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“ THE FARMER IS OF MORE CONSEQUENCE THAN THE FARM, AND

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Ovzasrsiarr-PUT. DARDEN, . . . .Mississippi.
LECTUBEB——HENRY ESHBAUGH, Missouri.

Srs:ws.an—W. SIMS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kansas.
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THE WO0DMAN’S SONG.

The woodman’s ax icll firm and fast,
And his voice sang "One, two, three !
Arxl tihiiiis fop hopia, apd this is for home,

11 isisorin usry.

And the laziest man in the town sat by,
And heard the woodman‘s song.
And he counted the strokes of the ax as they
fell

So cheery and quick and strong.

And he looked at the woodman’s cottage neat
And the smoke of the woodman‘s fire,

And he thought of himself an idle man,
Without shame and without desire.

He thought of his clothes—-they were half in
ra s——
Untidy and all unclean,
And his great black beard was untrimmed
and rough
As ever a beard was seen.

And said to himself as the woodman chopped,
"The reason he differs from me

Is all in the song of this three bold blows,
Hope, home and industry !”

And he said. “I am sick of of a wasted life,
I will make an honest start I"

And the vow that he made in his soul that day
He kept with his hand and heart.

1? i» t f i»

There’s a little house where the children play
Round a. farmer rugged and brown,

So neat you would never believe he was
The laziest max. in town.

But he blesses the day when the woodman’s
50110
From his sloth first set him free,
For his watchvi ord, with each blow he struck,
VVas “hope. home and industry.”

 
 

The Oak Famous in History.

The modern oak fast decaying and
disappearing,

“The old gray oak

Has stood for a thousand years,
Stood and frowned
On all around

Like a king among his peers.”

The oak receives an early and con-
spicuous mentinu from the sacred
writers. It was under a noble oak
that Abraham entertained the three
angels. This was the oak of Sechem,
Here, too, Jacob, on his return from his
exile in Mesopotamia, erected an alter
to God. Near by was Jacob's well,
and the spot where the remains of Jo-
seph were buried. The Israelites after
crossing the Red sea made their sec-
ond encampment by the "twelve well”
under the three score and ten cake.
The oak was a nozed tree in Palestine,
Thompson say:---“There are more
mighty oaks in this immediate vicini-
ty; two of these are well worthy the
name of mighty trees. Though it is
equally true, that, over a greater part
of the country, the oaks of Palestine
are at present more bu.-.-hes.” Like
the ancient people who venerated them
they are gone, all gone——those sturd
old tr: e.-. I

The ancient Druids reverenced the

cakes a sacred tree, and, making a
leafy tabernacle of it, held their re-
ligious ceremonies under its branches.
The word Druid is from Drus-an
oak. That vigorous race, the Saxons,
loved the oak. The word oak signi-
fies strength; and the tree is a. fair em-
blem of this hardy race. It is strong,
sound to the heart, vigorous and pow-
erful in withstanding the fury of the
elements, as the people who held it
in such high esteem were in combat-
ing their foes. The elements of
bravery and grandeur were in the
tree and in the Saxon, for they have
ever been known as the true English
hearts of oak. It was under the
oak that Cerdic the Saxon, held some
of the most important meetings with
his confederates.

Charles II of England, after his de-
feat at Worcester, fled from his ene-
miss, and, being hard pushed, hid in
the foliage of the oak of Boscobel,
and thus escaped capture; as his pur-
suers passed under the tree while he
sat above in its branches. There is a
reminiscence with a curious historic
prophecy, connected with the king’s
hiding in this oak. When Windham
was concealing the king, from his
enemies in Stratfordshire, he related
to him what his father, Sir Thomas
Windham, a zealous adherent of
Charles II, had enjoined upon him,
his son,—“I charge thee never to for-
sake the crown, though it should hang
uponabush.” The son was true to
the command of the father. The
crown had hung upon a bush when
hiding in the oak of Boscobel, and
he had not forsaken it, as the crown
itself could then pnd there testify.

Greater fidelity no king has ever wit-
nessed than Charles II found in the
Windhz-ms. This tree afterward be-
came famous in history as the Royal
Oak of Boscobel. When Sir Ed-
mund Andros undertook to get pos-
session of the colonial charter of Con-
necticut in 1687, Capt. Wadsworth
seized the charter and hid it in the
cavity of an oak standing near the
State House in Hartford. It was then
a large tree and has since been known
as the Charter Oak.

The Elm is the orthodox tree of
New England; it has been useful in
affording beauty and shade to the par
sonages, churches, and the homes of
New Englanders. But the oaks com-
bining use and beauty, in their most
practical sense, represent the
strength and usefulness of the nation.
The carriage, wagon and the car that
carry on our travel and trade by land;
the various vessels on our streams
and lakes and sees that carry
on our travel, trade and commerce by
water, are all made of oak, and in a
thousand other ways the oak repre-
sents the sinews of our strength as a
nation. VVe say, when a great man
dies, he has fallen, like a mighty oak
of the forest; and the simile conveys
more forcible truth than could be ex-
pressed iu the pleinest words. But
when a great man dies another great
man arises in his place. VVe cannot
say so of the oaks that have fallen
thousands upon thousands by the van-
dal axe of the white man; no great
oaks grow up in their places. These
mighty trees of the forest have been
swept away as by the besom of de-
struction. In addition to this a dis-
ease has long been preying upon their
vitals.

The old Indian chief said, referring
to his infirmity, “Like an ancient
hemlock, I am dying at the top.”
This remark, says a late writer, would
be equally appropriate and character-
istic if applied to the oak instead of
the hemlock, and it would be true of
the oaks of Michigan. They and the
Indian are passing away together.
The writer continues. There are
many valuable oaks yet in our State;
there are also many Indians. But the
Indian of to-day is not the Indian of
fifty years ago. Neither is the oak.
In a large measure the white man has
been the cause of the deterioration of
both. “If you carefully examine next
July, not more than one in ten of our
oaks will be found perfect. Leafiess
branches will be found in the tops of
almost all the large oak-=, and in most
of the small ones.” And often many
defects are found in the tree, where
black and rotten streaks appear just
under the “sap.” Here the disease
generates, and spreads til‘. it reaches
the heart; and the entire body of the
tree becomes brash. But very few
trees are free from this defect, which
in some of them, “is a dark wet rot
with the pores filled with fermented
sap.” In bad cases this condition ex-

tends through almost the entire
tree. The vitality thus reduced
worms attack them and ren-

der them worthless for any purpose.”
“Again” says the writer, above quoted,
“Some trees are overgrown with little
knots or burles covered with fine
sickly twigs.” The cause of an this
has been charged to the change in our
climate from the mild moist winters
and warm showery summers of fifty
years ago, to the severe, bleak cold
winters and long dry summers of
to-day. In the former temperature
the oak luxurated and grew to_be
giants of the forest. The ploneer’s
ax began the demolition, while the
demand of the railroad, and the greed
of trafllc, have swept away our forests,
till the oaks that are left. stand lone
and unprotected by shade, from the
extremest cold or‘ intensest heat.
Hence they have become victims to a
disease that is fast working their en-
tire distraction.

The oak is a long lived tree. There
are some in America that are said to be
over six hundred years old. There are
oaks in England which are believed
to have been old trees in the time of
William the conqueror. Some are
supposed to be over one thousand
years old. V. B.

Galesburg, August 4th, 1883.

 

FOR a man to think that he is going
to do the work of his life without 01)
stacles. is to dream in the lap of folly.

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jhat have been trieu the past century

Cauliflower.

Any good cabbage soil will grow
cauliflower. But like most other re-
fined natures, it is more sensitive to
unfavorable conditions than that use-
ful relative. The soil should be reten-
tive of moisture, but must not be wet.
A dry gravelly or sandy soil will not
grow cauliflower. It is better if it con-
tains some clay, muck will answer if
it is well drained and not too dry.
There are over sixty varieties of cauli-
flower now in cultivation. The best
for general use in this country being
the early or half early sorts. The Paris
and Erfurt families are good. Our sea-
sons are too short for the large, late
sorts, and our summers too hot for
them to head well early. Their growth
should be mainly made during July
and August, so that the heads will
form in the cool of autumn.

The seed should be sown in rows as
foot or more apart in the open ground,
about the first of May_.when the plants
will be ready to 'ransplant about the
l.iSb of June. Do not grow the plants
too thick, nor let them grow too large
before setting out, or they will be apt
to “button” or form beads before at-
taining sufficient size. Set ‘hem 35
o‘ 4 feet ouch way, and cultivate
thoroughly until rea ly to heal. As
soon as the head appears, which, by
the way is not the flower, but the
transformed mass of flower stalks, it
should be covered by having the leaves
broken or :1"-:d over it, to cause it in re-
main white and crisp. While the curd
is still whole, before it begins to “valt”
or run up to seen, it should be out for
use.

On approach of hard freezing weath-
er, any remaining plants which have
begun to i sad, may be removed 10 the
cellar where they will keep for some
time, and the heads inci ease in size.
The cauliflower has nearly the same
insect enemies as the cabbage.

A. A. CROZIER.

Hudsonville, Mich., July 25, 1883.

 

Experiments That Mislead.

A reporter for the New York Mail
and Express has written up an inter-
view with M iy-Jr Alvord, the mana-
ger of Valentine’s experimental place
in Orange county, New York, known
as Houghton farm. In this interview,
if correctly reported, Mayor Alvom
is made to say some very ridiculous
things. which either indicate that ll“
has little knowledge of experiments

in agriculture. or he desired wilfully 1...
mislead people in order to magnify
the work at Houghton farm.

At this distance it looks as if in
most. tests their quick results in order
to gain notoriety were the main 03-.-
jects in view. We have illustrated
the possibly misleading statements of
Prof. Penhallow ofthat establishment,
who found, according to his published
record, the cause and cure of peach
yellows. Mayor Alvord in the inter-
view above mentioned is made to say
among other things:

“The work of the New York agri-
cultural experiment station at Geneva
is certainly satisfactory. Dr. E. L.
Stirtevant, who had charge of th-
work, is certainly the right man i-~
the right place. One discovery made
by himi worth a great many times
the $ 20,000 allowed by the legislature
for the support of his work. It has
always been the custom to plant the
center kernels of an ear of corn, while
the butt and tip kernels have been
carefully excluded from the seed.
But Dr. Sturtevani. has discovered
that the best crop can be grown from
the very kernels which have always
been rejected. To establish the new
theory he has requested farmers to
plant rows of corn side by side from
different parts Oi the same car, in order
that they may be convinced that the
buttand tip kernels will produce more
and better kernel-3 than will the centre
kernels.”

Now if we remember right, it was
Dr. Sturtevant who created a good
deal of excitement some years ago in
his “New Theory of tillage,” which
really contained no new oints, but
broughtto Lght some 01 ones that
had been lost sight of for some time.
We recall one point made concerning
the root pruning of corn, which was
so new that every agricultural news-
paper in the country copied it; and
yet the same identical theory had

sen promulgated 200 years before;
and in experiments which have been
tried since Dr. Sturtevant spread the
"good news,” by most careful ex ori-
ments, it has been shown that at east
the benefits of root pruning corn are
problematical.

Now we beg leave to remark that
away out here in Michigan there are
men who are just as keen observers as
Dr. Sturtevant but who have been
cautious about getting into print,
have been trying this same experi-
ment with tip and butt kernels and
have not reached the results in a

series of years that he has secured in
one year, and who very much doubt
his conclusions.

Now we are in favor of experiment
stations and have earnestly ad vacated
the establishment of one in Michigan,
but we thoroughly deprecate the
building up of the notoriety of any
man at the expense of deluding the
people, because that man will magnify
his own work by publishing deduc-
tions that are unwarranted by his ex-
periments. “Make haste slowly” is a
capital motto for the agricultural ex-
perimenter. He occupies as im-
portant a position when he interprets
the law of nature as he who expounds
God’s law.——Cha8. W. Garfield in
Farm Department -Grand Ilapids
Democrat.

 

Decency lo Horses.

The wholesale abuse of horses upon
the streets of our cities is a shame to
our pe< ple. One can not go l.l1l‘Ol2‘v'.ll
the streets without noting the most.
abusive treatment of animals that are
not vicious, nor unruly, by men and
b xys who know nothing of the nature
of the animals they drive and less of
methods of managing them. This ill-
treatment is not often at the hands of
the owners of the horses, but by irre-
sponsible and brutish em ployes. The
Democrafls suggestion for a society for
[Le protection of dumb animals is one
that may well be considex ed Ly people
who have right feeling; and kiud sym-
pathies. No onedeplores the ill—11'eat-
ment more than the man who rain“-s.
horses and breaks them to do his bid-
ding. The methods of jerking, whip-
ping and pounding, piacliccu upon
vhe streets, are the last he would em-
P105.’ - . . .

Tre Rural Canadian ll! treamig of
the management of horses uses the
followiug language, which to men of
sensibility is thoroughly good, but
which, we fear, would really have
more effect if read to horses than to
the brutes that abuse them:

A horse cannot he screamed at and
cursed without becoming less valuable
in every particular. Lo reach the
highest degree of value the animal
should be perfectly gentle and always
reliable; but if it expects every mo
ment it is in harness to be “jawed” at
and struck, it will be in a constant
state of nervousness, and in its excite-
ment isas liable, through fear, to do
something that is not expected, as to
go along doing what you started it to
do. It is possible to train a horse to
be governed by a word of mouth al-
most as easily as it is to train a child,
and in such training a horse reaches
its highest value. When a horse is
soothed by the words of its driver-
and we have seen him calmed down
from great excitement by no other
means—it may be fairly concluded
that he is a valuable horse for prac-
tical purposes, and it may be certainly
concluded that the man who has such
power over him is a humane and a
sensible one.

All this simply means thus the man
must secure the confidence of the ani-
mal On-iy in excepti mal instances
is a horse stubborn and vicious. If he
understands his surroundings and
what is expected of him he will give
no trouble As almost every reader
must know, if the animal, when
frighte :ed, can be brought to the ob-
ject he will become more calm. The
reason is that he understands there is
nothing to fear. So he must be taught
to have confidence in the man who
handles him, and then this powerful
animal, which usually a man could
not handle if it were disposed to be
vicious. will cause no trouble. The
very best rule therefore, which we
would lay down for the management
of a horse is gentleness and gnod
sense on the part of the driver. “Bud
drivers make bad horses.”—0'lias. W.
Garfield, Farm Dep.,G. B. Democrat.

 

PROFESSOR HENRY says: I would
urge that our farmers feed more cats to
young stock, colts a" well as calves.
The e is no food easily attainable that
will so well correct acidity of the stom-
ach and keep the whole system in good
0 der. To those who w sh to raise
calves on very little milk, I would say,
use oats and oil meal freely, and by
studying the waunso zhe calves you
will be fiblc to r ise flue animals on a
smal. allowance of milk.

_________Z________

No one grass by itself makes the
best pasture, but a combination of
varieties. A greater weight of nutri-
tious pasture can be grown on a lim-
ited area of land, by sowing several
species from any single variety. It
would seem as if different s ecies feed-
ing on the same soil wou d take up
various ingredients in different pro-
portions; hence it is considered expe-

ient to sow several of the species
adapted to the particular soil. —
________._______

THERE is an old adage, “the nearer the
bone the sweeter the meat,“and this may
perhaps be the reason why the bony
Texan has such sweet and lU.SClOllS beef
—on his native heath. bug it loses vast-
ly in quality in its 2,000 mi es of trans-
portation.

_______________

_THE high prices which meats of all
kinds have commanded durin the last
two years and which are dou tless to
continue or some time to come, have
resulted favorably in making poultry-

l

rearing a‘ very remunerative enterprise.

Egg lmporls.

Now we are importing eggs from
Europe. About 1.900 cases have been
received by New York parties, and ar-
rangements to receive consignments
weekly have been made, The eggs
are received in cases of 150 dozen each,
and are forwarded from all parts of
Europe. In commr.-nting on this fact,
the Philadelphia Record says: “Those
champions of protection who hold up
our infant industries Fythe tail should
do something for the American hen.
By the cheap labor of pauper hens in
Denmark, blerma: y and Italy, the
great industry in which the American
hens are engaged is m: naced with
destruction. [1 will never do to allow
our hard-working domestic fowls to be
uudersold in the home m.r.1‘ket by the

the consumer of eggs should benefit
largely by the operation. Let patriotic
protoctionists begin at once to agitate
public sentiment for a prohibitory
tariffou eggs, before the American
hen is driven altogether out of the

ma1'kets.——(}£7w-innati l’r-[cc (Tu rent.

Two Queens in One Hive.

Last evening I saw what. I have
long wanted to are. I examined
a hive, where I had introduced a
young laying queen, L!()l‘.lE 3 weeks
ago. Uil the first comb l removed, I
found my q-zen-n all right. Ou re-
moving auother comb, by the side of
the first one taken out, what should
meet my eyes but zmnthcr laying
queen. Now, I know two queens can
do duty in Ullt‘lllV€‘. I removed one
of them to anotlier (-.(>lou_v that was
qu-en};-ss. VV H. S1Iuu.i-:\'.

(:llCllW()()(l. Mich., July ll), I853.

 

VVE lime Lime and again written
against the folly of (l2.’.l!'Vlll(~‘li trying to
fatten their old (arms at a profit. It
cannot be done. and if any farmer
wishes to try it l:-L him have them at
any price. Ifa man has more grass
or othr-r feed than he knows what to
do with, let him buy some like]
young steers and make money wit
them instead of wasting his time and
feed on the remains of an old cow.
The Provisioiier, England, on this sub-
ject says: Old animals can seldom be
fattened at a profi:, even if‘ their flesh
was as valuable as that of younger
ones, because it requires so much more
time and feed to do it.” What we par-
ticularly object to in old cows for fat-
tening is the immense pz'upori.ion of
offal in them. A pot-belly makes no
beef.-—-Amem‘can Dab-yman.

 

ENS] i.Am~:.—-In speaking of enslluge,
the V1.'l.(3'l'iJl£ xgriculturist. John J.
Thomas, Uni-.11 Springs, N. Y., says:
“From observation and }~“s')nal ex-
perience. I think preservaiinn of corn
fodder in silos will be largi-l_v lt(!(),Jl.t)ll
by skiiful farmers. lthas -r.-vo.-1'31 ad-
vantages, namely: 1, con-.pa;'aLivel_y
small spzu;--r rrquired for Eli’--lltg .1 giv-
en amouuz; 2, the greater ...~.1.-a_- with
which file f',<l(leI' may b-9 .-ui short
while soft null gieeu; 3, a‘.oi<.lin;; the
labors and risk of curing 1'-. slfocks in
the field; 4, the rea.diriess\.‘i‘l. which
the stalks may be harvs-.-.te:‘ in all
Westlmrs except pouriner ruins; 5,the
Who!» of lhe stalks being e-:-.-V--.3 up the
cattle and the advantage of gI'Lf‘l1 or
Sl.lt3ClJl:.l.lL food through wmter; 6, in-
crease, in the flow of milk, some ten
or twelve per cent.

___.___.______

BEFORE paint or cslcimin e is applied
to walls every crevice should be filled
with plaster or cement. I"--r the cal-
ciminc put a quarter of J. pound of
white glue in cold water over night
and heat gradually in tl.-- morning
until dissolved. Mix cigh; poun-is of
whiting with hot water, add the dis-
solved glue and stir together, adding
warm water until about zlie consisten-
cy of thick cream. Use a calcimine
brush, and finish as you go along. If
skim milk is used instead of water,
the glue may be omitted.

 

Ex CONGRESSMAN John T. Rich of
Lapeer has recently purchased from
the farm department of the Agricul-
tural College the short-horn bull,
Third Grand Baron, No. 39163 Ameri-
can herd book. This animal was
purchased by Prof. Johnson of C. T.
Hills of Delaware, Ohio, when two

ears old, and has headed the college
herd since Oct. 1880. He has proved
himself a valuable sire, his get being
uniformly good.

 

MR. J. DOUGLAS, an English writer
on garden to ics, saves his turnips
from the fly y dusting the young
leaves when wet with wood ashes two
or three times a week till danger ‘ from
the enemy is past. He also sprinkles
soot on young lettuce and cabbage;
finds it effective a ainst the celery
maggot, and especially useful for the
onion crop.

   

THE state entomologist of Illinois
reports the stubble of the entire winter
wheat region filled with Hessian flies
in a. dormant condition, and recom-
menus that fire be applied, or the
infested fields plowed and rolled.

 

COPPERAS mixed with the white-
wash upon the cellar walls will keep

vermin away.

pauper hensoi‘l<.‘u-rope, even though '

. ma.-we ... \‘-r ...-u.


TEE &R:AI€&E 7.151103.

AUGUST 15, 1883.

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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

"The Woodman’s Song—The Oak Famous in
Hiutory— Cauliflower —— Experiments That

. Mislead—Decency to Horses—Egg Imports
lTwo Queens in One Eive . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1

“Making Bread Dear.”~The Business Outlook
—New York's Anti-Monopoly —— Govern-
ment Control of the Telegraph-Harvest
Home Picnic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

about Bread — “The Anti-Monopoly Con-
vention.”——Tlie Anti-Monopoly Convention
—spontaneous Combustion— Postal Jottings
—Notiees of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Healthy Apple Trees in Cold Cliinates-—Tlie
Reversion of Sunflowers-— Pennsylvania
Horticultural Society—- Stanchipns—Occu-

'-patioii for Women —- _Farmers Horses-
-Honey Crop a Failure in '1ex>is~Bnsilage
—Hay and I-laying-—How to‘Raise Big
Crops—Importation of Holsteins—Shou1<}
the Government Own the Telegraph Lines?
—Resolutions-—Telegrapli Resolutions.. . 4

' The Fat Saloonist—The Intelligence in it: is
all the Dignity There is in Lab_or—What
Have Farmers to Do With Politics~—Tlie
Great Bridge—Making Bread Dear—Preach

' Versus Practice- Advertisements . . . . . . .. 5

"My Flowers-—The Almighty Dollar—A Gov-

ernor Taken from a Crate—‘Reducti0l1 Of
Postage—Completion of the (zreat I-Yman‘
Haskell—Gun — Road mismanagement,-
‘Mamnioth Stc_ckmen—The Iiight to fitriktg
—An Enterprising Town —I\ ot an Object 0
s mpathy—Crop Report by the Secretary
ogstate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6
.Beautiful Things—A Talk Wltl1‘_,'Elle Cousins
—“What Can I Write Aboutr -G-eolo_gy—
Boys— Be Prepn.i'ed—Every Man a Brick—
‘The Markets—The Reaper Death—Adver-
‘tisemeiits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7
‘Women as Inventors—They Settled—Adver-
tisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

iiiiivmfs biixfiaiiii.

J.T.Coizi:, - -

SCHOOLCRAFT.

“MAKING BREAD DEAR.”

The Article in the North American
Review for August, under this heading
by Henry D. Lloyd an abstract of
which appears on our fourth page
makes a showing that should arouse
every good citizen to the importance
of such restrictive or corrective legisla-

. tion, if such is possible as \vill prevent
a few 1nen— a clique, from assuming
power superior to the government

' itself.

Mr. Lloyd suggest a tribunal of Arbi-
tration to settle the combats of the
board of “Trade.” When he adds,“All the
markets are being paralyzed by manipu-
lation. They can be saved only by
the establisliment of tribunals of
competent and disinterested men, to
settle the disputes that arise in the
course of business and cannot wait for
the courts” he unintcntially gives our
judicial system :1 well deserved blow
and endorses one of the fundamental

principles of our Order.

Hcinakcs a good point when refer-

ing totiicse arbitrators he says: They
should be empowered not only to re-
ceive evidence as our judges do, but,
unlike them to send out for any evi-
dence that they wanted.” By this we
take it he means that good common
.-sense should be applied to the investi-
gation of any matter in dispute, rather
‘than rules of evidence, and technical
conditions that are as likely in their
‘application to defeat as to secure jus-

“tice to the parties to a controversy.

"Every reader of the article will feel the

‘force of his argument and should be

stimulated to give more personal at-
tention to these great questions that
even now fiiiancially affect us all and
in the not distant future seem likely to
thwart the good intentions of the

.' founders of this Republic and set aside

‘the great principles of popular govern-

ment. This matter reaches out at once
into the political field and every man

:is admonished to have more care for

the welfare of the people in the exer-

-cise of his political rights, and less for

the politician, who is wholly interested
in the present and what he can get out
of it. Corporations are rapidly con-
centrating wealtli and power and those
which are not “Making Bread Dear.”
are in other directions imposing bur-
dens on the people that if not averted
‘will some day prove greater than they
.canbear.

 

THE much abused trade dollar has
‘had a back set, and is,’ generally re-
fused at the ten cents discounts that
kept it afloat for ayear or two. A
late number of the New York
Graphic insists with good reason that
the goverhment thatissued will ulti-
mately redeem them at their face.
As they are really; worth a dollar
every one should refuse to take them
until provision is made to have them
exchanged for what they purport to
be worth. The present condition
of this dollar is a reproach to the gov-
ernment that we hope will be extin-
guished at the next session of Con-

gress.

S rinkle sassafras bark among dried
fruit to keep 011?: W°1‘mS-

THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

The general condition of trade and
commerce is a subject that is now
studied with the most absorbing public
interest. This study is no longer con-
fined to active business men, but is
rapidly extending to all classes of in-
telligent people. The trade column
in the newspaper was formerly pass-
ed over and ignored by the great ma-
jority of readers. It was supposed to
be of interest only in the counting-
rooms and places of business. Now,
there is an increasing demand for
information concerning the condition
and prospects of trade, It is to some
extent in response to this demand
that our modern system of crop reports
has been developed.

It is becoming generally understood
that business prosperity is largely de-
pendent upon the productions of the
farm. A failure of the grain crop, for
instance, must decrease the cafrying
business and thus depress the price of
railroad stocks. This weakens secu-
rities and entails loss upon investors
and introduces confusion and uncer-
tainty in all departments of business.
Moreover the extension of railroad
building is discouraged and the con-
sumption of iron, steel, lumber and
many other staples is diminished.
Factories are compelled to close or
work on half time and distress is
widely distrituted among the labor-
ing classes. The effects are soon ex-
tended to the market of heel, pork and
lard, still further injuring all trans-
portation inteiests and cutting down
the amount of our exports. It is no
wonder then that great anxiety is felt
about the growing crops.

For seve-ralmonths past there has
been a very general feeling of uneasi-
ness, not to say alarm, about the
prospects of business. Failures are
increasing in all parts of the country
and trade is badly depressed. The
iron and steel interests seem to be es-
pecially under a cloud. The cotton
and woolen industries are struggling
under a heavy load. some of the
most disssterous failures since the
panicoi 1873 have lately taken place
in Boston in the leather trade.

The general opinion among leading
business men seems to be that we
shall not have any serious crisis or
panic in business. The very fact that
all are watching for a panic will tend
to avert such a. disaster. The people
have not forgotten the lessons of 1873
and thereis far more wisdom among
business men than at that time.

The crop prospects are on the whole
very favorable and money is plentiful.
Business men in Chicago are said to
be exceedingly hopeful about the fall
trade. The chief difiiculty of the situ-
ation seems to be the over production
of manufactured goods. The produc-
tion has evidently far surpassed the
demand, and as we have but little
foreign trade of that kind, there is
no outlet for the surplus. The market
is glutted and can only be relieved by
diminishing the work of manufactur-

‘ing which must cause some distress.

Some of the elements of a most disas-
terous crises are manifesting them-
selves but they are confined mostly to
the manufacturing interests. The
banks throughout the country are
showinga firmness that is most en-
coursging.

One of the usual accompaniments
of financial distress is the decrease or
suspension of railroad building. Rail-
road statistics show_ that during the
first half of the present year but 1,966
miles were built against 4,166 miles in
the first six months of 1882. This
adds to the accumulation of steel and
iron in stock and will carry distress to
the families of thousands of operatives.

If the present difficulties are passed
without a general financial panic, and
the banks stand firm through it all, it
will not only bea present triumph,
but it will be a hopeful sign for all the
future. It will indicate that increas-
ing practical intelligence among the
people and greater watchfulness
among business men may effectually
guard against panics at all times. It
will show the importance of our
modern facilities for determining the
real condition of all branches of busi-
nees. Farmers and laboring men
should learn to read with interest the
regular crop reports, the operations on
the markets in the great cities, the
varying rates of transportation, the
clearing house returns, and all the
statistics of trade. We believe wide-
spread intelligence of this kind may
be an effectual safeguard against the
sudden business panics that have visit-
ed us periodically, prostrating almost
the entire trade of the country.

“A ticle
——Subject, “Joining the Grange.” But
the brother neglected to tell us where
he lives or his name and we can’t even
guess. As he is evidently a reader of
the Visrror. he should not have over-
looked the fact that we cannot print
articles without any knowledge of
the writer. This is a universal rule
with all periodicals, a very proper one
—and we must adhere to it. We don't
mean that we must always print the
name, but writers must give name and
their postoffice, that expect to ever see
their articles in print.

.0...
ty, Texas. The Order has more than
doubled its membership in that county
within twelve months. "

NEW YORK’S ANT!-MONOPOLY.

