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is almost as vile as the champagne. The Spaniards themselves only drink tho pale" and dry" products of the vine wards which produce the Jerez grape all over the south end of the peninsula. lhey have a sweet tooth, as a rule, ana Hhe the rich, saccharine juice Of the muscatei It is almost a cordial. From 1t and wooa alcohol and burnt almonds, with q stlan infusion of the refuse sherry, poison IS comnounded for the American market. It is good to kill at Q thousand yards' They. too, "remember the Maine.
 spain. both on land and water, has made a deal of history to tho square mile and the round cycle, and the region about Cadiz-particularly the seafront De- fVTxf Gibraltar and the Isle Of San Fer nando. embracing Tangier on one side oi the straits and Tarifa on the other, Cape Trafalgar, where Nelson fought the la- nous battle, midway up the coast-haS had its share.
 Tarifa, Does the name not sound triae familiar? In the olden and solueh days of primitive man, peIore eo, ,po poi
 tion lawyers had learned how to frafne pilaeIng statutes and slick politicians 10 bamboozls confidng constituencies-when thev cen took who had tho power una they cen kept who could-the gentle pi- rates of rarfa laid broad and deep the foundations for the protective system III tho United States.
 To take by law from one man what IS his and give it to another man Wno mas not earned 1t and has no right 10 IL was an invention of the Moors, copied by tne Spaniards and elevated thence into polltl- cal economy by the Americans. Tarita. took it's name from Tarlf-Ben-Malik, the boss Robber Baron of his day, and thus the lords of Tarifa were the progehtors of the Robber Barons of the Rhine and or
 Pennsylvania. Tribute was the name they gave the robbery, which was open and above-board. The coal kings, the steel kings and the oil kings of the mod ern world have contrived ohide the process of their stealing; but in Cadiz and in Seville the palaces of their fore fathers rise in lonely and solemn gran- deur just as a thousand years hence the palaces upon the Fifth avenue side Of Central Park and along Riverside drive may become but roosts for bats and OWLS, and the chronicler of the Anthropophagi. whose heads do reach the skies, may tell how the people of the Great Republic were bought and sold with their own money until 'heaven released the legions north of the north pole, and they swooped down and crushed the putrid mass be- heath their averaging snow-shoes?'
 How placid the sea shines out wonder where once the Galleons from Mexico
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Henry Waderson in Spain

There are canny Spaniards even as there are canny Scots, who grow rich and prosper; but there is never span iard who does not regard the political fabric and the laws as fair game, the rule being always devil take the hind- most" In other words, one sees com munity of interest nowhere. And yet, or a certain kind there are trusts and trust ism, resting mainly on concessions more or less corruptly obtained and main- tained "rhe good old vices of Spain" that is the robbing of the lesser rogue by the greater in regulated gradations, all the way from the king to the beggar, are as prevalent and as vital as ever they were. Curiously enough, tiny stream of Hebraic blood and Moorish blood still trickles through the coast towns. It may be traced through the nomeclature spite of its Spanish prefigurations and appen- dices. This would account for some of the enterprise and activity that show themselves, though only by fits and starts.
 It was Byrons magnificent apostrophe more than anything else which brought us to Cadiz Of sights" there Is noth- ing to see here except very beautiful little old city, all marble white, peeping out of embroideries of orange and olive at the ships that come in from Tangiers and Gibraltar and sometimes from Marseilles
 
