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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

Farmer Ben’s Theory—- Michigsn’s Fruit Prospects——
Michigan Crop Report, Aug. 1, 1882—Talks on
Poultry, No. 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l

Twilight—See What the Morning is—The Other side
of the Patent Right Question—The Election Ma-
chine—Middlem’en— Our Political Future-Poli-
tics and the Grange——Experience Meetings—La-
bor’s Losses by the Strikes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Calhoun County Pomona Grange, No. 3-—Eaton
County Pomona Grange—Railroad Passes-—The
Grange in Tennessee-—“Chalk Your Own Door”
—A Distiller’s Views——What is Co-operation F. . 3

The State Capital Engraving—Mr. Garver and the
Patent Business—0ur Vacation—Railway Passes
and Judicial and Legislative Oflicsrs . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Obituary: Julia A. Luce—Texas-—Free Passes-
Fruit at the South-—0verworked Farmers—Notices
ofMeetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..  5

e Rumseller’s Refrain and a Re ly—The Social
Position of the Farmer’s Family; hat it is and
What it Should Be—Woman’s Rights—-Our Visit
at Penfie1d—Knowledge; Its Value . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Friends—The Wife's Right to Pi-operty—Death of
Flies in One-Half Hour—Weariness—Aunt Nina’s
Opinion—What we Read—’1‘he Battle for Reform
—The Reaper, Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7

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

Officers National Grange.

HA.I‘1'IE—J. J. WOODMAN,. . .Paw Paw, Michigan.
Ovnasiiaa-—PUT. DARDEN, ......... ..Misaissippi.
lalo'rU1i.E3—HENRY ESHLBAUGE, . . . . ..Missouri.
d’.llWABD—A. J. VAUGHN, . . . . . . . . . . ..Mississippi.
Assn. S-riiwui.n—W1LLIAM SIMS, ...... ..Kansas.
Cini>1.uir—S. H. ELLIS, .................. ..0hio.
'l‘anasuii.ii1i—F. M. McDOWELL,......New York.
SlOBETARY—WM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.
GATE-K.EEPER—0. DINWIDDIE, ....... ..Iudiana.
0iiaas—MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, ...... ..Michi'gan.
Poxoin—MRS. PUT. DARDEN, .... ..Mississippi.
FI.0nA—MRS. I. W. NICIIOLSON,.. .New Jersey.
Lan! Assr. STEWABD—MRS. WM. SIMS, Kansas.

Executive committee-

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

Ofllcers Michigan State Grange.

l!1.—C. G. LUCE, ........................ ..Gilead.
U.——A. N. WOODRUFF, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wntervliet.
S.—S. A. TOOKER, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Lansing.
A. 8.-—A. E. GREEN, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Farmingtoii.
L.—CEARLES E. MICKLEY .......... ..Thurber.
O.—SALMON STEEL, ..... . .Frankfort, Benzie Co.
1’.—S. F. BROWN, .................. ..Schoolcrsft.
BIo.—J. T. COBB, ................... . .Schoolcraft.
G. K.-ELIJAH BARTLETT, ........... . .Dryden.
Ol3xs.—M:Bs. A. S. STANNARD,....  ..Lowell.
PoIolL.—Mns. H. D. PLATT, . . . . . . . . . . .Ypsilanti.
rnoaA.—M:as. A N. WOODRUFF,. . . .Watervliet.
B. A. B.—-M88. A. E. GREEN, ....... . .Farniington.

Executive committee-

J. Q. a. BU'B.BINGTO§,—Chai.rman, .... ..Tuscola.
J. wnnsrnn cnnns, .............. ..Ypsi1anti.
1-. ii. EOLLOWAY,.....................Eillsdale.
rnoius suns, ......  ...... . . Berrien Center.
wn. SATTEBLEE, ............... ..Birmingham.
nos. 1'. MOORE, ..................... ..Adrian.
J. G RAMSDELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Traverse City.
0. G. LUCE, J. 1'. coins, ............ ..Ex-ofiicio.

State BUSIHOSS Aflfiflt.

rnoiuis mason. ................. --Chicago. In
one. w. HILL ......................... ..Detroit.

General Deputy.
JOEZN HOLBROOK .................... “Lansing.

Special Lecturers.

rhos. 1‘. Moore, ............. . .Adi-ian, Lenawee Co.
1, 1., Stevens. ............. ..Parry, Shiawassee Co.
flu. 8. Steele, .............. . Jlanton, Wexiord Co.
Andrew Campbell. ..... . .Ypsilanti', Washtenaw Co.
1, W. Wing .......... ..A.nn A.rbor,'Wuhtenaw Co.

1 t t t ' July should
m£1§AeB§o‘:;((}1EwIi)n¥i‘:Ie3rs n§§as.°u Tliialy should be
well cultivated No plants respond better
to the hoe—not even corn. Soot or lime will

’aid in killing the fl . The best varieties are
the flat Dutc and t e Drumhead.

fininiluni Enailmwl.

FARMER BEN’S THEORY.

BY JUDGE HARRIS.
" I tell e, it's nonsense," said Farmer Ben.
“ This arming by books and rules.
And sendin’ the boys to learn that stuff
At the -agricultural schools.
Rotation o’ crops and analysis 1
Talk that to a young baboon I
But ye needn't be tellin’ yer science to me
For I believe in the moon.

" If ye plant yer corn on the goin’ moon,

And put up the line for cows,

You'll find it will bear, and yer wheat will too,
If it’s decent land where’t grown.

But potatoes, now, are a different thing,

They want to grow down, that is lain ;

And don’t ye see you must plant or that
When the moon is on the wane ?

“ So in plantin', and hoein, and hayin’ time

It is well to have an eye

On the hang of the moon——ye know ye can tell
A wet moon from a dry.

And as to hayin’, you wise ones now

Are cuttin’ your grass too soon ;

If you want it to spend, just wait ’till it's ripe,
And mow on the full of the moon.

“And when all the harvest work is done,

And the butcherin’ times come round,

Though your hogs may be lookin' the very best,
And as fat as hogs are found,

You will find your pork will shrivel and shrink
When it comes on the table at noon-

All fried to rags—-if it wasn't killed

At the right time of the moon.

“ With the farmers’ meetin’s and Granges now
Folks can talk till all is blue ;
But don’t you be swollerin’ all_ye hear,
For there ain't more’n half on’t true.
They are tryin’ to make me change my plans,
But I tell ’em I’m no such coon ;
I shall keep right on in the safe old way,
And work my farm by the moon.”

Michigan Fruit Prospects.

BY SECRETARY GARFIELD.

About the first of ugust I sent 100 postal
cards in envelopes to the most prominent
fruit growers in Michigan, asking them to
return the pcrceiita e of an average crop
that the orchards an vineyards promised for
the crop of 1582, with such remarks as would
naturally be suggested by the questions en-
closed.

)7 early all of the returns have been made
at this writing, Aug. 14, and I am quite sur-
prised at the results. Only one correspond-
ent uts the apple crop at a full average,
whi e 34 place it at less than one-fourth of a
crop, 50 reports make it less than one-half a
crop, and 75 less than three-fourths of an av-
erage yield. The following localities have
the most promising show of apples; Ingham,
Bay, western Muskegon, Manistee, Genesee,
Allcgan, Macomb, and Lapeer counties;
western Cass, western Kent, central Barry,
and eastern Ottawa all unite in the state-
ment that the fruit will be imperfect, scabby,
and badly injured by insects.

The crop of pears promises better than
apples, and unless some new difliculty arises
there will be 75 per cent of a full yield‘
There is less blight this season than for sev-
eral years, judging from reports to date.

Peaches in unfavorable localities for this
fruit are a complete failure. C on high
ground in the interior there will e above
half acrop, and upon the reliefs of Washte-
naw county even better than this; while
upon the lake shore to the north there will
be a light yield, of say -10 per cent. In Alle-
gan, Kent, Ottawa, and Muske on there will
be two-thirds of a crop and t e fruit very
fine. In Van Buren and Kalamazoo about
half a crop.

The most prolific fruit in Michigan this
year is the grape. There are promises of a
very full yie d if the season is prolonged so
that the c usters will ripen. Many of the first-
setting were killed by frost. There is some
mildew appearing in several localities, and
the recent wet weather has developed some
tendency to rot in places where this disease
has appeared years before.

The plum crop will be a good average
where persistent efiorts have been made to
fight the curculio.

The peach vellows is gradually working
northward. few “sporadic cases” have
been announced as far north as northern
Ottawa and Kent; but there is a. united
feeling among peach growers that every case
must be stamped out at sight.

There are a great many theories concern-
ing the cause of failure in apples. It is laid
to east winds, frosts, moist weather at time
of blossoming, etc. The most common ex-
planation seems to be that the continuous
frosts through May weakened the vitality of
the young fruit so that it drop (1 through
June. The varieties of apples t at have as
yet hun on the trees best, are Baldwin and
Golden usset. Fall apples seem to be al-
most a dead failure. The ‘Northern Spy,
which is a great favorite in our State will
be represented by very small quantities in
the fruit cellars next winter. Cider, apple
jelly, and evaporated apples will be reduced
to a minimum.

To the lovers of apple sauce I v_vould_coun-
sel the selection of the best substitute in the
way of canned fruit that is possible, and be-
gin early.

Now that weeds have gone to seed farmers

. should take time to mow their gardens.

Michigan Crop Repori.——Augusi I, 1882.

For this report returns have been received
from 920 coi'respoii(lenLs, representing 690‘
townships. I-‘ive illlll(l,l'6(l and seventy-three
of these returns are from 40:; townships in the
southern four tiers of counties.

On the Iirst day of August the wheat crop
of Michigan promised an aggregate yield of
32,000,000, bushels, which is an average of 18%
bushels per acre of the acreage reported by
the supervisors in May. This, is estimated,
would have been the product had the entire
crop been secured on that (lay.

On the 31st day of July there be an a rain
which, for extent, duration, stea mess, and
accompanying high tcinpci‘utu1'e, has proba-
bly never before beeii known in Idicliigan du-
ring the wheat liurvcst period. From that
date to and including the 8th of August it
rainc(l every day, and, here at Laiising, on
several (lays almost incess:intl_v. The temp-
erature during this time, as shown by obser-
vations at the ollicc of the state board of
health, was not below <;.3° F., and was fre-
quently as liigli as 64° F. The humidity of
the air i'unge(l from no to of. per cent of sutur-
ation. there being over seven grziins of vapor
of water in each cubic foot of air.

Concerning the (laiiizigc to the wheat crop
the following stutenieiits were i'(-.-3civc(l from
C(>l'l'eSp()ll(l€‘lltS August H, S», 10, and 11:

Orono/ro, Ber/-vfen C’ .—About 7.3 per cent
of the wheat crop is S€Clll‘£‘(I. The remainder
is badly (lziniagc(l in shock, and that which is
stacked is (laniagcd to it C()llSl(lel'ill)lt‘ extent.
lVe have had ten days’ rain. lietwceii show-
ers it has been very hot, causing greater dam-
age to the wlieat in shock and stuck than
would have been the case had the weather
been cooler.

L'm'on, Branch C'0.——.»\bout 4-5 of the
whent in this locality was SeC.1l‘8fl. Ten
miles north of here nearly all the wheat is in
the field yet. Have liud rain for the last
eleven days. I think it safe to say that the
wheat not secured is injured from 40 to 50
per cent.

Hillsdale, Ilillsdale 0 .—About 70 per cent
of the wheat is secured. Have had just one
week’s rain. Heavy rain in some ;,ai‘ts of the
country yesterday, cloud_v and tnreatening
to-day, Aug. 7. The wheat was set up in open
shock generally and is badly (lamagcd,——-prob-
ably from 40 to 50 per cent, with prospects of
still further injury.

illadison, Lcnawee Co.-—About three-
fourths of the wheat is secured, either in burn
or stack. Rain commenced July 31, andtlicre
have been showers every day since (7 days).
and the indications are that we shall have
more soon. Probably 1-10 of the wheat not
secured has been injured, some of it slightly.

Milan, ilfonroe C'o.—About two-tliirds of
the wheat has been secured, but the stacks
areina. bad condition. This is the eighth day
of rain, :in(l the ground is the softest I ever
saw it at this time of year, and the fields are
under water now that have not been so for
years. The wheat not secured is one-half
spoiled, and if it does not clearoif soon it will
not pay to thresh it. Some have been thresh-
ing between showers in hopes to save a por-
tion of the crop. Oat fields are under water,
making it impossible to harvest the crop with
niacliiiics.

Nottawa, St. Joseph Co.—Abont 80 per
cent of the wheat has been secured, but many
stacks are in bad condition, owing to rain
and heat. There has been but little wind.
Have had rain for nine days,——iiot contin-
uous, but several heavy showers each day.
Where not pzirticularly well cared for wheat
is worthless, and the best cared for, is unfit for
flour. The greater loss will be in the north-
ern half of the country. The weather for
haying was bad. and many began harvesting
before finishing haying. Some threshing has
been done, and the wheat in yield and qual-
ity is not as good as expected.

Jilarshall, Calhoun Co.—About two-thirds
of the wheat has been secured. The rain has
continued seven days,—-very wet and foggy
this morning (Aug. 7), with wind southwest.
The wheat not secured has beeninjured from
one-third to one-half. Should the rain cease
now a portion of the wheat that is out will
grade No. 2, and part no grade.

Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co.-—Ahout sev-
en-eighths of the wheat crop is secured in
barns and stacks. Have had more or less
rain for ten days. Most farmers re ort one-
fourth of the crop out, growing bad y. Some
townships secured very nearly all, and with
a little more push there would have been no
loss, for we had three weeks of as nice weath-
er as we could ask for. wheat that was cap-
ped has not grown so badly as that in open
shocks.

Paw Paw, Van Buren C'o.—About nine-
tenths of the wheat in this section (and per-
haps the whole county) was secure in barns
or stacks in good order before the rain. The
rain has continued eleven days, only one day
excepted during the time. should judge
that the wheat not secured is injured fifty per
cent. That not secured was on heavy soil
and later than that on sandy loam. Oats are
now being harvested.

Superior. Washtenaw Co.——About one-half
of the wheat is secured. Stacks will be in-
jured to some extent. Have had eight days’
rain. Cannot state yet to what extent the
wheat that is out is injured. Many fields are
badly grown, owin to want of care in setting
up, while other fiel s that were well set up
in round shocks and cappled are damaged but
little. I think fully one- alf of the cm is
worthless except for feed. Far Worse t an
the harvest of 1855. ‘

Prairieville, Barry 0o.——About 90 to 98-100
of our wheat was secured Without a drop of
rain on it". The wheat unsecured willnot ex-
ceed 5 per cent. This information is given
from personal observation. I am informed,

however, that in adjoining towns on timbercd
lands the loss will be greater.

Chester, Eaton Co.——Not more than live per
cent of the wheat in this vicinity has been
secured. The ruins have continued nine days.
I should say that forty per cent of the wheat
is injured that was not secured. The storm
of to-d;iy(August 8) has been very severe, but
to what extent it has damaged crops I am
unable to say.

.‘lIerL'dz'an, Ingham C'o.——About one-half of
the wheat was secured previous to the rains,
which have continued nine days in succession
and prospect of more to-day (August 9.) It
is hard to cstiinate the amount of damage to
wheat remaining out. I think at least one-
half of it is sproute(l, and I consi(ler itdamag-
ed to the extent of 25 per cent of the value.

Marion, Lii~£n_gston C'o.—One-half of the
wheat crop in this section has been secured.
The rain commenced July :31, and it has rain-
ed more or less every day since, being nine
days. I should suythat one-hulfof the wheat
crop not secured is spoiled.

Armada, iifacomo C'o.—About 15 per cent
of the wheat crop was secured. The rain has
coiitinucd nine days. It is impossible to esti-
mate the extent of injury to that portion not
secured: probably  per cent.

Essex, Clinton Co.—About :5 per cent of
the wlicut has been secured iuthis town, less
in the soutliwcst part of the county. Have
had nine days’ rain and fair prospects for
more. We are literullyfloode(l. The damn re
to wheat. 1iiiscci1i'cd is :30 per cci1t,:in(l shou (l
the ruin coiitiiiue two days more will be unfit
even for feed. Wheat in shocks is growing
badly.

Grattcuz. Kent ('o.—Finishcd cutting wheat
July 29. About 2:3 per cent is saved in good
condition, the remainder is badly grown,
nearly ruined except for feed. One week 21 o
the prospect. was good for from 18 to 20 bus 1-
cls to the acre, but we shall not get ovci‘one-
fourth that amount of good nicrcliantablc
wheat.

Lapeer, Lapeer Co.——0ne-half of the
wheat crop was secured in good order before
the rain, the remainder is badly (lama ed,
much of it growing in the shock. I.'n ess
we have better weather soon it will be
worthless. The rain began July 31, and has
continued to this date (August 8) with very
little prospect for clearing oif.

Thornville Lapecr C'o.—My estimate is
that not much more than a quarter of the
wheat is secured. and that from 1:3 to 20 per
cent of it is still uncut. That not secured
is badly damaged.

New Haven, Shiwassee Co.—The amount
of wheat in stuck or burn does not exceed
10 per cent of whole crop. It has ra_ine_d
everyday more or less for 9 days, and it IS
still raining. At least half the wheat not
secured is grown, and if it does not clear up
in a. day or two it will all be ruined. Some
lar e fields are not yet cut. some farmers
will only use their crop for fee(l.

Port Huron, St, Clair Co.——Moi'e than one-
half of the wheat is out and is badly injured.
North of this place it is nearly all out. Some
was secured on Monday. It is almost im-
possible to state the amount of dams re done.
At least three inches of water fel in 24
hours, beginning on J nly 31, the weather was
lowery and damp August 2, 3, 4, and dry on
the 5th and tith. Had a heavy shower on the
7th, and another to-day. (August 8).

Burton, Genesee C'o.—Ab3ut one-third of
the wheat crop has been secrued in barns or
stacks. The rain has continued about nine
days. It is diflicult to estimate the damage
to the wheat not secured, probably about 20
per cent. On Sunday and Monday, the 6th
and 7th considerable wheat was secured, but
it was quite wet and cannot come out in good
order.

Easton, Iom'a Co.—About one-quarter of
the wheat was secured. The rain has contin-
ued nine days——-the heaviest rain-full ever
known. Clawson wheat is nearly ruined,
—sprouts are green, having second leaf. One
farmer has 1,400 bushels out and has offered
it for $300. Fultz wheat, one- fourth grown.
The s lendid crop of this country is nearly
ruined) and farmers are quite disheartene .
There was but little Fultz sown,—what has
been secured and threshed yielded about 35
bushels per acre.

Arcada, Gratiot Co.—About one-half the
wheat secured. Have had more or less rain
for ten days, and still continues. Wheat is
injured about ten per cent.

North Star, Gratiot 0o.——Have had rain
every day except one since J uly30, and wheat
is badly dama ed. Fultz wheat, with its
hard kernel an close-fitting hull, has suffered
the least. N ot5 er cent of the wheat has
been drawn in. C ose asserting before thresh-
ing is all that will render any of our wheat
fit for market. Raining to-day (Aug. 10.)

Eureka, Jilontcalm Co.-—About 30 per cent
of the wheat has been secured. It has rained
more or less for nine days. The wheat that
is out is probably damaged 75 per cent.

Richmond, Oceola 0o.—-About one-fourth
of the wheat was secured, and one-tenth of
the remainder injured. Have had six days’
rain. ‘

St. Charles, Saginaw 00,-About 20 per cent
of the wheat is secured in barns or stacks.
It has rained every day since July 31 to date
(Au'g. 8.) The wheat that has not been se-
cured is injured 25 per cent, and this will be
raised to fully 50 per cent if the rain continues
a few days longer. Some pieces have not been
cut yet, and are in 3 bad condition.

Almer, Tuscola Co.—About one-half the
wheat was secured before the rain, which has
continued ten days with the exception of one
or two da s. It is diflicult to estimate the ex-
tent of t e damage. The loss by rowing,
setting over, and in the shelling of t at por-
tion uncut, I should think perhaps 25 per cent
or more. If it does not clear ofl _soon the

whsat uncut will be worthless, except for
fee .

‘From the above it :ippczirs that one-—fourth
of the whole crop, or about 3,300,000 bushels
in the southern two tiers of counties, and
one-half to two-thirds of the crop, or about
$000,000 bushels in the third and fourth tiers,
makingatotal of over 11,000,000 bushels of
wlie-at in the southern four tiers of counties
unsecured, all of which is badly d:imuge(l,
and much of which is probably entirely
worthless.

Oats, it is cstimnteil, will yield 34, illl(l bar-
ley 20 bushels per acre. (‘orn iniprovcd du-
ring July, but is yet 17 per cent below the
condition August 1, 1851. Meatlows and pas-
tures, and clover sowed this year, are in good
condition. Apples promise 62 percent, and
peaches «:4 per cent of an average crop, as
compui‘c(l with 87 and 50 per cent respect-
ively July 1.

________A__________

Talks on Poullry, No. I4.

In a poultry journal there recently ap-
peared two engravings—one of a pair
of fowlsasthey grew fifty years ago, and
the other as bred to-day. We were quite
scarce around here fifty years ago, but pre-
sume the picture was true to life.

Without any particular shape,and feathers
lying around on that shape permiscuously,
they laid a few eggs in the spring and laid
offtlie remainder of the year, thus laying
the year around.

From a necessary evil fowls have risen
until now there are (lifferent breeds and
families with registered pedigrees, and
journals devoted exclusively to this sub-
ject.

Figures have shown fowls to be profitable.
The sum invested small and divided among
so many the risk is light; fresh eggs and
chicken meat just when you want it. are
convenlent;’and their use as scavengers,
coining into money swarms of troublesome
flies and injurious worms and insects, tak-
ing them from around the house and build-
ings where birds would not venture, must
not be overlooked. A fine flock of fowls adds
beauty and gives a look of life to a place that
not nothing else can. Without fowls a farm
looks deserted, and with a flock like those of
fifty years ago, as though the owner was just
that far behind the times.

