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“THE FARZLIER IS OF MORE CONSEQUENCE TIIAN THE FARB1,

AND SHOULD BE FIRST IJIPROVED.”

VoL.7,—No. ll). }
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SCHOOLGRAFT, MICll., MAY 15, 1881.

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iliiiiiniiigion 8,5661

7 INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

This

The Family li.cccrd——lVsshed and Unwashed Wool—-
Plaster on Corn——Another from “ Old Poultry ". l

Pickings by the VVay, No. 2'I—Broa.d Tire Wagons-—
The Letter that Kilioth—'I‘ne True Theory of
Grange VVork—-Workers and Shirkors—l’roud of
the Vi.~«i'ron——li.ecipe for Making Grafting W:ix—-
Ths Moral t.):uLli‘.i:s of Lauvycrs and Saloon Keep-
ers —bIez.-ds, Plants and Bulbs, . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'. . . . 2

Sincere-at 'I‘liunks —li.ural Orange and Other Matters
—-llouie (li;in,«,;e, Nu. ibis —-Ailziirs at Dallas Grange
No. fin-3——'l‘allm:i.:ige Grange, No. (i.‘ilJ—Murs‘nall
Grunge Not1ced—The Corn or Grass Giuh——Ex-
tract H0111 an Address by Win. Van Matter, of N.
Y.——Halz'-way 1')oin's—Uiic.le Nine Replies to
Sweet Ilriai-— Reaper Deeth~— Aden, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

An Ice-House Without Ice—Whoat Prospects, No. ‘2.
The Patrons‘ Aid b‘o:‘.iei.y of Zylichigan—The “Mich-
igan Farmer " — From Detroit to the Sea —— The
Youths’ Department — Royalty — Meeting ‘at the
Agricultural College, June 2, l8S1——Alabastiue for
Walls — Free Passes —— Tuscola County Pomona
(}range—-A Great Statesman‘s Views . . . . . . . . . . . 4

The Old Oak:-n Bucket — Adulteration of Food -
’I‘axes Levied by ll. iilroads—F-arinar B's Advice to
a YUlli.l_‘_',' Farmer Who Wants to Know What to do
Rainy lhiny Days —— Notices of Meetings — ‘Nell
Auswercd—Michigsii Female Seminary, L04.‘.(i.te(l at
Kalaniazoo—Alabustius—Advertisemeuts. . ._ . . . . 5

A \'Voni:ui's Answer to a Man's Que.-ition—-A Few
Thoughts Pertaining to lluinan Life, . . . . . . . . . . . 0
Womzirfs Social Status-—Ilired Help -Does the Wife
Support. the Husband ?— Practical Hints on llou-.e
Cleaning --Ads, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Advertise-ineiits, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Ofiicers National Grange.
MA:i'i‘l£‘i3.« J. J. VVOODM.-KN, (_Paw Paw) Michigan.
Ovrnsnza ——l‘U'l.‘. DABDEN. - - llfississippi.
Liic'i‘Uni~:is-l{ENR,Y ESHBAUGH, - Missouri.
S'ri-rwzlnii-—A. J. VAUGHN, - Mississippi.
ASST. Sr:-:wsnn——W1LLIAM Sills, - Kansas
0uiLri..u.~r~S. H. ELLIS, - - - Ohio.
TREA3UR.HR—F. M. MCDOWELL, - New York.
SECRETAflY—WM. M. IRELAND, W.~i.shingl:on, D.C.
GATE-Ki~:Ei>ua-— O. DlN\VIDDll:l, - Indiana.
‘C-l£BES—-KIKS. J. J. WOODMAN, — Michigan.
Poiirous--MRS. PUT. DARDEN, - Mississippi-
Fi.ons—li1B.S. I. W. NICHOLSON, - New Jersey.
LADY Asst. S'risWaaD-MRS. WM. SIMS, Kansas.

Executive committee-

I). WYA'l"l' AIKEN, - — South Carolina.
II. JAMES. - - -
xv. ri. WAYNE, — - —

Indiana.
New York.

Officers Michigan State Grange.

M.-0. G. LUCE, - -, - Gilead.
0.——A, N. WOODRUFF, - Wstervliet.
L.-C. L. WHITNEY, - l - Musksgon.
S.--S. A. TOOKEB, - - Lansing.
A. S.——-A. E. GREEN, - - Farmington.
C.——SALMON STEEL, - llilauton, Wexford Co.
'I'.—-8.. F. BROWN, - - — Scboolcraft.
SEc.—J. T. COBB, - - - Sohoolcrsft.
G. K.——ELIJAH BARTLETT, - Dryden.
'CKRE8.——MES. A. :5. STANNARD, - - Lowell.
Po.uoi\'A.——l\lns. H. D. PLATT, - - Ypsilanti.

i"Loa.i.—hli;.s. A N. W()0Dli.UFF, Wamrviiet.
L. A. S.—I:Ias. A. E. GREEN, - Fin-mington.

Executive committee.

Tl1Ul\lAS MARS. Chairman. -

J. WEBéi'l"l:lR C-1-IILDS, - -
F. M. l'lL)LL-OWAY, - -
J. Q. A. BURIEIFJGTON, -

‘«V.\l. SA'l‘Tl<lltLEE, —

THUS. F. MOORE, - - -
Jul-IN FOR/l‘Eli. -

C. G. LUGE, J. T. COBB, - -

Berries Center.
Ypsilanti.
Hillsdale.
Tuscola.
Birmingham.
- Adrian.
Grand Rapids.
Ex-oflicio.

General Deputy.

.:.WliZ'INEY, — - - usuregoaa

State Business Agent.

THOMAS M ASUN, - - Chicago, Ill.

Special Lecturers.

Thus. F. Moore, ............. ..Adria.n, Lenawee 00.
Geo. W, Woodward. .. . . . .Shelby. Oceans 00.
3!. L. Stevens,.... .... .. Perry, Shiawassee 00.
Mrs. 8. Steele,....  .  ....Ma.nton, Wexford Co.
I... B. Brown, . . . . . . . . . . . ...Rawsonville, Wayne 00.
Andrew Campbell. . . . . . . .Ypsilant:i, Washtencw 00.
Adrian, Lsuawoe Co.

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illiiiliiiiill‘.

my

" This notched stick, suspended here

Beside the great hall door,

Hides many a quaint and curious page
Of nnwtit family lore:

It holds the record of our lives,
Each notch a. story tells,

And in its mystic marks and signs
Our family history dwells.

“ "Twas not as now, when we were young,

Our schools were precious few,

And also very far betwccn——
Our County numbered two-

And fifteeii miles in winter time,
Was rather for to go -

Remembering that the winters then
Were not devoid of snow.

“ And so tl.e schooling we obtained
(Myself and husband Dink),
Consisted all in marks and signs
And notches on a stick.

I blush not here to own this fact;
The blame, if biziine there be,

Must all attach to circumstance,
And not to Dick and me.

‘-This preface on the end. we iiolchctl
Just sixty years ago,
‘J/iicrc we hiid built our li’:.Lle hut
And moved in, through the HJOW ;
The worldly wealth we then possessed,
I'll not easily to hide,
Cousisted in it yoke of steers,
A log—chain, ex and slide.

“ But we were young and hopeful, and

Esteemed our prospects fair,

The richness of our mutual love
Relieving every care;

We dwelt within a little world
All sacredly our own,

Basking in smiles and Johnny-cake,
Living on love and pone.

*‘ This notch denotes the (lay and date

\Vlien little Dick was born

The first of June, in twenty-nino——
Just fifty years this morn.

Poor boy : he was not with us long,
Ills sands of life were few I

For here we notched him off again
In Aprii, forty-two.

“ \Vith doubting, frembliiighzr-.id<., I made
'1‘/ifs ugly notch in_i's:;:lf,
Vi'lio-n Daisy miirricii wild J uck Jones,
And moved oil to h»:r.-'elf_:
I ind no coiigfidciice in Jack,
He'd lived a reckless life-
’ Twas only under my protest
That he ohfaiin-d his wife.

“ But Daisy l)l'0ll_£ZlllZ about u chsiiijqia,

As good wise ever can,

And Jack has long since settle-il d«.wn
And proved liiznself a man.

'I‘li+-,_y own five liiin:lre.l arr».-s of
’.l'nc very best of land,

And have ii genteel halaiice. Lot‘;
Of reiicly cash on hand.

“ Our rush account we've always kept

Upon this sceparute siick—- "

I make no entries hers iilylnelf,
But leave it [ill to Dick.

Each notch 21 thousand represents,
In all just sixty—four.

And should the crops prove fair ihz.-1 _)<':.r
We'll add about five nicno.

“ ‘We've always. kept our hus‘ne'ss square,

And st:'ai‘.¢er than a otl‘Zli;'_;

Have fairly dealt with all the world
And owe no man a thing.

W'e've labored honestly and well
For every cent we've got,

An.d old age finds us happy and
Contented with our lot."

Washed and Uriwaslied Wool.

In thelast number of the Vis.i'ro9. we

promised to report i-ornetl.-i:ig of the discus-
sion on the above topic, which was to be
had at the Sheep Bheai‘ing Festival in I’;-.w

Paw on the 5th inst.
The unf'e.vr>rsb2e mcrning, betokenlng
rain, kept many from starifiig: who lived at

adistance, and the attendance was conse-
quently smaller than it would otherwise
have been.
anything of the shearing, or of the .‘!l!L'f.’p.
’l‘hose lnimedlately
very full report in the local
discussion on the report of’ air: (‘.{‘.IillIllllt3‘C*

It is not our purpose to say

iiitt-i»_»s9.c<l will get a
,:per:.«, but the

is of very wide interest.

The report was made by the Hon. J. J.
‘Woodman, no other men ‘ r.-: of the c~.rn~
mittee being present. The (‘:7-l'1‘(.‘F.p.'.\l’i(lt‘llI3t‘
was sent to Mr. Woodman by another mem-
ber of the committee the mortiing bei’oi'e;
no tinie xv.-‘-_‘- therefore zivaiiaiile in which to
make a report furl'nei- than tiiu: con*.aine<i in
the correspondence. Tlii.-i vr;~.s read by Mr.
VVoo-zluian, and comments made as the read-

ing progressed. On the subject of handling
the wool, and the distinction made between
Michigan and Ohio of several cents per
pound, various opinions were expressed as
to the reasons.
difference lay chiefly in the composition of
soil of the two States, Ohio being clay, and

One wool buyer thought the

cure being sandy, the sand worked into the

fleece and made it uusalable. The majority
adopted the conclusion that the difi‘ei'euce
was not in the quality of the wool but par-
tially in the handling, and more in the rep—
utation of the wool, su:-tained by good caic
in putting it upon the market in good .-liape.

Objection was made in iliecorrespontiexicc
to the heavy strings used in tying up the
wool. Mr. \Voodnian had learned that
wool twine was of a uniform quality in
every State, that there was distinctly no
“Ohio” wool twine in the market. It is the
same Wli6l.llel' bought in Cleveland, Chica-
go, or Detroit. He C0ll(lellJIl€(l the practice
of cutting the strings: too long so that it was
necesi-'ur_v to tuck the ends under. Three
strings each way was none too much to keep
the wool in shape. Mr l\lcElll*.'0, who liiid
just sliearérl his entire flock unwaslicd, was
called upon to state some facts. He thought
his fleece»-i were cleaner now than they
would bea mouth liencc after washing, and
he considered the sheep were in much better
condition than they would be if they car-
ried the fleece a niomh loiige-,r. Mr. \Velch
and Mr. Harrington lmtil held the i-sine
opinion. Mr. \Vel<-li thought the fleece was
drawing on the carcass as S-)f)ll as warm
weather began and it should coins oil‘. The
new growth would start at once and grow
faster in the earlier part of the season than
at any other time during the year. This
gave the sheep a better covering l":ir fall and
winter protection. Sheep that carried their
fleeces through the warui ruins of Spring
were very likely to get.‘ fly-blown and die,
unless continually watched to guard against
it.

The practice of buyers docking unwashed
wool one-third was severely censured.
Opinions varied between one-fifth and one-
eiglit as the probable diff‘ci‘enc»_a between
washed and unwashed Wool. The usual
practice of letting the slisep run two or
three wet-zks after wasliiug, to give the oil a
chance to start,was considereul to be in a con-
flltloll equivaleu‘. to llliW&.s‘lie=.l wool, with
all the disacivaiitages added.

The correspniideiioe W'21."l a-._ldre.sse;l to W.
R. Coats, of I{'.{lillX]liZ')U, n menilicr of the
CUlDllll[lP€. Below we give the pith of the
correepoiideiioc. It v.':ll be Ii‘.)llC{‘_<l iliat
C1)n1liil:<.~\i()illI1€li pi'ei‘r.-i‘ to hsniile weslmd
wool, while the in.auufn(:t=.i.=‘er.4 prefer the
iiiiwa.~4lie,-d, as ind.1«::1‘i£-tl by the following .-

\‘.'ASlllNG’i'.‘ON MILES. iz:>s'roN.

“ \Ve should pref-.~r LU purchase your
wools always unwashed for i-.ever2s.l reasons;
Fii'.-st, the wool i-'u~=.ii's uitzcii more readily
and cleanerthau it d(,ws4 after having been
W84‘il19d, as washing sveins to “set ” the
grease or prevent its starting so readily. lu
buying unwa.=.her.l =.vo:il we know irliat we
are buying better than ‘vi aslied. The condi~
tion does not vary so much. “VVa.shed" wool
means different conditions with different
men. I have seen nonilnslly washed wcols
shrink more than unwashed. I suppose
piirchasers are often to blame for not dis-
crimlmitiug. and the temptation to make
fleeces of wool weigh as heavily as possible
is one which some farmers do not resist. I
think the preference given here for Ohio
wools over Michigan at a difference of sev-
eral cents per pound is not so much in the
blood as in the different process of washing.
It seems often as if the sheep stood under a
pump, and all the dirt and grease were
washed from the back and upper flank down
into the belly locks and lower flanks, and
afzer shearing these are turned into the
fleece and out of sight, and the fleece has
the appearance of being well Washed, while
really all the dirt and grease is still there.
This, with heavy‘ stringing hurts Michigan
wzol very much in tl16l'Xizl:.‘l{F3l, and altliough
the prac-.'.ic~:: is not unknown in Ohlotherc is
 \=er_v marked «lift.-‘r_en(:c in the cor:d'iticii
of the two v.'ooi.~:. \'\"0"l unvrasheil
wuiilri rmvinle this oornpl It would be
rt-lit‘£~li‘l‘~Cl. earlier‘, and l tlllilli would be l)(-:v"£‘5.é'r
became thc heat of curly E-'ilZii.lné‘t would not
iii:-.ke the ivmi “y;iiky," which ts objec~
iionable.

I use nearly 3,003,000 lbs per snnnin, of
Which onolirilf are worsted, long staple
wool, and usually buy graded wool-s in east-
ern markets. -licxiw F. COR.
IJENNY, RICE 5-. (7-5)., Wool. COi\{MISSIOl\'El'lS,

BOSTON, MASS.

Our opinion is that the very best way for
Michigan wools is to be well washed in clear
water untilthey are white and bright. To
have all the tags, etc., put up separately, the
fleece to be tied up with small, loosely
twisted twine, and no more of it used than

£"\=«:l

fl L.

is iiecessary to hold the fleece together. At
present there is no regularity or apparent
system or standard. It would be a good
thing if every fleece were to have the owii-
er’.-' name on a small ticket attached, and
then there would be more pride in putting
up the wool, and less attempt to deceive.
There should be a sentiment condemning
the use of large, loosely twisted strings.
VVools from Michigan have a bad repute for
this, and ought to be improved upon.
DENNY, RICE ll; Co.

IIAMILTON \'v'()OLl~7.\' CO , (}l;OBE Vll.I.AGE,
MASS.

Kentucky, is large insjorityof which is un-
washed. If I were raising W00l, 1 should
sell it unwashed, and then I could shear and
ship at the most. convenient; time for the
market. One third off for unwashed wool
is none too much, but it is a matter you can
easily test for yoi;i'sclves.
Joim TA'l"l'ERSON, Agt.
HILTON, VVESTOS & C0., wool. COMMISSION-
ERS, BOSTON, MASS.

If it were the general cu:-ifcni to sell the
woolin the unwashed state, we think it
would be well. As that is not the general
custom we think the best plan is to wash it,
and to wash it well.

Pr. N. FARNSWOBTII.

Plaster on Corn.

A short article appeared in the last niim-
ber of the V1Sl’I‘0R. purporting to be the
opinion of the late eminent agrlculfurist,
John Johnson, endorsing the value of plus-
ter for corn, in an experience of i'nrty—four
years. He is reported as saying, “ The first
I used was on corn, soalrgg the corn in
water, then mixing plaster with it when
wet. I planted that rolled in plaster, the
hired man planted the same without piss
t(rl'. As soon as the corn was up I noticed
the plastered was much the darker green,
and it kept ahead of the other greatly, and
when ripe a blind man could have told the
differem-e by feeling the stalks and ears."

Mr. J alias-on was a man of to-day, and did
not go bartk 44 years for proof of a tlilug. If
plaster via:-' good for corn forty-four years
ago if is good to-day. In the article referred
to he is quoted assaying, “ I have i-la'stei'ed
all pasttir-as and mowing grouiid ever uiiioe.”
b'.it(l-:2-es not say anything about plastering
corn, that seemed to have fallen out of his
practice as it has from the practice of nearly
every one at present. \Ve protest againstus-
lug the foi't_:,--four-year-old opinion of a dead
man to bolster up an obsolete practice. If

he opliiion had been the result of a contin-
uouspracfice for the time, it would have
greater weight, but then would not out-
weigh the experience of a multitude of
thoughtful farmers who have abandoned the
practice for wsntof beneficial results. Did
the use of plaster on corn produce the effect
attributed to it, it were folly to discard it
when it is so easily applied. Let us reason
a little on the subject.and follow its teachings
rather than the opinions of those who trust
the eye-sight rather than the scales. The
wonderful effects produced in the instance
referred to, we are led to infer, came entirely
from the atoms of plaster adhering to the
wet kernels of seed, and from this came the
growth of’ stalk and ear, that in comparison
with the unplastered, the blind could die-
tinguish it. \Vhatever of nourishment the
plaster might have produced, must have
been furnished when the rootlets first emerg-
ed from the germ and while the plant was
small. The color may have been changed
at this stage to the “darker green,” men-
tioned. but as the roots pushed farther and
fartlier from these atoms seeking their food,
the effects could not have been produced.
The roots that once sustained and fed the
pltlll’ have become feet and not feeders,
their office has changed, they are now a
prop and support to the huge stalk, and the
little l'.'ll.ll‘~llke radicles that suck thejuioes
of tire soil, are pushed beyond the influence
of the insignificant atoms that were depend-
e.i upon for the crop. The plaster niay be 9.
place of deposit, or it may be changed into
9. thousand forms, but the abiiiiy of the
plant to abstract its nutriment has passed
beyond its influence. Roots in the ground
grain nothing by absorption. We do not
stand in the kitchen while the dinner is
cooking and take our sustenance through
the pores of the skin, but we take our food
in plain palpable mouths, so do the plants
in just such a common sense way. We do

\Ve use combing wools, mostly grown in '

3
i

not place crackers. in a man’s boots and tell
him to pick them out Willi his teeth and eat,
but we expect him to reach for food, and
his senses help him in the search. No less
does the plant. it  not sustained by any
such insigiiiiicaiit process. If plaster is
available at all it is inade so by being sown

broadcast, and so wtli all niauurial agents.
The nonsense of plat-iiig s spoonful of any-
thing in ii hill of corn is obvious when we
study ilic laws of growth and understand
the way plants fccd.

Another from “Old Poultry."

Hr‘-n and chicken houses in the spring
need thorough cleaning and whltewashlng.
clean the nest:-i 8ll4,0, putting in fresh hay
sprinkled with powdered sulphur, or put in
some sasssfras hark. Chicks hatched now
will begin, with good care, to lay early in
the winter.

After some experiments and some failures
we l‘(-{loll the deliberate cuiiclmaioii that a
hen can beat us from the word “go”
raising chicks. The first cost of incubators
is great; they iiscd the care at a time when
the average farincr cannot devote it to them;
if a setting of 100 eggs is set, its risk or
possible loss of the failure or neglect of this
inachine to work, is too much.

Many try liait-hing the chicks under a
lien, and then raisiiig them by hand. This
involves the expense first of a hydro-
niother, (:0.-sting eight dollars; the chicks,
feed thenu as you will, do not grow or fatten
fast; they chase around distractedly; some-
times fifty or a hundred will crowd together
into a corner, and the weakest smother;
and, literally, they do not know enough to
go in when it rains; and if they could, they
would hang this motto over the little
lattice gate of their park :1 ""What is home
without a mother." The advantages
claimed for this method are: The use
of the lzeiis for laying, protection against
hawks, nonc lost by trailing afier a hen
through wet grass on chilly mornings, and
having the chicks so as to know just where
they are. We have tried it, however, and
do not like it. We prefer to lot the chicks
remain with the lien until they will roost.

We set il")i'Ll thirteen to fifteen eggs under
it llbll, and set a number of liens at the
some time (V'!;!lI‘l~;llig the date on a card near
the riser), giving one mother two average
lmtciiings. ’l‘iii,~i saves the time of half‘ the
hens from rai.-iug cliicks. Ordinarily,
taking the flock through, the lien would
have laid over a dozen eggs, woitli ten
cents. Allowing a month for raising chicks
with the lien, she would not, probably,
have laid over two dozen eggs, worth
twenty cents. Altogether, we prefer to
make a specified contract with a flock of
good old fa.-ihioned mother hens to raise our
chickens.

We let the lien run with the chicks when
and where she chooses, or use coops for
night and morning, just according to
the amount of good hen sense the mother
displays.

It is not best. to set hens too close to each
other; when returning to their nests they
are apt to both go to the some or wrong
nest, and thus leave one or the other nest
until the eggs are cold.

Chicks do not need anything to eat for the
first day or so, until the hen has hatched all
the fertile eggs, and the hen should not
be disturbed. Feed chicks bread crumbs
soaked in water, and feed also sour milk.

OLD Poourav.

A W RITI-IR in the American Poultry Journal
recommends that in chicken yards where
the grass has all been eaten off‘ by the {owls
the yard be daily supplied with a small
quantity of freshly mown gra»:-s. Short
grass. frequently cut, as with a lawn mower,
is the best, as hens will not swallow long
grass, and when they can help themselves,
they always peck off very small pieces,
The health of fowls much depends upon
supplying Yards with grass tuat contain
none or an lniiniiiclent supply.

I w.A..\"r to tell you how to make a ham-
mock. We have some that we planned our-
selves, and find that after lying in them a
short time we are completely rested. Take
four yards of strong unbleached muslin,
make a wide hem at each end, slip ropes
through, fasten to a tree, and by changing
your position a trifle, you have an easy chair,
a bed or a cradle. VVe find ours very com-
fortable to sew in. The whole family enjoy
them from the “ househand ” to the baby ;
from 4 o’clock they are occupied until night.
They are particularly attractive and amus-
ing to the children. I hope some one will
try this kind of 9. hammock, then tell us how
they like it. We could not get along without
ours.-—-Toledo Blade.


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6-  ‘VEIIT:l-TY‘

. Musxsoon.

PICKINGS BY THE WAY, No. 27.

A week at home, with a daily mail of from
12 to 15 letters sent to the post-office has
been a rest to us, a rest from travel at least.
Several counties have been visited by two
or more letters or papers to every dormant
Subordinate Grange in them as well as to
every working Grange, asking co-operation
in the work of revival. If every true Patron
and live Grange would take a small amount
of interest and put forth a little effort, a won-
derful change could soon be Wrought in the
interest of the‘Grange and the farmers in
every part of our State. The united effort
of all in co operation is what tells.

