“TIIE FARMER IS OF MORE CONSEQUENOE THAN THE’ FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST 1MPROVED.”

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Omcers Natlonal Grange.

MAs'1'EB—J. J. WO0DMAN,. . .Paw Paw, Michigan.
Ovxasxaa—PUT. DARDEN, ......... . .Mississippi.
Lno'ruasa—HENRY ESHBAUGH, .... ..Missouri.
3'.l'EWABD—A. J. VAUGHN, . . . . . . . . . . ..Mississippi.
Assr. Srsw.4.nn—W1LLIAM SIMS, ...... ..Kanss.s.
CELPLAIN—S. H. ELLIS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ohio.
TBEABUBEB——F. M. McDOWELL,......New York.
Snoaa-rsnr——WM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.
Guru-Knsrs3—O. DINWIDDIE, ....... ..Iudiana.
0nBxs——MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, . . . . . . ..Michigan.
POIONA—MRS. PUT. DARDEN, .... ..Mississippi.
l'r.os.s—MRS. I. W. NICHOLSON,.. .New Jersey.
Lu)! Assr. Srswsnn—MRS. W'M. SIMS, Kansas.

Executive Committee-

I). WYATT AIKEN, . . . . . . . . . . . . . .South Carolina.
H: JAMES, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Indiana.
W. G. WAYNE," . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..New York.

Officers Mlchlgan State Grange.

M.—C. G. LUCE, ........................ . .Gilead.
O.--A. N. WOODRUFF, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Watervliet.
8.—S. A. TOOKER,‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .La.nsing.
L. S.—A. E. GREEN,.... .. .. ...,. .....Fa.rmington.
L.—CHARLES E. MICKLEY . . . . . . . . . . ..Thurber.
0.—8ALMON STEEL, ..... . .Frsnkfort, Benzie Co.
'I‘.——S. F. BROWN, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Schoolcraft.

8.Ia.—J. T. COBB, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schoolcrsft.

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

0xnns.—Mss. A. S. STANNARD, . . . . . . . . ..Lowell.

PoItozu.—Mns. H. D. PLATT, . . . . . . . . . . .Ypsila.nti.
Fl:.OBL.———MBs. A N. WOODRUFF, . . . .Ws.tervliet.
L. A. S.——M.Bs. A. E. GREEN,” . . .. .. .Farmington.

Executive Gommlttee-

J. Q. A. BURRINGTON, Chairman, . . . . ..Tuscola.
J. WEBSTER CHILDS, .............. ..Ypsila.nti.
I. H. HOLLOWAY, - - - - - - - . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hillsdale.
THOMAS MARS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Berries Center.
WM. SATTERLEE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Bin'ningham.
THOS. F. MOORE, ..................... ..Adria.n.
J. G RAMSDELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Traverse City.
0. G. LUCE, J. T. COBB, ............ ..Ex-oificio.

State Bus—iT-e—ss Agent.

THOMAS MASON,...:.—.-.| ......... ..,Chlca.go, Ill.
GEO. W. HILL ......................... ..Detroit.
General Deputy.

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

Speclal Lecturers.

11103. F. Moore, ............. . .Adris.n, Lenawee Co.
I. L. Stevens, ............. "Perry, Shiawassee Co.
Mrs. S. Steele, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Manton, Wexford Co.
Andrew Campbell. ..... ..Ypsilauti, Washtenaw Co.
J’. W. Wing .......... ..A.nn Arbor, Washtenaw Co.

DR. LORING has a curious idea of the
duties of Commissioner of Agriculture. He
is away most of the time, his present where-
abouts being Maine. He, too, is on a tour of
inspection, and rather an extensive one. Of
course it is essential that the Commissioner
should inspect the crops and the tools and
the soil and talk with the farmers. The last
three or four months have been favorable for
journeying, which was lucky for the Doctor,
who otherwise might not have enjoyed him-
self. It is pleasant to be able to see every

art of the country at public expense. The
Boctor was always a great inspector of crops.
wherever he got paid for lecturing at fairs.
Therefore he takes naturally to inspection on
a larger scale at public expense. It improves
his health.-—Husbomdmc,m.

MOST of our insect-eating birds will devour
the rose-bug. These bug are also eaten
greedily by domesticated fowls. When
these insect pests become exhausted and fall
to the ground, or when they are about to
lay their eggs, they are destroyed by moles,
insects and various animals which lie in
wait to seize them. Dr. Green asserts that
a species of dragon-fly or devil’s needle, de-
vours them.

WHITE cattle hair is in lively demand at
12@l4c, and brown at 3@4; white calf hair
sells readily at 15@16c. Tons of cattle hair
is now disposed of every day to turn into
cloth. So it was once with buffalo and
camels hair, until manufacturers put the
stock into goods, which the people would
not buy, and they were left upon their
hands.—U. S. Economist.

duviiulural Ewulmni.  

M IDSU M M ER.
Around this lovely valley rise,
The purple hills of Paradise;
Oh softly on you bank of haze
Her rosy face the Summer lays;
Becalmsd along the Summer sky
The argosies of cloud-land lie,
Whose shores with many a shining rift,
Far ofl their pearl-white peaks uplift.

Through all the long midsummer day

The meadow sides are sweet with hay;

I seek the coolest sheltered seat

Just where the field and forest meet,
Where grow the pine trees, tall and bland,
The ancient oaks, austere and grand,

And fringing roots and pebbles, fret

The ripples of the rivulet.

I watch the mowers as they go

Through the tall grass is white-sleeved row;
With even strokes their scythes they swing,
In tune their merry whetstones ring;
Behind the nimble youngsters run

And toss the thick swathes in the sun;

The cattle graze——while warm and still
Slope the broad pastures, basks the hill;
And bright when summer breezes break
The green wheat crinkles like a lake.

The butterfly and bumble-bee

Come to the pleasant woods with me;
Quickly before me runs the quail,

The chickens sulk behind the rail,

High up the lone wood pigeon sits,

And the Woodpecker peeks and flits;
Sweet woodland music sinks and swells,
The brooklet rings its tinkling bells.

The swarming insects drone and hum,
The partridge beats his throbbing drum;
The squirrel leaps among the boughs,
And chatters in his leafy house;

The oriole flashes by—and look

Into the mirror of the brook

Where the vain bluebird trims his coat,
Two tiny feathers fall and float.

As silently, as tenderly,

The dawn of peace descends on me;
Oh this is peace—I have no need

Of friend to talk, or book to read;

A dear companion here abides,

Close to my thrilling heart he hides;
The holy silence in his voice,

I lie, and listen, and rejoice.

-—J. G. Whittier.

Report from Southern Illinois.

W. A. Brown, of Stevensville, Berrien
county, sent us_ the letter which we give be-
low. Some of this will not interest the
general reader, but ‘there is one point to
which we wish to call attention, and that is
this: That Bro. Mason stands at the head
of the list of the Chicago commission
houses that sell fruit:

CENTRALIA, Ill., August 14, 1882.

W. A. Brown, Esq:—Yours of 21st inst.
received; thanks for the favor. I had not
intended our correspondence should go so
slow, but I heard nothing from you since I
wrote you regarding our plan of shipping
fruit to Chicago. The summer has been a
very busy one with me. Health not very
good, and good help hard to obtain. The
season has been rather wet and cool.
Wheat, oats, and grass crops very fine.
About one-fourth of the corn was drowned
out and not cultivated, and will only make
fodder; the balance is very promising. We
have had but few peaches; grapes mostly
rotten. The crop of wild blackberries is
immense, and a larger number of people
find profitable employment gathering them.
Prices average about $2 per case of twenty-
four quarts. The apple crop is nearly a full
one, the fruit fair, and of good size. One
or two car loads per day have been sent from
here for some time and a much larger
amount willgo in a few weeks. The season
has been very favorable for the growth of
strawberries, and nearly all that have had
proper care are looking very fine. It has
required much care to keep them clean;
but few lots have been neglected. I have

‘not been very fortunate with mine. I

planted four acres this spring, on an old
strawberry field, and four acres on corn
stubble. The result is that the crown borer
is about to take all on the old berry field;
two acres of them are so bad that I must
plow them under. I shall soon get my land
in wheat and grass, and see if I can get it
free from the borer. I think the only way
to elude the borer is to plant berries on new
land. I got one lot of plants from Michi-
gan,which, in my judgment, are far from
being pure Wilsons. Iam of the opinion
that .we are cultivating many plants, called
Wilson’s Albany, that are not the genuine
original Wilson. My recollection is that
the old Wilson had always green runners;
now half of the so-called Wilsons make
red vines and much less fruit than formerly.

I cannot think the plants have changed,
but perhaps seedlings of the Wilson have
got in nearly as thick as the original stock.

1 had almost no fault to find with the one
hundred and ninety thousand plants I had
from you, but a few of them were packed
too long, and were too hot to grow well.
Everybody will have plants to 8611 next
spring, and prices will be low. My Cres-
cents did quite well this year, and I heard
no complaint about carryin , or being un-
salable. I have an acre 0 them to fruit
next year; also one acre of Downing. The
red raspberry plants sent me made a few

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berries.
much.

As I wrote you last spring, Centralia
strawberry growers averaged the sales made
by a num er of Chicago commission houses
for the purpose of diminishing the number
of houses, and discouraging the runner
system. The result was, that the six houses
making the best sales averaged from $5
down to $4.72 per case net returns. Mason,
Baker, Phillips, and Barron & Bermingham
stood in the order named.

We are having too much rain, and strong
winds are throwing down many apples.

Yours truly, G. L. BRUNTON.

I like the looks of them very

Meal Supply of Nations.

Europe is no longer able to feed her popu-
lation. If we sum up the total of grain crops,
and meat production in the various countries,
and compare the same with consumption,
we find a deficit of 793,000 tons of meat and
343,000,000 bushels (or 8,500,000 tons) of
grain, which must be imported annually
from other continents. This is a state or
things closely resembling what was predicted
many years ago by Mr. Malthu.-I. Moreover,
the evil, if such it may be called, is every
year increasing; for the cattle of France and
the sheep of Great Britain are declining in
numbers, and the breadth of land under
Wheat is diminishing, not only in England,
but also in Germany and some other coun-
tries. At the same time, the population of
Europe has been steadily growing more
dense, the annual increase averaging 3,000,-
000. At present the food supply produced
in Europe is equal to about 11 months’ con-
sumption, but in a few years the deficit will
be, instead of 30 days, nearer to 60 days.
As matters now stand, the production and
consumption are as f<;.'lovw' ~

GR.A.lN—)IlLL.""!I "-‘uw ‘
i . Production.
United Kingdom-___- 322

Continent _________ __ 4,736

Europe ...... __'_ ______________ . .’ ' 5,058

v -. Production.
1.090.000

United Kingdom _________________ _, ‘V q
6,229,000

Continent _______ ....

Europe -__-__..--:-__-___- _- .. . .  . ~ 7,319,000

It appears, therefore, :-.31....  = bulk of the
deficit corresponds to (l‘:'+’:-xi $5 ‘itain, but it
must also be observed that 2.: .'.C‘ Continent
is unable to feed its own population, we
must in future look rather to some other
hemisphere for the needful supply, than to
the supposed surplus that Russia, Hungary,
Hollan , or Denmark will have for disposal.
This may at first sight appear to aggravate
the evil, and to cause some uneasinessin the
minds of many of our readers. It will be
seen, however, on examination, to be a de-
cided benefit to Great Britain, and to ex-
plain in a measure the increase of wealth in
this country simultaneous with agricultural
decline. The number and tonnage of ves-
sels built last year in Great Britain exceeded
any thing before known, and reached in
round numqers 1,000,000 tons. The quan-
tity of food brought to Europe during the
year exceeding 8,000,000 tons, and as the de-
ficit on the Continent increases, so will the
carrying trade of our shipping, which is
rapidly monopolizing the commerce of the
high seas. Our colonies also must benefit
enormously by the demand for grain and
meat, the production of which, especially
in Australia, is on a scale of magnitude suf-
ficient to dazzle Europeans. We know
that South Australia raises a ton of wheat
per inhabitant, big and little, and that New
Zealand can send home yearly a million
frozen sheep almost as easily as a thousand
bales of wool. The annual increase of sheep
in Australia is seldom under 22,000,000, one-
half of which can be exported. Hence it is
manifest that both agricultural and pastoral
industry will grow in dimensions and profit
with the demand from Europe.

It was the boast of the Americans, as Mr.
Consul Murray wrote in 1834, that a day
would come when the United States would
feed Europe, but in these days Australia
was not thought of. At present the Amer-
cans have a large population of their own
to feed, and the number of sheep and cattle
is little more than that of inhabitants. In
Australia, on the other hand, each inhabi-
tant may be said to possess 23 sheep and
three cows. Under such circumstances,
Australia promises to become the principal
market for supplying Europe with meat.
The great difficulty of conveyance is over-
come, since a 70-horse engine is able to
maintain a temperature of 60 degrees below
zero in a chamber capable of holding 10,000
frozen sheep, or 250 tons of dead meat, from
New Zealand to Southampton. There are,
of course, certain countries in Europe that
will for some years have a surplus of meat
for exportation, as, in fact, they are at pres-
ent only four that have a deficit. But it is
to be observed that the consumption of meat
per inhabitant is increasig in all countries,
owing to the higher wages that manufactu-
ring industry has introduced among the
masses. This explains the declining num-
ber of cattle (especially in France); while
the increase of population every year redu-
ces the ratio of cows and sheep per million
inhabitants. '

Europe paid last year £35,000,000 sterling
for meat from beyond the seas, snd £85,000,-
000 for grain, together equal to a tax of
£10,000,000 sterling per month. This may
give some idea of the magnitude the ques-
tion of food supply has assumed in the des-
tinies of this quarter of the globe. 1n the
United Kingdom the importation of meat,
including cattle, has risen as follows:

1300. 1370. 1880.
Tons- ___________ _-_. 91,230 144,225 050,300
Value ................ -- £4,390,000 £7,708,000 £26,0r2.0oo
Per Inhabitant _______ -_ 7 lbs. 10 lbs. 40 lbs.

The consumption of meat in the United
Klngdom in much larger than in any other
part of Europe. In fact, our home-grown
supply is sufiicient to grow us as much as
the average for Frenchmen or Germans, as
shown in the following table :

Meat produce per inhabitant.
Pounds.

Beef. Mutton. Pork, Tots.
19 6 69

United Kingdom --__ 4-4
34

Italy
Spain and Portugal

Roumsnia ________ __
Europe ___________ -_ 34

In the above table mutton includes, more-
over, goat’.-1.-flesh. Theslaughter is assumed
to be 21 per cent, of horned cattle, 38 per
cent. of sheep and goats, and 67 per cent. of
pigs, the difference of weight of carcass be-
ing allowed in the various countries. It is
needless to trouble the reader with the num-
bers of each kind of cattle, which may be
found in the Parliamentary Abstract. The
whole question of meat supply is one of such
interest to European nations, but more par-
ticularly to Great Britain, that it needs no
apology on our part for giving it such prom-
inence, when people’s attention seems rather
tAuYrned to political matters.——London Daily

ews.

Concerning Butter.

Advance sheets from the United States
Census Bureau for 1880 give some interest-
ing statistics relating to the dairy products
of the United States for that year, or rather
for the year 1879, as the census was taken in
the middle of 1880, when it was impossible
to give the statistics for more than half of
that year. The butter production of the
twelve leading dairy States was as follows:

New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lll,922,-123
Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,336,012
Ohio ................................. .. 67,634,263
Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,481,958

Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,657,043

Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,821,890

Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 37,377,797

Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 33,353,045

Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 28,572,124

Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,248,826

Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,671,762

Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,161,385

Total pounds for twelve States . . . . . . . .572,239,428

The figures for all the States and Territo-
ries show that these twelve Slates produced
just about threefourths of all the butter pro-
duced in the country. The total production
then was 740,299,285 pounds. The average
value is stated low at 16-} cents per pound, or
six pounds to the dollar. This gives a total
value of $123,383,214. It is about one-half
the value of the average cotton crop of all
the cotton-growing States, and three times
the value of an average California wheat
crop.

Save Those Bones.

The bones of fish, bones of fowls, the large
and small pieces of bones which are pur-
chased with beef-steak and mutton, constitute
the very best food for fruit-trees and grape-
vines, if the fragments are only placed
where the roots can lay hold of them. In-
stead of allowing pieces of bone to be cast
into the back-yard. as food for stray dogs
and strange cats, domestics should be direc-
ted to deposit everything of that sort in a
small tub provided with a lid. As soon ‘as
only a few pounds have accumulated, we
take the tub to some grape-vine or fruit- tree,
dig a hole, three or more feet long, and a foot
or two wide, and not less than a foot deep,
into which the ‘bones are dumped, spread
over the bottom of the excavation, and cov-
eredwith the soil. The more the fragments
can be spread around, the better. But they
should be buried so deep that a plow or spade
will not reach them. The roots of growing
vines or fruit-trees will soon find the valu-
able mine of rich fertility, and will feed on
the elements that will gently romote the
growth and healthy wood, and evelopment
of fair and luscious fruit. Many horticultu-
rists and farmers purchase bone-dust, costing
not less than two cents (per pound, simply
to enrich the soil aroun and beneath their
trees and vines. Fragments of bones are
just as valuable as ground—bones, although
their elements of fertility will not be found
available in so short a time as -if ‘the large
pieces were reduced to small atoms. Never-
theless, if large bones be buried three or four
feet from a grape-vine, the countless num-
bers of mouths at the ends of roots will soon
dissolve, take up, and appropriate every par-
ticle. When cast out of the kitchen door,
bones are like a nuisance; whereas if prop-
erly buried, they become a source of valuable
fertility. Let every person who owns a
grape-vine or fruit-tree save all the bones
that pass through the kitchen, and bury
them where such worthless material will be
turned to some profit.—Amcrz‘can Garden.

PROF. BURRILL says that a knife used in
destro ing peach trees that have the yellows
is liab e to communicate the disease to heal-
thy trees if used in prun1ng_ them. It me.
be rendered safe by dipping in carbolic aci .

Talks on Poultry, No. 15.

It has been our custom to give the sub-
stance of a few articles of general interest
from the leading poultry journals every
quarter or season. As before, the name of
the journal will be placed first, and may be
considered as a credit for what follows:

Poultry Bulletrim The business of fine
poultry has been more profitable and the
fowls finer than ever before. Coops, etc.,
should be stored. Hens will probably be
done moulting this month, then look out for
eggs. If you have no sand or gravel near,
collect a box full of road dust for a dust-
bath for fowls for winter. Cochins are de-
scended from shanghaes. Langshau breed-
ers are making efforts for the admission of
that fowl into the standard. Fowls should
lay from 150 to 180 eggs each per year.

Poultry World: Fowls intended for exhi-
bition should be kept together in apark fora
week or soto more accustom them to each
other, so they will not injure each other in
the show room. Some correspondents give
their experience in l)llyll.‘;.',’ and shipping
eggs for hatching with results good, bad and
indifferent; and from reports it seems to
leave the impression that the sale of pairs
and trios of fancy fowls is better for all con-
cerned than the sale of eggs;

American I’oultry Journal: In packing
eggs, three principal methods are noticed;
the simplest for a small number is putting
the eggs in a wire basket and immersing in
boiling water, taking them out quickly, or
placing eggs in a sieve and pouring hot wa-
ter over them slowly. Then smear the
shell with fresh butter, and pack in salt or
bran small end down and keep in a cool
place. Pick ducks or geese when the quills
of the feather is clean. Tie the legs and
draw a stocking over the head to prevent
its biting. Lay the bird on its back across
your lap with legs and tail under left arm,
and with the thumb and forefinger of the
right hand pluck all the small feathers.
Flax seed is recommended to give gloss to
plumage. 'l‘o test» for freshness, dissolve
ten ounces salt in a gallon of water, and if
the eggs are perfectly fresh they gradually
sink.

Grand View Farm,
Kalamazoo.

OLD PO ULTRY.

wool Handling.

THOSE who started the Wool Growers’
Exchange, chose Steubenville as the best
point to bulk wool. The wool did not bulk,
and they have gone, as did the woolen fac-
tories before them. Steubenville, although
nearly in the center of the heaviest wool
growing section of America, seems to be
unfortunate, with no fault of her citizens,
although the Gazette now and then admin-
isters to them a scolding.

Times and manners change. The woolen
factory made a heroic struggle, fortune after
fortune was spent in the effort to make it a
manufacturing center. One gentleman in
particular, who at one time was reported to
be the wealthiest man west of the Alleghe-
ny mountains, spent all his vast fortune in
the struggle, and we are told, took his last
meal from the county.

Times and tricks, manners and methods
are changing wool growing in this formerly
“greatest; wool growing section of Ameri-
ca.” To-day’s eastern markets show un-
washed wool more sought after than the
choicest Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Vir-
ginia wool. It has been so all season.—
Wool Growers’ Bulletin.

consign Your Wool.

“The custom adopted by individual growers
in recent years, of consigning their clips di-
rect to eastern commission muses for sale,
has, since the last shearing, been very largely
entered into, and as far as our experience
goes, with almost unexceptional satisfaction
to the shippers. The problem of how they
can best dispose of their wools, has been one
of the most important questions before the
wool growers’ associations during the past
year, and resulted in many experimental con-
si ments, the result of which, we believe,
Wlll lead to a. general adoption of this meth-
od of bringing their clips directly before the
manufacturer, in those States where large
flocks are the rule.”

Again the sheep trade has dropped back
to the rear. People cannot be blamed for
refusing to eat such stuff as is sent to market
for mutton, and the matter of securing a
good regular consumptive demand for mut-
ton lies chiefly in the hands of mutton pro-
ducers. The rice of mutton is low enough.
but the great ulk of the sheep meat thrown
upon the market is dear at any prlce.—Drov-
ers’ Journal, (Chicago)

Increased quantities of live sheep are bein
shipped this year to England, over the expo
of 1881. There has been a marked fallin off
in the shipment of beeves and dressed eef


  
   

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will send the VISITOR for------__----$1 00

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

INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

Midsu1nmer—Report from Southern Illinois—Meat
Supply of Nations—Concerning Butter—Save
Those Bones——Talks on Poultry, No. l5.—Wool
Handling—-Consign Your Wool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1

The State Capitol Fngrsvings—The State Fair-
General Notice—The Railway Discuss1on—Dan-
gers From Free Passes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . 2

The Farmer's Practical Enc c1opedia—The Curse of
drink—Patent Rights— by we Cough and How
we Ccugh—Boy Inventors—Too Poor to Take a
Paper—Railroads in Politics—Notices of Meet-
ings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

The Rumseller's Dream-The Organization of the
Grange Movement—-Peculiarities of ‘the Great
Michigan Fire—What the Words “T1mber" and
“LuInber" Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Van Buren County Pomona Grange—Morenci
Grange Picuic—Si1ver Creel: Grange No. 644-
Free Pass Bribery —Registration of Voters—The
Railway Problem Condensed,-No. 4—Advertise-
ments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5

A Bachelor’s Monologue —Intemperance——A Fraternal
Lettsr—Home—Are Women Entitled to Vote at
School Meetings? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6

Longfellow’s Love for Children—Under the Maple-
An Epistolary Conversation —Literary Style and
Discussion—Genius—The Reaper Death—-Adver-

§nulavt’s eiwnlmul.
. .l.T.Cosn, - - - - SoHooLcRAr'r.

