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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

The Huskers—The Lessons of the Year——Crop and
Stock Reports — Agricultural Science —— Small
Fruits for the Farmer, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l

The Press and the Plow—In the Mountains of Utah
—Thoughts and Suggestions— Salt on Wheat-
Fields — Old Boots and Shoes —— Berrien County
Pomona. Grange-Resolutions —- Crops-Silver Creek
Grange, No. 644-—Mt. Hope, . . . . . . '

At the Wayside Wel1—Declarat1on of Purposes of
the Patrons of Husbandry——Adulteration of Food
—-A Few Facts of Importance to the Consumers of
Kerosene Oil-——Assimilation—Summer Drinks -
Railroad Time-Tables, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3

County Convsntions—General Notice—A Valuable
Discovery—Patrons, What Are You Going to Do
About It ?—Restraining Stock—-The Fair at Grand
Rapids—-Canvass for the VIsI'roB—The Drive Well
Swindle, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Pickings by the Way, No. 32—Our Whereabouts——
—Communication from the Master of the National
Grange — Woodstock Grange — Ingham County
Grange—To the Farmers of Michigan-Soldiers’
and Sailors’ State Directory—Notices of Meetings
-—Advertisements, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5

Fifty Miles an Hour ——Woman and the Ballot -—A
Good Work— Co-Education at Our Collcge—A
Good Investment, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6

Expenses of Men and Women——The Reaper Death
—Advertisements, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Advertisements, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Officers National Grange.

M.ss'rEn———J. J. WOODMAN,. . .Paw Paw, Michigan.

0vnnsana—PUT. DARDEN, ......... . .Mississippi.
Lnc1'unan—HENRY ESHBAUGH, .... ..Missouri.
S1'EWABD—A. J. VAUGHN, . . . . . . . . . . ..Mississippi.
Assr. Srawsan-—W1LLIAM SIMS, . . . . . . ..Kansas.
CEAPI.AIN—S. H. ELLIS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ohio.

Tan‘ssUnas.—-F. M. McDOWELL,..... .New York.
Sacaxrsav—WM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.

Gus-Kansas--O. DINWIDDIE, . . . . . . . ..Indiana.
G1raas—MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, . . . . . . ..Michigan.
Ponoru-MRS. PUT. DARDEN, .... ..Mississippi.

FI.O:B.A—MRS. I. W. NICHOLSON,.. .New Jersey.
LADY Assr. STEWABD—MRS. WM. SIMS, Kansas.

Executive committee-

D. WYATT AIKEN, . . . . . . . . . . . . . .South Carolina.

H. JAMES, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .I.ndiana.
W. G. WAYNE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .New York.

Ofllcers Michigan State Grange.

M.—C. G. LUCE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Gilead.

O.-—A. N. WOODRUFF, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Watervliat.

L.—C. L. WETNEY, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Muskegon.

S.—S. A. TOOKER, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Lansing.

A. S.—A. E. GREEN, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Farmington.

C.—SA.LMON STEEL, . . . . . . .Manton, Wexford Co.

'l'.—-S. F. BROWN, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Schoolcraft.

81w.—J. T. COBB, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schoolcraft.

G. K.—ELIJ AH BARTLETT, . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dryden.
Cxnns.—Mas. A. S. STANNARD,. . . . . . . . . .Lowell.
P0lONL.—Mns. H. D. PLATT, . . . . . . . . . . .Ypsilanti.
FLORA.-M88. A N. WOODRUFF,. . ..Watervliet.
L. A. S.--Mas. A. E. GREEN, . . . . . . . . .Farmington.

Executive committee-
THOMAS MARS, Chairman, . . . . ..Berrien Center.

J’. WEBSTER CHILDS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ypsila.nti.

F. M. HOLLOWAY, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hillsda.le.

J. Q. A. BURRINGTON, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tuscola.

WM. SATTEBLEE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Bi.rmingham.

THOS. F. MOORE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Adrian.

JOHN PORTER. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grand Rapids.

0. G. LUCE, J. T. COBB, . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ex-ofiicio.

General Deputy.
O.L.WH1TNEY,......... ........... ..Mn.skegon.

State Business Agent.
THOMAS MASON, ................. . .Ohicago, Ill.

special Lecturers.

Thou. F. Moore,..  ....... ..Ad.ri.an, Lenawee Co.
Geo. W, Woodward. .. ......... . .Shelby, Oceans. Co.
M. L. Stevens, ............. ..Perry, Shiawassee Co.
Mrs. 8. Steele, .............. . .Manton, Wexzford Co.
1.. B. Brown, ............ ..B.awsonvi1le, Wayne Co.
Andrew Campbell, ..... . .Ypsilani:i, Washtenaw Co.

diwivulluval iuailmul.

A. C. GLIDDEN,

PAW Paw.

THE HUSKERS.

BY J. G. WHITTIER.

Heap high the farmer’s wintry board!
Heap high the golden corn!

N o richer gift has Autumn poured
From our her lavish horn.

Let other lands, exulting, glean
-The apple from the pine.

The orange from its glossy green,
The cluster from the vine :-

VVe better love the hardy gift
Our rugged vales bestow,

To cheer us when the storm shall drift
Our harvest-fields with snow.

When spring-time came with flower and bud,
And grasses green and young,

And merry bob’links, in the wood,
Like mad musicians sung,

We dropped the‘ seed o’er hill and plain,
Beneath the sun of May,

And frightened from our sprouting grain
The robber-crows away.

All through the long, bright days of J une
Its leaves grew thin and fair,

And waved in hot mid-summer’s noon
Its soft and yellow hair.

And now, with Autumn’s moonlit eves, ~
Its harvest time has come,

We pluck away the frosted leaves,
And bear the treasure home.

There, richer than the fabled gift
Of golden showers of old,

Fair hands the broken grain shall sift,
And knead its meal of gold.

Let vapid idlers loll in silk
Around their costly board,-
Give us the bowl of samp and milk
By homespun beauty poured.

Where’er the wide old kitchen hearth
Sends up his smoky curls,

Who will not thank the kindly earth,
And bless our corn-fed girls !

Let earth withhold her goodly root,
Let mildew blight the r7e,

Give to the worm the orchard’s fruit,
The wheat-field to the fly:

But, let the good old crop adorn
The hills our fathers trod ;

Still let us for His Golden Corn
Send up our thanks to God 3

The Lessons of lhe Year.

When this reaches the readers of the VIS

ITOB. the bulk of the wheat crop of Michigan
is or should be sown, and the labor of the
year, as far as it affects this 3; ear’s crops, will
be over. The result of this or that method of
procedure is an open book and can be read
with profit. On some pages, no doubt, this
marginal note could be written, “ There is
where I missed it.” Happy is the farmer
who, on looking over the year's labor can
find no “ misses” or mistakes that ought to
have been foreseen. We never do as well as
we know in everything we undertake, and
we are likely to take chances which our bet-
ter judgement would condemn. No year in
along time has served better to demonstrate
the uncertainty of farm crops and to bring
about exigencies more difficult to control
than the one just past. In parts of the State
seed corn failed to germinate, and the second
planting met a drought, which retarded
growth, and the results are disastrous. It is
not hard for the farmer to find the place
where he “ missed it ” in his corn crop, and
he will probably be more careful in sowing
seed corn for several years to come.

The general failure of clover seed for the
season is remarkable. Scarcely a field of
spring seeding shows a good stand of clover,
and the attempt at summer seeding with
buckwheat or in corn has resulted in utter
failure. Some persons have " missed it” in
plowing up clover, which will be severely
felt another year.

Many farmers have missed it in not sowing
a few acres to millet where the hay crop was
cut short. This makes excellent fodder for
all kinds of stock, especially milch cows, and
can be sown after the failure of the hay crop
has been conceded. If the drought each year
continued during certain periods, the experi-
ence of one year would be a lesson for the
next. What the farmer most needs is an
infallible weather bureau that shall lay out a
chart of the weather for the season. Weath-
er prophets are numerous enough, but they
are generally more conspicuous for their fail-
ures than for their successful predictions.
We shall probably have a long time to wait
before a sufficient amount of infinite knowl-
edge is gained to make the bureau a success.

Ohas.E.Mickleyi....  Lenaweeco.

In the mean time the Vennors and kindred

theorists will have an opportunity to win
fame with their guesses of varying certainty,
while the farmer must gain knowledge from
past experience and fortify himself against
numerous emergencies.

 

Crop and Stock Reports.

This new law which goes into effect this
month makes provision for the collection of
monthly statements of the condition of the
growing crops during the growing season,
and as soon as the harvests are over, to fur-
nish statements as to yield of grains, fruits,
etc., and the quantity marketed, and the
quantity still in farmers’ hands. Every
township in the State is expected to have a
correspondent, and the machinery will soon
be in runningorder. The September report
will soon be issued and published. This
first attempt will probably not be satisfacto-
ry in point of completeness as those which
will follow, when correspondents shall have
been selected to cover the State more fully,
but we look upon the law as one which will
be of immense value to thinking farmers as
showing the true state and condition of the
crops.

The business of farming can no more be-
come a success through guess work than any
other. Successful buying and selling cosp-
les with it a knowledge of the amount of
stock on hand, and the requirements of con-
sumers. This law will furnish the farmer
the data upon which his judgment will be
formed in many of his business transactions.
The report cannot be manipulated in the in-
terest of either bulls or bears, but will be a
true statement of the facts as to prospects and
quantities on hand, and of such frequent oc-
currence as to prove the facts to be as repre-
sented. The Visrrcjz will publish reports,
which will be another interesting feature for
farmers.

Agricultural Science.

At the recent meeting in Cincinnati of the

Association for the Promotion of Agricultur-
al Science, of which Professor Beal, of our
Agricultural College, is president, several
papers of more than ordinary ability were
produced. We give below brief abstracts of
some of them, taken from a report of the
meeting found in the N. Y. Tribune of Aug.
31, 1881. The twenty-one names of the
members composing the association are
among the foremost agricultural teachers of
the United States, and any paper emanating
from that society shouid be carefully read
and its teachings well considered. The pa-
pers of Professors Beal and Kedzie, and of
J. J. Thomas, ofNew York, are full of meat
to be digested by Michigan farmers.
Abrief synopsis such as we can give at
present gives us an insight into the scope of
the Association, and we look for large addi-
tion of agricultural knowledge from its year-
ly meetings. Professor Beal was re-elected
president, and Dr. Strutevant, secretary ;
they, with Prof. Arnold, constitute the
executive committee. The meeting decided
to increase the membership from its present
membership during the year.

FACTS AND OPINIONS 01-‘ AUTHORITIES.
At the second annual meeting, in Cincin-
nati, of the Association for the Promotion of
Agricultural Science, Professor W. H.
Brewer, of Yale College, reported the results
of investigations concerning the absorption
of water by grain. Extensive observations
have proveu that dry grain steadily takes up
moisture, especially in warm weather in
transit from the interior cities to Europe.
Wheat absorbs from 6 to 8} per cent of its
weight in water—enough to pay the cost in
transportation. Different kinds of grain
absorb in like manner; corn. rye, oats, and
barley as readily as wheat. A sample of
wheat kept in his study a few months, gain-
ed six per cent; 28,000.000 bushels of wheat
raised in California and transported to San-
Francisco gained 1,960,000 pounds, more
than enough to pay the cost of carriage. Dr.
Schwitzer said that wheat dried at 100° C.
gained in his living room in fiveto six days,
10 to 13 per cent. of water. The facts pre-
sented excited agood deal of interest and
suggested the propriety of some measures to
protect consumers and producers against the
advantages which now wholly accrue to the
speculators.

Professor C. R. Kedzie, of the Michigan
Agricultural College, gave in detail, illus-
trating with diagrams, the results of a long
series of observations upon the changes
which transpire in the ripening of wheat.
Observations were simultaneously made on
two varieties—the Shoemaker and the Claw-
son—beginning at the formation of the grain
and following on with daily} tests, till the
samples were over-ripe. he exact facts
could not be taken in passing, but the result

stituent of wheat, and cellulose (woody
fibre), began to form rapidly in the early
stages of the kernel’s growth, but continued
at unequal rates. The gluten reached its
highest point in qualitv, and greatest abso-
lute quantity at the time the kernel was just
hardening, so as to require some efibrt to
mash it between the thumb and finger.
From this point it gradually depreciated.
and the cellulose continued to increase till
the grain was dead ripe, increasing faster in
hot than in cool days, and at the very last
stage of observation, when the grain was
over-ripe and apparently dry, two or three
hot days sent up the per cent of cellulose at
a deleterious pace. The two varieties differ-
ed a little in the development of their corres-
ponding elements, but followed closely in
the same general course. The inference to
be drawn from the facts noted is that there
is a very general loss to farmers, both in
respect to total yield and quality of grain, by
leaving it in the field too long before cutting.

Dr. E. L. Sturtevant gave some generali-
zations from data collected and observations
made, showing that as fruits and vegetables
improve in quality, the production of seed
diminishes. The facts are interesting and
valuable.but notsurprising. Observations up-
on the animal as well as the vegetable worlds
all indicate that as nature is departed from,
the power of reproduction is weakened. This
must evidently be as true in deterioration as
in improvement. The inevitable result of
changing vegetation of any kind, and forcing
it out of its natural habits, and giving it new
qualities, the doctor's paper was well calcu-
lated to show. The host of facts he has ar-
ranged all accord with the law enunciated,
and admonish the cultivator that he may
expect a loss of prepotency from successful
efforts at improvement.

Professor W. J. Beal, in a long paper on
testing seeds, exhibited a large number of
facts laboriously collected and arranged,
showing that there are numerous elements
in germination which, from not being un-
derstood, lead to great uncertainty in prac-
tical results. He tested in porous earthen-
ware saucers, covered with (lamp paper, and
at a uniform temperature.

In making tests of seeds, the fact must
not be lost sight of that the finest-looking
seeds, and those which show the greatest
proportion of living germs, may not be the
most desirable for the field or garden.
Much depends on the variety,——the choic-
est straws of some kinds producing seeds
of inferior appearance and vitality. I have
made some progress toward ascertaining the
best methods and the most favorable tem-
perature for germinating seeds of wheat and
the cucurbitaceae or vine family. To aid in
finding the best method I used some .-eeds
which were fresh, well grown, carefully
harvested and not subjected to severe trials
or exposure of drouth and moisture, heat
or cold. These reliable seeds were tested,
side by side with others whose history was
not certainly known. In the different
modes of testing, good, fresh seeds varied
much less in the per cent which germinated
than did those which possessed little vita-
lity. In two trials only a few days apart, at
about the same temperature, by one person,
in the same room, with the same apparatus
used in a similar manner,_the same quantity
of the same lot of unknown wheat was test-
ed with the following results: in both trials
ten lots of I100 kernels each were placed in
saucers ofdamp sand. Of the first, 81, 82,
84, 85, 85, 87, 89, 89, 90, 96 germinated, an av-
erage of 86.8 per cent ; ‘of the second, 56, 75,
75, 76, 77, 78, 78, 79, 82, 89 germinated, an av-
erage of 76.5 per cent. Here is a difference
in the results of 10.3 per cent, for which I
cannot account.

In August, on different days, many lots of
fresh, hand-picked, hand shelled red wheat
were tested in several ways at temperatures
varying fron 75° to 136° F. Exceptin one
kernel, in one of several lots at two difierent
times, the average W3: 100 per cent of germi-
nating seeds. In open ground, 1,000 of these
seeds gave an average of 94.9 per cent. Side
by side will] the above, the unknown wheat
varied from 39 to 86.8 per centin germination.
Red wheat germinated more slowly than
white wheat. Some experiments were made
to ascertain whether seeds well dried after
once or twice germinating would germinate
again. In case of wheat, the plumule lived
and continued the growth,if any growth was
made, but the roots always (lied when well
dried. If any growth was made a second or
third time, new roots started out. Of fifty
kernels of unknown white wheat once ger-
miuated a little and dried, 96 per cent ger-
minated; twice dried, 88 per cent. Of fif-
ty kernels once germinated till the plumule
becomes half an inch long, and the roots an
inch or two inches, then dried, 82 per cent
germinated; twice sprouted and twice dried,
48 per cent. Of fifty kernels once germina-
ted till the plumule becomes one inch long
and the roots one to two inches, then dried,
38 per cent germinated; twice sprouted and
twice dried, 14 per cent. again germinated.
Some tests with new wheat now under
way show still more favorable results than
the foregoing. Seeds of squashes known as
Turban, Boston Marrow, Hubbard or Mar-
blehead, and the common field pumpkin,
tested in several ways at a temperature of
80° or lower showed results which were very
variable and unsatisfactory. Tested in a
temperature of 100° to 136° F., the results
were more uniform and the per cent of ger-
minating seeds much higher. Seeds of wa-
ter melons and cucumbers varied but little
whether tested at 70° or 136° F.
Mr.J.J.Thomas pointed out many faulty ap-

showed that gluten, the most valuable con-

from a defective knowledge ofthe extent ofthe
roots of plants. Farmers are apt to suppose
that the roots of plants are confined toanar-
row limitaround their stems, and apply fer-
tilizers close to the body of the plant, when
the rootlets, which are expected to take it up
are too far away to receiveit. The roots of
com a few inches high occupy a circle four
feet in diameter, and when a foot high fill

the whole ground and extend beyond the
rows on either side, the roots of the adjacent

rows crossing each other at an early stage of
growth. The ground everywhere being full

of roots, fertilizing matter should be every-

where applied, that the plant may have a
stimulating supply in the early season,when

it is especially needed. To apply only about

the bill, may give the young plant a vigor-

ous start, but this is of but little use if the
supply of nourishment is too deficient to
support the filling out of the grain.

It was a deceptive knowledge ofthe extent
and location of the roots of corn that induc-
ed the speaker to pile dirt around the stems,
covering them too deep and breaking and
uncovering those further off‘ to get the dirt
to do it with. Similar errors were pointed
out in the cultivation of otatoes. Piling
manure around the body 0 a tree, is a com-
mon error. The roots ol trees extend at least
9.1:; far as their limbs, and often go far beyond
t em.

Small Fruils lor lhe Farmer.

The following communication is from the
pen of Rev. Benjamin Day, of Ann Arbor,
who has had five years’ experience with the
Cuthbert red raspberry. Its continued suc-
cess has led him to abandon all otli ers and to
confine the production to this one variety.
There have been many high sounding prais-
es over some new variety of fruit, which
practical tests in farmers’ gardens have
proved valueless. The Concord and Dela-
ware grape, the VVilson strawberry, and the
Red Dutch currant are types of a success that
we should like to see among all classes of
small fruits. VVe believe the Cuthbert to be
ared raspberry after this pattern, and look
for its general dissemination among farmers.
Agents about the country are selling it at
round prices much above what amateurs
would be glad to furnish them for. We
have shared Mr Day’s hospitality, and
know him to be above the tricks of the per-
ambulating agent and have no doubt that
he could furnish fine plants at reasonable
figures. He says :—

“ It is a matter of surprise to me whenever
I pass through the country to see how little
attention is given by the farmers to the
culture of small fruits. Beginning with the
strawberry, the farmer’s table should be am-
ply supplied with these luxuries through the
season. Small fruits are given by a good
Providence in just the season of the year
when health requires them. Ihold that the
farmer cannot from sanitary considerations
do more for the health of his famil than by
keeping his table supplied with this luxu
in t eir season. Better pa. 2. little extra for
sugar with these fruits, an then reduce the
butcher’s and doctor's bills. experience
is that small fruits pay financia ly as well as
for hygienic purposes.

You ask especially with regard to the
Cuthbert raspberry: I can answer unhesi-
tatingly, after a trial of five years, I full
believe the Cuthbert to be the most valuab e
raspberry grown. It is certainly at the
head of the whole list of raspberries, and
emphatically the peoples’ ras; berry. It is
hardy for summer and winter, the canes of
vigorous and wonderful growth, and very
productive. The fruit is large, of fine color,
easily shipped, being firm and of superior

quality, continuing in bearing about three
weeks. Two hundr feet of this variety
requiring one hun red plants, properly
cared for, will furnish i5.farmer’s table a full

supply of this delicious fruit. B. DAY.
Ann Arbor, Mich., -
NOTHING gives more mental and bodily

vigor than sound rest, when
tained. Sleep is our great re lenisher; and
if we neglect to take it regu arly in child-
hood, the result will be all the worse for us
when we grow up. If we go to bed early,
we ripen; if we sit up late, we decay; and
sooner or later we contract a disease called
insomnia,.or sleeplessness, allowing it to be
permanently fixed upon us, and then we

egin to decay, even in youth. Late hours
are shadows from the grave.

WHATEVER you think proper to grant a
child} let it be granted at the first word,
without entreaty or prayer, and above all,
without making any condition. Grant with
pleasure, refuse with reluctance; but let
your refusal be irrevocable; let not impor-
tunit shake your resolution ; let the parti-
cle “ 0,” when once pronounced, be a wall
of brass, which a child, after he has tried
his strength against it, shall never more en-
deavor ‘to shake.

