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Year: 1874




A Word OR T~o.-We have been
something of a worker and laborer
for the last fifty years, and never
had m leh ambition to be anything
else. We sympathise with every
effort which we believe calculated
to benefit the laboring man and
better his sondition. At the same
time, we are opposed TO any move
ment intended to array one class or
interest against another, and will
fight all such with the fist OF wick
edness as long as we can raise Il
hand or set a type, no matter who
heads them or where they emanate
arabic; one branch Of industry can
not flourish and prosper by ITSELF
We are just as dependent upon the
man who chops our frewood as he
is upon US. The town is just rs es-
sential to the country rs the cOun-
try is to the town. If there were
no towns and villages, no centcrs
of trade and traffic, what sort Of
country would this beg And what
builds towns and cities and increa-
scs the value Of the surrounding
territory, but capital and enter
prise, trade and traffic, an inter
change Of commodities aud the mu-
tual encouragement of interests
which must stand or fall together
Who is to develop your boasted re-
sources, and build up a homo mar
ket for your surplus produetsy-
Surely, not labor alone, unaided
by capital and enterprise.-Athens
Post.
Year: 1874

A Danbury man who believed
he was dying, gave = friend a boot
jack, with a hinge to it to allow
closing it up in a small space
Subsequently recovering mis- health,
lie sought to recover his boot.jack,
but it was not till after it was bro
ken over his head could he be made
to realize that a present given on a
death bed is too sacred to be trifled
with.
Year: 1874

TRUE EDUoATIoN.-What then is
the real object of education? 1t is
the formation Of personal character
according to the highest standard
of moral and intellectual greatness,
Of religious purity, of practical use
fulness to society, and of patriotic
devotion to country. 1t is to make
man wiser and better-patient,
laborious, and enduring-trained
and willing to work with hand and
head in any station to which God,
society, or necessity may call; able
to bear with eqUanimIty prosperity
and adversity; ready TO undergo
everything and to give up all, prop
erty and life, in defense of the right,
of the truth, of ones country. 1t
is to cultivate and bring out into
daily practice his nobler attributes
and aspirations, not neglecting the
practical and utilitarian, but devel-
oping each and all so that he may
daily approximate to that Being in
whose "image" he was created
Home and School, Louisville, Ky.
Year: 1874

The second Intelligent animal
story of the Boston Traveller is
this: The hosting horses, who
raise the bales to the lofts in our
wood-houses, became remarkably
intelligent in their business, so
much so that they work by them
selves without direction. When
the hook is fastened on a bale, the
horse, with head turned aside, no
ticcs it, and starts off briskly, per-
haps from the knowledge that he
escapes a crack from the whip
The other morning one of the
workmen had on an army overcoat,
and by some upaccountable acci-
dent the hook got caught in the
belt of said overcoat. The horse
feeling the weight, started oil, and
up went the workman like 4 rock
ct. He was taken in, badly frigh-
tened and rs pale as a ghost at the
third-story window
Year: 1874

WASHINGTON, January 16.-The
President gave TO some Of his
friends, as a reason for not sending
the name of q Chief Justice to the
Senate to-day that as this was
Friday, to send it would give the
newspapers three cracks at the
nominee before the Senate could
act on Monday, and that would kill
any man in America.
Year: 1874

We trust that all efforts in Congress TO
restore the ranking privilege will meet
with prompt defeat. The repeal was Il
salutary act, called for by decided popular
expressions. which it would be we'll for
Congress to keep in mind in dealing with
the question should it be presented for
their action While it is true that the
freest communication possible should be
allowed between members of Congress
and their constituents, it is also true that
the. privilege of the frank was so loaded
with abuse, that it was better to part with
the benefits it conferred rather than con-
tinue them under the necessity of also
continuing the abuses that had grown and
fastened themselves upon the franking
privilege. Any act which would be q
step toward the restoration of the wrongs
of the old system should be promptly and
unequivocally opposed by the republicans
in Congress. They will be held response
BILE for any such measure should it succeed
IN Receiving passage. Ane JuoS lhehe VI
the country has met with no change in re-
gard to the propriety Of abolishing the
frank. We have no doubt that the opposi-
tion in Congress will do what they can con-
yeniently and safely to reinstate franking
again, but it is wiser to leave them stand
ing, alone in support of it than to lend
them helping hand. We have full faith
that the rumors sent abroad from WASH
ington announcing that the privilege is to
be restored are utterly groundless, and
that no step will be taken which approxi-
mates to a return to the corrupt system,
the overturn of which was one of the wise
acts Of the republican party.
Year: 1874

