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“THE FAIBMER IS OF MORE CONSEQUEJVCE TITAN THE FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IIIIPROVED.”

VOL. 7,-——No. 19.
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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.‘

Deacon Day and the Highway Cow——Farm Improve-
ments— Selling Farm Products—Wheat Estimates
and Prices—Crop Report for September—True
Value of a Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1

From a New York Patron—What are We Doing _?—
From an Illinois Patron — To the Tax Commission
—Farmers. Stand by Your Local Insurance Compa-
nies——Fairs and Patrons—New B.elations—Lectur-
er’s Last Document for 1881, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . - .

2

The Assassination—Address of the Anti-Monopolg
League—What Will It Bear ?——The Poultry Yar

—To the Patrons of Mich1gan—-Railroad Time-

Tables, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3

General N otice—Paten_t Right—Driven Wells—Legis-
lation-—How to Direct a Letter-—The Ladies’ De-
partment—-Save the Fodder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Pickings by the Way, No. 33-Civil Service Reform.
Look after the Seed Corn—Thinkers and Toilers-—-
The Secret Whispered—Keeping Hens for Eggs-
Bug Preventative —Bee Keepers’ Convention-No:
tices of Meetings—Advertisement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . o

M Old Home-—Home—The Social Position of the
Farmefs Family : What It Is, and What_ It Should
Be—-Beautiful Hands—Our Motto: Faith, Hope,
Charity and Fidelity, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Finding Fault—Not Quite a Tramp—The Reapeg
Death—Advertisements, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4

Advertisements, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . - - - - - - - 3

Officers National Grange.

MASTEB—J. J. WOODMAl\',. . .Paw Paw, Michigan.
0vnnsnna—PUT. DARDEN, ......... . .M.ississippi.
LncrUnnn—HENRY ESHBAUGH, .... ..Missouri.
S'.rEwAnI>——-A. J. VAUGHN, . . . . . . . . . . ..Mississippi.
Assr. S'.i'nw.um—W1LLIAM SIMS, . . . . . . ..Kansa.s.
CHAPLAIN—S. H. ELLIS, . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . ..Ohio.
TnmsUnna—F. M. McDOWELL,......New York.
SECRETARY-—VVM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.
Gama-Knnrnn--0. DINWIDDIE, ....... ..Indiana.
Cnnns—MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, ...... ..Michigan.
Poxoiu—MRS. PUT. DARDEN, .... ..Mississippi.
FLOBA—MRS. I. W. NICHOLSON,...New Jersey.
Lsnr Ass-1:. S'.l!EWAJBD—MBS. WM. SIMS, Kansas.

Executive committee-

D. WYATT AIKEN, ............ ..South Carolina.
H. JAMES, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Indiana.
W. G. WAYNE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..New York.

Officers Michigan State Grange.

M.—C. G. LUCE, ........................ ..Gilead.
O.—A. N. WOODRUFF, ............. ..Watervliot.
L.—-C. L. W'E.'ITN'EY, ................ ..Muskegon.
8.—S. A. TOOKER, . . . . . . . . .  ......... ..Lansing.
A. S.——A. E. GREEN,.. . . .. . .. .Fa.rmington.
C.-—SALMON STEEL, . . . . . . .Manton, Wexford Co.
'.l.‘.—S. F. BROWN, .................. ..Schoolcraft.
Sle.—J. T. COBB, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schoolcraft..
G. K.—ELI.TAH BARTLETT, ........... . .Dryden.
Cnnns.-—Mns. A. S. STANNARD, ........ ..Lowell.
Poxo1u.—Mss. H. D. PLATT, ......... . .Ypsilanti.
FI.onA.—-Mas. A N. WOODRUFF,.. ..WatervIiet.
L. A. S.—Mns. A. E. GREEN, ....... . .Farmington.

Executive committee-

THOMAS MARS, Chairman, .... ..Berrien Center.
J. WEBSTER CHILDS, .............. ..Ypsilanti.
F. M. HOLLOWAY, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hillsdale.
J. 0,. A. BURRINGTON, ............... ..Tuscola.
WM. SATTERLEE, ........ .. .. . . . . .Birmingham.
THOS. F. MOORE," . . . ................ . .Adrian.
JOHN PORTER. . . .. . ............ . .Grand Rapids.
C. G. LUCE, J. T. COBB, ............ ..Ex-oflicic.

General Deputy.
0. L. WHITNEY, .................... ..uuakegon.

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

Special Lecturers.

'.l.'ho|. I'.li1oore,..... ........ "Adrian, Leaawee Co.
a... w, wooawud... ......... ..Slielby,0ooa.aa Co.
I.L.8tevens,...............Perry, Shinwusee Co.
Irs.8.Steele, .............. "Kenton, Wexfordco.
L. l..Brown...............BewIonville, Wayne Co.
Andrewounpbell, ..... "Ypsilanti, Wuhtenaw Go.
fiu.E.Mickley..... .... ....Adrian, LsnaweeOo.

diliwlluul Experiment.

A. C. GLIDDEN, - -

PAW _PAW.

IISACON DAY AND THE HIGHWAY COW. _

BY EUGENE J. HALL.

The best 0’ bein‘s will hev their cares-—
There’s alwus sumpthin‘ to cross our way.
To warry an’ fret us in our affairs.
An’ sech wus the lot 0’ old Deacon Day;
He hed his trials.—I’ll tell you how
He wus tempted an’ tried by a highway cow.

The hue 0‘ her hide wus a dusky brown; _
Her body wuz lean, an’ her neck wus slim;
One horn turned up, an’ the other down;
She wus sharp o’ sight, an’ wus long 0’ limb,
With a peaked nose, an’ a short stum -tail,
An’ ribs like the hoops on a home-ma e pail.

Many a clay bed she passed in pound
Fur meanly helpin’ herself to corn :
Many a cowardly cur an’ hound
Hed been transfixed by her crumpled horn ;
Many a tea-pot an’ old tin pail
Hed the farm-boys tied to her stumpy tail.

Old Deacon Day was a pious man,

A frugal farmer, upright an’ plain ;
An’ many a weary mile he ran

To drive her out 0’ his growin’ grain.
Sharp were the pranks that she used to play
To git her fill and to git away.

He used to sit, on the Sabbath-day,

VVith his open Bible upon his knee,
Thinkin' o’ loved ones far away,

In the Better Land, that he longed to see-
When a distant beller, borne thro’ the air,
Would bring him back to this world o’ care.

When the deacon went to his church in town,

She watched an’ waited till he went by.
He never passed her without a frown,

And an evil gleam in each angry eye.
He would crack his whip, an’ would holler “Whay ! ’
As he drove along in his “one-hoss shay.”

Then at his homestead she loved to call,
Liftin‘ his bars with her crumpled horn.
N imbly scalin’ his garden wall,
Hel in’ herself to his standi.n' corn,
Eatin his cabbages one by one— \
Scamperin’ home when her meal was done.

OE 'en the deacon homeward came,

Hummin’ a. tune, from the house 0' prayer,
His kindly heart in a tranquil frame,

His sou ez calm es the evenin’ air,
His forehead smooth ez a well-worn plow —
To find in his garden that highway cow.

His human passions were quick to rise.
An’ stridin’ forth with a savage cry.
With fury blazin' from both his eyes,
Ez lightnin’s flash in a summer sky,
Redder an’ redder his face would grow,
An’ after the critter he would go-

Over his garden, round an‘ round,
Brsakin' his pear an‘ apple trees,

Trampin‘ his melons into the ground,
Tippin' over his hives o’ bees,

Leavin’ him angry an’ badly stung,
Wishin’ the old cow's neck was wrung.

The mosses grew on the garden wall;

The years went by, with their work an’ play;
The boys o’ the village grew strong an’ tall,

An’ the gray-haired farmers dropped away,
One by one, ez the red leaves fall-
But the highway con outlived ’em all.

The things we hats are the last to fade ;
Some cares are lengthened thro’ many years;
The death 0' the wicked seems long delayed,-—
But there is a climax to all careers,
An’ the highway cow at last was slain
In runnin' a race with a railway train.

All to pieces at once she went,
Jest like savi.n’s banks when they fail ;
Out 0’ the world shewas swiftly sent ;
Leetle was left but her own stump-tail.
The farmers’ gardens and cornfields now
Are haunted no more by the highway cow.

Farm Improvements.

There are two things that take time-—get-
ting a farm in good order, and getting honest
men in ofilce. The one affords pleasure in
its performance. the other keeps people in a
perpetual stew. A good example is a great
promoter of farm improvements, but the
good example in politics is frequently fol-
lowed by bad practices in the successor.

‘We have not soiled much good paper, nor
taken much valuable space in the VISITOR
to vent our indignation over some of the
political practices of the times. We should
like to see improvement in politics as well
as on farms, but rather work toward an end
that seems pomible rather than toward
something that is probiematical.

The peculiar feature among farm commu-
nities is the samenesszof style, following in
regular order, continuing through a neigh-
borhodd the archtecture of the buildings,
the style of the fences, the arrangement of

example to mold styles as well as character.
One gets accustomed to unsightly objects
and inconvenient arrangements, and stum-
ble over piles of rubbish which only needs
the spirit of improvement to pervade the
air to remove or re-construct. '
Now, as the busy season has passed, and
every day is not n-eighted with a full load,

and some. left over, there will be leisure to

the yards, etc., all indicating the power of

do up some odd jobs. It might be well to
remember some of the mar-y solicitations
which the good wife has made to fix up
something. Take the hired man and go
quietly about it some morningas though it
was an idea of yours. It will relieve you
of the imputation of being controlled by the
women folks, and you can point to it with a
feeling of pride, and tell your wife how
much better that looks. There is many a
pile of broken boards, old fence rails, broken
sleds, a kind ofcatch-all for the refuse of the
yards—this might be handled over, the
pieces that would answer for wood carried
to the shed, and sawed up, and the worth-
less bits burned. Even the hens will
scratch the place in thankfulness for the
favor.

The spirit of improvement once imbibed
will usually be sustained until several
needed reforms are brought about. The
progressive farmer has always some plans
for future completing. and is always work-
ing toward that end.

The arrangement of the fields is always a
matter of time. The rotation does not
come around so that the change can be
made in one season, but the removal of a
portion of the old fence, and rebuilding on
the line of the original plan, is the work of
every season. Those who have not already
arranged the farm into fields, and made a
plat of it, should do so, and go about the
work of adjustment. Farmers often get
stuck in a rut of indifl."erence. They let the
present arrangements satisfy them, and ac-
cept the situation as fully as though it was
inevitable. They see the same,state of
things existing year by year, and they get
to feeling that any change would be dis-
tasteful. Their enterprisinrrneighbors are
“stuck-up folks” and “'ai§ove their call-
ing.” The moss will climb their buildings,
and gather on their backs until death liber-
ates their little souls. Farmers who feel
this inertness should shake themselves a
little, and go about doing something. Men
don’t stand still. Things will rust. It
must be scraped off. Mildew and mold will
come to hasten decay. Disuse don’t make
things shine. Farms show what the men
are who own them. If each year shows
some change for the better, they are among
those whom people look to for patterns.
If the buildings are in better shape than
their fields, they think more of the pattern
than of the quantity of the cloth. But
farmers do not vary more than other people,
and we don’t propose a reading of character
from their surroundings. We like to see
improvement and in the right direction,
and feel that farmers need to improve. not
only their farms and surroundings, but
their minds and hearts, that'they may be
fit to lead in all the great movements of the
world.

Selling Farm Products.

The successful farmer is a composite char-
acter, made up of essentials, which, each in
themselves, would render success certain in
several of the avocations of life. Combin-
ing one class of these essentials, makes the
production of farm products comparative-
ly certain. Another faculty, which is more
generally found wanting, but which is none
the less necessary, is that of selling. This
faculty, among a large class of farmers, is
the stumbling block in the way of success.
The margin of profit is lost by selling at the
wrong time, or at a price below its market
value. Contracting debts that mature in a
season of stagnation, which necessitates a
sacrifice in the disposition of crops to meet
the demand for payment, is a common fault
among farmers. That indefinite pay day
“ after harvest” has shipwrecked many. It
gives the creditor the power to press his
claim at a season when selling is suicide.
It presses products upon the market before
the wants of trade demand them, and has a
tendency to depress values. This fact in-
duces many persons with 9. little money.
some brains, and less muscle—with no dis-
position to use what they have—to become
speculators, and live 011‘ the surplus earn-
ings of those farmers who have placed
themselves in ‘a position where they must
sell to meet the demand of creditors.

The information necessary to base correct
conclusions upon in regard to selling is gen-
erally soliclted from buyers, whose contin-
ual cry is, “sell,” “sell.” ‘The unsophisti-
cated is usually misled with the idea that
these unselfish conservators of the farmers’

welfare are actuated by an unmixed desire
to forward his interests, and he follows their
instructions and advice, with a sort of gush-
ing confidence that overlooks short weights,
dockages, and half-penny stealings.

The manufacturer makes his goods only
so fast as there is a demand for them, and
usually upon orders that give a fair profit,
and command the money as soon as the
goods are ready for shipment. If an offer
is made for goods under the market price,
and for less than the cost of manufacture,
he refuses it, and holds his stock until the
demand brings the price up to a profit on
the manufacture.

VVith farmers there is usually a scramble
to sell as soon as the crop is harvested, and
this fermenting desire continues, and is
stimulated by speculators until the crop is
off their hands, when both speculator
and farmer seem satisfied. The one, that
the labor of the year has been exchanged,
not for its equivalent perhaps, but for some-
thing that will go toward paying debts, and
the other chuckling at the ease with which
money can be made ofi” farmers.

There are two classes of farmers at oppo-
site extremes. The one sells with no defi-
nite idea of values as regulated by supply
and demand, and the other holds under the
same conditions of knowledge. The one is
impressed with the idea that when his crop
is sold the market will be glutted, and the
other is as certain that he, with a few other
fortunate ones, “hold the fort,” and can
demand their price in the immediate future.
There can be no intelligent sales of farm
products, without a general knowledge of
the supply available for the wants of con-
sumers. .This knowledge can only be gath-
ered through reports of the condition and
quantity of products in kind within the
limits of transportation. These reports can
be gathered in the interests of the seller, as
well as of the buyer. Not looking at what
might be, but what really is, the farmer can
now avail himself of information sufficient
to base an intelligent opinion upon prospec-
tive markets. A class of persons in all the
leading markets of the world gather this
information for speculative purposes. Much
of it is, no doubt, garbled by interested par-
ties for selfish ends. Manufactured reports
fill the air, serve their purpose, and die;
but reliable statistics are not wanting. The
grain markets at present command the at-
tention of the world. Our own agricultural
reports are above the suspicion of being
manipulated for interested purposes, and
their lessons should be heeded by farmers.
The forthcoming reports from our own State
will be an index of the amounts available
for consumption. Farmers must become
familiar with commercial reports. A regu-
lar reading of them will familiarize him
with the tone of the market, his judgment
will become strengthened, and he will be
better able to combat the specious, one-sided
argument of the buyer. Last week’s report
will not serve to influence him to sell now,
nor can any cock and bull story cheat him
out of the market value of his product.
When intelligence is watched with intelli-
gence, profits will be more evenly distrib-
uted, and more commensurate with the
labor performed.

Wheat Estimates and Prices.

The reports from all the wheat producing
countries for August have again been re-
duced from former estimates. The univer-
sal drouth which has spread over such a
vast extent of the globe, and continued rains
in England, have destroyed the hope of
abundant harvests, with the usual surplus
in exporting countries. The extent of crop
failures in the United States is just begin-
ning to be realized. The estimates have
been reduced for each month until the true
state of the case is reached, and the showing
for a large surplus for exportation is becom-
ing smaller at each investigation. If the
surplus wheat of the United States could
pass from first hands into the currents of
trade at once, at current rates, the price
would advance twenty-five per cent. The
grain “ in sight” would be a basis for spec-

ulation, and surplus funds would be invest- ’

ed in wheat as being good property to hold.

The recent International Grain Fair held
at ' Vienna has confirmed the impression
held by many that the harvests of Europe
were far below the average. A comparison
with last year's crop shows an average loss
of 22 per cent, notwithstanding the increase

in Russia of 32 per cent over the crop of
last year. Germany shows a deficiency
from last year of 15 per cent. Switzerland
falls 17 per cent. Denmark is 25 per cent
below an average. Italy and Roumania,
both large wheat producing countries, show
a large falling off from last year, which will
probably make them importing instead of
exporting countries this year.

The surplus which Russia has for expor-
tation cannot become available for several
months. The transportation facilities lead-
ing out from the interior of Russia are such
that the Wheat cannot reach the seaboard.
and thence to the markets of the world, in
season to materially affect prices on this
side of the ocean during the current year.
The 2:2 per cent of loss from last year’s har-
vests, covering the wheat producing
countries of Europe, coupled with the lower
yield in the United States, must and does
have the effect to stimulate prices for this
cereal in the home markets, and its influ-
ence is not yet spent, but, in our opinion
will continue through the autumn months.
and bring to the farmer what for several
years has been denied him——a compensation
for labor in the production of wheat.

Michigan Crop Report for Month of Sept. 1331.

For this report returns have been received
from 901 correspondents, representing 624
townships. Five hundred and eighty-nine
returns are from 373 townships in the south-
ern four tiers of counties, where 85 per cent.
of the wheat crop is grown. The returns
were made between Sept. 1 and 10. At this
time much of the threshing was done in all
parts of the State, and in some localities it
was probably nearly all done. The yield of
wheat, corn, oats, and barley is reported in
bushels, and the yield of hay in tons. The
acreage and yield of corn, and the acreage of
cats, barley, and hay, are reported in per
cent. of the crops of 1880. The average
yield of wheat per acre, as shown by the
returns, is 10 and 15 hundredths bushels, or
about one bushel more than the yield as
estimated by the supervisors, July 2. The
number of acres in wheat in May, 1881, as
reported by the supervisors, was 1,781,865.
Multiplying this acreage by the above aver-
age we obtain, as the probable aggregate
product, 18,085,929 bushels. The “Acreage
in May, 1881,” represents the acreage sown,
and the average yield per acre is the average
of the acreage sown, no deductions being
made for that portion of the crop plowed up
or not harvested. In aggregate yield, the
crop of 1881 is greater than in any year pre-
vious tol 77, but there is little doubt that
the average per acre is the lowest of which
we have record.

The returns show for corn an acreage of
about 101 per cent, for cats 104 per cent,
barley 93 per cent, and for hay 103 per cent
of the acreage in 1880. The yield of corn per
acre is estimated at 80 per cent of 1880, indi-
catingatotal product of 46,519,773 bushels
of cars. The yield of cars per acre is re rt-
ed at 31 bushels, indicating a total yie d of
15,045,386 bushels. Barley is esfimated at
22 and 9-tenths bushels, and hay at 1 and
2-tenths tons per acre.

True Value of a Farm.

There is something in the owning a piece
of ground which affects me as do the old
ruinsof England. I am free to confess that
the value 0 a farm is not chiefly in its crops
of cereal grain, its orchards of fruit, and in
its herds, but in those larger and more eas-
ily reaped harvests of associations, fancies,
and dreamy broodings which it begets.
From boyhood I have associated classical
civic virtues and old heroic integrity with
the soil. No one who has peopled his
young brain with the fancies of Grecian
mythology but comes to feel a certain mag-
ical fancy for the earth. The very smell of
fresh turned earth brings up as man
dreams and visions of the country as sanda
wood does of oriental scenes. At any rate, I
feel in walking under these trees and about
their slopes, something of that enchantment
of vague and mysterous glimpse of the ast
which I once felt about the ruins of en-
ilworth Castle. For thousands of years this
piece of ground had wrought its tasks. Old
slumberous forests used to darken it; foxes
have blinked through its bushes : and wolv-
es have howledand growled as they pattered
along its rustling leaves with empty maws.

