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Officers National Grange.

Ins-rxn—J. J. WOODMAN,. . .Paw Paw, Michigan.
Ovxnsniza-—PUT. DARDEN, . . . . . . . . . . .Mississippi.
Llo'ru3xa—HENRY ESHBAUGH, . . . . ..Missoui-i.
Ba'nwAnn—-W. SIMS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Kansas.
Assr. S'l‘EWABD— JOHN J. ROSA, ..... ..Delaware.
Ciu.1=r.un—H. O. DERVIES, .......... . .Mai-yland.
'l‘nInsimns.—F. M. McDOWELL,......Ncw York.
Slannrsnx-—WM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.
Gun-Kaaz>nn—J_ AS“-. V. SCOTT, ...... . .Arkansas.
Osans——MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, ...... ..Michigan.
Po:(oiu—MBS. PUT. DARDEN, .... ..Mississippi.

' l"r.onA—MRS. I. W. NICHOLSON,...New Jersey_

Lu)! Assr. Srawsa1>—MBS. WM. SIMS, Kansas.
Executive Committee-

o. WYATT AIKEN, ............ ..South Carolina. ‘

3. JAMES, ......  .................... ..Indiana_
DR. J M. BLANTON,"._;., ............. ..Virginia.
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Officers Mlchlgarystate Grange.

K.—C. G. LUCE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Gilead.

0.-—A. N. WOODRUFF, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Waterv1iet.

S.—B. A. TOOKER, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Lansing.

A. 8.—A. E. GREEN, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Farm.ington_

L.—OHARLES-E. MICKLEY . . . . . . . . . . ..Thurber.

O.—SALMON STEEL, . . . . . . .Frank.fort, Benzie Co.

T.—-S. F. BROWN, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Schoolcra!t.

8lo.—-J. T. COBB, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schoolcraft.

G. K.—ELIJAH BARTLETT. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dryden-

Ol.BES.—MB8. A. S. STANNARD, . . . . . . . . . .Lowell.

PouoNs.——Mns. H. D. PLATT, . . . . . . . . . . .Ypsilanti.
1'r.os.A.—Ms.s. A N. -WOODRUFF,....Watervliet.
L. A. S.-—MBs. A. E. GREEN, . . . . . . . . .Fai-mington.

Executive committee-

J. Q. A. BURRINGTON, Chairman, . . . . ..Tuscola.

J. WEBSTER CHILDS, . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .Ypsila.nti,

I‘. M. HOLLOWAY, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17-Iillsdale.

THOMAS MARS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Berrien Center.

WM. SATTERLEE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bir1ningham.

TEOS. F. MOORE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Adria.n_

J. G RAMSDELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Traverse City,

0. G. LUCE, J. T. COBB, . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ex-ofiicio-

State Business Agent. _;

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

General Deputy.
JOHN HOLBROOK .................... . .Lansing.

Special Lecturers.

Thou. E. Moore, ............. . .Adri'an, Lenawee Co.
1. L. Stevens, . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..I’errv, Shiawassee Co.
In. 8. Steele, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Manton, Wexford 00.
Andrew Campbell. ..... ..Ypsila.nti, Washtenaw Co.
J’. W. Wing . . . . . . . . . . . .Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Go.

THE Zllaine Farmer says: “Mr. A. C. Em-
ery purchased one hundred pounds of ground
bone, placed in it a half hogshead tub, and
applied forty pounds of sulphuric acid, adding
water as desired. In five days time the whole
mass was reduced to a consistency of thick
jelly. Water was then added, and three hun-
dred pounds of plaster used as a dryer, the
whole being worked and shoveled over until
it could be readily handled. The phosphate
so made was applied to one acre of corn and
one of potatoes, both being maiiured su tiicien t-
ly, and a small quantity was left. which was
applied to his wheat fields and to a plat of
Grass ground, just to see what it would do.
The result of this manure in. the two latter
instances was most marked. while the corn
was heavy—the growth being dark colored
and stout, and the potatoes good. The entire
cost of the phosphate was $7.50, and Mr. Em-
ery thinks it the best expenditure in theway
of purchased niaiiures he ever made.

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THE Texan cattle fever has appeared in
Dixmont. Penobscot county, Maine. Eight
animals have died. The authorities have
taken the matter in hand. A case of the
Texas fever is reported at Port Byron, N. Y.
It is supposed it was brought. there by acar
load of cattle that were unloaded last week
from the VVest.

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To Ti-:s'r A FER’l‘_lI_.I7.ER—-111 order to test
the value of a fertilizer it must be used on a
oor soil. where even a small crop could not
produced without manure. When the
ground is already rich the special effect of
the fertilizer cannot be accurately determ-
ined.—N. Carolina Farmer.

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I LOVE MY RURAL HOME.
Oh, I hate to go back to the city,
Where there's nought but tumult and strife:

Where each one is grasping for dollars,
And fighting the hard battle of life.

all Euarlmul.

I would rather stay out in the country,
Where the sunshine is pure and free,

Where the wild flowers grow on the hillside,
And you hear the hum of the bee.

VVhere the birds sing out in the woodland,
“And the brook trolls on in the shade;”

Where the dews fresh from heaven,
Fall on each tiny leaf and blade.

Where the sunshine chases the shadows,
And keeps them out of the way;

Where the Robin sings in the orchard.
And wakes you at peep of day;

Where all seem joyous and cheerful,
And the air is conducive to health;

Where there is not so much of folly and fashion,
N or the toil and strife for wealth.

But vacation is nearly ended,
And I must go back to the strife;
Go back again to the city,
And fight the hard battle of life.
‘ A. E. D.

' The Negligent Farmer.

Man’s first vocation was given him by his
Creator. He was to be atfller of the soil.
A portion of the earth was his field of labor.
Thus early in history the farm became to the
farmer a thing of the highest value; while
to mankind generally there never has been
any business or pursuit that could equal in
importance the vocation of the farmer.
From the peasant to the king all rely on the
products of his labor. A few years ago we
used to hear the exclamation-—“lCotton is
king!” ‘Veil, if cotton is king the planta-
tion that raised the cotton is theking-maker,
and consequently greater than the king.

The farm is the most valuable institution
in our country. VVe have many million
homes in this great republic, but from its in-
numerable farm-homes we trace the source
of all our industrial health, moral and ma-
terial wealth, national strength and pros-
perity. —

The season now approaches when the hus-
bandman will lay aside, for a while, the im-
plements of field husbandry, and put every-
thing in readiness on his premises for the
severe reign of old winter. Hence, having
more leisure now, let us take a retrospect of
the past year:—

“With pleasure let us own our errors past,
And make each day a critic on the last."
and let the subject be-—“The Negligent
Farmer.” First, as regards his house and
surroundings.

One great mistake is sometimes made in
planting too many shade and ornamental
trees about the d Welling house. Some farm
residences have so dense a growth of trees
about them that they are entirely hidden
from the View of the passer by, and the in-
mates are shut in, with" no outlook from
their abode. Such homes may have all the
beauty of location, and variety of trees and
shrubs, that a Shenstone would wish to
adorn his Leasowes, but instead of convert-
ing them, as he did, into “into a little rural
paradise—the envy of the great and the ad-
miration of the cultivated,” they mar and
hide where they should ornament, and ob-
struct where they should open to view.
Then, again, we find the very reverse of
this. The dwelling stands on grounds that
are shapeless, shrubless, with not even a
flower to awaken an emotion of beauty or a
pansy for thoughts. We read man's history
in whatever he does in this life. He may
be aone-idea man and give all his time and
labor to one chief industry and neglect
many others, or he may have one agricul-
tural hobby and give all his efforts to that.
But whatever he does you will soon discover
it in the manner of his farming. Then,
again, we have many beautiful farm homes
where the cultivation is not all given to the
large field, but some ofit is evinced in beau-
tifying the grounds about the dwelling.

A word in regard to the situation of farm
buildings. If the dwelling faces the south,
the barn should never be directly east or
west of it, but always north-east or north-
west, in an oblique direction from it First,
because the prevailing wind comes from the
west, and insurance statistics prove more

danger from fires; if the barn burns, the
dwelling usually goes with it. Then in a
sanitary point of view the oblique direction
is better, for the air, loaded with the impur-
ities from the barnyard, is not so often borne
to the dwelling. Besides, it is not a pleas-
ant nor a wholesome sight that one gets, in
passing by a beautiful door-yard in juxtapo-
sition with a filthy barnyard. I know a
Kalamazoo county farmer who has lately
removed his barn from its old location, just
west of his house. and has thus added 30
per cent to the-appearance of his premises,
besides making his farm much more salable,
for a nuisance has been removed from close
connection to his house on the west.

The sanitary rules adopted in the farmer’s
house should extend to its entire surround-
ings, embracing the barn and the barnyard.
Your domestic animals need just as pure
and wholesome air for their health and
welfare, as you do for yours. VVe praise
the housewife for the iieatness and order
that pervades her household, and is mani-
fest in its €HVll'0l']n]é'u[S; and the husband-
man should see to it that 2! like wholesome
order pervades his barn and its surround-
ings. The diseases that attack your domes-
tic animals are largely generated in the
filth and deleterious matter in the barn and
about it.

Then again how much does the farmer
lose by not giving suitable shelter and pro-
tection to his cattle and sheep from the se-
verily of winter’s storm and bad weather!
Besides being cruel in his treatment to his
dum} animals, he is the" great loser, for
without" shelter they require more food,
and he gets less service from them, and
less profit from them in the market. It
would pay our Michigan farmers to pattern
after their brother farmers of the Keystone
State, who have a stall for every horse, ox
and cow, and for all of the young cattle.
The sheep have a warm fold, and no dumb
animal about the premises but what is snug-
ly housed. He gains enough in fodder,
and in greater usefulness of his animals,
by this humane treatment, to pay for all
the extraexpense in securing stalls and
shelter for them. A bad habit, like a bad
boy, does not long remain alone, it soon
finds kindred’ associates.

The farmer who neglects to provide shel-
ter for his cattle and sheep will neglect to
repair his fences and thus expose his crops
to the inroads of his neighbor's cattle; or
will neglect to cut up his corn, or gather
his apples, till Jack Frost, the famous free
booter, has “scaled the orchard wall and
the fence to the corn-field, and committed
ravages enough there to have paid for nar-
vesting both crops. And who will ever be
able to compute how much the farmer loses
by not housing his wagons, sleighs, tools
and the whole range of his farming imple-
ments? A trite adage says, “it is better for
a manto wear out than to rust out.” The
farmer is apt to reverse this with his farm
implements, for he lets them rust out by
neglect more than they wear out by
use. He does not, on the average, use them
s third of the time. Hence there are nine
months in the year, in which his farming
implements are through neglect mating out
or going to decay. Here is a continual loss,
affecting llllll, “like a hole in the meal bag,”
almost the year round.

A friend pointed out to me lately it fine
wheel cultivator, lying in the grass under
the eaves of a farm barn, where it was left
by the farmer, "and where it will remain,”
says he, "till next season when he wishes
to use it again.” Thus the agricultural im-
plements and tools are left where last used,
or last thrown, in the corner of the barnyard,
in the furrow, or along the lane. angwlzere
but under shelter or in the right place; and
there they will remain till the season in its
annual round calls for their use again.
This bad habit of leaving farm implements
in the barnyard, field or furrow, instead of
properly housing them, has given rise to
the pithy saying about such farmers, that
they will plow around the reapers and reap
around the plows; and do it from the habit
of sheer neglect to put things in their proper
place- V. B.

An iiijunctioii has been granted by Judge
Gai'dner_ of the superior court at Chicago,
restraining the _Washburn &Moeii barbed
wire inanufacturing company from collecting
royalty from the Chicago galvanized wire
fencecompany. The effect of this finding is
practically to break up a revenue from royal-
ties assured t0- Washbiirn & Moen by the
federal court in 1880. .

Storing Potatoes.

As potato harvesting will now soon be in
order, and as the crop will probably be a
fair average one, and operations will proba-
bly begin rather earlier than usual, we offer
some views upon the best mode of sorting
them, which may possibly be of advantage
to some.

To store potatoes properly we have to
guard against heating, for although the po-
tato will not absolutely ferment by heat as
so much vegetable matter will, a heap be-
comes warm enough to excite any germ-
fungus there may be in the tuber, and this
exhalation may be sufficient to cause a de-
cay, which can be communicated to roots in
which no symptom of rot exists. Moisture
is favorable to heating, and hence it it best
to have the potato thoroughly dry before
storing, if any considerable quantity is to be
put away in bulk. Thus, if they are spread
on a barn floor or other cool place out of the
sun. before putting into the root cellar, they
will be safe against rotting. VVhen potatoes
are perfectly healthy there is not so much
necessity for this care in drying. Hundreds
of bushels are often taken at once from the
field to the cellar without anydamage what-
ever resulting; and it is only in v‘ew of the
possibility ofit that we think it a visable to
take the extra precaution in drying. It is
well to note that a cool shed is best to dry
them in, as the tubers will otherwise ab-

sorb more heat than when they come out of
the ground, and this is what we try to
avoid.

There is one disadvantage in drying po-
tatoes in this way which is always more or
less connected with dry cellars, namely, the
great loss from shrinkage which results. In
an average dry cellar there is often as much
asa loss of twenty per cent. In bulk from
shrinkage. Thus, one hundred bushels

tored away in a place like this in winter
will give but eighty when taken out for sale
in the spring. This is often as much, and
sometimes more, than the advance in spring
over fall prices, and is an argument often
used to induce growers to sell their crop as
soon astaken up, instead of keeping them
for the spring rise. But this loss can be
wholly avoided and the roots kept in excel-
lent condition by carefully storing in the
open ground. A dry place is to be selected,
where the water can run easily away, and
the potatoes laid up in long narrow ridges,
say about four feet wide and as long as the
quantity to be protected demands. After
the whole has been collected together, a thin
layer of straw, onl thick enough to keep
the earth from fal ing in among the pota-
toes, is to be put‘ along the sides and over
the tubers, and a thin layer of soil just
enough to keep the straw in place, is thrown
over. It is best not to throw more earth
than this over at first, as the natural heat
of the potatoes will accumulate, while it is
the object to let it pass rapidly away. As
soon as thereis danger of frost, then the po-
tatoes should be covered thickly with soil,
as the frost is certain to penetrate. In this
Way the potatoes are preserved at a temper-
ature but little above the freezing point, and
thus guarded against heating much, and at
the same time there is a little loss from
eva oi-ation—a great point gained when the
bus el measure is bought out in the
spring.

The great objection to the old fashioned
and excellent plan is that we cannot get at
them well in the winter season; but we are
only recommending it where they are re-
quired to be kept over till spring. \Vhere
they are needed before that time a cellar is
almost indispensable. Another objection is
the extra labor which open-air banking
takes. Perhaps the saving of ten or twenty
per cent. may be afair set ofl"at this; but at
any rate those who have good root cellars
will generally run the risk in preference to
the labor of the open ground. But we have
referred to the excellence of the plan be-
cause some have no good root cellars, and
others who have may yet fear rot and be
glad to take the best precautions to guard
against accident. Only those, however,
which are apparently sound should be chos-
en for the out door practice, for those which
'are certainly diseased will be better preserv-
ed by an occasional sorting over during the
winter season.—Germantown Telegraph.

Michigan’s Harvest.

Reports from threshing machines, received
by the secretary of state in September and
October and published in the Michigan crop
report for October, show the acres of wheat
threshed to be 281,458, which is about one-'
sixth of the entire crop. The average per
acre in the southern four tiers of counties is
18.34 and in the counties north of the south-
ern four tiers is 18,83 bushels, indicating an
aggregate product in the state of 31,689,440
bushels.

There is but one element of uncertainty
in this estimate. Many farmers have as
yet threshed a portion of their crop but just
what portion it is often a difficulty to deter-
mine. Hence the report of acreage made to
threshers by farmers is not as certainly ac-
curate as would be the case had the entire
crop been threshed, but as the figures are
furnished in every intance by those most
competent to make the estimate, the state-
ment is entitled to a high degree of confi-
dence. It is without doubt the best estimate
obtainable.

The average yield per acre of wheat in
the state is 18.45 bushel-3, as compared with
12.03 bushels in 1881 and 16.79 bushels,

average for four years, 1878 to 1881.

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Reports from :37.‘ elevators and mills show
that there were 1,217-l,U59 bushels of wheat
marketed by farmers in September. The
quantity reported marketed in July, August
and September, was 2,213,-19:.’ bushels.

The acres of oats reported threshed isbl,-
TOI, yielding nearly 32 bushels per acre.
Corn and potatoes are full average crops.
Beef cattle and sheep are in fine condition.
In the southwestern part of the state winter
apples are estimated to yield 32 per cent;
southeastern -lzl, central -14, northwestern 73
and northeastern 84 per cent of an average
crop. The average for the state is 5:3. Late
peaches are estimated in the southwestern
part of the state at (it) per cent, southeast 78,
central 5H, northwestern U9 and in the north-
eastern 6‘.' per cent of an average crop. The
average for th;- state is 65.—-1’/'c.s's rcpor! of
Oct. ’_'0.

Prevention is Better than Cure.

Ills :il»s<>1iuvl_\‘ iieccss:n'_\' that _\'m1 Si."-lltl
see that your poultry house is di'_\'. the )'£ll'(l.\'
well (ll‘2llll(*‘ll, and no st2i;:iiaiit \\'£ll(‘l‘ :zil:=\\'crl
on the pi'e-iiiisc-s. If you attcinpl to he-s-p
(.‘lll(‘l{t‘ll\‘ in damp, dark. illy V'('lllllltl(’Il l:.ni~;-
es, and low wet swziiiipy ruiis, disease will
Sll1'Pl_\‘ follow. When (‘lli)l(‘l‘ll is arounul
among the iii-iglilmis’ fowls use Sulllt‘ lll.\lll-
fectants. .\ <,-lu-up and gooul «lisiiit'¢-cling
fluid may be nizulv by ilissolviiigilm-e» poumls
of coppi-ras in live gallons of \\'&lU,‘l‘. and ml-
(liiig hall‘ a pint of crude carbolic acid. If
the acid caiiiiot be had con\'eiiicntly. use the
copperas \\'lllmllt it. spriiiklo the door. nests.
walls and ])t’l'(,‘ll(‘.\', or iise a solution of sulph-
uric acid, say tliirty of acid to one thousand
of water, and apply in the same \\'aj,'.«-1' bet-
ter if \\'llSll('(l by iiieans of a. broom or bru.~li.

It is almost useless to dose fowls with
fll(’tll(,‘lllt' while they remain \\‘lu-re the infor-
tious poison still lurks, and unless you adopt
the saiiilary llIt‘2lSlll‘<‘b‘ 1‘ecoiniiu-iulcd. And
if you attend to the .-':iiiitai'_\-' busiiiess in time,
you will have but little iio,-e<l to dose your
fowls with po\\'i~i'ful <lrugs.-—-l’ouZtr_./ .lImn'/i-
lg/.

Remedy for Chicken Cholera.
Here is a reiiiedy or

cliickeii cholera, wliich I
used for two years. While my in-iglibors
have been losiii r nearly their entire flock,
mine llll\'(3l|€ell llealtliy, and I have ll(‘\'f‘l‘ had
a case to my knowledge: Take abairel, saw it
asunder in halves, put about three quarts of
uuslaked lime in one of the lialvcs, togctlio-r
with lialfapouml. or pound {to suit the m-«:95-
sity). of alum, till the hall‘ barrl,-l with water:
when slaked and settled take froiii one pint
to one quart ias the case requires) and put in
every pail of water given the fowls to drink.
The ime will answer for the Sfftulltl barrel of
Watei',but the saniei uantity of aluiii should
be added as before. lf coiitiiiued daily dur-
ing the sickly season, I can from my exper-
l€ll(‘e assure your readers that their fowls
will not be troubled with (‘lll(.'l{€ll cholera.-
Rural .‘\'c-w Yor/rer.

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Light Brahmas.

This excellent breed of fowls is a valuable
acquisition to our poultry stock;and we might
without favor credit them with giving the
first stimulus to the poultry industry of this
country. They are the most popular and
largely bred of any of our improved fowls.
And though they have some faults, like all
other domestic breeds, yet as a fowl for hard-
iness, quietness, easy management and win-
ter _ laying. they are superior to other
varieties. It is true they are a long time
coming to maturity, but the early and well
fed ullets will begin to lay in November
or ecember in warm quarters; and will
“shell out” during most of the winter
months when eggs are dear. One must
avoid feeding too much fat producing food to
them, or they will become too fat unless
kept in daily exercise.—PonZlrg Jllonthlg.

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Oiling Harness.

Harness is more rapidly injured in sum-
mer than in winter. It is sometimes soaked
with min, and again subjected to heat and
drying, and the perspiration of horses does
it no good. It kept well oiled all theseinflu-
ences will cause little injury. There are
many different applications used, and dif-
ferent modes are adopted for employing
them. A common way is first to wash thor-
oughly with soap and warm water and then
to apply neat’s foot oil, as the best oil for
the purpose. But a different course is adopt-
ed by others. One team manager informs
us that the flrst thing to do is to apply one‘
or two coats of castor oil with enough lamp-
black to Hive the proper color. By thus sat-
urating the leather with oil first, the soap
and water ‘applied afterwards do not pene-
trate it, and when leather is permitted to
absorb water it hardens it, and excludes the
oil. By oiling first, the dirt is softened so
that it is easily washed off,
ates much of the scrapings otherwise requir-
ed, and the whole operation may be per-
formed at once. After being oiled, wash it
with a sponge and soapsuds, and when dry,

preveiitive of Elie
have successfully

-rub over it a mixture of equal parts of oil

and tallow, colored with lampblack and a
small portion of Prussian blue. This is sub-
stantially the process recommended, and
we shall be glad to hear from those who
have tried different methods,‘ as to their com-
parative value, and the fineness of castor oil
as compared with other applications.—Coun-
try Gentleman.

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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

I Love My Rural Home—The Negligent Farmer-
Storing Potatoes——Micliigan's Harvest —Prevention
is Better than Cure— Remedy for Chicken Cholera

——Light Brahmas——Oiling Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . l
The State Capitol Engraving—About Free Passes-
Candidates' Opinions and Pledges, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Grange Fair-—An Outspoken Candidate— Discussion
in the Grange—Why we should have the Amend-
ment—Railroad Bribes to Judges and Law Makers
—Notices of Meetings, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

The Farmer's Story-A Prominent StockInan—To

Those Whom it May Concern -Do We Want the ~

Chang es?—Cancelled Stamps — Glucose—Railroad
Law— Where Buttons Come From——Who are
Wan ted—Mountains yet Uuwashed—Stock Gam-
bling Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Thos. F. Moore—Resolutions—F ree Passes——Detroit
——Not Ashamed-—Making the Worst of it——An Ef-
fectual Reproof——Advertisements..c . .. .. . . . . . . 5

Craving Rest- A Tired Woman's Last Words—Bread
and Butter—The Ballot for Women —Little Things
-—For What are We Toiling ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Libraries—To Miss Katherine J ay~-Public Dancers
-An Old Cousin—A Mother's L3ve———The Railroad
Problem Condensed, No. 6—Railway Post Ofllces -

The Reaper Death-Advertisements, . . . . . . . . . . . 7
“That Swamp"——Her Father Talked Too Much—Ad-
vertisements ..., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

$uulni’s fieiulimil.

J.T.Coan, - — - -
THE STATE CAPITOL ENGRAVING.

SCHOOLCRAFT.

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 enti-
tled to this fine engraving we shall promptly
forward it on receipt of notice.

UNTIL WITHDR.-nvx THIs Is MADE A
STANDING OFFEI~’.—FIVE NEW SUBSCRIBERS
Eon ONE YEAR WILL ENTITLE THE PER-
sox SENDING US THE NAMES AND $2.50
To A SPLENDID LITHOGRAPH or THE
STATE CAPITOL or MICHIGAN, sIzE or
SHEET 22x28 INCHES.

 

ABOUT FREE PASSES.

“is were not a little surprised the other
day at the defense set up by a Granger friend
in justification of the acceptance of a free
pass by members of legislative bodies. He
insisted that “holding and using a pass
would make no diflference with “a man that
is a man” and he thought it ridiculous that
the Granges all over Michigan should be
pledging their members not to vote for any
candidate who would not pledge himself not
to accept a free pass from any railroad com-
pany. To this summary disposition of the
matter he added that if he had been present
in his Grange when the matter was pres-
ented he should have opposed it.

