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90 QOG KNOW WudG SCluG W pray No.
Go! your case is as clear as mine; soothe
yourself with your darling illusions, we
shall none the less depart arm-in-arm."
He stopped, and seeing me reduced
to silence, the animal went on with re-
doubled insolence:
Formerly, in the time of the Egyp-
tians, was embalmed after my death,
and remained hundreds Of years in
the condition of a mummy. 1t was a
just tribute to my services; the honor of
being enveloped in consecrated ban
dages and stuffed with rare perfumes
consoled me little for the loss of life.
But at present you, disdain me; you
think to elevate yourself by despising
your body. For all that it IS only 8
comedy on your part. Do you remem-
Der our rheumatism in the stomach,
when DR.. Boniface gave us both up? /
could hardly help laughing, in spite of
the sadness Of the moment, at your
looks when you received the last conso-
lations of this terrestrial world; the big
Latin words served out to you had not
the appearance of reassuring you much
as to your final lot, and for the sake of
keeping me two or three years more
you would not have hesitated minute
to sacrifice your eternal life. Come,
ownu up; be honestto yourself. Isit true?"
was confounded at his impotence;
then, with a movement of indignation
and as a last resource, and striking my
breast, I cried: - ~ s7aa 80 81
81 think; therefore, am" ~ y
And the chimpanzee initiating my
gesture and caressing his stomach, jeer-
ingly cried:
II digest; therefore I am. One can
doubt everything except that one di-
gests; for to doubt one must digest,
doubt being a phase of good diges-
ton" iassiE
So much audacity deserved chastise-
ment. l rose to bring the rascal to his
senses, when 1 perceived in the deep
shadow of the leaves a moving object.
Looking closer, recognized the fiat
head of one of those enormous serpents
of the Ganges marshes, with whom apes
are afavorite dainty His tail loosened
itself from the tip of the the tamarind
tree, and his sealy belly gided undu-
lating in silence down to the lower
branches. A cry of horror burst from
my very bowels:
The patron of husbandry., 1881-06-25
FROM ALABAMA.
Enz.

Editor Patron. Allow me a short
space in your valuable paper to ay
few words about the Changers in
this section. | am happy to say
that they are on the "boom' all over
our beloved State,-so SAYS our
Worthy State Grange Secretary,
Bro. VIM. ] Johnson-and l know
in several counties adjoining mine
the good work is going on. And
am proud to say that your valuable
paper has given a new impetus to
the Order in this section and caused
many to leave the plow handle for
short time and visit the Grange.
Push forward the good cause, my
brother, as you are doing in fear
lessly vindicating our cause, and the
time is coming, and may God speed
it, when we shall be heard in our
State Legislatures and in the halls
of Congress, and then we may ex-
pect to have justice done US.
Our Grange is improving rapidly;
now numbers over 40 members, and
all take lively intEest in our meet
ings. We meet tEice a month and
have feast regularly once a month
and a good time generally. Our
lady members, God bless them, take
great pleasure in attending our
meetings, and | don't hardly know
how we could get along without
them. We have the right kind of
officers and in the right place; they
are punctual and energetic, and al
ways ready to do and say in our
glorious cause. So you see we have
what may be termed live Grange.
We expect to start cooperative
store soon on the Rochdale plan,
and would request you to publish
the plan again for our benefit.
I wish THE PATRON was in the
hands of ever man in our county;
then we might expect such "boom'
as we never witnessed before,
Fraternally, ]. D. WHErsroNE,
Coosada Station, June r8. See'y,
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ing up their hard earnings in safe
and profitable enterprise, and will
thereby have something to fall back
on in old age, or in case OF untore-
seen disaster. Many see and ac-
knowledge the permanent good CO.
operation has done in our county.
believe that all the cooperative
stores in this county buy their flour
of the Cooperative Association at
Meridian, and it buys direct from
the mills. Since that arrangement
has been made / have never heard
Of bad barrel of flour. AS soon
as we get more money we viii reach
the factories for all we want, and a
factory that will not sell direct to us
can just let it alone, for we have the
money, and can and will buy from
first hands.
We propose to hold the next
County Grange at Centervllle on
the 18th and goth of July next, the
goth to be public day. The county
officers are to be installed that day.
and we expect some of our able
men to address the people. Bro.
Worthington, come to that meeting;
we want to see the man that gave
us hope in our darkest hours; the
one that gave inspiration to the
careless and despondent. |, for one,
never despaired of final success, but
if it had not have been for our
Worthington we might and perhaps
would have struggled for years, for
the burthen was foo great it seemed
for Worthy Master Put. Darden,
and the few that never said die.
Fraternally, HAMILTON COOPER.
Decatur, June 20.
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Farmers Must be Educated.