Iris said that to him who goes to law,
nine things are requisite. In the first lace,
agood_ deal of money: second, a goo deal
of patience; third, a good cause; fourth, a
good attorney; fifth, good counsel; sixth,
good evidence; seventh, a good ‘

properly ob-

plications of fertilizers to roots, originating

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a good judge; and ninth,,good  g ’

  
 
  
     
  
   
   
    
   
     
    
   
    
     
  
  

 
 
  
  
  
 
   
   
   
     
 
   
  
 
 
  
   
  
 
 
  
  
    
   
  
  
     
 
  
   
 
    
 
 
 
  
 
 
  

     
  
    
 
 
  
  
  
   
 
 
  
   
   
  
    
 
   
    
   
   
   
    
      
   
   
 
  
   
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
   
   
  
  
 
   
   
   
  
   
 
 
    
   
    


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SEPTEMBER 15, 1881.

dummnniiatinni.

nu: PRESS AND THE PLOW.

BY A. H. ETODDARD.

[Written for the Northwestern Press Association and
read at the Pioneer Picnic of Kalamazoo County,
August 25th, 1881.]

‘Tu: well_ at times upon our track,

To turn in retrospection back;

And looking o'er the misty vast,
Compare the present with the past,
That we may note along the grade

How much advancement has been made.
Our history is a lengthened chain,

V awn o'er progre=sion‘s endless plain;
Link after link. as we go back,
Becomes more_rusty in the track.
‘Till the last link is lost in rust.

And all beyond is traokless dust.

But yet we find enough to show

We have advanced by process slow,
Up from a low degraded race

To occupy our present place,

Amo_n the agencies combined

To ai and elevate mankind,

The grand foundation of success,

We name the plow and printing press.
The lough o course comes in ahead,
Fori ature‘s first demand is bread;
The savage man for food relies

On forest game for his supplies,

Or on such fruit from Nature’s field,
As Nature's scanty hand can yield;
And man had been a savage still.

Had he not learned the soil to till.
But though men learned the farmer's trade,
Little advancement had been made

In science or education.

To raise man from his degradation,
Until the advent Of the press.

That came to elevate and bless.

A.nd open,‘ like the eastern ray,

The morning of a better day.

All honor then to type and ink,

By which man learned to read and think,
And cultivate in this respect.

The field of human intellect.

Our numerous wants, a constant train.
Call for the work of hand and brain;
And I have thought that I could see
And trace a slight analogy

Between the farmer‘s occupation

And yours of this association.

He cultivates material soil,

To mental fields you give your toil;
Your labors differ but in kind,

He feeds the body, you the mind;

He culls his various products o'er,
And fits them for the market store;
So Should the journalist, with care,
Select his literary ware.

That nothing in his sheet appear

To taint the moral atmosphere.

In the material soil we see

A very great variety,

From fertile loam to barren san(l,_ ’
That shifts with every changing wind.
To rocky ledge and mirey glen.

Fit home for the o hidian,

Where all man's e 'orts to reclaim
Result in failure of the same.

So in the mental field we find

A great variety of mind.

Some are as stubborn as the rock;
Some are as stupid as the block;
Some minds are barren as the sand;
Some are as changing as the wind;
So.ne, like the farmer's fertile mold,
Yield mental _fruit a hundred fold;
And some again, do what you will,
Will be but swamps and quagmires still.
The farmer, it is understood,

Must never sell unw holesome food.
His meat and butter, eggs andfruit
Should all be fresh and nice to suit;
80. too, the news‘ you put in print
Must be fresh coined right from the mint.
The man that peddles smutty rye.

A sin utty mar et to supply,

Or he who peddles damaged meat,

Is scarce allowed to walk the street.
80. too, the printer, should he dare
To peddle smutty printed ware,
Should be denounced an enemy,

And spurned from good society.

The poet, too, shoul_d_be disgraced,
Who anders to _a vicious taste.

Anot er similarity:

You have your devils, so do we;

And he's a. lucky mother's son

’Mong farmer folks who has but one.
The most of us have thee or four

And some might count them by the score.
I’m told that in a certain sense

There is a striking difference.

Yours are your hel ers; ours annoy
And labor only to _ estroy.

You give your devils common names,
As Frank and Thomas, John and James;
Ours have such names as indolence,
Another is extravagance;

These do a vast amount of harm.

And oft drive farmers from the farm.
The last of these we mav believe,

The one that tempted Mother Eve,
Caused her to be dissatisfied

With what their little home supplied,
And take the fruit to her denied;
Then led her on in wild excesses,

To make those fi1'i-I~ new-fashioned dresses.
This drove poor Adam from his home,
In cheerless poverty to roam;

And that same devil, by the way,
Drives thousands from their homes to-day.
Some have, as we too often see.

The devil of dishonesty,

Inducing them to cheat and lie,

And never pay for what they buy.

To take newspapers by the way,

Year after year and never pay.

Let me digress and bear with me

In this a personality. _ _

When this rude form is laid away,

To mingle with its kindred clay,
Should some one raise above my head
A stone to mark wheie_I am laid.

I’d rather have this epitaph

Than _Old Napoleonjs by half.

Let him inscribe it if he can,

Here lies a strictly honest man.

Then add this much in prose or rhyme.
He paid the printer every time,

And then whatever course I take,

I need not fear the brim_stone lake.
I'm told that in its horrid den.

There is no place for honest men;
Some have, if rightly I can guess.
The devil of licentiousness.

The very devil, let me say,

That took old S&mson’s strength away;
And all, or nearly all possess

The devil we cal_l selfishness:

And yet this selfishness is right,
Considered in its proper light.

We must be selfish _to maintain _

Our rights upon this hungry plain.
We must provide. we understand,

For self and for our household _band;
Who fails in this, the record saith,
“Basin effect denied the faith.”

And he is worse, said records tell,
Worse even than an infidel; _

And I conclude we have the right .
To claim our own with mind and mi ht.
But when we reach beyond the roun
That marks the line of honor’s bound,
And from another seek tovdraw

Whai_ is not ours by honor s law,

This is perverted selfishness:

In farmer phrase ’tis_hoggishness.
Allow me. in this re_citation,_

To fix this point by illustration.

I take my nail and go to feed

My pigs. (of course aselfish breed);

I put their breakfast in their trough, ,
And call, if they have wandered 011‘:
All run of course, as piglzles Will.
And thrust their noses in_the sw_ill; _
Each sucks hnd drinks with _all its might.
And I say piggies that’s all right.
There's nothing that I see untairil
Where each one tries to get his s are;
But if one, larger than the rest

Of longer, stronger sn_out_possessed.
Puts himself len hwise inthe trough.
And fights his rel ow piizgies off.

I cry out “Hog_!‘ and V81’! (111103

I go for him with a s_har _stick:

I stir him up a_nd drive im out.

You see the point I have no doubt.
Some have A devil in their will,

Some have the devil of the still;

The latter worse. as we can prove,
Than all the others named above.
There's scarce a crime that we can name,
In the dark list of sin and shame,

But we can trace it if we will,

To this dark demon of the still.

How many farmers we have seen
Turned out of homes that might have been
Like Eden’s garden. pure and fair,
Had not this demon entered there.
We boast o£_liber_‘ty and claim

An honest birthrightto the same,

And. men there are would soonér yield
Their life-blood on the battle field.
Would face grim death in any form

Of shot, or shell. or grape-shot storm
Sooner than yield to slavery.

This birthright of their liberty;

And _et are fettered. soul and brain,
By t is same devil‘s magic chain.
Debased. degraded, ruined quite,

The helpless slaves of appetite.

Men or the press. our wer combined
Can ni_ove t _e wor d-—t e world of min .
0h!_wield this power with mighty skill
A ainst_ this devil of the still.

ould it in me be deemed uncivil

To ask, do printers have this devil?
Two more I mention in my rhyme;
Twin devils of the olden time.

That held a prominent position.

Were ignorance and su erstition.

For centuries they hel mankind
Enslaved. degraded, base and blind.
They kept the light of scie iice back
From dawning on progressions track;
Told us the earth was standing still,
That sun and moon, like some great mill,
In some mysterious, unknown way,

‘ Were moving round us every day;
And that those suns of living light.
That deck the starrv dome of night,
Were wandering o'er the concave blue,
Because they'd nothing else to do.
They also taught (a grand mistake.
The world was flat as any cake )
Because some learned man had read
An ancient record which had said.

The earth had corners, this was sound,
A world with corners couldn’t be round.
These were dark ages; ‘twas a time
When men made unbcliefacrime.
Burned heretics as guilty wretchee,
And hung old women up for witches,
Thanks to the press. it cleared the way
For science with her bright arra ',

And brought religion‘s purer liglit

To dawn upon that moral night.

What, though some rusty links remain
Of supcrstition’s iron chain.

They’ve little power to hold or bind
That restless thing, the human mind.
And through the influence of the pre ss,
Their power is growing less and less;
But we have many witches yet.

And heretics are often met.

We do not burn them any more,

Or hang old women by the score.

But times are different, we allow,
Young women are our witches now;
Bewitching many a liickless chap

Into the matrimonial trap.

Cannot the press do something straight
To save young men from such a fate?
But this, if rightly I can guess,

Has been encouraged by the press;

No doubt for the consideration

f fees for marriage publication.

Some think we need these guilty witches
To mend our stockingsaiid our--pantaloons,
I would not have them hung. although
They witched me forty years ago:

And even now I've little doubt

If from the harness I was out,

Was young and vigorous as then,
They‘d have me in the trap again.

I never could resist the wiles

Of sparkling eyes and witching smiles.
There is another—let us see;

The devil of monopoly;

That we as farmers greatly fear

Is growing stronger every ear,

And we invoke your specia aid

To join in this. a grand crusade
Against these giant corporations.
Leagues. rings, and other combinations
That seek by bI‘iII(’I'_// or faction.

To govern legislative action.

We need to guard with special care
‘Gainst dan era that may threaten there.
Nor would furge or argue less

To guard the freedom of the press.

The riutin press must ever be

The ulwar of liberty.

But in the field before us spread.
There‘s work for plow and press ahead.
New lands to cultivate and till, _
Swamps to reclaim and weeds to kill.
A waitin world in hun ry need,

With lim s to clothe an mouths to feed.
The various devils I have named.

All need to be controlled and tamed.
For the are devils, we should know,
Mainl cause we make them so.

And c urch and press and schcol—house hall
Should manage to control them all.
But in reforming ere we roam.-

Let our reforms commence at home.
Cast out our devils first, and then

Cast devils out of other men.

IN THE MOUNTAINS OF UTAH.

BY F. HODGMAN.

My last communication left me at Salt
Lake City on the evening of the 23d of Feb-
ruary. Our party got there late in the
evening and put up at the Continental
hotel. This is a large house only two stories
high, built of adobe or sundried brick, with
many of the guest’s apartments on the
ground floor., The rooms were heat and
well furnished, and the table better supplied
than at any of the hotels I have stopped at
in southern Michigan. The charges to our
party were $2.50 per day. VVe staid there
three days and had no 0( casion to complain
of our entertainment.

Those three days were very busy ones and
we had little time to spend in sight-seeing.
The old Mormon Temple is near the hotel,
and we took a look around the outside of it.
It looks as much like aclieese box with a big
wash basin turned up-side down for a roof,
asanything I can compare it with. As it
was Endowment Day we were not permitted

. togo inside the walls which fence it in.

All the old residences of the Mormon big-
bugs. and some of the little bugs are fenced
in with high. strong stone walls so that if
any peeping Tom wanted to take a squint
at the Harem he would have to get a ladder
to climb the fence with.

- These Mormon fellows are building a new
temple near by the old one and have got
the walls pretty well up. It does not ap-
pear to be of any particular style of architec-
ture any more than the old did, and I don’t
know as I can describe it any better than to
say it is as unlike the other as possible. It
is of cuvsione, cost a mint. of money and the
walls not up yet. The temple is a large
square, the streets on each side named North,
South, East, and West Teui ple Streets re-
spectively. All the other streets run parallel
to these and are named from them 8.: the
1st, 2d, 3d, North or South Temple Streets,
etc., as the case may be. '[‘be city is sup-
plied with water from a stream which comes
down from the mountains near by, and is
carried in ditches along the gutters of every
street, with a little gateway at the corner of
every man’s garden to irrigaie with. This
water in February was clear and cold, and
every man and his hog drank out of the
same ditch. Rows of shade trees grow
along side these swift running little streams,
thrifty looking fiuit trees adorn the gardens
and altogether it is a nice, pleasant place to
stop in if only the houses were a little better
constructed and ihe fences less forbidding.
It was at least a pl: asant transition from
the severe cold and snow which I had. left in
Michigan five days befoie, for the warm

spring days, with men working in their gar-
dens and blackbirds singing in the budding
trees about the city.

The business part of the city is not spec-
ially attractive. The buildings as a rule are
poor. About the most pretentious one I
saw is the large block of stores belonging to
Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution.
The Mormons are great in the “ co-op ” plan
of doing business, and every town has its
“ co-op ” store where they all trade, but the
great Z. C. M. I. is the great “co-op” of
all. It has a large block of stores fronting
on all sides of the square, and at least 200
feet deep, where all kinds of merchandise
are sold ; dry-goods, groceries, drugs, paints,
clothing, harness, wagons, boots, and shoes,
farm implements, and so on to the end of
the chapter, have each their separate apart-
ments and a large stock is carried. I had
occasion to make some purchases of them
and found the clerks gentlemanly and
obliging, prices a little higher than at home
and the quality of the articles good. The
clothing sold is especially good, the quality
averaging a good deal better than that kept
in the stores at home. I bought two pairs
of overalls at $1.25 per pair that have now
lasted me six months of mountain climbing,
harder on clothing than anything I ever ex-
perienced at home, and I had rather have
them now than any two pairs of overalls I
ever saw for sale in Kalamazoo county.
This remark in regard to quality of goods
kept, so far as I observed, was true not only
of the “ Z. O. M. I.,” but most of the stores
in the city. I went into a knitting factory
and purchased several pairs of stockings of
a better quality than I was able to purchase
at home for the same price.

There are a’ great many Michigan men
among the Gentiles of Utah, most of them
being interested in the mining affairs of the
territory, Among those I met Arthur
Brown, lately from Kalamazoo, and Judge
Van Zile, of Charlotte, who were at the
time arrayed as opposing counsel in the
Apostle Cannoii’s scramble for a seat in the
National House of Representatives. They
had just had a legal bout before Judge Twiss
in which Judge Van Zile, as counsel for
Gov. Murray, came out ahead.

After getting our outfit we left Salt Lake
on the morning of Feb. :27, by way of the
Utah Southern railroad,bound for CastleVal-
ley—wherever_ that was. Nobody seemed
to know much about it, only it was on the
other side of the \Vasatch mountains, and
to get there we must skirt down the western
slope of the range about 200 miles before we
could find a pass through or over which we
could reach the valley at that time of the
year, and then we must turn north again to
regain lost ground. It was as warm as a
May morning when the cars rolled out of
the station bearing us to the southward.
Farmers along the route were preparing for
the spring plowing, and some had already
commenced. The farms were small, the
houses poor, built up of logs or flat stones
laid up dry, and mostly roofed with earth
put on top of a layer of poles and brush.
All the land has to be irrigated in summer,
but irrigation had not then commenced. It
did not look like America at all. Every-
thing looks as foreign as the men who dwell
there. On one side of us the Wasatch moun-
tains rose from 8,000 to 12,000 feet, on the oth-
er side was avalley with a stream wending
through it to the Great Salt Lake, here and,
there spreading out into reedy marshes,with
another range of mountains beyond. We
pass a big smelting furnace where the pre-
cious metals are reduced. And here and
there we glide slowly through a thriving
liitle village as we climb along the base of
the mountains.

At Provo we come to a smart little town
noted for a large “co-op ” factory which
turns out the greater part of the woolen
blankets which are used in this country.

When a man goes out for a two or three
dayejourney here, he takes his bed with
him. The bed is a pair or two of Provo
blankets. If he goes on horse back his bed
is on the ground with the blue dome of the
sky for his roof, If he goes with his wagon
that makes his bedstead and tent.

We pass a plenty of oddly named towns
and at noon bring up at Juab, where we are
to leave the road. The Mormons are great
on names,—there are J uab, and Nebo, and
Nephi, and Lehi, and Manti, and Nehi, and
Lolii, and Skihi, and all the rest of them.
Juab is not much of aplace. It consists of a
water tank and two hotels, or it did in Feb-
ruary. I do not ki.ow what there is there
now.‘ We got dinner at one of the “hotels ”
and then got into a spring wagon to go
across the country to Selina. We go along
a. rough and muddy road, up a valley which
contracts as we go to a pretty narrow com-
pass. The stream we are following dwin-
dles as we ascend until it disappears entire-
ly. Here and ihare the ashes and coals of a
camp fire, a broken bottle, an empty tin
can and 9. bacon rind tell where some trav-
eler has spent the night. Presently we pass
the summit of Juab valley and begin to de-
scend into the valley of Sevier river.

Mount Nt‘b0, 12,000 feet high, and covered
deep with snow,iowers above,us on our left.
Far ahead the wedge shaped peak of “ Mol-
lie’s Nipple ” pierces the sky. Mountains to
right of us,niountains to left us,covered with
snow. An opening valley in front of us,wlth
low foot bills at our feet and on either side,

decked out iii the most beautiful delicate

colors of every imaginary shade and grada-
tion of tint that can be conceived, altogether
made a picture beautiful and grand, beyond
the power of description, 2: picture that a
man may carry with him to his last resting
place. The sun is getting low and soon dis

appears entirely. There is no moon, and we
still push forward amid the shades of night
with only ‘the stars to light our course, until
the thump of the wagon as it crosses some
irrigating ditches tells us that we are ap-
proaching human habitations again.

Presently we cross a little stream and pull
up at an earth covered log house, the ho-
tel of the village of Warm Springs. A Mor-
mon church stands across the way, and
everybody was ofl“ to meeting, but after a
while we get some supper, spread our blan-
kets on the floor, and begin our experience
of sleeping without a bed. Since that night
I think only one of our party has slept un-
der a roof. Next morning at 10 o’clcck we
reached Selina, which was then the head-
quarters of the Sevier Valley railroad, a lo-
cal home for the western extension of the
Denver &. Rio Grande railroad.

This is a little village of three or four
hundred inhabitants, at the mouth of
Salt Creek, the western entrance of Sali
Creek Canyon, the only pass by which we
could now go over the mountains. All
about here for miles the rocks are impregna-
ted with salt. Crystals‘ of gypsum sparkle
in the sun in every direction. A considera-
ble amount of salt is made here every
year, but it is ofinferior qualit-y—i'ull of im-
purities. '

At Saliha our party was organized for the
trip into the wilderness, and for a few days
we awaited the arrival of a mule train and
packers who left Salt Lake City two or
three days before us. When they arrive we
shall start to try the unknown country.

Clear Creek, Utah, Aug. 21, 1881.

Thoughts and Suggestions.

All knowledge was originally obtained
through the medium of observation. A good
book is the result of extended examination.
Knowledge acquired by observation is prac
tical, while book-learning leans toward the
theoretical.

The books that a person reads are an infal-
lible index to his character, because it is sup-

posed that we read a book from choice,‘

while our companions, in many instances,
are the result of an unchosen contact. It is
very true that we often judge of the charac-
ter of individuals by the reputation and
character of his acquaintances; but can we
not form a more accurate opinion of 9. person
when we ascertain the characters of the dif-
ferent books and papers which he reads?

Books, papers, and in fact everything
which can be classed under the head of
“general literature,” contribute to form the
great medium for the communication of
knowledge. Our happiness in this world,
and indeed our happiness in the life to come,
greatly depends upon the relative develop-
ment of the different parts of our nature.

Who can deny the soothing effects of a
good book? Who can urge a point against
their introduction into any family ? When
the storms of adversity rage without, and all
earthly friends change with our changed
condition, the bright pages of a book greet
us with that same quiet manner and un-
changed deportment. We may cast it aside
carelessly, or even with a disgusted look
upon our faces and a taunting slur upon our
lips, but when we turn to it again we dis-
cover that it teaches the same principles
and lessons, and its hun1ble,defenceless mein
chides us.

The pecuniary value of a book may
change with the changing waves of time,
but its real value or merit never changes.

Never read for pastime alone, but read for
profit. You have but little time in which to
cultivate your mind, and cannot afford to
spend your time on things that do not bring
pleasant recollections.

Salt on Wheat-Fields.

Editor Grange Visitor .-——As there is much
enquiry in regard to the use of salt-, I will
give you my experience. I sowed a field of
40 acres and one of 30 acres with salt, at the
rate of 200 pounds per acre, and left other
fields of the same crop that year without
salt. The year I sowed the salt I saw no
difference, but this, the second year (the
land being in clover), there is a marked dif-
ference. Where the salt was applied the
clover first cut was a good crop; the second
crop at this date is fresh and green, notwith-
standing the dry weather has scorched all
my other fields until growth and greenness
are no more to be seen.

I think that money in salt properly sown
is a good, paying investment.

Yours respectfully,
U. K. Rix.

Texas, Kalamazoo, ($0., Aug. 30, 1881.

Old Boots and Shoes.

You probably think that if you look
sharply at old boots or shoes when you
throw them away, you will know them
again if they ever come back to you. But
that does not at all follow. One of these
days you may button your dress with an old
pair of slippers, comb your hair with an old
boot, or grasp a cast-oft‘ gaiter while at your
dinner. You don’t. see how this can be?
Well, we will tell you. Old shoes are turned
to account by manufacturers in the follow-

ing manner: They are cut into very small

pieces, and kept for a couple of days in
chloride of sulphur. The effect of this is to
make Itheleather hard and brittle. Next, the
material is withdrawn from the action of
the chloride of sulphur, washed with water
and dried. When thoroughly dried it is
ground to powder and mixed with some sub-
stance like glue or gum, that causes it to ad-
here together. It is then pressed into
moulds and shaped into buttons. combs,
knife handles, etc. So you see how it may
come to pass that you will comb your hair
with a pair of boots, and fasten your clothes
with a slipper.—-Plifladelphia Evening Post.
Why can’t this material be prepared at
some of our public institutions, say the poor-
house, and shipped to the manufacturers‘?

