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A RURAL REMONSTRANCE.

Old Farmer Winrow raised his head,
And laid aside his paper;

Bis spectacles slid down his nose
And rested on its taper.

“Wall, I declar’!" he cried aloud;
“This beats the very dxckens!

They’ve gone an’ shifter mun’ the time,
As sure as chicks is chickens.

“I've never heard, upon my word,
Of anything to beat it,

I ra'lly think them city folks
Hev got thoer minds unssated.

"An' what is this I read in beer.’
Great Caesar! Save the flock!

They're goin’ to stretch the hours out
To twenty-four o'clock!"

The worthy farmer scratched hisjear
In d iepest meditation;

He gazed perplexed upon the clock
With mental agitation.

“For ixty years I've plowed along
A.s reg‘lar as the sun, sir,

An’ used the goo , old-fashioned time
Without a hitch, by gum! sir.

“But times have undergone a shift,
It‘ I be not mistaken,

An’ some new cranks tiy every day
To give this world a shakin.’

"They string my fields with telephones,
0: some new-fangled ‘crashes,

They s nd out one- wheeled railway trains
'1‘o everlastin' smashes.

An’ et, they be not satisfied
ith the customs they hcv slander’d,
But they must go an’ ’riginate
A new so’ fresh -‘time-standard.’

“I ra’lly should’nt be surprised,
N or my old woman, ’ither,

Ii them that city lunatios
Should drap time altogether.

“An’ some fins day. when we arise,
Our daily race to run,

We’ll find that while we've been asleep
They've turned around the sun!

“But ra'lly, now. I didn 1: think
(Nor my old Sal, 1 reckons)

They'd go an’ steal from Father Time
some fifty sc.re of seconds!

"Ahl now I see theer little game 1
As I'm a calculaiox,
They've backed their clocks a quarter-hour
To sleep a little later.
—-B vuon Courier.

Holstein Cattle.

The great merits of Holstein cattle
are, that they combine all the quali-
ties of a profitable cow.

Their history can be traced back
over two thousand years. Through
the careful and judicious selection
and treatment of these cattle they
have been brought to a high degree
of perfection in their native country.
There were in 186-1 1,333,887 cattle in
Holland, of which 943,214 were cows;
32 000,000 pounds of butter and 61,000,-
000 pounds of cheese weie exported
from that country in 1864: The pop-
ulation of New York is about the
same as that of Holland; the whole
numoer of cattle of all sorts in that
State, in 1870, was estimated at 702,-
000. .

The whole amount of butter ex-
ported from the United States from
June, 1869, to June 1870 was 2,039,488
pounds; and ofcheese for the same
time was 47,296,823 pounds.

This comparative statement shows
a high degree of perfection in the
dairy husbandry of Holland.-

A few cattle are being imported and
scattered in nearly every State and
territory in the union, but as yet
there are not in the United States
enough of these catth all told to sup-
ply esch township in the State of
New ,York with three head.

It is not possible for America to
overstock with these cattle for years
tocome. They cannot be bred here,
nor imported as fast as they are
wanted.

The demand on Holland comes not
only from America, but Italy, Ger-
many, France, Russia, Denmark,
Norway, and last year some were taken
to Booth Africa to introduce this_breed
into that country.

The importance of dairy husbandry
in the United States is leading the
Husbandman to look around for the
best cow. No wonder the Holsteins
areeverywhere wanted. with increased
demand, when the ma‘ure cows are
making such records at the pail as 70,
80, 88 and up to the wonderful record
of 99 lbs. of milk in asingle day, 2,400
lbs.. twice the weight of a cow in 30.
days; 18,000 lbs. in one year. The
products of butter from some of these
cows are one pound of butter from 16}
1:020 pounds of milk; from 18 to -22
pounds of butter from 30 days milk;
500 pounds butter from 250 consecu-

tive days milk. Dairying brings rest
to thelaborer, it lessens the acres of
wheat for the cultivator, its harvest
enriches and rests the soil. I know
of no investment that will bringa
better harvest to the husbandman
than Holstesn stock, it they have sold
at an average of $765 00 each at pub-
lic auction, and sales of individual
animals at $1500.00 $2,500.00 and 4.-
250.00.

The yearly profits are milk nearly
the year round and a calf worth from
$200.00to $500 00 being a good per-
centage on cost.

W. K. Snxron.

Howell, Mich.

Red Polled callls.

As this breed of cattle is compara-
tive strangers to the most of your read-
ers, I thought that to set forth some of
their superior points might not be
amiss. It is not expected to writes
complete and exhaustive history of
them, in this short article, sufficient
to say that they have been bred in
Norfolk and Suffolk, England, for a
period of more than 150 years which
surely, would seem to establish their
characteristics.

As early as 1808, specimens of this
breed were shown at English fairs,
where they attracted attention and
received special notice in the report of
the judges.

Their introduction into the United
States, is of such recent date that it is
fresh in lhe memory of most all ag-
ricultural readers.

Color—they are of a deep red color,
a color that no one can find fault with
and one that for the last 26 years,
American breeders have tried to es-
tsblish. This color mania with them
was carried to such an extent, that
white, red and white, or Roan Short-
horns, no matter of how good family,
or how superior the animal, it must
go to the butcher's stall, for no fault
in the world but the color was not
right. They said white, red and
white, and roans, do not ship well,
that is they show all the scratches
they receive while in transit to the
markets,andthe reds do not; so we
want nothing but reds; The breeders
of Red Polls, surely will not have the
Shorthorns, Devon, or I-Iereford’e to
fight on the color line.

As to early maturity and beef pro-
ducers, they have no superiors.

A red polled heifer 1 year old 9
months, 6 days old weighed 1,214
pounds; steer, 1 year, 11 months old,
weight 1,164 pounds; steer 1 year, 6
months old had a dressed carcass of
756 pounds; heifer, 2 years, 3 months
old, dressed carcass 840 pounds; steer,
3 years, 10 months old, 1,978 pounds:
steer, 3 years old, 2,856 pounds; steer,
3 years-old, 1,796 pounds; cow 3years,
7 months old, 1,919 pounds, alive,
dressed carcass 1,280 pounds. or 66.84
per cent of its live weight; bull, 4
years 7.months, old 3,024 pounds; bull
2 years 8 months, 2,226 pounds; bull 1
year 8 months, 1,364 pounds, &c., &c.
ButI have shown enough weights at
the different ages to convince any
one, that they are an early maturing,
and beef breed, of cattle. 80 upon this
score we are the rivals of the Short-
horns, Hereford, Angus, Gallaways,
and Devons.

Dairy qualities, I will divide into
two heads viz.: milk and butter.

One cow (tested) seven month's
daily average for that length of time
3,901 pints or close to 41 pounds‘ or
milk. Other cows have made 46 pints
or 23 quarts per day when fresh.
Others have given 10 to 17 quarts,
eight months after they were fresh.
This would be in pounds from 20 to
36 per day.

One cow in 11 months gave 10,311
pounds of milk.

The above shows quite conclusively
that the Rid Polls are the rivals of
the Holsteins, Ayrshires and Devon:
as dairy cattle. Butter, cream and
milk ofour Favorite is <qual to the
best, and is to a great extent rich or
poor according to what the cow is fed.
If fed rich, nutritious food the milk
is richer than grrvilk produced from
grass and low grades of coarse food.

Milk froma cow upon 87355 81009»
gave fifteen per cent; of cream two
months after droplling 1191‘ fir“ 05"-
Cows on grass alone 7 months after
calving gave 21 per cent of cream.
one cow giving 45 pounds of milk on

an average for 7 months, gave an av-
erage of eighteen per cent of cream for
same period. One cow 6 years old
that cslved January 22nd, winter
feed, gave 24 pounds of milk with
35 per cent of cream (on file
the 18th.) Another cow 6 years old
gave 27 pounds of milk with 34
per cent of cream. One cow 9
years old gave 20 pounds of
milk and 32 per cent of cream.

The butter must be of a most excellent
quality, for almost in every instance
where exhibited, it has been awarded
the first prize.

Notably at the International Dairy
fairrecenilyheld in American Insti-
tute hall New York city where butter
made from the cream of Jersey,
Guernsey, Holstein, Aryshire, Short,-
horn, Devon, and Native competed.
the prize was awarded to the butter
made from cream of the “Red
Polled Cow” showing conclusively

' that the Red Polls as butter cows are

the rivals of all the above named
breeds, and surely as to quantity and
quality of milk the peer of many.

Hardiness—they are perfectly hardy
in their native home and those that
have been imported to this country
have stood the trip across the ocean.
passed through quarantine and have
become acclimated to this country
with less mortality, than any race of
cattle, now being impoited.