Editor Patron. Education in its
broadest sense, when applied to
man, means anything and every
thing pertaining to training, dis
cipling and preparing the mind for
action. A man may be very well
educated and not know letter in
our books; and he may be able to
repeat, like a poor Poll or a Jacko,
the rules in our text books, and yet
be an ignoramus. Books are but
instruments used to train the mind
and the usefulness of the mind de-
pends upon the training. We may
take pair of twin boys, place one
in charge of a guardian, who will
train him up with business educa-
ton, train him to know that he is to
be man with responsibilities resting
upon him; that he is to make a cit
izen, and will be called upon to act
his part as such, and he will grow
up fully impressed that the good
and prosperity of society and the
country in which he lives depends
upon his action. Place the other
one in the care of a guardian who
gives him the training he would an
OK or mule; teach him to submit
to every yoke placed upon him;
that all that society expects or de-
mands of him, is to bring into re-
QUESTION his muscular powers in
polishing up the inside of a cotton
or corntield, and he will grow up
impressed with the idea that his
country has no claims upon him
higher than his muscular abilities to
dig from the earth the wealth which
moves the world, and that he must
tame1y submit to the dictates and
expressions of every other class.
Here we find the key note to the
oppression of the farmer, the want
of that training to teach him that he
is a man of intellectual capacities to
handle the proceeds of his labor
and to see that he has duties to per-
form outside of the cotton field, that
while the products of his labor
moves the machinery of the world
he has the right and the capabilities
to help run that machinery. Our
sytem of common-schoo education
is defective in failing to teach and
impress upon the minds of our
children a practical knowledge of
subjects with which they have to
deal to make good and sensible cit
liens. such as the character of the
soil, its adaptability to the various
crops, the best nourisnment for diff
ferent soils, the best and most eco
nomical mode of cultivating, gath
ering and marketing the various
crops, the laws Of commerce and
trade. how the County, State and
The patron of husbandry., 1881-06-25
From the Master OF the Texas
Sfate Grange. ni 49,

Editor Patr0n.' l am now re-
turning from trip to Cook county.
This county is alive to the Grange
cause | have never found a more
live set of brothers and sisters. A
grand revival is now going on. |
met the County Grange in Cross
Timbers' Grange Hall on the 18th
inst, closed at midnight; conferred
the fifth degree on a number. On
Saturday, public meeting and
dinner-some 500 in attendance
much interest manifested. On Mon
day, the goth, l met Valley View
Grange in public meeting, some five
OF si& hundred in attehdancej. better
order | never saw than at these two
points, and the good sisters know
Just how to make a fellow feel at
home | left Bro. Stamper taking
names to hand in at the next meet.
ing of their Grange. To-day l re,
organized Pleasant Hill Grange,
No. 1855, with twenty five mem
bers. The Grange is on a "boom"
in this county, and THE PATRON
has host of friends here.
Fraternally, A. ! ROSE.
On Train, July D.. .. -a ..
The patron of husbandry., 1881-06-25
w. HI. WORTHINGTON.

