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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

Farmer Johii—Fattening Cattle—Shee and Wheat :
Our Two Crops — Keeping Sweet otatoes ——An
Enquiry—-Agricultural Experiments, . . . . . . . . .. 1

The Great Spider -— Patrons’ Aid Society — Why
Should Patrons Take the GRANGE VISITOR P-An
Address of Installation-—Work While it is Cold
Wea.ther—Representation in the State Grange. . 2

The Green Mountain Justice,—A Northerner at
Work — We still Live —- Come In — Silver Creek
Grange, No. 644—A Coming Grange Feast— A
Meeting of the White River Vallgy Ponrona
Grange——The Benefit of Laughter--Anti-Monopoly
Membership Roll—The Tube Well Trouble-——The
Man With the Fla.il~—Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Liberal Premiums —- The Driven Well — Plaster!
Plaster ! -— Commission Agencies — VISITOE Re-
GEIPTE CON!‘INTED— Our Anti-Monopoly-——Youths’
Department—North American Review. . . . . . . . 4

. Magnolia Correspondence.-1‘he Driven Well Suits-
Reviewed—Was it a Mistalsn ?_—Education—- Noti-
ces of Meetings . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

The Golden Side———Farniers’ Homes—What are We-
man's Rights P —— The State Grange From My
Standpoint—Irons and Ironing—What a Volcano
Can Do—- Paper Car Wheels—Advantages of Michi-
gan-—About the Farmer-—-Libelous Language. . . . 6

Bob's Possession-A Group of Nieces — The Last
Relic-— The Reaper Death ——Advertisements . . . . . 7

Report bf Committee on Department of Agriculture,
Made Before the Late Session of the State Grange.
Cheating the Taxpayers—Advertisements . . . . .. 8

Office rs National Grange.

Masrsn-—J. J. WOODMAN,. . .Paw Paw, Michigan.

Ovisizsisnis-—PUT. DARDEN, ......... . .Mississippi.
LEc1‘U:BEB.——HENRY ESHBAUGH, . . . . ..Missouri.
S'.l'nwL3D—A. J. VAUGHN, .......... ..Mississippi.
Assr. SrEwAizn—W§LLIAM SIMS, . . . . . . ..Ka.nsas.
Cns.1>I..uN—S. H. ELLIS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..0hio.
TBEAS‘U'EEB—F. M. McDOWELL, .... ..New York.
SncnnrAnY—WM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.
Gan:-Kn_i;i>isn—O. DINWIDD1E,..- ..... ..Ind.iana.
Ci:n1i—MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, ...... ..Mi'chigan.
Poxo1u—MRS. PUT. DARDEN, .... ..Missi'ssippi.

FI.onA—MRS. I. W. NICHOLSON,...New Jersey.
LADY Assr. S'I‘EWARD- MRS. WM. SIMS, Kansas.

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Executive commIttee-

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

Ofllcers-Mlcuhlgan state Grange.

M.—C. G. LUCE,.L ...................... ..Gilead. stock to eastern markets cheaper than Mich-
0.—A. N. WOODRUFF", . . . . . . . . . . . . .Watervliet. igan.' ‘
CHARLES E. MICKLBY . . . . . . . . . . .. _ ...Thurber. And again, his local cugtomgrg will not
5-*3 5- T00KEB'v -------------------- --Lf"“‘i11E- buy good fat stock. Bulls, stags, old cows,
3' ‘]’3‘;:“_‘3tg“' thin steels and heifers make up the chief
T:__s. F. BROWN,”  ......... I-’Sch supply for our Michigan cities and villages.

- There seems to be no local demand for any
Snc.—J. T. COBB, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schoolcraft. . .
G_K._ELUAH BARTLETT, ___________ Hnrydem other kind of cattle except at ‘Chi-istmas.
cn_Es'_M3s_ A_ s_ S-1-ANN-ARD, ________ __L0we,L The Detroit cattle market quotations are as
Poxo1u.—Mns. H. D. PLATT,.....;  .Ypsi.lanti. f0110WS= one bull: 1420 11>» 21? Gents? lien SW39»
Enona.-—Mns. A N. WO0DBUFF,....Watervliet. 1100 119. 3 cents; six head. 700 lb. 3 cents; four
L. A. S.—Mns. A. E. GREEN, ....... . .Fa.rmington. old cows. 850 lb. 2% cents.

 

Executlvo committee-

' —— _ than any other city in the State, yet a
g‘   large part of the cattle slaughtered for
1,‘. H. HOLLOWAY”N.l:2‘.1'-"'.:"'_'-1":'.HIEnsdale. home consumption in other places is of
rnoms MARS, ............... ..Berrien Center. the “me gene“ °h““"°‘°" when 8°°dv
wn_ sATTEBLEE,_________________Birming,mm_ well-fattened beef cattle are offered to our
TH0s_ I-_ MOORE, _____________________ _ _Ad,.,,m_ butchers, they frequently say, I would like
J. o BAMSDELL ................. ..Traverse City. 00 purchase. but our people do not eat that
0. c. LUOE, J. T. cons, ............ ..Ex-ofiicio. kind of beef-

 

state quslness Agent.

consumes on the average a little poorer beef

people become cultivated sufficiently to dis-
tinguish between good and. poor beef, that

ggguvfis :éioN’ """  ""  their tastes must be indulged, and their
' ' """""""""""" " wants for something old, tough, thin ind

FARMER JOHN.

BY ELLEN P. ALLEBTON.

“If I’d nothing to do.” said Farmer John,
“To fret or to bother me-

Were I but rid of this mountain of work,
What a. good man I could be!

“The pigs get out, and the cows get in,
Where they have no right to be;

And the weeds in the garden and the corn—-
Why, they fairly frighten me.

“It worries me out of temper quite,
And well nigh out of my head.

What a curse it is that a. man must toil
Like this for his daily bread!”

But Farmer John he broke his leg,
And was kept for many a week

A helpless and an idle man—
Was he therefore mild and meek?

Of sitting and nothing to do-
And the farm -work botched by a shiftless hand,
He got very cross and blue.

He slolded the children and cufied the dog
That fawned about his knee;

And snarled at his wife. though she was kind
Andpatient as wife could be.

The whole of the long day through,
“’Twill ruin the quite,” cried Farmer John,
“To sit here ;with nothing to do.”

His hurt get well, and he went to work,
And a busier man than he, '

A happier man, one pleasanter man,
You never would wish to see.

The pigs got out, and he drove then back,
Whistling right merrily;

He mended the fen cc, and kept the cows
Just where they ought to be.

Weedin the garden was jolly fun,
' hoeing the corn,
" -'I’i1i‘...  ‘at far," I-_-aid Faimer John,
“ThanJ?;’ve been since I was born.‘

He learned a lesson that lasts him well-
'Tvi ill last him his whole life through,

He frets but seldom, and never because
He has plenty of work to do.

“I tell you what,” says Farmer John,
“They are either knaves or fools

Who long to be idle——for idle hands
Are the Devil’s chosen tools."

 

Fallening Cattle.

[VVe know Bro. C. G. Luce as a successful
farmer, and we further know that he under-
stands why he succeeds in any special de-
partment of farming to which he turns his
attention. In compliance with our request
he has furnished us with the following, the
first of a series of articles on the above sub-
ject.—Ei)] '
This is a subject of growing importance
to the Michigan farmer. The rapid concen-
tration of population in the cities and vil-
lages of the coun try, creates a. constantly in-
creasing demand for beef cattle. But when
the thoughtful farmer sits down to lay his
plans for supplying this demand with profit
to himself and satisfaction to his customers,
he is met by several serious obstacles.

First, he is compelled to compete with
stock growers of the western plains where
land is much cheaper than it is here, and
his location gives him but little protection
against this competition. Illinois gets its

And while it may be true that Detroit

We suppose until the tastes of our city

Speclal Lecturers. . poor supplied. _

_  EH00", _ _ _ _ Mdm,hu'” 00. But there’ is no possible chance for the
it. 1.. Stevens. ....... . .......Pen'y, siiinnuoe co. farmer 3° 89‘ P35’ 1'01’ his 79°?“ in k°°Pin8 01’
Mn. 8. Steele, .............. ..I[n.nton, Woxford co, trying to fatten this kind of stock. The
sum: o-mben........rp-sine, Wuhtennw Oo. grain. crass. buy or roots fed to these three
I. W. Wing .......... "Ann Arbor, Wuhtennw co. cent cattle,coste just as much as it does when

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dimiulluial Eeitwlmiit t“:.:*::2:.‘:.;‘.:::°:;:*: ‘:;.:*::::e:,;::.:,‘::*:

Nay; what with the pain, and what with the fret

He grumbled and whined, and fretted and fumed,

 

“draw out thought and thus make an advance

fed to stock worth 5 or 6 cents per poungl.

in our eastern cities. as well as in the coal
mines of Pennsylvania.
Notwithstanding these drawbacks we
must continue to breed and fatten cattle for
market. To sustain the fertility of our soil
we must do this, even though the direct
profit may be small.
And what we shall feed is of the very
first importance. After many years expe-
rience and observation we give this the first
place on the list of requisites. In this, as in
many other respects, blood will tell. VVliile
the farmer may receive a reasonable reward
for feeding cattle of good breed and forms.
he never can in feeding big horns, big
heads, narrow chests or backs, or cat hams.
For feeding purposes we should have cattle
of robust constitution, quiet in disposition;
good strong lungs areindispensable; abroad
back is essential. All this combination of
good qualities may be found in our improved
breeds. VVhile others may be as good, and
possibly better, yet the short-horns answer
well for our purpose. They are good feed-
ers; whether there is any better or best, we
do not know.
But good high grades of this breed do well
enough for the present. There is some satis-
faction in feeding them at all events; and
when well handled and sold it is a fairly pay-
jng business. By a report ofthe proceedings
of the Michigan Cattle Breeders’ Association
at its late session in Lansing, we learn that
our State stood third lathe list of full blood-
ed cattle. Coming from the source that it
did we will presume it l.0 be correct, though
it is a surprise with the fact before us, and
with-a.ll tl:..r- other fz-.':t*i3§n connection with
the subject we are, as an esteemed brother
would say, profoundly impressed with the
want of wisdom on the part of so many
Michigan farmers evinced in their selection
of stock.
Brother farmer, there is no money, satis-
faction, or credit in keeping these rough,
cat-hamed, coarse cattle on the farm.
You can never make good beef of a steer
when his fore legs are so near together that
you can scarely run a knife blade between
them. and his hind legs so close together
that the poor animal has to swing one leg
around the other to walk.
If our city friends will insist upon this
kind of beef, let them be careful, after about
two years more, to ship in their supply from
somewhere else. ‘We can no longer afibrd
to supply their wants. There is quite a
stock in the State now of this class. We
will not cut down on them toosuddenly, we
have enough for them for two or three years.
When we work off this lot or parcel, let us
solemnly resolve to do so no more forever.
In the next VISITOR we shall endeavor to

say something about the method of fatten-
ing cattle.

 

Sheep and Wheal—0ur Two Crops.

This subject may not interest the readers
of every department in your valuable paper,
but it is so closely allied to the interests offar-
mers that we trust the few ideas herein pre-
sented may be found worthy a place where
some of your numerous readers may find
them. Any discussion of the subject will

in the right direction.

ln this day and age of improved farm
machinery, with the vast acreage of wheat
producing lands, and facilities for growing
and handling immense quantities, the
tendency is to over production with its con-
sequent unremunerative price to the produ-
cers. Is there not another industry that
will go hand in hand with -it making a
diversity of products thereby increasing our
chances of profits on the whole should a
part fail? On our high-priced lands, with
corresponding high rents and taxes, 9. good
crop from year to year is very essential, and
when it is obtained we should adopt some
plan whereby we can realize with tolerable
certainty a fair profit on our investment
from year to year of its wheat producing
qualities. ‘

Now if we continue to strip our land
sooner or later it will deteriorate in quality
and value. It is obvious we must replenish
exhausted conditions either by leaving the
coarser part of the crop on the ground, or
substituting something else in the shape of
phosphates. Some advocate headers for

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happy, and we will wait on them to the best
of our ability.

the field. In this way nothing is wasted,the
manure is made under cover, the straw ab-
sorbs the liquid, and if properly managed,
the sheep will increase the value of the
land in productiveness. This care of sheep
takes time and work, but it comes at the
season of the year when labor is cheap and
seems to fill in a part of the year when with-
out something of this kind much time
would be wasted.
thirds of the year getting in the first crop, it
is no more than fair to give the other one-
third to the next, and we will venture odds
on the second crop paying best, one year
with another, other things being equal.

the straw for manure. Other:-A scatter from
the thresliing machine, while some pile it
up in high piles to plow around from year to
year. Now my plan to accomplish a desired
end is to add to the general business of rais-
ing grain, is flock of sheep, and instead of
taking otfone crop each year and leaving
the land poorer I get two crops, one of
wheat and the other of sheep, and at the
same time keep up the fertility of the soil.
Perhaps we have put that a little strong, let
us see what can be done.
\Ve raise wheat, corn, oats, and barley,
and each has a large per cent. of coarse feed,
which if properly cared for is valuable and
will return to the producer as much profit in
proportion to the cost  the grain already
secured. Some raise sheep and grow wool,
while others keep them to supply the West-
ern stock ranches. Either of these methods
necessitates the keeping of the flock the
entire year. Now, in iiiy opinion what we
want is some method whereby we can
utilize our coarser products and not interfere
with our grain producing interests, and at
the same time enhance the value of our
farms by increasing their productiveness.
Iii localities better adapted to grass than
grain the farmer can keep sheep about as
cheaply one season of the year as another,
but on our grain raising farms We can winter
more stock with proper management than
we can summer.
My plan is this: raise wheat in the sum-
mer and grow sheep in the winter. Now "
suppose we lo? the grass producing farms
raise the lambs and grow the wool until, we
will say, the sheep are three years old, then
the grain producing farmers with their corn
and abundance of coarse feed put on the fat
ready for the Easteni market. _
On a farm largely occupied with wheat
there is usually little pasture the fore part of
the season, but after haying and harvest
there is the meadow, then the stubble, then,
perhaps, a summer fallow which, together
with the pastu re lot, and may be some clover
on a neighbor’s farm which can often be
had for what it is worth, ajudicious farmer
can often carry a good number of sheep until
winter without lessening the number
of his acres for wheat.

mence growing my second crop. I have

straw well stacked in the yard. VVe have
bought our wethers since haying, and kept
them on the ground from which we took the

neighbor who has no sheep.
As winter approaches I make up any short-

troughs in the field, and when stormy

and the refuse to manure. My flock is care-

feeding need a good, light, dryand ainy place
with room en’ough to eat, drink, and sleep

want them to lie down and be quiet and

We regulate the kind of feed and quantity t

We clean out the pens and draw directly to 9

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K. C.

IMPRO VED.”

first crops with such assistance as we have periments, hence we

referred to, and we may add the fellows ofthe by the Fupfirintendent Of the Guelllh model
farm in Canada. They are interesting and
are as follows:

cattle beast, well done to, can

than four and one-half cents per pound
(live weight).

hay will produce not far from five tons of
manure, provided that she be well littered
and none of the exc-rements be wasted.

 
   
  
   
   
  
    
    
   
    
  
    
  
    
    
  
    
   
     
  
  
 
  
  
   
    
 
    
     
   
  
  
  
   
      
   
   
   
  
   
   

}Your SUBSCRIPTION
(will Expire with N0.

Keeping Sweet Polaloes.

Oui' method with sweet potatoes is to sort
them in the field when dug, placing them in
barrels; then they are taken to the house or
barn, and left open for a few days. Those
intended for long keeping are removed to
the family sitting room, where a fire is kept
at night during cold weather. My barrel
stands within four feet of the stove. To
keep it from being unsightly, I have a
square cover several inches larger than the
diameter of the barrel, to which a calico
curtain is tacked, and the top is covered
with a newspaper, making a convenient
table, which I use to lay papers and books
upon. This year I have added another curi-
veiiieiice, which may be worth mentioning.
Around the center of the barrel I have tack-
ed half a dozen pockets——made from a pair
of old overalls——to contain mittensand slip-
pers that are in daily use and have hereto-
fore been placed on the floor behind the
stove.

For the past six years we have followed
the above method with perfect success in
keeping seed potatoes. \Ve do not use them
for the table much after the middle of De-
cember, as they seem to lose their flavor. So
the barrels containing table potatoes stand
in the kitchen and pantry. The best plan is
to have a room constructed especially for
them, and warmed by fire heat to keep the
atmosphere dry and at an average tempera-
ture of 60 degrees——never below. But those
"persons who have small houses and limited
incomes will find the first method a good

one. Onxwoon.
Klinger’s Lake, Jan. 5, ’82.

‘An Enquiry.

Will some of the many readers of the
VISITOR who have had practical experience
in tile-draining please answer the following
questions:

1. Will it pay totile-drain heavy clay
land that can be surface drained with dead
furrows?

2. How far apart and how deep should
drains be laid in such soil?

3. \Vhat implements are needed to work

And now I com_ to advantage in leveling and laying tiles?

4. Are any of the ditching machines

already secured my wheat, which is in the Worthy °f me in laying t“e'dr”'i"5= and
gmnery 0,. drawn to market" My hay is in -about how much per rod should it cost to

..the barn; corn in the crib and stalks and have medmms put in? C‘ 0'

 

Agricultural Experiments.

We are all interested in agricultural ex-
give below those made

1. A steady frosty winter is better than

age in pasture by feeding shelled corn in an open one in feeding cattle.

2. An average two or three-year old

Weather conleg I hcuse nly sheep and devote steer    OWD  On different
full time to converting my feed into mutton materials m two weeks‘

3. Two or three-year-old cattle will add

_ , -th' d f d h d ,
fully sorted with reference to size. build, and fémthelii ,‘,’,§g’f,(,’“3p,,'f,‘°re per ea per day

grade of wool, getting those of a a kind to- roots than upon the same materials unpre-
getherin pens of about 40 each. Sheep for

prepared hay and

pared.

4. It is 30 per cent. more profitable to

pre-manure and dispose of fattening cattle

at two years old than to keep them up to
without crowding, and when-they are full we t

hree years.
5. There is no-loss in feeding a cattle beast

well upon a variety of materials for the sake
of the manure alone.

6. Farm-yard manure from well-fed cattle,
hree years old. is worth an average of $2.30

according to the condition of the sheep, sea- Per mu‘
son of the year, and temperature of the
weather, always feeding the poorest feed in
the coldest weather. We carry all the feed _ _
and water to them and when feeding straw the dim“ Increase '0 “S weigh” from the
and stalks we don't ask them to eat it up too
clean, but after they have got the best of it
use the rest for bedding.

7. A three-year-old cattle beast, well-fed, ’

will give at least one ton of manure every
month of winter.

8. No cattle beast whatever will pay for

consumption of any kind or quantity of food.

9. On an average it costs 12 cents for every

additional pound of flesh added to the
weight of atwo or three—year-old fattening

teer.
10. In this country _the market value of
tore cattle can be increased 36 per cent dur-

ing six months of finishing, by good feeding.

11. In order to secure a safe roflt, no store
sold at less

12. In the fattening of wethers, to finish

as shearlin s, the Cotswold and Leicester
grades can e made up
Oxford Down 180 pounds, and the South-
We have put in two_ down (grades) 160 pounds each, live weight.

to 200 pounds, the

A cow wintered on two tone and a half of

 

IN feeding, farmers should remember that

the measure of the value of 8 food, is in a
_____________________ - great degree determined by its price. If hay

worth $10.00 rim: and com the some

T‘ t‘ ed 20,000 t— l.feedl
cutting wheat, thereby leaving nearly all entsnlfistgygglmen 185“ over pa gee 8

y of corn, using hay enough
dlstend the stomachs of the -animals

   
    
    
 
      
     
    
     
      
     
     
        
    
        
    
         
  
      
 
       
       
     
   
     
  
    
   
  
 
    
      
     
     
     
    
       
      
       
   
   
      
      
  
         
  
        
    
         
      
   
         
    
 
     

   
   
        
    
      
   
    
      
    
       
    
     
   
    
     
  
  
  


  finmmtmitatimm.

' the VIsI'ron.? The principles of the Order

2

————.._._. ._..... ,.,.,_-___ __, __ __,*j_____ ._M__,.

TEE GRAQVGE VESEEOBg

FEBRUARY 1, 1882.

THE GREAT SPIDER.

A spider sat in his basement den,

Weaving his snares for the souls of men.

“I will not work with my hands,” quoth he,

“An easier pathway must open for me."

He spreads lfis tables of greenest baize,

And many a cunning trap he la s;

The marble balls are smooth an white,

The den is blazing with floods of light.

Behind Me bar the spider stands;

There is not a wise man in the land

But will lose his wit and become a tool,

If he yields himself to the spider's rule.

There is not a man so strong and brave,

But the spider will dig him a shameful grave.
There is not a youth so noble and fair,

But will learn to drink and gamble and swear

In the spider's den. But do not, pray,

Dare to dispute the spider’s sway;

If you sweep the den with the law's strong broom,
Perhaps you might make a cleaner room;

But then, men are fearful—a little afraid,

In fact, on the spiders to make a raid;

’Twould stir up excitement -and spiders must live,
So our dear household treasures we atiently give;
The spider still sits in his basement d)en,
Lying in wait for the souls of men.

