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The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-10-27
Worth knowing.

Very often screw hole gets so worn
that the screw will not stay in. Where
glue is handy, the regular carpenter makes
the hole larger and CLUES in large plug,
making nest for an entirely new hole.
But this is not always the case, and people
without tools, and in an emergency, often
have to fix the thing at once. Generally
leather is used, but this is SO hard that it
does not hold we'll. The best of all things
is to cut narrow strips of cork, and fill the
hole completely. Then force the screw in.
This will make as tight a job as if driven
into an entirely new hole.
Another hint of similar character may
be useful. One often desires to put sta
pie into a block of stone. The hole is
made, the staple inserted, and lead melted
and run in. But unless the hole is made
with the bottom larger than the top, the
lead will in time work out, if there is
much jar or side strain on the iron.
Besides, the lead itself is liable to some
compression, which admits of looseness,
especially after being subjected to very hot
fires. A much better article is sulphur.
If this be melted and poured in around
the staple instead of lead, it makes much
more durable job. Besides, it is often
more easy to procure sulphur than lead, as
every store keeps it that deals in general
variety.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-10-27

TNLANNELs--A splendid assortment Of Flan-
Il nels Just opened by +. MORTIMER.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-10-27
Neat Ralls..

A savory way Of preparing meat is in the
form of meat.balls, made thus : Cold boil
ed or raw beef, or pork chopped very fine,
put into dish, together with eggs-one to
each half pound of meat-crumbs of light
bread soaked and mashed fine, couple of
medum.sized onions, chopped (may be
omitted if not liked season to taste with
salt if the meat is fresh pepper, nutmeg,
and allspice, and form into egg-shaped
balls with the hand. II too moist to form
well' add little flour, and fry in plenty Of
lard.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-10-27
Preserving Eggs for Winter.

Pack them in clean vessel, with the
small end down, strewing bran between
each layer, then place one or two thick
nesses of brown paper over the top, and COW
or with an inch or AN inch and a half
Of salt. Cover close, and keep in cool
place, and they viii be much better than
the old method of sailing down, which al
ways hardens them.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-10-27

eB- Bre.pl fritters are made by soaking
bread crumbs in milk over night. In the
morning add an egg and salt and very
li&tle flour, as the thicker the batter is
made by the crumbs, the shorter and more
delicious they are.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-10-27

tB- Beef toast is prepared by chopping
fine the remnants of beefsteak or cold
roast beef 1t should be warmed up with
little water and seasoned with butter,
salt, and pepper. Slices of bread should
be toasted and laid on platter, on which
the meat is to be turned when hot.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-10-27
CorD-Starch Cake.

Whites of twelve eggs, three cups sugar,
one cup butter, three cups flour, one cup
corn-starch, one cup milk, two teaspoons
cveam- tartar, one teaspoon soda vanilla
70 suit taste. Frosting improves the cake.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-10-27
sugar Crackers.

Flour four pounds, sugar and butter each
half pound, water one and half pints;
knead thoroughly, make it into crackers
and bake till crisp.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-10-27

a. A bit of glue dissolved in skim-milk
and water will restore rusty Grape; at least
so says one Of our exchanges. Would that
it were as easy to restore weakly frames,
rusty consciences, debilitated love, and play
cd ont constitutions
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-10-27
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS

We invite communications from all persons who are
interested in matters properly belonging 10 TINS ue-
partment
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25

Says a recent number Of: Frank Les
lies Illustrated Newspaper, |" Over
500, 900 tracts were issued to farmers
by the National Grange last year
This little paragraph, in an ont Of the
way corner of the journal from which it
is taken, is full of meaning to the mem
bers Of the Grange. Il shows that the
Order is honestly and efficiently perform
ing one of the principal portions OF its
work, for one of its main objects is the
collection and dissemination of informa-
tion relating to agricultural interests
and OF value to the farmer. Half mil
lion little tracts sanctioned and sent out
from the Central Grange find their way
to millions of readers. They are couched
in plain and simple language, and
abound in practical information. They
are read, also. The farmer receiving
such tract reads it with confidence, as
he knows that it has come from men
who are earnestly seeking his good as a
member Of the great interest for which
they are working. * x *
The Grange does not regard the farm.
er as mere machine, a mere drudge
1t looks upon him as reasonable re-
sponsible being, and seeks to elevate and
improve him. It stretches over him
the shield of it's protection against the
enemies that assail him and seek to rob
him Of the rewards of his Industry it
offers him the means of social enjoy
ment, and teaches him the duty Of health
full recreation and pleasure; it recog-
nizes the right Of woman to share the
pleasures as we'll as cares of man, and
secures her pure andennobling influence
and cooperation in it's work and it
teaches and enforces the lesson that the
most intelligent and thoughtful farmer
is sure to be the most successful.
In short, the Grange seeks to make
better farmers of the agricultural class.
X It is to the farmer a wise
and judicious friend, and it advises only
that which his own good sense tells him
is the best course for him.-Histo,y of
Grange Increment.
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25
For the Advance.
4 Hundred Years Ago.

