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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.
The Granger’s Dream, and What Came of It——Betsy
and J osiah— Swindlers Abroad——Washed and Un-
washed Wool-—The Situation, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l

Thanatopsis — Educational — What a Canadian
Thinks of “A Move in the Right Direcl.ion”—Fenc-
ing—Prove Your Title and Take Your Recipe —
Highway Law —The Railroad Candidate — Milk
for Poultry—-Popular Science Notes—A History of
Gun Lake Grange, No. 643 -— Tallmadge Grange,
No. 639—From the Grand Traverse Region—An
Unfortunate Grange——One Kind of a Gi-ange—A
Successful Experiment,.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

To an Old Coat—“ Little Rustic ”—-Adulteration of
Food——The Danger at the Door—— F. A. North's

Feed Racks—Time-Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Care of the Insane-Town and Country-—School
Taxes .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Pickings by the Way, No. 80—The Birthplace of the
Order—Lecturer’s Whereabouts—Washington Let-
ter—The Wool Clip—Wool Matters and Markets-
Writing for the Press~—Keeping the Patient Quiet
—Reolutions Below Par— Ca itol Grange Pro-
gram—Don’t Whine——Pooling ool . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Sonnet—Successful Lives—Seed-Time and I-Iarv_est
— Home Adornment —- Canning and Preserving
Fruit, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . .. 6

Girls, Don't Talk Slan —My Favorite -— To Uncle
Nine—The Reaper, eath—Advertisements,... 7

To the Patrons of Michigan—Alabastine—Advcrtise-
ments, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8

Officers National Grange.

MAs'rnn—J. J. WOODMAN, (Paw Paw) Michigan.

OvERsEEB—PUT. DARDEN. - - Mississippi.
Lncrunna-HENRY ESHBAUGH, - Missouri.
STEWARD—A. J. VAUGHN, - Mississippi.
Assr. S'rnwAnn—W1LLIAM SIMS, - Kansas
CnA1>r.ArN—S. H. ELLIS, - - - Ohio.
TREASURER-—F. M. MCDOWELL, - New York.

SECBETABY—WM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.
GATE-KEEPER--0. DIN WIDDIE, - Indiana.
CEBES—MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, - Michigan.
POMONA—MRS. PUT. DARDEN, - Mississippi-
FLOBA—MRS. I. W. NICHOLSON, - New Jersey.
LADY Assr. STEWABD-MRS. WM. SIMS, Kansas.

Executive committee-

South Carolina.
Indiana.
New York.

D. WYATT AIKEN, . .
H. JAMES, - - - -
W. G. WAYNE, - - -

Officers Michigan State Grange.

M.—C. G. LUCE, - - - Gilead.
O.—A. N. WOODRUFF, - - Watervliet.
L.—C. L. WHITNEY, - - - Muskegon.

S.—S. A. TOOKER, - - - - Lansing.
A. S.—A. E. GREEN, - - Farmington.
C.—SALMON STEEL, - Manton, Wexford Co.
T.-S. F. BROWN, - - - Schoolcraft.
Snc.—J. T. COBB, - - - Schoolcraft.
G. K.—ELIJ AH BARTLETT, - - Dryden.
CEJB.EE.—MBB. A. S. STANNARD, - - Lowell.

PoxoNA.—Mns. H. D. PLATT, - - Ypsilanti.
FI.eB.A.—MBs. A N. WOODRUFF, Watervliet.
L. A. S.—-Mas. A. E. GREEN, - Farmington.

 

Executive commlttee-

THOMAS MARS, Chairman, ’ - Berries Center.
J. WEBSTER CHILDS, - - Ypsilanti.
F. M. HOLLOWAY, - - - Hillsdale.
J. Q. A. BURRINGTON, - - Tuscola.
WM. SATTERLEE, - - Birmingham.
THOS. F. MOORE, - - - - Adrian.
JOHN PORTER. - - Grand Rapids.
C. G. LUCE, J. T. COBB, - - Ex-officio.

General Deputy.

c. L. WHITNEY, -—— - -
state BusT;e——ss Agent.
THOMAS MASON, —._ - Chicago, 111.

Muskegon.

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PAW PAW.

[Written for the Farmers’ Institute at Schoolcraft,
Feb. 3 and 4, 1881.]

THE GRANGER’S DREAM, AND WHAT GAME OF IT.

BY F. HODGMAN.

A Granger one night by his fireside was sitting,
When merry brown leaves through the meadows
were flitting,

And chill autumn winds piled them up at his door.
Of winter's approach they were giving him warning,
And Jack Frost had been there early one morning

And killed his Verbenas, a fortnight before.

His flocks were all sheltered and eating,
His wife the last duties of evening completing,
The children all tucked away snugly to rest;
The stove with a row of small shoes was surrounded ;
The last stroke of nine from the clock had just
sounded,
As Luna's last beams faded out in the west.

The farmer, who sat there, was silently musing ;—
His hand on the shovel he just had been using
To cover the embers of tire for the night-
His thoughts the results of his year's work were
summing,
And how to prepare for the winter now coming ;
What work to begin with the morning's first light.

His wheat must be drawn, for he had contracted -
A lot at a dollar. The buyer expected
Delivery made while the going was good.
And now in his mind ’twas a serious question,
What course to pursue: if it was not the best one
To sell all he had, at the price as it stood.

He would sell ofi his hogs, for the cholera threatened;
At least would dispose of all those which were
fattened
Sufiicieutly well for the market's demands.
Some of them now he discovered were ailing ;
In a day or two more they'd be rapidly failing.
He must sell them off soon, or they’d die on his
hands.

The best he could do. they would dock him a quarter
On sick hogs unfit for the regular slaughter,

And that was as much as he thought he could stand.
There was com yet to husk, to be done in a hurry,
A hen-house to build, and that made him worry——-

He didn't know just how he wanted it planned.

For he was no slouch, on his farm or in movement,
And nothing would do but the latest improvement.
His stock, tools and buildings must be of the best ;
His crops were all planted and gathered in season ;
He made the best use that he could of his reason,
And left the good Lord to take care of the rest.

As thoughts of his hen-house kept ever returning,

He made up his mind he would go the next morning

And see how friend Adams’s suited his mind ;
If that did not please him. he'd visit his neighbors
And see what had been the result of their labors,
And which was the best one of all he could find.

And that was not all. .Thei'e was many a question

On which he would like a good friendly suggestion
From men of known judgment and practical skill :

If he could but meet them, and cordiaily greet them,

And talk up these troublesome matters between them,
How easy ’twc-uld be all the trouble to kill I

That thought bred another: Why can’t we, I wonder,
Have meetings of farmers residing asunder,
Especially those who have proven their skill,
And call it an Institute, Farmers’ Convention,
Or any good name that will help the invention-
It will be just the thing, call it what name you will.

And now I remember, the College at Lansing,
Intent on the good of the farmers advancing,

Has taken this very same business in hand. _ ,
I’ll speak to the Grange at the very next meeting ;
We'll send to the College a neighborly greeting,

And ask the professors to help what they can.

In this way the Granger continued to ponder

In dreamland, his senses beginning to wander,
When down came the fire-shovel, bang! on the floor.

He woke with a shiver, to hear his wife calling;

“ Come, hurry to bed," she was lustily calling;
" I've wound up the clock and have fastened the

door.”

“ Don't sit thereby the stove and keep me in waiting,
Till midnight my slumber and night’s rest belating ;
I need all the rest I can get—yes, and more.
You'll catch a bad cold and be grunting to-morrow ;
You've done it before, as you know to your sorrow.
Come, Jamie, don't stay there, I beg and implore.”

Of course there was nothing for him but to mind her

Experience warned him he surely would find her
-Correct in her judgment-—’twas just so before.

He had settled the cares on his mind to his liking,

So when the old clock the next hour was striking,
It mingled its resonant chime with his snore.

But still, as he slept, there attended his slumber

A host of new visions, and dreams without number,
Of meetings, discussions, and greeting of friends,

Of talks about sowing and planting and drilling;

New truths in his mind he was busy instilling,
When morn brought his visions abruptly to end.

But the plan seemed so good he set right about him,

(The neighbors would never begin it without him,)
And told all his Grange of the work he had planned.

They listened at first with surprise at the measure,

But quickly agreed to assist him with pleasure
And scatter the tidings all over the land.

That work must be done which is full of attraction
For men who despise a dull life of inaction,

And farmers are men who have got it to do.
In orchard and meadow and every surrounding,
The secrets of nature are richly abounding;

The farmer is he who must bring them to view.

And so they discussed the inherent relations

Of crops to the soil, and the plain indications
That princi les give of the course to pursue;

And instanced) a great many good illustrations-—

Experiments tried on the farmers’ plantations,-
All going to show that they held the right view.

The sum of it all was, they got the thing started,
And when it was over the company parted

And wended their way to their several homes;
Each carried home with him a. novel idea,

To test on his farm, in the course of the year,
And tell how it worked when next Institute comes.

Now, each passing winter brings with it a meeting,

The lessons of practical wisdom repeating,
The interest increasing as years pass along.

The wave of instruction, now fairly in motion,

Will spread till it reaches the shores of the ocean,
And Maine shall respond to the far Oregon.

To-day we have sat here with pleasure, and listened
To men whom we honor, and eyelids have glistened
As thoughts of the future have teamed in the brain,
And pictured our country——a rapturous vision,-
The home of free mi1lions—a dwelling elysian,——
A garden, like Eden, o'er mountain and plain ;

Where the husbandman equals the peer in osition;
And farmers, the statesmen, in mental condition ;
Where virtue and intellect rule in the land ;
Where titles to place in the world's estimation
Are founded on virtue, and such education
As brings out the best that there is in the man.

It may not be our time when this shall prove real,
And “ Accomplished ” shall stand in the place of
“ Ideal,”-

But millions are working to bring the time near;
And where shall we find, in the wide world around us,
Signs of its coming like those which surround us,-

And where is it nearer accomplished than here i’

There are brooks that go rippling through opening
and meadow,
Then seeking the glen where the forests o'ershadow,
Or winding ‘mid sedges and ferns to the sea.
There are lakelets that ‘laugh when the merry winds
blow them;
Tall grasses that nod to the nestlings below them,
And sweet clover blossoms that sprinkle the lea.

There are farm houses standing alone the broad
highways;
And children dispoi-ting themselves in the by-wa s,
Where the hazel nuts grow and the mandra e is
found;
There are flocks still increasing the husbandman's
treasures;
Fruits and flowers all round him to add to his
pleasures,
And crops that in fulness encumber the ground.

this prairie,
Whose beauties might grace the abode of a fairy.
And find that a grand hospitality reigns.
With welcomes as broad as your prairies you meet us;
With welcomes as warm as your hearthstones you
greet us ;
W'ith generous friendship and naught that con-
strains.

We give you our thanks for these tokens around us,

For all of the comforts we’ve had to surround us,——
The pleasures enjoyed as we've met with you her e

And when we shall go on our way in the morning,

Let us hope we shall all meet again in the dawning
Of that better day we are working for here.

   

BETSY AND JOSIAH.

\Vell, Betsy dear, another year
So soon has passed away,

And we have lived to see the dawn .
Of this Old Settlers’ day.

So while you fix our dinner up,
I’ll hitch the steady gray

To our new carriage, just from town,
And then we'll haste away,

Laws, Betsy, who would ever <lream’(l
Most fifty years ago,
That you and I would rise so high
Or make so good a show ? \
You laugh and say I'm getting proud
In these my latter days,
And really fear I'm being spoiled
VVith my fast horse and chaise.

But, Betsy, I’m not half so proud
As when we first came West,

And you and my ox team was all
The riches I possessed.

There, where we pitched our little tent,
N o farther west to roam,

No mansion ever seemed so bright
As that small woodland home.

While there you spread our little feast,
Then by an out-door fire

You made and baked the first corn cake
For you and your Josiah.

And so we went to keeping house
Where naught but woods abound,

And not a neighbor to be seen
For many miles around.

But you were quite content, and I
The work had soon begun, '

Of opening up a passage way
To greet the shining sun.

How soon the forest learned to bow
E'en at the ax’s ring;

Those giant trees fell at my feet
As if I were their king.

I labored hard, I know I did,
But when the day was gone

You always met me with a smile
Or some old-fashioned song.

And then of evenings I would make
Our furniture, you know,

While you sat at the little wheel
A-spinning flax or tow.

That little wheel was never still,
And when the children came

So thick and fast, it seemed that you
,Kept spinning just the same.

Sometimes the meal got rather low,
Then I'd get rather blue, -

But you would smile, and say the Lorfl
Would bring us safely through.

Why, Betsy, everything we have,
I owe it all to you,

For you were braver for than I,
And you shall have your due.

But you remember, Betsy, when
I told you just in fun,

That you grew young and handsome
With every setting sun.

How the next day you sought a trough.
And filled it to the brim

With water from the spring, and then
Stood proudly looking in.

‘ And when I spied you how your stormed

And caused our first hard spat,

Because I told you ’twas yourself‘.
That you was looking at.

We have come from those homes and have met on.

So then to make amends I went
Some twent miles or more

To town, and ought a looking-glass
And hung up by the door.

And, Betsy, those were ha py times,
In spite of cares and toi .

For warmer hearts or freer hands
Ne’er cleared or tilled the soil

Than those found here in Michigan,
Most fifty ears ago.

They loved t eir neighbors as themselves,
Just as we’er told to do.

Why, bless you, Betsy, now-a-days
You'll hear some young men say,

“ The times are hard," when there is work

And lots of ready pay!

Why, I would like to take them back,
And I would like to show

Just what their forefathers did,
So they might better know

What labor and what hardships meant.
I think they'd shrink with dread

At what they saw, and hasten back
To their hard times instead.

And, Bets , girls were different then
From what the girls are now.

These do not like the calloused hand
And honest, sun-burned brow:

They like the men that wear fine clothes
And a deceiving smile; A

Who do not labor, yet who live
And sport a heap 0’ style.

They tell us that to spin and weave
VVas for an earlier race, .

And that for these enlightened days

' Tis rather out of place.

And, Betsy, I have thought sometimes,
Perhaps the young and gay

Might t ink that these old pioneers
VVere somewhat in the way.

But they are dro ping, one by one,
And soon they’l all be gone ;

These silver heads and trembling hands
Will join another throng.

And we shall miss some to-day
VVho met with us last year,

But now have laid aside all cares
To nevermore appear.

Betsy, it may next be us
Who will be called to go

To sleep beside those pioneers
Of fifty years ago,

So I will pray the best I can,
When we from life retire,

That there will be a place up there
For Betsy and Josiah.

—.Be7-rim County Journal.

Swindlers Abroad.

This time it is a “ wagon-tongue support-
er,” and they want an “agent” in every
township to which they will send two doz-
ens of the article to be sold at five dollars
each. Number One gets Gulliver to sign the
“agreement.” The curtain falls, and act
first is ended.

Fraud Number Two appears in about ten
days with Gulliver's signature to an order for
twenty-four wagon tongue supporters at
five dollars each and demands a settlement.
Mild expressions of astonishment and
indignation are met artistically and Gulli-
ver is confronted with strong talk of U. S.
marshals, and courts, and big fees to law-
yers etc., etc., until he is browbeaten into
the belief that the best way out is to pay the
demand.

\Ve are inclined to make sport of the man
who is thus gulled, and say it served him
right, and there are goodish sort of men
who call such rascals “ keen,” “ sharp,”
and sympathize with the successful leech
rather than condole with the defrauded vic-
tim. One of these wagging-tongued indi-
viduals has come to grief in Paw Paw. He
or his pal established too many “ agencies”
in the town. There was likely to be strong
competition in the sale of the “ goods,” and
when artist Number Two comes around to
settle he found one man who did not like

. the order of sanctity exhibited, and caused

the arrest of the knave, and he is bound
over to answer to the next term of the Cir-
cuit Court for Van Buren county.

These rascals play all sorts of turns to
catch the unwary. They establish agencies
for the sale of agricultural implements, or
they have village lots for sale, or first mort-
gages on fictitious farms. In all these meth-
ods of duplicity they become skilled. They
work upon weak human nature as the actor
works upon the feelings of his auditors, and
it is not surprising that the credulous, unso-
phisticated farmer should accept an “agen-
cy ” often as a matter of accommodation, as
he thinks, or should exchange a valuable
horse fora first mortgage on what he has
been assured is a flrst-class farm. These
loose principled gentry seek “ pastures
new," and usually place quite a distance
between their fields of operation. An order-
ly quiet town where nothing of the kind
has ever been known is a bonanza‘ for this
species of chicanery. Readers of the VISI-
'ron. who have listened to these rumors from
afar and have felt a kind of contempt for
the credulity of their brother farmers who

have been thus duped, may soon be enter-
taining some of these “angels unawares”
themselves. There is sometimes a rigorous
proscription practiced towards strangers
that seems harsh to worthy persons, but it
is better to err on the side of caution than
to be gulled by pretense and falsehood.
The “livery of heaven " is a convenient
cloak “to serve the devil in,” and it is bare-
ly possible that virtue may look in vain for
hospitality. If strangers present themselves
do not swallow their bait without investiga-
tion, nor be captivated by any unselfish
generosity toward you. All will end in de-
lusion and is intended for a snare.

Washed and Unwashed Wool.

VVe have said but little recently in regard
to the above. It seems hard to get at just
what would be right about the matter, but
we would remark this: That the washing
of wool, as practiced generally in this
country by wool growers, is one of the
basest frauds in the wool- growing business,
and yet the washing of wool on the sheep's
back, if properl done, has some merits,
but when a care ess or dishonest farmer
dabbles his sheep in the brook, and drives
them home over a dusty road, and lets
them run two weeks before shearing, then
gets as much per pound as the careful farm-
er who gets his wool as nice and clean as
clear, soft running brook, or river water can
make it, at the expense of the constitution
of the sheep, then we cry—fraud!

Some of the Michigan people have been
corresponding with dealers and manufactur-
ers in regard to the washing of wool, and
we see by report in the VISITOR that dealers
with whom they corresponded favored
washing while manufacturers did not, thus
showing that the interests of the manufac-
turerare identical, and if brought directly
together, many of the evils complained of
on both sides could be remedied.——— Wool
Growers’ Bulletin.

The Situation.

Eastern people acknowledge that the
wool growers have won on the first round.
After all the manipulation, the setting of the
tables and the arranging for the game, by
which dealers hoped they would " make
something this season,” as they expressed
it, the growers have won, before the game
has hardly begun, and the operators with
their hands full of money scarcely know
what to do. The rospect looks brighter for
the grower of woo and we hope it is not al-
together dark for him who handles the wool.

Woolen goods look better, and it is
thought that most lines of standard goods
will open not more than 5 per cent. below
iast year-’s [prices, when wool was selling
for 500 and over.
papers take a gloomy view of the situation-
looking from the standpoint of the dealer-—
fearing that the wool trade will not make any
money this year, owing to the excitement
in the west, forgetting, may be. that they
have themselves to blame for any excite-
ment. Some of the agricultural journals
have suddenly assumed enough backbone to
advise the farmers to hold a little. While
we have been advising them all along to not
be in a hurry about selling at 35c, we think
400 will give the dealer and manufacturer
both a margin. While the wool of the
grower cost him every cent of45c, if not 500,
the past winter (every wool grower can look
over his hay and grain account and tell us
that), yet we are not advising wool
growers to hold on, to get the cost out of
their product. If it has cost you 55 or 600,
“ mark it down " and let it go; but if it is a
good article we would not advise marking it
below 400, if it is above the average it will
bring more than that; if it is a. poor, dirty
article, get it out of the way as soon as possi-
ble; and if the sheep are not good sell them
to the butcher. Let us get clear of all refuse
stock ; wear no shoddy goods, shun the
man who does, cut the dealer who offers it
to you, and we will insure you 500 for your
wool.— Wool Growers’ Bullelin.

._.M..__..M___?__?______

THE Michigan people have been discuss-
ing at their Wool Growers’ Meetings and
Sheep Shearings, why it is that Ohio wool
sells for more than Michigan. They hit some
of the true reasons at times, and again they
strike wide of the mark. The writer of this
has handled, and graded, and sold many
pounds of Michigan wool, as well as Ohio,
Penn. and West Va. wool, and will say
that the highest price he ever obtained for
a straight pile of x wool was for a. lot of
Michigan washed fleece. The buyer chose
it in preference to every other pile in the
house which contained wool from nearly
every fine wool growing State, and why‘?
We will answer again.

   

Buyers are deplorlng the firmness which
is being exhibited in the face of the new
clip. and we can assign no other reason than
that the wool market has been so long kept
down by those whose interests it was to do
so, that the pressure is no longer possible,
and the upward tendency will break out
now and then. And while the prospects
for 50c may not be flattering, yet the grower
is safe in not allowing the local buyer to

examine his well washed clip of wool unless.

he will pay more than 3-Sc.

Some of the Eastern’

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JULY 1, 1881.

THANATOPSIS.
BY w1I.LIAx CULLEX anaunr.
To him who in the love of nature holds

Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours

She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty; and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away

Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts
Of the last bitter hour comes like a blight

Over thy spirit, and sad images

0 e stern agony. and shroud, and pail,

And breathless darkness, and the narrow house
Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart:—
Go forth, under the open sky, and list

To Nature's teachings, while from all around-
Earth and her waters. and the depths of air-
Comes a still voice—Yet a few days and thee

The all beholding sun shall see no more

In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground,
Where thy pale form is laid with many tears,
Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist

Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim
Thy growth. to be resolved to earth again,

And, lost each human trace, surrendering up
Thine individual being shalt thou go

To mix forever with the elements,-

To be a brother to the insensible rock,

And to the sluggish clod, which the rude Swain
Turns with his share and treads upon. The oak
Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.

Yet not to thine eternal resting place

Shalt thou retire alone—nor couldst thou wish
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down
With patriachs of the infant world—with kings,
The powerful of the earth —the wise, the good,
Fair forms, and hoary seers, of ages post,

All in one might sepulchre.—The hills
Rock-ribbed an ancient as the sun,—the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between;

The venerable woods—Rivers that move

In majesty, and the complaining brooks

That make the meadows green ; and poured round all,
Old ocean’s proud and melancholy waste,-

-Are but the solemn decorations all

Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun,

The planets, all the infinite host of heaven

Are shining on the sad abodes of death,

Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread
The globe are but a handful to the tribes

That slumber in its bosom.—'l‘ake the wings

Of morning and the Barcan desert pierce,

Or lose thyself in the continuous woods

Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound

Save his own dashings—-yet the dead are there,
And millions in those solitudes, since first

The flight of ears began, have laid them down
In their last s eep—the dead there reign alone.

So shalt thou rest,-—and what if thou withdraw

Unheeded by the living-—and no friend

Take note of thy departure ? All that breath
Shall fare thy destiny. The gay will laugh
When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care
Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase

His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave
Their mirth and their employments, and shall come
And make their bed with thee. As the long train
Of ages glide away, the sons of men,

The youth in life’s green spring, and he who goes
In the full strength of years, matron, and maid,
And the sweet babe, and the gra -haired man,——
Shall one b one be gather’d to t y side,

By those who in their turn, shall follow them.

