Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1874 — Page 7

Why Join the Grange ?

We often hear queries of this kind; to answer them would he to fully set forth the work which the Order contemplates. We may say that it is founded to benefit the farmers, but how can it benefit the farmers? Will it enhance their riches? Can the farmer make money and save money more readily in the Grange than out of it? We might say yes and no at the same time. The Order is established to benefit agriculture, to improve the condition of farmers as a class, and, in a measure, it helps financially the individual who belongs to it; but it is far from our purpose to urge any argument of this kind to induce farmers to connect themselves with the Order. Those men who can get ncr broader views of the work which the Grange contemplates than the bringing to the individual certain trade advantages is certainly too narrow minded to be of any advantage to the Order. The Grange may, on the other hand, prove advantage to him, though he may not to the Grange, by bringing him in contact with more liberal minds and developing him into a broader, better, more.. useful citizen. This view may seem visionary. But for a moment call to mind many of the hard-working farmers among your acquaintances, who have isolated themselves from the salutary influences oi society —men who have amassed wealth, not so much by making as by saving money. Stem necessity compelled them at first to their habits of economy, and their constant applicatiou of physical force from early morn till late at night, day after day, and year after year, without giving time to thought; in fact ignoring entirely mental and social culture. Is it strange that the sensibilities of these men become blunted? They often make of themselves and their families slaves to the . constant drudgery of the farm, even after they have iaid by wealth sufficient for a comfortable and generous living. Will anyone pretend to say that an institution which will furnish social enjoyment and intellectual food for the mentally emaciated farmery is working in vain? Is it not then a praiseworthy undertaking to attempt to lift our farmers up, to exalt the power of the mind, to induce them to think more and carry on the operations of their farms intelligently, and to save wisely instead of meanly, to work industriously and intelligently instead of incessantly and slavishly?

The means which is likely to work immediate gain to the individual is a reduction of prices for cash. The system of long credit is a curse to the farmer. It enables men who are better schooled in business affairs, sharpers and schemers, to beat the farmer, both in selling to him and buying of him. The Grange then would encourage the cash system of purchases. It would do away with store accounts and petty debts. As a means of bringing about such a desirable change, it provides that its members have pecuniary inducements provided for paying cash down. This is perfectly legitimate, and cannot fail to do good; for the policy of contracting petty debts is a bad one for the farmer or anyone else. If a man must owe money let him owe it in a lump, with a definite understanding as to when it is to be paid. In that way he knows what is expected of him and he can maintain an untarnished credit. Then we say the lesson of cash payment, which the Grange teaches, is a good lesson and must accomplish much good. But many say the Grange is a political organization. It cannot be considered in .any sense partisan, nor even political, Except so far as it serves to enlighten the farmer, furnish him with the means and education and awaken him to his own interests. The secrecy which is such a bug-bear in the minds of many good people only serves as a means of harmony and makes it possible to hold together and in working shape the farmers of the North, the South, the East and the West. It furthermore enables them to keep out of the Order designing politicians and corrupt schemers who otherwise might gain admittance and control and bring into disrepute their honest efforts for reform. The secrecy of the Order gives it strength, homogeneousness, effectiveness, and makes it possible for the Order to perpetuate itself by keeping out corrupt and discordant elements. We would not have any one imply from what we have said about the parsimony of the farmer that there are but few large-minded, noble men who are farmers. The origin of our noble Order anfi its unparalleled growth prove, beyond peradventure, that there are very many large, liberal-minded farmers, who are ready to work for the good of their calling and in the interest of tlieir brother farmers. And that our farmers see, as wo do, an absolute necessity for their availing themselves of all means offered to enlighten themselves in matters pertaining to their business, to their homes, as well as to the questions of public interest concerning which they are quite too ignorant and careless. The Grange is destined to become a great power for good in our land, not through political machinations, or trade combinations, but by the healthful stimulus which it will give the industrious farmer in every good work; by encouraging education among our agricultural classes, by teaching farmers the advantages oT society, of mutual helping one* another, by creating harmony and good ' feeling.— The Husbandman.