He is man of thorough culture, a
scholar of fine pfetention, and the mot
devoted entomologist. The walls ofh.
shops are covered with cases Of butte
flies, bugs and insects of all kinds-a5-
ranged exquisitely. H For one Of thesr
cases he was offered 50, 800, and hi
entire collection is worth over S6,00c.
He has few intimates, but those wiz
know him best esteem him most-and
enjoy nothing more than an hour Wit.
him talking over the adventures Of tva
wars. .....-.
/ In talk with Mr.. Schelpert yester.
day he said that the locusts now cre;-
ting SO much talk throughout the souta
were the real seventeen-year locusts-
as evidenced by the w on the wingS
and the red color of the eyes.
Il He remembered distinctly the hsi
visit of these locusts, which he says oc-
Cured fourteen years ago. He say
that there is DO danger to grown
crops from these insects, but they d.
stroy thousands of fruit and fore
trees. Their habits are curious. IL
| female fixes herself. on the small hm'
! of a tree and cuts a, small cavity b.
meath the bark into which she lays her
eggs. when the eggs are hatchet
the grub deliberately drops to th5
! ground and digs into, it. He burre"'
! until he has reached the end OF root
/ let of the tree. He fastens to thus am
/ for fourteen years lives under grounl
sucking the sap from the root of the
tree, At the end of thirteen to fifteen
i years, he emerges from the ground n''
! back splits open, wings make Their az
pearance, and he is then locust ano
in for SIX weeks of summer holiday
The male does the hummlng and y"
female puts new stock of eggs under
the bark of the trees. i is.t
! Mr. Schelpert says that little damage
to trees may be looked for this year
but for the next few years we Will @ s.
hundreds of trees dying without az,
discernible cause. This will be tns
work. of the grubs of this years crop oi
locusts eating the life out of the tree
underground, II, remaining IN { l. "
grub state, for thirteen years the ~
Gust is phenomenal, the largest perou
| of "grqbdomD' for any other insect Ve
ing SIX years-zfor the stag-beetle.
The patron of husbandry., 1881-06-25
National Governments are formed
and supported. . ~ ,.... -, 81 .'...
Fraternally, w, A, SMITH.
Hallville, Texas. IL -----. .-.-nLuE

Texas is being shot through with
railroad enterprise this year. The
Gould party" alone are building
$50 miles of road. They have that
much actually under contract; and
there are over 800 miles more of
railroad building under other man
agement. One thousand and fifty
miles of railroad per annum implies
at least $4,000 per mile expended
in the State for labor in building
and equipments. Hands are now
paid $1.75 to S. per day; board
ranges up to 81 per week; team
.sters get $40 to SIS per month and
board. Thus labor-a few years
ago the most unproductive thing in
as-begins to be the most profit
able of any. These railroad hands,
from their savings, will be able to
buy land and stock, and to enrich
Texas by becoming actual settlers
The patron of husbandry., 1881-06-25
Morgan County Grange. Ala.

Editor Patron: The following is the
programme for the next meeting of Nor
gan County Grange to he held at Danville
Grange hall on Friday and Saturday, July
18th and 10th, 1851. The following mem
bers of the Order in this county are ap-
pointed to write essays on the subjects
named, which, after being,,read, will be dis
cussed, and adopted or rejected by ma
jority vote of the Grange:
Ist. Degree Symb 7Is-Bros. R. Nc
Clure and II. c. Simmons.
2n4. Home Adornments-Sister Sue
England and Jennie Burnam.
3rd. Brains VS.. Musce-Sister Emma
line Herrin for Muscle, and Bro. J. E. O.
Speaks for Brains.
4th. In Essentials, Unitv-Sister Emma
Brown and Bro. Bascum Garrison.
9Th Is the Grange a Necessity? Bros
c. II. Cooper and w. w. Orr.
9th. DisCipline-Bros. S. L. Weaver
and VIM. Stringer.
9TH. Waste Not, Want Not-Sister E
NJ. Isley and Bro. L. Tabscot.
Sth. Co-operation-Bros w. NJ Strin
ger and ]. B. Cooper, sr.
9th. The Distinctive Features of The
| Grange-Sisters NJ. a. Dinsmore and Bro
| S. II. Morris.
10th. How Can We Make Our Grange
Meetings Interesting?-Sister Sallie 6
| Hardwick and Bro. 10. Herrin.
| nth. Perseverance-Sis'r Mary Thomp
| son and Bro. A. L. Davis.
All fourth degree members in gooc
standing in their Subordinate Oranges ar
| eligible to seats in the Pomona Grange
The fifth degree will be conferred Fridar
| night on those who are entitled to receiv
it. This meeting will be the regular tim
for the election of officers, and many otne
matters of interest to the farmers of ou
county will come before us. We earnestl
hope there will be full delegation from
every Grange in the county.
DABNEY BURLESoN, Master,
| S. a. SPARKMAN, Secretary.
| HartSell, Tune 20
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ST. LOUIS MARK EFT.
THE ST LOUIS BRANCH OF THE
S. w. c. ASSOCIATION,
.-.- ST. LOUIS, June D, 1881