Gent1eness—This is what we lay
great stress upon. They are perfectly
docile, not having great horns as
weapons of defense, and knowing
their weakness submit quietly to the
wish of their master.

Now we will give the home one
turn. Any reader of newspapers
knows hat accidents from horned
cattle are frequent and often terrible
in results. Men, women and children
are sacrificed by scores often. That
these = {orns do immense injury to all
kinds of slack no one can deny.

From Indiana Iarmer:-A lot of
beef cattle recently sent from Canada
to Liverpool were so badly housed,
and accommodated that many of
them weretorn to shreds by the horns
of the others, and the dead and dying
and injured were so numerous that
the shipment was almost a total loss.

One vicious steer with horns will
keep all cattle away from a rack 20
feet long, will occupy a shed 20x30
feet square all himself, while a rack
20 feet long will furnish room for eight
head of Red Polls, and a shed 20x30
feet square will accommodate as
many Red Polls as can crowd together.
I have seen them laying down to-
gether of all ages and for their gen-

tleness and herding together, remind-
ed me more of a lot of sheep than
cattle. ‘

Now as a last appeal to the laimers
of America, use your every energy to
take the horns off‘ your cattle as they
are not only useless, but dangerous,
they are nothing more than imple
ments of torture, I will assert that the
loss of human life in the States alone,
by infuriated horned cattle amounts
tomore than 500 persons annually.
The loss of cattle, sheep, hogs and
horses, runs away into the millions.
You might just as well have horns on
your horses heads as horns on your
cattle. '1‘. W. W. SUNMAN.

Emerson's Estimate of llie Farmer.

A few years ago J. G. Whittier the
poet is reported to have said that of
all Americans then living, Ralph W ill-
do Emerson was the only one whowonld
be known and read 1,000 years hence.
Whether this be true or not, Emerson
takes very high rank as a philosopher.
He lived in eastern New England in a
neighborhood rather unfavorable for
farming, hence this may have caused
him to put a low estimate on the far-
mer. Let us read V011 enough to stir
up some Patron and set him to think-
iiig.

“All trade rests at last on his primi-
tive activity. He stands close to na-
ture; he obtains from the earth the
bread and the meat. The food which
was not, he causes to be. All men keep
the farm in reserve as an asylum where
in case of miscliance, to hide their pov-
erty, or a solitude, if they do not suc-
ceed in society.

“The farmnr represents the necessi-
ties. He represents continuous hard
labor, year in, year out. and small gains.
He is a slow person, tinie..l to‘ nature,

and not the city \\v'.'ltl_‘llt’S. llc takes
the c:1reoI'se'.isoii.<. plants. and i:liemis-
try. The flll‘lll(-El‘ times llinise-11' tn na-
ture, Ztllll iicquires that live-lniig pa-
ticiim-: which belongs to liei: Slow,
narrow iumi. his rule is. tliul the cartli
lsliull fee-<1 aiul clotlic him: and he-must
wait for his 4.-mp to grow. llis cuter-
l,il.llllll€lllS,l1lS libertii-s and his spermi-
iiigmiist be 011:! l‘-.iriiici"s scale, and
not on :1 iiicri-lmiil.'s. This lizird \\'()l‘l{
will zilways be done by one kind of
inaiig not scheuiiiig speculators, nor by
soldiers, nor pivfcssors. 1101‘ i‘e;uler.s of
'l‘ciliiyson:biit by men of eiiulurziiicc,
deep-cliestl-<1, loiig-wiiialeu, toiigli. slow
and surcaiid timely. lie iszi col1Linu-
oils l)ellef2l.Cl,01'. 'l‘lic cartli works for
him ; the air works for him." His opin-
ion was not based on an ZlC(,'U2lllll,&l.llCE‘
with some of the thrifty l';ltrciis of
llii:-ibaiidry now living in Micliigaii.
W. J. lii~:.Ai..

Cash From the Farm this Year.

Bro. Cobb:-Enclose a specimen of
Northern Michigan farming on sandy
land and should like to call out the
return of farmers in the south part of
the State, where they ought to excel],
as certainly they have richer land on
the average. As the most of our farm
is woodland I inclu led sales of wood.

H. Vookiuzns.

Traverse Mich.

Hearing so many farmers all over
the State complaining they have bul
little to .~ell, on account of the failure
of wheat and com, I thought I would
give the actual cash sales from our
farm of only 70 acres cleared. to prove
that variety of products is Michigan
farmers best hold. '

Hi3 and straw . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . .. 60 00
Eggs and poultry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 46 00
Potatoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 65 00
Cabhage.......,..................... 51' 00
  20010
Butter and milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3'29 00
Stock and other items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 65 00

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393“ N‘
The above is an account kept and
does not include large quantities con-
sumed by a good sized family, and we
have nearly $200 worth of products
on hand. We lost as much as the av-
erage from the great frost, We had
15 acres in corn, and not a dollar's
worth to sell, nor of pork either; an
acre of cabbage not half headed, and
our Peach Blow potatoes about half
grown.

in Agricultural Experimental Slalloii,

The people of Michigan are justly
proud of the State, and of its institu-
tions. It is our boast that we permit
none of our sister States to surpass us
in the variety and excellence of these.
Our university is the peer of any of
its class. Uur Agriciilturul College is
even with the foremost of them all.
Our graded and common schools are
the equ_-al of any. We were pioneers in
establishing schools for the care and
ediicatioii of depeiidciitchildren. But
several States are leading us in estab-
lishing Experiniental statioiis. If they
arcnot H good thing of course we ought
not to invest in them merely because
others (10.

But these stations are no new un-
tried cxperimcnt. They are of Euro-
pean origin and have existed all over
the most advanced portions of the con-
tineiil: for years and are now regarded
as a necessity. Tlieir object is,through
patient, methodical. and pei-severing
investigations aided by repeated exper-
iments, to further a more profitable
agriculture.

'l‘hese experiments are especially
essential in developing the best method
of maintaining the fertility of our soils.
There is not one farmer in a thousand
that possesses all the qualifications
necessary to experiment with sufiicient
care and accuracy to establish great
agricultural trutlis. It requires one of
rare gifts to do this. These truths
must often be established, not by one,
butby many experiments. And even
then he will be taught as many val-
uable lessons by his mistakes as
through success. If we find the fur-
mer who has the talent to do this
wisely and well. why should he as a
private citizen be asked to contribute
of his time, talent, and means to the
public good, without recompense
or reward. No! this work is toogrezit
for the individual to grapple with.
Not only this but the good of the
whole people is involved in securing
the highest scientific and practical ag-
ricultural knowledge that it is possible
to obtain. And it is the duty of the
State to furnish the means and oppor-

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Bro. Cobb.-——I have been solicited mu
different occasions to write h(lI]l(.'i.[llDlf
for the“V1si'r0R" 1' have so far (l(~-
clined only for two reusoiis.

let. My time is fully occiipiul in
lookihg after lhe numerous lllle1'ea'l~‘
of its readers at this and of the line.
The VJSITOR being already welf-
lilled with good common sense arti-
cles I could discover no vacancy.

But having been em-nuniged that
room might yet he found 1 shall on-
deavor then to answer thv qut*':Il0llS-
received wlilch I have reawn to be-
lieve will be the most generally use -
ful to your readers. As it is a new
experience for the Patrons of Michi-
gan to buy corn abroad, I iglve in this-
issue the rules governing its inspec-
tion in Illinois.

No. lye-llovv cc-rn'shall be yellow,
sound, diy, plump and well =-leaned.

N0. 1 White, same as above only
white in color.

No. 1 corn shall be sound, dry,
plump and well cleaned, while and‘:
y+llow_ unmixed with rul.

High mixed corn shall be three-
fourths yellow, and equal to No. 2 in-
condition and quality.

Noflcorn shall be dry, reasonably
clean, but not plump enough for No. l.

New high mixcd corn shall be
three-fourtlzs yellow of any zge. rea-
sonably clean, butnot sufliciehlly dry
for high mixed or No.2.

New mixed corn may be less than
three-fourths yellow of any age and
shall be reasonably diy and reason-
ably clean, but not dry enough for
No. 2.

Rejected, all damp. dirty or other-
wl.-e badly damaged corn shall be
graded as rejected.

To those that expect to buy 1 would‘
say: the quotationsin city papers or
market reports quote prices based on.
No. 2 corn. Further, No. 2 corn is
good enough 101' every purpose ex-
cepting for ground corn meal, though
many cais run good enough for that
purpose.

Now, as Idon’t wish to impose on
Bro. Cobb, I close with the request
you correspond with me, in relation-
to what your desire fo r my next sub-
ject.

Fraternslly, your buelmss agent,
Tnos. Mason.

0
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Display of lnsecls at the Slate Grange.

