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THE NATIONAL GRANGE. 
ACTION OF THE EXECUTIVE C1MMITTEE OH UNION WITH 
ENGLISH QO-OPEKATORS. 
The Executive Committee of the National 
Grange, which met in Washington on the 
first insfc. amt held sessions on several subse¬ 
quent days, spent much time in considering 
the proposition of the English Co-operators 
fora union of the two bodies for commercial 
purposes. 
Mr. Thomas D. MorraOl of Manchester, 
England, and a sub committee consisting of 
Brothers Chase and Jones, were occupied for 
two days in discussing the proposed union 
with the Order for commercial purposes of 
the English co-operative societies. These 
latter are not secret bodies ; hence it will be 
impossible, under existing circumstances for 
them to unite with the Patrons, but this 
difficulty has been met by the formation of 
a trading company having the indorsement 
and support of the united co-operative bodies 
in England, and fully organized under the 
English laws. The propositions are to have 
two branches of the Society, one in England 
and the other in the United States. The 
board in each country is to have the absolute 
control of the funds subscribed therein, and 
all to be used for the purpose of the inter¬ 
national exchange of commodities. The capi¬ 
tal is $35,000,000. All transactions are to be 
for cash or its equivalent. The British co- 
oporators number 500,000; have over one 
thousand stores, some fifty or sixty cotton 
spinning mills, about twenty flouring mills, 
an agricultural and horticultural society and 
a number of manufactories, and of course 
consume a large quantity of American prod¬ 
ucts. 
The funds subscribed by the English branch 
of the company will be employed in the pur¬ 
chase of ships, the erection of warehouses 
and the manufacture of euch articles as are 
in constant demand among the Patrons of 
Husbandry. These ships will bring the goods 
to New Orleans and other Southern porta, 
and to Eastern ports if necessary, and they 
desire the Patrons to employ their portion of 
the capital hi carrying American staples and 
products to meet these ships, and thus to 
make the necessary exchange in the most 
direct and simple manner. The co-operalors 
have a largo surplus capital, which is con¬ 
stantly ou the increase, and which they think 
can be profitably employed in this trade. 
While each branch of the company will have 
conti’ol of its own affairs, the two boards will 
form a council, who will by joint action ac¬ 
tion decide what branches of business will 
be engaged in, and define the method of 
conducting the same. An American will be 
sent to Liverpool to watch the interests of 
the Grange branch of the company, and the 
English board wull have a like representative 
in New Orleans, while the general super¬ 
vision will be in the hands of a managing 
director, already elected, and who, though 
an Englishman born, has been twenty-three 
years in America. 
The following is the report of the sub-com¬ 
mittee, which was adopted by the Executive 
Committee: 
first. —That, we have been impressed with 
the earnest desire of our subordinate Granges 
and the members of every seetiou of the 
C niun for uelive co-operation in business 
enterprises, as expressed by the efforts iu 
this ^direction, and by appeals to tills Ex¬ 
ecutive Committee for a systematic and uni¬ 
form plan for euch organizations, and with 
our obligation to secure and submit such a 
plan for adoption. 
Second. —That we would willingly and 
cordially grusp the hand offered to us by our 
brethftru across the Atlantic and pledge to 
them our readiness to co-operate with them 
in all Luidiblu efforts to secure for productive 
industry its just rewards, to restore honest 
dealing in all commercial transactions, and 
to advance the moral, intellectual and 
material interests of the masses of the 
people. 
Third .—That having examined the details 
of the plan of co-operative societies of Great 
Britain, as presented by their deputation to 
us, popularly known as the “ Rochdale 
plan,” and its wonderful success, we heartily 
recommend it to the careful consideration of 
our state and subordinate Granges, and to 
the members of our Order, and advise such 
action on the pait of the Executive Com¬ 
mittees of the several States as may be 
necessary to the organization and operation 
ol such co-operative associations within our 
Order. 
Fourth. —To this end we recommend the 
appointment of a committee to secure from 
Wr. iiipmas D. Momdl, of the English 
deputation now present, such rules, regula- 
uous, articles of association, pamphlets aud 
- tie. writings as maybe deemed necessary 
to place the desired information in this con¬ 
nection before the members of our Order, 
ami that said committee be authorized to 
have printed so much of said information, 
and in such amounts, as they may deem 
advisable to be distributed to the Executive 
Committees of the State Granges, with 
circular letters communicating the action of 
this Executive Committee herein aud such 
other instructions as may be desired. 
