The Republican journal., 1903-09-17
GRANGE MEETING IN BROOKS.


pleasant and it was made very enjoyable
occasion to all who were fortunate enOugl
to be present. Harvest Home Grange fur
nished a nice dinner and did all in thei
power to show their hospitality and to prop
erly entertain their visitors. The forenoon
was devoted to routine work and to the dis
cussion of practical questions After tn
noon recess literary program was pre-
sented by members Of the local grange, witt
songs and music by the local minstre
troupe. The exercises opened with singing
by the choir, then followed the address O
welcome by NJ. j. Dow, as follows:
BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THIS UNION
| GRANGE: BY virtue of invitation it be
comes my pleasant duty tt. o.welcome you d;
| friends and co-workerS to our grange an(
to our hospitality. 1t has been said tina
speech is silver but silence is golden, and i
may be that you will feel that you prefer
the gold Still we meet as a fraternity
bound by the tenetS of an organization anC
| drawn together by the ties of sympathy anC
mutual interest in each others welfare, Ell
| gendered by like associations, similar lines
of thought, and the same financial interests
| We understand each others difficulties
and advantages, our joys and our sorrows
| feet us as a class as people of other Voca
tionS cannot do.
This order has been of much benefit to Us
as a class 1t has the tendency to draw us
| out OF the dull grinding routine OF our daily
occupation into the congenlal society OF
those who work as we work and think as
we think. And as we meet on holiday
occasion Ike this it is well not only to show
by acts but to express in words the fact that
,, we are glad to meet and to greet each other
here II is not enough that we may by act
give YOU fraternal welcome. 1t is well to
express our regard for you in lifting speech
by spoken language, which distinguishes
man as the noblest of Gods creation. We
may love and respect our friends and yet GO
through our lives apparently cold ana IN
different to each other, because these Sentl-
ments have never been expressed III Ian
guage. We are not any OF us indifferent 10
the personal sentiments of friendship dis
played towards us by those with whom we
are associated, and few pleasant words
may make the world seem brighter ana
troubles all the less. SO we improve the
opportunity to give an address OF welcome,
no less sincere because it may be formal IN
manner We hope and trust that this may
be one of the happy days, one OF the bright
spots that we can look back to with pleasure.
Lite is real and life is earnest wrote
the poet.
But while with us, as with many other
classes, constant, persistent labor and
watchful care are the price OF success, 1t s
none the less true that break from our
daily routine may prove of great benefit to
US
Mind and muscles are rested and refresh
ed and we 90 back to our everyday duties
with new courage and strength. Our tasks
seem lighter, and our hopes are more san
guine and buoyant. In some degree we are
what we claim to be. We accomplish what
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what we make it. Age may abate our ardor
and chill the hot, mpulsive life blood; sick
ness and disappolntmentS may discourage
US: misfortune and disaster may oyertake
us, but as we look back over the way that
we have come, but can never travel AGAIN,
as we look up to those ahead OF US, ana
back to those who have fallen by the way,
we read the unmistakabe evidence that it
is the mind that makes the man. that ii is
our intelligence that will achieve Tor US
success if We ever attain 1t u is not
enough that we labor hard and perSlstently.
We must learn to labor to the BEST advan-
tagt to pat in our work where 1t Will ac-
cOmpliSt the best results to have plans and
purposes and objects in life and to careful
ly study to obtain the desired objects he
fairy dreams OF childhood when anything
was to be had foT the wishing avail us llttie
in the stern battle OF life; but desire to
succeed united with a SteadfaSt determine
ton to accomplish that result, is sure to
give us Il fair lighting chance for success.
1t VIII NOT pay us to fall back into the rutS,
content to do only Just us we have always
done, to think as we have always thouSht,
and to cherish the idea that we know 1t all.
Every human being is Selt-llmlted 1he
most Of this worlds knowledge we can
never attain. There is no person, however
humble, but knows something that the most
brilliant intellect never thought OF, There
is no person YOU may meet but can tell You
something that you never knew. so then
one of the easiest and quickest means Of OBJ
tanning information is by ASSOCIATION with
those who understand the subject of which
we wish to learn. We live in an age of I'M
provementS Ideas, methods and plans OF
work must be changed to meet existing cir
cumstances The successful farmer OF our
boyhood, perhaps, did his Work wisely ana
we'll in accordance with the conditions
which surrounded him. And yet he would
be but poor pattern for US to follow
While he attained success as Judged by the
standard of the times in which he lived we
should drift to ahlect poverty by adopting
his methods.
be, time present is the only time for thee. y
We must accept the conditions of life as we
find them today. We must grasp the posi-
bilities of success, and realize the chances
of failure as they exist at the present time
We must make the most of lie just now.
From tl6 SOCIAL duI oeetnuPoiH' -
is the present that interests US. we cannot
afford to slight our opportunities Inc
mill will grind no grist with the water that
is past" We shall not succeed with the OPP
portunities that might have been ours,
Our chance is to make the most OF what
we now have The worst part OF any dlffl-
cult undertaking is accomplished Wheh we
have learned how to do it,: Another I'M
portant point is close attention to the de-
tails of the work. Some apparently trivial
matter may change deficit to a DIVIDEND
in manufacturing establishment. ihere
is an old saying that the wife may throw
out of the window with teaspoon more
than the husband can throw IN at the door
with shovel. 1t is the aggregation OF small
things that keeps many man poor. we
need then to plan to the best advantage In a
general way for the best results, ana then men
to follow up the plan by working 10 tne pes.
advantage possible. For this purpose IL IS
well to know what others have done III the
same line To learn their methods oi WORK,
and to note where they made IL ID success
and where a failure. ~ :.
Some weeks ago | visited 1rlend III
another part Of the State, ana the tHils
that particularly attracted my aItehIioil
was his convenient farm buildings lew
wears ago he purchased NICE 1arM III d
good location, but with set OF very poor
buildings The former proprietor was an
old man worn out with hard labor ana WHO
had run the farm with the IDEAS ana Gus
toms of his early life. Inc honae; pal , II,
shed, carriage house ana all outouiiullisa
were scattered around in pronlscous hiaii-
ner with little attention to method OF cQnr ta,
rIrI hat fr1v .