As we pick up from time to time
newspapers from other states and note
the space devoted to political wrang-
ling and personal defamation, we feel
to congratulate the people ot‘1\lichi-
gan for the constitutional relief of
Biennial elections of State and legis-
lative oflicers. This is our year of
quiet observation, and it is a notice-
able fact that our people are taking ad-
vantage of this condition so favorable
to fair and uiiprejudiced consideration
of the real situation and are getting
better qualified to act independently
as citizens. We meet men every day
who understand the perplexity of the
leading politicians in making up the
issue as a basis of strife for political
supremacy for the campaign of 1854.
It wont do to say squarely that the
“ins” want to stay in and the “outs”
want to get in, and this is our platform
of principles; but it requii'cs the
skill of an ingenious pettifoggcr to
make anything more out of it. We
cannot reincnibcr when distinctive
party issues were so lltf:‘I,l’ly lost-
as they now are. When the "Alain
chance’ was really the platform of
political parties. The attempt at Chi-
cago to inaugurate a new party with
a well-defined, clcar-cut purpose seemed
to us a failure.Too much was attempted.
The conditions are favorable to secure
the attention of the reading public to
the dangers that lurk in the accumula-
ting power vcsted in and exercised by
corporations. There would seem to be
no occasion for alarm if we simply
look at the structure of our govern-
ment where the people interested have
theoretically the power to give direc-
tion, and control public policy, and for
themselves determine who shall legis-
late and administer the government.
But practically the theory is set aside
to be used on the “glorious fourth” or
otlicr occasions when national lauda-
tion is in order.

No men better understood this
than the men who organized the Anti-
Monopoly League of the State of New
York.

And nowhere has there been a clear-
cr, well-dcfincd purpose to st:«.‘nd bythc
people and preserve, if possible to
them the benefits of a free govern-
ment.

The gentlemen, who in this volun-
tary association have undertaken the
task of‘ preserving and protecting the
interests of the people have taken
hold of the work in a bold, independent
way calling things by their right
names.

“'6 give below a brief address which
indicates the spirit and purpose of the
League. Nothing is more obviously
true than the necessity of vigilance
on the part of the people. Capital
within the last decade has been rapidly
concentrated, and its inanagement
naturally falls under the control of the
most shrewd scheming manipulators,
men who seek an end and are compara-
tively incliffcicnt as to the means
used. In the absence of iinportaiit
party issues no time. is more auspi-
cious to press upon the attention of
the people the importance of keeping
an eye open to their own interests
and this address should serve to stimu-
late thought and provoke friendly dis-
cussion and consideration of the mat-
ter presented.

To the leaders of the Democratic and
Republican pai-tics, who are not
'£nte-rested in Corporations and are
free from Zllonopoly control:

The New York Anti-Monopoly
League has prepared, and is now circu-
lating a record ofthe last Legislature,
showing the action of each member
upon measures involving the relations
ofacorporations to the public. We are

lad to be able to state that the Assem-
gly was an improvement upon its pre-
desessors, but the record of the Senate
was usually bad. While a small minor-
ity of the Senate honorably fulfilled
their duty to the people wherever pub-
lic interest conflicted with those of cor-
porations, a majority of the members
saw fit to sacrifice the’ interests of their
constituents to those of monopolies.

A minority of the Assembly were
also influenced by corrupt considera-
tions, and the object of this communi-
cation is to earnestly protest against
the future political preferment of these
men whose names and acts are’ detailed
in the record, a copy of which is here-
with traiisniitted. Some of these‘ men
are already being put forward by cor-
porate interests for renomination, and
in some instances for promotion to po-
sitions on the State ticket, and even for
judicial preferement.

By pushing forward men inter_es_ted
in corporate enterprises, by retaining
attorneys, by contributing to campaign
funds, and by direct and indirect ‘bri-
bery, incorporated capital is rapidly
lowering the standard of public and
private honor and weaving about the
people a system of class laws which,
unless checked, will result ll] an aris-
tocracy and peasantry in this country,
with lines as distinctly marked as in

"any of the older countries of the world

from which our forefathers tied to
avoid class tyranny.

If this, our protest be disregarded;
if it should be provcn that the otlicers
already in command of the principal
political parties are false to their
trusts, and really owe their first alle-
giance to aiiothor power to which the
interest ofthe masses is but secondary,
it will only remain for us to appeal
to the people whose rights and liber-
ties are being betrayed, and do all in
our power to defeat unworthy candi-
dates.

We earnestly appeal to you, how-
ever, to read the statement of undis-
puted facts in the record we present
to you, and remembering the declara-
tion of your own party at its last
State Convention, let your patriotism
as Americen citizens take precedence
of partisanship, and exert your influ-
ence to retire in disgrace the men who,

while professing to serve the people,
have betrayed their interests.
Respectfully submitted by

E. E. Davis, F. B. Tliurber, Darwin
ll. James, Ambrose Snow, G. Le Fe-
vrc, H. L. Fish, John F. Henry, J0-
siali J. White, John J}. Ilaskin.

Of Ex~Com. N. Y. State Anti-)Io-
iiopoly Lea ue. »

New Yor ', July 27, 1883.

 

GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF THE TELE-
GRAPH.

Since the great strike of the tele-
graph operators, it has suddenly oc-
curred to the minds of many journal-
ists and editors that the government
ought to furnish telegraphic facilities
to the people. In some of the Chicago
and New York papers, the subject is
treated as something quite novel and
growing out of the inconveniences pro-
duced by the operators’ strike. it is
argued that if the government had the
ownership and control of the telegraph
system,a strike would be impossible
and we would be forever free from
such a calamity.

All this illustrates how the people
may be far in advance of the press on
asubject of the deepest public inter-
est. The oppression of the telegraph
monopoly has been felt and under-
stood for years by all the business
world. For a long time past it has
been discussed in the Grange, and gov-
ernincnt control proposed  the only
available remedy. The whole subject
has been extensively treated in the
columns of the Visiroi: and the
Grange journals generally have de-
nounced the tariff of the Western
Union as cxtortionate and one of the
great public wrongs of the day.

Intelligent business men have long
been convinced that the people are as
much entitled to cheap rates of tele-
graphing as they are to cheap rates of
postage and public opinion has been
almost unanimous that the govern-
ment should undertukc to transinit in-
tclligcnce by telegraph as well as
through the mails.

Perhaps the weakest of all reasons
for a government telegraph is the one
lately advanccd as both novel and con-
clusive by many of the great dailies,
vi7.., that the operators could not then
organize a general strike. The strike
produces merely a tcinporary inconven-
ience and it is absurd to make it the
pretext for a revolution in our entire
telegraphic system. if this reason has
any validity, then the government
would have to assume control of all
the inanufacturing interests of the
country, for strikes are bccoining coni-
inon in nearly all branches of industry.
Yet if the long-wished-for postal tele-
graph should be established by the
next Congress, it would evidently be
one of the results of the strike. llow-
ever it matters little what may be the
cause of the general awakening of the
press on this subject, if the people
shall only secure to themselves the
blessing of cheap tclegrapliiug.

It is to be hoped that the govcrnincnt
will never attempt to buy the property
of the existing companies. The tele-
graph business should simply be an ex-
tcntion of the work of the Post Oilicc
department, with rates based upon
actual cost of service. l‘roni the
nature of the ciitcrprisc, it is better
that it should not be government ino-
nopoly, but thcbusincss should be free
to all companies or individuals, who
wish to undertake it. The principle
object to be obtained by a government
telegraph is to guard the people against
the extortions of monopoly in a nature
that has become one of the essentials
of civilizatian. The benefits of the tele-
graph have thus far been restricted
mainly to the business affairs of the
country, where communications are of
special importance, and to the news
for the daily press. It is believed now
that such restriction has long been un-
necessary and rates can be made so low
that instantaneous communication
with distant places may be within the
reach of all the people. Cheap postage
is regarded as one of the greatest re-
forms of modern times and its good
effects are evident in every civilized
nation. Cheap telegraph will no doubt
be as far-reaching in its benefits to
civilization as cheap postage.

Meanwhile nothing seems to be said
in this connection about the telephone
which is becoming even more essential
to our present modes of carrying on
business than the telegraph. It is
possible that at no distant day the
telephoneinay almost wholly supercede
the telegraph. There is hardly a
question that this nc\v instrument of
science can soon be used over great
distances, probably across the ocean,
and it will be available for the use of
all without the aid of skilled operators.

The telephone has thus far extorted
from the people‘ a scale of rates out of
all proportion to the cost of service,
and almost-fabulous fortunes have al-
ready beeii accumulated by those
who have control of the monopoly.
At the same time it has in many
respects revolutionized the ordinary
method of doing business. ’

The telephone ought to be treated
precisely on the same basis as the tele-
graph and the Post Oflice Department
should include both. We certainly
hope that it will not require a strike
of telephone operators to attract the
attention of the press to this impor-
tant subject. The day may yet come
when talking by telephone with our
friends in any part of the world, how-
ever distant, may be much more com-
mon than Writing letters.

HARVEST HOME PICNIC.

The season of picnics is present and
is being improved. The first of the
season that we have attended was the
one refered to in another place in these
colums on Friday the 10 inst.

The place was near Vicksburg six :
miles from home. The farmers of ‘
that vicinity and their village friends
have for several years met annually at
or near this place in numbers varying
from two hundred to a thousand and
with all the accvmpaniments have
not only had ‘a good picnic dinner but
have uniformily had something to in-
struct as will as gratify those who
were present, Hon. J. M. Neasmith
Pres. of this Farmers Picz.ic Associa-
tion, had invited several gentlemen.
somewhat promlnent in the State to!
be present. And they were with us.
There is but little doubt but the Pres.
intended to get a speech from each of 1
these visito‘s, but if so he was careful 
not to include that in theirinvitation. l

But if the average Amtrican can’t_
talk publicly himself, he is always
ready to insist on a talk from the next
man. i

A platform with an elevated board l
in front, an organ and a dozen chairs
we presume had a personal signifi-
cance to these gentlemen. The eating ‘
part of the picnic was disposed of in
good order. VVe took no notes and
did not at the time think of making
extended reference in the VISITOR. to
this picnic.

Years ago ifa body or farmers got
together and a speech was on the pro-
grama lawyer was engaged to do the
talking and the “homey handed far-
mer” usually got a liberal dose of
tail); and not many suggestions of
practical value. The professional
genilemen who talked at this iicnic
had none of this, and we are glad to be
able to give our readers a very full re-
port of the speeches as taken by the
editor of the Kalamazoo Telegraph.
for that paper. \Ve have transfcred
the matter to the form of the VISITOR
as we make up, and we think our
readers will appriciate the many good
things found in this very complete
report. '

The addresses at the harvest
home picnic at the grove south of town
were introduced with that of
Judge Marston, late of the supreme
court. He paid his attention to meth-
ods of farming which are not only
profitable in themselves but result in
strengthening the soil. He had lately
traveled in states where he saw farms
so far run out as to be worthless. In
others the system of tillage made the
soil stronger and stronger as time went
by. The planof small_ farms in vogue
in this region had great blessings in
that it enables people to be together
socially, to have schools and churches
and other means of personal improve-

I

ment and enjoyment. The great
farms of the west made such
a life impossible . In addition to

these means of improving the com-
munity there ought to be study to make
the farms more productive and profitable,
and richer in their soil. Tlie familiar
method of plowing under clover was one
way. He thought it would pay to resort
more to stock, raising for this purpose.
This class of farming took labor, to be
sure, but so did anything that was worth
the raising. Any man who did not suc-
ceed on a farm, unless he had the incu-
bus of an excessive debt or a scolding
wife, was by that very fact shown to be
lazy, for success meant hard word. To
show what progress could be made in
the various departments of farm produc-
tion Judge Marston cited cases that not
many years ago would have been treated
as preposterous, namly, that in wool-
raising single sheep have grown 40
pounds of wool in a year, and in speed

of horses many an animal has gone be-

low 2:16. In the matter of milch cows,
Judge Marstoifs special interest, he re-
lated the experiment of Time. H. Mc-
Graw of Bay City in bringing in a new
breed of cattle; a two-year-old heifer
producing 14,000 pounds of milk the
first year. At five cents a quart this
would be 8350. Another gave 91 pounds
of milk a day. This looks as improbable
as 40 pounds of wool from asingle sheep
would have done a few vests ago. The
average yield of butter is not over 150
pounds a year. To show how much may
be added to the degree of productive-

ness, there are authentic instances of 25
pounds of butter in seven days from a

single cow. By paying attention to the
business the value of a farmer's stock
can be doubled in a few years. But to
do this farmers ought to prevent scrub
bulls from running in the highways.
This brought the judge to the highwav
and fence question. He said he had
been examining it a good deal, and so
far from its being debatable whether
stock could be prohibited from running
in the road. he had come to look on it
from the other standpoint; be doubted
whether the legislature and ‘boards of
supervisors could permit or aguthonze
the running at large of stock in the
streets. Judge Marston closed by urg-
ing farmers to stimulate the educational
interest. both in general and for their
own families; and to give the public in-
stitutions awarm support, mentioning
especially the Agricultural college and
its _experimental work, and also the state
university.

Mr. Neaemith next introduced Dr.
J as. C. Wilson of Flint, superintendent
and director of the Grape farm. who des.
cribed the experiments in stock raising
there. He said the farm was reclaimed
from a marsh, having been formerly all
under water and known as the _ Dead
marsh on account of the deadly influence
of its malaria. Gov. Crapo drained it

top, 4}; feet on the bottom five
feet deep and four miles long.
It had two or three feet of muck and a
marl and clay subsoil. It had 1,230
acres, mainly meadow, skirted with some
upland, which raised enough grain for
the use of the place. The marsh was
devoted to pasturage and hay. Last
year he raised 600 tons of hay, 400 tons

‘ of millet. and 70 acres of corn on the

marsh. This year the results are not so
good on account of the wet season. One
man is kept constantly ditching, a
Swede, who has been at it winter and
summer five years. The hay lands are
sometimes out twice in the season, and
one piece sown the first of June was cut
in August, yielding a ton of good thimo-
thy per acre. Their success had
lead to the clearing up of nearly

all the arsh in that country.
“Your marsh is your best land,”
said Dr. Wilson. Gov. Carpo

stocked it with reference to producing
beef for market, and they tried Here-
fords. short-Horns and Devons to see
which brought the most economical and
best results. A short trial convinced
them the Herefords were the thing.

Their experiment was the larg-
est ever made in either America,
England or on the continent. They

found they could fatten three Here-
fords at the cost of two short-urns. The
other breeds were accordingly discarded.
They keep 250 on the farm and have
sold some head at two years old and
past that Weighed 1,500 pounds and
dressed 62 pounds to the 100. Their
Herefords brought $55 forthe shambles
where other cattle in the same neighbor-
hood brought only $25. Their lull
calves were in demand at t wo weeks old,
to ship west for the large breeders on
the plains at 335. There were several
other large breeders in the neighbor-
hood. Mr. Foster sold five calves for
$1,750. It was impossible to supply the
demands of stock men on the western
plains, who wanted them by car loads to
cross with their Texan cattle. The
doctor closed with an apostrophe to
fanning, its freedom from influences
that tend to crime. its value in supply-
lng strong men to the country, and its
assurance of success, for 90 per cent of
farmers succeed, while in mercantile
pursuits 90 per cent make failures.

A. H. Stoddard. l:]sq., recited a poem
appropriate to the occasion, citing the
great iniprovernents that have been
made in man's department of farm work
and the absence of inventions to save
the toil and promote the comfort of
those who have the welfare of the house-
hold in charge. lt was very humorous
and excited lllllcll merrimeut.

Chief Justice G1‘.-‘.VOS was next intro-
duced. llc gave a brief resume of
events of this generation which are
scarcely appreciated now but will take
their place in history among the great
a1l'sii's of the world. He contrasted
these with the circumstances of pioneer»
life, which he dwelt on quite minutely
and touchingly.

Hon. Cyrus G. Luce of Branch county
followed. He was much interested in
what had been said about increasing the
value of farm products, but the most
valuable thing of all was the men and
women, the girls and boys. that a coun-
try produced. Amcricans, and es-
pecially farmers, paid too little at-
tention to their own personal good. He
rejoiced to see such a meeting as that
here, for it gave opportunities of social
cultivation. He was anxious to see such
farming methods as would not only bring
good returns but improve the soil too.

They must mix their work with
brains. He had to-day seen pre-
parations for burning fields of

straw. That was a bad policy, which
would irnpoverish the farmer who
followed it and starve his children.
Raising just one kind of crop can
not be continued ermanently without
loss, and they woul)d find that out in Da-
kota if they didn't change. Mixed hus-
bsndrv was what was wanted. The
point coming up incidentally he said
farmers ought to encourage their boys
to follow the business they loved best;
they must love any business they en-
gaged in to be successful in it. Return-
ing to the main question he said he had
paid a good deal of attention to fat cat-
tle; he once raised the best fat steer on
record in Michigan, (5-year old. weigh-
ing 2,800 pounds) and he had found that
to raise most profitably and be able to
command the best markets he had to
raise enough to ship a car load at a
time. It was unfortunate that the towns
constituting the Michigan home market
did not demand and would not pay for
the best beef. and he had to ship away
to get the best prices. A buyer for a
Michigan town passed by his fine fatted
stock. refusing to consider it because
their trade wou1dn’t warrant the price;
and bought an old brindle cow for his
supply.

Mr. Luce concluded by saying that
everybody ought to seek the best. He
had seen ayoung man in the company
who was seeking a wife. He hoped he
would be sure and et the best girl and
that the girl woul be equally particular
and not accept any second rate man or
anyone who visited the saloons. Get the
best “even if" (speaking humorously and
with the pride of his calling) “even if he
was a lawyer n r a doc tor” or someone
else, notengaged in farming. It did not

pay to put up with anything not the best.
He (‘nee gave $100 for some hogs
to a townsman. because they were
cheap. He might better have given
or thrown his 3100 awav, for after he had
spent three months’ effort in getting them
into shape for market he was poorer than

before he started with them. He wanted
to see the farmers of Kalamazoo and St.
Joseph counties start in with a fresh
stimulus. They had the best natural start
but they were not up with some of the
other counties. “You want to raise more
stock,” said Mr. Luce. There was need
of patronizing the schools more. The

farmers ought to insist that the legisla-
ture attach a great experimental station
to the Agricultural college, to carry on
the needed experim ents for aknowledge
of which farmers are thirstin 5:, but which
are beyond private enterprise. Farmers
needed to think more; you don’t hear of
farmers injuring themselves by brain
woik as men sometimes do in other call-
ings. It was worth while for farmers to
try and grow into the best section of
society.

The pi-e-ident, Mr. Neasmith, recalled
J udge Msrston to relate something
about the results of his own farm. The
latter described it as a sandy tract, the
nucleus of which (he says) he bought in a
chance sort of way and added to, till he
had something like 100 acres. He work-
ed It 111150 We and clover and then oom-
menced developing it as a dairy farm.
mflklml butter. He now had 40 head of
J erseva. large and small, 10 to 14 being
milkers. Thev had been averaging 380
a month from butter. It sold for 40

by cutting a ditch 11 feet wideon

V

cents a pound’ and they couldn't begin
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to supply the demand at that figure.
e calves from those cows were raised
on the skim milk and brought from 8100
to 8250 each. His agreement with the
man who runs it is to divide between
them all proceeds over a certain fair
wages, Mr. Marston keeping the increase,
paving for all improvements and pock-
eting all losses. He would not advise a
farmer to go into butter raising exten-
sively unless he proposed to have help
enough in the house to handle it, espec-
ially if he followed the pan system.
Judge Marston’s dairy uses the deep
channel cans. No breed of cattle is
good for all purposes. The Holsteins
and Ayreshires are best for cheese and
milk, the Herefords for beef. the Jerseys
for butter.

Mr. Bangs, formerly of this county.now
of California. was called out as the last
speaker. He said that in California they
had meeting-i something like this. only
they called them grange meetings; the
social feature was prominent in them
and they were also used instructively.
California had changed greatly within
10 or 15 years, grain now being the lead-
ing interest. This year’s wheat crop will
amount to $35,000,000 or 840,000.00€'0.
double the annual gold product of the
entire coast. The climate favors them.
They are running too exclusively to
wheat and the problem is, what shall
they turn to to prevent the exhaustion
of their farms. Their wheat brings 90 to
95 cents in San Francisco. Their trans-
portation troubles are their great evil.
rates for grain being ten times per ten
per mile what they are between here
and New York, while passenger fares are
seven cents a mile. '1he public will yet
find a method of correcting the evil.

Hon. James M. Neasmith, the retiring
president of the association, presided at
the meeting. To his energy and judg-
ment is due in a large measure, both
the inception and success of the festival.

Music was provided by a choir con-
sisting of Mrs. Geo. Douglass, soprano:

tenor;
Jno. Mcliiaster. bisso; Miss Mchiaster,
organist.

Tue following oflicers were elected for
the coming year: Wm. Bair, president;
James Judson, secretary; Nash Robin-
son. treasurer. -

The executive committee was made to
consist of Albert Judson. Andrew
Strong. R. E. Kimball, Malachi Cox. J.
T. Cobb, J. Gorman of Parkville, and
Charles Brown.

 

REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

SCI-IOOLCRAFI‘, Aug. 8, 1883.

In compliance with a notice from
the Chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee, the undersigned met at the of-
fice of the Secretary, at the above date,
for the purpose of complying with the
resolution ad ipted by the State Grange,
at its last Session, requiring riuarterly
settlements with the Treasurer and
Secretary.

Reference to the last settlement
made on the 5-.}i1 of April last, shows a
Balance in treasury March 31, of. . _$fi,0b'5 22

The books of the Secretary show
Collections since that date as fol-

follows:——
Fees and dues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,844 75
Subscription to VISITOR . . . . . . . . . . . . -151 05
Receipts for supplies sold . . . . . . . . . . 17;’ 57
Collections for advertising . . . . . . . .. 6o 39

Total receipts from all sources. .-‘$3,623 TS
nIsBUssxifEN'rs.
Dues to National Grange
for quarter ending June

30th, 1833 $176 59

 

Publication of VISITO . 869 70
Postage on VIsIi:ox.. . . 91 72
Other expenses on account
of Visiros. ............ .. 5 00
Miscellaneous printing. .. 12 14
Oflica stationery . . . . . . . . . . 26 8}
Oflice postage . . . . . . . . . . . . ll 17
Supply bills paid. . . . . . . . . 170 26
Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5 90
Executive committee ex-
penses . . . . . . . . . . .------- 7279
Salary of Master one quar-
ter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 00
Salary of Secretary one
quarter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 00_
Salary of Secretary as Edi-
tor and manager of
GRANGE VIsIroa,inclding
mailing and clerk hire. . 250 O0
Lecture fund . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3 00
Check of Eugene Angeli
and protest expenses.... 4 00 .

Total ammount of orders ——
paid .................. ..$1,959 12

s:.‘:*:.°%.,‘;‘...:::‘::*.:°..:*.::: go. 66 -8623 is
We found the books in the Secre-
tary’s oflice in such condition, that
but little time was necessary to reach
the balance, which we have given
above,and in this State the O.d.-r may
be congratulated on the financial con-
dition of its treasury.
WM. SATTERLEE.
H. D. PLAT1‘.
J. G. RAMSDELL.
J. Q. A. BURRINGTON.
Of the Executive Committee.

 

POSTPONED.

Brothers Taylor and Byers have
taken us to task for our article on the
Chicago convention in the VISITOR of
August 1st. We shall try and assign a
better reason than the court usually re-
quires of a. lawyer who asks for an ad-
journment of the case that he may go
back to his oflice and charge up $10
against his client and shall get no chance
at the $10 either. We expected to set
up our defence and try and hold our
position as best we could in this num-
number, but several things have con-
spired to prevent our'doing so. On Mon-
day the 6th, Bro. Satterlee of Birming-
ham dropped unexpectedly into our of-

fice. On Tuesday evening Bro. Platt put‘.

in his appearance. On Wednesday K10111-
ing in imitation of the “early bird”;
came Bro. Burrington and later by the
first train from the north came Bro.
Ramsdeii.  J
These gentlemen insisted that ' I
should give an account of myself 
explain the business of the office. _
This was not favorable to writing
editorals, and the next day I had work-
that must be done. Then on Friday a
farmer’s picnic at Vicksburg demanded
attention. And on Saturday (t0-day)
the VIsI'roR must be made up so as to
go topress on Monday as the Weekly
Telegraph must have the press on

Tuesday. These we offer in explana-
tion. In the next VISITOR we will say
our say, in reply, and if we don’t make
good what we said, our readers may re-
ly on one thing; We are 1.ot so tena-
cious that ‘we always know we are right.
Whether right or wrong in our conclu-
sion, all will agree that good comes to
our readers by a free discussion of the
questions involved. and that is of far
more importance than any individual
opinion of mine.

 

[ABOUT BREAD.

A business matter called us not long
since to the Michigan Insane Asylum,
The resident Medical Superintendent
Dr. Palmer aifter showing us through
the several wards of the department
assigned to female inmates, took us
to the bakery and it is of what we
learned there that we propose to write.
In both departrnents there are some-
thing over 750 inmates. The Institution
requires on an average about 255‘ barrels
of flour per week. With this consump-
tion it is of, financial importance to
know what kind of flour to use. Ex-
periments made as I remember within
a year, gave results as follows: A bar-
rel of straight white wheat flour, cost-
ing-$5.40 mu/le 13:: two-pound loaves.
A barrel of white wheat roller process
flour Michigan make, costing $6.50
made 140 two—p0und loaves. A barrel
of roller process from another Michi-
gan mill, kind of wheat not stated,
made 14-1 two-pound loaves. A barre,
of spring wheat flour Minneapolis
make, costing $5.85 n-ade 155 two
p‘und loaves. ’l‘he same with five
of corn flour added made 175 two-pound
loaves. And it is of this Minneapolis
flour with this proportion of corn
flour that all bread for the In-
stitution is now made. As to quality,
we think we know something about
bread, and that we saw seemed perfect.
This two—poun(l loaf was weight of
dough, the loss in baking is fi-om three
to four ounces. Ask any one whose
attention has been called to this nritter
how many pounds of bread a I)ill'l'el of
196 pounds flour will make and the an-
swer will illustrate how little we know
about what we are in 21 certain sense
fziiiiiliau with. ‘Ye are abicud eating
people, and the answer to our question
will be as wide of the mark as though
the parties had never seen bread. A
little figuring with the basis of figures
we have given will show that in eating
bread we take quite a. liberal propor-
tion of water more than bread eaters
generally suppose.
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A NEBRAS1{A man says hay is
good for hogs. Cut the hay short and
mix with bran shorts or middlings,
and feed as other feed. Hogs soon
learn to like it, and if soaked in
swill, or slop food, it is highly relished
by them. .In winter, use for hogs the
same hay that you feed to your horses,
and you will find that it will save
bran, shorts or other food; it puts on

flesh as rapidly as anything that can
be given them.

We think Bro. Buell, of Little
Prairie had heard of this Nebraska
man when he made that silo in his
barn.

____________________
VVe received three or four Postal

- cards for Jotting’s Column after the

last paper went to press. We were
sorry to lose them, but of course they
were a little late for this number. We
want to grow to a page—can we have
them?
._____.__________

GIVING to unknown beggars, particu-
larly in cities, is the lure which offers
great prizes to the lucky few,‘l and
tempts many men to beg. It is the
great obstacle to-day to the best char-
itable work.

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‘-The Anti-Monopoly Convention.”

I‘ would respectfuly ask to be allow-
ed to notice the article headed “The
Anti-Monopoly Convention,” in the
last number of the GRANGE VISITOR.

With all due deference to its source
I must confess my surprise to find it
in the GRANGE VISITOR. I had
thought that journal in sympathy
with every movement looking to the
final emancipation of American serf-
dom. "

This article coming from the Score-
tary and given a place in so popular a
journal, is certainly calculated to mis-
lead such as have not given much at-
tention to the convention in question.
Even though it be admitted that
“weaknesfi” and “fierceness”ruled the
hour, then “to the weak became I as
weak, thatl might gain the weak, I
ammade all things to all men, that I
might by all means save some.

'11’ Jay Gould offers to sell the West-
ern‘ Union (Telegraph to the govern-
ment where it belongs) such con-
ventions as that at Chicago may have
something to do with it.

A ; Allow me to say I think the thrust
in the article referred to,a random one.
‘In this free country editors and others

I ‘have the advantage of some of us to

“keep on saying things,” and judg-
ing from the run of the attack, it

»"would appear that its author would

prefer not engaging in a. crusade

; against the “National banking sys-
' tem, and it appears to me, is happy

in the conclusion that the conference
displays great weakness in making
its efforts at reforms too various. Mr.
Secretary you must be sound.

The hackneyed imputation of So-
cialist and Communist, had ceased to
beatributed to the reform element,

and I had thought no one at all con-

versant with the principles and objects
which actuated the delegates to that
convention would apply such to them.
We are kindly admonished that one
reform ata time is enough. When
politics can be boiled down to"One
idea,” this would be in order.

