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* A Model Farmer.
Prominent among the leading agri
culturists present at the Grange Con
vention recently held in Atlanta, was
Judge B. H. Zellner, of Monroe county.
Judge Zellner is a model farmer, and
one whose excellent example should be
imitated by every intelligent farmer in
the South. He was an earnest advo
cate of the policy embraced in the
resolutions of the Convention, to give
greater prominence to the cultivation
of provisions, by planting less cotton
in future. He stated that he had pur
sued that line of policy from the
beginning. He improved his land by
keeping cotton from it, and turning
vegetation under. His plan is to turn
green crops under in the fall, before the
maturing of the seed. He ploughs,
cross-ploughs, and sows again. His
stock is kept in pasture, and not al
lowed to go into the woods. He pays
cash for all he buys, and for all the
labor he employs; and by so doing has
kept out of debt for many years. His
cotton crop is clear cash profit. * Ener
gy, perseverance and economy have
made him a most successful fanner.
His farm is a bright sample of what
these qualities, added to practical intel
ligence, will accomplish.
flow to Allay Panics.
Mr. Bagehot, the eminent writer on financial
topics, holds the theory that commercial panics
are largely mental phenomena, and that they
can be allayed by remedies addressed to the
imagination —that is to say, by a plentiful sup
ply of money to frightened people by the banks
at the first outbreak. It is a curious fact that
panics occur in London every ten years with
almost perfect regularity.
The distress, misery, starvation and
death resulting from “panics” in our
country are terrible facts, and can not
“be allayed by remedies addressed to
the imagination,” as this foreign and
eminent financial Bag-o’-Shot intimates.
Nor does it take ten years for the
honesty of the banks of this country to
“grow small by degrees and beautifully
less,” until its total evaporation is con
summated in a so-called “crash.”
The State Horticultural Society, we
learn, proposes to meet in Atlanta on
Thursday, January 29th prox. We
learn from J. J. Toon, Esq., the able
and energetic Secretary, that the Socie
ty will take into consideration the pro
priety of holding bi-monthly exhibitions
of garden and orchard products, at va
rious points throughout the State, dur
ing the coming season. It will also
discuss the best means for promoting
and encouraging the production of or
chard and garden fruits. This is an
excellent field for the farmers, and oth
ers Interested in the progress of Geor
gia, to labor in.
The diversifying of our agricultural
system demands the earnest attention
of all intelligent men, and, as a very
practical and very efficient means lor
this desirable end, we hope that the
deliberations of the State Agricultural
Society, at this meeting, will secure the
the full endorsement of our people, and
that their labors will be crowned with
the success they so eminently deserve.
IB
In Hand. —The proceedings of the
recent Agricultural Convention is now
in the hands of the printer, and will be
ready for distribution by the Secretary
of the State Grange, at an early day.
They will bo read with interest. The
Convention was a success, and was the
first step in the right direction.
In this connection, we cannot refrain
from referring to the officers of the
Convention. Rev. 1). E. Butler, Chair
man, is a man of noble impulses, pure
of head and heart, and has but few
equals as a presiding officer. Possess
ing all of the requisites of fine admin
istrative ability, he won for himself
praise from Hit' people, whom he so much
loves. Messrs. Taylor and Toon, Sec
retaries, were “ the right men in the
right place.”
Many of our citizens h ive, anil should, in
sure their lives for the benefit of their families*
Rut before doing so, they should carefully
study the organization, the advantage and dis
advantages of the several kinds of companies.
Insurance agents often, and really unintention
ally misrepresent the matter. They believe
their company the best, when it is not so. And
when in after years the policy holder discovers
his mistake, he also finds it will cost him an
increased amount to get into the better com
pany, simply because of his greater age. In
another column, this question is discussed un
der the head of “The Question of a Safe and
Profitable Insurance Company.’’
I Personal.—Among the most effi
cient and reliable Insurance Agents,
f our worthy friend, Dr. Win. H. White,
of the North-western Mutual Life. j
, stands prominent. We are glad to ;
i learn that he, like the Company he [
r represents, is prospering.
