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Year: 1879




Editor Patron. While some of the
Oranges in Tennessee are working with |
energy and intelligence, we regret there is |
not a general advance all along the line.
There are causes for the backwardness |
and seeming indifference observable here; |
but it is not our intention at this time to
point them out, as we have heretofore
done so in various ways; but we do hope
that those who go up as representatives to
the next meeting of the State Grange will
olive us the benefit of that wisdom which
should result from our sad experience in
the past.


The approaching meeting will mark an
era in our history We will either move
forward with renewed energy and hope,
4 or lapse into dormant state and wait for
time to wear away the impediments to
progress which, as an Order, we have
| failed to discern or remove. The future of
the State, as we'll as of the Grange, will be
far more dependent upon what may be
done in that little assembly, than upon the
acts of any secular assembly that has ever
convened within our borders. A Legls-
lature is not designed to make progress
except to keep pace with the people: it is
mere index or reflex of the intelligence
of the people. A Grange is emphatically
designed to make progress, to educate and
elevate the people, and to enable them to
remedy their wrongs and secure their
rights.


The higher Oranges are designed to take
E the lead in this progress. One very i'm
portant step is to secure the means OF IN
Recommendation among an isolated and
: separated people, SO that they may learn
} to believe and think somewhat in concert
on the great questions which concern
them before they can be expected to ac
in concert, because thought must precede
action if the act is to be a wise one.
, When we think of the importance to {
State of a convocation designed to pre-
2 pare means for educating the aged as wei
Y as the young, to elevate a predominant
o class of society to a higher plane of use
r fulness and happiness, we can clearly see
l the necessity of sending our wisest anc
i best men to constitute that body, 1t is {
/, much higher position and much more i'm
i portant than that of legislator A mar
who seeks the position should never b.
= selected as a representative in any capaci
Il ty, and yet this is quite common both il
and out of the Grange Until this thought
less and degrading custom is abandoned
/, we have nothing to hope for, and we de
e serve nothing but shame and disappoint
/ ment


! One of the most encouraging "signs 0


the times is that THE PATRON is gainin:
a wider circulation in our State, for n
e careful reader of its columns can fail o
e becoming more cautious and intelligen
4 voter and a better citizen.


w. H. NELSON.


Whitehayen Oct IS
Year: 1879

This word, which has now become
or Grange word, implies work.
ing together for the common good, or, in
other words, an industrial partnership
In the Grange hereafter, corporation and
education are to be our watch words
The possibilities of cooperation are ap.
parently inexhaustable. When a uniform
business system shall be adopted by over
fiftv thousand Subordinate Oranges, the
Order of the Patrons of Husbandry will
become a unit as it were, and will move
irresistibly forward to the accomplish.
ment of such enterprises as may be deem.
ed of the highest importance for the per-
petuity and welfare of the Order.


Our Order has inaugurated a revolution,
as peaceful as it is powerful, and it re.
mains to be seen what honest work and
wisely invested capital will accomplish
toward liberating our country from the
! immediate dangers which threaten it.
Corruption and fraud are holding high
carnival; and the money changers must
be made to feel that the righteous indig.
nation of nearly two millions of farmers
and their wives, sons and daughters. have
rights that must be respected.


There is universal demand by the
working people, that the adulteration Of
food, short weights, short measure, and 50
much dishonesty in business transactions
shall be checked. They see but one rovaI
road out of the difficulty, and that, as set
forth in the meaning and intent of our
Declaration of Purposes, is by and
through cooperation.


The adoption of the Rochdale system
by the Subordinate Oranges will imply
something more than the sale of farm pro.
ducts and the purchase and distributor
of supplies on an equitable basis. BY the
adoption of the Rochdale business plan.
agricultur SITS may have their co-operatve
dairy farms, their beef factories, &c, &C.,
in all of which the purchasers interest can
be considered; and general prosperity
will result from it, because of the more
equitable distribution of wealth. At all
events, whatever difference of opinion
there may be as to the value of co-opera.
ton as applied to production, all agree
that cooperation in distribution of the or,
} binary necessities of life can, if propery
restrained by careful code of by laws
result only in benefit to those who in good
faith adopt and carry out the equitable
provisions of the Rochdale plan.
Year: 1879

