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The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08

As long as the farmers of the South con-
tinue their present policy, they will be at
the mercy of the spectators. The farm
ers will have to keep out of debt, and be
their own masters, before they will realize
the fruits of their honest labor Specula-
tors are interested in buying the crops at
the lowest figures. Fully advised that the
country is in debt they know that the cot
ton must be sold, bring what it may.
When the crop is all out of the country
prices will advance, as they did last year,
but too late for our home people, except
to those farmers who were free from debt
and could hold on to their cotton.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08

We are indebted to Past Master D.
Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina, for a
copy Of his very able and instructive
speech on ''Our Age and It's Progress, y
delivered recently before the Literary
Club of Ninety-Six. We will endeavor
to lay it before our readers in full in the
next number ofTHE PATRON. Bro Aiken
is one of the deepest, soundest thinkers in
the country and one of the ablest men
corrected with our Order
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08

4 We would call the attention of the far
1ners very especially to the letters Of Wor-
thy Master Harwell, of the Tennessee
State Grange, and Worthy Master Nelson,
% the Shelby County Grange, which they
Mil find in our columns of the last and in
this issue. The Grange has no more zeal
BUS or intelligent champions than these
two men. Worthy Master Harwell, ap-
preciating the real source of the trouble
among the farmers-the difficulty with
Which grown men acquire knowledge
Necessary for efficient work and manage
nent of their afairs-has gotten passed
hrough the Legislature of Tennessee a
Dill requiring agricultural studies to be
adopted in the public schools. This is get
fng at the oot of the difficulty, and if his
iaea is properly carried out, there will no
longer be the detection from the farmers
ranks that has been complained of. For,
it's asserted and with too much truth, that
educate the sons of farmers, and they
abandon the pursuit of their fathers and
hoCk to the cities. This is not because they
arc educated, but because their education
has been such as to unfit them for real,
pfaCtiCal life. No interest whatever is
thtOwn around the life of the farm-no
knowledge which will ennoble that life
and dignity its labor. 1t is simple manual
drudgery, and from that every man who.
has any ambition, any aspirations, will
naturally recoil. And yet no department
of human labor can gather around it, or
have centered in it, more active vitaliz
ing interest All the mental faculties, in
the exercise of which man asserts himself
asuperior being, would be brought into
eonstant and healthful action if Agricul-
ture was properly studied and pursued.
IND Worthy Master Harwell points out
very clearly and forcibly the reason why
is not so studied and pursued. Because
% the early stages of education the proper
aiming of the mental faculties is lacking
! Il the mind is taken off from real life and
HPde to plod along in dull mechanical,
hteess routine. In view of the widespread
agitation of the subject of education, and
ythe hope awakened by it. we do not know
bet we may say this has been the method.
q lth such active large minded and noble
spirited leaders asW Worthy Masters Harwell
and Nelson, to suggest and stimulate and
ing about practical reform under their
Immediate influence, the prospect for the
timers is an encouraging one.
EdHcationI That is the basis of all ad-
Fancement. Take hold of the young mind
I'D 1t can be led into the noblest paths
1Rbits of mind can be formed, truths car
iBtilled, which will lead out into the larg
est realizations of life.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08

We most earnestly appeal to all the
friends of THE PATRON to get as many
subscribers as possible. This is the best
time Of the year to procure subscriptions
for farmers paper, and we hope none
will permit it to pass unimproved. A
few are at work and doing good work,
but the circulation of the paper is far from
what it should be- With the proper effort
by all of its friends, five thousand sub
scribers could be easily secured for it this
month.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08
prominent Patron i

~ prominent Patron in Louisiana
rltes us: "Tell your friends to give their
EfdeRce to the Southwestern Co-opera-
Fe ASSOCIATION at New Orleans, and give
Z trial" We invite special attention to
& New Orleans Market Report on our
hrth page. The statement of what cot
2 growers can save by dealing through
e Association, made in that report by
s General Manager, Bro. T. J Carver
sould have their attention. We have
Rrchased through the Association in g
AN way, and were much pleased with
e system
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08

The Houston Age, Texas, learning wis
dom from experience, issues its advice up
on subsidies to railroads as follows: 9Re
garding subsidies from counties and cites
to rail roads, we would say to the San An
tonions, and to the people round about
San Antonio, touch not, taste not, handle
not. Consider the 100000 sunk by Gal
weston county in the g., G. and S. F.; of
the 100000 to the T., w. n. O., upon
which the property holders and business
men of Houston are now being taxed; and
of the subsidies subscribed by Austin, by
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08

