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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

Carlton’s Tramp—Volinia Farmers’ Club . . . . . . . . . l

The Apple—A New Method of Preparing Wool for
Market — Save the Innocents — From Calhoun
County Grange—Cannon Grange, No. 39—Living-
ston County Harvest Festival—A Good Suggestion
—Thanks for Favors—Beecher on Monopolies,. . 2

Political Advice—The Increase in the Use and Man-
ufacture of Oleomargarine — Does Might Make
R1ght?—How Cattle are Killed for the New York
Market—The Gypsum Test for Milk—“_VVon the
Case, Anyhow”- Useful Hints-Michigan Female
Seminary, Kalamazoo—Railroad Time—Tables,. 3

July Wanderings, N 0., 4+Some Opinions Entertain-
ed by the VIS11‘0B—N6W Advertisements— Worthy
Master Woodman on the Regalia of the Order--Do
our Representatives do Their Duty ? . . . . . . . . . . . 4

The Mission of the Grange- Signs of the Ti.mes—The
Salt Industry—$l4,000 a Year—The Adulteration
of Sugar—Straws--Scarcity of Black Walnut —
Notices of meetings—Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . 5

Your Mission — Woman's Right of Suffrage —The
Farmer's Life, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3

Lost Opportunities—Excellent Glycerine Ointment
—Beau:iful Things-—’l‘he Reaper, Death—Adver-
tiseinents, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . r . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Offlcers National Grange.

MAsrEn-—J. J. WOODMAN,. . .Paw Paw, Michigan.
0VEBSEEB—PUT. DARDEN, . . . . . . . . . . .M.ississippi.
Lncruaas.—HENRY ESHBAUGH, .... ..Missou1'i.
S1‘EWABD—A. J. VAUGHN, .......... ..Mississippi.
Assr. SrxwAizI>—WlLLIAM SIMS, . . . . . . ..Kansas.
CHAPI.A.IN— S. H. ELLIS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0hio.
TnsAsUaEs.—F. M. McDOWELL,.... ..New York.
SEcnErAaY——WM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.
GATE-KEEPER--0. DINWIDDIE, . . . . . . . ..Indiana.
Canns——MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, . . . . . . ..Michigan.
PonoNA-—MRS. PUT. DARDEN, . . . . ..Mississippi.
Fr.onA—MRS. I. W. NICHOLSON... .New Jersey.
LADY Assr. SrswAan—MRS. WM. SIMS, Kansas.

Executive committee-

D. WYATT A_IKEN,.. . . . . . . . . . . . .South Carolina.
H. JAMES, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .India.na.
W. G. WAYNE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..New York.

Officers Michigan State Grange.

M.—C. G. LUCE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Gilead.
O.—A. N. WOODRUFF, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Watei-vliet.
L.—C. L. WHITNEY, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mnskegon.
S.-—S. A. TOOQR, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Lansing.
A. S.—A. E. GREEN,.. .. .. ..   .Farmington.
C.—SALMON STEEL, . . . . . . .Mauton, Wexiord Co.

T.—S. F. BROWN, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..8choolcraft.

Sac.-—J. T. COBB, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schoolcraft.

G. K.—ELIJAH BARTLETT, . . . . . . . . . . . . .D1-yden.

C1:nas.—-Mas. A. S. STANNARD, . . . . . . . . “Lowell.
POHORA.-—MB8. H. D. PLATT, . . . . . . . . . . .Ypsilauti.
Fx.onA.—Mns. A N. WOODRUFF,....Watervliet
L. A. S.——MJ:s. A. E. GREEN, . . . . . . . . .Farmiugton.

Executive committee-

THOMAS MARS, Chairman, , . . . . .Berrien Center.
J. WEBSTER CHD..DS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ypsilanti.

F. M. HOLLOWAY, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hillsdale.

J. Q. A. BUB.RINGTON,.-. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tuscola.

WM. SATTERLEE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Birmingham.

THOS9; F. MOORE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ad1-ian.
JOHN I-’0B.TEB......  ....  ...Grand Rapids.
0. G. LUCE, J. T. COBB, . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ex-oflicio.

General Deputy.
0. L. WHITNEY, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Mnskegon.

State Business Agent.

THOMAS MASON, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chicago, Ill.

Speolal Lecturers.

‘runs. 1''. Moore," .... ....... ..Adrian, Lenawee Co.
Geo. W, Woodward. .. ......... . .Shelby, Oooana Co.
I. L. 8tevens,......;........Perry, Shiawassee Co.
8. Steele, .............. . .Manton, Wexiord Co.
1.. B. Brown, .......... ....Bu_rsonvil1o, Wayne Co.
Andrew Campbell, ..... "Ypsilanti, Wuhtenaw Go.
 ......  Lenaweeco.

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PAW PAW.

A. C. GLIDDEN, - -

cnntsrows ‘-TRAMP.”

We worked through spring and winter, through
summer and through fall,

But that mortgage worked the hardest and the stead-
iest of us all;

It worked on nights and Sundays; it worked each
holiday ;

It settled down among us, and it never went away.

Whateverfi we kept from it seemed a’most as bad as
the ;

It watched us every minute, and it ruled us right and
left

The rust and blight were with us sometimes, and
sometimes not ;

The dark-browed scowling mortgage was forever on

, ,the spot.

The weevil and the cut-worm, they went as well as
came;

The mortgage staid forever, eating heartily all the
same.

It nailed up every window, stood guard at every
door. .

And happiness and sunshine made their home with
us no more :

Till with failing crops and sickness we got stalled
upon the grade,

And there came a dark day on us when the interest
wasn’t paid ;

And there came a sharp foreclosure, and I kind 0'
lost my hol

And grew weary and discouraged, and the farm was
cheaply sold.

The children left and scattered, when they hardly
yet were grown ;

My wife she pined an’ perished, an’ I found myself
alone:

What she died of was “a mystery,” and the doctors
never knew;

But I knew she died of mortgage——just as well as I
wanted to.

If to trace a hidden sorrow were within the doctors’

art,
They’d ha’ found a mortgage lying on that woman’s
broken heart.

‘K ‘X4 * f 95 ‘K i‘

I am helpless an’ forsaken, I am childless and alone ;
I hz:vn’t a single dollar that it’s fair to call my own ;
My old age knows no comfort. my heart is scant 0’
cheer ;
The children they run from me as soon as I come
near;
The women shrink and tremble—their aims are fear-
bestowed;
The dogs howl curses at me, and hunt me down the
read;
My home is where night finds me; my friends are
few and cold : ‘
Oh, little is there in this world for one who’s poor
_ and old !
But I’m wealthy in experience, all put up in good
advice, . *
To take or not to take it, with no difference in the
rice;
You ni)ay have it, an‘ thrive on it, or run round it. as
you please,
But I generally give it wrapped up in some such
words as these :
Worm or beetle, drought or tempest, on a farmer’s
land may fall,
But for first-class ruination, trust a mortgage ’gainst
them all.
—Farmer’s Friend.

Volinia Farmers’ Club.

A REPORT or THE WHEAT MEETING,
AUGUST 24, 1881.

The Volinia Farmers’ Club was organized
in the fall of 1865, and has held monthly
meetings almost continuously since. A
committee for that purpose arranges a pro-
gram at thebeglnuing of each year, which
is published, so that the members know
what is to be the topic for each month before
the time arrives for the meeting. The Aug-
ust meeting in each year is devoted to
wheat. The leading agriculturists within a
radius of several miles meet on that day to
discuss the important questions continually
arising as to the better plans of procedure in
relation to preparing the soil, seed, sowing,
harvesting, and market reports.

This last meeting was well attended, a
new feature being an opening address in
the forenoon, followed by a picnic dinner
and a couple of hours of social intercourse.
The meetings are held in a. town hall, a very

commodious structure arranged for the ac-
commodation of the township library and

the various meetings of the township.

Volinia is one of the northern townships
of Cass County. It includes the greater
part of Little Prairie Ronde and the con-
tiguous territory, is of strong openings land,
making it one of the best farming townships
in the State. , Its citizens are among our
foremost agriculturists, and they are alive to
all the interests of their calling.

The opening address was delivered by the
Hon. A. B. Copley of Decatur, formerly a
resident of the township, and among the
leading spirits in the organization of the
club, and the building of the town hall.
His address was not written, except the sta-
tistics accompaning it, else we should be
pleased to lay it entire before the readers of
the VISITOR. A briefsynopsis cannot give
our readers avery clear conception of its
value. He alluded to the new plans, new

implements, and new seeds and crops con-
fronting the farmer, challenging his judg-
ment. as to their adaptability to his wants.
The implements of fifty years ago are un-
known : the plow still turns up_the soil, but
how different the pattern !

Farming is the most important occupation
of the world—not of the State merely, but of
the world. It is the basis of nearly all other
occupations. We find the world, and our
products must be carried to their destina-
tion. The transportation gives rise to man-
ufactures and commerce. Banking and the
market reports all have their base in agri-
culture. Eighty-two and one-half per cent.
of our exports come from the farm, leaving
but 17l- per cent. as the result of labor in
other directions. All nations use wheat as
the basis of bread. It is one of the leading
products of the world, and the question we
are met to consider is a very important one,
especially at this time of the year : VVheth-
er we shall continue to make wheat raising
a special ty,or will the great North-west raise
it so much cheaper and of better quality as
to make it unprofitable for us? The wheat
interest has been growing in value fast, es-
pecially in the last years. In 1879 We ex-
ported 142,000,000 bushels; in 1880, 180,000,-
000; and in 1881, 190,000,000. Never before
has so much been exported as in the last
three years. In view of the immense crops
in Minnesota and Dakota, shall we abandon
its growth as a specialty in Jlichigan? To
show the gradual growth of this product un-
til the summit of 1879 was reached, let me
present a. few figures. In 1876 we produced
in this State 16,000,000 bushels ; in 1877,
23,000,000; in 1878, 29,000,000; 1879, 30,983,-
000. In 1880 a slight falling off is apparent.
and the production was 30,526,000. An av-
erage of 19:. bushels was reached in 1879, and
but for the ravages of the insect it would
doubtless have reached 25 bushels per acre
on an average through the State. In 1881
the estimate for the year is only 16,200,000,
an average of nine bushels per acre. How
much have we lost this year, and how much
did we make last year ? Making an estimate
of the amount necessary for seed and for con-
sumption, last year we sold 21,000,000 bush-
els, and this year we shall have but 6,932,000
bushels. The crop for this year certainly
gives no profit.

Anlextract from Gov. Jerome’s message
shows that the value of the agricultural pro-
ducts of the State are $88,500,000, other pro-
ducts, $81,000,000, Forest production reach-
es $60,000,000, and iron $10,000,000. Wheat
should not be considered the leading
production of our farms to the exclusion
of the others. It should not be made
the leading or special industry. We
want more hoed or cultivated crops.
What is so uncertain? — insects. rust,
drouth, and storms, prey upon it. It needs
special and expensive tools to prepare the
soil and secure the crop. More teams are
necessary, and the use and cost of these are
not sufliciently considered in the estimate
of the value of the crop. It is the little econ-
omies that add to the value of our accumu-
lations. The small margins in the profits
of the manufacturer pay the dividends on
the investment. There are large leaks in the
production of wheat. The straw is left to go
to waste. The offal of the manufactured
flour goes out of the farmer’s pocket. I_n

mixed crops less team Work is necessary and

they can be used more continuously. Wheat
represents all the annoyances of farm -life.
He was not a worshipper of wheat. W'e
take a load to market and look only at the
money received. That in reality represents
the labor of the year, the profit is only what
it brings above the cost of production. He
gave the average of his receipts per acre of
corn and hogs and that of wheat. For
eight years the average value per acre for
the corn and hogs sold was $16.80. For nine
years from 640 acres of wheat the average
value per acre was $22.63. Corn was fed to
teams and cattle in the time and does not
come into the account. He considered he
had more profit from an acre of corn than‘
from an acre of wheat. There is least re-
moved from the soil in the production of
corn. He was not aware that he was talk-
ing to farmers that were rusty ; they have
many opportunities for improvement, and
are well versed in all the pursuits of agricul-
ture.

A Agriculture, manufactures, and commerce
are all part and parcel of a grand, growing
people. He believed that we were increas-

ing in all that goes to make us better, and
in all that makes life worth the living.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

The afternoon meeting was called to or-
der at 2 o’clock by the president, N. B_.
Goodenough. Market reports was the first
order of busines, and was responded to by
S. T. Reed of Cassopolis, who reported new
wheat at $1.10 to $1.30, and old wheat $1.40.
Corn 50 to 60 cents. Oats 35 to -10 cents. A.
B. Copley of Decatur, reported wheat $1.20
to $1.26. A. Huyck of Marcellus, wheat
$1.25.

After music by the Volinia band the dis-
cussion was opened by L. B. Lawrence.
who was understood to be a wheat farmer,
and one who excluded stock entirely. He
had changed somewhat from former prac-
tices. He was among those who failed to
make stock in connection with wheat grow-
ing profitable. He considered the failure of
a clover crop a worse calamity than the loss
of a wheat crop. He clips off the clover
with a mower and allows it to lie asa mulch
to the soil, and the new growth springs up
through it, and he turns it all under for
wheat. There are fields on his farm that
never had a load of manure applied to them:
they are kept up by clover. He could clean
land better by a clover crop than by a sum-
mer-fallow. The amount of wheat that is
nowrgrown on fifty acres should be grown
on forty, and it can be done by keeping
stock oifthe land and mulching the soil with
clover. He was once in favor of deep plow-
ing——was a disciple of Mr. Greeley—tl1ought
there was another farm below better than
the surface. But how he plows only six
inches deep. The more thorough you can
plow, the better. He looks on the harrow
as the best instrument we have on the farm.
That packs while it pulverizes the soil.
The first decrease he noticed in the produc-
tion of wheat was about the time he began
loosening up the soil with cultivator. He
thinks the Clawson variety has yielded the
best for a term of years. He advocated
clean, sound, and strong seed. Thinks we
get a better quality of seed of all kinds from
strong land. The seed has more vitality.
There is no excuse for not having pure seed,
free from chips and cookie. It can be made
perfectly clean by throwing it across a barn
floor or a room. The chips and cookie will
not go as far as wheat, and the pure wheat
can be gathered by itself. It is no longer a
question how harvesting shall be done: the
binder is the implement. He uses a twine
binder. When we can get a fair profit on
the cost of production it is best to sell; when
it falls below that it is safe to hold.

A. Huyck agrees with Mr. Lawrence that
clover is essential to the production of wheat,
and that the treading of stock is injurious,
especially so to clayey soils. He will sow
deihl wheat this fall, especially on strong
soil; on lighter land he will sow Clawson
and Fultz. He will not sow until the 20th
as he predicted a warm, growing fall, and he
feared too strong a growth. When pressed
for his theory upon which his prediction
was based, he stated that it came from a
Mohawk Dutchman, and was this: that
when the new moon occurred in the latter
part of the month the growing season would
continue late in the fall, and vice versa.
Last year the new moon was on the 5th of
the month, and the year before on the 15th.

S. '1‘. Reed thinks that we are inclined to
put on too much stock. thinks a reasonable
supply is profitable. He would not raise
any one crop to the exclusion of others.
What would be a success on one kind of
soil would be a failure on others. Good,
strong land is very essential Do the getting
of a good, rousing crop. He thinks that the
Scotch Fife wheat that is raised on the Dal-
rymple farm in Dakota would naturalize on
our soil and become a first class win.er
wheat. He had tested it on a small scale with
remarkable results. The heads from which
this wheat was taken, raised on the Dalrym-
ple farm, only produced on an average of 26
kernels. He had raised heads this year from
the seeds sown last fall, that produced 60
grains, very plump and fine.

No person can lay any plans or base any
calculation on the reports issued by boards of
trade. They are a delusion and intended for
a snare. He thinks clubs of ten or more
farmers should build warehouses at conven-
ient points on railroads, and store their
wheat and hold it themselves until sold. It
should be kept out of the speculator’s hands
and save this eternal bickering.

B. G. Buell had taken a new departure in
farming and would report at a future meet-
ing. 9

C. C. Moreton : One of the essentials to -a
good crop is to have seed ofgood quality and
to have the proper preparation of soil. Some
insist on the old-fashioned way of summer-
fallowing, and others that once plowing after
harvest is best. He does not make wheat
raising his chief dependence, but keeps
sheep enough to eat what would otherwise
go to waste, and to keep the soil in proper
condition. He sows with a roller drill,
thinksit compactsthesoil better than any
other. He knows of no way of providing
fora hard winter except to sow sheltered
fields. Would sow 13 bushels to the acre,
thinks that is as good as 1; bushels sown
broadcast. He prefers Clawson wheat.

M. J. Gard : A fertile soil is the essential
point in wheat production, and so manipu-
lated as to keep up the fertility. He does
not agree with Mr. Lawrence as tothe man-
ner of keeping up the fertility of the soil.
If we do not put back as much as we take
away, we fail. Alternate years with clover
and wheat would produce a good crop for a
long time in some soils, but it is only a
question of time when it must fail. The
only redeeming quality is the long tap root
of the clover that brings up from the lower
strata fertility that compensates in some
measure the loss from continuous cropping.

The refuse from wheat and corn must be
worked over into manure and hauled on the
land. The objection raised that we cannot
cover the farm with manure, has no force
except when but one cow and a pig are kept
to make the manure. He can cover his
farm once in two years and continue to
raise large crops of clover and grain. He
would like to have a clover sod and put the
manure on and plow with a jointer, and
work with a spring-tooth harrow. Make
the soil fine but firm. It is not only neces-
sary to make it mellow but firm; the plants
starve in loose soil.

When, how, and what shall I sow, is the
question all farmers arejust now interested
in. All differ as evils differ. Clawson and
Fultz have been tested side by side in this
vicinity and the Clawson has come out best.
If he was to sow one hundred acres he
would sow all to Clawson. From his
knowledge and experience, drilled wheat
has the advantage; when any trying time
arrives in its growth more plants will re-
main in the soil. They stand the weather
better. He would sow but 13 bushels to the
acre when properly put in. If he could
plant Wheat as he would like to, he would
not have it covered more than three-quar-
ters of an inch in depth. The base of the
root is always at about that depth, and a
lower depth requires a new set of roots and
in his opinion weakens the plant. There is
no difference of opinion as to the manner of
harvesting, the self-binder is the machine.
Clawson wheat will not bear to be out early;
it must be allowed to get dead ripe. -

A. B. Copley is opposed to broadcast sow-
ing,as the wheat is unevenly distributed over
the ground. He would drill and then run
across the drill marks with a spring-tooth
harrow to distribute the seed over the sur-
face. He believes farmers should be inform-
ed as to the amounts of wheat raised in all
the Wheat growing districts. We can learn
much from statistics. Our State has adopt-
ed asystem of crop reports which will be
authentic and exact, so that we may know
just how much of stock and grain is produc-
ed. The statement of Mr. Reed in relation
to sowing spring wheat is a very important
thing. If we can thus produce a hard
wheat like the Fife it would be a great ac-
quisition. ~

Mr. Reed wished to be understood
that boards of trade and manufacturers
of grain make reports to suit their needs
He has thrown away a tooth, a roller and a
shoe drill, and now uses a broadcast seeder,
has used it five years with satisfaction, His
is a strong clay soil. He goes across his
seeding with a spring-tooth harrow. He
sows gipsy and Fultz wheat.

Mr. Gard believes that Clawson wheat is

every year becoming of better quality,
makes better bread and is a harder berry.

Honsns wrrn HEAVES.—S. Hammond, of .

Ontario, Canada, says: Feed a horse that
has heaves cornstalks, hay and sheaf oats
in equal rts, all out line and slightly dam-
pened w th water; and you can scarcely see
that he has them, and will work as well as
apaég other horse; all coughing will be stop-


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Gjnmmmtiratimn.

THE APPLE.

BY '0. B. WEBSTER.

A tribute to this fruit I bring,

And tune my lyre its praise to sing.
0’er all the earth, in cold or heat,
There's nothing with it can compete;
For every day throughout the year
It greets the eye, and gives us cheer.
From east to west, the world around,
' In every mart this fruit is found,
And all the nations of the earth,
Appreciate its priceless worth.

All undisputed and alone

It sits a monarch on the throne,
And all the other fruits give way
And yield to its triumphal sway.

To man it comes with blessings rife,
And peerless as the “stafi‘ of life.”

The peach may boast its luscious taste ;

The pear may sound her clarion notes;
- The plum may chant her worth in haste,

And grapes in purple, ruby coats,

And cherries sweet, and sour too, .
And berries brought with studious care,

Their virtues loud may sing to you,-
But where are they ? 0, tell me ! where F

The orange. from the tropics, call,
And all the foreign fruits by sea;

Go search the world—this fruitful ball,-
And bring its choicest stores to me:

My apple will the chieftain stand,

A very kmq o'er all the band.

Then let us sing the apple's praise,
And loud the song of triumph raise.
Fall keepers from the cellar, we

May place beside those from the tree.
The Russet, picked by careful man,
Extends its hand to Astrachan ;

Or noted Baldwin, kept by you,

Says to the Primat, "How d’ye do.”
The Early Harvest, sour and sweet,
Old Cooper's Market come to greet;
While Bawles’ Janet, though worthless here,
In lower climss will keep a year.