At 3 P. 31., April 13, we left home bound
eastward, and spent ‘the night at Pontiac.
The early train over the Michigan Air Line
railroad took us to the junction near Roches-
ter, where we had time to write a few let-
ters while waiting for the train of the D. &
B. (I. R. R. to

LAPEER.

At last we were under way. At Orion,
Brother Carpenter and wife came aboard,
and also Brothers Andrews and Clark,bound
for the meeting of the Lapeer Pomona
Grange. Brother Bartlett, VVorthy Gate
Keeper of the State Grange, was on hand at
the station to receive us. Soon we were
giving the Patron’s grip to the Patrons of
Lapeer county in Bro. Manwarring’s large,
new ball. A bountiful dinner was the first
order of general business, and all points
were well discussed. The Grangcs of the
county all reported. The question of slrip-
ping wool was ably discussed, and a com-
mittee of one was ordered to act with a com-
mittee from each Subordinate Grange in the
county to cooperate with the Committee of
the State Grange in the shipment of wool.
Bro. J. Manwarring was appointed as such
member of the committee.

The lessons of the degree of Pomona were
conferred upon nine candidates.

VVe rode :30 miles with Brother Jacob \V.
Schell to his home three miles east of North
Branch, reaching our resting place by mid-
night.

APRIL 15

was spen‘. at Brother Scheil’s. visiting his
sugar bush and helping to sugar oil’. The
waxed sugar—tafl'y, was gOO(l enough to eat,
a great deallof which we thus disposed of, or
would, had Brother Werlwood, of Mariette,
not come befcize we were through and with
whom politeness compelled us to divide. In
the evening we had a fine audience of farm-
ers at the school house near by, and from
whom names were taken for the organization
of a new Grange here next Monday after-
noon. \Ve returned to Brother Henry
Schell’s for rest and sleep. This is a good
Grange family, all that are old enough ; five
of whom belong to the Order, and believe

and practice its teachings.

.\rr{kr.i.«:'r'1'n

was our place to be on Saturday, the 16th.
So af'ter breakfast Bro. \Veilwood brought
out his horse and we soon rode east and
north,passing Montgomery Grange,reaching
Marlette,the terminus of the narrow gauge
railroad from Port Huron, to go on to Sagin-

aw or Bay City as soon as the farmers along
the line will tell how much money or work
they will give to have a railroad to tax them
just what tariff it pleases. Mariette is grow-
ing rapidly and the country is developing
around it.

VVe reached Brother \Vellwood’s house in
time for dinner, and had the afternoon for
rest and sleep. In the evening a large audi-
ence greeted us at the school house, the place
where this Grange, No. 6-10, meets. Every
seat was filled. Members of Montgomery and
North Branch Granges were present. The
exercises were opened by singing and pray-
er. Good attention was given by all who
came to listen, but a trio of boys had better
stay at home next time, for they neither
cared to listen or let anyone else enjoy the
meeting. They were puppies in a. manger.
The town should appoint guardians for them
as they do not seem to have parents or any
early training.

The next morning we enjoyed the beautiful
sunlight while ridingto Brother Montgom-
ery’s hospitable home, where we remained
until morning, when Bro. Bradshaw,Master
of 607, came for us, and in the rain we rode
tohis home where we rested for the night.

ORGANIZATION

was the work of the afternoon of the 18th.
The meeting was to be at Brother Schell’s
house three miles east of North Branch
village. At the appointed time we were on
hand, Sister Bradshaw supplying the place
of her husband our guide. Twenty Charter
members were enrolled in the institution of
Elm Creek Grange, No. 645. The officers
were elected and installed, and the Grange
duly instructed. Brother George Bennett
is Master, and Brother Jacob W. Schell Sec
retary of this new Grange. This is a good
location for a Grange, and there doubtless
will be a large one here. It only needs time
and perseverance tosucceed.

After tea we bade our host and hostess
good-bye and rode to meet our evening’s
appointment with North Branch Grange,
No. 607. Bro. Bradshaw is the Master. The
meeting was at the McKillip school house,

and gave us a ride of six or seven miles. A
fair audience gave attentive ear to the lee-
ture of the evening, This Grange is pros-
pering and proposes to build a hall next
winter at the centre of the town. A good
move indeed. At the close of the meeting
we rode home with Rev. Bro. Seaman near
the line of Tuscola county and there spent
a pleasant night of rest. Our nextobjective
point was in
kf.\'Gs'ro.\', 'rUscoLA coL'_\"rY.

After breakfast Brother Seaman took us
into his buggy, and after a nine-mile ride
we found dinner and rest at the Newberry
hotel. Leaving us Brother Seaman return-
ed home, and Brother Pepoon took us three
miles to VVhite Creek, where at the house of
Brother J. C. Armin, late of Metamora, we
spent the afternoon and took tea. In the
evening we had a good audience at the
school—hou.-‘e, and there took the names of
17 farmers or more and their wives as appli-
cants for a new Grange, which will soon
meet for organization. After meeting we
walked back to Newberry and spent the
night, and at four o'clock the next morning
started to ride 1-} miles to \Vajamega to get
the train honre via Vassar, lrapeer, and Du-
rand.

\Ve reached home on the evening of the
20th to find abundance of correspondence
and other Grange work, as well as in the
home and its surroundings, all of which
had to be hurried through in three days so
that we might take the field Monday in
Eaton county, for 1-3 appointments in eight

“Gales Ajar.”

This is the title of Campaign Extra, No.
6, issued by the Cincinnati Grange Bulletin.
It is devoted to the interest of the young
people as well as the general interests of the
Grange and the farmer. Excellent articles
have been contributed by VVoIthy Master
Thing, of Maine, and VVortliy Master Har-
well, of Tennessee. A11 excellent article by
the editor, “Allin One,” will also appear.
Get, read, and circulate this as well as all
other extras. Let County and Pomona
(lranges send these extras along with the
Gaarxbr-1 Vrsrrok to every weak and dor-
mant Grange in theirjurisdiction and then
note the effect.

Srzxn the GRA1\'GE Vrsrron three months
to eight or ten families where there should
be a Grange. and see how long it will behe-
fore a Grange is desired there, or a tired
one, if there is such, set at work.—a hint to
Pomona Granges. \Vl1at is true of Granges
is true of l’ersons,—a hint to Subordinate
Granges arni‘VPatron.s. Send your Secretary
or Ma-‘tcra copy of the Vrsrron for three
months, and see if you can’t revive him,-
a hint to the Gate Keeper.

Broad Tire Wagons.

A subscriber‘ writes to ask us how much it
would cost to change a common narrow tire
road-wagon into a broad tire wagon,—the
tire to be four inches in width. He says
“there are many farmers and teamsters in
the country and towns who would gladly use
the wide tire wheels if the expense was not
too great in making the change. Men hav-
ing wagons of the ordinary one-and-three-
fourths and two-inch tire don’t want to
throw them away and buy new broad tire
wagons—merely for the sake of the improve-
ment. But if the narrow tire can be cheaply
changed into the broad tire, numbers would
adopt them, and their example would soon
be infectious.”

We are willing to do some free advertising
for the sake of this reform of road wagons,
and will cheerfully publish letters from
wagonmakers in the city or country, stating
how much they will charge to take a. narrow
tire wagon and convert it into a four-inch
tire vehicle. VVe suppose that the hub and
spokes of the narrow tire wagon can be used
in the reconstructed broad tire one—at least
the hub can be. The expense would consist
of the cost of the new fclloes and the broad
tire, and possibly new spokes, less what
would be allowed by the reconstruction
wagonmaker for the old tires. The expense
cannot be great.

Broad tire wheels need not be as high as
narrow tire wheels, as they do not cut into
the ground one-quarter as deeply, and there-
fore pull more lightly. The narrow tire
wheels are made high to overcome obstruc-
tions on the track; but these obstructions
consist almost exclusively of soft, yielding
earth, into which the narrow tire cuts, but
which the wide tire would pass over without
sinking into, and therefore the wheels may
be made lower. This would be a gain in
many respects, such as in strength of wagon,
and greater convenience of loading and un-
loading, and less liability of upsetting, or
the spokes breaking in the hub, where the
greatest strain on a wagon comes. It would
save half a million a year in Chicago to the
taxpayers in damage to the improved streets
if the tires of all the vehicles were made
double their present width; and, taking the
whole year—bad weather, snow, slush, mud
and soft roads—into consideration, the econ-
omy of draft for the animals would be at
least 2-3 per cent.—a broad tire wagon draw-
ing that much lighter, whether loaded or
unloaded, than a narrow tire vehicle. The
present width of tire is an ignorant, witless,
unreflecting custom, and 9. species of bar-
barism as well.--0’/zicago Tribune.

THE superintendent of the census has
given the railroad companies a hint of their
obligation to the laws and the people that a
number of them do not appear to relish.
Nearly 400 companies have persistently re-
fused to answer questions affecting their re-
ceipts, expenditures, debt, ets, and superin-
tendent Walker has just sent out special
agents to enforce the census law in their
cases. The law provides fines from $500 to
$10,000, and imprisonment, for refusal to an-
swer any or all of the 228 questions presented,
and Mr. Walker is credited with the purpose

to have the answers or the fines.

dzummunitatiuns-.

The Letter that Killelh.

Bro. Cobb .-—In the Vrsrron of April 1, a
lady gives her views about Secretary work
in the Grange. She thinks the minutes
taken must be full and explicit, every thing
should go on the book properly, but the
Secretary has no right to record motions,
resolutions, etc., in other words than in
those spoken ; everything must go down as
said and done, everybody must speak exact-
ly proper,—in short everything must be per-
fect.

Now this is going a little too far.
not strain at gnats and swallow camels.
The spirit is certainly worth more than the
letter in the Grange, as elsewhere, and if the
Secretary shall truthfully record in plain
words,so that every one can understand, all
business and what is of interest that comes
before the Grange, if not in precisely the
same words as given in every case, where is
the harm 2’

Many of our best men and women are slow
at forming elegant sentences, but some of
them have original and valuable ideas, and
they are exactly what we want. The dressing
of them up is of very little importance, and
may be proper Secretary work. Let us have
them, the more the better. Let no one sit
mumrn in the Grange because his or her sug-
gestions aud experiences which may be for
our good, come not forth well worded and
fit to be recorded in the very best words
spoken.

Most farmers deal with things, not parts
of speech. \Ve want to learn what we can,
how to be good farmers, to have good farms,
good cows, sheep, and horses, good children,
and good homes. These are the fundamen-
tal things to learn, all other good things
come after. If there is a way by which we
may have leisure and means for culture, we
want to know that too, but we are too apt
begin at the wrong end. \Ve deal too much
in routine already for our best interests.

A nice young man whom I once knew
‘took to himself a ‘wife. His father, a
Well-to-do farmer, gave him a good, well
stocked farm on his wedding day. The
young man ordered his wedding suit, made
of finest rnaterial,from a fashionable tailor in
the nearest large town. He also purchased
some rich clothing for his bride, and all to-
gether it was a fine affair. The neighbors
were not slow in making their comments on
such unusual proceedings: “ VVhen I see
Bill cuttin’ such a dash as that,” said an
old farmer who had earned his farm and all
that was on it, “ \Vhen Bill starts off in that
way he’ll come out at the leetle end of the
horn. He can’t dress up like that and have
much inside.” And Bill did, sure enough,
come out at the little end of the horn even
worse than the worst predictions of his
friends. Farming was not good enough, so
he must try a store. Like many of the inex-
perienced, he soon failed, his farm was
mortgaged and lost, he parted from his wife,
and finally came near going to the gallows
for shooting a neighbor in a quarrel. A
very bad ending for so promising a. start.

Now while it is true that Grange work
should be done decently and well, let us not
think too much of externals, but cultivate
the spirit which alone giveth life. - Let us
be practical, in short, good for sonzet/mtg.

E. M. V.

The True Theory of Grange Work.

Bro. Cobb .-—The Patrons of Clinton Co.
are all working, working as much, per-
haps, as those in other counties, but we find
that many are complaining that they are not
receiving as much benefit from the Order as
they seem to think they ought to receive.
In conversing with them they all readily
admit that the fundamental principles of
the Order are all right, but the question
arises, what is the reason that more work
is not accomplished and better results ob-
tained? If the principles are sound, then
the trouble lies not there, but in the wrong
or non-application of those principles.

Now, without attempting to dictate, to
find fault or even criticise too closely let
us notice a few of the many ways by which
more work might be accomplished and more
satisfactory results obtained.

First, how many Granges call to order and
begin work at the hour given in the By-
Laws. On the contrary, they engage them-
selves with their work for the f'ull day,
then their chores, then the Grange. The
members are frequently seen straggling in
at a late hour, knowing full well that “ The
Grange won’t be opened when we get there.”
We have known Granges waiting until 9
o’clock before opening. Becesses are often
too long. Often too much time is taken up
in transacting business of minor importance.
For one member to rise and speak seven or
eight times on the same question in the
same evening seems not only like robbing
others of theirjust rights, but a shameful
waste of time. Many Granges do not have
any regular work except ritualistic. This is
largely the fault of the Lecturer, who
should have a well defined program for
each meeting and earnestly urge the mem-
bers to perform each his or her part, for
each Patron is a factor in this grand organi-
zation, and the success of the Order depends
upon individual as well as united eflbrt.

Let us ~

Further, let us co operate more than we
havein the past. An opportunity is now
offered this season in the sale of wool.
\Vill we astrue Patrons step forward and
make a true application of the principles of
the Order, or will you continue in the same
old rut, and then grumble that you are not
receiving as much benefit from the Order as
you would like to receive‘?

1*‘ra?ernally yours,
.\l\'Ro.\' llRo\\'.\'.

Fowler, Mici1., May :2, 1.581.

Workers and Shlrkcrs.

[An essay reavl read before (ienfreville
Grange, April 12 l.8.%l.l

-.‘»Iankind has already be.-n divided into
many different classes, but there are still

: two oflrer great t-las.-es into which i' nra_v ice
P 1 " H iapd t-.“1ll”"”““‘ E ks.-ep-e1's —and the opinion was in
or raps, in-.-my LlILleS re « rs. nc l()Ll rna_\.'

divided, nainel_v, worl;r-rs
be so ('l.').~.1c as to cause rnuc‘vr difliculiy, if
not an impossibility, for the illllilzlll eye to
decide in which class a person belongs, but
there isa dividing line, as it were. One
must be in either one via:  or the Hill-"l'.

To be a worker does not rreuer-s::rEly imply
that one n1ustl:rbor'lr;rr'-.l from morning till
night on the farm or in the kitchen, and to
obtainaposition that requires less mental
or physical labor does not impl_=,' 2r slrirkcr.
The ambitious find something that needs
attention at every turn of the hand, what-
ever his occupation. Tlrere is work for all
to do, and almost as many ernploym-:\iris as
there persons are to be employed.

These classes are not subdivided into half
workers or half shirkers and so on, there are
just the two. liaclr one has a work which
lies within his power to do. If itis nothing
more than lie still and be patient he should
strive to do it. \Ve may not always succeed, it
would not be best. Failures often teach great
lessons, which only serve to prepare us for
better work and greater success in the tutu re.
In the hours of darkest gloom there is a
spark of hope which can be kindled, but it
may require ambition to do it.

One great secret of success in life is to
know your calling. it may take a. long
time to decide whatitis, but when once de-
cided, by working with an honestand truth-
ful zeal, Providence permitting, you will
succeed. Industry makes a lrappy home, a
good society, and banishes tramp-, while in-
dolence causes discord every where.

If humanitysnould follow the custom of

the busy honey bee, undoubtedly we would
be appalled by the slaughter, or what would
be better, the suddenly reform of the slrirk-
ers. The drones in the hive are all killed.
The worker‘ is he who does rrobly and grand-
ly,andis truly first everywhere. \Vorl«:crs
in school are soon known and am: the ones
that teachers take pleasure in rrssistirlg.
Shirkers are always mortified, but is e~.'pcl:i-
ally so when you most want him to do his
best. He is an honor neither to lrir-nsclf or
anyone else, he may skim along for a time,
receiving credit due to another, but it is
stolen and in due time will reap his just re-
word. This may not be applied to school-
boys only, but to all from ulrildlfood _to old
age.

The working mind and hand are continu-
ally digging deeper, thus holding the inter-
est of studies and occupation to the highest
point. It is grasping the work of the pres-
ent, improving on the past, and is ready for
the future.

Ye who lean upon others for support, if
you wish assistance set yourselves at work.
“ God helps him who helps himself.” That
others may be interested in us we must
manifest an interest in ourselves.

M. v, 1:.

Proud of the ‘--Visitor."

Bro. .l. '1’. Cobb.-—I desire to express my
admiration for ‘our little Vrsrron, not so
very little either, since it took on its last
growth. It has bcen a very interesting and
instructive visitor,and I am gloriously proud
of it. We have taken it ever since it was
published. I was pleased to see it come out
with its new coat, and am sure that it im-
proves in matter as well as in appearance.
There is some grand, good reading in the last
two numbers. I first read of the Granger’s
experience with the railroads in the Western
Rural, and was glad to see it in the Visi-
TOR, glad because there are more farmers in
Michigan who take the Vrsrron than the
Rural. Every farmer should read the
lVestern Rural, for it is doing much for the
farming class.

How long before men will throw away
party shackles and vote irrespective of par-
ty for the best men. I was in hopes that
the Grange would he a medium through
which the farmer would see the necessity of
not being so partisan, and I still hope.

Mason, April 3, 1851. MRS. S. B. \V.

Recipe for Making Grafting Wax.

Bro. J. T. Cobb .-—-I read in the Visrron
of April 15, that Brother James VV. Knapp
wants arecipe for making grafting wax that
will stand hot and cold weather, and I find
by an experience of over thirty years that
the following is as good as the best: Take
one part of taliow, (mutton taliow is prefer-
able), two parts of bee’s-wax, and three of
rosin: melt them together, then pour them
out into cold water, and as soon as cool
enough to handle work it thoroughly,as you
would molasses candy, when it will be ready
for use. LUTHER J. DEAN,

Master, Liberty Grange, No 30).

North Star, May 2, 1881.

, bellcll and the bar.
‘ rascality of a lawyer is rebuked by the local

The Moral Qualities of Lawyers and Saloon-
Keepers.

Tne Cincinnati Com7nerc7'al must have
some wretched neighbors of the legal pro-
fession, or else Cincinnati lawyers are, as a
lot, a little worse than the average of other
towns. Be this as it may, of one thing we
are quite sure, the (.'on2nre7'c£al man has out-
grown lhat timidity which is a. striking
feature of newspapers in referring to the
It is seldom that the

press, but let old man “ Jones" out there in
the country do a mean thing, the country
editor shows him up without hesitation or
delay. The Conmrerc1Tal has said enough,
and we dcsist.—E.r.

The Conzrnc/‘cr'ar’ i1:t'l occasion a few days

‘ago to make a cornparison between the

moral qr.-alil ies of the lawyers and the saloon
favor of
the latter much abused class of citizens. It
.-t‘\‘lllS that this observation has caused
l.e.rrt lvnrnings, and slight rnflanrrnatiomhas
set in among the legal brethren in conse-
quence. We desire to enlarges. little upon
the alleged immorality of the Bar.

h':1looll-keepers ply a trade unpopular with
the truly good, but which is an honest busi-
ness, and they are generally honest men,
who do not set flrernsclves up to be more so
than their neighbors.

Lawyers, on the other hand, must be
jutlged by a severe siandard, because they
hold themselves out to be entitled to that
large confidence, which the nature of their
business forces the community to place in
them. They talk much of their “professional
honor,” and all that sort of firing. \Vhen
questions offact arise upon which their testi-
mony is required, they make, with great
solernni.‘y, what are called “professional”
staternents,whic.h are supposed to have all the
force and effect of the affidavits of ordinary
people.

They hold Bar meetings when any one of
their numbers is “by an all—Wise Providence
snatched f'rom our midst,” where they resolve
all sorts of things about the virtues of their
brother, but never a word about thejuries
he may have packed, the testimony he has
procured, or the records that he may have
mutilated, or any other unsavory little job
in which he may have been engaged.

The lawyers oftlris city have an Associa-
tion, the avowed chief object of which is the
perservafion of a high standard of morality
among the members oftheir profcssion——and
this Association has a committee onGrievan-
ces and another committee of Investigation,
whose duty it is to hear and investigate all
charges of professional misconduct which
may be broughtto their knowledge, to the
end that those lawyers who are guilty of
any suclr offences may be deb-arred. This
As-ociation however has never hurt any one.
it is principally engaged in the consumption
of'an.ru.rl dinners, at which the virtues of
the iawers are the ever fertile fhcure.

Other trades and profr-s.-ions have similar
organizations, which scerrr to serve the pur-
pose for which they v. ere forrncd. Let any
doctor be thought to be connected with a
case of‘ abortion, for example, and the
l)0(7t0i‘s’ AL-tsoclatiorl is aflel‘ llllll at once,
The Cincinnati Chamber of (Iornmei-ce has
()(7(1i.lSl(;‘il«lll_')' gone so far as to expel a mem-
ber.

\\"lryd(r the lawyers offer up no sacrifice
on the alter of rlglrtousrre.-st’ This is not be-
cause there is no proper victims! Scarcely a.
month goes by but that we hear of some
piece of rascalily on the part ofsome attor-
ney, and all go uuinvestigated and unpun-
islred. Once in a great while, it is true,
S0.[IJe.l\()0l' wretch, Wilt)?-ie ‘f)pp()1'[unj[e5 ful-
injurrng any one are gone, is dragged out to,
be made an awful example of, and with 3,
virtuous flourish of trumpets a committee is
appointed to investigate. him and his mis-
deeds; and perhaps with great solemnity, a
long report is filed preferring charges against
him and after many other formalities he is
deprived of his licence to practice, when he
has no practice to lose.

Then the Bar is supposed to be temporarily
purged—but such a purging as this does not
deceive the thinking part ot'the community
where every one who knows anything
about it is aware that the jury-packers, and
the record-mutilators and the suborners of
perjury and procurers of assassination are
still at work.

\Ve know there are some honest men
practicing law in Cincinnati, but the great
trouble is that those honest members of the
profession, while they know all about the
packers and rnutilators and suborners—and
will give you. with bated breath, the partic-
ulars ofeach offence, with names and dates
—nevertheless do nothing to save the repu-
tation of their profession by ridding it and
the community of these pests.

The cry of these honest gentlemen is con-
stantly, Oh, yes—these men ought to be pun-
ished, but we prefer to have nothing to do
with it ourselves;” and thus what is every-
body’s business becomes nobody’s business,
and is not done at all. The little leaven ac-
cordingly leavens the lamp, and the whole
profession is natually placed on a mom]
level with those whose evil practices are
thus winked at.

Let the lawyers of Cincinnati make an
example of some one of those jury-packers
or record-mutilators, suborners of perjury
and procurers of assassination, whose fate
willcall a halt to the rest of his kind, and
then will the profession regain some of
that good reputation which it has lost
through the indifference and conservatism
appraoching cowardace of its worthier
members.~—Cincinnati Oomrnercial.

Seeds, Plants and Bulbs.

As many orders are now coming in for I

seeds for the garden, and plants and bulbs
for house and lawn, I will renew my offer
of former years to furnish any Patron or
member of the Order with them at the fol-
lowing rates:

Selecting from Vick’s, Henderson's and
other standard retail price lists, I will fur-
nish $1.50 worth of plants, bulbs and seeds
for $1.00 cash. Seeds and small plants sent
free by ‘mail. Larger plants sent by express,
with enough extras added to pay expressage.

