THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. THE GRANGE Conducted by J. w D ARROW, PrtM CorrcrimniUnt AVic Yiyrh SlaU W. N. GILES. ierrrtnry of JtrtT York State Ornntce. The ncronipllshrd sprrrtnry of th New York state prntiKP, W. N. Olios, Is resident of KkuiH'nteles, N. Y. lie linn lippn con nected with the order since 1S77, when ho Joined Ownseo pranco, No. 271. He served ns secre tnry of thnt (trniiRe for four yearn and Dins tor two yours. In 1SD2 ho trans ferred hi mem bership to ftkrtn entolos prnnRO, nnd wns Its mnMer for two w. 2. oiLEs. ypnrg, no wns a rpjrtilnr nttendnnt npon tho stnte grnno nipetlnirs oven before his elec tion ns secretary of thnt body In 11X10. The duties of tlint office tie hns over ulnee filled In a moxt conscientious, pnlnstnklnjr nnd acceptable ninnner. As n public spenker he Is In Brent de mand at grange picnics and field meet ings. QUESTIONS ON RITUAL. Certain Requirement For Properly Conferring; the Dr(rci, We have snbnilttpd Uie following questions to Hon. Oeorjte B. Horton, master of the Michigan state kmiikp. who Is an authority on the subjects, and the answers will doubtless bo of general Interest to members of the Or der: Q. Is there any explanatory work or lectures In connection with the confer ring of the unwritten work of the Order, and do you use and advise the same If there be any? A. I know of no author ized lectures outside the ritual, which Is rery compluta In Itself. Kxtrns are more liable to take from than to add to the lm presslvenens and strnfrth of the work. (J. Can the fifth degree be conferred by obligation simply, and If so do you advise It? A. The fifth degree cannot legally be conferred other than In full form. Orange law Is plainly In opposition to any abridge ment of degroe forms. Q. Do you advUe and do you use In your work In Mlchlgun the field work In the first degreeT A. The single degree forms In the ritual are essential when a gentleman or lady Is Initiated singly. The field work Is Instructive and Is essential to the completeness of the "laborer's" degree. Every grange should be equipped with well designed Hold work. From an object lesson point of view It Is quite es sential. Yosng People and the Grange. The grange recognizes the value of social life to the farmer's family, and we ought to make our. session ho at tractive that the children of our rural homes will want to be with us. Many a boy and girl have loft the farm and gone down to disgrace and ruin on ac count of the luck of elevating amuse ments. We look to the boys and girls of our rural districts to carry on the grand nnd glorious work of our Order when we are gone, and it behooves us as true Patrons to use every legitimate means within our power to Interest the young la our work. Are we doing It? In many places Juvenile granges are orgunlzed for the children. This may not be practicable In every coun ty, but each subordinate grange might have at least one day In the year on which the children should be wel comed and entertained. This would create In them an Interest In grange work which would bear fruit in future years. Only get the children Interested with us and there would be a different view taken of farm life. Sous and daughters would be Inspired with more love for the farm, the careworn wife would enter upon her domestic duties with a lighter heart and the home ties would becomo stronger. To accomplish this would truly be an Incentive to the grange for further achievements. C. C. Wells. Co-operation Among Patrons. It seems strange, says the Watertowu Times, that more Patrons do not take advantage of their organization to pur chase feed and other supplies on a cosh basis and thus save a large margin from priced paid to retailers under the credit system. Reputable dealers are glad to make large discounts where car load lots are taken and cash paid. To Illustrate, some farmers not far from Watertown formed an association to buy together feed In car load lots. Two of the enterprising milling concerns In the city sent agents to the first meet ing these farmers held and offered to furnish them with tho best grudos of feeding stuff at wholesale prices for cash, which In some cases amounted to $3, $4 and even $5 a ton saving from the retail price. Every grange can do the same thing if it will. Winners In m Desk Contest. Worthy Master Ilorton of Michigan announced that the state grange would give to every subordinate grange in tho state which received