These facts are noticed now because it is
nearly fair time, and this subject will be gen-
erally discussed. Fairs have done their full
share towards causing fowls to be ap-
preciated by farmers. By the exhibition of
diflE'ei-ent breeds, farmers can decide which
they prefer.

\Ve have wondered sometimes why breed-
ers of fancy fowls could not sell or exhibit
their stock upon their record of number of
eggs or pounds of meat—in fact upon their
merits. Fancy cattle are based upon the
number of pounds of butter or beef, sheep
upon wool or mutton, and breeding pens of
fowls could go upon the monthly record of
eggs or pounds of meat at a given age. At
present fowls are judged or scored entirely
upon color, finely penclled and well laid
feathers, regularity and shape of comb, color
of legs, etc. “Handsome is that handsome
does,” and financially “fine feathers do not

make fine birds.”

Grand View Farm,

OLD POULTRY.
Kalamazoo.

To HASTEN EARLY conN.—Some weeks
ago we referred to a method communicated
to us bv Judge Miller, of Missouri, a noted
hoi-ticulturlst and nurseryman, of obtaining
corn for the table a full week earlier than by
the ordinary way. This was, that as soon
as the ear was formed to break down the top,
but leaving it sufficiently erect that the
pollen of the tassel mayedust the silk of the
ears, as they may not fully impregnated
should the stalk be topped and the tassel be
removed. Repeated experiments made had
convinced him of its real value, and we
mention the matter again in order—as the
time is near at hand when the experiment
may be tested, and as our first reference to
it may have been forgotten—to recall atten-
tion to it and reap whatever advantage
there may be in it.-— Germantown Tele-
graph.

CAREFULLY conducted experiments have de-
monstrated that seasoned wood, well satura-
ted With boiled linseed oil or crude petroleum
when put to
weather, heels have been known to run
many years, even to wearing out the tires.-
Journal of Chemistry.

MOST farmers now are ready to concede that
level culture is best for corn aside from the
saving of labor, and many are of opinion that
it is equally desirable for potatoes, especially
in adry season.-Jilassachusetts Ploughman.

A GENTLEMAN who has travelled exten-
sively through the Weetern States says that
the best corn is in Indiana.

ether will not shrink in the driest -


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EEE GEANGE VISITOR.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1882.

dummuniiatiuni.

TWILIGHT-—NIGHT.

Daylight is dying—all the world is still;
Enwrapped in somber robes the landscape lies;
With dewy tears the eyes of evening fill;
The night-breeze sweeps along with monrnful
sighs.
Out from its mystic realm. with silent flight,
Flitting through space fleet as a meteor gleam,
Floating upon the cooling breath of night,
The past appears—it’s years I live again.

0, spread thy mantle, Night, for I would rest;
Pain, sheath thy venomed blade! heart-burnings,

cease!
Spirit of Sleep, enfold me on thy breast;
From life and thought grant me a brief release.

Light not the candles—- draw the curtains tight;
Nay let us never say farewell;
I'll banish thought, and with thy visions bright
In blest forgetfulneas forever dwell.
W. M. C.

SEE WHAT THE MORNING IS.

Wait and see what the morning is,
Yield not so soon to sorrow;

For the darkest day that the world can know
May grow to a glad to-morrow.

Wait and see what the morning is-
The flowers we think are dying

To-night will greet us with lifted heads,
And the dew in their bosoms lying.

‘ Wait and see what the morning is,
Nor weary thyself with weeping,
For the stars come out in the darkest sky
While the children of earth are sleeping.

Wait and see what the morning is-
Trust in the hand that guideth,

And the love that over each weary heart
In shadow or sun abideth.

The Other Side of the Patent Right Question.

In nearly every GRANGE VISITOR I pick
up you take occasion to heap contumely
and disgrace upon inventors and owners of
patents. You call them about all the hard
names that there is in the English language
and you profess to take the side of the
_much injured farmer.

Now if you would discuss this question
with the least degree of fairness and impar-
tiality, there would be no occasion to call
in question your numerous editorials on
this subject. You publish a paper that pro-
fesses to be a kind of an instructor for the
farmer; and therefore let me suggest that
you teach your brother farmers to post
themselves better, and increase their stock
of general information, and there will be
no danger of their being scooped by sharp-
ers, and teach them honesty and they will
not buy an infringing tool because they can
get it a dollar cheaper.

I am a farmer and have worked on the
farm nearly ever since I was born. But
during the lsist fifteen years I have worked
at the inventing business, and have ob-
tained a number of patents, and amongst
others was the two first bottom spring har-
row patents. Now you seem to have a deal
of care for the farmer, and what are the
facts about this spring harrow business that
you are so anxious that the infringers
should beat the patent owners. They are
simply this. The manufacturers thought
the inventor of spring harrows had a good
thing, and they would take it. And how
about the poor farmer. They are using at
least 100,000 spring harrows, and every day
a farmer uses a spring harrow he can earn
two dollars more than he could by using his
old harrow, that is the way he oppressed by
the swindling inventors. Why, my dear sir
when I was a boy, we had to do twice as
much work to raise a bushel of grain as we
do now, and all owing to these swindling
inventors. If the inventor of an improved
agricultural tool ever makes a dollar out of
it the farmers make hundreds, and yet there
is an everlasting grumbling about patents.

Iventure that in nine times out of ten
when a farmer gets swindled, it is because
he has neglected to post himself. Thou-
sands of farmers are too stingy to lay out
money enough to post themselves, they
want to buy another farm, and when one
gets beat by a sharper, there is a great howl
set up, and I am sorry to say that the
GRANGE VISITOR is at the head of it.

I am a dealer in my own‘ patent rights,
and I believe that there are no class of men
in this country that are so wickedly swin-
dled, and barefacedly robbed as the invent-
ors and owners of patents. I doubt whether
there has been a single new and useful in-
vention got up in 25 years that has not had
to fight its way through a score or more of
hungry, thieving, leeching vampires, who
are determined to steal the right and in-
fringe on the patent.

A patent right is simply the right to man-
ufacture and use the product of your own
labor for a limited number of years.

Why, if the government was as good to
the inventor as it is to the farmer hejwould
be protected in his right forever. The man
who earns a farm is protected in the use of
it as long as he lives, and then the title is
handed down to his children. But the man
who produces an improved machine, can
only have the use of it for a few years, and
then must turn it over to the public. How
would you like to abandon your farm to
the public at the end of seventeen years,
and just after you had got it cleared up, and
in good running order,’ and yet you ‘have
no better right to your farm, than a man
has to his invention.

And you advocate that the farmer should
have a legal right to use an invention with-
out paying for it. You say he is an inno-
cent purchaser, but let some man go and
steal his horse, and sell him to me, and I
don’t know the horse was stolen, The far-
mer comes and takes the horse all the same,
and I can look to the thief for my pay.
But you think that alters the case, yes, so
it did when the lawyer’s bull gored the far-
mer’s ox.

But I might go on indefinitely to show the
utter shallowness of this hue and cry
against the rights of inventors. In travel-
ing over the country I have picked up 22
different patterns of spring harrows. Every
one of them are infringements upon our
patents, and why is this, simply because
there is a vitiated public opinion, that in-
ventors have no rights that other men are
bound to respect, and yet they have a natu-
ral and legal right to the product of their
own labor, just the same as the farmer.
And since I have been through the mill in
this business, I am not in a mood to relish
your strictures on patent rights for I regard
them as decidedly unfair. Please tell your
farmer readers to wake up and not be ever-
lastingly pleading the baby act and calling
on the government to protect them.

You must certainly know that it is a well
settled principle of law that is universally
recognized in business, that a man can only
convey such a title as he has got, if he has
got a (hieve’s title, he can only convey a
thicve’s title, therefore if a manufacturer
steals his title from the patcntee he conveys
a thieve’s title to the farmer, But you say
the farmer must not be disturbed in his title,
oh! no, he is an’ innocent purchaser, so is
the man who buys a stolen horse, but the
owner of the horse comes and takes the
horse, and the purchaser can look to the
thief for redress. “Sauce for a goose is
sauce fora gander.” And now, Mr. Editor,
will you please publish this for the sake of
fair play, and if our theory be not correct
you can easily show it up.

D. L. GARVER.

The Election Machine.

The season of political caucuses and con-
ventions is at hand and their methods offend
propriety even more than past years. Can-
didates engage in low scrambles for place
and sacrifice every appearance of modesty in
their persistent efforts to win support in
the caucuses. They run over the districts
wherever favors are to be gathered and strive
through everv appliance known to partisan
tricksters to secure pledges, thus frustrating
independent action and foisting upon the
ticket names of self-seeking politicians
who lay claim to office as if it were an object
of barter. Money is used to “fix” delegates,
and the people are defrauded. All this is
well-known, yet the pernicious system is
continued with unblushing etfrontery by
men who have no sense of the degradation
they bring to suflrages perverted from the
right through their iniquitous methods.

Is there no way to correct this evil which
menacee our free institutions ? Must we con-
tinue by our votes to ratify choice we have
not made ? It may be well to vote with the
other party when that has clean candidates,
but the evil of which We speak prevails in
both, and there is, therefore no chance ex-
cept in rare instances. Correction must
come through determined action by men
who have not only sufficient independence
to break from party, but virtue enough to
protest by their votes against the prostitu-
tion of office to the reward of dishonest
seekers.

The stale prescription is, “attend the can-
cuses and prevent the selection of objection-
able delegates.” That will do when voters
are left free to select. How can the plan be
made available when a candidate has visited
every mercenary voter and ‘‘fixed'’ him
long before the formal meeting that has
nothing more than the semblance of a free
caucus? The "tooters” and “heelers" get
in and carry to completion pre-arranged
plans. It is well to attend the primary
meetings, but duty does not end there. In
most cases the self- seeking candidates have
arranged to obtain snap judgment in their
favor and votes at the polls simply record
approval. There must be a better way a
safer resort.

No man is obliged to vote for disreputable
candidates, nor for those with outward
character fair, who have nevertheless ob-
tained nominations through disreputable
means; and there are thousands in every
congressional district who wish to be relieved
‘ofeven the apparent necessity of so voting
Let them confer without reference to their
party and make their ticket accord with
desire. They can always find good men
who have not thrust themselves with _in-
decent claims upon the public demanding
place. They are the very men to vote for
we are left free to choose, and the ballot ex-
presses but mockery to choice if it has not
this element of preference’ But it will
be said this is making a third party,
which is always foolish in practice
because it never succeeds. The judg-
ment is hasty. Succeed in what?
Perhaps not in electing its candidates, but
that is not the principal object. More im-
portant is the destruction of an abominable
system, and this is easily attainable when
even a few good men who refuse to be
bound with thongs revolt against the
tyranny of party that forestalls free ex-
preesion even in the caucus. Independent
voting will never hurt an independent
party, and any other certainly does not de-
serve su port. Men of sober thought do not
wish to be led by candidates so shockingly
deficient in modesty that by its absence
they give proof of unfitness to serve the
people in the places they seek. When such
candidates obtain nominations by methods
so offensive that good citizens desire to
withhold approval, there is a_duty to organ-
ize against them or rather in defence of
common decency. ~

Time was when no_ man of good repute
dared perambulate his district displaying

ognition. In those days ofiice sought the

man and disgraceful scramblers like those

claims no matter how much he desired rec-'

of the present day were quite unknown.
A return to something like this republican
simplicity of politics must be made or the
forms of government will be subverted.
The present year is propitious for the begin-
ning. The first step may be independent
voting. The effect may be beneficial even
to the parties that yield to the solicitation
of de magogues. A handful of inde endent
voters may possibly leaven the who e lump.
Shall the experiment be tried this year‘?
Are there not in every neighborhood a few
good men, not wholly bound to party, who
are willing to rise and be counted ‘.’—The
Husbandman.

Middleman.

It would appear by zipplyiiig this word in
its extended sense that the Ul‘;l.llg8 society
wished to relapse into premature l)2ll‘l)LlI‘lSl'1l,
and let every man do his own work. This
middleman question has been made a great
handle by the opponents of the society to
show how aibsurd the principles of the
Grange are. Now for one class of men to
say they could live without the aid of an-
other class is folly. liartcr or trade is the
result of 0llell1ll.llll:l.V'lllg more of one arti-
cle or product than he actually requires for
l1i.spersoiiul wants. This is, in fact, a tru-
ism iii political cconoiny. Now, a fariner
can live, as farzis mere living is concerned,
without the aid of anybody else; but this
would iiccessitaite cvci'_\'bod_\' becoming tillers
oi." the soil, and arts, sciences, tl‘ilI.l€ and com-
merce would cease. The surplus produce of
a fzirmci‘ must be consumed, and only in
caseof home consumption he iniist depend
upon some ouc to find him ll. (‘llSlI)lllt,‘l‘, as it
would never pay him to leave his f'zii'ui to
find out who stood ill need of his produce.
Nor would it pay the consuincr, mccliainic,
mci‘clia1iti\".c., to have to search out what
i'zii'mei' had 1i1o1'c wheat than he wanted
liiiiisclf. llcncc it is very evident for the
benefit of both that a third or middlcmuii is
iiecessary. A fzirmer could not go to China
for his ten, Java for his spices, and England
for his prints and broadcloth. Both pro-
ducer mid cousuincr of these articles depend
uponthe middlemziii the trader or shipper.
Now, what the Graiige asks is, how mzuiy
of these iniddlemcii are ucccssiiry for the
Sale and b:ii'tei‘ of different comiuodities?

The Grzingc claims thcrc is a grczit amount
of work pci‘i'o1'1ncd by these middlemen that
it could do for itself; that the cream of its
profits are skinimcd off by having too many
men do its business. If a number of far-
mers, then, can ziirzuige to do the work
through one agent, that fOl'Ill€l‘l)' took three,
three will be the wages of two saved and
producer and coiisuincr brought into more
direct contact. If there are two elevators at
any of our sllipping points where one would
be suflicicut, groin could be shipped at half
the cost if only one were employed. For-
iiicrs,howevci', must control the elevators,
and preveiit others from 1'ai.sii1;_-; the chzirgcs
to their former rates, which they would if
under their control. This thcy can only do
by owning them. To own their elevators is
not only legitimate, but really necess:ii'y.
They would then ha.vc their grain shipped at
a greater reduction than when so inziny men
and elevators were employed; in fact at the
cheapest possible rates. This is what can be
done in ll7,‘Dlllf}'lllg the present busiiiess ill‘-
rangements by intelligent fariners man-
aging their own busiiicss.

We really cannot see why farmers cannot
maiiagc grain elevators, pork packing estab-
lishments, a storage wzirehousc. :1 dock, and
a ship, or czimil boat for conveying produce
to differeiit markets, as well as ruiminga
cheese fll.ClOl‘Y or steam th1'eshci'. \Ve see
no reason why fariners should not look to
the clieapeiiing of the services of those whom
they employ as agent for the disposal of
their produce as to get any other labor Clletlp
and employ their spare capital in these en-
terprises as well as putting it into the b unks,
&c.

And we see no reason why it should not
prove as successful with the same experi-
ence and business ability. But it l‘d.lll'02lLl,
awoolen and cotton l'act-ory, and similar
nicchauiczil operations requiring skilled la-
bor, and technical tl‘;llIllllg', and business ex-
perience, which can only be profitably cifcct-
ive when the operator is owner of the estab-
lishment, would seem to be outside of the
fai'1ner’s province, and only doomed to fail-
ure. The principle of the Grangers with re-
gard to middlemen is that the abundance or
scaiitiness of the annual supply of a nation
must depend upon the proportion between
the numbers of those who are zumuzilly em-
ployed in useful labor, and that of those who
are not emplo_ved.——Oanadian Granger.

EVERY Patron should consider that he and
his family, large and small, are enlisted for
the war, and see to it that his children are
brought up to the idea that they are tojoin
the Grange when old enough. and that they
are expected to take up our staff when we
can no longer carry it. See to it that when
they do enter the Grange it is pleasant,
agreeable and cheerful, so that they will stay
with it. The Grange must be made attract-
ive to our young folks, or they will shun it,
and the Grange will fossilize. When you
hear of a young man of about sixty wedding
a lass of sixteen we think of December and
May, and make no bones of saying: “What
an ill -sorted match! Two to one she don’t
get up and run away some fine day.” Now
where is the difference between such a case
and a lass of sixteen, for instance, joining a
Grange? where everything is business ;
where we open in due form, and questions
of debris, railroads and rings are vehemently
discussed while we sit around and listen, as
solemn and dignified as a lot of judges. Af-
ter we have hammered away we close in due
form and go home and congratulate our-
selves on having had a good time. But how
has it been with our youngsisters and broth-
ers ? It was like wedding December to May,
and the chances are that after a few of such
meetings she will get up and run away. and
you will never see her again.—0alijform'a
Patron.

WHAT it wants now is_for some of those
inventors to patent a device by which a man
can takea cyclone by the horn or tail and
lead into a. box stall until it ets over its
tantrum, and probably Edison is the man to
do it. If a cyclone is taken when it is a

oung calf, and wafted around and scattered,
it loses its power, but if left alone to et_ its
growth it will be worse than a bu ma
china shop. When it gets so that the cyclone
and the hurricane s all lie down together
and a little child shall lead them, with a. rope
around the horns, then the people of Iowa
can crawl out of their dug-outs and smile

again.—PecIc’s Sun.

Our Political Future.

There is at the present time an evident
desire on the part of many throughout the
land for a thorough reformation of the poli-
tics of the country, and we certainly think
that a time more suitable for inaugurating
such a reform could not be selected. Let us
select such men for the ofiices of the repub-
lic,_ at the beginning of the second .century
of its existence as a nation, as were chosen
to fill its oflices in the early part of the first
century. Let us choose men of sterling in-
tegrity and real worth, men who are above
the low trickery and mean devices so gener-
ally resorted to in order to secure position ;
men who will not sell themselves for money
or for power, men of pure hearts and clean
bands who will perform their duty without
fear or favor.

Such men may still be found even in this
country. The race is not extinct. To be
sure it is seldom they are brought forward ;
but the reason is obvious. The people per-
mit the politicians—a set of vampires who
live upon the blood of the nation, to select
men who shall fill the offices of trust and
honor in the land. The candidates are al-
most invariably nominated by the politi-
cins. Certainly men are selected and set
up for the people to vote for, and the people
vote for them accordingly.

Now these same politicians are very care-
ful to select as far as possible, men that they
can use to advance their own interests. This
being the case, the only possible method of
securing the reform spoken of is by throw-
ing off the yoke of these political tricksters,
declaring our freedom from such tyranny
and taking the matter into our own hands,
select the best men for the most responsible
positions, without regard to party or the cry
of politicians as they see the “loves and fish-
es” slipping from their grasp.

Occasionally even in these latter days we
see a good man, one of the \Vashiiigton type
elected to ofiice in spite of the political bum-
mers who usually manage such affairs, and
there is no reason why this may not become
the rule instead of the exception, if the peo-
ple will but take hold of the matter in earn-
est, and give it such attention as it deserves.

One reason why the people do not do this,
is that they are to.) busy with their own
personal afihirs.—-They are so engrossed in
money getting that they have no time for
anything else. So eager are they in the per-
suit of Wealth that they have no time to de-
vote to social enjoyment or even the care or
society of their families, much less to the
affairs of government, and they have got the
habit of entrusting the affairs of the govern-
menteiitirely to the politicians. On election
day they rush to the polls and vote “straight”
Democratic or Republican ticket with but
little more knowledge of the candidates than
their names, and with utter disregard of their
qualifications and fitness for the position to
which they aspire. This ought not so to be;
and we trust in the near future to see a dif-
ferent state of affairs in our country. \Ve
trust we shall see the day when the men
elected to the higher offices in the nation and
those appointed by them shall command
alike the respect of their own countrymen
and of foreign nations; when the Jeoplc
shall‘ in reality be the government, andzwhen
it shall not be left in the hands of a few des-
igning and unscrupulous men who care for
nothing else than the accomplishment of
their own selfish ain1s.——Farmer’s Monthly
lllagazine.

Politics and the Grange.

Our farming communities in general are
becoming better informed on political and
social questions, and much more liberal in
their judgment upon such questions. Po-
litical wrangles are beginning to jar the
party nerves, but our Grange moves along
quietly in a higher and purer atmosphere;
and while our members are composed of all
parties they sacredly leave all questions of
partisanism away from the Grange. The
Grange is a great independent school, and a
vast power for freeing men’s minds of the
Cobwebs of prej udice so skillfully woven
into their brains by crafty politicians, who
see in the education of farmers the downfall
of their own pet schemes and hopes of pub-
lic plunder.

The time for sensational Grange work has
passed, and the organization is getting down
to solid work. Good results may be hoped
from a steady onward movement. VVe be-
lieve that farmers should visit more, and
become more interested in each other, and
especially should their most leisure months
be devoted to the cultivation social qualities
of our being. The great community of
farmers should look after their community
interests, and rally to the support of the
Grange; and thereby assist in elevating the
calling to which we are so devotedly at-
tached, to that elevated position among the
occupations of man, to which it sojustly be-
longs. And above all things we should ac-
knowledge no political masters.

In short. be a free man,
At least, as free as you can.

T. C. ATKESON.
Buffalo, W. Va.

Experience Meetings.

Some one has suggested that Grange meet-
ings may be interesting by devoting a por-
tion of the time to the relation of experiences
—that every one can tell readily, what he
has tried, or done, to secure a good crop of
any kind, etc. The only objection I can see
in this proposition is, that it may lack inter-
est to the hearers—the s eakers, I doubt not,
may find pleasure in tel ‘ng that in which
success has given them some pride. So far
as I have observed, experience meetings,
generally are apt to run into a kind of semi-
self-glorification relation. But there is a
species of experience which may be made
very instructive, interesting to the hearers,
and not very exalting to the speakers, I
have always believed that we learn fully as
much from our failures, as we do from our
successes; and that describing our mistakes
and blunders may be even more profitable
to others than would be our most fortunate
experiments. '

And then, also, while we exercise our hu-
mislgy and mortify undue pride in our sup-
po self-sufliciency, we not only benefit
others by the warning, but amuse while we
instruct them. Let the first experience
meeting, therefore, consist in each member’s
relation‘ of the greatest mistake or blunder,
or the most imprudent or thoughtless experi-
ment he or she ever made in farming, or
housekeeping. I will warrant wide awake
eyes, and open ears. and merry feelings at
that Grange meeting.—E:ccha.nge.

