“THE FARMER IS OF MORE CONSEQUENCE THAN THE FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IJHPROVED.”

VOLUME 8,—NO. 8.
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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

Advertisement—Common Errors in Shee Raising-
What Ensilage Is—Fruit Trees for rnament—
Talks on Poultry, No. 5—Lice on Fowls . . . . . . . 1

Before the Curfew—Poison in Eve day Food-The
Department of Agriculture: W V this B111?-—
Homg Training of Children—-“ Be Ye Courteous! "
—Th Reaper Death, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2

Our Patent Laws: Are They Oppressive and Un-
just? If so, What is the Remedy ?—That Dana
Family——Advertisements-—Railroad Time Tables, 3

About Fences-—Wrongs to Right—0ur Contributors
To Correspondents—Our Worth Lecturer-—Acme
Creamer and Butter Cooler— ISITOB Receipts,
(Coutinued)—Purity of the Ballot . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4

Let Us be One People——Speech of Senator Davis-
The Railroads Aim a Blow at the Public Schools——
The Smartest Girl in Iowa— The. Wheat Moth and
its Work—Sheep Profits in Harrison County, Ohio.
Don’t Forget the Grape Vines—A Murder Trial in
1900 —Notices of Meetings—-Advertisements. . . . 5

Go Onward !—A Subject in Season~—Flowea.s—Man’s
Position in Life —Not a Politician, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Pulling Steady —— Ingham County Grange -— From
Lowell-Newaygo County Grange—Phcenix-Like
—North Star : Liberty Grange, No. 391—Honor to
Whom honor is Due— Spend or Spare——Discussions
—A Niece on Amusements—A Nephew on Amuse-
ments—Ma.king the Worst of It—Advertisements, 7

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

Ofilcers National Grange.

MAB'.l'EB-—J. J. WOODMAN,. . .Paw Paw, Michigan.
Ovnnsnns.—PUT. DARDEN, . . . . . . . . . . .Mississippi.
Lsowunnn-HENRY ESHBAUGH, .... ..Missonri.
SISEWABD-——A. J. VAUGHN, . . . . . . . . . . . .Mississippi.
Assr. STEWABD—WlLLLA.M SIMS, ...... ..Ka.nsas.
Cns1>r.snz—S. H. ELLIS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ohio.
Tn1u8UnEn——F. M. McDOWELL,......New York.
Sncas'.rsnr—WM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.
GATE-KEEPER--O. DINWIDDIE, ....... ..Indiana..
Cxnus—MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, ...... ..Mich1'gan.
PoIro1u—MRS. PUT. DARDEN, .... ..Mississippi.

‘ Fr.on.A—MRS. I. W. NICHOLSON,.. .New Jersey.

nun Assr. Srnwsnn-—MRS. WM. SIMS, Kansas.

Executive committee-

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

Officers Mlehlgan state Grange.
l!.—C. G. LUCE, ........................ ..Gilead.

0.—A. N. WOODRUFF, ............. . .Watervliet. '

CHARLES E. MICKLEY .......... .. ....Thurber.
S.—S.A. 'l‘0OKEB,........... .....Lansing.
A. S.—A. E. GREEN, ............... . .Farmington.
O.—SALMON STEEL, . . . . . . .Frankfort, Benzie Co.
T.-8. F. BROWN, .................. ..Schoolcraft.
SIo.——J. T. COBB, ................... . .Schooloraft.
G. K.—ELIJAH BARTLETT, ........... . .Dryden.
Onnns.—Mns. A. S. STANNARD, ........ ..Lowell.
Poxoiu.-Mas. H. D. PLATT, ......... . .Ypsila.nti.
Fr.onA.—Mns. A N. WO0DRUFF,.. ..Wa.tei-vliet.
L. A. S.—Mns. A. E. GREEN, ....... . .Farmington.

Executive committee-

J. Q. A. BUBBINGTON, Chairman, . . . . ..Tuscola.
J. WEBSTER CHILDS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ypsila.nl:i.
I. ll. HOLLOWAY, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hillsdale.
THOMAS MARS, ............... . . Berries Center.
WM. SATTEBLEE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..,.Birmingham.
race. 1!‘. MOORE, ..................... ..Adrian.
J‘. G.RAMSDELL ................. . .Traverse City.
0. G. LUOE, J. T. COBB, ............ ..Ex-oflicio.

state Business Agent.

—2

THOMAS MASON, . . . . . . .. . ........ ..Chicago, Ill.
GEO. W. HILL ......................... ..Detroit.

Special Lecturers.

nu, Lnoogg, ............. ..A.d:ian, Lenawee 00.
K. 1.. Stevens, ............ ...Perr7. Shiawassee 00.
In. 8. Steele,.... ........ ....lIanton, Wexford 00.
Andrew Oonvbollo ..... ..Ypsilan15o Wulmnaw 00.
J. W. Wing.... .... ....Ann Arbor, Wuhtenaw Co.

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Contributions to this department from
practical farmers are desz'7°ed.—-[Ed.

Common Errors in Sheep Raising.

In the VISITOR of Feb.15 I gave my experi-
ence in breeding ewes, what I considered a
good flock and how they should be managed.
I now propose to show how to care for an
ordinary flock as found with three-fourths
of the farmers of Michigan, for profit.
commencing with the lamb when first drop-
ped and followed to maturity. In what we
have to say we do not expect to instruct
professional sheep breeders or make an im—
pression on penurious slovens calling them-
selves wool growers when they are in fact
but crow feeders.

But our thoughts are the experience of
years, and if by expressing them we can be
instrumental in removing many common
errors in breeding, rearing, and management
of flocks we shall feel well repaid. ’I‘o do
this understandingly we must fix a base for
a medium flock below which noneshould go.
We will make it the average of the State in
1880, viz., five pounds. Any flock under
this is only fit for the butcher as soon as they
can be fattened, for the wool will not pay
for the winter’s keep. The flock of five
pounds if vigorous and of fair age will do to
build upon, if properly managed, for the
profit it will be necessary to look to the in-
crease. This should give you for the
second year an average of six and a half
pounds. To obtain this there are pre-requi-
sites. First, a book that will shear 20
pounds of A-No.-1 wool; second, your ewes
must have the best of care from December to
August, or, until the lambs are weaned.
The lambs should be learned when about
two months old to eat oats and bran mixed,
and they should be fed every day from a
trough in a pen built in the field with strips
far enough apart to let them through and
hold the old ones back. In this way you
are preparing them for weaning when the
time comes about four months old. We
are now done with the mothers so far as this
brood of lambs is concerned. They are look-
ing very nicely, and we begin to brag of them
to our friends. We estimate six and one-
half pounds average at first shearing. Well,
we get it. All depends on your future man-
agement. You have now a flock of young
things only four months old with the burn-
ing suns of August and September upon
them, besides the violent rains liable at
this season, added to these the myriads of
flies worrying the life out of them. You
ask what shall I do. Do a reasonable thing.
Give them a good clover and Timothy
meadow that hasn't been clipped since it
was mowed. Give them their troughs with
plenty of oats and bran, and build them a
shelter by the fences of boards to protect
from sun and storms. Continue this feed,
this protection until winter, then add clover,
hay, and a little shelled corn with their
other grain, follow this to the first of J une,
then wash, shear and report results. If I
mistake not your account will stand about
as follows, on a basis of fifty sheep, and wool

at 40 cents.

Keeping for one year as described above @

$2.00 each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $100 00
Use of fifty ewes one year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 50 00
Service of buck @ 50c each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 00
Washing, shearing, and marketing wool. . . . 7 50

Total expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $182 50
CONTRA.

By 325 lbs wool @ 400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8130 00

By 25 ewes @ $5.00 each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 00

By 25 wethers @ $2.50 each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 50

Total receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $317 50
Leaving a net profit of one hundred and
thirty-five dollars as the result of one year’s
trial. But this is not all, you have only
reached your first improvement. ‘Your next
should be equally progressive and satisfacto-
ry and so continue from year to year, if you
useabetter buck than the last until you
have 9% or 10 pounds of washed wool as an
average of your clip.

After your third cross you will probably
find it necessary to commence the weeding
process among your ewes. The staple will
probably be uneven, some too oily or too
dry, some short and gummy, others too
coarse. This comes of the sheep not being
bred in line for a long period in the past. A
little good judgment here will soon correct
the evil. From this time forward you may
not see so great change in the outward ap-
pearance of your flock yet it is there, per-
haps not the large increase of wool, but in
the solidifying of quality, equalizing the
propensity for like to beget like and running
the whole flock into an unbroken line.

We frequently meet men who are good
farmers in most respects. They can raise
grain, cattle and hogs to perfection, have
good tidy farms and everything pleasant in
their surroundings, who say that they
would not bother with sheep but for their
summer-fallow and the weeds springing up
on stubble——entertaining but one idea of the
value of a sheep, and that idea that they are
the forerunners of a good wheat crop by be-
coming the scavengers to clear the fallows
of every foul weed, brush or thistle growing
upon it, and for this purpose they are put at
work early in the season and kept drilling
until seeding time on the nutriment derived
from these foul plants. What is the result?
A lot of emaciated ewes, sickly and puny
lambs and the whole flock reduced to culls
or scabs. How different the results and
profits had a little good judgment been exer-
cised here.

Sheep are natural scavengers and there is
no flock too good to engage in the work.
They will spend a morning to great advan-

tage on a fallow, it is health to them and
profitto the owner. But the afternoon

should be given them in fields of good grass.
A full stomach of good nutritious food when
retiring at night is the sine qua non to the
perfection and well being of the brute crea-
tion. Another common error with most
farmers is in not providing good shelter for
winter. If they t to have their flock in
good condition in t e spring it will be at the
expense of grain more than the expense of
lumber for sheds.

Another, and the greatest error is the con-
tinuing of the breeding of the native or com-
mon sheep of forty years ago, averaging
hardly four pounds of wool, with no merit
to speak of as mutton sheep. Their contin-
ation cannot be for profit, and if not for profit
can any good reason be given, except it be
penuriousness or indifference of the owner.

There is probably no State in the Union so

perfectly adapted to the breeding of fine
wool sheep as Michigan. Our gravel] y soils
so well adapted to clover, our high altitudes
giving a clear and bracing atmosphere, our
more favorable winters, compared with
the eastern States, are all in our favor, and
there is no good reason why our common
flocks should not excel the flocks of other
States. Our professional breeders of fine
wools can compete with New York or Ver-
mont any day, and with more profit from
their advantages in keeping, and alike result
should follow with all the flocks of the State.
F. M. HOLLOVVAY.

What Ensilage is.

In reply to Mrs. A. Hamilton, of Peach
Belt, Michigan, I would say that ensilage
is green fodder, (generally corn fodder) cut
into fine bits and preserved in an apartment
called a silo; generally made of solid ma-
sonry, water tight and air tight.

Steam or horse power is used in cutting
the fodder, which is kept well spread and
trampled down while the process of filling
is going on. After the filling is completed
the fodder is covered with boards reaching
just to the sides of the silo, and weighted
with several tons of stones or other heavy
material. A slight fermentation follows,
but the heavy weight soon presses the mass
so solidly together that the air is almost on-
tirely excluded, and fermentation stops for
lack of oxygen to feed upon. It will then
keep until Winter, and when taken out to
feed its green color has changed to a brown,
and it has a slightly sour, but not unpleas-
ant taste. All kinds of farm stock are ex-
ceedingly fond of it and do well on it.

Professor Johnson, director of the Con-
necticut Agricultural Experiment Station,
states that it is valuable addition to our sup-
ply of winter fodder, that it is palatable and
easy of digestion.

More exact investigations at the New Jer-
sey agricultural experiment station prove
that corn preserved in this way retains as
much of its nourishing qualities as when
kept by drying; and that the- ensilaged
corn fodder is much more digestible than
the dried corn fodder. So much for science.

Practice shows that the corn is not in-
jured by the slight fermentation which it
undergoes; and that as a Winter fodder, es-
pecially for corn, itis equalled by few and
excelled by none.

This process of keeping fodder isa French
invention of recent date, and only within
the last three years has it been used in this

country. SOIL.
Sharon, Conn., March 27, 1882.

Fruit Trees for Ornament.

Can anyone tell me why in grape vine is
not a suitable ornament for a front porch,
or what would be the objection to a fine
standard pear or grand wide -spreading
apple tree in the lawn? Was evera blos-
soming shade tree more beautiful than
either of these when the flowers come out?
Is not the rich green of the leaves a thing of
beauty all the season? When the urple
clusters hang thick on the vine, and t e red
apples and juicy pears shine through the
leaves in Autumn, it certainly could not
take anything from the beauty of the scene.
When one has but little space, as in a
village lot, could not the useful and ornana-
mental be profitably combined by putting in
handsome fruit trees in the place of those
designed only for shade ? And a pretty dwarf
pear or two would look well among the
shrubbery. A row of young cherries before
a fine house with a many pillared porch is
one of the pleasant memories of my early
walks to school. The old doctor who owned
the property gave those trees as much care
and attention as he ever did a rich patient.
He was almost daily doing something for
them, if it was only to pour a bucket of
suds about their roots, loosen the ground a
little, or bury a dish of bones under the soil.
But their marvelous growth was the wonder
of the village, and in 9. very few years they
cast a deep shade over th whole sidewalk,
and yielded a bountiful supply of great ox-
heart cherries. Let us give our children all
such memories we can for they are health-
ful for mind and body both. Fruit or no fruit
means riches or poverty in the minds of our
little children, and there is certainly a thrift-
iness about a home well supplied with this
luxury, which is better than‘ an old stock-
ing full of hard dollars in the strong chest,
but only one old crab apple tree in the
pasture ot.-—Indiana Farmer.

VALUE or LEMON-JUICE.—A piece of lem-
on bound upon a corn will cure it in a few
days; it should be renewed night and mom-
ln . A free use of lemon-Eiluice and sugar
wi always relieve a coug . Most people
feel poorly in the Spring, but if they would
eat a lemon before reakfast every day for a
week-—with or without sugar, as they like-
they would like it better than any medicine.

Talks on Poultry, No. 5.

CHICKS.

For professional poultrymen or for raising
early broilers incubators and hydro-mothers
are doubtless a success, but they require
time and watching, which a farmer can ill
afford, and if you lose an incubator full of
eggs through carelessness or inexperience
the loss is too heavy. A lady acquaintance
sets two hens on each nest in cold weather,
thereby keeping both hens and eggs warmer.
She reports good success. Some advocate
raising chicks without the hen, after hatch-
ing the eggs under the hen. We prefer
letting Biddy raise the chicks, and we face
the charge of standing still while the world
moves. She knows the trade better than
you or we. While setting, the time she is
off the nest for food gives the eggs the air
they need, she turns the eggs daily, after the
chick is hatched the two halves of the egg
shell are placed one inside the other; and
after hatching she knows when they are
cold and damp and gathers them under her
wings, and is a destroying angel to any-
thing that would harm her brood.

We haveasmall building with a park at
each end, and in cold weather keep the young
chicks indoors,let them run in parks pleas-
anter weather, and after chicks are a week
or two old let them run with the hen as
suits “their own sweet will,” using a coop
for each brood at night and until the sun is
well up in the morning.

Feed young chicks a while before and
after each of your meals—-breakfast, dinner,
and supper. Cornmeal stirred in water is
too strong and fattening for young chicks.
The American Agriculturist says: “It has
been the cause of more death among chicks
than cholera among fowls.” For a few
days hard boiled eggs chopped flue, and low
grade rice cooked, is recommended. As
they grow older give a variety of food, as
oatmeal cake crummed, seeds, sour milk
cheese, barley and wheat screenings; the
two latter are best fed at night. If you
wish to see how chicks look when happy
chop raw onions fine and see each of them
running around with a piece in its bill.
By raising the coops above the ground just
enough to let chicks inside you can feed
them five or six times a day and older fowls
cannot reach the food. Have your coops and
feeding places away from the house if you
don’t want chicks in the kitchen or on the
back porch.

Some advocate giving no water to chicks.
A. C. Hawkins wrote to the Poultry World
last season from Lancaster, Mass.: “ Have
raised 8,000 chicks. N 0 water! ” We have
never tried it. If raised in their natural
state, they would get and drink water. It
seems as natural for them to drink as eat.
If fresh water is handy they won’t drink
until they wish, nor more than they need.

In your solicitude for .chicks don’t forget
the hen. She needs whole corn, and a dust
bath daily when confined.

Turn in the hens and chicks and they
will harrow your garden after you plow it
before you plant the seed.

Grand View Farm,

OLD POULTRY.
Kalamazoo.

Lice on Fowls.

I notice in a late number of the Farmers’
Friend, under your agricultural department,
“The Hennery,” “Lice on Fowls.” The
article is an excellent one, but for most per-

sons too tedious of application. Please al-
low me to give my experience: I keep from
100 to 150 chickens in a small yard, with
henhouse and shed attached enclosed for
roosting and nests. The house is crowded
at night with as many as can get in, the
balance roosting in the shed. I have not
seen any vermin about the house or shed, or
on my fowls for years.

I first got gas tar, which costs about ten
cents per gal on, and painted the house inside
and out, the masts, and also the roosts of
the shed attached. Thereafter I washed the
roosts with crude petroleum (using a com-
mon whitewash brush) every spring. There
is another advantage in using the as tar
and petroleum, they are both power 111 dis-
infectants. I have used the above reme-
dies for a number of years, and although my
fowls are very much crowded, I have had no
disease among them exce t cholera, which
they occasionally get if I et them run out.
But so far I have soon stopped its ravages by
kee lug them in the yard and feeding them
on ndian meal dough, mixed with a strong
Cayenne pe per tea, which they eat greedi-
ly and whic promotes their health in other

ways.
I give them the above occasionally, wheth-
er they show sickness or not.

Very 1y w. '1‘. s.
Grange N o. 60, Maryland.

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causes

VZSEEQB.

BEFORE THE CURFEW.
1829-1332.

oL1vr:B WENDELL I-iomtas.
Not bed-time yet I The night winds blow,
The stars are out—full well we know
The nurse is on the stair,
With hand of ice and cheek of snow,
And frozen lips that whisper low,
“ Come, children, it is time to go
My peaceful couch to share.”

No years a wakeful heart can tire;
Not bed-time yet! Come, stir the tire
And warm your dear old hands ;

Kind Mother Earth we love so well
Has pleasant stories yet to tell
Before we hear the curfew bell ;
Still glow the burning brands.

Not bed-time yet I We long to know

What wonders time has yet to show ;
What unborn years shall bring;

What ship the Arctic pole shall reach,

What lessons Science waits to teach,

What sermons there are left to preach,
What poems yet to sing.

What next? we ask; and is it tine
The sunshine falls on nothing new,
As Israel's king declared ?
Was ocean ploughed with harnessed fire P
Were nations coupled with a wire ?
Did Tarshish telegraph to Tyre ?
How Hiram would have stared !

And what if Sheba’s curious queen,
Who came to see—and to be seen-
N or something new to seek,
And swooned, as ladies sometimes do,
At sights that thrilled her through and through-,
Had heard, as she was coming to,
A locomotive's shriek,

And seen a rushing railway train
As she looked out along the plain
From David's lofty tower-
A mile of smoke that blots the sky
And blinds the eagles as they fly
Behind the cars that thunder by
A score of leagues an hour !

See to my fiat lux respond

This little slumbering-fire-tipped wand-
One touch——it bursts in flame !

Steal me a portrait from the sun——

One look -— and lo 3 the picture done !

Are these old tricks, King Solomon,
We lying moderns claim ?

Could you have spectroscoped a star ‘I’

If both those mothers at your hat,
The cruel and the mild,

The young and tender, old and tough,

Had said, " Divide—your right, though rough,”-

Did old J udea know enough -
To etherize the child ‘B

These births of time our eyes have seen,
With but a few shcrt years between ;
What wonder if the text
For other ages doubtless true,
For coming years will never do-
Whereof we all should like a few
If but to see what next.

If such things have been, such may be ;

Who would not like to live and see—-—
If Heaven may so ordain-

What waits undrcamcd of, yet in store.

The waves that roll forevermore

On life's long beach may cast ashore
From out the mist-clad main 'r‘

. Will earth to pagan dreams return
To find from niisery's painted urn
That all save Hope has fluwn—~
Of Book and Church and Priest bereft,
The Book of Ages vainly cleft,
Life’s compass gone, its anchor left,
Left—lost—in depths unknown ?

Shall Faith the trodden path pursue

The crux amata wearers know
Who sleep with folded hands,

Where like a naked, lidless eye,

The staring Nile rolls wondering by

Those mountain s.opes that climb the sky
Above the drifting sands i’

Or shall a nobler faith return,
Its fanes a purer Gospel learn,
With holicr anthems ring,
And teach us that our transient creeda
Were but the perishable seeds
Of harvests sown for larger needs
That ripening years shall bring i‘

Well, let the present do its best,
We trust our Maker for the rest,
As on our way We plod ;
Our souls, full dressed in fleshy suits,
Love air and sunshine, flowers and fruits,
The daisies better than their roots
Beneath the grassy sod.

Not bed-time yet I the full blown flower

Of all the year—this evening hour——
With friendship’s flame is bright ;

Life still is sweet, the heavens are lair,

Though fields are brown and woods are bare,
And many a joy is left to share
Before we say Good-night 1

And when our cheerful evening past,

The nurse. long waiting. comes at last,
Ere on her lap we lie

In wearied nature’s sweet repose,

At peace with all her waking foes,

Our lips shall murmur are they close,
Good night ! and not Good-bye l

Poison in Every Day Food.