Coining.

The operations conducted at the private mint at Birmingham, England, ns we learn from an interesting report in Iron, are as follows: The raw material consists of immense quantities of copper in ingots for bronze coinage, and “ cakes” of the same metal for copper coinage. The metal used for -tho bronze epins is composed of "ninetyfive parts of •opper, four parts of tin, and one part of spelter or zinc. The metal is first taken to the casting shop and there melted and run into molds of the required length. The processes of casting being almost the same for ali purposes there is no need of givinlg a minute or) detailed description of the operation. . ■ . The strips of metal when cast are taken to the rolling mills. The slabs of metal are first passed Through the heavy revolving cylinders, and the pressure is to great to which they are subjected that they- are rolled into much longer and, of course, thinner''strips. They are next submitted to the ordeal of lire, and annealed. They are submitted to this process of rolling until the requisite thickness, or rather thinness, is obtained. A slab which is at first only some fifteen inches long is rolled out to six feet in length. It is then placed once more in the annealing oven, “pickled” by'being

passed through acid, then cleaned and scoured. Each slip has- to gauged with the utmost nicety after it has undergone these processes, to ascertain whether itls of equal thickness throughout. After being approved the strips are taken to the cutting-out-room, where they are passed undbr a press, and bits of circular metal of the size required are cut out and dropped into receptacles Beneath. These bits of plain metal are appropriately tailed “ blanks,” and are cut with almost incredible rapidity. One press produces 750 a minute, and in the mint the. number of presses employed are capable of producing over 3,000,000 of blanks a day. After being cut the blanks are tested by being passed through a machine, which is so nicely adjusted that any irregularity or imperfection is detected, and the tares are separated from the w'heat. The blanks w'liich pass successfully through the trial have also to be annealed. For this purpose they are “ put into small iron pots, the lids of which are carefully adjusted, and the junctions stopped with clay, and placed in the oven, where they remain generally about three-quarters of an hour. They are then allowed to cool gradually, passed through a solution of acid, and in their wet condition are placed in a revolving wooden drum, together with a quantity of rough sawdust. The motion of the drum causes the saivdust to escape through small apertures provided for the purpose, and by the time the blanks are dry—usually in twenty minutes —all discolorations have been removed and a uniform bright color attained. They are then ready to receive the finishing stroke —the impression which shall cause them to be universally recognized as tokens of value.” Two dies are required for each coin; the one for obverse, the other for reverse. These are engraved on the best steel, but the original dies are not used in making the impressions on the coins. For this purpose a punch is made, and from this punch the molds by which the the coins are made are taken by pressure. The pressure required for this purpose is at least forty tons. The molds are made on the surface of pieces of steel, the diameter of which is a little larger than the coin to be made. So great is the pressure of the striking hammer that the slightest flaw in the steel used is fatal to the working die, for it comes from under the machine kibiting a large rent wherever the flaw' may be. The importance of this power of multiplying dies will at once be manifest. Sometimes they are destroyed in a few minutes, lasting, we learned, on an average not more than two days; but the original die, which represents a fortnight’s skilled work, remains perfect for the production of other punches to be used in making working dies. The coining is a very simple . process, and is now rendered almost noiseless by improved machinery. In each press is a movable steel slide, in the center of which is a circular hole the size of the die, called a collar. The blanks to be impressed are placed in a long brass tube, called a feeder or hopper. From this feeder one blank drops into the collar with each movement of the slide. It is between the top and bottom, and as the blow is struck both sides are impressed at once

Representation in the State Granges.

Grand Master Adams and the Executive Committee of the National Grange have issued the following circular to the State Granges: In many of the States the number of members of the State Granges is so great, that for all to meet would not only form a body so large as to render proper transaction of business impossible, but entail upon the treasury a ruinous expense. The Masters of many State Granges have inquired by what means such a calamity may be lawfully averted. The National Grange having adopted the following resolution, viz.: “The National Grange recognizes the right of State Granges to have the legislative department of their body vested in representatives elected by Masters of Granges in the various counties,” we are of the opinion that, as the Masters and Executive Committee of a State Grange have power to do all acts for the good of the Order, between the meetings of the State Grange, they would be justified and have awful authority to issue, an order to the members of the State Grange fixing the ratio of representation, and appointing the time and place at which they shall meet and elect representatives to the legislative department of the State Grange.