6588611 GE ANGE.'--
Agricultural Industry.
“We are liable at times to overlook
the obvious truth that the germ of all
the wealth and power and grandeur we
see around us is to be found in the sim
ple fiat of Omnipotence, that man
should ‘till the ground from whence he
was taken,’ and that all our marvelous
civilization depends directly upon agri
cultural industry for its perpetuity as
well as its further development.
“Yet such is the fact. It lies at the
very foundation of social order, and
forms the basis of every profitable pur
suit that can possibly engage the ener
gies of mankind. Without it, not a
solitary avocation known to civilized
society could be pursued for a single
day. To have a clear conception of
this important truth, you have simply
to reflect that perhaps nine-tenths of
all the vast variety of materials upon
which the manufacturer exercises his
craft are directly or indirectly the pro
ducts of agricultural labor, and that
almost the sole office of commerce con
sists in the dissemination of those same
products, either in their natural state,
or as modified by the skill of the manu
facturer ; while both the artisan and
the merchant, as well as all other classes
of society, are immediately dependent
upon the labor of the husbandman for
the very means of sustaining life itself.
Or, if you would realize still more ful
ly the paramount importance of this
great branch of industry over all other
human pursuits, you have only to im
agine, if you can, what would be the
inevitable consequences of a total sus
pension of all agricultural production
whatever. Let all the cotton, the
wool, the flax, the hemp, the corn, the
wheat, and the thousands of other
commodities of prime necessity, to say
nothing of the innumerable luxuries
which are produced alone by the culti
vation of the earth, be entirely with
drawn from use; and what then would
be the condition of our race ? Let
everybody of every class be remitted to
the necessity of depending upon the
spontaneous bounty of nature, or the
precarious fortunes of the chase and
the fishery for even the commonest
necessaries of life, and what would be
the fate of all our boasted civilization ?
The din of the factory would be hush
ed, the spindle would cease its perpet
ual whirl, and the roaring furnace
would be silent. The wheels of the
locomotive would rest upon their idle
axles, and the ship rot sailorless in the
useless dock. The bat would flit
through the silent halls of legislation,
and the fox make his den in the de
serted forum. The owl would perch
upon the broken printing press,and the
serpent coil beneath the moldering al
tar-piece of the crumbling cathedral.
The rank weed would flourish in the
lonely" thoroughfare of the depopulated
citv, and the blissful precints of Long
Branch become a melancholy realiza
tion of the poet’s mournful picture of
the desolation of Balclutha. Society
itself would disintegrate and topple
into ruin. The President would aban
don his “cottage by the sea,” the Sena
tor would leave his ponderous speech
half written, the judge would cast
aside the ermine, the banker would quit
his balance sheet, the lawyer would de
sert his office, the doctor “throw physic
to the dogs,” and the clergyman rush
from the sacred desk, all to mingle in
the universal strife for the coarsest
morsel of food that could alleviate the
pangs of hunger. And, finally, the
remnant which might escape the terri
ble ravage of universal famine, or the
more horrible exactions of cannibalism,
would sink into a level with the naked
Bushman of Africa, who is looked down
upon with contempt by his more intel
ligent neighbors—the gorrilla and the
baboon. Then you would see the
beauteous ‘belle of the season,’ who
toils through the intricate mazes of the
last new dance, with a first-rate farm
on her back and a valuable house and
lot hung to each ear, catching’grass
hoppers for her dinner, or embroidering
a pair of raw-hide moccasins for her
favorite suitor. While the ‘glass of
fashion and the mould of form,’ who
cocks his number-six hat on one side of
his exquisite head and contemplates
the propriety of his necktie, or the set of
his back hair in a thousand-dollar look
ing-glass, would realize in its fullest
force the brief but peremptory mandate
of necessity, ‘root, little hog, or die.’ ”
—Hon. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky.
W. L. Scruggs, of Georgia, has been
confirmed by the Senate as Minister to
the United States of Columbia, at
Bogota. Mr. Scruggs has been in
Columbia several months.