Bro. Cobb.--—I have been reading an arti-
cle in your VISITOR of J 2111., 1882, signed by
Milton Chase, treating upon our P. A. S.
and its faults. Bro. C. seems to think there
is need of a prohibition clause in our by-
laws, to bar out all brothers ‘and sisters, who
may drink to injure their‘ health, from
joining this branch of the Grange work.
In the first place I don’t think they could
begood Patrons of Husbandry if they got
drunk, or drink to injure their health, and
should not belong to the Grange at all; and
any Grange that is so unlucky as to have
any such members the sooner it gets rid
of them the sooner it will become a live
Grange. Second, if any brother or sister
should stoop so low as to tipple or drink,
he should not surely ask to join the Aid
Society and take an oath before God that
they were temperate when they were not,
or in plain English swear to a lie.

N ow,Bro. C. read the application of the Pa-

tron’s Aid Society again: I hereby certify
that I am a Patron of Husbandry, in good
health,that I am correct and temperate in my
habits, and have no injury or disease, consti-
tutional or otherwise, which will tend to
shorten my life, and I am in regular stand-
ing in Grange, and so forth. Now, Bro.
C. there surely isn't a brother or sister in"
our noble Order that would be guilty of the
crime of perjury or false pretense. If the
brother hadn't spoke in the past tense there
is one clause in his essay that would grieve
me very much, but thinking he refers back
when» the Grange was in its mushroom
growth, and the gates, as it were, stood ajar
for all mankind; when merchants specula-
tors and oflice seekers, were trying to mold
it after their fashion, and bring the iron
heel upon the farmer again. But blessed
be God, these dark days have past, and we
once more see truth and the right prevail.
All we ask is to have the truth and right
more abundantly. The article I refer to is
this. I have personally known some
Grangers, that are thus covered up, etc.
Now, Bro 0. please give this Patron’s Aid
Society your attention, and if you are a Pat-
ron join it and help us carry on this good
work. I would be glad to have every Pat-
ron and I think it is the duty of. all to join
"and help one another in this branch of the
work. As I have already occupied too
much space I will close, hoping Bro. C. will
not feel hard at me for criticising him in
my rough way. GILES T. STRONG.

HILLS Commas. Jan. 10th, 1882.

Why Should Every Patron Take the “Grange
Visitor?"

A goper read before the Montcalm County Pomona
range, Jan. 12, and by vote of the Grange sent
7 for publication.

First, because it is emphatically the farm-
ers’ friend, and is owned and controlled by
our Order. Through the medium of the
VISITOR we hear from the various
branches of the Grange throughout the
State and nation. We ‘may know at all
times how the noble principles of the Order
are progressing. The VIsIToa tells us at the
end of each year how many Granges are
entitledto the annual word for the coming
year, or, in other words, are “alive and
kicking.” Three hundred and eighteen are
reported as having paid all dues up to Dec.
25, 1881, in this State. Many others, no
doubt, will soon fall in line that have not
yet reported. When some old moss-back
tells you the Grange is dying, how are you
going to dispute his word unless you take

can never die while man inhabits the earth.
Secondly, it is worth many times its cost
as an educator in your family. Through the
VISITOR your children will be informed
upon all topics relating to the farm and
home. They will learn to love the Grange
while young, and will be both able and
willing to do something for the class to
which they belong, when they arrive at the
proper age to be admitted to membership.
The Sabbath-school is called the nursery of‘
the church. Now, let us aim to make our
homes nurseries of the Grange, by keeping
themfisupplied with Grange literature.
Thirdly, it pays to take e Vrsrron be-
cause it “speaks right out in meeting."
other pnlpers are published more or less

under the control of politicians and monop-

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olists, whiskey-rings and demagogues,
whose interest is to_ keep the farmers
from knowing too much of the things that
most nearly concern their temporal salva-
tion. The VISITOR keeps these things
prominently before the eyes of the reader at
all times. The paper that advertises largely
for railroad corporations, and whose editor
“dead heads” his way on the cars when he
wishes totravel, is not likely to show up
the villianies of said corporations; but is
very muchinterested in covering up and
hiding from the farming community all
their vile tricks, practiced to cheat and
swindle the producer.

Fourthly, the VISITOR is not published
for the purpose of making money. The
plan upon which it is carried on, is to make
it pay expenses. When it produces a sur-
plus, the paper is enlarged, without increas-
ing the price; so we at all times get just as
much in material and labor on the paper as
our money pays for, and many times its cost
in the instruction it imparts.

Fifthly, it is our duty, as members of the
Order, to support and sustain all things cal-
culated to strengthen and spread the princi-
ples of the same. The VISITOR is a mighty
lever with which to lift the obstructions
that block our path, and should be in the
family of every farmer as well as Patron.
And I believe, if such were the case, it
would do more in this State to advance the
farming interest than all the political papers
published. ,

Sixthly, we should take it because it is
an excellent paper; and the more support
it gets the better it will be. This paper, as
Brother Cobb says, "has not been pushed
to its present position. It has been very
modest in the use of trumpets to sound its
own praise; and what blowing it has re-
ceived has not been through its own horn.”

Now, sisters and brothers, see to it that
you have this “just splendid” periodical
for a visitor twice each month in your
homes, and Iain sure your minds will be
enlarged, your fields will bear better crops,
your sheep will yield more wool, your cows
give more milk, and your butter come
quicker and be of better quality; your
children will be more obedient, your com-
panion more agreeable, your sleep sweeter,
and your dreams more pleasant.

A. Mason,
Lect. Crystal Grange, No. 441.
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An Address of Installation.

Address of Master of Milford Grange on leaving the
chair. Milford, Delaware.

Brothers, Sisters, and Friends .-——If it was
clearly understood what Patrons were work-
ing for I believe they would have the help
and sympathy of all.

They are trying to increase the social and
intellectual advantages of the farmer, to put
him on equal footing with other trades and
professions. They are trying to increase his
productive powers, so that where he now
raises but one blade of grass he may raise
two. This will give him means and leisure
for social enjoyment, and they aim to teach
him to improve that leisure.

This is not a selfish end. nor are the benefits
that will flow from it only to be shared by

farmers. Nearly one-half of the population ‘

of the United States is engaged in agricul-
ture, and whatever tends to increase.their
prosperity must benefit all other classes of
industry ; whatever tends to increase their
moral worth must add stability and power
to our government.

The Grange is doing a great work. Much
has been accomplished, but much remains to
be done. There is not a State in our Union
but what has had the light of the Grange
kindled within its borders, and it is burn-
ing brighter every year, but there are many
places still in darkness, and it should be our
aim to extend that light till at least in our
own little State every farmer has heard
what are the principles of the Patrons of
Husbandry. ~

To you, friends,who are with us today for
the first time, I would say this annual meet-
ing gives you some idea of what we are
working for. Can you not give us your aid
and sympathy ? And I would especially
ask those who are eligible to join with
us in what I am sure they will find is
a good and profitable work.

Brothers and sisters, during the past, year
while in the chair I have done my best to in-
crease the prosperity of Milford Grange.
My efforts have not been crowned with that
degree of success that I had hoped for, but I
am satisfied that the cause is advancing, that
as the principles of the Grange are better
understood it is better liked, and it is living
down the opposition that was once strong
against it. I am- encouraged to persevere,
and I trust that every member of our Grange
will start out today with a determination to
do their best for the cause. Now is the time.

Success is within our grasp; it only needs a .

few more sturdy blows. and ignorance,
prejudice, the greed of wealth for wealih’s
sake, and the giant monopolies, those deadly
enemies ofthe farmer, will be beneath his
feet; education, intelligence, the spirit of
contentment, and the true principles of co-
operation will reign in their stead. Then
agriculture will take the rank that God in-
tended it should, as the most honorable, use-
ful and noble employment that man can
engage in. R. H. G.

THE London Truth says: America is
sending England prime beef and mutton.

A Business Man’s Opinioniot the Profession.

To the Editor of the Grange Visitor .-—I
have read with great pleasure in the col-
umns of your paper, the criticisms you have
made from time to time, upon the course of
lawyers in the various phases of political
and social economy. No, I don’t mean
economy, for if there ever was a thing, or
entity, or guild, or profession, the opposite
of economy, as it is generally understood,
lawyers certainly stand in the front ranks.

I mean to say I have noted the good ad-
vice you have given your readers to avoid
lawyers, and to turn a deaf ear to their so-
phistical promises and pleadings.

I have recently had my attention called
to the subject by various conversations
which people have introduced, in which the
sharpness of lawyers has been the themefvl
and the expense they have infiicted upon
the taxpayer. One reason that the law
business has become unprofitable is the
great increase of this horde of predatory
creatures on the one hand, and‘ the cost of
collecting a debt on the other; in the first
instance the number of sharks makes a large
prey go but alittle way, and in the second
place, persons who have to resort to litiga-
tion to recoveradebt, prefer to lose it for
the reason it will cost them more than the
debt to collect it, and the taxpayers,
through the “law’s delay” will have to pay
many times the expense involved, in the
cost of maintaining the court during its
trial. A man, for instance, sues for the
value of a hog, or calf or sheep. The suit is
begun in a justice court; the. case is then
appealed. Several days are passed in the
circuit before judge orjury, who sit patient-
ly while a rascal of a lawyer takes all the
time he can possibly obtain, by fair means
or by foul,§to prolong the trial of the case
so as to make his fee larger, and for other
purposes. The jury brings in a verdict
which this pettifogger does not like. He
moves for a new trial; failing in this dodge,
he induces his client to take the case to the
Supreme court. Nor is that the end of it.
The case is sent back for a rehearing on
some technicality, if not reversed, and by
the time the matter of dispute is terminated
there is but poverty for the contestants, for
the lawyers have absorbed their worldly

possessions. _
I need not give further details of the

losses entailed upon litigants when they
determine to resort to the so-called courts of
justice. The greed and chicane of lawyers
have been the subject of wit,’ satire, and
denunciation for ages; and there is no
chance of reform with them. Once place
yourself in the hands of an average attor-
ney and you know ' ot where you will end‘
——unless, of course, your defendant is one
who surrenders at the first fire and permits
the case to go by default rather than risk
his all to maintain what he regards his
rights.

We establish State schools for making
lawyers at the people's expense; we pay, as
we have in this county already. $4,000 for
a library, and more and more will be asked
toincrease that library; we employ a ste-
nographer, we furnish a commodious and
comfortable court-house with a smoking
room attached, we employ servants to wait
upon the attorneys, we employ clerks and
are at no end of expense to provide the ma-
chinery so that lawyers shall have as little
inconvenience as it is possible in their pur-
suit, or their calling—and in return they,
grateful beings, unite in establishing a fee
bill, and charge a dozen times more for their
services than any other class of men, pro-
fessional or otherwise——besides demanding
special and almost unlimited prices for ser-
vices outside of that scale of prices. You
send for an old, tried, skilled physician, one
who stands at the head of his profession, to
attend you and yours when ill. He devotes
days and nights, expensive medicines, the
results of years of hard study and experi-
ence to you; he cures you, saves your life,
and presents his bill, which is a great deal
less than a lawyer would require you to pay
for collecting a small debt. And yet the
people do everything for the lawyer and
scarcely anything for the doctor. And why
is this? Because when fools fall out rogues
take advantage of their folly and strip them
as the wily pismire milks the wooly aphis,
as the parasite fostering upon his victim
fattens at the cost of the creature’s life.

In what I have said, Mr. Editor, I've but
briefly touched upon a few phases of a. law-
yer's practice. There are other and darker
features I leave unpictured which, were
the light of truth let in upon them would
show the profession to be unworthy of any
good man's regard; but rather would it ex-
cite the disgust and contempt, the hatred
and execration, of all rightiminded men.

But some may say who read this: "You
deal in denunciation wholly: are there no
good lawyers, honest attorneys, high-
minded counsellors?” Perhaps there are.
Mind you, I am not dealing with the pri-
vate character of these men. Many of the
lawyers of Kalamazoo are my personal
friends‘, worthy citizens, faithful husbands,
fond and wise parents. and good neighbors
in their private capacity——men who would
be on a par in their daily life with many
humbler and less noted citizens, did they
not make it a business to flourish on other
men’s quarrels and thrive by inflaming
men's passions one toward another.

Their lives ‘are spent in learning how to

defending wrong, and in throwing the
weight of their learning on the side of
wrong doing, in aiding the powerful to op-
press the weak, and setting the criminal
free by freak of legal legerdemain.

Recently a gentleman met a lawyer of
Kalamazoo on the train and conversation
arose about business. Among other things
the lawyer said: I have lately varied my
practice. When a client Eas come to me
and stated his case I have endeavored to
learn all there was of it, and then have
sought to bring the parties in dispute to-
gether to effect asettlement. In this I have
been quite successful and have been the
means of effecting an amicable settlement,
and the men have parted friends to each
other dhdto me. For this I have charged
a small fee which was most cheerfully paid.
But my brother lawyers have angrily de-
murred to this. “You fool!” they ex-
claimed, “do you not see that you not only
impoverish yourself but you deprive us of
business at the same time‘? You will ruin
the law business by this course. You might
have obtained a good fee and your brother
lawyers could have had a good fee also and
the parties would have had the benefit of a
trial or two, and in the end been content to
abide by the result. These men are our le-
gitimate game and it is for this that we
strive and it is on this that we depend for
a living. If men are enabled to settle their
disputes in this cheap manner where is the
profit of the lawyer's profession?"

work While it is Cold Weather.

Some weeks ago there appeared an article
in the VISITOR under the head of “work in
the party” from a contributor, which struck
me as containing some very seasonable
hints. Fear that anything from me which
spoke my mind would be too radical, has
deterred me from writing until the present.
It seems to me that now is the proper time
for the discussion of the topics referred to
by the contributor. _ -

Afew short weeks will bring again the
heat and toil of summer, and also the heat
of an exciting political campaign, when the
politicians seek to prejudice and mislead
the minds of the people, by every species of
sophlstry that they can invent.

Now before we can hope to overcome the
great incorporated monopolies, the masses
of the people must understand what prin-
ciples of truth and justice are violated by
them. And there is no better way to bring
about this result than to agitate through the
columns of the VISITOR, agitate in the
Grange, agitate on the street corners and
agitate by the firesides of our neighbors and
friends. ,. l "

The rings that sought to control the plas-
ter trade were not surrounded and in-
trenched by the law, and were easilybroken
up; but we cannot reach the money power
except by legislation; and that brings us
within the realm of politics, where we must
make our influence felt. '

I fully agree with the writer referred to,
that we do not need another party, as there
are three in the field already, but if we wish
to bring about’ a better state of things, we
must do diferently. As a means of stating
my views better on this point, I will put
forth the following query, and state my
opinion on the same. .

Why have we not obtained the legisla-
tion which so many of our people have pe-
titioned for?

Now, the reason to my mind is plain.
There are conflicting interests in this coun-
try; the interests of the great corporations
are antagonistic to the interests of the la-
boring masses, and our legislators have
chosen to serve Mammon rather than the
people. And are our legislators wholly to
blame‘? I think not. Let us see. When
the two great political parties met in their
respective convent_ions, the first thing in
order was to draft a platform that contained
a declaration of principles that was to gov-
ern their actlon_for the next four years.

Care was taken to have no plank or clause
therein that would in any way offend the
money power. And when our conventions
meet to nominate candidates for Congress
the first thing done usually is to pass a res-
olution endorsing that Chicago or that Cin-
cinnati platform. When a man accepts a
nomination by any party, he is supposed
to indorse their platform, and when we vote
for any man on any platform we are sup-
posed to indorsé both. So we have virtual-
ly given them their instructions at the bal-
lot-box, and they have followed them well
thus far.

Upon the subject of sending farmers to
Congress, as a means of righting our
wrongs, I fear» _it will be too slow a process.
It is well enough that we should insist on
a fair representation as a class, but if we are
never to have any legislation against me-
nopoly, until farmers have a majority in
both houses of Congress, our children that
are not yet born may die of old age before
our hopes are realized. - -

There are principles involved in the con-
test with the money powef, that afl“ect the
interests of mankind, and we should never
vote for a farmer from the simple fact that
he is a farmer, nor ever vote against a law-
yer for the simple fact that he is a lawyer.
But if Mr. Lawyer represents our principles
and is known to be upright and honest,
why not give him achancei’

H. Angus.

make the worst appear the better cause, in

VVAKESHMA, Jan. 10th, 1882.

Representation in the

State Grange.

I infer from Bro. Cortland Hil|’s article
in the last VISITOR that the subject of rep-
resentation in the State Grange was before
that body at its last session. What action
was taken in regard to itI am not informed.
Bro. Hill thinks the State Grange as at
present constituted is as it should be. H
thinks the petitioners who ask for a change
in the constitution of the National Grange
Want the privilege of voting in the State
Grange. Now, in my opinion, 4th degree
members care less about voting in the State
Grange than they do about being made cat's
paws to pull chestnuts out of the fire for the
more favored ones to devour. I have known
instances where 4th degree members have
refused to be delegates to the County Con-
vention for the reason that they are not wil-
ling to submit to the humiliation of being
only a cipher among their betters. I have
knowniustances wherea few Masters and
Past Masters composed the convention en-
tirely,and elected themselves as delegates to
the State Grange. Our conventions are usual-
ly composed of Masters, Past Masters, and
their wives. What satisfaction is it for a
good brother to spend his time to attend a
convention where he is compelled to take a
back seat, and where the favored ones may
say, “You may vote for me, or some one
who has worn the ‘M’ on his sash, but I
cannot vote for you.” Our brother thinks
4th degree members never learned that the
Masters of the State or National Granges
are not allowed to vote in the bodies over
which they preside, and no complaint
either. I presume 4th degree members are
aware of that, and further, they know very
well that in nearly all legislative and other
bodies the presidnig officer has the casting
vote in case of a tie; that is quite satisfac-
tory to me at least.

The brother further says the argument
offered in favor of a change is, we do not
always send the best material to represent
us, and that such a policy is not democratic,
but favors a particular class to the exclusion
of all others. I think the argument is
sound. The objection is well taken, espec-
ially that part in regard to its not being
democratic.

The latter part of the Declaration of Pur-
poses reads as follows : “ We desire a proper
equality, pquity, and fairness; protection
for the weak, restraint upon the strong; in
short, justly distributed burdens, justly dis-
tributed powers. These are American ideas
—the very essence of American independ-
ence, and to advocate the contrary is unwor-
thy of the sons and daughters of an Amer-
ican republic.” ,_

Now that is democratic; no 4th degree
member will object to that declaration, and
the State Grange will no longer be troubled
with petitions upon the subject of represen -
tation in the State Grange. New read from
section 2, constitution of the National
Grange: " Any 4th degree member in good
standing shall be eligible to office or to re-
ceive the degrees in the County, District,
State, or National Grange.” That is also
democratic; that is in harmony with the
Declaration of Purposes. Now turn to pre-
amble of the constitution of the National
Grange, section one. “State Granges are
composed of Masters and Past Masters of
Subordinate Granges, and their wives who
are Matrons.” Now I fdl to see a proper
eqality, equity, and fairness in that. I can
discern no justly distributed powers, or
prominent American ideas, in the organiza-
tion of the State Grange. Does not the
preamble to the constitution override the
constitution itself, and scatter to the four
winds our boasted Declaration of Purposes?
I am aware that a delegate to the State
Grange is not ranked as an officer, in the
meaning of the constitution of the National
Grange, yet any 4th degree member in good
standing is eligible to the oflice of Master of
either the Stateor National Grange. It
matters not whether he has occupied a Mas-
ter’s chair; therefore material for a delegate
to the State Grange must be of a different
quality than that necessarily required for
our highest oflicers. .

In reference to members of the Legisla-
ture, the brother says we don’t always send
the best nor the most competent men to rep-
resent us in that body, etc. That is true.
And suppose we amend our State constitu-
tion so as to make only supervisors or ex-
supervisors eligible to membership in our
State Legislature. In that way we might
perhaps secure more efficient members.
Would the brother advise such an amend-
ment? I do not believe he would; but if
the State Grange, as at present organized, is

right, the other certainly would be. More
anon. I). WOOODMAN, Paw Paw.

NOTHING rots harnesses sooner than
sweat and after being used for several hours
in hot or rainy weather all leather harness
should be cleaned and oiled. The leather
can only be preserved by keeping it well
saturated wi h oil. First wash the har-
ness lightly with tepid water and sea ,
and then oil with kerosene or stur eon o ,
or the usual reparations for greas ng har-
nesses. The rst thing isto keep the leather
soft and pliable, and the second is to keep
out water. Never let the leather of har-
nesses get dry and hard. Leather in this
condition readily absorbs water, and when
this is thecase treadily loses its strength
and rots. Have a place under shelter for
harnesses when not in use.

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The difference between a defaulter and a

thief is very simple. One

steals enough to
hire good lawyers and the

other don’t.


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THE GREEN MOUNTAIN JUSTICE.
“The snow is deep,” the Justice said;
“There's mighty mischief overhead.”
“High talk indeed l” his wife exclaimed;
“What Sir! shall Providence be blamed?"
The Justice laughing, said: “Oh. no!

I only meant the load of snow

Upon the roofs. The barn is weak;

I greatly fear the roof will break.

80 hand me up the spade, my dear,
I’ll mount the barn, the roof to clear.”
"N0;" said his wife, “the barn is high;
And if you slip, and fall. and die,
How will my living be secured?
Stephen, your life is not insured;

But tie s ro our waist around,
And it will hfild you safe and sound.”
“I will,” said he. “Now for the roof,
All snugly tied and danger-proofl
Excelsior! Excel-—but no!

‘The rope is not secure below!"

Said Rachel, “Climb, e end to throw
Across the top, and I will go,

And tie the end around my waist."
-‘Well, every woman to her taste;

You always would be tightly laced,
Rachel, when you became my bride,

I thought the knot securely tied;

But lest the bond should break in twain
I'll have it fastened once again.”

Below the arm-pits tied around,

She takes her station on the ground.
While on the roof, beyond the ridge,
He shovels clear the lower edge;

But, sad mischance! the loosened snow
Comes sliding down, to plunge below.
And as he tumbles with the slide,

Up Rachel goes on t’other side,

Just half way doyvn the Justice hung,
Just half way up the woman swung.
“Good land 0' Goshenl” shouted she;
“Why, do you see it?” answered he.