_How many birds—how many flocks of
pigeons, thousands of years ago——how many

awks dashed wildly among them—how
many insects, nocturnal and diurnal-how
many mailed bugs, and limber serpents, glid-
ing among mossy stones, have had possession
here before my day! It will not belongbe-
fore I, too, shall be wasted and recordless as
they.-—Henr;y Ward Beecher,

IT is wonderful how silent a man can be
when he knows his cause is just, and how
boisterous he becomes when he knows he is
«in the wrong,

The butter tproduct of the United States
for 1880 is es mated by the department of

riculture at 1.000,000,000 . pounds and the
c eese product at 300,000,000 poun .

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OCTOBER 1. 1881.

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From a New York Patron.

THREE MILE BAY, Jeff. Co.. N. Y.,
August 25, 1881.

J. T. Cobb, Editor Grange Visitor .-—Your
very readable journal has found its way into
our midst, and some of its articles are read in
our Grange from time to time, and are list-
ened to with marked attention.

We have a live Grange, we own our hall
and it iacommodious and well furnished ; it
is all new and worth about $2,000. \Ve live
in a rich farming section. Our crops are
good this season and are secured in good
condition.

VVe meet as a society on Saturday evening
of each week. We do quite an amount of
business in the way of purchasing groceries
and such articles as we need, thereby mak-
ing quite a saving to individual Patrons, but
most of all we prize the social and intellectu-
al advantages of our Order.

The Jefferson County Pomona Grange
met with us in June last, and a grand time
we ha.d,I can assure you. Among the many
things offered was the following original po-
em which, by request of oneof our members,
I send to you that it may appear in the VIS-
ITOR if you think it worthy.

homes and in their business, and social

GEORGE VV. RICKETT.
THREE-MILE BAY GRANGE.

Some stranger here might ask to-day,
How is your Grange at Three-Mile Bay 'r
How has it prospered in the past?

How long think you the thing will last ‘r’
In all these years what has been gained?
Please tell us what has been attained :
What benefit do you derive ?

Why try to keep the Grange alive ‘r

Dear Patrons, we should each prepare

To meet these questions everywhere.
With answers candid, clear and true,

And argument, if needed, too;

And that we may achieve this end,

Our thoughts should often backward tend,
That we may study and compare

The things that were, with things that are.

Our Grange, dear friends, was Heaven-ordained,
And by God’s hand has been sustained.

And we are prospered by His smile,

And growing stronger all the while ;

And we His favor will retain

While we our sacred vows maintain.

To never wrong sister or brother.

Nor suffer it by any other.

We love our Grange : to us ’tis dear:
No discord ever enters here '.

With confidence we grasp the hand
Of every Patron of our band;

In perfect harmony we meet.

And cheerfully each other greet:
We strive to do each other good,
And this maintains our brotherhood.

No one can tell the priceless worth
Of essays that are here brought forth.
The sentiments which they contain
Are ever moral, good and plain ;
They tend to elevate the mind ;

They make us better and more kind ;
They help the timid and the weak
Their sentiments to write or speak.

Our organ's notes ne'er fail to please,
When graceful fingers sweep its keys.
And then the songs our choir do sing,
Like David’s harp, would please the king.
The more we have of scenes like this,
‘The more we'll know of earthly bliss :
We don’t appreciate, I fear,

‘The blessings we enjoy right here.

With faith in God, our hand we raise.
Receive His blessings, sing His praise ;
We nurture hope, for hope, you know,
Helps us to bear all earthly woe;

And of fire blessings we receive

In charity we freely give,

And with fidelity we share

Each other’s joy, or grief, or care.

We love to meet each other here
Week after week, from year to year.
To pass an evening hour away.

And gain the knowledge that we may.
As we compare the facts we've gained
With those another has obtained.
Discussing oft in friendly mood

Some subject tending to our good.

We love our noble calling, tOo—— '

The work our Master bade us do :

Go forth and till the soil, He said:
And day by day He gives us bread.
We, in accord with the command.

Go forth to occupy the land :

In spring we plow, we plant, we sow.
And harvest then will come, we know.

Now let us each our pledge renew,

As Patrons, ever to be true;

Assist a brother when in need;

Be friends in word, and friends in deed:
So live that, when our work is done,

The Master calls us one by one,

We may go home to realms above,
Where all is joy, and all is love.

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What are We Doing 7.

The question is often asked, What does
what has the

Grange done, or what is it expected to ac-

the Grange amount to;

oomplish ?

These and similar questions can be best‘
answered after an examination of the Dec-
laration of Principles put forth by the

National Grange.
To improve each other socially.

,ment? We believe they do, as a large part
of the people arepeculiarly isolated in their

Then‘
there is a question, Do the agricultural com-
munity, as a class, need social. improve-

improvement is much needed, and the
Grange is specially adapted to bring about
the desired effect. That it has been and
is being brought about in some measure,
who will deny in the face of the Eathering
from all parts of the county here to-day.
How few of us were known to each other
before the organization of the Grange. Yet
we are not a political organization; but
did anybody ever know an organiza-
tion that had no policy‘? Surely. the
Grangehasone, and that one of the best
—to improve each other socially, intellect-
ually, and morally. \Ve believe the agri-
cultural communities of the United States
to be one hundred per cent better informed
than they were previous to the Grange
movement; then that is what the Grange
has been doing, is doing, and is expected to
keep doing. There is no limit to the im-
provements that may be attained, or to the
benefits that may accrue from intellectual
and moral improvement. You cannot know
a person from an occasional meeting, but
here you shall have something to do, and
by their fruits ye shall know them. Theory
and practice are absolutely necessary for a
perfect understanding’ of any business.
Here in the Grange we acquire a personal
knowledge of each other, so that we are
morally certain who will make good Grange
officers, and when you have studied well
the characters necessary to fill the otfices of
the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, you
may look a little farther, for the people who
derive a living directly from the soil are not
far from sixty per cent of the whole popula-
tion, and you are very much interested in all
the Oflicers, from path-master to president of
the United States, and good, true, intellectu-
al persons are absolutely necessary for every
office.
I shall never forget the remark of a per-
son I once knew, who said there was not
much profit in being path-master, but there
was considerable honor. He was right, too;
it is honorable to faithfully and intelligently
perform the duties of any Oflice in which
the votes of the people have placed you, and
if intelligent and honorable persons should
be generally elected to office, it would cer-
tainly be an improvement. Further, I be-
lieve it would be proper for you to enquire
as to the utility of all ofiices,whether they are
necessary, or whether the circumstances
and condition of society require a change or
the abolition of an Oflice.
Let us think what benefit the Ofiice Of
V"ce President of the United States ever
has been to the people. The Vice President
presides Over the senate of the United States
—a body of which he is not a member. He
has no vote, he can take no part in any
debate. He is just a figure head. It seems
to me to be a mistake to elect, under such
circumstances, a person with the idea that
he shall fill the office of President of the
United States in case of the death or removal
of the President. It would seem as though
there had never been the care taken to select
a person for Vice President who would have
any chance of being elected if run at the
head of the ticket, but the idea seems to pre-
vail that anything will do for Vice President
because, as such, he has nothing to do but
to Watch the Senators. and to draw his pay.
Could the present Vice President of the U.
S. have been elected if at the head of the
ticket‘? If not, is it reasonable to suppose
the people would be satisfied with him
placed in the presidential chair by the
bullet of an assassin. ,
The office of Vice President of the U. S.
should be abolished, because it is inductive
of crime. Remember that during the late
war threats of assassination of the Presi-
dent were quite frequent. On one occasion
when the President was being remonstrated
with for exposing his life as though of no
more importance than a common citizen,
he replied, “ DO you think they would like
Hannibal Hamlin in my chair better than
me 1’ I believe I’m safe ”——or words to that
effect. But as soon as Andrew Johnson
was elected, Lincoln was shot to death. It
would seem that Andrew Johnson could not
have been elected president in any circum-
stance, but it did not matter who was Vice
President if we had a good, true, tried man
at the head of the ticket. VVe had a Presi-
dent whom almost everybody was satisfied
with, and it was said the convention took
up with Chester A. Arthur just to please
Roscoe Conkling. These facts seem to me
to be suificient grounds to abolish the office
of Vice President of the U. S. w.

 

From an Illinois Patron.

Dear Sir and Bro..-—Rev. Joseph \Vassall,
an eminent clergyman and also a well
known naturalist, residing for many years
in J o Davis’s county, Ill., is about to remove
to Ionia, Mich,, and as he has been a valued
member of Warren Grange, No. 65, located

welcome from the Patrons of Ionia county.
Bro. Wassall can not do without the Grange,

Fraternally yours,
G. W. Corrrrss.

Nora, Ill., Sept. 12, 1881.

sition.

in said county, that Grange bespeaks for
himself and family a kindly reception and expenses of the company, While in the Swck
Company, to insure the same amount for
_ eight years would have cost $58.67, or a dif-
9-nd P1'°P°5°5 t° °°n“°°t himself Wm’ the ference of $34.57 in favor of our Farmers’
‘Order in Ionia county, to which he and his

estimable wife will prove 3 valuable aqEisi' farmers think and figure for themselves.

[We see by the Industrial Press that the
writer of the above is editor of the Farm

To the Tax commission.

HALL OF OLIVE GRA.\'GE, No. 338,
ST Jonxs, Sept. 7, 1881.

To the Honorable, ihe Board of Commz’ss2'on-
ere on revision of tax laws, Lansing, Mich-
igan :-

VVHEREAS, The Governor of the State of
Michigan has, by authority of an act of the
Legislature, appointed a Tax Commission
to take into consideration questions per-
taining to taxation, and

VVHEREAS, The said Commission has pre-
pared a circular asking or eliciting informa-
tion from all those who are contributors
through the various collections to the funds
necessary for maintaining a good govern-
ment, and

WI-IEREAs,V\'e recognize greatconsideration
on the part of the Commission in its desire
to obtain information from every available
source to enable them to act in the best in-
terésts of those they serve; therefore,
Resolved, That we,the agriculturists of the
Pomona Grange of Clinton County assem-
bled, would reply to these questions as fol-
lows :——

1. Should church property be taxed‘?

2. Should property owned by a church
society in excess Of a fixed amount be taxed?
3. If you answer the last question in the

affimative, then state what amount should
be fixed for exemption.

Yes : making exemptions according to
populations and surroundings, from $1,000,
and in no case to exceed $5,000, and in no
case should such exemptions be made un-
less the property be opened up and used for
public‘ service.

-1. Should any personal property be ex-
empt from taxation '.’

No: and in furtherance Of this end would
take receipt from collector on real estate
which has mortgages against it. legal tender
to apply on said mortgage to the amount of
tax paid by the party in excess of his inter-
est in said real estate.

5. Should the present method of paying
highway taxes by labor be changed so as to
require payment in money‘?

No.

6. What proportion Of personal property
and credits in your estimation, escapes tax-
ation '3

‘Vs should say fully two-thirds of all
bonds, mortgages, and notes.

7. VVhat rate of interest should be charged
on delinquent taxes‘?

Not less than 10 per cent.

8. Should delinquent taxes be carried by
the State or by the several counties 2‘

By the several counties, for under the
existing laws the County Treasurer has all
the labor to perform, and returns made to
the State are of importance only so far as to
keep a partyindefinitly in power. V
9. Should persons liable to taxation be
required in all cases to make a sworn state-
ment of their property '?

Yes : we believe it the only available
method of obtaining correct statements, and
then only unless suitable penalties are at-
tached to compel obedience to its mandates.
Resolved, That the Secretary of this
Grange be instructed to forward a copy of
these resolutions to the Tax Commissioners,
and also to the GRANGE VIsIToR.

FRANK CONN, Sec’y.

Farmers. Stand by yonr Local Insurance Companies.

I suppose that nearly all our older coun-
ties have their local fire insurance companies
organized and in full operation, and I have
no doubt that the farmers who are insured
in them (if they have given the subject any
thought) have become satisfied of their
cheapness and safety as compared with any
of the stock companies. After being in-
sured in One! for eight successive years, I
had settled down so firmly to the convic-
tion of the fact that I thought the day had
passed when anyone would dispute it, but I
find I am mistaken in this.
I take an Eastern agricultural journal of
National circulation, and one which I have
esteemed very highly. In a recent number
of this paper I find a whole page devoted to
the task of convincing farmers that a cer-
tain stock company which is insuring farm
property at the rate of one per cent for three
years, is cheaper and more reliable than the
mutual companies organized and operated
on our Michigan plan. Now. the whole page
is no doubt paid for as an advertisement, and
it seems to me that its whole bearing is to
mislead and dupe its farmer readers, and it
does seem despicable to me that any respect-
able journal published in the interests of
farmers, should stoop so low for the money
they gain by such style of advertisements.

After reading the arguments in the paper
I made a little practical comparison with
the result of eight years’ insurance in the
Farmers’ Mutual of Oakland county, with

like amount for the same number of years in
the stock company advertised. I found by

in eight years I had paid on $2,200, $24.10,

C.

the cost in this same company amount on a

my receipts for payments of assessments.that

and this had covered all losses and running

Mutual, on this small sum. Verily, let the

§¢lll.ll¢pF'$7§¢lli.iFllfi$i.1l-

\ Fairs and Patrons.

The season Of State and county fairs is
already upon us; some have taken place,
but the larger number in this State are to
follow.

VVhat good can the Patron get from the
Fair‘? None unless he attends; much if
he seeks to get good from them. Every
Patron who attends should form the habits
of observation, inquiry, etc., and the Grange
has taught him to be able to gather much
that he can use in a future day. A fair
should be a school conducted on the object
lesson plan, and those who attend should
seek to gather facts and store them until
wanted.

Many of our readers will say that the fairs
are not what they ought to be——-not conduct-
ed prc-perly—are immoral. etc.; but will
your staying from them make them any
better‘? If so, stay away by all means.
But can you not aid by judicious manage-
ment, to make them much better‘? ‘Vs
know of some localities where Patrons have
quietly come into the general control and
management, and much improved the char-
acter of the fairs.‘ May not a gentle yet
potent force be quietly used in other places‘?
Can not we elevate the moral tone and re-
fine the social character Of these meetings
by our presence and efforts 2’ Let us try,
and do not be discouraged. Let all try and
by co-operation and persevering effort con-
tinued, see if we cannot elevate this medium
Of educating not only the farmer, but all
other classes which share in our industrial
fairs. One thing we can do at these gather-
ings-—we can meet Patrons from other
localities and extend many friendly words
and exchange cheering messages. VVhat a
grand place to meet and discuss the work of
our Order, arrange for future meetings and
plan for a general movement forwafll during
the fall and winter months. \Vhat an op-
portunity to meet the many good farmers
who are not Patrons, and get acquainted
with them, and to interest them in the
Grange and its work!

\Vhere can Patrons better sow good seed
than at these fairs, by taking along “Dec-
larations of Purposes,” extra copies of the
GRANGE VISITOR and of the Campaign Bul-
letin Ezttra to give away, or to use to get
subscribers. VVe have known of a Patron
getting sixty 3 months subscribers to the
VISITOR at an auction. Can’t that number
or more be got at every county or other fair
held in this State this fall‘? Let every
Grange see to it that some one or more is
duly authorized and prepared with copies,
etc., to act, and see how much Grange read-
ing matter can thus be put into circulation
this coming season. Scatter seed.’ The
harvest will come. Have faith and work
with fidelity, and hope will be realized.

New Relations.

It is doubtless known to many if not all
the readers of the VISITOR that we have
taken on our shoulders new duties in be-
coming an associate editor of the Cincinnati
Grange Bulletin. Our reasons for doing
this are that in so doing we could still serve
Michigan and the interests of our Order
here, and extend our sphere of usefulness
and enlarge our field of labor.
The GRANGE VISITOR has become a na-
tional paper, devoted to the good of the Order
of the whole country. Its aim is and will
be to make the Grange and its influence as
universal as the calling it represents. The
Bulletin proposes some new and forward
movements, as a corespondent in Washing-

as seen by a farmer and a Patron.
distributed among its

the line.

IF Americans would sit longer at dinner-
table and be happy while they eat, they
would have less dyspepsia and a more cheer-

ton, “ a virtual friend at Court,” who shall
report Congress and the central government
It pro-
poses to put into the field aft once a Nation-
al Lecture Bureau for the Order and in the
interest of farmers. An experimental farm
is also a new feature, upon which’ to try
new varieties, which if successful, will be
subscribers. An
Eastern oflice will also be opened in the
5P1'ing- OW‘ Lime G""0m9'€7'-9 will be d°ub' reasonable, and the railroad corporations
led in size in December and other Cam- only divide a dividend of from four and a
paign Extras will be issued from time to
time to aid in the grand advance all along

and the rejuvenation of old ones. Remem-
ber at all times the people must be taught.
They must read or be told of the matters in
which you would interest them. Use both
the reading matter and the lecturer. Long
winter evenings are now coming, and with
them less work on the farm. Let every
Patron prepare for a grand advance.

Lecturers‘ Last Document for 1881.

To the Lecturers and 1l[em(>er.s- of AS24607-dmafe
Granges, P. of II. .-

This is the last issue for 1881 of questions
for discussion in Subordinate Granges.
Believing that suflicient time has been de-
voted to local questions, and to increased
productions, etc., until we are fully satisfied
that relief from injustice will never ‘O9
reached through these means,—Our only
hope rests in educating to fully understand
the causes of oppression; how they are
brought about, by Whom and for what
purposes, and how they are managed. And
when fully understood, there will be no
difliculty in applying the proper remedies
to remove the tyranny that now so unjustly
robs the farmer of the rewards Of his labor
and capital.

\Ve have therefore named questions for
this quarter that will lead in that direction,
hoping that these will be followed by other-
of like charater, until every error is fully
understood. \‘\’e have no time to lose. for
soulless corporations are still marching On-
wards, entrenching themselves behind the
bulwarks of monopolizeol power. Hence
our advance must be more rapid, progressive
and earnest. The time spent in Subordi-
nate Granges in discussing fence laws, dog
laws, increased production, etc., is valuable
time wasted: we are losing, while the en-
emy is gaining. For the pre.-ent we had
better attend to the weig/Ltier matters, if we
expect to accomplish desirable results. The
desire of corporations is that we keep quiet
and inactive, and spend much of our time
Over smaller matters, while they will ar-
range for the larger ones. Let us arouse from
inactivity to active and energetic work in
our noble cause, for the good of our common
humanity.

Hoping that this, or a better system, may
be employed in the future in the distribu-
tion of general questions to be considered
throughout our land, and that the duty may
be assigned to one more capable than my-
self, so that greater good may be accomplish-
ed,——with best wishes for the permanent
prosperity of our common cause and for
speedy and triumphant results, I remain.
ever faithful to the cause,

Your fraternal servant,
I-I. ESHBAUGH,
Lec-t'r National Grange.
si'B.u;c1's FOR S['H()Rl)l1\'A’l‘l~; GR.-\.\'(.'rES.
FOR HCTOBl£R.

Question l.5.—How can we save the reward
of our own labor, and make farm operations
more profitable‘?

.S‘uggestions.—- Better tillage, mixed hus-
bandry,°improved stock, and scores of other
questions developing agricultural science,
are of the utmost importance, and should be
well studied in every Grange. But there
are other questions of greater importance
than these, that must be solved in the
Grange, and they demand the most earnest
attention of every member.

Patrons have spent much time in consid-
ering how to produce most with least ex-
pense, as though large production and close
economy was the way to prosperity and
wealth. These questions are all right in
their place, but they have failed to relieve
the farmer from his depressed condition.
The increase in production during the last
twenty years has been from 1,229,139,616
bushels of grain in 1860 to 2,71-l,602,68l
bushels in 1881, with nearly a like increase
of meats, cotton, dairy products, fruits, etc.
And with this large increase of production.
and with economy exercised, so close as to
border on stinginess, the real condition of
the farmer is less favorable now than twenty
years ago.

Vile must educate to understand these
great questions. And then co-operate in
the selection of our public servants, and es-
pecially the representatives to the legislat-
ive bodies, so that legislation and the afi"airs
of government he managed upon the princi-
ples of exact justice. Then, and only then,
will the farmers secure their just rewards.
FOR. NOVEMBER.