An interesting feature of the display
at the recent annual meeting was a
collection of injurious and beneficial
insects arranged and labelled in live
neat cases by Clarence M. Weed of the
Agricultural college. Among the in-
jurious ones were shown those which
injure the apple, plum, peach, grape
currant, raspberry, corn, potato. wheat
and many other crops. Among the
beneficial insects were shown those
which are prcdacious, living on other
insects; parasitic. laying eggs in the
larval or worms of otlierinsects, and
those which aid in purifying the air by
removingor burying offensive matter.
There was also acase of the large silk
moths found in Michigan. Such a. col-
lection would be of great service to any
Grange, horticultural society or far-
mers’ club. Agrcat many persons do
not know some of our coniinonesi in-
sect foes, and by examining such a
collection, they would soon become so-
quziinted with them. Of the hundreds
of Micliig:-in farmers who lose annual-
ly a large proportion of their apple
crop, because of the codliiig moth, not
one in fifty knows the insect when he
sees it. W. J. BEAL.


 

‘tunes under the control our few. Alon,.:

. ,—,, it fine the pathway of danger, bode
T‘ good to the futuie of the republic.

 

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.'.i‘H;E GEAIIGE VISITOR.

JANUARY 1, 1884,‘

Qrmmunirafinui.

THE GRANGE VISITOR GREETING.

B!’ D. H. GARNER.

"~21 come with a New Y: greeting.
for friends and Patrons dear,
"50 giife me a kindly welcome,
I'll aid your festal cheer.
am no unwelcome stranger
That comes for selfish ends,
' But am here replete with wisdom
To give to all my friends.
lily mission is equal justice
To all mankind the same,
'3'cr the nabob o'er the peasant,
No precedent shall claim;
it is not bands of gold that him)
Our Order good and true,
. Love is the power that ever
Cements it through and through.

-‘7:'t shall always be my efiort,
To do what good I can,
’ .1‘here's no license in my columns,
To damn the souls of men,
'.'.’ntemperance is my horror,
I’de sweep it from the land,
-Rind, tobacco with the other,
Its fumes I cannot stand.

‘Honopolists well expose ‘-
Their unlawful gain,
- They rniake the poor man poorer,
- and bring on want and pain;
.-But their millions cannot bribe me,
Hy hopes they cannot foil,
75":-r the people that control me
Are the tillers of the soil.

1 am your slave and yet your peer,
Tc educate I aim,
Your noblest thoughts are gathered here,
And I impart the same;
..‘So help me Patrons one and all,
And send me far and near,
:1-find we'll acheive a grand success
Within the coming year.

:__——-——.j———-
__._.j___________

‘Mr. Ckmmzander, Soldiers, and
-' Jitizens.-—To-day our country pn--
sents the grandest opportunity for the
enjoyment of happiness, and for the
--development of manhood and woman-
hood, of any place on the green earth.
-But it must be a bold man indeed who
ciaresto predict with confidence the
future of this great republic. We can
ii ft the veil and discern but dimly the
:results that are to be wrought out in
«coming years. With all the light
'7’:hat history furnishes, aided by a
keen observation of passing events to
’ iide our conclusions, we can only
 as ofthe fut-ire. Aided by these
1’, gfig i, we can see two pathways open-
.mg,g3. ‘ before the people of this great
‘,_,.mm,_,-3,‘ Along one of these ways we
Seestmwn‘ the wreck on all that is
, . IC and noble. We see the
pure, patriot ,
ballot box’, “L it bulwark of American
,Liberty' and gm iillfy, tampered with,
‘ma by this ‘mg us confidence lost,
Tights impaired’ _ insecure, and the
iives.of the citizens. ‘» m J°°_pardy' By
The same lights alozg thls pathway
V arc to be seen a danger. ms sympathy
with crime and crimina ‘ls; begotten
either by a fellow feeling 3. 1“ make”
‘them wonderous timid. or by 3 ma“k'
ish sympathy that makes a ifier‘? "f
zhe darkest criminal; thus rot. ‘bmg
crime ofits terrors. Along this pm ‘tn’

enough totakecare of it. And so
other aids and improvements will still
come as fast as we know enough

intake care of them, and use them
wisely and well.

Along the pathway of saffy can be,
aye; must be found, the diflusion of
wealth; the diffusion of knowledge,
with all the strength and power that
this implies. The average citizen
must be, and isalong this route, the
power behind the throne.

Citizen Soldiers, of the Grand Army
of the Republic—Appearances indicate
that we are again approaching the
point where the two ways diverge.
I believe in the future of this great
country; I believe in its people; I be-
lieve that whenever, and wherever
the forks are reached, that the right
road will be pursued. But we must re-
member tbat “eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty.” The old world af-
fords many melancholly illustrations
of the truth of this proverb. We to-
day furnish a parallel to grand old
Rome in her palmy days. She had a
Valiant people. She too had her
heroes and statesmen. She too had a
flag, honored and respected the wide
world over. There was not a foreign
en‘.-my on the face of the earth that she
had reason to fear. Yet by her own
corruption she fell; and to-day
the Italian beggar travels the
road her heroes trod.

India and China are great in their
territories, and in the number of their
people, yet so weak in morals, patri
otism, and intellectual force of char
actor, that a far distant little sea girt
isle dictates their governmental policy.
And thus we see that neither exten-
sive territories, nor vast population
will insure a nation's greatness. Shall
we heed the warning, and shun t1.e
doom? I most sincerely believe we

shall, and if at any time we slumber
at our post, and permit the old ship of
stateto drift from the track of safety.
I believe
in time to compel its return before the
dangers that beset. prove fatal to the
nation's life. A quarter of a century
ago our nation was threatened by a
monstrous and dangerous power. Pat-
riots stood aghastas they saw the con-
flict, and that we were traveling along
the path of immediate and impending
danger. In this trying hour the pa-
triot Abraham Lincon as if by 23. mir-
acle from heaven was called to take
command of the army and navy of the
Republic. You were then citizens en-
gaged in the ordinary avocations of life.
You with a mill'on more heard your
country’s call. You left farms, shops,
stores and oflices, bid adieu to broth-
ers, sisie rs, fathers, mothers, children,
sweethearts and wives, to become sol-
diers of the Republic. You severed
all the relations that men hold near
and dear, risked your healths and lives
in camp and on the battlefield, that
the institutions of your country might
be preserved. You, citizen soldiers.
gave abundant evidence of your love
for, and devotion to the old flag. By
the memory of the dead of the past
in and through your extensive organ-
ization, you are to some extent consti-
tuted guardians of the best interests of

that we shall arouse

way we find the accumulated weal» ‘‘

the people. We want no great standing

of the country,inassed in collossal for— ‘ “i'm3''' Make °"" 9°“"t"Y Wm“) W9‘

this road will also be found the com-
rnpraisfi, ready to Prey “P011 the Te‘
" 0,8,1-dg of industry, economy. and so-
; ,_.,_.~,eb_,7, These with many other things

1-erx-'ing,and’ we can in the future as
in the past, rely with confidence upon
the citizen soldiers to protect it from
harm.
like of y ou aided by the energy devel-
oped by open schools, and free homes,
enrolled by the opportunities and as-

We can rely upon you and the

‘res not the vision of a prophet P31331093 Which M1993 I0 3 republic
it requi -

ro see‘ that they all point towards vice, .
corruption, anarchy: “W11 W’?! decay 31
1,,-(1 death. But the scenes along the

the,pat.1;_gratify the heart of the
3 t -0, They give assurance of :2
pint-‘slack future in the nation‘s life.
in see our boundless and material
,e.,0m.ce5 developed. We seerour vast
7 I - ‘ . n times as -2-.rge as
ggiggéi; élgrfiany , and twenty-five
rlmes as large as England and Ireland.
inhabited at no distant day by ‘—’00,000- q
‘I00 of people. All speaking the same
ianwage, all worshiping the same
.,~ 5 ' and 311 protected by and rever-
-:?ocr‘th€ same flag. Along this path-
;:; .the bailot box is honored.

with religious fidelity.