Labors’ Losses by the Strikes.

From an article which appears in the
Philadelphia Times this week we clip the
following, which sets forth the unfortunate
results coming to the thousands of laboring
men who listened to the advice of their un-
wise leaders and a few weeks ago left their
places of employment to force an increase
of wages. It is hoped in the future that
when workingmen believe that their em-
ployers are not doing as well for them as
they can and should, they will seek to have
their wrongs righted by friendly personal
communications with them, and not trust
themselves blindly to the leadership of men
who too generally are looking out for their
own pecuniary advantage, and are indiffer-
ent to the fate of the thousands who follow
them and whose money they spend.

“The labor strikes are practical failures.
They are inaugurated under the most
methodical and apparently the best matured
directions that has ever directed or con-
trolled the most important labor strikes of
the country, and yet they have failed. It
may require some days to prepare the labor
organizations to confess their failure, but
the issue is clearly against them. They sac~
rificed fully four millions of earnings, and
will soon return to work without prospect
of recovering any part of the loss by in-
creased wages.

How and why has the organized labor of
the country been made to infiict upon itself
a loss of four millions of dollars 1‘ This is
an inquiry that must press itself upon every
laborer as he must see the multiplied evi-
dences of want in the circles of his house-
hold.

It is a notorious fact that a large majorlt
of the laborers who felt that they were sa e
in a strike would resolve upon a suspension
of work and the more dependent circles
were compelled to follow. The result was
that the few authors of wanton sacrifice of
four millions of wages will suffer little
and the many will suffer ‘much; bnt will
those who suffer most profit by the lesson ‘3
They should become wise, when the hismry
of strikes, as a rule is simply the history of
the sacrifice of labor and widespread want in
the homes of laborers. The story is old as
our history and it teaches the same lesson
with fearful uniformity.

Associated labor is one of the necessities
of our progressive civilization, but it can’t
reverse an irrevocable law of trade. VVisely
directed, organized labor must greatly bene-
fit, elevate and prosper the laborer ; but un-
wisely directed, it becomes a vast suicide.
The present strikes were in every respect
inopportune. All that was claimed was no
more than was necessary to live as comfort-
ably as they lived one year ago at the old
prices; but business was depressed ; manu-
facturers feared future markets, and capital
could better afford suspension than pofitless
work.

The strikes of 1882 have failed because fail-
ure was a logical and inevitable necessity.
They have profited capital quite as much as
the losses they have imposed, and four mil-
lions of dollars have been lost to inactive
industry of the country. And it is ab-
solutely irretrievably lost. Not one dollar
of the sacrifice can ever be recovered, for no
future increase of wages will be facilitated
by the strikes which are about to close. It
is four millions paid by the laborers or the
land as the price of the ignorance and
selfishness of their leaders, and it should be
a final lesson in behalf of the independence
of laborers against corrupt labor demagogues
and reckless labor speculators. Four mil-
lions is a fearful price to pay for repetition
of what is the old, old story, of every gener-
ation that has gone before; but it has been
paid, however long the exactions for the
payment may linger, and now let labor
trust to arbritration in the future and re-
ject as false leaders all who clamor for or-
ganized strikes or for organized labor in the
maelstrom of politics. Let the answer to all
be—Four millions are enough l ”—Farmers’
Friend.

ONE of the most puzzling features of mod-
ern civilization is the fact that with all our
theories and with all our science and intelli-
gen cc and zeal and remedial methods of in-
sanity, no way has been found to stop the
growth of insanity or to cure the disordered

.mind. Science and discovery have reached

almost everywhere, and have developed bar-
riers to protect humanity against nearly all
the plagues that attack the body, but so far
mental distress is beyond human relief, and
none can “minister to the mind diseased or
wipe out the troubles written in the brain.”
The reports read at the recent Conference
of Charities at Madison all agree that insani-
ty is rapidly increasing -in the United States,
and show by the statistics that while the in-
crease in population during the last ten
years was 26 per cent, the growth of insanity
has been 100 per cent, and the number of
cases brought for treatment show an alarm-
ing increase in the population of incurables.
Modes of treatment are more comprehensive,
intelligent and human than they ever were,
but the results do not show progress in the
number ofcases cured. According to the re-
ports of that assembly, the most distinguish-
ed experts do not any longer contend that
insanity is necessarily hereditary, although
all agree that the tendency toward it may
be transmitted. The overtaxing of the nerv-
ous system is said to be the great cause of
increase which is found among the most
actively employed class of the opulation.
The lack of rest and recreation, t e exhaus-

tion of the brain by labor and thought, the
prevalence of anxiety and disappointment
are the great causes of mental disorders, and
the deduction is that while we cannot cure
insanity, we can revent it by the proper
observance of the aws which nature has im-
posed upon the body and mtid, and by the
cultivation of regular habits of labor and

rest.——Inter Ocean.

FEW topics are more inviting or more fit
for discussion than the actions and the influ-
ence of the Gran e. Who can estimate the
amount or the va us of the knowledge that
is resulting from the Grange every day. The
Grange is trying to secure the rights_ of

ersons. It has pro ed that it is piac ca-

le to elevate the ass of man_kind— at
portion which is called the laborin class-
to raise them to self-respect, to ma e them
competent to act a part in the great right_
and the great duty of self-government; _and
this it has proved mav be done by the diffu-
sion of knowledge. It holds out an example
a thousand times more enchanting than ever
was presented before to those nine-tenths of
the human race who areborn without heredi-
tary fortunes.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1882.

durreipundente.

Calhoun County Pomona Grange, No. 3.

Bro. Cobb :——We (I mean our Grange, of
which we are justly proud) have been “over
the border.” ,We received a very kind invi-
tation to go over into Eaton County and
hold a meeting in the village of Bellevue,
which invitation .was gladly accepted.
Bellevue Grange gave us the invitation and
entertained us royally. They have leased ,a
new ball which is elegantly fitted up, and
which with their fruit and floral decorations,
made it truly a place of beauty. \Ve were
welcomed by an address by Mr. Frank An-
drews, which beside containing words of
greeting, gave the early history of Bellevue,
and an account of its first election, which
was very interesting and very amusing.
The choir ‘gave us excellent music, some of
the songs being especially fine.

The following are some of the questions that
were brought before the meeting : “\Vhere
does knowledge come from, the outside or in-
side of man ?” “Does the thief get his first
lessons of dishonesty at home?” “At what
age should the horse be broken to the harness
to be of most value to its owner?” “Ought
not every farmer to raise enough vegetables
for his family's use." “Is co oporation of
more benefit to mankind than competition?”

_ The resolution adopted by Kalamazco Coun-

ty Pomona Granne in regard to supporting
for omce judges or legislators who will not
pledge themselves not to accept or use a free
pass during his term of office, was brought
before the meeting and acted upon. It was
talked over thoughtfully, intelligently, and
when voted upon there was not a single
vote in the negative.

Our meeting was a complete success,
and it ed remind me very much of the
GRANGE Visi'roR—I think every one the
best ’til the next comes. Yours truly,

Mas. PERRY Mayo, Secretary.

Marshall Township, Aug. 19, 1882.

Eaton County Pomona Grange.

Bro. Cobb .-—The meeting at Eaton Rap-
ids on the 26th inst., of the Eaton County
Pomona Grange, although it occurred at a
time when our brothers were all engaged in
harvest, was by no means a failure—only
two Granges in the county failed in being
represented, and from all the Subordinate
Granges reported the indications were very
encouraging. Interesting and instructive
essays were read by Bros. Saxton and Bent-
ly of the Eaton Rapids Grange. The essay
read by Bro. Bently drew out some very
pertinent and timely remarks from Brother
Wilkins, and paved the way for the discus-
sion which followed upon the question of
transportation. In like manner the essay
read by Brother Sexton brought Brother
Shaw to his feet and elicited his views upon
political parties and the relation they hold to
government. The discussion which follow-
ed upon the resolution: Resolved, “That a
Protective Tariffis not for the best interests
of the Farmer,” was animated, and develop-
ed such an interest in the subject, thatat the
request of several members the lecturer an-
nounced the same subject would be a part of
the programme for the next meeting.

An invitation from Bellvue Grange to
meet with the Calhoun County Pomona
Grange at Bellvue August 17, was accepted,
and we are anticipating a gotd time with the
Patrons of our Sister Grange.

The next meeting will be held at Kalamo,
on the fourth Wednesday of October next,
at which place we expect to have a rousing
good old- fashioned quarterly meeting of
Patrons. In short, \Vorthy Secretary, the
Eaton County Pomona Grange lives and is
prospering; and your humble relator believ-
eth it will be a long time hence that you
will hear the humiliating news, the Eaton
County Pomona Grange is bankrupt.

I cannot close without saying a word for
the Eaton Rapids Patrons. The arrange-
nzents for the comfort and entertainment to
the brothers and sisters from abroad were all
that could be desired, and if any one went
away from our meeting hungry and dissatis-
fied, it was not through any fault of the Sis-
ters of the Eaton Rapids Grange.

J. M. PETERS.

Brookfield, Eaton Co., July 31, I882.

. Railroad Passes.

J. T. Cobb Esq,'——At a regular meeting of
Ravenna Grange No. 373, August 19th. 1882.
The preamble and resolutions, of the Kala-
mazoo County Pomona Grange at its June
meeting, (in relation to free Railroad Passes
for, judges ‘id legislators) on motion was
fully endorsed by this Grange, and the secre-
tary ordered to report the same to you.

Tnos. D. SMITH, Sec’y.

Ravenna, Aug. 21, 1882.

The Grange in Tennessee.

In announcing the seventh annual meet
ing of the Tennessee State Grange, to be
held this month, Worthy Master, T. B.
Hartwell, thus speaks of the gran ges in his
jurisdiction :

“It is with much gratification we recog-
nize the improved condition of the Order in
the State, and particularly of the treasury
of the State Grange. A large debt, that has
for several years interfered with the prompt
payment of milage and per diem, has been
paid, and our future, in this respect, is more

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

encouraging. We now have a hope of soon
being able to inaugurate measures that will
give a fresh impetus to Grange progress in
our midst. We are further encouraged by
the number of dormant Granges that have
been revived during the year ; this, with an
improved financial prosperity and the
plenty that has rewarded the labors of
the farmers, give us confidence for the
future.”

“Chalk Your Own Door.”

His proper name was Jeremiah Marden;
but he had not been in the village a week
before everybody called him Jerry Marden,
and within six weeks he was known as
Jerry Muddle. VVho gave him that name,
and why was it given ‘P The giver is un-
known—for who ever knows the giver of
nicknames?-but the reason for its being
bestowed was that Jerry was always muddl-
ed with drink.

He was a very good shoemaker, but he
stood no chance with George Stevens, a
sober man, and so drifted into becoming a
cobbler.

Jerry's one idea was to get ajob, and hav-
ing done it, to invest the proceeds in drink at
his favorite beer shop, “The Oram Arms."
The consequence was, that Jerry was seldom
sober, ahd had he not possessed an iron con-
sitution, two years of such a life must have
killed him; but he dragged on, working to-
day and idling to-morrow, and drinking
whenever drink could be got, and finally he
drifted into debt.

His score at "The Oram Arms"was a large
one, and the chalks stood up against him
like files of soldiers; but Jerry ignored their
existence—paying on a little now and then,
and drinking more, each time increasing
the army of debt against him, until one
eveuing Mr. Richard Rewitt the landlord of
the aforesaid “Oram Arms,” cried “halt."

“I can,t go on any longer, Jerry," he
said. “The last sum I had of you was three
shillings, and you have paid nothing for
a fortnight.

“Work is slack,” murmured Jerry, “but
the harvest is coming on, and then every-
body will have their soling and heeling
done, and I shall be able to pay you off."

“Perhaps so," returned Mr. Rewitt; “but
you will have as much as you can do to
square off what is up there. Look at them.
Those chalks are a standing disgrace to any
man. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.”

Jerry looked at the accusing marks, and
really felt aghast at the loi-g list against
him. The inner door of the bar was a reg-
ular blackboard, and he trembled before it.

Now when Jerry first came to “The Oram
Arms," the landlord was very polite, and
spoke as softly as you please to him. No
spider, courteously entreating a fly to enter
into his parlor, could have been more oily-
tougued or smiled a more persuasive smile-
that is presuming that spiders do smile,
which is just possible ; but when Jerry got
into the toils, and had been well confined
in the web, mine host put on another face
and tone.

_ “If you drink,” he said, “you niustexpect
to pay for it. My brewer would stand no
nonsense from me, and I must have my
money from you.”

“Only one pint,” pleaded poor Jerry.

“Not half a pint," replied the landlord.
Go home and work, and pay your debts like
a man.”

The entrance of a customer with ready
money cut short the conversation, and Jerry
stood back a pace or two while the other was
being served. VVhen that was done and the
beer drank and the stranger gone, Jerry
made a final appeal.

“I’ve been a good customer to you, Mr.
Rewitt. Almost every penny I've earned
has come into your till. I’ve nigh lived on
beer, if living it can be called, and my wife
and children have had to shift how they
could for bread.”

“That’s nothing to rue," said the landlord.

“Let me have one pint.”

“Have you the impudence to ask for it
with this shameful lot of chalks staring you
in the face?"

Jerry did not reply, but he took a long
and earnest look at the recording files an
drawing his hand across his dry mouth, hur-
ried out of “The Oram Arms.”

“Who is that you've been talking to,Rich-
ard ?” inquired Mrs. Rewitt, entering the
bar from a room behind.

“Jerry Muddler," was the reply. “I've
stopped his drink until he pays up."

“Then he will go to “The Green Goose,”
and get his drink there,” said Mrs. Rewitt.

“They won't trust him a penny,” return-
ed her husband with a grin—"he’s tried it
on and failed, and so I've got him. If he
does not pay up I’ll make him."

“There's nothing to get out of that house,”
said Mrs. Rewitt, shaking her head. “I've
heard that there’s not a chair for them to sit
down upon ; and Jerry’s wife—clean and
tidy as she manages to keep herself—looks
more like a skeleton than a woman.

“That’s J errry’s lookout,” replied Mr.
Rewitt, coely. “If he can't afford it, he
shouldn’t drink.

The subject was dismissed, and Jerry for-
gotten in the noise and bustle of the usual
evening business. About nine o'clock Jer-
ry’s wife, to the astonishment of both Mr.
Rewitt and his wife, ap eared in the bar;
but not as they suppose for drink.”

"My husband tells me,” she said, “that he
has a heavy score here. How much is it?,,

“I'm almost too busy to tell you,” replied
the landlord, “but if it is pressing I will
reckon it up.”

“It is pressing, and I will be very thank-
ful if you will let me know at once what it
is,” return the poor woman, who was in-
deed wan and pale, and almost justified the
title of “skeleton” which Mrs. Rewitt had
given her. _

The landlord went through the chalks
twice, and finally announced that Jerry was
indebted to him to the amount of two
pounds, seventeen shillings and fourpence
halfpenny. Jerry’s wife received the an-
nouncement with alook of quiet dismay,
thanked the landlord and then left the
house.

“I suppose she. is thinking to make an
effort to pay it off,” said Mr. Rewitt
addressing his better half, “and I hope she
will; but I fancy it will be a .little to much
for her.”

For a whole week nothing was seen or
heard of Jerry; but at the end of that time
his wife appeared and put down five shil-
lings on the counter.

“Will you please take that off the amount
sir," she said, "and give me a receipt?”

This was done with a gra 'ous smile and
J erry’s wife departed. Mr. ewitt announ-
ced his having hit the right nail on the head.

The wife of the cobbler was making an ef-
fort to clear off her husband's debt.

At the end of another week a second five
shillings was paid, and then harvest came
on—truly a harvest to the agricultural la-
borer, as at that time he gathers in cloth-
ing, and whatever necessaries his harvest
money will enable him to procure. All the
tradesman in the little village were busy,
and even Jerry was reported to be full-
handed. But he did not come near “The
Oram Arms" for drink.

On the third week Jerry’s wife brought-
ten shillings, and on the fourth, fifteen, to
the greatjoy and satisfaction of .\Ir. Rewitt.
whose joy, however, was alloyed by the fear
that he had lost a customer. He resolved
to look up Jerry as soon as another instal-
ment of his account was aid.

Nothing was brought or a fortnight. and
the landlord congratulated himself upon not
having hastily sought his absent customer.
who still owed him over a pound; but the
appearence of Jerry's wife with the balance
had the effect of making him think other-
wise. There was no display in putting
down the money~it was quickly done-but
the happy light in the woman's eyes as she
took the receipt, spoke more than mere
words or actions.

“I have been hasty with Jerry," said Mr.
Rewitt, when another whole month had
elapsed without Jerry appearir. g, “be prom-
ised to pay at harvest time, and he did it;
but I have oifended him, and ‘The Green
Goose’ has caught his custom.”

“Go and see him," suggested his wife.

“I intended to do so. Here, give me our
Tom's boots; they want a patch on the side,
and it will be an excuse for my dropping in
upon him.”

"That isn't much of ajob for him seeing
that you give George Stevens the best of the
work,” said Mrs. Rewitt.

“Stevens works better than Jerry,’ replied
her husband: “you can always trust him to
do his work when it is promised, but Jerry
keeps the things for weeks together.”

“That's true; but I’ve got a pair of boots
that want new fronts, and I can wait a week
or two. Take them."

“I'll take both," said Richard Rewitt;
“nothing like baiting your book while you
are about it.”

Armed for the reconquest of Jerry, the
landlord set forth in the morning—-that be-
ing a slack time when he could be easily
spared from home. Outside were a couple
of loafers, with no money and no credit,
Mr. Rewitt favored them with a nod of lofty
indifference.

Jerry’s cottage was in the middle of the
village, standing back about fifty feet from
the road; and although its inside poverty
had been well known, the outside, thanks
to his wife, looking quite as well as its neigh-
bors. Therefore i\Ir. Itewitt was not in the
least surprised to see it look bright and gay
on that beautiful autumn morning.

As he approached the door, he heard the
sound of Jerry’s hammer upon the lapstone,
and to his utter amozemeut, the voice of Jer-
ry carclling a cheerful ditty, occasionally to
come out within the tap room as the song of
the raven. Raising the latch, the landlord
of “The Oram Arms” peeped in.

“Good morning. Jerry," he said.

“Ah! is that you, Mr. Rewitt?" replied
Jerry, looking up. “Come in.”

Jerry looked up wondrous clean, and had
even been shaved that very morning. His
blue shirt looked clean, to’), and he actua.ly
had a collar on.

Mr. Rewitt was so overcome by the change
that he stood still with the boots under his
arm, forgetting that they formed part of his
mission.

“You look very well, Jerry,” he said at
last.

“Never felt better in my life,” replied
Jerry. “I wish,sir,I could say the same of
you. Youlook whitish.”

“I've got a bit of a cold," replied the other,
“and Ihave been shut up a good deal with
business lately. Trade’s been brisk; but how
is it we have not seen you?"

“Well—the fact is, sir" said Jerry, rubbing
his chin, “I've been busy wiping off your
score.”

“But it is done, man," said Mr. Rewitt,
cheerfully, “the door is quite clean, as far
as you are concerned.”

“I am glad of that.”

,“Others have not got their share,” said
the landlord, facetiously: "but I think we
could make room for you, if you look us up."

“No, thanks, sir," returned Jerry, “I've
had enough of chalking on other people's
doors, and now I chalk on my own.”

“Chalk on your own!” .

“Yes sir, have the goodness to turn round
and look behind you. There’s my door half
full.”

“It's a wise thing to keep accounts your-
self,” said the landlord, who hardly knew
what to make of it. “for mistakes will hap-
pen ; out——”

“No mistake can happen, sir," interrupt-
ed Jerry, “for I am the only party as keeps
that account.”

“But who trusts you to do that ?”

“Nobody—-I trust myself,” replied Jerry.
“The marks that were on your door showed
what I did drink, and them marks on mine
show what I did not drink.”

A little light had got into the landlord’s
brain, and he had a pretty good idea of what
was coming, but he said nothing.

“That night when you spoke to me about
the chalks on the door being a standing dis-
grace to me, was the night of my waking,”
continued Jerry. “N 0 man could have leo-
tured me better than you did, and I thank
you for it from the bottom of my heart.
As I left your house I vowed to touch drink
no more, and I_came home and told my wife
so, and we both joined in earnest prayer
that I might have strength to keep my vow.
The next morning I went over to George
Stevens and asked him how I could go about
signing the pledge. He helped me like a
man—aud it was done.”

With his eyes wandering to and fro between
Jerry and the chalks upon the door, the
amazed landlord still remained silent. Jerry
went on:

“My wife wanted to work herself to death
to keep me," he said, “but I said No.’
You do what you can to keep the children
until my debts are paid, and then I'll keep
you and the children too.” So I went to
work. paying right and left; and when all
was paid off‘ I begpn to do what I ought to
have done years ago—feed my wife and chil-
dren. I had enough to spare and I would
have spent some with you. And many’s
the time I,ve been tempted to come——and
I'm tempted still ; but when the feeling
comes over me I have a drink of water or a
cup of tea, puts two-pence into the box I’ve
got on purpose, and scores a chalk on the

door. All of them chalks are so many two-
pence saved.”

"Mr. Rewitt was unable to make any par-
ticular remark, but he murmured in a con
fused manner. "You've got a lot of em."

“Yes’ there is a large family,” replied Jer-
ry, complacently, “and the more I look at
t em the better I like them. There is not
much standing disgrace about that lot ; credit
if anything.”

“Oh I yes—yes," returned the landlord ;
“but—dear me——this cold in my head is quite
distressing. You must have a large box for
all your twopence."