From our acquaintance with human na-
ture we reach other conclusions. The men
in charge of the railroad interests of the
country are known to be of the very highest
order of business talent. This vast interest
is not in the hands of common fellows.
Twenty years ago legislative and judicial
ofiicers were not tendered the “courtesy” of a
free pass. Within that time these shrewd
managers have learned much, and perfected
gigantic schemes of multiplication that have
added hundreds of millions of dollars to
their wealth. Among the means used to ob
tain this end has been an interference with
the lcgislative and judicial departments of
the government. ,Always vigilant, these
business men soon learned to use every
means in sight that directly or indirectly
would promote their business interests and
the judicious use of free passes has been one
among the many means used in these latter
days to aid in the accomplishment of their
purposes. .

But our friend insist that “a man that is
a man" cannot be influenced by so paltry a
matter as a free pass. Why do these busi-
ness men single out legislative and judicial
officers and furnish all the members of these
two classes with passes? D) they furnish
all the members of any other class with
passes? N o. Are there any other classes that
have jurisdiction over the business of rail-
roads? No. Since these railroad officials
first commenced issuing passes to legislative
and judicial oflicers have they not continued
it? Yes. Don’t they think it pays ? Un-
doubtedly. Then it follows if our friend is
right that we send some fellows to the legis-
lature that are not men according to his
standard.

Let us look at the matter as we undestand
human nature. Suppose Mr. Brown, living
three miles from town, has oificial business
to the city twice a week, and in considera-
tion of his living out of town is allowed a

stipulated sum to cover the expense of com-

: dung» diirilsr.

 GEANGE VZSETQB.

ing to the city. He has, perhaps, a horse
of his own and might drive in, and as for
that matter money enough to pay his way
when and where he chooses to go. Mr.
Smith lives five miles from town, and his
business calls him to the city every morning.
He is rich and drives a first-class team.
Starting out from home alone every morn
ing, he drives by Mr. Brown’s door, and soon
finding that Brown goes twice a week to the
city,_gives him a standing invitation to ride.
Brown accents, and finding that Smith goes
every day, and the invitation has no restric
tign, but is available as often as he sees fit to
go, he soon gets in the habit of going much
oftener than his official business makes it
necessary, and instead of going twice a week
he goes four times.

Now, what sort of a man is old Brown if,
after riding back and forth with Smith for
six months, an opportunity is presented
where he can aid him in‘ his business afizirs,
and he fails or refuses to do a thingfor
Smith except to continue to ride with him
to and from the city‘? It is safe to say that
after this thing had run on a year or two,
and old Brown was found so obdurate and
ungrateful that he would do nothing what
ever for Smith, although opportunities had
been repeatedly presented, that Smith’s
courtesy to Brown would fade out. But we
find since railroad officials commenced of-
fering these passes to these two classes of
men who of all others have it in their
power to give something in return, that
they have continued the practice with a
faithfulness that awakens a suspicion that
old Brown don’t go back on them to an ex-
tent that induces them to withdraw their
favors. They know that as a business trans-
action the proportion of “men that are men”
in representative bodies is so low that this
free pass investment pays.

It is a demoralizing practice, and should
be abated. Aside from its corrupting influ
ence, there is no question but what the ses-
sion of 1881 was prolonged at a cost to the
people of the State of from ten to twenty
thousand dollars, by the convenience of
this little matter of a pass which enabled
members to serve themselves at home about
as much as they served the State. Shall
this thing continue? We think it will, if
not made odious by public opinion. When
the people say they will not support men
who accept and use these railroad bribes and
temptations to neglect the public business,
then the practice on the part of railway of-
flcials of offering passes to legislative and
judicial officers will cease, and not until
then.

_____________.
CANDIDATES OPINIONS AND PLEDGES.

In the VISITOR of October 1st was a copy
of a circular that we hoped would find its
way toevery candidate for legislative hon-
ors and labors in this State. We sent sev-
eral copies to different persons over the
State witha request that they fill the blanks,
sign, and forward to candidates in their
several counties and districts. From the
returns received it is quite evident that
some parties to whom circulars were sent for
distribution failed to attend to the matter.

Quitealarge number of the Granges of
the State have taken action in‘ this matter,
and voting members, so far as we are able to
give answers from candidates will be able
to govern themselves accordingly. When
no answer has been received voters must be
governed by what they can learn about the
probable course candidates will pursue in re-
gard to this matter if elected: The very
general acquiescencein the argument and
enquiry of the circular is an encouraging
feature of the political outlook.

We have no replies from candidates of the
first congressional district. A friend in Lena-
wee county, who distributed the circulars,
writes, he secured affirmative answers from
each of the candidates for Congress in the
second district, J. K. Boies and N. B. Eld-
ride; also from B. Shaw and Henry Hall,
candidates for the State Senate, and from
Geo. Howell, J. W. Bradner, B. F. Graves,
D. A. Bixby, and J. VV. Hawkins, candi-
dates for the lower House from Lenawee
county.

We omit preliminaries in giving answers
of other candidates. Edward S. Lacy of the
third congressional district says:

“I am in receipt of your circular letter of
the 9th inst taking ground against candi-
dates for Congress who use railroad passes,
and asking me for a response. I take’ pleas
ure in saying that I have paid my railroad
fare since enteringupon the duties of my
oflice and shall continue to do so as long as
I remain a member of Congress.”

J. C. Burrows, of the fourth district replies
to a resolution of the VanBuren County
Grange, which was in accord with the circu-
lar. "Your resolution is so in harmony
with my own views of propriety that I yield
ready acquiescence both to its letter and
spirit.”

Geo. L. Yaple alsoa candidate for Con-

gress from the fourth district says ;

“Your circular letter is just received,
I think the request therein contained is
eminently proper, and if elected I shall re-
fuse all free passes that may be offered or

sent to me by any railroad or other transpor- -

tation company. ”

We have no returns from the 5th district. ‘

O. F. Spaulding from the 6th district sends
the following answer :

“Your circular relative to railway passes
was on my table on my return home just
now. You ask me if I will refuse all free
passes tendered me by any railway oflicial

i\‘OVE.\lBER I, 1888

in the State. should I be elected to the of-
fice for which I am nominated. In reply I
beg to say,Yes. You will also please consider
this reply broad enough to include any
other State as well as this. In this con-
nection I desire to say I am in favor of the
regulation of railroad freights and of the
control of inter-state commerce by the gen-
eral government. To this end I voted in
the present congress for the early considera-
Lion of the Reagan bill, now before the house
committee on commerce.”

Edward B. Winans from the sixth an-
sWeI'SZ

“Your circular under date Oct. 11th is be-
fore me. I fully agree with you, that the
custcni of accepting free passes by senators
or representatives either in our State or na-
tional Legislatures is reprehensible and no
man of strict integrity and honesty couli
consent to accept favors which are essen
tially bribes. I am glad of the opportunity
to say, that if I should be elected to any leg-
islativc < fllce I WOUI-I not accept a free pass
fl om any railroad coi:ipany,or favors or pres-
enls f'.oi1i any corporation holding power or
privi eges from the national or State govern-
ment.”

Candidates from the seventh and eighth
districts liavc not i'esp_onded.

B. M. Cutclicoii of the fitii Sll_‘y'SZ "inan-
swer to inclosed printed circular‘, I would say
that I think this is a move in the right direc-
tion. I think that the custom of giving free
passes to legislative and judicial oliicers is
productive of_ evil. I shall be glad to see it
done away with, and shall very gladly myself
forcgo any such favors to help on the re-
form.”

As we understand from our i'eporter,(len.Ste
phen Bronson is also a candidate from the 9th
district and he answers unquzililiedly that he
will not accept a pass—II:i.s always believed
it a. system of bribery.

Joseph A. W ctmoré of A1legan,a candidate
for one branch of the legislature aiiswers un-
qualifiedly that he will not accept apaiss and
adds that “if elected I expect to be the ser-
vant of the people and not the bought tool of
any corporation or combination of any
sort.”

There are probably more candidates in Al-
legan county for legislative oflices but we
lia-ve not heard from others.

Richard Cowerd of Branch county says:

In reply to your circular I will say that
should I )8 elected to the otiice for which I
am nominated, I shall most decidedly refuse
to place myself under any obligations that
will prevent me from faithfully performing
the duties of my office.

II. 0. Hodge, of Branch replies:

“I am now as ever opposed to free passes
and shall favor a law stopping the viving or
accepting railroad passes by legis ative of-
ficers State or N utional. ll-ave always op-
posed the system as it is a means by which

cgislation is influenced by .\Ionopolists.”

Nothing farther from Branch county.

Richard S. Poole from Calhoun county an-
swers the circular by saying “if elected I will
in no case accept a. free pass upon any rail-
road.” ‘

Our reporter from Calhoun county writes
that in answer to circulars sent Edward
White, candidate for sena‘tor; R. S. Poole
and Peter Malvanney, candidates for the
lower house, have responded, and denounced
the free pass as one of the worst evils that
we have to fight, and say that under no con-
sideration will they accept a pass. Other
candidates have not responded.

Oscar Tillotson, of Charievoix county,
makes a satisfactory answer to the enquiry
of the circular. ‘

Philo Duty. candidate for senator of Clin«
ton and Livingston counties, is opposed to
the use of free passes, and if elected will
vote for the passage of a prohibitory bill. .

Henry W. J enison, for senator, same
counties, gives the pledge squarely.

O. G. Peunell, candidate for representa-
tive, Clinton county, writes:

“The contents of the circular letter re-
ceived fully coincide with my views of the
present situation, and should I be elected to
the office to which I am nominated I will
refuse all free passes that may be offered or
sent to me by any railroad oflficial in this
State or any other while holding said office.”

Frank Necker, same olfice and county
answers:

“ In reply to circular will state that if
elected a member of the legislature I will
not accept a free pass of any individual or
corporation.”

B. B. Caruss, same office and county, is a
member of the legislature of 1881: don't
think a pass had any influence as a bribe in
that legislature, and adds:

“As to their retarding business (I refer to
the passes), it cannot be denied. Therefore

if I am elected I will support any measure
that will put a stop to their use.”

Wm. H. Rose, another candidate, same
oifice and.county, has given no reply.

Alonzo F. Frisbee, of Livingston county,
candidate for senator, declares unreservedly
against the practice of using free passes or
any other form of bribery to maintain and
strengthen corporate power adverse to the
interests of _the people.

Wm. Ball, candidate for representative,
Livingston county, answers:

“Your circular letter received. Without
going into a discussion of its contents, I am
in the main in sympathy with its contents,
particularly with that part relating to the
legisia.ture,so far as absenteeism is concerned.
I do not plead guilty personally, for I was

absent only four days I think during the -

whole session of 188], and then necessarily
so. Whilea free pass would make no differ-
ence with me in reference to legislative mat-
ters, and while I believe a majority of the
members to the next House will accept
passes from railroads, still if my constituents
wish it, and the Grange to which I belong
wishes it, I will (if elected) refuse to accept
free passes upon railroads.”

H. Dale Adams, candidate for representa-
tive in Kalamazoo county, answers:
" I fully believe that free passes granted to

members of the legislative branch of our

overnment, or its judiciary, are intended

y the parties granting them to bias or in-
fiuence action of the recipients in favor of
those corporations, and are dangerous mis-
siles in the hands of honest men, whatever
they may be in the hands of those whose
scrupl».-s are less guarded. I therefore pledge
that in no event either in the letter or spirit
will I encourage or accept the same during
my candidacy or as a member should I at-
tain to such a position through the suffrsges
of the peopie of this district.

0. P. Morton. same cfflce and county,
makes a saisfactory reply to the enquiry of
the circular.

E. C. Adams, same office and county, in a
lengthy published reply, says:

“I fully concur in the sentiments of your
circular. If elected to the oflice of repre
sentatlve in the State legislature I will re-
fuse all free passes and other favors that
might be suspected of corrupting legisla-
tion and obligating me to railroad corpora»
Lions.”

I’. liaiincy and Ciizirlcs Ilrowii. c:iiidi«l:itc.s
for l'e1)i‘t'SPlitaIl\'€S froni K:il;uii:izoo 2-ouiit_\'.
have made no reply to the circulair though :1
friend informs me that he was assured by
.\Il‘. Ilrown that if elected he would not 11(5-
cept a pass if offered.

II. A. Wykoff candidate for State Seiiator
from the 15th district zuiswers that “The
views set forth in the circular are entirely
in accord with my own and if elected I will
refuse any and all passes and aid in any leg-
islative effort to abolish the practice."

-J. l\I..\'oi'ton same ollice and district an-
swers:

“I wont receive any free pass on ziny rail-
road where it would have anything to do
with the legislature or any bribe any wziy Oi‘
shape where it would have any influence on
me or affect my judgement in any manner. I
dont believe there is money enough in .\Ii«-lii-
gun to buy me when I am at work for the
people."

AlleiiCaInpbell candidate for the legisla-
ture from Oakland county endorses on a re-
turned Cil'CllIdI‘ “I have always regarded free
passes as abribe. If I am elected I will re-
fuse all free passes from railroads.”

Cluirlcs Baldwin candidate from same
county in his answer dissents entirely from
the views expressed in the circular but closes
his letter with an aflirinative answer to the
enquiry. “Will you refuse all passes offered
you."

W.  Carpenter candidate for representa-
tive some county reponds:

“I am and always have been opposed to the
acceptance of free passes and if elected, will
pay my own railroad f'ai'c, and accept no
passes, and will use my oliicial influence to do
away with the systein."

J . .\I:inwai'i'ing candidate for Senator closes
a letter condemning without stint the prac-
tice of accepting passes and sundry evils
growing out of the system as follows:

“If I should be elected to the office of Sena-
tor in the 16th district for which I am nom-
inated Iwill refuse all free passes that may
be offered or sent to me by any railway oth-
cial in this state while occupying such of-
lice.”

1-‘roin Ilillsdale county we have answers
as follows: Reuben Strait, candidate for
Senator says 3

“Circular received and duly considered. In
reply will say, the question is a fair one, and
one every elector should be interested in, the
system adopted by railroad corporations of
free passes to our State oliicials has ever been
considered by me as no more or less than a
bribe as men or corporations are not in the
habit of conferring favors unless they expect
a full equivalent, and no ofiicers can receive
such favor without feeling under obligation.
Believing therefore as I do the system to be
injurious to impartial legislation, I can
cheerfully promise if elected to the olilce for
which I tllll nominated I could not receive a
free pass from any railroad oflicial in this
State while acting in such olficial capa-
city.”

The other candidate for State Senator from
this district failed to respond.

Wm. Boylan, Geo. C. lVyl1is, Lee Coiiklin
and TIIODIEIS Iiowlett, candidates f'or the
lower house,return decided and emphatic an-
swers to the enquiry, all iineqiiivoczilly con-
dcmning the practice and making good hits
at the evils growing out of the usiigc. Na-
tli_aii Alvord and Fredrick Curtiss, represen-
tative candidates, failed to respond.

Henry B. Diller, candidate for represen-
tative from Genessee county, answers‘ as
follows :

“The circular requesting an answer to the
qustion therein was duly received. I sup-
pose it is issued in the interest of the people.
As a public servant I have always deemed it
my first duty to labor by vote and influence
for the highest interests of my constituents,
and of the great commonwealth of Michigan
and of our common country the Unite
States. If I am again elected to represent
this District in the State Legislature, and
find any favor in the way of the discharge
of my duty, I shall feel under obligations to
refuse it.”

C. E. Reulison, another candidate for re-
presentative, pronounces against the practice
in the most emphatic manner, and gives the
pledgeas though he liked it. Four other
candidates of Genessee county fail to come
to the front, their neighbors probably know
why. We don’t.

Shnbael F. White’s letter in reply to cir-
cuiar covers so much ground that we give
it place.

“I am in receipt of your circular letter sent
me several days since and intended to have
answered at an earlier date but press of bus-
iness caused by the serious illness of my
partner has caused the delay. I recognize
the magnitude of the evil of which you
complain, and had supposed that my course
of conduct when on the bench in refusing
all passes sent me on “account of circuit
Judge” and my views so frequently ex-
presssed everywhere would be of far more,
account than any pledges made on the eve
of election. I most assuredly shall refuse,
declaring them an insult to the legislator,

1

all passes sent me on account of my posi-
tion as a legislator, should I be elected to
the offl :e. I think however this more
pledge not to accept passes not enough,
and maintain that a law should be passed
prohibiting public oflicers from accepting
such passes, and will do all in my -power
to secure the passage of suchaliw. There
are a good many officers, however, who
now refuse passes given them as -such of-
ficers For instance our republican candi-
date for congress, General B. .\I. Cutcheon,
was for years a member of the state board of
railroad 0OIX1lI1IS.~Iv!ll(I'~', and of course was
offered passes by all the railroad compan-
ies which he constantly refused. even go-
iugso far as to refuse them from companies
for which he was doing b lslue.-$9 as an at-
torncy.

F. I). .\‘iniih, the only 4-;iii.l‘nl:i:e iv-spoiid-
iiigfroin ,\I1iski-goii coiiiit)‘. .-';i_\‘.-:

In :lliSW€l‘ to (‘ll't'lll£1i' lt‘lIt‘l' ll(ll‘.vle'~l me by
you, will say that I feel iI_lli}'1lili_\' In refuse
aill pl‘f‘St‘llIS, (lIlUl‘f.‘ espoi-uill_\' i’i'om l‘I)l‘1)Ol'll‘

tions» as I feel that the ll(’('t’}II:il‘.(‘¢: of them
would liI2i<'l\'(’ll tiw l't‘t‘l)l'tI of :in_\' fauna.»-1 mun.

Mi‘. ('.ii'ivton, of St. (‘lair ¢‘v\illl'i_\’. replies
tlirougli ll lricnd .-ixiti.-'l';ii»toi‘il_v to :'i.c enquiry
of the (.'irciilur.

The (‘2l.llili(I:lICS for senator I1‘->11‘. this (‘Olm-
ty liavc inudc no l‘c*pl_\' to the (‘in-iiliii‘. J.
W. llciitly, c:ui<lid;itc for i'cpi'c;-;~.-iit:it§\'c from
St. .1 oscpli county, says:

I received vour ClI‘Clll:li‘ :1.-‘ki::_r, "If elected
rcpi'esciitzitiVe would I 2lC(.'(’pI il l'£l.lIl‘O21d.
pass." in reply. perniit me to s:i_v I would
not. It is given to control to _;i ccrtauii ex-
tent ollicial action. I£\'ci‘y iegi.s'l;itoi' ought
to be free, or he cannot I‘(“pl‘t‘S€llI iinp:irtial-
ly the interests of the people."

.l:inic.s .Iolinson—s:inic oflice and county,
s:i_vs: TllUl‘eI1lll_V have been at time when a
person could have accepted :1 pass without
censure, bull believe tliattiine lizis passed,"
and mills, “If elected I will not accept :1 pass
froni ll I'2l.lll‘U.‘t(l 01‘ other ti'2iii.spoi'tat.ioii corin-
pzniy."

E. A. Stroiig same oilicc and county gives
positivcassimiiicc that if elected he shall
place himself under oblig:ition only to his
constitueiits.

E. Ilimcbaugli, same oilivc and couiity,“wlll
if elected, f';ivoi' a law making it a criminal
oileiise to accept it pass Wliilc in the public
service as legislatoi'."

J. C.Bisliop—-szmie oilice zind county hav-
ing receivcd the (,’ll‘('lll2lI' froni Ilon. Win.
Ilull replies as follows:

Mi‘. IIull's reply to this is elsewhere in the
V i.~‘lTOR.

Ilon. Win. Iluil, (‘entreviile .\Ii«:li.

Dear Sir.-—-Your cii‘ciil:ii'_lettei' received,
and in reply will say th_:it if elected I will
not acce t nor use a l’3.1II'l)il(l free pass if I
supposci the same was iiiteiided as a bribe,
which I presume IS the saiiie feeling you had
upon the subject wlien you held the same
otiicc under the same circuinstziiices and ac-
cc )t€(I and used free l'(i.iII‘0a(l passes."

lurr Oak, Oct. 17, ls‘.-'2.

C. J. Monroe, candidate for Senator,
twelfth district, makes reply as follows:

" Yours of this date was received as I was
leaving for Chicago. I am glad tie Grange
has taken this step relative to railroad asses
to public offi -ers, especially legis utive.
They are certainly harmful in many ways,
among them the tendency to prolong the ses-
sions by frequent adjournments; and the fa-
cility they offer for members to go home or
elsewhere greatly interferes with Monday
and Saturday sessions. To the amount of
each ride, itis value ad vanced by the railroad
company, for which they have a right to ex-
pect areturn in service or influence. It is
obvious no lawmaker has a right. thus to
place himself with reference to any special
interest. Thus believing, I shall accept no
nassesifelected. Ofcourseitis notto be in-
ferred from the above that I am hostile to the
railroads. I regard them among the great
and importantinterests ofour State, and in
every case where said interests shall come
before the Legislature they shall have my
careful attention to do them equal justice
with other interests.”

The competitor of Mr. Monroe has not re-
sponded. H. H. Howard, candidate for
representative from Van Buren county, re-
plies: _ _

"In regar to the question of railroad
passes I wo ll say that I will not receive a
free railroad or other pass as stated in your
communication, provided I am elected. I
believe that ifa II.lfjf)IlIy of the members of

the legislature refuse to use passes, it will »

save a great deal of time and money in the
legislature of this state.”

M. E. Higmire, same ofiice and county,
answers:

“I am glad the Grange of Van Buren
county has taken this step relative to rail-
road passes. They are simply bids for ser-
vices to be rendered in case said services are
called for. It is a position that no legislator
should place himself in. Thus, believing as
I do, should I be elected I shall accept no
-passes from any transportation company.
I do not wish it inferred that I am hostile to
railroad companies. I deem them a promi-
nent factor in the commercial make-up of
our State, and should a bill pertaining to
their interest demand my consideration, I
shall try and do them justice.”

R. L. Warren, same 0lII:e and county,
answers:

“I accepted the legislative nomination
with the intention, if elected, of serving my
constituents with fidelity. To do so will re-
quire that I be under obligation to them only
asa member of the legislature, and therefore
I most cheerfully comply with the spirit of
the resolution, and pledge myself to place
myself under no obligation to any railroad
or other corporation, in the event of my
election, by acceptiu g passes or other gratui-
tous offerings. It will be my purpose in the
future, as in the past, to defend the interests
of the farmers, the merchants and the peo-
ple generally, from the rapacity of the cor-
morants who would eat up their substance
by extortionate freights or in any other man-
her.”

this kind, and makes it with the under-
standing that it is only applicable to legisla-

sees no objection to the use of passes when;

“issued in friendship or in reciprocity.”
We have covered more ground with this

F. B. Adams, same otlice and county,
recognizes the right of exacting a pledge of I

tors during the continuance of a session‘


NOVEMBER 1, 1882

TEE

GRANGE VISITOR.

3

matter than we intended. We shall proba-
bly receive more answers to the circular, but
too late for publication before election. We
shall not assume that all candidates who
have received the circular and have not an-
swered it,'intend, if elected. to accept this
tempting “courtesy,” but all such are liable
to that suspicion.

\Ve did not project this scheme, but when
once started we presumed to come forward
and push it, and now only hope it may
serve a good purpose.

We should be sorry to learn that Patrons
in this matter had not been faithful to their
pledges.

 

AFTER the forms were made up we re
ceived from Geo. D. Moore answers from the
several candidates of Lenawee county. As
previously advised by Mr. Moore these an-
swers were satisfactory. Some of them
would have been given in full if they had
been received in time. That of B. F. Graves
is comprehensive and statesmanlike. We
shall give it in our next.

 

MR. GARVER comes to the front again and
will receive attentou in the next number.
The free pass and salary matters with other
business has taken our time and prevented

-reply. ‘

Grange Fair.

Bro. Cobb.-——The Patrons of Allegan and
Van Buren counties held their fourth an-
nual Fair at Vvoodman Grange Hall Oct. 17
and 18. The first day we received 128 entries
and the executive committee prepared the
grounds for a good time Wednesday.