H.

@;urreipun1Ientz;-

Berrien County Pomona Grange——Resolulions.

Bro. J. T. C'obb.'——'l:lie regular quarterly
meeting of Berrien County Pomona Grange,
No. 1, was held at Pearl Grange hall, Aug.
9 and 10. There was a large number in at-
tendance, and the discussions of the various
subjects upon the programme were interest-
ing in the extreme.

From the several reports of Subordinate
Granges we can but conclude that the Order
is progressing in Berrien county. The in-
crease in membership is attributable to a
series of Farmers’ Institutes held through-
out the county last winter under the aus-
pices of Berrien County Grange. By a
unanimous vote of the Grange a committee
has been appointed to provide another series
of Institutes for the coming winter.

The interrogatories propounded by the
Tax Commission gave rise to the following
resolutiou,which was discussed and adopted
by Berrien County Grange :—

Be it Resolved by Berrien County Grange.
No. 1, First, That taxation should be based
only on the property of the State, and that
all kinds of property should be made to bear
an equal proportion of taxes; Second, That
we are opposed to the exemption of any
property from taxation, except when, in the
judgment of the supervisor, it becomes
necessary in case of poor or indigent per-
sons; Third, That all persons liable to tax-
ation should be by law compelled to verify

their statement of property by oath or af-
firmation.

VVILLIAM J. JONES, Sec’y.
Berrien Springs. Aug. :10, 1.581.

Crops—-Silver Creek Grange, No. 644.

Bro. J. T. Cobb .-—We give you brief re-

port of crops from this northern country :.
The hay crop was fair, especially clover,
although wet weather at the commencement
of haying resulted in considerable damage
The wheat crops run from four to thirteen
bushels per acre, averaging about ten ; cats
20 to 30 bushels; corn promises fair; buck-
wheat is good ; potatoes promise a full crop,
and, by the way, this seems ti be the home
of the Irish potato. It is attaining a perfec-
tion here that is scarcely known in the
southern portion of our State, and yields
from 100 to 200 bushels to the acre of mar-
ketable potatoes. that are readily placed on
the Buffalo. Cincinnati, and Chicago mar-
kets at from five to ten cents more a bushel
than those raised further south.

Our Grange, Silver Creek, No. 644, is
growing weekly. Balloting for candidates
and conferring degrees has been the order
for some time, and still they come, so that
we expect to have a. good, strong Grange at
the end of the vear and be in good shape for
efiectual work next year. We received our
first bill of goods a short time since from
Bro. Stegeman of Allegan, at prices so satis-
factory that we would fain speak of it to all
our friends to go and buy of Stegeman, and
get your money’s worth.

Respectfully, D. S. CARVIN.

Colfax, Wexford Co., Aug. 29, 1881.

Mt. Hope.

Bro. Cobb :—The Grange at Mt. Hope is
running without ajar among its members,
and we have added two new ones since
my last. It is very dry in this locality, and
some farmers are holding the grain and not
sowing on account of the dry weather,while
others are putting in wheat, remembering
that there is a “ seed time as well as a har-
vest.” The last wheat crop averaged about
eight bushels per acre in this section. The
weather hurt corn some, but it will average
about two thirds of a. crop. Potatoes are al-
most a failure, not more than one-third of
a crop.

Dayton Grange will have a picnic on the
21st of this month to revive them up. Some
of their best members are going west and it
makes them feel weak. They expect the
Worthy Master of the State Grange to
give them a speech on that day, or at least
they have made application for him, I learn.
Now,Brother and Sister Grahgers of Berrien
county, let all turn out on the 21st and go to
Dayton with our baskets filled and help
them show the farmers around Dayton our
strength, and talk with them about the
Grange, and wake them up to their duty.
Dayton Grange is a good Grange, and it
must not go down.

Yours fraternally,
G. T. STRONG.

It‘ cooperation is of universal application,
as co-operators profess to believe it to be, it
should be the object of their unremitting
efforts to apply it universally.


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SEPTEMBER 15. 1881.

“SEE EEANQE VESEEQR.

AT THE WAYSIDE WELL.

He stopped at the way-side well,
VVhei'e the water was cool and deep;

There were feathery ferns ’twixt the mossy stories.
And gray was the old well-sweep.

He left his carriage alone 2
Nor could the coachnian or footman tell

Why the master stopped in the dusty road
To drink at the wayside well.

He swayed with his gloved hands
The well-sweep, creaking and slow,

While from seam and sear in the bucket’s side
The water splashed back below.

He lifted it to the curb,
And bent down to the bucket’s brim ;
No furrows of time or care had marked
The face that ‘looked back at him.

H e saw but a fariner‘s boy
As he stooped o'er the brim to drink,

And ruddy and tanned was the laughing face
That met his over the brink.

The eyes were sunny and clear,
And the brow undimned with care;

While from under the brim of the old straw hat
Strayed curls of chestnut hair.

He turned away with a sigh — ~
Nor could the Coachman or footman tell

VVh_v_the master stopped in his ride that day
To drink at the wayside well.

Declaration of Purposes of the Patrons of Husbandry.

[Adopted by the National Grange at its
seventh annual session, held at St. Louis,
February, 1874 ]

PREAMBLE.

Pmfoundly impressed with the truth that
the National Grange of the United States
should definitely proclaim to the world its
general objects, we hereby unanimously
make this Declaration of Purposes of the
Patrons of Husbandry :-

oii11\'nR.-ii. om l-l(‘TS.

1. United by the strong and faithful lie of
agriculture, we mutually resolve to labor for
the good of our Order, our country, and
mankind.

2. Vile heartily endorse the motto: “In
essentials, unity; in non essentials, liberty;
in all things, charity.”

SPECIFIC OBJECTS.

VVe shall endeavor to advance our cause

by laboring to accomplish the following ob-
'ects:——
J ’]‘o develop a higher and better manhood
and womanhood among ourselves. To en-
hance the comforts and attractions of our
homes, and strengthen our attacliinents to
our pursuits. To foster mutual understand-
ing and co-operation To maintain iiivio-
late our laws, and to emulate each other in
labor to hasten the good time coming. ’l‘o
reduce our expenses, both individual and
corporate. To buy less and produce more,
in order to make our farms self-sustaining.
To diversify our crops, and crop no more
than we can cultivate. To condense the
weight of our exports, selling less in the
bushel and more on hoof and infleece; less
in lint and more in warp and woof. To sys-
tematize our work, and calculate intelligent-
ly on probabiiitie.-. 'I‘o discountenance the
credit system, the mortgage system, the
fa-hion system, and every other system
tending to prodigality and bankruptcy.

We propose meeting together, talking to-
gether, working together, buying together,
selling together, and, in general, acting to-
gether for our mutual protection and ad-
vancement, as occasion may require. VVe
shall avoid litigation as much as possible, by
arbitration in the Grange. VVe shall con-
stantly strive to secure entire harmony,
good will, vital brotherhood among our-
selves, and to make our Order perpetual.
VVe shall earnestly endeavor to suppress per-
sonal, local, sectional, and National preju-
dices, all unhealthy ‘rivalry, all selfish am-
bition. Faithful adherence to these princi-
ples will insure our mental, moral, social,
and material advancement.

BUSINESS RELATIONS.

4. For our business interests, we desire to
bring producers and consumers, farmers and
manufacturers, into the most direct and
friendly relations possible. Hence, we must
dispense with a surplus of middlemen, not
that we are unfriendly to them, but we do
not need them. Their surplus and their ex-
actions diminish our profits.

We wage no aggressive warfare against
any other interests Whatever. On the con-
trary, all our acts and all our efforts, so far
as business is concerned, are not only for the
benefit of the producer and consumer, but
also for all other interests that tend to bring
these two parties into speedy and econom-
ical contact. Hence, we hold that transpor-
tation companies of every kind are necessary
to our success, that their interests are inti-
mately connected with our interests, and
harmonious action is mutually advantage-
ous, keeping in view the fir-.-t sentence in
our declaration of principles of action, that
“Individual happiness depends upon gen-
eral prosperity.”

We shall therefore advocate for every
State thejncrease in every practicable way
of all facilities for transporting cheaply to
the seaboard, or between home producers
and consumers, all the productions of our
country. We adopt it as our fixed purpose
“to open out the channels in Nature’s great
arteries, that the life-blood of commerce
may flow freely.”

We are not enemies of railroads, navigable
and irrigating canals,.or of any corporation
that will advance our industrial interests,
nor of any laboring classes.

In our noble Order there is no commun-
ism, no agrarianism.

We are opposed to such spirit and manage
men: of any corporation or enterprise as
tends to oppress the people,and rob them of
their just profits. We are not enemies to
capital, but we oppose the tyranny of mo-
nopolies. We long to see the antagonism
between capital and labor removed by com-
mon consort, and by an enlightened states-
manship worthy of the nineteenth century.
We are opposed to excessive salaries, high
rates of interest, and exorbitant per cent
profits in trade. They greatly increase our
burdens, and do not bear a proper roportion
to the profits of producers. We esire only
self-protection and the protection of every
true interest of our land by legitimate trans-
actions, legitimate trade, and legitimate
profits.

EDUCATION.

We shall advance the cause df education
among ouiselves, and for our children, by
all 'ust means within our power. We es-

ly advocate. for ‘our agricultural and
industrial colleges that practical agriculture,

domestic science, and all the arts which
adorn the home, be taught in their courses
of study.

THE ORANGE NOT PARTISAN.

5 We emphatically and sincerely assert
the oft-repeated truth taught in our organic
law, that the Grange-——I\'aLi0nal, State or
Suhordinate—i's not a political or party or-
ganization. No Grange, if true to its ob-
ligations, can discuss political or religious
questions, nor call political conventions, nor
nominate candidates, nor even discuss their
merits in its meetings.

Yet the principles we teach underlie all
politics, all true statesman:-ahip, and if prop
crly carried out, will tend to purify the
whole political atmosphere of our country,
for we seek the greatest good to the greatest
number.

We always bear in mind that no one, by
becoming a Patron of Husbandry, gives up
that inalienable right and duty which be-
longs to every American citizen, to take a
pr:-per interest in i.he politics of his country.

On the contrary, it is right for every
nieinbt-r to do all in his power legitimately
to influence for good the action of any polit-
ical party to which he belongs. I; is his
duty to do all lie can in his own party to
put down bribery, corruption, and trickery;
to see that none but ct-nipetent. faithful, and
honest men, who will unflincliingiy stand
by our industrial interests, are nominated for
all positions of trust; and to have carried
out the principle which should characterize
every Patron, that ‘

THE OFFICE SHOULI) SEEK THE MAN, NOT
THE MAN THE OFl-‘ICE.

\Ve acknowledge the broad principle that
difference of opinion is no crime, and hold
that “progress toward truth is made by
difierences of opinion,” while the. "fault
lies in bitterness of controversy.”

Vile desirea proper equality, equity, and
fairness; protection for the weak; restraint
upon the strong; in short, justly distributed
burdens and justly distributed power. These
are American ideas, the very essence of
American independence, and to advocate

the contrary is unworthy of the sons and’

daughters of an American i--.-public.

VVe cherish the belief that scctionali.-ini is
and of right should be dead and buried with
the past. Our work is for the present and
the future. _ In our agricultural brotherhood
and its purposes, we shall recognize no
North, no South, no East, no ‘West.

It is reserved by every Patron, as the right
of a freeman, to affiliate with any party
that will best carry out his principles.

OUTSIDE C04)PL;RA'rioN.

6. Ours being peculiarly a 1'ai'inei's’ insti-
tution, we cannot admit all to our ranks.

Many are excluded by the nature of our
organization—not because they are profes-
sional men, or artisans, or laborers, but be-
cause they have not a suflicient direct in-
terest in filling the soil, or may have some
interest in conflict with our purposes. But
we appeal to all good citizens to assist in our
efforts toward reform, that we may event-
ually remove from our midst the last vestige
of tyranny and corruption.

VVe hail the general desire for fraternal
harmony, equitable compromises, and ear-
nest co-operation, as an omen of our future
success.

Coi\'CLUsio1\'.

7. It shall be an abiding principle with us
to relieve any of our oppressed and suffering
brotherhood by any means at our command.

Last, but not least, we proclaim it among
our purpose« to inculcate a proper apprecia-
tion of the abilities and sphere of woman, as
is indicated by admitting her to member-
ship and position in our Order.

Imploring the continued assistance of our
Divine Master to guide us in our work, we
here pledge ourselves to faithful and har-
monious labor for all future time, to return
by our united efforts, to the wisdom, jus-
tice, fraternity, and political purity of our
forefathers.

Adulteration of Food.
We continue our extracts from the paper
on this subject by Geo. T. Angell, of Boston.

BOSTON M ILK.

About 90 per cent. of all milk sold in Bos-
ton has been found to be adulterated, and
a coloring matter is used which makes adul-
terated milk look better than pure milk.

The milk inspector cf Boston says in his
report. of March 31, 1880: “.-ldullezzued milk
is -very nearly the rule and the pure article
the exception.” }Ic adds: “ The public has
been so long accustomed to this false‘ article
that if is now dficult to /mow the color of
honest milk, and very rare to have the oppor-
tunity of too/sing upon it.”

Saying nothing of its other adulterations,
it has been shown that the water used is
liable to be taken from dangerous sources,
and to carry the germs of disease ; and that
the death—rate of infants in Boston has been
in a given year more than four times what
it was in a similar population outside of the
city. VVhat is true of Boston is to a greater
or less extent true of other cities.

MARBLEIZED IRON WARE.

In the spring of 1877, I succeeded in stop-
ping the manufacture of this poisonous
cooking ware, which was filling our mark-
ets.

Its manufacturers,on learning the poison-
ous nature of their ware, closed their facto-
ry, and are now making, as I understand, a
were that is harmless. But, as some of the
above ware may still be in American mar-
kets, it is well that the public should know
and avoid it; and it is clear that it should
be somebody’s business to watch and report
all dangerous cooking wares put on our
markets.

'l‘o PURIFY CISTERN WA’I‘EB.—A writer
in an exchange says: I recently moved in-
to a house that had been unoccupied for some
weeks,and found that the cistern water,while
looking pure and clear, had a most abom-
inable odor. Thinking the agitation caused
by pumping the water would soon mend
matters, the family did its best to use the
offensive stuff. But finding little improve-
ment I procured from a druggist a couple of
ounces of permanganate of potash, and dum-
ped it into the cistern. In 24 hours the of-

ensive smell had entirely disappeared. The
chemical cost me 20 cents.

C0-OPERATION, in teaching the art of
working together for the common good, lays
broad and deep in the foundation of that
full associated life from which, it is believed
by we rotors, immeasurable good to
mankin will flow.

A Few Facts of importance to the consumers of
Kerosene Oil.

Mr. J. H. Moreland, of the firm of More-
land Bros. & Crane, called on the Hudson
Gazette, Ionday, and we gleaned fiom him
some sta istics in regard to petroleum that
cannot fail to be of interest to every con-
sumer of oil.

“ Well, how does trade start in ‘.’ ” we en-
quired.

" Very fair, indeed, sir.
pleased thus far with tilt‘ outlook.”

“ I suppose you are buying your oil of the
Standar... Oil Co.”

" I am very happy to say that we are not.

W'e are dealing with a firm entirely outside I

or the Standard in every particular, Messrs.
Clark, Uhilo‘.-2 & C'.)., of Cleveliinu. Mr.
Clark, the senior member of the firm,  one
of the oldest refiners in the oil biisincss,
having been at an early day one or the cliio.-1'

magiiates in what is now the Standard Oil .

C0‘)!

“ 1 was not aware that oil ,could be pur-
chased other than from the Standard. How
much outside competition [3 tin re 2’ ”

“ In all about 30 companies. These have
formed into what. is known as the L’. S.
Refiners’ Association, not tor the purpose of
fighting the Staii«£:~.i'<l, but as a means of pro-
tection to I.ll(’l]l.~‘!.-l\'eS. The car-acity cftliese
different refiners is about 15,000 barrels per
day, or, in other words, they can supply the
United States with oil. So you see, were
the Standard nioiiopoly dismantlexl, we
would still have lightjust the S'l[1lt“, and an
honest oil instead of a dictated price.”

“ Is it true what is said in regard to the
Standar-l Oil Co.’s barn-l.-. being i,-vergaug~
ed ‘.’ ”

“ It seems to be well fouiided. ’l‘lie Sfar,
of Bradford, l'a., has i:=c~e1i inve.-.tl,-gating the
matter. A representative of that paper,
with three citizens as witiiesses, went to a
place where a large number of oil bzu-rels
were stored. A United States gauge was
procured, and the barrels gauged, and in
every case the barrels of the Standard Oil
Co. were over—gauged from 1; to four gal
ions, while those of an independent con»
pany were correctly markul. In fact, I
have myself st;-en instuiices of where empty
barrels shipped to the Staizdard, marks.-ti to
hold -lsgallon.-1, were, when refilled, inarkeai’
to hold -50 gallons. It seeins almost. incredi-
ble that such frauds should be practiced, but
the proofof the statement is such that it
cannot well be disbelieved.”

“ How do your people expect to compete
with the Standard 1’ ”

“Primarily by making a better oil, grade
for grade. It may seem incongruous that
outside refiners make better oil than the
Standard, but it is true. For instance our
refiners, Clark, Uliilds & Co., are producers;
1'. e. they own their wells. These wells are
producing a very fine quantity of crude, and
this crude is refined by a process of straight
distillation, a process that takes the very
heart ofthe crude petroleum, thereby mak-
ing as pure oil as it is possible to make. ()u
the other hand, the Standard ()il Cu. is of
such gigantic proportions, and such heavy
purchasers of crude oil they are unable to
di.-«criminate in the quality they buy.
Their pipe lines intersect every part of the
oil producing districts, so that they get the
good, bad, and ii1uiili'ei-z-nt crude, and it is
as impossible ‘.0 make a good illuminating
oil out of these mixed qualities as it would
be for a miller to make a fine flour out of
wheat, a percentage of which was smutty,
Secoudarily they are able to compete with
them because the world kl]:)WS'lll€l1l as a
monopoly, gigantic and unscrupulous, and
't is estimated by experts that the people of
the United States paid the Standard Oil
(.‘-ompany,over and above ii legitimate profit,
the enormous sum of eleven millions of
dollars in 1880, besides the millions taken
from the railroads in rebates. luvestigators
of the subject claim that a family that uses
agallon of kerosene a day pay.-. a yearly
tribute to the Staiidard of $32, the income
of $800 in U. S. four per cents."

“ Do the refiners run their own cooper
shops '.’ ”

“ Most. of them do. although the Standard
ship largely in second-hand barrels. The
refiners with whom we are dealing are us
ing no second hand barrels, nothing but new
double glued-barrels. This gives the retail-
erapackage upon which there is the least
leakage.”

“Do you think the Standard will crush
these outside concerns, or force them into
the combination? "

" While what I may say is merely conject-
ure, I give my opinion that the star of the
Standard Oil ()ompany’s power has seen its
zenith and is already in its declension. and
by the unanimous action 01'‘ the people they
could be robbed of much of their power, as
every drop of their oil burned goes towards
building up and fostering the most gigantic
and unscrupulous monopoly known to his-
tory.”-—Hudson Gazette, Aug. 5.

Assimilation.

To make food of any use to the health and
growth of the body, it must be masticated,
‘digested, absorbed, and assimilated. Masti
cation, digestion, and absorption are proces-
ses that are well understood, but assimilation
is not, by a large pct‘ cent. of mothers. Of
all these processes in changing food to flesh
and bone, assimilation is the one for which
all the others are but preparations. Assimi:
lation is forming tissues,-——flcsli,fataud bone,
—from the elements of the food consumed.
Any one may see that the tissues of the body
are very different in their composition from
the food we consume. The process of assim-
ilation, theu, consists in making the ele-
ments of the food into substances that re-
semble, or are like, the several tissues of
which the body is composed. This process,
then, changes meat and vegetables into
flesh, fat, and other tissues. VVhen these
things are digested and changed to a milky
pulp, the nutritious particles are absorbed
by the small intestines and assimilated to
the blood. They mingle with it, and both
new blood and old enter the heart and lungs
and then start on the proper round through
the arteries, depositing atoms of nutrition
here and there as they may be needed.

The blood, then, is made from food. Its
fluid part consists of water having mineral
elements that form inorganic ingredients;
and, lastly, we find in blood albumen and
fibrine, which are its organic elements. The
inorganic substances, the salt, lime and
other elements, are derived from the food.
Blood, then, is composed of water, organic
and inorganic elements,. and changes to
animal tissues some of the organic elements

in the solid tissue, as the lime in the food

\Vc are much ,

- cent.

‘ definite [)l'O.l)Ol‘[l’)[lS.

with a tight cover, and it is a very good field

consumed aids in forming bones. Some are
found in every particle of the body. N0 tis-
sue can exist without them. The phosphate
of lime abounds in the bones and teeth.
This wonderful fluid, the blood,\loadcd with
many kinds of elements, is forced from the
heart into the arteries, and then into the
minute blood tubes, the capillaries, that
penetrate into every tissue and yield to them
those elements that in-ay promote their
growth. In this way mill-;, meat and vege-
t.‘il»le.~' are L‘l'l1ill}.ft-id to ll:-sh and bone.