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 0FFER——FIVE NEW sURsoRIBERs
Iron oNE YEAR WILL ENTITLE THE PER-
SoN SENDING US THE NAMES AND $2.50
To A SPLENDID LITHOGRAPH on THE
STATE CAPITOL or MICHIGAN, SIZE or
‘SHEET 22x28 INCHES.

 

THE STATE FAIR .

This institution for the promotion of ag-
riculture and the mechanic arts has had its
annual exhibition for 1882 at the city of
Jackson.

The weather which always has much to
do with the patronage of a fair, was not of
the very best, nor was the average very bad.

The attendance on Thursday, the day
that generally determines the financial re-
sults of fairs, was very large, judging from
the receipts at the gate, not less than 25,000.
A 1 ..:1 the night before followed by a dis-
H131, murky morning no doubt prevented a
few other thousands from leaving their
homes, and perhaps a few other thousands
that were caught out in a drenching rain
that commenced falling after 5 P. M., may
have repented their coming.

The exhibition itself was simply im-
mense. Spread out over acres of ground
where the eye could measurably take in its
extent the show of agricultural implements

and farm fixtures and machinery gave the-

strongest impression of the magnitude of the
exhibition.

An exchange gives the following:

The total number of entries in the differ-
ent classes is as follows: A, cattle, 507 ; B,
horses, 457; C, sheep, 520; D, swine, 248;
E, poultry. 462; F vegetables, 303; G, dairy
pssducts, 129- H, bees, 60; I, farm imple-
ments, 340; J’, vehicles, 160; K, machinery,
42; (a large number in this department
were shut out because they did not arrive in
time); L, manufactured gcods, 117; M, mn-
sical instrumens, sewing machines, optical
goods, 12; (many in this class came too late
for entry); N, department of art. 380; 0,
needle and fancy work 372; P, miscel-
laneous articles (many shut out), 81 ; Q.
children's department, 52 ; total, 4,222.

Of wind mills, steam engines, both station-
ary, and traction, mowers. reapers with
and without binders, threshers for all kinds
of grain and seed, fanning mills, plows, and
barrows, drills and cultivators, planters and

-rbroadcast seed sowers there seemed to be no
--end. A cursory glance requiring a few
-minutes’ walk covered all these things in
. great variety with scores of others not nam-
~- ed. Among all these things an observing
farmer could profitably spend the full time
allotted to a fair. But with a desire to see
-all a full and careful inspection is rarely
made by the average farmer.

The show of stock was said to foot up a
little less than last year, but in some lines to
have been much more full. Of cattle in
former years the short horn has been the
central figure overshadowing all others. But
other breeds are coming to the front and

sharply contesting this claim of supremacy.

Ens ensues vssrirgos.

Of these, first in order the Holstein demands
recognition, and with such energetic import-
ers and breeders as W. K. Sexton, of Howell;
Phelps & Seeley, of Farmington; Stone &
Briggs, of Hastings; Smith & Powell, Syra-
cuse, N. Y., and other exhibitors whose
names we fail to find on our memorandum,
this breed seems likely to hold a promi-
nent place among the best herds of Michi-
gan. There were six herds on the grounds
and certainly attracted more attention than
any other class.

The show of Jerseys was good, but they
lack size, importance and value in appear-
ance, and though their valuable milk-
ing qualities are admitted, they do not
attract l'ke cattle of more size and beauty.
There was a fine herd of GaIloway’s horn-
less and uniformly black, reported good
milkers, good size, quiet in disposition,
though in asquare fight able to upset the
horned sorts every time, other things being
equal.

The show in thevegetation department
was very fine. Bro. David Woodman, of
Paw Paw, had a splendid collection of farm
products. the most complete probably that
has ever been brought together by any one
man in the State. Such a collection adds
very much to the value of a fair, as proving
not only the capabilities of a Michigan
farm, but also the capabilities of a Michigan
farmer. And what he has done thousands
of others may do if they will.

A brilliant display of plants and flowers
attracted the lovers of the beautiful. A son
of the late Mr. Vick, of Rochester, N. Y.,
whose name is associated with flowers all
over the country had ,,a splendid collection
of flowers that fully proved that his fathers’
training had not been lost on him.

Among the farm machinery the first that
attracted our attention as entirely new was
a straw stacker manufactured by Reeve’s &
Co. Columbus Ind. This Stacker seems to
give the flnishing touch to improvements in
threshing machinery, supplies the place of
about three men and does their work much
better than it can be done in the usual
manner.

Another new thing under the sun was a
combined plow and pulverizer, or pul-
verizing wheel with aten inch face that is
expected to carry one side of a sulky plow
frame, tramp down all the loose trash and
pulverize the furrows completely, leaving
the plowed land ready to sow or plant.

Waldo’s combined road builder is un-
doubtedly a good thing, and if faithfully
worked would do as much work in a day as
all the men of a dozen districts usually do
and not tell half as many stories. But we
must not particularize, if gentlemen in-
terested in these and other implements wish
themintroduced to the farmers of Michigan,
for a consideration we shall be glad tofind
them space in our advertising columns.

We attended the State fair in the interest
of the GRANGE VISITOR. We did not give
as much time to the examination of exhibits
as needed to make a satisfactory report.
We had a tent on the grounds as head quar-
ters, for the Order, and met many Patrons
some for the first time, and with others re-
newed a former acquaintance. With Bro.
W. E. West of Lansing we distributed a
thousand copies of the VISITOR, frequently
introducing it to farmers who had never
heard of it, but more frequently meeting
those who were familiar with it. Of these
a good many said they could not get along
without it, We obtained some subscribers
and expect thatthe seed sown will give re-
turn some other day.

We were not able to give the time to an
examination of every department that we
should have liked. So far as we know the
several departments were under the direc-
tion of competent men and the State fair of
1882 was pronounced a success. We were
treated very courteously by the gentlemen
who have the management of this import-
ant soclety established to promote and
encourage agriculture and the mechanic
arts in one of the foremost States in this
great country.

But much as we saw to commend we can-
not forbear criticising the management for
sacrificing both dignity and decency by
the admission to the grounds of all the
catch-penny amusements known in the
country, to which was added several saloons
with all the gamblihgs and vicious and de-
moralizing influences that belong to and are
a part and parcel of the saloon business.
We insist that public sentiment will not
longer sustain the management in this com-
plete abandonment of asectien of the grounds
to any and everything that will pay for its
presence.

It is true a State fair is necessarily expen-
tive and we know the financial depart-
ment of-any institution must have receipts
equal expenditures to flourish or even con-
tinue to exist.

Michigan is one of the first States in the
Union. For variety and certainty of pro-
duction she stands unequalled. And we
say with pride that in the management of
her public affairs. in her educational, char-
itable and penal institutions she occupies
aplace in the front rank and in the gen-
eral intelligence of her people she is with-
out a peer. With these undisputed facts
before us can the score of gentlemen
in charge of her State Agricultural society
set up a defence for licensing every catch-
penny device, and every contrivance and

employment that serves to debauch and de-
moralize its patrons‘?

Are we in this thing alone falling behind
our neighbors ? We are compelled to give an
aflhrmation answer and the proof we oli-21'
comes from a lady friend, the wife of a for-
mer officer of this State society. A gentle-
man from Indiana said to her I am a demo-
crat from a democratic State and the
demwcratic party are reputed the party of
free whiskey. You live in a republican
State controlled by a party loud in its
professions of morality and decency.

But at our State fair no intoxicating
liquors are sold, no drunken men hauled
off the grounds on drays as I have seen
here every day. We do not know that the
usage of society in this matter has the ap-
proval of all its executive ofiicers. VVe hope
not. We only talked with one upon the
subject, and with the narrow pettifogging
ofa shyster lawyer he set up a defense, or
relief from responsibility of the most
shameless exhibition that came to our
knowledge.

We want no preaching—no lecturing or
encouragement to enterprises outside of the
legitimate objects of the society. But if
this thing is to continue, let us have another
Class added to the list,with a division super-
intendent for the encouragement of general
cussedness. This suggestion will find
numerous supporters among our fellow citi-
zens. Shall we have it?

 

GENERAL NOTICE.
MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,
SEcRETARv’s OFFICE, }
September 28, 1882.

The books of this office show at this date
the following Granges entitled to elect dele-
gates to the County and District Conven-
tions to be held on Tuesday, October 3, 1882,
by virtue of Section 3, Article 4, of By-Laws
of the Michigan State Grange. For the
purpose of securing the benefit of represen-
tation to all delinquent Granges we shall
add to the list all that may report up to the
last moment practicable, and delegates duly
elected who are able to show a receipt for
dues for the quarter ending March 31, 1882,
on which is endorsed by me “entitled to
representation,” should be allowed to par-
ticipate in the work of the convention.

Allegan—~3 Representatives. Nos. 37, 53,
  247, 248, 271, 296, 364, 390, 407, 461,

Barr:/-2. 38,5-5, 127, 145, 256, 424, 4.5,
472, 590, 648.
Berr7'.en——-3. 14, 40, 43, 46, 80, 81, 84, 87,

104. 122,123, 188. 194

B7'anch—2. 88, 91. 96, 97, 136, 137,
400.

C'alhoun—2. 65, 66, 83, 85, 129, 130, 200, 292.

Cass—l. 42, 125, 162, 176, 427.

C’lz'nton—2. 140., 202, 225, 226, 342, 343, 358,
370, 439, 456, 45_9"‘.05.

152,

    

Eaton—2. 134, 223, 224, 260, 301, 315,
360, 361, 619, 62
Genesee—1. :18, 255, 387.

Hilledale—3., 4. 73, 106, 107, 108, 133, 182,
183, 251, 269, 273,274, 285. 286, 568.

Ingha.m———2. 7,54. 235, 241, 262, 265, 287,
289, 322, 345, 347,540.

Iom'a—3. 163, 168, 174, 175, 185, 186, 137,
190. 191, 192, 270, 272. 281, 32-5, 640, 646.

Jaclcson——l. 2, 28, 45, 227, 320, 321, 344.
2 Kalamazoo—2 8, 11, 16, 18, 21, 24, 49, 61,

03.

Kent—5. 19, 39,63, 73, 110, 113. 170, 219,

220, 221, 222, 295, 337, 348, 350, 353, 479, 563,

564. 634.
Lapeer--1. 246, 396, 448, 466, 549, 607, 645.
Liv'ingston—l. 6, 57, 90, 114, 336, 596, 613.
Macomb—1. 403. 414. 445,623, 637.
65Montcalm~—1 318, 436, 437, 440, 441, 530,
' 0.
Newaj/go—1. 494, 495. 511, 544, 545.
Oceana—l. 393, 406. 600.
0akland——3. 141, 245, 253, %9, 267, 275,

283, 323, 328, 335, 377, 403, 443.
Ottawa—1. 30, 112. 313, 421. 639,647, 652.
Sc. Jose h—3. 22, 76. 178, 199, 215, 236,

237. 266, 1, 303, 304, 332, 333.
6 013'hia.wassee—1. 151,160, 180,228,229, 252,
Tuscoza—1. 513, 526, 543. 582. 593, 642, 649.

Van Buren—3. 10, 23. 26, 27, 32, 60, 89,

158, 159, 172, 230, 346, 355, 610.
Wa.shtenaw-2. 52, 56, 59, 92, 239, 329, 351,
399, 476, 631.

Wa.ync———2. 268, 298, 331, 367, 368, 389, 618,
622, 636.

We have followed the suggestions of
friends so far as possible in arranging the
districts. Those having but one or two are
unfortunate in that such a minority stands
a poor chance of getting a representative
from its own body and usually must go
quite a distance to attend a convention of
its stronger neighbors in another county.
As arranged the districts are as follows,
and the convention‘ will be held at the
county seat of the county having the
largest number of Granges entitled, except
in the sixth district. In this district the
convention will be held at the Gilbert
House in Reed City at 12:30 P. M.

First Distn'ct—2 Re . Lenawee, 167, 212,
213, 276, 277, 278, 279, 0, 384, 438. Monroe,
50 .

Second Dia.—1 Rep. Grand Traverse,
379, 469, 624, 638, 653. Antrim, 470.

Third Di.st.——1 Rep. St. Clair, 408, 491, 528.
Sanilac, 566, 641.

Fourth Di.s.—l Rgp. Manistee, 557, 580,
633. Wexford, 632, 4. Mason,_415. ,
Fifth Dis.--1 Rep. Saginaw, 464, 574.
Ba ,597, 635.

ixth Dis.—l Rep. Mecosta, 362, 517.
Osceola, 651. '

Seventh Dz'at.—1 Rep. Leelanaw, 374, 375,

380. Benzie, 381.

OUR friend Garver, “the inventor” failed
toacquaint us with his post ofiice address
and therefore we cannot tell whether he

gets the VISITOR by subscription or not and
we are of course unable to forward to his
address copies containing articles called
out by his communication. We had hoped
that he had not retired from the field satis-
fied with the discharge of one volley. If
his ition is well taken he ought to reply
to t e articles called out by his attack upon
us. A retired merchant H. B. in this num-
ber has hit Mr. Garver again,‘and if he
don’t “talk back” soon we shall conclude
that he has abandoned the contest defeated.

OCTOBER 1, 1832,

 

THE RMLWAY DISCUSSION.

We desire to call the attention of U112‘ readers
to the series of articles entitled The Railway
Problem (fumlcnsed, which we commenced in
the VISITOR for August 15. Number 4 of the
series is published in another column of this
Issue and is of special importance In the devel-
opment of the subject. The articles are writ.-
ten by J. M. Mason for the Farm and Fireside.
one of the most valuable of our exchanges,
These articles are written with great care and
seem to compass in the most concise language

all the important facts bearing upon the rein-_

tions which the railway corporations sustain to
the people. The article 11.1 the present num-
ber deals mainly With the evils arising from
discrizninations in freights. as between individ-
uals snrl also between difierent towns. The
well }.1...wn oil monopolyis sketched simply as
an example. it is only one instance out of a
great number and is selected because of the
peculiar enormity of the scheme. A peculiari-
ty of these monopolies, sustained by the railway
power of discrimination. is that the burdens are
so concealed that the people do not understand
their right. Moreover the prosperity of the
country Is so great that no immediate disasters
are brought upon individuals, except upon the
rival dealers whose business has been de-
stroyed. Yet the fact remains that competition
has been absolutely crushed in the manufac-
ture and sale of one of the prime necessities of
modern civilized liie,—-an article that ranks in
importance by the side of breadstuffs
and cotton In the markets of the
world It has been shown, too, that this
more than kingly power is substantially with-
in the grasp of four men who are capable of
uniting so perfectly in the execution of their
schemes that the power of one seldom oper-
ates as a check' or restraint upon that of the
others. The business world is under the do-
minion of an absolute monarchy which is rap-
idly acquiring permanency as well as strength.
The same power has almost as complete con-
trol of the other products of the country as it
has of petroleum. The value of all the pro-
ducts of labor depend so largely upon the
element of transportation that whoever can
control the one element can control It all. In
the complex system of modern trade and com-
merce, the power to regulate values is next in
magnitude to a power of controlling the ele-
ments.—the wind, the rain and the sunlight.

T1115 power of the railways has been a growth
attendant upon the wonderful expansion of
this nation In prosperity and wealth. The
railways themselves have been one of the
most important factors in the promotion of
the very prosperity which their owners now
seek to guide and control for their own bene-
fit; and yet the present railway kinps are not
entitled to all the credit of furnishing the
country with means of transportation. If
they were entitled to this credit, they would
even then have no just claim to control the
business and wealth of the country as their
reward.

The articles to which we have referred con-
sist of solid statements of facts with few com-
ments or deductions. Our readers are
left to draw their own inferences and
form their own theories. The writer
points out the necessity of leg1slat1ve remedies
and all will probably agree that in the domain
of legislative power, must we look for the
preservation of our liberties. The power
which ought to be regulated. has exercised a
dangerous influence over the courts, and yet
the foundation principles necessary to legis-
lative control have been fully established by
judicial decisions.

It may sometime be established that all the
work of railway transportation, including
passengers and freight, is properly a function
of government. The transportation of letters
and other means of communication between
different parts of the country has been so con-
considered from the foundation of our govern-
ment, and the principle is so vital that its
neglect would have been fatal to business
prosperity. It is really an anomaly in principle
that telegraphic communication should be
placed in the hands of private corporations
and the error is now producing its results.
The telegraph lmes have been monopolized,
and the more necessary they are made to the
very existence of business, the more merciless
is their use as a means of extortion. The
business of the country is forced to pay divi-
dends on $80,000,000 of capital stock which is
based on a plant of not more than a quarter

of that amount. It seems to be the fact that
all business connections between distant
points become the_ subject of dangerous mon-
opolies in proportion to_the 1m rovements in
methods. and In proportion as t e products of
labor depend upon them for _ their values.
These facilities of communication are of such
importance that they must in some manner be
removed from the grasp of_ stock-'obbers and
monopolists. The prosperity an almost the
existence of the nation depend upon stability
and oheapuess In rates of transportation, and
these interests are too sacred to be manipu-
lated at the will of capitalists and speculators.

 

ALL families in this State, some or all of
which are Patrons do not take the VISITOR
and we suggest that this series of articles

whid we co y from the Farm and Fire-
side, he rea at the meetings of Subordi-
nate Granges. They will not only open
the eyes of many to the magnitude of this
wer which is intent on absorbin an un-
ue roportion of the earnings 0 produc-
tive abor, but will in so doing point to the
necessity of co-operative effort on the part
of the industrial classes in an efi’ort to stay
the tide which threatens to overwhelm us.
“The Railway Problem Condensed" should
be read‘ in every Subordinate Grange in the
country.

DANGERS FROM FREE PASSES.

We wish to give our voting readers an
--,»p'~rtl1nii_y to discriminate against candi-
.1.~;._s 1.»: ‘.116 next Legislature of Michigan
who will not give a satisfactory answer to
the circular herewith printed,
which have been sent to our friends in
each of the counties of the State where
there are Granges.

A good many Granges have adopted the
resolutions of the Kalamazoo County
Grange pledging its members not to vote
for any candidate who refuses to pledge
himself nottoaccept or use, if elected, a
free pass during his term of otfice.

To .................................... --

Please forward to me at your earliest con-
venience an answer to the enquiry found in
the following

CIRCULAR LETTER.

The introdutioii but a few years ago of
railway trzinsportation into this country pro-
vided 21 new means of concentrating capital.
By its Inzinipulation where but little was so
invested, schemes familiarly known and
understood by but few, of vastly increasing
that capital have been developed. 1~‘ortunes
of inconceivable dimensions have been accu-
mulated by a few men, and corresponding
power to dominate over the financial inter-
ests of 50,000,000 of people ilnds that people
to-day entirely at the mercy of». score of our
fellow citizens who a few years ago had only
average wealth and influence.

That these few men use that power and
In-akc unreusonzlblc and- exorbitant levies
upon the people has been so often proved
that we will not stop here to illustrate, us
that is not necessary to our present purpose.
Coxnlnencing ut the initial point of 1n21.nage-
ment—tl1e local politic-ian—:u1d following up
their purpose to give direction to legislation
and determination to judicial procecdnigs,
we ilnd the free pass systcni one of the
Ineztns used to ztccolnplisli their objects.

The established and universail practice on
the part of I'ail1'o21d Inzuiugers of furiiisliiiig
free pztsses to all legislative and judicial
oiiiccrs of the National and State govern-
ments sonie time ago raised the enquiry,
Wl1y is this thing done? Although the true
answer when nnule has always been equival-
cut to :1 confession of an established system
of bribery, yet I'2l.llW&!._V' otlicials on the one
l12uul,:u1d their thousands of faivorcd indi-
viduals on the other, liuvegiucn and received
without protest from the people. until a
wide spread feeling of alarin pervades the
public mind at the vustiiess of the power
and influence which :1 few men have acquired
in this country.

With this general upprelieiision comes the
enquiry, what are the people going to do
about it? The talk, discussion, coinplaints
and recital of wrongs inflicted and endured,
that has been going on for the last few years
has but slightly, if at all impeded the con-
stantly growing power, arbitrarily and often
tyraiiniczilly exercised over the people by the
managers of these stupcnduous corporations.
But this talk and discussion must precede,
and is the prelilninury work, the preparatory
step, to positive corrective action. That the
time has come i'or such action Seems to be
very generally felt.

When the legislative and judicial otlicers
of the Natioiial and State government who
alone are able to protect the people tron: the
imposition of these abuses by the managers
of these corporations, are each and every one
of them always provided with free transpor-
tation and this courtesy is extended only to
iniiuential individuals of other classes, the
conclusion is irresistible that something is
expected i11 return. To such an extent has
this abuse been carried that influential men
are allowed to use their discretion in dis-
tributing the favors of these corporations.
The Anti-monopoly League of New York
capturcdafree pass issued by the General
Superitendent of the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad, on “Account of Su-

preme Court.” Whenjudges of the Supreme _

Court of the Empire State are provided
with blank passes signed by the General
Superintendent of its most important grail-

way, to be used not only by the recipient, ‘

but by the friends whose names he may in-
sert, it would certainly seem that the com-
panies must deem themselves under pressing
obligations for past unmerited favors or sol-
icitors for such favors in the future:

The custom of supplying the members of
our State Legislature with free passes has
produced a. most injurious effect upon the
business of legislation, The members are
enabled to leave the State Capitol and travel
about the country without expense. Many of
the members have important business inter-
ests of their own at home, and in different
parts of the State, and they are induced to
neglect their duties at Lansing by the facil-
ity with which they can visit their homes.
The result is Seen in irregular attendance,
hurried and careless legislation, and pro-
tracted sessions. The session of 1881, was
probably six weeks longer than necessity re-
quired. The expense of this extraordinary
delay is a useless burden upon the people and
the injury arising from loose and irregular
business methods in the work of the session
is incalculable.