Committees of experts tell of adulteration
in food that is simply appalling. lVere the
ingredients which are mixed with food inoc-
uous it would still be a very great hardship;
but when it is known that the most violent
poisons are employed it is a marvel that the
whole country does not rise up and put a
stop to such practices and punish all dealers
who sell poisonous articles of food. If con-
firmation of these really startling state-
ments were needed one has only to read the
facts recently brought to light in Chicago,
where it is impossible to find pure sugar and
where not ten per cent. of the milk is good.
In that city the. bread without exception, is

oisonous; the teas were never imported,
ut are made of leaves “faced” with Prus-
sian blue and chromate of lead. Seventy-
five per cent of the cream of tartar is white
earth and the coffee is coated with lamp-
black. But‘Chicago is no worse than other
cities. Baking powders are largely composed
of alum. Pickling fluid is diluted with sul-
phuric acid, alum and verdigris to give it
a eculiar flavor.
he manufacture of a great deal of our
confectionary should be punished as a crime,
for much of the candy sold to children is
simply a lump of white earth, made attract-
ive to the e ‘e with arsenical paint, and
sweetened with glucose. Costly spices are
counterfeited in a terribly grotesque man-
ner, the flavoring being given by the rankest
poisons. In these an other adulterations
arsenic plays the largest part. VVe import
annually 2,000,000 pounds of this deadly oi-
son—-one cent’s worth of which would ill
2,800 people-—and the bulk of this import is
used in the preparaiion of food and clothing.

The Patrons of Vermont are makin
effort to start a paper in the interests 0
Grange.

an
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APRIL 15, 1882

The Department of Agrlculture—Why this Bill‘!

Because the bill simply proposes an act of
long deferred justice. To elevate the De-
painment to the full rank of other executive
departments, with all the rights and digni-
ty tliereto belonging—why shall it not be?
It is the direct representative of more than
one-half of the people of the whole country.
The farmers constitute largely the productive
element of our population. No class can
justly claim any superiority over farmers
as intelligent, patriotic, useful citizens. The
farmer’s industrious habits and conservative
virtues are no small factors in the strength
and security of our insti-utions. However,
trade may enrich and art may adorn other
professions, the nation dwells largely in the
cottages and farm houses of the country.

The farmers of the United States, though
not largely active in political strifes, should
be earnest in their intelligent appreciation of
their influence upon the material interests,
and also to the elevation of our great indust-
ry, agriculture. We should begin to under-
stand that our branch of productive forces
has been ignored, or recognized in a grudg-
ing, half-hearted way. Indeed, it would
seem that the government were half ashamed
of our industry, which is the bed-rock of its
wealth and power.

The Department of Agriculture has, in
spite of manifold obstacles. attained to such
national importance that its just rank and
representation in the cabinet cannot be de-
feated. Itrust it may become a law this
present congress. For many years the at-
tention of Congress has been asked to the
importance of an Agricultural Department
worthy of its name and necessities. Its
capacity for good should be enlarged to an
extent somewhat commensurate with its
present importance and its grand possibili-
ties. It would be not only a substantial
service to every industrial interest, but ‘a
just and graceful recognition of agriculture.
In accord with the spirit of advancement in
this most useful and beneficent of all the
arts, it is the duty of our highest legislative
body of this great country to strive to free
agriculture from all possible obstructions,
and give it the widest possible scope. Gov-
ernment should always discriminate in its
favor and never against it. It should elevate
the Department of Agriculture from its
secondary and subordinate position and
make it the most prominent of the cabinet
places in the national administration.

Its Coinmittcc on Agriculture, instead of
being useless and insignificant, should stand
at the head of the committees of the Senate
and House. It should be composed of the
most eminent agriculturists and the most
ardent and enlightened friends "of the‘ art.
It should be constituted with a View to the
most effective and unbiased work for the ad-
vancement and elevation of agricultural
interests. No man should assume to stand
as representative of the farming interests of
the mightiest farming nation on the earth
who does not believe that a good, successful
farmer is the highest type of a citizen.

The appropriations for the aid of corpora
tions should be lessened, and those for the
encouragement of agriculture should be in-
creased. The one hundred millions given
to subsidize the Pacific railroads, and the
millions more to othergrasping corporations,
were all drawn from the sweat and toil of the
tillers of the soil of the nation. A mere tithe
of these sums given within a few years to fill
the pockets of scheming corporators, has
not been appropriated in a. century to en-
courage the earnest, honest art on which the
country must depend for its existence. If
the great producing masses of the nation,
the farmers and laborers, would keep an eye
single to their own interests as faithfully as
do the myriads of corporations and speculat-
ors in all the other walks of life, we would
command supremacy everywhere for the
pursuit in which we and our posterity must
earn our bread.

In the accomplishment of the good we
seek there can be no success without thor-
ough organization and earnest, untiring
work. These things cannot be secured with-
out money. The government, that draws
all its revenues from the agricultural re-
sources of the nation, should appropriate the
money. It gives untold millions to main-
tain a war to defend the political unity of
the nation; it appropriates from $8,000,000
to $10,000,000 every year to improve the
rivers and harbors of the country in the in-
terest of commerce: why should it not con-
tribute a few hundred thousand to support a
great department of the government, which
should embody and symbolize the dignity
andimportance of the most ancient. most
useful and most honorable calling among
men.

The department which should be establish-
ed would be a head and center for all the
agricultural industries and interests of the
nation. The more good agricultural soci-
eties there are, the more Granges, the more
agricultural schools, the more agricultural
newspapers, the more legislation and work
and argument in the direct line of agricul-
tural knowledge, the sooner will come the
day when the art and science of tilling the
earth, which is the netural, God-given pur-
suit of humanity, will be brought up again
to the dignity it held when the “tiller of the
garden was the lord of the earth.”

The bill making the Commissioner of
Agriculture a cabinet oflicer should be passed
because it is right, in view of all the consid-

erations which surround it. It should be
passed because, from the lessons of the past,
it is plain that agriculture develops the high-
est types of men, the most ardent patriots
and the purest lovers of liberty, while it
discourages all kinds of slavery ; it develops
and encourages the spirit of accumulation,
both of the products of land and of land it-
self, and becomes thereby the pioneer and
leader in national aggrandizement, wealth
and growth; it discourage-' war, and appeals
to the most potent passions of mankind in
favor of peace and thrift. The bill should
be passed because the farming people of the
nation demand and are entitled to a full, fair
and unequivocal recognition and acknowl-
edgment of the magnitude and importance
of our great interests.

The great Napoleon, nearly a century ago,
called agriculture the body and‘ soul of the
empire of France. More truthfully in this
day and this country, with its 30,000,000
farmers and farm laborers, and its $12,000,-
000,000 investment, can it be
and soul of this republic.

GEO.'N. MEAD.

Acme Grange, No. 269.

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Home Training of children.

Read in Arcadia Grange by J. W. Pierce, March 29,
1882.

When an architect sets out to erect a build-
ing, his first care is to lay deep, broad and
firm, the foundation on which to build his
structure. And when an iridividual begins
right and perseveres wisely, he seldom fails
to accomplish his purpose.

And what is important in erecting a ma-
terial fabric to make it permanent and se-
cure, symmetrical and useful, is doubly im-
portant in molding, forming and building
of character. To succeed in forming the
character of the future man, certain impress-
sions must be fixed in the mind of the child
while he is quite young and should be
among his earliest recollections, at that
stage when the mind is the most impressi-
ble——for truths stamped on the mind then
are longest retained. And here is where
the mother's responsibility is greatest.
Some writer on this subject has said:
"Children during several of their earliest
years are chiefly with their mother, from
her they receive their first impressions, and
those first impressions are of an indelible
character, not easily efl'aced."

It therefore becomes the mother's duty
to see to it that at this critical period of the
life of her child the right impressions are
stamped on the plastic mind.

Now Iam not going into a labored treatise
of the treatment of young children, for
there are hardly any two writers on the
subject who agree. and you will find that in
practice among the best trainers of children
there are as man different methods, as
there are families almost. But I wish to
bring the mind to hear more upon results
than processes, though both must necessa-
rily be considered to some extent.

There should be great care and judgment
used as soon as children are of a teachable
age to give proper direction to the young
mind. One of the first things to be taught
is obedience, and that rendered promptly.
Here is where many mothers fail. They
give a child an order and pass along or the
mind is intent on its work, Johnny is going
to do it pretty soon, but pretty soon lie for-
gets it, the mother speaks to him aigziiii; he
answers “Yes mother, prettysoon," and again
fails to do it, and so ll. habit of disobedience
is formed. This habit should never be al-
lowed to be formed. It is destructive to the
child’s morals, and very aiiiioying to parents.
The parent; should kindly but firmly insist
on iinmedi-ate and unreserved obedience to
all commands.

Many resort to harsli measures every time
a child disobeys and are continually cuffing
or scolding, which is all wrong and cruel;
some others are continually threatening to
punish, but never do it. The true way to se-
cure obedience is by giving the child to un-
derstand firmly that your authority is law
and must be respected at all hazards; but at
the same time let gentleness and kindness be
in every act as far as possible, and be care-
ful not to alienate the child’s affections. All
parents know the necessity and importance
of teaching children truthfulness. But some
I fear forget to teach it by example as well
as precept. How often do children hear their
mothers speak words of welcome to a calling
neighbor. and when that same neighbor has
left, hear expressions the reverse, and this
gives tl. child a. very low estimate of the
value of truth. It is of the utmost impor-
tance that parents live up to the precepts
that they give to their children.

The little olive branches are not as dull
observers as many suppose them to be. They
readily see the inconsistencies of parents
and know very well that many of their acts
do not correspond with their teaching. But
they think that some how it must be right,
for mother, and mother or father wouldn’t do
any thing wrong. But as they grow older
and their reasoning powers develop, they dis-
cover that those departures from rectitude
are wrong, but they still think there must be
some good reason for it, because father or
mother would not do anything very wrong.

But the foundation of integrity is being
sapped, and they too soon come to the con-
clusion, that a little deviation from the right
is no great harm. ‘

But once started in the wrong direction
how soon the habit of H wrong doing will pre-
dominate. Therefore parents should be very
particular to teach their children integrity,
by precept and example. For if the child

sees at home integrity entering into every

called the body-

act and thought. and trust and love naturally
ensuing, he will enjoy integrity and live in it
as a native of a southern climate enjoys sun-
shine and lives in it.

Some parents make iron clad rules which
must apply to all their children alike with-
out regard to disposition or circumstances.
They might as well have all their shoes
made on one last, or all their garments cut
by one pattern without regard to size.
()hildren’s dispositions must be studied and
understood in order to properly and success-
fully govern them. I have known some
instances of children that seemed to be
totally unmanageable by parents or teachers
and were pronounced incorrigible. But
some teacher who had a peculiar tact for
studying character and disposition took
them in hand. and having found the key to
their better natures, by applying the proper
treatment "found them the most tractable
boys in school. Many of those boys who
seem vicious and incorrigible have the stuff‘
in them for making the most valuable men.
They generally have endurance and perse-
verance, and all that is wanted is to give
tone and proper direction to bring out the
latent powers of the mind, which will make
them good and useful citizens, and often
men of distinction. Some parents are al-
ways chiding and scolding their children,
and every little fault is noticed with com-
ments and often magnified ; and the child
hears a constant din of fault-finding. and
consequently becaines soured in disposition,
has little care whether he or she pleases the
parent; or not. The better way to treat the
subject is, after spezikiiig once or twice of
of the faults of :1. boy or girl, to let the
matter pass for a time, say (luring the day or
longer, and then sit down and coniiueucczi
friendly converszition with them, get their
attention and confidence, then gradually
refer to the 1ll)0\'(‘ noted faults, and give them
to understzind kindly but firmly that they
must not be continued, and this course will
gem-rally C()Il\’lll('.t’ 2: boy or girl of the im-
propriety of their faults far better than to
be constantly reminded of them every time
they occur. As I said in the ziiiiioiiiiceiiieiit
of this Slll)j€Cl.—~tllB cliildren of to-day arc to
be the men zuid women of the future. From
among them are to be chosen the men to fill
future positions of trust, from the lowest to
the highest oiliccs within the gift of the
people. Mother, you do not know but your
little Willie or Freddie may be chosen for
governor of sonic State, or to sit upon the
ju<lge's bench, or for 21 legislator‘. State or
National. There are tliousimds of olliccs to
be filled and refilled in the future wliicli uced
good, honest, intelligent, well educated men
to occupy. And these men will be ('ll()5(‘ll
from all ranks of society. It is not the
children of the rich mid iiiflueiitial alone
that are chosen to hold the highest ollicial
positions in this country, as :i glance back-
ward at history will clearly prove. Several
of the Presidents of the United States were
reared in poverty. The most conspicuous
were Lincoln and Garfield, and they are two
who hold high places in the hearts of the
American people. But they had noble moth-
ers who inoldcd their young ininds and gave
direction to thein, and the labors of those
niofliers bore cxccllen fruit. J. Q. Adams
said to a friend, “All there is good of me I
owe to my excellent mother and her early
training.” It may not be geiicmlly known
that Edison, the great clectriciaii had less
than two months of school education in his
life. But his parents took great pains with
his home training. [See I.’cople’s C_vclopedi:i.]
Randolph llogers’ parents were poor, so that
his school opportunities were quite limited.
But his mother was one of the heroic women
of Micliigan. Although having to contend
with poverty, she manziged to train her sons
.up to noble manhood, and two of them
became eminent men, and one has 3. world-
wide fame. Many or most of the eminent
men, both of the past and present ascribe
their talents and success in life to the influ-
ence of their mother’s teachings while young.
Then what a hold the mothers of the country
have upon the world. The future must be
largely what the mothers make it tlirough
their influence in training and molding their
sons’ characters.

All well trained boys may not become
eminent statesmen, or attain to eminence in
the professions; but all will be better pre-
pared to fill with honor any station in life
that may be assigned to them. A good
thorough early moral training of a boy will
make him a better lawyer, a better doctor, a
better farmer, a better neighbor, a better
husband, and a better father; and it will
make girls better mothers, and the latter is
the grezit want, and the crowning glory of
the country.

It is very important that every boy should
be taught some useful employment, no matter
what may be his station in life. The time
may come when he will stand in need of the
means of gaining a livelihood.

And it is just as necessziry that girls should
have a good knowledge of household affairs.
How often are mothers of grown-up dangli-
ters found in the kitchen drudging their lives
out, while their daughters are lounging in the
parlor reading the last novel or drumming on
the piano, to while away the tedious hours,
when they ought to be helping their poor,
tired, but too indulgent mothers. Then an
hour or two of relaxation, spent in reading
or music, would be invigorating, and the
sense of having discharged a pleasant duty
would give a zest to their lighter employment.

In choosing an occupation for a boy, regard

should be had for the fitness of the boy for
the busiiicss. As a rule the bov should be
allowed to choose his own trade, lnisiiiess 01‘
profession; and in no case should :i boy be-
compelled to engage in a. business to which he
has an aversion. for he will not be likelv to
succeed, and will most likely 1ll):lll(l()ll it after
having spent the time to learn it.

Amuseiuents ought to be provided in every

home, in which Cllll(ll‘(‘.ll <,-an ciiguge and in
\Vlll('ll parents may also (*]1g;1f_v_'0 with them,
' '~ -' . v . . . -
.l'lil.s \\ lll n1.ikt- p.uenI.s and cliildren <-omp:u1-
ionable with c;u:h other without wezikcniiig
the p;iI'eiits' :iutliorit_v, and does much to make
home cliccrlul and cziusc the cliildi'c1i,:istliey
2t(l\‘2lllC€ toward man and \\'0l1l21lll100tl. to
pi'cte1' home to many other places of doubtful
propriety.

“list is the effect upon (.'llll(.ll'(’ll rczired in
the pestiferous geiiigmiic lllll1l€‘llC(‘ of brawl-
ing. cursing and swearing p:ii'ciits'.’ You may
see the zuisiver in the streets of 2lllV large
town or city every d:i_v. “'9 incct with boys
who will hurl vilc epitlicts at pil.Sb‘€l‘S-by
without. :'u1_\' (,‘:lll.\'P wlizitevcr. and if El. well
nicuiiiiig person should see them doing some
imp1'ope1' thing and should kindly rcprove
tlicm,tlicir :lllSW.‘~‘l‘ would likely be, “(lo to
—" (.V<>l1 Can supply the other word).

Well, some will say that boys will be boys,
and will sow their wild outs. Tliait is true
enough. but p:ireuts too often furuisli the
seed. This last incntiouod cleiiiciit of society
is growing and ll0lll'lSlllll,l?,‘1l.Il(l iiu-rezisiiig to
an 2l.l2l.l'llllllg extent, and l for one would hail
with delight some feasible llleillls for curing
the evil. Tllt‘l‘e are societies for thc preven-
tion of cruelty to aniiuals, and for the pre-
vention of cruelty to children, ctr,-., and we
want it society for the pi'cvenl.ioii of cru-
elty to society. Soiuelliing needs to be done
to raise the fallen up out of the inirc and
degrcdatioii of igiionuicc and consequent
ruin.

Miss Harriet Murtiiiemi. in ll. little work
entitled “ Household ]§di1c;itioii," in speaking
of the natural p()wci's of inun, s:i_vs:

“ Mani has zi wonderful power of conceiving
of things about which he czmiiot. rczisoii; We
do not know how it is. but the more we dwell
on what is bcmitifiil and striking, the more
able we become to C()ll(’t‘lV’(‘. of tliiugs more
beziutiful, striking and noble.  * * None
of our powers I‘(‘l[llll‘(‘ more earliest Elll(l‘,‘2ll‘(’-
f_ul exercise tlimn this gr;_ui<l one of llll2t,f.Illl‘cl.-
tion. _ Those lll whom it is in-glccted may
exerc1._s'c the little power they ll:l\'l’ in it fruit-
less (lll'€(:tl0ll, while those in whom it is
hezilthlully cxei'cis(-cl will bcuome as elevated
and cnnoblt-d as their ll:l.l.lll‘8 udinits. and one
here and there l.)(>?l,'()lll(fS it power in lifting up
the luuiizin race into :1 hi ”ll(‘1'('Hll(lll.lUll. Such
:1 pow_ei' i_'<-sides more ‘or ess in every iiifuiit
t_liaL lies in the bosom of every family. Alas
for its gi_uir(_li:uis, ll they quench this power
or turn it lIll0 zi «:urse or disease by foul
teediiigl Tlien tlicreis in man it force by
which he c;iii win and conquer his way
through all opposition of cii'(-iiiiistaiices.
TlllS power of the will is the ;_§l'(‘:ll.(‘St force
on (?il.Tlll—-llle most intluentixil over the whole
liuniuii l’2t(5(‘. A strong will, turned to evil,
lets hell loose upon the world; ii strong wilL
wholly occupied with good, might do more
tlian we can tell to bring hezivcn into the
inidstof us. *  * As liuinzui beings are
born with limbs and senses whose thorough
exercise brings them out ll] :4 high state of
bodily pL_=i‘ie-ction, thcv are also born with
powers of the b_r;un which, tliorou rhly excr-
ciscd. would in lll{P iiizuuwr bring t rein out as
grout, llltflllillly and lll0l‘:lll_V, as their consti-
tution enables them to bc.”

--‘Be Ye Courteous.”

“"l‘li:u1k you, is a little thing to say and
yet. if it isn't said, how much we miss it,"
said a. lovely lady in apologizing for the do-
linqucncy of :1 friend.

llubor with what skill we may there will
be always more or less friction in society.
'_l.‘lu-re are queer people, ill-bred people, and
cross-tenipered people, round whose corners,
we by instinct, walk warily, but it is aston-
ishing to observe how niaiiy, from whom we
expect better thiiigs, are neglcctful of the
little courtesies of life.

We have heard of a barbarous South
Auiericau tribe who have no word in their
lzuiguagc for the expression of gratitude,
“This will suit me very well,” being the near-
est approach to it.

THE REAPER, DEATH.

LOCKWO0D.—Died at his residence in Water-
town, Clinton county, March 10, 1882, Brother S. A.
Locxwoon, aged 66 years, a worthy and respected
member of Watertown Grange, No. 370.

Resolutions of respect and sympathy were adopted,
and an order that our charter be draped in mourning
for thirty days and that the resolutions be spread on
the Grange records. was made by the Grange that
suffered this great loss.

LONG.——Died March 4th, 1882, ONNA E. LONG,
aged 2 years and 3 months, daughter of P. and E.
Long, members of Crystal Grange, No. 441.

Yes, the little band we cherished,
And shared to eac our love,

On earth is only parted
To meet in heaven above.

Montcalm C0,, Mich.

COLLINS.—-After a long and painful illness Sister
SARAH CoLi.INs, a charter member of Cheshire (Ban-
ner) Grange, No. 520, departed this life March 11,
1882, aged 39 years. Resolutions of sympathy for

the bereaved family were adopted by the Grange and
ordered spread upon its records, and the charter
draped in mourning for the space of sixty days.

BALCH. —— Died Jan. 30, 1352, at her home in
lltarlette-, Sister Bsrsav L. Bancn, aged 49, a woithy
member of Montgomery Grange, No. 549.

A loved and estimable member, patient and earnest
in the toils of life,—she has been called to her to-
ward by the divine Master above.

HOBFHANER.-—Died at her home in Southfleld,
Oakland county, March 4, 1882, MARGARET, a beloved
sister of our Order and wife of our worthy brother,
Frank Hopfhaner, of Birniington Grange, N o. 323.

Resolution: of respect and sympathy were adopted
by the Grange and ordered entered upon its records.

GATES.—Died, at the age or 5 years, Enxrn Mur,
daughter oillr. and Ira. Ephraim Gates, of Lake
township. _


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APRIL 15, 1882.

