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Year: 1874

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The GRANGE ADVANCE seems to be
in very bad odor with all salary-grab-
bing, log-rolling politicians and their
creatures who do their dirty work as
editors. We don't know that we have
any special reason to complain Of this,
for we are not aware of ever having
done anything to merit their good will
or favor, and we think it more than
likely they will continue to like US no
better as time rolls on.


Here is the way one of Dunnells
chaps, editor of the Window Reporter,
unbosoms himself to The GRANGE AD-
VANCE.


We have not seen a more wilful attempt
to prejudice and mislead the public than
the last issue Of the ADVANCE 1t is full of
quotations, and dirty commentshpon them,
from Mr.. Dunnell's speech before the Owa-
tonna Convention, and is step lower than
we had expected from paper that claims
leadership among the Patrons Of Husband
ry. Why not come out manfully, and open
ly denounce him, rather than to take SEN
tences and use them in q disconnected sense
to mislead aud prejudice :? We admire an
honest warfare, but this kind Of skulking
to gain political end is both contemplate
and degrading, and is unworthy paper
that seeks the leadership Of so noble an or
der as the Grange.


Of course be does not claim that We
misquoted Mr.. Dunnell. What then,
is he mad because we quoted him cor
rectly? Or perhaps it is the "dirty
comments" that has nauseated the Re-
porter man and made him slop over so.
But if so, why does he not point out one
ofthe " dirty" things 50 that if it really
is dirty" we might take it back and
wash it up a little.


He says that we used sentences from
Mr.. Dunnell's speech in disconnected
sense to mislead and prejudice. But of
course the Reporter does not show a
single instance wherein we have distort-
ed the sense, changed the meaning, or
in any possible way done Mr.. Dunnell
the slightest injustice, because the fact
is it can't. We defy it to show that
we have not fairly represented Mr.. Dun
nell in any case.


The Reporter wants us to speak
plain and not to skulk. If we did not
speak plain in reference to the nomina-
ton Of Mr.. Dunnell in our issue of the
22d Of July, plain words can't be found
in the English language. If the Re-
porter knows Of anything's palmer in
that language, won'tit please point them
out to us, for they are just what we are
after, and the salary grabber shall have
the benefit Of them without delay.


The fact in the matter is that the Re-
porter is for some reason, whether that
reason be material, tangible and visi-
bic one. or an immaterial, intangible,
and invisible one, for some reason, we
say, it is supporting a man whom its
senseof consistency and better judgment
can scarcely uphold.


We would call the attention of the
Reporter to letter from Window that
will appear in our next issue which is
crowded out Of the present. It shows
how this nomination was secured.
Year: 1874

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1874.


The Tribune is OVERRIDING the matter
altogether. "General ruin" don't lie in
his breeches, butthere is little private
"ruin" lies therein for himself in the
shape of Back Pay Steal I


''Nine judges out Of ten are bal
headed any why is it ?"-Bosto'A Post.


Because they haven't got any hair -
The Citizen


On the top of their heads The CGti:
zen probably meant to say.


One Of the very best papers that
reaches our table is the Indiana
Granger. We appreciate good paper
whatever its cause may be, but we have
warmer and more earnest feeling for a
good Grange paper. Success to Bro.
Ethel and the Indiana Granger.


We appreciate the act Of the County
Commissioners in making The GRANGE
ADVANCE the official paper Of the
county, the more because it was not
sought by US and was wholly unex-
pected on our part. We promise the
Board it will have no occasion to regret
the act.


In speaking of the nomination of
Mark H. Dunnell by the Republicans
of the First District, the St. Peter 7ri6-
~ne (Republican) says:


He evidently has concluded to force
the Senatorial aspirants into his sup
port or else drag them and their friends
down in the general ruin.