In “Old Kentuck,” Missouri, too,

Ben Davis heads the list fa you.
While down in “Arkansas, 'tis said,
They swear by that tlientucky Red.
Old Empire in her hand will bring
That famous Thompkins County King,
Or say to us, “ ’twill keep you nippin’ "
To beat our noted New Town Pippin ;
And then for cooking, or an eater,
Bhode Island brings in her “world beater ;”
This apple you will surely find

Is known to all the woman kind,
While Ortly, from New J ersey’s limbs,
Has twenty-seven synonyms.

The " Blue Hen " also makes us hush,
And holds aloft her “Maiden’s Blush,”
Whose name is most appropriate,

And worth-——we cannot overrate-
Which in its season “leads the van :”
Go try and beat it, if you can.

Our apple is a staple now,
Like meat and grain, for foreign trade,
And should you ask, I'll tell you how
Its value thus to us was made.

And how, you ask, has this been done,-
Suoh benefits to all who live-

Such glorious results—how won?
The answer, here, today we give :

Paoonassron is the word which tells,——
The secret of the good we know:

For earnest thought and action swells
The list of blessings here below.

‘Pronounce Arkansaw.
flientucky Bed is a local name for Ben Davis.

Benton Harbor, Mich.

A New Method of Preparing Wool for market.

BY C. E. MILLER.

I do not come before you to repeat the old
story, that the wool grower must keep his
sheep from the straw-stacks, wash his sheep
until life is almost extinct, take them home,
shear them in six or ten days, taking them
to aclean barn floor, and rolling up the
fleece in a very careful manner, tying just
so many light ‘strings around it as will hold
it together. This is the song of the specula-
tor, and the refrain has been caught up by
many of the agricultural writers. The wool
grower has had this dinned in his ears until
he easily believes that there is no other way.

The writer. in proposing a new manner of
preparing wool for market, expects and
courts criticism, or, in other words, Propose
a wiser plan if you can. When Fulton was
endeavoring to perfect machinery for the
purpose of propelling ships by steam, he
was ridiculed and called a simpleton.
When Stephenson was explaining the utili-
ty and power of his railroad engine a very
wise man propounded thequestion, “What
if a bull should place himself on the track
prepared for war?” Fulton’s ideas were
ahead of the times; Stephenson was
far in advance of the man who propounded
to him the wonderful question. So itis, so it
ever has been for men to stand back, find
fault and ridicule the advanced ideas of
pioneer inventors.

Let us return to our subject. Is the present
manner of preparing and marketing wool
satisfactory ? Manufacturers tell us that
well washed wool scours away forty-five to
fifty per cent. They also claim that they
find much foreign matter, such as stones,
wagon hammers, pieces of iron, sand, sheep
skins, and filth. top numerous to mention.
The manufacturers have manifested much
displeasure at this manner of preparing
wool for market. Undoubtedly they have
good reason to be disappointed. The wool
grower_,'after using his best efforts to honest-

ly prepare his wool for market, is disappoint-
ed at the result of his sales. We find the
wool grower and manufacturer are both dis-
pleased with the present manner of prepar-
ing wool for market. Then why have it so?

Ah, but here is a third party who puts in
an appearance, an important one who con-
sults no interest but his own. These are the
speculators. They like chances, take them
and make money by so doing. The wool
grower don’t know, when he sells a pound
of wool, how much dirt, grease, or foreign
matter he is selling. It is the same with
the manufacturer when he purchases wool-
How would it be with other productions of
the farm, if farmers sold wheat that would
shrink forty-five to fifty per cent. before it
could be manufactured into flour, and the
same with other grain, and this comparison
could be applied to all the products of the
farm ? Suppose we should say we could not
make our wheat clean. It won’t pay to get
good seed, so let dirt, chaff‘, straw, and wheat
all be sold together. It will be docked one-
third. “ It is not fair, but then I can’t
help it.” Some would have their grain
cleaned better than others, but this would
make no difference, it would all be sold for
one price or docked one third. I think this
would lead to disputes, quarrels. dissatisfac-
tion, and farmers would become disgusted
and go out of the business of wheat growing.
Ask a man who farmed in this way how
many bushels he raised to the acre, his an-
swer would be about like this: “I don’t
know, but I sold it for twenty dollars per
acre. How much wheat there was, I can’t
tell; I don’t know: but the Clawson wheat
yielded more than the Fultz, think the Bates
was some better than the Lancaster.”

New in all fairness this is about the situa-
tion ofthe wool grower. He don’t know
how many pounds of wool he is growing, he
washes wool on the sheep’s back, but that
don’t scour or prepare wool for the cards or
combs. He knows his wool brings him so
much per head and thinks it costs him some-
thing to keep sheep.

After carefully examining the obstacles
that are in the way,we ask, VVhere rests the
blame? Not on the manufacturer, if he does
the work of the grower he must have his pay.
Not on the speculator, for he has no soul and
intends to make all the money he can. The
grower must bear the censure, because he
did only a part of his work. Let him see
that his_wool is scoured before it leaves his
possession. He may not be able to do this
personally, but he can employ some person
who can do it, some one who will prepare
buildings and use means to scour wool,
making it ready for the manufacturer. If
wool is prepared in this manner, when it is
puton the market the grower knows just
how many pounds of wool he has. The
manufacturer knows what he is buying;
he can tell how many ounces of
wool it will take to make a yard of cloth,
and he knows what that cloth is selling
for. But the poor speculator, where ah,
where is be? His occupation is gone, he
can no longer buy upa lot of odds and ends
of a whole year’s sales and throw it on the
market at a low figure, then issue his circu-
larsto the local buyers just at the time the
grower is ready for market. Every wool
grower should know enough to be his own
sorter. It is no more intricate than many
other things the farmer has to do. At shear-
ing time the fleece can be divided as fol-
lows: Take that from the legs, thighs, and
top of head and put in sack No. 3; from un-
der side and neck, in sack No. 2; from
shoulders and back in sack No. 1. If the
fleece was an uneven staple, coarse and fine,
long and short, it would require more sacks,
each one being marked so that the kind and
quality can be shown.

The writer is of the opinion that several
farmers in every vicinity could combine to-
gether and make some cheap structure, that
would afford all the necessary appliances
for scouring and drying wool, doing the
work themselves or employing some expert
to do it for them.

Not all the advantages that accrue from
scouring wool is the marketing thereof. It
costs as much to pay transportation on a
pound of dirt and oil as on a pound of wool,
and then the oil is worth something for fer-
tilizing purposes.

The following is from an essay read by
John L. Hays, Secretary of the National
Association of Wool Manufacturers:—

“Besides the consideration of loss to the
wool grower and ultimate loss to the man-
ufacturers, the present system of washing
involves a total waste of the immensely val-
uable material contained in the natural yolk
of fleeces. This waste is against all the laws
of economy. I believe that science and the
inventive genius of the manufacturer will
point out to him a means of saving all this
waste, when unwashed wool will prove the
most economical for the manufacturer to use.
Some way will be contrived to convey the
wash waters,with their highly fertilizing ele-
ment from raw fleeces,upon the land, or they
will he used in the manufacture of the most
valuable chemical, potash, as in France,
whose fleeces, it is said, could supply all the
potash used in that country, or they can be
converted into a most valuable oil.”

The experiments of a lady chemist. Mrs.
Richards, in the laboratory of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, prove that
raw wool may be most economically and

gasoline of about 86°—almost a waste product
in this country-the process leaving the fiber
in the best possible condition for taking dye,
while the waste products are readily recov-
ered. This recovered waste consists princi-
pally of oil, which is now saved to a con-
siderable extent in Europe, which is im-
ported largely into this country to be used
in currying leather. The oil also, after be-
ing refined and mixed with a small portion
of mineral oil, makes a viscous emulsion ab-
solutely free from a tendency to spontane-
ous combustion, and meeting all the con-
ditions required for preparing the wool
for carding.

It is said that the wool now used in this
country will yield 45,000,000 pounds of
grease, which it is believed could all besaved
by the process above mentioned. I may ob-
serve that the process is being practically ap-
plied on a large scale in one of the most im-
portant mills in New England. VVe hope,
therefore, that the interest of the wool grow-
er and the wool manufacturer may soon be
identified in the matter of washing wool.

Who pays for scouring wool ? The grow-
er. Who pays the dealer a penny per pound
for buying, sacking, and shipping ‘I The
grower. Who pays the speculator interest
and profit on his money ? The grower.
Then if the grower foots all the bills to pre-

not employ his own help to do the work ? I
can hire the help to do my farm work as
well as to hire some one to hire it for me.
If we do only a part of our business, and
then others do the other part, then let
us stop our growling, let them have the
lion’s share and own that we don’t know
enough to tend to our own business, and cry
out: We cannot scour our own wool: this
never can be done.

If the wool is scoured by the grower there
is one more important question that will be
solved and that is this, the grower can tell
what kind of sheep grows the most wool.
There is no question as regards Merino wool
that it must have oil or it becomes worth-
less. Oil is tue fertilizer whereby it grows.
Were it not for the oil it would become felt-
ed or cotted on the sheep, making it worth-
less for manufacturing purposes. Oil makes
heavy wool. To just what extent it should
be incorporated with the growing of wool, is
an open question, and one of much import-
ance to all interested in wool.

One more point. There has grown up be-
tween the local buyer and the grower a wide
difference. It has created much had blood.
The local buyer is but doing for the speculator

what he must do or suffer loss himself. I
know that the local buyer in this town
would be pleased to pay the highest price
possible, and not dock a pound, and I do
know that our local buyers do many times
stand between us and the speculator; if not,
we would suffer more injustice than we do.

Save the Innocents.

From the Allegan Journal.

I believe you will do the public a service
by publishing the following letter from Mrs.
L. Harrison, a lady bee-keeper of Peoria, Ill.
I hope no reader of your paper, and no par-
ent especially, will fail to 1-. ad this letter. I
believe it to be in every respect truthful and
reliable; and this infernal stuff (glucose) is
sold everywhere. It is in all candies and
syrups and a great deal of our sugars.

J. Tonnnvson.

"Friend Root.--—I extend unto you my
right ‘Ea in token of approval of your pres-
ent position on that vexed glucose question.
Your former one was always a sore trial to
me, forI was fearful that the money that
was in it so warped your better judgment
that you could not see it in its true light.
When you invoked the blessing of Heaven
upon the Buffalo Sugar Company, it was a
dose too great for me to swallow; and the
longer I chewed the bigger it got.

“ Hamlin, who is the principal member of
the Buffalo company, has large works here
(Peoria, Ill.), and has recently purchased an
extensive tract of land in the vicinity of
Des Moines, Iowa, to erect glucose works
there. He has acres upon acres of lime kilns
to manufacture that compound for his man-
ufactories. He knows no God and no Sab-
bath. His employee are no freemen, but
slaves, compelled to work every day in the
year, with the eye of a watchman upon
them lest they cease from their toil, and
watchmen over watchmen, with small
wages; and when he walks through his
vast works, an armed guard protects him.
The smoke from those vast chimneys never
ceases, nor does the deadly waste that pours
into our magnificent._river, to be the certain
death of the finny tribe. The fumes that
are wafted over our city from the boiling
vats of corn starch, containing deadly chem-
icals, can be compared to nothing else than
to pens where a million pigs are kept and
fed on distillery slops. We who braved the
privations of frontier life to obtain a home
have no redress, for there are‘ millions in it.
Carload upon carload of lime, nitric and
sulphuric acid are daily used in the manu-
facture of glucose. There have been syrups
sold in this city that have eaten a hole in a
table-cloth! This company have bought
chemists as well as nitric and sulphuric acid.

“But the people are awakening. They
are inquiring why they feel so strangely
after eating sugar and syrup; and what
makes the little one’s lips so black, as if it
had been licking the ink-bottle after its
meal of bread and syrup—-clear as honey.

“Brother Root. you are a busy man, I
know; but take time, and if you can't et
time on aweek-day, do it on Sunday: is
up your handkerchief full of your best
Buffalo sugar; sit down by a pail of water
and wash it; and when you are through tell
us what you have left, and whether the
water is sweet or not, and what kind of
stuff is left in your handkerchief. Be can-
did and tell us all about it, if it does hurt
worse than any bee- sting you ever had, and
whether you would like to give it to Blue
Eyes or the baby to eat.

“MRS. L. HARRISON.

perfectly washed by the use of naphtha, or

“Peoria, Ill., July, 1881.”

  

pare the wool for the cards or combs, why,

Gpnrmpundenrnp

From Calhoun county Grange.

Bro. Cobb .-—As you wished for the pro-
ceedings of the County Grange of Calhoun,
with pleasure I send them to you. We held
our last meeting in May, at the city of Mar-
shall. and after hearing the heat and burden
of the three busiest months in the year,
notwithstanding the day was hot and dusty,
these Grangers again assembled at Penfield
Grange hall to again look into each other’s
faces and take each other by the hand. The
hall (which, by the way, is a nice new one)
was full, and at half-past 10 the Master’s
gavel called them to order, and all the offi-
cers but one were in their proper places
ready for duty. The choir of Pennfield
Grange sang a greeting song that bade us a
hearty welcome to their home. They have
just purchased a fine new organ, that lent
much additional pleasure to the enterain-
ment.

The questions for discussion were present-
ed as soon as the regular routine of opening
had been concluded. The first was this:

"What changes are necessary in legisla-
tion and business methods, to enable labor
ers and producers to retain in their own
hands an equitable proportion of the results
of their own labor?" Perry Mayo, of Bathe
Creek Grange, led the discussion at quite a
length. He showed plainly that the break-

lation were the first steps necessary in this
direction, and that if farmers and laborers
so willed, the meansin a measure lay in
their own hands to remedy the burdens of
unjust taxation, corporations and oppression
that now so burden our shoulders. Several
other brothers followed, and the question
was earnestly and ably discussed, all seem-
ing to feel that as a class we had felt the
oppression of the present state of affairs
about long enough.

The next question——“What were the un-
derlying causes of that civil commotion
in Russia that resulted in the assassination
of the Czar?” was led by Mrs. H. B. Shep-
hard, of Battle Creek Grange, and was fol-
lowed by several others, including Worthy
Master White, all agreeing that oppression
and the demands for_a constitution were the
causes. The history of Russia, past and
present, was discussed, and though some-
times the main question was left, on the
whole it was very interesting and entertain-
ing. By a majority vote the question was
laid over until our next meeting.

Sister Cameron, of Newton Grange, then
made a report upon the following question:
“ Is the History of the United States taught
in our common schools as much as it should
be ? ” She thought it was, and though the
report was short, it was quite to the point.

Sister Albert Dickinson then read a very
interesting essay on the following subject,
“Who invented the art of printing and
the printing press, and what are some
of the benefits it has conferred upon the
world ?” It was a very able paper and had
cost the sister much time and labor. It was
listened to with the greatest attention, and
the thanks of the Grange could be read on
every face.

“Do purchasers discriminate enough in
price between prime and an inferior article
of butter?” was next brought before the
Grange. Sister Wickham of Union Grange,
of Emmett township, led the argument.
She thought the question not quite right,
but that it should have been, ‘Do purchas-
ers dlscrimate at allin price ? ’ She thought
they did not and did not see how they
could. She was followed by Sister Risbrid-
get of Bedford Grange, who read a paper up-
on the subject. She said: By the quoted
reports of grocers in Chicago, Detroit. and
other large cities, we can plainly see that
there was a great discrimination made, from
ten to fifteen cents on some grades. She
thought that butter here in our own mar-
kets, ought to sell upon its own merits, the
same as any other article of produce, and
that the time was not far distant when it
would.

The afternoon had by this time nearly
drawn to a close, and the time for adjourn-
ment came too soon, yet as some had 14 to
18 miles to drive we had to close, and many
questions that were on the program had to
be laid over until our next meeting, which
will occur in November, at Homer Grange,
if arrangements can be made to that effect.
The ladies of Pennfield entertained us
royally, and all felt that the day was one
with a white mark, full of profit and pleas-
ure. Our Grange never was in a more pros-
perous condition.’ We have a live Master
and 89 members, who are always ready and
prompt for work of any kind.

Fraternally yours,
MRS. PERRY Marc, Sec’y.

Marshall, Aug. 19, 1881.

 

cannon Grange, No. 39.

Bro. Cobb.-—-It is not often you hear from
our Grange, I fear, but we are in a thriving
condition, and I am most happy to say
that we are to have a library for the
long winterevenings that will soon be with
us. The ladies are giving socials every four
weeks for the benefit of said library, and for
entertainment we have a paper read, music,

etc. We had one three weeks ago that net-

ing up of monopolies, rings, and class legis-'

SEPTEMBER 1, 1881.

ted us $10.50, and we are to have another
this week Saturday night.

VVe hold our meetings every week now
as there is more interest manifested thereby.
On account of the death of our Worthy
Chaplain we elected Sister Ella Hoag to fill-
the vacancy. Yours fraternally,

E. L. HART\V'ELL, Sec'y.

Cannonsburg, Aug. 13, 1881.

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Livingston County Harvest Festival.

Bro. J. T. Cobb .-—The Harvest Festival‘
of the Livingston County Council of Pa-
trons of Husbandry was held according to-
announcement, August 2,on the fair grounds
in Howell.

The affair seems to have been a success,
so every one in town and the local papers
declare. The numbers were enough; to
make the meeting interesting, and not so-
large as to crowd or jam anywhere. There
was enough to eat and to spare of the best
the country affords. Matrons invariably
provide when they undertake to. After
dinner Worthy Master C. G. Luce asked the
assembly to be still while he talked to them,
and they were still, kept silent and quiet,
not so much from a sense of propriety,
while the speaker was addressing them, as
by the eloquent words uttered, expressing
truths relating to the condition, wants and
necessities of the farmer, together with
practical suggestions which should govern
his business operations.

I would not omit the fact that the Pluck-
ney cornet band dlscoursed enlivening mu-
sic during the day, or that a choir improvis-
ed for the occasion from different Granges
present, sang several Grange songs reported
by one of the village papers as very good.

W. M. Luce was followed by Bro. Wm.
Ball in a short speech of sound, practical
suggestions for the guidance of whoever
would succeed as a farmer, after which Rev.
James Lewis was introduced, and spoke of
the duty and necessity of all people to mag-
nify and uphold their own calling, if it be a
proper one, else it cannot but be despised by
others, and he also pointed out some glaring
political evils of the country in a very effec-
tive and pleasing manner. Every Granger
had good reason to feel well satisfied with
the day's doings.

I quote the closing sentence of the report
in the Livingston Republican of August 4,
as showing the influence of the meeting on
‘the community: “Altogether it is clear
that if such doctrines as were inculcated at
the fair ground are a sample of the teach-
ings of the Grange, our country cannot have
too many of these associations.”

~ Yours fraternally,
James HARGER.
Howell, August 15, 1881.

 

A Good Suggestion.

Bro. J. T. Cobb .--—-I would like to suggest
through the GRANGE VISITOR that the sis-
ters who attend the October meeting of the
Ionia County Grange bring with them what
flower seeds, house-plants, slips, cuttings,
bulbs, or roots of any kinds which are to be
taken up in the fall, and there exchange
different varieties with each other, or give
to those who have none but would like
some. The exchange can be effected at the
sisters’ special meeting.

LOUISE A. WALDRON.
Palo, Mich., August 18, 1881.

 

Thanks for Favors.

Bro. Oobb .-—A vote of thanks was tender-
ed to Morenci Grange by Silver Creek
Grange, N o. 644, for favors received, and the
same ordered published in the GRANGE
Vrsrron. 4 Ezaa HARGER,
Sec’y Silver Creek Grange.

Colfax, Mich., Aug. 15, 1881.

Beecher on Monopolies.

Beecher in preaching on monopolies said :.
The power is tending from the individual to
the corporation. I can remember when
there were 10,000 looms in private houses in
New England; how there are none, and all.
textile fabrics are made in factories. The-
individual becomes powerless before the
gigantic monopolies created by force of
wealth. Suppose a man wishes to invest»
$100,000 in oil refining, the Standard Oil
Company says to him, “Sell out to us, or
divide your profits with us. If you don’t,
we will crush you.” If he says this is afreet
country. they reply that it is as free for the
corporation as for the individual. That
Standard Oil Company is like twenty
Egyptian pyramids in a bunch, each with a.
Pharaoh on it. It is the most gigantic com-
bination on the face of the earth, and it is
not a whit better because one of the bgest
men in it is a member of a leading Baptist
church in Brooklyn.

There are five or ten men who control 10,-
000 miles of railroad in the lines of travel
and transportation, and so have billions up-
on billions of property under their author-
ity, and a clutch on the very throat of com-
merce. If need should come for a President-
who would favor the railroad monopolies it
would take only five pockets to put any man 1
in the Executive Chair. Out from New
York run three or four roads, which are un-
developed dangers to -the very existence of.’
uncorrupt Central Government. There is a.
many mouthed lion and a real.peril. The
danger will be overruled for good. Combin-
ation in manufacturing means cheaper fab-
rics, if steamship companies and railroads-
will distribute them cheaply. Commerce-
will be a winged lion when the perils are-
overruled, and the honey will remain.

 

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POLITICAL ADVICE.

BY 8. W. GOLLINGWOOD.