The second day was clear and cool. We
went to the Hall and commenced to write
and work, until about eleven o'clock my
assistant needed some rest as well as myself,
so we thought we would stop taking entries
for a few minutes. There was such a crowd
that we could hardly get down stairs; it was
estimated there were about 800 present du-
ring the day.

There was a nice display of stock, also of
the fruit of field and garden. The sisters did
nobly and had a splendid Floral Hall, good
enough for a Grange fair or any other exhi-
bition. , The admission was free. The judges
used the blue and red ribbon but no cash
premiums were given.

After dinner Bro. George Breok, of Paw
Paw gave us a good address.

There were five Granges represented.
The total number of entries were 391, the
fair proved a success in every respect, and
I believe every Patron went home thinking
it was a day well spent.

The following resolution was adopted at
the close of the address:

Resolved, That each Grange that is will-
ing to make this a permanant organization
elect aoommittee of three to meet with
Woodman Grange the first Tuesday in
December. Yours fraternally,

S. O. MERRIAM. Sec‘y,

Allegan, Oct. 23, 1882.

   

An Outspoken Candidate.

Editor of the Grange Visitor.-——I see you
have made a square fight aginst the accept-
ance of a pass by legislative and judicial of-
fices. Permit me as a matter of justice to
Wm. Sh-akespere of Kalamazoo, candidate for
Secretary of State to say that he is a gentle-
man of indepenent political sentiments, and
to our knowledge has for years been out-
spoken in his condemnation of this free pass
business.

Though it may seem invidious I desire to
say that Mr. Shakespere was among the first
in the county to enlist in the defence of his
country, served faithfully and to-day stands
the peer of any man, as a gentleman of good
character here where he has lived so long.

CITIZEN.

Discussion in the Grange.

If the lecturer is a good reader, it is always

in his power either to treat the company to-

» some pleasant little article worth hearing,

or of requesting some more accomplished
brother or sister to do the work for him.

Then, also, nothin is more a reeable or
improving than litt e off han conversa-
tional debates upon any subject thata broth-
er or sister may desire information.

We would have it perfectly understood
here that we want all this exercise to be
strictly for the instruction, profit and pleas
ure of Grangers. _

We want no legal cross grained discus-
sions nor con_cussions,_where1n the speaker
squares himself to give his brother the
knock—down argument, and whose whole
expression seems to be: “Just listen now,
and hear how well I can speak!"

We commend all such speakers to the
court house.

For our purpose we only want a simple,
honest investigation of what belongs to
Grange life, the farmer’s farm, the out-doors
and in-doors, the field, the garden, the or-
chard, the dairy, the hennery, the kitchen,
the pantry, the food, the family, the fire-
side. .

If any brother has succeeded in ,raising
extra fine cattle, cotton, corn, or cabbages,
we would like him, when requested, to give
the Grange the benefit of its method in a
good, plain farmer like manner.

If another knows of what he believes to
be a better way, let him rise in time, and in
courteous, unpretending, sim le fashion, let
him set forth the respective c aims to favor
of the two methods. Or if any _sister has
famous success in raising small fruits and
poultry, or in making butter, anything of
general interest, let her tell the brothers and
sisters, in a modest and good-sensed way,
just how she did it. Each season furnishes
its own subiects.——Dz'r2'go Rural.

dummuniratiatc.

Why We Should Have the Amendment.

Jerome T. Cobb, Esq., Editor of the Grange

Visitor:-—I have read with care the article
prepared by you and published in the issue
of the GRANGE Vrsrron, under date of the
15th of October inst., upon the subject of the
“ Constitutional Amendment relating
to salary'of Circuit Judges,” and I have
reached a conclusion entirely different from
what seems to be a result of your present
thoughts on this subject. I shall presume
that you and I have no private or personal
interest to serve in this important question
of a change in a constitutional provision.
that we are each seekingto give the greatest
good to the greatest number, that we may
each preserve to ourselves and our fellow
citizens, all the guards to the property and
personal liberty of individuals that legisla-
tion and the courts can give us; in this spiri'
I approach you as the editor in chief of a pa-
per which is exercising a wide-spread influ-
ence among our farmer population.

You will promptly admit, with the writer.
that there is nothing of party feeling to con
nect itself with the question of this proposed
constitutional amendment; if the change of
the circuit judge's salary from $1,500 to $2,-
500 is made it does not involve heavy or op-
pressive taxation on the tax payers; the tax
to pay salaries of circuit judges is a State
tax, not a county tax; $30,000 pays the in-
creased tax, to be raised to pay this increase
of salary to all the 30 circuit court judges in
Michigan. The valuation of property in the
State for purposes of taxation is $810,000,000;
one cent on $270 valuation; those of us who
pay taxes on $1,000, will pay less than four
cents to pay this increased salary; those of
us who pay taxes on 535,000 will pay less
than twenty cents to pay this increased sala-
ry, and so on, in proportion, up to the high-
est tax payers.

When the people of a great State like
Michigan, great in its material resources of
agriculture. lumber and minerals, determine
to give such thought to this subject as be-
comes a well educated people, such thought
will not incline them to be more illiberal in
salaries to well qualified judicial officers,
than all other States in the Union. Such is
the fact as our own constitutional provision
now stands; the other states ranging in cir-
cuit court judges’ salaries from $2,500 to $7,
200. ‘Michigan stands back of no other
State in the Union in furnishing educational
facilities to rich and poor from a common
fund; can she afford to be illiberal to the
men who are elected to deal out even hand-
ed justice, as well to the humble laborer
as to the man who has accumulated means
almost beyond count?

In this proposed change of a constitution-
al provision her people are asked to be fair
in their expenditure, but not lavish. The
writer of this article, in addition to the fore-
going, submits the following reasons in favor
of the change, drawn from the past experi-
ence of Michigan, and furnished by another
who has carefully examined this whole sub
ject.

Because there have been twenty five resig-
nations of judges within nine years.

Because to-day there are but four circuit
judges who have been upon the bench for
six years last past.

Because in twenty-eight circuits eighteen
judges have been on the bench less than one

ear.
y Because forty-four different judges have
sat upon the bench within two years.

Because the 15th circuit has had six judges
in about ten years.

Because the judges of Detroit are now
paid $3,000 under amendment adopted a year
ago last spring.

Everybody knows that experience is what
makes a good farmer, blacksmith, carpen
ter or mason. Is not the same true of
judges?

A few days will elapse and this very im-
portant question will be passed upon by the
people and settled for many years to come.
May that people give the earnest thought to
the subject which its importance demands.

H. G. WELLS.

THE above communication from a gentle-
man of large experience came late and we
have only to say in reply that it meets my
approval in so far as it presents a mutual
desire on our part to promote the best interests
of the people of Michigan. Nor does the $30,-
000 additional expense which adoption of
the amendment involves seem to me a vast
sum if we are to get anything for it. The
point we made in our former article that the
judges of the state no matter of what grade
had not at any time exerted their influence
directly or indirectly to make impossible for
suits involving but a paltry sum to run
through all courts to the supreme c iurt and
then repeat, to the great detriment and often
ruin of litigants, encumbring the courts and
imposing a worse than useless expense upon
the people. We say this important fact has
not been answered. The array of salaries
paid judges in other States does not prove
that the judicial business of those States is
better worked than in our own. Were this
shown we should withdraw our objections.
We care little for the salary, but we want
some evidence somewhere that to this judi-
cial machine some sound business princi-
ples shall be applied. With this secured,
as we said before, our vote and influence
will be given to the amendment. Until
then we vote—No.

Railroad Bribes to Judge: and Law Makers.
' To the Editor of the Viaitor:——It is strange
that the system of bribing the most trusted
servants of the people by means of railway
passes, should have grown to be so univer
sal without attracting a greater amount of
public attention. The most sacred functions
of government are entrusted to the ofiicers
of our legislature and our courts. Upon the
purity and independence of these men de-
pend the liberties of the people. Yet for
many years our judges have received a regu-
lar annual tribute, of great value, from a
class of suitors in their courts. There is no
pretense that the annual pass is presented a-‘
a token of personal regard or as a gift of
friendship. The gift is equivalent, in every
respect, to money, and its value can be com
puted in dollars and cents. The party mak
ing the present is a litigant in‘ the courts,’
and a lobbyist in the halls of legislation,
with interests adverse to those of the people.
The free pass to these officers is a deliberate
bribe without any redeeming feature. It is
given with the intention of obtaining a cor-
rupt influence over those who should be in
dependent and impartial, and the fact that
these gifts are cheerfully continued year after
year is proof positive that it is agood in
vestment.

It is a disgrace to any elector to cast his
vote for a candidate who expects to sell him
self for the privilege of free transportation
as soon as he is elected. No public ofiicer
can preserve his independence or his honest y
while receiving gifts from corporations.
When a judge or legislator accepts a pass he
tacitly agrees to return the favor by giving
to the corporation his special influence and
assistance. In any event he is bound to act
the part ofascoundrel. If he performs his
duties impartially and is true to the people,
whose servant he is, he violates an agree-
ment with the corporation, which he has en-
tered into by the very acceptance of the gift,
as fully as if he had signed and sealed a
covenant to that effect. He cannot do this
honorably without returning the gift.

On the other hand if he is influenced in
the slightest degree in his oflicial action, by
his possession of railway favors, he deserves
the execration and contempt of every honest
citizen.

It has always been a recognized principle
of political ethics thatjudges and legislators
should not be gift takers. They should be
as carefully guarded against undue influence
of interested parties as the members of a
jury during the progress of 9. trial. Even
the smallest gift which is not intended as a
token of affection or personal friendship, is
full of suspicion of fraud, and is an element
of danger to the people. It is no wonder
then that thoughtful citizens unitein the de-
mand that candidates for important offices
shall pledge themselves to It main free from
corrupt influences. This abuse can be abol-
ished if every elector will persist in refusing
his vote to any candidate who is not pledged
to do all in his power to break up this dis
graceful system of free passes.

OBSERVER.

 

Mr. Garver Replies.

Ed. Grange Vis£t0r.'—I must thank you
for the place you gave my former article on
the “other side” of the patent right question,
and also for the replies by yourself and some
of your correspondents. But for me to reply
to all of them in detail would transcend the
limits of my time and also that of an ordi-
nary newspaper article, therefore I shall con-
iinc myself strictly to some of the leading
points involved in the question of issue.

Were it not that I have an unbouudiug
faith in the simple justice of our cause, I
would not undertake to discuss this impor-
tant question, especially with old and expe-
rience journalists. But the object you seek
in having a law passed for the purpose of
curtailing the rights of inventors, is so man-
ifestly unjust to the inventors, and I think det-
rimental to the whole country, that I think
the subject should be more fully ventilated.
I think there is no other country in the world
that has ever attempted so rash an act, there-
fore I feel quite sure that the importance of
the subject has not been sufiiciently consid-
ered by those who seek to abridge the rights
of inventors,

Now what are the legal rights of inventors
as compared with the rights of other men?
When a man earns a farm he acquires an
unlimited right to the use of It for all time
to come, and it is the business of the govern-
ment to protect him in that right. But the
inventor has the legal right to the use of his
invention for the limited term of 17' years,
and now it is sought to further limithis right
that he shall not controll the use of his in-
vention at all, but simply allow him to manu-
facture it, provided he can run the gauntlet
of all the manufacturing infringing leaches
of the country. This I regard as a very small,
and not very precious boon left for the in-
ventor.

In friend Luce’s and H. B's reply to my
comparison about the stolen horse I am really
amused to see how ingeniously they twist the
comparison out of its natural shape, and
compel the horse to stand on morelegs than
was originally calculated. Now gentlemen,
you must be aware of the fact that we did
not compare a stolen horse with a stolen har-
row. We compared the interest that the
owner of the horse had in the horse with the
interest that the inventor had in his inven-

tion. Now we claim that the inventor has a

natural and legal right to areasonable royalty
for the use of his invention, and it is the
right he has to this royalty that we compare
to the right the owner has in the horse
that is stolen. Leaving out of the question
entirely the ownership of the harrow and
twist the case just as Inuch as you can and
the stubborn fact remains the same, that the
inventor is robbed by the manufacturer and
the uses of his invention. But you say go
for the manufacturer; and I say in reply, go
for the horse thief. and let the man alone who
purchased the stolen horse and paid a fair
price for_ him, and was an innocent purchaser.
Now perhaps the thief is out of the reach of
the lawful owner of the horse, but the owner
Inust have his horse all the same, and I say

when the manufacturer is out of reach of an

inventor, the inventor should have his rights
from the users all the same. it is frequently
the case that manufacturers are very wealthy,
and it is sometimes just as hard to get your

just dues from an independently rich maim-
facturer as it is to get it out of an indepen-
dently poor thief. To more fully illustrate
the point I will make another comparison.

Suppose you buy 160 acres of land from the
lfuited States government and you get a gov-
ernment decd for it, and a second man who
had no title to the land, would sell 40 acres
to a third man, and the third man would take
posssessiou of it. Now according to your
reasoning you should not attempt to assert
your right as the lawful ownel‘ of the 1111111-
Of course you would not lift a linger to dis-
possess him, but you would advocate that
congress pass a law confirming his title.
Strange doctrine this, yet you avocate sub-
stantially the same thing in the case of the
uscr of patent machines. When an inventor
pays the government fees and complies with
the law in other respects, the goverimient in
return agrees to protect him in the right to
nuiuufacture and use his invention; but sup-
pose now the government turns» round and
makes a law depriving him oi' the right to
use his invention, would that be in good
faith? would it be honest? would it not be
“iiupairing the validity of a coI1tI'act‘."'

You say “the right of ownership with all
the advantgcs which ownership gives, is
cheerfully :iccordc.d to the inventor." That
sounds very nice, but just how you reconcile
it with your theory of the patent riglit ques-
tion does not seem so clear, when you are
zulvocatiug a law that will deprive the inven-
tor oi' controlling the use of his invention.
it seems that the above question docs not fit
your theory of the case, but if you and your
readers can make it do so I have no objec-
tions. We aulmit that there have been rascals
and swiudlers in the patent right business.
as well as in all other trades, but that is no
reason why an iuventor’s rights should not
be protected in legitimate business.

Mr. ll. ll., in the Visrrou of Oct. 1st,
says: The very best of feeling should exist
between the inventors and Iuaiiufacturer of
any agricultural implement and the i'armer.”
Now that is good advice, but when theIuunu-
facturer and fariuer combine to rob the in-
veutor of his just and legal royalty and per-
haps law him to the bitter end, it necessarily
creates at little “unpleasantness." And again
he says in the same communication, that “the
manufacturer of agricultural implements,
and the farmer should work for each oLher's
interests." Weuotice they have been doing
that, especially in the spring harrow business.
Now pcl'llél[)S,ll is \\'i(-ked, but we cannot
help but thin k sometimes when we see thou-
sands of infringing hurrows selling over the
country, that the inventors ought to have
just a wee bit of interest in their business.

I would like to I'enl_v more fully to Mr.
Luce, but can not at present. lle scatters
too much and it would require too much
time to gather up the fragnients and show
where he misrepresents the case. But I will
ask him this question, however; can you not
see the difference between a working harrow
and a patent right, which is simply the pro-
cess or plan by which the harrow is made,
and not the harrow itself; and when a man
steals a patent right, he don’t steal a barrow,
he steals the plan or process by which the
harrow is made and makes the liarrow him-
self, consequently your supposition that a
man steals a Blrdsiil huller has nothing what-
ever to do with the case.

Another: wherein does this “outrageous"
patent law compel a man to pay royalty ex-
cept as a reasonable compensation for the
use he has of the improved tool? Please tell
wherein the law is wrongif simply lived up
to. We admit that laws are abused in thou-
sands of ways, but is the law to blame or is
it the swindler? “Verily, the law is good if
used lawfully.”

A word to the Editor about calling hard
names. lt is useless for you to claim that
you don't mean inventors “as such,” when
you speak of “swindlers” and royalty “ras-
cals,” for the only persons entitled to royalty
are the inventors or their representatives;
but as you so persistently deny that you call
hard names, I will not insist that you do.
But let me suggest that you do not indiilge
too much in this or it might.lead to calling
hard names. D. L. GA_nvEn.

 

Free Passes—P|edger.

Bro. Cobb.-—-Van Buren county Grange at
a. late public session adopted resolutions in
regard to free railroad passes being used as
bribes to influence legislation. Bro. D.
Woodman sent you the resolutions in his
article published in a late VISITOR.

As secretary of Van Buren county Grange,

I have sent copies of the resolution to each
candidate for congress and legislature that
will receive votes in this county, requesting
them to make pledges to accept no free pa.-“sea
from railroads or other tranportation com-
panies. Each has notice that his answer
will be published in the \'I.~:ITon, and that
a non-compliance with this request will be
taken as a refusal to make such a pledge and
will be published :u'-cordiugly.

The farmers of .\lichigan can control elec-
tions and obtain their rights if they will. I
for one think it nonsense for farniei;-* to
grumble about not having their rights when
they will not try to take Iheiu. Let 11>‘ f.i.d
a way or make one. l“rutern:ill_v,

4,‘. ll. CllAl{l.ES.

Bangor, Oct. filth, ':-‘:2.

Bro. ('obb.'——l'Inclosedl send you the re-
ply of James Johnson, nominee for repre-
sentative of the Second district of St. Jo-
seph county, to the circular you sent me.
They have all answered except E. A. Strong.
of the First district of St. Josepli and llon.
.l. C. llurrows, member of (f‘oiign-ss from the
fourth district, but perhaps they luive sent
their communication through some other
channel. All those that have been heard
from have given a s:Itisi':u'toI'y answer ex-
cept the lion .l. C. Bishop, who says, "I will
not accept nor use a free pass if I .\‘llmI0.~'P(l
the same is intended as a bribe,“ and then
gives :1 fling at me for what I did eight _v¢-urs
ago. I would say to Mr. Bishop that the
people are not llll.t‘l'¢‘Sl(‘(l in meor what 1 did
at that l.llllt.‘,1i..“« 1 am not running for any
oilice nor do they care \\h:it. you did two
years ago.

Tlicobjecl of issiiiiig these cii'cul'.n‘.< was
not to rust any rotlw-tioiis upon any one who
had:1cceptc(luml ust-«l :1 free pass. for we

know that many lionorublo gentli-luau have
uccepted and used free paisscs without the
thouglitot‘ ill. hit what the people want

and have :1 right to know, now is, what you
will do if elected. Tbetime has ('t.‘lll(' when
the t‘X£U.'il\)llH of railrozuls have bocouic so
oppressive to the people that they believe
tl1crc.sliould be :1 limit put to their ‘,;'l'w=(l,
and they demand that the next legislature
shall meet without, llllllfflll'SL pluco,putliIig
tliem.-;¢-Ives undcr obligations to l‘:llll‘u;1(ls
or other <-orpo1‘utions, but sliull reumin free
and unbiased to legislate in the intert-~t.~;
of the ‘LL’/lOlf’})4‘U1ll(’ as the I;'.‘(l§.','é,‘ll(.‘lt'.\‘ of the
occ:1siou may demand.

I hope the l’at1‘ons of .\Iichigan will act
in this matter like free men. “In our dosi-
iugs with our fellow men be honest, be just
and fear not,” and stand by our coiivictions
of riglit. l~‘i'atci'n.-Illy yours,

WM. lli'i.I..

Centrcvillc, Oct. 27, 1.x‘.-“2.

IF a little child should come up to its fath-
er and commence addressing him thus :
“ O father, I acknowledge thee to be my
parent—very strong, exceedingly wise, and
wondrously good; thou ownest all this house
and rulest the family with equity; thou
hast brought me up from infancy, furnish-
ed my food and clothing,” etc.; and finally
after going on thus, telling his father wh at
he was and what he had done, could do and
would do, to the extent of about ten min-
utes or more, would end by asking for a
penny—that child would be verv likel to
have its ears boxed. And it can be nothing
but the infinite grace and long-suffering of
our Father in heaven that saves some of the
long-winded, pompous theological propound-
ers of prayers that are so frequently heard
in pulpit and pew, from receiving merited
rebuke and chastisement from Him. II. can
be nothing else. Therefore, when you pray
do no: air your theology, do not display
your oratory, do not do anything else than
pruy.——ll[oruvi(m.

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

The next regular meeting of the Lenawe e
County Pomona Grange, will be held Thurs-
day November 9. at two A. M. with Can an-
dagua Grange, No. 277, at Medina village.
All patrons are cordially invited. Good
speakers will be present, the fifth degree
will be conferred in the evening and in ad-
dition to this the following program has
been arranged by the worthy lecturer, T. F.
Moore. -

Recitation—Florence Russell.

Es-1say—Mrs. Calvin Crane.

Lecture on Entomology—Bro. Allis.

Speech——John Moore.

Recitation—Clara Abbott.

Essay-—Mrs. Joshua Talford.

Recitation—MaIy Allis.

JAMES Coox,
Secretary.

Adrian, Michigan, Oct. 24, 1882.

The next regular meeting of the Calhoun
County Pomona Grange will be held at Bat-
tle Creek Thursday, Nov. 9th. All 4th de-

ree members are cordially invited. The

ollowing are some of the questions for dis-

cussion: “Ought corporal punishment ever
to be inflicted?” “Are women lawful voters
at school meetings?” “Has the Grange
been a benefit to the public?”

Resolved, That a protective tariff is more
for the interest of the country at large than
free trade or a tariff for revenue only.
“Does intrinsic value in the material of
which money is made add to the value of
money?” “How can the housewife be pro-
tected from the adulteration of tea, spices,
and othc r articles of food?”

Mas. PERRY MAYO, Sec’y.

The annual meeting of Shiawasee Pomo-
na Grange will be held at the Grange Hall
in Laingsburg on Tuesday December 19th,
1882. An interesting program is in course
of preparation and all 4th degree members
are earnestly invited to be present. The
election and installation of officers will take
place. This Grange is in a very prosperous
condition, and its meetings are beneficial to
all in attendance.

By order of committee.

J. C. S'roNE, Sec’y.

Laingsburg, Mich., Oct. 21, 1882.

 

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NOVEMBER 1, 1882.

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THE F|REMAN’S STORY.

Flash was a white-foot sorrel, an‘ run on No. 3:
Not much stable manners-—an average horse to

see;

Notional in his methods—-strong in loves an‘ hates;

Not very much respected or popular 'inongst his
mates:

Dull an’ moody an’ sleepy on “off” an’ quiet days;
Full of turb’lent sour looks, and small sarcastic

ways;

Scowled an’ bit at his partner, an’ banged the stable
floor-

With other tricks intended to designate life a bore.

But when, be’t day or night time, he heard the
alarm bell ring,

He'd rush to his place in the harness with a regular
tiger spring;

An‘ watch with nervous shivers the clasp of buckle
an’ band,

Until it was plainly ev’dent he would like to lend a
hand.

An‘ when the word was given, away he would rush
an’ tear,

As if a thousan’ witches was rumplin' up his hair,

An‘ wake his mate up crazy with its magnetic
charm;

For every hoof-beat sounded a regular fire alarm!

Never a horse a jockey would worship an‘ admire,
Like Flash in front of his engine, a-racin‘ with a

re;

Never a horse so lazy, so dawdlin’ an‘ so sleek

As Flash upon his return trip, a-drawin’ the engine
back.

Now, when the difierent horses gets tender-footed
, an’
They ain't no’ use in our business; so Flash was final-
ly sold
To quite a respectable milkman, who found it not so
fine

L—bossin’ of God's creatures outside 0’ their reg’lar
line.

Seems as if I could see Flash a-mopin’ along here

now,

A-feelin' that he was simply assistant to a cow;

But sometimes he’d imagine he heard the alarm-
bel1’s din,

An’ jump an’ rear fer a minutebefore they could held
him in:

An‘ once, in spite 0’ his master, he strolled in ’mongst

us chaps, ‘ _

To talk with the other horses, of former fires, per-
ha ;

W'herat tplfe milkman kicked him: wherefor us boys
to please,

He begged that horse’s pardon upon his bended
knees.

But one Itliay, for a big fire as we was makin’ a
das ,

Both 0' the horses we had on somewhat resemblin’
Flash,

Yellin' an’ ringin' an‘ rushin’, with excellent voice
an’ heart,

We passed the poor old fellow, a tuggin’ away at his
cart.