So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, that moves

To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,

Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night '
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustain’d and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one that draws the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

fi>UIII11t1I1tit81iUIt$.

Educational.

Seated in a cool place I was forcible im-

Vi pressed that I might make good use of a lit-

tle spare time by giving expression to a few
impressions that have been made upon my
mind from considerable experience in my
short life.

I was much pleased in reading an essay
in the VISITOR on the subject of education.
\Ve very often boast of our State education-
al law, and well we might, for in theory we
have a very good system, but practically the
system as it is laid down in our school law

_ is not carried out.

Teachers who are teaching our primary
schools are not as well qualified as those
teachers were 25 years ago. There are sev-
eral reasons for this. First, we have proba-
bly two or three times as many persons
who are trying to teach, and are making
applications for situations as teachers, and
as many teachers as there are schools in the
State, and they all enter into competition ;
the superintendents are so easy in granting
certificates that the better class have retired
and are retiring from the work. There is
but little difference made in paying good
teachers and those who have but little
knowledge of the qualifications of the real
teacher according to law. I know of per-
sons who have obtained certificates for
teaching who have but little knowledge of
grammar, and cannot solve one-half of the
examples in our common school arithmetic,
and not even able to give an intelligent and
thorough explanation of that number.

Now the fault is not in the school law, for
the law says, “-No persons shall receive a
certificate unless they have a thorough and
accurate knowlege of the branches usually
taught in our common schools, etc.”

The blame rests more with school boards
and township Superintendents than any
other persons, and the people who elect
the Superintendents are to blame indirectly.

If a man’s name be on the ticket of
the party in power, whether he be fit
for the position or not, he is elected.
Partisanism is seemingly ruining our coun-
try to a great extent. Our oflicers from
high to low are notpcarrying out just prin-
ciples, and it is evident to a candid thinker
that the tide of dishonesty must be checked
in its mad" career, as the inevitable result
must as gurely follow as night succeeds day.

I am  of one certainty, that many in-
telligent men and women are seeing these
things, as they should, in their true light and
an acting accordingly. I When a majority

of the people see these things as they are,we
have reiison to know that the condition of

the country will be improved. You will
often hear people say that we have good
times, and they talk as though there was no
chance for improvement. We admit that
times might be worse, and we do claim that
the condition of the lower and middle class-
es can and ought by right to be made better.
It don’t seem to me to be good policy to let
a few individuals, comparatively, rule the
government, and we be contented to be
lickspittles. F. E. SIIONDY.
Hamilton, May 16, 1881.

 

What a Canadian thinks of “A Move in the Right
Direction.”

Worthy Seclg/:—-In the VISITOR for May
15, there is a letter from Dallas Grange.
which I think deserves particular notice.
It tells us that at a meeting of the Clinton
County Pomona Grange with the writer’s
Grange it was concluded to be best to ship
their wool direct to Boston as “ all who have
done so were well pleased and claim to have
received from six to eight cents a pound
more than the home market would have
paid them. This is a move in the right di-
rection, let every Patron help it along.”

I have always understood that the end of
protection was to give a market at home to
sell our wool, butter, etc. Hence we give
a dollar for a thing made at home when ,"5
or 50 cents would buy the Same made abroad.
We give this 50 or 75 cents extra because
(we are told by the protectionists), we shall
then have a home market in which to dis-
pose of our own produce, yet this meeting
decided to leave their home market and go
to one a thousand miles off‘ or more. This
is an inconsistency I cannot understand,
giving two to four prices for what we buy,
to make a market at home, and then leaving
it to sell at a distance for about an eighth
more, and is this “ a move in the right di-
rection?” We shall next be hearing of
this County Grange adopting -the practice
and principle of free trade, buying in the
cheapest market and selling in the dearest.

HAROLD BURGESS.

Burgoyne P. 0., Prov. Ontario, June 10.

Fencing.

Brother Whitney has described our tour
through Eaton county in the columns of
the VISITOR, to which I would add a few
words. We found the Subordinate Granges
of this county were generally in an active,
working, growing condition; several had
received accessions of new members, and
rejoiced in the return of others who had
become delinquent. A number of those
new recruits were young people, those who
are about entering the active duties of life
for themselves, and who need the associa-
tions and influences of an organization
devoted to those interests they are about to
make their own. Others are from among
the intelligent and advancing class of farm-
ers, some of whom have held themselves
aloof from the organization heretofore, but
who through a better knowledge of our
aims and attainments have become willing
to join hands with us in our work of build-
ing up a better manhood and womanhood.
From both these classes we hope to receive
more recruits; we need them as they need
us.

Several of the Granges are developing the
social and literary features of the Order in
various ways. A number have had a pro-
gram of exercises prepared’ in advance, in-
cluding essays, readings, and discussions of
the numerous questions pertaining to the
farm and the farmers. Socials and visiting
committees have also been abroad in the
land, and with good results.

In the last VISITOR an article appears
under the caption, “Is it right for cattle
and other kinds of stock to pasture in the
highways?” in which the writer alludes
to a law that requires ratification by the
respective townships before it would become
operative, and argues the necessity of some-
thing more general in its application of
restraint. For the benefit of Brother
Albertson and others in the State, whom
our newspapers have, in many cases, failed
to inform of the fact, I would state that this
object was accomplished in law by the
passage by our Legislature just adjourned
of House bill No. 52, file No. 37, introduced
by Mr. Hawkins, of the west district of
Eaton county, beinga bill to amend sections

1871, being compile-.r’s sections 2021 and 2028,
relative to the prevention of animals run-
ning at large in the highways; the amend-
ment consisting iu the prohibition of stock
from running at large, except where allowed
so to do by resolution of the Board of
Supervisors, thus reversing the statute as it
stood, said amendment to take effect 90 days
after the adjournment of the late session of
the legislature.

Prove Your Title and Take Your Recipe.

Bro. Cbbb :—I notice one of your sub«
scribers wishes to know the process of pre-
serving eggs in lime, etc, for winter use and
New York market. I will say if the sub-
subscriber is a member of the Grange, in
good standing, and he or she knows how to
convince me of the fact, I will on applica-
tion put them in possession of the method.

Yours for the right,
WARREN J UDD.

Needham’s Station, Ind. Jan. 1, 1881.

1 and 2, of chapter 59, of compiled laws Of-

Highway Law.

Editor Grange Visitor.-—-Brother Albert-
son, of Watson, seems to be behind the
times in reference to the law regulating cat-
tle or stock running in the highway. By
referring to chapter 49, Compiled Laws of
1871, he will learn that if he can get the
Supervisor to present a resolution to the
Board prohibiting stock running in the
highways of his town, and the board adopt
it, the work is done, prdvided he and the
Pathmaster dotheir duty in enforcing the
law. With regard to the old law, submit-
ting the matter to ,a vote of each township,
it was clearly unconstitutional and contrary
to the common law, which requires no man
to fence his land. But every man must keep
his stock on his own premises. If they get
on, his neighbor’s land they are trespassers,
fence or no fence. H. H. TAYLOR.

Dowagiac, Apr. 20, 1881.

The Railroad Candidate.

The New York Graphic has been counted
among the anti-Conkling papers in New
York. This is what it said of Mr. Depew :

“ Chauncey M. Depew is a railroad candi-
date—neither moreor less. His strength in
the Legislature is due to the fact that he is
the attorney of the New York Central Rail-
road company. Were he out of favor with
ti at corporation, there would be none so
poor as to do him reverence. If he becomes
a Senator of the United States, he will owe
his dignity to his railroad friends and to no
one else. He will recognize that fact and
act upon it. Like every politician, he will
remember his friends. The people of this
State will be only nominally Mr. Depew’s
constituents. His real constituents will
be the railroads he has served so long,
and with whose interests he has be-
come so thoroughly identified. He will so
act on every occasion as to deserve the ap-
probation of his railroad friends, let the-peo-
ple think or say what they please. Let us
be perfectly frank on this important matter.
If Chauncey M. Depew, who has been
known and is known as a slave of the rail-
railroad monopolists of this State, becomes
a member of the Senate of the United States,
that body will have an additional member
who will on all Occasions obey the com-
mands of his masters, the monopolists. Let
the people and their representatives at
Albany remember that in electing him as
Senator, they are giving a vote to repeal the
Thurman act, and to place railroad monop-
oly above the Constitution and laws of the
United States.

“Can it be that the Republican party of
this State is so poor in Senatorial timber
that it must commission a railroad attorney
to represt .5 the State in the Senate of the
United States. The Graphic has no axes
to grind in the Senatorial controversy, it
has no candidates. It would like to See
the vacancies filled by good men and
true, or the Legislature admit that they
cannot elect such men and adjourn. But it
must enter its protest against the monop-
olies profiting by the present crisis to thrust
one, or it may be two, of these men into the
Senate of the United States. The Senate
contains railroad Senators enough at this
time. Let not New York add to the
number.” '

Milk for Poultry.

This is one of the very best things to give
either young or old fowls, Most every
breeder has tested its value and recommends
it as a wholesome and nutritious diet, nat-
urally adopted for young chicks and poul-
try. On every farm, and in most all subur-
ban homes milk is fed to pigs.

This is one way to utilize it; but if farm-
ers paid more attention to their poultry
Stock than they do they would find that
they could turn it to better account by feed-
ing it to their chicks and laying hens.

All kinds of poultry are fond of milk.
Although they soon become satiated if fed
exclusively on grain, animal, vegetable or
insect food, they seldom refuse milk in
any form——fresh or sour, it makes no differ-
ence to them. Nowadays milk enters large-
ly into the bill of fare for chicks and fowls.
Fanciers have found out that it contains
properties beneficial to their health and
early development. Almost the first
food—an'd with many the first after the
yolk is assimilated,——its soothing and nutri-
tive effect is apparent, and if mixed with
stale bread crumbs or oatmeal cake, nothing
is better.

Now, for laying hens milk is nourishing
and induces them to lay. VVhere it can be
spared it is more valuable to the poultry
stock than to any other. If farmers would
give it a fair trial and lay aside the fogy no-
tions of their ancestors and look at things
in a new light, they would abandon the
practice of feeding their spare milk to pigs
and give it to a better paying stock.~Poultr_y
Illonth/,2/. '

 

Popular Science Notes.

The San Francisco 0h7'om'cle of recent date
speaks of a great discovery that has been
made on the Mahave Desert, which seems
destined to revolutionize vine culture in
South California. It has been found that
grape cuttings inserted in the trunks of the
cactus on the desert grow and thrive as vig-
orously as in cultivated land. This fact is
of great importance to the people. By the
use of a chisel a man can planta large vine-
yard in aday, and the vines so planted will
climb the cactus and grow luxuriously with-
out cultivation or irrigation. The dry, hot
sands of the hot desert will afford a fine
place for drying raisins. In addition to
grapeS,'it has been proved that melons, cu-
cumbers and tomatoes will grow from the
cactus Stock. so that the desert may soon
bloom as the rose.

»

As an article of fuel, compressed peat’ is
coming into general use in London, and in-
deed, in almost all the towns of any consid-
erable size throughout Great Britain. It is
even being used on several lines of railroad
in England with great satisfaction. Its cost
is less than one-half that of coal, while an
engineer reports that twenty-two pounds of
peat will raise steam for a mile of transit,
while it would take twenty-six pounds of
coal to do the same thing. -

$Hl.*1’e$1IIJlIIlt1It1;-

A History of Gun Lake Grange, No. 643.

Worthy Secretawy.---I have scanned the
pages of the VISITOR hoping to find a word
concerning Gun Lake Grange, No. 643, but
have looked in vain,—,ouly one little item
among the announcement of new Granges
organized. This Grange was Organized
January 10, with about 30 Charter members.
‘No have added new ones from time to time,
making nearly 40 now. A Brother kindly
offered an unoccupied house, which was
quickly converted into a Grange Hall. Our
regular meetings are On the first and third
Saturdays of each month. In time we hope
to erect a hall of our own.

I think during warm weather and the
busy season the members are apt to neglect
the Grange meetings. The men are tired
and do not care to go, and of course the
women cannot if the men do not, and in a
short time you will hear it whispered about
that the Grange is about dead and don’t
amount to much. But right here I would
say that some of those “ dead Granges prove
to be very lively corpses” as soou.as the
cooler weather comes. Do not neglect the
Grange meetings. A few hours’ rest cannot
hurt you, and you will feel better mentally
and physically by knowing that you have
done your duty. And we know it helps a
woman after toiling in the hot kitchen, sub-
ject to a thousand and one cares which beset
her, to take a drive to the hall, where she
meets friends and neighbors, and in cheer-
ful conversation forgets the worries of the
week.

Crops look bad in this section, the drouth
did much injury to the wheat and clover.

It seems as if the women have had too
much of the writing to do. Perhaps it is
because they have less work than the men,
or perhaps it is because they are smarter
I am sure I don’t know. If the men wish
us to believe to the contrary they should
prove it. MANDY MULLEN.

Bowens Mills, June 6, 1881.

 

Tallmadge Grange, No. 639.

Bro. J. T. Cobb :—I often wondered why
there is not more correspondence with the
VISITOR from this Grange, but since Aunt
Jane broke the ice I hope a lively interest will
be taken in this respect by both Brothers
and Sisters. There is better talent in the
Grange than I'can ever hope to possess, but
they keep mum so far. It gave me courage
when I read in a late number of the VISI-
TOR that It was not expected of farmers and
farmer’s wives to write a first-class composi-
tion. So here goes, it is my best effort, and
if it goes to the waste basket I will try again.
What I was going to Say is that we organiz-
ed on April 9, 1880, with 30 Charter mem-
bers, and have added to our membership
ever since, so that part of the time we were
obliged to hold special meetings,So great was
the pressure of our work. At present we
hold meetings on Saturdays every other
week, with a membership of over 80. The
best society in town are now within the
gates, and more good society coming. The
Supervisor of our township, R. H. Pelton,
is our Worthy Master. We hold our meet-
ings in the town hall——a spacious frame
edifice built for and located in the center
of the town for township purposes. VVe pay
no rent nor does the town charge any. The
reading of our Charter which we have had
framed in a neat manner and hung up in
the hall, gave us noteriety on election day,
and those outside the gate went home feeling
that through the exigencies of the times the
Grange was a public necessity. Of all the
papers subscribed for in our town the
GRANGE VISITOR has had the best run from
the start. Besides taking it ourselves we
distributed a goodly number of copies to the
friends and enemies outside the ates, pay-
ing for the same out of the generaffund; we
do not lose by it, for last Saturday 11 mem-
bers took their first degree.

St. Paul was not counted as privileged as
the other disciples because he never saw the
Savior in the flesh, yet he caught about as
much of his spirit; so with me, I was not as
lucky_as Aunt Jane, I never saw Brother
Co_b_b1n the flesh, but caught much of his
spirit through the influence of the VISITOR.
As we get plenty of good advice from reading
matter at home about farming and gardening,
we do not _very Often adopt that style in our
essay_1'ead1_ug in the Grange. Light reading,
especially if composed of spicy philosophic
truth, seems to take best as an entertaining
medium for the Brothers and Sisters at their
meetings. I think it is best. You will
please give an opinion in the VISITOR as to
the correctness of my views. w. c.

 

From the Grand Traverse Region.

Bro. Cobb.-—On_June 15 and'16, was held
one of the best attended and most successful
meetings ever held by Traverse Grange, No.
638. The members came ouring in by
train and teams till the hal was full to
overflowing. _

At ten o’clock, A. M. the Master's gavel
called to order and to work. After a short
session in the fifth degree, during which
eight applications for the degree of Pomona
were received, the Grange was closed in this
degree, and the hall cleared to make room for
two long tables that were quickly loaded
with the good things to eat for which Gran-
ges are so famous,—all provided by the
members of Paradise Grange. Twice these
tables were filled, and all satisfied their
hunger. At 2 P. M. we gathered in a grove
near by for a public meeting. After a song,
and prayer by Rev. S. Steel, Chaplain of the
State Grange, we were addressed for an
hour by Bro. J. G Ramsdell on the origin of
the Grange, what it has done, and what, it
expects to accomplish. The lecture was
ab e, well delivered. and well received by
the large congregation assembled there. In
the evening the fifth degree was conferred
on the above mentioned candidates, after
which a short business session was held.
The reports from the Subordinate Granges
were the best we ever had the pleasure of
listening to, and gave evidence of general
prosperity and an awakening up among
them. At a late hour all repaired to the
places assigned them for the night to rest
and prepare for the labors of the morrow.

The morning of the 16th was ushered in
with torrents of rain, and by 11 o’clock the
rain had ceased, and all being prepared, the
Master called to labor. Then followed one
of the liveliest and most interesting sessions

it has ever been our fortune to attend. The
essay by Brother 0. E. Clark on sheep hus-
bandry in the Grand Traverse region, was
well prepared and to the point, and called
out a lively discussion on this subject—the
most important of any to the farmers of this
region.

‘Arrangements were made for our annual
picnic to be held at.Traverse City August

. We expect to be addressed by Brother
VVoodman, or some of the good speakers
and earnest workers from the Southern part
of the State.

At a late hour in the afternoon Grange
_was closed in form and the usual hand-shak-
mg was done and the good-byes were said,
and all repaired to their Several homes feel-
ing thankful for the blessed privileges the
Grange affords us over-worked farmers in
the way Of rest, social enjoyment and edu-
cation.

The prospects for all spring crops and
grass _are good. \Vinter wheat on sandy
soil will be a fair crop, on clay and heav
soil it is very poor. There will be a sma 1
crop of apples, but abundance of pears,
plums, cherries and small fruits. Peaches
Will be scarce, but some trees are hearing. I
may say the prospects for the farmers gen-
erally are very good for an abundance for
home consumption, and much to spare to
the less fortunate. S. A. GARDNER.

Traverse City, June 19, 1881.

An Unfortunate Grange.

Bro. Cobb :—Early in the morning of the
6th my house and nearly all its contents
valued at some fifteen or sixteen hundre
d0”fi1'S. was destroyed by fire, a total loss as
I hadno insurance. My daughter. Mrs. O.
S. Linkletter, who was Secretary of our
Grange, came home with all her household
goods, which were stored in the Second
story, and they were burned also. The
post-oflice was at my house, but fortunately
all its effects were saved.

But the object of writing this note to you
is that all the books, papers, records and
documents of all kinds, belonging to the
Secretary’s and Masterls office were destroy-
ed. Our Grange is completlv blotted out so
far as its local records is concerned. VVe
don’t want to beg, but we are poor indeed.
VVe Shall have to re-organize and we want
the advice and aid of the State Grange.
()ur own family is turned out to grass, and
it will be little that we shall be able to do.
Should not such an occasion as this demand
the sympathy of the more fortunate of our
Order ‘? I am ignorant of what course to
pursue, and shall have to await the response
of those better informed.

L. A. J l£N.\'l-J,
Master Almira Grange, No. 381.

Cedar Run, June, 1881.

WE assumed that the circumstances nar-
rated in the above letter entitled this Grange
to a full equipment of such books as are
needed by a Subordinate Grange, and we
have therefore made a draft upon the sup-
ply department of the State Grange, and
forwarded the package by express to the
Secretary of the Grange.—EI). AND STAT]-J
GRANGE Si~:c'v.

One Kind of 21 Grange.

Editor Visitor .-—Hesperia Grange is alive
and well and holding forth in the same old
hall, which is almost always dirty, it being
occupied by two other organizations that
use it three times to our once. VVe were
going to build a hall of our own, and went
So far as to do two-thirds of the work (viz.,
the wind work). VVe got our Grange incor-

orated, got some logs to the mill for lum-

er, and whoa! “ Where will you have it
Brothers: in the village?” “ No.” “ In’
the country ‘.’ ” “ No.” “Then where
will you have it? (Every voice.) “ Up
yonder by my place.” Now, Brother
Cobb, we ave some good workers in our
Grange, some very willing Brothers and
Sisters, some of them are willing to do all
they can for the good of the Order, and the
others are perfectly willing that they
should. But I do not wish to be understood
to say that any one is not willing to build a
hall and have a home of our own, where we
can all feel free, with the walls decorated
with our own productions, Where we are not
presented with a bill every three months
for rent, where a good carpet will take the
place of tobacco spit and cigar stubs ; where
if you should say the farmer was the most
Independent man on earth, you could have a
faint hope that you were about half right.
Some objected to building in the village on
the ground that when in town we did other
business and So were late, etc, that we must
build up the country. Just as though we
could build up the village and not help the
Surrounding country. NOw,has the location
of aGrange anything to do with the life or
death ofthe Grange? Was a majority of the
Granges that have gone down located in
towns or villages? If you or any other
brother will answer these questions, it ma
help us to agree on the location of our hell.
But as the old saying is, “ everything is for
the best,” for all this wind work was done
before the Show went off‘, and since it has
gone the fever for building is not so high, the
wheat will be less than one-third of a crop
and what is left will Soon die, if we:
don’t have some rain soon. But we
must have a Grange hall, and the Grange
we must have. The movement is one
of the most important known to histor
and the first attempt of the agricultural class
of a nation to maintain their social, intellec-
tual and political equality.

Yours fraternally,
I. H. MACUMBER.
Greenwood, May 28, 1881.

A Successful Experiment.

Bro. J. T. Cobb.-—I signed for your paper
on trial, am well satisfied with it : with
this find 50 cents in stamps. I have joined
the Fremont Center Grange, and I want
your paper. WM. H. NORTON.

Fremont Center, June 23, 1881.

WM. J ENNEY, Secretary of State, reports
that Michigan had 1,860,024 sheep in 1880,
shearing 10,139,581 pounds of wool. Nearly
complete reports indicate 2,013,608 sheep in
the State this year, and a total clip of
10,974,163 pounds.

To make silk which has been wrinkled ap-

pear exactly like new, ‘spon c it on the sur--

ace with a weak solution 0 gum ambic or
white glue, and iron on the wrong side.

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JULY 1, 1881.

TO AN OLD COAT.

Poor coat, well loved for many reasons,
Since both of us grow old, be true ;

This hand has brushed you for ten seasons,
Even Socrates no more could do.

Whilst Time your thin and white-seamed stuff
Keeps on attacking without end,

Wisely like me his blows rebufi ;
And never let us part, old friend.

That birthday flown when first I wore you,
I mind well—-memory yet is strong-—
My friends around to honor bore you,
And poured their welcome forth in song.
Your shabby plight——of which I’m vain-
Hinders them not an arm to lend,
They'd freely feast us now again ;
So never let us part, old friend.

You’re patched behind, an ancient rending :
That, too, recalls a past delight;
One night to run from Jane pretending,
I felt her soft hand clutch me tight.
Torn were you, and that frightful tear
It took my Jane two days to mend.
While I was held her captive there ;
So never let us part, old friend.

Have you been steeped in musk and amber,
Which fops snifl, looking in the glass ‘E
Or pushed along the ante-chamber,
For swells to sneer at as we pass F
Throughout all France by faction rent,
Ribbons and stars fell strife can send-
A field flower is your ornament ;
So never let us part, old friend.