. ‘ isters of our civilization,
fh°s:,:,Y,l£.,Bana the schoolhouse.
fifis athway of safety also furnishes
widegce that the great mass of the s

.,. -11 v f that shelters them. sung even in that once famous resorr.
geople W 3 k e no for such things, the bar-room.
newspaper has usurped the place of the
public ape.-kcr, and has crowded out

. hip makes patriots.
$032: o?:,::::ip aflbrds security for
o - ~ - -,
the mtu,.e)an.x should_by all legiti
.temeans be encouraged. Follow- t
Tug. this path we are to witness
.118 d I wsuus and improvements
-.3“: eart; sciences and mechanism
ixlliah She world has yet dreamed of.
" . - - t yet
11 enious inventonhafi 1-10
~ T  his work. A little boy of
J'3m[:;mmei's stood on the platform at l
SIXS _ h d
a railroad station, held bi the t::-],_,
f his mother as a mans rous _ 1
?on which his father was engineer)
K ent thundering bY- The boy was
W .11 d by excitement, and cried out,
Eh" 6 other why did not God let us
gob‘ [:te;m before ?” Toe moths?
. ave

. . tknow.” The 110)’
Teplledi ‘ ‘[ do no t i con.
thonzht 9 moment as the “aged on

trolled by the hand of 11180. b
   
.let us have‘ 85

of the orator; what has become of the ‘
great talkers? Conversation, as it was
once considered, may now be classed
among the lost arts.
actions of business, and the uucollo- 5

trenched on the province of conversa- -
tion that it has nearly ceased to exist. V
This is the age of stir and push; busi- '
ness more and more absorbs men’s
time and attention,

= - herlshed and protected broughtdown to the mere narrow rou-
‘°" punt’ C tins of their daily mu.

, - th 3 are to be seen and all and speech is silent.
Along fins pa W y the old haunts of conversation are oc-
cupied by men who talk business, or
deal in the gossip of the hour.

paper a sort of boon companion that
once occupied the accustomed social V _ _
hour. And now when men meet at ‘mass of winter at the Wolverine Capi-
the store, in the bar-room or club, they
do not ‘converse as formerly’-

merely speak of some things they have

point or two in politics, or exchange
business items with oneanother. foe
daily papers
have nothing to relate;
have ceased to exercise their mental
powers in conversation, but are con-
tent to smoke their pipe while they
read the news and gossip 03 13119 3110"‘
sand and one topics discussed In the
daily iournals.
public, conversation was formerly in
private life. But as we have said. I110

to guard this citadel of liberty and to

d in achieving the majestic possibili-

ties which lie before us.

A ._Losi Art.

The newspaper has taken the place-

The present ex-

uial nature of social life have so

till they are

Action is all
Even
One

carcely hearse story told or a song

The

he talker, for men find in the daily

They

ately read in their paper, or argues

tell everything--men
hence they

What speech is to the

ta1ker’s occupation has been usurped
by the daily paper.
Thus men allow business affairs,
the daily paper, and the public lecture
to absorb the attention once given to
social converse, leaving their collo
quial powers unexorcised and nude-
veloped. This is so much so that
“That prince ofall talkers, the ready
raconteur, who was as popular in the
old days as the fine singer is in these
times, is now entirely unappreciated.
We have just lost one of the old school
editors and one of the most influen-
tial talkers, and, although he was
not as ablea writer as Horace Greeley,
yet his tongue had more power in the
political affairs of the Empire State,
than Greeley’s pen. This man was
Thurlow Weed, Leaving out the
good or the bad irfluencc ofthe poli-
ticians we instance Thurlow Weed
because we wished to show what
"talk” can do; for he wielded more in-
fluence as a colloquial orator, in New
York politics than the ablesl: public
speaker or writer did, and his name
and fame rest as much or more with
the good he accomplished with his
tongue, than with his pen.
A friend of the writer’s entertained
Ralph Waldo Emerson when he lec-
tured in Kalamazoo many years ago.
Iattended M r. Emerson’s lecture, and
shall never forget it on account of its
suggestive and valuable thought.
But the friend wlio entertained Mr.
Emerson told me afterwards, that,
“As highly as I prized the lecture, I
got more that was valuable out of the
talk with the Concord philosopher
during the short time he spent at my
home.” But everybody is not an Em-
ersou. Certaiv ly not. Yet we find,
in our talk with men,that conversa-
tion now and then leads us to an
Eldorado of undiscovered mental
wealth. We rely too much on read
ing, on lecture and sermon, and do
not avail ourselves of the rich treas-
ures of thought to be gathered in con-
versation with our fellows. Fox said
he had learned more in conversation
with Burke than he had from book-
and all other sources. Goldsmith ap-
proved of Garricks admission to the
club because there would be a new
field to travel over. We have ceased
largely “to travel over each other’.-
mind.” Men are so busy now that
they scarcely admit you to their men-
tal porch. They read the papers,
speak in monosyllables. or are bliss-
fully taciturn.” G. B.

 

impressions of the State Grange Meeting.

Bro. Cobb.-—Wi1l you kindly allow
me to give to the readers of the VIS
rron some of the impressions which
the recent State Grange meeting at
Lansing made on my mind,

It has been my privilege to attend
many public meetings of various
kinds, and to see how business we»-
transacted in them. But of all public
or representative assemblies, that l
have attended, none have ever sur-
passed the State Grange of Michigan
in the orderly transaction of busines-,
the excellence of committee report:-_
the earnestness, frankness; directness-,
and high character of the discussions
the courtesy and friendliness of tin
members towards each other, and the

happy conclusions reached in II€8.l’il\.~{

with the various ditficult and perplex-
ing questions, that come b‘-fore such
bodies. Too much honor and pram.-~

‘cannot be awarded the Worthy M-a:--—

ter Luce for the manly, vigorous and
inspiring way in which he prcsidc-.2.
over the meetings ofthe State Grange.
I know that some people are (lisp-est-d
to say sneerin-gly that “these Giran
gers a.?on’t amount ".0 much,” and
that it is a sort of one-horse ins»titi-z-
tion.” There are some people who
are so little themselves that they
cannot see anything great and hen
oracle in anybody or anything else.
But, a day at the annual session of
the State G-range of Michigan would
surely convince the sternest doubtser
of. the personal worth, intelligence
and manly zeal of the membership
-of our Order as well as of the praise-
worfhiness, dignity and practical
‘utility of the Grange itself. Ihnd,
W'l_‘.£’rT-I. the 1-ouazinc of business should
jpoesaibly become tedious. the sweet
strains of the choir would thrill their
souls, and occasionally, when B!0l5f‘iF}'~'
Thomas would render one of his hu-
morous songs, they would be con-
strained to admit that "I couldifii
help laughing, it tickled me 91:.”
‘When I oft home to a.tts:.:.-.i the
meeting of the State Grange at Lan-
sing, Dec. 11th. I expec:e«,l that, in
going from southern Ohio to {-Jentral
Michigan, I would surely go from the
mildnem of ihe weather. which we
_were then enjoying here to the bleak-

, tol.
« balmy, the

But, to my surprise, the air was
skies lovely, and the

at Lansing, and I found winters, and
enjoyed merry sleigh-riding, only
when I returned to my southern Ohio
home. But, possibly 1 left Lansing
just in time to be able to pay this oom-
pliment to Michigan, fair Michigan.

On my return from the Slate Grange
meeting at Lansing, I found an invi-
tion awaiting me to address a Grange
about twenty-five miles north of here
on Saturday evening, Jan 5th. Thus
I am gradually getting into the good
work of the Grange in this State.

weather most delightful while I was .

But whatever I do, and wherever I
may be, I shall always cherish kind
recollections and loving remembrance
of our worthy Order in the State, that
lies between the lakes.
E. R. WILLIARD
Germantown, 0. Dec. 17th, 1583.

School Law and School Inspection.

Mr. Cobb, by your permission I wish
to call the attention of the l't‘mJci's of
the VISITOR to some points in our
school laws. Brother Stoddard in a
late number of the VISITOR speakimz,
oftheexamj nation questions 3ays,“these
as I understand, are furnished by the
State Superintendent of,Public Instruc-
tion.” If we look in chapter 17, Sec. :2,
of the school laws of 1881, we find the
following: “Said board shall prepare
questions suitable for the examination
of teachers for the various grades of
certificates provided by law to be given
toteachers of the State and the Super-
intendent of Public Instruction shall
furnish these questions to ofiicers zin-
thorized by law to examine tezicliers."
_Xc-w if we turn I_)atfl§ to Article 13, Sec.
.0, we have the following: "Thcresliall
be elected at the general election in the
year 18.32 three members of a state
Board of Erlucation, one for two years,
one for four years. and one for six
years, and at each succeeding biennial
election there shall be elected one mem-
ber of such board who shall hold his of-
fice for six years the Superintendent of
Public Instruction shall be ex-ofilcio a
member and secretary of such board.
From the foregoing it is plain to see
where the questions originate. Have
we not men in each county with edu-
cation enough to examine teachers
without this centralizing power. Our
present examiners are elected by the
chairman of the boards of school in-
spectors of the several townships in
each county, who meet at the ofiice of
the county clerk for that purpose.
Now look if you please at the expense
attending the election of the exam-
iners, 3~iS, you will find the compensa-
tion of the chairman of the inspectors
In section 14, of chapter 12. If these
examiners were elected by the popu-
lar vote it would cost mere nothing.
Now let us carefully read chapter 13
and see what an honored class the
teacllers are. If I present myself for
examination, I am told they will not
look at my answers unless I pay my
dollar then if I fail to stand 75-]
give my time and dollar simply for
showing my ignorance. This we say is

