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IIO.MIi-COMIXCi.
When brothers leave the old hearth
stone, , v
And go, each one, a separate way ,
We think, as we go on alone
Alonir our pathways, day by day,
Of olden scenes and t'aees dear:
Of voices that we miss so much,
And inemorv brunts the absent near,
Until we almost iWl the b-ueh
Of loving hand, and hear, once more,
Tlie dear, old voices rhiiting out,
in that happy time of yore,
Kre life had caught a shadow ot doubt.
If vou should place against your ear
'f he .-hell vou plundered from the sea,
pnwn in its hidu -m heart vou hear
A l"W and tender melody:
A murmur of the restless tide;
A yearning liorn of memory,
kuU though its ionginvrs be denied,
The shell keeps Kinin of the .sea.
And sometimes when old memories
throng,
Like iihosts.the chambers of our soul,
We fee ft he yeaning, leep and strong,
A Joiiiring we cannot control.
To lav our cares and business by
And seek, the old familiar ways,
And c ross home's threshold, ami sit
down,
With comrades of our early days.
For, though our paths are sundered
wide,
We feel that we are brothers yet,
And bv-and-by we turn aside
From Uiurry'ing care andworldly fret.
And each' nie wanders back to meet
His brother by the health of home;
I think the meeting is more sweet,
because si) far and wide we roam.
We cross the lengthening bridge of
years.
Meet out-strete'ied hands and faces
true;
The silent eloquence of tears
SiM'aks welcome 'that no words could
do.
P.ut ah, the meeting holds regret!
The sad, sad story of;en told.
Of hands that ours" have often met,
Close fi ldi ti un 1 rcliurchyaid mould.
Of eves that siiiiled into our own,
Closed in dreamless slreo of iod.
A sweeter .sleep v;;.s never known
Than theirs, beneath the grave's
white sod.
A tender thought f-r them to-night,
A ti'iout. --te.tr from memory;
lVii'-uth their coveting of while
Sweet may theit ihvainles.s slumber
Slate vs. Nation.
The Si'iifl, c -gan of tlie Brewers'
Association of tL United States, pub
lished at Washington city, makes a
very significant statement relative to
the trial of tlie fourteen German res
taurant kee eis in "Worcester, Massa
chusetts, which has just concluded.
It state's that these fourteen Germans,
every one of whom was in possession
of a license, for . hi. 'h lie had paid
the United States Government the
sum of -!0, have been fined in- "Wor
cester and sent to the House of Cor
rection for six in liths, and ordered
to titid jjl.buo bail not to violate the.
anti-beer law for one. year, because
they have sold -fermented liquors.
Tii S -ntiii 'l sa,v tb.it M li-u-'ha .etts
tukes the fourth fank in t io inanufac.
ture of fennente 1 liquors among tlie
States, and is only exeee led by New
York, Pennsylvania and" Ohio, that
Massachusetts p; i-i the Ur.-t y:ar to
"the Federal Government c-VJit.'JS1) as
a tax on niait liquors, ;md for the
last nine months of the present iiscul
year tflTl.o'l. sis ag.ii nst .101 ..7. ".. for
tiie same tim las' year. Tin; Govern
ment of the Uniied States lias receiv
ed for every harr-d of been- thus seiz
ed or destroyed the sum of c't. The
-Government officials have continued
-to collect the federal tav. and- thus
iinlirectly,te) encourage the manufac
turer to break the law. The (juestion
now arries: What is the Federal
Government goii.g to do in Massa
chusetts? If it is unlawful in Massa
chusetts to manufacture and sell beer
the Government cannot legally col
le.g taxes, and the- money forced out
of brewers by federal officials must
he returned to them. If it is proper
andjiistto ruin manufacturers and
and dealers of fermented liquors
confiscate their ha rd-earned property
vt iniist also be right to do the same
it a those engaged in the manufac
ture and sale of whiskey and tobacco,
and any other article. If the Federal
(ioveriim.'iit quietly submits to be
despoiled of her. revenue in Massa
chusetts, let it be despoiled of its
revenue in Massachusetts, let it be
despoiled of the sme elsewhere
fact, be starved out.
