THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. THE GRANGE Conducted by J. W. DARROw", Prim CommxmAtnt Tint l'orfe Stutc HON. GEORGE S. LADD. Maater of the MnamtchiineHa Slate Grnnare. Qoorge 8. Ladd, mnstpr of Mnssnohu etts state granite, hns born a faithful Worker In the graiiRe for many years, being a chartor morabor of Sturbridga (Mnsa.) grange. He was deputy ninny years, then state lecturer four years and in December, 11)01, was elected master of the state grange. lie lias al ways advocated better ritunllstle work HON. OE0I1OK fl. LADD. and several years iiko originated tab leaux for the Urst four degrees, which arc extensively used In Massachusetts. Mr. Lndd was born In Kturbrtdgp, Mass., where he has lived all his life. Ho has been honored by his town with many Important offices, and In Novem ber, 1902, he was elected to represent Ms district In the state legislature. The County Drpnty. From an article In tho Rural New Yorker by J. V. Dnrrow we make the following extract: Tho growth of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry depends very largely on the efficiency of the work performed by the county deputies. This Is one of tho most Important positions In the Order, and the best men In each coun ty, the best organizers, the most Influ ential and energetic, the ablest In men tul equipment, should be chosen as dep uties. Much depends on the grange getting the right start, and without a faithful, intelligent and hard working deputy thus to start it the chances are that it . will have a puny, weakly growth. No grange should be organ ized and then left alone "to work out its own salvation." The wise deputy Will make frequent visits upon It for instruction and to help In various ways. Once started right, its progress will bo easier and surer. Ohio's Co-operative Department. The Ohio state grange co-operative department Is a live institution. Prizes were offered by that grange for the four subordinate granges whose pur chases were greatest during the year: What they, did Is nn Index of what tho trade of the granges of Ohio is worth or would be worth did every grange make so good a use of the op portunity offered through this depart ment as these four granges have made the past year. The combined purchases of these four granges amounted to 15,34.17, the average of which would be J3.837.20. There are more than 400 granges In Ohio. Suppose 400 of them had each averaged $3,000 worth of trade orders for our financial agent to contract for last yenr-$l,200,000 worth of business. This would make the Ohio state grango trade worth contracting to supply, in the opinion of tho Ohio Farmer. The Craatre Teacher. Elbert Hubbard says, "The teacher la one who makes two ideas grow where there was only one before." If bis definition is correct the grange must come near being a teacher of men. The benefit we derive from a grange meeting is not so much the number of abstract facts we pick up from tho discussions as It Is in the im pulse it gives us to think for ourselves. Anything which will crack our shell of indifference and mediocrity and sef us thinking for ourselves is worth while. It is not necessary that we ac cept as gospel all the btatements we henr in tho grange meeting. If it makes us think wo will bo able to sift the wheat from the chaff, and It will prevent us getting Into a rut and will all the time lead us toward ultimate truth. O. A. F. Granarer as Students, Michigan state grange hns adopted James' "Practical Agriculture" as a textbook for lecture work during the present year. The lecturer of the stute grange will have the co-operation of the professors and teachers of agricul ture at the Michigan State Agricultur al college In assisting in presenting the subjects of the several chapters so that the granges may obtain the most prac tical value possible from the use of the book. Two hundred and twenty- three copies of the textbook used last year were sent to subordinate granges in that state, and a much larger nuiu ber will probably be called for. Thus are slowly forming the habits of study In the farm home. The average cost of grange Insurance in Now York state per thousand for ithreo years Is $0.74. The average amount carded for three years is $58, 738,632, TREATMENT OF SCOURS. B Taking- Timely Precautions Con altleralile l.ona Among the'l'lva Can He Avoided. When little pigs get the scours, jrlva 1 heaped teaspoontil