Ques. l9.—VVhy are agricultural profits so
small compared with other investments 1‘
Sug.~Agriculture produces $0 per cent. of
the wealth. Its prosperity is distributed t-L
all classes in exchange for labor and sup-
plies. Expenditures may be economical,
the product large, prices good, and yet tax
and transportation consume it all.

Farmers are taxed on all they possess.
Crops may fail, stock die, but taxes must be
paid. The surplus products are the means
of payment. But transportation is extor-
tionate in its charges, the surplus is con-
sumed, and the producer left without profit.
- VVe are told that freight rates are not un-

half to six per cent. per annum. These cor-
porations have adulterated their stock by
the watering process to an alarming extent.
VVe find the following amounts of fictitious

The Bulletin will not in anything inter- capital claimed by railroad companies: one
fere with the interests of the VISITOR, or
any local or State Grange paper, but will 000,000; and one, $45,000,000; making a
rather seek to aid and encourage them. We
say to any Patron of Michigan, it is not ence, other than the ‘fiat’ Of the corpora-
only your duty to take the VISITOR, but to
see thatit finds its way into every farmer’s country, so as to divide Six per cent per
famlly 111 the Peninsula!‘ State. and We annum on this fraudulent stock, and $19,-
shall seek to aid you in doing this, knowing 320,000 is extorted by only eight of the
that where your paper is most taken and
largely read, there will the Order be strong-
est, and there Will be 111055 Of 1311088 W110 Will farmers electing legislators as these corpora-
desire a broader and more general know]- tions dictate, instead of exercising that free
edge of the Order and its doings, such as the
Bulletin, through its columns by its Nation-
al Lecturers’ Bureau proposes to furnish.

While we may not be able to give so
much time in person to the work at home,
we propose to use the time given you in a

$59,000,000; another $22,000,000; two, $40,-
000,000 each; two $50,000,000 each ; one $36,

total of $322,000,000 stock that has no exist-

tion issuing the decree to increase their
wealth. They then tax the products of the

corporations annually from the product of
the farm.
The evil lies in legislation, or rather in

and independent manhood that should
characterize true American citizenship.

FOR DECEMBER.

Ques. 20.—What is the most equitable
method of taxation ?

S‘ug.—The system of taxation in practice

pm. . .
The present mode of taxation includes the

escapes, and this increases

a

and Grange department of that paper.——ED.]

ful religion.

_ , is regulated by legislation in State and n9.-.
W35’ that W111 9-000mP113'1 m°1‘e 1'01‘ Y011. and tron. Changes and alterations will be made
enable you to accomplish more for, your- only when we elect legislators for that pur-
selves. We, as once before this year,‘ invite
the freest correspondence upon all Grange, - . .
questions, especially on the revival of ($3112; ’,‘,“,3,,.,‘},V°'yth‘“‘ on It’ whfle much
Grange work, the formation of new Granges the burden o farm taxes. In some instances

  
 
 

  
   
  
  
  
   
   

 
  

   

  
 
 
 
  
  
    

   
  
  
  
  
 
 
  
 

 

  
 
 
  
  
     
  
  
   
   
  
  
 

       
 

  
  
 
   
   
   
 
 
   

   
  
 
 
  
   
 

  
    
  
   

    
  

  

  
  
 
 
  

 
 
  
  

  

 
  
   

 
   
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
   
  
  

 
  
  

 
 
  
  

  
   
 
  
   
   
   
  
  
     
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
   
     
  
  

 
  
   
  
 
  
  
  
  
  

   
    

 

  


 

 

OCTOBER 1.. 1881.

THE

crops are assessed—they fail, yet the taxes
must be paid. Live stock is assessed, and it
may die the next day, yet tax on same must
be paid. Millions of dollars worth of live
stock have died in a single year between the
assessment and collection of taxes, and tax-
es on the dead stock had to be paid all the
same. As a general rule those who escape
taxation are the ones best able to pay tax,
and they often claim more than a just share
of government favors, and yet are unwilling
to bear a share of government burdens. o

Why not tax property less, and make
provision for losses, and levy a tax upon in-
come, so that at the end of the year the man
who made nothing is exempt from income
tax, the man who makes $100 pays on that
amount, and the man who makes $51,000
pa s ten times as much as he who made
on y $100, and the man who makes $100,000
-can well afford to pay proportionately on
that amount.

THE ASSASSINATION.

A prize offered by a London weekly for the, best
poem on the attempted assassination of President
Garfield was awarded to the author of the following:

Veil, now, 0 Liberty, thy blushing face,
At the fell deed that thrills a startled world ;
When fair Columbia weeps in dire disgrace,
And bows in sorrow o'er the banner furled.

No graceless tyrant falls by vengeance here,
‘Neath the wild justice of the secret knife ;
N or red Ambition ends its grim career,
And expatiates its horrors with its life.

Not here does rash Revenge misguided burn
To free a nation from the assassin’s dart ;
Or roused despair in angry madness turn
Add tear its freedom from the despot's heart :

But where blest Liberty so widely reigns,
And Peace and Plenty make a smiling land—-
Here the mad wi-etch its fair, white record stains,
And blurs its beauties with a *‘ bloody hand ” :

Here the elect of millions, and the pride
Of those who own his mild and peaceful rule—

Here Virtue sinks and yields the crimson tide
Beneath the vile unreason of a fool.

But Heaven’s hand hath stayed the erring ball,
And spared a life as virtuous as rare :

Yet that such deeds a whisp’ring world appall,
15 Heaven’s mystery and man's despair.

Address oi the Anli-Monopoly League.

\Ve give below a portion of the address of
the Anti-Monopoly League to the people of
the United States. This League, with
headquarters in New York city, is composed
of some of its best business men, who, stim-
ulated by the disposition of the railroad
monopolies to transcend the rights legiti-
mately belonging to them, have become
alarmed and seek through organization to
resistthese encroachments. In so doing,
they ask our co-operation, well knowing
that the Grangers of the west, when in the
full tide of prosperity, did resist and carry
through the courts to the tribunal of last
resort, their protest against the exactions of
railroad corporations that knew no law but
" What will the traflic bear?”

The arraignment of the offenses of which
these corporations are charged, should at-
tract the attention of every farmer and every
patriot, for it has been truly said that the
absolute and unrestricted control of the
railroads of the country is a surrender of our
liberties, and with our liberties a surrender
of our material prosperity to the greed of a
tyranny that has in many instances proved
itself wholly selfish and heartless. Though
the address is not all here, yet there is
enough to furnish food for serious thought

to the American farmer.
SOME or THEIR OFFENSES.

They have undertaken the consolidation
of the railroads, with the purpose of destroy-
ing competition and subjecting commerce
to rates established by themselves.

They have brought the people of California
under the power of a single monopoly, and
excluded them from the prosperity enjoyed
by the inhabitants of her sister States dur-
ing the past three years.

They have laid hands upon the telegraph
and, by the absorption of all the companies
into one, propose to destroy competition,
and to pay dividends upon Watered stock by
taxing communication between fifty mill-
ions of people.

Their agents infest the lobbies of our capi-
tols, bribing our legislators and framing our
iaws. Our halls of legislation are made
centers of stock-gambling in which votes
are given as a consideration for illegitimate
gains. They pervade political parties and
shape their platforms. They buy the elec-
tion of senators and judges with money
extorted from the people. They send their
attorneys to be judges of our courts, and
take them again into service, at princely
salaries, when they resign; and they intend
to secure the control of the executive, judi-
cial and legislative departments of our
government.

Their influence infects many of our mon-
eyed institutions, our trust and insurance
companies, and saving institutions, con-
verting them into sources of private gain, in
which the fruits of honest industry, saved
for sacred trusts, are perverted, under the
name of salaries and fees, to the use of the
managers and their dependents. i

They have made corporate property inse-
cure by declaring that minority sharehold-
ers have no rights which majorities are
bound to respect. They have, in many
instances, confiscated the shares of minori-
ties. It the victims seek redress in the
courts, their own money is used todelay,
hinder and defeat them.

They have accumulated wealth, repre-
sented by scores of millions of dollars, by
grinding the faces of the wage-earners they
em loy, and b practices which have driven
mu titudes of better men into poverty. In
what history is it written, in what country
was it ever possible, that such fortunes could
be gathered by such men, by the use of such
means?

They have demoralized commerce, mak-
ing legitimate business a lottery and infect-
ing the community with the spirit of
gambling.

They substitute the machine politician for
the statesman. They control conventions
which ignore vital questions and magnify
immaterial issues.

We charge upon these monopolies the ,mainly supplan

intent to increase their gains and perpetuate
their power by organized resistance to ap-
pointed authority, and treason against their
government. They intend to control our
judges, and to disobey such judicial orders
as they do not approve until they can
reverse them.

The essence of treason is disobedience to
law. There is no form of it more wicked
than opposition to the decrees of the courts
of justice. Every citizen, the ignorant
equally with the enlightened, must respect
the judicial power and execute its judg-
ments. These monopolists cannot plead the
excuse of ignorance. To some extent they
are well informed citizens. They know
that but for the protection of the law, they
could not retain their possessions for an
hour. They know the consequence of re-
sistance to authority. VVhen they-declare
that the binding force of a contract ceases
when their profits will be increased by
breaking it; when they bring courts of jus-
tice into contempt; when they teach the
doctrine of resistance to judicial orders, they
.-now that they are engaged in one form of
treason.

It is not to be expected that these men
should declare their purposes. It is enough
that their acts lead to nullification as their
logical conclusion. Open avowal has come
earlier than it was expected. .

OPEN A\'0\\'AL.

On the 27th day of January, 1880, the
President of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad, in an argument before the Com-
mittee on Commerce of the House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States, in \Vashing-
ton, said :

“ I have heard (he counsel of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company, standing  the
Supreme Court of 1"67ln8_7/Z'L'(l7llI1, lhrealen
that Court with the displeasure of his clients
if it decided aga2'n.sl them, and all the blood
in my body tingled wilh shame at the humili-
ating syaeczfacle.”

Monopoly is growing in all the States. It
has completely subjugated only one. In
California it has ripened its fruit. There,
monopoly is king. There, a few men con-
trol steam transportation. They have anni-
hilated competition. There is not a farmer,
not a producer between the mountains and
the Pacific who does not pay them heavier
tribute than conquered people ever paid to
their conquerors. They fix the value of the
farm, the mine, the mill, and the forest.
They decide year by year whether the pro-
ducer shall make a profit or a loss; whether
his children shall travel toward the academy
or the poorhouse. They name senators and
judges. They have their candidate for the
Presidency. They have bound the prosper
ity of California in fetters of iron, as fatal as
death, as unyielding as the grave. Reviv-
ing commerce,which covers her sisters with
the sunshine of prosperity cannot pierce the
wall within which she is imprisoned. Her
soil may bring forth golden grain, her mines
yield a golden harvest, but her people do
not profit thereby. Once they united togeth-
er, made a new constitution, and declared
that a repetition of the acts which had des-
troyed competition, should henceforth be
crimes, and those who committed them be

unished as felons. These monopolists nul-
lified the Constitution and went on making
the very contracts it prohibited.

From the first decision of the supreme
court of the United States which protected
the rights of the public in the great Conti-
nental railroad, built with the public money,
to the present hour, the decisions of that
court have been unsatisfactory to these west-
coast monopolists. They denounced this
decision as a tyrannical invasion of the
rights of property. So far as they could they
have brought the court into contempt and
derision. Their influence seems to have
reached the temple of justice, compelling
that court to devise new rules for the preser-
vation of its dignity. VVe call the attention
of the people to the opinions of a typical,
matured Californian monopolist on the sub-
ject of the rights and qualities of property
and respect for the decisions of the courts of
law.

THE RAILROAD CREED.

A committee of the Chamber of Com-
merce of New York city recently addressed
certain enquiries regarding the relations of
railroads to the public, to a number of prom-
inent citizens, among them the President of
the Central Pacific railroad of California.
He has given his reply to the press in the
following terms :—

“ The value of property consists in its use
or rents or the profits to be derived I In the
celebrated Granger cases, so called. the use of
profits and control were declared to be sub-
jects of legislation. The principle -in these
cases, especially as enunciated in the Ware-
house cases, was, that the right of the
Legislature to control the use and the bene-
fits of the property of private individuals, in
connection with their own personal services,
was to be determined by the nature of the
business, or the number of the people with
whom the business might be transacted.” *
 * These decisions sustain Judge Black's
assertion, but there can be no denying that
they are a moslflagranl -violation of the prin-
ciples of free government, and are entirely in
harmony with a theory of government, which
rests its foundation on might, and asserts the
divine right of kings .’ .' ”

After a denial of a fact taught in the very
elements of law that railroads are public
highways and common carriers, and derive
their franchises and existence from the pub-
lic, he continues :-

“ Your second question is: ‘ Railroad
managers justify the practice of giving low
rates to some shippers and refusing them to
others, on the ground of the development of
business in certain localities: is it consist-
ent with the public welfare and the rights
of citizens to allow railroad managers to
decide what persons and places shall be thus
developed‘? ’

I shall not say anything to justify dis-
crimination against individuals and com-
munities, but content myself on this head
by simply stating that such has never been
practiced by railroad com anies with which
I have been connected. b0 far as they are
concerned, they practice the same business
principles that govern and regulate individ-
uals in the management of their own affairs.
The primary consideration of railroad man-
agers under the observance of the golden rule
is their treasury. With this in view they oft-
encarry freight at less rates for a longer
lhanfor a shorter distance, because they can-
not do better, and because a small profit is
better than none.”

Declining to commit himself to the sug-
gestion of a court to determine questions
arising betwen railroads and their patrons,

he proceeds to (Iggy gthat qompetition is
y poo ing arrange-

ments; ” to assert “ that there is no justice
in limiting what may be earned by sagaci-
ty; ” that “increase of the capital is the
concern of the companies only, and nobody
else’s business; ” that “it is the right of
railroad managers equally with individuals,
to contribute large sums to control elections
and influence legislation; and “that rail-
road companies do these things to resist
aggression and threatened confiscation
under the plea of regulation ; ” and he then
prescribes the golden remedy—-the univer-
sal panacea, “ Let us alone!”

The remedy proposed is not new, it has
been the cry of every selfish tyrann since
the unclean spirit first uttered it in the Syn-
agogue at Capurnaum. "Let us alone! ”
Leave the railroad industry uncrippled.”
Leave the Central Railroad property as you
leave other property.

THE SL'l’RI-IMI-I COURT or THE U.\‘l’l‘ED
STATES I)E.\‘()U1\'(‘l-ID.

“ What you propose in regard to railroad
pro’ erty is on a par w£lhprinc2'[;lcs contend-
ed or by the c:onz7nzlna',st.9,- and the agitator
Kearney advocated no doclrine in regard to
properly mo7'e,atrot'ious than the principles
embodied in the Grange’/' cases and the laws
they sustain.”

Such are the phenomena of monopoly at
an advanced stage of its -development.
They are its articles of faith.
believe in them. W'e reject them. They
are dishonest, false, and pernicious.
The statement that it is right to use
the money which corporate greed ex-
torts from the industrial classes to cor-
rupt the fountains of legislation is an
atrocious statement, not fit to be heard by
free men. Such disrespect for the decrees of
the highest court, subverts the principle of
obedience which lies at the foundation of
all government. and should be punished as
a crime. The assertion that railroads are
not common carriers is a fallacy not to be
imposed upon children in the public schools.
The proposition that the value of railroad
consists “ in its use, or the rents and profits
to be derived,” and not at all in the benefits
it may confer upon others than its owner,
ignores the moral side of humanity, and
converts man into an animal with miserly
instincts; and finally the suggestion that
the people offree America are, or ought to
be abandoned to the unrestrained control
of monopolies, is an impudent proposition.
Such and all similar claims and teachings
we [disapprove and oppose because they
destroy the liberties and subvert the rights
of citizens of a free Republic.

\Ve have reached the conclusion that the
encroachments of monopolies upon the
rights and property of the citizen constitutes
the most imminent danger which now
threatens our government—that they in-
crease the cost of the necessaries of life-
that they set a bad example before the ignor-
ant and unthinking-—that neither of the
great polical parties will take a decided stand
against them—that they must be arrested,
that monopolies must be struck down,—and
that the blow which crushes them must be
dealt by organization on the part of the peo-

le.

VVe believe that the time for action has
come——that good citizens throughout the
country belonging to all parties, are ready
to unite with us, in a strong, determined,
and patriotic effort to suppress these monop-
olies, and bring all corporations into obedi-
ence to the law. VVe do not underestimate
the importance of the contest nor the power
of the enemy. VVe know that he fights be-
hind entrenchments, which he believes im-
pregnable, and with weapons which he
deems irresistable. To the money of mo-
no polieswe oppose the virtues of the peo-
ple. The people will prevail if this govern-
ment is worth preserving, and the constitu-
tion remains the law of the land.

This is not a party question. Political
parties are alike responsible for these mo-
nopolies, whose managers divide their poli-
tics, their votes, and their bribes to Demo-
crat and Republican with impartiality.
VVhere corporate interests are concerned,
Democrats and Republicans pull kindly and
lovingly together.

VVHAT ARE YOU GOING TO Do ABOUT IT '?

VVhat are the people going to do about it ‘.7
That question was put by Tweed at a time
when he thought he had control of the
Governor, the Legislature, and the judges
of New York. The people answered him.
It has been put by every tyrant who has be-
lieved that he held the people in his grasp,
since governments were created.

We will answer what the people can do.
VVhether the people will do it, let the people
answer.

They can organize an anti-monopoly
league in every State, and county, and dis-
trict in this broad land. They can put votes
and an honest, patriotic purpose against
money. They can combine those who be-
lieve in the principles upon which our gov-
ernment was founded, against those who
think they are obsolete and that money is
king.

They can disregard party lines, and in
every district and at all times throw a solid
vote against candidates who will not pledge
themselves to protect the public interests
against the encroachments of corporations.

We believe that these encroachments were
never contemplated by our forefathers, who
rebelled against unjust taxation, and threw
the tea into Boston harbor, upon which it
was sought to levy taxes. We believe that
the men who abolished the laws of promo-
geniture and entail, in order toinsure the
more equal distribution of wealth, would
not justify a system of freebooting under
the guise of law, which places the produc-
tion and commerce of a continent at the
mercy of a few men who recognize “ no
principle of action but personal or corporate
aggrandlzement.” VVe therefore associate
ourselves together under the name of the
“ National Anti-Monopoly League” to op-
pose the evils before recited.

OUR PRINCIPLES.

Anti-Monopoly.

VVe advocate, and will support and defend
the rights of the many against privileges for
the few. ’

Corporation, the creation of the State,
shall be controlled by the State.

Labor and capital—allies, not enemies;
justice for both.

oBJEC'1's.

In accordance with the general principles
above enumerated, we will endeavor to se-
cure, among others, the following specific
results:

1. Laws contilpelling transportation com-
panies to base eir charges upon “cost and
risk of service,” instead of the new theoa

enunciated by them—“ what the traflic w
bear.”

a

\Ve do not '

ensues vrsirca. ~

t_ 2. Laws to prevent pooling'and combina-
ions.

3. No discrimination against any citizen
or class of citizens on public highways.

4. Railroad Commissions or Courts, State
and National, to give effect to laws which
are or may be placed upon the statute books.

5. Laws making it the duty of public
law officers to defend a citizen’s rights
against injustice by powerful corporations.

6. No taxing the public to pay dividends
on watered stock.

7. Stringen-t laws against bribery, includ-
ing a prohibition of free passes. ‘

8. Laws enacted by Congress enforcing
the provisions of the first afticle of the Con-
stitution, to regulate commerce among the
several States, fixing a maximum rate to be
charged by corporations for labor, service,
or the use of property.

0. A liberal policy toward our water
ways which, during the season of naviga-
tion, are potent in preventing exorbitant
charges by corporate monopolies.