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How to Make a Mustard Plas
iv.ii. Ilriw many people are there
who really know how to make a mus
tard plaster? Not one in a hundred,
at the most, perhaps, and yet mustard
alters are used in every family, and
physicians prescribe their application
never telling anyb dy how to make
t!iem for the simple reason that the
doctors thenneive . do not know as a
rale. The ordinary way is to mix
tat? nra.-tard with water, tempering
" with a little il.wer, Imt such a
pia-der as that makes it misplv abom
inable. Before it has half .lone its
work it he-ins to j.iiste,. the patient,
and e;lves him finally with a pain
lul. tl.ned spot, after having; produced
tar less eliVct in a beneficial wav than
was intended. Now a mustard plas-
Vr" i 7 ""r"r " bnt"r at "ti
ll bhster is wanted, there are other
raters far better than mustard for
the purpose. Wler n you make a mus
tard plaster, then, use no water what
ever, but mix the mustard with the
white of aU 0gg, ami the result will
a plaster which will "draw" per
"ctly, but will not produce a blister
"vrti unon Mio cti
"latter how long it is allowed to re
raam upon the part. For this we
have the word of an old eminent phy
V' "lA?n as we- as 0Avn experience.
Look inc. after Virgixia.
pPlni:1 tate elec'ion come?
As the
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prenaration- 4b.
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m, , -- .v. mtv is ue'iiie, it-
S f the rfolk nayy-vardT all
for L. .VOssVls are Wins "sent there
'"rkmcn
, t-"o, 1U order to cet as manv-
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lio w;ri Vu.ie m that yard,
"(.e tl n. V. i- t-'onrsp, te required to
lu? WieiU ticket.
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Their True Protection.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
The most cursory examination of the
history of legislation in the United
States must convince our farmer friends
that no discriminations were made
against their interests except during
those periods when the Deocratic party
were unfortunately out of power. It
has always lx;en tlie policy of that or
ganizatioii to protect the agriculturists,
and to all'ord them the only protection
they needed, to-wit: total aostinence
from special legislation of any sort. All
the farmers demand is full' liberty to
pursue their industry unhampered by
restrictions of any kind whatsoever. It
is since the advent of the Radical party
that the grievances of the agriculturists
have begun, and, iionisiiiall beginnings,
been con.stantl y increased until their
burdens have become so great as to be
past longer unresisted endurance. It
were unnecessary for the farming com
munity to enter' into eU'-proiective
combinations or granges, if tlie policy
of the Democracy had been pursued ;
and it is much their ow n fault that they
have Ix-en so oppressed as to render in
evitable their present attitude. They
have been led iy blind credulity and
buncombe about "loyalty" and home
industry into support of a party that
was organized and has !eeii maintained
by interests adverse to theirs, as Well
as opposed to the wellbeing of the bulk
ot the whole people.
Our whole protective tarili" system
was conceived in a spirit of antagonism
to the producing classes. and it hasueen
maintained by the tradings of manu
facturers for the purpose of building up
enormous special monopolies, under
the specious pretense that it was neces
sary to develop certain material sources
of wealth, otherwise incapable of exist
ing in competition with the products
and manufactures of ioreign countries,
w here material ami labor w ere cheaper
than in our land. The fanners have
been blindly led in the toils of tlie man
ufacturers oy a process of reasoning
that the h ast exercise of common sense
should have demonstrated as lallacious,
and injurious to their prospects. They
would not learn, how ever, except l.y
experienee, and the last few years have
bee 1 1 loaded with sore ex perience of the
tolly of their supine conduct. And yet
evt n now some of the demagogical pol
iticians, who are trying to get ti.e ear of
the iaihicis, would peisuade them to
keep clear of the tariff discussions and
have them waste their force and
strength upon mere incidental and
transient questions, instead of digging
to the root of the whole evil, and tear
ing up and easting into the lire the
monstrously rotten trunk of the abnor
mal growth of the protective tarilf.
The fanner needs protection, as we
have said, but is not only a protection
from unjust direct taxalion, unequal
assessments upon their land and its
produce, extortionate charges for trans
portation. but he w ants furt her th in that
a free market for his products, and tin;
privilege of buying what he most needs
tin; products of others, wherever
these are raised or manufactured into
materials for his farm or clothing and
utensils for himself and his household.
When we give the American farmer
the only protection he desires and
needs we are truly "hilt to every
oranch of American industry the"ily
proleclion it really needs. Anv J .dus
try that is not by this time, "alter so
many years of this system, fully v.t an-
d -i v I capable of standing by itself.has
oriAediis inutility ami should be al
1. wed to st. did or fall on its own merits
an-1 to try its own strength. J f it fad, it
is a sure si'm it is not wortli further
nursing at the expense of all other in
j tcre-ls,aiid to t he'del ri ment of the gcil
er.d wealth and welfare.