The couple, dangling in the breeze

Like turkeys, hung outside to freeze,

At their rope’s end and wits end, too,
Shout back and forth what best to do.
Cried Stephen: “Take it coolly, wife;
All have their ups and downs in life.”
Quoth Rachel: "What a pity ’tis

To joke at such a time as this.

A man whose wife is being hung,

Should know enough to hold his tongue.”

"Now, Rachel, as I look below;

I see a tempting heap of snow;

Suppose, my dear. I take my knife

And cut the ro e to save my life."

She shouted, “ on’tl ’tweu.ld be my death;
I see some pointed stones beneath.

A better way would be to call

With all our might for Phebe Hall.”
"Agreedl” he roared. First he, then she,
Gave tongue: ‘'0 Phebe, Phebe. Phe——-
Be Halll” in tones both fine and coarse,
Eiough to make a drover hoarse.

Now Phebe, over at the farm

Was sitting sewing, snug and warm;
But hearing, as she thought, her name,
Sprung up and to the rescue came.
Behold the scene, and thus she thought:
."If now a kitchen chair were brought,
And I could reach the lady’s foot,

I’d draw her downward by the boot,
Then cut the rope and let him go;

He cannot miss the'pile of show."

He sees her moving toward his wife,
Armed with a chair and carving-knife,
And are he is aware, perceives

His head ascending to the eaves;

And guessing what the two are at,
Boreamed from beneath the roof, “Stop thatl
You make me fall too far, by halfl”

But Phebe answers with a laugh,
“Please tell a body by what right
You've brought your wife in such a plight!”
And then, with well directed blows,

She cuts the rope, and down he goes.

The wife untied, they walk around,
When lol no Stephen can be found,
They call in vain, run to and fin,
They look around, above, below;
No trace or token can they see,
And deeper grows the mystery.
Then Rachel's heart within her sank;
But glancing at the snowy bank,
She caught a little gleam of hope—-
A gentle movement of the rope.
Theyscra , away a little snow;
What’s this? a hatl Ah! he’s below,
Then upward heaves the snowy pile,
And forth he stalks in tragic sty e,
Unhurt, and with a roguish smile;
And Rachel sees with glad surprise,
The missing found, the fallen rise.

A Northerner at Work.

Bro. J. T. Cbbb.-—Enc’losed find $1.00, to
pay for GRANGE Visirons for another year.
I shall try to send in a large list of three
months subscribers, and endeavor to work
up Grange interest in this vicinity. Last
September I moved up here, from the juris-
diction of Clear Lake Grange, No. 530. I
left many warm friends there, and miss the
Grange more than I anticipated. We were
members of that Grange from its organiza-
tion, and how we would like to be weekly.
attendants there againl As this northern
country is proving to be a good farming re-
gion, we hope that ere long we shall succeed
in having Granges established here.

Yours fraternally,
N. H. Evans.

Roscommos, Mich, Jan. 13, '82.

 

We Still Live.

Brother Cobb, SIB: — As Raspberry

Grange, N o. 593, has not been heard from at
all, I think it is well to let our brother
Grangers know that we have revived and
can be numbered with the working Granges.
Our Grange was first organized in June,
1875, and prospered for two years, but there
was not interest enough taken in the cause
to keep us up, and we lay dormant for two
years. Then we were reorganized by Bro.
Whitney, October, 1880, with 20 members,
principally old ones, with some new ones
added. The building of a hall was the first
suggestion for the good of the Order, and
there was so much interest taken in it that
we have succeeded in building a hall, 25x30,
costing $300.

We had our election of oflicers for 1882,
electing Bro. Jordan Bingham Master, and

_ Joseph Bingham Secretary- [Their “ddrefifl

is Giigetown, Tuscola 00., Mich]
Yours respectfully»
W. Gacn, Soo’y.
Elmwood, Jan. 9, 1882.

Bro. Cobb.-—-In last number of the Vis-
ITOR I notice the correspondence of C. M.
Bowers. We are glad to see him interested
and leaning on our side of the fence; but
let me say this to him: Do not wait until
the adoption of what you want, but join
our ranks and work for what you think is
right. Unity is our watchword. Unite
with us and see how much more beneficial
will be your labors. Think of this, sir, and
ride the goat. J. C. D.

Silver Creek Grange, No. 644.

Bro. Cobb .-—As in union there is strength,
so in testifying often one to the other there
is encouragement, and as it is only through
the VISITOR that Patrons can hear of one
another, I venture to add my mite.

Our Grange has been growing slowly but
steadily since its organization. So that we
now have over thirty members, and four
more knocking for admittance.

We held our election last night, resulting
in the choice of Bro. Ezra Harger as Mas-
ter, and Sister Anna M. Leonard, as See-
retary.

We expect to have a public installation of
officers, and hope thereby to advance our
interests as a Grange.

With mosfsiucere wishes for the pros-
perity of our Order, I am

Fraternally Yours,
D. S. CARVIN.

COLFAX, Mich., Dec. 29th, 1881.

 

A Coming Grange Feast.

Bro. Cobb .--—Elk Lake Grange, No. 469, is
one year old. The progress it has made in
so short a period is about as follows, viz.: a
treasury with considerable funds, holding
their meetings at present in what is known
as the Sour’s schoolhouse, having a goodly
number of members——aiid as actions are
stronger than words, they have also circu-
lated for three months 35 copies of the
GRANGE VISITOR in the neighborhood.
And as the old saying is—the best wine
runs last. Therefore at their last meeting,
a resolution was adopted: That we the Elk
Lake Grange, on the twenty-fifth day of
January, 1882, at the residence of Mr. Jo-
seph Sours, about 8 o'clock in the evening
of said day, have a jolly good oyster supper,
to which a general invitation is extended.
I cannot say whether the oysters will be
fried or baked, but one thing I know, (ver-
lly) those who have the management of this
feast know all about it. From unavoidable
causes the installation of oflicers was post-
poned until the 4th day of February, 1882.
Lastly, enclosed is a money order for our
quarterly dues, bill for books, balance for the
VISITOR, amounting to fifteen dollars and
forty-eight cents. In unity there is strength.

HENRY LEE, 

Grange 469, Jan. 9th, 1882.

 

A Meeting of the White River Valley Pomona
Grange.

The White River Valley Pomona Grange
met at Tunbridge, Jan. 6th. There were
about one hundred members present-a
small attendance owing to the bad traveling.

After opening in the 4th degree and a few
suggestions for the good of the Order, the
members were called to dinner. After the
opening of the afternoon session an address
of welcome was delivered by Bro. C. B.
Smith, and answered by J. W. Waldo. An
election of oflicers for the ensuing year fol-
lowed. To the regular list was added a busi-

ness agent, organist and chorister.

While the balloting was in progress the
members made some able remarks and sug-
gestions in regard to the Vermont Grange
paper.

The reports of the oflicers of last year
were instructive and interesting. and were
followed by an hour's intermission covering
an oyster supper for the good of the mem-
bers.

The evening session was most valuable.
After the installation of the ofllcers several
well considered essays were read, when the
Grange closed and_ all returned to their
homes well satisfied with the day's proceed-
ings. Fraternally Yours,

Nnrria GIFFORD.

ROYALTON, Vt. Jan, 9th, 1882.

The Benefit of Laughter.

Dr. Green in his “Problem of Health,”
says there is not the remotest corner or lib
tle inlet of the minute blood vessels of the
human body that does not feel some wavelet
from the convulsions occasioned by good,
hearty laughter. The life principle, or the
central man, is shaken to its inmost depths,
sending new tides of life and strength to
the surface, thus materially tending to in-
sure good health to the persons who indulge
therein. The blood moves more rapidly,
and conveys a different impression to all the
organs of the body, as it visits them on that
particular mystic journey when the man is
laughing. from what it does at other times.
For this reason every good hearty laugh in
which a person indulges tends to lengthen
his life, conveying, as it does, new and dis-
tlnct stimulusto the vital forces. Doubt-
less the time will come when physicians,
conceding more importance than they now
dotothe influence of the mind u n the
vital forces of the body, will ma e their
prescriptions more with reference to the
mind, and less to drugs for the body; and
will in so doingpfind the best and most
eflbctlve method of producing the relgpired
effect upon the patlsnt.—Our Doctor .

\

frgnneasucn VISIT gs. -

Anti-Monopoly League Membership Roll.

DECLARATIONS.

The Anti-Monopoly League earnestly
calls attention to the relations of corporate
and pubic rights as the most important
question before the American people at this
time.

Steam, electricity, and machinery, con-
troling factors of the industrial and commer-
cial world, have been largely mouopolized
and the public taxed unduly for their use.

Corporate life, practically immortal in its
duratiomwielding these great powers. has as-
sumed an importance never before known or
contemplated, and it is not only rapidly con-
centrating the wealth of the nation in a few
hands to the detriment of the masses, but to
perpetuate this state of things it has sought
political power and corrupted our elections
toan extent that not only imperils public
morals but endangers our free institutions.

That this is true is known of all men.
Ofiicial investigations have demonstrated it;
our every day life has proven it. We there-
fore demand that organization of the people
is necessary to maintain the following

I’RINCIl'LES :

Anti-Monopoly——We advocate and will
support and defend the rights of the. many
as against privileges for the few.

Corporations. the creation of the State,
shall be controlled by the Stale.

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

In accordance with these general princi-
pies we aflirm that the public welfare and
public safety demand the following specific
measures of relief:-—

1. Laws compelling transportation com-
panies to base their charges upon the “ cost
and risk of service,” with a fair proflt added,
instead of the new theory advanced by
them—‘‘ what the trafllc will bear ;” laws to
prohibit the establishment, through con-
struction companies or other devices, of a tie-
titious cost for works ofa public nature; pro-
hibiting unjust disorimiuatious against both
citizens and localities; Railroad Commis-
sioners. State and National, with adequate
powers to see that these laws are enforced ;
a liberal policy toward our waterways,
which in the season of navigation,are potent
in preventing exorbitant-charges by rail-
roads.

2. More efficient laws against the crime of
bribery, and for the protection of the purity
of the ballot. A prohibition of free passes.

3. A public service founded on capacity
and integrity. ‘

-1. Public lands, the common inheritance
of the whole people, should ‘be reserved for
actual settlers.

5. Currency, the measure ofvalues, wheth-
er metalic or paper, should be equal to coin,
and be issued and controlled by the govern-
ment only.

6. The known benefits of the postal sys-
tems of other countries to be adopted in the
United States; including the postal savings
bank, and the postal telegraph and tele-
phone.

7. A free press—the bulwark of our free
institutioiJs~—must be maintained. Leading
journals have been purchased b monopolists
who are endeavoriug to contro the thought
of the nation. The journals which are not
thus sustained should be sustained by the
people. ;,

For these objects we declare that citizens
should, without regard to party, vote for
candidates pledged to secure the adoption of
the above principles and objects.

That if existing political parties are so
controlled by monopoly influences that they
will not give the relief which the public in-
terest demands, then it will« become the
duty of all good citizens to form a new party
which will give the desired relief.

That the Anti-Monopolists recognize the
rights of capital as well as of labor; weap-
preciate the benefits of which corporate or-
ganization has conferred upon the human
race; we will labor as earnestly to maintain
the rights of corporations as to enforce ob-
servance of their duties, but the time has
come when the people must organize to re-
strain the power for evil wielded by a few
unscrupulous men, who have obtained con-
trol of the great forces of the century, and
who in their use " recognize no principle of
action but personal or corporate aggrandize-
ment.”

METHODS or PBOCEEDING.

To organize State,. County, and District
Leagues.

To influence as far as possible the nomi-
nation by existing political parties of candi-
dates who will support our principles.
Where suchcandidates are nominated, the
League will notify its members of this fact
and in such cases leave each member free to
consult his individual or party preferences;
but where one candidate will and another
will not support our principles, then all par-
ty afliliatious to be laid aside by members of
the League, and a solid vote cast for the
candidate endorsed by the League. If neith-
er party presents a candidate favoring our
principles, then the League will nominate
and support a candidate.

APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP.

The undersigned is desirous of becoming
a member of the Anti-Monopoly League.
and if elected, will support its Constitution,
By-Laws, Principles, Objects and Methods
of Proceeding, and further, will use my in-
fluence and do all in my power to increase
its membership and advance its work.

For information relating to the Anti~Mo-
nopoly League and its work apply to Henry
Nichols, Secretary, 7 Warren S!;., New York.

L. E. CRITTENDON, Pi-es’t.

F. B. THURBER, Tress.

 

The Tube Well Trouble.

I noticed, under the above caption, in the
Rm-alof December 17, quite an interesting
article on the subject of"Nelson W. Green's
invention (2) which should demand the
earnest and universal condemnation of all
the farmers of this country. If your space
will allow I would like to have you publish,
in addition to your former fine article, the
facts following :— _

In the summer of 1879 suits were com-
menced in the U. S. Circuit Court of the
Northern District of New York, by W. D.
Andrews, G. H. Andrews and Nelson W.
Green, against many persons. Among them
were some 40 residents of Lansingburgh, N.
Y., and one case was selected, viz., Thomas

Richardson’s as a test case, and counselors,

Calvin E. Keach, of Lansiugburgh, and C.
A. Waldron of Waterford, commenced the
fight in good earnest. Mr. Keach proposed
to fight the patent on its merits, as he was

3

convinced no meritorious case had ever yet
been fought to a final decision, and_he there-
fore stipulated iiito the case all the proofs in
chief of the complainants and admitted the
method of construction of the well asau in-
fringement thus to speed the case and save

complainants’s cost, allowing all this to be

done without the complainants calling a
single witness.

Then ceme the defense, and on May 6,
1880, Mr. Keach put upon the stand Anson
Atwood, of Duuellen, N. J. (who now has
an oflice at -37 Astor House, N. Y.,) and in
two hours, by propounding only 37 questions,
proved that while Mr. Atwood was superin-
intendent of the machinery and agricultural
department of the New York State Agricul-
tural Society, and at their annual fair held
near Albany, N. Y. in the year 1859 (Green
claims he in ven ted this method after the war
broke out, etc.) a well was constructed on
the ground by the same method as now, and
as patented. This proof was fully corrobo-
rated by the next two witnesses, viz., James
E. Kirwan, of East Albany. N. Y., and
Elisha Waters, the renowned paper boat
manufacturer of Lansingburgh, S. Y.,

Then commenced the filibustering practice
of complainants and the 37 questions put to
Atwood by Mr. Keach in two hours, called
forth from complaiuautsacro.-is examination
of over a whole week and more than 700
questions. Then came Mr. Kirwan who
told his story for defendants in six hours
and about 80 questions. This called out
proof of the construction of numerous wells
by witness at Waucouda and VVaukegon,
lll., Janesville, and Beloit, Wis., in 184Sand
1849. The complainants still continued
their course of pettifogging, and asked Kir-
win more than 1,200 questions, keeping him
on his cross examination for 9§ days without
shaking his evidence in the least.

This practice was becoming very mononu-
ous as well as expensive so to thedefendaut,
and Mr. Keach cited the complainants on
motion before Judge Wallace, and on the
argument soon convinced the Judge that the
intention of the complainants was to tire out
the defense, and be promptly made an order
that the complainants pay to defendants
within 10 days the sum of $140, the Examin-
er’s fees for conducting such prolix examin-
ations, and further provided that ever after-
wards in the trial the complainants pay the
expense of the cross examination of defend-
ant’s witness. This proved a “cooler” on
them, and they seldom ever kept a witness
more than one day on cross examination.
This Albany Fair ground well was seen by
numbers of others, among whom were Alex
ander Gregory, of Albany; Horace L. Em-
ory, of Cleveland, Ohio; Richard Spicer and
John Chapman, of Lansingburgh; Wm.
Vergo, of New York City, and scores of
others. Then next came the witness. Joseph
Brott, of 1,051 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. Y.,
who swore to a. well put down in front of his
father’s (Andrew Brott’s) hotel, at Water-
ford, N. Y., about the time his first child
was born, which was April 1, 1860. The
date was fully established by other witnesses
from Waterford, among whom were James
P. Vosburgh (since deceased), David T.

Lamb, Win. Hamilton, Wm. H. Fox, E. B.‘

Honsinger, Lewis‘ Wells, and others who
saw it put down before they enlisted and
went to the war some time about the first of
1861. They also said the man who put it
down put one down for Henry Steenburgh
at the same time, and since then the heirs of
Mr. Steeuburgh have found among his old
papers a receipt as follows :-

8‘2l.50 Received of
Henry Steenburgh the sum of twenty-one dollars
and a half for driving one well in his place in
Waterford. Gnoaon MALLEB.

Dated April 13, 1860.

[We have now in this office a photograph
of this receipt.——EDs.]

This was not found until June, 1881, and
is fully corroborated by the royalty receipt
given by the agents of Wm. D. Andrews &
Bro. (Grant & Knight) in 1877, which said
the well “was driven in 1860 by one Mallet.”
Both of them will be put in evidence in the
case.—To be continued.—“Legis " in the Ru-
ral New Yorker.

The Man With the Flail.

It carried the beholder back to thirty
years ago, when the threshing machine was
heard only at rare intervals, and the honest
farmer spread his golden stalks on the clean
barn floor and flailed away with such tem-
pered blows that not a kernel was broken.
The man who had it sat down on one of the
benches in the West Circus Park. The rare
sight of such an article halted every pedestri-
an. and the man had to keep explaining
over and over :— .

“ Well, I’ll have some beans to shell this
fall, and I kinder thought ’twould be easier
to flail ’em out. The hardware man told me
he had to send to Vermont for it.”

Pretty soon along came a gray headed
Alderman, and when he saw that flail he
looked ten years younger all at once.

“ I handled that for over ten years,” as he
picked It up and spit on his hands. " Seems
like old times to get hold of the hickory
again.”

He stepped out one side to give the crowd
an exhibition on the grass, and his success
was great. At the second blow the fla-il end
hesitated in mid air, wobbled around and
finally came down with a whack on the
patriot’s head, making him see more stars
than a winter’s night ever brought out. He
dropped the weapon with the remark that
he was already ten minutes late in keeping
an appointment, and he was rubbing his
skull as far down the street as he could be
seen. The next man to try it was a man
who got off a passing car under the idea that
a dog fight was in progress.

"A flail? Ha! ha! Why, I haven’t seen
a flail since I was married,” he chuckled as
he reached for it. I presume I have flailed a
thousand bushels of wheat in my time.
You boys stand back ther .”

The boys retreated, and the man lifted the
flail on high and patted the grass in a vigor-
ous man uer.

“ Ye-, my stint used to be twenty bushels
a day,” he continued, “and though I do say
it myself I-——’

Something happened. ‘He dropped the
flail, seized his jaw and danced of!‘ as if he
had springs under him, and although a doz-
on vplices asked him what hit him he refused
to to .

By and by a third man came sailing along,
and when he saw the nail he remarked that
his father had used one'like it near] all his
life, and was called the smartest ailer in
New Hampshire. .

“ Can’t you use it?” inquired one of the
crowd.

“ Why, of course. If you boys want to

,....___,., ,,..,. _ .. , .... , .,.._S... .

see how our fathers got their wheat to mill
I’ll give you a little exhibition. Here, bub,
hold my hat.”

He buttoned l'is coat, and moistened his
hands and went to work. The first blow
nearly broke a man’s knee; the second
cracked against a boy's elbow, and at the
third the flailer grabbed the top of his head
and sat down with a subdued look in the
corner of his mouth.

“ Well, Iguess I’ll be going,” said the
owner of the flail as he rose up. " It’s all
in getting the kink of it. A fellow who
makes twists and wabbles a special study
won’tgit his head broke over twice a day,
but agreeu hand might as well sit down
under a brick kiln durin' a tornado. Day,
gentlemen.”—-Detroit Free Press.

PRIGE LIST W SUPPLIES

Kept in the office of the Secretary of the
MICHIGAN .S’l‘A'l‘E GRANGE,

And rent out Post Paid,’ on Receipt of Cash Order,
over the seal of a Subordimzte Grange, and the
signature of its Master or Secretary.

Porcelain Ballot Marbles, er hundred,. . . . . . . . 76
Blank Book, ledger ruled, or Secretary to keep

accounts with members, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l 00
Blank Record Books, {Express paid), . . . . . . . . .. 1 00
Order Book, containing 100 Orders on the Treas-

urer, with stub, well bound, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b0

Receipt Book, containing 100 Receipts from
Treasurer to Secretary, with stub, well bound, (50

Blank Receipts for dues, per 100, bound, . . . . . . . 60
A plications for Membership, per 100, . . .. . . ... . 50
embershi Cards, per 100, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Withdrawn Cards, per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Dimits, in envelopes, per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
By—Laws of the State Grange, single copies l0c,
per doz , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
By-Laws, bound,. . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
“ Glad Echoes,” with music, Single copy lb cts.
per doz._, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l 80
Rituals, single copy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
“ per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ . _ _ . _ 2 40
" for Fifth Degree, for Pomona Granges,

per copy,_ . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Blank “Articles of Association" for the Incorpo-
ration of Subordinate Granges, with Copy of

  

Charter, all complete, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Notice to Delinquent Members, per 100. . . . . . . .. 40
Declaration of Purposes, per doz., 5c.; per

hundred, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 40
American Manual of Parliamentary Law, _ _ _ , 50

u u u no lo (‘Mo_
rocco Tuck,) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Address of J. J. Woodman before the Nation-

al Grange-—per ‘dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20
Address of Thos. K. Beecher—per dozen.. 10
Digest of Laws and Rulings, . . . . . . . . . , . . . 40

J. T. COBB, ‘
Sac’! Mien. Si-Ari: Gannon,
SCHOOLCRAFT, MICE

Address,

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SCHOOLCRAFT, —- — FEBRUARY 1.

