The socialistic propaganda was an educational movement of
unquestionable value, and, while the immediate objects contemplated were
never realized and are now lost to sight, yet the agitation had a
permanent influence in awakening intelligence, giving an impetus to
thought and enlarging the liberality of the public mind.
Oftentimes the long dining room was promptly cleared after supper for
some minor entertainment, a dance, in which everyone took part, being
always in order when nothing else demanded more immediate attention.
Miss Russell was a most efficient teacher of dancing and we all took
lessons, from the gaunt and grizzled old General to the little ones just
able to learn their steps. It was a marked characteristic of the Farmers
that they all joined hands in whatever was going on. With unfailing
unanimity they all moved together, flocking like birds in whatever
direction happened to be taken at the moment, even those of the most
pronounced individuality preferring to go the way of the others rather
than go his own way alone.
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