Fraternally, I am,
0. L. VVHITNEY,
Muskegon, Mich.

To TEN names not members of the Order,
we will send the Vrsrron three months for
$1 00.


I not get along without it;

MAY l5». lS.\‘l.

i
»urrrs1iuiitIciItii-

sincerest Thanks.

Through the iiisti‘iiiiieiitalit_v of‘1{epresen-
‘Save C,,,.,,,.u(m- of I.eiiawee, bpringfielil
Grange recently l‘t'(‘ei\'ed it box of books
from the Secretary of State, as aiiiii-leus for a
librarm and as a slight ltppl‘t‘t'l:1l'l()ll of the
donation we desire through the \ isi'i'oR to
return our thanks, which were voted at our
last meeting, .~<A.\iL'i:i. .\. \\ RA\.

Springfield, May 2,1561.

Rural Grange and Other Matters-

Bro Cobb -—Riii'al cimiize ha-‘ =1 11*“
18x40 feet, two stories high, s_itu-.it;%d1 01:11 ‘tip:
N091‘ 0“. Mm.” bt'- All adqmlyld .(,) ziboiit oil
to be built this sprin_g. \\ e 1 in: e ‘V9 meet
good, faithful, working inem verb. ‘ I _“ i,
retllilarlv everv two weeks. \\ e haw‘ §=‘e’.‘t ‘
faith inithe work in which the Order IS
engaged. _ _ _ .

I W°u.1<”*k€ ‘<2 9a>'.Ju»*t =*. ‘?‘.’_‘§‘. mi .33
sheep dip a(lVel‘llSf-‘ti lu the \ isi it 1. 11 h ‘t
for one gaigmh It has proved to be 21 1.4-
it claimed to be so far as I have used it.
One allon when reduced makes 10(l‘¢’3“°D5-
I hasge used it on sheep. i101‘=‘€-‘»‘» 311“ Uamev
and found it as recornmended. I intend to
test, it on sweet corn and garden seeds this
spring also. _, __ 527*‘ 5‘

\Vayland, Allegan Co., April .24, 15:1.

Home Grange. No. 188.
B-ro. Cobb .-—As our Llrallgfi 15‘ in 3 
- - - 3 ,1, ‘
perous condition I am incliuc<_ to  1.
the fact to headq'.iai'ters. Our iarineis are
plowirig for spring crops, but it don t seem
to affect. the atteviidance at our Grani: I11‘-CY‘
ings, which are held ex ery.t'wpfl\\:ei]r  win-

‘vVc have had quite a ieyiva .iis 4.’, _ pi
ter. Have taken through four caiidiil-.ites.
and have two more on the road, liesidts rc-
cm-,,mm, ten tymt ]i;,d_ :<tr:iye.l lion; the
Grange fold. .

At. every meeting when other lllislllt’-‘.~‘i
does not prcveiit, we have discussions which
helps keep up an interest in our nicr-tiiigs.
\Ve feel that the seasoii of depression has
been passed and that we are now stronger
in numbers and real power thaii ever before,
as harmony and true fraternity pleV ails
through all our borders. ,

A Farmers’ Alliance has been organr/.i—:d at
Coloma. Its meetings are held alternately
with our Grange meetings in ourli-all. And
so the work goes bravely on.

Fraternally yours.
‘W. M. I-loA(i,

Affairs at Dallas Grange. No. 505.

Bro. Cobb .-—I)allas (jrarige, No. 505, lives
and prospers. We have taken in a score or
thereabout of new inembers, within the last
few months, and still they come. We held
an open meeting not long since and had
the large ball crowded with anxious listen-
ers. Our program, which consisted _of
readings, essays, music, and a general dis-
cussion 011 stock and grain raising, was
is good, one and well worked. V\ e make a
a practice of making out a program for each
meeting a Week or two in advance, and as-
signing parts to members so that they may
be in readiness to take their part. Our
meetings are held weekly on Saturday even-
ings, and with agood attendance. _

We have bought goods of Geo, VV. Hill
to the amount of five or six hundred dollars,
with satisfaction.

The Clinton County Pomona Grange met
with us April 16, and allowing me to be
judge, I should say we had a pleasant and
profitable session. Bro. Shipman, of Eaton
Co.,wa.s present and talked up the wool ques-
tion in a manner that did great credit to
him and to our Grange principles. His vis-
it resulted in the election of Brother Bris-
tol, of St. Johns, as our agent for the ship-
ment of wool for this season. It was thought
best to ship direct to a Boston commission
house, as all who have done so heretofore
were well pleased and claim to have received
from six to eight cents per pound more than
the home market would have paid them.
This is a move in the right direction. Let

er Patron hel it along. ,

W Y p DR. GEO. E. Buss.

Fowler, April 22, 1881.

Tallmadge, Grange No. 639.

I almost fear that some of the sisters and
brothers of Michigan do not know that there
is such a Grange as Tallmadge in existence.
Nevertheless it is so, and we are over one
year old. We organized in April, 1880, with
about 30 charter members, and have been
growing steadily ever since.

I have been waiting a long time to see
something from the sisters of our Grange,
but have not as yet, so I concluded I would
speak for them, as I do a great deal of talk-
ing, whether it amounts to anything or not.
I do love to read the sisters’ letters and
essays. I think it does us all good to hear
the sisters express their minds so freely
through the GRANGE VISITOR, and I trust
they will continue to do so with charity.

I do think the Grange has been a god-send
to the farmers’ wives and daughters. It
gives us something to do besides our endless
chain of housework to brood over from early
dawn until the setting sun, and often later
in the evening. It gives us something to do
for others as well as for ourselves ; and who
is not happier when they try to be a benefit
to others as well as to themselves ? I often
think with what alacrity the work moves
along as the week begins to draw to a close.
and Saturday is our Grange day. Some will
say to me, “How do you manage your work
to go to the Grange ? ” I say to them, “ arise
early in the morning and work a little later
in the evening ;” and I find no difliculty in
accomplishing the work and going to the

Grange.

And then there is our GRANGE VISITOR,
and a very welcome visitor at our place, too,
sisters. It seems just like a member of our
family. VVe have taken it nearly ever since
it has been published, and think we could
and I do think
too much cannot be said in its praise.

But, sisters, I am in dread of Bro. Cobb’s
waste-basket. Although I saw his genial
face at Berlin, last summer, yet I think I
could see something about his visage which
said forbearance might cease to be a virtue;
so I am in dread. More anon.

AUNT JANE.

TEE

Marshall Grange Noticed.

Bro. Cobb :—As I have read from week to
week items of interest from sister Granges,
telling of their work and progress, I felt a
growing ambition to see Marshall Grange
and its few active members mentioned in
your paper. Ours was the pioneer Grange
in this section of the country, and its mem-
bership has been counted by hundreds, but
from various causes it has dwindled
to a present very small numberof live and
active members who yet see in the Grange
many sources of improvement whose value
is not to be measured in dollars and cents.
But every Patron knows that after sowing

; there comes a weeding time, and so we are

not discouraged, but hope that what we lack
in numbers will be made up in the solid
worth of those we have left. \Vc hold
our meetings between the hours of one and
three 1’. )1. Saturdays. During the winter we
held them every week but as the busy sea-
son approaches, will meet only once a
month. \Ve give a program of work one
and two weeks in advance. Thus the mem-
bers know what subject will be discussed
and so comeprepared to do their share in the
work. After opening exercises, music, etc.,
we have disciissions on questions,followed by
essays and select readings, and we feel each
week that we have an increasing interest in
the Grange, and that its benefits socially,
cannot be overestimated. Our last meeting
on April 5), was very spirited in its discus-
sions on questions,liad also a timely essay by
Sister H. on the all absorbing topic of
house cleaning (which I enclose.) also a

fshort but good paper upon flower culture,
g by one of our young lady members, Miss E.
. \V.

One subject on the program for our
next meeting is, “ \Vhat are a married
woLnan’s rights in regard to property, or the
property of a deceased husband?” \Ve
would be glzd to hear from all Patrons on
the siibjcct. Also from our esteemed edit-
ors. It is a subject upon which all women
and many men are altogether too igiiomnt.
.\Iai'c-iigo, April 21, 1881. i..

The Corn or Grass Grub.

’l'o '1‘/us EcZz'to'r.-—Prol'cssor Cook, of the
Micliigaii State Agricultural College, covers
six pages of the second annual report of
Mich. Poniological Society in giving some
lllf(>I‘fl’l'zltl()ll about the cut worm, and after
all, no pi‘a(-tic-al method is shown whereby
we may rid ourselves of these pests. He
says a gcml deal about the birds, and suggests
that we do everything to encourage them,
and they will wellrepay us for our trouble
in killing the cut worm. VVood-peckers,
robins, blue-birds, larks, and other birds are
certainly a great help, but the cut worm is
in the ground in the day time and comes to
the surface after dark, and if we get them
we must work after dark; and the following
is the way we captured the little pests when
I was a boy sixty years ago,

Take a lantern and follow the hills of corn
and pick them up from each hill. Follow
this up as soon as they make their appear-
ance and in a few days the worms will be
gone and the corn out of the way of them.

Sparta, Mich. E. A. ROBY.

Extract from an Address by Wm. Van Marler of N. Y.

Every one will recall the history of Rome
in the period of her rising power—how her
Senate, the highest body in the Republic,
was composed of men from her burgess or
farmers, selected for their wisdom and their
virtues; how even this body of men consul-
ted communities of burgesses before passing
the laws; how, in a time of peril they chose
from the farm a Cincinnatus for Dictator,
who, after fulfilling his mission and saving
his country, returned to his farm and with
his own hands guided the plow. Pliny, one
of the most classic as well as voluminous of
Roman writers, referring to this happy
period,when the people were not burdened
with taxes, because their rulers were taken
from the fields, says: “The earth, glorious
in seeing herself cultivated by the hands of
triumpthant victors, seemed to make new
efforts, and to produce her fruits with
greater abundan ce.’.’ This was no doubt be-
cause intelligent head assisted the virtuous
hand, as well on their farms, in sowing and
and cultivating, as they had at the head of
the army in conquering the land. Here
wasa country where agriculture was not
only in theory, but in reality, the noblest
occupation, and where it commanded the at-
tention and shared the love of the virtuous,
the learned and the wise.

Experence shows us,in all the industries of
life, that persons of superior intelligence,
force of mind and industry, are sure to reap
in their calling the richest rewards. It was
this that made agriculture so successful an d
profitable. From these instances of well
authenticated history, we must concmde
that as a eople and as a government, we
were great y excelled by the heathen in this,
the all important branch ofindustry. Then
the wisest, the most learned men, were the
tillers of the soil. Then the rulers, the
kings, the governors, were taken from the
fields. How wisely they goverened, how
well they laid the foundations of their coun-
try’s prosperity, and how abundant and
cheap were the products of the soil,is attest-
ed by the united records of history. How
agriculture was the_ first. care of the State,
how the collected wisdom of these countries
was devoted to this subject, is attested by
their legislation and by their literature.
In those times there was no printing, and
authors were few. Yet Greece and Rome
had more books upon agriculture than upon
war, or legislation or art,or science, or phi-
losophy. To-day, for every work upon agri-
culture, you will find a score upon history,
science, finance, political economy, or phi-
losophy. All this shows that agriculture is
not held in the highest esteem by the cultiva-
ted, or the controlling thought of the time.
The commercial, the manufacturing, the
banking and general moneyed interests of
the nation, are united and organized, and
they occupy the foremost and the command-
ing places in business, in society, and in
legislation. They get the aid of govern-
ment, while agriculture, the largest and
the most necessary of all industries, has no
compact and determined organization. and
scarcely a voice in controlling the business
interests or legislation of the land.

The people of this country in their efforts
to stay the encroachments of the great rail-
way corporations have numbers, right,
justice and the law, even the decisions of
the Supreme Court on their side. “The

Court awards it and the law doth give it.”

GMWB. ,

 uiitlii.’ Eiepaiilmeitt.

HALF-WAY D0|N'S.
Belubbed fellow-trabelers: In lioldin' forth to-day,
I doc-sn’t quote no special verse for what I has to say,
De sermon will be very short and dis here am de
tex'.
Dat half-way doin‘s ain,t no count for dis worl’ or
de iiex';

Dis worl’ (lat we’s a-libin’ in is like a cotton row,

Wha.’ ebery culled gentelman has got his time to hoe;

Arid ebery time a lazy nigger stops to take anap,

De grass keep on a-growin‘ for to smudder up his
crap.

When Moses lcd de Jews acrost de waters ob de sea,

Dey had to keep a-goin, jes’ as fiis’ as ins’ could be;

Do you s’pose dat dey could ebber liab succeeded in
(leir wish,

And reached de Promised Land at las’—- if dey had
stopped to fish?

My frien's, dar was a garden once, whar Adam libbed
wid Eve,

Wid no one ’rouiid to bodder dsm, no neighbors for
to ’ceive:

And ebery day was Christmas, and dey got der ra-
tions free

And eberythirig belonged to dem, except an apple
tree.

You all know ‘bout dc .*t'Jl‘y—-l10\h' de snake came
srioopiri’ ’roun‘—

A Stumpy-tail rusty Iuocassiu, a-crawlin’ on de
growii‘—

How Eve and Adam c:i.t de fruit, and went and hid
dcir face,

Till de angel obcrseer he came and drove ‘cm c-fr‘ dc
place.

Now, s’pose (lat man and ’omaii hadn’t ‘tempted for
to shirk,

But had gone about dcir gurdeniif and ’tcnded to
deir Work,

Day wouldn’t hub been loafiii’ whar dey had no
business to,

And do debbil ncbber’d got a chance to tell ’cin what
to do.

No half-way doin’s, bredren! It’ll nebber do I say!

G0 at your task and finish it, and dcn's de time to
play--

For even if de crap is good, do rain ’ll spile dc bolls,

Uniess you keep a pickin, in de garden ob your souls,

Keep a-blowiii’, and a-hoelii', and a-scrapiii’ ob dc
rows.

And when de giiiniIi's obcr, you can pay up what you
owes;

But if you quit a-workiri’ ebery time de sun is hot,

De sheriffs gwiiie to lobby upon eberythiug you's
got.

Wliatebcr ’tis you's dribin’ at, be short and dribe it
through.

Ar1ddon’t let nuilixi' stop you, but do what you’s
"wine to do'
a i _ ,

For when you sees a niggur foolin’, den, as shorc‘s
you‘re born,

You's gwiue to see him comin‘ out de small end ob
dc horn.

I thanks you for de ’tentioii you has gib dis after-
noou——

Sister Williams will oblige us by a-risin’ ob a. tune-—

I see dat Brudder Johnson's ’bout to pass ‘round de
hat,

And doii’t 1et’s hub no half-way doin’s when it comes
to (lat!

——.S'cribner's Magaziiie.

Uncle Nine Replies to -"Sweet Briar.”

My Dear Niece “Sweet Briar” .-—Your
letterin the VISITOR of May 1, has been
carefully read. You make some poiiits,and
ask some important questions which I will
briefly refer to.

This Department was intended for the
youth of the farmers’ families of our State
and we hope they will use it. It is notice-
able that young people from fourteen to
twenty seldom write. and to call out such
was our intention when we invited the at-
tention of our nieces and nephews.

At this age people should listen, read and
think, and should have material to use in
Writing and speaking. VVriting would ex-
cite thought and research and thus form ac-
curate knowledge, and published here
would call forth responsive thought from
the readers. Let the young people of four-
teen years and upwards, whether in the
Grange or not, use this opportunity of pre-
paring themselves for future usefulness and
the active duties of life, and give all young
readers of the VISITOR the benefit of their
knowledge and experience. \Vhile writing
you will not only help others but improve
yourselves. Let us hear from many of you.

I have already written a letter which will
give you aclue to my age and you will be
likely to read it soon. As to a course of
reading, I have not time here to make
an extended list of books for your use, but
give a general hint, It is important, “what
you read,” and “how you read.” What
you read should be in pure English and of
an excellent character. You should read for
language as well as for ideas, and the book
is best that gives the best of thoughts in the
purest language. Our books are as much
our companions as our friends and associ-
ates, and we as unconsciously adopt and fol-
low the habits and words of the one as the
other. Select then books with the same care
as companions. “ How to read,” is an im-
portant question. I will say, slowly and at-
tentively. Some books need to be read
many times and studied to get their full val-
ue. We should study Shakespeare, line by
line to get the full burden of thought.
Never read history, biography, or, in fact,
anything without the dictionary and atlas
at hand. Locate every place and find the
meaning of every word you do not under-
stand. More soon. UNCLE NINE.

Dear Uncle Nine .-~I have become very
much interested in the Youth’s Department,
and thought that I would try and help fill
up the little column. My father and moth-
er are not members of the Grange because
there is no Grange near enough so they can
go; we take the VISITOR, and all think very
much of it. I have attended school this win-
ter, the same as most all the little readers.
VVe have had just one of the best ofteachers,
but our school is out now for a short time.
In answer to May Morford, I think that
South America is the largest peninsula, and
that Magellan was the first man who enter-
ed the Pacific Ocean, and that he entered it
through the Straits of Magellen, hence its
name. In answer to Fred, I think that
Gaylord is the highest point in Michigan.
It is in Otsego county, and is nearly 700
feet above the level of the sea. Will any
one tell me what the governments of South
America are. and in what State the preci-
pice known as Hawids Nest is, and can any-
one tell me the age of the murdered Czar
of Russia? Respectfully. MARY E.

Lockwood, Kent Co. May 12, 1881.

7CE§iT@3?é

Uncle 1\'i'ne and Cousins.-—-According to
promise I write. I have been making a
set of vases out of Bristol board. I have
them done now and they are setting on my
organ. I have a rug I work on when I have
nothing else todo. It is worked on coffee
sack with Cl'O:S stitch. Ma and I have
several house plants such as Begonias,
Coleus, Fuchlas, Geraniums, Oleanders,
Monthly Rose bush. Cactus, \VanderiL.g
Jew, Parlor Ivy, Kenilworth Ivy, and
others._ ltisagreat pleasure in the cold,
cold winter to look at them when every
thing out-of-doors is dead. \Ve are having
such a wet, disagreeable spring the farmers
cannot plow, except those who live on the
bottoms. It will be nice a few days and
then snow or rain. Plea:-‘e allow me to ask
two or three questions. First: Can any of
my little cousins tell me how to make paste
for a scrap book‘? Second: What two
chapters in the Old Testament are both
alike‘) Third: How many letters in the
l\ew '1‘cstameiit? Well, cousins, uiy letter
is growing quite long, and I fancy l,'Nci.i~:
i\INE's face is too, so I will bid you all good
bye. STI-:i.i.A S"i‘L'(:i<r.'\'.

Burnsvillc, Iiid., April 15, 1881.

Dear U/iclc Nine.-——l\Iay I try and see if
I cannot write you alettcr. I often read
the \'isIToi<. I would say in answer to en-
quirers that the largest peninsula is Africa.
1 think Magellan was the first man who cu-
tered the Pacific Ocean. Balboa discovered
it but did not enter it. The mountains
which have been seen at the greatest dis-
tance are the Himalayas, at a distance of
21-1 Iiiiles. Now let me ask a few questions.
Vvlieii and by whom was the Mississippi
river discovered ‘? \Vho discovered the
Sandwich Islands‘.-’ \Vas America discov-
ered before Columbus discovered it, if so,
who discovered it‘.’ I think “ Sweet Briai‘ ”
is right in saying that for the last two
papers our department has reseiribled an
" infants columii,” and that it was not fair
for this “ infants ” to usurp our place. Now
let us all write and have a nice time, and in
this way we can become acquainted with
one another. Let those who are afraid to
write say they will write, and it will be
easier for them. I read the \'i.-iroit a great
deal and I think it a very nice paper.

Your nephew, Url~.‘Uk€(:lvI.

Hastings, April :3-3, 1551.

THE REAPER, DEATH.

BOSWOItTH.—Died at his residence in ltoxziiid

March '27, 1361, LUTHER Boswoaru, 21. member of
Sunfield Grange, No. '.’li0, in the 83d year of his age.
The following resolutions of respect and condolence
were adopted by the Grange :

VVJII-IREAS, Death has again invaded our ranks and
taken from us our brother, reminding us that the
harvest of time is sure and certain ; therefore

Resolved, That in the death of Brother Bosworth
this Grange has lost an earnest and consistent mem-
ber, his tamily a. kind and indulgent husband and
father, and the community a. worthy and useful cit-
izeii.

R£‘S01l‘€ll, That our heartfelt sympathy be extended
to the family of our deceased brother, realizing that
no words of ours can heal their sorrow, or fill the
vacant place in the family circle. VVe can only com-
mend them to Him who doeth all things Well.

Resolved, That the charter of the Grange be draped
in mourning for sixty days, that these resolutions be
spread on the minutes of the Grange, and a copy be
sent to the GRANGE VISITOR for publication.

S. A. TowN,

VVM. Towu,

R. WELSII,
Committee.

ENGLES—Dicd March 29, 1881, Brother AUSTIN
ENGL}-IS, a worthy Brother and Charter member of
Otsego Grange, No. 36-1. The following resolutions
were presented to the Grange and adopted.

VVHEEEAS, We deeply realize the severe loss which
we have sustained ; therefore,

Resolved, That We extend our heartfelt sympathy
to the bereaved relatives in this their day of sorrow.

Resolved, That our Charter by draped in mourn-
ing for 60 days.

Resolved, That copies of this obituary notice be
presented to the father and daughter of our beloved
Brother, also entered upon the records of our Grange,
and sent to the GRANGE VISITOR for publication.

ANDREW THORNTON,
W. S. MABTINDALE,
Committee.

CHAP.\1A.\’-—At a. meeting of Bengal Grange,
held April 23d, 1831, the following preamble and res-
olutions were adopted :

WHEREAS, Death has again invaded our Grange
and removed from our midst our much esteemed
Brother, SII.As CHAPMAN, again reminding us that
the old must die and the young may; therefore,

Resolved, That this Grange has lost an earnest,
consistrut member, and the community a worthy and
useful citizen.

Resolved, That we extend to the family of our de-
parted Brother our sincere sympathy in their be-
reavement, and that a copy of these resolutions be
presented them by the Secretary, and also sent to the
GRANGE VISITOR for publication.

Resolved, That out of respect for the memory of
our deceased brother our Hall and Charter be draped
for thirty days. Dow LYON,

Mas. D. LYON,
Mn-i. N. H. BAKER,
Committee.

WALL—Brother WILLIAM WALL, a worthy mem-
ber of Paradise Grange, No. 638, died April 8, 1881,
aged 20 years and seven months. The Grange
adopted the following preamble and resolutions ex-
pressive of its regard and sympathy.

WIIEREAS, For the first time since its organiza-
tion death has visited our Grange and taken from
our midst Brother WILLIE WALL, a, member of this
Grange; therefore,

Resolwd, That in the death of our brother a kind
family have been called to mourn an affectionate
son, a loving brother, and the Grange a worthy
member. He was a young man of noble intellect, a
liberal mind, and bright prospects of future useful-
ness. Though gone from among us let us fondly
cherish his memory, holding in sweet remembrance
his many virtues. He was beloved, honored, and re-
spected by all.

Resolved, That we as 11 Grange mourn the loss of
our brother and extend to the bereaved family our
heartfelt sympathy in this their sorrow.

Resolved, That as an expression of our respect for
our departed brother the Charter of our Grange be
draped in mourning for 60 days and a copy of these
resolutions be presented to the family and placed
upon the records of our Grange, also copies be sent
to the GRANGE VISITOR, Traverse Herald, and Eagle
for publication. SAMUEL CBONKHITE,

Mas. J. W. KINGSLY,
E. G. KINGSLY,
Committee.