The first column on the second page
of our last issue should have been head
ed &" WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT" but it
was not This made it appear as if We
said that = in this part Of the State, and
Northern Illinois the crops are mostly
destroyed by the excessive heat, and
chinch bugs; many are burning up
their fields Of wheat, and others are cut
ting the straw for feed for the coming
Winter"


Not a chinch bug has been seen or
heard Of in this part of the country,
and the crops are generally fair but not
large. Accidents will happen in the
best regulated families, although candor
compels us to say that we claim no re-
lationship to that family whatever.
Editor Rice County Journal:


In compliance with the call Of Gov. Davis
our Grange has raised over hundred dol
lars for the relief Of the destitute in the
grasshopper region. There was goodly
number of five dollar subscriptions If
some means we're provided for canvassing
this favored region, we have no doubt an
equal or greater amount could be secured
from those who are not members of our
Order. The Grange Mill Company sent
fifteen barrels Of -four. There will be
great suffering unless all respond to the
call. Who will see that the good work goes
on. "It is more blessed to give than to re-
ceive" J. C. CouPER, W. NJ,


Morning Star Grange.


Last Winter this same Grange sent
$103 to relieve the sufferings of their
brethern on the frontier. If there are
more noble souled men in the State than
can be found inside the gates Of the
Morning Star Grange, we have not
heard of them. Thank God for such a
Grange, and may its example be like the
leaven that ]eaveneth the whole lump.
Year: 1874

We appreciate the act Of the County
Commissioners in making The GRANGE
ADVANCE the official paper Of the
county, the more because it was not
sought by US and was wholly unex-
pected on our part. We promise the
Board it will have no occasion to regret
the act.
Year: 1874

One Of the very best papers that
reaches our table is the Indiana
Granger. We appreciate good paper
whatever its cause may be, but we have
a warmer and more earnest feeling for a
good Grange paper. Success to Bro.
Ethel and the Indiana Granger.
Year: 1874

THERE is NO DEATH. it be true that
Nature abhors a vacuum, it is equally true
that the Great Creator abhors death and
glories in life. There is really no such
thing, as death-the term is misnomer,
used to designate the changes which occur
in life. Life, eternal hfe,is created by the
laws of Almighty will-power, which are as
immutable in their application as is the
existence of the Creator Himself When
God made life, He made everything neces-
sary to sustain it, but left it for man s pro-
gressive intelligence to discover, convert
and utilize Good medicine is to the ailing
physique what good fuel is to the expiring
flame the better the fuel, the quicker the
fre-the better the medicine the quicker
comes relief from pain. CALIFORNIA Vim
EGAR BITTERs is life's elixer for old or
young Use this medicine properly and
you will live to good old age without
those physical ailments which make seven
ty wears burden.
Year: 1874

| cannot close this hasty and made
Guate, vet fervent and hearty tribute,
without recalling TO your memory the
reverent spirit in which he pursued his
scientific labors. Nearly forty years
ago, in his first great work on fossil


fishes, in developing his principle OF
classification, he wrote 4: AN invisible
thread in all ages runs through this i'm
mense diversity, exhibiting as general
result the fact that there is q continual
progress in development, ending in
man. The four classes of vertebrates
present the intermediate steps, and in
vertebrate are constant accessory ac-
compartment. Have We not here an
immense mind. as powerful as prolific,
the acts of an intelligence as sublime as
provident, the marks of a goodness as
infinite as wise, the most palpable de-
monstration of the existence of per-
sOnal God, the author OF all things,
ruler of the universe and dispenser of
all good? This, at least, is what read
in the works of creation" But 1t is
what he ever read, and read with pro-
found awe and admiration. To this
exalted faith he was invincibly loval.
No laws OF nature were to him as the
eternal word of God. His repugnance
to Darwinism grew in great part from
his apprehension of its atheistical ten
dency-an apprehension which, at best,
I cannot share, for 1 forget not that
those theories now in the ascendant are
adopted by not a few determined
Christian men, and while they seem to
me not only improved but unprovable.
/ could deem them truth without part
ing with one iota of my faith in God
and Christ. Yet L can best sympathize
most heartily with him in the spirit
with-which he resisted what seemed to
him to lessen the majesty of the Master
and supporter of the Universe. Nor
was his a mere theoretical faith. His
whole life, in its pervading spirit OF
service, in its fidelity to arduous duties,
in its simplicity and truthfulness, be-
spoke one who was sincerely fulfilling a
mission from God to his fellow-men.-
Or. Pea5ody's Memorial Sermon.
Year: 1874