DFFICE OF
THE ST LOUIS BRANCH OF THE
S. w. c. ASSOCIATION,
.sr..-. ST. Louis, June D, 1881.
BAGGING-I34 II 934c., with an up
ward tendency; I1a 10 9lac.
CORN--In lots, 59c.; mixed, 45@46c.
CORN MEAL-S2. .ooG0 2.95.
BACON-Clear rib, 94o@934c.; long
c and 7, 938@98c.
FLOUR--Firm and in good demand.
Fancy, S5.95; choice, $5.S5; family, $5.55;
xxx. $5@5.25.
SHOES-Men's kip brogans, 81 or $I2
per doz; do. lace. SIS per doz.; women's
sarge do. polish, $I2 per doz; mems buff
calf screw bottoms, SIS per doz; boys do.
$I2 per doz.
WAGONS-234, $4I, and other sizes in
proportion.
SUGAR CANE MILLS-Oyler Hor-
izontal No. B, $40; do. Vertical do, $42;
soc drayage, Either have capacity for No
: Evaporator. List price of which for
brick arch is sos; furnished at IS per cent
off, soc for drayage.
REMARKS money and orders
describing as near as you can what you
want and say, l want it at such price
(stating what price.) That is business, and
most always gives satisfaction, unless it Is
meat or such staples. A customer sent SOC
to-day and wants 900 pounds S. c. bacon
and it is 978c. and some won't sell at that
w. maxwell.
The patron of husbandry., 1881-06-25
NEW ORLEANS MARKET.
OFFICE OF
The Southwestern CO-OperaIiVe
Association. =. of H.
NEW ORLEANS, June az, 1SSt