“When I get six together I take them to
the post-office," replied Jerry ; "there's a
bank there better than any till. They give
nothing out, but banks like that, return
you more than you put in. Until ]_ began
to keep my own chalks I had no idea how
much your till swallowed up. You would
not trust me for a pint ; but I can have my
money out of the bank whenever I want it.”
1 “That's something," said Mr. Rewitt,tart-

Y

“It is everything to a man who has a wife
and children to keep, replied Jerry. “The
best of us have sickness and trouble and
rainy days, and then its a great thing to
have something to fall back upon. It is bet-
ter to be able to keep yourself than to go to
the parish. There’s another thing too, about
these chalks of mine-—yours went down
before my wife and children were fed; mine
go down after that's done; and I think that
my chalks are the better of the two. So I
say to all, “Chalk your own door."

Mr. Rewitt had nothing to say; he could
not deny and he would not admit it, but
took refuge like other beaten men in flight.
With the boots under his arm he hastened
home and presented himself before his wife
in a rather excited condition.

“\V'hat is the matter, Richard ?" she
asked.

"Nothing particular," he replied except
that Jerry Muddler has joined the temper-
ance lot, and he seems so firm in it that I
don't believe he will ever touch a drop
again."

Mr. Richard Rewitt of “The Oram Arms"
was right. And Jerry, who bears the name
of Muddler no longer, but is called by that
to which he is entitled to by right of birth,
viz., that of Marden, has not touched a drop
of strong drink from the day of his reform-
ation to this. His door has been filled again
and again with the score he records in his
own favor; and the beer he has not drank
is everywhere around him in the form of a
comfortable home, a respectable amount in
the bank, and a goodly investment in a
building society. Verbum sat sapienti,
which freely interpreted means. "A word to
you, my reader, is sutiicient." “C‘h2.lk your
own door."—-The British Worlcma/2.

A Distiller's Views.

A veteran whisky distiller of Peoria,
Illinois, thus speaks upon the liquor ques-
tion: " There are less than one hundred
great distilleries in the whole United States.
The retail dealers, the ‘saloon men.' are
gr,-iieraf-Iy men without means, and not of
habits to acquire much wealth. ‘With rare
exceptions, like Peoria, the wholesale dealers
are not much better. The social position of
the liquor trade holds no sort of comparison
to the social statues ofAmerican slavery The
moral and religious sentiment of American
societ is against it. The women are against
it. his moral sentiment stands like a
stone wall to confront it Of course this is a
free country, and any man, any editor, any
class, or any interest has an undoubted right
to beat its brains out against this stone wall,
It is their privilege, as well as their right.
But personally, you can count me out of
any snch idiotic ‘——nonsense.’ Let the
liquor men go along quietly let them license,
and obey strictly the aw; let them provoke
as little attention as possible to their business;
let them ward of!‘ opposition by seeking to
conciliate rather than antagonize the morel
sentiment of the whole country, and their
business will go on with as little disturbance
and annoyance as it is possible to do, But
let a financial collapse of the distilling inter-
est occur now or in the near future and it
will scare every capitalist and business man
from re-engaging in the distilling business.
Then with the temperance element ramp-
ant and no capital to fight it with, prohibi-
tion could be en forced, and in ten years there
would not be left a distillery, a brewery or
a saloon in the whole United states." He
regards the present opposition of liquor deal-
ers as injurious to their own cause; and ad-
mits that without money to fight with the
temperance people will gain the day. May
his prediction prove true.—-Indiana Farmer.

___:.—.——:-:——-—————-———

What is Co-operation‘!

“It is the great means by which the toil-
ing class may raise themselves as a class,
out of the miseries into which they are
plunged by the abuse of competition.

It is the great means by which the richer
class may make their wealth produce more
comfort to themselves. while they remove
the causes of pauperism and wretchedness.

To the poor it is the self-help which is
the only true help.

To the rich it is the uniter of interests, the
healer of discords, the preventer of strikes,
the safety valve against explosion.

To all, it is justice, wisdom, economy, and
morality; justice, by dividing profits equit-
ably; wisdom, by showing how justice can
be secured; economy by preventing the waste
of competition ; morality, by discountenanc-
ing the frauds of trade.

It has proved itself to be a success.

There are in England and Scotland more
than 400,000 registered members of coopera-
tive societies.

Their subscribed capital exceeds £12,000,-
O00 a year. It is conducted on principles
fair to the honest trader whom it does not
undersell, and most adapted to benefit the
poor.

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
loose, and besides get into debt.

 —:.——

Have Your: Woor. SoLn on its Means-
Discountenance the system of wool buy
ing where all goes at the same price, wheth-
er carefully and cleanly handled or dishon-
estly and dirty. No stufiing in wool nor
shoddy in gc ods.

3

Peach Trees. Peach Trees.

AT KENT COI.'NTY

“ POMONA NURSERIES.”

We ofier a full assortment of fruit trees and orna-
mental stock including plants, vines, and Evergreens
at lowest living rates.

Send in your orders by mail. Call and see us at
the fair at Grand Rapids September 25 to 30, 1852.
Sand for Price Lists.

BUTTERICK .t WATTERSON,
Cascann, Kent Co., Mich.

PRIGE LIST GF SUPPLIES

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

otjer the seal of a Subordinate Grange, and the
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Address. J. T. COBB,
Sac’? Mica. Sum Gannon,
SCHO0LCRAFT,3i[lCH

L/IICI-IIGA.N' CENTRAL R- R-
DEPAR'l'L'lcE or 'rnAr.\'s FROM KALAMAZOO.
Tl.\IE-TABLIJ-——.\IAY l'i, I882.

WE:5’I’WARD.

Accommodation leaves, ______________________ __
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Pacific Express _________ __
‘Hail

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A. G. Aiusimr,
Supt. Kalamazoo Division, Kalamazoo.

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CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Corrected ’l‘inie-’1‘able-May 14, 1882.

TRAINS WEST.

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Sunday.
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Ti-amc Manager. General Superintsndent_
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Agent, Bchoolcrafl, Mich.

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4

THE

GRANGE VISITOR.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1882.

E112 fining: diisitsr.

SCHOOLCRAFT. - SEPTEMBER 1.

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To ten trial subscribers for three months we

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Address, J. T. COBB, Schoolcraft, Mich.
Sample copies free to any address.

§wcIniI.’s iwnlmul.

J.T.Cona, - - - —

Scnoorcxsrr.

THE STATE CAPITOL ENGRAVING.

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

UNTIL WITHDRAWN THIS Is MADE A
STANDING OI-‘FER—FIVE NEW SUBSCBIBERS
FOR ONE YEAR WILL ENTITLE THE PER-
soN SENDING US THE NAMES AND $2.50
To A SPLENDID LITHOGRAPH .OF THE
STATE CAPITOL or MICHIGAN, SIZE OF
SHEET 22x28 INCHES.

MR. CARVER AND THE PATENT BUSINESS.

We are unexpectedly favored by a com-
munication from an inventor. We are grati-
fied at this recognition from a class of our
fellow citizens who have done more than
any other to make America famous in every
land known to civilized man.

On our second page Mr. D. L. Garver has
endeavored to enlighten us upon our duties
as “an instructor of the farmer.” For this
laudable effort Mr. Garver, who has given
the last fifteen years to the “ inventing busi-
ness,” has our sincere thanks. That is twice
as long as we have been in “the instructor
for the farmer” business. From this fact we
conclude tbat he is twice as good at the “in-
venting” business as we are at the “instruc-
tor” business, and with that advantage on
his part we shall never tackle Mr. Garver as
an inventor. But in his communication
Mr. Garver having temporarily left the field
of the inventor and invaded our territory,
the domain of the “instructor,” we shall
have to talk back.

In our answer we shall be compelled to
follow our correspondent to some extent
with a simple denial of some of the state-
ments he has made. In his first sentence
he says that we “heap disgrace and
contumely upon inventors and owners
of patents,” and adds in the next,
“You call them about all the hard names
there is in the English language.” To this
charge we answer: Mr. Garver has not seen
and cannot find in the VISITOR a harsh or
unkind word or expression applied to inven-
tors as such. We believe and cheerfully
accord to the inventive genius developed
in this country the rapid advance that civili-
zation has made.

In every department of industry our fore-

fathers used about the same implements in
their old age that they did in early life.
Progress was slow, changes gradual. and
improvements forced their way through the
passiveness of usage and stubborness of pre-
judice. With un tiring perseverance the
inventor has revolutionized society and ex-
tended the conquests of civilization to all
parts of the earth, and for aught we know,
is at this moment devising ways and means
to explore the realms of light and darkness
that we have been taught to believe lie be-
yond the Jordan of death.

But the inventor has not always been a
success as a shrewd business man. With a
patent law forhis protection that in its de-
sire to protect, has left a door wide open for
the introduction of abuses, and these abuses
have followed and been inflicted not upon an
individual occasionally but upon whole com-
munities, not the people of one State but of
all the States. Theinventor has not usually
been the prosecutor and persecutor, but from
another class comes the intermediate harpy,
who has taken advantage of this law that

gives encouragement to rascals by present-
ing as game a multitude of people who may
have innocently violated its provisions. The
pecuniary value of the brain work of the
inventor has often been absorbed by men
more ingenious and dextrous than himself.

But we are getting too far away from Mr.
Garver. He says, “Let me suggest that you
teach your brother farmers to post themslves
better and there -will be no danger of their
being scooped in by sharpers, and teach them
honesty and there will be no danger of their
buying an infringing tool because they can
buy it a dollar cheaper.” A man who is an
inventor and has been trafiicking in patent
rights should not talk such nonsense as this
for it is too thin to deceive the veriest sim-
pleton. Mr. Garver knows very well that
patents are issued with such freedom by the
patent ofiilce that it is quite impossible for
any man to know any thing about whether

the article offered for sale in the market is
an infringement or not; and when submit-
ted to the courts for determination a revers-
al of a lower court decision is likely at any
time to occur and no one can be sure of their
case until the court of last resort is reached
which will take somewhere from three to
five years.

We might go on and show the impossibili-
ty on the part of a purchaser of determining
what he can safely buy without the hazard
of infringing upon the real or pretended
right, of some inventor or his assignee. The
drive well is an example. There are hun-
dreds of thousands of them in use. The own-
ers purchased in good faith and their right
to use remained unquestioned for years.
Now, claimants of ownership of the patent
covering these driven wells have appeared
all over the country, and demanded royalty
and what is worse have collected thousands
of dollars from purchasers who had paid
for the same well and the right to use
it years before. And it is still an open
question undecided by the highest tribunal
to which the question must come for final
determination.

Mr. Garver treats this matter as though
any farmer could determine the validity of
a patent only, “he has neglected to post
himslf.” He says “thousands of farmers
are too stingy to lay out money enough to
post themselves.” Of course our inventor
knows how to get posted, but the average
farmer not having the experience of an in-
ventor don’t know how to get “posted” ex-
cept by the aid of the courts, and when he
resorts to the courts he knows that the
knowledge he gets will cost more than the
invention is worth.

N ow Mr. Garver you may be a success as
an inventor, we hope you are, but in your
article you have uttered a great deal of non-
sense, that is hardly worth replying to. The
farmers of this country are friends of invent-
ors and promptly come forward, buy
and pay for the improved implements that
the inventive talent of their fellow citizens
have provided for their use. We all realize
that to the numerous inventions we are in-
debted for nearly all the conveniences and
luxuries that surround our everyday life and
make it so widely different from that of our
forefathers.

The right of ownership with all the ad-
vantages which ownership gives is cheer-
fully accorded to the inventor. But the val-
ue of an invention depends " largely iipoz-1
the demand for it. If no one buys the in-
vention the patentee makes no money-gets
no return for the property value of his in-
vention.

Mr. Garver says that .we “Advocate_th__g._t
the farmer should have a legal rightuto use
an invention without paying for it.” I566
thought the rest of our readers misunder-
stood what we say as Mr. Garver has, we
would quit this “Instructor” business at
once. We confess that we have not the
courage to attempt to make clear to Mr.
Garver our opinion on this subject or we‘;-
plain so that he can understand us and what
we have said. But we will ask our corre-
spondent a question or two.

Do not these few enlightened fellows who
“are not too stingy to lay out money enough
to post themselves” pay in full,not only the
cost of the implement purchased by them
but for the patentee’s right in the imple-
ment? Do not these other “stingy” fellows
who are not posted pay the same price ? Do
not all users buy these patented articles of
manufacturers and dealers? Will you please
tell us just how a farmer is to get posted so
that he can tell every time whether he safe-
ly buys the patented article he wishes to
use, and expects to pay the market price
for ?

If Mr. Garver had devoted half the space
he has taken in this tirade against us and
the farmers of the country, to explaining
how purchasers of patented articles are to
determine that with the purchase money
the right to use has also been obtained, he
might have earned the respect of our
readers.

We shall take pleasure in giving Mr. Gar-
ver space in our paper; not so much with
the expectation of deriving much valuable
information (if this is a specimen of his
learning and logic), as for amusement. He
slashes away so vigorously that we rather
enjoy his attack. We like his good, honest,
outspoken style, and are only sorry that he
has not read the VISITOR with more care.
There was no occasion for Mr. Garver to
make such a ridiculous display of his ignor-
ance. We come much nearer agreeing with
him than he supposes. We agree with him
in this, that the inventors are very useful
citizens; that inventors should have a
property right in their invention and be
protected therein. There is very general
agreement so far on all sides. The disagree-
ment comes in when we come to pass upon
the question who shall be liable as trespasser
upon the rights of the patentee. We are
quite willing that the manufacturer and
dealer shall remain liable and fight it out
with the patentee. Their chances of know-
ing what rights they have in the business
in which they engage are very much better
than the user. Before they invest their
money in the business they are likely to be-
come satisfied of their legal rights in the
premises. When farmers become manufac-
turers they should be held liable, but sim-
ply as users of articles found on the market

for which they have paid in full, we say
never. And we expect the protection tothe
innocent user which we have asked Con-
gress to grant will be granted at the next
session of,Congress.

We hope no candidate for Congress will
be elected who has not given a pledge to the
farmers of his district that he will do what
he can, if elected, to protect them, not from
inventors as such, but from that class of ras-
cals who are undertaking to recover asecond
payment for goods that have already been
paid for once by the user. -

____________._______
OUR VACATION.

More than a half century ago, when our
great State was a Territory, with a good repu-
tation for ague and shakes, fever and
swamps, my father left the land of “steady
habits,” and with a family of seven, sought
and found ahome in southwestern Michigan,
and there we have lived nearly all these
years.

After thirty-five years familiarity with
every variety of farm-life labor, wheth-
er wisely or not, we turned our
back upon the plow to find employment
in other fields. In the seventeen interven-
ing years we have not been idle. Miscella-
neous labors have engaged our attention
with but little respite. As our readers know
within three years we have seen something
of California, and last year a little of New
England. But in all the years since our
great State emerged from the cloud of its
early reputation in the days of our boyhood
until the other day, we had seen nothing
of Michigan north of Big Rapids.

Ashamed to say that we had no personal
knowledge whatever of the north half Lfthe
State, on Monday morning, the last day of
July, in a pouring rain, with wife and bag-
gage, we started northward on the Grand
Rapids division of the L. S. & M. S.railway,
ticketed through to Petoskey. The day was
certainly not good for haying or harvesting,
but was first-class for railway travel——cool
enough for comfort and with no dust to
annoy.

Although wheat at home was mostly in
the stack, except where here and therea
huge straw pile gave evidence that the steam
thresher had followed close on the heel of
the harvester, yet we had not gone far north
of Kalamazoo before we saw some wheat in
the shock, mostly set up in the good old-
fashioned Dutch way, in long open shock,
and as the rain continued not only through
that day but for the rest of the week and
longer, it is now too late to tell our readers
how it was affected. That way of shocking
wheat is perhaps good enough for good
weather if you only think so. But as we
shocked wheat in the round compact shock
of ten sheaves well covered with two more,
all the years of our farm life, we have a
lingering afl‘ection for that way of doing it.
And we are now quite sure that wheat out
early and carefully set up in round shock,
and covered and left undisturbed, fared
much better than that set up in open shock,
and handled over from day to day to get it
dry. When we get done with the VISITOR,
and go back to practical farming again, we
shall shock our grain in round shocks, just
as we used to do '

Although our first day out was rainy, and
this was the week so destructive to wheat
throughout the State, yet there was no ex-
cess of rain in the neighborhood of Petos-
key, or at points that we visited. Our first
stop was at Bay View—the great Methodist
resort or summer village of that denomina-
tion. It is but a mile north of Petoskey,
arrdasits name indicates it overlooks the
bay, Little Traverse by name, and is nestled
among the native trees on a terraced site
prepared by nature for some purpose of this
kind. '

Afine spring of excellent water on the
high land back of the village has been util-
ized by a system of water-works terminating
in a beautiful fountain in a park on the low-
er ground near the beach. This spring
seemed to me one of the strongest points
that the Bay View people can urge in favor
of their location. The camp grounds are
well selected, and the accommodations are
excellent. .

A program of meetings —religious, literary
and scientific-—is arranged each year for the
purpose of religious, moral and intellectual
improvement, and to break the monotony
and weariness that would come of a resort,
with no object but to get away from the
humdrum labor of business life.

From Bay View on Wednesday we went
on the good steamer Faxon to Charlevoix.
Aswe stepped ashore we met our friend
Bishop, of Kalamaaoo, and were heartily
welcomed to the Charlevoix resort, situated
about a mile from the village. Here we
found several Kalamazoo people occupying
cosy cottages and enjoying themselves in
various ways, as led by their tastes and
associations. This resort has some 40 or 50
cottages, some of them very fine. For sev-
eral miles along this lake shore nature seems
to have designed the face of the country for
this very purpose, but where the resort is
now built up, some vandal pioneer cut away
all the timber, leaving no refreshing shade
to attract and sooth the seeker after health,
rest or recreation. This want cannot at once
be supplied where this summer city is now
located, but 40 acres more land of the un-
broken forest has been purchased by‘ the
association, from which, if we invest in this

resort, we shall select our cottage site.

We took dinner at the Central Hotel,
where many cottage owners take their
meals, and after a stay of some three hours,
which we very much enjoyed, we boarded
the little steamer which daily plows the
waters of Pine Lake from Charlevoix to
Boyne City, at the head of the lake.

Taking passage in a noudescript vehicle,
that has at some time taxed the ingenuity of
some inventor (we hope he has a patent on
it), we were soon on our way to Boyne Falls,
eight miles distant. Four horses moved the
craft over the sandy mad about five miles
an hour, and we think did well. That we
had ajolly ride, if called on we shall under-
take to prove by Frank E. Durfee of Howell.
Boyne Falls is a hamlet unknown to fame, on
the G. R. & I. railway, and from there the
evening train returned us to Petoskey in
good time for a late supper.

The following day in company with some
Kalamazoo friends we determined to ex-
plore the inland water route to Mackinaw
via Cheboygan. Taking the north-bound
train an eight mile run brought us to Odin,
a railway station of the G. R. & I. and the
western port of Crooked Lake. We at once
boarded the little steamer, Northern Belle,
waiting at the dock, and as she steamed out
into the lake we looked back upon Odin.
Ifcivilization has done much for Odin it
must have been on paper, as only one cheap
board house broke the monotony of the
shore line where Odin is, and is to be.
Crooked Lake is in Emmett county as is
also Crooked river. which connects the lake
with Burt lake in Cheboygan county.
“Crooked river” is significant and tells its
own story. The Northern Belle, 14 feet by S0,
crept through its serpentine channel by
aid of good management, not always going
forward but always getting through. Five
miles of lake navigation and seven miles of
Crooked river brought us to Burt lake. into
which the little streamer boldly dashed as
though escaping from the toils of a serpent.
Through eight miles of Burt lake and we
enter Indian river under the Mackinaw Di-
vision of the Detroit & Bay city railway
bridge at Indian town. Through the navi-
gable waters of Indian river for five miles
and we enter Mullet lake. Steaming around
a point the Mullet House, a$-40,000 hotel
loomed up before us, all alone in its glory
and surrounded only by the native forest.
Though not employed to puflfany place we
cannot forbear saying that the Mullet House
with all the appointments of a first-claas
city hotel gave us the best dinner for the
money of any hotel at which we stopped
while away from home.

Returning to the steamer we struck
straight across the lake twelve miles to Che-
boygan river. A run down this river six
miles brought us to the city, a place of 3,-
500 inhabitants. Lumber is its chief inter-
est. At 6:30’ P. M. we went on board the
“Mary” bound for Mackinaw, eighteen
miles distant; had a good run through the
straights. Shouldn't want anything of the
"Man:/” in rough weather without it was
to navigate Crooked river. About 9 P. M.
our party were safely landed on the island of
Mackinaw and were soon registered at the
Island House.

After breakfast Friday morning, armed
with a letter of introduction from Hon. H.
G. Wells, of Kalamazoo, we started out in
quest of Col. Gurdon S. Hubbard, who has
no doubt more personal knowledge of
Michigan as it was in its primitive condi-
tion than any other man living. We found
him at the John Jacob Astor House with
staff in hand just ready to start out fora
day's work a mile away. He invited us to
walk with him. Mackinaw village is close
to the beach on a narrow strip between the
water and the foot of the bluff, and to go to
his work required a climb up the roadway of
about 130 feet to the top of the bluff or gen-
eral level of the island.

We had been told of the well preserved
condition of Mr. Hubbard, and by the time
we reached his work we believed it true.
Here is a man of so years who first came to
this island July 4, 1818, in the employ of
the American Fur company at the head of
which was John Jacob Astor. Ten years
later he bought of the company their entire
interest in the trade in Illinois and contin-
ued the business for some years alone. But
we have not time to rake up past history.
Col. Hubbard the last living employe of
the famous Americrn Fur Company, is
the owner of about eighty of the 2,221 acres
of Mackinaw Island and is now engaged in
clearing up streets, roadways and grand
avenues on this property which has been
surveyed, laid out and mapped for the finest
summer resort in all this country. Some
Kalamazoo gentlemen have taken hold of
the project with C01. Hubbard and with the
natural advantages which will occur to any
one visiting Mackinaw we are quite sure
that the scheme is practical and only re-
quires a little time to develops it.

Mr. Hubbard had a force of ten men at
work, and said he should expend about
$3,000 this season in street work on a plat of
ground where there is not a house,and never
has been since the wigwam of thelndian has
given way to the obtrusive white man. We
traversed the Island with Mr. Hubbard, vis-
iting places of interest, until hunger and
weariness brought us back to the hotel to
dinner.