The Executive Committee of the State
Grange of Wisconsin has issued an ad
dress to the Patrons of that State in
which they urge them to beware Of the
attempts Of the railroads to corrupt the
ballot box at the coming election. and
next winter undo all that was done last
winter. The committee remind the


Patrons that the State and National
Oranges have both declared for cheap
transportation and that it is the
fixed purpose Of the Order to "open
out the channels Of nature great ar
teries that the life blood of commerce
may flow freely The address further
says. we have declared that we arc not
the enemies OF railroads, but we are op-
posed to such spirit and management Of
any corporations or enterprises as tends
to oppress the people and rob them Of
! their just profits" They also declare
I'VE desire only self-protection, and the
protection of every true interest of our
land by legitimate transactions. 'legit-
innate trade. and Legitimate profits.
We take from the address the follow
ing extract;


If it be possible BY corrupt means
to repeal law, how much longer will
we wait to see laws enacted through the
same means in the interests of the or
ganized power which corrupts. and in
reality confer ''vested rights. which
shall eventually absorb all other rights
The times look ominous III this di-
rection. fore than aught else may the
toiling masses dread as their most dire
/ full enemy the corrupt use of the power


possessed by aggregated capital. 1t
means for them oppression. servitude-
indirect but none the less CALLING: want.
misery, anarchy. and finally frantic and
bloody revolution.


The Patrons of Husbandry have it
II their power to check the aggressive
power of organized capital. and the day
IS at hand in Wisconsin which calls for
the exercise Of it.
Year: 1874

The organ Of the Monopolists, the
Farmers Union, is again pouring poi
son into the ears of the farmers of Min
nesota. Fortunately the ''leprous dis
tilment," drawn from the alembic of
President Drake, is so diluted by Aber-
nethy's natural flow of dish-water, that
it will simply disease and not destroy
the victim.


In the last number of his paper he
says:


1.-THE West needs money 1t should in
vite foreign capital to come IN, to aid in the
development of the vast tracts OF territory
yet unsettled, and we should BE- careful not
to have our acts mISconstrueG on the part of
those who hold the purse strings.


The West needs prosperity more than
it needs money; for money does not
always mean prosperity. In 1857 one
could borrow all the money he wanted
at three per cent. month and 1853
and 1859 saw the State swept as by the
bosom Of destruction.


In Wall street. New York. money is
now piled up in immense heaps, waiting
for borrowers at four per cent. per an
mum. and finding none: while thousands
Of laboring men are without work and
almost without food and the chief Of
police. Matsell, has had to put on a
large force of armed police, in Wall
street at the request Of the bankers
and money brokers. to guard their
money heaps from the mob. Here
money and starvation are brought face
to face. and revolvers and clubs alone
can keep peace between them. Why
ism Abernethy there. to convince these
starving mechanics that money being
plenty their stomachs are therefore
Unnecessarily; and that the craving
they feel is simply an illusion.


What the farmer Of Mime
sofa wants is not a chance
! to borrow some one else
money, but to prevent some one else
| lEouI Sttdilli0 Ills iiloiitS. LIS IsiiiU. Ills
muscles. his intelligence. will give him
prosperity. if unjust laws DO not grind
him to the earth.


Neither do we want any more "vast
tracts of territory settled until that
which is settled is rendered prosperous.
The best guarantee for the growth of
the frontier is the prosperity of the
country behind it. We want no pau
pers in Dakota Territory competing
with paupers in Minnesota, all miser-
able together.


And, says Abernethy, we must be
careful not to have our acts miscon-
strued on the part of those who hold
! the purse strings More of the same
beggarly. Abernethian spirit Wemust
come up cringing to the men that hold
Year: 1874

New FREIGHT RATEs.--The absentee rail
road grandees who disobey laws and bid the
people defiance, assembled at Saratoga few
days ago and turned the screw still tighter
on the surplus crops of the farmers OF Wis
consin, Minnesota, Northern Iowa and Hi
nois. The additional charge we understand
is about cent bushel on wheat. We have
heard the increase estimated as high as a
million, or million and a half dollars, that
it will cost to market the farmers crop this
year. and this in defiance of the laws of one
of the States. Is it not time the States
tested their titles with the roads, and had
the question settled whether they have any
rights left or not ?-Chicsgo Industrial Age.