The candidate stood by his doorway, with happy and
radiant face ;
The days or the campaign were over, his party had
won in the race ;
All day long his friends had been shaking his hand
till it ached with the pain,
While visions of life at the city were dancing about
in his brain.
The candidate stood by his doorway, when into the
yard from the road,
With rattle and creaking and banging, there lum-
bered a curious load;
A rusty old rack of a wagon, with rickety, jingling
springs, _ _
The horse fit for nothing but crow-bait, the harness
all tied up with strings.
A crusty old seed of a farmer was perched on a
rickety seat;
Beneath him, a hole in the wagon, through which
hung his onderous feet.
A thin fringe o beard, like a mop-rag, just covered
his square under jaw ;
His gray hair broke jail through his hat band, in
utter defiance of law. _
The candidate stared in amazement, as, nodding his
wrinkled old head, _
The old fellow rose in his wagon, and, clearing his
rusty throat, said :
" How are ye ‘( I don’t ’spose you know me, but my
name is Jones, an’ it’s true, _
An’ I ain’t a gonter deny it, that I didn't vote, sir,
for you.
But our man got licked at the ’lection, an’ our party's
all out of jint.
But still, I thought I’d jest come round here and help
set ye right on one pint.
Your gonter go up thar to Lansing, an’ come to the
State for yer pay,
And sech men as I be pays taxes, an’ otter hev some-
thin’ to say. _ _
Ef you go to foolin’ our money, an’ votin' for bills ez
ain’t right, _
You'll find thet it ain’t payin’ bizness, fer you'll git
ketchcd up pretty tight.
There's one bill to come up afore ye, ef I've got the
idee all straight,
To ’propriate six thousand dollars, or mebby it’s
more: ’praps it's eight,
Fer thet Agricultural College, an’ this is what I've
got to say :
Ye wanter vote right straight agin it, an’ not let it
pass anyway.
That College hez proved a big failure ; it ain’t wuth
a cent to the State;
It’s got to be rooted up sometime, an’ might’s well be
done soon ez late.
We've kep the hull biz'ness a goin, an’ helped it in
various ways,
An’ ain’t never got nothin’ back, sir, an’ I don’t
believe thet it pays
Ter pay them professors big wages ter live on the fat
0' the land,
An’ sit thar like bumps on a saw-log, an’ never turn
over their hand.
I hear there is men up there teachin’ that don’t even
know how to mow,
They hires men to do their own plowin', an’ can’t tell
a spade from a hoe.
How sech men kin larn our boys farmin' is more
than I rightly can see ;
The hull thing is wrong and wants rightin’, at least
that is jest my idee.
I’ve got my ideas about farmin’, they warn’t never
larnt at no school,
An’ tho’ I ain’t ben to no College, I ’low I ain’t no-
body's fool. .
Ye can’t raise no wheat by Mechanics, an’ Botany
won’t build no fence ;
An’ all of them outlandish studies ain’t nothin’ be-
side common sense.
Ye can't hold a plow a mite better by figgerin’ with
x, y an’ z ;
Ye can’t drive yer team by no science, but jest by a
plain ‘ haw ’ an’ ‘ gee.’
A boy ain’t wuth shucks in a. cornfield ez hez to stop
every half hour
Ter tell what the soil is made up of, or analyze
every odd flower. _
Ye can't make two shillin’s at choppin' by stoppin'
betwixt every blow
Ter run up a tree's philly-taxy, or see how the
plaguey roots grow. _
It may be all right fer a doctor or lawyer sech larnin’
ter know, ,
But when a boy’s farmin’, I notice, it stops the free
use of his hoe.
A man ez will spend the hull mornin’ ter see what
pertater hugs do,
Won’t never git rich at no farmin,’ and won’t know
no more when he's through.
The more thet he knows about science, the longer
the course he may take, '
When put onto good solid farmin’, the harder his
back’s gonter ache.
Ye can’t make no science of farmin’, fer farmin’ ain’t
nothin’ but work,
An’ I don't believe in no system_of larnin’ our boys
how to shirk." >
Now, while the old farmer was talking, poor Dobbin
stood patiently there,
Reviewing the arguments gravely, with thoughtful
and studious air;
The harness hung loosely about him, nor did he once
venture to pull, ,
But calmly and silently listened till both of his long
ears were full.
But out of the grass just before him a bunch of sweet
clover arose,
And temptingly lifted its blossoms, tho’ just beyond
reach of his nose.
Forgetting the speech and his master, he straightened
away at his work ;
He brought the old harness about him, and started
the cart with a jerk.
The old man was growing excited, and giving his
assion full vent,
But w en the cart started he staggered, and over the
end-board he went.
The old horse soon finished his clover, and then
looked benignly around,
And watched with profoundest amazement the orator
stretched on the ground.
The College was quickly forgotten, and painfully
rubbing his head,
The farmer climbed into his wagon—with words that
are better unsaid.
- -— Colleqe Qaeculum.

The Increase in the Use and Manufacture of
Oleomargarine.

In view of the great and increasing mag-
nitude of this business; and the report of
the French Academy of Medicine; and the
discoveries of the scientific gentlemen before
named; and the danger of using the raw
fats and stomachs of diseased animals, and
of those that die on the cars, which number
hundreds of thousands annually; or of
pleuro pneumonia; or of cattle fever; or of
hog cholera; I think we have no reason to
rejoice over the erection of these enormous
factories which are now supplying the tables
of our hotels, restaurants, boarding houses
and private families with oleomargarine
butter and cheese.

Whatever else may be said by the great
capitalists engaged in their manufacture, one
thin they cannot honestly deny, viz: that
not t ree men or women in a hundred would
eat an ounce of these articles if they could
know by color or otherwise what they were
"4"m‘g- . . . .

No man would knowingly give his wife
or children for butter the uncooked fats of
animals that may have died of -cattle plague,
hog cholera, or other diseases. But how
manufacturers are to guard either them-
selves or the public against the use of the
poisonous substances~that enter into the
making of oleomargarine, is a question that
must be settled by stringent legislation.

Doss Might Make Right?

A commuuistic person identified with the
dangerous classes of the Comstock and no-
torious for his disregard of truth and con-
tempt for vested rights, has just returned
from a visit to San Francisco. This morn-
ing he endangered the good name of the
Chronicle by entering its editorial room.
The nihilist declared that he had “ a good
thing on Stanford and Steve Gage,” but be
supposed the Chronicle, like the rest of the
corrupt and time serving press would be
afraid to publish it.

“Tell your story,” said the editor with
dignity, gazing inquiringly at the boot of
the socialist, which was resting upon the
editorial table. The boot remained there,
however, while the following ridiculus nar-
rative was delivered :—

It’s fine weather at the bay and every-
body who can afford it takes a spin occa-
sionally out of the dust and heat. Last
Saturday Stanford and Gage were walking
along Kearney Street, and when they got to
the corner of Bush the Governor took off‘
his hat, wiped his brow and remaked :-

“ Steve, it’s too hot for anything. What
do you say to a breath of fresh air ‘2 ”

“ Have we time,” enquired Mr. Gage,
pulling out his watch. So did the Govern-
or, who replied :—

“ There isn't anything very pressing for a
couple of hours, and we may as well take a
spin out to the park. It isn't worth while
to have out my horses. Let’s take a hack,
and then we can enjoy a walk when we get
there. It’ll be better than riding around
the drives.”

So they got into a coupe and were driven
out to Golden Gate park. At the entrance
the Governor and Gage alighted.

“ What's the fare ? ” asked the Governor.

" On’y $15, guv’nur.”

“ What!” yelled Stanford and Gage in
the same breath.

“ Fifteen dollars,” repeated cabby, unbot-
toning his coat and spitting on his hands.

“ But, my good man,” protested the Gov-
ernor, “such a charge is exorbitant. The
law confines you to a reasonabe price for
your services, and you can be arrested and
punished for a violation of the ordinance.”

“ Hang the law! ” growled Cabby, “ My
money bought and paid for this hack an’
horses, an’ as Guv’nur Stanford said in his
letter to the New York Chamber of Com-
merce, ‘ The essence of ownership is control.’

“ Hem! ” coughed the Governor, looking
slyly at Steve, who began to grin. “ That’s
all well enough when applied to my rail-
railroads, but--but—er, now if you charge us
fifteen dollars to bring us to the park, what
on earth would you charge us to take us to
the Cliff House? ”

“ Five dollars,”

“ From here ?”

“No, from the city.”

“ But it’s twice the distance! ”

“Yes, but it's a competative point. Fif-
teen to the park and five to the cliff. No
hoggin’ about it. Through rates to the cliff,
local rates back to the park added—just as
you fellers do when you charge $300 for
drawing a carload of stuff from New York
to 'Frisco, and makeit $800 if you drop the
car at Elko, about 500 miles nearer New
York.”

It was Steve's turn to cough and the Gov-
erner’s to grin.

“ Well,” said the Governor with a sigh,
“ take us to the cliff.”

At the Cliff House the Governor and
Stephen drank their beer and smoked a
cigar, and listened to the barking of the
seals, and filled their lungs with the sea-
breeze. Suddenly Steve clapped himself on
the leg and cried out :-

“ By Jove. Governor! I forgot that lot

‘of coal of Smith’s that the Sheriff is to sell

at 3 o’clock. It's 2 now. If we miss that a
chance to save at least a thousand dollars
will be gone.” _

“ Good heavens!” cried the Governor,
snatching out his watch, “ Let’s hurry back
at once. Driver! Oh, driver! ”

“ Here, sir,” answered Cabby, who had
been leaning over the balcony parapet with-
in ear-shot, “ Here, sir."

“ \Ve want to return to town immediate-
ly,” cried Mr. Gage.

“ Ya.-as, Is’pose so,” said Cabby, slowly
chewing a straw, “ But I’ll take my pay in
advance, if it’s all the same to you gents.”

The Governor growled somewhat between
his teeth and tendered him $5.

" ”l‘ain’t enough,” said Cabby contemptu-
ously.

“ln heavei1’s name, how far will your
extortion go ? ” snorted the Governor.
“ How much more do you want? ”

“ Five hundred more,” calmly replied the
hackman.

“ Hey ? ” shrieked Steve and the Govern-
or.
“Five hundred ’an not a cent less,” re-
plied Cabby. ,

“ How, sir—er——damme, sir! How do you
dare ask such a price for driving two gen-
tlemen four or five miles?” _spurted the
Governor.

“ I based my charge on ‘what the trafiic
will bear,’ same as the railroads does,” re-
plied the hackman with a grin. ‘* If raters
is selling in Los Angelos for 50 cents a bush-
el and at $3 a bushel at Tucson, you fellers
charge the poor devil of a rancher $2.50 a
bushel to haul his taters to Tucson and gob-
ble all the profit. Now, I ain’t as hoggish
as that I heered Mr. Gage say if he could
get into town by 3 o’clock he could make a
thousand dollars. As there ain’t no other
hack here, I’m as good a monopoly for
this wunst as any blasted railroad on earth;
but I aint so greedy. I don’t want all you
can make by using my hack. I’m willing
to get along with half.”

With a dismal groan the Governor and
Steve emptied their pockets and counted
out the money. ’

“ Now, see nere,” said Cabby, as he closed
the door of the hack on his victims. " I've
done for wunst what you roosters day in
an’ day out have been doin’ for years, an’
made your millions by it. I happen to be
able to give you a dose of your own medi-
cine for wunst, an’ I don’t want you to do
no kickin’. I know you kin send me to
jail for running business on your principles,
but if you jails me, I’ll have your blood
when I get out, and don’t you forget it.”

Hereupon the hackman clapped the door
to with a bang, and climbing to his seat
drove at a rattling pace to the place where
the Sheriff was about to sell out poor Smith.
Smith was a coal merchant who didn’t have
special rates. '

When the nihilist had finished this absurd
and libelous tale, he took his foot off the

editorial table, laughed hoarsely to himself
and departed for the nearest saloon.

llow Cattle are Killed lor the New York Market.

In the city of New York there are two
large abattolrs, or slaughter houses. On the
east side of the city there is a collection of
several of these establishments, which occu-
py the blocks bounded by East Forty-third
street, First Avenue, East Forty-sixth
street, and the river front. .The total num-
ber of beef cattle slaughtered here last year
amounted to about 100.000 head.

At the foot of VVest Fortieth street is the
West Side Abattoir, which is the largest
establishment of the kind in the city. Its
dimensions are 425 feet in length on Fortieth
street, and 300 feet on Thirty-ninth street,
with a uniform depth of 200 feet. The ani-
nual kill of beef cattle here is 2,200 head per
week, or about 115,000 a year.

At Jersey city, across the river from New
York, is situated another large establish-
ment of this kind. It is not only a slaughter
house, but the receiving point for the great-
er portion of the cattle coming into New
York. It is very favorably situated, being
not more than a mile by water from any of
the Europeon steamship wharves, and cattle
for export can be shipped by boat from the
abattoir direct to the side of the vessel. For
this reason it is the principal place from
which the live stock traflic is done. The
stock- yard covers several acres,and is divided
into large pens, partly roofed over, with
water troughs and hay racks running
along the sides. They afford accommodation
for about 3,000 cattle, and the charge per
head for eac animal entering the yard, no
matter how ong or short may be the period
of its stay, is 40 cents. During the time they
are kept in the yard they are fed at the own-
er’s expense. The slaughter house proper is
a building 250 feet front by 300 deep, but
with the ofiices and other additions, the
buildings cover an area of 270 by 390 feet.

When the company which controls this
abattoir first started in business, in October,
1866, their establishment was at Communi-
paw, and in 1867 their receipts were 79,829
cattle, 456,939 hogs, 160,247 sheep; of which
16,791 cattle, 423,512 hogs and 142 639 sheep
were killed on the premises. The export
trade in live stock brought a large incr use
in the receipts, and in 1875, the year after
they took up their present location at Harsi-
mus Cove, Jersey City, they received 258,550
cattle, 640,149 hogs, and 685,724 sheep ; of
these, 78,894 cattle, 543,919 hogs, and 431,241
sheep were slaughtered on the premises.
From this time on the arrivals have contin-
ued to increase, until last year they reached
368,298 cattle, 952,371 hogs, and 634,171 sheep.
The slaughter of beef cattle, however, had
fallen to 43,758, while that of hogs was 940,-
200, and of sheep 630,700.

The cattle coming into New York average
from 700 to 800 pounds in weight, and at 10
cents per pound, about the usual figure,
bring $70 to $80 each on the hoof. The
method of killing is essentially the same in
all the New York slaughter houses. A rope
is fastened around the animal’s hind legs,
and he is lifted off his feet by means of a
block or tackle, so that he hangs with his
head downward, and just touching the floor.
His throat is then cut with a large, sharp
knife, and his death is speedy and compara-
tively free from pain. Three workmen, a
dresser and two assistants, can kill, flay, cut
up, and dress an animal in about twenty
minutes, and they slaughter eighteen to
to twenty head daily, for which they get 59
cents per head.

After the slaughtering for the day is at an
end all the buildings ,are flushed outwith
water pumped from the river by steam, and
then carefully mopped over, so that no sign
of refuse of any kind is perceptible—-in fact,
the floors, which are laid with an incline
from the sides to a gutter in the middle of
the houses, are as clean and white as the
decks of a ship after they have been holy-
stoned——Shoe and Leather Reporter.

The Gypsum Test for Milk.

Very little reliability can be placed on the
usual tests for milk; but the method given
below, from the Monllilg lllagazine, is said to
be quite reliable, and is certainly very sim-

le:
P" method of testing milk by means of
gypsum has been niake known by Mr. Ber-
tram Ohm; it is so simple, and apparently
so reliable, that by its means many himse-
holders will be able at once to ascertain
whether the milk delivered to them has
been adulterated with water or not.

In carrying out this test it is necessary to
make use of calcined gypsum, or plaster of
Paris, in the state in which it is used for
modeling; and this can always be procured
in good condition in the shops.

One ounce of this plaster of Paris is taken
and it is made into a paste with the milk to
be tested; the operator takes out his watch
and notes the exact time. He observes how
long the mixture takes to become solid.

Milk of the specific gravity 1.030, at the or-
dinary temperature of 60° Fahr., becomes
solid under these circumstances in the
course of 10 hours or thereabouls. If it con-
tains % per cent. of water it becomes solid
in about two hours; if it has been adulterat-
ed with 50 per cent. of water, it solidifies in
half an hour: and, finally, if it contain as
much as 75 per cent, of water the mixture
becomes hard and solid in 20 minutes.

Milk which has had its cream taken off,
and has aspecific gravity of 1.033, solidifies
under the same circumstances in the course
of about four hours; if this creamed milk has
had 50 per cent. of water added to it, it solid-
ifies in one hour, and with 75 per cent. of
water, in the course of half an hour.

Mr. Ohm remarks that the time required
for solidification, that is, for becoming hard,
is somewhat less if the operation of mixing
takes place at a certain degree of heat: but
perhapsit is safest to operate always at the
ordinary temperature of the room.-—Ameri-
can Dairyman.

 

PROF. KEDZIE has completed the exten-
sive analsis of wheat out every day for twen-
ty-one days, beginning at the last of June,
1879, to determine the relative value of each
sample for purposes of food. These speci-
mens of wheat were cut at the same hour
each day, from the time the grain began to
mature until it was dead ripe. The results,
which are not yet deduced, will throw much
light on the perplexing question of when
best to cut wheat for food. Like his exten-
sive analyses of white and yellow dent
corns, this will be of great service to far-
mers. Results will be announced next is-
sue.——Cbllegc Speculum, Lansing.

 

How to make a barrel of flour go a long
way-—send it to the starving Chinese.

“Won the Case, Anyhow."

Upon the edge of a farm in Maine, where
the division lines were marked by “blazed”
trees and piles of stones, stood a large pine
tree—a monarch of the forest, and one of the
most valuable to be found in that region.

A certain farmer cut it down, claiming it
was on his land; but very soon the farmer
owning the land adjoining declared that the
tree had stood upon his lot, and demanded
pay for it.

Thereupon, the man who had cut down
the tree ran the line by known bounds, and
made out that it had been on his land. Then
the other man ran the line, and made out
that it had been on his land; and again he
demanded pay for the tree, which Farmer
Number One refused pereniptorily to pay.

Then Farmer Number Two, who claimed
payment for the tree, entered a suit at law.
and instructed his lawyer to win it if he
could.

Farmer Number One engaged his lawyer,
and bade him fight it to the bitter end. He
had cut down his own tree, and he did not
propose to be robbed of his rights.

At the end of two years Farmer Number_
Two on the case, and pay for the tree was
awarded to him by the court. Thatjudg-
ment had been reached after numerous
zliipptlaals for new trials, and was considered

na .

Said Farmer Number One: “You must
get your pay for the tree as you can. I have
not a dollar lef .”

And Farmer Number Two, in the gaining
of the case, had spent his last dollar of cash
besides mortgaging his farm for all it was
worth.

“ I know it has broken me,” he said. “It

has taken every dollar I owned; but I won
the case, anyhow!”

THERE are tricks in all trades, not ev-
en excepting bee culture, as our townsman
Byron Walker can attest. Sometime last
February, Mr. Walker noticed an advertise-
ment in a beejournal published at Medina,
Ohio, by A. I. Root. Said advertisment
was inserted by one Herbert A. Burch, of
South Haven, Mich., who disserted in such
winning terms on the cheapness and excel-
lence of his colonies of bees which he held
for sale, that Mr. W. deemed it his advan-
tage to invest to the amount of $217. Soon
afterward Mr. W. suspected all was not
right, and immediately took steps to recover
his money. He made twojourneys to South
-Haven, obtained legal advice, and hounded
Burch so closely, that he dlsgorged $100,
but felt disinclined to return the remainder.

Mr. W. then prepared a clear and exhaus-
tive account of the matter, ventilating the
swindle. This he sent to Mr. Root, editor
of the bee journal, intimating that as Root
was responsible for the advertisments inser-
ted in his paper, he should be accountable
for the money defrauded from his patrons.
In the August number of his paper Mr.
Root exposes the swindle, and offers to
make good all moneys obtained by Burch,
in answer to the advertisment, amounting
in all to nearly $400. Henry Kna p, of Ox-
ford, was a victim to the extent 0 five dol-
lars. Mr. Walker was by far the heaviest
sufferer, and of course feels rejoiced that he
is to recover his money through the fair and
honorable action of Mr. Root.——Erchange.

THERE is no part of the College premises
which shows so much improvement as the
vegetable garden. It has been placed this
year under the charge of Mr. Chas. W. Lee,
formerly of Detroit,who is a practical garden-
er. Heretofore this important department.
has been left to a person who had charge as
well of all the lawns and orchards. and
suflicient time could not be given to thegar-
den itself. Mr. Lee, however, undoubtedly
possesses more knowledge on running agar-
den for profit than any other man ever con-
nected with the College. He made a visit
last month to the best market gardens of
Michigan, at Detroit, but says that he will
challenge them or any one else to produce
as good a patch of onions as he has. The
whole garden is a model of cleanliness and
order. The crops of lima beans, cabbages,
string beans, beets, celery and potatoes are as
fine as could he wished for. The garden is
the envy of farmers. —— College Speculum,
Lansing.

 

LABOR IN GENIUs.'—-When a lady once
asked ’l‘urner,t_he celebrated English painter,
what his secret was, he replied: “I have no
secret, madam, but hard work. This is a
secret that many never learn, and don’t
succeed because they don’t learn. Labor is
a genius that changes the world from ugli-
ness to beauty, and the great curse to a great
blessing.”