The proper method of protecting the
agriemiurist ot this country is obvious
enougn. ib; should be allowed to buy
wiiat he consumes, wherever he can get
or procure it at the lowest rates, wheth
er in a lonie ,e- Ml ;l r,,-eign market.
The farmer should be orotectcd from
the tax which he at present pays, say a
hundred millions a year, to maintain a
few thousand monopolists, who now,
through railroad dividends and tariff
discriminations, extract that immense
sum front the earnings of his hard la
bor. The farmer wants only to be let
alone, and to i.e permitted to retain the
just proceeds of his toil .instead of being
compelled to yield a large portion of
them to the enemies who are now li
censed to prey upon him through the
vicious and inequitable devices of the
I. nnsylvania and Massachusetts man
ufacturers laritf Act. The Cincinnati
ihiquirer proposes a plan of protection
for the farmers which is worth exainin
ati n. It is to elect some good Western
farmer Speaker of the tlie House- of
Representatives when it meets in De
cember. That Speaker to appoint a
majority of farmers on tin; Committee
of Agriculture, and to tiiat Committee
should be remanded the whole subject
of taritf. This would appear to be more
appropriate than to leave it to the Com
mittee on Manufactures or on Ways
and Means, for it is the farmers of the
country who bear the greater share of
the burden of taxation; "but we fear the
plan will not be feasible of execution in
this Congress. It will need some more
work and another Congressional elec
tion before the claws ot the manufac
turers can be loosed from t he throat of
Congress; but in the meantime the far
mers and the rest of the people inallin
ity with them can be preparing for the
next campaign, when, unless unwise
council prevail, they will le able to
overcome the present advantage of the
protectionists and monopolists.
No protective heretic should be coun
tenanced in the councils of the farmers.
When a man rises in a grange or con
vention of agriculturists, and seeks to
defend or aH bgize for the present tar
itf or any similar system, he should be
lirmly reminded that he is out of his
sphere and has mistaken his vocation.
rIhe farmer must beware of those cun
ning politicians who are now seeking
sail into his sympathies or licet ions on
one pretext o'r another. He has been
scandalously treated by the dominant
political organization, but it is, as we
have said, entirely the fault of his own
credulity and supineness. He has al
ways had the numerical odds in his
favor and might have demanded
and obtained his own terms, but he has
never done it and has never shown any
pluck until now, or any regard for his
own interests. When the Democrats
held tlie reins ofgovernment, he had no
especial need of vigilance or fear, be
cause that party naturally guarded his
rights from abuse or injustice. Free
Trade and farmers' rights' have been al
ways mainsprings of :ts organism. It
is to the success ot that compact and
high-principled party that the farmer
must now look for relief. The granges
and other associations of agriculturists
must in time naturally gravitate to the
support of the organization w hic h holds
out most and surest hope for the ac
complishment of their designs. It does
not require any considerable keenness
of ierception for them to discern the
utter wtuit of atfection felt for them and
their aims by the ruling faction, and
the earnest, vital, and abounding char
acter of the sympathy for them and
their cause animating the Democratic
party. An intelligent regard to the ob
ject of their aspirations must show- them
that their true protection is to lie found
. ..- '
m the restoration to power of athnr-
j l?hly anti-tariff, anti-monoix.ly, anti-
railway robber organization, such as its
w hole history proves to be the Demo
cratic party.
TIIK WHITE HOCKS KIKCJ.
IJabcock- Shepherd - Lva,iS.Muiictt
(rant.
Washington Correspondence X. Y. Sun.
OKAXT'S HEAL KSTATE OPERATIONS
It is only natural, however, that
man Shepherd, who showed him how
he could make a fortune. Here we
Imd them speculating conjointly in
real estate; building blocks of houses
together, and agreeing how the im
provements around Government
property' shall be directed so as to
increase the value of property they
are themselves interested in.
It is generally "believed here in
Washington that President GrantV
money is in these real estate specula
tions, that Babcock is only his sha
dow, and hence the President's en
dorsement of whatever Shephenl
does. No sensible man believes for
a moment that the President of the
United States would hold the inti
mate social relations he does with
this coarse plumber and gas-fitter if
it were not for speculation. During
the war Shepherd contented himself
with winning and dining quarter
masters, disbursing officers, and such
as had good, profitable jobs to give
out. Now he entertains the President
himself.
