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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

What the Burdock was Good for——Field Trial of
Farm Implements—Ditcbing-—Glucose or Sugar
Meal —Talks on Poultry, No. 9—State Poultry
Association—Bronze Turkeys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1

Poet Trse—The New Department-The Grange as

Seen by an Englishman——Our Country's Danger
—Prohibition vs. License 2

Qualifications of Voters-—The Proposed Patent Law
Legislation—Trained Minds and Hands—House-
bold Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3

State Capital Engra.ving— Kalamazoo County Grange
and Railrord Passes—Our Saunterings——Implement
Trial, Vistor, ect.—A Valuable Worker—-Our Visit
to Lansing——The Patent Law Amendment .... . . 4

New Song Book—Among the Granges—Credit Sys-
tem—Afi-irmative Resolutionf—Standard Oil Co.-
Visitor Receipts—-Lecturer’s Communication N. G.
P. of H.-Notices of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Elbow Room——The Day is Done—Reminiscences N 0.
3-—Equality of the Sexes—For the Good of the
Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Saturday Night-—Our Aspirations—A Pleasant Ex-
cursion—Is Labor a Blessing or a Curse ?—Frater-
nity-—B_righton Grange N o. 366—St. Joseph Co.
Grange—That One-Dollar Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Reaper Death——Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Officers National Grange.
MA.s1's:n.—J. J. WOODMAN,. . .Paw Paw, Michigan.

0vnasnaa——PUT. DARDEN, ......... . .Mississippi.
LlG!l‘UBEB—HENRY ESHBAUGH, .... ..Missouri.
S*l.'lwABD—A. J . VAUGHN, . . . . . . . . . . ..Mississippi.
Assr. S,TEWARD~WlLLIAM SIMS, . . . . . . ..Kansas.
CEAPLAIN—S. H. ELLIS, .................. ..0hio.
TniusUnna—F. M. McDOWELL, .... ..New York.
5lOBETABY—WM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.
Gum-Kszraa--O. DINWIDDIE, ....... ..Indiana.
Oxaas-—MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, ...... ..Michigan.
Poxoru—MRS. PUT. DARDEN, .... ..Mississippi.

Fr.onA—MRS. I. W. NICHOLSON,.. .New Jersey.
LAD! Assr. S-rnwsnn—MRS. WM. SIMS, Kansas.

Executive committee-

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

Officers Michigan State Grange.

M.—C. G. LUCE, ........................ ..Gilead.
O.—A. N. WOODRUFF, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Watervliet.

S.—8. A. TOOKER, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Lansing.

A. B.-:A. E. GREEN, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Farmington.

L.—CHARLES E. MICKLEY . . . . . . . . . . ..Thurber.

0.—SALMON STEEL, . . . . . . .Frankfort, Benzie Co.

'1‘.——S. F. BROWN, . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . ..Schoolcraft.

Bnc.—-J. '1‘. COBB, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schoolcraft.

G. K.—ELIJ AH BARTLETT, ._ . . . . . . . . . . . .Dryden.

Gxaxs.—-Mas. A. S. STANNARD, . . . . . . . . ..Lowell.

Poxozu.—Ms.s. H. D. PLATT, . . . . . . . . . . .Ypsilanti.
F1'ao!u'.——Ma.s. A N. WO0DRUFF,....Watervliet.
L. A. S.—-M35. A. E. GREEN, ....... . .Farmington.
Executive committee-
I. Q. A. BURRINGTON, Chairman, .... ..Tuscola.
J. WEBSTER CHILDS, .............. ..Ypsilanti.
P. M. HOLLOWAY, . . . . . .............. . .Hillsdale.
THOMAS MARS, .......... .. .. .. . Berrien Center.
WM. SATTERLEE, ............... ..Birminghs.m.
THOS. F. MOORE, ......... ... ......... . .Adrian.
J’. G RAMSDELL ................. . .Traverse City.
0. G. LUCE, J. T. COBB, ............ ..Ex-ofiicio.

State Business Agent.
THOMAS MASON, ................. ..Chicago, Ill.
GEO.  HILL ......................... ..Detroit.

General Deputy.

JOHN HOLBROOK .................... . . Lansing.

special Lecturers.

‘rhea: 1". Moore,. . ... ........ "Adrian, Lenawee Go.
I. 1,. Stevens... ........... ..Perrv, Shiawassee 00.
Mrs. 8. Steele, .......... . . .. ..Ma.nton, Wexiord Co.
‘gdrgw Ounpbell, ..... ..Ypcih.nti, Wuhtenaw Co.

J’. W. Wing.... .... ....Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co.

TRY lanting sunflowers in your arden if
compelled to live in a malarial nel h rhood.
They also make good food for fow s.

iiiiricullural Euulmul.

WHAT THE BURDOCK WAS GOOD FOR.

“Good for nothing,” the farmer said,

As he made a sweep at the burdock’:-1 head;
But then, he thought it was best, no doubt,
To come some day and root it out.

So he lowered his scythe, and went his way,
To see his corn, to gather his hay;

And the weed grew safe and strong and tall,
Close by the side of the garden well.

“Good for a home," cried the little toad,
As he hopped up out of the dusty road.
He had just been having a dreadful fright,
The boy who gave it was yet in sight,
Here it was cold and dark and green,

The safest kind of a leafy screen.

The toad was happy; “For," said he,
“The burdock was plainly meant for me.”

“Good for a prop,” the spider thought,

And to and fro with care he wrought,

Till he fastened it well to an evergreen,

And spun his cables line between.

’T was a beautiful bridge,—a triumph of skill;
The flies came ’round, as idlers will;

The spider lurked in his corner dim,-

The more that came, the better for him.

“Good for play,” said achild, perplext

To know what frolic was coming next.

So she gathered the burs that all despised,
And her city playmate was quite surprised
To see what a beautiful basket or chair
Could be made, with a little time and care.
They ranged their treasures about with pride,
And played all day by the burdock’s side.

Nothing is lost in this world of ours:
Honey comes from the idle flowers;
The weeds which we pass in utter scorn,
May save a life by another morn.
Wonders await us at every turn.
We must be silent, and gladly learn.
No room for recklessness or abuse,
Since even a burdock has its use.
-St. Nicholas for May.
MM

Field Trial of Farm Implements.

The morning of June 6th found us on the
way to attend_the field trial of farm imple-
ments held on the farm of Mr. Sweet, near
Grand Rapids. The day was all that could
be asked for. the ground in perfect condi-
tion for an easy trial, being rather heavy
opening soil. VVe arrived on the grounds at
about eleven o’clock, A. M. and found sev-
eral hundred farmers collected and inter-
ested. \Ve passed the plowmen rather has-
tily for the purpose of seeing the fine herd
of Holstein cows and young stock. To say
that several of these were near perfection is
but justice to the herd. The same will ap-
ply to the two males kept at the barn.

Arriving at the house we found a large
crowd that for along half hour gave very
close attention to the speeches by Mr. Bur-
lingame, of the VVestern Michigan Farmers’
Club, D. T. Dell, President of Kalamazoo
County Club and Col. Messmore for the
Grand Rapids press. All were good. The
dinner furnished by the W. M. Club was
substantial and satisfactory. The afternoon
was spent in viewing the several imple-
ments at work. I think the general opin-
ion in regard to work done by the half dozen
riding plows was not quite what should be
expected when we consider the expense.
Next comes the walking plow, from the old
wooden mouldboard covered with strips of
wrought iron to the latest improvements.
Here was some good work done Following
the plow trials were the riding spring tooth
barrow, with seeders and without. Among
so many good implements all having their
own special good points, I leave the farmers
present to judge of their merits, the
ground being too mellow to fully test their
capacity. We found several other kinds of
implements for pulverizing the soil, all good
in their places, but not having time to see
them tried I cannot say as to their good or
bad qualities. On other parts of the grounds
we found mowers, hay carriers, creamers,
churns, &c. Here the ladies seemed to con-
gregate. If at one point more than the oth-
ers I apprehend that the good looks of our
friend McCall or the Acme creamer was the
cause. And now, Brother Cobb, I think the
W. M. F. Club may be congratulated on
having for one of its members so enthusias-
tic a farmer and stock raiser as the farm and
stock of Mr. Sweet indicates.

 

WEEDS should never be permitted to get
an inch high. Go 'over the garden beds
with asteel rake as often as once a week.
The labor will be more than repaid by the
increased growth of the crop, and the weeds
will never make their appearance. The
labor will be far less that is required to clear

out weeds after they have grown several
inches. and have checked and partly spoiled
the crop.—0ountry Gentleman.

Ditching.

I think so much of ditching and draining
that since I and my sons have gotten most
of our wet lands drained, we have become
deeply interested in trying to induce our
good old Uncle Sam to take hold of his.
Uncle Sam has a very large farm with a
slough and swales running through the
middle of it, with several large ponds near
the head of the slough. He is a very clever
old gentleman, but has sadly neglected his
ditching and draining, to the great detri-
ment of his farm and family. Among
many others Uncle Sam has two sorts of
boys—farmer boys and bicycle boys. The
former are in favor of ditching but the latter
are not.

Some years ago Uncle Sam took especial
pains to encourage his younger boys to run
the bicycle. He helped them to build a
hundred thousand miles of iron and steel
bicycle track ; somehow or other the old
gentleman liked to see them run and spin,
and “go it.” Meanwhile he did little or
nothing to aid his farmer boys in ditching
and draining the ponds or sloughs of the
great farm; his bicycle boys well high per-
suaded the old genleman that the whole
family could live and grow rich simply by
riding the bicycle. And indeed they were
a fine, lively set of fellows as ever the world
saw; they could run of errands, deliver mes-
sages and light packages, by night and by
day, all over the farm, with the speed of the
wind and the promptness of the noon-mark;
they were very handy fellows on the farm,
so handy that they got nearly all the attor-
neys and politicians and newsboys on or
about the farm, and most of the money be-
sides, under their practical control. But the
farmer boys and shop boys are now trying to
get the old man off from that craze and in-
duce him to pay some proper attention to
ditching and draining the old homestead.

But, to speak more seriously and directly,
the whole American people have great rea-
son to rejoice that our rulers and legislators
seem at last to have taken hold in earnest of
the greatest and most beneficent industrial
work of the age, both for the republic and
the world at large-—the work of deepening,
shortening, uniting, consolidating and im-
proving our thirty or forty or more thous-
and miles of navigable watergtransportation,
so as to bring it into its nor-L‘. . ; practical uses
to the whole republic, especially that part of
it connected with the great lakes, the Min-
sissippi river and its tributaries, and the
rivers of the Eastern and Southeastern sea-
shoreline. Congress has proposed a liberal
appropriation for the deepening of the Mis-
sissippi from New Orleans to Cairo, which
when completed will practically move the
sea-board almost a thousand miles inland,
through the very centre of the richest lands
of the continent and the world.

They have also proposed a military com-
mission to take surveys and estimates from
the great lakes to the head waters of the
Illinois river, making a free passage for the
boats and barges of lakes and rivers to pass
from one to the other, and from New Or-
leans to the mouth of the St. Lawrence, thus
relieving the whole lake shipping force from
its months of thralldom to ice and idle-
ness in a winter for continued service on
the Lower Mississippi and on all the rivers
of the open South and Southeastern sea-
board. They have also provided for similar
surveys and estimates for a ship canal across
Florida, shortening the lines of water transit
to all the great cities of the East. The two
first named items will bring our entire grain
and produce trade with Europe, and the last
will bring our entire trade with all the
great cities of the Eastern States, so continu-
ously into competition with the railroad
routes that their rates can never be exorbi-
tant or oppressive either in summer or win-
ter. This look- like business and not mere
child’s play.

This will of necessity cheapen transporta-
tion and the cost of living; add to the profits
ofall production, and to the value of all
capital; all personal and real estate, in all
the States in the republic, North, South,
East, and West. So great a boon we may
now hope for ; it will cost us nothing. We
need only to hold up a little, in paying our
national debt, which none of the creditors
want paid ; and before the debt need be paid
the profits of all these works will pay all
costs many times over. The actual ex ense
of the two canals cannot be fifty mil ions,
not one tenth of what our people have paid
out to develop our railroad system, not even
one eightieth part of the 4,200 millions our
railroad experts say we must expend in new
railroads with the next fifteen years, if we
rely on the railroads alone, to the continued
neglect of our water transit. Besides, these
canals, it well done will last forever, with
but very slight repairs, while the greater
part of the 4,000 millions of railroad expenses
will have to be repeated in inevitable repairs
every fifteenor twenty years in all time to
come.—Prof. J. B. Turner, of Jacksonville,
I ll. Farmers’ Institute.

 

IN a horse suit in justice court, a few days
since, the complaining witness unconsciously
expressed his opinion of lawyers in a , very
neat manner, but not at all pleasant to the
attorney who was questioning him. Hav-
ing been asked a certain question, which
he expressed his inability to answer, the law-
yer remarked “you are not much of a law-
yer.” “No,” responded the Witness, “I am
no lawyer, and I shall tr _to tell the truth
:i_s'we(ll as I“can.” His position was not ques-

10118 .

Glucose or Sugar Meal.

There is no doubt that a large quantity of
glucose meal has been scattered through the
country this spring. and sold to dairymen
on the ground of increasing the flow of
milk. Regarded simply in this light, it
seems certain that it is a profitable article to
feed to milch cows. Patrons of cheese fac-
tories claim that they would prefer to sell
their cheese at one-half to three-fourths of a
cent per pound less money, if they could be
allowed to use the glucose feed. Sugar meal
sells here at about $8 50 per ton, so that
when cows are fed upon it entirely it makes
a very cheap food. For a time also the an-
imal seems to thrive upon it.

But there is another light in which this
subject must be viewed, entirely apart from
the cheapness of meal as food, or from its
effect upon the cows. The milk produced
by these animals has got to be used, either
as food in itself or for the production of
butter or cheese. And on general rinciples
most dairymcn, if unbiased by the desire
for gain, would at once pronounce that an
article which becomes so sour in a few days
after leaving the factory as to taint the air
and be smellable 20 to 30 rods away, must be
an improper food for milch cows, and must
affect their milk unfavorably. It is univer-
sally acknowledged that whey should not be
fed to cows, on account of the effect it has
upon milk, and the same principle is even
more imperative in the case of glucose meal.
In the use of milk for the household, al-
though no odor can be detected when cows
have been fed upon the meal, the moment
the milk is poured into a cup of coffee it as-
sumes a stringy appearance and becomes an
object of suspicion. VVe hear of one milk-
man who commenced using the meal with-
out the knowledge of any of his customers.
They at once began to complain, and threat-
ened to leave him if there was not an im-
provement in the milk. He stopped the use
of the meal and there were no more com-
plaints about his milk.

But its worst effects are seen in the cheese
made from this milk. In the first place, it
takes about one-third more annato to color
the cheese, which at once shows the pres-
ence of an undue amount of acid. In the
second place, the milk has to be heated

‘much higher than usual, and even then it is

impossible to bring the .curds to a proper
consistency. They remain throughout soft
and salvey, and will not cure down firm and
solid. A Chicago dealer lately wrote to one
of his consignors in regard to his cheese as
follows : “ They have the appearance of
being finely made, but, on inserting the try-
er in the cheese the plug comes out porous
and gritty, and on holding them any length
of time they seem to rot and get bad. There
is something in the milk, in in judgment,
that causes these conditions. he cows are
fed on something that is sweet, or foreign to
their customary feed. The cheese seem pre-
cisel like those of 8 certain factory which I
ban led last year, which rotted down in 30
days, causing a loss to me after I had sold
them. Some of my customers refused to pay
at all. After investigation I found the cows
had been fed on glucose (meal), which in-
variably produces this kind of cheese."

This is only a single example of experi-
ence which has been repeated in various
parts of the country. And it shows that the
use of this article is one which is liable to
cause serious loss to eve body connected
with it. A condensed mi k factory, located
in a village only a few miles east of here,
lost several thousand dollars last season be-
cause some of its patrons used glucose meal
as food for their cows. The condensed milk
prepared from it was sent back to the factory
by those who purchased it, as wholly unfit
for any kind of use.

With facts like these, concerning which
there can be no sort of question, before our
dairyrnen, they must see that it would be the
height of folly to commence, or, if already
commenced, to persist in the use of sugar
meal for the mere sake of a little increase in
the yield of milk. In the end it will invar-
iably result in serious loss either to them-
selves or to the factory to which they send
their milk. And if it is discovered that
certain patrons are feeding the meal, the fac-
toryman himself should take the matter in
hand, and insist that the practice be done
away with. It is an injustice done not only
to himself but to the other patrons of his
factory. Cheese this year are sold upon
their merits, and not upon the reputation of
the establishment where they are made.
Under this system, stock which is made out
of glucose milk will very soon tell its own
secret and ruin the name of the factory
which sends it forth.— Utica Herald.

 

MANY farmers throw awa
in beef and pork barrels an fish packages.
Sometimes they throw it on a grass patch,
or under a tree, and kill the vegetation with
it. If they desire to kill vegetation with it,
the should pour it on patches of burdocks
an thistles, or around trees that are worth-
less. It is better, however, to use it for
manure, in which case it should be applied
with judgment. It may be a plied to as-
paragus beds or quince trees iberally, but
to other things sparingly. Ordinarily the
best disposition to make of it is to pour it on
a manure or compost heap, and allow it to
be absorbed.—E'xchange.

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THE urine of all animals, especially those
that are highly fed, is more va uable as ma-
nure than the solid excrements, and should
be carefully saved by suitable absorbents.

the old brine

Talks on Poultry, No. 9.

Boos.
The present price of eggs is not due so

much to their scarcity as compared with-

other years, but from their being used
instead of meat. Nothing comes nearer
meat in nutriment than egg, unless it may
be the spring chicken the boarder gets in his
boiled egg. Scarcely any food can be served
in so many ways and still be comparatively
cheap, wholesome and appetizing as ye little
egg. Let no Granger ladyimpeach Michi-
gan enterprise enough to use receipts for
preparing food without eggs, such as go the
rounds of the press occasionally. Raise the
eggs and enjoy the product. In the ladies’
department of the VISITOR, if we mistake
not, appeared one excellent recipe for eggs:
Beat well, and take with or without milk,
before going out for chores in the damp,
chilly morning air. It stays the stomach
and improves rather than lessens the
appetite for breakfast.

Eggs to be strictly prime must be gathered
daily toward evening. If this rule is
observed you will find nests as soon as the
hens steal them, for if half dozen eggs are
taken from a nest at once the hen will desert
the nest. To avoid the abandonment of the
nest after being found, we replace eggs with
about half dozen nest eggs. The risk is
also lessened of their getting brooded upon,
or broken, thereby teaching the hens to eat
eggs,—-but w_by enumerate reasons for
doing business on business principles ‘.’

Sometimes it happens you wish to test
eggs. By looking through the egg toward
a strong light with the hand cornucopia
shaped with the little finger and fleshy part
of the hand enclosing the small end of the
egg, a nice distinction can be attained by
practice in testing the age of eggs. VVe have
a looking-glass egg tester, but it is seldom
used. The furry.-.er plan is handy and is used
except where" ;ttings of eggs are to be
tested for their fertility.

Grand View Farm,

Ka,amamo_ om) POULTRY.

 

Stale Poultry Association.

GRAND RAPIDS, June 7, 1882.

VVe are trying to find out the number of
local poultry associations in the State, in
order to get them to join a proposed State
association. A call in the GRANGE Vrsrron
asking all local associations to send their
address to yourself or me would greatly aid
the scheme. I will send you a list of the
names I get at the next meeting. We are

trying hard to make Michigan the leading
State in poultry interests. Our subscription
list now numbers 50 members, with acapital
of $270. We will not organize with less
than $500, as this will insure the payment of
premiums at the firstexhibition and engen-
der confidence. By subscribing $5.00 on or
before July 1, 1882, one becomes a member;
more may be given, as we have some $10.00
members. Our present object is to solicit
subscribers that will pay prompt and be on
hand when called for. Will kee you
posted as things progress. Respectfu ly,
R. C. GREINER, Secly pro tem.
__..________.__._____

Bronze Turkeys.

The Bronze is the king of turkeys. In
short they are noted for their great size and
rich, changeable bronze colors. They are
always beautiful, are good foragers, and it
costs little to raise them where grasshoppers
and insects are plenty. They are N o. I lay-
ers, handy, and easy to raise; they make a
very rapid growth, and if the winter is not
too har , or does not set in too early, young
gobblers will weigh 25 pounds by Christmas,
or, that is, at about six months of age, and
hens 13 or 14 pounds. Turkeys, uniike
chickens, grow all winter, and make weight
for the feed they consume. The Bronze do
not fully get their growth till they are about
three years old. At maturit hens weigh
from 15 to 20 pounds, and go blers from 30
to 40 pounds each.

In most sections turkeys are very profita-
ble, and double the weight can be made from
about the same feed and trouble that is given
to the rearing of small common turkeys. It
pays to keep the best “ blooded” stock, if
we get much larger returns for our outla .
We give it as a fact which many persons 0
not understand, that turkeys shrink from
three to nine pounds in shipping, as being
nervous they eat little, and the journey
worries them. They soon recover, however.
Customers are apt to weigh themon receipt,
and many a seller gets a cursing for sending
lighter weights than he represented, when
it was owin to the shrinkage of the birds.
They shoul not be wei hed under three or
four weeks of good keep ng after their arriv-
al on a new place. Shrinking happens the
same with other fowls, too.—Dz'rzgo Rural.

   

THE beak of an unhatched chick is pro-

vided with a hard, sharp scale for fracturing
the shell.

 


_ railroads, mining, and manufacturing

 

TEE GRANGE VISITOR.

JUNE 15, 1882.

djummunitatiuna.

POET-TREE.

Oak, Carolincl fir yew I pine;

O willow, will you not_be mine?

Thy hazel eyes, thy tulips red,

Thy ways a l larch have turned my head,
All linden shadows by thy gaff!’

I cypress on my heart an wait; _

Then gum! beech cherished, Caroline;
We'll fly for elms of bliss divine.

O, spruce young man! I cedar plan-
Catalpa’s money, if you can;

You sumach ash, but not my heart;
You’re evergreen, so now depart;
You'd like to poplar—tliat I see-
Birch you walnut propose to me-
Here’s pa! you’ll see hemlock the gate;
He maple litely say “ ’tis late!”

Locust that lover, while he flew

For elms before that parent’s shoe;

He little thought a dogwood bite .
And make him balsum much that night,
Hawthorney path he traveled o'er,
And he was sick and sycamore.

The New Department.

Speech of Hon. Edward ‘S. Lace , of Michigan, in the
House of Representatives, onday. May 8,.l882,
upon the bill to enlarge the powers and duties of
the Department of Agriculture.

MR. SPEAKER: I should feel that I had
not done my whole duty if I did not do all
in my power by voice and vote and influence
to promote the passage of the bill ‘under
consideration. I shall not attempt in the
brief time allowed me to discuss its sever-
al provisions. They are not in all respects
what Idesired; but in the main they seem
to be well considered and wise.

The people whom I represent here are not
sticklers for details. They have no pride of
opinion as to particular methods; but they
do insist with surprising unanimitythat the
powers of the Agricultural Department be
enlarged and that no extraneous interests be
engrafted. They ask that it be made _an
Executive Department, fully understanding
that matters of detail will receive wiser and
more intelligent consideration under the full
light of experience after the main object
shall have been accomplished.

There are three excellent reasons to be
given for the adoption of this measure.