A Texas paper says that if the present
generation would enrich themselves and
Benefit their country, they will not allow
to pass the golden opportunity of estab
fishing cotton and woollen manufactures.
It saws that in Colorado county, within a
few miles of Columbus, there is a fall in
the Colorado river of II feet in distance
of 1000 yards-sufficient power to con-
vert every pound of wool and cotton raised
in the State into needed and valuable
fabrics
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08
The Patron of Husbandry. |
Delegates to the Mississippi State

Delegates to the Mississippi State
Orange must be selected this month, and
i've urge upon the Oranges of counties
that have not acted to do SO Immediately
II is of the utmost importance that the
hcxt meeting of the State Grange be well
attended. We would thank the Secreta-
es of County Oranges to forward us the
names of delegates from their respective
counties for publication.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08

Worthy Master t. c. Dockery, of De
Soto County Grange, Miss, is one of the
most successful farmers, as he is one of the
most efficient Grange officers, in the State
He believes strongly in diversfying crops,
and is carrying his belief into successful
practice. He has made from his vineyard
this year 700 gallons of superior wine.
We expect to see the products of that
meeting of the State Grange
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08
COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, NOVEMBER s. 1870.

I he election in this State on Tuesday
last doubtless resulted in the triumph OF
the Democracy.
In this county, the election was simply a
farce, and an another will probably be held
at an early day. At one election precinct,
the polls were not opened at all; at anoth-
er, the ballot box was stuffed; and it is said
that the returns of another were destroyed
All this has created deep feeling of in
dignation, and if the result of this called
election is permitted to stand, it will shat
ter the Democratic party iii this county to
pieces.
The only contest here was for State Sen
ator The candidate selected at the Dem
ocratic primary election was so objection
able to large number of the people of
the county, that they were determined to
defeat his election. This feeling was so
strong that hundreds of voters who par
ticipated in the primary election remained
from the polls, Notwithstanding the entire
county officers were to be elected
We think it may be safely predicted
that there will be no more primary cleo
tons in this county, and that county con-
ventions and executive committees will be
shorn of all power hereafter to control the
action of the people at elections
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08

English immigrants destined for west
g Texas are seen at Houston almost ev-
y day.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08

Worthy Master Wilson, of the Florida
State Grange, sends us encouraging re-
ports of the Order in his State. Coop
Grafton is making steady progress over
there
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08

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The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08

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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28
Pers,olnlal.l


Mrs. Abraham Lincoln stili residesat
Pau. .tss
Bayard Taylors Goethe collections
will be sold in Berlin.
Mark Twain is expected in Paris next
month, on his way home from Ger
many.
Bret Harte has been elected an hon.
orary member Of the Reform Club in
London.
When Mrs. Hayes subscribes money
for charitable purpose she has it ac-
credited to "a friend"
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has sold
her country home, Clarehurst," near
Cold Spring, on the Hudson.
Henry M. Stanley is in Brussels,
looking after the interests of the Bel
gian African exploring expedition.
General Butler is reported to have
bought large interest in the Boston
Globe, which was his organ last year.
The new President Of the French
republic. M. Grevy, will have an allow
ance Of $50, 600 for household expenses,
in addition to his salary Of 500, 700.
Cassius M. Clay has Just given the
Kentucky Historical Society the oil
portraits of Alexander III. OF Russia
and his wife, painted by Winterhalter.
He has also presented to the society
more than three hundred rare and val
liable objects, including many desirable
autograph letters.
1t il stated that the venerable Peter
Cooper, of New York, whose seth birth
day was celebrated on the 18th instant,
has given an education, and the
means of earning livelihood by. the
use Of the higher faculties, to nearly
thirty thousand men and women, while
other thousands have been given hum
bier employment by him." But few
men in the world can boast OF record
like that.
|. A noisy drunkard was arrested in
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, on We'd
nesday. He was bare headed, and his
clothing was torn. In the police sta
ton, when asked his name and resi-
dence, he said: Magufin, and live
ON the Grampian hills. and / want to
get there soon. because I've got import
ant business" He was put in cell,
where he died of heart disease, brought
on by dissipation. Then he was recog-
nized as Mark Bates, the actor.
Mrs. Lydia Maria Child. now very
aged lady, but still in the possession Of
mind as bright and as clear as ever it
was, has for years been collecting the
wise sayings of all nations, from the
earliest to the latest times, illustrative
OF the fact that independent of creeds
there has been, and there is, univer-
sal faith in the existence Of one SUI
preme Being toward whom all human
aspirations are directed. Aspirations
of the World" is the title Of Mrs.
Child's book.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28

sands of the desert. It never could
have happened by chance alone that the
should have connected with his stom-
ach these extra water-barrels ranged
around it, and at the proper time emp
tying themselves into it. Nor could it
ever have been BIZ chance that the un-
slightly humps should have been stored
with such ample supplies Of nourishing
food for time of famine. Neither
could ithave been by chance alone that
the nostrils Of this animal should have
the peculiar power of closing them
selves so tightly that no hot and fiercely-
driven sand could penetrate them. But
all these prove the presence of an all
wise Designer, and prove also that he
has a loving regard even for His brute
creatures as we'll as for His nobler
creation-man.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28
Detroit Currency.