10. Laws providing for the restriction
within proper limits of corporate powers
and privileges generally, and for the pro-
tection, education, and elevation of the
masses.

What will it Bear’!

A recent report to the Board of Trade of
this city calls attention to a most important
principle. \Vhen railroads were first invent-
ed the principle upon which charters were
first granted was that charges should he rea-
sonable, and based upon “ cost of service;”
that when the capital in vested in their con-
struction had been fairly compensated, the
public should receive the rest of the benefits
of the new invention, in the shape of reduc-
ed charges of transportation, and as common
carriers they are expected as a matter of
course to charge all shippers alike.

Though the non-enforcement of these prin-
ciples the railroad has become the dominant
power of commerce. It is fast acquiring a
controlling power in politics, and under the
right which it has assumed to exercise, of
charging “ all an article will bear,” it is
rapidly concentrating in a few hands the
wealth of the nation. It is this principle
which, within a few years, accumulated the
fabulous wealth of railroad kings; which,
unless the principle is changed, will roll up
as a snow ball gathers volume at every turn.

In the testimony given by Messrs. Van-
derbilt and Jewett before the Hepburn Com-
mittee, which recently investigated the
management of the railroads of this State,
we find the following :—

“ The managers of a railway company de-
sire to make all the money they can for
their clients, and to do this they have before
them the question what rate within their
chartered limits will an article bear that
will yield the largest profit and at the same
time stimulate its production.”

Referring to this, the committee, in their
report (page 19), say :—

“ Now, as the necessity for some regula-
tion to protect the public, see testimony of
Mr. Rutter, pages 4-53 and 4:34, where he tes-
tifies that he serves the stockholders only,
and only regards the public interest to make
it tributary to the interest of the stockhold-
ers.

“ Mr. Vilas {testimony page 41-3) testifies
to the same controling motives. Mr. Blan-
chard after describing a railway officer as
subject to three practical tribunals—first,
the presidentof the road; second, the law
as laid down affecting transportation ; and
third, the unwritten law of commerce says:

‘It has been our policy in this matter,
while keeping within the statute law, so far
as I knew it, or had occasion to know it,
that wherever this public unwritten law
came into contact with the interests of the
shareholders, I believe it to be my consci-
entious duty to decide in favor of the share-
holder; I know of no claim that the non-
shareholding interests had upon me as a
railroad oflicer so long as I was within the
written law to concede its views in the mat-
ter of rates and in the management of our
traffic.’ ”

The marked importance which is here at-
tached to keeping within the law emphasiz-
es the necessity of a law for governmental
control.

\Vhat an article will bear, is to a certain
extent, a legitimate and necessary question
to discuss in making rates for transporta-
tion, but when it is left entirely to such
men as Huntington, Gould, and Vanderbilt
to decide, it simply means that they will
take the largest share of the profit there is in
production and commerce, , leaving the
workers only enough to keep them from
getting discouraged, and stimulating pro-
duction only as the fowler preserves game-
iifilowing it to develop enough to be profita-

e.

The charge for trans ortation is in the
nature of a. tax, and it s ould be both reason-
able and uniform. How it affects the pro-
ducer is shown in the evidence of Messrs.
John Allen, Jr., and Charles Ensign, of
Buffalo, before the Hepburn Committee.
These gentlemen are all large owners of
vessels on the lakes.

“ Q. Supposd the rate was reduced, who
gets the difference: the consumer or the
producer‘? A. I should say the producer.

“ Q. And what is your reason for that‘?
A. The producer, upon a reduction of the
rates of freight, would simpl advance the
price of his property. We have that evi-
denced by the open markets in Chicago and
Milwaukee every day. Take the rate of
freight to-day of 7 cents per bushel, to-mor-
row it goes down to 3 cents, and if there is
nothing to disturb the value of the wheat,
the above price would advance just 3 cents
per bushel. «

“ Q. Just 3 cents a bushel in Milwaukee
and Chicago? A. Yes, sir.

“Q. And the price in New York would
remain the same‘? A. Yes, sir.

“,Q,. And likewise in Liverpool? A. Yes,
sir. ’

Mr. Ensign testifies (pages 2,306-7):-

“ Q. Suppose, for instance, that all other
things remain the same, no special demand
and no special supply, that the demand and
supply remain equal, but that suddenly the
rate, by competition or otherwise — the
transportation rate—goes down -5 cents a
hundred: where does that difference of 5
cents a hundred fall, to whom does it come ?
g. The difference would come to the pro-

ucer.

“ Q,. You have said that when the trans-
portation rate goes down, all other things
being equal, that is the supply and the‘ de-
mand being equal, the amount inures to the
benefit of the producer, or to the man who
has the property ? A. Yes, sir.

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transportation rate come‘? A. It would
_ctop,ie out ofthe producer too; he has to pay
1 .

A Is it not about time that the people of this
State and the United States did something
towards compeling the return “to old
principles in the operation of railroads-
that charges should be based upon cost of
service instead of what it will bear, or at
least that the public, through duly author-
ized oflicers, should have something to say
in dec ing this momentous question ‘.‘——Daz'-
ly Graphic, July 2, 1880.

 

The Poultry Yard.

CHICKI-INS Ciiort-:nA.—A piece of salt ba-
con or shoulder nailed to a stump or board
and placed where the fowls can pick at it.
Old wormy stuff that is not fit to eat isjust
as good asany, and a large piece can be
bought at almost any country store for a
mere song. Try it.

There is one thing which nature does not
supply, and which civilization renders quite
necessary to fowls. It is charcoal. But
charcoal made of wood does not answer the
purpose. It has no taste of food, is not at-
tractire to the fowl and is never eaten.
But if any one will put an ear of ripe
corn into the lire until the grains are well
charred. and then shell oil‘ the corn and
throw it to his (look, he will see an eager-
ness developed and a healthy condition
brought about which will make a decided
improvement. All pale combs will become
a bright red, that busy song which succeeds
laying will be heard, and the average yield
of eggs will be greatly increased.

To the Patrons of Michigan.

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

operative association have made such ar-
rangements that our agent will flll orders
for goods from all parts of the State.

For further informat-ion,address A. STEGE-
MAN, Allegan, Mich.

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

IVIZICI-IIG.A].\T CENTRAL R. R.
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All trains connect at White Pigeon with trains on main line.

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THE GRANGE VESETQR.

OCTOBER 1,1881.

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SCHOOLCRAF T, OCTOBER 1.

  

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GENERAL NOTICE.

MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.
Secretary’sjOmce, Sept. 27, 1881.

The books of this oifice 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 added to this list all who have reported
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,

PATENT RlGHT—DR|VEN WELLS—LEG|SLAT|0N.

Evidence that the patent right swindlers
had again made a ‘raid on Michigan, was
presented in the last VISITOR. This time
the people they propose to victimize are not
all farmers, as outside of our large villages
and the cities of the State, the drive well is
in general use by all classes. In the fight
which these fellows invite, we shall there-
fore have the aid and support of the most of
the people, and we need not hesitate to call
upon them to take part in meeting the ex-
pense which test suits will involve. VVe
have already made a move to procure evi-
dence to meet this brazen attempt to plunder
the people of a State, under the forms of.
and in the name of law. To the legal fra-
ternity of the country, to whom its farmers
have in the decades of the past conferred the
law-making power, are we indebted for the
opportunity given this or any other organ-
ized band of plunderers to make a raid at
any time upon a peaceable, law-abiding
people.
Our patent laws seem to have been framed
by lawyers,and for lawyers, and although
the farmers have petitioned from time to
time in large numbers for such amendment
to those laws as would protect an innocent
user of an implement or device that is found
everywhere in the market of the country,
yet no relief has been furnished, and this

something to call it out, and this would seem
opportune, for while we ask for no class

lawyers have for all these years ignored the
most important interest in the country and
allowed agriculture and the agriculturalist
to shift for themselves; and until the Grange
came forward a few years ago and entered its
protest against this state of things, we were
going from bad to worse. Not much has yet
been accomplished in the way of reform be-
yond taking the initiatory steps and getting
the attention not only of the class most
inte1'ested, but of the people of the whole
country, and this article from a business
man whose life and pecuniary interests had
formerly been identified with the agricul-
tural class, reviews the situation in a math-
ical way, that should convince the most
stolid that the lawyers of the country have
for the most part appropriated to themselves
not only in this State but throughout the
whole country the legislative department of
the government. It is not worthwhile to
stop for a moment to discuss the question of
the ability of citizens from other classes to
fitly represent the people. N o sensible man
will deny that in every representative dis-
trict of the country we have practical busi-
ness men, many of them farmers, of ability
quite equal to an average Congressman ; and
yet we have gone on from one decade to
another, sending delegations of lawyers

legislation, we do insist that a Congress of

407, 520, 643.
. Barry,/-2. 38, 55, 127, 145, 424,  472, 590.

Berrien——-2. 14. 40, 43, 46, 80, 81, 84, 87,
104, 122, 123, 188, 194.
Bmnch—2. 88, 91, 96,97,136, 137, 152, 400.
Calhoun—2. 65, 66, 83, 85, 96, 129, 130,
260, 292.
0038-]. 42,162,427.

C'linton—3. 140. 202, 225, 226, 342, 343, 358,
370, 439, 456, 459, 487, 505.

Eaton—2. 67, 134, 223, 224, 260, 301, 315,
360,361, 619, 62.

Genesee—1. 255, 386, 387.
G‘1'atiot—l. 310, 391, 431.
Hilldale—3. 74, 78, 106, 107, 108, 133, 182,

183, 251,257, 269. 273, 274, 285, 286, 568.
Ingha7n——3. 7, 54, 115, 189, 235, 241, 262,
265, 287, 289, 322, 347, 540.
Ion-ia—3. 163,168, 174, 17-5, 185, 186, 187,
190, 191, 192, 270, 272, 281, 325, 430, 646.
Jacksou—l. 45. 320, 321.
Kalamazoo—2.

8, 11, 16, 18,24, 49, 61,171,
203.

Ir'ent—4. 19, 39, 63, 73, 102, 110, 113, 170,
219, 220, 222, 295, 337, 340, 348, 3-50, 353, 479,
563, 564, 634.

Lapeer——1. 246, 448, 549, 607, 641.

Leelana_w——1. 374, 375, 380.

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

Li'vingston—l. 57. 90, 114, 336, 613.

Monroe—1. 471, 492, 509.

1l{uskegon—1. 316, 372, 373, 376, 554.

JVewaygo—1. 494. 495, 544, 545.

0akland—3. 141, 243, 253, 257, 259, 267,
275, 283,  328. 335, 377, 385, 395, 408, 443.

0ttawa—l. 30, 112, 313, 421, 458, 639.

St. Joseph—2. 22, 76, 178, 199, 215, 236, 237,

266, 291, 303, 304, 333.

Shiawassee—-1. 151, 160, 180, 228, 606.

Van Buren——3. 10, 2.3, 26, 32, 36, 60, 89,
158, 159, 172, 230, 346, 355, 610.

Washtenaw—2. 52, 56, 59, 92, 239, 329, 351,
399, 476, 604, 631.

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,
574; Bay, 597, 635; Midland, 603.

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

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

Fifth Dist.—2 Reps. Montcalm, 318, 436,
23);, 440, 441, 530; Mecosta, 362, 517; Osceola

Sixth Dist.—2 Rep. Tuscola, 513, 526, 548,
-582, 589, 593, 642; Sanilac, 417.

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

We append a list of Granges that were
delinquent in reports for the quarter ending
March 31st, 1881: Nos._6, 31, 44, 57, 71, 90,
118, 125, 126, 128, 229, 252, 298, 344, 345, 381,
396, 422, 438, 461, 462, 503, 511, 514, 529, 574,
602, 631, 637.

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

Send for blank credentials, that every rep-
resentative to the State Grange may have
the proper voucher to show that he is a
voting member of the State Grange.

Remember the By-Laws of the State
Grange that relate to representation in the
State Grange, were printed in the VISITOR
of Sept. 15.

 

P. W. STEVENS threshed from 12 acres of
Clawson wheat 272 bushels, or an average of
22% bushels per acre. Considering the
season, this yield is better than a slap on
the back with a club. The wheat was
grown a couple of miles south of Kala-
mazoo, on what is known as the Hyden-
burk place. It was sown September 16,
1880. We have heard of no better in Kala-
mazoo county, and would be glad to hear of
a heavier yield.

IF the railroad corporations of this coun-
my own absolutely the railroads of the
country as their own private property, then
the corporations have the country by the
throat, and are its masters.

 

LAND is taken for public use in the con-
struction of railways, and therein is the
right acquired of legal appropriation of pri-
vgte property for right of way.

neglect has been continued from. session to
session of Congress, not only in utter disre-
gard of these petitions and in the face of
repeated cases of, practically, the robbery of
considerable numbers of people, but we, the
people, continue to send once in two years
the same or another delegation of lawyers to
Congress to perpetuate a condition of things
that are a disgrace to the Congress of the
United States, and a reproach to our boasted
civilization.

\Ve had written this far when a letter was
handed us, headed, “ American Driven
Wells and Water Supply System for cities,
towns, manufactories, &c.; Kalamazoo Co.
Collection Agency, Kalamazoo, Sept. 26th,
1881,” and signed “Wm. 0. Campbell, Col-
lectin g Agent.” Mr. Campbell, in courteous
terms, invited me to call at his ofiice in the
village of Kalamazoo. Having as much
leisure as we were likely to have very soon,
we repaired at once to his ofiice. VVe found
this “Collecting Agent” a pleasant gentle-
man, claiming to represent an unfortunate
poor man who had been really a philanthro-
pist, by furnishing facilities for getting
water cheaply to the people of our vast
country. Our interview was not protracted,
as I replied to his attempt to make out his
case of having a well founded claim for roy-
alty upon the user_of driven wells, by assur-
ing him that frauds of this character had
been attempted and had also been perpe-
trated upon not only the people of other
States, but upon the people of this State, and
if the party that he represented had any
legal claim for royalty upon the users of
driven wells, he could only get his money
from the alleged infringer in this State at
the hands of the Court of last resort.

On his part, Mr. Campbell assured me
that his orders were imperative—that he
had entire confidence in the validity of the
patent he represented, and that however
reluctant he might be to resort to the law
for the recovery of the rights of Mr. Green,
yet he should proceed at once to serve the
preliminary notices and should follow the
refusal to pay the royalty demanded, by
suits against the parties refusing; adding
that suits had already been commenced
against quite a number of citizens of
Ottawa county.

With this outlpok and the precedent of our
past experience, I shall venture to antici-
pate the action of the Executive Committee
of the State Grange of Michigan, by invit-
ing all the Subordinate Granges of the State
to pledge such amounts as they may sever-
ally feel willing to contribute to a fund for
the defense of any test suits that may be
brought for alleged infringement of a driven
well patent of this or any other claimant.
The Executive Committee will meet at an
early day, and this matter will receive from
the committee the consideration which its
importance demands, and the action of Sub-
ordinate Granges should be made subject to
the action of the Executive Committee of
the State Grange.

Our conference with Mr. Campbell does
not cause us to abate in the least a disposi-
tion to resist to the utmost this and every
other attempt to collect royalty. If relief
from the wickedness of the patent right laws
as they exist to-day can only be found by
subjecting the people to these recurring de-
mands and annoying suits, until such a
spirit of resistance shall be aroused as shall
cause them to look the evil square in the
face and apply the remedy as they cast their
votes for Members of Congress, then we are
not sure that these attacks and theme: which
they impose will not prove in their educa-
\tional features a positive advantage to the

country.

If we continue in the future to confide our
law making to lawyers who are only inter-
ested in such legislation as shall inure to
their own advantage as lawyers, then we
and those who come after us may expect to
be subjected to this sort of annoyance and
legalized robbery for generations to come.
As our article has taken this turn, we are
just now reminded of an article on our hook

,we would have it tempered with liberality

. house 1 in 96,385.

a learned profession. Its number of mem-

from this State to Congress—for what pur.
pose 2’ Why. to take care of themselves and
their constituents, in so far as getting all the
official positions, big or little, for them that
they could, and thus providing for their own
future.

Farmers of Michigan, read the article
below—-now five years old—and be thankful
that the Writer by some fortuitous circum-
stances is a Congressman elect from Michi-
gan ; and after having read it, do not forget
to hold him and his lawyer associates- res-
ponsible for the continued existence of this
iniquitous law of lawyers that permits any
brazen rascal to pounce upon an innocent
user of an article found for years everywhere
in the market—-—we say do not forget to hold
these representatives responsible if they do
not make a united and determined effort at
the next session of Congress to so amend the
patent laws as shall relieve the innocent pur-
chaser and user from all liability of infringe-
ment of patent.

REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS—— SOME

FACTS AND COMPARISONS.
To the Editor of the Detroit Tribune:

Your editorial article of June 27th, enti-
tled “ Something to be Considered,” shows,
as you intend it shall, that the farmer has
very little chance to distinguish himself in

Congress, and for the reason that he cannot
get there.

This disability is not peculiar to the farm-
er. “ If a fellow feeling makes us wondrous
kind,” we who are not lawyers should ex-
tend to the farmer our sympathy and ask
full return of his.

The last census of the United States shows
the number engaged in agriculture to be.-5,922,471

The number engaged in trade, commerce,
and manufactures, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..3.898,238
9,820,709

01' these deduct the number of women so

engaged, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418,650

And it leaves, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9,402,059
If we deduct from this for persons, say
under 25 years old, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,402,059
‘Then we have agriculturists, merchants,
and manufacturers, in round numbers,. . .8,000,000
The same census shows that we have in the

United States, lawyers, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 40,706
If we deduct those under 25 years of age,

by estimate, as, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,706

‘ We have left, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,000

As compared with the eight millions en-
gaged in agriculture, commerce, mechanics,
and manufactures they (the lawyers) are
as 1 in 210.

In a country like this, where ofiicial posi-
tion is alike free to all, at least in theory,
the profession of the law would be entitled in
a Congress of 290 members to about one mem-
ber and one-third of a member, because they
hold about that relation to the 8,000,000
aforesaid. And in a senate of seventy-four
members they should have one senator
about once in three Senatorial terms, pro-
vided other classes are equally qualified.

We do not insist that this calculation of
averages should be strictly construed.
Wherever the point of justice in the division,

toward a profession so learned and so re-
spectable.

Ifit would in the opinion of many persons
be absurd to claim that the lawyers should
have less than two members of Congress and
but the third part of one Senator; we admit
that and urge it is more absurd for a body of
men forming the 210th part of their fellow
workers, and less than the 30th part of that
portion equally well educated with them-
selves, to hold against all comers two-thirds
of both houses of Con gress.

The facts are, as they exist now, in a Sen-
ate of seventy- four members the lawyers
have fifty, and other classes combined (in-
cluding with those named, editors and doc-
tors) have in the aggregate twenty-four.
And in the house of Representatives, of 290
members (exclusive of the territorial dele-
gates), the lawyers have 207, all other classes
aggregate eighty-three.

A law er’s chance for the Senate of the
United tates is, therefore, as about 1 in
745, and his chance for the lower house
about as 1 in 183.

The chance of any one of the 8,000,000 en-
gaged in the other pursuits is, for the Sen-
ate, 1 in about 347,000, and for the lower

This is an enormous disproportion, for
which there do not appear good reasons
fully to account.

