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The Grange advance., 1874-08-12

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Have you never gone TO town twice,
where, if you had put your wits together,
you could have accomplished everything
at one time? Have you never done one
errand when you might, just as well as
not, have done two? Do you always
have everything ready for harvesting,
stacking, and threshing, SO that you lose
none Of this very valuable time in doing
work that mig ght as we'll have been done
at some other time? Do you never do
any kind Of work when labor is worth
three dollars per day that you might just
as well have done in the Spring, when it
was scarcely worth one dollar and half,
or in the Winter when it was not worth
oneadollar per day? A great many peo-
pie think they must lay idle during the
winter months It is mistake. You
will find plenty Of work to do at all sea-
sons of the year if you are only willing
to do it; and the farmer who spends his
rainy days in idleness is not on the high
way to success.
Economic your strength, tor it is
money also. Remember that the we'll
directed blow is worth three or four
hap-hazard blows A little thought
some times will do far more than phYsi-
cal labor Our farmers do not think
enough. Remember that if you overdo
your strength to-day you are only draw
ing upon the future, and there will sure
ly be a pay day. day Of reckoning
with compound interest. No money
loaner is so constituencies and so terri
bly, inexorable and unrelenting in ex-
acting the last farthing Of principal and
interest as our own bad habits and in
discretions. They are the Shylocks that
demand their pound Of flesh, that de-
mand blood and life itself, and get it
every time.
There is much more we would say
upon this subject, but this article is al
ready too long. Many will say these
things are too trifing to merit serious
consideration. Well, there is your
wealthy neighbor with splendid dwell
ing house, with magnificent barns and
out houses, with his fine horses and
carriages, who got his start by paying
strict attention to these little things and
saving the odds and ends and in no 9th.
er way. Be assured that you will groan
in poverty to the end of your days if
you do not look we'll to these little mat
ters. They are the seed that will in.
crease an hundred fold.
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The {" Fire Blight"

For some two or three years the fruit
growers Of this and other States have
been greatly puzzled as we'll as injured
by disease attacking principally their
apple trees, and usually denominated
g. fire blight" from the fact that trees
affected with it present the appearance
of having been injured by fire. In con-
sultatiou with fruit growing friend
who has paid some attention to the mat
ter, we CLEAN the following facts and
conclusions, which we present to our
readers, hoping to lead to a discussion
and more thorough knowledge of this
scourge which is devastating 80 many
orchards.
In this vicinity the first peculiarly
of the disease noticed was that the
eastern and upper branches were at
tackled first. Later, all sides of the trees
suffer more impartially.
The second thing noticed is, that the
newer and tenderer branches are invari-
ably attacked, usually at the end Of the
branch, where there is but little woody
fiber, and from thence the disease pro-
crosses toward the trunk of the tree,
frequently destroying limb four or
five feet in length in one season. Our
friend thinks he has discovered the
originator ofthe trouble in the form Of
small, bug-like insect, colored and
shaped very much Ike the popular Sir
Knight bug that impales the detested
potato bug upon his trusty lance. It
is, however, but about one third as large
as the destroyer Of the potato pests
Penetrating the young branch-prob-
ably with his lauce-this bug deposits
the eggs that form microscopical insects,
covering them with a hard, whitish
slime, which forms little protuberance
on the outside bark. The effects that
follow are the same in appearance as if
the sap Of the branch was poisoned,
yet it is thought the deadly effects are
produced by the young insects working
down the branch in the sap. Our
friend has not microscope suitable for
such an examination, but he says a
friend with whom he has compared
notes, has made such ulicroscopical ex~
animation and found these lively insects
at work.
As to the remedy, our friend being
at home in one. branch of surgery,
adopts very prompt surgical treatment
with his own trees, and as result in-
forms US he has not lost a tree from this
cause He keeps close watch OF his
trees and a. soon a. he discovers a
branch affected with the blight" he
promptly sewers il from the tree, cut
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Will He Accept ?