THE MUTUAL ADMIKATION
exislingbetween Gen. P.abcock Shep
herd, and one John O. Evans, the
most favored contractor of the inside
"ring.'' is made exceedingly profita
ble. This man Evans has grown sud
denly rich, drives about like a naboli,
builds fine houses speculates largely
in real estate, and gets all the fat pav
ing jobs and ilagging jobs JJabcock
has to give out. He is a genius of
the carpet-bag order, talks and acts
as if Grant and JJabcock were on his
stall", and all he had to do w as to raise
his linger when lie wanted a monopo
ly of Government contracts. This
man
JOIIS O. EVANS
is President of the Washington As
phalt Company, in which Shepherd
feels a great interest, which accounts
for so many fat contracts for "con
crete pavement" being given to the
concern. Its profits are known to
have been larger than those of the
Metropolitan Paving Company which
puts down wood only. JJoth these
companies are, run by the same "ring"
Shepherd, like the President, has a
number of brothers-in-law. These
come ni very handy. It is the brothers-in-law
who ostensibly hold inter
ests in the paving companies. There
is something suggestive of the ostrich
in Jill this. "W. M. Tweed knew how
it was himself, and so does Shepherd.
John 0. Evans beats the hush ami
JJabcock, Grant, and Shepherd pick
up the plums.
The people have, a v'ery decided
opinion in regard to these matters,
which have already involved Gen.
Uabcoek's name in
NUMKliOUS SfANIAI.S.
They know that neither Shepherd
nor Evans (both vulgariiliterate men)
are fit associates for the President,
or proper men to let loose upon the
Treasury of tlie UniteM States. They
want to see Gen. JJabcock attend per
sonally to his public duties as other
Commissioners of Public Grounds
and Buildings have done. If Gen.
Grant, they say, must have some one
to accompany him in his wanderings,
to take care of his boots and look af
ter the family baggage, why does he
not employ some poor and needy gen
tleman w ho would not feel above ac
cepting a gratuity now and then from
his master's guests, nor consider the
service too menial? Those innocent
persons very naturally say that an
officer of the regular army or major
of engineers, drawing the pay and
emoluments of such, and honored
with so many other offices, ought to
stay at home and make some return
to the country for his pay. If he
will not do tliis; if he prefers to in
dulge a weakness for pleasure, let
him at least show
A DECENT liESPECT FOR HIS FROFE-SSION
by resigning. I give here the num
ber of offices held by this remarkable
official, (Jen. JJabcock, so that the
public may see with what propriety
he can go wandering over the coun
try with his master:
1. Major of Jmgineers with tha pay
and emoluments.
2. Commissioner of Public Grounds
and Buildings.
:J. Illegal private secretary to the
President.
i. Engineer-in-chiei" of the "Wash
ington Aqueduct.
5. Member of the Advisory Board
of Engineers to the Board of Public
"Works. .
(J. President of the Columbia Lying-in-Asylum-
One would think these were offices
enou-h, and involving duties enough
to oceupv the whole time and atten
tion of "any officer, and yet Gen.
JJabcock prefers to idle away his
time at Long Branch, in imitation of
his master. Could the force of bad ex
ample be more strikingly illustrated?
A Colorado correspondent of the
St. Louis Globe writes: " Our butch
er is a graduate of lale; one of the
gentlemen working in the printing
office is a graduate of Cambridge
and a winner of the Bishops medal
for proficiency in the classics; a
ranchman near here is the son of a
General in the British army, and a
near relative of George Stevenson of
railroad fame. Four other ranchmen
are the sons of a former Governor of
Bengal, who is still very wealthy
Two are the sons of an eminent
London banker. A graduate of one
of the Universities manages a dairy
and attends to most of the milking
personally." We can't see what
room there is in Colorado for an ig
norant person, unless he runs tor
Justice of the Peace."
A Money King.
VANDERBIIr's VAST AGGREGATION OF
MONEY AND TOWER.
From llarjier's Weekly.
Mr. Vanderbilt controls 2,150 miles
of railway, constituting the main line
between the AVest and the seaboard,
and the chief outlet of such cities as
Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo,
Itochester, Syracuse, Utica, Schenec
tady, Troy, Albany, Hudson, Pongh
keepsie, and other riverside towns.
The property which he thus adminis
ters is represented on the Stock Ex
change by securities equal to !?215,
000,000, and its gross, income last
year was not less than 15,000,0K)
more than the whole income of the
United States Government a few
years ago.