Again as any Union of reformers is
impossible we should take it Indian
fashion and ignore the strength
of unions. It is admitted however
that nothwithstanding the fierceness
generally that it is respectable to pro-
ducemvre than one reform in a plat-
form of principles. “ But we are told
the “hopeless feature" of the platform
is in “no remedy being provided” for
the evils complained of. So little good
came of this conference? it should not
be charged with a failure to achieve
impossibilities. A political erganiz :-
tion can do no more than proclaim its
principles which was surely done at
Chicago, on the 4th of July, with no
uncertain sound.

You say the delegates were a “mixed
multitude” here again the objects of
the convention are overlooked A
commingling of I118lI1b8l‘.~l from all
parties was down in the call. You say
“Many of the delegate- were self-
elected.” Is this definitely known? A
plain statement of the number would
have been edifying. I know this has
been charged. On this point the
Garnett Journal states: “The truth
of the matter is th's, that convention
met on that day, July 4:h, 1883. There
were 325 regular credential delegates
on the floor. Mr. Editor, or Secretary,
perhaps I should say, why do you
talk of demogogues and cranks. Web-
ster makes demogogue to mean a
“leader of the people.” In the right
direction there is nothing wrong in
this, but if you attach to it that other
significance of faction what will that
convention think of you made up so
largely of simple hearted farmers‘?
As to “Cranks” We learn that to be
defined by Guiteau and sich. Our
hindsights are frequently better than
foresight. Dennis Kearney has been
known as a man opposed to oppres-
sion and al:hough under suspicion it
was not so fully brought out as
at the time of the conference that he
probably is in the interest of railroad
managers. Hence his half recognition.
Then, no doubt, more “strength” was
exemplified in his rejection than is
easy to realize.

“An omen of failure for a political
party is in the fact that such men as
Kearney should be drawn toward it.”
How then have the old parties pulled
through with their superabundence of
this kind of freight? One of your
criticisms is in the apparent want of
“Plan or definite purpose.” Thank
God for that, “cutting and drying,”
belong to corruption and imposition,
and have their advocates in ancient
institutions. In conclusion “on the
whole, we do not see that the true in-
terests of anti-monopoly will be ad-
vanced by this attempt to organize a
political party.”

Mr. Secretary, you give us this gra-
tuitously no doubt. There are many
looking at this thing through another
glass. The prime object of that con-
ference was to allow the voting public
a way out on ground clear of stumps
and marshes, and where the one idea,
of your wish of anti-monopoly might
have “free course and be glorified.”
But anti-monopolists want more, how-
ever well that word may cover the
ground, of abuses from government
contracts to railroads, telegraphs,banks
mining, oil, wheatlands and every-
thing consumed or used by the masses
whose aggregated mites roll up mil-
lions to the favored pets of govern-
ment. A fourth aggressive party
was not intended. neither will such be
the result. Knights of Labor, Green-
hackers, and all laborers who read or
think will unite before a twelve
month, and in spite of the attempts to
unpopularize the Chicago conference
Il0W,if8 aims and accomplished pur-
poses will be respected and sanctioned
when more fully investigated, and un-
derstood. WM. M. Bxnns.

New Troy, Mich., August 6th, 1883.

 

The Anti-Monopoly Convention.

Editor Grange Visitor.--In your
editorial on the doings of the Chicago
Anti-monopoly Convention you seem
to have departed from the rule which
has heretofore goverened the control
of the VISITOR, of treating the political
organizations fairly, Anyone not ac-
quainted with you would infer _from
that article that you had suddenly he-
come an advocate of the giant mo-
nopolies, which threaten the destruc-
tion of our free institutions, as a matter
of justice to your readers and patrons
I trust you will publish the platform
adopted at Chicago, in order that they
may judge for themselves as to the
merits or demerits of the new organi-
zation. It is a fact clearly demonstrated
in Senator VanWyck’s able expose, and
the observation of every” intelligent
thinking man that the monopolists
have got control. of the Republican
and Democratic parties just as the
slave power controlled the old Whig
and Democratic parties in anti-bellum
times. In 1850, thousands of freesoilers
and freedom loving Whigs like Senator
VanWyck tried to reform their respec-
tive parties by remaining in them and
opposing the encroachments of all the
slave power, but they utterly failed

and were compelled to withdraw from
the old parties in 18.35 and unite in the
organization of the Republican party,
the Senator and his followers will sure-
ly fail now, forthe money power is a
thousand fold stronger and more (lan-
gerous to the freedom of the masses
than the slave power ever was in its
palmiest days. The organizers of the
Republican party were ridiculed and
bitterly denounced as demagogues,
fanatics. misegenatioiiists, freelovers,
infidels, nigger worshipers, and every
vile epithet that could he invented by
the leaders of the old parties were ap-
plied to them in order to make them
unpopular, and the same course is being
pursued by the leaders of the old
parties to-day against the anti-nionop0-
lists backed up by the enormous money
power bf a large class of wealthy na-
bobs, who have no sympathy with or
respect for the rights of the people.
The only hope of redeeniing our be-
loved country of an unscrupulous
moneyed aristocracy is in the abandon-
ment of the old parties by thelabbring,
toillng,tux ridden masses, and the or-
guiiizutioii of :1 new party on the basis
of the Chicago platforin and bring to
the front new independent honorzible
men for standard bearers, who cannot
be corrupted or controlled by the
money power, men who will demon-
strate to the world that this is in fact
as well as in name a government of,
and for the people. REFORMEII.
Doweigiac, Aug. 6, 1553.
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Spontaneous Combustion.

Burned, Aug. 8th, on west side of
Little l’I'aii'ie liondc, Cass county,
Mich. the burn of Jacob J. Marian-
About 4 o’clock I’. M. a dense smoke
and flame was seen to issue from the
roof of the burn, by its owner who was
running it threshing machine about
sixty rods distant on an adjoining
farm. lie with others hurried to the
scene or the lire in time to save one of
three horses which were confined in
the barn. Tlicygot one of the others
out but it was so badly burned that it
iinmedlutely died. The third one was
burned in the stable. The barn con-
tained the llziy from tentotwelveztcres.
The wheat in the straw from twenty
acres; two buggies, one wugon,two or
three slelghs and nearly all the fznining
tools and niuchines oi‘ the farin, except
:1 nearly new llarvestci‘ which was run
out of the burn the day bi-fore. A
crib containing three hundred bushels
of corn near by was also burned.

The 1lI)O\'6St‘(:lllS to be it pretty well
L‘Si.il.I)ilSllL‘(lL‘£lSC oi," Sp01llll1l€OllS coin-
bustion. The day was still and pleas-
unt, untl no fire near it. The barn and
contents were insured in the Furiners
Mutual liisnraiice Coinpzuiy, of Cass
county. 13. G. .UL'ELL.

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POSTAL JOTTINGS.

The flowers of the heart are the
gems of immortal minds.
S. P. BALLAR1).

I am constant reader of the Visiroii
and think it the best, paper published
in Michigan. We have had nearly two
weeks of pleasant weather but plenty
of rain and more too before that.
Wheat is an average crop. Corn very
backward and will need 2:. late fall to
mature. Oats area. good crop. Very
few apples, no peaches or cherries and
very few berries. Wheat and hay are
all secured but some 111 had condition.
Threshing has begun in this neighbor-
hood. CHARLES E. l\lCl{AY.

Scipio, Ilillsdule Co., Aug. 5th, 1853

Farmers throughout this county are
now in the midst of their wheat har-
vest. The weutlier is excellent and the
C_l'()p is likely to be scoured in good
condition this week. The crop is
better than was promised a. month ago,
but so much was winter killed that it
will not be more than 60 or 65 per cent.
Grass is more than 100 and generally
secured in good condition. The crop of
oats is very large. Corn is wholly a
matter of conjecture, a long season
will give a large crop, but a failure is
possible.

Traverse City, Mich., Aug. 7 th 1883.

Fowls and cabbages grow well to-
gether to mutual advantage. If fowls
do not eat all the worms, or the cab-
bages are out of the reach of fowls
the following tonic is good for the
worms. It is one used and recom-
mended by J. W. Wilson, one of the
most successful of Kalamazoo’s gard-
ners and celery raisers. To a pan of
skimmed milk, or (cream if you choose)
add ateaspoonful of kerosene oil; mix
well together. and put about two tea-
cups fuil of this mixture in a sprinkler
of water and sprinkle on cabbages. This
remedy has the advantage if not being
poisonous, and of penetrating to the
heart and all parts of the cabbage
without destroying its flavor.

A large hay crop has been secured
in fair condition. Wheat after batilin g
with an unfavorable winter and spring,
Hessian fly, blight, rust and rain. rain,
rain, up to the point of entire distrac-
tion is safely in barn and stack. It
will be second or third in quality, an
average of about 10 bushels per acre.
Oats are a good crop, and about ready
for the harvester. Corn, beans, 'pot.a-
toes and other root crops have gone to
the bad, beyond redemption. N 0 ap-
ples. In a large portion of our coun
ty stock is not allowed to run at large
and road fences are fast disappearing,

much to the satisfaction of a large ma- lone. Hay ,2-3 ‘crop, secured and about

jority, E R. WILLIAMS.
Ionia, August 6, 1883.

A farmer related to me the other day
his experience in raising cabbage last
year and this. We dori’t know that
he had in mind any of his own early
experience or not, but he certainly
must have taken the idea from the
custom which formerly prevailed in
this country of planting a melon-
patch somewhere out in the corn-field
so the bad boys would not find it.
This fai'mer’s cabbage set in the gar-
den were invaded by the cabbage worm.
A lot of plants set in the corn field
and cultivated the same as the corn
have grown finely and the cabbage-
worm has not found them. Fii1'l[l(3l‘S‘
will do we1l.to remember this and’
try it next year.

Worzxriw ON THE SAllllA’l‘ll.-—-L:lSt-
Subbatli was a tip-top ll1lI'\'€St day, and
almost every farmer in the coinniunity
put into the field 2111 the forces he could
muster, to secure what wheat he could ,
before another storm. And ii‘ the
picking up of £1 few sticks to build :1
pen on the tiabbutll in Moses’ day, was ’
a crime worthy of death, whut i‘ezu'fu1
punishment should be meted out to
the people of this connnunity, for
stacking so much wheat lust Snndaiy.
Has the law clizuigcd? llzis crime be-
come it virtue? or is it possible that
Moses llliglll. have been niistuken when
he said: “And the Lord said unto
Moses, whosoever doeth any work on
the Sabbatli day, he shall surely be put
to death.”——E:c. 31 :15.

(,‘.on'rL.\Nn llir.i..

The GRANGE V'Isi'roi: is einphutic-
ally ll. live paper. I anticipate its 1lI'l‘l-
val more than any other of the 1.-u'ge,
number I take. ‘ The last number was 
better than ever. it was brim full of;
interesting and iinportant niuttcr. if
lieartlly approve of your “Postal Jot-1
tings” depurtinent. Through it iur-1
iners may gain inuch valuable infor-1
mzitlon. it is (‘X[lf,‘(7tf.‘ll the .=;istci's will 
furnish their share of the "Jott'iiigs."l

Who will be lirst? The season of pic-J
nics is zit lnnul. Our annual gltill(‘l‘lllg‘;
will be held at l.u\\'i'r-nee, .\,'I-pt. .7tll.5
lfiro. llolbrook will bc the n'[)'«.‘iiI\'t,‘l’.;

or rye is :1 good crop?

We expect :1 large ,‘-,"it'tllt.'l’lll,’," of l,’u1.— ,
rons and it good tinie. Soinc wheat
tlii'cslletl—_\‘ield froin six to ‘twenty ,
bushels. No rain since July Z.‘—iill, corn 
and beans need it. The prospect for ?
the apple crop grows loss and less. Al- 
most a frost on the niornlng of the 7th,?
Tllel‘lllI)1Llel.el‘ 1;’ above ficczing.
I). w. 4
I

We say outs are at good crop, whee‘.

Paw Paw, Aug. nth.

1
if outs is plu-Q
1'lll why not \vlicut‘f Will sonic reader?
answer? Tile proprietor of u thi'e~.~:lier -
lies just told me that wlicut turns out '
some lo bushels to the uci'e,in this;
“Weesuw towsnliip" 1.’-crricn county.
Some llclds report 25 or :10 per acre.
others that trusted to providence,
without showing faith by works, 0 or 7.
Coi'n is decidedly poor, and it is nearly
all waiting for something or somebody.
potatoes on dry ground tolcrably fair
in many places they were put to boil
before their time. Hay plenty and
going up since the mills, in good order.
Apples enough to do those who have
orcliurds. No peaches. The Gruiigc is
:2. good place in which to carry out the
suggestions of N. Vorliees, in the last
VISITOR, especially so far as lawyers
and politicians are concerned. We
think they should all be starved out
but a few of the fattest.
Wm. M. .I5YE1t:‘.

It has ruined so much in this section
that reupcrs cannot be used on account
of mud, and the old process of cutting
with the cradle has to be resorted to,
and if it continues raining much
longer, agreut deal of wheat must be
lost. Much bay has already rotted in
the field after being cut, and partly

‘ on Tliui'sdn_v Sept.

.30 per cent. damaged, some is considered.

worthless and left on the ground.
Yours Truly.
'1‘. N. TRAVIS.
Siunmerton, Mich, July 29.

I have anxiously waited for some.-

brother or sister of our Order to speak
a good word for our new Grange ball

through the columns of the VISITOR .

but as yet have seen nothing so I will
venture to say a few words. The hall
is a good substantial two-story building
26x52 resting upon a nice stone wall
and well painted on the outside. It is
comfortably furnished with lamps,
stands. and a fine organ. The greater
part of our members had no misappre-
hensions or confusion in accomplish-
ing their purpose of building a. ball.
but all worked faithfully and harmo-
niously together. The honors of suc-
cess have not been entirely confined to
the brothers alo..e, but the sisters took
an active interest in getting up enter-
Iaininents since last fall in aid of the
good work, and we are now out of
debt. Within the last year there has
been a larger accession to membership
than ever before. The meetings have
been largely attended and very inter-
esting. At our last meeting an essay
was read by Miss Helen Corwin, sub-
jecf: "My flowers,” which was very
creditable to the essayist and gave
much pleasure to the audience.
A. P. c.
Hudsonvil.e, August 4th, 1853.
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NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

   

The next meeting of Ioniu county
l’oiiioI1:t(ir:uige, .\'o. 16, will be held
at Berlin (lenter (irzmgc Hall on Tiles-
duy, Aug 21st, 1.4.93, coinincncing at 10
o'clock, A. M. All 1th degree inenibers
urc invited. 1;‘. 1’. WILLI.-\.\Is, Sec.

The next st-ssi<)i1 ofthe I3:1i‘ry county
I’oinon;i (}i':u1g<- will be held on l"i'i(la.y,
August '.’-1th and not on the 30th, as
ztdvertist-d in the lust Visrron.

In.\ M. SI..\w.-:o:\'. Lcc.

l’l:nili<-ld, Aug. otll, 1882.

r V The next zneetiny of Barry County

Grange will be
Grange hall, on Friday,

held at Riitland
August 31st,

commencing at 14» o'clock A. M. An
interestir g p.n:1__§rn.~ii I111’-ll)"("‘ ‘J[“€Dl1l'9lI
fort. cm-ca.-iozi. Let all 421. d-.,grce

niernlrer.-' a;tc:ivl that we "may have a
plea.-uiit as wzli as piofiulblee meeting.
W. 11. OTIS, Secretary.

The St. Joscpli (‘o.(,ii'u1)gc11:15:11’-
r:n1;,:vd to hold their zmnuul county
}1l4.'lll(: on the l':u'ni of llro. Win. 15.
Luigley tliree milesnorthol'Ccntl'evillc
in :1 g'1'ovciu-ur the St. Joe river on

5 'i‘liLi1'stluy. August the 2::rtl. J. J. Wood-

nlun, lion. Geo. L. -Ynplos and Rev.
l’et-kc will zultlress the people on ques-
tions of vital importance to l':n'nici's.
Letnooncl';tilto be present. who can
poSSibl_V spare the day.

A lllctétlllg of St. Joe County (lrznige
will be held at C-t,’llil'l.‘\'llIf.‘ Giuiigc hall
otli commencing at
in o,t-lock 1’. M.

S.\.u’i. ll. A.\'oi-;vi:vn.
St‘C1‘b‘ttll‘y.

Hillsdale Pomona Grange No. 10
will meet at Fayette Grange hall in
J onesville. on Wednesday, September
the 5-111, 1883

Program of exercises:

Music——Sister Mattie Monroe.

Rehearsal—Hattie McDougal.

Something of her own choice.—Sis-
ter J. B. Lindsey.

Music—by the choir.

Select Reading———Sister W. L. Smith.

Music.

Question for discussion —Whlch ex-

good or evil, man or wornan‘?—Opened
by Bro. Freeman, followed by Sister
Benedict. _

The neirt quarterly meeting of Alle-
gan county council, P. of H. will be
held in Orange hall, at Allegan, on
Tuesday, September the -1111, at 10
o’clock A. M. All P. of H. are invited.

The following program will consti-
tute the social order of the day:

Music at call.

l.——Address of welcome. Wm. Ely.

2.—-Response. Si;-ter L. E. Drake.

3.—What does a Patron mean by
co—oporation? Oliver Wise.

4.—What has been accomplished by
the Grange movement in Allegan
county in the last eight years, and

cured. Corn cannot be one-third of a
crop, as many fields have not been cul-
tivated ut-all. But notwithstanding
all these losses, which bear heavily on
the farmer, yet when he goes to the
store to get his family supplies, the
merchant cannot take at cent less than
his usual price. The bond-holder who
has a mortgage on his farm talks of
asking higher rates, because money is
tight. The doctor, the lawyer, and
oflice—lio1der, each must have his fee in
full without loss on shrinkage. Thus,
while the farmer feeds and clothes
them all, and pays them all, he must
bear all the loss, because, you know he
is the “mud-sill” of the whole struct-
ure. CORTLAND HILL.
Bengal, Aug. 1st.

The fruit prospect is very poor in
this locality. Neither plums, pears or
peaches of any account. Apples and
cherries are very few. Currents good
with ready market, where not injured
by the worm. A free use of Paris
green, on the bushes, when the worms
were first seen, destroyed the pest and
saved the crop. Berries nice and

abundant. The past week has been
favorable for the harvest of wheat.
That cereal is nearly all cut and is be-
ing put into stacks and barns very
rapidly and in splendid condition.
with us it isa % crop. The long wet
weather sprouted a. very few heads
of wheat. Potatoes and corn as a crop
will not average more than 50 per cent,
That universal pest the Colorado beetle
is more numerous this year, and cans-

what is the outlook for the future.
I. M. Granger.

5-—The apple orchard-—What treat-
ment shall we give trees and soil to
produce more perfect fruit which shall
not be wormy and knarled? H.
Shultes and Wm. White.

6.——-Woman’s work in the Grange.
Laura J ewett.

7.—Uncle Sam's pets. H. Whit-
more.

8.—The model Granger. H. Stock-
well, _,

6.7-Suggestions, resolutions and dis-
cussions for the good of the Order.

G. J. STEGEMAN,
Secretary.

The next regular meeting of the
N ew_aygo Ciunty Pomona Grange N o.
11 will be held at the Ensley Grange
hall August 21st and 22nd, commenc-
ing on Tuesday at 2 o’clock P. M.
The unfinished program of the last
meeting will be called first and fol-
lowed by essays and topics or discus-
sion in the following ord =r:

1.—-Why are not the principles and-
benefits of the Grange now generally
better understood and appreciated by
the farmers of the counr ry? Essay by
Mrs. S. V. Walker.

2.-—-The comparative productive
value of, sandy and clay soils.—L.
E. Wright.

3.—Bhould all laws for the collection
of debts be abolished‘?——N. Smith.

4.—What methods of Grange work
will tend to secure the best results?
—Wm. W. Carter.

5.—-Does a “protective tariff" pro.
tect the wool grower?-—N. McCallum.

6.—Ie it larger farms or better cul-
ture that farmers need?—George
Raider.

7.——What in this locality is the most
profitable crop that the farmer raises?
—Andrew Flynn.
MELVIN W. Sco'r'r.

ing more trouble than any previous

Lecturer County Grange..

erts the greatest influence for either’

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use {ensues vrsrren.

A UG UST 15, 1883.

firsliullurl Qerarlmul.

Healthy Apple Trees in Cold Climates.

To treat the subject fully in all its
bearings would require space much he-
Wnd the limits of one short article.

eknow there is much difference in
the capacity of varieties to endure se-
vere weather. yet under some circum-
stances, a tree of a tender variety may
perish. We have seen sound trees of
the Baldwin in the same orchard where
hardy varieties had apparently been
winter killed. The Baldwins had the

advantage. In one case, the writer has
in mind, the Baldwin trees in an or-
-chard were nearly all killed or nearly
killed, while. in another orchard less
than a half a mile away with nearly
the same elevation, the Baldwin trees
were uninjured. The soil of the first
was black loam, and relatively low
and flat; of the other, gravel and rela-
tively a little elevated.

To prepare trees to endure severe
weather, the writer would prefer to
set with pains in well prepared soil,
trees one ortwo ears old of some va-
riety known to e quite hardy, then
insert several buds or grafts of such
varieties as are desired in the tops of
the young trees. Set the trees leaning
towards the prevailing wind. Start
the tops very low near the ground.
Encourage a leader in the centre of
the tree. Thin the top moderately all
around the outside, no more in the cen-
tre than on the sides. Never cut off a
limb much if any over an inch in (li-
ameter, and avoid cutting any limbs
from a large limb. Rub off the youn
shoots if they are not desired. Eac
tree should have plenty of room; in
large varieties when twenty ears old
or more. as much as forty y forty
feet.

The rough bark should not be scraped
from the trunk orlarge limbs, as it at‘-
fords some protection. Bark lice and
other insects should, of course, be dili-

ntly kept off. The cultivation should

e varied according to the natiire of
the soil and climate, so that the trees
shall start off well in the Spring and
stop growing early enough to mature
the young wood and buds. This vrowth
can be controlled, in most cases, y till-
ing the soil more or less, by using or
withholding fertilizers. The growth
should be moderate, not rank nor
stunted.
' l:Vhile the trees are young, the sur-
face of the ground should be heavily
mulched for four feet each way from
the tree by some coarse porous mate-
rial, or by mellow soil kept so by fre-
quent cultivation. “Hood crops" may
be raised among the young trees, but
“sowed crops,” never.

In no case must a tree be allowed to
overhear. especially when young. The
best soil for apples is not black loam
or prairie. Most clay loams—g0od
strong wheat lands are excellent for
apples, provided always they are arti-

flcially drained.

Gravelly soil which produces good
wheat is also usually ood for apple
‘trees. One reason is t is, it is very
apt to be naturally well drained, and
very few farmers will take the pains
to tile land for an ap ,le orchard.

This importance 0‘ thorough drain-
age for healthy trees in a cold climate
needs to be emphasized. It is often
the key-note to success and the one
often neglected.

Another point of scarcely less im-
portance, is elevation or nearness to
some large, deep body of water. It is
important that the land be relatively
high when compared with other land
in the neighborhood. A difference of
150 feet in elevation has been known
to show within one mile. in a still cold
night. a difference of wventeeii de
grees.

From this elevation the cold air rolls
off like water down a slope.

If a person is obliged to plant ap-
ple trees on ground which is nearly
flat, it should be first plowed into high
ridges, the higher the better. Plant
the trees on the ridges. after they are
made and not make the ridges after
setting the trees.

The time has come when more atten-
tion must be given to a proper selec-
tion of site, soil and drainage if the
owner expects good returns for his la-
bor in planting and caring for an ap-
ple orchard.

The writer is searching for truth in
this matter, and if any man of expe-
rience who has grown an orchard suc-
cessfully in a cold country. will take up
anything which seems to him an error
stated above or will verify any state-
ment, iio doubt it will be read with in-
terest by 1nan_v who see the Revz'czv.—-

VV. J. Beal in Far7ners' Rcuiero.

The Reversion oi Sunflowers.

That the sunflower follows the sun
in its westward journey is well known,
but when does it turn its face back
again to the east in greet the morning
sun‘? Mr. C. A. White. of Washing-
ton, ina letter to nature, relates an
incident Will-“l_1 lhrows some iight up-
on the subject. Oneevening, he says,
during a short stay at a village in
the summer rf 1881, I took a walk
along the bank of a long irrigating
ditch just as the sun wassettir g. The
wild variety of Helianthus grew abun
dantly there, and I observed that the
broad faces of all the flowers weie, as
is usual in the clear sunset, turned to
the west. Returning by the same
path less than an hour afterward, and
immediately after the daylight was
gone, I found to my surprise, that the
greater part of those flowers had al-
ready turned their faces full to the
east, in anticipation, as it were, of the
sun’s rising. They had in that short
timeretrsced the semicircle. in the
traversing of which with the sun they
had spent the whole day. Both the
day and night were cloudless, and
npparenily no unusual conditions
existed that might have exceptionally
affected the movements of the flowers.

Idoubt not,_adds Mr. White, that
many persons iike myself have sup-
posed that sunflowers remain all night
with their faces to the west, as they
we when the sunlight leaves them.
and until they are constrained by the
light of the rising sun to theeast again.
It is not my purpcise to offer any ex-
" \_f_;- ‘ iii. ‘ ’ ..
corded, but it seems to me improbable
that it could have been an exceptional
instance; and I only regret that no
opportunity has occurred to me to re-
peat the observation.

 

11 - ot stains from win-
ao§ve§ili§i3y°¥§§bing with fine wood
ashes and rinse with clean water.

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

The fifty-fourth annual exhibition
will be held ii: Horticultural hall, Broad
street, Philadelphia, on VVednesday.
Thursday and Friday, 12, 13 and 14
of September, in conjunction with the
American Pomological Society, which
will be the guest of the Pennsylvania
Society. Circulars giving all the de-
tails, may be obtained, on the part of
the horticultural society, of A. W.
Harrison, Secretary, horticultural
hall; and on the part of the American
Society, of Prof. Beal, Lansing Mich.
Mr. J. E. Mitchell, 310 York avenue,
Philadelphia. as chairman of the com
mittee on receipts, will give all the
information desired on hotels and
transportation. Thomas A. Andrews,
Superintendent of horticultural hall,
will take charge of any articles for ex-
hibition addressedto his care. It is
expected that there will be a full meet-
ing of delegates from all parts of the
country, and it is believed that this
will be the largest and most useful
meeting ever held in this country.
The proceedings will end with a ban-
quet on Friday evening at six‘o’clock.
-Exchange.

THE experiments of the Hon. John
N. Dixon. of Iowa, in the way of
spraying the trees of his great orchard
with arsenic water to eradicate the
canker worm resulted rather unex-
pectedly in findinga sure remedy for
the codlin moth. The season after
spraying the trees 'ust as the apples
were forming resu ted in harvesting
40,000 bushels of fruit absolutely free
from worms in a year noted for wormy
apples. In securing this great crop
how much benefit accrued from the
use of the arsenic water in destroying
the thiip and other insects of the fruit
flower we have no present means of
knowing. It is quite evident that we
need careful trials and experiments in
this directlon.—Prof. J.L. Budd, Iowa
Agricultural College.

An English florist gives great credit
to soot, which he uses constantly by
placing a bag of it in water and apply-
ing the liquid. Besides its exeel:en't
fertilizing effect, it greatly assists. he
thinks, in warding offthe attacts of
insects, and The London Uardnerbr
Chronicle says his lants are “vigorous;
clean: wonderfully healthy.” Other
flower cultivators spread the same
generally wasted substance directly on
the surface soil of pots, especially after
chrysanthems are fairly started, and
the goodness is gradually carried
down to the waiting roots,

A WRITER in the Ga untry Ge-nlleman
states that he has positively driven
bugs away from his vines by putting
.i gallon of clean sand around every
vine. Where sand can be obtained
this is a very convenient protection
against a very bad enemy, and a sin-
gle trial may satisfy any one wheth-
er it is effectual.

 

Slanclrions.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial wants to know whether
it is best to finish his new barn with
stanchions, and the agricultural editor
answers as follows:

It will cost much less to ut up
stanchions, and the cattle and ozses
will get along under the same roof.
The stanchions for 9. dozen head of
cattle will not cost you more than five
dollars, if you do the work yourself,
for any man who can use a hatchet,
saw and auger can make stanehions.

We have stanchions that have been
in use ten years, that have never cost
a cent for repairs, and will last as long
asthe framework of the barn. Our
cattle are kept there during night,
ard allowed to run in the barn lot in
daytime, unless it is stormy, when
they are allowed to be out only long
enough to get water. A space thirty-
five feet long and ten feet wideis
large enough for ten head of cattle in
stanchiops. This provides for three
feet for feed box and seven feet for
cattle. From the stanchion, back to
the drop or trough where the
droppings of the cattle fall, is about
four feet. We find the cattle keep
clean if the space is not too long. The
cattle vary in length, and to accomo—
date this variation we have the stan-
chions at one. end three feet nine
inches "mm the drop, and the other
end four feet three inches.