COOLEY—-Died at the residence of Ira. Hiller,
Four Towns, March 21, 1881, after a. long and pain-
ful illness, Mas. SLOAN Coomrv, aged 65 years.

WHEREAS, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to
take from our midst our worthy sister, LUCY COOLEY;
therefore be it

Resolved, That while we bow to the will of God
we realize the void made in our circle by the death

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of our sister, who was one ofthe Charter members
of Commerce Grange, No. 325.

Resolved, That our great and noble Order has lost
one of its most efficient members, whose memory
will ever be cherished by us. and whose many virt-
ues have endeared her to all hearts.

Resolver], \\'e, as a Grange. tender our heartfelt
sympathy to the husband and friends of our deceas-
ed sister in their bereavement, and trust tliat they
will find consolation in -‘ Him who doeth all things
well.”

Resoh-nil, That our hull be draped in mourning
for -10 days; that a copy of these resolutions be pre-
sented to Brother Cooley, and placed on the records
of the Grange, and that they be'serit to the GRANGE
Yisiroiz and county papers for publication.

Ma. W. B DICKIE,

Mas. W B. DI(.‘l-(IE,

Mas. W. 1:. DREWATT,
Committee.

_AD.MiVANDENBEB/Ci:

MANUFACTURER,
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AN ICE-HOUSE WITHOUT ICE.

We hardly expect any of our farmer
friends who took advantage of the long cold
winter that isjust hardly out of sight, to lay
in a good supply of ice, will give much heed
to the suggestions of this article. But there
are very many who had no ice-house and
did not get ready to build one in season,
who have no ice, and expect to get along
somehow this summer as they always have
before.

We have an ice-house, all nicely packed
with sawdust and very well adapted to the
purpose of keeping ice; but there is no ice
in it, and probably never will be. \Ve have
found out a better,cheaper and more effectual
way of keeping the sundries that it is desir-
able to keep cool, than by the use of ice.

We have a well, 18 feet to water, bricked
up all right. Over this is a windmill der-
rick, which is inclosed, lined on the inside
12 feet high, and the 4 inch space filled with
sawdust. The water for general use is obtain-
ed by a drive-well or pipe driven just outside
of the brick well, leaving the well free and
clear. Up in the derrick is a grooved wheel
about twenty inches in diameter, made of a
piece of two-inch plank. This wheel, with
aone-inch round iron axis, runs between a
couple of pieces of 3x-f hard wood 30 inches
long, blocked apart at the ends and bolted
with two 1-2-in. carriage bolts at each end.
Over this wheel is a ‘,‘-in. new rope some 31)
feet long, with about 100 pounds of old iron
at one end and at the other, dangling over
the well, hangs my substitute for an ice-
house.

This is made barrelshaped, four feet
long, with three shelves afoot apart. The
diameter of cooler is determined by the
diameter of the well. The ends, or heads,
and the shelves are of inch lumber, and the
outside is common siding with the ends
narrowed like jointed staves and nailed
securely 011 to the heads and shelves. An
open space a foot wide, from top to bottom,
answers for a doorway to this cooling cup-
board.

The weight and the cooler with its load of
butter, cream, cooked potatoes, sauce, fresh
meat, and other sundries that are best if
cool, must about balance each other, to work
to the best advantage. VVhen supplies are
short, as they are sometimes, even in fami-
lies that are run in pretty good order, we
restore the equilibrium by placing some odd
weights that we have convenient for that
purpose, on the vacant shelf. In this way
all the good things that it is desirable to
keep cool, are sent down some 12 or 15 feet,
with little trouble, and when wanted are
found in the very best condition for use.

Now, every one has not got a windmill,
and many who have, cannot make it availa-
ble for the purpose we have indicated, nor
are other conditions present to make it
available. But to every farmer who has an
open well sufficiently near to the house to
be convenient, and sufiiciently large to be
made available for use as a cooler, we would
say that we know of no way to add so much
to the satisfaction that comes of having good
victuals, in good desirable condition in warm
weather, as by having some such arrange-
ment as we have described.

A friend of ours three years ago dug a
well, four feet square, close by his back
door, putting in ll-in. oak curbing, enclos-
ing it and laying a floor even with his back
porch. A common, iron well-wheel hung
over the center of the well, with an extra
wheel to carry the rope out over one corner,
was used, and a long iron weight attached
to a rope descended into the well to bring up
a box suspended from the other end of the
rope. This box was used as the depository
of the articles that were kept fresh and in
palatable condition, and was made for
the purpose, about three feet square, with
sides some eight inches high. Iron bales
from the corners crossed above the center of
the box; to these bales the rope was tied.
As I remember, one corner of the box was
cut ofl‘ a few inches to make room for the
balancing weight to pass and repass.

Of course there are houses with cool cellars
and spring houses, and facilities of one sort
and another, by which the object of having
one’s victuals kept in good condition in hot
weather is secured to many families. In
very many places the plan which we have
adopted is not practicable, but where it is-
where the conditions are favorable, we
cannot too strongly recommend the use of
this sort of a cooler to every one who prefers
solid, firm butter to the soft. oily lump that
comes on to the table three times a day,
even when the good housewife has done
about the best she could.

Twelve or _fifteen feet below the surface of
the earth, where there is a constant evapo-
oration from the water below, gives a tem-
perature that is just as near right as we
could wish. We are without any experience
as to what the temperature would be if a

v a little space for a dumb waiter.

dry well were used, but have some doubt
about it being quite the thing. If any of
our readers are better posted on this point,
we should like to hear from them.

Let us suggest to our friends who are house

building this season, if not too far along, to
so alter your plan as to have in your pantry
But little
room is required, and the time and the hard
work of going up and down the cellar
stairs that it will save every year will more
than save the cost. Ceil up a space, say 20
x40 inches, from the cellar bottom to the
ceiling of your pantry. Put a petition four
inches from oneizend, from the bottom not
less than three-fourths of the entire height,
back of which the weight can ascend and
descend without interfering with the cup-
board or dumb-waiter. Hang a pully or
wheel of sufficient diameter to allow the
cupboard and the weight to hang free, and
run up and down in this ceiled space with-
out friction. This cupboard needs no door,
but may be open on both sides. The door
in the case should be up, say two feet, from
the floor in the pantry, as a matter of safety.
In the cellar the door may go to the floor, if
desired, and for the purpose of ventilation,
wire cloth pannels should be used, with a
large opening opposite the door, covered
with wire cloth. Now, if the conditions for
well digging were as favorable as they are
here, where two men will dig and curb a
well in a day, we would have our dumb-
waiter go down to water.

V\'e are not sure but that the women of to-
day work just as hard as our grandmothers,
who found time to make the cloth for the
family, taking the raw material almost from
the sheeps back. VVhether they do or do not,
does not so much matter. Very many, with
the tyrannous demands of fashion and
custom, are really working, from day to
day, to the extent of their capacity, and
our farmers generally understand this, and
are quite ready to render needed assistance
when they can.

VVe must continue to add conveniences to
our domestic arrangements whenever and
wherever we can, for hired girls are not
always to be had, nor always ready to do all
the drudgery that comes necessarily as a
part and parcel of house-keeping.

\Ve have outlined a convenience that We
know, from a year’s experience, to be worth
more than it cost.

Our ice-house and rejfrigcrator is down
in the well, and is a good one. VVe can
not draw upon it when vse want to make
ice cream, but we find it better economy
to buy a block of ice at the market when we
must have ice cream than to fill an ice

house; and for other purposes we seldom
need ice.

WHEAT PROSPECTS, No. 2.

\Ve received several reports of the condi-
dition of the wheat fieldsjust after going to
press May 1, too late for that number. The
first from VV. C. Pratt, Middleville, Barry
County, gives the out-look as promising not
more than half a crop. Samuel Stowell,
Master of Easton, Grange, Ionia Co., wrote
under date of April 28, “The prospect of
a good crop of wheat in this county is tru-
ly encourging. The spring has been favor-
able, and the late warm weather and bounti-
ful showers have started wheat beyond all
account. VVe have some dispondent ones
who say that we will not have half a crop
of wheat, but the large acreage sown, and
the healthy look of the growing crop does
not warrant their assertions.

Our prospect in this County is good for a
good, large crop of fruit. Peach buds are
uninjured to a great extent, and the trees
look healthy and good.”

G. F. Stone, writing from North Plains,
same date and county, reports, " The crop
in this section is very poor, but few pieces
that look well and a great many are badly
killed and are being plowed up. Farmers
say they never saw the wheat look so badly
as it does this spring.”

A. Ford writes from Millbrook, Mecosta
Co., “ VVheat is looking poorly here. I think
ten bushels per acre is about as much as we
shall get.”

George A. Peters, of Scio, writes that
“old Washtenaw County will have about
one-third crop, if everything is favorable
from this to harvest time.”

C. B. Whitcomb, of Hartford, Van Buren
Co., at the close of a business letter adds:
“ Wheat is doing as well as could be expect-
ed, some pieces looking well,while others are
looking badly. Late sown coming on splen-
didly, perhaps the best.”

From Big Rapids, Brother Joseph Smith
writes, “ In this part of the county there is
butvery little fair wheat. The best wheat
is found on high, rolling, sandy land. A
large amount will not pay for cutting. I
shall plow up mine, as I have little faith in
what remains making a crop of plump
wheat. It will be late and very liable to
rust. A great many have seeded to grass,
and so will let it stand. Many of the fields
that have improved in appearance by recent
rains, on examination are found to have the
improvement mainly in grass.”

Luther J. Dean, of North Star, Gratiot
County, answers our inquiry, “ As far as I
have been able to learn. the wheat in this
county will not exceed a half crop, though
fair weather may improve it.”

Mary Edgell, Secretary of Hopkins Grange,
Allegan Co., says: “ Taken as a whole, the
prospect is a very poor one. Old farmers

who have raised wheat here for thirty years
say they never saw it look so poorly. No
more than halfa crop is expected by any
one, and some are plowing their wheat up,
and some more hopeful are Waiting to see
what efiect the warm weather and good
rains will have upon the sorry looking
fields.”

May 9, J. T. Packer, Morenci, Leelanaw
County, wrote that the question of the
prospect of the wheat crop, came up in their
Grange at the last meeting, and the conclu-
sion reached was that they had a fair pros-
pect in their section of the county for an
average crop.

These letters were all written before the
10th inst. An intelligent gentleman of
Three Rivers, who is well acquainted
throughout the county, and has raised
wheat continuously for more than thirty
years, gave it as his opinion that St. Joseph
County would not more than raise its bread
and seed Kalamazoo County may do some
better, but the prospect is certainly very
poor.

THE PATRONS’ AID SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN.

Vile have quite a good many enquiries
about the Patrons’ Aid Society, and we will
now make a general answer covering all
questions that have been raised. as well as
we are able and perhaps some other points.

In the first place there are a great many
people in this country and more coming
every day. Large numbers of these people
at some time take an interest in life insur-
ance, and hundreds of thousands of them
have taken out policies in stock companies.
The business has largely been managed
in the interest of the stockholders and oili-
cers of these companies, and these compan-
ies have been managed as an enterprise for
making money, and that object has been
accomplished in most instances with little
regard for the real interests of the insured.

The business has been encumbered with
various devices to attract, which promised
great advantages to the insured, and always
had to be liberally paid for. High salaries,
commissions and profits have absorbed a
large proportion of the money collected of
the policy holders.

Vilithin the last few years this matter has
come to be better understood, and numerous
aid societies have been organized. These
are mostly confined to the membership of
some society, and but a limited amount of
insurance is offered or taken.

Now, with this fact before us, that many
people will be insured for a small amount in
some company, society or association it was
deemed advisable to provide some desirable
plan of insurance for the Patrons of Michi-
gan, and the necessary steps were taken at
the last session of the State Grange by some
of the members there present. VVhile the
State Grange is in no way responsible for
the work of the “Patrons Aid Society of
Michigan,” the society had the ofiicial en-
dorsement of approval of that body.

The plan adopted by the trustees of this
society has met with the approval of those
most familiar with this business of life in-
surance, and we know of no reason why it
should not secure the patronage of the mem-
bers of the Order, who design to provide at
small expense some aid for their families in
the event of death.‘

We have received several letters asking if
ladies could be insured in the Patrons’ Aid
Society of Michigan. This enquiry becomes
almost amusing in view of the fact that the
Sisters are found in every otficial position
in the Subordinate Granges of the State,
from Master to Gate Keeper, and in no other
Order is their equality so fully recognized
as in this organization of Patrons of Hus-
bandry.

\’Ve have had printed the By-Laws of this
Aid Society, and applications for member-
ship. These have been distributed to all
Secretaries whose names are found on our

- list for this year.

Section 3, Article 7, of By-Laws reads :—
“ Members of this Society duly authorized
to take applications for membership, and
collect assessments, shall receive 50 cents
upon each member where application shall
be accepted and approved, and five cents
u on each assessment collected and forward-
em? to the Secretary of this Society, which
amounts shall be paid from the general
fund.’ '

We desire Secretaries to act as agents, and
this Section determines the compensation
they will receive for work they may do.
Secretaries will take notice that they cannot
so act, until they become members of the
Patrons’ Aid Society themselves.

Now, Vvorthy Secretaries,we shall be glad
to receive your applications for membership,
together with those of any other brother or
sister who may conclude to join this Mutual
Aid Society.

The Patrons of Michigan are in no way
behind the Patrons of other States, and we
expect that when the attention of our people
has once been fixed upon this matter, and
Secretaries attend to the necessary work,
that we shall have applications by every
mail.

The fee is uniform, $2.50 for any age
eligible to membership, with graded assess-
ments according to age. That a fund for
immediate payment of an insurance to a
beneficiary may be made without delay,
a first assessment is collected at the time
of making the application and payment of
the membership fee, and so of all subse-
quent assessments.

All Patrons are invited to send for a copy
of the By-Laws, for we are desirous of hav-
ing this Patrons’ Aid Society of Michigan
fully understood. J. T. Conn,

Sec'y Patrons‘ Aid Society of Mich.

"THE MICHIGAN FARMER.”

The value of newspapers and other peri-
odicals to the people who read them de-
pends mainly on the reliability of
what is found in such papers and
periodicals, and the claim for support
which papers and periodicals receive should
be measured to a very considerable extent
by that feature of reliability. ,

“'8 make these remarks at this time with
special reference to our contemporary, the
.‘I[£cIu'gan Farmer, now and for many years
past published in the city of Detroit. This
paper, on account of its age has assumed to
ignore all other agricultural papers in
Michigan, and persists in keeping this very
silly falsehood at the head of its editorial
page, — “The only Agricultural Journal
published in Michigan.”

Farmers of Michigan, what are the facts 2’

FROM DETROIT TO THE SEA.

VV. H. Brearley, of the Evening News,
has arranged for three grand excursions in
July next from Detroit to Portland, Me.,
via Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, and the
\Vhite Mountains,il\'. H. These excursions
will leave Detroit July 1, l4, and 21.

Round trip tickets, good for return until
September 3, will be sold for any of these
excursions at the low price of $20.00,

A circular will be sent free on receipt of
stamp: and a handsome illustrated guide
book, giving full information, and answer-
ing all questions that you can think of
asking, will be issued about the first of
June, and sent to any address on receipt o
30 cents. Address \V. H. Bm~:AuI.\', l)e-
troit Evening News, Detroit, Mich.

THE YOUTHS’ DEPARTMENT.

Under this head, several letters have ap-
peared in each number of the '\'Isi'roR
for a. few months past. \\’e have latterly
had several complaints that too many
of these youths are children, or at least
have furnished childish productions. The
complaints has been so well founded
that we have of late presumed to rejecta
good many of these letters on the ground of
their general similarity and want of point.
VVhile a youths’ department may be made
very useful, we are not quite prepared to
declarein favor of a children's department.

ROYALTY.

It will be remembered that the State
Grange directed its Secretary to ask from
Secretaries of Subordinate Granges a report
of any cases of loyalty collected for infringe-
ment of patent rights, and also report all
attempts to collect loyalty by suit or other-
wise. We called attention to this matter,
but have received but few reports. “'9 are
not prepared to believe that all cases have
been reported to us, and we write this as a
reminder, and hope it will be heeded.

MEETING AT THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,

JUNE 2, 1881.

Secretary R. G. Baird, of the Agricultural ‘

College in behalf of the State Board of Ag-
riculture, has extended an invitation to the
Executive Committee and officers of the
State Grange to meet the Board as their
guests, at the College in the forenoon of the
2d of June. The meeting is to be similar
in its nature to that of last summer. It is ex-
pected that this will be sufficient notice to
all the members of our Committee, and we
hope all will be present.

In our columns of this number will be
found 2!. notice of the “Michigan Female
Seininary,” at the village of Kalaniazoo.

‘Ye are satisfied by reports that we have
had from experienced educators, and from
various persons who have patronized this
seminary, that it is an institution that should
have the firm confidence of the public.

\Ve note that its courses of study are
outlined with great care, the different
brzuiches of study leading properly to each
other, so that the mind of the pupil has
strength to meet the advanceinent.

Our friends, the forty and eighty acre
farniers throughout Michigan, will find i11
this seminary, facilities for educating their
daughters, which they ought, by all means, to
patronize.

There is one feature in the household
economy of this school that commends itself,
in our judgment, to the kind and best con-
sideration of all, and that is the labor system
involved i11 one hours work each day to
every pupil in some branch of household
management. This system conduces to the
health of the pupil, and impresses the idea
that there is dignity in industry and labor.

The rates of tuition and board we notice
are reasonable and fair, a result of prudent
management on the part of those who are
making the seminary a labor of love, rather
than of profit to themselves.

A MEMORIAL notice of the death of Sister
Lucy Cooley inserted in the VISITOR of
May 1st, by request of the Oakland County
Grange has an error in the name, it having
been erroneously printed “ Cady.”

MAY 15, 1881.

ALABASTI N E FOR WALLS.

Among our new advertisements in the
last number of the Visiroa was that of the
Alabastine Co., of Grand Rapids. “'8
print elsewhere the answer of Prof. Ked-
zie to an inquiry asking his opinion of the
merits of this new article. His endorse-
ment is a sutiicient guarantee to Michigan
people of its value. If it is what is claimed
it must soon come into universal use.

Sim on our last page the price list of Goo.
\V. lrlill. Some things can be done as well
as others, and with an eye to business,a
trial order for 9. few needed articles will
determine to the satisfaction of the most
incredulous that Patrons can save money by
ordering of Geo. W’. Hill, Brother Stege-
man, of Allegan, or Thomas Mason, of
Chicago.

Free Passes.

I believe it was the Grangers that first
called the attention of the people of Mich-
igan to the great danger to their interests of
free railroad passes to their representatives

- in the State Legislature.

In proof that the pernicious system is
now beginning to be realized in other
quarters  well as amongst. the Graugers,
and that other papers as wellas the GRANGE
\-'isi'roa are getting suflicien_t courage to
speak their minds plainly, I enclose the
following, clipped from the Pontiac Bill-
Poxter, of May 4th. U.

Nearly every paper in the State has called
attention to the evils of the free railroad pass
systein, by means of which members of the
Legislature absent themselves from Lan-
sing nearly or quite halfof the working
time. About Friday in each week a break
will be made for home, and from then to
the "l‘ue;~:day following, but little or nothing
is accomplished besides drawing money
from the people without rendering an equiv-
alent. Tobe plain about the matter, it is
stealing, and stealing of the most contempt-
ible kind at that. The man who takes a loaf
of bread to keep his family from hunger is
punished and branded as a thief’. yet in our
way of thinking, he is an honest gentleman
compared with tho.-:.c who accept bribes in
the shape of railway passes and cheat their
masters. the people, by absenting them-
selves from the post of duty. If their pay
stopped when they were absent with or
without leave it wouldn’t be so bad, but as
long as that goes on what cares the average
member?

Tuscola County Pomona Grange.

Bro. Cobb .-—On(-.e more we had a glori-
ous time when we met at Cass City on Tues-
day last. Patrons to the rightof us, Patrons
to the left of us, and still the cry was, They
come, they come. Thirty-one new mem-
bers took the beautiful degree of Pomona.

At two o’clock, after such a dinner as Pa-
tronsonly can do ample justice to, Brother
Mickley addressed a public meeting, and
judging from the expression of the counte-
nances of those present his remarks were
highly appreciated.

After more eating the Grange again as-
sembled, when the real business of the
meeting was entered upon with a zest that
would do credit to more august assemblies.
The question, “How can we best create a
greater interest in the Subordinate Grange?”
was handled by brothers for some time,
Brother Mickley giving us the benefit of
his great experience. I think the dis-
cussion of this subject will open up a
wide field for the Granges in this county
to work. Other questions and some essays
in consequence of the lateness of the hour
had to go over until our next meeting.

Now, Brother Cobb, we have had two
meetings since our organization. VVe num-
ber 79 members, and from the fact that we
in this county numbered only seven or eight
Granges, and those very wide apart, you
will admit we are doing well, but apart from
this the general public outside the gate are
enquiring more about the Order. Bro. Mick-
ley lectured at Ellington on \Vednesday, the
4thinst,theresult of which has been two
applications to myself for membership in
our Subordinate Grange: what our other
members have received I don’t know. Bro.
Mickley also lectured at Columbus on
Thursday night, and I seriously hope may
do much good. There is no reason that I
can see that there should be less than twen-
ty Granges in this county, if well worked
up. The grain is ready and only waiting
for the rea er.

Pardon t is long yarn, but I feel too good
to quit even now and would not, were it not
for the fear of the waste basket.

JNO. MASON, Sec’y.

Elmwood, May 6, 1881.

A Great Stalesman’s Views.

“It is fortunate for us, for the preserva-
tion of our liberal institutions, that agricul-

ture enters so largely into the political econ-
omy of our country. As now pursued it
developes the mind and the body, and pre-
serves both the health and morals of our
people. As long as so large a portion of our
voters are engaged in agricultural pursuits
we need apprehend no danger to our repub-
lican institutions, no pernicious influences
of foreign nations on the steady develop-
ment of our wealth and power. * * As long
as the great body of our population is com-
posed of owners and cultivators of the soil
we shall remain true to our republican in-
stincts.”—-Stephen A. Douglass.

This great American commoner said this
30 years ago. He did not foresee the combi-

nations of organized powers against the’

interests of the agricultural class, almost
without organization of their own to with-
stand the combined forces against them and
their interests. Then monopoly did not
own the telegraph and the express lines.
Then the press was free and not controlled
by speculation. The railroads did not then
claim the right of being the sovereigns of
the nation and presume to do what even
Congress can not do in burdening the people.


MAY 15, 1881.

THE OLD OAKEN B.UCKET.

[The following is reproduced in the interests of
sanitary science, and to show how it is possible to

render the ethics of engineering in verse 21
AS in-zviseu xxx) spiiisn nv A "SASlT.lR1Al\'.”

With what anguish of mind I remember my child-
hood -

Recalledlin the light of a knowledge since gained;

The malaricus farm; the wet, fungus-grown wild-
wood.

The chills then contracted that since have remained;

The scum-covered duck-pond; the pig-sty closeby it ;

The ditch where the SUl|l'-8111:-.‘lllll=' no-.iss drainage
fall‘

The danip, shaded dwelling; the foul b;Li‘n-yard high
it-

But worse than all else was that. terrible well,
And the old oaken bucket, the mold-crusted bucket,
The moss-covered bucket that hung in the well.

Just think of it! Moss on the vessel that lifted
The water I drunk in the days called to mind —

Ere I knew what professors and scientists gifted

In the water or we.ls by aualy sis find ;

The rotting wood-fibre, the oxide or iron,

The algae, the irog of unusual size,

The water—impure as the verses of Byrou—

Are the things I remember with teais in my eyes.