The profession of the law is a learned pro-
fession, and congressional duty calls for
educated men. But this does not fully meet
the case. The profession of medicine is also

bers in Michigan is 2,037. The number of
lawyers in Michigan is 1.160. Comparisons

our waste-basket.

serving or careless to notice the direction of
a letter will have well-defined ideas at all,
or that the ideas he may have will be well
expressed.

a small affair, but it is still true that dollars
are made up of cents, hours of minutes, and
the great events of life are brought about by
a combination of numerous smaller ones.
What we know is what we have learned
little by little, and we think it is not asking
too much of the members of this, one of the
farmers’ educational institutions, who have
occasion to direct a letter to this ofice or
elsewhere, to give heed to our suggestions.

are hitting those who do not belong to our
class just as hard as we hit those who do.

guished the hope to which millions the
world over had clung with the tenacity of a
drowning man to a straw. Since this sad
fact flashed to the ends of the earth, the
great heart of the American people has

the devoted and heroic wife of the illustrious
dead. Since then the curtain has fallen
upon the last act in the drama prepared by
the assassin to shock the world. _That Pres-
ident Garfield’s protracted suffering and

say that it may at least he claimed for its
members, that their 2,037 members represent
asmuch learning as the 1,197 lawyers s-
sess ; and the former are not without po iti-

Congressional honors, as well as the others.
The lawyers, however, have six out of the
nine members of Congress from Michigan,
and several stand at “ point” over the other
three. The hysicians have no one of their
number in ongress from this State, and,
according to the writer's recollection, have
had but one member up to this time.
The farmers have, in Michigan, 187,211
persons engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Many of these men are uneducated ; but no
one can suppose that there are not in the
whole body 1,167 persons who would not
be equal in education and statesmanship to
the 1,167 lawyers—yet the lawyers have six
members of Congress, and the 187,211 farm-
ers, even if boiled down to 1,167, do not ap-
pear Worthy to get, or at least do not get one
member of Congress.
Men in Michigan, engaged in trade, trans-
portation, commerce generally, and mining
and manufactures, number 115,000. These
are notallas well educated as the lawyers,
but perhaps possess among them at least
1,167 men as well qualified for Congress as
the 1,167 lawyers ; yet the former, when
considered in connection with the farmers,
and having in all 302,211 of the population,
have but three out of nine members. They
have one member to 100,000, the lawyers one

to 191. Yours truly,
Hnxmr VV. LORI).

Pontiac, June 28, 1876.

 

HOW TO DIRECT A LETTER.

The reader has already thought: \Vell,
this a pretty small subject. We shall not
stop to discuss this point. \Ve think the
subject is big enough to entitle it to a col-
umn, more or less, of the VISITOR. We re-
member thinking so once before, and we
wrote an article then on this topic; but we
have twice as many readers now as then,
and besides, we are not quite sure that some
of our old readers have not forgotten what
we then said, and may need another re-
minder.
During the eight years that we have been
Secretary of the State Grange. we have re-
ceived, as well as written, very many letters
—how many thousands we cannot guess-—
and these have come to us largely from
farmers, their wives, their sons and daugh-
ters. Some of them have been complete
and creditable in every particular. from the
address on the envelope to the signature of
the writer. Some of them have been less
complete in one respect or another. The
direction has been “a little off.” Sometimes
name, postoflice and State all crowded down
into the south~east corner, as though the less
room the direction occupied the better.
Another comes from somebody who evi-
dently gets up early in the morning, and we
find the direction in a line at the top of the
envelope, and the space below looks so bare
and blank that when we pick up such a
letter, we always think, “ Room to let.”
We are not going to find fault with the
penmanship or spelling, but we started out
to say, in so many words, that we don’t like
to have our farmer friends advertise their
carelessness in this way. We have not read
any Treatise on Letter-Writing, or taken
lessons of professors, but we long ago noticed
that the direction on some letters looked
very much better than on others, and we
noticed that wide-awake, thorough business
men did not tuck the superscription down or
up on a corner, but wrote the name of the
party addressed on the face of the envelope,
right through the center, with the postoffice
below and a little to the right, and the State
below, still farther to the right. If the post-
oflice is not an important one, the county
should be written to the left, on a line with
the State. Now, there is no need of going
to college to learn some things, and this is
one of them.

We occasionally get a good, thick letter
that is suggestive of an article for the VISIT-
OR. If the superscription is off in one corner,
looking really lonesome from the compara-
tively large blank space on the face of the
envelope, we‘at once have a lurking suspic-
ion that the article will soon find its way to
The chances are not
even that a person who has been too unob-

This matter of directing a letter may seem

We may safely add in conclusion that we

“THE PRESIDENT IS DEAD”-— extin-

that has been waiting for sometime for

are said to be odious; but no disrespect is in-

tended to the medical profession, when we

death has not been without some compen-

cal ambition, but would like a share of ,

every nubbin or soft ear for hog
the pork crop is a staple and must be looked

ating good, has come to be believed by
every thoughtful, considerate citizen, and it
best becomes us now to accept the situation
and treasure in our hearts the immortal
words of our honored dead when he stilled
the fury of the populace of the great city of
New York, on the 14th day of April, 1865:
“ Eellow citizens: God reigns, and the
Government at VVasl1ington still lives!”

 

THE LADIES’ DEPARTMENT.

VVe commend to our readers the ladies’
department in this number of the VISITOR.
Read it carefully and thoughtfully, and then
answer for yourself the question, “ What is
the Grange doing?” What has it done for
the women of this country '? It has afforded
an opportunity for the development of
the latent talent that had for want of
opportunity lain dormant; and this devel-
oped talent with a truly missionary spirit is
extending its" influence for good in every
direction.

Talent, culture, and refinement are not
confined to large cities which men have
made, but are found in the broad, beautiful
country that God made for man’s use. We
again say, read the Ladies’ Department of
the VISITOR. and if you have any sort of
appreciation of good ideas, well expressed,
backed by good sense and an earn est desire
to promote the welfare of your jfellows, we
think you will agree with us that so much
original matter of such excellence as appears
in this department from month to month,
must commend the VISITOR to the approval
of all who are desirous of mental and moral
improvement,and to those,its real friends,we
look for that assistance in extending its cir-
culation on which we have hitherto depend-
ed. \Ve have an abiding faith that the
ladies’ department will be sustained in a
most creditable manner, and we also look to
them for help in enlarging the sphere of
usefulness of the VISITOR.

Remember the eleventh copy is free to the
one sending us a club of ten.

     

THE government of the United States has
a confessed criminal on its hands—one
whose crime has caused more wide-spread
grief than the crime of any one man since
this people became a Nation. We are cu-
rious now to see if the authorities who, by
virtue of law, must take cognizance of this
crime; in the face of fifty millions of people,
who unitedly demand that the severest pen-
alty of the law shall be visited upon the
culprit, will permit in this case the slow
and tedious process of reaching a conclusion
in this judicial proceeding that characterizes
all the judicial tribunals of the country. If
every paltry pretext which is usually sufli-
cient to protract a case in any and all of our
courts is allowed to affect this judicial
proceeding, then we may safely conclude
that the wretch who has visited upon our
country the greatest calamity since the
assassination of President Lincoln, will en-
joy a comfortable life for a year or two,

within sight of the scene of his murderous

assault. We believe that for once fifty mil-

lions of people demand that the machinery

of law shall be operated in this case without

the intervention of the delays that have

brought odium upon every department of
our judicial system.

THE Anti-Monopoly League, with head.
quarters in New York city, has been doing
some good work for the people. We have
given on the inside a part of an address
issued by the League some months ago,
which we hope will be read by every reader
of the VISITOR, and we wish our friends to
call the attention of their brother farmers to
this matter. If there is any political duty
that we owe to ourselves and to posterity, it
is the vindication of the great principle
promulgated by the Supreme Court of the
United States in the Granger cases, that the
authority of a State, granting specific rights
to a railroad corporation, retains and holds
the right to regulate its fares and freights,
or in other words, that the creature of law
cannot become superior to its creator. This
is a matter of vital importance to the people.
The future prosperity of this great country
depends largely on the vindication of this
principle. Read this address, and then
hand it to your neighbor, and talk with
him about it. The public mind must be
aroused, and you, an interested party, should
be willing to do some part of the work.
._____.__._.___.

SEE the new advertisements of George
W. Hill, of agent S. L. Beardsley. the Chi-
cago Lithographic Co., and the Kalamazoo
Business College.

Save the Fodder.
Small grains are damaged or a failure.
Corn will be short everywhere and is al-
ready ruined in many places. The hay crop
is short. Pastures are fast drying up.
What is to be done? Simply make the
most of what remains. Where corn is ruin-
ed, cut and shock the stalks, or feed them
now to young stock or milch cows. Save
feed»; for

th bbed t N ti 7 1 d ms m a_ after. Utilize everything in me form of
thgic sor:ov: foratlfssizritzsgegnmothez aid straw that farm ammals can be md“°°d ‘'0
I consume. Cut all the wild 11,19,

It is not as good as tame, but will doto piece
out w1th—w1ll save grain, and grain is man.
e_y DOW. , with a 1-.
tion of the stock, rather than half geoed
through the winter.
squarely In the face and don’t drift into des-

Waste nothing.
Look the situation

a

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OCTOBER 1, 1881.

9

lheiiumfs Eimlmeai.

PICKINGS BY THE WAY, NO. 33.

On the early morning of August 16 Wor-
thy Master Nicholson came and took us
away to the upper portion of Jersey to Hun-
terdon county, opposite Buck’s county, Pa.
Brother and Sister Holcomb, the Gatekeeper
and Lady Assistant Steward of the New
Jersey State Grange, met us at the depot at
Lambertville, and took us to the “ Swamp,”
as the brother called it, but a fine upland
farming country we think it. It was dry
up here, so dry the sign boards are twisted
around and point the wrong way.

LoCKTowN V _
was our destination, and the hall of l\o. b

the place of the meeting of the Pomona
Grange of the county. The meeting was
good, full of interest. A public meeting
occupied most of the afternoon, and those
present paid excellent attention. A pleas-
ant ride through some beautiful country
brought us to the home of the Ho1comb’s
where we spent the night, and in the early
morn took leave of our host and hostess for

GLOUCESTER COUNTY. . _
En route at Camden we were joined by

Bros. David and John Haines. The station
was soon reached and a short walk took us
to a most beautiful grove—a natural temple
whose leafy dome was supported by natural
columns of chestnut and oak, where the
meeting was to be held. This picnic was a
grand success. There were present the
Master, Secretary, and Treasurer, and one
member of the Executive Committee
of the New Jersey State Grange.
Bro. Nicholson was introduced by Bro.
Adams, Worthy Master of the Pomona
Grange of the county. A very attentive au-
dience was present. We were followed by
Bro. David T. Haines. All the exercises
were made more effective and pleasant by
the excellent singing. The exercises were
followed by a picnic supper when the old
folks mostly went home, while strains from
the viol and lute told what those so inclined
intended to do. VVe spent the night with
Bro. Ellison Homer, who took us on the
following morning to the town of
wooDsToN, SALEM COUNTY,

where another picnic was to be held. This
one was to be larger than that of the day
before. This was the home of Bro. Dicker-
son, the VVorthy Secretary of the New Jer-
sey State Grange, and here we were pleased
to meet again his pleasant family and others
of last winter’s acquaintance. Good singing
and attentive listening were things to be
remembered of this meeting. Bro. Perry,
Worthy Master of the County Pomona
Grange, presided. The stage was beautifully
decorated with grain and fruit. After a
night’s rest at Bro. Dickerson’s we started
for our next objective point,

BRIDGETON, CUMBERLAND COUNTY,
with Bros. Nicholson and Haines for guides.
The meeting was at Beaver Dam, a lake
near the town. Bros. Tyler and Bonner met
our party, and soon we were meeting old
friends and forming new acquaintances.

Sister Bristol was present and spoke again
to-day, and added to her reputation as a
speaker and Worthy Patron. The meeting
over, a boat ride brought us to the home of
Bro. Chas. Hunt, where we inspected his
sugar mill just ready to begin operations
on 50 acres of amber cane. New Jersey pays
a bonus of $2 per ton on all cane grown and
one cent per lb. on all the sugar made in the
State. A large factory is being erected near
Cape May for the manufacture of sugar.

The next day took us back to Camden and
Bro. Nicholson’s to spend Sunday. Attend-
ed his Grange in the evening. At this
meeting it was voted to purchase coal to-
gether. Two hundred tons were needed,
saving by co-operation in buying, $120. The
dealers here buy coal by the long ton, 2,240
pounds, and sell it at 75 cents advance of
cost and sell 2,000 pounds for a ton.

We had a very pleasant call with our host
the Honorable Silas Betts of Camden,
once a resident of Michigan. Our readers
will recall him as a prominent educator of
Michigan, a principal of the Niles public
schools. \‘Ve found Mr. Betts at home on
Michigan school matters. He is now en-
gaged in cattle breeding and dairying. He
has a fine herd of Guern seys, the first large
herd we ever saw. Fifteen cows and a like
number of males and young cattle consti-
tute his herd. He also has a herd of well
bred Jerseys, but give us the former for
form and general purposes.

On Monday, August 22, we had the pleas-
ure of meeting the County‘ School Superin-
tendent, and learned much of the school
system of the State.

HOMEDALE, MONMOUTH COUNTY.

This is in what is called “Pleasant
Valley,” and well named too. We called
it the most pleasant part of New Jersey. At
Freeholder We were met by Bro. Statesir,
who took us home to dinner. The meeting
was at a church in the village of Homedale.
A pleasant ride we had to reach it. Tea
was taken with Bro. M. Taylor, who has an
excellent farm and is engaged largely in
raising potatoes. Was harvesting his crop
and shipping to New York when we were
there. The apple crop here was excellent.
One man had sold the product of a twelve
acre lot for $3,500, and the purchaser packed
them.

can ensues vrsrroa.

That night we took the “owl train” for
Philadelphia, being all night going two
hours’ distance. VVith little or no sleep we
were illy prepared for work the next day of
riding to and speaking at

CAMDEN, DELAWARE.

Our next appointment took us into the
little “Diamond State” at Camden, near
Dover. On the train we were joined by
Bro. and Sister Dilwarth of Port Penn en
route to the meeting. Sister D. is the VVor-
thy Lecturer of the Delaware St .te Grange.
At the picnic we met Brother and Sister
Rosa, the Worthy Master of the State
Grange and his wife, and a host of other
warm Patrons. The meeting was very
successful and full of interest. We were
obliged to hurry away and back to Philadel-
phia to be enabled to go on the morrow to

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA,
to attend their Pomona Grange. This was a
treat indeed. Here we met Brother and
Sister Rix and daughter again, and enjoyed
the long anticipated pleasure of meeting
Bro. Samuel R. Downing, late Lecturer of
Pennsylvania State Grange. He is as strong
in the faith as ever, and only an enfeebled
body keeps him from the field. We also met
Bro. Holstein, the VVorthv Chaplain of the
Pennsylvania State Grange, and his wife,
the very Worthy Lecturer of this Pomona
Grange. At this meeting was a very fine
exhibit of fruits, grains, and vegetables by
the members, and Sister Rix ruled queen
among the flowers which she brought and
put to good purposes in decoration. The
exercises were of the best character. The
evening meeting was a regular one of Cold
Point Grange, with which we were highly
pleased. Literary exercises were the order
for the evening. A load of brothers and
sisters were present from Goshen, in Chester
County, 18 miles distant, and we returned
with them after the evening session. Be-
tween the distance, late hour of starting,
slow roads, and a horse that pulled best
when led behind, having three to draw, we
reached Bro. Roberts at 5 o’clock A. 11., just
in time for breakfast, near

GOSHEN, wEsT CHESTER COUNTY.

A day spent in rest and sleep we were
ready for the evening at the hall of Goshen
Grange, No. 121. We had excellent music,
and Bro.  R. Downing presided at the
public meeting. The hall was well furnish-
ed with furniture made by members of the

Grange from wood grown on their farms.
Some of it was elegant indeed.

Our next appointment was in the west
part of the county near the Octararo Creek.

he meeting was small but very good in-
deed, and at its close we rode back to Phila-
delphia and to Bro. Nicholson’s to spend
another Sunday and Monday getting ready
to go homeward and to attend the great tri-
State picnic at VVilliam’s grove.

Civil Service Reform.
NEW YoRK, September 16, 1681.

Dear $1-:—The recent murderous attack
upon the President, the result of which is
still in doubt, but success in which under
the present system might mean a redistribu-
tion of ofiices, has drawn attention every-
where to some effectual remedy for the abus-
es and dangers of patronage in the Civil
Service. Such a remedy, however, will be
delayed until there is a general agreement
upon measures.

To this end, it is respectfully suggested
that at any public meeting in your neighbor-
hood to express the strong feeling which has
been excited by the assault, or on other ap-
propriate occasion,a resolution be introduced,
asserting the paramount importance of the
question of reform, and pointing out that as
the evils sprang chiefly from personal influ-
ence upon minor appointments, the only
effective remedy lies in anulling that influ-
ence, by providing that appointments shall
be made for proved merit instead of
personal favor, and that connection with the
service in such offices shall be terminated
only for legitimate cause, such as dishonesty,
negligence, or inefliciency, but not for politi-
cal reasons.

If this suggestion should meet your ap-
proval, it is hoped that for the common wel-
fare you will interest yourself in the passage
of such a resolution.

Yours, respectfully,

PETER Coorna, WM. HENRY HUBLBEBT,
TnEonoEE D. WOOLBEY, C. Scmnzz,

HowAnD PoTTEa, A. A. Low,

HOWARD Cnosnv, Jumus H. SEELYE,

F. B. TEUEBEE, FEANcIs WAYLAND,

R. B. HAYES, CHARLES W. ELIOT,
JOHN HAY, DOEMAN B. EATON,
CnAnLEs F. Anus, Jr., CnAaLEs H. MAEsnALL,
J. M. Bnowx, B. H. Barsrow,

A. R. Macnonouorr, HENRY Hrrcrrcocx,
Roar. B. MINTURN, Fnnnx. LAW OLnsTED,
Josn'uA L CHAMBERLAIN, J . D. Cox,

HENRY W. BELLows, DAVID M. STONE,
DAVID A. WELLS, EVERETT P. WHEELER,
J. N. MATTHEWS, Tnos. F. RANDOLPH,

J LIKES FREEMAN CLARKE, Anna: S. HEWITT,
WIIEELEE H. PECKHAM, W. E. DoDoE, Jun.
Gso. WILLIAM Ctmris,

Look After the Seed Corn.

This is a year when every planter should
select seed corn with care. Hardly any-
where is the crop at its best. Ears will be
small and few of them well filled to the end.
An early frost will prevent the hardening
of later fields, and a great deal of soft corn
will go into crib unless more than ordinary
care is exercised. It is proper, under the cir-
cumstances to go to the fields at once and
select the stalks of largest and most perfect
ears, remove those likely to interfere with
the development of the selected stalks, that
the sun and air may do their full work.
When fully ripened, husk or “trace” the
corn in good old Yankee style and hang in
some loft or garret safe from dampness and
vermin. Be sure to select more than you
think will be needed. Some one will want
it all; a price sufficient to warrant the extra
wor .

WE are never sowell satisfied with the
W(l)1‘ld as when we are satisfied with our-
se ves.

$11111 mnniratinna.

Thinkers and Toilers.

BY C. G. LUCE.

[Read before the Branch County Grange.]

At the last meeting of this Grange these
words were assigned to me. No question is
asked ; nothing to indicate the thought-
of the sister or brother in presenting these
words ; nothing to call out particular views
upon any subject to which these words may
relate;just Thinkers and Toilers,and nothing
more, leaving me to treat the subject in my
own way.

The world is full of thinkers and toilers.
It has always been full of them. In the
ages of the past these two have been regard-
ed as forming two distinct classes ; that be-
tween the two a great gulf existed, wide and
impassable as that which separated the rich
man from Lazarus ; that there was and of ne-
cessity must be a well-defined boundary line
between the two; that upon one side of this
line the vigilant and active forces of the great
army of thinkers were rallied; that it was
the born or achieved privilege of this class
to think out the great problems of life; that
it was theirs to think out and shape the poli-
cies of governments; to create and uphold
the religious sentiment of the world ; to
make and restrict its educational laws and
institutions. It has been the privilege of
thinkers to hold exalted positions in the
world because they were thinkers and not
toilers. This distinct class has been the
honored one in the religious, political, and
social world in the ages and ages of the past.
Holding these positions of trust and pow-
er in church and state,the thinkers have too
often imposed grievous burdens on the un-
thinking toiler. Thought has given them
power, and in common with the whole
animal creation, they have been swift
to use it for the r own aggrandizement. Nu-
merically the distinct thinker has always
been in the minority. The great majority
of mankind have been toilers. In the ages
of the past they have toiled as the ox or
horse toils: whether contented or discontent-
ed they have taken the places assigned them
and toiled on and on.

