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“THE FARMER IS OF MORE CONSEQUELVCE THAN THE FARM,

AND SHOULD BE FIRST IJIIPROVED.”

VOLUME 8,—NO. 15.
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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

Fatherly Advice—Michigan Crop Report, July 1,
1882- Something About Trees—— Sorghum for Cows.
Curculio—Squash Buga—Talks on Poultry, No, 12.
A new Cattle Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

At Last—The Social and Intellectual Benefits De-
rived from the Grange—Iowa Farmers and Monop-
oly—Report of Secretary of the Farmers’ Protective
Association of Iowa—Farmers in Politics —The
Brigands of Mussel Slough-—The Haste to Become
Rich, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Upkand Doing—How Springville Grange Spent the
ourth—Summerton Grange, No. 3l0—A Lucky

_ Misfortune -—Women at School Meetings-Little
Good Things-Prof. Huxley on Woman’: Educa-
tion-—Need of United Action—Peter Cooper on
Railroad Corporations——Advertisements—Railroa.d
Time-tables, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3

State Capitol Engraving—The Patent Amendment in
the Senate——The Decay of Com etition—-Reform
in Criminal Proceedure—About hituaries——State
Grange—A.unual Picnic——Granges in Michigan-
Railroad Robbery—’l‘he “Sanitary Engineen”. , . 4

Money Order Charges——Monopolv in Iowa— Execu-
tive Committee Meeting——'l‘he Channel Island—The
People and their Cattle— -Wealth in Walnut Trees-
Notices of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Eventide—Reminisencces of the State Grange, No. 4
—Woman and Pro erty—Natural and Conferred
Rights of Women— olitics Affecting Suffrage in
the Grange—Agreeable Meals, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Beautiful Things—Sweet Briar Spealrs—Thoughts
and Requests--“Sunflower” on Labor—-Fences and
Butter-Making-—“Gi.rls, Hel Father.” — Boys —
Three or Four Rich Men — he Reaper, Death -
Advertisements, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Officers National Grange.

MA3rnn—J. J. WOODMAN,. . .Paw Paw, Michigan.

0'vxnsann—PUT. DARDEN, . . . . . . . . . . .Mississippi.
LIo'r'UB.n3—HENRY ESHBAUGH, .... ..Missouri.
Srnwann-—A. J. VAUGHN, . . . . . . . . . . . .Mississippi.
Assr. Sraws.an—W1LLIAM SIMS, ...... ..Kansas.
CEAPLAIN—S. H. ELLIS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..0hio.
TnusUnr.n—F. M. MCDOWELL, .... ..New York.
B.lcnn1‘ABY—WM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.
GA'1'n-Kniiran-0. DINWIDDIE, ....... ..Indiana.
Olnas—MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, . . . . . . ..Michigan.

Poisons-—MRS. PUT. DARDEN, .... ..Mississippi.
!'r.oiu.—MRS. 1. W. NIcHoI;soN,...New Jersey.
LAD! Assr. Sraw.uzn—MRS. WM. SIMS, Kansas.

 

Executive committee-

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

 

Officers Michigan State Grange.

 

M.-C. G. LUCE, ........................ ..Gilead.
0.——A. N. WOODRUFF, ............. ..Watervl1'et.
s.—s. A. TOOKER, .................... ..Lansing.
A. S.-—A. E. GREEN, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fa1'mihgton.
L.—GEARLES E. MICKLEY .......... ..Thurber.
0.—8A.LMON STEEL, ..... . .Frank.fort, Benzie Co.
1‘.—S. F. BROWN, .................. ..Schoolcraft.
Baa.-—J. T. COBB, ................... . .Schoolcraft.
G.K.—ELIJAH BARTLETT, ......  .Dryden.
0lnns.—-Mas. A. S. STANNARD, ........ ..Lowell.
Poxoru.—-Mas. H. D. PLATT, ......... . .Ypsilanti.
l'non4.—M1ss. A N. WOODB.UFF,....Watervliel:.
L. A. S.-——Mns. A. E. GREEN, ....... . .Farmington_.
Executive committee-
I. Q, A. BURRINGTON, Chairman, .... ..Tuscola.
J’. WEBSTER CHILDS, .............. ..Ypsilanti.
1‘. K. HOLLOWAY, ................... . .Hillsdale.
THOMAS MARS, ............... . . Berries Center.
WM. SATTEBLEE, ............... . .Bii-mingham.
‘EH08. F. MOORE, ..................... . .Adrian.
J’. G RAMSDELL ................. . .Traverse City.
0. G. LUCE, J. '1'. coins, ............ ..Ex-olficio.
, State Business Agent.

IEOMAS MASON, ................. . .Chicago, I11.
630. W. HILL ......................... ..Detroit.
General Deputy.

JOHN HOLBROOK ........ . .' .......... . 
special Lecturers.
nu; 1‘. Moore. ............. . .Adrian, Lenawoe Co.
u. 1.. Stevens. ............. “Pen-v, Shinwucee Go.
In. 8. Steele, .............. ..Mantou, Wexiord 00.
W ounpbeli, ..... ..Ypsiianti, Wuhtenaw Co.

;_ V, wing........ ....Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co.

__v_‘,,, ,fl._ ..........m w

fiuiulluul Euallmenl.

FATHERLY ADVICE.

Then (you've decided on. your course—you’ll be a
ootor, Jim?
The old man’: trade ain’t
ahead 0‘ him?
All rigihjt you're now of age and own the privilege
o

good enough——you’ll go

As you see fit, though all the world should rise and
caution you.

The doctor’s life's a hard one, J im-—this getting up
of nights

And ridin’ miles is not the chief of secular delights,

And bravin’ storms to save‘ a man who fails to pay

you, boy_, _
Is not what might be rated, unadulterated joy.

’Twere nice, within your ofiice, with your ‘shingle’
hung outside,

To write cash-down prescriptions as the blissful mo-
ments glide,

But striking out at midnight, when the wintry zeph-
yrs hiss,

Ain't what good judges might set down as undiluted
bliss.

And then the smell 0’ drugs, why, Jim, a r'a-a-1 fast-
tijus nose

Belonging to a doctor’s face would never find repose ;

Now, your proboscis might survive all sorts o’ smells,
but me——

I toss the sponge at one good whiff of assafccdihc!

Tdofiimliny‘ riew-fledged1iof3to‘i'§‘Jim,”are"Acoming
from the schools

To make slip-shod experiments on weak, coniiding
fools ;

The cemeteries grow apace and undertakers grin

To knpw their agents are at work and trade a rollin’
111.

My words may have but little weight, but common
sense insists

That breathing poisoned, druggy air and holdin’ sick
men’s wrists

Ain't like inhalin’ pure, fresh air that fans the
farmer’s brow,

And grasping with amanly hold the handles ofa
plow.

You may succeed, but oh, my son, misfortunes dark
may fall,

And you some day may be reduced to the saddest
strait of all-

Sick nigh to death and dropped by friends, your last
resort may be

To try your nostrums on
misery !

yourself to ease your

   

Michigan Crop Report, July l, 1882.

For this report returns have been received
irym 902 correspondents, representing 685
townships. Five hundred and fifty-six of
these returns are from 389 townships in the
southern four tiers of counties. ,

The first footing of the wheat columns in
the crop and stock reports returned to
this ofilce by Supervisors, shows that the
number of acres harvested in Michigan in
1881 was 1,669,405, number of bushels, 20,-
173,471, and number of acres in wheat at the
time the assessment was taken this year
(will be harvested this year) 1,718,155.

The probable aggregate yield in the State
this year as shown by the figures at hand is
31,420,834 bushels, an average of 18.29 bush-
els to the acre.

The aggregate yield is obtained by multi-
plying the acreage in each county at the
time the assessment was taken, by the aver-
age yield per acre, as estimated by corres-
pondents, and taking the sum of the totals.

Owing to the backwardness of the season
harvesting will begin from ten to twenty
days later than usual. Continued rains
cause some some anxietv as to the final out-
come of the crop,

The Hessian fly and other insects are
reported present in various parts of the State,
but it is probable they will reduce but slight-
ly the aggregate product. Reports of dam-
age from this source are mainly from the
southern section of the State. notably from
Kent; Ottawa, and the southwestern coun-
ties of Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, St. Joseph,
and Branch. It was this locality that suf-
fered most from the ravages of the Hessian
fly in 1877. One correspondent in Branch
county states that “ fillllte a number of farm-
ers are now cutting t eir wheat for fodder."
In the northern counties insects are doing
the most damage in Crawford, Grand Trav-
erse, and Kalkaska.

According to the estimates only about
three per cent. of the old crop yet remains in
farmers’ hands. The small and constantly
diminishing amount of wheat marketed, al-
though a reasonably fair price is offered, it-
self indicates that the old crop is nearly or
quite exhausted.

The condition of corn is 87 per cent., of
oats 108 per cent, barley 100 per cent, clover
meadows and pastures 91 per cent, timothy
meadows and pastures, 100 per cent., and of
clover sowed this year 117 per cent. of the
condition July 1, 1881.

Apples now promise 87 per cent. as against
113 per cent. on the first of June. Reports
from all parts of the State show that the
apples are falling from the trees in large
quantities.

Peaches promise four-fifths of an average
crop, or about the same as on June 1.

Reports have been received of the quanti-
ty of wheat marketed by farmers during the
month of June at 298 elevators. Of these
240 are in the southern four tiers of coun ties,
whlchis one-half of the whole number of
elevators and mills in these counties. The
total number of bushels marketed is 419,918,
of which 129,846 bushels were marketed in

 

 

the first or southern tier of counties, 143,040
bushels in the second tier, 38,092 bushels in
the third tier, 94,426 bushels in the fourth
tier, and 14.534 bushels in the counties north
of the southern four tiers. At 63 elevators
and mills, or 21 per cent. of the whole num-
ber from which reports have rerueived, there
was no wheat marketed during the month.
At 236 elevators and mills the quantity of
wheat marketed 359,511 bushels, which is
60 per cent of the quantity marketed at the
same places during the month of May.

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Something About Trees.

Leonard B. Hodges is‘ doubtless the best
authority on tree-culture in this State [Min-
nesota] but so much does business call him
out of the city that a reporter was unable to
obtain an extended interview on the subject
of arboriculture with him. In the short con-
versation held with him Mr. Hodges gave,
however, some valuable information. which
is herewith appended :

I will in a hurried way just try to correct
some recent and very foolish ideas which
are now having a run through the public
press. Some months ago I noticed a very
readable article in your columns from some
Iowa correspondent; about the Smartest
Girl in lowa—how she had hitched up the
te:-.111, loaded it with sprouts, black-walnuts
etc., struck out for the Jim river country,
made a homestead and tree claim, stuck her
sprouts and black-walnuts, etc.,
ground, and was thereby the owner in fee
of 320 acres of land so very easily acquired,
and was going back in the spring to repeat
the operation and double her fortune, al-
ready prospectively set at some 330,000, more
or less. VVhen reading it, I thought the
absurdity of the yarn carried its own anti-
dote, but having had my attention called to
it by many inexperienced and sensible peo-
ple who have swallowed it whole as true,
and who seriously intend to follow the ex-
ample of the “smart girl in Iowa,” allow
me to say this, that in making a tree claim,
the law requires that during tl..- first year
five acres must be broken; man during the
second year another five acres shall be
broken, and the first five acres be cultivated
to crop or otherwise; that during the third
year the first five acres shall be planted to
forest trees and the second five acres culti-
vated to crop or otherwise; that during the
fourth year the second five acres shall be
planted to forest trees, and that thereafter
the entire ten acres thus planted shall be
thoroughly and annually cultivated——that
no patent for land so entered shall issue un-
til eight years from the date of entry; that
the person making such entry must

PROVE BY TWO CREDIBLE WITNESSES

that he or she has planted, and for not less
than eight years has cultivated and protect-
ed their trees, as aforesaid; that not less
than 2,700 trees, seeds, or cuttings were
planted on each acre. Positive proof must
be made that there are then growing at least
675 living and thrifty trees to each acre._
Such is the substance of the law. It cannot
be evaded with impunity. Its terms and
provisions are plain and imperative. There
is no romance in it. I do not learn from the
article referred to that the “smartest girl in
Iowa” ever took the trouble to break or plow
the ground ; just stuck the cuttings, sprouts,
etc., into the raw prairie land.

The probabilities are all that when the
“smartest girl in Iowa” goes into the Jim
river country this s ring to make another
tree claim and anot er $30,000, she will find
her claim jumped because she failed tomake
any pretense of complying with the law;
that she has exhausted her rights under the
law and will not be permitte to make an-
other entry under the congressional timber-
culture act, and that she will be compelled
to turn her attention to something she
knows better how to do. I’m too busy to
read all there is in the newspapers, but lots
of fellows are after me everywhere I go,
about planting black walnuts, and lately
they all tell me that Eli Perkins says that
all you have got to do to grow a magnificent
forest of black walnut timber is to go out on
the wild, raw prairie and take a hammer,
and with the hammer knock a hole in the
sod, drop the black walnut into the hole, and
in a few years you have your blackwalnut
forest.

NOW, I DON’T KNOW ELI PERSONALLY,

but his general reputation for truth and ver-
acity will be seriously impaired unless he is
more careful how he talks_ about growing
black walnut timber. I'm inclined to think
the boys have misunderstood his remarks.
For their benefit, and also for the benefit of
Eli, permit me to say that the most success-
ful growers of black walnut timber in Iowa
and Minnesota pursue substantially the fol-
following method, to-wit: After having com-
pletely subdued and prepared the ground by
years of plowing and cultivation, mark out
as for corn; plant deep enough so that a
temporary drouth _won’t dry up the nut;
plant the nut where the tree is to remain
permanently; cultivate the ground thorough-
ly until the young trees have developed so
as to shade the ground so as to choke out all
weeds and grass; from that on protect from
fire and cattle.

The nuts should be gathered soon after
maturit and before they have dried any.
(A dry lack walnut is not worth planting.)
When gathered, aslpread them out on the
ground, or in sin heaps—cover with most
any kind of mulch—throw on buckets of
water occasionally enough to keep them
moist. Thus handled, the frost will crack

into the ,

the shell, and when

planted in the spring
the young trees will

ollow promptly. The
black walnut deli hts in a dee , rich and
moist soil. Secon bench river Bottoms, and
the deep ravines leading into the river bot-
toms, are the sort of localities nature usually
selects when she goes into the black walnut
business.

The black walnut is not the hardiest forest
tree in the world. None of any account are
found in Minnesota higher north than the
Minnesota valley. That don’t prove that
they will not grow higher up. In certain
localities in Stevens county, where they had
the shelter of young groves, the black wal-
nut is growing and doing well. I found
black walnut trees 28 years ago in the shel-
tered valleys of the Zumbro and its branch-
es. then standing two and a half to four feet
in diameter, and from 40 to 50 feet of
straight, clear body timber before reaching
the limbs. Many such trees, which if now
standing would sell for a hundred dollars
each on the stump, were cut for firewood
and fence rails, and others for saw-logs and
the lumber sold for $15 to $22 per thousand.

PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.

I think if I were going to plant a quarter
section of black walnut I would go south of
the Minnesota valley, far enough south to
be sure of no trouble in freezing down.
Then I would plant four feet apart each way,
and keep the ground clean by thorough cul-
tivation until the young plantation over-
powers the weeds and grass. Nature will
do the thinning out. Thick planting in-
sures tall, straight timber, which Nature
will thin out ultimately to about what the
ground will carry easily. Thin planting
will produce short-bodied, large-topped shade
_trees—n_ot timber trees. [The black walnut
is a rapid and steady grower. I saw some
on the farm of Mr. John Kepner, in Olm-
sted county, Minn., a few years ago-four
years from the seed, the largest of which
were then fourinches in diameter and in
full blow for a crop of nuts.

I think the largest plantation of black
walnuts (that I am personally acquainted
with), artificially grown, is on the planta-
tion of Judge C. E. VVhiting, of Vvhiting,
Monona county, Iowa. The judge plants
the nuts by wagon loads and makes a grand
success of it. It will amply pa any one
contemplating planting blac walnuts
largely to see the judge and his plantation.
On the bleak prairies of the Northwest I
am inclined to think the black walnut will
require the protection of hardier trees. I
am planting mine among the cottonwoods
and am awaiting results.—St. Paul Pioneer
Press, May, 1882.

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Sorghum for Cows.

A successful dairy farmer of Wisconsin re-
lates his experience as follows: I planted
an acre of Imphee (sorghum or Amber do as
Well.) A touch of frost induced me to cut it
early, and not succeeding to get a mill to
work it in time, I stacked it the same as
corn, and afterwards drew it convenient to
the barnyard. In December I fed it to my
milk cows, throwing it over to them whole,
same as corn stalks. Now the result! Al-
though they had abundance of hay they
were as greedy for the cane as boys after
sugar plums. Every scrap of it was eaten,
and so close that nothing was leftto indicate
what had been;fed to them; no food seemed
to do them so much good. We could see no
material difference in the quantity of the
milk, but in the quality, one good housewife
says she never saw anything like it, for it
was nearly all cream. I believe an acre is
worth more for milk cows than many acres
of hay. Plant a patch of cane for vour cows
for cream, and a bed of carrots for the color,
and feed ; the cow’s mouth is the true
strainer for a good color; and let dye stufi‘
alone. Try it.

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curculio.
- Speaking of curculio, the Germantown
Telegraph says that the one thing that is a
remedy, and will assuredly prove to be, if
carefully attended to——but it is this “if”
that is in the road—ls the jarring of the tree
as soon as the fruit begins to form until the
stone has become too hard for the larvae to
penetrate, every morning and evening, plac-
ing a sheet underneath large enough to re-
ceive the fallen insects, and then burn them.
Cut off a bough of the tree an inch or two
from the trunk, and strike it sharply with a
pretty heavy mallet; and the curcul1o,which
drops easily and never clings to a leaf or
other portion, falls into the sheet, where it
will remain coiled up as if dead, looking
very much like a piece of the bark; but it
is only “playing possum,” and, let alone a
little while, will soon make its escape. All
the large plum raisers of the country ado t
this course as the only one certain to get rid
of curculio and obtain a full crop of sound,
uninjured fruit.
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Squash Bugs.

A New Jersey farmer says: “ I have
found the following a sure preventive
against the attacks of squash bugs, cucum-
ber beetles etc., on my garden vines, Satu-
rate a piece of cloth or old rags with coal oil
and tie to a short stick, or draw them
through a split made in the top of the stick
tofasten them, insert the stick in hills or
near the vines, and the bugs will soon dis-
appear. Aftera shower, and usually once
in three or four days the rags will need to

be saturated anew.”

 

Talks on Poultry, No. 12.

.<l')l)ll£R HINTS.

Possibly fowls have been neglected during
harvest and the best wv can do is to make
amends. Farniers who ll{l\'€‘ good watch dogs.
or who never have their fo\\'lS borrowed,
fumigate their lien house and close it until
fall, leaving fowls to roost in tree or shelter-
cd places prep:11'cd for flu-in. The lieu house
should be l't1i1iigaL<-(l zm_v\vu_v, and if obliged
to use it. some \\'llitewus'lx the windows to
act as curtains. Slmdy Ivlaws, with roof
and low roosts, should lw provided, to which
fowls may resort during tho sllltry (lays of
August, and which should :ifi°o1~d shade fore
and afternoon. Food for hot weather was
given sorno attention in .\'o. ll. A couple of
furrows of ground plow:-ll or .<pzulcd will be
appreciated, cspe-ci:1ll_v after it rain. l)rag the
ground after a few da_vs. .\lnu_v advocate :1
few nails or 1)ie(:(.' of iron in the driul~:iug
fountain as an iron touic.

Hens will lay outdoors from choice, and
considcmblc ileten-t.i\'c ability is required to
find the iu-sis in time to secure the eggs
fresh. ltlggs sliould now be kept down cc-liar.
Tlu-re will be nothing g:1iuc<_l b_vl'o1'ciug hens
to lay this time ofycar by extm feed. They
must res: .s'ouu-time, and better now. and
then conuueuc<-laying in the full. At this
busy seztsoll when eggs must be ,L,'£l.lll6:‘1'(‘ll
lute at night. we sue the £lllV:llllll_£.',’¢‘ of (<]u'n21
nest eggs ow-1‘ other kinds. as :1 touch tells
which is the llcst egg. licsides they do not
crack, freeze and are :ll\\'.‘l_\‘S clean. We prefer
them.

Sitting heus are it bother to some-, as the hens
have mostly laid their lou;;lit.t¢-1', zmd sitting
comes next in natural order. l)csc1'iptions
of parks have been given in the VI.~'i'rolc. A
box of aslles should be ])lil.('n’: inside, and or-
rangenlents fixed to feed and water from the
outside. We feed sittiu;_;11cus liberally, be-
cause if sitting they would cut. .S‘p.'l.l‘lllgly, and
We are trying to resist nature. We have seen
people grab ll€llS by one leg. and llezul down.
amid the screzuns of the poor fowls carry
them to the park, forgetting that there is a
right way and and as wrong way to do every-
thing. Tnkc one been at 2'. time, grasp both
legs above the first joint with one lumd, put-
ting thc other hand under the breast bone,
and the lien will seldom make a. noise. It is
not well to take ll. lien by the body from a
nest, for there is often an egg under a wing.
Hens must be kept in the park a week, now,
as they are more broody than earlier in the
year.

You may notice that spring chickens, after
leaving the mother lien, go to roost later
than hens. Take adv;uitagc of this and qui-
etly feed the chickens all they will cut the
last thing at night, after the hens are roost-
ing. They will soon learn to come without
calling or attracting hens. We speak from
experience.
G’“‘,}‘§,,},’,‘,,‘j,“,‘;o‘,‘;f"m-} OLD POULTRY.

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A New Callie car.

Two cattle cars, patented by W. 8. Hunt-
er, were loaded recently at the Chicago
stock-yards for shipment east. The cars are
fitted with troughs along the sides, and from
occillating bars, crossing the roof of the ca
depended, by running 1-in s, a folded parti-
tion or screen, which, w en fastened by a
rin to a staple, divided oil‘ 26 inches of the
wi th of the car, and was flexible enough
to permit the animal to lie down, and had
tension enough to prevent the beast crowd-
ing to any great extent its neighbors in the
stalls on either side. The car, which on this
plan carries 15 cattle, is padded at either
end. For speed in loading, arrangements
aremade so that the cattle face right and left
according to the end of the car into which
they are driven. By the ordinary method
16 or 17 cattle are driven into a car in three
or four minutes. Eleven minutes were oc-
cupied in loading the first, and nine and one-
half minutes in filling the second. An
oflicer of the Humane Society accompanies
these cars on their trip to note the results.
When loaded, the beasts have the appearance
of being stalled, and several of them can lie
down at one time. The troughs are filled
by means of hose at difi'erent points, and
feed given the animals.