In the afternoon we visited the Fort and

points of interest near by, until weary we
returned to the Astor House to examine half
a dozen business books of the Northwestern
Fur Company, that are kept in the ofiice of
the hotel for the inspection of the curious.
Turning to the first entry in the letter book,
we found it dated December 18, 1816, and
called for “5000 pounds of plug tobacco in
twists of four or five to the pound." Direct-
ed to Barton & Craig, Lexington, Kentucky.
There was the day book,journal.and ledger,
with accounts covering large transactions
that took months to complete what is now
done over the same territory in a few hours.

“Is could narrate much that interested
us, but our article is dragging out to such a
length that we forbear. Shall refer to Mack-
inaw some other day.

About five o’clock P. )1. we took a steam-
er for Point St. Ignace, on the Upper Penin-
sula. thence to Mackinaw City, taking the
train on time for Petoskey, where_we arrived
at nine P. )1. and registered at the Arling-
ton, after a hard but satisfactory day’a work.

The next day we took in Harbor Springs
which is a resort across the bay from Pe-
toskey and is mainly owned and occupied by
Lansing people. Like all other places it has
its advantages. The chief one we believe
that of occupying a narrow point of land
running out into the bay which gives the
place a good sea breeze, if there is any
breeze abroad.

The good people at all these resorts

seemedtobe having a good time, and as

they all hold together on this qustion, we are
bound to believe that these resorts in North-
ern Michigan are a good thing, well calcu-
lated to give health and strength to those in
need of rest and recreation, and innocent
amusement to those who like a few weeks
for this kind of life. Sunday was a big day
at Bay View and we attended the meetings
and heard some good talk from some good
talkers. Among the number, Mrs. Willard,
of Chicago. At 9 P. M. we took a sleeper for
Grand Rapids, and at 10:10 on Monday we
were in Kalamazoo ready for work, having
had our week’s vacation.

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RAILWAY PASSES, AND JUDICIAL AND LEGISLA-
TIVE OFFICERS.

WE have referred in former issues to the
odious practice of granting free passes on
the railroads to judges and members of the
legislature. VVe believe that this is a ques-
tion of sufficient magnitude to be seriously
considered in elections. It is of the utmost
importance that these officers should be per-
fectly free in their official relations. It is
not a mere private and personal matter that
ajudge or a representative is accustomed to
accept valuable presents at stated intervals
from corporations that are always selfishly
interested in gaining a corrupt influence
over these men who are thus receiving their
gifts. Such men stand in a relation to the
public so delicate that any influence what-
ever that may be gained by the corporations
by such means, must be prejudical to the
people. It is known that the excess of
power now in the hands of such corpora-
tions is the overshadowing danger to the
liberty and prosperity of the republic, and
that this dangerous power is largely depend-
ent upon corrupt control of legislative bod-
ies, obtained by means precisely analogous
to this vicious system of free passes. Every
good citizen should set his seal of disap-
proval upon this unblushing bribery of pub-
lic officials which is poisoning the very
fountains of justice and law. What would
be thought if some business man constantly
before the courts in litigated cases, should
take the liberty to supply the judge and his
family with flour for the year, or coal, or
house rent free of charge, as an appropri-
ate courtesy? The judge would deserve im-
peachment who would accept such pre-
tended tokens of regard. Yet he thinks
nothing of accepting important and valua-
ble presents, suspiciously similar to retain-
ers, from corporations that are litigants in
his court. Now it is perfectly well known
that these corporations do expect some re-
turn for their outlay, and there cannot be
any return that is not corrupt and dishonest
in its nature. We insist that our courts and
legislatures should not be open to the suspi-
cion of such influences. An annual pass is
not a light favor. Of course it is insignifi-
cant in comparison with the imperial gifts
which these same corporations are accus-
tomed to receive at the hands of legislators
in their employ. Such employers are pro-
fessional receivers and not givers of good
gifts, and their bribes are dangerous to the
interests of the people.

THE Kalamazoo Publishing Company
have attached to their large job press on
which the VISITOR is printed, a folding ma-
chine. This complicated ingenious con-
trivance not only folds the paper as fast as
printed but pastes and cuts the sheet leav-
ing it complete in book form. This number
gives proof of the completeness and ex-
cellence of the work. We‘ think our readers
will all bear witness to the excellent me-
chanical work done on the VISITOR
by this publishing company, and will ap-
preciate the enterprise that adds so much
to the value of the paper as we now send it

to them.
____________________

WE are indebted to Secretary Garfield for
his carefully prepared report of the fruit
prospects of Michigan. The Pomological
Society has the right man for secretary.


 

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1ss2

A DAY too late for the VISITOR of August
15, the news came to us of the death of Mrs.
Luce, wife of Cyrns G. Luce, Master of the
State Grange. This sad fact has no doubt
come to the knowledge of most of our
readers ere this, through the newspapers of
the State.

There are few members of the Order in
Michigan who had not been apprized of the
critical health of Sister Luce for more than a
year. Her condition has not only confined
Worthy Master Luce the most of the time
to his home, but the constant watchfuluess
and anxiety of a devoted husband, added to
the labor and business responsibilities of a
busy life, has enforced a continued wearing
mental and physical strain upon him, alike
exhausting and painful.

To the following announcement we will
only add the hope that Brother Luce will,
with the lapse of time, which is the great
healer of human sorrow and restorer of hu-
man hopes and energies, again rally for the
duties of life which lie before him.

 

Julia A. Luce.

It is with sadness that we annoiince to
our Brother and Sister Patrons the death of
our dear Sister Luce, the wife of our Worthy
Master of the State Grange, which occurred
at 9 P. M., Aug. 13.

The event was not unexpected, for our sis-
ter had been an invalid for many years, and
for many months has been confined to her
house, much of the time a great sufferer.

Yet we find, when conscious that the
great shadow has fallen, and the sweet
spirit has departed, that we are bowed in
afiiiction.

Julia A. Dickinson was born at Amherst,
Mass, Sept. 21, 1829. When fourteen years
of age she united with the Congregational
church . The dear Savior to whom she then
gave her young heart has ever been her
refuge and a present help in her days of af-
fiiction. She was a faithful, consistent
Christian through all these years.

She was married Aug. 29, 1849, to Cyrus
G. Luce, who with two sons and two
daughters now mourn her loss.

She wasa charter member of Gilead Grange,
was deeply interested in the work of the Order
and when her health would permit, was al-
ways present at its meetings. Once during
her long and painful illness, she was carried
to the Grange hall in her easy chair and re-
mained during the entire session. The kind
attention and sympathy manifested by all
the members found a warm place in her
heart and was a source of comfort to her in
the long days and months of her suffering.

To know sister Luce was to love her.
Genial, warm hearted, cordial in her greet-
ing, patient, cheerful, hopeful in affliction,
seeing light through darkness, drawing
sunshine from clouds. Truly in her ex-
ample she has left a rich legacy for us all.

From the extensive acquaintance and
sincere respect for the deceased and for her
family, a very large concourse of people were
in attendance at her funeral.

The services were conducted by Rev. J. R.
Bonney of the Congregational church, as-
sisted by Rev. D. 0. Ball of the Methodist
church, who recited an original poem which
we append.

As the light of the home circle has gone
out with the faithful wife and mother, so
may the presence of her God remain to
guide and sustain them in their hours of
loneliness and sorrow. H. F. 0.

To the ltfemory of Mrs. Julia A. Luce, by
Rev. D. 0. Ball.

Thou sufiering saint, thy work is done
(The work to thy probation given) ;
A full reward for all thy toil
Awaits thee at the gate of heaven.
Thy Master-crown thee—as crown He will-
The saints who die of Christ possessed,
And in that world of joy immortal
Thy blood-washed soul shall be at rest:
N ot the dull rest which wearied limbs require
While traveling rugged paths below,
But rest with thy Bedeeme'r—-yes, with Him
Who washed thy soul from sin,
And gave thee heart to love Him and His work.
Thy rest shall be the sweet employ of angels
And the blood-washed throng, whose mission is
To guard the footsteps of Earth's sorrowing ones,
And teach thorn how to sufier—
How to fight the light of faith,
And win. at last. the unfading crown ;
For heaven is richer, and joys are brigher,
When shared by others of like precious faith.
Hence thy restful work shall add new lustre
To thy brow and thy never-fading crown,.
As endless cycles roll,
Amidst the dazzling glories of thy heavenly home.
We incase thy body. and lay it in its bed of clay,
And plant the rosebud at thy head:
We call this death, as seen by B.eason’s glimmer-
ing light,
But by the light of heaven,
In which thy soul now shines,
’Tis but the gateway to eternal life.

WE find on our table the Patrons’ Rural,
a new Grange monthly published at Roches-
ter, Vt.--A. Messer, editor and manager. In
size it is small, reminding us of the first
volume of the Vrsrroa and like the Vrsrrorz
-of 1875 its typography and make-up is in its
favor, and we hope it may resemble it in an-
other respect in the near future——that it may
have the patronage which will enable it to
take on greater size. N o Patron of Vermont
does his duty that does not take the Patrons’
Rural and pay for it in advance.

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TEE GRANGE VISITOR.

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dnmmunintatiunt.

Texas.
JACKSONVILLE, Texas, Aug. 16, 1882.

Bro. Cobb :—I am here waiting for the
train to take me to Hallville in Harrison
County. where I am to speak to-morrow,
and will pen a few lines for your readers.

I left home on Monday, the 7th, and en-
gaged passage direct for Belton, Texas, to
meet with the State Grange of this State,
which commenced at that place on the 8th.
and remained in session until Saturday, the
12th. I came by the C. B. & Q. road to Han-
nibal, Missouri, thence by the Missouri Pa-
cific, via Sedalia, Missouri; Ft. Scott, Kan-
sas; through the Indian Territory to Deni-
son, Texas; thence through Dallas, Corsi-
cana, Bremond, Waco and Temple to Bel-
ton, where I arrived about 12 o'clock noon
of Thursday, the 10th, having traveled near-
ly 1,400 miles in about three days time, aver-
aging about twenty miles an hour for the
whole distance. I changed cars at Chicago,
Hannibal, Sedalia, Deuison, Bremond,
Waco, McGregor and Temple; but had I
taken the morning train at Chicago, and a
ticket over the Ft. VVorth division of the
Missouri Pacific road I could have reached
Waco, Texas, with no change between Se-
dalia Missouri and that city. As we passed
through Southern Kansas and a portion of
the Choctaw nation in the night I was una-
ble to see much of the country. Between
three and four o’clock in the morning, as I
lay in my berth with my ‘face turned to the
cast, I saw light through my window, and
removing the curtain, looked out upon what
appeared to be one vast and almost unbrok-
en prairie, extending as far as the eye could
reach, with here and there a low scrubby
tree, or bunch of bushe-. A little to the
south I could see what appeared to be hills
in the distance covered with timber. Soon
we passed an elevation of peculiar shape,
somewhat resembling those in the valley of
the North Platte, and had the appearance of
having been formed by the wind upon drift-
ing sand. The thought flashed across my
mind that instead of rich prairie, we were
passing over a portion of what was laid down
in our old school geographies as the “Great
American Desert.” This idea was strength-
ened as the light increased, and instead of
luxuriant grass, the plains were covered with
coarse weeds, with a little grass struggling
for life among them. Soon we passed a
spot of an acre or two, which had been
mowed. This was the first indication of a
settlement, or that any considerable quanti-
ty of grass was growing among the weeds.
Thesun was now coming up, as if out of the
horizon, lighting up the plains and forming
a scene of great beauty. Soon the whistle
olew, and the train stopped at a station
called Gibson. A few shanties were all that
comprised the town, and both Whites and
Indians were seen.

Onward sped the train, passing through a
belt of small poor timber, across a stream and
again over the plains, with no further signs
of animal or human life, until we reached
Muskogee, a town said to contain 500 inhabi-
tants. The railroad company have shops
here, and many white men in the railroad
employ are here with their families. The
country is evidently better as you go farther
south, and we found some cultivated fields
with fair corn growing, and some vegeta-
bles. Occasionally a small cotton patch was
to be seen, some of which looked quite prom-
ising. But the Indians as a rule are evi-
dently not enthusiastic farmers. Some of
them are engaged in stock raising, which is
more in keeping with their Indian ways
and habits. In fact, I am clearly of the
opinion that stock raising is the only busi-
ness that can be prosecuted with success at
present, although my first impressions of
the country were somewhat modified on a
closer examination of the soil, and by talking
with white men who live in the Territory.
The soil is generally sandy, and in many
places quite thin, but there is some which
appears to be good prairie, and some fair
oak opening land, similar in many respects
to the oak lands of our own State, but to my
understanding greatly inferior in quality.
The southern portion of the county is near-
ly all of this kind of land. The elevations
which I observed in the morning and
thought they were made of drifting sand, I
learned were really of a hard formation, and
evidently caused by the washing away of
the earth around them. I was also told that
by mowing the coarse weeds on the plains a
few times, the prairie grass would come in
and make good pastures and fair meadows,
but when the soil is once plowed, the grass
takes a final leave, and noxious weeds occu-
py the land. N o tame grasses have yet been
found to take the place of the native grass
when that is once destroyed. But few settle-
ments are to be seen, and but few Indians at
the stations. They generally adopt the
dress of the whites, and aim at civilization,
but it is said that the enterprise among
them is mainly confined to the "half
breeds,”. many of whom are found there.
The laws governing the tenure of real estate
in the territory are well calculated to encour-
age this improvement in the race. White
men cannot take up and occupy land in the
country. but Indians may occupy and hold
all that they will fence, and no one can mo-

lest them orjoin fences, or occupy land with-
in 440 yards of their fence. They cannot sell
or lease their land, but they and their heirs
may occupy it for all time, and rent it, but
only for a short time. The land has not
been surveyed, and there is no law prescrib-
ing how lines shall run. Em,-losures may
be in any shape that the occupant may de-
sire, and he can hold all that he will fence,
if it is a whole township. and can control
440 yards outside ol‘his fence, all around it.
Now, when a white man takes an Indian
woman for his wife he becomes an Indian,
within the meaning and operations of the
law, and consequently has the same right to
fence and occupy land that an Indian has.

This great inducement made to white
men to settle in the Territory and improve
the race, is often taken advantage of by en-
terprising stock men and cow boys. White
men cannot herd cattle upon the plains or in
the territory unless they hire enclosed land;
but may drive them through the Territory.
This restriction is often taken advantage of,
and men will start their herds from Texas
early in the spring, and not reach the north-
ern line until their cattle are ready for the
market in the fall, and still drive them on
the way, every day. So it will be seen that
civilization among these Indians is progress-
ing, and that they have already learned
enough of the intricacies of law making,
like their highly educated and enlightened
white brethren, to enact laws, which legal-
ize the very acts which the law was intended
to prevent.

Upon the whole, I am of the opinion that
this home which has been set apart for the

‘red man, has been greatly overrated by those

who have written about it.

HALLVILLE, Texas. Aug. 18.

Again at the depot waiting for the train,
I will improve the time in continuing my
former letter:

Crossing Red river, the name of which is
taken from the color of its water. we left the
Indian country and entered the “Lone Star
State,” to which so many of our most enter-
prising northern people have emigrated and
helped to make it what it now is, one of the
best and most prosperous states in the
Union.

After crossing the river we passed through
a lightly timbered country, with a thick
undergrowth. and reached the city of Deni-
son, containing about -5,000 inhabitants.

The monotony of the last 250 miles was
broken by the rush upon the platform, the
clamor of hackmen and the ringing voices
of newspaper boys and fruit peddlers. There
was a great demand for newspapers and
fruit, especially the latter, which consisted
of peaches, pears, apples, figs and melons.
A nickel would buy more luscious peaches
than one could eat, and a dime was the price
of a watermelon for two or three to make a
full meal of.

Deuison is a lively city, located in the
midst of a beautiful and rich farming coun-
try. Here we changed for the Houston &
Texas Central, one of the roughest roads it
has ever been my lot to travel over; but
through country that has only to be seen to
be admired. Rich, rolling prairie, with
belts of timber along the ravines and water-
courses, dotted over with farm cottages, and
varigated with fields of cotton, corn, and
stubble land from which the wheat and oats
had been harvested, extend as far as the eye
can reach in every direction.

From the best information that I could
obtain, the country between Deuison and
Waco, including the valley of the Brazos
is really the most desirable portion of the
State. Improved farms in this section are
held at prices ranging from twenty to forty
dollars an acre. The eastern portion of the
State is timbered, principally with oak and
pine, mixed with some other varieties of
inferior timber. The oak and pine is valua-
ble and lumbering is one of the chief indus-
tries of the country. The soil of the
prairies does not differ materially from that
of northern prairies, but the subsoil is a red-
ish clay. The soil of the timbered landis
generally sandy with red clay subsoil, al-
thougha rich clay loam soil is often to be
found. The sandy soil seems to be too
light for profitable farming, but it is claimed
to be the best for cotton, and equally as good
for corn and fruit as the heavier soil; and
judging from the growing crops, I am in-
clined to the opinion that such is the case,
excepting, perhaps, the prairie soil.

Farming is not thorough as a rule, or
the operations of the farms very much sys-
tematized. The soil is plowed shallow,
with small plows, which merely scarify
the surface without covering up the heavy
growth of weeds which everywhere spring
up after a crop is removed, or the cultiva-
tion of ,a crop ceases, leaving them upon
the surface to clog the barrow and cultiva-
tor, unless raked up and burned before the
seeding.

Cotton and corn are the principal crops,
and the former receives the most attention.
Wheat and cats are cultivated to a consid-
erable extent in some portions of the State,
and I hear reports of from sixty to seventy-
five bushel of cats and as high as forty of
Wheat having been raised to the acre this
season. Corn is planted with but one ker-
nel in a hill. The rows are about four feet
apart, and the stalks from two to three feet
apart in the rows. The stalks are not cut
but the leaves are stripped ofi' and saved for
winter fodder. About twenty bushels of
corn to the acre is said to be an average crop.

Cotton is also planted in hills and rows
and cultivated the same as corn, although
it takesa much longer time to grow the
crop. The plants stand from two to five
feet high. the branches covering the ground.
The blossoms are first white, but change to
red before withering and drying up. When
the cotton is matured, the balls burst open,
and the cotton expands and turns out as
white as snowballs. White and red blos-
soms, and matured cotton are to be seen on
the same stalk. Picking is done by hand,
and commences as soon as any considera-
ble amount of matured cotton appears, and
continuesasit opens until all is secured.
The picking lasts several months as a field
has to be picked over several times. Pick-
ihg has already commenced along the Bra-
zos river. A bale to the acre is called a good
crop, half abale a medium crop and less
than thata poor crop. A bale weighs about
500 pounds and brings in the market about
ten cents a pound.

The labor is generally performed by the
freedmen, although white labor is said to be
preferred. and is much more reliable when
it can be obtained. The freedmen general-
ly rent the land and work it for a share of
the crop. When hired by the farmers they
receive from fifteen to twenty dollars a
month. The demand for laborers is greater
than the supply. This is the general com-
plaint among farmers, and in many in-
stances, they could not get the labor to prop-
erly work their land and cultivate their
crops.

The present has been a very favorable
season for the farmers in this state". There
has been an abundance of rain and conse-
quently crops are generally good. I hear
fears expressed that there may yet be too
much rain for maturing and gathering the
cotton crop. '

Where farmers have given attention to
fruit culture they have generally suceeded,
although apples are not abundant, nor is the
flavor or keeping qualities equal to those
grown in higher latitudes, but I am fully
convinced that there is not a better peach
growing country to be found anywhere. As
yet no disease or insects have appeared to
injure either the trees or the fruit. The
earlier varietier ripen about the first of May
and the late ones do not disappear until
November, making a continuous peach
season of six months’ duration. Pears and
figs are raised, but not extensively in sec-
tions visited by me. Wild fruit is abund-
ant in the timbered sections, especi-
ally grapes, but I have not seen a vin-
yard or improved varieties under culti-
vation. Irish potatoes do well but will not
keep, and their place is supplied by the
sweet potato and yarn

There is but little cold weather in winter.
Sometimes the ground will freeze a few
inches deep, and occasionally is whitened
with snow. The spring and autumn are said
to be delightful. The summers are warm,
and sometimes uncomfortably so, but the
nights are cool and pleasant.

The water is not as gooi as that in our
own State. The streams are turbid and most
of them dry up in dry seasons. Water for
domestic use is generally obtained from
open wells, into which the heat penetrates,
and no doubt the surface water mixes. But
this difliculty will be partially, if not wholly
overcome, when driven wells and tubes are
made to penetrate below the clay and sand
into the gravel, where it is said fine, cool
water is always found.

Texas is comparatively a new State, yet it
is rapidly developing, and with its broad
cattle and sheep ranches, its fertile soil,
bountiful timber and extensive mines, it

will compare favorably in its resources with
any other State.
J. J. WOODMAN.

A CORRESPONDENT asks if he must join
the Farmers’ Protective Association of Iowa
in order to buy barbed wire of the Associa-
tion at its reduced price. We published two

articles in our last issue taken from the Iowa
Grange Visitor about barbed wire and that
is all that we know about the matter. The
article on the fifth page reads as though the
purchaser of wire must become a member.

 

THE article from the Husbandman on the
second page, upon the brazen pertinacity of
otfice seekers in the Empire State, is evi-

dence of the need of inde ndent voters.
Do not fail to read it careful y and consider
the method of reform sugge sted.

 

Naval cadet.

To whom it may concern .-

Having been called upon as re resentative
in Congress from the Third istrict, of
Michigan, to recommend a candidate for
appointment to the United States Naval
Academy, at Annapolis. Md., I have deter-
mined to select the nominee by competitive
examination. Candidates must be over four-
teen and under eighteen years of age, at
leastfive feet in height, physically sound,
well formed and of robust constitution and
well versed in reading, writing. spelling,
arithmetic, geography and English grammar

Every such candidate, who has been a
bona fide resident of the district for the past
two years, is invited to appear for examina-
tion at the common council rooms, in the
Champion block. in the city of J ackson, on
Thursday, the 14th day of September next,
at 10 o'clock, a.m. The successful candidate
must report at Annapolis, Md., on the 22d
day of September next. The examining
committee will be announced hereafter.