 

“A LONG BEiDGE.”—Mr. Spurgeon said
recently——you can almost hear his clarion
voice proclaiming it to his 5,000 assemblage:
“Make the bridge from the cradle to man-
hood just as long as you can. Let your child
be a child, and not a little ape ofa man run-
ning about the town.” Good advice.

 

"A prudent man,” says a witty French-
man, “is like a pin. His head prevents him
from going too far.”

THE man who knows more about your
business than you do yourself, always has
leisure to entertain you.

MARK Twain says: There is something
fascinating about science. One gets such
wholesale returns of conjecture out of a
trifling investment of fact.

ARE blacksmiths who make a living by
forging, or carpenters who do a little coun-
ter-fitting, any worse than men who sell
iron and steel for a living ?

“There are lots of men in this country
who ought to be in the same condition that

this gate is in,” said the farmer, as be shut 1

it behind a lightning-rod peddler. “How
is that?” “Well hung,” said the farmer,
as he resumed agricultural pursuits.—1l[c-
Gregor News.

THE gentlemen at a' dinner table were
discussing the familiar line, “An honest
man’s the noblest work of God,” when a
little son of the host spoke up and said, “ It
isn’t true. My mother’s better’n any man
that was ever made.”

A YOUNGSTER, while warming his hands
at the fire, was remonstrated with by his
father. who said, “Go away from the fire;
the weather is not cold.” "I ain’t heating
the weather, I’m warming my hands,” the
little fellow demurely replied.

 

 

- Day Express, ______ __: _________________ -.__-_

Useful Hints.

PAINT splashes upon window glass can be
easily removed by a strong solution of soda.

IN makings crust of any kind, do not
melt the lard in the flour. Melting will in-
jure the crust.

MILCH cows will pay on small farms if
well fed. Cows not well fed will not pay
much anywhere.

WHEN you see your sauce boil from the
slde ofthe pan, you may know that your
flour or corn-starch is done.

MEAT and poultry will lose their flavor
and firmness if left in the water after they
are done; as will also fish, which will break
to pieces.

SOUR apple sauce is greatly improved by
the addition of a tablespoonful of butter to
a quart of sauce, and, moreover, there is
much less sugar needed. A little lemon
peel makes a fine flavor.

THE proper time for general house clean '
ing is in the fall, after the flies and dust of
summer. You thus have the benefit of a
clean house all winter, and until the flies
come again, instead of following the old
custom or habit of cleaning in the spring.
just before flies come.

IF INK is spilled on a carpet or woolen
article, it should be attended to at once while
still wet, if possible, and then is very easily
removed. Take clean blotting paper or
cotton batting and gently sop up all the ink
that has not soaked in. Then pour a little
sweet milk on the spot and soak it up from
the carpet with fresh cotton batting. It
will need to be renewed two or three times,
fresh milk and cotton batting being used
each time, and the spot will disappear.
Then wash the spot with clean soapsuds
and rub dry with a clean cloth. If the ink
has been allowed to dry in, the milk must
remain longer and be repeated many times.

 

Michigan Female Seminary. Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Modeled after the Mt. Holyoke Seminary,
Massachusetts. Board and tuition, includ-
ing lights, fuel and furnished room, $175 for
the school year; a reasonable charge for in-
struction in French, German, drawing and
painting. Fall Term begins Sept. 8, 1881.

The Seminary is free from debt, with
a proper number of well qualified in-
structors. Location healthy, grounds ex-
tensive and elevated, in full view of the
village of Kalamazoo. For catalogues giv-
ing full information as to course of studies
&c, address MISS CORNELIA EDDY, Princ-
ipal; or E. O. HUMPHREY, Treasurer,
Kalamazoo, Mich. l5jul3t

MICHIGAN CENTRAL ‘R- R-

DEPARTURE OF TRAINS FROM KALAMAZ00.

TIME-'l‘ABLE—MAY 9, 1880.
VVESTWABD.

    

        
  
  

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Mail ‘

 

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Day Express, _______ __
New York Exprees,-
Atlantic Express,"

New York, Atlantic and Pzicitlc Expresses and Local Passen-
ger daily. All other trains daily except Sunday.

H. B. Lsnnsu, Gen Manager, Detroit.
E. 0. BROWN, Ass‘t Gen. Supt., Jackson.

Kanaxazoo DIVISION TIME TABLE.

(Time 15 minutes faster than Kalamazoo.)

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Ar. Cleveland- 735 “ 5 700 “ ‘
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A1’. White Pigeo _ “ j 3 35 Pl‘ 8 45 Al
Ar.Three Rivers- “ . 400 ‘ {I000 “
Ar. Schooloraft __ “ I 4 23 “ 1,12 lorx
Ar. Kalamazoo ___-.. “ l 500 “ ; 1 40 “
Al‘. Allegau ___ “ j 605 “  420 “
Grand Rapids ........ _- “ 720 “ 1 810 “
All tralns connect at White Pigeon with trains on main line.

A. G. Airsnss,
Supt. Kalamazoo Division, Kalamazoo.

Corrected Time-’I‘able—July 31, 1881.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1881.

@112 Grange gliiiaitms.

SCHOOLCRAFT, .

. SEPTEMBER 1.

Sn-irlmfs fitiulmul.

The rocky old town of Goshen, Conn.,
where our No. Three left us, was for many
years noted for the large amount of its dairy
products; and many years ago, it became
famous for its pine-apple cheese also. The
inventor of this make of cheese was a
Goshen farmer, an old friend of my father’s.
Years ago he was gathered to his fathers.
leaving a profitable business so well estab-
lished that his son carries it on in his stead.
As this cheese is not often seen inland, we
will briefly refer to it, though we are not
posted very well in the details of the busi-
ness.

The curd is-prepared as for other cheese,
and its subsequent treatment, we believe,
consists chiefly in the kind of press and ex-
tent of pressure applied. As the name in-
dicates, the cheese is the shape of a pine-
apple, and its entire outside is indented by
lines cutting the surface into diamond
shaped figures, giving it a novel appearance.
They are formed by suspending the curd in
a twine-made, pine—apple shaped sack, in
which, as we understand, the curd remains
while it is subjected to the requisite pressure
for making it a very solid cheese, especially
designed for use in warm latitudes and on
sea-going ships covering long voyages.
These cheese are of almost uniform size, and
in weight do not exceed five pounds. The
curd is made by the farmers and sold by the
pound on a season contract, the factory us-
ing all that can be made within a radius of
several miles.

Here, as elsewhere in New England, hay
is the main crop, and haying covers not a
few days. as with the Michigan farmer, but
a few weeks. The best farm lands in this
part of the State are still held by the native
Yankee to the manor born, while the poorer
are falling into the hands of the foreigner,
who has saved up a little money and rejoices
in his ability to become a real landlord as
well as laborer. The general appearance of
the farm buildings. very often with a recent
coat of paint, denoted a condition of thrift
that we were very glad to see. These farm-
ers are frugal, industrious and pains-taking,
and with anything like a fair chance, get
a living, and where it is possible, save up
something besides.

We had but a day altogether for our visit
to Goshen, and as we had spent but a very
few of the earliest years of our childhood
there, and had not visited the place in the
last quarter of a century, there were few
people in whom we had special interest.
Remembering that the Master of the State
Grange last elected, was a resident of this
town, I determined to make his acquaint-
ance. Friend Thompson kindly providing
transportation, a ride of a few miles over
those well worn hills, brought us to the
farm-house of Sherman Kimberly,whom we
found mounted on a mower in a meadow
near the house. The fraternal bonds of the
Order, together with a little former corres-
pondence, made us feel quite well acquaint-
ed, and soon we repaired to the house, that
the acquaintance might include his associate
representative of the State Grange. An hour
and a half with these, the only Patrons we
saw in the old land of “steady habits,” was
very pleasantly spent, for we found them
well posted in the opjects of the Order, and
not only strong in faith but quite willing to
sacrifice time and money in efforts to en-
lighten the Connecticut farmers as to the
moral, social, educational and pecuniary
value of this organization of farmers. We
shall not soon find a Patron who under-
stands and appreciates the educational ad-
vantages which our Order brings to the
farmers of the country and their families,
more fully than does Sister Kimberly. From
what we saw of the surroundings of Brother
Kimberly, we concluded that he is not only
an earnest Patron, but a good, thorough-
going farmer. Our friends spoke a good
word for the VISITOR, and as we have re-
ceived from them several subscribers, we
accept this as additional evidence of their
appreciation of its merits. We shall long
cherish a recollection of our very pleasant,
though very brief, visit with these good
Patron farmers of our native town, and in-
dulge the hope that their steadfast faith and
untiring labor may be rewarded by that
growth of the Order in the State which is
needed to promote the best interest of the
class for whom it was established.

Later in the day we very much enjoyed a
ride across the hills westward to the county
of Dutchess, in the State of New York.
Time was when this county was more fa-
mous than now, when the dairy products of
Dutchess oounty,—l.ike Genessee flour, from
their reputed excellence invited manufactur-
ers elsewhere to counterfeit their brands.
But that time has long since passed, and
Dutchess and Genessee have no longer
gpecial prominence for their agricultural

productions. -

Here, while the hay crop is not less im-
portant than in New England, wheat takes
the place of the rye crop of the latter region,
and farmers were just commencing their
wheat harvest. One thing we noticed in
the treatment of grain both here and in New
England: It is cut and left to dry in the
swath or gavel a day or so before being
bound, and then it is hauled to the barn as
soon as practicable. We said to our friends:
you are behind the times, according to our
Western notions. By this exposure of grain
after being cut, you lose in both appearance
and weight. Better bind and shock at once,
and if the work is well done a shower of
rain on it while it is curing in the shock
will do no harm.

Milk is, however, the most important pro-
duct of the farms anywhere in reach of the
railroads. On this account the question of
ensilage has here been given more attention
than in any other community we have ever
visited. VVe have published some articles
on this subject, and as it is to be a valuable
method of providing winter food for stock,
or else prove an expensive failure to the ex-
perimenter, we shall continue to take an in-
terest in the subject. A friend, who is well
posted, took us to an empty silo, which is
simply a pit with sides of solid or concrete
masonry 12 feet high, 12 wide, and some 30
or 40 feet long, on the upper side of a side-
hill barn. The size or shape is not the im-
nortant feature. The silo must have strength
and be air tight, and the other conditions
relate to convenience in filling and in get-
ting the ensilage out when wanted for use.

As the matter now stands, there is one
strong point in favor of this innovation on
the usage of our fathers: Those who have
used silos a year or two all speak favorably
of them, and some of these parties are put-
ting in a second silo this year. But the con-
servative well-to-do farmer will see it tried
another year before putting any of his mon-
ey into it. At first sight it seems probable
that it may be of great value to the farmer
whose staple product for market is milk,
any yet not pay a VVestern farmer for the
general purpose of wintering stock econom-
ically and well. But this point, like most
others involved, is to be settled by future
experiment, and the many can better afford
to wait a little, until the whole business is
proved up, before investing either time or
money in ensilage experiments.

Keeping in mind the demands of business
at home, we could give but little time to old
Dutchess county or old-time friends that
we found there, and made as elsewhere a
sort of flying visit, which perhaps answered
as well as to have had more time.

We made our return trip via Albany,where
broken railroad connections gave us a
few hours, which we improved by
taking a stroll to the large and beautiful
park~—far more creditable to the city than
the new unfinished State-house is to the
great State of New York, which in this in-
stance has shown herself great in architect-
ural ambition, great in miscalculation of
cost, great in prodigality, rascality,and other
like qualities that notably attach to the
higher civilization of that State. It was an
inexcusable, stupid blunder to commence
the erection of such an immense structure
right in the heart of a city, surrounded on
all sides by business blocks, with the hub-
bub and rattle of every-day traffic and trade
that inevitably attach to such surroundings.
In the selection of a site there was about as
much exhibition of good taste as the farmer
of a thousand acres would display by build-
ing a $10,000 house with its front on the line
of the road, and with extensive sheep sheds
ranging along the street from the right-hand
corner, and the front of a large horse-barn
forming additional road fence from the op-
posite corner, with all the grainand hay
barns and other necessary out-buildings at-
tached. But then, possibly the great State
of New York had no tract that it could
spare, on which to place this conspicuous
monument of the success of her managing
rascals over her honest men.

Starting out some years ago with the pro-
fessed intention of investing two or three
millions in a capitol building, the work has
dragged over years of time, and has already
absorbed nearly $15,000,000 of the people's
money, and the end is not in sight. As we
understand, at no time since its commence-
ment has the date of its completion been
inside of two years, and it is still that dis-
tance away, with no sort of guarantee that
the time will be shortened during the life of
this generation;-if the people consent to be
annually bled to furnish opportunity for a
little work,and more direct or indirect steal-
ing. VVho is responsible for this state of
things, seems to be a timely inquiry. We
answer, The farmers of the State, for they
hold the ballots that determine who shall
make her laws and who shall execute them ;
and this prodigality, jobbery, and shameless
disregard of the public interests will contin-
ue until the agricultural class, who sufl'er
most,by reason of the visible quality of their
taxable property. shall determine to elect
honest men to oflice.

The people of Michigan are not all honest,
nor are those who execute her laws always
above suspicion, but when we look at our
beautiful State-house, standing out clear and
distinct in the warm and glowing sunlight
of ample space, a massive pile—with clean
and quiet surroundings, and know that
honesty and faithfulness were neither lost
nor obscured in its construction,—we feel an

honest pride in our people and in our State
Government.

By the first train west we took the
New York Central to Rome, and there
took the Watertown & Rome railroad to
Cape Vincent. From this point we had a
fine trip by steamer across the lower end of
Lake Ontario, 9. distance of 20 miles, to
Kingston. This and the trip down the St.
Lawrence to Montreal two weeks before, are
among the pleasantest recollections of
steamboat travel that we can call to mind.

Once again on the line of the Grand Trunk
railway, headed for home, we made no stop
except for the hasty meal that the traveler
takes with a watchful regard for the “All
aboard!” on which depends his unbroken,
continuous line of travel.

Our trip covered 20 days of time. and about
2,500 miles of railroad travel, mainly though
country new to us. No untoward circum-
stance occurred to mar the enjoyment af-
forded by pleasant association with new and
old friends, and we returned to our old field
of labor with no regrets at having been a
party to the flrst Evening News’ excursion
of 1881

“FROM DETROIT To THE SEA.”

SOME OPINIONS ENTERTAINED BY THE
' --VISITOR."

As we intimated in our second letter cov-
ering our late trip, we did not mean to occu-
py space with “Our \Vanderings” in more
than two numbers. But somehow we did not
succeed in boilingthem down so as to come
within the limit of our original purpose.
These letters may not have justified the use
of so much space; in fact, it has come to
our knowledge that there is an occasional
complaint that Brother Cobb is not as ag-
gressive as he used to be; that he don’t “go
for" monopolies and corporations and courts
and lawyers and patent—right laws and other
impositions as he used to.

Well, perhaps the point is well taken. If
so, we now take occasion to say that we en-
tertain as decided opinions on these several
subjects as we have at any time since we
undertook the management of the VISITOR.
In regard to railroad corporations, the ob-
serving reader will have noticed that every
number of this paper, for some months, has
had one or more articles, giving well ex-
pressed opinions of the danger to the rights
of the people which overshadow this nation
today, from the power and influence of
these corporations over the legislative and
judicial departments of the State and Na-
tional governments. And those opinions
have been fortified by arguments going down
to the bottom of the subject, taking hold of
those first principles which were accepted
buta few years ago by the representatives
themselves of these railroad corporations, as
sound and correct. In publishing these ar-
ticles, have we not been doing justice to the
subject? and have we not been doing more
effective work than to have produced arti
cles of our own on this subject \Ve think
we have. In the matter of courts and law-
yers there is room for any number of com-
plainants—a fruitful field for criticism.
In the days of gross ignorance, when the
mass of the people had implicit faith only
in the priest, and his dictum was law, the
lawyer must have been second best; but
in these later days, when the people have
some opinions of their own on religious
subjects, the legal profession has come to the
front and largely taken in hand the business
of managing the governmental affairs of the
people, as well as providing for the settle-
ment of all the little irregularities that occur
between members of the same or distant
communities.

This profession has been quite ready of
late vears to largely direct and control legis-
lation, and for this we have no word of
complaint. If other important interests
make no eifort to take care of themselves,
they must suffer. But what we do complain
of, briefly stated, is this: Unlike every-
thing else, either in the moral, religious,
scientific, mechanical or other departments
of our progressive civilization, its judicial
department, established to protect and secure
the rights of the citizen, has made no per-
ceptible progress except in systematizing
ways of how not to do it. We have a stu-
pendous system of courts and court houses,
big and little, law schools and law depart-
ments in our universities and colleges, bar
associations, and an endless amount of judi-
cial machinery. To keep it running recruits
are every day added from the ranks of our
educated young men to an already vast
army, that includes a large amount of talent
and culture. And from this great army of
educated men, who at least derive a subsist-
ence for themselves and their families from
their professional labors, to say nothing of
the princely fortunes acquired by some,
what do the people who furnish this sub-
sistence and these fortunes get in return?
It is notorious that in an attempt to obtain
justice from a fellow citizen, by the use of
the machinery of the law in the most simple
case involving a paltry sum of money, or a
petty offense, we get postponements, ad-
jonrnments, appeals, new trials, reversals,
costs, fees, and delays, rather than a trial of
the case on its merits. and a decision reached
and the case concluded within a reasonable
time and at reasonable cost.

By modern inventions we manufacture
goods, get news, and travel to distant places
in a fraction of the time required fifty years

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ago. Has the administration of justice taken
on any of the conditions of progress that
characterize this century ? If it has, we in-
nocently inquire when and where? We
have respect for the profession, as such, and
we are aware that there are lawyers of high-
minded character, men of genius, culture,
and of unquestioned love of country and
mankind, but the naked fact stands out
boldly that the usage and practice of courts
and the bar so completely defeat the great
object for which the judicial department of
our government was established, that the
people have no longer either respect for or
confidence in courts and their manner of
administering and enforcing the laws of the
land. It may seem presumptious, but We
are backed by public opinion in saying that
our whole judicial system as it is known by
practice and usage is a reproach to our civi-
lization and a mockery of the declared
object of its establishment.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Butterick & Watterson are Patrons of
Kent county and, as we believe, entitled to
the confidence and patronage of our people.
Write them for prices of nursery stock before
ordering elsewhere.

The firm of McCall & Duncan, of our
town, have made a bold push in introducing
ther new Creamer and Butter Cooler. See
their claims as presented by the firm, on our
last page. As we are not in the milk and
butter business we have no personal knowl-
edge of the merits of this new claimant, but
we are so well acquainted with the parties
here who have certified their approval, that
we have no doubt this Creamer is the thing
needed by all our butter makers.

The certificate of Bro. Luce carries with
it a weight and influence that needs no en-
dorsement of ours to make it good anywhere
among the Patrons of Michigan.

OUR readers will not overlook the article
on the opposite page by Henry Bishop. We
attended the pioneer meeting of our county
at which this article was read. Proud of the
pioneer distinction which a residence of over
fifty years in this county gives us, we were
present, as we always mean to be at this last
annual reunion of the few remaining pion-
eers ofthe olden time. \Ve cherish a love
for all those associations that serve to call to
mind former days and the early history of
this county that we have seen developed
by the untiring industry and energy of men
and women ofour own generation. But we
did not start out with the intention of writ-
ing about pioneers or pioneer life, but rather
to call attention to and endorse the good,
sound practical ideas and suggestions of our
friend Bishop,who, our readers have taken
from the drift of hi article as a good practi-
cal farmer, and perhaps Granger. VVe cor-
rect this impression by saying that he is a
retired merchant with such a large acquaint-
ance with men and things, and such broad
views of the world as it is, and should be,
that he is above and beyond the great mass of
the class to which he has belonged, and fully
comprehends the value of agriculture, re-
spects the farmer in so far as he is an honor
to his occupation, and believes in the Grange
in so far as it is true to its principles.

FOR answer to our request in the last num-
ber of the VISITOR, that we might have a
report from every Grange in this State that
owned a hall, we have returns as follows:

SIZE OF

NAME OF GRANGE. HALL.

VVave1'ly, ................... -- ‘Z-{X52

Cascade, ___
Pittsford,_-
Pi pestone,_
Virgennes,

Cheshire and East Casco Granges, both of
Allegan county, are reported by a member
of a neighboring Grange as having halls,
though the size or value was not given.
We have undertaken to get a list of all the
Grange halls of Michigan, and have made
up and present our first record, which we
shall correct and add to as our friends res-
pond to this standing invitation for reports.
We are quite sure that this is but a com-
mencement, and expect the list next time
will be twice as large.

WE call attention to the criticism of Sister
Finch on this page. We long ago
noticed the willingness of many Masters of
Subordinate Gran ges to serve the Order when
that service was in the nature of a trip to
the State Capitol with about actual expenses
paid. Now this is not an ambition that we
condemn by any means. But no brother who
has been honored with the responsible pbsi-
tion of legislator for the Order should forget
that just such alegislative body as he is a
member of, enacted the by-law quoted by
Sister Finch. and that this provision is quite
as binding upon him as the obligation he
assumes whenelected to represent his dis-
trict, to. attend the session of the State
Grange, perform the work assigned him, and
draw his per diem and mileage for such ser-
vice. The suggestions of Sister Finch are
timely and we hope will not be overlooked
by a single working Grange in the State.

