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01laeo Examimer
A Model Subscriber.

Good morning, sir, Mr., Editor, how arc the
owe you for the next years Hawkeye--I just
thought I'd come aud pay.
And Jones Is agoin' to take It, and this is the
I shut dowi, lending II to him, and then coaxcd
him to try II year.
And mere are few little items that happened
last week In our town;
I thought they'd look good for the paper, and
so jottsd 'em down.
And here is basket Of cherries my wife
picked expressly lps ryoui - ,s..,. ,
she thought she'd send something, too. z
You re doing the politics bully, as all Of our
family agreed
Just keep your old goose quill q fippiu,, and
give Hayes good one for me. Z II q e
And now you ere chuck full OF business, and
won't be taking your time, "a
I've things OF my own I must tend to--good
day, sir; believe will climb"
Tho editor sat In his sanctum, and brought
down his ist with thump,
uGod bless that old farmer,'F he muttered,
''he's regular jolly old thump''
And it's thus with our noble profession, and
thus IL Will ever be still;
There are some who will appreciate Its labor,
and some, perhaps, who never will.
But In the great time that's coming, when
Gabriel's trumpet shall sound,
And they who have labored and rested shall
come from the quivering ground
when they who have striven aud suffered Ia
teach and ennoble the race.
Shall march at the head Of tkJ column, each
one In his God-given place,
As they march through the gates OF the city,
with the proud and victorious tread,
The editor and his assistants will travel moi
far from the head.
Huntington HdDkeye.
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A R0NK.kENPER SAYS:

81 have been using TUFTS Pills for dyspep-
tried. Up TO that time every thing 4 ate dish-
greed with me, ] can now digest any Kind OF
food never have u headache; perform my uu.
have gained fifteen pounds OF solid flesh me
value Of these pills cannot be overestimated.
w. Z. Schnltze, Columbia, B. " $3.50
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II
Son e 1879 I
Editor Examiner and Patron.
Tbo folIow;no nroomble aud roso-
luton was unan;mo,islv adonted nj n
regular meeting of Duck Creek
Grange, No. 449. -:
WHEREAS, Bro. D. w. Downs, OF
wv, ,nc mavo r i,;snsaIs ,n h hN an anj
nnflinching friend and advocate of
the farmers of Texas, therefore,
ReSotced, that we lender MN our
sylnpa'ies ~ M i'ilsioruuncs anu u
nereo! promise MN ~ our suppor' Al
NE iu.uro, So"eo"HH
W.: ANb' co..o,,.,. '
spste'h'f, .
Fho Farmers Friend says; III
farmers had more contaenoe IN
tncIlscisos, my euu'v N'"No '''
uraiiSe great SuopeSS'
The Farmers are rapidly learning
self confidence, and self reliance
which is one of the most encourage
inc sigrs of the times 4aI
~ ~. r,,o.,.s;,
hc uraiise NeWs Ae''e' 'p'"N7 IA
cheering tone and says:
Every cloud has a silver lining and
from the failure of minor plans, our
members are learning business habits
and self reliance,
The Master Of the Viroinia State
60 Ja,;aat,5 crarra Nm =,
urangc oeu'cascu a urahse nun ~
Bufordsville, IN Bedford county, on
the 25th of July, On the 9th he
dedicated q hall at Cave Springs, in
Roopokc
|' es,, ,,o...,, .,,;o q,
me llltn aigaa, " o,a.o in a1 f,,r "
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The Potato Crop.

All accounts agree that the potato
crop for 1878, will be a bountiful one,
and the quality generally good. A
letter from eastern Maine informs us
that the crop there Except where
damaged by rust in parts of Wash-
ington county, will be excellent.
The Boston market depends chiefly
upon the state of Maine and Prince
Edwards Island for its best potatoes.
The potato crop of the United States
in 1850 amounted to 65,797 1896 BUSH
els; in 1860, Ill, l4S,S67 bushels of
"1rish," and 10000 of sweet pa
tatoes. In 1874 the crop of Irish po-
tatoes was about LOG, 900, 900 and last
year it was estimated at 145,OO0,000.
The leading states in the production
of this excellent esculent are New
York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and
Ohio, whose total yield embraces
nearly one-third the entire yield of
the country. The leading or princi-
pal varieties of potato now includes
some eighteen or twenty kinds, the
early London white and white peach
blow yielding the largest quantity
from given quantity of seed, and
the early Goodrich and red peach
blow coming next in the matter of
prolificness, the early rose, however,
maturing earlier than all other kinds.
A potato better known in New York
state as "Drecse's Peerless" has been
known to yield at the rate of 100 bar
rels TO acre; and the "Harrison,n
sixty-six barrels TO the acre. The
Chill white has been known to pro-
duce ia l-3 barrels to the acre, In
comparing the different varieties of
potatoes u good deal of allowance
must be made respecting the kind OF
soil, the kind of weather, the kind of
manure and the kind Of attention
shown in their cultivation, in order
to arrive at a true test of the com
parative merits of the various kinds
of potatoes.-Americqn ,CUitiUdtor
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Representation In the National
Grange.