1. A large majority of the people earnestly
desire it. _

2. The experience of_ other nations proves
it to be wise and expedient: _

3. The magnitude of the interests involved
demands it.

THE PEOPLE DESIRE IT.

In regard to the first proposition it may
truthfully be said that within my own dis-
trict there is but one sentiment expressed on
this subject. Petition has followed petition,
and letters have poured in upon me without
number. Resolutions favoring It have been
passed by county, State and national _granges,
by farmers’ alliances, and by agricultural
associations of every name and character,
and outside of these representative organiza-
tions the demand is equally as earnest and
universal. _

Is there any good reason why this request,
coming up to us from the representatives of
more than twenty-five millions of our most
worthy and intelligent people, should be re-
fused ? _

They come not as a class mg for special
priviliges and immunities, b t as enlighten-
ed citizens having proper respect for. the dig-
nity and honor of the calling_in which they
are engaged, and fully realizing its necessi-
ties ; having carefully considered the mag-
nitude of the interests involved. and actuated
by a firm belief that whatever tends to pro-
mote the interest of the tillers of the soil will
surely add to the prosperity of those engaged
in every other vocation, and will as certainly
tend to increased intelligence and thrift. to
enhance prosperity and contentment, to the
highest welfare of society, and the greater
permanence of our free institutions.

I cannot give a better idea of the desires of
those who are practical farmers than_ by
quoting from the proceedings of the Nation-
al Grange, which met in this city in N o-
vember last, the following resolution:

Resolved, That a committee of ten of this body be
appointed to visit the honorable Commissioner of Ag-
riculture, to confer with him in relation to the eleva-
tion of this Department to higher rank, and_to con-
vey the protest of the National Grange against em-
bracing in that Department other industries beyond

the one we represent—agriculture.

It will be observed that the earnestness
with which they ask for an enlargement of
the powers of the Department is fully equal-
ed by the vigor with which they protest
against incorporating with it other indus-
tries having nothing in common with their
own. This spirit runs through all that has
come up to us from our constituents.

The Hon. Cyrus G. Luce, Worthy Master
of the Michigan State Grange, a‘ practical
farmer and an old experienced legislator, in
an address delivered on the 13th day of last
December, said: _ _ _

“ For years the intelligent, progressive
farmers of the country have earnestl desired
that the Agricultural Department s ould be
advanced in its scope and influence to such
position as the importance and welfare of
agriculture demands. The Grange, both
State and National, as true exponents of this
advanced public sentiment, have taken ac-
tive measures to secure its elevation to a
Cabinet position. While their efforts have’
not been crowned with success, yet a bill
was introduced in Congress providing for
the change. It seemed to meet with much
favor, and a motion to suspend the rules in
order to put the bill on its passage came
near succeeding. Let the fate of this mea-
sure be what it may, great advance has been
made in the Department. It has been lifted
up from the very inferior position it occu-
pied in the long years of the ast to some-
thing likea just appreciation 0 its true mis-
sion.

“A new danger in connection with this
subject now presents itself. The idea is ad-
vanced of establishing a department of in-
dustry, and giving to agriculture a humble

lace in this department. This proposition
is not and should not be satisfactory to ag;
riculture. We believe that there is -enoug
of this one industry that is great enou h to
command the energies of one-half 0 our
whole people to claim a department by and
for itse f. The plan for connecting it 
w
find no favor with us. While it is not with-
in the scope of this communication to pre-
sent reasons for this view, yet we may say
that the man peculiarly adapted to pre-

side over and care for an agricultural depart-
ment might not be so well qualified to look
after railroads, mining, and manufacturing.
And we certainly have no desire to become
the tail to a kite for any one else. We de-
serve and desire to occupy no second place.”

Now, Mr. Speaker, I insist that we are
here in a representative capacity, and that
in legislating upon a subject which has been
fully and intelligently discussed by our con-
stituents it is both just and wise that the
conclusions at whic they have so unani-
mously arrived should have very great
weight, especially where the question in-
Volved is one of method and not of prin-
ciple.

EXPERIENCE or OTHER NATIONS.

In passing to the consideration of my sec-
ond proposition it is important for us to re-
member that all the great nations of Euro e
have made the agricultural an executive J3-
part except Great Britain and Russia. The
former is so situated by nature as to oblige
her to rely mainly upon commerce and man-
ufactures, and yet she has given greater
governmental aid to agricultural interests
than have we.

The latter, although the most despotic of
civilized nations, and possessed of a great
class of farm laborers but recently emerged
from serfdom, has, nevertheless, placed her
agricultural affairs under the control of an
executive department agricultural in every
thing but name, possessed of ample means
and clothed with extensive powers.

Austria, France, and the Dominion of
Canada have executive de artments exclu-
sively agricultural, while ungary, Prussia,
Italy, Spain, and Switzerland have like de-
partments, in which agriculture is the cen-
tral figure. To this latter list may be added
the greatest of South American nations, the
enterprising and progressive Empire of
Brazil.

In Prussia the minister of agriculture,
domains, and forests is a member of the cab-
inet, and the executive department of which
he is the head controls the expenditure of
about $12,000,000 annually, and is charged
with the fostering of agriculture, the control
of the public lands, the management of an
experimental farm in each province, con-
nected with each are horse-breeding sta-
tions.

It collects information through Prussian
consuls in foreign countries, and from other
sources, and imparts it to the public through
an official paper published and circulated by
the government. and also by means of a
vast number of public oflicials, all of whom,
from the county superintendent to the rural
police, are under the direction of this depart-
ment, and are required to both gather and
disseminate information in relation to the
pursuit of agriculture.

In addition to this force, when the ublic
interests demand it, as in case of floo s, the
prevention of the spread of contagious dis-
cases among cattle, and in other emergen-
cies where vigorous and concerted action is
required, the army may be called into its
service. In case of the total failure of har-
vests over large districts seeds are distribu-
ted without charge. It also conducts a gov-
ernmental school of agriculture and one of
forestry.

In France the head of the department of
agriculture is a cabinet minister, and the an-
nual appropriations for its sup ort are over
$7,000,000. The policy of the epartment is
broad and liberal, endeavoring to give aid
and encouragement to every thing apper-
tainiiig to agriculture.

Agricultural schools are opened, in con-
necti'on with which are taught tradesand
the arts. Model farms are conducted; sta-
tions are established for the improvement of
sheep, cattle and horses; veterinary schools
are under its care; professors of agricultural
science travel from place to place, giving in-
structions to the farmers; rare seeds are dis-
tributed, and the planting of shade and fruit
trees is encouraged. These efforts have re-
sulted in great good to the agriculturists of
France, and the development of her silk and
beet-sugar industries illustrates the benefi-
cial effects of the application of scientific
investigations and methods to agricultural
pursuits.

I have thus mentioned briefly the organi-
zation and methods‘ of like departments in
two of the great nations of Europe to show
that the measure before us has been fully
tried and has stood the test of experience.
The organization of the departments in the
other countries named is of the same general
character. The experience of all these na-
tions has demonstrated the wisdom of the
action proposed, and among their enlight-
ened statesmen but one opinion, and that a
favorable one, is entertained or expressed.

In none of these countries (if we except
Russia) is the pursuit of agriculture to be
compared to our own in point of magnitude,
and looking to the near future even that ex-
ception becomes unnecessary.

* * * * * -it -)6 -)9 * * -)(>

But, sir, I have already occupied too much
time; Icannot go further into details. I
can only suggest that the protection of our
vast animal industry from the contagious
diseases which threaten its very existence,
the inauguration of some plan by which the
farmers of the country may be able to save
their crops from the locust, the grasshopper,
the Colorado beetle, the canker-worm, the
midge, the Hessian fly, the weevil, and a
thousand other such fees, are matters proper-
ly coming before this department for consid-
eration. And, sir, these are not all the ills
that the farmer is heir to. _ _

The cguel despotism established in some

cases by vast corporations; the frequent un-
just exactions and discriminations made by
transportation lines; the outrageous black-
mailing operations engaged in by the un-
principled owners of patents ; the unwhole-
some conditions of the market produced by
gamblin in o tions; and many other evils
of lesser ut st 11 grave importance, are now
proper subjects of governmental _inquiry
and of legislative action, and I sincerely
hope that the department which we hope to
establish by this bill will aid in bringing
these matters to the notice of _ the proper au-
thorities, with such suggestions as to the
proper remedies to be applied as shall at
ast bring all interests into hagmony, and
inure a just and equitable division of the
fruits of labor between all the difierent
branches of industrial and commercial pur-
suits. _

Mr. Speaker, I believe that this is a propi-
tious time for the movement we contemplate.
The present administration of the depart-
ment is peculiarly accepriblfi t0 17119 NOD19.
and all are convinced t t any new P0We_l'8
granted to it b the resent Con ress will

all into capab e an ex rien hands-
And, sir, I repeat, let us] mit our action to
the enlargement of the powers of the pres-

ent independent de artment. If in the fu-
ture it shall be mun practicable to add cer-
tain divisions or bureaus having control of
subjects in greater or less degree affecting
the pursuit of pgriculture, our successors, in
the light of experience, after the depart-
ment is fully organized, can do so much
more wisely than we. But for the present
let us be content with the action recom-
mended b those who have made the pur-
suit their ife-work and study.

In conclusion, sir, let me say, that as for
myself duty seems clear. I shall Vote for
this bill. It is in the interests of those Who
are conspicuously the conservators of the
public weal. Time and again when some
tide of dangerous error has swept over the
land, bearing upon its seething bosom the
discontented, the thriftless, the ignorant,
and the vicious, threatening to ingulf all
that makes this land the hope of the world,
we have looked always, and never in vain,
to the farmers of the land as to the rock
whose firm, unyielding strength should
breast the flood and safely shelter us until
the waters had receded and the dangers
passed away.

It is in the interest of that class among
whom life and property are safest, and igno-
rance, indolence. intemperance and vice
most rarely found. It is asked for by those
whose hearts always beat in sympathy with
the oppressed, and to whom the downtrod-
den have never appealed in vain. It is de-
sired by those whose success is necessary to
the prosperity of every other vocation; by
those who best understand and will lopgest
defend those personal, civil and political
rights the enjoyment of which is guaranteed
to every American citizen.

The Grange as Seen by an Englishman.

An English farmer travelingin Texas had
opportunity to observe the influence of the
Grange, for he was accompanied by a Leo-
turer, with whoni he attended many meet-
ings. He reports to the London Field a
pruthful account of his observation as fol-

ows:——

We were much impressed with the great
and wide-spread influence of the Grange
system. We had good evidence of the suc-
cessful manner in which it promoted social
intercourse and moral culture among the
farmers and their families. We saw that
through it farmers were obtaining at much
lower rates than they could otherwise ob-
tain them, not only many varieties of im-

lements and machinery used on their farms,
but also all the household luxuries and neces-
saries,whether in the shape of food or cloth-
ing. We had met with the Grange Lecturer,
in different parts of the Union, and we inva-
riably found him an individual of a practi-
caland intelligent turn, with a mind well
stored with agricultural and general knowl-
edge, and with a readiness, ease and clear-
ness of expression almost peculiar to the
class. Through the wilds of Texas we trav-
eled with a Grange Lecturer, who was out
on an organizing as well as an educational
tour. He visited all the principal settlements,
gave lectures to the settlers on improved

arming and other matters interesting to
them, explained the objects and advanta-

es of the Grange system. and assisted in
gorming local branches. He was a middle-
aged, frank. genial. intelligent grey-haired
man ; he had spent his earlier manhood at
farming, had served in the army, had turn-
ed back to his favorite calling and was
adding to the direction of his own farming
operations tliedelightful task of instructing
others. All the business and ceremonial
meetings are held in strict secrecy. After
the business and ceremonies, such as the
initiation of members, are all over, the hall
or assembly room is thrown open to the
friends, and here a monthly feast is held.
This feast isa social affair, and has contribu-
ted largely to the success of the Order.
There is no pretense at display, all being
simple and home-like. The spread is entire-
ly of home production, being the contribu-
tions of the farmers’ wives and daughters.
Dancing and games usually follow, as the
members have liberty to bring friends with
them, these festivals are festivals are gener-
ally successful. An importaht feature at
each meeting is a discussion on some topic
of interest, the topic and leading disputants
being selected at the previous meeting. The
Lecturer is always present and he is suppos-
ed to be ready to speak for his Grange at all
times and upon all topics.

This institution is immensely popular
among the American farmers, and I have
often thought while traveling here that
an organization similar to this would be of
great service in England, and in fact all over
the Old World. It might be beneficial to
have the same organization in the two
countries. I should perhaps explain that
the Grange is not a political organization;
it supports no rarty, nor does it ever take
any part in politics asan organization. But
while it ignores parties and individuals, and
while its members always vote and act in
accordance with their own free will, it is but
natural to expect that its discussions and
resolutions should exercise an influence-
always, however, a healthy influence—upon
the conduct of politicians.—The Husband-
man.

 

The Country's Danger.

There is real danger to the country in the
vast expansion of power which the monopo-
lists have secured, and by the time the peo-
ple perceive the coils that are being wound
around their necks there may be trouble.
The safest way is to look the danger square-
ly in the face and to understand that the
entire business of the country, linked as it is
to the telegraph and the press, is virtually at
the mercy of Jay Gould, Cyrus W. Field
and D. 0. Mills. They own the cables to
Europe, the entire telegraphic machinery on
this continent and three out of the seven
newspapers of the Associated Press. One
paper more and the triumvirate will have
the majority of that organization.

Do the people as yet understand the im-
portance of this ? It means that this trium-
virate will have the news of the markets of
the world in their possession, can operate in
accordance with this news long before the
great public are aware of the dealings on
the London Stock Exchange, the Paris
Bourse, or the Chicago grain market. One
week's o rations in this manner, alone will
pay fort e construction of more and more
cables to all parts of the civilized world.-
New York Real Estate Chronicle. .

 

THE corn crop prospects in Minnesota are
flattterlng. W eat needs rain.

Prohibition vs. License.

Worthy Master and Members of the Order.-
—Any careful observer of passing events,
mentally inclined to note cause and effect,
is aware that the traffic in liquor is the
efficient cause of more domestic, social, polit-
cal and moral evil than all other branches of
business carried on in the State and nation.
Year by year the subject assumes greater
proportions and prominence. Year after
year still stronger laws are enacted, until in
several States it now occupies its proper po-
sition outside the catalogue of legitimate
occupations.

In the onward progress of civilization and

Christianity, the first measures adopted for
the purpose of regulating the sale of intoxi-
cating liquors were taxation. Under this
system any person or persons by the pay-
ment of a certain sum of money were per-
mitted to sell. This system was popularly
known as the license system, the significa-
tion of the word “license” being, to toler-
ate, to permit, to authorize. Such laws
were in force in the province and common-
wealth of Massachusetts for more than 200
years after the first settlement. And yet
the history of that long period shows that
the evil of intemperance continued and in-
creased. In the year 1787 a new license law
was passed and remained in force until the
year 1832. The moral class of the commun-
ity, becoming alarmed by the frightful in-
crease of intemperance, organized a society
for the purpose of promoting temperance.
And as the result of the efforts of the tem-
perance organization, in 1837 we find the
first symptoms of any prohibitory measure.
This year (1837) is memorablefor the repeal
of the tax regulation or license law, as ap-
plying to the State at large, and the enact-
ment of a law vesting authority in county
commissioners to grant or withhold license
in the several counties, as they might judge
the public good required. The commission-
ers in six counties refused to grant any li-
censes for a number of years. This gave
the people an opportunity to compare and
contrast in adjoining counties the benefits
and the evils of the two systems, prohibition
and license. As the result of such compar-
isons they adopted in 1852 the prohibitory
system for the entire State, and have ad'-
hered to it firmly, except for short periods
when the liquor interest by spasmodic ef-
forts forced them back to the tax system for
a short time. Other States followed in the
reform and adopted the prohibitory theory,
and like old Massachusetts have been sub-
ject to the advancing and receding waves
seen on the incoming tide. And as each suc-
ceeding wave advanced further on the shore,
so the temperance reform movement occu-
pies a nobler, stronger. and higher position
after each depression. The prohibitory laws
are the outgrowth and expression of en-
lightened public opinion, generated by the
religious convictions of Christians——freed
from the mercenary taint of honors or gain
-—culminating in the election of legislators
whose principles accorded with the prevail-
ing sentiment of the people.
5 Our own State constitution contains the
following prohibitory measure, to—wit.: “The
legislature shall not pass any act authoriz-
ing the grant of license for the sale of ar-
dent spirits or other intoxicating liquors ; ”
and the people by vote refused to strike it
out. We had also a prohibitory law upon
our statutes until the winter of 1874-5, when
by an organized effort of the liquor dealers,
assisted by prominent State oflicers, it was
repealed and the present tax law, so called,
enacted.

The prohibitory law of this State was not
to blame for the continuance of the traffic to
quite an extent. That it was imperfect and
needed amending ; that it did not accom-
plish all that could be desired—is conceded,
but the charge of utter failure is denied.
Its restraining influence was great, especially
in the country towns and villages. Its effect
was to prevent any person who wished to be
thought respectable from engaging in it, and
consequently confined the traffic to the low-
est class. The -personal liability clause alone
was of incalculable value in restraining
beastly intoxication. During the last 14 years
of the law’s operation the condition of the
country was most unfavorable to its design.
While on the one hand the disturbed condi-
tion of society caused by civil war, with all
its consequent excitement, idleness, extrav-
agance and recklessness, developed an ex-
traordinary demand for intoxicating bever-
ages, and unprincipled dealers seized the op-
portunlty to violate the law and fill their
pockets with the spoils,—oi'i the other hand
not only the public authorities but the peo-
ple at large were too much engaged in put-
ting down the rebellion, and later in re-
constructing the South, to watch closely the
incipient stages of rebellion at home. I
repeat: The continuance of the liquor trafiflc
under prohibition in this State was not ow-
ing to unwise legislation, but to causes that
were uncontrolable. Difi’erent methods of
dealing with it in other States did not pro-
duce better but worse results during the
time of alleged failure here. A careful study
of statistics conflrms'thls statement. Other
things being equal, prohibition has been
three-fold more successful than taxation in
suppressing the traffic. '

As the excitement caused by war and re-
construction subslded, the attention of the
people turned from the South to home insti-
tutions and affairs, and steps were taken to

enforce the law more vigorously and also to
petition the legislatnreto remedy its chief
defect, relating to proof of sale, by amend-
ment making the bars, decanters, glasses,
signs, eta, primafacie evidence of sale. The
Attorney General’s report for 1873 furnishes
evidence of the increased vigor in enforcing
the law, 550 arrests, resulting in 527 convic-
tions for violations of the prohibitory law,
being reported for the year. This increased
activity in the temperance cause roused the
violators of the law——the liquor dealers—and
they perfected probably one of the most
perfect organizations in the United States,
for the express purpose of advancing the
interests of the manufacturers and dealers in
liquor. Their first efforts were to effect the
repeal of prohibition and the enactment of
a license or tax law. and in the elections of
1874 they quietly but effectually made their
influence felt in every representative and
State senate district. In public they assumed
the garb of the sheep, and in that wooly
dress shouted, “ Prohibition is 9. failux-e_ and
ought to be repealed; ” “ Give us temper-
ance 7-eform through tax regulation.” This
cry was echoed by time-serving policy poli-
ticians in search of political capital and re-
echoed by the political press through the
length and breadth of the State, causing one
of those peculiar waves of public opinion to
sweep over the State with such force as to
submerge and nearly suffocate for a brief
period the sincere, earnest, practical and
reliable temperance sentiment of the people.

The earnest workers and reliable leaders
in the temperance cause were so shocked
and paralyzed by the result of the election
that no effort was made to stay the tide or
counteract the influence of the liquor deal-
ers until about the middle of the legislative
session of 1875: and yet b.efore the close of
the session the number of citizens reman-
strating against the repeal of the law were
three to one petitioning for its repeal. It is
a significant fact, and one worthy our care-
ful consideration. that not one of the many
petitions asking for the repeal was from any
temperance society or other organization
having for its object the moral and intellect-
ual improvement of society. .

Are men apt to petition for that which
injures their own business? Does the wolf
pray that the sheep be closely folded and
guarded? Does the fox rejoice when the
poultry is safely housed and free from harm?
If the sales of liquor were not restricted
under the prohibitory law, why did the
dealers ask for its repeal and pay the tax,
under the present law, for the privilege of
selling ? Is it reasonable to suppose that the
dealers who make their profits in proportion
to the amount sold are more partial and un-
biasedjudges of the benefits or injuries to
society in general of the two systems, li-
cense and prohibition, than persons who
without pecuniary profit devote their time
and energies to the improvement of society.
The thought is preposterous.

The only correct method by which to
arrive at just conclusions regarding the ef-
ficiency in suppressing the liquor traffic of
the two systems, license and prohibition, is
by comparison; and for the purpose of com-
parison I call your attention to the amount
in value of liquor consumed by the inhabit-
ants in one year in four States under license,
and three under prohibition, as appears by
the sworn statements of the liquor dealers
in such States :

UNDER LICENSE.

   
  

BTATES. POPULATION. CONSUMPTION.
New Jersey.. . 650,000 . . . . . . . . ..8 42,468,740
Rhode Island . 225,000 ........ .. 10,234,240
Maryland.. . 650,000 ........ .. 40,564,629
Wisconsin... 700,000 ........ .. 48,818,848

Totals ........ . . 2,225,000 ........ . . $142,084,406

UNDER PROHIBITION.

Massachusetts ..... ..i,250,o0o ........ .. 27,979,595
Maine ............ .. 650,000 ....... .. 8,257,015
Vermont .......... .. 350,000 ........ .. 6,786,065

Totals ........ . .2,250,000 ........ .  43,02-2,655

These figures speak for themselves. It
will be seen that the four States under li-
cense, with a population less by 25,000, con-
sumed more than three times the amount
consumed in those States under prohibition.
Do the above statistics confirm the state-
ment that prohlbition is a dead letter and a
signal failure; or rather do they not show
that prohibition, notwithstanding its defects,
has gained in general and practical efficien-
cy a signal triumph and victory over the
tax system in suppressing the liquor traiflc ?

I now call your attention to corroborative
evidence. Michigan in 1873, before the pro-
hibitory law was repealed, with a population
of 1,184,000, paid into the government treas-
ury on account of liquor tax $481,396,
which amount, if equally divided among
the inhabitants, is 40 cents for each individ-
ual—leaving out fractions. New Hampshire
paid the lowest amount per capita of any
State under license. Michigan paid 40 cents,
New Hampshire 51. By comparing Michi-
gan with Kentucky, a license State, we
have: Michigan 40 cents, Kentucky $3.89.
By comparing Michigan with Indiana, an-
other license State, we have: Michigan 40
cents, Indiana $2.70, being 6i to one in favor
of prohibition. By comparing Michigan
with New York, a local option State. we
have: Michigan 40 cents, New York $1.42,
more than 3} to one in favor of prohibition.
By comparing the lowest prohibitory State,
Vermont, with the lowest license State.
New Hampshire, we have: Vermont, 5
cents, New Hampshire, 51 cents, more than
10 to one in favor of prohibition. By com-

 


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3

paring the three lowest license States with
three prohibitory States, we have:

4 New Hampshire . .8 51 Michigan . . . . . . . . .8 40'
Connecticut . . . . . . 6 Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
New Jersey .... . . 94 Vermont . . . . . . . . . 5

Total ........ _. 1 97 I Total .. .... .. .33
Average . . . . . .. 65; I Average . . . . . .. 17}

Again resulting in favor of prohibition as 3:";
to one.

