Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22
L HAIL POMONA.

throughout the country. Everywhere she
is spreading her choicest fruits, i'll the shape
d strawberries, cherries, gooseberries, cur
ants, raspberries, plums, and various other
fruits. Occasionally she will board the cars
in California or Oregon. and from hese IA
vored countries send us apples, oranges,
bananas and other semi-tropical luxuries
wherewith to please the palate.
She is a good motherly goddess, and prob
ably more beloved by the young people
than any other nn the roll of mythology.
Rightly she should be since her fruits, al
ways palatable, never refuse to turn the
brightest golden side to all worshipers. The
Children love her, the youths delight to fol
low in her train, and grown-up people wor-
ship at her shrine. g.a s.# F5f. "
In ancient Greece, with the first ripening
of the earliest berries, it was the custom OF
the children to celebrate her arrival in June
as they did that of Flora in May On such
occasions dancing, singing and fruit gather
ing was the order of the day, while the
llandsomest of the young maidens was
crowned with berries and the leaves of vari-
Gus fruit trees. The Goddess was represented
with a kind, motherly face, crowned with
olivs, holding golden apples in her hand,
with a wand encircled with grapes and ber-
ries. f5t tt#3 3sfiA ~
Although mythology has long since
passed aw4sy, .yat we still admire the beauti-
full and the imaginative. where the practical
and the useful were commingled, and the
ideal formalized into the resemblance of a
living shape. The poetical ages of the past
created real forms and manuals for ideal
things. Jupiter represented power. Her.
cules, strength Cupid, love; Mars, war;;
Venus, beauty; Flora, flowers; Pomona,
fruit; Ceres, grain. etc. So that everything
useful or ornamental had its appropriate per-
sonitication in a god Or goddess. al 4t
The supplemented people of early time first
w%orshiped the ideal and then the representa-
tiyes rs true divinitives, and thus filled the
world with NEUROLOGICAL fables, many of
which form the ground of our most beautiful
poems and works of fiction and traceable
even now in many sentiments and thoughts
of the most enlightened people among the
highly civilized nations of the world. i}i
TheioYdee Of Patrons of Husbandry sym
bolizes a portion OF their secret work under
the heads of Flora, Pomona and Ceres, add
ing thereby great beauty and grace to their
inititatory services, and teaches at the same
time many useful, excellent and moral les
sons. All hail Pomona, the goddess OF fruit!
whether sitting as an officer in the grange or
invisibly supplying our orchards and GAR
dens with the most healthy good things to
meet the wants and crafty the appetites
of the young people and the old through
out the land.-National Granger.
We acknowledge a brief call from Hon.
Brigham Reed, of Gallatin, on his return
from the meeting of The Territorial Grange,
at Sheridan. Mr.. Reed is a gentleman
whom it is Il pleasure to meet and converse.
with. s
g On last Friday evening, Oh the adjourn
ment OF the Territorial Grange, at Sheridan,
they had q splendid dance ut Good Tenn
plars' Hall in that town. All present had a
pleasant and enjoyable time, so says our in
Observation-Disclosures. sa9#
Every farmer, i'll reality, is a granger.
The only difference is that one proposes to
act Systematically, and to cooperate, and
the other to act individually.s #a -
Z A good Master and an intelligent, active
7 Lecturer make a live Grange.