Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-23

Give fools their gold snd knaves their power,
Let fortunes bubbles raise aud fall
Who sows a field or trains flower,
Or plants tree is more than all
For he who blesses most Is blest,
And God and man shall have his worth,
Who tolls 10 leave bequest
an added beauty to the earth.
And soon or late to all who SOW.
The time Of harvest shall be given,
The flowers shall bloom, the fruit shall grow
II not on earth at last in Heaven.
SOMETHING ABOUT EGGs.-A writer in
the Medical journal discOursing on dys- |
pepsia, says: We have seen dyspeptics
who suffered untold torrents with almost
every kind OF food. No liquid could be
taken without suffering. Bread became
a burning acid. Meat and milk were sol
id and liquid fires. We have seen those
same sufferers trying to avoid food and
drink, and even going to the enema syr-
inge for sustenance. And we nave seen
the toFments pass away and their hunger
relieved by living upon the white Ofeggs,
which have been boiled in bubbling wa
ter for thirty minutes. At the end OF
week we have given the half yolk OF the
egg with the white, and upon this diet
alone, without liquid of any kind, we
have seen them begin TO gain flesh and
strength.
After weeks of this treatment they have
been able, with care, to begin upon 9TH
or food; and ali this, the writer adds,
without taking medicine. He says that
hard boiled eggs are not near so bad as
half boiled ones, and ten times As easy TO
digest as raw eggs, even In Ggg-nog.
Possibilities or An AcRE.-No man
knows what these are. We know that
two hundred bushels of corn were once
grown on one acre, and that five bales of
cotton have been made on the same acre
OF soil, but we do not know that the lin
its Of production were reached in either
case. We should try TO find out not
merely how much of any given crop can
he produced on one acre Of land, but how
cheaply 10 can DE grown. a big crop
may not, In all cases, bn profitable one.
1t may cost too much 10 make IL. The
greatest yield with the smallest possible
outlay of capital and labor is what we
aim at. Our farmers are often too poor,
not 80 much because their crops are small
and small they are compared with what
they might be--as because IL costs too
much to make them. We must learn to
make larssr crops with less labor. To do
this, we must go over less ground, and
make science and practical skin properly
supplement muscle and machinery
raj Carolinian.
Has The GRANGE BEEN or ANY BENEFIT
TO rrs MEMBERS f-This question wac
asked by the Whitman Grange, of Macon
county Illinois, and answered as follows
by Joe Ray, Lecturer of the Grange:
This Is question and one that address
es itself directly TO each and every MEM
Der of the Order, and one that each lndi-
vidual member would answer In differ
ent light. Some of US reaching the same
conclusion by different channels of ar
gument would say that 1t had been Il ben
eft, while others would reach a cOnclu-
sion that 1t had been Of no special benefit.
1t Is owing good deal to the greater or
less degree of interest taken In the Order,
and the questions the members come In
contact with and are called upon to read
aud investigate, whether they are made
more intelligent and are better qualified
to be good citizens by becoming menu
bers of the Order, or whether they are
benefited in n peeuniary point of view.
Many people, and especially farmers,
are apt TO think that after their school
DAYS are over that they should settle
down into the hum-drum everyday life,
without giving any thought to the past,
present, or future; but the old maxim
that we must rush or rust holds good
with the farmers rs well as the lawyer,
the doctor or the minister, and rs IL Is
not possible for us TO attend school, the
Grange will answer that purpose, and II
should be the object of every member to
make 1t perpetual school.
Farmers, as general rule, are, or have
been the most bigOted, the most cOnceit-
ed, and the most prejudiced of any of the
classes or professions in this country
this arises as much from their Isolation
as anything else. People In towns and
cities being In everyday communication
with the outside world are disposed to be
more liberal in their views. Prior to the
organization ofthe Grange, the farmers of
the neighborhoOd associated together and
regarded all outside of their immediate
community as their natural enemies.
Since the organization of the Order,
the barriers erected by prejudice that
separated one community from another,
are gradually wearing away, and they
discover after all that they are one great
family, with hopes and interests identi-
cal with each other, that others have
rights, opinion, feelings and sentiments
as well as themselves. 1t gives Us broad
er and more Just views of our fellow be-
ings; it teaches him to think for himself
or to consult with his brother farmer,
where before he allowed the editor of his
paper, the merchant he dealt with, or the
lawyer to do his thinking for him, and
generally to their advantage, while he
scarcely gave thought whether he was
right or wrong. In his guileless innnO-
cence he supposed they were little below
the angels in truth and moral purity,
and even now it is almost enough TO make
ons ashamed of the class he belongs to,
to go down town and see the gaping
mullet-heads that belong to our own
class, standing with mouths wide omen
and listening TO whatever dapper clerks,
and counter-hOppers and men who live
by their wits, see proper to tell them !;
and the worst of it is they swallow such
buncombe and then use it against their
nfasl.f
modations OF, and whom he expects to
assist him in trouble, take care OF him
when sick, bury him when dead, and
cherish his memory afterward ii anybody
does.
But this thing is being gra iuanv
changed through the influence OF the Or
der, and In every instance for good, and
there is not in this country to-day, more
intelligent, law abiding class of people
than the members of the Grange. And
it is, perhaps no exaggeratiOn to say that
they buy and read third more books
periodicals and papers than they did pri.
or to their connection with the order
This is benefit that cannot be estimated
and benefit that should be priced tho
highest. If there are members of thi.
Grange who have been members any
length of time, who are not better in cit
izenship, under our form of government
the fault is their own.
Evarr, ore has ofNnOrtuniiieS for st.i,.a
enjoyment and to develop and improv,
his talents; and even aside from the ben
efts to be derived III this way, If we sue.
coed, in a quarter of a century, in eradi
eating the prejudices that have germina
ted and grown up among US; If we sue
coed in binding the agricultural classe
in one common bond of friendship an,
fraternal union, our mission will not b
finished but only just commenced. w
will venture the assertion that no mem
Der of this or any other Grange who Ell
rolled himself under the Grange banne
with a worthy motive, but has been ben
Gifted more or less by becoming mem
Der of the Order,
1t affords monthly or semi-lsoEthly op
portunities where farmers can meet ant
enjoy themselves in social intercours
.--.... ti=>::ss .he --e-i.-s ..ies-.Nss shet 'f
feet them and their interests; even wer
it for no other purpose, it would be
idea to meet together occasionally
'ure out who gets the profits Of on
70 order has assumed such proper
= that the fellows that could neglec
WORK and sit on the fence two
41 a day. 10 talk about "them" Gran
gers, spending half days time once
month going to the Grange, while they
were ng pillow that cost four or five