What the Press says About the Georgia
Grange.
“The paper is a model of neat ty
pography, and can be made one of the
most popular journals of the day.”—
Savannah News.
“Devoted to the farming and indus
trial interests of the country. In
typographical appearance, it certainly
excels any other paper published in the
State.”— Griffin News.
“A new and handsome eight-page
paper, recently started in Atlanta, Ga.,
devoted entirely to the interests of the
Patrons of Husbandry.”— Cuthbert Ap
peal.
“A large, elegantly-printed paper,
published weekly, in Atlanta, by the
Georgia Grange Company, in the inter
ests of the new Order of Patrons of
Husbandry. Gives evidence of con
scientious editing. — Wilmington (N. C.)
Star.
“It presents a beautiful appearance,
is a splendid specimen of newspaper
printing, and is put together by those
well tutored in every branch of the art.
Success to it.— Cartersville Standard and
Express.
“It is certainly a beautiful, readable
paper, refecting great credit in its
editorial and selected matter upon its
conductors, and in its typographical
department.— Sumter Republican.
“The paper is devoted to the Arm
ing and industrial interests of the
country, and if the initial number is a
sample of the future character of the
journal, we can say unhesitatingly, The
Grange will be a first-class weekly.
The copy before us is filled with choice
literary and fireside reading, and nu
merous articles and items concerning
the organizstion, whose cause it will
defend, and is faultless in its typo
graphical execution.” —Neitnan Herald.
“This is undoubtedly one of the
very best gotten up Grange organs.
Contents excellent; paper and type
fine.” — Rural Southland, New Orleans.
“We have made several selections
from The Grange, and if each number
continues as good as the first, we must
admit that it is possible for a good
thing to come out of Atlanta.” — Mil
ledgeville Union and Recorder.
“The typography and general make
up cannot be excelled. It is published
(as its name indicates) in the interest
of the Grangers, and is bound to be
come one of the most popular papers
of the day. — Barnesville Gazette.
“It is large and well printed, the
heading is in black and green, and a
green border is around every page. It
is edited with care, and has a great
variety of subjects.”— Buckeye (Ohio)
Farmer.
“We unhesitatingly pronounce it
one of the finest specimens of the ty
pographical art we have ever seen pub
lished in the State. And more than
that, its matter is also gotten up with
taste and ability. The Grange repre
sents and advocates the interests of
the Patrons of Husbandry in this
State, already numbering ten thou
sand.”—Carroll County Times.
“It is a large eight-page journal, in
large type, well printed, with fancy
title page, and filled with valuable mat
ter from every department of business,
but more especially with Grange infor
mation.”—Thomasville Enterprise.
“ We have not seen a more hand
somely appointed paper in the State
than this. It is just such a paper as
the agricultural classes have long need
ed, issued weekly, largely devoted to
the interests of farmers, complete in
every department, ably edited and
neatly printed, it is bound to succeed.
Send for a specimen copy, or call at
this office and we will show you a copy,
of which, as a contemporary journal
ist, we feel proud.”— Catoosa Courier.
“In both editorial matter and typo
graphical execution, we must class it
as one of the finest papers we have
seen. It is devoted to the interests of
the Grangers, and they should certain
ly give it a hearty support. — Houston
Home Journal.
“In typographical execution equal,
and in some respects superior, to any
publication of- its class in the United
States. Its title is a beautiful design,
exhibiting rural scenes, the trees and
shrubbery the natural color. It is well
edited, and has a mass of information
in regard to the objects and workings
of the Order in that Stat ■ and through
out the Union, which cannot fail to be
productive of good. We give it a
hearty welcome to our ranks.— lowa
Homestead.
“The neatest paper published in
America, and a triumph to American
art. Let our Grange friends call at
our office and examine the copy, and we
know that each and every one will en
dorse it as worthy not only of being
the organ of the Grangers, but the best
agricultural paper published on the
continent.” — Barnesville Patriot.
“Its get-up and general typograph
ical excellencies surpass anything that
has yet appeared in Georgia journalism.