\Vhile these two classes are and always
have been somewhat dependent upon and
indebted to each other, yet the student of
history and of current events is forced to the
conclusion that in the distribution of the
good things of this world the thinkers have
had more and the toilers less than fairness
demanded. At the commencement the world
was filled with the raw material. All the
woods, all the soils, all the streams, all the
mines, the rain and the sunshine were here
furnished by the Creator.

But these things, in a crude condition,
were unfit for use until shaped by the
hand of the toiler. The changes that have
been made were wrought out by him. He
has felled the forests. He has removed ob-
structions, and turned the furrow; tilled
the soil and compelled the earth to bring
forth and minister to the necessities and
wants of mankind. He has delved deep in-
to the bowels of the earth and brought forth
metals and minerals of great value to. the
race. He has constructed homes for high
and low, rich and poor. The toiler has
always been conferring blessings on the
world ; but he has been by various ways and
means deprived of his full share of these bles-
sings. In the world’s history we learn that
the man who robbed labor of its just reward
and feasted in baronial halls was the honor-
able man ; but he who guided the plow and
wielded the sickle, or toiled at a mechanical
art was degraded. The hand browned and
hardened by toil was dishonored, because it
was not supposed to be guided by thought,and
the toiler has seemed too willin g to acquiesce
in the verdict of those claiming to be above
him. He has been too willing to concede
everything that the thinkers, and pretended
thinkers claimed was true. Now, I would not
detract one jot or title from the name, fame,
or usefulness of the honest thinker, for I
know and willingly concede that he has
thought out many problems of immense
value to the human race. While many of
these have not received more than their due
yet others have, and the toiler has received
less than his due. But our interests are not
so much with the past : its chief interest lies
in the fact that it points out the road for the
present and serves to guide our future.

And the point I desire to make in this
paper is that the old notion, not yet fully
eradicated, that there is an impassible gulf
between thinkers and toilers, is a mistaken
one. The genius of our American form of gov-
ernment has done much to emancipate the
toiler from the bondage of that old uotion,but
there still remains much to do in this direc-
tion, much that the toilers themselves must

do. These notions with their attendant
evils are not yet eradicated. Very recently
I read in the home circle department of a
daily paper a communication from a lady in
reference to the domestic help question.
The article was written in excellent style,
exhibiting culture and thought. Her no-
tions on this subject were the old ones.
She said, “The fact is that laboring people
and the descendants of laboring people
ought to be compelled in some way to do
the toiling. That manual labor was incon-
sistent with high intellectual attainments,

and noble thought.” That was in an
American paper, in the last fourth of the
nineteenth century.

The toiler must overcome these ideas, he
too must become a thinker, he must think
as he toils, and toil as he thinks. He must
think out the best method of utilizing his
toil, or the result of it. He must compound
brain and muscle. High and noble thoughts
have emanated from the toiler. VVhen we
call the attention of those who are skeptical
in regard to combining the thinker and toil-
er in one and the same person we are told,
“ 0, he is an exception.”

In this great movement in which we are
engaged there is a grand opportunity to
make toilers think. Thinkers are respected
and honored the wide world over for their
thought. The most thoughtless toiler does
this. We cannot rob the honest thinker of
his fame, honor, and renown if we would,
and would not if we could. It is the right,
nay more, the duty of all to think. In a
country like ours where all are equal before
the law, the great army of toilers should
think wise thoughts, so that they can become
a great power for good, and enjoy an equal
share of the good things of earth with the oth-
er thinkers who toil not. VVe can do this if
we will. \Ve can use thought to make
and save money, thus getting more time
for study. So we can repel the slander
that high, refined, and noble thoughts find
no place in the heads or hearts of the toilers
of the land.

The greatest, the most benignant work
that we can accomplish is to elevate and
dignify labor. This can be done by
making the toiler a thinker. We must not
only think, but apply thought ; we must
think out problems to a conclusion, think
for a purpose.

Toilers in all ages have been too much in-
clined to be moved by prejudice and passsion
or to fold their arms, lay back and grumble.
Either of these courses is seldom marked
by success. If things are wrong and the
toiler is robbed of his just rights, he should
think out and apply a remedy. Ifa news-
paper cannot be procured to suit or represent
his interests, combine with others and pub-
lish one in some manner that will. If prices
of any commodity are too high, think and
combine upon some process that will reduce
them. If we farmers do not receive a fair
compensation for the products of our farms,
we must think out a way to cheapen produc-
tion or increase the price. If transportation
companies oppose us we must think and en-
force control through the law-makin g power.
VVe cannot well think out a way to compete
with them, but in nearly all the vocations
and relations of life the toiler can, if he
will, think out a way and combine so as to
relieve him from injustice and wrong.
Will he do it ‘? That is the question.

Q:-urrerpnntlcntt

The Secret Whispered .

Bro. Cobb.-—I have eagerly scanned the
VISITOR for some word from Rockford
Grange, but for many weeks my search has
been in vain, and I would almost believe
they had ceased work if I did not know to
the contrary. It has been my good fortune
to attend several meetings of late, and to
find them at work and working hard. Near-
ly every meeting is disturbed by some
stranger knocking at the door, seeking ad-
mission to the Grange, and wishing to be
enrolled as a laborer in the grand army of
“ Patrons of Husbandry.” They now have
a class of 13 ready for the third degree.

The question is often asked, How can the
Grange be made interesting? If any brother
or sister could visit Rockford Grange at the
time the Master’s gavel calls to order, and
see how quickly and quietly all came to
order, and the attention given to all business,
they would say : One Grange has found the
key which unlocks the mystery.

Now, Bro. Cobb, let me whisper in your
ear the secret I have learned. It is this:
When the members of a Grange can be made
to understand that on them, and not on the
officers, rests the blame if the Grange is not
interesting, and that they should be well
posted in the secret work of the Order, also
in parliamentary usages, and then let each
one endeavor to do all in his power to help
the good work along, all will be aston-
ished at the result——no more dull meetings,
no more delinquent members, because none
can afford to miss a meeting if it is possible
to attend. That is the secret I would like
everyone to learn who complains of unin-
teresting Granges.

Fraternally yours,

Rockford, Sept. 19. PAT RosE.

Keeping Hens for Eggs—Bug Preventative.

Bro. Cobb .-——I wish some of the readers of
the VISITOR who have had successful expe-
rience in keeping hens for their eggs in
summer and winter, would give their views
through its columns in regard to their food,
management, houses etc., and oblige. A
solution of hen manure and water will not
only make melon and other vines grow, but
will prevent the striped bugs from destroy-
ing them. Put about a pint around the
roots. Yours fraternally,

C. M. Woon.

Pinckney; Sep. 26, 1881.

Bee- Keepers’ convention.

The \Vestern Michigan Bee-Keepers’
Association will meet at Berlin, Ottawa
county, Thursday, Oct. 27, 1881, in Hunt-
1ey’s hall, at 10:30 A. 31., and at 2 P. M. All
are cordially invited to participate.

WM. H. WALKER, Pres.

Address, W'.\I. M.  DODGE, Sec’y,

Coopersville, Ottawa Co., Mich.

HE who makes a baseless insinuation
against a neighbor's integrity or honor, 15
guilty of an injustice which is atrocious and
monstrous,in comparison with the petty de-
predation of the despicable thief who breaks
into his granary and surreptitiously car-
ries away his corn.

HE is always the severest censor on the
merits of others who has the least worth of
his own.

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

The Kent County Pomona Grange will be
held with Ellena Grange October 12, 1881.
Yours resptectfully,
E. STILES, Lecturer.

The Ionia County Grange will hold their
next meeting at the new hall of Banner
Grange, No. 640, on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, October 18 and 19. Hon. C. G. Luce,
Master of the State Grange, will dedicate
their hall on that occasion. pg

Jon): HIGBEE, Sec’y.

The next regular meeting of Berrien Co,
Pomona Grange, No. I, will be held at
Coloma, in Home Grange Hall, Oct. 11th
and 12th, having been ostponed from the
4th in consequence of t e Benton Harbor
Agricultural Fair. W. J. JONES, Sec’y.

Oronoko, Sept. 26th, 1881.

The regular meeting of \Vayne County
Pomona Grange will be held at Flat Rock,
October 7, commencing at 10:30 A. M. A
program of much interest will be presented
to the meeting, an important feature of
which will be a discussion on the Agricul-
tural College. Fourth degree members are
cordially invited to take part in this discus-
sion. A public meeting will be held in the
evening, addressed by Charles E. Mickley of
Adrian on matters of deep interest to farm-
ers. All are invited to attend.

N. T. BRADNER, Lecturer.

The next meeting of Branch County P0-
mona Grange will be held at Sherwood
Grange hall on Oct. 18, commencing at 10
o’clock A. 31., sharp, at which time a full
attendance is desired. There are 12 members
to be initiated in the fifth degree, beside
much other work. The program, as repar-
ed by the VVorthy Lecturer, is as fol ows:

Mixed Husbandry:-H. B. George.

Select Reading.—-Miss Maria VVarner. -

Decoration of Farmers’ Homes.-—-Mrs. E.
A. Horton.

Is it the Duty of Congress to Regulate
Inter-State Commerce?—\Vorthy Master
C. G. Luce, of the State Grange.

Also, the Worthy Lecturer will continue
the history of his travels through Europe
the past summer. _

WALLACE E. VVRIGHT, Sec’y.

Coldwater, Sept. 20, 1881.

The annual meeting of Lapeer County
Pomona Grange will be held in the hall of
Pine Stub Grange, No. 448, on Tuesday,Oct.
4. All fourth-degree members are invited.
Election_of oflicers will take place. The
following is the program :

Opening of the Grange.

Music.

Address of welcome.

First question for discussion: Should
fruit-growing receive more attention than it
has in the past, in this county ?—-Nathan
Stover.

Essay.—Jacob VV. Schell.

Under-Draining.—H. Bradshaw.

Which is most profitable. butter or cheese?
Also, the best method of making butter”.
Sister H. Bradshaw.

Which is better, to sow grain broadcast
or with drill ‘?—S. F. Muir.

Select readings.—W. A. Montgomery and
others. R. W. RUDD, Sec’y.

Mariette, i\Iich., Sept. 13, 1881.

The St. Joseph Count Pomona Grange
will meet at Centreville range hall Thurs-
day, Nov. 3, 1881, at 10 o’clock A. M. A11
fourth degree members who contemplate
taking the fifth degree are invited to be
present, as the conferring of that degree will

e-a special order of the day. A full at-
tendance is desired, as business of unusual
importance will come before this meeting.

PLOW TRIAL.

The Pomona Grange have arranged for a
field trial of plows and other im lements
for tilling the soil,with a view to se ect from
the number those we wish to use. The trial
will take place on the farm of Bro. Wm. B.
Langley, two and one-half miles north of
Centreville, on Thursday,Oct. 13, commenc-
ing at 10 o’clock A. M. Manufacturers, farm-
ers and others interested are requested to
be present. The ladies are invited partic.
ularly, and requested to bring their lunch
baskets—well filled. Persons wishing fur.
ther information in regard to the trial can
refer to the committee of arrangements
William B. Langley, Centerville; David
Handshaw, Mendon; Sam’l H. Angevine
Mendon. ’

SAM’L H. ANGEVINE, Sec. pro. tem.

Mendon, Mich., Sept. 23, 1881.

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with glue, etc., to decay, but is a Stone Ce-
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for use by adding hot water, and easily ap-
plied by anyone.

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

For sa e by paint dealers everywhere.
Send for circular containin the twelve
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ABASTINE 00.

M. B. CHURCH, Manager

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TEE GRANGE VESETQE.

OCTOBER 1. 1881.

‘Eatliea’ flgpaqtnizqt.

For the VIEITOB.
MY OLD HOME.

BY A. E. D.

That is the place that I love the best-
The little log house, like a g1-ound—bird’s nest,
Nestled away among the hills and trees-—
Snxnmer retreat for the birds and bees.

The tenderest light that ever was seen

Sifts through the vine-made window screen,
Sifts and quivers, and flits and falls.

On home-made carpet and grey-hung walls.

All through June the west wind free

The breath of the clover brought to me :
All through the languid July day

I caught the scent of the new-mown hay.

The morning-glories and Michigan rose
Over the door-way find repose :

And every day, when the house was still,
The humming birds came to the window-sill.

In the cunuingest chamber under the sun,
I sank to sleep when the day was done,
Wakened at mom, in my snow-white bed,
By a singing bird on the roof o'erhead.
Better than paintings brought from Rome
Were the living pictures I saw at home—
My uncles and cousins all so fair,

And gra.ndma’s face, like a painting rare.

Far from the city’s dust and heat,

I found but rest and odors sweet.

Who can wonder that I loved to stay

Week after week there, hidden away

In that sly little nook that I love the best——
The little log house like a ground-bird's nest I“

Home.

BY BIRS. C. B. \\'Hl'I‘L‘(b)ll:I.

It is my good fortune on the present oc-
casion to have a theme to present in which
it may be presumed that we are all deeply
interested, and to which the speakers, with-
out any claim to the magic power of genius,
may hope to hold your attention. For what
is there in all this wide world of greater in-
terest to us than our homes ‘? How import-
ant is home! Only man has a home: the
tired lark sinks in the evening shades down
to her quiet nest, and offers her grateful an-
thems for the boon of a house; but man,
wearied with the strifes of the mart and of
the field, seeks shelter in his home, the sa-
cred retreat of the heart. Foxes have holes,
birds have nests, lions have dens, tigers have
lairs, dogs have kennels, but men have
homes. The supreme exhibit of divine love
is seen in J esus, when he forsakes his home
and wanders a stranger, not having where
to lay his head: while the extreme display
of ma.n’s sinfulness is found with those hu-
man beings who are “without natural af-
fections.” The air we breathe, the water we
drink, the fdod we eat, the rooms in which
we sit, the grass and flowers among which
we wa.lk,—these and a thousand other more
or less subtle influences are promoting to a
beautiful and healthful symmetry, or dwarf-
ing and disabling the body in which the
soul lives and through which it acts. In
view of the intimate relations between the,
physical and spiritual, how important be-
comes every item of home convenience and
comfort! Physical comforts and conven-
iences do not. however, constitute a home.
Amid these the inmates may live, and in
the ripeness of their years, die——without
having had any experience of a home in
its truest and best sense. These must be
transmuted into life and love to constitute
what is worthy to be called a home.

We are doubtless interested in the various
associations with which we are connected,
and desire their prosperity. The man who
feels no responsibility with reference to his
social relations, who would not give of his
time. and money, and personal influence to
help forward the religious, educational, and
other organizations by which he may be
helped, and in turn rendered more helpful
in the development of all that pertains to a
true manhood and womanhood, is avery
poor specimen of a citizen. certainly not
such as we are likely to find at a County
Grange. Yet those social organizations do
not lie so near our hearts as do our homes.
We love them none the less because we love
our homes more.

Some one has suggested that the three
words which call up the most tender and
endearing associations are the words moth-
er, home, heaven. Did it ever occur to you
how intimately these words are associated
together? For " what is home without a.
mother” as its soul and center, making it
the one spot on earth where youth can un-
burden all its sorrow, and to which memory
recurs in after years with a thrill of joy. and
will recur as long as memory endures ?
Then the words “home” and “heaven”
are hardly less intimately associated, for
when He that spake as never man spake,
drew that matchless picture of heaven which
takes hold of us as no other ever did or can,
it was in these words, “In my Father’s
house! ” How suggestive of what our
homes should be, and of what heaven is!
The former is to be the school of all excel-
lence, a place where dissatisfied looks and
angry words should never come, where no
kind oflice is left unperformed, a. place
where the sky is always clear and the sun
ever bright; the latter a place where all the
best things of earth shall be fully realized.

An important consideration in connection
with the household is the house-—the mater-
ial structure or building in which the fam-
ily live. There are many comfortable, con-
venient, and even elegant houses in our
State, especially in the older and more im-
proved portions of it. Yet the number of such
houses is small, compared with those that
are inelegant, inconvenient, and uncomfor-
table. This is not always from the lack of
means necessary to provide what is better,
but not unfrequently from the fact that the
tight-fisted occupant is unwilling to make
any investment that does not yield an
annual return of ten per cent. It is a fact
that I presume will not be disputed by any,
that country homes are generally less con-
venient and comfortable, and do not exhibit
so much refinement of taste as the houses
that are occupied by a similar class of people
in our towns and villages. I think it will
be at once apparent that this disparity ought
not to exist, and in fact cannot exist without
entailing the most disastrous consequences.
The country home should, of all others, be
the most attractive. The isolation of
country life as compared with life in the
city makes the attractions of home a more
absolute necessity, doubly enhances their
blessings, and causes the want of them,
where they are lacking, to be more keenly
felt. In the city many of the long evenings
are spent at the concert, the lecture, and
the opera, but in the country they are main-
ly spent at home. The business man of the

 city may talk over the hap:-t and mishaps of
5 the day to his evening associates at the club,

but if the new horse has shown a disposi-
tion to balk or attempted to run away, ifthe
cow has kicked over the milk—pail, the
farmer tells it to his wife as they sit by the
cosy evening fire.

One of the evils much complained of in
our time, and one for which a remedy must
be found, or the days of our National pros-
perity will soon be numbered——is that so
many of our youth, born and brought up in
the country, rapidly develop a distaste for
rural life and agricultural pursuits, and
without casting even a lingering look
behind them, leave the old home and the
parental acres, to seek a. new home, new as-
sociations, and new occupations in the city.
There is a constant and disastrous drain
from the farming population of its brightest
intelligence, its most stirring enterprise, its
noblest and most aspiring natures—of all
those elements which are necessary to
elevate the standard of agricultural labor,
and make it what it should be.

There may be a number of causes for this
drain from agricultural pursuits,but promin-
ent among them we believe to be the harsh
contrast between actual farm life and life in
the city, acontrast which would entirely
disappear, or turn in favor of rural life, if
farmers’ homes were all they should be. I
know of farmers whose farms are paid for,
and have been for years, whose income from
their farms has enabled them to buy adjoin-
ing land, improved stock, and implements
of husbandry. and to put money out at
interest, and yet they live in houses almost
destitute of comfort or convenience, with no
visible touch of refinement within or around
them, no ornamentation surrounding the
building, except, perhaps, a variety of
farm implements strewn around, bleaching
and cracking under the influence of the
weather, and a dilapidated hog pen in dis-
gusting proximity to the house. Stepping
inside you find it equally unattractive, no
carpet on the floor nor pictures on the walls,
no books nor ornaments, nor anything to
indicate that any other than the lowest type
of physical life has its wants supplied here.
It is no wonder that the children brought
up in such a home should learn to despise it
and should choose any other calling than
the one with which they have learned to
connect all these ungainly and unattractive
associations. Some one has defined an
agricultural college as a place where farm-
ers’ boys are weaned from the farming.
We have known not a few farmers’ boys
to go forth from the Agricultural College
with a more intelligent appreciation of, and
a. more ardent love for agricultural pursuits
than they would have been likely to attain
under any other circumstances, and we have
known young men who were most effectu-
ally weaned from all desire ever to become.
farmers by the harsh and unattractive as-
pect of farm life presented by their early
homes. But wherever you find a farmer’s
home the embodiment of solid comfort and
liberal taste, the scene of an exalted family

life, which shall be the master, and not the

slave of labor, and of a bright and happy
social atmosphere, you will find daughters
who will not be afraid to marry a farmer,
and whom no farmer need be afraid to mar-
ry, and you will find boys who will not be
in haste to seek in other callings a more
congenial style of life, but who will stick
to the occupations of the farm, which have
blessed their youth with health and plenty,
with intellectual development and ‘a virtu-
ous growth.