If somebody gets hit it can’t be helped. The
law was enacted for the good of the Order
and for the good of the Order should be
obeyed.

SOME children continue to send letters
very suitable for a children's department.
though often the letter bears too distinctly
the work of old heads in its make-up.
Much as we dislike to cast these little letters
aside we think their publication as desired
by the writers would be a trespass on the
Youths’ Department.

WE have on our table the first number of
the College .Specu-lum, a very creditable pro-
duction of the students of the Agricultural
College. VVith an honest determination to
improve, this is a most excellent means, and
there is any amount of room. Boys, re-
member Davy Crockett’s maxim, “ Be sure
you are right, then go ahead.”

OUR crop reports are so meagre that we
lay over the few we have until the next
issue. ' ‘

dummunitatimc.

Worthy Master Woodman on the Regalia of the Order.

PAW PAW, Mich., Aug. 2:3, 188].
Bro. Cobb .-——In the last number of the
GRANGE VISITOR is an article from Bro. F.
A. Hall, of Allendale, Ottawa county, Mich.,
which contains the following:

As some of the Granges in this vicinity
are discarding the pouch as a part of their
attire, I wish to ask a few questions as to
how or why this is done. It is claimed
that the Master of the National Grange has
ruled that Subordinate Granges may or may
not wear the pouch. I have never seen any
official publication ofsuch a decision, but, if
it be true, it strikes me as a singular ruling
to be given by the highest official of an or-
ganization, one of whose main objects is
harmony and unity of action. The effect
produced might be compared to the unity

isplayed at the “general trainings” of
thirty years ago. I can nowhere find it laid
down as to what shall be the “ proper at-
tire ” of a Patron, but inference would point
to both the pouch and the sash, one equally
with the other. This inference we draw
from the ritual and it becomes in fact part of
the ritual. Article 4, of the Constitution
says, “The ritual ado ted by the National
Grange shall be use in all Subordinate
Granges. Under this ruling some of the
Subordinate Granges are certainly violating
the Constitution. The same article says,
“Any desired alteration of the same must
be submitted to and receive the sanction of
the National Grange, not the Master of the
National Grange.

On page 119, of the proceedings of the
thirteenth session of the National Grange,
held at Canandaigua, New York, in Novem-
ber, 1879, will be found the following:—

The Executive Committee, together with
the sisters of this body, to whom was refer-
red the question of recommending a change
in the regalia of the Subordinate Granges.
and the adoption of a uniform regalia for

the State Granges, beg leave to submit the
following report :-

They reccommend that wearing the pouch
by brothers and the apron by sisters of the
fourth degree be abolished.

Further. that the members of the State
Granges wear the sash of the Subordinate
Grzlzlnge, with a green rosette pinned on the
sas .

On motion the recommendations were
considered separately.

The first recommendation was, on mo-
tion, adopted.

Sister Darden, Miss., offered the follow-
ing as a substitute for the second recommen-
dation of the committee :—

That members of the State Grange wear a
badge of green ribbon about two inches
wide, and six or eight inches long, pinned
on the left lappel of the coat or the dress,
with the Words,

STATE GRANGE or
P. or H.
thereon.

On motion of Bro. Chase, the substitute
was amended by inserting immediately
after the word "wear,” the words “ a green
rosette or,” and

On motion Bro. Chase, it was further
amended by adding at the close the follow-
mg ;—

Provided, That any State Grange that is
already provided with Regalia shall not be
required to make any change therein.

And as amended, was adopted and the
report as amended adopted.

Do Our Representatives Do Their Duty‘?

J. T. CObb,—WOBTHY BROTHER:—VViil a
few words under the head of “ Good of the
Order” be suitable? If so, I will try to say
my say in few words. What are the duties
of Representatives to the State Grange, to
those Subordinate Granges which they rep-
resent in the State Grange ? I find that
Sec. 10, Art. 4, of the By-Laws of Michigan
State Grange, after giving manner of elect-
ing delegates, etc., reads as follows: “ Each
Representative to the State Grangdshall,
within six weeks after the close of the State
Grange, visit each Subordinate Grange in
his district, give instruction and impart the
annual word to the Masters of those Granges
who are entitled to it.” Now, Patrons, how
many Representatives have done this since
the last meeting of the State Grange? I’
know of one who did not: he called at the
hall one day, and imparted the word and
said “good day,” without taking off his
mittens. And come to look back, not one
Representative has ever done his duty by us
in that respect.

We would naturally think that a member
sent as a Representative should evince inter-

est enough in the work to comply with the


 
 
 

 

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requirements of the article mentioned ; and
further, I think we would be glad to have
them evince interest enough to attend the
State Grange with open eyes and ears, jot-
ting down proceedings and ideas from time
to time, and be able to visitour Subor-
dinate Granges with material enough to
give us a new and onward impetus, which
might be the means of keeping alive many
weak Granges.

Again, we can never make a success of
this work so long as we are groping blindly.
We need to know what other Granges are
doing, and what measures are adopted by
the State and National Granges, in order to
work harmoniously and understandingly.
We get a synopsis of the proceedings-
thanks to the VIsI'roR—-and occasional
sketches of the work done, but how much
more entertaining and instructive for each
Representative to report in his own way
and with his own words. And if he has
not the head to make a report of that which
he sees, hears, and helps to perform, then
are the Subordinate Granges poorly repre-
sented indeed!

Now, let each and every one think upon
this matter, and before our next convention
occurs. let us have the subject canvassed and
each Grange decide to send as delegates
only such as we are confident are possessed
of the proper interest. Then let us vote for
those who will best represent our interests
and at the same time bring to us the most
instruction, and by their interest and zeal
infuse new life and enthusiasm into the
ranks. Respectfully,

Mas. H. FINCI-1.

The Mission of the Grange.

BY J. H. SANFORD.

[Read before Ottawa Grange, No. 30, and
by vote of the Grange forwarded for publi-
cation.] ‘

Everything in nature has a mission to
perform, and sooner or later that mission
must be accomplished. In the vegetable
kingdom every blade of grass, every plant
and flower, tiny though it may be, has an
important mission to perform in teaching
man to look up through nature to nature’s
God. Each insect that grovels in the dust,
and each quadruped that crawls upon the
earth, has the task assigned it, to teach man
important lessons of Creative wisdom.
Every bird that flits through the regions of
ether, is constantly adding new charms to
the already brilliant and beautiful creation.
The various tribes of herding animals, each
and all in its turn, are performing the glor-
ious mission of inspiring the heart of man
with a higher sense of the Creator’s good-
ness. Every individual of our race, too, has
amission to perform towards himself, his
fellows, and his" God. Every organization
of men and women has an important task to
perform, in the promotion of the objects for
which they are instituted. Financial or-
ganizations find their missions in the ac-
cumulation of wealth. Political combina-
tions find their highest aspirations in keep-
ing up an equilibrium of patriotic principles.
Theological organizations find their mission
in the elevation of the Cross, and pointing
the wayward onward and upward to a
higher life.

It would seem that all these influences
having for their object the improvement of
all classes of humanity, would ere this have
performed their mission and, having acted
well their part, would have laid themselves
down to rest, if not to be numbered with
the things that were.‘ And yet there is
room, as well as necessity, for still another
organization, on principles of a broader na-
ture and more fraternizing bond of union.
That organization is the Grange. The
Grange found the capitalist in monopoly,
and the laborer oppressed. The Grange found
political partisans intriguing for power. The
Grange found political combinations frown-
ing upon the hand that fed them, and, to-
gether with capital and covetousness, rend-
ering oppression more oppressive by degrad-
ing labor and bringing the tiller of the soil
into disrepute. By extortion and assump-
tion of power, husbandry, the hope of the
world, has been degraded, notwithstanding
it furnishes the means of comfort and sus-
tenance to those who regard it with con-
tempt. Yes, it feeds the world, and with-
holds not its beneficence from the ungrate-
ful souls who despise it. Ignorance and vice
have spread a darkning pall over the other-
wise fair face of the country, degrading both
man and woman, who have voluntarily
submitted to become slaves to the ambition
of the self-loving oppressors, until the voice
of the oppressed cries from the ground for
redress.

Where shall we look for redress? There
is redress for all these wrongs through the
Grange, and this is its mission. Other
movements have their aims, and perform
their parts well or ill, as the case may be.
The mission of the Grange, in its objects
and aims, transcends most of the others ; and
while none of them fail, shall it be said that
this, the greatest and best of earthly mis-
sions, shall perish ? No, never! it must pre-
vail. By what means shall it prevail? The
means are ample and various,—by union and
co-operation; by fostering the principles of
fraternal afiection; by driving out predju-
dice; by living in peace with each other;
by harmony in our councils, and a peaceful

the constituted majority; by punctuality in
attendance on the meetings, and the observ-
ance of good order in the work. And lastly,
but not least, legislative action is greatly
needed and indispensably necessary to the
fulfillment of the grand mission of the
Grange. Financial monopolies control leg-
islative action, and even Congress is more or
less under the influence of those million-
aires who have filched their enormous
wealth from the hard earnings of the hus-
bandry of the country; and as they can
purchase legislative influence with gold.
how can the arm of the Grange be suffi-
ciently potent to counteract the mighty
force that is brought to bear against it?

It requires work,—“a long pull, a strong
pull, a pull altogether.” It can be reached
by voting; and it is the duty of the Grange
to do it. It is proclaimed by the highest
authority that it can be done. VVith‘ three-
fourths of the voting population engaged in
the various branches of husbandry, if every
one were true to himself and the good of
the country, the influence of the Order
would be brought to bear upon the subject
very soon. It is idle to talk and wish, if we
do not act. The teamster who got stuck in
the -mud prayed earnestly to Hercules for
help, but the team could not start the load.
A voice said, “Put thy shoulder to the
wheel and lift heartily.” So he put his
shoulder to the w nd, praying to his
deity, gave a heart S,‘ nd the team start-
ed the load. So, i . ‘G Grange will “lift

 
   
    

heartily” at the “fit-box, abjuring old
party lines, working ‘with a united effort,
she will very soon have accomplished her
mission. We may memorialize the legisla-
ture till our hands become palsied ; we may
pray to Congress till we return to the dust
from which they derive_their daily food,
and it will avail nothing unless we lift
heartily at the wheels of our chariot of state,
which will serve to elevate the masses, add
dignity to labor, give husbandry the front
rank among the communities of the earth,
when a shout of joy will make the welkin
ring, and a halo of glory will crown the
mission of the Grange fulfilled.

Signs of the Times.

-BY HENRY BISHOP.

[Read at the Kalamazoo County Pioneers’
picnic, held at Cooper, Aug. 25, 1881.]

It is now fifty years since this county was
first settled by the white man, who came to
cultivate the soil and make this county his
home. And when We look around us and
see what has been accomplished in that
short time it seems almost past belief; the
beautiful villages that have sprung into be-
ing in different parts of the county, in addi-
tion to our beautiful village of Kalamazoo,
have all grown up in that time: then the
hundreds of fine farms, all carved out of the
forests and prairie, together with the fine
buildings thereon erected, have all ap-
peared within that period. And yet,
great as these things are, we have only
about kept pace with the great improve-
ments and inventions of the world at large.
Railroads, steamships on the oceans, the
telegraph and other inventions too numer-
ous to mention, have come into use since the
first settlement of this county.

Now the question is, do we appreciate
and make the best use of all these great
blessings, that have been showered down
upon us during this our day and generation,
or are we striving to out-do and keep ahead
even of this fast age, by unheard of extrava-
gance in our public and individual under-
takings? The erection of many of our build-
ings costs more in outside embellishments
than do the useful parts. We build a good
many school houses, and the public derive
untold advantages from the benfits now con-
ferred on the rising generation, but alas,
how far short are the present advantages to
what they would be, were every scholar,
after obtaining a good district school educa-
tion, required to choose his future calling,
and to then commence putting it in prac-
tice. If higher branches are afterwards nec-
essary they could be chosen to correspond
with their choice, let it be mechanics, pro-
fessional, mercantile, or agricultural ; for
business men the Commercial College, such
as Mr. Parson’s, is worth more, according to
my way of thinking, than all the High
Schools and Colleges in the land. Until the
Agricultural College was started no useful oc-
cupation was taught at public expense. Too
many of both sexes are kept in school and
crammed with book learning until they are
educated above any useful calling, and too
often start in life bound to live by their wits
without labor. claiming that the world owes
them a living on the same principle that it
owed them an education, and this way of
living often leads to the worst kind of gam-
bling; even the game of base ball, that used
to afford good healthy exercise to the school
boy and men following indoor occupations,
is now played by a picked nine of the most
athletic young men to be found in the dif-
ferent cities they hail from, who travel from
city to city with a large number of profes-
sional followers who manage to make a liv-
ing out of those foolish enough to risk their
money on the game. The same thing is
practiced with that noble animal—man’s
best friend,—the horse. The faithful and
useful work horse is now valued at from one
to two hundred dollars,while the race horse,

and friendly acquiescence in the decisions of

of no practical value, is held at thousands

of dollars. The only use made of him is to
take him from place to place with a lot of
black-leg followers, who live by a species of
gambling well calculated to demoralize and
degrade our young men. _

But worse than all is the gambling in the
products of the soil :—Farmers, beware of
bucket-shops. for nine out of ten will find in
the end, when they flatter themselves of a
big haul, the bucket comes up with the
bottom knocked out,—and they are ruined.
The only legitimate way to market grain is
to sell what you produce only at the market
value at the time of sale. The honest deal-
ers are now being driven from the market
and from buying and selling in the old way,
as it is impossible for them to know what
effect these fictitious sales will have upon
the actual market a day in advance.

There is now too great a tendency to con-
centrate wealth into the hands of a few
persons, at the expense of the many:—Our
railroads are often controlled more in the in-
terest of stock jobbers than for the public at
large. If our railroads are amenable to the
laws of the State, no man elected to enact
the law or to adminiter it, should travel at
their expense. Railroads properly managed
are one of the greatest blessings ever con-
ferred on the public; and the people should
cheerfully aid in their support, to the extent
of a just and reasonable compensation on
the real amount of their cost.

Our humane and reformatory institutions
are filling up to such an alarming extent,
that all well wishers of their fellows are cal-
led upon to investigate and see if something
cannot be done to help correct this growing
evil:—Can’t a better system than the one we
now have be adopted to arrest the first steps
in dissipation and crime? No man should
make money out of another’s misfortune.
Those who deal with these minor offences
should be salaried officers, men of humane
feelings, men who will watch over and try
to prevent young men from falling; and
they should retain their office for a longer or
a shorter time, according as they succeed in
keeping good order without the aid of law.
As it is now, the foolishly unfortunate man
who is spending his money for drink, gives
it to the saloon-keeper as long as he can
stand up, and when he falls down some of-
ficer pounces on him, puts him in jail, and
takes more money from him if he has any
left, and if not it is charged over to the peo-
ple; and the publicity given the case too
often causes a feeling of degradation, induc-
ing him to continue in the practice instead
of helping him to reform. I never knew a
man willingly to give up a bad habit by
compulsion, but he can often be induced to
do so by appealing to his better nature.

Farmers are the main-stay of our country:
all wealth comes from the soil in some
shape; and as crops are cut short, We must
live this year on what was left over from
last, or else run into debt. It therefore be-
hooves us to curtail expenses and keep out
of debt if possible.

The Salt industry.

A dispatch from Washington says that a
report upon the salt manufacture of the Un-
ited States, prepared by O. L. Rowland,
special agent for the chemical industry of
the census bureau, gives some interesting
statistics in relation to this article. It shows
a large increase of production of salt in the
past :20 years. The entire production in
1860 was 12,277,298 bushels, in 1870, 17,606,
105, and in 1880,29,800,208 bushels. In 1860
the State of New York furnished 7,521,335,
or 59 per cent. of the entire production,
while Michigan furnished but .02 per cent.
Twenty years later Michigan outstripped
New York and produced 12,425,885 bushels,
an amount almost equal to the production
of all the States in 1860, and 413- per cent. of
the supply of 1880, New York contributing
not quite 30 per cent. of the aggregate pro-
duction. The average depth of the Mich-
igan wells is 881 feet, while those of New
York are but 274 feet, but the strength of the
brine in Michigan is 91 1-4 deg. salometer,
while New York brine is but 69} degrees.

The Virginia wells are of less depth than
even New York, being but 262 feet, with a
brine 86 degrees in strength. Ohio labors
under the disadvantage of deep wells 902
feet, with brine of but 36; degrees strength.

Kentucky bores 500 feet for brine of 34 de-
grees. Pennsylvania, 884 feet, with brine of
28 degrees. Nevada flnds brine of 12 degrees
at 150 feet. Utah apparently possesses
greater facilities for sale manufacture from
her great lake with brine at the surface and
second in strength only to that of Michigan,
which is but 8:} degrees stronger. The pro-
duct of Utah in 1880 was 483,800 L-ushels and
in 1870, 1,950 bushels; in 1860 none. Of $8,-
225,740 capital invested in this enterprise,
New York has $1,082,286 and Michigan $2,-
147,200 or 54 per cent. of the aggregate capi-
tal employed by two States.

$14,000 a Year.

The expense of maintaining that rare lux-
ury, known as “The Iowa Railroad Com-
missioners,” is about fourteen thousand dol-
lars a year. They have no more power to
redress wrongs perpetrated by railroad com-
panies than a country justice of the peace.
It is not the fault oi the Commissioners that
they are utterly powerless and perfectly
harmless; the law makes them so.

When the railroad attorneys drafted the
bill, they carefully guarded the interests of
their em lovers, and no one seems to have
looked a ter the interests of the people who
own no railroads. After the great victory
was won by the people, in the decision of
the Supreme Court sustaining the right of
the Legislature to regulate railroad charges,
the sharp railroad managers deprived our
citizens of all the direct benefits of that
most important decree, by securing the re-
peal of the law which had just been sustain-
ed by our highest courts. To-day we have
nothing to show for the long years of earn-

est work that culminated in the enactment

ofa railroad tariff law, and the people are
paying $14,000 a year to be reminded by an
annual report how powerless they are.-
Homestead.

The Adulieration of Sugar.

In England as well as in this country the
subject of food adulteration is attracting un-
common attention, and legislation has been
called upon to assist in protecting the inno-
cent consumer, upon whom countless frauds
have been committed. Many of the staple
articles of food, such as milk, butter, and
flour were found by a recent analysis to con-
tain an average of over 15 per centum of
adulteration. In some cases the foreign mat-
ter was found to be merely harmless, but in
In ny more cases the adulterants were nox-
ious and highly injurious to health.

The most extensive adulterations practic-
ed in this country are those which affect a
prime necessity of rich and poor alike—su-
gar.

It is a fact not widely known that the su-
gar interest of the United States ranks first
in importance and extent of all departments
of commerce, and of the entire imports into
the States one-sixth in bulk and value is su-
gar.

These broad facts indicate the vastness of
the sugar consumption, and the fact that su-
gar enters largely into nearly all forms of
infants’ food that are used as substitutes for
their mothers’ milk, is a cogent rea'son why
dangerous adulteration of sugar should be
prevented.

All laws that have been devised prove
practically inoperative, so far as protecting
the consumer who buys in small quantities,
for though the refiner who makes a business
of adulterating sugar may be required to la-
bel his packages “New Process,” or even
name the deleterious substances with which
pure sugar is debasad, still the consumer
rarely sees the original package, or if he
does, is unlikely to examine it closely. The
principal substance used in the debasement
of sugar is starch made from corn, common-
ly known as glucose, which although not as
harmful as many other substances with
which sugars are adulterated, is still compar-
atively worthless in saccharine power, and,
therefore, fraudulent when offered as sugar.

But the danger of putting into the delicate
stomachs of infants, sugar that is contami-
naied with muriatic acid, muriate of tin or
other harmful substances, cannot be exag-
gerated, and the use of “New Process” su-
gars should be discouraged by all reputable
dealers, and with greater emphasis by con-
sumers, who can demand sugars that are
known to be pure. The most extensive su-
gar refiners in the world are Messrs. Have-
meyer & Elder, and it is a satisfaction to be
able to state that every package of sugar
sent out from their refineries (which in ex-
tent are like a city in themselves, in Brook-
lyn, E. D.) contains a guarantee that it is
absolutely pure. The wise consumer will
not need to be told that it is better economy
to buy pure sugar or syrup than that which
has been reduced in strength. Of course the
safest way to secure pure sugar is to pur-
chase an original package, and at the exten-
sive refineries we have named, half barrels
are put up as well as barrels, and contain
the guarantee to which affidavit was pub-
lished Nov. 18, 1878. In buying a diamond
or a piece of silk, the purchaser who dis-
plays the greatest wisdom is the one who re-
lies on the reputation of a great name as a
guarantee of the excellence of an article of
which he is comparatively ignorant, and an
affidavit issuing from the great refineries of
the Havemeyers is as certain a guarantee of
the purity of sugar as is obtainable. It is an
interesting fact to note that the guarantee of
the Havemeyers is not an indorsement of
their sugar based up on the reports of fore-
man or uthersubordinates, but a statement
of positive practical knowledge of the active
members ofa vast industrial establishment.

The lS'am’ta7-y Engineer, a journal that has
made itself an authority on matters of hy-
giene, remarks in a recent issue that each of a
number of named groups of food, in which‘
adulteration is practiced, “contains material
for years of careful investigation and study”
by the gentleman appointed by the State
Board of Health. Pending the appearance
of reports from these gentleman, which will
probably reveal many strange facts, con-
sumers of sugar at least have a safeguard.—-
N. Y. Times, Aug. 10th.