It is impossible to contemplate this
vast aggregation of money power and
commercial control in the hands of
one man without feeling concern for
the result. Neither military, nor
political, nor commercial supremacy
can be pushed beyond certain lim
its without danger." It would
seem as though the limit in this case
had been reached. Yet, not content
with the mastery of 2,150 miles of
railway, involving in a large degree
the internal trade of the State of Il
linois, Indiana, Ohio and New York,
it is well understood that in October
next, at the annual election of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
the commodore will enter into pos
session of the great property like
wise, with its sixty or seventy thous
and miles of wires, its forty millions
of capital and its eight or nine mil
lions of revenue. When this occurs,
not only will the commerce of the
four chief States of the North be sub
jected to Mr. Yanc'ierbilt under such
feeble restrictions as our Legislatures
may impose but the whole tele
graphic corespoiulenee of the coun
try will obey his law. He may pre
scribe not only what shall be the
price of a barrel of" llower in New
York, but also w hen, how and at w hat
cost citizens may communicate with
each other by telegraph.
Of course, he will be subject to
legislatative control. What that will
amount to w e all know. In the past,
no Legislature in this Sta,te has ever
dared to beard him. lie will be a
bold" man, indeed, who will attempt
to do so now, when his resources are
so unbounded and his pow-er so far
reaching. It was said that the late
James
paltrv
Eisk-
Ji-
who controlled a
I5 miles of J:rie. running
through a half-settled country, could
on an .emergency, bring "Jo.OfiO votes
into the lield. At how many votes,
then can we reckon the master of
2,150 miles of railway, through a
thickly settled country, and 75,000
miles of telegraph? It is, moreover,
one thing to 2ass laws, and quite
another to execute them against a
man fertile in resource, energetic in
action, obstinate in combat, and in
exhaustible in purse.
Here is something from the Book
of Beauty that is strictly , local here
or any where else. Women should
read it-
"A handsome
had almost said
among American
son of tiiis is the
wear the garters.
leg is a rarity, we
an impossibility,
women. The rea
plaee where they
No Frenchwoman,
no English
now-a-days,
woman of cultivation,
wears her garters below
her knees. It is ruinous to the shape
of the calf. More than this, it has
serious consequences of another
kind. The principal vein of the leg,
vena saphrenabrevis, runs just be
neath the skin until it reaches the
knee, when it sinks between the
muscles. Now, if this is constricted
at its largest point by a tight garter,
the blood is checked in its return to
the heart, the feet are easily chilled,
and more liable to disease; the other
veins of the leg are swollen into hard,
blue knots, become varicose, as it is
called, and often break, forming ob
stinate ulcers. This is a picture
which a physician sees nearly every
da-. With the garter fastened above
the knee all this pain and deformity
is avoided, but it is still better to
wear no garter at all, and to suspend
the stockings by tapes around the
waist. In this case however, a well
fitting stocking is needed."
The Laugh of "Woman. A woman
has no natural gift more bewitching
than a sweet laugh". It is like the
sound of flutes on the water. It leaps
from her in a clear sparkling rill;
and the heart that bears it feels as if
bathed in the cool exhilerating
spring. Have you ever pursued an
unseen fugitive through trees, led on
by a fairv laugh, now there, now
lost, now "found? We have and we
are pursuing that wandering voice to
this day. Sometimes it comes to lis
in the midst of care or sorrow, or
irksome business, and then we turn
away the evil spirit of mind. How
much we owe to that sweet laugh!
It turns prose to poetry; it rlings
sunshine to flowers, over the dark
ness of the wood in which we are
traveling; it touches with light even
our sleep, which is no more thau the
image of death, but is consumed
with dreams that are the shadows of
immortality.
Perfectly Happy. "Madame "
said General Butler to Mrs. ood
hull, "if you are going into politics,
the first thing vou do is to lose your
character. I destroyed mine years
ago, and have been perfectly happy
ever since.
The Pittsburgh, Pa., Erenu,g
Lender, has a special of 1 enn.
Points."
Lafayette, Ind merchants forge
each other's names to beer orders
for fun.
A man is goingto lecture on ';The
Geognosy of the Appalachians.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
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The Iatrons of Husbandry.
The great advantages to be derived
from combinations are well enough
understood and appreciated at the
present day, and rapid growth of the
society known as Patrons of Hus
bandry, only illustrates the want
that has been felt for protection
against the peculiar species of ty
ranny from which those who have
enrolled themselves together have
suffered.
The leading ideas of the organiza
tion are based upon self interest,
upon the determination to throw off,
not only the tyranny of railroad cor
porations, but to get rid of the ex
actions of Middle men, w ho now reap
the lion's share of the profits of the
farmer. This is proposed to lie done
by the appointment of special agents
in the towns, or points of shipment,
upon whom they concentrate their
whole patronage, and to whom thev
entrust, not only the sales of their
grain, etc., but also the purchase of
their supplies of iron, sugar, salt, etc.