WESTERN N. 
GRANGE PICNIC. 
A Grand Basket Picnic is to be given 
under the auspices of the Patrons of Hus¬ 
bandry of Western New York, at Stony 
Brook Glen, near Dansville, ou the 15th inst. 
Addresses are to be delivered by George L>. 
Hinckley, Master of the N. Y. State Grange, 
L. A. Palmer, District Deputy, aud Hon. 
Wm. M. White. The Rev. Tnos. K. Beecher 
of Elmira is also 'expected. Reduced rates 
of fare on the Eric Railway have been 
obtained and a large attendance and good 
time may be anticipated, everybody being 
invited—though a special invitation for the 
officers and members of the Knickerbocker 
Grange has not been received I 
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NEWS AND NOTES FOR PATRONS. 
A Grange Bank is to be organized in 
Nebraska. 
German Granges are being organized in 
Wisconsin. 
There are over forty Granges in Washing¬ 
ton Territory. 
A Grange Packet is soon to be placed on 
the Oliio River. 
Erie, Pennsylvania, has a Pomona Grange, 
and so lias Susquehanna Co., Pa. 
N. L, Norton, Esq., has resigned the 
lectureship of the Texas State Grange. 
The Farmer’s Friend says that the Salts 
burg (Pa.) Grange has $30,000 in its treasury. 
At the recent meeting of the National 
Grange $500 was voted to distressed brethren 
in Colorado. 
During the month of April the purchases 
by the Ohio Grange State Agent amounted 
to $87,mat. 
The Indiana Grange Business Agent re¬ 
ports sales for the week ending June 21st, 
amounting tu $11,213.71. 
The Arkansas Weekly Grange proposes 
that the Patrons of that State get up a State 
fair under their own control. 
The National Orange Headquarters 
have been removed—or soon will be, from 
Washington to Louisville, Ivy. 
The Patrons of Rutherford Co., N. C., 
have organized a stock company for the 
purpose of manufacturing leather. 
.grnnesstht drawing. 
THE CLOTHES MOTH. 
DESCRIPTION, HABITS, REMEDIES, 
Prof. A. J. Cook of the Michigan Agri¬ 
cultural College, gives some valuable and 
seasonable information about the Clothes 
Moth iu reply to a letter from a correspon¬ 
dent, as follows: 
Common Clothes Moth.—Tinea jlavifron- 
tella— Linn. Sub-order, Lepidoplera. Family, 
Tine idee 
Description .—These little moths expand 
about a half inch, and are less than one- 
fourth of an inch long. They are of a light 
buff color, and shine like satin. The wings 
are long, narrow, pointed, and beautifully 
fringed. The larva (“ worm ”) is white 
with a yellow head, has, like nearly all 
caterpillars, sixteen legs, and is always sur¬ 
rounded by a flattened, cylindrical case, 
usually gray or whitish In color, though this 
depends on their food. The ends are open, 
that the larva; may reach forth to feed, or 
peer forth, Which they are free to do when 
disturbed. 
The pupa, or chrysalis, is somewhat 
curved, and has a rounded head. The 
autenme, wings, and legs are folded beneath 
the body, and reach nearly to the end of the 
body. The pupa case or cocoon is similar to 
the larva case. 
Hg.bits.— The moth comes forth as early 
as the last of May, and may be seen from 
that time till the close of summer. Their 
tiny, lustrous, buff-colored bodies are easily 
detected, a3 they rest with wings folded 
close about their bodies in the deep crevices 
of our parlor furniture, or among the folds 
of our garments, or even more plainly aa 
they flit across our rooms. 
These moths pair, after which the female 
seeks out our furs and woolen or silk apparel, 
her minute size enabling her to enter draw¬ 
ers, closets and tranks ; ami she distributes 
her eggs with an eye to the good of her pros¬ 
pective young, if not to our good. The larva; 
soon appear, and may be found at. home 
the summer through, comfortably fixed up 
in their little tents and working their 
miserable mischief unsuspected by the un¬ 
wary housewife, who learns too late of their 
previous presence, by discovering that her 
most choice possessions are totally ruined. 