TEE GRANGE YESE'EO£.

3

Our Patent Laws-Are they oppressive and Un-
just? It so, What is the Remedy?

The right of man to the use of his own
inventions is a property right recognized by
the constitutions or codes of every civilized
land. Some give greater recognition than
others. Generally in the governments of
the old world these rights are granted very
cautiously, and surrounded with many safe-
guards to the public.

In America patents, or protected rights,
are of long standing, dating nearly from the
organization of the government. The fram-
ers oflour patent laws seem to have had a
very faint conception of the multitude of
cases, destined in time to be covered by
them, or the millions on millions of the race
subject to be affected by them.

Science had not at that day thrown open
her storehouse of hidden forces to that
extent that an army of workers could seize
upon these forces, and apply them readily
to the uses of the public in ameliorating
their condition, or in adding to the produc-
ing power of the world.

To-day the world is progressing with al-
most geometrical rapidity through the in-
ventions of her people. It is safe to assume
that the increase of the producing power of
America alone in the last 20 years exceeds
500 per cent, reckoning all her productions in
tillage and manufacture, while her popula-
tion has not in the mean time reached over
50 per cent. How shall we account for this
broad difference, this change for the better
in capabilities, except we credit it to the
inventive genius of our people. As a
foundation for this their education has been
in the right direction. As a stimulus to
action, the free and unlimited control of our
minds and physical powers has led us, as a
consequence of our education, to study for

benefactions to ourselves and our race.

Viewing inventions in the light of bles-
sings, as civilizers of the world, as a means
by which life may be prolonged, and the
burdens of mankind may be equalized,‘ we
come to enquire as to the nature of the laws
governing this whole system of inventions,
and see if they are oppressive as charged.

Our present law as now applied by the
patent office is nearly of a century standing.
It was passed in the interest of patentees,
with no protection or safeguard to users;
no provision for fixing a reasonable tax for
use. No regard for a using public, and no
equity principles for settling infringements
Hence we arraign and con-
condemn the present code because of its
looseness in character. We admit every-
thing as patentable no matter how small, no
matter how simple, if the applicant will but
pay the fee of twenty dollars. If there is
not in the office an exact counterpart of his
model presented he will get his patent. The
least variation in construction is suflicient
to remove all objections.

To illustrate, there are several hundred
patents on the plow since the first one
granted Jethro Wood. Of all of these pat-
ents there are not more than a half dozen
points of variation that should be taken into
account. All the rest are found in the least
variation of mould board, landside or point.
Yet every patent has received its royalty of
thousands on thousands, and the laws have
protected and aided the patentees or their
assigns in collecting it.

We are not compl..ining of those great in-
ventions of a century ago, which advanced
civilization inaday more than a hundred
years; the cotton press, and the like, the
inventors of which nearly all died poor, yet
feeling that the legacy they were leaving to
the world was a better compensation than
all the royalty the manufacturers of the
world could pay.

What we complain of and condemn is the
unlimited power given patentees in forcing

royalty from every individual found using

his patents, however ignorant he may have
been of other’s rights under the law, or in-
nocent in the possession of the patented
article.

We complain of and condemn the law
that permits the officials having charge of
the patent omce from spreading blanket
rights without limitation over everything
presented wherein the parties are willing to
pay the fee.

We citea few of these patents which of
themselves were notorious, and entitled to
reasonable royalty, but through the loose-
ness of the law and manipulations of the
courts, have been oppressive in the extreme
to the citizens at large.

The Goodyear patent for the manufacture
of rubber goods, being a chemical principle
by which the gum was prepared and ap-
plied. The royalties on this one patent
alone in the period of seventeen years mak-
ing a large family millionaires, besides a
large surplus for bribing its renewal for an-
other seventeen years, and at the end of the
second period, it comes before Congress with
the brazen etfrontry of a beggar and thief,
claiming that they were all poor, that in 34
years they had not received royalties auth-
cient to pay for the invention, or to keep
them from the poor house. But thanks to
the manufacturers who had paid tribute to
them for so many years, when the time
came they went before congress and defeated
the renewal. What is the result? Simply
this: a rubber coat which cost $10 in 1875
is now furnished for $3; other rubber soft
goods in proportion. ’
Take the Birdsell clover huller, which by

the way should never have been patented as
it involves no new principle that was not in
use before, but simply an improvement in
applying thoseprinciples; the most that
should have been done for it should have
been as an improvement on some other
patent, and its royalty limited. Instead of
this, under its protection it is let loose to
prey upon innocent users of other men’s
manufacture, they being in collusion in
most cases with this same Birdsell to bring
the royalty from their customers instead of
paying it themselves like honest men.
What has been the result? More than fifty
innocent purchaseas in Michigan alone
have been prosecuted by Birdsell himself in
the last five years for using machines which
had a principal in their construction which
had been confined to said Birdsell by the
courts at an average cost of $500 each; caus-
ing financial ruin to the parties in almost
every case, and he, the said Birdsell, a mil-
lionaire gloating in his wealth.

The sewing machine patents, while there
is much merit in them as labor—saving in-
ventions, that have been theinstrument of
relief to thousands on thousands of females,
in lightening their life's labor, and in some
sense reducing the cost of clothing to the
world at large, yet they have been so man-
ipulated by patentees, manufacturers and
agents that they have been made to cost
more than four times the expense of manu-
facture. And in this way: every vital part
to the machine, from the ,needles to the
last attachment of the almost endless num-
ber for doing the different kinds of work
done on 9. machine, as well as the machine
stripped of all attachments, are each cov-
ered, or have been, by a separate, distinct
and independent patent. Each patent has
had its royalty, which, with the heavy per-
centage for manufacturing and putting on
the market, has made the cost of machines
400 per cent higher than they should have
been. The cause of lower prices now is
some of these patents have expired, conse-
quentfy royalty ceases. Facilities for man-
ufacturing have increased, reducing this
portion of the cost largely, and last the
demand has been largely supplied. And
yet they are sold at 100 per cent above first
cost to-day.

Take the middlings purifier patent. or the
roller process patent for manufacture of
flour either of which enhances the value of
a barrel of flour two to three dollars, a por-
tion of which should come to you in the
price of the wheat you furnish. Do you
get it? Not a bit of it. Your wheat is val-
ued for what it will make in fine or super-
fine by the old process.

Take the harvester——au implement every
farmer hasadeep interest in in, the first
cost of which ranges from $100 to $125 ; add
royalty, home profits, and putting on the
markets, and you find a bill anywhere from
$250 to $300.

Take the gimblet screw so universally in
use in all our building operations: The
pointing of it and the cutting of the thread
on‘ that point is a patent, the royalty of
which adds to the cost over 100 per cent
above other sources.

We could multiply cases for a half day
where great injustice and extortion is being
practiced through our loose and abusive
patent laws. We might mention the barbed
wire monopoly of Washburn & Moen, the
drive well swindle, the patent gate swindle,
the patent for wireing stakes to support cor-
ners of fences, patents for every form of
fence, but they are all a general bundle of
swindles, and are being demolished by the
Grange as movers in the work through the
courts as fast as their ficticious claims can
be shown up. The fact is the world is full
of swindles. They grow and multiply like
the locusts of the western plains. Their
prey are the tillers of the soil. They come
in the garb of angels of light; their song is
music to the car; it tells of happiness and
rest to the weary, of burdens made light,
of a perpetual sunshine hereafter. A sweet
invitation to walk into my parlor, Mr. Fly,
which if accepted ends in another, to walk
up to the captain's oflice and settle an in-
ofl“ensive note.

What shall be the remedy for this state of
wrongs that have so quietly but surely
been wound around us in the past, that are
to-day drawing the coils tighter and tighter?
We answer, first, a better education in the
science of government. It should be the
duty of every voter in our land to judge
carefully of the laws he is living under, see
to it they are conferring the greatest good
on the greatest number. If oppression or
inequality develops in any form stamp it out
as soon as possible.

This leads us to look at our National leg-
islature for a moment—the source from
which the laws we are considering emenate.
Analyzing it in education, in occupation
and surroundings we can see very clearly
why such discriminations are permitted a
place in our land. Statistics of 1880 show
55 per cent of the population of the United
States engaged in agriculture ; nearly 20 per
cent engaged in mechanics—a kindred art.
Apply this per cent to the representation in
Congress. The Senate should have 41 prac-
tical farmers, and mechanics should have 16,
all other callings 19. What are the actual
facts ? Not a farmer in the whole body, and
only four or five of other callings save law-
yers. In the House there are 293 members,
of which there should be 160 farmers, 58

mechanics, and 75 for all other occupations
and professions. What are the actual facts ?
Of farmers there are 28 all told; fourth-
fifths of the balance are lawyers, the residue
bankers, lumbermen and miners. And this
Congress compares favorably for producers
with the past Congresses for 40 years. Is it
any wonder, then, that there is loose,
unequal and oppressive legislation in every
department of the statutes.

Is it human nature to expect that this
majority of lawyers would allow a local law
to go upon the statute books based on equity
to all parties to be governed by it. Nay,
verily ; they are not such fools as not to see
that they would thereby destroy their own
fat living, and become beggars for want of
occupation.

Here, then, is a picture not overdrawn or
colored in the least, of the American farmer
to-day. Without power, without voice in
the nation’s laws—a cat's paw in the hands
of designing politicians to pull the chest-
nuts from the fire while they do the eating.
And why all this? Simply because he has
allowed himself to be the blower and striker
of ambitious party demagogues at the town
and county caucuses for the advancement of
some one’s personal end, instead of what
would benefit the whole people.

As a farmer, I confess I feel humiliated
over these stubborn facts; as a citizen of the
State of Michigan (which is purely an agri-
cultural state) I feel humiliated over the
fact that of all the representatives we have
sent to Congress there have been but three
who have been in any way connected or
identified with us. But you ask if these
things be true, is there no remedy? no hope
of redeeming the producing classes of our
land from continuing as hewers of wood
and drawers of water for all future time.

We answer: yes; there is a hope. The
agitation of these questions through the
Grange, based upon the principles of justice
as set forth in our Declaration of Purposes,
will in time bear fruit.

Already we see legislators opening their
eyes to these complaints. Our Michigan
members have made a move in both Houses
of Congress on the patent laws. They have
begun in the interest of the people in the
resolution and bill introduced. In doing
both they’ forgot the people, and see only
the lawyer and his interest, in that it gives
the patentee or his representatives the right
to bring suit against whom he will, and
throws the responsibility on the defense of
showing that they were innocent purchas-
ers, or that the patent had become public
property by abandonment, or outlawed
before use.

I most heartily endorse the remarsks and
criticisms of Brother Woodman on Mr. Bur-
rows’ bill, and the amendments he rec-
ommends. 'Will Representative Burrows
adopt them? VVe think not. Why? If
adopted, there would be very little founda-
tion left on which to plant an action for in
fringernent except by manufacturers, and
they and pantentees are on too good terms
to often go to law. To adopt would affect
the personal interests of four fifths of the
present Congress. Wherein and on what
do we base our hope of a change for the
better? Is it in this—the Grange? Unlike
any other organization that has come into
being, it is founded on homogeneous ideas——
“ the greatest good to the greatest number.”
Agriculture being the first, the greatest of
interests among -all the occupations of the
race, it needed just such an organization as
the Grange in which it could center its
forces, assert its rights, and elevate its per-
sonal identity. It has taken time for it to
solidify and get its bearings. These are
now very definitely established throughout
the land. May we not expect to see the
fruits of our principles cropping out very
soon in a way that will tell in the correction
of wrongs and injustice that oppress the
American farmer through vicious legislation
both State and National. If lawyers are
to do our legislating in the future as in the
past, shall they as in the past legislate prin-
cipally for lawyers, or shall they be. held
responsible for the interests of the whole
people? These are important questions,
and every farmer in the land should take a
lively interest in answering them.

If it is true, as claimed by many poli-
ticians, that our present laws are all that
could be desired in giving equal justice and
protection to the people, then, verily, we
are the greatest of demagogues in finding
fault. If true, as we assert. that many of
our. laws need revision, that they are
unequal, oppressive and burdensome to the

producing interests of the country, fostering
speculation, robbery and illegitimate gains
at the expense of honest labor; then, verily,
he who has been delegated to look after
these interests of the people is the veriest of
demagogues if he fails in doing all in his
power to bring equal justice to all.

While we do not look for immediate
relief from the powers that be, we are fully
satisfied that the question of revision of the
patent laws in particular is intensifying
rapidly. It is not a month since the city of
Troy, N. Y., was mulct in the sum of
$53,000 for royalty on a patent cylinder
valve used in steam fire engines; the pat-
entee assigning his right to a. patent lawyer
of that place, he employing Ben Butleras
attorney.

Since that judgment the city of Boston is
called upon for $500,000, New York for
$1,000,000, and other,cities in like ratio all
over the land.

Who will say after this that our com-
plaints are not well founded? The world
moves. Right corrects many wrongs.

F. M. Honmwav.

That Dana Family.

Stimpson, the ostmaster, was cxpatiating
on the wonderfu use that might be made of
the newspaper as an educator. Some one
joked him, saying it was because he was
postmaster and‘he wanted to magnify his
otiice and increase the sale of stamps.

Jcrico Jones came to Stin1pson‘s support.
‘Stimpson’s right,’ said be, ‘It is surprising
what may be got out of it good newspaper,
providing a man knows how to use it. It is
like the in-agici:u1’s bottle which rives out
seven different kinds of drink, am none of
them liarinful either. I know a case in point.
There’s that I)-amt family down on the Ohio
river. Just now they own the finest farm in
that whole region. The fa-unily is reiuark-
able. There are three sons zmd two daugh-
ters. Ihavc stopped there often over night
on my commercial agency. I know all about
them. George, the oldest is now 2:. lie is
well educated, and can nmke a good speech
and has been called on to speak at county
fairs, and sometimes lllls :1 pulpit on b‘,iiml2t_v.
Bob, the second, has developed a. line literairy
talent, and has in him the iuuklug of it line
writer. Sam, tl1e,youiigest,lias at turn for
natural science; zmd boy though he is, people
from all around the country come to him to
get recipes and prescriptions for all manner‘
of useful applizmces and remedies needed on
21 form. As S':uii haul never been away from
borne, they wonder how he got so much in-
foriiiatiori. The two girls, )I2u‘y and Il2u‘rl<-t,
are not 3. whit behind the boys in their own
(lep:l.l‘t-Il1€lll.S. They are sucli .-zplendid l1ou>;c-
keepers; and then they are so well informed
on all miscellzuieous subjects that they are
head and sliouldcrs ubovc all the other girls
up and down that whole region.

‘And how did it all hzippcn? There were
no good schools in tlie neigliborliood when
they came here although there are now. The
story is simple enough. I lizivc heard tho
farther tell it. Years ago he lost a line l’airn1
near I’ittslmrg' by going security l'or it fitlsti
friend. They c;u'nc down wlierc they now
are, and bought a 1iu1'1‘ow strip of L‘llt‘il1l land
along side they now own ‘on c1'cdit. The
fzithex‘ lIlEtllil.;.','tfll to keep one good cow, mid
then he subscribed for the best fiunily paper
tlizu. he knew of. Thu cow ivzis to I'lll'lll.\'ll
some milk for his children, and the news-
paper was to furnish some food for their
llll(l€l'St2tIl(llllg'; as the f:rtl1e1'said to me with
a laugh, “ After having lost my other fziriu
1 stiuted to bring up m_v family of five child-
ren on a cow and a iiewspzLpc1‘.’

‘And the farther did it well. Ill-,1'e's thc
way he went about it. In the long evenings
first of all he started a rousiiw lire in the big
kitchen. They had their phiiu supper of
milk and mush, zuul it few odds and ends.
Then they had two good lamps lit. What-
ever else they did without, the father said
they must have at good tire, and at good
light to make home chccr_v1'or the children.
Then the father would get the lleWh'1l:l.1lt)l'
and read. He was H. very intelligent lllzlll;
and he would stop and explain tl)lll,‘.','S and
tell anecdotes as he went zdong. Then he
and the mother would often dist-u:-'5 things
that were in the new.-;p;ip<-.1's, and soinetimes
got the children to (lisciiss the merits of
different. things in their juvenile why. This
gained the utteiition of the children, It xvus
surprising what interest the children soon
took in the newspaper. After a timc depart-
ments of the new.~:p;iper were us.-:.ig'ue«l to
each one. All the political and forci;,»'n ne\v.~a'
were assigned to (ieoige. Ile yvas to read
them and to give a summary for the benefit
of the rest. Soiuctiuies the ld.illel' got him
on the fioor and had him tell oil‘ in his own
l1lllgll:I,ge the lezuling ideas of sonic tine
editorizil. Th:it’s what made Gt-o1‘,u,'c zr
speaker. Bob herd all the book notices us-
si,<_;'iic(l to him. He told the contents of the
books as reported in the newspaper notices
of them. The fatlier added all the inform:i-
tion he had on eucli subjea,-t. as it is brouglit
up. In after yeo.i'.-' when they got in better
circuinstzmccs the best of these books were
sent for, and now that old farm house has
not it la.1'ge but one of the cl1()ice_,-t librztries
in the county. liesitles, Bob soon found the

way to get other books; and now he is pre-
paring to write book reviews for himself.

‘Sam had the S('l(‘llilll(,‘- department, and all
the items zihout improved agriculture. (hie
evening it came his turn to lecture, which he
sometimes did standing out on the floor, after
the style of his brother‘ George, and with a
deal of mock gravity and real interest, in-
formed the asseinbled family of the latest
discoveries in his department. He converted
a deserted smoke house into a laboratory.
He tried his own experiments with the re-
cipes in the newspaper. Some he proved to
be shams. Others turned out well. Then he
classified them and pasted them in a scrap
book. He was an authority upon vnrnislies
and white-wash and lotions and ointments
and plasters and cements and various im-
provements of all kinds.

The two daughters divided up between
themselves the housekeepin r and the fancy
articles of the newspaper. lioth had a taste
for decoration; and the old house from cellar
to arret became ornamented with neat fur-
nis ing of their own handiwork. 'I‘he house-
hold recipes they tried one after another, as
they came out in the pa er. Many were re-

'ected after one trial. there were found to

e of value and were put in the scrap book.
It was often said that no hcusekee er in the
county could put a quart of mi k and a
handful of meal or a half dozen eggs to as
many good and varied uses as those two
Dana. girls. The neighbors who came there
to supper at times were surprised at the ele-
gant way is which the food was served up,
and were always wonderin why that Dana.
family’should know so muc 1 more than other
peop e.

Jericho ended his narrative with a thump
of approbation. Stirnpson resumed: “There
it is; Jericho has proved what I said to be
true. What a pity it is that all our farmers
around here do not try to make their homes
more cheery in winter evenings. Mr. Dana
was right. He did’nt spare the wood, and he
didn’t spare the oil. He furnished his chil-
dren with good reading matter, and so he is
making good men and ‘women of them.
There’s a good deal though,” said Stiinpson,
“in knowinghow to select a good newspaper,
and in knowing how to read it when you
get it. If aman doesn’t care about reading
21. paper himself, he ought to take some
thought for his children. The man who at-
tempts to bring up a family of children
without a good and well read religious news-
paper, does them a wrong which no amount
of wealth bequeathed to them can ever atone
for. Indeed, for lack of such a. paper, many
a legacy has proved a curse. ’——Saw-llfill
Chat, in National Baptist.

 

AT a recent meeting of Kansas growers
and manufacturers of sorghum, it was unan-
imously agreed, as the result of experience,
that syrup from this plant can be made in that
State so cheaply as to compete with glucose.

32-; 
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Will sell on receipt of postal Orders about 90
BUSHELS of the JUSTLY

9

Celebrated Burbank Potatoes,

at 8l.'l’5 FOR A SINGLE BUSHEL, or 6 bush-
els to one order for Nine Dollars, Sacks included.
Also about 8 Bushels of

BEAUTY or HEBRONS,

AT TWO DOLLARS PER BUSHEL.
marl-3t.

rams use or st-‘phi

Kept. in the office or the Secretary of the
MICHIGAN S'l‘ATE GRANGE,
And rent out Post Paod, on Receipt of Cash Order,

over the seal of a Subordinate Grange, and tho
signature of its Matter or Secretary.

Porcelain Ballot Marbles. per hundred,.. . . .. . . 75
Blank Book, ledger ruled, for Secretary to keep
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By-Laws of the State Grange, single copies 10¢,
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Sample copies free to any address.

ABOUT FENCES.

The question of fences or no fences is one
that should have more attention from the
farmers, who as a class incur the expense of
building and maintaining the fences of the
country. Comparatively few of this large
class comprehend the cost of this branch of
what has always to them been considered
and treated as a necessaryjexpense. While
the inventor has not overlooked this oppor-
tunity to introduce some new and valuable
improvement on the good old way, the
question of fence or no fence has really re- -
ceived less consideration than ‘its impor-
tance deserved. The generation to which
we belong are not likely to dispense with
fences to an extent that is really practica-
ble, but the more the question is discussed
the less money each year will be invested
in permanent fences.

And there is no place where its frequent
presentation would seem to be more in or-
der than in our Grange meetings.

It must have its share of attention at
Farmers’ Institutes, and also in agricultural

with this, that, and the other kind of fences,
and the constantly increasing cost of the
kinds long in use, are modifying opinions
and gradually preparing farmers for some
radical changes.