These, so far as can be seen, are
the objects of the society. It is not
difficult to see that these organiza
tions will be capable of producing
great effects in the future, remember
ing the quite prodigous proportions
which the movement has already as
sumed. The order claims to be alto
gether non-political, and it is admit
ted that it may be of vast benefit to
the country in carrying out its pe
culiar object, and championing the
farmers, and with them society at
large, against the domination of
rings.
At the present day, the tendency
of business is to concentrate all op
erations in the hands of a few, the
consequence of which is to place
everything at the mercy of combi
nations. Prices rise or" fall at the
dictation of these parties, and noth
ing is assured of a value. Some be
come enormously rich, at the ex
pense of many, and cement their
power by the corruption of govern
ment and government officials. To
combat these Brings, and to rescue
the government from corrupt hands
is what the Patrons of Husbandry
aim. Thus the new organization
promises great good to the country,
while the purity of its operations "is
maintained ami its originally chosen
objects are kept in view.
The prodigiously rapid rise of this
body to the dimensions of a power
in the land, is illustrated by the fact
that w ithin the past year 377 granges
have been organized, with the aggre
gate membership of 2,(J()0,(KM), the
number Vicing daily on the increase.
The society is a secret one, and no
one is allowed to cross the threshold
of these grange halls but members.
There is clinging about the institu
tion, ii good deal ot the quaintness
so much affected by other societies.
Women as well as. men are admitted
to the highest degrees in the subor
dinate granges, up to tlie fourth de
gree but not beyond. Members ad
mitted to the first degree are known
respectively as Laborer and Maid;
in the second degree, as Cultivator
and Shepherdess; in the third degree
as Harvester and Gleaner, and in the
fourth as Husbandman and Matron.
Higher up we have the Pomona or
Hope CJ range, composed only of
Masters and Past Masters of subor
dinate granges; a superior degree is
conferred only on members of the
council of the national grange. This
eonncil is composed of Masters and
Past Masters of the State granges.
The seventh degree is conferred only
on members of the National Senate.
The Supreme Jvxecutive authority in
the order is lodged in the Master of
the National grange. The establish
ment of this order appears to be quite
a prominent and peculiar feature of
the times. The particulars of its or
ganization, save that they appear to
savor the organization of other secret
societies are vague, beyond a most
general idea, gathered perhaps more
from what it has accomplished than
from avowed intention, which has
been stated above. It is said that
the-order exercises a moral supervi
sion of its members; and provides
for the care of such as may lie un
fortunate. It has been well remark
ed that its vast increase in numbers,
implying a corresponding acceptabil
ity, its general and rapid diffusion
over the country, and its manifesta
tions of power and purpose, consti
tutes an interesting study for the sci
ologist and publicist. One would like
to have its object more clearly de
fined. We are told that "already
in many localities the occupation of
the agents or middle men who deal
in manufactured wares consumed by
farmers has become obsolete." In
some places the granges have pur
chased or leased grain elevators. In
Iowa they have built an agricultural
implement manufactory of extensive
capacity.
An Eastern paper speaking of the
granges says: "One-third of all the
elevators and grain warehouses in
the State are now owned or controll
ed by granges, and no less than five
million bushels of grain were ship
ped to Chicago on grange account
prior to December 1st. The number
of cattle and hogs shipped in the
same manner is enormous.
. In addition to the before mention
ed features of the remarkable move
ment, is the one that it has operated
among a class that one would have
supposed the least susceptible to
influences of this kind. The world
will doubtless watch with interest
further manifestations of this influ
ence which, whether for its own
members or for society at large has
shown itself capable of working start
ling changes, though not probably
on the scale of examples that may be
furnished in the future. The South.
Witty. "Ah!" yawned abacblor,
"This world is but a gloomy prison."
"To those in solitary confinement,"
added a witty young lady.
