbered 521 1884 white persons and
475, $40 colored persons. The two races
then were and still are nearly equal in
numbers; and, hence, both being citizens
equally entitled to vote, their political
strength is about equal. The colored
people of that State, as in the other
Southern States, and, indeed, throughout
the Union, have had the sagacity to see
that the Democratic party both North
and South, has held and still holds the
attitude OF either open hostility or heart
less indifference TO their interests and
rights, and that the Republican party II
both sections has proved itself the party
of equal civil and political rights, with
out distinction of race, color, or previous
J condition of servitude." The perception
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-18

MONDAY, Sept. 14.-Twenty persons
were killed and fifty others injured, many Of
them seriously, by a recent collision on the
Great Eastern Railway in England. m.
Guizot, the eminent French statesman
and author, died on the 18th 1.-THE
Commissioner Of the Pension Office has de-
cided as preliminary to the consideration Of
acclaim under the act Of June Is, 1874, for a
pension Of $50 a month, alleging permanent
and total disability, the applicant must pre-
sent evidence showing conclusively that he
requires the regular aid and attendance Of
another person Congressional nomina-
tions: Republican-Col. G. w. Thrasher,
Sixth Missouri District Democratic Col.
John f. Phillips, Seventh Missouri,
Dan. B. Woods, Nineteenth Ohio....A St
Paul telegram Of the 11th says Gen. Clusters
final official report to Gen. Terry recaptu-
lates his former statements and takes strong
ground in favor of the immediate opening Of
the Black Hills, for military reasons. 1t
indorses the report Of the gold discoveries,
and suggests further explorations next sea-
son. Nevertheless, Prof Winchen and Prof
Donaldson assert that Custer does not know
of his own knowledge that any color Of gold
Carolina Republican Convention, at Columbia
on the 18th, nominated ID. II, Chamberlain
for Governor; r. II. Gleaves, present incum-
bent, for Lieutenant t-Governor; r. B. Elliott,
Chairman Of the Executive Committee.
TUESDAY, Sept ia Washington dis
patch says Gov. Kellogg has called upon the
President for Federal aid to support the State
authorities in suppressng domestic vio-
lence, the Legislature not being in
session. The particulars of the recent
outbreak and fighting in New Or
leans are given elsewhere. The Republi.
cans have carried Maine by amajority of from
5000 TO 10000 They elect their Con-
gressmen in every district. ... The Indian
agent at Ponce Reservation, d. T.,
states that a party of Indians recently
arrived from Spotted Tails agency, near the
head of White River, and brought the report
that white men were coming into the Black
Hills in large numbers from Montana and
other Territories j. E. Pearson has been
nominated for Congress by the Democrats Of
the Eighth Ohio District.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-18
TIL Largest Cavern in the World.

AT the Hartford meeting of the Amer
lean Association for the Advancement of
Science, Mr.. Porter G. Bliss, late Secre-
tary of Legation in Mexico, gave de-
scription of the Cave of Cacahuamilpa,
which, according to his statement, is the
largest cavern in the world. 1t includes
a series of broad and lofty halls, with
lateral passages, extending upon the
same level an immense distance into the
heart of a lofty range of mountains.
These halls abound IN colossal stalactites
and stalagmites, of every conceivable
grotesque and fanciful form. At depth
of 200 or 800 feet beneath the cave the
mountain is penetrated by two rivers of
considerable size, which at their en-
trance are about half mile apart, and,
after flowing distance, by direct meas
urement, of five miles, emerge from the
mountain in close proximity, and thence,
uniting, form one of the chief atfiuents OF
the Mexicola. The channels in the solid
rock through which these rivers emerge
are said by Mr.. Bliss to be large enough
TO admit the Hartford State House. Frag-
ments of timber and debris are often
fioated through the mountain, but these
subterranean river-beds have never been
explored. Myriads of bats and nocturnal
birds seek shelter or make their abode in
the mouths of the cave.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-18
pERRYsBURG WOOD CO.. OHIO, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1874

that he had within reach in his own study
poison which he would take IL ever the story OF
his crime with Mrs. Titon should become public.
lie told him Of visit he had made to photog-
rapher's gallery, when he learned that one Of the
employees had mistaken a glass of poison Tor
glass OF water and, having taken and drank II,
had fallen dead with scarcely time 70 drop the
glass. Mr. Beecher said that was what he wanted
for himself, and, under the plea Of making some
Photographic experiments, he procured some Of
this same poison from the photographer, which
he told Moulton he intended to use IL an intima-
tion of his crime should be made, and then he
said II would be simply reported that Beecher
died OF apoplexy, but God, and you and will
know what caused my death" II those
who blamed Moulton could have looked
into Mr.. Beecher's grefstricken face, and
listened to the tones of his voice in
great emergencies, in which he said there was
no refuge for him but in death, they would have
felt impelled to do as generous and open-hearted
n service az he (Moulton) had practiced toward
him. 1t would have taken a harder heart than
his being witness of Mr.. Beecher's sorrows, not
to forget his aims.
The remainder Of the long statement is only
intercsting-not important-personal matters.