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Address, J. T. COBB, Schoolcraft, Mich.

LIBERAL IFREMIUMS.

Relying on its merits and on its friends to
aid in extending the circulation of the V151-
TOR, we have never devoted much time,
space, or resources in procuring subscribers.
We have had an abiding faith that when
once introduced and read in the family of
the farmer, be he Patron or not, its footing

was secure, and this faith has been sustained
by results. The addition of a thousand
regular subscribers each year without those
adventitious aids so generally invoked in
this department of business may well be
regarded as a success. -

But with this we are not quite satisfied.
With a larger field in cultivation each year
we should have an increase of crop in pro-
portion. In short, we cannot be satisfied
with an increase this year of but one thous-
and, and as we said before. we want 10,000
subscribers before we turn this paper over to
other hands. We have therefore decided at
this late day to make the following very
liberal offers :— ,

To the person sending us the largest num-
ber of yearly subscribers before the first of
April next, we will give a wheel spring-
tooth harrow. Retail price, $40.00.

To the person sending the second largest
list a N o. 3 Acme Creamery and butter. Re-
tail price, $35.00.

To the person sending the third largestlist
a Chase, Taylor & Co.’s spriDg't00l5h 1181'"
row. Retail price, $25.00. _

To the person sending the fourth largest
list, a Dodge plow. Retail price, $15.00.

To the person sending the fifth largest
list, an Excelsior washing machine. Retail
price, ‘$7.00.

To the person sending the sixth largest
list, five sets of gate fixtures. Retail price,
at $1.00 per set, $5.00.

To the person sending the seventh largest
list, an Excelsior washing machine, smallest
size—$3.00.

CONDITIONS or THIS orran.

That those of our friends who have al-
ready worked well, may not be cut ofi' from
a chance at these premiums, this ofi'er shall
include all who have sent us subscribers
from the beginning of the fiscal year of the
State Grange— Dec. 1 —— and remain open
until the first day of April next.

We want more readers for the Vrsrron,
and this offer is designed to stimulate work-

‘ers to obtain new subscribers; but as old

subscribers frequently have to be hunted up,
and cost the canvasser some labor, we shall
count three renewals for one year as equiv-
alent to one new subscription, and ten new
three months’ subscribers as one new one
for a year.

To make this ofi.“er binding on the entire
list, the largest number of subscribers must
equal 200, and the smallest 50. If, however,
the number of competitors falling below 200
equals the number of premiums offered,
only one the largest premium will be with-
drawn.

Canvassers are not restricted. Send us
names to be addressed to any post-ofiice in
the United States or Canada. The order
must be accompanied with the pay, as the
cardinal principle of the Order, “ pay
as you go,” will be adhered to. Remit by
draft, money order, or registered letter. If
by registered letter, stamps will be accepted
for the fractional part of a dollar, or for
single subscriptions, at the risk of the
sender. i

All articles offered in this list wt know
from personal acquaintance to be firsf~class
articles. A cut of the wheel cultivator will
be shown in the next Vrsrron. It is manu-
factured in our own town and we think is
as good as the best.

Of the Acme Creamer, see the endorse-
ment of Bro. Luce and others on 8th page.

The Chase & Taylor Spring-Tooth Har-
row is No. one, as good as any other make
of spring-tooth without wheels. See cut on
last page-

The plow is manufactured by an old relia-
ble firm in Kalamazoo. ‘and is standard
goods. .

The other articles oflE‘ered'are just as good
in their class, and will give satisfaction.

We expect this offer will help us reach
that 10,000 subscribers that we must have,
one year sooner than if not made. Friends
of the VISITOR, we trust that with the re-
wardsoflered, and the good of the Qyder in
view, we shall soon reach the goal of our
ambition 510,000 regular ‘subscribers to the
«Visitor.

THE DRIVEN WELL.

On our third and fifth pages will be found
clippings relating to this driven well busi-
ness which will interest many of our read-
ers.

Soon after our last issue Bro. Platt made
us a call. He is still collecting evidence of
“ previous use.” Some of considerable value
had developed in our vicinity which he
wished to size. From him we learned that
the time for a hearing of the case of N.
W. Green vs. Geo. W. Miller and John A.
Stork on its merits had not been fixed by
Judge Withey.

It seems to me we are likely to establish
“ prior use” in so many cases, and in each
case by so many reliable witnesses that Mr.
Green’s pretentious claim will be fairly un-
dermined. At all events the prestige of de-
cisions already had will alone prevent his
defeat In the meantime four things are in
order :—

First, diligent enquiry as to the existence
of driven wells prior to January 1, 1862.
This enquiry, when fixed upon a well cover-
ed by this date, should be followed up to
obtain corroborative evidence to establish
the date beyond a question,

From the lapse of time this is frequently
quite difiicult, but it is an essential quality
in the value of theevidence, and when the
fact has been established the more witnesses
who can substantiate it the better.

Secondly, continue to add to the Defense
Fund by pledges from Granges. and by col-
lections from interested parties, farmers or
others, that we may be able to continue this
contest to the court of last resort. We ask
this as a matter of justice to those who have
already contributed to this fund. The
amount asked for is small, but small as it is
this defense is a burden that should be borne
by the many who are interested, and not
alone by the more generous few.

Thirdly, every citizen living in the State
is interested in this matter of protection from
patent right sharpers who, it is notorious,
make raids upon communities whenever and
wherever they see a chance to obtain money
on any pretext of infringement. It is there-
fore important that patent laws which so
long have permitted this sort of legalized
robbery should be so amended as to protect
the people who desire to use the improve-
ments and conveniences which are every-
where on sale, and which, when they are
purchased and paid for, are usually supposed
by the purchaser to include the undisturbed
right of use without molestation,or hazard of
annoyance from any one. _

As this can only be secured through legis-
lation, every person who has any influence
with a Congressman should give him to un-
derstand that he is to use his best efforts to
get the patent laws amended at this session
of Congress. Write to your Congressman
and tell him what you think about it, and if
he gets about 500 letters from his constiuents
he will probably think his action, or want
of it,will be remembered until after the next
election. A personal letter will be worth
more than a petition with a hundred names.
Try it.

Since writing the above, a judicial decis-
ion, which we give in this connection,
breaks the chain of precedent that has been
used by Green and the Andrews Brothers to
extort money from men who felt that the
demand was an impudent swindle, yet
preferred to pay rather than incur the ex-
pense and annoyance of litigation.
PREVIOUS USE has now been judicially
established in New York, and we are sure
that the evidence already collected in Mich-
igan will establish “ previous use” here also.
All this massed together will invalidate the
claim of Mr. Green, and prove most con-
clusively that this whole movement was
based on a fraudulent pretense.
VVe have confidence that the judicial
mills will some day close out this particular
fraud, to give place to another belonging to
the same category. And this will continue
until the patent laws, which have furnished
standing ground for rascals for a generation,
shall be so amended as to protect the people
as well as the inventor, and when so amend-
ed we shall still remain liable to be har-
rassed by these plunderers until the legal
rights of robbery now held by hundreds of
inventors and their assignees, shall have
expired by limitation.

DEFEAT or THE PATENT-RIGHT SHARKS.
From the Chicago Tribune.

The Tribune took occasion, a few weeks
ago, to refer to the manner in which farm-
ers are so often swindled by patent-right
sharks, and in that connection referred to
the efibrts of parties in Michigan to recover
large sums of money in the form of royalty,
claiming that a certain process of driven
wells was their exclusive property. It was
claimed by the Michigan farmers that they
had not infringed upon the rights of the
patentees, and that the process had become
the property of the community at large.
The self-styled patentees thereupon began
a large number of suits against the unsus-
pecting farmers who had_ ventured to use
the process, and the Michig State Grange
employed counsel to fight t e question in
the United States courts, where 30 or more
cases of this character are now pending.
The following decision in the New York
courts will be read with interest by the
farmers throughout the country, as it vir-
tually strips the patentees of any rights
which they may heretofore have assumed:

“ In the United States circuit court for the
northern district of New York, before
Judge Wallace, at chambers in Syracuse,

Friday, Jan. 6, 1882, a decision was ren-
dered in the case of William D. Andrews,

et al., complaintants, vs. William Verbeck
respondent._ Separate bills in, equity had

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been filed by the above-named complaint-
ants against William Verbeck, and 21 oth-
ers, all residing at or near Saratoga Springs,
for 9.119 ed infringement of the Nelson
Green ‘ riven well’ patent.

“On the day above named, a motion for an

injunction pending the litigation in the
Verbeck case came u for hearing before
Judge VVallace at his c ambers in Syracuse,
sitting as Circuit Judge. Green claims to
have invented the driven well at the village
of Cortland, N. Y., in October, 1861, while
encamped there as colonel of the 76th regi-
ment. New York volunteers. The respond-
ent in this case filed numerous aflidavits
showing that driven wells were put down at
Saratoga Springs as early as 1854, and also
on the county fair grounds there in 1859. in
1860 and in 1861. while the 77th New York
volunteers were encamped there.
_ The complainants filed several affidavits
in rebuttal, and after full hearing and argu-
ment on the issue Judge Wallace refused
the injunction on the ground of prior use.
This is an important precedent touching
this now famous patent, and the first decis-
ion, in this district, if not in the country,
denying a preliminary injunction on the
merits. Thomas Richardson, of Ilion, so-
licitor_ for complainant; N. B. Sylvester of
Troy, solicitor for respondents.”

PLASTER I PLASTER !

We hear but little about plaster, and call
the matter up at this time only to say that
Patrons should not forget that the season for
getting plaster and using it is just before us
and will be here before we are ready, if we
do not look ahead and prepare somewhat
for the future. All careful, successful farm-
ers get ready for the work of spring before
spring comes. And we write to urge those
who are a little dilatory, to order at once the
plaster you will want for next spring. The
spring of 1882 will be no exception to those
of former years, and very many farmers
know from annoying experience of the de-
lays incident to waiting until March before
ordering. At this time we see box cars on
side tracks idle. A month later, when the
plaster trade is lively, ten cars will be ‘or-
dered and four or five furnished.

We shall not predict snow for your con-
vefience in hauling your plaster home from
your railroad station. And if you must use
wheels do the work when the wheeling is
good.

There are but few Patrons in Michigan
who do not comprehend the situation of this
plaster business.

By the report of the Executive Committee
of the State Grange you were informed of
the absolute necessity of sustaining the
Grange Plaster Mill at Grandville, as a mat-
ter of principle as well as of pecuniary in-
terest. To be consistent, to be honest, to
take care of our business like business men
who see just a little way into the future, all
require that we buy oil the plaster we use of
Loren Day, successor to the firm of Day &
Taylor, of Grandville. We know that by
so doing we shall get pure plaster, real,
genuine gypsum, from which no part has
been selected for stucco or other purposes,
and we further know that by patronizing
this mill we are protecting ourselves from
the consequences of acombination of the
manufacturers who will not fail to make us
sweat if the restraint of the Grange plaster
mill is removed. The present price, $2.50
per ton on board cars at Grand Rapids, has
been proved to be a fair price, giving the
manufacturera reasonable profit on his in-
vestment, and no more. N o honorable, fair
man wants to buy for less, nor is he entirely
willing to pay more. Farming is not a bus-
iness in which men engage with the expec-
tation of becoming rich rapidly. The farm-
er cannot afford to pay fancy prices for fer-
tilizers and implements, and we should not
blindly expose this large trade in a useful
article to the advance sure to follow the ruin
of the parties now running the Grange
plaster mill. Forward your orders at once
for your own good, for the good of the cause
of co-operation, and for the good of the
Order.

COMMISSION AGENCIES.

We print elsewhere a letter from Magno-
lia, lll., intended to correct some statements
of ours in regard to Patrons’ commission
houses in Chicago. We had supposed that
Bro. Chambers only bought goods on orders
from Patrons—did not suppose that he re-
ceived goods on consignment. If we were
mistaken, we make the correction very
cheerfully. There are a great many Patrons
in this country, and Chicago is a large town,
and if those Patrons whose interests clearly
point to the purchase of supplies and sale of
their own products in that market, should
do so at once, the business of both houses
would be doubled within a ‘month.

We are not disposed to discuss the matter
of plans. We only know that if the Illinois
Patrons do better when they order goods
from their Chicago agent than the Patrons
who buy at an inland village at an advance
of 4 per cent above actual cost, then they
certainly ought to feel proud of the Order of
Patrons of Husbandry, which has given
them such advantages of a pecuniary char-
acter.

We are pleased to know Bro. Chambers
is so satisfactory to the Patrons of our sister
State. Patrons everywhere, take good care
of your agencies, and they will take good
care of you.

- WOODWARDILAKE GRANGE, No. 190, was
omitted in the list of Granges entitled to
the annual word. Reference to our books

shows No. 190 in good standing and entitled
to the word. _

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VISITOR RECEIPTS (CONTINUED).

JANUARY.

13—Liberty T Bursley. $1.00; A S Gardner,
$2.00; Wm E Williams $1.00; S A Betts,
$2.00; Win A Reynolds, $2.00; Levi Nash,
$4.50; John EVVilcox, $1.00: N A Church,
$2.00; 0 H P Sheldon. $2 00, ‘

14—L W Brown, $10.00; Richard F Wal-
worth. $3 50; Wm Smeltyer, $1.00; J E
Packer, $3.00; Wm Palmer, $1.00; Mrs J
W Lawrence, $2.00; Thos Brown, $2.50;
J H Matthewson, $1.50; 0 S Axford, $1.00;
L A Jones, $5.00.

l6—C E Cutler, $1.00; 0 W Grove, $1.00; A
F Cox, $2 00; Wm Haslett, $1.50; E L
Hartwell, $5.50; Abiel Fellows, $1.00; Thos
Pryor. $2.00; N H Evens, $1.00; G Snyder,
$2.50; A L Benedict, $11.50.

17—Fred G Bailey, $2.00; H Hawley, $3.50;
R Hayward. 351.00; Gilbert Conklin. $2.50;
Wm Healy. $1.00; S B Albertson, $2.00;
J H Bush,$1.00; It J Chase, $2.00; Mrs
A M Stone, $5.00; John McKay, $1 50; Jas
H Tibbitts. $5.10; Julia White, 4.30; C P
Phelps $1.00; W E Smith, $1 00; P McIn-
tyre, $1.80; Frank Conn, $3 00; Wm John-
son, $5.00; Esther Taylor, $5.50; M O’uell,
$6 50; A J Warner, $2.00; A Keigley,$4.00.

18—A Terwilliger, $1.00; Minnie Langdou,
$1.50; J C Hawkins, $1.50; E K Converse,
$5.00; A J Briggs. $2.00; J C Noble. $1.00;
J Colman, $1.50; Abel N Hover, 54.00; J
E Phelps, $4.00; Louis Ruthardt, $1 00; J
W Dikeman,$2.80; Jas Humphrey,$6.00;
W W Tuttle, $1 00; R W Hoy. $5.90; '1‘ M
Sheriff, $1.00; P C Mitchell, 7.00; G W
VanAken, 6.00; E L Olmstead, $7.50.

19—J J Woodman, $2.00; DHDenise, $4.50;
D S Gardner, $15.00; W Melliman, $1.00;
MB Averill, $100; J M Wilcox, $1.00; 0
C Spaulliing, $4.50; E A Horton, $7.80;
Robt H Gilman, $1.00; Loomis H Gillhis

y, L J Barnard, $2.00; Mrs J D Scofleld,
5.00; '1‘ JClyde, $51.00; C N Nash, $5.00.

20—A E Hall, $1.50; C M Richardson, $1.00;
R Keel-r, $100; 0 Girsberger, $1.00; VV
H Mattison, $4 00; J H Avery. $1.00; E S
Burnette, $5.10; C E Wing, $3.50; C G
Jackson, 355 20; W H Otis, $4.70; John
Freeman, $1.50; Hrs Geo Arms, $1.00;
Miss Addie S Ames, $3.00.

21—Mrs M Benjamin, $3.50; Peter Hewitt,
$5.00; G R C Adams, $1.70; D K Charles,
$1. 50; Robt Milne, $2.00; H Avery, $1.00;
Geo H Lester, $7.00; Hiram Andrews, 9512.-
50; C M Richardson, $3.00; J Woodhull,
$1.00; 0 J Anthony. $3 50.

23—M V B McAlpine, $3.10; L D Bradley,
$4.50; J H Weaver, $1.00; A B Coryell,
$2.00; J M Wilcox, $1.00; J H Matthew-
son, $1.50; Mary A Plowman, $5.00; C Y
Runyan, $2.00; S A Nichols, $1.75; E C L
Mumford, $2.50; C P Chidester, $5.00.

24.—D D Cook, $1.00; And McKelsey, $1;
S H Angevine, >31; S H hi/Iallory, $1; Jas
Robertson, $15.10; G F Muir, $3.50; Hor-
ace Green, $31.00; C L Coppens, $6.00; G
B Rhead, 33.50; H A Simmons, 8500.

25.——Jas A Marsh, $1.00; A B Knapp, $4.25;
Mrs E N Steward, $1.00; Mary Shattuck,
$1.00; I N Carpenter, $2.50; E E Hewitt,
$5.00; E P Rowe, $2.00; R A Lyman, $1;
D H Demise, $1; Ira Read, $3; H Beigley,
-$8.50; Geo A Peters, 34.00; S R Lewis, :36;
H Gilbert, $2. -
26.—CPMiller, $2.01): J. S. Briggs, $1.00;
Don Lyon, $5.50; Sam’l Morey, 351.00; S.
Rossman, $2.50;
Henry Schultes. $1.20; Wm S Heywood,
551.00; 0 E Huston, $150; W F Jennison,
$4.00; E L Manchester, $1.00; C M Slay-
ton, 555.00; B Helmick, 
27.—Geo A Myers, $1.60; M M Hall,
J E Rooke, $2.00; G T Strong, $2.20; D
Higgins, 5.52.60; W F Butler, :54 00; E E
-Mason, $5.00; P W Watts, $4.00; M L
Raymond, $2.50; J Webster Childs, $5.00;
Nathan Winslow, $2.00; L W Stiles, $10.-
00; G B Horton, $15.00; Mrs. Geo Arms,

$3.00.

28——D J Prickitt, $1.00; S H Mallory, $1.00;
Rosa Wiley. $1.00; Mrs Helen M Brain-
ard, $2 20; M V Williams, $250; Adolph
Sherman, $2.10; N A Church, $2.00.

-‘$2.70;

OUR ANTI-MONOPOLY.

In the last number of the VISITOR we
printed a letter from a Nebraska farmer who,
comprehending ‘the oppressive features of
the railway monopoly now subjecting the
agricultural and commercial interests of this
country to its dictation, looks to the Farm-
ers’ Alliance as the only way of escape or
as affording the most desirable prospect of
relief.

Few things that we meet with in our cor-
respondence please us better than an
expression of a determination to resist in all
proper ways the encroachments of the stu-
pendous railway power, which has under-
dertaken to arbitrarily override the rights of
the American people, and has so far suc-
ceeded that we need not stop to recite in
what way it has been dohe, for it stands as is
proved and established fact. But while we
are ready to co-operate with our fellow citi-
zens in any well considered scheme which
promises relief, we are not prepared to
magnify this subject and make it so high
that it shall overshadow all others. A

Our Nebraska correspondent has his hobby,
and in his zeal to ride it in hot haste to the
goal of his ambition, has forgotten that this
fight against railroad mo_nopoly originated
with the Patrons of Husbandry. He has
forgotten that the important decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States affirm-
ing the right of the legislative department
of the government to regulate and control
inter-State commerce, is everywhere known
as the “ Granger Cases,” carried on appeal
to that tribunal of last resort, by the Gran-
gers of the West.

Entering the field at a later day, the com-
mercial class has come forward- to reinforce
the Grange movement which first made
head against railway monopoly. To these,
another auxiliary aid has been added, that
of our Nebraska friend, “ The Farmers’
Alliance.” This organization, as we under-
stand, originated in the great State of New
York. Not confined in its membership to
farmers alone, it has done valiant service in
that State so famous for corrupt legislation.

W C Johnson. $51.10;‘

FEBRUARY 1, 1882.

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Its mission is by no means ended, nor will
we by one word disparage its efforts to cor-
rect existing abuses, nor can we consent to
any disparagement of the Grange, as a po-
tent power in hostile array against the en-
croachments of monopoly.

This correspondent says the "Grange is
nearly dead in Nebraska, which does not
prove by any means that it is nearly deans
anywhere else; nor does it prove conclu-
sively that it is nearly dead in that_State ex-
cept within the range of his own limited vis-
ion. Our new friend,in his laudable zeal to re-
sist the aggressive monopolies of the country
has entirely overlooked the broad platform
ol principles on which our Order was found-
ed, and on which is built a superstructure of
social,educational and political power among
the farmer class of this country, heretofore
unknown. The ed tion it encourages is
conservative, and w ile it aims to correct
existing wrongs and abuses, in no way tends
to disintegrate and destroy its own existence.

We are able to assure our correspondent
that the Order, though it has had a greater
membership, never had more inherent,
strength than it has to-day, and never be.
fore so much influence where influence is
valuable.

The Grange has in many States recovered,
and in others is recovering from that reac-
tion which followed the period of its too
rapid growth, and founded on that bed-rock
of its broad and comprehensive Declaration
of Purposes, which areits pride and beast,
by the light of its past experience we con-
fidently predict will now go forward
on its mission of educating and elevating
the farmers of this country,with their wives,
their sons and daughters; and in that educa-
tion we have the best prospect of successful-
ly resisting the encroachments of corporate
power.