Whisky acts on the nerve cells and
thereby causes drunkenness Tom and
Jerry acts on the knees and thereby
causes the same thing.
An army surgeon says he never saw
but one man who hadn't rather GO into
battle than to have tooth drawn, and
that man was coward.
A New York Judge dismissed Count
Joannes' suit against Sothern with the
remark: ~ don't believe in turning
this court into circus"
One reason why the Office doesn't
seek the man in this country is because
it can't fly over the heads Of the hungry
crowd standing around it.
An eastern paper remarked that the
fate of Mr.. Stewart involves the quSs-
ton, Where do we go when we die ?"
with great additional perplexity.
One hundred and sixty-one different
I" reforms" have been announced by the
Turkish Empire within q year, but not
one of them carried into practice.
Nothing does doctor SO much good
as to prescribe an ocean voyage for
sick MAJ who can't raise enough money
to pay his street car fare down town.
We acknowledge the receipt of two
new pieces of sacred music Fold
your arms around me tighter and
!" See that my grave is not robbed. -
Boston Post.
The Rev. Mcleod, Of Philadelphia,
breaches against the wearing Of mourn
ing as an emblem of sorrow. He sem
sibly says that black ribbon is all
that is necessary.
Put away that little razor: The
Cleveland physician who maintains that
shaving is crime against health and
good looks has been ransacking his
Bible for texts. He finds in Leviticus
the injunction: Neither shalt thou
mar the corners of thy beard"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28
Courier-Journal Rifle Balls.

A young man belonging to fashion
able society in London and named,
whether Charles Howard Clarence Fitz-
Clarence or Peter Jinks doesn't matter,
was married recently, and Just before
that event he authorized his intended"
to purchase such jewels as she might
fancy as his bridal gift. There areper-
haps few people or even poets. in this
country who have sufficient intellectual
sprightliness TO imagine the poor fell
lows feelings when, n few days after
the wedding, the jeweler presented Q
bill for more than $500, 000i Being uf-
able to pay such q sum, and the jewell
or refusing to take back the glittering
plumber, the young husband finds his
honeymoon suddenly gone behind .
cloud. His bitterest thought must be
that he is linked irrevocably to q girl
whom il were dattery to slap her jaws
and send her home to her mother"
One night not long ago Joshua Walk
or. with young wife, living at New
port. r. J., carried home some pork,
which he proceeded to cut up and salt
down. When he had finished the job
his wife unhappily discovered that be
had, through mistake, used sugar in
stead of salt. This was inst Little too
funny for the wife, who began to laugh,
laughed on, and kept on laughing, nm
til, in spite Of the efforts Of her hus-
band and others TO prevent it, she ac-
tually laughed herself TO death. VIII
peopla nsUer learn the. terrible danger
- krvirr, x,nao1tn1 Y.ork and kaaninu
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28

NAurcAh CATEoHIsM.-Is the wind
blowing free when it is dead (a)head !?
Do sailors 60 aloft at rafting pace (?
Can you get bark from ships log I?
Does the blight ola rope ever produce
hydrophobia?
How many feet are there in ship
yardf
Do the bows of a ship grow on the
cross-trees?
Does the sheet anchor Of ship ever
comforter?
When the watch is set do they call
all hands?
Is it the sailors time to play after he
has taken his trick at the wheel?
Does the dog watch the cats head
When captain strikes his colors
do they ever hit back ?-Boston Com
mercial Ba!ietia.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28