SOUTH CAROLINA, like the rest of the
States, suffers from the all-pervading do
nuisance. The Commissioner of Agricu -
ture, Colonel A. P. Butler, estimates that
the losses caused by do ,range from ten per
cent. on the flocks to as out 100 or total anni-
hilatlon. No doubt the blame is tobe divid-
ed among several classe . It seems rather
a natural habit that he roes and poor whites
should keep dogs, whl
other property holders want them for fan-
cied use or amusement, and between them
$151‘ the sheep interest sufl’ers.—Ph-iladelpluu

see.

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AUGUST 1, 1882.

fillfltlttltllllitatiflltfi.

AT LAST.

When on my day of life the night is falling,
And in the winds from unsunned spaces blown

I hear far voices out of darkness calling
My feet to paths unknown,——

Thou who hait made my home of life so pleasant,
Leave not its tenant when its walls decay;

0 Love divine, O Helper ever present,
Be thou my strengt and stay! '

Be near me when all else is from me drifting,
Earth, sky, home's pictures, days of shade and
shine, _
And kindly faces to my owuuplifting
The love which answers mine.

I have but thee, 0 Father! Let thy spirit
Be with me then to comfort and uphold; _

No gate -of pearl, no branch of palm, I merit,
Nor street of shining gold.

Suflice it if——my good and ill unreckoned,
Andboth forgiven through thy unbounded grace-
I find myself by hands familiar beckoned
Unto my fitting place.

omehumble door among Thy many mansions, .
Some sheltering shade where sin and striving
cease
And flows ,fcrever through heaven's green expan-

sions
The river of Thy peace.

There, from the music round about me stealing
I fain would learn the new and holy song,
And find, at last, beneath thy trees of healing,

The life for which I long.

——J. G. Whittier.

The social and Intellectual Benefits Derived From
the Grange.

Any organization with a well defined centre
or base, be it ever so limited or broad, can
not transcend its boundaries, If the Grange
were a political organization, it would be
transcribed only by political rites; if literary,
literary rules would be its only orthodoxy.
Fortunately for the Grange it is not thus lim-
ited; its boundaries are like those of our other
liberty-loving institutions, which are such a
strong characteristic of our own happy and
best beloved of all countries; where free inter.
course among its people is one of the most
brilliant guiding stars to its high civilization.

The Grange as a social organization has no
superior; and if its equal is in existence, the
cloud of darkness surrounding it, has not al-
lowed the light of our high intelligence to
view or weigh it in a proper balance. The
Grange as a social institution, is vastly
in advance of Solomon or any of
the philosophers of their respective times.
The Grange is first in elevating womanhood
to a grand level with the other sex. The sis-
ters of this mystic Order are the first who were
ever asked by, father, husband or brother. to
enter the sanctum of secrecy, hold oflice, join
in discussion, and vote upon all questions.

Women, as a social creature, has, from the
earliest dawn of the historic page, been as-
signed some place, either by custom, force of
statute, or natural causes; has enjoyed or suf-
fered the attentions and ]ealousies—as an in-
ferior being—-of royal king, mighty conqueror,
duke, lord and peasant alike.

But liberty’s sun shines upon one altar
where it is written in love and letters of
gold “Sister, come thou hither and enjoy the
responsibilities of thy brother." What sister
of the Order could withhold her emotion of true
gratitude for the tributes of courtesy and re-
spect which are contiuully being presented by
distinguished scholars and patriotic statesmen.
Who cannot but reflect with pleasant remem-
brances to that part of the subject
addressed to the sisters of the Indi-
ana State Grange, by Hon. Allen Porters
Governor of Indiana in which he offered them a
suggestive compliment regarding their educa-
tion in the Grange, side by side. with their
brother, which would thereby enable them to:
decide, or determine upon all issues of a busi-
ness, legal or political nature.

History points to woman as a conspicuous
feature in all the revolutions which have effect-
ed the weal or woe of mankind. Each gener-
ation has had its acknowledged feminine leader
in its drama of events. What Deborah. was to
Israel such was Joan of Are to France. What
Queen Isabella was to the explorers of the
new world, such was Anna Ella Carroll to the
“Union" during our late Rebelhon. While
Susan B. Anthony was vainly pleading for the
emancipation of woman, Miss Carrie Hall.
niece of Mr. Kelly, one of the founders of the
Grange, saw the golden opportunity. seized it.
and thereby with one grand eii'ort,emancipated
the farmers wives, beyond anything hitherto
thought of or attempted.

Women seem to have a perfect genius for
self sacrifice. Judge Fowler, writes of them,
“The women cast bullets for their husbands,
sons or brothers, to carry to Bunker Hill; and
throughout the Revolution the women csmed
on the farms, cut and hauled the wood, and
kept the wolf from the door. Their whole
lives were spent in strengthening the hands
of the men; they “took comfort” in overcom-
ing all obstacles presented by fate and over-
worked husbands, in the way of sending the
boys to school and college; one boy at least
must go; they begged and entreated, and
finally insisted upon the privilege of having
a. little less food, a little more work, a little
less clothing that the boys might have an ed-
ucation." Such were our revolutionary
women. and although their biography may be
unwritten. yet the impress of their character
as stamped upon future generations, is of in-
finitely more value to us to-day than volumes

“Two hands the God of nature gave
One swift to smite, one strong to save
Betwixt the cradle and the grave.

Where strength hews out his stony stent,
Where woods are felled. and metals blent.
The right hand measures his content.

Where skill sits tireless at her loom,
Where beauty wafts her transient bloom
The tender saving hand has room,

And fate as in a tourney fine
The differing powers doth match and join
That each may wear the crown divine.

But manhood in his zeal and haste
Leaves cruel overthrow and waste
Upon his pathway roughly traced.

Then woman comes with patient hand.
With loving heart of high command,
To save the councils of the land.

The men who make their gold their weal,
Who gained with powder and with steel.
Have not a weapon she can feel,

Mothers, the wrongs of ages bate!
Amend them ministers of fate!
Redeem the churchf Reform the state!

In the social relation we would not forget
our brother, who does not believe. if facts
have not been barbarously disguised, that any
man would deport himself in a very different
manner where his mother, wife. sister or
daughter were one of the critics. Our social
natures are balanced, tested or blended, in
just the degree in which they are exercised;
and if brought to a high degree, as exempli-
fied by the author of all creative forces, it is
the most grand and sublime element of our
organism.

With this limited review of social benefits.
let us present the intellectual.

It is an old saying well worthy of our note
that “steel will sharpen steel,” so by frequent-
ly meeting and engaging in the interchange
of thought we are refined, educated, and each
time made intellectually stronger. An emin-
ent professor once said there was nothing
better to develop thought than to pursue a
course of mathematics; but in such a course
are we not but pondering over the thoughts
of others to ripen our own?

If we have such elements in our na-
tures, why should we not use them? This
method has been adopted and used in all ages
of the world. That great orator who carries
all captive by his eloquence, did not attain to
his position by remaining at home, talking to
bare or gilded walls, but by allowing his won-
derful nature to come in contact with natures
like his own.

It was not the isolated conception of one
individual that laid the foundation of any of
our great insti‘utions; but by putting active
thought into active being with our fellow
kind.

It was inter-exchange of thought expressed
by the Hugenots that civilized modern Eu-
rope.

It was active thought expressed by the op-
pressed, that gave birth and rise to our great
republic. Hence we say, come. enter the
broad, intellectual fields opened by the Grange,
from which partisan strifes and sectarian rites
are all banished; where we can meet on one
common level, and with all the good authors
and gifted orators at hand, with united might
and strength, tear that common and dreaded ap-
pendage drudgeryfrom the old-time banner,
and sail out under the new,as kings and queens
or united sovereigns of the soil, fit associates
for puritan homes or princely courts.

In conclusion, I could find‘ no language that
so beautifully framed an application as an
extract from .l‘ennyson:

“Bing out a slowly d ing cause,
And ancient forms 0 party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out false ride in place and blood,
The civic slan er and the spite;

Ring in the love of truth and right;
Ring in the common love of good.-

Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the thousand wars of old:
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Bing out the feud of rich and cor,
Ring in redress to all mankin ,

Ring out the false,_ring in the true,
Bing out the old, ring in the new."

lowa Farmers and Monopoly.

The Farmers’ Protective Association of
Iowa, having for its 'object the defense of
farmers from the extortion of patent monop-
olies, and especially the claims of barbed
wire manufacturers, held its regular annual
meeting June 29, at Des Moines, Iowa, with
closed doors. Newspaper reporters, and
what were termed legal spies, were especial-
ly singled out as objects of exclusion. Not-
withstanding this, it is learned that D. P.
Clark, of Pottawattamie county, presided,
and B. F. Gue, of the Iowa Homestead, was
chosen secretary. There was some routine
business transacted, and the date of the an-
nual meeting was changed. The financial
exhibit of the secretary showed that he had
received from the loyalty fund $1,223.18; fees
for membership, $1,500; total receipts,
$3,980.18. Amount paid out, $3,040.17, leav-
ing a balance on hand of $940.01. A resolu-
tion was adopted thanking the old board of
directors for their efiicient labors during the
past year. A resolution was also introduced
by C. F. Clarkson, and unanimously passed,
calling attention to the masterly inactivity
displayed by Congressman Kasson in secur-
ing legislation for the relief of farmers from
the exactions of patent monopolists. A new
board of directors was chosen. as follows:
M. L. Devin, Polk county; J. D. Whitman,
Dalla.s- Andrew Hastie, Warren; L. S. Cof-
fin, Webster; G. H. Crosby, Poweshiek;-
J ames Wilson, Tama; J. G. Brown, Mar-
shall; Henry Wallace, Madison; J. W.
Murphy, Jasper. The standing committee
on manufacturers is C. F. Clsrkson Andrew
Hastie and George H. Crosby. J. T. Whit-
man was chosen trustee of the royalty fund,
which consists of 1* cent per pound of wire
made, which is to be used to defray the costs

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of litigation in defending barb wire suits.

Report of Secretary of the Farmers’ Protective
Association of Iowa.

From the Iowa Grange Visitor.

VVhen we began our work one year ago,
the VVashburn & Moen Manufacturing Co.
claimed for themselves and their associates
the exclusive right to manufacture and use
barbed wire of every description and sought
by bribery and intimidation to enforce their
demand. S0 well had they succeeded in
their undertaking, hacked as their threats
were by unlimited finances, that no one
dared risk the expense and annoyances of
litigation in the federal courts; and when
our association was organized the hundreds
of shops that had been supplying the demand
for fencing material in their immediate
neighborhoods, were idle, and no barbed
wire could be had except what was furnish-
ed by some one of the forty factories, the
owners of which had entered into the com-
bination to monopolize the business for the
whole country upon their own terms.

\Ve had good reason to believe and did
believe that this broad claim had no founda-
tion in law orjustice. We have succeeded
during the past twelve months in establish-
ing the same belief in the minds of ninty-
nine out of every one hundred throughout
thecountry, although we have had as et
no opportunity for a hearing in court anti a
judicial decision in our favor.

When the plaintiffs in a civil action do
not want to have the case heard it is a diffi-
cult matter for those who are ready and
yvillling to defend, to force the matter to a

ma .

Suits have been brought by Washburn &

Moen against our Association, W. L. Car-

penter, and each one of our directors per-
sonally, for infringements upon machines
for putting barbs on wire.

’ This is merely to keep up a show of bel-
ligerency. They are very careful to omit
from their complaint all reference to any
patents which are before the courts in the
Chicago case, and upon which they have
founded their preposterous demand.

Although we have repeatedly thrown
down the gauntlet to them, and have been
carrying a pretty big chip on our shoulders
for some time, they have failed to bring any
suit involving their broad claim against us
or any one of the numerous barbed wire fac-
tories that have sprung up under the shadow
of our Association.

VVhile we have not succeeded in obtaining
a hearing and decision upon the merits of
the barbed wire question in court as we
hoped to do, we have virtually accomplished
one object, which was to secure a fine com-
petition in the business. Besides the fac-
tory running under direct patronage of our
Association, a good many others have begun
operations or are getting ready for the busi-
ness without asking leave of anybody.

The users of wire also have no longer any
fear of \Vashburn before their eyes in buy-
ing wire without his license. We have in
the meantime, by the competition we have
furnished, kept the price at a reasonable
figure, making an immediate saving of ten
times the cost of the Association.

There have been many unpleasant things
connected with this contest to those who
have had the responsibility of management.
The large amounts of money which our op-
ponents were taking from the people and
the unscrupulous use to which they are will-
ing to put it in order to perpetuate their
robbery, proved too much for the integrity
of some on ‘whom we depended, causing
temporary annoyance and delay, but no
permanent advantage was ' lost by us or
gained by the other side through the treach-
ery of those we employed.

The wire factory of W. L. Carpenter is
.running to its fullest extent in filling the
orders,from our iuembers, and he hopes to be
able to supply the fall demand promptly.

As the most of the machines had to be
built before the wire could be made, a great
deal of delay was occasioned during the
spring in filling the orders, the demand be-
ing so great.

The bill which recently passed the lower
house of Congress, relieving from liability
those who purchase patented articles, in
_open market, for individual use, is a meas-
ure much to be desired. and we hope the
Senate will soon complete the good work
and make it a law, but I fear that unless we
make known our wants in an emphatic
manner the upper house will allow the bill
to sleep beyond the hope of resurrection.

The Press has given our Association credit
for aiding in this step towards reform as the
result of the strong light turned upon the
flagrant abuses of our patent system. VVe
have a great work before us in this direction
and we must continue to agitate this matter
until it is accomplished.

When we compare the hold which the
barbed wire monopoly had upon us one year
ago, with its scattered condition to-day, we
have reason to be satisfied with our work thus
far and be encouraged to persevere.

G. H. CROSBY, Secretary.

Farmers in Politics.

As the time draws near for the opening of
the political campaign the mt. nopoly organs
begin to exhibit symptoms of horror at the
interest taken by farmers in politics. The
horror is likely to be turned into dismay
after the fall election. The farmers of Ne-
braska were never so thoroughly alive to
the necessity for protecting their interests
against the aggressions of corporate monop-
olies as they are at the present time. When
railroads combine to control political parties
as aids to their schemes against the public
interest, it is high time that combinations
should be made to checkmate the plans of
unscrupulous tools of the monopolies. -What
reason is there why the farmers should not
take as strong an interest in politics as the
merchant or professional man? And why is
it a crime in the eyes of the corporation edit-
ors when farmers agitate sending men to
the legislature and congress who shall repre-
sent their weal and vote for their interests?
—0mahd Bee.

 

HON. JAMES B. BECK, of Kentucky, in
one of his speeches in the senate said : “It
is impossible to have an honest Legislature,
State or Federal, so long as representatives
are sent who owe their election to, or are
personally interested in great moneyed cor-
porations or monopolies. N o matter wheth-
er they call themselves Democrats or Repub-
licans, they are not the representatives of
the people; they are simpl the agents and
attorneys of those who see , by taxing the
masses, to enrich themselves, whether they
owe their election to mcnopolists, or are
themselves interested in class legislation.”

The Brigands ol Mussel Slough.

\Ve need not exhaust our sympathies up-
on the oppressed Irish land tenants, nor
drain the bottles of wrath and indi nation
upon the descendants of the great orman
land robber, for we have among us in free
America a class of tenants more grievously
oppressed, and a class of land brigands more
rapacious, cruel and fiendish than ever
framed a coercion act or evicted an Irish
tenant.

In 1865 the Southern Pacific railioad was
chartered under the general law of Califor-
nia. The articles of association and the
terms of the charter required the road to be
constructed from a point on the bay of San-
Franclsco, in the State of California, through
certain counties named in the articles and
charter to the town of San Diego, thence
eastward to the eastern line of said State.
Under acts of Congress approved July 27,
1866, and March  1871, the Southern Pa-
cific railroad acquired the ri ht to own
twenty alternate sections of lan along the
line for each mile of road completed and
equipped. These grants comprised 936 miles
of road and 11,980,800 acres of land.

Before this company had acquired this
grant of land a section of land known as the
Mussel Slough lands, embracing a part, or
whole of ’l‘ulare and Fresno counties, now
containing;ovei' 20,000 inhabitants,was being
settled up by homesteads. These lands in
their native state werea barren waste, with-
out water or timber, and in a country where
the rainfall was insufllcient to mature crops
of grain, and for all purposes of agriculture
were worthless without expensive irrigation.
These lands had lain untouched whilst
other portions of the State had been settled
and improved. But immigration, as it
poured into the State, attracted by the gold
excitement, was crowded upon the lands,
as the land monopolists had, with an eye to
the main chance, seized all the desirable
land in the State. Cheerless and forbidding
as was the prospect, it was yet a chance to
acquire a home, and here it was that thous-
ands of houseless and homeless were forced
to locate or remain homeless forever.

The hardships and privations which these
settlers were obliged to endure are without
parallel in frontier experience. They were
obliged to dig hundreds of miles of canals or
ditches to bring irrigating water from the
distant mountain streams before they could
raise the necessaries of life.

After a while, when the Southern Pacific
railroad cormorants saw that the necessities,
industry and hardy enterprise of these north-
ern and eastern settlers weredestined to make
this wilderness bloom and blossom as the
rose,they loca-ted abranch road through those
counties, notwithstanding it was a hundred
miles east of the line indicated in their char-
ter, and with a range of high mountains
intervening, solely for the purpose of captur-
ing these lands made fertile b the sweat
and blood of their occupants. hen, in or-
der to encourage immigration and improve-
ments upon the soil they had seized, they
prepared and sent broadcast over the State
pamphlets setting forth inducements and
the advantages to be derived from settling
on their lands.

On page 6 of one pamphlet appears this
language :-

“ This company invites settles to go upon
their lands before patents axe issued or the
road is completed, and intends in such cases
to sell them in preference to other appli-
cams, and at a price based on the value of
the land without improvements.”

Page 7 :—

“ If the settlers desire to buy, the com-
pany gives the first privilege of purchase at
a fixed price without regard to improve-
ments.”

Page 9 :— t

“ The lands are not uniform in price, bu
are offered at various figures from $2.50 up-
wards per acre. Most is for sale at from
$2.50 to $5.00.”

Under these assurances and representa-
tions, the lands were rapidly filling up and
money freely expended in valuable and
permanent improvements. But in time the
Southern Pacific became merged, and like a
“bankrupt taking advantage of the act,”
cancelled its obligations to the settlers on
the lands by a consolidation with the other
Pacific road, and under that Nero President
of the Union and Central Pacific road, Le-
land Stanford, it-knows no obligation but to
rob, and no good but mammon. About two

years ago Leland Stanford and his stafl"

took a ride over these lands to ascertain the
magnitude of the improvements and to esti-
mate their value. He found about 80,000
acres of beautiful homes and well-settled
farms. About 500 miles of canals, besides
side ditches, had been constructed. The
parched desert had been converted into
fruitful fields. All manner of fruits, vegeta-
bles and cereals werejralsed in abundance.
He found the country dotted with school
houses and churches. The settlers at their
expense and with their own carriages
carried him and his suite in or the
territory, anxious for him to fix his scale of
prices so than each might secure an unem-
cumbered title to his home.

On the 20th of October, 1877, patents cover-
ing these lands were issued to the company,
and soon after the settlers, on making ap-
plication by letter for price, lists of their
lands, were informed that their farms had
been re- graded and now ranged in price
$22.00 to $26.50 per acre. Instead of grading
the lands at their original value without
improvements, they had been graded accord-
ing to their present value including im-
provements. Upon appeal to Mr. Stanford,
reminded him of past. promises and pledges
of the company not to estimate their im-
provements in fixing the prices of the lands,
he replied as follows :— _

OEFICE or CENTRAL PACIFIC Ramsosn.
PRESIDENT'S Dapanmnxr.
San FRANCISCO, April 21, 1880. E

GENTLEMEN: Yours of the 19th instant this day
received. Without‘ going into the details of your
letter, which seem to me to be erroneous in the state-
ment of facts and in the assumptions, I have to in-
form you that the lands in your district have been
regraded, and the land agent to-morrow will send
you a list of the lands and the rates at which they
are graded There will be allowed to all parties in-
terested a period of ten days from the 23d of this
month in which to purchase or lease the lands in
question. Respectfully,

" LELAND Sraznroan.”

Thus does this man demand of these peo-
ple to pay him the value of every dollar of
improvement they themselves have put up-
on their lands, and the law sustains him in
these unjust demands, for it does not limit
the price he may put upon the lands. He is
agovernment pet, for it not only granted
him the lands, but loaned him its credit by
guaranteeing his railroad bonds, and grant-
ing him power to rob 20,000 hard-working

people of fourteen years’ toil, sacrifice and
privation. When such barbarous outrages
are tolerated by the government and courts
of justice, it cannot be expected that the
people will long support the one or respect
the other.——The Saturday E:z:pr€s.9, Chicago.

 

The Haste to Become Rich.

In no country, at no period of time have
the opportunities to become suddenly rich
ever been as numerous as here. One reason
is that here is a nation of gamblers. The
quiet pursuit of trade in one line from fath-
er to son, from one generation to another, is
rarely witnessed. Men try one branch of
business and suddenly change to mother.
All is movement. The consequence is that
any scheme of hazard is eagerly embraced
by some of the followers of these meteoric
affairs which give sudden and great gain to
the few and final loss to the many. As they
say, one must know when to go in and
when to get out, but who knows that‘?
Gambling is now thoroughly incorporated
into every trade organization of the country
—in corn and cotton as in stocks and petro-
leum. The actual transactions are small
compared to the speculative, often as one to
a hundred, and in the wake of this specula-
tive impulse of trade organizations comes
its sequence-—speculation in every depart-
ment of trade-—and when a particular trade
becomes overdone in the line of speculation
and moribund, as it were, then those impa-
tient members of it who cannot throw oil’
the uneasiness which haunts them go to
that inevitable bourn of speculators, Wall
street. As sure as the tides follow the chang-
es of the moon, so do the tides of Wall
street ebb and flow from outside influences.
At times all financial currents set towards
it, and into it are poured all the savings of
the moderate and conservative, with the
great winnings of some fortunate speculator
in some of the commodities which have
been cornered or forced up somewhere. But
the wealth thus made in wheat and wool, or
whatnot, if made suddenly is almost sure
to-find its way into “the street,” with what
result other than to enrich a few cunning,
rapacious, unprincipled men -— men who
never had a scruple as to the means, if only
the ends are encompassed ?