As its name indicates, it is devoted to
the objects of the Grange movement,
and the interests of the agricultural >
community generally. We pronounce
it a success, and it should receive the
hearty support of every farmer in the
South.— Talbotton Standard.
“We unhesitatingly pronounce it a
success from the start. Its typograph- i
ical execution is simply faultless. It '
is the hixndsoinest periodical ever pub
lished in Georgia. It will doubtless
become, (as it certainly deserves to,)
the organ of the Georgia Patrons, and
we wish it success. It is a new and
bright feather in Atlanta’s journalistic
cap. — Atlanta Herald.
“Its typographical execution and
general make-up is unexcelled by any
other paper in the State. It contains
all the latest news in regard to the
several Granges in Get rgia and other
States. "—Dahlonega Mountain Signal.
Monroe County.
This good old county justly enjoys
an enviable reputation for the progress,
wealth, intelligence and high standing
of her citizens. During the recent Ag
ricultural Convention, her different
Granges sent up able and worthy rep
resentatives in the following gentlemen:
Judge B. H. Zellner, Capt.L. A. Ponder,
Judge Jas. M. White, M. T. Harper,
Esq., Col. John R. Ralls; Messrs. Hol
land and Davis, of Culloden Grange ;
Col. E. Taylor, Secretary State Grange;
’Lige Taylor, Mr. Perkins, J. S. Lawton,
Master of Forsyth Grange, and others.
All clever gentlemen and good farmers. ■
We are always glad to see them, and to
receive results of their planting for the
readers of The Grange.
More Monopoly.
The most superficial observer cannot
fail to see that we are at present in a
most critical position, so far as the im
mediate development of our manufac
tures is concerned. In the matters of
quality of material used, skill on the
part of our operatives, and good busi
ness management on the part of our
manufacturers, we are abreast of the
rest of the world, if not a little ahead
of them. But then, on the other hand,
it must be remembered that labor is
more costly with us than it is in Eu
rope, and that our manufacturers have
not the same command of capital that is
posessed by their rivals across the wa
ter, so that thus far the balance of cir
cumstances has been rather against us
than in our favor. At length, however,
circumstances have conspired to give us
the advantage; the high price to which
coal has attained in England, and the
numerous strikes into which her work
men have entered, have taken away from
her that high vantage-ground upon
which she has hitherto stood, and an
opening has thus been made in the
markets of the world fdt the products
of American industry. We all know
how little it takes to turn the tide of
commerce in any required direction;
and especially do we know how very
little it takes to stop it. With nations
as with individuals, “There is a tide in
the affairs of men which, taken at the
full, leads on to fortune I” That tide
is now rising towards high water on
our shores, and if we are quick to take
advantage of it, we can place ourselves
in a position from which we cannot be
easily dislodged. But just at this time,
when the very crisis of our manufactur
ing industry is at had, those having
control of the matter see fit to raise the
price of one of the most essential of the
material elements of success.
Coal, which is the very life of all
manufactures, has increased so in price
that every branch of industry feels the
deadly influence. Gigantic monopolies,
controlling under one management en
tire regions, and possessed of a capital
of over thirty millions of dollars, insist
upon still furtherenriching themselves,
come what may to every other kind of
industry. Possessed of abundance of
power, but at the same time being like
all other monopolies, shortsighted, self
ish and penurious, they raise the cost
of labor by increasing the price of the
necessaries of life; they raise the cost
of the motive power that rolls our iron
or drives our spindles, and they increase
the cost of transportation by adding
to the first cost of the machinery and
to the expense of operating it. If, un
der these circumstances, our manufac
turers succeed in taking advantage of
the grand opening which has been made
for them, it will be a wonder. To the
coal monopolists, however, we mav pro
perly say, “Gentlemen, you are pursu
ing a shoitsighted and suicidal policy ;
you are emphatically killing the goose
that lays the golden egg.”— lndustrial
Monthly.
*
Change in Organization of Subordinate
Grange*.