In spring and summer the chrysalids wifi 
appear, soon to be followed by a new return 
of the pretty moths. 
Remedied. —WdoTeh garments and furs 
should be put away in trunks, with several 
pieces of camphor gum as large as hickory- 
nuts packed in with them ; or they may be 
put in close paper bags and pasted up so 
that no holes, ever so small, will remain open. 
In this case a little camphor gum will render 
assurance doubly sure. Infested garments or 
furs should be put. in a tight, sack or trunk: 
and after adding a half-ounce of chloroform 
the sack or trunk should be closed as nearly 
air-tight as possible. The vapor will kill the 
iusects. Then prepare as given above. 
For furniture and carpets, heavy paper, 
wet with carbolic acid or spirits of turpen¬ 
tine, will kill lorvco already at work. This 
should be placed under the edge of the ear- 
pet where the mischief is generally done, 
and iu furniture crowded back in the deep 
folds. It would be well to saturate the interi¬ 
or of the furniture with a strong solution of 
carbolic acid. Our best furniture and furs 
have a goodly quantity of this substance in 
the undJssolved state fastened inside them 
when made. Russian leather, cedar bark, 
or boughs, tobacco leaves aud even red 
pepper, arc said to prevent the moths from 
laying eggs, it will be well, then to place 
these in exposed situations. Manufacturers 
of carriages wash the woolen liuings of their 
carriages with a weak solution of corrosive 
sublimate, which is very sure destruction to 
all insects. Yet Dr. Kedzie says it is unsafe 
to use it. 
Every careful housekeeper will carefully 
examine her carpets and the furnit ure each 
fall and spring, brush out all the creases, 
give all a good airing, and if there is any 
trace of these evil doers, will practice the 
above remedies. 
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AUNT LIZZIE S PUMPKIN PIES. 
“ How do you manage to keep pumpkins 
through the winter t” inquired I of my 
friend, Mrs. Lizzie Winters, ns I tasted a 
piece of pumpkin pie that had all the rich 
flavor of the fruit freshly plucked from the 
vine. 
“ I do not keep them fresh,” was the reply. 
“ But late in the fall when they are fully ripe, 
I pare and slice them iu the old-fashioned 
way, and hang them up on poles, as our 
grandmothers did. When thoroughly dried 
the long, naiTovv strips are packed away in 
a tight bag for future use. When I am going 
to make a batch uf pies I put a small quantity 
of the dried pumpkin to soak in warm water 
over night, after having it thoroughly wash¬ 
ed. It will cook while I am doing the morn¬ 
ing’s work, When it is tender 1 allow the 
water to dry out entirely and the entire mass 
to become a dark rich brown. (I dislike white 
pumpkin pies.) Then 1 take, in proportion 
to each pie, one tahlespoonful of the sauce, 
one tablespoonful of flour, and rather more 
than one tablespoonful of sugar. These three 
iugredients I work together till they become 
a smooth paste, before putting In the milk, 
which is spiced with ginger—for to my taste 
there is no flavoring for pumpkin pies that 
quite equals the old-fashioned ginger. But 
of course that is optional. Butthe flour that 
is worked In the sauce takes the place of 
eggs, and when put in in this way is equally 
as good, us you will join me in confessing— 
for there are no eggs in this. 
And I acknowledged that I could see no 
difference. I also granted that that of which 
I had eaten was super-excellent. M. K. a. 
i*mit .Information. 
EGGS 
DTET. 
TO REMOVE STAINS FROM CLOTHING. 
On this subject the Poultry Review has the 
following pertinent and suggestive remarks : 
Would it not be wise to substitute more eggs 
for meat in our daily diet { About one third 
of the weight of au egg la solid nutriment 
—This is more than can be said of meat. 
There are no bones or tough pieces that have 
to be laid aside. A good egg is made up of 
10 parts shell, 50 parts white, and 30 parts 
yelk. The white of an egg contains Sfl per 
cent, water, the yelk of an egg 52 per cent. 
The average of an egg is about two ounces. 