For very large cows, which weigh
from twelve hundred to fifteen hun-
dred, we find four feet four inches
long enough. This trough for th-
droppings is six inches deep and six-
teen inches wide—is made of two-inch
oak plank and is water-light. By
using sawdust or dry earth for an ab-
sorbent, the stable can be kept clean
and 9. vast amount of valuable manure
made. The urine is by far the more
valuable, and also the more offensive.
So there are two good reasons for
using absorbents in the cow stable.
There are several advantages of stan
chions over sheds for cattle. In stan-
chions they are all treated alike and
get their rations and eat in peace.
The weaker have no fear of the
stronger.

In sheds the masters occupy the
sheds and monopolize the feed. The
weaker ones do not get their share,
and the stronger ones get too much.
The weaker ones have to stand out-
side of the shed.

By all means, put the cattle into
stanchions, where there can be quiet.
and comfort and peaceful feeding.

Cat-tle that are kept in stanchions
are more gentle, and do better than
those loose in the yard and shed,
where the masters keep the herd in a
state of fear and unrest.

"-‘he finest and completest dairy in
the New England States has stan-
chions for the cows, and they are all
pure-bred Jerseys. They are the pic-
ture of comfort and thrift as they
stand in the stable, clean and bedded
with straw or sawdust.

After cleaning the stables, we scat-
ter air-slaked lime about the solid
parts of the floor and drop twice a
week. With stanchions properly
built and with ordinary care and neat-
'.e.:~:. -I cow stable can be kept so as
not to be an offense to civil;' zed white
people.

In a week’s time the cows will learn
each her place, if they are required to
take them a few times, the larger
cows taking the longer spaces, so as to
keep the bed clean. As to feeding
corn-fodder to cattle in the stanchions
we find it more convenient than to

feed it out-doors. Tobe sure the re-

fuse stalks have to be removed each
day, but it is less work to do the feed-
ing, as the feed is near the cattle.

By all means put up the srancliions.
You will save in the first outlay, and
you will save feed, gain comfort and
quiet for cattle, and make more and
betier manure.

if you build a shed at all, try to
build it so he man-ire frrm the sta-
blcs can be wheeled into it; and if the
manure is kept level and tramped by
s-zock it will not firefang and bleach,
but be worth more than twice as much
as ifleft exposed to the weather. If
you can afford but one now, put up
the stanchions and next year build a
shed too. The shed for manure will
pay, and will he often most useful for
stock when in the yard.

Occupation for Women.

In last week's Review we published
an extract from the last census report
purporting to give the number of we-
men employed in all the leading occu-

ations in the United States. Singu-

arly enough, farmin , the occupation
of more than half of %he po ulation of
the country, was omitt from the
statement. As a comment on this fact,
we appended to the extract in question
an item of information regarding a
woman farmer, and a successful one
too. We have known quite a number
of cases of successful women farmers.
It is doubtless true that the inability to
herself perform much of the work on
the farm is a drawback to all but wo-
men who possess an unusual degree of
executive ability sufficient to overcome
this disadvantage. But there are many
kinds of farming which offer induce-
ments to those good women who desire
to support themselves, and right here
let us suggest to farmers,—-not wives,
they always have more than they can
do~but to farmers’ daughters who are
thinking longingly of situations in
stores or otiices in cities where they
will be able to earn ‘their own living
easily, pleasantly (1') that they will do
infinitely better by adopting some way
of maintaining themselves by their
own labor, which will at the same time
enable them to remain at home, and
which calls for such knowledge and
experience as may easily be gained on
the farm. Dairy work is admirably
adapted for woman farmers and there
is no reason why any farmer's dangli-
ter should not, if compelled to earn her
ownliving, become a successful dairy
farmer. Poultry raising is infinitely
more appropriate work for women
than clerking in a store, proof reading
01' reporting, and far more remunera-
tive. So with bee-keeping, and now,
with the improved facilities afforded
for its pursuit, silk culture. .\n
esteemed lady correspondent told us. a
few numbers back, of two plucky girls
who. left fathcrless, l'cpt a home over
‘heir own and their mother's heads by
market gardeniiig. All agricultural
papers have said a good deal, from time
to time, about giving the boys achaiice.
Now we say to our farmer readers and
friends, give the girls a chance. l)ou’t
ask your girls to toll on, from young
girlhood, without a chance for self-ini-
provement or self adornment, save
what they or their mothers must try
for. As girls grow up, doii‘t condemn
them to an unceasing routine of hous-
hold drudgery, unenlivencd even by a
bit of bright ribbon for their “bonny
brown hair.” Let the girls learn how
to cook, iron, wash and keep house
generally, but why keep them at that
anrl nothing else? If Jane can come
into the city, and earn inouey in an

ofiice, why not utilize her talents your-
self? She can save you many a dollar
by keeping your account books (per-
haps you do not keep any, but you
ought to, all the same): your poultry
account you know nothing about per-
haps; you have c gs, and occasionally
a o iicken. Now et Mary or Lucy take
charge of that; it will be better for
them than sweeping and ironing, and
they can make their pin-money out of
it, and contribute something toward
paying-a strong hired girl to (lo the
hard, rough domestic work. A farm
is a manufactory, and a counting-house
as well as a farm, and there is room l'or
all the iiitellgent help you can get. and
_voii can employ all young people. prolif-
able at home. but let them feel that
they are earning something for them-
selves as well as for you. and see if it
does not help keep them at home until
the right sort of a man copies a court-
ing, and then give the young people
your blessing and help them to gel flu-
start in the world which perhaps you
lacked yourself. and for want of which
there ai'e more gray hairs in your head
and your wife's than there ought to be.
——F(I'rmcrs' Review.

Farmers’ Horses.
Breeding fancy trotting stcc-k is all
very well for one who has plenty of
money} to spetnd and c-Fan] aflE'or(i_ to ‘ftlllll
up W11 1 nine .y nine .ai ures or . e
sake of one success.- But llllle ordinary
farmer can notafi'ord to indu go in such
costly recreations. He wants an an-
imal tbat will be servi<;Deable if he
keeps it, and salable if e wants to
sell. Such stock he finds in a cross
of the ordinary maie with the heavy
draft stallion. It gives him colts
which will earn their living on the
farm from the time they are two years
old; which will bring good prie.s
whenever he is ready to sell. and
which buyers will come after and pay
just as much money for if hitched to
the plow and ungroomed as if in the
stable and showing the most careful
grooming.——1v’arme-rs’ Review.

Honey Crop 51 Failure in Texas.

Our honey crop, so far. is a failure.
I have bad bees in such cc-ndition as
to surplus but once in 4 years. It
will not make half a a rep this season.
Horsemint as in bloom, and there is
plenly of it, but the weather has been
so unfavorable that the flowers se-
oreted no nectar. Everv hive is full
of be’-s, but we have no swarms (not
over 5 per cent.) and no honey.

\\..‘ 31. R. E ovvix 1: l).
Kingston, 'l‘ex., June 29, 188:3.

THE best test of a good farmer is the
thoroughness with which the manure
is cleaned out from his barn yard. The
odd places where rich deposits have
been accumalating for years, should
be cleared, and if this removes more
soil than can be spared, replace with
sods from the roadside, which when
saturated with manure, are the richest
kind of fertilizers. ’

TAKE up one by one the plain, prac-
tical duties that lie nearest to hand and

perform them as fast as possible.

Ensilage.

I do not know whether any of you
have ti led eneilage for feeding cattle. It
tears the same relation to the diet of
cattle as canned vegerablus do totlie r’i-
et ofman. It is I10Illl'zL-L‘ more than fod-
der cut up green and p:—.r—ked in an im-
mense tube called eiisilagc, and then
fed in a green state to ca'tle during
the winter. Many have been deterred
from trying it on account of supposed
expense, others because they thought
it was nonsense. I believe it is a pro
cess of great value to the farmer, and
will in time revolutir nize northern
farming. My experience was about
like this: \Ve dug a hole in a sand
knoll four feet deep and 12x16 feet, put
a drain of tile around it six inches deep-
er than the bottom. Plan ked the bot-
tom, and then put 4x4, 16 feet scant-
ling on every side and plunked them
inside and out with two inch plank.
We did not plank the edges, but I
should advise others to do so. I sowed
about two acres, on Jul ' 1st, 9. ltb corn,
broadcast. The land ad been poor,
but very heavily manurnl br-fore sow-
ing. On September I2 I cut it with an
ordinary mower. There were thirty-
twoloads of corn fodder, my farmer
thoughts ton to a load. I used a $35
feed cutter, placed it oufslde the barn
in which the silo had been built. An
elevator ran from the top of cutter to
the top of the silo, and was geared to
the cutter. The focder was thrown
from the wagon on to a table before the
cutter, and ran through immediately.
As fast as the corn was out the elevator
carried it into the silo, where two men
trod it down. The thirty two loads
were put into 8 space l2xl6“surface
measure” and 11 feet deep.

Planks were laid across the top of
:he, mass and from fen to fifteen tons of
stone placed on the plank. Within a
week the top'had settled three feet,
leaving the contents 12x16 and eight
feet d. op. This was not disturbed un-
till December 15, when a door was cut
into the side. The contents were fresh
and sweet. The cattle ate it with avid-
ity. After enough had been taken out
so that you could stand in the cavity,
it gave out an odor like an empty mo-
la:-ses hogshead. We fed twelve cows
and many colts, yearnings and two-

year olds from it. It was liked by
them all. We were not exact enough
to give your figures, but my farmer
was convinced that it went as far as
twenty ions of good hay—to put it
within bounds. 'I‘helumber amount-
ed to less than 4,000 feet measure. I
think two men could put it up in
three days. The cost was about $50.
The silo is a capital storehouse for
lodged cats or any crops which it is
difiicult to cure. Ra‘. her than have
hay rained upon and bleached, I
would put it into the silo.

Prof. Johnson, of the Agricultural
college, will mail you a copy of his ex-
perimen t, which you will find very in-
teresting. It was reading that which
induced me to try it. As for

FARM MACHINERY

I need not tell you that horse power is
c ea or than man power and nothing
shou d be done bya man one. farm
which can as W(ll by a horse. I be-
lieve that when a. man gets around to
it, he should have all these machines
whereby he can ride instead of walk,
and where horse power can save his
arms. lluman muscles and tissues
are too valuable to put in competition
with brute force. A man’s brain is of
far more value than his muscle on a
farm where he has to direct the labor
of others, and it is impossible fora
man to run his brain and muscle both
up to their full capacity at the same
time. Tobe sure reference must be
had to the size of the farm and its
character as to what machinery he
will use.——From Senator Palmerls Ad

dress before West Michigan Fcrrnzers’
Club.

Hay and Haying.

Well cured hay, whch will keep
bright and fragrant in the mow, can-
not be obtained by hastily drying the
cut grass and hurrying it into the
barn. Secretary Goodale, of M.ine,
who examined this question w th his
usual care, opposed the quick drying
of mown grass by exposure to sun-
shine and winds, which results in the
hardening and brittleness of the stalks
and leaves, and a loss of sweetness,
flavor and aroma. The deprivation of
water is not the only point to be con-
sidered. In grasses, at the proper
stage for cutting, we find the nutri-
iivejuices to hold niuch sugar, gum,
vegetable albumen, etc., which are ca-
pable of undergoing certain sponta-
neous changes in regard to the nature
of which we are very imperfectly in-
formed. One ofLhese—the process of
fermentation——is one or the most ob-
scure of all chemical processes, but
happily, although science may not yet
be able to explain fully all which oc-
curs, practice has not left us ignorant
of its results. It is a well-established
fact that a partial sweating of grass is
needful in the process of curing, in
order to develop and secure the best
properties of good bay. It is also
important that this should not be vio-
lent, but gentle and gradual in its pro-
grss, and that it be arrested at the
proper stage, as otherwise the changes
attendiugii; would result in damage
and loss. In such sweating, which
is a partial fermentation, there takes
place many different chemicgl chan-
gee.

The drying of grass in order to ob-
tain fhe best product of hay should be
gradual and corducted with as little
direct exposeure to the ‘un’s rays as
may be. The proverb which bids us
“make hay while the sun shines” has
its weak as well as its stzong side.
The experience of ages has agreed
with no controversy whatever that all
medicinal herbs are better dried in the
shade, and if so with medicinal herbs,
why not -equally so with nutritive
herbs‘? This, it is true,cannot be fully
accomplished with the hay crop, butthe

,m-ithod of curing in swefb and cock

is a near approach to it. This method
has long been in use for clever, but
while more imperatively necessary
for this and for course, rank herds-
grass, it may be adopted with very
decided, if not with equal benefit to
the great bulk of hay cured. The
preferable mode in all cases is believed
to beta let the grass lie as it fails, if
out by the mower, until th: ..g.lly
wilted; then, while yer. warm, let it
be raked and put in cocks of sufficient
size to take on a sweat, at the same
time not solarge as to induce rapid or
excessive fermentation in case the
weather provestoo wet to allow its

being opened. If thus put in cocks,

 

when only thoroughly wilted (not
dried), and these of moderate size.
and then let alone,there is little probe

bility of fermentation; while if rain
falls, and it be left alone, it is proba-
bly less liable to izjury from this
course than if left in any other way.

If on the other hand the weather
proves dry, we may be sure that
while the .-aveating goes on moisture
is evolved from the inside of the cock
as well as from the outside. A thick-
ening of the juices takes place with a
good degree of uniformity throughout
the mass, and in most cases, if opened
the next day, a comparatively short
exposure will sufiice to fit it for cart

ing home. It seems scarcely neces

sary to say that hay in the process of
curing should be seduousl guarded
against rains and draws, an this the
more so as it approaches a state of
fitness for the mow. If the soluble
portion be washed out by rain what
remains is little better than indigesti-
ble Woody fibre.—Ben Perley Poore
in Boston Budget.

 

How to Raise Big crops.

It has 0 len been asserted b ad-
vanced agriculturists that if W est.
either spring or winter, is sown in
drills, far enough apart to admit of
usinga horsehoe between the rows.
both to keep down weeds and loosen
and aerate the soil, the yir 1d might be
increased to a marvelous extent more
than it now is in this country.

In proof of this, a recent observing
and intelligent traveler in Belgium
gives the mode of culture there and
the yield, which sometimes, with very
favorable weather for harvest, reaches
as high as 160 bushels rer acre. This
is one of the most fertile, prosperous,
and most populous countries in the
world, supporting 481.71 persons to
the square mile, against 13 92 in the
United States and 2l6.62in Germany.
Winter wheat is a staple crop there
on their high priced small farms of
only an acre or two. Tie laud ir-
highly manured in Autumn, well
harrowed several times, and got into
the best possible condition. The grai
is sown in the fall in seed beds, very
thickly on the highest and best loca
tion, where it is not lzkely to be win-
ter- killed, or injured by any casualy,
such as overflowing or drowning out,
or smothering under the snow.

In the spring the main fields are
again dressed up and marked out in
drills the proper distance. VVhen the
wheat has grown sufficiently to be
moved, it is thinned out by being
taken up, separated from the thick
stools, and lanted in the drills with
a fool call 3 dibble, which makes a
hole the proper depth, into which the
Wheat roots are inserted, pressing the
earth tighl against them with the f.;ot.
This work is usually intrusted to half-
grown boys and girls, a man sorting
out the wheat plants in order that
those of the same size may be- placed
together, that the field may grow even
and regular.

When the plants have commenced
growing, the soil is thoroughly and
constantly stirred, either by means
of hand or horse power. Every weed
and all foreign plants are destroyed,
and nothing but what is wanted, the
article itself, is allowed to grow.
There are very seldom any exte: sivr
failures of crops thus carefully and sci
entifically grown. The yield is a
quantity never imagined or heard of
in this country, and the crop always
and surely pays the cultivator.

It is asserted that such pains would
not pay to apply to crops in this coun-
try. But do we not go to the opposite
extreme? Has it ever been tried here?
It certainly would pay satisfactorily
if applied to choice varieties in small
quantities, about to be used for seed.
It is certainly better to fill one acre
and get a crop now raised on four
acres, lhan to try the four and only
raise half»;-. crop, which is now so of-
ten the case here.—il[£ll2'ng World.

Importation of Holsteins.

Mr. B. 15. Lord. of bfinclairville, (‘ha-
tauqua, Co., N. Y., landed recently one
hundred and six llolsteins, an importa-
tion selected wholly by himself‘ wiflics-
per,-ial referciice to the wants of breed-
ers. In the number there are animals of
the very highest excellence, purchased
without regard to cost. One of the
cows, but five years old, has a milk
record of ninety-nine pounds. Mr.
Lord has crosse<l the ocean. out and
back, every year since 157:), when he
made the first importation and has bad
surprising good i"o1‘tuue, both in his
selections, and in landing all without
the loss of a single animal or even iii-
jury to the cows udders, a very corn-
mon occurrence in the passage. His
remarkable success is due, doubtless,
to the personal care which he gives his
cattle. On ship-board the cows in
milk have as regular attention as if
they were in his own stables. They
are not trusted to subordinates, for the
watchful eye of their owner is upon
them, and the milking is done with ex-
act care, thus avoiding risks that in
other iuanagenient frequently lead to
serious losses. Last year Mr. Lord im-
ported more than a hundred animals,
many of them of great. value. and has
sold a large part of that importation,
with many others brcd on his farm.
He has one cow at home that produced
on dry feed last spring eighty-six
pounds of milk in twerity-four hours,
and the butter productin a week ran
up to eighteen pounds. It is no matter
of surprise that Mr. Loi'd’s Holstelns
have rapid sale, for he has exhibited
great skill in selections, and what is
even more assuring to the buyer is his
strict integrity that makes the guaranty
valid. A record supplied with a sale
is with him the safe expression of
truth. reasonably sure to be proved in
subsequent use, thus establishing confi-
dence, an essential _requ1site to that
business standing which honest breed-
ers prize higher than temporary
protits.—1{usbuncl)nmr.

THE VVest Point Enterprise claims
that the peach farm of Mr. Parnell,
six miles below West Point, Gm, is
the largest in the world. The orchard
covers 700 acres and contains 125,000
peach and a number of other trees.
Mr. Parnell is a brother of (‘burles-
Steward Parnell. the I ’ agitator.

L 1-lb‘ oo.ton mill recently established
ii. Charleston, S. C., has been ship-
ping yarns. the product of its 10,000
spindles,to Northern cities for months.
These shipments of yarns are now
supplimented by the shipment of cloth ,
the first maufaetured in Charleston
for more than a quarter of a century.

Should the Government Own the Telegraph
Lines?

At the annual meeting of the Xa-
tional Board of 'l‘r;u1e, held at. Wash-
ington, in .lauuar_v, resolutions were
passed favoring the establisluneut by
the l'nited States Government, of a
postal telegraph and telephone, and
urging upon the Forty-seveiitli Con-
gress the early consideralion of this
question. That this action was wise,
we have never for a moment doubted.
We firmly believe that the interests of
the public require that the Government
should obtain control of the whole
system of electric conimimication.

We are aware of the objections urged
a ainst sucha. olicy. The ar ument
a vanced .in former years t at the
power of the Government should be
limited, has lost its force in these days
when corporations rival the Federal
Government in power.

Compare the cheapness and eflicie" cy
of the postal service with the expen-
sive management of the telegraph com-
panies, with their plethoric capitaliza-
tion. consisting largely of water; their
vexatious and unnecessary strikes, and
the dangerous power they wield in per-
verting, suppressing, or exaggerating
telegraphic reports for the press.
There maybe wisdom in withholding
from the general government power
when power is not necessary for its
welfare, but when corporations assume
such proportions as to be able to sub-
ject millions of people to loss and in-
convenience, and deprive them of an
agency of communication, which each
year (comes increasingly indispensi-
ble to civilization; when the power of
corporations rival the very power of
the government itself, then the cry of
centralization ll(’C(lll1(‘S absurd, and
the government should promptly as-
sume thc control of the telegraph line.-2.
—.Iu.~.:hf(-e.

Resolutions.

The Board of trade and ’l‘ra.nspoit;‘.-
tion held a meeting soon after the tele-
graphers’ strike bad rs.-.\'e;;lr-rl its full
proportions, and adopted the following
cxpressioii of opinion:

'\\'iii«:i:n:As. A diflcrcnl,-e of upllllnll
as to wages between operators and
telegraph coinpanics has resulted in
it strike, with consvqiient interruption
of tclcgmlnli sci‘vlce, causing serious
incouveniciice and loss to the public:

/i’(’.s‘()v’I‘(’.d, "but this l)IlSlll('SS, being
public in its nature, cannot be treated
as u. didcrcncc of opinion between pri-
vate einploycrs and their einployr-cs
would be treatcd,tlzaL the public in-
terest is paramount to all otliers, and
the public should not remain silent in
a case where a great corporation lias,
by repeated consolidation:-1, acquired a
virtual monopoly whicli enables 1: to
dictate terms to a large class of edu-
cated laborers. \\'e are, tlie.efore.of'
the opinion that this strike should be
at once ended by both parties submit-
ting their differences to :1 board of ar-
bitration which might be composed of
three operators, three directors of the
tele raph companies, and the l’reside.it
of t re New York Board of Trade and
’I‘ranspoi'tation, a majority of which
should rule on all f]lleS[l()llS~—l)l' indeed,
any other board of arbitcrs which
would fairly represent the three par-
ties in interest.

[i?esolm:(l, That a company which has
virtually doubled its stock without
equivalent within two years, and is
now paying six per cent dividends in
defiance of law upon a mass of ficti-
tious stock unparalleled in the history
of stock watcring—a company which
has within two years through pooling
and combinations doubled the price of
ocean tclegraphy and stifled competi-
tion on land,ought not to crowd do\vn
their operatives to a price lower than
the U. liovcrnnicnt pays f‘lllpl()_V'l‘S
of similar intelligence and grade in
the postal service.

limo/¢r(;(l, That the [)l'(‘Hfflll.- situa-
tion in connection with the stock-wa-
_teriug operations of telegraph compa-
nies under corporate iiianagcment,
thereby furnishing an excuse for (-.v-
ccssivc rates for telegraph service, fur-
nishes a fresh illusti'at.on of the pro-
pricty and Iiccessity of the postal dc-
partmr-nt at once constructing a system
of lilies upon the plan proposed by the
bill introduccd in Congress at the last
session by Hon. .l. A. Anderson, or_by
the Ilurcliase of existing lines at a cost
not to -excel-il the expense of duplicat-
ing tliem.

lies-olvcd, That the views expressed
at the Gem-ralTerm of the .\‘uprc,-me
(,‘our.'. of the State of New York, in
the freight liandlers’ strike (copy of
which islu-reby submitted). are in the
opinion of this committee identical in
principle with those involved in the
strike of the tclegraphcrs, and while
tlreffoiirts furnish us adequate speedy
relief, their aid should be invoked un-
less steps are speedily taken to remove
the present difficulties in an equitable
manner.

Telegraph Resolutions.

A1‘ a recent meeting of the Execu-
tive Coimnittee of the State Anti-.\Io-
nopoly l.ea.gue, the telegrapher’s strike
was considered with the following re-
sult:

Wiii;i:i~;As, ’l‘lictelegrapliers of this
country have struck for living wages
against the cxactions of a great cor ora-
tion, that, through successive com ina-
tions and consolidations. has acquired
monopoly which it apparently thinks
enables it to defy justice in compensa-
ting_its em loyes, and disregardits duty
to the pu he by levying excessive
charges to pay dividends upon quadru-
pied capitalization. .
I1’.w.s-olverl, That this (‘omrmttee de-
clares its sympatliy with the striking
telcgraphers and its allmii‘a.t_ion for the
peaceful, sober and dignified way in
which they have organized and acted
to maintain the rights of educated labor.
Rcsolm-.(l.'l‘liatwe 1‘(‘&lllll‘Ill the dec-
laratioii in the objects of the ’Anti-mo-
nopoly League favoring the establish-
ment of a postal telegraph and telephone
which will be beyond the machina-
tions of financial freebooters whose
only object is personal or corporate ag-
giandizemeiit.

“Pnoi-‘. Huxley holds that an acre
of good fishing ground will yield
more food in a week than an acre of
the best land will produce in a year.”
An acre of ground might produce a
great many worms; but any small boy
could tell Huxley he must look to the
water. for fish. »

 

CUPPLES, Upham & Co., of Boston,
have the publication of 9. series of bi-
ogi-aph.es entitled "The Lives of the
Great and the Good.” All the states-
men and star routers want to come in.

I


AUGUST 15, 1883.

snngenanen Hers-es.

Gflrmmnniratiuns. '

 

THE FAT SALOONIST.

When beer and whiskey formed a plan
To make a. consequential man
That was the time when I began
To be a fat saloonist.

The tapers know me all around
They gather where the pap is found
And every rummy in the town

Will greet the fat saloonist.

And all who see me I suppose

Admire the beauty of my noee

That blossoms like a summer rose
To deck the fat saloonist.

I keep a merry liquor shop

And sweetly smile on all who stop

To pay me for the tempting drop
I'm such a gay saloonist.

I draw them in the best I know

The young and old the high and low

I teach them here the way to go
I'm such a good saloonist.

The boys will gather here at night
And drink all round till they get tight
Then finish with a glorious fight

To cheer the fat saloonist.

The rum wrecked loafer con1es‘to me
With inwards dry as dry can be
I soak him when he has the fee
To pay the fat saloonist.

I store him in some cosey nook

And tend him as I would a duke

Serve him with grog and clean his puke
I'm such a kind saloonist.

The tippling farmer passes by
And drives across the street to tie ,
But comes around upon the sly
To see the fat saloonist

The high-toned tippler trim and neat
And luckless lounger, the dead best
And gurgler, waiting for a treat

All love the fat ealoonist.

There are some people in this place

Who say I am a rank disgrace

But such small gabble goes to waste
On this immense saloonist.

They call my business low and menu

But cannot say that I am green

When I grow fat an (1 they grow lean
I'm such a ripe sztloonist.

Some temperance people pass me by

And to my nod make no reply

But throw contempt from out each eye
To daunt this fat saloonist.

They prate of misery, shame and sin

And. such like fruit of rum and gin.

But this old chap don’t care a pin
I'm such a true saloonist.

Come topers all you jolly lot

Who keeps for you this happy spot

Where wind and money goes for rot.

It is the fat saloonist.
-——J. W. Kelley.’

Berlin, Mich.

 
   

The intelligence in it is all the Dignity There
is in Labor.

In my last I spoke of the new edu-
cation which includes a training of
the head and hands together.

Prof Bale-ntine,of Maine Agricuitur
al College, said some good things the
other day.

"Every farmer is to a greater or less
extent a scientist, whether his con-
clusions be true or false, whether he
reasons from correct or incorrect data.
the process is the same. Education
only makes him more obsirving,
teaches him to observe the phenomena
of nature accurately and to trace the
relation of cause and effect with great
er certainty. In a word, I would say
that science is eminently accurate
and practical.

Prof. Balen tine speaks of the social
rank of farmers in former times, and
says, “I hope the time is not far dis-
tant when the various iufluenres that
are acting to elevate and dignify ag-
riculture, will have so accomplished
their object that the farmer will no
longer deem it a compliment to be al-
luded to in the politcal harrangue of
those desiring to be elected to office, as
the brawn and sinew of the land; for
the ox has more brawn and sincw
than he. Let them tell us, too, mo.e
of the dignity of intelligence and less
of the dignity of labor, for all there is
dignified about labor is the int-ellgence
it exhibits.”

The late President Uhadbourne,said,
“Education will increase the produc-
tiveness of farming, will make it
surer in its results, and will make it
an intellectual as well as a manual
employment.”

The best teaching in natural science
“is simply giving the thirsty a chance
to drink.” zudents should be trained
more than they are taught. In the
words of the New York Tribune,
“Teaching communicates ideas, train-
ing forms habits. Teaching imparts

knowledge; training develops power.
In teaching, the adult explains words,
in training he shows methods. Under
teaching, the child hears what is said.
Under training, he learns how to do
it himself.” Training is food which
gives ability to acquire information
and shows how to use it. This gives
power which is much more value
than information._

Pupils should go boschool to acquire
knowledge, the habit of study, and
gain power over the mind. Of these
three, power is of most value and
knowledge the least valuable, but all

three can be gained at one time.

Does it pay to acquire a good edu-

cation? And by this I mean‘, some-

thing beyond what can be had in our
common district schools. Probally
the majority of people do not believe
that it does pay, or else they
do not know that such education is
within their reach.

There area great many things to
draw children from school, and but,
few inducements directly offered to
keep them in school. The vacations
are too long; they are needed to work;
the schools are not interesting; chil-
dren naturally like independence and
long for the time to come when they
shall earn all the money they need.
They want to start in business for
lh-inselves. They leave school early
and are not likely to ever get back
again. After they are older most of
them, when too late, see their mistake.
I am almost. daily meeting with such.

Not long ago, a man, perhaps thirty
years of age, wrote me from a distance
of 800 miles. He was an entire stran-
ger. He was married, had a wife,
two children and parents to support.
When young he had been obliged to
work hard, but he had now made
some money and asked if it was too
late to learn at college. Encourage-
ment was given and now the man is
doing well in trying to make up lost
time. For this sacrifice of money,
time, absence from his family, he will
no doubt, during all the rest of his
life feel amply repaid.

He studies with a purpose and
makes excellent progress. All honor
to such a persevering young man!