_ wrong, yet this centralizing power says
-it must be. But as we read along we
‘see there can be a number of insti-

tntes held in the State and they can
draw from the pockets of the taxpay-
ers to the amount -ii1,S0o= in one year to"
defray the expenses of that privileged
class, yet if we farmers the backbone
and sivnew of the country, want insti-
tutes we can foot the bi"lls.. In sec-
tion s) of said chapter, we find the fol-
lowing: “And any teacher‘ who shall
have closed his or her school in order
to attcnil said institute shall not for-
feit his or her wages as teacher during
such time as he or she shall have been
in attendance at said institute.” Now
if we look closely we will find’ they can
attend the institute five days, then the
courts say they shall have fivcholi-days,
so if as teacher is hired by the year
there is half :1 month for which
the district gets no value received.
There are many objectional points I
lizivenot touched, but would recom-
incnd eve:‘y S-ub-ordinate (lmiige to ap-
point it committee to investigt-rte the
sclivol l.m;.s' uni} bring up tl1e'objsr:-
tiomtl points then ask for the reforms
needed. A.P. SiiisPi1EimsoN.
Corey, Dec..12, 3883.

 

An Independani cackle.

Edifor Grange Visitor:—In: your
editorial in GRANGE VISITOR 0:’ Nov
lat. under the heading “answers-d’. is
the follozving. "The independent,
intelligent voter, with a proper regard
for his own interest, and that of his
country, can seldom vote the straight,

- :ic-ket of any political party."

We thank you for saying that.
Political parties, as such have very
little to do in shaping our legislation.
Very few laws are passed. very few
questionssettied by strict party vote».
ltlen are elected by the different par
ties. but each man elected has inter-
ests of his own to look afferfand man
is g--z.-mrallyled by his own interests)
in fac‘s._. w’-.« have but little respect for
the man who will not look out for
himself.

Aiming: our represen tatlves in Con-
gress, we find that the railroad mon-
opoly send railroad men, the iron and
coal monopolies, send iron and coal
men, the kerosene oil monopolies send
oil men, the banking monopoly send
bankers; the different manfacturing
interests are represented by men of
like interests.

Representatives of these different
interests meet in Congress, each inter-
est working for his own spec al benefit,
then there are many lawyers in Con-
gress and the only interest they have
is in the amount of pay theyget, con-
sequently, we find them working for
the use of their brains.

Among all those we elect to Con-
grass the man who can rise superior to
self interest, and go for the greatest
good to the greatest number, are about
as scarce as hens teeth.

But what of the laboring and farm

interests? Oh! they are the mudsill
on which all the other interests rest.
They have no interests or rights that
any one is bound to respect. They are
the geese that can be de,ended upon
every time to vote the straight pary
ticket, and lay the golden eggs. All
the other interests combined have laws
that enable them so gather as many
of the golden eggs as possible, being
careful not to endanger the lives of the
geese. Ifanv of the geese grow rrsf-
lese or show signs of flopping from the
parly traces an opiate is immediately

administered in the form of low tariti’

high tarifi‘, low rates of interest, com-
petition in freight charges, etc. If the
geese are very restless, taxation may
be reduced for a time.

The gatherers of the golden eggs
also have newspapers (christian ones)
and lawyers read them out over the
land to tell the geese how well off they
are. how much better off than the
same class are in England, or Ger
many, or Russia, and the best thing
you American geese can do is to keep
quiet. vote the straight parry ticket,
and lay as many golden egg. for us as
possible.

Good must result from the indepen-
dant cackling going on among the
geese that hide their nests in the
grange, and we hope the time is not
far distant w!-en farmers and laborers
will stop quarreling over party names
and party measures, and do the one
sensible thing, send men to Congress
from the farms.

INDEPENDANT.

 

The Lansing co—0peraiive Store No. 540,
P. of H.

A little over six years ago, Capitol
Grange with the co-operation of some
Patrons of surrounding Granges,
bought a building used for a small chair
factory, raised $300 for purchas-
ing goods and “opened a store.” The
Grange occupied the upper story.

Brother C. Goodnoe was elected man-
ager and has occupied the position up
to the present time. He has been a
very popular and faithful man winning

the confidence and respect of all who «

knew him. After a time more land
was purchased; more capital added,
more goods bought, more clerks hired.
The Grange kept growing and was very
active. The Grange helped the store:
the store helped‘ the Grange and “they
helped each other.”

Before many had much faith in our
ability to go through with it, some

-members began to make plans for "our
new building,” which was finally be-

gun in the spring of 1882. Brother G.
M. Tower was one of the most sanguine
and with an eye almost prophetic, be-
lieved we could put up astore 30x80
feet, three stories high above the base-
ment: and soon found the building with
the addition of‘ our warehouse too
small. to hold our stock of goods. With-
in less than two years, this was real-
ized.. To start with, we could not get
stool; enough to complete such a build-
ing, but as the building progressed un-
der the care of the committee, stock
flowed in as fast as needed, The build-
ing is of brick and well put up. The
third story is occupied by the Grzuige
of 275 members; the second story, by
the manager and for goods. In the
basement there isa restaiirant. The
last inventory taken about fou-r IlJ()l'ltIl:i
ago, showed a paid up capital‘ of about
$24,000 with an average daily trade of
about $1’?!-),.i'or the previous six. months.
There 3.re—five persons employed in the
store and. they think some of the days
are pretty long. The goods include
groceries, hardware, crockery, boots
and shoes, rubber goods, some dry
goods, clothing, etc. Grass seed, clover
seed, butter, eggs, hams, honey, and
other produce are bought and sold.

The shares are $10 each and no one is
allowed to hold more than 50 sliarcs_
Each share is entitled to a vote in the
business meetings.

There is a president, sccretai’_v, treas-
urer, four directors and four auditors
The directors look after the business,
the auditors take the inventory twice it
year. Goods are sold to Patrons and
outsiders at the same price at a. small
profit. About half the trade is that of
Patrons. If there is it surplus, after
paying all expenses and 8 per cent on
the capi-tal Patrons receive a dividend
on the Ltniount tlicy il"¢i(l€. Outsiders
get no- dividend. The stock holders
meet once a quarter. At these meet-
ings. half or nbre of the stock is usual-
ly represented. Some papers and re-
ports are presented intended to educate
the stock holders. We have a set of
books and pamphlets on cooperation
published by the Central Co-Operative
Board, Manchester, England.-

What is all of this worth, and does
it pay? We think it does. The farm-
ers who trade are well pleased.
They have savid something so far in
running the store. They have had to
work and study and meet discourage-
ments, but so far they have kept. mov-
ing on, and according to all prospects,
the end is not yet.

The best of all, to my mind, is the fact
that the farmers are learning to do
business better than ever before. They
ship wool together; they intend to sell
their wheat together, their hogs and
their cattle. Six years ago they grum-
bled and were not very confident, to-day
they grumble and work for remedies.
Quite alarge number are discussing
the possibility of putting up a flouring
mill. Several want to start a bank.

W7
All it needs is work, and careful :

tention to the principles of busim V /'

Interested Patrons can learn 1‘ ._

about our plans by sending for a ’ ' »

of our Constitution and By-Laws.

business will not run itself. Thi

must be looked after all the time.

W. J. Baum. 

 

Our Judicial System.

A leading republican of Kalams
County, who has held high 01‘
po—itlons in the State, and whos-
tegrity and sound judgment is rr
nized and acknowledged whereve
is known, has repeatedly sale
public places words to this effect:
have no respect for the judgment
opinion of the Supreme Court of‘
Siate, except that as they have the
words in the case I am obliged to a’
by them. If the constitutionality
the law is in question, they seek mg‘,
find on what gro .nds the expres
will Oi the people may be sustain
but rather to find some forfeit on wt.
it may be overturned. Their jv
ments are based not in justice
rights, but in flimsy technicalit’
The man whe can creep out of .
smallest hole in the law is the wonq
ful gen‘us who must be elected to;
Supreme Court. Our wholejudicial s
tem is astandingillustration of “ fr
not to do it.” Look at the wheat ti‘
case in our town as an example, I
cott was arrested for stealing ar. d
in jail. He confessed the theft botl
the officers and friends ofhis who \
ited him. His confession was repe:
ed at various times until after his co
federates succeeded in getting ball I(
him and got him out ofjall. His stoi
was consistent with itself, and with tb
other known circumstances ofthe cas-
and included things which he can]
not have known if he h .d not bee:
present as one of the thieves. On tlr
trial all the evidence corroboraf
the story as he told in his confessi
The same evidence with his con fee
omitted convicted two of his am-
plioes. On his trial he denied e.-e._
thing, and was convicted. And now
the Supreme court send his case baclr.
because they say his confession in-
under such circumstances is not t
believed, and should not have been. 5
seived in evidence against him. It ir
be law but is mightily lacking in 0
mon sense. This is only one, of ms f
instances in our county in which ju
ticehas been travested and COII1!I](
sense-outraged by the decisions of ti
courts.