The inorganic «\lll)STl1iH_'€S are found in all
the tissue.-, but not in the sam-. ))l'(ip0I‘tlOIlS.
Bones contain 50 per cent. of lime: carti-
lages contain 4 per ce.-nt.; lIllls.".l('.~' contain
less than 3-l0:li.-. per cent. The teeth contain
149 per Cent. of water; the brain, over 78 per
Sn, generally. it is true that each tis-
sue must liave tlltsc ;-ub.-tances in certain
If any tissue is defi-
cit-nt it i.- imperfect, and fails more or less
to an.-'we.-r the: purpose for which it was
made. A certaiii per (‘e-lit. must. be found
in bones, or they would not be stitl enough
to uphold the weight. or the body. In rickets
there is not a Sllllll‘lf-lll quantity of lime to
produce stri-ngtli and siitfuess in he bones,
and so they bend and induce deformities of
various -sorts. If limo-. should be deposited
in quantities larger iliaii natural in any
tissue, it would be too hard and still‘ to dis
(-barge its proper «liities. lf bony matter
should be -Jeptisltml in excess in the heart,
as is sometimes the ('n.~t'. the heart could not
contract and drive the blood tlirougli its
wonted i'ound; or if deposited in the lungs,
they could not expand and purify thv blood.

The wisdom of the (freator is manifest
not only in the SIl‘ll(‘l!.lI‘€ of the animal
body, but in the won(lv:i'."ul rower each tis-
sue has to select from the blond certain der-
inite proportions of inorganic lllllttl-.‘l‘.'-'.. and
use them for its own growth and health.
The bones select froin the many ingredients
of the vital fluid those elements that are
needed to form bones of a (:'cl‘ialll degree of
liurdiiess. Too much lime and too little
gelatine would make them. very brittle:
fi'a<-.tu1'es might be of eve.-ry-d.iy occurrence.
If the muscles selected from the blood an
excess of lime, they would be sLitl' and use-
less. ‘I he wonder is that each tissue selects
just the kind and quantity of various niate:r-
ials to construct itself and keep itself‘ in
working order. This power of the several
tissues is i'ende1‘ed more marvelous by con-
sidering tlie nuuiber of different tissues.
Each one has a C«)I1lp().sltl0ll (lifit-rent from
all lhe others, difi'ei'ent in the proportion of
its iiigredienis. Bones and teeth contain
lime, but the Crown ()1 each tooth is covered
with a layer of a very dense substance, the
hardest sub.-ttaiice oi the body. This hard
material varies in its thickness, being the
thickest where it is most exposed to wear.

AIl0|lJt3l' fact is also interesting, namely:
that many ingredients are more abundant in
the tissues than in the blood. Lime is
found to existin the proportion of fifty per
cent. in the bones, but much less than one
percent. in the blood, and so we may ask,
How can the blood supply the bones with the
proper amount of materials for their con
struction 1‘ The supply is presented by the
rapidity of the circulation. A series of pul-
salioiis force a fl‘€'E-Jll supply of blood through

he capillaries, that are constantly and rap-

idly entering the various tissues. The rap-
idity nf the circulation is so great that, in
any given time, aquantity of each element
is supplied to meet the needs of all the tis
sues.

The facts here stated show the necrs
sity of giving certain kinds of food for spec
ial purposes. If we wish to raise animals
that have large bones, We must give those
kinds of food that supply lime in great
amiudsnce. If we wish to raise animals
with small bones, give them, when in a
growing state, those kinds of food that con-
tain u small per cent. of lime.

’l‘lii's power that each tissue posseses, of
selecting and using the kind and quantity
it needs for its grnwtli, seems to be neredi -
airy; and so we see families who, for many
gcnei'aiiniis, have tissues of greater or less
development than usual. All may observe
that the growth of muscles and bones de-
pends upon this instinctive powcr,as well as
upon the kind and quantity of food the sev-
eral tissues can use. _

This subject is interesting, and may teach
us how to feed ourselves, and stock also.
Each animal tissue will absorb special fluids
and solutions more readily than others, and
the same element will be seized upon and
used by one tiss 9 more freely than by
otliers. Each tissue absorbs from the vital
fluid its proper quantity of su -stance, so as
to have the means of repairing ivaste.——E:z'-
chcmge.

Summer Drinks.

“Farnier’s Wife” gives in the Country
Gentleman a number of delicious beverages
for use in hot weather. She says: “The
very best of all drinks is new milk with ice
suflicient to cool it. It is not only cooling,
but also nourishing. It is a most grateful
beverage, not only in the field, but in the
kitchen, and nursery as well as sick-room,
where it should always have a place. In
fevers it is the most delightful cordial that
can be administered. A very nice beverage
is made by taking two quarts of water, a
teaspoonful of pulverized ginger, half a tea
cupful of strong vinegar, and halfa tea-
cupful of molasses or maple sugar. Stir
well, add a lump of ice the size of a quart
bowl to keep it cool. Put into a tin pail

drink, and will keep cool half a day. Still
another drink is prepared by beating two
eggs thoroughly till frothy. adding half a
teacupful of sugar, a teaspuonful of extract
of vanilla, and a. quart of milk; cool with
ice. It is very delicious and strengthening
on a hot day. Another one is made by tak-
ing a teacupful of raspberry jam, stir it into
three ints of water, strain it through a fine
colan er, and set in the ice chest till very
cold. For hay pitchers, nothing excels good
hot coffee, as it stimulates a little, and seems
to raise suflicicnt internal heat, so that per-
spiration flows freely, and keeps up the
strength. .

“Refreshing drinks are a very great co_m-
fort during the summer heat, and give
much nourishment to the system, as one is
not very apt to feel hmigry n the long sum
mer days when the thermometer ranges
from 90 to 100 degrees in the shade. _The
more a person drinks the more he perspires;
yet one cannot help craving some palatable
bever e to cool the parched lips and mouth
in the eat of summer. It is much betterto
take little at a time and to drink more fre-

uently, than to quaff a great quantity at a

,attended,to the obligations.

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head is a great preventive of thirst. Men
are not half so liable to get overheated if
they occasionally wipe off their faces with a
wet towel or sponge. All ice drinks should
be sipped slowly, as they thus quench the
thirst better and do not give a chill, as if
taken in large swallows and great quanti-
, ties.”

HANG your Grange banners on the outer
wall. Pl‘0ClalH] the principles of the Order
to every intelligent iariner.

Tiii-: ideas accuinulated during the year
from the Grange. agg rt-gated, are worth more
to the pos;-‘essor than silver and gold.

I1‘ ought to be borne distinciiv-lyjin mind,
that the Grange makes no fight upon cor-
porations as such. The abuses and those
only, is the battleground.

LIVE by co-operation and let middlemen
in the form of commission nit-ii, agents, for-
warders, warehouse men, patent right man-
ipulators, and ti‘.-ale-pcvliticiaiis entirely
alone.

Tiii: Graiige is an edu('at.0r, and a thor-
ough oncl There are none who have been
long within the gates and have faithfully
that will deny
what we say.

Tiii-; only hope.-: for the laboring classes,
in the contest with capital, lies in organiz-
ation. United they could be compelled to
deal justly by their fellow-men. Capital
unites, why not labor?

SEi.i.i.\‘(; your products to .-pe('ul21l.<‘l‘S and
local sliippers is not always advisable: ‘heir
profit for doing nothing is taken from your
labor. Co operating and shipping together,
might at times be v ry beneficial.

IN the Grange, strangers become friends;
here sweet counsel is taken together; the
bond in affection is strengthened, and the
monotonous duties of farm life are at stated
intervals converted into parties of pleasure.

Tin-2 custom of planting a tree when a
child is born or mai'ri'ed is a good one.
\\'hen a faroff friend visits you, plant a tree
to coinmenior-ate the event. If you do not
live to rest under its welcome shade, some
one else will.

O\\'NER.S of domestic animals will be in-
terestetl in the fact that the new law pro-
hibiting horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs from
running at large in the State of Michigan
will take effect Sept. 11. The so-called “iron-
clad” whisky law also rakes effect in Sep-
tember. .

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TEE GRANGE VESETOR.

SEPTEMBER 15, 1881.

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SCHOOLCRAFT, . . SEPTEMBER 15.

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SCHOOLCRAFT.

COUNTY CONVENTIONS—OCTOBER 4. 1881.

We print herewith Article IV of the By-
Laws of the State Grange, as this relates to
the election and representation of Subordi-
nate Granges at the annual session of the
State Grange :—

ARTICLE IV, BY-LAWS OF THE MICHIGAN
STATE GRANGE—VOTING MEMBERS.

Section 1. The voting members of the
Michigan State Grange shall be chosen
from the members, in proportion to one
brother, and his wife (if a Matron), to, each
five Subordinate Granges. or the major part
thereof, in each county; and one brother
and his wife (if a Matron), chosen by each
County or District (Pomona) Grange in the
State.

Sec.  Counties in which there are not
the major portion of five Subordinate
Granges shall be consolidated by the Master
and Secretary of the State Grange into Rep-
resentative districts in such manner as they
shall deem just to the counties interested,
and give them a fair representation in the
State Grange.

Sec. 3. The selection of voting members
by Subordinate Granges shall take place on
the first Tuesday of October of eacn year, by
a convention of Subordinate Granges at the
county seat of each county, unless the place
of meeting has been elsewhere located by
the last preceding annual convention. In
case of representative districts of two or
more counties, the place of holding the con-
vention shall be designated by the Secretary
of the State Grange at the time the district
is formed.

Sec. 4. At the annual convention to elect
representatives or voting members to the
State Grange, each Subordinate Grange not
more than two quarters in arrears for dues
or reports to the State Grange, shall be en-
titled to four delegates, and no more. Such
delegate shall be chosen by ballot by the
Subordinate Grange, which may also choose
alternate delegates. Each delegate and al-
ternate chosen should have credentials from
his Grange, signed by the Master and Secre-
tary thereof, and attested by the seal of the
Grange. A delegate can have but one vote
in the convention.

Sec. 5. Conventions of eight or more
Granges mav, upon me request of the ma-
jority of the Granges entitled to representa-
tion, divide the county or district into dis-
tricts of contiguous Granges, in which case
the representatives of each such district shall
be elected by the vote of the delegates of
the district so made.

Sec. 6. A county or district convention
shall have the delegates of a majority of the
Granges entitled to representation present,
before districting or an election can take

lace. Failing to have a majority of the

ranges entitled to representation present,
the convention shall, after organization, ad-
journ to a fixed time and place, and send a
notice of such time and place to all unrep-
resented Granges. The delegates present at
the adjourned meeting of the convention
shall have power to elect representatives to
the State Grange.

Sec. 7. Conventions may elect alternate
representatives to the State Grange, or may
empower the representatives-elect to appoint
substitutes from among the Masters or Past-
Masters of Subordinate Granges in the dis-
trict from which they were elected.

Sec. 8. The President and Secretary of
each representative convention shall give
each representativeelect credentials certify-
ing his election, to be used at the State
Grange; and said Secretary shall, immedi-
ately upon the close of the convention, for-
ward a certified statement of the election,
with name and postoifices of representatives
elected, to the Secretary of the State Grange.
Blank forms of credentials and certificates
shall be furnished by the Secretary of the
State Grange on application.

See. 9. Each representative attending the
State Grange shall receive mileage at the
rate of two cents per mile for the distance
traveled in going and returning by the near-
est traveled route, and $1.50 per diem for the
time actually spent at the Grange. The
Master and Secretary of the State Grange
shall give such representative an order for
the amount on the Treasurer of the State
Grange, which shall be paid at the close of
the session. _

Sec. 10. Each representative to the State
Grange shall, within six weeks after the
close of the State Grange, visit each Subor-
dinate Grange in his district, give instruc-
tion and impart the annual word to the
Masters of those Granges entitled to receive
it. (All Granges entitled to representation
in the convention, or reported as entitled to
it by the Secretary of the State Grange, are
entitled to receive the A.W. from the repre-
sentative.)

Before we were aware of it the time for
holding the annual county conventions for
the election of representatives to the State

-Grange, came in sight. Very soon after our
next paper reaches our subscribers, and be-
fore some of them will have it read, the first
Tuesday in October—the day designated in
the by-laws of the State Grange for these
annual conventions, will have come.

We present in this issue a list of Granges
entitled to representation as we find them
on our books on the 14th of September, as-
suming that a Grange that has not reported
and paid its dues for the quarter ending
March 31st, 1881, is not entitled to send del-
egates to the County Convention.

It frequently happens that the members
of 11. Grange suppose their Grange is entitled
to elect delegates to the County Convention,
when by the delinquency of the Secretary
such right has been forfeited. Masters who
do not find the number of their Grange in
this list, should at once urge the Secretary

to discharge without delay his omcial duty
in the premises.

VVe have been looking over the list of
Granges entitled to representatives last year,
as published in the V1sIT0R of Sept. I5, and
find there were but four more in that list
than we have in our list as made up in this
issue. While some counties have gained,
others have lost. Last year some counties
were not represented that this year have re-
newed their allegiance and taken their place
in the grand army of farmers who have
organized to educate and elevate their class.
In looking over this list we find a half dozen
counties that could have another representa-
tive, if one delinquent Grange in each would
report and pay its dues for the quarter end-
ing March 31, 1881.

As we believe the annual sessions of the
State Grange conduce very much to the good
of the Order, and that a full representation
gives importance, character and value to the
meetings, we hope an effort will be made to
get these delinquents to provide for this ad-
ditional representation, by making the nec-
essary reports and payments of dues.

VVe append a list of Granges that were
delinquent in reports for the quarter ending
March 31st, 1881: Nos. 6, 31, 44, 52, 57, 71,
76, 90, 97, 114, 118, 125, 126, 128, 229, 2.52, 298,
344, 345, 381, 396, 422, 424, 438, 461, 462, 503,
511, 514, 529, 574, 602, 631', 637.

The following have not reported for Dec.
31st, 1880: Nos. 68, 201, 203, 227, 268, 523,
566, 603, 616, 640.

We have given these numbers, hoping
that some of our readers who are members
will open their eyes to the situation and per-
haps bestir themselves to save their Grange
from sinkinginto a dormant condition. We
hope to receive reports from many of these
Granges in time for them to participate in
the Convention of Oct. 4th.

GENERAL NOTICE.
MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.
Secretary’s Office, Sept. 14, 1881. I

The books of this office show at this date
the following Granges entitled to dele-
gates to the County and District Conven-
tions, to be held on Tuesday, Oct. 4th, 1881,
by virtue of Sec, 3, Art. 4 of By-Laws of the
State Grange.

For the purpose of securing the benefit of
representation to all delinquent Granges,
we shall add to this list all who may report
up to the last moment practicable, and dele-
gates duly elected, who are able to show a
receipt for dues for the quarter ending March
31st, 1881, on which is endorsed by me “en-
titled to representation,” should be allowed
to participate in the work of the Convention.

Allegan—3. Representatives. Nos. 37, 53,
154, 238, 247, 248, 271, 296, 338, 339, 364, 390,
407, 520, 643.

Barry———2. 38,55, 127, 145. 425, 472, 590.

Ber-rien——2. 14. 40, 43, 46, 80, 81, 84, 87,
104, 122, 123, 188.

Branch-1. 88, 91, 136, 137, 152, 400.

C'alhoun—2. 65, 66, 83, 85, 96, 129, 130,

200, 292.

0ass—-1. 42, 162, 427.

Clinton--3. 140. 202, 225, 226, 342, 343, 358,
370, 439, 456, 459, 487, 505.

Eaton—2. 67, 134, 223, 224, 260,
360, 361, 619, 625.

G'enesee—1. 255, 386, 387.

Gratiot—-1. 310, 391, 431.

IIillda.le—-3. 74, 78, 106, 107, 108,
183,257, 269, 273, 274, 285. 286, 568.

Ingham—-3 7, 54, 115, 189, 235,
265, 287, 289, 322, 347, 540.

Ionia—-3. 163,168, 174, 175, 185, 186, 187,
190, 191, 192, 270, 272, 281, 3:5, 430, 646.

Jac/cson——1. 45, 320, 321.

Kalamazoo—1. 8, 11, 16. 18, 24, 49, 61.

Kent——4. 19, 39, 63, 73, 102, 110, 113, 170,
219, 220, 222, 295, 337, 340, 348, 350, 353, 479,
563, 564, 634.

Lapeer—1.

Leelanaw-1.

Lenawee—2. 167, 212, 213, 276, 278, 279,
280, 293, 384.

I/iving8ton—1. 57, 336, 613.

Monroe~1. 471, 492, 509.

Muskegon—l. 316, 372, 373, 376, 554.
~ Newag/go—1. 494. 495, 544, 545.

0aklamd—3. 141, 245, 253, 257, 259, 267,
275, 283, 323, 328. 335, 377, 385, 395. 408, 443.

Ottawa-1. 30, 112, 313, 421, 458, 639.

St. Joseph-2. 22, 76, 178. 199, 215, 236, 237,
266, 291, 303, 304, 333.

Shiawas8ee—1. 151, 160, 180, 228, 606.

Van Buren—3. 10, 23, 26, 32, 36, 60, 89,
158, 159, 172, 230, 346, 355. 610.

Washtenaw—1. 56, 59, 92, 239, 329, 351, 476.

Wag/ne—1. 331, 367, 368, 389, 618, 622, 636.

For the purpose of representation, as pro-
vided for in Sec. 2 of Art. 4, the following
counties are formed into Representative
Districts ; and I would recommend that the
several conventions for these Representative
Districts be held at the county seat of the
county having the largest number of Granges
entitled to delegates.

First District—1 Rep. Manistee, 556, 557,
580, 633. Wexford, 632, 644.

Second Dist.-1 Rep. Saginaw, 326, 464;
Bay, 597, 635.

Third Dist.—1 Rep. Grand Traverse, 379,
469, 624, 638 ; Antrin, 470.

Fourth Dist.—1 Rep. Oceana, 393, 401,
406, 600: Mason, 415.

Fifth Dist.—2 Re s. Montcalm, 318, 436,
437, 440, 441, 530; ecosta, 362, 517 ; Osceola
629.

Sixth Dist.—1 Rep. Tuscola, 513, 526, 548,
582. 589, 593, 642; Sanilac, 417.

Seventh Dist.--1 Rep. Macomb, 403, 414,
623; St. Clair, 480, 491.

301, 315,

133, 182,
241, 262,

246, 448, 549, 607, 641.
374, 375, 380.

OUR practical farmers will please not
overlook a short article from Bro. D. K. Rix,
upon the use of salt. Mr. Rix is a success-
ful farmer, one of those men who not only
gets a good living for himself and hosts
of friends, of from his farm, but makes
money besides, and if you visit him he can
tell you how he does it.

A VALUABLE DISCOVERY.

A great discovery has been made on the
Mojave Desert, says a San Francisco paper,
which seems destined to revolutionize vine-
culture in Southern California. I: has been
found that grape cuttings, inse ed in the
trunk of the cacti on the desert, grow and
thrive as vigorously as in cultivated land.
This fact is of great importance to the peo-
ple. By the use ofa chisel a man can plant
a large vineyard in a day, and the vines so
planted will climb the cactus and grow lux-
uriantly without cultivation or irrigation.
The dry, hot sands of the deserts will afford
a fine place for drying raisins. In addition
to grapes it has been proved that melons,
cucumbeis, and tomatoes will grow from the
cactus stock.

We clip the above from an exchange, and
by it are reminded of crossing the Mojave
(pronounced Mo-ha-ve) Desert in the spring
of 1880. After reading this, our first impulse
was to exclaim. that is too good to be true I
As we remember the desert, this cactus was
standing idly in the sand, a sort of small, tall
stump,without limb or leaf, from four to ten
feet high, with an average diameter of six
inches, and in the month of Apri[
about as large at the top as near the
ground. For company it seemed to have
only more cacti covering many miles to the
right and to the left, as far as the eye could
reach. Except here and there the inevitable
sage brush, there was little other vegetation
in sight.

\Ve remember the “Great American Des-
ert” on the school atlas of our boyhood, was
a vast tract of country as indicated by its
name, covering the interior of the conti-
nent, to which the map-maker by way of
designation gave a sort of peppered look.
The geographer of later days has extin-
guished the “Great American Desert,” and
substituted the Plains, where cattle by the
hundred thousand annually graze and fat-
ten, and we may truly add, starve and die
by hundreds every long, hard winter.

The outlook for the future of our country
promises a rapid and vast growth, until we
shall outstrip in numbers and wealth the
continental nations of Europe, and rival in
population the nations of the Orient.

If the claims for the cactus, put forth by
this San Francisco paper, are sustained, or
only iii-so-far as relates to grape culture, tue
capacity of this country to sustain a much
larger population has been largely devel-
oped by this discovery. The culture of
the grape has for several years been one of
the growing industries of California, and
the production of raisins, of which we have
always imported large quantities, seemed to
me to be one of the most promising branches
of California agriculture. If the vines re-
main healthy, we see no reason why the
production of raisins in this country should
not increase until the cost price is reduced
one-half, and by such reduction the con-
sumption increased to the extent of their
free use.

Now, most families use raisins as luxu-
ries. We think in the near future Califor
nia raisins will command the home market
to the exclusion of the foreign article,
whether this newspaper article proves a
canard or a valuable fact, and that they
will be so abundant that the native raisin
will no longer be considered such a luxury
as to have but a restrained and limited use.

