Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1874 — Page 7

The Patrons of Husbandry.

It is questionable whether anjrtonntrye.er"profffice 1 an organization, non-poiit- 1 ical in its ctiaracter, whose growth was [ more rapid, vigorous and healthful than j that known the Patroqs of Husbandry. The wonderful rapidity with which Granges have multiplied in every State of our own country, not to speak of others; I and the systematic, well-ordered net- ; work of connection which has already i been established from thff district or 1 primary Grange up through county and State to 'the national organization is a, marked illustration of the real executive ability of the yeomanry when called i'j.to requisition. We have had faith from the outset that much good would come of this ’movement. It is the legitimate outgrowth of a deep-seated dissatisfaction —an organized protest againsG a train of. abuses which have been gradually fastening themselves upon the governn\ental and business machinery of. the country. Chief among the latter is the undue multiplication of what are called mifidlemen, and the opportunities atWirded t,hese for taking advantage of the isolated, disorganized, agricultural produce rs. In the broad, scientitre sense of the term, middlemen are themselves producers. They arp just so far as they are the wants and dt-sires ot' nien. 'reTUTTib dispensable. They serve an important purpose. bub . the.v may do it very inefficiently. A laxity and clumsiness nave become manifest in the machinery of exchange, growing out of the want of intelligent and harmonious co-operation among agricultural masses on the one hand, and a willingness, not unnatural, on the part of organized capital to take advantage of the-situation on the other. The result is a waste in the producing power of the country, and in many instances an unfair distribution of the rewards of industry. If the Grange movement shall succeed in remedying these evils to any considerable extent without inflicting others .equally mischievous, it will have subserved an important end. It is destined to wield an immense power in the country, and alongfwith its power comes a grave responsibility. It has ■serious dangers to encounter. Not least itmong these are false teachings of demagogues without the Order and within it. As it shall grow in strength the opportunities for corruption inits’own ranks, as in the case of political parties, will greatly multiply, though, from the nature of the organization, by no means to the-same extent. The members of this Order have been charged by the monopoly organs with being Communists. * Nothing, we believe, could be farther from the truth than such a charge. No class of our population is more deeply interested in the preservation of those rights and privileges which law- and government were intended to secure than the farmer. None have a higher appreciation of the rights of property or a keener sense of the necessity of their preservation. We have no fears of Communism from such a source. On the other hand, the Granges, if rightly managed, must prove a valuable educating agency. In this fact centers our chief hope of good results. The movement of Patrons, then, will be watched with interest, not by demagogues alone, but also by good and true men everywhere. With power comes responsibility. Let them bear it soberly and discreetly. — Madison Democrat. ■

The Grange Not Declining.

There are some who deduce from the facts that the newspapers do not teem with the doings of the “ Grangers” as they did a year ago—that ever and anon Grange officials find it necessary to admonish and exhort their subordinates that they do not let .the interest of the meetings run down —that occasionally there arise troubles and rumors of troubles, grumblings about National Grange funds, secessions, bickerings, heart-burnings and strife in the Granges there are some who conclude from these circumstances that the force of the Grange-flood is spent and that the Order has already reached the acme of its power, or is even now declining. These persons deceive themselves — some willfully, all egregiously. From the first there has been an exaggerated notion abou 11 h e i n tent ien s an d -pessibil die s of the Grange. Panic-stricken office-holders thought they recognizedthe hand-writing on the wall that sentenced them to political decapitation. Conscious of rottenness they started a cry that the Grange was going to control,every thing—to elect Grange Legislatures, a Grange Congress and Grange judiciaries— to confiscate railroads and fix prices of produce—to break contracts and to sequestrate the capital invested on the faith of those contracts. The Grange was" credited with all this and Other Communistic bosh, partly in ignorance and partly with the design of bringing it into odium. The reality is that the Grange never set itself to do any of these things. All of its official utterances have been characterized by extreme good sense, conservatism and modesty. ’ Doubtless the Grange is less talked about than it has been, but instead of declining it is getting down steadily to its right work, is accomplishing sthe mission with .which it commenced life, viz.: The promotion of the welfare of its members, social, mental and pecuniary—the better fitting of the farmer for his-duties as a citizen and the cultivation of a spirit of neighborly love and fellowship. There are many reasons why the farmers are less demonstrative now than they were a year back, and it is" this quietness which gives rise to the idea that the Grange is dying. The principal reason is, that the farmers, as a class, are now vastly better off than they have been for years. No observer could fail to note the thriving appearance of the hundred-thousand country visitors to the Chicago Exposition. New clothes and contented, sun-browned faces met the eye and gladdened the heart at every turn. Substantial, stalwart, healthylooking yeomen piloted happy wives and any number -of “ arrows” through the throng, examining things with the critical eyes of persons intending and able to purchase. The palace stores of rebuilt Chicago were patronized liberally—and the farmers are the only people who are aow able to do this. To what extent these better times are owing to the societies, sbme other fellow may calculate. The facts that, before the Granges and Clubs existed, the farmers were poor,-’‘and that, now tfje organizations exist, farmers’ circumstances are improved, are enough for us. The crowds which visited Chicago during last month.m^y.be taken as indicating that, except in districts afflicted with extraordinary calamities, there is now ven little distress in the rural districts. And this, again, may’ be taken as a cer-