It is generally conceded, is it not, that the
use of intoxicating liquors is productive of
crime. If that is a correct theory, does not
this sequence follow—other things being
equal—that crime is an index to a certain
extent of the amount of liquor drank? For
the purpose of establishing the fact—for I
do not propose to advance one step in this
argument without proof—I call your atten-
tion to statements of men of large experi-
ence in criminal affairs. W. A. Cullin,judge
of eighth circuit, Indiana, answers, “The
proportion of crimes and misdemeanors
brought under my personal observation dur-
ing 17 years, caused either in whole or in
part by the use of intoxicating liquors, is
three-fourths.” Judge Pitman, of the Su-
preme Court: “That the use of intoxicat-
ing liquors, in some of their various forms,
increases the number of offences committed,
or rather that a very large proportion of
them may be traced directly to the use of
intoxicating liquors, I have no doubt.”
Judge Coleridge, of Massachusetts: “There
is scarcely a crime comes before me that is
not directly or indirectly caused by strong
drink.” Judge Patterson, of Massachusetts:
“ If it were not for drinking, you [the jury]
and I would have nothing to do.” Massa-
chusetts State prison report for 1867:
"Whole number of convicts at the prison
September 30th, 534: four-fifths of the num-
ber committed the crime for which they
were sentenced either directly or indirectly
by the use of intoxicating drinks.” Hon.
Gideon Haynes, warden of same prison:
4‘ Since I have been connected with the
prison we have had 21 here for killing their
wives. two for killingtneir fathers, and one
for killing his mother. Of these 24, all but
one were not only habitual drunkards. but
actually drunk when they committed the
crime.” Governor Gardner, of Massachu-
setts: “ The evils of intemperance force
themselves on the attention of every states-
man. They appear at the bar of our courts;
they cry aloud from our prisons, jails and
hospitals, and the wailings of our lunatic
asylums are their voices.” If these men
were correct in their estimate of the result
in evil and crimes of the use of liquor, may
we not reasonably draw this conclusion,
that under whichever system—1icense or
prohibition—least crimes are committed,
that system is most efficient in suppressing
the traffic. Believing that we may safely

_ rely on such conclusion, will you examine

with me certain facts by.which we may
compare the results in the same community
as manifested in crime.

Connecticut passed a prohibitory law in
1854 that remained in force until 1872, when
it was repealed, and a license law enacted.
The number of persons committed to all the
jails in the State in 1866—j ust after the close
of the war, when all the jails in the coun-
try filled rapidly—was 1,576. Committed in
1874, two years after license took effect,
4,481. Difference in favor of prohibition,
2,905. Maine passed a prohibitory law in
1851, repealed it in the winter of 1856, and
enacted a stringent license law. In 1858
the license law was repealed, and the pro-
hibitory law re-enacted. The report of the
Warden of Maine State prison shows there
were committed to prison in the year 1855,
under prohibition, 29; committed in 1856,
under prohibition 36; committed in 1857,
under license 52; committed in 1858 under
license 69; committed in 1859 under prohi-
bition 48, committed in 1860 under prohibi-
tion 41. Average committed per year under
ltcense 60%; average committed per year
under prohibition 38}; difference in favor
of prohibition 22; per year. Committed to
the House of correction in Maine:

In 1850 under lics_nse._ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
" 1851 “ prohibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..48
1‘ 1852 “ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..38
H 1853 “ -“ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
u 1354 u u ................... . .,. .20

You will observe how rapidly crime de-
creased under the prohibitory law, decreas-
ing two-thirds in four years, from 60 in 1850
to 20 in 1854. Committed to Cumberland
county jail from June 1st, 1850, to March
20th, 1851, a period of nine months and
20 days, under license, 279. Committed to
same jail from June 1st, 1851, to March 20th,
1852, a like period of nine months and 20
days, under prohibition, 63. Difference in
favor of prohibition, 216.

Michigan repealed the prohibitory law
during the legislative session of the winter
of 1874-5. Committed to Michigan State
prison for a period of two vears ending Sep-
tember 30th, 1873, under prohibition, 506;
committed to Michigan State prison for a like
period of two years ending September 30th,
1877, under tax law, 738: difference in favor
of prohibition, 2&—being more than 45 per
cent. increase under tax law. Committed to
the house of correction in 1873, 625; com-
mitted to house of correction in 1876, 749:

increase under tax law. 124. Whole num--

ber convicted of high crime in the'State in
1873, 1,102; whole number convicted of high
crime in 1876, 1,682; whole number convict-
ad of high crime in 1877, 1,811—increase
from 1873, under prohibition, to 1877, under

tax law, 709, being 64 per cent. increase.

I call your attention especially to one fact,
that is, the rapid increase of high crime
(murder, arson, rape, etc.) under this tax
law. In 1873 the proportion of high crime
to the whole number of crimes was less than
134,1 per cent. In 1876, under tax law, the
proportion of high crime was 23%. In 1877
high crime reached 27:} per cent. More than
one-fourth of all offences committed were
high crimes.

I might for an entire day repeat to you
abstracts from like reports of State prisons,
houses of correction, jails, aims-houses, etc.,
and the result would be the same. Such
statistics, whenever and wherever compar-
ison can be made, show most decidedly the
superiority of prohibition over any other
system in suppressing drunkenness and
crime. “Society and the State most certain-
ly have’ the right to protect themselves
against great and overwhelming evils.” And
if it be true that a vast proportion of crimes
have their origin in the use of ardent spirits;
if our poor—houses, work-houses, jails and
penitentiaries are tenanted in a great degree
by those whose first and chief impulse to
crime came from the distillery and the
dram-shop; if murder and arson and theft
and the most fearful outrages on society are
the issues and consummation of intemper-
ance—is it not the duty of every citizen
member of society, whose generous impuls-
es and moral sympathies are alive to human
sufferings and woes, to rally around the
standard of temperance, with its emblems
of justice, mercy, truth and humanity, and
in one solid phalanx, with ballots as our
weapons, banish forever from our beautiful
“ Peninsular State” that unmitigated evil
and withering blight on civilization—in-
temperance. T. J. WEST.

 

Qualifications oi Voters.

Bro. Cobb .-—VVhile the subject of reform
is being vigorously agitated through the col-
umns of the VISITOR, and the evils of our
Patent Laws, and the power of wealthy cor-
porations have been pretty generally shown
up, it seems to me that there is another law
that needs looking after, if we wish to shut
out the money shark from our corn crib,
viz. the law fixing the qualification of vo-
ters. -

As the law now stands, a. residence of
six months in the state and ten days in the
township, ward, or precinct, gives an Amer-
ican citizen the right to vote on any ques-
tion that may come before the people.
And while this may be in full accord with
our free institutions, it is right here that a
man of wealth, a company or corporation

.may defeat the will of the people, and put

thousands of dollars into his or their pock-
ets, or move county seats, at pleasure, and
all done in accordance with the law.

To illustrate how nicely this may be done,
I give the Railroad Bond case of Chicka-
ming township, (as given to me). Said bonds
were given in aid of what is now the C. &
W. M. R. R., and were voted by the legal
voters of the township, and so there were
men enough being set to work in the town-
ship ten days previous to the election to
carry the proposition, and thus $11,500 in
bonds, were placed upon us by men who
did not own a dollar’s worth of real estate
in the township to pay taxes to the amount
of a dollar, but they were legal voters, they
had resided in the town ten days, hired to
reside here by the company building the
road and who could say them nay.

Now there are many other cases of like
nature, that I might give, but I think the
above will suffice to show how this law may
be used to defeat the will of the people and
rob them of their very living._

Now in view of the past, it seems to me
that this law should be changed so that fu-
ture generations of hard working, honest
toilers may not be imposed upon as we
have been by the money shark through the
transient voter.

AndI would suggest that a six months
or one year’s residence as a necessary qual-
ification for a man to vote might pull too
heavy on the pocket books of corporations,
or individuals for them to work that game
many times.

Hoping that this question “Is the law
requiring ten day’s residence in the town-
ship a necessaryjqualifications to vote” just
to all classes of our people,” may be taken
up and discussed by every Grange in the
State, and that the result may be made
known through the VISITOR,

I am fraternally,
' D. S. CARVIN.

Lake Side, Mich., May 30, 1882.

EFFORTS have been made in France to
produce machinery capable of extracting
sugar from beets on the farm and by ordina-
ry workmen. A firm in the neighborhood
of Paris claims to have supplied the want ;
practical lessons have been given and with
fair success at their works.

GovERNoR GRAY, of Indiana, in a mes-
sage to the legislature of that State in Jan-
uary last, said: “ In my judgment the
republic cannot live long in the atmosphere
which now surrounds the ballot-box. Mon-
eyed corporations. to secure favorable legis-
lation for themselves, are taking an active
part in elections by furnishing large sums of
money to corrupt the voter and purchase
special privileges from the Government. If
money can control the decision at the ballot-
box it will not belong until it can control
its existence.”

The Proposed Patent Law Legislation.

Editor Grange Visitor .-—Over the signa-
ture of the Worthy Master of the State
Grange in the VISITOR of May 15th, I find
an article headed, “Progress of Patent Law
Legislation.” I shall have to differ with
the writer of that article quite materially.
He says if the bill which he gives in his ar-
ticle as coming from the committee on pat-
ents, becomes a law, the innocent purchaser
will be exempt from action.

Now by carefully reading and rereading
the bill given, I cannot see where the ex-
emption comes in, only at the last end of an
expensive law suit in the United States
court. The bill says, “no action shall be
sustained” under certain sections named,
when the defence can prove that the patent-
ed articles were bought for a valuable con-
sideration.

Now in the name of justice and honesty,
what kind of an exemption is that? It may
be a step in the right direction, but to me it
seems so short a step that I would not notice
only to condemn it. To illustrate, I go to a
dealer in agricultural implements and pur-
chase for use on my farm some article on
which some one holds a patent. I use it for
a while,when along comes Mr. Patent Right
Swindler demanding a royalty, perhaps
equal to the first cost of the article. In vain
Itell him it was bought for a valuable consid-
eration. That must be proved in the Uni-
ted States court, and I must goto Detroit to
prove it. VVhat does that mean ? It means
seven dollars and forty cents railroad fare
to Detroit and back, besides all the other lit-
tle expenses, such as Witness’ fees, lawyer’s
fees, &c., incident to a protracted struggle in
our courts of justice. Who would not pay
royalty rather than pay such a price for ex-
emption ?

What do we want? We want absolute
protection for the user of patented articles.
VVe want a law passed whereby all liability
ceases with the manufacturer. VVe are wil-
ling to pay a reasonable price for the brain
labor of the inventor, but we wish to pay it
when we pay for the material, the manufac-
ture, the freight, the cartage, the insurance,
the agent’s commission and all the other
little items usually added to the articles we
have to use. In short, what we want is ex-
emption from prosecution, not exemption
from payment at the end of a law suit.

Now, Mr. Editor, if I take a wrong view
of the proposed law, I would like to have
some one who is well posted explain through
the VISITOR where I am in error.

J. L. KINYON.
Marshall, May 20, 1882.

Trained Minds and Hands.
DURHAMVILLE, Tenn., June, 1882.

Editor Grange Visitor, DEAR SIR: Per-
mit me through the VISITOR to return my
thanks to those of your readers who gave
responses to the questions you had the kind-
ness to publish last January. The questions
were answered in many instances very
thoroughly. They have been read to mem-
bers of the Grange, and others in this vicin-
ity, and the result has been most beneficial.

The Grange at this place. which had be-
come nearly dormant, has been revived, and
those who were the greatest skeptics in re-
gard to the benefit an education will be to
their children if they are to make farmers
or mechanics, are changing their views and
are now anxious to give their children as
good an education as possible.

I sent out the circular to satisfy myself
concerning the estimation that farmers in
other States placed upon education. The
answers, so far, have been overwhelmingly
in favor of a higher education for the child-
ren of the farmer.

I shall send the questions to other sections
of the North until I obtain proof so conclu-
sive that none can doubt that trained hands,
when guided by trained minds, will make
farming one of the safest roads to an inde-
pendent competence, as well as one of the
most pleasant occupations in which a young
man can engage.

It is my intention to place their testimony,
when obtained, before the members of the
Grange in the Cotton States, and urge upon
them the necessity of establishing schools
under their supervision in which their chil-
dren and the children of their tenants shall
not only have the opportunity to obtain an
education that shall render them proficient
in everything pertaining to their calling,
but if possible to awaken in every young
man and young woman the desire to obtain
such an education. '

If the children of the agricultural classes
now growing up in the Cotton States in
comparative ignorance, are properly edu-
cated, they will be ready to join with the
children of the North when they reach man-
hood, not only in defending the wealth-pro-
ducers of the nation from the encroachments
of monopolists, but in perpetuating the
purity of her institutions.

' Very respectually yours,
Isaac L. CASE.

 

Cass Co., Mich.
Mr. Editor .-—We have used the Patrons’
“ Ingersoll Liquid Rubber Paints ” and are
high y pleased with them. A number of
persons have examined the Paints and are
well pleaseg with them.
Respectfully, .
J OHN CLARK.
[See advertisement.—ED.'|

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Household Economy.

A’ paper read by Mrs. D. Woodman of Paw Paw,
before a Farmers’ Association convened at the
house of O. P. Morton, of Texas, Kalamazoo Co ,
June 1, 1882.

Economy is not penuriousness nor avari-
ciousness, but is managing with frugality,
guarding against loss or waste. This prin-
ciple should be taught to children as soon as
they are old enough to understand right
from wrong. When they know enough to
be amused by a picture or a book, they
should be taught not to soil or tare it, and If
it is necessary to give them a lunch, they
should not be allowed to crumble it over the
floors nor chairs, for it would soil them. I
once saw a little boy help himself to a
cookie, then take a saw and saw it up—of
course it was wasted—and there was no re-
proof from the mother. I thought if that
was a sample of the economy in that house-
hold it was no wonder such a heavy mort-
gage was resting on their farm. Solomon
says, “ He becometh poor that dealeth with
a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent
maketh rich.” However, if it had been my
child I would rather he had disposed of the
cookie in that way than to have eaten it,
for such a lunch is too rich for children and
might have caused a doctor’s bill, which is
poor econom_v. If children want something
between meals, it should be simply bread
with milk, cream or butter; if they refuse
that they are not hungry. There is often
too much extravagance in the management
of household affairs, that consumes time and
money, and often impairs the health. I
have known some women to toil early and
late to get fine clothes and then switch them
out, often wearing their best when more
common ones would do as well; such per-
sons often excuse themselves for not going
to church or mingling in society, on the
ground that have nothing fit to wear, when
it is their own fault. It is more economical
in buying cloths to get good articles, then
take care of them until able to get more,
keeping the older for second best, and saving
the best for extra occasions. It is poor
economy to patronize second-hand traveling
theatres, shows, and many other entertain-
ments that are so common of late. People
had much better buy good books, papers, or
magazines that will help to store their minds
with useful knowledge, that they may have
a fund to draw from in their old'age—this is
good economy.

Every day brings opportunities to econo-
mize. How often the careful house-wife
goes the rounds from garret to cellar, scan-
ning everything, especially during warm
and damp weather. Sometimes valuable
articles, such as furs or tlannels, are spoiled
by mildew, mold, or moths. Furs should be
put away early in the spring before the
moths come around ; there is no use in
spending money for tobacco, snuff’, or cam-
phor, to put on them if they are put in a
tight band-box with a cloth under the cover.
The best way to keep flannel or worsted
bed-clothes, is to but them into sacks made
of thick twilled factory, for they’ seldom
gather dampness or get musty in such re-
ceptacles, and it is a nice way to keep
heavy cloaks or winter dresses. Make
the sack the length of the garment, with
a loop coming out of the mouth of the sack
to hang it up by. In this way the garments
are kept from the light and dust, and are
not creased by being put in drawers ‘or
trunks. Dried fruit can also be kept in
these bags any length of time, if heated to a
temperature high enough to destroy insect
life before being put in.

Carpets need special attention : it is agood
plan to take a damp cloth and hot flat-iron
and go around the edges; this will kill the
moths, if there are any, which is apt to be
the case if they are not taken up once or
twice 9. year. A little camphor-gum strew-
ed around is an excellent preventive, but ex-
pensive. In making sale carpets, the ravel-
ings should be saved to mend them with. In
making rag carpets, I always save some of
the different kinds of rags and warp to mend
with. One should have a large darnin
needle for the warp, and as soon as a threa
is worn off weave in a piece. either tie each
end or go an inch or two each way from the
break, taking care to put the ends out of
sight. For weaving the rags, take a piece of
whalebone five or six inches long, taper one
end and make an eye in the other, and with
care you can weave in the rags so that they
will seldom be noticed. They should be
torn narrow to mend with. In this way
caipets will last nearly or quite as long again
an look much better. A ragged carpet
spoils the looks of any room, no matter how
well furnished.

It is of the utmost importance to be
economical with our health. We should eat
less rich cake and pastry and guard well the
sources of impure air. The cellar especially
should claim our attention, and should not
be left entirely to the men folks and hired
girls, for no doubt many a person has
been made sick by the impure air arising
from decaying vegetables and fruit. I have
been in houses where I could tell that the
cellar door had been opened, by the
stench that came up, especially if
a few decayed onions are mixed with cab-
bages and turnips. All such things should
be removed as soon as they affect the atmos-
phere, and the cellar should be aired every
few days from an outside door. If the vinegar
barrels are in the cellar, they should be kept
white-washed to keep them from getting
mouldy, and an extra tub with lye in it
should be kept for soap-grease until used for
soap. In this way it is kept sweet and clean.
Of course it should be well ventilated in
summer, when the milk is there, for milk is
a great absorbent, and butter will very soon
taste of the atmos here that surrounds it.
The cream-crock s ould have a strainer cov-
er in warm weather, so the gas can escape
after the cream is sour. The butter will
be sweeter. A small piece of horse-radish
root will keep the pickles from getting
mouldy.

It is good economy for the husband, if
able, to provide a good stove for his wife,
good wood, washin machine, wringer, sew-
ing machine and a l the modern improve-
ments that can help make her work easy,
save her health and patience. and help to
cheer her while going the ceaseless rounds of
housework. If he would pay more atten-
tion to these things, it would save many
doctor’s bills,.and perhaps save him the mis-
fortune of having an invalid wife. On the
other hand, the house-wife should take good
care of what is provided,.not allow tubs and
pails to stand around in the sun until they
dry up and fall down, the clothes to switch
on the line until frayed out or blown away
and lost.

Children should be taught to take care of
things. Some women have raised large

families of children, and still have their first
sets of chairs, while others have to replace
them every few years, and all other house-
hold goods in proportion. Mothers should
teach their girls, if they have any, to be
economical housekeepers; for if they never
marry they may want to keep house, and if
they themselves do not work they should
know how work ought to be done.

Many women depend mainly on their
hired girls, and often complain of their
slackness and wastfulness. I have noticed
that a slack housekeeper is apt to have slack
hel . Many girls whom we hire are young
an inexperienced, but by recept, example
and kind treatment they 0 ten make valua-
ble help. If a woman is able to be around
the house, it is as much her fault as the
girl’s, that the bread is sour, the coffee
burned up, the butter sour or bitter, too cold
or too warm to work properly, the clothes
half washed, or scorched when ironed, or
that cold victuals are thrown away which
would make a palatable dish if properly
prepared. \Ve should see to all these things,
if our help is not competent

These are some of the ways in which we
can and should practice household economy.
It is attending to these little matters that
helps to make one a good, thrifty, practical
housekeeper.

Now is the time to show the practical
value of the organization of the Grange.
Let the members determine that they will
vote for no man who is untrue to the agricul-
ttural interests of the country, and make
hat determination known.

Write to Kalamazoo
Publishing Co. for esti-
mates on Printing, Bind-
ing, and Blank Books.

Htlniuliitisini LAND ptlsm
LOREN DAY,

Grandvllle, Mich.,

Is pre ared to furnish LAND PLASTEB, fresh
oun _, at contract prices. made with the Executive
ommittee of the State Grange.

.rN.';"s..:*.°r..:," W °‘  my-s°“°
Send me your Orders direct.
Jiml-1y LOREN DAY.

MICHIGAN CENTRAL R. R.

DEPARTURE OF TRAINS FROM KALAMAZ00.

TIME-TABLE—MA‘x' 1:’), 1882.

 
  
  

WESTWARD.

Accommodation leaves, ______________________ __ A. Mr; 

“ arrives. ...................... _-l 9 so
Evening Express, _____________________ __ 1 35 ____
Pacific Express,____,___________ _____ __‘ g 47‘
Mail ____ __“-ff’:
DHYEXPWSE . — — — . . . . . . . . . . . . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _,’ 2 so
I‘°,°,",',,?“‘”?E3""--_-.-::,-7-. - - - - - - - - -- 9 13 -----

EASTWARD.

I '.f."M7I7.'I_l:
Night Express, ____________________________ __; '
Accommodation leave-s,-___

“ arrives,___

  
   
  

Mail

Day Express, _______ __
New York Express,_
Atlantic Express, _____ __

New York, Atlantic and Pacific I-lxp:eVsses daily. Evening
Exprms west and Night Express east daily except Saturdays.

.All other trains daily except Sundays. Freight trains carrying

passengers out from Kalamazoo as follows : No 29 (ens!) at 5:30
P. M., and No. ‘.‘0 (west) at 7:37.
H. B. Lznnsn Gen. M , D trol .
J. A. GRIBR, General Frciglit Agent, Chicago. Mug“ 0 ‘
0 W. Rl.'GGi.EB,G. P. & T. A.,(1hicngo.

L. S. & 154:. S. R. R.

KAI.A1IAzoo DIVISION TIME TABLE.

(Time 15 minutes faster than Kalamazoo.)
GOING SOUTH.

    
  
  

N Y 1: C N Y ‘B’?

.Expreu.“Ex an M1“? P'-
Le. Grand Rapids ................ -, 8 OOAE’ I2?" 3‘
Ar. Allegan ____ __ ; 9 17 “ I 5 go 7-",3 3 (1)3 
Ar. Kalamazoo 1015 “ (.40 “ l114o --
Ar. Schoolcraft 10 50 i 7 22 -- ‘ 1 40 ,.
Ar. Three Rivers- 11 18 “ ' 752 N I 245 H
Ar White Pigeon- __ 1145 -- ‘ 320 -« l 450 .-
Ar. Toledo _____ __ __. 535ml. 245nm 3 45 ‘H
Ar Cleveland 1010 u ' 7 05 u l 9 1,, PM

---..---__----- 3755 Al 1 10 pg) 7 40 u
GOING NORTH. —
in Y .1: s:ri’TEov““
~__ _ flfix .2 Mjsxpresa.lW‘‘Y 1"-
Le. Burma _____ -_f.'. ______ -_T .:'12""4I§ Frills 25 AM T30 pg
- 735 " ; 700 “ . 950“.

   
   
  

Ar. White Pigeon-
Ar. Three Rivers

Ar. Schoolcraft __ 658 H 2 4

Ar. Knlaznazoon 730 “ l 505 H . 140,.

Ar-Allesan --- -_ 840 “ 608 “ 5 420 --

Gm_:gi__P~apids .... -- ___-l1000 “ 725 N l 810 -*
All trains connect at White Pigeon withfiirgiggnjznain line.