 sleepy. The things that inspired the great English bard are no longer visiblbe to the naked eye, If ever they existed out side the poets fancy. I must confess that the Andalusian type was never very fetching to me. l much prefer the dizzy blondes. But, don't you tell anybody Indeed. the Spanish girls are beginning to affect brick-dust so that dye-stuffs of the Titan variety have gone up In the mar ket the last few years. Howbeit, the streets of Cadiz on a Sunday afternoon are filled with comedy. well-dressed wom- en, whilst of "dark-eyed hours," half-hid by black lace wells, there were a plenty.
 The transition from women to wine is easy, and one naturally turns from Cadiz to Jerez, which is but an hours ride dis tant. the seat of the oldest and most famous vintage of Spain, known to us as sherry. There are as many sorts of Jerez in Spain as clarets in France. Jerez lends itself to adulteration more readily than claret. The lighter and better. in- deed, requires to be "stiffened" before It can stand over-sea transit. Sometimes it is ..stiffened' with very good brandy, but oftener with very bad, and, consequent ly, the sherry we get In the United States
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toes on her feet to be scratchin' wid. Hes a rale bad boy, that bird Is. He pulls up the lettuce in Callahan's garden, and Callahan swears he'll have his life. lies nearly a year old now, and l was think in I'd have him killed and made into pot-pie, but If you'll believe me, Mrs Raf- ferty he hasn't that much mate In his body as ud make pot smell good and sweet He's like a room 1athed but not plastered. And the way he treats his little mother is a terrible shame. I'm afeerd that Callahan will kill him and raffle him off at his grocery. You know, Mrs. Rafferty, that Callahan does be raf- fin off eggs and chickens on the day be- fore Easter l wouldn't be caring ha'- porth only my boy Patsy is fond or the bird Sure he's no use Mrs. Rafferty, for he's a rooster and thim kind lays no eggs. But I wouldn't mind if he would be good to his duck mother; if he'd only trate her wid dacency. Oh, sharper 1t IS to have an achin' tooth nor to have a thankless child as the Good Book says, Mrs. Rafferty But I must be goin', ma
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vourneen. I have me washin on the line"-
 Mrs. OBriens reflections ceased as small boy entered the room with bundle
 under his arm.
 '.So you want to see Mrs. O'Bren, and
 you are Callahan's lad, and he's afther
 sendin' me an Easter present, eh? Well, give 1t to me, and tell your father m very much pleased wid 1t, and thank
 him kindly" she said, as the boy lett
 the house. Mrs. O'Bren peeped into the
 bundle and saw enough to cause her
 to jump up with pleased surprise and ex- claim
 "It's a chicken he's afther sendin' me, for Easter, Mrs. Rafferty. Well, now l must be goin' to get the baste ready for | tomorrow's dinner. Now, look at the | kindness of that man Callahan! Come | over tomorrow Mrs. Rafferty, and help | us ate the chicken Good day to ye ana | good luck" and Mrs. O'Brien vanished. She was so much exercised to see her | present that Mrs. O'Brien fell into a l kitchen chair before she took off her hat
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IoW little wisdom one may may get ' from another mans counsels, one \ ! nation may get from another na- lions history, can be partly computed when we reflect how often ones own ex- perience fails wholly in warning ad- monition, says Henry Watterson III the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Temperament and circumstances cut a nrodipious figure in life. Traversing the snanish peninsula from Barcelona to Cadiz the thoughtful wayfarer is con fronted at all points by what seems hoe merely the memorable logic or eVehts' put the common law of the ineVltaple. Ihe Latin of the sixteenth century was survival of the Roman Of the nrst' lie had not. like the Mongolian, lVed loiis enough to become stolc' ihaiiiiy d oS .iis and an adventurer. Thence he hoWereo off into a sybarite. Coming to an unex- arnnIed fortune with the discoveries ol col,mhus and the conquests or 'Plzarro and Cortes, he proceeded to envy sr,,its according to the fashion or the times and his fancy. He erected nnasslve shrines to his deties. lie feaIeo ho ble ualaces. He laid about his catheurais and his castles that were then thought .n ha g,oat cities, walled and foruhed against inc world without. How could he foresee the developments of artiieIy They were as hidden from nm as the miracles of electricity
 They are tearing away the ahcieht walls of Cadiz They afford no longer any defense. They are simply onstruc- five But. enough is left of them to en- able us 10 see what they were before the advent of the long-range sea rifle and the dastrnctive mortars of the modern battle ship. ,, x,u,4
 erally wanting in Spain. There are peo- nle here who think 1t will one day re- cover it's lost prestige, its bygone wealth and commerce. Geographically 1t is cer- tainly upon the highway of the world nrogress Emilio Castelar, was born here, and his teaching survives. The popula- ton is largely republican. But the doom of the ages sits upon Cadiz as upon Nal aga and Valencia and Barcelonia Itself. Granada is quite dead. Toledo has been called the Pompeii of spain. There Is no such force as public opinion anywhere in the Kingdom, and public opinion Is to the health of the government what the winds of heaven are to the health of man.
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 and South America succumbed to Drake l and Essex. where Barbarossa piled his trade not without success and where the guns of Villeneuve and Gravina thun- dered in mortal but intellectual resistance
 to the great Sea Captain of Britain!
 kiss me. Hardy said the dying Nell
 son. q go!' exclaimed the dying Span ish admiral Ito join the greatest man the world has ever produced" What
 boots it now? Each knows the truth at last.
 The gold that was gathered and fought over so valiantly Is scattered to the four ends of the earth. It may be as potent today as them but 1t does not seem near ly so heroic. A good deal of it has found its way to London, which a short century
 and half ago had not" according to Adam Smith. sufficient wealth to con- pete with Cadiz." We have our full share without fighting for it. Thus all things come to him who contrives and waits. There is MT. Carnegie now, And. lkewiwse, there is Mir. Rockefeller What do they know or care about Cadiz? The
 Spanish Main is stripped of pillage. Its buccaneers have gone to keep company with the Vikings. Yet, away down in the bottom of those money chests. filled with what weer once ducats and doubloons, who shall say that spirits do not turk and ghosts walk, one old freebooter whisper ing to another old freebooter as Holy ! John takes snuff and Merry Andrew sips his Manzanilla: "They order these things i better in the States,"
 There is a 1owly mansion in Seville known as the House of Pontius Pilate be- cause part of the remains of the abode of the Roman governor was brought from Jerusalem and used in tn ebullding of
 palace suited to the dignity of a Spanish grandee who was also lord of Tarifa. The duke of Medina Celi is it's present owner. lineal scion of the old pira tical line, though he rarely comes here. It s filled with the fruits of many a foray. There Is plunder from Naples. where ono ancestor was viceroy, and treasures from the temples of the AZtecs ana the Icas. Every coping stone and pillar cost soms mariner of the Tarifa Straits a pot of money. A care-keeper shows it for one peseta a head. To such base uses may we come at last. Yet Seville basks In the sun and smiles on the flashing waters of Guadalquiver, and Cadiz sits serene upon the green hillsides of San Sebastian. just as if nothing had ever happened; ror the Barber and Carmen nor Nelson and Byron; the past but phantom; the pres ent the protest of prose-poems:
 'sThus runs the frowsy world away. For cats will mew and dogs will bay. And even fools shall have their day" Cadiz, February, 1907. H. W.
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'T tried to bow me compliments, but me neck was that stff that I couldn't bend it.
 Thin he says agln. T hope the chicken suited your taste, he says. and he let a roar of laughter out of him that sounded like the big wind.
 "I was fair choked, Mrs Rafferty, wid rage on account O him ballyraggin mo that way, but I says to him: MT Calla- han, I didn't cook the rooster yet, but brought you a piece of it, and with that 1 fetch him d welt wid the chicken be- tween the two eyes that laid him on tbe fure, and while he was there I gave him one or two more for luck and I couldn't hit him again belase there was nothin' in me hand but a pair O 1egs.'
 And did you say anything to him, Allanah?" inquired Mrs. Rafferty sweet ly..
 As I was goin' out O the door turned to him as he was lyn' on the floor, wld his eyes full O sawdust and his mouth full O coal, T wish you a merry Easter,' l says, and [ hope the stuffin' of tho chicken was to your taste
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-04-04