If ever I see an old horse grow upwards into a new,
If ever I see a driver whose traps behind him flew,
’Twas that old horse a rompin’ an’ rushin’ down the

track,
An’ that respectable milkman, a tryin’ to hold him
back.

Away he dashed like a cyclone for the head of No. 3,
Gained the lead an’ kept it, an’ steered his journey

free:
Dodgin' the wheels an’ horses, an’ still on the keeuest
“sil "

An‘ furnishiu' all that district with good respectable
milk.

Crowds a-yellin’ an‘ runnin’, and vaiifly hollerin’
“Whoa!"

Milkman bracin‘ an’ sawin’, with never a bit of
show;

Firemen laughin’ an’ chucklin’, and hollerin‘, “Good!
go In!” _ . .

Hoss a- ettin' down to it, an‘ swee in’ along like

_8 P

sin.

Finally come where the fire was, halted with a
“thud,”
Sent the respectable milkman'heels over head in

mu ;

Watched till he see the engine properly workin
there——

Ai-ter which he relinquished all interest in the af-
fair. .

Moped an‘ wilted an’ da.wdled—faded away once

more;

Took up his old occ'pation of votin’ life a bore;

Laid down in his harness, and~sorry I am to say-

The inilkman he had drawn there drew his dead
body away.

That's the whole o’ my story; I’ve seen more’n once
or twice,

That poor dumb animals’ actions are full of human
advice;

An‘ if you ask what Flash taught, I simply answer
you, then,

That poor old horse was a symbol of some intelligent
men.

—Harper's Magazine for October.

A Prominent Stockman.

Bro. J. T. C’obb:—Perhaps you may think
that I am becoming a too frequent correspon-
dent of the VISITOR, but I have just made a
visit at the home of one of the representative
men of Michigan, the Hon. Wm. Ball, of Liv-
ingston county. Mr. Ball is a man who is
well known as one of the best stock breeders
in the State, as well as a most thorough farm-
er. He is one of the men who has carved
out his own fortune and position by untiring
energy and perseverance, being to-day the
owner of a five hundred acre farm of good
land either for grain or stock. His stock of
short horns are among the finest registered
stock in the West, and I believe finer speci-
mens cannot be found, and if pure blooded
stock is wanted of the kind I have mentioned,
I am sure Mr. Ball’s stock will fill the bill.

He has also made the breeding of fine wool
sheep aspecialty, and has for sale some of the
best registered fine wools to be found. I tell
you, Brother Cobb, it does a man good to
walk over his farm and look at his stock.
And then Brother Ball's home and his gener-
ous hospitality and that of his wife, makes a
man feel that there is, even on the farm,
pleasure and enjoyment.

Mr. Ball is a man of advanced ideas, and
has educated his son at the Agricultural Col-
lege, and his daughters at the State Normal
School, showing that he feels that the farmer
of to-day must educate if he expects to keep
pace with the times.

N ow if any farmer wants short home, call
on Mr. Ball and see his cattle and sheep, and

then conclude Whether it is better to keep
scrubs or blooded stock. T. F. M.

To Those Whom It May concern.

ENGLISH EMIGRATION AGEl\'(.‘Y, j
CEDAR SPRINGS, MICH. >
October 9, 1882.

Ladies and Gentlemen.-—-Being daily in
receipt of many letters containing inquiries
respecting the working of English Emigra-
tion Agency, the kind of help sent out by
that agency etc., in consideration that fully
one-half of such letters are from readers of
this paper and that I am much pressed for
time, I have decided to write an open letter
to this valuable paper, in order that said in-
quiries may hereby be answered and infor-
mation conveyed to those readers, who now
intend, or may hereafter decide to write me
concerning the same subject.

It is intended that all adults sent out by
me shall be good experienced reliable help,
such as can have three or four years good
character from their employers and from
their parish priest (Eng. Episcopal.)

It will take the emigrants some weeks to‘
become acquainted with the American
methods, but that, of course, is understood
by Americans, or, at least, will be. if they
give the matter proper consideration.

With respect to children, I have to say,
that the utmost care will be taken to send
out healthy, smart, kind dispositioned boys
and girls.

Orders for emigrants required to arrive
next Spring, should, in order to prevent dis-
appointment, be sent in at once, for it will
take me ‘a considerable time to engage and
send out the emigrants that are already or-
dered, for there is always such a rush of em-
igrants in early Spring—(Almost all foreign
emigrants travel to America in English
ships)—that I shall have to engage steam-
ship berths for my emigrants six weeks, at
least, before the time I intend them to start
on their journey.

Stout, reliable, fully experienced farm
hands, obtain, in England, $2 50 per week
and board themselves. Should any time be
lost through sickness, rainy or stormy
weather, etc., such lost time is taken into ac-
count when the weekly wages are reckoned
and payment deducted, according to the time
lost, from the weekly stipend, so, taking
one season with another, the average earn-
ings of an English agricultural laborer
would not amount to more than $1.60 per
week. The wages in England of girls, ex-
perienced in housework, etc., do not aver-
age more than 36 cents per week with very
poor board.

Now, it is plain to be seen that several
years must elapse before even the most for-
tunate membere of the class of people above
described, no matter how healthy, indus-
trious or saving they may be, could raise
money enough to pay the cost of a passage
to America; and, if lack of employment,
which is no unusual thing in overcrowded
England, or sickness, or any other distress
ing circumstances should occur, how much
the chance for saving money would be less-
ened. Young people of this class, just start-
ing inlife, cannot get to America without
outside help, but they are just as good to
work, just as honest, just as reliable as those
that are able to pay the cost of their own
passage out.

Knowing nothing of the usages of polite
society or suffering from the contemptuous
treatment of the classes above them, they
may at first appear uncouth or awkward,
but beneath the unpleasing exterior, are
qualities of mind, that a course of kindness
or condescension would bring to the surface,
causing a transformation as wondrous as

‘pleasing. Are not diamonds found in the

rough? -

Having had great experience of this clas
of people, of whom I write-—I wish to state
in the most emphatic way that nowhere
have I found family affection, true charity,
virtue, honesty or integrity, in short, true.
manhood, true womanhood~in greater de-
gree, or more widely diffused than among
this half-starved or oppressed people, for
whom I plead.

Men of this class are willing yes, anxious
to contract their services for a half year or
so without wages to any good farmer or busi-
ness man that will provide me with a pre-
paid certificate of passage for them. Girls
will contract their services, without wages,
for about one year, for the same privilege.
Children under 12 come for half price or
will be bound out till 18 years of age.

Farmer’s or farmer’s wives of Michigan,
why go on overtasking yourselves year after
year, when you might so easily help your-
selves, or at the same time succor this op-
pressed class by sending me prepaid certifi-
cates of passage—-§- price—f’or as much help
as you need? Hoping that many more will
assist my good work and returning grateful
thanks to those to have already given me
support,

I am yours, very respectfully,
B. J. ZUDZENSE.

P. S.—-In answer to later inquiries I wish
to state that for some years prior to 1872
school privileges, especially in the rural dis-
tricte, were, by benevolent people, made al-
most a free gift to the poor people of Eng-
land, and since’l872 9. system of compulsory
education has been in force in that country
so that folks from 10 up to 35 years of age
will have some degree of education. Circu-
tars free as per “ad” in this paper.

' B. J. z.

YIRTUE dwells at the head of a river, to
which we cannot get but by rowing against
the stream. '

‘million dollars zi year.

Do We Want the Changes‘!

Edilor Grangrs I'is[(0i'.'—Tl1eI‘e seems to be
three propositions to be voted upon at the
election, which should be thoroughly discus-
sed in order that the electors may vote intelli-
gently.

The fi1'.~5t is, to lll('l'\‘it5L‘tll€ pay of j udgcs to
$2.-70Upe1‘;ii11i1l1i1. Tlu-re fire but very few
lawyers in the Stzite but would be glad to get
the bfiicc at the present szilury. which over-
ages about $500 per month for time t).Ctllall_V'
spent in the discluu'ge of their judicial duties.
then why increase the pziy? Wliuf would
you think of the business capacity of :1 form-
cr who should offer $:1opei' month for :1 hired
mail, when the be.-:tl1:u1ds were seeking work
at 820? At every judicial convention there
are several anxious zispirzuits for the judge-
ship at the present .-'-.1ln1'_v. and thc1nui1idifii-
culty is to choose lwl’\\'€ell the different coin-
petent couipetitors.

The second proposes to have :1 board of
county auditors to audit all claims which
are now audited by the board of supervisors
-—-to which we are opposed for the reason
that it would fasten upon €d(.'ll county sev-
eral extra ofliciuls,i1ic1'c:1siugtuxution without
any benefit to the people. Besides the boards
of supervisors are more competent, and as :1
general rule give bcftcrsatisfaction than uuy
extra board of auditors c:ui possibly give.

Tliird, we are opposed to the calling of at
constitutional convention. for the reason that
we had one at few years ago at at lieuvy ex-
pviiso to the tax payers, and their proposed
cluuigcs were voted down by the people by
uu eiiornious u1:1_ioi'ity, uud we have no reason
to think aiiotlu-r €‘Xpe11.~;l\'c effort would re-
sult auiy differently. Our constitution, like
all other humun productions, is doubtless de-
fective, but we have no l'€il.'\'Ull to believe that
at convention would improve it in the inter-
est of the people. II. ll. TAYl.()li.

l)owagi:1c, Oct. :0. 1532.

Cancelled Stamps.

The assumption that the concerted wash-
ing of stainps on a large scale would be nec-
essziry to cause the government to lose
niateriully by re-used staiups will liurdly
hold. Ther_e are nearly -13,000 post oflices in
the country, and if the departincut were to
carry from each ofiice :1 single fraudulently
stamped letter it day the government would
be cheated to the extent of nearly half :1
It iiuiy not be pos-
sible to dispose of $5,000,000 worth of washed
stumps in bulk; yet out of 10,o0o,oo0 letter
writers it would not be possible to find
enough who are willing to use again cleaned
or imperfectly cancelled stamps, and having
opportunities enough to do it to client the
revenue out of all that the deficiency is found
to be.

That the czuicellzition of stunips is very fre-
quently imporfcct is known to all who handle
many letters. In many instzuices the stamp
is not defaced at all; in more the mark is so
slight that it may be easily rubbed off. Mr.
Pearson admits that no czuicelliug ink is 111-
effziceablc, and expresses the opinion that
postage stzuups ought to be printed in fugi-
tive colors, which would be l‘t‘ll1<)\'6(l by any
attempt to wash off the cuiicclliiig mark.

The conditions under which stumps must
he often handled, however, by children and
other unskillful persons, both before and
after they are put upon matter to be mailed,
forbids the use of other than fairly perma-
nent ink in printiiig them. They are held in
sweaty hands, czirried in pockets where they
are subject to ditlllpélllllg‘ by rain, perspira-
tion, and the like, and always liable to over-
wetting when the gum is moistened to affix
them. Hence the necessity of good paper
and waterproof ink.

If stamps are used. security aguiiist their
reuse must be sought rather in some means
of cancelling them indelibly or destructively.
Thus far no ink has been discovered that
could not be discharged or washed off by
suitable means. For destructive cancellation
many devices have been tried to cut, abrudc,
rupture or burn the paper of the stamp.
None of these have proved entirely satisfac-
tory, their tendency bein to mutilate or set
on fire the letter or parcc the stamp is ap-
plied to. A more promising plan contem-
plates the use of a stamp of two parts, one to
be gummed to the letter or package, the other
to be left free, tobe torn off‘ by the postmas-
ter and destroyed, making it impossible to
use the same stamp again.

This plan seems well calculated to prevent
the reuse of stanips except by parties inside
the post offices, where there is reason to sus-
pect a large part of this fraud upon the rev-
enue is perpetrated. In multitudes of ofiices
the new mail matter often lies for hours be-
fore being made ready for transportation.
In such cases there is little or nothing to pre-
vent a dishonest clerk from removing the
uncancelled stamps and sustituting those
that have already been cancelled. The indi-
vidual frauds may be small, yet, if frequently
repeated in a large number of places, the ag-
gregate loss to the depurtiueiit may amount
up to Inillions.

The most obvious way of stopping frauds
of this nature would seem to be the use of
stamped envelopes and wrappers; and in
view of the probable saving to the revenue by
preventintr reuse, the government might find
it profitable to encourage the more general
employment of stumping envelopes, by allow-
ing to purchasers of them a considerable dis-
count from the price of the stamps.
be practicable 2 so to print the stamps across
the face of the envelope in such a way that
in the writing of the address the stamp
would necessarily be cancelled. The usual
postmarks would suffice to show whether
any wrapper had done its appointed ser-
vice.

The ingenious reader will readily see how
inviting a field is here presented for success-
ful invention. The large amount of rev-
enue involved, aud the urgent demand the
world over for a practical preventive of the
fraudspointed out, makes it certain that
whoever will solve the problem will not fail
of a large reward.—-;Scz'em'zfic American.

NEVER buy a horse while in motion.
Watch him while he stands at rest, and you
will, discover his weak points. If sound, he
will stand firm and square on his limbs wit -
out Inoving any of them, the feet planted fu l
upon the ground, with legs plumb and natu
rally poised.

It might‘

Glucose.

In manufacturing glucose from com the
process is, first, to separate the starch from
the other constituents of the grain by simple
mechanical means; and then, secondly, to
act upon the starch with dilute sulphuric
acid. VVhen thick gelatinous starch is boil-
ed for a couple of hours with this acid a eu-
rious transformation takes place; the milky
paste first changes to a fluid as limpid as
water, and as the change’ advances this ac-
quires a sweet taste, which is masked by the
presence of the acid. If we now saturate the
solution with some earthy carbonate, mar-
ble dust for instance, the acid is removed
anda sweet solution remains, which, after
purification, may be evaporated to a syrupy
liquid, or, by still further manipulation,
converted into a white solid, which is grape
sugar.

This is the whole process of making sugar
out of corn, and it is simple enough. In
this chemical transformation nothing is ab-
sorbed froui the air, and no other substances
but dextrine and grape sugar are enerated
and the weight of the sugar exceeds that of
the starch employed. What is still more
wonderful, the acid used undergoes neither
changenor diminution; it is all withdrawn
in its original amount after the boiling is
completed. Ifit could be drawn in its clear,
uncombined state, one carboy of oil of vit-
riol would serve to change all the corn
grown in the United States into grape sugar.
Theoretically one pound of corn ought to
make a pound of solid glucose; but in prac-
tice it does no quite do this. The cost of
solid glucose to a large manufacturer cannot
exceed three cents a pound, and it may be
considerably below this.

Glucose is acheap, imperfect substitute for
the genuine sugar of commerce. It is not a
poison when Well made, and as regards
healthfulness it may not be much more del-
eterious than ordinary cane sugar. Still it
does produce and aggravate dyspeptic symp-
toms; and by its proneness to set up fer-
mentative processes its use causes flat-
ulency and painful affections of the
bowels.

VVhat becomes of the millions of pounds
of glucose manufactured every month? It
is used mostly as an adulteration in the
manufacture of table syrups and in adulter-
ating the dark, moist sugar used largely by
the poor. Its next largest ‘use is in the manu
facture of candies. All soft candies, waxes,
taffies, caramels, chocolates, &c., are made
of glucose. Children are therefore large
consumers of this substance. The honey
bees are fond of it, and will carry it away by
the ton if laced within their reach. The
honey ma e from it is no better than the
pure glucose, as it is stowed away in the
comb without change. The beautiful clear
white syrups found on our breakfast tables,
and used as an agreeable adjunct to our waf-
fles and buckwheats, are largely composed
ofglucose. A mixture of the true sugar-
house syrup with glucose syrup, in propor-
tion of five or ten per cent. of the former to
ninety or ninety-five per cent. of the latter,
constitutes the “maple drip” of the grocers.
—Dr. James R. Nichols.

Railroad Law.

Another iiuportuiit case has just been deci-
ded byJudge Baxter,in the l.'. S. Circuit Court
of Ohio, which shows fluit shippers have reme-
dies under the United States laws where rail-
way compzinies refuse to do their duty, and we
respectfully commend this decision to the
attentiou of Jud e llaight, who decided that
according to the aw of this state there is no
way of compelling a railroad company to do
its duty if it did not chose to do so.

The suit above alluded to was brought by
one McCoy agains the Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
St. Louis, in Chicago Railroad Co. to compel
them to receiveam deliver his live stock at
his own yards instead of the adjoining stock
yards of the United llailroad Stock Yards G0,,
with which the railroad had acontrzict.

McCoy claimed that this was dis-
criminutmg, and applied for an injunction
restraining the railroad and compelling it to
fulfill its obligations as a common carrier.

The Circuit Court granted the injunction,
and in doing so Judge Baxter used the follow-
ing plain, commonsense language:

“ Railroad corporzitions are quasi public
corporations dedicated to the public use. *
* * They have been created for the pur-
pose of exercising the functions and perform-
ing the duties 0 common carriers. Their
duties and liabilities are defined -by law.
In accepting their charters they necessarily
accept them with all the duties and liabilities
auiiexed—-that is to say, they undertake to
construct the roads conteinplated by their sev-
eral charters ; to keep them in ood condition;
equip them with suitable rol ing stock and
machinery; employ skilled and trustworthy
laborers; provide suitable means of access to
and egress from their trains; erect depots and
designate stopping places wherever the public
necessities require them; supply to the extent
of their resources necessary and adequate
facilities for the transaction of all the busi-
ness offered; deal fairly and impartially with
their atrons; keep pace with im rovements
in rat road machinery and adapt t ieir service
to the varyin necessities and improved meth-
ods of doing usiness.”

We hope Att. Gen. Russell will take note of
this case, and, if possible bring it to bear upon
the mandamus cases in this state, which
Judge Haight was so fast to decide in favor
of the raili-oads.——Just-ice.

Where Buttons Come From.

The button trade of New York is estima-
ted at from eight to ten million dollars a
year. Last year the importation of buttons
exceeded three and a half million dollars,
the aggregate of the four years just passed
being but a little short of thirteen million dol-
lars. At American rates of wages many of
the imported buttons could not be put upon
their cords for the price they sell for.

Glass buttons are made mostly in Bohemia,
and children are largely employed at the
work, which they do as quickly and as neat-
ly as adults. The children get ten cents a
day, men from forty to fifty cents, and
women a little less. Pearl buttons are im-
ported from Vienna, where they are also ex-
clusively manufactured ; and the all-import-
ant shirt buttons are received mostly from
Birmingham, England, where the majority
of metal buttons are likewise produced.
The most extensive of all the button manu-
factories, however, is that of the Parisian
and Berlin novelties. In one manufactur-
ing village near Paris, where there are from
5,000 to 6,000 inhabitants, all the working
people are engaged in making the agate but-
ton, which, even with thirty per cent duty
added to the cost, sells, when imported into

this country, at the extremely low figure of
thirty-one cents per great gross. The ma-
terial alone, it is reported. could not be pro-
cured here for double that amount.—Scz'-
entific American.

who are Wanted?

A getleman in a responsible government
office, when complimented on his long and
well appreciated service, replied, ‘There’s
nothing like making yourself indispen-
sable.’

This is worth thinking of. If you have a

good place and wish to keep it, try to make
yourselfso useful that your employer cannot
do without you.
_ The other day a gentleman was making
inquiry for the purpose of finding a man to
fill a responsible position in a large mercan-
tile house. He came to a person whom he
thought would be likely to givehim accurate
and honest information concerning several
men whose names he had. One was dis-
cussed, and another, and another. Then
the name of l\Ir.———was mentioned.

‘The very _man for the place; competent
and worthy in every respect; but he cannot
possibly be spared from the position he now
holds’.

‘Sir,’ said the gentleman, ‘we do not want
a man who can be spared ‘P’

There was a big volume in that remark.

‘VVe do not want a man who can be
spared!’ \Vhat a multitude of men who
can be spared cumber every avenue to pro-
motion.

The barnacles, the sharks, the makeshifts,
somebody’s nephews, somebody’s proteges,
somebody’:-3 good for-nothings, Young man,
remember, please, that these are not the
ones who are called for when responsible
positions are to be filled.——.S'igns of the
Times.

Mountains yet Unwashed.

A few days ago we C()ll\'f‘1'rl0Ll with a gentle-
man who l'(:(‘€llil}' visited the livdruulic min-
ing region uloug.the Yubzi river and it.-:.tribu~
taries, and he gave us the following data.
which will convey .to the minds of our
readers what we may expect in the future:

Our infornimit found mining cluiins laid out
and staked between the middle and south
forks of the Yubziover nu am.-:1 forty miles in
length, of an average width of four miles,
and the gravel of an average depth of‘ one
hundred and fifty feet.

Between the middle and north forks of the
Yubzi, the claims extend ovcr am urea llf[f.*f‘ll
miles long, froiu sevcii to eight miles wide.
zfuul; of an ziverzige depth of one liundred

ee .

On the north side of the north fork of the
Yubu lly(ll‘llllll(.‘. claims are be-ing opened and
worked for :1 distance of over fifty miles.

All the debris from tlw sections we have
mentioned is to be failed into the Yubli river.
Should anyone attempt to estimate the 1iuiii-
ber of cubic yards that is proposed to thus
dump into our navigable strczuus, :1 series of
figures would be presented that it is simply
bewildering to contemplate. lt is liferullv
dumping the inountaiius into the river clifui-
nets to their entire obliteration. This is not
a rhetorical figure, it is plain prosaic truth.
It is an appalling fact. If not checked it
means the absolute obliteration of the whole
Sacreiucuto vulley.—Sut!c‘r (founrgj Farmer.

Stock Gambling Judges.

A correspondent of the Sun calls attention
to a practice which is worthy of public at-
tention. He says:

“During the most exciting times in Wall
street. judges of several courts in this city
mav be seen in the offices of prominent
brokers in and around Wall street trading
in railroad stocks with the zeal of the most
determined gamblers. In the office of a
prominent firm of brokers in Broad street
may be seen continually the faces of two
Judges of the Supreme Court and one of the
Superior Court, all engaged in bulling or
bearing the market on points given them by
railroad maguates .”

Can this statement be true? Is it possible
that Judges of our Courts, liable to be called
on every da ' to decide between the gam-
blers of Wal street and their victims, are
themselves the clients and customers of VVall
street brokers‘? A judiciary is worthless, it
has no public influence, if it trails the er-
mine in the mire. Justice is no detective.
It hears from time to time that one judge
goes on his vacation and travels in the priv-
ate car of a railroad president; that the
intimate friends of another are speculating
in stocks, the value of which depends upon
that judge's decision. Here is a public
charge that judges are speculating in stocks
and frequenting the Exchange. We can
hardly believe it. But it gives us the op-
portunity to say that it is not one whit more
disreputable for a judge to frequent the pool

rooms of James E. Kelly, or the parlors of '

Charlie Ransom, than it is to visit daily the
larger gambling establishments of the Stock
Exchange.—Justice.

PLANKINTON & An.\ioUa’s pork packing
establishment in Chicago, occupies twenty-
seven acres of ground, they employ 2.500
men at wages ranging from $1.75 to $5.00
per day. I here saw them dress and kill
hogs. A chain is fastened to Mr. Hog’s
hind leg, he is then hoisted on a ulley or
wheel which runs on an iron overhead. He
is now started on his journey by a gentle
push. As he passes a man who is standing
in a pit, his throat is cut, without delaying
him an instant, he comes to a halt ten feet
further on, where he hangs throu h bleed-
ing; he is then dropped into 9. seal er, from
which he is lifted out and thrown on a bench
by a machine; a hook is now passed through
his nose, to which is fastened a chain that
pulls him through a machine which scrapes
every particle of hair from him. He is now
drawn andquartered and ready for the cooler.
The whole operation takes such a few sec-
onds thatI will not mention it. It might
injure my character for veracity. but one
couldn’t say Jack Robinson and enquire
after all his family by name before the op-
eration would be completed.

TIIE right of a railroad company to prescribe
the exact manner in which a passenger shall
pay his fare is to be tested in a Buffalo law-
suit. A man boarded a train on the Mich-
igan Southern road without purchasing a
ticket and was ejected by the conductor, al-
though he ter_1de_red the price of the ride in
money. He is_ rich enough and angry enough
to push his suit for damages to a decisive

conclusion.—Husbandman.