We do not profess to have_ given this sub-
ject special attention and have little advice
to offer, but in view of the fact that barbed
wire fences have proved to be the fence for
the vast prairies of the west. and are being
introduced into our own State, is it not ad-
visable to begin at once to establish perma-
nent fence posts by setting out young trees
on the line of our road ways, division fences,
and cross fences. If this plan was generally
adopted we should soon have less complaint
of barren fields, for these millions of trees
would not only break the severe winter
winds but tend to modify the summer sea-
sons by inducing a greater rain fall with
all the climatic benefits that follow.

We have no doubt that the barbed wire is
to be the fence of the future and the live
tree and the iron post are to be the supports
used. Without stopping at this time to dis-
cuss the question we venture an opinion.

We have been in Michigan for fifty years.-
The boy of to-day that is here at the end
of another fifty years will not see our beau-
tiful fields enclosed with the good old fash-
ioned rail fence, demanding a strip of land
ten feet wide on which to stand, braced in
its winding way, against the fierce winds,
nor the neat, trim, permanent-looking board
fence that by carrying too much sail is like-
ly to tumble down in half a score of years.

In the good time coming, stock if allowed
to range will be restrained by portable
fences. and all fields not used for pasture will
be unfenced. This folly of having so much
capital invested in fences between fields of
growing crops we shall outgrow. With
light iron posts that can be quickly driven,
and with devices that Yankee ingenuity
can soon supply, a mile_of fencing, shifted at
a trifling cost, will meet every want now
covered by five times the investment. The
more we talk about this matter of what kind
of fence we shall use, and the relative cost
of different kinds of fencing, and kindred
questions, the sooner shall we reach the
point of economy which demands that this
vast amount of idle capital be put to a better
use. The time is not distant when we, or
those who succeed us, will look back, and
see that. a complete revolution in fencing
has been effected.

At the Farmers’ Institute held at Gales-
burg the demand made upon the Hon. Eli
R. Miller included together with the subject
of Highways that of Farm Fences also. We
have already given our readers his excellent
paper on highways, to which he gave the
most attention. Below we present what he
had to say about farm fences and their cost:

SOMETHING ABOUT FENCES.

In 1871 the United States Commissioner of
Agriculture Hon. Frederick Watts ad-
dressed to the statistical correspondents of
the department in each state of the Union
a series of questions in relation to farm
fences: ’

1st. A description of farm fences; the
kinds used, rail, ‘board, stone, hedge or
other, and proportion of each.

2d. Average height. '

3d. Average number of rods used to each
number acres of fence.

4th. Average size of flleldis). d to

_A 'cerais oarse .

 A3333: Ilsolblst rail,’ board’or other
fence per rod.

7th. Average cost of repairs. _

He obtained answer from 846 counties in
the state and territories, from which data

he compiled tables showing each of the
above and a total cost of the fencing of the
United States and an estimate of the annual
cost of repairs of the same. If the estimates
obtained approximate the truth it shows
that the cost of the fencin in the country
is equal to the cash value 0 all the animals
owned in the United states. He claims that
it is possible to dispense with fencing to the
value of one thousand million dollars, and
that the accumulated value of manurial re-
sources, and security against loss by ani-
mals running at large, would greatly over-
balance all the inconvenience experienced.
His exhibits certainly provoke enquiry up-
on this important item in the expense of
farming and suggest the thought whether
we could not better do away entirely or
largely with so expensive a system. _

I do not suppose, however, that this will
ever occur, but I am well satisfied that
fences of iron for line fence will be the fence
of the near future, and in relation to the
line fence I recommend a careful study of
an article written by my friend Mr. Geo.
Taylor, (who is here present with us,) found
page 344 in the last report of the State Board
of Agriculture. It is very practical, and
from a very reliable and practical man, and
the whole subject is well treated and ex-

lained within the compass of six pages.

here is a very serious objection to this
class of fence that it not only occupies its
own ground, but that it renders a wide span
on each side sterile and worthless. It is esti-
mated that the hedge fence of England,
with the margins rendered useless, occupy
an aggregate equal to an entire county. An
iron fence would be entirely free from this
serious objection, and alt ough expensive
in its first cost, yet in the long run it will
perhaps be found to ,be the most economical.
Especially asscience has lately discovered.
a new and cheap method to thoroughly pre
vent oxidation of iron, and the entire fence
post and wire will be constructed of this
material.

WRONGS T0 RIGHT.

Bro. Cobb .-—The following preamble and
resolution which I presented for the consid-
eration of Grand Ledge Grange was ably
discussed, unanimously adopted and ordered
sent for publication in the VISITOR. In the
discussion it was claimed by the Lecturer
that the present oppressive and degrading
system of government as now administered
in this country compelled the industrial
classes to unite their strength in order to re-
lieve themselves of the unjust and debasing
condition of things which has been thrust
upon them by the unprincipled few who
by unhallowed means control the rights and
privileges guaranteed to every American
citizen; therefore we deem it the duty of
every true Patron to give encouragement to
those who seek to accomplish the same pur-
poses for which the Grange was organized.

N ow, Brother, permit us to express our
regrets that restraint should be put upon
Patrons in united their strength in the nom-
ination and election of officers whom we
can trust to work for the establishment of
that system of equality for the whole people
which we so much desire. While we are
likely to be divided upon tl‘e most essential
the monopolist will laugh at our weakness,
and the efforts of Patrons will be unavailing.

PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTION.

WHEREAS, The recent uprising of the
wealth producing classes of this country
against the unjust and demoralizing influ-
ence of monopoly, and in defense of their
just and equal rights as American citizens
plainly indicates the demand of the times
and our duty as worthy Patrons ; therefore,

Resolved, That according to the ]')l‘ll]Cli les
of our Ordere ual benefits and equal bur-
dens to all on t e basis of equivalents is the
true policy of government. We accept the
present occason as a fit opportunity to express
our contempt for any and every attempt to
degrade American labor to the condition of
Chinese pauperism or making it in any way
subservient to capital. For this reason we
commend the zeal andjudgment of the la-
boring class in this country in organizing
for effectual work in putting down class
legislation which, gives to the few special
privileges which impoverish the many, and
in this way debases labor and prevents the
proper and essential development of man-
hood and womanhood among the industrial
classes of the community.

A. J. REED, Sec’y.

Grand Ledge, April 10, 1882.

We print the above as requested. We as
much believe there are wrongs to be reme-
died as does our correspondent, but some-
how we don’t quite like the way he states
his complaint. We demur to the use of
such strong language as “ The present op-
pressive and degrading system of govern-
ment as now administered,” etc. Our sys-
tem of government is generally admitted to
be the best yet devised to protect the rights
of the governed, and it is our privilege and
duty to work for the correction of abuses of
which we complain. We do not, however,
concur with the brother in his regrets that
“restraints should be put upon Patronsin
the nomination and election of oflficers,”
etc.. if by that he means the Grange as an
organization should nominate and try and
elect ofiicern. Experience is more reliable
than theory, and the facts of experience are
that where politics has become a distinctive
feature of Orange work that the prime
objects and purposes of the Order have been
lost sight of, and the Grange itself has
become disintegrated and ruined. A society
or organization depending upon voluntary
membership must adhere to the objects and
purposes for which the organization itself
was effected. Its membership may pursue
their own avocations, may severally belong
to other societies established for other and
very different purposes, and composed in
part of other members of society, and there
is nothing that necessarily creates friction.
A Patron may be a Methodist and take
baptism by sprinkling, or a Baptist and
require immersion, or a skeptic and think
it all foolishness, or a republican who
knows the country will go the bad if his
party does not continue to manage the gov-
ernment, ora democrat who wonders that
republican extravagance and general dis-
honesty hasn’t utterly ruined the country

long ago, or a greenbacker who sees the
good time coming when National banks
and hard money will be known only in
history. Under the operation of the con-
stitution of the National Grange, members
of the Order entertain all these divers
opinions and a thousand others, and yet
fully comprehend and work for the objects
of this organization, as proclaimed by its
grand Declaration of Purposes.

OUR CONTRIBUTORS.

The Ladies’ Department of this number
is again well supplied with interesting read-
ing. Sister Sykes has come to the front at a
late hour but her reminiscences are none
the less pungent and fresh on that account.
She drives a ready pen and we shall be glad
to hear from her again.

Our Buckeye sister who puts in an ap-
pearance for the first time in these pages is
evidently ashrewd manager, but we don’t
quite like the doctrine she preaches. Sister
Disbro believes that the greatest success is
success, and real wisdom is to know how to
achieve the desired end.

The essay of Sister Kittredge should be
read more than once. Any Grange may be
proud of a member that can and will present
for the consideration of its members a paper
offering so much food for conversation and
reflection, and whose thoughts are so well
defined and clearly expressed. But we
would not be inviclious. Sister Bosworth
has also furnished us with an excellent
essay for which in commonfwith the others
she has our thanks.

We get many exchanges, but find in none
a department supplied by contributions from
the ladies that has so much of real excellence
as that found in the VISITOR. We are free
to say that we are proud of it for its genuine
merit and, besides, it adds so much to the
character and standing of the paper.

With such valuable contributors we have
no apprehensions that the paper will deteri-
orate. The VISITOR has worked its way to
a very enviable position and will not forget
that to the ladies of the Order we are largely
indebted for its great success.

Bro. Holloway has kindly furnished us
a valuable paper on patent laws and kindred
subjects that are well worthy careful con-
sideration of farmers all over this broad
land. We are not likely to get too much of
this kind of preaching.

The Youths’ Department is creditable to
contributors and is all the time improving.
The correspondence in so far as presented
indicates a healthy condition of the Order
which is very gratifying. The other papers
are good and worthy of being presented to
our 20,000 readers.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

“A Granger’s Daughter” has written us a
letter for publication which we must
decline for several reasons which we shall
try and set forth in a way that we hope will
not offend, and may instruct this "Gran
ger’s daughter,” and if any other Grangers’
son or daughters who we are not writing
to shall in a quiet way appropriate any-
thing we may say we trust no harm will
come of it,

And first, “ A Granger’s Daughter ”
should have given us her real name, not
necessarily for publication, but it is arule
most religiously adhered to by publishers to
refuse to publish any and every communica-
tion without knowing the real name of the
writer.

“ A Granger’s Daughter” writes us that
she is a little girl. and sends us this as her
first article for publication, and asks us to
excuse mistakes. These we can excuse, for
you have done as well as you could, but not
quite well enough to furnish an article that
would entertain or instruct our readers.
We admire your ambition and can see in
this first effort a promise of future success.
Do not be discouraged, but with a little
observation and experience you will write
acceptably.

When you write an article again on legal
cap paper don’t make the mistake that you
did this time, and that so many men do
who ought to know better. We sometimes
get articles from business men who, like
you, have not learned that there is a top end
to a sheet of legal cap paper. You began at
the right end of the sheet but on the wrong
side and left the margin outside the colored
ruling at the right hand. Then again you
wrote on both sides of the sheet, which is a
violation of the printer’s rule. .

Because you are young we think you will
remember what we tell you. We know it is
of no use to tell men and women as old as
we are anything about how to direct a letter
or which is the top or bottom, or right or
left hand margin of a sheet of paper, but a
little girl that has ambition and snap enough
to write and send a letter for publication
will learn all this if once told.

Another reason why we do not think it
best to publish your communication is be-
cause we have no children's department,
and until we have such this to us would
seem a little out of place. With some fixing
up it would do very well for our Our Little
Grangers or some juvenile paper. We may
think best to have a children’s department
sometime, but in the moan time you will be
growing away from it and writing for our-
Youth’s Department which, from the pres-
ent out-look, will soon become a very inter-
esting feature pf the VISITOR.

OUR WORTHY LECTURER.

A letter just received from Bro. Mickley
conveys the gratifying intelligence that he
has so far recovered his health that be ex-
pects to take the field within a few weeks
for Grange work. While the Order has in-
creased in numbers, in real strength and con-
fidence since tne meeting of the State
Grange, yet it has been deprived of the ser-
vices of our able Lecturer from the failure of
his health, just at the time when fully armed
and ardent for a vigorous winter campaign.
We know the Patrons of Michigan have lost
much by this untoward circumstance, and
we know also that it has been a source of
deep regret to our brother, for no man has
a heart more fully devoted to the great work
of the Order than Chas. E. Mickley. We
trust that from this time forward he may
be in condition to give his time and rare
ability to a cause he has so much at heart.
His work is truly “For the good of the
Order.

 

ACME CREAMER AND BUTTER COOLER.

The acme creamer and butter cooler, as
illustrated on first page, is strictly a cold
water creamer, N 0 ice is necessary to pro-
duce satisfactory results. The zinc water
tank is surrounded by a dead air space
between it and the wood tank, which is
lined with heavy, inodorous paper, making
it a perfect non-conductor of heat or cold.
Water in it will keep at an even temper-
ature‘ a long time even in the hottest
weather. The butter cooler is made of gal-
vanized iron, and is placed inside the water
tank, and is kept at a low temperature by
the same water that is used to cool the milk.
The milk cans are made of heavy tin, hold-
ing 4% gallons. They have a cream con-
ductor by means of which the cream is first
drawn off, leaving all the sediment in the
milk. This creamer is having great success
for the time that it has been before the pub-
lie, and is endorsed by practical farmers and

dairymen who have bought and are using
them, and understand their merits. VVe
would refer our readers to the advertisement
of McCall & Duncan, the manufacturers, on
last page.

JUST before making up this number of the
VISITOR We had a call from Bro. Luce. He
was on his way home from a northern trip
of three days, where in company with Bro.
Holbrook of Lansing, who hasjust been ap-
pointed General Deputy for Michigan, they
had been preaching the gospel ofthe Grange
and added number 650 to the long list of
Michigan Granges. Bro. Luce speaks very
encouragingly of Grange work in this State.
Several special deputies appointed in the
last two months report that at several places
the farmers are ripe for organization, and
this year will add quite a number of Grang-
es to our list while several old ones have
been revived. At no time have the receipts
of fees and dues from Subordinate Grnnges
indicated a more healthy condition.

UNDER a late date, Brother John Norton,
of Rochester Grange in, Macomb County
says : “We own a good hall and are out of
debt. I think we all take the VISITOR, and
though few in numbers we are strong in
faith and work. Two old members have
lately come forward and paid up their dues
and say that hereafter they will be Gran-
gers. We have also a promise of some new
members. Brother Cobb, you can hurrah
for Rochester Grange, No. 257.”

To THOSE who are entitled to the Litho-
graph of the State Capitol we would say, it
will be sent within a week, and we think
will well repay those who have, in doing a
good thing for themselves, done a good
thing for the VISITOR.

 

VISITOR RECEIPTS (CONTINUED).

MARCH.

28—Mrs H J Eddy, $1.30; E S Lacey. 1.00;
J Morelan,1.00; Mrs E Wells, 1.50; Dow
Lyon, 1.00; Minnie Langdon, 1.00; Alonzo
Sessions, 1.00.

29—John Porter, $3.00; Jonathan Best, 3.00;
B F Tanner, 1.00; C W Briggs, 2.00; John
Swaney, 1.00.

31-—A L Smith, $3.50; M L Stevens. 1.00; J
S Briggs, 1.00; Ira Read, 1.50.

APRIL.

1——M Hubbel, $3.00; M Buell, 1.00.

3—Mrs A Leonard, $1.00;R J Clark, 1.00;
Lewis Bitter, 1.50; Henry Brown, 350;
M H Phelps, 1.00; A J Warner, 2.50.

4—A H Brainard, $1.50; Eugene Ward, 1.60;
B J Wiley, 1.50.

5—Frank Conn, $4.10; W H Cook, 2.50; D
S Gardner, 5.00; C D Mason, 5.50; Mrs M
M Hall, 2.70; Sara Corey, 3 90; R S Col-
lier, 5.65; Horace Greene, 3.10; L Sim-
mons 2.50; H H Warren, 1.00.

6—R J Bullin, $4.20; C W Button, 2.95; H
W Hillyard, 4.00; RH Davis, 1.00; S L
Bentley, 2.20; C P Chidster 1.00.

7—-CSBartlett, $4.00; 0 I Goodwin, 1.00;
Abbie Olds, 4.60; M E King, 2.37; S A
Nichols, 2.75; W A Montgomery, 1.00;
Jacob Dawson, 2.00; C V Nash, 3.00; Mrs
E C Newman, 1.00; G W Andrews, 2.00;
H N Addison, 3.27 ; Mrs F H Fisher, 3.00.

8—N Sargent, $1.30; D H English, 9.50; D
J McDiarmid, 2.00; C R Lamb, 2.30; J
H Cotton, 2.50; MrsJ A Courtright, 4.75;
C E Stearns, 3.00; Wm Moore, 3.00; J F
Muir, 1.50.

9—A A King, $3.50; Mrs I Sharer, 1.50; H
A Greenley, 1.50; Mrs E A Westfall, 1.50;
S Ii Little, 3.60. ‘

11-—-D J McDiai*mid, $1.00; 0 L Holton, 1.00-
W J Best, 1.00; WA Andrews, 1.75; C G
Luce, 1.10.

12—M V B Williams, $3.00; B L McIntyre,
15.00‘ C 0 Hickok, 1.00; A J Reed, 1.00;
Jas Felker, 4.60; c G Jackson, 2.40.

13-Thos Pearce, $2.00; E Michael, 1.00 C
L Coppens 1.00; J C Jordan, 4.00; Geo.
Fuller, 3.00.

Purity of the Bullet.

The following is the report of committee
a pointed by Woodstown Grange, No. 9,
“ ew Jersey, to firepare an essay upon the

Purity of the allot,” which was read at
the last meeting of the New Jersey State
Grange, and ordered printed .——

Believing that the enormous growth of
wealth and political influence of monopolies
has subverted opular government, and
threatens the ex stence of our Republic, we
therefore_earnestly solicit the assistance of
all good citizens and farmers of our country
to re-establish a government for the people,
by the people, in _lieu_ of a government by
corporations, To justify our belief, we cite
that the capital of the railroads is given at
$2,500,000,00_0, telegraph capital at $80,000,000,
Standard 011 $100,000,000, anthracite coal
$100,000,000, and bank capital (a ure nio-
nopoly if the greenbacks be with rawn, as
19 ’}dV093l39d) $6-50.000000 ($350,000,000 circu-
lation in round numbers, which is nine-
tenths of the amount of bonds, considering
both the bonds and the circulation based OE
them as capital and they both draw interest
the figures are within ‘the facts), an aggre-'
gate 0f.$3.430.000.000. The capital of’ the
old United States Bank was $35,000,000.
Since 1830 the population of this country
has quadrupled, while the capital of the
combined monopolies is ninety-eight times
the capital of the institution which Jackson
and his party believed menaced the life of
the republic, and, believing so, destroyed.

We cite that these corporations have de-
bauched our politics ; that in many elections
their money controls the result. The intel-
ligent, thinking, uncorrupted mass of citi-
zens are practically defranchised. Of what
worth is the shadow, if we have lost the
substance of the ballot? In some States the
railroads control the elections of United
States Senators. The Pennsylvania rail-
road has one of its oflicers in the United
States Senate; so has the Baltimore &. Ohio.
It is said and believed that the railroads
control the Senate and the Supreme Court of
the nation. Yet more alarming, the New
York Tribune, after saying “the time is hear
when the banks will feel compelled to act
strongly,” states “that meanwhile a very
good thing has been done: the machinery is
now furnished by which, in emergency, the
financial corporations of the East can act
together, at a single day’s notice, with such
power that no act of Congress can overcome
or resist their decision.” A late Congress
was composed of 120 bankers, 99 lawyers.
and of the remainder 14 were merchants, 13
manufacturers, 7 doctors, 4 mechanics~—no
farmer among them, et we outrank in
wealth and numbers al other classes com-
bined.

What has been the effect of the legislation
of these men on agriculture ? You know its
effects in the East, but what of the West‘?
An Iowa farmer, an ex-Congressman, has
made this matter a subject of inquiry. He
declares, whereas a few years ago Iowa was
so free of incumbrance that it was said a
man could walk across the State without
stepping on mortgaged property, that he
personally knows of one company, of recent
origin. which has placed under mortgage to
Eastern capitalists ten thousand Iowa
farms; then he finds the same state of af-
fairs to exist all over the country. If this
continues, the land must eventually go out
of the possession of the class now holding it.
Five-sixths of the land of England has thus
been taken from the Eu lish farmers within
the present century, We submit that we
are following in the footsteps of Rome. So
sure as a like effect follows a similar cause,
so sure, if no remedy be found, will the civ-
ilization of this epoch succumb to the influ-
ences which have overthrown the almost
equal civilization of earlier eras.

What is the remedy? The foundation, the
bed rock, upon which alone an opposition
to the unjust exactions of corporate avarice
can successfully be founded, by which alone
our liberties can be preserved, is the purity
of the ballot. So long as political corru tion
exists, so long will free suffrage be ut a
mockery, and justice to production be de-
nied. Politicians may promise, political
conventions may pass resolutions, but upon
us farmers,who are the one great class which
can stand erect in its manhood, and dares to
think and speak and act, influenced only by
what is wrong, must devolve the initiation
and accomplishment of successful reform.
It is but a question of time when this repub-
lic will die, if we do not resolve that bribery
in elections must cease. We appeal to you,
as you love your homes, as you value your
liberties, to crush this monster. We have an
organization, glorious in its ossibiiities. If
we but grasp its power wit a firm hand,
resolute wil and pure purpose, we can pre-
serve our republic from the usurpations of
corporate avarice and the boundless ambi-
tion or vindictive revenge of the demagogue.

Our second duty is to attend the primaries
and secure the selection of delegates of prov-
ed capacity, of tested fidelity to our interests,
who will nominate men of similar qualities
to represent us in State and nation. Accom-
plish these reforms, and we secure the con-
trol of the government. Of each are we the
master: then whose fault, whose crime is it
that we are so poorly represented, and our
politics the nation's reproach ?