“I had rather have any clear head
business man in whom his neight
have confidence for a. judge, than 3
best lawyer in the State. The law‘
education is in the wrong way. '1
to defeat the ends of justice instead 1‘
how to promote them. The hon. {
business man would seek first t
right of the matter, while that see.
to be the last thing the lawyerthii ‘
of, if he thinks of it at all. If an O‘
rageous crime, like the Cobb muro
should be committed in my a 

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neighborhood, I should pull at! ’
rope sooner than run the risk of f ’
criminal being permitted to run
large as Cobb has been.”

This is a pretty long text, and 5
eludes nearly the whole of the seruv
except the practical application, we
are we going to do about it? 
clear, cool-headed men, like the .-
quoted, talk in this way, as man}.
them do, it isa pretty sure sign t.
:-oznething needs to he done.
criminal cases. speaking justice
not meted outexcept in rare instano
and the worse the crime or the in.
notorious the criminal the morelike
he is to escape entirely. Witness
Frank Cobb and ifarry H-utter eat
one murdered his little brother
cold blood. The other is one off
most notorious thieves in Amen
Both were arrested for their crime’
Kalamazoo county, and both are
large without punishment, to rep
their crimes.

In civil cases it is no: better. .
man hasany assurance that the 1:
will protect him in his rights.
man appeals to the courts, he kn.
that it isa lottery business in wh
he is aslikely to be wronged as rig
ed, and if he gets his right.-, in ma)
if not most cases, it costs him in»
than it comes to. Hence, many 1.
put up with and sufiler wrong rath.
than to be fleeced in an attempt
be righled. But some men are grit
and the less there is to go to law ab:
the grittier they are, and the long
on y will law it. So the publi¢ .;_
to 9. great annoyance and expense“,
furnish courts and juries to ens
them to keep up their petty squabb
year in and year out, from justice cm
to circuit court, and from circuit con
to supreme court and back again,
a round which never ends so long '
the combatants have any money is
to fee the lawyers with, or a;
property to mortgage to them. Fr
example, take some of the cases
Kalamazoo county. See the Re K

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Piper case about a three doi
rbeep, and the Sager-Harrison c.
case about a ten dollar difference i‘
horse trade, and the Dillenbeok-C

ings case, about a nine dollar A

and the Brown-Allei-ton case, abd 3
another hog, and the Neasmithli 
armond case, about a $5 calf, a» \ I
the Lord knows how many moreoa \
that have had similar runs in t 


  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
   
 

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"JANUARY 1. 1884.

'.V

THE GBAHG

E VISITOR.

\

. ourts. and been tried and retried. and

tried over again, at an expense to the
public of $50 to $75 a day, and damag-
ing the winning litigants a hundred
times more than the amount at issue.
It seems to me high time for a reform
in these matters, and the question
again arises, “what are we going to
do about it ?” I, for one, have a
good deal of faith in the operation of
public opinion. Courts and lawyers
are not exempt from its influence,
though the lawyers can stand a good
deal,so long as they are allowed to
manage things their own way. There
is a great deal of virtue in good vigor-
ous "kicking.” So I say for one, 1et’s
“kick” whenever and wherever the
’ ‘opportunity presents itself, and let us
’ ,’ keep on agitating and “kicking,” till
I‘ all judges who base their judgment

“" n precedent, and trivial technicalities,

ther than on right and justice, are
-icked out of offlce, and all petty cases
like these I have mentioned, are kick-

ed oit of our higher courts.
“Kicxsa.”

 

Immigration.

The evils attending the free admis-
sion of immigrants from all the world
are becoming so various that the time
cannot long be deferred, when the
question must be fully met, and some
decided action taken, looking to our
own protection and self-preservation.

Under the sentimental and nonseii-
sical notion that the United States is
the home for the friendless and op-
pressed of all the world, and that in
some way we are under moral obliga-
tions to provide for all such, we have
thrown open our national doors for the
free admission of all classes, from
prince to pauper without distinction.

Since 1820, previous to which date no

ecord was kept, more than twelve
millions of immigrants have found
homes in the United States, being an

A average of more than five hundred
_ ,1» rsoiis daily for this whole time.
- 1- ,5 T-_ uring the last two years the influx

sffias been simply frightful, more than
two thousand arriving daily.
"V To say nothing of the fact that these

_ ‘last hordes are almost entirely made

' up of the lowest and most degraded of
the crowded population of Europe,
thousands of them are downright pau-
pers and criminals, assisted here by
their respective governments.

This latter class crowd our aims-
houses, our insane asylums, and our
prisons, and the entire mass tends to
degrade our social and political life.

It would seem bad enough for our-
selves, and certainly good enough for
these immigrants were we only to give
them the protection of our laws, and
the right to earn their livelihood by
their own labor, under the good wages
which they can command here, and
which is infinitely better than they
have ever before known, and indeed
fully as good as their low moral and
intellectual condition will permit them
to appreciate. But we are not content
With this liberal provision, but at once
become lavish and extend to him all
the rights possessed by our native born
citizens. We invest him with the elect-
ive franchise before he has gained the
faintest knowledge of our theory of
government, or of our institutions,
thus creating a mass of voting cattle
for corrupt politicians to “round up”
and drive to the polls, and carry our
elections.

We squander our public domain upon
him in the same lavish manner.
Every male immigrant twenty-one
years of age, who declares his inten-
tion to become a citizen may appro-
priate the public lands with the same
freedom as our own native born citi-
zens. It is sickening to witness the
hordes of these creatures, but little
above cattle in their moral and mental
status, rushing in and appropriating
our magnificent public lands, and it is
sufiicient to excite the gravest alarm,
that the very near future will
see our entire public domain
swallowed up, and our own pos-
terity deprived of their rightful in-
heritance.

Under our land laws every one of
these meek immigrants may enter into
full possession of 320 acres of our pub-
lic lands, without paying a dollar ex-
cept simply the fees for making the
necessary papers. He can take posses-
sion of 160 acres under the homestead
act; and 160 acres more. Under the um‘
her culture act; and at the end. of
three years the Government will give
him a full title in fee simple.

Let us suppose that one of every five
of these emigrants is a man twenty-one
years of age, and thus competent to en-
ter upon our lands, and that one-half of
these choose to do so, how long would
our lands hold out. The area of our
entire country, exclusive of Alaska,
comprises in round numbers nineteen
hundred millions of acres; which
‘would make but twelve million farms
ofthe average size of our Michigan
farms, (a little less than 160 acres each.)
We will say that three-fourths of all
the available lands are occupied. “I15
would leave us three millions of farms
yet to occupy; 835' We h““_d"?d ‘ml’
Eons of acres, how long will it take

"jhese emigrants, to say nothing of any
gther, to appropriate this. _

One-tenth of these arrivals (daily
average of two thousand.) is two hun-
ared, if each of these two hundred
chooses he may appropriate three

simply amounts to sixty four thousand
acres per day, at this rate the whole
would be appropriated, and not an acre
left at the end of TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
The actual absorption at the present
time is very nearly, or quite up to this
rate. It would be difiicult to devise
ways and means by which we could
squander our inheritance more rapidly
than this.

Under this flood of immigration we
shall soon become a nation of mon-
grels, with our distinctive national
characteristics entirely drowned out
and extinguished.

A thousand times better would it be
for our nation if, instead of enacting
laws to shut out foreign products
we take measures to put up the flood
gates, and arrest this living tide which
threatens our national destruction.

Our national growth is all sufficient
without any help from this alien ele-
ment;and is as rapid as we can hope
to provide a stable and lasting founda-
tion for. If we do not provide a prop-
er foundation, giving suflicient time
for firmness, and solidity, then it is
only a question of time, when the
superstructure will topple and fall.
There is every reason to believe that
we are building too fast to ensure sta-
bility, overloading the foundations,
"becoming top heavy,” It will be the
part of wisdom to reduce the pressure,
go slower, and thus give the requisite
time for our national fabric to become
properly seasoned, firm and enduring.

w. R. G.

Our Common Schools.