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NOVEMBER 1, 1882

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Thos. F. Moore—Resolulions.

Bro. J. T. C'obb:—The following preamble
and resolutions were adopted by the Mania-
tee District Pomona Grange, at its last ses-
sion, held in Sherman, VVexford Co. Oct. 3
and 4, and voted to be sent to the VISITOR.
WWVHEREAS, we believe the interests of the
P. of H. are promoted by the delivery of pub
lic lectures, and whereas we have been
privileged to have a series five lectures
from Bro. Thos. F. Moore, therefore

Resolved, That we recognize in Bro.
Moore a man devoted to the interests of our
Order,and one who is capable of intertaining
and instructing all who are enterested in the
subject of agriculture; and be it further

Resolved, That we recommend Bro.
Moore to all who are in need of help, to
build up and encourage weak and strug-
gling Patrons, and Granges.

Mrs. J. A. Porn,
Committee on good of the Order.
Marilla, October 18, 1882.

Free Passes.

Bro. (}obb:——lly a unanimous vote of
Graiige No. 1535 the following resolution was
adopted, which I send to you for publication:

Resolved, That we as voting members of
Olive Gl‘dll,'.:‘L‘, No. :;.'.s, do pledge ourselves
not to support by ballot or otherwise, any
111911 for oflice who will accept a free pass from
any railroad company.

o Mus. C-I..\l’.A .\Ii.\', Secretary.

Olive, Oct. 113, 185;‘.

Coldwater (lrange in regular session dis-
cussed the resolutions relating to free passes,
zidopted by the Kalainazoo County (:'rangc‘
and adopted the same.

Mns. Ii. A. IIon'i'o.\', S£’Cl't.‘l.:ll'_\'.

Bro. Cobb.-——Enclosed find a resolution
adopted by Newaygo county Pomona
Grange, N0. 11, in regard to the acceptance
of free passes on railroads by judicial and
legislative oflicials.

Resolved, That we the members of Ne-
waygo county Pomona Grange, No. 11, do
pledge ourselves that we will not vote for
any candidate for any legislative body,
State,national orj udiciai,who will not pledge
himself not to accept if elected a free pass
from any railroad company during his oili-
cial term and that this resolution be sent to
the Yisrroit and county papers for publica-
tion.

A. TERWILLIGER,
Secretary of Pomona Grange, No. 11,.

Ensley, Oct. 13, 1882.

Bro. Cobb.-—I was instructed to inform
you that at our last meeting Tallmadge
Grange, No. 639, adopted the resolutions as
adopted by the Kalamazoo County Pomona
Grange in regard to the use of free passes by
legislative and judicial officers. Please
give notice in Visrron. B. A. NELLES,

Sec’y pro tem.

Tallmadge, Oct. ‘.23, 188;’.

Detroit.

In this, the old City of the Straits, we
found much to admire. Its clean, broad,
well shaded streets are always attractive to
us. They familiarly greet us and bid us
welcome wherever we come to them.

A call upon the Michigan State Agent
here—Geo. VV. Hill —afi‘orded us great pleas
ure and much information which we gladly
give to the Bulletin readers. System per-
vades every part of this establishment, has
an efficient head to plan, with Willing co-
workers to aid in executing the lane. The
method of handling butter struc our atten-
tion. A new double pail—wood-—tin-lined
with cover to fasten safely, is sent to all
Patrons who wish to consign butter to the
Agency, and when the butter so sent is sold,
the pails, duly cleaned, are sweet and can be
returned to be filled again. These pails can
be sent safely by freight in the warmest
weather, and when sent at first 01: returned
can be filled with groceries, etc., needed by
the Patron who receives them. With this
plan of sending, and a most excellent cold
store-room for keeping the butter until sold,
we think Mr. Hill will make the Michigan
Agency very valuable to butter makers, and
with the united support of Patrons he can
work up an extensive trade for good butter,
giving every good butter maker a handsome
return for butter regularly consigned to the
Agency. _

Mr. Hill is on hand with many new and
valuable things for farmers’ use. He sells a
coffee roaster at low price that every house-
wife should have; and very cheap scales can
be had—and they are needed upon the farm.

Mr. Hill can sell the best sewing machine
—in our way of thinking——-ever yet in the
market. It has several new improvements
upon it, yet he sells it very low. .

Mr. Hill unfolded us a plan by which he
furnishes Patrons with the best plated silver-
ware at from 20 to 30 per cent. discount from

ular rices.
m%Vre3%vere ‘pleased to learn that Mr. Hill
can supply salt and lumber to Patrons. Fur-
ther information can be had by addressing
him. His card is found. in our advertising
columns.—0£ncim2ati Grange Bulletin.

GENERAL H. A. S. Di-:.\i>.i;o1<:~: was not a
farmer, but a most faithful Governine_nt oflic-
ial as collector of Boston. Yet on his smalls
patch of ground at Brinley Place, Roxbury,
in his leisure hours he sowed seeds of all
kinds of trees and plants. which were nursed
by his own hand; and by his pen awakened
renewed interest in e,verydepartment_ of agri-
culture and horticulture. “ As a citizen of
Massacliusetts,” he wrote, as lon ago as 18_1o',
" I feel great solicitude in everyt ring which
may contribute to render the products of her
soil of importance to the nation, and render
the labors of the agriculturist profitable.”
His papers on the introduction of woad as a
substitute for indigo, and his numerous trans-
lations of the agriculture and hort-ic1_1ltural
literature of France have been of inestimable

TEE

Not Ashamed.

BY MARY E. BRUSH.

‘Your pappy would have liked it, I’m
sure, for he was allers such a hand for ed-
dication. He was a fine scholar hisself;
yet, for all that, he never looked down on
me who knew nothing. Yes, your pappy
was allers good to me. You've often heard
me say that, Reginaldy.’

‘Yes, indeed, mother,’ Reginalda replied.

One could see at a glance that this mother
and daughter were diferent. Little Mrs.
Leigh’s face, brown, wrinkled, and with a
touch of healthy red on the cheeks, bore no
traces of more than ordinay intelligence,
mingled with country simplicity and native
good humor. Her short, dumpy form, clad
in a faded calico dress, moved from stove to
press-board, for she wasjust giving the fin-
ishing touches to a newly made pair of
pantaloons.

Now, as perhaps some of you have often
noticed, a tailoress is frequently depicted as
a bold, energetic creature, as though work-
ing on so many masculine garments had
caused her to absorb somewhat of the nature
of the many wearers. But little Mrs. Leigh
was not of this kind; for, although during
the past ten years she had made coats, vests,
and nantaloons by the dozen, she was still
the same timid, humble, insignificant little
body that she always had been.

Reginalda was her daughter. A tall,
graceful young girl, whose large, dark eyes
and abundance of curly black hair contrasted
prettily with a delicate pink and whi1ecom-
plxion. Reginalda wore faded calico, too;
but somehow it fitted her nicely and the col
lar about her neck was always so neat that
one quite forgot to criticize the rest of her
attire.

Reginalda’s father had belonged to a very
aristocratic family. It nearly caused a faint-
ing fit all around when it was discovered
that a Leigh had actually married a shop
girl! Reginalda’s mother had been Mary
Ann Brown, a humble, but very respectable
little body, whose bright, modest ways had
won the heart of Reginald Leigh, the
young artist, whose democratic notions, ev-
en before this, somewhat estranged him
from his high-horn relatives.

The two were married and lived happy,
in spite of what some folks say about equal-
ity of intellect and congeniality of souls.

Four years after the birth of Reginalda
the father died, leaving his young widow
penniless. She was a plucky little creature,
after all, and, making no appeal for aid from
the relatives of her deceased husband, she
set bravely to work. She was blessed with
good health and kind patronage, and in a
few years she had laid up quite a pile of
money. Like many others who patiently
tread this terrestrial ball, her highest am-
bition, next to serving God, was to see her
daughter a lady.

Reginalda had always been passionately
fond of her books, and when she was in-
formed of her mother’s intention to send her
to boarding school, she was nearly wild
with delight.

A few simple preparations were made,
and in less than a month she entered the
Brookdale Seminary. In was the third
week of the term, and the other pupils, hav-
ing become acquainted among themselves,
immediately centered their attention upon
the new-comer.

Reignalda bore their scrutiny pretty well.
Therewas aquiet dignity about her that
won respect and repelled undue familiarity,
Her garments were few and of simple make
and material ; but her fine figure, blooming
color, and beautiful face made her appear
to better advantage than her more richly
attired companions. After it became ac-
cidentally known that she was related to
the Leighs, of Lowell, she was treated with
considerable distincti )1). All of the teach-
ers and most of the pupils loved her, for she
was kind, gentle, unassuming and obliging.
Still she had her enemies.

There was Rhoda Brown, a tall, hand-
some girl, who, up to the time of Reginalda’s
arrival, had enjoyed the proud distinction
of having the most perfect lessons. Then
there was the pet of the school, Dora Gray,
a plump, dimpled little miss, whose blue
eyes, golden hair, and pink and white com-
plexion made her look like the sweetest bit
ofinnocence one ever saw. But little Dora’s
bosom heaved with wrath when she saw
that her pretty, simpering ways were quite
at a discount since this earnest, straightfor
ward girl, Reginalda Leigh, had come.
Lastly, there was flirting Kitty Fowler, who
was deeply angry at some fancied injury the
newcomer had committed against her. The
trio tried in every possible way to make
Reginalda uncomfortabl.e

‘\Vhy, Rhoda, what is the matter ? You
look as black as a thunder cloud !’ said Kit-
ty Fowler, one day, as her‘ room mate hur-
ried in, flinging slate and books upon the
floor with an angry bang. ,

‘I am mad i’ was the emphatic reply.
‘Mad? Well, that’s nothing new. You
have been wratby most of the time lately.
Sit down on the trunk, and Eli comfort you
with a piece of cocoanut cake. There, munch
away and unburden your wounded spirit.’
‘Well, then,’ said Rhoda, nibbling away
at the bit of cake—‘well, then, it’s that
R-eginalda Leigh ! I just hate the girl !’
‘And so do I. I can't bear these superior
people! But what particular corn of yours
has she trod on just now ‘.7’

‘Not on one particular corn, my dear, but
on the whole foot. If you believe it, she is
to read the essay at our Musical !’

‘Rhoda!’ and Kitty’s voice was full of
surprise. ‘Why that honor ought to be
yours. What did Madame Sargent say ?’
‘She said,’ and Rhoda’s voice was full of
rancor—‘she said that Miss Leigh had been
the most perfect in deportment and studies,
and that the honor of reading the essay un-
doubtedly belonged to her.’ I was so mad
that I walked right out of the library, with-
out saying another word, and I'm sure
Madame black marked me for the rudeness;
but I don’t care. I only wish I could show
that Leigh girl up for what she\ really is,
and I don’t believe that she is much!

‘Nor do I believe it, either,’ said Dora
Gray, who had just entered the room.
‘Look how shabbily she dresses ! Never
wears a bit of jewelry! Ifshe has fine re-
latives, why’ don’t they visit her or send
her a box of goodies now and then ? She’s
a stuck up mystery, that’s all, and I’d like
to bring her down a peg.’

Dora had quite forgotten the fact that her
own father was once a butcher’s boy, who
afterwards attained his wealth by slaughter
ing herds of western cattle and sending the
canned beef to Europe. _ _
Reginalda, all unconscious .of how jeal-

value to our farmers in no other way.

can-sen vrs

girls, pursued her own quiet way. studying
hard, that she might successfully pass her
examination, and giving all her spare time
to the preparation of her essay.
‘I hope that I shall acquit myself credit-
ably,’ she said to herself. ‘It will help me
to get a position as teacher. Besides, the
little mother will be so pleased. Oh, dear!
IfI only had money to buy her a black silk
dress, with a bit of fine lace, like Madame’s,
then she could come to the Musical. But I
hardly believe she would come, after all.
She is such ashy little body, bless her!’
sigliing and smiling.
Reginalzia was mistaken. Little Mrs.
Leigh had received Madame Sargent’;-i
dainty, cream tinted, violet scented in vita
tion to the Musical, and was in a great flut-
ter as to whether she ought or ought not to
accept it.
‘It does seem as though Providence had
appointed me to go,’ she quoth to herself.
‘I havejust finished Deacon Podger’s pants
and Spencer Co|e’s vest, and hain’t a single
job on hand. 'l‘lien currants is made inter
jell and all the house cleaned up. ’Tain’t
but three hours’ ride to Brookdale, anyhow,
and I think that pappy would like to have
me hear Reginaldy speak her piece. \Vell,
I do believe l’ll spunk up for once and go.
My! Won't Reginaldy be s’prised when she
sees me 1’

The evening of the Musicale came. Rhoda,
Kitty and Dora had gone down into the
garden, to get a few flowers for their hair.

The garden was a pretty place. with its
sprinkling fountain and with scores of gaily
colored Cliinese lanterns lighting up the
winding walks and gay parterres of flowers.

Just as Kitty was stooping to picka cluster
of vivid scarlet geraiiiuins the gate latch
clicked.

The three girls hastily glaiiccd up.

There stood the quaiutest little old woman
they had ever seen. Short and stout: wear-
ing a scanty, rusty, black silk dress, shiny and
sliinsy, cut with the short, sliirred and point-
ed waist of forty years before ; a faded shawl:
an old fasliioiicd bonnet, triinmed with drab
ribbon and a green veil: a wide muslin col-
lar; a pair of brown cotton gloves,considei'u-
bly darned at the tii1gers,coin'pleted the toilet
of the newcomer.

She looked at the tlirec girls in a wondering,
adiniring inaiiner, and then in timid tones
she said: '
“his is llrookdale St-iniiiary, aint it 1"
‘Yes, ma‘ain. is there am thing we can do
for you?“ Rhoda inquired politely.

‘Well, you see I got my invite to the musi-
caly, and I thouglit I’d come. My daugliter
(shes dretful sniart) is to speak a piece.
P’rhap.s you know lier—lleginaldy——lleginal-
(ti)-' Leigh,’ with a little thrill of pride in her

one.

Dora giggled, and lihoda smiled wickedly
as she replied:

‘Oh, yes, 1'na’ain, we are well acquainted
with Miss lteginalda. I would take you to
her now but she is probably very busy. It is
about time for the Music.-il to begin, and, if
you will allow me the pleasure, I will escort
you into the scliool-rooiii and get you a seat.’
‘ltlioda! Rhoda! Surely you don't mean to
go into the school-room with that old dowdy
tagging after us '3’ Kitty whispored.

‘To be sure I do. We have no need to be
asliained. And if you feel a‘ desire for re-
venge we’ll have it now. I fancy our haugh-
ty teginalda won't read that wonderful essay
of hers with such rolling oratory when she
sees that ignorant old Mrs. Noah sitting in
the front row.” -
‘Ho! ho! That's it. is it?‘ And Kitty laugh-
ed long and low, and then, sidling up to Mrs.
Leigh, who had been staring with wondering
eyes at the many colored lanterns and other
decorations, she said:

‘Have you a bouquet for your daugliter?
You know it is the custom here to fling flow-
ers on the stage.’

‘Is it? Fur the land sakes! But we hain’t
going back by the stage, but on the cars.’
llhoda and Dora tittered; but Kitty, sup-
pressiiig her amuseineiit, said: ‘You misun-
derstand me, nia’ani. \Vlien the person who
comes out to read, sing or play, has finished,
it is customary for her friends to throw
flowers on the platform where she stands. It
is a sort of an honor, you know.’

‘I wish I had knowed it,’ said little Mrs.
Leigh, sorrowfully. ‘_I could have brought a
bupch of posies from home just as well as
no .

‘Well, suppose you pick some now, right
here. Madam won't care one bit,‘ said Kitty.
‘f\\"hat kind of flowers does lieginalda pre-

er ‘3’

‘I really disreniember. When she was a
little tot, though, she was a master hand for
hollyliocks.’

‘The very thing,’ said Kitty, with a wink at
the other girls, that nearly sent them into
convulsions, ‘Right round by the kitchen
door, Mrs. Leigli,tliere is a whole bed of holly-
liocks.’

Thus. armed with :1 huge bunch of the
gorgeous red and yellow blossoms, Mrs. Leigh
timidly followed her guides into the long
school-room.

Walls, ceiling, pillars and chandeliers
adorned with festoons of ivy. Gay colored
flags, wreaths, baskets, and boquets of exqui-
site flowers, brilliant lights, crowds of ladies
in silks and jewels, and gentlemen in broad-
cloth and white kids, and a rustling, low, inu-
sical chattering. No wonder little Mrs.
Leigh felt strangely out of place.

'1 almost wished I hadu’t come. Every-
thing is so fine,’ she thought ‘Still, Regin-
aldy will be glad to see me. I think——’

Here a burst of music interrupted her
musings.

One elegantly dressed girl after another
came out and played,'or sung or gave a reci
tation. A printed program had been thrust
into the mother's hand and after sundry rub-
bings of her silver rimmed spectacles, she at
length found Reginalda’s name, away down
at the end of the list.

At last a tall, gram-ful figure stepped out
upon the stage—R.r=ginalda; her proud,
pretty facejust a little fl-isheii and with a
bright, eager look in her dark eyes.

Her dress was simple. Only a plain white
muslin, A little lace trimmed fichu crossed
on the bosom, and adorned there with a
cluster of blush roses.

Her neatly written essay in her hand, and
just before she opened it and while she was
making her graceful courtesv she took a
rapid survey of the audience. ‘
There was Senator B , his wife and
sister in law, the famous authors. There
was Dr. Aylesbury, the keen, sarcastic
critic; Judge Larned, too, and Mr. Paul Le-
Duc, the editor of the city paper.

R» ginalda lost none of her self possesion
at the sight of these formidable critics. But
just beside the smiling facesof Rhoda, Kitty
and Dora, she beheld some one else, an old-

ously she was regarded by the three spiteful

fashioned little woman, whom most of

iron.

the audience were regarding with amuse-
ment.

Now was the hour of triumph her ene-
mies had anticipated. Who can tell what
emotions surged through the young girl's
being‘) Deep indignation, mortificaiion.
and an insane desire to rush away and for-
ever hide herself.

Her essay had been carefully prepared;
she had been sure of winning honor by it;
but who would care to applaud her now‘?
How odd and shabby her mother looked.
Her mother!

Back came a swelling tide of love and fi-
lial devotion. It was her mother, the mother
God had given her. VVhat right had she
to be ashamed of the woman who had work-
ed so hard to give her a chance‘?

Reginalda drew herself up proudly, open
ed her essay and began to read. She had
chosen her theme wisely, had treated it well,
and.when she had finished, the audience
showed their approval by a thundering
round ofapplause. Gracefully bowing her
thanks. she was about making her exit,
when there was flung at her feet a huge bo-
quet of gay hollyliocks. At the same time
alittle page placed before hera basketof
exquisite roses and lilies, the gift of the
author:-ss.

A half suppressed giggle from Rhoda,
Kitty and Dora had accompanied the first
offering; but, apparently, not the least em-
barrassed, Reginalda, in a low whisper,
bade the boy carry the basket to her room,
and then, picking up the bunch of holly-
hocks she stepped off the stage and came
down to where the little mother smilingly
awaited her.

‘Te he! \Ve thought we’d give you a sur-
prise!’ said Kitty.

‘Thank you for your kind intentions,’
said Reginalda, so politely that the three
girls slunk away considerably crestfalled.

During the entire evening Reginalda did
not once falter from her duty. She walked
about with her mother, introducing her to
various acquaintances.- She bore with pa-
tience her mother’s bluncfering. unsophisti-
cated remarks and grammatical errors, and
endured with Spartan like fortitude the har-
rowing sight of little Mrs. Leigh eating her
refreshments with a knife!

After all, you say it seems a little thing to
do. True; but then, heroism is not measur-
ed by acts, but by the will power it takes to
perform those acts.

‘Dear me!’ said Mrs. Leigh, the next day,

when she and her daughter were on their
homeward _iourney—‘dear me! I never had
such anice time in all my life! You was
so good to me, Reginalda. How I wish your
poppy had been there. I did have such a
nice time!’
Long years afterward, when Reginalda
sat by the bedside of that dying mother and
watched the cold, gray shadows creep over
the dear, homely face, a sweet peace and
thankfulness stole into her heart, as her
thoughts reverted to that eventful evening
of long a-_,ro—the evening that she was not
ashamed,— The Independent.

 

 

Making the Worst of it.
Soinepeoplelive in a perpetual state of
fret. The weather is al\va_vs objectionable;
the temperature is never satisi'actoi'y. They
have to much to do and are driven to death;
or too little and no resources. If they are
sick, they know they shall never get well.
lf they are well they expect soon to be sick.
Something is sure to disturb their sleep;
their food is never quite to their taste; they
have corns which everyone treads on. or_a
toothache which no one realizes. Their
daily work is either drudgery, which they
hate, or so ditiicult and coiriplex that they
cannot execute it. 'I‘o hear the prolonged
recital of their petty woes, one would think
them the most persecuted of mortals, and
when people shrink from the disagreeable
<'atalo;:;iie their lack of syinpathy adds anoth-
er drop tothe cup of trouble. Yet these
people have no more real cause t'or repining
than the rest of the world. ’l‘liey are more
wretclied, it is true, and spend that wretch-
edness with a liberal hand around them, but
this is simply because they empliasize all
that is unpleasaiit and ignore the rest. thus
making the worst they can out of both.

 

_ An Effectual Reprooi. o

A woman who  riding in a railway car
was g'reatl_v annoyed by the profane langage
of two young men who occupied the seat in
front of her, one of whom seemed to be a
colledge student. An exchange tells how she
stopped the profanity: _ '

She thought she would rebuke lnm, and, on
begging pardon for interrupt1ngt_liem asked
the young student if he had studied the lan-
gua es.

“1 es, madam, I have inastered the languages
quite well." '

“Do you read and speak Ilebrew 1"

"Quite fluently.” .

“Will you be so kind as to do me a small
favor 1*"

“With great pleasure; I am at your ser-
vice.

“Wil1‘you be so kind as to do your swearing
in Hebrew ‘."’

We may well suppose the lady was not
annoyed any more by the ungentleinaiily
language of this woiild-be gentleman.

 

Two devices for overcoming the perils of
the deep, a steamship brake anda drag, have
just been tested in Boston harbor. The brake
consists of two large steel plates or tins,
which are fastened to the stern of a steam-
ship and worked by chains runnin to the
pilot house. .lly opening these tins, t ie resis-
tance of forty square feet of steel is brought
to bear on the nionientum of the boat, and the
tests showed that the checking force was sud-
den andirresistible. A steamer going at full
speed was stopped within a space of ten feet.
The drag is intended both to soothe troubled
waters and to hold a ship’s head against the
wind during a gale. It is umbrella shaped and
made of strong canvas on oak ribs. During
a blow this drag is drop ed from the bows of
a ship by arope fastener to its center. It is

her head to the wind, while a ag of oil at
the apex of the contriyance is to take the dan-
ger out of the.billows.

Alphonso Kari‘, talking of food adultera-
tioii, remarked: It’s very curious, isn’t it 1’ If
I poison my grocer, the very lightest sentence
will be hard labor for life: but if my grocer
poisons 1ne—ah,'tliat's a dit‘fere'.it thing!—he
is lined forty francs!”

 

RECOLLECTIO.\' is the only paradise from
which we cannot be turned out.

claimed that this will keep aship steady with .
1

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Pinch Trees. - Peach Trees.

AT KENI‘ COUNTY

“ POMON A N URSERIES.”

We offer a full assortinent of fruit trees and orna-

mental stock including plants, vines, and Evergreen:
at lowest living rates.

Send in your orders by mail.
Send for Price Lists.
BUTTERICK .t WAT'1‘ERS0l\’,

l5augSt CASCADE, Kent Co., Mich.

PRICE MST OF SUPPLIIS
Kept in the office of the Secretary of the
MIC IIIGAN S'l‘A'l‘E GRANGE,
And rent out Post Paid, on Receipt of Cash Order,

over the seal of a Subordinate Grange, and th
aigmzture of its Marter or Secretary.