A. G. AIBDIN,
Supt. Kalamazoo Division, Kalamazoo. '

CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
C01'I'6Ct6d Time-Table——May 14, 1582.

TRAINS WEST.
!fI}.T1EHT”i5§§4“!7:z.‘ci‘fic‘lTEy-‘
Express. Express. g Express. 1 Freight.

. _li¢_).>-1.fi‘ No.6. =No. 2.

Sruions.

     

 

130“ 130“ 7001:
222 *- 221 “ 945 --
233“ 233“ 1025"
322 H 323" 155"
408:: 4074: 430..
540“ 550“ 3900“
745:4 8001! ______

TRAINS EAST.
lhiailand Atlantic Night 3 Way

  

STATIONS. .E§pre;s. E§pr¢:=3ss. E§pregs.' Fureight,
I o. . 0. . o. . 0.33.
Ar. 0hicago___-__ . 8 50 an 5 15 PM 9 00 mt _____._
. Valparaiso _!113o " 745 *- 1121 ~ 4301;
2 3032:: hind ___g HS); rlxlg(1)3 :: gm All 10 1o ..
9 __“. ' It
“ Schodlcraft 257 “ 10 48 " 22$ “ 1:3,“-
" Vicksbnr _ 310 “ 1059 " 310 “ 3420 u
" Battle Cree 406 " 12 01 “ 405 “ ..
“ Charlotte ____ 505 “ 104 -* 507 H ’ "-
u Lan3ing____ _____l 545 u 1 47 u 550 u "-'-‘
“ Durand l 715 “ 307 “ 7 19 " _-'°"'
“ Flint---- 815 “ 350 N 835 “ """"
“ La r- I857“ 426“ 910-‘ :2:
“ Imlay City_,_ l 9 2 H _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _____
Ar. Port Huron ........ _-lt10-1 “ 600 " 1035 “ .....__

All trains run by Chicago time.
Sunday.
G30. 1!. Rsxvrzs, 8. B. Oanuwax.
Traiilc Manager. General Superintendent.

Aglgrt’ i§cfg1£il::.‘i;rfv‘i’;:irat4as, apply to E. P. Keary,I4oe|‘

All trains daily except

 

 


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JUNE 15, 1882.

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SCHOOLCRAFT.- — - - JUNE 15.

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J. T.COBB, - - - - SCHOOLCRAFT.

THE STATE CAPITOL ENGRAVING.

We have sent several dozen lithographs
of the State Capitol to those entitled to
them by virtue of having sent us five or
more names of subscribers and $2.50, since
our offer in the VISITOR of March 15th.
If we have neglected to send to any person
entitled to this fine engraving we shall
promptly forward it on receipt of notice.

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KALAMAZOO COUNTY GRANGE AND RAILROAD
PASSES.

On the first day of June the regular quar-
terly meeting of the County Grange was
held at the hall of Texas Grange. The at-
tendance was large, and the meeting was a
good one, which statement includes an
excellent dinner well served in the large
dining hall of the Grange.

The work of the day was well done, but
as there was nothing unusual about it,
we pass it all by to refer our readers to the
following preamble and resolutions which
were introduced and unanimously adopted :

VVHEREAS, It is a patent and notorious
fact that all our judges and all our members
of legislative bodies travel for business or
pleasure under the influence and obligations
of a free railroad pass, and thus virtually
accept a bribe to influence official rulings
and actions in their ofliciai capacity ; there-
fore,

Resolved, That we, as members of Kala-
mazoo County Pomona Grange, hereby
pledge ourselves, without regard to previous
party affiliations, that we will not, by our
vote or otherwise, aid in the election of an _y
man for a legislative or judicial office who
does not give in advance a public pledge
that he will neither accept or use free rail-
road passes during his oflicial term of oifice.

Resolved further. That we cordially invite
other Pomona and Subordinate Granges in
the State of Michigan to adopt the same or
asimilar ledge, and have the same pub-
lished in t e GRANGE VISITOR.

\Ve are pleased to note the growth of that
spirit of political independence which the
presentation,consideration and prompt adop-
tion of these resolutions indicate. The
adoption of similar resolutions by the
County Grange of a neighboring" County,
and that without concerted action, adds
force to our statement, that the healthy
growth of conservative, independent, in-
dividual, political action as taught by the
Grange begins to crop out in such a way
that politicians must heed the righteous
demands of the people. Of politicians there
isavast army in the country who devote
their time and other people’s money (what
they can get_of it) to the supreme object of
taking care of themselves and the political
party to which they happen to belong, and it
is safe to say that the welfare of the people
is to them a matter of secondary impor-
tance.

This demand made by the members of
two County Granges as early as June 1st in
a campaign year will tell in November. We
expect to make a point on this matter on the
fourth page of the VISITOR for the next six
months. We expect the Subordinate and

County Granges of the State will take action .

on this matter. We expect every candidate
for the Legislature of this State and for
Congress of every political party will be
invited to declare his purpose on this ques-
tion, and that his declaration will become
public property and within the reach of
every voter. And we give all of our fellow
citizens who have an itching ambition to
s erve their country in a legislative capacity
fair notice, that this accepting and using
passes and assuming the obligation it im-
poses will no longer be tolerated by the
voter who has suflicient personal independ-
ance to look after his own interest and that
of the country.

Do railroad managers distribute passes to
all legislative and judicial oflicers, and they
are counted by thousands, from sheer gen-
erosity, or from the business standpoint of
something for something? We have given
fair warning that every candidate for a
legislative or judicial ofiice in Michigan
will be asked to define his position. And
we "shall urge voters to treat every candidate
of any party as unworthy who does not
place himself unequivocally on the sqfe
side of this question. We say safe for the
reason that in some States the legislative

and judicial departments of the State gov-
ernment are already in the possession of,
and controlled by railroad corporations.
Under such control the greatest good to the
greatest number is not likely to be the pro-
duct of legislative action.

Grangers of Michigan, we invite you to
take action on the subject of these resolu-

tions, and report your action to the VIS-
ITOR for publication.

OUR SAUNTERINGS.

Since our last issue we have indulged in a
little recreation. Our first venture was to
leave home by the evening train at 7:40 for
Constantine, 20 miles away, where we were
met by Bro. Hebron, of Porter, Cass county.
An evening drive of eight miles brought us
to his home before very late bed time. In
the morning in company with our host we
took a survey of the prcmiseS—a farm forged
out of a dense forest by the sturdy blows
of its owner since iirst we knew him thirty
years ago.

With ample buildings, well fenced fields,
a splendid iiock of Sheep, quite a herd of cat-
tie, and more Poland (jhinu hogs than we
have seen on any one farinin a dozen years,
we began to be curious as to the food sup-
ply, for the amount of stock seemed quite in
excess of the ability of the farm to feed and
from its prime condition we knew there was
no such thing as short rations. We were not
long in finding out that Bro. Hebron is one
of those farmers who believe that it pays to
buy the products of other farms and feed
them to stock to enrich his own. IIe is a
liberal purchaser of millfeed and is now ex-
perimenting with oil cake.

We seldom meet a man who has so brave
a view of the farmer's business as a manu-
facturer, and the manufacture of pork is
with him a specialty. A remark or two will
perhaps explain his theory and practice. He
Silld “I have Seen farmers snatch away from
a hungry hog an eurof corn that chanced to
fall from the wagon and throw it back, as
though its total value had been Saved—now
Iliketo seeahog eat. I like to see a hog
manufacture grass and grain into money,
and my Study is how to run the factory so as
to get it large production in it Short time and
that cannot be done except by liberal feed.

Ilis method is ulittle different from any
thing that we liave before observed. A little
way from the house are :1 lizilf dozen or more
p:1stu1‘elots of perhaps :1 third of an acre each,
with rail fcn<:es,;u1d corners all wire bound.
In each is :1 house about five feet square with
a. good roof. The sills project and are
trimmed to serve as runners, so that the
house can be readily hauled as a chainge of
situation may be desired. In each pasture
was 21 breeding sow with pigs of an average
weight of say forty pounds, whose condition
showed full feed and careful attention.
These 57 pigs will never go liuiigry an hour
but enjoy a happy hurried existence until
ripe maturity brings them early to inurket.
These little pastures with their houses are
liandy for calves, a sheep and lamb that
needs special care or other animals that re-
quire frequent feed or attention. Our at-
tention was directed to :1 patch of artichokes
that we should say more about, but Bro.
Hebron has agreed to tell the readers of the
VISITOR all about their cultivation and use.
We have referred to the wired fence corners
and as that was a fastening new to us and
lias, the approval of such 3. practical farmer
as Bro. Hebron, we will refer to the matter
again. Like everything else it is patented,
and if any of our readers venture to take
abouta couple of yards'of wire and bind
their fence corners by twisting the ends of
the wire together, making a loup, which can
be strained tight by using the top rail as a
binder, they will hold firinly in place the
fence so that no stock can push it down, at
half the expense of Stakes with or without
caps. Of course if you do this you are lia-
ble to a suit for royalty or at least so some
fellow said that collected $1.00 of Bro. He-
bron fora farin right. We doii’t see just
how the thing was patentable but then we
don’t| get $30 for seeing, and that makes
a difference. We think it is a good way to
fix up an old rail fence and if those inter-
ested don’t understand what we have said
about it, write to G. Hebron, Constantine, for
particulars.

When we left home we started for Casse-
polis to attend a county Grange meeting that
had been advertised some time, with State
Lecturer Mickley as the speaker. His con-
tinued disability, and the precarious health
of the wife of the W. M. seemed likely
to thwart the promise of Bro. Luce to sup-
ply the meeting with a lecturer, and although
well knowing we could not make a speech,
he had written us to go there and at least
“try and keep the people good natured.”
Bro Hebron as lecturer of the county Grange
must needs be there, and with him we en-
joyed a pleasant ride across the [country 14

. miles to Cassopolis.

We have before said that we are loth to be
surprised at anything, but as we have no ab-
solute control over this matter we are liable
to get beat-—the first man we met on the
street at Cassapolis was Bro. Luce~the last
man we were expecting to see. His wife
had improved a little and solicitous for the
Good of the Order at the last moment he had
determined that the Cass county Grangers
and farmers should not be disappointed in
a speaker and they were not, for he gave them
a talk of an hour and a half that they ought
not soon to forget. From Cassopolis he went

to Buchanan, where a Grange meeting had

been appointed. We have since learned that
the meeting there was large and in every
particular a great success.

The special object of our visit to Cass hav-
ing been set aside by the presence of the
Worthy Master, w'e secured a few subscri-
bers to the VISITOR, renewed a pleasant ac-
quaintance with oid friends and took the
first train home which we reached at 11 P. )1.

THE IMPLEMENT TRIAL-THE VISITOR. ETC.

A friend who was present at the imple-
ment trial of the Western Michigan Farm-
ers’ Club on the 6th inst., has sent us his
observations, which are found on another
page. As this brief report substantially
covers what we should have said, we were
very glad to get it.

In the matter of canvassing for the VISI-
TOR in the field we have done but little in‘
the half dozen years of its growth. But now
when we get a chance in a gathering
of farmers we feel it our duty to try to add to
our subscription list, and after hearing the
speeches and enjoying the dinner so gener-
ously provided we put in a little time solicit-
ing, with quite satisfactory results.

It is a fact we are slow to understand, why
people do not learn to attend to their own
business better. Most of those who have
subscribed and paid for the VISITOR one
year want to take it another year,
yet unless some one solicits them to renew
and does the work for them one-half of
these subscriptions, as the insurance men
say, will lapse.

Our increase has been just about a thous-
and a year since the paper was established,
and it has relied on its numerous friends
entirely for this growth. We find where
such friends become lukewarm or alienated
in any way that men who have taken the
paper for years fail to renew and the loss
has to be made up by additions elsewhere.

This loss should not occur and could not
if every Grange would designate a com-
mittee of one whose duty it should be to
solicit subscriptions to this paper, and look
after renewals. VVe stand ready to compen-
sate any one who will take hold of this mat-
ter and do some good work. We have
struck our stake ior 10,000. and must have

them.

But we have digressed. We secured 20
subscribers. met quite a number of our old
Kent Co. friends, and left somehow with
the impression that the plowmen were
mostly without large experience in the busi-
ness. This impres-iion came more from the
inexperience of the plowman than from
any fault of the plows. But be this as
it may these meetings are productive of
good results. and are a necessity in this fast
age. Farmers must overtake and keep up
with the times, and getting together often
helps them to this end. The attendance
was fair, and the exhibit a good one, and its
promoters entitled to credit for a laudable
endeavor to promote the interests of the
farmers of Western Michigan.‘

We should have remained until the mor-
row but for an arrangement to be in Lan-
sing the following day. We came near for-
getting to mention that on our way up we
were introduced to Mr. Lawrence. the gen-
tlemanly editor of the Ohio Farmer. From
him we learned a little about runninga paper
He said he paid over $5,000 a vear in premi-
ums and frequently had a dozen men under
pay soliciting advertisements and subscrib-
ers. The Farmer has been established 30
years and ought to stand on its merits with-
out all this ex ensive machinery to keep it
going. As su scribers have to pay for much
of this expense we trust our friends who
take the VISITOR will see the necessity of
doing a little work for it when they have a
chance, so that its cost may be kept at the
lowest possible point.

A VALUABLE WORKER.

At the Kalamazoo county Grange meet-
ing June 1st, all the officers were present
except the Worthy Lecturer, Sister Mary
Cox.

Her vacant chair reminded all present
that at the last meeting the same chair was
vacant. Sister Cox has been for years one
of the most zealous, efl‘ective‘workers in the
county, and her continued absence on ac-
count of feeble health called forth a resolu-
tion asking for the appointment of a com-
mittee to visit Sister Cox and express to her
the sympathies of the Grange of which she
has so long been a valuable member and
that such report be published in the VIS-
ITOR.

The report is herewith presented:

Bro. Cobb.-—The undersigned committee
visited Sister Cox at an a pointed time.
We found her physically quite reduced in
health and strength but having lost none of
her interest and zeal in the work of the
Grange. For ourselves and those we repre-
sented we expressed our heartfelt sympathy,
and added the earnest hope that a speedy
restoration to health would enable her to
again meet her fellow members at their next
meeting, assuring her of a cordial welcome.

MRS. R. L. HALLocK,
MRS. A. J UDSON, }Com.
MRS. H. S. BOOTH,

ON our second page is about half the speech
of Hon. E. S. Lacey, member of Congress
from the third district. We don't expect to
make a business of publishing speeches of
Congressmen, but where we can present
able speeches upon subjects that the Grange
has taken special interest in, and written
and petitioned for legislative action upon, we
take great pleasure in presenting to our read-
ers Such speeches with thpir collections of

facts and opinions. In this instance we
wish we had only felt warranted in devoting
the required space for the whole speech.
We trust our readers will ive what fie have
presented a careful perusa . In our next is-
sue we shall give a part of the speech of the
Hon. John T. Rich on the same subject.

 

OUR VISIT T0 LANSING.

The State Pioneer Society held its an-
nual meeting at Lansing on the 7th and
8th inst., in the Hall of the House of Rep-
resentatives.

We were present during a part of the af-
ternoon and evening of the flrst day. The
attendance was fair and, as it should be, con-
sisted largely of those who had passed the
divide and were on the descending grade
which in human life seems to obey a law of
constantly increasing velocity, as it were,
from the momentum of the gathered years
that stretch away behind us. VVe have
never found time to become familiar with
the work of the State pioneer society, or re-
view its historical records. But with 51 years’
actual residence in the good State of Michi-
gan we feel an abiding interest in the soci-
ety and its work. The early history of this
peninsula when in its territorial condition,
and later when it assumed the duties of an
independent State, gave little promise of the
enviable reputation to which it has attained.
And it is a most laudable work to save from
the destructive hand of time, all the facts
that mark the changes that have occurred
from that condition of savages and swamps,
ague and isolation that were the prominent
features of its early history all through these
decades of years that have witnessed the
steady developenient of country and city
until to-day Michigan occupies a proud pre-
eminence over nearly all her sister states.
From the intelligence and industry that
characterize our people, we instinctively
feel confident that this work has fallen
into good hands and that all the important
as well as many pf the minor incidents that
go to make up the past history of our State
will, by the existence of this society, be
Saved from the general wreck which the
fast fleeting years brings to £11 things that
have no more enduring record than the
memory of man.

On the morning of the 8th, in company
with nearly all the members of the Execu-
tive committee of the State Agricultural
society, we left the Hudson House for a
briefvisit to the Agricultural college and
farm. .

The weather proved unfavorable as occa-
sional showers prevented an extended ex-
amination of the fields and crops. The
buildings, greenhouse and stock were in turn
examined, criticised, or commended, as the
judgment of the several gentlemen were
brought to bear at close range on the sub-
jects.

VVe were shown first into a large recita-
tion room where the boys were taking les-
sons in botany by examining the structure
of a leaf under the expanding influence of
a Small glass. Prof. Beal explained at some
length the course of instruction pursued
with the objects to be attained. Much of
his talk would have been better understood
and more highly appreciated if his visiting
auditors had taken a few months of this
sort of training in their boyhood days.

The Professor in his talk upon the various
grasses that were being propagated on the
College Farm, mentioned that the famous
Kentucky blue grass and our June grass are
one and t-he same thing, as he would
show when he got us out among the grass
plats, and he did. In the course of his talk
he referred to the work done in testing seeds
in years past, and stated that repeated tests
proved most conclusively that of the seeds
found everywhere on sale, quite a large per
cent were worthless.

At this point some gentlemen innocently
enquired if there were no papers that were
honest with their patrons and exposed the
frauds of seedsmen! And the answer of the
Professor we Set down as the best compli-
ment we ever had in public. “Yes, there is
one in this State,

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

We believe the cheering which followed
was not confined to the Grangers present.

After the brief inspection of grounds,
stock, &c., allowed by the limited time at the
disposal of the committee, the party were in-
vited to the chapel, where all the boys had
assembled.

President Abbott, in a few brief re-
marks for himself and his associates, ex-
pressed their thanks to the Executive com-
mittee of the State Agricultural society, for
this voluntary visit, and hoped the chairmaii
of its committee appointed to report upon
the condition of the Agricultural College
and Farm would favor those present with
some remarks, and closed by calling upon
Hon. Philo Parsons, of Detroit. Mr. Par-
sons, who by the way is a good talker, gave
in a brief review of the ditiiculties Sur-
mounted and work accomplished by this, the
first and lending agricultural college of this
country, much to inspire confidence in the

good results that must come to the great

agricultural class from institutions of this
kind. .

President Abbott next called on the Presi-
dent of the State society, the Hon. Henry
Fralic, of Grand Rapids. His speech was
short, sound, practical and we may add un-
pretending. His excellency Gov. Jerome and
some other gentlemen had arrived at the col-
lege in the morning after the main body of
the visitors, and had been with the party in
its round of inspection. Of course it was
quite the thing to have a speech from the
governor and when called on by President
Abbott he promptly responded in manner
andmatter quite satisfactory to the boys as
well as all present. His advice to the stu-

 

dents was worthy their attention, and if
Ileedetl will be worth more to them than any

lesson in their regular course at the college. '

“'9 took no notes at the time and cannot
recall with more particularity what was said
by these several speakers. Two or three
other gentlemen were called out but the
time allotted to this visit had expired and
each occupied but ii. moment.

After the explicit declaration of Prof. Beal
as to our outspoken habit, it will be sufficient
to add that we believe all the speakers in
their words of approval were siiiccre, and
that the party were favorably impressed with
the great object of this institution and of
the work of its Professors.

IVE czunc near forgetting to refer to a law-
yer of our party from the eastern part of the
State, who on the way over to the college
gave some of his e.\'perience in the courts of
the State of .\'ew York where he iippeared
not as an attorney but as :1 litigant, and we
felt his denunciations oi‘ the Wl(‘ked11t=ss and
worthlessness of legal and jiuiiciul practice
there, justified our opinion so often ex-
pressed in the Visiron of the judicial sys-
tem of this count1'_v. We have entered his
name on o11r list of trial subscribers and
shall invite him to become a contributor to
the Visiroii. We think he would make a
vigorous (jreuiger though we don't know his
politics or his Irusiness-—\vlietlier he now runs
a law oiiice or :1 cheese fzictory.

Returning wc reziclicd the Capitol (‘ity in
time for dinner \\'liicli,:is is ourcustoni when
in Lansing, was taken at the Iludsoii llouse.
During our 2lI)>'€llC8 we secured :::3 subscri-
bers to the \'i.<iToi:, the most of them new
ones. Had a very plczisaiit visit with l{.1{.
Commissioner Williains, who is giving, we
believe, careful attention to his otlicial du-
ties. lVe also savv S€(‘1‘(-,*l2il‘§' of State, Jenny,
u1ulSeci'ctzn'_v llzixter, of the State board of
(‘orroctions and CIl£ll'lll(?S, with whom we
had a little business. Before night we were
lioinewurd bound. Seldoinare we mvav so
much from our county during any ‘half
month of the year. We trust, however, our
time was not misspent.

 

THE PATENT LAW AMENDMENT.

The bill for the future relief, or rather pro-
tection of users of patented articles, which
was got through the House so cleverly, is not
a law yet by any means. The Senate, com-
posed of a body of men more distant from
the people, is the field where the fight is to
be made. Here the lobby with all its influ-
ence, legitimate or otherwise, will make it-
self felt. We have no apprehension that
Michigan Senators will not squarely repre-
sent their constituents and give a deter-
mined Support to the bill. The justice of
the object sought is so plain and clear that
it would seem the specious argument of the
pettifogging lawyer would not make head-
way against the reasonable demand of so
large a class of citizens as are now and
have so long been exposed to the rapacity of
royalty rascals. We see no force in the ar-
gument that rich corporations may seize
upon avaluable invention of a poor man,
manufacture and sell the patented article,
and he would have no redress because he
could not without means make a successful
fight against a rich corporation. This talk
is offset by this: A poor inventor may
under the present law allow his invention
to be sold for a dozen years and be used by
100,000 other poor men, and then he can
collect royalty of every one of them, al-
though they were innocent purchasers, and
this poor inventor has quietly allowed or
deliberately encouraged this general use for
all these years, for the very purpose of gath-
ering in a large harvest.

In the case supposed by those who see
the rights of inventors so outraged by the
bill in question, we want to know why in-
ventors are entitled to more protection from
the rapacity and power of corporations than
are other people.

The rich and powerful always have the
poor and weak at a disadvantage, but the
law is open to all and if its administrators
were as prompt and efficient as are the
business men of the country, or employees
of business men are in the conduct of all
other business affairs, the objection would
not live for a moment, and as it is there is no
good reason why this class of citizens
should have special protection from abuse
that is denied to all other classes.

If all that is alleged as possible or proba-
ble becomes true under the operation of this
bill, we again enquire, Are not the interests
of the many or millions greater than the
few or hundreds‘?

OUR readers who keep sheep we presume
have not overlooked the standing advertise-
ment of Fenno & Manning, the commission
merchants of Boston, to whom large num-
bers of the Grangers of Michigan shipped
their wool last year. It is the best endorse-
ment of the firm that we can give, to say
that the men in this vicinity who consigned
their wool to this house last year are send-
ing it to the same parties t‘;Iis_year. About
twice the amount goes from this point that
was shipped last year. We believe that all
who consign to this firm will be dealt with
honorably. The VISITOR of August 1st last
year gave the manner of handling wool by
this firm, as witnessed by us when in their
house about the middle of July. Those who
have their files of the VIsIToR of 1881 can

see how the wool is handled by looking up
the number of August 1.