 

Straws.

Following the recent circular of the Anti-
Monopoly League, entitled “ Secret Chap-
ters in Political History,” the following
press items are very significant:—

“ The bond of Senator Robertson, as col-
lector, was yesterday returned approved
from Washington. The sureties are C. P.
Huntington, President of the Central Pacif-
ic railroad, and Theron R. Butler, President
of the Sixth Avenue railroad company.
Each qualified in the sum of $400,000.—New
York Times, July 3, 1881.

C. P. Huntington is one of the four men
who, as stated in the speech of Congressman
Daggett in February last, had made one
hundred and eighty-six millions of dollars
in fifteen years from an investment of
twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
Theron R. Butler is one of the principal
street railroad monopolists of New York
city.

The following from the Richmond, (Va.)
Dispatch, is another straw indicating how
tt;he monopolists are roping in the legisla-

ors:—
“ GREENBRII-JR WHITE SULPHUR
SPRINGS, West Va., July 27, 1881.

A distinguished party of gentlemen, con-
sisting of Senators H. G. Davis and Cam-
den, of West Va.; Thoma- F. Bayard,
of Delaware, John W. Johnson, of Vir-
ginia, and others, arrived here last night
after a trip of 200 miles on horseback, last-
ing nearly 10 days, through a mountain
wilderness in West Virginia. They are
connected with the West Virginia Central
& Pittsburg railroad, which is to be an ex-
tension of the Richmond & Alleghany rail-
road. They were accom anied part of the
way by Secretary of the reasury Windom,
the Hon. '1‘. B. Elkins, of New Mexico, and
Alexander Shaw, of Baltimore, and the
Whole route by T. E. Sickles, Consulting
Engineer of the Union Pacific railroad;
Lewis Baker, Ex-Speaker George H.
Moffett, and Col. Isaac Moore, of West
Virginia. Mr. Siekels is the chief engineer
of the projected road, and the trip was
taken for the purpose of locating the
route through. an undeveloped territory.
Senator Bayard enthusiastically describes
the ride as one of the most delightful he ever

enjoyed. The party passed through a coun-
try largelyvirgin, the soil of which is of the
richestcharacter, finely timbered, and with
immense deposits of coal and iron. More
than halfofthejourney was performed over
mountains and streams and without roads,
a pioneer corps having cut away the logs and
timbers so as to admit the passage of horses.

This enterprise is spoken of as of national

importance, such men, in addition to
those already mentioned, as Secretary
Blaine, ex-Senators Barnum, C-hafi‘ee,
and \V_vthe, of Maryland, and Messrs.
Keene, Keyser, U.  Grant, Jr., and other
capitalists, being actively engaged in pro-
moting it. The design is to connect with
the Baltimore & Ohio road at Piedmont,
with the Richmond «St Alleghany road at
Clifton Forge, and with the Chesapeake &
Ohio road at this point. When the explor-
ing party reached the summit between the
Cheat and Greenbrier waters, in Pocahon-
tas county, a beautiful knoll, clothed with a
verdure of bluegrass, was christened Mount
Bayard, with appropriate ceremonies, in
honor of the Delaware Senator. This point
is the apex of the two Virginias, at the head
of all the Virginia waters, and is now for
the first time ascertained to be the highest
elevation—4,625 feet above the level of the
sea——of the whole Allegheny range. The

view from it is described as being grand and

impressive beyond description. Themaxi-

mum grade ofthe new route, as determined

by Engineer Sickels, is -12 feet to the mile.

Secretary Blaine has arranged, circumstan-

ces permitting, to spend the month of Sep-

tember on the road.”

Senator Camden, as stated by the Anti-
Monopoly League, was elected by the com-
bined intluence of the Baltimore dt Ohio
railroad and the Standard OilCompany. It
seems that he is doing the monopolies good
service by “ interesting ” such good and
true men as Senator Bayard, in projects that
will inevitably throw his influence against
the people in the approaching struggle be-
tween the people and monopolies. With
stock indicators in our legislative halls to
facilitate gambling in VVall Street-a
“ point” for a vote is now getting to be con-
sidered a fair exchange-—bribery can be ac-
complished much easier and more genteely
than the lobbyists’ old way of losing money
at cards. Query: Haven't we about
enough of public men interested in railroads
and telegraphs? and in view of the fact that
nine-tenths of the corruptions of our elec-
tions and legislation is done by corporations,
and it is publicly stated that they intend to
control the governmentiii their own inter-
est, would it not be well for the people to
elect representatives who are not interested
in great corporations‘? The public interest
would doubless be far safer if some of those
already elected were relegated to private
life.—American Dairy/man.

Scarcity of Black Walnut.

The supply of black walnut lumber is en-
tirely inadequate to the demand among
Eastern furniture manufacturers. Prices
have advanced nearly 25 per cent. within the
pleat year. This lumber formerly came from

estern Canada and from Indiana, and now
manufacturers are obliged to go to Missouri,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Kansas for a sup-
ply. VVestern manufacturers of furniture,
and they have become numerous, of course
have the advantage in being nearer the
source of supply, and thus pick up the best
and largest lots. But the question is begin-
ning to come home to them, VVhat are we to
do in the future for this lumber? There
seems to be nothing that can take its place
for household furniture, desks and oiiice fin-
ishing. There is hope of relief but in one
direction. The people must plant groves
and forests. The nuts are plentiful and
cheap. The trees grow readily and rapid-
ly. A small portion of farms in the latitude
of Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan can be
put to few more profitable uses than to wal-
nut plantations. Too far north the walnut
does not thrive well, and grown very far
South the lumber is of inferior quality,—so
say the dealers and workers in this lumber.
Farmers who take advantage of the occasion
and plant largely will realize a large profit
in this investment. In a future number the
Review will tell how to prepare for the nuts,
how and when to plant, and how to care for
the young trees.——Farmers’ Review.

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

The next meeting of Allegan Co. Council,
P. of H., will be held at Allegan Grange
Hall on Tuesday, the 6th of September. All
fourth degree members are cordially invited
to attend. M. B. V. Mc ALPINE,

Sec’y Allegan Co. Council.

The Clinton County Pomona Grange will
meet at the Olive Grange Hall at 10 o'clock,
A. M., Wednesday, September 7, 1881. An
excellent program has been announced and
a good time is expected. All members of
the Order are cordially invited to attend.

FRANK C Y, S " ,
St. Johns, August 15, 1881. Om‘ ea y

FARM FOR SALE.

The subscriber having retired from his farm on
account of failing health, now offers a portion of it
for sale, containing 148 acres under a good state of
improvement, good fences, and living water in every
field, good buildings of all kinds required on a large
farm, a good bearing orchard. Will sell with or sep-
arately, all the stock, teams, machinery and utensils,
consisting of 4 horses, 35 head of cattle, ll of which
are thorough-bred Short Horns, and the balance high
grades of the same breed, among which are 8 A No. l
milch cows; 235 fine wool Merino sheep, anumber of
hogs and poultry; Empire nine-hoe combined grain
drill; Buckeye wheel cultivator; a. two-horse tread
power, stalk cutter, root cutter, field roller, and other
implements too numerous to mention. Prices and
terms easy. For further particulars inquire of R. G.
Bostwick on the premises situated on section 30 in
the town of Cannon, Kent county, Mich., 4} miles
southeast of Belmont station, G. R. & I. R. R., or of
the subscriber at Lowell. M_ B, H]_NE_

Lowell, Aug. 8, 1881. kept.“

BIBTHPLACE on THE ORDER.-—VVe have a
few copies of this engraving still on hand.
We will send a single copy by mail for 10
cents; three copies for 25 cents. Address
0. L. Whitney, Muskegon, Box 321, or order

of J. T. Cobb, at Schoolcraft.

  
   

   

  
 
  
 
 

   
  
    
  
   
    
   
    
  
  
   
   
  
    
    
  
  
    
    
   

   
 
   
   
  
     
    
 
  
  
 
  
  
    
 
   

   

    
  
  
  
    
   
   
    
     
   
  

     
  

    
 
  
  
  
     
  
    
      
   
   
    
     
  
 
   
   
  
   
        
       
     
      
        
       
  
    
      
   
  
     
 
   
     
   
   
  
  
   
   
  
    
   
    


 

  

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SEPTEMBE R 1, 1881.

‘Earlier’ I firpaqtmeqi.

YOUR MISSION.
If on cannot on the ocean
ail among the swiftest fleet,
Rocking on thefiighest billows,
Laughing at e storms you meet :
You can stand among the sailors,
Anchored yet within the bay,
You can lend a hand to help them,
As they launch their boats away.

If you are too weak to journey
Up the mountain steep and high,
You can stand within the valley,
While the multitudes go by ;
You can chant in happy measure
As they slowly pass along:
Though they may forget the singer,
They will not forget the song.

If on have not gold and silver
ver ready to command,
If you cannot toward the needy
Reach an ever open hand,
You can visit the afilicted, .
Us: the erring you can weep, '
You can be a. true disciple,
Sitting at the Savior’s feet.

If you cannot in the conflict
Prove yourself a soldier true;
If where fire and smoke are thickest
There's no work for you to do,—
When the battle-field is silent,
You can go with silent tread,
You can bear away the wounded,
You can cover up the dead.

Do not then stand idly waiting
For some greater work to do;
Fortune is a lazy goddess,
She will never come to you;
Go and toil in any vineyard,
Do not fear to do or care,
If you want a field of labor,
You can find it ANYWHERE.

Woman's Right of Sufirage.

BY MRS. JASON NICHOLS.

Worthy Master.-—'Fhe subject before the
house for discussion is: “Resolved, That the
right of suffrage should be extended to
women with the same regulations and re-
strictions which are applied to men.”

The question of women’s suffrage is un-
doubtedly destined to become prominent in
the near future. As civilization advances
and the principles of truth and justice pre-
vail in the government of the world, the
condition of woman is improved. This prin-
ciple has universally held good in the history
of the world,and is destined to continue until
women enjoy equal rights with men. Cer-
tain ideas which have hitherto been con-
sidered orthodox by the very best of men,
will come to be regarded as relics of barbar-
ism—nothing more, nothing less. Time was,
and we regret to say, is yet, when the intel-
ligence and judgment of a woman is placed
at a discount, not because of any inferiority
in the article itself, but simply because it is a
woman’s intelligence and judgment. The
government of the United States to-day
places a higher estimate upon the judgment
of men who can neither read nor write than
it does upon the judgment of women who
have had all the advantages of collegiate
training and are well versed in the science of
government.

It is with us no longer a question as to
whether the right of the ballot ought to be
given to women or not. In our mind that,
at least, is settled. So long as women must
be subject to law, their right to a voice in
the making of those laws must be acknowl-
edged. The tide of public sentiment is al-
ready setting in so strongly in favor of this
reform that it needs no prophet to tell what
the outcome will be. ,There is no alterna-
tive; the ballot must be placed in the hands
of women, and there it will be as surely as
that the sun will shine on the morning of
future elections.

The objection to women’s voting arises
from a species of sickly sentimentality that
has no foundation injustice or common sense.
How many husbands consult their wives in
matters of grave importance in their busi-
ness transactions, and often is that advice
followed with successful results. The pul-
pit, the rostrum, the learned professions, are
now open to women: why, then, should the
ballot box he closed to them 3 Does it require
more judgment and intellect to decide be-
tween the claims of two political candi-
dates than women have displayed in inves-
tigating the laws of Nature and solving her
mysterious problems? Could not Miss Her-
schel as successfully investigated principles
involved in a county election, as in the laws
that govern the planetary system? Was
not Mrs. Somerville as competent to form a
correct opinion and decide between two
opposing political parties, as to investigate
the laws of physics and philosophy? Could
not Mrs.-Stowe have voted as intelligently
on the slavery question as the average mem-
ber of the legislature or senate, who obtain-
ed his seat by falsehood, swindling and brib-
ery, or his friend, the grog-shop politician,
whose vote and opinion were purchased by a
glass of rum? Could Mrs. Hemans, Mrs.
Browning, or Eliza Cook, whose writings
are a part of the standard literature of the
day, exercise a proper discrimination be-
tween the claims for oflice of a blatant dem-
agogue and a pure-minded statesman ? Are
themysteries of the political arena so deep
and profound as to be understood only by
the drunken habitue of a grog-shop, and to
be beyond the comprehension of those pure-
minded Christian women whose presence
and prayers, like a sunbeam from heaven,
illumined the dark dens of vice during the
crusade ? Have women sat upon the thrones
of the great kingdoms of the earth and ad-

ministered just laws to prosperous nations,
while they, as a class, are incompetent to
vote for a county judge or legislator?

But, says a timid sister, I don’t want to
vote; I would not if I could: I don’t think
it would be very nice for ladies to go to the
polls and vote among a crowd of men. Oh
dear! what a reason for not giving the moral
weight of woman’s influence at an election !
I suppose women don’t go to church among
acrowd of men, or to the Grange, the thea-
tre or opera, or to large parties. and there,
dressed as scantily as the season will per-
mit, circle through the voluptuous evolu-
tions of the waltz or round dance in the em-
brace of some other woman's husband or
brother,—-but it is not “nice” to go to an
election among acrowd of men and drop
into a box a piece of paper on which is
written, “ The country needs moral, honest,
and temperate men to make laws, and we
will have no other.”

It is not nice to stand boldly for the right

and for the sake of fathers, husbands, and
sons demand of our rulers that vice and
temptation to sin shall not be established by
law, or licensed by legal enactment. To my
mind there is not one argument that can be
urged against women’s suffrage that may not
be used with equal force against nearly all
the social privileges they now enjoy. Do not
women discuss in public and private the
great moral questions before the people ? Is
not the moral character of‘ men in high
places and the theories they advocate the
subject of many a noble theme from wo-
man’s pen? Does anyone dare to deny
their right to freely discuss every question
in science, religion, or politics that comes
up before the people? If there is such a
one, Worthy Master, in the feeling and sig-
nificant words of “ Bumble. the Beadle, he
cannot be a married man,” and he certainly
denies a right that is acknowledged by the
civilized world. It is too late, in the light
of the ninteenth century, to attempt to deny
the intellectual power of women and their
moral influence on the destinies of the peo-
ple; too many noble sentiments that shall
live until literature shall die have been ut-
tered by them both on the rostrum and in
the pulpit. and to concede to them these
powers, this influence, these rights, and
then deny their right to be heard and felt
through the ballot box is to deny a self evi-
dent truth and the plainest principles of
social and political ethics. Put the ballot-box
in the hands of women and it will do more
to destroy the “ social evil ” than a century
of mission efforts, or all the power of moral
suasion. Let it be understood that a fallen
woman may reform as well as a fallen
man. Close not the doors that lead to
the anxious seats in our churches or to a
restoration in the social circle to the women
while we open every avenue of reform to
men. The Savior taught no such distinc-
tions. He said, “He that is without sin
among you, let him cast the first stone at
her.” What a lesson is here taught to the
Scribes and Pharisees of to-day of both sex-
es! VVhat a rebuke to the self righteous!
How much thejustice of eighteen hundred
years ago was like thejustice of to-day !

Give woman the ballot, let her assert
her right to help make laws that punish
her transgressions, and as the opinions of
society in all ages have been but a reflex of
the spirit laws that govern the nation, so will
she receive justice where it is now refused
her, and exert an influence over the morals
of the people that will protect those she
loves from the temptations that now beset
them on every hand. Maudlin sentimen-
tality will give way to a desire for the wel-
fare of husbands, sons, and fathers, and the
drinking shops and license law will never
survive one election after the time shall
come that woman holds the ballot, for vote
she will, regardless of the “crowds of men at
the polls ” whenever that issue is before the
people, and always on the side of temper-
ance and morality against temptation and
crime.

“ Taxation without representation is tyr-
anny," was the sentiment that fired the
hearts of the early patriots and nerved their
arms in the battles of the revolution, and
yet, while we tax the host of women proper-
ty holders in our country, we deny to them
the right of representation in the National
councils that impose these taxes. Dr. John-
son bellowed across the Atlantic, “ Taxation
no tyranny.” ‘ James Otis spoke for Ameri-
ca, for common sense and eternal justice, in
saying,,"No good reason can be given in
any country why every man of a sound
mind should not have his vote in the elec-
tion of a representative. If a man has but
little property to protect and defend, yet his
life and liberty are things of some impor-
tance,” and long before James Otis, Lord
Somers said to a committee in the House of
Commons, that the possession of a vote is the
only true security which an Englishman
has for the possession of his life and prop-
erty.

Every person is born with an equal claim
toevery kind of protection of his natural
rights which any other person enjoys. The
practical question is, therefore, how shall
this protection be best attained. Our fore-
fathers answered the question of the best
andsurest protection of natural rights by
their famous phrase. “ Consent of the gov-
erned.” John Stuart Mill says, “Every
one is degraded, whether aware of it or not,
when other people without consulting him,
take upon themselves unlimited power to

regulate his destiny.” No arrangement of
the suffrage, therefore, can be permanently
satisfactory in which any person or class is
pre-emptorily excluded, in which the elec-
toral privilege is not open to all persons of
full age who desire it.

It is alleged that women are already rep-
resented by men. VVhere are they so repre-
sented, Worthy Master, and when was the
choice made ? I repeat it. If they are rep-
resented, when was the choice made? No
one pretends to say that they have ever been
consulted. Itis a mere assumption made to
the efi"ect that the interest and afl.“ection of
men will lead them to iust and wise legisla-
tion for women as well as for themselves.
But thisis an old appeal for the political pow-
er of a class. Worthy Master, it is just what
the British Parliament said to the colonies
a hundred years ago. “ VVe are under the
same government,” said they, “ our inter-
ests are identical; we are Britons; Brittania
rules the wave. God save the king! and
down with sedition and sons of liberty !”
The colonies indignantly protested against
this assumption. VVe are all conversant
with the result.

If I am asked “ What do women want the
ballot for?” I answer the question with
another, “What do men want it for?”
Why do the British workingmen demand
it ‘.7 They want the ballot because the laws
affecting labor and capital are made by the
capitalist class alone, and are therefore
unjust.

VVorthy Master, it seems to be thought by
some, that if women practically took part in
politics, the home would be lefta howling

wilderness of cradles, and a chaos of undarn-

ed stockings and buttonless shirts. But
how is it with the men‘? Do they desert
their work-shops, their plows, and offices,
to pass their time at the polls? Is it a credit
to a man to be called a professional politi-
cian ? The pursuits of men in the world,-to
which they are directed by the natural apti-
tude of sex. and to which they must devote
their lives, are as foreign from political
functions as those of women. To take an
extreme case, there is nothing more incom-
patible with political duties, in cooking and
taking care of children, than there is in dig-
ging ditches, or making shoes, or in any
other necessary employment; while in every
superior interest of society growing out of
the family, the stake of women is not less
than men, and their knowledge is greater.
In England, a woman who owns shares in
the East India Company may vote. In this
country she may vote as a stockholder upon
a railroad from one end of the country to
the other. But if she sells her stock and
buys a house with the money, she has no
voice in the laying out of the road before her
door, which her house is taxed to keep and
pay for, and why, in the name of good
sense, if a responsible human being may
vote upon specific industrial projects, may
she not vote upon the industrial regulations
of the State ? There is no more reason that
men should assume to decide participation
in politics to be unwomanly, than that
women should decide for men that it is un-
manly. I think, Worthy Master, they may
betrusted to defend the delicacy of their
own sex. Nature is quite as wise as we.
If the instincts of sex, of maternity, of do-
mesticy, are not persuasive enough .to keep
them in the truest sense women, it is the
most serious defect yet discovered in the
divine order of nature. When, therefore,
men declare that voting is at war with the
distribution of functions between the sexes,
what do they mean‘? Are not women as
much interested in good government as
men? There is fraud in the legislature,
there is corruption in the courts; there are
hospitals, and tenement houses and prisons;
there are gambling houses, billiard rooms
and brothels; there are grog shops at every

corner,——all these things are the subjects of
legislation; and under the exclusive legis-
lation of men, the crimes associated with
these things become vast and complicated.
Have wives and mothers and sisters of
Michigan less vital interest in them, less
practical knowledge of them and their
proper treatment, than the husbands and
fathers ‘? N 0 man should be so insane as to
pretend it. Do you imagine if women held
the ballot in our own fair State, that the
legislature would have dared to refuse the
prohibitory amendment? I answer, most
emphatically, No! Politicians and office-
seekers are too well versed in the art of
securing votes, to have been guilty of such
base misdemeanor. They have an, eye for
the loaves and fishes.

In the GRANGE Vrsrron it is intimated
by a conscientious sister that if women held
the ballot they would become eager aspir-
ants for office; the consequent result, a
neglect of the social and moral influence of
women in the home circle. I do not think
so. Because women vote is no reason why
they should want to hold office. Few men,
comparatively, who vote, desire to hold
oifice, and rather shrink from the responsi-
bility of administering public affairs. No
woman, in all probability, would wish to
place herself in one of those invidious situa-
tions in which every act, no matter how
politic, no matter now just, no matter how
generous, would displease a large portion of
the community. Yet these men and these
women who would reject oflices themselves,
desire, no doubt, to see them well filled.
They desire to see them filled with dignity,
impartiality and wisdom, and this is done

by selecting those who have been disciplined
and trained for the performance of public
duty. Because I say women should have
the right to vote, I do not mean that they
should turn into scrivners, sheriffs and
magistrates, and perform that complicated
and arduous duty which properly belongs
to men trained and drilled especially to act
in the public eye. Supposing, however,
that women should actually hold office,-
where is the harm? VVhere is the impro-
priety ? They certainly would not disgrace
themselves by getting drunk, and it is reas-
onable to suppose that the public disburse-
ment would be as judicious and guarded as
those of corporations nowadays usually are.