Editor J. T. Cobb: There are some
features in this school question on
which I think all will agree. We are
paying heavy and increasing taxes ev-
»—ry year for educational purposes. VVe
arerequired to pay higher wages for
less service than formerly: for the
reason that so few are licensed un-ier
the present system of examination;
that those who obtain license can fix
their own terms, and we must employ
them or do without teachers. Now if
we are getting better teachers, better
schools, and satisfactory returns for
this increased expenditure; all right.
[fnot,,something is wrong I fear too
that our interest in our common
schools is lessening and being more
«oncentrated in our village high
schools and academies; tnereby build-
ing up an educational monopoly to the
detriment of our country schools. I
write from the standpoint \f many
years experience as a teacher, inspec-
tor and superintendent of schools; but
my work in this connection is done,
and I can assure those who may read
my thoughts on this subject, that I
have no political or other axe to grind.
I consider the proper education of our
children of the highest importance,
and as the common school is the place
where they should be educated, our
interest should be largely concentrated
there. I endeavored to show in a pre-
vious article that our present system
of supervision, and especially examin-
ation of teachers was defective, and
under it I believe our schools are dete-
riorating rather than improving.
Should not each township superintend
its own schools, and are there not
those in every town competent to ex-
amine teachers, without sending to
our State Superintendent for a series
of questions? I present these ihougiits
for the consideration of all concerned
hoping to refer to this subject again in
a future number.

A. H. STODDARD.

Take a Grange Paper.

Every Granger should take and
thereby help support a good Grange
paper.

Many Grangers whom I ask to take
the GRANGE VISITOR say they cannot
afford it, they take already more papers
than they can read. Then let them
dispense with some of these useless
papers and take a Grange paper that
is alive with interest and information
for him as a farmer.

No Granger can be in full sympathy
with the principles of the Order unless
he a reader of some Grange paper.

iVill every Granger who reads this
see that not only himself, but every
Granger he comes in contact with
takes a Grange paper, thereby doubling
our strength if not our numbers.

Without the paper he is but half a
Granger. ,.

EMMONS BUELL.
Kalamazoo, Mich., Dec 15, 1883.

Are the people always to be held
between the u per and nether mill-
stone, because or the Government, to
undertake telegraphy involves cor-
ruption , and not to do it perpetuates
an odious monopoly? Then let the
Government step in and limit the
rates as it does, the rate of toll amlller
may take. Our Government , as a de-
fense against monopoly, is a gopd deal
like our courts as mediums of justi e;
they generally involve heavy loss
even to the winning side, so corrupt-
ion spoils all the good the Govern-
ment may attempt.— Walertown Post.

Is it possible to have a kind of poi-
itics which will not make “bosses”
necessary, and if there must be bosses
can there not be some arrangement
which will make it unneces-ary to

nates for the payment of huge party

or factional assessments? There is a
great deal of rottenness in the polotics

..‘’:l,.' 2;» -—Grap/iic.

. ...-., «,2.
hundred and twent; -U ° W’ ’-‘

can upon them and Umcial subordii Esic by the Grange choir, and almost

of this city, and it costs the tax payers '
in one way or another a great deal of 1

€urr2ipuiuleiI_t2-

Newaydo County Grange.

The next annual meeting of Ne-
waygo County Pomona Grange, No. 11,
will be held at Fremont Grange hall,
December 27th and 28th, with the fol-
lowing programme of exercises:

DECEMBER 27th.

1. Opening and welcome, by T. H.
Stuart, and response by Worthy Mas-
ter B-arnhard and others.

2. Reports from the State Grange,
A. Fl(ynn and M. W. Scott.

:3. Jail of the unfinished programme
of the last meeting.

4. Paper, “The Stump Lands of Nor-
thern Michigan," W. Merrill.

1 .3 Select reading—-Miss Louise Mal-
cry.

6. A Woman’s View of the Tem-
perance Question, Mrs. M. W. Scott.

EVENING.

Election of oflicers, and work of the
fifth degree.

DECEMBER 28th.

7, The Use of Tobacco, and What I
Think of it——Mrs. James Mallery.

5. Essay, What is Wealth, and How
Siiould it be Obtained—A. L. Scott.

9. Select i‘eading—D. I). Iloplpock.
10. Does a Protective Tariff, rotect
Labor ‘B/L. lteindolt.

_ 11. Costs and Benefits of Tile Drain-
ing——E. Clark.

These meetings, except in the even-
ing, will all be open to the public, and
areintended to be conducted as near as
may be in the form of a farmers’ in-
stitute, and all questions will be open
for discussion and criticism by all
present.
spersed with music and singing, de-
signed to make the meeting interest-
ing. pleasant and profitable, not forget-
ting the social features, and a bounti-
ful table to supply the wants of nature,
as well as food for the mind.

Our doors are ajar, “the latchstring
is out,” and we bid you a kindly wel-
come one and all. Come out brother
farmers, both in the Grange and out.
and talk over these practical ques-
tions of education, farm work, moral
and social life and improvements.
We believe that “to the toiler belongs
the fruit of his toil,” and as the year is
about drawing to a close let us take
time to enjoy some of the fruits. And
by a comparison of tl:c known results
of a mutual experience and observa-
tion, be able to formulate a more iii-
telligent and practical plan for the
work of the year before us.

M. W. SCOTT,
Lecturer county Grange.

 

Calhoun County Pomoma Grange.

The adjuriied meeting of Calhoun
county Pomona Grange will be held
again “over the border" Thursday Dec.
20, at 10 o’clock sharp. Bellevue Grange
in Eaton county has very cordially in-
vited us to hold our next meeting at
their hall in Bellevue village. The re-
membrance of a former meeting and the
cordial greeting of warm hearted Pa.-
troiis in that Grange has led us to ac-
cept again of their hospitality. We
trust the meeting will in every way be
a success and do us all good.

The following questions will be dis-
cussed:

Resolved, That protective tariff is
for the best interest of the American
citizen. Perry Mayo, Master of Battle
Creek Grange will take the aflir-
mative and Edward While Master of
Bedford Grange will speak on the neg-
ative.

Is the present county superintenden-
cy of schools raising the standard of
schools and teachers ?

Which is the most profitable to raise
large or small corn. ,

Mrs. Chas. P. Chidester will read an
essay, the county delegates to the State
Grange will present their reports, and
a most enjoyable time is expected. We
hope to meet many members of Eaton
County Pomona Grange. All are right,
royally welcomed to our meeting.

'- Yours fraternally,
Mus. PERRY MAYO, Sec’y.

Bro. Cobb:—I believe you have had
no report from Tallmadge Grange of
late, and I thought perhaps there
would be no bett./r way of showing
you that we wer~ still alive and active,
than by telling you how we spent
Thanksgiving.

—n me first place, between the hours
of 10 80.1 11 on the morning of the 29th.
of November, the people began to as-
semble at the Hall where we hold our
meetings, for it had boen announced
that we would hold a public meeting
on that day, and before the hour of
twelve the house was well filled.

Those outside of the gates were as
cor.iaily welcomed as those inside.

. Now the clatter of dishes was heard,

and soon the tables were loaded with a
thanksgiving feast which showed no
signs of short crops, or hard times.
After this feast had been fully discuss-
ed, and every one present could say
"euough” the tables were cleared away
and then commenced the feast of the
mi--d.

First in order was an address by
E H Buriingame of Wyoming
Grange, who very ably set forth the
ducies of farmers, and also what the
Grange is doing for them. This was
followed by volunteer speeches, reci-
tatious, and a short pape~ on co-oper-
ation among farmers, all of which was
duly imerspersed by appropriate mu-

before we were aware of it the evening
shade.-i begun to fall, and we reluct-
an tly drew our meeting to 5-. close.

I zni‘ k ever; one went home zuily

The exercises will be inter-‘

satisfied that for them, the day could
not have been spent in a more pleas-
ant or agreeable manner,
Yours fraternaily,

E. E. Smith, Sect.

Tallmadge, Dec. 11, I883

 

Calhoun County Pomona Grange.

The county Grange of Calhoun
County met on Thursday Dec. 20 in
Bellcvue Grange hall in Eaton Co,, by
invitation of Bellevue Grange and a
more hearty royal welcome the Patrons
of Calhoun Co., never received. The
hall which is a very fine one was filled
with a very attentive and intelligent
audience.

Worthy Master Poole opened the
Grange in prescribed form. The Grange
ciioir of Bellevue entertained us with
music. M.ss Florence Kiiiyon prcsi --
ing at the organ, Bro. L. A. Randall
delivered the welcome address which
was pleasantly replied to by Worthy
Master Poole.

Miss Alice Bowen read an excellent
essay upon Charity, Miss Florence
Kinyon recited. "The new Organ” in
such an excellent manner as to please
and entertain all her listeners. Miss
Kinyon is a young member and already
does credit to the Order. The din-
ner which was served by the sisters of
Bellevue Grange was sumptuous indeed,
including oysters and all the other good
things you could think of.