PATRONS, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO
ABOUT IT‘!

Patrons of Michigan, look over the several
lists of Granges found in another column,
and see the present standing of your Grange,
and if it is not as it should be, we appeal to
you to look the matter square in the face and
answer these questions squarely and truly:

Was not this Grange organization estab-
lished to benefit the agricultural class ?

Can farmers in these days of combination
and association hope to compete with other
classes of society without some unity of

' effort ?

Have the agricultural interests of this
country received the attention and aid from
government that their importance demands?

Can we hope for full recognition and fair
treatment in a representative government
mainly composed of men from other classes?

Shall the farmers of this country continue
to pay 80 per cent. of the taxes, and be satis-
fied with two or three per cent. representa-
tion in the Congress of the United States?

Has not the Grange fairly and honestly
undertaken to champion the cause of the
farmer by demanding such change in the
patent laws as will protect farmers from
sharpers, in the use of articles made and put
on the market for their use ?

Has not the Grange sought to enlighten
the farmers of the country upon all questions
in which their rights were involved; and
has it not always repudiated every commu-
nistic idea ‘.’

Has it not encouraged education, morality
and a faithful observance of law ?

Has it not, in the few brief years of its
existence, stimulated enquiry, developed
individual capacity, in many places revolu-
tionized and vastly improved the social con-
ditions of society and brought the farmer
class up to a higher plane?

Has it not discouraged the credit system.
the mortgage system, and every other sys-
tem tending to prodigality ?

Has it not extorted from intelligent men
of other classes, who have given this matter
any attention, a strong endorsement of the
principles, objects, and aims of the Order?

And you, Patrons of Michigan,’ have un-

dertaken to aid in a work that is to benefit
yourselves, your neighbors. your class, your
country, and mankind. Will you, from
sheer indifference, shut your eyes to the
facts We have presented, and leave entirely
for others a work in which you are an inter-
ested party? This is a matter we ask you to
honestly consider, and we ask you to
promptly act upon the conclusions which a
conscientious consideration of the subject
shall reach. We trust that you will not be
false to yourselves, to your families, to your
profession and to your country, by neglect-
ing to sustain the Grange—the farmers’
movement, by farmers and for farmers.

RESTRAINING STOCK.

We print herewith an Act relative to res-
straining stock from running at large in the
highways of this State.

The act by itself leaves the matter quite
obscure. By reference to the sections
amended we find that the Act, as it stood
before this amendment was made, did pro-
hibit certain kinds of stock from running at
large, provided the Board of Supervisors so
determined by resolution. And this amend-
ment of 1881 simply reverses the situation,
making the law as it has stood for years in
force throughout the State, except as Pro-
vided—That this Act shall be inoperative
only in those counties or parts of counties in
which it shall be so determined by resolu-
tion passed by the Board of Supervisors of
such county.

We happen to know of townships in
which are villages of a thousand inhabitants,
that are well supplied with those features of
our civilization which have come to be con-
sidered essentiai: beautiful churches and
pretentious schoolhouses, of which the citi-
zens are justly proud; and to these public
buildings, built for such noble purposes, not
only the people, old and young, come to
grow wiser and better, but we have often
noticed with what satisfaction large num-
bers of cows graze around and lie in the
grateful shade or quietly travel over the
walks and rub their itching sides on trees
set out to adorn and beautify the grounds;
and of this some grumbling citizens are
always complaining, insisting that these
animals offend common decency by their
familiarity, are a nuisance and a reproach
to a community that tolerates it ; and it was
no doubt to gratify these grumblers that this
law was ‘amended, and it now remains to be
seen whether they will still grumble or
whether they will see that the law which
now empowers them to abate this nuisance
shall be enforced.

AN ACT

To amend Sections one and two of Chapter
fifty nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen
hundred and seventy-one, being compiler’s
sections two thousand and twenty-seven and
two thousand and twenty-eight, relative to
the prevention of animals -running at large
in the public highway.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of
lllichigan enact, That sections one and two
of chapter fifty-nine of the compiled laws of
eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being
compiler’s sections two thousand and twen-
ty-seven and two thousand and twenty-
eight, relative to the prevention of animals
running at large in the public highway, be
and the same are hereby amended so as to
read as follows:

(2027.) SEC. 1. That from and after the
year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
seven, it shall not be lawful for any cattle,
horses, sheep, or swine, to run at large in
any public highway of this State. Provided,
that this act shall be inoperative only in
those counties or parts of counties in which
it shall be so determined by resolution pass-
ed by the board of supervisors of such
county. Provided, further, That the powers
granted to boards of supervisors in this sec-
tion, shall not abridge the powers reserved
to the people of a township, in section four
of chapter twelve, of compiled laws of eight-
een hundred and seventy-one.

(2028.) SEC. 2. In case the board of super-
visors in any county shall pass a resolution
allowing any of the classes of animals named
in section one of this bill to run at large in
the public highway, then in such county,
after the year one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven, the following sections of
this act shall be null and void, but other-
wise they shall be in full force.

Approved February 23, 1881.

THE FAIR AT GRAND RAPIDS.

On our last page of this number appears
for the second time an advertisement of the
third Annual Fair of the WESTERN MICHI-
GAN AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL So-
CIETY.

Those who know anything of Grand Rap-
ids know thst it hasa good reputation for
enterprise and push, and that it did not take
hold of this annual fair matter in connection
with the farmers of western Michigan to
afterward leave it to take care of itself. The
Exhibition we have no doubt will be full
and complete, and we hope those of our
farmer friends who can will visit the valley
city and this Agricultural Fair. All who go
with any desire to learn and profit by the
visit will be amply rewarded. While there
are features about nearly all our State, dis-
trict and county fairs that we do not ap-
prove, yet that the institution as such has
done much to promote the great agricultural
interests of the country and benefit the far-
mer and his family, we most certainly
believe. We say, therefore, attend fairs
when you can. Don’t go wholly and solely
to see the horse trot. If you have no ambi-
tion to see or know anything beyond that—-
if you can sit three hours on a fence watch-
ing the scoring and waiting for the word go,
we have little hope that you will get value

received for the time and money you invest
in the fair.

CANVASS FOR THE VISITOR.

We have noticed that the gentlemen who
are entrusted with the business management
of the agricultural papers of this State make
it a point to have soliciting agents for their
papers at every fair, big or little. This
phrase, agricultural papers of this State, of
course will not please the llfichigan Farmer
folks who still keep that chronic falsehood
at the head of their editorial page, “The
only agricultural paper published in Michi-
gan.” But. no matter, we aim to state facts
when we write, and when we conclude to
try to palm oil‘ falsehoods for facts we shall
try and fix it up so somebody will believe it.
But we are getting off the subject. As we
said at the outset the agents of the agricul-
tural press seize upon these annual fairs when
large numbers of farmers come together
to secure additions to their subscription
lists.

The Visrron has no paid solicitors and
has never had. VVe have always relied on
its merits and the good will of its friends to
take care of its interests and aid its growth
by bringing it to the attention of the farm-
ers of the State, both those in and outside the
Order, and these friends have heretofore
proved so true that we must still rely upon
them. We shall be glad to send a package
to any one who will distribute them among
their farmer friends and try to obtain some
subscribers.

We must claim that the several depart-
ments are creditably filled each issue with
original reading matter, much of it well con-
sidered and giving evidence ofan intelligent
understanding of the subjects treated. To
those who appreciate the value of this paper
to the Order, and to the great objects for
which the Order was founded, it should not
be necessary to assign reasons for asking
their cooperation for enlarging its sphere
of usefulness, and we hope several hundred
of our friends willgive a little time during
their attendance at the fairs this year to aid
us in this matter.

You know we have no elaborate scheme
of premiums and promises ofjack knives to
induce people to subscribe for the VISITOR,
we do not even offer an Organ for any num-
ber of subscribers, but depend on those who
know and appreciate the paper to encourage
its circulation among those who know little
or nothing of it.

An offer of three months to five or more
names at ten cents each still holds good,
though we much prefer 11 names for $5.00,
for one year.

Remember that fairs furnish opportuni-
ties for work in this direction and we ask
and expect it will be done.

THE DRIVE WELL SWINDLE.

SPRiNG LAKE, Ottawa Co., Sept. 10,’81.

Bro. Cobb .-—The long looked for drive
well man has struck us at last, and struck us
" bad,” as you will see by the enclosed circu-
lar, of which nearly every one in this section
received a copy during the past few days.

Now this drive well man claims his patent
to date from January 14, 1868,-that may be
all right. But in visiting in Northumber-
land county, Pennsylania, soon after leaving
the army in 1864, some of my friends de-
scribed to me drive wells similar to those
in general use now, and they said that par-
ties had attempted to drive them, but failed
to make a general success on account of
rocks and stones interfering. I remember
remarking, what a grand thing they would
be in Michigan where rocks and stones were
the exception and not the rule.

Now what we want to know is whether
every one using drive wells is infringing on
this said N. W. Green, or whether this N.
W. Green is infringing on somebody else’s
rights. What had we better do, can you
give us some light on the subject ?

Now I don’t happen to own a drive well,
but if this Green has a soft thing collecting
royalty, others will soon follow him col-
lecting royalty on patent flour, patent butter,
patent sugar, and a thousand and one other
things, and keep a fellow everlastingly
shelling out royalty.

Yours for the right,
A. M_. KOCHEB.
OTTAWA Co. COLLECTION AGENCY.
GRAND HAVEN, Mich., Sept. 9, 1881.

MR. ABRAM KOCHER: You are hereby
notified that the Driven Wells upon your
premises are infringements upon my pat-
ents, granted January 14th, 1868. N 0. 73,425;
reissued May 9th, 1871, N 0. 4,372, and pat-
ent No. 211,875, Aug. 26th, 1879.

You are requested to call on me and pro-
cure a License for the same; if more con-
venient, money may be remitted to my
address by draft, registered letter or P. 0.
order, with description of location of wells,
as to street, house, barn, yard, kitchen, field,
etc. If aid within thirty days ‘-from the
date of t is notice, the royalty will be$10
on each 1} or 1; inch well; and on each 2
inch well $15; larger wells in roportion.
On single wells operated by machinery and
used for manufacturing or other valuable
purposes, the royalty will be $125. Gangs
of wells will be rated according to value,
after investigation.

To payments made after thirty days, 20
per cent. will be added. Please bring this
notice with you.

All wells made air-tight by attachin a
 (i:}oE§11¢3Nlriri1Sing of the well, are I -

For convenience of the ublic, I have fun-
nished the First Nations? Bank of this city
with receipts duly signed by me; and the


SEPTEMBER 15, 1881.

THE SEAN

es visions.

5

said Bank is authorized to issue the same on
payment of the royalty.

All persons are hereby cautioned against
infringing upon my patents.

. W. GREEN,

Patentee of the “American Driven Well”

and “Water Supply System.”

Make all drafts, P. 0. money orders, etc.,
payable to WM. 0. CAMPBELL,

Collecting Agent.

\Ve have done a little free advertising be-
fore, and will do as much for Mr. Green in
presenting to our readers the above copy of
this circular notice to users of drive wells.
It may be a satisfaction to our Ottawa Co.
friends to know that we find an order in the
office of the Kalamazoo Telegraph, where
the VISITOR is printed, for 2,500 notices with
Kalamazoo substituted for Ottawa, and we
expect to hear from other counties in the
State soon, for Mr. Green and his gang are
enterprising, and mean business. We not
only give Mr. Green the benefit of this gen-
eral notice to farmers and others to come
forward and pay up, but will volunteer an
opinion that these swindlers wont get
money enough out of the Grangers of
Michigan within a year from date, to pay
their board bills fora week.
| |'l‘hese notices are all backed by a formida-
ble array of judicial decisions in several
States. The chances are the concern will
have to add another decision to the list
before realizing royalty for this alleged in-
frinement of patent by the farmers of this
State. Patrons, don’t pay these fellows a
cent or allow them to stay on your premises
five minutes.

As we handed the above to the printer.
our attention was called to the following,
in the Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph of Sep-
tember 12. which, like the other, we adver-

tise free.
DRIVEN WELL NOTICE.

The public are cautioned against paying
royalties under the Driven Well patent to
N. W. Green or his agents, for the County of
Kalamazoo. The undersigned and their
agent, Jas. E. Franklin of Kalamazoo, are
alone authorized to collect past royalties or
license new wells.

WM. D. ANDREWS & Bro.
233 Broadway, N. Y.

It will be soon enough to pay royalty
when we find out we owe somebody, and
safer to wait until it has been determined
beyond a question who that somebody is.

WE reprint the list of Michigan Granges
having halls, with such additions as we have
received in the intervening two weeks.
There are more Grange halls in the State
than the list of this issue shows, and as we
intimated before we shall keep the list
standing, with a continued call for further
reports, until we are satisfied that the list is
full and complete. .

SIZE OF

NAME or GRANGE. HALL

§§§§§

§%§§§§§§§

sssésss

WE summarize the crop reports received
as follows ; .

S. A. Gardner. Traverse City, gives the
wheat average at 10 bushels; oats yielded
from 20 to 40 ; corn and potatoes badly dam-
aged by drouth and promise but half a crop.

D. S. Gardner wrote the middle of Aug.
from Otsego, Allegan county, that wheat
was turning out. from 5 to 10 bushels per
acre.

Bro. Foster, from same county, under date

' of Sept. 5th, gives an average of 10 bushels

for wheat; oats, 30;
better than last year.

The crop reports received are so meager
that we shall not attempt anything farther
in this direction for a while until our friends
get rested up a little.

hay, 1:} tons; corn

WE renew the advertisement of Wolcott
& Co. of Albion in this issue. Those in need
of their line of goods should correspond
wi vthem and get their terms. The new
ad rtisement of S. L. Beardsley should be
read by our farmer friends. The agent of

this Harvester company is a wide awake
man and will do every time just as he agrees,
we think.

PLEASE notice the last clause of Sec. 8, of
By-Laws, as found on this page. We have
the blanks and shall comply with that re-
quirement promptly on application.

READ the appeal for aid for the sufferers
in the fire stricken district of the State, and
respond as you may be able. Our brother
farmers must have help and have it soon.

The Acme Creamery at the Slate Fair.

Patrons visiting the State Fair at Jackson
next week, should not fail to call at the Ac-
me Creamery head uarters and examine its
merits as a milk an butter cooler. For the
convenience of the Patrons of Western
Michigan, it will also be on exhibition at
the fair at Grand Rapids, September 26-30.

9

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PICKINGS BY THE WAY, N0. 32.

For two numbers of the VISITOR, while
you kind readers have been picnicing, hav-
ing harvest homes, etc., there may have
been numberless chickens, but there were
few pickings by the way. August 1 found
us in the State of

INDIANA,

where we spent three days——one each in
Jay, Wells, and Randolph counties-—and
spoke seven times to large and small audi-
ences. The meetings in VVells and Ran-
dolph counties were quite large indeed,
while that in Jay was very good. The Order
in Indiana is awakening, and will soon
come to the front. The good work of W'or-
thy Master Jones, with the efficient aid of
Brother Mortimer Whitehead of the Cincin-
nati Bulletin, who has been heard and seen
in this State, are fast putting Indiana in the
front rank of Grange States. VVe like the
people we saw there, and the thoroughness
of their Grange work. VVe here met Sister
Sallie Bach, a young teacher who promises
to make an earnest champion in Grange
work. We wish her success, and may she
lead many a Hoosier to seek admission to
our Grange fold.

Our private meetings were well attended,
and the interest manifested by the members
in the higher instruction of our unwritten
work, proves to us that they are trying to
build upon a sure foundation. Brothers
Goodin, Houner, Boats, and many others of
these counties, have our thanks for courte-
sies and favors.

FOB. KENTUCKY

we were bound on the morning of Aug. 4,
when Bro.Whitehead hailed us in the depot
at Cincinnati, and said, “Come with me.”
VVe bad faith in our guide, and reaching
the Southern railroad depot found Bro.
Whitehead’s wife and sister, each with her
daughter, who were to add to our number
and pleasure at the picnic of the day. A
short ride upon the railroad, and a long rest
at the station, and a slow ride——nine persons
drawn by one horse—several breaks of har-
ness, and we reached

BOONE COUNTY.

where the picnic was to be held. All our
delay, and hindrance, and anxiety, and fret,
and worry was because one brother neglect-
ed, or forgot, or didn’t have time, to write
and mail one postal card. For the lack of
one cent in the proper time, ten dollars was
required to partially repair the damage done.
A word to the wise is not needed, but to all
we say: Neglect not the minutest detail in
arranging for the comfort and entertain-
ment of a crowd of people: let there be no
slips, no going to the wrong station for the
want of a postal card timely written. Bro.
Owen Uty, by his promptness and energy,
helped to modify the mistake and make all
end well, and be well.

In one of God’s grand old “forest temples”
we found our first Kentucky audience as-
sembled when we reached the ground. Bro.
A. B. Smith, the \Vorthy Master of the
Kentucky State Grange, was on hand and
gave our party a royal welcome. He had
been speaking during the forenoon, throw-
ing hot shot at the railroad monopolies. “'9
ate a hearty lunch, and made our bow to a
large and intelligent concourse of “ fair
women and brave men.” At intervals
most excellent singing added to the pleasure
of the occasion. Bro. Whitehead made one
of his telling speeches, just as he did when
campaigning in Michigan two years ago.

This might have been called a “ tri-State”
picnic, for, though held in Kentucky, there
were Patrons present from Ohio and Indi-
ana. The day was too short. Night brought
us, in company with Bro. Smith, to the
home of Bro. N. Talbott, where true Ken-
tucky hospitality was dispensed without
stint. The night too was far too short, for
an early hour found us enroute for Coving-
ton, where at 7 A.M. we were joined by Bro.
Uty and the Whitehead party, and in com-
pany with Bro. Carter, Worthy Secretary
of the Kentucky State Granite, and others,
we started for the
BUTLER PICNIC IN PENDLETON COUNTY.

A ride of 20 miles by rail, through tun-
nels, over hills and across streams, and we
made Butler. We had for a fellow-passen-
ger, and passed through a tunnel under the
farm of, Bro. Peter McVean, who came
from Orion, Mich., in‘ 1853. Bro. McVean
is one of the managers of the Cincinnati
Wholesale Grange Supply House.

The Butler meeting was large. Several
things we hurriedly note. Many came on
horseback, a common mode of traveling
here. Old and young, male and female,
women with infants in arm, and even the
brass band came on horseback. The band
were all members. wearing the Grange re-
galia. Everything was in grand shape for a
picnic. The ‘stage was well decorated, and
behind italarge pen was built, in which
were placed the baskets, pails and boxes as
they came, and check cards given to claim
them when needed.

After music by the band and choir, and
prayer, and music again, the Declaration of
Purposes was read by Bro. Carter. Then
Bro. Smith spoke for an hour, showing the

people what they had to contend with in

EeinlmnIl~

the abuses of the railroads in his State.

Bro. Smith speaks from actual knowledge,
and gives facts in a convincing shape. We
hope that Bro. Smith may be induced to
come to Michigan and plead the cause of the
people against the oppression of the railroad
tyrants. The baskets opened and their
contents discussed, the crowd again assem-
bled, and Bro. Owen Uty spoke for a short
time in a way that enables us to say with
confidence that he will make a good Grange
advocate for Kentucky, and at no distant
day, either. Bring him to the front, Pa-
trons. \Ve spoke as yesterday, and were
followed by Bro. VVhitehead, and music
closed another successful meeting in the
Blue Grass State. May she have many
more such, and may her sons and daugh-
terc ever go upward and onward.

EASTWARD.

A day at Cincinnati——attending the week-
ly meeting of the Horticultural Society,
visiting the Supply House, and resting with
Bro. Whitehead and family —and we sped
away, and after a 24 hours’ ride reached
Philadelphia, making only about 12 or 15
stops enroute. The next day took us to the
home of Bro. David T. Hains, of Medford,
New Jersey, whose name and writings are
familiar to the readers of the VISITOR. We
did not knowjust what station to get off at,
but hearing his voice asking, on stopping,
if “they had a man aboard who wanted to
go to his house?” we came out, and were
soon riding to a good old farm home, where
Sister Plains and her three girls, with two
borrowed ones, welcomed us. Here we
rested, wrote, were beaten at croquet, and
waited for the Inorrow’s (Aug. 10), picnic at

MT. HOLLY,

which is the county seat of Burlington
county, and has a very large and well-fitted-
up fair grounds, equal to any we have ever
seen. On these grounds was to be the meet-
ing.

Though early at the place,we found many
there. Bro. I. VV. Nicholson, Worthy
Master of the New Jersey State Grange, and
his wife, Bro. Hancock, of the Executive
Committee, greeted us besides a host of old
friends we met last fall. Bro. and Sister
Rex and daughter and others of Pennsylvan-
ia were there. The young lady for whom we
were to find a husband in the Grange, was
on hand with samples of her bread and
cake, which our fastidious taste pronounced
good enough for any Michigan man.

Everybody, and especially Patrons, eat in
New Jersey, and especially at picnics. Pails
and baskets having been emptied and
stomachs duly filled, the dishes and frag-
ments picked up, the brass band began to
woo attendance to the great hall around a
central stage or platform——a good place to see
and be seen, but a killing place to speak or
be heard from. Bro. Hains acted as chair-
man, and in a brief but pleasant~speech
welcomed all.