 

 


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JUNE 15, 1882.

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A New Song Book.

National Grange. P. of H.,
PAW PAW, June 5, 1882.

The Executive Committee of the National
Grange have, through their chairman,
Brother Henley James, of Marion, Indiana,
closed a contract with Professor James S.
Orr, author of “G1ad Echoes from the
Grange,” to prepare a new song book for
the Order. This book will contain 128 pages,
the songs and music to be the best and
most popular that can be obtained, selected
and prepared with special reference to their
appropriateness for Grange and public meet-
ings. The electrotvpe plates will be 5%-x63.
inches. The work will be ready for the
press by the first of September, and the first
edition issued as soon thereafter as practica-
ble. Prof. Orr is a worthy member of our
Order, and his reputation as a composer of
music and author of musical works is a
sufficient guaranty that the work will be
first-class in every respect, and a credit not
only to the author, but to our fraternity.
Contributions of songs and music, both
original and selected. are solicited for the
book, and we call the special attention of
musicians and teachers of music in the
Order tothis invitation to lend a helping
hand in making selections.

J. J. WoomiAN.

 

Among the Granges.

Bro. C'obb, DEAR SIR: — As I have re-
ceived and accepted the appointment of
General Deputy, it is due the members of
the Order that an account of myself and my
work in that capastity be given ; and as it is
not my style to embellish my thoughts with
unnecessary words, I will give you the facts
in the case and let you fix them up to suit
yourself.

I left Lansing Monday, May 29, for Ash-
land, Newaygo county, for the purpose of
dedicating a Grange hall, situated about
three and one-half miles from Ashland
Station, on the Grand Rapids & Newaygo
railroad. This hall is the property of Ash-
land Grange, No. 545, is 30x56, two stories
high, and is very nicely finished. The first
floor is used as a dining hall and affords am-
ple room for a large company. The Grange
hall is on the second floor, with the neces-
sary ante-rooms, is well finished,well lighted
and ventilated. The hall was dedicated in
due form at 2 P. M., May 30, after which
came addresses, discussions and essays by
the members of the N ewaygo Pomona
Grange, which was in session at that time,
and also by spectators. The manner that
questions of general interest were discussed
reflected great credit on those who partici-
pated. and was very gratifying to the listen-
er. The Pomona Grange of Newaygo coun-
ty is doing a good work and cannot help but
add strength to the Order. Some of the
members came 25 miles to attend this meet-
ing, and could not be satisfied with the ses-
sion of one day, but continued the
meeting the following day. Ashland
Grange isjustly proud of its hall, and you
may be sure of one thing, No. 545 has come
to stay. Long may she live!

I left Ashland on the morning of the 31st
for Big Rapids, where I was met by Bro. A.-
B. Knapp, of Mecosta county, who had
planned a campaign in Mecosta and Osceola
counties, and was to accompany me and
help along with the work : he is a good
farmer and an enthusiastic Granger.

Our first meeting was held with Forest
Grange, No. 362. They have a hall of their
own, 16x31 feet, but too small for their mem-
bership, which I think is about 50. They
are very intelligent and active members, and
for clear grit cannot be excelled. This has
been demonstrated thoroughly in. keeping
up their organization. Bro. Clifton is
Master of this Grange and takes a great in-
terest in maintaining and keeping up the
Grange. As I was taken quite ill at this
place, I failed to do justice to myself or the
Order, but hope to meet with them again on
some future occasion.

The next morning, Thursday, June 1st,
we started for Hersey, Osceola county, and
on the way there visited the State fish hatch-
ery located at Paris, Mecosta. county, and
for the first time saw the beautiful speckled
trout, in all ages of development, from the
tiny fish a quarter of an inch long to the
two-pound trout. California salmon, Mack-
inaw trout and carp are also raised here, and
a visit to this place is well worth one’s time.

In the evening we addressed a rather
small buta very intelligent and attentive
audience at the court house in the village of
Hersey. There is no Grange at this place,
but the indications are that there will be
one organized in a short time, as there is
a good farming country around, occupied by
a good, intelligent aud industrious set of
farmers. _

From here we went to Chippewa Grange.
where we spoke in the afternoon, and at the
Sherwood school house, about five miles
distant, in the evening. Chippewa Grange
has had a great deal to contend with since
her organization, but is coming out victor-
ious. They have a hall of their own nearly
miisheif, and I think they stand on a good
solid basis. -

I think, from indications that I saw at the
meeting at Sherwood, that there will be one
more Grange added to the number now in
existence in this State in a very short time.
The country is new, but the soil is fertile
and the farmers are of the genuine kind!

As it rained all the next day, Saturday,
our appointment for that evening had to be
canceled, and I was not at all sorry that
Sunday was so near at hand, as I was feel-
ing rather tired, not being accustomed to
this kind of life.

Monday, June 5, I commenced business
alone, Bro. Knapp having matters of his
own tolook after; but as I had but two
more appointments in this vicinity, and
these at points on the railroad, I experienced
no difficulty in fulfilling my part of the
agreement.

Monday night I spoke at Ashton, Osceola
county, on the line of the G. R. & I. rail-
road, to a small audience, notice not having
been circulated sufficiently, but I think the
seed sown there fell in fertile places, and an
organization will in a short iime be a neces-
sity, as there is a good farming country
around, occupied by intelligent farmers.

The next day—Tuesday—-I met with the
officers of Tustin Grange, No. 651, and in-
structed them in the secret work of the

"Order. This Grange, as you will see by its

number, was only recently organized, but
they are taking hold of the work with an
earnestness that will insure them success.
They are taking through a class of two al-
ready, and have been organized less than
two months.

The next day—Wednesday, June 7—was
the crowning day. At that time we met
with Berlin Grange, Ottawa. county. at their
hall on the fair grounds at Berlin, and after
partaking of a dinner, which the sisters of
Berlin Grange know so well how to prepare,
the exercises of the afternoon commenced.
First was music by the Berlin Grange choir,
which was very fine, showing a good degree
of talent and much training. After this we
spoke our little piece and then had the pleas-
ure of listening to the very interesting re-
marks of various members and spectators.
Berlin Grange has a fine library started,
consisting of perhaps 100 volumes at the
present time, with the prospect of frequent
additions. There has been much good taste
evinced in selecting books, and a variety of
instructive reading secured. One pleasing
and entertaining feature of this meeting
was the singing of the three Archer boys,
sons of the minister of the village, which
was very fine. Whenever I think of Berlin

Grange I connect nothing with it but pleas-
ing thoughts and memories

And now, Bro. Cobb, in closing this, my
first letter to the VISITOR, you will see that
I have refrained from mentioning names.
not because I have found none worthy of
note, but for the reason that should I com-
mence I would hardly know where to stop.
But I do wish to call the attention, not only
of the ofiicers of the State Grange, but of
every member of the Order, to the fact that
in the newer northern counties of Michigan
live as earnest and as honest Grangers as
there are anywhere, but they are subject to
the necessary inconveniences of a new
country and need a little help, a little en-
couragement. They want to know that the
State Grange and the members of the Order
in the older settled sections of the State
have not forgotten them, and a little help
just at this time will not only be of great
service to them, but of value to the Order.
You will hear from me again.

Fraternally yours,
J OHN HOLBROOK.
Lansing, June 10, 1882.

 

Credit System.

Bro. C'obb:—-Our Declaration of Purposes
says,“We will discourage the credit system.”
The question now arises, How shall we do
it; can we discourage the credit system by
giving credit? There are many Patrons
who never pay their dues till the close of
the year, and sometimes not even then, but
neglect to attend to it until they are two or
even three years in arrears.

Our By-Laws make the dues payable
quarterly in advance. At the altar we gave
a sacred promise to support the By-Laws of
the Grange. The moment we are in arrears
for dues we have broken that promise. We
have failed to support the By-Laws.
Brothers, this is not right. Let us be
prompt to pay our dues, prompt to keep all
promises, whether great or small, living in

the light of our grand Declaration of Pur-
poses, and soon shall we see the Grange
where it properly belongs, and where the
Rev. Thos. K. Beecher justly puts it——side
by side with the Church of God, both doing
a glorious work. Fraternally, F. H.
Adrian, June 12, 1882.

 

Affirmative Resolutions.

The following resolutions were adopted by
the Clinton Co. Pomona Grange at its June
meeting held at South Riley the 7th inst :—

WHEREAS, We appreciate the value of
the bill recently passed by the lower house
of Congress, which protects innocent pur-
chasers of patented articles from the outra-
geous exactions of patent right inquisitors
who infest the country, and

WHEREAS, The passage of the bill was
owing in a great degree to the able address
and management of the measure before Con-
gress by the Hon. J. C. Burrows, representa-
tive from the 4th district, Mich., who first
introduced the bill ; therefore,

Resolved, That we, the Patrons of Clinton
County Pomona Grange, extend to the said
Hon. J. C. Burrows a vote of thanks for
his independent and manly action in repre-
senting the interests of the people in secur-
ing the passage of the bill, and also do here-
b express our condemnation of the course
ogthose who dodged the vote on this right-
eous measure, thereby proving themse ves
unworth of confidence and unfit to repre-
sent the interests of the people.

Resolved, Further, that a copy of the
above resolutions be forwarded to the
GRANGE VISITOR and county papers for

ublication, and a copy sent to the said
Hon. J. C. Burrows.

“Standard Oil."

The public knows very little of the mag-
nitude of the great Standard Oil \Vorks of
Cleveland, Ohio. One may ride for miles
along the Bastile-like iuclosure on Broad-
way, and behold the high, and dingy, and
uninviting walls which no man can scale;
He may (pass clear around the many acres
that are evoted to the works, and catch oc-
casional glimpses of the great smoke stacks,
and have his nostrils constantly offended by
the foul smells that are emitted; but no ad-
equate conception can even then be gained
of the size of the institution which controls
the petroleum trade of a continent and die-
tatesprices to the world. These works are
not like those of other manufacturing estab-
lishments. They are not like those of a
State prison, either, to which admittance
can be obtained by almost any citizen or
newspaper-scribe by gaining a pass from the
warden. The employes are said to be
sworn not to reveal the secrets of the insti-
tution and the great entrances are carefully
guarded from inquisitive strangers. The
reason of this is said to be two-fold: first,
every stranger is looked upon with suspi-
cion, as one who may be bent upon inflict—
ing damage or setting fire to the works;
and, second, he may be capable of carrying
away some of

THE DIANY COSTLY SECRETS

which are embodied in the improved ma-
chinery and are the exclusive possession of
the company.

At the time, some years ago, when the
1,500 barrel-makers employed in one of the
shops of the company got on a strike and
refused to submit to a reduction in the price
of a day’s labor, and the police of the city
was largely concentrated at the works to pre-
vent a_riot, some little glimpses were gained
of the interior workings of the institution ;
but even then the utmost vigilance was ex-
ercised to prevent any entrance within the
walls to the too inquisitive representatives of
the press. The writer was at that time
employed on one of the daily apers in
_CIevel_ai_id, and possessed the usua degree of
inquisitiveness; and as the rumor was daily
and hourly circulated that a fierce riot was
likely to break out among the Bohemian
employes of the institution, and the wives
and children of sympathizers with the idle
men were constantly gathering in turbulent
groups, and the situation was being discus-
sed in all the various languages of the conti-
nent, and speeches were being made from
improvised platforms in the market places,
many visits were made to the scene of oper-
ations; but at no time did any writer, so far
as kown, gain an inside view of the forbid-
ding walls.

Since the day in 1865 when John D.
Rockafeller, a small commission merchant
on one of the river-streets, and Samuel An-
drews, an English day laborer, decided to go
into the oil business, it has been known in a
general way that the city has increased
many tens of thousands inhabitants, and
business many millions annually in money.
But so quiet has been every movement, and
so little has been said from this point in
regard to it, that few people realize the vast-
ness ofthe corporation here at home, or that
a part ofthe city's growth is owing to it. It
has only been a means of advantage and
profit to Cleveland. Individual refiners, to
be sure, have been crushed out and bought
up, and an occasional individual howl has
gone up; but it is in Pennsylvania and
New York principally, that the iron hand of
monopoly has been felt griping the throat of
business, and it is accordingly in the State
Legislatures and Boards of Trade of those
States thtt the principal agitation against
the growing corimration has been heard.

Most businesses thrive by advertising; but
the Standard Oil Company never. Most
businesses desire notoriety; the Standard
has gained it and

DOES NOT LIKE IT.

Most corporations and manufacturing es-
tablishments pay largely for magazine and
newspaper articles illustrating their won-
derfu capacity for the work in hand. The
Standard takes every precaution to prevent
this. It guards the secret of its craft as the
miser does the hoarded treasures of his
strong box. It takes pride in the magnitude
of its works; but it is silent pride, and gloated
over as the ducats of monopoly are counted
and the enormous dividends are awarded
from mouth to month.

Samuel Andrews, the day-laborer of 15
years ago, has retired from the corporation
at the age of 40, and isjust completing a pal-
atial residence on Euclid avenue, which
eclipses any of the baronial castles of medi-
eva times; and has the delectable prospect
before him of clipping the coupons from
government bonds for a livelihood for the
remainder of his natural days. It is esti-
mated that it will cost at least $500 a week
to run his new establishment. The prophe-
sy has been made over and over again, that
the great corporation would some day col-
lapse; and there are those who think that
Mr. Andrews at times shared these fears,
and, being already possessed of millions,
and having a favorable opportunity to retire,
he chose to do so. The acquisition of his
wealth——so rapid, so easy, so enormous-
must seem to him like the dreams induced
by Oriental narcotics .or the vaporoi-is visions
of an Aladdin’s lamp.

But the Standard will not collapse so long
as its Alexander the Great—its Cromwell-
remains at its head.

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

has built it up, has fostered every part of its
growth, understands its workings in every
particular, and, from what he has done and
can do, it is safe to conclude that nothing
can check materially the on-sweeping, all-
grasping power of t e corporation. Should
he be removed by death or otherwise, and
the command transferred to his generals or
to any successor. it would in all probability
not long continue. Mr. Rockefeller is the
life of the whole institution. He looks after
the minutest details. He has his index finger
ever on its pulse. Be it by day or by night;
be it a question of the rise or fall, to the min-
utest part of a cent, in the price of the crude
or manufactured product ; be it a question of
purchase or sale—he is consulted, and gives
his vigorous and instant decision. When he
is in doubt, he says nothing. A telegraph
instrument in the room adjoining his sleep-
ing apartments is manned day and night,
so that he can be instantaneously reached
in case of emergency. When in this city,
he is mostly at his residence on Euclid ave-
nue. He occasionally goes to the general
otflce, and occasionally to the works on
Broadway. But he keeps very close as a
general thing, and of late spends a good deal
of time in New York. I was told by a gen-

tleman who has‘lived within a block and a
half of him here for two years past that he
never yet saw Mr. Rockefeller, although he
really had a curiosity to do so. He is said to
beaquite constant attendant at the First
Baptist church, however, when in the cit ;
an possibly the gentleman’s curiosity mig t
be gratified by purchasing a pew in that
church, and getting on the ood side of the
sexton. That Mr. Rockefel er is one of the
greatest men at present in the business
world those who have had anything to do
with im are anxious to admit. He has
had a more even and re utable career than
Jay Gould, and is probably next to him in

\\'ONDERFI.'L FORESIGHT AND BUSINESS
CAPACITY.

The younger Vanderbilt does not compare
with him. The ambition of his life is said
to be to devote a large portion of his fortune,
when he gets time to consider the matter, to
some great charitable institution connected
with the Baptist church. He will probably
build and endow a college some time, and
connect with it a grand theological school.

I had a conversation to-day with a gentle-
man who had just passed through a large
portion of the Standard works. He is a
friend of the su erintendent, and was in-
vited to take in t e show. His descriptions
were quite interesting, though of course not
scientific. He spoke in substance as follows:

“Since the completion of the great pipe-
line which connects the works here in Cleve-
land directly with the oil regions of Penn-
sylvania. and the arragements for labor and
time saving here at the works, the last steps
would seem to have been completed towards
the cheap production of kerosene. I have
been in many establishments in my time,
but never saw anything conducted on

S0 GRAND A SCALE AS HERE.

They are now absolutely independent of
the railroads. The pumps at the works take
the oil from their own tanks in the oil re-
gions, and deposit it in the tanks here. The
cost of transportation is only the minutest
part of a cent per gallon, and the number
of men employed is at the minimum. The
employes are largely Bohemians. The
company has found that these are the best,
everything considered. They work cheaply
and are reasonably faithful. They made ar
rangements some years ago for the importa-
tion of a very large colony of them,
and they took the places of their old
employes as fast as they could learn the
business. I never saw so much work done
with so few men. They manufacture now
about 3,600 barrels per day. These are taken
from the rough timber, andby means of
machinery that an unskilled man or boy
can soon learn to attend, the best of barrels
are constructed. They glue all of them on
the inside. This takes large quantities of
glue and this is manufactured by the com-
pan y itself."

“ Do they make their own paint?”

“I cannot answer that question. I saw
no indications of it, and rather think they
do not. After the barrels have been fin-
ished by being passed through the various
machines, and from one to another down a
long line, they are placed on an endless
chain, and run over an inclined plane to the
paint—shop. Here they are kept moving
from one to the other along through the
various processes until finished.”

“ Did you see

THE WORK or REFINING ?”

“Oh, I saw it in a general way; but, not
being an expert, I could say little about it.
You know that the location of the works
along the banks of Walworth run is such that
nearly all the oil and water necessary in the
processes of refining can be made to run
from one point to another, as it is wanted,
without much pumping. VVhen the oil is
refined, the barrels are filled with the great-
est rapidity, and with the fewest possible
number of men, from the fact that one man
can attend to a large number of faucets. The
tests of the quality of the oil would seem to
be of the most delicate and accurate kind.
Specimens are kept burning at various de-
grees of temperature, in various kinds of
lamps, and, when the test is considered satis-
factory, the barrels are submitted to the
State Inspector for his test and mark. The
Standard takesjust pride in its own mark;
and it is verv seldom that anything is found
wrong with the oil bearing its imrrint. It
is theidea of the company not to manufact-
ure barrels or oil faster than needed in the
market; and so, while the capacity is very
large, some of the time only a small portion
of it is employed. The compact by which
the Standard and all the firms that are in it
is to the effect that only a given amount of
oil shall be manufactured by each in a
year. In this way

PRICES ARE KEPT UP,

and good profits are made, when otherwise
much more business might be done, but per-
haps on a losing or low-profit basis. the
great desire of the Standard is to avoid any-
thing thatilooks like notoriety, and they only
go in to the courts when they cannot avoid it.
They were greatly annoyed by the law suit
in the Common Pleas Court here, and es-
pecially as it wentagainst them.”

The Standard people are very anxious to
obtain all the new inventions that look to
improvementin the way of refining; and I
am told that they were very sorry that they
failed to obtain the new process for manu-
facturing high-test oil which has been put in
use by a new company here. This company,
which has started a small establishment in
the Eighteenth Ward, makes large promises
of what it expects to accomplish in the way
of cheapening the roduct. One thing is
certain—viz.: the Standard cannot be suc-
cessfully competed with in the markets of
the world unless a new company with some
new and improved process can come into
existence.—Gary in Chicago Tribune.

 

VISITOR RECEIPTS (CONTINUED).

l\IA.Y. 0

29-0 K White, $5.00; M B Welcher, 1.50.
30-Hiram Beebe, 2.00; Hiram Haring, 1.00;

G H Wightman, 3.00; W A Webster, 1.00.

JUNE. _

1—Jane S Gage, $1.00; H S Fisk, 3.00; A J

Cromer, 1.00; Adam Haas, 1.00; E A

Horton, 1.00.
2—Alvin Morley, 1.00; J C Sawtell, 6.00.
3—Mary L Dyer, 1.00: J C Pierce, 1.00.
7—M B Averill, 1.00; H Cogill, 1.50.
10—W T Green, 1.00; G McDonald, 1.00.
13—Da Spaulding, 1.50; P H Evans, 1.35.
14-F. otts, 1.50; Jas Felker, 1.00.

 

Sun new ads. in this number of the New-
ark Machine Company and the Michigan
Female Sdminary.

Lecium-’s Communication, National Grange. P. ol ll.
SUBJECTS FOR SUBORDINATE GBANGES FOR
JULY.

Question 12 ——What has the Order of Pa-
trons of Husbandry accomplished as an or-
ganization ?

Suggestions-—-I t has collected tens of thous-
ands of farmers and their families, from
every section of our country, into a frater-
nal organization for social and intellectual
improvement, for moral elevation and finan-
cial advancement. It is leading its mem-
bers from the accustomed isolation of farm
life into social culture, and it educates them
in the science of agriculture, in business,
trade, political economy and the affairs of
government. This enables us to deal justly
with all interests, and to better protect our
own rights from the greed of selfish monop-
olists, and thereby secure the just rewards
of our own labor, and the legitimate profits
of our own investments.

Ques. l3—\Vhat are the duties of ofilcers
and members in the Subordinate Grange?

Sug.——It is the duty of all to attend the
meetings of the Grange. It is by a full at-
tendance that the most good is accomplish-
ed; there is no cooperation where the
many are absent. It is the duty of the Lee-
turer to be prepared at every meeting, where
time will admit, to introduce the subject to
be considered, whether of a local or national
importance, give his views and invite dis-
cusion. It is the duty of the Master to see
that this is done. It is the duty of the
members to aid in the discussions, speak
upon the question, or read essays or selec-
tions upon the subject under consideration.
\Vherever this is the practice, there do we
find prosperous Granges and Grange prin-
ciples appreciated. '

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

A regular meeting of St. Clair Pomona
Grange, No. 12, will be held at ‘arr station,
in Greenwood, on the line of be P. H. &
N. \V. railroad, VVednesday, June 21, 188:.’
—a day meeting, open to all, to commence
at-1 o’clock in the afternoon, at which speak-
ing pertaining to Grange matters and farm-
ing aud the interest of farmers, will be the
principal order of business. An evening
meeting will also be held, at which Grange
work will be the order of business. All
fourth-degree members are cordially invited
to attend both, and help on the work of the
Grange. M. F. CARL!-ITON, Sec.

Mosi-is LOCKE, Master.

Program of Wayne County Pomona
Grange, to be held at Livonia Grange hall,
Friday, June 30, 1882, commencing at 10:30

A. M.:

10:30—Ca11 to order by \Vorthy Master 0.
R. Pattengell. Music by Livonia Choir.
VVords of welcome by Alexander Tinham,
of Livonia Grange. Response by O. R.
Pattengell. Reports of Subordinate Granges
and discussion.

12:001\'oo.\'.——lVIusic. Mode of Taxation,
by J. J. Vrooman, of Livonia Grange. Dis-
cussion. Recitation by Maud Cady, of
Union Grange.

1 P. :si.——Recess. Dinner.

2:301’. .'\i.—-Call to Order. Music, VVhat
per cent. does Farming Pay ‘.‘—introduction
by N. T. Bradner, of Redford Grange, fol-
lowed by Henry Hurd, of Plymouth Grange,
and others.

3:30—Music. Agricultural College-—-essay
by Mrs.  P. F. Bradner, ofRedford Grange.
Discussion.

4:30—‘.\lusiC. Good of the Order—-intro-
duced by A. D. Stevens, of Plymouth
Grange, followed by others. Recitation by
Maud Cady.

5:30—Recess.