tain indieatio n of a renews 1 , on a per- ' manent basi g, of that business enterprise I which und’je speculation has wrecked. I By and tty the good times of the .farmers j will reacjh the trades. The mercantile ! atmosp'jere will be clearer and purer, ; and, 3 ave among direct victims, the i September cyclone will be regarded as a bles .sing. . | x’he Grange movement has now been ■ established long enough to show for ' 'vhat purposes it is adapted and in what I direction it fails. The average city in- : teilect has realized the fact that there is ’ some new, mysterious leavpn at work in politics, which will have to be allowed for in future. For the first time the farmers have asserted - their political power and it has been recognized. That in the elections just terminated, or now in course, the farmers have not swept the decks, is because they have not been willing to incur the odium of running a farmers’ party. Still, they have made and will make themselves severely felt, and the Forty-fourth Congress and the various new Legislatures will be all the purer for it. |pie excellent thing the Grange has certainly done—and that is, it has awakened the American producer to a sense of the high position he ought to hold as a political unit, and of the low position in which, in fact, he stands, I The farmer now knows that the reason of his political insignificance is that he has neglected his duties as a citizen. The intelligent use of the ballot is. the one thing most wanted. Let the Grange continue its-work in this direction, carefully eschewing anything which will give it the color' of a secret politica society, but freely handling those great questions which affect the interests of the farmers as a class, but which ought not to be made partisan questions. In running Grange stores, the Patrons, as a rule, have been unsuccessful. The probability of this failure we pointed out a year ago. It is but the history of cooperative effort repeated. Where cooperative stores have been successful they are. generally found, on investigation, to be more properly co-operative trading societies, supported to a large degree by profits on purchases by nonmembers. Others of the successful cooperative stores have been established or coddled into existence by large employers of labor who aim to better more the working qualities than the financial condition of There are many directions, however, wherein Granges have co-operated with remarkable success—notably in the way of co-operative purchasing, in which line, as yet, the greatest benefits of the movement have been manifest. The Granges have recognized the equality of men and women by admitting the latter on equal terms to their deliberations and social enjoyments. To the courage and sagacity which incorporated in the Grange the recognition of woman as an equal is to be attributed, in no small degree, the Order’s progress. It is an article of belief among the sex generally, and contributors to the Western Rural “ Fireside” department in particuj 1 ar, that no women are so much oppressed as farmers’ wives. In answer the farmers have stepped boldly to the van and have presented their wives to the vvorld as their recognized equals. We must not omit to point out the vast importance of the Grange or Club as a court of arbitration in disputes between members. For this purpose, alone, it will pay to keep the societies going. To say nothing of the lawyers’ fees actually saved, there is the possibility that the pettifoggers who infest country districts may be starved into honesty, by decrease of their business, and compelled to cease setting people by the ears for a living. Considerations of space prevent us from going into this matter as fully as we could wish. We think, however, that we have already shown the unlikelihood of the Grange being allowed to languish. Farmers will not be so blind to their interests as to let the thing drop, now that the feasibility of perfect organization has bee.n proved. And it must be taken into account that it is only from within that the Grange is assailable. So long as it remains true to its enunciated principles, any assault upon it from without is trouble thrown away. Its position is simply impregnable. When it falls, it will be from dissensions within. All Patrons who have the good of the Order at heart 0 will submit to any annoyance rather than be the means of introducing discord into its ranks. — Western Rural.

Have a Good Time at the Meetings.

Did you enjoy yourself at the last meeting? If not, you are to blame. It don’t matter what little malice you may entertain against certain members, when outside the Grange, you have no right to let your feelings influence you to the extent of not doing your full duty when within the gates. One of. your prime duties is to keep up to the highest standard of the social features of your meetings. You cannot do your duty in this regard unless you yourself go away from the meeting feeling really happier and better than you felt when you went there. Your effort to make others happy* will render yourself happy, Unless you feel happy you have failed to make others happy, and failed to that extent in your duty as a good Patron. Go in for fun as well as for business. He who owns the whole world and cannot find time to laugh is a poor —American Patron.

Boiled Corn for Poultry.

In the breeding of poultry as in all other pursuits a little care and forethought invariably return an apparently disproportionate result. In the rearing of poultry, where the expenditure .on each fowl is small and the material provided comparatively inexpensive, we are apt to overlook the small wastes which occur in the transformation of the different grains into poultry, but which aggregate’quitc a respectable sujji, The opjsion that corn is very nourishing food for fowls is so universal that no further thought is given to the matter. If ’any one should suggest that corn would be easier of digestion if soaked or boiled he would very likely receive the unsWer that eorn was nothing hard to digest for birds, which swallow stones ard other hard substances without detriment, A moment’s thought, however, will convince tbaf the millstones and the grist are very different things, and feeding hard grain, although not exactly like feeding the millstones with pebbles, bears a certain likeness to it. The trouble attendant on the preparation of food, if it is to be cooked, may indeed seem very disproportionate to the advantage to be derived from such treatment, but in reality little time need be spent, as before going the rounds of the nests a little hot water may be poured over the grain, a tight cover put on the kettle, and the whole placed over the stove,