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ii is somewhat singular that the
principle of co-operation, as applied
to the purchase of the necessaries or
conveniences of life, which in F.n
land has achieved its most remarka
ble successes among the industrial
classes and in thickly populated lo.
calities, should in America first coin'
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xxxuKt. ust-u iu me. agricultural com
munity in so scarsely settled a State
as lowa. W e find m the special cor
respondence in the New York World
a most sumificant and interesting
statement of the progress of co-operation
in Iowa. The granges have a
perfect system of purchasing 'agents
in every county, with general agents
at the State capital and in Chicago,
through whom they order every ar
ticle they need, whether it be tea,
sugar, calico, cloth, boots, blankets,
pianos or jilows. These agents buy
at wholesale for cash, and the farm
ers reap the profits which would
otherwise have accrued to one or two
intermediate dealers. How great the
sayings appears from the table of
prices for agricultural implements
and machinery, w hich forms so large
a part of the farmer's annual expen
diture. Purchasing from the manu
facturer by wholesale he saves from
15 to 50 per cent, of his outlay, and
on the whole list almost 30 per cent.
It is estimated that the farmers of
Iowa have saved '.2,000,000 since the
beginning of the year; in other words
the granger is richer annually by
from 100 to 100 than he was ere
he .adopted lts his guiding rules, cash,
common sense, ami co-operation.
There is a step beyond this which
farmers must inevitably see and in
evitably take. If the manufacturers
have been able to strike off' from a
quarter to a half of the price of their
goods r.nd yet loose nothing, the
larmers will argue, that such mon
opolies as the sewing-machine and
mower and reaper "ring" can and
must make still further reductions.
If boots, blankets, plows, cultivators
and calico are enhanced in cost by
the protective system, which tiikes
much money out of the popular
pockets but puts little or none into
the public treasury, they will insist
on the abolition of that legalized
spoliation. The farmers are just now
finding out what has placed mort
gages on their farms and threadbare
coats on their backs. The lladicals
have succeeded to some extent in
keeping political discussion out of
the rural granges; but we fail to see
w herein they have been so far bene
fited by such partial elimination
of vexed questions of the highesi
importance to the agricultural com
munity. --.
Extraordinary Answers. A pu
pil of Abbe Sicord ave the follow
ing extraordinary answers-:
" What is gratitude?"
"Gratitude is the memory of the
heart."
" What is hope?"
' Hope is the blossom of hapjii
ness." " What is the difference between
hope and desire?"
Desire is a tree in leaf, hope is a
tree in flower, enjoyment is a tree in
fruit."
" What is eternity?"
" A day without yesterday or to
morrow a line that has no end."
" What is God?"
"The necessary being, the sun of
eternity, the -merchant of nature, the
the eyes of justice, the watchmaker
of the universe, and the soul of the
world."
" Does God reason?"
" Man reason's because he doubts;
he deliberates, he decides. God is
omniscient; He never doubts. He
therefore never reasons."
There are persons now living in
Benington who remember old Billy
B , of whom it might be said he
furnished an example of the "ruling
passion strong in death. "When very
ill, and friends were expecting and
early demise, his nejdiew and a man
hired for the occasion had just butch
ered a bullock which had been fat
tened for the market ; and when the
job was completed the nejdiew enter
ed the sick room where a few friends
had assembled, when to the astonish
ment of all, the old man opened his
eyes and turning his head slightly;
said iu a full voice, drawing out the
words.
'What have you been doing?
'Killing the steer,' was the reply.
'What did you do with the hide?
'Lift it out in the barn; goingto
sell it by-and-by.'
Let tlie boys drag it around the
yard a couple of times; it will
make it weigh hervier."
and the good old man was gather
ed unto his father.
More Radical Misoovekxmext .
The Washington Sunday Chronicle re
iterates the charges that the debt of
the District of Columbia is $17,(100,000,
and shows that the statement recently
issued from the Controller's office was
prepared" for the purpose of aiding the
authorities to sell their bonds. The
Chronicle shows that the money has
been squandered, and adds that ""other
millions of dollars beside the 17,000,000
which will have leen spent in the
working season of I":, will be wanted
to complete a systematic and compre
hensive plan of improvements for the
cities of the District of Columbia." It
is also charged that securities which
two or three years ago sold for 15 cents,
to-day, under the present regime, are
hawked about the District at a discount
of from 0 to 30 r cent in exchange
for groceries, and in some cases are re
fused even at that; beside being used
among the pawnbrokers of the city-as
security for the advance of fifty cents
on the dollar.
Irreverent.-Quilp, the irreverent
joker of the Boston Post, argues that
General Grant should be elected a
third time, because he is a third-rate
man. Sometimes an idle w-ord spoken
in jest, carries with it great significance :
Full many a shaft at random sent,
Finds mark th archer little meant !