It is one of the most remarkable things in
the world to see an army in numbers of tens
of thousands and hundreds of thousands
always marching with their hands full of
their wealth to Wall street, and there hurl-
ing it into a vortex of hazard from whence
it rarely emerges, so as to be plucked forth
by its whilom owner. There are a half-
hundred schemers who get nearly all. They
play with loaded dice; they look on com-
placeiitly while this vast iiiultitude empty
themselves of their riches; they laugh and
make sport of the very qualities which go
to enrich them. Do you not suppose that
these cliques, which load up at the public
expense, laugh at them behind their backs‘?
There is something almost pitiful in the way
the inexperienced are robbed of their sav-
ings by the Wall street grabbere—mini'sters,
teachers, lawyers. Good enough for them,
however. All sorts of people of small ex-
perience hear of the fortunes suddenly made,
and they go into “the street” with the fond
hope that they were born with a silver
spoon in their mouths, but the silver soon
turns to pewter in that place.

But of all the swindles that Wall street
foists on the public, that of mining stocks is
the most tempting and the most disastrous
in its results. We heard not long since of a
uiet Massachusetts town which had sunk
600,000 in bogus mining stocks. We think
that hardly a place of any considerable size
or wealth but can show a similar result.
We know of a mine in the Black Hills
which was introduced to us under glowing
colors. VVe were given to understand, if the
truth were told, or half the truth, we should
not get the chance to buy into it; but our
friend, out of pure friendship, would give us
achance. The wealth from a $500 invest-
ment in that mine was to give us a hand-
some living during our own lifetime; but
not that alone: our children and our chil-

dren’s children were to be enriched by the-

Pactolian flow of wealth from this wondrous
mine. Several of our dry goods friends
were interested and others had taken large
blocks of the stock. Several saw mills
were buzzing out lumber for flumes twenty
miles long, from whence was to flow a
stream of water which was to leave golden
nuggets thickly strewn upon the ground-
great golden nuggets—-and the fine gold was
to be shoveled up. We went down to Wall
street to the oflice to subscribe, and there
we saw the very dignified president of a
leading college, who enquired with the
knowledge of an expert about the mine
before our inexperienced eyes. We were
enlightened through his questions and the
company’s answers as.to the vast wealth to
be there develo ed, but we did not bite, al-
though the liig -sounding name of a promi-
nent general shone at the head of the com-
pany as its president.

When an innocent outsider does meet
with such men as we have here shown as
interested in promoting these mining
schemes, is it to wondered at that he falls a
victim ‘? He thinks he is in good company,
when, if the true inwardness of these things
were exposed what kind of a company
might it prove to be?

We have merely outlined one of the thous-
and of schemes which,with prominent names
associated in their promotion are being foisted
on the public daily, weekly and monthly.
The savings of clerks, merchants and even
porters, widows and orphans are drawn into
these swindles. But our advice is to avoid
speculation and speculative schemes of all
sorts as one would a pestilence, from whence
comes woe unutterable, suiside. desolate
homes, broken hearts.—- United States Econo-
mist.

 

IN an article upon making the Grange in-
teresting to young folks, the Farmers’ Ad-
vance says : “ Increase the literary exercises;
have more debates, more discussions, more
essays, more readings. Take pains in all
your ritual work, and see how well you can
do it. All this constitutes the second step
in getting the young interested in the
Grange.”

ALL farmers who from a foolish prejudice
against secret associations will not join a
Grange, should unite themselves in some
sort of agricultural association for their own
good. T ere is nothing like social inter-
course and an interchange of experiences
and views concerning your following. 00-
operation means success, and union means
strength. '


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AUGUST 1, 1882.

durreipuiulente.

Up and Doing.

Pa 1' read before the Elk Lake Grange, convened
uly 1, 1882.

Grange 469 was reorganized on Saturday
evening, October 30, 1880, by Bro. Whitney,
lecturer State Gran go, when seventeen per-
sons had their names ‘entered in the roll
book as Grangers. Our next meeting was
November 6, when there were added unto us
eleven more, and that leads us on to the 13th,
when we received six more members in
good faith ; 27th of November was our next
meeting, when three more persons joined
themselves unto us, and in the spirit of
unity we go on to the 18th of December,
1880, when an army of eleven in number
joined this Grange. closing out the old year.

Then we had a meeting on the fifteenth
evening of a new year—188l—when by an
equal contribution we raised funds for the
purpose of purchasing cloth for the ante
room, which was accomplished with little
trouble. Now we are at date of March 12,
1881, at which time we received two new
members; and on the 23d of April our num-
ber of members increased two more, and on
the 3d of May the Grange became so attract-
ive that we received three more members in
good faith, and so the Patrons and readers
of the GRANGE VISITOR will admit for a
fact that

This is a. Grange which many know
Was not a Grange some years ago,
But now this Grange is doing well,
As all may judge from what I tell.

And as this is the time appointed to remit
to our secretary of the State Grange his dues
for the July quarter of 1882, I find that dis-
solution and demits, etc., have reduced our
number of members to forty-eight ; but,
Worthy Secretary, it affords me great pleas-
ure in saying that this evening, July 1, we
received another member, and more are com-
ing. On June 2 we had an excellent lecture
from a Mr. Moore, accompanied by Bro.
Ramsdell, of Traverse City. These two
brothers took the scales from our eyes, and
revealed to ‘us things that were unknown,
and they stirred up the spirit of the Grange;
and now people begin to see that the Grange
is calculated
To benefit the farmer. and also his wife,

To benefit his household and keep them from strife.

And to make home attractive, house, garden and
farm,

His horses and implements when placed in the barn.

To the Masters and Lecturers of Subordi
nate Granges, we say: Let us take courage
and hold the fort, for that large tree which
you and I behold in the forest was once a
very small plant. We hold our meetings
every two weeks, and they are well attend-
ed. Recently we adopted a rule at our meet-
ings to select a committee to read and recite,
as they think best, such things as command
the attention of our Grange, and we find the
plan works very successfully. In conclusion
I will say that our funds are on the increase,
and our oflicers are zealous for the welfare
of our Grange.

H. G. S.

llowspringville Grange Spent the Fourth.

As has been their custom for years past
on the Fourth of July Springville Grange
held one of their tea-parties, and this
time at the home of Bro. Nelson Kinney,
where a program previously arranged
was successfully carried out and which con-
sisted of songs, selections, recitations, &c.,
together with the following questions:

Resolved, That the traveling menageries
which pass through our country every sea-
son, result in more evil than good, and that
in patronizing them we countenance drunk-
enness, crime and disorder.

The subject was earnestly discussed by
many present. At the close of these exer-
cises all present partook of the bountiful
repastjprepared by the sisters. who know so
well not only how to prepare but to serve
a repast acceptably to every on e. Notwith-
standing there were many other sources of
amusement near by. many, not members
of the Order, accepted the invitation to
spend the day with us, and we believe it
was heartily enjoyed by them.

One feature of the program I would
not forget to mention was the oration pre-
pared and delivered by the Hon. Marshal
Reed, which commenced with a historical
review of our national independence, end-
ing in a mirthful prediction of the future of
some of the members of the Order. An-
other important feature of the occasion was
the report of the committee appointed to

view the premises of Bro. Kinney. This
report made a most excellent show-
ing for Bro. Kinney as a succesful farmer
and particularly pa rtial to good stock.

J. E. GIBBS, Secretary.

Springville Grange.

Summerlon Grange, No 310.

Bro. Oobb,-—Our Grange is growing some
now and I will be able to make a better
showing at my next report. Summerton
Grange has lingered between life and death
for some time but I am glad to report it
convalescent now. We called in another
physician on the 22d of June, in the person
of Bro. John Holbrook, and he dealt out

TEE GRANGE VISITOR.

medicine good for sick Patrons to take. He
did not get up as far as our Grange, but
“our Grange” went where he was. We
intended to have him speak in our hall on
the 23d, but owing to several new cases of
diphtheria in the vicinity, it was thought
best notto have a meeting. He spoke at
Elwell, where a basket picnic with good
music by the Elwell band, was the order
of the day, and everything passed off pleas-
antly. VVe are now iniating four, and more
knocking at the door for admittance, so we
take fresh courage. And perhaps .Gratiot
can boast ofa larger representation at the
State Grange at the next session than at the
last,a thing she has not been able to do
for some time past, as the State Master writes
me there must be three Granges any way to
electa representative and two have been
doing the business, for there were but three
in the county. Our Grange has had noth-
ingto do with the election of representa-
tives. And what we consider worse than
all the rest, their representative has never
come near us to give us the annual word
after going there at others‘ expense.
SEc’Y GRANGE 310.

A Lucky Misfortune.

You would not have thought, at first sight,
that it was a good thing that Joe Carver
broke his anklejust in the middle of har-
vest. But it was, in more ways than one.

It was not a very pleasant prospect which
his wife had, having him around the house
to wait upon when she was so hurried and
worried with summer work. But hard work
had not crushed out the warm, kind heart
she brought with her to that old homestead.
So she took up this added burden with What
cheerfulness she might, and whoever or
whatever was neglected, Joe had no cause
for complaint.

But after the first fever had worn off and
the caged lion had begun in a measure to
subdue his restlessness, he settled down on
that wide, cozy lounge in the sitting room
determined to make the best of a bad job.
He read the papers and magazines which
Mattie canvassed the neighborhood to bor-
row for him, even when her oor little feet
were about worn out, and he ad really not
indulged in so much literature for a dozen
years, if, indeed, he ever had.

But it was not in that line that the advan-
tage chiefly came in. He spent some share
ofthe time “taking notes” of the ways and
means by which the domestic machinery of
his household was carried on. Afterward a
considerable portion of time was spent in
refiection. and this was the best of all.

It considerably surprised him to see the
amount of work a. woman had to do. Some-
how he had imbibed the impression so com-
mon among men, that a woman had a rath-
er easy time of it generally, staying in the
shady house, while the poor men toiled out
in the boiling sun. Buta sight of Mattie
forever pattering upstairs and down, or boil-
ing over that great Moloch of a cooking
stove, gave him a new idea.

Then that worried and hurried look which
came into her eyes when the clock was
creeping up to the hour of noon, made him
wince a little as he saw how the burdens
were bending down those shoulders once so
fair and straight. He had nothing now to
do but to take observations, and they were
not as comforting as he would have liked.
It was not the Mattie of olden times he used
to take honle from singing school, and out
to sleigh rides in the winter.

He felt ashamed of himself when he saw
her fence in the baby with pillows and lay
before it a basin of clothespins, preparatory
to taking a great market basket, and going
out to the distant garden for potatoes and
corn and cucumbers, which that great hired
boy of his might just as well have brought
in before he went to the fields. He secretly
resolved that another morning she should
be spared that job. He was more than ever
confirmed in the resolution when he saw her
come in so overheated, bending her not
over-stout figure under the heavy load. He
groaned in spirit over his own helplessness,
but the eyes of his mind were getting open-
ed, and that was of more worth than his
work.

By the end of that week his mind was
made up. She should have help in that
kitchen if he sold the best cow he had to pay
for it.

“Mattie,” he said, “I want you to look
around among the neighbors, and see whose
girl you can hire for awhile. You must have
somebody if it is only a boy in the house to
do chores and save steps.”

Mattie looked up from her kneading pan
in a half-scared way, fearing that her saving
Joe was losing his mind.

“You needn’t look so wild about it, Mattie.
It is a settled thing. I shall be too busy if
I ever get about again, to go around hunting
up a second wife.”

Mattie laughed as she looked down again
at her dough, and concluded that Libbie
Baker would be glad of the chance to earn a
little before school began in the fall. So
Libbie came into that house for the rest of
the summer, and oh, what a burden was
lifted from that over-worked little woman’s
shoulders. Joe did not forget that summer’s
lesson, and whenever Mattie needed help
she had it, whatever else was allowed to go
undone. Her life and health he concluded
were better capital than mere acres, mere
stock or mere mowing machines.— Ohio
Farmer.

IT is strange that any farmer should sup-
pose that he can accomplish more single-
handed then by a union with his neighbor.
They should not lose sight of the fact that
“In union is strength.”

A FABMEB. may get, in an hour’s talk with
a neighbor, the result of his experience,which
likely costs him days and weeks of time
to learn. He may thus in one hour save a
week’s work, or learn that which will make
aweek’s work doubly profitable. All lines
of business are learning this, and therefore
we have conventions of preachers, and Sun-
day-school workers, and doctors, and hor-
ticulturists, in fact, all manner of occupa-
tions. The Grange furnishes the farmers
an opportunity to thus exchange experi-
ence, which isone of the main objects of
the Order, and every farmer therefore needs
to be a member of the Grange.

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Women at School Meetings.

To (he Editor .-—In some parts of the
State, people are asking this question :
Have the women of Michigan the privilege
of voting at school meetings‘? ” ‘Please en-
lighten your readers by printing the follow-
ing copy of the law on this subject.

S. A. RULISON,
Ch’rm’n State XV. C.T.U.C-om. on Franchise.

SESSION LA\VS 1881.

Page 155, Section 103 :—“ No person, ex-
cept an elector, as aforesaid. shall be eligible
to any elective office contemplated in this
chapter; provided, however, that any female
person of or above the age of :21 years, who
has resided in this State three months, and
in the township ten days next preceding
any election, shall be eligible to the office of
school inspector.”

Page 165, Section l7:—“Every person of
the age of 21 years, who has property liable
to assessment for school taxes in any school
district, and who has resided therein three
months next preceding any school meeting
held in said district, or who has resided
three months next preceding such meeting
on any territory belonging to such district
at the time of holding said meeting, shall be
a qualified voter in said meeting upon all
questions; and all other persons who are :21
years of age, and are the parents or legal
guardians of any children included in the
school census of the district, and who have,
for three months as aforesaid, been residents
in said district or upon any territory belong-
ing thereto at the time of holding any school
meeting, shall be entitled to vote on all
questions arising in said district which do
not directly involve the raising of money by
tax.”

Page 171, Section -i.——“Any qualified voter
in a school district who has property liable
to assessment for school taxes shall be eligi-
ble to election or appointment to office in
such school district, unless such person be
an alien.”

Little Good Things.

BY MRS. M. B. BUTTS.

With most of ‘us our doing must be in little
ways. The mite is daily required of us. But
we, dreaming of great things, let the little op-
portunities slip by. While praying for large
fields to cultivate. we neglect to plant the
little garden-plot at hand.

Some of our best chances for helpfulness are
not even thought of as such till it is too late.
They are overlooked because they are so small.
How often we keep a cold, impassive face when
a smile would do wonders. Many warm-hearted
people are habitually cold in exterior, and
some sensitive child or sister or mother or
brother is therefore in almost perpetual shadow
and chill. They neglect the little courte-
sies, the bright "good morning,” the tender
“good night,” the careful, politeness that is be-
stowed upon strangers, the gentle considera-
tion; till by-and-by some dear one, finding
earth too cold, slips gradually away. Then how
thoughtful we become! how fearful lest we
shall overlook some opportunity to serve!
Then the voice is soft, and the eyes are loving;
we make little of faults, much of virtues; we
keep back every word that may wound, and
speak every word that may bless and brighten.
“What can we do ?” is the question we learn
to ask; and if we see something attractive we
say instantly, “She would like that,” or "It
would just suit my friend.” It may be but a
rosebud, or a cluster of violets; it may be lit-
tle, very little, yet it is much.

“I think the six months before she died
were the happiest part of her married life,”
said a lady, speaking of a young wife. She
was a child of the sunshine. And her husband,
while he loved her truly, and mourns her pas-
sionately. was careless in the expression of his
love, thoughtless of her needs. When he
feared that he must lose her he became again
the lover and remembered the little ministries
that keep the heart alive.

It is not alone the young who are careless;
we are at fault in all stages of life. Of ten the
father and the mother forget the right of child-
hood to childishness and stand between the lit-
tle one and its sunshine with a blind selfishness
that is unpardonable. Quite as often the young
people, full of their own plans and hopes, or
fascinated with new loves. almost forget the
parents who have given them the best of life,
sending them only rare and meager expres-
sions of remembrance. To the young con-
sciousness, father and mother will always be at
the old home. they belong to the established
order of things as much as the earth or the sky.
By-and-by. when they go away and strangers
fill their places, the children remember with an
aching heart how much they might have done
to cheer their loneliness.

In many country homes the mother waits
day after day for letters from the children out
in the world. They, busy with work, amuse-
ments, companions. put off their home letter
till weeks have become months and sometimes
years. I have seen old people kept in a glow
of happiness and pleased expectancy the year
round by the succession of little gifts sent from
their children in the city. A basket of fruit, a
book, some trifle of personal wear, the birth-
days always remembered—all little things,
but each is a token that the elders are not for-
gotten.

Little helps to young mothers whose bur-
dens are overwheiming—how great they are!
A child’s garment that some other child has
out-grown; an hour’s advice about planning
and cutting; a walk with the restless, fretful
little ones when the poor young mamma can-
not get out, and some other young woman
does not know what to do with herself. I have
seen babies borrowed now and then to the
great advantage of both borrower and
lender.

Those who are childless have it in their
power to make themselves a blessing to their
neighbor’s children in httle ways; a trip to the
woods in a big wagon; a little festival on the
lawn, to which the dolls could come, and at
which nobody is allowed to appear in fine
dresses; a subscription to a child’s magazine,

iving some boy or girl delight for a long year.

he magazine and weekly papers that are read
and stored in attics might be sent from family
to family among those who cannot afford such
luxuries. This is a httle thing, so httle that
people seem never to think of it; and yet how
great might be the result were it a common
custom to send our literature visiting.

Of a piece with these little kindnesses are
the flower missions and the boxes for news-
papers to be sent to hospitals. It quickens
one’s better impulses and helps our faith in
human nature to see, “Please drop your papers
here for the hospitals.” Surely our great city
is not hopelessly forgetful of httle things,

while such legends are found in the centres
of business and travel. And as the age pro-
gresses this spirit will increase; for in propor-
tion as men become refined and spiritualized
they will remember the little as well as the
great needs of their fellows, and will act more
and more in the spirit of that religion which
says, “As we have opportunity, let us do good
unto all men.”-—-C'izrz'stzVin R65/z'ster.

Prof. Huxley on Woman's Education.

At the annual exercises of the medical
school for woman Prof. Huxley presided
and delivered an address, in the course of
which he said: This experiment has shown
that there are hundreds of women who have
the capacity and power to do the work of
the medical practitionerjust as well as the
majority of their brothers. VV'hy under
these circumstances they should not be al-
lowed and encourage to take up the profes-
sion I cannot understand. It may he that
we are to look to women hereafter as
the moral and intellectual leaders of the
universe. It may be on the other hand that
men will retain the lead which the order of
things has hitherto given them : but should
they do so I cannot understand that it
should make the slightest difference to the
importance, the necessity and the duty on
the part of women that they should do all
they can to render themselves useful mem-
bers of the community. Nor should it pre-
vent those who have any influence in this
world from endeavoring to enable women to
take up any career for which they might
find themselves fitted. I do not understand
why free trade in these matters should not
apply everywhere ; why free access to every
calling should not be thrown open to every
human -being.

Need of United Action.

The census of 1880 reveals the startling
fact that the tendency of our iflpulat n is
to concentrate more than ever heretofme in
all tlielarge cities throughout the country.
It is known that with this concentration
the political power of the principal cities is
increased to such an extent that the control
of the political matters of some States is de-
pendent upon the efforts of the wire-pullers
in such cities. ’l‘o such an extent is this now
the case that many fear the country will'be
wholly controlled by trading politicians and
gigantic railway corporations. The latter,
undoubtedly, mean to, if they can, control
the market, the labor of the producer and
the transportation of his products.

In order to avert such a calamit ' ring
after ring must be broken by the in uence
of honest men now engaged in agriculture
and mechanical pursuits. Those who toil
with hand and brain should control our
political destiny, the assessment ofour tax-
es, and see that equal and exact justice is
accorded to all, in order that social and
material prosperity may prevail throughout
the length and breadth of the land.

The power of “ rings,” and the powerless-
ness of opposing influences has not escaped
the attention of our most sagacious statesmen.
The farmers and producers who are numeri-
cally in a large majority, are a decided
minority in point of influence, when the
enactment of just laws are needed in the
interests of farmers and working men.

Nothing can be effected without organiza-
tion. This need not necessarily be of a
political character. However, let a begin-
ning be made, whenever we have opportu-
nity, of selecting and placing in nomination
such oflicers for positions of political trust
as are intelligent and conscientious and who
are clear-headed enough to see that laws for
the good of the majority are placed upon our
statute books instead of special enactments
designed to benefit a few. To this end unity
of effort is desirable. There is a pressing
need for united action.-—0ine£nnau‘ Grange
Bulletin. I

Peter Cooper on Railroad Corporations.

The railroad corporations now have such
extensive control over the products of the
country by their excessive charges for trans-
portation, that they deprive the people of a
large share of the products of their labor.
The ofiicers of a half-dozen railroad corpora-
tions can now agree to raise the prices of
transportation on the products that are sent
over their roads so that in a short time they
can take hundreds of millions of dollars out
of the pockets of the people, which they ap-
propriate to themselves. By possessing such
power, it is not diflicult for a few railroad
presidents to accumulate immense fortunes,
while the masses are being reduced to pov-

ert .

Iytrust that at your meeting in Albany,
steps will be taken to organize and educate
the people, in opposition to these monopo-
lies. We must have legislators elected who
will make just laws for the people, and not
especial laws for the benefit of corporations.

A PENNSYLVANIA dispatch says that the
coal operators “recognize the absolute ne-
cessity of curtailing production, and some
of them are willing to work half the time
for two weeks: but others urge that this re-
striction should be continued two months ;”
and here is the reason given for this “abso-
lute necessity: ” “ Production continues
large. and the warm weather has reduced
the consumption so largely that a suspension
of mining or a break in the price of coal is
considered inevitable.” Therefore, monop-
oly says that rather than have coal at a low-
er price, we will turn thousands of miners
out of work for a week or a month at a time
and cause every person who burns coal to
pay more than it would cost him if compe-
tition had a chance.