New ORLEANS, June 23, 1881.
COTTON-Firmer. Sales to day, 400
bales.
Ne5v orleans Futures: June, 1912;
July, 10, 70; Aug, 1880; Sept. 1885; Oct
900; Nov. 9 SO; Dec $50; Jan. 600
NeW York FhtHres: June II.o5; July
II oS; Aug. 100; Sept. 10 6S; Oct 10. p;
- Nov. Io.t4; Dec. Io.I5; Jan. 1927.
Nezv Orleans Cotton lStatement'
Net receipts since Sept. Ist, 1.529,5I5
bales; same time last year, t,464,ss4.
Receipts at all ports since Sept. Ist,
-5,5osI5I; same time last year, 4,S23 3,6o3.
Quotations: Good ordinary. S34c.; low
middling, o58c; middling, Io56c.
bAGGING-2l lbs, nc; ia lbs. Il &c.
134 lbs. II34c. Cotton Ties, Arrow tie,
$I.65 per bundle net; Triumph tie, S..
COFFEE-Strong. Prime, 13@I34c.
good, I21a@I24c.; far, I2c.
FLOI R-Fancy, $3.50; choice, 5000;
family. $s.65.
NESS PoRK-$Iz Is per brl;
658c.. packed
BACON-ShOulders, 756c.; c. r. sides,
loMc.
LARD-Refined, in tierces, II kc.; in
keg' and hf brls, I2c.; buckets, I214c.
SUGAR-Yellow clarified, 9R9c; off
white, 958c.
MOLASSES-Prime, soc; choice. 42c
RICE-Prime, SIC; choice, 614c.
MACKEREL-No. I, bbls. $6.75, No.
?, 1878; No. I, half. $3.75, No. ,, $3.I5;
No. 1, qrs., s. 90, No. ?, sI.75; kits, No
I,F5c., No. ?. zoe.
COD FISH-Per or box, 81.
RI HAMS-Choice II15@I2Hc. Ham
sausage, 7c per III. Breakfast bacon,
choice, II &c.
., PIG PORK-Hf bbls, So; bbls sly
COW PEAS-Active and strong, stock
small; $2.9o per bushel at 7UhOleSake for
clay, while smaller lots bring higher prices.
There are no mixed on the market.
'RN-Choice white, 64@65c.
CATTLE-Good fat, $2o@35; fair fat,
$IS@25; scalawags, $Go@I2.
COAL OIL-In bbls, 2oc.; cans, 246
25c.
HAY-Prime, $IS@1S; choice, $40
p ton.
SALT-Coarse, 81 OK; fine, $I.45
SHOES-Men's 80 K" brogans. 81 :
pr pair; women's imitation kip 0olkas, 81
DRY GOODS-Prints: Ashland shirt
ings, &c; Harmony, 63lc.; Aliens fan
cieS. 7c.
Darks: Spragul's fancies, 615c.; Amer
ican fancies, 6l5c.; Simpeons fancies, &c.
Cottons, bleached: Lonsdale, 60 inches,
oH @Ioc.; Rosebud, 36inches, 9 &c; Com
monwealth, q yard, SC.
Cottons. Brown: Pinewood. 60 inches,
312@Sc.; Natchez, So inches, 634@7c.; do.
Matches, 6@719c.
Osnaburgs: Prattville, OF o4@9hc.;
Lane. s OF 9l4@o1ac.; Augusta plaids, S
&c; Tuscaloosa plaids, S1a@9c,
TT CARVER
General Manager.
The patron of husbandry., 1881-06-25

A Barber with a History.
4- Atlanta Constitution


Probably you have never been shaved
by Mr. schelpert. the barber in front
of the National hotell .al.T.e.o ~. /.
| was astonished when [ first sat in
his chair, by his not asking me if I
didn't want my hair cut. When he
failed to insist on my being shampoo
ed, / marveled even more, and when
he shaved me, without saying a word
i felt that he was man with history.
And here it is: co -a .sfs'.a s'f!j al li. q
He was educated in the best of Ger
man colleges, and when a mere had en-
tered the Prussian army, he, and Carl
Schurz and Sigel were lieutenants in
the same regiment, and we're co-revo-
lutionists,s The regiment to which
they belonged joined the, sinsurrection-
lists in 1S4S, and in the last battle 3 of
the campaign Schelpert was wounded, !,
captured, and sentenced to DEATH.
Schurz, Sigel, and most of the other
rebels escaped. Just before hisiexecu-
ton day arrived, Schelpert made his
escape from prison and came to Ameri-
ca. In New York he met one of his
compatriots who had married young
girl with whom each had been at school.
This couple was going south and Schel-
pert accompanied them. They stopped
at Madison, Ga. The young revolu-
ZIONIST was without means, and casting
about for some honest means of liyeli-
hood discovered that there was no bar.
ber in the village. He thereupon
bought a razor, and opening shop.
soon shaved his first man. He found
his new. profession a profitable sones
giving him quiet life and plenty of
leisure for pursuing chronological stud
les, which was his passion. His friend
dying, he married his widow and lived
the life of a just and peaceful man un-
til the late war opened. He then
raised company and marched at the
head of the first Confederate flag car
ried out of Madison, joining the Third
Georgia regiment. He served with
this for some time and then Joined the
Sixty-sixth of which he became colonel.
AT the close of the war he determined
to quit fighting, as he had tried two
revolutions Rnd had been whipped in
both.
The patron of husbandry., 1881-06-25
WORTHY MASTER DARDEN.
OF the State Grange.