The majority of women, however culti-
vated and developed and capable, will al-
ways prefer to any glare of public life, the
exclusiveness, the quietness of the home,
and will prefer to shine chiefly in the glory
of their husbands, or so to blend the light of
the two that it shall seem but one. I do not
fear that if my words should be remembered
by the next generation, they will be thought
unsupported or extravagant.

Whatever their sex incapacitates women
from doing, they will not do. Whatever
duty is consistent with their sex and their
relation to society, they will properly de-
mand to do until they are permitted.

But I hear some say, if women vote they
must do military duty. Undoubtedly, when
a nation goes to war i _.  rightfully claim
the service of all  ‘ ens, men and
women. But the qu -:37 y_"of fighting is not
the blow merely, but ‘,7 ality and persist-
ence. The important point is, to make the
blow effective. Did any brave Englishmen
who rode into the jaws of death at Balaklava,
serve England on the field more truly than
Florence Nightingale ? That which sus-
tains, serves and repairs the physical force
is just as essential as the force itself. Thus
the law, in view of the moral service they
are supposed to render, excuses clergymen
from the field ; and in the field it details ten
per cent. of the army to serve the rest, and
they do not carry muskets, nor fight.
VVomen, as citizens, have alwaysdone, and
always will do that work in the public de-
fense for which their sex peculiarly fits
them, and men do no more.

The care of the warrior, the nameless and
innumerable duties of the hospital and
home, are just as essential to National safety
as fighting in the field. A nation of men
alone could not carry on a contest any long-
er than anation of women. Each would
have to divide its forces and delegate half
of the duties to the other sex. But
while the physical services of war are equal-
ly divided between the sexes the moral
forces are stronger with women. It was
the women of the South, we are told, who
sustained the rebellion, and certainly with-
out the women of the North the govern-
ment had not been saved. From the first
moment till the last, in all the populous cit-
ies, in the remote valleys, in the deep
woods, on the country hill-side, on the
open prairie, wherever there were wives,
mothers, sisters, or lovers, there were busy
fingers which by day and by night for four
long weary years, like the great forces of
spring time and harvest, never failed. The
mother paused only to bless her sons, eager
for the battle, the wife to kiss the father of
her children as he went, the sister smiled
through her tears upon her brother, and
prayed for the lover who marched away.
Out of how many hundreds of thousands of
homes and hearts they went who never re-
turned ! But those homes were both the in-
spiration and the consolation of the field.
They nerved the arm that struck for them.
When the son and husband fell in the wild
storm of battle the brave woman heart
broke in silence, but the busy fingers did
not falter. When the comely brother and
lover were tortured into idiocy and despair
that woman heart of love kept the man’s
faith steady, and her unceasing toil repaired
his wasting frame. It was not love of the
soldier only, great as that was, it was knowl-
edge of the cause, it was that supreme mor-
al force operating through innumerable
channels, like the sunshine in nature, with-
out which the war would have been impos-
sible. There are thousands and thousands
of these women who ask for a voice in the
government they have so defended. Shall
we refuse them ?

 
  
   

Worthy Master, we have many Michigan
mothers who- trained their sons in fidelity
to God and their country. When the coun-
try called they answered. Mother and son
gave each after his kind his whole service
to defend the Union. By the sad fate of
war her boy was thrown into the ghastly
den at Andersonville. Mad with thirst he
crawls in the pitiless sun towards a muddy
pool. He reaches the dead-line and is shot
by the guard. Murdered for fidelity to his
country. I ask the Worthy Master, I ask
the brothers of this Grange, I ask every
honorable and patriotic man in this State.
upon what conceivable ground of justice,
expediency, or common sense shall we give
the ballot to the Michigan boy’s murderer
and refuse it to his mother?

Worthy Master, I have stated what I con-
ceive to be- the essential reasonableness of
the resolution before the house.
good for men to be alone. United with wo-
man in the creation of human society, their
rights and interests in government are iden-
tical, nor can the highest and truest devel-

It is not‘

opment of society be conceived of so long as

one sex assumes to prescribe limits to the

scope and functions of the other. Let us

then acknowledge it by allowing them to

exercise their rights untrammeled by popu-

lar prejudices, which are often wrong, unre-

strained by past restrictions, and unlimited

except by those lines of demarkation which

humanity and a developing civilization.
draw for the government and protection of
mankind.

The test of civilization is the position of
women. \Vhere they are wholly slaves, man
is wholly barbarous, and the measure of
progress from barbarism to civilization is the
recognition of their equal right with man to
an unconstrained development.

Therefore, Worthy Master, may we not
reasonably expect that, in the near future,
the lords of creation who may chance to
pick up the New York Herald, will see this
announcement:—

“The several States of the United States
have by legislative enactment extended the
right of suffrage to women, with the same
restrictions regarding age and capacity
which are applied to men. This act of the
people is hailed with great joy, and is re-
garded as the longest step in the progress of
the race which has been made within the
last century.”

Capitol Grange, Lansing, July 16.

The Farmer's Life.

[Essay read at the August meeting of
Hillsdale County Grange by Sister D.
Chickner.]

Worthy Master and Patrons.-—I wish your
committee had chosen a more able writer to
entertain you this afternoon, for I can only
ask you to forbear with me.

VVhen the Mayflower landed its living
freight of educated, earnest men and
women, who had the courage to leave all
that was dear to them to endure the priva-
tions, both social and physical, of the New
World, a brighter day dawned on the farmer
than ever before. They came here for relig-
ious freedom, and were of difl‘erent profes-
sions and trades. yet from necessity they
must now clear the land and raise food.
They were not going to be the tenants of
any noble lord, but free men and women
bent on using every talent they had for the
common good; with no church tithes and
no overbearing game laws, at liberty to buy
and sell all that they could pay for.

Commerce was an, outgrowth from the
wealth of the country, and the rapid means
of transportation and the reduction of man-
ual labor by machinery, the product of their
fertile brain.

Stephen A. Douglass said: “Agriculture
has found a larger field for the exercise of
the intellectual and moral energies in this
country than in any other of the globe.
Agriculture is settling up our new States
and territories, gives employment to the
work- shops, and furnishes the products
which forms the basis of our foreign and do-
mestic commerce. Agriculture stimulates
every species of industry and is the parent
and supporter of them all.” For in propor-
tion as the farmer prospers,so do they. When
his purse is full does he not call on the ma-
chinist, carriage maker, carpenter, mason,
and all the other crafts, not forgetting the
furniture man and drv-goods store? Do we
boast when we say the farmer moves the
world, and he ought to rule it? He will if
he only seeks to improve his mind as he does
to fill his purse. «

The spirit of unrest that has made us
spread over this great and glorious country,
the improvements that have been so rapid-
lybrought forward, have developed a new
element of our moral character. VVe have
become almost nomadic as a people. We
sell our homes or anything else for a few
extra dollars even when necessity is not
upon us. The sentiment that grandfather
and grandmother lived here,and on this farm
lived my father's father ; therefore I love it-—
is almost unknown, and too often they, like
an old machine, are spoken of as the “old

folks,” without the least reverence and al-
most as if there was a wish that they were

out of the way. Friendships, too, are not as
deep as they were once. Our constant chang-
ing of home, meeting as many strangers as
we do in our frequent journeys, produces a
“ mushroom” friendship.

How often we hear the expression “ I am
at home wherever night overtakes me.” If
that is so what then, makes their home?
Four walls and a roof‘? Somewhere to eat
and sleep? Where there is enough of hu-
manity with whom to pass a social hour,
and then drift away on life’s current? Such
a home would never suggest the ballads we
all love, “ Home again,” “ Do they miss me
at home?” “The dearest spot on earth to
me is home, sweet home," and many others
that are the outbursts of loving hearts.

The farmer’s should be the model home.

Compare our husbandry to-day with that of ~

other lands. Go into their homes. Have they
books, papers, pictures, and all the other
means for improvement that are furnished
ours ? Do their children enjoy school privi-
leges as ours do? How much we have to
enjoy that those who redeemed these lands
never even thought of. They, with the pa-
tience of Job, toiled on uncomplainingly to
the end, and yet with all these comforts and
advantages our young folks continually
wish to leave the farm. Why is it? The
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SEPTEMBER 1, 1881.

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

7

ticing allurements are the easy manners and
pleasant ways acquired by daily meeting
with those to whom we wish to appear
pleasant and affable. Thissocial quality at-
tracts more than any other, and where the
masses congregate there is more of an op-
portunity to gratify our desire for amuse-
ment. Also, others see greater educational
advantages. Schools are -usually better, lec-
tures frequent and more easily attended
than on the farm. Libraries and museums
are both inducements. The love for the
beautiful can be so easily gratified. Beauti-
ful houses, furniture, pictures, dress, flne
gardens, parks, smooth sidewalks, under
the shade trees or gas lights in the evening,
are all charming,and to those who never saw
the dark side of city life it is no wonder
that we who live on the farm and know of
the mud and water of country roads in the
winter time, and the dusty track and weed
grown sidewalk with the scorching sun of
summer as we went to and from school, the
untidy front door-yards of most farm-
ers, we fancy that to live in the city must be
happiness. Others are tempted by the vari-

ous ways of making money easier-and “faster .

than on the farm, as they think, and fathers
are not free from these influences and often
speak as if they desired nothing so much as
to leave the farm.

A farmer once had no social position, but
in this free land of ours he ranks in society
judged by his integrity, ability, and educa-
tion, An agreement binding a child with a
promise of a_t-rade is now pronunced by the
law of the United States fulfilled if he is
brought up on a farm and schooled until of
age. Our Agricultural College also offers a
course of study to be pursued at home

which will enable any young man to re-
serve his diploma and degree.

Then th Grange has come forward like a
supplement to our school system to not only
supply the social element we so much need
for youngland old, but to develop our mental
resources.

It is said that in the State house of repre-
sen-tives were farmers, but the legal frater-
nity carried almost every point because Of
the farmers’ lack of confidence in them-
selves. Many persons havea feeling of mor-
bidness, and this is strengthened by the in-
ability to impress their thoughts or heart’s
feeli-ngs on others. The Grange strives to
counteract such tendencies, and inspires
self reliance to impart ideas to others by
giving all an opportunity to discuss the va-
rious subjects brought before them. This
sets -the minds at work and enlaiig-es their
capacity for enjoyment bv the Wquirment
of knowledge.

Who can doubt that friendship is in-

creased by the cultivation of the intel-
lectual powers? If darkness covered the
earth and gross ignorance the P001319. the
fraternal feeling which has brought us to-
gether here to-day would not exist. Then
we should strive to beautify our homes,
not by pinng up wood and stone that
we are unable to pay for or furnish,
but by repairing the gate and rebuilding
the depleted fence. Neatness in the sur-
roundings will improve the appearance of
any house. A little time and manure given
to the lawn, shrubs and flowers, raising
them for the refining influences they give,
will be fully repaid ; your little 01188
with flowers in their hands will be more
loving and kind. Let every child have 8
tree, shrub, or a vine planted on some me-
morial day or birthday, when they begin to
go to school,or any time you may choose,and
raise it with care, not for the dollars it will
pay, «but for them, to be always specified as
their tree. By it talk with each child of
your hopes for them, and when your eyes
are dim or closed in death that tree will be
the representative and reminder of your
love and counsel. Brothers and sisters will
love each other’s tree or shrub, and should
-one of the number be early transplanted to
the garden above, no marble you could raise
would be half so endearing. A farm bound
by a thousand ties to the ‘heart will not be
parted with freely.

We need to cultivate sentiment. Our
hearts are warm and true, but to those who

cold and reserved side of our nature is shown!
The good old bachelor Paul exhorted us to
be courteous, this will beautify our lives and
like cushions on a rough road wonderfully
ease the jolts of life. There is a glorious
future for the farmer if he works for it with
faith, looks forward with hope,with charity,
forgets the wrong and guards the good work
with fidelity. Then when the Worthy
Master shall proclaim the day's work fin-
ished, he will say, “The work is well done
that I gave thee to do.”

Lost Opportunities. -
If we only knew our opportunities what
a difference it would make in our lives! If
we only knew when to do and when to cease
doing, if we only knew what would lead to
success and what to defeat, how everything
would be changed! The world is full of
lost opportunities. We let them slip away
from us as they offer, let them go carelessly,
thoughtlessly, never remembering that
they may never come to us again.
In the spring time the farmer who does
not sow his grain while the mild rays of the

fulharvest season. If he neglets to sow he
will not garner, and the opportunity is lost.
No wiser are we than this indolent farmer
wherrweallow the days in which we should
work to pass, and leave us the “Night when
no man can work.”

Every individual, I dare say, has during
his life had enough opportunies presented
to him to make, as we phrase it, his fortune,
if he had only seized upon them. Too
many of us, I fear, are waiting for grand
chances tooffer; we have not the patience to
accept the small things and make the best of
them. We want the best of fortune’s gifts,
and want them for nothing. We hear of
men who will not work for a dollar a day
because they have been accustomed to re-
ceive two or three, but they will spend their
time lounging around street corners and
holding up the village hotel piazza. No
doubt it seems hard to work for so little, but
the opportunity to work on any terms is
better than the opportunity to loaf. Satan
employs idle hands, the old proverb assures
us, and we believe it. The idle person is a
nuisance to himself and everybody else.

The wise man will allow no opportunity
to make himself useful to pass unimproved.
If they do not present themselves, he will
seek them out and make them his own, and
then if failure or defeat ensues he is at ease in

remembrance that it might have been
so different. .To think that within our
own power, within the grasp of our own
hands, have lain opportunities which if
embraced would have saved us from ruin.

Day by day we go about among opportu-
nities, we see and realize them often, but we
are waiting for something better, and while
we wait the moments which constitute
hours pass, and before we seize upon the
hours the day is gone and we are looking
for another dawning.

Brothers and Sisters, take hold of the op-
portunities which offer; if you cannot get
tne whole loaf get the half. Do not lay it
- to heart because some one has made thous-
ands of dollars with but little labor, remem-
ber that that which comes easilv is likely to
go in the same way, and it frequently hap-
pens that the slow plodders of earth die men
of wealth. So let us not waste any time in
mourning over neglected opportunities, or
in planning about what we will do to-mor-
row, but take up the work of to-day remem-
bering that when to-morrow comes ’tis but
to-day. And now, Brothers and Sisters in
this organization of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry, this is our opportunity. Let us
grasp it with the determination to accom-
plish what we have undertaken, and as it is
an effort to benefit farmers you should all
join with us, as we well know that “In
union there is strength; ” and the greater
our numbers and the more determined our
will, the sooner shall we achieve success.
And if we, the pioneers of this great work,
do not live to receive the full reward for all
our toil, we will have the satisfaction of
knowing that we can leave a blessed inheri-
tance for our children, better than lands or

gold. Mas. H. J. Ennv.
Excellent Glycerine Ointment.
A very good reparation of glycerine to

have always on and can be readily prepar-
ed by any apothecary or druggist: In two
ounces of sweet oil of almonds, melt, by a
slow heat, half an ounce of spermaceti, and
one drachm of white wax. Then add one
ounce of good glycerine, stirring until cold.
When cold, scent it by stirring in a little oil
of roses. Keep in small jars or small wide-
necked bottles. In hot weather keep corked,
as it sometimes gets a little rancid if long
exposed to the warmth. Half or a fourth of
the above quantities may be used. Every
drug-store should keep a jar of it, and recom-
mend its use. It is excellent for softening
the skin, for most injured skin surfaces that
are not open sores, for chapped places, for
moistening corns or calloused feet or toes,
and especially chapped face, lips, or hands.
When the hands are chapped or cracked, or
roughened by cold, wash them clean with
soap and rub them well with this glycerine
ointment, wiping it ofl‘ enough to prevent
soiling clothing. If this is done at night,
the hands will be soft and in good condition
in the morning, except when deeply crack-
ed. It is very good to apply to the hands
after “washing day.” This is an excellent
preparation to use by those afflicted with the
distressing trouble known as haemorrhoids
or piles.

 

.A ‘SEA captain trading to the African
coast was invited to meeta committee of a
society for the evangelization of Africa.
Among numerous questions touching the
habits and religion of the African races, he
was asked: “ Do the subjects of the King of
Dahomey keep Sunday?” “Keep Sunday?”
he replied. “Yes, and ever other thing
they can lay their hands on.’

WHEN velvet has been wet and becomes
spotted, hold the wrong side over steam,
and while damp draw the wrong side quick-
ly over a warm iron. It takes two to‘ do
this-—-one to hold the bottom of the iron
upward, and the second to draw the velvet
across.

IVORY that has been spotted, or has grown
yellow, can be made as clear and fresh as
new, by rubbing with fine sand paper, and
tpen polishing with finely powdered pumice
s one.

To BROWN sugar for sauce or pudding, put
the sugar in a perfect] dry saucepan. If
e pan is in the least bit wet, the sugar will

the earth,need not expect to reap his bounti-

his mind for he has done what he could and ‘ I
he has no regret for lost opportunities. And _
we think nothingcould be more cutting to f
-the hearts of the shipwrecked than the f

Eartha’ fiepaqtment.

BEAUTIFUL THINGS.

Beautiful faces are those that wear——
It matters little if dark or fair-
Whole-souled honesty printed there.

Beautiful eyes are those that show,
Like crystal panes where hearth fires glow,
Beautiful thoughts that burn below.

Beautiful lips are those whose words
Leap from the heart like songs of birds,
Yet whose utterance prudence girds.

Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that is earnest and brave and true,
Moment by moment the long day through.

Beautiful feet are those that go
On kindly ministries to and fro-—
Down the lowliest ways, if God wills it so.

Beautiful shoulders are those that bear
Ceasless burdens of homely care
With patient grace and daily prayer.

Beautiful lives are those that bless—
Silent rivers of happiness,
Whose hidden fountains but few may guess.

Beautiful twilight, at set of sun,
Beautiful goal, with race well won,
Beautiful rest, with work well done.

Beautiful graves where grasses creep.
Where brown leaves fall, where drifts lie deep
Over worn-out liands—oh, beautiful sleep !

Lula E. Bailey’s questions. The two chap-
ters in the Old Testament that are just alike
' are‘-the 19th chapter of II Kings and the
37th Isaiah ; also,the verse in the Old Testa-
ment that contains all the letters of the al-
phabet except “ T” and “J” is the 21st
verse of the 17th chapter of Ezra. I would
like to know where the verse is that con-
tains them all. Your niece,
SARAH N. 1\'r:wirAN.
Milford, August 8, 1881.

THE REAPER. DEATH.

WILEY.—Died at his residence in Alaiedon, Aug.
5, 1881, in the 63d year of his age, Juries W.Wxr.sr,
a member of Alaiedon Grange, No. 289. At a. reg-
alar meeting of that Grange, held Aug. 8, the follow-
ing resolutions were adopted:

WHEREAS, In the sudden and unexpected Death of
our Brother, a charter member-— once our Worth
Master—has been removed from our midst; therefore

Resolved, That in the death of our brother this
Grange has lost a worthy member and true friend
of the Order, his family an affectionate husband and
kind father, and the community a worthy and useful
citizen. We shall miss him: though his seat is va-
cant in the hall, yet his memory will be cherished in
our hearts

Resolved, That we tender our heartfelt sympathy
to our departed sister and her family.

Resolved, That in token of respect for our departed
brother, our hall be draped in mourning for 90 days;
that these resolutions be placed on the records of the
Grange, and that a copy be presented to the family
of the deceased, and also one sent to the GRANGE
Visiron for publication.

We shall sadly miss our brother,
When we come to our retreat;
But we know that angels bless him,
And he’s waiting us to greet.
WM. H. Hovr,
J Asian G. Rinirn,
Mas. NANCY RIDER,
Committee:

It is with feelings of regret that we announce the
death of our esteemed friend, James Wiley, of the
township of Ala-iedon, on the 5th of August, after a
short illness. The cause of his death was erysipelas.
Mr. Wiley was born in Monroe county, N. Y., in
1819. He came to this State in 1835, and settled in
the township of Alaiedon in 1865, where by industry
and economy he had secured a beautiful home, antic-
ipating, no doubt, spsnding many happy years sur-
rounded by his beloved family. He was zealous in
every good work to elevate humanity: was a. devoted
Patron and one of the first to assist in organizing
a Grange in this township. He held the oflice of
Chaplain in the Pomona Grange from its organiza-
tion until the present season. He was an earnest
worker in the Order, and the Grange will truly
mourn the loss of one so worthy. As a citizen and
neighbor he will be equally lamented, and as a bus-
band and father but few will be more truly and sin-
cerely mourned. His funeral was attended Sunday,
Aug. .7, at half past one o'clock, at his residence, by a
large concourse of sympathizing friends. 11. D. B.

[We have permitted this second notice of the death
of Mr. Wiley, from the pen of a neighbor, to appear
in our obituary column.—En.]