A well-founded apprehension is felt among
the people that the great railway corpo-
rations are working steadily and persistently
to secure a corrupt and controlling influence
over legislative bodies and courts. The
records of our national Congress show that
these corporations have wielded, in the halls

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OCTOBER 1, 1882

of legislation, a power that is excessive and
dangerous to the best interests of the
country. Their arbitary power over the
values of commodities, and of discrimin-
ating for or against individuals, towns and
cities, concentration of that power in the
hands of the few, constitute a standing
menace to the liberties of the people.

This ‘vast and increasing monopoly not
only dominates and overshadows the bus-
iness interests of the whole country, but it
threatc ns to control all legislation and, by its
wealth and lavish distribution of favors, to
dictate the decisions of the highest tribunals
of justice in the land. The few unscrup-
ulous schemers who hold in their grasp the
destinies of the business world are thus
striving by means of the legislature and the
courts, to seize upon and administer in the
nest despotic manner the essential func-
tions of government itself.

In view of these facts it
cause of solicitude and alarm to
every thoughtful citizen that our
judges and members of legislative bodies are
constantly accepting important favors of
great pecuniary value, at the hands of the
very corporations whose well understood
purpose it is to make all law and justice
subservient to their own selfish interests.
No man can accept such favors, granted
without apparent consideration and still re-
tain his freedom of judgment and action.

The people have a right to demand that
their representatives, their law makers and
their judges shall be free from all personal
obligations to railway corporations, and
that the unseemly and disgraceful practice
on the part of these ofllcers of accepting
free passes on the railroads, shall be pro-
hibited by law.

As a preliminary step towards the attain-
mentof this end, each nominee for senator
or representativein the State legislature is
requested to pledge himself to refuse to ac-
cept any free pass on any railway in the
State, If vou should be elected to the of-
fice for which you are nominated, will you
refuse all free passes that may be offered or
sent ioyou by any railway official in this
State while you are occupying such office‘?

Please forward your reply to the under-
signed and oblige. Respectfully yours,

Signed ...................... --

is a just

THE FARMERS’ PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA.

(PUBLISHED BY CHAPMAN nnornnns, CHICAGO.)

This work was left on our table more than a
month ago for examination with a request that
after such examination had been made we
should give to our readers such endorsement
as we thought it entitled to.

The work is in two volumes, splendidly and
substantially bound. But this is of small con-
sequence compared with the contents of the
book. Its name is significant. and that sig-
nificance is maintained in the arrangement,
variety, detail and completeness of the work.
The alphabetical arrangement of subjects and
the concise statement of facts and opinions,
makes it a most useful book of reference, one
to which our most enlightened farmers will
oftenest turn because they will best appreci-
ate its value. Every topic involved in prac-
tical farm life is herein briefly explained, and
no one will be more surprised than the farmer
himself as he turns the 1,300 pages of this En-

cvclonsdia at the diversity and extent of this

great Agricultural interest which is the basis
or bedrock on which all other industries rest.

The indoor farmer will find useful hints,
from planning a house to preparing a meal.
that in very many ways will add to her stock
of useful knowledge in the line of domestic
labor.

In its make-up, arranged as a dictionary,
every practical subject that concerns farm and
domestic life is treated in a few lines. or so
amplified as to make the reader feel well
posted upon the subject discussed.

This brief reference gives but a meagre
idea of the scope of this work. We shall oc-
casionally draw upon its pages for the Agri-
cultural Department of the Visitor and
hope to so interest our readers that
many of them will ‘ buy this work.
Every farmer's family able to buy
what it really needs will make money. by
buying and often referring to The F’a1-mere’
Practical Encyclopedia.

The curse of Drink.

The appetite for strong drink in man has
spoiled the lives of more women—ruined
more homes for them, scattered more
fortunes for them, brought them to more sor-
row. shame and hardship—than any other
evil that lives. The country numbers tens,
nay hundreds of thousands of women who
are widows today, and sit in their hopeless
weeds, becahse their husbands haw been
slain by strong drink. There are bu:-_.li-eds
of thousands of homes scattered «\ .1‘ the
land, in which they live lives of torture, go-
ing through all changes of suffering that _lie
between the extremes of fear and despair,
because those whom they have SWOIII to
love, love wine better than the woman they
have sworn to love. There are women by
the thousands who dread to hear at the door
the step that once filled them with pleasure,
because that step has learned tp reel under
the influence of the seductive _ p01SOI1-
There are women groaning with pain While
we write these words, from bruises and
brutalities inflicted by husbands made_ m!_1d
by drink. There can be no exaggeration in
regard to this matter, because no human
imagination can create anything worse than

the truth, and no pen is capable of portray .

ing the truth.—Dr. Holland.

TEE GRANGE VISITOR.

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Patent Rights.

\

For the Grange Visitor.
In Mr. Garver’s bill of complaints against
the GRANGE Visiron he expresses a doubt
whether there has been a new and useful
invention goten up in 25 years that has not
had to fight its way through a score or more
of hungry, thieving, leaching vampires,
who are determined to steal the right and
infringe on the patent. Then, Mr. G., why
not get after these fellows instead of the
farmers, your only patrons ? '

I doubt whether there has been a real
useful invention consisting of numerous
parts patented in that length of time that
has been wholly the product of one man’s
brain, and in too many instances the patent
has been granted to the one least entitled to
it. -This has induced his_ co-inventors,
to consider themselves (in justice if
not in law), as much the owner of
the invention and the right to manufacture
as he who falsely obtained the patent. How
often does it happen that -when two or more
persons are discussing a project that the same
idea seems to occur to both at the same
instant of time.

It is said that necessity is the mother of
invention. Those of you who remember
the cutting and contriving and the experi-
mental test that Hiram Moore of your
county went through before the big harvester
was a success, know that many men’s brains
and the ingenuity of many mechanics was
taxed on the diflicult parts of that machine
to perfect it.

The story used to be told that the late
John Hascall, of Genesee Prairie, finding
great difilculty in getting laborers to harvest
his wheat, dreamed how a machine could
be made to cut it with less manual labor,
and that Mr. Moore got his first idea of such
a machine from Mr. Hascall, and it was some
years before such a machine was perfected
in all its parts.

The first cutter was made with a straight
edge, like a scythe, and this slipped over
instead of cutting the grain, the next was a
smooth scolloped edge, but still a failure.
Then, it was said, a worthy Schoolcraft
mechanic made a fluted or sickel-edge cutter
and this worked well, and which was soon
patented and claimed as the invention of a
reaper man, and it was not until some
reaper men got into a quarrel over who the
right of inventing the sickel-edge cutter
belonged, to that Mr. Moore received any
compensation for the time spent in com-
bining and perfecting this wonderful
mammoth machine, the “Reaper’s Grand-
father.”

I can’t see how any honest inventor and
manufacturer can object-to the position the
VISITOR takes in this matter. The very
best of feeling should exist between the
inventor and manufacturer of any
agricultural implement and the farmer.
Both must know that all the value it
acquires is from its purchase and use by the
farmer, and what an immense amount of
machinery is owned and laid aside by the
farmer, often when the patentee has made a
fortune out of it, to give place to more
modern improvements ?

Mr. Garver states that there is now 22
different patterns of the spring barrow.
Can he claim that none of them are an im-
provement over his original patent? and
if so, can he blame the farmer for wanting
the best ? and if no improvement has been
made, how are farmers outside his immedi-
ate neighbood to know which of the 22
was made by him or from a purchased
right from him ‘I

Mr. Garver’s comparison of the stolen
horse is unfairly stated. The same law that
allows him to recover a stolen horse would
enable him to recover his spring tooth
harrow if stolen. But a good and applicable
comparison can be had with the horse: A
-farmer has purchased a horse and a spring
tooth harrow from parties having as he
supposed the right of ownership in them,
and for which he has paid the
full market value. In one, two or
perhaps five years afterwards some
man comes along and informs him
that he has a claim of $10 on that horse.
“Why so?” says the farmer. “Why, I am
the owner of his sire and I never got my
pay for him.” Does any one pretend to say
that his claim is good either in law or in
equity. No, he would be told to collect
from the seller of the horse.

Then along comes another man and tells
him he has a claim of $5 on his spring
tooth barrow. “How so? I bought and
paid the full market value for it.” “That
may be, but I claim royalty for an infringe-
ment on my patent,” “Yes,” says the
farmer, “but I did not infringe,” and he
would be told as was the horse man that
he must collect from the seller and not from
him, that “Sauce for the goose should be
sauce for the gander.”

The manufacturer of agricultural imple-
ments and the farmer should work for each
other’s interest, as the only value the article
acquires, is from its purchase and use by
the faimer. It would not be worth the
value of the material of which it is composed
if it found no purchaser and to encourage
the farmer to buy new- and improved

patented impliments, both should desire
the passage of a law to define who the
patentee must look to for royalty and relieve
the farmer from his present liability to be
constantly harrassed and annoyed by patent
right lawyers who are the principal parties
that are now opposing the passage of such a
law, and who would be deprived of a part
of the fat living they now unjustly get from
the sweat of other men’s faces, and
the farmers would luy more freely if the
risk of paying twice was removed.

80 thinks one who desires the prosperity
of both but has no personal interest in
either. H. Ii.

Why we Cough and How we Cough.

Everybody coughs sometimes, and judg-
ing by the quantity of patent cough medi-
cines sold, many people must be coughing
all the time. Most persons suppose that a
cough is a _’cough, the world over;
and that what will cure one will another;
and so they prescribe for themselves and
their friends all sorts ofsyrups, home made
or proprietary, with the consoling assertion
that “it can’t do any hurt, if it don’t do any
good.” How do you know it can’t do any
hurt.” Do you know its ingredients, and, if
so, have you studied their effects upon the
system in health and in disease? Do you
know the condition of the patient you are
prescribing this for,—-his constitution, his
habits of life, his past history ?

Let us see what a cough is. It isa sudden
and forcible expulsion of the air from the
lungs, preceded by a temporary closure ofthe
windpipe to give additional impulse to the
current of air. The effect of these spasmodic
expirations is the removal of whatever may
have accumulated in the air-tubes, whether
a foreign body from without, as when a par-
ticle of food finds its way into the wind-pipe,
or an accumulation of mucus secreted by the
air passages themselves.

Coughing is in part a voluntary act. VVe
can cough whenever we wish to, but fre-
quently we are compelled to cough when we
don’t wish to. Nerves are divided into two
classes, sensory and motor nerves. The for-
mer carry intelligence to the brain ’ they
report any disturbance on the frontier to
headquarters. The motor nerves then carry
back the commands of the general to act.
You tickle a friends ear with a straw, and
his hand automatically proceeds to scratch
the itching member. A tickling sensation
is produced in the throat by any cause what-
ever ; the brain then sends back orders to
the muscles concerned to act so as to expel
the intruder, in other words, to cough. And
that is how we cough.

The source of the impression may be vari-
ous. Frequently it is due to an irritation of
the respiratory organs by foreign bodies,
dust, and acrid vapors, admitted with the
air in health, or to damp, cold air itself, if
the organs are particularly sensitive, or to
the presence of mucus, pus, or blood, in dis»
ease. Inflamation, from whatever cause,
acts as a source of uneasiness.

There are, as we all know, many dfferent
kinds of cough. Thus, we have the dry
cough, without expectoration. We have
the short, hacking cough, resulting from
slight irritation, and'th_e violent, spasmodic,
and convulsive cough, caused by a greater
degree of irritation or some peculiar modifi-
cation thereof. Then there are the occa-
sional, the incessant, ‘and the paroxysmal
cough, terms that explain themselves.
Hearse, wheezing. bar/ling and shrill coughs
are due to the tension or capacity of the rim
of the wind-pipe, or other portion of the
tube. The hollow cough owes its peculiar
sound to resonance in the enlarged tubes or
the cavities in the lungs, if such exist,
Sometimes the exciting cause of acough lies
not in the lungs and respiratory organs, but
in the stomach, liver, or intestines. In oth-
er cases there seems to be no real cause; it is
purely nervous or hysterical. ,

Cough remedies should be suited to the
kind of cough in question, and attempt, if
possible, to remove the cause. It is evident
that a cough may be lessened either by re-
moving the source of irritation, or by dimin-
ishing the excitability of the nervous me-
chanism through which it works. Both
methods are generally employed, and most
of the popular cough medicines consist of an
expectorant and a sedative, in some mucil-
aginous or saccharine men strum. Sedatives
lessen the excitability of the nerve centre
through the act of coughing is roduced.
Opium in sufficient quantities wil stop any
cough, but if the secretion goes on accumu-
lating, the patient must be allowed to cough,
or he dies of suffocation.

Glutinous and saccharine substances les-
sen irritation, and as it frequently happens
that much of the irritation which occasions
the cough exists at the root of the tongue,
and in portions of the throat which can be
reached by troches and lozenges slowly dis-
olving in the mouth; hence these often af-
ford relief, especially in dry, hacking coughs
and the so-called tickling in the throat,
Iceland moss, marshmallow, and gum arabic
belong to this class. Their power is prob-
ably due to their covering the inflamed and
irritable surface directly with a mucilagi-
nous coat, and thus protecting it from the
action of the air and other irritations. An
inflamed surface. whether within or with-
out, is rendered worse by friction: therefore
in bronchial troubles, the inflamed surfaces
are greatly irritated by the very act of cough-
ing. Hence persons are advised to “hold
in,” or to refrain from coughing. All cough-
ing beyond what is absolutely necessary for
the removal of the acumulated mucus should
be avoided, because it injures the parts af-
fected by friction, and because it exhausts
the patient; for the muscular exertion in-
volved in a violent fit of coughing is very
considerable indeed, and the muscular effort
exerted by a patient with a bad cough
during the twenty-four hours is really more
than equivalent to that of many a man in a
day’s work. Both sedatives and mucilagi-
nous substances can be employed then, to
check the excessiveamount of coughing over
and above that required to relieve the lungs
and bronchial tubes of their accumulated
mucus. To facilitate the removal of this,
expectorants of various kinds are admin-
istered, according to the necessities of the
case.

The difficulty in the way of recommend-
ing any kind of cough remedy is that dif-
ferent coughs require different kinds of treat-
ment, what will relieve one may aggravate
another. Then. too, the general health of
the patient must be attended to, the secre-

tions kept open, etc. In short, the maxim,
“VVhat is one man’s meat, is another man's
poison,” applies here as elsewhere, and in-
duces us to protest against the use of any
nostrum simply because it cured a neighbor.
—Boslon Journal of Cheniislry

Boy Inventors.
A boy’s elders are guilty of a foolish act
when they snub him because he says or does
something which they dont understand.

respect as a man’:-, so long as he behaves
himself.

In the following anecdotes wise and fool-
ish elders are exhibited; one class respect-
ing and the other despising a boy.

Some of the most important inventions
have been the work of boys.

The invention of the valve motion to the
steam-engine was the work of a mere boy.

Newcome’s engine was in a very incom-
plete condition, from the fact that there was
no way to open or close the valves, except
by means of valves operated by the hand.

He set u a large engine at one of the
mines, an a boy, Humphrey Potter, was
hired to work these valve levers; although
this was not hard work, yet it required his
constant attention.

As he was working the levers he saw that
parts of the engine moved in the right direc
tion, and at the same time he had to open or
close the valves.

He procured a strong cord and made
one end fast to the proper part of the engine,
and the other end to the valve lever; and
the boy then had the satisfaction of seeing
the engine move with perfect regularity of
motion.

A short time after the foreman came
around and saw the boy playing marbles at
the door.

Looking at the engine he saw the inga
unity of the boy, and also the advantage of
so great an invention.

The idea suggested by the boy’s inventive
genius was put in practical form, and made
the steam-engine an automatic working ma-
chine.

The power-loom is the invention of a
farmer’s boy who had never seen or heard of
such athing.

He whittled one out with his jack-knife,
and after he had got it all done he, with
great enthusiasm, showed it to his father,
who at once kicked it to pieces, saying he
would have no boy about him who would
spend his time on such foo'lish things.

The boy was sent to a blacksmith to learn
a trade, and his master took a lively interest
in him.

He made a looni of what was left of the
one his father had broken up, and showed it
to his master.

The blacksmith saw he had no common
boy as an apprentice, and that the invention
was a valuable one.

He had a loom constructed under the

supervision of the boy.
It worked to their perfect satisfaction,
and the blacksmith furnished the means to
manufacture the looms, and-the boy received
half the profits.

In about a year the blacksmith wrote to

the boy’s father that he should bring with
him a wealthy gentleman who was the in-
ventor of the celebrated loom.
You may be able to judge of the 8.SCOlllé-5ll-
ment at the old home when his son was pre-
sented to him as the inventor, who told him
that the loom was the same as the model
that he kicked to pieces but a year ago.-
Statesman.

Too Poor to Take a Paper.

Moore, of the Rural New Yorker, was
sitting in his otilce one afternoon, when a
farmer friend of his came in.

“Mr. Moore, I like your paper, but the
times are so hard I can’t pay for it.”

“Is that so, friend Jones ? I'm very sorry
that you are so hard run. I will give
you my paper.”

“O, no! I can’t take it as a gift.”

“Well, then, let me see how we can flx it.
You raise chickens, I believe.”

“Yes, a few; but they don’t bring any-
thing, hardly.”

“Don’t they ? Neither does my paper cost
anything, hardly. Now, I have a propo-
sition to make to you. I will continue your

aper, and when you go home you may so
ect from your lot one chicken, and call it
mine. Take good care of her, and bring me
the proceeds, whether in eggs or chickens,
and I will call it square.”

“All right, Brother Moore,” and the far-
mer chuckled as he went out, at what he
thought a clever bargain. He kept the con-
tract strictly, and at the end of the year
found that he had paid about four prices for
his paper. He often tells the joke on him-
self, and says he never had the cheek to say
that he is too poor to take a paper since.-
Chrislian Mirror.

Railroads in Politics.

Some of the phases of the recent freight-
handlers’ strike illustrated the power and
influence which the railroads have attained
in the community through their use of mon-
ey in politics. Chiefs of police vie with
each other in their alacrity to serve the rail-
road managers, and under the pretense of
preserving order,do all in their power to in-
timidate and overawe the strikers who are
simply contending for a meager subsistance,
to which they are justly entitled. When,
after two or three weeks’ derangement of
business, and merchants apply, through the
Attorney-General, for a mandamus, compel-
ling the railroads to perform their functions
as common carriers with their usual dis
patch, and a prompt decision of this question
is absolutely necessary to be of any use, the
railroads retain ex-Senator Conkling as
counsel, and to suit his convenience, and
that of president Jewett, of the Erie Rail-
road, Attorney-General Russell consents to
a further delay of ten days, apparently re-
gardless of the fact that the convenience of
the whole community is opposed to that of
Mr. Conkling and the railroads. It is a
shame that public corporations, performing
a delegated function of the State-—the
furnishing of public highways--should. in
order to save themselves a few dollars, be
permitted to impose upon the community a
loss which it is safe to say is a thousand
times as great, and it illusterates their power
in politics when public officers are so ten-
der of the railroad interest, and so regardless
of that of the public. We hope to see the
time when the Attorney-General of this
State, instead of waiting for shippers to ask

him to protect the public interest, will vol-

A boy’s personality is entitled to as much .

untariiy institute proceedings the moment
that it becomes apparent that corporations
are neglecting their duties. It is pretty ev-
identthat the corporations have taken too
much interest in politics of late yei;_.-'s, and
that the people have taken too little). “'9
hope to see this state of things corrected.-
Anierican Dair,z/man.

THE apple crop is turning out badly in
nearly all sections. In Illinois apples are
almost a total failure. Mr. B. F. Gue, of
Des Moines, tells the New York Trilzime that
he never saw a poorer prospect for Iowa
apples than that presented this year; what
little fruit there is is “small, wormy and
generally defective,” and one of the largest
apple growers in New York, after a journey
among the orchards of that State. puts the
crop down as a failure, and a similar condi-
tion prevails in New England. Michigan
crops are equally if not more discouraging.

THE Scientific American ives the follow-
ing informarion to those w o desire to get
rid of stumps on the farm: “In the autumn
or early winter bore a hole one or two inches
in diameter, according to the girth of the
stump, and about eight inches deep. Put
iiito itone or two ounces ofsziltpetre, flll the
hole with water, and plug it close. In the
ensuing spring take out the plug and pour in
a gill of kerosene oil and ignite it. The
stump will smoulder away. without blazing,
to the vi ry extremity of the roots, leaving
nothing but ashes.”

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

Newaygo county Peniona Grange, No. ll,
will hold its next regular meeting with Cro-
ton Grange, No. 511, at “Oak Grove,” in the
township of Croton, October 10 and 1], coni-
mencing on Tuesday, at 2 o'clock P. 31.,
when the following essays and topics for
discussion will be intro-luced in the regu-
lar order of business in open Grange.

The railroad system of “free passes,” is it
bribery——and shall we vote for men who
hold and use them‘? L. Rt-inolalt.

Why should farmers be better educated?
Nelson Sinltli.

\Vhat system of farming is best calculated
to increase the fertility or --ur farms? Win.
Hillman and S V. Walker.

VVastes and mistakes in farming. T. H.
Stuart. and T. Taylor.

Reading or gossip-—whlcli shall it be‘? Es-
say by Mrs. Lovica Dancer.

Small farms vs. large farms. D. D. Hop-
pick and John Barnhard.

“Nothing but a farmer.”
L. E. Wright.

Clover as a fertilizer.
Andrew Flynn.
Which costs the farmer the most—-igno-
rance or education? L. E. W'right.

M. W. Scorn‘,
Lecturer 610 Grange.

Program for Hillsdale county Pomona
Grange, Sept. 30, 1882. The Grange will
open at 10 o'clock sharp with music by the
choir. Regular order of business.

Welcome address, Sister Griswold.

Essay. Sister Cliskner Allen.

Instrumental music by Bro. Willetts, and
Sister Nora Freeman.
Recess.
Select reading by Sister Benedict.
A rehearsal by Sister Nettie Wells, Allen.
Essay, Bro. L. B. Agard.
Music, Bro. Willetts, Sister Nora Free-
man.
Dream, Bro. J. Wagner, Fayette.
Topic for discussion, What is the duty of
the farmer in securing the nomination and
election of suitable men to ofilce? open by
Bro. Benedict. R. W. FREEMAN,

Secretary.

Essay by Mrs.
N. Mccallum and

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.

Cleon, Aug. 21, 1882. B. L. DEAN.

The annual meeting of Lapeer Co. Po-
mona Grange, No. 29, will be held with
Montgomery Gran e, No. 549, in their hall
five miles north 0 Burnside, on Tuesday,
October 3, 1882. It is hoped that all fifth
degree members will be present, as there is
a large amount of business to be done.
The question of changing the annual meet-
ing from the first Tuesday in_ Octoberto
some fixed time in January will be brought
up and decided at the coming meeting, to be
opened at 1 o’clock P. M. sharp.