And to tell the sad trutn—.‘.hough I s.‘iuldoi' ta think

I considered that water uncommonly clear,

And often at noon, when I went to drink it,

I enjoyed it as much as I now enjoy beer;

How ardent I seized it with hands that were grimy,
And quick to the mud-covered bottom it fell;

Then soon, with its hydrates and nitrates, and slimy
With mutter organic, it rose from the well.

Ohl had I but realized, in time to avoid them,
The dangers that lurked in that pestilent draught,
I'd have tested for organic germs, and destroyed

em
With potassic permanganate ere I had qualfed;
Ur, perchance, I'd have boiled it, and afterwards

strained it

Through filters of charcoal and gravel combined ;
Or, alter distilling, condensed and regained it
In portable form, with its filth left bclilnd.

How little I knew of the dread t_vphoid-fevr-.r
Which lurked in the water I vciitniveil to drink ;

But since I've become a devoted believer

In the teachings of scienic, I shuddei' to timik.

And now, iar roinoved ironi tnc scenes l‘m describing,
The story of warning to others I tell,

As memory reverts to my youthful iiiibibizig.

And I gag at the thouglit or that horrible well,

And the old oakeii bucket, the fniigus - grown

bucket,~
In fact, the slop bucket that hung in the well.

Adulleration 01 Food.

[Extracts from evidence in p:ip:—i' read by
George T. Angeli, of Boston, before the
Boston Board of 'l‘rade, ‘Nov. 11, 1880.]

A $1.000 prize was offered last year tlirougli
the United States B >:).l‘(.l of 'l‘ra<le, for
best essays on adulteratioii, and four have
been published.

The writer of the first, G. \V. Wigner. an
Englislinian, says. under Bl‘l!isl1 laws adul-
teration has been reduced from about 0:’. per
cent. in 1500 to about 10 per cent in 157%,
and in Canada, under similar laws, from
about -32 percent. in 18745 to about :36 per
cent. in 1870. tliougli, he says. they still
have in English markets tinned fish heavily
contaminated with lead; sweetmeais colored
with cliromate of lead; lianis externally
coated with cliaromate oflead, bread contain-
ing large quantities ofalum; and children's
powders and sleeping draiiglit containing
poisonous doses of iiareotics. _’l‘o.-as, which
used to be almost universally adulteraled,
are now good. This i'esiilts from stringent
laws enacted by Parliaineut about fl:-nr
years ago for the inspection and analysis of
teas landed at any portof Great Britain.
In the Sarzitary I}/igineer of June 1, 18.50, I
find that seven thousand chests of adulter-
ated tea had been recently burned under
British laws, in British India.

The second essay, written by V. M. Davis,
of New York city, gives many adultera-
tions, and says, referring to this country:
“ VVe believe it no exaggeration to say that
adulteration is practiced wherever opportu-
nity offers, and pecuniary profit or commer-
cial advantage is made thereby.

The third, by Dr. VVilliam H. Newell, of
Jersey City, N. J., gives, among other pois-
ons liable to be found in food and drink,
“chromates of lead, Brunswick greens,
red oxide of lead, arsenite of copper, sul-
phate of copper, acetate of copper, carbonate
of copper or verditer, carbonate of lead or
white lead, bisulphuret of mercury, sul-
phate of iron, gamboge. sulphate of lime,
carbonate of lime, red ferruginous earths,
and other injurious substances ; that potted
meats, fish, anchovies, cayenne, etc., are lia-
ble to contain red lead, or even bisulphuret
of mercury; and pickles, bottled fruits, and
vegetables to contain copper; ” and that the
ramifications of adulteration extend over
this whole country.”

The fourth and last is by Dr. 0. W.
VVight, commissioner of public health, of
Milwaukee. He names, under the head of
usual adulterations of food and drink in
this country, lead in canned vegetables and
meats, corrosive sublimate in rind of cheese,
poisonous colors in confectionery, caustic
lime in lard, aniline colors in fruit jellies,
preserves, sausage, and wine, sals of ‘tin in
sugar, coculus indicus and tobacco in beer
and ale, salts of copper in pickles, sulphuric
acid in vinegar, and about twenty-five other
deleterious adulterations. He says it is use-
less to attempt to estimate the number of
deaths and the amount of sickness caused
by adulterated food and drinks, but the
articles used are known, and the effects of
such articles when taken into the human
body.”

PROFESSOR JOHNSON.

In an essay read before the American
" Social Science ” at Saratoga, on the 8th of
September, by Prof. S. W. Johnson, profes-
sor of chemistry in the Shefiield scientific
school, Yale college, I find, among other
adulterations named, the following are
liable to be found:

Bread, with alum and sulphate of copper.

Yeast with alum-

Baking-powder, with alum, terra alba,
plaster of Paris, whiting, and kaolin.

Milk, with a variety of articles.

Cheese, with potatoes, beans, oleomargar-
irie, vermillion, red chalk, sulphate of
co per, arsenic, and corrosive sublimate.

ard, with boiled starch, alum, and quick-
lime.

Confectionery, with chromate of lead, red
lead, vermillion, Prussian blue, copper, and
arsenic.

. Pickles with sulphuric acid and verdigris.

Mustard. with yellow ochre and chromate
of lead.

Vinegar, with sulphuric acid, arsenic,
and corrosive sublimate.

Coffee. with roa-,-ted acorns, spent tan bark,
logwood, mahogany, sawdust, and burnt
liver of liorses.

Teas, with a. great variety of articles.

'ri-ziis.

I see by the papers that last year some
Baltimore lea merchants called on the Chi-
nese minister at \Vashington to see how
they could get pure teas from China. He
told tlii-in the brands sold in America were
unknown in (_'liina.and were prepared and
colored with chemicals for foreigii markets.

The British Parliainent passed a law about
four years ago for the inspection of all teas,
and that those unfit for human food be de-
l-lil‘«l_‘,'8tl.

Isee by the papers that under British
laws 7,000 chests of aalulterated tea have
been recently burned in British India.

Some time since u fiiend of mine, part-
nerin one of the largest importing tea
houses in Boston, and one ofwiiose partners
bad resided several years in China, said to
me, "I will,not drink. nor will any member
of my firm drink anything but the natural
uncolored teas, nor would I anlvi.-e any
other man to do it, but we find it ditlicult to
sell ill»-in Public taste demands teas color-
ed and ilict-il. which I consider more or less
poisonous, and some of them contain prus-
sic acid.”

The Cll‘:lIll.3‘l'. of the Chicago board of
health recently analyzed eighteen samples
often, and found sixteeii adullerated witli

Uthi-l‘ leaves, and that more than half had j

leaves which had been used before.

Mr. Beale, of Virginia. in a speech in the

United Slates House of Representatives last
ses.-ion, .~.‘.,-.ted, as I see, that samples of tea
sold in \'\.':i~iliiiigtoii have been found by an-
alysis to be adulterated with Prussian blue
and eliminate of lead.
(fol-‘li‘l<2E, (.‘H()C‘()l.A’I‘E, ETC

How is it with coffee?

Mi’. Beale stated, in the saint,-. speccli, that
wiiole uaI‘gti<_-s of low-grade Rio ctvlfees had
been l':tlS‘:(l in price from two to three cents
a p->un«l by b.i‘ng coated \Vli.ll lamp black
and clii‘oni-.:le of lead.

A (?liiv':igo gentieuiaii writes me that
cnli'ec-dyeil to sell is largely sold lll that
iii.:=.i‘ket.

The author of “Food Adulteralion,” a
valuable book recently publi.-lied in Chica-
go, says there may be such a thing as una:lul-
Le-i'atc-d ground coffee, but(afler pr»: .stt-nf
St':ll'(:ll) he has isever been alrle to find it.
He r.>J_'y:l it would require alniost a page to
.-iiiiply name the zuiiclcs used in itaadulLera—
t.o.i, among which he states tliathe has
persoiial knowledge of the use of baked liver.

in regard to cliocolalcs, cocoa. &c, I have
less evidence. The books give a large
num ber of articles, and some very dangerous,
winch liave been used in ;i<liiltei'alii1g them.

Dr. Piper writes that he has examined
niaiiy specimens and never found a pure
one.

lam inclined to think that with these.
as with almost all other grocerie.-', while
there is much that is adulterat.-.-<1, there must
bealso much that is pure. I am inclined al-
solo think that there may be coiislderable
difference in lire qualities of articles sold in
different parts of the country. Analyi-.cs
iiiade seem to prove this fact.

Mrs. Ricliards, of the Massachusetts Iii-
stitute of Technology, has recently analyzed
sixty samples of wiiite sugars obtained in
Massachusetts. She found that not one of
them cotaiiied tin or chloride of" calcium, and
only one contained glucose; and of thirteen
brown sugars she analyzed, only three gave
considerable amounts of glucose, and they
C-Ul.lL2’.ll.lt‘.d no other injurious adulteratioii.

This evidence dillers so immensely from
the testimony of chemists and sugar dealers
in other parts of the country, as will hear-
after appear, that I cannot but think there
must be a dill‘:-rnce in the qualities of articles
sold in different parts of the country.
Whether the greatagitation given to this sub-

ject in New Euglaiid during the past two
years would account l'or this difference, I
cannot say. It has been often found that
agitation of the adulteration of milk in a
given locality brings into the markets for a
time a better article; the same may be true
of sugars, and the agitation now going on
may for a time stop the use of dangerous
adulterations, particularly in those parts of
the country where there would be great.
danger of exposure. '

Taxes Levied by Railroads.

F. B. Thurber, in his article on Railroads
in “Scribner,” sums up the unlimited power
they have to use and draw millions from the
people of this country. He says:

The extent to which the power to tax is
exercised is indicated by the following
straws: It is little more than fifteen years
since Huntington, Hopkins & Co. were hard-
ware mercbants of limited means in San
Francisco. They built the Central Pacific
Railroad, and deservedly made fortunes esti-
mated at from three to five millions each.
They found the railroad enabled them to tax
the production and commerce of the entire
Pacific coast. Twelve years have rolled
around, and recent estimates, based upon
legal proceedings necessary in the estate of
Mrs. Hopkins, place the partnership wealth
of Mr. Leland Stanford at $34,543,308; that of
Mr. Charles Crocker at $3-1,495,-158; that of
Mrs. Hopkins at $25,280,972, while Mr.
Huntington’s wealth is estimated even
higher than that of Messrs. Stanford and
Crocker.

It is about twenty years since the late Mr.
Vanderbilt was graduated from the steam-
sliipbusiness into railroad management; his
possessions at that time were valued at from

$5,000,000 to $10,000,000; at his death, some‘

0y'(<)e36's since, they were estimated at

Mr. J. Gould “obtained a start” in the
management of the Erie Railroad, in con-
nection, with the late James Fisk; at the
time he gave his now famous testimony
before quoted (in 1873) he was considered
worth from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000; today
no one knows how much he is worth, but
in VVall street estimates are made ranging
from $30,000,000 to $60,000,000.

Railroad men who have accumulated,
within a few years, amountsranging from
$1,000,000 to $5,000,000 are too numerous to
mention, as are those, also in branches of
trade depending upon and closely identi-
fied with railroad transportation-shippers
who. through the favor of railroad managers,
have been enabled to outstrip or break down
all competition.

These are found in every branch of trade,
but in none. perhaps, are they so prominent
as in the petroleum business. If a true
history of the Standard Oil Company could
be written, it would read more like a
romance of the Middle Ages than a state-



Mflllfifl

ment of commercial facts possible in the .

nineteenth century. This is the organiza-
tion to which the Hepburn Committee al-
ludes as “this mysterious
whose business and transactions are of such

mony be used to convict them ofa crime.”
The testinioriy in the Penn:-‘ylvani:-i inves

tigation showed that the trunk lines of rail- 
roads paid in rebates to the Standard Oil ;

Company, 'wi(/zzn (he period of eighteen
months $10,151,218 (ten million. one hundred
and fifty-one thousand, two hundred and
eighteen dollars), which was contributed by
the roads in the following proportions:
Total shipinenls-- October 17, 1.577. to
March 51, 1875) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .bbls.
Total rebates during that time at (23
cents (average) per barrel... . .. . . . . $0,151,218.00
Of which there was paid to Staiiclard
by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 11
per cent. as per contract, Oct. 1.",
1577, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
Paid by New York Central and Hud-
son River Railroad, 21 per cent., as
per contract, October 17. 13577,. . . . .
Pziid by Pcn:i:~_vlvaiiia Railway, 47
per cent. as per contract, October
17, 1577-175 months . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

l.ll0,6233.00

‘_’,lIll,755_]':s

Total rebates. October 17, 1877, to
Marc-hiil, l.‘$T‘J,......... . . . . . . . . . .. $l0,15l,‘.’lS.00

Farmer B.’s Advice to a Young Farmer who Wants
to Know What to do Rainy Days.

Young farmer is not the only one who is
bothered now. Farmers have had more
time this spring and winter for indoor than
outdoor work. Still there is always much
to do on tli-.-1':irm, if one is disposed to do it.

It is not straiige that a renter is able to do a
good amount of loading about town when he
can not work in the field, for he has no in-
terest to keep an eye open for repaiziiig and
keeping everything about the barn and
house in snug order.

But you own your farm and have interest in
everything on it, and are anxious to keep
everything up while you are ti'ying~to niake
the f-{rm pay. it pays to take care of things,
and rainy days are most useful in giving us
time to look around the places we do not see
every day. if you cultivate the habit of
keepiiig everytliing .-niig and clean. and in
good repair. you will in ten ininutes’observ-
aiioii see enough to keep you and your man
busy every hour you can not work in the
fields.

Step i into the cellar,opei’i doors and windows
and let in the light. You see c<_~|)\Veb.-1, and
cabbage leaves and V\ ilted or ~.vasting turnips,
beets, and sprouting‘ potatoes, and decuyiiig
apples and molding i-ai'i‘els. Here’s a day’s
work for mu nien. First assort the apples
and vegctalnles and (rarry out all that are de-
cayed and throw to the pigs. Handle the
potatoes and select your seed from merchant-
able potatoes. Carry out all the rest.

Sweep down the ceiling and walls and the
lloors, after cariyiiig out every board or old
hoop, or block, or chip, or box, or barrel
not needed in the cellar. Notice every one
of tho;-ge has some mould on it. You are
now making war on fungus, and must re-
move every hiding and breeding place for it.
After everything in the cellar and every
inch of the cellar has been swept, you will
be ready to begin Wlll[(:‘W1lSlllug. \Vliite-
wash ceilings and walls. \Vliile this is go-
ing on, the other can but four ounces of cop-
peras in a bucket of hot water, and wash
down the wood work and the barrels and
boxes left in the cellar. This day’s work
may save you a big doctorls bill and afuncr-
al. If it saves a doctor’s bill it will be a pro-
fitable day’s work. Neatnessis profitablein
the house and on the f:I.l‘lI1. Comfort, health
and refineinent follow it.

The next time you are at a loss for work
tackle the barn. There are accumulations
of cobwebs, trash and litter and dust in it
and under it that the health ofyoiir-animals
demands you to remove. You never saw a
barn infested with fleas that was thoroughly
cleaned out every spring. The horse and
cow stables. too, need sweeping down and
whitewashing. That chicken-house, which
on many farm is an abomination, can be
made less offensive, and even respectable,
by thoroughly cleaning it out and white-
washingit. Put an ounce of crude carbolic
acid in the bucket of whilewash. Haul out
all the accumulations of the past, and as soon
as you can get dry soil haul in a cart-load or
two, and stir it every week, and ' throw a
shovelful or two on the roosts, and you will
be astonished and delighted at the change
wrought, and the great amount of most
valuable manure made there in one year.
Dry earth is nature’s great disinfectant and
absorbent.

The next time it rains it may be as well
for you to see if the good wife don’t wish
some nest boxes for thelaying hens, or some
coops for the hens and young chickens.
Take a little pains in making them light
and neat, so they may last some years.

The pigpens must not be neglected. Our
rule is to thoroughly clean the pigpens every
spring, and whitewash. To clean them, we
beat two or three kettles of boiling Water
and put in a pound of copperas, and scrub
the partitions and floors and sides up two
feet, with boiling hot water. These pens are
ready for the sows to farrow in, and the
young pigs have a fair,clean start in life, and
are not poisoned in infancy by the germs of
disease harboring there.

The bedsin the pig-houses should be chang-
ed oftener than evei y rainy day; ourrule is
twice a week. The floors and yard may
need a few minutes’ work with the fork and
shovel to keep the manure from leaching,
and to allow the floors to clean 011'.

Some of the pigs may need rings put in
their noses. Save your sod and keep your
place neat by ringing the pigs. Your pigs
will do better witha. run to grass in the day
time," and the pens may be cleaned and ven-
tilated while the pigs are out to grass.

Don’t forget to look in the sheep-house.
The racks may need repair, or_some board
there is pulling wool every hour of the day.
The lambs may be docked and the sheep
tagged some of these rainy days.

We have days when the ground is too wet
to plow and yet one can work out. Let the
barn-yard be dressed up. The manure
should be forked over and placed in a level

ile, so as to keep moist and not heat.

hile the ground is yet moist is the time to
scrape up the manure in the barn-yard and
pig lot.

With these hints, young man, you can
keep busy. If you are handy with tools you
have a tool-house and workshop, and will
find time to repair gates, tools and imple-
ments, when you can not be in the field.

In the wood-house the saw and buck may
furnish amusement for the hired man when
everything else fails.

Wesson.

1‘<,5:30,‘.’T7 ’

l
-l,'.‘7l.UT2.3b’

If we have not laid out enough to keep

‘ 'ou and that man out of mischief‘ until
‘ corn-planting begins, let us know and we
organization, ‘

shall be happy to offer youa few more hints.

I —-I.7.L'cha7Igr:.
a character that its members decline giving 3
a history or description ofit, lest their ttSll- 2

FARMER B.

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

Newaygo County Pomona Grange, No. 11,

' will meet at Ashland Grange Hall, Tuesday,

May :31, at :2 P. M. The unfinished portion
of the last published program will be called

. first, and followed by essays and discussions
 in the following order:

l_‘omology—-L. E. \Vriglit, Croton Grange.

Economy—Mis.William Hillman, Ensley
Grange.

Advantages of the Girls of To-day over
Tliose of the Past—— Mrs. James Mallery,
Fremont, Grange.

\\'liat Profit is there in Hogs‘? — Samuel
(fox, Ashland Grange.

Thinkers and Toilers — Mrs. \V. M. Scott,
Hespeiizt Grange.

l\'i:ii. McCAi.i.i'3i,
Lect. County Grange.

We give below the program for the joint
meeting of D. & B. C. I). Council and Oak-
land Pomona Grange, to be held at Orion,
Tuesday, June 7, 1851, at 10 A. )1 :

Opening of Council.

Music by Orion Grange choir.

Address of Welcome by the It-.-v. Barnes,
of Orion.

Response by the Lecturer of Pomona
Graiige.

Music.

Discussion — “ Our Marketing \Vool ” -
opened by J. M. Norton, of ltocliester.

“The Mission of the Grange-”——an essay
by Mrs. Wm. Satterlee.

Music.

“How can the Farniei-s of the Easterii
Part of Michigan best Compete with the
Great \Vest?"—-G. M. Trowbridge, Pontiac.

Essay by Mrs. H. J. .l5()Wl‘I':5, of Birming-
lian1,——“ Woman: her Work and Influence.”

Music.

“’l‘he Grange: its ltelidion to our Moral
Developmcnt”—.\lrs. L. A. Peaisall, Lect-
urer of the Council.

An essay by Mrs. G. M. Sliattuck,——“ The
Social Position of the Farmer’s I*'aiiiily:
‘Wliat it is, and '\‘.’hat it Should be.”

Mu.-‘ic.

Suggestions for the good of the Order. —
V\’in.Satterlee, Mrs. C. H. Stevens, J. J.
Shook, Mr. Cassidy, \V. A. \Vnles, M. l’.
Newbery, Romeyii Clark, () ll‘. Delano and
James Peabody.

All t‘oui'tli-degree members are cordially
invited to attend. Dinner, with tea and
cofl'ee, as usual. Fifth-degree meeting by
Pomona Graiige in the evening.

J. G. .\'oi:i.i3, Sec.

Sclioolcraft Grange will hold a Straw-
berry lestival at their hall in June, and
preiiiiums are offered as follows: First, for
the best two quarts of strawberries raised
by the exhibitor, either the A(la7rt£(:.l[onlhl_:/
or one of Harper’s publications, one year.
For the second best, two quarts, the 1121.3-
bandman one year. For the third best two
quarts the GRANGE VISl’l‘l)R one year. All
berries entered for exhibition to become the
property of Sclioolcraft Grange to be pre-
pared in the most tempting manner for a
feast at that time.

The members of Vicksburg, Portage and
Texas Granges are cordially invited to com-
pete with us for the above premiums. The
date of holding the festival will be given,
either through the Visrroit, or by letter to
the Secretaries of the above Granges.

H. C. Committee.
.loiii\‘sTow:~:, May 4, 1881.

Brother Cobb :——'l“he Barry County Pomo-
na Grange will hold its next regular meet-
ing at the ball of the Orangeville Grange,
on the last Thursday in May, at one o’clock
1’. A1. A11 fourth degree members are in-
vited to attend. Fraternally yours,

A. PARKER, Sec’y.

Banfield P. 0.

Brother Cobb .-—’I‘he Branch County Po-
mona Grange, No. 22. will meet with the
Girard Grange on Thursday, May 19, in-
stead of the 18, as was understood at our
last meeting.

WALLACE E. Wi:ioHT, Sec.

1-Iills-dale Pomona Grange No. 10, will hold
its next meeting at the Allen Grange hall,
on the first \Vednesday in June at 10
o’clock A. M. The following is the program
for said meeting: Curing and Storing Hay,
by W. O. Kelley. Select reading. Sister
Griswold. Essay, Sister Fannie Hall. Dis-
cussion: \Vould Woman’s Influence be
Diminished by Giving her the Ballot,-
opened by Sister Benedict.

N. T. BROCKVVAY, Sec’y.

Bro. Cobb : —— The next meeting of the
Ionia County Grange will be held at Orange
Grange ball, in Orange township, May 24
and 25. All fourth-degree members are cor-
dially invited to attend. Let there be a full
house. By order of Ex. Com.

- W. A. INMAN, Chairman.

IONIA, May 7, 1881.

Oceana county will hold its sheep-sheath
ing festival on the fair grounds at Hart, on
May 24, under the direction of Oceans. Po-
mona Grange, No. 23. This Grange will
also hold an open meeting at the courthouse
in Hart. June 4- GEO. C. Mvi-sits, Sec’y.

New Era, Mich.

Instead of the usual annual festival after
harvest, the Patrons of Ingham county will
this year hold a picnic in the grove near the
village of VVilli'amston, on Wednesday, June
1st, beginning at 10 o’clock A. M. On this
occasion the company will be addressed by
Hon. J. J. VVoodman, Master of the National
Grange, and probably by Hon. Thos. Moore,
Prof. C. L. \Vhitney and others. Good
music will be provided, and with 9. fair day
we may safely count on a large attendance.
All who are interested in the advancement
of agriculture are invited to be present.

PROF. W. J. BEAL, Master,
0. F. MiLLi:-2R, Secretary,
A. A. KING, Lecturer,

of Ingham 00. Grange.

Well Answered.

“ Would you be strong? Go follow the
plow. Would you be thoughtful? Study
fields and flowers. Would you be wise?

Take on yourself a vow to go to school in
nature’s sunny bowers.”

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Michigan Female Seminary. Located at Kalamazoo.

