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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'
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Advertising is the insurance of business, but you must keep up the pre
miums or the policy will lapse.
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