J. W. SCHELL, Sec’y.

Kalamazoo County Pomona Gran e will
calla meeting at Arcadia Grange all in
Kalamazoo, Thursday, October 19, at 10
o'clock, A. M. All fourth de rec members
are invited to be present. be following
sub‘ects will be discussed :—
ssay—-Kinds of fruit for this county,
and their culture, by Emmons Buell.

Select Reading, Mrs. C. C. Draper.

Recess for dinner.

Profits of corn and wheat culture compar-
ed. by Lewis Johnson.

What the Grange has done socially for
women. by Mrs, Hawkins, of Portage
Grange. -

Present and future of the farmer, Z. by C.
Durkee.

Criticisms of our State and County fairs.

_ J. T. Conn,
By order of Ex. Committee.

The next regular meeting of Eaton County
Pomona Grange will be held at the hall of
Kalamo Grange on Wednesday, the 25th
day of October, 1882, at 10, A. M. Patrons,
as both our last meetings were held in the
busy season of the ear, let Us have a rousing
meeting on the 2-St . A good program will
be provided and Kalamo Grange wants to
see you all the: e. CHAS. E ELLS, Sec’y.

The Pomona Grange of Branch County
will be entertained by Union Grange at
their hall in Union township, on Tuesday,
the 17th of October, 1882, commencing at
10, A. M. Interesting papers will be present-
ed at that meeting. Members of the Order
are cordially invited. H. D. PEssi~:LL,

Lecturer.

The St. Joseph County Grange will hold
its regular quarterly meeting at Centreville
the first Thursday in October at 10, A. M.,
sharp, Business of great importance will
come before the meeting, and all mimbers
are invited to be present.

GU'ri-:Lins SNYDER, Master.


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OCTOBER 1, 1882,

Qnmmnniratiuns.

THE RUMSELLEWS DREAM.

[A rumseller, one day when his bar-room was
empty, dozed off into a sound slumber; an angel ap-
peared to him in his dreams and brought before him
in vivid pictures the inevitable result of his calling.
To his assertion that he was licensed by the State
and had a legal right to sell, the angel pointing to
scene: of crime and woe, says:'|

Licensed to make the strong man weak;
Licensed to lay the wise man low;

Licensed a wife's fond heart to break,
And make her children's tear to flow.

Licensed to do thy neighbor harm;
‘ Licensed to kindle hate and strife;
Licensed to nerve the robber’s arm;
Licensed to whet a murderer's knife.

Licensed thy neighbor's purse to drain,
And rob him of his very last;

Licensed to beat his feverish brain,
Till madness crown thy work at last.

Licensed where peace and quiet dwell
To bring disease, and want, and woe;

Licensed to make this world a hell,
And fit man for a. hell below.

The Organization of the Grange Movement.

[Read by M. F. Carleton at a meeting of Grangers
and farmers at Farr’s Station, St Clair County,
Mich. June 21st, 1882.]

lVorlh3/ Master, Patrons and Friends.-—
The Order of Patrons of Husbandry is one
of the noblest if not itself the noblest organ-
ization ever originated by the ingenuity of
men for the elevation of a very large propor-
tion of the human race. While it has, as
one of its objects, that which is in common
with and a part of the duties of every and all
secret organizations, a kind of general super-
vison over the general conduct and welfare
of itsmembers, it is more particularly in-
tended and instituted for the benefit of the
agriculturalist, by far the largest and most
necessary class in the universe.

The Order has been looked upon by per-

sons of some of the other professions in life,
with jealousy, and as an organization very
dangerous, because it was destined to give a
larger share of the profits arising from the
productions of the soil, to the producer, than
he had been in the habit of receiving.
Many have thought that the order would
fail, because it was instituted for the benefit
of the agriculturalist alone, and that the
long years of comparative isolation of that
class, in business matters, from the other
professions, and the habit of each Working
and thinking for himself alone, had become
so thoroughly emplanted in their breasts,that
they could never be brought to act together,
no matter what the object nor how great the
interests at stake. But_the steady, though to
many it may have appeared slow growth of
the Order, and great influnce it is even now
wielding, is gradually convincing skeptics
and dispelling that idea.

The plan upon which the Order was built,
or the corner stone, ought to insure it success,
and we cannot but feel the assurance that if
that plan is fully carried out, and nothing al-
lowed to divert the attention of the Order
from that object,it will besuccessful,—-to wit:
“the greatest good to the greatest number.”

Its birth place is the soil. That is the in-
cipient idea that called it into being, was
born of the exigencies and necessities that
have from time almost immemorial sur-
rounded the tillers of the soil. In this it is
not very much different, in its rise and de-
velopment, from all great reformations and
revolutions in society. They all have
seemed to arise from some great pressing
and present necessity, either of a civil, pol-
itical or religious character. There is, so
far as I now recollect, no exception to this
general rule, and all past history proves it.

It has -been planned, or fashioned and
constructed, as it would almost seem, in a
manner to give it the greatest strength pos-
sible—combining in its organization the
three great elements that constitute the
greatest strength and give the strongest
and best form of government; First, there
is the medium or source that suggests what
is needed for the common good; second, a
power to enact or put the suggestions into
the necessary form, so that they can be
utilized; third, the power to execute or to
carry into effect all the suggestions that
have been put into the proper form for the
utility and good of the Order.

These three elements are furnished and
given to us in the organization of the Order.
First, we have the executive, or, as its work
suggests, the working committee; for to it
falls a greater share of the Work, and upon
its shoulders rests the great share of the re-
sponsibility. From this committee springs,o r
at least takes the proper shape, all ideas and
suggestions for the good of the Order, and by
it they are brought before the great legisla-
tive body composed of the whole Grange,
where they are fully, or at least may and
ought to be fully discussed, each and every
member beinga full fledged legislator. and
the measure either accepted and adopted as
a part of the rule of action for the govern-
ment of the whole Order, or it is here reject-
ed. Next comes the executive branch of
the Order. This consists of the oflicers
elected or appointed by the members of each
Grange, whose business it is to impartially
execute duties imposed upon them from
time to time by resolution, etc., of the
Grange, and to carry out all regulations
under the constitution and by-laws of the
Order.

Again, the Order combines three elements’

of strength in its organization: First, there
is the Subordinate Grange composed of a
certain locality or neighborhood. It is in
these that all the grievances of the agricul-
turist are brought before the Order for dis-
cussion, and suggestions ;received as to the
best methods to meet the necessities or
ameliorate and remove the causes for griev-

ance.
Second, we have the State Grange, an

organization composed of representatives
elected each year by the Subordinate
Granges. Here also suggestions are made
and discussed, the action of Subordinate
Granges is sometimes reviewed, and work
suggested for them to do. Being composed
of parts of smaller bodies, scattered so pro-
miscuously over different parts, and all
parts of the State, the wants of each be-
come known to the whole.

Third, we,have the National Grange, com-
posed of representatives sent to it by each
State Grange, who of course come together
with a full knowledge of the grievances and
wants of their respective States. It is the
knowledge thus obtained. and the means
thus furnished of concentration of forces
for the accomplishment of a certain pur-
pose, that is making the power of the
Grange so effective for good, and will in
the future cause its petitions to be listened
to and acted upon, by the law makers of
our land.

Is there or can there be any doubt that
an Order so organized and operated is des-
tined to meet all the needs of the agricul-
turist that exist or that may arise? and that
through the influence it will wield, that
the day is gradually, it may be slowly, but
surely drawing near when the agriculturist
will step to the front in his true manhood,
and be found asserting and maintaining his
rights, to help govern, as well as to be gov-
erned, and with a fair prospect of his rights
as a free and untrammeled citizen being re-
spected?

Does any one think that an Order hav-
ing so great objects in view, and each indi-
vidual member fully realizing the impor-
tance to humanity of its success, or the det-
rimental influence to the same in case of
failure, will be suifered to die? I think not,
at least until the causes that gave occa-
sion for its rise cease to exist.

If the work of the Grange was to be con-
fined solely within the gates of’the Subor-
dinate Grange, and no attention given to
the formation of State or National Grange:-1,
it can readily be seen that the influence of
the Order could be no greater than any
other local association. The causes that
led to the inception, and finally to the or-
ganization of the Order are not local, but
are scattered all over the country, and are
of all varieties, and it needs concert of ac-
tion, the whole moving as with one impulse,
to accomplish so great a work as the re-
moving those causes or contriving means to
mitigate their evil effects.

If the only object were to discuss the best
methods of raising a particular crop or the
most appropriate time and manner of plow-
ing, seeding and harvesting, the best modes
of draining, or whether certain lands
ought to be drained at all, or to bring peo-
ple together for social enjoyment only, then
We would say that while all the machinery
of Subordinate, State and National Granges
might not be actually necessary, still it
would be of great benefit. But these are
not all the objects of the Order. As before
stated, its objects are so many and varied,
and the class intended particularly to be
benefited being scattered all over the na-
tion, that nothing short of a plan that will
unite, control and guide all the actions of
the several Granges in one channel, when
necessary to do so, can be of any utility and
stand any chance of accomplishing the ob-
ject in view.

There are monopolies of different kinds
that have for their object the acquiring of
wealth and power. at the expense of those
who are poorer and weaker than they are,
being able to do so simply and solely be-
cause they are organized, and that they
have always succeeded in forcing or wheed-
ling into contributing to aid them all or a
majority of those who are not combined.
Itis quite natural for every person or corpo-
ration to look after and guard its own in-
interests. That the interests of the monop-
olies of to-day are opposed to the individual
prosperity of the farmer and the laboring
classes, has become so plainly visible, that
all can discern it without the aid of glasses.
It is one of the many objects of the Order,
to check this great and growing wrong.
The farmers, as a class, begin to be thor-
oughly convinced that they must combine,

in some manner, to lessen the power and
influence swayed and wielded by the mo-

nopolies or themselves be crushed, and the
liberties and privileges that ought to belong
to them and the laboring classes in common
will be entirely swept from them and they
reduced to a condition in this country no
better than that of their brethren in the old
world.

A large proportion of our laws have so
long been mostly enacted in the interest of
capital and class that the agriculturist and
real estate owner are doing very much more
than their rightful share in supporting our
government. To so great an extent has this
become the fact that the burden begins to be
intolerable. This must and gradually will
be remedied, and though it may not be
through this Order alone it is very certain

if a change ever takes place it will be
through the demands of the agriculturist
backed up by the concentrated power and
influence of the Order; the only question
being how and when the power can and will
be used most effectively to help accom-
plish this object. As the whole is larger as
well as stronger than any of its parts so the
oganization that can bring all its compon-
ent parts together to act in unison must be
the strongest, and this is the reason that the
Grange is strong and will continue to grow
stronger, because by its machinery it can
combine Subordinate, State, and National
Granges for the common good of all.

The opinion of the public as to the caps-
bilities of the average agriculturist has been,
and in many cases is still, that they are very
much below the average of other professions.
It may be that there has been cause for
this opinion ; if so, that cause should be
removed. One grand feature of the Order of
Patrons is to remove this idea by educating
ourselves not only in that which pertains
solely to agriculture, but in all and every-
thing which pertains to the afiairs of our
country. Experience has taught us many
dearly bought lessons and is teaching us new
ones every day-—that it is neglect in this di-
rection that has thrown the power to make
all our laws into the hands of those who
have no interest in or regard for the welfare
of the farmers, the masses generally, or the
country ; but simply to build up and sustain
the power of these rings and monopolies,
that they well know will use their power
and influence for their own selfish interest
to the detriment of all others.

The Order is also doing a noble work in
elevating woman to a level with man in soci-
ety. Moraily she has always been his peer.
There are societies and organizations, com-
posed of women, in which of course they
have their own oflicers and do their own
business etc, but the Order of Patrons of
Husbandry is the first to come to the front,
and fairly and squarely at all times proclaim
the doctrine by precept, and practice too,
that they should stand on the same footing,
in an organization that has for its main ob-
ject the welfare of the race, regardless of sex,
and thereby all working together to break
down and destroy forever those old time
prejudices that have for years sought for
every pretext and reason imaginable. for
keeping them in ignorance of even the most
common buisness affairs of the world.

A wife should be not only the compan-
ion of, and counselor with her husband, in
relation to their home and household affairs,
but she should also be an interested active,
not a silent partner and capable advisor in
his businesss as well. What other person
can there be, who should be so much inter-
ested in his welfare and success in his busi-
ness as she? Who should know more about
his plans for the present and future than she?

She is ever expected to rejoice with him
at his success, and sorrow with him over a
failure, and why should she not be qualified
to enter into all the details of his business
affairs, and be able to counsel with him with
regard to the best method of conducting
their, not his alone, affairs? If she were
thus qualified, and made man’s equal in
these things. then success, instead of being
his alone, to reap the glory of or failure. or
stand the misery of, would be shared by
them equally, and the burden, if to bear,
would be lighter for both, and she be better
prepared to withstand the vicissitudes of ill
fortune, because she would then understand
the cause the better, and instead of censure
falling alone on his shoulders, it would be
upon the firm of which she would bea mem-
ber.

Now then, Brother and Sister Patrons, do
not let us waste too much time in vain re-
grets on account of what has been done. or
what has been left undone. It has been
said that “Repentance is a waste of time,
unless it brings forth fruit; and that repent-
ance has no meaning, unless we join atone-
ment to it, and true atonement is work.”
_Then let us work, it may not be for ourselves
altogether, but for others; not to gain a high
sounding name, or the applause of the mul-
titude, but to do our share of helping to
spread abroad and inculcate the principles
first taught by our Savior, “Faith in what-
ever is right and just, love for the gooii, the
true and the beautiful, charity for each oth-
er’s faults.”

It is believed that the mohair industry ‘is
about to assume large proportions in this
country. Nearly all mohair, the fleece of
the Angora goat, is now imported, but it is
believed that this animal can be raised prof-
itably here. In enumerating the probable
consumption of home made goods, Mr. H.
V. Poor says that not less than 3,000 new
passenger cars are now built in the United
States annually, and the number is increas-
ing. Each car has 60 seats. Four yards of
mohair plush are required for each seat,
there are 9 ounces of mohair to a yard of
plush, or 540,000 pounds of mohair for the
3,000 cars. This divided by 4, the average
weight of the fleece, shows that about 150,000
Angoras would be required to furnish the
raw material for this single fabric, which
will never go out of fashion. And this is
only one of a dozen fabrics that might be
mentioned.

THE Antivmonopoly convention of New
York, held at Saratoga Wednesday, adopted
a platform declaring that corporate life has
assumed undue prominence in material
affairs and calling for a conference with the
labor party if the Republican and Demo-
cratic conventions did not make satisfactory
nominations for governor.

Prehistoric Mining in Michigan.

The Lake Superior mines have the advan t-
age of producing metal free from any alloy of
antimony or nickel or arsenic. In many of
the mines great masses of native metal are
found so large that they must be cut in pieces
with chisels.

All the more important mines are situated
on the ancient workings ofa prehistoric race
They seem to have been ignorant ofthe fact
that copper could be melted, or they left
behind them the fragments too small to use
and the masses too heavy to lift. Every day
they subjected it to a temperature nearly
high enough, without making a discovery
which would have lifted them out of the

Stone Age into the Bronze.-age, and per-
haps have enabled them tosurvive the strug-
gle in which they perished. They must
have been very nuinerons, and have reached
the point of development where they were
capable of organizing industry.

In Isle Royal, near the Mining Mine, their
pits, excavated to a depth of from ten to 20
feet in the solid rock, cover an area of from
three to four hundred feet wide and more
then amile and a half in length. The labor
expended here cannot have been much short
of that involved in buildings Pyramid. Isle
Royale is ten miles from the nearest land,
and is incapable of producing food, 'so that
all supplies except fish must have been
brought trom some distant point. Their
hammers, frequently to the number of
several thousand. are found in heaps where
they were evidently placed at the season.

As no graves ofevidences of habitations are
found, we can hardly doubt that the ancient
miners lived south of the great lakes, and
made yearlyjourneys with fleets of canoes ;
to the co per mines. The aggregate
amount oft e metal which they carried ofl“
must have been very great, and it has, I
believe, been generally thought that the
copperimplementoftlie ancient Mexicans
came from this source. M. Charnag, in a
recent number of the North American,
seems to think that the Mexicans reduced
copper from its ores. A chemical analysis
oftheir hatchets would solve the question, for
Lake Superior copper is so free from alloys
as to be unmistakable.

The superintendent of the old Caledonia
mine, in Ontonagon county, kindly took
me to the top of a cliff where three Cornish
“tributers” — miners working not for wages
but fora share of the productr— had cleared
out one ofthe ancient pits in the outcrop of
the vein. They had broughta quantity of
copper, and had just uncovered a large mass
which would weight certainly not less than
seven tons. Many battered stone hammers
lay around the mouth of the pit" The active
little Englishmen, belonging to a race of
hereditary miners perhaps as old as the
Mound-builders themselves, had come
around the world from the east to finish
the work of the departed Asiatic race who
reached here from the west at a time to
which no date can be assigned. Not far
away another party cut down a dead cedar
to make props for their tunnel. As they
were putting the log in position, from its
centre dropped a small but perfectly formed
stone hammer which had never been used.
It was made from a stone found, I believe
only on the north shore of the lake. This‘
tree was not far from two hundred and
fifty years old; but as cedar is almost in-
destructible in this climate, it may have
been dead several hundred years- The axe-
man said that he found several hammers
in the centre of cedars‘. It would seem
barely possible that this hammer had been
placed in 9. cleft of the tree, when it was a
sapling, that the wood might grow around
the groove and serve as a handle. At all
events, this one which I have, was certainly
placed where it was——about thirty inches
from the ground—by human hands, un-
doubtedly by the ancient miner himself,
when the tree was a twig.—Har1)e7"s jl[aga-
zmc.

Peculiarities of the Great Michigan Fire.

A correspondent of the Fr”/'eman‘s Journal,
who has lately gone over the territory de-
vastated by the rent fire in the forests of
Micliigaii lust fal , says his observzitioiis are
conclusive that phenomena. aside from the
ordinary coiitlitioiis of combustion were de-
veloped. In the first place the fire created at
least two veritable storm centers which had
the essential features of storms, and especialy
the spiral wind. The evidences are confirma-
tory of the belief that this storm center, after
it became fully developed. consisted of a
heated body of air or gas in a state of coin-
bustion, which was constantly fed by the
smoke and vapor driven to the center by the
whirling winds and the gases generated in
the combustion of the pine and others resin-
ous‘ wood. This bo-:ly of air, 01‘ burning gas
if it may be so called, by its heat zicqiiir.-rlnn
ascensive force, but by the rapid forward
motion of the fire was sucked forward
and devoured, actually precedin the fire
proper. It is evident that this b y was of
intense heat, possibly as great as 400° Fahr.,
at which point oxygen and carbon unite.
That such it body of luminous vapor existed,
detached from the fire, is asserted by many
who saw it from a distance, («ind by those
who were under it but who escaped from the
fact that it passed above their places.

The idea is further sustained by the fact
that the fire jumped whole patches of in-
flammable slashiiigs, and alighting beyond,
lifting and falling in its forward motion like
a balloon touching the earth. Fences in the
center of broad fields burst into a
blaze as if by explosion, and others nearer
the fire escaped. A man in figliting the fire
took off his trousers, fearing they would
catch fire and burn him up, and left them in
a furrow in the middle of afieldremote from
any combustible material. When he went
to get them he found them burned, and six
quarter-dollars that were in the pockets
melted together. A set of spoons were
served the same way at another place.

Mrs. Lock and five children were burned
to ashes, nothing but their bones remaining
in the middle of the road, one hundred feet
from any heavy timber. Green timber was
dried and burned, and perhaps the most con-
clusive evidence was the apparently sponta-
neous appearance of fire in stumps and
fences when no sparks were‘ falling. These
blazes appeared of white light and indicated
a chemical union of carbon and oxy en. An-
other general feature is the fact the the fire
appeared to move forward in parallel lines of
varying width, and that in these lines every-
thing was burned, and frequently to ashes.

At the edge of the track a fence would be
burned square off, just as though it had been
cut or sawed perpendicularly; a house would
be taken and the barn left; a wagon and a

v

fanning mill not charred. It won d be im-

ossible, under ordinary_circumstances, to
burn a wagon wihout piling combustible
material over it, but of this nothing but
the iron was left. _

Finally, the storm and fire disappeared
siniultaiieously: that is to say, the tire was
dependent upon the storm, or secondary_ to it
—tliut it was prevented from lingering in the
track or from burning sitleways. lii_from
twoto three hours the tire ,\\'asj..~”‘ l>1'3C‘t1C3-115’
out where it had passed, llllllCll-[lllg that the
prime cause of the rapid combustion was in
the storm which had passed, and which pass-
ing perliaps, carricd lll its wake,‘ a _(‘0ll(ll’td0_I1
of atmosphere opposed to coiiibustioii. lliis
hypothesis t‘.\'pl£lll1S pi'ctt_v_iiiuch all the phe-
iioineiia except the balls of lire, which exact-
ly correspond with what is known as ‘_b_all
liglitiiiiig,” but which IS a form of electricity
wholly disputed_ by some, but recognized by
l’rofessoi' .ooinis. , _

The stutcuiciits of B_illl€lltlll(_3 and lxabocke
are C0lllil'lll‘cltOl‘j' of this bull liglitiiiiig idea,
and couti~;ulictory of_ the idea. that these
lights arose froin the intense l_1e:i.t,_or they
tlieniselves could not liuyc survived it. Other
statenients are to the cilecttliat this bull_of
lire fell on the groiiiid and cxpl_oded,runri1ng
in all dircctioiis. This is explained by some
who were not prcsciit, who say tlizit _it was
but the resinous cones of the pine .1g1l1t€<1y
czu'i'iccl by the wind, falling. sc_attei‘1ii;: the
l)lll'lllll_L‘,‘ pitch about them; but it should be
i‘cine-iiibered that tliosc people who saw this
phciioiiieiioii are men who have lived miiid
fUl't‘Slill‘t‘S all tlicirlives and have secn all
the ordiiiziry plieuouicmi, 11l1.d.:i.l‘e. not ol.a
class exuc-,i.l_v \’lSlUll:ll‘_V Oi‘ iiiiugniative. It IS
fair to zissiiiiie the possibility of electrical
plieiioiucmi llll'l(l(“lltlll to this lire storm, both
from the fact that it was a great coniiiiotion
in the clemcnts and bcc.-uise it difi'ei'c«l from
3. storm only in the i':u-ts of the absence of
rain and presciice of fire.