VAsA, March 21st, 1874.
A hundred years ago much the same
questions were agitating the colonies
that are moving the agricultural masses
of our country::to.day; their oppression
sprung from the Mother Country"
our trouble is at home with our own
Government. On the 10th Of Decem-
Der, 1918, the forbearing patience of the
people gave way, the limit had been
reached; all protests against un-
righteousness and unjust taxation had
been unheeded, everything proved in
etfectual Meetings were held in diff:
ferent parts Of the country considering
the situation, when the spell was broken
by half a hundred New Englanders
headed by 'Old Sam Adams" dis
guised as Mohawk Indians, who glided
silently to the wharf at Boston harbor /;
noiselessly and quietly they boarded
some ships loaded with an obnoxious
article, that was the expression and
embodiment Of the " "odious - tax law,
and without molesting any other lading
unceremoniously emptied the "Tea"
into the sea.
We cannot complain Of "Stamp
Acts" nor unjust laws emanating from
another country, and enforced by !
hireling soldiery, but We can complain
of the Government Of our own country,
for it has almost imperceptibly !" slid !"
into the hands of corrupt monopolies
and privileged classes, and run in their
interests, not BY ! hireliag soldiery, but
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25

4 hireling Congress, that has been in
their hands like "clay in the hands q
the potter" while the true interests Of
our land has been overlooked. The real,
the substantial interest of our country
is it's landed estate. it is the bed rock
and foundation of our whole structure ;
financial panics don't disturb its solidity,
it is the same from one generation to an-
other, you cannot drive it away, neither
can it run away; how unlike capital
that hides itself when the breath of a
Jay Cooke strikes it !; it is gone before
you are aware Of it. and searching for
it, is like the old "Sam" looking for a
"needle in hay stack; ~ to-day in
New York, tomorrow in Europe, and is
as likely to turn up in China or Japan
as anywhere else; in its absence it cre-
ates debt, and the landed interests of
the country must foot the bill. In the
future we must see to it for ourselves.
that men who want Office must he
"above .suspicion," tried men that can
not be bought or sold, men on whom
the - smell Of fire had not passed" "
The powers that be are with our ene-
mics; while one hand is held out to us,
the other is spread to its fullest extent
receiving subsidies, railroad stock,
and bribes of all kinds, and these are
so lavishly given, that they bring down
the scales on the wrong side; it may
look little curious to us farmers, but
not having handled these articles we
are ignorant of their weight. I
suppose they must be the $: Weightier
matters of the Law"
UNCLE TOM.
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25
-
For the Advance.
;. + Is VAsA, March 18th, 1874.

T. = -" VASA, March 10Th, 1874.
Mr.. ED1ToR IL think the most In.
teresting meeting our Grange ever held
was on.the first Tuesday Of this month,
at their regular meeting. At the pre-
vious meeting our Lecturer had proposed
for discussion the cost Of raising wheat
for the last five years. ~
There were FIVE estimates presented,
varying from forty-tive to ninety cents
per bushel, the lower estimates were
based on the mere cost Of production,
while the ones rating higher included
interest at twelve per cent. on capital
invested; the last method is unquestion
ably right and proper, the principle be-
ing applied in all KINDS Of business.
The average was little less than sixty
five cents per bushel; the short crop Of
1871 cost the same to produce (except
a tri1e on threshing) that the abundant
crop Of last year cost; this Of course
would make the average higher. We
propose to continue the investigation
until satisfactory result is attained.
If other Oranges have had this ques-
tion up for ventilation and discussion,
no doubt all would be edited and pleased
to hear from them.
W. S. GROW.
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25
CORRESPONDENCE.
VOICES OF WORKINGMEN.
FREE AS SUNSHINE.
The Religion OF Labor.
FREE AS SUNSHINE.
BY A WORKINGMAN.