Members of the Grange should not for
get that its success depends wholly upon
the efforts of themselves, and that to reap
the fullest benefits from the organization,
active cooperation among those members
must be the rule and not the exception.
Nothing can be accomplished by any or
ganization of people if the very principle
on which it is founded is systematically
violated The Grange was started with
cooperation as the fundamental principle
in its foundation, and if members deter


mlnedly neglect to recognize this there
can be no question of the failure of the
mission of the Grange. Each Patron must
act as if on him or her rested the whole
responsibility of the SUCCESS of the Order


Each one should attend the meetings and
contribute his or her quota to the general
stock of information. The very presence
Year: 1879

We lack enthusiasm Whether this
comes from selfshness, thoughtlessness or
indifference, or all, we cannot say The
Masonic organization is hundreds of years
old, strong and vigorous, yet with the So
cial feature far inferior to the Grange. In
the Masonic lodge "the better half" the
refined half, never enters. Here in the
Grange, GALL honor to its founders) she is
the peer of man, and we may say that it is
the only society of all the category that
gives woman equal rights. Sisters, if the
brothers become lukewarm in this cause,
it behooves you to rally and stand firm by
its colors; you never can afford to lose
this vantage glonnd. See to it that every
Grange has the proper encouragement,
until it feels able to build its own hall, has
its own library, and commands large in
fiuence in the regulation of the educational
and social interests of each neighborhood.
You have even more at stake in this cause
than the brothers. The worlds history
has given us many examples of noble wo-
men; may many of you excel them all
State Grange NezuS.
Year: 1879

Farmers exceed in number the other
classes of our country, but mere numbers
amount to little unaided by knowledge.
Therefore if the farmers are to influence
legislation, they must know as much as the
other classes, for it is here that training
and culture tell. Farmers claim that under
existing laws there is an unjust discrimi-
nation against them, which can be RENE
died by legislation. This is especially true
in the matter of taxation With us. real
estate is obliged TO support by far the
greatest burden. The farm and farm build,
ings, with all improvements, are appraised
and taxed, while personal property is to a
great extent free from taxation This
works injustice in many cases For in
stance, young farmer possesses 81, 900 in
cash, which he uses as part payment for a
farm which he purchases for $4,000, Civ
ing mortgage for the other $1,000 1t
needs no lengthy demonstration to prove
that the farmer owns but one third the
farm, while the creditor owns two thirds,
but the justice of the law which REQUIRES
the debtor to pay the whole tax assessed
upon the farm, instead of assessing his
rightful proportion to the creditor, is not
so evident. The poorer man is obliged to
pay an undue proportion of taxes, while
the richer man pays less than his rightful
share. 1t may be said that the creditor is
taxed for interest money. He may be, but
it is fact that only very small proper
ton OF money at interest is ever placed up
on the grand list. The poorer man of the
joint owners of mortgaged farm is
obliged to suffer all the loss consequent
upon any depreciation in the value of the
property that may occur, and this also is
regarded as unjust. Such discrimination
Year: 1879

Large quantities of cotton seed are being
brought to the oil mill in this city by rail
road. 1t is said that the seed comes prin-
cipally from negroes, and that most of the
land owners in this section refuse to SELL
We have conversed with quite number
of leading farmers and they all earnestly
approve the policy of retaining the seed
which THE PATRON has been advocating
for wears
Year: 1879

everv night of ali the members must and
will have healthy effect on each one, ana
such Grange as this cannot fail to be-
come prosperous, and bring to its mem
hers the fullest benefit derivable from the
institution. Let each one strive TO be the
REGULAR attendant, and he will be surprised


how much more easily he gets out to the


Grange every night than he formerly dld


two or three times in the year Canadian
Year: 1879

The National Grange, at its approach
ing session, will doubtless renew the pc
teton of former sessions asking Congress
to establish a Department of Agriculture
with Cabinet officer at its head. That
body should make such presentation OF
the question to the farmers of the country
as will fully inform them of its importance
and secure their cooperation in bring
ing the movement to a successful issue.
If the petition is renewed, it should be
endorsed by every Subordinate Grange IN
the country, and copies of it with the
names of the members of each Grange
forwarded to Congress. This act OF JUS
tice to the leading interest of the country
has been withheld by Congress too long


the masses should unite in demanding its


immediate performance.
Year: 1879

The Arkansas State Grange, which has
not been represented in the National
Grange since the session of 1876 at Chi
cago, will be represented in the approach
ing session at Canandaigua, New York,
by Worthy Master Williams. We are ex-
ceedingly gratifed to see the officers OF
the Arkansas State Grange so active and
jealous. They are determined to make
every effort to restore the Order there to
its former strength and efficiency.
Year: 1879