What the Words “Timber” and “Lumber” Mean.
The l.u1iibei‘maii‘s Exclimige of Gliicago
lias iicvcr, by any direct oilicinl action, (lclined
the ililik,-i'ciice lictwecii luinbcr and timber,
ailtliougli the item of “slllilll timber," in con-
traulistiiictioii to the o1'diuai‘y term lumber,
is used in the price lists adopted by the trade
of (Jliicugo (or the cxcliznige) as 2Ll.)0(l_V. This,
llO\\'(‘\'(‘l‘, is only for couyeiiieiice. Couimcr-
ciul clistoiiis, having the force of long-cst.'ib-
llSllL‘il usngc, recogiiizcd by the tcriii of tini-
bcr only that class of sticks which equal, or
are aboyc, 12 by 12 inches in sizc. This
:u'iscs from the faict tliut until within a few
years iiotliing of that size or l:u',r:e1' has been
1ii2uiui‘:icturc<l by s:n\'s, the dcinuml having
but rcccutly sprung up, and but slightly at the
best, foraiiytliiiigoiitoi‘ the miigc of build-
ing Illilteflill which can be madc at the saw-
mill. V:ll‘l<>llS iii2ii'ket.s and various nations
have «lifl‘ei'ciit (l<-si;.:n:iiioii;-; for the products
of the forest. What is known in this country
as lumber cnibraccs all the lIl2lllllf2lCllll'f?S of
the s:iw~mill from one inch boards to 12x18,
if not more tluui 20 foot in length, :i.ltl1ouv'li
for coiivciiiciicc the tcrni timber would )6
rivcii to uiiytl1ing:ibo\'c 0x0 inches in size.
11 Eiiglmid, on the cont1':ii'y.llicciitire range,
froui one inch lN)2il‘(.lS to the largest square,
is known as timber. lii this country tbcrc is
no timber trade, it all bciiig desigiiutcd as
lumbcr trade. In fzict, in no other country
than the l,'uite<l Stutcs is the term lumber
applied to truillc iu the pl’<)(lllCi,h' of the for-
cst,tli2itte1'm being iuoiiopolized to desigii-
ate a collection of iiscless odds zuiden<ls,s1ich
as will collect about a dwelling or place of
business, and finds lodgmciit ill the garret
(Amei'ic:ui) Ol‘ lumber-rooiii (liiiglisli). In
this country the term is, we think, more
properly applied to designate a distinction
between timber as applied to growing trees
(staiidiiig timber), or its rough manipulation
into shapes convenient for handling, aiid the
mauufacture<l product as it leaves the saw-
mill. So, whilc zi t1‘c-c iutzict in its size, either
st:m<,liug or fzillcii, is timber. it loses tliat de-
signation lillil becomes it saw log when out up
into proper length.-‘. for iuuiii uilzitiou in the
saw-iiiill. and thc log bi-coiiicslluiubcr, what-
ever size it iiiuy be sziwcd into. Its product
niay, for coiiveniciice, be tlesigiiaterl in sub-
divisions, one inch iia.i'i'ow being termed
strips, one inch wide, boards or lumber, two,
or three, or foui'—iiicli being called plank, or,
ii‘ sized for a pai'ticulai' use, joist, if six iii-
ches wide, scaiitling, carrying this designatioii
up to 5x.-3. A stick 12 feet, or 30 feet in length,
01‘ cm; is lumber, but as El. distinction from
other shapes is commonly called small tim-
ber, and this designation is properly under-
stood to embrace all squared or oblong sticks
under 30 feet iiilciigtli and less than 12x12
inches in size. But as these are only terms
used for convenieiice, the main question re-
curs to geiieml or commercial usage, and
this is best illustrutcdiii the fact that if a
seller offers a lot of timber, the mind of the
timberiiian who desires to purchase at once
draws a picture of 21 lot of wood not less than
thirty feet in length and not loss than 12x12
inclms in size, but iucludiiirr cvciytliing lur-
ger or longer. Commercially speakiii , tim-
ber is never sawed in the saw-mill, w iile in
trade pai'l:uice it may be. Strictly “timber”
is naturally too large and bulky for manufac-
turing elsewhere than at the stump where it
has fallen. Confusion in this matter has
arisen from anecessity for designating one
size of the product of the saw-inill from an-
other, but _it is ‘as improper to say that com-
mon buildin sizes and shapes of sawed lum-
ber come uii er the (lesigiiation of timber as
it would be to say that deal was not lumber
because it has a distinctive appellation. lVhile
there are a few saw-mills which can handle
logs 60.feet in length, of a size to square
12x12 inches, they are so few that the term
timber should never be applied to a sawed
product, except as local customs adopt the
term as a coiivenience.—_Northwestern Lum-
berman. *

._._.________j_____

GEORGE GEDDES, Well known among the
agricultural writers, says: “The appropfia-
tions of the National Department of Agricul-
ture this year amount to nearly $600 000
What becomes of it ? The annual crop
reports have little value, as they come to us
nearly six months old, and are of no more in-
terest than an other ancient history.” A B
_Crandal1 suprilemeiits this statement by say:
ing that an institution like the Michigan A -
ricultural College, or that of Iowa is wort
to the farming interests of the country a doz.
en “Departments of Agriculture.”

The state li uor d 1 ’ ' .
ed in Arbeitgr hall? e.;lSset:giItVe{71\%eC:iI;1g§(f:
afternoon. Resolutions-were adopted simi):
lar to those passed by the last national li uor
dealers’ convention. A letter from (30,
Jerome was read indorsiug the platform
on which he stands, the letter being by way
of reply _to adirect inquiry as to his status
on the liquor traflic question.


 

OCTOBER 1, 1882

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Van Buren county Pomona Grange.

Brother Cobb.-—The session of the Van
Buren County Pomona Grange held at Ban-
gor August 24, was largely attended and very
inte1'9Sti!1g- Reports from Subordinate
GX‘an_g_ ~“. JW them to be in aprosperous
conditio . We have no fear for the success
of the Order in this county. The following
preambles and resolutions were unanimously
adopted:

WHEREAS, It is a notorious fact that mem-
bers of legislative bodies and other promi-
nent public officers regularly receive from the
railroads of the State, free passes, which are
practically bribes, which are always given
giétiltin most cases received as such; therefore
Resolved, That we, the members of the
Van ‘Buren County Grange, will support no
candidate for public office who will not pledge
himself not to receive free passes from rail-
roads or other transportation companies, and
furthermore, we shall use our best endeavors
to defeat any candidate who refuses to give
such pledge.

WHEREAS, Informer times it has been the
practice of a ricultural societies, farmers’
clubs, county airs, etc., to invite those to ad-
dress them from some other calling, and as it
is the sense of this _Van Buren County
Grange, that the practice is pernicious and
not in accordance with the progressive
thought of the Grange; therefore, be it

Resolved, That for the future only those
shall be employed who belong to the profes-
sion of agriculture. '

We of Van Buren County go further than
our Sister Pomona of Kalamazoo. We not
only refuse to support any candidate who

will not pledge himself not to accept a free_

pass, but we will endeavor to defeat him.

The second preamble and resolution has
the right ring to it. life should employ only
those to address us who are for us and with
us.

We are now getting down to business,
That great fraud, the river and harbor grab,
stares us in the face. lVill we endorse or
condemn it? Do we endorse the political as-
sessment rascality ‘B If not, we should speak
with no uncertain sound. Should not our
government issue its circulating medium in-
stead of hiring corporations to do it for them ‘B
Does anyone object to it? But perhaps 1 am
trespassing on forbidden ground, if so please
pardon. But I am heartily tired of this ring
and monopoly rule. The mass of the people
seem to be only clay in the hands of design-
ing men and corrupt politicians, who, as
Brother Moore remarked, “have got a ring
in their noses,” and are being“led like lambs"
(or fools if you choose)“to the slaughter,”aiid
they scarcely open their months. Our annu-
al picnic on the 7th was a general success.
Brother T. F. Moore delivered an able ad-
dress, Which Wa.s highly commended by those
outside the gates as well as by Patrons. He
handled monopolies without gloves. He
showed that the free passes furnished mem-
bers of our legislature last year by railroads,
cost the people of this state ninety thousand
dollars extra by prolonging the session one-
half, and the fare given to members and
charged upon freights and passengers.

The Worthy Master of the National Grange
followed in a short address on the object of
the Grange movement, what it has accom-
plished, its present condition and outlook for
the future.

We have a Grange store in successful oper-
ation at Paw Paw. Goods are sold at five
per cent above cost. Many articles can be
bought for one-half the former price. Patrons
from a distance should give it a call.

Many prodigals are returning to their
“father’s house,” (the Grange) and many new
recruits are being enrolled in the army of
progress and reform.

D. Wooniirim, Master.

Paw Paw, Sept.'.9. 1382-

Morenci Grange Picnic.

One of the most successful Grange picnics
ever held in this state was held by the Pat-
rons of Northern Ohio and southern Michi-
gun on the Morenci fair ground, on the
ninth day of September, under the auspices
of Morenci Grange. Long before the hour
appointed for the exercises the streets of
Morenci were thronged with people anx-
iously waiting to see and hear. The day
was all that could be desired, and the fresh
mm-hing air was fragrant with the per-
fume of flowers mingling with the songs of
birds. ’_

At eleven o’clock the procession had all
passed through the fair ground gate lead by
two brass bands and followed by four horse
teams, and wagons shaded with evergreen
boughs through which gleamed flags and

' banners bearing appropriate devices and

mottoes.

The vast multitude was called together by
the Lyonxs Cornet band. The meeting was
called to order by the president of the day,
and a. prayer was offered by the Ch8P131I1-
The forenoon was spent in short speeches,

s and music, both vocal and instru-
essayusl After dinner the people were again
bnalllad together by the Weston cornet band,
and listened very attentively to a very
able address delivered by Bro. J. H. Brig-
ham, Master of the Ohio State Grange.
After which Hon. '1‘. F. Moore, of Adrian,

. . D made a very interesting speech.
Mlc1.“gah' eaking all was quiet and or-
-During E111: sxbxercises closed by the “""‘“i'
2:21); adoption of the following resolution:

Resolved, That we will not cast our ballots
for any person for any official position of
trust or profit who accepts a free railroad
pass from any railroad company.”

MBs. G. W. WOODWORTH, Sec.
Morenci Grange.

 

Silver Creek Grange, No. 644.

Brother Cobb .-—As Silver Creek Grange
has not made its appearance in the columns
of the VISITOR for several months, I will try
and tell you and all readers of the Visiron
how we are getting along up here in N orth-
ern Michigan.

\Ve have a lively little band of Patrons,
numbering in all about 90. We have not add-
ed to our numbers during the summer
months, but the prospect is good for a rich
harvest during the fall and winter.

lVe have been very busy perfecting the in-
corporation of our Grange, and believe it is
now completed. VVe have also purchased a
piece of ground containing three acres on the
northeast bank of a pleasant little lake
known as Farsworth Lake. We have a very
good house on the lot, which with some re-
pairs, and a small addition, will make us a
good home and will be much nicer as well as
more convenient and comfortable than meet-
ing in the school house.

We had a call and a cheering lecture fr om
Brother Thos. F. Moore, of Adrian, Septem-
ber 9. It did us all good. We regretted very
much that he had not a full house, for we be
lieve many would look at the Grange in a
difierent light if they understood it rightly.

Frateriially yours,
Mus. J ULIA A. FA1lNS\\'O1{T1I,

Sept. 9, 1882. Secretary.

   

Free Pass Bribery.

Bro. Cobb .-—The resolutions adopted by the
Kalamazoo County Poinoiia Grange at its
J uiie meeting were preseiited, (llS'Cl,lSS6(I and
adopted by Otsego (lraiige No. 364, at its last
regular meeting. Ir‘i'ateriially yours,

Mus. A. McNE'r'i‘, Secy.

Otsego, Sept. 7, 1882.

Orleans Grange, No. 325, in session Aug.
24th, took action on the preamble and res-
olution relating to free passes as set forth‘
by the Kalamazoo county Pomona Grange
at its June meeting, and adopted the same.

A. L. Beimnicr, Sec’y.

Orleans, Aug. 26, 1882.

At a meeting of McDonald Grange, No.
26, held Sept. 9th, the resolutions of the
Kalamazo county Pomona Grange were rat-
ified which please publish in the VISITOR.

C. B. Wnirconin, Sec’y.

Moline Grange, No. 248, in session Sep-
tember 2d:

Resolved, To support no man for oflice
who we have any reason to believe will ac-
cept a free pass from railroad officials.

Mas. A. L. OLDS, Seo’y.

At a meeting of Arcadia Grange, No. 21,
the question arose whether a good Granger
could vote for 8. candidate for office who
carried a free pass issued by a railroad com-
pan .

Ah unusually large number were present,
and there was a general expression of opin-
ion upon the subject resulting in the unani-
mous passsge of the following resolution:

Resolved, That the members of Arcadia
Grange solemnly promise not to vote for
any man, unless be publicly pledges him-
self not to accept a free pass from any rail-
road company. M. E. HOPKINS, Sec’y.

THE resolution of the Osceola Republican
County convention referred to Thos. W. Fer-
ry a.s“one of the most eminent and useful
Senators Michigan has ever had ;” favored
submitting the prohibition amendment; and
condemning the practice of accepting free
passes from the railroads on the part of
“ members of the Legislature and other offi-
cers of the State.”

Registration of Voters.
STATE 01-‘ MICHIGAN,
ATTORNEY GE1\'EnAL’s Ori-‘Ici=;,}
LANSING, September 7, 1882.

His Excellency, Gov. David I-I. Jerome,
DEAR SIP.:——Yours received, with letter of
Hon J. K. Boies, relative to the construc-
tion of the law of 1881, Act 142, requiring a
new registration of all the electors of the
State prior to the next general election, and
every ten years thereafter, and requesting
my opinion as to the proper construction of
the time within which such registration
should take place, many construing the law
to require such registration to take place at
the meeting of the board of registration and
at no other time, which would in many of
the larger townships be an impossibility.
I therefore beg to give you the following as
my construction of the law:

Sec. 176, C. L. 1871, as amended in Act
142, laws of 1881, provides that at the ses-
sions of the several boards of registration,
next preceding the general election to be
held in this State in the year 1882, and at
said sessions next preceding the general
election every ten years thereafter, there
shall be had and made an entirely new reg-
istration of the qualified electors of each
organized township and city in this State,
excepting the county of Wayne, &c.

This would seem to contemplate the mak-
ing of this new registration at the sessions
of the boards, at the time fixed by law for
their meetings, and if the above provision
stood alone doubts might arise as to the prop-
er time for “handing in names” for registr-
ation; but by reading further on in its act
of 1881, the question will be found fully set-
tled, for, after setting forth as above, that a
new registration shall be had every ten years
at the sessions of the boards, and excepting
in Wayne county and in certain cities, it
says: “the same [that is, the registration of
every ten years] to be made in the manner
herelnbefore specified for registration of
qualified electors in townships after the year
1859.”

The registration to be made this fall, and

I

that of every ten years thereafter, is there-
fore to be made as provided for registrations
since 1859. which may be found in Sec. 169,
C. L. 1871, wherein it provides “that after
the year 1859 it shall be the right of any such
qualified elector residing in the township,
and entitled to vote at the next election
therein, and whose name has not been reg-
istered, on any day, except Sunday, the
days of the session of the board of registra-
rion, and the days intervening between them
and the next approaching election, to apply
to the township clerk, in person, f ‘we reg-
istration of his name, and if, upon such ex-
amination as is required by the next section
of this act [Sec. 170, C. L. 1871], the clerk

shall be satisfied that such applicant is a res-

ident of the township, and otherwise quali-
fied and entitled to vote in such township
at the next election to be held therein, the
name of such applicant shall be written

either by himselfor by the clerk upon 9.
separate pa er, to be kept by the clerk, his
residence escribed, and the date of the
entry noted,” &c., “which paper shall be

laid before the board of registration of each

township, at its next meeting, for examina-

tion and review, and the names of such per-

sons appearing thereon as the board shall be
of opinion are qualified electors at the then

next election, and entitled to vote thereat,

may, by some member of the board, and

under their direction, be entered in the

proper register in the manner above set

forth,” &c.

It will thus be seen that electors need not
wait for the meetings of the registration
boards, but may, as above stated, call in pur-
son upon the township clerk, leave their
names with him, and thus secure their reg-
istration.

I am therefore of the opinon that the reg-
istration of names as above provided, and as
registered since 1859, will be valid, and in
accordance with the existing registration
laws as amended in 1881.

Yours Truly,
J. J. VAN RIPER,
Attorney General.

 

The Railway Problem Condensed,—No. 4.

From the Farm and Fireside, Baltimore.

We continue to illustrate the evils which
should be corrected by legislation.

It is well known that the production and
manufacture of kerosene oil is one of our
largest and most important industries : it is
also well known that the Standard Oil Com-
pany has a monopoly of this trade, and that
the members of this company have acquired
enormous wealth within the last ten years.
Now here is the secret contract, made in
1872, between the four trunk lines and this
Company:

“It is agreed; the railroads will at all times co-op-
crate with the Standard Oil Company to maintain its
business against injury by competition. and the rail-
roads will lower or raise the rates for such times
and to such extent as may be necessary to overcome
competition.”

This illegal and secret contract, whereby
the highways were suddenly closed against
every rival enterprise, at once bankrupted
every other producer and created probably
the most lucrative monopoly the world has
ever seen. In 1879 this Company refined
95 per cent of the 350,000,000 gallons placed
on the market, while the single item of
reduced freight charges yielded a profit of
$10,151,218 in 18 months.

It is well worth our time to contemplate
for a. moment the extordinary spectacle here
presented, because if its stupendous propor-
tions can be placed fairly before the public ;
if its huge dimensions can be brought
home to the comprehension of the people
they will surely rise in their strength and
reclaim their lost control over our highways:
—unless they do, ere many years Samson
will be harnessed to the mill.

Here was a contract in violation of law
made in secret, about an article uiiliinited
in supply, and in common use as an article
of prime necessity, whereby the managers
of our great public roads created in the
hands of a few chosen favorites a monopoly
more exacting, more valuable and more
powerful than that monopoly created by
Elizabeth when she gave the commerce of
a continent to the India merchants.

But one factis here disclosed which, while
it staggers our credulity, may well startle the
patriotic impulse of every citizen. These
four trunk lines, which constitute 3; of our
railway system and 1 20 of the entire trans-
portation of this country, are today under
the personal and understrained control of
only four men, who deny their responsibility
to the government and who claim the right
to use their power over our internal com-
merce to build up their friends and to break
down their enemies.

But to take a case that occurs daily. A
factory on a railroad is advertised for sale:
it has been the practice to change the rates
three or four times a year and the following
letter tells the whole story :

“ " * “If you can induce the railroad to agree
not to shift its rates so as to discriminate against the
establishment for five years I will take your property
at $45,000. If the Company will not make the rate
permanent I cannot afford to give you over 830,000.”
'I- ‘E 1»

Unhappily we are so accustomed to a
wrong system that cases like this pass un-
noticed, but is it not amazing that my right
to use a public road on an equality with my
neighbor depends on the caprice or favorite-
ism of a railway manager and that that
manager may diminish or increase the val-
ue of millions of property by the mere stroke
of his pen ‘.7

Of course these special-rate contracts,
whereby one man is given an advantage
over another, are kept secret and compar-
atively few of them come to light, but we
may form some estimate of their number
when the New York Central alone made
6,000 of them in one year. In fact it is per-
fectly well understood that there is one sched-
ule for the general public and a secret.
special schedule for favorites and friends.
Not only so but it is perfectly well under-
stood that to-day railroad rates are a system
of rewards and punishmentmtgraduated ac-
cording to theinfiuence and o enses of those
who are most dependent on using the high-
ways of their country. And yet every one
will admit that no power on earth should be
permitted to create artificial and fictitious
inequalities between citizens using the same
public road.

These evils shock the common sense of
every man, but it is evident unless the gov-
ernment intervenes to stop these unlawful
practices they will continue and will in-
crease. Individuals dare not complain. The
Committee of the New York Legislature in
1879, commenting on a letter from the N. Y.
Produce Exchange, says:

"Here is plainly expressed by this powerful body
of merchants an unwillingness to disclose abuses they
know to exist, because there is no power permanently
to stand between them and the railroads with whom
they must deal and who would doubtless make them
pay for their disclosures by increasing their rates or

y canceling special contracts.” ' ' *

Again : The Legislature of West Virginia
was considering certain bills which the Bal-
timore & Ohio R. R. Company wished de-
ffiatclaéi and the following circular speaks for
1 se :

No. 22.-—-B. & O. R. R. CoMrAxx,
OFFICE or GENERAL Fnnionr Aonivr.
BALTIMORE, February 8, 1881.
DEAR Sm.-1 deem it my duty to call your atten-
tion to the fact that two Bills are now pending in
the legislature of W. V., viz: House Bill 74 and Sen-

. ate Bill 6'2.

The effect of the passage of either of these bills will
be to repeal the resolution under which special freight
rates have been granted by this Company.

I have thought it advisable to notify you in ad-
vance so that you may protect yourselves as far as
possible from the result of the Company being com-
polled to withdraw special rates, as it will be forced
to do should the resolution referred to be repealed.

Very respectfully,
MILTON H. SMITH,
General Freight Agent

Bill number 74 had passed the House un-
animously: this circular was mailed priv-
ately to the holders of special-rate contracts:
the Legislature was at once flooded with
petitions “gotten up” by these men and the
measures were defeated.

Here then is the secrotof that great power,
aptly described as “the silent hand of rail-
road influence.” which now holds the
people of this country at bay and par-
alyzes every Legislature.

But these corporations have another prac-
tice far more mischievous in its tendencies
and which, if not speedily stopped, will
certainly bring disaster to our great com-
mercial centres. The managers claim the
right to regulate their charges so as to build
up any community or industry, which in
their judgment should be fostered. For
instance: Grafton is a town of some 3.000
inhabitants, on the B. & 0., 300 miles from
Baltimore, and Keyser is avillage, 200 miles
from Baltimore. The Committee of the
Legislature inquired why, the tariff‘ being
the same at each point, a Company charged
as much for 200 as for 300 miles, and the rail-
road offlcials answered:——

“The rate is the same, because in our opinion these
places ought to be kept on an equal footing, so by
fixing the rates we simply move Grafton 50 miles
East and be move Keyser 50 miles to the \Vest.”