HOOD.—Died at Ronald, Ionia Co., Mich., June 4,
1881, Thompson P. Boon, aged 70 years.

WHEREAS, The angel of Death has summoned
from our midst our much beloved brother, Thompson
P. Hood; therefore

Resolved, That, while we bow in humble submis-
sion, we regret the loss sustained by the Grange with
which he was so lately connected; That we tender
our earnest sympathy, but realize the inability of our
words to heal the wound indicted by the loss of a
husband loving and true. a father ever striving to
gratify the wants of his children, and a generous
friend to humanity.
Resolved, That our implements and charter be
draped in mourning for a period of sixty days.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be pre-
sented to the wife of the deceased, a copy be placed
upon the records of the Grange, and also that one be
sent to the Gnaxon Vrsrron for publication.

CORA E. WALDBON,
D. S. WALIDRON,
Mas. W. H. MATTISON,

Ronald Grange, No. 192. Committee,

PEASE.—Onco more our hearts have been sadden-
ed, once more are we called to offer a tribute to the
memory_of one who was associated with us as a
member of our Grange.

Our sister, Delila Pease, departed this life June
30th, aged 30 years. Cut down in the morning of
life, she had endeared herself to all who knew her.
It is not for us to eulogize the dead, her life as a sis-
ter and friend tells her virtues. She has gone and
our hearts will ever cherish her memory.

Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt sympathy
to the brothers and sisters. Miss. A. Rvox, .
Committee.

HARTWELL—Died at her residence in Cannon,
Kent Co., Mich., July 29, 1881. M. J. HA:arwnLL. a
memberrof Cannon Grange, No. 39. At a meeting of
the Grange the following preamble and resolutions
were adopted as a tribute to her memory :-

burn and you will spoil your saucepan.

has again entered our midst and removed from
among usour Worthy Sister to the beautiful rest
above, and while we mourn our loss with saddened
hearts let us ever cherish her memory and strive to
imitate her virtues ; therefore be it

Resolved, That in the death of MARY J. HAn'r-
WELL, our Worthy Chaplain, this Grange laments
the loss of a sister who was an eiiicient member, a
faithful worker and a ready promoter of the interests
of our Order, one whose utmost endeavors were ex-
erted for its welfare and prosperity; a friend‘ and
counselor who was dear to us all, a citizen whose
upright and noble life was a standard of emulation to
all mankind.

Resolved, That this Grange deeply sympathize
with the aiiiicted son and friends in their bereave-
ment, aud beseech our heavenly Father to give_them
grace and su port in this their time of sorrow.

Resolved, That as a token of respect for our de-
parted sister the Charter of our Grange be draped in
mourning for sixty days, and that these resolutions
be placed upon the records of our Grange and trans-
mitted for publication to the GRANGE Visrroa and
the Lowell Journal, and a copy sent to the family of
the deceased.

A. Rs-r-rA Jonson,

B. E. Scor-r,

Mas. J. E. HcAe,
Committee.

BRUWN.—Died at her home in the township of
Vermontville, Michigan, July 19, 1881, Mas. DELIA
BROWN, a member of Vermontville Grange, N 0. 62-5,
P. of H. Resolutions of respect to her memory were
passed in the following form Aug. 6, 1881 :

WHEREAS, The silent messenger of Death has
again entered our Grange and taken from our midst
our Worthy Sister Delia Brown, a worthy member of
our Order, and a beloved friend; therefore

Resolved, That, while we mourn our loss, we no-
knowledge the guiding hand and loving kindness of
Him who hath given [Iris beloved sleep.

Resolved, That we extend to the bereaved husband
and family our warmest syrmpathy in this their great
afiiction, and, as another link is added to the chain
which 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-expression of respect for our
departed sister. the ‘Grange charter be draped in
mourning for 30 days; that -a copy of these resolu-
tions be presented to Brother Brown; that they be
placed on the records of the Grange, and is copy be
sent to the Gunox Visri-on for publication.

Mas. B. E. BEFEDICT,
‘ Mas. D. HAWKINS,
Mus. H. Smru,
Committee.

VINING.—Died at his residence in Mariette, July
29, 1881, GLIDEON E. Vmiivc, a-member of Mariette
‘Grange, No. 641, in the (5151: year of his age. The
following resolutions of respect and condolence were
adopted by this Grange :

WHEREAS, Death has again entered our ranks and
taken from us our brother, reminding us that the
harvest of time is sure and certain; therefore

Resolved, Tliat in the death of Brother Vining,
this'Grange has lost an earnest and consistent mem-
ber, his family a kind and indulgent father, and the
community a worthy and useful citizen.

Rmolved, That our heartfelt sympathy be extended
to the family of the deceased brother: realizing that
no words of ours can heal their sorrow or fill the
vacant place made in the family circle, we commend
them only to Him who doetb all things well.

Resolved, That these resolutions be placed upon
the minutes of the Grange, and a copy sent the
GRANGE Visiron for publication.

R. F. Wnmwoon,

H. DALE, SEN.,
Mas. H. DALE, Sam,
Committee.

F. A. NOR'I‘H’S FEED RACKS.

My invention, patented May 10, 1881, re-
lates to a 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 cheapness, 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 obtaining the 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 stri s or slats serve as a means of sepa-

rating t e animals so that each may obtain

proper proportion of the food. On each

side of the Back 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 access 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

prevent the 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. NORTH, Inventor,

WHEREAS, While we meet once more with pleas-
ant and happy greetings let us not forget that death

A. vANn'nNnE:§E,

MANUFACTURER.

Waoi.asALii AN!) Remix. DiiALaa Ill

HARNI-lSS,WHIPS, BLANKETS, TRUNKS, 816.,

92 Monroe Street.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

I take pleasure in presentingto your favorable con-
sideration my CAST-1 PRICE LIST of Harness Work
——HAND MADE—all of my own manufacture. and
also to return thanks for the liberal patronage I have
received from the different Granges throughout Mich-
igan. I shall do in the future as in the past-furnish
the best goods for the least money.

Farm Harness, White Trimmed Breeching,
Round Lines, Snaps, Rum Straps, and

spread rings, complete, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .329 00
The same without Breeclving, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 00
“ " with flat Lines, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 23 00

u u u u H

without breec_hing,.. 26 00
Double Light Buggy Harness, white trimmed,

from . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . .  . . . . . . . ..3‘2-"Jto 3000
The same, Nickle Trimmed, from . . . . "835 to 50 00
Single Buggy Harness, with round lines, white

trimmed, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 00
Same with flat lines................   12 00
Nickle Trimmed, . . . . . . .815, $16, $18, 820 and 26 00

ALL ORDERS RECEIVED UNDER SEAL OF
THE GRANGE
will be shipped at once, and may be returned at my
expense if not entirely satisfactory.
Address all orders to
Yours very respectfully,

A. VANDEN BERG,

92 Mormon Sraiznr. GRAND R.Amns.

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Cuts Sixa Eilzht and Ten Feet.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1881.

A NEGRO undergoing an examination as a
witness, when asked if his master was a
Christian, replied : “ No, sir, he is a mem-
ber of Congress.”

A LITTLE stealing is a dangerous part, but
stealing largely is a noble art: ’Tis mean to
roba herroost. of a hen, but stealing thous-
ands makes us gentleman.

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 preparation on the same surface.

For sale by paint dealers everywhere.
Send for circular containing the twelve
beautiful tints. Manufacture only by AL-
ABASTINE Co.

_ M. B. CHURCH. Manager.
juyl-tf. Grand Rapids, Mich.

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.
Steareman, 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 man aging its business trans-
actions. Therefore to offer these facilities to
all Patrons wishin g to purchase through our
agency, the executive committee of the co-
operative association have made such ar-
rangements that our agent will flll orders

for goods from all parts of the State. ,
For further in format-ion,address A. STEGE-
MAN, Allegan, Mich.
J. S. BIDWELL,
Sec. of C. A. of P. of H.

Peach Trees! Peach Trees!

WE OFFER 3. large lot of CHOICE PEACH
TREES for sale at prices that defy competi-

tion,

In Lots to suit Purchasers.
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
NURSERY ST 0 C K,
PLANTS, VINBS AND BVBRGB.BE1lS.~

Address BUTTRICK J5 WATTEBSON,
Proprietors of " Kent Co. Pomona Nurseries,”

septl-3m CASCADE, KENT Co., Mien.

CLOTHES WASHER.

WE are prepared to furnish our justly Celebrated
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.
SCHOOLCRAFT WASHER CO.
Sehoolcraft, June 28th, 1881. julyl-tf

PATRONS, TRY ME,
And Judge for Your-selves.

The uuuuuu uuu

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 perfectly clean by itself, also the
cookie 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
millwas awarded the highest medal at Philadelphia
in 1876, also at the last two Shite fairs of Michigan.

Manufactured by
HENRY CORTRITE,
For terms to Patrons address Lansing, Mich.

‘T. J. SHOEMAKER, _
Sec’y 637, Mt. Clemgns, Mich.

A. L. LAKEY & BIGELOW.
lalamuun Paint and lining Woks,

Manufacturers of

IIIXED PAINTS. RUOPIIIG MATERIAL, 816.,

—Am> Dumas nr --

All Kinds of Painters’ Goods,

AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
0
PLEASE CALL AND SEE OUR STOCK AT

52 and 54 NORTH BURDIGK STREET.

KALAMAZOO, Mien.

HEADQUARTERS FOR LAND PLASTEB.

DAY .2. -r-4.71.03.

Grandvllle, Nllch.,

Are prepared to furnish LAND PLASTEB, fresh
 ,at contract prices, made with the Executive
A

 

ttee of the State Grange.
stock on hand of pure, finely-ground
.LAND STEB.
Send us your Orders direct.

 

.ATRONS’

MANUFACTURERS OF

lngersulls Pure Ready—mixed Paints.

 

AINT  

OFFICE,

I62 SOUTH STREET.

NEW YORK.

ORKS.

  

MASTERS and SECRETARIES

Please write under Seal,
For CONFIDENTIAL Circulars.

We present herewith an il-
lustration of the Acme Cream-

er and Butter Cooler, manu-
factured by us at Schoolcraft,
Michigan.

The advantage claimed for .-
this Creamer over its compet-
itors, is its combination of
Creamer and Butter Cooler at
prices within reach of all.
The water tank is lined
with zinc, with an air space
between it and the wood tank ,
which is lined with heavy
inodorous waterproof paper.
It has double doors, with an
air space between, making it
the most perfect non-conduc-
tor of heat or cold.

The Butter Cooler or Safe
is made of galvanized iron,
and is so placed in the water-
tank that it is wholly sur-
rounded by water, which
keeps it at a low temperature.

flowing among them.

butter at ruinously low prices.
Schoolcraft, Mich., August, 1881.

Send for Color-carol and Prices.

COOLING CREAM AND BUTTER.

  

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It is not only used as a Butter Cooler, but as a receptacle for fresh meats and all articles
for family use usually kept in an ice refrigerator, and at no extra expense or labor. as the
water that is used to cool the milk is suflicient to keep the cooler at desired temperature.
The milk cans are twenty inches high, holding eighteen quarts. They have a ven-
tilator in the cover that allows all the gases to pass off while the milk is cooling, making
a better quality of butter than can be produced with cans that are sealed tight before the
gases or animal heat is allowed to pass ofl‘. These cans, when filled with milk, are placed
in the water tank beside the Cooler, and are surrounded and rapidly cooled by the water

The skimming is done perfectly by an arrangement upon the side of the milk can,
and so simple that a child ten years old can skim a can in less than a minute.

By this process the cream is first drawn off, leaving all sediments in the milk instead
of drawing off the milk and gathering all the impurities in the cream, such as thicky
substance. often streaked with blood, which many times escape the observation of the
most careful butter makers. This gives the butter made by the Acme system, a reputation
for purity, which insures a better price and more ready sale.

The Acme Creamer and Butter Cooler saves two-thirds the labor in butter making,
it is easily handled, and produces an even grade of butter, both Winter and Summer,
which wlls at a remunerative price to the producer. It is so arranged that all the water
pumped for the stock, either by wind power or by hand, passes through the tank. that
being suflicient, no extra labor is required. Farmers should investigate this system, and
not stick so tenaciously to the old way, and be obliged, as they often are. to sell their

MCCALL & DUNCAN.

GRAPE VINES.

All Leading Varieties in large supply. \Varranted
true to name. Prices low. Also, the celebrated

A NEW WHITE GRAPE,

PRENTSS

Send stamp for Price and Descriptive List» Also
Trees, Small Fruits. e -

7'. s. uulimso, F.edonia, N. 2'.

ONE CENT PER BUSHEL

Is my commission for selling wheat by the car load,

FOR PATRONS.
“Price current” mailed to shippers daily.

Wholesale Agent for
“ ‘I’ E A '1' IJINIMENT- ”

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE sun PEICE Lisr or
Rogers’ Plated 'VV'a.re,
LOANED ro PATBONS.

I have made arrangements to supply the above goods
at wholesale prices, from the factory.

GEORGE W. HILL,

SEED AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
and General Merchandise Broker.

80 Woodbridge St., West, DETROIT, MICH.
laug tf ,

PAINT for P.A'I'BONS,.
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST.
Immense Reduction in Prices from April 15, 1881.
FREIGHT FREE.

[1uarterman’s Heady-Mixed Paints.

Used by Patrons all Over the Land.
QUARTERMANE GUIDE TO PAINTING

WITH SAMPLE COLORS SENT FREE TO ANY PATRON.

§’Send for our Prices before purchasing else-
where. Address
E. A. QUARTERMAN,

159 South Street, New York City.

may15- 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 100,000
pounds through their purchasing agents. Its compo-
sition is no secret. The receipt is on every box and
6-pound package. It is made b Dr. L. Oberholtzer’s
Sons & Co.,_Phoenixville, Pa. t keeps stock healthy
and in good condition. It helps to digest and assimi-
late the food. Horses will do more work, with_1ess
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 molting. It is sold at the lowest
wholesale rice by R. E. JAMES, Kmuuzoo,
GEO. W. L & 00., 80 Woonianinen Sr.. Dn-
T3011‘, and J. M. CHAMBERS, 163 So. WATE3 ST.,
Cmoseo. Put u in 60-lb. boxes (loose), price EIGHT
CENTS per 1b.. 3 lb. boxes (of 6 5-lb. packages, TEN
Cimrs per lb.

WISCONSIN L AN 08
500,000 Acres

WISCONSIN CENTRAL B. R.

For full particulars, which will be sent free, address
' CHARLES L. COLBY, Land Commissioner,

janl-ly DA! is TAYLOR

Milwaukee, Wis.

Bindery Work I
MAGAZINES  

—AND—

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 Libramans, School Directors
and Business Men all over thecountry SOLICITED.

KALAMAZ00 PUBLISHING COMPANY.

Postoflice Block. KALAMAZO0.

ACME CREAMER
And Butter Gooler.

O
A NEVV THING.
0

Saves Three Times its Cost in One Season.

‘ O

NO ICE REQUIRED. some BUTTER IN DOG-
DAYS, AND CREAMERY PRICES FOR IT.

Sweet Milk only 12 hours old for your Calves.
The Butter Cooler keeps your Butter solid in the
warmest weather.

MICHIGAN Srsrn GRANGE, )
MASTER’S OFFICE,
Gums, MICE, August 23.3, 1881. S

Masses. MCCALL It Duncan :

Gentlemen,—We have now tested the Acme Cretimer
until we are satisfied that it is a good thing. It
makes less work with an equal amount of better
butter than with pans. Yours truly,

C. G. LUCE.

MCCALL & DUNCAN, Schoolcraft, Mich.,

After thoroughly testing your Creamer and Butter
Cooler for the past two months, we can say that in
all respects it is a complete success. It not only
saves a. great amount of labor, but furnishes a cheap
and convenient place for milk and butter. During
the extreme hot weather and thunder showers, our
milk remains sweet. We have the same grade and
quantity of butter without the use of ice. It is sim-
ple in its arrangement, and is easily kept clean ; and
lastly but not least, we regard it as possessing that
essential quality of being a time and labor saving
arrangement for making butter, and can cheerfully
recommend it to all. L. F. COX & WIFE.

Portage, July 30, 1881.

MESSBS. MCCALL & Duncan, Schoolcraft, Mich.,

I have given the Acme Creamer a thorough trial,
by setting equal amounts of milk in the Creamer and
in shallow pans in the cellar: From the shallow
pans I made 2; lbs. of butter; from the Creamer 4
lbs., and better quality. I can make more butter
and a great deal better qualit in the Creamer with
one-third the labor. The Goo er"will keep butter in
a splendid condition for any length of time. It cer-
tainly is as necessary to have a place for the preserv-
ing of butter until ready for market, as for the rais-
ing of cream. After using it through the heat of the
summer, I find the Cooler an indispensable addition
to the Creamer. You will always find me a true
friend and warm advocate of the Acme Creamer and
Butter Cooler. MRS. O. H. FELLOWS.

Prairie Ronde, Mich., July, 1881.

§ Send for Circular and Price List.
McCALL & DUNCAN,

junel5-tf. Scnooncnurr, Mica.

  

THIRD ANNUAL FAIR

OF THE
WESTERN JSEICEI G-AN

Agricultural and Industrial Society,

WILL BE HELD AT GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN,

SEPTEMBER 26, 2'7, 28, 29 and 30, 1881.

LIBERAL PREMIUMS OFFERED TO EXHIBITORS.

UNUSUAL ATTRACTIONS TO VISITORS.

EAIJF I"A.fI.I‘..-‘ UPON" AIJIJ EAJLELCAES.

l§’See large posters, and send for a Premium List for Full Particulars. _§}

PATRONS, Come to the LARGEST FAIR

EVER HELD IN VVESTERN MICHIGAN.

$’The “GRANGE VISITOR” Headquarters upon the Grounds will “'elcoine You.
Let Everybody Come with Stock and Products to show, and to see this

 EXPOSITION.

HUSBANDS -—o-= --cm-~ lwivns I

MOTHERS OF DROOPING DAUGHTERS!

DR. R. PENG-ELLY’S “ WOMAN’S FRIEND,” IMPROVED I
It is a SOVEREIGN REMEDY for

Those Complaints (they need no naming) peculiar to WOMEN, YOUNG or OLD, N01‘ A CURE-
ALL, Clazming to annihilate Jaundice, Diabetes, Bright’s Disease, Gravel, and everything else which
afilicts MEN EVEN MORE THAN WOMEN.

It works in ONE LINE and in that line lt 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 years of public record, in 30 different States, have proved it rightly named -
A FRIEND INDEED TO WOMAN. The good words of those who use it are its best advertisement.
An 8-ounce ($1.00) bottle, or a 20-ounce ($2.00) bottle sent on receipt of price, express prepaid, also
references and testimonials, on application to

. ‘R. PENGELLY 8:. 00..
KALAMAZOO. MICH. (Fonmranv or PLAINWELL.)

Sold by Drngglsts generally and Lady Agents. Swift kc Dodds, and Far-rand, Williams
47- CO-. Detroit. Morrison. Plummer 85 (.30., Chicago.

A

EVERY FARMER IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD EXAMINE THE

New Combined Spring Tooth Sulky Harrow

CULTI VATOR AND SEEDER.

Manufactured by

THE SGHAU 8: SCHUSTER SULKY
HARROW AND SEEDE-R COMPANY.

K alaniazoo, -

Michigan.

As a combined machine, it stands un-
rivalled in excellence, doing the work 0.
, a Harrow and Seed Sower most thorough-

ly and tsatisfactoriéyfiEI%gasrItIa]§e‘i;
' ran a once as
BEST IMPLEMENTS FOR THE USES
_—_. DESIGNED EVER INVENTED. Sows
all kinds of grain and grass seeds. The Harrow does not trail, and is of lighter
draft than any other Harrow in the market. It received first premium and diplomas
wherever shown in 1880.

SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW!
THE CHAMPION BARBED WIRE

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

  

 

ORDER. YOIIIR.
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.
"1'H©M&S MABCOW, ’

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

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

Plymouth Rocks 1-3:: 5 - -1-on

Partridge Cochins!  

M Pl th R k
are gom)Ig¢1e:e)i‘ler’s nixed ARE SOLD FOR’ 360'

strain ; my Partridge ..__
C 0 C h i n 3 are from All Iron and Steel. Sold on trial—freight paid by

giinegr g:;:inpriz€V'e:1i§(i us--no money asked till tested and found satisfac-

Chickens for sale tory. All sizes manufactured.
in early S 11 m m er. JONES OF BINGHAMPTON,

-' ‘ Eggs in season.
Send for Circular to Bmghunptom N' Y’

ank 1 de   Send for Circulars and further particulars.
_ I , ’ | ‘ _.

=Pr15a6m _ Paw Paw, Mich., May 18th, 1878.
Jomis or Bmcmnrox:
FEHNO & Mflflfllflc, My Scales give entire satisfaction. I have subject-
ed it to_ the most severe tests and find it not only
   cor;ec:lm lwebilghing large or small amounts, but
per es 3/ re za .
0 « I Yours, Fraternally,
117 Federal St., Boston. [signed]. J_ J_ Wo0QMAN_
consignments solicited and cash Advances lads. . 3 In-1!?

  
   
   
  
 
  
    
   
   
 
  
 
  
   
 
  
    
 
   
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
   
  
  
   
    
   
    
     
 
   
   
   
    
  
   
 
  
    
  
  

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