Parents are too apt ti» place great
stress on money or a large property
and too little on education. The pos-
session which “gives power, privilege,
health, influence and happiness.
Flames cannot burn it, or floods wash
it aw-y. The constable cannot levy
upon it, or the sheriff‘ seize it. It is
the only riches which cannot take to
itself wings and fly from us.” Why
is it not more generally sought.

W. J. BEAL.

 

What Have Farmers to Do with Politics.

The trouble is. rezidcr. that they do
not manifest sullicicut interest in po-
litical affairs (we do not mean mere
p:i1't_vcoi1te.st>') to inform themselves
as to the l11el‘ll’.S of questions of most
vital importance to tliciuselves as pro-
ducers, and to the cominouweultli. the
govermueut of which they mainly
support. Because of this indifference,
they are constantly used by desi uiug
men to further their personal ambitious
schemes. What class of citizens can
possibly have 21 deeper interest in good
government than the owner of the soil
and the producer of wealth?

The politics of the present day have
degeiiciuted into a mere personal con-
test for otlice, in which certain pre-
sumptous indiv iduzzls assume to claim
as :1 right, their own elevation at the
hands of the people who have acquired
the habit of tamely surrendering their
high sovereign right to choose their
servants, and of allowing the amibitious
ollice-seekers, as it were, to force them-
selves upouthcm. liow l‘il.1‘€ly do the
people make A voluntary selection of
their repicseiilalivcs, whether for the
State or national assembly, or for the
(iuberuatorizil chair) Too often the
choice is limited to the selection from
the number of those who have the pre-
sumption to claim the riglit to serve
thc people, and not from those who are-
best littcd by reason of cli:u'acter and
other quziliiications to execute the will
and promote the best interests of the
people whose scrvzuiis they are.

Who are responsible for this state of
affairs. the voters or the czuulillut-.-5‘:
We say most enipli:iticall_v, the voters
who fail to c_\’ei'cise the l’O_V&ll preroga-
tive of sch-ctiug—uot thcll‘ 1'ulci's——but
their SeI'\'iLlltS, according to the tlie0r_v
of our go\'c.ru1uci1t which was institut-
ed by the pcople. for the people-. and uot
for the bcuelit of those whom they see
lit to compliment with otiicizil position.

If the arricultural people of the
country wilionly take the trouble to
inform themselves in i‘cgar(l to their
best interests (their interests are iden-
ticul with those of tlie,peoplc>_. and se-
lect oflicials who will use their unlu-
ence to promote these interests, we
will have a practical good government
and a prosperous people, We need in
oliice practical progi'cssi\~'e men,
thoroughly identified with the pl‘UtlIlL'-
tive iiidustrics of the c0uutr_v. States,
like individuals, are respected and in-
fluential in proportion to their wealth
and prosperity.—Soutlier-n I2‘/rte;-pi-Isa.

_____._______________

. The Great Bridge.

This whole work——bridge. ap-
proaches, anchorages, railroads. de-
pots, and ail——co~st sixteen million
dollars in money and thirteen years
of time. What is the grand result‘?
Is it worth all this? How many peo-
ple can use it in a day‘? Let us see. On
the approaches the bridge is one hun-
dred feet wide. On the suspended
partit is eighty-five feet wide. This
gives room enough for two lines of
teams on each way, or four in all.
All the teams going in one direction
take the right-hand road, the heavy
teams on the outside, and the lighter
ones on the inside. The two roads
will allow one thousand four hundred
and forty teams to pass in an hour, or
fourteen thousand four hundred and
forty in ien hours. There will be
eighty cars on the railroad, and twen-
ty cars can travel on the bridge at
once. When all are running, eighty
thousand people can cross in an hour.
The grand promenade will hold ten
thousand people at one time, and for-
ty-fivethousand people can cross on
footin an hour. The total length of
the walkis five thousand nine hun-
dred and eighty feet, (nearly a in le
and a quarter), and of this one thou
sand five hundred and seventy-five
feet are included in the span above
the river.—From the “Brooklyn
Bridge.” by Charles Barnard, in the
July St. Nicholas.

 

IT is a poor law that will not work
both ways. Speaking of star route
robbery, Bob Ingersoll says the worst
feature in the whole business is that
the courts cannot convict the men
who plead guilty.

; one can remain who sI..uiuu<>us an asso-
:('l2lI.e be-fo1'c tlicc-ourts of jllSlll’9, un-!

Wliilt-only one bushel in .\~:‘.!‘ll Hf--l(,‘l'Il!81lt‘ll1SlUllllllli Ill“‘l'(? is no spot
the ’\\‘ll(‘.2lL crop oi the l.VliIl.‘t‘.ll .\_‘..=.'.c.-' l.~.'_ uiid.-,-r the (‘«-u.-atmitiou wln-re the laws}
recs-1v<'d by the: l’m«lu(:c l;xcll;ii;gr- oi ,‘ oi Ilw land are not iu onlcr. The pill»;
New York, its il':l(ll:‘l':~' l.u_v and .-"n-ll  lic ulna‘. buy its S9Clli‘lill‘5 of the stock;
two for every one that <-mix.-5 out off l‘:.\L‘ll2ill,L{(‘: the world iuu:-t sro to the‘
the ground. ‘“v'l'lt']i the <::)il'Hil pl:uit;i—l llo;u'd_of 'l‘r:ule to bug.‘ its food. and the
tions of the south ;.'i««l<led la-5:4 tli;i.u_.s1x ; A ITI(‘l‘l<'.'«lll iariuc-r must sell his crops
million llilltfb‘, the crop on tho I\ew * lllt‘i":‘. Hut, for all that, tile)’ claim to
York Cotton I]‘iX('liil.ll,(.{€ was Iiluorc than be *ivoli1int'.i1'y ussor:iatimis.“ iutreuchcd
tiirty- wo iui ions. Oil we s un- un- wit llll iues pic-kt-ted :1 sin.-t the law.
ce.1'_tain, but the flow on the l’ctrol<-um The .\'O\'t‘l‘(*,lgllI_V' to \\'glil(‘ll the Pro-
Exchanges of New York. Brzulford, diicc E.\'('il%illg‘(’2iIl(llll€ Stock lixchzuise
au1d()il(3ty ucvlelr lit-situtcs. tPef3nn- zsipire llgs lifitfllf (,“"01]fe1‘l}'(‘(l upon the
sy Vania oes we to run tweu y-‘our iica o ioar o ' rade )_V' on unbro-
millions of barrels in ii year, but Xew ken ll§lP of decisions by the Supreme
York City will do us much in two Court of Illinois. Year after year,
small rooms Ill ouc week, and the l’e— those who liav_e been cornered on the
troleum I‘..‘(CIl:tlig(‘S soldnltogether last llozird by its l'l(.‘h syndicates have ap-
year two thousand million barrels lil pealed to the Supreme Court, some-
tlie Luitcd >Itut_es. ’‘ * * times_ for prevention of the wrong,

One of the tliings that would be new sometimes to remedy it. The monoto-
to Solomon, if he livcd to—day. is thc nous response of the judges has been
part played by the modern Excliangc that the lloard was a voluntary 3.350-
in the distribution of the products of ciation, and that it was not amenable
l2l.l)0I‘,.‘«iIl(l tilel‘e(llSl.:ll)lltl0il‘0f\V6&l.ltl’l. to the courts. The latest decision,
The honest industry that builds up our Just handed down, IS 21 complete abdi-
grent fortunes is raising wheat and cation of all the rights of the State to
pork on the (Tlucn 0 Board of Trade, exer(-isenuy judicial supervision over
mining on Cl1i3.\'8.ll rancisco Stock Ex- this corporation, though created by it.
change, building railroads in Wall Its effects will be felt to the farthest
street, sinking oil wells in William point where it bushel, of American
street, and picking cotton ip’IIa.no}yer whlelnt or it barrel of Chicago pork
Square. _ * * * ‘iese Jx- see as :1 consumer.
changes are the r-rezunerics of the * * * -~
world} pf lalxilr. ’l‘be lpfipes of tthp I l1tSef.‘.1Il.*llliCl‘i’(llll)l(? that this should
specu :1 ive w cut itlll e spec la )8 aw in any civi ized commuuit , but
bog of the Board fix those of the real it is low in the whole i'0od v¥'01'ld.
wheat and the actual bog of the field. This is more than Illinois law. There
The nrpgro lplauter loflffleorgizi. lwlio flI‘e}_l'€1iIiS wlbeu one mill) in cvciy three
raises isbnetmda is must so it in Iugnm, and one man in every
for what the Cotton l<I.\'cl1;uige says it twenty in France. must, livc on Ameri-
is worth. The man who works in the can wlu-ut, and every one of them is
ground must take the price fixed for deprive-d, by I.lllS(lP\'lSlOll, of the pro-
bim by the man who works in the uir. tcction oi‘ the law in buying his food.
No one can understand the "coruc1"‘ liuycix-' have no right if scllers have
who does not comprehend the develop-_ uoue. l);u1t.<- saw written over tlic
Iuentuud 1'6-.a<:li of the Exchanges of door of hell: "..\ll hope abandon, ye
our tlmc. who enter lit-1'6-..' On the tliresliold of

The uiaiiuf'ncLurcoi' prices, likc other the liourd of 'l‘r:ulc, the Produce Ex-
moderu imlustrie.-1, is b-.—iug couccn- clmugc, nnd the >'tock Exchange, is in-

Making Bread Dear. i

*  '-" IF

tratcd into vast €h't£l.l)llSlllli6lltS, ;iud_ scribed: "Your1'1'glits resign within
these airep-.tssxi1g under the mile of these mill.-‘.‘ ,
bosses and s_vn(lic-ates. The markets, *3 ’-= i‘ >’ >i * 

By the usc ‘Llic l':XL‘ll.‘lll,f2,'€N have muilc
ofiliis p1'i\'il«-gc of buying courts of
their own---wliicli. in the cztsc of the
food 1u2u'k<>ts. under pretense of set-
t1iii;.:«lill'crcnct-s among tlic Iil(‘llll)L‘l'S.
lit:-rally permit tlicm to rob the world
of its daily lu'c;ul+-tlii-._v liuvc invited
tlieiudignzuit ii1tci‘fcrc11c(-oi‘ the public.
.-'1iiiii11ui'j\' l.1'll)llll:ll.\‘. the Stock 'lCx-
clizuigc. the liourd of 'l‘r‘.u1e-, Llu-l’1'o-
duce l~I.\*L-luuigc must luivc, but they
must not be Slll‘ll tribuuzils as tlicse.
The trunk liuc i';u'lro;ul.s' luivc put rail-
roaul civilization ziliczid 21 gcucrzttioii by
ill)&l.ll(lOlllll,'.E privulc war zuid rcl'erriug
lllUll'(]ll£ll'l‘ClS to the ;u'bitrutio11 of Sllltll
n uuui as (.‘lmi'le.-2 l“i';uicis Adzuus Jr.,
on oulsidci‘. expert and just. borne-
iliiug like this must be done to civil-
izc the coinlmts ou the lloiird of 'l'r:idc.
All the nuiikcts nrc being p:u':ili7.ed by
manipulzitioii. Tlicy can be savctl only
1.5- the cslziblisluucut of tribunals. of
coxupctcut and disiiitcrestcil men. to
settle the disputes that arise in the
course of business and (.'ztl1il()l'. wait for
the courts. These oilicial arbitrators
could be 1l.SSlb‘t(‘(l, if need be. by arbi-
trators clioscu by the disputzuits. ’l‘li~y
should be cinpovn,-1'cd not only to re-
ceivc evidence il.S our judge.-s do. but,
uul kc them, to send out for any evi-
dence that they wzmlcd. Above all.
the suprciu;icy of the law should be
:l.(:kll0\Vl£‘(lge(l, and the sacred princi-
ple cuforccd that he who asks equity
must do equity. If an outsider can
solve l’;tlll‘U£l(l dlS[)lll€S——tlle most intri-
history of business. The cliilniliéll cute that 2tl‘lh'€lllitlly lmsiiiess,--Bouril
ricb,—-those who il.])1)l'()pI'lil.t(£ the labor of ’l‘r2ulc issues can be settled as easi-
of otliers in ullf‘, age by brute strcu;:tli. ly. 'l‘l1ose who desire to prevent gum.
and in another by brute wc:iltl1,— who bliug mid plundering from becoming
are to-day dcgra.diug compctitiou into the chief ends or 1119 Exchzulges can do
11-I'i\'2llI'y of .\dultcr2itio11. are seizing nothing more useful tluui to bring
upon tlu,-m for pct.-ulative purposes. them back within the _iurisdict.iou of
The C0IltI‘01 UT’ ill‘? III?!’-'bi1Hi1'Y Of UN)‘ the law. The <'o1irts have disciplined
lixr-hziug.-;es is the (.'UIltl'Ol of prices, and the (‘ouuuou L‘,;n-1-ier for gem-1-;mon,\-;
the control of prices is the (‘t)lll.1‘_Ol of it is tiiuc to bring tbc(‘.om1nou 'l‘r;ule1'
property. lnmzirkcts whei'<- the cub wiihiutlie fold. None but national
tou crop.2iud the wheat cl‘-JD. and tho re-gubitiou will do this (-flcctually. if
P01'k l’1‘0‘1Ut‘t Of the \V11016C<-llIltl‘,V cam New York attempts to control the
bc turned over half 2|. dozen or it dozen evil, it will ciuigrzttc to Cliicago, and
times in 21 year, it is an easy thing fol’ Illinois could only drive it to St. Louis.
21 combination to get hold of the iuar- \\-‘hen (;;L1)itulist,s‘ combine irresistibly
kelilblfi’ sllfl-1118 illld dictate its }‘)1‘iC0. ugziiiist the pt‘(1pl9,tlle ilovcriiiutant,
The “iiltc.s‘t" in the mule work zirc which is the peoples combination.
tliosc who lld\'(.‘ learned the magic art must tul-:c them in l1uml.——1[cm-y 1).
Of flit‘ lllilllllfild-Ill‘? Of Prices. ‘rind 1118 Lloyd in Nor!/1 A/III.’/'[r¢f,('/L lfcvizlx for
lixclizmgcs are shifting the p1'opc1'ty 11,5,/Lu,-¢_
of smaller men into their hands. ———~——— —- --

’l‘lie;1'i"cutest of tlie.-sc price factories Preach versus Practice,
is tlic(‘l1ic:ig"o Board of Trade. ——

* -‘~*~ * * * *  nv 5. R. CLARK‘

“Thomas, will you let me have one
dollz.-.r this morning?” Asked Mrs.
R:le,I, with the air of one who was
petitioning for a commutation of a
previous sentence.

“A dollar!” ejaculated the person
addressed as '1‘om. "Why‘I gave you
fifty cents the day before yesterday.
and twenty the day before that, and
the Lord only knows how much last
w~ek,” and he set down his empty
C\ lice cup more forcibly than politely,
while his forhead assumed the ap-
p(>a- ance of a corrugated wash board.

“Only ten cents for postage,” timid
ly interposed Mrs. Riley. That extrav-
r.gan«3e apparerrly overpowered the
irate and irritable Tiiomas. for after a
while he asked pre-emtorily:

What do you want ofa dollar?”

I wish to subscribe for a paper. I
would like it very much. and it is in
ex pen:-ivc—only a dollar!”

“Mebby it’s cheap as dir-! I don’t
know nothing about that; but, Mary,
we must economize. There’s no work
this spring and you are wanting mon-
ey all the time for everything under
the sun, You must economize, I say,”
and the man endeavored to look as
wise as be felt.

"Yes dear, I try L0 be prudent,” he-
roically put in the little woman,
whose faded garments bore testimony
to the truth of her words.

“'l‘hat is what you always say, but
you use an enormous amount of sugar,
and want a pair of shoes every month
or so.” .

"Only one pair a year, dear,” ag -.i.u
ventured the voice, which sounded
materially stronger, as indignation
naturally arose, as her husband reca-
pitulated what he termed (»x,rava- 
such dccisioii, auid will nullify it by 1‘e- g3‘"‘5e- ' |
fusing to accept the purchaser usa H’ ‘D-‘W1 tyoll BUPPOS‘-‘ I know? when
mi-.1ubcr, when he comes up for his US Sligar and Sh0f*-‘, and 811098 and
election, which is ordiun.1'il_v :1 inattei‘ SUSBT 3” ‘he W3)’ ‘JOWD the C01|1mU.
of course. The courts of Illinois, lius- When 1 €_.‘0 '30 390318?”
tuning to do for the Board of Trzule "Y3" ~,-’-Li --‘U fur the.cbildre11.
what the New York Stock ,l<l>: -’ -_ ,, \I‘J‘uW. l‘h9y’l":3110tm1n6-I” _
is trying to do for itse-H’ - decided’ Mebby they re for the neighbors-
that .'... .11 the liomu ..’hicuare every I don’t know; only there are heaps of
week bought and sold are not property them. You must economize.”

The social consequences of this status “Yes. dew; but W0l11f1I1’t it be Well
of these Exchanges sca.1'cely need be for us all to? ’ _ _

pointed out. These are the greatest “Are you insinuating thatl do not,
markets in the world but they are not Mrs. Riley? I would like to have
open markets. No one can come in you point out a man that has better
who comes in by way of the law. No calkerlation than I've got! I’d like

like political pzirties are run by tbs-
Mitcliiue. The people ztrc losing the
power of lllilklllg prices as well as
iioiuiuutioiis. The “Free lri-.:il<f;isL
Titblc" pays tribute to sonic clique-.
wlietliei‘ milroud pool, trades-uiiiou,
mittcli monopoly, coal combiiiutiou, pot-
tery t;ii'if‘fii1i'm1t. or llozud of ’l,‘r:ul:-
coriicr. on pretty mucli c\'ci‘_\'il)ix1}_-'
upon it. '.l‘lic coffee umrkct of tin-
couutry has lately gone out of the re-
gion of unorganized supply mid dc-
mund into the lmiid.-'. of 2|. (‘oliee Ex-
cliuuge, with all the modern improve-
mi-uis for spcculnliou. A price i'acto1'_v
to make the quotations of butter and
cliccse has just been cstziblislied in
New York. ltdculs in brokers’ eggs
as well its l1cu’s cggs, and has ull the
approvcd facilities to enable it to count
and sell the chickens that are not yct
liatchcd out of eggs that are not yet
l2ti(i.

’-'  * Under the manipula-
tion of cliques tlicy have become posi-
tive ugeucics of mighty iullucucc, and
are the .\:<,-cues of operations tl1atmeu-
ace the livcsuud li ppiucss of nations.
The “.st1'oug mzui‘ now builds corners
instead of cai.stl+:s, and collects tribute
zit the end of a telcgrapli wire instead
of 1l.Cil‘dlll strelclied across the ltliiue.
Money, knowledge, and energy are
nearing the boundaries of exploration.
and are turuiugbuck to monopolize the
provinces. The whole world is plutted.
Such iippliziuces as ours for cxcluuige
lizwc uevcr co-existed before, in the

Tlic most i'cu12u'kablc fact Ill the de-
velopment of t-in-se Exclmiiges. that
which (.‘UIlll)l(fI(-S l'll(,‘ corner, is still to
be pointed out. ()u.;- of the niauiagcr.-‘
ofthc New York Produce Excluuige
told it committee of the New York
Lc;;'i.~;l2t‘u11*c that, if the Stutc sliould
pus;-‘ :1 law the lixcliuiige did not like,
zuid a member attempted to take ud-
\'zuii-ugc of it. they would expel him,
and he added that men were coustamtly
turned out for appealing to the law.
.\Iembei's are tliercforc practically com-
pelled, L-ou1:1‘ury to their by-laws.
wliclbcr they d-.-sire todo so or not,
to submit their differences with their
fellows to the sumiuary tribuxiztl of El
coiumittec of ll1eIlIl>(3l'S. pei'liap.s' inter-
(:‘StP1l[lilI‘tlt‘S, and fort-go recourse-, to
the law. When the proceedii; s by
which the New York Stock lixc izuigc
expelled Mr. W. .l. lilltcllllifinll lust
‘car. whether justly or not is beside
ou1' plirposc, W(‘I'(‘ taken into court, the
l’r+.-.s'ide1it of tlic Ex(:lm.11g'c. rt-l‘i1sc(l,
dziy alts-,1‘ i1u._\f for months, to zuxswer
any of the inquiries of the court as to
the action of the lixcliztuge. A mem-
bcr bud l)¢}t‘ll deprived of his s-zit.
worth thirty tlioiisaiul dollars. and his
mczuis of li\'c.lihood: but the Excliaiige
insisted tli-at neither in this nor in uny-
thiug else was it si1b,i(-(at to the juris-
diction oftlie courts. 'l‘l1e New York
Stock Exclimige, which is the most
powerful iustruiueutality in the world
of liuaucc. thus took its stand outside
the 1.-iw. The courts have decided that
the seat of a member is property that
can be seized by El. creditor and sold for
his benefit: but the creditors who
seized M1‘. Kctcli-.un's seatliave been
trying for tlirce years to sell it. Tliose
who might bu_v are given to uudersta.nd
that the lixcliauge does uot. rocognize
the right of the courts to llld.l(B any

you

 

sum.”

suit cost you?”

suit to ‘sit around in’
-asifa man in your

ask the mx:-rest trifle,

and then

see that you spend for

to make his acquaintance. I’m al-
ways preaching cconomy, I am. ’

"No one knows that better than I.
But if you will promise to keep your
temper. I can enumerate many things
wherein you are no wise prudent.”

The-“head of the family” eyed the
diminutive woman as a cat does a
mouse, when, knowing the advantage
it has, deliberately plays with the
helpless creature, delaying its final
destruction. So the cat magnani-
mously said:

“Just go ahead. You can’t find a
thing but what is straight,” confi-
dently asserted this advocate of econ-

oniy. .
. rs. Riley sent their children-—
tne wearers of shoes, and consumers
of sugar, poor things —from the room,
and then asked:

“How much do you earn per day?”
I “When I work, I have two dol-
are.

“How much can you get now?” was
the next question.

“Only a dollar and a quarter, and I
wrnt work for such a niggardly

“And your expenses are the same?”

"Yes, I suppose so. That is, ifyou
don't economize more."

“Well, how much did your new
_ was the next ques-
tion.

“Twenty-five dollars mem!” curt-
ly answered the prudent Thomas.

Mrs. Riley looked at him attentive-
ly with her po vr, weak blue eyes, and
be added—-“well, somewhere near
that sum.”

“Yet, you did not need them-—not

so very much, did you?” questioned
the thin voice.

“Need ’em'? Thunder, woman! would

you have a fellow sit around in old
clothes?"

"But you say there is plenty of
work at a dollar and twenty-five
cents per day; and if you were at
work, you would not need an extra
It looks to me
_ circumstances
could ill afford to spend your months
in idleness, requiring more expensive
clothing, and innumerable extras in
couse-quence.- And holidays costing a
dollar and twenty-five cents each,
are a luxury which my ideas of econo-
my do not sanction, nor consider at
all practicable. You employ a bar-
b+-r three times a week, and preach
mea lesson on economy when once
in six months [purchase a five cent
box of hairpins. Your traveling ex-
penses he past year amount to twen-
ty five dollars; mine—not as mary
cents. Your tobacco, beer. and cigar
bill more than equals the shoe bill
which looks so formidable to you, and,
while I have no such expenses for my
personal gratification, I am constant-
ly reminded and exhorted that I
must eccnomize when I want a dol-
bar for that greatest of home necessa-
ries——a newspaper.

‘ Now, I am cook. washer-woman,
nurse, seamstress, and mercy onl
knows what else; and after faithfully
performing the innumerable duties
pertaining to my position, when I
_ ' am expected to
particulaiize as to its expenditure,
‘ erhaps be refused under the
pzetext t at it cannot be afforded.
Thomas Riley. I have come to the con-

clusion that I cannot afford to econo-

mize longer unless you are willing to
do the same; as I cannot possibly
save enough to pay your extra expen-
ses; and I find tnat my case has many
parull is!” and the mouse actually

looked the cat out of countenance;

who pussy like, showed less aggres

"llV'(£D€SS as the victim's boldness visi-

bly increased.
“Why, Mary! I’m surprisedl”
“Undoub:ecll_y!” she replied. “I

am surprised at myself for submitting

to the financial espionage which has
made my life burdensome and almost
unbearable, for so long. Now I want
the same sum for my personal expen-
yours, and I

think you will see a material differ-

ence in my apparel,” and she glanced

at her faded garments and then at her
husband’s glossy suit.

“Mary. don’t say another word!
How much shall I pay you per month
for incidental expenses? I vow I
never thought of this matter exactly
in the light you put it! The fact is
wife. I h we exacted more of you than
I was willing to concede myself. I
know you are conscientious; just tell
me how much you think would be
about right——you know our circum-
stances?”

And when the woman had taken
such severe lessons in houshuld econo-
my named a sum which only equalled
one-halfof his own expenditures, his
dulled conscience gave him an un-
iooked for thrust for having goaded
the poor creature nearly to despera-
tion, harrassing her by preaching
what he, himself, nowise practiced.

All over the land there are wives
circumstanced as Mrs. Riley. They
have no financial rights that are rec-
ognized; and are not expected to have
any individual wants. Much of the
unhappiness of some families is caused
by the tenacity with which the hus-
baud grasps the pocket-book. in
w' icb, he thinks h a wife has no part-
ner’s share.——Rural H01/ze.

___________&__

ONE of the greatest stumbling blocks
in the way of selecting good men for
office, and overthrowing the rule of
demagogism with the country is now
cursed, is the intense partisan spirit of
so many of our people. A partisanship
so intense that they mistake it for pa-
triotism; partisanship so bitter and
blinding that we cannot ~ee the faults
in our own parties or party men, no
matter how glaring: that we can see no
good in any one not of‘ our party, no
matter how honest and noble he may
be. We are, toa most deplorable ex-
tent, sold into slavery to party spirit,
our minds bound in chains of steel.
We are truer to party than to country,
truer to party than to right. It is well
to be true to our parties, just as far as
our parties are right. It is well to use
our parties as long as we can make
vb in the means of doing our will.
But the people should be the masters
of party. not party the lord of the peo-
ple.——Ea:change.

 

ANo'rHFi: New Ohio enterprise
booming the Newark Machine Co. have
completed their new Brick Factory.
and are working 200 men in the build-
ing of their Celebrated Victor Clover
Hullers, Grain Drills, hay Rakes, Fan-
ning Mills etc.

__________________.__

Cabbage is made digestible by first
slicing, and then utting in boiling wa-
ter, with pinch ofpsoda and some salt,
and boiling just fifteen minutes.

    

 

 

Any Ilousckccpcr in the land can rcpnlrthe (‘ooh
Stovt-—put in now Firc Backs. new Graves and new

Linins.-s-by u-rm.» scnmwoxra

ADJUSTABLE STOVE REPAIR

Sold by all Ilardware and Stove Dealers.
Snsrn iron (‘Ii-u~i‘L.u7.s. Manufactured only by
.—- -

Schenclvl Adjustable Fire Back 00.,
52 Dearborn Street, ClIIOI‘0o

l5jul-it

MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD.
nnpsnruizu or ruins raosr KALAIAIOO.
‘run:-rABLs—-MAY 15, I888.

   

 

 

 

 

WISTWABD.
‘A. I. P. I
Accommodation lauvoI,_._.__.___.___‘ 6 lo __,_,:
“ arrives, _-__._____.__l___. 9 56
Evening 1'-'xpreu.-.._.--_.-__-.__--; 2 as __
Pacific Rxpress....._..--.....-.....--: 3 07'
Mail _________ _,___________ '_ ' 33
DayExpress._-______- _____.,_ ____, g as
American )'}xpr.\_.g,_____________ ]z 15
IASTWARD
‘A. II. E’. I.
NightExpreoa.-----_.------_.....-_' as _
Accommodation leevos,_ ____ W
“ arrives, ______ _. 00
Mail 3g
Day Esprees.--_--..._.----_-----_-_-_l___. as
New York l§xpresa,_ 03
Atlantic Express, _______________ ____,______

Fri-iglit trains carrying passengers out from
Kalamazoo as follows; No 21) (east) at 5:39 P. I... and

No. Ell (west) at 7:37.
H. B. Lsrnnxo, Gen. M nage Deena,
J. A. GRIKR, General I-‘rel in A onl, (7li‘icago.r'
0 W. l.lU\3ul.&9,(§. P. g T. A., Chicago.

GRAND RAPIDS & INDIANA

  
    
 

 

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HHINH .\'1)R'I'll,
(Columbus tinii-_) I V ' if ‘ J WE‘
:"l'A'I‘l¢).\'S. N0. 1. N0 3. NO.  1 N0. 7:
_ _ _ , A 1 ‘
(.'im‘immli ____l.v. ,,._..... 8 IS A)!‘ 7 4‘: Pu.!________
liiclnuond ..,_- “ 3 3(6i-E1110 “ loll) “ l ______ __
-“llllxifi ..... _. " .. ._. 6 Us PM :»-I'.!i.vA1103 an
Kulniunzoo_ ._Ar. 7 .30 “ T 24 “ I2 60 Pl
Kul.'Imu7.oo._.__Lv. R05 “ T -10 “ , 2 ‘J5 “
Uruud li.-ipips Ar- _..- IUM) " H :30 “ 1 4 2.5 “
Grand R:ipiils,,l.v. T if-In _,_,____ lU 20 “ I 515 --
CuLllll«’\C _____ _Al‘. um PM _ ._ ::15 radio I!) ‘-
Cndilluc , .. 234) “ 111 00 "
lravirsc ( ’________
I'elo~kcy 415
Blzickumw (Tily “ A.