will furnish. But there breaking into
low, joyous laugh which apparently
frightened her for she stopped sud
denly and looked about in a scared.
tremulouS sort of way. Il was only
about to say" she went on deprecat-
ingly. that | haven't seen the church
yet. must 20 there ana look around
so as to get an idea Of what sort of
decoration will b. most appropriate"
"Of course: we will take you there
this afternoon volunteered the minis.
ter beamingly.
An you can have my horse an
wagon every afternoon il you like"
added Mrs Perry warmly. Then there
is my son Tommy. You can have him
TO drive you an to do your gatherin'
an liftin'. Why. really, | almost feel
as though | would like to leave work
an join in the fun myself"
The old womans face was now alb
solutey radiant
1T will be beautiful" she murmured,
AS the world seemed when | was
Young"
She was not thinking of the decora-
ton now, but OF the beautiful thing of
not being forgotten that had come so
unexpectedly to her.
Yes. it will he beautiful" she re-
peated. God is good TO have remem-
bered me so lovingly"
The minister gazed Mt her a moment
and then turned again to the window.
There will be no failure in the
church decoration" he remarked to
Mrs. Perry.
Nor was there, nor in the beautiful
thing that had come to the little old
woman. During the decoration she
was like a different creature. and her
face came TO be scarcely recognizable
as that which had looked so deprecat-
ingly at them that afternoon in the
poorhouse. When it was all over the
minister went to her impulsively and
grasped both her hands
Il cannot tell you how much you
have helped me- he said earnestly.
THE decoration has been a perfect
success, and it is all owing to you.
But there Is another thing | wish to
speak about. My housekeeper is going
to leave and l need some one to take
her place. VIII you come and look
| after the parsonage-and me, too. for
that natter" with one Of his frank
boylsh smiles. My mother always
said l wasn't capable Of looking cf.er
my clothes and such things. | will try
not to tax you too severely"
SO the beautiful thing which had
come to her was not Of a day. but was
to last through all the remainder of
her years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-04-04
THE GRANGE
Conducted by
j. W. BARROW. Chatham. N. T..
Press Correspondent NeU York state
Grange
THE SOCIETY OF EQUITY.
An Organization Which Seeks to Con.
troll Prices of Farm Produce.