Fear no more days of idle ranging,
When our two fates become as one,
Of pleasure with pain interchanging,
01' intermingled rain and sun.
For the last time I soon shall doff
My clothes, just wait l and we will wend
Together, gently going off ;
So never let us part, old friend.

— From Beranger.

"‘ Lilile Rustic."

It was 9. pleasant day in September, and
the afternoon sunshine lit up the cool, green
forest with a magic glow. The giant trees
tossed their branches to and fro as if to catch
its kisses on their leaves. Will Shelton and
Arthur Scott thought that never before had
so fair 21 scene met their gaze as that which
they beheld as they ti'udged along a country
road, which was lined on either side by
deep forests, in which they had been hunt-
ing for small game.

“Suppose we give up the hunt for one
day and look out for lodgings.” said Shelton,
a fair-haired youth of twenty-three, to his
companion, a dark, handsome boy of nine-
teen.

“ All right, I am heartily tired of this
hunt anyway, and I have almost decided
not to continue it any longer than to mor-
row. I wish I -had remained at Bolton,”
responded Arthur, despondently.

' “ Oh, don’t give it up, old boy! Although
game has been scarce so far the scenery
should be sufiicient compensation for the
walk. I see no signs of habitation, and this
road apparently leads to nowhere. Ah !
perhaps that little rustic can direct us to
some farm-house where we can get lodging,”
said VVill, as he caught signtof a sun-bonnet

rising above a distant hill.

Quickening their pace they soon overtook
the owner of the bonnet, who turned out to
beaquaint little figure clad in a dress of
gray goods made quaker fashion.

“ What a pretty form for a country girl !”
exclaimed Arthur.

“But I bet she’s as ignorantasa Sand-
wich Islander,” said VVill, “and I mean -to
have some fun.”

As he approached her he said:

“Hello! little rustic, where do you live?”

“ Up to Vine Cottage. But what business
is it of yourn Where I live?”

“Simply, ” replied Arthur, “that we
should like to get lodgings for to-night.
\Vill you be kind enough to direct us to the
nearest farm house ?”

“Well, I reckon grandad will take you
if you've got any money to pay for your
supper.”

After assuring her as to the prosperous
state of their finances, Will again opened
the‘ conversation by asking,-—

“VVhat is your name, and how old are
you, little girl?”

“ I’m Mary Elizabeth Gray, and I forget
how old I am.”

“ Did you ever go to school here ?”

“Ya-a-s I did. I went three days. It
rained two days and the school marm didn’t
come, and the next day school didn’t keep.”

“Ha! ha! ha!” laughed herinterrogator.
“You must be handsomely educated. Can
you sing an instrumental solo ?”

“ Never tried.”

“ Let's hear you try now.” »

“Ain’t going to do it.”

“How many brothers and sisters have
you ?”

" Nary one.”

“ Were you ever in Bolton ?”

“Ya-a-s, I went to a circus onct.”

“ VVhat did you see?” I

“A monkey, but I guess he got out.
VVhat did they feed you on ?"

Will at once changed the subject and
asked-—

“How much material did it take to make
your bonnet?”

“All that was left of your cuffs,” she
curtly replied.

Now Will’s special weakness was for his
large and spotless shirt-cuffs, and they
walked on in silence until they reached
Vine Cottage, where their little guide was
met by a large savage looking mastifl‘,
which growled ferociously at the strangers.

“ Down, Tiger! Can’t I teach you man-
ners? Quit growling at the gentlemen.”
Turning to them she said, “Git to the house
while I hold him,” which they at once pro-
ceeded to do without looking back; and
when she screamed, "Look out, Tiger!”
they bounded into the house with more
haste than grace.

They were met by Mr. Gray, in white-
haired genial-looking old gentleman, .60
whom Arthur explained his errand, and
apologized for their hasty entrance. N o
sooner had the door closed upon them than
the “little rustic ” threw herself down
beside old Tiger, whom time had long since
deprived of his teeth, and peal after peal of
girlish laughter rang out in the clear,
evening air.

“Bessie! Bessie! come to supper,” called
her grandfather, after he had introduced the
strangers to his wife.

But Basie was not to be found, nor did
she appear until they had finished their
supper and the young men had gone to the

r or. .
pawhen left to themselves, Arthur said :—
||“Everythin speaks of refinement; both
Mr. Gray and '5 wife are highly educated ;

our little guide must have been lately
adopted.”

“And a piano, too. by Jove! VVho in the
deuce plays it ?” said W‘ill.

VVhile thus discussing, Bessie entered
with lights, and the two young men noticed
that she had a remarkably pretty-face, and
her chestnut brown hair, none of which was
wasted in bangs or frizzes, was neatly and
becomingly arranged. Taking a seat by the
fire she sat silent for some time, when
Arthur asked :

“ \Vill you favor us with some music, Miss
Gray?”

“I Want you to play some first,” said
Bessie. _ .

“Please excuse my friend,” said VVill.
"His musical education has been sadly neg-
lected. But if you are fond of classic music,
I will play for you.”

Bessie said she never heard any of that
sort, but she liked it.

He took a seat at the piano and proceeded
to murder the “ Star-Spangled Banner,” in
the most cold-blooded manner imaginable,
with a few bars of something decidedly
original. .

“Did you ever hear that before?" he
asked of Bessie, who had been nervously
chewing the corner of her handkerchief.

"Ya-a-s, the man played that when he
came to tune the planner,” she replied.
Arthur then insisted on her playing. \Vith-
out the least hesitation she walked to the
piano and asked, while her blue eyes
twinkled merrily:

“Shall I sing an instrumental solo 1”’

Here she laughed outright at the horror-
stricken looks of the young men, who began
to realize that they were the victims of their
own jokes.

“1——I beg your pardon, Miss Gray,” stam-
mered Arthur Scott, who had really taken
little part in the fun, while VVill’s loqua-
ciousness suddenly deserted him, and for
once he had nothing to say.

“It is granted,” said Bessie, laughingly,
“but the next time you make your plans for
amusement, be sure you are not overheard.”

"And when you play practical jokes on
two unspecting hunters, you must make
some allowance,” said VVill, who by this
time had regained his thoughts. "And now
you owe us some music; but you are not
expected to have mastered the art as I have
done.”

’l‘hus they were on the best of terms.
Be-sic, who had a good voice, gave them
quite it t.l\"db in that line, and the young
men soon iound that a little rustic was a
more interesting companion than a city
belle. \Vlien they parted for the night they
both declaied it was the most enjoyable
evening they had ever passed

\Vill told Bessie that he would not dare
leave the yard while Tiger was at large.

“l will hold him till you get out,” said
she. laughingly.

The next morning when they were pre-
paring to depart, Mr. Gray invited them to
visit them again, which they gladly prom-
ised to do.

Two years have passed. Meanwhile Will
Sheldon has wooed and won the “little
rustic” for a wife. She often says nothing
buta high respect for his musical talents
induced her to accept him.

 

Adulleraiion of Food.
We continue our extracts from the paper
of George T. Angel] of Boston :

POISONOUS BOXES, CARDS, ETC.

Now let us look at poisonous papers, box-
es, cards, &c.

In France bookbinders have recently been
notified that they must not use poisonous
colors, and.to violate this law is made a
criminal offense.

The commissioner of public health of
Milwaukee writes me that within his
knowledge even health reports have been
bound witn poisonous arsenical papers.

In the British Medical Journal of Novem-
ber 8, 1879, will be found a case of poisoning
by the use of poisonous playing-cards.

Dr. VVallace, analyist of the city of Glas-
gow, states that he has found nearly one-
fifth of an ounce of arsenic in a pack of
playing cards.

The Secretary of the Connecticut State
Board of Health reports arsenical poisoning
from putting up packages in tinted paper;
also severe poisoning from artificial flowers.

In the Boston Transcript of August 22,
1879, I find two deaths caused by a poison-
ous paper box.

A card almanac picked up in front of a
school-house in my town was found to’ con-
tain a large quantity of arsenic.

In my season railroad ticket was found
enough arsenic to kill a child.

At Boston's big baby show some years
since one baby died from sucking the invi-
tation card.

Various cases have been reported to me in
which kindergarten papers put into the
hands of little children as playthings have
been found to be loaded with arsenic.

lflnd in the Boston Daily Advertiser of
March 4, 1879, that Swiss authorities have
prohibited the use of poisonous colors in
wearing apparel, papers, toys, confectionery,
wines, liquors, sirups, and a great variety of
other articles.

Professor Lattimore of Rochester Univer-
sity, says that not only are candles colored
green and yellow by arsenical pigments, but
sometimes the wicks also are saturated with
arsenic to improve the brilliancy of the
light.

I have recently read a case in which a
lady was severely poisoned from the burn-
ing of arsenical candles in her chamber.

In regard to its being put into powders
for the face and cosmetics, I have consider-
able evidence, but none stronger than that
of Professor Mariner, who says that proba-
bly :Z0,000 people in Chicago are injuring
their health and endangering their lives by
the use of these cosmetics and powders,
which contain arsenic or lead.

VVhen we consider that if one twelve-
hundredth part of a pound of Paris green
gets intoa man’s lettuce or cabbage it is
likely to produce death, it seems agreat pity
that it should be deemed necessary to use
this dangerous article,particularly if, as some
scientific men have declared, vegetables
have the power to absorb it from the soil.

I think, in View of the dangerous use of
this article, it would be wise for Congress to
authorize the offer of a prize for the discov-
ery of some new cheap and harmless sub-
stitute for Paris green.

POISONOUS WALL PAPERS.

These poisonous wall papers are of vari-
ous colors, green, blue,yellow, red, pearl and
other colors ; some cheap, some costly; some

g.

figured, some plain ; some glazed, and some
unglazed.

Professors ‘Wood and Hill of Harvard
University have recently been analyzing a
wide variety of colors, red, blue, green,
drabs, slate color, &c., and have found about
33 per cent of all they have analyzed poison-
ous.

Professor Love,of the New York School of
Mines, reports that of all the wall papers he
has recently analyzed, he has found nearly
or quite 50 per cent. poisonous.

The Michigan State Board of Health has
published a book containing seventy-five
representative specimens of these papers,
and by order of that board it has been placed
in every important public library of Michi-
gan, as a warning to the people of that
State. It bears the very appropriate title of
“ Shadows from the \Valls of Death.” This
book states these papers are sold in every
important village of that State, and that
their use is increasing. It advises, first, to
use no Wall paper at all ; second, never to
use wall paper without first having it tested
for arsenic; and third, if arsenical paper is
already on the walls and cannot well be re-
moved, then, as some protection, to cover it
with a coat of varnish.

There can be no doubt that thousands of
peo le are now suffering, and many have
die from the effects of arsenic-al wall-
papers. Yet their manufacture and sale are
permitted to go on without rest. action.
" \Vheu I was in I-Ieidleberg,” said an
eminent Boston chemist to me, “ I discov-
ered arsenic 'rn two specimens of wall-paper,
and the manufacturer was in jail before
night. Here I have analyzed hundreds of
specimens in a single year, and found
arsenic in a large proportion of them, but
nobody was prosecuted.”

I cannot say how it may be in other
States, butin Massachusetts there is no law
under which any one can be prosecuted.

In the British Medical Journal of Febru-
ary 21, 1880, fifty-four cases of poisoning by
wall papers are reported.

In this country numerous and well-attest
ed cases are wthin the knowlege of almost
every physician and chemist. Many such
cases have been reported to me.

The iS’anz'lar_i/ Record states that diseases
of the eye are often traceable to this cause.

. Some twelve or fourteen of the medical
societies of Massachusetts some time since
petitioned the Legislature to enact a law to
prohibit the sale of these papers, but were
unable to overcome the opposition of the
great financial interests enlisted on the
other side, and so in the words of the chem-
ist before stated, nobody is prosecuted.

THE REMEDY.

How can we be protected» from poisonous
clothing and papers ‘.‘ . ._

Require every package, mi; and article
to be stamped “poisonous,” and every seller
to call every buyer's attention to that word.
Keep chemists at work at public expense
analyzing and publishing names, and the
manufacture of poisonous clothing and
papers will soon cease, and they will disap-
pear from American markets.

I will now take up, in the order named,
tinware and tin cans, glucose and sugars,
and oleomargarine.

TIN VVARE AND TIN CANS.

I find in the Boston Herald of August 30,
1881, that Baltimore firms alone use nearly
forty-eight millions of cans per annum. I
find a smilar statement in the Sanitary En.-
gineer of December 15, 1881. What are these
cans used for? The grocer nearest my resid-
ence furnishes me alist of articles he sells
in tin cans, from which I take the following:
_Peaches. corn, tomatoes,apricots, pears, pin-
apples, strawberries, raspberries, blueber-
ries, and blackberries for pies, puddings,
and sauces; plums. cherries, grapes, green
gages, quince, asparagus, okras, sweet and
other pickles of various kinds, baked beans.

Ofsoups he kept in tin cans tomato, pea,
ox-tail, green turtle, mock-turtle, terrapin,
julienne. mocaroni, beef, consomme, mut-
ton, chicken.

Uf meat and fish,he keeps in tin cans a great
variety, including codfish, fiishballs, lobster,
clams, oysters, roast beef, roast turkey, chic-
ken, game, tongue, ham,&c. He has always
in stock many hundreds, perhaps thousands
of these cans.

Is there any objection ‘P

G. VV. VVigner, in his prize essay before
quoted, says that notwithstanding the pre-
cautions taken in England it is still possible
to find in English markets tinned fish heav-
ily contaminated with lead.

 

THE Legislature of 1581 held sessions for
108 days, counting Friday mornings and
Monday evenings (when the work was usu-
ally nominal), and no sessions were held for
50 days of the remaining time (of which 22
were Sundays). The total length of the ses-
sion, counting from its commencement,
January 5, to its close, June 11, was 158 days,
being 7 days longer than the next longest
session, in 1879. This 'ear there were 289
public acts and 142 loca ones, 3-ljoint reso-
lutions and 9 concurrent ones, passed by
both branches and approved by the Govern-
or; total 474. In 1879 the total number of
acts and resolutions passed and approved
was 461; in 1877 it was 413; in 1875 it was
448. There seemed to be a marked absence
of political feeling throughout the session just
closed, and no caucuses were held of a party
character, excepting to nominate oflicers of
the Senate and House and candidates for
U. S. Senator.

 

JUDGE Tnavans, of the Iowa Supreme
Court. decides that railroad companies are
liable for injuries to animals run over on
Sunday, no matter how carefully the trains
are operated, because the running of trains
at all on Sunday is unlawful.

Rats are running the Jackson county
court-house. Well, they can’t do much
more mischief than the lawyers.

 

Passions are likened best to floods and
streams. The shallow murmur, but the
deep are dumb.

 

$1.10 will pay for the Michigan GRANGE
VISITOR and two copies of the Wool Grow-
ers’ Bulletin for one year.

 

BUT one thing is necessary to make a
perfect success of co-operative association,
and that is “ Will.”

“Poverty is a bully if you are afraid of her
or truckle to her. Poverty is good natured
enough if you meet her like a man.” ,

I

, TEE GRANGE“ VESETQR.

The Danger at the Door.

The telegraph yesterday announced that
Mr. Villard, of the Oregon transportation
pool, which has captured the Nortliern Pa-
cific Railway, has,in company with Horace
VVhite, formerly of the Chicago Tribune,
bought the New York Evening Post, which
it is proposed to place under the editorship
of Carl Schurz. If this shall be accom
plished it will give the control of the three
great newspapers of New York, all mem-
bers of the Associated Press, to men who
are interested solely in increasing and con-
solidating the power of the great corpora-
tions of the country.

The Tribune and World are already con-
trolled by Jay Gould; reinforced by the
Post, whose mission of supporting and
defending monopolies will be the same as
theirs, and a powerful newspaper trii_imvir-
ate is established whose batteries will be
turned on the people without cessation.
There never was cause for such alarm or
such a demand for a general awakening of
the people to the danger that threatens
them from grasping corporations as now.

A pamphlet recently issued and addressed
to bankers and investors, and others inter-
ested in the Union Pacific R. R. Co.’s secur-
ities, as well as railroads directly and indi-
rectly under the control of its leading offi-
cers, reveals some startling facts that will
interest the public at large. Quietly but
surely the manipulations of Jay Gould and
his associates have gone on until they
control nearly all the great roads of the
country. Notice how the names of two or
three gentlemen figure in the list of direc-
tors: Take first the Union Pacific, and
among its ofiicers we find Sidney Dillon,
Jay Gould and Rusell Sage. The Missouri,
Kansas and Texas, which has just placed
bonds to the amount of $45,000,000 on the
market, has among its directors Jay Gould,
Russel Sage and Sidney Dillon. The cen-
tral branch of the Union Pacific, which has
just placed $<f5,0()0,0U0 in bonds upon the
market, has forits principal oflicers Sidney
Dillon, Jay Gould and Russell Sage.

The Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific exhib-
itthe names of Sidney Dillon, Jay Gould
and Russell Sage. The Delaware, Lacks-
wanna and Western has for directors Jay
Gould, Sidney Dillon and Russell Sa e.

Central Railroad of New Jersey, Nidney
Dillon and Russell Sage. St Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern Railroad, Jay
Gould, Russell Sage and Sidney Dillon.
Jay Gould has just secured control of the
International and Great Northern Railroad,
and his favorite associates will no doubt
figure as directors. In April last Jay Gould
succeeded to the control of the Texas
Pacific Railway, and it is understood that
he and his associates control the St. Joseph
and Vvestern, running from St. Joseph to
Grand Island, Neb., a distance of 289 miles.
These are only a few of the roads in which
Mr. Gould and his friends are largely inter-
ested. How many others are really con-

trolled by them the public may never know

until some fine morning when the former
feel disposed to put on the screws, freeze out
the minority stockholders, or show the
people that having the power to regulate
rates they propose to ruin a town here and
there. squei-ze the farmers of the West out of
their hard c.-.i-nings, or build up one city at
the L-xpen.-:e of another.

It is easy to see how this syndicateis able
to go on purchasing roads and adding to
their already enormous powers. They are
recognized as successful managers and
nianipulators, who if they choose can
lar'gely increase the carrying trade of any
l'0atl,l;Ul'lll’Llg it into a feeder or an outlet for
the roads already under their control.
They find an independent broken down
railway, with stock at a mere nominal
price and purchase it. The stock is then
doubled or trebled, or, as in the- case of the
Missouri Pacific, increased 15 1-2 times;
blanket mortgage bonds are also issued, and
the stock and bonds are thrown on the mar-
ket. The names of Gould, Sage and Dillon
give these securities a fictitious value; they
sell at a high price and millions are realized
with scarcely an effort.

The Inter-Ocean is not pretending that
these men resort to practices that others
would not resort to under similar circum-
stances or with like opportunities. It is
not abusing them for taking advantages of
the chances offered them; but it is calling
public attention to-the lax conditions of our
laws which permits enormous speculations
of this kind on a fictitious basis; to the
system that permits watered stock to any
amount to be issued, and thus places a power
more dangerous than the presence of a
standing army in almost every State and
county in the entire land.

Talk about the patronage of the President}
Why, the word of Jay Gould can turn a
hundred thousand men into the street or
give employment to a hundred thousand
.others, any day. The vast lines of tele-
graph are owned by him and those who are
in league with him. Every newspaper in
the land pays tribute and toll to them.
Gould's order would be sufficient to disturb
their news facilities, and damage them al-
most irremediably.

Mr. Gould may be as scrupulous as he is
enterprising; he may have the broadest
ideas of tolerance and liberty of opinion, but
no man or set of men can be the safe custo-
dian of such enormous ower as he and his
few co-workers wield. t is a menace to the
welfare, the liberty, the prosperity of the
country, and if the people do not awaken to
the danger very soon, they may find them-
selves helplessly bound when they become
conscious of their danger. No Legislature,
no organization or body of men having the
enactment of laws in their keeping, is safe
from the influence of these ambitious and
far-seeing speculators, for they are confident
of their ability to control them. The only
power they respect is that held by the peo-
ple, which, when aroused, makes or remakes
Presidents, Cabinets, Congresses, and even
railway kings. But even this power may
be held in abevance too long, and arouse
only to find its strength departed._—-Chicago
Inter-Ocean.

 

Lockjaw is one of the most terrible diseas-
es to which mortals are exposed. A Califor-
nia exchange asserts that no one need be in
danger of such an attack from wounds caused
by rusty iron. The worst case of inflamed
wounds may be cured by smoking the injur-
ed part with burning wool or woolen cloth.

3

Court (to prosecutor): “Then you recog-
nize this handkerchisfas the one which was
stolen from you?" Prosecutor: “Yes, your
honor.” Court: "And yet it isn’t the only
handkerchief of the sort in the world. See,
this one I have in my pocket is exactly like
it.” Prosecutor: “Very likely, your honor;
I had two stolen.”

Life is put together considerably like a set
of harness: there are traces of care, lines of
trouble, bits ofgood fortune, breaches ofgood
manners. bridled tongues, and everybody
has a tug to pull through.

F. A. NOR1‘H'S FEED RACK;

Iy iiivcniion, patented May 10, lssl, re-
lates to H rack of peculiar construction de-
signed for the purpose of feeding sheep and
other animals, the structure being de-
signed with special reference to an equal

distribution of the feed, to the protection of
the attendant from the animals, and to the
points of cheapiiess, durability, and facility
of operation. It will be noticed that the
rack constructed affords feed openings on
both sides, that the two independent
troughs prevent the animals on one side
from obtainingthe food from those on the
other, and that by means of the central in-
ternal board the attendant can pass freely
back and forth through the interior without
stepping in the trough or having any in-
terference with the animals outside, also
the strips or slats serve as a means of sepa-
rating the animals so that each may obtain
proper proportion of the food. On each
side of the Rack I suspend by swinging
linksaboard in such a manner that the
board may be raised or lowered across the
outside of the feed openings to prevent the
animals from having HI'Ci*2-t.-' thereto, or ele-
vated above the openings so as to leave
them exposed. And standing at one end
you can elevate this board by one move of
as many racks in a line,and divide your flocks
as you wish and do away with the old prac-
tice of shifting from one yard to another.
There are guards to throw the feed inward to
preventthe hayseed and other impurities
from entering the fleece of the animals. It
is used with equal advantage for mush feeds,
grains of all kinds, and for hay. If there
is hay in the rack it does not prevent your
feeding grain in them. You can use the
lumber in your old racks. They can be
made of any length of lumber.
For further information, address :
F. A. Nonrrr, Inventor,
lonia, Ionia 00., Mich.

P. O. Box  ljullim

LJICEIGAK‘ CENTRAL E- E-
DEPARTUR.E OF TR FROM K.§LA3IAZO0.
TIME-’1'ABl.l-:MAY 9, 1880. -
WESTWARD.

Accommodation leaves,___
“ arrives. _
Local Passenge , ..... __
Evening l<lxprcss,_-__
Pacific Express,-..._______-______ _-____--_____,
Mull l
Day Express _________________________________ _-: ____ __l A 36

EASTVVARD.