We affirm that to purify the ballot and
to attend the primaries, are duties we owe
as members 0 the Grange——duties we owe
our children, that we may transmit to them
the liberties born of the blood of our fathers,
baptized with the blood of our sons and
brothers and consecrated by the bitter grief
of widowed wives and orphan children-
solemn duties we owe to humanity, which
for unknown generations has suffered
stripes, has suffered imprisonment and
torture and martyrdom, that this republic,
which secures to us freedom of speech, of
action, of conscience, might have life.

The Grange wastes, because it exhibits a
vital interest in no great question, because
it urges no great reform with an active zeal.
Without partisanship, but in search of
truth, we should discuss the problems of
political economy. No questions concern us
more, none are less understood. When we
have made a just decision, let us stand by
our convictions with unflinching firmness,
and by our ballot voice them, until they re-
sound in the halls of congress, and echo
through the departments of the government.

Fellow farmers, look not on the Order
with disheartened hopes, but ins ired by
the grand thought that in our han s is the
destiny of the best government man ever
founded, so ACT, that far into the depths’ of
the dim future men shall recognize the
Grange as the ‘savior of the republic, the
conservator of human. liberty.

J. Wuxrna Pxnooasr,
Chairman of Committee.

  

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APRIL 15. 1882.

T5 GRANGE VISITOR.

Let Us be One People.

The following is an extract from a private
letter, written by a member of our Order
from the south, who attended the last ses-
sion of the National Grange. Icannot con-
sign these sentiments to the private letter
drawer, for I know that they will be appre-
ciated, not only by members of our Order in
the north, but by all good people every-
where; and I ask pardon of the writer for
publishing them. J. J. W.

“When I reached home from the National
Grange, and spoke in such warm terms of
my brothers and sisters across the line, my
friends said to me, “why ———, What 3
change has come over you! love the people
against whom you fought for four long and
bloody years, it seems an impossibility!

My reply was, Go and meet and mingle
with them as I have done, and you will
love them too.

I expected to be treated well when I
reached Washington but I did not for a mo-
ment dream of meeting with such a warm-
hearted, manly reception as was awarded
me, and for which I say, God bless our
noble brothers and sisters of the North.
Everything in my opinion that is needed to
bring us closer together and make us a unit,
is to know each other; and how can we
bring his about sooner, than through the
instrumentalities of the Grange? Then let
us all work, so that the day will come, when
there will in truth, be no north, no south,
no east, no west, but one people, working
together for the good of our common coun-
try. -16 -it as

Speech of Senator Davis.

To a blind partisan this patriotic address
of Senator David Davis may have had no
genuine merit when delivered in the United
States senate Dec. 6, 1881. '1‘o the genuine
patriot it was sound then and has lost none
of its excellence by the lapse of time since

it was uttered. When Mr. Edmunds called
up his resolution to provide for the contin-
uance of the committees as they existed at
the close of last session, President pro tem.
Davis said: ‘

Mic. PRESIDENT: — The solemn event
which excited the sympathy of the civilized
world recently brought about an unexpected
change in the presidency. The forty-seventh
Congress now meets under the constitution-
al successor to the president who was inaug-
urated only last March, and who was strick-
en down in the maturity of his manhood
after but four short months’ experience in
the executive chair. These stern facts are
full of admonition. They teach us how
frail are human hopes and how transitory is
human power. In the presence of this sad
instruction ambition may well pause, and
all of us may learn how vain are the
aspirations to which too much of our lives are
devoted. Great as was the bereavement
which spread sorrow over the land, and
which touched the heart of every fireside,
it was sanctified by the consolation that the
people of all sections were brought nearer
together by common grief, and thus came to
understand each other better through kin-
dred emotions. The asperities that had long
estranged them were softened, and the vio-
lence of faction was chastened by afliiction.

Although President Arthur represents the
party that elected General Garfield, his per-
sonal position is necessarily delicate and
trying. He is entitled, by his whole bear-
ing through the critical ordeal, to generous
countenance. As senator, I propose to ex-
tend to his administration candid treatment,
sustaining it when right, and opposing it
when wrong, on all public questions.

Holding to this purpose, and intending to
insist on a pure, economical and just admin-
istration of the executive trust, the new

resident ought to be aided by all proper
legislative co-operation in carrying out the
general policy he may propose to the
country. Whatever that policy in the future
may be, it is entitled to a fair trial and pa
tient hearing. With this view of my duty,
I shall vote willingly to continue the com-
mittees in this body as they are now consti-
tuted. It is best that the party which has
the President and House of Representatives
should be held answerable for all public meas-
ures. There should be no divided respon-
sibility. If the opposition are wise they will
accept this conclusion. At the special ses-
sion in March, they made but a brief and
feeble stand against the organization of the
committees which shape the great legisla‘-
tion of the country. Indeed, they almost
conceded that important point to their
adversaries. But in the protracted contest
for the offices of the Senate under the same
political conditions, my Democratic friends
yielded no ground from the beginning to the
end of it. Doubtless they had satisfactory
reasons for this course of policy. Last spring
I took occasion to state the reasons why my
vote should be given for the then existing
organization of the Senate. Althou h cir-
cumstances have materially chang since
that time, the obligation which I voluntar-
ily assumed has not oeen altered. Hence I
adhere to that declaration, always reserving
to myself the right of rejecting offensive
candidates. I am greatly encouraged in this
decision by the course of my distinguished
friend from Vermont, eminent as a leader of
his party as he is also eminent for_ public
and private worth. Upon his motion the
present chief clerk, distinctly appointed as
a Democrat, was unanimausly made acting
secretary. That graceful deed is a cheering
sign which afl.“ords me pleasure to applaud
in public, because this is the first place
where the example should be set against the
common scrambhng for oflice that disfigures
our political life. The country was almost
equally divided between the two reat par-
ties at the presidential election. he major-
ity in the House of Representatives is small,
and in this chamber Republicans and Dem-

- ocrats confront each other with like num-

bers. The committees are now held by one
party and the oflices of the Senate by the
other party. From my standpoint it would
be unwise to disturb this condition of things,
and I do not propose to engage 111 811? 5t1'“g'
gle that looks to that object.
As our politics are organized, a public man
who steps outside party 111188 is 81W8Y3 9x‘
to harsh criticism, no matter how
proper his motives may be. The machin-

ery of both enforces rigid disci line, and
denounces revolt as treason. For t e last ten
years my political position has been entirely
independent of any organization. I have
accepted the good wherever it was found,
and I have voted for the best inen,
whether they were called Republicans
or Democrats. Consistency is not a
virtue if it means dogmatic adherence
to a given idea when a change would
be meritorious. The greatest statesmen of
modern times have been courageously incon-
sistent, and have become public benefactors
by abandoning a mistaken policy. If con-
viction satisfied me the opinions formed
long ago and followed since then were
erroneous, it would not cost me a moment’s
thought to cast them off like a worn-out
garment. I believe them to be sound, and
so believing, I shall stand by them, as a
moderator between two extremes.

It pleased the majority of the Senate to
confer upon me the highest distinction in
their gift. Prized as that honor is, and
ought to be, it is doubly valuable, in my
estimation, because it came wholly_ un-
sought, and without the exchange ofa single
word, directly or indirectly, that could by
any possibility impose obligation. This is
the only answer I shall ever make to un-
worthy minds that would measure the in-
tegrity of others by their own low :t:-indard
of personal honor.

The day is drawing near when I shall re-
tire from this chamber. My only ambition
while here is to be instrumental in bringing
about perfect peace between the North and
the South, as the best means of promoting
the permanent prosperity of the whole
Union. When the rude voices of faction,
which for fifteen years past, in time of
peace, have disturbed national fellowship
that should have been restored at the close of
the civil war, shall be silenced, this country
will bound forward in a. career of grandeur
that will astound mankind. Reconciliation
has nobler aims than mere material wealth.
If this last experiment of republican govern-
ment is to endure and to be perpetuated, as
we all humbly pray God it may be, for un-
born generations, then the spirit of forbear-
ance and toleration in which it was created
by the patriotism of the fathers must be
revived and imitated. In no other way can
a more perfect Union, with their inspired
wisdom formed out of a disjointed confeder-
ation, be preserved as the shining light of a
higher civilization and as the refuge of the
oppressed from all lands.

The Railroads Aim a Blow at the Public Schools.

Many of the public schools of the State
are already closed, others are now closing,
and nearly all the rest must soon close, for
lack of funds to keep them open. This is
because the great corporations and money
kings of the State refuse to pay their taxes
as poor people are compelled to pay. Over
a year ago these money powers combined
together to set at defiance the laws of the
State for the collection of revenue, upon the
alleged ground that the State Board of
Equalization had exceeded its powers in
levying the taxes and that the levy was
therefore void. In this conspiracy against
the law, they enjoined nearly every county
treasurer in the State from collecting from
the conspirators the money due from them
to the support of the Government. A test
case was made up and tried in the Superior
Court of Alameda county. It was decided
against the conspirators. It was then ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court of the State,
where the decision of the lower court was
aflirmed. Still the junta of law-defyers
were not satisfied. They then appealed the
case to the Circuit Court of the United
States for the district of California—a court
whose usual oracle is railroad will, but even
that court turned its back upon the brazen-
'faced conspirators, and upheld the law as
expounded by the State courts. It then be-
came necessary to adopt new tactics if the
tax bandits would escape their just burdens
of taxation. And, remembering the shame-
less course of these same parties in their ef-
forts to defeat the adoption of the new con-
stitution, who will be surprised at even
greater shamefulness upon their part in the
way of efforts to thwart the enforcement of
the fundamental law which, in the name of
the whole people, lays its heavy hand upon
their necks and compels them to bow to the
laws of the land? To be surprised, would
be to deem it possible for rogues to be honest
men.

Every one of the corporations connected
with this conspiracy to block the wheels of
Government, draws the very life blood of
its existence from the laws of the State. The
file leader in this flock of law-created but
law-defying corporations is the Southern
Pacific Railroad company. In all its acts of
outrage the company avers that it is a cor
poration existing under the laws of the
State. Also, in the trust deed conveying its
lands to Mills and Tevis as trustees for its
bondholders, the company declares that it
exists under and by virtue of the laws of the
State. But the very moment the State de
clared that this company should pay its
just proportion of taxes toward the support
of the Government, that moment this law-
obeying company became a law-defying
company; and it now commences a new
form of action in which it seeks to restrain
the tax-collector from selling its property for
taxes, on the ground that it is not a State
corporation, but, instead, that it exists_ by
virtue of Federal law, and is therefore not
subject to State taxation. When this action
wil be determined, no one can tell; and
how it will be determined, no one can pre-
sage. Of course the law as well as the
justice is on the side of the State. But
courts are composed of men. Judges are
made" of individuals. Money is a great
power. Corporations control millions
wrung by extortion and robbery from the
people. A few hundred thousand would be
very tempting to many men. And if there
should chance to be Cordozas on the benches,
Federal or State, who can tell to what ex-
tent this money, in the hands of corporation
Tweeds, might sway their decisions ‘I

Meantime the ublic schools of the State
—at once the pri e of the citizens and the
groundwork of liberty—will be closed in-
definitely. -

The action of the courts upon this matter,
so vital to the common-school system, will
be watched with absorbing interest. This
system of education is regarded by nearly
all Americans as the best feature of free in-
stitutions. With one accord they regard as
public enemies all who raise an arm against,
or aim a blow at this system. And they are
the more ‘jealous of it because they well
under-stan that ithasenemies, and deadly
ones, in their own midst. But every one

knows that the blow comes from an adder
warmed into life in the bosom of law.

The corporations are all the creature of
law. What were created to be public bene-
factors have become public enemies. As
such they are a standing menace to the Gov-
ernment.—Calz_'formZa Delta.

A PLUCKY YOUNG LADY. — The Flint
Democrat, in a recent notice of “The House-
hold Book,” issued by the Detroit Free
Press Company, summarizes the history of
its editress, and as the young lady was for
several yearsaresident of this city and a
clerk in the Auditor General’s oflice, the
Republican reproduces it. May Perrin Golf
was the daughter of a once prominent citi-
zen of Flint who died in 1860. She attend-
ed adistrict school near Flushing until 15

ears old and then attended the St. Johns
high school for six months. This ended her
school days and she commenced teaching
first in district schools. and afterwards in
St. Johns and Portland high schools, and
then in a ward school in Flint. From
thence she took a position in the Auditor
General’s office. Two years later she was
retired with many others, but unlike man
others she struck out boldly and unaide ,
and secureda position as book-keeper with
0. Pierce & Co. of Grand Rapids. This
position she left for one in the Manistee
high school, and went from thence to De-
troit as conductor and editress of the
“Household.” For four years she has filled
this position, and is to day one of the most
reliable and popular members of the Free
Press staff‘. All this has has been done by
hard work and pure push ; and the history
of this girl affords a shining example to
every American girl on this continent.
Perseverance and honest merit should and
will win in the race of life.-—Lans7Ing Re-
publican.

-

The Smartest Girl in lowa.

The smartest girl I’ve met in Iowa I met
yesterday at Nevada, Story county, north-
eastern Iowa——Miss Belle Clinton. Miss
Clinton is a bright eyed, rosy-cheeked girl
of about twent , as full of fun and health,
and vigor as a girl can be. Two years ago
Miss Clinton was a school teacher. Saving
up by her teaching about $160 she last spring
borrowed a span of horses from her father,
rigged up a “prairie schooner,” and taking
her little brother, started for Dakota. In
the wagon were a nice soft mattress, bags of
flour, coffee, potatoes, hams, canned milk
and small groceries. Miss Clinton says
laugliingly to-day, speaking of her trip :—

“Why, I never lived so nicely in my life,
and I never had such an appetite; and such
courtesy I received everywhere ! Rough,
rude men came to our camp and, after I had
talked with them awhile, offer to build my
fire and actually bring water to me. How
was the scenery? Oh, it was gorgeous! We
rode through praries carpeted with wild
flowers and melodious with the songs of
birds.”

“What did you do when you got to Dako-
ta ?” I asked, entranced by her story.

“ But let me tell you how we went first.
We went up through the Spirit Lake coun-
try in Iowa, crossing the Milwaukee & St.
Paul road at Spencer. Then we drove
northwest across the Iowa border, into the
southwest corner of Minnesota. Then we
went west across the Big Sioux and across a
dozen little rivers ; and finally came to
James river, This is the wheat country
which they call the ‘Jim river country.’
It’s about 100 miles east from he Missouri
at Fort Sully. Here, in Beadle, Bond,
Spink, and Faulk counties we come on the
finest wheat prairies in the West.

“ Now you ask me what I did. Well, I
homesteaded 160 acres of land. Then I took
up a timber claim of 160 acres more.”

“What is a timber claim?”

“ Why, I hired a man, and we set out ten
acres of trees. This gave 160 acres more.
SoI have 320 acres now. But I must tell
you about those trees. They were young 10-
cust, apple, and blackwalnut sprouts. I
sowed a peck of locust beans, a pint of apple
seeds, and two bushels of blackwalnuts in
our garden in Iowa about a year ago. These
sprouts were little fellows, and we could set
them out fast, just go along and stick them
in the ground. But they are just as good. I
believe my 3,000 little blackwalnut trees will
be worth $15 apiece in ten years, and $20
apiece in fifteen. My locust trees will some-
time fence the whole country.”

“ Then what did you do? ”

“ We built a shanty. and broke up five
acres of land ° and this fall we came back to
Iowa to spend the winter, and here we are.”
And Miss Clinton laughingly made a court-
esy and tipped her hand like the dancing
fairy in the opera.

“And what will you do in the future?”

“In the spring I’ll go back with more
blackwalnut and locust sprouts, and take up
160 acres more. The trees are just what I
want to plant anyway, and they’ll pay bet-
ter than any wheat crop that could be raised
——only I’ve got to wait for them ten or twelve
years ; but I can wait.” And her eyes glow-
ed with hope and happiness as she looked
into the future.

Here, I thought, is a magnificent girl.
Her ideas are bold and grand. She is a very
Joan of Arc. And still here is something-—
here is work —— almost in the province of
thousands of young men and women in the
East. Here is a girl who owns in her own
right 320 acres of s lendid black prairie soil
now, and who wil own 480 acres in the
spring—every acre of which will bring $5
within three years, and $10 in five years, and
$20 within ten years. Her blackwalnut and
locust trees will be worth as much more.
At the age of thirty she will be worth $25,
000. And any young man or woman with
average talents can do the same. If the
poor Irish peasant who carries bog on his

ack and makes a potato-patch on the bar-
ren rocks to be owned by a cruel landlord,
would only go to northwestern Iowa or
southern Dakota, what a fortune of health
and happiness, and money would await
them.—Allz'omce News. '

EVERY day the newspapers contain cheap
little attempts to ridicule farmers, by giving
fictitious accounts of some country youth
who has been fleeced or made ridiculous in
the cities. Why do they fail to record the
silly blunders of city youths who visit
country sections, and exhibit sublime ig-
norance of all things from ordinary courtesy
to a cow, or their half-brothers—the country
calves? The average city exquisite can ask
more silly questions in an hour's ramble
over a farm than the dullest countryman
can in an antiquarian museum. Fair play
is a jewel. ,

The Wheat Moth and its Work.

BY PROF. A. J. COOK.

Some parties have sent me wheat that is
seriously injured by the wheat tines (Tinea
granella, Linn.) The wheat, stored in the
wheat-house at the depot, is being badly
in'ured by this pest.

l‘he little moths that lay the eggs are like
the common clothe’s oth, in fact, they be-
long to the same genlilg. Both species are
small, less than one-half inch long, are buff-
colored, with a satin-like gloss to their
wings, and have both their wings fringed
with fine hair-like scales. The larvae that
bore into the wheat, and by eating the ker-
nels do the very great mischief, are like the
larvae of the codling moth, except that the
wheat worm is a little more hairy. The
larvae, as it works, spins a sort of web,
which holds a number of the kernels of the
grain in one mass. The grain tinea is an
imported insect. I have known of its com-
mitting injury several times before in our
State, but in every case it soon disappeared.
I have supposed that the climate was proba-
bly too severe for the insect and so each
time after its introduction it soon became
extinct, like the little wheat weevil, which
has appeared in our State several times
and soon disappeared, without any treat-
ment to drive it away.

I know of but one efficient remedy for
this insect, and that applies as well to the
weevil and to the Angoumois grain
moth, which is said to do no little dam-
age in the South and Southwest. I
have frequently seen every kernel of corn
in samples from the Gulf States perforated
by this latter moth-larvae. The remedy
proposed is bisulphide of carbon. We have
only to pour a quantity of this into the bin
at the bottom of the grain to kill all of the
insects. I think thata half-pint of the liq-
uid would destroy the insects in a bin of 50
to 100 bushels of grain ; the proper amount
can easily be determined by trial. Take a
hollow iron cylinder—-a gas pipe will do
weIl—-and fit into it a wooden rod which
shall be alittle longer than the iron tube.
One end of the rod is to be made sharp ' now
place the rod inside the tube, and, with the
sharp end down, force them both to the bot-
tom of the grain; then having withdrawn
therod turn in the liquid through the tube,
which should be pulled out. The insecticide
of course is left at the bottom of the grain,
and being very volatile soon diffuses through
the mass, and converts the bin into an in-
sect cemetery.

One very important caution is to be re-
membered: Bisulphlde of carbon is as ex-
plosive as it is volatile, and if a lighted
match or lamp is carried into the granary,
or wheat-house before the vapor has passed
off there will be an expensive fire. It is so
disagreeably odorous that we may know
when it is present, and if we use caution,
we need have no fear. With a little care to
ventilate, it soon escapes, and the danger of
an explosion is gone.—Farmers’ Review.

Sheep Prolils in Harrison County, Ohio.

No other kind of farm animals are so
profitable as sheep. None so easily kept
and sheltered; naturally quiet if kindly
handled, and so readily come at the first call.
You may take the pig; put him where you
will and he is and always will be a pig or a
a hog, as long as there is a bit of the bacon
left. The same with cattle—~rude, boisterous
and ugly to handle. My experience has
taught me that sheep pay best, if properly
attended to. The attention gives so much
real pleasure, for sheep seem to appreciate
their master’s pains. So much for my ex-
perience in sheep raising. Now for the
profit. We tried cattle one year and failed ;
next tried 84 head of ewes; separated
them into two flocks, nearly even, and
bred them to two bucks. Fed them mod-
erately on clover hay and grain through the
winter, but gave them excellent shelter
from storms and rains. They commenced
lambing about the 10th of April, and came
quite rapidly and out of 85 lambs that came
alive we raised 83, which we sold two weeks
after weaning for $200 cash. The wool from
the ewes did not weigh Ll. great deal over
four pounds each, which was nearly one
pound less than the year previous on
account of the very extreme winter. We
sold it straight through, without any re
duction, for 37% cents per pound, which
brought us $130 cash very soon after shear-
ing. The sheep cost us $250 in September,
with interest at six per cent for one year,
$17.50, which gave us a net profit over the
cost of the sheep and interest of $62.50, or
$412.50 for our trouble and feed for one year,
which I am truly certain came easier than
any other profit on the farm. What we farm-
ers want is more grass, and good sheep clear
of rot. The manure from the stable tells
wherever it is put. At least this is our ex-
perience, which we propose to follow as a
means of real profit, and not as an exper-
iment. G. E. s.

Don’l Forget the Grape Vines.

There is one kind of fruit, and that, too, of
a most delicious sort, that seems to grow
~and.thrive in every part of the land, if only
once started and given a “ghost of a chance.”
It seems strange that so many of our farms
have not a grape vine on them, and so many
have only a straggling vine or two which
yield but a tithe of what would be used,
when the place might yield a ton ayear, and
the room would never be missed.