The fa.rmer’s home should be located near
the principal thoroughfare, allowing enough
room in front for a pleasant lawn, which a
refined taste can render beautiful and at-
tractive with but a small outlay of money.
I shall not enter into the details of the
drawings of the plans and the arrangements
of rooms—people’s ideas and tastes are so
varied that almost any plan will have some

one who will admire it and some who will

not. If you are going to build, consult your
wife, if you have one, and if you haven’t,
get one. Somebody has said that God
made a man and then He made a woman
to tell him what to do. I think this is em-
inently true about the planning and arrang-
ing ofa house. How frequently we hear
men discourse eloquently on the duty of
wives to make home pleasant for their hus-
bands, poor affiicted mortals! (the husbands
I mean.) I do not think there is any less
necessity for reminding husbands of their
duty in regard to building houses with a view
to the comfort and convenience of their wives.
The husband probably spends but a few of
his waking hours in the house, but there the
wife and mother spends her life. Her work
is there, and while money is freely spent
for whatever will facilitate and lighten labor
outside, how often it is withheld or grudg-
ingly spent for working conveniences in the
house. Not only is the house the woman’s
workshop, and as such she has a right to
plan and arrange it, but it is also the scene
of her pleasufe and seat of her power; there
she radiates those-influences which are fix-
ing the habits and moulding the characters
of those who are soon to mould the destinies
of the world. Everthing in the home and
its surroundings that can contribute to its
brightness and its joy will tell through the
mother beneficially upon the children from
the earliest beginning of life onward.

A house with the necessary conveniencies
and also attractive in appearance, both as
regards its construction and furnishing,
need not be very costly. Most of us are not
wealthy, and the practical question with us
is how to make home cheerful and beautiful
with the means we can legitimately devote
to that object. In order that every room in
the house may be charming and home-like
expensive furniture is not essential. A car-
pet on the floor, a few pictures on the walls,
and such ornaments as daughters of taste
and refinement can readily make, a window
full of plants, with the light of heaven gild-
ing their fresh green leaves and gay blos-
soms, a hanging basket, and an aquarium
—these things cost but little and yield a
larger return in the influence which they
silently but constantly exert.

Every home should have a liberal supply
of good books. There are many things that
we can better afford to be destitute of.
Books are not furniture, yet they constitute
the best kind of furnishing that a house can
possibly have. A family that is content to
walk on cheap carpets,and use the plainest of
furniture,that they may have the fellowship
of good books,at once rises in our estimation
on our discovery of the fact. Children learn
to read in the presence of books, and as they
read the love of knowledge grows. The
farmer needs a library not only as a home
attraction, but also that he may successful-
ly prosecute his calling. His is a profession
that requires study as truly as any other.

Fill any land with good homes, and it
must be a good place in which to live. It is
one peculiarity of the Anglo Saxon peoples
that they abound in homes. The walls
about the hearth shut out all the world, and
shut in 2. kingdom. This is the fort; keep it
clean and free, and religion will thrive and
liberty will dwell in the land forever.

The Social Position of the Farmer’s Family-
What it is, and What it Should he.

[The following essay by Mrs. Shattuck, of‘
Pontiac Grange, was read at a joint meet-
ing of the Detroit and Bay City District
Council, and Oakland Pomona Grange,
held at Orion, September 6, 1881, and by
the unanimous vote of the meeting is for-
warded to the GRANGE VISITOR for publi-
cation.]

The subject of this article is one of great
depth of meaning, and would compass vast
breadth of thought, and cannot be condens-
ed into one short essay and do it justice. It
is worthy of being elaborately treated ; and
this topic ought to have been assigned to a
person of many talents, not to one with only
the one talent. However, not wishing to
shirk responsibility or work of any kind
assigned me, I offer a few crude thoughts for
your consideration, knowing that charity
is one of the precepts of our Order.

The family is the oldest and most val-
uable linstitutions on earth. In the early
part of the creation of the world God said,
“ It is not good for man to be alone,” and
he gave him a companion and helpmeet,
and assigned them the noble occupation of
tillers of the soil, and their home was locat-
ed in a beautiful garden, where everything
was pleasant to view. good to eat and where
were all manner of fruits.

Again we read that “ God set the solitary
in families.” Thus we see that it is not on-
ly atime honored institution, but that it
originated in the Divine mind. Every one
may notice, if he will, that the strongest
ties exist, that motives for honesty, sobriety,
and diligence in business arise from the
family circle, and home is the one charmed
spot on earth.

To-day we are met together as whole or
parts of farmers’ families, and this subject
was given by our Worthy Lecturer that we
get some light in regard to our position
which we occupy in the world at large. In
the early years of the settlement of our
broad domain, farmers’ families occupied
isolated positions. It was only at long
intervals that there could be found cultiva-
ted land and the rude dwelling, and some-

 

times neighborhodds comprised the whole
township. These families were struggling
with poverty, privations, and self sacrifice,
and were obliged to practice the strictest
economy. It is true they were very hospit-
able towards each other, but they were too
intent on getting 9. home and the comforts
of life around them to spend much time in
sociability, and mental and intellectual ad-
vancement, hence the epithets—mudsills,
ignoramuses, “ 0, he is nothing but a farm-
er,” came to be applied to them. Stopping
to call at a drcssma.ker’s shop not long since,
the proprietress said, “ I can tell a country
woman as far as I can see her,” and yet this
same woman worked harder and more
hours than many a farmer’.-s wife.

Years ago books were not plenty in farm-
ers’ homes, neither was there much of a
variety. Oftentimes the family Bible, Pil-
grim’s Progress, and Fox’s Book of Martyrs
comprised the list,not because there were no
intelligent-, cultivated minds, but because
books were of a high price, money scarce,
and they thought there was not much time
to read them. In those days if a farmer’s
son or daughter manifested a desire for a
classical education, or wished to attend a
better school than the one in their own (lis-
trict, they were looked upon asjprodigies, or
of more than ordinary material of mind ;
they were the exception, and not the rule.

But all is changed. This, an age of im-
provement and grand possibilities has
reached the rural districts. Thanks to the
Grange movement, agriculture is assuming
its true position, and farmers and their fami-
lies are learning to “add dignity to their
labor,” and begin to know and feel that
they are the bone and sinew which form
our commonwealth, that they are the
bread winners of the land, and without
them all other occupations would be of
little consequence, and if the farming por-
tion of the community were taken away
those, who are getting a living by their wits,
or sharp practice, would have a {sorry time.
The farmers and their families are fast find-
ing out that their way of accumulation leads
to honor, health, and wealth, and though a
competency is not gained with the rapidity
that characterizes other branches of business,
yet in the main it is a safer investment.

The man who has a farm free from debt,
under a good state of cultivation, with a
kind, loving, cheerful wife, and healthy,
dutiful children to make music and add
happiness to his home, is one of God’s no-
blemen, and such a family is among the
happiest of our land. With proper care and
effort country life can be made as enjoyable
as city life, and no more drudgery attached.
A farmer has the privilege of spending more
time in his home than a mechanic, trades-
man, or professional man has. VVhen even-
ing comes and the day’s work is over, he
can gather his family about him, and rest
and read.

\Vhat a beautiful change has come over
the rural districts within the last few years.
In traveling through the country, either by
private conveyance or on the great thorough-
fare, we see the beautiful, well culti-
vated farms, large fruit orchards, com-
modious barns, elegant houses with
shrubbery and flowers adorning the front
yards and piazzas. The beautiful is not now
confined to cities. Homes with modern
improvements and conveniences meet us
everywhere. If we should go into those
homes we would find them nicely and many
times elegantly furnished. Books, papers,
and magazines in great profusion and
variety, musical instruments from which
sweet tones emanate, render those homes
cheerful. Sons and daughters with moral
and intellectual powers cultivated, husband
and wife cultured, refined, and informed on
the leading topics of the day, and of the
highest type of hospitality and sociability,
and a company of Patrons meeting together
seem like brothers and sisters of one family,
and though strangers at first sight soon be-
come like old time friends.

It is past our comprehension how much
the Grange has done for the farmer's family.
It has opened up an avenue to wealth, hon-
or, and self respect, and a demand for re-
spect from others, a demand for rights and
privileges which have not been ours to en-
joy in the past, both because we did not
claim our right to them, and thus they were
appropriated by others. Farmers have a
power in thecommunity in which they live,
and they are wielding it for the good of hu-
manity. This power is being felt to-day,
and will be more forcibly realized in the
years to come. There is true moral worth
in very many of the homes in the rural dis-
tricts, and it is destined to shine forth. Our
sons and daughters are given grand oppor-
tunities to become useful men and women
in society. These are glorious days in
which to live——days of improvement, pro-
gression, intellectual advancement and true
sociability. Let us improve them.

Beautiful Hands.

BY MRS. P. MAYO.

Someone —— I forget who— has written a
poem_entitled “ Beautiful Hands,” and des-
cribed in a. very touching manner his
mother’s hands. To him—though seamed
and wrinkled, rough and ha.rd—— they were
beautiful—beautiful because they were his
mother’s. There is many another pair of
beautiful hands that are quietly and loving-

ly doing the tasks that come to them every
day and every hour, smoothing rough places,
lifting another’s burden, caring for others,
fulfilling grandly life‘s mission.

It was my fortune to be associated some
time ago with an ‘aged lady for whom that
beautiful gate that swings only inward was
but a short way oil‘, and as I was often eat
and listened to her tales of other days, heard
her relate her pioneer experience, saw her
bowed and tottering form, her rough, seam-

ed and hardened hands,—-I could but think .

how much she had done in her place in life,
how fully she had performed her mission,
how all her life her thoughts and words
had been for others; and that poem would
come to my mind. and I would say to myself,
" Beautiful hands! ” Her hands, as to size,
were large, large almost to awkwardness, —
perhaps they were comely once, perhaps the
fingers were tapering and the nails were
rosy, but now they were twisted and out of
shape, till they hardly looked like human
hands.

For forty years she had led a pioneer life.
Four times had she moved to the front,“and
now,” she said with a smile, “were I ten
years younger, I’d go \Vest." Michigan at
last was reached, and as that was the front-
ier then, here she settled. At the age of
about forty, she was left a widow ; and, my
friends, a widow, fifty years ago, in Michi-
gan, with six children and only herself in
the gap between them and poverty, meant
something. It meant a trial of every re-
cource, a trial of every particle of woman’s
strength. fortitude, ingenuity and courage.
Bravely she stood in the gap; single-handed
and alone she fought the battle, and was
victorious. The wolf was kept from the
door, her children were warmed, fed and
clothed, and received some education; and
to-day they rise up and call her blessed.
Among some of her old souvenirs that she
was showing me, she came across a tiny
linen cap that she said she made herself,
and as she drew it over her hand and I
looked at the yellow, gauzy thing, “This,”
said she, “was my son’s baby cap.” l look-
ed from it to the stern, gray-bearded, specta-
cled man reading his evening paper, and
it was hard to believe that he ever was the
dimpled, laughing baby that crowed beneath
this tiny cap. She picked up a piece of seal-
brown ribbon, and drew it through her
crooked fingers. “This,” said she, “ was a
piece of ribbon from my weddin’ bonnet,
and a dreadful pretty bonnet it was, too.
This was a piece of my weddin’ short-gown.
I spun, wove, cut and made it myself——
didn’t take as much then to make a dress as
it does now,” and she looked down at my
dress with a smile. “This,” she said, and
she held up a little shoe, " was my baby’g_.
my baby that we buried in York State. A
tear rolled down her wrinkled cheek and fell
upon her hand, and after lovingly turning
over the little. half-worn thing, she laid it
aside without further words. Among her
relics were a skein or two of tangled yarn,
some linen thumbs, I think she called them,
and an old vest of butternut brown. These
were all, yet to her they were so much!
“Now,” said she, “I’m nearly done. Fa-
ther has gone, and three of the children, and
1"ve done what I could and am ready. I’ve
lived to see Michigan’s wilderness blossom
asthe rose; I’ve lived to see the railroad
supplant her Indian trails; I’ve lived to see
cities, towns and villages dot her landscapes;
manufactories, mills and printing presses-
I’ve seen them all come, and I’m nearly
done.” Her whole life had been a labor of
love for others. She had ministered to the
dying, nursed the sick, comforted the widow
and the orphan, fed the poor, clothed the
naked, and kept herself unspotted before the
world. Two years ago we crossed those
beautiful hands upon her breast, and now,
in that great hereafter, the tangled threads
of her noble life will be all unraveled, and
some of the great whys of life will be solved.

Our hands are the dial- plates of our hearts.
Sisters, may our hands grow just as lovely,
with every year of our lives, as did hers—-
lovely because they do deeds of love for oth-
ers; beautiful, because we daily exemplify
that it is be‘ter to give than to receive.

Our Molio: Faith, Hope, Charity, and Fidelity.

BY M. A. J.

“Faith, Hope, Charity, and Fidelity.”-
Do we realize how much is contained in
those words? God has written in His word,
“ Faith, hope and charity, but the greatest
of these is charity.” Now, do we have the
charity. we should? Is our brotherly love
all that the words should signify? Do we
not at times feel anything but love for some
of those around us, and do we not say un-
kind things of them ? Do we remember
that they are our brothers, for whom we pro-
fess to have charity? Ought we not to be
more careful, and when we cannot say good,
say nothing? I leave it for the conscience
of the reader to answer. It makes no difl'er-
ence whether they be our brothers an’d sis-
ters in the Grange, or those who look upon
us with scorn: will it not help them to learn
to love the Order, and may we not, by kind-
ness and by living as our motto teaches us,
win many to our ranks that are looking and
waiting for “ some sign of good before they
unite” with us ? We have all heard this
and similar expressions. Many of us have
formed habits of saying things we ought
not, and we find it hard to "break” our-
selves of them. It would save so much

 

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quarreling and wrangling in a neighbor-
hood, and even the life of some Granges, if
we ever kept in mind this plain duty.

“ Hope”——Let us take down Webster, each
one of us, and see what he says in regard to
hope, and then let us analyze our hearts
and see how much hope we have, not only
for the success of our dear Order, but for our-
selves in this world and the one to come.
As to the Order, are we not day by day re-
ceiving what we are hoping for ‘? Certainly
we are. .

“ Faith” is the assent of the mind to the
truth of what is declared. Do we understand
what our faith is? Do we have the trust we
should, and do we trust in our own success,
or do we feel that we can do nothing in our-
selves? Do we trust in God for the success
of what we as a body, and also as individ-
uals, have undertaken ? Do we realize that
if the Great Master above chose, He could
cut us off from earthly things in an instant‘?
Ought we not to do our best, with His help,
to assist by our support and most earnest
efforts the more earnest workers in our
“vineyard ” ? for there are some that do the
most of the work, and the rest of us let
them, not realizing that we should work, as
well as they.

“ Fidelity” meaning faithfulness, adher-
ance to the right, exact observance of duty
or discharge of duty, and especially adher-
ence to the party to which one is attached ;
loyalty; a disposition of heart which in-
clines favorably to their brothers to do them
good. Do we stop to think, when we see
or hear that word true, Are we true to our
trust-—true not only to our obligation, as
some of us understand it (to me it means
all), but to everything pertaining to our Or-
der; and to be true to that we must be true
to ourselves, and set an example of truth
and honor before the‘ world -— true to all
creatures placed in our care. Only think,
all combine to make one harmonious whole.
Are we true to those placed in our care '? To-
day I am a teacher in a school, and the
thought comes to me, Am I true to district
and school‘? There are many in all paths in
life whose whole care is to get along as easi-
ly as possible, and do as little as they can
and have it pass for as much as possible : let
us look that it be not so with us, but that we
are true Patrons.

En tin’ fiepaqtiitetti.

FINDING FAULT.

In speaking of a person's faults,
Pray don’t forget your own :

Remember, those with homes of glass
Should seldom throw a stone.

If we have nothing else to do
Than talk of those that sin,

’Tis better we commence at home,
And from that point begin.

W'e have no right to judge a man
Until he’s fairly tried :

Should we not like his company,
We know the world is wide.

Some may have faults 2 and who has not,
The old as well as young?

Perhaps we may, for all we know,
Have fifty to their one.

I’ll tell you of a. better plan,
And find it works full well :

To find your own defects to cure,
Ere others’ faults you tell.

And though I sometimes hope to be
No worse than some I know,

My own shortcomings bid me let
The faults of others go.

Now, let us all. when we begin
To slander friend or foe,

Think of the harm one word may do
To those we little know.

Remember: curses, chicken-like,
Sometimes to roost come home :

Don’t speak of others’ faults until
You have none of your own.

NOT QUITE A TRAMP.

“N o tramp wanted here, young chap : so
you may jog along.”

The speaker was a fine-looking and ap ar-
ently an easy going gentleman of mi dle
age who was standing leaning over the gate,
looking out on the road; The gate opened
on a gravel walk which led up to a two-
story cottage house. In front of the house
and at the sides, the ground was overloaded
with trees, shrubs, and flowering plants,
which, to say the least of it, did not show
careful attendance. Altogether it was a
bright, cheerful and attractive place.

So thought, no doubt, the stranger, whose
halt near the gate had provoked Mr. Ho'r-
ton’s utterance. He was not an ill-looking
man, or boy, for he could not be twenty-
one, but his clothes were ragged and dirty.
his shoes worn and muddy, and his gener-
al appearance unkempt and disreputable.

He had stopped in the road and had di-
rected at the man, or at the house, or at the
grounds, or at all three, _a wistful look,
which might intimate a wish to enter. It
was this look which Mr. Horton had an-
swered, when he addressed the young fel-
low, and advised him to jog along.

" I’m no tramp, sir,” replied the stranger.

“ You are not? Then your looks belie
your nature. You can’t deny that you have
all the symptoms.”

“ That is true, sir; I know that I am poor
and ragged, but I don’t consider myself a
tram . I am looking for work.”

“ hat’s what they all say: they are look-
ing for work. To say that is to advertise
the fact that you are a tramp.”

“ I suppose I must be a tramp, then, but
I wish I wasn't.” ‘ ‘

“ You do? That's a good symptom, any-
way. Are you sun you wouldn’t run away
from work, if you should find it, or lie down

and go to sleep by the side of it?”

“ I am sure that I am willing to cam my
 , andam anxious to get a chance to

o i . . .. -

“ What»sort of work can you do? " asked
Mr. Horton, “ Everything in general and
nothing in particular? ” ’

“I know that I could put that yard of

yours in much better trim than it shows
now."

“Humph! That don’t offer an opening.
The flowers are my wife’s pets, and she is
like a dog in a manger about them —- won't
touch them-herself, or sufler anybody else
to touch them.” _

" I can draw your portrait, sir,” suggested
the boy.

“ You can '?
in disguise ‘? ”

“ You ask me what I can do, and I know
that I can do that.”

“An of the tools of that trade?”

The oy produced from the pocket of his
vest some crayons and the stump of a lead-
pencil.

“All right,” said Mr. Horton.
try you at the job. Come in.”

He opened the gate and led the way to
the house. On the verandah were some
chairs, one of which he offered to the boy.

“ VVant any more tools T‘ ” he asked.

“A sheet of drawing paper, ifyou have it.”

Mr. Horton brought out the required arti-
cle, clamped upon a drawing board; also
some crayon holders and a sharp knife.

“ I’m sort of an architect,” he said, “and
keep these things on hand. But hadn’t you
better eat some lunch before you begin this
business‘? You have a hungry look.”

“I’m not so hungry, sir, but that I am
willing to earn a meal beiore I eat it. \Vill
you have the kindness to sit down 1‘ ”

“ Side face or front '3 ”

“ Side face, if you please.
the best.”

Mr. Horton seated himself, presenting his
profile to the ragged artist, who went to
work without much ado. His strokes were
quick, vigorous and artistic, and in a sur-
prising short time a capital sketch of Mr.
Horton’s-head and shoulders appeared on
the paper. The gentleman looked at it and
puckered his lips so as to produce a low
drawn whistle.