Minnesota's share Of this little steal
will be about $25O,O0O. A quarter of
million taken out Of our people by
one turn Of the screw. And, the lead
ing Republican paper of the State, says
we have no right to prevent them; and
the Republican Legislature passes law
which is tizzle and fraud, and then
they ask the suffering people to keep
them and their damnable Rings still in
power. VIII they do it !
Year: 1874

I'VE are told through the public
journals that in the event of any fur
ther aggressive movement against capi-
tai in the West, the East is prepared to
resort to very extreme measures against
the States so influenced, both as
means of self-protection and retalia-
ton


And again, that the result of the
Wisconsin law, if enforced, will be that
the corporations will buy up legisla
tors.


patrons it is now time that we
each Of us give heed more particularly
TO those declared purposes of the Or
der which refer to our duty as Arneri-
can citizens, and see to it in the COM
ing struggle that none but competent.
faithful and honest men who will un-
hinchingly stand by our industrial in
terests. are nominated for positions OF
trust. and thereby do all in his power
leeitimately to influence for good the
action of any political party to which
he belongs.


The suggestion Of making candidates
show their hands before election,wheth-
er they are for or against the people, is
good one. It would have saved much
trouble if it had been adopted generally.
years ago. 1t prevents the sly and
tricky politicians from selling out the
people. The people have votes; the
corporations have money. The tricky
politicians want both, and when they
get them the people are the cheated
party


Your Committee would also add a
word in favor Of the practice already
inaugurated by the Order, of requiring
public answers to questions publicly
put to candidates as to their opinions
upon the subjects they are likely to be
required to act upon. This is espe-
cially important upon the coming occa-
sion. but it should be adopted as the
settled policy and practice of the Order
to make these public inquiries Of public
officers at any and all times, while
they occupy public positions. :
Year: 1874

From the Constitution OF the National


Grange
THE ULTIMATE OBJECT OF THIS ORG ANA
TION Is FOR MUTUAL INSTRUCTION AND Pro
TECT-oN.


Human happiness is the ;.cn.e OF earthly
ambition I7adividual Happiness depends
upon GENERAL PROSPERITY.
Year: 1874

of corn would involve US in extreme diff
Guilty, were itnot that wheat can in q great
measure supply its place. In view OF the
untAvorabie prospect in the vista of our
future, we should be moved to redoubled
eXertions to make up for the lack Of our
shortcoming crops. This we should re-
gard as a sacred duty to our tellowman.


Though large crops of wheat this year
have been made in other States and the
city markets abound plentitully with it,
yet teeming millions must be fed and the
great supply must be exhausted ere another
crop can be brought within their reach.
Besides, if the signs of the times are not
deceptive, Europe is now trembling upon
the brink of a mighty war, when many of
her lahoring population will be compelled
to shoulder arms, and ii may be reasonably
expected that 4 large quantity Of grain
will be required from this country tor the
support Of her armies. Let us then be
alive t. the importance of the trust com
mit,cl - Us, and each Of us glory in hay
inL become 4 cultivator Of the soil.
Year: 1874

A writer in the Rural Ne,o Yorker, who
has been remarkably successful in the cul
tivation of wheat as farm crop, says:


1t has been my practice for the last
eighteen years to run my wheat for seed
over very coarse seed screen, SO as to
SOW none but the very largest kernels. By
50 doing have improved my wheat so
that have sold nearly all my wheat at
home for seed. But in 1871 l hit upon
new plan. l had piece of TreadweH
wheat that was injured by insects in the
fall and killed by freezing in the winter,
so that there were spots not worth cutting.
After harvest | observed a few scattered
heads of unusual size. 1t occurred to me
that there was wheat that had withstood
the ravages ofthe insects and the rigor of tho
winter. | gathered enough to sow one rod
square, from which l realized twenty
pounds of wheat. of unusually large, even
berry, which was at the ratio of over fifty
bushels per acre: last harvest had twenty
bushels which weighed sixty-six pounds
per bushel. 1t is my opinion that we realize
the best crops from the best and most per-
feet seed in the vegetable IS we'll as the
animal kingdom.
Year: 1874