 
   

  
    
 
   

Night Express, ____________ __
Accommodation leave
“ arrives, _________________ -_
Mall
Day Express, ......... --
New York Express
Atlantic Exprcss,__
New York, Atlantic and P icilic Expresses and Local Passen-
ger dziily. All other trains daily except Sunday.
H. B. Leorsao, Gen Manager, Detroit.
E. C. Bimwx, Ass‘t Gen. Supt., Jackson.
llsxizr C. Wsxrwunrn, G. P. & T. A., Chicago.

L. S. dz 1V.[- S. R. R.

KALAMAZOO DIVISION TIME TABLE.

(Time 1.3 minutes faster than Kalarnazoo.)
GOING SOUTH.

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;l1lxpress. Ex & Mgway Fr‘

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Ar. Allegnn ----- ---- .-. 9 17 “ 3 605 “ l 810 “

Ar. Kalamazoo ................. -- 1015 “ ,: 705 “ ill 40 “

Ar. Schoolcraft _______ __ 1050 “ l 7 43 “ 1 40 Pl

  
 

 

 

  

 

Ar. Butfelcn_.__ ___ 3 55 Au 1 10 PM
GOING NORTH.

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Ar. Cleveland--- ____________ -_ 735 " I 700 “ l,__
Ar Toledo _____ __ 1 01 All 1050 “ 1 ...... -_

Ar. Three Rivers

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6 00

628 “ 400 "1000 “
Ar. Schoolcrsft __ 6 58
7 10

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Ar. Allegan __________ -- _- 840 “ 605 “ 1 420 “

Grand Rapids .................. -- 10 00 “ 7 20 “ I 8 10 “
All trains connect at White Pigeon with trains on main line.

A. G. Ansnsx,
Supt. Kalamazoo Division, Kalamazoo.

CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Corrected Time-Table—May 15,1881.

WESTWARD.
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“ Grand Trunk Junction- 7 25 “ 1' 480 “ 955 “
“ Imlay Ci I 8 25
“ Lapeer -_ ‘ 8 55
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uran __ 10 28
“ Lansing __._ lll 45
“ Charlotte _ _ _ . . . . _ _ _ . . __j12 28
“ Battle Creek l 1 55
" Viclrburg- l 250
“ Schoulcraft .- 305
“ Ciissopolis _____ l 403
:‘ gzllltll Bend ; 5 00
‘ pamiso ................. _- 7 05 ‘
Chicago ........................ _-l 9 20
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“ Battle Creek _______________ __ 325 H
“ Charlotte __ _______ 433 H
“ Lansing- _____ 515 u
“ Durand 627 K
“ Flint ----_ ____ 725 u
“ Lapeer _______________ __ 310 -l
“ Imlay City ______________ __ 333 H
“ G. '1‘. Junction-_.__________ 940 M
Port Hnron__--..-__-______________ 9 50 “

A man who plans a barn with all the mod-
ern im rovements should be careful also that
his wi e has the modern improvements in
her kitchen.

. All trains run by Chicago time. All trains daily except

Sunday.
Cass. B. Pack, 8. B. Gsruwxr. ,

'1.‘i-aflic Manager. General Superintendent.

For information as to-rates oppl to E. P. Keary 1051

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FT, - - JUNE 15,1881.

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- - - - SCHOOLCRAFT.

THE CARE OF THE INSANE-—lTS RELATION TO
TAXATION.

Reprint from the Grange Visitor of Aug. 1, 1879.

From Henry W. Lord, Secretary of the
State Board of Charities and Correction, we
have a paper read by him before the Sixth
Annual Conference of Charities and Cor-
rection, at Chicago, June 30, 1877.

We would not make reference to this pa-
per did not the weight of taxation of late
years seem to make it necessary that the
great mass of the people‘ who pay taxes
should give the matter their attention, and
begin to learn for what object so much mon-
ey is raised,and to what purpose it is applied.
Mr. Lord’s paper is entitled, “ Hospitals and
and asylums for the insane: shall we distin-
guish between them, and provide for the
latter at less expense?”

Michigan has been a State less than 45
years, and in that brief time has taken a
stand second to none in fostering education
and charitable institutions. Her University
takes rank with the first educational insti-
tutions in the land. Her common-school
system is perhaps as complete as that of any
other State. Every village has its graded
school, where not only the common English
branches are taught, but often the languages
and all the intermediate studies.

She was the first State to establish an Ag-
ricultural College, the first to try the exper-
iment of founding a State school for indi-
gent children. Nor has she been less liberal
toward the unfortunate. “ \Vith open-1iaud-
ed philanthropy” the blind. deaf and dumb
have been provided for at Flint, the insane
at Kalamazoo and Pontiac. The criminal
class who have run the gauntlet of the
courts and received a sentence, are provided
with accommodations at Lansing, Ionia or
Jackson. But in looking over the field we
find that with all this preparation to edu-
cate, this vast outlay to restrain the vicious
and criminal class, and such extensive prep-
aration to care for the deaf, dumb, blind and
insane, the needs of this latter class are in-
creasing faster than in our liberality We
have been able to provide for. Statistics
show that in our two State institutions but
one-half of the insane and demented per-
sons of the State are now confined: the
other half, some 900 in all, are in poor-
houses, or among the people—the State has
no room for them.

The object of this paper is to call atten-
tion to some important facts. But first,
there is a distinctive difference in the mean-
ing of the two words “ hospital ” and “ asy-
lum,” although generally used interchange-
ably. VVhile an asylum is a place of
“shelter, protection, and refuge,” its real
significance does not include the curative
means or processes which pertain to and
area part of a hospital. In our care and
management of this unfortunate class we,
asaState, have overlooked this important
distinction, and practically combined the
objects of hospital and asylum in one build-
ing and under one management. What has
been done is more creditable to our philan-
thropy than to our business sagacity. From
the showing made by Secretary Lord in an
institution costing $1,200,000, that will ac-
commodate 600 patients, there is an invest-
ment of $2,000 each; and the average cost
of maintenance and attendance when all
items are included is $5 per week, or about
$7.31 per week, if six per cent interest on the
money added is considered, as it should be,
entering as it does as a rule into taxation
from year to year.

Records and statistics show that of these
600 inmates but a small percentage are per-
manently cured. Not less than 80 or 90 per
cent must have “shelter and‘ protection,”
without a reasonable hope of recovery or of
very considerable mental improvement.

The question, then, presented by this fact
is this: Cannot our insane be cared for in
such manner as to meet all their actual
wants—in short, to make them as comforta-
ble as they now are— at one-half the cost, or
even less? To securely keep and comforta-
bly maintain an epileptic, or a poor, dement-
ed wreck of humanity, must we first make

'a permanent building investment of $2,000?

The poor we not only have with us alway,
but those who are dependent, are all the
while on the increase. and three-fourths of
those for whom we build these costly
asylums are from the indigent or pauper
class. Therefore it is a matter of first im-
portance to determine how the charity
which we must bestow shall be most efl"ect-
ive.

If, as has been assumed by those physici-
ans who are specialists in regard to insanity,
that “expensive hospitals, of magnificent
exterior and costly finish, supplied with
every re uisite suggested by science, and
conducts by men of special reputation in
their several departments,” are essential as
remedial and curative agents for those whose
mental malady is still within the reach of
human skill, then has our State to this un-
fortunate class done its full share and more,
for we are to-day providing extensive hos-
pital accommodations for several hundreds
who are incurable and have been for many
years.

Our costly structures have been filled as
soon as completed, and “meantime the
mental malady goes on,” apparently increas-
ing in greater ratio than population.

VVe have encouraged a laudable pride in
our State institutions. With the return of
each Legislative session some new one is
added to the already formidable list, and it
behooves the people to look after these,
their humane investments, and see if results
are obtained commensurate with the expen-
diture.

The people, busy with their own individ-
ual affairs, give little heed to matters in
which they have an actual interest, but not
one over which they feel to have any direct
or actual control.

In this matter of mental disease the
people need to be educated up to the fact
that the chances of final recovery diminish
with every day’s delay in taking an insane
friend to some institution for immediate
treatment. A diseased mental condition

can ensues visions.

becomes chronic if the cause is not early
removed. Failing to recognize this truth,
and allowing some considerable time to
elapse before curative hospital treatment is
had, seems to be so general a usage that
only a very small per cent of recoveries are
expected.

In treating this whole subject, the State,
through its consituted authorities, has failed
to comprehend all these facts, and has ex-
pended money enough to provide not only
hospital care and treatment, but also asylum
accommodations for every insane person in
the State, and yet but about one-half of the
class so afilicted are now occupants of State
institutions. The half not in State institu-
tions are somewhere, having some sort of
care; no doubt in some cases good care and
treatment, in others very poor, or none at
all. Whatever it may be, it lacks system
and the benefits which system always
brings. '-

The classification of Secretary Lord of
inmates of a hospital of 600 insane persons
is painfully instructive, but as he has had
unusual facilities for forming an intelligent
opinion, we are prepared to believe that his
classification and conclusions are reliable.
From his paper we quote:

Among the 600 involved in this great calamity,
there will be found at least 50 epileptics, with scarce
a prospect of cure as to one of them. These give
the medical superintendent more anxiety than all the
rest, and are more disturbing to the household; they
should never be sent to such an institution, if possi-
ble to provide for them otherwise.

There will be found from 30 to 50 patients whose
malady is euphoniously called dipsomania, many of
whom, though wildly, often violently or dangerously
insane when committed to the institution, are cured
within 24 hours, and permanently cured, if perman-
ently restrained; but they rarely stay long before
means are taken to discharge them, and in a few
weeks they are discharged cured — some of them
perhaps several times each, and their cases go to
make up the average of recoveries in oiiicial reports.
In this afliicted community of 600, the victims of
vicious practices will equal in number the epileptics
and the intemperate combined. There will be at
least 100 of them, and these, the most miserable, dis-
graced and degraded of all, are generally so far de-
moralized, both in body and mind, before they are
sent to an insane asylum, that nothing of much value
in human form can be reared upon the ruins they
bring, and as a class, in estimating recoverie.-, they
have to be almost excluded from hope.

If there is in the State where our asylum is sup-
posed to be located, no institution for the feeble-
minded, we shall find among the 600 at least 40 who
are in a kind of semi-idiotic condition, besides such
of these as shall be included in the classes already
mentioned. These are of course to be added to the
incurable inmates, so far as probabilities go.

There will also be at least 100 elderly people suf-
fering various degrees of dementia, in many cases the
product of exhausting labor, ‘mental or physical,
complicated with afiiiction and disappointment ; the
product not unfreqnently of poverty and old age.
altogether accumulating burdens under which the
limbs totter and the mental tissues give way. We
behold them through our tears, but are obliged to
deny ourselves expectation of relief “ until after
life's fitful fever they sleep well."

There will also be25 or 30 patients of different
shades of chronic disease who have come from other
institutions, or have been several times before in the
one under consideration, to be added as probably
incurable to those we have mentioned.

These several classes are of the obvious and palpa-
ble cases apparently without remedy.

There is among those not so specified a large num-
ber that will not recover, sufficiently large to justify
the remark that in all, but 75 or 80 patients out of the
600 who may be deemed curable. While it is proba-
bly true that of the 600 under treatment at any one
time not more than 10 or 12 per cent. will recover, it
is possible that of the whole number received in any
one year 25 in 100 may be cured; but as there would
be no way of designating with more than approxi-
mate certainty, even after some weeks or months of
the treatment in hospital. which particular patients
would make up the 2-5 per cent., we will include with
them 15 per cent. more, making 40 in each 100 to be
selected from among the most hopeful, and to be
regarded as curable, though we know from experience
and observation that but 25 of them, if so many, will
really recover.

We propose to select after ample time for study of
the several cases in hospital, forty patients from each
hundred received, making 240 out of 600, in whose
behalf we will continue the rate of expense contem-
plated— $2,000 each for hospital building, and $7.31
each for maintenance-—thus leaving 60 in each 100,
or 360 of the 600. to be supported on a different scale
of expenditure, though with equal solicitude and no
less attention to their comfort. We shall find, if the
scheme is practicable, that such an abatement of
expenses may be made on the whole as would enable
Michigan to provide well for all of her insane at an
expense now appropriated to one-half of them."

Secretary Lord has gone on and elaborated
his ideas of what an economical expendit-
ure of the excess sunk in “ monumental es-
tablishments ” might accomplish in the
comfortable maintenance of the demented
and insane who now occupy space to the
exclusion of those recent cases for whom
there is at least a ray of hope.

We look upon this paper as a valuable
acquisition to the opinions entertained by
those who have given this subject their
attention, and hope it will stimulate such
discussion as will gradually give enlarged
views to those who may chance to have it
in their power to give practical direction to
the care and management of the insane.

As promised in the last issue of the VIS-
ITOR, we have had reprinted in this number
the above editorial found in an old copy of
the paper, on the subject of making pro-
vision for the insane of the State. It seems
to us that in the care of the dependent
class we are not making the progress that
we ought, and our object in again calling
up this subject is to stimulate discussion.
It is too late to interpose objections to the
expenditure of the money appropriated by
the Legislature at its late session for this
specific purpose, but it not too late to raise
the inquiry, why an unfortunate epileptic,
or a victim to “vicious practices,” or these
demented persons referred to by Mr. Lord,
that have been pronounced incurable by the
best medical authority that we have, should
be kept year after year at a cost to the State
or the county and State of a dollar a day,
when in our poor houses all over the State
we find people who by misfortune have
come to require support at the public
expense, ‘that are kept at one-third the
amount. Either our poor-houses should be
made palatial, or the larger part of the
present inmates of the Kalamazoo and Pon-
tiac institutions who are incurable should
be removed to less expensive quarters, AN
ASYLUM, and maintained at less than half
the present cost. The counties are satisfied
to leta worthy old citizen go to the County
House, if also satisfied that he will be made
comfortable and have kind treatment and

be supplied with papers to read and his
friendly pipe, (if required by his former hab-
its); but the State,composed of the total of its
counties, builds palaces in which it keeps
demented harmless wrecks of humanity by
hundreds for years to the exclusion for
“ want of room ” of persons who by reason
of recent mental unsoundness might hope
for cure if subjected at once to that treat-
ment which the State generously under-
takes to provide.

If the Legislature of Michigan had made
provision for AN ASYLL'.\i, to be completed
this year, for something like the amount of
money appropriated to be expended this
year in getting ready for the $400,000 insti-
tution that it authorized, and removed these
old chronic incurables to its new hospital,
and in this way made early provision for
the curable insane of the State, it would
have given some evidence of progress, sav-
ed the State a large sum of money and real-
ly provided for her insane.

In short,what wants to be first understood
is the essential difference between a hospital
and an asylum.

WILL our friends who sent us the names
of three-months subscribers, whenever they
can, please call the attention of these parties
to the matter of becoming regular subscrib-
ers? Very many of them might be added
to our list by a little personal attention, and
we are sure that if such did not become
members of the Order they would at least
become its friends. Some renew of their
own accord, but more do not.

LETTERS received from different parts of
the State indicate that quite a good deal of
wool is being shipped by the Patrons of
Michigan to Fenno & Manning of Boston,
under the arrangement made by the wool
committee appointed by the State Grange,
at its last session. VVe hear of two carloads
from Paw Paw, two from Jonesville, and a
large quantity from Oakland, Ionia, Eaton
and Ingham counties.

W1-: have a new advertisement from the
Schoolcraft \Vasher Co. on our eight page.
We think it is safe to say in behalf of this
machine, that it is giving much better satis-
faction than an'y other of the dozen differ-
ent makes that have been introduced from
time to time in every county. \Ve don't
think this machine will go condemned to
the garret in six months.

Town and Country.

God made the country. When he made
the world he made it perfect. He surveyed
his work, and behold! it was very good.
The seas lay in calmness and quiescence, or
rolled their surges then as now. The land
was clothed in beauty, and it was all
country. No town or city marred its loveli-
ness, or bred physical or moral contamina-
tion. God made man perfect, but they have
sought out many inventions, among them
was the city. The poet says,

But of the city invented by Cain,
But in the country which God made for men.

Two exploits are recorded of that man
Cain——one that he slew his brother, the
other that he builded a city. \Ve admit
there are many advantages in living in
town. The church, the school, and the
lecture-room, the rapid interchange of
thought and intelligence—all these are priv-
ileges to be prized, but they are offset by
many disadvantages. “Evil communica-
tions corrupt good manners,” and in town
all, especially children and youth,are in
almost constant communication with evil.
How often we hear the anxious parent
wishing he had a place in the country, that
he might take his children from the con-
tamination of the town. In the country
we may enjoy pure air, providing we keep
our own premises clean, but in town it
depends very much on the cleanliness and
tidyness of our neighbors. Do as we may
at home, our neighbors’ back yards and
cesspools, foul alleys and unclean streets
will send up a stinking savor that pene-
trates our dwellings, and salutes our nostrils
at every turn, laden with the germs of
disease and death.

\Ve have seen towns that were clean and
well ordered, where beautiful trees lined
the streets, where were well-kept yards and
verdant terraced lawns, where vines trailed
over tasteful arbors, where the air was
fragrant with roses, where flowers blushed
in the sunshine, and everything that could
contaminate was carefully removed.

But in our immediate vicinity is no such
town. The one with which we are at present
most familiar, though enjoying a good
position, where gently sloping lands and a
porous soil make it easy to be kept clean
and free from noxious accumulations, is
justly entitled to enjoy with the German
Cologne, the sweet sounding title of “The
city of a thousand stinks.” Let us rise and
walk through the length and breadth of
the town, and what do we see? Manure pile
reaches to manure pile across the alleys.
There are rotting boards and old packing
straw; old tinware that has served its
purposes, and been cast forth to the alleys
and back yards; once in shying to avoid
a huge pole in the track, our horse's feet
went into the top of an old battered and
bottomless tea-kettle: old cans that have
held the delicious fruits of Western Mich-
igan, or the luscious bivalves of Chesapeake

Bay—some round, some square, some vari-
ously battered. The glint and scintilations
of the sunbeams, and the million focal
points there developed, make us cease to
wonder that it has been said that “The
thermometer rises fourteen degrees higher
in the town than in the country.”

Of dead cats and fowls we only counted
one of the former and six of the latter in‘a
short walk. On one alley we saw a dead
kitten. It was perfectly white, and when
alive had been a pretty, thing, but it had
gone the way good kittens go. It had died
in the innocence of kittenhood. \Ve saw it
daily some four days, when we observed a
brown pullet lay about a yard from it,
keeping it company. A few days later we
observed upon the same alley more relics of
mortality. We did not approach, but
appearances indicated a Bramah rooster.
It lay in silence and stillness and like the
little boy’s calf—“ It had kind 0’ gin eout.”
Feathers, wings, and other portions of
defunct galanacea lay strewn about. They
have passed their period of life. They
neither crow, cackle, or scratch. Their
future use is to add to the savory odors of
the town. \Ve think of the Latin phrase,
“ Rest, quiet cats in peace,”

Bird's-eye views are delightful. VVe have
stood upon the heights of Queenston, and
viewed the scene presented. Below us rushed
the Niagara, and it made us giddy to gaze
from the beetling clifl‘ into the fierce tur-
moil below. Far away stretched the blue
Ontario, and for miles around lay the lovely
panorama of forest and field, of town and
farm residences in New York and Canada.
Yes, bird’s-eye views are delightful. How
we envy the man in the moon as he rides in
his shining chariot, showering down the
silver moonbeams. How he can look up-
on earth’s lovely scenes, the towering
heights of the Andes and Himalayas, the
ice floes and ice bergs, and ice glaciers of the
Arctic and Antarctic! He can see the wide-
spread desolation of the watery world and
the fertile plain—and all by the light of the
beautiful moon. And after all we pity him
Imagine him passing over Chicago; he
sees Omaha, Salt Lake, and San Francisco.
He looks down upon Hawaii, Yokohama,
Canton, and the desert of Cobi; sees Tehe-
ran, the Caspian, and Constantinople,
Rome, Paris and London; sails over wave-
washed Bermuda, New York, and the
delightful Ontario, He sees the silvery
spray rise from the falls of Niagara, and as
he enjoys the view of Erie, we see him gaze
westward, and with aghast look he clasps
his nose with both hands, exclaiming with
dolorous voice, "0, Jupiter, there comes
Monticute l ”

God made the country. He made it for
his people. "The earth hath he given to
the children of men.” Eastward in Eden
he planted a garden, and there he placed the
man Adam to dress it and to keep it. Of
Adam’s two sons, one was a keeper of sheep
and the other a tiller of the ground. After
the flood subsided and the ark rested on the
mountains of Armenia, Noah went forth
to be a husbandman. From that early date
to this scripture and history, _ancient and
modern,prove that many of the best and
most noted men were brought up to agricul-
tural pursuits. Moses led the flocks of Jeth-
ro, his father-in-law, to Horeb, the Mount of
God, before becoming Israel's leader and
law-giver. David kept his father’s sheep on
the plains of Bethlehem before being king
of Israel. Abdylenymus was weeding in
his garden when Alexander offered him the
government of Sidon. lVe know how our
hearts thrilled in youth at the story of our
revolutionary fathers who laid down the ax
and spade and left the plow in the furrow
and hurried to beleagered Boston. With
what delight we read of the rich man who
gave money to his poor neighbors as they
set out tojoin the Continental army. “ Beat
the rascals,” said he, “ beat them, and if you
return, perhaps you can pay me, if not, God
bless you.” The sturdy men of those times
were not brought up in town and fed on
peanuts and candy. They did not live by
leaning on a drygoods box and smoking
cigars. They had more substantial business
on their hands than staring at the ladies
and making jokes on their hats and dresses.
They were brought up to the sturdy labors
of the farm and reared in the country,where
nature had its own way and built them of
good materials. We have some charity for
Darwin in his theory that men sprang
from the ape. He probably lived in or near
some large town, and seeing the fashionable
tops of the present day, what other conclu-
sion could he come to ?

We love the country,'its shady groves, its
pastures and meadows, its fields of waving
grain, its pure air and health laden breezes.
It takes time, labor, and patience to give us
smooth lots and fine sodded fields; the old
orchards and farm houses, embowered with
flowering shrubs ; the yards where roses fill
the air with fragrance; the large and well-
filled barns and thrifty stock of the land of
our youth. In our new country we must do
as others did, “Labor and wait.”

Town people sometimes think that the
country is a good place to raise onions, cab-
bages, goslings, country cousins, and other
green things. Did you ever notice that city
breds like to get into the country in the
spring—that season when greenness is so
fond of displaying itself? \Ve remember a
young lady who came out from Toronto and
stopped at our house. VVith great affecte-

JULY 1, 1881.

tion and silliness she made much ado, and
sent her escort to know what the fearful
noise was that she heard. She feared she
had got into close proximity to a bear. He
was as green as his mate, and made as much
ado, till we assured him there was was no
immediate danger, as the noise was made
by our mothei-’s spinning wheel. They
probably thought they were smart. Our
opinion was that in town they probably
lived next door to a fool.