Now in this good new year will not every
boy and girl take hold of the business, and
see that a good vine is set where it may run
over the back porch, the old oak tree, the
corn-crib, the lattice by the garden wall,
even the cow shed and pig sty need not be
overlooked if your cuttings are abundant.
It will cost so little and be worth so much.
They will grow while you are sleeping and
pay back many fold all the care and labor
they cost. They may be had from August
until late frosts, if you will take pains to
secure varieties that come on in succession.
There is scarcely any fruit more beautiful
and refreshing, and the taste for it will grow
by cultivation. Even those so addicted to
po and potatoes, that they look with con-
tempt on all sorts of "green stuff,” mi ht in
time come to possess a more refln and
wholesome taste by daily use of these invit-
ing purple clusters; an end much to be de-
sired both for their moral and physical well
being.—Indiana Farmer.

_ Queen Victoria enters nineteen animals
in the latest volume of the British Short-
horn Herd book, and the Prince of Wales
thirty-five.

A larder Trial in 1900.

The nine hundred and ninety-ninth wit-
ness in the great spin-it-out-as-long-as-we
can case took the stand, and the lawyers
proceeded to torture him with the assistance
of the prisoner at the bar.

Lawyer-—“I believe you are from South-
ern China, sir?”

Witness-—“Yes, air, and I wish to get
back as soomas possible.”

Prisoner-—-“What’s the matter with you,
you goggle-eyed, cadavorous re tile? Haven’t
you been paid ten thousand ollars travel-
ing expenses. Shut up, Mr. Lawyer, I’m
running this case and I mean to ut this
long-eared ass where he belongs at t e start.
If you don’t like our style, you bigboned
son of the east, you can take your soap and
toddle home just as quick as you please.”

Judge——"If the prisoner will allow the
court to—”

Prisoner——“Shut up,
I ’m about.
or I?”

Judge—-“VVell. if
should like to—”

Prisoner-—"l\*ow, Judge, how many times
during this trial have I got to remind you
that we can get along without your advice?”

Lawyer——“If the prisoner is through, we
will now proceed to examine the witness.”

Prisoner—“Yes, for the present; I will de-
liver my dail ' oration later.”

Lawyer—“ am about to put the first by-
pothetical question to the witness. Those
wishing to remain throughout the delive
of the question will find excellent board and
lodging at the hotel opposite. The question
will be delivered in sections, and I think I
can manage to get through with it in the
course of the month.”

Eighteen days after.
stand:

Lawyer-—“A.nd now, having heard the
first _ hypothetical question, what. is your
opinion?”

Prisoner—“Oh, never mind his opinion.
He is nothing but a imple-headed liar, and
he might as well go home and soak his feet.
Judge, I think it is about time to adjourn.
Suppose we shut up shop for the day.”

Judge——“But I beg to remind the prisoner
that it is only 2 o’clock, and——”

Prisofier—“Oh, what's the diff? ” I’ve
had enough of this r tket for to-day, and I
don’t want to see that blasted ass on the
Witness stand to-iiiorrow, either. We must
havea fresh man. He's too ancient.”

Lawyer—“But, begging the prisoner’s
pardon, I must remind him that the wit-
ness lius yet to answer our question.”

Prisoner-—“It <ioesn’t make a bitof differ-
ence. He’s an old fool and I’iii tired of
him. Judge, are you or are you not going
to adjourn?”

Judge—“The court is adjourned——until
what time shall I say, prisoner?”

Prisoner—“Oh, well, make it 11.”

J udge——“Eleven o’clock to-morrow morn-
ing.”——Broolt-lyn Eagle.

___________________
NOTICES OF- MEETINGS.

Judge, I know what
Who's running this case, you

the prisoner please, I

Witness still on the

The regular meeting of the Ingham
county Pomona Grange will be held in Ce-
dar Grange hall Friday, April 28th, at 10:30
o’clock sharp. All fourth degree members
are invited to attend at 12 M. Dinner will
be served by members of Cedar Grange.

At 1:30 sharp a public meeting will be
held to which all are cordially invited, after
which the following program will be called.

Music and prayer.

Opening address by Worthy Master John
Holbrook.

Silos Ensilage, by Prof. Johnson, of the
Agricultural college.

Music by Bro. Elmer and Sister Rosa
Wiley, of Alaidon Grange.

Essay——SubjeCt. Education, by Sister Ba-
ker, of Meridian.

Music by Alaidon Grange choir.

Select Reading by Sister Hatch, Merid-
ian.

Our Swamps, by Bro. W. A. Rowe, Ve-
vay.

What is Successful Farming by Bro. Geo.
B. Vannetter, of Pine Lake.

C. M. WOODLANI), Sec’y.

A special meeting of the Western Mich-
igan Bee-Keeper’s Association will be held
in the Supervisors’ rooms, Grand Rapids,
Michigan Wednesday and Thursday, April
26th and 27th,1882. All are invited. Cer-
tificates giving reduced fare on the D. G.
H. & M. R. R. can be had by addressing the
Secretary. WM. M. S. Donor).

Coopersville, (Ottawa Co.) Mich.

The May meeting of the Clinton Co. Po-
mona Grange will be held at Maple Rapids
on the 3d inst. commencing at 11 A. M. A
special election to fill the vacancies in the
offices of lecturer and Pomona will be held
at this meetin . The following subjects
will be discussed :-—-“ Marketing wool.”

“Resolved, That the rates of interest
should be reduced to three per cent.”

The next meeting of the Shiawasse Pomo-
na Grange will be held at the hall of Wood-
hull Grange in Shaftsburg on Wednesday,
May 3. The program prepared is an excel-
lent one and we predict that the meeting
will be full of life and interest. A‘ll fourth
and fifth degree members are earnestly invi-
ted to be present. J. C. STONE, Sec’y.

The next meeting of the Eaton County
Pomona Grange will be held in the hall of
Vermontville Grange on Wednesday, April
26, commencing at 10 o’clock A. M. A good
program will be presented, and a flne
time is expected. All 4th degree members
are invited. CHAS. E. ELLs, Sec.

Van Buren County Grange will hold its

next regular quarterly session at Bloomin - '

dale May 4, 1882.
invited to attend.

All Patrons are cordi
C. B. CHARLES, Sec.

The next regular meeting of Lenawee
County Grange will be held with Rome
Center Grange on the second Thursday in
May, at 10 o’clock A. M., at which time the
officers will be installed, and the following
program carried out :— .

Political Economy——Bro. A. H. Briggs.

Duties of the Grange to subject of educa-
tion—Bro. James Cook.

The Farmer’s Wife—Sister M. A. Briggs.

Our Homes—Sister Hattie Beal.

The Young People—Sister ‘A. S. Bush.

Recitation——Sister Florence Russell.

Music——Weston Glee Club.

Duty of Farmers of to-day as Citizens-—
C. E. Mickley. Followed by discussions.

The flfth degree will be conferred in the
evening. JAMES COOK.

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THE GRANGE VESETOE.

APRIL 15, 1882.

  ‘Eadie’ fiqpaqtmeqt.

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G0 ONVMRD!

B! J. G. CARPENTER.

Go onward l ’Tis folly behind to be glancing;
We cannot recover the days that are past.
The future our joys will perchance be enhancing,
Tho’ dark clouds of care o'er the present are cast.
There is never a night but there comes a to-morrow,
There is never a cloud but a sunbeam succeeds;
We should feel not the balm if we knew not the
sorrow-— .
Go onward l The right path to happiness leads.

Go onward! The future must yield to the power
That justice and goodness and truth can convey;

The base and the false may succeed for the hour,
But reason at last will but honor obey.

True courage consists but in facing a danger.
Ne'er harbor injustice by word or in deed;

As you’d be to a friend, he the same to a stranger;
Go onward and hope, you'll be sure to succeed.

Reminiscencos ol the Slate Grange.

The State Grange is the Mecca to which
many Patrons look forward with feeling
akin to those of the devotee traveling to
Jerusalem to pay tribute to a patron saint.
In olden time such as could not pay their
way would beg; to Jerusalem they would
go. In that respect we differ. Though not
lacking in zeal, too proud to beg, those who
have not the well filled purse, and are not
fortunate enough to be sent as delegates,
must “serve by waiting,” which is much
harder than labor.

Having attended as a delegate the last ses-
sion, we feel under obligations to dispense
somewhat of the light received. Like
Myra, I found myself very much out of
repair at the close of the session. and have
been slow to regain vigor, and would not
attempt these reminiscences did I not
remember in former years the hunger I felt
for some account of the people and their
doings as they came together strangers and
went away friends, Ind I think may be
some one who could not attend may feel the
same interest; and although Sisters Cobb,
Myra, and Kenyon have written from their
standpoint, mine may be difl"erent. Some-
how, I like to call people by their names,
make them talk, and show them as they
appear to me.

The Worthy Master, C. G. Luce, is of
medium build, and wears in his countenance

What nothing earthly gives or can destroy-
The soul's calm sunshine.

His name is connected with the early pro-
gress of the Order in the State, he being
special Lecturer these many years. After
hearing him talk one has the feeling that he
would be a safe counselor. His large exper-
ience and breadth of thought, taking in the
good of mankind, reminds us of the poet's
words:

God loves from whole to parts; but human soul
Must rise from individual to the whole

As a presiding officer he is courteous,
prompt and patient. His executive ability
can be estimated by the large amount of
business performed under his leadership.

The second officer, A. N. Woodrufi‘, is
young and fair, aspiring, intelligent and
refined; such an one as Oscar Wilde would
dote on. He enjoys with zest the beautiful
about him, from a half blown rose to the
comely appearance of his Holstien _kine, or
the noble aristocratic bearing of his shiney
black thorough-bred colt. His wife, who is
Flora, is his counterpart, his very other
self, and as they have no children the
wealth of their affection is centered in each
other.

The sea hath its pearls,
The heaven hath its stars;

But my heart, my heart,
My heart hath its love.

The Worthy Lecturer, C. L. Whitney. is
too widely known and too thoroughly ap-
preciated, to need a description here. His
annual address was listened to with interest
mingled with regret, as it was generally
known it would embody his resignation.
Having filled that otlice four consecutive
terms he seemed a fixture, and certainly
has been very efllcient, and will be missed
more and more as the years go by. And his
wife whom to know is to love, also leaves a
vacancy in our hearts and lives, for we can-
not always “ off with the old love, and on
with the new ” at will, but must be gov-
erned by “the eternal fitness of things.”
I can pay them no higher compliment than
to quote to their memory the little poem-

I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I know not where,
For so swiftl it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who hath sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song I’

Long, long afterward in an oak
I found the arrow still unbroke.
And the song, from beginning to end,
_ I found again in the heart of a friend.
The first day at ten o'clock in the beauti-
ful Representative hall the gavel sounded
for work; previous to this there had been
much hand shaking among old friends,
friendly nods among new ones—those yet to
be. The earnest prayer olfered by the
Worthy Chaplain, S. S. Steel, seemed a
benediction, at least it gave one a feeling of
peace and security each time his voice was
heard, ‘ Mas. O. M. Srxrs.
Keeler, March 22, 1882.

There is no vale, however low,
But opens to thesky; _

And through the deepest night of woe
Faith reads the stars on high.

A Subject _in Season.

Bro. Cobb.-——Thc VISITOR is a welcome
guest in this corner of the Buckeye state.

I have read with interest Sister Strong’s
essay, “The Farmer’s Garden. The picture
of the gardens of Kalamazoo county, Mich-
igan, could be duplicated in Williams county
Ohio. But is the fault all on the mcn’s side.
Let us reason. Do not we women unwit-
tingly bring on that attack of fever to “ plow
and plant the garden.” Do we realize the
hurry worry and vexation endured by the
farmer who not only oversees and plans, and
at least in part, executes the labor on the
farm at this time of year.

This clover meadow has been spoiled by
continued wet weather and the freezing and
thawing process. And questions now puzzl-

ing him may he “shall I sow millet or li1ing2i-
rian for hay? Shall I sow orcliard grass in
timothy with my clover seed on the wheat
ground‘? Would it be best to mix blue grass
with my seeds, for permanent pasture, after
working so hard to get rid of the pesky june
grass?" Then the wind will blow just as he
is ready to sow, or it will rain again just as
the ground is fit to plough.

Now when he comes in to rest, if we coin-
mence talking gnrden, he will be impatient.
Better hand him the paper and speak of
some particular article you have noticed; ap-
pear to have an interest in what iiitcrcsts
him. No matter if it is not your place to
plough and sow, don't forget the garden.
Scan those catalogues, and determine what
seeds you will have to buy, and order early.
If he evinces no interest in the matter, per-
haps it is because he considers you competent
to attend to it. Let him have his way, and
you will be most likely to have yours. But
if you keep reproncliing him for lack of in-
terest, he may get too interested and plough
and plant just to have the load off his stom-
ach.

Put on some strorig gloves and trim that
brier patch yourself. Don’t be friglitened, I
don’t mean a field of briers, but a patch, just
enough to provide the family with berries.
(I trimmed such an one three weeks ago). In
spite of the gloves you will have scratclies
enough on hand and wrist to show, and say,
“ I’ve trimmed those briers and the canes are
not as large as they ought to be; guess you
will have to cultivate or mulch them.” I
think it will be done, for if men have a. hor-
ror of briers they like berries.

Next quietly watch the opportunity when
the team and plow are near the house, and
ask if ‘‘we hadn’t better have the garden
plowed before the ncxt field is commenced.”
As it is the first he has heard about it, he has
not had time to consider that it will delay at
least an hour the sowing of the field to oats,
but will say, “I guess so. l’ll hold the plow;
perhaps I can do at better job than the boy.”

Plowing done, the planting is no great
task, even for a woman. Still, if you dislike
to handle a hoe, just wait until husband is
not very busy or tired, and ask him to help
you to sow the peas, as you fear you cannot
get the rows straight. You can drop the
seed. Now once in the garden, it will be
easy to get beets, radishes, lettuce and onions
—just enough for early use——put in. And
when he turns to you and says, “ Is that
all?” “All to-day, thank you.” We will
hardly insist upon planting beans, melons
or cucumbers just then.

Later, when you desire more planting, just
mention that you have soaked some choice
melon seeds in salt and water, and that they
are now rolled in plaster. And a good plan
to get him in the garden again will be, “ I
don’t know how to make the hills”-for
likely you do not. Now be sure to have all
you wish planted handy. It will soon be
done, and when again the question, “ Is that
all?” say, “If you are not too tired, I’d
likea bed for my verbena plants, and my
dahlias are sprouted too.” Ten to one, al-
though he may not know a pansy from a
poppy, you will get your flower beds.

If you cannot make a little exertion, don’t
complain of the men. Take the children
with you in the garden, and do such work as
you and they can. Few men like to weed
onion or flower beds. When it comes to
hoeing, take the hoe and do the best you can,
just when you know husband is coming that
way. Strange if the hoe is not taken from
your hand with “ What awkwardness.’ let me
show you.” Quite willing to be shown, you
will see more accomplished in an hour than
you could do in three. Don’t forget to say,
“ Thank you. I'll take another lesson when
you have time.” . -

There should always be a “truck patch”
separate from the kitchen garden and a little
distance away, for winter squashes, sweet
corn and potatoes, especially the latter, for
no one likes to meet Mr. Beetle in the gar-
den, or his family on the under side of a leaf
of salad. I would rather go some distance
for new potatoes than have his lordship walk
up to the kitchen door and protest against
my visiting the garden. This patch may be
cultivated by horse power, but the garden
need not be soglarge but that all may be done
by fingers, garden rake and hoe. Horses
have too many feet for a small garden.

I have written much more than I intended
when I sat down, but I want to tell the
sisters of my__success with verbena seeds.
You know they resemble little dry sticks,
and it is hard to realize “the germ of life is
there.” They are very slow to germinate if
placed in the open ground. They are one of
my favorites, and I sent for a package of
new varieties. On their arrival I took an

old pan and went to the woods for virgin
soil. I placed it on the stove until warm,
packed it smooth and placed the seeds there-
on; next covered them to the depth of half
an inch with clean sand, wet down with hot
water, then covered with an old earthen dish
I had previously heated, and shoved them
under the sitting—room stove. The fourth
day I removed the dish to moisten with
warm water, replaced it for three days more,
when to my surprise on removing it a dozen
bright plants looked up to say, Here we are!
I carried them in triumph to the‘ kitchen
window, where I have a few early cabbage
and Livingston’s Perfection tomato plants.
That was a week ago, and I have given
them very little water, but another dozen
have appeared and all are green and strong.
I wish the sisters would write of their home
adornments, their gardens and flower beds.

H. L. DISBRO.
Forthwest Grange, No. 413,
March 31, 1332. 3
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Flowers.

An essay by Sister Kiggdge, of Crystal Valley
Grange, Oceana County, Michigan.

Flowers are the most beautiful produc-
tions of the vegetable kingdom. The beau-
ty of their coloring, the sweetness of their
odor, and the delicacy of their forms, seem
pre-eminently designed for the pleasure of
God’s children, for they alone of all the
tenants of the earth are capable of appreci-
ating them. Indeed, in the flowers the
Divine Hand appears to have combined all
the elements of pure and refined enjoyment
for his earthly offspring, and while they
minister to the delight of our senses, they at
the same time softly and sweetly read to our
mind lessons of innocence and wisdom well
calculated to make us wiser and better, and
teach us to look from nature up to nature’s
God. An intelligent ladv once remarked
that lovely flowers were the smiles of God’s
goodness.

He might have made the earth bring forth
Enough for great and small;

He might have made the grass to grow,
And not a. flower at all.

But who can be blind to the wisdom, or
insensible to the goodness displayed by his
Divine Hand in giving us flowers along in
succession through all the months of the
summer, so as constantly to yield us a fresh
and varied supply. What a multitude of
beneticient designs, wonderful mechanism,
and valuable productions we have, and how
replete with lessons of wisdom are they all.
Man, indeed, can take a plant and separate
its elements, ascertain its exact proportions,
but he can never recombine so as to restore
the plant. This is God’s prerogative. We
have not only an endless variety before our
eyes, but are continually struck with the
purpose and foresight displayed in appar-
ently trifling peculiarities. We are always
learning something new, and the knowl-
edge we thus acquired is such as calls forth
our admiration and gratitude, and while it
gives that conscious power which all knowl-
edge more or less bestows, awakens a sense
of humility by a comparison, which cannot
fail to occur to us, betwen our powers and
the simplest works of nature. We cannot
pursue knowledge of any kind without
enlarging our ideas. We need not seek for
rare, out-of-the-wav productions to gather
lessons, Every green thing that springs
out of the ground is a preacher to us, if we
but listen to its vpice. All the leaves of the
forest join in one general murmer to repeat
in our ears the prophets warning, “ We all
do fade as a leaf,” and with the leaves join
the beauteous flowers, like whispering
angels, to improve the same needful admo-
nitions on the mind and heart of man, “ As
a flower of the field so he flourisheth."
Who can explain to us the phenomena of
flowers? Who must but see that the hand
and counsel of infinite wisdom are con-
cerned in the production of these vegetable
wonders? To every plant that spreads out
its leaves to the sunshine, and to every
flower that lends its beauty to the earth, is
given that particular shade and color that
will measure for it the precise degree of heat
which its own peculiar constitution requires.
The chalice-like cup of the pure white lily
floating on the lake, the varigated tulip,
the delicate rose, and the intensely colored
dahlia, have each powers peculiar to them-
selves for drinking in the warm life stream
of the sun, and for radiating it back again to
the thirsty atmosphere, and thus every plant
is endowed with functions which silently
but unerringly determine the quantity of
heat which it needs, and the relative
amount of dew which shallwet itsleaves and
'flowers. The outward form and color of a
flower indeed delight our eye and excite our
admiration, but when we come to contem-
plate this wonderful power which each
flower has to regulate for itself the heat of
the sunbeams so incessantly poured into its
delicate bosom, our wonder must be raised
to the highest feeling of profound adoration
toward the Great Designer and Maker of
all.

Flowers exhibit many powers and prop-
erties which the science of man has never
been able to explain. Some will instantly
close upon the slightest touch; some will
flutter as if in alarm upon sudden exposure
to intense light; some seem possessed of
limited powers of locomotion. A certain
species of wild oats when placed upon a
table will spontaneously move. Pea blos-
soms always turn their backs upon the
wind. The heliotrope always faces the sun.

The tulip opens its petals when the weather
is fine, but closes them during rain and
darkness. The pond lily closes its pure
white leaves at night as it lies on its watery
bed, but unfolds them again in the morn-
ing. On the other hand, some flowers open
only at night. That splended flower, the
night blooming cereus, is of that kind, it
opens but once, and that in the night, and
for a few hours only. then wilts and dies
without ever admitting the light of day into
its bosom. Some open and close at certain
hours and that so regularlyas to indicate
the time of day, as the marvel of Peru, we
usually call them “ four o'clocks,” opening
at four in the evening and closing at four in
morning. What can excel these floral
creations in beauty or perfection ‘'2 Nothing
in form, function, or constitution is defec-
tive; nothing is left to chance or accident,
but every organ, every process, every proper-
ty, to its most minute and insignificant
details is manifestly contrived and perfected
by omniscient and unerring skill.

Who can set his eye upon a flower, delicate
and beauteous and fragrant. and lay his hand
upon the damp and dusky ground from
which it springs, but must exclaim, “What
but Almighty power could extract this from
that?” And when we observe that each of
the tiny bristles of the leaves and even each
shadowy down of the petals too minute for
the unaided eye, is measured and planted
with undeviating descrimination and pre-
cislon, can we doubt the truth or refuse the
consolation of the Savior’s assurance, “ The
very hairs of your head are all numbered.”