Perhaps the most important mat
ter pressing for immediate consider
alton at the Subordinate and State
Oranges, is the proposed change In
the representation of Subordinate
Oranges in the National Councils of
the order at their annual sessions.
Abe practice heretofore has been
TO recognize States only without re-
ference to importance of their con-
stituency, thus adopting the proceed
ent of the United States Senate rath-
or than that of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes,
That is to say, each Stateis entitled
TO two representatives in the Nation
al Grange, such power Of represent
tation to reside with the State Mas
ter, and his wife, if she be q fourth
degree member of the Order; while
our National Senate is composed OF
two members from each State, elect
ed by the Legislature thereof.
This aristocratic feature in our
National Legislature was reluctantly
submitted to nj the time of the for
nation of the Ma ional Constitution
but the objectional feature was large
ly toned down by representation II
the Lower House, which was mad'
to accord as nearly as possible to pro
portionate numerical constituencies
Thus Delaware, in the Upper
House, with her two Senators, has a
potential voice in the destinies o
the nation as New Y ork, with only
like number; but that paradoxica
position is somewhat amended in tn
Lower House, where New York ha
thirty-three votes and Delaware bu
one.
The preservation of this aristo
cratic principle of the u. S. Senate
to the entire exclusion of the NOR
democratic apportionment of til
House of Representatives, CRATE
somewhat harshly upon the convi'
lions of our Western brethren. VIII
see, or think they see, n manifest II
justice in the matter.
For instance, they argue that a II
state like that of New Jersey (whiC
is by no means the smallest), wit
perhaps one hundred Subordina
Oranges, should not of right posse
as potential voice us the larg
States, several of which have fife,
times as great a constituency in nun
bers, property and other SECRETARY /
forests.
Members of the order in the sma
or and weaker States are apt TO
sert that Vermont is as good as OH
and New Hampshire as Illinoi
which no one for moment question
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A D0GTOR's OPINION. ,

DIR. /. Guy Lewis, cfa Fulton, Ark, written;
zone year ago I was taken sick, n friene
argued so strongly in favor Of TutpsP Ills that
1 was Induced TO use them. Never did medi-
cine have a happier effect than In my case:
Aftpr practice Of u quarter OF century, j
proclaim them the Lest anti billious medicine
ever used. ! have prescribed them In my
practice ever since. !" -
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ETTilI1lI173i}

Very few escapc this affection. The symptoms
are dizziness: sick headache; cnstiveness; hech
ling M OF food loss OF appetlte aversion TO exerton
of body or mind; highly colored urinsi heartburn.
cold extremities and low spirits.
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|mperIshabIe Fragrance

The richest, most lasting. yet most delicate
the Toilet aud In the Bath. delightful and
healthful In the sick room, relieves weakness
fatigue, prostration, nervousness ana head
ache Look ont for counterfeitsi always ASK
for the Florida Water prepared by the sole
proprietors, Messrs. Lanman Kemp, New
| York.
| Goods Dealers. Jneldeod6m.
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E7Iz3111EllII]

Ten years have proven their efficacy In all hillary
disorders. They restore the liver. stomach and
Kidneys to hcalthfnl action; give appetite, good dt
Igcstion and yigor to body and mind. 'Nf's
Rev r. l., Simpson. Louisville. KY, Gays:
/" Tatt's Pitis arc scorfh fhetr roi0hf -
sayre 4 Co., Druggists say: 80 We sell fry
borss J8ff's Ptls 90 flee Of all ofher,,.v
Price, 70 cents. Ofiice ~ Murray st., New York.
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GRANGE MATTERS.

DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS.
Sen. 8, 1873.
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HOW TO DECEIVE.