The Lowell Courier relates the fol-
lowing remarkable incident, which il
declares to be well vouched for: "Many
years ago Mr.. Abram Dodge, of the
town of Ipswich, owned beautiful
horse, which was the pet of the family.
He was admired by all who knew his
playfulness and good qualifications. In
the summer it was Mr.. Dodge's habit
occasionally to have a frolic with his
horse in his barn-yard, then let him
out alone and he would go to the river,
which was about one-third of mile
distant, where he would bathe, then go
to a common and roll on the grass, and
then with the freedom of air start for
his home. His stable was renovated
for him while he was gone and his
breakfast put in his crib. Ii he met
his master he would show some coltish
pranks, bound for the stable, pull out
the wooden pin that fastened the door
with his teeth, and rush to the manger,
where he was expected to find his food.
One night the horse was stolen from
the stable. After the expiration of six
teen years Mr.. Dodge was at the tavern,
when a man drove horse up to the
door, Mr.. Dodge at once recognized
his horse, and he told the driver his
reason for believing it to be his; the
man told of VIII, N he had bought the
horse, and said L, had owned him for
several years. Mr.. Dodge claimed his
horse, and it was finally agreed that if
the horse would, on being taken to his
old stable, go through the habit of bath
ing, rolling on the grass, md pulling
the pin from the stable door, as above
described, that Mr.. Dodge should have
him. When the horse was let out into
his old yard he reviewed the premises
for a moment, then started for his old
bath-tub, then for his green towel on
the common, then to his old stable,
pulled the wooden pin, won for himself
good meal, and his old master his
favorite horse"
Year: 1874

There are comparatively few, who,
either from instinct or education, regard
that delicate courtesy which should be
observed by all who enter the charmed
precincts of a garden. A few sugges-
tions to those who thoughtlessly vio-
late the etiquette of the garden will
prevent much modification and un-
pleasantness.


If the walks are narrow, little care
Will avoid sweeping ones skirts over
the beds, to the injury of the flowers
and the nerves of the owners as well.
Do not pick unbidden a blossom, or
even a leaf-it may be the very one its
possessor valued most. Nothing is
more presumptuous than to return from
q ramble in a friends garden with a
bouquet of your own selection, unless
requested in an unequivocal manner to
help yourself, and even then it requires
rare discretion to make a choice salts
factory to all parties. Handle or pinch
nothing whatever even a touch Injuries
some vegetation, and feeling of rose
and other buds is almost sure to blast
them. The beauty of scented leaved
plants is often ruined from having their
foliage pinched by odor loving friends /;
better pick the leaf off entirely for a
visitor than to have half dozen to be
mutilated by the pressure of fingers,
which are seldom satisfied with trying
only one. A tender hearted young man
received a rebuke from a lady that
almost brought the tears to her eyes I;
as she moved her hand towards an un-
usually fine rose geranium, the pride
and pet of its possessor, In sharp alarm
its owner exclaimed, 'tDORt pinch it ~
The young lady's mortified feelings were
only soothed by explaining to her that
her friend was probably constantly tor
mented by the ruinous admiration of
acquaintances, and her nerves were too
irntated for a gentle remonstrance.
Every cultiyator of flowers can under
stand the annoyance of seeing fayorite
flower In such danger.


When an enthusiast in Horticulture
triumphantly shows some elegant foG-
ageplant, so gorgeously dyed and painted
that it is always in blossom, do not ask
whether it has flower. A conspicuous
bloom on plant so lavishly endowed
with beauty would be a superfuity
which nature is too wise to bestow.


1t is luxury to have some persons
visit a garden-to have the very gems
of ones collection singled out immedi-
ately by an apprecistiye eye-to watch
the play of expression intense enjoy
ment of your treasures gives to the mo-
bile features and, last, to share every
thing that can be divided with them,
and read on a beaming face that you
are fully thanked even before the lips
move in words.
Year: 1874

A BEAUTIFUL INCIDENT.-A poor Arab
travelling in the desert met with spring
of clear, sweet, sparkling water. Used
as he was only to brackish wells, such
water as this, appeared to his simple
mind worthy of a monarch, aud filling
his leathern bottle from the spring, he
determined to go and present it to the
Caliph himself.