The educational features of the Order are
calculated to encourage independent voting
as a salutary, conservative power that baifles
scheming politicians, and tends to purify
the political atmosphere.

On another page the communication from
a Kent County correspondent, throws sum-
cient light on this question to indicate the
duty of Patrons. "

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YOUTH’S DEPARTMENT.

This department in this number is an im-
provement over the last, but its mis-directed
letters addressed to “Uncle Nine,” who
with the close of the year bade all a kindly
farewell, reminded us that the department
must be abandoned altogether or a substi-
tute provided for the Uncle, who though he
left an abundant legacy of good will, made
no provision fora successor.

“Uncle Nine” wasa volunteer. His nieces
have repeatedly stated that he was also a
deserter, and this may perhaps account for
the place remaining vacant for a month
with no offer of volunteer service in this
department. This neglect we have under-
taken to supply, and as the desertion of
this Uncle manager, might be taken asa
bad omen for the future of the Youth’s
Department, we determined if the duty of
selection devolved on us, to call an Aunt
to this work. And we now take pleasure
in introducing to the acquaintance of our
young friends, Aunt Nina, who will have
charge of this column of the Vrsrroa, and
to whom, hereafter, all communications for
this department should be addressed.

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.

We find on our table that old-established
magazine— The North American Review-
for February. The first article in this num-
ber, by Andrew D. White, president of Cor-
nell University, discusses a question that for
the'last few years has assumed a great deal
of importance in the political arena, and
is being considered by thoughtful men ev-
erywhere, whose patriotism rises above
every other consideration. .

“ Do the Spoils Belong to the Victor?" is
the enquiry from which he proceeds to argue
against the corrupt usage which has obtain-
ed in every department of the public service.
We have not room at this time for an ab-
stract of the argument, and only add to his
summing up, one illustration of the evils of
the present system. We quote-

“The complaints against the present sys-
tem may be summed up nearly as follows :—

“ First. That the petty interests of a com-
paratively small number of citizens constant-
ly encroach upon the most important inter-
ests of the entire nation ; that a large share
of the labor and care of the executive and
legislative branches of the Government is
confiscated by a petty minority; that the
system has at least in this respect become
intolerable. _

"Three experiences within the knowl-
edge of the present writer will serve as
types:—- _ _

“ In the darkest hour of the late civil war,
a great question arose in a thriving Northern
town, which for the purposes of this article
shall be called Pepperton. This question
was nothing less than this: which of two
local henchmen shall be postmaster. The
contest waxed fierce. Deputation after.depu-
tation rushed to Washington-saw the Con-
gressman, the Senator, the Postmaster Gen-
eral, the President himself; _— besought,
insisted, badgered. The subordinate hench-
men thronged the corridors of the Capitol
by day, and the bar-rooms by night." The
attention of honorable members was be-
sought for articles in the ‘ Perkins County,
Herald’ on one side and the ‘ Pepperton
Register’ on the other.‘ Monster petitions
were forwarded by either side,—petitions all
the more monstrous because most people
signed both.

“ Meantime

the civil war dragged on with

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increasing horrors. Rivers of blood had
flowed. billions of treasure had been flung
into the abyss, when a good old Pepperton
J udge—a steady Presbyterian deacon—visit-
ed Washington to see what light he could
get on national afi“airs. In due time he
stood before President Lincoln. The judge
was shocked at the careworn face of the
President, tried to comfort him, and said:
‘ Mr. Lincoln. I am sorry to see you not
looking so well as when you passed through
Pepperton. You must not let the rebellion
wear upon you. The Lord is with us: he
will not permit slavery and disuion to con-
quer. He has purposes with this republic
which—’ ‘Oh, Judge,’ said Mr, Lincoln,
‘ it isn’t the rebellion that is killing me-it
isn’t the rebellion ; it is your plagued Pep-
perton post-ofiice! ’ ”

“The Remedy for Railway Abuses,” by
Isaac L. Rice, is a very valuable paper, from
which we shall make liberal extracts in
future.

The other articles in this number are able.
The most of the farmer class look to the
newspaper for a supply of reading matter,
and go no farther. More positive, well-
founded opinions would be entertained if
less current news and more solid argumen-
tative reading, like that found in the Review,
were substituted for the omnipresent news-
paper.

VVe like the North American Review, and
cheerfully recommend it to those who would
read well-considered, argumentative articles
on questions of vital interest at this time.

 

MAGNOLIA CORRESPONDENT.

We have not time in this number to re-
view the article of Bro. Smith, of Magno-
lia, 111. But we can’t let his first sentence
of his last paragraph go by without remark.
He says “the State Grange was_well at-
tended,-i0 or 50 visitors being out,with many
ladies among the number.” The voting
members of the State Grange of Michigan,
about 140 in number, would feel lonesome
with but 50 visiting members on the floor.
For seven years our annual sessions have
been held in the Hall of the House of Rep-
resentatives of the State Capitol, and at
no session has the number of visiting
members been less than 300. And of the
ladies,—why,a Michigan Patron don’t think
of going to the State Grange without taking
his wife or daughter.

 

THE list of Granges owning halls ‘grows
with each succeeding, number. There are
afew blanks that we should like to see
filled. Will secretaries please look this
matter up so we can foot up and see how
much money is invested in Grange Halls
in this State ‘?

 

THE ADAMS’ BARN—-FLOOR HORSE-P0\V-
ER.—At the close of a business letter was
the following paragraph confirming the
opinion I expressed in the VISITOR of Jan.
15: “ I saw a recomendation in the'VIsIToR
of the Adams’ Barn-floor Horse power. I
can say that I am using one to cut feed, and
any man who will use gne will confirm
the opinion expressed‘ by the editor.”

OUR readers will please notice the new
advertisement of Thomas Mason, of Chi-
cago, also that of Geo. W. Hill. of Detroit,
on our last page. The new creamer of Me-
Call & Duncan obtained a good footing last
season and a large number are being manu-
factured for the Spring trade. See their list
of agents under their advertisement.

FRANK B. WILDE, whose advertisement
was in the VISITOR last summer, writes us
that he has a few Plymouth Rocks and Par-
tridge Cochin_Cockerels which he will sell
cheap if applied for soon. Address him
at Cooperville, Ottawa Co., for prices.

The Driven Well Suits.

From the “ Sa.ratogiaii,” Saratoga. Springs, N Y.

The defendants here in the driven well
suits are making a vigorous defense and one
that promises success. A number of aflida-
vits have been made, showing the use of the
driven well here prior to the date of the

atent, and other important evidence is
ooked for. It is especially desired that any
of the voluntary soldiers who knew con-
cerning the use of drive wells at the camp
of the Seventy-seventh in this place in 1861,
should send in their names or call person-
ally upon Counselor F. H. McDonald, Ains-
worth Block. The Argus of last Thursday
has the following concerning the case: _

“A hearing in the drive well patent suit
will be had at the law oflice of Ira D. Roods,
in this village. next Monday, before a com-
mission appointed by the United States
Circuit Court to take evidence on behalf of
the contestants of Nelson Green’s patent,
which was granted in 1871. Ex-Superin-
tendent Lamb was in town Wednesday, col-
lecting aflidavits of persons who testify that
they used drive wells rior to that date. He
secured 13 affidavits rom as many unim-
peachable witnesses, among whom are
James M. Andrews, W. L. Chase, Col. W.
M. Searing, John J. Gilbert, Richard Mc-
Michael and Elisha Isbell. Mr. Isbell
testifies that he drove a gas pipe into the
earth in 854, and obtained a flow of water,
and us the same as a well. Mr. Chase did

. the same in 1855. Mr. Gilbert had a drive

well on the county fair grounds in 1860,
which Col. Searing says was. used by his
company of the Thirtieth Regiment, which
éncamped there the next spring. Mr. Mc-
Michael, who was the contractor to feed the
Seventy seventh Regiment while encamped
on the fair grounds in the fall of 1861, says
that he caused four drive wells_ to be put
down there, from which he obtained water
for the use of the men and the kitchen. The
latter fact is also well remembered by many
of the members of the regiment.”

 

IF you wish success in life, make perse-
verance your bosom friend, experience your
wise counsellor, caution your elder brother
and hope your guardian. ’

..devolve upon all good citizens.

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Reviewed.

Bro. Cobb .-—There are two leading arti-
cles on the second page of the VISITOR of
Jan. 15, that will arrest the attention of the
thoughtful reader. The tendency of both
articles is alike. The adoption of all of the
suggestions made by either or both of the
writers would weaken if not eventually
destroy the Grange.

Mr. E. E. Campbell, writing from Crete,
Nebraska, starts out with the declaration
that the Grange in Nebraska is nearly dead:
" I do not know of any Grange that is still
hdlding meetings.” And further on, he
advises the Grangers and other farmers of
Michigan to do as they have done in Ne-
braska——form Farmers’ Alliancesu C Before
we conclude to follow their advice, it will be
well to stop and reflcct a little, take sound-
ings and bearings.

I suppose coinmon'sense and facts com-
bined will convince us that the two organ-
izations will not run together, that where
an Alliance is organized and succeeds, the
Grange will not exist; that is, that the
same men will not be active in both organi-
zations. They have not the time to devote
to both, and discharge other duties that
Our ac-
quaintance with men convinces us that this
would be the case inevitably.

\Vhere reason points, facts confirm. These
Mr. Campbell furnishes. Why is the Grange
dead in Nebraska? Why are there no
Grange meetings held all over that young
enterprising State ? VVhy isit that the men,
women, boys and girls of that State no
longer meet together and work together for
the mental, moral, social, financial and po-
litical benefit of all? Why is it that the
Master's gavel is heard no more’ in that
great prairie State?

The answer is this, The men have gone
into the Farmers’ Alliance and the Women
are left out in the cold or at home washing‘
dishes. In seriousness, is this an improve-
ment? In What respect is the Alliance
better than the Grange ?

Mr. Campbell says that the object of the
Alliance is to elect representatives, both
State and National, who will enact just
laws, etc.—a praiseworthy object surely.
But if the Grange accomplishes its mission,
will it do less than this? Mr. Campbell
has been anxiously waiting to see how. Of
course it cannot be done to its full extent
where only one farmer in fifty belongs to
the Grange. But even then it is a power
politically. Neither will the Alliance
amount to much if only a small fraction of
the farmers belong. But when two-thirds
of the farmers belong to the Grange, as they
ought to, it will be just as impossible to elect
aman opposed to their interests, from an
agricultural district, as it is for man to fly.
A power will be brought to bear upon each
and every political party that will enforce
their rights. Facts are being developed
constantly all around us that prove this.

Col. Brigham, the able Master of the Ohio
State Grange, was recently elected to the
Ohio State senate by one of the political
parties, from a large and important district
containing a commercial city of 50,000 or
60,000 inhabitants, as well as five or six ag-
ricultural counties. If there is a consistent
anti-monopolist in the land, Bro. Brigham
is that man. He has introduced a Bill into
the Ohio senate that meets the demands of
the people, and he will fearlessly advocate
it with force and power. This is one in-
stance of what we are doing and how we do

‘it. It might be multiplied by scores of cases.

The Grange makes five points where the
Farmers’ Alliance only claims to make two.

The Grange is first and foremost, an edu-
cator. It is a school for all. If we are only
educated up to our opportunities, we can
and will protect our rights.

If the Grange will adhere to the principles
enunciated in its Declaration of Purposes,
it will, be an immense power for good all
over the land long after all present political
parties are numbered with the past. It
should in the future, as in the past, labor
diligently to develop a better and higher
manhood and womanhood among ourselves.
These are the talismanic words of success.
Seek these and all other things shall be
added to us.

But if we permit ourselves ‘to be turned
over to any political party, no matter how
good its name, the death-knell of our pros-
perity is sounded. We will not injure
parties, but will kill ourselves. If the
education we receive in the Grange or
elsewhere leads us into some other party——
old or new-—than the one to which we be-
long, let us go, and not standon the order of
our going; but as we love the Order and its
principles, pray do not let us use its agency

zto build up one church or tear down ,an-

other, nor use it to build up one political
party or tear down another.

Let each be a power in the party to which
he belongs. If in spite of our efforts bad or
incompetent men, or men who are opposed
to our interests, secure the nomination, re-
fuse to support them. There are good and
bad men in all parties; there are those who
regard the interests of the people,‘ and those
who disregard them, in all paities. None
are exempt, and probably never will be.

As our Bro. Patron of Farmington says:
“Let us agitate, agitate! think, reflect, and
be wise!” But this organizing a new party
by the Grange or through its agency, is one
of the things we solemnly promised each
to the other we would not do. If we are
severed from this old landmark, the Order
will be weakened and finally go out.

Kent Co., Jan. 25, 1882.

Was il a Mistake?

Bro. Cobb .-—-I wish to correct a mis-
statement in the last VISITOR, which is that
“ Bro. Thomas Mason has the only Patrons’
commission house in Chicago.” The Illinois
State agent, Bro. J. M. Chambers, is doing
a good business in Chicago, and we in Illi-
nois think on a better plan than such agents
usually buy, viz., on a salary. The whole-
sale men with Whom he trades pay quar-
terly about 2 per cent of amount of sales to
the Executive Committee, who pay this
sum into the State treasury, amounting
annually to enough to pay Bro. Chambers’
salary. You say that your agents sell goods
at an advance of about 4 per cent. over cost.
So you see we beat you about 2 per cent.
And the2 per cent. that our agent gets, is
just about the percentage paid to “drum-
mers” by the wholcsale men. As soon as
the Patrons of Illinois buy through Grange
channels, as they ought to, our agency will
become a source of profit to the State.
At our late State Grange, over $1,000 was
handed in by members to our Executive Com-
mittee, to be placed in our agent’s hands to
aid in the purchase of goods at the
lowest rates.

Our late State Grange at, Mattoon was well
attended, 40 or 50 visitors being out, with
many ladies among the number. Bro. E. A.
Giller, of Green county, was elected Master.
Bro. M. Whitehead was in attendance, and
took quite a list of subscribers for the
Bulletin. A purse of $35 was quietly made
up for him one evening, which he announc-
ed would be used to buy an Elgin (Ills.)
watch, which he was needing.

H. K. SMITH.
Magnolia, Ills., Jan. 23, 1882.

Educatlon.

Bro. Cobb.-——As I have been confined to
my room for several days from injuries re
ceived from a fall from a high load of straw,
and also from a sore hand caused by an am-
putated finger, I have read over my papers
with more than usual care. The GRANGE
VISITOR received a full share of my atten-
tion. I was particularly interested in the
article from the pen of Prof. Chase, of Tenn.
And although minus the forefinger on my
pencil hand, I will endeavor to make read»
able a few of my ideas on matter to which
the learned Professor refers. The conclusions
to which I have arrived are the result of 50
years experience with hired men, ranging
from two to fifty at a time; and I have
learned that the most intelligent, refined,

and best educated young men were the‘

most profitable to hire. Their knowledge
and sense of honor led to a more faithful
discharge of duty, and enabled them to
more successfully direct their energies.

In an address at a large Grange Pic-nic
two or three years ago, the speaker, (Bro.
Luce,) who is a most successful farmer, said
if he had an intelligent hired man he would
rather give him every Saturday afternoon to
think, if he would think for him, than to
have him work the entire six days. Them’s
my sentiments exactly. I have had young
"men work for me year after year who were
so stuck up that they would, after their
work, dare wash up, dofl‘ their overalls and
old coat, put on light shoes and sit in my
family circle and talk over the business of
the farm or read the papers, or some book.
I never had any company too much stuck
up for that class of young men to .associate
with and they were always too stuck up to
neglect any duties committed to their
charge. For a hired man I want one of
good physical ability, with a good head,
full of self respect and fair education. Such
a man. well treated and well paid, has al-
ways been the most profitable man for me
to hire. For many years I have been a
heavy tax-payer with but one child of my
own to educate. But I have always been
in favor of free public schools.

If “the successful and influential farmer‘
and newspaper correspondent,” to whom the
Professor referred, will spend a few months
in this land of free schools, and draw the
contrast between this and a 1 whose ig-
norance he considers excelle I don’t
think he would write any more such twad-
dleas the Professor quotes. I should have
mentioned another difference. between edu-
cated and ignorant young men. The former
usually saves his wages, the latter spends
his, and I consider a man who saves his
money worth much more than one who
spends them. He is far more noticeable and
attentive to his business than a spendthrift,
who will have his semi-‘occasional sprees.

To the questions which Prof. Chase asks,
I will say to the first, I am a farmer and
have been all my life, but have done some
other business, such as building railroads,
railroad bridges, and acting as railroad
agent. I 0

2d.—Before 14 I attended a common dis-
trict school such as they had in the State
of Vermont 65 years ago. Two short terms
from the time I was 14 to 17 I was confined
to the house with rheumatism. During

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this time I read very much, all my eyes
would allow. Afterlwas 17 I went to a
Summer district school on crutches one
short term.

3d.—I always have regretted that I could
not have gone to school more.

-1th.—-I have already answered a part of
this. In the other part I will answer, I
have always sought all the information
within my reach, relating to my own and
all public affairs.

5th.—VVhetherafarmer, mechanic, trades-
man or professional man, I never in the 75
yearsin which I have lived, met a man
who knew too much, if he made proper use
of his knowledge.

6th.——A fixed purpose, 8. strong will with
lots of energy, and above all strict integrity.
A young man who starts out in life in any
branch of business, can’t afford to do a dis-
honorable act. Old Gov. G., of Vermont,
who brought me up, used to tell me that a
reputation for strict integrity was better
capital for a young man to begin life with
than thousands of dollars without a char-
acter.

7th.-1 would not live in such a place.

8th.—Cannot answer positively. I never
question my school tax.

9th.———I have already given my views on
that most fully. .

Lastly, I hope others everywhere who
differ with me will respond to Prof. Chase’s
request, and through the GRANGE VISITOR.

J. R. Hi«:NiiIn'x, Lecturer.

HAi\IILToN Grange, No. 355.

EACH fortnight brings to light more
Grange halls in Michigan. We add 5 to_
our list since last issue. You see we don't
intend to stop until we kiiowjust how many
Grangesown halls in Michigan and their

   
 
      

value. \Vho next‘?
NAME or GRANGE. No. 5,f,Zfi‘;F| VALUE.
. . '
24x40 800
18x44 500
21x1-1 500
22x40 | 700
30x50 1,500
20x40 500
82x64 1,300
24x50 l ........ _-
20x40 800
22x50 754)
22x30‘ 1,000
zsxio 1,500
26x60 1,400
20.\'-15 1,000
.... _- .300
23x~ti 800
21x48 1,100
24x60 600
28x50 1,200
, 20340 1,000
22x48 600
Charity, __________ -- Lifix-I0 ........ -_
Central, {  } 500
Center, _____________________ -_ ‘ 30x46 ________ __
Centerville, _____ 76 18x42 1,000
Cheshire Banner )0 22x40
Cl1ippeWd,--_- ‘"117 , ‘20x3l‘/, 500
Conway, __- 114 , 20x50 600
Coiirtlai1d,_ 503  21x56 000
crystal, .................. -- 411.1 2-ix-10 "n0
Daiiby , _ _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . -_ 185 20x10 -100
De Witt, 459 .
Ellena, ..................... -- 350 . 20x42 I 800
Ensley Center, ............. -_ 514 , 20x40 * 200
Evergreen, ................. _. 380 , 2-1x45 , 300
.Essex,______ 439 1 ‘
1,500
12 700
550
800
300
1,000
1,000
300
1,500
600
1,000
1,000
760
500
, ’ 400
Independence, - 275 26x56 550
.Iohnstown,----- -- 1?.‘ 20x40 ________ __
Keene, ..................... _- 270 ____ _- 1,200
Keystone, 226 ________ __ 1,000
Lapeer __- 216 16x24 ____ ..
Liberty 391 21x50 800
Macon, 167 26x50 800
Madison, ........... -- -- 384 22x40 33
Michigan Lake Shore, .... -- 407 25x50 . 1,
Moline, ____________ __ 24x50 1,000
20x40 200
20x40 ........ --
221156 2,000
25x62 1,600
18x40 600
24x50 1,200
28x62 1 1,000
24x44 750
. 25x60 l,Z)0
. 22x6}- ,1 1,200
26x50 ’ 1,400
‘ 241146 1,000
25x60 ........ --
32x60 800
1 24x40 600
) gx?) 300
, in
24x23 i 13"“
géxg 1,500
x
I 18x20 1-500
1 24x45 600
i %x60 1,200
Rutland, __-_- 18x40 600
Silver Lake,_ 624 i 18x40 400
113 1 22x42 600
____ _- 456 %x50 1,000
20x50 400
30x60 1,8-00
26x80 1,400
mx30 300
.... _- 24x48 1.000
%x52 8 .... --
28x45 1,500
24x50 800
20x30 450
' 26x60 3,000
____ -- 22x50 900
20x36 .... --
l ________ -_ 1,000
| 22x40 365
1 24x44 800

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

The annual meeting of Berrien County
Pomona Grange was held at Berrien Center
Grange hall, Jan. 10 and 11. The number
of members in attendance was large, and
the meeting enthusiastic in its work. A
resolution approving the action of Hon§J.
C. Burrows in introducing House Bill .-
784, relative to infringements on patent
rights. was unanimously adopted. Also, a
resolution to further extend the circulation
of the GRANGE VISITOR among those out-
side the Order was adopted. The following
officers were elected and installed: A. N.
Woodruff Master, Levi Sparks Lecturer,
and Wm.. J. Jones Secretary.

The next regular meeting of Berrien
County Pomona Grange will be held at
Bainbridge Grange hall April 4 and -5.

The following programs for Farmers’ In-
stitutes were adopted :

LAKE GRANGE FARMERS’ INSTITUTE,
Eco be held at Steyensville, Feb. 4:

Caring for the apple orchard.-—I. M. See.