This gr-hgol for youiig ladies has been
ste:idil_v acqiiiriiig. duriiig tlm-c _\‘(-ars past, a
reputation that will (‘:ll'l')‘ it on in the future
as one of the lll'llllj.‘ cs-tzilllisliml institutions
of the iioi‘tli-\\'i-st. lloubts luivo been ex-
p1‘e.<.<e<l froiii time to time. as to wlieilier the
l1l(lt‘ll[t‘(lll(‘.\‘>‘ ii‘u'iiri'«-d in the piircliuse of its
groiiiids and the (’l't‘("il0ll of its buildings
would not in the f'ului'c coiiipel its ab:md-
onincnt: l\ll'lllll2ll(‘l}‘, this doubt has been
i‘eino\'cd in the l‘t‘(‘l‘lll p:i_\'iiiciit of its entire
iiiilelitciliicss. .*\lilllj_3'\\'lilllllt‘l‘(‘lll0\'2ll (if its
('llCllllllll’llll(‘(‘F. ii li:is also 1'0(‘(‘lVt‘(l aids for
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losopliy and lll':llll'll(‘.-’ of ii:i1iii‘:il sciciices;
tlicsc and Uill(‘l' ::ppli:iiiw-s will be iiicreaised
from tiniv lo lllill‘ as fluids are I‘(':lllZ(’(l,
for \\'lll('ll lilI(‘l':ll pmiiiises have been made.
lis pi‘upo‘i‘l}’ (lll2lllll(’<l priiu-ipiil and body of
teiu-lit-is 1ll‘l‘(l(‘\'llllllf.I llll‘lll.\‘(‘l\'l"S '/.e::loiisly
to the :iv.l\'uiiceiii<-iit of pupils in the vtirious
b1'2iii(-in-s pm-sci‘il»e<l in the ('Ulll'S(‘S of study.
At this $(‘llllll‘.ll'_\' the aim is to iiiakc iiisti'u<--
lion llioi'oii}."li and (‘(illl]il(‘i‘.‘. and to give to
tliow l2lll_L{lll :1. proper lll‘j_‘,"1'<‘(‘ of ll.<‘(‘lll':l(‘y in
all that is l:tllj.,"lll. l\lor:i1 and ri-ligious
tvmliiiig. without .\‘l‘(‘l:ll'l:lll luisis, is in
daily [>l‘£l('lll‘t‘.

’l‘li<-_:i'«_>1iiuls upon \\'lll'.‘ll tlic biiildiiigs are
l<ll‘2llt‘ll urc c.\'lciisi\‘i- and (‘lt‘\'il,l(‘\l, and
(‘S]>L‘l‘lill (‘:ll‘l‘ isol>sc1‘\'cil;i:-: to tho licziltli of
pupils. lll giviiig lll('lil ilvc iiwl-ss:ii'y out-door
t‘.\’<‘l'(‘l.<l‘. .\ i-:ii'¢-fill ('X:llllllI.'lllHll of the
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the :i<lniini.~:ti‘;itioii of the ziffaiirs of the
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lmzml and tuition at \'cr_v rc:isoii:illlc 1'.‘Llé‘:i;
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this .\'(‘ll(‘Ul was L'.\‘l2ll>llSllt‘tl.

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p1'ive for boxird and tuition, the proper tiine
for :idinis.<io1i of pupils. and other infoi'inzi-
lion. :ll‘l.‘ l‘ull_\' given in llI(‘(f‘£ll1llO,‘.{ll0:~‘,\\'lll(‘ll
will be l'iii'iiisln-il on uppliczitioiis £l(l(ll'(‘.\‘.\‘t‘(l
to )li.~=s (‘oi:.\'i:i.i.\ liiiiiv, l’i'iiicip:i1; or E. 0-
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gun.

Alabasline.

LA.\'sI.\'(i, April 29, 1881.

J. T. (L/(2, I)l£AR Siit:—Your favor of
the 27th, in regard to Alabastine, manufac-
tured at(il‘:1llI.l Rapids, is received. I have
exainined the Alabastine, and find it. free
from poi.-(‘nous and injurious materials. i
have ll2’.(l my study in the cl emical labora-
tory alaba:-tined, and every one who has
examined the coating on the walls of the
study is (:l)D.1‘l1Ll€(.l with the appearance,
because it has a uniform and beautiful color,
the walls are free from all disagreeable odor,
and the alabasiine does notrub of1’,soil clothes
etc, but appears to be as fixed as if applied
with oil. I consider the alabastine a great
improvement on kalsomine, and think you
niay safely commend it to your friends.

- Yours truly, R. C. Kiciizin.

Tiii: ladies have been getting ahead, but
we have an article for the next number

from a lady who comes to the defense of the
stronger sex.

CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK RhILWAY.

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A WOMAN’S ANSWER TO A MAN'S QUESTION.

Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
Ever made by the hand above?

A woman’s heart and a woman's life-
And a woman's wonderful love?

Do you know you have asked for this priceless thing
As a child might ask for a toy?

Demanding what others have died to win,
With the reckless dash of a boy I’

You have written my lesson of duty out-
Man-like have you questioned me-

Now stand at the bar of my woman’s soul,
Until I shall question thee.

You may require your mutton shall always be hot,
Your socks and your shirts be whole :

I require your heart to be true as God's stars,
And as pure as His heaven your soul.

You require a cook for your mutton and beef,
I require a far greater thing;

A seamstress you’re waiting for socks and for shirts—
I look for a man and a king.——

A king for the beautiful realm called home,
And the man that the maker, God.

Shall look upon as he did on the first,
And say " It is very good.”

I am fair and young, but the rose will fade
From my soft young check one day-

Will you love me then, ’mid the falling leaves,
As you did ’mid the bloom of May 2'

‘ Is your heart an ocean so strong and deep
I may launch my all on its tide?
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day she is made a bride.

I require all things that are grand and true,
All things that a man should be:

If you give this all, I would stake my life
To be all you demand of me.

If you cannot be this—a laundress and cook
You can hire, and a little to pay ;

But a woman’s heart and a woman,s life
Are not won in that way.

A Few Thoughts Pertaining to Human Life.

BY SARAH L. S'l‘l-ll).\lAl\’, OF ALLEGAN.

I saw a child; a fair-haired, winsome
child. He had wandered over the spring-
awakened, flower-decked meadows. The
sunny hill-slopes had dimpled to the glad-
some pressure of the springing, buoyant
feet. Meadows and snow-kissed hillside
had yielded him, with a bounteous hand,
their wealth of flowery treasures. The sweet
arbutus, with its waxeu nectar cups; the
clustered hepatica; the frail anemone; the
sweet spring beauty; the blue-eyed violet,
and all the bright sisterhood of Spring’s first
offering filled the childish hands and tum-
bled from the little apron. Ah, methought,
dear child, thou hast gathered earth's
sweetest, loveliest gems, and standest there,
thyself as sweet a flower from heaven’s
eternal spring. Fair picture! I see it still.
The little restless feet have borne him to the
rippling river’s side. There he stands, for-
getful of his fragrant treasures. The bright
sparkling waters, dancing over their pebbly
bed, not more sparkling than the joyous
look on his bright face. The sunshine,
glinting on the wave, not more lovely than
that hiding in his golden curls. But see!
his treasures are thrown hastily down, and
with eager hand he is reaching in the limpid
waters——for what? A bit of rock, shining
with a borrowed beauty of sun and wave.
As the little dimpled hand brings it from its
watery bed a look of disappointment shades
the glad face. The bit of rock, which shone
so brightly in the prismatic waters, appears
a dull and worthless thing, now that he
holds it in his hand; with childish impa-
tience he throws it from him and turns to
regather his flowers. Ah, his flowers! where
are they? They have floated steadily and
quietly out, and now the swift current is
bearing them rapidlybeyond his reach. The
little outstretched hands and the pathetic
appealing look are powerless to bring them
back. The remorseless waters heed not the
little tear-stained face pleading so piteously
for the treasures they have snatched from
him.

Are we _not all children? Are we not
constantly throwing away many of life’s
sweetest flowers, and reaching out with
eager hands for the Worthless and the false ?
VVe, too; see many things through a false
medium. The pity is, we do not assoon
discover the allusion as did our little flower-
robbed child.

The false is thrust so constantly, so per-
sistently upon us, that the true_ fades almost
away in the dim distance. Our hearts are
made the dumb altars, upon which are
burned to worthless ashes, much of the finest
and purest of our natures.

Notice the affectionate, loving little child.
Its heart seems to be an overflowing well of
love, that is ever bubbling up and reaching
out to the utmost limits of its little world-
the home circle. Every day it gathers force
and sweetness, and delights us with its
sparkling spontaneity, and we feel that we
hold a large bit of heaven in our arms and
home.

But some ill-fated day the serpent worms
its slimy way into this paradise, perchance
in the form of a grown man or a woman,
and sneers at that loving child, as it winds

‘its arms about its father’s neck, or points the
finger of scorn as it presses its sweet face
lovingly against its mother’s cheek. In-
stantly that great tide of love surges back
upon the little, loving heart, and ever after
it tries to hide, to repress its feelings. Has
not that demon, in human form, made that
heart, an altar on which to burn its own
priceless wealth of love ? -

It is ever thus. We receive our deepest

wounds in the divine of our nature, and as
we stand on the very threshold of life. A
loving heart——that great fountain of love
that God meant for the birthright of every
living soul; whose waters were to flow on
and on, ever widening and deepening, fresh-
ening and brightening the arid wastes of
life, making pure and glad the life of its
happy possessor, and reaching out open
hands of‘ cheer and warmth to all—is forced
back, walled around, compelled to find some
hidden subterranean passage; to struggle
along in crooked, tortuous channels; to lose
itself in deep, gloomy caves, whose depths
never see the light of day; or, saddest of all,
become a stagnant pool, spreading pestilence
and death to every luckless passer by.

This first lesson of the corrupt and the
false; this first bitter mingling of earth's
Wormwood in our heaven-given cup of wine
is followed swiftly by others. The mature
in years, the half grown youth, and even
the child of a few summers, is ready with
the covert sneer, the scornful finger, or the
open gibe. If the child has attained a few
years, “ baby,” “milksop,” “spooney,” are
terms that scorch and burn, and leave their
bitter ashes to smoulder on their living
altars.

\Ve wonder that our child grows coarse;
that he loses the sweet innoccncy, the trust-
ing love of infancy. ,

Are We not blind? Blind! and the full
light of a sun in mid-heaven shining about
us! \Vonder not that he takes on coarse-
ness; wonder rather that so much of the
angel lingers still.

The poet says heaven lies close about us in
our infancy. It had been nearer truth had
he said heaven lies within us in our infancy.
For in the face of all the cruelty, the atrocity
and the bloodshed that has marked n1an’s
footsteps through this world, from his earli-
est to the present time, I believe there was
and is more good than evil——more angel than
demon in his make-up—Lhat, were the good
as persistently cultivated as the evil, our
earth would be much nearer the millenium
than it is to day, But we, like the child,
have thrown away our sweet spring flowers,
and in their place have gathered worthless
bits of stone that have cut our fingers; we
have delved in the mud and slime of earth’s
turbid streams for our treasures, and the
mud and slime have defiled our garments,
and our souls have been robbed of the per-
fume and beauty of that which we have cast
from us.

VVe lose the unconscious grace, the charm-
ing originality and sweet simplicity of the
child, and become automatic machines; and
why? Our inborn love of approbation, and
fear of ridicule have early taught us to hide
our true selves ; to unconsciously shape our-
selves after the pattern of those about us.

The child is intensely imitative, and, too
often painfully sensitive. Its first contact
with the world is associated with those its
superior in years. Its intuitions are acute
and it soon feels its physical inferiority, and
its aspirations are all in this direction.
Father and mother sit on an unapproacha-
ble height. It looks with admiring eager-
ness upon the feats of superior prowess in
brother or sister, and nothing is more
eagerly coveted. These aspirations are often
unduly cultivated by parent, at the expense
of finer, nobler traits. The boy is told,
“Don’t cry; and be a little man;” “Go
and bring this or that and be mother’s little
man ;” much oftener than: “Be kind and
gentle and be a man ;” “ Don’t strke back;
and hes. man.” As he struts about in his
first pair of pants, or boots, he is admired
and called papa’s little man, without so
much as a hint that the practice of patience,
self‘-denial, and every manly virtue, goes
farther in the making of a man than the
putting on of manly apparel. The girl is
told to keep her apron clean and be a lady ;
“don’t be noisy; sit still and bealady,”
“have the pretty new dress on and be a
lady ;” far more frequently than : “ be good
to little brother, and be a lady;” “don’t
get angry and pout; and bealady ;” until
the child's highest ideal of manliness is to
be bold and strong; while a little decorum
and a fine dress make a, lady.

Know we not that by these, and hundreds
of kindred lessons, we are rooting out the
pure and true of the child’s nature, and sow-
ing broadcast the false, the untrue? We are
giving it bits of stone and rock for its pure
gold ; we are planting weeds and poisonous
herbs, which will dwarf and choke out the
tender plant whose rare beauty and sweet
perfume might have gladdened the heart of
every passer by. i

We teach our children to be false and arti-
ficial by trampling upon their sensitiveness.
How often have I seen the tears start to the
eyes of the sensitive child at the harsh rep-
rimand for some trifling slip at the table;
the little lips quiver at the reproof for some
childish speech ; the delicate face pale or
burn atasneering look or word for some
little demonstration of affection. Such
natures are easily repressed and injured.
They are like the sensitive mimosa—they
need but a rude breath to make them quiver
or shrink. They will suffer bodily torture
rather than a sneer or frown from those they
fear, or love. Every contact with the un-
feeling and coarse is torture to them. They
soon learn to repress their feelings——-to hide
all emotion—to take on the artificial and the
false. Thus many a sweet, rich nature is
deformed ; all the charming originality, all
the joyous spontaneity is crushed out.

Shame upon us! VVe, in our stupid, if not
criminal blindness, have taken the flowers
out of these little hands and crushed them
beneath our heel, and filled the little robbed
palms with rocks and stones.

Should the child be blessed in having a
kind and gentle father, a tender and refined
mother, it may for some years escape this
blighting, deforming process, and its after
experience will not be attended with such
disastrous results. But infancy passes
swiftly away, and the child is sent to school.
Heaven help it now! It will need, not one,
but a legion of guardian angels. IfS€llsl-
tive and timid, it will suffer daily martyr-
dom ; if bold and aggressive, these traits will
grow apace and show an unthought-of
amount of vitality ; if vicious and evil-
minded it will not fail to find abundant
stimulus; if vain or proud, vanity and pride
will find their kindred spirits. For the
schoolroom is a perfect epitome of the world.
There will be found every disposition, and
each with its separate bent or inclination.

There, as in the world, the false, the
untrue, will be found bold and aggressive;
truth and virtue, unassuming and retiring.

Into this, to it a new world, comes our
little innocent, with its shrinking dread of
ridicule; its eager longing to be thought
wise and large beyond its years. Do we
need the wisdom of a sage to tell us the
temptation to the child ‘.‘

“My boy has grown so rough since he
went to school; he always told me the truth
and confided in me. Now he avoids my
confidence, and I sometimes fear he does not
tell me the whole truth,” says many a sor-
rowing mother; or, “My gentle, modest
little girl is growing rude and forward. She
seems so changed.” Changed '.’ Aye,
changed indeed.

To me it seems an incxpressivcly grievous
fact that mothers and fathers, with time and
means at their disposal—1nothers and fath-
ers of intelligence and good judgment in
matters of less importance, will permit their
little children, at the tender age of five, or
under, to go to the daily school. VVhy!
you would not permit your young colts to be
confined and hampered for more than half
of their waking hours. The plea that you
want your child to became learned, is the
stupidest of all stupidity.

I would rather take a child at ten who
had never seen a printed page, other advan-
tages being equal, than the average boy or
girl of that age who had been a daily at-
tendant at the public school for five years.

But they are there, and we must make
the most of the situation, for the world
accepts truth slowly. \Ve are in nineteenth
centurie’s depth of ruts, and it is exceeding-
ly hard to get out of them. VVe must swal-
low the full pound of nauseous drugs
because we will thrust from us the ounce of
prevention. VVe will continue to give the
child poisonous herbs and worthless bits of
stone for its sweet flowers of innocence and
love. \Ve will nip the tender buds of con-
fidence and trust ere they are half unfolded.
for this is the proper thing to do, and why
should we presume to know better ways than
our nineteenth century forefathers?

The new may be the better way, but I
should hate to try it. It must be the old is
right, for wiser men than we have sanc-
tioned it. Yes; and so said the mitered
priest of the seventeenth century when
Galileo would have the sun instead of the
earth the center of the solar system. So
said our leading divines in the last quarter
of this nineteenth century, when a woman
had the audacity, the unwomanly temerity,
to presume that she had the right to tell her
fellow beings from the pulpit, of the love
and charity that were proclaimed nineteen
centuries ago from Olives’ mount. But the
earth does move around its great center of
light and heat, in spite of mitered priest
and his inquisitorial tortures, and the firm
foundations of eternal truth are to-day as
unshaken as they were before woman’s
puny arm rested on the self-consecrated
desk, 0, nineteenth century priest!

Yes, we will continue to send our little
child,all unpr0tected,at the tender age of five
yea.rs,from the home-fold to the school,where
his little body shall, six long hours each day,
sit in a cramped and uneasy posture; his little
limbs aching with their dangling weight ;
breathing the heated and poisonous air of a
crowded schoolroom, instead of outdoors,
with joyous leap and bound, drinking in
God’s ~ bright sunshine and pure air,
strengthning the little growing body, laying
up a store of health and strength, that the
mind may not in a few short years he crip-
pled, chained down by a weak and diseased
body.

We will let him be hurtled about on the
playground by the rough, the bully, the
vicious. We will let him daily see coarse,
rude actions, hear profane, obscene language,
and with sorrowful hearts and tearful eyes
spend weary‘ days and sleepless nights
pulling up the weeds, drenching them with
our bitter tears, and sending him, with the
coming day, where he will in a few hours,
gather a greater crop than we can eradicate
by painful toil in years.

Do not infer that I consider the public
school the nesting place of everything mean
and coarse, or that all children are corrupt.
No; thank God for the many pure, sweet
natures found in every school. But I do
mean that you will always find some who
are wholly unfit companions for your little
child. There is hardly any neighborhood

but will furnish one or more, and to the
home of such you would never permit your
little one to go unattended, but to the
school where perhaps half a score of them
may be found, away from the restraining
influences of father and mother, you will
send him with a seeming confidence which
would certainly be amusing if it were not so
painfully serious.

My plea is not that you do not send your
child to the public school, but that you do
not send him so young. ])o not send him
until he can distinguish brave, manly
action from swagger; until he is mentally
and morally strong enough to endure the
ridicule and contempt of his inferiors, rather
than be guilty of a mean action; until he
has control enough to let the gauntlet of
the rough remain where it should—in the
dust at his feet.

I know it is very convenient to send them
to school, and I presume the reply I once
received when I remonstrated with a moth-
er for sending her little four-year old boy to
a school filled with great rough boys and
rude girls, would be the reply of the ma-
jority: " I know he is too young to go to
school, but when he is there, I know where
he is, and I can havea little quiet in the
house.” So for 9. little present convenience,
she will lease out that fruitful field, her
child's heart, and let who will sow tarcs,
and weeds and stinging nettles.

“Have a little quiet in the house.” A
few years and this enemy-sown field may
bear its bitter fruit; and as she sits in her
lonely home, filled now with a quiet little
less than agony, waiting for her boy to come
home from the street corner or saloon,
will her thoughts ever revert back to his
innocent childhood, and the quiet she
bought at so fearful a sacrifice‘?

Never, perhaps, was there an age or a
people who trusted the education of their
children to the schools as do ours at the
present day. This would be all well enough
if it were supplemented by home training,
but alas! too often it is not. l'arentsin
their mad rush after wealth, and to meet
the demands of society, lind no time. All
is trusted to the schools,—heart culture, the
most vital of all, is neglected. lilach study
is carried through on the high pressure
process of -a fast age, and nothing is
thoroughly mastered.

Well, what are the results? How do the
pupils compare with those of‘ earlier
times ? They have a smattering of a greater
range and are far more showy. But what
about depth? VVhat about real mental
culture? VVhat about manners? \Vhat.
about morals 1’ This mere smattering isa
positive injury to them. They know so
little of what they have hurried through,
that they think they know it all. Nine-
tenths of them are arrant dunces. They
are finished ignoramuses. The sidewalk is
not wide enough for them. Everybody who
has not the proper dash and swagger about
them is voted an old fogy. The dear, pre-
cious words, “father,” “mother,” are
obsolete in their vocabulary: “old lady,”
“ governor,” “ boss” the dignified and
elegant substitutes they employ,——epithets
which, when so applied are exceeded in
vulgarity only by the tongues and hearts of
those who employ them.

Fine clothes, a cigar, and a good deal of
swagger is their mental definition of a gen-
tleman. Their sisters have no higher stand-
ards. Fine dresses go further with them
than fine manners; a little outward polish
is more to be desired than true refinement of
heart; vulgar, flashy ornaments dangling
in their ears, strung around their necks and
disfiguring their fingers, are to them better
jewels thana cultured mind. The disgust-
ing frizzes and bangs, disfiguring their
faces, receive more attention than the shal-
low brains they cover. Now this is not all
to be laid to the charge of a lack of a right
training in our schools. Society is full of
it. Our churches are far from being blame-
less. Everywhere we see this false standard
of respectability : social recognition is pur-
chased by style, your position is graduated
by the cut of your garments, clothing is
the pass-word that gives you an entrance,
an ounce of gold is heavier than a pound of
brains.

This is not mere imagination, the phant-
asms of our over sensitive brain; it is a. truth
patent to the dullest minds. It is working
incalculable evil, it is corrupting our people,
making us a by-word,-—~a laughing stock to
other nations. It dates back to the discov-
ery of our oil wells, when the poor man
woke up and found himself rich, and his
family bound down by poverty found them-
selves lifted by one great tidal wave of
wealth from their firm footing. They lost
their ballast. Their uncultured minds led
them into the wildest extravagance, the
most vulgar display of dress and equipage.
They strove to cover their ingrained vulgari-
ty by the glitter of diamonds and the folds of
costly velvets. They knocked at the closed
doors of society, and they flew open on
their golden hinges. Culture and worth
stepped down and aside, vulgarity and gold
mounted the throne, and to these free born
Americans how their faces in the very dust.
The rapid fortunes made during our late civil
war continued this state of things. Men
w re not satisfied with their thousands, mil-
lions could hardly satisfy their thirst for
the shining ore. “ Gold ! gold ! ! give us more
gold!!!” seemed to be their rallying cry.

Tl ese new-made millionaires paraded

MAY 15, 1881.

their wealth with sickening ostentation.
Palace homes crowded with a vulgar display
of costly furniture, dashing turn-outs, with
their blooded steeds champing their silver
bits, their panting sides all ablaze with the
shining metal; extravagant entertainments
where thousands upon thousands of costly
wines were swallowed, and the eyes ached
with the glitter of diamonds and the shim-
mer ofsatins. All this disgusting display,
as delineated with nauseating minute-ness
in the newspapers, has been the source of
much of the corruption that to-day threat-
ens the very life of our free institutions.