stantly remove all soils and stains from
the hands, and heal all scratches and
chafes. 1t should be saturated solu.
ton, as it is called. To make it, put
crude borax into large bottle, and fill
in with water. When the borax is dis
solved, add more to the water, until at
last the water can absorb no more, and
residuum remains at the bottom of
the bottle. To the water in which the
hands are to be washed, after garden
ing, pour from this bottle enough to
make it very soft. It is very cleansing
and very healing. By its use the hands
will be kept in excellent condition
smooth, soft and white.
NOODLE SoUP.-Get what is CON-
monty called soup bone, put over the
fire in three quarts of cold water sailed
to taste few seeds OF red pepper let
it simmer two hours, stirring fire.
quently; take one cup of sifted -four,
moisten with the soup and pour in for
thickening add o quart of boiling wa
ter and cook little faster one hour
more beat we'll two eggs and mix with
them enough flour and little salt to
make stiff dough roll ont as thin as
possible, flour well on both sides and
roll up tight; commence at one end and
slice off as thin as possible remove the
meat from the soup and drop these roll
slices in while boiling.
q 70 RENovATE BLACK MER1No.
thk aress apart then soak the goods in
.w1& soap suds two hours dissolve
one ounce of extract of logwood in O
bowl of warm water, add sufficient
warm water to cover the goods, which
is to be taken from the suds without
wringing let the dress stand in the
iiogwood- water all night in the morn
ing, rinse In several waters without
wringing in the last water add one
pint OF sweet milk iron while damp /;
u will look like new.
GERMAN FOAM SAUCE. Select Ger.
man pudding dish with dasher, into
this put the yolks of FIVE eggs, fill half
an egg shell five tines with white
Wine, add lemon peel and sweeten to
taste: stir to foam by placing the
handle OF dasher between the hands
and rolling it to and fro; then place
over the heater till it boils, stirring
constantly; to be prime it should be
prepared after the dinner is served
there should be nothing but foam.
For SMOOTH HANDS. washing
and drying the hands, pour into one
nand aIfew drops Of good cider vinegar,
rub the hands together, wetting the
whole surface, both sides, and dry it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28

No fewer than million living Great
ures are on an average sent through
the German postoffice every year, the
majority Of the packages containing
canary and other birds and bees.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28

James Parton is lecturing on 1.-THE
Coming Mans Religion" II the Com
ing man is Ben Butler, Mr.. Parton has al
ready written his life. --Neao Orleans
Ptcdyfae.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28

~, looked meat chopped up and mixed
I'm other feed is not only relished by
rs, but gives back the strength lost
~ng the moulting process.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28

The brain of q negro dwarf, who died
N Evansville, Ind. the other day, has
'een found to weigh fifty-nine ounces.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28

PROPER TIMES FOR EATrNG.-Differ-
ent orders of workers require different
dietetic laws. For the active outdoor
laborer and artisan, an early breakfast
before work, a midday dinner, with an
interval of rest, and supper after the
days work is over, have long been
proved by experience to be most condu-
Give to health. For the business man
later breakfast, o midday luncheon and
u late dinner after the days work is
over, is the best arrangement. For
literary men, who write more in the
evening than during the day, an early
dinner and a light supper will be
found to be the most advantageous for
steady work. Idlers, to enjoy life, if
they possibly can, should dine early if
they intend to spend the evening at
theatres and the like, but if they accept
dinner invitations freely they should
be very careful not to eat too much at
the midday meal. The breakfast hour
skuld he determined in a great meas
~ by the hour of rising but in any
case food should be partaken of before
the material business of the day is COM
menced. People who walk before
breakfast should always drink little
milk before starting. Never eat between
meals, unless you want indigestion.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28
Pleasant Words.
pleasant words are as honsycomb

pheasant words are as honeycomb,
,sveet to the soul and health to the
.lhopes." In world where there are SO
Sany kinds Of words, spiteful, mali
cious, hard, cold. envious, false, scorn-
ful. bitter sarcastic, venomous, naughty,
selfish. and profane, how soul-rafresh.
ING are pleasant words. They never
blister the tongue, nor sour the spirit
If the giver. and to the receiver are like
cold water to the thirsty. They smooth
the brow of the careworn, weary man,
who returns to the quiet of his restful
home after his days toll. What rich
benson to his wife is his hearty APP
proval of her effort to make home-the
dearest spot on earth to him-happy.
How grateful words from their chill
dren cheer the spirit Of the aged father
and mother, who have labored long and
faithfully to rear family in comfort
and responsibility. To the employee
who makes his employers interest his,
few words of kindly appreciation are
beyond all price. It encourages the
reverend sire, amid his discourage
ments. to hear the acknowledgment OF
benefit received from his ministrations.
The pbysician's labors seem thankless
task. vet there are those who can and
do recognize his services by grateful
words.
Those who are endeavoring to raise
the down-trodden, restore the fallen,
and help the weak, by kindly express
sions of sympathy and brotherly kind
ness, will not lose their reward. A kind
word to an enemy is not lost if it does
not serve to reconcile, we may know it
meets the loving Masters approval,
who has said, Blessed are the peace
makers" The child, shedding bitter
tears through some passing SORROW
lgyeater to him, perhaps, than any he
&H meet in manhoods princeton
GETS his grief in mis- kind mothers
sympathy.
Let those on whom some heavy CO.
lamity has iallen-perhaps some friend
dear as life suddenly laid low by death
express, if they can, the comfort
given at such an hour, by the clasp of
the hand and the moistened eye of the
true friend.
Life is short, but if we hasten to SOW
plentifully with loving words and
deeds, rich harvest will be gathered
therefrom to the end of time.