Ancient Trees in Nevada.

In the bottom of the main shaft of the Virginia City Coal Company, El Dorado Canon, Lyon County, has been encountered the trunk of a tree four feet in diameter, a lone relic of an ancient and extinct forest. Where cut through by the shaft this old tree is found to be perfectly carbonized —turned into coal. Outside, the log is completely crusted over w’itii iron pyrites, many of which are so bright that the crystals shine like diamonds. These pyrites also extend into the body of the log, filling what were apparently once cracks or windshakes, and even forming clusters about what was once the heart of the tree. This relic of an old-time forest lies far below the two vein's of coal the company are about to open. The finding of this old trunk is'evidence that the country was at one time, ages and ages ago, covered by a forest of large trees; though the native timber grdwtli,*wheh the country was first visited by the whites, and as far back as the traditions of the Indians extend, wuis but scrubby species of nutpine. A few miles from the shaft in which this carbonized tree was found are to be seen on the surface the petrified remains of many large trees. In the early days of Washoe, before the prospectors had broken them up for specimens, pieces of tree-trunks two or three feet in diameter and twenty or thirty feet in length were to be seen lying upon the surface of the ground. However, these trees, and even the one found in the bottom of the shaft of the coalruns, may have come from the foot hills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains —may have drifted out when seas of water everywhere covered our present valleys. Thb water lines visible on the hills show that the whole country was filled with -lakes,and the petrified trees lying here and there on the surface of the ground probably floated out on the waters of the extinct lakes, and finally sunk to the bottom in the places where they are now found. — Virginia City (ATec.) Enterprise. The best and most wholesome way of using ripe toniatoes is to slice them and | let them lie' and drain awhile; pour oft ' the juice and put on a , little vinegar, hardly enough to cover ahem; then sprinkle on white sugar and let them stand a few minutes before eating. —“ So far, so good,” as the boy said when he finished the first pot o£ his mother's Jam.

PHUNNYGRAMS.

—Home stretch—The stretch across the maternal knee. —Why were the monks of old seldom warm? Because-they were nearly always “cowled.” —Don’t linger where your “ love lies dreaming.” Wake her up and tell her to get breakfast. —A tin sign on Broadway, South Boston, reads: “ Dr. , Professor of Rheumatism.” —Why should the opinion of a person who does not use cheap perfumery be suspected? Because he is wanting in common scents. —“ Mary Jane, have you given the gold-fish fresh water?”—“ No, ma’am. What’s the use? they haven’t drunk up what’s in there yet.” —On a w'eather-beaten sign on East Broadway, New York, is the following legend: “ Footed and second-hand boots made to order.” —A little boy selling a basket of crabapples said his ma told him to ask thirtyfive cents for them, “ but,” he added, “they ain’t wuth it.” —A contemporary writes of an individual who was too poor to have his boots blacked, and “ trusted he was too much of a gentleman to black them himself so they went dirty, \ —An exchange has an acquaintance who remarks that he has often heard the proverb: “ A friend in need is a friend indeed,” but he says he can’t see where the laugh comes in. He has a friend in need who is always borrowing money of him. —At a meeting of Congregational ministers one gentleman who stated that he had been eastward with his “ superintendent” w'as interrupted by a brother clergyman, who asked if he meant his wife. —Said a Detroit lady to a small boy whom she found crying in the street the other day: “ Will-you stop crying if I w'ill give you a penny?” “ No,” said he; “ but if you’ll make it two cents I’ll stop if it kills me.” —At a school near Wallsend, Newcastle, England, the master asked a class of boys the meaning of the word “ appetite,” when, after a short pause, one lit-tle-hoy said: “I know, sir. When I’m eatin’ I’m ’appy, and when I’m done I’m 4- ? fyk -11 T7lgul. ~ —“ My dear boy,” said a fond aunt to a very fast-living nephew, “don’tyouknow that in leading this irregular life you are shortening your days?” “ It’s quite -possible that I may be shortening my days, but then look how I lengthen my nights,” W'as the reply. —The talk about big-footed women has become a bore, says a Washington paper; but it may be mentioned, as a mere matter of fact, that a Georgetown girl scorns to ask a street-car conductor to stop the thing when she wants to get out. She merely strolls back to the platform and checks progress instantly by gracefully swinging her foot around in front of the hind wheel.