We do not inquire whether this railroad
functionary is competent to solve questions
in political enconomy: we do not inquire
whether he is endowed with that superhu-
man sagacity which is requisite to determine
those grave and difiicult economic prob-
lems which any ruler must solve before he
is prepared to act as a wet-nurse to the ex-
panding resourcesof a new country like this:
we waive the fact that the English Courts
and the British Railway Commissioners
both expressly decided that it is entirely be-
yond the province of a railroad to meddle
with these subjects which come within the
exclusive jurisdiction of sovereignty; the
point we make is that the welfare, indust-
ries and the very life of a whole district of
country ought not to be at the caprice and
mercy of any one man however great his
learning or exalted his patriotism; and much
less should this tremendous power which
Bismarck dares not ask for the Reichstag, be
lodged in a railroad manager, whose only
credential to the public confidence is the ac-
cidental circumstance that his personal
friends chanced to control a majority of the
votes in a meeting of the stockholders.

J. M. MASON.

 

THE operation of friction machinery, says
9. recent writer, has now become a fixed fact,
and its easy adaptability where waste power
can be untilized is a marked feature. A ma-
chine of this kind has come into use, which
consists simply of an iron cylinder one foot
long and one foot in diameter, having a fixed
plate of hardened iron on one end, and
a second plate attached to a revolving shaft,
which presses lightly or closely upon the
fixed plate, as circumstances require. The
cylinder is filled with warm water, the shaft
revolves, and from the friction of the plates
the water in an incredibly short time is
heated, and by means of steam pipes is con-
veyable to great distances for heating pur-
poses. The machine is so constructed as to
render it easily adapted to all places where
there is waste power, as in mills, factories,
public 3 buildings, cars etc. The power
required for its operation is very slight; thus,
to carry a machine with thirty-six square in-
ches of friction plate:-i—the ordinary size-
one horse power only is required, while 9.
machine with two hundred and twenty-five
square inches of friction surface will require
at most but six horse power.

 

When an old-fashioned merchant in New
J eraey come to look over an order made out
by his new-fashioned clark the other day, he
took up his spectacles, and said, "James, I
see you have spelled, shugar without an h.”
“Yes, sir; that’s the proper way.” “But I
have spelled it with an h for the last twenty-
nine years.” “Can’t help that, sir. Sugar
should not be spelled with an h. “Well, mob-
byit shouldn’t,” sighed the old man, “mebbe
it shouldn’t. I presume that this mixing in
glucose does make a difference somewhere.”
— Wall Street Daily News.

Mr. Vick is quoted as saying that the
“white worm” or any other worm, in pots,
may be destroyed by sticking three or four
common matches down into the soil, also
one or two up into the drain opening. The
phosphorus on the match is certain death
to animal life, and a powerful fertilizer for
plants.

 

“A REPUTASHUN,” says Josh Billings, “once
broken may possibly be repaired, but the
world will alwuz keap their eyes on the spot
where the krack wuz.”

Lawrence Co., Mo.

Mr Editor.-—The White Paint is spread
upon many houses in this locality. 1 have
ordered several hundred gallons in the last
six years. The P-atro1i’s Ingersoll Liquid
Rubber Paint, gives good satisfaction in
every case when it is properly used and it
has stood the test for six years, and it still
holds its brilliant and glossy appearance. VVe
shall order another large lot of this Paint in
a few days. Yours trul ,

W. .GRAY.

[See Advertisen:ient.—Ei)i'roR.]

 

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Peach Trees. Peach’ lrees.

AT KENT COUNTY

“ POMON A N URSERIES.”

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

Send in your orders by mail. Call and see us at
the fair at Grand Rapids September 25 to 30, 1882.

Send for Price Lists.

BUTTERICK & WATTERSON,
CASCADE, Kent Co., Mich.

PRIGE LIST OF SUPPLIES

Kept in the omoe of the Secretary of the

MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,

And sent out Pool Paid, on Receipt of Coal! Ordar.
over the seal of a Subordinate G-range, and the
signature of its Minter or Secretary.

l5aug8t

Porcelain Ballot Marbles, per hundred, . . . . . . .. 76
Blank Book, ledger ruled, for Secretary to keep
accounts with members, . . . _ , . . _ _ _ _ , , , _ _ _ _ _ , 1 09
Blank Record Books, (Ex toss paid), . . . . . . . . ._ 1 00
Order Book, containing 108 Orders on the Trans-
urer, with stub, well bound, . . . . _ , . _ , , _ , _ _ _ _ , 50
Receipt Book, containing 100 Receipts from
Treasurer to Secretary, with stub, well bound, 50

Blank Receipts for dues, per 100, bound, . . . . . .. 60
A plications for Membership, per 100, . . , . _ . _.,. 50

embershi Cards, per 100, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Withdrawn Cards, per doz., . . . .. . . _ . . 26
Diniits, in envelopes, per doz., . . . . . . . . _ . . , . _ _ _ _ 25
By-Laws of the State Grange, single copies 10¢,

per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....._ 16
By-Laws, bound,..  20

“ Glad Echoes,” with music,-Single   

   

per doz., ................................. . . i so
Rituals, single copy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ _ 25
“ er doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 40
“ or Fifth Degree, for Pomona Oranges,
per copy,‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Blank “Articles of Association” for the Incorpo-
ration of Subordinate Granges, with Copy of
Charter, all complete, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Notice to Delinquent Members, per 100, . _ . . _ . ,_ 40
Declaration of Purposes, per doz., , 5c.; per
hundred, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
American Manual of Parliamentary Law. .. . . 60
(K II (I (I [1 (M0.
rocco Tuck,) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ . . . _ , _ , _ , _
Address of J. J. Woodman before the Nation-
al Grange—-per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Address of Thos. K. Beecher-—per dozen . . . . . . 10
Digest of Laws and Rulings, . . . . . _ . . . _ . . _ , _ , , 40
Roll Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Address, J. 1‘. COBB,
SEo’x MICE. Srun Gmncn,
SCHOOLCRAFT,MIOH.

LZIICEIIG-AN CENTRAL R. R.
DEPARTURE or TRAINS rrnox KALAMAZ00.
TIM19-TABLK—-MAY 15, 1882.
WESTWARD.

,'A. l’d.,P. H.
Accommodation leaves, ______________________ __ 4
..

   
 
 
  
 
   

arrives, _ 1 9 35
Evening Express, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ 35‘_
Pacific Express.-._.---------------------__--__‘ 2 47l__..__
Mail ‘
Day Express,_-

Local Pasaengi

EASTWARD.

Night Express, _______ _-

Mail
Day Express, ........................... -_
New York Expross,_
Atlantic Express,_-_____-__.._-

New York, Atlantic and Pacific Expresses lllllly,

_ Evening
Exprezs west and Night Express east daily except Saturdays.
All other trains daily except Sundays. Freight trains carrying
passengers out from Kalamazoo as follows: No ‘.59 (east) at 5:30
P. M., and No. 20 (west) at 7:37. '

H. B. LEDYARD, Gen. Manager, Detroit.
J. A. GRIIR, General l-‘re-iglit Agent, Cliimgo.

KALAMAZOO DIVISION Tun: TABLE.

(Time 16 minutes faster than Kalamazoo.)
GOING SOUTH.

  
 
  
  
  

 

NY&dNY&B
lLb1xpreas.'Ex A Miway h‘
Le. Grand Rapids ............. _-i 8 00E;”4'é5 pups 00 ‘I
Ar. Allogan ___ -3 917 “ 540 “ , 810 “
Ar. Kalamazoo 1015 “ 640 “ [11 40 “
1 40 Pl
2 45 ll
4 50 “
6 45 Al
9 10 Pl
7 40 U
GOING NORTH.
‘N Y & B=N Y A
|Ex & M‘ExpresI. W3’ pt‘
Le. Buiraio ___________________ __;i2 45 mf'i2 25m; :- so pg
Ar. Cleveland __________ ______; 7 35 " l 7 00 “ } 9 50 Ag
Ar. Toledo ____ ___ ___-_y12 01 All-‘l0 be “ 10 00 pg
Ar. White Pigeon- _’ 6 O0 “ l 3 40 Pl 8 45A]
Ar. Three Rivers _ 628 “ l 4% * ,iooo "
Ar. Fchoolcraft ___. l 6 58 “ ‘ 4 34 “ ‘I2 10. “
Ar. Kaluinazoo -‘ 7 :10 “ l 5 0:: “ j 140:):
Ar.Allege.n_ ____ -_ _,i 540 “ 608 “ I 420 “
Grand Rapids _______________ ___.l1000 “ 7 26 “ I 810 "
All trains connect at White Pigeon with trains on main line.

A. G. AMSDIN,
Supt. Kalamazoo Division, Kalamazoo.

CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Corrected Time-Toble—May 14,1882.

TRAINS WEST.

Mail and Day I Pacific Way
Express. Express.iExpress. Freiizbt.
No. 2. No. 4. No. 6. No. 38.

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STATIONS.

 

1150“ 130 u 186" Mon
12452;: 222“ 221 “ 94.5"
100“ 233" 233 “ 1025"
155" 322-‘ 323“ 155;».
242" 403“ 407" 439-
423“ 540“ 550“ moo"
ca5-- 745“ 800“ __:..._

TRAINS EAST.

Mail and Atlantic

    

  

STATIONS. Express. Express. Express. Freight
No. 1. No. 3. No. 5 N0. 38
Ar. Chicago __________ __ 8 50 Au 6 15 pm 9 00 PM _______
Le. Va1pa.miso__ 11 so “ I 745 ~ 11 2 “ 430;:
“ South Bend 1 07 PM, 917 “ 1 12 All 1010 "
“ Cnssopolis _ 1 55 " ,10 O0 “ 2 O5 “ 12 20 ll
“ Schoolcrafi; _ ..___ 2 57 “ 10 48 “ 2 57 “ 3 36 “
“ Vicksburg _________ __ 310 “ I0 59 “ 310 “ M20 "
“ Battle Creek ________ 405 “ 12 01 “ 4 05 “ _-__.___
“ Charlotte _____,_______ 5 05 " I O4 “ 5 07 “ _______
" Lansing 546 “ 1 47 “. 550 “ ______
“ Durand 715 “ 307 “ 719 “ ___.___
“ Flint--- 815 “ 850 “ 8 35 “ _g_____
‘‘ Lapeer -_ 357 “ 426 “ 9 10 “ _._____
“ Imlay City__ 9 24 “ ....___ _______ __,,,___
Ar. Port Huron .____,____ 10 40 “ 6 00 “ 1035 “ -..____,

All trains run by Chicago time.
Sunday. '
GEO. B. Runs, 8. B. CALLAWAI,
'l.‘i-nlfic Manager. General SuperlnIendsnt_
For information as to rates apply to E. P. Retry Loon!
Agent, Bchoolcraft, Mich. ' '

All trains daily except

 

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Eadiei’ fitpattmeqt.

A BACHELOWS MONOLOG'U E.

F. L. D.

A poor old bachelor ragged and gray
Sat in brown study one bright shmmer day.
And in this style he did soliloquize,
“I do declare, but 1 would give my eyes
For the secret of the smile neighbor Brown
Almost always wears when he comes to town.
And then he always looks so clean and neat,
While I am always rags from head to feet.
For no washer-woman will condescend
This old bachelor's ragged clothes to mend.
I believe I'll ask him when next we meet
The secret of all those smiles so sweet.
If I knew from what scurce those bright smiles rise
I would most surely go and do likewise.”
Then in thoughtful mood he sat down to guess
The secret of his friend Brown’: happiness.
A moment more and a bright smile swayed
Across the wrinkles old Time had made
On the careworn face of the bachelor gray,
Where a smile hadn’t rested for many a day.
"I have it now!” he said. “Upon my life,
The secret is this: He has got a wife.
And I am to do likewise. Let me see
Of the women I know which shall it be.
There’s that charming widow, Mrs, McGee.
But land of the living. she wouldn't have me.
Ahl I have it now! Its Miss Prudence Gray
I will go and ask her this very day."

His plans fully made, the bachelor rose

And carefully put on his Sunday ‘clothes,

And cast an admiring look in the glass

And thought, I'm good looking, I guess I’ll pass.”
And then he set 011' on his mission new.

With thought of a neat little home in view,
With Prudence presiding, and on the way

He composed a nice little speech to say.

To Prudence’s home it was not quite a mile

So he soon arrived. After talking awhile

Of the crops and also the prospect for rain,

He soon thought it time to be going again.

That he admired Miss Prudence he couldn't deny.
And resolved ere he went his fortune to try.

His shyness then he o’ercame with a vim,

For he thought, of course she'd not refuse him.
Imagine now his surprise and chagrin

When she informed him she wouldn't have him.
Alas for the plans for his future he’d made,

For all his fond hopes in dust had been laid

Thus fled love’s young dream, his new plans and all,
And nothing was left but his bachelor's hall.

MORAL.
They say that young chickens, the old hawks love,
But though that may be so it don’t go to prove,
You will see when perusing my [previous talk,
That young chickens are equally fond of the hawk.
Hudson. July 20th, 1882.

Temperance.

While sitting at breakfast this morning
my husband told me about a man having
his trial yesterday, for getting drunk, while
in the city. It has been in my mind
through all the long forenoon’s work. I have
thought how many men get drunk every
time they go to town or the city. And
whose fault is it? .

We see a beggar, made so by whiskey;
then I wonder if that man has a father.
And I wonder if his father voted for the
license law; voted to give the saloon keeper
the right to sell liquor to his son; the right
torob his son of his money, of his home,
and his family, and the right to turn his
grandchildren out in the street. Did his
son’s wife havea father; did he too, vote to
give the rumseller the privilege of turning
his daughter, outtothe tender mercies of
.the world; to send her and her babes to the
almshouse, to rob her not only of home,
but of all she held most dear on earth, the
love of her husband and her little ones,
which are scattered around, one in a place
by county overseers, to whoever will have

, them, bound until of age not to those that

love them, but to those that think it the
cheapest way to get help. Even their vict-
uals and scanty ‘clothing, oft times given
them grudgingly.- rTheir young lives for-
ever clouded by the knowledge of being
paupers, and that their dear mother died
heartbroken, and father was a drunkard.
.Their grandfathers voted for the license law
to give the saloon-keeper the right to darken
their lives for apaltry sum of money to be
paid the government, not near the sum that
one temperate man would earn in a year,
yet that licensed rumseller will tempt scores
of men to give them their last farthing by
temptingly displaying liquors of different
kinds. If they do not at first" ask for it, it
is offered to them as a treat, until an appe-
tite is formed for it, then they are sure of

. their money; But they have aright to tempt
men, if theyonly pay for a license, and
what cares the liquor seller for broken
hearts or homes except their own. And
what care they for the small sum paid for
a license, when there are so many men in
what is called high life, will pay several
times that amount in a year for the liquor
they buy of thtm. Yet they will make a
great cry about the whiskey tax, say if
whiskey is taxed everything should be—yet
congratulating themselves for the easy man-
ner in. which they coin money, living in
palatial residences, wives and children
dressed like princesses, and kept from
knowing the misery of the outside world as
much as possible.

Yet the great cry is, we can’t put a stop
to liquor selling, for this is a free country.
Think you fathers and brothers if you all
voted against the license law, would there
be a rightto sell whiskey? Yes, and sons,

TEE GRANGE VESETOEQ

‘C-('l(I}l‘. 1.1552

how many of you have had cause to blush
for ycur fathers, which thing would never
have been known to you if it had not been
for whiskey, how many of you have voted
for a rumseller to fill some oflice, or same
one for rflice that you knew would patron-
ize him just because they belopged to your
party. Friends and brothers have you ever
thought seriously on this subject, you that
help to make the laws, will you give him
the right to entice the weak-minded into
his fiendish grasp, or I might say, some
dear friend of yours, that is not strong-
minded enough to resist temptation.

Will you give your vote for a president
knowing he sets the example as our present
chief executive does; which he not only
sets before the United States but before the
whole world. Will we not blush and hang
our heads with shame, when the old world
knowing the example of our leader, calls us
a nation of drunkards.

Brother and sister patrons I think we
should be up and doing, fighting intemper-
ance as you fought the patent gate and
drive well swindle. You beat them, why
not conquer this? MARIAH.

Grange No. 274.

A Fraternal Letter.

Worthy Editor and Brother.-—As it is my
desire to write of several things, I will first
address myself to you and express my
thanks to you for your kindness and lenien-
cy to me in the past, in regard to articles
sent to the Vrsrron.

In regard to the VISITOR. To my mind
there is notabetter edited, a more honest
and concise paper printed, that is devoted
to the interests of the farmer and family.
I earnestly wish that every householder
of our class was a subscriber for the GRANGE
VISITOR and would take time to read it
carefully and thoughtfully. We think with
such reading they would not be as igno-
rant as we find some of our farmers are
on many important questions of the day,
pertaining to farming as well as State
and national affairs.

Now, by your permission, I will havea
little talk with my Grange brothers and
sisters, I call it talk, for I make no preten-
sions of being a literary woman, so when I
address a person or persons by letter I want
to feel just as though I was right there
talking with them. I perhaps may men-
tion some names those that are the most ia-
miliar, but you need not any of you feel
slighted, for I appreciate you all, but per-
haps some in a greater degree than others,
we frequently find correspondents that
speak our thoughts exactly. For those we
have more than a common regard. Then
there are those that are above and beyond
us intellectually, that we greatly admire,
and we cannot help but feel at times some
like poor Maud Muller, Alas! “who knows
what might have been” if circumstances
had been different, but we don’t repine, we
are willing to deal with the present, and
try to make a brighter and better future.

Although as Brother Cobb has said, we
can’t expect old people to change in their
ways as a rule, yet we think we have seen
a great change in both old and young since
the Grange was organized, and it has been
for the better, too. I must begin to look
out or I shall get my letter too long before
I say half what I want to.

Sister Finch I am so glad you and Sister
Wager have seen fit to answer Brother Har-
ger. His reasoning had nothing to do with
the question in hand. I hope he will live
to change his mind, his views seem quite
narrow in regard to woman’s ability to sup-
port herself. Sister Drake, you made your
defense good, and one other sister, I can’t
recall her name, in regard to that conten-
tious question.

Now, how about property one has before
marriage. How is that to be used, that
which is not used in the family, or of inher-
ited property after marriage, let us hear
your opinion on this subject. I feel quite
interested, there is much that might be said
to enlighten us ignorant women, (I am glad
all women are not ignorant) and that others
are waking up to enquire after their rights
and privileges pertaining to property.
Brothers we want to hear from you, don’t
be scared, you know we won’t hurt you, all
we want isjustice, and we think we shall
have that in time. I am always interested-
in reading our Pomona Grange essays, they
speak well for the Pomona Gr.-inge. They
surely are a great help to Subordinate
Granges. Let us encourage them and make
it pleasant forthem when they come among
us. ,, 

Imust say a few words to our young
brothers and sisters in the Youth’s depart-
ment. I have been very much interested
in all of your talks, as w--ll as amused. I
am gladyouare trying to make improve-
mentinyour articles, that is right, study
them as much as you please, it will do you
good, and will make a good impression on
the minds__of the reader. Do not take of-
fense if you are criticised; criticism is well
if done in the right spirit. I am willing to
have any one criticise me if they choose, for
I am no grammarian. I could not criticise
you if Ishould try. I would like to know
your ages, I could betterjudge then of your
ability.

I should think Will was in his 20th year,
Sweet Briar 18 at least, and there is Nettie

Gifford, she is between 18 and 20. Am I

has

find at a County Grange.
organizations do not lie so near our hearts
as do our homes.
less because we love our homes more.

right? I may not be very good at guessing
so will guess no more.
inig well and bid fair to become fine literary
men and women in the future.
Nina well
Don’t let your department run down.

0 deal! I must stop writing, my letter is too
long already.

I think you are do-

Keep Aunt
supplied with contributions.

Good by, from

AUNT KATE.
P. S. Aunt Kale wishes to say that she
ill htalth. She has not attended a
Grange in over a year, so perhaps you will
forgive her if she does write a lot g letter.
‘ A K.

Home.

It is my gocd fortune on the present occa-
sion to have a theme to present in which it
may presumed that we are all deeply inter-
ested, and to which the speeches without
any claim to the magic power of genius,
may hope to hold your attention. For what
is there on all this wide world of greater
interest to us than our homes. How impor-
tant is home. Only man has a home. The
tired lark sinks in the evening shades down
to its quiet nest, and offers its grateful an-
thems for the boon ofa house; but man
wearied with the strifes of the mart and of
the field seeks shelter in his home the sa-
cred retreat of the heart. Foxes have holes,
birds have nests, lions have dens, tigers
have lairs, dogs have kennels, but men have
homes. The supreme putting of divine
love is found in Jesus, when he forsakes his
home, and wanders a stranger, not having
where to lay his head; while the extreme
display of human sinfulness is found with
those human creatures who are Without nat-
ural affections. The air we breathe, the
water we drink, the food we eat, the rooms
in which we sit, the grass and flowers
among which we walk, these and a thous-
and other more or less subtle influences are
promoting to a beautiful and healthful sym-
metry, or dwarfing and disabling the body
in which the soul lives and through which
it acts. In view of the intimate relations
between the physical and the spiritual,
how important becomes every item of home
convenience and comfort. Physical com-
forts and conveniences do not, however
constitute a home. Amid these the inmates
may live, and in the ripeness of their years
die without having had any experience of
a home in its truest and best sense. These
must be trans-muted into life and love to
constitute what is worthy to be called 9.
home.

We are doubtless interested in the vari-
ous associations with which we are con-
nected and desire their prosperity. The
man who feels no responsibility with refer-
ence to his social relations, who would not
give of his time and money and personal

influence to help forward the religious, edu-
cational, and other organizations by which

he may be helped and in turn rendered
more helpful in the development of all
that pertains to a true manhood and W0-

man hood, is a very poor specimen of a citi-

zen, certainly not such as we are likely to
Yet these social

We love them none the

Some one has suggested that the three

words in our language which call up the
most tender and endearing associations are
the-words, mother, home and heaven.
it ever occur to you how intimately these
words are associated together.
is home without a mother” as its very soul
and center, making it the one spot on earth
where youth can unburden all its sorrow,
and to which memory recurs in after years
with a throb of jry, and will recur as long
as memory endures,
“home” and "heaven” are hardly less in-
timately associated for He who spake as
never man spake drew that matchless pic-
ture of heaven which takes hold of us as
no other ever did or can, it was in these
words: My Father’s house. How suggest-
ive of what our homes should be and of
what heaven is—the former to be the school
of all excellence, as place where dissatisfied
looks and angry words should never come,
where no kind office is left unperformed a

Did

For “what

Then

the words

place where the sky is always clear and the
sun ever bright; the latter a place where

all the best things of earth shall be fully
realized.