II your hair or whiskcrs are grey they can
be Instantly changed u a beantifGi black by
TUFTS Hair Dye, and deceive the closest OBJ
server. This article possesses qualities never
known before, Sold by all druggists.
nprl5d&w ,r
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-09-13

In endless variety, Lanterns and Brackets at
all prices and of every style. The largest as
sortment OF
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The Bible.

1t appeals to men in all moods of their
feeling. 1t appeals to them in all stages of
their life from childhood onward through
maturity until the EXTREMIST limit of age
1t appeals to them thus, not merely by rea-
son of the substance of the truth which it
communicates, but also of this variety of
means by which it conveys it-in song and
story, in law and proverb, in parable argu-
ment and nightly vision. Every faculty of
the mind is therefore addressed by it, and is
gratified by it. We are sometimes in trouble
because certain parts or passages of the
Bible are less interesting to us, at least in
certain moods of feeling, than they have
been before are not as interesting TO us
now as they were when we were children
or have lost the celestial glow which was
upon them when we read them with tears
and with triumph in our grief But the
Bible is intended TO furnish everything fol
every mood, the most solrowful and the
most cheerful when the soul is sunken in
grief, and when it is rising in newborn
ecstasy of strength and hope, 1t has parts
for the little child, and parts for the aged
| 1t is the only universal book in the world
because it is the only one which has this mar
yelous completeness of constitution, which
the little child and the venerable grand
parent will gladly sit down and read together
which is at home in the Sunday-school ant
equally at home in the highest university
which the most disciplined mind can neve
exhaust, yet which the youngest and mos
immature can find full OF attraction, instruC
ton, inspiration. This by reason of tn
marvellous manifoldness of its literary struC
ture, as well as by reason of the grandeu
and the glory of the system OF truth whic
is eyer-more constant within it.-Dr. II. l
| .SLnrrs.
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True Economy.

Economy is frequently supposed to consist
in the art and practice of saving To econ
omize in our money it is thought we only
need to curtail our expenditure; to econo-
mize our time, only to employ sedulously
every moment, Economy, however, though
it includes the element of frugality, also
includes much more. 1t is more complex in
its nature, and aims at higher results. To
economize anything of value, in the true
sense of the word, is SO TO use it as TO ex-
tract the highest degree of benefit which it
is capable OF producing. TO do this it may
often be needful to practice strict frugality,
while at other times the same end would be
secured only by liberal expenditure. The
economical use of money for example, fire.
quently demands much pinching, much sac
lifice and much denial but on other ocoa-
sions it equally requires an open purse and
a ready hand. A man with a limited in
come aud growing family cannot practice
true economy unless he saves something for
times of sorer need. If he be prudent and
wise he will so regulate his expenses as to
have at least small surplus at the end Of
each year TO invest for the future. Yet a
few years later, perhaps, when the actual
needs of the family have increased, when
the children should be educated, or when
sickness or misfortune should be relieved,
the same frugality would frustrate the very
ends of true economy, There are times in
l the lives of every one of US when money can
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Holding On.

There are people whose great fear of en-.
tering upon a religious life is that they shall
not hold on and out. They see something
of the dangers and difficulties in their way
and have no conception of the mighty forces
which are leagued together for their good
They fear they shall let go, and that having
started in the heavenly course they shall fail
and falter and fall. If they only knew the
love of God, and his power to keep and
save, they would dismiss many of their
tears, and rejoice in his grace. The sailor
does not distress himself for fear that he
cannot hold on to his anchor-he expects
the anchor to hold him amid the fury of the
storm. The sheep do not keep the shepherd
the shepherd keeps the sheep. The child
may throw its arms about the fathers neck,
but its clasp is weak and it might fall; but
around about and underneath the little one
are clasped the fathers stronger arms, and
the child is safe. Behold, he that keepeth
Israel shall neither sumber nor sleep" AS
the shepherd watches his flock by day and
night, so the Almighty Keeper watches over
his wayward ones. As the hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings and shields them
from every harm and i'll, so The child OF
God who lodges beneath the shadow of the
Almighty is covered by his feathers and
sheltered by his wings As the arms of the
father encompass and uphold the child, so
to Israel it is said "The eternal God is
thy refuge, and underneath are The eyerldS'-
ing arms" The trusting Christian commits
himself to God for salvation and for preser-
walton. He is kept by the power of God,
by the grace of him who is able to keep
him from falling, and present him before the
presence of his glory, faultless and with ex-
ceeding joy. 1t will be glad day for many
Christian hearts when they have learned
the lesson of their utter helplessness, and
have committed the keeping of their souls
to him in well-doing as unto faithful
Creator" Then, whatever of sorrow, trial,
toll or tears may come, all will be well. We
shall be kept by the power of God, through
faith unto salvation" Instead of holding
fast our hope, our hope will hold us fast
instead of holding on to the Lord with our
trembling and feeble clasp, we shall find that
he holds us with grasp of never-failing
power, and loves us with an everlasting
love. No one can pluck the sheep of his
pasture from the grasp of that Almighty
hand trusting in him they are safe from
every ill.-1he Christian.
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Assurance Reasonable.