This is the spirit that to-day rules our
legislators at the National capitol. \Vho can
read the accounts of their senseless excep-
tions, their extravagant entertainments,
their servile aping of the manners of foreign
courts, without a blush of shame; or follow
their unsteady steps from the wine cup or
hells of debzuicliery, with an unclinehed
hand 2‘ Is it a wonder that such servile, de-
bauched creatures are ready to sell them-
selves and their country to the highest bid-
derl’ That they have forgotten the very
name of principle 2’ This is indeed a very
gloomy picture. The future looks dark, but
thank God, there is a little gleam of hope.
Here and there all over the land glimmer
the beacon lights that tell us the people are
awakening and girding themselves for bat-
tle, and if they will but be true to them-
selves, true to the noble principles of our
noble Order, Brother and Sister Patrons,
then so sure as day will succeed night, so
sure as God—'l‘rutl1-—is iniglitier than error,
deliverance will conic, but it will not come
without a struggle, a long battle with our-
selves and the evils that lit?ni(»lll‘0\v11(l0()r5,

\Ve must check this iuordiiiate love of
gold,this spirit of vulgar di:4.pla_v that is
eating out the very heart of society, that is
ruining our children by giving them false
standards of life before they are old enough
tojudge for tlieinselves. \\'e must reach
out our hand and gather the flowers that
we crush beneath our feet. \\'e must clean
out our Augean stables, and not stand sup-
plicating the God of high heaven to de-
scend and do our disagreeable work for
us. It will be a long job. We will need
many a l-Iercules of mental and moral
might, but we will have them, nay, we have
them now, and they can and will do valiant
battle, if that hydra-headed monster, sel-
fishness, and love of gold, docs not strangle
them in their cradle. But, as the first step
toward the righting of any evil is to see that
evil, and as forewarned is to he forearmed,
may we not take a little courage ‘I

As I have sat and listened, night after
night, to the great evils that are threatening
us as a nation and as individuals, and have
seen the calmness, almost apathy, with
which they are received by many, the evi-
dent reluctance to take up their discussion——
I have marveled at the silence, marveled at
my own tongue-tied self, and asked myself:
Is it indifference, or a cowardly fear that we
shall not express ourselves as well as we
would like? I am afraid it is a little of both.

All honor to those who have so nobly, so
earnestly spoken. VVhat if, in our halls of
legislation, they do laugh to scorn your re-
quests? \Vhat if they do vote them down,
or shelve them '2 They are not buried; your
work is not lost. Every word, every blow
will resound along the wide corridors of
time; yes, all future time—eternity.

\Ve need your words to show us where
we stand and whither our footsteps are tend-
ing. \Ve need your blows to shake from us
the lethargy that binds us ; sturdy blows to
beat down the walls of prejudice which we
have built around us. But, as with ponder-
ous blows in your righteous indignation, you
strike back that hydra-headed monster that
is slowly but surely winding its loathsome
coil upon coil around us, and tightening its
slimy folds about our beating hearts, I see
by your side a frailer form, who holds in her
encircling arms a little child that is looking
into her eyes with a trust and reverence we
accord only to God. Her strength seems
weakness, her hand puny, measured against
yours, but the weight of her little finger
would fall heavier than your heaviest sledge
hammer blows, if she would lay it at the
root of the evil. If she will do this, we need
not thunder at the gates of the Capitol and
reach out imploring hands of supplication
to the hirelings our blind, party zeal has
sent. there; creatures that, with the outward
semblance of man, make a farce of their
constituents’ rights, and are ready to sell
their last principle for money or power. No;
like Ephraim, they arejoined to their idols.
Let them alone; you but waste your strength;
you beat the empty air. Neither need we
thunder at the doors ofourschoolhouses; de-
liverance will not come, unaided, from that
direction.

I would go to the home of infancy-—to the
mother. In her hand is the power. In the
incorrupted heart of that little child, gazing
into her face with such holy reverence, is
the hope of the future—the salvation of our
country.

I would thunder with all the might ofa
God-nerved hand at the sleeping heart and
deadened conscience of woman. I would
implore her to awake to a sense of her
heaven-imposed duty; to lay aside the dead-
ening thralldom that binds her to a senseless
round of unmeaning forms, imposed by that
heartless, senseless thing, called society.

I would implore her to awake, by all the
love she has, or ought to have, for those


  

    
  
       
   

 

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and the filth cast by them will fall at their
own doors. There is always room at the
top, and whoever, whether man or wom-
an of any profession, whose merit se-
cures it, will always command respect. We
however, cannot conceive the ambition of
any true woman to be in the possession of a

little immortals who will forever bless her,
or look with shuddering horror upon the
harvest of death she has allowed others to
sow, while she wasted her energies upon
dress, or made herself a beast of burden, to
save for them, in after years, a handful of
dross.

To those persons who are in the habit of
making rag carpets I would suggest that car-
pet rags, paper rags, and clothing to be giv-
en to the needy be kept well assorted, each
month, and not left for a yearly assorting.
This I believe much the easier way. Bed-

modification of the term. Wherever a mat-
rimonial firm exists, each member working
assiduously for the good of that firm, it is
folly to say that one member supports the
other, unless, indeed the preponderence of‘

HUSBANDMAN.

SE\’]4]NTII 1'l<]AIl.

If he produces the wheat, I wonder if she Sllolllll be kept lll ll llgllll chest’ wllll ll llallel

0, woman! 0, mother, mother! will you
not be true to yourself, your God, your
child, that at manhood’s years he will rev-
erence you with his infancy’s trust 2‘ Will
you not strive to keep the iewels in that
little heart so uncorrupted that they will
ever reflect with uiidimmed lustre, the
glorious image of the God of righteousness,
and not the debased image of the god of
mammon and sensuality?

God asks the question ; angels listen with
bated breath for your answer; your country
stretches out to you her imploring hands,
and prays you to give her men and women,
and not the corrupt semblance. \Vill you 

Woman’s Social Stains.

Bro. Cobb .-—In your issue for February
1, I notice an article, entitled, “ W'hat shall
we do with our girls?” which particularly
interested me. , The leading fact which the
writer deduces from his reference to an-
tiquities, is that females are a necessary evil
which has thus far baflied the ingenuity of
mankind to effectually eradicate.

The writer, in behalf of her sex, would
congratulate herself upon the present and
prospective outlook for the sisterhood. So-
cially, woman is set forth as man's equal.
Ah, indeed, is it not here their courses di-

- . - - - MRS. C. E. Co.\'i~:v. V I K (E l l l‘ ~ - - f
)lI]1fl for distinction. U )0l1 the whole I subscribers, new or old, with ten dollars in payment
verge, the one quite lost in the noise and ielievge that certain V,‘ uel somethin after Camden, Mich. German HOTSB and COW POWd3rS- therefor. l  -
. . , -t- - ‘ 3 g __ ___,‘(__ g_____ . . Remittances may be made by draft on New York,
st” °f b“5‘"e3S and the shlllp Compell loll which so many females aspire in these days _ This P°Wd*”‘ has bee.“ ”‘ "59 l0‘ ‘“‘“‘5' yells‘ ll Postofilce money order, or in currency. Checks on
of life. the other, like the mountain stream may be found quite Within reach of her p,.eS_ lfraclical Hints on House Cleaning. éiéagfégoggeffl;3;!;:‘%t$‘;m§;:6°§J:f;,fi“5;)l;':‘i‘3b%%3 country Banks involving expense in collection must
settling to its pristine course, whose every em Situation. Yes’ I rather like we de_ xt Lheoutwf let "M Hank the ‘V I ( pt pounds through their pmflmsing agents. Its comp0_ have ten cents added to 111081; such cost. )
movement impresses its delineation with —' - »-*~ - I . i-c ur-

greater effect?

.. . , , - - , - ,. - - Sons ii: Co., Phoeiiixville,Pa. It keeps stock healthy HUSBAN1-’MANy 7 ~. ,

Thusit is with woman in the domestic She is ,0 make a home’ ,0 b,,aum-Y and ll:lV_l:‘;‘llulsll"‘:)llnl’ll:):;$lllgqgiuflél :’”llll'll_l:” anriin good'comiit.ioii. Iislhglps to digestkandats}fillnl- Enmna, N. Y. I
‘~‘.“°‘°- See W ‘"°P“°‘“¥ hf" .°*“"‘ be‘ adorn in. to sing   or love in it. to 5.1 i.....’..'.....l’.i.....,.-ii’...’ «ili§i;..lg'il."l.i...lf.$"‘i.l. léffiilll-i3ii’ri"l-asilil.-§"al:‘?l éfiws »3iii”§f5e“-33-é Kiri  _.3“E‘1Tfi‘?}’1?’ilfi1‘i‘f,ifE‘Z’ff?“l°“;  ."."'. 
lieves her every Word. HOW I118 little ll€9-Tl? - - - ' - . ' . . . . . .1 . l he in better condition. It koe )5 oultr ' health , and . . ,.'
bearher portion oi tne toil, and pain, and 1“ .bJ . I 1 , . , . l P 3 Y ,
11 -u, h - . h ,1 he bestows a _ _ _ _ _ 5 1 V1“ 9 ‘ml l ll" “mu-V “lnds 5”” WINS‘ increases the production of eggs. It is also of great    1,
“We 5 W‘ applllelll’ W e 5 sorrow in it to con daily lessons of patience - - - - ‘ ‘ 4 iz
, _ d f ommendation . 3 _ _ i tle about us, the tliouglits of the thrilty value to them_ when moltiiig. It is sold at the lowest ,
lovmg .glanl"e or llmr. 0 C . . 5”e“l=’“1 alldendllrauceln “v to Shme were housewife with the not un leasant or un- “llllllelllle pllcll by R’ E‘ JAMES’ l‘Al"llllAZ°°' 0 ’

“P0” mm!‘ H Elle ls glllwell at ally clllllllllll like a star in the darkest night. She should l l P “E0 W’ Hlm‘ & CO‘ 8” W°°l’l’ll'll"ll‘ ST" DE‘ l

act of disobedience how quickly he discov-
ers it, and with quivering lip flies to her
arms for forgiveness. As he grows older
and passes out into the world to gain his livli-
hood, it is the influence of mother or sister

, _ , \ . . , . _ _ 1V.EIC.‘lC-IIG-15.31’ CENTRAL R. R. republic should have a copy.
which preuefvgs him from the spares and LaW1enCe’1leb' 34’ l8bl' ‘ ll" fU“.Y111V€Sll§-f3U.'-lrlllil 5-.'Cl‘utinize every nook W  V V ‘ 1 :‘:Fmm K“ “Hm” It has received strong testimoiiinls from Samuel
_ ‘ , h ”‘ "“"‘*"“*‘"'“ and corner of her ,~ea1,n' that e,,e,.ything 7”" '”‘l““" 0*‘ T l‘ l’ “ p ‘ ‘ “ ‘ ' ‘ ‘ E.A<lums, Past Master of the National Grange; Sen-
tenlptauml-ll wblch beset the path of yout - Hired |.;e|p_ Ovor ‘V,]i"h She ha‘; .011” 1 _ ‘ _ 1' O _ T,nE>T‘.‘B,‘E__M‘U- 1,, h,,,,_ ntor Ferry, ex—\ ice-President of the U. 8., and from
See liima little further on; now his own " ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' l“ 0 lb "1 ‘lrllmg

strong, right arm supports her faltering
steps, and he delights to do her honor. Still
more remotely he, an old man, is reviewing
the scenes of his childhood, how fondly
does his mind linger about the memories of
a beloved mother. To him the influence of
a mother was the directing genius of his
subsequent career.

Intellectually her influence should not be

seat in the presidential chair. Sad is
the possibility that the day may come
when woman so neglects her duty that a
man in all this great Union cannot be found
Worthy of this position.

A wise ambition in woman or man may
be commendable, but an ambition void of
intelligence or moral principle is a vice, and
the possessor of it a scourge to mankind.
A woman who starts out on a career without
a true view of what constitutes true great-
ness, borne onward by a corrupt ambition,
lstrews her path with thorns, and in the end
 will open the flood gates for untold miseries.
1 Revelation and nature both alike teach
 her the true sphere for usefulness and the
 happiest achievements. It does not essen-
l tially follow that, because some woman has
developed a distaste for the duties of the
sphere she has so long filled, that therefore
there is something more lofty and honorable
in another direction. Is it not. we ask,
quite as possible for the sphere in which she
has so long figured to contain all that is es-
sential to the tastes of the loftest genius and
the most refined intellect‘?

Who of us has yet tested the exalted pos-
sibilities of her present sphere ‘.’ Iappre-
hend there is something in it yet to be dis-
covered by some bright intellect, which is

scription of woman’s mission, as given by
another.

set the home interest high on a pinnacle,
above earthly grandeur, all gaudy glitter,
and all fanciful ambitions, and strengthen
love and charity, and all good things in it.

13’7'o!/ier Cobb.-—l would like_ to talk to
Aunt Clara through the columns of your
paper. I think one trouble in getting good
help, is the manner in which some of us
treat our help. If you get a good girl, she
generally proves to he one of the sensitive,
la(ly-like kind, who does not like to be
treated as a slave, if she does occupy zi ser-
vant’s place. W'hen you hear a young lady

satisfactory to its occupants unless as often
as once each year there be a thorough inves-

objects, both animate and inanimate, the ac-

does nothing when she prepares his meals,
washes his clothes, and performs number-

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Supporting is done on the part of the W“-e_ I ding, garments, and packages of flannel
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less other duties that meet her at every:

turn ‘.‘

Although a man’s work iiiay he of great- -’

er inagiiitude, it cannot possibly be as
comprehensive and iiiu.-easing as woman’s.
I think the couplct

“A man's work is from sun to sun,
But a woniaiils work is no .'.'-.r done.”

is one of the truest ever uttered.

I am glad this subject of the (ioiiie.-tic re-
lations came forward for dis(:ussi<>ii, for I lie-
lieve it is the foiilidation of I1Illl,‘l1 of the
happiiie.~..'< or misery that falls to the lot ol‘
mortals.
nious union L-1-‘tween one nun and one worn-
an is it sight that angels iiiu.-it love to
look down upon, but any observiiig person
will find such a coiisuminalioii Llie excep-
tion instead of the rule. If, as individuals
and families we would mount the shining
ladder of progression, we must lay aside the
false teaching of the past that has invested
man with asuperlority he does not possess,
and teach that man and woman were des-
tined to walk side by side as equals. When
we can practice this doctrine we will have
no use for the dogma of regeneration, for we
shall have learned the laws of correct living.

er, who, from the kindness of her heart,

profitable accoiiipiinyiiig hum of the sewing
machine, are reaching forward to the inevi-
table campaign—tliat of house purification.
Home is wornau’s kingdom, and will not a
wise, kind, and considerate sovereign care-

willi her dignity as well as conducive to the
well being oflier subjects. A home c-iiiiiot
be termed "well ordered,” and cannot be

tigation and cleuiisiiig of its various appurt-
merits.
There is a continued wear and waste of

I think that a loving .i.ii:.l liarmo— - ’

of caniphor, tobacco, or a cloth saturated
with turpentine inserted to prevent the in-
trusion of the troublesome moth.

As we descend to the parlor, sitting-room,
I dining-room, do not, I eiitreat you, as you
,-value domestic peace, disarrange but one
room at a time unless the help is sullicient

the sun.

Finally, let us not make too great liu-ate in
this general renovation, but when the en-
liveiiing spring weather shall come, lake
some time each day to I.‘D_j()_\,' and benefit
ourselves by the warm sunsliiiie, to note
the beauties and wonders of the springiiig
grass and swelling bud, and to entertaiii tru-
ly grateful thoughts that the bonds of stem
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less potential. Society has, in opening make the remark “that she is not going to :illlllll;_‘lll°‘l lllhwlhlcll “'””(ll‘l 5°‘”‘ “3“d°’‘ ‘1 f\I;iil __ L

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the doors of our institutions of learning, be a drudge for anybody; thata hired girl is l g ll W O eslmle ‘ ll “um for 0“/‘1 ,-f,‘,’.,,

placed inlour hands the means of making
ourselves worthy of any position of emolu-
ment or power. VVhen we have proved our-
selves competent to take an active part in the
government of the nation, we will be recog-
nized as equals politically as well as socially.
Whether this lies distantly or near at hand,
is wholly dependent upon ourselves. Were
we to devote ourselves with a generosity of
purpose which would at once and forever
lift us above the vanity of the provincial-
isms of society, our discipline for the highest

functions of life would be Secured. Very $3“, per week and her board, and it is very health, and the least possible inconven- fi,l_:‘,l{l,lff,’,‘,’,:z-0-('7-Z-~ —— 17 H p  :f 31*,‘  I: <‘lvr:iri3:agi:,e :iSlf;:.sy:.heIJ:.1‘E?)l!::;lIl_'l£)gtliJ(fl8x,  zgcghzre Ewell!

many good women err. we fear, in their zeal much healthier employllient. As for society I lance and dlseomforl to each member Ol the £3 'lllilrl::lCIrill:i _ I ‘l  ll" Tl.” G”‘"3° interest“ “id Grange 119“ fffmped ..
to elevate their sex to the same plane of use- who cares for its opinion in this matter, as household’ ll°ll_l the aged who “'31” 3 005)’ Ilfileite Pigeon ‘ 4 50 " 3P,‘}"1:‘*lI§9"t“"B andnare 3: %1l,ti’-‘fig’ 51:1“? Y°P1'°9°11t9d- ‘*9
fulness and influence with their brothers, long as we do right‘? Do you think that the c°llle,l' ll? the lllllle plalllel wllo cllllllol de‘ Ar: Clevgefiam , l:"m: tical elJ01(llB1€]‘:ee;:§:, alilldmislsczlzlilefullly 8:116: Oafbl; P613:

Nature has  3 difierence between us‘ girl who trims your hats and dresses is fend lts rlghtS' _ . Ar'£l5l—lll:l93"" ducted. ’

the effects of which all the legislation and superior to the one who cooks your meals But the practical hints, where are they? Gonzo  V W“ th§E1sc;l;1alt‘)l;e:_o:E!3]}:i()fi flag; §;lfile:tp:I;%r!nt‘;f§uBl‘§;l;bil:

social influence which she may ever obtain and keeps your house neat and orderly ? I Last yelll We plobablll all thollglll Olll plan §l2\lIllll1lxlir:5S«lwlly ll‘ Wellllllll Ml°lllgl‘l" P

cannot materially modify,’ our feelings are do not; if anything’ she is inferior. A the best and most feasible that could be de- U, B,,,,~,,',,,_____ ‘* ‘ *':_'if2‘§‘0’;.?,‘§]2"4'5’$j’ ‘” TI.<3RMS.—g31.50 per year; trial trip (three months) ;.,

too often excited over the unequal distribu- young lady who makes light, white bread vlsed’ lllltlll lllls age of loglessloll ls lt_ll°ll fl: TldleeV4l:ledf:l_d_____ ::ll;AM‘l1ll(l)3 2‘ il ______ _- l°E31:3,‘;if,§,‘§}fi,llZ,§l,§l°,§’,;,‘§f’,§l,f,,f§Zll},*§l’,;,, gm send 

tion of rewards for services rendered. This and biscuits, Ilifle Cfikei flaky pies and golden well tllsmve for somellllmg better ll Flrst’ fl:  ilzllgjlz:  i: l ii? 7-” 21333 ‘HM ‘lamp l°' ‘ample °°Pl°°' A‘ld"°“v y 6. 
results from natural differences which exist butter, is far more accomplished than she  glve ll all (me °l my films lo clearlhe Pan‘ Arlschoolci-aft- 6538 3 l 345 3 1'12 is {M F. M. CARROLL .1: Co., ll
between us. Rewards cadnot be justly plac- who spends her time in reading novels, ll-Vi 3_t°’e‘1‘00m. and all closets Contlgulfus to lllillillelglfgzfil  -*  “   2- 25 CANAL STREET, — — Giuivn Ruins, man. 

ed upon what services we are able to render thumping on the piano and studying the the kllcllell’ film’, wlllle the weather l9 m0 95“'l‘L§l.“’l.‘li:_. nil‘) ll Llll_.“ l l ll’ L N. B.-—-The Agricultural World and Games Vrs- 

for an hour or a day. but upon the aggregate latest fashions. What are the majority of cool to Safely admlt 9f labor remote from the All ml“ connect at White Pigeon wlthAtra(lll*lsAl)Ill]BlI)Illsl:‘jn mm’ mm both ‘me year lol 8l‘50‘ ll

of our services as a life work. Man learns the girls of t0-day -3 A walking fashion stoves and before it is so warm that the nec- Sup,’ lmmmo Diviéiody Kmm-gm. — M- ______

his business and devotes himself to it, while
the event of his paternity only increases
the motives for industry and devotion to
meet the demands of a growing family.
Woman, on the contrary performs services
-in competition with her brothers, but al-

nobody,” you may know she would not be
much help in the kitchen. I do not think
it any disgrace to take charge of a lady’:-i
kitchen, and keep the wheels of the house-
hold niachinery running smoothly, but
rather call it an honor. Many a milliner
and dressmaker are on the point of starva-

the kitchen. Girls will work at the dress-
makers’ trade for $2 50 and $3.<)(l per week
and pay half of and sometimes the whole of
it for board, while a hired girl has $2.00 and

plate to be admired, petted and waited upon.
Is not the fault partly ours in bringing them
up to do so 1’ Husband comes down to

muddy, potatoes half-done, everything is _
topsy-turvy and children crying. “Why, l

pancy. A room may have its beautifully
adorned ‘vails, soft carpets and rare orna-
ments, and yet. disease may be hid among

our labors are vain or unnecessary when we
take our weapons in our hands and com-
mence our warfare against moths, dust, cob-
tion, because they are too proud lo work in wells’ llllll actual filth’ llllt through it all
from the first stroke to the last grand fin-
ishing touch let us hear these ideas in mind,
to do all with the least possible waste of
strength,

essary fire in the cook stove will make a
person feel like calling for the camphor and
a fan. Of course, if the kitchen is carpeted
breakfast; the steak is over-done, coffee it would lle well to remove the Clllpet before

' this step is taken, whether its general clean-

its grandeur. Let us not then think that

the least possible exposure of

ng is contemplated immediately, or deferred

New York, Atlantic and ll£l('lllC Ih.‘([ll't‘S3l‘S arid Local lllL‘§M}n'

gor daily. All other trains dnily except Sunday.
H. B. Ll-1D\'ARD, Gen lllziiiziger, D--troit.

E. C. Ilimwx, Asslt Gcu. Sn]-t., Jéickson.
“BN1 ' C. W1-::\‘rs\'oarli, (l. I’. J; T. A., Chicago,

KALAMAZUO l)JvisioN Tun-: TABLE.

(Time 15 minutes faster than Kalumuzoo.)

GOING ‘SOUTH.