By resolution of the Georgia State
Grange, at its recent Macon session,
each Master of local Granges was
empowered to organize neighboring
Granges. A fee of five dollars, and
one dollar ger capita for males (over
nine), are required from each organi
zation.
A farmer of Irwin county made
twelve hundred bushels of sweet pota
toes on ten acres of land this season. 1
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
Constitution of the Order of Ute Patrons
of Husbandry, and By-Laws of the
National Grange.
Adopted at the Sixth Annual Session of the Na
tional Grange, January, 1873.
CONSTITUTION.
A rticle I Officers.
Section 1. The officers of a Grange, either
National, State, or Subordinate, consist of and
rank as follows: Master, Overseer, Lecturer,
Steward, Assistant Steward, Chaplain, Treas
urer, Secretary, Gate-keeper, Ceres, Pomona,
Flora, and Lady Assistant Steward. It is their
duty to see«that the laws of the Order are car
ried out.
Sec. 2. How Chosen.— ln the Subordinate
Granges, they shall be chosen annually; in the
State Granges, once in two years; and in the
National Grange, once in three years. All
elections to be by ballot.
Vacancies by death or resignation to be filled
at a special election at the next regular meet
ing thereof; officers so chosen to serve until
the annual meeting.
Sec. 3. The Master of the National Grange
may appoint members of the Order as depu
ties to organize Granges where no State Grange
exists.
Sec. 4. There shall be an Executive Com
mittee of the National Grange, consisting of
three members, whose terms of office shall be
three years, one of whom shall be elected each
year.
Sec. 5. The officers of the respective Granges
shall be addressed as “ Worthy.”
Article ll— Meetings.
Section 1. Subordinate Granges shall meet
once each month, and may hold intermediate
meetings as may be deemed necessary for the
good of the Order. All business meetings are
confined to the fourth degree.
Sec. 2. State Granges shall meet annually, at
such time and place as the Grange shall from
year to year determine.
Sec. 3. The National Grange shall meet an
nually on the first Wednesday in February, at
such place as the Grange may from year to
year determine. Should the National Grange
atfiourn without selecting the place of meeting
the Executive Committee shall appoint the
place, and notify the Secretary of the National
Grange and the Masters of State Granges, at
least thirty days before the day appointed.
Article lll—Laws.
The National Grange, at its annual session,
shall frame, amend, or repeal such laws as the
good of the Order may require. All laws of
State and Subordinate Granges must conform
to this Constitution and the laws adopter! .by
the National Grange.
Article IV—Ri/waZ.
The Ritual adopted by the National Grange
shall be used in all Subordinate Granges, and
any desired alteration in the same must be sub
mitted to, and receive the sanction of, the Na
tional Grange.
Article V—Jfe mbersh ip.
Any person interested in agricultural pur
suits, of the age of sixteen years (female), and
eighteen years (male), duly proposed, elected,
and complying with the rules and regulations
of the Order, is entitled to membership and
the benefit of the degrees taken. Every appli
cation must be accompanied by the fee of mem
bership. If rejected, the money will be refun
ded. Applications must be certified by mem
bers. and balloted for at a subsequent meeting.
It shall require three negative votes to reject
an applicant.
Article Vl— Fees for Membership
The minimum fee for membership in a Sub
ordinate Grange shall be, for men five dollars,
and for women two dollars, for the four degrees,
except charter members, who shall pay —men
three dollars, and women fifty cents.
Article Vll— Dues.
Section 1. The minimum of regular monthly
dues shall be ten cents from each member, ai d
each Grange may otherwise regulate its own
dues.
Sec. 2. The Secretary of each Subordi
nate* Grange shall report quarterly to the
Secretary of the State Grange the names of
all persons initiated or passed to higher
degrees.
Sec. 3. The Treasurer of each Subordi
nate Grange shall report quarterly, and pa>
to the Treasurer of his State Grange the sum
of one dollar for each man and fifty cents for
each woman initiated during that quarter;
also, a quarterly due of six cents for each
member.