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Breeding and feeding swine.—R. Morrell.

The farmer’s relation to our common
schools.—W. J. Jones.

The farmer in society. — Sister Helen
Finch.

Progressive farming.—Charles F. Howe.
‘ Fruit on the farm.—Wni. Burton.

PIPESTONE I-‘ARMERS’ INSTITUTI5

\Vi1l be held at Pipestone Grange hall Feb.
11. The following is the program:

Education of farmers’ sons.—W. S. Reese.

The dairy, and is it advisable to enter into
the manufacture of dairy products on the fac-
tory system ?—James Vanderveer.

The past, present and future of the Amer-
ican farmer.—A. N. Woodruff.

Household work.——Sister A. N. Woodruff.

AT FRUIT GRANGE HALL, 1-‘EB. 8.

Education of farmers’ sons.—-F. F. King.

The best mode of husbandry for profit
and increasing the fertility of the soil.—A.
Keigley.

Draining for prof'it.——J. Fisher.

The labors of the farmer’s wife.—C. 0.
Rector Barnard.

Cattle breeding for
Marsh.

AT SODUS GRANGE HALL, FEB. 18.
Farm economy.—Philip Dewitt.
Temperance.—W. S. Reese.

Farm drainage.-—Geo. S. O’Brien.

The agricultural press and the farmer.-
O. C. Spaulding.

Our G1rls.—Sister Philip Dewitt.

AT Bl-JRRII-ZN (,‘EN'l‘l~1R, 191-115. 25.

Care and cultivation of fruit and garden
for home use as well as market.——W. A.
Brown.

The social position of the farmer’s family :
what it is and what it should be.—Sister A.
N. Woodruff.

Howto harvest and secure the various
crops, with a View to economy and safety.-
John Clark.

Money tax or labor tax for the improve-
ment of highwa.ys.—A. N. Woodruff.

Should stock be permitted to run at large
in the highway ?—R. V. Clark.

MOUNT TABOR GRANGE HALL, FEB. 11.

Should farmers stand by their local insur-
ance companies ?—’l‘homas Mars.

Deep or shallow tillage for cultivated
crops ?-——Nornia11 Nims.

Township fairs vs. county faii's.—Levi
Sparks. '

The social and intellectual bene is derived
from the Grange.—Mrs. Thomas Iars.

Money tax vs. labor tax for the improve-
ment of liighways.——L. P. Alexander.

Care and culture of fruit and garden.-
W. A. Brown.

Can we afford to do without the Grange?
—Sister L. Baldwin.

AT HOME GRANGE HALL, CoLOMA, FEB. 24,
(.‘01\IMENUING AT 1 P. M.

profit. — Edward

Baldwin.

Thought on the farm.——L' Sparks.

New varieties of fruit.—W. A. Brown.

gorne life on the farm.——Mrs. A. N.Wood-
ru .

Under draining.——Dr. H. M. Marvin.

How may we improve the fertility of our
farms‘?-—A. Keigley.

W. J. .IoNns,
Sec’y of Berrien Co. Grange.

Aspecial meeting of Oakland Co. Pomona
Grange, No. 5, will be held at Clarkston on
Thursda , February 9, 1882, commencing at
10 o’cloc A. M. Fourth degree member
are invitedto attend. The program will be
as follows: —

1. Opening of the Grange.

2. Music by Clarkstoii Grange choir.

3. Address of Welcome by the Master of
Clarkston Grange.

4. Response by the Lecturer of the Pomo-
na Grange.

5. Subject for discussion—“ Would it be
for the best interests of society for woman
toengagein the learned professions ‘?”—Mrs.
W. M. Satterlee, and Mrs. G. M. Shattuck.

6. Music by the choir.

7. Recitation by D. M. Garner.

8. Essay—“ Where art Thou ?”— Mrs. C.
Wager.

9. Discussion———“ How shall we prosecute
Grange work to accomplish the best results
euring the year ‘?”—Opened_ by a member of
Milford Grange.

10. Reading from scrap bag by Mrs. W. M.
Carpenter.

11. Suggestions for the good of the Order.
by Master of Pomona Grange, E. J. Blgelow,
and J. Jackson, G. M. Trowbridge, and
others.

12. Reports from Subordinate Granges.

A spec‘ lmeetlng of Kalamazoo County
Pomona range will be held at Schoolcraft
Thursday, February 9, 1882, at 10 A.M. sharp.
All fourth degree members are cordially in-
vited. The work of the session is presented
in the following program zo-

Music. First subject for discussion-—
“What is the most profitable stock for in
Kalamazoo County farmer to raise ?"—Open-
ing assigned to Jacob Lemon of Brady
Grange.

Recess for dinner at twelve.

AFTERNOON SsssIoN.——Music. Essay by
Mrs. H. Dale Adams, subject, “Adornments
of home and yard.”

Select reading by Whitford Milliman.

Music. Essay, J. M. Neasmith, subject,
“ What rotation of crops is best calculated
to maintain the fertilit of our farms‘? ”

A paper by Mrs. . T. Cobb,— “Some
impressions and incidents of the State
Grange.”

Select reading, Sarah Bell Boothe.

J. Q,. ADAMS, Sec’y.

Climax, Jan. 27, 1882

The next regular meeting of News go
county Pomona Grange will be held at es-
peria Grange hall on the first Tuesday in
February, 1882. All fourth-degree members
are cordially invited. For program see
Lecturer’s notice.

A. TERWILLIGER, See.

The next meeting of Oakland Pomona
Grange No.5,will be held'at Clarkston Feb. 9,
at 10 o’clock A. M. All fourthdegree mem-
bers are cordially invited. A. E. GREEN.

Walled Lake, Jan. 15, 1882.

. Ionia Co., Mich.
,Hr.‘Ed17tor, DEAR SIn:—Our neighbor-
hood have used the Patrons’ Ingersoll
Liqiiid Rubber Paint and can speak of it in
the highest terms for ease of s reading,
beauty of finish, and durability. e have
never met its equal. E. S. BURNS.

[See Advertisement.—ED.]

Culture, cost and value of root crops.—M. .

 

 

 


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, ms comes SIDE.“

“There is many a re t on the road of life,
If we only would stop to take it,

And many a tone from the better land,

, If the querulousheart would wake it.

To the sunny soul that is full of hope.
And whose beautiful trust ne'er faileth,

Tl e grass is green and the flowers are bright,
Though the wintry storm prevaileth.

B« tter to hope, though the clouds hang low,
And to keep the eyes still lifted;

For the sweet blue sky will soon peep through,
When the ominous clouds are lifted.

There was never a night without a day,
Nor an evening without a morning;

And the darkest hour. the proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.

There is many a gem in the path of life,
Which we pass in our idle pleasure.

That is richer far than the jeweled crown,
Or the miser’s boarded treasure;

It may be the love of a little child,
Or a mother’s prayer to heaven.

Or only a beggsr’l- grateful thanks
For a cup of water given.

Better to weave in the web of life
A bright and golden filling;

And to do God's will with a ready heart,
And hands that are swift and willing,

Than to snap the delicate, silver threads
Of our curious lives asunder;

And then heaven blame for the tangled ends
And sit to grieve and wonder.”

Farmers’ Homes.

[A short time ago I was requested to pre-
pare a paper on some subject for Galeshurg
Grange, and chose for the occasion, “Farm-
ers’ Homes,” and the present paper, some-
what extended, is the one given at that
time:]

This is a subject which all farmers should
take an interest in, coming home, as it does,
to their very doors. I have often wondered
why it was that farmers, more than any
other class, should fail to surround their
homes with neat lawns, beautiful flower-
beds, and I would always add a croquet
ground or some other out-door amusement,
including a swing as of olden time for the
children These may be termed luxuries,‘ to
be indulged in only by those who have
more time and means at their command
than most farmers. These surroundings are
too truly at present found the exception
rather than the rule.

The progress, however, made and the vis-
ible improvement in this direction during
tho past ten years has been very great, and
bids fair in the next ten to reverse the order

- now existing, making neglect the exception

and order, neatness, and even elegance, in
many instances the rule.
I propose to notice some things
supposed to lie in the way of this
line of progression and shall attempt a
few suggestions for their removal. We will
commence with the dwelling itself, and its
location. Nine-tenths of the farmers locate
their dwellings too near the road, leaving
no space or scope for embellishment in front,
where by common consent it is considered
most appropriate, too often imitating the
forced narrowness and contraction of our
city and village surroundings._ If equal
facilities exist, the dwelling should never
be located nearer than eight rods, and ten
or twelve would be better still, from the
highway. This gives ample space for em-
bellishment, namely: agood lawn, with a
variety of suitable shade trees, a flower
garden, a drive way leading to the house,
bounded by well kept hedges, ard lined by
our magnificent forest trees, with hardy
evergreens to give variety, and an air of
luxury and coolness in summer and afford-
ing great and valuable protection in winter
—all of which is quite essential to health
and comfort, The flower garden, the now
essential feature to every home in city, vil-
lage, or country. must find a place some-
where; it need not be large nor expensive——
but have it by all means. Let it exist in
some shape, large or small, good, bad or
even indifferent, as it may, sonfetimes be
found. Still most. families attempt to have
one. The flower garden requires but little
labor. Some strong hands are needed in
preparing the soil. This is more than can
be expected of women; the farmer himself
should provide for this with just as much
certainty of reward as he would were it a
field of corn or wheat, on the principle that
a dollar's worth of comfort and pleasure to
his family is,as good as a dollar in cash. If
he provide this, he may well leave the rest
to his wife and daughter. Seeds of a few
annuals, such -as balsam, sweet alysium,
in-kspur, aster, phlox drummondii, and a
few only of the luxuriously growing Ricienus
or castor oil beans, and a canna, to give a
tropical appearance, will make a fine show-
ing for at least four months of the season.
Now add to these afidozen geraniums, most-
]y scarlet, a ,caladium esculentum, a half
dozen good verbinas, one dozen coleus for
foliage efl'ect,‘,and.-you have a flower garden
that will give surprising beauty to your
home for an entire season.

And now, least you may bediscouraged as
to the probable expense, I willgive you the.
cost: of material and tell you how to set
them, and where. A dozen papers of the
annuals above mentioned need cost no more
than 50 cents, the dozen geraniums $1300,
caladium 25 cents, one half dozen verbenas
30 cents, a dozen coleus 50 cents. total 32-55-
From these, if a little care is taken to save
seed from the best, you will be able to lessen
the cost another season more than half, and

' be sure of fine varieties.

Now to get them: Nearly every family
connected with the Grange wants more or
less of these seeds and plants every year.
Make out your list early in the seaspn, say
February or March; hand them to the
Secretary of your Grange with the money
accompanying them, who will put them in
the hands of some one‘who knows_about
plants and prices in the County Grange and
you will be surprised to find how cheap you
can get them. On no account, unless you
expect disappointment, will you buy the
commission seeds on our markets.

Another accompaniment to the farmers’
home is a well stocked vegetable garden.
The’ requisites are few, and these the farmer
has in abundance: a favorable situation, a
good soil, a little labor, and a small outlay
for seeds, properly guided_by good taste and
judgment, will do it, making it no mean
companion to the flower garden and land-
scape in the out-door surroundings.

Heretofore mentioned, our forests furnish
an abundance of the best of material for the
tree planting on the lawn except, perhaps,
the evergreens which may now be obtained
at very little cost. Taste in their arrange-
ment is the next thing to be considered.
The golden rule of the landscapist consists
in hiding all unsightly objects in the near
or distant view by a tree or group of trees
between the object and the place of vision,
be that place where it may, the windows
of the family room, the sleeping rooms, and
even the kitchen, and especially the porch,
if such there be, leaving open views in the
direction of all pleasant places and objects.
This is the alpha and omega of landscape
gardening.

And now, brothers and sisters, if the few
words I have spoken will give you encour-
agement in this direction, we shall go on
together, not only cultivating the beautiful,
but the fraternal spirit of love and forbear-
ance to each other with charity to all, and
when the work of the day is completed, and
we have laid aside the implements for the
night, may we enjoy that rest prepared
for the faithful in the paradise where the
flowers ever bloom, and trees and fruits im-
mortal grow, and where all shall be made
welcome. MRS. H. DALE Anams.

 

What are Women's Rights?

This, to-day, seems an open question.
While we are not in sympathy with politi-
cal filibustering in female attire, and while
we do not think the arena of politics and
the ballot afford a panacea for women’s woes,
we do think that the restrictions of modern
society in regard to the employment of the
sex are too circumscribed. No one will care
to deny that domestic duties, the care and
instruction of children, and the making of
the home circle attractive and pleasant, are
a special province of women. Our wise
Creator, in providing a “helpmeet for man,”
has endowed her with special gifts, enabling
her to shed around the hearthstone a halo of
light and love; and tea true woman there
is no other occupation in which she so much
delights. She lives in the smiles of her
husband and children, and drinks deep
draughts from that cup of happiness which
she creates. She instructs the infant mind
in all that is good, teaches it to lisp the
Master’s name, and step by step, year by
year, she builds up its moral and religious
character. The responsibility of the mother
is great; her heaven-born mission of useful-
ness cannot be overestimated. Her love and
faithfulness to her husband and children is
often -the most sublime spectacle ever looked
upon by fallen man. She wields a power
and usefullness lnlher home mission that
sheds its light over a benighted world. Yes,
many a Mother Garfield still lives, bringing
up sons, moulding their character and
rousing their latent ambition. Do we then
wonder that they become presidents ?

We honor the successful man. We glory
in his greatness. We admire the Christian
gentlemen, and his work of philanthropy.
But who made these successful men? Who
first directed that infant mind? Who
watched over his early boyhood days, direct-
ing his thought, leading him step by step,
to the first round of the ladder of fame, and
bidding him mount to the summit of a
glorious earthly ambition? We answer-
the mother,

Most men owe all they are, all they hope
to be here and hereafterto the early training
of their Christian mothers. But while our
homes afford to women such noble opportu-
nities for greatest good to the human race,
we must not shut our eyes to the fact that
society restricts and confines her field of
efi‘orts and cramps her possibilities.

Our daughters should not be bred in idle-
néss. Our institutions of learning and
female colleges should give her a broader
and more practical course of study. Music,
drawing, French and German are orna-
mental and discipline and refine the mind,
and therefore are to be desired, but they
should have a more thorough course in
commericial knowledge. Our daughters
should be competent as accountants, should
understand banking and law to the extent
necessary to a good sound business educa-
tion. They should be educated to compete
with their brothers in commercial ‘pursuits,
as well as to be teachers in our public schools

and seminaries. They are specially adapted.

from their aptitude in nursing to enter the
field of medicine. They should be clerks
and sho pkeepers, and able to fill any honor-

able place their brothers now occupy, that
their physical strength will permit. This
sentimentalism in society, which would
frown upon such efforts at independence is
foreign to the spirit of our republican insti-
tutions, and aplng the aristocrats and mon-
archs of the old world.

Let proud America, boasting of her free-
dom, grant freedom from social ostracism to
our women, wives and daughters, and let
our American girls take a step out of the
beaten track into independence of thought
and action, and with all the pride and

pleasure that independence gives, our
daughters, self- confident of their own power
to fight life's battles, will be less apt to
throw themselves away upon the first fawn-
ing sycophant or brainless fop that offers
heart and hand. J.
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The State Grange from my Stand-point.

I expected Sister Sikes would give the
readers of the VISITOR pen-photographs of
those she saw, and a synopsis of what she
heard at the last session of the State Grange.
But having received the first number and
not finding anything from her pen I con-
clude she is like Josiah Allen’s wife “com-
pletely tuckered out,” if so I can sympa-
thize with her, for that expresses my feel-
ings most of the time since my return from
Lansing. This session was full of interest,
and characterized by the great amount of
work well done. It seemed to me to be sys-
tematized better than usual and work
turned off more rapidly, not so much loss of
time and waste of forces. All through the
past year there has been considerable fore-
casting, planning ahead, combining forces
and mentally laying out work, that this
meeting might be a success, and were I to
render the verdict I should say it was a de-
cided success. Bro. Luce presided admira-
bly although laboring under a great depres-
sion of spirits on account of the severe ill-
ness of his wife and constantly apprehend-
ing the possibility of receiving a telegram
(which is like a barbed arrow to the soul)
calling him to her bedside.

The chairmen of the several committees
were persons of utility and eflicicncy and’
rendered valuable assistance.

The delegates were of a younger class than
have been usually sent there to do work for
our noble Order. That is as it should be.
The veterans in the cause have carried it
through severe contests and strong opposi-
tion, have borne the burden and heat of the
day. And they ought not to be expected to
stand in the front ranks until they are ready
to step ofi‘ from the stage of action, but they
ought to be permitted to enjoy the fruit of
some of their labor. In the course of hu-
man events their places will become vacant
and the younger class of Patrons ought to be
‘able to fill the vacancy-—-I had nearly said
places, but that cannot be done. Each one
of us must fill our own niche in the world.

And what shall I say of the singing and
music furnished for the State Grange,-—it
was grand and magnificent, but those who
were not there cannot comprehend the
pleasure and enjoyment it afforded. There
is a something about it that cannot be des-
cribed by a profusion of adjectives.

Then again there was another episode in-
troduced towards the close of the session
which afliorded pleasant recollections, yet
tinged with sadness. I allude to the pre-
sentation of a memorial gift to Sister Whit-
ney as she was about to leave all her Mich-
igan friends to form new attachments, new
associations, and draw around‘ her new
friends. Sister Whitney has been a genuine
worker and helper in the Grange. It is not
only those who work, but those who watch
and'wait that should receive a recompense
of love and esteem,_and a tangible proof of
our admiration bestowed by generous hands
and hearts. Brother Whitney has done a
great deal of hard, earnest work and has
been a power in establishing the Patrons
of Husbandry on Michigan soil. But he
never could have accomplished all this, had
he not chosen wisely when be selected his
life partner. ,

I have about made up my mind to expect
a great many disappointments when I at-
tend a meeting of the State Grange. Those
whom I desire so much to see and have so
much treasured up to say to them, fail to
put in an appearance. One by one, each
year they drop ofl‘ in their attendance, un-
til I feel as though I were among strangers.

Sisters, did you ever anticipate meeting
a friend and think of so much you wished
to say, and when you did meet. it seems as
though yo re out of talking timber, that
you coul ot say anything to the point
nor make the enquiries you wished. If so,
you can sympathize with Myra, for I know
of her being in that dilemma at the State
Grange this year. How strange it is, what
barriers some people build around them-
selves which cannot always be melted away
by your reverence, esteem or kindly feeling.
Sometimes we can get acquainted with a
person in a short space of time, while others
seem like strangers even though years have
elapsed since first we met. I suppose this is
one of the mysteries of life. MYBA.

Prof. A. B. Prescott of Ann Arbor says
that the stuff called “ozone” sold by a Cin-
cinnati firm as a meat and fruit preservative
is nothing but sulphur and powdered char-
coal. with alittle cinnamon to give it an
odor, and it is no preservative at all.

Irons and Ironing.

The new patent silver-plated irons, with
circular wooden handles which come off
while the irons are heating, are excellent in
every sense of the word, and render iron-
ing a comparatively easy and pleasant task.
But if one has not these, and cannot afford
to buy, she may make the old-fashioned
ones answer a very good purpose by using
them properly; that is, by keeping them in
a dry place, so the surface will remain
smooth and bright. A sad-iron that has
been allowed to rust till the surface is full of
small hills and valleys is an abomination to
any housekeeper. Occasionally a bit of
beeswax should be shaved (in brown paper,
and the irons rubbed hard on that. This
takes ofi" all the rust, smoke, starch, or
whatever may chance to be on them, and
makes them very smooth and clean. Nice
starch may be made from flour by mixing
a stiff dough with water, then working this
dough under water with the hand until
the fine part of the flour has all worked_ out
in the water leaving the brown, sticky glu-
ten in the hand. Have the starch water
boiling, and stir in this liquid. For tine
starch, take spermaceti and white wax, half
an ounce of the former to one ounce of the
latter, and melt together. To every quart
of starch, after it has been boiled, add a
piece of this as large as a small hazelnut.
It gives a fine gloss nd prevents sticking.
A good plan for common flour starch is to
add a handful of salt (a good large one,)
stirring it well with the flour before putting
in any water. This serves a double pur-

se; it makes the starch less inclined to

umpin making, and does away with its
troublesome inclination to stick.

Much of the comfort or discomfort of
ironing-day depends, too, upon the ironing-
blanket and bolder. Though we may not
be able to indulge in a patent adjustable
ironing-board——which is, nevertheless, a
very great conveniencc-—tllat is no reason
for having our ironing blankets full of
creases and wrinkles, and no excuse for
doing withouta blanket altogether, as is
the habit of some housekeepers. The main
part of the ironing-blanket should be of
some firm, heavy material, that will keep
in shape and not shove about’ easily upon
the table. Old flannel blankets or sheets
do nicely for this purpose, though pieces of
old heavy bed-ticking do quiteas well. Cut
into ieces of the required size, which
should’ lways be wide enough to irona
sheet folded to four thicknesses without
moving it from side to side. After the
pieces are shaped. lay them pvenly together
upon the table. smooth out all the wrinkles,
and sew firmly together around the edges
with a darning-needle and twine. There
should be a couple of thicknesses of cotton
cloth, ora piece of an old sheet, for the up-
per surface, and this should be pinned or
bastcd on smoothly by itself, in order that
it may be removed and washed at need,
without the trouble of taking the whole
apart. By following these directions, re-
membering to make of good size and weight,
one will have an ironing-sheet which she
will not be obliged, every five minutes or
so, to smooth out and" adjust to its proper
place upon the table. Holders should be
cut from pieces'of an old soft quilt, enough
thicknesses being used so that the iron will
not heat the‘ hand, then basted or quilted
together, and a cover made of any stout, soft
cloth. This cover, or shield, should be
sewed together on three edges, the fourth
left open to slip the holder in, and basted
together afterwards. In this way the cover
may, when soiled, be easily removed,
washed, ironed, and returned again to its
place.—-wuntry Gentlrman.