The poor man travelled long way
before he reached the presence of his
sovereign and laid his humble offering
at bis feet. The Caliph did not despise
the little gift, brought to him with so
much trouble. He ordered some of the
water to be poured into cup, drank it,
and thanking the Arab with smile, Or
dered him to be presented with re-
ward. The courtiers around pressed
forward, eager TO taste of the wonderful
water but, to the surprise of all, the
Csliph forbade them to touch single
drop.


After the poor Arab had quilted the
royal presence with light and joyful
heart, the Caliph turned to his cour-
tiers, and thus explained his conduct :
During the travels of the Arab" said
he, 'the water in his leathern bottle
became impure and distasteful. But it
was an offering Of love, and as such i
have received it with pleasure. But i
well knew that had 1 suffered another
to partake of it, he would not have con-
cealed his disgust; and therefore i
forbade you to touch the draught, lest
the heart of the poor man should have
been wounded"
Year: 1874

There are hundreds of young men
that should be married who are not
married. To marry early is discreet
and wise. And when men and women
are of manageable age, 1 think it to
be. in general, true, that it is whole
some for them to be married. 1t is not
necessary that they should remain sim
gle because they stand in poverty; for
two can live cheaper than one, if they
live with discretion, if they live with
cooperative zeal, if they live as they
ought to live. If the young man is
willing to seem poor when he is poor /;
if the young woman, being poor, is will
ing to live poorly if they are willing to
plant their lives together like two seeds
and wait for their growth, ard look for
their abundance by and by, when they
have fairly earned it, then it is a good
thing for them to come early into this
partnership. For characters adapt
themselves to each other in the early
periods of life far more easily than they
do afterwards. They who marry early
are like vines growing together, and
twining round and round each other
whereas, multitudes of those who marry
late in life stand side by side like two
iron columns, which, being separated
at the beginning, never come any nearer
to each other. There is no school which
God ever opened, or permitted to be
opened, which young people can so i'll
afford to avoid as the school of care and
responsibility and labor in the house
hold, and young man and young
woman marrying, no matter from what
source they came together, no matter
how high their fathers have stood, one
of the most wholesome things that they
do, having married for love, and with
discretion. is to be willing to begin at
the bottom, and bear the burdens OF
household life so that they shall have
its education 1 tell you, there are
pleasures which many young married
people miss. would not give up the
first two years of my married life for all
1 have now. 1 live in big house, with
a brown stone front. and very fairly
furnished but, after all, among the
choicest experiences OF my life were
those which passed through in Indi-
ana, when / hired two chambers up
stairs when all my furniture was given
to me, and was secondhand at that
and when the very clothes which I had
on my back had been worn by Judge
Birney before me. We were not able
to hire servant. We had to serve
ourselves. 1t was a study every day
how to get along with our small means
and it was study never to be for
gotten. owe many of the pleasures
which have run through my life to
being willing to begin where I had to
begin, and to fight poverty with love,
and to overcome it, and TO learn how to
live in service and helpfulness, and in
all the Thousand ingenuities which love
sweetens and makes more and more
delightful, ul,-Beecher.
Year: 1874