All newspapers in the district ‘are respect-
fully requested to copy.

EDWARD S.LACl-JY
Charlotte, Mlch., Aug. 22, 1882.

THE State picnic, at Lansing on the 16th:
was not so great a success as we had hoped,
owing to several untoward circumstances.
The railroads, though willing to give excur-
sion rates, could not give special trains so
that people who desired to go could make
the round trip in a day. Again, the bad weath-
er had not only damaged wheat and made
farmers feel poor, but delayed work so that
many could not leave their farms for a day
of recreation. The morning was threaten-
ing and the day rainy. But in spite of all
these dlscouragements about 1000 people
were on the ground. Brother Brigham of
Ohio was on hand but for want ofa well de-
fined understanding of the program could
not delay his speech to the hour of the pro-
gram. He made a capital speech. commenc-
ing at 11 o'clock, hurridly ate a picnic din-
ner and left at once to meet an engagement
elsewhere. Brother Jones of Indiana did
not come. Aftera basket lunch the band
called the crowd to the stand. Brother Hol-
brook delivered an address of welcome
which, in the absence of Brother Luce, was
responded to by Brother Holloway. The
Lansing Glee Club and the band gave the
best of songs and music. Brother Thomas
Moore made an earnest speech of an hour-
brokeu in two by a pouring rain which
caused a general stampede to file grand
stand. After the speech of Brother Moore,
His Excellency, Gov. Jerome, who had been
present all the afternoon, was called out and
gave us a talk of twenty minutes that was

well received. Another impromptu speech
by Gen. Cutcheon closed the work of the
day, which, though not the picnic that we
talked of having, yet, all things ciueidered,
was pronounced a success.
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Fruit at the South.

J. T. 00/)b:——I saw on the St. Louis mar-
ket the greatest lot of large tine Peaches
that I ever saw on any market, Late Craw-
fords Chinese Cling and other kinds about
four inches in diameter, other kinds of fruit
very abudant, and fine Plums in perfection.
The Apple and Peach trees in the southern
half of Illinois are loaded with fruit, whilst
the northern part has but little.

This State is the flutest thing I ever saw,
and mud without bottom in a wet time.

Corn will not be half a crop, other crops
good. Fraternally,

E.\nIONs BUELL.

Mt. Vernon, Illinois August :33, 1882.

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Free Passes.

At a regular meeting of Schoolcraft
Grange, No. 8, the preamble and resolutions
adopted by the Kalamazoo County Pomona
Grange at its June meeting in relation to
free passes to legislative and judicial oflicers
were presented, discussed and unanimously
adopted, and we think our voting members
will bear it in mind on election day.

GEo. V. Tow:~:sENn, Sec’y.

Schoolcraft, August 14, 1882.

The St. Joseph Co. Grange resolved at its
June meeting to support no man for olilce
who we have any reason to believe will
accept a free pass from railroad oificials.

S. H ANGEVINE, Sec’y.

Mendon, August 23, 1882.

’ As recommended by Kalamazoo County
Grange the preamble and resolutions relat-
ingto free passes were brought up for dis-
cussion at the regular meeting of Ottawa
Grange, N o. 30 and adopted by the same.

MARY E. Srcxnns, Sec’y.

J ohnstown Grange, N o. 127, in session
Aug. 19, took action on the resolution re-
lating to free passes as set forth by the Kal-
amazoo County Pomona Grange at its June
meeting, and adopted the same.

Mas. A. H. RICE, Sec’y.

Dowling, Aug. 21, 1882.

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

 

The next meeting of Hillsdale Pomona
Grange will be held at the Acme Grange
hall in the township ofCamden on the first
Wednesday in September, with the follow-
iug program: Essay by the Worthy Master.
Question: Does college education foster idle-
ness and extravagance? Bro. T. W. Bene-
dict.

Select reading by Sister Young, of Wood-
bridge.

Q,uestion—-What constitutes a good educa-
tion? Sister H. L. Disbro.

Select reading by Bro. S. Houghe .

N. T. Brockway, Sec’y.

Allen, Aug. 1, 1882.

The next meeting of the Manistee District
Pomona Grange, No. 21, will be held at
Sherman on the First Tuesday in October,
commencing at two o'clock, P. M.

Fraternally yours,

B. L. DEAN.

Cleon. Aug. 21, 1882.

PICNICS.

The annual picnic of Oakland Pomona
Grange No. 5, will be held in E. 0. Her-
rington’s grove, Four Towns, on Thursday,
August 31st, 1882. Postponed from August
24th to 31st on account of Supervisor’s pic-
nic. Address by H. H. Colvin. of Pontiac.

E. C. HERRINGTON, Committee
W. E. CARPENTER, } of
C. E. DEWEY, Arrangements.

Four Towns, Aug. 11, 1882.

A Grange picnic will be held on the fair
grounds, near Paw Paw, Thursday, Sept. 7.
The address of the day will be given by Hon.
Thos. F. Moore, of Adrian, Michigan. A
general invitation is extended to all farmers
and farmers’ friends, to attend the picnic of
the season. Bring along your dinner and
enjoy the music and the speaking. Every-
thing free. By order of committee.

D. WoonMAN 2d, Master.

0. B. CHARLES, Secretary.

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one season visions.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1852.

jadier’ fiipaqtmrqt.

THE RUMSELLERS’ REFRAIN AND A REPLY.

(From the ladies of Calhoun county, recited by Sis-
ter Perry Mayo at the Pomona Grange, No. 3.)

Go back to your homes you are out of your place
In a gilded saloon ’tis a shame and disgrace

For a woman to thus put herself into the way,
Go back to your closets to weep and to pray

We are peaceable men to the world be it known
If you quarrelsome women will but let us alone.

Go back to your parlors wash lamp-mats and lace,
Study etiquette, elegance, fashion and grace,

But don’t trouble your head about justice and right,
Be patient and passive, and keep out of sight,

If rumsellers ruin your husband and home

If your heart breaks with sorrow or turns into stone
Our funds are invested please let us alone.

Go back to your kitchen strive early and late,
Economize, plan, spread the table and plate.

Then if one cc meth not, sit down quiet and wait,
Yes sit down in the shadows, and hide the time's

‘flight.

We will send him to you at the turn of the night
And as good fellows term it, delightfully tight.

He will curse you for waiting, he will scorn all
your tears,

And he’ll sleep while you watch as the slow dawn

appears.
If your children should starve, or your poor brain
go crazed

The world need not pity nor look on amazed

There is a refuge for you, an almshouse for them
But please do not molest us——we’re peace-loving mc ii.

‘ We have called you by all the hard names we could

think,
We have let your sors in the back doorway to drink
We have mixtures unheard of on low hidden
shelves,
And will see that they drink it, you can't help your-
selves.
You may bring in petitions well-worded and strong,
With a host of bold signers both honored and long,
They have no more effect than an idle street song,
You can’t oppose strength by a woman's weak rea-
son,
Business men are our best f:riends—— so let us alone.

Go back to your homes nurse your little ones there
Give them holy examples and when they bid fair
The fondest of hopes in your bosom will burn,

And when from your fold to the great world they

turn
We will spread our fine meshes, we'll ensnare their
young feet;

We will gather them in from the farm and the street
But don't make any fuss, don’t create any riot,
St. Paul bade the women of Corinth “keep quiet.”
Your words are as seed sown on fiiigtest stone
We've paid for our licenses now, let us alone.

rm: ai:i>Lv.

When the last dcor is shut, when the last bar is
closed,

W hen the last petty wrong and defraud are exposed

When the hideous head of the snake of the still

Is crushed to its death neath our heel, then we will.

Whe ii the good Lord shalllwhisper “your labors are
done.”

When our spirits beyond the bright river have flown,

When the dust hides our faces——then we'll let you
alone.

The Social [Position of the Farmer's Family—What
It Is and What It Should Be.

‘ [ Read before St. Joseph County Grange by Mrs. S.

C. Angevine.]

In this age of progression we have gained
many steps socially since the pilgrim fathers
braved the tumultuous waves of an angry
deep, and safely landed on our virgin soil
Since then war has; devastated, white winged
peace has folded her pinions about us, and
the bitter years of adversity are followed by
the bounding wave of prosperity. Although
our progress has successfully developed much
that is essential for us socially, we need read-
ing, thinking, intelligent man- and womanhood.
As women ,we think too little of what occurs
outside the kitchen walls, with no broader
ideas than getting enough to eat and drink
and suitableflanparel for the body. It is an im-
perative duty to know how to cook good
wholesome food and keep our homes neat and
orderly, but wethave no right to bow as slaves
to rich pastry {and preserves. and we would
grow stronger mentally and physically were
they banished from our tables,and in their stead
oatmeal andggrahamk We should not forget
the injunction that “we do not hve by bread
alone, but by every word that proceedeth from
the mouth of God.” Each talent that He has
given us, our love for the beautiful ‘the fleeting
beauties of Spring, the lovely radiance of Sum-
mer, the [purple bloom and dusky shadows

glorifying the brow of richly laden Autumn.

the snowy.fglittering purity of Winter; these
are words proceeding from the mouth of God."
Sh all welturn a|_deaf ear to this command and
not choose the higher life? Men labor for
wealth from earlyfdawn till evening shadows
fall andfiwit-h atthoroughly tired body cannot
say as Emerson, that “Wealth is mental.
wealth is moral.” Men necessarily are not
as secluded in theirllives as women. We with
them have the blessed privilege of church and
occasionally a social gathering. They have
had theirdodges, clubs, and political gather-
ings, froml time immemorial where they
meet and (exchange ideas that brighten the
monotony of every dav life. The mar-
keting of farm products call them
from their homes where they meet
their fellowman in social converse, breathe the
pure life-giving air and not that engendered
wit hin the cook stove. Many of us have had
the advantages of our free school education.
and undoubtedly sometime in hfe have enter-
tained aspirations that would elevate the mind

» progress.

 

and fit us for the higher walks of life; but it
has been dissipated by this ceaseless monotony
of daily work, a perfect treadmill existence.
It is not that 1 would deny the dignity of
labor. but that and that alone makes life odi-
ous. Without labor our beautiful world would
soon be desolated. This extract expresses all:
“And now for two short years let the farmer's
heart be filled with the pernicious thought
that labor is disgrace. Let grain be un-
thrashed; flocks and herds without a keeper.
Let rust consume the plow, the soil unturned.
For two short years let the hand of the sower
be stayed and the reaper gather no sheaves.
All is changed. The nation's march of proud
prosperity is the tottering step of falling
empire. The halls of learning, the schools of
art, resound with empty hollow echoes.

Institutions of charity crying for help, find
none. No new alter is built to a gracious God,
nor is word of life sent to heathen lands. The
village in the valley is desolate and lone.
Cities are vast mad houses. Shop, mill and
factory, each are still. The explorer has gone
to lands whence no traveler returns. The
mariner’s song is hushed. From sea, from
land, there comes no sound save the doleful
cry for bread, and lumentation for the dead.
The streets are filled with ghastly forms-
children, wives, mothers, dear ones. all cry-
ing for bread. Brother is against brother, par-
ent against child, child against parent. Every
home has its dead and dying. The whole
earth is one dreadful, ghastly, sickening scene
of death.” Such is the picture, in colors true,
which would be the sure. the inevitable result
did the farmer everywhere cease his labors.
The benison of our nation as faimers, farmers’
wives and children, should be evoked and rest
devotedly on the heads of the founders of our
grand and noble Order. They will not pass

off this stage of life and be forgotten. They
have done a great and lasting good
for which we hold their names in

memory dear. In giving this Order existence
they placed farmers, their wives and children
as equals socially and intellectually, in all its
privileges. To-day we are gladly welcomed
within these doors and in the absorbing inter-
est of the duties intrusted to us, pleasure of
meeting brothers and sisters, and wise instruc-
tions received, we for the time forget home
cares. Willing hearts and hands can so estab-
lish our social position here that our assuming
word will be—success. Latent talents are
called into requisition by the interest engen-
dered in the many subjects under discussion.
Duties should not be evaded, for in their ful-
fillment lies the fourfold power of enhancing
our social position. Some happy talent is
given us all. One talent if thoroughly culti-
vated and exercised has the power and worth
of many shallow faculties. We are here given
the fortunate opportunity to test these talents,
and if we are thorough-going, ardent, and sin-
cere, we will succeed. Much has been gained
but the future with its many golden
opportunities bids fair to make the so-
cial position of the farmer’s family
nearer what it should be. We toil but we
must also take time to read, to think, to keep
pace with this advancing age. Good books,
magazines and papers, should be a part of our
lives. Their influence were it ours to trace is
magical. They send the light of knowledge
abroad over our fair land, hold in sway the
many, many vices and bring cheer and com-
fort ,to those in pain and sorrow. Petrarch
says. “I have friends whose society is delight-
ful to me; they are persons of all countries,
and of all ages; distinguished in war, in coun-
cil and in letters; easy to live with, always at
my command. They come at my call, and re-
turn when I desire them. They are never out
of humor. and they answer all my questions
with readiness. Some present in review be-
fore me the events of past ages; others reveal
to me the secrets of nature. Theseteach me
how to live and those how to die; these dispel
my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me
by their sallies of wit; and some there are who
prepare my soul to suffer everything, to de-
sire nothing, and to become thoroughly ac-
quainted with itsolf. In a word, they open the
door to all the arts and sciences. As a reward
of such great services, they require only a
corner of my little house, where they may be
safely sheltered from the depredations of their
enemies. In fine, I carry them with me into
the fields, the silence of which suits them bet-
ter than the business and tumult of cities.”
We can reach a fair degree of culture if no
day is permitted to pass without adding some-
thing to our stock of knowledge, and the ag-
gregate of the accumulation will finally be
surprising. Encourage social gatherings, be-
cause when isolated and disinclined to asso-
ciate for mental improvement we retard social
Give the children good, practical
educations, for thereby has our country been
clothed with honor and success. Teach them
to love good books and papers, thus gleaning
new and useful ideasand gathering crumbs of
knowledge, fitting them for the useful life
awaiting them. Music and flowers should not
be forgotten in our homes. Flowers have their
silent but refining influence, and in their cul-
tivation they teach us their language of love.
Music is soothing to the sensitive nature, re-
fining to all, and binds families together in
chains of harmony.

“When God once bade each radiant constellation
Above our darkened earth to brightly shine,

K ind heaven gave to still life’s vast commotion
The gift of music, with its charm divine.

Thi ice hallowed art, thy glorious reign began
Amid the splendor of the world’s young day,

And long as joy shall gladden the heart of man
Wilt thou retain thy all-mspiring sway.

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Entrancing music, thine’s a holy mission,l
When offering solace in the hour of trial,

Or rendering more sublime the heart's dew otion,
By anthems pealing through some minster aisle.

While time, with fleeting wing, shall circle round,
Will hearts expand to notes of joyous mirth,

God's trumpet shall at last with lofty sound
Proclaim majestically the doom of earth.”

Woman’s Rights.

Bro. Cobb .-—In the \'1.-iroi: of Auzust 1.3
a writer quotes the resolution subinitteil May
15, and then goes on to say that such :1 law
would "lessen n1uii's ini.-linzition to 1n:n‘i'_v and
become the head of u. ftnnily, and would slack-
cn his busine.-ss €llt6l‘1»I‘lS€ by dividing the re-
sponsibility of riiuiiitaiiiiiig the family with
the wife.“ Now why-should it lessen nnm'.~'
inclination to m;u‘i'y 2* [The resolution in
question says nothing about the hand of the-
fiiniily]. And if the disposal of rightfully
cai'iie.-cl property stands in the way of ai1nun's
inzirrying, then is not the inane seltislnicss of
the male biped of crezition fully exposed 2*
And if the Sitlllf‘ l‘t‘2tSu1l .~:l-.u-kens his business
energy, then the innate Slllfllefiksllfrfis,Wllltll
would allow the wife tosustuin the fznnily
only for the right of ]Il'()1')+"l't)'-l|Ul(llll;: in him
vested is as plainly shownf Anal pray who
bcnrs oi‘ slizires llw ii-.-'p«>ii.<ilaility of main-
taining the family at 111':-.~'ent‘.’ l)<’Jt‘S not the
wife of it l2tlJ(’)l‘lllf.f,’ mun bezu‘ an €7V‘t‘ll amount
of llle1‘t‘.\‘p()llsll)llll_\‘ \\‘itlitliel1usbziiid '3 llu(‘S
she not labor as inemy hours. l.Te:u' as many
pi‘iv:itio1is, suft'ei' as much froin being over-
tasked, and have occasion to cultivate even
more patieiice than the llusbznitli’ Does not
the average f:irxm-i"s wife work at :i f.Cl‘€2ttt'l‘
ilisailv':iiitztgt- by l’e:15ol1of ilefective coiivoi1-
iences than the uvs-rage fni'uie-1' 2’ Does she
not oftem-i‘ lklluur be-_vond ll('l‘ strength '1 And
in the end does she not make out to be the
hardest woi'ke<1 and poorest paid l4tlMl‘('l' un-
der the skies of tlw Aniericuii nation 2’

lint all this does not :'-‘l1owth:ittl1e wife
should have an iimlisputed right to di.~‘pose
of ever so small it portion of the joint earn-
ings of it liusbznul and wife 2‘

Two men enter into it p:n‘tm-rship with
difi'ei'ent bnnic-hes of bu.’-:lncss iiiti-rests, the
one wutclifully (f:«ll‘l‘§'lll;," on his sepaiiut-e di-
vision equnlly siiccessfiil with the other, oi‘
otlierwise, and at the close of the term of
pzirtnersliip there is it fair and equitable di-
vision of the pi'o(:ceds and no grumbling.

A man und woman enter by 1n2u'i'l:ig_;e into
p2ll‘lllt‘l‘>'lll[) in which each is cq1iz1llyi11tei'est-
ed, he condu<.:tii1,<; the out-door business, she
the in-door, not only doing the cve1'_v-duy
work of the hou.~:eliold. but finding time to
bear and train his children in the way tliey
should go. At the close of the p2ii'tiiei'sliip
he feels very badly misused indeed if she has
the teniei'it_v to ask tlliit even one-third of the
property which she has stood shoulder to
shoulder with him to €:I.1‘Il, should bcdisposed
of as she sees fit. Oh no, that must not be,
for it would lessen mun‘s inclinznion to
marry!

Let us take :tIlI.)lll(‘l‘ view. Any girl with
ordinary health and sense will be allowed
two dollars per week and lJ()£ll‘(l the year
round for the most ordinary kinds of work.
[For instance, that which the farmer's wife
is expected to do for her board and Cl0[llE‘S.]
Leaving out two weeks of the year for holi-
days, :1 girl has for her years work one llllll-
dred dollars. A short time since I read it
magaziiic article in which the writer labored
long and faithfully to show that 3. woman
could dress well on fifty dollars ei year. Al-
lowing this, which I think no one will dis-
pute, then there is fifty dollars per year left
for investments. Let a girl at the age of
twenty [the average age of marriage among
girls] begin systematically as her brothel‘
does to work and save at the above ratio, and
at the age of forty she has a fund of one thou-
sand dollars, which if well invested has been
slowly all these years increasing itself, and is
absolutely her own to do with as she may
choose. And she is fair and blooming to look
upon, while her married sister of the same
age looks ten or even twenty years older, and
has not a dollar which she can absolutely con-
trol. But do not tell this to the public, for
some young woman might have her inclina-
tion lessened to marry and wear herself‘ out
that some man might be able to say, “I own
all this property and will dispose of it how
and when I please." Again he s:iys—.“I do
not believe the law does or should require of
women what it does of men." In regzird to
real estate let us see. 15 a piece of land own-
ed by a woman exempt from taxation? No.
Is her personal property exempt from sale to
pay that tax? No. Is a widow residing on
land owned by her deceased husband allowed
any discount on debts left by him against
such property? No. indeed, she can only
hold the use of one-third of such real estate
while she lives. And if by persevei';in(-e and
forethought she manages so as to lift a debt
left by the husband against the estate, the
fact remains the same, she cannot dispose of
it Without first stealing it.

Farther on we find him saying, "No law
framed with a view to making tier indepen-
dent and self-supporting but will tend to her
degredation." Are We yet living in the dark
ages, or is it desirable that we return to the
days when woman was not allowed any indi-
diduality whatever? “What is sauce for the
goose must; be sauce for the gander,” and if
independence will degrade woman, for pity's
sake let something happen to take away the
independence of man or he will become so de-
graded that woman will not countenance him
at all. What folderol to assert that a woman
with a cultivated mind, giving her fair dis-
cernment and true, strong and steadfast prin-

ciples, is to be degraded by being dependent
on her own exertions for support, without
being obliged to lvezii‘ some man's honored
name, and allow him the control of her prop-
erty. And while we fully agree with the
writer “tlnit [some] men are not good enough
to live under laws the execution of which
conflicts with his nature, we assure him that
some wonieii are in the szune boat and are in-
sisting upon some show of justice. either
soiuewliat in the form of the ttlI0\'€1‘E‘SUlll-
tion, or some other S:tllSf2t(.'lOl‘_V (ll'l‘:tllg‘.‘€lllt‘lll
\\'llel‘t3lI_\' woiinui can Control the proceeds of
the bone lillml‘ perforim-d by lierself. Of
course all Illl.~1l't*l2tI9S to women zunong the
working (‘ltl.'\'SE‘>‘. and not to those who having
every want $1l1>1Ille(l, dnwdlc away their lives
in imlolence. never knowing or cnriiig how or
where their liege lords obtain the money for
all this idlensss. .\li:.~.. llEl.l~.‘.\' F1_\‘«:n.
Colomn, Mich.

Our Visit at Penfield.

Read before Hcme Grange 129, by Mrs. Nancy J.

Cameron.

