Year: 1875

think that anything is of such little
consequence that it should be wasted.
Pay good attention to the education of
your children. remembering always
that their minds need cultivation as
we'll as your crops and that when you
keep your boys too long from school
eradicating weeds from your corn and
tobacco some are apt to be growing
where they may never be eradicated.
Buy only what you need. and pay cash
for what you buy. Do net trust any
merchant enough to let him persuade
you to have running account with
him. Ifyou do. you are very apt te
aid in paying some of his bad debts in
the way Of large profits on what you
buy; provided, you pay him at all.
Spend less money for cigars. soda and
whisky, and more for land fertilizers.
Buy your wife calico dress every
time she wants one, and always feel
thankful when she only wants calico
one. Avoid all lawsuits and never
pay lawyers fee if you can possibly
avoid it. Rather than do so. you had
better give the thief who steals your
hat, your coat also. Friendly arbitra-
tions are much better than law suits,
aad are always more just and less cost
". Be man in every sense of the
xsrd and a gentleman in all things.
Attend every meeting of your Grange
regularly. always going we'll filed with
knowledge that you intend to impart
and leaving brim full of what you hare
learned in exchange for what you car
ried. Do unto others as you would
have them do untO you. and do we'll,
all things you undertake to do, and
when you have thvs done all things
that | have herein advised you to do,
if you still find that yOs cannot make
farming pay. / would advise you to try
something that requires less COED COM
mon sense, such as tieing up bundles
of sugar and coffee, making light bread
pills, or practicing law.


Now, ladies, with your permission,
/ propose to address few words to you.
AS your husbands are the kings, you
are the queens of the little realms en-
braced within the boundaries Of your
farm. Your children. your servants
and your laborers, are the subjects of
this little kingdom. These subjects,
and often even the king, look up to
you for precept and example? Now
in what way do you set the example ?
In what way do you act your part in
the great drama of life, whilst the bat
tie for its many necessaries and COM
forts is going on? Within your hearts
you will please consider thesequestions
and answer them to yourselves. 1t is
not only your duty to husband the
various little stores Of the household,
practice economy, sew on buttons and
nurse the ehildrea; bat you have a
still higher duty to perform. 1t is for
you to make peace, and JOY. and hap
piness within the little realm wherein
doth dwell those who should ever be
near and dear to you. 1t is for you to
send forth the husband Of your choice
with bouyant spirit to battle With the
cares Of life, making him feel that at
all hazards the battle indeed must be
won, for the sake Of the true and the
loyal and loved one, who is waiting
aud watching at home for his success.
1t is for you to bring him home with a
joyful and happy heart after the work
of the day is ended, knowing that
smile of true welcome and kiss Of
pure love will greet him at the thres-
hold of his home, where peace and
happiness ever reign supreme. 1t is
for you to teach him to ever know,
that, 80 Hls4l -sf- q sgoasa1
Though the world slI oyer pc ever may
roam,


There Is no place Ike his peaeeful ana nap
py home.
1t is your place to make glad and hap
py the hearts of your children and all
other subjects of your little ream. AL
though it is the duty Of the husband
to lay the foundation, superintend the
structure, and do all rough work and
manual labor necessary to erect build
ings and other various comforts and
surroundings of a home, it is your duty
to beautify and ornament it with all
of the purest and bright jewels eyer
known to gladden. the weary or heavy
laden heart OF true and generous
man. 1t is not only your duty to plant
flowers in your yards and gardens and
train honeysuekles and vines of cypress
to wind themselves around frames Of
rough hewn wood, but it is also your
duty to cause fright blooming lowers
to spring up within the minds, and
sweet tendrils oflove to eutvipe them
selves around the hearts Of the loved
ones of thy households aud every sub
jeet Of thy entire little realm. Ii is
your duty to make home an earthly
paradise, that angels may seek to enter
as they pass upon their nightly rounds
to visit the pure and good of earth. Il
is your duty to do this. and when you
have this duty faithfully performed,
you may with quiet and happy con-
science feel that you have indeed your
duty done. aud acted well your part in
the great struggle for what at last we
only need on earth, and what we all
should only want-cOntentrlent love
and happiness. And then, If all ofthis
that you have done does not infuse
within the veins Of any man, who may
be so best as to claim your love,
enough industry, spirit and energy to
cause him to make farming pay, or
any other business that he may under
take to do, and thus be enabled TO fur
nish you with all that is necessary for
your comfort and happiness. he must
indeed be deficient in something neces-
sary in the general formation of a true
and noble man. Blessed indeed may