The Anti-Monopohst says: "We are
glad to indorse all that the ADVANCE
says of Judge Wilder's honesty, ability,
and respectability." We are more than
grati6ed with this cordial and earnest
endorsement of Judge Wilder's pre-emi-
nent qualifications to represent the
second district in Congress. But the
Antj-Monopol!st gently chides US for
mentioning the fact that Judge Wilder
is by all means the best man in the dis.
trict for that position, and for showing
just what his qualifications are. If We
had overdrawn his merits by 50 much
as a hairs breadth, we should cheerful
ly acknowledge that our action was liza
BILE to objection, but we can see no i'm
propriety whatever in pointing out to
the people men upon whom they can
rely in every emergency, and under all
circumstances.
We are as heartily opposed to "set-
ting up pins as the Anti-Monopolist is,
but would consider ourselves Aagrantly
derelict in duty, if knowing man to
be in every way qualified for high
official position shortly to be filled, we
did not point that man out.
But while we consider the Ants-Mo-
nopolist little. hypercriticalin this mat
ter, we pass it by, for after the 9th of
September next we shall undoubtedly
join hands with it in placing Judge
Wilder in a position which he is so
highly qualified to fill, if he will only
accept it. At present the Judge is
away from home and has not the remot-
est idea that the people Of the Second
District are talking about making him
their next representative in Congress.
| The only question is, will ne accept it?
The Delevan Bee delivers itself of
the following opinion which we hope is
correct:
| The GRANGE ADVANCE at Red
| Wing is the ablest OF the Grangers'
papers. and most reliable in every re-
spect.
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ting below the part effected. In doing
this care must be taken to cut an inch
or two below where there is any visible
effect of the disease on the inner bark.
or insects will be left to continue their
work. IF trees are treated promptly in
this way it's thought they will be saved
without being much disfgured.
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Bishop Whitehouse Of Illinois died
at 9 o'clock in the morning of the 10th
inst, from paralysis Of, the brain, re-
sulting from long protracted hard labor.
Upon the death of Bishop Armitage, Of
Wisconsin, he attempted to add to his
own duties those of the Bishop Of Wis
consin. He took trip of twenty-one
days through Wisconsin during which
time he preached forty sermons. His
age was II years. and he has made a
name and reputation that will not soon
perish.
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Nothing could be more handsome
than the general appearance Of the St.
Paul Pioneer. We are not sufficiently
posted in the typographical art to point
out wherein this beauty consists, but we
can say it is the most handsome appear
ing paper that we ever saw.
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THE GRANGE ADVANCE.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1874.


WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1874
A little tour-page sheet, about nine by
thirteen inches in size, called the Novelty
Press, says that The GRANGE ADVANCE
els almost wholly devoted to the abuse
of Dunnell.' Whatever is this world a
coming to when such striplings as this
will lie 50 outrageously.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher writes to
a friend in New England that she and
her husband are walking through fire,
unharmed and untcaring." If this be
true, they have a little the toughest
hides Of any creatures Of ancient or
modern times. If Fox's martyrs
had only had that kind Of covering they
never would have perished in flames.
The Chicago Post copies an article
from The GRANGE ADVANCE without
giving us any credit. Thereupon the
Red Wing 4A>yus, in its last issue, cop
les from the Post, and gives it credit
for the same What is fame and why
struggle for it if it slips from our grasp
so easily us this? Is there no way to
anchor the thing down where it be-
longs?
And now it is said that Mrs Isabella
Hooker, Mr. Beecher's sister, is and has
been insane tor years. y few days ago
it was Tilton that was crazy. 1t seems
that insanity instantly strikes every
body who utters word aeainst Mr.
Beechcr Moulton had better loogk a
leedle out or he may wake up some fine
morning to find he is raving maniac
anu always mas Deen
In his lecture on Saturday night last
DIR. CD VLcary said: [ presume that
there are other men who can perhaps
write as we'll az [ can, for my business is
to lecture Now, doctor, why did you
make that humiliating confession p
Why did you thus dash our hopes and
our confidence to the earth and shiver
them like broken glass? Other men
who can write as we'll as YOU cah Dr..
we do not propose to have our confidence
tampcrcd with in this way. We abso.
lutel ly refuse to believe it.
The Goodhuc County Mass Conven-
tion is to be held at Featherstone Hall,
on the third day of September. It will
probably be the largest convention ever
held in this county. If the town hall
should not be large enough to accommo-
date all, they will adjourn to the nearest
grove and proceed to business. We un-
derstand that this convention is not to be
confined to farmers, but that all mechan-
les and laboring men are most cordially
invited to be present and take part, and
it is earnestly hoped that they will do so.
The interests of the laboring and produc-
ing classes are very nearl y Identical
Situated as Red Wing is, so near such
vast sources Of malaria, it becomes doub.
ly important that we keep our alleys and
back yards pure and clean. It is of a
thousand times more importance that we
preserve absolute cleanliness, than that
we build and grade the streets. The
health of our city should be placed high
above every other consideration. Re-
member that the great bay on the west
and the island on the north are continu
ally throwing off noxious exhalations
which taint the air with fevers and death.
Let us see to it that we do not make our
alleys and back yards their allies in this
work of disease and destruction of life.
War war }! war;! TO the knife,
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A little four-page sheet, about nine by
thirteen inches in size, called the Nouelty
Press, says that The GRANGE ADVANCE
els almost wholly devoted to the abuse
of Dunnell. Whatever is this world a
coming to when such striplings as this
will lie so outrageously.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-31
snTolk Cows.