In the country is where the book of
nature is open to us, where the swelling
bud. the expanding foliage, the falling leaf,
the sprouting grain, the verdant blade, and
.the ripening ear teach us the progress of
human life. First, joyous childhood and
youth, then sturdy manhood, and last comes
silvery age, admonishing us, “What thy
hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
for there is no work, or device, or knowl-
edge, or wisdom in the grave, whither thou
goest.” Give us the country, for like the
good king, Robert Bruce, of Scotland. “ I
had rather hear the lark sing than the
mouse squeak.” L. BUSH.

School Taxes.

Bro. Cobb.-——A very large amount of tax
is levied and paid annually by the people of
this State for the support of schools. What-
ever is necessary for that purpose,if expend-
ed wiselv and discreetly, should cause: no
complaint. A suitable and proper education
for children is essential to the prosperity
and to the safety of the people of a State.

No community, no State, no nation can be
said to be in its best condition until all the
boys and girls are so ‘educated as to be able
and willing to do whatever is necessary and
proper they should do, in the best possible
manner in theleast possible time. To ac’-
complish this should be the aim, as it is the
duty of every parent, and the schools should
be employed to aid them.

There is a general feeling that our schools
are not what they should be, and that many
of them cost much more than they are
worth.

It has been often remarked that some of
our school-houses are architectural monu-
ments, that they cost too much, are not paid
for, area perpetual burden, that the schools
are managed with the sole .view to prepare
young people to go to college, and not to_
make men and women well prepared for the
business and the duties of everyday life. It
is recorded that a Spartan king being asked
what boys should learn, replied “ what they
should practice when they are men." And
a wiser king has said, “train up a child
in the way he should go, and he will not
depart from it.” Something like this I
think should be the purpose and business
of all our schools.

Every child in the State should be educa-
ted in such a manner as to be able to live
without help, and to do good, honest credit-
able work of somekind. It is much easier
to build school-houses than prisons and
poor-houses, and every community must
supply one or the other, and if the proper
education of children is neglected the last
two will be indispensable. The rate of taxa-
tion will be increased and the security di-
minished.

Expensive buildings are not required, but
they should be clean, comfortable, with a
constant supply of pure air. Extravagance
in building or in any thing else does not add
to the comfort of people of any age, and
children improve best and are most content-
ed and happy when taught that their wants
are few. VVhen ordinary prudence and good
sense prevails in a school district the tax will
not be a hardship for any, and will be cheer-
fully paid. There is one serious drawback
regarding schools that has no present
remedy. I“ e teachers are often incompe-

them is worse than wasted.

A little more care and attention to duty on
the part of district otiicers would doubtless
lead to improvement and might in time lead
the teachers to feel the need of suitable
qualification and fitness for the important
duties they undertake to perform, and realize
that spending alittle time and taking a great
deal of pay is not all that is required of them.

Some of us can remember when the money
for teachers’ wages aside from the avails of
the primary school fund was apportioned
on the scholars sent to school by the teacher
or director. A “ rate bill” was made up and
the tax was paid by those who sent children
to school. Believing that the property of the
State should be taxed to educate the children
of the State so far as necessary to give to
every child a good common school educa-
tion, I introduced the bill and favored the
law imposinga two-mill tax on all the prop-
erty _of the State for that purpose.

There was some opposition to the law. and
some doubt at the time whether the people
would acquiesce in it, but it has stood the
test of over 20 years’ legislative tinkering,
and though there has been no occasion for
it, since the district oflicers were authorized
to determine and report what they need, it
has been impossible to get the law repealed
and difficult to get the amount of tax reduc-
ed to one mill, though the ratio of property
has been constantly on the increase.
Though school taxes are often wasted, some-
times lost, itis evident that no tax is paid
more promptly or cheerfully.

ALONZO SESSIONS.

Home, May 31, 1881.

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PICKINGS BY THE WAY, No. 30.

Incident to breaking up business and
housekeeping we find very much to em-
ploy our time, and have done but little
picking except at home in the past three
weeks. On the 18th, the Muskegon Horticul-
tural Society held a strawberry festival at
the rooms of Hon. H. H. Holt in the city.
There was a good show of fruit, made by a
few of the many growers in the vicinity.
We took note, and sampled somewhat the
fruit exhibited. H. S. Tyler had the Sharp-
less. It is a very large berry—one berry
measured seven inches around. A few
would fill the so called quart box. \Ve im-
agine the berry is better to show than to
eat or market. 0. Baxter had plates of the
Filmore, Col. Cherry, Cresent Seedling,
Forest Rare, and VVilson—all fair and pleas-
ing to the ameteur. Brother \Vm. M. Col-
lier had Seneca Chief, which was the center
of attraction. It was large, firm, and late,
always bringing a good price. By actual
test the Seneca Chief last year gave Brother
Collier $50 more per acre than the Wilson,
with the same treatment. He made his
first shipment of this fruit on the June 21.
Brother Jas. H. VVhitney showed the very
handsome Seth Boyden, Monarch of the
VVest, and Wilson, all grown with care, and
giving a good return. VV. R. Millison had
four very handsome plates of the Monarch
of the VVest. These show well—will do for
a. near market, but too soft, and too light
-color to put in the general market. P. R.
Cockburn showed a fine can of berries, some
of which were of _the native wild berry.
He also exhibited a “wooden mulch,” to
put under strawberry vines. This may be
made ofservice to the small amateur grower,
but cannot, in our opinion, be made prac-
ticable in field culture. But prove all
things by trial. E. VVood, from S. B.
Pick’s farm, made an excellent exhibition
of the Monarch of the West. Mr. J. O.
Antisdale showed a basket of nice berries of
several kinds mixed, all large, but not all
Wilsons, as claimed.

\Ve have thus briefly spoken of this
creditable small show, which should have
been 100 times as large to have fairly repre-
sented the strawberries of this locality.
‘Why not better? Because here, as else-
where, the tillers of the soil do not take
hold of organization as they ought. Too
many think they.know it all. Too many
can find time to loaf about the streets, but
none to attend such meetings. Too many
“can’t afford it,” but can spend large
amounts at circuses, horse trots, etc. A
week later, Strawberry Grange, No. 554, held
a model strawberry show of its own, at
which were nearly as many plates of berries
and as nice ones as at the County Horticul-
tural exhibit a week ago. Nearly every
member brought some berries. The VVil-
sons were the most plenty, the Seneca Chief
were the largest and best, while the Mon-
arch of the \Vest, Filmore, Kentucky,
J ucunda, Seth Boyden, Champion, Leening
\Vhite, and others were all good. It was
shown that berries picked with the hull on
would carry far better than those that lost
the bull in picking. Many points were
ably discussed, and all expressed themselves
pleased with the arrangements of the C. &
W. M. R. B., whereby their fruit was put
in the Chicago market. in good shape at
from two to five cents per can less than the
competing boats would do it. This is from
united effort. Let it be made still more
powerful because extended.

The Biiih-place of the Order.

Have recently received a. supply of the
engraving of the office of Wm. Saunders,
where was born the Order of P. of H., in
1867. Have filled all the orders taken last
Winter at Lansing, and have a few left.
Will mail one copy for ten cents, or three
copies to one address for 25 cents in postage
stamps. Address me at Muskegon as -usual.

Lecturer’: whereabouts.

Am to be in Tuscola county the week
these lines are being put into type, and sent
to readers. On the 0th of July, or there-
abouts, shall visit a Grange in Ottawa
county; on the 11th go to Big’ Rapids and
Mecosta county, from whence I hope to go
to Traverse for a few days. On the 18th, or
thereabouts, I shall go to Macomb county
for a few days, and thence to Calhoun
county on the 25th.

The first week in August I have appoint-
ments in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky,
and go from there to New Jersey to spend a
few weeks, as promised last winter when I

left there. The most of my time for August
is already spoken for.
Fraternally,

C. L. VVHITNEY, Lecturer.

GAMBETTA is the most rapid talker and
writer among European statesmen ; in pub-
lic speeches he has at times delivered one
hundred and eighty words a minute, and
when he puts pen to paper—which is rarely
—he writes at the rate of forty words a min-
ute. Stenographers find it no easy matter-
to keep up with him. .

Washington Letter.

The (prolonged serious illness of Mrs.
Garfiel , from which she is now slowly
recovering, has been attributed in part to
the unhealthy condition of the White
House, and to the presence of malaria in
the low, swampy section south of the
grounds. It is not impossible that these
conditions may have had something to do
with the case. The VVhite house probably
is not the most healthy place for its occu-
pants, either in their minds or bodies.
Elegant as it has been described to be in all
its appointments, it is not a very high-toned
residence for the President of so great a
country as ours. It has so often undergone
changes and alterations that the walls are
full of chinks and crannies, where rats and
other vermin can hold high carnival, and
the sewerage is so defective that all sorts of
gasses and odors are at times encountered in
some parts of the house. So it is a fact that
the exterior of fine frescoing, carpeting
and gilding, serves only to cover unsound
and unseemly walls.

The ‘White House has quite a history, and
has cost the country a good deal of money-
more than the celebrated Stewart mansion
of New York. The total expenditures, in-
cluding rebuilding, refurnishing, etc., are
about $1,700,000, though the original cost
was but $333 000. Its construction was
begun in 1792, and in 1800 it was first occu-
pied. In 1815 it was rebuilt——after the
British invasion, war of 1812-and its
porticos were completed as late as 1829. The
East room was finished only fifty years
ago. Every President of the United States,
except Washington, has lived in it, and he
has poked his horse’s head into its portals
to look up at the workmen plastering on a

direct from Dublin via Charleston, took the
award of $500 for the design, and he built
and rebuilt the edifice. His remains lie
buried in a. Catholic cemetery here. The
building is 170 front by 08 feet deep, with
one room in it 80x40 feet. It does not,
therefore, lack anything for size. Even the
vestibule within the front door is 50x-10 feet.
This vestibule to-day looks a little shabby,
and its floor covering is threadbare from the
constant tread of ofiiee-seekers, who come
in droves to see the President.

Twenty acres of garden and park imme-
diately inclose the mansion, and on either
side, each separated by only -150 feet, are
buildings which cost from seven to twelve
millions apiece. Yet in all its apparent
antiquity, how new. The lawn is still a
naked plain, reaching off to the Potomac.
like a desert coming to the palace stairs.
Like Versailles in the time of Louis XIV,
W'ashington is a government creation, and
this \Vhite House is hoary only by events.
The President’s office, which is in the
second story, is also the Cabinet room, and
is not a very large apartment for the VVhite
House, although about 35 or 40 feet in
depth, by perhaps 30 feet Wide, and with a
high ceiling. A long table is in the middle
of the floor, with leather-seated chairs
around it; the two windows have long
lambrequin curtains of a dark bluish gray
color. A large map of the United States is
on the wall. The carpet is of a red tint with
large figures. The general effect of the
room as one enters, is that of a library with-
out books.

There is little news or stir in politics out-
side of the senatorial complication in New
York, but in government circles there is a
good deal of flutter and excitement. Re-
ports of numerous changes in the difl'erent
departments are in circulation, and there
has come to be little doubt that a. number of
heads will shortly fall. Bureau officers and
chiefs who have had their day will be called
upon to make room for new blood. Dr.
Loring will take charge of the Agricultural
department July 1st; meanwhile Le Due
is making hay while the sun shines. He
proposes to spend just as much of the
appropriation for his department before
going out as he can. To this end he is about
to start on a trip to Colorado at government
expense. Pension Commissioner Bentley
is also uneasy, and those who ought to be
posted say that he may feel authorized to
pack his trunk. Probably no oflicial con-
nected with the government could leave it
and be as little regretted, notwithstanding
the fact that he has, in some respects made a
good commissioner.

Washington, June 22, 1881.

The Wool Clip.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
LANSING, Mich., June 10. 1881.

To the Editor.-—Crop and stock reports
received at this office from 908 townships
show that there were 1,860,024 sheep sheared
in 1880, yielding 10,136,581 pounds of wool.
This is an average of 5 45 pounds per head.
The reports also show that the number of
sheep in the same townships in 1881 was
1,979,293, which is 6.41 per cent. more than
the number sheared in 1880. If there has
been a corresponding increase in the re-
maining 167 townships, there will be
2,013,608 sheep sheared in the State the pres-
ent year, and the total clip at the above
average per head will be 10,974,163 pounds.

WM. J ENNEY,
Secretary of State.

Wool Matters and Markets.

The market may be said to be excited in
some sections, where all the buyers are out,
local operators, eastern dealers and manu-
facturers. Indeed the rush of buyers has
been as great as usual, and while all have
tried to be quiet, and while some have left
the field in disgust, yet others who would
not pay over 300 to 350 for the new clip a
short time ago, are buying all they can get
for 350 and .360, and even higher. In fact
we do not know what they may be paying
by the time this is put to press. And 3-5c
can scarcely be called the proper quotation
for Ohio wool. No prediction is made in
regard to the future. But little wool has
gone east. This week will undoubtedly see
considerable quantities going forward.-
Wool G'ranger’s Bulletin, June 22d.

IT IS of but little use to expose the tricks
of swindlers; you may expose one to-day,
and to-morrow your credulous friend will
be caught with one almost exactly similar.
Men who live by their wits give their whole
time and attention to studying, working
out, and learning the arts of deception. By
practice they become experts in deceiving
the senses, and those skillful enough to
swindle you out of your money are, nine
times out of ten, sharp enough to escape
with the swag.

.scafl"old. An Irish architect named Herber,'

Writing for the Press.

Causeur knows that he will deserve and
win the thanks of all managing editors if
he can but impress these few simple rules
upon the minds of those who write for the
press:

1. Write upon one side of the sheet only.
Why ? Because it is often necessary to cut
the pages into “takes” for the compositors,
and this cannot be done when both sides
are written upon.

2. Write clearly and distinctly, being
particularly careful in the matter of proper
names, and words from foreign languages.
Why? Because you have no right to ask
either editor or compositor to waste their
time puzzling out the results of your selfish-
ness.

3. Don’t write in a microscopic hand.
Why? Because the compositor has to read
it across his case at a distance of nearly two
feet; also because the editor often wants to
make additions and other changes.

4. Don’t begin at the very top of the
first page. Why? Because if you have
written a head for your article, the editor
will probably want to change it; and if you
have not, which is the better way, he must
write one. Besides, he wants room in
which to write his instructions to the
printer, as to the type to be used, where and
when the proof is to be sent, etc.

VVhy ?

5. Never roll your manuscript.
Because it maddens and exasperates
every one who touches it—editor, compos-
itor, and proof-reader.

6. Be brief. VVhy'.’ Because people don’t
read long stories. The number of readers
which any two articles have is inversely
proportioned to the square of their respec-
tive length. That is, a half-column article
is read by four times as many people as one
of double that length.

7. Have the fear of the waste-basket con-
stantly and steadily before your eyes. ‘.Vhy?
Because it will save you a vast amount of
useless labor, to say nothing of paper and
postage.

8. Always write your full name and
address plainly at the end of your letter.
"Why? Because it will often happen that
the editor will want to communicate with
you, and because he needs to know the
Writer’s name as a guarantee of good faith.
If you use a pseudonym or initials, write
your own name and address below it; it will
never be divulged.

0. “These precepts in thy memory keep,”
and, for fear you might forget them, cut
them out and put them where you can
readily run through them when tempted to
spill innocent ink.

Causeur’s word for it, those who heed
these rules will be beloved and favored in
every editorial sanctum.—(.'auserie, Boston
Transcript.

Keeping the Patient Quiet.

“He seems to be much worse today,”
said the doctor, as he contemplated the
patient. “Did you keep him perfectly
quiet, as I directed, nurse?”

"Sakes a massy! of course I did," re-
plied the nurse. “Goodness gracious! he
hasn’t moved all night.”

“ Anything going on in the house to dis-
turb him ? ” , i

“My sakes, of course not. They had a
little dancing party in the parlor, and a
fight up stairs, and some burglars got in the
basement, and the servant girl set fire to
her bed, and the fat boarder fell down the
second flight, and the man in the next
room licked his wife, and the water pipe
busted on the floor below, and the gentle-
man in the back parlor gave a little supper,
and there was some music in the third
story, and the cats got out upon the back
fence, and there was a baby born in the
second story front, and the little girl up the
third pair of stairs died in the night, but he
never moved. Bless your heart, he was the
quietest man you ever saw! ”

“Quiet right, quiet right; did you give
him the pills ‘? ”

“ My gracious! I forgot the pills, but I
gave him all the powders, and all the
quinine powders and the mixtures, three of
’em, and all but the pills.”

“Just so. Did you change the bandage
on his head?”

“ It wasn’t any use. He wouldn't keep
’em on. You never saw anything like him.
I put four pillows on his head, and he kept
still as mice after that.”

“I see. Was he delirious during the
night?”

“Oh! VVasn’t he! but he hasn't hollered
much for two hours. He's been, pretty quiet
since he fell out of bed. Before that he
was restless.”

“ Of course, naturally.
friends been to see him? ”

“ There was ten or a dozen here all night,
playing cards and enjoying themselves.
But he paid no attention to them.”

“Isuppose not. Hasn't asked for any-
thing, has he?”

“ Not for a long time, He’s doing well,
isn’t he. doctor? ”

"Yes, yes, as well as could be expected.
As near as I can judge, he has been dead
about twelve hours. You needn’t continue
the medicines. Just keep him quiet, and
don’t let anybody talk to him. What he
wants now is rest.”

And the doctor certified to the reliability
of the nurse and departed.—Brookl_yn Eagle.

Any of his

Resolutions Below Par.

3 The President’s message does not take with
the idea of making the Commissioner of
Agriculture a cabinet officer, notwithstand-
ing the resolutions of the National Grange,
recently passed within the shadow of the
White House. In fact, the governing power
long since learned that the National Grange
exhausted itself years ago passing resolu-
tions which were of no effect, because of its
Want of power to impress them upon its
own members.——Farmers’ Home Journal.

And yet the governing power seems to
treat the Grange with more courtesy than
ever before. And if this is not taken ad-
vantage of by the agricultural classes, they
deserve to be called the “ mud sill of socie-
ty,” upon which every other class builds for
fortune and fame, and above which rise all
classes in wisdom and wealth. It will not
always be thus, if the Grange organization
is kept up, through Subordinate Granges.
and they remain true to their principles of
education and co-operation.—— Wool Growers’
Bulletin.

EVERY man has his follies, and ofttimes
they are the most interesting things he has
got.—Josh Billings.

Program.

The following is the program of Capitol
Grange, No. 5£0, North Lansing:

May 14, 7:30 o’clock P. M. Reading.-
Address by Prof. E. J. MacEwan.

May 21, 7:30 P. M. How to Entertain
Visitors—Miss M. Creyts, Mrs. G. S. \Vil-
liams. Mrs. J. Tobias, Mrs. E. Appleton,
Mrs. M. R. Dunham, Mrs. J. Lowell.

May 28, 10 o’clock. Picnic at the Agricul-
tural College.

June 4, 7:30 1». M. Our agricultural fairs,
lessons, judges, speeding, objects, amuse-
ments, etc.— L. '1‘. Sutlefl‘. Mrs. Warren
Smith, Mrs. Marion Reeve, VVm. Appleton,
John Creyts.

June 11, 7:30 P. M. Windmills.—Address
bv R. C. Carpenter.

June 18, 7:30 P. M.
Girls — Mrs.
Waterman,
Towar.

June 25, 7:30 P. M. Paper.-—-Mrs. Lizzie
Turner, Mrs. Everett, Editors.

July 2d, 8 P. M. “How can we make
farm life attractive to the young‘?”—Mrs.
Celia Gunnison, Mrs. Joseph Creyts, Mrs.
E. B. Nichols, Miss Marion Creyts.

July 92h, 7:30 P. M. The following exer-
cises by students of the Agricultural Col-
lege. lnstrumental music by the company.
I)oes Farming Pay?-VV. T. Langley. A
New Problem-Jason Woodman. Song,
“Quodlibet,” by the company. Success
Depends upon Purpose and Effort-—-J. F.
Evart. Abe Aulder’s Goat--Carol Clark.
Chock Tock—Sherman Upton. College
Midnight—Poky Grabber—A. C. Redding.
Song, “ Litoria,” by the company.

July 16th, 8 P. M. “Resolved, That the
right of suffrage should be extended to
women, with the same regulations and
restrictions which are applied to men.”-
Mrs. Jason Nichols, VVm. Appleton, Lucy
Hyde, \Vn1. Schaffer. Mrs. Lucy Buck,
Wm. A. Lee.

July 23d, 8 1'. M. “What are some of the
monopolies, and what can we do about
them ‘."’—C. 1). Buck, James Cortrite, A. D.
Felton, A. N. Gillett,  M. Hill.

July 30th, 8 1'. M. Initiation of members
at this and three following meetings. “The
best fence for the farmers of this county.”-
\Va.rren Smith. Dan. Smith, Geo. E. Sutliff,
James Tobias, Henry E. Porter.

August 6th, 8 P. M. “Home markets,—-
what can we do to improve them ?”——A. M.
Dobbelaere, Henry C. Everett, John Fill,
Arthur Gladden, Henry Robbins.

August 13th, S 1’. M. “Good hints and
criticisms on farms we have seen.”—Perry
Tower, H. P. Glidden, James Skinner, B.
V. Valentine, Frank C. Reeve, H. M.
Lowell.

August 20th, 8 P. M. “The farmer is of
more consequence than the farm.”-\V. C.
Latta, J. G. Baumgras, L. H. Critchett,
Mrs. E. Dobbelaere, John Holloway.

Prof. Beal, who has always since his con-
nection with the Order been active in pro-
viding ways and means to make Grange
meetings interesting, insists that there is
nothing like employment—giving everyone
something to do, to make 23. Grange meeting
a success, and he adds that the printing of
programs for some weeks in advance has
been found of great advantage.-ED.

Industries for our
M. J. Valentine, Mrs. E.
Mrs. S. Robbins, Mrs. A.

FROM and after June 1, no printing or
writing will be permitted on the stamped
side of any postal card, excepting the ad-
dress of the party for whom it is intended
and the manufacturers’ imprint. All others
are unmailable, and will be returned to
sender, if known. Such cards will be
treated as spoiled, and redeemed by the
postmaster on application by the holder.
Hereafter the notice, “write address only on
this side,” will be omitted.

Don’! whine.

Don’t be whining about not having a fair
chance. Throw a sensible man out of the
window, he’ll fall on his feet and ask the
nearest way to his work. The more you
have to begin on the less you will have at
the end. Money you earn yourself is
much brighter and sweeter than any
can get out of dead men's bags. A scant
breakfast in the morning of life whets the
appetite for a feast later in the day. He
who has tasted a sour apple will have the
more relish for a sweet one. Your present
want will make future prosperity all the
sweeter. Eighteen pence has set up many
a peddler in business, and he has turned it
over until he has kept his carriage. As for
the place you are cast in don’t find fault
with that; you need not be a horse because
you were born in a stable. Ifa bull tossed a
man of metal sky-high, he would drop down
into agood place. A hard-working young
man with his wits about him will make
money, while others do nothing but lose
it.