7:30—Call to order. Music. Fifth degree
work. N. '1‘. BRAIJNER,

Lecturer Wayne"Co. Pomona Grange.

The St. Joseph County Pomona Grange
will hold its next regular quarterly meeting
at the hall of Centreville Grange, on Thurs-
day, July 6, commencing at 10 o’clock A. M.
Those who intend taking the fifth degree
should be present in the forenoon. All
fourth degree members are cordially invited
to attend the afternoon meeting. -

S. H. ANGEVINE. Sec.

Van Buren County Grange will hold a
special session with Keeler Grange at Keeler
Centre June 29th. A cordial invitation is
extended to all Patrons.

Fraternally,
C. B. CHARLES, See.

The Clinton County Pomona Gran e will
hold its next meeting at Ke stone range
Hall, on Wednesday, July 5t , commencing
at 10 o’clock A. M. The subject for _dis-
cussion will be: What education shall we
give our sons and daughters? All are cor-
dially invited to attend.

The summer meeting of the State Horti-
cultural society will open at Pentwater
Tuesday morning, June 20. The transpor-
tation of fruit to Chicago and other western
markets will be a prominent topic for dis-
cussion. It is hoped that some scheme
may be united upon, perhaps similar to the
plan of Southern Illinois fruit growers, by
means of which both fruit men and trans-
portation companies can be better served.
Those who will have quantities of fruit to
ship should make a special effort to be pres-
ent. The C. & W. M. railway will sell excur-
sion tickets at all stations on the 19th, good
to return the 23d. Will newspapers and all

ersons interested help to give this pub-
licity? CHAS. W. GARFIELD, Sec’y,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

SCHEME OF TOPICS

for discussion at the summer meeting of the
Michigan Horticultural society at Pentwater,
Oceana County, June 20, 21 and 22:
What societies do for horticulture.
Value of fixity in rural life.
Oceana county for fruit.
Our wild flowers in Michigan.
Houses vs. homes.
What can horticulture do for stump lauds?
Influence of water on climate.
Stone fruits in Oceana.
Fruit growing in a new country.
Wild fruits and their improvement.
Our soils.
Varieties for our northern shore (3 parts.)
a Apples and pears.
b Peaches and plums.
c Grapes and small fruits.
Growin young plants and trees.
Man an is surroundings.

Excursion rates over the Chicago 6: West
Michigan railroad.

 

 


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THE

ensues visirosi.

JUNE 15, 1332.

indies’ flipaqimeqt.

ELBOW ROOM.

There was an old woman who lived in a spoon,
And all she wanted was elbow room, elbow
room.—.’l{other Goose.

We hear of a woman. in these days,
Who, scorning woman's work and ways,
Would ignore her sphere entire,

And from its shallow bowl retire;

’Tis not of such that I would sing,

No “rights” they claim to you I bring.

I plead for her who loves her sphere,
And sees her woman duty clear;

Nor thinks the work to man assigned,
She'd better do, or nobler find-

It is of her with ready hand,

And willing mind at her command,
Who goes to seek her honest bread
And thus to toil, or mar, is led.

’Tis then, alas! she feels her doom,
And asks in vain for elbow room,
The shallow spoon is flowing o’er
With jostled sisters elbow sore,

Who seek despairingly to gain

A work for woman's hand and brain.

Her needle, wearing life away

She plys, to win but meagre pay;

The shop that calls for women's mind
Her gentle touch and air refined.
More largely pays the ‘clums boor
Who carts the boxes to the cor;

And half her stronger brothers earn,
Just at her side, she dares not spurn.

The teacher’s ranks that women swell,
Thro’ elbow’d ways, to fill so well,

Are held by them at pittance small
That would not do for men at all.

Then tell me as you look around,
When e’re a woman worker’s found,

If in her crowded little spoon,

She is not pressed for elbow room;
And when she asks the same return,
For equal ork, as strong men earn;
And further craves within her sphere,
A wider range, pray do not sneer;
Weigh well her claims. revoke her doom,
Grant fair play and elbow room.

-—Julia F. Grice.

THE DAY IS DONE.
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is waited downward
From an eagle in his flight.

I see the lights of the village
Gleam through the rain and the mist,

And a feeling of sadness comes o’er me
That my soul cannot resist-—

A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,

And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.

Come, read to me some poem,
Some simple and heartfelt lay,

That shall soothe this restless feeling,
And banish the thoughts of day.

Not from the grand old masters.
Not from the bards sublime,

Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors of Time ;

For, like strains of martial music,
Their mighty thoughts suggest

Life's endless toil and endeavor;
And to—night I long for rest.

Read from some humbler poet,
Whose songs gushed from his heart,

As showers from the clouds of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start;

Who, through long days of labor,
And nights devoid of ease,

Still heard in his soul the music
Of wonderful melodies.

Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,

And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.

Then read from the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice,

And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.

And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares. that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.
-Longfellow.

Reminiscence: No. 3.

BY MRS. O. M. SIKES.

Thos. F. Moore, of Adrian, is not large
and commanding like the Master of the
National Grange, neither so trim as Worthy
Master Luce, or so portlyas the Worthy
Lecturer, Chas. E. Mickley. but has an in-
dividuality peculiarly his own. When he
arises to speak one has a feeling that he
knows just what he is going to say, and set-
tles down comfortable-like to listen, but as he
warms with his theme we find ourselves in-
clining forward until our elbows fairly rest
upon the desk in front, and with bated
breath we give ourselves up to the enchant-
ment of his voice—not that it is musical, as
the world calls music, but because of the
true ring of a master mind. He handles his
subject without gloves, and carries convic-
tion to the minds of his hearers. His mien
is not confiding or winning, but once secure
his attention and you find his sympathies
easy of access. Favored indeed are the for-
tunate ones who may be numbered among
his friends. Of such men are composed
what the aesthetics would term the spinal
column of our Nation.

In speaking of the Grange he said, “It
might be compared to a grand army which
had been commanded to charge, but had
gtopped and stood still, as it were-- * * *
cause: the President's assassination; but
the army is moving again, and moves firmer
than ever. Note the objections we have had
to meet, and the mire we have waded
through.” And referring to those who had
fallen out by the way: “They are those
who would not go forward.” "Two croak-
ere can do more injury to a Grange than
twelve live members can do good.” One
cannot attend the State Grange, where the
members are composed of tillers of the soil,
without feeling the force of Emerson's test

of civilization: “It is not the census nor
the size of cities, nor the crops; no,
but the kind of men the country turns out.”

I am inclined right here to introduce some
of the prominent ladies who helped to com-
prise this august body; but a difliculty
stares me in the face. They are all so un-
assuming and retiring that I cannot single
out any for prominence ; but I will take the
liberty tp mention a few by.name. Sister
Garner, whom I referred to in a fcrmer
article. I learned was a temperance worker,
giving public lectures, which helps to ac-
count for her presence of mind while stand-
ing before an audience. Sister Campbell,
the Worthy Chaplain’s daughter, delegate
from Grand Traversedistrict, is pleasant and
genial, her industrious fingers ply the
knitting needles to form covering for infant
limbs, while her eyes and ears take cogni-
zance of what is passing about her. ‘Sister
Langley and Purdy,from St. Joe County,are
ladies we would like to meet often.

Sisters Kenyon,White and Johnson, from
Battle Creek, are a jolly trio, but during
business hours demure and attentive as any
sedate matron. Looking over to the west
we notice Sisters Fish and Sparks from Ber-
rien Co.. and from Case, Sisters Reynolds,
Wood and Peck. Sister Reynolds is a dear,
motherly woman and we think is a visiting
member. From Van Buren, Sisters Harrison
and Lyle. Sister H. is an invalid and can-
not be present during the entire sessions.
Sister L. is in her seat early and late, and
her husband is busy taking notes; they are
live members. Ceres was not present.
Sisters Platt, and Woodruff‘ graced the
chairs of Pomona and Flora, both are win-
ning and attractive. Sister Satterlee and
Green, the Lady Assistant Steward, we met
with only to part. The former being a con-
tributor of the VISITOR, we felt drawn to-
ward; but four short days, with each ten
hours work, does not leave much time to
form acquaintances. Sister Green, like
many of us, has had for her portion heavy
trials. A promising boy was injured for
life with a mowing machine. As she told
of her boy’s patient suffering, her face was
tender with mother love, and we wondered
at the power of endurance shown by both
parents and child. Brother and Sister Green
have our warmest sympathies. and their son
our tender regards. Many of the ladies
whom we have mentioned have passed the
meridian of life, the battle fought, the vic-
tory won, and the placid features tell of
work well done.

But What shall I say of the music and do
it justice? Words are inadequate. Mrs.VVin-
ship of Adrian presided at the organ, and
was assisted in singing by a lady and two
gentlemen, with sometimes more. Their
selections were good and rendition grand.
A lady of culture told me she heard Marie
Louise Kellogg in Chicago, and she con-
sidered Mrs. Winship her equal.

Equality of the Sexes.

Bro. Cobb .--There appears in the col-
umns of your issue of May 15th, areso-
lution asking for discussion from both men
and women on the same. I would like very
much to discuss any resolution tending to
the equality of the sexes, but have no sym-
pathy with one so tame as the one set forth.

I claim a man has no more right morally
or according to the natural claims of justice,
to divide up and dispose of the community
property while his wife is living, than she
should have, and all laws that guarantee
more privileges and protection to man than
to woman are unjust and should be re-
pealed.

I believe in equal privileges, equal oppor-
tunities, and equal responsibilities under
the laws. and cannot give time or thought
to anything less than equal justice.

Therefore, am in favor of a resolution
something like the following.

WHEREAS, experience has proved that
laws made to protect widows and children
in their rights of property through wills,
administrators or otherwise, after the death
of the husband, have to a great degree
proved futile through ignorance, extrava-
gance or sagacity of administrators and mer-
cenary lawyers in which justice is often lost
sight of and widows and children robbed of
their rights; therefore be it

Resolved, That at the death of the hus-
band, the wife shall have full possession
and control of all community property, be
responsible for all lawful debts or claims
against said property, support and educate
children, if any, and have full power to do
all necessary business for minor children
the same as the husband, but the payment
of no debt shall be forced within one year
after the death of said husband, except such
as may outlaw during said year, in such
case we wife shall pay or renew the same.

Any and all who will take issue on the
above, will have something to try their
ability and knowledge of justice and nat-
ural rights. LYDIA E. DRAKE.

Plainwell, May 22. 1882.

Ppnsnnvmc FRUI’.l‘.— In shipping peaches
and grapes and plums, and other fresh fruit
from California to the East, carbonized or
charred wheat bran has recently been used

as packing material. The result, so far, has
been so satisfactory as to make it probable
that fruit packed in this manner can be
sent across the continent as slow freight at a
saving of $600 per carload in freight charges,
and also make it possible to export most of
our perishable fruits. '

“For the Good of ihe Order.”

Read before Texas Grange, No. l7l, by Mrs. S. Hill.

“Therefore whosover heareth these say-
ings of mine and doeth them I will liken
him unto a wise man which built his house
upon a rock.

“And the rain descended, and the floods
came, and the winds blew and beat upon
that house, and it fell not, for it was
founded upon a rock.

“And every one that heareth these say-
ings of mine and doeth them not shall be
likened unto a foolish man which built
his house upon the sand.

“And the rain descended, and floods came,
and the winds blew and beat upon that
house and it fell: and great was the fall
of it.”

The preceding words, uttered by the wis-
est man, the greatest preacher, the most pro-
found philosopher and Him who spoke as
never man before spoke, were uttered near
the conclusion of that remarkable sermon
which contains perfect principles for the
government of all men. all orders,‘ all so-
cieties, and which if adhered to, might
unite the world under one government,
which might claim for its motto Peace
Harmony, Truth, Love, Friendship, and
the sum of all, Virtue.

When Christ told a great truth, in order
to impress it firmly upon the people, it
was frequently his custom to make use of
a simple illustration, or comparison, and he
always hit the bird in the eye, ' never made
a failure.

His sayings could never be improved,
and notwithstanding they have stood the
test of nearly nineteen centuries, subject to
the criticism of all this time, yet they are
as appropriate to-day as on the day they
were uttered. He told the people to build
upona rock, and this idea applies as well
to our Grange, as it does to a house, a castle
or a government.

‘Society, then, may be compared to a vast
edifice which has for its foundation mate-
rials of various kinds and qualities: like
the stones and mortar made use of by the
mason to support a magnificent building,
some good, some bad, and some indifferent,
so is this foundation; composed as it is of
the defective as well as the good, the weak
as the strong, it is evident that unless the
good prevailed, unless there was more
strength than weakness, the structure
would be in danger. Kingdoms, empires,
republics, principalities and all other gov-
ernments of the world were and are soci-
eties, the success of which depend and de-
pended upon the strength and quality of
the basis. .

The annals of the world from the earliest
period down to the present era furnish
many examples of national decay, ruin and
degradation, the cause of which in many
instances can be clearly traced to a defect-
ive beginning. The quality of the com-
mencement, then, as a general rule deter-
mines the future, and it needs no prophet
to foretell the history of any society reared
upon any other than a firm, solid, incor-
ruptible and virtuous foundation.

As it is with large societies, many of
which have flourished, declined, decayed,
and only live as a matter of history, so it
is with smaller bodies with less prete nsions
many of which I fear stand to-day on dan-
gerous ground, and on foundations which
if not repaired will endanger the entire
structure. Our Grange is a worthy Order,
intended to be useful and beneficial to the
farming community, instituted for the
purpose of resisting all variety of oppres-
sion practiced against the tillers of the soil
by unscrupulous dealers and tradesmen
who, Shylock like, would rob the yeomanry
of a large percentage of the products of
their yearly toil. And further the Order
is admirably calculated to bring together
the husbands, the wives, the sons, the
daughters, youth and old age all upon one
common plane, to pass away the brief time
allotted in useful conversation, comparison
of ideas upon practical subjects, temperate
discussions of useful questions and perhaps
some innocent amusements consistent with
propriety and sobriety.

All can thus meet, enjoy themselves, pass
to their homes feeling that the time has
been profitably spent, and rejoicing that the
Order is so well calculated to promote the
interests of the husbandman, his wife, son
and daughter socially, intellectually, and I
might add——financially.

It is not my intention in this paper to
find fault with our Order, but you will
pardon me if I should briefly inspect our
foundation and see whether the structure
we have reared is firm and enduring, and
if not to give some kind hints calculated to
strengthen the underpinning and make
permanent an institution which was erected
for a worthy object and should be prodiictive
of glorious results.

There stands the edifice, its proportions
are gigantic, grand, majestic; capable, if
rightly conducted, of producing a vast
amount of good; if improperly managed a
corresponding amount of evil. This struct-
ure is in its infancy. In appearance it is
perfect; the material all seems good, the
foundation looks firm and thus far we are
pleased. But we approach nearer the work,
we examine the first corner stone. Itis
an immense boulder. and there we find
written in large, plain, unmistakable let-

ters, the word “Truth.” That is a good cor-

ner, just such a one as we were delighted to
see, it is a host of itself, and would support
a mighty weight unassisted. Truth was
busy attending to her various duties and
had but little timeifor conversation, and no
time for idle talk, hence she motioned us
to pass on to the next corner and call on
sister Justice. Justice and Truth worked
together. Justice with her golden scales by
the aid of Truth settled many serious difli-
culties. She was very charitable, and her
disposition to render to every one his due
was perpetual. She did not measure the
rich by their wealth, or the poor by their
poverty, but every one by their true worth,
never losing sight of the maxim that all
have equal rights; and although she never
talked about her neighbors, she silently de-
spised Deceit, Fraud, Slander, Intemper-
ance and all their associates; but she never
allowed Prejudice to approach her; hence
the most abandoned received fair treatment
at her hands. It was her mission to reform,
not to destroy; to build up, not to tear down.
She associated with Forgiveness, and also
entertained Wisdom. She was somewhat
eccentric and slyly hinted that if we had
no important business we might be excused,
hence we passed on to the next angle and
there beheld Honesty. Deeply imbedded,
firm as an adamant, durable as time, eter-
nal as the heavens, and silent as the grave
sat Honesty. Honesty boasted not of his
fair dealing. He was a creature of prac-
tice not of theory. He was old in years but
still older in deeds. He never allowed him-
self to be approached by Temptation. He
sometimes got very blue, feeling himself at
times all alone, and this, perhaps accounted
for his silence. He looked very sad, sup-
ported a very heavy load, and was frequent-
ly greatly ridiculed by some of his neigh-
bors. Falsehood poked fun at him. Fraud
considered him a great nuisance and he
was nicknamed the parent of poverty.
But he was sustained by Truth and Justice;
wasa friend to Economy, an enemy of
Profligacy, and what was better yet, never
Went naked or hungry.

Approaching the last corner firmer than
all, because composed of the qualities of all,
and all radiant with the light of Paradise
stood Virtue. She was a great friend to
Truth, Justice and Honesty, and with their
assistance could support the entire struct-
ure. Virtue was a sister of Happiness, a
stranger to Vice, and greatly detested In-
temperancein all its forms. She taught les-
sons of Wisdom and pointed out the true
way to prosperity and happiness. We were
about to depart, but “Hold,” said Truth,
“you have not finished your mission ; much
remains to be seen.” I looked again and in
this fabric I saw Anger, Avarice, Ambi-
tion, Amusement, Affection, Adversity,
Abuse and Accusation.

In another locality was Beauty, Benevo-
lence, Boasting, Bigotry and Business. A
little farther on sat Care, Calumny, Cant,
Caution, Censure, Cheerfulness, Charity,
Civility. Conceit, Conscience, Contempt,
Conservatism, Cunning, Curses, Corruption
and Conspiracy.

And still further was Delay, Delusion,
Despair, Discord, Dissension and Drunken-

ness.
Ialso beheld Egotism, Envy, Enthusi-

asm, Enjoyment, Excess. Extravagance,
Experience and Expectation.

Then come Falsehood, Fancy, Fashion,
Favour. Feasting, Fidelity, Flattery, Fol-
ly, Foppery, Foresight and Friendship.

In another locality stood Gratitude, Glo-
ry, Gluttony, Gambling, Grief, Guilt and
Grumbling.

Happiness, Hatred, Honour, Honesty,
Hypocrisy and Humanity were there, and
their next neighbors were Idleness, Igno-
rance, Inexperience, Imagination, Indis-
cretion, Industry, Immorality, Ingratitude,
Innocence, Insult, Intelligence and Infi-
delity. Jealousy, Joy and Judgment were
close by, while just beyond was Knowledge.
Then came Laughter, Love, Loyalty, Merit,
Mercy, Misfortune, Modesty, Observation,
Pleasure, Perseverance, Politeness, Policy,
Progress, Procrastination, Reason, Success,
and Slander.

The make-up of this fabric was so various,
and the ingredients so numerous that it
would be wearisome to tell you all.

I saw many things which 1 was glad to
see, and agreat many things which I wish‘
I had never seen. Among the things I
was sorry to meet was the great, monstrous,
uncouth, ugly, offensive, bloated. putrid car-
cass of Intemperance. with his ghastly
countenance, offensive breath and stagger-
ing, pncertain gait. The author of more
sighs, tears, groans and curses than all other
evils. The greatest criminal that ever went
untried and unhung, who robbed the
wife of her husband, the children of their
father, the sister of her brother, and the
father and mother of their sons; who took
the bread from the mouths of prattling
babes——in many instances sending them
back to their Maker ’ere their time, and
bringing them to the door of nakedness and
starvation, and whose innocent, pitiful,
emaciated forms presented so horrid and
outrageous a spectacle as should justly bring
down upon its author the immediate wrath
of God and the angels.

Intemperance destroys happiness, drowns
virtue, murders hope, scoffs at experience,
contaminates society, insults justice, stabs
innocence, slanders honesty, breeds iniq-
uity, begets crime, revels in vice, hates so-

briety, sears conscience, chokes truth, curses
kindness, fosters ingratitude, robs mercy
and despises humanity. It not only kills
the body, but it destroys the immortal soul.
It blackens and callouses those God-given
faculties and drives out all the finer quali-
ties intended to beautify and elevate the
human mind, and creates a vacuum in
which,lurk all the imps of perdition and
darkness. It turns a human being into a
beast, it sinks him lower than a brute. The
dumb brute has affection for its offspring
and manifests gratitude for its keepers’
kindness, while intemperance knows no
gratitude, is restricted by no principles and
is destitute of all affection.

“This is the picture, deem it not o’er charged,

There is no trait which might not be enlarged,

Yet true to Nature’s journeyman who made

This monster,_when their mistress left off trade;

Oh! wretch without a. tear, without a thought.

Save joy above the ruin thou hast wrought.

May the strong curse of crushed affections light

Back upon thy bosom, with reflected blight;

And make thee in thy leprosy of mind,

As loathsome to thyself, as to mankind.

Down to the dust! and as thou rott’st away

Even worms shall perish on thy poisonous clay.

Thy name, thy human name to every eye

The climax of all scorn, should hang on high,

Exalted o’er thy less abhorred compeers

And festering in the infamy of years."

Such is the picture of intemperance fee-
bly portrayed and I pass on.

-I was grieved at the sight of Hypocrisy,
and yet I had to smile at his queer, sneaky
appearance. Shakspeare describes him
thus: -

“But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture

Tell them that God bids us do good for evil;

And thus I clothe my naked villain

With old, odd ends, stolen forth of {Ioly writ;

And seem a Saint, when most I play the Devil,

Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile;

And cry content, to that which grieves my heart,

And wet my cheeks with artificial tears
And frame my face to all occasions.”

And again, by Spencer,

‘£Thereto when needed she could weep and pray,

And when enlisted she could fawne and flatter;

Now smiling smoothly like to Summer's day,

Now gloomiug sadly, so to cloak her matter; .

Yet were her words but wind, and all her tears

but water."

I called on Slander, he was busy med-
dling with everybody's business, and had
no legitimate business of his own. He pre-
tended to be a Granger, but. of all the use-
less, worthless material which comes under
my observation was he. He was so ugly,
my eyesight was so poor, and I paid so lit-
tle attention to his general features, that I
can hardly describe him. But he will be
readily recognized in a quotation from the
Poet Byron.

“The circle smiled, then whispered, and than
sneered;

The misses bridled, and the matrons frowned;

Some hoped things might not turn out as they
feared;

Some would not deem such women could be found;

Some ne'er believed one-half of what they heard;

Some flookgd perplexed and others looked pro-
oun .

And again-—
“The world, as usual, wickedly inclined
To see a Kingdom or a House o'ertumed,

Whispered he had a Mistress; some said two,
But for domestic quarrels one will do.”

And lastly the Poet Swift speaks:

“Nor do they trust their tongues alone,
But speak a language of their own;
Can read a nod, a shrug, a look,

Far better than a printed book;
Convey a libel in a frown,

And wink a reputation down;

Or, by the tossing of the fan,

Describe the lady and the man.”

My task was getting very irksome and
laborious, and I was just about to make
some notes on pride, folly and deception,
when Impudence, a saucy, ragged urchin
passed along and told me very uncourteous-
ly that I had better go home.

I appealed to Truth who gave me to un-
derstand that I must never expect to fathom
all her mysteries or to become conversant
with all the iniquity of this world. Time
passed by and remarked that it was getting
late, and at the close of this investigation
Wisdom raised her voice and spoke the fol-
lowing words:

Tell your friends and neighbors of the
Order, that harmony is the key that secures
permanence.

That unity is the secret of all strength.
That silence is preferable to fine speech un-
til you have learned something to say that
deserves to be known. That Honesty is
well-bred and sure of success in a long
race.