The letters of Worthy Master Eshbaugh,
of the Missouri State Grange, which we
reproduce from the Journal of Agricul-
ture, are we'll and forcibly written, and
have been widely circulated by the
Grange press of the country If all the
Masters of the State Oranges would write
for the Grange press regularly, they would
accomplish immense good
Year: 1879

The letter of Worthy Master w. ii.
Nelson, of Shelby County Grange, Tenn,
should have the earnest attention OF the
members of the Order in that State. The
State Grange, at its meeting in February
next, should adopt measures to revive the
Order throughout the entire State, and if
that body is composed of intelligent and
patriotic men like Worthy Master Nelson,
we have no doubt but that its action will
have that effect. The Oranges of all the
counties should select their best material
to represent them in the State Grange.
Year: 1879

If one is to set out small fruits, whether
for home use or market, the sooner the
preliminary work of selecting the kinds,
and ordering the plants is done, the better.
The present is one of those periods, that
every now and then occur in fruit culture.
There are number Of new varieties of
great promise, but that have not been suffi-
ciently tested, to warrant planting them
largely. The grower for market feels much
like the hunter who wished to so aim at an
animal, that he would miss it if calf, but
hit it if deer. The safe way for those who
grow fruit for sale, is to plant out trial beds
of the promising kinds, and thus test their
adaptability to the soil, and if the result is
satisfactory, you have a stock of plants for
setting plantation.


The market and the neighborhood have
both to be considered. If the market is a
distant one, the fruit, whatever other
quality it may have, must be firm enough
to reach its destination in good order. If
there is a local or neighborhood trade-a
matter quite too often overlooked by grow
ers, then a very different class Of fruits may
be grown.


Pruning omitted last Fall, should be
attended TO now as soon as the weather
will allow. Grape-vines need the first care,
and should be pruned long before the buds
begin to swell. Currants and Gooseberries
start early, and should be pruned early.


Preparatory work in the way of trellises
and other supports may be attended to and
the materials got ready. In the family
garden, the best support for raspberries, is
single wire strained between posts at the
ends of the rows, and we think that the
best grapevine trellis, is that with hori-
zontal Stats feet apart, with upright wires
where needed.-American Agric1sLturia
Year: 1879

Potatoes cut ten days or two weeks be-
fore planting and sprinkled with plaster,
will sprOut earlier and grow better than
when cut and planted on the same day.
Do not forget this. The result will sur
Orisa vo11
Year: 1879

Special to the Sentinel:


GREENsBURG, Ind, July 1.-THE wife of
Frank Mertz, butcher, of this place. under
took to send her soul heavenward this eyen-
ing, by tying rope around her neck and then
getting upon chair and tying it to a beam.
After getting everything in readiness she
jumped nom the chair, and when the rope
began to choke her, she began to halloo, and
was cut down by the neighbors, after which
she stated if it hurt that much to get her soul
In Heaven, she guessed she would wait and
die natural death. The cause of her rash act
was domestic trouble. r
Year: 1879

There is a good way of tell
ing the nationality of soldier set
ting out for campaign: The Ger
man soldier carries pipe and a
flute; the Italian, his dagger and
scapular; the English soldier takes
little of brandy and a good sauce
pan; the Spaniard never forgets his
guitar and slice of bacon.
Year: 1879

Believing it to be to the best interest of both buyer
and seller, deterpned to sell for cash from this
date. We would respectfully ask the customers of the
old firm of Coulter Il Harper and all to give trial.
We have marked down goods to CASH PRICES, and
we think you will money by calling for
Year: 1879

The soldiers and citizens who expect
to take part in the parade on Decora-
ton Day, May 3Oth, are requested to
meet at the Town Hall that morning at
S o'clock promptly. The procession
will be formed at the hall at that time,
and march 70 the grove accompanied by
the two Martins Ferry COrnet bands.
Private Dalzrll will be the orator, and
Miss Jennie Green will read a poem.