of copperas to the sow in her swill and feed a little lighter, says Texas Stock Journal. After the first day, If it i not cured, give a second dose the following morn ing. I have never seen this fall where given when pigs begin to soour, but let the scours run on from three days to a week and they will likely be be yond control. A the pigs get older provide a place where they can get all the Rhelled corn or ear corn they want, elean out all they leave every morning and give to older hogs, (live piggy fresh corn. Sprinkle the floor where little pljfs eat with air-slacked lime oc casionally. As the pigs get n little older and want swill mix the swill of clean shorts, a little oil menl, with sweet milk and water, and add a tea spoonful of llmewnter for each pig, which should be Increased to a table spoonful as the pigs get older. Feed this when they (jet their rorn. Be sure their troughs are kept clean. If they are screfsible to the old sow they will not leave enough to sour, Con tinue Ilmewater until the pigs are five or six months old. Feed nothing sour. If milk should be the least bit sour or tainted even, throw it away if you have no fattening hojjs to feed It to. The pigs will easily get along without milk for one feed, while the dose of sour milk miirht set the pig back for n month or two. As to the Ilmewater, It Is easily made by putting a piece of nn slacked lime In an earthen jar or wooden pail. Put a chunk about the size of a quart cup In a two-gallon jnr and fill It with water. When lime Is nil slacked nnd water gets clear, dip off water nnd throw first awn)-, refill, nnd when this is clear dip off the scum, when Ilmewater will be ready. Don't use any tin or Iron vessel for Ilmewa ter. Yon can keep filllngand uslngont of this a month before you need to add any lime. Don't rile It or stir; only use the clpnr water. HANDLE COLTS GENTLY. Flrat Thins; to Teneh a l oans florae la the MrnnliiK of the Two Vorl (in and W hull. Breaking colts to harness and work, care and patience are needed. especially with those of n nervous temperament, Jly all means avoid overloading them or working until very tired, as these conditions have more to do In making balky horses than any other one thing. When overloaded, or worked almost to the limit of endurance, and a colt once stops of its own free will, it is lia ble to do go ngain. This usuully en rages the driver and he often uses the whip or other severe means be fore the animal is rested, nnd trou ble is the result. ine very nrst thing to teach a young horse is the meaning of the two words go and whoa. The word whoa should be taught first, as most colts will go without much urging. To "have a colt stop instantly at the word is of the greatest importance. Don t use two or three words, such as stop or stop Tony, or w.liou boy. Speak out plainly and distinctly the word whoa. In after years these combination words can be used, or even a quick jerk on the lines can be taught as the signal to stop, or even go, as you desire. With colta use only safe and strong harness, Do not allow them to get away from you when harnessed, or even when tied. It is a trick they do not soon forget and many try it again. Or ange Judd Framer. LIGHT PORTABLE FENCE. It la Simple In Conatructlon and of Value on Farma Where Sheep Are Kept. I give following description for male Ing portable fences, which are used on the farm for sheep with success. Take IE 3T n IE FENCE FOR SHEEP FARM. four bourds tight feet long or as long us wanted, blx boards us high as wauted, und put together as shown in cut. Make as much as wanted; and it is put together by slipping right end, as shown in cut, into the other part ol the fence. Cochran E. Draclay, in Epitomist. Attention to Land 1'ays. The poor field is always the most neglected, because it will not pro duce as much as one that is more fertile, the farmer preferring to pluce his manure on land from which he cun secure more direct nnd re munerative results, the consequence being that one portion of the farm becomes capable, of producing all kinds of crops, while the other por tion in time is abandoned as unprofit able. If such a condition of affairs compelled the farmer to concentrate his eiforts on a small area he would be profited by the change, but the cultivation of less land is intended to improve the whole- Instead of only a portion. No piece of land on a furin should be allowed to