What The Grange Has Done

As we look at ttie order to day, we lind it ha3 Yieldtd uothlng to the drones. It ha3 disappointed those wbese chief idea wa8 that it would break down middlemen and be a money-making institution. But it has, in numberless instances, inore thau fulíilled the expectations of its best f rienda. There are f ewer prangers today, but they aro better ones. There are thousands of farmers now in the order who have learned to speak íd public, to preside at public meetings, and to think and to reason as they never did before. There are mauy who aro readers and tuinkers, and who are becoming leaders and educators througb. the influeuco of the order. A regular plan of work has been laid out and questions of farm management and home comfort are regularly discussed in their meetings. More agricultura! papers are read, and in mauy neighborhoods librarles are established and lecture courses sustaineJ by the order. We speak that of which we have personal knowledge, in afflrming that in many neighborhoods the G range has accomplished wonders. It has softened political asperities by bringing tJiose of opposite parties together, ii hs cultivated Lhe social nature, educated the young in music and to a largo extent in liteiaturc. Hundreds of Grange halls have been built, and furnished, and as the object of the order bas ben shown to be the cducation of i i r -.rmer, rather than war on other calHnga, the public have como to respect