That Order is the oil that keeps the ma-
chinery in motion.

That Labor frightens away the rust.
That prosperity never follows the wake of
idleness.

Remember the golden rule “To do unto
others as you would that others should do
unto you.”

Love your neighbor.

Be kind to the unfortunate and beware of
anger.

Be industrious, diligent, virtuous, tem-
perate, charitable, kind, unselfish and con-
sistent, and it will require no demonstration
to convince all that Texas Grange is built
upon a rock. v

1

To‘ say the Grange has made its members
a more thinking and better informed eople,
but reiterates the well-known truth that
“attrition of mind with mind” makes
brighter. You can’t attend the stated assem-
blages of your fellowman, where to ice are
discussed,without becoming bettere ucated.
To inform yourselves upon such topics, you
will feel almost compelled to read more.
Under these frequently recurring influences,
if you do not become a wiser man, you must
be a “natual born” fool; and when we speak
of being educated, we mean the proper
“leading out” of all those faculties of mind
and heart which make men and women
wiser and better. Such we claim for the edu-
cation the Grange imparts.

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JUNE 15, 1882.

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SATURDAY NIGHT.

The supper is over, the hearth is swept,
And, in the woodfire’s glow,

The children cluster to hear a tale
Of that time so long ago-—

When grandmamma’s hair was golden brown,
And the warm blood came and went
O’er the {lace that could scarce have been sweeter
t en
Than now in its rich content.

The face is wrinkled and care-worn now,
And the golden hair is gray;

But the light that shone in the young girl's eyes,
Has never gone away.

And her needles catch the fire’s light,
As in and out they go,

With the clicking music that grandma loves,
Shaping the stocking toe.

And the walking children love it, too;
For they know the stocking song

Brings many a tale to grandma's mind.
Which they shall hear ere long.

But it brings no story of olden time,
To grandma's heart to-night——

Only a ditty, quaint and short,
Is sung by the needles bright.

“Life is a stocking" grandma says,
“And yours is just begun;

But I am knitting the toe of mine,
And my work is almost done.

"With me hearts we begin to knit,
And the ribbing is almost play;

Some are gay colored, and some are white,
And some are ashen gray.

“But most are made of many a hue,
With many a stitch set wrong,

.And many a row to be sadly ripped
Ere the whole is fair and strong.

“There are long plain spaces without a break
That in youth are hard to bear;

And man a weary tear is dropped
As we fyashion the heel with care.

"But the saddest, happiest time is that
We court and yet would,shun;

When our Heavenly Father breaks the thread
And says that our work is done.”

The children come to say good night,
With tears in their bright, young eyes,

While in grandma's la , with a broken thread,
The finished stocking lies.

Our Aspirations.

Dear Young People.--—What has become of
you all? Shall I, like your uncle, have cause
to be completely discouraged and leave you ?
But I can’t just now go back to college, as it
was thought he did, for it is vacation time.
By the way,why don’t you write and tell us
how you have planned to spend your vacation?
We want some hints. We have not decided
whether it shall be all play, or part work.
But could anything be more pleasant than
idly swinging in the hammock under the
green trees with a book,—not for study as it
looks-—but to help us to dream on ‘P Bright
dreams of what we will be when we are men
and women. Some of us look forward to a
life of ease, some to a life of works of good-
ness for our fellows, and some of us are look-
ing for fame—not literary fame, I predict,
or you would have been trying your hand at
it in writing for our columns. Nothing will
come of your dreams if you don’t help them
on by work.

But stop! we have one with us who does
aspire to be “a writer of books.” He does
try and he certainly has our good wishes for
his success. We all appreciate his help in
filling our space in the VISITOR, and if he
has frightened us a little with his knowledge
we shall keep on reading and praising him.

Now my dears if you can’t remember to
quote Carlyle as correctly as Will does I
have not a doubt but that you have read
what that great man has said, and, if you
have not it is because the school duties must
be attended to first, and then there will be
time for reading and philosophizing.

What am I to say to Mr Cobb when he
says “Aunt Nina. what is there for your de-
partment ?” Had it not been for Will I should
have had toanswer “Nothing for these last
two numbers.” But will Will stand by?

and are you going to stand by and let him
do it all, even if he is willing?
AUNT NINA.

 

A Pleasant Excursion.

Dear Aunt Nina and Cousins .-—-I have
been enjoying myself so much to-day that I
want to tell you all about it. This morning
I helped Aunt do up the morning's work and
then I went about six miles on an excursion
to a lake called Mud,Lake. It is very pictur.
esque, being surrounded on all sides by beau-
tiful pines which are mirrored in its waters,
and its banks are covered with trailing
Arbutus and wild Pansies, which are in full
bloom. We have had them, since the middle
of April and they are lovely still. I gather-
ed a beautiful bouquet of them and brought
home. The fish are fond of the bait and we
had about twenty-five pounds of nice ones
to carry home. After tea I rode about four
miles with my uncle and aunt. Our road lay
over hills and through valleys. When we
had gone about two miles we came to a beau-
tiful forest through which we rode the re-
mainder of the way. The plains were cov-
ered with so many beautiful flowers, I could
not refrain from getting out of the buggy
and gathering as many of them as I could
carry. As I am writing the room is filled
with their sweet fragrance. While I was
enjoying myself so well I wished that Aunt
Nina and the cousins were with me, as there
was enjoyment enough for all. LINA-
Cheney,Craw'ford C0, Mich.

can ensues vissron.

7

“Is Labor a Blessing or a Curse?”

I think Aunt Nina has assigned us a dith-
cult theme. It seems so one-sided. How
can we say labor is anything but a blessing?
What a pleasure it is to toil. What an ex-
quisite bloom this exercise gives the youth-
ful cheek, though tinged with disease.
What a shame that in the centuries which
are vanished this blessing from God should
have so frequently become a curse. With
whatjoyhas nature smiled at its charity.
But there have been times when the golden
sun has veiled its face with clouds to screen
from view its cruelties.

Labor is power. Labor is the hand of
capital extended to mankind. Labor is a
universal blessing to humanity. but a bles-
sing only an industrious laboring people
can enjoy or understand.

“There is perennial nobleness,” says Car-
lyle, “and even sacredness in work. Labor
is life: were he never so benighted, forget-
ful of his high calling, there is always hope
in a man that actually and earnestly works;
in idleness alone is there perpetual despair.”

We are told a blessing is something that
conveys good to man. The labor of Milton
on “ Paradise Lost” has caused many a poor
Christian to knock at.the gate “ on golden
hinges swinging.” John Bunyan , whom
Cowper was afraid to mention, for fear it
would provoke a sneer, has contributed a
blessing to his fellow men that even the
amiable poet may not hope to equal.

Labor is infinite. “ Clamorous labor
knocking at the golden gate of the morn-
ing.” It fells the forest; rears the city;
makes the snow-plumed Alps to bloom
with the gardens of Swiss peasantry; and
peoples old ocean’s main with living freight
journeying to every clime. In fact all there
ever was accomplished in the heaven above
or the earth beneath was by mighty labor.
With labor there is everything; idleness is a
rust of the soul, a stagnation of every virtu-
ous principle. Though it was said Thomp-
son was sly and indolent, yet he must have
felt the thrill of happy toil to have written
so sweetly :—

"Toil and be glad ; let industry inspire

Into your quickened limbs her buoyant breath.”

The simple, unaided exertions of some
men have been a lasting benefaction to their
race. “Their names live evermore.” Their
works are embalmed "in wreaths of glory.
Howard shed more blessings on -his species
than all the generals mentioned in history.
“He has visited all Europe,” said the cele-
brated Burke, “to dive into the depths of
dungeons, to plunge into the infections of
hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow
and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions
of misery, digression, and contempt, to re-
member the forgotten, to attend to the neg-
lected, to visit the forsaken, and compare
and collate the distresses of all men in all
countries.” And so of Wilberforce, he may
well be remembered by “millions yet to be”
of Africa’s soil.

Labor constructs mighty suspensions with
wire gauze, connects continents with the
electric spark, and girdles the world with
mighty power of steam. Intellect may ex-
pand with knowledge, but without labor to
polish the unwieldy mass and impart its
treasures to posterity it is useless. To a
God fearing man it is ever a blessed reward
to participate in life giving toil. Labor and
Love are the guarding angels of the world,
and the ever enduring principles of Chris-
tianity.

But all labor has not been fruitful of good.
The high and divine beauty of labor when
made subsidiary to a beastal ambition be-
comes a deadly curse. When labor has
been a motor of war it has usually been pro-
ductive of great evil. The mighty military
genius—Napoleon; the hero who wept for
more worlds to conquer—Alexander; and
the unprincipled Xerxes were great project-
ors of industry. The ambitious schemes of
Napoleon plunged all Europe in blood and
left France peopled with orphan children.

What a curse was labor where it freighted
peaceful negroes from the shores of sunny
Africa and bound them in ‘servitude; sold
them like cattle and placed them under the
inhuman treatment of the taskmaster, who,
to use the language of Horace Smith, “ Is
the image of the devil. cut in ivory.”

Sometimes labor is sublime. When at
Thermopylae Leonidas with his three hun-
dred martyrs fought to save Greece from
bondage. The sun and moon came and
looked through the steep defile and saw
them dying in defense of their country.
Here was a band of heroes sealed in by pre-
cipitous rocks on the one side and the sea on
the other, fighting “where life is lost or
victory won” against the tyranny of Xerxes.
Glorious labor! _blessed labor for freedom
given. But was the labor of Xerxes a bles-
sing, or was it glorious, when darkness
came on space and the stars, trembling in
their emerald depths,looked through the blue
vault of heaven to gaze on mangled Spartans
who had died to save their country from
servitude ? Greece groaned under a foreign
yoke, her vales and mountains sent up a
wail of lamentation, genius is wasted, talent
is unemployed, labor is made an instrument
of death—a scourge to humanity ands curse
to Christianity. WILL.

Snowdown, May 15, 1882.

 

Los'r, somewhere between sunrise and
sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty
diamond minutes. N o reward offered, as
they are lost forever.

@IJ1.‘1‘2$]JU1III21tte-

FRATERNITY. '

The farmer plows and the farmer sows-
The heat on the blacksmith’s anvil glows,
While under the weight of his brawny hand
The plow is forged for the far-mer’s land.
Clasp hands I ye brothers in honest toil,

Ye sturdy sons of the mother soil l

The farmer reapeth the golden grain-

The miller waiteth the creaking wain

That brings his share of the common toil,
And marks his rank with the sons of the soil.
Clasp hands, ye brothers! 3. triple power

That gives the nation a farmer's dower.

The farmer clippeth the fleecy wool,

And plucks the bolls of cotton full,

The weaver bends to his noisy loom,

And piles the webs In the crowded room.
Clasp hands, ye brothers, in friendly zeal,
Ye hold, united, a nation's weal.

Ho l farmer, gathering fruit and grain——

Ho ! merchant, counting your loss and gain-
Ho l builder, modeling wood and stone-

Ho ! sailor, reaching from zone to zone-

Clas friendly hands I for a common toil

Bin s all mankind to the common soil.

—Mrs. P. Brainard, in Cal. Patron.

Brighton Grange, No. 336.

Worthy Brother Cobb.-—Supposing that
all editors are supplied with a place, to de-
posit waste paper, and knowing the deposits
from Brighton Grange to be quite :small I
venture to contribute.

Brighton Grange, No. 336, was: organized
and held its first meeting April 11th, 1874,
with 17 charter members. We held our
meetings at the dwellings of our members
until May 15th, 1875, when, we held our
first meeting in our new hall. In trying
to make the Grange a success we have occu-
pied our time after going through with the
regular order of business and conferring de-
grees, with select reading, essays and dis-
cussing questions appertaining to our occu-
pation. Although we are not doing as much
with the financial arm of co-operation in
our Grange as some other Granges Tie, the
social and intellectual features of co-opera-
tion pays us amply for our time and trouble.
It has seemed to break the isolation which
existed among farmers, bringing us together
to see each other and to know each other’s
wants and rights.

I often think when I look back tofibefore
the advent of the Grange, how ignorant or
selfish, or both, we farmers were, as we
thought we had no rights or interests in
common with each other as citizens of this
great agricultural country. But the Grange
has lifted us out of the old ruts and by
meeting together and talking together, it
has stimulated us to think and act together
to secure those rights which justly belong
to usas farmers.

Congress has passed an act instructing the
president to appoint a committee to revise
the tariff laws. It has been suggested that
the President appoint a first-class lawyer as
one of the committee: I would suggest that
a first-class practical farmer be one of that
committee, J. J. Woodman for instance.
or some one of a score of others that might
be mentioned. Fraternally,

J. B. THURBER.

Brighton, May 30, 1882.

_______._______
St. Joseph County Grange.

Bro. Uobb:-—-I have concluded to send a
few lines giving a brief account of the large
meeting of the County Grange held at the
house of D. Millard in Leonidas township,
in connection with Leonidas Grange, on
June 1. The weather was beautiful and the
Patrons turned out in great numbers, in-
cluding visitors from Kalamazoo and
Branch counties. The Grange was called to
order at the appointed time by Gutelius
Snyder, Master of the County Grange, and
bpened in due form in the fifth degree, after
which several applications for membership
were presented and the business of this
degree completed, after which a resolution
was adopted that the Grange have an open
session during the entire afternoon.

Dinner was announced and all proceeded
to the mammoth tent erected by Bro. Mil-
lard. The tables were provided with an
abundance, and an hour and a half was
spent in eating and social enjoyment with
old and new acquaintances. The meeting
was again called to order by the Worthy
Master. Invited speakers were not present
owing to sickness in their families. Bro.
W. Hull, Lecturer of the County Grange,
presented the following question for the con-
sideration of the meeting, “Why is the
occupation of the farmer not upon a level
with other occupations?” This called forth
a large amount of discussion, in which Bro.
D. Handshaw, Master of Parkville Grange,
Bro. Collins of Oakwood, Bro. Prout of Co-
lon, Bro. Watkins of Leonidas, and Bro.
Hull of Centreville participated. Sister S.
M. Angevine of Mendon came forward with
an essay, which by unanimous consent was
ordered sent you for publication in the VISI-
TOR. A resolution setting forth that no

candidate for either branch of the Legisla-
ture who would not pledge himself to
11 ot receive or use a free pass from any rail-
road should receive our votes, was offered
and adopted. After which the meeting
ad'ourned. A. M. s.
une 3, 1882.
___._____._._________

MEN who would ‘ not steal a mule will
gladly take the chance to misafppropriate an
umbrella. They have no use or a mule.

That One-Dollar Bill.

How it did rain but November night!
None of your undecided showers, with hes-
itating intervals, as it were between; none
of your mild, persistent patterings on the
roof, but a regular tempest, a wild deluge, a
rush of angry drops and a thunder of open-
ing floods!

’Squire Pratlet heard the rattling up
against the easements, and drew his snug
easy chair to the fire —a great, open mass of
glimmering anthracite, and gazed with a
sort of sleepy, reflective satisfaction at the
crimson moreen curtains, and a gray eat,
fast asleep on the hearth, and the canary
bird rolled into a drowsy ball of yellow
down upon its perch.

‘This is sung,’ quoth the ’Squire; I'm
glad I had the leaky spot in the barn fixed
last week. I don't object to a stormy night
once in a while when a fellow’s under cover
and there is nothing particular to be done.’

’.Yes, Mrs. Pratlet answered. She was
flitting about between the kitchen and sit-
ting room with a great blue checkered apron
tied about her waist. ‘I am nearly ready to
come in, now. VVell, I wonder,’ sotto voice,
‘if that wasa knock at the door or justa
little rush of the wind.’ ..,.4_;

She went to the door, nevertheless, and a
minute ortwo afterwards she went to her
husband’s chair.

‘Joe, dear, it’s Luke Ruddilove,’ she said,
half apprehensively. The ’Squire never
looked up from his reading.

‘Tell him he has made a mistake. The
tavern is on the second corner beyond.

‘But he wants to know if you will lend
him a dollar.’ said Mrs. Pratlet.

‘Couldn’t you tell him no, without the
ceremony of coming to me? Is it likely that
I should lend a dollar, or even a cent, to
Luke Ruddilove? \Vhy, I’d rather throw
it among yonder red coals. No—-of course
not.

Mrs. Pratlet hesitated.

‘He looks so pinched and cold and
wretched, Josiah. He says there is nobody
in the world to let him have a cent.’

‘All the better for him, if he did but know
it,’ sharply enunciated the old ’Squire. If
he had come to that half a dozen years ago,
perhaps he would not have been the miser-
able vagabond he now is.’

‘We used to go to school together,’ said
Mrs. Pratlet. gently. ‘He was the smartest
boy in the class.’

‘Thai’s probable enough,’ said the ’Squire,
‘but it don’t alter the fact. He is a poor,
drunken wretch now. Send him about
his business, Mary, and if his time is of any
consequence, just let him know he had
petter not waste it in coming here after do]-

are.

And the ’Squire leaned back in his chair,
after a positive fashion, as if the whole inat-
ter was settled. _

Mrs. Pratlet went back to the kttchen,
where Luke Ruddilove was spreading his
poor fingers over the the blaze of the fire,
l11s tattered garments steaming as if he was
a pillar of vapor.

‘Then I’ve got to starve like any other dog!
said Luke Ruddllove, turning away. ‘But
after all, I don’t suppose it makes much dif-
ference if I shufile out of this world to-day
or to-morrow.’

‘Oh, Luke, no difference to your Wife ?’

‘She’d be better off without me,’ he said
down-heartedly.

‘But she. ought not to be.’

‘Ought and is, are two diiferent things,
Mrs. Pratlet. Good-night. I ain’t going to
the tavern, although I'll 'uger something
the ‘Squire thought I was.’

‘And isn’t it natural enough tliat he should
think so Luke ':’

‘Yes, yes, Mary; I don’t say but what it is’,
murmured Luke, in the same dejected tone
he used during the interview.

‘Stop,’ Mrs. Pratlet called to him, as his
hand lay on the door latch, in a low voice.
‘Here is a dollar. Luke. Mr. Pratlet gave it

to me for an oilcloth to go in front of the
parlor stove, but I will try and make the old
one last a little longer. And Luke, for the
sake of your poor wife and little ones, at
home, for the sake of old times, try and do
better. VVon’t you ‘.9 ’

Luke Ruddilove looked vacantly at the
new bank bill in his hand, and then at the
Blooming young matron who had placed it

iere.

‘Thank, you, Mary, I will. God bless you,’
he said, and crept out into the storm that
reigned without. Mrs. Pratlet stood looking
into the kitchen fire.

‘I dare say I’ve done a foolish thing, but
indeed I could not help it. If he will take
it home and not spend it at the tavern, I
shall not miss my oilcloth.’

And there was a conscious flush on her
checks, as if she had done something wrong
when she joined her husband in the sitting-
room.

‘Well’ said ’Squire Pratlet, ‘has that unfor-
turiitte gone at last ‘B’

‘ es’

‘To the Stokes tavern, I suppose '3’

‘I hope not. Josiah.’

‘I'm afraid it’s past hopin for, said the
’Squire, shrugging his shoul ers. But Mrs.
Pratlet kept her secret in her own heart.

was six months afterward that the
’Squire came into the dining-room where his
whfe was preserving great red apples into
J8 .V-

‘Well, well,’ quoth he,’ ‘wonders will never
cease. The Ruddiloves have gone away.’

‘Where ‘B’

‘I don’t know—out West somewhere with
a colony. And they say Luke’s not drank a
drop of Whiskey for six months.’

‘I am glad of that, responded Mrs. P.

_ ‘llt won’t last long, he suggested, despair-
ing y.

‘Why not ?’

‘Oh, I don’t know. I haven’t any faith in
these sudden reforms.’

Mrs. Pratlet was silent; she thought
thankfully that, after all, Luke had not spent
the dollar for liquor.

* >.'< * * Flt *

Six months—six years; the time sped along
in the days and Weeks, almost before busy
little Mrs. Pratlet knew it was gone. The
Ruddiloves had returned to Sequosset. Luke
had made his fortune, so the story went, far
oif in Eldorado. .

‘They do say,’ said Mrs. Buckingham, ‘that
he has bought that ’ere lot down op osite the
court house, and he is going to bui (1 such a
house as never was.’

‘He must have prospered greatly,’ observed
Mrs. Pratlet.

‘And his wife she wears a silk gown that
will stand alone with its own richness! I
can remember when Ruddilove was nothing
but a poor drunken creature.’

‘All the more credit to him now,’ said Mrs.
Pratlet, emphatically.

‘It is to be all of stone, with white mantels

and inlaid doors; and he has put a lot of
papers and things under the corner stone,
ike they do in public luuildin_«.5s.'

‘Well, that is natural] enough.‘

‘I know, yet it seeins kind o‘ queer that he
should put a dollar bill in with the other
things. He must luive lots o‘ inoney to
throw it away in that m2mnei'.'

Mrs. Pratlet felt her cheeks Ilush. Invol-
untarily she l:lllt‘t‘(l toward the '.5'4pil1'e;
buthenever looked around. She met Mr.
liuddilove that afternoon for the first time
since his return to Sequosset—-l.11ke himself,
save that the demon of iiitexnpenuice had
been completelyci'11sl1vd.:m(l his better na-
ture triumphing at last. He looked her
brightly in the face, and held out his hand,
sayiiig but the one woi'd——

‘l\Iur_vf'

Tl'(‘llllll0ll>‘l_\' she r:=pliul: ‘l iilll glad to see
you here ug;1in.'

When Luke luul o\'e1‘con1(- his emotion he
continued:

‘Do you l‘(*lll(‘lllll(‘l' that storniy night when
you gave me that dollar bill and l>e}_'5.;9<l me
not to go to the tzu'c1‘1i‘." ’-

‘Yes.’

‘Thutnight was the >i\'ot on which my
whole (le.s'tin_\’ turne-d. ‘You \\'<-re- kind to me
when all otliers g:1\'e me n:1u;:l1t but the
cold shouldc-1'. You t1'usted me when all
other faves were an-i‘teil. That ni_«.-(ht I took
:1 \'()W t<)111yso.-ll," to prove worth_\' of your
conlidence. and I kept it. I in-;1s111'e«l it u ),
illllllle2lV9l1ll2lS2l(l(lP(l iliiglilily to my little
store. I lmve put the hill in the corner-
stone of my new house, for it urosc alone
from that dollar bill.‘

‘I won’t ofi‘<,-1' to pay you buck. for I am
al'1'ahl,’ he snhl, smilingly, ‘the luck would
go from me with it. llut I'll lt’ll you what
I will do. I'll give money and words of trust
and eiicourageiiii-nt to some otlwr poor
w1'ctcl1es us you guw to 1119.‘

Thene.\'td:1_v l\Irs. l’i'nllet l‘(‘L‘('l\'(‘ll from
the delivery man at her door it luuidle, which
when she had opened it, l’l.'\'(‘:llP(l to he1'ns-
tonisl1edg;zze the most lwitllllflll piece of oil
cloth l1ci'e_\'csl1:1<l ever helwld. This natu-
rally attracted the ’.\‘q11i1'¢-‘s attention; and
when Mrs. l’1':1tIet told him all he only re-
plied, with soine emotion:

‘You were right, and I \\'as w1‘ong.—T/2c
Farme7"s I"ri(Jnd.