An Organization Which Seeks to Con-
troll Prices of Farm Produce.
With considerable flourish of trum-
pets the Society of Equity, a farmers
organization, has announced its pur-
pose to secure that great desideratum
OF western farmers, dollar wheat" I;
has established headquarters in Chi
cago, from which point it will direc!
operations. 1t proposes not only to
raise the price of wheat. but 70 eliLl-
nate the middleman's profits Re
marking editorially on this proposition.
the Outlook of New York says that
many attempts at accomplishing this,
ranging from the social grange to the
political Farmers Alliance, have been
made and all have failed. A loosenesS
of organization when dealing with
farmers widely separated and unwill
ing to undertake cooperative effOri
on a large scale has been the ineyita
bic result of these unions. This mOd
ern undertaking evidently is not free
from such dangers, for it is reported
that the cotton raisers of western Tex
as to the number of 100000 have Sc
coded from the central organization
and will manage their own affairs.
Lectures by itinerant organizers and
conventions for the display Of Oratory
will not hold Il nation wide Organiza-
ton together. much less one composed
Of farmers. and this new union must
have behind it direct, simple plan for
betterment of the agricultural commu-
mites if it is to win permanently. The
farmer almost alone of the toilcrS OF
The world has kept his Independent
way. He has no walking delegate, no
union scale, no system Of licensed ap-
premiership. Neither has he INDUCED
in high finance nor in the formation Of
powerful trusts. Yet upon his labor is
based much of the prosperity that
makes possible the trust magnate's de
velopment
1t is possible that the new union has
100000 members. but unless they are
held with unyielding force and obey
the directorate as one man it will have
llllle effect III GedllLllS lle uItiIu vi
dollar wheat" which seems to be the
western farmers ideal of material
bliss. If the farmers of the nation
succeed in raising materially the price
of their crops at initial points, the con
sumner must prepare to pay more fol-
the finished product when delivered at
his door unless the rise to the farmer
shall come not from the consumer, but
in lessened expense of getting the prod
uct to market. Some day this may be
accomplished, but reports concerning
the present undertaking do not indi-
cate that ii is to succeed permanently
in changing the American farmers
condition, which, by the way. is not
one of great suffering
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Report on Ritual.

The report of the committee on de
gree work at the recent session of the
Massachusetts state grange was
most excellent one. We make n single
extract:
in no order is there a better chance
to exemplify its teachings than in the
Patrons Of Husbandry. With a lesson
for each degree and a ritual which
leads us progressively, step by step,
through the degree, we have splendid
chance to impress the candidates with
the teachings of our Order With four
degrees, representing the four seasons,
and the lessons changing to correspond
to the changes in the seasons, we have
ritual that Is based on nature and
takes its teachings from the brown
soil. There are no more beautiful or
impressive sentiments expressed in the
language Of any ritual than in our own.
and any officer that fails to do his or
her duty by studying and learning their
lectures does the Order great injustice
and cannot expect to make n favorable
impression on the candidates"
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a Famous Anachronisnr.