twenty or moro new members during the quarter end ing June 30, 11)03, a well finished busi ness desk for the use of grange o dicers. Seventy granges are reported by Htato Secretary Jannle Buell as successful In this contest The total addition to membership In these granges la 1,001, an average of twenty-four. Never let your leal for membership overshadow the prido you have In the worth of the grange. The grange Is destined to play a greater part in the drama of Internal affairs In tho next ten years than ever before In Its history, I FARM DAIRY CHEESE. Department of Avrleultnre Is Trjlna to Develop Its Mnnufiirtnr on Larger Rente, There la a nonular Impression that L. . . , , a i j . 1. 1 ' ine jiiuiiuiuciure ui ciicesu iu una country has been so completely trans ferred to the factory system during the last half century, as practically to abolish cheese-making on dajry farms. Hut the agricultural returns of the twelfth United States census Bhow that in the year 1803 there were still 15,670 farms upon which dairy cheee was made. The quantity produced on these farms during that year was 16, 372,330 pounds, an average of 1,045 pounds per farm. This product con stituted almost five and one-half per FA KM DAIRY CI1EKSE FHESS. cent, of all the cheese made in the United States. It Is the purpose of farmers' bulle tin No. 166, "Cheese Making on th Farm," to furnish for the farm house hold a brief description of the most approved methods used in the manu facture of several varieties of cheese. Details of management, which are briefly and plainly described, include aeration and cooling, coloring, the use of rennet, curdling, cutting, cooking, molding, pressing, dressing, salting and curing. The operation of press ing is explained as follows: The press may he a simple lever and weight, de scribed as follows: The lever should be about 12 feet long. A broken wagon tongue answers the purpose very well. Set a strong box on which the mold may be placed, about three feet from a wall, post or tree. On the latter nail a slat and under It put one end ef the lever. Put a circular board about six Inches in diameter upon the mold, and on this rest the stick or lever. A pall containing a few cobblestones will answer for the weight. Do not apply full pressure at first, but let the weight hang about half-way between the mold and the outer end of the stick. Let the cheese remain a few hours in the press, then take out and dress. The ordinary process by which our American cheese is made in factories is not applicable to the farm dairy, because it takes too much time and is so complicated that It requires years of practice to become familial with the varying conditions in which milk comes to the vat. The various changes that take place In milk, and which are troublesome In making cheese, nearly ail develop In the night's milk, kept over until the fol lowing morning. So, if milk is made Into cheese immediately after It la drawn, no difficulty need be expert enced. By employing a simple and short method of manufacture, anyone at all accustomed to banding milk can, with the appliances found in any well-regulated farmhouse, make uni formly a . good cheese. CALVES FOR MARKET. Follow the Directions Here Given and Yon Will Get a Fair Prlea for Your Veal. Calves from three to six weeks old, and weighing about 100 pounds, or say from 80 to 120 pounds, are the most desirable weights for shipment. The head should be cut out, so as to leave the hide of the head on the skin. The legs should be cut off at the knee Joint The entrails should be all removed, ex cepting the kidneys, the liver, lights and heart should be taken out Cut the car cass open from the neck through the entire length from head to tall. If this is done they are not so apt to sour and spoil during hot weather. Many a fine carcass has spoiled in hot weather because of its not being cut open. Don't wash the carcass out with water, but wipe out with a dry cloth. Don't ship until the animal heat is entirely out of the body, and never tie the carcass up in a bag, as this keeps the air from cir culating and makes the meat more lia ble to become tainted. Mark for ship ment by fastening a shipping tag to the hind leg. Calves under 60 pounds should not be shipped, and are liable to be condemned by the health officers as being unfit for food. Merchants, too, are liable to be fined If found selling these "slunks"' for violation of the law. Very heavy calves, such as have been fed on buttermilk, never sell well in our market they are neither veal nor beef. Chicago Trade Bulletin. A FEW DAIRY POINTERS. You cannot clean dirty milk. Clean milk never comes from a dirty an. ' You caunot get milk from a starved oow. Care of milk and cream has much to do with price received for butter. Unless your cows turn their feed into milk instead of beef, they have no place In the dairy barn. Only the rich man can afford to keep poor cows; the poorer the farmer, the. wtter bis few oqwi should be. GRANGE NEWS. By I. T. Allman, Press Correspondent and Secretary Penn'a. Slate Grange. I The business of the Grange is to make the farmer's life more wljole some and his business more profitable and more busieuss-like. A month earlier Nov. 10 the Na-' tional Grange will meet in Rochester, 1 N. Y. Many Penna. Patrons are ar-; ranizinn to attend this meetinz. The brothers and sisters of New York are preparing to entertain an wno may come on an elaborate scale. This letter is sent to nearly too local news papers and is printed en tire by many of them. I This copy is sent to every Subordi nate Grange in the State. See that the local papers which you read use it and help to make it interesting by sending news items to the Editor. The friendly invitation of the Tax Collector is posted couspuciously in many places just now. Every good citizen pays his just share of the public burden and no good citizen willingly pays more. Just why the owner tf Real Estate should pay an average of 1 6 mills on the dollar in this state and no other interest more than 4 mills many great interests less than half of that amount has never been satis factorily explained. No onehaevtr attempted to justify it. The Grange demands equally dis tributed burdens and equally tlistri, buted powers. Birmingham Grange, No. H31, of Chadd's Ford, Delaware county, Pa., was organized by Worthy Deputy, Frank P. Willits, of Concord Grange on March iSth, 1903, with 21 charter members, 6 entering on Demit from Concord Grange, and 1 from Brandy wine Grange. During the last quarter we have initiated 18 new members. We have prospects of having a much larger Grange in the near future. Our meetings are for the most part regu larly attended and we often have visi tors from Concord, Kennett, and Brandywine Granges. Florence E. Baldwin, July 27th., 1903. Secretary. The 26 picnics held under the auspices of the State Grange during the month of August in as many diner ent counties have proven a marked success. Large numbers gathered at almost every place. Bro. Morse, of Maine, won laurels wherever he went His unaffected and kindly manner captured the hearts of his hearers and his elocutionary efforts highly enter tained all who heard him. Many listened with close attention to the doctrines and claims of the grange as presented by Worthy Master, W. F, Hill, Hon. W. T. Creasy, Worthy Secretary, J. T. Ailman, and Worthy Lecturer, A. M. Cornell. Good re sults are sure to follow in the line of these meetings in the open air. Osterburg Grange, Bedford county, Pa., held a four days picnic during the week ending August 15. The crowd on Thursday was estimated at 20,000. It is known that 2,200 horses entered the grounds. Worthy Master W. F. Hill and Bros W. T. Creasy and A. E. Morse spoke for the Grange. At the one day picnic near Town ville. Crawford county, about 5,000 persons were in attendance. In addi tion to local talent, A. E. Morse and J. T. Ailman occupied the platform Vocal music by members of the grange assisted by a fine cornet band added much to the entertainment. A fine exhibit of live stock registered animals for the most part added a new and very interesting feature. THE FARMER, AS OTHERS SEE HIM, AS SEEN BY HIMSELF. Recently, at a grange picnic, a gentleman not a farmer extoled the farmer to the skies. As he saw it, the farmer is the most independent man in the land. He can scarcely know a want that he cannot himself supply. His wife enjoys a paradise and his children are the healthiest, happiest, and most contented to be found anywhere. There is nothing ot which he can justly complain. Soon after, a firmer who owns two good farms and a house in town was heard to say: " The farmer is not respected by anybody. He gets no public recogni tion. When he goes among other people he is sneered at as only a farmer, lie is discriminated against by legislators and business men. He pays the bulk of the taxes and others fix his prices for him. A $200.00 check will be required to pay my taxes thi3 year. I am, tired of it. My properties are in the market. There is some truth in what the first man said. Too much truth in the statement of the second. The mission of the grange is to realize for the farm as far as possible, the dreams of the first and to correct the evils complained of by the second. OASTOniA, Beam tb 9 M KM You Have Always Bought Austrian tramps scheme. Overfed hr yminthetlp Farmers He Iteaorte to Trlckerr to Outnln Transportation. Bohemia possesses a specimen of the genus tramp which it is doubtful if even America, its native habitat, can duplicate. He is a, young man quite well known in the neighborhood of Kolin. and who had a record for pedea trlanlsra that gained htm much ad miration and a fairly full stomach most of the time, reports the New York Journal. Through being overfod by sympa thetic farmers and village people the man recently beenme too fat and In dolent to put one foot before the other. Patience having ceased to become a virtue with the people of Kolin, the youth found It necessary to move on. Doing too tired to walk, he con ceived the audacious idea of getting a free railroad ride audacious because it is only In America that railway em ployes wink at the schemes of tramps. Having decided to go to Vienna the young man calmly went to the police station in Kolin and gave himself up as the murderer of a young woman in the Austrian capital. He was prompt ly seized and transported In comfort to his destination, where it was soon discovered that no such murder had occurred. A short term in prison for the tech nical offense of contempt of court was all that the tramp had to pay for his ride. Ho showed his appreciation by smiling broadly when sentenced. WORSE THAN THE PAIN. Thonuht ot Havlnic Iter llenntr Marred Canned U nman of Spar tun r.niluriinre to I'nlut. ' A well-known society woman, living In Central Park West, has always prid ed henjeU on her Spartan indifference to pain. Never docs she murmur when headache or rheumatism or a bruise of any sort happens to be her portion. But she had a new experience a day or two ago, and now admits the truth of the saying that a woman's tenderest point is her vanity, relates the New York Mall and Express. She had been visiting at a friend's house in Rye, and while watching two young men of the family practicing with a baseball, was struck squarely In the eye by a ball, which was missed by the man to whom it was thrown. "It hurt me awfully for a few moments," said she in telling the story, "but I bore it without flinching. Everyone rushed around with cold water and va rious medicaments, and then suddenly some one said: 'I do hope, Mrs. Blank, that your nose isn't injured.' "I gave one scream," said the lady, "and then fainted. The thought of my personal appearance suffering was too much. I didn't mind the pain, al though It was Intense, but the mere suggestion that my nose might be made permanently crooked was too much. And I believe any other wom an would have felt the same way about it." JAPANESE ARE WILY. Said to Be Adepts at Perpetrating Franda on Insurance Companies. We have been spouting these ten years about the cleverness of the Jap anese. Our smart Alecks went Into hysterics over them, says the New York Press. Our merchants have gone to extremes in soliciting Japan ese trade, and our great insurance companies have sent agents broad cast over the islands of the land of the rising sun to write policies. In no other country on the globe is the work of the Insurance solicitor so easy. In one month $10,000,000 ot life insur ance has been placed by one New York company. Every measly little dwarf of a Jap wants to insure. An agent has Just discovered that In medical examinations he has been badly duped, one healthy Jap stand ing the test for many hundreds of his fellow countrymen. As all Japs look alike, the doctors did not detect the fraud until about $5,000,000 in policies had been written. Local Insurance men are exercised about It. Black Stone of Mecca. Set Into a corner of the Kaaba (the temple or shrine) of Mecca is what is known as the "black stone." It is an Irregular, oval bowlder, about seven Inches in diameter, three inches broad, and deep reddish brown In color. It Is encircled by a sliver band studded with silver nails. It has been split by heat, carried away by Karmathians and broken by a blow, but the band and nails hold it together. Some have declared it a fragment of lava, others a piece of volcanic basalt. Millions of kisses have worn Its rough surface somewhat smooth. The Mohammedans believe it was a hyacinth brought from heaven by Gabriel to Abraham, and that contact with the human race has changed Its properties. Contempt for the I. Ion. Men who have shot nearly all of the dark continent's animals have, sfjn rule, nothing but contempt for the so-called "king of beasts," the lion. To the hunt er be is a cowardly, skulking brute, far more dangerous to tho horses and oxen at night than to the human part of the expedition, always ready to slink off and escape a fight if given a chance. There Is nothing kingly about him, and a single man can usually put half a dozen lions to flight. Watch Repairer Work Overtime. All the watch repairers In New York work overtime hot days. They account' for this peculiar buulnoss phenomenon by saying that when men diseard their vests they do not properly secure their watches in the trousers fob. The re sult la an epidemic of dropped time piece", K 1 Wild Turkey Season. "The impression has long prevailed among sportsmen." said the Hon. J. A. Sweeney, oi Hazleton, to a New York Sun man, "that the wild turkey has no abiding place in this country except in some of the Southern and Western States and territories, yet it is a fact that this great game bird stil! lingers in several of the Central Penn sylvania counties insufficient numbers to make its hunting a sport worth while, as the sportsmen of Pottsville, Reading, Lancaster, Harnsburg and other cities and towns are well aware. "The great Blue Mountain range, with all the many sub-ranges and in dependent hills and ridges of the ad jacent country, is a natural breeding and feeding ground of the wild turkey. 1'ersons who have never visited other than the large towns of those districts have no idea of the extent and depth of the wilderness areas that abound within a short journey of the biggest of them, even of the Capital of the State. "Wild turkeys are killed every Fall within fifteen miles of Harrisburg, and in the county in which that city is situ ated. It requires only a short journey from Reading or I'ottsville to enjoy the same sport. The wild stretch of country in Schuylkill county known as Second Mountain is the resort of large numbers of eagles, and old mountain eers say that their presence is chiefly due to the wild turkeys being abund ant. A bald eagle with a wing spread of eight feet is among the mounted specimens of a I'ottsville collector, the big bird having been shot by a hunter on Second Mountain as it swooped down upon a wild turkey gobler he had called within range and was about to fire at. "The country on either side cf the Juniata River, particularly in Ferry and Mifflin counties, is perhaps the best and most accessible region in what may be called the Pennsylvania wild turkey belt. That is also a great trout fishing country, and fishermen who were there early in the season re turned with reports of unusually num erous broods of newly hatched turkeys disturbed from their refuges a.ong the streams. One fisherman saw five hens with their broods flashing away through the underbrush. "While the wildcat, fox, and hawk, implacabl; and persistent enemies of the turkey, undoubtedly thinned out the young broods before they attained the power of flight, every promise is that enough of them have survived to provide unusually good sport this season. A man with a fad is all right so long as he keeps it to himself. For Fifteen Years. M. John A. James, Wiarton, Out., was a great suffer er from Heart Disease. For days at a time she was confined to bed. Her physicians said that she might "drop off" any minute. With woman's tenacity in suffering, and be lieving that while there's life there's hope," she started using Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart. Three bottles cured her. 3 Sold by C. A. Kleim. It is much better to scatter seeds of kind ness than to sow wild oats. Ruby Lips and a clear complexion, the pride of woman. Have you lost these charms through torpid liver, constipation, biliousness, or nervousness ? Dr. Agnew's Liver Pills will restore them to you 40 little "Rubies" in a vial, 10 cents. Act like a charm. Never gripe. 4 , Sold by C. A. KIcim. A woman is never so lonely as when she knows a secret and has no one to tell it to. . Weak Hearts, Weak Blood, Weak Nerves. uet relief in 30 minutes. Dr. Agnew's Cure for the heart never fails to cure the heart and nerves and to enrich the blood. It relieves in 30 mine trs. W. H. Musselmnn of G A. R., Weis- port. Pa., says: "Two bottles of Dr. Ag new's Heart Cure entirely cuied me of heart palpitation and extreme seriousness. 1 Sold by C. A. Kleim. Some people regard even favors with suspicion. Piles cured in 3 to 6 nlehts. One application gives relief, Dr. Agnew's Umtment is a boon tor Itching Piles, or Blind, Bleeding Piles. It relieves quickly and permanently. In skin eruptions it stands without a rival. Thousands of testimonials 11 you want evidence. 35 cents. 3 Sold by C. A. Kleim. ine Digger ine man tne Harder it Is tor him to squeeze out of a tight place. PROFESSIONAL CARKLK- N. U. FUNK, ATTOftr-AT-tAW, Ifra, Kofi BoiMinfc Court Hons AOnf, BLOOMSBURG, PA, A. L. FRITZ, ATTORNXY AT LAW. Offlce BloomBburg Nat' Bank Bldg., 8d floor. BLOOMSBURG, PA. J. H. MAIZE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE AGENT, Office, in Townsend's Building, BLOOMSBURG. PA. JOHNO. nilll. JOHNS. BAHMAM FREEZE & IIARMAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW BLOOMSBURG, PA." Office on Centre Street, "first door below Opera House. A. N. Y OST, ATTORN EY-AT-L AW I.nt Huildinj Court lloufe Square. BLOOMSBURG. J'A II. A. McKlLLlP. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbian Building, 2nd Mocv. BLOOMSBTJkG, PA. RALPH R. JOHN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hartman Building, Market Square. Eloomsburg, Fa. IKELER & IK.ELER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office back of Farmers' National Bank. BLOOMSBURG, PA. CLYDE CHAS. YETTER, attorney -a t-law, Bloomsburo, Pa Office in Ent's Building, VV. H. RIIAVVN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office, Corner of Third and Main Sts CATAWISSA, . PA. CLINTON HERRING, ATTORNE Y-AT-LAW. Offlce with Grant Herring. BLOOMSBURG, PA. 5-iT Will be in Orangeville Wednesday ol each week. WILLIAM C. JOHNSTON, ATTORNEY-AT LAW. Office in Wells' Building over J. Q. Wells' Hardware Store, Bloomsbnrg, Pa, Will be in Millville on Tuesdays. H. MONTGOMERY SMITH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office : Ent building, over Farmers Na tional Bank. 11-16-99 EDWARD. FLYNN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CENTRALIA, PA. tvomce Llddlcot building, Locust avenue- MONTOUR TKLKPHONS. BKI.L TKLBrBOWl ITK8 TI8TCD. OLA8BI8 FITTED. H. BIERMAN, M. D. HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND 8CHQTOl orrics hours: Offloe A Residence, 4th St. 10 a, m. to p. m., 6:30 to 8 p. m. BLOOMSBUKG, PA J. S. JOHN, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and residence, 410 Main St-7-30-iy 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 SPECIALTY, Corner Main and Centre Streets. BLOO. SPURG PA. Co umbla & Montour Telephone connection. Dr. W. H. HOUSE, BTJKGKON DENTIST, Offlce Barton's Building, Wain below Harks Bloomsburo, Pa. All styles of work done in a superior manner all w ork warranted as represented. TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN, by the use of Gas, and 'free of charge when artificial teeth are inserted. 3TTo be open all hours during the day. C. WATSON McKELVY, FIRE INSURANCE AGENT. (Suooessor to B. 7. Hartman iS1??ent,t.welveo,tne strongest Compan les In tne world, among whlon are: CASH TOTAL SOBPLDI .,, OAriTAL. ASSETS. OVBB ALL "'"O'Pfclla.. 400,U00 tH,lm,fili j.ooo.ib Penna,PhlIa 400,000 8,(is6,i60 1 iiXe Queen, of N. Y.. .. 600,000 8 58MIb LWl.e Westchester, N.y. 800,000 lao? iati N. America, Fhlla. J.ooo.ooo t,1S0,m l&H, Office First Nat'l Bank Bldg., ad floor. Loss ei promptly adjusted and paid. M. P. LUTZ & SON, (BUCCE88OK8 TO PREA8 BKOWWJ INSURANCE AND RE ALESTATE AGENTS AND BROKERS, N. W. Corner Main and Centre. Strt. Bloomsburo, Pa. o Represent Seventeen as good Com panies as there are in the World and all losses promptly adjust cd and paid at their Office. SADET. VANNATTA. (Successor to C. F. Knapp.) GENERAL INSURANCE Office 238 Iron St, Bloomsburo. 9 Oct. 31, 1901. tf CITY HOTEL, W. A. Hartzel, Prop. No. 121 West Main Street, tsTLarge and convenient sample rooms, ba rooms, hot and cold water. nt veniences. Bar stocked with best wine aa uquori. 1 usi-ciass livery atttcbed. EXCHANGE HOTEL. I. A. Snyder, Proprietor. (Oppositethe Court House) BLOOMSBURO, Pa. Larce and convenient umiil. 1 . cooms, hot and cold water, and all m'oder
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