IT is as incumbent upon every Granger to
attend the meetings of his Grange regularly
and punctually as it is for any honest man
to pay his honest debts. VVe mean the prin-
ciples are iden tical, because it is his personal
obligation to preserve his own credit and in-
terests.

Mason Co., Mich.

Mr. Editor .-——I have the honor to report
on the 16 gallons of paint sent me by the
Patrons’ Paint Works. My order was filled
promptly and the paint came in cod order.
Last week I employed two first-c ass paint-
ers to spread the paint on the outside of my
house. They were much prejudiced at first
and thought that I would have to send for
as much more to finish, but were surprised
to find a full gallon left after completing the
job. They now consider the Ingersoll Liq-
uid Rubber Paint superior in every respect
to any they ever used. J. R. SEGERS.

[See Advertisement-—ED.]

MICHIGAN;

FEMALE SEMINARY.

KALAMAZ00, MICH.

Board and tuition, $175 per school year. Location
delightful. School on the Mt. Holyoke plan. In-
fluence Christian, but not sectarian. Fine library,
cabinet, telescope and musical instruments. Fall
term begins Sept. 7, 1882. For catalogue or further
information, address

PRINCIPAL.

PRIGE LIST OF SWPPLS

Kept in the oflice of the Secretary of the
MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,
And sent out Por¢'Pai'd, on Receipt of Cash Order,

over the seal of a Subordinate Grange, and flu
signature of its Master or Secretary.

Porcelain Ballot Marbles, per hundred, . . . . . . .. 76
Blank Book, ledger ruled, for Secretary to keep
accounts with members, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1
Blank Record Books, (Express paid). . . . . . . . . . .
Order Book, containing 100 Orders on the Treas-
urer, with stub, well bound, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Receipt Book, containing l00 Receipts from
Treasurer to Secretary, with stub, well bound
Blank Receipts for dues, per 100, bound
A plications for Membership, per 100
embershi Cards, per 100, . . .
Withdraws Cards, per doz.,. .
Dimits, in envelopes, per doz.,.
By-Laws of the State Grange, ingle cop
per doz.,.......
By-Laws, bound, . . . . . .
“ Glad Echoes," with in

id. i.;gi..' Hop’; '1'5"c'e3f

er (1
or Fifth Degree, for Pomona Granges,
per copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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., 5c.; per
hundred, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
American Manual of Parliamentary Law. . . . .
H u M H 54 (Mo_
rocco Tuck,) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Address of J. J. Woodman before the Nation-
al Grange—per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
Address of Thos. K. Beecher-—per dozen . . . . . .
Digest of Laws and Rulings, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Address, J. T. COBB,
snow Mica. Srs-rs Gannon,
SCHOOLQRAFT . MICE

JXIICI-IIGAN CENTRAL R- B-
DEPARTURE or TRAINS FROM KAi.AMAzoo.

TIME-TABLE —MAY 15, 1882.
WESTWARD.

Night Express, .............................. __‘,
Accommodation leaves, ____ __
“ nrri\'es,.-_--
Mail
Day Express, .............. --
New York Express, ________ _-
Atlantic Express, ___________________________ -_|

New York, Atlantic and Pacific Expresses daily. Evening
Expre s 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 (east) at 5:39
P. u., and No. 20 (west) at 7:37.

B. B. LEDYARD, Gen. Manager, Detroit.
J. A. (311183, General Freight Agent, Chicago.
0 W. RuccLxs,G. P. & T. A., Chicago.

L. S. & JME- S. R. R.

KALAMAZO0 DIVISION TIME TABLE.

(Time 15 minutes faster than Kalamazoo.)
GOING SOUTH.
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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
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THE PATENT RIGHT AMENDMENT IN THE SENATE.

The amendment to the patent laws in-
troduced by Mr. Burrows in the House,
passed by that body and sent to the
not

be brought to a vote this session. In the
meantime the Scientific American and other
papers working in the interest of patentees,
are exhorting the senators to be just to in-
ventors before they are generous to infring-
ers. The Scientific American in its issue of
July 15, says: “The abuses which the
farmers complain of are vexatious no doubt,
but it is not to be believed that the country
is ready to seek a remedy for them in a law
which raises the infringement of patent
rights to a semi-legal, semi-honorable occu-
pation.” _

The argument now rests entirely upon the
alleged injury to be inflicted’ upon inventors
by taking away the right possessed by every
claimant of a patent to worry and threaten
responsible persons and exact tribute from
them at will. The intolerable evils of the
present system, as administered by the
courts, are freely admitted, but it is urged
that it is better that the people should be
wholly in the power of patent right lawyers
and adventurers than to do anything that
might discourage invention.

The article to which we have referred re-
cites also a great benefit of which the people
would be deprived if the amendment should
become a law, and the innocent purchaser
should be freed from the wholesome disci-
pline of paying bonuses to needy lawyers.
“One condition,” the editor says, “which
patent legislation cannot reach, and ought
not to try to reach, is the ignorance and
carelessness of many people in respect to le-
gitimate business practices. They have not
learned the tricks of swindlers and are prone
to buy patented inventions from unauthor-
ized dealers, as they buy worthless lightning
rods, worthless “specifics” for all human
and animal ailments, or good-for-nothing
seeds of impossible plants from plausible
peddlers and traveling sharpers. This class
of innocent buyers are slowly learning by
experience the advantage of being more
guarded in their dealings with unknown
and irresponsible parties ; and that is all the
protection they need.”

Experience in the ways of the world is
certainly a great advantage to the farmer.
The patent attorney has a mission to dispel
the dense ignorance of the agricultural pop-
ulation. He will teach them by “experi-
ence” the advantage of being more guarded
in their dealings.

The fact is that only a small portion of the
patented articles in use are purchased from
Peddlers. A large part of every stock of
hardware in the hands of regular dealers
consists of patented articles. Letters pat-
ent are often issued for the same device to
diflbrent claimants, and reissued patents are
constantly allowed to cover more than the
patentee is justly entitled to claim. This
gives rise to conflicts whenever the device is
a valuable one. Multitudes of articles regu-
larly bought and sold in the trade are in dis-
puts and no notice whatever is given to the
public concerning the contest or its result.
No human intelligence can guard the pur-
chaser against liability to loss, no matter

attack him.

If the subject had not a serious side to it
in the vexatious suits and blackmail rob-
beries that of late years have grown up all
over the country, and by judicial decisions
received encouragement; this paltry argu-
ment of the Scientific American and its fel-
low péttifoggers, that with the passage of
the bill now before the senate a death-blow

could look upon and treat as frivolous
and unworthy of serious answer. But
the patent right lawyer finds in this bill
danger to his chosen avocation. and he
must endeavor to prevent its passage by
whatever means he can command, and this
bugbear of smothering inventive genius by
destroying its incentive seems to be relied on
by these wise fellows as a strong point.

We beg leave to say, that with the manu-
facturer and dealer still liable to the invent-
or for infringement upon his rights, our con-
fidence in the indomitable Yankee is in no
wise shaken by all the wise talk of these
alarmists.

The fate of the Burrows bill ought not to
be doubtful in the senate. The agricultural
interests are united in its favor, and to this
larger half of the people may be added more
than half of the remainder who are interest-
ed in the protection secured by this bill.
The time has come when these interests can-
not safely be disregarded by our representa-
tives. The people demand protection, and
sooner or later they will have it.

THE- DECAY OF COMPETITION.

The science of political economy has oc-
cupied the attention of the best scholars and
ablest writers for a century past. Its theo-
ries and doctrines have possessed the weight
of established truth. It has been observed,
however, that some of the fundamental
principles have failed when applied to cer-
tain features of modern trade and commerce.
It has beenfissumed that under a free gov-
ernment competition is inevitable, and com-
petition is the central force in all of the
theories of science. John Stuart Mill
taught that only through competition had
political economy any pretentious to the
character of a science. Competition protests
against extortion, it is the stay and support
of industry, it is the hope of civilized so-
ciety.

It seems to be the tendency of modern im-
provements to substitute combination for
competition. This is producing such a re-
versal of foundation principles that there is
already a general distrust of all the conclu-
sions of the science. Henry D. Loyd, a bril-
liant writer in the July Atlantic, says: “Po-
litical economy of the competitive school, is
dumb before the railroad problem, for it is
one of combination. A parlimentary com-
mission reports that it is more and more evi-
dent that competition must fail to do
for railroads what it does for ordinary
trade, andthat no means have yet been de-
vised bv which competition between them
can be maintained.”

Monopoly has always been feared as one
of the worst forms of despotism, It ruins
enterprise, it oppresses the poor, it exalts
the few and degrades the many. But form-
erly monopolies did not seem to arise natur-
ally. Exclusive rights of trade were grant-
ed by the sovereign and maintained by law,
but whenever the protection of government
was removed, competition invariably over-
threw and destroyed every monopoly.
Now, however, capital seems to have ac-
quired new tendencies, and competition has
lost its force. Combination is the ruling
principle and capital in great masses is con-
trolled and wielded by a few. It is repre-
sented largely by certificates of stock and
corporate bonds, and great men with the
genius of Napoleon or Wellington manipu-
late these symbols of wealth—buy and sell
and pledge them, and juggle with them un-
til their power is greater than that of any
government on earth. They levy taxes for
their own benefit on all industries, and in-
deed they can destroy industries if they
choose to do so. They determine the value
of property and withhold or distribute
wealth as they see fit.

The mining industry is an illustration of
the power of capital to subjugate the laborer.
Formerly the profits of rich mining deposits
were gathered in by individuals in propor-
tion to their industry and good fortune.
Now the work is managed by corporations,
and the profits accrue to those who are most
expert in operating stocks and bonds. The
individual works as hard as ever, but his
compensation is a fixed amount per day.
The road to fortune is no longer open to in-
dividual effort.

Agriculture is not so easily monopolized
as other pursuits, but its products are placed
more and more at the mercy of corporate
power. The effect is to place the farmer by
the side of the individual laborer in manu-
facturing and mining, making his compen-
sation a fixed amount, while the profits are
absorbed by the corporations. He has one
great advantage in this country and that is
his ownership of the land. The rise in
value is his own and cannot be taken from
him ; but his labor is already nearly as much
in the power of corporations as if he were in
their employ by the day. Competition has
very little to do with the business of the ag-
riculturalist. The prices of his leading pro-
ducts are fixed in Liverpool and the ex-
penses of getting them to market depends,
not upon cost of service, but upon what cer-
tain managers think those prices ought to
bear. In other words, the farmer is already
working for certain wages offered by the
kings of commerce from year to year. The
effect is not so oppressive now because of
the expansion of land values, but this only
masks and does not remedy the evil.

would be given to inventive genius. we

REFORM IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.

Every great criminal trial which drags its
slow course through the courts illustrates
the necessity of reform in the procedure of
criminal law. A criminal trial is principal-
ly an investigation of facts, and there must
be something radically wrong when inquiry
relating toa single transaction is likely to
last for months. It is desired by all that
every accused person should be secure in
his rights, but there is a wide spread feeling
that the delays and quibbles and disputes
which afilict our courts do not result in pro-
tecting any person from unjust convic-
tion. Nor has the public any confidence
that conviction follows guilt :when well
proved Our modern criminal trials
serve to bring out the shrewdness and re-
sources of counsel on both sides, but they
are poor methods for arriving at facts. If
an innocent man is acquitted, it is not like-
ly to be‘ on account of his innocence, but
rather on account of the “staying” quali-
ties of his counsel. Indeed our criminal
jurisprudence is rapidly falling into con-
tempt as only worthless and expensive, nor
is there any confidence that conviction will
follow guilt well proved.

Both the members of the bar and the
judges are responsible for these difliculties.
If the power of the court were used to, re-
strain the lawyers we should be spared the
disgraceful scenes that characterize our
courts of justice. A writer in the current
number of the New York Nation remarks
that “of late years the tendency of the coun-
sel is to consider himself the prisoner’s
agent for facilitating his escape from pun-
ishment in any way that may suggest itself;
or if total escape be impossible, the utmost
attainable postponement of the sentence.
The result is thorough frivolousness in the
conduct of the trial, frivolous exceptions,
frivolous questions, unnecessary witnesses,
endless applications for habeas corpus and
certioraries. no matter how hopeless and ab-
surd.” It is in the power of any judge to
regulate the practice before him so that the
counsel for the defense shall not appear as
the prisoner’S agent, working simply to effect
his escape from punishment. The court
has full power, too, to protect witnesses
from the disgraceful and cowardly bullying
by unscrupulous attorneys which has be-
come an incident of almost every trial.
There is no warrant in the rules of
the profession for heaping insults up-
on witnesses, and yet it is seldom thata
witness gains anything by calling upon the
court for protection from this outrageous and
very general practice. The court will inva
riably show the utmost consideration for
the most coutemptible shyster who can man-
age to gain admission to the bar, while re-
spectable witnesses are treated by council
as if presumed to be guilty of falsehood and
perjury, and the court permits it. The
fact is that our judges come from the ranks
of the professions after a course of practice
with just such associations and their prej-
udices and sympathies are with the bar.
The general inefiiciency of our courts of
justice in criminal trials calls loudly for re-
form, and the attention of the people should
be constantly directed to the subject. VVe
insist that the worst evils could be greatly
modified, or obviated altogether, by firm-
ness and courage on the part' of the judges.

ABOUT OBITUARIES.

One of the evidences of the large membership of
the Order in Michigan lies in the fact that a large
number of obituaries seek a place in our columns.
We behave that very many of the readers of the
Vzsrron read the greater portion of each number, but
we are quite sure that some do not.

Some months ago we gave notice to all our readers
that we must abbreviate the obituaries sent us for
publication, and we had two reasons for doing I0.
First, on account of the space they ocoupY. and, sec-
ondly, on account of the uniformity of statement‘
It is true the subject is every time identical. Some
Patton is dead, and as we said before when consider-
ing this subject, we are quite willing to give space
for a notice of that fact. But to preamble and re-
solve in substantially the same language half a dozen
times in each number becomes very monotonous.
We have adhered pretty closely to our determination
as then announced and have seldom gone beyond the
two-inch space to which we restricted each notice.
The proof that many of our readers do not head
our notice is shown by the fact that we continue to
receive the old fashioned preamble and resolutions
covering a quarter of a column. 01 course these
people never read an obituary themselves except it
be from their own Grange.

Some one has sent us a preamble and resolutions
relating to the death of J onathan N. Hickley. But
as the notice has nothing about time. place of
death, name or number of Grange to which he be-
longed, we must set it aside, only adding that the
preamble and resolutions set forth that the deceased
was a worthy Patron.

 

WE have taken a look at the Rix harrow
advertised on our eighth page. It is not
another pattern or style of spring tooth har-
row that is with the spring in the tooth but
the tooth is hinged in the middle and held
to a working position by a coiled spring that
allows the tooth to surmount any obstruction
that it may meet when at work, and restores
it toa working position as soon as theobst. uc-
tion is passed. We have seen several kinds
of broad tooth harrows. the teeth of which
were adjusted .by coiled springs, but this is
the first one of that class that seemed to us
really practical. We think farmers will
find this a most excellent implement. We

think another thing, th at Patrons in want
of this sort of a harrow can get it for what it

THE State Picnic Aug. 16th at Lansing.

61108.

Work it is perhaps not a matter of surprise
that quite a percentage of that work was not
done well—Was done with special reference
to adding members to the Order, and with
little or no regard to a clear understanding
of the prime object had in View by its found-

many Granges have we now in this State?

that we,shall include in our next report to
the National Grange.

that quarter was for the smallest number

STATE GRANGE—ANNUAL PIC-NIC.

The Patrons of Husbandry, of Michigan,
have had two large gatherings known as
State picnics. The first held at Grandville,
August 22, 1879, was a notable event for the
Order in the western part of the State.

The second held the following year on
the 12th day of August on the fair grounds
of Ingham county close to the city of Lan-
sing was very largely attended from many
parts of the State, Nearly 10,000 people
were on the grounds on that occasion and
were ably entertained by the Worthy Mas-
ter of the Ohio State Grange, Hon. J. H.
Brigham. It was a grand sight as the long
trains one after another pulled up to the
fair grounds and their living loads poured
out with well filled baskets and sought the
sheltering shade of grove or hall to spend a
day of recreation in sight of the towering
capitol of our great State.

As we said in the last VISITOR, the har-
vest of 1881 made farmers feel poor. Many
in this part of the State had but their seed
and bread.

On the heel of such a harvest, it was not
deemed best to invite the Patrons of the
State to come together, and a State picnic
in 1881 was not attempted.

With the improved condition of the far-
mers this year we see no reason why we
should not have a large gathering this year.

We remember the Patrons of Ingham
county made very complete arrangements
for the accommodation of all in attendance at
the time, and the same wide-awake Granges
with the benefit of their former experience
have the matter in charge at this time.

VVorthy Master Brigham, of Ohio has
again been engaged to address the Michi-
gan Patrons who attend the picnic, and
from good authority we also learn that the
\Vorthy Master of the Indiana State Grange
Hon. Aaron Jones will be present. These
able gentlemen, together with Brother Luce
of our own State Grange will present a trio
of good talkers that guarantee an abundant
intellectual feast. And the other, the feast
of substantials and indeed luxuries. was
never known to be meager when Grangers
gather together. With favorable weather
we expect an immense turn out. And as
we safely judge the future by the past we
expect from the abundant stores of the boxes
and baskets the multitude will be bountiful-
ly fed and of the residue there will be left
more than the well-filled baskets that helped
make famous that miraculous feast of old.

You have ample time to get ready, and we
know that all who can reach railroad facili-
ties cannot afford to stay at home. Do not
be satisfied with inviting your wife, or your
husband to go, but ask your farmer neighbor
and his wife to visit the Capitol City of our
State, with its grand new Capitol building
and spacious grounds. A day cannot be
more profitably spent now that the harvesst
are safely gathered. This trip will break
the monotony of farm life, and is the kind
of medicine farmers need to take about dog
days.

The arrangements for transportation were
undertaken by a committee of the Ingham
County Grange, and it was expected would
be complete in time for publication in this
number of the VISITOR. Up to the time of
going to press we have notice of perfected
arrangements only over the Grand Trunk
at half rates, and special trains over the 'l‘o-
ledo and Ann Arbor and the Detroit, Lan-
sing and Northern at reduced rates.

We presume all roads leading to Lansing
will give excursion rates, and Prof. Beal is
confident that special trains will be run to
the accommodation of all who may wish
to go.

 

GRANGES IN MICHIGAN.

A communication signed Frank, asks the
number of Granges in Michigan; to which
We answer; There have been from the first,
until now, 651 Granges organized in this
State. Of this number several were organ-
ized for the benefit, apparently, of the organ-
izing deputy, and never made a. report to this
ofiice, and some we suspect never held a
meeting after the deputy turned his back up-
on them.

Others, left to themselves, struggled along
for a time; and then, failing to realize the
promised pecuniary advantages,become dorm-
ant then dead.

Ilthers, again, having some members who
appreciated to some extent the benefits or
possibilities that lay within this organiza-
tion held on, and can look around them with
pride to-day on the good work already ac-
complished in the first decade of our exist-

In the rush and whirl of early and rapid

ers.
But the question of “Frank” was, How

As near as we can determine there are 350

There has been a. gradual gain of member-
ship since September, 1878. Our report for

is worth.

RAILWAY ROBBERY.

We publish on our second page under the
title of “The Brigands of Mussel Slough”
an account of the hardships imposed upon
helpless settlers by the Central Pacific Rail-
way company. This is only an example of
the unrestrained rapacity exhibited by this
corporation whenever opportunity offered.
The instance relatel is well authenticated,
although it seems almostincredible that the
forms of law should be used to cover and
protect the most outrageous robbery of a
whole communfty. The Southern Pacific
Railway received the usual gift of public
lands from Congress, that is to say the odd
numbered sections for ten miles on each
side of whatever line the company might
survey for its track. In most cases the
grant was made before the company had es-
tablished its line by surveys. If the line
when established should include any sec-
tions already settled upon and subject to the
right of pre—emption or homestead, the law
provided that the settlers right should be
sustained and the company should have
the right to select in lieu of such sections
an equivalent amount ofland on odd num-
bered sections within ten miles on each side
of the strip first granted. Thus the railroad
rights covered the granted limits and the in-
demnity limits. The settler however in all
cases was held to the strictest compliance
with the law and must make his filings as
in other cases. In a contest between two
settlers the first settler always had the pref-
erence, even if he had not complied strictly
with the law in filing his statement, but
when a settler’s right was attacked by a rail-
way corporation, no such allowance was
made. Thus the contests between settler
and the railway companies, decided by the
Department of the Interior, often resulted
in the loss of years of labor and improve-
ment made by original settlers long before
the government surveys were made. The
case of the Mussel Slough lands however
showed the most deliberate fraud and mis-
representation. It is probable that the
courts would have protected the rights of
the settlers if they had possessed the courage
and means to fight, but the Pacific Railway
companies terrorized the whole state of Cal-
ifornia at that time. It was well known
that the case would be carried to the supreme
court of the United States, but that tribunal
was about three years behind in the cases on
its docket. This with the preliminary liti-
gation would require at least five years‘
In the mean time the settlers would be in
uncertainty, and their titles would be prac-
tically valueless.

California has been retarded many years
in its development by the incubus of rail-
way monopoly. The State was bound and
fettered by the monopolists at every point.
All the means of transportation, including
every ferryboat, and even the street rail-
ways were in the hands of a few men, who
seized and appropriated all the savings of
the people and the richest revenues of the
State- It is only oflate that the State has
commenced to recover its right to exist, and
enjoy the fruits of industry and economy.

THE “SANITARY ENGINEER."

instructive paper. It is published weekly
in New York, with a branch oflice in Lon-
don. Its expressed aimgis to enlighten the
public concerning public health, house
drainage, water supply, sewerage, veutila.
tion, heating and lighting. Its list of editors
and contributors includes many of the most
noted specialists, both in this country and
Europe. The subjects discussed in this pa-
per are of the highest importance in every
community and every home, and yet we
know very little attention is given to
such topics among the people. They are all
difficult subjects, and the highest scientific

‘and engineering skill is devoted to them in

all parts of the country by specia1ig[:g_

It is noticeable that many fine farm houses
are built with no reference whatever to late
improvements in drainage, water supply,
and ventilation. There is no good reason
why our new country residences should not
be provided with nearly all of the comforts
and luxuries of good city houses. The
plumbing and hot and cold water supply
ought to be just as complete as in large
towns. With the convenient and beautiful
lamps and fixtures for using kerosene and
its very moderated cost, country residences
have little use for the luxury of gas light
and, besides, the kerosene furnishes a
more steady light than gas. The time is
almost at hand when electric lighting will be
within the reach of any person who has
means enough to put up a good dwelling
house.