The Democratic Party.
t Ier1iolically says an exchange, the
ltepulihcan press preaches funeral
sermons over the dead body of the
Democratic party and ceremoniously
lays it away in the tomb of the Capu
lets; but scarcely has the corps re
turned to mother earth and the flow
ers of a fragrant memory been taught
to grow above untill the body that
was supposed to be sleeping its last
sleep its mission done and its record
made up suddenly appears to "re
visit the glimpses of the moon," and,
like the ghost of the murdered Ban
quo, "sears the eyeballs" of the par
ty that has given it is su3posed quie
tus. It is really astonishing how often
the Democratic party has been killed
and buried. Yet a cat, with its prov
erbial nine lives, has less vitality
than the uneasy manes of this ub
iquitous Democratic party. The fu
neral sermons that have been preach
ed over it would make a memorial
volume that would put to shame
the tomes of the Congressional Globe.
It would no doubt be edifying read
to our "Radical friends, if the corpse
was not such a vigorous one. and did
not interfere qite so much with the
household affairs of the Republican
party. .
J ust now the whole Radical party.
thoufrh it is somewhat alarmed about
the "dead" Democratic partv and
have begun another fnsilhulu "n-
on it from rank and file and musket
ry and artillery- to kill it again. The
cussed thing has only been "possum-
ing. I he rebels are all Democrats,
and the Democrats are all rebels, and
the Grangers are Democrats, and
Democrats are not Radicals, and the
very old scratch is to pry generally.
Seriously we commiserate the
trouble of our loyal brethren, but we
are glad that thev at last realize that
the ghost of the Democratic party is
abroad again.. It is now in a healthier
condition than at any other time
since the war. All this uprising of
the people from North to South and
from East to West in the shape of
Granges, Reform society, &c.,isim.
ply Democracy nothing more and
nothing less, call it by w hatever name
you may, and to-day it comprises a
majority of the voters and tax-payers
of the United States. Its various
elements are being solidified and are
all inspired with the same opposition
to the Republican party of "Recon
struction" and "Back-pay Grabbers"
and high tariffs and monopolies O
At the next general election this
"dead" Democratic partyr will make
One of tlie liveliest fights we have
had since the war.
'Twas a Piece of my Mother's
Dress. "A company of 23oor chil
dren, who had been gathered out for
the alleys and garrets of the city,
were preparing ior their departure to
new and distant homes in the west,
Just before the time for the starting
of the cars, one of the boys was notic
ed aside from the others, apparently
very busy with a cast-off garment.
The Superintendent stepped up to
him and found that he was cutting
a small piece out of the patched lin
ing. It proved to be his jacket,
which having been replaced by a
new one, had been thrown away.
There was no time to be lost. "Come
Johny, come! said the Superintend
ent, "what are you goingto do with
that piece of calico?"
"Pleas sir," said Johny "I amcut
ing it to take with me. My dead
mother put the lining in this old
jacket for me. This was a piece of
her dress, and it is all I shall have to
remember her by." And as the poor
boy thought of that dead mother's
love, and of the death-bed scene in
the old garret where she died, he
covered his face with his hands and
sobbed as if his heart would break.
But the train was about leaving,
and John thrust the little piece of
calico into his bosom, "to remember
his mother by," hurried into the car,
and was soon far away from the place
where he had seen so much sorrow.
We know that many an eye will
moisten as this story is told and re
told throughout the country, and
many a prayer will go up to God for
the fatherless and the motherless in
all great cities and in all places.
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Hocsehold Education. Children
hunger perpetually for new ideas.
They will learn with pleasure from
the lips of parents what they deem it
drudgery to study in books; and even
if they have the misfortune to be
deprived of many educational advan
tages, they will grow up intelligent,
if they enjoy in childhood the privi
lege of listening daily to the conver
sation of intelligent people. We
sometimes see parents who are the
life of every company which they
enter, dull silent and uninteresting
at home among their children.
If they had not mental activity and
mental stores sufficient for both, let
them first use what they have for
their own households. A silent
house is a dull place for young peo
ple, a place from which they will es
cape if they can. How much useful
information, on the other hand, is
often given in family conversation,
and what unconscious but excellent
mental training in lively social argu
ment. Cultivate to the utmost all
the graces of home conversation.
No Clue. Not a single member of
the Bender family, the atrocious
Kansas murderers, has been captur
ed. It is believed that they made
their way into Texas, through the
Indian Territory. The failure to
capture them does not speak well for
the Kansas detectives. That a whole
family of murderers,two men and
two women, should escape after as
sassinating ten or twelve persons,
looks rather singular.
The umbrella whic"b Washington
used to carrv ie to be feen in Boston.
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