The Cardinal Grosbeak, commonly


known as the red-bird, is quite favor


lite in those localities which he makes


his home. The plumage is beautiful
and the tones clear and varied. Being


birds of song they are much sought
after for the cage. But it is not our
present intention to condense well
known facts from the ample page oi
natural history. We simply desire to
tell little story. Last Summer q lady
wandering among the cedars of Cardome
discovered the nest of a grosbeak, and
in the nest was fedgling which she
made captive. 1t was q wee thing and
had to be reared with care. She trans
ferred the nest with the bird in it to a
cage, and then hung the cage to the
limb of pear tree. All day long the
mother of the youngster hoyered in the
vicinity of the cage. You could not
frighten her away. In the morning and
likewise in the evening she would
gather insect food and carry it to her
young, tenderly feeding it through the
bars of the cage. At night she made
her perch upon the limb beneath which
swung the cage. As the Aedgling grew
larger and stronger, the mother became
more attentive to it. For an hour at q
time she would hutter around the cage
and cluck to it, and it was evident from
her actions that she was trying to en-
courage it to use its little wings as much
as possible in its narrow prison space.
1t was slow work, but the lessons were
not wasted the young bird persevered
on OF Iac 1.l 20 h
confidence and certainty from perch to
perch and from bar to bar. All this
time defective bar of the cage had
been confined to its place by little
cord or string. The old bird may have
studied the condition of affairs, but she
did not molest the cord. She did not
seek to arouse suspicion before her
tender offspring had the strength and
courage to use its wings. But as soon
as the young bird was able to fly, che
watched her opportunity, and, when
unobserved, went TO work at the knot.
She pecked away at the cord until the
knot was united, then pushed against
the loose wire and displaced 1t so as to
admit of O passage from prison to lib
erty. 1t was bold stroke, and there
was touch of genius in the whole per-
formance. When men pursue such
tactics as this bird pursued, we call the
work generalship and applaud the
authors of it as heroes. Shall we not
then admit that this scheming mother
bird, in taking care of her captive
young as she did, in teaching it to fly,
and then in rescuing it from prison,
was guided by higher, clearer and
more intelligent light than that which
comes under the head of blind, illogical
instinct?
Year: 1874

CHARADE.-I am a word of five sylla-
bles; of which NY first and second
make the nsmeof a huge serpent, strong
enough to crush an OK to death, and
large enough to swallow him whole
my third and fourth are cube usually
made of ivory; my fifth is a vowel, and
an article much used and my whole is
the name of British queen who burnt
London, destroyed seventy thousand OF
its people, and afterwards poisoned
herself because defeated in a battle
with her enemies.


Anscer :-Boadecia.
Year: 1874

Charles Warren Stoddart writes from
London to describe Guy Fawkes's Day.
He says: Before we had risen from the
table motley crew of chunky English
boys stole in at the street-gate, and
ranging themselves under our window,
began to repeat in the rapidest possible
English some verses about poor Guy
and his gunpowder, and all that un-
happy plot that missed fire. Then came
the cheers and God bless the QIeen,
which last refrain was merely tag,
fancy, that didn't mean half as much
as it implied; at any rate, the young
sters ratified it off with jovial air, as
though they had been saying, That
lets us out or something in the same
vein. OF course we were all az the
window by this time; there We saw q
half dozen u-chins with their faces
painted like theatrical Modocs, and in
their midst they bore an effigy of some
thing that was perhaps meant for Guy,
but it might have been passed for any
thing under the sun; it was a stuffed
suit of sorry old clothes, o mask and q
cooked hat, and the figure tied into an
old chair, which was pushed about in q
wheelbarrow. Having completed their
entertainment they bowed and scraped
as only these English boys can, with q
comical and characteristic grace, where
upon We threw them few coppers and
they withdrew to the next lodge, where
the same performance was repeated and
not without profit. Every year these
youngsters have great fun, trundling
their Guy about and reaping handfuls
of pennies. They are supposed to ex-
pend the sum total in grand bonfire
at night, when poor Guy is burned, to
the infuriate Joy of all young heretics.
L saw at least twenty of those dummies,
of all descriptions, followed by mobs oi
children, whose chief delight it was to
pipe at the top of their lungs and keep
up the excitement, while the larger boys
went about industriously gathering
pennies.
Year: 1874

The following story is related of the
late Judge Grier of how he set aside the
unjust verdict of jury against an un-
popular man, with this remark: ENTER
the verdict, Mr.. Clerk. Enter also, set
aside by the court want it to be un-
derstood that it takes thirteen men to
steal mans farm in this court"
Year: 1874




The English tongue is fast becoming
the language of the world. In Siam the
King has just established two English
schools for the education Of the sons Of
his mobiles These future Asiatic aristo-
Gratis are TO be able to converse with and
be able TO read the literature Of the peo-
pie Of England and the United States.
French may remain the language Of
courts, but the commercial tongue OF
the world is undoubtedly the English,
and the knowledge Of it is spreading
with every fresh port in Asia and Africa
opened to commerce, and with the adj
vent Of every English-speaking traveller
or settler in Japan, China and Egy pit
In Japan it has already been adopted as
the official language, and century
hence the people of that country will be
able to read and appreciate the works
of English authors as if they had been
born in London or New York.