We believe that in the construction of
Country houses much more attention should
be given to comfort, convenience and health,
It would be better to build a house much
plainer in the matter of finish and orna-
ment, and have a full water supply with
bath rooms and complete arrangements for
heatingt drainage and ventilation The
s;bJ§cts are not yet so perfectly under-
3 0 in a Prachcal W33’ among scientific
men that no mistakes are made such
P3P0!'S as the Sanitary Eng-;nee,. which
makes these subjects a specialty, ought to be
taken and read in every community or at

I

since our first report for Dec. 31, 1873.

1 tb dded
1?;-;rye' 8 each week to each township

We have before us this most practical and I

  


  

 

  

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TEE} GBANG-E VISITOR.

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MONEY ORDER CHARGES.

The House has passed a bill reducing the
rates for postal orders, and providing for an
order under $5.00. upon which 1 the charge
shall be 3 cents._ This is a wise measure and
will not meet with any opposition from any-
quarter. . The rates for orders of large de-
nominations will be as follows: For orders
not exceeding $10, 8 cents; for orders ex-
ceeding $10 and not exceeding $15, 10 cents;
exceeding $15 and not exceeding $30, 15
cents; exceeding $30 and not exceeding $40,
20 cents; exceeding$40 and not exceeding
$50, 25 cents; exceeding $50 and not exceed-
lng $60, 30 cents; exceeding $60 and not ex-
ceeding $70. 35 cents; exceeding $70 and not
exceeding $80, 40 cents; exceeding $80 and
not exceeding $100, 45 cents. I-Ieretofore
the largest amount that could be conveyed
$111053 postal order was $50; this bill makes it

We find this item in an exchange. The
chief advantage of this money order bus
iness, in places where banks or exchange
omces are located, lies in the fact that money
orders can be bought at any time between
7 A. M. and 9 P. M., while you are restricted
to banking hours —only about halfthe time-
in the purchase of exchange. For this ac-
commodation on all sums exceeding $30 our
venerable Uncle proposes to still charge us
about twiceas much as we pay a bank for
exchange.

The law as amended by the House is
better than it was, but the charge is exces-
sive on sums exceeding $30, and will not
save the business from banks and the ex-
press companies.

monorotv m IOWA.

VVe give elsewhere a report of the Secre-
tary of the Farmers’ Protective Association
of Iowa. From that and other items which
we gather, and from the determined spirit
shown by Patrons and farmers of Michigan,
we feel safe in saying that the relief and pro-
tection demanded by the people must and
will be accorded—whether reluctantly or wil-
lingly, no matter.

What the people demand can be secured.
But the demand must be backed by such con-
sistent, independent personal action as will
show the professional politician that his
wisest course will be to yield a ready acqui-
escence to the popular demand for security

against the injustice of those who seem dis-

sed to oppress by their exactions. Our
Tgwa friends seem determined to make a
good fight over this barbed wire business,
and we hope our readers will not fail to read
all our clippings on this subject.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING.

Bro. J. Q. Bennington, Chairman of the
Executive Committee of the State Grange,
has issued a call for a meeting of the Com-
mittee at the Hudson House. Lansing, at 8
P. M. of the 16th of August. There is busi-
ness for the Committee, and as it is likely
all will attend the picnic, the time is favor-
able for such a meeting.

VISITOR RECEIPTS (CONTINUED).
JULY.

13—Mrs C A Travis, $1.50; Mrs G W Crosby,
$2.00; M B Averill, $1.00.

14—Mrs HJ Eddy. $1.00; F EWilcox, $3.00;
W E West. $1.00.

18—Wm Hangby, $1.00.
22-8 W Barrett, $1.00; This Bathy, $1 00.

23_W H Castle, $1.00; 0 M Sikes, $2.00;
Mrs M M Hall, $1.00.

A private letter from Washington of late
date, gives us an opinion from an intelli-
gent, well-informed source that “The Bur-
rows Bill will probably go over until De-
cember and then be passed with some
amendments.” The Agricultural Departr
ment Bill has been reported back to the
Senate with amendments, and will very
likely pass as soon as it can be brought up
for consideration--possibly before the ad-
journment. The writer is confident “That
both will become laws before the close of the
47th Congress.” This is encouraging, and
indicates the importance of people attending
to business that concerns them. If the laws
under ,.which we live are oppressive, or not
calculated to give us an even chance with
other classes , it does not become us as intel-
ligent citizens to suffer in silence, but rather
proceed at once to direct the attention of our

_ ‘ ation, oint out our
(13:33? hf‘ §OrlsllJto1RltI}J:llt.i Zlrid ask forpsuch legisla-
tion as will agord necessary ralief. In_ mak-
a demand be reasonableiégnd persistent.

ber Dav Crockett. 9 Sure ‘Y0? 1'9
figfiegd then go ahead.”. Don’t lose sight
f your object, and don't support men fol‘
fegislative positions who won’t take care of

your,interests.

THE following Granges are delinquent in
reports and payment of dues for the quarter

ending June 30, 1882:
2. 10. 14.19.23. 24- 32- 39' 43’ 1137 461’o39’ii3’
55 56' 57, 33’ 65, 73, 80, 97, 106, , I 1
’ 137 151 152 153 159 162, 175,
112’ 123' 136’ ’ ’ 99' 219’ 226' 227 229
nssaaasamm
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2702 277’, 230, 281. 283. 285. 285» gggv £54: 
36137“-3’5'38°'33i' 33' §33' iii’ 293' 233’
437,445-4481456”; ' so’ 590' 600’ 607' 610’
545’ 563' 566, 568, 574, 5 , 6451 4477 I 1
623’ 624’ 632’ 633, 634, 637; I 2 . 
The following are delinguyent 3f(<)>r1882e
' M rch 31 an une 1
““§,"°3'§ °'.',§m§3 Z7 39, 96. 113. 1131. $5.
» 1 ' ' 293. 8.
118.'1§g.§g§.%23v§2g' 333' 33?,’ 33%: 415, 417,
i§‘1’:43g0; $3; $3; 46713; _47e, 492, 503, 514, 554.
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quarters ending °°- 1 ’
June 30, 18822 ,
203, 401.

ing

TNE CHANNEL lSLANDS~THE PEOPLE AND THEIR
CATTLE.

Under this head we find a very interesting
paper by Willis P. Hazard, of West Chester,
Pennsylvania, in the Proceedings of a Con-
vention of Agriculturists held in the De-
partment of Agriculture last January. The
paper is too long to present entire, and the
selections made are on account of the greater
interest which Jersey cattle have aroused
within a few years, in this county. If every
man who keeps one cow is to have the butter
cow, we want our rearlcrs to know where she
came from, and this is the way Mr. Hazard
tells you about “the J ersey" and some other
things:

Directly south of England flows the British
Channel, connecting the North sea with the
North Atlantic Ocean, and separating Eng-
land from France. After passing through
the narrow straits between Dover and (falais,
the English Channel widens very much, ow-
ll1%’)])d1’tl_V to bays and harbors on the ling-
li_s coast, and partly to two large indciita-
tions or bays on the north coast of France.
In_ the casternniost bay lies Iiavrc; on the
point of land separating them is (fherbourg,
the iiaval depot of France, and in the western
bay lies a group of islands and rocks quite
adjacent to the coast of France, and so com-
pletely land-locked and within the shelter of
that country, thatthe map-studeiit is aiiiazed
when he is told that these islands belong to
England and not to Fiance; still more so
when he visits these islands and finds nearly
every hamlet and parish bearing French
names, _the customs and habits French. and
most of the .tI'8.llS_d(:tl0l1S carried on, and the
papers published in the French language.

rom their situation, these islands are
called the Channel Islands, though more
popularly known by the individual names of
the larger three of the group, viz., Jersey,
Guernsey, and Alderneyj. These have at-
tracted the attention of ngland and Ameri-
ca in recent years, through‘ the merits and
beauties of their two famous breeds of cat-
tle. the Jersey and Guernsey breeds. And
these have, until within a short period, been
generally known under the generic and er-
roneous name of Alderney cattle.

The larger islands lie nearly south of each
other, and of England, and in the following
order: Alderney and the Casquets, about 60
miles from England; Guernsey, Ilerin and
Serk, 70 miles; and Jersey 90 miles. Alder-
iiey 1S 3% miles long by 1 mile broad, having
1,962 acres; Guernsey is 0 miles long, by 7
miles broad, having a population of 30,000;
and J erscy is nearly double the size of Guern-
sey,_being 11 miles long by 5% miles broad,
having 40,000 acres, and 57,000 population.
The smaller islands of Serk, Jethro, and
Herm, are sparsely settled, but very pictur-
esque and beautiful to the lover of natural
scenery and history.

In regard to the quality of the flesh of these
cattle, he says:

The meats we examined with care, and
tasted with relish the Guernsey beef, as we
felt anxious to test its quality to know wheth-
er the animal of that breed made good beef.
We found it to be juicy, tender, and delicious,
with a fine peculiar aromatic flavor. The
color of the fat is of a deep orange color,
much darker than that of the short-liorn or
Devon, and to many would be somewhat ob-
jectional, but only from prejudice. It is even
of a deeper yellow than the fat of the Jersey.
The meat at the same time is of it deeper red
than that of other animals. Most of the beef
used in Guernsey and Jersey is that import-
ed from France, and is landed under special
restrictions. The animals are driven under
an iiispectoi"s eye to the public yard, marked,
and only allowed to come out at once to be
killed by the butcher. The islanders guard
their two noted breeds very carefully from
any chance of being crossed, and do not allow
the cattle even of one island to be imported
into the other. This is one of the values of
those animals imported into this coiiiitry—
the assurance of t ie purity of the breed.

THE JERSEY CATTLE.

The cattle of these islands are now famous
for their beauty and their merit, and are of
late being widely scattered over our whole
country. In the comparatively short time
that they have assumed proniiiience there
must be some reat value in the breed to so
assert itself. e shall, therefore, make it
our object to trace the history of these breeds,
and to point out why they are so sou rht.

The origin of the Jersey breed has een by
most writers traced back to the nei hboriiig
coast of France, and more particular y to that
part of it called Brittany. To this day cattle
very similar in size and appearance, and
which might be sold as inferior Jerseys, and
have been large] y so sold in England, are to
be seen there. Professor Gaiiigee wrote a
special treatise on Brittany cattle, advocating
their merits. But the Brittany cows are not
so well developed in their udders, have not
as deep barrels, or, as we say, have more day-
light under them, nor are their horns as fine
or crumpled as the Jerseys. But this inferi-
ority is niuch owing to the ignorant manage-
ment by the Brittany peasants and their
careless breeding.

The curious fact,too, in support of this ori-
gin, is that wherever Druidical remains have
been found there also has been prevalent a
small breed of good cattle, and mostly of
black and white, or of a cream or dun color.
The original colors of the Jersey breed, as
stated by writers of the time, were of black
and mulberry, and of a cream color, and in
most of them plashed with white. To this
day a black Jersey, with the peculiar mulber-
ry brown stripe running along the chine and
spreading into the black on the sides, particu-
larly if it has the golden lustrous tinge which
fine hair and oleaginous skin give it, is one of
the best colors, if there is anything in color,
as we year by year grow to think there is,
that you can have on a Jersey.

Whatever the origin of this breed, we know
the fact that for two centuries it has been
famous in the island as a good one, and that
great care has been taken to perfect it and to
keep the breed pure. Necessarily in so small
an island, and where the number of animals
were so few, the effect of breeding without
introducing new blood would be, to a certain
extent, in-and-in breeding, consequently cer-
tain traits would be perfected, increased and
maintained; while at the_same time, owing
to the manner in which this was carried out,
the size and stamina of the animals might be
lessened. _

That this is the case, those who have paid
attention to the breed for a length of time
are perfectly well aware._ Such remember
the size and color of what is now called the
old-fashioned Jerseys. They were of a much
larger size than at present, and would weigh
from ten to twelve undred P011I1dS. and Were

usually of a dun coior. Then came the fash-
ion of having them smaller and finer, and of
a. cream color, and mostly blotclied with
white. The next color sought for was for a
deer or fawn color, and all the better if it was
shaded in the flanks and about the head with
black. As some would retrovert and go back
to the old colors, and come solid without any
white, solid colors became fashionable. In
brecdin for these colors, some would come
solid co ors, tipped with black, and thus the
next fashion was to have solid colors with
“black points;" and black tongues and black
switches became the fashion. The next color
sought for was the squirrel greys, and now
to-day it is the blue and silver greys. And
so it will continue to be as long as there are
charlatans in the trade, who generally are the
loudest voiced. and talk up those wares that
they have to sell, and as long as buyers will
control their good sense and pay the prices
asked by fancy breeders. To-day a returning
sense to reason is being shown, and it is de-
niandedthat performance at the pail shall be
the true test. This is the true one, only the
breeders not to be outdone, cry out “blood
will tell, and demand their fabulous prices
for the “foi'ty-eleventli" cousin of an animal
that has made its sixteen pounds of butter. ,

More than a hundred years ago the states
of Jersey, in 1743:}, and again in 1750, passed
stringent laws to prevent the importation
from France; and more recently they passed
a law to prevent importation from Guernsey
En,<.rland, or elsewhere, thus using every
effort to maintain the purity of the breed.
The Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticul-
tural Society was formed in 1511:}, and they
havejealously helped to inaintain this purity,
and have been mainly instrunicntal in lead-
ing to its development and iinprovenieiit.
They adopted a scale of points in 15:34, which
has since been altered, which gave. breeders
an intelligent guide toward creating perfec-
tion. -In 1838 it was lirst required the pedi-
gree on both sides should be stated, and this
led to the formation of the Herd-Book.

In 1844, “the Channel Islands or Cruniple-

Horned cattle” first received irizes in England
from the Royal Agricultura society of Eng-
land, and the prize-takers were sold for about
thirty pounds each. From this time forward
the breed came rapidly in favor in England
until now it is the fashionable breed with the
nobility and gentry, more than two thousand
being imported into that country each year,
while up to this year only one-tenth of that
number are imported here.
. Iii18.‘i:’) the effect of American wealth and
influence began to be felt, for then there were
several animals sent to this country, which
was much increased in the following two
years; prize-takers being mainly bought for
the United States. The earliest recorded im-
portation was of one cow in 181.3. The num-
ber of persons interested in Jerseys had so
increased by 1800 that the American Jersey
Cattle Club was then started, and the first
volume of the Herd Register was published
in 1871, with a record of 53.0 bulls and one
thousand four hundred and twenty-seven
cows registered, and it has now increased to
nine volumes.

The leading sources of income and profit
with the Jersey farmer are his cattle and his
potatoes. For the development of these, his
farming is mainly directed; and from the
small sizes of the farms, his farming is more
of the nature of gardening. Pasture, hay,
and the cultivation of roots and potatoes, oc-
cupy the bulk of his attention.

T ie grass is strong and rich, much like our
green grass or blue grass, and clover and lu-
ceriie is much used. The cows are led out in
summer in the morning, and tethered with a
rope or chain to an iron peg driven into the
ground by a wooden mallet, and are allowed
a space of about thirty feet in diameter.
They are changed again at noon. In summer
they are milked three times 21 day——sucli cows
as are flush in milk——froiii April to August,
and during the other months twice a day.
When milked three times the butter is not
greater in proportion. As this work is al-
ways done by women who lead them to pas-
ture and to water, the animals become very
docile.

It IS thought an extraoi‘diiiai'ily good cow
that gives twenty quai'ts—the quantity being
more usually from ten to fourteen quarts-
the medium quantity is possibly ten quarts.
In summer it requires nine quarts for one
pound of butter, and in winter rather less if
they are fed upon parsnips.

The milking is done by the women into a
pot, over which a linen cloth is spread, and
upon which is placed an escallop shell. The
milking is done upon this so as not to be
forced through the strainer, and to prevent
the rapid wearing of the cloth. From the
shell it overflows, and thus is strained as it
passes through the cloth. The milk is placed
in Norman coarse unglazed earthenware
“crocs,” or tin pots, and stands about ten
inches deep, until all the cream is risen, which
is hastened, in winter, by placing it upon the
warm hearth at bed time. When the milk is
coagulated, the cream is loosened around the

sides by the linger, the crock is dexterously‘

tilted, and the cream slipped off’. If any is
left, it is skimmed with an csczillop shell. In
Guernsey they frequently churn the whole
milk after standing for days. Some crocs
have a hole with a peg in at the bottom, by
which the serous milk is drawn off. They
endeavor to churn twice a week in summer.
Glover and lucerne are considered to whiten
the butter in summer, and ' otatoes and tur-
nips in winter. The natura pasture, or par-
siiips, make the richest butter. Late in the
fall and in winter the cattle are turned out
for a few hours each sunny day, for here the
grass is always green. though not possessing
strength in winter. The grass in February
was as it would be with us about the 10th of
May.

The pasture is considered sufficient in
summer, and in winter the main feed is hay
and straw, parsnips, ruta-bagas, and ta-
toes. The milk is sold in the towns at t ree
pence, or six cents, per quart, and some-
times in winter at seven cents. Butter is
good, but generally not of first-rate flavor,
and sells in winter for about two shillings,
or fifty cents, and not much less In summer,
for the demand is much greater. Not near
enough is made for the consumption, and
large quantities are imported from. France.
It is usually self-colored, not much coloring
matter being used, though one will frequent-
ly hear the term “a white butter cow.’

The butter is churned in a peculiar shaped
old dash churn, though the barrel churn,
with fixed dashers, is being much intro-
duced. As no farmer makes much butter,
it is all done by hand. It is made into
round stamped pats, about twice the size of
ours, of 18 ounces to the pound, and is sold
in the market in St. Helier’s, by the women,
from their baskets. We saw no spring-
houses, and the milk is usually kept in an
apartment partitioned off from an outer sort
of kitchen or store.house, where, in the main

part, frequently roots were stored, and not
with that care necessary to make the sweet-
est tasted butter. Cheese is now seldom or
never made.

SALES OF CATTLE.

From the small size of the farms. it may
easily be supposed there are no large herds
in Jersey or Guernsey. Ten or twelve is
an unusual number; five or six are more
frequent, and most every farmer tries to have
one or two heifers to sell. Altogether, there
are nearly twelve thousand head in Jersey,
and between five and six thousand in Guern-
sey. The sales from the two islands are less
than three thousand each year, the great
bulk of them going to England. Canada is
beginning to lake a few, some go to France,
and about three hundred come to the United
States.

America is taking the best, and paying
the highest prices, and with the care taken
in breeding in this country, we shall soon,
and we mightialmost say now, have finer
animals than the islands can show. They
would hardly believe my statements of the
yields of some of our cattle. The breeding
is not at all worthy of copying, and we have
no lessons to learn from them. VVith some
exceptions, the stables are filthy and bad,
the cattle are dirty, and not properly cared
for. Then, the bulls are used when only
two months old, and sold ofl‘ when two years
old. I asked the reason of thus sacrificing
an animal in his prime, and just when he
was in the height of his fame, and had proved
of value. Their reasons are, that they get
fierce, they get heavy, and as there is a law
requiring bull beef to be so marked when
sold and it brings a lower price, that it does
not pay to keep him longer than two years.
Surely this course pursued steadily of using
an immature animal must degenerate the
race. Heifers. it is desired to bring in at
two years of age, and in the spring and
summer, as they sell better for shipping.
So that they are constantly selling their
animals before they have an opportunity of
testing them, and many of the best have
left the islands under these circumstances.
The prominent, careful breeders seeing this
are endeavoring to check it, but the demand
is greater now than the supply. Prices are
rising, and the farmer is tempted by the
prices to part with them. We can supply
better stock to-day in this country than can
be imported. As only registered or pedi-
gree stock can now be entered in the Ameri-
can Register, this new rule has cut ofl‘ from
coming many of the best stock in Jersey.
Consequently the number being limited,
the prices have much increased for theeligi-
ble ones.

GUERNSEY CATTLE.

What we have said of Jersey may, with
equal justice, be applied to Guernsey.
About the same attention is paid to breeding
their stock, but the farmers are more con-
tracted in their views, and generally, if they
can use a bull for a shilling they will not
pay five shillings for a much better one. The
result of this is seen in the escutcheons, and
the hair of their animals. The one is
not as well developed as might be, and the
otheris notas fine. But the Guernsey cow,
we think, is rising rapidly in the estimation
of our farmers. She is an animal of larger
size, of greater yield, of greater docility, and
yields the richest quantity of milk. Her
butter is self-covered, even in winter, is firm
and of beautiful texture, and her golden
milk will color that of from six to ten com-
mon cows.

Wealth in Walnut Trees.

Mr. C. B. Wilson, of Jacksonville, Ill.,
drove me out to his farm sometime ago to
see some black walnut trees. “These trees,”
he said, “were planted from the seed twenty
years ago. I saw them planted.” I meas-
ured these trees and they were sixteen
inches through. They would saw into a
timber a foot of clear black walnut boards,
and then have the top, limbs and stump left.
The stump itself would sell to-day for five
dollars to be sawed into veneers. The
boards would be worth thirty dollars.
“What could you sell these trees for to tim-
ber men as they stand ‘.”’ I asked. "I
could sell them for twenty-five dollars per
tree, and ten years from now they will be
worth $50.” From these facts I came to
this conclusion: A black walnut tree will
pay $1.25 per year for 20 years. ._,A thousand
of them will pay $1,200 per year. Now
every Illinoisfarmer has had it in his ower
to make more money off‘ a row of blac wal-
nut trees around his farm than he can make
offhis farm if sowed in wheat. How can
he do it? This way : A farm of 160 acres
would be 10,500 feet in circumference. Now
plant walnut trees four feet apart all around
it and you will have 2,625 trees, which will
be worth $25 a piece in twenty years.
Again a farmer can set all his sloughs, low
places and all hog pastures into black wal-
nuts. Two thousand handsome walnut
trees growing on a farm would be worth
$50,000 in 20 years, and would not interfere
with the farm at all.