 

What a Volcano can Do.

Cotapaxi, in 1738, threw its fiery rockets
3,000 feet above_the crater, while in 1854 the
blazing mass, struggling for an outlet.
roared so that its awful voice was heard at
a distance of more than 600 miles. In 1797
the crater at Tunguragua, one of the great
peaks of the Andes, flung out torrents of
mud, which dammed up rivers, opened new
lakes, and, in valleys 1,000 feet wide, made
deposits 6,000 feet eep. The stream from
Vesuvius, which, in 1837, passed through
Torre Del Greco contained 33,000.000 cubic
feet of solid matter, and in 1793, when
Torre del Greco was destroyed a second
time, the mass of lava amounting to 46,000,-
000 cubic feet.. 1860 Etna poured fortha
flood which covered eighty-four square
miles of surface, and measured nearly 1,000-
000,000 cubic feet. On this occasion the
sand scoria formedthe Monte Rosina, near
Nicholosa, a cone of two miles in circum-
ference, and four hundred feet high. The
stream thrown out by Etna in 1810 was in
motion at the rate of a yard a day for nine
months after the eruption, and it is on rec-
ord that the lava o the same moun'ain,
after a terrible eruption, was not thoroughly
cool and consolidated for ten years after the
event. In the eruption of Vesuvius, A. D.
79, the scoria and ashes vomited torth far
exceeded the entire bulk of the mountain;
while in 1660 Etna dlsgorged more than
twenty times its own mass. Vesuvius has
sent its ashes as far as Constantinople, Sy-
ria and Egypt. It hurled stones eight
pounds in weight ‘to Pompeii, a distance of
six miles, when similar masses were thrown
2.000 feet above the summit. Cotapaxi
has projected a block of one hundred cubic
yards in volume a distance of- nine miles;
and Sumbawa, in 1815 during the most ter-
rific eruption on record, sent its ashes as far
as Java, a distance of three hundred miles
of surface, and out of a population of twelve
thousand souls twenty escaped.

 

Paper Car Wheels.

The paper is strawboard of rather fine
texture. It is received in the ordinary
broad sheets, differing in no particular from
those used for strawboard boxes or other
similar work. These sheets as they come
from the paper mill are square, and must
first of all be cut to a circular pattern. This
is rapidly done on a large table with a knife
that is guided by a radial arm that swings
freely over the surface of the table from a
pivot at the center. A small disk is also
cut from the center of the sheet to allow for
the iron hub. Being thus reduced to the
required shape and dimensions, the paper
must now be converted from a mass of loose
sheets intoa compact. dense body, ca a_ble
of withstinding the tremendous crus mg
force to which it will be subjected in the
wheels. This is accomplished in the fol-
lowing manner: Ten sheets are pasted to-
gether, one upon the other, making a di
of about one eighth of an inch thick.

Enough of these having been prepared to
fill a powerful hydraulic press, they are sub-
jected toa pressure of 1,880 unds to the
square inch. \Vhen removedmthe disks are
hung on poles in a steam-heated loft and
left six days to dry. Thicker disks are then
made, each formed by pasting together two
or three of those already finished. These
are pressed and dried as before, and the
process is repeated until a block is built four
inches thick and of about the specific grav-
ity oflignum-vitae, After each pasting and
pressing six days are allowed for drying,
and when the block is complete it is left in
a drying room until thoroughly seasoned.
The next operation is that of turning the
paper-blocks to lit the steel tires and iron
hubs. This is done with as much accuracy
and exactly in the same manner as if the
material worked on was iron or’wood. The
circumference is turned to a perfect circle
of the precise diameter required, a bed or
recess is worked out for the web of the tire
forest in, and the edges sharply defined.
The block is then painted and is ready for
its place in the wheel.
Advantages of Michigan.

Secretary Charles VV. Garfield recapitu-
lates the advantages of Michigan in his re-
cently published “glimpse” at her horticul-
ture, as follows; Michigan is practically
free from debt; her public institutions are
her pride and her educational system is
commended by the best educators in the
country. The agricultural advantages for
mixed husbandry are of the very best; the
climate is not equaled by any northern
State; the air is clear, the water pure, and
the variations in temperature comparatively
slight. The landscapes are beautiful, and a
wide range of fruits, plants, flowers and
trees, that form the accompaniments of a
well embellished home, can be grown suc-
cessfully. Delightful resorts are near at
hand everywhere; and a refined and intelli-
gent pcople make up her present popula-
tzon. Michigan has ,.a motto upon her coat
of arms, Si quczris penmsulam amoznam cir-
cumspice: it you wish to see a beautiful pe-
ninsula, look about you. That is no flam-
ing advertisement of exaggerated propor-
tions, butis asimplc introduction to those
who enter our borders, the apparently com-
plimentary language of which is found b
every visitor to be a truthful statement.
The old derisive songs that told of ague,
marshes, rattlesnakes, and wolverines as
the natural products of Michigan are not
sung any more; and none visit the Penin-
sular State who do not go away with pleas-
ant accounts of her climate, soil, produc-
tions, and people.—1i’ural New Yorker. '

About the Farmer.
Is it not a living fact that the farmer now
feels something of the old inherited, de-
pendent and servile spirit which was so
universal among the laboring classes in the
centuries past and gone? If he did not feel
and show this spirit, why should his rights
be so often ignored, his feelings hurt, and
he himself treated as though he belonged
toan inferior class? The man who boldl
asserts his rights and feels his equality with
others may he hated, but he will never be
looked down upon. It is the manifest duty
of the farmer if he is conscious of teelin
one particle of servility or inferiority "to
other classes to rise above it just as quick as
he can. He must educate himself and bet-
ter his circumstances, and elevate his con-
dition till he can feel the assurance that he
stands on the full level with the most pros-
pcrous and the best educated classes. He
must think and study and learn and work
till he is fully emancipated from the thrall-
dom of poverty, ignorance and mental inac-
tivity which has heretofore characterized
his condition. He must work out his own
salvation by patience and industry, by ob-
servation, by experiment, and the exercise
of his indomitable will. He must feel his
nobility and respect himselfas the son of
the Most High, capable of doing great things
and of achieving a noble and high destiny.
He must build himself up into the stature
of a perfect man. Just to the extent that
he builds himself up in dignity, self-res-
pect, strength of character, knowledge and
power of will, to that extent will he gain a
conquest over nature, make the earth yield
her increase, and attain the ends of his
earthly existence. There is beyond perad-
venture a bright future outlook for the
farmer if he will shake himself from sloth
and be up and doing with a cheerful heart
and determined will the work of today.-
.Spirit of Kansas.
_________.____________
Libelous Language.

There is a certain class of attorneys in this
city who are particular to the point of sensi-
tiveness in regard to what the newspapers
say about themselves or anybody else. So
impressed are some of these persons with
the necessity of holding newspapers to a
rigid accountability for all their utterances
that they makes practice of searching the
columns of the press for items that are libel-
ous in character, and even if the llbels are
only technical, are quick to inform the sub-
jects thereof of their claim for damages,
which otherwise they might not have sus-
pected. Whether their motive lies in a de-
sire to support what they are sometimes
pleased to call good public policy, or is the
outcome of a desire for retainers, the public
may judge. Passing from the consideration
of attorneys of this class, who are fortunate-
ly few in number. it may be said that law-
yers generally are not as scrupulous in their
comments upon individuals, when protected
by the privileges of a court, as they seek to
make the newspapers. The newspaper that
calls a man a “thief” does it at the peril of
being required to make good the damages he
may suffer thereby. The immunity enjoyed
by attorneys in this articular is shown by
an occurrence in the rder’s Court to-day
during an argument on a motion to compel
certain persons to testify in the ‘McCain
arson case. In the course of his argument
George H. Penniman denounced one An-
drew J. Arnold, one of the jurors in the
case, as a “scoundrel, liar and perjurer,” be-
cause he denied full knowledge of the con-
tents of an atfidavit he had signed afl'ectlng
the conduct of Fire Marshal Baxter. If a
newspaper made such a charge it _ would
have to prove it, or take the consequences,
which might be serious. But the attorney
can make it with entire safety. In the first
place. his comments are privil in law.
In the second place, Mr. Arno d was not
there to hear or resentim In thgsthlrtlifl lag;
he only weighs about poull . W 6
iassailant weighs over m0.——Dc¢rolt Evening

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B08‘S POSSESSION.

BY CLARA J. DENTON.

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Little Bob Grey wore lain, cheap clothes,
And often so patched were they

That often as he passed the boys cried out,
"Bil there goes “Patchy Grey."

Shabby and rude was little Bob's house,
Its size like a hunter's tent.

And the boys declared that Methusaleh
Had offered it once for rent.

His hair—alasl ’twes a radiant red,
And of freckles he'd many a score,

His nose turned up, his mouth was wide.
And no grace had ht in store.

But Bob had one possession
That out-weighed by far in worth
A handsome face, and all the wealth
That encumbers this broad earth.

For his heart was glad through good or ill,
And whatever came or went,

His freckled face unceasing were
A look of sweet content.

"For what's a patch.” said little Bob Grey;
“When there's sunshine everywhere?

A handsome face may do for girls,
But I don't believe ‘twill wear.

And if I could choose ’mong all good things
That this life a pleasure makes,
This treasure of Bob's with all it brings,
(And it brings so much) I'd take. 26
— oer.

A Group of Nieces.

Dear Uncle Nine and Cousins :—I have
just been reading Uncle Nine’s letter in the
last VISITOR and I wanted to say how sorry
I am that he is to be our Uncle no more.
We have taken the Vrsrron for several
years and it is a welcome visitor at our
home. We are all Patrons in our family of
four, (father, mother, sister, and I.) I like
the Grange, oh, so much, and often get very
enthusiastic over the benefit it is and could
be to all both old and young.

Uncle Nine said this column was for the
cousins between 12 and 18 years of age.
Now I fearjthat will exclude me,as I am 19,
although I feel as young as any of you, and
will be very good if you will let me come in
your magic circle. I also look first for the
Youths’ Department and enjoy reading your
letters very much. _

I havean organ, and am very fond of
pets and flowers. We take lots of papers
and .magazinee, though not too many I
think. Sweet Brier and Nettie Gifford I
would like you for friends. But I have
written too long a letter and will say good
by with love and good wishes for Uncle Nine
and all the cousins. VERMONT GIRL.

P. S.—I see that our State Master Col. A.
B. Franklin is lecturing in the west. Go
and hear him, and if you wish to heara good
song ask him tosing the " Sword of Bunker

' Hill.” The Vermonters are proud of him.

Grafton, Vt., Jan. 10. 1882. V. G

Dear Uncle Nine: You have cruelly
deserted us when by the space in our column
we needed you most. I think it is too bad;
don’t you, cousins? When our uncle first
started our column, and kindly proposed
giving us necessary instructions for filling
the same, we all wrote often, and both
nieces and nephews tried to interest each
other, and if it was not always so interest-
ing, it was far better than this empty col-
umn. When the Vrsrron of December 15
came, and I saw the comparatively well
filled column, I thought surely it was des-
tined to more custom from the cousins; but
here comes the Vrsrron of the 1st, of
January, which finds the column in a much
worse condition than ever before, for we
are without an uncle, oreven an aunt.

Uncle Nine, couldn't you be induced to
return to us again? Perhaps he is finishing
his college education, and is as busy as all
young people who attend school these short
winter days are, but couldn't you manage
to find time to look at our column through
the week?

Myrtle W., I thank you for the extract
from your paper, and I am sure all the
cousins thank you too.

Our Grange installed their new officers
last Thursday evening, who were elected
the week before. I am glad to say the
Grange is proeperlng finely.

Cousins, one and all, are we to sit with
folded hands, and see our column deserted?

No, indeed! Now, how many who read this

will try to write something for our column ?
I know some of the young people—I know
one young man in particular——who merely
look at our letters, shrug their shoulders
and say or growl, “'Babies' column! ” -But
let us show them it is not a “ babies’ col-
umn,” but something that will benefit
all who will be benefitted by it.

Let us all write and astonish Uncle Nine
by the amount of letters he receives; would
he not be astonished, though? Try it and
see. Cousin Laura L., I mean you also.
Where is “ Pretty‘by Night," Erie, and the
rest of the cousins, who have mysteriously
disappeared? Are we to hearvnothing re
garding them? Nettie Gifford and “ Sweet
Briar " are still doing their best to keep the
cousins together. I am sure they are true
Glr-angers—wish we had some more like
them. . .

Thanking the cousins for the warm wel-
come which my last letter received, and
hoping to hear more from you in the future
than in the past, I must close for this time.

. ELLA SPAUDING.
Orleans, January 9, 188 .

\.

Dear Cousins.-—As there were no letters
from you in the last GRANGE VISITOR I will
try and write a few words, although I am
very busy.

I am attending school this winter. Study
reading, spelling, algebra, geometry, and
rhetoric. Thursday we have rhetoricals, and
Friday we“‘spell down.” Our rhetoricals
consist of the older scholars writing upon a
question given them by the teacher,_and the
younger ones speaking pieces. By the way,
won’t some of you (I would ask Uncle Nine
but he has deserted us) to propose aqnestion
for us to write on. I will try and do my
part. and think the cousins will do theirs.

Ella Spaulding, I think you are the “ Mol-
lie” who wrote that spirited reply to Ex-
Granger. Please let us hear whether my
suppositionis correct or not.

Our Pomona Grange meets January 6. It
is composed of five Granges, or of about 200
members. We expect to have a very pleas-
ant time. Why don’t Erie write ‘.’ Cous-
ins, I send you a puzzle:—

My first is in good but not in bad,

My second is in girl but not in lad,

My third is in envy ‘also in hate,

My fourth is in early also in late,

My fifth is in never also in now,

My sixth is in promise but not in row,

My seventh is in oblong but not in square,

My eighth is in ground but not in air,

My ninth is in nice also in neat,

My tenth is not in bread but is in meat,

My eleventh is in answer but not in ques-
tion,

My twelfth is in proposition but not in
suggestion,

My thirteenth is in near but not about,
My whole is what I see whenever I look
out. '

I hope there will be several letters in the
next Vrsrron.

Your afi“ectionate cousin,
N ETTIE GIFFORD.

Royalton, Jan. 2, 1882. '

Uncle Nine .-——Bro. E. S. of No. 27, we
know you are “ Pretty by Night,” but why
don’t you write to some effect? Why don’t
your brothers and sisters of 27 contribute to
our column? I know they they are compe-
tent. Yes, we have young men in our
Grange who are capable of making this or
any other column interesting if they could
but see their duty as others see it. Sisters
and brothers, what a meagre,poverty struck
column we are keeping. If we cannot do
better than this let us bury it quietly and
not keep its skeleton grinning at us as it
has been doing to harrow ‘our sensitiveness
longer. When there is such shining talent
among those who should be its contributors
it is too bad to see” lt go begging; If we
can't support one little department how are
we to support not only whole papers but the
government, when age has claimed those
now in power ?

Some one propose a question for discusion,
and let it bediscussed too. Come, Sweet
Briar, give us a good stirring question and
see if there is courage enough among us to
discuss it. A GRANGER GrnL.

The Last Relic.

They tell of a young girl, some seventeen

ears of age, who, clad in deep mourning,
knocked at the door of a rich man’s house
in one of our large cities, and asked eagerly
for the owner. The servant, no doubt, par-
taking of the demeanor of his master who
was deemed a harsh and severe man by all
who knew him, was about to turn the sup-
plicant from the door when her importuni-
ties touched a lingering chord of sympathy
in his heart, a-ud he announced herto the
lordly owner of the mansion. He was,
indeed, a very stern man, and apparently
hard and unfeeling in his nature. There
were deep wrinkles on his brow, which
seemed to denote that he had not passed
through life without partaking of some of
its sorrows and many of its cares. He was
in a deep reverie when the servant entered;
perhaps he was counting his gains, or it
may be bringing back the past before him
as in a lass, and counting up his Hours
from chi dhood to his weary age. Who
knows? How few care! But strange it
was, even to his servant who knew so well
the forbidding nature of his master, when,
after a moment's hesitation, the rich man
said, “Let her come in.”

In a moment the poor girl was in his
presence. It was a strange, contrast; that
weak. trembling being, treading upon soft
carpets in the meek habiliments of poverty,
in the presence of the owner of millions—
she in her deep humility, and he in the
lordliness of wealth. She stood before him,
and in low trembling tones that were full
of melancholy. sweetness, said:

“ Sir, I am a stran r in distress; I am a
fatherless child, an my loved mother is
now seriously ill. For many months I
have labored hard to sustain her, but pov-
erty comes too fast upon us. We are poor,
but we are not beggars; we came from a far
country, and are strangers. One by one we
have parted with our little valuables, and
here is the last relic of a loved father. He
gave it to me as a keepsake —-something to

eep for his dear memory, but. alas! starva-
tion is a stern thing, and necessity knows
no law. You are rich—some say you are
unkind, and yet I have ventured ;'will you
b it, sir?”
he ceased speakin , and the rich man
appeared touched; he ooked at the speaker
with aglance in which tenderness seemed
struggling with the morose feelings which
for so many years congealed into ice the
more tender emotions of his nature.

“ Look up, young lady,” said he. .

His voice -had in it a tone of sympathy

that gave her.confidence; and she raised
her eyes timidly to the penetrating glance
of him in whose presence she stood.
‘ “ Let me examine the article you wish me
to buy, and although not doing business,
yet perhaps I may be induced to help your
present necessities.” .

The girl with trembling hands, took from
her neck a black ribbon, at one end of
which there was attached a rich jewel of
gold. It was of singular shape, and upon
its two sides were engraved certain charac-
ters of which its pleading possessor knew
not the meaning; and yet she prized it
much as the gift of a dearly loved parent;
and as she almost reluctantly placed it in
the hands of him whom she had sought to
be its purchaser, she pleaded :

“ When times comegood again, sir, I can
buy it back; but, oh ! buy it now, sir, that
I may get bread for my mother. and procure
that medicine which her malady requires.”

The rich man had taken the jewel in his
hand. He passed the ribbon through his
fingers. and at last looked upon the article
he was solicited to buy. VVhy does he
start? VVhy turn ghastly pale, and sink
into the richly cushioned chair that ‘was
behind him. cover his face with his hands
and weep like a child?’ \Vhy press that
jewel to his lips and then to his heart, and
again weep.

Reader, do you ask Why? the jewel, the
last relic of that poor, unfriended girl and
her afliicted mother, was that of Mark
Master, and it belonged to the only brother
of him to whom it was offered for sale. Oh!
how deep was the struggle within that
man’s breast! He was rich in all this
world can afford of worldly wealth, but
meager in those deep and dear affections
which make life desirable. He had lived
for himself, and he had hoarded up the
dross of wealth and permitted the fountain
of deep affection to dry up in his soul. He
had forgotten his kindred, he remembered
not the old homestead, or the familiar faces
that used to bless him at the fireside. But
now, as if Providence had directed it all, a
little jewel, his brother’s ma-rk, came to him,
even as the day star come to the devotee, to
direct his thoughts to heaven and humanize
his feelings. The strong man is subdued!
He is no longer the man bound up in gold,
but the man made and renewed in the image
of the God of love! But let him Weep: the
tears will do him good, for they are not only
tears of deep oontrition for past sins of
omission, but drops that will bring a bles-
sing on more than one sorrowing heart.
Hear him while he speaks to her:

“Young lady, I do‘ not ask your name.
The man who owned this jewel was the son
of my father, and my brother, by a tie al-
most as sacred as that of blood. Was he
your father? Tell me! ”

“ He was my father, sir.” .

“Then I am your uncle. Take me to
your mother. Henceforth our fortunes are
one-—my home shall be yours, and you shall
be my daughter.”
<K- * <k'- * -Y:   -X-

There were three happy hearts that day
in a small house in one of the lanes in that
crowded city—a tall, dark- looking man,with
iron-grey hair and strong features, yet now
bearing a subdued aspect, and a moistened
eye; a widowed invalid, with a placid smile
irradiating her calm and beautiful features;
anda young girl, gentle in her subdued
beauty—-blessing God that His smile had
sanctified THE LAST RELIC.

THE REAPER. DEATH.

JAMES ——The following resolutions were adopted
at a regular meeting of Raspberry Grange N o. 593 :—

WHEREAS, Our Heavenly Father has seen fit to
take the only son of our Worthy Brother and Sister
Mr. and Mrs. JAMES, and remove him from their
loving embrace to the paradise of God, therefore ;

Resolved, that we bow in humble submission to
the Divine will ; that our Grange extends its heart-
felt sympathy to the bereaved parents and friends;
that a copy of these resolutions be furnished the
bereaved ‘parents; the GEANGE Vrsrroa for publi-
cation, an also that the same be spread on the
records of the Grange. Mas. Cums Brrsronnr,

Mas. CYNIQIIA Mvnas,
JAMES BINGHAM,

Elmwood, Dec. 10, 1881. Committee.

MUZZY—1<csolutions adopted at a meeting of
Raspberry Grange, No, -593 :~— '

Wrrnanss, Our Worthy Sister, Mas. JULIA Muz-
zv has been called from our earthly home to a home
above not made with hands, eternal in the heavens
and,

Wnaanss, By her death we have lost a kind and
loving sister, and the husband an affectionate com-
panion. and it fills our hearts with grief to think that
we shall meet her no more in our Order; therefore,

Resolved, Thatto our Brother in this his sad be'-
reavement we extend our heartfelt sympathy.