Man’s Position in Lila.

Provision has peen made for man in all
parts of the earth where man can live. In
the cold regions of the north are fur-bearing
animals which furnish him with food, fuel,
clothing, also material for huts, caves and
sledges.

In the torrid zon_e a great deal of the food
is already prepared, as the banana, date,
cocoanut and bread fruit. The palm tree
furnishes the people with building material,
food, drink, clothing, mats, and many other
articles. Very little clothing is needed,
therefore, I should think the people would
not exert themselves to change the style of
clothing very often.

But the most enlightened and intelligent
people are found in the temperate zones.
Having such a variety of climate, we are
stimulated to greater exertion. From our
vast forests we get wood for fuel, lumber,
tar, pitch, turpentine and rosin. Where
timber is scarce we find great beds of coal.
Agriculture and grazing are carried on in the
valleys and on the plains; grazing prin-
cipally in the mountain districts. Where
agriculture and grazing cannot be madea
success are found diamonds, gold, silver,
copper, tin, lead, iron. quicksilver, and
other metals and precious stones. also
abundance of water power for mills and
manufacturing establishments.

The annual overflow of the Nile saves
Egypt from being a desert; also Siam by
the same process of the Cambodia. In June
the water begins to rise and continues to
the middle of August, and then it subsides.
While the water covers the land the people
pass from place to place in boats without
injury to the growing crops.

All countries have not the same beasts of
burden. In the deserts of the east camels
are used on account of the formation of the
foot, which is protected by a thick sole from
the burning sand, and the nostrils are pro-
vided with valves which may be closed
against blasts of sand. South America uses
mules and lamas; North America horses
and mules. It seems to me that any intelli-
gent person will say that everything was
planned by a Superior being.

And yet man is not satisfied with all
these, but is always reaching alittle. The
wealthy land owner still wishes to add a
few more acres or a few more city lots; the
miser starves himself in hopes of savings
few more dollars, and dares not count them
for fear of losing what he has; the drunk-
ard’s whole system craves another glass,
and the astronomer is watching for new
worlds, comets or spots on the sun; the
gambler, too, is not asleep, but is looking for
new victims; lawyers are searching the
records for land titles; the children waiting
for Christmas ; and old and young members
of our Order are looking forward for Grange
meetings: and the old farmer (bless him)
I believe is the only one who is not trying
to fleece some one,but is working away hard
as he can, only thinking ahead far enough
to get his farm paid for, and save something
for his wife and little ones. And he does;
builds a new house, everything goes on
nicely, children getting an education, and
he thinks he is beginning to enjoy life, and
perhaps thinks wife and he will take a little
trip away somewhere, and see some of the
world, when, 10! he receives a letter saying
that the undersigned has in his possession
the true title to the home he has worked so
hard to secure. He can pay a certain sum
or stand a suit. You all know the process.
I ask why should this be. The farmer is
the advance guard going ahead, encounter-
ing all the danger, doing all the work, has
triumphed over the potato bug, grass-
hopper, weevil, Hessian fly, rats, mice,
weeds, the book agent, lightening rod ped-
dler. and sewing machine agent. Now,
why, not leave him in peace! It spems to

me that if he goes to law, he will he likes.
fly in a spider’s web, the deeper he goes the
worse off he will be.

He has accomplished a great deal, but
there is a great deal that he cannot do alone.
We are all dependent one upon another,
and where shall the farmer look for help if
not to his brother farmers? We cannot ex-
pect that other classes will go against their
own interest for us, but each class will work
for its best interest. Our lecturers tell us
that we hold the bread in one hand and the
ballot in the other.” Now, of what use is
that to us if we do not make some useof
them. VVe may hold the bread in one hand
but if we never taste it we shall soon starve.
I am not finding fault, because we are doing
a good work, and enjoy ourselves a great
deal.

I think we are in the same placeas the
old darkey who had so many battles with
the devil. He said “the reason he had so
much harder time than the infidel was that
the devil was sure of the infidel, but he
was having trouble to catch him.” Some get
discouraged because the Grange does not do
more. To accomplish anything worth
working for takes time and patient labor.
It is the strong steady strokes of the oar
that moves our boat across the water; and to
make a success of anything the mind must
be kept on the subject, expecting to en-
counter discouragements, but with a deter-
mination to overcome them.

A few years ago Michigan was a great
forest. -If our fathers had said, “Why, we
can do nothing in this place; see these
great trees; ” we would not have such nice
pleasant farms as we have. After the tim-
ber is removed. the work is but nicely
begun; stumps are there yet, taking time
to remove them. Our Order is similar to a
forest. The heavy timber has been taken
away, and we are working among the
stumps and rocks. That is the reason why
our members murmer. VVe all know how
cross the brothers are when they plow
among the stumps, but the harvest repays
us for the labor and discouragements. \Ve
know that there is much hard work on the
farm, but there is also a great deal of pleas-
ure. I am glad that my position in life is
just what it is—a farmeI’s daughter, and a
Granger. Suva BOSWORTH.

Sunfield Grange, No. 260.

Not a Polilieian.

From the Lansing Republican.

Rumors have l'6lI.(£llE(l my e:u's during the
past week rcg;u'(liiig my lecture, “ llunnm
l<‘1'eedom,” that amused and surprised inc, and
I hardly know wliethcr to feel complimented
or not. The ltepublicains say, “with 2:. few
changes it would be a good ltcpubliczin speech,
for thcre‘s true ltepublicun 5t‘ll[lll,lcllL tliere."
Deinocrats say, “tliafs purc, genuine l)cinoc-
1'acy;" and G1'eeiil)ackci's prom-st their unde-
niable right to it_ had i “ but discussed the
money question."

i protest against its being called by any
party nuinc. if to consider substzuice,rather
than form, justice rutlier than laws, princi-
ples rutlicr than governinents; if to desire
frec minorities under an. domiu:inI; niztjority,
and to regzud the nuninn mcc bel'orcm1tions,
be ltepublicuuism, l)emoc1'acy or (ii-eenljuck-
ism, then all should be glad that this Christ-
likc pln.ti'orm is theirs.

1 know nothing of either parties. Who
would be other than the kind of a Republican
Lafaiycttc was, who, when he usccmled the
tribune, said, “i am a liepubliczml" and no
one felt tempted to say, “ Wlie1'el'oi‘e the (lee-
laratioii '5 ” because everyone was satisfied
that the friend of Washington could not but
be a Republican.

Who would be ashained to stand beside the
God-like Parker when he said, “A Democra-
cy is a government of the people and for the
people and by the people,”-—a sentence to
which our martyred Pre_sident gave iinn1or-
galityeto on the blood-stained fields of Gettys-

ur

Wgho would sneer ht the Greenback party,
when it holds such men as Wendell Phillips,
Cooper and others whose purity and blame-
lesness compel a nation to bend the knee, and
for “whom the shouting mob of yesterday
will in silent awe return to rather up their
sacred ashes in history's gol en urn ‘B ’

All hail to a republicunism like Lafayette’s,
who opened to the oppressed of every country
his house and purse _-and heart; who had
what was better than ideas,principles-—fund-
amental principles, to which he ever adhered
with an immovable tenacity. lie wished the
sovereignty of the people both_in theory and
practice; be troubled himself no more about
the tyranny of all than of one; and thou h
an aristocr_-at. in that grace of speech and e e-
gant simplicity of manners which has passed
away never to return, his soul was plebeian.
He loved the eople in his heart as a father
loves his chil reirand was ready at all hours
of the day or night to rise, march, fight,
sufier, conquer or to be conquered——to sacri-
fice without reserve his fame, fortune, liberty,
blood and life.

It is not all who hurrah in honor of liberty
that do honor to it. It may be dilficult to
determine whether many of the fiery lovers
of Democracy are of that party from spite or
from conviction, and whether their love of
equality is more than an arrogant covetous-
ness of privileges which they 0 not enjoy.

Everything has its due time, though it may

erminate more or less slowly. Not 23. am
is lost of the seed which is sown in the 'elds
of true Republicanism, true Democracy, true
Greenbackism.

All nations—some by direct paths, others
by oblique. roi_1tes—2ire advancing toward
their emancipation with the irresistibilit of
the current which empties the waters 0' all
the tributaries and rivers into the sea; and
let all, Republicans, Democrats and Green-
backers, sacredly preferring the proscribed
to their oppressors, the people to their ty-
rants, move on with heads erect and hopeful
hearts along the highway of truth, with un-
shaken fait in the sovereignty of nations,
ever bearing in mind that he who loves glory
sincerely will twine but for glorious brows
the laurels of poetry. He who loves the
people sincerely Will not ask_ for them bread,

ut labor, respect and equality; and he who
loves liberty sincerely will no vote with its
enemies. Msrrm A. BRIDGE.


 

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Pulling Steady.

Bro. Cobb.-—Our Grange, No. 246, located
at Hunter's Creek, meets once a week and
always have a good attendance. We have
met once a week for the last year, and but
once without a quorum; that was a day
meeting in the midst of harvest. But few of
the ofiicers are ever absent and some never.
They all work with a will and a determina-
tion to press forward and win. Our mem-
bers are greatly encouraged and believe that
a Grange is what we make it. We have
added quitea number to our membership
during the past winter. We keep a small
store in the lower part of our hall, buying of
Geo. W. Hill, Detroit.

‘ I. READ, Master.

Lapeer, March 27, 1882.

 

Ingham County Grange.

Bro. Cobb, DEAR SIR :—The regular meet-
ing of Ingham County Pomona Grange was
held at the rooms of Delhi Grange, No. 322,
Delhi Centre, Saturday, March 18, 1882.
Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather a
goodly number of Patrons were in attend-
ance from every Subordinate Grange in the
county. At the afternoon “open session”
Prof. Beal, the Past Worthy Master, laid
down the “gavel,” and John Holbrook as-
sumed the arduous duties and advanced a
few pertinent thoughts on the question of
social enjoyments needed by the farmer and
his family.

There are 18 Subordinate Granges in Ing-
ham county, with a membership of 900.
Delinquent members are coming inside the
gate at nearly every meeting, and new mem-
bers are taking the Grange obligation.
Brother farmers, arouse and throw off the
yoke of monopolies that are pressing the
necks of the noble yeomanry of our beauti-
ful Peninsular State. Fraternally,

WM. K. CORNWELL.

 

From Lowell.

Bro. Cobb .-—We have received the VISIT-
OR for March 15, and I assure you it is an
ever-welcome guest at our house. A lady
friend of mine (who is not a Patron) said
she found a 50»cent piece in her shoe, Christ-
mas morning, and hardly looked it over, but
put it in an envelope and sent it to School-

-craft. The verdict was, “We can’t keep

house without the VISITOR.” And since
this will fall into the hands of more than

. one outside of the gates, I will repeat what

I have said before: Come, farmers, and join
the Grange: let us close its “mystic” gate
around the borders of our Michigan, that we
may the more readily withstand the rap and
tap of all swindlers. We have all confidence
in the Grange and its noble work, also in our
brothers and sisters, until we find by “strict
test” they are willing to sell their honor and
that of the Grange to which they belong,
for pure selfishness; then we say, “Good-
day.” A. L. CAHOON.
Lowell, March 23, 1882.

 

Newaygo County Grange.

Brother Cobb :—The last meeting of Ne-
wavgo County Grange, N o. 11, held at
Hesperia March 7, was a failure. We worked
hard and did all we could, but Pomona
failed to crown our efforts with success-
with scarce a smile for her votaries. When
we meet with “obstacles,” we are taught to
"overcome them,” but bad, roads, a fearful
snow-storm, and an absent speaker, are ob-
stacles that the Patrons of N ewaygo county
have not yet learned to overcome.

There isa good deal of speculation,‘ just
now, among the members of our Order here,
as to the whereabouts of our “Lecture Bu-
reau.” We commenced nearly two months
ago to secure a public lecture and installa-
tion of the oflicers of the County Grange for
our late meeting. Brother McCullum, our
Past Lecturer, wrote a good many letters,
adjourned the meeting once, drove ten
miles through the mud to send a telegram
to the speaker,’ sent_ another brother the
same distance after him—and then failed.

But do not think we are discouraged; we
shall try again. Our next meeting is to be
held with the Ashland Grange, No. 545,
when their new hall will be ready for dedi-
cation. The Ashland friends are entitled to
a large balance on the credit side of the
ledger for the manner in which they have
met their “obstacles,” overcome them, and
built their hall. And we are expecting a
general rally and a “glorious old time” with
them at the dedication. And we are going
to havea lecture, too, if work and money
will secure one. But perhaps some sugges-
tions from you, Brother Cobb, will assist us
in this direction, point out the way and
lighten our labors. -

The Grange has taught some of the farm-
ers of Newaygo county _to do their own
reading, thinking, writing, and talking; and
we are expecting, with the program we are
now preparing, to have a "feast of good
things” even if we are should again be dis-
appointed in our speaker. But the finishing
touch upon that Grange hall must be made
by the Master’s hand; and we want you to
tell us, Brother Cobb, where we shall find
him. MELVIN W. Boom‘, _

Lecturer County Grange.

Phoenix-like.

Bro. J. T. Cobb .-—Perhaps some members
of our Order may be enquiring, “ What has
become of Lawrence Grange, No. 32, and
their hall?” For the benefit of such I
would say that our hall has risen ph(nnix-
like from its ashes during the winter, and is
so far completed that the ring of "the
mason’s trowel is the order of the day, and
ere this shall reach the eyes of enquiring
friends, we are hopeful that H. T. Cornwell
will be dealing out dry goods and groceries
over the Grange counters to the advantage
and satisfaction of all.

Mr. Cornwell sufl"ered the loss of nearly
everything in the fire. But he has been
enabled to resume business, and we invite
one and all to give him a share in your
trade, for he is worthy of patronage, up-
right in his dealings, kind and gentlemanly
in bearing, and a friend of our Order.
Come everybody, and see our new home of
which we are proud. It is 22x50 feet, two
stories, each story 11;} feet high.

We return sincere thanks to those who so
kindly aided us, not only with words of
cheer and sympathy, but also by freely
giving their money to aid their afllicted
brothers and sisters.

H. W. HILLYARD,
Sec’y No. 32, P. of H.
Lawrence, April 4.

North Star~—Liberty Grange, No. 391.

Bro. Cobb .-——We have had many things
to discourage us from time to time, and it
has been said of us that we were slowly dy-
ing. But such does not prove to be the case.
Our Grange is moving forward in the right
direction and new members are coming to
our standard. Our ballot box is no longer
covered with dust, and the song of welcome
is heard so often that it is getting quite fa-
miliar. We have now a class of six and
expect more.

The neighboring farmers and their fam-
ilies, with a better acquaintance with the
Order, are becoming more friendly. This
slide gate, lightning rod and driven well
business has opened their eyes to the value
of the Grange organization, and some new
swindle comes along so often that the
only safe way is to view all those pretenders
with suspicion, and have nothing to do with
these itinerate fellows.

If Patrons have well improved their time
at Grange meetings the past winter, they
are as farmers much better prepared to man-
age their farm work this season. The Grange
is the best kind of a place to discuss all
these practical matters and exchange views.

Our Grange has just received_ and distrib-
uted two boxes of goods from Geo. W. Hill
& C0. of Detroit, and they give such good
satisfaction that more are desired.

LIBERTY.

 

Honor to Whom Honor is Due.

[The following is an address delivered by Sister M.
A. Lessiterion the occasion of the presentation of
the Past Master's Jewel to G. D. Wood, March 16,
1882.]

For six of the eight years that this Grange
has been organized you have been called to
preside over it, and wield the Master’s
gavel. You have done it with honor to
yourself, and satisfaction to the Grange;
and now as a slight token of the high
esteem in which you are held by your broth-
ers and sisters, allow me, in the name of
Grattan Grange, to present you with the
Past Master’s Jewel. And in placing it
upon your shoulder we feel that we are but
doing our duty, and hope that you will
accept it with as much pleasure as it is
given. You have won it, and won it well,
and we trust you will wear it with as Inuch
grace and dignity as you have shown while
presiding over our Grange.

There has been many times, no doubt,
while you occupied the Master’s chair that
you felt almost discouraged and disheart-
ened, when everything seemed to go wrong,
and you almost wished that the Grange had
never been thought of; but a slight turn in
affairs, a word, or perhaps a mere look of
satisfaction or approval, and all was
changed, and when the hour for closing
came, all felt that the time had been only
too short, and they loved to linger yet a
while longer.

Brother Wood, althopgh you have lain the
gavel aside, we feel confident that you are
still with us, ever ready and willing to lend
a helping hand, and to assist and encourage
us in the great Work of the Grange. We
still need your advice and your counsel, we
need your presence, we need your words of
cheer, and we have faith in you that you
will always give them.

Brother Wood, you are about to leave us
for a season to ramble over the broad praries
of the West. We feel that we shall miss
you in our happy gatherings, we shall miss
you in the strife, and shall miss you in the
triumph. One seat will be vacant, one
voice will be absent, and one whose hands
and heart was ever ready will be far away.
As you wander among strangers in a distant
land, let this jewel remind you of your
brothers and sisters of Grattan Grange; let
it recall to your mind the many joyful times
we have passed together here, the smiling

faces, the warm hearts, the words of wel-
come, the songs of love.

Now, Brother Wood, as we take you by
the hand to bid you farewell, let the true
Patron’s grip be felt, and in you heart of
hearts may there be a responsive throb
while time with us continues.

Euuths’ Eepaqtment.

SPEND OR SPARE.

The old man said, and he spoke the truth,
“A sorry sight is a. spendthrift youth,

Who seeks his ease and who loves display,

And has no thought of a rainy day ;

He who has never been taught to spare

Will have an old age full of care ;

While he who earns and is slow to spend

May live in comfort till life shall end.”

The old man said, and his voice was hushed,
"Ah l many a one into guilt has rushed,

Because with a reckless hand he dared

To spend the gold that he should have spared.

“And many a rich man’s son I meet,
In my daily rambles along the street,
Who has his dwelling among the poor,
And a hungry wolf is beside his door.

“ The other day I received a call
From a. prodigal son who spent his all.
His days of feasting and frolic are o'er;
He begged a pittance from my store.

“ Spend or spare —-it is yours to choose,
If it's time you waste or money you lose;
And your future depends very much, in truth,
On how you have managed in your youth.

" If you spend as you go, you may depend
You'll soon have nothing at all to spend ;
But to prudent ways if you give good head,
You'll never lack in time of need.

He who has never been taught to spare
Will have an old age of want and care;
While he who earns and is slow to spend
Nay live in comfort until life's end."

Discussions.

Dear Young People .-—You don’t know
how well pleased I am with the letters that
have come from you lately. The month that
was given you to write on the two subjects
assigned has now expired. We have heard
from the nephews as well as the nieces, and
I think have had both sides of these ques-
tions brought clearly before us.

But I want to ask you if you see the dan-
ger of the extremes in these questions? In
the subject “Should we frequent places of
amusement while attending school,” the
ones who have urged the pro have taken the
meaning of amusements to be lectures or
literary entertainments, while the cons have
said that the word stands for dances or mer-
ry-makings lasting far into the night and
fraught with excitement. Please see if
Webster agrees with _either of these mean-
ings and in giving yourjudgment beware of
extremes.

With the other subject it was just the
same. Now I want to ask a favor of you.
If you approve of novel reading or are op-
posed to it if you have not already done so I
wish you would read every one of the books
of which Will speaks. I don’t mean
for you to sit down and hurry through one
after another of them, but take six months
or a year for it and read to be benefitted. I
am very sure you will be better able to dis-
cuss this subject after having done so.
And right here let me ask how many of you
have read Bacon's Essay on Reading? Read
it; read it again if you have already read it.

Mr. Editor tells me that to insure your
letters being published they must be here at
least ten days before the date of the publica-
tion of the VISITOR so I will give you a sub-
ject for the issue of the 15th of May so you
will have plenty of time to write. The sub-
ject is, “Is labor a blesssing or a curse?”
This may seem one-sided but—we-ll ,we will
listen to your opinion of it.,

Hoping that for the benefit of yourselves,
as well as for the entertainment of ‘the rest
of us, you will all take hold I bid you all an
encouraging goodday. AUNT NINA.

 

A Niece on Amusements.

Dear Cousins.-—Please don’t look so keenly
or I will never be able to apologize but the
VISI'1‘OR of March 1st did not reach me till
the 15th. Thank you, Sweet Briar; if I hit,
you too hard, tell me so.

“Should we frequent places of amuse-
ment while attending school?” By all
means, if it is possible. “All work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy.” Places of
amusement, if well chosen, are a benefit to
any one. There is more real harm done by
being denied the privilege of attending than
by attending; for if one scholar is attending
such places, it will be discussed pro and con,
and all be interested and curious to go, and
those debarred from them will be envious,
and brood over their fancied hardships. and
seldom recite as well as the more fortunate
one who is privileged to attend. A few
hour’s recreation at some concert, lecture,
or entertainment is to the mind like fresh air
to the physical man. After sitting confined
day after day in a close room, how beneficial
is it to the health to take a walk in the open air. 80
it is with the places of amusements and the mind.
it cannot endure too much solid material while
developing. “A little nonsense now and then is
relished by the wisest men." Then why not by
school children? Society isn't half so dangerous
from contact if understood, as from a distance
viewed with curiosity.