Orange raising in Florida will not pay
half so well as black walnut raising in Illi-
nois. "How should black walnut be plant-
ed?” I asked Mr. Bates, a nurseryman, at
Whitehall, Illinois. “The easiest way,” he
raid, “is to strike the ground with a com-
mon hammer in the fall, make a round hole
two inches deep and drop the walnut in.
It will cover itself with leaves and dust.
The debris over the kernel will be so light
that the sprout will have no trouble in find-
ing its way out.” “What would you do
after they come up in the spring?” “I’d go
around and put a shovelful of saw-dust, tan-
bark, grain-chaff, or straw around each
sprout. This will keep the roots damp and
kill the rass or weeds around the room. A
boy cou d plant 1,000 trees in a day in this
manner. I’d plant them twice as thick as_I
need them and then thin them out.”—-C’hi-
cago Tribune. '

THE Michigan Female Seminary, located
at Kalamazoo, and conducted on the Mt.
Holyoke plan, is advertised on our third
page in this number. As this plan includes
physical as well as mental labor, it com-
mends itself toour judgment, and we can
very cordially endorse the business manage-
ment so far as our acquaintance extends,
and that is far enough to feel confident that
we are safe in saying that the institution is
first-class in every respect, and deserving of
the patronage of those who desire their
daughters to combine labor with study.

In the last number of the Visrron, an ar-
ticle "The True Basis of Railroad Charges,”
by J. M. Mason, is the the first of a series of
valuable articles on this subject which we
find in the Southern Farm and Fireside, a
weekly agricultural newspaper published
at Baltimore, Maryland.

We said valuable articles, as we assume the
writer will hold out as he has commenced.
We shall from time to time copy the arti-
cles for the benefit of our readers. \Ve like
the independent tone of this Farm and Fire-
side Journal. It hasideas of its own, and
handles subjects with that independence
which entitles it to the support and confi-
dence ofa large list of subscribers, and we
hope it has them. It devotes considerable
space to the Patrons of Husbandry, and is
evidently doing a good work.

This F. and F. has our hearty God speed.

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

The regular meeting of the Livingston
County Council has been postponed until
Tuesday, Aug. 8. This meeting will be held
in Howell Grange hall. Program as follows:

Essay, The relative value of the different
breeds of cattle for general farming pur-
poses.—-Bro. Charles Fishbeck, Brighton
Grange.

Essay, Education.—~Sister Crout, Brighton
Grange.

Essay,
Handy Grange.

Essay, Bread and butter.—Sister Sexton,
Howell Grange.

Essay, Temperance and the Grange.-—Sis-
ter \Vells. Oak Grove Grange.

BY ORDER or EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

The next regular meeting of Berrien Co.
Pomona Grange will be held with Mount
Hope Grange at Hill's Corners on the 22nd
and 23d of August when the following pro-
gram will be carried out:—

Grange opened at 10 o’clock, A. M.

Reports of Subordinate Granges.

Recess for dinner.

Farming for Profit and at the same time
increasing the fertility of the soil. Subject
by C. T. Howe, and followed by Almon
Keigley,

Essay—The Grange as an educator, by
Mrs, Helen Finch.

VVork on the fifth degree.

Farm Economy. Presented by Lewis
Sparks, followed by John Clark.

Essay—-Home Adornments, by Sister A.
N. Woodruff.

The exercises to be enlivened by music.
We invite all fourth degree members in
good standing to come with your baskets
well filled with the necessaries of life and
make this one of the most interesting meet-
ings of the year.

W. J. JONES, Secretary Co. Grange.

Berrien Springs, July 22, 1882.

.— Bro, J. S. Briggs, West

A regular meeting of Macomb Co. Pomo-
na Grange will be held at the Grange hall in
Washington, Wednesday, August 9, begin-
ning at 9 A. M., with the following program :

Music. Prayer by the Chaplain. Music.

Reports of Subordinate Granges. Music.

Essay—VVhat the Grange has done, social-
ly, for women? by Mrs. A. S. Pearsall.

Recess at 1 P. M. Music.

Essay—What the Grange has done for
farmers, by Mrs. A. TV. Stone. Music.

Essay—What will the Grange do for our
Nation ? by A. H. Canfield.

Discussion——What is the best and most
economical fence for the farmers of Macomb
County? by J. J. Snook. Music.

Essay—-Wheat Culture, by A. J. Leonard-
son. Music.

Essay—St0ck raising and mixed farming,
by T. J. Shoemaker.

Recess at 7 P. M.

Conferring Degrees.

All fourth degree members are cordially
invited to attend. T. J. SHOEMAKER,

Secretary.

Kalamazoo County Pomona Grange will
hold its next regular meeting at the hall of
Eureka Grange on the 17th of August, open-
ing at 10 A. M. with the following program:

Essay—Kinds of Fruit, for this County
and theirCulture, by Emmons Buell. Mu-
sic.

Essay——Subject selected by essayist, Miss
Anne L. Fellows.

Recess for dinner.

Fifth degree work. '

Essay-—The Best Breed of Cattle for the
Kalamazoo County Farmer, D. T. Dell.

Essay—Good of the Order, S. F. Brown.

Essay——How to Entertain Company, Mrs.
Pike of Portage Grange.

Profits of Corn and Wheat Culture Com-
pared, Lewis Johnson.

S. F. BROWN, Lecturer. -

The Clinton Co. Pomona Grange will hold
its next meeting at the hall of Eagle Grange
on Wednesday, August 30, commencing at
10 o’clock, A. M. The question for discus-
sion will be "What shall we do to increase
the interest and retain the membership in
our Subordinate Granges ?” All are cordi-
ally invited to attend. FRANK CONN,

Secretary.

The next regular meeting of the N ewa go
Co. Pomona Grange, N 0. 11, will be hel _ at
Ensley Grange hall, August 8, commencing
at 2 P. M. Bro. J. Holbrook, of Lansing,
has promised to be with us. The afternoon
meeting will be open to all, and we ho e as
all are invited the attendance will be arge.
For Program see Lecturer’s notice.

A. TERWILLIGER, Sec’y.

PICNICS.

The annual Harvest Picnic of the Patrons
of Oceana county will be held in the grove
of Wm. F. Lewis three miles west of New
Era, August 19, 1882. Addressed by Thos.
F. Moore. Geo. W. Woonwarm,

Gso. C. MYERS,
H. S. LEWIS,
Committee.

There will be a Farmers’ Picnic at Kling-
er’s Lake the 10th of August, under the au-
spices of the St. Joseph County Grange.
Worthy Master Luce and Rev. E. R. Wil-
lard will be the speakers. A cordial invita-
tion is extended to all to attend. We would
be pleased to see your smiling countenance
upon that occasion. Yours truly,

WM. HULL.
By order of committee.
Centreville, July 28, 1882.


 

6

THE GRANGE‘ VISITOR.

filadien’ Qipaiiinieni.

EVENTiDE.

JULIA C. B. DOBB.

Whenever, with reverent footsteps,
I‘pass through the mystic door

Of memory’s stately palace.
Where dwell the days of yore,

One scene like a lovely vision,
Comes to me o'er and o'er.

’Tis a dim, fire-lighted chamber;
There are pictures on the wall,

And around them dance the shadows
Grotesque and weird and tall,

As the flames on the storied hearthstones
Wavering rise and fall.

An ancient cabinet stands there,
That came from beyond the seas,

With a breath of spicy odors
Caught from the Indian breeze.

And its fluted doors and mouldings
Are dark with mysteries.

There’s an old armchair in the corner,
Straight-backed and tall and quaint;

Ah! many a generation-
Sinner and sage and saint-—

It hath held in its ample bosom
With murmur nor complaint!

In the glow of the firelight playing,
A tiny, blithsome pair

With the music of their laughter
Fill all the tranquil air-

A rosy, brown-eyed lassie,
A boy serenely fair.

A woman sits in the shadow
Watching the children twain,

With a joy so deep and tender
It is near akin to pain,

And a smile and tear blend softly-
Sunshine and April rain!

Her heart keeps time to the rhythm
Of love’s unuttered prayer,

As, with still hands lightly folded,
She listens, unaware,

Through all the children's laughter
For a footfall on the stair.

I know the woman who sits there;
Time hath been kind to her,

And the years have brought her treasures
Of frankincense and myrrh,

Richer. perhaps, and rarer.
Than ife’s young roses were.

But I doubt if ever her spirit
Hath known, or yet shall know,

The bliss of a happier hour,
As the swift vears come and go,

Than this in the shadowy chamber
Lit by the hearthfire’s glow!

Reminiscence: of the State Grange. No. 4.

BY MRS. O. M. SYKES.

“Music !-—O how faint, how weak
Language fades before thy spell!
Why should feelings over speak
When thou canst breathe her soul so well.”

This was our feeling as we listened to the
beautiful “Over and Over Again,” sung by
four gentlemen, with Mrs. Winship presid-
ing at the organ; but we must not linger
over the music. VVe will pass up the mid-
dle aisle and pause to shake hands with
Bro. Brown, the treasurer. He is so quiet
and unassuming we do not tremble as we do
when we approach the very formidable Sec-
retary, and Editor of the VISITOR. Bro.
Holloway site near Bro. Brown, and we do
have a little timidity as our eyes catch his
sturdy features, for we have listened to his
report and marked the manner of his em-
phasis, and have drawn the conclusion that
he has very “decided views,” and what if
we should not come up to his standard? but
we have since been glad we risked it, for he
is not only firm but gentle and kind, and
fortunate is the young man who may be
privileged to grow up under his influence.
An'd now we will to the editor. We have
no “club,” but will get one if necessary to
win his favor. Three years ago he was the
busiest man in the Grange, this year his son
does the work and has Miss Fellows to as-
sist, thus leaving J. T. at liberty to chat with
the ladies or—— catch subscribers for our
paper. We found him genial and jovial ;
our ideal of an editor.

The Michigan State Grange has ever been
fortunate in the selection of its oflicers, both
for good looks and behavior; we have yet
to learn that the harmony has ever been
marred by even a ripple. Among the chair-
men of committees who gave lengthy re-
ports,;T. R. Harrison, of Paw Paw, Thos.
Mars, of Berrien, and Richard Moore, of St.
Johns, stood pre- eminent for clearness, con-
cis eness and good language. Bro. Tooker
was faithfully at his post, and there can be
11 o intrusion so long as he guards the inner
gate and Bro. Bartlett the outer. Wednes-
day evening, by request, the Wool Growers’
Association having been in convention in
the Senate Chamber, were invited to meet
with the Grange, and did so. The evening
was spent in discussing sheep washing. A.
C. Glidden, of Paw Paw, could discuss either
side; he was both for and against, according
to circumstances.

Thursday we will look over and note some
of the visitors. The gentleman who towers
head and shoulders above the medium man,
is the Master of the National Grange, and
now and then has a word to say ; but only
as he is called on, for he seems to enjoy his
freedom from responsibility. His wife
comes and goes with some lady friends, and
says she is free, and',stands ready to help in
any emergency ; she busies herself with
some fancy needle work ; in conversation
we find her entertaining and universally
charitable, and'_kind to the erring; as host-
ess she is a model.
A. C. Glidden and wife are also from Van
Buren. Mrs. G.| is a fair-haired, lively,

pleasant lady of perhaps 35 years. A. C. is,

smooth faced, and has a very independent

' way of expressing his opinions; last year he

conducted the Agricultural Department of
the VISITOR.

Mr. and Mrs. Shattuck, from Pontiac, we
were fortunate in meeting at the hotel. Mr.
S. has an eye to business, is clear headed,
strong in the right and a thorough Granger ;
is cultivated in his manners, and wide
awake on thoroughbred stock especially
Holstein kine. Myra is a quiet, retiring,
middle aged little woman. is easily affected
by the moral atmosphere, and modestly
shrinks from publicity, but enjoys enthusi-
astically the society of those who are in
sympathy with reform in any of its phases,
and as the readers of the VISITOR know, has
been an acceptable contributor to its pages
almost from the first.

Mr. and Mrs. Mayo, from Marshall, are
young, active and full of Grange vim. Mrs.
M. is also a contributor to the VISITOR, and
she and her husband are both public speak-
ers, so many of us may have the privilege of
listening to them during the coming winter.

Another contributor, Mrs. Sexton, and
her husband were present. Mr. S. is a large
dealer in Holstein cattle. They are so well
known I need but to mention them by

name.
Aunt “Hattie” was not present, but her

husband represented the firm.

A pleasing incident happened Thursday
evening just before the recess for supper.
The chair announced a cessation in the regu-
lar order of business, for the purpose of ex-
emplifyinga portion of the unwritten work,
which consisted in the presentation of a
beautiful silver tea set, from individual mem-
bers of the State Grange, to the retiring lec-
turer and his wife. In answer to the pres-
entation, both Bro. Whitney and wife ex-
pressed their gratitude in befitting terms,
and seemed to value the feeling that prompt-
ed the gift equal with the gift itself, proving

"When gratitude o’erflows the swelling heart,
And breathes in free and uncorrupted praise
For benefits received. propitious heaven

Takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense,
And doubles all its blessings.”

Sister Mayo paid a tribute of respect, in a
few well chosen sentences, to Sister Whit-
ney, regarding her life- and works in the
Grange.

The Fifth degree was conferred on a large
number of candidates. And now we will
take leave of the Ninth session of the Michi-
gan State Grange, hoping at the Tenth
many of us may have the privilege of meet-
ing and renewing our acquaintance.

 

Woman and Property.

Bro. Cobb: I would like to say a few
words through the columns of the VISITOR,
in regard to what Brother Chase is pleased
to term the “bellicose challenge” of Sister
L. E. Drake. I confess that I fail to see a
good reasoning argumentin his answer to
her question. He seems much pleased with
the clause “that makes good the husband’s
debts against the wife’s property,” but I
think a true wife will gladly pay all honest
debts after her husband's death. It might
seem a little rough should the aforesaid bills
be for liquor and cigars, still I think they
would be paid, and that as a rule women are
more prompt in the nayment of debts than
men. He says “where children are third
parties to husband and wife the State is in-
terested, etc. VVill he tell us why the State
should be more interested at the death of the
father than when the mother is taken
away? Is a mother any more apt to wrong
her child than a father? We are taught that
there is no love so pure and unselfish as
mother-love, and experience verifies the
truth of the teaching. I fail to see why
property earned by husband and wife joint-
ly, should not belong to the one as much as
to the other, or why there should be any
more necessity for legal interference in the
one case than the other. If there are no
children what does the law give the widow
out of her own hard. earnings? Simply the
use of one-third during her life-time, she
cannot sell or.otherwise dispose of it, while
the two-thirds goes to her husband’s nearest
relatives. Yet we are told, “that the law is
in advance of the people.” We can only
hope that the present generation will make
rapid strides, until it reaches the level and
can appreciate such generous (?) laws.

Again, he says, “that husband and wife
should first have a say as to‘ who should
manipulate their property after they are
gone, and the law admits of such an ar-
rangement.” It is true the husband can
make his will, but how few there are that
do this. Many kind and considerate hus-
bands doubtless intend to, but death often
comes suddenly, and the sorrowing wife is
left to fight life’s battle as best she may.
We hear a great deal of woman's incapacity
for business, but has she ever had a fair
chance in this respect? is not her effort to
inform herself in regard to her husbands
business in the large majority of cases
frowned upon? And if she persists in her
search for information and dares to express
an opinion, the term “strong-minded” is
sneeringl y applied to her, and she is accused
of ‘a desire to don the male habiliments,
and is so ridiculed that she has no other re-
source, but to “endure in silence the wrongs
she cannot right.”

But we live in a progressive age and we
trust the time is not far distant when our
brothers will realize the- truth embodied in
the lines of the Poet Laureate, that-

‘ The woman’: cause is man’s; they sink or rise
Together dwarfed, or God-like, bond or free.

 

Icould say much more, but that capa-
cious waste basket looms up before my men-
tal vision and I hastily leave the subject,
for abler pens, hoping that it may be thor-
oughly canvassed before it is dropped. VVe
have had the VISITOR only a few weeks,
and like it very much. \Ve think the last
number the best until we get the next,
which seems‘ still better.

Fr-aternally yours,
MRS. NELL H. GIDDINGS,
Grange No. 112, Hudsonville.
July 10th, 188:2

Natural and conferred Rights of Women.

Brollzer Cobb .-——lIaviiig been absent from
home the last tliree weeks have not seen
Brother (‘li;ise's reply to my “bcllicose” (cou-
tcntious) challenge, as he termed it, until the
present moment.

If considered contentious I only ‘hope
it may prove to be so in the true sense of con-
tending for equal justice for all.

He thinks the investigation of said chal-
lenge “will start niziny questions of common
interest.”

Hcavcii grant it may, for especial interests
and special legislatioii have already worked
treason and injustice to the common good;
made Inillioiiaircs of the few, paupcrs or toil-
ing serfs of the many; robbed women of the
privileges and opportunities given to men:
hence their ignorant and dependent condi-
tion.

My challenge was on the community prop-
erty only, but as Brother Chase sees fit to go
farther, I concur, mid shall (llS(‘l.lSS all ques-
tions upon tlic iiiirestricted and equal rights
between the sexes founded upon the natural
rights of humanity as .1 see it.

I do not question the good intention of leg-
islating women into ignorance and depend-
ence, but I do contend it is unjust, and works
more harm than good to them and the rising
generations. First, tlicn, what are natural
rights ‘I We are often told that there are
natural rights and coiii’ei‘i'ed riglits in all
governments; it is the C‘Ollft‘1‘l‘(:(l rights of
which I complain, and insist that cvcry law
which robs one part of the human family
that it may confer greater power upon the
other part is tyraiiical and unjust, notwith-
standing the intention of law inukcrs.

The first and greatest nziturzil right is to
live—tliis right none will dispute, it being :1
free gift of Nature—but to exercise this right
forces the conviction flint other rights equal-
ly free must follow, g'llilI‘Ellltt‘e(l by the same
power, among thesc are opportunities to se-
cure each for themselves the required means
of subsistence, also am equal right. to the
earth or soil on which to live.

None who has physical or mental ability
to labor should have the right to live upon
what another has produced, unless he or she
has in some way rendered an equivalent in
exchange, or benefits to the common fund
equal to their expenses.”

Brother Chase seems to think our present
system is good, and only those who are igno-
rant of the fact are inclined to scold. Well,
let us see. We will gi ve it fair illustration, one
which often occurs. Jane Smith is a poor
girl, and Tom Jones is also poor, but they are
both ambitious and willing to work. They
agree to share the responsibility of a co-part-
nership; marry, rent a farm and go to work.
Tom plows aiid sows and reaps and mows.
From sunrise to sundown, day after day, Tom
is always found hard at work. Jane, equally
as ambitious, keeps the house in order, cooks
the meals, washes, irons, bakes and churns,
makes Tom’s clothes.darns and mends, and in
the busy time of haying and harvest Jane
milks the cows, feeds the pigs, and often
splits her own wood, or gathers up the chips
to do the cooking; in fact 10 or 11 o’clock at
night often finds her still at work, for poor
Tom is so tired she takes more upon herself,
notwithstanding the extra men to cook and
clean for.

But all goes on well for they are so happy
thinking and talking of the time when they
will be able to have a home of their own.

A few years pass; children are born to
them, and though cares multiply future pros-
pects grow brighter as the little store is laid
by each year to buy the wished for home.

Finally the time comes; the home is
bought; but whose home is it? Tom’s
of course; still Jane is seemingly

happy, though down deep in her thoughts,
hid away from all eyes, even Tom’s,
lest he should fear that she doubted his great
loving heart and his honor to do justice to
her, there sometimes came fears that she had
no home. But she would not complain;
though faded and broken in health, would
continue to do all in her power to increase
the value of Tom’s home, for so long as she is
a good, faithful wife, and Tom is satisfied
with her, she will have a home with him, but
it‘ Tom should grow arrogant as men often
do when prospered, and wish to live at ease
and see more of the world, he can leave her
at home while he rolics and dissipates as
much as he likes, and if she protests, she on-
ly gets Tom’s ill will and a. command to mind
her own business—he knows what he is
about and so long as she has a home and
enough to eat she has no right to find fault.

What shall she do? She cannot call for a
division of the property, appoint a receiver
and stop all further waste until justice is
done her. Oh, no, the law does not see in
Jane an equal partner in the firm, she is only
Tom’s wife. If she falters and grows weary,
gets discouraged in seeing things going to
waste while Tom drinks, gambles and finds

AUGUST 1, 1882.

other company more to his taste than hers:
becomes desperate, takes her children and
leaves. determined she will work no longer
for one who looks upon her only as a source
of profit-.ind convt-nieiice—Tom comes home,
secs :1 note from Jane telling him why she
has left. Well. what course is left him now ‘R
The law is in his favor again. He procurcs
an otiiccr, searches for the once happy wife,
now lieartbroken and homeless. Though the
best part of her life was spcnt in working for
the home she has left, he coinmaiids the oni-
C91‘ to take.-the children from her, and tells
her-with the zuitliority of a master if she
refuses to return he will Iulvcrtise her, for-
bidding any onc to trust her on his account,
and in due time obtain it divorce for descr-
tion. Then she will have nothing.

Now to furtlier illustrate. We find Tom
did not take the iulvzintage the laws provided
for him either because he was too great and
good, hence in “zi(lvance" of the law, or, so
"ig1io1‘2uit." he failed to “appreciate it." Tom
and Jane are still in their home, or Tom's
home, both doing all in their power to beauti-
fy the home and give their cliildren every
advantage equal with their iieiglibofs. They
are now well-to-do. as the world would say,
for they have prospered and have plenty. A
few more years pass, and Tom dies. Not even
it will is left to give Jane the right that any
partner would have in a common dry goods
store or shoe shop, and the law fails to con-
sider her as such——she may have it life lease
of one-third of the property. But to even
secure that, a long and tedious process must
first ensue in which judges, lawyers and ad-
ministrators must have :1 part. or if she be-
comes an administrator liersclf she can only
become such at the expense of an appoint-
ment by it legal tribunal, must also pray the
judge. to grant her the right to become guar-
dian of her own children. Now, why all this
special legislation in favor of Tom. If J one
had died no such proceedings would have
been required and lawyers pledges or admin-
istrators would not have disturbed him.

My reasons for at present giving-a wife one
year before debt can be collected by law, is
from the fact that few husbands consult their
wives with regard to their business, hence
time would be required to become acquainted
with all the matters left for hcr to settle.