The tendency appears to be towards
the Poland China as the hog for the
farmer, as combining many good quail
ties still many of tho best feeders IA
vor other breeds. Probably the largest
breeder of Suffolks in the w st is John
Wentworth, of Chicago, at his Summit
farm. near the CITY. In this farm he
has 1000 acres, and being a man of
wealth, he takes pleasure in expert
menting on the various kinds of stock
hogs, cattle, and horses, and ascertain
ing as far as one mans testimony may
go, which has the preference in profit
to the owners. We give mis- conclusions
(not ours), promising that at the time
they were made he had 800 Suffolks
and but few others. After trying
carefully all other kinds, he says, 1--WE
gave the preference to the Suffolks, and
we think all others will who try them
as long and impartially as We have.
They make the most pork with the least
food, ar d with the least bone. They are
the quietest hogs. Give them enough
TO eat and they will never leave the
premises. They lie down and remain
so until they want more food. They
make the least offal of any hogs, and
they root about the least, even when
huDIt Ol AOOus VI Slbooih6 NEOA SuLSA
hogs, they have decidedly the prefer
ence. Their cross upon the largest
white sows make the best of Chester
Whites. In them there is no breeding
back to the original common stock.
Their iitters are not part good and part
bad, but they are uniformly good.
They breed even, each pig as good as
another. The Suffolk may be small,
compared with mammoth breeds, but
he contains as much that is eatable as
most hogs of double his weight, and
which consumes four times his food. p
Des lNoines Reqister.
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a Modlsh DrawIng-Room.

Speaking of house furnishing, Paris
correspondent says: The mode is to
keep out CT your drawiBg-room every
thing resembling what is commonly
termed "a set of drawing room furnituF;
that is TO say, so many sofas QaFge or
smalD, so many arm-ehairs, 50 many
chairs without arms, all of the same
wood and covered with the same tissue.
The highest touch Of the day is to be
quit of all that sort of thing, to furnish
your room with hangings, cushions,
statues, rare poreelains, rare plants, and
as many things as You can get together
You scout the idea of having tive seats
alike IN fact, you hardly admit any
regular Feats at all the cushions are to
do duty for seats. The first thing that
strikes the eye on entering one of these
temples of refined elegance Is probably
a chaste and graceful nymph, in marble.
between a pair of enormous vases OF
Chinese or Japanese procelain, or per-
haps Of Minturin's peculiarly charming
style, containing a couple of palm trees,
or some other plants equally exotic.
Over the richly covered chimney-piece,
a magnificent glass and splendid clock,
branch candleslicks, little vases, etc,
esc., scattered between them on the rich
covering OF velvet or embroidery thai
hides the shelf of the mRntel-piece.
Opposite the first place is the grand
piano (Erard or Pleyel) to which the
divinity of the place confides her ieve-
ries, the piano itself being covered with
a 10th of Java canvas embroidered in
arabesdues, and bordered with a siiken
fringe of tassels of every color. Two
enormous cushions, covered with silk or
embroidery, compose a chair one cush-
ion being the seat and the other the
back. Each pair of .cushions (squRre)
is of different color, but all very quiet;
black with crimson or dark blue but
tons liver color, mouse color, and so
on. These cushions make the most de-
lightful seats possible, but can't be
moved about without some trouble, and
therefore are dotted about Just where
people are expected to cit. Eastern
silks and other tissues, bToadelOth Gov
cred with various kinds Of embroidery,
anY quiet, rich tissue is used for cover
ing them the more unc mmon the bet.
ter. The only thing in the room that
can properly be called a piece OF fur
niture' is an octagOn table, styled Louis
XIV. in ebony elegantly carved and Law
ishly supplied with writing materials Of
every kind, comprising an inkstand,
blotting- boook, book. cutter, letteT-scale
and a number Of small Golfers Of various
kinds, a basket or mounted plate for
visitors cards, sll of the most elegant
and artistic character, but none of them
being for show only, all OF them, on the
contrary, being evidently In constant
uaa
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-31
Windows in Horse-stables.

