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THE RURAL HEW-YORRER. 
MAY U 
Cihxaxy. 
OUR FIRST FARMERS’ INSTITUTE. 
BY WM. ROSS. 
CHAPTER IV. 
T HE committees had a week to prepare 
reports to make at the next meeting. 
The chairman of the Program Committee 
had to do all the work himself. The other 
members had to be caught “ on the fly ” if 
caught at all. He made up a program, fix¬ 
ing the hours of meeting, the hours of ad¬ 
journment, the hours when the State speakers 
would be heard, an impressive opening cere¬ 
mony for the first day, and 15 different sub¬ 
jects for discussion, with miscellaneous busi¬ 
ness and closing. He affixed to each of 15 sub¬ 
jects the names of one to three of the most 
noted and influential farmers be knew, or 
could hear of, within a radius of 20 miles of 
Woodside; though half of them probably, 
never spoke in public, yet good names on 
paper carry influence. Bill thought that 
Mrs. Mean’s motto, “When yer gitten, git a 
plenty,” was a good one to adopt in this case, 
as the local talent of Excellent County was 
an unknown quantity. The three committees 
to talk institute worked well. Having 
learned wisdom from experience, it was 
thought there would be less vacuity sur¬ 
rounding their meetings by meeting in Judge 
Forester’s office. The room and the crowd 
would harmonize better in size, and the five 
chairs, a high stool and a table, would prob¬ 
ably afford sufficient seating capacity. The 
good counsel of the Judge and his clerks could 
also be secured, and possibly some young 
farmers might drop in on business with the 
Court. When this second convention assem¬ 
bled it was gratifying to find there was an in¬ 
creased attendance of more than 200 per cmt. 
■The Committee on Arrangements had suc¬ 
ceeded in interesting one of its members, ap¬ 
pointed in his absence, and it had now a work¬ 
ing force of three. 
Election of officers was the first business of 
this convention. Mr. Edwards opened up the 
matter by saying: 
“ As Sheriff Nelan is President and Judge 
Forester is Secretary of the Fair Company, it 
has been thought advisable to put them in the 
same positions in the institute society, so as to 
carry influence in favor of the institute.” 
“I can’t attend to the Secretary’s business,” 
said the Judge; “and you needn’t put me in.” 
“I think,” said Mr. Bark; “that farmers 
ought to attend to their own business, and 
not impose upon men who have no concerns 
in their calling, and who have enough other 
business to occupy their time and talents. If 
this institute business has not merit enough in 
itself to commend it without hanging on to 
the skirts of some other institution, we had 
better stop it now.” 
“ Let us put Bark in for President;” said 
Frank Toes. “ He understands parliamen¬ 
tary law, he is a good presiding officer, and 
will make the best President we can get.” 
“ That is all very true,” said Isaiah Hutton; 
“ but I was thinking of him for Secretary.” 
“ 1 don’t care about Secretary, there is too 
much work in it, and there are younger men 
who can do that, though I am willing to do 
anything I can,” replied Mr. Bark. 
“I move you,” said Mr. Toes; “that Bill 
Bark be elected President. ” 
The “ move you ” prevailed and Bark took 
his seat. 
“ I move you that Jack Edwards be elected 
Vice-President.” 
The “ move you ” prevailed again. 
“Now what will we do for a Secretary ?” 
asked Mr. Hutton. 
“ There is Mr. Toes who will make a good 
Secretary.” said the President. 
Mr. Toes was elected Secretary, and Clar¬ 
ence Grady was elected Assistant. Mr. Grady 
was chief clerk in the Judge’s office. Mr. 
Quiets was elected Treasurer; and the con¬ 
fidence in him was such that he was not re¬ 
quired to give any bond. 
Mr. Bark presented his capacious program, 
remarking that it was not yet complete, as it 
would be proper to add several more items, 
when the necessary information should be ob¬ 
tained. 
“ That’s a good program,” “ First rate,” 
“That’ll do,” and similar laconic expressions 
showed the sense of the meeting. 
“ Mr. Vice-President, I move you the pro¬ 
gram be accepted.” The “move you” pre¬ 
vailed again. 
Mr. Edwards of the Committe on Arrange¬ 
ments presented the financial question. “The 
program,” said he, “’ll have to be printed; 
we’ll want at least 500 of ’em, the speakers ’ll 
have to be boarded, etc., and we’ll have to 
faise some money, somehow.” 
“ That is a matter that belongs to the com¬ 
mittee,” said Bark. 
“ We don’t want to dun the people at the 
institute,” continued Edwards, “ it ’ll have a 
bad influence; we don’t know how much it ’ll 
take, but there must be some plan to raise it.” 
“ The committee can adopt its own plan and 
carry it into effect, I think” said the Pres¬ 
ident. 
Jack resumed, “If we don’t have the money 
to meet the expenses, somebody ’ll have to go 
down into his pocket after the institute ’s 
over.” 
“How much will you give?” asked the 
President. 
“I’ll give a-half a dollar,” replied Jack. 
“ I’ll give another and more if needed,” said 
the Judge, “I’ll give a-half a dollar,” said 
Mr. Hutton; “ I’ll give another;” “I’ll give a 
quar ”—“ Hold on here,” cried the Secretary, 
“ till I get this dowD.” The President smiled, 
and said: “ That's business.” 