Farm Wagons.

Convenience often demands that a farmer shall keep more vehicles upon his premises than his circumstances will allow, and consequently economy must be exercised, and the question arises what can and cannot be dispensed with, and what the more profitably kept. To decide between a heavy and light lumber wagon, the first thing to determine is, whether the farm is sufficiently large to pay for keeping two horses. If but a few days in a year a span of horses is absolutely required, it will be more profitable to keep but one horse and a single wagon, and hire an extra horse for the few days of heavy team work, than to keep the span. Generally speaking, an ordinary farm of fifty or less acres will require but one horse; the second, unless raised for the market, will not pay his keeping. Every farmer will, of course, determine this matter for himself; but beyond this there is another important matter to decide, and that is the style of wagon in point of construction. Years of experience in the making and repairing of wheeled vehicles taught us that wagons for heavy work should have w T ood axletreeij, thimble skeins and cut felloes. An iron axletree, where heavily loaded, is liable to get sprung and run Hard, and bent felloes to cramp a wheel. A one-horse wagon should have two and three-quarter skeins and a pole that may be attached when it is so desired. Where a wagqn is made to order, have the wheels' of first quality, well-seasoned white oak, and the axletrees of tough hickory. If but one light'wagon is kept, that should be furnished with two boxes, one large and well-rodded for hauling dirt, wood and manure; the second light, say seven or eight-inch sides, .with half-_ spring underneath and full spring under seat or seats, and all well painted to correspond with the running gears. We have always found it a paying investment to have both boxes protected on top edges with iron, screwed on firmly. Never use flat iron, but oval, same width that the sideboards are in thickness. Use inch-and-a-lialf screws, put in eight incites apart, with heads countersunk. Top irons of this kind will last a lifetime, and may be transferred from an old box to a new. They will pay for themselves many times over on a single box in protecting it from being marred by horses gnawing, or bruised when loading and unloading heavy articles, and the wear of the seat-hooks. Where ,a two-horse Wagon is to be made to order it will be found profitable to use ten-inch hubs and three and onefourth thimble skeins. Have the felloes two and one-fourth inches deep, as the strength apd durability of a wheel depend a good deal upon a firm rim. A good height for heavy wheels is four feet eight inches behind and three feet eight, inches for lront. A heavy wagon, as well as alight one, should have two boxes, for where but one is used for all work the vehicle is never in a fit condition to appear in the streets: and besides this, there is economy in having two. On a heavy wagon where an eight-inch foot-reach is used — which is the proper and very common length—make the rough box ten feet sLx‘ inches long, fourteen inches deep, and allow it to extend fifteen inches in front of the fqrward stakes. Basswood is the best material, all things considered, as it is light and at the, same time more durable than pine, whitewood or elm, for the reason that it is'not so easily, bruised or chipped off as the former, and does not warp under the influence of rain and heat as the latter. The study should always be to have a vehicle as light as possible, and at tlie\ same time sufficiently strong to endure whatever is consistent to put upon a farm wagon. Use the lubricator upon the wheels

sparingly hiit frequently. A large amount does no more good upon the spindle of an axletree than a little, for there is space for only a certain amount, and the overplus works put. . It is a great saving of horseflesh to keep the boxes in the hubs from ever getting dry. — Cor. Ohio Fanner.

Best Organs on Most Favorable Terms.