• where, by the time ybur rpunds are com I pleted, the corn will have become | steameriirad mellow, andhave lost none ;of its good qualities. Remember each hen has a certain amount of animal force to'be expended every day in some direci tion and the less she has to give to digesting her food the more she will have | to be expended in egg-producing. The i advantages of the warm food in winter | when much food goes toward producing I animal heat to withstand the cold are I twofold—from the direct action of the warmth and the slower action of the food itself, to say nothing of the fact that the content produced by nourishing food will result in more eggs, for a hen thoroughly at home will lay many more eggs than a discontented one. We have, performed the experiment ourselves and know that feeding boiled corn does pay, and it is as a result of experience that we offer this- plan to our friends.—English Farmer. A young man residing with his father in Patchogue, L. L, a fgw nights ago heard a noise in the direction of a watermelon patch and, lookingout of his bedroom window, saw a man in the act of “hooking” one. He seized a gun loaded with small shot which he kept handy Tor such purposes and blazed away at the supposed thief. A yell followed and the was horrified to discover by the voice that lie had shot his own father. The “bld man” came running into- the house with-a-big watermelon under his arm which he had been selecting for breakfast the next morning, and it was found fortunately the entire charge had lodged in the melon—not a Sffot having struck the person of the supposed thief. At the late Methodist Conference in Batavia, N. Y., one of the elders said he was once settled over a weak church, and appointed a committee of young ladies to collect subscriptions for it. One of them was so successful that he thought she would be a good overseer and helpmate in a family, and so he married her.

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l tUREKA ' \'l i?r. i'fallior’s California Vin -?gar Bilters are n purely Vegetalff i iciiaratioii, inaiie c’aiefly fr.im ilie na li re herbs found on tlio lower ranges o. the Sierra Nevada iiiotmlai/is of California, tlnrr.iediciiial projicrtics of whict ; re extracted therefeom-withotit the use of Alcohol. 'l'lio question is almost daily asked “ v'hat is the cause of ilie nnparallele.’. success of Vinegar Bit- '. jji.sOur ii-iswer is, that taey remove the cause of disease, and the patient refovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, ;l perfect Renovator and Invigorator as 'the system. Never before in Ina i-torv of tlio world has a medicine beer loinpdiinded possessing the remarkable ijuahiies of Vinegar Bitters in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. 'fhev are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, reiie - ig Congestion or Inflammation d .0. .Liver and Visceral Organs, ill Bilious The properties of Dr. Walker’? 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Mechanical Diseases. — Persons engaged in Paints and Minerals, such as Plumbers, Type-setters. Gold-beaters, and Miners, as they advance in life, are subject 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. Boils, Garfuineles, Ring-worms, Scald-head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas. Itch, ! ScuiTs, Discolorations oLihe* Skin, Uunuits : and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name • or nature, are literally dug tip and carried I out of the system in a short time by the us i of these Bitters. Pin, Tape, and other Worms, j lurking in the system of so many thousands', are effectually destroyed and removed. No ■ system of medicine, no vermifuges, no anthelminitics will free the system from worms like these Bitters. 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More than half who are now drawing a pension are Justly entitled to an increase. My terms are: No Charges Made For Advice, And no fee ever asked unless successful in collecting your claims. < I also takeup claims that have been rejected in the hands ofother attorneys, and prosecute to a successful issue. A BOOK FOB EVERY SOLDIER. This book is devoted strictly to the welfare and interest of all soldiers and pensioners, containing the regulations relating to Army and Navy Pensions, the new Pension Laws. It gives a complete list of all the latest Bounty and Pension laws, thus enabling each soldier to see at once the exact amount of bounty or pension he should receive. FRICH S 3 CBWX*B. Circulars free. Address all communications (with Stamp), 15. F. PRITCHARD, 77 E. Washington St., Indianapolis, Ind. MASON & HAWN CABINET ORGANS. Winners of THREE HIGHEST MEDALS and Dl* PIX4MA OF HONOR at VIENNA, 1873, PARIS 1867. ALWAYS. Declared by MUSICIANS GENERALLY to be UNRIVALED and INCOMPARABLE. 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The MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO. are now offering new styles, with important Improvements. and are selling not only for cash exclusively, but also on new plans of easy pavments, running through one year or longer. Thev also rent new organs with privilege of purchase. Rrnt th, trt three yeara purchases the Organ. Send for the Illustrated Catalogues and Circulars, which give very full information and are sent free. THE MASON & A HAMLiN ORGAN CO., „ _ AT EITHER New York, Boston or Chicago. acsczi pEcTHE THE CHEAPEST AND BEST PAPER IN THE COUNTRY. ANNUM Unexcelled by any Weekly Literary r Publication, East or West. CANVASSERS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN THE UNITED STATES. The most Liberal Premiums and Club Bates ever offered by anv newspaper. Write stir a Circular containing full information, etc. Spielman copies furnished on application. Address THE LEDGER COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. 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