hellglOu uOeS uOU ~'VOS0oACA SOuoloV
of devotional exercises, but as we'll Of
daily work. We get wrong idea Of
christianity when We reduce it all to
songs and sermons, to prayers; solemn
faces and ecclesiastical paraphernalia.
It is not especially for Sabbaths and
sanctuaries, but also for week days, for
shops, for home, for mills, for stores,
for streets, an6 fields. Religion is
largely an outdoor institution. Its au-
thor was born, baptized, transfgured
and crucified under no roof but the
sky. It means diligence in business,
serving the Lord in common vocations
and every day relations, as we'll as in
oonsecrated sylables on set OCCASIONS
Jesus Was more sublimely great stand
ing alone at the carpenters bench in
Nazareth, with an apron on, than if he
had been surpliced as a priest in the
temple, or arrayed in robes Of royalty
on Pilates throne. He was greater
with an ADJ in his hand than with a
crown on his head.
Christianity allows no aversion to-
ward the mechanic, farmer or working
man. It gives him an honorable posi-
tion. It invites him to his home, and
visits him in his. Yet how many rich
young ladies who would scorn to asso-
oiate with the sons and daughters Of
our workmen! The matrimonial prob
lens that busy their brains, involve
such fractions as lawyers, physicians,
large salaried preachers, wholesale mer-
chants, millionaires, and gentlemen Of
leisure. It would be ridiculous, they
think, to throw themselves away on
mechanics and farmers! OF course So
ciety has its afinities, and that is we'll.
Education grants it. Refinement and
culture seek their level. But zoe dig
doaon for gold Too often dissipated
dandyism is petted and honored, while
intelligent labor is denied a place.
The difference between building houses
and selling them is not so great that
one should be considered contemplate
and the other illustrious. Really as a
business, it makes but little difference
whether man mends clothes, bones,
pens, houses, laws or morals. Work is
work, and nothing less; man is man,
sand nothing more.
Productive labor is the duty of all
and that is religion itself, every day and
every hour. Make labor your reli-
gion, and labor your principle of true
aristocracy, and labor your present slo-
~ and eternal salvation-and what a
blessed world we soon shall have!
CHAMpL1N, MIMI, March 18th, 1874.
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25

Prof: Krasan of Vienna claims to
have demonstrated that wheat will bear
/" boiling heat for some hours without
losing it's power of termination, "desic-
cation being effected BY q very gradual
rise Of temperature, and the use Of chic
ride Or calcium" Sixty-6ve degrees for
one hour Was the limit previously sup
posed.
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25
On FOllOWing.Up.