The first speaker was Sister Augusta
Cooper Bristol, of Cumberland county, N.
Y. We are proud to have met and heard
this sister. She is welcomed by us to our
circle of advocates of higher manhood and
womanhood. Sister Bristol is one of our
true women, a highly qualified champion of
our cause. We have met but one equal to
Sister B._ among her sex, and Mrs. Liver-
more of Chicago is only her equal as a writ-
er and speaker. Mrs. B. has often been be-
fore New York City audiences, has traveled
in Europe, is well schooled by experience,
reading and research, and by an unusual
command of language and a happy choice
in its use, is a pleasing, convincing, eloquent
speaker. “Woman’s work in the Grange”
was her theme to-day, and with a master’s
hand and a critic’s care she placed it before
her enchanted hearers. Sister Bristol has
accepted a position upon the " National
Lecture Bureau of the Bulletin, and we hope
may soon be heard in our own State, where
we know she will be welcomed by all who
hear her. If she comes to Michigan, don’t
fall to secure a chance to listen to her.

We followed Sister Bristol, and then, leav-
ing the music and crowd to enjoy the heat
as they might,we found quiet and rest with
the Rexes, Sister Bristol and others, at the
Haines mansion.

EAGLE ROCK

overloooks New York, Jersey City, and a
dozen other cities and villages and interven-
ing landscape, and was the place of our next
meeting on Aug. 11. Bro. Nicholson and
his son Joseph accompanied us. We were
now near Bro.Whitehead’s farm,from which
he had sold, on Sept. 1, 60 barrels of Bartlett
pears, and was not yet through picking. We
here met Mr. Williams, the originator of
the Kittatinny blackberry, and many other
celebrated Patrons and persons. We went
down hill to Bro. Ely’s to spend the night;
whence we went in the morning to New
York and Coney Island, Brighton Place,
Manhattan Beach, etc. We saw and learned
a great deal. We have almost come to be a
Darwinian, since seeing the people herded
like sheep and pigs in these large towns:
portable fences and gates make yards, and a
policeman scares the mass of humanity from
one pen to another, each following the other
and all going where the first does, on to cars
and 01? boats, and they are counted. Don’t
ask us what we think of these places. What
do you think? A little glass of milk, 10
cents—a piece of bread, 15 cents-—a piece of
roast beef, all blood. 60 cents—-a full dinner,
from $2.50 to $5.00——a lovely woman, richly
dressed, wearing ten or twenty diamonds

valued at $1,000 or more, dead drunk, etc.,
etc.,——what do you think‘?
I-IADDONFIELD.

VVe were glad to get back to Philadelphia
and to Bro. and Sister Nicholson’s, where,
on Saturday evening, the 13th, we had a
warm reception where last winter we shiv-
cred before an audience. After the meeting
Bro. Cooper Browning and wife took us in
charge and brought us to their elegant home.
Bro. Browning is one of those wise men
who thought best not to marry until in ma-
ture years they could find the best woman
in the world, and were well repaid for wait-
ing.

Sunday evening we bade Bro. B. and wife
good-bye (I should say, Sister-in-law B., for
she has not, but is soon to, join the Grange).
\Ve rode home with Bro. and Sister Shivers.
and spent a pleasant night, shortened a little
by going to

ATLANTIC CITY

on one of the four excursion trains that went
that morning from Philadelphia and Cam-
den. What did we see‘? The ocean—lots of
blue suits hung out to dry, besides some be-
ing wetted——400 hotels—-500 restaurants and
lager beer stands——lots of dust, and other
people—:ired women and children —-a cage
of monkeys—fat woman in a tent, and an
aimless, listless, moving crowd. Such may
be seen there any day, but let me go to Har-
bor Point, near Petoskey, Mich., to find
rest and recreation. Yet thanks to Bro.
Shivers for a chance to see the contrast!

Our whereabouts.

From the 13th to the 15th we shall be at
the Dominion Industrial Exposition at T0-
ronto. The Dominion Grange has arranged
for a grand gala day of farmers on the 14th
inst.

From the 16th to 19th we shall be at or
near Battle Creek.

21 to 22, at Jackson, at the State Fair,
where we hope to see many Patrons of that
section and do some work in that vicinity.

23 to 30, we shall be at Grand Rapids at-
tending to our duties as a director of the
Western Michigan Agricultural and Indus-
trial society. VVe shall be pleased to see any
members ofthe Order at our olfice upon the
grounds.

October 1 to 8, we expect to attend the
Cincinnati Exposition and address meetings
in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Mail
addressed as above will reach us or be for-
warded to us. We are corresponding with
parties in relation to meetings in Gratiot,
Ogemaw, Monroe, Ottawa, and other count-
ies. Co-operate and secure some good meet-
ings and efl‘ective work this fall and winter.

ti;urreapnn1Ien:g-

Communication from Master of National Grange.

MASTER'S OFFICE. }
PAW PAW, Mich., Aug. 29, 1881.

Dear Sir and Bro.:—The Hon. Jeremiah
S. Black has drafted a petition to Congress
asking for National legislation to regulate
inter-State commerce so as to protect the in-
dustrial interests of the country from the
unjust and ruinous extortions practiced by
the railroad monopolists.

This petition is in perfect harmony with
the position our Order has taken upon this
important question; and it is proposed that
the “ National Anti-Monopoly League,”
and the National Grange of the Patrons of
Husbandry, co-operate in so placing copies
of this petition before the American people,
as to give them,—regardless of occupation
or profession,—a very general opportunity
to sign the same. _

I have directed that 900 copies of the pe-
tition, together with other valuable docu-
ments, treating upon this important ques-
tion, be sent to you, and I most earnestly
request you to give this matter your person-
al attention, and see that they are promptly
forwarded to the Secretary of each Subordi-
nate Grange in your State. I also request
and urge that you communicate with the
Master and Secretary of each Subordinate
Grange, either by circular, letter, or
through the Grange press ; and urge prompt
and generous action by the Granges in cir-
culating the petitions for signatures.

Yours fraternally,
J. J. WooDMAN,
Master of the National Grange P. of H.

Woodstock Grange.

Woodstock Grange.No. 438, was organized
May 28th, 1874, with a membership of 23
charter members; since its organization it
has exceeded 100 members; at present it has
an attendance of over 30. The first death of
its members was that of O, L. Ferrell, its
overseer, which occurred Aug, 27th, 1881.

lngham county Grange.

On August 31st this Grange held an open
meeting and picnic at the residence of
Hiram Briston in Aurelius. Prof. Beal
spoke on “ Some things the farmer can do
to improve his condition.” W. Asa Rowe,
Master of Mason Grange, spoke of the new
school law. He was followed B. C. Mar-
shall, Mrs. O. B Stillman, O. F. Miller,
L. H. Ives, A. T. Wood, and others. The
only sad thing in connection with the meet-
ing was the resolutions and the remarks of

many present in response to the recent
death of two valuable members, James
VViley of Alaeidon, and G. \V. Shafer
of Mason. 8.

To the Farmers of Michigan:

The terrible fires lately raging in Sanilac
and Huron counties, have laid waste over
half a million acres of land, causing great
loss of life and property. This loss falls
chiefly upon the farming community, many
of whom are entirely destitute.

Their support during the coming Winter
may confidently be expected from a liberal
people, but their future support depends
mainly upon their being able to put in their
fall crops. There is yet time to do this if
prompt action is taken. The undersigned
have been appoined a committee to secure
for them their grain seed, and now confi-
dently ask the assistance of their brother
farmers.

The railroad agent at your nearest station
is authorized to receipt for all contributions,
which will be transported free of charge.
Each contribution will also be acknowl-
edged by letter from the committee directly
to the donor.

Upon application to your station agent,
bags may be had, and we earnestly request
you to give of your surplus what you can
spare. WM. HARTSUI-‘F, Chairman.

JNo. P. SANBoRN,
CHAS. A. VVARD, Secretary.

Port Huron, Mich., Sept. 12, 1881.

Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Stale Directory.

OFFICE, SoLI>II-:Es‘ at SArLoss’ STATE Drancroar.
Hnxnonsnrsas, KALAMAZOO, MICH., Sep. 2,’8l. 5
COMRADES, UrREE’I‘Il\'G: All ex-comrad-
es, soldiers and sailors, are kindly reques-
ted to furnish their names and address,
with rank, company and regiment, for en-
rollment in the state directory, at an early
day. This directory will be of inestimable
value to comrades of the late war. Hund-
reds of names are already enrolled. Send
in your names. comrades, to the Secretary.
BEN. C. JoHNsoN, Sec.
Kalamazoo, Mich.
Late ofCo. F, 6th Mich. Heavy Artillery.
[Exchanges please copy.]

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

The Clinton Co. Pomona Grange will hold
its next meeting at the hall of North Riley
Grange on Wednesday, Oct. 5, commencing
at 11 o’clock a. In. All members of the
Order are cordially invited to attend.

FRANK CONN, Sec’y.

The following is the programme for the
next meeting of§Berrien Co. Grange, No. 1,
to be held at Home Grange Hall, Coloma,
on Tuesday and Vvednesday, Oct. 4th and
5th: Essay, “Household Economy,” Mrs.
Helen Finch; “The Benefits of Co-opera-
tion,” VVilliam Brown; “Live Stock run-
ning at large,” VVilliam H. Vandervear;
“Winter Management of Milch Cows,” My-
ron Fish. J. CLARK, Sec’y Co. Grange.

Pipestone, Aug. 20th.

The next regular meeting of the Newaygo
Co. Pomona Grange No. 11, will be held at
the Croton Grange Hall, commencing Tues-
day, the 11th day of October, at 2 o’clock p.
In. Bro. C. G. Luce, Master of the State
Grange, will deliver a public address. All
are invited to attend. The evening session
will be held for conferring the Fifth degree.
For further program, see Lecturer’s notice.

A. ’l‘ERwILLIGER, Sec’y.

The next meeting of VVestern Pomona
Grange No. 10, will be held at the hall of
Lisbon Grange, No. 313, on Thursday and
Friday,the 13th and 14th of Oct. next, at
which time the following questions will be
presented for discussion: Questions for the
brothers—No. 1.—’l‘he benefits of co-opera-
tion; discussion opened by J. H. Sanford.
2.—What are the requisites to successful
farming? by Nathan VVhitney. 3——What
are the best varieties of fruit to grow in
our section of the country‘? by Thomas
Wilde. Questions for the sisters——4.—0ur
yards and gardens, by Mrs. G. A. Miles.
5.—Our homes and how to make them
pleasant, by Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson. It
is hoped and expected that each and every
member will take an active art in the dis-

cussion. W. F. ELLY, Sec’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. 1
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 E. 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. it I B. B., or of
the subscriber at Lowell. M. B. HINE,

Lowell, Aug. 8, 1881. lupug

THE BUSINESS COLLEGE
AT KALAMAZOO. MICE.
YOUNG MEN AND WOME

TO GET A THOROUG-H '
BUSINESS EDUCATION.

§'Send for College Record, giving full paztic.
ars.

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TEE GEANSE VESEEQLRQ

 

 

ilgi-Ladies’ Ejqpaqlmtnt.

FIFTY MILES AN HOUR!

well as Adam himself could paddle it for her.
And it is such women who desire the rights
of the ballot.

Suppose the right to vote does give her
the right and duty to hold oflice; if she is
qualified for the position and chooses to ac-

:-‘ ' 1 . her do so and wear all
mzs. GARFIELNS RIDE T0 VVAEHINGTON, JULY 2, 1881. I Capt the flmatmn‘ N

“Clear the track to VVashin_-_v,ton I "
Flashed the order from New York.
Commerce, travel, all must wait '
Business. pleasure, play or work,
“ Clear the track to W'ashington 3
Fire the steam to lightning power !
Engineer. your orders are :
Fifty miles an hour! ”

“ Bring out ‘Long-legged Tom,‘ whose wheels

Stride eight yards at (very round .'

Let them burn along the steels !
Make that splendid engine bound !

Like a fiery (lragon‘s flight.
Let the train the road devour 1

Engineer, you orders are :
Fifty miles an hour! "

“ Why '1' ” “A mad assassin’s hand
Shot our President this morn.
Garfield’s wife to Garfield flies.
Like an angel, whirlwind borne !
Engineer, be bold and true!
Test your art's consummate power I
Put this little woman through,
Fifty miles an hour!

“ Fifty million patriot hearts
Weep, and rage. and curse and pray:
‘ Save, 0 God, our President!
Shield his wife and speed her way! ’
Engineer. not this for you:
Yours to stand a brazen tower
And put this one weak woman through,
Fifty miles an hour.

“ Ten hours’ time to VVashington :

You must cut it down to six,

For our Garfield's hero-soul
Trembles on the shores of Styx !

Grim Charon’s bark grates on Life’s strand 3
But Love shall snatch his lifted oar,

For Love can bear the fearful strain
Of fifty miles an hour.”

Strong men, bare-brewed, cheered the train—
Like a thunderbolt hurled past.
VVom~:n’s tears tall thick as rain
Shook from rose-trees by the blast.
O Wedded Love I ne’er angel flew
From Heaven to earth with richer dower !
Angels, waft this true wife through,
Fifty miles an hour!

Philadelphia hails the car,
Like a meteor on its road.

Baltimore, thrilled at its jar,
Waves it on, with prayer to God.-

Venus’ chariot, drawn by doves
Fluttering from Love’s myrtle bower,
hanged to steed of steel and flame,
At fifty miles per hour !

Aye, ’twere need! The Nat-ion’s choice
Bleeding lies, at point to die !
Aye. ’twere need .' The Nation's voice
Bursts to God in myriad cry :
“Save, 0 God, our President! ”
Dash aside this tearful shower.
Love is life, and Love comes flying
Fifty miles an hour I

The true wife comes! Love fights with Death !
The Nation's prayer is heard I

E’en Shylock Wall-street’s “ bulls" and “ bears”
With a human throb are stirred,

And a million, gold, were not too much
To make that brave wife's dower,

Vl'ho rode six hours to save her lord,
At fifty miles an hour!

I) D., in Independent.

Woman and the Ballot.

Strange as it may seem, there are women
who seem sensible enough in most things
when wielding the pen, yet when they come
to speak of the “ rights ” of woman seem to
judge the condition of their sister women by
their own in all things. Because, percbance,
they are prosperous and blessed with over
indulgent husbands, and for the time being
have no realizing sense of any wrongs to be
redressed, why, of course “ woman has all
the rights she needs.” One feminine writer.
who is evidently an anti sufiragist, goes so
far as to say. “ If father Adam had held the
reins a little tighter over mother Eve it
might have saved us much trouble." If
God had designed man to rule over woman
He would. no doubt have given him such
power over her as He did over the beasts of
the field, the fowls of the air, and the fishes
of the sea. but as he did nothing of the kind
we infer that the woman was in no ways in-
ferlor to the man. In all human experience
inventors claim to make improvements in
their second models. Man was created a
little lower than the angels, he was given the
power to reason only from cause to effect, a
tedious process often in coming toa conclu-
sion,—-as was evident when Adam did not at
once eat of the fruit of the;tree of knowledge:
he was slow in getting about the orchard.
But to the woman was given that sort of in-
stinct that is always ready at a moment’s
warning, which often proves a better guide
to do right than the man’s strong reasoning
powers. Adam was never blessed with that
lively apprecisuion of all things lovely, and
no doubt his bump of curiosity would have
lain dormant to this day had not the more
sprightly Eve, who had the gift of jumping
at conclusions, sought out the fruit that
might have been on the topmost bough of the
tree of knowledge, which God no doubt de-
signed for his children, else why was the
tree created? He made nothing in vain.
Ah, it was left for woman to lead the way
total] the higher, nobler walks of life. When
man failed to see or do what was right or for
the best well being of humanity, woman was
to lift the voice in Wise counsel. and well
may she fill her allotted station. She was
not inferior to man at the creation, either
mentally or physically. Fashion, not nature,
makes woman weak and silly. Note, for
instance, the native American woman, who
performs the duties of the wigwam and field
while her lord smokes his pipe and hunts the
deer. It is the judiciously cultivated wo-
man who always needs a strong oak to lean
upon. A womanly woman has been taught
either by example or experience to rely on

selt,and she can paddle her own canoe as"

 

the honors that she deserves, with the grace
and dignity ofa grand. and noble woman-
hood. I doubt very much the theory that
her family would suffer any serious incon-
venience during her '/lI).'<*‘IlC€. Trust a wom-
an ’s capacities to keep all the irons going;
that is one of her superior gifts.

Think you if Mrs. Eliza Garfield could
find time, amid the multitudinous cares of
nearly a half century ago, to teach her son
Latin and fit him for a colltge course, so that
he might hold the highest oflice in the land,
that the woman of this progressive day can-
not also find time to serve her country per-
sonally, as well, if the nation desires it‘?
Most assuredly she can, and with less detri-
ment fo her family than one season at Sara-
toga would bring to il. And how many
wives and mothers spend their time there
every year, away from their families, sim-
pering about in a way that is worse than
idleness, and yet. who holds up hands in
holy horror at their undutifulness to their
lord and master‘?

It is not likely that every woman who as-
pires to the rights of suffrage will necessarily
be an office-seeker, There is a host of vot-
ing men who have no desire to sit in high
places; and there are also many loyal men
who do not vote. But they do not interfere
either with the oflice-seekers or the voters.

VVhy do at least a few women wish to
vote‘? And how many of our lady writers,
who think woman has all the rights she
needs, because “in our social intercourse,
in all our relations in life, moral, social, and
domestic, we are accorded by our lords and
kings the highest and softest seats,” have
ever read tlle laws made by these same
“ lord.-' and kings,” and who have had the
making of them for centuries. Do they
know that if grim death sees fit to take those
husbands, who honor them with the “ soft-
est seats at receptions and on the train,” the
property, be it much or little, goes into
other hands '? The widow has the use of one-
third of it during her lifetime. Mind, its
only the use. or the interest. If the prop-
erty chances to be worth several thousand
dollars, the interest of one third may help
her to a living; but suppose the husband
leaves $1,000 (the amount is often less) to his
family, how much would theinterest of one-
third of that sum do toward supporting the
widow '? Ifshe could have the $333,}, (which
quite likely is her own earning) to use as
capital, it might be increased in various
ways and assist her to a way of getting her
bread and butter. Now if the wife dies, the
husband still retains all the property, and
can .-squander it if he UIIUCISES, and the heirs
may go to the almshouse or anywhere else.
VVhy not give the woman the same privil-
ege‘? The wife often works as hard to
gather the property as the man, but it is
just like Adam to take the whole, or so
nearly the whole that it sticks in his throat.

v In most of the States women have no legal
claim to their own children: the father may
in his will commit the little ones to the care
of strangers, and the mother can only
mourn the loss of her offspring. In many
States the wife has no right to the property
which her father gave her, or that she has
earned with herown hands. There is also
a law in some States that compels a crimin-
al to be beaten with many stripes. Not
long ago a woman so far forgdt herself as to
steal a skirt worth half a dollar. VVhat was
the penalty for petty larceny? Seventy-
five stripes upon the naked body, one-half
to be given at one time, and two weeks later
the remainder, and these strokes of the
whip were to be “well laid on.” So thor-
oughly was the mandate obeyed that the
woman died before receiving the second in-
stallment. She was literally cut in pieces
by the inhuman monsters who are called
“ woman’s protectors.” When men become
so insane as to permit such laws to be en-
forced, even to punish their own sex, it is
time that the law making was taken out of
their power and given to those who can be
humane as well asjust.

Until a. few noble women arose in defense
of their more humble sisters, women and
girls nowhere received more than half the
compensation that men did for doing the
same work and doing it as well, and even
now their remuneration is much less.
Should these things be ?

Woman’s person, her property, her claim
to her children, everything she holds most
dear is controlled by the ballot box. The
most ignorant foreigner, provided he wears
the masculine garb, is invited to vote. The
woman’s rights movement seeks the final
removal of these outrageous wrongs. How
women who have intellect enough to wield
the pen can sit down to write flowery essays
against the movement is beyond my com-
prehension. If instead of flattering their
husbands, who are no doubt good enough in
their way. by telling the public they have
the best men in the world,they would spend
the time in looking up the laws by which
their sister women are governed,they might
find that there are duties to be performed

outside the four square walls of home.
Home: where is its boundary ? Is not our
country our home? Are there no wrongs
to be made right within its great circumfer-

ence? Ah, if there is but one woman in all
the universe that wants to vote, do not let a
sister woman say one word against it. Do
not think that all are among the blessed
because it is given to you to receive now
the courtesies of social life. It may not al-
ways be so. To those noble pioneer women
who first agitated the question of woman’s
suffrage, every other woman is more or less
a debtor. So long as man has the making
of the laws he will look out for ..\'o. l. and
woman’s interest will always: be asecondary
consideration, and well it may be. If the
woman has not ense enough to look out for
her own rights after cenluri-.-s of dcgr.::.ding
bondage, then let her continue in the valley
of humiliation, but :-he need not say that
God created her a. bond woman.

l\Lu' l\IAPi.a

A Good Work.

I have read an article in the Agricultural
World, headed “ Let us Help One Another,”
from "' Myi'a’s” pen. It contains the found-
ation fora good and noble work. Her plan
is to “form a society in every neighborhood
for sociability, literary advancement, and
the building up of a more friendly feeling
among neighbors."