A few years ago, during the progress of
the Cuban insurrecton, an English subject
was arrested upon suspicion OF completely
with the insurgents, and sentenced to be
shot The protests of the English Consul
availed nothing The place was set, the
time arrived, the prisoner was placed in po-
sition, and platoon of soldiers filed off into
line to execute the sentence. Suddenly the
rumbling OF vehicle is heard dashing
toward the spot at furious rate. II draws
up quickly, and two men alight. They are
the English aud American Consuls. Quick
as thought they speed their way to the pris.
oner at the critical moment, and wrap him
from head TO heel in the folds OF the British
and American flags. More impenetrable
than coat of mail, no Spanish bullet dare
pierce those colors. If these standards could
save British subject, how can the Chris
tian fear when over his head is unturleo
Gods banner Of love Ills soul is wrapped
without in Chrst's robe of righteousness
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Hygiene and Consumption.

Al L .
nv .ne .aoles vi ~" many ia',i,s iit't, anu
ueiInan.', We "onuu' 10 '3e Nv ,;''.
',n oie'nia'o .a sone ,u'o u.9s ,.t.Is
Ian G',e ''.he WIZ S taI'1 t'
Vi ia.''iiis' oioAo Ineis ia'T Vi ."eNe nou'e
alu % iac.u ~. 'ne "oiA VI M ,s,
uay "iln no,nine ouT greasy ouIA "nea'
cahes can, anu nnoia'eo in,sho al,Ist as
wen nav ea'e'i ea"1"et, auI "na' . nau my
lo' uinnel n1ileu s"l.'poI anu p9'a'oea
aiu ioi auPpot, oo.iJ' s"iIPS aIi po.d p;.,,
'oeS asa'" asiu ,,ituo pii"'ap'o WIN WV"
Nlnesai An' we .o'se. ohe pie,-'ne 1'u', -,
,"'.,ns piu' "''n no ouS"'y .un.t Tea.o "Hi u
ieaUne'y o.usV on1 'i',ii'V,on ~ .iie
Palate .naV iiiaue ne .oieiaoio' uoou oie"u
anu pu''eI Vi ,niiA' aounuah' nun, oeei VI
,iiu'Voi' nuI'i.ious puuu.heS' 20
'nings nave oeeii wl,nln cue it ieaoh u 'nie
Peopi1 Vi No" hss 'auu ioi ~ na'o y,
ways oeen Ile 'hrll.ies. PeoPie III .no "ou,u ,a,
ouV 'hey nave cose so'ne'ninS' anu 'nes
naVe nav NOT Ieaiiy oeeh uee,i1u nIoe'sa'
Inc people nave not reaiizeu .hat WHAT 'nes
regaraeu as iuAuries weie hecessa,les, a',I
elia' 'ne ioou upon winch 'ney hase uepchue' s'
.or pioveo'ion iioln 'ne oi,lta anu 'oa
',e repair Vi 'ne wastes Vi iaoo' ,ns. na' .I,. .
ai.use.nei iu'.uequ"t1' anu n'' t.IN'1a it.S viV
WIN i'hPoVerisheu oioou anu .up1iIu'ou' m ,I' ~
lungs Hi.ei 'shins ,nVI aooouh, ",l .uI ,u ns
huence oi hefed'y, wnion Is hsh;,;a 'h vn ;,,G ~
IN .reaIlng oi .he causes oi pi.h,s .,;,a ;hS =,
cien. hourisnlhen' Is f9sPosio P;. s I'm, amhe, H.
mos, lllS!aaces, iot 'ne uePGoi b;oh u naturaI,
anu .ue li'lalliina'ion r ~ mnr0m ~ ho hn a."
gives RISE ,; ineie are an"f ,h.m .mhorn mn, ~
onange ol Iisiasi renue a;u 'ho - va'I, bano' a
rfauy ueposieeu III ;nei; iunss na, mss ths,
isahty peco,hes 81 n;gu ia i's pomei tha' tha
IL uoiiiha'es these e'ir Ne annuv, ;,l anI Wv; !;
I'VE on' lalLiy ions doa naJ WIN emarisss ee y, ~
their Iungs 'nat are are teuIe S;I teo. oSta ,bsn
tHe W s.rens.n u .ne nt;u quo, oa,a ana;n an,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-17
Mothers and Sons.