The advantage of society gives one a chance to put
in practice what we can only know by theory, or at
least by very contracted practice, if we do not
frequent places of amusement. Some think it is
only to talk society “nothingisms” that a social
party meet, but if we search we will find some things
in the vainest, most fickle appearing assembly that
will furnish food for thought for many a spare hour.
The evil, if there is one, is in the manner of .con-

ducting such places rather than in the place. It
should be remedind by those who know how to
conduct them so as to make them interesting and
instructive. Till that is accoin lished, I say, let us
enjoy ourselves within reasonable hours and with

sooaonable amusements. Fraternally,

ens ensues visions.

 

A Nephew on Amusements.

Aunt Ni-na :—-I see in the last VISITOR that
Sweet Briar has given us something to write
about. Now, I would like to try my hand
at composition. I think it will not hurt any
of us.

Her first subject, “Should we frequent
places of amusement while attending
school?” is a good one, but I think a little
one-sided; that is to say, it is in my opinion,
but other people may not think as I do.

While I do not believe in studying so hard
as to become round-shouldered, I believe in
devoting our attention to our studies while
we are studying. We who go to school but
four months in the year, should try and learn
as Inuch as possible in that short time. Be-
member we do not have all our life in which
to attend school, and we should employ our
time well, so that when we become men and
women we may be better able to fight the
battle of life.

If we have our minds on two subjects at
once, we will be apt to think of one and for-
get the other. In other words, if we try to
play and study at the same time, it will
probably be all play and no study.

VVhen we go to dances, socials, play parties
and other places of amusement, our atten-
tion will be taken from our studies, and the
next day we will be thinking of last night’s
fun, whom we danced with, how we cut out
so and so, and in a little while nature asserts
herself, we get sleepy, and lop our heads
down on the desks and we sleep it out. So
it goes along until afternoon. By this time
theteacher, who has probably been out too,
will get sleepy and forgetful, and his eyelids
look as if pound weights were attatched to
them. Sundry paper wads and pieces of
paper may be seen flying about the school-
room, and so tl‘e day wears wearily away.
At night we know no more than in the
morning and have a headache besides. Af-
ter studying hard all day our minds need
rest from all care but to go out in the even-
ing and keep it at work half the night soon
tires it out.

Mind, I do not mean to say we should
become hermits and grow up crooked and
consumptive just to become a great scholar
for that would be doing a far greater injury
to ourselves, Let us go to bed early and get
up early with now and then an evening out
and we will be none the worse for it.

As to the other subject it depends largely
upon the kind of novels we read. If we
read Scott’s, Eliot’s, Carlyle’s, Hugo's and
such novels we will be benefitted in a wayas
it teaches us rhetoric, and the forms of lang-
uage which are indispensible to a good edu-
cation. Their novels are generally founded
on facts, but like sailors they like to tell a
big yarn to see who can put the most on the
smallest foundation and make it stay to-
gether. - But it is the low class of novels that
does the mischief. You can hardly meet
a boy on the street but who has his pockets
full of dime novels which he has read till he
knows them by heaat. He has his mouth
full of tobacco and a cigar between his lips,
and last but not least a revolver in his pock-
et. He struts along as if he would weigh 20
ounces to the pound and not half try.

Does that boy go to school and learn ? If he does
it's when he is out of dime novels. What has been
the stumbling block to that boy's scholarship ? He is
smart enough. He seems to read a great deal. Some
will say that his father set the example before him.
His father may be the pink of morality. It is not
because he does not read enough, but it is the wrong
kind of reading. He may learn fast enough, but he
gets hold of a tow dime novels. and they tell him of
the great West, Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack and other
Indian killers. He thinks no more of his studies.
he longs for the far West, where he can pick up gold
by the peck. He buys a revolver and gives himself a
soul-harrowing name, but if he should see a lame,
rheumatic old Indian, he would run and you could
not see him for the dust.

It is nothing but those novels that have been
detrimental to that boy's scholarship. They are the
lowest kind of literature, and they will bring you
down to their level. He gathers up his novels and
pistols, and sets out for the promised land, and
when there his visions suddenly vanish. _

It is not the boys alone who do all this reading;
but the girls do their share. It is as bad for the
girls as it is for the boys, and is a hindrance to their
progress. When their mothers think them asleep,
they are reading their brother's dime novels. I
suppose we like to read novels, but they are detri-
mental to scholarship. _

I have written long enough, and if you publish
this and not criticise too harshly, I will write again.

Your nephew, Gaoncu.
March, 1882.

 

Making the Worst ot It.

Some people live in a perpetual state of
fret. The weather is always objectionable;
the temperature is never satisfactory. They
have too much to do and are driven todeath;
or too little and no resources. If they are
sick, they know they shall never get well.
If they are well they expect soon to be sick-
Something is sure to disturb their sleep;
their food is never quite to their taste;
they have corns which everyone treads on,
or a toothache which no one realizes. Their
daily work is either drudgery, which they
hate, or so diflicult and complex that they
cannot execute it. To hear the prolonged
recital of their petty woes, one would think
them the most persecuted of mortals, and
when people shrink from the disagreeable
catalogue their lack of sympathy adds an-
other drop to the cup of trouble. Yet these
people have no more real cause for repinin g
than the rest of the world. They are more
wretched, it is true, and spread thatwretched-
ness with a liberal han around them, but
this is simply because they emphasize all

A Gasman Gran.
Coloina, March 22, 1882. -

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to send direct to the AGRICULTURAL WORLD, Grand
Rapids, Mich., and receive the account book and THE
WOELD for one year for less than the book costs
alone. THE Wonnn and Grange Visitor one year,
and the account book, $2.50. Don't fail to mention
this paper when writing. Address,

F. M. CARROLL, Publishers,
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.

German Horse and (low Powders.

This powder has been in use for many years. It
is large y used by the farmers of Pennsylvania, and
the Patrons of that State have bought over 100,000
pounds through their urchasing agents. Its compo-
sition is no secret. The receipt is on every box and
5-pound package. It is made b Dr. L. Oberholtzei-’s
Sons it Co.,_Phoenixville, Pa. It keeps stock health
and in good condition. It helps to digest and assimi-
late the food. Horses will do more work, with less
food while using it. Cows will give more milk and
be in better condition. It keeps poultry healthy, and
increases the production of eggs. It is also of great
value to them when melting. It is sold at the lowest
wholesale price b R. E. JAMES, KALAXAZOO,
GEO. W. HILL 00., 80 Woonnnmcn S'r., Dn-

rnorr, THUS. MASON, 181 Warns S1-., Cmcmo,
and ALBERT STEGEMAN, ALLEGAN. Put up in
60-lb. boxes (loose), price Emnr Cnnrs per 1b., 30-lb.
boxes (of 6 5-11». packages, Tax Cam-s per lb.

GRAPE . VINES.

Al1Leadin Va. letiesln large 1 . W ted
true to nani‘e. Prices low. aj§3‘3'in’L celgdgiled

NEW WHITE (DRAKE,

§fl§NT|88

stnm lfbr Price and Descriptive List-. Also

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THE G-BANG VISITOR.

APRIL 15, 1882.

A large wheat farm in Dakota has been
purchased by an association of St. Louis
millers. .

Grange Seal Stolen-caulion—Imposter.

Some one, to me unknown, entered the apartment
where the seal of the Knickerbocker Grange was
kept and stole impressions of said seal on sheets of
paper, and one E. A. Quarterman has been using
said sheets of paper with the stolen impressions on,
signing himself, “ Yours fraternallv,” when he was
not even a P. of H. The letters and seal are gener-
ally used to get lists of names from Secretaries of
State Granges, and to imposea paint on Patrons
under the idea that thely are buying the celebrated
Ingersoll Ready Mixed aint. All Masters, Over-
seers, Lecturers, Secretaries of P. of H. are requested
to read this letter to their Grange, that this imposter
may be known. Fraternall ,

0. R. INGERSOLL,
aprlfitf Master Knickerbocker Grange.

American Newspapers in 1882.

The American Newspaper Directory, which will
be issued next month by Geo. P. Rowell it Co., of
New York, will contain the names of 10,611 period-
icals in the United States and Territories, which is a
$31 of 344 in the year just passed. The number of

‘ y papers has increased in a somewhat larger pro-
portion, and is now represented by a total of 996
against 921 in 1881. The largest increase has been
in New York—l0 dailies, 29 of all sorts. Illinois
and Missouri show -a rcentage of gain which is
even greater, while Co orado leads all others in the
percentage of increase, both of daily and weekly
issues. California, Nebraska, Nevada, Or an,
South Carolina, Tennesee, Vermont and West ir-
ginia. have fallen behind 1881 in the total number of
periodicals issued. In Georgia, Maine and Massa-
chusetts the suspensions have exactly counter-
balanced the new ventured. In every State not
mentioned above, and in the Territories, there has
been an increase. aprl6tf

EGGS FOR HATCHING ll

FROM CHOICE

White Leghorn Fowls.

From breeding pens, «$2.50
flock, 13 for 75 cents,
Shipped in baskets,
all cases.

Black Java. American Sebright and White Leg-
homs chicks after Se tember lst. Also Scotch
Terrier dogs and Fitch lgerrets. Three-cent stamps
taken for amounts under
the order. No circulars.
Address,
aprl5,5t

per 13. From general
26 for 81.25, 52 for 32.00.
and warranted pure and fresh in

$1.00. Terms cash with
Write for what is wanted.
CHAS. P. ADAMS,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Ornamental and Shade Trees.

EO. TAYLOR & SON, at their Nursries on
Portage street, are offering for sale at very

low rates, a large stock of Evergreen and Ornamen-
tal Trees, shade trees, fruit trees, grapevines, straw-
berry plants, etc.; 25,000 Norway spruce for hedges,
from one to two feet high (transplanted trees) at 85 to
815 per 100. A line stock of large evergreens at
proportionate price. Nursery located on Portage
street, Kalamazoo, near the old fair grounds. aprl3t

“BUY THE BEST!”

THE STODD—AIiD CHURN.

The most popular Churn
on the market. No floats
, or dashers inside. The cov-
er removed in an instant,
and replaced as quickly.
Cork packing, that never
leaks. The highest award,

a
SILVER MEDAL,
at Philadelphia, 1880, at
the largest exhibition of
Daii-yApparatus ever made
in this country, after an
actual test with the lead-
. ing Churns manufactured.
~ ‘ HIGHEST AWARDS at
the leading fairs in 1881. EIGHT SIZES made, with

or without pulleys, as desired. Agents Wanted.
E’ Send for Circulars to the manufacturers.
MOSELEY dc S’!-‘ODDARD M’F’G Co.,
Poultuey, Vermont.
JOHN PRESTON, PLEASANT, MICH.,
lmar-6t Agent for Kent County.

Moseley’s Cabinet Creamery

MANUFACTURED BY
MOSELEY lo STODDARD M’F’G 00..

POULTNEY, VERMONT.

A very neat, com-
pact. well furnished
and successful dairy
utensil. It is a
COMPLETE Socoiiss
in the dairy, and
has won important
awards when ex-
hibited in competi-
tion w i t h other
Creamerieah ‘Re-
ceiving the ig est

' award at the New
- England Agricul-
— . I tural Society for
the past three consecutive years; also at the Penn-
sylvania State Fair, 1880, where the decision was
made aftera thorough test, in which milk, ice and
results were carefully weighed and noted; and at
New York. Ohio, and Michigan State Fairs, and at
many other fairs at difierent times.

We invite the ublic to give MOSELEY’S CABI-
NET CRE RY a careful examination, as we
believe it will meet with favor with those who wish
to purchase a device toraise cream bythe cooling
process, combined with a Refrigerator. The lower

of all sizes answers the urpose of cooling cham-

r. f’ For Agencies adcfi-ess the manufacturers.

JOHN PRESTON, Pleasant, Mich.,
lmar-6t Agent for Kent County.

was: zanaicazoo

COLLEGE and

Q4’

INSTITUTE,

Offers su ‘or advantages to young Men and Women
V119 '  qualify for businsu. Send for Journal
flung particulars

W. F. PA/P80!/8, Presl.

A combination that will
produce an even grade
of Butter, winter and
No
quired. Sa~ves two-thirds
the labor. It will save
its cost twice the first
season. A RESPONSI-
BLE AGENT wanted

Where an Agent is not

summer. Ice re-

located. Correspondence
Send for Cm-

CULARS and PRICE-LIST. ‘ea.

MCCALL & DUN CA

solicited.

G. W. Hunt, Mattawan. Van Bnren County.
W. P. Herd, Lowell, Kent County.

A. H. Smith, , “ N

Charles E. Thornton, Rockford, Kent County.
Charles Pittman. Middleville, Barry County.
A. Stegeman, Allegan, Allegan County.

D. P. Newton, Watson, " “
Simeon Staring; Ganges, “ “

E. J. McNau§ ton, Cooperville, Ottawa County.
Gutelius Sufi er, Three Rivers, St. Joseph “
Williams & artshorn. Owosso, Shiawassee County.
0. C. Spaulding, Royalton, Ben-ien County.

P. W. atb, Chelsea. West Washteuaw County.
John Wiebe, Bear Lake, Manistee County.

J. A. Montagu, Niles, Berrien Count .

Sears A Messenger, Cassopolis, Cass Cyounty.

John Holhnan, Homer, Calhoun Co.

John Adams, Marshall, “
Wattles & Wood, Battle Creek, Calhoun Co.
J. R. Brayton, Bellville. Wayne Co.

S. Andrews, Howell, Livingston Co.

A. B. Cooley, Romeo, N. W. Macomb Co.

H. H. Freeman, Lenox, N. E. Macomb Co.
D. I. Dunton, Lapeer, Lapeer Co.

A c in E
CREAMER & BUTTER COOLER

«Z-—-—»— --f

N, choolcraft, Mic. I

AGENTS :———

B. J. Wily. Mottville, St. Jose h County.
G. M. Gardner, Litchfield, ' sdale County.
J. A. Johnson, Vicksburg, Kalamazoo 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.
1 The Bird Wind Mill Co., Kalamazoo. Kal’zoo Co.
 Charles North, Trent, Muskegon and Newaygo 00.
§ Nathan Winslow, Williamstown, Ingham County.
L C. H. Eames, Grand Blanc. S. E. Genesee Co.
. John Grose, Moore ark, St. Joseph Co.
I T. H. Ross J: Co., Bowsgiac, Cass County.
2 S. N. Thomas, Decatur, Van Bnren County.
3 Wm. C. Wooley, Elsie, Clinton and Gratiot Co's.
,’ Adams & Rue, Galesburg, Kalamazoo County.
' F. L.‘ Elms, Charlotte, Eaton Co.
I J. W. Rossnian, Marlette, Sanilac Co.
, Staut Jr. Ingoldsby, Pontiac, Oakland Co.
E Dunnam ls Son, Hudson, Lenawee Co.
Sla ton & Son, Tecumseh, Lenawee Co.
Wifcox Bros, Adrian, Lenawee Co.
A Chandler & Son. Coldwater, Branch Co.

HARRO
Perfection

is the iwlement that must and will supercede all

Arrow as WHEELS.

others. The subscriber offers this New WHEEL

to the farmers of the Country with entire confidence that for Simplicity of Construction and
of Work it stands Unrivalled. Send for Circulars.

S. J. VVING, Schoolcraft, Mich.

Address

FOR SALE.

The MICHIGAN Srsrs AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE of-
fers for sale at reasonable prices

Three Yearling Short—Horn
BULLS

Of approved breeding and from dams of good mllk-
ing qualities. Also '

A. FEW COWS AND HEIFERS.

All stock registered in American Short-Horn Herd
Book. Call on or Address:

SAMUEL JOHNSON,
AGRICULTURAL Causes, Lansing, Mich.

THE 5 - TON

WAGON SCALES-

ARE SOLD FOR $60.
an Iron ...a Steel. Sold on trial—freight paid by
us-—no money asked till tested and found satisfac--
tory. All sizes manufactured.

l5mar4t

JONES OF BINGHAMI-‘TON,
Binghampton. N. Y.
Send for Circulars and further particulars.

Paw Paw, Mich., May 18th, 1878.

Jesus or Brsionsxrox:

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

perfectly reliable.
. Yours, Fraternally,

J. J. WOODMAN.
3 in—1yr

Garden, Flower and Field
5 E E I) 5

OF EVERY VARIETY.

SSXSS DP ASSORTED PUPPIES furnished SRANSSS

Varieties not used to be returned.

WHITE RUSSIAN OATS.

Special Prices to Patrons on Application.

NEW GROCERY PRIC LIST NOW READY.
SEND OR IT.

GEORGE W. HILL,

80 Woodbridge St., Wat,
Feb.lt1 DETROIT, MICH.

[Signed]

9

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PATENTS.

LUCIUS C. WEST. Solicitor of American and
Foreign Patents, and Counsellor in Patent Causes.
Trade Marks, Copyrights, Assignments, Caveats, and
Mechanical Drawings. Circulars free. 16 Portage
street, KALAMAZOO, MICH. aprltf

LIFE INSURANCE

FOR PATRONS.

O

lhe Patrons’ Aid Society of Michigan

WAS OBGANIZED IN DECEMBER, 1880,

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

HOME INSTITUTION OF LIFE INSURANCE

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

Its Annual Meetings occur at the same time and

lace as the annual session of the State 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 ollicers are elected, and without special
notice any amendment to the laws and rules govern-
ing the Society may be made.

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 tixed 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 listinctive feature of this Socie-
ty—one which should commend it to the favorable
consideration of Patrons, -

If there are reasons why peo le should from time
to time pay a small sum from t eir 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,
den. Centreville.
R. C. CARPENTER, GEO. W. EWING,
Lansing.
Mrs. C. K. CARPENTER, C. L. WHITNEY.
Orion. Cincinnati.
A. E. GREEN,
Walled Lake.

J. T. COBB,
Schoolcraft. _
or to Local Agents they may appoint.

For By-Laws and Circulars apply to either
WM. B. LANGLEY, Pres’t,

or J. T. COBB, Sec’y, Centrevllle,
febltf schoolcraft, Mich. '

EVERY FARMER IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD EXAMINE THE

New Combined Spring Tooth Snlky Harrow

CULTI VATOR AND SEEDER.

Manufactured by

THE WOLVERINE
HARROW AND SEEDER COMPANY.

Kalamazoo; - Michigan.
As a combined machine, it stands un-
rivalled in excellence, doing the work ol
4 a Harrow and Seed Sower most thorough-
’ ly and satisfactorily. It has taken high
rank at once as ONE OF THE VERY
BEST IMPLEMENTS FOR THE USES
DESIGNED EVER INVENTED. Sows
Harrow does not trail or clog, is con-
can be raised or lowered by the driver,
_ ng the teeth at any required depth.
is 0f Vi’-1‘.V light dmft» 83511)’ Wovked by one pair of horses, and has received the
flrst premium and diplomas wherever exhibited

Send for Circulars. ‘ LORENZO B LX317, Sec:y_
Tam PATENT IAEPIIOVEZD

Spring-Tooth H arrow

FOR. THE SEASON OF‘ 1882.

_ ‘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 & CO., Kalamazoo, Mich.

om

in-F1nu1*Hurse-Puwair

E

 =

This Power easily folded up out of the way when not in use. Just the thing every farmer needs
who has feed to cut, corn to shell, or anything one or two horses can do. Agents wanted. Send for
Circular. Two-horse Power, Jack Belt, and 18 ft. Flat Belt, S40.
fijanl-ti SMITH dz “'()ODARD. Manufacturers. Kalamazoo, Mich.

ATRONS’  ORKS.

lllanufacturersofln gr-r.soIl’.s Li quid Rubber

Paint. The only Pa true that de _ fy moist or salt

uirorwatentlaesun, or fumes of  '' burning coal,

which destroy all mhor Paints. 3 ' Prices low, de-
livered freight paid to any Ilflplll 1'n.the countr . » . No cash requir-
ed until delivered. All Paint users shou d write and have
sent free Beautiful Color Card of the Pain: itself, with in-
structions how any one can Paint. Addr esa, PA.I'BONS'
PAINT WORKS, NEW YORK.

THOMAS Mason?

General Commission Merchant,

181 South Water Street, CHICAGO,
BUSINES AGENT MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,

Respeeflully Oellelle Oenelgnuienle of

FRUITS, VEGETABLES, BUTTER, E008,
WOOL, HOPS, POULTRY, GAME, VEAL, _
Grass Seed. Raw ‘Pius, Iiidos, Pelts, ".'l:'a.'l.1c'vv, due...

IDIDEII AGENT of the I. W. PIIODIIGE EXGIIIIGE ASSMSIITIOI,

Ohtrlorod Feb. ISSII. I877.

Te Patrons and Shippers.-—Thls_js the only Commission House in Chicago oi-gas»
lmd and controlled by the Patrons of Husbandry. The chief aim of this Agency ll:
lat. Security for Payment to Shippers. '
ind. To obtain the Highest Market price for goods received, quality considered.
an]. Quick Sales and Prompt Payment.

Slilppere in all States will receive equal benefits or thismanagsinsnt, the Business Manager
being under Bonds for the faithful performance of the same.

This Agency will fill Qrders for any goods in this market, at lowest possible rate: Cash
must accompany the order for near the amount required ; balance to be paid on receipt of bill.

THOMAS MASON, Business Manager.

.H.‘.§.7£.’J.7{I§ Q-1~”{{I§£.’  ”fimIN5_

Laiigshans, Brown and White Leghorns and.
Pekin Ducks; H. C. UNDERWOOD,
lémai--it Ealama.soo,Micli.

I have for sale a thorough-bred SHOT HORN
BULL two years old. A fine animal, dark red, and
from a good milking ‘family. I reside on Section 18,
in the township of Alpine. P. 0. Address,

1'. W. GIBBS,

aprl3t Box 203, GKAND RAPIDS, MICH.