Who loves his work and knows to spare
May live and flourish anywhere.

As to a little trouble, who expects to find
cherries without stones, or roses without
thorns? Who would win must learn to
bear. Idleness lies in bed sick of the mulli-
grubs, where industry finds health and
wealth. The dog in the kennel barks at
fleas; the hunting dog does not even know
they are there. Laziness waits till the river
is dry, and never gets to market. Try
swims it and gets all the trade. Can’t-do-it
wouldn't eat the bread cut for him, but Try
made meat out of mush rooms.—John Plough-
man’s Talk.

GOVERNOR JEROME has appointed T. T.
Lyon, of South Haven, J. G. Ramsdell, of
Traverse City, \V. K. Gibson, of Jackson,
Prof. W. J. Beal, of Lansing, and Evart H.
Scott,‘of Ann Arbor, as commissioners to
represent Michigan’s fruit and horticultural
interests at the exhibition in Boston next
September by the American Pomological
society. The legislature has appropriated
$1,000 for the expenses of this commission,
and it is little enough for men so eminent
in this fascinating pursuit, which has made
some of the poorest lands in our State the
most profitable. Among the other commis-
sioners who have visited Lansing the past
week, conferred with the governor, and
looked over the work they are expected to
do, are Fred. Morley, immigration commis-
sioner; Dr. E. H. VanDeusen and Perry
Hannah, commissioners to locate a new asy-
lum for the insane.

A POOR excuse is better than none, and
the same may be said of a poor dinner.

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Pooling Wool.

The primary object to be gained by pool-
ing and classifying wool is to have it sold
on its merits, and to discountenance the
common practice of buyers paying the same
price to all, regardless of the condition of
the wool. A wool-buyer meets A., B., C.
and D. in town on some public occasion,
and questions each one as to his crop of
wool. Of course, a stereotyped reply is
given, although a very great difference in
quality may exist. It may not be always
an attempt to deceive on the part of the
one who has the bad conditioned article,
for that comes sometimes from causes he
may not know of, and besides he hasn't the
other crops side by side with his own to
draw a comparison. The buyer then fixes a
uniform price to offer for the whole, doing a
manifest injustice to the holder of the best
quality, because from experience he has
learned to expect a certain percentage of
bad fleeces, and bids with this in view. The
result is that the holders of the best get too
little, while the other gets more perhaps
than his wool is worth. The buyer is not
harmed, as he has bought at a safe average.
The holder of bad wool is secured, perhaps,
in a better price than he is entitled to,
while the holder of the better quality is
fleeced. One may say that, according to
this, only the holders of the good wool
should pool, but not so.

A secondary object of pooling is, by offer-
ing larger lots of all grades to competitive
buyers, to obtain a better price. This will
serve the holder of indifferent wool, espe-
cially if the other system is broken up. At
any rate, if the only objection to pooling is
the fact that an inferior lot may bring a
little less than in the old way, and the good
lots a little more, we say pool by all means;
but we hear it said that pooling is speculat-
ing, and that farmers should not speculate
in their products. The result of pooling in
this State last year perhaps gave rise to the
thought. The very high prices which were
offered just before and about shearing time
tempted many to sell, while the poolers not
being ready, held on and suffered. Another
year the opposite may be the outcome of it.
it is idle to argue that the one r;m"..i have
been more wise than the many ans! it is
folly to say that the same state of vase wni
happen every year.

Pooling, when properly I1l.l(i“".-‘$0011 and
carried out, will give more satisfaction, year
by year, than any way of selling wool, and
most of the farmers who have tried it will
admit it, notwithstanding the unfavorable
trial last year.——Farmers"IIomc Journal.

ABIG THING.-—-O11 one of the morning
trains over the Erie road, the other day, a
farmer-looking man walked the length of a
car without finding an empty seat, and he
slowly returned to one occupied by a lone
man, who at once spread himself out as
much as possible, and suddenly became
deeply in erested in his newspaper. The
farmer hal ed beside the seat, but the other
made no movement. Even after a full min-
ute had passed there was no sign that he
meant to share his quarters with the other.
Then the farmer touched his arm and said 2

" If you hang on long enough, you’ll make
a fortune.”

“ What—what’s that, sir?" demanded
the other, as he looked up.

“It’sa big thing——hang on to it!” whis-
pered the farmer.

“ What is it ‘E VVhat do you mean, sir?”

“I mean that you’ve got the;_biggest cor-
ner on the hog market ever known in this
country, and if you don’t make a million
dollars out of it I’ll eat codfish for a year.”

Half of the seat was suddenly vacated,
but the farmer preferred to stand up and
brace against the stove.

 

SOME of our agricultural educators, who
argue that it is unnecessary for students of
agriculture to work in the field, not benefit-
ting by the experience of their own failures,
may draw an instructive lesson from a few
sentences in a s eech by Prof. Wrightson,
of the VVilts & Harts Agricultural College,
England: “With playing at learning
farming I would have nothing to do. Let
us see the hands hardened and the fingers
thickened with work; the farmer inured to
labor; the eye qulckened to see what is
wrong, and the hand able to set it right.
The effect of actual work upon the memory
is astonishing. Tell a young man that one
pound of sulphate of copper pickles a sack
of wheat, and he straightway forgets wheth-
er one pound pickles a sack or a quarter.
Let him wheel the sack up to the spot,
empty it on the floor, see the stufl’ applied,
and help to shovel up the wheat. and he
never forgets. To appoint pure theorists to
teach agriculture to the sons of farmers, is
little less that poking fun at them. An agri-
cultural college without a farm is like a
sailor without a ship.”

THE developments attending the New
York Legislative investigation of the bogus
butter iniquity afford anything but a pleas-
ing study for farmers and dairymen. Frank
Moulton of New York, one of the best in-
formed men of the country upon the butter
trade, testified that the dairy product of the
United States was valued at from $45,000,000
to $55,000,000 a year. That the manufacture
of bogus butter has been going on for ten
years, and its effect upon the American
trade abroad has been most disastrous. Last
year we shipped 28,000,000 pounds of butter
and 25,000,000 pounds of oleomargarine, and
although England annually imports $50,-
000,000 worth of butter, only $5,000,000 goes
from the United States. Mr. Moulton also
stated that if it were not for the frauds per-
petrated in this country in the bogus butter
business, we would supply the English
market, as American butter was the best
that England could obtain. As a conse-
quence of the oleomargarine imposition,
England expends $45,000,000 annually for
butter in other countries than this, when.
nearly all of that vast sum ought to be re-
ceived by American dairymen.

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

St. Joseph County Grange will hold its
next quarterly meeting at Centreville, on
Thursda , July 7. It is hoped that all
fourth egree members will turn out and
hear something of interest.

CHAS. W. SHELDON, ‘Betsy.
Burr Oak, June 20, 1881.

 

  


June 20, 1881.

res ensues srsirsos. 

SONNET.

‘TO THE P. OF II.

Bound by the tie of brotherhood,

Striving that each may better be,

Hoping that all will justly see

They would banish evil, foster good;
Asking of those—as brothers should-

VVho would join their ranks, that sterling fee-
A pledge of fraternal love and fidelity,-
God speed the mystic brotherhood!

May it grow in strength and power alway,
Helping the weary. who have dropped behind,
To make their night a glorious day

By increasing the treasures of the mind.
Truly these Patrons of Husbandry,

While advancing their cause, better mankind.

A. L. F2

‘Eadie.’ ¢paqtnm1t.g

Successful Lives.

Much has been written concerning suc-
cessful men and women, but I would like
to take as my subject to-day Successful
Lives, not that I am capable of giving you
anything learned or brilliant, or that I in-
tend portraying to you the lives of any of
the great and noble men and women of our
day, who, by reason of their great and su-
perior talents, learningjand genius, stand
high in the world’s esteem. far above every-
day life. I will instead take this same
commonplace life with which we are sur-
rounded every day and hour, and endeavor
to picture it as accurately as possible, that
We may determine upon those of our friends
and neighbors who have lived successful
lives, and also whether we are making our
own life a success or a failure.

Perhaps many of us think that in these
unnoted, ordinary lives of ours there are no
chances for any great success or failure.
But it is my opinion that in so thinking we
make one of the greatest mistakes of‘ our
whole lives. Must we, because our positions
in this world are not among the highest in
the land, sit idly down and say that we can
do nothing to make our life abenefit to our-
selves or our fellow-men ? Is that the act
which will lift us higher in the scale of
humanity? That the rightful way, of em-
ploying the talent and ability with which
our Maker has provided us ? Most assured-
ly not. Ourlives are to a great extent,
if not entirely, what we make them.
Each of us has power to improve the talent
given, or to avail ourselves of the opportun-
ities afforded us for doing ‘good, and thus
make life one grand success; or we may
neglect lhe talent, or waste the opportunities
because they seem to us small and obscure,
forgetting that nothing, however small, is
useless that in any degree bengfits or unno-
bles mankind; that every neglected duty,
no matter how slight, is a stumbling block
in our road to a better and nobler life.

“ Speak truly. and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed ;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A grand and noble creed.”

Thus we see plainly that each one of us
posmsses means and ability to lead a success-
ful life. In order to live such a life it is not
necessary to do any great or startling
deed of heroism that shall make our name
known throughout the land. Home is the
place in which to record our success. Cheer-
ful, unselfish daily life is the means of ob-
taining that success. I have said cheerful
and unselfish, because I think cbeerfulness
and unselfishness the surest means of living
true lives. »

- That cheerfulness is necessary to true
happiness we are all fully aware. No one
can be truly good and noble, and be moody,
irritable, discontented or gloomy. Many of
us have enough to make us miserable if we
think only of our own troubles<an.d not of
our many bessings. Few indeed, do we
come in contact with but have had some trial
that at the time seemed to defy forgetful-
ness. There are buried memories in
every heart, a folded page in every life’s
history. But if every one refused to
be cheerful because of their own individual
troubles, what a gloomy. dreary world this
would be! The person who nurses his own
troubles, paying no heed to the woes of
others, is undoubtedly selfish, and surely no
selfish life was ever or will ever be success-
ful, which may seem a. broad assertion, but
nevertheless true. The selfish may be
talented ; he uses his talent for his individual
advancement, caring nothing for his fellow-
men or their own interests. He probably
amasses wealth, but does he ever spend one
boarded dollar to relieve suffering humanity
or to help a friend in need? No, if he sees
guy one in trouble whom he might relieve by
a little frindly help he only wraps his man-
tle of selfishness closer about him and
excuses himself bysaying “ Why should I
help him? It is nothing to me, it is not
likely he ever would do as much for me, so
it wouldn’t pay.” Not realizing that the
consciousness of a kind and unselfish act is
its own best reward. And will such a man
ever lead a successful life ? No, though he
be possessed of the talent, and though he
rise high in power or amass vast worldly
wealth, his life will still be a miserable fail-

,ure_ For of what avail is our talent,
power and wealth without love and respect ?_

And what contentment can they bring their
possessor if he knows that he has used all
for his own comfort and pleasure, without

once trying honestly and sincerely to make
those around him happy. I think you will
agree with me in saying that such a life is
never successful.

There is another class of men most people
call successful. VVe will take for an exam-
ple a farmer of that sort—in every direction
you will find them. Passing along the
highway you see a large, well~tilled, pro-
ductive farm, fine farming implements of
all kinds, fine stock, large, well-filled barns,
and probably a fine house, on the outside:
and you say to yourself, that man is a
successful farmer. But enter thiit house,
and what a change yousee. The rooms are
bare and cheerless, only the barest necessi-
ties are there, nothing to beautify or make
home-like and pleasant. There are neither
books or papers to show education or
culture; few if any pictures adorn the
walls; no flowers or music indicate taste or
refinement. Every thing looks gloomy and
cbeerless; the wife and mother is absorbed
in work and worry, and money saving ; the
children are uneducated and uncouth, al-
lowed few pleasures in childhood because
books, toys and games cost too much. As
soon as they are old enough to work the
boys, instead of attending school are kept
out in the fields, because that will save
hiring, and the house is nota home to them,
only a place to eat and sleep, and to the
girls it is but a tiresome work-room. If
they Want amusement or pleasure they
must look for it elsewhere,as nothing is tol-
erated at home that does not tend to the one
object——money. Do you think when you
have learned all this you will go away still
thinking that this man is asuccessful farmer‘?
I think not. He makes money, it is true,
but instead of using it for the education and
pleasure of himselfand family it is carefully
boarded until an opportunity offers for
another paying speculation, the proceeds of
which are to go in the same manner, and so
on to the end of the chapter. He has amass-
ed wealth, but be has starved his soul and
narrowed his mind in obtaining it. He has
sacrificed the minds, hearts, and intellects
of his children to the idol,—money. He
has been successful in money making, but
his life is a miserable failure.

This thought is still uppermost in your
mind when you come to a smaller, less pre-
tentious farm. The barns are smaller, and
the house not as fine as those before men-
tioned, and you remember what farmer, No.
1 had said of farmer A B, or C, “ He don't
seem to get rich very fast, and he had just
as good a chance as I did.” But enter his
house and notice the contrast it presents to
that of the wealthy neighbor. This is not
merely a residence. but a home. Comfort
and pleasure are within its walls, and hap-
piness and content dwell beneath its roof.
Good books and papers, flowers and music
may be found here. This farmer may not
possess one-half the wealth of his neighbor,
but yet he can-afford to educate his children
and give them home amusements. These
parents are not too deeply absorbed in busi-
ness and money making to spend pleasant
evenings with their family, either reading
some interesting book, or engaged in pleas-
ant and instructive conversation. Do you
agree with me in saying that this man, and
not the other is the successful farmer ? He
may be comparatively poor in this world’s
goods, but he possesses vast treasures in his
home and family, and in his daily life. The
neighbor possesses wealth by the thousand,
but while he has spent the best portion of
his life in gaining that wealth he has nar-
rowed and belittled his mind, soured his
temper, and starved his intellect and soul to
obtain it; the poorer, but successful man

has been laying up unlimited treasure in ,

the minds and hearts of his family. He
may not, it is true, give his children any
great amount of money for a start in the
world, but he will give them something
infinitely better. He has educated them to
be noble men and women, and thev will
take up the burden of life with true, honest
hearts, clear, active brains, well developed
minds, and pleasant, loving memories of
home that will keep them from many
snares ‘and temptations of life, and make
them honored and respected. I think you
will agree with me that this man is the
successful farmer, not the one who possesses
great worldly wealth, but has bartered life’s
richest treasure to obtain it.

Thus we see two lives side by side with
equal chances, one so eminently successful,
the other so miserably afailure. There are
other similar cases of men in different
vocations, but I have taken farmers for an
example because of having more interest in
them than any other class of people.

Then there are successful mothers, fathers,
and homes, successful neighbors, successful
Patrons and Granges, and I might add,
successful husbands and wives, if I posses-
sed any experience in that direction, for I
suppose there is success and failure there as
well as elsewhere, for we find success and
failure all over the world.

Successful parents are those who make
the borne for their children the most attrac-
tive spot in childhood, a dear and pleasant
haven in youth, and to which they look
back with deepest love and reverence as long
as life remains. Those children are not
likely to forget the parents who made their
early years so sunny, sacrificed so much for
them, whose love and sympathy were ever

theirs through chi1dhood’s joys and sor-

rows, and through pleasure and pain in

after years. But to the parents who have

made home dull, unpleasant and gloomy,

and have put coldly aside with equal indif-

ference the little joys and sorrows of the

children in infancy, and their pleasure and

trials as they grow to manhood and woman-

hood,thus causing them to seek elsewhere for
pleasure and sympathy, and so are often led

into company they should be taught by their
parents to shun, and into temptations that
they should have parental help to avoid or
overcome: to such parents do you think
the children ever turn with that love and
confidence with which they would regard
them under different circumstances ‘.‘ I do
not. I think that in time if these children
grow up dishonest and sinful, the parents
will see wherein they have failed. For
taking into consideration the circumstances
under which they grew up, they cannot lay
the blame wholly upon the children, for
they were more sinned against than sin ning.
I think that in our daily life we shall find
many such successful and unsuccessful par-
ents. Not that the children are guiltless of
the fault, but they are often not as much to
blame as many may think. I will touch
slightlyjust one more class and then close
this long, rambling essay, if essay it may be
called,—tbat class will be successful Patrons
and Granges; first a successful Patron. Is it
one who unites himself ‘with the Order
merely for his own personal good and ad-
vancement? No, though being a Patron
is, we all know, both a pleasure and a
profit. It is one who feels that being a
member of the Grange is something to be
ashamed of, something for which to blush
and to apologize if it is discovered by some
one outside the gates, surely not. A suc-
cessful Patron is one who is fully aware of
the great good there is in the Grange, who
is proud to acknowlege himself a member of
such agrand and noble Order. Ashamed
of the Grange, indeed! He feels himself
honored in becoming a member of such an
organization that has done and is doing so
much for the mutual benefit and advance-
ment of the farming class, the bone and
sinew of on r land, both within and outside
the gates, and he enters with heart and
hand into the work before him, resolved to
do his utmost for its support and mainten-
ance, though in so doing he sacrifices many
individual pleasures. He allows no petty
strife or bickering to come between him and
his work. He does not stand back when
there is Grange work to be done and say,
“There are others who can do the work
much better than I can, so I let them do
it.” Neither does he complain if the
Grange meetings happen to be less interest-
ing than usual, but goes cheerfully to the
work of making them better, and he
succeeds. Such Patrons are the ones in-
strumental in making the Grange such a
power in the land. They are successful
Patrons, and successful Patrons make suc-
cessful Granges, and I think we will all
admit that successful Granges are amongst
the country’s noblest institutions.

A successful Grange will make its influ-
ence felt both far and near. Itis a means
of social, moral, flnanclal,Iand intellectual
good. Long live the Grange !

In conclusion, I will say but few more
words. May we each and all live successful
lives, as far as it is in our power. At best——

Our lives are but albums written through
With good and ill, with false and true ;
And as the blessed angels turn

The pages of our years,

God grant they read the good with smiles,
And blot the ill with tears.

ANNA \VH1'rNi:\'.

Seed-Time and Harvesi.

The seed has been sown,
The harvest approaches.

Lavishly the husbandman scattered the
seed on this fertile soil from the Rocky
range to the Appallachain, and now after
many days there is evidence of its returning
unto him, with not as great increase, per-
haps, as many anticipated, but it seems to
be “ the common fate of all” to sometimes
sow in gladness and reap in sadness.

Not often does the soil—man’s heritage,
bequeathed to him and his heirs forever-
sparingly reward its owner. What a story
we might tell of the returns it has made for
his labor! From what source came the
wealth that has graced this fair land with
all that is useful and much that is beau-
tiful? Cities. towns and railways cover it
from sea to sea; canals traverse the States ;

‘noble structures span its rivers, and a myriad

of steamers people the great lakes. The
record of the fruits of the soil is almost in-
terminable. Faithfully has it been tilled,
abundantly has it produced.

Little thought the Genoese navigator that
he had brought to light a new world of such
wonderful fertility. Weeds from seeds
brought from the Old World once threaten-
ed lo smother the fruit and flowers; they
were deep rooted, and grew to such giant
proportions that they nearly shut out the
light of heaven, but the most of them have
been overcome, and only their remains,
which have not wholly disappeared, show
where they once stood.

Years ago a small band of loyal men and
women landed on the bleak shores of New
England and there planted seed from which
the past has reaped and the present and
future generations will reap. We cannot
agree entirely with the late Thomas Car-
lyle where he says that the cause of Ameri-
can success is, “They have a vast deal of

land for a very few people.” VV_e believe we
still partake somewhat of the spirit of our
ancestors, those liberty-seeking, liberty-
worshiping Pilgrims of Plymouth, and that
the interest taken to-day in overcoming
ignorance, liberty’s strongest fetter, is an
outgrowth of this same spirit.

Sir VVilliam Hamilton is credited with
saying that “The highest reach of human
science is the scientific recognition of hu-
man ignorance.” VVe would not claim that
Americans have gained this “ highest
reach,” but that they are cognizant in a
degree of the illiteracy of a portion of the
people, and recognize what an impediment
it is to a would be progressive nation.

For proof,we have the great interest taken
in improving our colleges and universities,
the continued agitation of the educational
system with a view to its improvement, and
besides this the desire manifested by moth-
ers and daughters to improve in tellectually.

If it were not for fear of ridiculing such a
commendable tendency, I would say it was
becoming fashionable to prosecute some
study, at least to profess to wish to be learn-
ed. And if, as it has been claimed, fashion
is woman’s autocrat, the tide has set in the
right direction, the proper stimulant has
been applied, the seed will grow. But not-
withstanding this, we find scattered all over
the land clubs, organizations, often compos-
ed wholly of ladies, their object to impart
knowledge. And we find them in the coun-
try as well as in the towns and cities. In
one they are studying art, in another
history, another civil government, philoso-
phy, pbysiology, European and American
literature, etc.,—dissimilar in their immedi-
ate aim, but all converging to a single focus.
Some one has at last become convinced that
something can be learned at home, that the
cooking stove and sewing machine need not
take all our time.

This may seem a weak foundation to base
great hopes upon, but upon just such a
foundation we are prone to build.

“Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth_ a seed.
Up there came a flower,——
People said a weed.

“Then it grew so tall
It were a crown of light,
And thieves from o'er the wall
Stole the seed by night,

i “ Sowed it far and wide,
By every town and tower,
Till all the people cried:
‘Splendid is the flower!’ "

The interest taken in home culture is one
of the most encouraging “signs of the
times,” and should be stimulated. It will
help to extend home influence and will in-
troduce among our eloquent politicians,
large-brained, scheming tacticians and med-
itative scientists, well-read, cultivated,
home-made men and women.

The present demands the abolition of ig-
norance from among the masses; and has
brought the means to their very doors, and
slowly they are opening to receive the
proffered offering. Books all can have, and
time to read and studytbem, if they will.
These together with our newspapers and
family magazines —— some of which are
classed with our best liierature—constitute
a mine of intellectual wealth within the
reach of nearly every family, and we cannot
be too grateful that we can say that nearly
every family is appropriating the same, and
may the day speedily come when we can
say every one I

A mistake is made in depending so much
upon our schools. They are far from what
they should be, and very far from being
what parents expect they are. VVe should
plant and carefully cultivate the home
garden if we wish to reap a bountiful har-
vest. ANNA L. FELLOWS.

June 8, 1881.

Home Adornmeni.

[Essay by Mrs. Mary A. Bowen, of
Crystal, at a meeting of the Montcalm
County Grange, at Ferris Grange hall, May
26, 1881.]

In this, as in many other things, people
differ in their opinions. Some think that
in order to adorn their homes, they must
have large houses, stylish furniture, musical
instruments, and other expensive articles.
This is all very well for people who can
afford it, for such can readily gratify their
taste with their money. I do not think it
best for people of small incomes to put off
making their homes pleasant and attractive,
thinking that at some future time they will
build a new house and furnish and adorn it
to suit their taste. I think it would be far
better to begin now. Let us fix up the old
house and surroundings. The present is
ours, and we do not know what the future
may have in store for us. If we cannot
adorn our homes as we would like to do, let
us do the best we can with what means we
have at command.

