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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Citcran). v 
OUR FIRST FARMERS’ INSTITUTE. 
BY WM. ROSS. 
CHAPTER III. 
S EVERAL days after the above colloquy 
took place, Bill walked into Judge For¬ 
ester’s office. 
“ Brother Bark,” said the Judge, ‘'suppose 
you write up to Columbus about that insti¬ 
tute. I haven’t time; I have the campaign to 
look after, and have to be away from home a 
good deal, and I can’t attend to it very well.” 
“Oh, pshaw!” replied Bill; “they don’t 
know anything about me up there. I have 
no influence, and Bonham would think I was 
some visionary crauk, or something, and like 
as not pay no attention to it. You are in air 
influential position, politically and socially, 
and your name would carry Influence, and 
y >u had better write. Besides, I don’t want 
to get mixed up in this thing. It will take 
time and trouble, and I didn’t begin it and 
somebody else may finish it.” 
“Ob, well, you just write, and sign my name 
to it,” said the Judge. “ Here is paper and 
envelop, and you do the writing and put my 
name to It and it will be all right.” 
“All right,” said Bill, “I'll do that much, 
any time, to accommodate you, brother For¬ 
ester. ” 
Bill sat down and wrote: 
“Woodside, Excellent County, 11, 1, ’88. 
Mr. L. N. Bonham, 
Dear Sir : We have never had a farmers’ 
institute in this county. Can you furnish 
speakers for one the coming winter? 
G. FORESTER.” 
A few days later the Judge handed Bill a 
letter, saying; “ I see it will require an 
answer, and you just answer and sign my 
name, and it will be all right.” 
Bill opened the letter and read; “We can 
furnish you one and possibly two speakers. 
At what point in the county do you wish to 
hold the institute? Are you sure you can get 
a good audience? Yours, etc., 
L. N. BONHAM.” 
Bill replied as follows: 
“ Mr. L. N. Bonham, 
Dear Sir: 
We want to hold the institute at Woodside. 
It is our county-seat, has good railroad facili¬ 
ties, and I think there are no doubts about 
getting up a good audience. 
Yours Truly 
G. Forester.” 
When Bill came to the audience part, he 
stopped to think. He had talked institute to 
perhaps a half-dozen of his fellow farmers and 
they said they would come, he intended to be 
there himself, he was sure his friend Mr. 
Edwards, would be there, and as Mr. Ed¬ 
wards had been talking institute for six weeks, 
or more, he might succeed in getting a dozen 
or so more interested sufficiently to come, and 
they would all be good auditors, and inas¬ 
much as Mr. Bonham had not introduced the 
numerical feature, Bill thought any number 
of good auditors would makeagood audience. 
So he finished the letter and underscored the 
words no doubts. 
In a day or two, Mr. Edwards and Mr. 
Bark met in town. 
“ I see we’ve got the promise of a lecturer 
for the institute,” said Edwards. 
“Yes,” replied Bark, “and maybe two. 
They want a good audience and you want to 
be working it up pretty lively. They gener¬ 
ally begin holding institutes, I think, in De¬ 
cember, and if your institute happens to get 
on the list for an early date, it may come be¬ 
fore you get ready.” 
“ 1 have been a talking to a good many” 
said Edwards, “ an’ they nearly all say they ’ll 
come if they can, and tney think it’s a good 
thing. J. B. P. agreed to open the Iruit sub¬ 
ject, C.D. ’ll talk on Cereal Crops, but I hain’t 
lound a man that ’ll take horses yet. There 
’ll have to be some money raised, there ’ll be 
some expense, and I don’t want to have to 
take up a collection at the institute. How do 
you think we’d better do this now?” 
“ I think,” said Bark “you had bettter call 
a meeting, and get an organization of some 
kind, so you will have a central working 
force. Then each one will know what to do, 
and know what his responsibilities are.” 
“How’ll we get notice to the people ?” asked 
Edwards. “We hain’t got no money to pay 
for advertising, and the papers ’ll want pay 
for it; won’t they ?” 
“No, not if you don’t put your name to it,” 
replied Bark. “The papers will publish it as 
a local, and it will cost nothing.” 