On Following.Up.
The editor Of the Riverside Bulletin
always has something good to say, be-
fore he says anything. And he never
said anything better than the following,
which We extract from his number for
October first:
The world of business is always roll
ling its little paper wads and firing
them at passers-by, but we doubt if
there are any three words which embody
so much stern wisdom as those which
every business man is called upon to utter
to his subordinate or associates, "Fol-
low it up" They are in the air so
constantly that there is no need to shout
them from placards or letters Of gold.
The sum of rules for success is con-
tanned in them. How many an ardent
beginner in a profession or business,
who started on full run, has come
limping in after his fellows, because he
could not follow it up. How many a
capital piece of game has been lost be-
cause the hunter who beat the bush had
forgotten to load his gun, and 50 could
not follow it up. How many a servant
has loitered by tie way because: his
master. having sehs him on an errand,
did not follow him up.
A merchant who had built large
business by judicious advertising, told
the editor once that he had system Of
dispatching circulars by messengers to
the houses of possible customers.-
i" But how" asked the editor, could
you be sure that your messengers de-
livered them ?" cob! I sent man
to watch them" "And then you
watched him? ?" EYES," He was a
follower-up. This indeed touches upon
the special weakness Of organizations
otherwise we'll planned and meant to
run we'll. The chief gives an order to
his subordinate, who executes it throug h
other agents. Now there are few per-
sons removed two degrees from the one
actually fulfilling an order who do not
temporarily lose sight of it. They do
not follow it up in mind and remain un-
easy until it comes back in the shape of
a trustworthy report as complete and
fulfilled. 1t is so easy to give an order
and regard the thing as then done. 1t
is like Mr.. Micawber's method of pay
ing his debts by giving notes for which
he had made no provision. The army
system of punctual reports is requisite
in every large establishment; but in
every establishment, large or small, the
essential thing is that the person in
charge should knoeo in some way or
other that an order is carried out, and
should follow every order to its execu-
ton.
The motto is equally applicable to
the conduct Of any enterprise. Unless
it be followed up, the positions gained,
held securely and ne" advances made,
the immediate success soon becomes
worthless. The mao in the parable
Who had his one pound was so far we'll
of, but because he did not follow it up
he never got to be ruler over even one
little city. And as We seem gradually
dropping, not into poetry but preaching,
finally, brethren. observe the sigui6-
canoe Of the word up. "Follow it up "
is the text, because every persistent
pursuit leads one on to higher vantage
ground. No man who eyer faithfully
followed his work found he was follow:
ing it down.
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25
u, MRS. JULIA GRIFFETH.
KELLOGG, Wabasha Co., MINI.

The jackson Co.. Republican
inquiries Of our correspondent the loca-
ton Of the fine lead Of coal that has
been opened near Jackson. We hope
our correspondent will make a note Of
this. An. editor should not be ignorant
Of the topography, the minerology and
geology Of the section Of the country in
which he lives. There was some ex-;
cuse for Ignorance before THE GRANGE
ADVANCE came into existence, but
now let all men be fully enlightened.
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25
For the Grange Advance.


Editor Of The Grange Advance:
DEAR SIR Having accidentally
come in possession Of copy of your pa
per, and by the reading of it having
seen that you are a friend to the op-
pressed farmer, I take the liberty to ad-
dress you, althoug h am woman. |
believe this is cause that women can
labor in successfully. Do not we far
mer's wives have to put up with all the
privations that our husbands suffer in
consequence of the monopolies that now
govern US. We, men and women, labor
hard, early and late on our farms, and
are as economical as possible, aud at
the end of the year we are in debt.
Why is it? What is to be done?, Is
there no relief for us? Yes, the glori-
Gus light is beginning to dawn on US,
we are now where slavery was at the
time the time they hung John Brown.
He commenced in the hot bed of
slavery, we will begin by fighting the
hydra headed monopolies. We will es-
tablish cash system, buy nothing of
these middle men. We had better be
reduced to a good calico dress to wear
to church, than to be owing the mer.
chant. By curtailing all our little ex-
penses, we may be able to help our hus-
bands to lift the mortgages that are
hanging over our homes, and to
educate our sons and daugh-
ters, and fathers and mothers
let us teach them to be honest, they
may yet be called to fill hig official
places look at the papers fresh from
the press, they are filled with accounts
Of dishonesty, our government is full Of
corruption. 1t is fashionable at Wash
ington to be supported in ease and lux
ury at the expense Of the people, and
while we are doing without many Of
the necessaries Of life. Are these to
continue? No indeed Already We
hear the rumbling wheels Of reform
God speed the. time when oppression
shall be done away!
| Perhaps: Mr.. Editor, this will be cast
into the waste paper basket, because il
is written by woman, farmers wife
too. By some we are considered only
diggers Of the soil, but I tell you We
farmers are the bone and sinew of the
country. :'@
! u; MRS. JULIA GRIFFETH.
! KELLOGG, Wabasha Co., MINI.
The .Ia0ka6n (No\ Ro,o,,hZ:cnx
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25
The Dangers Of Being Loved.