deteriorate in fertility, no matter what the system of cultivation may be, for the con centration of the labor and the fer tilizers on one portion does not pre vent the ether portion from being improved. Buying a machine, when you haven't the insane to make shelter for It, last econoinjr, iju AlilUtlSLli GE4N0E NLW8 By J. T. Ailman, Presi Correspondent and secretary Pennsylvania State Grange. The Thirty-first Annual Session of the Pennsylvania State Grange will be hekl in the city of Wilkes Barrc, on Dec. 8th to nth, 1903. This promisej to be one ot the largest and best State grange meetings ever held. Kanroad and hotel arrangements are already well under way. August is the great nicnic month in Penn. There is no better kind of a picnic than the grange kind. The wnoie lamily enjoys these picnics. They are run on the family plan, The picnics held this vear bv the granges of the State are to be mote njmerous and ot a higher order than ever before. The Slate Grange authorities have been very fortunate in securing the services of Trof. A. I?. Morse, ol Maine, to attend the series of grange picnics in August. Prof. Morse is especially pleasing as a humorist and entertainer and those who have the opportunity of hearing him and do not improve it will be sorry when they learn from others what tliey have missed. "The Grange is crumbling," says an expose of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, written in 1875. Twenty seven years have elapsed and while this carping maltgner of our beloved organization has long since crumbled into dust, the order still lives, larger, gtander, greater every way, still going forward in its quiet way of elevating this God-given calling of agriculture in particular and mankind in general. More than 30,000,000 people ol trie United Sstates are engaged in agriculture. The moral, social, edu cational and final tiil status of so largs a numbef of our people is a matter of interest to every good citi zen. The primary purpose of the grange is to educate and elevate the American farmer. Every patriotic farmer should join the grange and help the good work along and evety omer good citizen as opportunity may oner, snouid speak a word of encour agement. A verv interesting and nrnfitahV ' - r. f - meeting of Cambra county Pomona r 1 ., . . . .. viraic was neici in tne rarochial Hall at Loretto, on the 8th of June. The sessions of the day were filled with profitable discussions and literary woik. sisters nour opened at 3:30 p, m. with Sister Karlheim in the chair In the evenin? the mpptinrr was open to the public. It was presided over Dy me worthy Master, Hon. J J. Thomas and was addressed by Rev, Ferdinand Kittell and Hon. N. B, Critchfield, Secretary of Agriculture. THE GRANGE KOR SCHOOL IMPROVE MENT. The grange insists that the taxpay ers and pupils shonld get better re turns from the millions of dollars ex pended upon our public schools. It is true the order of Patrons of Hnsi bandry stards for better education and that the Granges all over Penna. are important educational factors yet tne good ol the children and th State demand better schools. While pupils have many more comforts in the school room than tweuty-five years ago, yet tne practical educational value of schools today is not as large in many parts of the State as it was tnen. FAVOR DIRECT LEGISLATION. At a largely attended meeting of Pomona Grange, No. 23, composed of Bradford and Sullivan counties of Pcnn'a.. which convened Mav oth and a 1st, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved, that we endorse the ac tion of the last Tioga Countv Pomona Grange, whereby it unanimously in structed our Mate legislature commit tee to work lor the enactment of such legislation as will embody the princi pies of "direct legislation" through the Initiative and Referendum which would give the people the right to vote upon such State legislature measures as they saw fit to demand by petition. GRANGE PICNICS, PUBLIC EDUCATORS. The serv ces of picnics and field meetings to be held in this State dur ing the month of August are attracting public attention as a valuable medium for the dissemination of general in telligence. The grange people are backing this movement and they com prise our most progressive and siaunch citizenship. From their local granje meetings during the whole year round they gradually but surely have devel oped into a broader minded, better