\Vhen the laws become impartial in their
demands, and all property accumulated after
IIl2ll'l‘l{lgt5 shall be considered joint stock in
which both have equal claims,unless provided
otherwise by special enactments at the request
of said parties (husband and wife). Then and
not till then will it be justifiable in woman
to be conversant with all business Inatte-1's,
hence able to settle up all claims and traiisact
all business left by deceased husbands with-
out some time for investigation and consid-
eration.

As for “marrying property" I am opposed
to the law, but all profits from individual
property after marriage should become a part
of the community property.

As my article. is already too long I will not
give my reasons why I am opposed to marry-
ing property in this, but hope to at some fu-
ture time. LYDIA E. DRAKE.

Plainwell, Micli., July 12, 1882.

Politics Affecting Suffrage in the Grange.

How often do we hear members of the
Grange say, “We can never accomplish the
ends for which the Grange was instituted,
without admitting politics," or in other
words making politics a corner stone of the
structure. I often wonder if our brothers
who make these assertions so often, ever stop
to think of anything in this connection ex-
cept personal advancement politically, or
party interests which might be advanced if
voted for by the Grange in a body. Let us
look a little at this matter.

It is the boast of the Grange, you see it
emblazoned high on their standard, that we
have admitted women to our councils with
equal rights and privileges; no other
society has done so, etc., etc. Now, Worthy
Patrons, who is it that has admitted woman
to equality and all this of which the Grange
boasts. VVhy, we I and who is we ? VVho
to be sure but lords of creation. For was
not the Grange instituted by noble, great
hearted men, who in their wisdom saw that
the farmer’s wife even more than the farmer
needed just these Grange associations ? Then
do not think I am grumbling at we for ad-
mitting woman, for I am devoutly thankful
for admission. But after we (the lords of
creation) have made this so, why wish to in-
augurate a change, which with the present
suffrage law would sooner or later drive
every woman from the Grange. Did our
politically inclined brothers ever look upon
this question in this light? Did they ever
look forward to the time when, politics
legally entering the Grange, our brothers
would be upon the floor with the usual elec-
tion talk [slang I had nearly said] and think
where the women would be, or if present be
doing ‘I Let me tell you she would be deep-
er in gossip and scandal than she has ever
yet been accused of being. Why ? Simply
because no person is going to take an inter-
est in politics when they do not expect to
be benefited even so much as expressing
an opinion by ballot. There might be an
occasional one, as there is now and has ever
been, who would be rampant on politics
without the least understanding of the dif-
ferent party principles or platforms, but
who having convinced herself that women
ought to be allowed the franchise, would
straightway go aboutdenouncing this or that

political measure, and taking and even mak-
ing every opportunity to thrust her suffrage
views upon all persons who might still be
found in the Grange ‘.’ But the majority of
women would turn their attention to any-
thing rather than political discussions as at
present carried on.

In one of our neighboring States
the members of various Granges tried the
experiment of binding their members
by pledges tovote for certain party men
and measures, the pledging being done after-
the close of the meetings. And what was
the consequence? Never a Grange did I
hear of which ever held another meeting
after that certain election day. It was more
than tbe Grange could carry.

i\Iany claim that we are growing
more and more toward that political
end which it is their aim to reach.

They tell us the Farmers’ Alliance is an
outgrowth of the Grange and in many
ways an improvement. This brings us
again to the outset. VVoman is also admit-
ted to the alliance. But did any ofyou ever
see her there‘? Perhaps she was there, but
I guess she was not very plenty. - I don't
think our brothers were badly crowded by
her. Are you sure that the president’s wife
did not let him go to the alliance meeting
alone while she attended the Grange ?

Perhaps a condition might be attained by
both the Grange and Alliance, which could
include both women and politics. Does any
brother who wishes to bring politics into the
Grange think what that condition is?
Nothing more or less than an entire revolu-
tion of the suffrage law. Give woman the
right to drop a ballot for or against as she
might choose ; make her eligible to any and
every position in our government which is
in the gift of the legal voter; give her the
same incentive to gain political power which
her brother has; give her the same incen-
tive to study political intrigue and inform
herself on party issues, and then try politics
in the Grange. On no other plan can I see
how woman and politics can both be mem-
bers of the Grange. And then, heaven
help us all, for if this was to be brought
about with the present general knowledge
possessed by woman what a hurricane would
ensue! There would be more political hair
pulling than congress ever knew anything
about.

But this picture need frighten no one,
as our brothers would rather keep poli-
tics out than allow the ballot to fall into the
hands of woman. And the chance for poli-
tics getting in while woman stays is small,
for my dear brothers must remember that
in the Grange woman has an equal right,
and she is learning too much and acquiring
too much individuality of character to tame-
ly submit to seeing our only hope for inde-
pendence in the future blighted by the foul
breath of unscrupulous politicians and politi-
cal chicanery. Mas. HELEN FINCH.

Coloma, July 12, 1882.

Agrseable Meals.

It is impossible to estimate properly the
immense influence which is exerted upon a
household by the atmosphere of the family
table. Ifit is true that one does not come
out ofa room the same person he went in,
the mind ever after retaining the impress of
what affected it there, . what great results
must be achieved from the meeting in the
dining room, from the conversation in-
dulged in, and the sentiments habitually
expressed in there. A neat. well-covered
table is in itself a lesson to the children.

I have noticed that a sensitive child al-
most invariably has better manners when
dressed in his best, and have seen with sur-
prise the effect produced upon a certain
small boy of my acquaintance by handsome-
ly dressed ladies who are polite to him. To
me inviting table. where there should
always be something attractive, however
simple the meal may be, most children will
come prepared to behave properly. It is
really worth while, and, when philosophic-
ally considered, is a matter of great import-
ance, to lay aside as far as possible all
thoughts of hard work done before or to be
done after the meal, and to allow no vexa-
tions questions to be discussed at this time.
The habit of brooding over our work and ex-
hausting ourselves by going over it all in
our minds is one to be studiously avoided.
There is nothing takes from one’s energy
more than this, and it is frequently a cause
of insanity.

Everybody knows that food digests better
when in agreeable company, It was some-
thing more than pleasantry that made a
friend remark that he could not have his
wife and children spend the summer vaca-
tion _away from him, as it gave him the dys-
pepsia. - The poor child who comes to grief
at the table, and is sent away from it with
his dinner half eaten, and who suffers the
whole afternoon with an undigested lump
of food in his stomach, is to be pitied, and it
is a wise plan to explain to children that in
this way they will be punished for bad con-
duct at the table.

It follows then, that pleasent surprises in
the way of preparing favorite dishes, that
good taste and painstaking in arranging all
Lheappointments ofa table and dining room,
rise above a mere ministering to the animal
existence, and effect the fine issues of life.
Good behavior and cheerfulness ought to
accompany each meal as naturally and un-
waveringly as bread and butter. The happy
laughter which distributes nervous force, and
calls the blood from the brain, allowing the-
stomach to get its share, should be heard.
more frequently at our tables. No one
should feel at liberty to say one word that is
not kind and thoughtful. any more than he
would go without a sufficient quantity of
food. These facts need more careful con-

sideration than they have usually received. -

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AUGUST 1, 1332.

TEE GRANGE YZSZEOE.

‘flotilla’ fiepaqtment.

 

BEAUTIFUL THINGS.

Beautiful faces are those that wear-
It matters little if dark or fair-
Whole-souled honesty printed there.

Beautiful eyes are those that show,
Like c stal panes where hearth-fires glow,
Beauti ul thoughts that burn below,

Beautiful lips are those whose words
Leap from the heart like songs of_ birds,
Yet whose utterance prudence girds.

Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that is earnest and brave and true,
Moment by moment the long day through.

Beautiful feet are those that go
On kindly ministries to and fro-
Down lowliest ways, if God wills it so.

Beautiful shoulders are those that bear
Ceaseless burdens of homel care,
With patient grace and da y prayer.

Beautiful lives are those that bless-
Silent rivers of happiness,
Whose hidden fountains but few may guess.

Beautiful twilight at set of sun,
Beautiful goal, with race well won,
Beautiful rest, with work well done.

Beautiful graves, where grasses creep, _
Where brown leaves fall where drifts lie deep
Over worn-out hands—-oh, beautiful sleep!

-—Ella P. Allerton, in Hartford Times.

Sweet Brlar Speaks.

Oousins of the Visitor.-—As the number of
contributors does not increase very fast, we
old ones will have to write oftener. Two
columns were given us, but we only fill one.
We should have three articles in each number
instead of one. So let us exert ourselves and
supply that number, for it will be so much
more interesting. “Hickory,” "George.”
and “Fred Spaulding,” you have never
written but once; come again and bring
others with you. “Pretty-by-Night” and
Granger Girl, where are you keeping your-
selves‘? Let us have our department filled
every time, ‘for we do not wish to have it
said by that young man —— and many like
him—who was wont to cry, “Babies’ Col-
umn.” it is wasting away, for, like the
Levite, “they have taken a look and pas-
sed by on the other side.” Had they
shown the spirit of the good Samaritan by
coming forward and aiding us, we might
ere this have awakened some morning and
found ourselves famous, as did Lord Byron.
By the way, what do the cousins think of
that gifted post, his life and writings '?

" Will’’ has a great admiration for Car-
lyle, but I cannot admire the man, he had
such an ugly disposition. Nothing pleased
him; he was perpetually finding fault. His-
torians tell us that while writing the
“French Revolution” he moved into a de-
serted house in a forest ten miles from any
habitation, and for weeks at a time refused
to speak to his wife, who with himself were
the only occupants, and when he did speak
it was only to grumble at something she
had or had not done. She nearly died of
loneliness and neglect, while her brutal
nusband was selfishly engrossed in writing
a book which will ever make his name fam-
ous. Six months she endured this dreadful
torture, seeing no human face save that of
her husband, and then only when she car-
ried his meals to his library. It seems
strange that one who so cruelly neglected
the most sacred duties of his life should
achieve such a wonderful success in the liter-
ary world; and yet, so far as I can learn,
the majority of literary people are unhappy
in their domestic relations. I do not say
this to discourage “ Will,” if he is aspiring
to be classed with the literati, for many
have made their domestic life a success.
Longfellow, Bayard Taylor, Tennyson and
Victor Hugo were grand examples of do-
mestic felicity.

“ Ellen” has made the same blunder that
she corrected “ Will” for. Gray did not
write “An Ode to Solitude,” but “An Elegy
in a Country Church-yard.”

I think “Will” has never stood in the
hot kitchen, with his temper—teur at 120°,
washing the dinner dishes, and, to make it
more exasperating, when his eyes chance to
glance through the open doorway, seen the
men taking their noon-day nap in. the cool
shade. Could he ever have had such exper-
ience he would not exclaim, “Glorious
labor!” I imagine this is what Sunflower
and Brown Thrush call “labor to excess.”

Ellen is too aesthetic to view work in any
light except that of a romance; but let her
rise in the morning at the hour when the
roving mosquito is seeking repose, when the
speckled calf is weeping pitifully for his
morning repast, and, as the sun casts his
first bright rays upon the dew-besprinkled
wood.pi1e, equipped with an old tin pan you
trip gracefully through the moist
which winds uncomfortably around your
ankles, and arrive at the potato patch, where
you proceed to catch those dear little bugs
which you find taking their morning meal
of potatoes. After passing over half an acre,
and the perspiration is - running from
your “ classical features” in little riva-
lets, you will not feel much like saying,

" What a blessing is labor.”

When the beautiful snow has cast its
white mantle over the earth, and the pretty
hoptoads have sought their winter quarters.
with the thermometer below zero, you go
six miles for a load of wood with a team

grass ,

turn with frozen fingers and toes and limbs
that ache in everyjoint, you will not ex-
claim, How romantic! but rather, How
rheumatic!

Oh yes! Oscar Wilde is certainly very
aesthetic looking, with his thin form en-
shrined in tight knee-breeches, with long
stockings, and pumps encasing his dainty
feet which, by the way, are the largest part
of him, and remind us of a young bean
plant growing upside down.

Your very unaesthetic coz,

SWEET BBIAR.
Keeler, July 8, 1882.

Thoughts and Requests.

Dear Aunt Nina and Cousins :-— I am

ashamed to have so badly neglected writing

to you, but am not so very much to blame.

I have made a pleasant change since I last

wrote you, from the would-be “ literary

woman” to the real housekeeper. VVith my

many household duties I have very little

time to write during the day, and my eyes

will not permit me to write evenings. Now,

as I have such very good reasons, will you,

one and all, excuse me '3

“Sweet Briar,” I do not think it is silly or

undignified to give one’s age. Our new

cousins have omitted theirs, much to my

dissatisfaction. I believe in giving the

writer credit for only the amount of real

work he puts in his articles, and I do not

see how we can tell the amount any nearer
than by knowing his age. I would like to
hear the opinions of the other cousins upon
this subject, and hope they will not omit
their age for that time at least.—About the
studies: “Sweet Briar,” I think it is dull
to read a letter of your description, but I
do like to hear how my various cousins ad-
vance in their education.

Fred, I see nothing in Will’s writing to
frighten anyone and think his productions
are studied and do not “roll off his pen with
ease.” I hope I am not too severe, but if he
follows writing I think when he is older he
will try as hard to make his articles short
and concise as he tries now to make them
lengthy and high-sounding.

Charlie, I think the last paragraph in your
article was sound sense. I wish we all had
the inclination and strength to follow your
directions. Cultivate courage, but do not
waste any on the waste-basket. I have seen
one which I think is very like Aunt Nina's,
and rest assured there is nothing to be afraid
of.

I am in favor of the questions and subjects
to write on, but hope the next ones will not
be so personal. I think it depends altogether
upon the person as to whether he can fre-
quent places of amusement and read novels
while attending school, without neglecting
their studies. I can do the former but not
the latter, but of all my schoolmates no two
are alike about it.

Ellen, we are glad to welcome you to our
circle, and hope to hear from you again.

Ella Spaulding, Myrtle W., Erle, Sweet
Briar, Fred, Charlie, Will and all, I enjoy
your letters and hope to hear from you often.

Cousins, I wish you would drop your fic-
titious names and adopt your real ones. If
you can write good pieces, it is something
you should be proud to acknowledge. If not
you will certainly try harder to make a mark
if you are trying to raise your own name
than you would were you using a feigned
one. Aunt Nina, what do you think about
this? ‘

The first copy of our State Grange paper
will be issued before this is printed. I hope
we cansupport it as well as the Michigan
Grangers have supported theirs.

Good-bye,
NETTIE Grrronn.

Royalton, V-'t., July 19, 1882.

“Sunflower” on Labor.

Dear Aunt Nina .-—It is with fear and
trembling that I write, for how can such a
poorlignoramus as I ever write anything
printable. I have never read the Iliad or
Virgil, was not “inspired” by Shakespeare,
and could not discover the “beautiful pic-
ture” in the “Vicar of VVakefield.” I hear
Will mutter “shocking,” and even Ellen
opens wide her eyes in languid surprise,
but like my namesake I still turn toward
the light and greedily gather into my empty
storehouse for knowledge, the pearls of wis-
dom that adorn these columns from time to
time. It makes me sad to think that I can-
not claim Ellen as a sister, for one who con -
siders labor a blessing would not expect
something for nothing and would never be
marked delinquent; and surely so aesthetic
a person could scarcely fail to admire the
symbolic beauty of our initiation ceremony.
I cannot exactly see how Ellen reconciles
her aestheticism with her belief that labor is
a blessing, if Will has succeeded in obtaining
all his wondrous wisdom “wandering by
the brookside,” and a shady one at that, I
should not infer anything very laborious.

Aunt Nina, does an unbalanced judgment
in using rum, opium or tobacco, change the
fact that they are a curse to the user when
taken in excess ? I must maintain my
ground that labor itself can be carried to ex-
cess, and that often it is such a necessity as
to produce that suffering which Webster de-
fines a curse to be, afiliction, torment, great
vexation. Can anything that is a blessing
without reserve be carried to such an excess

which travels three miles an hour, and re-

 

 

stern necessity as to cause both mental and
bodily pain‘? And are there not many who
are killed or crazed by overwork, sadly end-
ing a weary life ‘P
Your affectionate neice,
SL'.\'rLowE1z.

July 18, 1882.

Fences and Butter-Making.

Bro. Cobb: DEAR SIR: —I\Iay I write
again ? I want to tell the cousins how very
sorry I am that s 2 many or nearly all have
forsaken us. Dear ones, what is the trouble?
When our VISITOR comes the first thing I
look for is the Youths’ and Ladies’ depart-
ments, and oh, so disappointed when we
only hear from just afew. There were on-
ly two sisters and two cousins that could find
time (is that it)? to write for the last Vis-
ITOR. Come, sisters and cousins, write of-
ten—the Grange is a noble institution, and
if we all try hard we can make it more in-
teresting. It does us all good to hear from
each other and know each other's opinion
and ideas of different things.

I havejust been reading Brother Holden’s
article on fences and here let me tell each
and every farmer if he wants a good, dura-
ble, and the very best fence made. he
will get one of the Wintrade and Solo-
mon’s patent fence. It is a straight
fence; does not take up much room, does
not take half as many railsas the old way
and will last (a life-time if we don't live too
long). I hardly think the western cyclone
would have any effect on it it is so solid.
I noticed an article some time ago from
the pen of Sister Nobles on butter-making,
in which she seems to think it does not
pay to try to make good butter, because we
do not get any more for good butter than for
poor. I cannot agree with her. The good
butter maker gets agood name and can al-
ways finda ready sale for her butter. A
good name is worth something I think.
VVill Brother Cobb please tell us how
many Granges there are in our State and

oblige Yours fraternally,
FRANK.
Vergennes'Grange, No. 2:21.

“Girls, Help Father.”

“My hands are so stiff I can hardly hold a
pen,” said farmer Wilbur, as he sat down to
“figure out” some accounts that were getting
behind.

“Can I help you father” said Lucy. laying
down her bright crochet work. “I shall be
glad to do so if you will explain what you
want.”

“Well, I shouldn’t wonder if you can, Lucy."
he said reflectively. “Pretty good at figures,
are you?"

“I would be ashamed if I did not know
something of them after going twice through
the arithmetic." said Lucy laughing.

"Well, I can show you in live minutes what
I have to do, it’ll be a wonderful help if you
can do it for me. I never was a master hand
at accounts in my best days, and it does not
grow any easier since I have put on spec-
tacles.”

Very patiently did the helpful daughter
plod through the long lines of figures, leaving
the gay worsted to lie idle all the evening,
though she was in such haste to finish her
scarf. It was reward enough to see her tired
father. who had been toiling all day for her-
self and the other dear ones, sitting so cosily
in his chair. enjoying his Weekly paper.

The clock struck nine before her task was
over, but the hearty "thank you, daughter, a
thousand times!” took away all sense of wear-
iness that Lucy might have felt.

“It's rather looking up when a man can
have a clerk,” said the father. “It's not every
farmer that can afford it."

“Not every farmer's daughter is capable of
making one,” said the mother, with a little
pardonable maternal pride.

“Nor every one that would be willing, if
able.” said Mr. Wilbur; which last was a sad
truth. How many daughters might be of use
to their father in this way and many other
ways who never think of lightening a care or
labor! If asked to perform some little service,
it is done at best with a reluctant step, and an
unwilling air that robs it of all sunshine or
claim to gratitude.

Girls, help your father. Give him a cheer-
ful home to rest in when evening comes and
do not worry his life away by fretting because
he cannot afford you all the luxuries you
covet. Children exert .-is great an influence
on their parents as parents do on their child-
ren.-—Er.

Boys.

The newspaper article is going the rounds
again, trying to solve the old, old question
of How to Keep the Boys on the Farm. In
all the endless discussion, we see no explana
tion of the cause of the exodus of the best
blood and muscle and brain of the country
to ill paid clerkships, harder work and fash-
ionable clothes, but it can be summarized in
the words, The Boys are Ambitious. Let
us thank God the boys have spirit enough
and ambition enough to leave the endless
drudgery and no pay they are usually sub-
jected to, to fiee to the city, or anywhere
that they believe will give them a chance in
the world. We desire to see these high-
spirited boys remain in agriculture and
build it up to the position of respectability
and influence which belongs to it as the
foundation of all prosperity. But just as
long as we can not find means to satisfy
their ambitions, they will leave for a hun-
dred times worse fate in The City, that Mec-
ca whither all poor devils, without money
or experience, always journey, but which,
in ninety-five cases in the hundred, they
find to be but a giant’s spider web, from
whose greedy grip it is almost impossible to
escape.

We assert that in only one way can we
keep the boys on the farm. That way is the
way adopted by merchants and o‘thers to
keep their sons in the business they have
builded. Pay the boys wages. Make them
partners. We have failed through several
generations to satisfy the boys by tying
them to the plow and holding out the vague

either by an unbalanced judgment or by

day.” Make the boys more than the equals
of hired men. Even if you are poor _vou can
better afford to give the boy a share in his
work - besides poor clothes and poor food.
Pay him wages and let him provide his own
clothes. Send him to market occasionally
to make sales of produce. Give him a vaca-
tion now and then to go to the city and the
theatre. Give him 9. chance to see that the
life many country boys covet is a poor, con-
fined life, in comparison with the glorious
independence and freedom of the country.
Encourage him to play ball, to hunt and fish
at the proper times. Take him with you to
see profitable farms, run by successful farm-
ers. Tell him of the farmers who have won
position and influence in the world. Tell
him of the opportunity there is for able
young men to become leaders in the onward
movement of the farming community to a
higher and broader life in public affairs.
Help him to an education at the State
Agricultural College, or encourage him to
help himself to earn it. Tell him that if he
would fight the battles of agriculture against
the lawyer and merchant and railroad, in
commerce and in legislation, that he must
have as well trained a brain as they. Show
him the great possibilities before the educat-
ed farmer, and he will take care of himself
if he has got it in him.

\Vhen he reaches 18 or ‘.21 years of age
make him a quarter. third, or equal partner
in the business of the farm. Set otfa couple
of acres for his house lot and homestead
when he gets ready to build a house for the
girl he loves. Then you will have the bene
fit of his energy and brawn and brain ; he
of your experience and friendship.

If, after all this has been done, in the end
he decides that he can not and will not be a
farmer, and is better fitted for something
else, bid him God speed and give him your
blessing. The chances are that the decision,
pro or con, will have been reached years be-
fore.—Ezc/range.