Early Thursday morning June 15th as the
sun had just commenced its daily climbing.
and the fresh morning air was fragrant with
the perfume of many flowers mingling with
the sweets of the honeyed clover—we started
on our journey to attend Pomona Grange
held at Penfield. For a few miles we were
silently admiring the magnificence of the
beautiful scenery as lit up by the dawning
sun, although every object was familiar to
our eyes yet we were held as if spell-bound
as we seemed to behold new beauties, and
glad praises sang within our hearts to Him,
who has so perfected his handiwork. In
glorified nature we find beauties which no
artist eye can fathom, all the lovely and
guileless were given for the love and admi-
ration of man whom our Allwise Father
said was His most perfect and sublime
work. As we rode along we eagerly grasped
all the lovely sights, and ere we had got
there we had hung in memory’s castle
many a beautiful picture. Sketches un-
penciled, of shady homes overshadowed
by great wide-spreading branches of old
natives. Landscapes with dark Wooded
recesses lit by the flitting rays of the fast
rising sun dotted here and there with
bright, gay and brilliant colored flowers
giving cheer within the cool, quiet shade.
A meadow with a small rill by which the
stock and herds were grazing, a little stream-
let wound around hills meandering on
until lost in the dark wood beyond. A very
high hill on which we gazed in wonder, as
to how the farmer succeeded in plowing it,
for we saw that it was not in nature’s habit,
but, clothed with the mantle of cultivation.
Then we came to where an anticipated
home was being planned, walks laid out by
planting trees, formation of yard with orna-
mental shrubbery, showing the refined taste
and practical judgment of its owner, wish-
ing to have the surroundings of his home
grow in beauty while he raised means to
build the home. The viewing of this pic-
ture has inspired us with a valuable lesson,
which we have stored away with many an
unspoken one, that we shall ever love to
think over in solitude. One after another
we hung the mantle sketches with their
lessons taught on the on; viewed walls of
memory ever to be reviewed as thought or
word recalls to mind_ our pleasant ride to
Penfield.

If we were pleased and delighted while
going we lost none of our gladness after our
arrival for smiles and pleasant greetings
seemed borne on the morning air, the sweet
music of happy cheerful voices echoed about
us as we alighted, and we soon began to in-
hale the spirit of joy that prevailed every-
where. R Pool, Masterof Penfield Grange
read the address ofwelcome. While listening
we felt that the day was to be profitable as
Well aejoyful for it gave valuable food for
many a thought. Reports of committees
followed by discussions with good, appropri-
ate music came in their places, by order.
An excellent and worthy essay, Well deliv-
ered by R. Keeler was listened to with
marked attention, and was voted to be sent
to the VISITOR for publication, thus giving
all a chance to judge its merits at their leis-
ure. Its sound and powerful argument for
truth which the writer so vividly portrayed,
must leave its impress on every heart in fa-
vor of the labor.

Refreshments were announced in a pleas-
ing mauner I y our \V. G. H. and all went
merry as school children, (older grown) to
the heavily laden tables, that spoke well for
the thrifty hou-aewives. that had taken such
pains to have every thing as nice for com-
fort and pleasure for those who had ridden
long miles and had rested sufficiently to
give an appetite. While some were satisfied
with eating goodies, others _ took whole pigs
and deposited them in pocket for safe keep-
ing or memeutoes. We thought this a
striking illustration of the inner man, at
least that is the case with the Lee.

The hour of noontime passed quickly.
for eyes ears, heart and brain were busy tak-
ing in the surroundings; jokes and pleasant
repartees were sounding on all sides, sober
second thoughts uttered by sedate ones
which always give worth to every society.
It makes the ideal real, bringing out sound
judgment to bear against the frivolous, vain
or thoughtless talk. The members that had
come from various parts of the county ad-
mired the good taste and appropriate deco-

 

 

rations with which their hall was fur-
nished and all appreciated the religious
care that had been given in the arrange-
ments for the enjoyment of those whom
they expected.

A basket of lovely flowers casting their
sweet perfume on all around was placed
upon Pomona’s table, giving rise of thought
to the Bountiful Giver who inspired the
heart to move the hands in arranging so
beautifully the colors and foims of God’s
symbolized thoughts. VVe liesitatingly
turned our gaze from the beautiful flower-
basket, resting upon a tiny glass shoe-
filled also with Deity’s richest gifts placed
upon their altar; truly this was an emblem
of God’s merciful power. “He plants His
footstep on the sea and rides upon the
storm.” They had likened the clear and
spotless glass to His pure and crystalized
love manifested in His over-ruling power,
filled with true emblems of immortality, a
truly wrought symbol bespeaking their
depth of love for the beautiful. Time and
space will not permit us to describe all that
we saw nor to tell the thoughts that were
awakened by a large and lovely bouquet
upon our desk, placed there by kind hands.
She said, “because I loved flowers so well.”
Spurgeon’s thoughtful illustration was a fit
application for the time and place, it caused
-a continual heart song. Flowers, beautiful
flowers, they are but the thoughts of God
solidified, God’s beautiful thoughts put into
shape.

The hour passed, the gavel called us to
work. Reports and discussions well writ-
ten and worded came thick and fast, en-
joyed by all. Sister Mayo recited an ex-
cellent poem entiiled “The Rumsellers Re-
frain” and the reply by the ladies of Cal-
houn county, delivered in such an earnest
way that no one could help but admire it;
the words were well adapted to her voice
and caused a most pathetic sensation. The
VVorthy Master was obliged to declare that
we should have to stop somewhere. Some
work was leftover until another time, the
lateness of the hour told us we had done
enough for one day, had received mental
food enough to last for consideration a
long time. Grange closed, adieus said, we
parted to meet; again at Bellevue the 17th
of August. The question arises, will we
all be there brothers and sisters? VVill
there be any missed from their accustomed
place? If a place be vacated by care to busi-
ness then there will leave only a vacancy
for a day and will leave no void, but not so
with thedeetroying angd it gives not back
its victims; yet, blessed thought, it gathers
us all home at last in the garnered house
of God, and may it find us with the armor
on bright and shining, ready as worthy Pat-
rons to answer the Master’s welcome.

NOR}-IMAC.

Knowledge——Its Value.

In the mind of many a l':u'in(-1‘ whose every
moment is given to 2l1'(lll()tlS toil, there lies
(l01‘Illtllll; powers, which, had they been de-
veloped by early discipline, would have placed
their possessors in the first rank of states-
men ; and perlizips he is unconsciously the
owner of fzicultics, which, if expmideil by
education, would enable him to win that pre-
eminence which is 3W2tI‘(l(‘(l to genius. But
faculties and powers are of little value until
they are exercised. I gxiormicc in ii niea.sui'e
destroys usefulness. That “knowledge is
power" is never more truly said than in the
case of the fzirnier. Then let his wutchword
be knowledge. If it can be gained only little
by little to treasure every moment of time
for study, that from each row of corn, each

hill of potatoes or patch of strawberries we .

may learn some wisdom. Instruction is to
the farmer what culture is to the plant and
when deprived of it his powers are like the
product of the uncultivated pl:int—unprofit-
able. To knowledge all nations owe their
improvement.

While thinking on the vastness which the
word knowledge presents to the mind the
heart swells with wonder. Immensely vari-
gatcd as is the scenery of the State of
Michigan, but few of its features that pre-
sents an aspect of more surpassing interest
to the farmer than a well kept orchard, farm
and garden. Stretching far away with al-
most indistinct bounderies stand the ma-
jestic and grand old forests, with lakes,
rivers, hills and valleys, they afford thous-
ands of most admirable scenes, but a well
kept farm, with its fields of grain tossed by
the soft breeze into golden waves, the long
rows of corn with their green blades and
many colored tassels, the round hills of po-
tatoes with luxurant vines to cover them,
the meadow with its bright sweet-scented
clover and tall luxurant grasses exhibits an
aspect of beautyand fertility only equaled by
the orchard and garden. The orchard bend-
ing with its load of choice fruit: apples of
russet, brown and gold mingled with bright
green leaves, pears, juicy and sweet, plums
crowding each other as they turn their pur-
ple golden sides to the sun, bright, juicy
cherries that seem to laugh as they peep out

from the leaves, or huddle together among .

the branches; great bunches of grapes that
hang pendent with such negligence as if
nature had brought for us her choicest gift
to hang upon the vine, all these delicious
fruits and many more fill the well cultivated
orchard.

The garden too is well filled with
vegetables in long neat rows: cabbages, beets,
turnips, celery, salsify, squashes, radishes,

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sscrizu BER 1, 1882.

and last but not least the delicious melons,
large and plump enough to tempt the appe-
tite of an epicure. The dwelling is surround-
ed by large shade trees and choice flowers
whose fragrance is inhaled - and whose
beauty attracts every passer-by. Vines cling
lovingly to the porch and run riotous over
the sides. It is a scene of lovliness where
knowledge and her twin hand-maids, prud-
ence and industry dwell with contentment
and peace.

Then let it ever be our endeavor to pay the
tribute of labor and patience that knowledge
demands for her treasures wisdom and cul-
ture that in our homes also may be her

- dwelling place.

M. A. VANAMBURGH.
Pleasanton. Aug. 4, 1332.

Friends.

Read at second anniversary of Tallmadge Grange,

No, 639, by Miss Carrie Hedges.

Friends are something worth having, so
if you would have friends, be kind to all
and at all times. Do not be a friend at one
time and the next time, when it will serve
your purpose better to be against them, turn
acold shoulder; you will be very apt to
lose what friendship they had for you. “A
friend in need is a friend indeed,” If you
have in your acquaintance anyone you
think worthy of your friendship be a friend
to them, do not wait until they have gone
to speak of their good qualities but speak
of them now, when they can hear them;
why should we wait until they are gone for
our words of praise.

How often do we hear after people are
gone their good qualities discussed, when
before they had nothing but scofl"s and
sneers. If you have in your acquaintance
those that you really think deserve praise
praise them, and let them know that you
think they amount to something, and in
this way encourage them to high and no-
bler deeds. If you see anyone in trouble,
and the hot tears falling‘ from their eyes,
share with them, let them know you
are a friend and a brother. Always try and
haveasmile for all; if you are in trouble
do not put on a long face, and go pouting
around, making it unpleasant for everyone,
you will not gain friends but lose them.
If some one helps you or tries to help you
acknowledge to them it has been a help, do
not act as though you thought this world
was made expressly for you, and everybody
was obliged to help you without one word
ofthanks. There area great many ways in
which we may gain friends but the key to
success is be kind and courteous to all, and
you will surely have friends.

The Wile’s Right to Property.

Bro.Cobb.-—I fancy when you see the
subject of this article you will say, "the
same old topic again” and quickly consign
it to the waste basket. But in the VISITOR
of July 15 appears an article on this subject
in which the writer advocates the doctrine,
that woman should not be entitled to or en-
dowed by law, to hold as her own, and
will or otherwise decree in case of her de-
cease, one-third of the property gained dur-
ing married life.

It seemsto me that any man who is so
weak-minded and selfish as toilet such a
law “lessen his inclination to marry,” or
“slacken his business energy and enter-
prise,” is unworthy the regard of any pure-
minded woman, and ought not to marry.
But I am glad there are many noble souls
among the men who deem it a pleasure to
let the wife have at her own disposal a
share of their mutually accumulated prop-
erty. Would this “tend to lessen the happi-
ness of society?” I think it would have
the opposite tendency, for as woman is quite
a necessary part of society it surely increases
her happiness to feel that she is entitled to
at least one-third the property, which she
has labored hard, served faithfully, and
undergone many privations, to help her
husband accumulate.

The “good book” says “those who exalt
themselves shall be abased, but those who
humble themselves shall be exalted.” And
I think woman has lived in the valley of
‘humility, till she is beginning to rise to as»-
sert her rights, and as, step by step, they
are recognized by the laws of the land, the
men will have to lay aside a little of their
independence, and not feel that they have
the tyrant’s power in their hands.

Bro. Harger thinks any law framed with
a view of making woman independent and
self-supporting, would tend to her degrada-
tion. Now, I think it would have the op-
posite tendency for ‘there are many in-
stances where a young couple. begin mar-
ried life, with no fortune but their hands,
and on account of sickness or some other
misfortune they are able to accumulate but
averv small property, barely sufficient to
maintain them by practicing the most rigid
economy, finally after they become some-
what advanced in years, the husband dies,
and the wife is left with one-third of their
little property, and as this with her limited
experience in business is insufllcient for
her support she has to resort to some other
means, perhaps takes the place of servant
in a neighbor’s family, or is obliged to go
from house to house begging employment,
and if too proud spirited to do this, she will
sometimes resortto some unlawful means
and finally ends her days in the penitentia-

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TEE GRANGE YISEEOE.

ry or poorhouse. When if their little prop-
erty had all been left to her she could have
supported herself comfortably.

Ifa wife dies the husband holds all the
property accumulated during their married
life, he can marry again and raise a family
of children who are lawful heirs to his first
wifels hard earnings, and perhaps this is
right, but how is it if the man dies, and
the wife marries again and has a family of
children? The law says she can only have
the use of one-third of the first husband's
property, (for it was all his.) she cannot be-
stow any of it upon her children.

The law virtually says the wife is not ca-
pable of taking care of the property she has
helped her husband accumulate, and yet it
acknowledges that if left alone she is ca-
pable of taking care of herself with one-
third theamount the man would require.
But I will not weary your patience longer
this time. Mas. C. VVAGER.

Waterford, Mich. Aug 7, 185:2.

Death to Flies in One-Halt Hour

“I-Ieretofore oneof the greatestof our trials
in Summer has been in the keeping of our
dining ro)m and kitchen free from flies. It
is a rule with us that nets shall be inall open
windows and that the net doors must be kept
closed, and there is no deviation from this.
But careful as we might be the pests would
get in. \Ve have brushed until shoulders
and arms were lame and hands blistered;
have used various fly catchers, sticky fly pa-
per and poison fly paper, discarding the lat-
ter several times on account of its poisonous
properties and disgusting effects. but return-
ing to it because we do not know what else
to do. VVe will say that our house is very
sunny, light and airy—we have no blinds,
and can not darken the rooms and so keep
the flies out. A short time ago we became
alive to the necessity of throwing away once
for all the fly paper, having been convinced
that it was impregnated with a solution of
arsenic. Knowing the eflicacy of Persian
Insect Powder—Pyrethrum roseum or ciner-
2efolium——in destroying insect life, we close
the Windws and doors of the dining room,
sprinkle a large handful of this powder upon
a few live coals and retired to await results.

“The smoke was quite dense for two hours,
yet at the end of that time not one fly was
dead, they were somewhat weak in the legs
but soon revived.

“After this failure we next purchased a
small insect powder bellows for one dollar,
half filled the receptacle with powder and
blew it all around the room, making a fine
dust. Soon a buzzing was heard, as when a
fly is cought in a spider’s web, only louder,
and in one half hour every fly in the room
was dead. The fly season is now robbed of
its terrors for us, for a few puffs of the bel-
lows each morning before sweeping keeps
our room free from flies The powder costs
60 cents per pound at wholesale, but with
care will last some time, for gentle puffs of
the powder answer every purpose, as it is
only necessary” to blow it once where theflies
can breath it.”—Rural New Yorker.

We can endorse the above as we have re-
cently made a trial of the above powder and
found it most excellent. Rightly used it is
certain death to all insect life, including the
pest of housekeepers——moth millers. It is al-
so sold under the name of Dalmatian Pow-
der. It should be bought ofa reliable drug-
gist, and if it does not do its work rest assur-
ed you hsve not a pure article. If you have
a good many flies, mosquitoes or other in-
sects, the best way is to use the powder at
night. Shut all the windows and doors
first, then with the little bellows blow the
powder as thoroughly as possible into all the
crevices and corners. Leave the room shut
up over night and by morning if the pow-
der is pure the slaughter will be complete.
The above article speaks of the price of the
bellows. \Ve have bought them for very
much less than that amount.——Fa.rmers’ Re-
mew.

A PRIVATE detective of ex Chief of Police
McDonough’s agency has been investigating
the manufacture of butter sold in that city,
and according to a report made by him, a
good deal of the butter consumed in St.
Louis is made from the carcasses of dead ani-
mals picked up off the streets by the dead
animal contractor. According to his story,
dead animals are bought in East St. Louis
of the dead animal contractor; they are cut
up. the fat separated, cleansed by achemical
process, the oleomargarine extracted, col-
ored, packed, and sent to some point down
the river. There it is marked “Goshen
butter” and shipped back to St. Louis deal-
ers. The detective bought a firkin of this
“Goshen butter” from the manufacturer,
and under Governor Johnson’s instruction
carried it to a chemist, and the analysis
shows conclusively that the alleged butter
is made from animal fat. The sale or
manufacture of oleomargarine is prohibited
by the laws of the state of Missouri, but no
arrests were made,” the authorities no doubt
considered “as good as genuine” and per-
fectly legitimate.

FIRE AND WATER PROOF Ci-mi-:.\"r.—To one
half pint of vinegar add the same quantity
of milk; separate the curd, and mix the whey
with the whites of five eggs; beat it well to-
gether, and sift into it a sutficent quantity of
quicklime to convert it to the consistence of
a thick paste. Broken vessels mended with
this cement never afterward separate, for it
resists the action of both tire and water. The
above cement is similar to what is sold by
peddlars on the streets of Chicago for twenty-
five cents a bottle, worth about five ce11ts.—-

lVestern Rural.

FARMERS who have mowing machines
of the latest pattern, the newest invention
in plows and harrows, the latest improve-
ment in threshing machines, horse rakes
and seed-sowers, should not forget that
there are little conveniences equally as
valuable in the house. Good pumps, stoves,
washing machines, wringers, churns, sew-
ing machines, and other domestic appli-
ances for saving labor should be generously
provided.

BRINE from the butcher or orroceryman
or salt left at the bottom of pickling barrels
should be put upon as aragus beds in the
Spring time. Or rock sat may be sown and
the Spring rains will wash it to the roots.

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‘filluutha’ Eepartment.

WEARINESS.

BY H. W. LONGFELLOW.

0 little feet! that such long years

Must wander on through hopes and fears,
Must ache and bleed beneath your load;

I. nearer to the wayside inn,

Where toil shall cease and rest begin,
Am weary thinking of your road.

0 little hands! that weak or strong,
Have still to serve or rule so long,
Have still so long to give or ask:
I, who so much with book and pen
Have toiled among my fellow-men,
Am weary thinking of your task.

0 little hearts! that throb and beat
VVith such impatient, feverish heat,
Such limitless and strong desires:
Mine, that so long has glowed and burned,
VVith passions into ashes turned,
Now covers and conceals its fires.

0 little souls‘. as pure and white
And crystalline as rays of light
Direct from heaven, their source divine,
Refracted through the mist of years.
How red my setting sun appears,
How lurid looks this soul of mine!

Aunt Nina’s Opinions.

Dear Nepliezvs and Ni’cr.-(rs.-—\\' re you
not pleased with our depzirtment in the last
number of the \'IsiToi*.? I was, and I hope
for a continuance of the good letters. I have
becn trying to think of some good subject
for discussion, but so far have nearly failed.
l)on’t all of you that lnivc suggested the
plan, think it would be a good way to send
to me, privately. the subjects upon wliicli
you would like to have ilisciissioiis? And
then i might give them out froni time to
time. Lziiira, wh_oin we welcome, would
like to have the siibject of dancing discussed.

We often hem‘ the plil‘:lSt‘S “:1 well edu-
cated pcrson," ‘mi umroiiiplislical person"
used, I want to know what idea this con-
veys to your inind. What qualities must a
person possess to bc uccoinplislieul, or well
educated.

I suppose we, or rzither you young people,
are all striving to be one or the other. Or is
it both you ai'eai1iiii1gat‘.' What work must
you accomplish to reach _voui' aim 1'

You ask my opinion about giving your
ages, and Iilla .\'pauldin;; hints about my
own age. My opinion on the subject is that
it is a good plan if you want to do so, but I
ccrtziinly would not like to have any one
liindercd from writing because if he wrote
he must give his age. It might be with
some as it is with me. I would seem so old
to some of you that you would say, “Oh, she
is too old to talk about amusements. She
had better stop swinging in li:imn1ocks and
devote her time to knitting stockings for
the heathen. Utliers would say, “Aunt Xiiizi
is too young to give us advice. \Ve know
just as much about these things as she does
and she need not try to tell us :in_vthing."
So you see as you (lon‘t know my age I hope
you will all think it is that age which to
your mind conveys most respect.

And there is Nettie (liil’oi'<l asking whzit
I think of feigned naines. My opinion has
always been that :i pleasant sound has more
influence than an unpleasznit. And that
sound has influence none of you will deny.
So that lthought. when I choose the name
A1iiitNi11:i anything 1 might say signed by
that name would have :1 better influence
than if I addressed myself to you  Miss
Mihit-able Tzibiuthzi Tompkins, spinstei‘,
aged so. Nettles name has a pleasant sound
so that she does not need a non-de-plume on
that account.

Please think on the subject of which I
speak, and let us hear your opinions. All
bear this in mind and write to

.'\l'NT NINA.

What we Read.

Dear cousins.-—-The reading of your let-
ters have been very interesting to me and
I have noticed, with not a little amusement,
the sarcastic “shower” of words that was
thrown on Will’s’devoted head.

I admire Carlyle’s works very much in-
deed, but in his life aside from his devotion
to his literary work I can see nothing to
admire.

Let us compare our favorite authors, we
see diversity of tastes enough to make it
amusing. Are any of you German scholars
if so, what method do you use? And do you
like the study‘? '

Will, have you read any of Froude’s
works, or Emerson’s, if you have how do
you like tho-m‘?

Now, Laura, as we have only taken the
first degree in this department, let us stand
by each other and brave the dangers to-
gether. Just let me whisper to you that
Will isn’tdangerous. He will learn some-
time that to be clear and concise in his wri-
ting will cast as much glory upon himself
asif he were noted for line imagery and
glowing periods. But he is right about
studied articles. No one can expend too
much pains in writing.

For fear I will not be invited to come
again I close. ARCHIE.

IN an article upon making the Grange
interesting to young’ folks, the Farmers’
Advance says : “Increase the literary exer-
cises ; 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."