“ I am not ready to pronounce you an
angel, young fellow,” he said, “ but I may
truly say that I have entertained a pretty
fair artist unawares——although the enter-
tainment is vet to come. Here, Emily,
Bella, come out here and witness a new
sensation ! ”

Mrs. Horton hurried out on the piazza,
with her young sister Bella, and her little
girl Lulu. For an answer, Mr. Horton
handed his wife the crayon sketch, which
was hastily scanned with starts of surprise
and ejaculations of delight.

“ “hat a nice likeness!” exclaimed Mrs.
Horton. “ VVhere did it come from ‘.’ ”

“ This young person did it just now,” an-
swed Mr. Horton.

“Goodness! Gracious me!
he would make one for Lulu.”

“Of course he would, and of Bella and
the whole tribe, if you want one. But he is
tired and hungry, and you had better give
him something to eat before you ask any
more of him.”

" I will gladly do that. I am sure that
this kindness of yours is worth a dozen
pictures.”

“ Give him some, anyway, and we will
talk about the rest. It won’t do to be too
liberal at the start. Please to follow my
wife, young fellow, and I have no doubt that
you will feel better when she gets through
with you.”

\Vhen the young stranger was washed
and combed, and had been fed, his personal
appearance was improved, and he had gain-
ed in ease and grace of manner. He was
anxious to make a picture of baby Lulu, and
was permitted to do so, producing a likeness
which sent the fond mother into ecstasies.

This production having been sufficiently
admired, Mr. Horton dismissed the “female
rabble,” as he chose to call them, and coral-
ed his artistic tramp for a conversation, ask-
ing him who he was and all about himself.

His name was Abel Kentridge, and he
was the son of a miller at Queensport, Md.,
who had died suddenly, leaving an estate so
encumbered as to be worth less than noth-
ing. Abel had gone to Philadelphia to seek
his fortune, and had found nothing but dis-
appointment. He knew something about
milling and gardening, but could find no
employment in the city, and went into the
country to look for work, but his tramp-like
appearance told against him, and he was on
the verge of despair when he encountered
Mr. Horton.

“ There is no milling to do here,” said that
gentleman, “but I have no doubt that my
wife, since you have made that sketch of
Lulu, will allow you to straighten up those
grounds. If you turn out as well as I think
you will, I may find something else for you
to do.”

So it was settled that Abel Kentridge was
to remain at Mr. Horton’s. A room was
prepared for him, and some of his employer’s
partly worn garments were fitted to him,
and he was set to work on shrubs and flow-
er and grass plats. His work was quite sat-
isfactorv, and he acquitted himself generally
so as to gain the confidence and respect of
all the house. Besides the work on the
grounds, other odds and ends of employment
were found for him about the place, but
nothing was said to him about his compen-
sation.

Thus he was kept busy for a week, at the
end of which time Mr. Horton gave him a
written order, and directed him to go to the
village and select. for himself suitable cloth-
ing to the amount named in the order.

“ But I have not earned so much as this,”
he suggested.

“ If you haven't you will earn it,” replied
Mr. Horton. ‘

When Abel returned from the village he
carried his head somewhat higher than
when he set out, and appeared to be, what
nature and education had made him— a
young gentleman of attractive peron and
manners.

He was ushered into the room in which
the family were seated, and Mr. Horton cor-
aled him for what he called a business talk.

“ What do you know about milling? ” he
asked.

“ I never was regularly employed by my
father,” answered Abel, “but I picked up
many points of the -business while I was
about his place. Shortly before he died, I
invented, or believed I had invented, an im-
pro_vement on the turbine water wheel, by
which greater speed could be got, with the
use of less water; and my father said it was
a good thing. After his death I gave my
model to a patent agent, for the purpose of
applying for a patent. But the agent finally
told me that he had been unable to procure
a patent, because the examiners decided

Are you a wandering artist

‘ ‘ I will

I can do that

I wonder if

- there was nothing new in the invention.

That discouraged me more than any of the
rest of my disappointments.”
“ What was t e agent's name? ”
“ Silas Northwick.”

 

“And your name is Abel Kentridge? ”

“ Yes, sir.”

. “ That agent lied to you. Abel,” said Mr.
Horton. “He procured the patent, which
is very valuable, and meant to swindle you
out of it. He would probably have succeed-
ed if you had not come to my house.”

“ How do you know this‘? ” eagerly asked
Abel.

“ I am a sort of a speculator and occasion-
ally dabble in such affairs. Northwick of-
ered the patent for sale to me before I pre-
cieved that it was in the name of Abel Ken-
tridge. He assured me he could procure all
the assignments from the patentee, who de-
sired to sell, and I told him if he could do so
I would negotiate with him. He is to
meet me to-morrow and bring the assign-
ment. and of course you can’t have signed
vour name in Philadelphia while you were
at my house.”

“I should think not,” indignantly ex-
claimed Abel.

“Therefore, l\'orthwick’s assignment will
be a forgery, and I shall bring him here and
confront him with you.”

Mr. Horton was as good as his word, met
the rascally agent at the time and place ap-
pointed. Northwick did not have the as-
signment, although he professed the ability
to produce it as soon as the negotiation
should be concluded, and Mr. Horton had
brought him to the house for the purpose of
winding up the transaction. There he was
confronted, greatly to his astonishment and
dismay, by Abel Kentridge, and it was
made evident to him that his swindling
scheme was discovered.

The upshot of the interview was that Abel
got possesson of his precious patent, and
Northwick was glad to go clear of criminal
proceedings.

“ Now, my boy,” said Mr. Horton, “ if
you will take me as your partner in this
business, I will furnish the needed capital
and push it, and I have no doubt that both
of us will grind O! t a grist of money with
your turbine wheel.”

Abel gladly accepted this arrangement,
and the result soon became so satisfactory to
both parties that Mr. Horton heartily con-
gratulated himself upon the fact that his
supposed tramp had not taken his advice to
“jog along.”

It should be added that his pretty sister-
in law, Bella Gratton, also found in the
same fact cause for self-congratulation.

THE REAPER. DEATH.

FINCH.~Died Aug. ‘I1, 1881, at the residence of
Miles Finch, in the township of Blackmore, Jackson

county, Mich., Mi's. NANCY M. FINCH, wife of Frank
Finch, and a member of Champion Grange, No. 300.

VVHEREAB, Death has again visited us and removed
from our Grange below to that great Grange above,
our worthy sister: therefore

Resolved, That, while we humbly bow to the will
of the Great Master above, we would offer our sym-
pathy to the bereaved husband in this his hour of
trial. Especially would we remember the stricken
parents, and that circle of sisters, who cannot forget
one so dear to them. Under the parental roof, at
your accustomed home gatherings, there will be a
vacant chair; but we know that all will be well with
hei',and may we so live that when our feet go through
the cold waters of that turbid stream, our voices may
unite with hers in that angelic song, ere we reach
the other shore.

Resolved, That, as a token of respect for our de-
parted sister, these resolutions be spread upon the
records of our Grange, and a copy be sent to the
GRANGE Yisrroii for publication.

J. R. MOFFET,

E. E. Morrnr,

A. Woonswoiira.
Committee.

GREGORY.-—Died at his residence, East Muske-
gon, May 18, 1881, of typhus fever, W. B. GREGORY
aged 70 years and six months.

WHEREAS, The angel of death has summoned from
our midst our beloved brother, W’. B. Gregory;
therefore

Resolved, That, while we bow in humble submis-
sion to the divine will of our Heavenly Father, we
mourn the loss sustained by the Grange with which
he was so lately connected; and we tender our
earnest sympathy to the family of our departed
brother, while we realize the inability of our poor
words to heal the wound inflicted by the loss of a
loving husband and father.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be pre-
sented to the wife of deceased, a copy be placed up-
on the records of the Grange, and also one be sent to
the GRANGE Visrron for publication.

Bao. PELT,

Bao. BUCKINGEAM,

BRO. COLLIER,

Strawberry Grange, No. 5-34, Committee.
Muskegon, Mich, Sept. 3, 1851.

FULLMER.—Died at her home in Big Rapids,
Aug. .6, 1881, Mas. PHILENA FULLMER, :1 charter
member of Forest Grange, No. 362. The Grange
adopted the following resolutions of respect to her
memory:

WHEREAS, The Reaper Death has again been in
our midst, and an all-wise Father has seen fit to re-
move from her earthly home to her home above, our
worthy and respected Sister Fullmer; therefore

Resolved, That in her death this Grange has lost an
earnest. working mamber; and we would acknowl-
edge with gratitude her perseverance and faithful-
ness in attending the meetings of our Order in the
earlier years of our existence as such, until failing
health compelled her to remain in the quiet of her
own home. Let us strive to imitate the example
which she left us, "doing with our might what our
hands find to do.”

Resolved. That in Sister Fullmer’s death the church
of which she had long been a consistent member, has
lost an earnest advocate of the cause of truth. We
therefore extend our heartfelt sympathies to her aged
companion, to her children and friends, knowing so
well that “what is our loss is her great gaiii.”

Resolved, That a copy of these, resolutions be plac-
ed upon the records of this Grange, a copy be pre-
sented to the family of the deceased, and also one
sent to the GRANGE Visiron for publication.

Mas. ELLA ROBISON,

Mas. E. J. MARTIN,

Mas. C. W. Cnirroiv,
Committee.

WRIGI-IT.—Died of consumption, Aug. 5, 1881,
Brother RUEL WRIGHT, aged 27 years, a charter
member of Windsor Grange, No. 619. The follow-
ing resolutions of respect and condolence were adopt-
ed b this Grange:

mans, An all-wise Father has seen fit to call
our brother, Ruel Wright, who was a faithful mem-
ber of our Order. from his earthly home to his home
above; therefore

Resolved, That as a Grange we extend to this be-
reaved family that earnest, heartfelt sympathy that
springs from a true brotherly and sisterly love ; and
above all we would commend them to Him whose
tender mercies are over all his works.

Resolved, That, as an expression of our respect for
our departed brother,we drape our charter in rnourn--
ing for thirty days.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
spread on our Grange record, and also that a copy be
sent to the Gannon Vrsiroa for publication.

11. M. TOUBLEY,
Mas. H. M. Tousmnr,
A. P. VANAUKEN,

Committee.
Diinondale, Eaton (14)., Sept. 17, ’S1.

-For fullpgi-ticulars, which will be sent free, address

My invention, patented May M, 1851, re-
lates to a rack of peculiar construction de-
signed for the purpose of feeding sheep and
other animals, the ':(l‘l.l(ftll}'I: being de-
signed with special reference to an equal
distribution of the feed, to the protection of
the atteiidzuit from the animals, and to the
points of Cl1t‘:1})lle.~'S. duiability, and facility
of operation. It wilt he noticed that the
rack coiistructed affords feed openings on
both sides, that the two independent
troughs prevent the animal.-9 on one side
from obtaining the food froiii those on the
other, and that by means of the central in-
ternal board the attendant can pass freely
hack and forth thi'oLigh tlieln‘;e1‘i0i‘ without
stepping in the trough oi haviigg any in-
terference with the animals outside, also
the strips or slat.-: serve as a nieaiis of sepa-
rating the animals so that each may obtain
proper proportion of the food. On each
side of the Back I suspend by swinging
linksaboard in such a manner that the
board may be raised or lowered across the
outside of the feed openings to prevent the
animals from having access thereto, or ele-
vated above the openings so as to leave
them exposed. And standing at one end
you can elevate this board by one move of
as many racks in a line.and divide yourflocks
as you wish and do away with the old prac-
tice of shifting from one yard to another.
There are guards to throw the feed inward to
prevent the hayseed and other impurities
from entering the fleece of the animals. It
is used with equal advantage for mush feeds,
grains of all kinds, and for hay. If there
is hay in the rack it does not prevent your
feeding grain in them. You can Lise the
lumber in your old racks. They can be
made of any length of lumber.

For further information. address :

F. A. NORTH. Inventor,
Ionia, lonia L‘o., Mich.

ljullim

niniuliiiias For Liiiriisiti.
DAY & TAYLOR;

Grandville, Mich.,

Are prepared to furnish LAND PLASTER, fresh
ground, at contract prices, made with the Executive
Committee of the State Grange.
A large stock on hand of pure, finely-ground
LAND PLASTER.
Send us your Orders direct.
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We have been unable, until lately, to supply the in-
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German Horse and Cow Powders.

This powder has been in use for many years. It
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5-pound package. It is made b Dr. L. Oberholtzerls
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and in good condition. It helps to digest and assimi-
late the food. Horses will do more work, with less
food while using it. Cows will give more milk and
be in better condition. It keeps poultry healthy, and
increases the production of eggs. It is also of great
value to them when melting. It is sold at the lowest
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or! run uivagor rm:
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CH LES L. COLBY, Land Commissioner,

Milwaukee, Wis.

A.vAfinnnBERG,

MANUFACTURER,

Wnorssana AND RETAIL Deanna nc

HARNESS, WHIPS, BLANKETS, TRUNKS, &c.,

92 Monroe Street.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

I take pleasure in presenting to your favorable con-
sideration my CASH PRICE LIST of Harness Work
-—HAi\'D M.-lDE—all of my own manufacture. and
also to return thanks for the liberal patronage I have
received from the different Granges throughout Mich-
igan. I shall do in the future as in the past—furnisl:i
the best goods for the least money.

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

spread rings, complete, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$‘.9 00
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ALL ORDERS RECEIVED ‘UNDER SEAL OF
THE GRANGE
will be shipped at mice, and may be returned at my
expense if not entirely sati'si:ictory.
Address all orders to
Yours very respectfully.
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9;’ Moxaor. STREET, Gaazvn Harms.

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OCTOBER 1, 1881.

T03.

Patrons, C’auz‘2.'0n I

_ A Mr. Quarterman is representing that he
is manufacturing a Paint equal to. or the
same as the In ersoll Ready Mixed Paint.
The facts are t at previous to 1876, A. M.
Ingersoll manufactured under the J as. Quar-
tcrman patent, but the paint proved to be
poor and unreliable, and large quantities
were returned as unfit for use, and great
dissatisfaction was expressed by others.
Good paint was sent to many, at great ex-
pense, and Mr. Quarterman’s patent was
returned to his heirs as perfectly worthless.

Since 1876 the Ingersoll Paint has been an
entirely different article and gives perfect
satisfaction, which we guarantee. It is un-
questionably the best and cheapest paint in
existence. Pacrnons’ PAINT WORKS,
162 South St., New York.
N. B.-—Send for our new elegant Color
Card. Freight paid as heretofore.

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 N o. 1
milch cows; 235 fine wool Merino sheep, anumber of
hogs and poultry; Empire nine-hoe combined grain
drill; Buckeye wheel cultivator; atwo-horse tread
power, stalk cutter, root cutter, field roller, and other
implements too numerous to mention. Prices and
terms easy. For further particulars inquire of R. G.
Bostwick on the premises situated on section 30 in
the town of Canon, Kent county, Mich., 4; miles
southeast of Belmont station, G. R. & I. R. R., or of
the subscriber at Lowell. M. B. HINE_

Lowell, Aug. 8, 1881. lsept-ll:

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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-conduc-
tor of heat or cold.

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

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 sufiicient 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 013' 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 off. 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 a minute.

By this process the cream is first drawn oflf‘, 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 se Is 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

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SHOULD KNOW OF

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‘An 8-ounce ($1.00) bottle. or a 20-ounce (82.00) bottle sent on receipt of price. express prepaid, also

references and testimonials, on application to
R. PENGELLY & CO..
KALAMAZO0. MICH. (Fosmmnr or PLAINWILLJ

Sold by Drugglsts generally and Lady Agents. S\vlfl &. Dodds, and Farrandl, Williams
& 00-. Detroit. Morrison, Plummer & 00., Chicago-

EVERY FARMER IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD EXAMINE THE

New Combined Spring Tooth Sulky Harrow

CULTIVATOR AND SEEDER.

Manufactured by

THE SCHAU 8a SCHUSTER SULKY
HARROW AND SEEDER COMPANY.

Kalanxazoo. - Michigan.
As a combined machine, it stands us
rivalled in excellence, doing the work 01
g a Harrow and Seed Sower most thorough-
‘w Iy and satisfactorily. It has taken high
-rank at once as ONE OF THE VERY
' BEST IMPLEMENTS FOR THE USES
DESIGNED EVER INVEN TED. Sows

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

MICHIGAN Sure GRANGE, 2
MAsrEn’s OFFICE,
GILEAD,-MICH., August 23d, 1381. S
Masses. MCCALL J: DUNCAN :

Gentlerrze22,~—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 & 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. W'e have the same grade and
quantity of butter without the use of ice. It is sim-
ple in its arrangement, and is easily kept clean ; and
lastly but not least, we regard it as possessing that
essential quality of being a time and labor saving
arrangement for making butter, and can cheerfully
recommend it to all. L. F. COX .5: WIFE.

Portage, July 30, 188i.

MCCALL & DUNCAN.

Masses. 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 2g 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 Cooler will keep butter in
a splendid condition for any length of time. It cer-
tainly is as necessary to have a place for the preserv-
ing of butter until ready for market, as for the rais-
ing of cream. After using it through the heat of the
summer, I find the Cooler an indispensable addition
to the Creamer. You will always find me a. true
friend and warm advocate of the Acme Creamer and
Butter Cooler. MRS. O. H. FELLOWS.

Prairie Ronde, Mich., July, 1881.

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

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POULTRY

BULLETIN.

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THE worst
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The McCormick Harvesting
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“At the great Field Trials of Har-
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septl5tf KALAMAZOO, MICE.

Farmers and Patrons
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ARE you in need of a

WIND JEILL ?

If so, read the following:

THE UNDERSIGNED
WIND MILL 00..

MANUFACTURERS OF

WOLGOTT’S

PATENT
SELF- REG ULA TING

sonouwnol woo Mill,

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 otfer 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 ear, until we now have as good a Mill as
can be ound in the market--we might, like others,
say the best, but we leave it to you to judge for your-
so . Allweask isthatyougive ourMillatx-ial. It
costs you nothing to make the trial; if not satis-
factory, we take it away at our own expense.

Derricke, 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 MILL 43 HAN’F’G 00.,
septl.5-'SI.tf Albion, Mich.

all kinds of grain and grass seeds.

wherever shown in 1880.

The Harrow does not trail, and is
draft than any other Harrow in the market.

of lighter
It received first premium and diplomas

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SALE RATES on day of purchase. Terms strictly cash.

Plymouth Rooks

-AND —-

Partridge Cochins!

M Plymouth Rocks
are rom Keefer’s noted
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'Cochins are from

Pierce’s prize - Win-

ning strain. \Veaned

Chickens for sale

in early Su in mer.

Eggs in season.

_ Send for Circular to

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FENNO & MANNING,

WIIIJI COMMISSION MIIIIIHINIS,

117 Federal St., Boston.
Consignments solicited and Cash Advances Made.

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out oceans. urn.

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
ma be in the ' perfectly clean by itself, also the
coo e and chess by itself. Thtgnlfurlgktefi dz?! all off
thisinrnnnmg' thegrainonce ug e '. e
dollar in cash will be given for every cookie or obese
thatoanbefoundintheseedwheat after being once
run through the mill when properl adjusted. This
millwasswarded the highest in at Philadelphia
in 1876,alsoat the last two State fairs of Michigan.

Manufactured b

HENRY GORTR_lTlu_
Por terms to Patrons address Lansing, Mich.

'1‘. J. SHOEMAKEB,
Sec'y 637, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

THE 5 - TON

WAGON SCALES.

ARE SOLD FOR 360.

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

JONES OF BINGHAMPTON.
Binghampton. N. Y.

Send for Circulars and further particulars.

Paw PAW, Mich., May 18th, 1373.
Jonas or BINGEAMTON:
My Scales give entire satis/‘at-tion. I have subject-
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correct in weighing large or small amounts, but

perfectly reliable.
Yours, Fraternally,

J. J. WOODMAN.
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