A German paper states some curious
facts relating to the position OF windows
in horse stables, and their power to eff
feet the eyes of horses. In one instance,
the horses of farmer--fine animals,
celebrated for their excellent condition
were kept in a stable lighted only by
a small window at one side. When
light was needed for work, the door was
temporarily left open the result was,
that nearly all of these animals had eyes
of unequal strength, and in time num-
her of them became blind on the side
toward the window. Strong light di-
rsetsd in the horses faces has been
found to weaken the sight. The worst
position of all for a stable window IS IN
'front.' of the horses and much higher
than their heads. An officer had bought
a perfectly sound mare from gentle
man whose stable was lighted by win
dows at the rear of the stalls. The
animal was sound and perfectly satis-
factory. After three months she became
suddenly 'ground shy;" on examining
her ewes they we're found to be directed
inward, and this was explained by the
fact that the windows of the officers sta
ble were situated above the head OF the
stalls. the ewes being generally drawn
in that direction. She was removed to
another stall, where the light was ad-
mitted from all sides, and IN three
menths' time the difficulty had dlsap-
Deared.
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EnIoviue a Battle.

The first day Of the bombardment Of
Iran, says Spanish correspondent,
drew thousands Of spectators to witness
the engagement. All along the road
which skirts the French side Of the BIZ
dsssoa z row Of carriages Of every i'm
nginable shape aud style was drawn mp,
and many Of the occupants we're indulg-
ing IN champagne and sandwiches, as If
they were on the plessanteHt Of picnic
excursions. Et was OF at all an unfre-
uuent thing TO hear pretty Spanish OF
French girl saying, " wish they'd go
on quicker; this Is such slow work. .
Several Americans and English who
we're present were none the less blood
thirsty, forgetting that, although more
rapid firing on either side would have
intensified their own excitement, yet Il
would have increased the number Of
killed and wsuuded to a considerable
extent.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-31
Lime and areen Manuring.

lime is generally aRRlied ia quan-
ties Of from twenty tOehIty bushels per
acre. No constituent Of the soil il
more readily removed from It by drain
aae-water than lime. Wells that have
previously given soft water have given
hard water soon after the land around
them had been dressed with lime. The
small! quantity that could be diiled
along with the seed would be ineffec-
tive. Twenty bushela per acre every
four years would be q moderate appli-
cation. and it should be applied broad
cast, when reduced to a fine powder by
dry slacknag, Immediately before the
wheat is aciWn aDd narrowed IN along
with the seed. Forty cents G busbel is
too great a cost for profit. Lime ought
not cost more than fifteen cents bushel
anywhere within twenty miles Of q bed Of
limestone. Gypsum, much more costly
than lime, ought TO be procured ground
ready for use at forty cents q bushel.
Rather than pay forty cents Tor lime,
gypsum (which is sulphRte Of hme)
would be more profitable at Fifty cents,
the highest price we have known even
for imported Nova Scotia gypsum. As
It is twice As soluble in water es lime.
and supplies sulphuric acid IS we'll as
HAAAz ~ tAAG WANF ~ 40 ANNa ~ AAaAAalA
smaller quantities. One hundred
pounds OF one and one-fourth bushels
per acre, is considered a heavy dressing.
The pIoWiDg under Of green crops Is
not likely to sour the sol, unless stag
nsnt water exists Ia It. The presence
OF such water IN the soil favoEs the pro-
duction Of aeids, but where the soil is
free from it there iB always sufficient
alkaline matter 70 take up the acids
which may be formed dEring the do
composition Of growing grass, clover,
or buckwbeat, which may be piowed
under. BarDyard manure is The cheap
est and most useful fertilizer for al or
any crops.-Nesg York Tribune.
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Rather Expensive Furs.