Three or Four Rich Men.

“ VVell, there arejust four of them in the
first class. First, Vanderbilt and his sons ;
second, Russell Sage; third, Jay Gould,
and fourth, James Keene. I suppose you
refer to such men who have been directly
connected with stock operations. Vander-
bilt and his sons, who are all together, have
got $300,000,000. I am sure that this is not
overstated, for the $60,000,000 or $70,000,000
they have in the government loans repre-
sent their interest as it has accumulated.
The next man is Russell Sage, who is richer
than Gould. He is worth from $60,000.000
to $75,000,000. Gould is worth from $40,000,-
000 to $50,000,000, and Keene from $25,000,-
000 to $30,000,000. These are prodigious
figures. See what they re resent of other
men's losses, when you loo ' at the present
state of the stock market and what is it
tumbling to. There is about $450,000,000 to
$500,000,000 in the hands of four men, who
have made it all around this stock exchange
out of the gambling propensities and the
credulity ofthe people.”——Townaend.

 

ONE of the great needs of our Order is
more thorough work in the Subordinate
Granges. They are the foundation of our
Grange organization, and should be care-
fully guarded, as neglect here will result in
the overthrow of the whole structure.
Great care should be exercised in selecting
the ofiicers, as upon them devolves the re-
sponsibility of maintaining the interest
throughout their term of service. Each
ofiicer should perfectly understand the du-
ties of his office, and then be punctual in
attendance and faithful in the discharge of
said duties. No Grange having faithful,
eflicient officers ever dies or surrenders. I
think especial attention should be given
this year to the work of thoroughly instruct-
ing the membership in the ritual work and
in the best methods of making our Grange
meetings interesting and profitable. The
great object we seek to accomplish will
never be reached without careful attention
to all the minor details of our work. I
therefore recommend -that our Lecturers be
directed to devote especial attention to this
part of the work, If we can thus increase
the efficiency of our Subordinate Granges
they will be able to largely increase our
meinbership.—J. II. Brigham, W. M. of
Ohio State Grange.

THE great necessity of a better education
among farmers must be apparent to all true
Grangers. and to what better use could our
Granges put their surplus money than to
purchasing good books on agriculture and
other topics pertaining to farming, and thus
to form a library for our own benefit, and
for the improvement of the rising genera-
tion, who are to fill our places after we are
numbered with the dead? What a grand
thing it would be if every Grange through-
out this blessed land had from fifty to one
hundred or more volumes to hand around
among its members for them to read careful-
ly. Would it not make our beloved Order
more permanent? And would it not pro-
mote the cause of education in our midst?-
Patron of Husbandry.

SMALL farmers in a community who can-
not buy largely of the necessities of life,
and thereby get the advantage of wholesale
prices, should club together and buy to-
gether, and thus save a heavy tax of retail
costs. Do this and pay cash for what you
get, and you will in a short while realize
that you can make money, where you now
sink it, and besides get into debt.

THE REAPER, DEATH.

N ELSON—Resolutions of condolence and respect
were adopted by Cass City Grange on account of the
death of a worthy member, Mus. AMANDA NELSON,
and it was ordered that a copy of the same be placed
on the records of the Grange, sent to the family of
the deceased, and offered for publication to the
Gannon Vxsrroa and Cass City Enterprise.

BACHELOR.—Died at his residence in the town
of Bunker Hill, on the 19th day of May, l882, in
the -13d year of his age, Brother Gannon N. Baca-
RLOB, a worthy member of Bunker Hill Grange, No.
262. At a subsequent meeting of said Grange, reso-
lutions were adopted expressive of the high regard
in which our departed brother was held by his fellow
Patrons, and of their sympathy with the stricken
family. And it was ordered that our charter and ball
be draped for thirty days, the action of the Grange
relating tothis brother be spread upon its records,

promise that “it shall all be yours some

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Fifty cents’ worth of ALABASTINE will
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PATENTS.

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Foreign Patents, and Counsellor in Patent Causes.
Trade Marks, Copyrights, Assignments, Caveats, and
Mechanical Drawings. Circulars free. 16 Portage
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When express charges exceed one dollar per don.
the excess can be charged to me. Sixty da 3 time
given on orders under seal of a Grange, an 5 per
cent discount off for cash with the order.

ADDRESS:
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Charlotte, Mich.

Fislfs Ar11e1'ic:iii lVI:u|ual of

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Wlllll EOMMISSIUN MEHBHANTS.

ll7 Federal St., Boston.
Consignments solicited and Cash Advances Made.

A.VANDENBERG,

MANUFACTURER,
WHOLESALE AND Barur. Dicuaa in

HARNESS, WHIPS, BLANKETS, TRUNKS, 816.,

92 Monroe Street,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICK.

I take pleasure in presentingto your favorable con-
sideration my CASH 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 roughout Mich-
igan. I shall do in the future as in the past—-furnish
the best oods for the least money.

Farm arness, White Trimmed Breeching,
Round Lines, Snaps, Rum Straps, and

 

 

spread rings, complete, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .829 90
The same without Breeching, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 26 00
“ “ with flat Lines, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 28 00
“ “ “ “ “ without breeohing,.. 25 00
Double Light Buggy Harness, white trimmed,
from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .825 to 30 00
The same, Nickle Trimmed, from . . . . . .835 to 60 00
Single Buggy Harness, with round lines, white
trimmed, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 13 00
Same with flat lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 00

 

Nickle Trimmed, . . . . . “$15, $16, $18, 8
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 MONROE STREET. GRAND Rarml.

German Horse and Cow Powders.

This powder has been in use for many years. It
is largely used by the farmers of Pennsylvania, and
the Patrons of that State have bought over 100,000
pounds through their purchasing agents. Its compo-
sition is no secret. The receipt is on every box and
5-pound package. It is made b Dr. L. Oberholtzer’s
Sons «lo Co.,,Phoenixville, Pa. It keeps stock health
and in good condition. It helps to digest and 
late the food. Horses will do more work, with less
food while using it. Cows will give more milk and
be in better condition. It keeps poultry healthy, and
increases the production of eggs. It is also of great
value to them when melting. It is sold at the lowest
wholesale price by R. E. JAMES, KLLAIIAZOO,
GEO. W. HILL it CO., 80 Woonsarnoa S12, Dn-
raoir, THUS. MASON, 181 Wsraa S1-., Cmcaoo,
and ALBERT STEGEMAN, ALLEGAN. Put up in
60-11:. boxes (loose), price Eran-r Caxrs per 1b.. 30-lb.
boxes (of 6 5-lb. packages, TEN CENTS per lb.

 
     

Grand Rapids, Michigan, is the most popular agricul-
tural and farnilypaper published. This widely circula-
ted paper,now in its sixth volume,is published weekly,
and sent to subscribers at 31.50 a year includi
postage. Every number contains 8 pages, 40 -
urnns of practical agricultural and family r '
matter, including full reports of the West Mic '
Farmers’ Club, of which it is the official organ.
publishers offer for the next thirty days to send on
receipt of $2.00 THE Woann for one year and a co

pages on fine Ledger paper, a comprehensive sys-
tem of book keeping adapted to the wants of practi-
cal fanners 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 Aoaxcutrnnxr. Wonnn, Grand
Rapids, Micla, and receive the account book and TH:
Woatn for one year for less than the book costs
alone. Tim Woann and Grange Visitor one year,

and the account book, $2.50. Don't fail to mention-
this paper when writing.

and a copy presented to the family of the deceased.

Address,
F. M. CARROLL, Publishers,
Guam) Ruins,

of “ Our Farmer’s Account Book." containing 12 v


 

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us-—no money asked till tested and found satisfac-
tory. Alleiaesmanuhctured.

Janis or Bnreruxron:
ed it to the most severe tests and find it not only

correct in weighing large or small amounts, but
pa-fectlyrshable.

[Biased]

Goon timber for baskets is getting scarce
and dear, and the demand for baskets is in-
creasing very fast. The consequence is that
willow is im rted from Europe, when it
could be muc better grown here. There is
no tree or plant easier to grow than the bas-
ket willow. It is cultivated to considerable
extent in this country, and proves to be
one oi our best crops. About four miles
north of Syracuse are several hundred acres
of Willow. and new plantations are made
every year. This land is worth several hun-
dred llllllliffi per acre, and is valuable for
market gardens, but pays quite as well for
willow. This willow is made into baskets by
Germans, and about $100,000 worth at whole-
sale prices is annually sold in this city. The
most of these baskets are sent West, where
they could be procured cheaper than here on
account of their cheap land. There is no
comparison of the profits of willow and

ordinary farm crops, The present price of

,willow is about $30 per ton. It needs to be
planted but once, and will grow on any land,
wet or dry. In most German settlements
are men that will work up the stock; or it
can be sold by the ton. It will be a great
benefit to the West and South to get this in-

dustry started; and all that is lacking is a‘

little knowledge on the subject.—A. M. Wil-
liams, iSfg1-acuse, N. Y., inN. Y. Times.

New Harness and Trunk Store.

T. KININMENT 8: 00.,

Manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in

HARNESSES, TRUNKS, BLANKETS,
VVSIE3 £30..
117 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

All work our own make and guaranteed all Hand
Made.

Farm Harness, white trimmed, Breeching,
Round Lines, Rum straps, Spreaders, etc.

complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $29.00
Same without Breeching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 26.00
Same with Flat Lines_ ..................... . . 28.00
Same without Breeching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 25.00

Double Light Buggy Harness, white trimmed
$25.00 to 830.00

The same nickle trimmed . . . . . . . . . . «$30-00 to 350-00
Single Buggy Harness, with round lines, _
white trimmed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.00
The same with Flat Lines . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 12.00
Nickle Trimmed . . . . . . $15, $16, $18, $20. 825, to 850
We also make a fine Nickle Trimmed Farm
Harness, stitched 6 to the inch, stock. all
selected, an extra fine article, Breeching,
Round Lines, complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 36.00
Same without Breeching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.00

Mr. T. Kininment for the past five years has been
foreman for Mr. A. Vandenburg, and now in order
to build up a trade offers special inducements to the
Grangers of Michigan, guaranteeing a better class
of work than was ever given to them by anybody.

All orders received under seal of Grange will be
attended to at once and goods may be returned at
our expense if not found satisfactory. Address all
orders to Yours very respectfully

T- KININMENT.
117' Canal Street;
lfijully Grand Rapids. Mich-

Teasdale SteamFruit&Vegeta.blIa
EVAPORATOR.

To the Farmers and Fruit Growers of Lenawee, Ber-
rien, Cass, VzmBuren, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, Cal-
houn, Branch, Hzllrdalc, Jackson, Waahtmaw,
Monroe and Wayne Counties, in the State of Michi-
gan, and Lucas and Williams in the State of Ohm,
and the entire State of California :

THE BEST, SAFEST, CHEAPEST AND THE
MOST ECONOMICAL MACHINE

in the line of Evaporators ever olfered in any market.
let. The immense amount of drying capacity for
the amount of room used.
241. There is no possibility of burning, browning,
or otherwise damaging fruit by the drying process.

tor; and any man with or
all there is to it in an hour.
4th. It takes only two hours to  apples with
this Evaporator, while it requires six hours to dry
with the hot air process. _ _
51:11. When drying frames are placed_1n the drying
chamber they need not be removed until the fruit is
dried, for each frame, as can be seen, has a '

ary intelligence can learn

TEE GRANGE VISITOR.

A. C 1 E .
CREAMER & _l_3§TTER COOLER

A combination that will
produce an even grade
of Butter, winter and
summer. No Ice re-
quired. Saves two-thirds

the labor. It will save
its ‘cost twice the first
season. A RESPONSI-
BLE AGENT Wanted
Where an Agent is not
located. Correspondence
solicited. Send for CIR-

CULARS and PRICE-Lisr. 1% 9v.

    

AUGUST 1, 1882.

EVERY FARMER IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD EXAMINE THE

New Combined Spring Tooth Snlky Harrow

CULTIVATOR AND SEEDER.

Manufactured by
THE WOLVERINE
HARROW AND SEEDER COMPANY.

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Mich lgnn.

As a combined machine, it stands un-
‘és rivalled in excellence, doing the work ol
in Harrow and Seed Sower most thorough-
ly and satisfactorily. It has taken high
1- 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 con-
structed in two sections. either of which can be raised or lowered by the driver,

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

is of very light draft, easily worked by one pair of horses, and has received the
first premium and diplomas wherever exhibited

      

all kinds of grain and grass seeds.

v-ides that an Assessme
when a member dies, and the amount of that
sessment is fixed when a
and cannot be increased
This assessment is gradu

to time pay a small sum

earnings, in order to see
them in an hour of need
over the expenses and wa
drymg trying period of lif

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

~A. H. Smith, Sparta, N ‘-

Charles E. Thornton, Rockford, Kent County.
Charles Pittman. Middleville, Barry County.
5- Stegemfin. Allegan, Allegan County.

D. P. Newton, VVatson, H H

Simeon Staring, Ganges, “ H

Gutelius Snyder, Three Rivers, St. Joseph "
O. C. Spaulding, Royalton, Berrien County.
P- W- VV8-tts. Chelsea. West Washtenaw
John Wiebe, Bear Lake. Manistee County.
J. A. Montagu, Niles, Berrien County.

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

John Adams, Marshall, I‘

Wattles ilt Wood, Battle Creek, Calhoun Co.
J. R. B1-ayton, Bellville. Wayne Co.

S. Andrews, Howell, Livingston Co.

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

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

D. I. Dunton, Lapeer, Lapeer Co.

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

FOR PATRONS.

0

WAS ORGANIZED 1)’ DECEMBER, 1880,

belong to a

FOR T
FOR THEM ONLY.

The Morn.-.1. PLAN adopted by this Society

chamber by itself consequently moisture cannot rise applied t° the P’m'°ns °f °“’ State‘

d d n the fruit in upper part of dryer. And
Elle itiidzpdf hauling innumerable dryin
and down through a tower 40 to 50 feet high is en-
tirely done away with. And no more danger of loss

by fire than in burning a cook stove, which fact alone ELIJAH BARTLETT’

is largely in favor of our machine, for the average

life of a hot air concern is not to exceed two years. R- 0- CARPENTER-

_ _ L . with slide door, as above represented. The pit and
There are man other p01nf_S Of 61081181109 Which We anmng; R0“ cover are made of the best Charcoal Iron, and cover
have not room are to mention. _ _  C.K. CARPEIV TER, C. L. WHITNEY, finished on the outside in “ Black Baking Japan.”
We have three sizes in stock. First size 6 to 8 Orion. Cincinnati. They are well put up and well finished. No solder
gigshels §e:oda‘.ys;izeth;:0smize2 Zlgebfsiglpn dcpioz: J-_ T_ COBB’ h I A_ E_ GREEN, lsliSeed.8 afigegmade to fit stoves according to number,
V6- 9 11 - Sc oo craft. Walled L e. Z °
hlr:nl1]40 to 50 bushels. All except the smallest are 0,. to Local Agents they may ,,pI,oint_ ak The whole for the small investment of $2.50.
w o y

Constructed of Galvanized Iron

Cash orders will receive prompt attention. A ents

wanted in eve township and County in the tate 01' J- T- 0033- 599'!’-
ddress all correspondence to febltf

of California.
R. M2 BELLINGER,

e frames up JAMES coox,

Applications for membership may be made to
J. W. EWING,

Wm. B. LANGLEY,
Dryden.
GEO. W. EWING,

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

Schoolcraft. Mich.

MCCALL & DUNCAN

 

AGENTS:

E. J. McNaughton, Cooperville, Ottawa County.

Williams Jr. Hartshorn. Owosso, Shiawassee County.

LIFE INSURANCE

The Patrons’ Aid flncieiy of Michigan

HUME INSTITUTION OF LIFE INSURANCE

that thefi could control. As its name indicates, it is
E MEMBERS OF OUR ORDER AND

Its Annual Meetings’ occur at the same time and
place as the annual session of the State Grange.
his feature was for the express purpose of provid-
ing for a large representation of the members of the
Society at its most important meeting of the year,
when its ofiicers are elected, and without special
notice any amendment to the laws and rules govern-
ing the Society may be made.
ro-
ut shall be made ON '1’
as-
person becomes a member,
at any subsequent period.
_ _ ated according to age, which
3d. No experts are reg-iiilired to run the Evapora- .t';f_’;:J‘;’1;v"§;‘3’1‘tszggléizggggfdfeifituéf °f “"5 S°°‘9‘
consideration of Patrons.
If there are reasons why people should from time
from their income or their
ure to those dependent on
a sum suflicient to bridge
nts incident to that most
e, those reasons hold good when

the favorable

Cenh_evme_ and another set rnot shown) on the opposite side and

Centreville,

Blissfield. Mich,
ljuntf I

THE 3-TON

WAGON SCALES.

ARE SOLD FOR 360.

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All Iron and Steel. Sold on tria.l—freight paid by

JONES OF BINGIIAMPTON.
Blnghampton. N. Y.
Send for Circulars and further particulars.

PAW Paw, Mich, May 18th, 1878.
My Scales give entire satisfaction. I have subject-

Yours, 1":-eternally,
J. J. WO0DMA.N..
3 in-lyr

CIDER

  
iii: isider inn Supplies. Illustrated catalogue free-
Address 0. G. uanrrron. non-on, Mich.

WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO’S

I M PROVED
BUTTER COLOR
A new DISCOVERY.

B’).-‘or several years we have furnished the

en of America with an excellent arti-

ficial color rorbutter; so meritorious that it met
with

Q'But by patient and scientific chemical re-
Iearchwe have improved in several points, and

 

now otter this new color as the best in the world.
It Will Not color the Buttermilk. It

Vllll Hot Turn Rancid. It Is the
 '§"’

Strongest. Brightest and
cheapest color Made,

Quad, while prepared ln oil, is socornpouiid-
ed that It is impossible for it to become rancid.

Q'3fiwAR[ of all imitations, and of all
other all colors, for they are liable to become
rannldand spoil the butter.

[311 you aannot get the "lmpi-oved” write us
to know where and how to get It without extra
expense. - (£6)

. WILLS, RICHARDSON I (14)., Burlington, Vt.

 

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, Schoolcraft, Mich. I

, J. A. Johnson, Vicksburg. Kalamazoo County.
3 H. C. Call, Glass River, Shiawassee County.
 Wm. S. Palmer, Lansing. Ingham County.
William Spalding, Hoytville, Eaton County.
Union Wind Mill Co., Albion, Jackson County.
I The Bird Wind Mill Co., Kalamazoo, Ka.l’zoo C
; Charles North, Trent, Muskegon and Newaygo C

I

Nathan Winslow, Williainstown, Ingham County.

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.

County. Wm. C. Wooley, Elsie, Clinton and Gratiot Co's.

Adams & Rue, Galesburg, Kalarrazoo County.
F. L. Elms, Charlotte, Eaton Co.
J. W. Rossmari, Mariette. Sanilac Co.
Staut & Ingoldsby. Pontiac, Oakland Co.
I Dunnam & Son, Hudson, Lenavi ee Co.
, Slayton & Son, Tecumseh, Lenawee Co.
Wilcox Bros, Adrian, Lenawee Co.
A Chandler & Son. Coldwater, Branch Co.
E. S. Bellamy, Ionia, Ionia co.*
M W Thayer, Paw Paw, Van Buren co.
S P Davis, Constantine, St. Joseph County.
Whiting .I: Richardson, Flint, Genesee County.

GEORGE W. HILL,

General Merchandise Broker.

_._i01..__

low prices.

The I-Iousewife’s Best Friend.

    
  

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(With Cover Raised.)

It Sets into the stove like a kettle, has a mica win-
dow through which the coffee can be seen while in
Adrian. Eaton Ra,pjd3_ operation; has also an opening and closing draught

by means of the set of holes shown in the above cut,

in the lower rim of the pit, has a wire cloth cylinder

$24.00 per dozen.
Send number of your stove when you order.
GED WV. 311-11.

80 Woodbridge St. West, Detroit.
ljul

$|OOO REWARD

faraway machine Iiullingaa much closer seed in 1 day as the
‘“n _ It beats all other

   
 
   
      

Hullers. having
Double I [iiller Clover x mm?
Machine . _, -
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pfilddln 18°! {ind H .
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Circular confii-rninir, this mailed free. Send for it.
NEWARK MACIINE COMPANY. Newark, Ohio.

Owners of Patents and the only Manufacturers in the world-
15june3m

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B U S I N E SS
COLLEGE and

INSTITUTE,

Oflers superior advantages to young Men and omen
who wish to quality for business. Send for J . rnal
giving particulars.

    
 

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SEED and EUMMISDSIUN MERCHANT

Send for my priced and illustrated Catalogue of '
Rogers’ Plated Ware, also prices of the New Home
and Singer Sewing Machine. Don’t be bamboozled
to give the Patrons of Michigan an opportunity to 3-115’ 103891‘ by agents 1 furnish the Ebove at very

    quality of work. it has no equal. Send for Circulars. Address,

Send for Circulars.

   

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into that do
or fumes of
other Paints.
depn! in thecount .
Paint use-rs alum d
Card of the Paint
can Paint. Addr-
YORK.

ORKS.

qrricl R u b b or
/y moist or salt
burning so u I,
Pricey low, de-
No cash requir-
write and have
itself, with in-
ess, PATRONS’

  
    
   
 
   
  
 

   
    
 
 
 

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Point. The only Pu
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u-Irich destroy all
lirr-1-rt! freight paid to any
ad unfit delivered. All
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structinns how any one
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THE RIX HARROW

DISTANCES ALL OTHERS BY REASON OF LIGHTNESS OF DRAFT
AND EFFICIENCY OF WORK
It took the first premium at the Grand Rapids field trials, beating every other barrow entered. It

was highly recommended by the Committee on account of the ease of adjustment of the teeth, the
ease or draft, and the elficiency of its work.

We call the attention of farmers everywhere to our Improved Harrow.
IT DOES NOT IN FRINGE ON ANY PATENTS,
AND .
For DURABILITY it is UNSURPASSED.
Send for Circulars.

RIX HAR ROW 00., (Incorporated),

l5jultf KALALCAZOQ, LGIICI-I-

Pure Italian Beesl

Sixty swarms in movable comb hives for sale.
Write for prices.

Southard &. Banney,
KALAMAZOO, MICH.

Write to, Kalamazoo
Publishing Co. for esti-
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