There are not many of oursisters who
cannot make a variety of fancy articles for
the home which are both useful and attrac-
tive, and God has given us the beautiful
evergreen trees and lovely flowers. These
tastefully arranged will do much towards
adorning the home. Flowers have become
an indispensable luxury. For, as a just
education demands that culture shall be
many sided, so a pure and elevated taste
neglects no form of beauty, natural and
artistic. Flowers are Nature's holiday
garb; they are alike the joy of rich and
poor, the old and young, and as the creation

JULY 1, 188].

of life itself, are the heritage of every land.
Flowers are also the simplest and least
expensive ornaments of the homestead, im-
parting an air of comfort, and awakening
dreams of beauty, especially in the minds
of children, that will never entirely fade
from their memory, and let us not forget
that it is one of the precepts of our Order to
adorn our homes with flowers. I know
there are some who think it is a wicked
waste of time to cultivate flowers. They
like to see them well enough. but they have
all they can do to get their house work
done, and they don’t see how in the world
other folks can spend so much time tending
flowers and doing fancy work, insinuating
that those who do such work must neglect
other duties. It is true we must keep our
houses clean and tidy, in order to makea
pleasant home for our families. But I do
not think it is necessary to wash, scrub,
fret, and scold all the time.

Have we not often been in houses where
everything seemed to be kept in perfect
order, until we saw the scowl that spread
like a cloud over the matron’s face. Then
we concluded that she had kept everything
in the house clean and sweet but her own
temper. If the other inmates of a house
had been questioned about it, they might
have said, that they would sooner live in a
house not always so well kept than with
such a sour tempered woman. if this
woman could spare a few minutes to visit
with us, she would tell us how hard she
had to work, how tired she was, how much
trouble she had, how she never took a
moment's comfort, and was about tired of
living. I always feel sorry for such women.
They make themselves miserable, and every
one about them.

And some men are no better. They get
up before day, and commence working and
finding fault, and keep it up till night.

They come to the house with frowns on _

their faces, and look around to see if any-
thing is wrong or out of place, or if dinner
is on the way. It may be they look out of
the front door, and see that their wives or
daughters had made a flower bed, or they
may spy some artificial or fancy work——if
they see anything of this kind, they are
liable to tell their wives that they had better
be doing something useful, and that it will
be time enough for such things when they
have everything else they need. I think
such men of little account in the world-
They are to be found among the class of
men who never have time for anything;
they have no time to attend the Grange, no
time to ‘receive company or visit their
friends, not even time to read a paper.
They are waiting for a time that may never
come, for life is uncertain. They may have
to take time to die before their work is com-
pleted and their plans carried out. They
will leave no good influence behind them.
Society will never miss them, and the best
that can be said of them after they are gone
is that they had no enemies, and but few
friends. They worked hard to accumulate
money, and now their children are quarrel-
ing among themselves to see which will
get the largest share.

But I am off the track, and the Grange
will perceive that I know but little about
fashionable home adornment. But I do
know that in order to have pleasant, happy,
joyous homes, we must cultivate the sweet
flowers of charity, love, virtue, and cheer-
fulness.

\Ve should provide our homes with all
the good reading we can afl'ord——books and
papers that will tend to amuse. interest,
and elevate our children as well as our-
selves. We should let in all the sunshine
we can upon the home circle, and don't let
us keep our smiles, as we do our best clothes,
for visiting occasions.

Let us not forget that a good hearty laugh
has a tendency to lengthen the life of the
person who indulges in it, and I believe
that if physicians would prescribe for cer-
tain nervous melancholy diseases a good
hearty laugh, taken every two hours, we
should not have so many nervous, fretl'ul-
looking people, and the prices of drugs and
medicines would go down.

Canning and Preserving Fruit.

As I have a duty to perform, on this im-
portant subject, I will speak briefly and
from experience, not thinking my method
the best whether or no; only I will say it
has always brought good results. Fruit
well cared for is a luxury, while carelessly
and improperly handled is expensive and
wasteful in more ways than OlJe——Ways
which I need not mention.

I think it is a saving to have the best
make of cans, and I find the Mason one
of that number, and like a true friend, it has
always proved faithful, and I still hold it
as a worthy trust, feeling sure my fruit will
come out safe when required for use, and at
any length of time. As there are three
sizes I have the whole three, pints, quarts,
and two-quarts, andfind it very convenient.
Often it is the case in warm weather, the
cans or.contents of cans might spoil before
using, and therefore I gauge my cans accord-
lng to the fruit, the weather, and occasion
when used.

Now the next to be done is toget good
fresh fruit, and prepare it as required, peel-
ing the kind that requires it, and looking
over the smaller kinds ; and if they require
washing do it by putting in a pan of cold

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water, stirring carefully, and turn in a
colander to drain. I wash cherries before
pitting, if it is required, as it saves the juice
I keep my fruit as clean as I can to avoid
washing, if possible.
I now set my fruit on in a brightened
brass kettle or a new tin pan, adding sugar
as required, according to acidity of fruit,
enough to have it in readiness for table,
covering closely, and boil until I am sure it
is at a boiling heat entirely through, and
then it is in readiness to can. I also have a
kettle of boiling water in readiness. I take
from three to four cans, place them in my
dish-pan, removing the covers, and turning
warm water into each one, and then more
hot, until they will bear the boiling fruit;
then fill, immediately cover and turn on as
tight as the. hand will turn. Let stand in
the water a short time. When a little cool
turn the tops on tighter. If needed, wipe
them off‘ and set away.
I know some pride themselves on the
beauty of canned fruit; they want it;to look
so very nice and whole that they do not
heat it sufficiently to expel every particle of
air, and the result is the sauce is in bad con-
dition, scarcely suited to the taste or health.
As soon as my fruit has vacated its can, I
wash, scald and dry, being sure to place
each rubber in its can, and set away for
future use. I assure you they are not long
idle before they are called on duty again.
They are in constant use the year around,
from mince-pie mixture in winter that we
have in readiness at a moment's notice
when the call comes, to maple molasses in
the spring-—all find a place of safety in the
can. Apples that the cellar can no longer
protect can be saved with the can.
It would seem: almost impossible to keep
house without them, and in following the
directions of this, you will have no trouble,
and very few broken cans to ornament your

back yards.
l’RESEB.VIl.\'G.
Preserving is more on the old list, and
most of us can look back on the friendly
preserve jars of dear old mother days, before
the art of canning, the house wife’s friend,
because it is always at her service and ready,
In preserving fruit it is to be prepared as
for canning. Fruit and sugar weighed,
allowing in weight the same of sugar as of
fruit, put the sugar on to heat with a little
water to dissolve and keep from burning.
VVhen foaming takes place, skim, and the
solid fruits boil till tender, and skim out
jar. Boil down the syrup.until sufficient,
and turn on the fruit. Some will require
flavoring; suit your taste as to that. I
usually use sliced lemon, removing the
rinds and seeds.
The tender put in jars, turn on the sugar
as prepared before, boiling hot, and let stand
over night to toughen.‘ In the morning
drain off’ and boil down. Add the fruit
and boil a short time, and have ready some
two-quart cans, and can up, and save the
trouble of waste and muss or scalding over,
which is sure to follow in warm weather.
It saves a great deal of care and anxiety, of
of which we all have enough and to spare.

PHG-JBE M. BOYER.
Vermontville Grange.

Girls, Don’t Talk Slang.

Girls, don't talk slang! If it is necessary
that any one in the family should do that
let your big brother, though I would advise
him not to talk Pigeon English when there
is an elegant, systematized language that he
can just as well use; but don.t you do it.
You have no idea how it sounds to cars un-
used or~averse to it, to hear a young lady.
when she is asked to attend some place of
amusement answer—‘ Not much,’ or if she is
requested to do something she does not wish
to—'Can’t see it!’ Not long ago I heard a
miss, who is educated and accomplished
say, in speaking of a man, that she intended
to ‘go for him!’ and when her sister asked
her assistance at some work, she answered-
‘ Not for J oe! ’ Young ladies of unexception-
al character and really good education, fall
into this habit, thinking it shows smartness
to answer back in slang phrase; and they
soon slip flippantly from t eir tongue with
a saucy pertness that is not lady-like or be-
coming. Young men who talk in that way
do not care to hear it from the lips they love
or admire. It sounds much coars- r then.
And, really, slang does not save time in use
of language, as an abbreviation. N o! is short-
er and much more decided than ‘Not much;’
‘I am sure,’ is quite as easily said as ‘I’ll
bet.’ More than one promising wedding has
been indefinitely postponed by such means;
for however remiss young men may be them-
selves, they look for better things in the girls

     

 

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ninth

I know she isn't pretty,
Her checks are much too pink,
Her eyes and nose are all one shade
Of dreadful India ink.
Her hair's too short and kinky,
I cannot keep it neat ;
N o wonder, since ’tis ravelings
From grandpa’s stocking feet.

But, oh 1 she's such a comfort !
She never is too nice
To go and paddle in the brook,
Or help me make mud pies.
We dig beds in the garden,
I-‘ick strawberries on the hill,
Play bird's nest in the sweet new hay,
Or, in the grain, play mill.

If I am sick or sorry,
She takes away the pain,

And when I'm bad, and Mamma scolds,
She makes me good again.

I tell her charming stories,
When we're in bed at night ;

And I don't mind the dark at all,
It's ’most as good as light.

I have another darling,
A beauty——Edith Grace-
With lovely, curling, golden hair,
And rosy, waxen face.
But she wears lace and satin
She can’t play in the dirt,
Nor wet, nor anything, for fear
Her fine clothes may be hurt.

I love my Edith way of,
But if I tell the truth,
(Come close, and let me whisper it),
I love my precious Ruth,
Because she goes where I go,
Does everything I do ;
I love her ’ca.nse she is everyday.
Now tell me, shouldn't you P
— Youth’: Companion.

To Uncle Nine.
Dear Uncle Nine.--—I do not desire to oc-
cupy more than a reasonable share of your
time and space, and I will drop out as soon
as others come foward and fill the space.
You know how slow the ladies were to
contribute to their department at first, so I
hope you will be as forbearing with their
daughters. I am sure that many will write
as soon as they find this space is ours truly.
But I did not wish when I said daughters to
have the sons excluded. It won’t be half so
nice if our brothers don't write too, for this
is a time when boys are generally considered
the smartest. Now, girls, let us ive the
boys at test. VVill some of you or ncle 9
propose a subject, or some way to try each
other’s mettle 1’ Uncle 9, I thank you for
your suggestions in regard to reading. I
never had any rule. for reading until a
friend sent me Dr. 'I‘odd’s " Student's Man-
ual” (and that quite lately,) and I find your
advice and his coincide exactly. I have
read a great deal of romance,—the best class
of modern writers, such as Dr. Holland, E.
P. Roe, Eggelston, Miss Evans, Charlotte
Bronte, Miss Aiigleur, besides Charles Dick-
ens and Charles Reade each some. Now I
wish to read more of the standard authors.
Pope is my present study. I find much
that is grand and beautiful in his “ Essay
on Man.” I would like to quote some lines,
but I fear it would make my letter too long.
I am much interested in the history of
Pope; he, like Lord Byron, being ill-favored
by nature, makes my hero worship more
intense, because they would not allow the
deformity of the body to overbalance the
transcendent genius of the soul. How
much we oung people have to be grateful
for, that the literary world has opened its
doors so wide to admit all who will accept
the invitation thrown out by every news-
paper in the land. We need no longer read
trash when the best is made so cheap that the
ver poorest can have his choice. I am
gla that Uncle 9 is going to tell us some-
thing about Shakespeare, and I hope that
through his influence many of us may form
a taste for solid knowledge. Now,Nettie Gif-
ord, I like your letter, and don’t you think
that girls can have sense enough to compre-
hend something a little'more exalting than
the complimentary nonsense that young
men seem to think it necessary to enter-
tain us with? Uncle 9, tell us our faults.
please. Your Niece, SWEET BRIAR.
Keeler, Mich., June 13, 1881.
Uncle Nine .-—May I come into your sanc-
tum called the “ Youth’s Department,” and
have a little chat with you and my Gran er
cousins ? I have been wanting to talk with
you all, but stood hack almost afraid to come
among you, but I have decided that I must
make a beginning if I received the full
benefit of our Uncle Nine’s kind offer.
Cousins, one and all, see what a privilege
our Uncle gives us; he is trying to get us
interested in writing for the Youth’s De-
partment. Let us try and make it the best
department in the VISITOR, and that will
have to be pretty good you. know. I like
Uncle Nine’s letters, and wish he would
write more to us. We have a Grange of
about one hundred members, and the num-
ber is increasing. The members of the
Grange are building a new hall here, and
intend to have it finished the first of Sep-
tember. Will some of my cousins tell me

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Salem Station, June ll, '81.

very gently with Hamilton Grange, N o. 355. For
the third time since it was organized, over seven
years ago, he has thrust in his sickle, and cut down
a shining mark. On May 24 he claimed and received
into his cold embrace B
6
a
in Hamilton enjoyed to a greater extent the
dence and respect of all
sick a long time, but bor
without a fear as to the fu
community and the world are the

Cady’s having lived. His funeral,
tion of the Grange, was large and i

regular meeting of the Grange on the 28th, the fol-
lowing preamble and resolutions w

to call from earth's field of labor another of our most
faithful members; therefore be it

the iliucertginty of life, we heed the admonition, “ Be
ye a so rea y.

Grange has lost an earnest and consistent member,

his family a kind and indulgent husband and father,
and the community -a w

our departed brother, the
draped in mourning for

copies be sent to the GRA
and Courier and Decatur Republican.

GE

ANGE 738

$3305.

7

THE REAPER, DEATH.

LITTLE-Died at her home in the tow
Ronald, Ionia County,
LITTLE, a member of
190, P. of H., aged 42
to her memory were p
June 9, 1881.

WEEEEAS. The sil
again entered our Gr
our beloved Sister, A
her of our Order and

Resolved, That w

nship of
Mich., May 27, Mas. AMANDA
Woodard Lake Grange, No.
years. Resolutions of respect
assed in the following form,

ant messenger of death has
ange and taken from our midst
MANDA LITTLE, a worthy mem-
a beloved friend ; therefore,
hile we mourn our loss we ac-
knowledge the guiding hand and loving kindness of
Him who hath given his beloved sleep.
Resolved, That we extend to the bereaved husband
and family our warmest s mpathy in this their great
affliction, and as another link is added to the chain
that binds them to the spirit land may, their hearts
be lifted to the Giver of all good for his comfort and
blessing.
Resolved, That as an e
our departed Sister the G
mourning for 30 days ;

xpression of our respect for
range Charter be draped in
that a copy of these resolu-
tions be presented to Brother Little, that they be
placed on the records of the Grange, and a copy sent
to the GEANGE Visiron foiipublication.
OLLIE JENNINGS,
Linsin EAvEs,
ADELE PRAY,
Committee.

BABBITT. —— At a regular meeting of Salem
Grange, N o. 476, held June 10, the following pream-
ble and resolutions were adopted and ordered sent to
the GEANGE Vrsrron for publication : '

Our worthy brother. Rufus Babbitt, after a severe
and protracted illness, died at his residence in the
township of Plymouth, on Saturday, the 7th of May,
A. D., 1831.

Brother Babbitt was a charter member of Salem
Grange, was its first Master, and well and faithfully
served in that capacity from the date of organization.
July 6,1874, to March ‘.72, 1878. The Grange was
prosperous under his administration. the membership
increasing from 30 to 86. Brother Babbitt. was twice
our representative to the

Our Worthy Brother was a true and consistent
Patron of Husbandry, an etlicient officer, an earnest,
faithful and energetic worker of the Order, and his
work was well done. Our brother has been called to
lay down his implements on earth. He will meet in
our councils no more. His voice is hushed in death ;
his life's work is o’er ; he has finished his course, has
fought a good tight. He bad faith in God, nurtured
hope, dispensed charity, was noted for fidelity. The
Great Master above has said, “It is enough; come up
higher,” and we doubt not, he is permitted to enter
the paradise not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens.
WHEREAS, In the death of our Brother, his com-
panion has lost a. loving and affectionate husband,
his children a kind and indulgent father, the church
a consistent member, the Grange a most worthy and
respected brother, and the community a worthy citi-
zen ; therefore
Resolved, That as a Grange we deeply sympathize
with our mourning sister and her family, in this
their great afllictioii, and would also extend to them
that comfort and consolation which warm hearts can
give, which feel that their sorrow is our sorrow, that
their loss is our loss. And above all we would com-
mend them to Him whose tender mercies are over all
His works. God’s promises are sure: He has prom-
ised to to a Father to the fatherless, and the widows’
God. May they be enabled to say: “ The Lord is my
shepherd: I shall not want.”'
Resolved, That as it mark of respect for our de-
ceased brother, our charter and altar be draped in
mourning for sixty days, and these resolutions be
placed upon our Grange record and a copy presented
to the family of our deceased brother.

Farewell, Brother: The port you have reached.
Our loss is thine infinite gain.

From sickness and sorrow forever released,
Resting forever on Heaven's bright plain.

State Grange.

Farewell, Brother: In Heaven all meet,
Who walked with the Savior below,

With heavenly joy each other to greet,
In triumph o’er sorrow and woe.

Farewell, Brother: When life's at an end,
And all our afliictions are past,

The time that in heaven we spend
Forever and ever shall last.

D. D. COOK,

SUSAN SMITH,

KATE M. SMITH,
Committee.

CADY.——The Reaper, Death. has thus far dealt

i-other Cnas. P. CADY, aged
ears, 4 months and 24 days. Brother Cad was
arter member, and a most valued one. he one
confi-

who knew him- He was
c it patiently and met Death
ture. The Grange, the
better for Brother
under the direc-
mposing. At the

lch

ere adopted :
WEEEEAB, It has pleased our divine Master above

Resolved, That as by his death we are reminded of

Resolved, That in the death of Brother Cady this

orthy and useful citizen.

expression of our respect for
charter of our Grange be
sixty days, and a copy of
hese resolutions be presented to the family and also
of our Grange; and that
NGE VISITOR, Free Press

Resolved, That as an

ntered upon the records

Mas. J. M. WEEKS, Sec.
Hamilton, June 6.

mother of her first child.

young man of more than ordinary intelligence, and
of unblemished character. He was an active and
faithful member of the church to which he belonged,
and a zealous member of our Order. No appeal was
ever made to him in behalf of a good cause that did
not receive a hearty response. He was particularly
noted for his quiet and inoffensive manner, and it is
aggravating to think that a remorseless and cowardly
villain, hardened by a previous career of crime, had
singled him out as a safe and easy victim.
Resolved, That we,the members of Ottawa Grange,
deeply deplore the loss of our brother; that our sor-
row is enhanced by the melancholy fact that he was
cut down in the morning of life, in the full tide of
health and strength, when every hope and prospect
looked to him so bright—cut down in his usefulness
by a low and worthless specimen of humanity, who
had been but a short time before pardoned out of the
prison of another State, where he had been confined
for a previous murder.
Resolved, That we solicit all Patrons to use their
influence to have the laws against criminals more
strictly and earnestly enforced.
Resolved, That to the fatherless babe and to the
young widow whose heart is left bleeding, and whose
once happy home is desolated by this deep affliction,
we extend that earnest and heartfelt sympathy that
springs from a true sisterly and brotherly love.
Resolved, That we extend the sympathy of this
Grange to the mother, brothers and sisters of our
murdered brother, and his man friends.
Resolved, That as a token o respect for our de-
parted brother we drape our charter for ninety days,
and that this memorial be entered on the records of
our Grange, and a copy sent to the GRANGE Vrsiron
and also to two of our count papers for publication.
Mas. Tnonus WILDE,
Mas. REUBEN WOODMAN.
MR. J. W. KELLY,
Committee.

HAWLEY. —— Died at her residence in Alpine,
Kent county, Mich., May 27, 1881, of cancer, Sister
MARY A. HAWLEY, wife of S. B. Hawley, aged 43

years. She was a charter member of Alpine Grange,
No. 348, P. of H.

It has pleased our divine Master to remove from
our midst our much beloved sister, who was a faith-
ful member of our Order; thereft re we shall bear
the rich, flowing music of her voice no more, for she
has gone from this world, in which it was her lot to
suffer severe pain, to that be ond, for which l.er soul
grew anxious as it caught g impses of that delight
and joy that “ eye hath not seen not ear heard.”

Hers was a fine and highly cultivated mind, that
fully appreciated the beauties of nature in all her
varied forms, combined with a strength of purpose
that crowned her as victor in all the battles of life,
while her passion for flowers was unbounded. She
was the true Flora of the Grange, and everywhere
her floral offerings were welcomed and admired — at
the altar, the feast, in our homes, at the wedding,
and at the funeral.
Her memory will ever remain with us, as bright
and fragrant as the flowers with which her name
will ever be associated.
Resolved, That we extend to the bereaved husband
and loved ones our heartfelt sympathy, and com-
mend them to the care of Him who doeth all things
well.
Resolved, That as an expression of our respect for
our departed sister, we drape our charter in mourn-
ing for sixty days, and wear mourning badges during
Grange sessions.
Resolved. That a co
seated to the family 0
on our Grange reco
GRANGE
cation.

py of these resolutions be pre-
1‘ the deceased, a copy be placed
rd, and copies be sent to the
Vrsiron and Agricultural World for publi-
MARY A. HILL,
REnEccA J. CnAsE,
LiLLiE Ross,
Committee.

MAGRUGE.——Died of consumption, at the resi-
dence of her father, at Erwin, Barry county, May 13,
1881, Sister HANNAH MAGEUGE, aged 23 years.
Th ornapple Grange, N o. 38,- adopted the following
preamble and resolutions:

WHEREAS, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to
take from our midst our worthy sister; therefore
Resolved, That, while we bow to the will of God,
we deeply realize the void made in our circle by her
death, as she was one of our most faithful members
and one whose many virtues had so endeared her
to us that we shall long cherish her memory.

Resolved, That we tender to the relatives of the
deceased our heartfelt sympathy in this their great
bereavement, and trust that they will find consolation
in Him who doeth all things well.
Resolved, That our charter be draped in mourning
for sixty days, and that copies of these resolutions be
presented to the fami] of the deceased, entered upon
the records of the Grange. and for warded to the
GRANGE Visicron for publication.

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ground, at contract prices, made with the Executive
Committee of the State Grange.