There now being money to pay postage, the 
Secretary was ordered to notify every man 
whose name appeared on the program of his 
appointment to open discussion on the sub¬ 
ject to which his name was attached, and ask 
him to donate towards expenses. 
The committee was also instructed to solicit 
donations from the business men in town, and 
see if boarding and lodging and railroad fare 
could not be secured at reduced rates, for all 
parties attending the Institute. The time 
was set for another meeting, and the meeting 
adjourned. 
Bill Bark, now having the Presidential har¬ 
ness fastened upon him, had to either pull or 
be called balky. So he concluded to pull,and 
show that “the way to have an institute is to 
just have it.” 
CHAPTER V. 
The third meeting was also held in the 
Judge’s office and had a fair attendance. The 
institute circular for 18’—and 18’—had been 
received. It gave the information that 
TValdoF. Brown and W. N. Cowden were 
the speakers assigned to Woodside and that 
Jaimiary-and-was the time. There was 
also a paragraph in it with an index pointing 
to it thus: 
ESP “Do not ask for changes of dates, or 
speakers, as it will be very difficult to make a 
change.” This was all very satisfactory to 
all concerned, as it gave assurance that the 
institute would be well entertained, and also 
gave sufficient time to get ready. The Secre¬ 
tary reported that some of the local speakers 
had responded favorably. The committee 
had good success in collecting money, and 
all the hotels and boarding-houses except one, 
had given reduced rates for boarding. 
“It might be well,” President Bark suggest¬ 
ed, “for the committee to make some condi¬ 
tional arrangements at some private houses, 
too. ” 
“Oh, I think not!” replied Edwards, “five 
hotels and two big boardin’ houses giv us 
terms, an’ that ’ll be enough J” 
“It would not hurt to have a plenty,” said 
Bark. 
“Mr. Edwards, have you bound those par¬ 
ties any way?” 
“No, they all just agreed to it, but there’s 
no writin’.” 
“ I think, for your own protection, it 
would be better to get them on paper, and 
then if any one refuses to keep his promise, 
the people cannot blame the institute man¬ 
agers for deceiving them,” said President 
Bark. 
“ That would be a good idea,” said Edwards 
“ If you’ll write out a little article, I’ll do 
that.” 
“ I’ll do it,” said Bark, and this matter was 
attended to. 
It was asked where the institute would be 
held? 
“In the court room,” replied Mr. Grady. 
“ It will not be in use then, and it will not 
cost anything to hold it there.” 
“ It would be well enough,” suggested the 
President, “for the committee to try and 
make a conditional arrangement for the 
Opera Hall, so tnat, if the court room should 
be found too small, the institute can be moved 
into it. 
“ If we git enough here to fill up inside the 
bar it’s more’n I ’spect,” said Mr. Edwards. 
“The first institute held in M—the people all 
came inside the bar and it wasn’t full.” 
“It might not be amiss,” said the President, 
“ to see where there could be some chairs se¬ 
cured, to increase the seats in the court room, 
at least.” 
The committee thought lightly of Bark’s 
premonitions, but he thought the power of 
printer’s ink was unknown. 
“Was the committee arranged for printing 
programs?” 
“ I asked one editor what he’d charge to 
print it,” replied Mr. Edwards, “ and he said 
he’d do it for nothin’, so I looked no further, 
we couldn’t ask it any cheaper’n that.” 
“ How many copies?” “500.” 
“Mr. Edwards, are you certain that he un¬ 
derstood you?” asked the President. “He 
certainly thought you wanted him to just in¬ 
sert it in his columns.” 
“ I think he understood me.” 
“ He surely did not. All the papers will in¬ 
sert it in their columns, but to priDt 500 
copies, that’s job work, aodhe certainly didn’t 
mean to do that for nothing.” 
“Well, I don’t know!” said Mr. Edwards, 
“Ithought he understood me, but I’ll see 
about that.” 
This meeting adjourned to meet January—. 
Everything seemed to be in shape to move 
along swimmingly, now. The committee had 
its business well up, except in the matter of 
music. Mr. Edwards found that either of the 
papers would print 500 copies of the pro¬ 
gram for two dollars, and he left it to the 
President to get it printed when it was com¬ 
pleted. Tde necessary knowledge being ob¬ 
tained he completed it and handed it to the 
printer. 
When the next meeting was held it was 
ready for distribution, and three of the pa¬ 
pers had inserted it in their columns. There 
was but one matter of importance to decide. 
Mr. Edwards reported, “ I’ve been talkin 
to the leader of the New Agreement choir, 
end they ’ll come and sing for us, if we ’ll pay 
their fare on the railroad, and board ’em.” 
“ We have good choirs ,in town, but the 
male singers are engaged in business, and 
could not well leave their places of business 
during the day. This would necessarily inter¬ 
fere with the music,” said Bark. 
“The .New "Agreement fellows,” said Mr. 
Edwards, “ will come, and be right with us 
all the time, and they ’re good singers, and 
there ’ll be no trouble ’bout music ” 
“I move you,” said Mr. Toes, “that the 
Committee be authorized to secure the New 
Agreement choir.” 
The “ move you” prevailed again. 
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