There is a well known picture show
ing the embarkation of the pilgrim ia
theirs which contains a world famous
anachronism The sailors are hosting
n flag, and, curiously enough, 1t is the
union jack, though the union jack was
not known until about two and a half
centuries after these sturdy pilgrim
fathers sailed away to this country in
the good ship Mayhower- st. James
Gazette
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bling. but into her face was coming an
expression which Mrs. Perry remem-
bered TO have belonged to her old days,
before the long sitting experience of
poorhouse servitude
do you mean for me to take charge
Of the decorating" she asked. Ito do
it in my own way:''
yes. but of course with plenty Of
help. | don't know much about ar
ranging flowers myself"
He turned hastily and glanced
through the window. Something in the
wistful, even rapturous expression on
the old woman's face made him lose
command Of himself for a moment.
well. shall need help in gathering
the decorations" she was saying as he
turned back = here will be things to
cut and bring home and boxes AMI
boards to build UP for the banking.
Yes, think we can do ii very nicely.
There are some bushes along the creek
that | can fix UP to look very much
like palms mt a little distance. and that
dark moss below the ledge will make
a beautiful bank, on which we can ar
range the early white flowers which
are beginning to bloom on the hil,sideS
Then there are the pussy willows AMI
early ferns AMI lots Of other things
that can be used with good effect. Yes.
indeed. we can make charming deco
.a'ion witt what the woods and fields
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lifting and carrying, and there are sew
eral boys in my class who will do what
they can. Let us all join together and
make it Il grand success"
1--WE can't decorate without flowers"
spoke up another woman convincingly,
IAN don't believe there's half q dozen
bloomin' plants in the whole neighbor-
hood. 'Tain't time yet for flowers to
bloom
Cant we find few callas. and
Easter lilies, narcissuses and perhaps
few other white flowers?' with less
confidence in his voice. Palms would
suit me~best for background, but as
we cannot get them we can use green
boughs and pussy willows and other
things from the woods"
"All the houses in the neighborhood
can't scare up white posies enough
for a buttonhole bouquet" declared a
third woman aggresslvely Gas for
Easter lilies, amt never seen one,
and narcissus l amt even heard Of.
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His Concert Toilet.

A musical director was talking about
old fashioned concerts.
Some Of the hits directed at these
concerts were merited," he said. zone
hit, and a good one, was made by an
old Chicago millionaire. He called up
stairs to his daughters:
What time you girls take getting
ready for the concert! Look ut me; a
bit Of wsddlng In each ear and I'm all
ready"
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n NEW minister had come 10
IN slow moving. out of the way
ION Spruce Hill, and with his COM
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REAL ESTATE BARGAINS
I offer for sale

l
FARM OF I47 ACRES, 3 miles from Oakland; good
Groom House; plenty of water so cleared;
about IS of grass; Orchards, bearing; IS
acres of White Oak Timber; R. F. D. mail service
COTTAGE OF ROOMS for sale at Mt Lake Park
HOUSE LOT on Oak Street, Oakland for sale
rent House of E rooms-Lot 5oxI5o feet with
Stable and all necessary Outbudings.
FOUR VERY DESIRABLE BUILDING LOTS situated
on Liberty Street, in Oakland Also DWELLING
HOUSES Liberty Street with good water and all
necessary outbuldings.
HOUSE AND LOT Wilson Street. House of 10 rooms;
good Lot so feet front. Best Outbuldings
in Oakland.
A VERY GOOD FARM mile from Oakland-all under
fence; containing 81 acres; about rs under cultva-
ton fine Orchards and about IN in small
Fruit; Houses, very good Well and failing
Spring. very desirable place for Truck and Poultry
Farming. Can be bought at low price just
have for sale IS of the very best Building Lots in the
town which will sell for cash-or S. down and S.
per month.
$50 ACRES OF VALUABLE COAL LAND situated less
great bargain. The surface would make fine farming
several good springs.
IL MORE CHOICE Bull. DING LOTS at IS down and
S. per month.
If you want cash for your Real Estate Real Estate
for your cash, let me hear from you.
Say-For further particulars call address
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The advantages of this card are that
it is membership card showing men,
ber's grange connection, a pass card in
case the bearer forgets the A. W., a
travelling card good everywhere. In
case the grange issuing the card should
ever become dormant it would be &C.
cepted the same as a demit card by
any grange to which the bearer should
seek admission.
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A GOOD IDEA.

The Annual Pass Gard Used by a Yer
mont Grange.
Union grange, No. 351, of West Hart
ford, Vt, issues membership or pass
card that is very complete and serves
4 good purpose. 1t is shown below: