iTHE GRAWITi Conducted by J. W. DARROW. Chatham, N. Y, JYfctf Correspondent New Klrt State Grange GRANGE LIFE INSURANCE, The Subject Will Bo Dlacnaaed by the -National Grange In November. At its last session the national ' grange recommended that the state granges discuss the advisability of In augurating a life Insurance feature In the grange, and each state was asked i te appoint a committee to co-operate wltli the national grange committee. It W constituted as follows: W. K. Thompson, master of the South Caro lina grange, chairman; B. G. Leedy, master of the Oregon grange; Governor .V. J. Bachelder, master of the New Hampshire grange; W. F. Hill, master of the Pennsylvania grange, and F. B. Wolcott, master of the Kentucky grange. It Is thought that some feasi ble plan may be adopted at the next session of the national grange for this class of Insurance. Fire Insurance has been a wonderful success and has had much to do with Increasing the mem bership In the grange, as It is not only the best but the cheapest Insurance ob tainable. New Hampshire has had a grange life insurance company for thirty years, and It is In a prosperous condition. The states of Oregon and Washington have a similar Insurance company together* 1 , but there are probably not more than half a dozen of them, If as many, In the United States. While there Is much to be said In favor of this proposition, it also has Its and it would probably require years Wbring It to as great perfection as the Are Insurance companies have reached. LEGISLATION DESIRED. Some •( the Thlnffa the Oraafe la Attempting to Do. The legislative committee of the na tional grange has outlined certain mat ters upon which they deem legislation Is desirable, and the forthcoming ses sions of the various state granges will doubtless take action along these lines. Relative to national aid to road building It says that the policy of the government lu appropriating moneys for river and harbor improvements warrant the extension of the said pol icy to road building, and they refer to the bill of Congressman Currier (N. II.) as embodying the views of the national grange In this matter. Relative to the interstate commerce commission they believe that the said ! commission should be given authority to regulate matters between the trans portation companies and the people when unjust charges or discrimina tions are made In the transportation of persona or property In Interstate traffic and that the rulings of this commission should be maintained uu ■ til reversed or annulled by a competent court. They refer to the bill of Con gressman Cooper (Wis.) as embodying their views in this matter. Concerning the pure food law. they believe there Is a demand for some • sort of legislation that will protect the people In ths use of adulteanted or other foods and ask for the enactment of Congressman Hepburn's (la.) bill. They favor also the establishment of a parcels post. They believe there is an entire absence of valid objections to the system and that such a system should be Immediately established. They also favor the consolidation of the bureau of forestry with the de partment of agriculture. A Decree Team. Harris Hill, Me., has the honor of having a degree team that Is excelsior In deed as well as In name. This team Is composed solely of ladies, thirty three In number, whose costumes are silk and velvet and sparkling with Jewels. There Is also an auxiliary of nineteen young ladles, whose part In j the work is to execute difficult figures j and drills, which they do with remark- j able accuracy and precision. We un- j derstand that the cost of the costum- j lng for the tewm was SSOO. It Is said that the exemplification of the degree 1 work by this team Is as nearly perfeot as It can be done. reralatent Effort Itfeeeaaary. Farmers must not expect reforms ! Without constant agitation and persist- ; ent efforts lu pressing their demands. I It will not amount to anything simply ; to show the Inequalities of taxation or j the necessity of retrenchment In pub- ' lie expenditures. These demands must become as household words, and they ' must be repeated again and again until Justice and fairness prevail in the en actment of legislation to correct evils. A Steady Growth. National Secretary C. M. Freeman of Tippecanoe City. 0., reports for the quurter ending Sept. 30, 1904, 27 new granges and 0 reorganized, and for the year ending then, 281 new granges or ganized and 82 reorganised, making a tota 1 of 363 virtually new organizations for the past twelve months, which is a very excellent showing. Lot All Participate. Instead of listening till out of pa tience to prosy, long Winded, dry as dust speakers, how It cheers and en livens the grange to hear members say a few words each. These short and spicy speakers are far more helpful to the Interest and good of the (range than the lengthy harangues of ever lasting talkers. Let every one who ean possibly do m attend the state gnagt muting bis Stat*. It to BMoetbtßt he eu 111 afford to mis*. MAKE BETTER HIGHWAYS 1, i,> TV*-* I*«»j|«!••!• !<crn Power o I'uil—Tlielr Ise Abroad. Wider tires make better roads. Whether they require more power or not to pull them Is a question with many farmers. In one test 40 per cent more power was needed to draw a load on a wagon with one and one-half inch tires than one with three inch tires, sa.vs the American Cultivator. In addition the ground was cut into ruts by the narrow tire and rolled down solid by the wide tire. A study of road conditions In dif ferent countries shows some strong arguments for the wide tires. In France every heavy wagon and cart used has wide tired wheels. Many of the vehicles have wheels with tires ten inches wide. The rear axles are made fourteen Inches longer tliau the fore, and as a result the tires level down the road Instead of cutting it Into trenches. A national law in Ger many prescribes that heavily loaded wagons must have tires not less than four inches wide. Similar laws pre vail in Austria and Switzerland, ex cept that the width of the tires is made six inches or more. The campaign for wide tires contin ues to expand throughout the United States. On some of the toll roads of Kentucky the teamsters using wide tires are charged less for driving over the roads. A rebate in taxes is given in some states to the men who will use the wide tires. Some interesting tests of narrow and wide tires have been made In fields of blue grass sward. A wide tired wagon loaded with 3,248 pounds could be drawn with the same force that was required to move 2,000 pounds with the narrow tires. In addition the wide wheels acted as rollers and firmed the soil, while the narrow tired wheels cut into the turf and damaged the grass. The same results must be ex pected on roads in the winter months when the soil is wet. The old time wagons make holes and trenches, while the new wide tires firm the earth and become road Improvers. THE ECONOMIC SIDE. Goad Itnada by Shortening nintukoe Increme Value of Lund. A prominent railroad official in an address before the Oregon State Good Itoads association made the following pertinent remarks, which should be V OOOD liOADS INCREASE FARM VALUES. read carefully by all those who are interested In the economic side of highway improvement: "Today 1 am informed that about the greatest distance a farmer can af ford to haul wheat over existing wag on roads to the railroad is about twen ty miles. If the wagon road can be so Improved that with the same number of horses and with the same wagon two tons can be hauled where one is the present limit It will also be found that the extreme boundary of the prof itable wheat area would be forty miles, or double what It is now—that is, a farmer under the improved condition of wagon roads forty miles distant from the market could produce wheat with as much profit for himself as the farmer who today is but one-half that distance removed from the buyer at the railway station. "Have you who live from ten to twenty miles from the railway ever considered that. In addition to a great reduction in the wear and tear on horses and wagons as well as upon yourselves, good roads would Increase the value of the land itself by, as it were, picking it up bodily and placing it nearer the town?" From the Farm to the Rnllnay, According to a statement from the agricultural department at Washing ton, it costs our farmers of the United States sor<o,ooo,ooo a year to carry their products from the farms to the rail road stations, says the Portland Orc gonian. It would cost far less In time, wear and tear of vehicles, harness and horses, not to mention the Quality of patience so essential to successful farming, if good roads were the rule instead of the exception in farming districts. The argument in favor of good roads Is Incontrovertible. Rural Delivery Notes »:« There are now between 25,000 and 30,000 rural free delivery routes in operation. Mrs. Hutli Kenyon, one of the few women rural free delivery carriers In the service, was n delegate to the re cent convention of national rural let ter carters. Her route Is In Nebraska. It Is said that rural free delivery car -1 rlers are to be provided with cyclom eters to attach to their wagons for the purpose of measuring the distance I of their routes. [ Fourth Assistant Postmaster General 1 Bristow recently made an Inspection of the rural free delivery service and upon his return rt once Issued orders for the rapid extension of the service. 112 Short Talks on AdvertLsind No. 18. Dou't expect the newspaper todoitall. Look out for the show window and the cases and counters. 112 When you advertise something of special interest in the papers, fill the window > with it and have it prominently dis sure the clerks know what Is clerk should read every \ r were and when} they came from and how rf'lW&K /\\ they happened to be so cheap, or so V The newspaper is sometimes blamed jj ever expect "spasmodic adver "lwuU k avt jh„n*£rj£,dju i t what I tising to pay . Don't ever let an issue of a paper you are using appear without your advertisement. The day you leave the ad out will probably be the very day on which somebody will look for it, anil, not - finding it, goto a competitor. The last of a aeries is the one that sells the goods. A man may - ~ |1- .' ' ' see your ad thirty days in July and not buy rtiV till the thirty-first ad wields conviction into = ' It's the last stroke that makes a filvli ' horseshoe—all the others were merely IMp r-, L - \-~A— preparatory. The shoe was not a v_r~—■•—, '' '■ shoe till the last blow fell. If that / ,y.' dm 1 " had not been given it would only be a '_j, semblance of a shoe—merely a bent i piece of iron. A sale is secured iflgjjjEjH I by the last word that is spoken—by the last ad that is read. If it re" The last aJvtrtiu. mained unspeken, or unread, the sale \ "JJ, XrtkZ'*ui' would often fail entirely. x_ tkifoji." Advertising is the insurance of business, but you must keep up the pre miums or the policy will lapse. 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