The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-03-28

patch and darn, Mary takes lessons
in cooking. Mr.. Smith subscribes
for an agricultural paper, and him.
self and the boys read it thoroughly
instead of lounging at the neighbors.
1t won't do for him to be behind his
fellows. They both listen to the dis
cussions in the Grange on the sub
jects of Agriculture, Horticulture,
stock-raising and finance. They are
worth listening to, for the men do
not use the same language that they
use while sitting on the barnyard
fence, and so they benefit themselves
as we'll as their hearers. Mr.. Smith
hears the subject of soaring for
tools discussed, and soon builds
a tool house and wagon she'd cit
is little present expense he says.
s'but it will pay tenfold.'' The yards
are cleaned, and shade trees set out
or trimmed up. Vines are trans
planted into the yard. Fences are
mended and stock made secure. The
fowls have premises Of their own pre-
pared for them. The house undergoes
repairs. A kitchen is added, not
very large or fine, maybe, but it con-
tains a cistern, pump and kitchen
drain. And the weary hours thus
saved from slavish drudgery helps to
brighten home, and train the younger
children in neat Industrious habit.
He finds Betsey ready helper. so he
begins to teach the children to save
CT in, 0vrl, q hn
say "Come and sit down with me,
the girls will do the work. And
when he places the footstool aud
shakes up the cushion she feels CRATE
full and happy. Gradually new furni-
ture takes the place of the old. AS the
place is renovated without, the house
within keeps pace with it. Other
papers and periodicals are added to
the one. Books follow-good books
and Mr.. Smith begins to take an
interest in the district school.
and holds out new incentives to his
children, to form studious habits.
''They will be nobody without an ed
ucation,' he says. Combination ena-
bles him to furnish all the farm tools
and machinery he needs, at reduced
prices. and each labor saving machine
helps to make him and his boys like
farming better than before.
Labor saving machinery finds its
way into the house and helps to make
sunny the faces of it's inmates, for
Betsey has learned the folly of useless
labor. Mr.. Smith begins to improve
his stock. and enjoys the success Of
his efforts. He wants to improve his
vegetables, SO he sends to a reliable
seed merchant for new seeds. Com
bination enables him to afford it, be-
cause he can obtain them so cheaply.
He adds few cents for flower seeds,
and finds them during the summer an
unfailing source of pleasure to the
family, and he discovered that he toe
had taste for flowers.
The boys spend their leisure min
utes fitting up the home. Joe has
found new plan in the paper for a
hencoop. a vine trellis. or q beehive.
Forthwith he must make one like it,
and Mr.. Smith begins to talk of educa.
ting Joe for trade. Ben tells his
mother contidentially that he will see
if that south lot don't raise more corn
than any other in the town next year.
Mr.. Smith tells the boys that ''If
we get this job of work done by such
time, YOU may go with me, when l
go to have the wagon mended, or the
horses shOd land we will go through the
mills, or the printing Office, or the
furniture factory. or the art galleries.
And he finds this practice better in.
centive to thrift and industry, than
the toe of his boot or the fear of the
horsewhips. The girls are given like
incentives. Mary sees picture
frame when she goes to town once and
she knows she can make a prettier.
Hates draws a pattern Of vines and
leaves, boIrows Joe's knife and sur
prises herself by the beauty of her
carving. SO the long winter evenings
are turned to account and the walls
are soon covered with pictures and
brackets, the work of their own skill
full fingers. Mr.. Smith talks with the
children, hears patiently all they have
to say about planning the work, and
teaches them that their own interest
is concerned in everything on the
home made ornaments. Little ele-
gancies. creep in almost unawares, and
although the purse is not yet open to
Betsey, THAT is the lasts tronghold of
selfishness) comforts are gathered
about her every day, and she lives in
hope that one day she will be able to
do her duty by the church as well as
by the Grange. Ben says there IS no
place like home on the farm, and he
don't know why boys wiH leave it so
soon. Mary says she is going to stay
at home and help mother. until the
man she marries is the happy possess
or of farm of his own.
And this is what the Grange has
done for the Home.
The people of Hot Springs, Ark, want
the term of the Hot Springs commission
extended until their village is rebuilt.
The valley is a government reservation.
and new leases will have to be made to all