 

 

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N0. 6. ‘ 7:10. 3,‘

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I’ctoskey_____ “ _ 7 0 All I 06 an
Trnvexi-e Cit_v_, “ ‘. 5 “ ______ __
Cadillac _Ar. _. ll -12 -‘ ’ 545 --
Cudilliit Elv.' OH I'M 120.") PM 610 "
(lruud lli _Ar.‘ . 4 35 “ :1!) 56 “
Grand Rupl(ls_LV.- 5 ()0 " J l 00 PI
Kalnmuzon . . , _. 7 00 “ . 2 52 “
halnnin/on 7 15 “ l ‘J 57 "
Sturgis____ __ . 345 U ; 4 40 4:
Richmond ll) PHI‘ . .1 M 4 3:3 Afll ______ __
7 -to “ ,1 I In Mr _

Cinciunnti___ 7 35 H i ____

No. 5 leaves Cincinnati and No 8 leaves Mackinaw
City daily, except siminlny. All other trains daily
except Suml -y.

Woo<lrufi‘sli-oping cure on No.-1.5 and 65 between Cin-
ciuunti and Grand Rapids, and sleeping and chair (an
on some trains between llmmi Rapids and Pocoskey;
nlso Woodrulf sleepingoars on Nos 7 and 8 between
Grand llupids and Mackinaw (lity. A. B. LIGHT,

Gcnl Pane. Agt.

KAr....ua.zoo DIVISION Tuna TABLI.

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

"""’T’—"'" I ’"'N"Y’&'o N Y s'[iT‘——"

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l.e.umnd Rapids- ______ __3 soon: 4251-11 5 Al
Ar. Allegan ____ __ ____ 917 “ 5 40 “ 8 I0 “
Ar. Kalunii\zo0_____ ____ I015 “ 97' 40 “ -11 £0 “
Ar. Scliox-.lcrnft_.___ --__ I050 “ ' 7 22 “ I 40 [j
Ar.Thrce Rivers.-- -_.ll I8 “ ‘ 752 “ 246 "
Ar. White Pigeon. _.’u-45 -- ~ see -- 450 --
Ar.'l‘oledo ______ __ __i 5359:,‘ bios: GHAI
Ar. Cleveland _- 05 I 9 10 fl
1 ‘O ‘I

GOING NORTH.

.N Y s B N a’ "
Ex air M,Ex;reer?.§w°’ "‘
Lo. Bufffilll; ____________ -_ 12 45 PM 12 ?.FV>A;l_llm50 Pl

    
 
  
 
  

Ar. 0levelnud-_ __- 735 -- 7 oo -- I 050 An
Ar. T0ledo______ 12 01 ‘AM I0 50 “ 10 (X) PI
Ar. White Pigeon- . tr 00 “ 3 40 Pl 8 45 Al
Ar. Three Rivers _ __ 6 28 ‘” 405 “ H.000 "
Ar. Schoolcraft 658 ‘ ; 434 “ H210 "
Ar. Kalamazoo- _ A30 “ 505 “ l 1403’!
Ar.AlIcg'un __ _‘ 840 “ l 608 ‘ -4-I0 ‘”
Grand Rapids .......... _--10 00 “ l 7 25 “ 1 310 "

All trains connect at White Piizeon with trains on
main line. H. E. WA1'l‘LB8,
Supt. Kalamazoo Division, Kalamazoo.

CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK B. B.

Corrected Time-'1‘sble~—.liine 14, I883.

TRAINS WESTWAKD.
:No.2. ‘ No.4. -’ No.6.

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STATIONG. lcliicugo Day 1 Pacific :8 Cir.-ek
' Pass'g‘r,.‘ Expi-ess.,ExprcaI ilixpreee,
Le. Pm Huron-‘ s 40 AM 7 sosul 810 1-7», 0 PK
-- Imlny City-_ 75‘! -~ --__.-_-" . sis --
“ bapeer ____ --‘si-2“ 915-‘.9, 542--
“ Flint _____ __ «'71.? “ 955 “ I020 " 625 “
Ar Dumud_-___ 9 4:’: “ IO ‘.29 “ ll 0:: “ 7 05 “
~ .1 _______________________ __ 7 2." H
L3  J47 -- €11 .~..=. -- I213 -- 9 s:ss'--
“ Charlotte _ 20 “ H-I2 101731 I2 494 aw‘ 9 20 “
Ar Battle Creek‘ in PM’ 100 " 144) ~‘ 113:3?“
_-._._-____ ..-__-__; sy Ft.
Battle Urcek‘l2 0 J 120 ‘- 14:. - - 63-out
“ Vicksburg__, l L’: “ ‘ 210 " 23'.’ “ ' YIHU “
“ Schoolcraft__ I25 “  221 “ it ~17 " a 935 “
-- Murcellug __ 146 -- ______________ _,‘1«.v:;r. ‘-
-- (Jnssopolis_._ -_-17 -~ ; 310 -- 2 3:42 - ‘-12:.-nix
“ Graugers ___ 2 40 “ 5 I50 "
“ South Bend- 31-0 -- , 2.5- “
“ Stillws-.ll_-__ 3115 “ 530 “
“ iIaskells.-__ -120 “ '  730 “
-- vaipsmiso-_' 4358 ‘~’ * 530 '- « 550 -- 750 “
-" Redesdale-__- 5 2| “ f____..__-.3__-_____
“ C,RI&P Cros cos '- 2' has “ 706 " ’___
Ar. Ohicago _,__ u 0!) “ l 7 -15 “ I 8 oo “ l ______ __
. .
TRAINS r:AB'rwA RD.
NO, ‘1_~Io.3..; ’No.6.;
i-lrsrieus. , ‘M, Lin) ted ,Atlantlcl
____,._-.  , ,3!xg:°g*§¥vwl
L .011‘ _-___ 91 330 ‘:«:.o W “'
3 c.iici§i- Cros 10 13 if 42.] 3-H. 93:. 7-”
“ Rf,-desdnle___ 10 54 “ ______ __‘ ______ _,
Ar. Valparaiso-_'1130 “ ‘ 5 ' : =- ,w_3_YA_:§-
Lv. Valparaiso . ' _____ __l I) 1.0 A);
“ Haskell! -__ 650 “

______ __i 905 “
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“ Graugcrs - . _______ -,____.____ ;1235 pg _
~- Oasaopelis __ -- ‘+7 3-: -- 1-12 .»a:-.'- I -217 --
“ )Iarcellus___, :45 “ - ’ l 35 --
“ 8choolcrafi_ 308“ - ‘,4;-g -
-- Vicksburg .._' .222 -- -_ ‘ , 522 :<
Ar. Battle Creekl 415 “ 2 . 1 730 --

, ’ No.7.
""""""""""""  ‘‘‘’'"‘-Pt 11 Ex
Lv. Battle Creek; 420 “ 2 9115 “ 240 ' i440Ax

“ Charlotte ___‘_ 5 1-1 “ l,_.._____ 1337 “ ' 5 33 --

-- I.ansing__-__‘, 55.5 H .1027 “ 1415“ 1 no --_
Ar. I)urand_____' 705 -- in 27 “ - .3 -23 -- , 730 --

Lv. Dunmd.__-_| 1 25 “ - ______________ __ 7.51) ‘

" Flint.._.._ _; 3 05 -‘ [11 5s -- - -- -

   

peer_- _' 846 “‘
“ Imlay City__l 0 lo “ _______________ _, ______ __
Ar. Port Huron_gl0 Z0 " 1 21) “ _ 7 50 “ {I0 48 “

All trains run by Chicago time.

Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6, da y. All other rains daily, ox-
eept Sunday.

1"l‘mi: s stop for passengers only when signaled.

Pullman Palace cars are run through without change
between Chicago and Port Huron. Detroit, Bust Sagi-
naw Bay City, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Bufialo, New
York. Toronto, Montreal and Boston.

Dining ogre on 3 and 6 West Battle Creek.

to. . B. B. Osauvux,
‘Ironic Manager. General Manager.

 

E. P. Klsxr, Agent, School “ Mich.

 
Scecs djustable

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6
‘Julie flqpaqtment.

MY FLOWERS.

103 THE VIBITOB.

Brothers and Sisters of our Grange,
Gathered within this hall,

We each must add our little mite,
To benefit us all.

And I can talk of nothing else
As well as of my flowers,

So if you'll kindly listen,
I will help to cheer the hours.

How beautiful, has God prepared
This little world of ours,

The earth o’erspread with living green
Bedecked with modest flowers.

The first bright bud that nature weaves
Is the trailing vine so sweet,

Of graceful fair Arbutus,
Beneath our lowly feet.

Then modest Mrs. Pansy,
Dares not much longer wait,
So blushing deeply out she steps,
And opens wide the gate,
For Mrs. Crocus, with a suite
That nearly has outdone
The fairy mantau maker,
Who patterned from the sun.

Before her call is ended
Narcissus, smiles so bright,
That pretty Mrs. Hyacin‘h
In lavender and white.
Begins to wonder what can make
The neighbors so excited,
So keeps above the leaves of green
And is very much delighted

To see the Polyanthus twins
With uncles, aunts and cousins.
Come rushing forth to hold the fort,
And stand in groups of dozens.
But Madame Crown Imperial,
Whose gown is deluged quite
With perfume rank and lasting.
Looks on with deadly spite

At little simple daffodil,
So slim, and pale, and white;

While Sister Tulip, breathes a prayer,
And sings a psalm as well;

Dear Mrs. Woodbine lives next door
To Brother J ohnquil May;

So he with Brother Honeysuckle,
Called on them all next day.

They found their dame Peona,
With face as red, as red could be,
Because poor harmless Lilac
Was swinging on a tree.
And venerable old Syringa,
Whose head he carries proud,
To Rev. Mr. Snowball,
Never as much as bowed.

All failed to see, the good old dames
Peones with their faces

Of pink, and red, and creamy white,
So they silently left their places.

Then came friends from the country,
The Misses Rose, so fair,

With diamonds, made from dewdrops
Caught in the evening air.

But they were very beautiful,
Too beautiful to stay,

So like the bleeding heart they died

’ And passed from earth away.

Next came the soft pale Lily,
And spicy Mrs. Pink,

And Rose of Sharon, youth and age,
And Larkspur next I think.

Then Mrs. Phlox, with children all,
And bunchy Miss Verbena,

With Flora’s paint brush, quite in sight.
And tall old Mrs. Zenia.

The Morning-glory in her pride,
And artless Portulacca,

With neighbor Coxcomb, all agreed
It was no sin to flatter.

So as soon as it came four o'clock
They all donned Princess Feather,

And called on Sweet Petunia,
One and all, together.

They praised the ragged sailor
And old Miss Marigold,

With the prettiest Lady's Slipper,
You ever did behold.

So Gladaolis heard it all,
And lifting up her head
Tried hprd to see the Hollyhock
And tell him what they said.
But Mr. Sunflower who waslwise
Rebuked them for their ways
And pointed to the sunny skies
And spoke of future days.

You soon must drop when Mr. Frost,
Comes with his ivy sword

And Artemicia pure and white
Will speak no unkind word.

And they will gather from her store
The dainty flowers they love.

And weave a garland, white as snow,
The grave, to place above.

And when at last cold winter,
With chilly wind doth blow,

- Then in her innocent white robe

Her spirit flies also.

Now I am done though not half told
For my garden, is not small,

But if I should much farther speak
I fear I could not speak at all.

So please do not be guilty,
Of asking more from me,
For I am quite exhausted,
As you must plainly see.
—A Sinner.

The Almighty Dollar.

,My friend says to me, “I wish I
could get the almighty dollar under
my feet.” Does he mean what this
implies, that the dollar is "almighty
to him; that money has all power, all
control over him; that a mere sub-
stance of earthly matter is king over
the spirit of the man, the spirit which
should rule, and hold all conditions
as subjects, as implements with which
to work out the purposes of liie here?

In the uuality of man’s make-up.
the two forces of matter (or the body)
gnd spirit each require their distinct

' here roundly, royally.

and particular food to hold them to-
gether in a healthful working rela-
tion. The body must be fed by ma-
terial substance; the spirit by an ele-
ment adapted to its refined essence.
Now, when each of these two forces,
body and spirit, have their proper nu-
triment in right proportion, their re-
lation is balanced and th e man is a
man, filling the purpose of his life
But when
Leither one is over-fed or underfed
the other suffers, the man is out of
balance, and failure is the result. Is
this plain? Then follow me a little
further while we apply this ground
work to the subject in hand.

Money, and whatever is used to
represent money, is a purely material
element, having reference to supply-
ing material, bodily wants.
it has nothing to feed the spirit.
When it is used as material supply for
material want, just in the right pro-
portion, it is a healthful blessing. But
when used so as to overleed, it gives
the advantage to _earthly conditions,
crowds back the spiritual, the man be-
comes unbalanced, little by l ttle bodi
ly forces gain the cont-ol, the inner
voice sounds fainter and fainter, and
the result is man becomes a mere
walking machine of animated matter,
for whom there is no chance to enter
the kingdom. Money as servant of the
spirit, used by the best there is in a
man to help work out grand, noble
purposes, is a safe implement. But
When, little by little, it is allowed to
overfeed. gain power beyond its legiti-
mate sphere, it begins to be Almighty.
The dollar 080011168 ruler. The spir-
itual man has been crowded out,and the
God of matter has buried the victim
with a millstone of gold about his
neck.

If this is correct and plain, the ques-
tion will arise, what is a healthy, safe
proportion of this element which the
dollar represents? The answer can be
left safelv for each one to work out in
his own living, when he has made
sure within himself of the balanced
foundation. Do we all see?

This isa subject that will bear stir-
ring deeply and thoroughly, that out
of its agitation we may gain knowl-
edge to find our true balance, wherein
all the forces will take their proper
places, and no small servant be allow-
ed to usurp the throne as Almighty.

L. F. s.

A Governor Taken From a Crate.

A benevolent old nmn of Brooklyn
was making the tour of the city in pur-
suit of Iruzults and little \vzu1de1‘c1‘s,
one Suliday morning a score of years
ago, whcnhé found a little boy asleep
in a crate on one of the wlmrves.

He shook the crate, and a pair of
bright, black eyes opened and flushed
upon him, with a look of surprise and
timid bashfulness.

“Why do you sleep l1e1'e‘.-”’ inquired
the old man.

“liecause I have no home,” said the
child.

“Where is your father?”

“I don’t know, sir, I l1ain’t seen him
for a long time, never since he told
mother he wouldn’t come home again.”

“Where is your mother?”

“She is dead.”

“So you have no l1ome——no father.
no mothe1'—and live from hand to
mouth in the street, and sleep in a
crate.”

“Yes sir. I sell soap and matches,
and sleep here.”

“Would you like to have a home, and
go to school and grow up to be a good
and brave and useful man 1"’ ,

“Yes, sir.”

“Come along with me, and I will take
you to my own house, and feed you
and clothe you, and send you to school
if you prove to be as I think you are,
a goodand faithful boy.”

the old man said this, he dashed
a te’ ' from his eye, with his coat
sleeve, for the boy was the very image.
of his own sweet child. who had died
a. few years before. Lifting the lad
tenderly out of the crate, he led him
to his own pleasant home, where he
was washed and combed and then
dressed in a suit of clothes formerly
worn by the son of the philanthropist.

To shorten the story, which has in it
material enough for a volun1e——the
good old man gave the lad all the ad-
vantages affor ed by the common
schools of the “city of churches” and
then gave him a clerkship in his store,
for he was a well-to-do merchant.

After several years of faithful ser-
vice, the young man expressed a wish
to engage in business on his own ac-
count, or in some other way to extend
his usefulness.

“I will start you in business.” said
the old man, “on certain conditions.”
“Please state them,” remarked the
youn man with a smile; for he sup-
pose his benefactor was about to per-
petrate a joke at his expense.

“I.wi1l start you in business, if you
will make three promises,” continued
the old man.

“Pray what promises do you wish me
to make P”

“One is that you will never swear."
“Agreed.”

“Another is, that you will never
drink rum.”

“Agreed.”

“The other is, that you will have
nothing to do with politics.”

“Agreed.”

True to his promise as the steel to the
star. the old man furnished his clerk
with capital and started him in busi-
ness in one of the Western States.
The young merchant was very atten-
tive to business, and his habits of in-
dustry and sobriety were crowned
with the good fortune which generally
accompanies virtue, courage. enter-
prise and intelligence. A few years
ago, he paid avisit to his venerable
friend in Brooklyn and found him the
same kind-hearted and genial gentle-
man that he was when he first led him
from the crate on the wharf’ to the
pleasant cottage on the avenue.

“I am very delighted to see you,” re-
marked the old man. ' May I ask you if
you have kept the pledges you gave

me. When you suggested to me the

Of itself 1‘

TEE GRANGE VISITOR.

idea of starting business on your own
account are you a temperance man '3”
“I have not tasted a drop of any kind
of intoxicating liquors since I prom-
ised you I would not, and you know I
had no sacrifice to make in keeping
that promise, for I never was accus-
tomed to the use of such liquor; and
I do not furnish them to my guests, or
to persons in my employment.”

"Good boy-give me vour hand and
let me shake it again. How about that
promise not to use profane speech ?”

“I never indulge in the silly and vul-
gar habit of swearing. I think it shows
a lack of originality. A man wishes to
say something to be emphatic——and
owin to a lack of ideas and proper
use 0' language, he fills up the chinks
of conversation with oaths. He curses
his eyes—his 1imbs—his soul—his heart
his horse—hisluck—and thinks he is
fluent when he is only profane. No,
sir, I do not claim to be a paragon of
perfection, but I should be ashamed of
my speech, if I spiced it with pro-

unity.”
“Good—good! I expected such a re-
port from you. How about politics?”

The young man of business had un-
til this moment maintained perfect
self-command; but when the last ques-
tion wus put to him, his cheeks grew
red as crimson.

"Well, sir, I suppose some folks think
I am a politic1an," rcn1;u'ked the young
merchant.

".5orr_v——ve1'y sorry," observed the old
man.-

“I couldn't help what lmppened, sir.“

“You promised me you \\'nl1l(l lxave
nothing to do with politicsI"~

“I know I did.”

“Well, it is strzuige you could not
keep that promise as easily as you kept
the other two.”

“Well, sir, have patience with me,
and I will tell you how it lmppened.”

"Well, go on."

“As you are aware, I was fortunate
i11trade—l10nored my paper when it
became due—p:ud, with interest, the
money you bud the kindness to ad-
vance. I wusa leading business man
in the town, had opinions in relation to
men and measures, and did not hesi-
tate, on all proper occasiolis, to express
and defend them. and sustain them
with my vote on election day.”

“There can be no objection to that,”
remarked the old man; “politics as a
trade is what I (llslikc.”

“As I said before, I got along well,
and, us'good luck would lutve it, I per-
suaded some of my friends to think
andvote as I did; and without con-
sulting me, one day at a State conven-
tion, they nominated me for Governor,
and I was elected. Indeed, I am now
on my way to Wasliington to trzmsuct
important business for the State."

The writer desires to say to the
friends of The Little Corporal. that
this story is a. true one—(-‘cargo W.
Bungay in Little Corporal.

Reduction of Postage.

A circular has been issued from de-
partinent lieuclqllurters at l\'usl1ington
lnstructing postmasters tlirougllout
the country to make preparations for
it reduction of postage, which will
take place ‘(Jot 1. The postlnusters are
alsoin'§l1'L1<:tecl to take all ztmilable
means without i11cu1'ril1g any e.\’péllSe
to cull public attention to the coming
reductions, so that purchasers may
not accumulate an unnecessary supply
of tllree-cent stamps and envelopes.
The circular also directs that as no ur-
rzmgements have yet been made for
the redemption of the three-cent
stamps and envelopes in the hands of
postInuste1's,or for exchange by post-
musters of those stamps and envelopes
in the huncls of private holders, until
further notice postmusters will not
make exchanges for the public no1' re-
turn to the department the stock that
remains on their hands after October 1.
Postmasters are. however, notified that
as the two and three cent stamps and
envelopes of the present issue will
continue to be valid after that date,
they mustbeuccepted in payment of
postage when offered in proper
amounts; and that three-cent stamps
can be used in combination with other
denominations on letters requiring
more than one rate of postage, and on
parcels of third and fourth-class mut-
te1'.—Lcmsz‘ng Republican.

completion of the Great Lyman-Haskell Gun.

THE twenty-five ton gun, twenty-
five feet long, which has been in pro-
cess of manufacture during the year
past by the Reading, P.-., Iron Com-
pany,is at lest con1pleted,and is a splen-,
did piece of workmanship- This re-
markable weapon has the followng
peculiarities of con-truction.

Hanging from the under after part of
the gun are four large protuberances
arranged in a line, each something
like a cow's bag. These protuberances
contain pockets for holding powder,
and they communicate with the bore
of the gun. The latter is charged at
the breech with eighteen pounds of
powder, against which the projectile
rests in the ordinary manner; each of
the pockets is intended to contain
twenty-eight pounds of powder.

The firing of the breech charge starts
the projectile, which is successively
accelerated, on passing the several
pockets, by the firing of the powder
charges contained in them, which are
set off‘ by the flame within the cannon.
In this way five successive charges are
made to act against the projectile,
which leaves the gun with a. tremen-
dous velocity. It is expected that this
cannon will revolutionize the art of
guunery;it is believed that it will carry
its ball twelve or fifteen miles. and go
through iron plates two feet in thick-
ness. The new gun is now on its way
to Sandy Hook,N.Y.,-.where it is soon
to be tested before a board of army and
navy officers, under a special Congres-
sional appropriation. A full, illustra-
ed account of this novel invention
was published iu the tScientz;fic Ameri-
can of January 28, 1882.

AN apple in perfect preservation,
although ninety-six years old, is in
possession of a gentleman in Ulster
county N. Y. As it rounded up from
the blossom of the parent stem. in the
early summer of 1787, a bottle was
drawn over it and attached to the
branch, and after the apple had ripen-
ed the stem was severed and the bot-
sle scaled tightl '. It looks as fresh
as when first plucked.

THE FRANCO-AMERICAN Trading
Company recently contracted for 500,-
000 feet of yellow pine in New York
to be used on the Isthmus of Panama

in the building of 150 houses for the
De Lesseps Canal Company.

Road Mismansgement.

The taxes that are imposed upon
pro erty for the maintenance of abom-
ina le roads in Michigan is something
enormous. For the region about Grand
Rapids this has been a very bad season
for the roads,and a disinterested per.-on
in taking excursions out from our city
on any of the excellent graveled high-
ways might think that the people
would absorb some knowledge of road
building and at least continue these
road beds for some further distance out.
But instead of this the people rely up-
on the pathmaster to“warn them out.”
He is usually selected to fill the office
simply because he will take it, and
better men will not. The horses that
can not be made useful on the farm
are put on the road, the wagon that is
the nearest used up is placed behind
them. and the boy that can not be
made servicable at home is given the
lines.

Tllls is the season of the year when
everyone’s memory is taxed to recall
all the stories he ever knew. for with a
shovel to lean upon and an attentive
an .ience there is usually nothing lack-
ing for inspiration.

‘Usually the earth that would be bet-
ter to remain is moved,and that which
should be moved is “good enoug\

where ll’. is.” A very long strip 0 f
road is rendered nearly impassible for
the remainder of the season. In truth
it usually gets in pretty fair shape
about the time for next season’s road
work when it is again turned over.
The trees that have grown up naturally
along the roadside and that nature has
arranged nicely in beautiful groups,
all at once attract the eye of the road-
master, and with ax in hand he pro-
poses to have the trees cut out so that
those which remain will be at regular
distance apart; thus ruining forever
the native beauty of roadside setting.
In some instances we have actually
seen overseers chop down every na-
tive oak along the road, and then
plant maples at regular intervals,
which linger a few years and die of
neglect and borers, leaving t‘-e high-
way bare of adornment. We have
known pathmasters to “trim up” the
road trees in a s asm of neatness.
allowing the branc es to drop down
on the ground and remain there for
years, in ti e way of every pedestrian
and an eyesore to every passer by.

One who is accounted the best path-
master in the country, who actually
has some notions that are valua. le
concerning the making of a. road-bed,
Will persistently leave the worst kind
of a yiece of road when he plows up
the gravel with which to mend other
places. We shall not have good roads
or an economical expenditure of the
nghway taxes until the notion per-
vades the community that the eflbrt
must be central on main lines of road,
and each year a short distance of road-
bcd shall be thoroughly constructed.

Under our present system this will
never be accomplished. It is very
dillicult to getaway from the old slip-
shod plan and it only can be accom-
plished by persistently placing before
the people the successful methods fol-

lowed by other states which have as a f

result, all the main thoroughfares in
excellent shape, and free to the people.
As we have said several times before
in these columns, this is an excel-
lent investment for those Whose
money has developed it; and if it pays
capitalists to build good roads, it Will
certainly pay the people to adopt the
same methods of construction and
make their own roads.—0. IV. Gar-
field in Grand Rapids Democrat.

Mammoth Stockmen.

From the Stuiulanl Oil Company and
W. H. Vanderbilt down,thc heavy capi-
tulists and combinations of heavy capi-
talists arc engaging in the live stock
business, and from day to day we hear
of sales of stock and ranches aggregat-

ing large sums, made to rich capitalists‘

or companies native and foreign._ It is
not with unfeigned pleasure we note
this invasion of combined capital into
this vast and profitable field of agricult-
ure. Heaven knows, the words “cupi-
talists,” “combinations,” “syiiclicutes,”
have become well-nigh synonymous
with schemes for ill-gotten wealth and
the crushing out of a 1 smaller compe-
titors, and already that audacity and
defiance of law so cliarztcteristic of
many of these great concerns has been
exemplified by the Standard Oil Coin-
pauy and others in their stock opera-
tions. However, it is a case of “What
are you going to do about it,” and in the
meantime our general farmers must see
to it that so far as the means at their
comnnmd will permit, their stock shall
be steadily improved. Perseverance on
the part of every farmer in the matter
of breeding to a higher standard every
kind of stock from his horses to his
pigs, like (persistent cure in the selection
of his see , will verysoon show its good
effects upon his poc 'et. Many farmers
raise a couple of colts every year. A
little breeding up would soon make
these colts worth $50 more apiece at
four years old than they are now. The
same care persisted in with regard to
all the stock products of his farm will
in ten years time make all the difference
between afiluence and penury in many
a man’s case. We are writing now of
the average hard-working farmer who
is carving out his own fortune in the
west.-——Farmers’ Review.

PROF. KEDZIE gives the following
bit of domestic information: Cane
sugar is two and one-half timesas
sweet as grape sugar, closely allied to
it, and differs so little from it. that
some persons cannot distinguish it.
By coo 'ng, the cane sugar may be
changed to grape sugar, and thus loose
its sweetning power. Some women
put the sugar in with a mass of acid
fruit to be cooked, and keep cooking
and adding sugar, while it keeps on
growing sweeter, until at last they
use the one and one-half times as
much sugar as they need to secure
the required result. The cane sugar
has been changed to grape sugar.
Now, if the sugar had been added
after the fruit was cooked, much less
would have been more satisfactory.”

THE unpleasant odor left in the breath
after eating onions is entirely removed
by a strong cup of coffee, and the coffee
being prepared while the onions are be-
ing cooked counteracts the smell.

AN attack of indigestion caused by
eating nuts, will be immediately reliev-
ed and cured by the simple remedy, salt.
Medical men recommend that _salt
should be used_ with nuts, especially
when eaten at night.

The Right to Strike.

The right to “strike”—tha'c is to say,
to refuse any longer to work for anoth-
er—is essential to the freedom of the
workman. It cannot be interfered
with by laws without dealing a fatal
blow~ at his manhood. Ifhe is to re-
main 9. freeman, he must be able to
exercise the right to choose I118 em-
ployer, to make terms with him, to
refuse to work for him if he pleases,
andtodo this in combination with
his fellow workmen. The general
public may suffer inconvenience by a
strike, but that cannot be helped.
Freedom is in many ways imoonven-
ient,a.sf0olish Americans. enamored
of the Napoleonic despotism, used
loudly to proclaim aftera visit to Paris.
But, after all, freedom is in the long
run less inconvenient, more orderly,
and less costily than the best devised
deepotisrn.—-New York Hc7'a/(l.

An Enterprising Town.

Think of it you sleepy old fogies of
the East, (.illllIllSUll, (_'()l01‘zld«), only
th1'eeyc:1rs Old. with a pup11I;1ti(m of
.'»,ooo; iron and stec-1 works to be built at
21 cost of -‘5.'>_.000,000; a ncw l1otcl.near-
ly completed, to cost S;'00.H00: gas and
vvutcr works that have cost $'_'00.000;
two new blocks of buildings to go up,
to be heated with stculn, at the cost
of $75,000: two railways connecting with
the liast; 21strectrz1il\my to be built
at once; a ll’H)1'()ll;.!l1l}‘ ux'g;111iz¢-rl fire
department; a telephone exchange;
at smelter; two banks; three brick
school liomcs; six clmrclu-s; sto.-uni
planing mills, foundijv and Inuclline
shops.wlxol<-sale lm.<i11e.<s lmuses: an
opera house; and lust, but. not least,
two daily an ; weekly m-\vspz1pe-1's.—It’c-
vicw 1’/‘ass.