From the present outlook, to be a
young lady and to have some one fall
in love with you, is a dangerous matter
If things continue thusly it would be
money in the pockets of the young ladies
if they never had been born. Young
men who get in love now w-a-days do not
60 on their knees and say soft things,
but they get pistol and proceed to
blow out the brains of the object of
their alteration. This may be sport for
the young men, but we opine that the
ladies do not pine after that kind of
love making. Pistols will soon be a
synonym for the tender passion.
A few weeks since some young people
in Salem county. New Jersey, were re.
turning from pleasure party in the
evening. Three young ladies were
riding together in a carriage when they
passed two young men, on foot, who
had been to the same party. Just after
they got by, one Of the young ladies
cried out that she was shot. The others
we're greatly frightened, and the car
riage was driven rapidly home, when it
was found that she had received pistol
ball in her back.
One Of the young men admitted that
the ball was shot from a pistol which
he held in his hand.
The young man is represented to have
been suitor for the hand of the injured
girl.
In Maryland a short time ago a
young man was tried for shooting, with
intent to kill, his cousin, to whom he
had been engaged. He shot her with
a pistol and the wound was very dau-
gerous one; but she recovered, and be.
came very friendly toward him before
his trial. He was acquitted.
In New York John Doyle, police
man, was in love with Mary Lawler.
His affection for her was very violent,
and he took very violent way to mani
fest it. He went to the place where
she was employed, beckoned her into the
hallway, and shot her through the head.
She died Immediately.
The world is the stage, men are the
performers, Chance composes the piece,
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25

If it wasn't for the, Law. a man could
make = fortune in half the time he does
The Grange advance., 1874-03-25

The world is the stage, men are the
performers, Chance composes the piece,
Fortune distributes the parts, the fools
shift the scenery, the philosophers are
the spectators, the rich occupy the boxes,
the powerful have their seat in the pit,
and the poor sit in the gallery. The
fair sex presents the refreshments, the
tyrants occupy the treasury bench, and
those forsaken by Lady Fortune snuff
the candles. Folly makes the concert,
and Time drops the curtain. - =,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-31

weak and declined = to III per cent The ex-
trelne decline was in Erie, which feil on from
- to255.. wabash declined rom zFs 20 Ky ",
ana Western Onion from ~ 10 ~. A. NE
second board there was recovery OF 70 =
per cent. from the lowest point During the
last hour Of business the market was weak
and lower. on TIE report OF a mercantile fall
gre, but just previous 10 the close prices lai-
lied q to = per cent. when the failure was
York Central, which rose nom 100 !
70 1915, ON small business.
Rock Island advanced from s54 TO
rs, and Wesiern Union from lets 10 as. Inc
Improvement ia the balance OF the list WAS =
20 = per cent. The decline ia wabash Was
caused by a report. nom Toledo, that The
company were IN AREAS 10 their employees,
and that the latter had waited on the presi-
dent and demanded pay. The market closed
active and strong. IL Is reported that John
Dun has sold his stock in the Atlantic ana
Pacific Telegraph company 20 the Union "a
cine all way and resigned as president OF tne
company. Mr. y p Morton has also r. ~ il ne
as trustee In Atlantic Snd Pacific, STOCK sales
were 10000 shares, Of which $500 were Mts,1-
ern Union. SOD Pacific Mail, 22J0O Erie iei00SS
Lake shore, 1000 Union Psoihe ana ,i tI,,So
Wabash. The following are the quoiAus95niss.
Canton, 4S; Western Union telegraph -, .S ,,.
Quicksilver, 295S; Adams express colul'n
ny, ll5; Wells a Fargos express ,S IYlniisi
States express company, ga fhclltsg5 49,
a. New York Central lei h asri ,ss' pre-
ferred- ~. Michigan Central, q; Pittsonrg
and Eort Wavue. s7lt; NorthWes iern, -
Northwestern preferred, 81: 10 TX Aslsnol
81. sew Jersey Central, lOll{ 81. Paul, 80
81 Paul preferred. 50ls; Wabash, Va wa
basin preferred, 30; Fort wayne, W IetIe
Hsufe, l07; Terre Haute preferred, lIoi Cht-
eaoo and Alton, as; Chicago and Alton pre-
ferred. ig4; Ohio aud Mississippi Ntsi
Cleveland Columbus ana CINCINNATI ~
Burlington and quincy, lgVil LAKE shore ~
Chicago. Columbus and INDIANA Central -
Illinois Central, giiz; Union Pacific, 81; Cen
trial Pacific bonds, E-aE. Union Pacific bonds,
So; Hartford snd Enc, ioJ3s; Delaware and
Iackawsna, lGs<.