It has long been said that the women talk
nothing but gossip when they meet for an
afternoon visit. Too often is it the case, but
they are not all of that stamp. How many
times does a. woman who is endowed with
.-501118 of the higher aspirations of life, feel
shocked to find that her associates at some
social gathering talk nothing but gossip and
scandal, and sometimes vulgarity. Should
she attempt to turn the tide of couvei'sation
upon other topics, or should she per-2h:ince
keep silent, feeling in her mind that she has
gotten into the “wrong pew,” how quickly
some one will quirk her mouth and say to
her neighbor: l\Ir:-4. A. does not like our
“.-;tyle”; we’ll leave her at home next. time.
Thi:-.a is no fancy sketch. There are many who
stand ready to throw stones at those who
aim at something higher than talking non-
sense and gossip.

This world needs a better class of men and
Women than it has to-(lay. ’l‘li:-re is every
facility for improvement that one could
wish for, and it is the duty of every man and
woman to put forth their best efl'o1‘ts to be-
come better, and help others to do the same

What a grand, good thing it would be
if the ladies in every neighborhood would
organize themselves into such a society as
Myra speaks of! They would become better,
society would be better, the world at large
would be bettered by ‘Is influence. II.

Co-Education at Our College.

I} Y J U H N EVERT.

The course of the age is leading on to-
wards perfect lib-:-riy and equality. At no
previous period of the world’s history has
there been so good protection from wrong
and so much freedom to do right. Men
think more than ever before, and have come
to the belief that the only true aristocracy
is the aristocracy of the intellect. The result
has been progress in many directions; and
in nothing, perhaps, has this been more
marked than in the educational advantages
afibrdétl to women.

Fifly years ago it was thought that wom-
en could not pursue a college course with
profit, and all oftbe higher institutions of
learning refused to admit them. Now, how-
ever. they are admitted to many of our best
colleges and universities, where they have
proved themselves fully man’s equal in the
acquisition of knowledge.

lf the best schools of the country and of
the world practice co-education successfully,
and if women can pursue a college course
with profit, why exclude them from any in-
stitution of learning which they ma ' desire
to enter, especially if that institution is sup-
ported by the State‘? At our university lad-
ies may study literature, science or art, law,
medicine. or pharmacy ; and if they wis 1 to
work for a degree, or take special studies
here, it would seem that they have the right
to do so. To refuse women equal education-
al advantages with men is contrary to the
spirit of liberty, and implies minds devoid
of the faculties of reason and judgment on
the part of the “weaker sex ” But women
do possess as much common sense. at least,
as men. Then why not acknowledge the
fact by giving them full freedom in acquir-
ing an education ?

That the same right which admits ladies
to the university should admit them here
also, cannot,_we think, be doubted. But it
may be urged that even though provisions
were made to enable them to exercise this
right, they would not take advantage ofit.

Facts prove this to be far from the truth.
During the quarter of’ a century of the ex-
istence of the college, a comparatively large
number of ladies have expressed a desire to
be admitted. Thirty have applied in a sin-
gle year. Only a few have ever become
students, however, as special arrangements
had always to be made for the r accommo-
dation. All these applications were made
when it was known that no course specially
designed for ladies had been arranged. Ifso
many desired to be admitted under unfav-
orable circumstances, is it not reasonable to
suppose that a number sufficiently large to
justify the establishment of a ladies’ depart-
ment would take advantage of circumstan-
ces more favorable ?

It seems to be the intention of those most
active in advocating a department for la-
dies, to have the course not unlike the scien-
tific courses in most colleges, but. with spec-
ial reference to those studies thought to be
most useful to women in the everyday afihirs
of life. In addition to this, they desire to
have added a course of instruction in cook-
ery and household chemistry. Suitable la-
bor in the kitchen and _in the gardens would
probably be made compulsory.

There is certainly 8. demand for such a
course, as is manifested by the large number
of the people of the State who petitioned the
Legislature for the necessary appro riation.

Such men as Wells, Parsons, um; and

Woodman are highly
ject.

A good scientific course for women, with
suitable manual labor, both indoor and out
door, would be unlike that of any other col-
lege in the State, and would undoubtedly be
productive of valuable results; for one of the
needs of the times seems to be women of
education and refinement, who are good
housewives, and in whom the “blue stock-
ing” tendency does not predominate. It
has been said that the Anglo Saxon race in
America is in danger of perishing from the
earth for the wantof strong, healthy moth-
ers. In France and in Gerniany. where
women do a great deal more outdoor work
than in this country, they are noted for
their hardiness The reason wily American
women are weaker than in other countries
mustlve because they lack knowledge, or
fail to put it to practice, or both : for they are
surrounded by circumstances as favorable for
physical development as anywhere in the
_world. Any institution then. that would
impart to women an education enabling
then; to understand, and teach them to put
in practice the laws of health, could not fail
to be of great usefulness.

The great want of the age is a harmonious
development of individual poW'el‘s. We
want better men and better women. 'l‘oo
often arg tlhe graduates of our colleges cuar-
actcrize y a one-sided development. A
student v. ho leaves college stronger than
when he entered is the exception and not
the rule, This should not be so with men;
it should not be so with women. Here,
where all the students labor three hours
daily on the farm and gardens, the student
who graduates a stronger man than when
he entered, is the rule, and not the exception.
Under like condilions it is reasonable to
conclude that the same results would follow
in the case of women.

Some one, in writing about the education
of American girls, has said: “ \\''e have the
best material in the world, and the best
chances for its development. Our girls’
schools ought to send forth the finest women
that ever blessed and beautified the world.”

These results have not been reached, and
the cause must be in education. The educa-
tion most needed for American ladies is one
:l!;lle:.1[ i\fli:'1llim-iiike t‘l{eem\.\str;l)pger both inh body
‘ . 'a women w o are
educated and refined, who are strong and
healthy and good housewives, who can and
will work, and not regard it as degrading to
do so. \Ve have no need for a larger num-
ber of fashionable schools for ladies. But
we have a great need for those that will ini-
part to ladies a good substantial education,
at phe samed time teachingkthem habits of
im ustry an a ove for wor '.

As this in:-stitutlon was the first in the
world to put. manual labor into successful
practice in a_ college for young men, would
it  be emi ‘so;-ntly plroper for it‘ to carry
on t e same n ea wit 1 reference 0 women‘;
'l‘ni.-: question has been answered by one of
the wisest and most mfluential men in the
State, who says : “ When in the Legislature
I voted for the resolution which admitted
lidiesfio the E,-'niversiL_y, and I am sanguine
I at t eir at mission to the Agricultural
College would result in great good not only
to the College, but to society, to agriculture
and lo the future welfare of our State and
country.”——Co[lege Speculum.

in favor of the pro-

A Good Investment.

“ 'Well, now the question is, what shall we
do with it 2’ ”

Little Mrs. Robbins looked up at her hus-
band with limid, questioning eyes as she
spoke. It was a five dollar bill that had
come in a letter which she held in her hand.
it was a pleasant way which her wealthy
city si.-:.ier had of reminding her of con tin-
ued existence and sisterly affection. “ Per-
haps there is some little thing which you
particularly desire and which you yet think
you can hardly afford; if so, it is for that
very thing I send you the money.” so run
the letter.

“ Do! ” exclaimed Farmer Robbins, in
answer to her question. " Wuy, put it in
the bank with our little savings, of course,
what else would you think of doing with
it‘? ”

Now Mrs. Robbins and her daughter
had in their mindsjust such a pet scheme as
the sister referred toin her letter. For the
last two or three weeks they had been talk-
ing it over and discussing every possible
method of putting it into execution ;
but it had seemed to them too daring
and expensive to be successful in that
home. Farmer Robbins was called a
“ litttle mean ” by the neighbors, but here
at last the way opened, the money was right
in her hand, and its donor had said that it
was forjust such an object that it was to be
used. It was this latter thougnt and a half
entre-“ting, half encouraging glance from
Mary that made her so unusually bold.
These were her words:——

“ Why. John, you see Mary and I have
been wishing for along time back that we
could take a farmer's paper; it would be so
nice to have something to read every week
and to know what is going on in the world.
We go from home so seldom that we really
know nothing at all, and then, there are al-
ways such good recipes for cooking in such
papers, and I could learn to cook so many
new dishes.” ,

She stopped, partly for want of breath;
perhaps, though, the thunder cloud which
was gathering in her husband’s face had
most to do with it.

"Take apaper, indeed; That is another
new-fangled extravagant idea. As for not
knowing what is going on in the World, I
will trust any gossiping woman to hear all
the neighborhood news at least, even if she
never goes from home; besides what differ-
ence does it make to you what is being done
in the outside world ‘? And you want to learn
to cook some new dishes, do you ? Heaven
knows that our living costs us enough now
Without your trying to see if you can’tspend
more on new dishes; our eating is good
enough for anybody.”

Unusual Occurence!—Mrs Robbins ven-
tures to argue with her lord and master.

" Y-nu don’t notice being shut up here, for
you go to town every other day to get the
mail, and you read the newspapers lying
around the postoflice; then when you are
there you discuss politics and religion, but
we have none of these distractions. our
thoughts are uuu fin ed entirely to our house-
hold work and it grows so monotonous at
times that it seems as though we could not
stand it. And Mary, you know, is a young
girl and it is harder for her than for me to
settle down in this way. She has very little
company, and it seems to me as though she

ought to have some little diversion.”

  
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
   
 
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
  

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:'Ofc0urse you’ll do just as you have a
mind to. for the money is yours; but I tell
you that it is not with my consent that you
waste it on a newspaper. And mind if you
get ‘me you are to get them from the office
yourselves. for I will never touch them. I
don t want to see them lying around the
house either ”

lVith this the gentleman .-tall-:ed angrily
off to the barn. Georgon, M-an-y‘s eldest
brother, coming in at thei:-'am - moment no-
LICDII his father’.-'. ruffled mood. and enquired
of his moth.-r and sister the cause. It was
explained to him.

“ \Vell. inotlier I quite agree with '-,'ou
that we plight to take a paper‘, for my own
part I often feel ashanied because I know so
littlcof current event. I shall be glad if
you decide to subscribe for a new.-;paper.”

“A ycar’s .-xubscribtinn only costs $2 and
you will still have $3 left to put in the bank.
rnoiher.” Mary saw that her mother still
needed a liltle persua-imi. H-)W'€\'€ r it was
at last decided that a farnler’.-' paper should
be a w-~<—.-kly visitor at the farm.

“ It is too bad that there are so mzlny bis-
cuits left. they get dry and hard so quickly
this warm weather that they will have to
be given to the pigs. I hate to see anything
wa.-;tc«.l so.”

‘ As F'8.l'iilPl‘ ll-.bbins finished Ii1eS(“1‘€l}]Hl'i-{B
nepusliell his chair back from the table‘,
looking regretfully at the plate of warm bis-
cult

“ Oh no, they will not have to be thrown
out. I found a. recipe in my last paper for
making griddle-cakes of milk and old bread.
As you are so fond of cakes it will be just
the thing."

Mr. Itolibius left the table. ,
son he was not as pleased with the econom-
ical make shift as he might have been.

Mr. Robbins was out or humor, he had
just been out in the orchard and the sl.u.l.e of
things there was not particulary conducive to
good nature. The fact was that only titre of
the tweilty five trees which he had set out
early in the spring allowed any signs of life.
It had been the same for four years ; wheth-
er or not it was the soil that was the cause
of this failure he knew not; he onlv knew
that the orchard was a complete failure, and
as I have hinted, it was a source of great an-
noyance to him.

“ Well. father, how are the fruit trees get-
tingon *2 ” asked John, as they drew their
chairs up to the supper table.

“Just as usual, we might as well give up
first as last, for there is no use in trying to
raise fruit trees in that orchard. It can't be
done.”

“ Now, see here, father, will you agree to
let me take the entire in-.lnagenient of that
orchard on the condilion that if I succeed
where you have failed you are to. give me

For some rea-

half of the price the fruit brings. Do you
agree '3 "
" You succeed where l have failed !

There is childn-.u'.~: impudence for you.
Pray what could you do to make the trees
grow that I have not done‘? ”

“ You just agree to my bargain and I’ll tell
you. I am pretty certain that I shall suc-
ceed, at any rate you have nothing to lose
by consenting to my plan.”

"All right, I consent,” with a grim smile.

“ \Vell, I saw in our last wt-ek’s paper an
account in which a man who had failed for
seven years to make his fruit trees grow, at
last succeeded in doing so. The nieans used
were simple and easy, and I am going to
give our trees the same treatment.”

“ 'l‘l1al.,paper again,” muttered Mr. Rob-
bins, as he abruptly rose and left the room.
The result of this experiment Was that
Mr. Robbins was put in possession of a
flourishing young orchard. The pleasure
was an embittered one—-he owed it to the
hated newspaper.
96 -?>.'- #3   51- 4(-
“ Glad to see you back. fatlier. It is un-
usual for you to be away from the farm three *
days at a time, and things don’t look natu-
ral like when you are not here; however, I
think that I have kept things pretty straight
during your absence.’ John gave his fath-
er’s hand a hearty shake.

“ Yes,” dryly glancing about. “ Seems to
me you have been fixing things up some,
haven't you ‘.’ How did you come to do it ?”
Agate rested in its normal condition, a
repaired fence and a general appearance of
neatness about the door-yard,were what had
attracted the observant eye of the farmer.
“ The truth is. father, I have read so

much in our paper about the necessity of
keeping things up neat and trim on ‘a farm
and about passers-by judging a farmer by
the appearance of his farm—~gatesofi“hinges,
broken down fences, filthy barnyards indi-
cating at once a slovenly, careless farmer;
while a neat, snug look about the place
speaks of a wide-awake, industrious, pros-
perous owner——that I just made up my
mind I’d go to work and fix up things a
little. You are not sorry, are you ‘3 ”
" No,” gruflly. He passed on into the
house; he was a stubborn man and it was
hard for him to acknowledge that he was in
the wrong. But as he sat there by the
kitchen fire there was a struggle going on
in his mind between his stubborness and
his sense of right. Of‘ course he was glad to
see John take an interest in things on the
farm: he liked to see things kept up nicely,
those very gates and fences which John had
repaired had been worrying him for some
time, but he hated to acknowledge that the
" paper” had been a help to them in anv
way. or that it was anything else but ex-
travagant folly. By his clear judgment
it was plain that their paper had been of
use to them, not only in the little ways I
have mentioned, but in numerous of r
ways. He did not deny it to himself, a’
his meditations lasted until Mrs. Robbins
called him to supper.
As he passed a glass of water to his wife,
he asked suddenly, "Has not the year for
which you SllbSG.Tib:d for your paper run
out?
“ Yes,” she answered a little dejectedly.
“ Well. don’t look so glum about it, for
here's the money for another year's sub-
scription.”
The words brought a look of glad supprise
to her face. It was no little thing to be as-
sured that the ray of pleasure that crept in-
to her quiet life was still to be allowed to
brighten its sameness. After thatafarmer’s
paper came to this home every week. Per-
aps passers-by did not know just why it
was t at both Farmer Robbins and his farm
soon came to have a look as though they
belonged to the wide-awake present, instead
of the sleepy past, but the change if not its
cause was evident. A good family paper
works no sudden or miraculous changes in
the homes _which it enters; the change is
gradual. Little by little it does its work, but
the benefit in the end is none the less sure.

—D2'7~igo Rural.


SEPTEMBER 15, 1881.

“ Eartha’ Qepaqtmettt. 0

AN OLD SAW.

A dear little maid came’_skipping out

In the glad, new day with a merry shout ;
With dancing feet and flying hair

She sang with joy in the morning air.

"Don’t sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night 1”
What a crook to darken the cl_iild’s delight !
And the stupid old nurse, again and again,
Repeated the ancient, dull refrain.

The child paused, trying to understand;

But her eyes saw the great world rainbow-spanned :
Her light little feet hardly touching the earth,

And her soul brimmed over with innocent mirth.

" Never mind-—don’t listen——sweet little maid I
Make sure of your morning song,” I said ;

“And if pain must meet you, why, all the more
Be glad of the rapture that came before.

" O, tears and sorrow are plenty enough;
Storms may be bitter and paths be rough, '
But our tears should fall like the dear Earth 5
. showers
That help to ripen the fruits and flowers.

“ So gladden the day with your blissful song :
Sing on while you may, dear. sweet and strong !
Make sure of your moment of pure delight, ,
No matter what trials may come before night.’

—Celia. Thaxter, in Wide Awake.

Misers.

BY NETTIE GII-‘FORD.

This word is the general term applied to
persons who hoard money, but the word it-
self means those who hoard. There are a
great many things, among them education,
that are more important than money,which
can be boarded as well. If a person is scorn-
ed for hoarding money, why is he not more
to be scorned for hoarding things more im-
portant‘? Do you think a person who has
knowledge and experience, does right to
keep it to himself and let no others profit by
it?

You promptly answer, No. But are you
not doing the same thing 2’ Can you not
benefit your brothers and sisters, as well as
yourself. by relating some of your experi-
ence? Can you not write or speak some-
thing that will interest and instruct them ?

You say, “ I can't,” but you can. Never
mind if you do make a few mistakes at first,
you will soon do better. You are with your
brothers and sisters-—surel y they’ll not laugh
at you. So give us a few hints for our mu-
tual benefit, and cease to be misers.

Uncle Nine .-—As I came down stairs this
morning, I saw that welcome VISITOR ly-
ing upon the table, having come from the
office after I had gone to bed. I took it up
and looked for the good things in the
Youth’s Department. 0 my! Only one
short letter. Have they all been harvesting,
I wonder? Ihave, and have just finished.
As it is raining, I will write you another
letter.

If I were a girl, I should certainly try my
hand at making an air castle after Nettie’s
plan; but boys must turn their minds to
something more substantial. I think the
answer to Nettie’s puzzle is Grange store. I
have waited for some one to answer my
puzzle in the April 15th number, but as no
one seems inclined to do so, I will answer it
myself. It is J. Q. A. Burrington.

Uncle Nine, why don’t you answer my
question about the tea-kettle‘? I would
really like to know the reason why I can
hold my hand upon the bottom of the tea-
kettle without burning it, when the water
is boiling. I have asked this question of
many teachers, and have received no satis-
factory answer: will you please tell me in
your next letter what your opinion is ?

Myra made my mother a visit last month,
and I think they both enjoyed it, judging
from the amount of talking they did. I
liked her very much, and was disappointed
in not seeing anything from her pen in the
last VISITOR. She went to the Grange while
here. '

The Grange in this place had a gala time
on the 9th of this month—a real feast. The
Rev. G.W. Tuthill delivered a short address.
Mr. Tuthill is what they call a first-class
speaker. He opens his mouth, and the words
roll out without any apparent effort on his
art.

p When I get a little older, I think I shall
join the Grange. Can anyone tell me what
causes the circle we sometimes see around
the sun andrmoon ‘?

’Good-bye, Uncle Nine. -

Sherwood, July 19. ERLE. ‘

The Sensible Daughter.

It is very gratifying to find that in these
‘days of fashion and extravagance, there are
some daughters of farmers who believe they
have something to do in life besides dress,
attend parties, and play on the noisy
piano. Why it is that the domestic
work in a family is degrading to the char-
acter of a young lady. it is diflicult Io
tell. But the notion is now very common
among farmers of easy circumstances, that
their daughters must do only light and fan
cy work, and not really take hold and as-
sist their molhers in the variousdomestic
labors of the house. VVhat, let me ask, is
there degrading to any female, old or
young, in sweeping the rooms, washing
dishes and clothes, ironing, and mak-
ing butter and cheese? Did not our
mothers and grandmothers perform such
domestic work? and was it degrading to
their characters thus to do‘? Have we not a
higher veneration for them on this account?
I have seen’ the hard-working mother
sweating over the wash-tub while her
daughter, dressed in her finery, was sitting
in the parlor and playing on the piano.

Now it is thought that polished manners,
an ornamental education, and a genteel ap-
pearance in company, are the desirable ac-
complishments in a young lady. A solid
and useful education, and genteel manners
are never to be despised; but they are by no
means the only things to be sought after II]
this life. The manner in which the young
ladies of these days are trained up at the
boarding schools where the physical educa-
tion is sacrificed to the ornamental, is to be

TEE AGRALNGE VZSI_’.!_;.'OR.

lamented. The delicate forms or these
youths, and their lack in physical vigor and
strength, clearly prove that there is some
great defect in the mode of their education.
English young ladies, belonging to respect-
able families, will walk miles for daily exer-
cise; but how many ofour American young
ladies can walk a mile without excessive fa-
tigue ? Take some of the daughters of our
wealthy farmers and let them be put to do-
ing the weekly washing of the family, and
would they not wilt before the work was
half accomplished ? The fact is there can be
no full development of physical and intel-
lectual powers of man or woman without
the labor or work that is adapted to such
development. Some young women are
taught this important truth, and have the
good sense to appreciate it. And it is a
great commendation of some farmer's
daughters that they are not afraid of domes-
tic work, nor ashamed of it. They have no
reluctance to engage in the work of the
kitchen. They cheerfully undertake the
labor of cooking, baking, washing, ironing
—in short, every labor that will aid the
mother and be of service to the family.

This industrial trait of character was
strikingly exhibited to view by the daugh-
ter ofa respecable farmer, whose name I
will not mention. She was up in the
morning, bright and early, and entered on
her daily duties with alacrity. She could
cook and bake, set the table, wash the
dishes, sweep the room, and put everything
to rights. She knew how to turn the spin-
ning-wheel, or handle the needle, or milk
the cow. ln tine, she could‘, and did turn
her hand to every kind of domestic work,
and succeeded in it. She was neat and
tidy. and accomplished a great deal by her
assiduous industry, in-doors and out.