informed people ol larger efficiency. The platform at these picnics furnishes a broad forum for the intelligence and free,discussion of questions of the day. Their relations to the welfaie ot the State as they affect agriculture will be freely discussed. That broader view of the interests of the people is to be presented and no political partisan discussions or presentations will be tolerated. . COMMON SENSE TALK. "Look nrfore Tea Leap' la an Adas; That Must lie Conaldereil ! Wonll-Ue Farmer. With enthusiasm for their capital, misled by the fatal lend pencil which figures "millions In It," many "would bes" ask us if we udvlse going Into the poultry, cranberry, ginseng, fruit, goat or some other e:trioor business, A good rule of life is "Don't get In a rut." Don't stay In a place just lo calise you are in It. Another Is "Don't change too readily.' Look before you leap." We do not encourage the sail ing of strange seas by unfamiliar eraft, yet there are pioneers, and one wise man has said: "To retnin youth, change your occupation every ten years." To all those who long for country life, we will nay that as a business proposition any branch of farming is Do different from other Industries. The wise man does nof say: "I.o, I will be a merchant prince," nnd forth with rule the commercial world with a ready-to-wear scepter. The captains of Industry have all -risen from the ranks. If there is any better rule than "begin t the bottom of the ladder," we do not know it. We do not understand the strange fatality which leads hopeful Innocents to embark in bucolic enterprises with little money and no training. It must be the remit of th1 popular misconcep tion that "anybody can farm." The whitening bones of countless failures show where these luckless onea dropped by the wayside. They started across the unknown sands, without food, water or provision against the scorching noonday sun, or the deadly miasms of night, led on by the mirage of great, profits, It -was once said of a very able law yer that he was "the best farmer In the state on paper." To succeed in any branch of farm life the following requisites, while general principles only, may be of advantage to those who think of trying a new thing: 1. flood health. 2. Love for the work. 3. Persistent nnd patient endeavor. 4. Some capital. 5. Common sense. ft. A knowledge of the business. The beginner may acquire health in the process; this will be his first vic tory. Tie may lose his first enthuslam( for' the work: this will be fatal. "Per sistent and Patient Endeavor" menna work; we are not considering "gentle men farmers." "Some capital" is broad enough to suit all purses: some times the less the better. I don't know why It is called "common sense" when it Is so uncommon; anyway It Is Indispensable. A knowledge of the business may be obtained after em barking, by study and experience, but don't look for success until the ex perimental stage Is past; fortunate Is he who lasts through this period. Coir man's Rural World. HANDY IN HAYING TIME. A Damping Platform That Savea One Handling and Leaaena f.abor In Other Ways. A Wisconsin correspondent sends the Farm Journal a model of a con venience for use in hay time. In wide mows or bays when the fork de livers the hay in the center in the usual manner It must be forked la boriously to the sides. To remedy this the correspondent has a board DUMPING PLATFORM. platform (IS), six by nine feet, nailed to a four by six-inch piece turned at the ends and pivoted at A, in blocks nailed to the plank (C). A rope is fastened to each end of the platform, so that it can be tipped to either side, as desired. Planka can be laid across each bent and sockets fastened to each one, so that the dumping platform and its at tached roller can be easily moved. In order to be effective the bay must drop every time near the center of the platform. On a wooden track this can be effected by boring a hide in the track and putting an iron piu through it. On an Iron track the same end can be secured by a clump screwed on. Two t'luasea of Former. , There are two classes of farmers, says a recent writer: First, the man who is bigger every way than his farm. To such a man it doesn't make much difference how many acres he has, he runs the farm ou close prac tical business principles and makes a profit. Second, the man whose farm is bigger than he is. No matter how many or how few