Not an Object of Sympathy.

The Western Union is not a ~ object
of sympathy. It is earning—-t at the
public knows of—ten per cent. on a
capital of $50,000,000, of which $15,-
000,000 has been declared unlawful
and nonexistent by the courts. and
of which it has often been asserted
that 5‘.'V'€lZ-(rlglilt-. is really fictitious.
If that statement be true then its earn-
ings on its actual capital are eighty
percent. \Vhat concern could better
afford to pay sometliing—cven 3 mil-
lion if needful~—to prevent tl-.e de-
rangement of the business of the
country by a strike of telegraph opera-
tors?-—Adrian Record.

CAPT EKICSSON has invented 3. tor-
pedo boat,which he calls the Destroyer.
If it can accomplish what he prom-
ises for it there will be no need of our
spending money to vie with France’s
and England’s enormous and costly na-
vies as their fleets can be destroyed as
easily as so many puff balls should they
venture near our coasts. It is claimed
for the Destroyer, and a few trail trips
recently made seem to justify the
claims, that she can navigate under
water any necessary time, and, ap-
proaching a vessel unseen, discharge
mm a considerable distance against
her hull a projectil - that will blow the
most formidable ironclad out of the
Water. If E1‘i(:sS0ll’:5lmuxwillnot (1-.;1§g
accomp‘ish all Lhatis claimed forit, it
at lease points out the direction which
our efforts should take. Several tor-
pedo bouts have all but done what
Ericsson claims for his destroyer. and
there is little doubt that we are on the
eve of startling developments in this
direction. If complete success is at-
tained the vast armaments of Europe
will be rendered as useless as the in-
vention of the Monitor rendered’ the
great wooden frigates of the last gen-
erauion.

_._____._________

Ex-ll.l:l*B.EsEN'l‘.u‘1vn S. W. HILL
says; he was with Dr. llougbton 40
years agoon his geological survey of
the Marquette iron region, and that
while the tent was pitched whcrc
Neguunce now stands, the doctor took
his pick and went out among the hills.
Returning just before darkness set in,
he said: “Mr. Hill, are you‘ El.V\'ill‘e we
are in a gold region ?" Mr. Hill replied
that he was not. “But,” said the
doctor, “We urez” and he took some
specimens of rock from his llavcrsack
which were quite richly charged with
gold. Mr. Hill asked the doctor if there
was much of it. Dr. Houghton answer-
ed that he had not examined the ground
very closely, and also said he did not
\’Vl=ll anything said about it just then,
as they had already had some trouble
with the men, and if these should be-
come aware they were in a old region
they might desert them, to unt for it
themselves. A short time after Dr.
Houghton was drowned and his notes
all lost.-—Lans'ing Republican.

A Goon YARD FnNoE.—One who
has tried it recommends the following
plan.for a cheap enclosure for fowls :
“Set posts firmly in the ground six
feet high, eight feet apart. Take No.9
wire and stretch from post to post out-
side, fastening with staples made of
wire driven into the posts. Take com-
mon lath and weave in, leaving twoin-
ches between sides of each. This makes
the fence four feet high. Then take
other laths,'picket one end, chamfer
the other like a chisel blade, and inter-
weave among the top wires; then
shave the chamfered edge down beside
the top of the bottom lath, lapping un-
der wires two inches.”

UNCLE SAM will soon be prepared to
carry a letter for you for two cents to
any part of this country. The Post-
office Department was organized in
1789. The first schedule of rates was :
For every letter consisting of one piece
or paper, for any distance not exceed-
ing 40 miles, 8 cents; for any distance
not exceeding 90 miles, 10 cents; not
exceeding 150 miles 12% cents; not ex-
ceeding 300 miles. 17 cents; not exceed-
ing 500 miles, 20 cents; any distance
over 500 miles, 25 cents. ’

THE average weight of an adult is
140 lbs. 6 oz.

The averaze weight of skeleton is
about 14 lbs.

Number of bones, 240.

The skeleton measures one inch less
than the hight of the living man.

The average weight of the brain of
a man is 3-,’: pounds; of a woman, 2 lbs
11 ounces.

IT takes four things to be a ‘gentle-
man—you must be a gentleman 111 your
principles, a gentleman in your tastes,
a gent eman in your manners, and a.
gentleman in your person.

AUGUST 15, 1883.

Crop Report by the Secretary of State.

Lsxsneo, Aug. 1l.—For the Michigan
crop report of August 1 returns have
bead received from 1,001 correspondents,
representing 738 townships. Six hun-
dred snd fifty-two of these returns are
from 429 townships in the southern four
tiers of counties.

The rain which had been so general
and continuous throughout the state at
the time the last report was published
ceased from the 24th to the 27th of July.
According to the record kept at the oflioe
of the state board of health, it rained on
58 of the 92 daysin May,June, and July,
the total amount falling in the three
months being 25.34 inches. The average
annual rain-fall at the Agricultural col-
lege for the 17 years, 1864-90. was 31.02
inches. The last heavy rain began, here
at Lansing, on the 20th and continued
everv day to and including the 27th of
July. Previous to this there had been a
few days of fair weather, during which
time most of the wheat 11.1 the southern
part of the state was placed in shock. A
correspondent in Lenawee writes on the
21st of Julv “probably 75 percent of the
wheat in this vicinity 1S in shock and
capped,  per cent in barn, and 20 per
cent yet to be cut. A week of good
weather is followed by one and one-half
inches of rain this morning, and more
coming.”

Wheat has been considerably injured
both by sprouting and discoloration, but
only a verv small amount has been en-
tirely ruined. An examination of the
special reports shows that the white
wheat, particularly the Clemson, which
is the principal white variety grown. suf-
fered most from the wet weather.

A large proportion of the corn on low,
wet land is entirely ruined, and only on
the highest, driest soils can an average
crop be expected.

The ha 7 crop is large In quantity but
would have been poor in quality even
could it have been properly saved. At
the time hay should have been cut. that
on the lower lands was under water. A
correspondent in Clinton writes July 30,
that “water stands two feet deep where
the grass would have cut one and one-
half tons to the acre." Only a small
proportion of the crop has been secured
in good condition. Other crops have of
course suffered from the excessive wet.

August 1, the yield of Wheat per acre
was estimated lower than on the first of
July for every county in the southern
four tiers. We make no estiniale of the
total yield in the state, preferring to
await the return from threshing ma-
chines, wbich will be received about
September 1.

In the southern four tiers of counties,
and also in the entire state, oats are esti-
mated to yield 34 bushels, and barley 23
bushels per acre.

Meadows and pastures are in fine con-
dition, as is also clover sowed this year.

Reports have been received of the
quantity of wheat marketed by farmers
during the month of July at 218 eleva-

tors and mills. Of these 183 are in the.

southern four tiers of counties, which is
thirtv eight per cent of the whole num-
ber of elevators and mills in these coun-
ties. The total number of bushels
reported marketed is 112,011, of which
33,413 bushels were marketed in the
first or southern tier of counties; 18,-
216 bushels in the second tier; 12,342
bushels in the third tier; 29.801 bushels
in the fourth tier, and 18,239 bushels in
theoounties north of the southern four
tiers. At 67 elevators and mills, or 27
per cent of the whole number from
which reports have been received, there
was no wheat marketed during the
month.

The totalnumber of bushels reported
marketed in the 12 months since August
1, 1882, is 13,138,570.

The outlook for apples and peaches is
becoming less promising with each
month. The first of May in the south-
western division of the state apples
promised 95 per cent of an average crop,
the first of June 92 per cent. July 51,
August 34; southeastern division, May
86, June 83, July 51. August 31; central
division, May 93, June 93, July 62,
August 37; northeastern. May 93, J une
92, J ulv 69, August 51; northwestern,
May 93. June 93, July 75, August 64.
Total average for the state. May 92. June
90, July 61. August 41. Peaches through-
out the state on the first of May prom-
ised 66 per cent of an average crop,
June 62, July 52. August 41.

THE darkest night that ever fell up-
on the earth never hid the light, never
put out the stars, it only made the
stars more keenly. kindly glancing, as
if in protest against the darkness.-
George Eliot.

A father may turn his back on a
child, brothers and sisters may become
inveterate enemies, husbands may de-
sert their wives, wives their husbands,
buta m0ther’s’love endures through
all.—— Wasmnglozz Irving.

THE Indian school boys at the Chey-
enne school are to be.imt1_ated into the
mysteries of stock raising. A herd of
660 cows and heifers and 20 bulls is to
be taken care of by the boys under the
management of an experienced white
lierder.

' PAPERED walls are cleaned by be-
ing wiped down with a flannel cloth
tied over a broom or brush. Then out
off a thick piece of stale bread and
rub down with this. Begin at the top
and go straight down.

DRAIN pipes and all places that are
sour or iihpure may be cleansed with
ling: water, copperas water or carbolic
ac1 .


\

AUGUST 15, 1883.

TEE EBANGE VISITQE.

‘Earths’ fiepaiitment.

BEAUTIFUL THINGS.

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

Beautiful eyes are those that show,
Like crystal panes where hearth-fires glow,
Beautiful thoughts that burn below.

Beautiful li s are those whose words
Leap from t e heart like songs of birds,
Yet whose utterance prudence girds.

Beautiful hands are those that do
Work both earnest and brave and true,
Each moment the long day through.

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

Beautiful shoulders are those that bear
Ceaseless burdens of homely care
With patient grace and daily prayer.

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

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

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

A talk with the Cousins.

Dear I'£eccs and .\'cplicw.s.'———\Ve al-
most entirely forgave “Will” for his
seeming neglect of our l)cpai't1iient
when we read his contribution, “A Ru-
ral Sabbatli,” in August 1st issue.

We feel he has conipliiiiented the
Department by giving so uiucli care
and thought to the preparation of this
article.

VVe were not forgotten as we sup-
posed and wcbeg pardon for the sup-
position.

Ye.s.“.5\vcct l3riai"’ your plain gray
is rather to be chosen than “blue and
gold” although we cannot realize it
when called upon to chose between
them, so diilicult is it to believe all
clouds have a brighter lining.

Where are our other nieces and iicpli-
ews? Can they not iiiid time these long
lI1l'!Sl1llllllCl‘ days to send us a fcw lines 2*
We know it is hard to overcome the
desire to swiivg in a liainniock and read
and dreain or to lazily rock in an anch-
ored boat, but a good pull at the oars is
1'efi'esliing, would not a little mental
exertion be? .li'.\'r l’l:L'I-S.

--What Can I Write About?”-Geology.

Aunt Pruc:—-My promise to write
again if my first effort was accepted,
was easier to make ‘ham to keep.

For sometiine I resolved in my mind
the question, “What shall I write
about? At last, it became metamor-
phosed into “What can I write about 2"’
Then the answer came readily enough,
“\Vrite about that of which you know
something about.”

But no sooner was this answer given
than the query arose—Wliat do I know
that would be of interest to other peo-
ple when written?

As this question seemed too cumber-
some to think upon, I icsolved it into
two parts and considered first, “What
do I know.”

Sure enough, what did I know.
Could I not take an inveiitory and
find out 1’

After laboriirg for some time to make
up a presentable list. I gave it up and
concluded I either knew nothing or
did not know what I did know.

The shock I received at arriving at
this conclusion, was sufiicient to recall
my mind to what was going on around
me, and as my eyes chanced to fall
upon apiece of Niagara coral and a
barnaclc that lay on the table before
me, I was reminded of that line in
Shakspeare where it says we can find
sermons iii stones. Wishing these
would divulge one, I picked up the on-
riously» constructed fossils and while
examining them it occurred to me that
I would tell the cousins about my
small store of geological specimens
and that would settle the mooted ques-
tion of what to write about.

It is not a rare or valuable collection
that I invite you to examine, but a few
curiosities that I hope will prove to be
the beginning of one.

This reddish-brown stone is a piece
of sandstone that was picked up at the
foot of the Cumberland Mountains.
Turn it over and you will see it con-
tains fossils, shells——brachiopods and
some thin casts, which gives it its
value. Those beside it. are geodes. A
blow from some geologist’s hammer
has broken those larger ones open and
the delicate quartz crystals lining the
interior are visible.

Here is a piece of limestone labeled,
“St-alactite—-Mammoth Cave.” It once
depended from the roof of that famous
cave, where the water dripping
through deposited it.

That ugly-looking mass is copper ore
from the Lake Superior region, and
over there is some of our Lfichigajd,
iron and gypsum. .,«.-

That one so nearly resembling a bird-
is a claystoiie, and here are otliers-Bin
all the fantastic shapes imaginaljllc.
They came from one of the New 
land States where they are very com-
mon. 

Here in this little box are my;f"c“ri—
noids that I highly prize. Stone-lilies.
and St. Cuthbert’s beads they are some-
times called. They are very thick in
some parts of England, and children,
it is said, gather the hard ,points
and string them for heads. Hugh
Miller says if St Cuthbert made them
all he was the busiest saint in the cal-

e ndar. And Sir Walter Scott «says:

“But fain St. Hilda's nuns would learn
If on a rock by Linderferne,
St. Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame
The sea-born heads that hear his name;
Such tales had Whitby’s fishers told,
And said they might his shape behold,
And hear his anvil sound,

A deeideued clang, a huge, dim form

Seen but and heard when gathering storm
And night were closing, round.”

Ilere are arrow-heads in many sizes
souvenirs of the Aborigines.

This cluster of quartz crystals is
from Lake Superior, and this amethyst
with a slight purplish tint is from
Colorado.

These corals and barnacles are all,
that remain worth examining.

.\Iy collection, you see, is small and
valuable only in my eyes.

Cousins, if any of you have an in-
terest in geology and have collected
curiositifes, will you not tell me about
them through our dcpartnient?

HELEN .\IAii.

Boys.

I see in the Vlsiroi: of Aug. 1st, an
article from the pen of J. W. Kelly.
entitled "Boys.” and with your permis-
sion, I will endeavor to do a little mis-
sionary work, beginning v. itli a pitiable,
intellectually dwarfed egotist at llcrlin.
I know something about boys. in fact
am almost a Loy myself, and althougli
so much nearer boyhood than your
former Ct)1'l'(‘Sp0l1dclllT, I trust I am
not as Iio_://,i',’.~c, using his artir.:le as a
standard of judgement. Of course
“every m:in was a boy once!” And
the worst of it is there is an occasional
one that never becomes anything else;
and it is this class of people who are
continually giving advice regarding
the training of bo} s. It is quite nat-
ural for similar beings to like each
other, and so your correspondciit holds
a high opinion of Adam, simply be-
cause lie never was a boy. Oh, no! he
nevcrtormentcd his father with hor-
net’s nests; never stole pie; never
ineddled with tools; no, not so iinich as
to wield the ax on Saturday when his
father was spending the day in town.

He did not do this because, he ha-;l no
father with pantaloons, no pic to con-
liscatc, no 1ii'c-crackeis to use, in fact
clothes were not plentiful on his
inothcr‘s clothes line; and besides he
was a man. lint my subject is “Boys."
To be sure they are “chips of the old
block" but did the boys make the
block or the block-licad?

What kind of a home do boys have
who "come up '3" Isn't it a kind of a
“come up" home? You can always
tell the kind of parents and ‘nonie, or as
your correspondent says,“ the kind of
soil" by the fruit produced. Good iii-
tluences make good boys cvcry time.
Yes, "whip the boys” to make them
smart,” and if that does not accom-
plish the result induce them to become
polygamists as was Soloiiiaii and you
cannot fail.

To bring up a boy in the way he
should go, you should travel that way
yourself, but iiieanwhile dont forget
to scold and cuff them, let them know
that they are a bother and don’t know
much, get them to do all of the work in
their power and if you go visiting
leave them each about three days‘ work
to do, and tell them not to go iishing
when they get tlirougli.

Dress them as poorly as possible in
father’s cast-off clothing while their
sister must have the nicest apparel and
be a lady. If possible give them the
poorest room in the house and tell them
they should be thankful to have even
that. .

You cannot make any calculations on
a boy, for if he is asked to work all of
the time and not have twenty-live
cents a year to use, he may ask the
privilege of spending a day in fishing,
during the year, and that would be a
disappointment; to the boy. Boys
should not be praised, for it may spoil
them.

A boy can eat sometimes between
meals but he usually chooses some-
thing besides “tobacco,” “whiskey,” or
“free lunch.”

Now if you will treat your boys as
well as you do your daughters and
yourselves, bear with them, know that
they have feelings and ambitions, give
them a chance and treat them as gen-
tlemen, and they will surprise you in
the change from rough, awkward,
disagreeable human beings to i'c-fined,
gentlemanly companions to you and or-
naments to your home-circle.

‘You will be troubled no more with
b_oys,wh0 never make men, but degen-
erate into “l'e1lers.” A feller is a poor
kind of biped”-who thinks all boys are
like himself, and who writes mournful
articles about them, false as they are
devoid of sense, and who lives at Ber-
in. Respectfully,

‘ F. H. SPAULDING.

Be Prepared.

The successful accomplishment of
any object often depends to a. great ex-
tent on the amount of preparation
made in order to effect its accomplish-
ment. The person intending to build a
house must see to it that his foundation
is fitly prepared, if he would have it
stand. Then competent workmen must
be procured, and have a ready supply
of suitable material, and then the work
will move steadily forward to comple-
tion.‘ Should a lack of means, or a
neglect to prepare material be met,
then we may expect to see the struct-
ure move but slowly, and a long time
elapse before it is completed, if at all.

The farmer who is supplied with im-

plements to do his work, and help to

i
- 1‘.-§f¥’3‘.:7ifi?f»'>:.-7¢'<‘.;~>.;-.“"f'w‘,’;i<r, :.- .;,.

use them, and then before he casts his
seed on the ground, sees that it is
thoroughly prepared to receive it, need
not expect if the season be favorable,
disappointnieiit in his crops. °

But if on the other hand his farm
implements be scarce, or those he may
have on hand need repair when he
would use them, and his ground illy
titted for the seed, and the seed put in
the quickest way to get it in, and half
cared for after it is in, need not wonder
why his crops are poor, and he but half
paid for his labor. “Half work, half
pay” will apply here as elsewhere. If
a tool needs fixing do it in leisure hours,
or rainy days. Should your rake need
some teeth, doinot wait until you are
ready to use it, but have it ready for
your use. Don’t neglect to get a plow
point if needed, until your team is liar-
nessed and you are ready to hitch to the
plow, and then must needs let the team
stand idle until you secure a point.

Be prepared for work when work
comes. and it will be done easier and
quicker.

If the good housewife will coniinence
in time to prepare dinner. she need
have no fear that the hour for dinner
will find it but half ready, and the
hungry husband or working men will
not have to wait from half an hour to
an hour, and frowns take tbc place of
smiles. Tinic taken by the forelock is
preparation half niade. _W‘n'.it a Iield
opens on this subject of preparation,
but we have l‘U<)ll1 for only a few clos-
ing thoughts. We must be prepared for
wo. k in the Grange, if we would have
a heultliy and growing (lraiige. If a
duty is assigned us, to write an essay,
give sclcct rcadings, or discuss some
qll€StlUll,S€e to it that the matter re-
ceive our attention, by giving it
thought, and making preparatioii for
it. No matter what the labor may be,
we repeat it, be prepared for it, and
success will reward us. Life is but a
scene of pi'epai'atioii. Ilc who has made
full pi'epai'atioii for this life, and above
all, is prepared for the life to <:oine,iiced
have any fear when called by the lil-
vinc Master, to that upper and better
iioiiic.

Every Man a Brick.

Plutarch, in his life of Argesilau-,
king of Sparta, gives us the origin of
this quaint and familiar saying.

On a certain occasion an ambassador
from Epii-us, on a dipii matic mission.
was shown by the king over his capi-
tal. The ainbassador knew of the
monarch’s fame. knew that though
only nominally King of Sparta, he
Wat yet ruler of Greece, and he had
looked to see massive walls rearing
aloft their embattled towers for the de-
fense of the town. but he found noth-
ing of the kind, He inaiveled much
at this, and spoke of it to the king. _

“Sir ” he said, "I have visited most
of the principal towers, and I find no
walls reared for defence. VVl.~y is
this?”

“Indeed, Sir Ambassador,” replied
Argesilaus, “thou canst not have
looked carefully. Come with me to-
morrow morning, and I will show you
the walls of Sparta.”

Accordingly on the following morn-
ing the king led his guest out upon
the plains where his army was drawn
up in full battle array, and pointing
proudly to the serried host, he said:

“There thou beholdest the walls of
Sparta——ten thousand men, and every
man a brick!” “

“WHAT shall we do with our boys?"
They shall be given a sample English
education and then let them do for
themselves. Give them the oyster-
knife and let them seek the oyster of
fortune and open it. If they can’t do
this the chances are ten to one that
they would not have sufficient “git up
and git” to take advantage of fortune
even if brought to them on a hslf—shell.
Just now there is altogether too
much solicitude on the art of parents
as to what they will 0 with their
boys, which leaves the impression on
the minds of the young gentlemen of
the period that something has got to be
done for them, instead of encouraging
the more manly thought that they
must do for themselves. There is no
reason to suppose that the channels to
competence and wealth are fewer and
more difficult that they were years
ago.

THE following sentence passed by an
English justice impresses upon us the
fact that people in other countries as
well as our own, suffer from the privi-
lege of an impartial trial by a jury of
their peers. Only experieiice on this
side of the pond would suggest the
substitution of the word “guilty” where
innocent appears and vice versa: “Mr.
Justice Moule sentenced a rura: pris-
oner in England in the following
words: Prisoner at the bar, your coun-
sel thinks you innocent, I think you
imioceiit. But a jury of your own
countrymen, in the exercise of such
common sense as they possess, which
does not seem to be much, have found
you ‘guilty,’ and it reniaiiis that I
should pass on you the sentence of the
law. That is, that you be kept im-
prisoned one day, and, astliat day was
yesterday, you may go about your busi-
ness.”’ '

THE Saginaw Hes ald gives the
following timely advice; “Look out
for the trade dollar! It is being kicked
out of the eastern cities as “no good,”
and will make its way westward with
“the course of empire.” Don’t take
it. The trade dollar has more silver
than the standard dollar, but it is not
legal tender, and the go vernment will
only receive it at its value as silver
bullion, which is about 85 cents.
Every person should be on the watch
for. this discredited coin.”

ONEthing at least can be done to-
wards improving the cliaracters of our
Legislature. The people can continue
to discuss the evils that exist, and
show to others the true character of
much of our political work, and so
build up a true public sentiment which
must be the commencement in any re-

form.

THE MARKETS.

Grain and Provisions.
WHEAT--DECLI2«'I.\‘G.

NEW YORK. Aug. l1.—Flonr, receipts 11.700
bbli-|_-. S8-leR12.(Il) bols.; firm bu‘ quiet. Wheat,
receipts, 78,80) bu.; opened a trifle better,
afterwards '- eaker and declined ¥4@%c; trade
very quiet;No. 1 white, nominal; sale 21.000
bu. No. 2red, Aug.. $1 l7§s@l.lS. Corn, receipts
10£.:')(I) bu.; opened §a@’.‘éc higher; afterwards
lost the advance. Oats. receipts. 21,6(])bn.:
ashade lower; dull; western. 37@50;sales 91.00)
‘ u. Pork. dull, heavy; spot, new mess. £15 20.
Lard, unsettled, lower, steam rendered. $8.65.

Drrnorr. Aug. 11.—-12:30 P. s:.—Whest, steady;
cash $1.10; Aug. $1 11); No. 2 red, 31.13:, No. 8
white, 5.5; rejected, 71. Corn cash, 56 Oats. No.
2 white, 37.

‘_ Flour. Wheat. Corn.
Receipts .......... .. 125 12.200 1.232 none
Shipments ........ ..  25,930 none none

TOLEDO, Aug. 8.—Wheat, easier. quiet: No. 2,
red, cash. or Aug.. 31.11%; No. 3 Red 81.05%:
rejected 90. Corn. easier, dull: No. 2, Aug.
53; rejected. 49%: no gr de, 42. Oats. steady;
No.2, white, 33; No. 2, 29.

CHICAGO, Aug. 11.— Regular wheat, easier;
$1.U2¥q, Aug. Corn, lower; 53,; cash. Oats,
lower: 26’: Aug. Eye. 62. Flaxse-ed, £1.36.
iorlnlower; $12.30 Aug. Lard. lower; $5.175’;

ug.

Oats.

Groceries.

NEW YORK, August 11-—Buttcr. quiet. un-
changed; western, 9@‘l21,~§ ; Pennsylvania cream-
ery, 22@_23. Cheese, dull. 7@9?.i. Sugar. steady,
veryouiet. Molasses,quiet. held. Rice. rm,
fairly 8.CtlV". Uoflee, ririn; quiet. Tallow,
firm, 7%. Western eggs. dull, 2').

CHICAGO WHOLESALE PEICES—'I'l)IES REPORT.

Sugar, stand. A.... 87; Butter. dairy. l3@15

granulated ...... .. S!‘-4’, 'cream'ry l6@‘Z)
Driedapples..... 9@!-W. fresh white, 9@l0
Potatoes,n..bbl,1.Uo-1.25 Eggs. fresh.. 17@l7:4
Wool, fine. w'shd. .32-33 Beans h pick. $1.50-2.1:!

Live Stock.

CH1CA(o0, Aug. 11 —~H<iga — 7c!-eipts, 11,u)0,
slow. weak; 1.'i@25 lower: light. .‘3h’i.5’,CU,o'.0IJ;
I111xe'- Dncking. .9U@5.25: heavy packing and
shipping,  Cattle—receipts, 8.400;
10:: lower; 4 xports, $5 85626.15; good to choice
shipping. $5.35@:r.7()I common to fair. 3 .4C@
4..'ic; butchers. $Z.lUE/,’i.4(|.

THE REAPER DEATH.

HOIll\'.—Preuinhlc and resolutions of sym-
pathy adopted by Bronson Grange, No. 91,
upon the death of Tnomss llonrv.

WHEREAS, It has pleased an all-wise
Heavenly Father to remove from our midst by
death, our friend and Brother Tnonas Hoau.
Therefore,

Itesoivetl, That we :xtend our heartfelt
sympathy to the family and friends of the de-
ceased.

Hcsolvad. That while in his death we lose
a true friend, a kind neighbor; one whose
tones of genial hospitality we shall never
again hear. yet, we bow in Suhllllsfilofi, know-
ing our Heavenly Father “doetl; all things
well.”

Resolved, That the Secrctai'y' of this Grange
present a. copy 01 these resolutions to the be-
reaved family, and Cl. copy be furnished the
UIBANGE Visiroii ior publication.

ALLE‘.\'—-A tribute from Garland Giaiige
No. 1-11, to the memory of Sister l’Az1MELiA
ALLEN, who departed this life July Blth, 1583.

Death has entered the portals of Garland
Grange, and borne from our circle a dear Sis-
ter, one that we loved; and whose memory we
shall cherish, whose cheerful presence we
shall miss; but the zeal that she ever manifest-
ed in the principles of our Order, stand as a
witness of her worth, as 21 member whose cx-
ample we may copy, and with heait and hand
like her, be ever ready and earnest in our
work. Though we may be called quickly,
may we hope to be like her, ready for the
final summons, to which all must respond.

Sister thou hast gone and left us,
In the Grange thy loss we feel;
Yes we miss thy cheering presence,
And thy earnest heartfelt zeal.

Sis‘er, did I say we miss thee ‘E
Yes but who thy worth can tell,
But the hearts around the hearthstoiie,
Forced to say a last farewell.

But ‘tie God who has bereft us,

He that doeth all things well;
And the wisdom of his doing.

Who, Oh ! who, his ways can tell.

Thus we bow in faith and silence,
And our prayers to God ascend;
That from deeepcst vale of sorrow,
He will lead our Brother friend.
——-Mrs. E. S. Taft.

EVER since its first number this
aper has been keenly alert, anxiously
coking in every direction for cheer-
ing signs of industrial recuperation,
improvement and advancement in the
Southern States. Not quite two years
have elapsed between that time and
this; and yet within that little period
the evidences of material progress
throughcut the length and breadth of
the old slave States have become so
numerous, so various and so unmis
xakableasnot only to afford conclu-
sive proof as to the extraordinary re-
sources and capacities of the South
but also to give assurance that the
spirit and energy of the Southern peo-
ple, once again aroused and renewed,
are proving equal to their great emer-
gency and their great opportunity.-
Farm and Fireside.

AFTER all our working and experi-
menting, LeDuc’s experiments and
Loring’s ridicule, we are now inform-
ed that “all the sugar of Japan is made
from sorghum, and in 1878 71,000,000
pounds were exported. The sorghum
is grown from cuttings‘ the stalks b=-
inir cut and buried in September, and
sprouts are started through the winter
from each joint ; these sprouts are cut
off and planted in the spring.”—-Far-
me7"s review.