Porcelain Ballot Marbles, er hundred, . . . . . . . . 75.
Blank Book, ledger ruled, or Secretary to keep

accounts with members, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l 00
Blank Record Books, (Express paid), . . . . . . . . .. 1 00
Order Book, containing 100 Orders on the Treas-

urer, with stub, well bou.nd,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Receipt Book, containing 100 Receipts from

  

 
    

Treasurer to Secretary, with stub, well bound, -50
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A plications for Membership, per 100,. . .. 60

einbership Cards, per 100, . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Withdrawal Cards, per doz., . . . . . . . . . 26
Dimits, in envelopes, per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
By-Laws of the State Grange, single copies 10c,

per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
By-Laws, bound,......     20
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per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 80
Rituals, single copy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

“ per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 40

" for Fifth Degree, for Pomona Granges,

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. . . . . ‘

H u H II u (Mo_
rocco Tuclr,) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Address of J. J. Woodman before the Nation-

al Grange——per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Address of Thos. K. Beecher—per dozen . . . . .. 10
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Address, J. T. COBB,
Snow MICE. Surx GBANOI,

SCHOOLCRAFT, MICE

MICHIGAN CENTRAJ. R- B-
DEPARTURE OF TRA>.I1‘TS_l"R0)1 KALAMAZ00.
TIIIE-TABLl<:-MAY 1'», 1.-isz.

WVESTWARD.

Accommodation leaves,_--__
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nrrivea, ___ .... __ 9 86

Evening Express, ________ -_ 1 35 ....__.
Pacific Express, _____________________________ __ 2 47 ___...
Mail _____ 1 II
Day Express. ...................................... -- I at
Local Passenger, ............................ __§ 9 18,_____

EASTWARD.

A M.iP. In

Night Express, ______________________________ -_ .. so __.__.
Accommodation leaves,_____ 6 50,-_...
“ srrives,-___ _ 9 E

Mail 12 12
Day Express, ................ _- 1 38
New York Express, _ _ _ _ _ _ -- 5 7 87
Atlantic Express,________......__... 10 M

New York, Atlantic and Pacific Expresses daily. Evening
Expre-s west and Night Express cast daily except Saturdays.
All other trains daily except Sundays. Fr:-iglit trains carrying
passengers out from Kalamazoo as follows: .\'o 2'.) (east) at 5:39
P. 11., and No. :10 (west) at 7:37.

B. B. Lznuim, Gen. .\Ianagar, Detroit.
J. A. Gama, General Freight Agent, Chicago.
0 W. RI:~1oi.i:s,G. I’. & ’l‘. A., Chicago.

L- S. at 1V.E- S. R. R.

KALAMAZ(JO Divr:-no.\' Tinii-: TABLE.

(Time 1.3 minutes faster than Kalamazoo.)
GOING SOUTH.

   
  
  
   
   

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Ar. Allegan ____--- _ 9 17 “ 5 40 “ 310 “
Ar. Kalaniazoo__ -.._‘101-5 “ '3 40 “ _ll 40 “
Ar. Schooicrzift _____ __ ___ 10 5|) “ 7 ‘.32 “ 1 40 ll
Ar Three Rivers 11 18 “ 75: “ 246 "
A1’ White Pigeon _ ll -15 “ 8 20 “ 450 "
Ar Toledo__ 5 :55 mi 2 45 Au 6 «15 Al
Ar Clevelan - 1010 “ 7 05 “ 9 10 Pl
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Ar. Three Rivers ___ = 628 “ ‘ 40 -- liooo -'
Ar. Schoolcraft __ 6 58 “ 4 34 " 12 10' “
Ar Kalamazoo ‘ 7 30 “ 505 “ 1 «Kill
Ar. Allegan ' 840 “ 608 “ , 420 “
Grand Bapi -110 00 “ 7 25 “ I 8 10 “

All trains connect at White Pigeon with trains on main line.

A. G. Axsnnic,

Supt. Kalamazoo Division, Kalamazoo.

CHICAGO 85 GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Corrected Time-Table—May 14,1882.

 

TRAIN S WEST.
{Mail and j W158?" , Pacific : Way
Express. Express. 5 Express. } Freight.

No. 2. No. 4. No. 6. No. 32.
5 00 no 7 soil} -F2313»? "‘

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“ Lapeer_..__ , 645 “ ' 910 “ [ 867 “

H Flint--- :73oHl9-15 H:94oH=

H Durand- 835 N ‘~10 21 « 21015 H ,.

H Lansing_____ , 953 H 111 40 H .1136 “

“ Charlotte ____ __ I0 40 “ §l2 17 PK 12 13 An

“ Battle Creek--- ?1l60 “ I 1 30 “ 180 “

“ Vicksbur _l2-15 Pl: 222 “ 2 21 “

H Schoolcraft ‘ 100 H - 233 H 233 H

H Casaopolis 1 55 H ‘ 322 H 323 “

H South Bond 242 H ,- 408 H 407 

“ Valparaiso- - 423 " ' 540 “ 550 “
Ar Chicago ____________ -i6s5“i745H sou“

TRAINS EAST.
{Mail an1'Atlautic',' Night ;' Way
STATIONS. ‘Express. Express. Express. Freight

, 33141 §_":_3:. ’_N°',,5' N°' 33'
Ar. Cliicago;:.- T._- 850 Air‘ 5 15.11:; 900 231.-..--

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Vicksburg _ 310 H .10 59 H i 3 10 “ 1114 20 H
H Battle Cree * 405 H ,i2 01 H ‘ 4 on H ,_-._-._
H Charlotte __ 505 “ 104 H 507 H _
“ Dinning" 546 H < 1 47 “ ‘ 550 “ v-
H Dnrai1d-_ ~ 715 H 5 307 H 719 4*
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357 1- 1 426 H 1 910 “ ,Z::
‘‘ Imlay City.-- _, 924 “ 1--. ____3________§_.____
Ar.PortI{uron ....... __ 10 40 " i 600 “ 11035 " ....._
All trains run by Chicago time. All trains daily except
Sunday. .

Geo. B. Runs, 8. ll. CALLAWAY.

Tunic Manager. General BuperlnuIi¢|n|t_
For information as to rates, apply to I. P. 1ieary.Loal

 

Agent, Bchoolci-an, Mich.

     
     
     
 
   
  
 
  
    
    
     
    
   
 
  
   
   
   
    
  
   
     
   
    
   
   
  
  
   
  
  
 
   
    
  
 

   
 
     
   
   
   
   
     
   
  
   
  
    
   
  
    
  
   
     
    
   
   
   
     
  
  
  
   
   
 
   
 
 
  
   
    
  
  
  

  


 

 

 

6 .

TEE GRANGE VZSITOE.

\

NOVEMBER 1, 1882.

jadiea’ flrpartment.

CRAVING REST.

Ohl for the leisure to lie and dream

gy some woodland well, or some rippling stream,
ith a cool green covert of trees overhead,

And fern or moss for my verdurous bed !

To rest and trifle with rushes and reeds,
Threading wild berries like chaplets of beads,
Letting the breeze fan my feverish brows,
Hearing the birds sing their summery vows.

Oh I for the leisure to lie without thought,
U on the mind's anvil the ingot unwrought;

e hammers that beat in my temples at rest;
Calm in life's atmosphere, calm in the breast l

To loll or to saunter, to laugh or to weep,
Waken the echoes, or silence to keep,

With no human being at hand to intrude,

Or question the wherefore of manner or mood.

Oh l for such leisure to rest and to stra

In green haunts of nature, it but for a ay,
Through leaves to look at the sky from the sod,
Alone with my heart, my hope, and my God 1

 

A TIRED WOMAN'S LAST WORDS.
Here lies an old woman who always was tired,
For she lived in a house where help wasn't hired,
Her last words on earth were: ‘-Dear friends, I am
going
Where washing ain't done, nor churning, nor sew-
in ;
And evergything there will be iust to my wishes,
For where they don't eat there's no washing of
dishes.
I’ll be where loud anthems will always be ringing,
But having no voice I'll get rid of the singing.
Don't mourn for me now, and mourn for‘me never,
For I’m going to do nothing forever and ever.”

Bread and Butter.

How intimately associated with our child-
ish days are our first remembrances of
bread and butter. Strangely sweet comes
to us the memory of those days long ago,
when with eager haste we received a liberal
supply from our mother’s hand; and we as
quickly thought of doubting our own exist-
ence, as our mother’s love, which furnished
the supply.

We remember too, those days of childish
glee, when with brothers and sisters dear.
we roamed o’er the fields at our own sweet
will, or under the shade of some great tree,
we made believe keep house, and on acorn
cups, or grander still, treasured bits of cast
of!‘ dishes from our father's house, white.
pink or blue, we ate our bread and butter, to
our childish minds a feast fit for royal state.

Neither have we forgotten the time, when
as verdant lads and lassies, in the old school
house, we encircled the stove at noon, and
amid laughter and jest, and the sallies of
some would-be witty child, to "be careful
and not let it fall or it might smash our toes,”
we ate our slice of bread and butter. Those
were happy days, they have gone with our
childhood, never, never to return, yet the
memory of them may serve to keep our
hearts fresh and our minds eternally young.

We are going the ceaseless round of life,
over and over again the. same story is told,
infancy, childhood, youth, manhood. old
age. Man y of us are already down the shady
side of life, the shadows are beginning to
lengthen, but the memory of our childhood
days, and of the mother who so carefully
guided our wayward steps, will ever be a
well-spring of joy and happiness.

We remember, with peculiar interest, the
manner of baking bread in those olden
times, before the advent of cooking stoves.
First in a brick oven, which required much
extra labor to heat and clean, then an iron
bake kettle, with legs three or four inches in
length, was used. But one loaf could be
baked in this kettle, which was placed upon
coals raked together upon the hearth of the
open fire-place. Then came the tin oven, a
great improvement, inasmuch as three loaves
could be baked at one time. This oven was
made with a shelving roof, and was closed
on three sides. The front being open,. the
oven was placed-opposite the open fire, and
the heat striking upon the bread, and being
intensified by the bright tin, sufiiciently
baked it.

The labor of baking bread has been very
much economized,but to our minds no bread
will ever be so sweet as that baked in the old
fashioned bake kettle on the hearth.

From time immemorial, bread has been
the stafl‘ of life, and the army on its march,
the laborer at his daily task, the captive in
his cell, and the monarch in his palace, all
have need I to say, “Give us this day our daily
bread.” Life indeed with many is but a
race for bread. We have the power of sow-
ing, reaping, threshing and baking, but not
the power of creating the material for bread.
This power alone remains with him, who
fed the _five thousand with five barley loaves
and a few small fishes, and who so tenderly
said to his disciples, who had been fishing
all night with no success, “Children have
ye any meat?” And when they were come
to land they saw a fire of coals there and
fish laid thereon, and bread, Jesus saith un-
to them “come and dine.”

In primitive times the manner of prepar-
ing bread was, and in Oriental lands still is,
exceedingly simple. The grain was ground
between two large circular stones, with
rough surfaces adapted to each other, and
turned by hand. Kneading troughs were
used, which consisted of a circular piece of
leather, through which a cord was passed.
When this was drawn the article became a
sack, in which was carried both meal and
dough. ‘These were what the Jews took in

dough before it was leavened, their knead-
ing troughs being bound up in their clothes,
upon their shoulders.

In many cases in the East unleavened

bread is used, which is quickly prepared.
Sarah, at the command of Abraham, made
ready three measures of fine flour, and after
kneadingit, made cakes upon the hearth, of
which the angels who sat in the tent door
door with Abraham, did eat.

Burkhart, a modern traveler, explains the
process of baking as witnessed by him.
“Breakfast,”he says, “is frequently prepared
by spreading out in a circle a number of
small stones, over which a brisk fire is kin-
dled. When the stones are sufficiently hot,
the fire is removed, and the paste spread
over the hot stones, and immediately cover-
ed with glowing ashes, and left until thor-
oughly baked.”

An earlier method of preparing grain for
bread was to soak it in water, subject it to
pressure. and dry it by natural or artificial
heat. An improvement upon this was the
braying or pounding the grain in a mortar.
From this braying process some etymologists
derive the word bread, as if brayed. It is
probable the Egyptians were the first to use
leaven, that the secret afterwards became
known to the Greeks, and that the Greeks
communicated the process to the_ Romans,
who spread the invention, far and wide in
the northern countries during their cam-
paigns.

The native country of wheat, the principal
article used in the manufacture of bread, is
unknown, yet it is found that within the
wheat zone, tlfe quality improves as we
travel south, thus Scotch wheat is inferior
to English, the latter to French, that to
Italian, and the finest wheat in the world is
grown in Barbary and Egypt. Brown
bread has been thought by some to be more
nutritious than bread made of fine flour,
but that opinion is now considerably modi-
fied, for while it is true that the whole
meai,bran and fine flour, contains chemi-
cally more nutritive matter than the fine
flour alone, yet, the gritty particles that are
present in the former cause an unnatural
irritation in the alimentary canal, and leads
to a quicker discharge of the partially ab-
sorbed and digested food. This explains
why brown bread possesses laxative proper-

ties, and why laborers fed on it constantly
complain that it makes them hungry soon,
they feel that it does not last in the stom-
ach, and consequently think it has little
nourishment.

Nature has made a wonderful provision
for the inhabitants or the islands of the Pa-
cific ocean and the Indian Archipelago, in
the production of the bread-fruit-tree. The
fruit of this tree is nearly oval, hanging
singly, or in clusters of two or three, and is
about the size of a child’s head. It is gath-
ered in an unripe state, the pulp at that
time being white and mealy, and of the con-
sistence of new bread. The manner of bak-
ing the fruit isas follows: A hole is dug in
the ground, in which a layer of stones and
leaves is placed, the fruit being cut in three
or four pieces, and the core removed, is
placed upon this, and layers of stone, leaves
and fruit fill the hole, within a few inches
of the top, when leaves and earth cover the
whole, and in half an hour the bread is
done. Itisslightly astringent, and highly
nutritive, and will keep good for several
weeks.

Butter, the essential accompaniment of
bread, is universally used by the American
people. In ancient times the Hebrews used
it copiously, as an article of food, but the
Greeks and Romans used it only as an oint-
ment in their baths, and it is probable the
Greeks obtained the knowledge of this gub-
stance from the Scytians and Phrygians,
while the Romans obtained it from Germa-
ny. In Southern Europe at the present
time butter is very sparingly used, and in
Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Southern
France it is sold by apothecaries as a medi-
cinal agent, for external applications. In
England the butter of Epping and Cam-
bridge is highly esteemed, and in every part
of Great Britain the Dutch butter'_is very
largely consumed, indeed three-fourths of
all the foreign butter used in Great Britain
is imported from Holland.

In the formation of butter, resource is al-
ways had to churning, for the purpose of
agitating and rupturing the minute fat
globules, and forming them into larger or
smaller masses of butter. If this is per-
formed in too rapid a manner, or at too high
a temperature, the globules are entirely
broken to pieces, and the grain of the butter
destroyed. .

Among the Arabs churning is done in
bags or skins violently shaken, or trampled
upon. In other instances ingredients are
employed to promote-coagulation, it is thus
the sour milk is formed, of which the Arabs
are passionately fond.

Nature has furnish ed butter as well as
bread trees for the inhabitants of the tropi-
cal regions, the fruit of which yields con-
crete, fixed oils, having the appearance,
and used for the same purpose as butter.
India, Guiana, Africa and Brazil produce
these butter trees.

Butterine, a substitute for butter, was
tirst manufactured in France. but is now
extensively used iu'this country. It is
composed of animal fat, amalgamated with
milk, to which is sometimes added a small

Among the dairy States of our own coun-
try New York takes the lead as to number
and value of milch cows; Michigan tenth,
and omitting the Southern States Nebraska
last. The average yield of butter per_an-
num for each cow in New York is one hun-
dred and ten pounds, in Pennsylvania
ninety-four, and in North Carolina as low
as twenty-two pounds. There are compara-
tively few cows in the South. The average
price of cows for the whole Southern States
is sixteen dollars, Kentucky ranging the
highest, twenty-six dollars, and Florida
the lowest, twelve dollars. The population
of milch cows for the United States, is
12,661,000, about one cow to every four per-

sons. MRS. VV. K. Si-sxrox.
The Ballot for Women.
Having seen several articles in the

GRANGE VISITOR on the subject and pre-
suming that all have a right to express an
opinion, I venture to submit a few of my
own thoughts on this momentous ques-
tion.

I look with apprehension upon the grow-
ing popularity of the idea that women
should take part equally with men in the
affairs of national government, for I fail
tosee the good in it, to either sex that is
claimed. It is not consistant with the na-
ture of either, and therefore does not seem
to be the design of the Creator. That it was
not so in the beginning we well know. So
when I seek to give a reason for these
things as they appear to me, I am remind-
ed of a dear old aunt, who when asked by a
little inquisitive child the why and where
fore of things brought to his notice, would
always give . the laconic reply. “Tis na-
ture, little boy.”

The laws in most States have been greatly
improved within a few years, giving to
women to right to hold property, and her
earnings from drunken, spendthrift hus-
bands, and giving her nearly if not quite
equal wages with men for the same service
rendered. All this is just and right, and
has been done by the votes of men, and the
wholesale murder of theliquor dealer might
be stopped in the same manner, if women
would universally set their faces against it
truly and honestly; instead of clamoring for
the ballot by which to put down the evil,
let them see that they cast it out of their
own homes.

There are women who will say "Oh

yes, when the ballot is given to women we
shall have less drunkenness in the land,”
and at the same time keep spiritous liquor
in some of its forms, in their houses, and
dose it out as medicine to their families for
every little cold or ill feeling that may hap-
pen, thereby engendering a love for it in
some member of their household. If liquor
is an evil in a public saloon, it is no less an
evil in the home of the citizen; if women
will harbor the Hydraheaded serpent at all
they cannot be sure that Its fatal folds will
not crush their loved ones. In order to
overcome any evil we must give it no quar-
ter nor countenance it in any shape or
form.
VVomen’s voting will notmake very much
difference in results as regards elections, for
every right minded man is willing to make
laws that will give the greatest possible
good to his wife, mother and sister, equally
with himself, and they, could they vote,
would vote as ladies; while on the other
hand, there is no man so mean or narrow-
minded, depraved and vicious, but has an
influence over some women on the same
moral planeas himself, who will vote as
he does, for while it is true that there are
many men unfit both mentally and morally
to cast a vote, “Pity ’tis, ’tis true” there
are quite as many degraded ignorant women
and they are the ones who would be most
sure to be at the polls election days. So
that to equalize results, good women will be
compelled to go and vote, thus imposing on
them an additional burden. Or if we con-
clude there will be no such influence, that
each sex will vote independently of the
other, then we shall see political strife add-
ed to the already too numerous causes of fam-
ily jars, and excuses for divorce. “Affini-
ty” will be more scarce even than now.

There used to be employments, amuse-
ments and vices, exclusively maculine, but
in these days of so-called progress, we have
female walkists, horseracers, duelists, pugil-
ists, burglars and horsethieves, in fact there
is no calling so law, no vice to which man
may sink but women will follow. It is their
right, of course, every human being has a
right to choose the down ward path: a right
who allured by the shining stepping stones
that lead to eternal ruin. All over our coun-
try are scores of miserable boys, and young
men, old in sin and poisoned by liquor and
tobacco. And there are also numbers of
young girls, bold and unwomanly, which
seem to prove that women are forgetting
their proper duties, despising the sphere in
which their influence is most needed and
most potent for good, forgetting that “The
hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that
rules the world. Everywhere the love of no-
teriety is urging women to shameless publi-
city, and extravagance in dress and living
is driving men to despair desperation and
crime. “If she has not been faithful over a
few things, how shall she be made ruler
over many.” No manner of legislation can
right a wrong inherent in the minds of the

be found in the land hcw can we set them
in high places! Most good women would
rather see their husbands, sons or brothers,
in places of trust and honor than to be there
themselves. Still, if suffrage prevails, all
will not be free from the office seeking ma-
nia, when the peaceful home content will
be for them a thing of the past.

There have been scenes of drunkenness and

quarreling in our Senate chamber quite dis-
graceful and lowering to the dignity of
some of our senators, but as far as I have ob-
served women have no more patience in
dispute, no more nonchalauce in defeat.
than have men. They have quite as much
arrogance and egotism, they know how to
be provoking and sarcastic, and having a
more nervous organization, have less self-
control, so it is doubtful whether affairs
would be adjusted in a more peaceable man-
ner did the female element prevail in Con-
gress. Indeed if I were a comic artist I
would picture a “coming session” with the
“floor” strewn with back hair, false teeth,
curls and frlzzes, and all‘ the members
“speakers” with drapery awry and a queer
nervous motion with the flsts,and an expres-
sion of countenance that might possibly
mean, anxiety for the welfare of their na-
tive land. Then in the “background” I
would picture Mrs. Senator’s home. with ne-
glected children running about with cigars
in their mouths, and a servant girl flirting
with the poor fool of a husband, who was
found lacking the mental or moral qualities
that would have made him a senator. Every
true man feels pride in being a helper, pro-
tector and defender of women. He will
fight for his home and fireside. \Vhat in-
centive to manhood will he have ifthe home
and fireside assume to fight for them-
selves?

But should the political strife that is reg-
ulated by the ballot again flame into war,
it is the men who will have to “bear the
burden and heat of the day.” Although
women may boast of her mental equality or
superiority, her physical strength will not
allow her to march all day with knapsack
and rifle, nor her courage enable her to face
the le_aden hail of the enemy; there she will
have to come down(‘?)to her legitimate sphere
and work, to cheer and encourage by affec
tionate counsel, to keep the home hearth
bright, to care foraud instruct the children,
to nurse the sick and dying, and to pray for
God’s merciful care over all.

A. R. M.
Grand Traverse Grange, No. 379.
Traverse City, Oct.  1882.

 

Little Things.

It is only a little thing, only a small sac-
rifice, therefore it is not appreciated, Haw
many admirable actions are overlooked be-
cause they are little and common! Take for
instance, the mother who has had broken
slumber, if any at all, with the little babe
whose wants must not be disregarded; she
would fain sleep awhile when the breakfast
hour comes, but patiently and uncomplain
ingly she takes her timely seat at the table.
Though exhausted and weary, she serves
all with a refreshing cup of tea or coffee, be
fore she sips any herself, and often the cups
are handed back before she has time to
taste her own.

Do you hear her complain, this weary
mother, that her breakfast is cold before
she has time to eat it? And this is not for
one but for every morning perhaps, through
the year. D.) you call this a small thing?
Try it and see. 0, how woman shames man
by her forbearance and fortitude in what
we call “little things!” It is these little
things that are tests of character. It is by
little self-denials borne with such self-for-
gotten gentleness, that the humblest homes
are made happy, though we fail to see it,
alas, until the chair is vacant, and the
hand that kept in motion all the domestic
machinery is powerless and cold.

MRS. c. E. G.

Weston Grange, No. 276.

For What are we Toiling.

There is too much, and the subject is too
deep for me, in one short essay to enumerate
the many things of life which inspire hu-
man hands to toil. The whole world is
teeming with life, and what is it all for, why
do we labor, why not sit idly by with folded
hands and let the world take care of itself?
We must all have something to live for,
some purpose in view _or life would indeed
be a blank.

The student who pores over his books into
the small hours of night is working for
something, he surely would 'not labor in
this manner for nothing. He expects some
reward. It may be all the reward he cares
for is the name of having passed through
college. Perhaps he is only looking forward
to the day when he shall receive his diploma
with great honors. Possibly his mind
reaches beyond his school days when he
shall become brillant, and place his name
higher than any mortal ever has in the
past. 0: he may toil day after day, month
after month, and year after year for the
pleasure knowledge brings. The more

knowledge we have, the better prepared are
we to enjoy the beauties of this world.

Some work for fame, some for wealth,
others for merely an existence without any
thought beyond, while a few seek in every ~

their departure from Egypt, with their

-proportion of real butter.

people. If honor and integrity are not to

virtue, happiness love and truth. The busy
housewife as she passes through her daily
routine, singing to keep time with her
swiftly flying fingers, has an object in life.
If she has a large family, her constant
thought is for its welfare. Labor to her is a
pleasure with the bright prospect before her
that she is rearing useful men and women
to fill the places of those gone before. She
has everythi ng to work for, there is noth-
ing selfish in her nature, and when her
days begin to decline, she can sit down with
the satisfied feeling that her life was not
lived in vain.