Never submit to a master, to rise with
his soul against every semblance of en-
croaclment of rule; to keep his person in
tact and inviolatc at all cost, and to the
end against all; to dare everything rather
than give sign of submission-such was
his character. This is why he was dis
posed to undergo anything rather than
give signs of weakness. At ten he was a
stole from pride. His foot was painfully
stretched in a wooden contrivance while
he was taking his Latin lesson, and his
master pitied him, saying, she must be suf-
fering." Never mind, Mr.. Rogers" he
said, you shall not see any signs of it in
me-" Such as he was child he continu-
ed as man. In mind and body, he
strove or prepared himself for strife. For
lack of enemies he found fault with socie-
ty, and made war upon it. He loved dan
ger-mortal dangcr-and was only at ease
when he saw the points of all anger bristl-
ing against him. Alone, against all. against
an armed society; erect, inyincible even
against common sense, even against con-
science, it was then he felt in all his strain
ed nerves the great and terrible sensation
to which his whole being involuntarily
inclined.-7aine.
Year: 1874

GREEN TOMATO PIcKLEs.-The best of
all ways of picking green tomatoes is as
follows: Soak peck Of green tomatoes
for twenty-four hours in salt water, Chop
them quite fine in the chopping bowl, add
ing three or four onions Mix with them
teacuptul OF white mustard seed. Scald
sufficient good vinegar to cover them,
spicing it with pepercorn, cloves and all
spice, tied loosely in thin muslin bag,
Four the vinegar over the tomatoes and
tie up the mouths OF the jars in which it
is put away.
Year: 1874

re- Itappears from returns to the Depart
rent of Agriculture that an increase in the
corn area of fully 100000 acres is apparent,
or per cent. above the breadth of last year.
The percentage of increase is largest in the
South: The increase in acres is largest in
Year: 1874

If an edge tool is SO hard as to
crumble grind it on dry stone un-
til the edge turns blue /; it viii
then cease to break, and the tenn
per will then generally prove to be
all tight. Scythes and axes are
sometimes too hard at the edge,
but If treated in this way viii give
no further trouble. .t
Year: 1874

V Last Saturday night a party while
fishing in the Bay near Mr.. Boutwell's
place. discovered the body Of dead
man on, the beach near them. They
secured it where it iay and notified the
Coronef.i This officer went down. and
it was found to be the remains of Doc
tor Jack. an Indian. who was killed sew
eral weeks ago and thrown in the Bay.
Before the body was Identified several
individuals thought it bore resem
blance to some acquaintance Who was
missing. and the country bid fair TO be
depopulated before it was found to be q
/" good Indian. Courier.
Year: 1874

The aggregate scores of the tweIve best shots
sum up to 251 points. AS the day was a very fine
one for shooting perhaps the regimental score
ought to have been somewhat higher, but 1t must
There are many old soldiers in the bat talon ana
one brave officer has the glory Of displaying an
armless sleeve to attest his presence on the field OF
honor In defence OF the Union.
Year: 1874

however, the most irregular OF all islands, Its
deep, narrow lnlets, or fords cut It up into Sc
ries of peninsulas, and, notwithstanding that its
length and breadth are greater than Ireland, its
actual area scarcely exceeds 10000 square miles
At one point tits only four miles and half wide.
Physically considered, it is one OF the most re-
markable islands in the world. It Is nothing
but a nest of volcanoes. 1t has no strait
fed rock OF any KIND ana il q simple
mass OF once molten matter that had bubbled
up out OF the sea, and after cooling or
had taken on an Arctic snow cap as II for
protection. Nothing can possibly exceed the
rugged grandeur OF It's scenery. The clefts in the
enormous beds of once duid lava are OF the most
picturesque and startling description. Its rivers
are formed from the melting SHOWS of the noun
tains and are very numerous and beautiful. Their
waterfalls seem to keep the air in one continuous
hum OF dashing spray. The whole interior is but
one vast desert waste, for the most part 30 cle-
waited above the sea that the SHOWS never melt.
Surrounding this DESERT where volcanic fires from
time to time burst forth in the midst OF boundess
frost there Is a belt Of land overlooking the sea
on which grows In places q vegetation OF consider
able luxuriance. Formerly there were other
trees, but the climate has grown colder and the
trees have diminished into mere bushes. Flower
ing plants are, however, abundant, and there is
plenty Of grass for herds Of cattle and nocks OF
sheep, aud