vi luc otdle Orange.
Will address the members of the Order
and farmers generally at the following
times and places:
Claiborne county, Tuesday and Wed
nesday, June 18th and 10th.
Kinds county, Friday and Saturday
July Ist and I'd
Madison county, Tuesday..and Wednes-
day, July 5th and 9th.
Leake county, Friday and Saturday
July Sth and 9th.
Scott county, Tuesday and Wednesday
July 18th and 18th.
Newton county, Friday and Saturday
July 9Th and 10th.
Neshoba county, Tuesday and Wednes-
day, July 10th and goth.
Winston, Friday and Saturday, July
22d and 23d.
Choctaw county, Tuesday and Wed
nesday, July Goth and 27th.
Oktibbeha county, Friday and Saturday
July 29th and goth.
Lowndes county, Tuesday and Wednes-
day, August I'd and Sd.
Clay county, Friday and Saturday, Au,
gust 5th and 9th.
Monroe county, Tuesday and Wednes
day, August 9th and 10th.
The patron of husbandry., 1881-06-25

t;als.unitv. in non essentials, liberty; IN an
things. charityf" He does all this; he tries
to develop better and higher manhoou'
he tries to efihanee the comforts ana at
fractions of his home; he fosters mutual
understanding and CO operation, ne mann
ta;ns onr laws inyiolate; he reduces his
expenses; he buys less and produces more
in order to make his farm selfsustaining;
he diversifies his crops, and crops no more
than he can cultivate; he condenses the
weight of his exports, selling less In bushel
and more on hoof and fleece, less in lint
and more in warp and woof he system
atizes his work and calculates inteli1gently
on probabilities; he discountenances the
credit system, the mortgage system the
fashion system and every other system
tending to prodigality and bankruptcy;
he meets with the Grange and talks with
them and works with them, buys and sells
with them and in general acts with them
for their mutual protection and advance
ment; he avoids litigation as much as pos !:
sible. he endeavors to secure harmony and
good will, vital brotherhood in the Order,
and to make it perpetual: he suppresses
personal, local. sectional and national
preiudices, all unhealthy rivalry and seitlsh
ambition.
Now I wish to address myself to the
members of our Order who once met with
us. but..for the want of zeal or on account
of indifference to Grange principles have
withdrawn from us to seriously think and
consider these principles and say
they can see no good in them. The
principles inculcated in our Declara-
| tions are the essence of our Or
der, and them that take the quintes-
| ence of our principles, and can't see
how any farmer can be so indifferent to
them and especially any one who has
taken our solemn obligations as members.
Hope is said to be the balm of life" 1t
is said, there is tender spot in the heart
of every human being" God did not
leave us to our own devices, but implanted
within the breast of all the germ of good
the yearning after something high and
holy" 1t is Furthermore said, Outside
the church the Grange is best adapted to
develop the Divine inspiration to beldentl-
fled in some way with something pure and
disiterested, something that leads us to feel
that we are not alone In the world and
that we are not lost entirely in self.p Let
us now consider the true objects of the
Grange, as shown in these principles, and
see if we do not realize the great impor-
tance to us as a people of the interests in
yolved in the success or failure of the
Grange. Again, it is not the member who
attends the meeting alone that is Gran
ger, but one who works willingly, honest
ly, earnestly and pefsistently with deter.
mination never to relax his efforts and
bring all his energy, brain and soul, tc
task in order to cope successfully with all
the evils and wrong which assail him
| Then again, Who is Grangers Echo
again says, "Who?" .=..lsi saf assl
Fraternally, fa I. A. DoDsoN, c'
New Harmony, June IT, is Sec'y. p