Practically an egg ia animal food, and yet 
there is none of the disagreeable work of ihe 
butcher necessary to obtain it. The vege¬ 
tarians of England use eggs freely, and many 
of these men are 80 and 90 years old, and 
have been remarkably free from illness. 
Eggs are best when cooked four minutes. 
This takes away the animal taste that is 
offensive to some, but does not so harden the 
white or yelk as to make them hard to 
digest. An egg If cooked very hard is 
difficult, of digestion, except by those with 
stout stomachs; such eggs should be eaten 
with bread aud masticated very finely. An 
egg spread on toast is food tic for a king, if 
kings deserve any better food than anybody 
else, which is doubtful. Fried eggs are less 
wholesome than boiled ones. An egg drop¬ 
ped into hot water is not only a clean aud 
handsome, but a delicious morsel. Most 
people spoil the taste, of their eggs by adding 
pepper and salt. A little sweet butter is the 
host dressing. Eggs contain much phos¬ 
phorous, which is supposed to be useful to 
those who use their brains much. 
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OATMEAL AS FOOD. 
Cassell’s Magazine says of oatmeal We 
have called it the food for bone as well as 
brain, muscle as well as mind. To the labor¬ 
ing or artisan class it commends itself as an 
article of diet ou account of its cheapness, 
the readiness and economy with which it 
can be cooked, and, while it is easily digest¬ 
ed, it contains, us we have seen, a larger pro¬ 
portion than wheaten bread of the elements 
that go to form bone aud muscle. The best 
Scotch oatmeal costa two-pence a pound, 
and this contains far more true nourishment, 
in the opinion of some medical men, than the 
same weight of Liebig’s Extract. It com¬ 
mends itRelf to literary men, and all work¬ 
ers who earn their bread by the sweat of 
their brains. There are, us we happen to 
know, several well-known authors who, 
though born and bred this side the Tweed, 
nevertheless swear by oatmeal porridge as a 
bruin-inspiring compound. Then, as to its 
palatableness, we ourselves have long held 
the belief that not only is porridge rich in 
nutritive matter, but, when nicely cooked, 
aud eaten with new millc, is simply delloious, 
a dainty dish lit, indeed, to set before any 
king. 
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FRESH AIR. 
One of the incessant Wyants of man is air. 
We want air mainly to nourish us and keep 
us cool. The quantity of air inhaled by an 
adult in twenty-four hours amounts on an 
average to about three hundred cubic feet, 
or two thousand gallons. What we take iu 
and give out in twenty-four hours in the 
shape of solid and liquid food occupies on an 
average the space of five and a half pints, 
which Is equal to one three-hundreth of the 
volume of air passing through our lungs. It 
will astonish you to hear perhaps for the 
first time, tide amounts to seven hundred 
and thirty thousand gallons in one year, and 
to be reminded of that continuous work 
which goes on day and night—a never 
ceasing bellows blowing, by which the organ 
of our life is kept in play. 
Benzine, or essence of petroleum, is com¬ 
monly used for removing grease-spots ; but 
these liquids present the inconvenience of 
leaving, in most oases, a brownish aureola. 
To avoid this, it is necessary, whilst the 
fabric is still saturated, and immediately 
the stain bus disappeared, to sprinkle gyp¬ 
sum, or lycopodium, over the whole of the 
moistened surface. When dry, the powder 
is brushed away. Stains of oil-paint may be 
removed with bisulphate of carbon ; manj’ 
by means of spirits of turpentine ; if dry and 
old. with chloroform. For these last, as 
well as Dor tar-spots, the best way is to 
cover them with olive oil, or butter. When 
the paiut is softened, the. whole may be 
removed by treatment, first, with spirits ol 
turpentine, then with benzine. —Pharm. 
Gazette. 
SALT WATER FOR THE EYES. 
Many persons are suffering pain from 
weakness of the eyes. This, sometimes, pro¬ 
ceeds from local inflammation, sometimes 
from other causes. Several persons who 
have thus been afflicted inform us that they 
have derived almost immediate, and iusome 
cases, pemiuucnt relief from the application 
of salt water as a bath ; and when the pain 
has been aggravated, from a compress 
saturated with salt water laid on the eyes, 
and renewed at frequent intervals. Opening 
the eyes and submerging them in clean salt 
I water has been found beneficial to those 
whose eyesight begins to fail. 