A correspondent of the Kanas Far

mer says :—“To get rid of gophers cut
parsnip roots one inch long; put in
each piece of root a piece of strychuine
as large as a grain of wheat ; drop these
pieces in their runs. It will kill with-
out fail.”

Funny Pictures and Stories.
Funny pictures and stories may do
good on the principle “laugh and grow
fat,” but while Dr. Pengelly is a man
who enjoys fun, no man more, he
couldn’t if he would get up a funny
book. lie has however just published
a medical book entitled “Advice to
Mothers concerning Diseases of Women
and Cliildr_eii.” He has avoided all
technical and impractical discussions,
and all nonsense, and by filling it with
plain. practical useful information has
sought to make a book which intelli-
gent and thoughtful people will think
well of. Every woman, especially
mothers, should have it. We should be
pleased to send it to any lady address-
ing us. R. PENGELLY 6.: Co.,
Kalamazoo, Mich.

N. B.——Dr. Pengelly is the originator

of ZOA-PHORA.

Endorsed by a Painter.

Calhoun Co. ,Mich.

lllr. Editor.-—I can say to my brother
Grangers that I can fully endorse the
Patrons Paint Works as being honor-
able aiid prompt in business, and that
the Ingersoll Liquid Rubber Paint is
all they claim for it. Cheapest and
best Paint we ever used, and they
deliver it freight paid. So we are not
obliged to use the inferior swindles
offered us by country stores.

F rateriially,
J. P. ltocnroni).
Secretary. '
[See Advertisement.—Emrora]

To bring the ten commandments
down to date there should be a"ded *0
the list of prohibitions, “thou shall
not commit adulzeration”

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circulars. N. DAVTS,

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This powder has been in use for many
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ennsygrania, and the Patrons of that State
have ucglht over 100,00" pounds through
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our secret. The receipt is on every box and
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holtsefn Sons 3 Co., Phoenixville, Pa. It
keeps stock healthy and in good condition. It
helps to digest and assinvlatn the food.
Horses will do more work, with less food
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It is also of great value to them when Il0"r
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years occupying
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recently moved
dire« tly across

0 Butterwortlfs block, where he will be
pleased to see his old friends, and all who may wish
good work in Dentistry done on very reasonable terms
All work warranted, as usual.

Please call before going elsewhere.
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HORSE RAKES AND CULTIVA-
TORS.

"T1391"! find “Favorite" Horse Rakes, “Cu.
max” Cultivators, together with all kinds of
smaller farm tools 8.l.|(: iuiplcments. Repairs
for all ktnds of machines sold by them.

Do not conclude purchases of tools, imple-
ments or machinery till you have taken prices
from

Phillips, Boynton & Co.,

Corner Island and Summit Sts.,

GRAND llAPll).<, . . meg,

.\Ieiitloii tilt: (jii.-\.\’:;i~: V.l.‘ll'l‘UR.
ljuufit

Farmers Take Notice!

PLOWS. PLOWS.

We will furnish to the Grange or any one
or more of its members one or more of our

New Improved Chilled Plnws

in order to introduce them this year, complete
at the extremely low price of 86.50 guru-an.
teeing satisfaction. Don’t be humbugged
any longer with high priced plows.

Try T/rem and be Com/iriced.

CA1» D.

C. G, Luce, of Oilea‘, Ml1‘Il., St-l)'E|:—

‘ The Plow I plll'('lllil'lI‘Vl this spring oi the Jouesvillo
Iron “'orks, Jonesville, .\Iic!i., gives good satisfaction
and I cheerfully recoiuinciid it to all who want is plow.’

And he advised us to make mention of it in
your paper that the farmers might have the

enefit of a first-class plow for a very low
price. Address,

JONESVILLE IRON WORKS,
Jonesville. Mich

A CHOICE LOT OF PURE UILED

POLAND CHINA SWINE

For Sale at Reasonable Bates.

Pigs in pairs and trios not akin. Breedi
Stock recorded in Ohio Poland China Recor

Parties wishing stock of this kind will find
it for their interest to correspond with or visit
e. B. G. BUELI1
Little Prairie Ronnie, C-us Co., 1! tall.
lfifebtf

Established in lbffl.

CHARLES D. ROSE,
Steaxn Dyer

Scourer 8: Repairer,
31 Kent St., and 32 South Division St.,

We color all the new shades of ladies‘ garinentl.
Gent‘s clothing colored or cleaned without sklnkage
or rubbing 017. The beet tailors employed for repair-
ing and pressing.

Grand Rapids, illich.

1} unfim Mention Grange Visitor.

[5  
Began life 12 years ago under the name of

WOMAN’S FRIEND.

Without puffery, simply on the good words
of those who have used it. it has made friends
in every State in the Union.

N O T A C U R E A L L
But a gentle and sure remedy for all those
complaints (no naming needed), which de-
stroy the freshness and beauty, waste the
strength, mar the happiness and usefulness
of many

Girls and '<X7'o:r.n.en.

Sou: av nu. Diivaaisrs.
Testimonials concerning, this Medicine or my Pamphlet on

I ' II
“Diseases of Women and Children
H111 yratu. Every Woman, especially Mothers, should read
them. Address

11. PENGELLY. M. D»
116 Walnut street. KALAMAZOO. M10!!-

The Victor Evaporator.

Fruits and vegetables evaporated upon an
entirely new principle based on the natural
lavni of heat and vapor; easy and economical
to operate; simple in construction; portable.
Size 11 feet long, 8 ft. high and 4 ft. deep, re-
quiring onl a one-story building. Trays 3:4
ft. each. uaranteed capacity 100 of bushels
every twenty-four hours. Product not excell-
ed by any other system. The only evaporator
that does not infringe existing patents. Price
8450.00. Sand for circulars and other infor-
mation tie D. WING & BB.0.,

1aug2t Rochester, N. Y.,


‘ nights with

8

THE GRANGE YISIEOE.

AUGUST 15, 1883.

Women as Inventors.
The common reproach with which
ambitious women are met, that they
possess no inventive or mechanical
gen1us——and the reproach was certainly
once more common than it is now——is
answered in the North American Re
tnewbv Matilda J. Gage, who brings
forth facts from ancient history and
modern _records. Starting w-ith the
pro(position that ancient tradition ac-
cor s to woman the invention of "those
arts most necessary to comfort, most
conducive to wealth, most promotive of
civilization.” she cites famous women
of Egypt, Greece, China and Peru, who
have been worshipped because of their
powers of invention. Spinning, by the
most ancient of Chinese writers, is ad-
mitted to have been invented by Yao.
the wife of the fourth em )€I'0I', and the
discovery of silk to have een made by
Si-ling-chi, the wife 0;‘ an emperor who
lived 4,000 years B. C. For a long
period the chinese country was known
under the name of Ser or Seriea (the
land of silk), while its later name of
China was derived from Sien Tshan,
under which designation, as the god-
dess of silk worms, Si-ling-chi is still
woishipped. Various devices for the
making of lace were also constructed
by women, as that of Venetian lace by
Mme. Bessani, and that for pillow-lace
by Barbara Uttmann. Cashmere
shawls were invented by Mheural Nisa,
of whom Moore has sung, and to the
same woman are we indebted for the
perfume, attar of roses. In her own
country Mheural has been duly
honored for these services her name
and title “Light of the VVoi'ld,” having
been Struck on the coins of liidia by
her husband, the conquerer Jcrunzebe.
Another woman of the east——Semira-
mis——is credited in the east with
the discovery of cotton as a textile
fibre, while in the west the same dis-
covery is credited to the mother of
the Incas, who taught its manufacture
to the Peruvians. The lirst straw bon-
net ever made in this country was
made by Miss Betsey Metc-alt‘ in 1795,
While the cotton-gin——an invention
which “heads the list of :;ixteen re-
1l1;tl'I{3.l)lB American inventions that
have been adopted by the world”——
owes its origin to the widow of Gen-
eral Nathaniel tlreene. Among other
inventions which were made by wo-
men are mentioned the Burden horse-
shoe machine, the baby carriage, and
the paper pail. Miss llosmer produced
marble from limestone, after the ital-
ian government had long sought in
vain for a process by which it could be
done. Mrs Walton planned an inven-
tion for deadening the noise of elevated
railroads. To Mrs. Manning the
IJ1)WB1'il.l1(l reaper is indebted for its
early perfection. The aquarium was
originally the device of a woman.
That womau’s claims in these matters
would be far greater than they are, had
the expression of her inventive genius
not been hampered in various ways
well-known, Mrs. Gage believes. She
adds further that a married woman is
not recognized by law, as possessing
full right to the use and control of her
own powers. Should she obtain it pat-
ent she would not be free to do as she
pleased with it——would “possess no le-
gal right to contract with, or to license
any one to use her inventions," More-
over, should her rzght be infringed she
could not sue the offender.
__.__________________

They Settled.

Two men were wrangling in front
of the City Hall the other day, when
one of them called out:

“I tell you I don’t owe you no five
dollars.”

“I say you do.”

“And I won’t pay it.”

“Then I’ll sue you.”

At this po-nt a pedestrian halted
and inquired of the one:

“Do you‘ honestly owe him?”

“Not a penny, sir.”

“And you will sue him for $5?” he
asked the other.

“I will.”

“Give him seven dollars,” continued
the pedestrian to the debtor——“give
hizu seven and be glad to. If he sues
he’s sure of verdict, and your expenses
Will reach at least ten dollars. Give
him $7 and be thankful that you are
beating two lawyers, a justice and a
constable, six jurymen and two wit-
nesses out of their fees.”

A satisfactory settlement was made
on the spot.

I HATE lawyers; they do more mis-
chief than their heads are worth; they
cause disorder, demoralize every form
of e ,uality and are the chief obstacles
to good government. If A letsB nave
BIS property without payment, I do
not see why 0, D, F, and all the rest
of the alphabet should be called upon
as a police force to get it back. No
such thing should be attempted by
law. It is the most monstrous innova-
tion upon man’s honor and integrity
that was ever -forced into the com-
merce of the world. Let a man trust
another at his own risk. Even the
gambler pays his debts contracted at
the gambling table. He is not obliged
to pay, but he considers them debts of
honor. Abolish all laws for the col-
zection of debts, and thus abolish the
whole credit system; this is the only
safe true basis; that would abolish
most lawyers, and all 0‘. the pawn-
brokers‘ trade which now controls the
commerce of America.—Horace Greely.

PROFESSOR A. J. COOK, Michigan
Agricultural college. writes: “It was
Dr. C'ollz'er’e successor,Professor Wiley,
lately appointed chemist to the Bureau
of Agriculture at Washington, who,
in an elaborate article on glucose :1
year or two ago, gave voice to the ab-
surd statement that comb honeyhad
been wrouvht by man, using glucose
as the sweet filling. The article did
much mischief; the more as it was
widely published in the press of the
country. When criticised by the Bee
Journal for writing such nonsense,
the professor said it was all a joke!
To ordinary readers it seemed a very
sober joke. and to bee-keepers a very
mischievous one.”—Farmers’ Review.

A BARREL of plaster at the back door
can be made to do important sanitary
service. A few handfuls every day or
two sprinkeled over the places which
sme1l,will stop the unpleasant odors,
and the privy may be changed ‘in the
same manner. Plaster is a very cheap
and efiicient disinfectant, and should
be available at every farmer's door,
and for sprinkling the stable floors.

Pop corn is a §0E)((’Irl(11l1I.li(£lIl1{f0I‘ Sunday

AIIDISII ne

Is the only preparation based on the
proper principles to constitute a dura-
ble finish for walls, asi is not held on
the wall with glue, etc., to decay, but
is a Stone Cement that hardens with
age, and every additional coat strength-
ens the wall. Isready for use by ad-
ding hot water, and easily applied by

anyone.“

«Fifty cents’ worth of A1.aBAs'r1Nn
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 an y other preparation
on the same surface.

For sale by paint dealers everywhere.
Send for circular containing the twelve-
benutiful tints. Mwéufactured only by

ALABASTINE Cc
M. B. Cannon. Manager,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

NOW IS THE TIME

To go west and select from 2,000,000 acres of
lands which I offer for sale in the best part
of the west. But, before you go west, please
look over the long list of lands which I now
ofier for sale in Berrien county, Michigan.
This list comprises about 4,tO0 acres of fruit,
farm, and mock lands, among which may be
found fine fruit farms, with palatial residences.
and every variety of fruits indigeneous to this
unrivaled Lake Shore region.

A large number of small fruit farms, of ten
to forty acres, located in the center of the
fruit-growing region, at prices from $25 per
acre, and upwards.

1,000 acres of timbered lands of best quality
for fruit growing or genera: farming, situated
along the line of the C. db W. M. R. R., be-
tween Stevensville and Bri-igman stations.
These lands have but recently been placed on
the market, and consist of some of the most
desirable land in the State of Michigan, and
will be sold in lots to suit purchasers at $l0 to
$26 per acre, on favorable terms.

2,000 acres of wooded, hill and vale, on the
Lake Shore, at prices from 32 to $4 per acre,
cash. These lands were partially denuded of
timber by the great fire of 1871, but are now
covered with a dense second growth of timber,
schrubs, wild fruizs and grasses, and all favor-
ably located for fruit growing, and have been
proved well adapted to sheep and stock grow-
mg.

For maps and pamphlets descriptive of
western lands, and rates to all western points,
or for bills and circulars giving lists of Michi-
gan lunds, call on, or address

Win. A. BROWN.

Emigration and immigration Agent,

Fruit grower, and dealer in Real Estate,
Stevensville, Michigan.

juyl-tf.

laprtf

FENNO &. MANNING,

Wnul tnmmissiun Merchants,

117 Federal St., Boston.

OOl1Slg‘I""',')l1'6S Solicited and Cash Advances
Made.

RHEUMATISM.

A.ll Pain Cured by First Treatment,
l@“'ABSOLUTE CURE"fi&

VVAEEAKTEE

When Directions are followed For full in-
formation, Testimonials, Circulars, etc.,
Address with stamp or apply to
PROF. GEO, M. RHODES.
Universal Dispensary, 351 Lyon St,

GRAND RAPIDS, Mien.

specifics for all Chronic Diseases or nail.

ljimly

New Harness and Trunk Elma.
T. KININMENT 8: 60.,

hianufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in

Harnesses, Trunks, Blankets,
vvnxrs-5, ]:'..'to.,
117 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

All work our own make and guaranteed all
Hand Made.

Farm Harness, white trimmed, Breech-

ing, Round Lines, Bum straps,

Spreaders, etc. complete . . . . . . . . . . .. $29.00
Same without Breeching. . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.00
Same with Flat Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 28.00
Same without Breeching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00
Double Light Buggy Harness, white

trimmed _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25.00 to $30.00

File same nickletrimmed. . . . $30.00 to 350.00
Single Buggy Harness, with round

lines, white trimmed . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.50
The same with Flat Lines. . . . . . . . . . . 12.00
Nickle Trimmed, 815, $16, $18,320, 825, to $50
We also make a fine Nickle Trimmed

Farm Harness, stitched 6 to the inch,

stock all selected, an extra tine arti-

cle, Breeching, Round Lines, com-

plete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........... . .
same without Breeching . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mr. T. Kinininerit for the past iive years has
been foreman for Mr. A. Vandenburg, and
now in order to build up a. trade offers special
inducements to the Gralngers 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 re-
turned at our expense if not found satisfac-
tory. Address all orders to

Yours very respectfully
To KIN [N M ISN'T.

1 7 Canal Street
lfijully Grand Rapids, Mich.

J'. MINER;

PALACE HAT STORE,
27 Monore Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Largest Stock in the City of
HATS, CAPS, LAP DUSTERS, &c.,

All goods warranted as recommended.
Ljunflt Mention Grange Visitor.

LEONARD A. WARD,
Aiforney at Law and Notary Public.

All Local Buineas Prompuy Attended to.
26 0anal.Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

lJunGt Mention Grange Visitor.

Manufacturers and Dealer! in

Marble 8: Granite Monuments. Heaistniss,

CURBING. POSTS. ETC.
'.~‘.:i -1. act, Grand Rapids, Mich.

~- ...'- .ai

ulliml. Mention Grange Visitor.

THE “BEDETTE.”

A And 8 show the Folding L».-gs as locked
behind the end pieces when opened and clos
ed. 0 shows. the Tension Cord, which takes
Ill the strain on‘ the hinges and . guinea
the spring sides. .
‘The “B12i_)i5rrE” is a soft, easy spring bed
without springs or mattress, which is not true
of any other spring bed, whether folding or
otherwise, whether cheap or expensive.

being only one thickness of soft flexible cloth
under the sleeper, thus giving an even cool
temperature on all sides, which can be regu-
lated to suit the weather by putting the nec-
essary amount of clothing under the sleeper.

It is a. well—known fact that B mattress ab-
sorbs heat through the day in hot weather
and gives it ofi through the night as the tem-
perature becomes cooler, thus making it un-
comfortabl warm to lie on. causing restless-
nes.~ and often causing disease. Not so with
the “Banana; ” by leaving illlclothing from
under the sleeper, he Will be comfortably
cool in the hottest weather. This cannot be
done with other beds as they must have some-
thing on to make them soft.

The “ BEDETTE ” is unequaled for sick
rooms, as the temperature can be regulated

m below as well as from above, thus obviat-
ing the necessity of coo.ing the room by the
use of ice in cases of fevers. etc.

No iamily should be without one at least.
It can be folded up to six inches square by its
length and is easily put out of the way when
not in use and makes a periect bed in itself
wten wanted. Weighs only 25 pounds and is
strong enough to hold the weigh: of three
heavy men.

Do not punish yourselves and children by
trying to sleep on hot, musty matresses
through the warm weather but procure “BED-
ETTEB ” and sleep peacefully and hcalthfully.

Price $3.00. Finished with stain and var-
nish, 1|) cents extra. For sale by furniture
dealers everywhere. If not for sale by your
dealer we will send to any address on receipt
of price. Liberal discount to clubs of one doz-
en or mere.

M. H. CH UR(‘H BEDETTE (‘().,
ljuntf Grand Rapids, Mich.

lhe Slaielllliglrisllullural College.

This institution is thorouglily cquipped,hav-
ing a large teucliing force: also ample facili-
ties for illustration and maiiipulation includ-
ing Laboratories, Conservatorie-, Library,
Museum, Classroom Apparatus, also 8. large
and well stocked farm.

FOUR YEARS

are required to complete the course embracing
Chemistry, Mathematics. Botany, Zoology,
English Languages and Literature, and all
other branches of a. college course except For-
eign Languages.

Three hours labor on each working day
except Saturdays. Maximum rate paid for
labor, eight cents an hour.

RATES.
Tuition free. Club Boarding.
CALENDAR.

For the year 1883 the terms begin as follows:
Sriiiim Turin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Febru8.ry 20
SUMMER TERM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .May22
AUTUMN TERM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .September 4

Examintion for Admission, February 20
and September 4. For Catalogue apply to

'1‘. C. ABBOTT, President, or
R. G. BAIRD, Secretary.

OVER TEN YE ARS
, AGO we commenced
j ferecting WIND EN-
’ in this State.
To—day they are doim.
better work than many
of the so~called im-
provements. We still
contract to force water
from wells or springs
to any point. All of
our work put in by ex-
perienced ‘mechanics.
Buyers can have the
practical benefit of a
living spring put into
their house, thence to
difierent points for
 stuck by means of
valve tanks. Write for i.it_1iograi>h~‘. _illu:.—
trations of different jobs, stating kind of W
you want done.
B. S. WILLIAMS 8.200
alainazoo, Mich.

Mills erected _in Michigan 11 years
ago doing good work.

ork

lmayom

~ / . J
Mclntyre & coodsell

PIANO MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

Nos. 3. 5 AND 7 NORTH IONIA S'r.,
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Manufacture and sell Plans at their factory
at bottom prices. N o middle-men. employed.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Inspection Invited-
Circulars on application.

ljun 6t

PATENTS.

LUCIUS C. WEST, Solicitor of America.-
um‘. Foreign Patents, and Counsellor in Paton:
Cans.-;i. Trade Marks, Copyrights. A83,1i<-"-
ments. Caveats, anu Mechanical Drawings
Circulars free. 16 Portal?" street.
up;-1:9 KALAMAZOO, MICH.

“ GRANGERS I ”

The CHEAPEST place in Grand Rapids to
buy all kinds of household furniture for "spot

Mention this paper.

cash” and at Rusoxnnnn Rams on install-

ments is of

COMPTON BROS..
N o. 26 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
1jun6t Mention GRANGE Vrsiron.

It is a. delightful warm weather bed, there’

The designed purpose of the Grand Rapids:
(Michigan) Commercial College is to prepiiro
the student for the practical duties of life.

Discipline of the mind. then, lies at the base of

our scheme of education ; and the question to
be answered is : How may the greatest degree
of mental discipline be obtained ?

For further particulars please call, or enclose

tamp for College J oumal. Address,
C. G. SWENSBUII G, Proprietor.

decly Gnu» Bums, M108.

Paint Your Buildings

VVITH

ELASTIC PAINT

MADE AT
KALAMAZOO, MICH.

It is made Pure White and
ALL ()OL()RS/ FOR EXTERIOR
AND IN'l‘ERIOR
USE.
It fries hard, glossy and beautiful. It will

not peel, chalk or blister. Having greater
covering qualities than ordinary paints are

FAR MORE ECONOMICAL

to use. Call or write for Color Card and
Prices. For sale in Schoolcraft Mich., by

McLEAD & ROBERTS.
I‘IAliI)WABE.

DAVID FORBES,
ENGRAVER.

BAG PLATES,

Stencils, Dies, and Stamps.
29 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.,
l..,un6t

DDER s ‘HST
arescnt uywnere on trial to operate against all other
, g\ Presses, lIlt:CUFtOIIlL*rket‘;i-
'. , Z l-lIt'.,on.: that suits best.
1IlI$)0‘l1lCllllS§‘,\'(%r(l&J1.;’Cd show
“Y 0 mr res. as
DL:(l'.‘rlcl\"E Press is kiiowzi
to be beyond competition,
and \\'llI'b:ll:? nt Icsscxpeiise
w:ih I.'.\’lC0_Ill(‘l‘1|pl(liIy and
id ino_rc in :1 czu-than any
,_V r-tlier_.T.;cm.lywnyinferior
' inuchmes can be sold is to
deceive the liicxpcrieuccil
by ridiculously {also state-
iiicnis,zuirlthussellwithout
. Blllllii(-l"f~<'(‘ll|g.lH.|(lS\VIndlC
-, the pun lizm 1-, xvm-1,-mg
‘ , ‘ s alongside
' s ulwuy.-5 sells
, _ _ - .ilie purchaser a Dcderick
"“ ' t ~' ress, arid all know it too
Wftliito show up_, Address for circulnrnnd location
U tsttrn and southern storchouscs and Agenr,g_ .

1°. K. DEDEP-.1CK 3. co., Albany._..lT_Y.
‘E

SIOOO REWARD 

la.ug3t

For any mu.-lune milling liinl <-l..,",h,g m gm.
mm-1,-,.¢ nsniui-h \'1.ner 5.,“ 5,, 0...,
DAY 8.3 the

.

ILLUSTRATED
Imphlr! mailed P

REE.’ - 3
NEWARK MACHINE CO.
NEWARK. 0. —“‘

I
GRANGE HORSE NETS
l“Al{‘.\ll'Jli.\‘I

Fly time is near at hand and your horses
need rotection. I have made and sold

P .

hundreds of nets at Grange prices to_ the far-
mers of Michigan within the last two years.
We shall continue the manufacture of nets
tltilis yeéir alllld n}iea}n to Ti" ufnish g. od goods very
c cap on . w 9 tier 'l.l(H"~‘ 0" not

For prices" S  cIi'cul:i:'x' t.‘ xi’ I17l.V ‘-4411 Sr :11:
to all Gr:-iige SL‘(2lt.'liill‘> in ;l L‘ 5‘ die or write
to me at ('-l;:ii' or‘. c. Mwb.

l-'3jul3t J >.~'E!'Il SH.-\ W’.

IIEJLEQUAFITEFKS

FARM Alli") MILL MACEIINERY,

Portable and Stationary Engines,
Pony and Staiidani .*-aw Mills,
Reapers, Mowers, Hay Rakes, Hay

Tedders, Plows and Barrows.

Also, a Full Lint. of
BLIGGIBJS AND VV’AGON.~‘.
At Denison’s Agricultural Warero: ms, 88. 90
and 92 So. DIVISION Sr. GRAND RAPIDS.
VI’. C. DENISON.

M:-mion "Grange Vititor.”

-I. in. 

ljuntit

25 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mauul‘a.cturer ofaud Dealer in the
Most Durable and Neatest Carriages,
Road Carts, l’latI’orm Wagons, Etta, Ever nude.

Call and see the New Autonirtic Jump-Seat,
Carriage. Best ever seen here. Change in an
instant from single to double seat.

lj unfit Mention this paper.

ACME CREAMER and BUTTER COOLER

A combina-
tion by which
all farmers can
make Cream-
ery Butter as
we in keep it
in in nice con-
dition until it
is marketed.

It saves two-

:: thirds the la.-
¥ bor. No ice is
W}? required as it
is strictly in
' - - A cold water re-
frigerator. The on-um is taken from the top and is
clear of sediment. The most complete arrangement
for the Farmer and Dairyman in existence. Agents
wanted. Send for circular and price list.
MCCALL 8: DUNCAN,

laprtr Sclioolcrnft, Mich.

1"ish’s American Manual of

PARLIAMENTARY LAW

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

Circular of commendation free. Price by
mail pregiid; cloth, 50 cents; leather tucks,
81.00. outage stamps received.

Address, J. T. Cons, Sclioolcraft. or

GEO. T. FISH.
Rocmwrnn, N. Y.

GOOD

As the Season

NEWS!

is rather

backward and we have a.

large stock of
Furnishing

Clothing and
Goods, Hats

and Caps on hand We have
already commenced mak-
ing reductions in all de-

partments.

$12 50 Blue Serge fa.st—colored Flannel Suits

only $9 85. '
$10 00 Suits only $7
$12 00 Suite only $9

95.
95.

$20 00 Suits only $18 00.
$25 00 Suits only $20 00.

Boys’ and Children’s Suits.

Childrens’ suits, $2, 2

.50, 3.50, 5, and $10.

Boys’ Suits, $3, 5, 7.50, 10, 12, and $15.

Kilt suits, 2.50 to $10

HATS.

Straw Hats, 50c, 75c

HATS.

HATS.

, $1, 1.50, and 2.50.

Straw Hats, 50, 10c, 15c, 25c, 85c.

FURNISHING GOODS.

Under Shirts, 25c to $1.50.’

Socks, 30 to 500.

Trunks, 750 to $10.00.
STAR CLOTHING HOUSE,
36, 38, 40, and 42 Canal St., Grand Rapids,

Michi

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Mention GRANGE VISITOR.

People who may reside at so great a dis-
tance from Grand Rapids that they cannot
conveniently come to the city, can avail them-
selves of the most extensive and varied stock

of

DRY GOODS

ma .4...-

AND

CARP-BTINGS

of every description to
simply by writing us.
kinds of goods can be

be found in Michigan,
Samples of nearly all
sent by mail.

All orders strictly attended to, and any
goods sent, not satisfactory, can be returned.

and the money paid
refunded.

for the same will be

SPRING & COMPANY,

15may 2-it

ATRONS’

Manufacturers oflu

Paint. The only Pu

air orwuter. then: n,
which destroy all
littered reight paid. to any
ed unt l delivered. All
sent free Beautiful Color
struotinnc how any one
PAINT WORKS, No. 78

 or fumes of

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
[Mention the V1SI'I‘0R.]

 AINT

_'I91'80ll '5 Li

and I: 5:, .
into that do q ’ N ( T

- fy moist or salt
burning on a 1,
Prices (om, de.

No cash requir-

write and Itume

with im-

NEIV Y0 Rh.

other Paints. _

GRANGER & HAMBLIN,

LIVERY, SALE AND BOARDING STABLES,
Nos. 42 and 44 Davis St., Grand Rapids Mich.
Farmers Teams Fol and Carol for as Ordered,

We make a specialty of the sale of horses. We guar-
antee every house we sell to be as represented. Our
stock cannot be excelled. Our Hiunbletonian stallion,
Tronbler, is one of the beat in the State. Mention this
paper. ]jun6t

ISAAC W. WOOD.
PRO!-‘RIETOB or
G L O B E M I L L S.
Manufacturer of Pastry Flour Fwd, lleal, Etc,
At Wholesale and Retail.
Mill Street Near Bridge, Grand Rupids, lllich.

Custom grinding or all kinds promptly done-
A fine Suppl of seed Buckwheat and seed
grains ofa 1 kinds always on hand. Mention
GRANGE Vrsrron. lj until.

I. J. WHITFIELD.

Physician and Surgeon,

Special attention given to diseases of the
Rectum.

091-10: 128 Mormon 81' Gun RAPIDS, Mica.
1jun6t Please mention this paper.

The Kalamazoo Publishing 60.,

Kalamazoo. Mich”

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WILLIAM DEEBING,

Manufacturer of

Deering Twine Binder, Dearing Light
Reaper, Deering Light Mower,
Headquarters 39 and 46 Waterloo St.,
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.
Mention Grange Visitor.

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