The new terms ottered lty the Mason & Hamlin Organ Company-Tor the sale of their celebrated instruments create dissatisfaction with many dealers, who declare that they will greatly injure the business of selling other organs, especially by peddlers. By tlies# terms a person is allowed to hire an organ, paying only a reasonable rent for it—having the privilege, of course, of returning it at any time after six months, or of purchasing it at any time. If the purchase is completed within a year the wliole cost of the organ is only 5 to 10 per cent, more than if all cash had been paid at the beginning. Dealers say this is much too small a difference for the accommodation in time, and privilege of returning, given. The Mason & Hamlin Company are determined to try the experiment thoroughly at least, being confident that their organs will prove so attractive and satisfactory in use that scarcely any will ever be returned to them. Circulars with full particulars can be obtained by addressing them in Boston, New York, or Chicago.— Bxch.

Business Education Chicago

Young Men desiring to fit themselves for business will be interested to know that H. B. Bryant’s Chicago Business College is the largest Institution of the kind in America. Three months’ tuition, with all the advantages of this great business training school, costs but $35; six months S6O, and one year SIOO. Mr. H. B. Bryant, the original founder of the chain of colleges, has withdrawn as a partner from all the schools of the chain In order to give his whole time to building up In Chicago an institution far In advance of any business school heretofore in existence In this country, and this purpose is being rapidly accomplished. The terms are put at alow rate, being based upon a large patronage. Circulars have been prepared giving the curriculum of study, which will be sent on application to

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ECONOMY,

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VINEGAR BITTERS Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked, “What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bitters V’ Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the system. Never before is the history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vimbgar Bitters in healingthe nek of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative aa well as a Toniot relieving Congestion or Inflammation sf the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. The properties of Dr. wauetrM Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Altar*tive. and Anti-Bilio*** Grateful Thousands proclaim Vinegar Bitters the most wonderful Invigor ant that ever sustained the sinking system. No Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and vital organs wasted beyond repair. Bilious. Remittent and Inter* mittent Fevers, which are so prevalent m- the valleys of our great rivers throughout the United States, especially those of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, • Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkansas, Red, Colorado, Brazos, Rio Grande, Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Roanoke, James, and many others, with their vast tributaries, throughout oar entire country during the Summer and Autumn, and remarkably so during seasons of unusual heat and dryness, are invariably accompanied by extensive derangements of the stomach and liver, and other abdominal viscera. In their treatment, a purgative, exerting a powerful influence upon these various organs, is essentially necessary. There is no cathartic for the purpose equal to Dr. J. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters, as they will speedily remove the darkcolored viscid xqat-ter with which the bowels are loaded, at the same time stimulating the secretions of the liver, and generally restoring the healthy functions of the digestive organs. Fortify the body against disease by purifying ail its fluids with Vinegar Bitters. No epidemic can take hold of a system thus fore-armed. - Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache, Pam in the Shoulders, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, PalDitatation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the region of the Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symp- * toms, are the offsprings of DyspepsiaOne bottle will prove a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. Scrofula, or King’s Evil, White Swellings, Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neck, Goitre, Scrofulous Inflainmatious, Indolent . Inflammations, Mercurial Affocibona, Old Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, otc. In these, as in all other constitutions Diseases, "Walxbr’s Vinegar Bittbrs nave shows their great curative powers in the most obstinate and intractable cases. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases are eansed by Vitiated Blood? Mechanical Diseases.— Persons engaged in Points and Minerals, such aa Plumbers, Type-setters, Gold-beaters, and Miners, as they advance in life, are snbject to paralysis of the Bowels. To guard against this, take a dose of Walker’s Vinegar Bitters occasionally. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt-Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald-head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature, are literally dag up and carried out of the system in a short time by the use of these Bitters. Pin. Tape, and other Worms, lurking in the system of so many thousands', are effectually destroyed and removed. No system of medieine, no vermifuges, no anthelminitics will free the system from worms like these Bitters. For Female Complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the turn of life, these Tonio Bitters display so decided an influence that improvement» soon perceptible. 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