Sec. 4. The Secretary!.feach State Grange
shall report quarterly to the Secretary of the
National Grange the membership in his Slate,
and the degrees conferred during the quarter.
Sec. 5. The Treasurer of each State
Grange shall deposit to the credit of the
National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry
with some Banking or Trust Company of
New York (to be selected by the Execu
tive Committee), in quarterly installments,
the annual due of ten cents for each member
in his Slate, and forward the receipts for the
same to the Treasurer of the National
G range.
Sec. 6. All monies deposited with said
company shall be paid out only upon the
drafts of the Treasurer, signed by the Master
and countersigned by the Secretary.
Sec. 7. No State Grange shall be entitled
to representation in the National Grange
whose dues arc unpaid for more than one
quarter.
Article Vlll— Requirements.
Section 1. Reports fmtn Subordinate
Granges relative to crops, implements, stock,
or any other matters called for by the Na
tional Grange, must be certified to by the
Master and Secretary, and under seal of the
Grange t ing thes one.
Sec. 2. All printed matter on whatever
subject, an 1 all information issued by the
National < r State to Subordinate Granges
shall be made known to the numbers with
out unnecessary delay.
Sec. 3. If any brothers or sisters of the
Order are sick, it shall be the duty of the
Patrons to visit them, and see that they are
well provided with all things needful.
Sec. 4 Any member found guilty of wan
ton ciuelty to animals shall be expelled from
the Order.
Sec. 5. The officers of Subordinate Gran
ges shall be on the alert in devising means
by which the interest of the whole Order
may be advanced ; but no plan of work shall
be adopted by State or Subordinate Granges
without first submitting it to, and receiving
the sanction of the National Grange.
Article IX— Charters and Dispensations.
Section 1. All charters and dispensations
issue directly from the National Grange.
Sec. 2. Nine men and four women having
received the four subordinate degrees, may
receive a dispensation to organize a Subordi
nate Grange.
Sec. 3 Applications for dispensations ;
shall be made to the Secretary of the National 1
Grange, and be signed by the persons apply- :
ing for the same, and be accompanied by a
fee of fifteen dollars.
Sec 4. Charter members are those per- 1
sons only whose names are upon the appli- '
cation, and whose fees were paid at the time (
of organization, Their number s-hall not be Z
less than nine men ami four women, nor
more than twenty men and ten women. f
Sec. 5. Fifteen Subordinate Granges . 2
working in a Stale can apply for authoii y
to organize a State Grange.
Sec. 6. When Stale Granges are organized
dispensations will be replaced by charters,
issued without further fee.
Sec. 7. All charters must pass through
The State Granges for record, and receive
the seal and official signatures of the same.
Sec. 8. No Grange shall confer more than
one degree (either First, Second, Third or
Fourth) at the same meeting.
Sec. 9. After a State Grange is organized,
all applications for charlers must pass
through the same, and be approved by the
Master and Secretary.
Article X— Duty of Officers.
The duties of the officers of the National,
State, and Subordinate Granges shall be pre
scribed by laws of the same.
Article Xl— Treasurer.
Section 1. The Treasurers of the National,
State and Subordinate Granges shall give
bonds, to be approved by the respective
Granges.
Sec. 2. In all Granges bills must be ap
proved by the Master, and countersigned by
the Secretary, before the Treasurer can pay
the same.
Article Xll— Restrictions.
Religious or political questions will not be
tolerated as subjects of discussion in the work
of the Order, and no political or religious
tests for membership shall be applied.
Article Xlll— Amendments.
This Constitution can be altered or amend
ed by a two-thirds vote of the National
Grange at any annual meeting, and when
such alteration or amendment shall have been
ratified by three-fourths of the State Granges,
and the same reported to the Secretary of
the National Grange, it shall be of full force.
BY-LAWS.
Article 1. The fourth day of December,
the birth-day of the Patrons of Husbandry,
shall be celebrated as the anniversary of the
Order.