The'Battle For Reform.
George William Curtis in an address before

the Civil Service Reform Association, at

Newport, R. I., August 2, 1882, said: “This
glance at a triumphantyear would be incom-

plete if I omitted to menton the reform

movement in Pennsylvania. The facts are
familiar. Resolved to overthrow an igno-
minions despotism which has long subjuga-
ted one of the great political parties in that

State, a large portion of the party has made

independent nominations. Their protest is
against “bosses” and “machines.” But
knowing that these are only the result of the
evil system which bases party organization

not upon a common conviction and purpose,

but upon patronage and spoils, they denounce
that system as fatal to popular government
and demand the reform which it is the object
of this league to secure. Rejecting specious
offers of compromise which would have been

surrender, they have appealed to the manly

self respect of American citizenship and

await the issue. The serious significance of
this government is that it involves a party

defeat by members of the party. That is to
say, in one of the great States, whose vote

may well decide a national election, party

defeat is preferred by half the dominant par-

ty, or by the balance of power in that party,

to the yoke of the spoils despotism which

has recently overpowered it. This fact is of
the highest political importance. VVhen an

issue of general interest divides a party in

one State, the results cannot be confined to
that State. It is a fire that will spread over
the country. The recent significanceo party
is disappearing. They now cohere argely
by the mere force of tradition. But here is
a fresh and vital question commanding the
conviction and enthusiasm of young men,
the hearty approval of older men, and the
earnest support of the most intelligent press
throughout the country. Like the giant of
classic fable, it shakes the mountain. If the
qumtion is strong enough to drive asunder
the dominant party in one State it is strong
enough to threaten parties in every State,
The movement in Pennsylvania is a sign of
the general consciousness that new issues are
arising. It shows that the intelligence of
the country already craves a more inspiring
political music than the cackling of old par-
ty hens over stale eggs. Guides blind to the
sunrise are not guides for alert and early trav-
elers. \Vhen once an object commends it-
selfto the judgment and conscience of the
American people, parties may oppose as a
bull may run at alocomotive. So much the
worse for the bull. There is no profounder
conviction in the public to—day than that of
the demoralization and danger inherent in
the spoils system. The movement in Penn-
sylvania indicates that if parties do not ad-
just themselves to this conviction this con-
viction will reconstruct parties.——Farmers’
Friend.

SOME papers are abusing the Jews who ar-
rive at Castle (}:l.l‘(lL‘ll because they accept
charity when they have money conceiilcd
about their persons. Hold on now, gentle-
men. Instead of abusing them you should
compliment them for their sagacity and for
learning our Ainericzin customs so soon.
They are but imitating the property-holder
in this country who hides his property from
the assessor‘ and allows his neighbors to pay
taxes that he should pay, thus accepting
“charity” from his poor neighbor when he
has money concealed about his person. The
Jew who plays the game before he has been
one of us for two days is bound to be a rich
man and respected before he has been here
as long as some of those who have played
the tax dodging game for vears. Give the
Jew a chance. Peck's Sun. '

THE great necessity of 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 frcni 50 to 100 or
more volumes to hand around among its
members for them to read carefully. VVould
it not make our beloved Order more perma-
nent 2‘ And would it not promote the cause
of education in our midst ?”—-Patron of
Husbandry.

SENATOR i\IAHoNn, chairman of the Sen-
ate committee on Agriculture, having asked
Secretary Folger if the Cabinet wanted the
Commissioner of Agriculture to be one of
them, and received a decidedly negative
reply, it is expected that the report of the
committee will be against the bill. The
inquiry was referred to Mr. Nimmo of the
Bureau of Statistics, who wrote out an
elaborate opinion against making the head
of the Agricultural Department a member
of the Cabinet. It is thought that this will
decide the fate of the bill in the Senate.

THE great labor strikes are virtually end-
ed, and but little has been gained by the
working people, and much has been lost.
It is said that “rarely if ever, have there
been as many important strikes in any pre-
vious year as have been witnessed since
January 1st, and it has hardly ever hap-
pened that the strikers have been so gener-
ally unsuccessful.” It is estimated that in
Pittsburg alone the strikers lost $4,000,000 in
wages, and the same amount by those in
other parts of the West.

Hon. D. H. THING, past Master of the
Maine State Grange, has been nominated
for Congress on the Democratic ticket.
Three or four years ago the district was in
the hands of his supporters, but it is doubt-
ful now ifthey can count a majority, and
Mr. Thing’s election is therefore problemat-
ical, although his well-deserved personal
popularity will bring him a complimentary
vote, perhaps great enough to give him the
office.—Ea:.

THE REAPER, DEATH.

HINCKLEY—Died June 13, 1882, at his residence
in Columbia, Van Buren 00., B30. J ONATKAN N.
HINCXLEY, aged 63 years.

Bro. Hmxnsv was a. worthy member of Scott
Lake Grange, N o. 172. Resolutions of respect and
condolence were adopted by the Grange, also that the
Charter be draped in mourning for sixty days, and a

notice was sent to the GRANGE Vrsiroa for publica-
tion.

Alsbastine

Is the only preparation based on the
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with glue, etc., to decay, but is a Stone Co-
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for use by adding hot water, and easily ap-
plied by anyone.

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

For sale by paint dealers everywhere.
Send for circular containing the twelve
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M. B. CHURCH. Manager,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

PATENTS.

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When express charges exceed one dollar per doz.
the excess can be charged to me. Sixty days time
given on orders under seal of 21 Grange, and 5 per
cent discount off for cash with the order.

Annexes:
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_ Chan-lotto, lVI.ich.

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paid; cloth, 50 cents ; leather tucks. 81.00. Postage
stamps received. Address, J. '1‘. Conn, Schoolcraft, or

_ _ (;}l£(f). '1‘. I.*‘lh‘l-I.

(Mention this paper.) ROCHESTER, N. Y.

‘irméiiiiiovii "sin A N N iis’é.i," ’

Wfllll BUMMISSIUN MERCHANTS.

ll? Federal BL, Boston.
Consignments Solicited and Cash Advances Made.

A.VANDENBERG,

MANU FACTURER,
WHOLESALE Aim RETAIL Daxnnn IN

HlRllESS,WHIPS, BLANKBTS, TRUNKS, &c.,

92 Monroe Street,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICK.

I take pleasure in presenting to your favorable con-
sideration my CASH PRICE LIST of Harness Work
—I-IAND MADE—all-of my own manufacture, and
also to return thanks for the liberal atronage I have
received from the difierent Granges t roughout Mich-
igan. I shall do in the future as in the past-—turnlsh
the best goods for the least money.

Farm Harness, White Trimmed Breeching,
Round _Lines, Snaps, Rum Straps, and
spread rings, complete, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .829 90

The same without Breeching , . _ _ _ 26 00

4‘ " withfla.tLines,..  . . ..... 2800

“ “ “ “ “ without breeching,. . 26 00
Double Light Buggy Haniess, white trimmed,

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

The same, Nickle Trimmed, from . . . . . .3535 to 60 00

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

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

Nickle Trimmed, . . . . . . .815, $16, $18, $20 and '25 00

ALL ORDERS RECEIVED UNDER SEAL 0!‘

THE GRANGE

will be shipped at once, and may be returned at my
expense if not entirely satisfactory.
Address all orders to
Yours very respectfully,

A. VANDENBERG,
92 Mormon Sramrr. GRAND RAPIDS.

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. 0berholtzer’s
Sons Jr Co.,_Phoenixville, Pa. Tt keeps stock healthy
and in good condition. It helps to digest and assimi-
late the food. Horses will do more work, with less
food while using it. Cows will give more milk and
be in better condition. It keeps poultry healthy, and
increases the production of eggs. It is also of great
value to them when melting. It is sold at the lowest
wholesale rice by E. E. JAMES, oo,
GEO. W. ILL & 00., 80 WOODBBIDGE S-r., Dn-
-nzorr, THUS. MASON, 181 Wxrnn S'l‘., Cinema,
and ALBERT STEGEMAN, ALLEGAN. Put up in
60-lb. boxes (loose), price Emnr Cnzrs per lb., 30-lb.
boxes (of 6 5-lb. packages, TEN Cszrrs per lb.

V MID MIBHISAN HUI ST -

Grand Rapids, Michigan, is the most popular agricul-
tural and family paper published. This widely circula-
ted paper,now in its sixth volurne,is published weekly,
and sent to subscribers at 81.50 a. year including
postage. Every number contains 8 pages, 40 cal-
umns of practical agricultural and family reading
matter, including full reports of the West mchifin
Farmers’ Club, of which it is the official organ. 9
publishers offer for the next thirty days to send on
receipt of 32.00 Tm: WORLD for one year and a copy
of “ Our Farmer-’s Account Book,” containing 212
pages on fine Ledger paper, a comprehensive sys-
tem of book keeping adapted to the wants of practi-
cal farmers everywhere. Over 80,000 of these books
have been sold within the last year, and in many in-
stances farmers have paid itinerant book agents as
high as three dollars for them. Every farmer should
have one of these account books. but we advise them
to send direct to the AGRICULTURAL Wonnn, Grand
Rapids, Mich., and receive the account book and TE!
Woann for one year for less than the book costs
alone. Tm: W031.» and Grange Visitor one you-,
and the account book, $2.50. Don’t fail to mention
this paper when writing. Address.

F. M. CARROLL, Publishers,

Gum) Bums, Itch.


TEE GRANGE VISITOR.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1882.

A FEW plant or seed of water cresses plant-
ed at asprmg brook, W111, 111 a few years fill
the stream. They are wholesome and are
said to be especially good _for liver complaint.
They may be dressed with oil and vinegar,
or eaten only with salt.

3-’ "'07¢0¢t, Supt. L. H. Brock-way, Sec. cfi Trmx.

UNION WIN];-MILL AND
Manufacturing 00.,

Manufacturers of
VVolcott’s Patent

Sell-Regulating Sectional Wheel
WIND-MILL,

Den-ioks, House and
Stock Tanks, Etc..
Also Wholesale and Retail Dealers in

_i Pumps, Wrought Iron Pipe,
AND FITTINGS.

To the Patron: of the Grange Visitor :—Last year
we advertised in the Vrsrron and we were so well
pleased with the result that we renew the advertise-
ment. We give the Patrons an opportunity to get a
firsfaclass Wind-Mill at living prices, and remember
that the Union Mill,—Wollcott’s Patent Selt-
Rezulatlng Sectional Wheel Wind-Mlll is
equal to the best in the market. We have had nine
years’ experience and we have hundreds of the above
Mills in use.

We are also building the Wolcott Patent Solid
Wheel Wlxld-Mlll. We will stand it beside any
solid wheel in the market for regulation, durabiiity
and simplicity.

Both of our Mills will be at the State Fair, also a
full line of Wind-Mill Pumps of our own make.

We also build to order any kind or size of Tanks.

Write for Circulars and prices, and give us a plan
of your job and what you would want us to furnish.
Write us at once and save money.

UNION WIND-MILL AND MAN’F’G C0.,
1sept3t Albion. Mich.

TEE EALAMAZOO

BUS I N E S S
COLLEGE and

WRITING

INSTITUTE,

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

W. F. PA/T80/V6’, Prest. _
LI FE INSURANCE

FOR. PATRONS.

0

The Patrons’ lit-Socieiy of Michigan

WAS ORGANIZED IN DECEIIBER, 1880,

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

HUME INSTITUTION OF LIFE IIISURIINCE

that the could control. As its name indicates, it is

FOR T MEMBERS OF OUR ORDER AND
FOR THEM ONLY.
Its Annual Meetings occur at the same time and
lace as the annual session of the State Grange.
This feature was for the express urpose of provid-
ing for a large representation of t e members of the
Society at its most important meeting of the year,
when its officers are elected. and without special
notice any amendment to the laws and rules govern-
ing the Society may be made.
The MUTUAL run adopted by this Society ro-
vides that an Assessment shall be made ONE)’

' when a member dies, and the amount of that as-

sessment is fixed when a person becomes a member,
and cannot be increased at any subsequent period.
This assessment is graduated according to age, which
is an important and listinctive feature of this Socie-
ty—one which should commend it to the favorable
consideration of Patrons.

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

Applications for membership may be made to

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

ELIJAH BARTLETT, Wx. B. LANGLEY,
Dryden. Centrsville.

R. C. CARPENTER, GEO. W. EWING,
Lansing. Ross.
Mus. C. K. CARPENTER, C. L. WHITNEY.
Orion. Cincinnati.
J. T. COBB. A.. E. GREEN,
Schoolcraft. Walled Lake.
or to Local Agents they may appoint.

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

Or «I. T. COBR, sec-‘y, Centrevllle.
febltf Schoolcrall, Mich.

|CHARDSON 8.. C0‘S

I M PROVED
BUTTER COLOR

It will not color tho Buttermilk. It
will llot Turn Rancid. It In the

ltr-orig}. Igghuot and
chonpg color lode.

Q‘ has ,, ’lnol1,llIooompou'nd-
thntltls lmpodbletorlt

. A C‘ 1!: E:
CREAMER & BUTTER COOLER

A... 4+1

A combination that will
produce an even grade
of Butter, winter and
No
quired. Saves twotbirds

the labor.
its cost twice the first
season. A RESPONSI-
BLE AGENT wanted

where an Agent is not

summer. Ice re-

It will save

located. Correspondence
Send for CIR-

CULARS and PRICE-LIST.

solicited.

AGENTS:

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

W. P. Herd, Lowell, Kent County.

A. H. Smith, Sparta, “ ‘-

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

A. Stegeman, Allegan, Allegan County.

D. P. Newton, Watson -I H .

Simeon Starin , Ganges, “ -I

E. J._McNau§ ton. Cooperville, Ottawa County.
Gutelius Sn er, Three Rivers, St. Joseph “
Williams & artshom. Owosso, Shiawassee County.
0. C. Spaulding, Royalton, Berrien County.

P. W. P atts. Chelsea. West Washtenaw County.
John Vhebe, Bear Lake, Manistee County.

J. A. Montagu, Niles, Berrien County.

Sears ch Messenger, Csssopolis, Cass County.
John Hoffman, Homer, Calhoun Co.

John Adams, Marshall, “

Wattles «lo Wood, Battle Creek, Calhoun Co.

J. R. Brayton, Bellville. Wayne Co.

S. Andrews, Howell, Livingston Co.

-A. B. Cooley, Romeo, N. W. Mscomb 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.

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

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

S. N. Thomas, Decatur, Van Buren County.
‘Wm. C. Wooley, Elsie, Clinton and Gratiot Co's.
Adams & Rue. Galesburg. Kalarrazoo County.
F. L. Elms, Charlotte, Eaton Co.

J. W. Ros=man, Msrlette, Sanilac Co.

Staut 4!’. Ingoldsby, Ponh'ac,_0akland Co.

Dunnam & Son, Hudson, Lenawee Co.

Slayton & Son, Tecumseh, Lenawee Co.

Wi cox Bros, Adrian. Lenawee Co.

A Chandler & Son. Goldwater, Branch Co.

E. S. Bellamy, Ionia, Ionia co.:

M W’ Thayer, Paw Paw, Van Buren co.

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

THOMAS MASON,

General Commission Merchant,

181 South Water Street, CHICAGO,

BUSINESS AGENT MICHIGAN STATE GRANG
Ioopoothlly Oolollo Oooolgn-onto of

FRUITS, VEGETABLES, BUTTER, E008,
WOOL, HOP8, POULTRY, GAE, VEAL,
Gen-Bood.3a1vr'\:.u.£33.d.oo.ro1to.':‘o.11o-ur.ho.

IOIDED IEIT of the I. I. PBIIDIIBE EXOIIIIBI ASSOOIITIOI.

Oh-Iorol Fob. Ilih, II77.

T PIIIOIO fil ChIppOI‘O.—'1‘hllhtho
fléatrollodbythofahazlotlusbsndry. :1?

III. htlqynouttolhlppors.

hi. Ouhlloloonndrnsnptraynens

Oommluisufloueh Gshaqou-gu-
shls£alrndtI|hA¢nuyIs:

Iooulv
nu. To'obhIItlIoHl;houlArk¢IprlooIu[oodsnoolvod.qIIIlfiooIflIuoI.

Illlpporolnsllstslsswnlrsoslvuqnal bonsnhotthhnsnsgunsoglssludnsulancur

bdngludorhmdsforfiaofuthfulportormanosof

!'hhAgeuywlllnll0rdu-storsuy goods In this market, at lowest
nlstsooenpsnythoetdorfsrnssrths unountroquired; balmostobspaldou

has same.

nus. Ouh
receipt of H11.
THOMAS IASON, Bulnou Hunger.

‘ADJ IIPOITI, ITIHOILI Ind IEPING TAGI loll! on Bpplloaflm.

Agents Wanted Everywhere

BY THE

llhjecl lesson Pub ishing Company.

Of Kalamazoo, to sell a Dissected Map of the United
Slates, on one-fourth inch board, cut on the State lines so
that each block is a State, and A Dissected Map of the
State of Michigan, on whimh each block is a County;
constituting a Home Course in the study of Geography.

These Maps are very popular and sell rapidly. A local agent
in every School District or Township can make the work very
profitable. A County Agent can make it a permanent and
paying employment.

Samples mailed on receipt of 75 cents each.

For terms, Address:

Object Lesson Publishing Co.

15aug4t Kalamazoo. Mich.

New Harness and Trunk Store.

T. KININMENT Sr G0.

Manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in

HABNESSES, TRUNKS. ELANKETS.
TEIFS, ‘$0.;
117 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

All work our own make and guaranteed all Hand
Made.

Farm Harness, white trimmed, Breeching,
Round Lines, Bum straps, Spreaders, etc.
complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $29.00

Same without Breeching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 26.00

Same with Flat Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.00

Same without BBreechiB1:1g him tfi med

' arness w m

D°“b1° “gm "ggy ’ s25.oo to $30.00

The same nickle trimmed . . . . . . . . . . .830.00 to 850.00

Single Buggy Harness, with round lines,
white trimmed -

The same with Flat Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.00

Nickle T1-immed.. ....s15. 816. 818. 320. 325. to 350

We also make a fine Nickle Trimmed Farm
Harness, stitched 6 to the inch, stock_ all
selected, an extra fine article, Breechmg,
Round Lines, complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Same without Breechmg .................. ..

36.00
32. 50

Mr. T. Kininment for the past five years has been
foreman for Mr. A. Vandenburg,_ and now In Order
to build up a trade ofiers special inducements to the
Grangers of Michigan, guaranteeing a better class
of work than was ever given to them by 8111504?-

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 res ctfully
I KIN IN MEN T.

117‘ Canal Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

T.

W11117

$|OOO REWARD

forany machine hullingas much clover seed in 1 day as the
It beats all other

Hullers. IIEVIIJL7

q hulled

ed‘ fez.” Send for it.
NEWARK MACHINE COMPANY, Newark, Ohio.

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

Teasdale Stea.mFruit& Vegetable
EVAPORATO R.

To the F‘armers and Fruit Growers of Lemzwre, Ber-
rien, Cass, Vanliuren, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, Cal-
houn, Branch, Hallsdalc, Jackson, Washtenaw,
Monroe and Wayne Counties, in the State of Michi-
gan, and Lucas and Williams in the State of Ohio,
and the entrre State of California :

THE BEST. SAFEST. CHEAPEST AND THE
MOST ECONOMICAL MACHIN 1:.
in the line of Evsporators ever ofiered in any market.
lst. The immense amount of drying capacity for
the amount of room used. _

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

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

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

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

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

Constructed of Galvanized Iron

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

R. .M'. BELLINGER,
Blissfield. Mich,

ljuntf

EVERY FARMER IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD EXAMINE THE

New Combined Spring Tooth Sulky Harrow

CIILTI VATOR AND SIEEDER.
Manufactured by

THE WOLVERINE
HARROW AND SEEDER COMPANY.

Kalamazoo, - Michigan.

As a combined machine, it stands un-

rivalled in excellence, doing the work 01

a Harrow and Seed Sower most thorough-

ly and satisfactorily. It has taken high

-rank at once as ONE

BEST IMPLEMENTS FOR THE USES

= ~ DESIGNED EVER IN VENTED. Sows

311 klnds 0‘ grain and grass Se€dS- 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 83011 Other. setting the teeth at any required depth. It

is 01 VGTY light draft, easily wo:ked by one pair of horses, and has received the
first premium and diplomas wherever exhibited

Send for Circulars. LORENZO BIXB1; Sec;y_ ._

ATRONS’ AINT VD” onxs.

Mam(facturersofIn es-coll’: LC '

Paint. The only Pa lint: that do }’~,}",‘f.,.,f,'f,: 3:1:

airorwatentlienun, or fumes of burning con;

wllich destroy all other Painta. 1'1-ices (aw, .19:
lit-ererl freight paid to any depot in the count . No cash requtr-
ed until delivered. All Paint users shou «:1 write and have
want free Beautiful Color Card of the Paint ' with in-
structions how any one ' P 1' V J
PAINT WORKS, NEW '"’ “ R0‘ 5

.

AA._______i‘____ _i,, 7

The New Murray Harrow Cultivator and
SEEDER COMBINED.

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Contains our latest improvements. For simplicity, strength, ease in handling by man and team, and
quality of work. it has no equal. Send for Circulars. Address,

S. J. WING, Kalamazoo, Mich.

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 harrow entered. It
was highly recommended by the Committee on account of the ease ofadjustmeut of the teeth, the
ease oi draft, and the elficlency or its work.

We call the attention of farmers everywhere to our Improved Harrow.

IT DOES NOT INFRIN GE ON ANY PATENTS,

AND

For DURABILITY it is UNSURPASSED.

Send for Circulars.
s RIX HARROW ,C0., (Incorporated),

l5jultt KALALJAZOO, LEICI-I.

 D E R ,I Write to Kalamazoo

§‘.'§3S.s*';.;h*:.:.:1?.P:.“:.i:> “e‘.‘.;‘.l.‘E‘*s..’3‘°".n°;‘ Ipublishing 0°’ f°r em‘
All Cider Millsupplics. Illustrated caulo cfree.    
ing, and Blank Books.

Address C. G. IIAIVIPTON Detroit. Ich.

lmyfitlstem

OF THE VERY ‘