A POPULATION OF FROM SIXTY TO SEVENTY THOU


SAND


find comfortable subsistence partly from the ir
pastoral life, partly from fishing which, especially
on the north side Of the island, s abundant and
profitable. AS for the interior parts oil the island
there have been there eighty-six volcanic erup.
tions-some OF them the most wonderful known In
any part OF the world-since the island was FIRST
Inhabited. OF these twenty-six have been from
Hecla, which Is at all times crossed by nssnrAs
Year: 1874

In seeking truth, wholly lost my way:
Rocked back and forward by tho swinging


tides


ofdoubt and faith, confused by many guides
Each ono armed with doctrine and u creed


Which, each felt safe to say,
Would meet and satisfy my every need.
And one claimed J esus was the Son of God I;
And one denied that he was more than man
Ono scented wrath in the redeoming plan;
One dwelt upon its mercy and its love;


One threatened with the rod
One wooed me with the cooings Of tho dove.
And whether souls were Gorc-ordained to


bliss;


And whether faith or works were strong to


save;


And whether Judgment lay beyond the grave.
And love, with pardoning power went down


to hell


Whether that road, or this,
Led up to heavens gate, | could not toll.
Amid this dust of theologic strife,
fingered with want unsatished.
Heaven while lived, not heaven when died.
Was what l craved and how to make sublime


And beautiful my life,
While yet l fingered on the shores of time,
70 Judgment swift my guides in doctrine


came;


Which one lived out tho royal truths no


preached
Which one loy'd mercy, and ne'er overroached
His weaker brother7 And which ono forgot


His own in others claim,
And put selt last sought but found him not
And wept and cd because religion seemed
Only tho thin ascending smoke of words
Tho jangling rude of inharmonious chords;
Until my false inductions to dsproyc,


Across my vision streamed
The glory of II life anamo with love.
One wi no was silent while his brethren taught
And showed mo not tho beauties of his creed,
But went before mo. sowing silent seed,
That mado the waste and barren desert glad I;


Whose hand in secret brought
Healing and comfort to the sick and sad.
Aslow l cried "lIero all my questionings


end


Oh, what is thy religion, thy beliof?"
Smiling he shook his head, with answer brief,
This man. so swift TO act, so slow to speak


In deeds, not creeds, my friend
Lives the religion that humbly seek.
Then soft and sweet across my spirit stolo
The rest and peace so long and vainly sought /;
And though mourn the graces | have not,
If may help my brother in his need,


And love him as my soul,
| trust Gods pardon il have no creed.
Year: 1874

In 1907 the island of New York was
purchased for S25, which would seem in
the light of recent advances in real estate
to be tolerably good investment. But
if, instead of being laid out in that
amount of land, the same sum had been
deposited in a savings bank, not all the
assessed value of New York city and
State, with the assessed value of the
State of Connecticut thrown in, would to-
day pay the bill.
Year: 1874

A CHICAGO FAGIN.-The Chicago pc
lice have found den where forty boys
are kept in charge Of an old scoundrel
who is training them to beggary. He
sends them out every morning with tho
understanding that each boy returns at
night with fifty cents, or partakes OF
flogging in default. The ages OF the boys
range from seven to ten years, and most
of them are hired out by their parents for
one dollar a week to their intellectual
employer.
Year: 1874

A FEW days ago hungry party SAT
down at the well spread table Of Sound
steamer, upon which one of the dishes
contained trout of moderate size. A
serious-looking individual drew this dish
toward him, saying apologetcally. "This
is fast day with me-" His next neighbor
an Irish gentleman, Immediately inserted
his fork into the fish and transferred it to
his own plate, remarking, "Sir, do you
suppose nobody has sowl to be saved
but yourself7"
Year: 1874

WHAT BECOMES OF THE MONEY p
An Illinois farmer Of statistical inclna-
tions is puzzled by the conundrum Of
"Where does tho money go that comes
out of the pockets of the .Grangers to
meet the requirements of the Order ?"
Taking the statement of Master Adams
that there are 1900 Oranges in exist
ence, he estimates that the sum of two
and half millions of dollars have been
paid in limitations and dues. He would
like TO know what real benefits have been
secured by this outlay, and is inclined to
think that this grange business does not
nav