An important consideration in connec-

tion with the household is the house—the
material structure or building in which the

family live. There are many comfortable,

convenient and even elegant houses in our

State, especially in the older and more im-
proved portions of it, yet the number of

such houses is small as compared with those
that are inelegant, inconvenient and un-
comfortable.
of the means necessary to provide what is

This is not always from lack

better, but not unfrequently from the fact
thatthe tight-fisted occupant is unwilling
to make any investment that does not yield
an annual return of ten per cent. It is a

fact that I presume will not be disputed

by any; that country houses are generally
less convenient and comfortable and do not

exhibit as much refinement of taste as the
houses that are occupied by a similar class
of people in our towns and villages. I think
it will be apparent that this disparity
ought not to exist, and in fact cannot exist
without entailing the most disastrous con-
sequences.

The country home should of all

others be the most attractive. The isola-
tion of country life as compared with life
in the city makes the attractions of home
a more absolute necessity, doubly enhances
their blessings and causes the want of them
where they are lacking to be more keenly
felt. In the city many ofthe long evenings
are spent at the concert, the lecture and the
opera, but in the country they are usually
spent at. home. The business man of the
city may talk over the haps or mishaps of
the day to his evening associates at the
club, but if the new horse has shown a
disposition to balk, or attempted to run
away, if the cow has kicked over the milk
pail, the farmer tells it to his wife as they
sit by the cosy evening fire.

One of the evils much complained of in
our time, and one for which a remedy must
be found or the days of our national pros-
perity will soon be numbered, is that so
In any of our youth born and brought up in
the country rapidly develop a distaste for
rural life and agricultural pursuits, and
Without casting even a lingering look be-
h ind them, leave the old home and the pa-
ternal acres to seek a new home, new asso-
ciations, and new occupations in the city.
There is a constant and disastrous drain
from the farming population of its bright-
est intelligence, its most stirring enterprise
its noblest and most aspiring natures—ofall
those elements which are necessary to ele-
vate the standard of agricultural labor and
make it what it should be,

There may be a number of causes for
this drain from agricultural pursuits, but
prominent among them we believe to be
the harsh contrast between actual farm
life and life in the city, a contrast which
would entirely disappear, or turn in favor
of rural life, if farmers’ homes were all that
they should be. I know of farmers whose
farms are paid for and have been for years,
whose income from their farm has enabled
them to buy adjoining land, improved stock
and implements of husbandry, and to put
money out at interest, and yet living in
houses almost destitute of comfort or con
venicnce, with no visible touch of refine-
ment witbin or around them; no ornament-
ation surrounding the dwelling, except
perhaps a variety of farm implements
strewn around bleaching and cracking un-
der the infiuence of the weather, and a di-
lapidated hog pen in disgusting proximity
to the house. Stepping inside you find it
equally unattractive; no carpet on the floor,
nor picture on the walls; no books nor or-
nsments nor anything to indicate that any
other than the lowest type of physical lile
has its wants supplied here. It is no won-
der tbat the children brought up in such
a home shouldlearn to despise it, and should
choose any other calling than the one with
which they have learned to connect all
-these ungainly and unattractive associa-
tions. Some one has defined an agricul-
tural college as a place where farmers’ sons
are weaned from farming. We have known
not a few young men to go forth from the
agricultural college with a more intelligent
appreciation of and a more ardentlove for
agricultural pursuits than they would have
been likely to attain under any other cir-
cumstances, and we have known many
more who, most effectually weaned from all
desire ever to become farmers through the
harsh and unattractive aspect of farm life
presented by their early homes. But wher-
ever you see a farmer’s home that is the
embodiment of solid comfort and liberal
taste, the scene of an exalted family life
which shall be the master and not the slave
of labor, and of a bright and happy social
atmosphere, you will find daughters who
will not be afraid to marry a farmer, and
whom no farmer need be afraid to marry;
and you will find boys who will not be in
haste to seek in other oallings a more con-
genial style of life, but who will stick to
the occupations of the farm which have
blessed their youth with health and plenty,
with individual development and avirtuous
growth.

The farmer’s house should be located
near the principal thoroughfare, allowing
suflicient room in front for a pleasant lawn,
which a refined taste can render beautiful
and attractive with but a small outlay of
money. I shall not enter into the details
of the drawing of the plans and the ar-
rangement of rooms, people's ideas and
tastes are so varied that almost any plan
will have some who will admire it and some
who will not. If you are going to build
consult your wife if you have one, and if
you havn’t one, get one. Somebody has
said that God first made a man and then
He made a woman to tell him what to do.
I think this is eminently true about the
planning and arranging of a house. How
frequently we hear men discourse eloquent-
ly on the duty of wives to make home pleas-
ant for their husbands, poor afiiicted mor-
tuls, (the husbands I mean,) I do not mink
there is any less necessity to remind hus-
bands of their duty in regard to building
houses with a view to the comfort and con-
venience of their wives. The husband
probably spends but asmall portion of his
waking hoursiu the house, but there the
wife and mother spends her life. He_r work
is there, and while money is freely spent for
whatever will facilitate and lighten labor
outside, how often it is withheld, or grudg-
ingly expended for working conveniences

in the house. Not only is the house the

W0 man's wukx-hcp, and as sub ile lasa
right toplan and arm nge ii. lul it is also
the scene of her pleasures aid its stat of
her power; there she radiates those influ-
ences which aie fixirg the halils and
moulding the characters of ih(se who are
soon to mould the destinies of the world.
Everything in the l.(lll9 and its surround.
ings that can contribute to its brightness
and joy will tell through the mother benefi-
cially upon the children from the earliest
beginning of life onward.

A house with the necessary conveniences,
and also attractive in appearance, both as
regards its construction and furnishing,
need not be very costly. l\In.-it of us are
not wealthy, and the practical question
with us is how to make home cheerful and
beautiful with the means we can legiti-
mately devote to that object. In order that
every room in the house may be charming
and homelike, expensive furniture is not
essential. A carpet on the floor, a few pic-
tures on the wall, and such ornaments as
daughters of taste and refinement can readi-
ly make,awindow full of plants with the
light of heaven gilding their fresh green
leaves and gay blossoms, a hanging basket,
an aquarium: these things cost but little
and yield alarge return in the irfluence
which they silently but constantly exert.
Every home should have a liberal supply
of good books. There are many things we
can better afford to be without than books,
and but few that we can so ill afford to be
destitute of. Books are not furniture, and
yet they constitute the best furnishing that
ahouse can possibly have. A family that
is content to walk on cheap carpets and to
have the plaiuest of furniture in order that
they may have the fellowship of good
books, at once rises in our estimation on
our discovery of the fact, Children learn to
read in the presence of books, and as they
read the love of knowledge grows. The
farmer nenls :\ library not only as a home
attraction, but also that he may successfully
prosecute his calling. His is a profession
that requires study as truly as any other.
Fill any land with good homes, and it must
be a good place in which to live. It is one
pei:UlI'.-Li‘ll_\' of the Anglo-Saxon people that
I119)’ almlliltl in homes. The walls about
the hearth shutout all the world, and shut
in 2-. kingdom. This is the fort; keepit clean
and free, and religion will thrive and lib-
erty will dwell in the land forever.

Mas. C. B. Wrrircoiun.
Are Women Entitled to Vole at School Meetings’!

Bro. Cobb.-——It is rather late in the day to
discuss this question, as the annual school
meetings have passed, but as it -is causing
some excitement in a certain district, I
would like to see it discussed in the col-
umns of the VISITOR. In the district in
question, several ladies attended the annual
school meeting and six of them voted
amidst much opposition, two of the ladies
swearing in their votes.

An adjourned meeting is to be held, as
the district is discussing the propriety of
building a new school house which is sadly
needed, and it is reported that the ladies
will not be permitted to vote, the modera-
tor holding that the law does not authorize
women to vote, and claims Governor Je-
rome as his authority. Now, the following
is the law which the ladies claim gives them
the right to vote at school meetings. See
39551011 Laws. 1381. page 168, section 17.

Every person of the a e of twenty-one
years who has property lia le to assessment
for school taxes in any school district, and
who has resided therein three months, next
D!'8ceding any school meeting .held in said
district, or who has resided three months
next preceding such meeting, on any tern-
tory belonging to such district, at the time
of holding said meeting. shall be a qualified
voter in said meeting, 11 on all questions,
and all other persons w o are twenty-one
years of age and are the parents or legal
guardians of any children included in the
school census of the district and who have
for three months as aforesaid been residents
in said district or upon any territory be.
longing thereto at the time of holding an
school meeting, shall be en titled to vote 01};
all questions arising in said district which

S; patgrdirectly involve the raising of money

' Now, the question arises, are women con.
sidered “persons” in law? The statute says
expressly “every person who is of the age
of twenty-one years, who has property lia.
ble to assessment for school taxes, shall be
a qualified voter on all questions, and “all
other” persons who are twenty-one years of
age, and are the parents or legal guardians
of any children, &c., shall be entitled to
vote on all questions, which do not involve
the raising of money by tax. '

It is evident that the terms “every/person”
and “all other persons" includes the sum
total of persons. Therefore, if women are
not entitled by the statute to vote, it is be.
cause the law does not consider them per-
sons, and if not persons what are they.
Chattels?—VVe think our opponents will
shrink from such a conclusion as this. But
let us look at the law a little closer. On
page 155, Session Laws, 1881, section 103,
last clause, we find it provided that any
“female person” &c., shall be eligible to
the ofiice of school inspector? Women are
therefore, persons within the meaning of
the statute after all, and every and all per-
sons includes them as well as male persons.
We asked our astute moderator what the
terms “every person and “all persons”

mean, he says it means aliens, men of


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THE

GRANGE

VESZTCE.

course, because women have no right to
vote. VV: concede that the term “persons”
includes aliens as well as women, because,
every human being is a person, but let us
suppose our opponent’s view is the correct
one and see how wise and just it woul-i be.
Here are foreigners, Russians perhaps,
ignorant of our laws, language, or school
system, but possessing a little property lia-
ble to assessment. They can come forward
and vote on matters involving the welfare
of the school or the raising of money for
school purposes, while educated christian
women understanding the needs of the ris-
ing generation and the importance of liav-
a good school, with hearts all alive to the
welfare and best interests of their children
must be thrown aside and told they are not
persons within the meaning of the law.
But my'ar:icle is already too long, I will
only say we are law abiding. and will not
insist on voting when C0l]Vl|Il5b\A that the

law does not give us th» right, lowever
much we may feel the iiijiistice or tne de-
privation, but we mean to Claim all the
rights it does give to us.

MATRON.

Longfellow’: Love for children.

Longfellow loved all children, and had a
word for them whenever he met them.

At a concert, going early with her father,
alittle girl espied Mr. Longfellow sittin
alone, and begged that she might go an
speak to him. Her father, himself a stran-
get, took the liberty of introducing his little

aughter Edith to the poet.

“Edith?” said Mr. Longfellow, tenderly.

“Ah! I have an Edith, too; but my ba-
by Edith is twenty years old.” And he seat-
ed the child beside him, taking her hand
in his, and making her promise tocome and
see him at his house in Cambridge. _

“What is the name of your sled, my boy ?”
he said to a small lad, who came tugging
one u the road toward him, on a winter
morning.

“It’s ‘Evangeline.’ Mr. Longfellow wrote
‘Evangeline.’ Did you ever see Mr. Long-
fellow ?” answered the little fellow, as he
ran by. doubtless wondering at the smile on
the face of the pleasant, gray-haired gentle-
man.

Professor Monti, who witnessed the pret-
ty scene, tells the story of a little girl who
last Christmas inquired the way to the
poet’s house, and asked if she could just step
inside the yard; and he relates how Mr.
Longfellow, being told she was there, wont
to the door and called her in, and showed
her the “old clock on the stairs,” and many
other interesting things about the house,
leaving his little guest with beautiful mem-
ories of that Christmas day, to carry all
through her life. This was characteristic
of the poet’s hospitality, delicate and cour-
teous and thoughtful to all who crossed his
threshold.

It is often said, and with reason, that we
Americans do not think enough of man-
ners—that politness of behavior which comes
from genuine sympathy and delicate percep-
tion of other’s feelings. Certainly our
young people might look at Mr. Longfellow
as a model in this respect. He wasa perfect
gentleman, in the best sense of that term,
always considerate and quick to see where
he might do a kindness, or say a pleasant
word. '

A visitor one day told him in conversation
of a young lady relative or friend who had
sent Mr. Longfellow the message that he
was the one man in the world she wanted

to see.

“Tell her.” said the poet, instantly, “that
she is the one young lady in the world
whom I want to see.”

Some young girls from a distant part of
the country, having been about Cambridge,
sightseeing, walked to Mr. Longfellow’s
house, and, venturing within the gate, sat
down upon the grass. He passed them
there, and turning back, said :

“Young ladies, you are uncomfortably
seated. Won’t you come into the house ?”

They were overjfiyed at the invitation,
and on entering, r Longfellow insisted
upon their taking lunch with him. They
saw that the table was set for four, and were
beginning to be mortified at finding them-
selves possible intruders u on other . guests.
They so expressed themse ves to their host,
who put them at ease at once, saying that
it was only his regular lunch with his chil-
dren, and that they would be happy towait.

One of a group of school-girls whom he
had welcomed to his house sent him, as a
token of her gratitude, an iron pen made
from a fetter of the Prisoner of Chillon, and
a bit of wood from the frigate “Constitution,”
ornamented with precious stones from three
continents. He wrote his thanks in a poem
which may be very precious to the giver-—
“Beautiful Helen of Maine”—-to whom he
says of her gift that it is to him——-

“As a drop of the dew of your youth

On the leaves of an aged tree.”

Breathe pure air, if you would have sound
lungs. It is wicked for a youg girl with
weak lungs to sit on the anxious seat in a
house of p bmyer, where the exhalations of a
thousand ice and the poison of carbonic
oxide fill the closed room, even if the

reacher seems to her like God's angel.

ure air in the house, pure air in the hall,
pure air in the workshop, pure air in the
church—this is the prime necessity, and,
without this, upholstery and painted glass.
and labor-saving inventions, and the prayers
of the man of God are all mockery. Literal
inspirations must be of that which gives
life, before the inspiration of the hi her life
can be felt and realized. The gospe of pure
air is the saving gospel to those who mourn
that so many are out off in the morning of
their days, and that consumption is the
scourge of the race of man.-Herald of
Health. ‘

Josh Billings says :—“Most men concede
that it looks foolish to see a boy dragging a
heavy sled up bill for the fleetin’ pleasure of
ridin’ down again. But it appears to me
that the boy is a sage by the si e of a oung
man who works hard all the wee and
drinks up his wages on Saturday night.”

A COUPLE of lawyers engaged in a case
were recently discussingthe issue. “At all
events,” said the younger and more enthusi-
astic,“we have justice on our side.” To
which the older and wiser replied: “Quite
true; but what we wish is the Chief Justice
on our side.”

Cg antlizs’

UNDER THE MAPLE.

BY KATE I’. OSGOOD.

The start it gave me just now to see,
As I stood in the door-way looking out,
Rob Greene at play at the maple tree,
Throwing the scarlet leaves about.

It carried me back, a long, long way;
Ten years ago—how the time runs by l

There was nobody left at home that day
But little J_immy and father and I.

My husband's father, an old, old man,
Close on to eighty, but still so smart;
It was only of late that he began
To stay in the house and done apart.

But the fancy took him that afternoon
To go to the meadow to watch the men ;
And as fast as I argued. Just so soon
He went right over it all again.

Till, seeing how set he seemed to be,
I thought, with the air so warm and still,
It could not hurt him to go with me,
And sit for a little under the hill.

80, lending my arm to his feeble tread,
Together slowly we crossed the road,
While Jim and his cart ran on ahead
With a heap of pillows for a wagon load.

We made him a soft seat, cushioned about,
Of an old chair out of the barn close by,
Then Jim went off with a caper and shout,

While we sat silent, father and I.

For me. I was watching the men at work,
And looking at Jack, my oldest son-

So like his father ! he never would sliirk,
But kept straight on till the stint was done.

Seventeen was Jack that last July;

A great, stout fellow, so tall and strong l
And I spoke to the old man by-and-by,

To see how fast he was getting along.

But father had turned away his head.
And following J iinmy’s busy game

With the maple leaves, whose bloody red
Flared up in the sun like so much flame.

His lips, as he looked, began to move,
And I heard him mutter a word or two :
"Yes, Joe l A fire in the Welton grove l
Just wait——oue-minuts—I’ll go with you."

“Why, father," I cried, “what do you mean ?”
For I knew he talked of his brother J oe,
The twin that was drowned at scarce fifteen,

Sixty summers and more ago.

"The sun has dazzled you ; don't you see
That isn't a fire blazing there i’

It's only Jim, by the maple tree,
Tossing the red leaves into the air."

But still he nodded, and looked and smiled,
Whispering something I could not hear ;

Till, faintly frightened, I called the child,
Who left his play and came frolicking near.

The old man started out of his seat:
"Yes, J oe, yes : I'm coming,” said he,

A moment he kept his tottering feet,
And then his weight grew heavy on me.

“Father I’’ I screamed; but he did not mind,
Though the all came running about us then ;
The poor old boy was left behind,
And the twins were young together again.

And I wonder, sometimes, when I wake at night,
Was it his eyes or my own were dim ?
Did something stand, beyond my sight,
Among the leaves and beckon to him P

Well l there came Jim up the road ;
Ten summers ago ? as all of ten ;
That's Baby Jack on t e pumpkin load,
And Jim is as old as Jack was then.
—Harp:r’i- Maaazme.

An Episiolary Conversation.

Dear 0ou.sz'n,s:—As Aunt Nina has expressed
a desire to know the idea the expression, “A
well educated person,” “An accomplished per-
son,” conveys to our minds, I will write you
mine. They both convey to my mind the same
idea, and that is. "That is the kind of a pers on
I would like to be." 1 do not think they mean
the same, however, for a person might be ever
so well educated and not be accomplished.

To be well educated. 1 think it is necessary
to be learned in various branches. that is to be
tlurroughly educated, while "an accomplished
person" means, to my mind, ii person capable
of making agreeable use of his or her educa-
tion for the pleasure of others. To be accom-
plished in the art of conversing does not mean
that one must be really well educated; neither
need an accomplished player on the piano be
very learned in music—only to read and play
well the music of others—while a well edu-
cated person might be a poor talker. and a
thoroughly educated musician the poorer per-
former of the two. So my wish is to be a
thoroughly educated and accomplished per-
son.

Fred Spaulding, do you think German is
very difiicult, and do you study without a
teacher ?

Thanks, Ellen, for answering my question.
Is Pope one of your favorites?

I think we have all been treated to a‘ sur-
prise by Will. At first we had him pic-
tured as a “pale young man with
a sunflower for a button-hole bou-
quet,” but now he is a “sturdy farmer
boy.” Well, how do you like the change?
We have commenced to appreciate your arti-
cles now, so write again. Archie, I will agree
with you now that Will isn't at all dangerous.

Sweet Briar, it is impossible for me to write
upon the impulse of the moment. I have to
get a letter arranged in my mind before I can
write it. I hope our department in the next
Visrron will be well filled, and that the Cous-
ins will write often. I think Aunt Nina’s plan
to send the subjects which we wish to be dis-
cussed is a good one. And hope there will be
plenty of subjects. As to our sending our ad-
dresses, I think if any of us wish to correspond

we can send the letters to Aunt Nina inclosed
in an extra envelope, and I think she will be
kind enough to direct and send them to the
ones for whom they are intended.
' “ LAURA.

Orleans, Sept. 18, 1882.

Literary Style and Discussion.

Dear Cousme.'—It appears that I must word
my letters more carefully, as difi‘erent mean-
ings than intended have been taken in two
cases.

First, Will thought I regarded studied arti-
cles with contempt and expressed his opinion
to the ~contr:iry in quite a cutting manner.
Though I do not spend a great deal of time
upon my articles, I think every person should
carefully and thoroughly study each sentence
he may write; and although I may sometimes
admit an uustudied article, I admire the
author only when I can see that he has worked
upon his productions.

Then, Ellen accused me of calling Sweet
Briar dull. The letter I called dull was one
Sweet Briar described when speaking of the
cousins writing about their studies. I think
Sweet Briar writes very interesting letters and
hope she has not thought all this time that I
called her dull.

Laura, 1 disapprove of dancing, not for the
graceful motion, but the society it throws one
into; and it is for society that people dance.
This last statement can easily be proved by
dancing alone a few minutes. The people who
frequent dances and balls are usually of the
lower classes and are those with whom
a- person that thoroughly respects him-
self will not associate. Every person
has a greater or. less influence over every one
with whom heicomes in contact. If a pure
minded person attends balls and associates,
evening afterevening, with the rough charac-
ters that are always there, he will gradually
become rough. Then. there is something so
fascinating about dancing that a person who
practices it will give nearly all his mind to it.
making himself totally unfit for work either
mentally or physically; and as it necessitates
broken rest and night air it is very injurious
to his health.

I would like to have the judges announced
in the Vz'.9z'tm- of Oct. 1st and their decision
given Nov. 1st, the question to be open for
discussion until that time. I would propose
that three of the contributors to the ladies’
department be appointed, so that the cousins
can all write and, we will then have a dis-
interested decision.

We have received three copies of our Grange
paper, orthe Piitronfs Rural. It is an eight
page paper, size eight by ten inches. It is
filled with interesting matter either original or
selected. There is only one very short adver-
tisement. Acopy can be obtained by send-
ing five cents to A. Messer, Rochester, Ver-
mont. The subscription is fifty cents per
year. Hope you all will subscribe and show
the paper to your friends hoping they will fol-
low your good example. '

Hope all will follow Fred Spaulding’s good
advice and give your ages. I was fifteen last
We dnesday.

Expect to see our department well filled in
the next paper as dancing is a subject all can
write about, and probably Aunt Nina has re-
turned from her pleasant vacation ere this.
Good bye.

Nnrrnz Girronn.

Royalton, Vt.. Sept. 19, 1882.

Genius.

Genius is that power within the mind that
gives mutual excellence and procreative im-
pulse to all the faculties. Orville Dewey
affirmed that: “The very soul of genius is at-
tention-—the fixed thoughts.” We should all
wish to be geniuses, it is a prerogative of our
nature to early covet this great desideratum.
There is a prevailing idea in the youthful
mind that a genius is something above or-
dinary mortals. He seems to allure expres-
sion from the clouds, to converse with nature,
and to produce great thoughts without an
effort of the intellect. The man of original
genius comes into the world with anything
but favorable opportunities; neglects the
prescribed course of study at college. like our
Byrons, our Sheridans,and our Goldsmiths; fol-
lows rather a lazy life, and without exertion,
without previous discipline of the mind, with-
out any of this tiring labor of the brain that
saps the soul and wrinkles the brow; elec-
trifies a nation in a moment of its peril
by pure natural genius which he possessed,
but which had lain dormant form infancy.