The social and loan exhibition To be
given in Commercial Hall, Friday and
saturday nights of this week by the
Red Men, promises to be a grand affair.
\ general good time is expected.


Mayor Kerr started yesterday for
Wilmington, Pa, to attend the meeting
OF the L. Z. General Assembly. Squire
EgglcSon will act as police justice dur
ing his absence.


The people OF this place will not fail
TO attend the high school entertainment
10 be given in the Presbyterian church
next Friday evening, beginning at S
o'clock. The present graduating class
is not behind any Of its predecessors in
point of talent and will not fail To give
the audience something rich.


\ man living in Clark's addition last
SABBATH, invited one of his special
II ends to visit his house, where after
the two friends had imbibed quite
freely of fighting whiskcy, began to show
their friendship by trying to develop
some new bumps on each others heads,
but the visitor seemed capable
of Lestowing the most friendship,
when the woman OF the house, who by
the way is none OF your delicate women,
made an application Of a boulder to the
top OF the visitors head, cutting a
lengthy cash. Some improper remark
made by the visitor TO the woman Is
said To be the cause OF the difficulty.
The fmcas will be aired by the police
court Us soon as the owner OF the sore
head is able 10 attend.


The Mrs Rose Woods property, back
of town, was sold Monday to DIR, John
West. of st. Clairsville, for a fraction
less than $500.


DR.. Capehart and Postmaster Dean
Left for Cincinnati, yesterday, to attend
the Republican State Convention.
Year: 1879

TIE SPEED OF A E.-"IIow
last do you think we are travelling Pr
Charley Fraser, one OF the oldest engineers
of the New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railway, asked a SIN reporter as they
were standing together on the foot board
OF locomotive No. 300, rushing over tho
meadows toward Rutherford Park.


81 should think we were going nearly n
mile minute"


"a mile minute ~ said Fraser. "I
doubt if you ever rode a mile minnie
Few locomotives have driving wheels over
five feet, and haze my doubts if five
foot wheeler can be pushed u mile minute
People have very erroneous idea of tho
speed OF railroad trains. We arc not 90
ing now more than thirty five miles an hour.
and this is very fast. Few trains make
tins speed. The passengers in the cars
would think we were going mile minute
sure IT l was to pull out the throttle so AS
to send her forty miles an hour The ex-
press trains make no such time as the local
trains. Where we lose is with SO manv
stops. No man could stand on a platform
car and face the wind going a mile min.
ute and live. The breath would actually
be blown out Of his body. You couldn't
count the telegraph poles going a mile a
minute. Talk to an old engineer Of that
rate being made by passenger train, and
he would laugh. made n mile a minute
once, however 1t was when | was but Is
years Of age. | was an engineer then, in
charge OF a fine six foot wheel locomotive.
There were lot Of railroad moguIs on
board, and the object was to make the best
time we could. They were to ring the gong
when the speed was mile a minute /
thought we were making it for some timo
before the bell rang. At length on down
grade, with full head Of steam, when we
were spinning along as if VIC were all going
to destruction, and the motion of the piston
going over the centre could no longer bo
distinguished, the bell rang. We had
reached the rate of mile a minute IL
was the fastest | ever rode, before or since.
| tried hard to make mile minute ON
subsequent miles, but lacked it three or
four seconds every time. | couldn't squeeze
another mile inside of the sixty seconds
When you hear man telling about riding
IN passenger train that ran mile min.
ute. don't say anything, but mentally
scratch of 4 good allowahce.-N. 7. San.
Year: 1879