I cannot leave this thought here, lest some
might understand I would advance the idea,
a mother must give her whole time to her
family; not so. She needs recreation. she
needs time to brighten her intellect, to note
the passing events of the day and age in
which she lives, in short, to be alive to the
world as well as to her family. “'2 have
heard it remarked, "we lay too much stress
on the influence of the mother. It appears
to me this cannot be done, for I am of the
firm belief, the mother makes the home.

We enter a household where the mother
is cross and and fretful the whole atmos-
phere seems tainted, and we find the hus-
band and children affected with the same
spirit. \Vhen the mother is cold and stern
there is a restraint which pervades the
home circle. The children do not con ride
in her, they have never been taught that
she cares for any of their amusements. On
the other hand, if she enters into the pleas-
ures and sorrows of her children, they will
grow up with the idea, whatever interests
them, interests her and she will have the
full knowledge of their whereabouts from
their own lips.

It often occurs in a neighborhood, several
boys grow to manhood together. One takes

with great respect. He is pronounced suc-
cessful, but had he not prepared himself for
the position, he never could have occupied
it. It would only make him appear redicu-
lous to attempt to fill tne desired place.
While others were idling their time or rev-
cling in gayety and pleasure, he was stor-
ing his mind with useful knowledge, that
he might be prepared for the duties oflife.
It is the nature of mankind to desire to be
esteemed highly by their fellow men. But
this cannot be done without an effort.

We are constantly forming links in lifes
great chain though we may be unconscious
of the fact, each thought, each act or deed,
whether it be good or evil, false or true,
helps to complete the work oflife, and forms
a part of our life's true history furnishing
threads for

“THE LOOM or-* LIFE.”

"All day, all night. I can hear the jar
Of the loom of life near and afar,

It thrills with its dee and muffled sound,
As the tireless whee a go always around.

Busily, ceaselessly, goes the loom

In the light of ay and the midnightls gloom;
The wheels are turning early and late,

And the woof is wound in the warp of fate.

Click, clack! there's a thread of love wove in!
Click, clack! and another of wrong and sin;

What a checkered thing will this life be,
When we see it unrolled in etern ls) l

Time, with a face like a mistery
And hands as busy as hands can be,
Sits at the loom with its warp outspread,
To catch in its meshes each glancing thread.

When shall this wonderful web be done?
In a thousand ears, perhaps, or one;

Or to morrow. ho knoweth? Not you nor I,
But the wheels turn on, and the shuttles fly.

Ah, sad eyed weaver. the years are slow,
But each one is nearer the end. I know,

And some day the last thread shall be wove in,
And grant it he love, instead of sin.

Are we spinners of wool for this life web—say?
Do we furnish the weaver a thread each day?
It were better then, oh, my friend. to spin
A beautiful thread, than a thread of sin.”

We admire a brilliant writer, we rest un-
der the influence of his eloquent language,
yet, while we are feasting, do we realize it
has cost him many sleepless nights, many
days of hard, wearisome toil to gain the ap-
plause of the world, many of whom read
only to criticise.

For what are we as a Grange toiling?
We have only to read the declaration of
purposes to answer the above question, but
how many of us read them, and after read-
ing, heed them?

We are told we have wrongs to be re-
dressed. Are we earnest enough in using
the means to have them corrected?

There are a great many talkers and a few
efficient workers among our leaders, what
they will accomplish remains to be seen,
that they have accomplished much we do
not pretend to deny, but much more re-
mains to be done.

The work we wish to achieve cannot be
done by the few we term leaders, they must
have the hearty support of the great body of
workers, even the humblestone’s share will
be just as effective.

“We shall advance the cause of educa-
tion.” This has been done to a great ex-
tent. Men think more, and this thing of
thinking is what helps to move the world.
“It is the grand plowshare which turns up.
the old soil of error and despotism, and re-
veals the hidden treasures of truth.”

"We shall endeavor to develop a better
and higher manhood and womanhood
among ourselves.” With the above thought

"before us should we feel the least disheart-

ened. The time has been when there was
very little to encourage the farmer's wife to
think she was more than a household

movement, on every side, to plant seeds of

drudge. Here is improvement for those

a position which causes him to be regarded .

  

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run‘ ensues ‘neuron.

7

w ho wish in make the efi"~irt. It inspires
our minds vv"i\ new thoughts and purposes.
It gives toour once dull and insipid lives
animation and spirit. It removes the feel-
ing from our hearts that “Life is but an
empty dream" and fills them with aspira-
tions of noble character.
“Let us. then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.”

We are all aware of the great number who
rushed into the O deer in its infancy, with
the thought its great aim and object was to
amass "untold wealth. Thoae have dropped
out with the idea the Grange doesn’t
amount to anything. If we fail to investi-
gite, if we only see the surface, if we sit in
the Grange meetings merely to criticise, if
we do nothing ourselves the Grange will

surely seem monotonous, dull and tame, but-

if we are alive to the great aims of our noble
Order, We will always find plenty of work
to perform which will be beneficial to our-
selves and those around us.
A. N. w.
________________.___

Libraries. .

Some one has be:.iutit'ully and truly said:
A house that contains a library has a soul in
it. As the mind is the intellectual and im-
mortal part of its habitation, so the library,
containing, as it does, the impcrishable
thoughts of the best authors, is the intellect-
ual and immortal part of ours. Could every
home be so supplied we would indeed reach
the golden age of intellectual possibilities,
through this general dissemination of knowl-
edge, for with the progress of learning comes
the true progress of our race. But this has
never been nor can it ever be, and the defi-
ciency has to be supplied by access topublic
libraries if supplied at all. In the cities and
larger towns this can be easily done, for a
library has long been a necessary accessory
to all leading educational institutions.

Contributions of books by ten ministers
was the foundation of Yale college, and in
fact since the revival of learning in the 14th
and 15th centuries, and the invention of the
art of printing soon after. inuumerablelibra-
ries have sprung into existence, and the
number has been constantly increasing until
collections of books have come to be, if not
the germ of every institution, whetlier edu-
cational, literary, scientific, or religious, al-
ways a. secondary need. i

This is the great need now in the Grange.
The farming community is the one class,
who, as a rule, have not access to these
“store houses of medicine for the mind." As
in the battle of‘ Bunker Hill the untrained
farmer soldiers only needed ammunition to
defeat the British regulars, so to-day these
intelligent and energetic sons of toil only need
ammunition for the mind to successfully
cope with any class of society, and how can
this better be furnished than by reading the
standard works of literature, and the best
periodicals? With the advantages of a li-
brary once before them, I do believe the
fariners will make the most of their opportu-
nity. I have often heard it remarked by
teachers that their former students were
most successful because their school advan-
tages were harder for them to obtain.

Poverty in itself may be considered a bles-
sing. A great man has said: “I am keeping
from my children all that has made me suc-
cessful in life-—poverty and toil,” and these
conditions have been the inheritance of the
majority of the world's greatest minds. The
more effort there is required by the individ-
ual to gain education, position, wealth, or any
desirable object, the more is it valued when
gained. For this very reason will the farm-
ers make their Grange libraries, awhen once
obtained, a means of self education.

To know some things well and to know
where to find the rest, is said to be the foun»
dation of a good education, and almost any
fact whether of great or small importance
can be found in a library. Many of tliebooks
in a well selected collection of this kind
would be used for this sole purpose, as the
dictionary and cyclopedia, the latter of wliicb
is almost a library in ‘itself. Histories too
would doubtless be as often used for refer-
ence as for actual reading, although care in
selecting attractive authors would tend to
increase a taste for such reading.

In selecting books for a library, at least
one book of every standard author should be
obtained, and additions could be made from
time to time as means would -allow, and in
this list the novelist should take aprominent
place, for the grand truths which are the fun-
damental principle of every first class work
of this kind will be more widely scattered
than if presented in any other way.

By having access to a good library we can
form a most agreeable acquaintance-with the
best minds of present and past. “In the best
books great men talk to_ us, give us their
most precious thoughts, and pour their souls
into ours. God be thanked for books. They
are voices of the distant and the dead, and
make us heirs of the spiritual life of the past
ages." Who does not feel the most tender
and sympathetic friendship for an author
who has in glowing words and eloquence
aroused the noblest impulses in his nature?
And we can thus know such authors as Long-
fellow, Emerson, Dickens, George Eliot, or
Mrs. Browning if we can read their grandest
thoughts; and in such reading we will find
a balm for many of the cares as well as an-
noyances and pretty vexations which too of-
ten come to farmers and farmer's wives.

‘Euuthi’ Eepaqtment.

T0 MISS KATHARINE MY.

An S A now I mean 2 write
2 U sweet K T J,

The girl without a 1;
The belle of U I‘ K.

I l der ifU got the l
I wrote 2 U B 4

I sailed in the R K D A,
And sent by L N Moore.

My M T head will scarce contain
I calm I D A bright,

But, A T miles from you, I must
M*\»I~ this chance 2 write.

And first should N E N V U,
B E Z, mind it not,

Should N E friendship show, be true,
They should not be forgot.

But friends and foes alike D K,
As you may plainly C,

In every funeral R A
Or uncles L E G.

From virtue never D V S ;
Her influence B 9

Alike induces 10 derness
Or 40 tude divine.

And if you cannot cut a -
Or cause an 1

I hope U’ll put 3..
2 l ?

(R U for annexation 2
My cousin, heart and $’ 'r)
He offers in a T,
A x} 2 of land.

He says he loves U 2 X S :
U’re virtuous and U’re Y's ;

In X L N C U X L
All others in his I’s.

ThisSAuntilUIC
I pray U 2 X Q's,
And do not burn in F E G
My young and wayward muse.
'5

Now fare U well, dear K T J ;
I trust that U R true -

When this U C then U can say

- An S A I O U. .

—Select.:'d.

" Public Dancers.

Aunt Nina.-—I,am glad you have taken :1
part in the discussion. I think with you
that dancingis it pretty amusement if all the
company are of good character; but I claim
that will not be after a few gatherings. Some
of the society will attend public balls and
there form zicquaiiitaiices which they invite
to the private or home gatherings. As :i
good dancer counts it great deal at a dance
party, the company will go from “bad to
worse” until it is broken up. The better ones
will stop dancing and the others go to public
balls. As to distrusting a. person who dances,
I find in my acquaintance, that a person who
attends only private dance parties is as much
to be trusted as one who does not dance; but
if he commences going to public balls it is
best to be wary of him. Like “Pretty By
Night," I have attended many dance and
game parties and see no excuse fora Patron
to attend either. The Grange has niany more
attractions for me and I have never heard a
patron, who tried to find an interest in the
Grange meetings, express a preference for
other gatherings.

N o indeed, “Pretty." I am housekeeper
for pap-a—M2unmzi “tends store."

1 hope we shall hear from Fred and Ella
Spaulding, “Ellen,” “Laura,” and “Charlie,”
during this discussion. I hardly dare ask
“Will” to write about dancing (though I
would like to know his opinion); but I do
wish he would tell us what he thinks is ne-
cessziry to constitute an educated or accom-
plished person.

Good bye.
NET'r1E_Giri~‘oRo.
Royalton, Vt., Oct. 24, 1882.
___________________
An Old Cousin.

Aunt Nina.-—I am well aware that on ac-
count of age I am trespassing on the
Youths’ Department, nevertheless I am
very much interested in it and I think it
quite an important feature of the paper.
When I read those excellent letters I am re-
joiced to think what an able staff of writers
the farms are producing but as one wrote
she had gone to keeping house, perhaps
their heads are not so youthful as their
hearts would intimate. I would be pleased
if Auntie would recommend that you tell
your ages as many of you have suggested.

OLD MAN.

P. S.—0ct. 5th. Thanks to Nettie Gif-

ford for being the first to give her age.

A Mother’s Love.

In the highlands of Scotland, 9. poor wid-
ow found herself unable to pay the rent of
her small cottage, and the agent of the land-
lord threatened to disposess her. A kins-
man who lived at som distance had prom-
ised to assist her, and she set out for his
residence, carrying on her back her only
child, a boy about two years old.

The morning when she left her home
gave promise of a lovely day. But before
noon the heavens were darkened by a gath-
ering storm. It was in the month of May,
and the fall of snow on that day, so unusual
both for its season and its severity, is yet
remembered in the region as “ the great May
storm." The severity of the storm overtook
the lone traveler in a wild mountain ass,
ten miles from her home. She knew t at a.
mile beyond it there was a house where she
would find shelter; but whenever she at
tempted to face the blast which was rushing
through the gorge, all hope failed of proceed-
ing in that direction. _

After wandering for some time among the.
huge fragments of granite w_hi_ch skirted the
base of the overhanging precipices, she found

a sheltered nook under a ledge of rock, where

should not have compassion on the son of

she crouched, pressing her child to her trem-
bling boson. The storm continued to rage,
and it became bitterly cold. All she thought
of was the protection of her child. She
wrapped him in her shawl, which was thin
and worn. As night came on, she stripped
ofi" almost all her own clothing and wrapped
it around the child, when at last, in despair,
she put him in a deep crevice of the rock
among some dried heather and fern. Cover-
ing his face with tears and kisses, she left
him in a soft sleep, and rushed into the
snow-drift, resolved to find assistance for
him or perish in the attempt. That night
of storm was succeeded by a peaceful morn-
ing. The people of the village, fearing that
she could not have reached her destination,
set out in a body to search for her. They
reached the pass,‘ and at its entrance they
found the widow dead, her arms stretched
forth as if imploring assistance. Before
noon, the cries of the child guided them to
its safe hiding-place, where all the story of
the mother’s love was revealed.

Fifty years later, an aged minister was
preaching in a distant city on the love of
Christ, and in illustrating the nature of the
" love which seeketh not her own,” he told
the story of the Highland widow, whom he
had known in his boyhood. Some time
afLerward,amessage was brought to him
from a dying man, who greatl desired to
see him. The request was spee ily complied
with. Thesick man seized him by the hand,
and, gazing intently in his face, said, “ You
do not know me, but I know you, and know
your father before you. I have been a wan-
derer in many lands, and have fought
and bled for my country. I came
to this town a few days ago in ill
health, and was providentially led to
the place where you were preaching. I
heard you tell the story of the widow and
her son——-” Here the voice of the old soldier
faltered, but recovering himself for a mo-
ment he cried, “I AM THAT soN!” and burst
into a ti )Od of tears.

“Yes.” he continued when he had re-
gained his composure, “I AM THAT sou!”
Well might you ask what a heart would
mine have been if such a mother's love had
been forgotten by me. Inever forgot her,
and my last dssire is to liy my bones beside
hers in the old churchyard among the hills.
But what covers me with shame is, that
until now I never saw the love of the Sav-
iour in giving himself for poor sinners.”
With deep emotion he added,“It was God
made you tell that story. Praise to His holy
name! my mother has not died in vain, and
the prayer she offered for me has been an-
swcred The story of her love has been used
by the Holy Spirit in leading me to see the
love of Christ. [see it, I believe it; I have
found refuge in my old age as in my child-
hood in THE c:.Ei-‘r on THE ROCK; but it is
the ROCK or AGES!” And clasping his hands,
he repeated with intense fervor, “ Can a
mother forget her sucking child, that she

her womb? They may forget, yet will not I
forge: thee!" Ht lived for some years a de-

not continue a protective tarifl‘ were it not
that this high prero ative is exercised only
by men elected for s ort terms, who are di-
rectly responsible to the people, and whose
enlightened discretion is supposed to be un-
warped by favoritism or by selfish consider-
ations.

But suppose Congress should authorize
Jones&Co. to fix any tariff they pleased
and to make it high for one nfan and low
for another: viz., suppose the exercise of

this, the highest prerogative, was committed
to the arbitrary and unrestrained discretion
of the manufacturers themselves ; that is to
say, suppose this power of discriminating
between industries, between communities
and between neighbors, was committed to
the arbitrary dis cretion of the very men
who alone are benefitted and whose un-
enlightened judgement is dis orted by the
desire for personal advancement and pecu-
niary go.in,—would not the country rebel?
is it nota monstrous proposition that this
power, which is grossly abused even by the
government, should be exercised by irres

ponsible individuals, actuated solely by sel-
fish motives ? Yet, should Congress pass
this monstrous law, these manufacturers
would not possess even a title of the gov-
ernmental power that is now exercised by
the modern railway .mauager. The point
is presented boldly, but it will be seen that
we do not exagerate the situation.

Our proposition is, that 10 tax one man
for the benefit of another; to im ose a trib-
ute on one industry to foster anot er; to place
a burden on one community in order to stim-
ulate enterprise in another community, is
the highest prerogative of government., and
is a power which certainly should not be ex-
ercised exce t by the legislature itself. But
it is precise y this function of sovereignty
that is now exercised by a railway manager.
He makes the rate low it, in his opinion, an
enterprise should be fostered, and he makes
the rate high, if, in his opinion the industry
is sufiiclently prosperous to hear an addition-
al burden. The rate is increased at Keyser,
because, in the judgement of a railroad offli-
cial, that village and the town of Grafton
should be placed on an equal footing; the
grain trade of the northwest is secured to
two houses in New York,_and a monopoly is
given to the Standard-Oil company because
the men who have possession of our high-
ways wish to enrich certain of their pets.

It is diflicult, and, perhaps, undefthe pres-
ent order of things, while the ress is so
largely controlled by the railroa s, impossi-
ble to arrest public attention sufflciently to
get this matter fairly comprehended by the
average reader; but the more intelligent
cannot fail to observe that these corporations
are exercising the most vital functions of
government and that the highest preroga-
tive of sovereignty is now being adminis-
tered by the very men who, of all others,
are least worthy to be entrusted with such a
power. It is evident this power should not
be committed to a railway manager, because
he is interested to misuse it; because his

Tin-1 effect of :1 diinond ring upon the ges -
tures of a young l-.uly has often been re-
marked. A dzuusel with unjz-weled figures
will eat at a l'~:sLil1ll‘:ll1t like :4. human being,
but place :1 dizuuond ring upon her finger and
she will handle her knife and cup of tea as
though they were made to show off diamond
rings and not to convey food to the mouth
witlizil. It is wonderful how a diamond ring
can make the nose and eyes itch, how neces-
sary it makes frequent adjustment of bonnet
and ribbons, and now effectually it takes the
place of a glove. But inasniuch as no mon-
key ever saw the be-.uit_v of it diamond, and
no kangaroo was ever Czlllglltilt :1 Cape Town
cafe disporting il. diamond oblivious of food,
we must conclude that the wearing and ex-
hibition of a diamond is evidence of a higher
order of being than the brute creation and
therefore, we suppose, should be encouraged.
—E;z:change. .

THE REAPEH DEATH.

COX. —Diad at her home in Portage Oct. 10, 1382.
Sister MARY Oox, a worthy member of Portage
Orange No. 16.

Resolved, That in the death of Sister Cox our
Grange has lost a devoted member, and her children
an affectionate mother._

Resolved, That we extend to our Sister's family
in their hour of atlliction our warmest sympathy.

Resolved, Tnat our charter be draped in mourn-
ing for 90 days and a. copy of these resolutions be
sent to the bereaved children also to the Genius
Visiron. for publication and recorded in the min-
utes of the Unange.

Mas. J. E. Moss,

Mas. H. S. Booru.

Mas. G. Pixs.
Committee.

voted disciple of the Lord, and at length
died rejoicing in the same precious Lord.

 

The Railway Problem Condensed—No. 6.

From the Culpeper (Va.) Exponent.

VVe have said that these corporations exer-
cise the most vital functions of sovereignty.
But it is difiicult to bring this proposition
fairly home to the understanding of the peo-
ple. The character of the power exercised
by a modern railroad manager is seldom ex-
erted even by the government; it has never
been directly exercised by any legislature ;
this power is a prerogative so high, so dan-
gerous, so liable to abuse, that when exerted
by the government, it is excused as an in-
vention or contrivan‘ce whereby a necessary
tax is made to produce the greatest amount
of benefit to the country. Stated in its sim-
plest form and as a naked proposition, it is
the pererogative of giving one man an un-
due advantage over its neighbors; it is the
sovereign intervening to advance one man
at the expense of the community: it is tak-
ing the property of A and giving itto B.
Inasmuch as this power is never exercised
directly, many persons are not aware that it
is exercised at all, but an illustration will
make the matter plain. The Czar orders
every subject who wears a cloth coat to pay
a tribute of $5 to Jones & Company. This
would raise a riot even in Russia. The
American Congress orders that the kind of
cloth which is manufactured by Jones & Co.
shall not be imported unles a bonus of $5 for
each coat is paid to them The strong arm
of government takes $5 from each citizen
wearing this cloth, and gives the money to
these manufacturers :—of course they be-
come very rich and. very powerful. This
is the practical and inevitable operation of a
protective tariff, and the system is barely
tolerated by the people although they are
hoodwinked and are taught to believe that
this high prerogative of sovereginty will
only be exercised for a short time; and that
it is necessary to foster the infant industries
of a new country.
In fact, it is well known to the more in-
telligent that, if the protective tariff‘ was
understood by the people generally, the sys-
tem would not be tolerated a single day.
The truth is the protective feature would
have been abolished long ago were it not for
three facts : let, The enormous profits of the
favored class enable them to spend money
lavishly to cajole voters, and since they con-
trol votes, politicans dread their influence.
2nd. The protected manufacturers, having
a personal interest at stake, are always ac-
tive to promote any legislation that will in-
crease, and to prevent any legislation that
will diminish their profits. Hence deceptive
statistics and plausible arguments are scat-
tered broadcast, and the best talent employed
to present their side of the question in the
papers, on the hustings and before the com-
mittees of Congress. On the other hand,
the cause of the people depends on the vol-
untary exertion of the very few men who
labor gratuitously for the public good. On
the one side is a privileged, powerful _and
wealthy class acting in concert and stimu-
lated by cupidity, and on the other side a
few students who expect no reward and
have no personal interest to advance. 3rd.
These manufacturers vote their operatives
and the direct influence of the few men who
alone receive the benefit of protection is
greatest in the cities. Butas the metropo
litan press is, to a large extent, under the
control of these men, and, as this press sup-
plies the information which is reproduced.
by our village papers, the country editor
unwittingly indoctrinates the rural consti-
tuency with the fallacies of a protective
tariff. '

Yet, even these powerful agencies could

that congress _
guardians of minor children of railway
postal clerks killed while on duty be

training, habits and education render him
peculiarly unfitted to exercise it judiciously;
because he recognizes no responsibility, and
is, generally, destitute of moral perception,
and, not having the slightest appreciation
of the character and importance of this pre-
rogative, he subordinates the public welfare
to his personal advancement and to the en-

richment of his corporation.

J. M. MASON.
Railway Postoffices.

 

On June 30, 1882, there were in operation

759 railway (postoflices, conducted in 342

whole cars an 1,462 apartment in cars and

were run over 87,865 miles of railroad, mak:
ing 76,741,-l38 miles ofannual service. There
were employed on these lines 3,122 railway
postal clerks in addition to which 16:2 clerks

were detailed as transfer clerks (formerly

known as “local agents”) and 286 were de-
tailed as chief clerks and for other clerical
duty in connection with service at offices of
the general and division superintendents
and other prominent points when needed,
and were employed upon steamboats, mak-
ing a total of3,570 postal clerks in the service,
with salaries aggregating $3,486,779, or an
average annual salary of $976. During the
year the railway postal clerks handled and
distributed 2155,2l3,880 letters aud postal
cards, and 1,278,l76,60
matter,or a total of all c asses of ordinary mail
matter of 3,433,390,480, besides 14,234,310
registered packages and 570,483 through
registered pouches. There were 83 casuaties,
in which three railway postal clerks lost
their lives, 16 were seriously and 20 slightly
wounded.

pieces of other mail

Superintendent Thompson recomends

authorize that widows or

paid a sum equal to two years’ salary. He

adds that this need not involve an additional
ap ropriation as the deductions from pa for

fai ure to perform services, absence wit out
leave, leave of absence without pay, ‘and
violation of regulations could be constituted
a permanent appropriation for the purpose.
Last year these deductions amounted to near-
ly $15,000, which reverts into the treasury.

