Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-05-29

gan to think that the man Who Was eat
ing her dinner a. n he liked II and not
picking around, was very agreeable Ia
entertain.
And. az likely a. not, she thought, he
l. better than appears on the surface, 81
she went through With such pantcmime
A. she could remember and ssid some
thing to lead the visitor to say, with a
laughs:
ESQ you are In IL when. At the break.
fast table this morning, told where ]
VAS coming my daughter said: IL that
soy sAw by some paper that q grange
wAs organized there last Tuesday even
ing"
"And you are q granger
.Oh. yes, an eight year old granger.
There was only three or four oranges In
the state when ours was organlred.
had lust sold cut NV business In the city
aud bought NV farm Aud I felt as II
should like to learn all there was 10 b.
learned aboai farming. - talked u
over with some of NV Intimate neigh
hors and wc had several meeting. al my
house % consider whether We had bet
ter do anything about II or not.
my nearest ncighhor, Mr.. wether-
Vane. aud hls wife aud daughter, we're
very anxious Ia ioiu and 80 were their
most Intimate friends, the Scare cAsys.
Having got enough signers 10 the ap-
pllcatlon 10 gvt q charter Ne sent for
Mr.. Hale, whom everybody la ConncCii-
cut know :. Ia come and organize "a.
Il reviewed q reply AZ once, saying Ne
might expect him the next day, and !
drove around "a notify those who were
to Ioin. had hardly got home when
the weihsryane. aud the SCare-easys
came In saving they had changed their
minds aud were no, going 10 Join.
Nothing that we could ssy made the
least Impression upon them. Some ~
the out.ider. Who had been In . rat so
long that II Nas impossible fot them Ia
climb out, had got hold oi them and
scafri them AIN oct Ia death. They said
the grange was very expensive ofgani.
yation, that Il demanded costly suppcrs,
that the msmhsrs all danced, that u
would break up the churches aud pack
the town meetings aud have bad lnhu-
enc. and demoraliEe society generally.
They we're scared almost Ia death,
but I reasoned: society In the town j.
In a queer state anyway. There arc -four
churvh.., all by the ears. pNOple ar,
.currylng around In little clique- and
the non-churCh-golng part of the com
muuity l. very large.
"well, they went home-all good
naturc,i- they left us In dilemma,
Mr.. Hale coming next dsy aud not
enough members into four to organize,
just acruss my orchard on another
road live. a man by the name of Handle
ms-carcful. 4 good fellow -one II the
b.st hearted fellows you ever came
acro.s-but II he got down on ANYBODY
l-Lord, lie VA. down on them and
there was nothing be- wouldn't say
Comical chap, too. You couldn't get
really mad At him no matter how badly
YOU might want to, aud II he liked any
thing be- Nas equal "a whole bras.
hand 10 blow for h, so YOU sce | hadn't
dared to .ay grange to Handle, FOR fcai
I .houldnt hii him lust right. -, that
morning I saw him out bushlng his pea.
and wsut over aud I said, Kind Of
ldoNn-in-ths- mOuth-like a. II | needed
sympathy:
II don't know What We are going "a
DO about that grang-. Mr.. Hale !. com
ing to-day to Organize II aud the Nether'
Yane. aud the SCar~easys have backed
out aud are not going to Join.
"Ilandle strsis ishtened up and took OF
hl. hat aud wiped his forehead With hi.
Whit. shirt sleeve as he said With em-
phasls -,
,,'well. Jet them back out CUES.
ANYTHING In this town that i worth 20
ing will 20 without them. How many
more do YOU nee'iF
Pour
"Oh, well, that. all right. You X
and make your arrangements. will go
in aud INV v ife. and my son Tom and
his Nife: don't YOU worry"
30 Handle went In for all he ~a'
worth aud De- has been la ever since
The very next meeting Ne had a Arg,
class To Initiate aud they have kept com
ing and kept coming. II has been per,
feCtly wonderful how the grange wakrd
our folks up.
">ome Who hardly ever came Ia town
for ANYTHING Joined the grange and at
tended the meetings regularly.
"Famlliss who had never attended
any church got acquainted AZ the grang.
and fret Ne knew we're coming 10 church
aud Ia the evening week day meetings
A. we'll, and to-day every church la town
l. better attended aud better supported
than Il was before Ne had grange.
sIhe little cliques are broken up,
everybody knows every body, we have Z
town library, people take part In MAX.
Ing the lecturer. hour pleasant and
h.Iptul that never attempted anything
An a literary way before, aud tell you,
IL l. amazing how Il has developed Local
talsnt.
.rhsn there lsnt farm In town that
isn't better for the grange.
ssIhe stock i bctter, Ne false better
crops. We have got creamery, mof'
fruit l. cultivated, and a. for flowers, ne
family I. without them either summer o'
winter.
"Our highways have wonderfully I'm
yroy.d, not ouly the road beds, but ths
brush has b.ru cut from the sides, th'
trees trimmed up, aud Ne have street
il.mp. In the village aud In many of th'
outlying neighborhoods. In fact, oul
town isn't the same al all a. II Was be
fore we organized that grange.
"City people have come in aud enjoy
"a IN. home they have found With us
although ~, are ten miles from a rail-
rad aud We are spoken of In hal
pltyiug way BY people perehed Ia Ten
.msnt hoo ses on the dirty streets o.
manufacturing centers AZ zone OF th'
back towns" although ] notice they M'
all glad of chance To come WISHING
us.
Another pleasant result OF the srang'
meetings VAS that the young peopl'
from different parts of the town go
acquainted aud there we're ever go man,
grange courtships, and matches too
connecting families Who did not Know
each other at all until they met at th'
grange.
"And the drolle-t thing Of IL all wa
the goinxs on of the Wethervanes ans
the ~care~essys.
"All these eight years We have bee'
intimate nelghbors, everything all pleas
ant, living right on there side oy side
solng back and forth every day, out
made ny my mind to begin with ~hs'