The DEAF CAN HEAR BY MEANS OF THEIR
TEErH.-The audphonc, an instrument in
vented by Western Yankee for aicviat-
ing the misery Of deafness, is simply IL
sheet Of vulcanizcd rubber, about 1.22 of
an inch in thickness, set firmly in handle
of the same material. In the upper rim
of this sheet are pierced some holes through
which passes silken cord. This goes down
on the inner side Of the sheet, to the han.
die, through a slot in which it passes. BY
pulling this cord the sheet is bent over at
any angle which the user may desire
Each person has to ascertain for himself
what kind of a curve Of the rubber sheet
will enable him to hear best. Generally it
is very slight-only about ten or twelve
dcgr ;es though apparently the dcafcr the
person the greater the curve must be- =
When used, the person holding it simply
touches the upper edge of the fan, or audi
phone, against the teeth of the upper jaw.
The voice of the speaker strikes upon this
tense sheet Of rubber and communicates to
it vibrations which are in turn impaired to
the teeth, and then pass to the auditory
nerve. With this operation the outer ear
has nothing whatever to do the delicate
machinery through which sound passing
from without makes an impression upon the
auditory nerve is not used at all. The
outer ear may be stopped up entirely, so
far as it is possible to do it, and yet one
hears distinctly the moment the audphonc
is applied to the teeth. 1t is necessary to
use the teeth Of the upper jaw for thc rca-
son that they arc more nearly in contact
with the auditory nerve; nor docs it make
much difference whether the teeth be ones
own or artificial, so long as those artificial
teeth are eighty fitted for when that is
the case the vibration is impaired about as
well as when they arc natural teeth. The
inventor is deaf himself He happened
one day to hold Il watch between his teeth,
and noticed that he could distinctly hear
its ticking, though when he held it to his
car no sound was audible. This set him
to thinking that pos .ibly he might be able
to invent some device by which the sounds
of the human voice could be Transmitted to
the auditory nerve through the medium Of
the teeth, just as the ticking of the watch
had been.
Year: 1879

Never lose your temper, for the moment
you DO so, you at the same time lose the
advantage which you should always have
over him In handling colt remember
that you are forming the future horse, and
care, now taken either in his appearance or
character, is by no means lost. BY the time
to place light articles on his back without
any resistance, and should be taught not to
be afraid of straps hanging loose either
about the body or heels. This education is
best done in the winter, and should be re-
peated until perfectly brokep, and when
harnessed for she. first. time tSe mill pernit
biasssif f-t~ 10 driven :saiohgs DO Of - se.~1
horse. During the operation Gf haltcr.
breaking, great care should bc.taken to al
ways make him walk fast. Fast walking
(thc best gait of forse) should be part of
his education and he will never forget it in
his after life. We haze had wide expert
ence with colts, and have yet to find one
which could not be made good walker if
properly trained when young but this is
fast age, and walking is too slow to keep up
with. With reference to balky horses,
there are more balky drivers; hence the
driver shall be addressed rather than the
horse, which can be well done by the fol.
lowing from the Farm Journal:


'1f you hav- balky horses, it is your own
fault and not the horses" for if they do hot
pull true there is some cause for it, aud if you
remove the scauses,thes effect will cease,
" heaE2 Nos
not Enow what e 40. " hen he scts a little
excited, stop him for five or ten minutes :;
let him become calm, and as soon as he is
over his excitement he will, in nine cases
out of ten, pull at the word. Whipping
and slashing and swearing only make the
matter worse. After you have handled him
a while, and his excitement has cooled, take
him by the bits, turn each way few min.
utes as far as you can, pull out the tongue,
gentle him little, uurein him, then step
before the balky horse and let the other
start first; then you can take them anywhere
you wish a balky horse is always high.
spirited and starts quick half the pull is
out before the other starts; by standing be-
fore him tho other starts first. BY close
application to this rule you can make any
horse pull. If . horse:-has been badly
Tpuffedi you shpufd nfst Hft6H "fin- 70 90. ssi
empty wagon, and let shim draw it around
for while on level ground; then put on a
little load and increase it gradually, carcss
ing as before, and in a short time you can
have good work horse. TurE Field und
Farm.
Year: 1879

Don't live in hope with your arms folded.
fortune smiles on those VINO roll up their
sleeves and put their shoulder to the wheel
that propcIs them on to wealth and happi.
ness. Cut this out and carry it about with
you IN your vest pocket, yc who idle in
bar-roOms or at the corners of the streets