Fathers must be content TO stand second
TO mothers. IL is the mother who has to
teach the babe TO know the father, and
slowly to frame its unused red lips TO speak
his name The father is the first stranger
the child grows familiar with, but the
mother never was stranger--the infant
first widens its fresh eyes by fixedy gazing
on her face There is no face in all the
world which a man ever knows 80 we'll
not even hers with whom, at far later day.
he stands before the altar, and who thence.
forth shares his name. The gentle sadness
OF this theme only comes fully out when
you remember that, in the course of things
time arrives when that most familiar of
countenances is seen under a change. Moth
ers grow aged, it may be infrm, while sons
progressively tower up into their prime of
life. Then the early attitude of the closest
related pair on earth is touchingly altered.
She who in the first period gave all help has
now to lean on the grown figure which she
once lightly dandled as a child, now stand
ing before her strong and straight as the
father did in the long-gone days. God has
given to men no sweeter, dearer, richer feel
ing than grown son has when repaying TO
an aged mother little 1.-THE of the loving
care she early lavished upon him. In this
relationship of mother and son God has
made sure that every rough male heart shall
have tender spot-one sacred recollection.
And whenever it dawns upon the mind that
It was he who gave the loving mother, Joy
Tor that most bountiful Of all bestowals
draws the son of the earthly mother towards
the Father who is in heaven.-Biackcood
Ia0asine.
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Tall and Fruitless.

The woods of Missouri are literally fes-
tooned with grape-vines. They climb to the
tops of the tallest sycamores of the bottoms,
and climb about the underground which
fringes the fenced fields. But the lowly
vines produce the best fruit. The immense
vines which stretch to the high places and
show so much girth of trunk and expanse of
branches and foliage are uniformly barren.
Grape-vines illustrate certain forms of or
ganized Christianity--here and there are
mammoth establishments, aged, ambitious,
far-reaching and impressive. They climbed
to the top-places among the trees or woods.
They have every semblance of fruit-bearing
power; but some way, all their forces go
into woodenness of form and greenness of
leaf. The sap is all exhausted in sef-en-
largement. There is no fruit And, sure
enough, among the lowlier, younger vines,
content to Chamber along the fences, or to
twine close to the modest bushes which skirt
the border of the forest-there hanging their
purple clusters within reach of the hungry
stranger, we find the true vines of the Hus-
bandman's right-hand planting.-Methodist
RecOrder.
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Receiving.

Whatsoever things We desire when We
pray, believe that We receive them, and ye
shall have them" The Lord did not say
believe that ye have them and ye shall have
them. That would have fostered presump-
ton. But receiving implies that an empty
beggar has gift graciously placed in his
hand. Brighton, England, is much resorted
to by invalids for seaair and bathing aud
has broad paved walk bordered by solid
wall along the sea front for a mile or more
Along this sea walk one sees sick people
wheeled in rolling bath-chairs. 1t is said
that a poor beggar placed himself beside this
walk to gather a mite from the kindness OF
those whom feeble health might make ten
der-hearted, and cried, "Give me a penny !"
A gentleman saw him, and directing his SER
want to wheel him near to the beggar, held
out half-crown TO the beggar's extended
hand. The beggar still cried, Give me a
pennyl' The gentleman wondered, but
looked and saw that the man was blind
He said, Here, take thisl" The beggar
still cried, "Give me a penny =" when the
gentleman still saw that he was also deaf,
and then he placed the piece in the beggars s
hand, who was overwhelmed with gratitude
for gift SO far beyond his request. Thus
too often men pray, Lord forgive me,
with deep earnestness and hearty desire to
be the Lords, yet like the blind and deaf
beggar, do not believe that they receive
when, if with the hand of faith they would
grasp the proifered gift, they might be re-
joicing with adoring gratitude. The same
holds true of other requests. Men beg fol
crumbs when the Lord would have then
honor his bounty by asking and receiving
abundantly from his table. He wishes t.
"satiate the souls of his priests with fat
ness" and will do it if, allowing him to la,
the axe at the root OF the corrupt tree in oul
hearts, they ask to be filled with his spirit
Friends RevieW.