“When had we better set to have the meet- 
in’ ?” asked Jack. I 
“As soon as possible,” Bill replied. “You 
can get it in the papers this week, and you 
can have the meeting next Saturday, at 10 
o’clock, so the people coming from a distance 
can get here, and have time to get home 
again.” 
“Tnat would be a good idee,” said Jack. 
“But I don’t know much about this. Can you 
write the notices and git them into the 
papers ? You can do this better than I can.” 
Bill consented and wrote a local, notifying 
the fanners to meet at the Court House the 
next Saturday at 10 o’clock to make prelimi¬ 
nary arrangements for holding a farmers’ in¬ 
stitute during the coming winter, and gave a 
copy to each of the four papers. Bill became 
somewhat interested,was “warmed up” as they 
express it at meeting sometimes, as he saw he 
had been helping to get his friends into the 
scrape, by what he had done, and he went to 
the meeting to help them out. The large 
Common Pleas Court Room, where the insti¬ 
tute since met, was warmed, “swept and gar¬ 
nished” for the occasion. The aforesaid local 
notice bad apparently increased the interest 
in the institute at least 50 per cent. There 
were Jack and Bill and a new man named 
Finley Quiets. They could see farmers on the 
streets, and they had solicited them to come 
to the meeting, “but they all with one accord 
began to make excuses.” Mr. Quiets was a 
good acquisition. He was a considerably 
younger man than either of the others, and 
had a very happy faculty of accomplishing 
his work in a very quiet way. In his reputa¬ 
tion he stood “A No. 1,” ana the confidence of 
the people in him was unbounded. The 
three warmed themselves with county coal 
till long alter the hour of meeting had passed. 
They now realized that they had a terrible 
quandary to discuss. There were, probably, 
3,000 fanners that ought to be as much eon- 
cernea about institutes as they, but 2,997 of 
them were nonchalant. They discussed for 
two hours the dilemma in a desultory way. 
“I don’t believe it’s any use,” said Jack. 
“The farmers are not agoin’ to take an inter¬ 
est in this matter, and I’m afeared it will be a 
failure. I b’lieve we’d better give It up.” 
“ I don’t know,” replied Mr. Quiets, smiling; 
“ it looks a good deal discouraging, that’s a 
fact, but I don’t see why we can’t have an in¬ 
stitute as well as other people.” 
Bill Bark thought of the power of printers’ 
ink which he knew he could use, and his old- 
time determination revived in him, and his in¬ 
difference all vanished. 
He replied to Mr. Quiets: “The way to 
have an institute is to just have it. If we 
leave and do nothing to day, we’ll probably 
never have an institute. When will it be any 
better ? ” 
“But how can we have it if the people 
won’t take no interest ?” said Jack. “ We’ll 
have some expenses to pay and I’m afeard it 
won’t succeed.” 
“I have no fears about the people.” said 
Bark. “ We have a considerable time yet be¬ 
fore the institute will meet, probably, and we 
can get enough interested to come and make a 
respectable audience.” 
“ What is your plan, Mr. Barb, to get this 
thing started?” asked Mr. Quiets. 
“ Let us form ourselves into a temporary 
organization,” replied Bark; “ then appoint 
some committees and go to work. We’ll not 
let on but we had a good meeting in here, and 
we’ll call another meeting to make a permanent 
organization, and hear reports of committees, 
etc.” 
To this, all assented, and there was a very 
quiet election held; no boodle used, no wire 
pulling, no scratching tickets. The candi¬ 
dates all got office. Each one was a commit¬ 
tee of one to tell the people the glorious news 
that Woodside was going to have an institute. 
Bill Bark was chairman of the Committee on 
Programme; Jack E iwards and Finley 
Quiets and three others were appoint'd a Com¬ 
mittee of Arrangements. The meeting then 
adjourned to meet in one week. Bill wrote as 
big a local notice as he thought the editors 
would bear, in accordance with the edict of 
the convention, and gave a copy to each of 
the papers, and hoped there would be a good 
attendance. He also wrote an item stating 
that the Institute Committee had promised 
one or two sneakers for an institute at Wood- 
side the coming winter. These notices ap¬ 
peared in all the papers the next week as 
items of local news. 
(To be Continued.) 
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