W W '('l:‘.'\i”i?“ir'7:'iv Y [(93 ' 
;Express. Ex & .\l;wlly Fl‘

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one use or swarms

Kept in the omce or the Secretary or the
MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,
And rent out Post Paid, on Receipt of Carl: Order,

 

  

nfil the v 1- I t I t] ' k [;h b ENldm2B!llE1l‘lpref3ssll*Mixedl fyyeriallltie‘:_;'litl;fM‘:z:tli1r‘b¢;lrrdécnc‘:':‘taryGfang‘l audfiu
. . - _ . . -, - - U I e y as . lln re _ WV___W ~‘rm__7_‘ - - a _0- . _____ f» .
ways with the contingency understood,‘ if Mary! how is this ‘.”’ She bursts into tears. no better method of treat“) fife Wlfllll ‘E ,,,,_ P0,, H,,,,,,, ______ __ 7,5 ,,,, 415 ,.,,,i
not expressed» that the event of maternity “Charles. I can not get any help; what am b h . . g l ° II §’"‘}“*‘ §.',“"k -"W 3,33 Porcelain Ballot Marbles, iper hundred. ______ .. 75
will change the relation of the employer I going to door) If we could have peeved t estse rf0E)_DJtS,dt a.ntbYTghl'vllJg ttpem a few .. Llilplgf; _l_’_l: """ “ p 9.20 Bla.i:=kB<:‘o:<;k,liet¢li1g1t:‘1'erii§;<ll_,a or Secretaryto keep
.aud the employed, and not infrequently into this 18dy’s kitchen 8 Week ago, things of)? so  e pal,” ' k lfhls 8', elllllll lllll' -3 glilllifnajj ‘i3lall Bizliilllillecorlili Booksl,n(Ex"r}a2;;',3.;i'.i)','_Ijjjjf" l 33
with greater loss to the former than to the Were orderly and neat under the hands of a :ar:t‘::f),l::.)an ma es . e c eaning com- :: &,i,:,:;,gB_   OrderBoo‘l:rl,c<t>n1l';a.ini:ilg1l0g%rders on the Tree...
latter. hired-girl. But she was not content; she l‘ H Battle Creek :l-zoo R'ell,l,',§l'twi300llkll ,;o';faini‘,l,llll 1}‘, """ ": ------ -- 5°
_ , _ , - - - _ ..  - A e R ta 1,
Sisters, there is no higher sphere for use- must find fault and be overbearing, keeping Lllllllliltllefix "lea  leglllll lo llle Sll_’le_l'°°m‘ .. ,l,c',j§§}’,:l,f§,': i  Ti-ellsum tolsecretary, Erith stubfllvglelll i.o...‘I.l§ 5o
fulness than the one which beaven has as- the girl on her feet from five o'clock in the fclkttliheoujerliloznfianydli) llencll In hit it §f,'fil,ll,‘,l,l'l,’;l,ll,l,,i l g  Ela.nlikcaRt:(‘)l!elispftgrf(l?Eedll1l)1l?;’r€l:lr 100': lllllllmdl """ ll 50
. . . . . e ' a ' an e r - ...... 
.-signed and secured to us by such holy laws morning until ten at night; no time to sew 5 e whem‘ll_ of dfi d t: _t 0‘ eflflydpac . l 7 20 M’;!;,,,,,,,,,,,, cardgpe, 1oo,l_l’_ll?___ __' ________ __ 33
as may never be abrogated—we mean the or read, or hardly think. Do you wonder g  . “E b e 1:1" ‘groin?’ lmgsl ______ "W00 Wl“.‘d"“.“'“ C‘*l1’d3- P91‘ €102-»-----........ .... .. 25
f ,1 - th. 1 d t h I 2,  f I I . Illel ICIIIH 1.91‘ S, 01' gar en see 8, 8 (epos- EA5T\VARD_ Its, 111 ODVO OPGB, P81.‘ doz. ..'.... ,.,,:__ ___ 25
am! y I p . I -tols 1:1 ty can 86 ntotle P _ _ ose au  H “ed upon its shelves. let it be carefuuy — 1 my “Hum By-Laws of the State Gnngel,ai.ngle copies loo,
If woman is so desnous of obtammg d,s_ i l e us carry on ie divine l1]_)uDcl.l0l.l labelled with name and the date In 8 m , Expml Expnmltiiixad. per doz., ............................  15
auction in 8 pr0reS§iOn’ that she i_,, Wining and do unto them as we would have them do . . . .  _ e" _ ’ No.1. No.5. I‘ N°- 13- BY'L“W,‘v .l’°“.“‘l---      ----- -- 20
_ , , . _ t -f 1_ d - . . . time this practice will save much time and memo.-go .................... --i 645 my Patrons Singing Book. with music, Single copy
todeny herself the possibilities which follow “'1 0 “S: ’ We were P 409 111 their P0S|U0U- paueuce . : Viilpn.raiso__ - 912 It 15 cts. per.d0z., .....  ......  ........ __ 1
from her social relations, to undergo the A UNT SUSAN. 1120

same discipline, to struggle through the
same difliculties asher masculine competi-
tors, her merits will receive itsjust reward.
“ There is no royal road to fame,” she must
-remember that unused to competition, she
must take the same high way as those whose
strength enables them to pursue it with ease.
She must not be disheartened by the slan-
ders which will be freely bestowed upon her,

Does the Wife Support the Husband?

I

Bro. Cobb.--—Will you allow me a little 5

spacein your paper wherein I may thank
Mrs. O. M. Sykes for so aptly expressing in
the last number of the VISITOR my own
sentiments, and I venture to add, the senti- e
ments of hundreds of other woman,did they

supported by their husbands, without any

cleaning paint is well known to the ladies.
This, with a trifle of ammonia in the water,

less dangerous to the paint.

to the chambers and closets adjoining, and
in the chests and boxes of these closets the

tion.

like manner.

Probably the value of marble dust for

find to be far better for removing unsightly
pots about the door knobs than soap, being

As the weather grows warmer, we proceed

ver ready pencil again comes into requisi-
Let articles of clothing, valuable and

  
       

Imlay City ____ _- _
“ G. T. Junction__ -
Port Huron ..................... _. I

 

*Carry passengers with tickets.

For information as to rates, apply to J. A. Bordeaux, local

Agent, Schoolcruft, Mich.

 
  

Rituals, single copy, _ _
“ per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , , , , ,_ 2
Blank “Articles of Association” for the Inco
ration of Subordinate Granges, with Copy of
Charter, all complete,.. m
Notice to Delinquent Members, per 100, ...... __ 40
Declaration of Purposes, per doz., 6c.; per
hundred, ........ . . i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , , _ _ 40
American Manual of 50
II II ‘I
rocco Tucli.) .......................... . . 00
Address of J’. J. Woodman before the Nation-

. . . All trains run by Chicago time. All trains daily except all Gmnge—per dozen ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' '-' ' ' ‘ ‘ ' ' ' ' ' " 20
_ 1331188 to think the matter over calmly. I not In use at the pliesent tllmel be nppedv Sunday. This is the only line runniugits entire train through Agldmss of Tllos’ K‘ B°e.°llel—p°r d°z°n' -- 10
they but ma,-k her rise {mm 0bscu,ity_ If think it is a stigma upon women who labor smoothed and_ folded in papers and labelled; between Port Enron and Chicago without change. 1318991505 Law 59-nd Rulings. ----- - -. ....... .. 40
. and the remains of choice garments, which CHE 3- PE°K- W» 11- PITTIBON5 Address, J. '1‘. COBB
she keep 119136” modest, pure and upright, as farmers) wives do’ to amrm that they are may not be needed for years be treated in General Manager. Ann Superintendent - ’
she soon will rise above the envious crowd, ’

Sac’: Mrcn. Sun Gannon,

SCHOOLOBAFI‘, MICE.-

lReduce:_E: Price! - ”"

  
 
  
    
   
    
  
   
   
  
 
 
  
   
  
  
    
  
  
   
   
   
      
    
    
  
    
  
  
   
    
  
  
 
  
  
 
 
   
   
     
  
 
 
   
    
 
 
   
  
  
 
   
   
  
   
  
  
 
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
 
 
   
  
   
  
 
 
  
   
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
   
  
 
    
  

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GEO. W. HILL, '
Commission Merchant

—--AND nsaun ix~—-

GRAIN AN D PRODUCE.

No. 80 Woodbridze Street West.
Detroit, Mich.

I’rice List of a Few

Seasonablc Specialties.

CLOTHES VVRINGERS :

New Champion, iron frame, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 50

Unique, iron frame, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 50

Novelty, wood frame, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4 00

Peerless, “ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4 25

Eureka, Iron “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 U0
“A" Novelty Bsnch.....  . . ... . 7 00
. “ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9 00
SALT FISH:
Subject to fluctuations of the Market.
One-half bbl. White Fish, . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 25

“ “ Trout, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 00

“ “ Mackerel, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4 00

15 lbs. Kit Wixito Fish, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l 35‘

20 lbs. " “ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. l 70

15lb~i. " Trout, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 100

20 lbs. "‘ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 2-3

L’) lbs. " Mackerel, . . . . . . . . .' . . . . . “$100 @ l 26

l3;tRBEl) FENCE VVIRE:
  . . ....8.§':. and 95s. per pound.

Aschuft, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..8§c. and 933. “
Washburn & Moon, . . . . . . . .81-c. and 9§c. “ “
London I’urplc, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .l2c. “ “
Wool Twins, best, . . . . . . . ..Z . . . . . ..l0c. " “
S ieep Shears.

Ituta Boga Seeds, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-'ic. “ “

Cheshire D iivy Salt, best in use, 703. per suck, 1 bush.
MASON JARS :

Pints, one gross in box, . . . . . . . . . . ..$lli 00 per gross.
Quarts, two-thirds gross in box, . . . . . 15 Ol) “ “
2 Quarts, one-half gross in box .. . . . IS 00 " "

All of the above articles will be furnished at prices
named. No commission will be charged nor charges
made for boxes. Hsreafter I will make no charge of
commission on boxing when a qeneral bill is ordered,
except on su;.;ar. ‘

I have made airangcinciits with a. large New York
Importer for all my TE; and COFFEE, consequent-
ly can furnish Patrons zit. lower prices, viz. : Tea I
have sold at 480. now is 40c. and 43s. by the full
chest; that that was 404:. now is 380. and 370 by tie
full chest. Rio Golfee that was 17c. now is 16c. anrl
155.3. by full sack; that that was l6c. now is 130. and
lllgc. by full sack.

Patrons to avail themselves of above prices must
order in lots of at least, 10 lbs. Coffee and 5 lbs. Tea
in one package.

I will also state that I cannot put up very many
small packages of Spice. or other inexpensive goods,
still, I will not refuse to make occasional variations
from that rule, when a small quantity only is needed.

With the extraordinary patronage I have had this
spring, with what I may reasonably expect in the
future, and advantages gained in making purcha sex,
I feel warranted in making the above low prices and
!‘8(lllCl’.lUl|F|, and believe it will be appreciated.

There are a few changes to noie in my Grocery
Price List. as follows: Matches are $7.17) per gross ;
Crackers, l‘~.§::. per pound; Rico. Tic. and Sic I do
not handle ltoyal Baking Powder. it having taken an
unwarranted advance, I handle Magnolia, instead. at
old prices of Royal.

I.have :1 Japan Tea dust at 250. , equal to ten
usually sold at 7-')c. per pound.

‘GEORGE W’, HILL.
S0 VVoodbri:igc Street. \-Vest.

uia.yl7)tf DE'l‘ROl'l' MICK.

124 TR.’).V.s', TRY ME,
And Judge for Yourselves.

THE iuiiii Mlll,

Stand.» wi’..i‘mul a l'l’v'2l.l in asserting grain and seeds.
Sc.-p:1.r.i.t.is ltllll ‘,{I'H.lll‘S }_:i'.iivi and seeds of all irinds;

2< 1It)l'i¢"‘lyZ has six furs, is simple, runs easily,
api-.l!y. Agi’.’.it"~ in hopper, wilh lever
and ['d.lC.llS;‘l’. for i-cqu‘.:itiiig feed. The sieves are well
nude of copperell an-I aiiiicaled wire cloth; other
parts of the most durable m:ite1'i:il. The Eureka is
the only mill in Arne-iica tliat niakes

Four complete Separations on two
Sieves at one operation.

It separates cockle, chess, mustard, redroot, dock,
or any other small seed from your wlieat; niakiiig
one grade of seed irli-.1-.1. taking the shrunk and
cracked wheat out and ('.l(‘.iI!llUg it for ll'J:l.!'l£8t at the
same time, ‘.»c.~ids.-s putting the small foul seeds that
may be in the v ' ectly clean by itself. also the
cockle and oh.  he Eureka does all of
this in running .:c-. grsii once throngii the mill. One
dollar in cash will be given for every cockle or chess
that can be found in the seed wheat after being once
run tliroiiglithe mill when properly adjusted. This
mill was awarded the highest medal at Pliilodclphia
in 1876. also at the last two State fairs of Michigan.

Maiiiifactured by
H ENRY CORTRITE,
For terms to Patrons address Lansing, Mich.
T. J. SHOEMAKER,
Sec'_v 6337, Mt. Clernens, Mich.

 i1=?ri.1:cE LIST or

HORSE NETS.

Nets made of l6—thread twine, full net, body,
neck and ear tips, by the dozen, each $1.10. Sixty
days time. Ten per cent. off for cash.

Body Nuts, reacliing to the humes, by the dozeii,
each 75 cents.

Nets mad: of 2()—threa'.l twine, a small azlvancc
on above prices.

    

     
  

 
 
 
 

JOSEPH SHAW".
(‘hat-lotte. Blicli.
_ Orders umfer Sm! 0/ Grange promptly attcndczi to.

UNION NURSERIE8.

}4II~".[‘.~XIl LISLI ED 1857.

TREES!‘ TREESE

FRUIT AND ()RNAME!\"l‘AI:.

The proprietors of these 'N'urseiies'ol'i'er—lo;zel.her
with their experience of '24 years in the business—-
a complete stock of Apples, Pears. Cherries.
Plums. Peaches, Quinces. Grape-I, (lurraiits.
Gooseberries. Blackberries. Raspberries. and
Strawberries; also Ornamental Trees.
Shrubs, Roses,‘ otz-., etc.

All orders received through the mail. or entrusted
to our authorized Agents, will receive our personal
attsiitiim. Parties representing .us, without our
Certificate of Agency, are a fraud.

Address,

L G. Bl{AGG, 8; ('10..
KALAMAZOO, '- - - . anon,

 

p can chassis visiscn.

HUSBANDS ~+0F '~=‘ICKm'~ WIVES I
 OF DROOPING 

SHOULD KNOW OF ‘
DR. R. PENG-ELLY’S “ WOMAN'S FRIEND,” IMPROVED l
It. is a. SOVEREIGN Rn:Mic1)Y rm-

Those Complaints (they need no naming) peculiar to VTOMEN. YOUNG or OLD, NOT A CUR E-
ALL. Clanning to annihilate Jannrlice, Diabetes, Bi-ight’s Disease, Gravel, and everything else which
afllicts MEN EVEN MORE THAN VVOM EN.

It works in ONE LINE and in that llne it excels. The tender, Nervom Girl, the anxious. expectant
Mother, the overburdened Ilouaewife, the Matron. passing the critical change. are all guarded, soothed and
sustained by its Gentle Influence. It is the pre.scr7'p:z'mi of an e.tperienced Physician, perfected during a
life-long practice, and its nine years of public record, in 30 dificrent States, have proved it rightly named -

A FRIEND INDEED TO VVOMAN. The gzood words of those who use it are its best advertisement.
An 8-ounce ($1.00) bottle, or a 20 ounce ($2.00) bottle sent on receipt of price. express prepaid. also
references and testimonials, on application to

‘ Ti. I’l11i\’GH3L[.S:' 8:. 00..
KALAYIAZOO. IiIiCH. (FORMERLY or PLAINWELL.)

Sold by Drugglsts generally and Lady Agents. Swift a Dodds, and Farrnnd, Vtfllllams
do Co., Detroit. Vans: knack, Stevenson do Co , Chicago.

A SUPEI-‘.1013 SUB.S'TlTUTE I'())i"KAI,b'O1lII.VE, [FALL I’AI’ER. il‘c.
BETTER, CHEAPER, AND MORE EASILY APPLIED.

It is the only preparation based on the proper principles to constitute E‘. durable finish. and is entirely
different from all other preparstioiis applied with the brush.

Every additional can ml" AIi'.B»‘.S’1’l.V'E-2. apznli».-d from time to time, adds to the strength of the wall. as
they all cement together. forming one solid lllti."-1. that will not E-'C&le from a hard surface, but becomes hauler
with age, Lbvinting the necessity oi‘ scraping and wasiiiiir walls. This alone plncw Ai ADASTYNE far ahead
of all other preparations for the purpose; while it is zils-‘x very easily applied by any }'H‘.1‘.‘<Ol’l., by following a
simple given rule, and yet. especially adapted to the fre-~aCo pfllntets’ use: it is the r-hiaz-.p(-st finish known, as
it requires but one-half the i-.iiin‘-wr oi‘ puunilfi that it does of kulsomine to cover the same surface: and
saves time and waste by boiiiz rt-avly for ll-I8 by Il(l'ltll:‘,' hot. water.

Fifty cents’ worth of ALABASTINP. will cover .30 square yards of average wall with two coats: and one
cent will produce better work thzii-. can be done with one coat of any other preparation, on the seine sur-
face. ALABAETINE is the best finish for all the fnllmving surfaces: A soiled "l'iard-linish," painted walls,
wood ceilings. over‘ old wall paper. on brick, or on rough boards, rough plaster. kc. Wetting ALAHABTINE

does not spot it. Manufactured only by the

 C'().,

M. B CHURCH, Manager.

Gran cl Iinpids. l\1ich.

@'For sale by nearly eveiy Drnggist and Paint Dealer in Michigan, and generally throughout the U. S.

 

Can be Removed from Floor in Two Mir.utes—— Taking up in Valuable

Rccm when No: in Use.

hlnn ufaclured by

13‘ Semi for C;rci1‘.e.r.

SDIITII (£3 \VOODAlZD, Kalamazoo, bitch.

 

Farmers and Pa, ‘ions
of the “'V'ISITC3. ,”
 ARE you in need of ii
”  vvssm MILL?
It so, read the foilowiiig:

Tl-IE UNDERSFGNED
WINI) JIIILE 00..

MANUFACTURI-EBB OF

;   , WOLCOT’i"i"~;
  PATENT
“‘ "“““ ‘ SELF-1i’EGUL.»1Tl1l‘G

fill - lllliléll lllllll llllll.

ARE new prepared to furnish Mills on short notice.
VVe employ but few Aszeutsz we prefer to deal (ii~
rectly wiih the farm-srs. R-=l11r)Il‘ll)*'-1:, the \'Viiid Mill
we ofllar you is not a new and untried Mill, for it
has been built in Albion for the past nine years, and
has st.ocd the test. \Ve can furnish any number of
Testimonials, from ten or more difioreiit btates. \Vc
have made many new rind useful inaprovenic-{its from
year to year, until we now have as good it .-‘'..'ill as
can be found in the mark:-t——we might. like others,
say the best, but we leave it to you to judge for your-
self. All we ask is that you give our Mill 5 trial. It
costs you nothing to make the trial; if not satis-
factory, we take it away at our own expense.

Deiricks, Pumps, Tanks and Piping r'i-.1-nislicd
with or without Mills.

You can save time and mmney by writing at
once for Circulars and Price List to

UNION WIND MILL £3 :l!A.\"F'G (70 ,
A/.'oi'<m, Rlirh.

  

‘GGS FOR HATCHING. From all the varieties
J of poultry, Brahmas, Cochins, Ilambnrgs, Polish
Lrszhorns. Plymouth Rocks, Roan Cangza. Bekin and
Al bury Ducks. Eggs carefiilly pricked from our
‘re biz’-zis at 81.50 per 13. Four or more sic’ ’ gs at

     

§Xl]llh <5: Br-o..

shire pigs to spare.
Srcxv Bacon, N. Y.

it-pi'l5,'.’m

PAINT for 
THE BEST AND casasnsr.

Immense Reduction in Prices tram April 15, 1881.
FREIGII!‘ FR}-TE.

YA! C" I l
lluailerm 2:8 llcady—llIied Paints.
Used by Patrons all Over the lmzrl.
QUARTERMADTS GUIDES TO PAINTING
wmi suirms COLORS sssr FIIEE TO ANY P.n‘imx-

[?Send for our Prices before purchasing else-
where. Address
E. A. OUARTERMAN,

159 South Street, New York City.

FENHO & MANNING,

llllllll Elll.lllllE‘.S|0ll lllElllIHlllllS,

117 Federal St., lloston.

Consignments solicited and Cash Advances tilade.

‘Seized Potatoes.

BUIEBANK SEEDLINGS. LEADER.
BEAUTY OI" HEBRON. TRIUMPH.

$1.00 per bushel, bags included. deliver:-d at depot
hers. JOSEPH M()ltl«1lS,
I-Iarlcttc, Ssnilac county, Mich.

THE 5 - TOTN’

WAGON SCALES.

.AI3IE SOLD FOB $60.

All Iron and Steel. hold on ti-inl—freight paid by
as—no money asked till tested and found satisfac-
tory. All sizes manufactured. I

JONES ms m:s(;H,\MP1‘0'1v,
Biiigliampton. N. Y.
Send for Circulars and further particulars.

‘Paw PAW, Mich. May 18th, 1878.
JONES Ol-‘ l3IZ‘<‘Gl{AMTON:

My Scales give entire. satisfcz-lion. I have subject-
ed it to the niost severe tests and find it not only
correct in vi--signing large or small amounts, but
perfertfy 1':-r't(L(>le~. _

Yours, Fratcrnuily,
J. J. WOUDMAN.
3 in-— lyr

Hiiniiigifiis in Llll_ll_§LlSTBR.
SAY & TAYTaOR,

Crandviile, Mich"

Are prepared to furnish LAND I‘L.-‘.STEP., fresh
ground, at CC-'.:.i&~‘l prices, made with the Executive
Commil‘rec« oi‘ the State Grange.
A lai';:s stock on hand oi" pure, flriely-ground
l'.A.I\'D Pli.-‘QTER.
Send us your Orders dnre.-.~t.
jzml—1y

[Signed]

ll.-‘LS’ R TAYLOR

Plymouth Rocks

paréihge Cochins!

My Plymouth Rocks
are from l{eefer’s noted
strain; my Partridge
Cochiris are from
l~-‘ieroefls prize- win-
n.".:$: strain. \Vea.ned
Chickens for sale
A in early Summer.

9 143g-gs in season.
- Send for Circular to

Frnk B. Wilde, Coaperviile, Mich.

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MAY 15, 1881.

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GENERAL AGENTS FOR C:'.'NI‘RAL MIJHIGAN.

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l(‘I.\‘I.-‘i, CI.lN'l‘()N. F-HIAWASSEE. BAlll’.Y, TCATUN, INGRAM, LlI\'l'.\'GSTO.\', CALHOUN,
JACKSON AND VVASH’l'ENAVl' Cl.)UN'l‘ll‘.§'. i\i:ty l“17"-

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New Combined Spring Tooth Sulky Harrow

CITLTI VATOR AND 9-§l<)EI)li3l{.
l\1nnu{nctu.i-Dd by
THE SCHAU &. ECHUSTER SULKY.
ZLERRCW AND SEEDER COMPANY.
Knlrunalno, - Michigan.

As :2. coinliined lI]!lClllDC. it stands un-
riv.-'.lle<l in cx(:.'—llem-0, doing the work 0.
, r. llarrow and See-ll Sowor most thorough-
_ ly and snti.-4l:iL'toi'il_V. lt has taken high

- rriiik at once as ONE OF THE VERY
RI<I.\"I‘ l.\ll’l.l£Ml£.\"l‘S FOR THE USES
l)lCSlG.\'l_<Zl) l<]Vl~}lt INVENTEI). Sows
all kinds of grain and grass seeds. 'l'l‘o llarrow does not tmiI,gind is of lighter

drait than any other Ilarrow in the iiia.1-k-at. , It. received first l)l‘('lllllllll and diplomas
wherever shown in 1880.

Eureka. Automatic Wind Engine,

WARRANTED TO CONTROL ITSELF IN ANY WIND
'Pl-10A’l PGZIIIAIO 9Cl5l 0'-l UMOUH 'l:IlEl.AAOcI LSHJVEHO

  

It is the Only Mill on record whose Working Parts are Entirely Closed.
VVill warrant it l\"<:ver to Freeze Up or to be Hindered in any way by Storin or Ice.

Pumpw, rxsawmfi. $220.,

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THE CHAMPION EARBED WIRE

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Barbed Wire, Dry Goods, Groceries, Sewing Machines, Scales,
Seeds, Hardware, Watolies, Clocks, Plated Ware, &c., &c.

In Fact, Everything You Want, of Your State Business Agency.
!!'H‘i0M&$ W3&$*037,

Commission Merchantv. 159 South VVater Street, Chicago. Ill.

§'PATRONS STATE BUSINESS AGENT. N. B.-All goods bought on your order at WIIOLL
SALE RATES on day of purchase. Terms strictly cash.

   

 

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