A large stock on hand of pure, finely-ground
LAND PLASTER,
Send us your Orders direct.
janl—ly

 

DAY it TAYLOR

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Bro. Cady’s wife had become, a few days before, the
Brother (lady was in his 29th year. He was a

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_ _ _ Y o _y 0. 1' 1I'C 8 an . 11185, naps, 11111 raps 8.11 urer, W] 3 u we on '_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ._
SINCE the Empress Eugenie’s time there In our IN ephew, taken our sister, ESTELLA DAvis, who died very sud- spread rings, complete, . . . . . . . . . . . . . .’. . . . .329 00 Receipt Book, (iontainingn 100 Receipts from 50
have been no recognized leaders of fashion EPHIE GARDNER. denly May 8.1§81. at her home In Genoa. Llvingfimn The “me W‘.th°“* B‘_€e°"ing. .............. . . 26 00 Treasurer to Secretary, with stub, well bound, 50
in Paris, and comely and convenient. styles Otsego, June 13, 1881. c0;I2I;:z'iv:‘g1e§I,3L-ityielififieirglerafoge b oth h I t   Wllfh 5345 I-1365:-:t-1; --E-I-I; - - 'i1','  335 gg Elan: ltficeipftg ft; dugfii Pf! 100. 11011116. ..... .. 60
of dress remain longer in vogue than f0,.m_ U1 0] N.ne don”: th. k .t m tt ,1 _ _ . ' ea _ ur_ r or as 0s a _ " ' wi ou _ reec‘ ing,.. 0 p ‘ca ions r em ers ip,per 00 . . . . . . .... 50
erly. It would be a blessing to the women h Eh e thi d “ ll; ” 1 a BITS DZ-1110 t1§y;n(§ wife, the cl;itll<1irei1_ its kind,dindulgent mother, Doifilble Light Buggy Harness, white tnmgifieg, 30 Mlélnbetshffi Cards, per 100,....... .., . . . . . . . . .. 50
if they could be permitted to wear a weu- “’ 8 °’ 3 .‘‘’°’ 3*“ ‘’°‘’““‘ °° .“‘“"*’ ..:f‘.....£‘;‘.‘2.g° “ “'° 5’   “” ‘°°‘°"’ “ "“3“‘ The 23”..."1<.;a.;;."+;.i.;.‘.;.;.2i‘i;:.;.;""'.'§s5i3 50 38 1'3”-‘.‘f."*" °“1““"’°’  2‘
de dress two or three seasons without the more 01' 1955 "1 the l\eW Testament 0’ ‘S the R l d Th t ' ’ ' '  ‘ " ‘ um ’ m an“ open’ per °z""- """" ' 3" " " 25
1113 _ _ _ _ _ 1 _ T 2.90 ve. , a we mourn her early death, and ten- Singl_e Buggy Harness, with round lines, white By.L3,w5 of the stage Grange, glngle cop,” we
1180888153 Of l‘lDPll1_g It_ 130 pIe_0eS and thor- middle verse better than any other? L0, der our sincere sympathies to the bereaved family trimmed, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 13 00 per 1102., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. , 75
oughly reconstructing its architecture. young f0lk§' look up something in the book and friends in their sorrow. _ _ Same with flat lines ....................... . . lg 00 By.Law.,, bound, _________________ , _ . __'_:::'_'_'_ 20
more important than that’ f°lR;r:é;e§,a yI;I1:'tc%1I1)l‘y c‘lifs.i€l1;]eei; §)€re(§gT‘I1)tei% L1: t:1;c:eil111;i:rx;§ Nickle Trimmed, . . . . . . .815. $16, 818. 820 and 2a 00 u G.1addEch0es’n with music’ Single copy 15 cu.
WORTH TRYmG___T,,ke halfa te,,,,p0,,,,_ u on the recm;ds of the Grange’ and a copy premt_ ALL ORDERS RECEIVED UNDER SEAL or Riit>:;h.l;.c.6I;$’.::::.:::.: .............. ..
full of black pepper in (powdenone teaspoon- __ all by the Secretary to the family and to the GRANGE THE GRANGE “ 'per doz.,. . .’. . .  .   .. ._ 2 40
ful of brown sugar, an one tablespoouful of A YOUNG lady at a ball called her beau an VISITOR With 3 Wine l5 for publication. Will be shipped at _0n0e. and may be returned at my Blank “Articles of Association” for the Inoo" "
cream. Mix them well together and place Indian, because he was on her trail all the M155 El-I-A FISKBECK. expense If not entirely 59-t1Bfa¢t0I‘y- ration of Subordinate Granges, with Copy of
them in a moral 01111 a plate where fies are time. £3:  Isicgifigéiy Address all orders to Ncmt, all comple;t§&....$;....  ________ ._ 10
I ' I - . . ' ' S’ J . Dehn‘ 1 y . . . . ..
;::3.F'le8°me an t ey W] 1 very soon (heap AN old tin kettle may not point a moral, Committee. Yours Ver):£6s£::f§gENB Dgclfation 0fqur?ll11I’p0Be8l:: ;?a’rp°a'oz2° 5c_; pg; 40
I but we have frequently known it to adorn a —— ERG: hundred, ................................ __ 40
~ _ Betsy and I t , tail. CADY.——On the morning of the 9th of May LY- , 92 Mormon Sraanr. GEAND Rams. American Manual of Parliamentary Law_ _ _ _ _ 50
H ' are ‘"1 ' H CAD! Secretary of Ottawa Gran e No 30 '———— " “ ‘ " “ (M0-
"TW“ “'9 D°“°“ 5 °k" THE man who was waiting for something Hm ' - ' . 3 ’ , '_ ’ rooco Tuck.) .................. .. 1 00
' Afgt{l1¢1et‘1)1lé19I,?3é-Eb‘:-13ige_j to turn up, was rewarded when he stepped End gtegldeft °f the G.mng.° Llbmry A5°°°"m°'.” FENNO & M‘""'NGr Add-"395 °f '7' J‘ W°°d“"“‘ b°"°1'° the Nation-
Betsy and I are out___Rem.”d Poem upon the edge of a barrel hoop. was en ish y murdered in his own yard. The atroci- al Gr-ange——per dozen ................... .. 20
' ous deed was done with scarcely any provocation. The ? Address of Time. K. Bee_chet—per dozen .... . . 10
SoMi'-1 men _are always trying to begin at “ What does Good Friday mean ?” asked dastardly assassin stole behind his victim, and shot 0 I Digest of Law ‘and Rulings’ ' ' ' ‘ ’ ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " 40
the top, unmindful o the fact that it is all one boy of another. “You had better 0 him in the back with, ,,,,,,;,,,,._ the dying m,,,, ,,e_ 553"“: -7- 'l‘- 0033.
_ tfgllllyrtfiaghggeglledltéie house until after _the home and read your ‘Robinson Crusoe, ” ing repeatedly shot, in the presence of his wife "7 .F°d°"”“ 5"’ B°°t°"

 

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Sac’: Mica. Sun Gauss,
SCHOOLCBAFT, MICE

y. and sister, who implored the murderer to desist.

 

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8

THE GRANGE VISITOE.

JULY 1, 1331.

Two great cases relative to the taxation of
railroads were decided last week in the su-
preme court. A mandamus was denied to
the state treasurer, looking to the collection
of taxes from the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern road, as though it were reogani-
zed under the general law, whereas the road
is held to be organized under its old special
charter, and the improvements and exten-
sions it has made are therefore not subject to
increased taxation. The other case was an
appeal from the Wayne circuit court. which
had decided that the same road must pay
about $56,000 back taxes and $9,000 a year
extra in future. This decision was sustain-
ed.

ITALY has a surplus of 15,000,000 lires :-
Financial Chronicle. That’s -very unlucky,
they’re such a drug in the market just now.
The western papers are all supplied, we
understand, and there won’t be any impor-
tant political campaign for some time to
come.—N. Y. Graphic.

 

To the Patrons of Michigan.

A large and growing trade is now being
carried on at our co-operative store in Alle-
gan, and under the management of Bro. A.
Stelzeman, it is rapidly gaining a reputation
not excelled, if equalled, by any other store
in the State; and for this success we are
greatly indebted to him for his zeal and un-
tiring energy in managing its business trans-
actions. Therefore to offer these facilities to
all Patrons wishing to purchase through our
agency, the executive committee of the co-
operative association have made such ar-
rangements that our agent will fill orders
for goods from all parts of the State.

For further information,address A. STEGE-
MAN, Allegan, Mich.

J. S. BIDWELL,
Sec. of C. A. of P. of H.

Alabastine

Is the only preparation _ based on the
proper principles to constitute a durable
finish for walls, as it is not held on the wall
with glue, etc., to decay, but is a Stone Ce-
ment that hardens with age, and every ad-
ditional coat strengthens the wall. Is ready
for use by adding hot water, and easily ap-
plied by anyone. .

Fifty cents’ worth of ALABASTINE will
cover 50 square yards of average wall with
two coats: and one coat will produce better
work than can be done with one coat of any
other pre aration on the same surface.

For sa e by paint dealers everywhere.
Send for circular containing the twelve
beautiful tints. Manufactured only by AL-
ABASTINE Co.

M. B. CHURCH. Manager,

juyl-tf. Grand Rapids, Mich.

Bindery Work 1
MAGAZINES

BOOKS FOR RE-BINDING.

Now is an exceedingly favorable time
to secure the binding of Magazines,
Pamphlets, and similar accumulations.
Our bindery pays special attention to
this work, and parties sending or-
ders to us will have prompt attention.

Grange Records and Blanks, County,
Bank, Commercial Work, and esti-
mates made on all classes of Printing
and Binding.

The Re-binding of School and
Sunday School Libraries

is an important branch of our business.

Correspondence from Librarians, School Directors
and Business Men all orer the country BOLICITED.

KALAMAZOO PUBLISHING COMPANY,

Postotfiee Block, KALAMAZO0.

CLOTHES ‘WASHER.

E are prepared to furnish our justly Celebrated
‘V CLOTHES WASHERS in large numbers.
We have been unable, until lately, to supply the in-
creasing demand. The Washer is now in successful
operation in more than a hundred families in this
vicinity, and its merits are fully established.

SCI-IOOLCRAFI‘ WASHER CO.
Schoolcraft, J une 28th, 1881. julyl-tf

Patrons, Ta/to N olice.

We Manufacture

Horse-Powers for Cutting and Grinding Feed,
Gang ._Plows, Barley Forks,

And other Agricultural Implements, and we propose
to sell to the Grangers of Michigan any of our
goods, at lowest wholesale prices.

We want no intermediate agents between us and
the Grange. Will sell our FIVE-TIRED BARLEY
FORK for $9.00 per dozen, freight to be deducted.
We will send sample fork on order under seal of any
Grange, and fill such orders for any number prompt-
ly. Don’t delay sending orders, as the season for
their use will be here soon.

Information as to other agricultural implements
we manufacture, gladly furnished on application.

Address, II. & R. MILLER & ()0...
PALO, Ionia Co., Mich.

Fnxwrcx, Mich., April 18th, 1881.
To the Patrons. 0/ Michigan : '

Having been acquainted with the firm of H. it R.
Miller & Co., manufacturers of barley forks, at Palo,
Ionia county, Mich., for a number of years, I take
pleasure in recommending them as honorable manu-
facturers, and entitled to the confidence of all their
patrons. This responsible firm desires to deal directly
with the farmers of the Grange, and I commend them
‘to the favorable consideration of the Order.

Fraternally, R. W. HOY,
Sec’y Bushnell Grange, No. 437.

RONALD. Ionia Co., Mich., June 7, 1881.
To the Patrons of Husbandry :

I have been acquainted with the firm of H. J: R.
Miller & Co., manufacturers and dealers in agricul-
tural implements, at Palo, for a number of years, and
can confidently recommend them to the favorable
consideration of farmers as honorable and u right
men and dealers, and likely to do all they promise.

Gnonoa PRAY,
Master Woodard Lake Grange, No. 190.
A. G. Smrn, Secretary. [M3915-2]

\

Farmers and Patrons
of the “VISITOR,”

ARE you in need of a

WIND MIIL ?

If so, read the following:

THE UNDERSIGNED
WIND MILL 00..

MANUFACTURERS OF

WOLCOTT’S

PATENT
SELF- REG ULA TING

IEIi|llllA—WHEEl wnm mu,

ARE now prepared to furnish Mills on short notice.
We employ but few Agents: we prefer to deal di-
rectly with the farmers. Remember, the Wind Mill
we offer you is not a new and untried Mill, for it
has been built in Albion for the past nine years, and
has stood the test. We can furnish any number of
Testimonials, from ten or more diflerent States. VVe
have made many new and useful improvements from
year to ear, until we now have as good a Mill as
can be ound in the mark:-.t—we might, like others,
say the best, but we leave it to you to judge for your-
se f. All we ask is that you give our Mill a trial. It
costs you nothing to make the trial; if not satis-
factory, we take it away at our own expense.

Derricks, Pumps, Tanks and Piping furnished
with or without Mills.

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

UNION IVIND MILL if; MAN’F’G 00,
Albion, Idich.

 

GEORGE W: WIS-IILL,

Successor to GEO. W. HILL & CO.

Somission Merchant,

Dealer in Grain and Produce,

No. 80 Woodbridge Street West.
DETROIT, MICH.

What EVERY FAMILY need,
and Every Grange should have,
and I can furnish it.

An Accurate Beam Scale,

that will weigh from ONE-EIGHTH OUNCE TO
TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS. It is a GEM,

For the small sum of $2.55.
VEGETABLE, FLOWER and FIELD

SEEDS.

Field Peas, Timothy, Clover,
Hungarian, Millet.

SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES.

T. J. SKOEMAKEB, Secretary of Mt. Clement
Grange, is my travelling agent; give him your
orders when he calls.
apr.1s15.

MUNSON’S

HAY Ellllllflll AND CARRIER,

(Patented in March, 1880,)

We present to the farmers of Michigan this great
improvement over any device for elevating and mov-
ing hay from Wagons to mows in barns. This device
commends itself ,-—and we are willing to put up a
track on trial in the barn of any responsible farmer,
and remove the same if not entirely satisfactory.
PRICE, $5.00 for Carriers, and 25 cents per running
foot of double track. Address
RICE & CRANDALL,
Dowagiac, Mich.

Sourn BEND, Ind., April ‘ll, 1381.
We, the undersigned, are using the Munson Hay
Elevator and Carrier, and we find in it all that is
claimed for it. We think it the most perfect of any
we have ever seen. A boy of twelve or fourteen
years of age can handle any part of it with ease.
Respectfully Yours, Jacon W. VVAGNER.
PETER ZIMMEB.
J OHN C. ULLERY.
G. S. DUNNAHOO.
J ACOB WAGNER.
GODFREY BEETLE.

junelt3 En. Iavm.

THE BUSINESS COLLEGE
AT KALAMAZ00. MIGII.

IS THE BEST PLACE FOR

YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN

TO GET A THOROUGH
BUSINESS EDUCATION.

§’Scnd for College Record, giving full partic-

 

President .

ACME CREAMER
And Butter Gooler.

0
A N E VV T Ii I N G .
.T.0_E_.

Saves Three Times its Cost in One Season.

0 .
so ICE REQUIRED. somn BUTTER IN DOG-
mrs, AND canansar PRICES ron IT.
Sweet Milk only 12 hours old for your Calves.

The Butter Cooler keeps your Butter solid in the
warmest Weather.

f’ Send for Circular and Price‘List.
MCCALL & DUNCAN,

junelé-tf.

Scnooncnsrr. Mica.

PATRONS, TRY ME,
And Judge for Yourselves.

The EEEEEA mm

Stands without a rival in asserting grain and seeds.
Separates and grades grain and seeds of all kinds;
cleans perfectly: has six fans, is simple, runs easily,
and works rapidly. Agitator in hopper, with lever
and ratchet for regulating feed. The sieves are well
made of coppered and annealed wire cloth; other
parts of the most durable material. The Eureka is
the only mill in America that makes

Four complete Separations on two
Sieves at one operation.

It separates cockle, chess, mustard, redroot, dock,
or any other small seed from your wheat; making
one grade of seed wheat, taking the shrunk and
cracked wheat out and cleaning it for market at the
same time, besides putting the small foul seeds that
may be in the grain rfectly clean by itself, also the
cockle and chess by itself. The Eureka does all of
this in running the grain once through 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 through the mill when properly adjusted. This
mill was awarded the highest medal at Philadelphia
in 1876, also at the last two State fairs of Michigan.

Manufactured by
H EN RY CORTRITE,
For terms to Patrons address Lansing, Mich.
T. J. SHOEMAKER,
Sec’y 637, Mt. Clemens, -Mich.

A. L. LAKEY & BIGELOW.
llalamoian Paint and losing Willi,

Manufacturers of

MIXED PAINTS. ROOFING MATERIAL, &c.,

— Ann Dnxnaas m —

All Kinds of Painters’ Goods,

AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.

0
PLEASE CALL AND SEE OUR STOCK AT

52 and 54 NORTH BURZDICK STREET,

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

THE 5 - TON

WAGON SCALES.

ARE SOLD FOR $60.

All Iron and Steel. Sold on trial—freiglit paid by
us—-no money asked till tested and found satisfac-
tory. All sizes manufactured.

JONES OF BINGI-IAMPTON,
Binghampton. N. Y.
Send for Circulars and further particulars.

PAW PAW, Mich., May 18th, 1878.
J ones or Bmonsnron:

My Scales give entire satisfaction. I have subject-
ed it to the most severe tests and find it not only
correct in weighing large or small amounts, but
perfectly reliable. -

Yours, Fraternally,

J. J. WOODMAN.
3 in—lyr

[Signed]

Plymouth Rocks’

-AND-—

Partridge Cochins!

My Plymouth Rocks
are from Keefer’s noted
strain; my Partridge
Cochins are from
Pierce’s prize - win-
ning strain. Weaned
Chickens for sale
in early  uin me i‘.
‘ Eggs in season.
Send t'or Circular to

k B. Wilde, cnauerviie, Ilicli.

aprl5,6m

  

German Horse and (low Powders.

This powder has been in use for many years. It
is largely used by the farmers of Pennsylvania, and
the Patrons of that State have bought over l00,000
pounds through their purchasing agents. Its compo-
sition is no secret. The receipt is on every box and
5-pound package. It is made b Dr. L. Oberholtzer’s
Sons Jr. Co.,,Phoenixville, Pa. It keeps stock healthy
and in good condition. It helps to digest and assimi-
late the food. Horses will do more work, with less
food while using it. Cows will give more milk and
be in better condition. It keeps poultry healthy, and
increases the production of eggs. It is also of great
value to them when melting. It is sold at the lowest
wholesale price by R. E. JAMES, KALAMAZOO,
GEO. W. HILL & 00., 80 Woomsnmen ST.. Dn-
Taorr, and J. M. CHAMBERS, 163 So. Warns S'l‘.,
Cmcseo. Put up in 60-lb. boxes (loose), price EIGHT
CENTS per lb., 30—lb. boxes (of 6 5-lb. packages, TEN
CENTS per lb.

PAINT for PATRONS:

THE BEST AND OHBAPEST.
Immense Reduction in Prices from April 15, 1881.
FREIGHT FREE.

Uuarlannan’s Heady-Mixed Paints.

Used by Patrons all Over the Land.
Q.U'ARTERMAN’S GUIDE TO PAINTING

WITH SAMPLE COLORS SENT FREE TO ANY PATRON.
$’Send for our Prices before purchasing else-

where. Address
E. A. QUARTERNIAN,
159 South Street, New York City.

rnaylé-Gm
PRICE LIST OI‘

HORSE NETS.

Nets made of 16~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 Nets, reaching to the hames, by the dozen,
each 75 cents.

Nets mads of 20—thread twine, a small advance
on above prices.

I will send one dozen nets or more at above prices
to any Grange, and those not sold can be returned at

my expense.
JOSEPH SHAW.
Charlotte, Mich.
Orders under Seal of Grange promptly attended to.

IHUSBANDS —oF SICKI-Y— WIVES I

MOTHERS

or  DAUGHTERS I

SHOULD KNOW OF

DR. R. PENGELLY’S “ WOMAN’S FRIEND,” IMPROVED t
It is a. SOVEREIGN Rn.-MEDY for

Those Complaints (they need no naming) peculiar to VVOMEN, YOUNG or OLD, NOT A CURE-
ALL. Claiming to annihilate Jauii-lice. Diabetes, Bright's Disease, Gravel, and everything else which

afliicts MEN EVEN MORE THAN VVOMEN.

It works in ONE LINE and in that line it excels. The tender, Nervous Girl, the anxious, expectant
Mother, the overburdened Housewife, the Matron, passing the critical change, are all guarded, soothed and
sustained by its Gentle Influence. It is the prescription of an experienced Physician, perfected during a
life-long practice, and its nine ‘ears of public record, in 30 different States, have proved it rightly named --

A FRIEND INDEED T0 OMAN.

The good words of those who use it are its best advertisement.

An 8-ounce (81.00) bottle, or a '20vounce (82.00) bottle sent on receipt of price. express prepaid, also

references and testimonials, on application to

R.
KALAMAZOO. MICH.

PENGELLY 8.: C0..
(Foamz.-any or PLAINWELL.)

Sold by Druggists generally and Lady A\fl‘C!It8.. Swift &. Dodds, and Furrand, Williams
6'. 00., Detroit. Morrison, l~’lurnmer 85 £10., Cliicago.

EVERY FARMER IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD EXAMINE THE

New Combined Spring Tooth Sulky Harrow

C.ULTI VATOR

  

all kinds of grain andggrass seeds. 'l‘he
draft than any other Harrow in the market.
wherever shown in 1880.

AN 1) SFJEDEJR.

I\Ian nfnctur-ed by

THE SCHAU & SCHUSTER SULKY
HARRCW AND SEEDIR COMPANY.

Kailairinzon, — ,\nchqg;n_

As a combined machine. it stands un-
rivalled Ill excellence, doing the work Ol
:i Harrow and Seed Sewer most thorough-
ly and satisfactorily’. It has taken high-

‘ rank at once as ONE OF THE VERY

BEST ll\Il’LEl\lEi\'TS FOR THE USES
DESlGl\‘ED EVER INVENTED. Sows
llai-row does not trail, and is of lighter
It received first premium and diplomas

Eureka Automatic Wind Engine,

WARRANTED TO CONTROL ITSELF IN ANY g‘EWIND.

'PI-101$. PGZIIFAIO ell? 0'4 “MOVE ‘Isl’-E{AAOcT .IaSE'IcIV3HO

P

It is the Only Mill on record whose Working Parts are Entirely Closeaif. ,

Will warrant it Never to Freeze Up or to be Hindered in any way by Storm or Ice,

Pumps. -zr:-.e..1v3£s:s.. ¢ec.,

—- MANUFAC’I‘UP.ED BY ——

SJSEITE 82: VVOODARD.

apr. 1-81

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW!
THE CHAMPION BARBED WIRE

Is Easily Seen, Most Effective, and Least Dangerous to Stock of any Barbed Wire known.

 

CDIIIJEII ‘§E'€)T.TI=I.

Barbed Wire, Dry Goods, Groceries, Sewing Machines, Scales‘, . ,
Seeds, Hardware, Watches, clocks, Plated Ware, &c., &c.

In Fact, Everything You Want, of Your State Business Agency.

’3'R<0$AS

Commission Merchant, 181 South VVater Street. Chicago, Ill.

N. B.—All goods bought on your order at WHOLE-
SALE RATES on day of purchase. Terms strictly cash.

§'PATRONS STATE BUSINESS AGENT.

WASON,

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