Estimates for next year: For railway poe-

tal clerks, $3,977,120, an increase of 7.20 per

cent over the appropriation the present year;
for postoflices carriers $1,626,000, an increase
of $100,000 over this year, and for special
facilities, $600,000, the same as the present
year.—I(alamazoo Telegraph.

 

A GOOD story is told of Judge Kent, the
well-known jurist. A man was indicted for
burglary, and the evidence_ on the trial
showed that his burglary consisted in cutting
a hole through a tent in which several per-
sons were sleeping,‘ and then projecting his
head and arm through the hole, and abstract-
ing various articles ot value. It was claimed
by his counsel that, inasmuch as he never
actually entered into the tent with his whole
body, he had not committed the offence
charged, and _must, therefore, be discharged.
Judge Kent, in reply to this plea, told the
jury that, if they were not satisfied that the
whole man was involved in the crime, they
might bring in a. verdict of guilty against so
much of him as was thus involycd. The
-jury, after a brief consultation, found the
right arm, the right shoulder, and the head
of the prisoner guilty of the offense of bur-
glary. The judge seiitenced the ri lit arm,
the right shoulder and head to imprisonment
with hard labor in a state prison for two
years, remarking that, as to the rest of the
man’s body he might do with it what he
pleased.—— Watch Tower.

 

THOUGH we cannot control the wind we
can adjust our sails so as to profit by it.

PATENTS.

LUCIUS 0. WEST, Solicitor of American and,
Foreign Patents, and Counsellor in Patent Causes.
Trade Marks, Copyrights, Assignments, Caveats, and
Mechanical Drawings. Circulars free.
street, KALAMAZJO, MICH.

Fish’s American Manual of

PARLIAMENTARY LAW

In the cheapest and best. The subject is made Io
plain that every Citizen or Society member should
have a copy.

Circular of commendation free. Price by mail pu-
paid; cloth, 50 cents; leather tucks, 81.00. P
stamps received. Address, J. T. Cons, Schoolcratgol

G-E0. T. FISH.

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

FENNO & MANNING,

Wlllll COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

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

A. VANDENBERG,

MANUFACTURER.
Wnonnsus mo Rzrur. Dunn xx

HARNESS, WHIPS, BLANKETS, TRUNKS, 810.,

92 Monroe Street.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICE.
I take pleasure in presenting to your favorable con-
sideration my CASH PRICE LIST of Harness Wall
—HAN D MADE—all of my own manufacture, and
also to return thanks for the liberal
received from the different Granges t roughout lich-
i n. I shall do in the future as in the past—furIllI
e best oods for the least money.
Farm Ifamess, White Trimmed Breecliing,
Round Lines, Snaps, Rum Straps, and

     

spread rings, complete, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "829 00
The same without Breeching, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 26 00
“ “ with flat Lines, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 28 00
“ “ “ “ " without breeching,.. 26 00
Double Light Buggy Harness, white trimmed.
from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..825 to 30 00
The same, Nickle Trimmed, from .... . .885 to 60 00
Single Buggy Harness, with round lines, white
trimmed, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 00
Same with flat lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12 00
Nickle Trimmed, . . . . . ..8l6, 816, 818, 820 and 26 00

ALL ORDERS RECEIVED UNDER SEAL 0!’
THE GRANGE
will be shipped at once, and may be returned at my
expense if not entirely satisfactory.
Address all orders to
‘ Yours very respectfully, .
A. VANDENBERG,

92 Mormon S-raxxr. Gaum Rum].

German Horse and (low Powders.

This owder has been in use for many years. It

is large y used by the farmers lot Pennsylvania, and
the Patrons of that State have bought over 100,000
pounds through their urchasing agents. Its compo-
sition is no secret. T a receipt is on every box and
5-pound package. It is made by Dr. L. Oberholtzefl
Sons & Co., Phoenixville, Pa. t keeps stock health
and in no condition. It helps to digest and ass’
late the food. Horses will do more work, with loll
food while using it. Cows will give more milk and
be in better condition. It keeps poultry healthy, and
increases the production of eggs. It is also of great
value to them when moltin . It is sold at the lowest
wholesale rice b B. JAMES,
GEO. W. ILL 00., 80 Woonnamai: S'r., Dn-
raorr, THUS. MASON, 181 Wu-an S12, CHICAGO,
and ALBERT STEGEMAN, Annnoax. Put u in
60-lb. boxes (loose), rice Ema’! Cams per lb., 3%-lb,
boxes (of 6 5-lb. pm: as, Tim CIR’!!! per lb.

 

Grand Ra ids, Michigan, is the most popular rIcul-
tural and ainilypaper published. This widely circula-
ted papennow in its sixth volume,is published weekly,
and sent to subscriber? at 31.50 a year including
postage. Every number contains 8 pages, 40 co!-
umns of practical agricultural and family reading-
matter, including full reports of the West Michigan
Farmers’ Club, of which it is the ofiicialorgan. 0
publishers ofier for the next thirty days to sand on
receipt of 82.00 Tun WORLD for one year and a co y
of “Our Fa.rmer’s Account Book," containing 12
pages on fine Ledger paper, a comprehensive sys-
tem of book keeping adapted to the wants of practi-
cal farmers everywhere. Over 80,000 of these books
have been sold within the last year, and in many in-
stances farmers have paid itinerant book agents as
high as three dollars for them. Every farmer should
have one of these account books, but we advise them
to send direct to the Aonrcurrrunar. Woann, Grand
Rapids, Mich., and receive the account book and T81
Wonm) for one year for less than the book cost!
alone. Tm: WORLD a.ndGrarge Visitor one year,
and the account book, 82 5.0. on’t fail to mention
this paper when writing. Address,
F. M. CARROLL, I-‘ublisherl,
GRAND Baum, Inch.

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TEE GRANGE VISITOR.

NOVEMBER 1, 1888

“Thai Swamp.”

Farmer Brown had a pretty good farm,
but there were places on it which needed
something more than the annual spread of
manure to make them as productive as the
rest of it was. These places were, for the
most part, on the tops of the hills. The ac-
tion of the wind and rain seemed to blow
and leach the fertility out of these spots.

In one corner of the farm was a swamp, or
marsh rather, covering about five acres. This
was overgrown with a tall rank grass every
year, which was never cut, because of its ut-
ter untitness for use with stock. 50, summer
after summer the grass had grown up, and
winter after winter it had decayed, and the
“sw-amp" was considered an altogether wortli-
less piece of property.

One day Fai mer Brown had a visitor from
town_. lie was a man with a scientific turn
of mind. He was not, liowever, a. practical
farn_1er, and Brown took but little stock in
his ideas, when he advised doing this or that
about the farm.

“lie plans well,” Mr. Brown said to his son.
“That is, his plans sound well enough, but he
hain’t put ’em into practice, so he don‘t know
jest what he’s‘talkin’ about, all the time, to
my thinkin’. They may work all right-, and
then ag’in, the may not." _

This Visitor looked at the liill-tops where
the wheat had a thin, yellow appearance.
The oats looked no better in these places than
the wheat did.

'l‘hen he looked at the swamp. Ile got a
pole and dug down among the roots of the
grass growing there.

“Have you ever drawn out any of this soil,"
he asked l‘armer Brown, as he threw up
some of the black deposit,

“No, we never did anything with it," an-
swered Fariner Brown.

“Why!" asked his visitor.

“Oh, l dunno,” answered Brown, "unless it
was because we didn’t s'pose it was worth
while."

‘'1 want to tell you one thing," said the
other. “In this marsh you have got a bed of
manure that will last you for years, and is
almost as Valuable as superphosphates, or
guano. You try it, and see it‘ it doesn't
make the tops ofthose hills produce a dilter-
ent looking crop next year. Why, Brown,
this marsh is worth a small fortune to you, it’
you see lit to use it. lt'sa regular gold mine,
but you‘ve got to dig your gold.”

At tirst Farmer Brown didn't seem inclined
to take much stock in his friend's advice.
But his son thought it over, and saw sense in
it, and the result was that next spring, before
they plowed, they drew out a good many
wagon—loads of the muck and spread it over
the hills, by way of e.\'perinient. When the
wheat and oats came up there, they were
greener than in any other place. They kept
this greenness all summer. They grew tall
and strong, and bore an excellent crop. Just
what the soil had seemed to lack the muck
from the marsh seemed to supply. That fall
they kept a man busy for weeks hauling it.
The supply seemed inexhaustible. It had
been acciimulating for years. .\'ature had
been storing it up for such a time of need.
That was live years ago. Farmer Brown has
built up his farm into one of great produc-
tiveness fi om this longueglected marsh. He
has a supply that will last for years to come.
He wonders, now. that he never thought of
using “the swamp dirt" before, when he looks
upon his reclaiined hills whose lack of fertili-
ty used to occasion him so much annoyance
and loss of crop. ii.

Her Father Talked Too Much.

The four year old daughter of a well-
known divine in this city is disposed to be
dictatorial in a cunning way with her elder
brothers and sisters. While she was acting
the wee tyrant over her brother the other day,
her father decided to rebuke her for the first
time and eloquently set forth to her the kind-
ness of her brother, and her duty to be kind
in return. When the exhortation had ended,
the little auditor, with tearful eyes and frame
trembling with emotion, strode up to her ven-
erable sire, and striking an attitude, said
between sobs : Y-you use too ni-many
words." The father vainly endeavored to
suppress his laughter as he went to his study
and proceeded to cut down his next Sunday‘s
sermon.— Troy Times

EXClil”l‘lN(-' dogs all other kinds of stock
pay their way on a farm. Dogs never do, or
at least not one in 100,000 is worth the money
it costs to maintain his useless existence.
Dogs are the bane of sheep growers in most
sections. and the worthless curs that abound
in cities make wool growing impossible for a
distance of six to ten miles on each side.
Scotch collie dogs alone, well trained, seem
the only specimen of the canine race worth
the farn1er's attention.

PAMTS

BAN I OBTAIN A PATENT?

Send :3. rough sketch or (if you can) ii nioder of
{our invention to GEORGE E. LEMON,
Vn_.slIlngton,_ D. (2., and a Prellinlmiry Ex-
ammn on will be made of all United States
geeibents of the same class of inventions and "on will
advised whether or not is patent can be 0 tained.

FOR THIS PRELIMINARY EXALTIINA.
TION NO CHARGE IS IVIADE.

What will a Patent

t 4‘) Ifyouareadvisedthat o'urinven-
a lion is potontable send 20 topay
Govei-iiinent application fee of $15. and gig) for
required ythe Government. lsis
payable when appllciiti. n is made, and is all of the
expense un can a pawn" is allowed. When Allowed,
the attorne"s fee (8 5) and the final Govern-
ment fee ( 20) is payable. Thus you know be-
foreha.nd..f0r nothing, whether you are going to get
ii patent or not, and no attorney's fee is charged un-
lless you do get 9. Patent. An attorney whose fee
“ _on is ' in o tainmg a. Patentwill
n advjise you that your invention is patentable
nu-ess it really LS pntentable, so fur as his best
ucgment can aid in determining the question;
ence,_you can rely on the advice given after a.
preliruinug exnmmation is had. De ign Pat-
ents and e Registration of Lube s, Trude
lVIiu'ks and Re-issues secured. Caveats re-
ared and filed. Ap lications in revivor of e-
ipcted Abundone -orForfeited Casesmade.
ery often valuable inventions are saved in these
classes of cases. If you have undertaken to secure
your own patent and failed, a. skillful handling
of the case may lead tosuccess. Send me a written
request addressed to the Commissioner of Patents
that he recognize GEORGE E. LEMON, of Wash-
ington D. C. as_your attorney in the case, irivin
the title of the invention and about the date 0
filing your 22. plication._ An examination and re-
vort will cos you nothing. Searches made for

97

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to inventions, in fact any information relating
to ’atents romptly furnished. Copies of Patents
misled at he regular Government rates. (25;-.
aw :i. )_ Remember this ofllcehas been in successful
operation since 1866, andcyou therefore reap the ben-
elite of ex . rien_ce, besi es reference can be inven
to actualc exits lu almost every county in the U. S,
Pamphlet relating to Patents free upon request.

GEO. E. LEMON.

615 15th SIC-9 WASHTNGTON, D. C.

A ; - t-Law and Solicitor of Ameri.
t cruel-la‘; and Foreign Patents.

lnov2t

A combination that will
produce an even grade
of Butter.

summer. No Ice re-

winter and
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 CIR-

CULARS and PRICE-LIST.

solicited.

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

W. P. Herd, Lowell, Kent County.

A. H. Smith, Sparta, “ “

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

A. Stegemun, Allegan, Allegan County.

D. P. Newton, Watson, " “

Simeon Staring, Ganges, “ “

E. J. McNaughton, Cooperville, Ottawa County.
Gutelius Sn er, Three Rivers, St. Joseph “
Williams at artahorn. Owosso, Shiawassee County.
0. C. S aulding, Royalton, Berrien County.

P. W. %Va.tts. Chelsea. West Washtenaw County.
John Wiebe, Bear Lake, Manistee County.

J. A. Montagu, Niles, Berrien County.

Sears 4% Messenger, Cassopolis, Cass County.
John I-Iofiman, Homer, Calhoun Co.

John Adams, Marshall, “

Wattles «ii Wood, Battle Creek, Calhoun Co.

J. R. Brayton, Bellville. Wayne Co.

S. Andrews, Howell, Livingston Co.

A. .8. 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. Gardna r, Litchfield, Hillsdale County.

 

AGENTS:

— A (3 HI E
CREAMER &A]§T;I'TTER COOLER

  

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MCCALL 82 DUNCAN, Schoolcraft, Mich.

J .\A. Johnson, Vicksburg. Kalamazoo County.
H. C. Call, Glass River, Shiawassee County.
Wm. S. Palmer, Lansing. liighani County.
William Spalding, Hoytville, Eaton County.
Union Wind Mill Co., Albion, Jackson County.
The Bird Wind Mill Co., Kalamazoo, Ka.l’zoo 00.
Charles North, Trent, Muskegon and Newaygo Co.
Nathan Winslow, Williamstown, Ingham County.
C. H. Eames, Grand Blunc. S. E. Genesee Co.
John Grose, Moorepark, St. Joseph Co.

'1‘. H. Ross 57 Co., Dowiigiac, Cass County.

S. N. Thomas, Decatur, Van Buren County.
Wm’. C. Wooley, Elsie, Clinton and Gratiot Co's.
Adaans air. Rue, Gulesburg, Kalarrazoo County.
F. L. Elms, Charlotte, Eaton Co.

J. W. l:{0s>ma.n, Mariette, Saniluc Co.

Stunt Jr Ingoldsby. Pontiac, Oakland Co.

Dunnam ck Son, Hudson, Lenawee Co.

Slayton «ii Son, Tecumseh, Lenawee Co.

\‘Vilcox Bros, Adrian, Lenawee Co.

A Chandler «S: Son. Goldwater, Branch Co.

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

M W Thayer, Paw Paw, Van Buren co.

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

Alabasiine

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

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

For sale by paint dealers everywhere
Send for circular containing the twelve

beautiful tints. Manufactured only by AL
ABASTINE Co.

M. B. CHURCH. Manager,
juyl-tf. Grand Rapids, Mich

Br-.incli Co., Mich.
Jllr. Editor .--—We have used the Patrons’;
Iiigersoll Liquid ltubber l’aint and can say‘;
that it makes a smooth, elegant finish. and all .
who use it willbe more than satisiied. The
paint was delivered to us innice pails ready -
to use, freight paid. The Patrons‘ Paint
Works are managed by an honorable Patron. ‘
A. W. EASTON. Purchasing Agent.
[See advertisement.—EDITon.]

FOR SALE.

A Four.-Ton J ONES’ SCALE. In good order. Price,
830. Delivered at depot here.
J. H.'GrARDNER,
Centreville, Mich.

loct3t

LIFE INSURANCE

FOR. PATRONS.

The Patrons’ Slililly of Michigan

WAS ORGANIZED IN DECEMBER, lS80,_

to give the Patrons of Michigan an opportunity to
belong to 3

HOME INSTITUTION OF LIFE INSURANCE

that the could control. As its name indicates, it is
FOR T MEMBERS OF OUR "ORDER AND
FOR THEM ONLY. _
Its Annual Meetings occur at the same time and
lace as the annual session of the State Grange.
is feature was for the express ui-pose of provid-
ing for 9. large representation of t a 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 MUTUAL run adopted by this Society {0-
vides that an Assessment shall be made ON Y
when a member dies, and the amount of that as-
sessment is fixed when 9. person becomes a memrber,
and cannot beincreaaed at any subsequent period.
This assessment is graduated according to age, which
in an important and listinctive feature of this Socie-
ty—one which should commend it to the favorable
consideration of Patrons. _

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

Applications for membership may be made to

JAMES COOK, J. W. EWING.
Adrian. Eaton Rapids.
ELIJAH BARTLETT, Wm. B. LANGLEY.
Dryden. Centreville.
R. C. CARPENTER, GEO. W. EWING,
Lansing. R098.
Mae. 0. K. CARPENTER. C. L. WHITNEY.
Orion. Cincinnati.
J. '1‘. COBB, A. E. GREEN,
School raft. Walled Lake.

or to Local I gnu they may appoint-
For By-Laws and Circulars apply to either
WM. B. LANGLEY, Pres‘t.
Or J. T. COBB. Sec'y. Centreville.

lebltl Sclioolcraft, Mich.

Teasdale Steam Fruit&Vegeta.ble
EVAPORATOR.

To the Farmers and Fruit Growers of Lenawee, Ber-
rien, Cass, VanBuren, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, Cal-
houn, Branch, Hzllsdalc, Jackson, Washtenaw,
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.

let. The immense amount of drying capacity for
the amount of room used.

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

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

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

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 ing frames up
and down through E tower 40 to 50 feet high is en-
tirely done away with. And no more danger of loss
by fire than in burning B. cook stove, which fact alone
islurgel in favor of our machine, for the average
life of uliot air concern is not to exceed two years.
There are men other points of excellence which we
have not room ere to mention.

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

Constructed of -Galvanized I ran

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

R. M. BELLINGER,

Blissfield. Mich.
ljuntf

THE 5 - TON

WAGON SCALES.

ABE SOLD FOR 860.
All Iron and Steel. Sold on trial——freight paid by
us—no money asked till tested and found satisfac-
tory. All sizes manufactured.
JONES OF HINGHANIPTON,

Hlnzhampton. N. Y.
Sand for Circulars and further particulars.

PAW PAW, Mich., May 18th, 1878.
Jamie or BINGEAMTONI
M Scales give entire aatirfaction. I have subject-
ed lg to the most severe tests and find it not only
correct in weighing large or small amounts, but
perfectly reliable.
Yours. Pi-ntenially,
J. J. WOODMAN.

{signal 3 in 1 yr

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

Among the prosperous educational institutions of
Kalamazoo is Pal-son’a 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 country.
Prof. Parsons understands his business thoroughly
and has made his school a success; his rooms are
filled every winter with young men and women from
all parts of the countiy. The people of Kalamazoo
have reason to feel proud of such: well managed
school, as it is certaiulyu great help to the place.
The professor is becoming widely known through
the publication of his Hand-book of Penmanship,
Book-keeping. Business and Social Forms. It is
one of the most complete works of the kind we have
ever examined.

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

 

‘Same without Breeching . . . . . . . . . . ..

EVERY FARMER IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD EXAMINE THE

New Combined Spring Tooth Siilky Harrow

CULTIVATOR AND SEEDER.

   

all kinds train and grass seeds.
structed in two sections. either of which

Blanufactured by

THE WOLVERINE
HARROW AND SEEDER COMPANY.

Kalamazoo, - Michigan.

As a combined machine, it stands up-

‘3 rivalled in excellence, doing the work ci

a Harrow and Seed Sower most thorough-
ly and satisfactorily. It has taken high

- rank at once as ONE OF THE VERY

BEST IMPLEMENTS FOR THE USES
DESIGNED EVER INVENTED. Bows

The Harrow does not trail or clog, is con-

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 woiked by

one pair of horses, and has received the

first premium and diplomas wherever exhibited

Send for Circulars.

ATRONS’

Dlauufacturers ofIu
Paint. The only Pa
airorwuter,lhenm,
which (lr.s'truy all
lii-r-red freight paid to uni;
rd until delivered. A II
.-u-nt free Beautiful Color
slructions how any one
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Paint users shou d
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can Paint.
FULTON .§"I‘1Il'.‘1;"I‘,

LORENZO BIXBY, Sec’;/.

ORKS.

quid R u b b r r
111 moist or salt
burning con 1,
Prices low, dc-
No cash requir-
writa and have
itself, with in-
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The New Murray lHa.rroW Cultivator and
SEEDER COMBINED.

 

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Contains our latest improvements. For simplicity, strength, ease in handling by man and team, no

quality of work. it has no equal.

Send for Circulars.

Address,

S. .J. WING, Iialaniuzoo. Mixrh.

  moms

MASON. C

General Commission Merchant,

181 South Water Street, CHICAGO.
BUSINESS AGENT mcnionn STATE GRANGE.

Iolpooflully Oollolh

Oonolci-onto of

FRUITS. VEGETABLES. BUTTER, E008.

WOOL, HOPS, POULTRY, GAME, VEAL,
G-roan sood. RAW F‘u.-1:-; I—Iid.on.  Tallcw. ac.

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IOIDEII AIEIT oi the I. W. PBODUOEEXOHAIEE ASSOGIATIOI.

Olnnrhrol FOO.

I395, I077.

 

To Pufrono IIII Illlppon.-—'I'hlI in the only Oommlurlon Houu in Ohlugo unn-

Iud and controlled by the Patron: of Husbandry.

In. Iocnrlw [or Payment to lhlppon.

'I'hoohlu!n.iinofi.hlIA.|onoyln:

Ind. ‘to obtain the lllghon mu-kol price for good: rooalvod, qunllty cannula-oi.

8111. Quick salon and Prompt Pnymonl.

Ihlppon in All sale. will nooiyo oqunl benefits or this nningoinont, the Bulnouo lump:
being under Bond: for the faithful portorimnoo of the same.

'.l‘hhA;cnoyvill1lllOrdonfor|.ny goods in

this mnrkog st lowest possible i-nu. Ouh

mun nooompuiy the order for ml: the unount required; bnluioo to be pnid on receipt of hill.

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‘A31’! IIPOITI, BTINOILS And SHIPPING TAG! lent on opjillostlnn.

New Harness and Trunk Store.

T. KININIVIENT 85 00.,

Ma.nufiicturers, wholesale and retail dealers in

HARNESSES, TRUNKS, BLANKETS,
vvzzztzs-5, Eta.
117 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

All work our own make and guaranteed nil 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. . .

   

Double Light Buggy ‘Harness, white
325 00 to $30.00

 

The same nickle trimmed . . . . . . . . . . .$30.00 to 350 00
Single Buggy Harness, with round lines,

w ite trimmed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. l‘3.50
The same with Flat Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12 00
Nickle Trimmed . . . . . . $15, $16, $18, $20, $25, to 350
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 -'30

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

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

orders to Yours very respectfully
T- KININRIENT.
I [7 Canal Street,
l5jully Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

THOMAS MASON, Business Hunger.

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 which they are
capable; more than l,000 honest, deserving young
Englishjwomeii, wishing to hire out as domestic
servants: also 11 number of English artisans and
merchants are desirous of obtaining employment in
Michigan. They will pay the cost of their own pae-
suge out, and can come next spring, or earlier.
Wages expected: men 310 to $15 per month with
board, women 34 to $8 with board.

To obtain a circular giving full particulars, send
your address to B...l'. Zudzeuse, State Agent, Michi-
gan, for Working-inen’s (Eula) Emigration Society,
Cedar Springs, Kent Co.. Mich.

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

R. M. MONTGOMERY, Circuit J u-ige.

HON. H. PABMELEE, Rep. 3d dist.

Cedar Springs, Aug. 21, 188:3.

reasons WHO PUITCHASBD

Fanning Mills during 1881 or i882 purporting to
have been manufaciuied in Lawtcn, Micli., unless.
the Mills are branded, “ M H. Smith,” or "Smith ll:
Gould." and marked, “Patented March 29, 1570.”
will conferalavor on me and learn something to
their advantage by addressing

l\Iyron H. Srnitll.
Lawton, Mich.

lésep-it

l-'3Sep3t

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

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