And what were the consequences of such
a course of life? \Vhy,just as we should
naturally expect—a robust vigor of body
and mind, blooming health, cheerfulneszs of
disposition, and an unmurmuring endur-
ance of the ills of lif'e.

And you will further observe, that this
young woman found time to improve her
mind by a fund of useful knowledge. She
cultivated music to a limited extent. She
read history, studied arithmetic, grammar,
and geography, and made some attainments
in other branches of useful study. VVell,
was she neglected and despised for her do-
mestic labors and the assistance she render-
ed the family ? By no means, every sensi
ble man and woman in the neighborhood
commended her for pursuing such a course
of action.——Ezchange.

Expenses of Men and Women.

A summary just published of the manu-
facturing interests of New York, giving the
number ofestablishments, capital invested,
value of material and product, number of
persons employed, wages and hours of labor,
shows that the article of men’s clothing
reaches nearly $60,000,000; over $40,000,000
more than the value of the product of wo-
man’s apparel; a result that will certainly
astonish the pessimists who try to make the
world believe that bachelordom is a neces-
sary effect of female extravagance in dress.
Corsets and hoop skirts aggregate but $686,
213, while men’s furnishing goods reach the

handsome superiority of $3,308,162. The\

showing for the female mind, however, is
not so favorable in the matter of artificial
flowers and feathers, as they are produced
to the very dismal tune of $5,040,892. The
fact that many of our most sensible women
insist that such articles of adornment are
scattered over the heads of all the people of
all the States and Territories, and that there
are at present 50,000,000 of population in the
nation,.seems to favor their idea that ten
cents a head to each individual is a very
good offset to $18,337,088 spent in cigars. On
the whole, we think the softer sex has the
advantage in the show the summary makes.

WITH the introduction of barbed wire
fence, we do not see how any person can re-
main on the fence and be happy.

THE REAPER, DEATH.

BROOKS. - At a regular meeting of Danby
Grange, No. 185, held at their hall in Danby, Ioiiia
county, August 24, A. D. 1881, the following pream-
ble and resolutions were unanimously adopted:

WHEEEAS, The Great Master, in his all-wise Prov-
idence, has removed by death from our midst our
esteemed and worthy brother, Milo W. Brooks; and

WHEREAS, Bound together as we are by the fra-
ternal ties of brotherhood, ’tis meet that we should
sorrow with those of our fraternity who are thus
afilioted ; therefore

Resolved, That this Grange extend to our sorrow-
ing sister and other relatives of our deceased brother,
that sympathy which flows from hearts that feel for
others woes.

Resolved, That our charter be draped in mourning
for sixty days.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent
to the GRANGE VIsIToi3. and Portland Observer for
publication, and a copy, under seal of the Grange,
be presented to our Worthy Sister Brooks ; also that
the Secretary be instructed to spread the same at
large upon the records of the Grange.

J . C. TURNER,

ADDIsoN RICE,

CATHERINE A. RICE,
Committee.

COOLEY.—Died June 26, 1881, Brother CHESTER
COOLEY, aged 66 years, a member of Scott Lake
Grange, No, 172.

WHEREAS, It has pleased the great Master of the
Universe in his wise providence to remove from us
by death our well beloved brother, therefore

Resolved, That in the death of our brother the Or-
der has lost one of its most worthy and exemplary
members, the community a worthy and upright citi-
zen, the church of his choice a consistent member,
and his family a wise and provident husband and
father.

Resolved, That we tender the bereaved wife and
children our heartfelt sympathy, and invoke in their
behalf the care and protection of all who belong to
the Order.

Resolved, ‘That by his sudden death we are re-
minded of the uncertainty of life, and we should
heed the admonition, “ Be ye also ready.”

Resolved, That our Charter be draped in mourning
for 60 days, and these resolutions be placed on our
records and a copy be sent to the GRANGE Vrsiron
for publication. JAMEs 0. KEITH,

H. H. HowAaD,
Committee.

STAFFORD —- Also Brother ANsoN STAFFORD,
who departed this life August 3, 1881, aged 55 years.
Again is Scott Lake Grange called to mourn for one
of its members. A good citizen, a consistent mem-
ber of our Order, and an honest man — the noblest

work of God. JAi£Es 0. KEITH,
H. H. HowAaD,

Committee.

FERRELL—Died at Woodstock, August 27, 1881,
OLIVER L. FEERELL, aged 46 years.

WnEaEAs. In the providence of the Great Master
above.death has taken from our midst our Brother, the
Worthy Overseer of Woodstock Grange, No. 438,
therefore

Resolved, That by the decease of our Brother the
Grange is called upon to deplore the loss of one
whose heart and hand were ever ready in every good
work.

Resolved, That in his death we are reminded of
the frailty of life, and that it becomes us to be dili-
gent, doing our life work cheerfully and well.

Resolved, That as a token of our heartfelt sympa-
thy with the bereaved family and respect for our de-
parted brother, our Charter be draped in mourning
for 60 days.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be pre-
sented to the family of the deceased, be entered upon
the records of this Grange, and be forwarded to the
GRANGE VISITOR for publication.

M. E. ELMORE.

C. M. HEATH,

U. CARPENTER,
Committee.

WHEFLER—At a meeting held at Trowbridge
Grange, No. 296, held at their hall August ‘.2-1, 1881,
the following preamble and resolutions were adopt-
ed 2-—-

\Vi1EBI-:As, in the sudden and unexpected death of
our Brother, EDWIN H. WHEELER, we recognize the
admonition of our Heavenly Father to be at all times
ready to meet the final change that surely awaits us
all: therefore,

Resolved, That we tender our earnest and heartfelt
sympathy to the family of the deceased brother in
this their time of sorrow.

Resolved, That in the death of our brother, his
family have lost an affectionate husband, a kind and
indulgent father, the Grange a respected brother.
the community one of its best known and respected
citizens and early settlers.

Resolved, That out of respect to the memory of
our deceased brother our Chaifer be draped in
mourning for 60 days.

Resolved. that these resolutions be entered on the
records of our Grange, a copy presented to the fami-
l_v of the deceased and one to the GRANGE VISITOR
for publication. E. G. MINCKLER,

JAs. S. OsGooD,
B. LOCKHART,
Committee.

BEACH—At his residence in Ferris, August 20,
1881, Brother JEROME BEACH, aged 40 years, a mem-
ber of Ferris Grange, No. 440.

VVHEREAS, It has pleased our Divine Master to call
from us Brother J 1-JROME BEACH, an earnest and
faithful member of our Order, therefore

Resolved, That while we deplore the loss of our
departed brother, we shall cherish his memory and
sh:-.ll miss his presence in our fraternal circle.

Resolved, That as a token of respect for our de-
ceased Brother, our Charter be draped in mourning
for 60 days, and that a copy of these resolutions be
presented to the family. also one sent to the GRANGE
Visrroa for publication.

FEANK H. DY1-SB,

Mas. H. A. CARROLL,

JAs. P. Tnaoor,
Committee.

GALE—Died at his residence in Moscow, Hillsdale
Co., May 18, A. D. 1881, Brother ORLANDO C. GALE,
aged 70 years. At a regular meeting of Moscow
Grange, No. 108, held July 8, 1881, the following
preamble and resolutions were adopted :—

WnEEEAs, The Great Master of the universe in
his allwise providence has removed by death ORLAN-
D0 C. GALE, thereby taking from our Order a
Worthy brother, a kind and afiectionate husband and
father, and from this community a highly respected
citizen, therefore

Resolved, That while we mourn the loss of a
worthy brother, we extend our most heartfelt sympa-
thy to the bereaved family.

Resolved. That these resolutions be spread upon the
record of our Grange, a copy be presented to the
family of our decased brother, and also to the
GRANGE VIsIToa for pubzication.

C. M. PARKER,
JoxATIiAN NUTTEE,
Committee.

CHAFFIN—Died in Bushnell. Mich., on the 9th
day of August, 1881, Brother EVALYN CHAI-‘FIN,
Worthy Steward of Bushnell Grange, No. 437, in
the 23d year of his age,

Wi1EnEAs, it has pleased the Master of the Uni-
verse to remove by death our esteemed brother,
therefore be it

Resolved, That in the death of our brother we rec-
ognize the overruling hand of Providence and bow
in humble submission to his will, being assured that
he doeth all things well.

Resolved, That we mourn in common with the
family and friends of the deceased, and in this visi-
tation are reminded that death has once more en-
tered our fold; it should recall us more fully to our
duty to our Creator, our Order, and to one another.

Resolved, That in manifestation of our sorrow,
our Charter be draped in mourning for 60 days;
that these resolutions be spread on the records of
this Grange. and a copy furnished the GRANGE
VISITOR for publication. R. W. HOY,

J. V. MINIEE,
G. W. CoI..I.1Ns,
Committee.
Bushnell, Montcalm Co., August 20, 1881.

CRISMAN.—Washington Grange. No. -103, adopt-
ed the following preamble and resolution on the
death of one of ‘its members:

WHEREAS, Our Divine Master has seen fit to enter
our little band and remove from our midst Brother
J. J . Crisman; therefore be it

Resolved, That in the death or our beloved brother,
our Order has lost a worthy me-.mber,one whose pleas-
ant words and genial acts of kindness we shall ever
miss; one who was always ready to promote the wel-
fare of our Order, and in whom all who knew him
reposed implicit confidence ; one whom the commun-
ity at large will mourn as a good citizen gone forever.

Resolved, That we extend to our bereaved sister
and family our heartfelt sympathy, realizing that no
words of ours can heal their sorrow or fill the vacant
place in the family circle. But we do commend them
to that Glorious Being who hath said. " All things
work together for good to them that love God.”

Resolved, That these resolutions be entered upon
our record, also that a copy be furnished to Sister
Crisman, and one to the Romeo Observer and the
GRANGE VIsIToa for publication.

, ALBERT YATEs,
H. W. MILLER.
ALBEET L. Gorr,
Committee.

GODDARD.——Died at the residence of B0. Wm.
L. Davies, of Greenbush, on Thursday, the 28th of
July, 18.31, WILLIE GODDARD, a worthy member of
Keystone Grange, in the 20th year of his age.

Willie being a young man of temperate habits, of
sterling worth and integrity, he was beloved and
highly respected by all who knew him. As a Grange,
we feel it our duty to pay tribute to the memory of
one whose generous and noble principles gave prom-
ise of a bright and successful future : Therefore be it

Resolved, That our heartfelt sympathy be extended
to his relatives and friends.

Resolved, That our charter and altar be draped in
mourning for 60 days, and that a copy of these reso-
lutions be tendered to the family of the deceased,
and a copy be sent to the GRANGE VISITOR for publi-
cation. J . D. RICHMOND.

Mas. EMMA BEEBE,
Mas. E. M. VooaIIEEs,
Committee.

'r.A.NnnTss rise nAcrs

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the attendant from the animals, and to the
points of cheapness, durability, and facility
of operation. It will he noticed that the
rack constructed affords feedbpenings 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-
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_back and forth through the interior without
stepping in the trough or having any in-
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the strips or slats serve as a means of sepa-
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proper proportion of the food. 011 each
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outside of the feed openings to prevent the
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them exposed. And standing at one end
you can elevate this board by one move of
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from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......$25to 3000

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Same with flat lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 00

Nickle Trimmed, . . . . . . .815, 816, 5.518, 820 and 25 00

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M IVIBRATOR HAREow.

Wanted.

Cuts B1-ix. Eight and Ten Feet.

Best Harrow made. Cuts every inch of ground,
and adapted to all kinds of soil. Peculiar shape of
tooth makes it easy of draft, and leaves the ground
light and mellow. Relieves itself of all obstructions,
Bundled very compact for shipment.

PHELPS & BIGELOW W. M. CO.,
Kalamazoo, llleh.

rsifssiiisrl at snrsifiifi

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

SEPTEMBER 15, 1881.

Alabasii ne

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» han can be done with one coat of any
other pre aration on the same surface.

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

M. B. CHURCH. Manager,

juyl-tf. Grand Rapids, Mich.

Bindery Work I

MAGAZINES

BOOKS FOR RI!-BINDING.

Send all work of this kind to us.
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.

(lorreapomience from Librarzans, Sc/root Directors
and Business Mm all over the country SOLICITED.

KALAMAZO0 PUBLISHING COMPANY.

Postoflice Block, KALAMAZOO.

Peach Trees! Peach Trees!

WE OFFER a 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, VINES AND EVERGREENS.
Address BUTTRICK & WATTERSON,
Proprietors of “ Kent Co. Pomona Nurseries,”
septl-3m

A. L. LAKEY & BIGELOW.
Kalamazoo Palnl and lining Wlllll,

Manufacturers of

MIXED PAINTS. R0llPIllG MATERIAL, 818.,

—~Axn Diunsss IN-

All Kinds of Painters’ Goods,

AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
?__o:._.
PLEASE CALL AND SEE OUR STOCK AT

52 and 54 NORTH BURDIOK STREET,
KALAMAZ00, MICE.

CASCADE, Kssr Co., MICE.

PA TRONS, TRY ME,
And Judge for Yourselves.

raasoeaiio. MILL

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 ones 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
inillwas awarded the highest medal at Philadelphia
in 1876, also at the last two State fairs of 

Manufactured by

HENRY CORTRITE,
For terms to Patrons address Lansing, Mich.
T. J. SHOEMAKEB,

Sec’y 637, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

ONE CENT PER BUSHEL

Is my commission for selling wheat by the car load,

FOB. PATBONS.
“Price current” mailed to shippers daily.

Wholesale Agent for
“ '1' E A '1‘ IJINIMENT. ”

nmnsraaran ckrsnoonn AND rams usr or
Ilogern’ Plated. Vvare,
LOANED ro ruinous.

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 Wcodbridge St., West, DETROIT, MICE.
laug tf

ATRONS’

MANUFACTURERS OF

lngersol|’s Pure Heady-mixed Palnls.

Send for Color-card and Prices.  

I62

AIN T

COOLING MILK and BUTTER.

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-c0nduc-
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 ata low temperature. ‘ ' " w '‘ ~ ' ’ " -— '

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 ofl‘ 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 ofi‘. These cans, when filled with milk, are placed
in the water tank beside the Cooler, and are surrounded and rapidly cooled by the water
flowing among them.

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 aminute.

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 sells 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
butter at ruinously low prices. MCCALL & DUNCAN.

Schoolcraft, Mich., August, 1881.

MICHJGAN STATE GRANGE, 5

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MESSRS. 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 Coo 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 Rondo, Mi'ch., July, 1881.

Masrna’s OFFICE,
‘ GILEAD, MICH., August 23d, 1881.
Masses. MCCALL it DUNCAN :

Gentlemen,-—We have now tested the Acme Creamer
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 do 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-

le in its arrangement. and is easily kept clean ; and
astly 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.

POULTRY BULLETIN.

The Bulletin is a large, beautifully illustrated, Monthly Magazine, published in
New York City. It is devoted to the breeding and management of thoroughbred stock.
It is the oldestjournal of its class in the World. It believes in new ideas, and aims to
give its subscribers what they pay for:

Good, Live, Interesting, Valuable Reading.

If you take any paper of the sort, you want the Bulletin,
pet stock of any kind, you want the Bulletin. It costs but a

$|.25 PER YEAR, POST PAID.

Annaiiss POULTRY BULLETIN,
62 Courtlandt St., New York, N. Y.

§’ Send for Circular and Price List.
McCALL as DUNCAN,

junelfi-tf. Scnooncaarr, Mien.

If you keep Poultry or
small sum,

sept. l5tf

THE INBEST
Tallllllll.

The McCormick Harvesting
Machines have been Award-
ed the Highest Prize at
every World’s Fair

ever held.

“At the great Field Trials of Har-
vesting Machinery held during the
present week at Derby, England,
underthe auspices of the Royal Ag-
ricultural Society of England, the Mc-
CORMICK HARVESTER and SELF-
BINDER was awarded the Gold Med-
al of Excellence, every first-class
Harvesting Machine known compet-
mg."

This is the highest award made
by the most prominent society in
the world.

Farmers and Patrons
of the “VISITOR,”

ARE you in need of a

WIND MILL ?

If so, read the following:

THE UNDERSIGNED
WIND MILL 00..

MANUFACTUBEB8 OF

WOLC-OTT’S

PATENT
-. V SELF- REG ULA. TING

Sllilllllll-WHEEL wmn Mlll,

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

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

You can save time and money by writing at

once for Circulars and Price List to

UNION WIND HILL :3 MAN’F’G 00.,
septl5-'81tf Albion, Mich.

The Scientific American of May I4,
188:, said:

."We believe that the verdict of the
leading scientific and mechanical au-
thorities of the present day is unam-
mous in placin the MCCORMICK
MACHINE in the lead of all others."

‘ES. L. BEARDSLEY, General
Agent for Southern Michigan
and Northern Indiana-

”i.:';ei5§”““'“ "“ Kammazoo, MICE.

ORKS,

OFFICE,

SOUTH STREET.

N EW YORK.

rrzrnn   Arfixrrien FAIR

OF‘ THE
T'S'I'EE.1\T LIICEIG-AK‘

Agricultural and Industrial Society,

WILL BE HELD AT GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN,

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

Mssrsias aalissoasrasiss

Please write under Seal,
For CONFIDENTIAL Circulars.

LIBERAL PREMIUMS OFFERED TO EXHIBITOBS.

UNUSUAL ATTRACTIONS TO VISITORS.

EAL!‘ IHAIIE ITFOK AIJI4 EAIJHEOAJDS.
§'See large posters, and send for a Premium List for Full Particulars._,$

PATRONS, Come to the LARG-EST FAIR
EVER HELD IN WESTERN MICHIGAN.

§’The "GRANGE VISITOR” Headquarters upon the Grounds will Welcome You.
Let Everybody Come with Stock and Products to show, and to see this

G-R;.A.l\TID EXPOSITION.

HUSBANDS -0- --cm-Jwivnsz
MOTHERS OF DROOPING DAUGHTERS!

SHOULD KN OW OF

DR. R. PENGELLY’S “WOMAN'S FRIEND,” IMPROVED!
It is a SOVEREIGN REMEDY for

Those Complaints (they need no naming) peculiar to WOMEN, YOUNG or OLD, NOT A CURE-
ALL, Claiming to annihilate Jaundice,Diabetes, Bright's Disease, Gravel, and everything else which
afiiicts MEN EVEN MORE THAN WOMEN.

It works in ONE LINE and in that line It excels. The tender, Nervous Girl, the anxious, ezpectcmt
Mother, the overburdened Homewife, the Matron, passing the critical change, are all guarded, soothed and
sustained by its Gentle Influence. It is the prescription of an es-perienced Physician, perfected during a
life—long practice, and its nine ears of public record, in 30 different States, have proved it rightly named —
A FRIEND INDEED TO OMAN. The good words of those who use it are its best advertisement.
An 8-ounce (81.00) bottle, or a 20-ounce (82.00) bottle sent on receipt of price, express prepaid, also
references and testimonials, on application to

"R. PENGELLY 85 CO..
KALAMAZ00. MICH. (Foairiramr or Puiirwans.)
Sold by Drugglsui generally and Lady Agents. Swift &. Dndds, and Far-rand, William:
b C0,, Detroit. Morrison, Plurnrner & (.30., Chicago.

EVERY FARMER IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD EXAMINE THE

New Combined Spring Tooth Sulky Harrow

CULTI VATOR AND SEEDER.

Manufactured by

THE SGIIAU & SCHUSTER SULKY
.HARROW AND SEEDER COMPANY.

Kalamazoo, — Michigan.

As a combined machine, it stands un-
rivalled in excellence, doing the work 0.
a Harrow and Seed Sower most thorough-
ly and satisfactorily. It has taken high

~ rank at once as ONE OF THE VERY
BEST IMPLEMENTS FOR THE USES
DESIGNED EVER INVEN TED. Sows
Harrow does not trail, and is of lighter
It received first premium and diplomas

allfkinds ot grain and_rgrass seeds. The
draft than any other Harrow in the market.
wherever shown in 1880.

SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW!
THE CHAMPION BARBED WIRE

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

OIIIBEII. "5i"(3'I}'-I3.

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.
TEOMAB W&$<0N,

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

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

Plymouth Rocks

—-AND—

Partridge Cochjns!

My Plymouth Rocks
are from Keefer’s noted
strain ; my Partridge
Cochins are from
Pierce’s prize- win-
ning strain. Weaned
Chickens for sale
in early Summer.
Egg in season.
Send for Circular to

am: I ilde, Uuaiervllle, Mich.

apr15,6m
rsuuo a MANNING,

Wlllll lIllMMlSSlll,ll MEllEHllll8,

117 Federal St... Boston.

THE 5 - TON

WAGON SCALES.

ARE‘ SOLD FOR 360.

All Iron and Steel. Sold on trial—f1-eight paid by
us-no money asked till tested and found satisfac-
tory. All sizes manufactured.

JONES OF BINGHAMPTON,
Binghampton. N. Y.
Sand for Circulars and further particulars.

Paw PAW, Mich., May 18th, 1878.
Jonas or Bnwsinxrox:
My Scales give entire satisfaction. I have subject-
ed it to the most severe tests and find it not only
correct in weighing large or small amounts, but

perfectly rehab
Yours, Fraternally,
J. J. WOODMAN.

[$8164]

consignments solicited and Cash Advances lads. 3 in—lyr