The subject of furs brings to my mind
the Empress OF Russia's visit 70 Paris,
on her way to the south from England
which she visited on the occasion Of her
daughters, the Duchess of Edinburgh,
confinement. The cloak the majesty of
the north Wos on her ARRIVAL is said TO
be Of the value Of 1000, 600 francs, con-
sistinR of the richest Siberian zhibel-
line. Not less than DDS skins were en-
pIoyed In the cloak, each skin being es-
timated at 300 francs. But this is Tar
from coming up to the value Of the fur
trimming Of q coat of the Emperor Of
Russia. which, consisting Of blue fox,
most rare and valuable fur, is worth up
ward of 100, 600 francs. Mad. Adeline
Patti, the Marquise de Oaux, received
IS a present from the Emperor Alexan-
der. during her late visit to st. Peters
burg, o set OF magnificent fuTs, OF the
valne OF $4,000 francs. This may be
said to sing to some purpose. The
eouipage of the Marquise when she ar
rived IN Paris created no little sensa-
tion black horses, bells, furs, and even
coachman, were all got up in true Rus
sian style Nothing was wanting the
pretty prima donna herself, sitting
gracefully within, and looking as If
waiting for the oTations which were
awaiting her on the Partisan boards, IN
her new part Of Valentine. IN "The
HuRuenots new to her admirers here,
though ore OF her early successes in
New Orleans.-PGrie letter
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-31
Usefulness Of Diamonds.

Many persons suppose that diamonds
are only used IS jsWelry-for rings aud
other articles Of personal adornment ;
a. q that they are really of no essential
value whatever in the practical arts.
This Is a mistaken notion they are used
for great number Of purposes in the
arts. Thus, for cutting the glass OF our
windows into proper sizes, no ether sub
stance can equal il, and it is exclusively
used for tins purpose. A natural edge
OF point, as it is called, is used for this
work, and thousands OF such are aunus
ally required in cur glass factories
Diamond-p points are also required for
engraving on comedians, amethysts, and
other brilliants, and for thu fine cut
tings on canoes and seals. Being very
hard, the diamond is also used in chro-
nometers for the steps of pivots and as
it possesses high refractive power and
little longitudinal alteration, i has
been successfully employed for the
small, deep lenses Of single microscopes.
The magnifying power Of the diamond,
in proportion to that of piate-glass,
ground TO a similar form, is as eight 20
three. For drawing minute lines on
hard steel and glass, to make micro
meters, there is no substitute for the
diamoRd-point. The rough diamond is
called bort. and the Hpoints" used for
glass-cutting are fragments of the borts.
Great care and skill are necessary in
selecting the cutting points, because
the diamond that cuts the glass most
successfully has the cutting edges of
the crystal placed ct right angles to each
other and passing through a point of
intersection made by crossing the edges.
A polished diamond, however perfect
may be its edges, when pressed upon
the surface OF glass, splinters 1t with
the slightest of pressure but with the
natural diamond the most accurate lines
are produced on glass, and their sur
faces are so finely FURNISHED that il
ruled close together they compose light.
and afford the most beautiful prismatic
effect-all the cOlors oi the rainbow
flash from them as from the silvery IN
terror of a pearl oyster-sheli. Diamonds
are also employed as drill-points 20 per
forate rubies and draw holes in draw
plates for fine wire, and also for drilling
in hard steel. Some inquiries have been
made recently in regard TO using them
as a substitute for steel-picks IN dress
ing mill-stones. We apprehend that
they are altogether too expensive for
this purpose at present but If some of
our inventors would make the discovery
of manufacturing diamonds as chesply
as we make charcoal, which is of the
same composition, we might be able to
recommend them to our milleTs. The
coke obtained from the interior of gas
retorts, in many cases, Is found so hard
that it will cut glass, but as its point
endUTes but for a short period, it can
not be made available as a profitable
substitute for the natural diamond for
such purpose IN the arts.