Article 2. Not less than the representa
tion of ten St ites present at any meeting of
the National Grange shall constitute a quo
rum for the transaction of business. •
Article 3. At the Annual Meeting of each
State Grange it may elect a'proxy to repre
sent the State Grange in the National Grange
in case of the inability of the Master to at
tend, but such proxy shall not thereby be
entitled to the sixth degree.
Anicle 4. Questions of administration find
jurisprudence arising in and between State
Granges, and appeals from the action and
decision thereof shall be referred to the Mas
ter and Executive Committee of the National
Grange, whose decision shall be respected
and obeyed until overruled by action of the
National Grange.
Article 5. It shall be the duty of the Mas
ter to preside at meetings of the National
Grange; to see that all officers and members
of committees properly perforin their respec
tive duties; to see that the Constitution, By
laws, and resolutions of the National Grange
and the usages of the Order are observed and
obeyed; to sign all drafts drawn upon the
treasury, and generally to perform all duties
pertaining to such office.
Article (5. It shall be the duty of the Sec
retary to keep a record of all proceedings of
the National Grange, to keep a just and true
account of all monies received nnd paid out
by him, to countersign all drafts upon the
treasuty, to conduct the correspondence of
the National Grange, and generally to act
as the administrative officer of the National
Grange, under the direction of the Mas el
and the Executive Committee.
It shall be his duty, at least once in each
month, to deposit with the Fiscal Agency
ho'ding the funds of the National Grange all
moneys that may have come into his hands,
and forward a duplicate receipt thereof to the
Treasurer, and to make a full report of all .
transactions to the National Grange at each
annual session.
It shall be his further duty to procure a
monthly report from the Fiscal Agency with
whom the funds of the National Grange are
deposited of all moneys received and pailbout
by them during each month, and send a copy
of such report to the Executive Committee
and the Master of the National Grange.
Article 7. It shall be the duty of the Trea
surer to issue all drafts upon the Fiscal
Agency of the Order,said drafts having been
previously signed by the Master and counter
signed by the Secretary of the National
Grange.
He shall report monthly to the Master of
the National Grange, through the office of
the Secretary, a statement of all receipts of
deposits made by him, and of all drafts or
checks signed by him during the previous
month.
He shall report to the National Grange at
each annual session a statement of all re- ■
ceipts of deposits made by him and of all
drafts or checks signed by him since his last
annual report.
Article 8. It shall be the duty of the Lec
turer to visit, for the good of the Order, such
portions of the United States as the Executive
Committee may direct, for which services he
shall receive compensation.
Article 9. It shall be the duty of the Exe
cutive Committee to exercise a general super
vision of the affairs of the Order during the
recess of the National Grange; to instruct
the Secretary in reg nd to printing and dis
bursements, and to place in bis hands a con
tingent fund; to decide all questions and
appeals referred to them by the officers and
members of Slate Granges; and to lay before
the National Grange at each session a report
of all such questions and appeals and their
decisions thereon.
Article 10. Buch compensation for time and
, service shall be given to the Master, Lecturer,
, Secretary, Treasurer, and Executive Com
mittee, as the National Grange may, from
time to time, determine.
Whenever General Deputies are appointed
by the Master of the National Grange, said
Deputies shall receive such compensation lor
time and services as may be determined by
the Executive Committee: Provided, In no
case shall pay from the National Grange be
given General Deputies in any State after
the formation of its 8 ate Grange.
Article 11. The financial existence of
Subordinate Granges shall date from the first
day of January* first davof April, first day of
July, and first day of October, subsequent to
the day of their organization; from which
date their first quarter shad commence.
State Granges shall date their financial
existence three months after the first day of
January, first of April, first of July, and first
of October, immediately following their or
ganization. _ .
The Madison Home Journal says that three 5
boys, named Head, aged respectively nine, . I |
eleven and fifteen years, by great industry ! n a y e
last year, on land rented from Col. J. b. Reid, < I
seventeen bales of cotton, averaging four run- ( *
dred and fifty pounds, seventy-five bushels of £
com, and plenty of potatoes and ‘ garden j
truck” to last the whole family a year. They i E
are brave and manly boys.
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