 

A LAWYER once said to a countryman in
usmock frock, who was undergoing his ex-
amination in the witness box : “ You are in
a smock frock, how are you paid for lying ‘.”'
"Less than you are, unfortunately, was the

reply, “ or you would be in a smock frock,
too.

FENNO & MANNING,

Wfllll COMMISSION MEHEHANTS,

117 Federal St., Boston.
consignments solicited and cash Advances Made.

A. VANDENBEEE,

MANUFACTURER,
Wuonasun AND RETAIL Danna IN

HARNESS, WHIPS, BLANKBTS, TRUNKS, 816.,

92 Monroe Street,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICE.

I take pleasure in resentingto your favorable con-
sideration my CASHP PRICE LIST of Harness Work
—HAND MADE——all of my own manufacture, and
also to return thanks for the liberal atronage I have
received from the different Granges t roughoul: Mich-
igan. I shall do in the future as in the past——furnish
the best goods for the least money.

Farm Harness, White Trimmed Breeching,
Round Lines, Snaps, Rum Straps, and
spread rings, complete, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .829 80

The same without Breeching, . . . . . . . . .. 26 00

“ “ with flat Lines,........ . ..   28 00

“ “ “ “ “ without breeching,. . 25 00
Double Light Buggy Harness, white trimmed,

from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .825 to 30 00

The same, N ickle Trimmed, from . . . . . .335 to 60 00

Single Buggy Harness, with round lines, white
trimmed, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 13 00

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

Nickle Trimmed, . . . . . . .315, 816, $18, 320 and 25 00

ALL ORDERS RECEIVED UNDER SEAL OF

THE GRANGE

will be shipped at once, and may be returned at my

expense if not entirely satisfactory.

Address all orders to

Yours very respectfully,

A. VANDENBERG,
92 Mormon Sraxar, GRAND Rams.

   

  
 

German Horse and (‘low Powders.

This owder has been in use for many years. It
is ar e y used by the farmers of Penns lvani d
the atrons of that State have bought bver 10,033.00
pounds through their purchasing agents. Its compo-
sition is no secret. The receipt is on every box and
g-pouiidcpacgpige. _Itviilsl m;de bytlgr. L. (:b9;h:l‘t:ll€;’I
one o.,_ oenix e, a. es s s cc e

and in good condition. It helps to digest and assimiz
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 molting. It is sold at the lowest
ggigczoclfsale rice by R. E. JAMES, Kuiuuzoo,

. W. ILL 00. 80 Woomaaxnoa S1'., D3-
-raoxr, THUS. MASON,’ 181 Warns sn, cmoiao,
and ALBERT STEGEMAN, ALLEGAN. Put up in
60-11). boxes (loose) price Eronr Carers per 1b., 30-lb.
boxes (of 6 5-11;. pdckages, Tax cnzm per lb.

 

Grand Rafpids, Michigan, is the most popular agricul-
tural and amily paper published. This widely circula-
ted paper,now in its sixth volume,is published weekly,
and sent to subscribers at 81.50 a year including
postage. Every number contains 8 pages, 40 col-
umns of practical ‘cultural and family reading
matter, including fdl%lr1eports of the West Michi
Farmers’ Club, of which it is the oficial organ. he
publishers offer for the next thirty days to send on
receipt of 82.00 Tax Woman for one year and a co2py
of “ Our Farmer's Account Book," containing 12
pages on fine Ledger paper, a comprehensive sys-
tem of book keeping adapted to the wants of practi-
cal farmers everywhere. Over 80,000 of these books
have been sold within the last year, and in many in-
stances farmers have paid itinerant book agents as
high as three dollars for them. Every farmer should
have one of these account books, but we advise them
to send direct to the Aoaroumvau. WoaI.n,- Grand
Rapids, Mich., and receivelthe accountil book Blkld TE;
Woman for one ear for ess than t e boo cos
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can ensues visisoa.

JUNE 15, 1882.

THE REAPER, DEATH.

ALLENBAUGH.— On the 25th of April last, an-
other of the laborers within our gates, S. N. ALLEN-

BAUGH, was summoned to lay down his implements
and pass on_ to a higher and more glorious field for
work. Having overcome difilculties and obstacles in
the way, we know that in the removal of our Broth-
er from the Grange below to the great Grange above
our loss is his gain.

Resolved, That Ronald Grange, No. 192, tender to
the family and friends that true sympathy that feels
for others’ woes and strives to alleviate them.

Resolved, That in memory of our departed Broth-
er, our Charter be draped in mourning for sixty
days, and the Worthy Secretary be hereby instructed
to enter a copy of this memorial upon the records of
this Grange, also forward a copy to the GRANGE
Vxsrron for publication, and send a copy to the be-
reaved family.

DECOU— Died at his residence in Nelson, Kent
Co., on March 6, Bro. GEonGE W. DECOU, in the 48th
year of his age.

Bro. DeCou was a charter member of Griswold
Grange, No 674. and was ever faithful and at his allot-
ted station. He has held the position of Master several
times,Overseer, and at the time of his death wasTreas-
urer. He was a representative from this district to the
State Grange of 1881. At a regular meeting suitable
resolutions were adopted and recorded and Charter
draped. Bro. DECOU leaves afamily and a host of
friends who deeply mourn his loss.

WILMARTH-———Killed April 14, by a. blow on the
head by a falling tree, on his farm in the town of
Nelson, Kent Co., Bro. Dnmus WILMABTH, in the
62nd year of his age.

Bro. WILMARTH was a Charter member of Gris-
wold Grange, No. 564. He was a true and faithful
member, and the Grange deeply feel his loss. At a
meeting of the Grange appropriate resolutions were
gfopted and recorded and the Charter draped for 60

ys.

WILDER—Died at the residence of her parents in
Watertown May 17th, 1882, Sister BEEDELLA
WILDEB, aged 16 years, a beloved member of Water-
town Grange, No. 370. In her decease we are again
reminded that the “King of shadows loves a shining

mark.”
A light has from our circle gone,
The voice we loved is still.
A place is vacant in our hall
That time can never fill.

GROVER—Died in Charleston, Kalamazoo coun-
ty, May 18th, 1882, CHARLES B. Gnovsa, aged 49
years, a charter member of Charleston Grange, No.
203. A large circle of loving friends mourn a great
loss. We sorrow, yet hot without hope, for -‘If a
man die shall he not live again?"

BUNTING-Sister ALICE BUNTING passed from
earth to the spirit life January 26th, 1882, aged 31
years and 5 months. The all-devouring scythe of
time has taken from our Grange a beloved sister
whose excellent qualities of head and heart we shall
long remember, as we sympathize with those more
nearly allied by family ties. Peace to her ashes.

BROOKS—Danby Grange, No. 185. has been called
to mourn the loss of one of its beloved members, Sis-
ter Ronny Bnooxs, who died April 30, 1882. In the

_death of Sister Brooks, the Grange has lost awor-

thy member, our brother a devoted companion, and
the family an affectionate mother. How appropriate
the lines “We shall meet but we shall miss her.”

The Grange resolved that this tribute be spread on
its record. a cogy sent to the “GEANGE VISITOR,”
also to Brother rocks, and that its hall be draped
in mourning\.30 days.

TILYON—Died at her home in Wexford, March
10, 1882, Sister Bina Tilyon.

WHEREAS, It has pleased the Great Master to re-
move from us by death a beloved sister; therefore,

Resolved, That in her death we have lost a valuable
sister, and we, as brothers and sisters, tender our
sincere and heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved
friends, and would commend them to our Heavenly
Father, who doeth all things well.

Resolved, That as a token of our bereavement our
charter be draped in mourning for thirt days and
a copy of the above sent to the GnANoE isrros. for
publication.

SMITH——WriEai:As, That little fraternal band of
nine men and four women, who once com rised all
there was of Schoolcraft Grange, No. 8, as been
broken by the unerring shaft of death, which struck
down our Worthy Brother V. C. SMITH, our first
Secretary, and,

WEEnEAs, The hand that was the first to chroni-
cle the proceedings of this Grange is now still and
cold and powerless in death, and the spirit which in-
spired it has gone to the God who gave it; therefore.

Resolved, That this Grange will cherish in unfa.d-
ing memory the virtues of our departed Brother, and
while we bow in dutiful submisssion to this afilictive
providence we recognize the sad and momentous
truth that we too are mortal and that our labors as
Husbandmen and Matrons will soon terminate for-
ever.

From Detroit to the Sea.

W. H. Brearley of the Detroit Evening
News has issued and sent to this oflice, a
copy of his new tourists’ guide book for_ the
three $20 July excursions “From Detroit to
the Sea,” and return via the, Grand Trunk
R. R. This book is a decided improvement
upon the former issues published annually
during the six years that these excursions
have been carried on, having 64 well _edited
and illustrated pages, and containing 4_3
maps engraved expressly for this year's edi-
tion. The title page of the cover is an exact
oo y in 10 colors of an oil painting of Glen
E1 is Falls, near the Glen House, in the
White Mountains, and is beautiful enough
to frame.

Every one contemplating a trip East this
summer whether they inten going on
these excursions or not should sen 30 cents
and secure one of these guide books.

ABOUT 50 young men from England, sons
of lawyers, merchants, etc. have been sent
to Fillmore and Omsted Counties, Minn.,
and placed on farms among leading farm-
ers to learn the art of farmin . When these
young men have mastered t eir rofession
as farmers, they will be started 11 busness
with about $2,000 and upwards in lands, etc.

A SEED is simply a plant packed for
transportation. Therefore the farmer car-
ries into his field with his seed grain, the

ibilities and limitations of his crop.

e may secure a more or less perfect devel-
opment of the plants, but cannot change
their character any m.°r° than he can grow
Baldwins on a Greening tre_e. Hence the
importance of careful selection of seeds.-
Prof. W. W. Tracy.

AC

&E

CREAMER & BUTTER COOLER

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

Where an Agent is not

summer. Ice re-

located. Correspondence
Send for CIR-

CULARS and PRICE-LIST.

solicited.

AGE

G. W. Hunt, Mattawan, Van Buren County.
W. P. Herd, Lowell, Kent County.
A. H. Smith, Sparta, “ N
Charles E» Thomwn. Rockford, Kent County.
Charles Pittman. Middleville, Barry County.

A. Stegeman. Allegan, Allegan County.

D. P. Newton, Watson, *‘ H

Simeon Staring, Ganges, H

E. J ._McNau§hton, Cooperville, Ottawa County.
Gutelius Snlyi er, Three Rivers, St. Joseph “
Williams it artshorn. Owosso, Shiawassee County.
0. C. Spaulding, Royalton, Berrien County.

P. W. Watts. Chelsea. West Washtenaw County.
John Wiebe, Bear Lake, Manistee County.
J. A. Montagu, Niles, Berrien County.

Sears it Messenger, Cassopolis, Cass County.
John Hoffman, Homer, Calhoun Co.

John Adams, Marshall, “

Wattles it Wood, Battle Creek, Calhoun Co.
J. R. Brayton, Bellville. Wayne Co.

S. Andrews, Howell, Livingston Co.

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

H. H. Freeman, Lenox, N. E. Macomb Co.

D. I. Dunton, Lapeer, Lapeer Co.

B. J. Wily. Mottville, St. Joseph County.
G. M. Gardner, Litchfield, Hillsdale County.

u

miss LIST” as surmise ll

Kept in the omce or the Secretary of the
MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,

And rent out Port Paid, on Receipt of Cash Order,
over the seal of a Subordinate Grange, and the
signature of its Maoter or Secretary.

Porcelain Ballot Marbles, er hundred, . . . . . . . .
Blank Book, ledger ruled, or Secretary to keep
accounts with members, . . . . . . . . . ... ...... .. 1

Blank Record Books, (Ex ress paid), ...... ....

Order Book, containing 10 Orders on the Treas-

urer, with stub, well bound,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _

Receipt Book, containing 100 Receipts from

Treasurer to Secretary, with stub, well bound,
Blank Receipts for dues, per 100, bound, ..... . .
A plications for Membership, per 100, . . . . . . ....

embership Cards, per 100, ............. . . . . . .

Withdrawal Cards, per doz., . . . .

Diniits, in envelopes, per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

By-Laws of the State Grange, single copies 10c,

per doz., ..... ..

By-Laws, bound,...... ....   ....  ...

“ Glad Echoes,” with music, Single copy 15 cts.

per doz., ................................. _ , 1
Rituals, single copy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

“ er doz., ............................ _ .
" fbr Fifth Degree, for Pomona Granges,
per co

Blank “Articles of Association” for the Incorpo-

ration of Subordinate Granges, with Copy of

Charter, all complete,.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Notice to Delinquent Members, per 100, ...... . .

Declaration of Purposes, per doz., 6c.; per

hundred,

American Manual of Parliamentary Law. . . . .
M u u u 41 (Mo,
rocco Tuck,) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Address of J. J. Woodman before the Nation-

a.l Grange-—psr dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Address of Thos. K. Beecher——per dozen . . . . . .
Digest of Laws and Rulings, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Address, J. T. COBB,
Sac’! Micn. SrA-rs GRANGE,
SCHOOLCRAFT, Mlcll

100

20
10
40

Grange Seal Stolen-—Caution—lmposter.

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 himse f, “ Yours ftaternally," 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 they are buying the celebrated
Ingersoll Ready Mixed Paint. 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 ,

1 O. R. INGE SOLL,
apr15tf Master Knickerbocker Grange.

$IOOO REWARD

for-any machine hullingas much closer seed in 1 day as the
. It beats all other

Double lluller glove
Dlacliine
can.

. . V?
m d ‘ d mi \ , I
.5: 5523.532.  -..
Circular confirming this mailed free. Send for it.
NEWARK MACHINE COMPANY, Newark, Ohio.
Owners of Patents and the only Manufacturers in the world-

15june3in

MICHIGAN:

FEMALE Sllllllllll.

KALAMAZ00, MICH.

Board and tuition, $175 per school year. Location
delightful. School on the Mt. I-Iolyoke_plai_i. In-
fluencs Christian, but not sectarian. Fine Iibra ,
cabinet, telescope and musical instruments. F
term begins Sept. 7, 1882. For catalogue or further

information, address
lbjnnefit PRINCIPAL.

A\_.

MCCALL & DUNCAN, Schoolcraft, Mich

N T S :

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

T. H. Ross & Co., Dowagiac, Cass County.

S. N. Thomas, Decatur, Van Buren County.
\Vm. C. Wooley, Elsie, Clinton and Gratiot Co's.
Adams 5; Rue, Galesburg, Kalanrazoo County.
F. L. Elms, Charlotte, Eaton Co.

J. W. Rossman, Mariette, Sanilac Co.

Staut it Ingoldshy, Pontiac, Oakland Co.

Dunnam «is Son, Hudson, Lenawee Co.

Sla ton ll: Son, Tecumseh, Lenawee Co.

VVi cox Bros, Adrian, Lenawee Co.

A Chandler & Son. Goldwater, Branch Co.

E. S. Bellamy, Ionia, Ionia co}

M W Thayer, Paw Paw, Van Buren co.

S P Davis, Constantine, St. Joseph County.
Whiting & Richardson, Flint, Genesee County.

Alabastine

Is the only preparation based on the
proper principles to constitute a durable
finish for walls, as it is not held on the wall
with glue, etc., to decay, but is a Stone Ce-
ment that hardens with age, and every ad-
ditional coat strengthens the wall. Is ready
for use by adding hot water, and easily ap-
plied by anyone.

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

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

M. B. CHURCH, Manager,

juyl-tf. Grand Rapids, Mich.

Teasdale Steam Fruit&Vegetab1e
EVAPORATOR.

To the Farmers and Fruit Growers of Lemncee, Ber-
rien, Cass, VanBuren, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, Cal-
houn, Branch, Hzllsdalc, Jackson, Washtemzw,
Monroe and Wayne Counties, in the State of Michi-
gan, and Lucas and Williams in the State of Ohio,
and the entire State of California :

THE BEST, SAFEST. CHEAPEST AND THE
MOST ECONOMICAL MACHINE

in the line of Evaporators ever offered in any market.

1st. The immense amount of drying capacity for
the amount of room used.

2d. There is no possibility of burning, browning,
or otherwise damaging fruit b the drying process.

3d. No experts are require to run the Evapora-
tor; and any man with ordinary intelligence can learn
all there is to it in an hour.

4th. It takes only two hours to dry apples with
this Evaporator, while it requires six hours to dry
with the hot air process. .

5th. When drying frames are placed in the dryin
chamber they need not be removed until the fruit is
dried, for each frame, as can be seen, has a. drying
chamber by itself, consequently moisture cannot rise
and dampen the fruit in upper part of dryer. And
the idea of hauling innumerable drying frames up
and down through a tower 40 to 50 feet high is en-
tirely done away with. And no more danger of los
by fire than in burning a cook stove, which fact alone
is largely in favor of our machine, for the average
life of a hot air concern is not to exceed two years.
There are many other points of excellence which we
have not room here to mention.

We have three sizes in stock. First size 6 to 8
bushels per day; this size can be used on any cook
stove. Second size from 20 to 25 bushels. Third size
from 40 to 50 bushels. All except the smallest are
wholly

Constructed of Galvanized Iron

Cash orders will receive prompt attention. Agents
wanted in every township and County in the State
of California. Address all correspondence to

R. M. BELLINGER,

Blissfield. Mich.
ljuntf

THE 5 - TON

WAGON SCALES.

ARE SOLD FOR 360.

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

: JONES OF BINGHAMPTON,
Bingliainpton. N. Y.
Send for Circulars and further particulars.

PAw Paw, Mich., May 18th, 1818.
Jonas or Bixonur-rox:
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. .

s" a
l lane 1 3 man

CULTI VATOR

all kinds rain and grass seeds.

is of very light draft, easily woiked by

Send for Circulars.

ATRONS’

Dlanufacturers ofln
Paint. The only Pa
air or water, the sun,
which destroy all
li-i-ererl freight paid to any
ed until delivered. All
sent free Bountiful Color
slructions how any one
PAINT WORKS, NEW

Pan‘ nt

depot in the countr

Card of the Paint
can Paint.
YORK.

EVERY FARMER IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD EXAMINE THE

New Combined Spring Tooth Sulky Harrow

AND SEEDER.

Manufactured by

THE WOLVERINE
HARROW AND SEEDER COMPANY.

Kalamazoo,

Michigan.

As a combined machine, it stands im-
rivalled in excellence, doing the work 01
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

_ _ . The Harrow does not trail or clog, is coh-
Strllcted In ‘W0 5€Cl510I1S- eltllel‘ Of Which can be raised or lowered by the driver,

Working independently of each other. setting the teeth at any required depth.

It
one pair of horses, and has received the

first premium and diplomas wherever exhibited

LOREJVZO BIXBY, Sec’?/.

AINT ORKS.

{_l€’I'80”’0 Li quid Rubber
int: that do fy main 9,- “,1;
or fumes _of burning co (1 l,
olher Pllliltl. Prices low, dc-
No cash requir-
write and have
itself, with in-
cas, PATRONS’

users alum 

Addr

lit Iocurlty lhr Payment to lhlp,

ltd. ‘Quick lulu Illd Prompt Payment.

To Parsons and 8hlppon.—'i‘hin is the
D1! and controlled by the Patron: or Husbandry.

THOMAS MASON,

General Commission Merchant,

181 South Water Street, CHICAGO,

BUSINESS AGENT MICHIGAN STATE QRAHGE,
Ioopoothlly Oollolh Oonolgunonh cl

FRUITS, VEGETABLES, BUTTER, E008,
WOOL, HOPE, POULTRY, GAME, ‘VEAL,
G»xa.IaSood.fi.o.'vv!‘\:.rI,I-I5.d.oo,PoJ.t:.'1‘u.11e'vr,au.

IIIIDEII Mill’ 0! ills I. W. PIIODIIIBE EXBIIIIOE ISSOGIITIOI.

Qua-loud Fob. I815. II77.

onlyoominlsdonnoosoln Ohlngoclur
Tlisohlorslinotthlslgsnoyh:

Ind. ‘lo obtain the Highest Mu-kot pr-loo lor goods received, quality oonnldawl.

Illlpporo in all States will receive equal benefits or thilnnnsgunont the Business longer
hing under Bond: for the faithful performance of the same.

'1'lilsAgencywlllilllOrder-sforsny goods in this market, at lowest possible roles. Ouh
mustsoooinpsnytlioorderrorneu-the ainountroquirod; balanostobopaldonroooiptol Nil.

THOMAS MASON, Business lamps.

ZLIIJT BIPOBTB, ITINOILS and SHIPPING TAGS suit on Ivfllioatlon.

L I F E INSURANCE

FOR PATRONS.

O

The Patrons’ Aid Society of Michigan

WAS ORGANIZI-Ell IN DECEMBER, 1880,

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

HUME INSTITUTION OF LIFE IIISURANUE

that the could control. As its name indicates, it is
FOR T E 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.
is feathre 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 officers 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 am 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 people should from time
to time pay a small sum from their income or their
earnings, in order to secure to those dependent on
them in an hour of need a sum sufiicient 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, Wx. B. LANGLEY,

Dryden. Centreville.
R. C. CARPENTER, GEO. W. EWING,

Lansing. Ross.
Mas. C. K. CARPENTER, C. L. WHITNEY,

Orion. Cincinnati.
J. T. COBB, A. E. GREEN,

Srhoolcraft. Walled Lake.
or to Local Agents they may appoint.

For By-Laws and Circulars apply to either

WM. B. LANGLEY, Pres’t,
or J. '1‘. COBB. sec’y, Centrevllle,
febltf Schoolci-aft, Mich.

PATENTS.

LUCIUS 0. 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, MICE. aprltf

PEISIOIIS. 
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nu‘ “N. d . years, has hen dluolvodby
I come: ay.
ml).

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Ginwoxwulclouu use buinusot thooldnnn
which was at its CnicA Ones. Pu-ties into ,
‘m No“.  ¥ g° =e§°oG?Ilml‘
gig fli.,‘).(:uh I1, 1385.
1 ti using th business pron
havdlhhzoigée aeilitlucfgp mg :3
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on stormy
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l6june-it

Garden, Flower and Field
5 E E 13 5 ,

OF EVERY VARIETY.

BOXES Oi‘ ASSORTED PUPPIES finished GRANGES

WHITE RUSSIAN OATS.

Special Prices to Patrons on Application.

NEW GROCERY PRICE LIST NOW READY.
SEND FOR IT.

GEORGE W. HILL,

80 Wootlbridge St., West,
Feh.1tf DETROIT, MICE.

GRANGE HORSE NETS.

We manfacture a first-class Horse Not at Charlotte,
Michigan, and offer at prices as follows :-

Full Size Body, Neck, and Ear tips of 16-thread
twine, by the dozen, each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Same as above made of 20-thread twine, each.
Bodynetstothehames, each.............. .. 75
Ear tips, by the doz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.40

When express charges exceed one dollar per doz.
the excess can be charged to me. Sixty da s time
given on orders under seal of a Grange, an 5 per
cent discount off for cash with the order.

Annnnssz
JOSEPH SHAW.
Charlotte, Mich;

81.10
1.25

TEE ZALAMAZOO

BUSINESS
COLLEGE and

Q43

INSTITUTE,

Ofiers superior advantages to young Men and Women
who wis  qualify for business. Send for Journal
giving particulars.

W. F. PA/980.‘/8, Presf.
Pure ‘Italian Bees.

Sixty swarms in movable comb hives,for sale.
,Write for prices. '
Southard & Ranney,
KALAMAZ00, MICE.

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