acres he has, he doesn't run the farm. The farm runs him. E. P. Snyder gives an ac count in the Ohio Farmer of a dairy man living near Toledo, who keeps 35 Jersey cows on 100 acres ot land and has made them earn the pasf year $4,400 gross, from which he baa a profit of $3,200. He makes butter and sells it in Toledo at 25 eents in summer and 30 cents in winter. Ids cows, counting butter, skim-milk and everything, earned him over $135 apiece. This is an extraordinary herd. Have ideas of your own. After hear ing advice, if not convinced that you are wrong-, put them into practice. CARRIED OUT HIS PLANS. t-aet neqneat ot s Drlna- Millionaire Obeyed by Ilia Moarnlos Children. A millionaire had died. There had been great apparent grief among those who had been most substantially re membered. And some real-for-sure re gret among those who had expected to, and hadn't got a dollar, relates the Baltimore American. The funeral was over. The million aire's sons had gathered for confer ence. Among the pet plans of the old man's declining days was a magnificent palace, on whose style of construc tion he had disagreed with every other member of the family. "You will remember," said the eldest son, choking back bis emotion wonder fully well, "that it was the last request that we carry out every plan he had made regarding the new house." "Yes," they groaned in chorus. "Well, I have arranged that it be done." Thereupon he piled all the plana of his father's architect imto a large wastebnsket and bore them triumph antly out to the rubbish bin in the back alley, "I may say truthfully that it is a pleasure to carry out the plans, even though wedisngreed in their forming," replied the young man as he returned with the empty basket. A MUCH-TRAVELED KING. Edward VII. Una Ylalted Many For eign I.ancla aa Prince and Rnler. Alexander and Caesar, Hannibal nnd Peter the Orcat must be accounted mere stay-nt-houies compared with Edward VII. Before he was of age as prince of Wales, besides visiting most of the European courts, he had passed across- the Atlantic no holiday affair in 1HI10 on his tour through Canada and his visit to the United States. He witnessed Niagara illuminated and he saw Blondiu carry a man pick-a-back across the fulls. Side by side with President Buchanan he stood at the graveside of Washington the man who had wrested an. empire from his great-grandfather, George HI., says the London Outlook. Later, under the guidance of Dean Stanley, he saw the holy land. He has ascended' the great pyramid. He has steamed up the Nile and traversed the Suez canal. He has threaded the Dar danelles with a sultan of Turkey and accompanied the remains of a czar from the Crimea to the Kremlin at Moscow. The glories-of Athens and of its modern northern prototype are alike familiar to Win, From Colombo to Connomara, from Nepaul to New- 'foandland, this spacious yet dally nar rowing globe of ours is ta King Ed ward an open book. 'Bsars the 9 1,011 Ha" tov&t EXECUTORS' NOTICE. Estate of Michael Caiey Sr. late of Blootnslmrg Pa., deceased. Notice ts hereby elven that letters testa mentary on the estate of Michael Casey 8r late of the town ot Bloomsburg, ceunty of Columbia ra., deceased, nave wen granted to josepn f'&sey and William Casey, Executors' of toe last will and testument of Michael 'sey Sr., to whom all persons Indebted to said estate are requested to make payment, and those having claims or demands will make known the same without delay to JOtiKPH C8KY, GOV JACOBT. WILLIAM CASEY, 6 lift 6t Attorney. Executors. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. nutate of Isaac Labour, deceased. The undersigned an auditi r appointed by the Orphans' Court of Columbia County Pa , to dis tribute, the funds In the hands of George Labour, administrator as shown by bis dual account oonllrmed at February Court 1908 to and among the parties legally entitled to the same, will sit to perform the duties ot bis ap- E ointment at bis office In the town ofHlooms urgon Friday, August 14, itfUlat 10 o'clock a. in., when and where all parties havlDg claims against Bald fund must present the same or be forever debarred from a Bhare of the same. WM. CUHIBMAN, 7-10 4t. Auditor. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Entate of Daniel Singtev Sr. In the Orphans' Court of Columbia County, Partition proceedings. Tbe undersigned, Auditor appointed by the Orphans' Court of C'cluaibla County, la tbe above estate to ascertain and report to the oourt the amounts due tbe respective heirs and parties entitled, will git In bU otllce at No. 46 Second Street, Bloomsburg, Ps., on Saturday, August 1st, 1U03, at ten o'clock a. m. to attend to the duties ot his appointment, when and where all parties having clalmB against tbe said estate must appear and present the same or be forever debarred from oomlng In on suld fund. Ws. C. JOIINSTON, T-H t Auditor. PROFESSIONAL CARDlKf N. U. FUNK, ATTOUTKT-AT-LAW, Mrs, Knfs Building, Court Haose AlWf, BLOOMSBURG, PA. A. L. FRITZ, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Offloe-BIoomsburg Nafl Bank Bldg., id floor. BLOOMSBURG, PA. J. H. MAIZE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE AGENT, Office, In Townsend'i Building, BLOOMSBURG. PA. John a. rssszs. job e. abmah FREEZE & HARMAN, ATTORNEYS AND C0UNSBLL0H8 AT LAW BLOOMSBURG, PA. Office on Centre Street, first door below Opera House. A. N. YOST, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW Ent Building, Court House Square. BLOOMSBURG. PA H. A. McKILLIP. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Columbian Building, and Floe'.. ' BLOOMSBURG, PA. RALPH R. JOHN, Attorney at law, Hartman Building, Market Square, Bloomsburg, pa. IKEL.ER & IKELER, attorney-at-law. Office back of Farmers' National Bank BLOOMSBURG, FA. CLYDE CHAS. YETTER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Bloomsburo, P, Office In Ent's Building, W. H. RHAWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office, Corner of Third and Main Sts CATAWISSA, . PA. CLINTON HERRING, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office with Grant Herring. BLOOMSBURG, PA. f Will be in Orangeville Wednesday each week. WILLIAM C. JOHNSTON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. . Office in Wells' Building over B. A. . Gidding's Clothing Store, Bloomsbnrg, t , Will be in Millville on Tuesdays. H. MONTGOMERY SMITH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office 1 Ent building, over Farmers Na tional Bank. 11-16-99 EDWARD. FLYNN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, CENTRALIA, PA. ryorrioe Liddioot building, Looust avenue M0NT0PBTSLSPBOKS. BILL TILBmOirr TBS TISTXD. GLA8SBS UTTSB. H. BIERMAN, M. D. HOMOJOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND BTJBQKn orrici bocbs: Offloe A Residence, h 8t 10 a. m. to p. m 6:80 to 8 p. m. ; BLOOMSBUBG, PA J. S. JOHN, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and residence, 410 Main St-7-3Q-'v BLOOMSBURO, PA. J. J. BROWN, M. D. THE EYE A SPECIALTY. Eyes tested and fitted with glasses. No Sunday work. 311 Market St., Bloomsburg, Pa. Hours: 10 to 8 Telephone. DR. M. J. HESS, DENTISTRY IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, Crown and bridge work -A SPECIALTY, Corner Main and Centre Streets. Columbia A Montour Telephonconneotoll.IA Dr. W. H. HOUSE, SUMGEON DENTIST, ornce; Barton's Building, Main below Jfartre Bloomsburo, Pa. AH styles of work done in a superior man net all w ork warranted as represented. TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAW. by the use of Gas, and free of charge whs ari . "ncial teeth are inserted. WTo be open all hours during the day. C. WATSON McKELVY, FIRE INSURANCE AGENT. (Successor to B. F. Hartmaa lBaS?J?SI.t,7elTorth strongest Comnaa ies la the world, among whicn ar'i VUIUW" CASH TOTAL SUBrLVS Westchester, N.Y. soo oSo TSSSm TSfct N. America, PMla. a.ooo ooe i imSi .!Sf Office First N.tM nL Ti j j a 0 ,e promptly adjusted end paid. M. P. LTTTZ snv (SUCCESSORS TO FKEA8 BKOWX INSURANCE AND REALESTATK AGENTS AND BROKERS. N. W. Corner Main and Centre. St.,,.. Bloomsburo, Pa. o Represent Seventeen as good Com panies as there are in the World and all losses promptly adjust- H1 An1 m..' 1 . y P'q at tneir Office. SADE T. VANNATTA. (Successor to C. F. Knspp.)S GENERAL INSURANCE Office a38 Iron St, Bloomsbu.o, P Oct. 31, igoi.tf CITY HOTEL, W. A. Hartzel, Prop. JNo. lii West Main Street. WLarge and convenient sample rooms. b rnAmi tint anrl teA . . , " . . , . it.iw, ana mod era bob veniences. Bar tn-lr,t . liquors. First-class livery att.ched. EXCHANGE HOTEL, I. A. Snyder, Proprietor. (Oppositethe Court House) BLOOMSBURG, Pa. Large snd convenient sample rooms bath rooms, hot and cold water, and all moS vcoveiuencca, -ww
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