Genius does frequently burst forth unsus-
peoted,a perfect leviathan of towering possi-
bilities. But that same genius was once feeble
in an infant's breast, and was only brought
out and defined by the industrious application
of all the faculties of the immortal man.

Labor is not incompatible with genius! Your
real genius is ever active—-a breathing creation
of tuning thoughts. The propensities of his
mind are over vigilant, seeking for knowledge.
What though “he commonly pass the first half
of life in the gross darkness of indigent hu-
mility, overlooked. mistaken, contemned. by

weaker men—thz'nking while others slept,
reading while others rioted. feeling something
within that told him he should not always be
kept down among the dregs of the world.” He
studies on through the mysteries which ever
surround the temple of truth until his genius
is illuminated, bringing out in wide relief these
traits which we so much admire: vigorous in-
tellect, keen perceptive insight into the phe-
nomena of nature, and an overpowering reach
of thought extending into and enlightning all
the several branches of science and art; hke
Leibnitz for instance, whose ever living ac-
tivity visited every department of speculative
thought. He is at once our favorite idea of a

genius; we look upon him as a man born with

faculties superior to all his contemporaries;
while others labor and strive for recognition
as men, he is universally proclaimed a philo-
sopher, whose genius has broken forth like
lightning from the clouds; like a volcano
which of a sudden blazes up, that had previ-
ously been supposed to have been extinct for
centuries; like the mighty whirlwind that rises
the sport of the elements. but sweeping on
gathering force and momentum, bows the
forest as with fear, and makes the mountains
tremble at their base.

Circumstances may give opportunity to
display shining qualities, but they never
can create great minds. Opportunity
never could have written the “ Decline
and fall of the Roman Empire," nor
could it have produced the “Philippics” of
Demosthenes. Do not deceive yourself that
these geniuses acknowledged as men of true
original motive power, did not study indefati-
gably. Solitude may be the school of gen-
ius, as Gibbon asserts, but labor is its soull
Gibbon was in his study every morning at six
o'clock; Leibnitz, the great German metaphy-
siciau, was never out of his library; Pascal,
the French geomentrioian, killed himself by
study; Tully narrowly escaped death from the
same cause, and Franklin, who is justly con‘
ceded to be a great genius, was noted for
great habits of industry, and next to Washing-
ton shines forth the illustrous champion of his
country.

Your great genius may practice oratory in
the cornfield with Clay, and study language
at the forge like Burritt; he may carry his
text in his pocket, while carrying ahod to a
London brick-layer with Jonson, and mark
like Ferguson, the position of the planets by
means of thread and beads. But whet her
size. or ii-itran-itn-er. dramitist or linguist,
he is ever that same active laborious being.
The late William Chambers, who in
younger life became so conspicuous as an au-
thor, and who revolutionized the publishing
of cheap literature, was in youth very dilli-
gent. During his apprenticeship, we are told,
he passed his evenings in study while twilight
lasted; but when the cold northern winter with
its long dreary nights set in, he was under
the necessity, for want of fuel and oil, to read
every morning an hour before five, to two
bakers, who gave gave him a hot roll for his
services. Such toil was productive of the
happiest results; it brought out, it illuminated
every meritorious principle and gave a healthy
impulse to every faculty.

But labor was not the only beauty of these
great men's lives. Nearly all who have re-
ceived the appellation of GENIUS have been men
of pious, devout habits, ridgidly observing the
truth that God reigns omnipotent.

There is a grand beauty in the language of
Sir Walter Scott on his dying bed, to his
son-in-law, Lockhart: “Be a good man, my
dear/” And with the last spark of life in his
closing eyes, he passiid away, blessing his fam-
ily Here was a truly great genius who had
passed his life in severe literary toil. admon-
ishing his family to strive for grace as he
passed to the tomb —“goal of all mortals.”
Dear Cousin Scribes, We may not possess a‘
highly cultivated taste; it may not be our
good fortune to have the culture of Scott. or
the genius of Ruskin; we may not be conspic-
uous for forensic eloquence, and rise and tri-
umph —a consummate Demosthenes like
Brougham, "who thundered in the house of
commons until the knights of the shire abso-
lutely clung to the benches for support; the
ministers crouched behind the speaker's chair
for shelter; and the voting members started
from their slumbers in the side galleries as if
the last trumph were ringing in their cars.”
We may not possess any of these shining qual-
ities, but we may drink life at the fountain of
religion—be good, my daars—aud entertain the
divine beauties of a Christian faith.

WILL.

THE REAPER DEATH.

LEPlEN—-Sister Mun; LEPIEN, of Grove Grange,
No. 528, was thrown from her buggy and killed Sep-
tember 15, 1882.

By this and accident her family ofjeight sons and
one daughter has lost an afiectiouatc mother, society
one who was ever ready to lend a helpin hand, and
Grove Grange a worthy member. Re lutions ex-
pressive of the respect and esteem in which this Sis-
ter was held were adopted by the Grange and entered
upon its minutes.

WALKER ——Died at her home in Salem, July 9,
1882, in the 44th year of her age, Sister Hasrna Arm
WALKER, a member of Salem Grange, No. 476.

Dearly beloved by her fellow members the Grange
adopted resolutions expressive of affectionate regard
for the deceased, and sympathy for the bereaved
family, ‘and ordered the same spread on its records.

Susan Sinrn.
ALTEA A. Coxsroox. v
Committee.

TIBBITS-—Sister Muir Tiaarrs, a member of
Grange, No 112. '

The mournful draping of our hall reminds us of
the bright, cheerful companion, who is sadly missed
from our pleasant circle, and our heart's warmest
sympathies are extended to the bereaved husband,
sorrowing children, and aged parents whose hearts
are made desolate by the Angel of Death.

“Fold her, Oh Father, in thy ari:n.s,
And may she henceforth be
A messenger of love between *
Our human hearts and Then."

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FENNO & MANNING,

Wfllll EUMMISSIUN MERCHANTS,

117 Federal St., Boston.
Consignments Solicited and Guh Advances Made.

A.VANDENBERG,

MANUFACTURER,
Wuonxsun AND Bsnu. DEALER nr

HARNESS, WHIPS, BLANKETS, TRUNKS, &c.,

92 Monroe Street,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICE.

I take pleasure in rescntingto your favorable oonn
sidcration my OAS PRICE LIST of Harness Work
——I-IAND MADE —a.ll of my own manufacture, and
also to return thanks for the liberal atronage I have
received from the different Granges t roughout Mich-
igan. I shall do in the future as in the past—fur|.|Ih
the best oods for the least money.
Farm arness, White Trimmed Breeching,
Round Lines, Snaps, Rum Straps, and
spread rings, complete, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
The same without Brsecliing, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
“ “ with flat Lines, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
“ “ “ “ “ without breaching... 26 00
Double Light Buggy Harness, white trimmed,

from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325 to 30 00
The same, Nickle Trimmed. from . . . . . .835 to S0 00
Single Buggy Harness, with round lines, white
trimmed, .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 18 00
Same with flat lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 00
Nickle Trimmed, . . . . . "816, 816, 818, 320 and 26 00

‘ALL ORDERS RECEIVED UNDER SEAL OI
. 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. VAN DEN BERG,

92 Mono: Sranirr. Gaum Burns.

German Horse and (low Powders.

This powder has been in use for many years. It
is lar e y used hynthe farmers of Pennsylvania, and
the atrons of t t State have bought over 100,000
pounds through their purchasing agents. Its compo-
sition is no secret. T e rccei t is on every box and
6-pound ackage. It is made E Dr. L. Oberholtufs
Sons 4% 0., Phoenlxville, Pa. t keeps stock health
and in g condition. It helps to digest and auiml
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 eg . It is also of grant
value to them when moltin . Hat is sold at the lowest
wholesale rice b B. JAMES,

GEO. W. I. CO., 80 Woonaamon S1, D5
raorr, THOS. MASON, 181 Wuriin S'r., Cmoulo,
and ALBERT STEGEMAN, ALLHGAN. Put u in
60-lb. boxes (loose), price Eran-r Cniu-s per 1b., J0-lb.
boxes (of 6 5-lb. packages, Tint Cnirrs per lb.

Grand Ra ids, Michigan, is the most popular agricul-
tural and amily paper published. This widely circula-
ted pa.per,now in its sixth volume,is published weekly,
and sent to subscribers at 81.50 a year including
postage. Every number contains 8 pages, 40 col-
umns of practical agricultural and family re '
matter, including full reports of the West Mich‘
Farmers’ Club, of which it is the oficialorgan.
publishers offer for the next thirty days to sand on
receipt of 32.00 Tun Woann for one year and aco y
of “ Our Farmer’s Account Book,” containing 12
pages on fine Ledger paper, a comprehensive sys-
tem of _book keeping adapted to the wants of practi-
cal farmers everywhere. Over 80,000 of these books
have been sold within the last year, and in man in-
stances farmers have aid itinerant book agen as
high as three dollars or them. Every farmer should
have one of these account books, but we advise them
to send direct to the AGRICULTURAL Woann, Grand
Rapids, Mich” and receive the account book and Ta:
Woatn for one year for less than the book cost
alone. Tm: Woans and Gran a Visitor one year,
and the account book, 82 50. on’t fail to mention
this paper when writing. Address,
1'‘. M. CARROLL, Publishers,
Guru: RAPIDS,


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TE G-BANG VISITOR.

OCTOBER 1, 1882.

FOR SALE.

A Foun-Tox J onus’ Song. In good order. Price,
830. Delivered at depot here.

J. H. GARDNER,
loct3t Centreville, Mich.

Hire English Immigrants.

Upwards of 3,000 healthy, reliable young men,
among the best experienced farm laborers of eastern
England, willing to do any work of whlch they are
capable ; more than 1,000 honest, deserving young
English women, wishing to hire out as domestic
servants; also a number of English artisans and
merchants are desirous of obtaining employment in
Michigan. They will pay the cost of their own pas-
sage out, and can come next spring, or earlier.
Wages expected: men 810 to 815 per month with
board, women 84 to 88 with board.

To obtain a circular giving full particulars, send
your. address to B. J . Zudzense, State Agent, Michi-
gan, for Workin -men’s (Eng.) Emigration Society,
Cedar Springs, ent Co., Mich.

References: Mr. B. J Zudzense has established for
himself an excellent reputation for honesty and in-
tegn'ty.

B. M. Moureounar, Circuit Judge.

Hon. H. Pumnnna, Rep. 3d dist.

Cedar Springs, Aug. 21, 1882.

Teasdale SteamFruit&VegetabIe
EVAPORATOR.

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

THE BEST, SAFEST, CHEAPEST AND THE
MOST ECONOMICAL MACHINE

in the line of Evaporators ever offered in any market.

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

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

3d. No experts are reaplire to run the Evapora-
tor; and any man with or ' ary 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.

6th. 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 man other points of excellence which we
have not room ere to mention.

We have three sizes in stock. First size 6 to 8
bushels er da ; this size can be used on any cook
stove. Secon 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 ever township and County in the State
of California. ddress all correspondence to

R. M. BELLINGER,
Blissfield, Mich,

15sep4t

ljuntf

THE 5 - TON

WAGON SCALES.

ARE SOLD FOR 360.

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

JONES OF BINGHAMPTON,

Btnghampton. N. Y.
Send for Circulars and further particulars.

Paw Paw, Mich., May 18th, 1878.
Jonas or Bnmnnn-ox:
M Scales give entire satisfaction. I have subject-
ed iz to the most severe tests and find it not only
correct in weighing large or small amounts, but,

perfectly reliable.
Yours, Fraternally,
[Signed] J. J. WOODMAN.
3 in—1yr

LI F E INSURANCE

FOR PATRONS.

____.o._..j

Ihc Patrons’ Aid Society of Michigan

WAS OBGANIZED IN DECEMBER, 1880,

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

HUME INSTITUTION OF LIFE INSURANCE

that the could control. As its name indicates, it is
FOR T MEMBERS OF OUR ORDER AND
FOR THEM ONLY.
Its Annual Meetings occur at the same time and
lace as the annual session of the State Grange.
his feature was for the express purpose of provid-
ing for a large representation of the members of the
Society at its most important meeting of the year,
when its oflicers are elected and without special
notice any amendment to the laws and rules govern-
ing the Society may be made.

The Murusr. PLAN adopted b this Society pro-
vides that an Assessment sha be made ONLY
when a member dies, and the amount of that as-
sessment is fixed when a person becomes a member,
and cannot be increased at any subsequent period.
This assessment is graduated according to age, which
is an important and iistinctive feature of this Socie-
ty—one which should command it to the favorable
consideration of Patrons.

If there are reasons why peo le should from time
to time pay a small sum from t eir income or their
earnings, in order to secure to those depend t on
them in an hour of need a sum sufficient to bri
over the up rises and wants incident to that most

' g period of life, those reasons hold good when
applied to the Patrons of our State.

Applications for membership may be made to

mums COOK, J. W. EWING.
Adrian. Eaton Rapids.
ELIJAH BARTLETT, Wsr. B. LANGLEY,
' Dryden. Centreville.
B. C. CARPENTER, GEO. W. EWING,
Lansing. Ross.
Mas. C.K. CARPENTER, c. I.. WHITNEY.
Orion. Cincmna' ti.
. . COBB A. E. GREEN
1 T Schoolcraft. wants Lake.

0, go Local Agents they may appoint.
For By-Laws and Circulars apply to either
WM. 13. LANGLEY, Pres’t,
Or J. T. COBB, 8ee’y, Centrevllle,
hblfl Schoolcraft, Mich.

A c In 1-3.‘
CREAMER & BUTTER COOLER

A combination that will
produce an even grade
of Butter, winter and
summer. No Ice re-
quired. Saves two-thirds
the labor.
its cost twice the first
season. A RESPONSI-
BLE AGENT wanted
where an Agent is not

It will save

located. Correspondence
Send for 0112- A

CULARS and PRICE-LIST.

solicited.

MCCALL & DUNCAN, Schoolcraft, ‘Mich.

  

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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. Ste eman, Allegan, Allegan County.

D. P. ewton, Watson, “ “

Simeon Staring, Ganges, “ “

E. J. McNaughton. Cooperville, Ottawa County.
Gutelius Sn er, Three Rivers, St. Joseph "
Williams it artshorn. Owosso, Shiawassee County.
0. C. S aulding, Royalton, Berrien County. '
P. W. Watts. Chelsea. West Washtenaw County.
John Wiebe, Bear Lake, Manistee County.

J. A. Montagu, Niles, Berrien Count .

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

John Adams, Marshall, “ -

Wattles ll: Wood, Battle Creek, Calhoun Co.

J. R. Brayton, Bellville. Wayne Co.

S. Andrews, Howell, Livingston Co.

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

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

D. I. Dunton, Lapeer, Lapeer Co.

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

G. M. Gardn» r, Litchfield, Hillsdale County.

AGENTS:

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

T. H. Ross do Co., Dowagiac, Cass County.‘ ,
S. N. Thomas, Decatur, Van Buren County.
Wm. C. Wooley, Elsie, Clinton and Gratiot Co's.
Adams & Rue, Galesburg, Kalamazoo County.
F. L. Elms, Charlotte, Eaton Co.

J. W. Rossman, Marlette, Sanilac Co.

Staut lit Ingoldsby, Pontiac, Oakland Co.

Dunnam 6: Son, Hudson, Lenawee Co.

Sla ton lt Son, Tecumseh, Lenawee Co.

Wihmx 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.

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.THOMAS MASON,

General Commission Merchant,

181 South Water Street, CHICAGO.
‘BUSINESS AGENT MICHIGAN srarn GRANGE.

fioapoeflully Iolloltu Oonalgsu-onto at

FRUITS, VEGETABLES. BUTTER. sees.
WOOL, HOPS, POULTRY, GAME, VEAL.
C3-ra.u Sand. Row Puma. Eiidee. Peltn. ’1‘a.l_".c'uI7. cue.

morn ABEIIT at the IL in. paddlds Exams: lssocunos.

chartered Fob. I315, I877.

 

To Patrons and 8hlpp0ro.—This is the only Commission House In Chicago organ-
lud and controlled by the Patrons of Husbandry. The chief aim of this Agency is :

hi. Security for Payment to Shippers.

Bud. ‘lo obuln the Highest Market prloo for goods rooolvod. quality oosuldcrod.

and. Quick Salon and Prompt Payment.

Shippers in all States will receive equal benefits of this management, the Business Kansgor
being under Bonds for the faithful performance of the same.

This Agency will an Order: for any goods in this market, at lowest possible rates. Cash
mnstseoompanylhoerderfornoartho amountrequlred; balnncetobeps-ldonroodptof bill

THOMAS MASON, Businou Manager.

 

ZLIIII IIPOITI. ITIHODLB and SHIPPING TAGS lent on application.

Agents Wanted Everywhere

BY THE

ilbjoci lesson Pub iching Company,

Of Kalamazoo, to sell a Dissected Map of the United
States, on one-fourthisch 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 ofGeography.

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.

Kalamazoo, Mich.

l6aug4t

New Harness and Trunk Store.

T. KININMENT 8c 00.,

Manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in

HARNESSES, TRUNKS. BLANKETS.
WEIFS, Eto.,
117 Canal 812., Grand Rapids, Mich.

All work our own make and guaranteed all Hand
Made.

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

complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . $29.00
Same without Breeching.. . ............... . . - 26.00
Same with Flat Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.00
Same without Breeching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 25.00
Double Light Buggy Harness, white trimmed
$25.00 to $30.00
The same nickle trimmed . . . . . . . . . . .$30.00 to 350.00
Single Buggy Harness, with round lines,
white trimmed ......................... . . 12.60
The same with Flat Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.00
Nickle Trimmed .... "$15, 816, $18, $20. 826, to 850

We also make a fine Nickle Trimmed Farm
Harness, stitched 6 to the inch, stock all
selected, an extra fine article, Breeching,
Round Lines, complete ................. .. 36.00

Same without Breeching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.50

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

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

orders to Yours very respectfully
T. KININMENT. .
' 117' Canal Street,
15Jul1y Grand Rapids, Mich.

UNION WIND-MILL AND
Manufacturing 00.,

Manufacturers of

 
    

 VVo1cott’s Patent
;-  Self-Regulating Sectional Wheel
V WIND-MILL,

‘ Derricks, House and
Stock Tanks, Etc..
Also Wholesale and Retail Dealers in

_ _ ‘ Pumps, Wrought Iron Pipe,
.._,_.- - AND FITTINGS.

To the Patrons of the Grange Visitor :—Last year
we advertised in the VISITOR and we were so well
pleased with the result that we renew the advertise-
ment. We give the Patrons an opportunity to get a
iirstrclass Wind-Mill at living prices, and remember
that the Union Mill,—Wollcott’s Patent Selt-
Regulatlng Sectional Wheel W'lnd-Mill is
equal to the best in the market. We have had nine
years’ experience and we have hundreds of the above
Mills in use. :g;.~.;.-‘:.,g;._,...=, -» ».-,1-,,.

We are also building the Wolcott P tent Solid
VVhee1 Wind-Mill. We will stand it beside any
solid wheel in the market for regulation, durability
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 00.,
lsept3t Albion, Mich.

What the Detroit Post and Tribune has to
say of the Kalamazoo Business College.

Among the prosperous educational institutions of
Kalamazoo is Parson’s Business College. It has
lately been moved into elegant rooms fitted up with
all the modern conveniences for such an institution.
For thoroughness and practical work it takes rank
among the best Business Colleges in the count .
Prof. Parsons understands his business thorou y
and has made his school a success; his rooms are
filled every winter with young men and women from
all parts of the country. The people of Kalamazoo
have reason to feel proud of suchs. well managed
school, asit is certainlya great hel to the place.
The professor is becoming widely nown throu h
the ublication of his Hand-book of Penmanship,
Boo -keeping. Business and Social Forms. Itis
one of the most complete works of the kind we have
ever examined.

We ‘can endorse all that is said of this Colle e and
know it to be a successful Institution. 

EVERY FARMER IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD EXAMINE THE

New Combined Spring Tooth Sulky Harrow

CULTIVATOB. AND SEEDEB.
Manufactured by

THE WOLVERINE
HARROW AND SEEDER COMPANY.

Mlchlgln.

Kalamazoo, -

As a combined machine, it stands un-
rivalled in excellence, doing the work 01
s. Harrow and Seed Sower most thorough-
ly and satisfactorily. It has taken high
rank at once as ONE OF THE VERY
BEST IMPLEMENTS FOR THE USES
1 __, _g DESIGNED EVER INVENTED. Sows
all kinds of grain and grass seeds. The Harrow does not trail or clog, is con-
structed in two sections. either of which can be raised or lowered by the driver,
working independently of each other, setting the teeth at any required depth. It
is of very light draft, easily worked by one pair of horses, and has received the
flrst premium and diplomas wherever exhibited

Send for Circulars. LORENZO BLXBY, Sec’y.

ATRONS’  AINT  ORKS.

Dlrnnlfactru-em of In -' . _q:-rsoll’.r 1.1‘. _ I uid R u I. I; .. ,-
I'ain.t. The only l'u ' in!!! that (in .' j‘y mol'.v! or salt
uiroru-urer,tlmnuu, 2 Ur fwmrn of burning coal.
_ ' u'/lirh. (lrstruy :-I/ ' 0.’h1'r Paints. .. I‘ricl'.v (ow, do-

lirv-rt-cl freight puifi wuy «input in (hr country. ’ No cash requig-_
vd until delirz-rel. 0 .III »* I'cn'nt users should .' uvritr and have
.u-nt free Beautiful . olor ~ - - (‘ard of Hm i'(u'nt ,
strtmticma how any nmv ran Paint. ..
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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, Iialamazoo, Miizh.

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THE RIX HARROW

DISTANCES ALL OTHERS BY REASON OF LIGHTNESS OF DRAFT

AND EFFICIENCY OF WORK

It took the first premium at the Grand Rapids field trials, beating every other barrow entered. It
was highly recommended by the Committee on account of the ease of adjustment of the teeth, the
ease or draft, and the efliclency of its work.

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

IT DOES NOT INFRIN GE ON ANY PATENTS,

For DURABILITY it is UNSURPASSED.

Send for Circulars. ’
RIX HARROW ,00., (Incorporated),
1N1’-1“ IKALALJAZOO, JMIICIEE-

PERSONS WHO PURCHASED

Fanning Mills during 1881 or 1332 purporting to ‘A7 ‘
have been manufactured in Lawton, Mich., unless  to 

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will conferafavor on me and learn something to . . .

thenadvantasebyaddressinz mates on Printmg, Bind-
ing, and Blank Books.

Myron H. Smith.

l6Sep3t Lawton, Mich.

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