Resolved, That our hall be draped in mourning for
sixty days; that a co y of these resolutions be pre-
sented to the husban of our I‘ 4 Sister spread
upon our Grange record, and a copy sent to the
Games Vrsrroa for publication.

Mas. Crrwrnrs Mvnas.
Mas. CHLOE Brrvonnr,
J Antics Brxenm,

Elmwood, Dec. 10, 1881. Committee.

AT WO0D—Died at his residence in Clinton, De-
cember 31, 1881, in his 42d year, Hrnsx D. Arwoozo,
a worthy member of ‘Macomb County Pomona
Grange, No. 32. At thp last meeting of this Grange
the following resolutions were adopted 1--

Wrraanss, It has leased the Great Master of the
Universe to remove in our midst our Brother and
Treasurer of this Grange, H. D. Ar con, therefore

Resolved, That in the death of o Worthy Brother
this Grange has lost an efficient officer and a consis-
tent worker; his family a kind and indulgent hus-
band and father, and the community a worthy and
useful citizen.

Resolved, That we extend to the bereaved family
our heartfelt sympathy in their great afiliction.

Resolved, That the ofice be left vacant for the
s ace of three months. and these resolutions be enter-
e on the records of the Grange, a copy be presented
to the bereaved family, also to the GEANGE Vrsrroa
and Mt. Clemens papers for publication.

A. J. Lnonmnsox,
F. E. Scott,
Mas. H. B. CASTLE,

Milton, Jan. 9, 1882. Committee.

KINNEY—Died January 6, 1882, at her home in
Cambridge, Lenawee Co., Mas Msaosasr Krrmar,

aged 64 years, a member of Springville Grange, No.
279, P. of H.

WnEanAs, In his wisdom the Great Disposer of
Events has seen fit to remove from our midst MARGA-
nnr, a late member of our Order and wife of our
Brother Nelson Kinney, therefore

Re:oloed,'That while we deplore the departure of
our Worthy and esteemed sister to higher and more
exalted fields of usefulness, with feelings of deep re-
gret, and though we sorrow and grieve for our less,
we believe for her there is great gain.

Relolved. Thatwe tender to her bereaved family
our heartfelt sympathy and sincere condolence inthe
great afiliction they have sustained by the death of
a loving wife and indulgent mother, removed from
appreciative neighbors who from years of pleasant
ac%:.intance have learned to love and esteem.

olved, That out of respect for the " eased our
Charter be draped in mourning for 60 days.
Resolved, That as a further token of our regard

these resolutions be entered upon the journal; a copy
thereof be presented to the sorrowiug family and a

gvrsrrcs;

copy be transmitted to the GRANGE Vrsrron for pub-
lication. MAasnAr.r. REED,
J. E. Grass,
E. S. Ross, ‘
. Committee.
JOHNSTON —Died in Tallmadge December 8,
1881, Mas. Liners Jorrrvsrox nee Havens, aged 18
years, 8 months.

WHEREAS, Our Heavenly Father has seen lit to
remove from our midst our loved sister we bow in
humble submission to His divine will. and extend our
h_Q.rtfelt sympathy to the bereaved family. Our
sister was beloved and respected by all whoknew her,
and was the life of the circle in which she moved.

Resolved, That in the death of our young sister we
have parted with a consistent member of our Order,
whose loss we sincerely mourn, and while we bow in
humble submisson to the Divine will we can only say,
Thy Will. not ours, be done.

vllesolred, That in token of respect for our departed
sister our Charter be draped in mourning for 60 days.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be pre-
sented to the afilicted family ; a copy sent to the
GRANGE Vrsrroa for publication, also one preserved
on the record of our Grange.

It seems so strange to mortal cye
Why God should thus afflict

And from our very midst
This flower should pick.

Mas. S. G. WoLr'.

Mas. T. Hanvaa,

Mus. A. Woonsan,
Tallmadge Grunge, No. 639. Committee.

VAN CAMP-—Died at Woodstock, Lenawee Co.,
Mich., on the 10th day of November, 1831, Mus.
Lucv VAN CAMP, aged 67 years.

Deceased was for many years a most estimable
member of Woodstock Grange, No. 438, but now her
voice is no longer heard in our Council halls, our so-
cial gatherings are no longer animated by her pres-
ence.‘ To her executive ability we owe very much of
our success in the early’ organization of our Grange,
she having been a charter member. But hearing
from afar the rustling wings of the angel of death,
she quietly withdrew from the Grange to put her
house in order for the coming of the grim messen-
ger, and now after four years of uhparalled suffering
she sleeps the sleep that knows no waking. She has
gone from that earthly tribulation in which :1 myste-
rious providence permitted her to bear a full and
heavy share. She died in the faith, fell aslc p lean-
ing on the Master’s arm.

’Tis thus the arrows from Death's qu'ver. fall
around us, singling out its victims, calling them
home. The members extend heartfelt condolence to
the bereaved. J o-LIN.

RONALD-—Died a victim to the flange in the
town of Moore, Sanilac Co., Mich., on the -5th day of
September, 1881, Wrr.r.IAx RONALD, Worthy Secre-
tary of Mariette Grange, No. 6-11, in the 46th year of
his age.

WnEsE.As, In the providence of an All Wise God
death has once more entered our circle and removed
from our Order our esteemed brothcr ; therefore,

Resolved, That in the sudden and unexpected
death of our brother, we truly sympathize with our
bereaved Sister, children and relatives. Knowing
well that no words of ours can heal their sorrow, or
fill the vacant chair, we can but commend them to
Him who hath promised to be a Father to the father-
less, a husband to the widow, and that all things
shall work to ether for good to them that love God.

Resolved, hat the Grange has lost a true Patron
of Husbandry, the church an honored member, and
the community a respected citizen.

Resolved, That our altar be draped in mourning
for 60 days, and that these resolutions be entered up-
on our record, also that a copy be furnished to Sister
Ronald, the Mariette Index and GRANGE Vrsrroa,
for publication.

. WILLIAM Hoon,
JAMES Coonasxa,
Acuxs Hoon,

Committee.

GAGE-At a regular meeting of Raspberry
Grange, No. 593, the following resolutions were
adopted:

WHEREAS, It has pleased our Divine Master above
to permit the angel of death to enter the home circle
of our Worth brother and sister James and Anna
Gage, and su denly remove two of their loved and
loving children to a better home on high.

Resolved, That though the loss is great to father
and mother, brothers and sisters, also relatives, yet
our loss is their eternal in, and we firmly believe
that these beautiful buds which God has removed to
his garden above will bloom more perfectly there
than they ever could here, though carefully watched
and guarded by loving earthly friends. Farther,

Resolved, That we tender to the bereaved family
our heartfelt sympathy in this their great afliiction,
and though the trials God sends may seem very hard
to bear, ma we remember that he doeth all things
well, and at he has said, Sufier little children to
come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven.

Resolved, That our Hall be draped in mourning
for60 da s and that a copy of these resolutions be
furnishedy
also a copy be presented to the bereaved family, and
thesame be spread on the records of the Grange.

Mas. CHLOE Bnronnr,
Mas. Cvxrrru Mvaas,
Mn. Jums Brxenur.

Committee.
Dec. 10, 1881.

SAGE—Died at her residence in Algansee, Tues-
day, Oct. 17th, 1881, in the 61th year of her age,
Mary, wife of W. M. SAGE. Be it

Resolved, That in the death of our sister Union
Grange has lost a true and faithful member and her
family a kind and loving mother and friend.

Resolved, That our heartfelt sympathy be extended
:0 the family of the deceased in this their great af-

iction.

Resolved. That these resolutions be placed on the
records of the Grange, that a copy be sent to the
family of the deceased, and a copy to the Gamma
Vrsrroa for publication.

Mrss Furxm HALL,
Mas. S. BnAnr.Er,
. Ma. 8. Banner,
” Committee.

THE successful farmer, like the successful
teacher, is an experimentalist. He does
not run his experiments all over the farm,
but while the main business proceeds ac-

cording to approved methods. he always has

his experiments in progress where they do
not interfere with his general work.

 

JOHN Williams, of Kent Co., says Z. B.
Custer left a cornsheller at his place some
time last summer on trial. Williams sup-
posed he gave a receipt for the machine
when he signed a piece of paper, and he is
now defending a law suit in which he is
asked to pay a $60 note made. at that time.

 

The Chief of the Bureau of statistics re-
ports that for the past twelve months end-
ing December 31, 21,290,921 pounds of but-
ter, valued at $4,072,817, and.1-£0,357,826
pounds of cheese, valued at $15,506,871,
were ex rted from. this country, being
about 16, 00,000 pounds less of butter and
about 3,900,000 dpounds more of cheese than
were exported uring the previous year.

the GEAEGE Vrsrron for publication, and l

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FEBRUARY 1, 1882.

Report oi Committee on Department of Agriculture
Made at the Late session of the State Grange,

Worthy Master and Fellow Patrons :——
Your Committee to whom was referred the’
subject-matter contained in our Worthy
Ma.ster’s address, relative to the Agricultur-
:11 Department, beg leave to report as fol-
lows: That those recommendations and
suggestions be heartily endorsed.

As agriculture must always form the foun-
dation of our national wealth and prosperity,
comprising as it does over 60 per cent of its
wealth, paying 75 per cent of direct taxes,
contributing largely in excess of all other
occupations to the surplus wealth of our
country ; therefore it is self evident that the
Department of Agriculture, should not only
occupy an important position but the most
important position. We, therefore, still
press the demand that the Commissioner of
Agriculture be raised to a Cabinet position,
having charge of agricuture alone, and thus
have power to recommend ap: ropriations
for the use of his department, instead of, as
at present being atsupplicant, only to be ig-
nored and disregarded. We also suggest
that this department he made more practi-
cal and experimental, and be provided with
all necessary means for research and investi-
gation. We further recommend that the
Order of Patrons of Husbandry labor with
renewed zeal and energy for accomplishing
these objects, that by so doing this depart-
ment may be raised from its {present condi-
tion of inefliciency, tonne of vigor, energy,
and widespread usefulness, opening wide
the channels of investigation, making our
productions more varied, increasing our ex-
ports, decreasing our imports, and yielding
wealth and vigor to our whole country.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

Michigan Crop Report for December. 1881.

For this report returns have been received
from 913 correspondents, located in 664
townships. Five hundred and sixty-two of
these returns are from 376 townships in the
southern four tiers of counties. The returns
were made between December 1 and 14.

The report shows the estimated acreage
and condition of wheat sowed in 1881 as
compared with 1880, the estimated yield in
1881 of corn, clover seed, and potatoes, and
the condition (as regards flesh) of cattle and
sheep on December 1, as compared with
Dec. 1, 1880.

The estimates show that the present acre-
age ot‘wheat in the southern four tiers of
counties exceeds the acreage sown in 1880 by
two per cent.,.and in the counties north of
the southern four tiers by six per cen t., in-
dicating aprobable acreage in the State of
about 1,834 529 acres. The condition Decem-
ber 1 in the southern four tiers of counties
was 132 per cent., and in the northern coun-
ties about 117 per cent., of the condition
December 1, 1880. This excellent showing
is supplemented in numerous instances by
statements that the wheat presents an unusu-
ally fine appearance, having tillered well
and obtained a large growth. The white
grub and Hessian fly are reported present in
various localities, but while they may, and
undoubtedly will injure individual fields,
the reports do not indicate that their rava-
ges will noticeably affect the aggregate yield
of the State. Wheat seldom, if ever, has
-gone into the winter in better condition
than this year.

The yield of corn in 1881 is estimated at
40,460,901 bushels ofears, 20,230,450 bushels
of shelled corn. These figures are based on
the acreage as estimated in September. and
the yield er acre as estimated in December.

At the ate of making the Teports but a
small portion of the clover seed had been
hulled, and correspondents in the counties
of Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass,
Eaton, Hillsdale, Jackson, Kent, Lenawee,
Oakland, and St. Joseph in the southern
part of the State, and in Grand Traverse and
Newaygo counties in the northern section,
report the clover seed greatly damaged by
wet weather, many fields being entirely
ruined. Some of them estimate one-fourth
of the crop destroyed. One correspondent
in Case reports 15 per cent. rotting in the
fields, and another thinks that not a bushel
will be saved in his township. The esti-
mates—1 and 72-hundredths bushels per acre
in the southern, and 2 and 43 hundredths
bushels in the northern counties,—are at the
best but rough guesses.

The yield of potatoes is estimated 55 bush-
els per acre in the southern, and 109 bushels
in the northern counties.

The average condition (as regards flesh) of
cattle in the southern tour tiers of counties is
about the same, and of sheep two per cent.
better, while in the northern counties the
average of each is about seven per cent. bet-
ter than on December 1, 1880. .

cheating Taxpayers.

Complaint is made that the Kansas Pacific
railroad has some 300.000 acres of land in
the State of Kansas ,yvhich is practically
valueless to the country through the fault
of the road. It is charged that the corpora-
tion refuse to have it surveyed so that it can
be settled, because they wish to avoid the
taxes upon the property. Bills to forcea
survey have been introduced. but have
never got beyond a reference. The road
heretofore has been too strong to allow. of
legislation that it did not favor.

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CULARS and PRICE-LIST.

solicited.

G. W. Hunt, Mattawan. Van Buren County.

W. P. Herd, Lowell, Kent County.

A. H. Smith, Sparta, “ “

Charles E. Thornton, Rockford, Kent County.
Charles Pittman. Middleville. Barry County.

A. Stegeman, Aliegan, Allegan County.

D. P. Newton, Watson, U U

Simeon Staring, Ganges, “ “

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Gutelius Snyder, Three Rivers, St. Joseph “
Williams & I-Iartshorn. Owosso, Shiawassee County.
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P. W. Watts. Chelsea. West Washtenaw County.
John Wiebe, Bear Lake, Manistee County.

ANY PERSON HAVING

HUBBARD SQUASH,

DRIED DR EVAPDRATED APPLES.
BEANS. CLOVER SEED, ErC., Erc.,
. Should at once correspond with

THOMAS MASON,

" _ CHICAGO, ILL.
Agent Michigan State Grange. lfeb-it

sxazg-._x35 :

Sr. LAWRENCE SEED GARDENS.
I will send free by mail for 50 cents in stamps
or specie the following

LIST OF SEEDS, .
Worth One Dollar and thirty-five Cents :—
1 oz. Blood Turnip Beet, . . . . . . . . . . . . “Price, 10 cts.

1 oz. White Belgian Carrot, . . . . . . . . .. " 10

1 oz. Nutmeg Musk Melon, . . . . . . . . . . ..

1 oz. Large Red Onion, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1 oz. Student Parsnip, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1 oz, Early Conqueror Tomato, . . . . . . . .

1 oz. Purple-Top Turnip, . . . . . . . . . . . ..
1 packet New Hybrid Tomato,
“ St. Lawrence,”

31 35
Also, I will send free for 25 cents, 12 packets
Assorted Vegetable Seeds; for 30 cents I will
send l5 packets Flower Seeds, Assorted Annuals;
or the two lots for 50 cts., or the three lots for 85 cts.

This offer will hold good only during the months
of December and January. Seeds are the growth of
1881 1 if not satisfactory, I will refund the money.

Address,

VV. VV. VANSTON, Seed-Grower,
Mallorytown P. 0.,
decl5-4t Ontario, Canada.

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 on BINGHAMPTON,

Binghampton, N. Y.
Send for Circulars and further particulars.

PAW PAW, Mich., May 18th, 1878.
Jonas or BINGEAMTON:

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

Yours, Fraternally,

J. J. WOODMAN.
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[Signed]

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B. J. Wily. Mottville, St. Joseph County.

G. M. Gardner, Litchtield, Hillsdale County.

J. A. Johnson, Vicksburg, Kalamazoo County.
George Baker, Buchanan, Berrien County.

H. C. Call. Glass River, Shiawassee County.
Wm. S. Palmer, Lansing. Ingham County.
William Spalding, Hoytville, Eaton County.
Union Wind Mill Co., Albion, Jackson County.
The Bird VVind Mill Co., Kalamazoo. Kal’zoo 00.
Charles North, Trent, Muskegon and Newaygo Co.
Nathan Winslow, Williamstown, Ingham County.
C. H. Eames, Grand Blanc. S. E. Genesee Co.
John Grose, Moorepark, St. Joseph Co.

Garden, Flower and Field
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OF EVERY VARIETY.

BOXES DP ASSORTED PUPPIES furnished GRANGPS

Varieties not used to be returned.

WHITE RUSSIAN OATS.

Special Prices to Patrons on Application.

NEW GROCERY PRICE LIST NOW READY.
SEND FOR IT.

GEORGE w. HILL,

80 Woorlbridge .St., West,

Feb.1tf DETROIT, MICH.

LIFE INSURANCE

FOR PATRONS.

The Palmns’ lid Suciely of Michigan

WAS ORGANIZED IN DECEMBER, 1880,

to give the Patrons of Michigan an opportunity to
belong to a

HOME/INSTITUTION OF LIFE INSURANCE

that they could control. As its name indicates, it is
FOR THE MEMBERS OF OUR ORDER AND
FOR THEM ONLY.

Its Annual Meetings occur at the sa time and
place as the annual session of the Sta e Grange.
This feature was for the express purpose of provid-
ing for a large representation of the members of the

Society at its most important meeting of the year, _

when its ofiicers are elected. and without special
notice any amendment to the laws and rules govern-
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The MUTUAL PLAN adopted by this Society pro-
vides that an Assessment shall be made ONLY
when a member dies, and the amount of that as-
sessment is fixed when a person becomes a member,
and cannot be increased at any subsequent period.
This assessment is graduated according to age, which
is an important and distinctive feature of this Socie-
ty-—one which should commend it to the favorable
consideration of Patrons.

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to time pay a. small sum from their income or their
earnings, in order to secure to those dependent on
them in an hour of need a sum sufficient to bridge
over the expenses and wants incident to that most
trying period of life, those reasons hold good when
applied to the Patrons of our State.

Applications for membership may be made to

JAMES COOK, J. W. EWING,
Adrian. Eaton Rapids.

ELIJAH BARTLETT, WM. B. LANGLEY,
Dryden. Centreville.
R. C. CARPENTER, GEO. W. EWING,
Lansing. Ross.
MR5. C. K. CARPENTER, C. L. WHITNEY.
‘ Orion. Cincinnati.

J. T. COBB, A. E. GREEN,
Schoolcraft. Walled Lake.
or to Local Agents they may appoint.

For By-Laws and Circulars apply to either

- WM. B. LANGLEY, Profit,
Or J. T. COBB. sec-.’y, Cent!-evllle.
febltf Schoolcntt, Mich.

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Those Complaints (they need no naming) peculiar to VVOMEN, YOUNG 01' OLD. NOT A CURE-
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afflicts MEN VEN MORE THAN WOMEN. ‘ ‘ _

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EVERY»  INWTHEI COUNTRY SHOULD EXAMINE THE

_ New Combines‘. Spring Tooth Sullzy Harrow

CULTI VATOR AND SEEDER.
:Manufactured by

THE WOLVERINE ,
HARROW AND SEEDFR COMPANY.

Kalaninzoo, - Michigan.
As :1 combined machine. it stands un-
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ly and satisfactorily. It has takenhigh
miik at once as ONE OF THE VERY
BEST IMPLEME‘-1\'TS FOR THE USES
_ DESIGNED EVER INVENTED. Sows
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structed in two sections. either of which can be raised or lowered by the driver,
working independently of each other. setting the teeth at any required depth. It
is of very light draft, easily woked by one pair of horses, and has received the
first premium and diplomas wherever exhibited

Send for Circulars. LOREAIZO B IXBY, sec’?/,

THOMAS ivuisoiv,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT,

181 South Water Street, CHICAGO,
BUSINESS AGENT OF MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,

R»:-spectfully solicits Consignments of
BUTTER, EGGS, WOOL, HOPS,
RAW FURS, HIDES, FELTS,

FRUITS. VEGETABLES,
VEAL, GRASS SEED,

POULTRY,
TALLOW,

GA M E
&c.

BONDED AGENT of the iionrsiwrsrssr rsoniicia EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION,
Chartered Feb. l3ilI, I877.

To Patrons and Sl1ippers;——'.1‘his is the only Commission House in Chicago organized and
controlled by the Patrons of Husbandry. The chief aim of this Agency is :
lst, Security for Payment to Shippers. '
2d, To obtain the Highest Market Price for
3d, Quick Sales and Prompt Payment. ,
,Shippers in all States will receive equal benefits of this management, the Business Manager being
under Bonds tor the faithful performance of the same.
This Agency will fill Orders for any goods in this market, at lowest possible rates.
pany the order for near the amount required ; balance to be paid on receipt of bill.

THOMAS MASON, Business Manager.
MARKET REPORTS, STENCILASV TAGS sent. on Application.
TEE PATENT I.1!IFE.C)V'E]3

Spring‘ — Tooth EJLRROTX7

F‘0R. THE SEASON OH‘ 1882.

goods received, quality considered.

Cash must accom-

.w\v:‘:\§;*:i -

Entering upon our third year as Manufacturers, the most flattering proof of its superiority is the
daily increasing demand for this unrivaled ‘Farm Implement. »

Send for Circulars to CHASE. TAYLOR 85 C0., Kalamazoo, Mich.

This Power easily folded u ‘out of the way when not in use. Just the thing eery farmer needs '
who has feed to cut, corn to a all, or anything one or two horses can do. Agent: wanted. Sand for
Circular.’ Two-hone Power, Jack Belt, and 18 ft. Flat Belt, 840.

janl-tt SMITH & WOODARD, Manufacturers, Kalamazoo, Mich.