The session in the afternoon was
open to the public and many availed
themselves of the opportunity to listen
to a joint discussion of the tariff ques-
tion between Perry Mayo for protective
tariff and Edward White for free trade.
They argued long and well, as was
evinced by the attentive listeners
who sat till nearly dark to hear
the advocates on both sides air their
knowledge on the points at issue.
The question was discussed for informa-
tion and not from any political stand-
point and is one on which just and rea-
sonable iirguments must be given and
met, as at no distant day the Aiiierican
people will be called upon to decide
this question. Yours truly,

Mics. Maro, Sec.

Grangers in Council.

The 11th Annual session of the
Micliigan State Grange was opened in
Representative Hall in Lansing, on the
11th of l)er.-ember, and closed on the
1-ltli. Worthy Master Luce presided
with more than his usual ability and
chcerfuliiess having taken to himself
of late, an accomplished lady to assist
him in the arduous duties of his of-
lice.

Secretary Cobbon hand, and every
where “present only a minute ago”
but so full of business, that he had no
time to talk with anybody. For a
man as sober as he is, he has the most
fun wrapt up in him of any one I ever
knew. I attended a State festival one
time when Bro. Cobb was loudly called
for to make a speech, and after a
while he came forward and stretching
himself up to his full height said,
"Here is the Cobb you have been call-
ing for, but you will get no corn out
of him to-day. ”

Worthy Master Woodman was
there with a pleasant smile and hearty
welcome for every one, the lowest as
well as the highest. While holding
the highest position in the gift of the
National Grange, he wears his honors
well, nor do they puff him up. His
words of counsel are like “apples of
gold in pictures of silver” nor do they
ever fail to produce their effect. All
the oflicers were at their posts, and
the able report made by each, showed
that they were competent to fill the po-
sition assigned them. The attendance
of delegates and visitors was more
than usual, about every seat in the
hall being filled. The chairmanship of
two committees out of twenty-two was
given to ladies, and they performed
their task so well, and so ably de
fended their reports, that I hope the
Worthy Master will bear this in iuind,
when he makes up the committees an-
other year. It was said in the Grange
that Sister Mayo of Calhoun made the
ablest report of any chairman on the
floor. What higher compliment can
be paid to woman's worth?

On Wednesday evening the 5th degree
was conferred on 9 5 candidates, to go
out all over the State, to laugh at the
Pomona Graiigers, and enjoy all the
benefits of that organization without
payinga cent. On Thursday evening
the doors were thrown open and the
public invited to sit in council, with
the noblest Order in the land.

When every seat was filled ‘above
and below, the Worthy Master intro-
duced the Rev. E. R. Willard, Chaplain
of the State Grange f'or a public speech.
For three-fourths of an hour he held
his audience under perfect control,
while he told of the inestimable bene-
fits the Grange had accomplished in
the nation, and yet a vast field spread
out before them for future work. He
said the Grange had been the means
of establishing six experimental sta-
tions, which was of more practical
value to agriculture than all the po-
litical legislation of a century. His
address was delivered in a clear, dis-
tinct manner, was full of’ interest and
comic stories, and was highly ap-
plauded. As a minister I ‘do not be-
lieve that he will ever have the dys-

pepsia, or frighten his children, (if he
;has any) with stories about ghosts or
I "lid-Lien".

Numerous speeches. proposals. and
resolutions were offered to conciliate
railroads, and monied monopolies, and
asking them to please be very kind and
considerate to the poor farmer, which
no doubt will affect soulless corpora-
tions, quite as much as would a June
frost. I would do great injustice to
this hasty sketch if I failed to mention
that inimitable choir from Adrian, who
contributed so much to the pleasure of
the meeting. How could the Grangers
work from early morn till late at night
without the enlivening music of that
jolly choir. If any member in the
Grange earns the pay he gets. it is the
accomplished pianist, Mrs. N. M. Win-
ship, and her comic brother B. P.
Thomas. Their music is well selected,
highly entertaining, and so well ren-
dered. that it cannot fail to command
the admiration of all.

At 9 o'clock, P. 14., on the 14th the
labors of the session closed, and before
parting an hour was spent in comic
song, and pleasant jokes, and repartee,
which made each one feel at home and
anxious to come again.

CORTLAND HILL.

 

The members of Lickley’s Corners
Grange, No. 2"-4, met at their hall last
evening. and as it was their last regu-
lar meeting for the month, had their
annual election of ofilcers. Every-
vhing passed off pleasantly, and it was
decided that we should have our in-
stallation of officers on the evening of
January 5th, 1884, and we cordially
invite any brother or sister of the
Order, to meet with us at that time.
We cannot promise you a feast of rea-
son or a flow of soul, but will promise
youacordiai hand-shake, such as a
good Patron knows so Well how to
give. As a Grange we have had a
good many difliculties to encounter,
but have had a sufiicient number of
members who have true Grange prin-
ciples so deeply embedded in their
hearts, that it will take something
more than what has yet occured, to
make them forget that if we would
live a true and useful life, we must,
as true Patrons and farmers, never let
ihe Grange die out, for if that time
ever should arrive, as a class, we would
most certainly have darker and more
serious trials to contend with, than if
the Grange had never been. The time
has most certainly arrived, when we
-.re more respected as a class, than we
mce were. We are now recognized as
a power, and I think the time is not
very distant, when monopolies will
have to concede rights to the people,
which they have seized without war-
rant of either law or justice.

Yours fraternal] y,

W. E. PHILLIPS, Lecturer of Lick-
ley’s Corners Grange, No. 274.

R‘-l-Il':i0Il1,])“'C9lIlh£‘l‘ 16, 1883.

 

waieron which the Wind Makes no Waves.
“So much has been said of late re-
garcliiig the use of oil by vessel-men
during heavy storms,” said Lieu.en
ant mamm, of the revenue cutter
Andy Johnson, “that many people
are _led to believe that it reduces a
curling, smashing sea to a liquid
mound. It does not exactly flatten
things about just in that way, but its
use causes good results, there is no
doubt of that. And speaking of oil
in water reminds me of the wonderful
“_ oil spot” a freak of nature that I be-
lieve was never fully described.
“ The ‘ oil spot’ is situated about ten
miles south of Sabine Pass into which
fl0ws the Sabine river to the Gulf of
Mexico. The river forms the bound-
ary between the States of Louisiana
and Texas. The ‘oil spot’ extends
two miles along shore and seaward
about three quarters of a mile. A
storm from the northeast, by way of
east to southeast has a rake of from
three to seven hundred miles across
the Gulf of Mexico into ihis mystic
haven. During a gale this spot is
wonderullfv defined. Looking sea-
ward the scene is grand. An acre of
towering foam marks the abrupt dis-
solutions ofthe lashing seas as they
thunder towards the shore. This or -
ours in about three fathoms ofeightesn
feet of water, from which the storm
driven craft, creaking and straining
in - very timber, emerges, and sudden-
ly finds herself reposing like a c ild
rocked in its mother's arms, hemmed
in by a wall of wrath where the
weary mariner can be lulle-i to rest by
the roar of the winds. The placeis
termed the oil s ot’, not from any
known analysis 0 its nature, bnt sim-
iy from its condition; it has no
troubled water. I! is to be hoped
that some scientist will unfold its
wonders.”—Milwaulcee Wisconsin.

THE Grange opens its doors to young
men and women, even to those yet in
the adolescent period. For them it may
have far greater value than for their
elders. They are yet in the plastic state,
susceptible to influences for good or
evil; but the influence of the
Gra..ge are all good, hence the wisdom
of bringing young eople in where
positive gain in use ulness is not only
possible but is reasonably well assured.
If there were no other argument favor-
in their admission that which is com-
pr sad in the schooling in useful forms

is of itself sufiicient to 'ustify
early connection with the rder.
Strength for -good work comes through
association, but all associations must
be governed by sensible rules and in-
telligent understanding of these rules,
as uiught in the Grange is useful fitting
to the citizen for public duties. By all
means bring in young persons, and
give them such consideration as will
serve to encourage partici ation in all
the exercises contempla in the rules
that govern parliamentarymrocedings.
There will be wliolsome discipline in
the work. If a word of caution be needed
it may be in pointing out the dan er
of a keen scent for points of order. 0
not encourage that, for it finds occupa-
tion quite to readily when abnormal
development is given it by continued
%e.Y—- From the Husbandman, Elmira,

The Executive Mansion.

The president's home at Washing»
ton, which is ofiicially termed the Ex-
ecutive mansiou, commonly called the
White House, has a history that runs-
oack nearly ninety years. Its corner
stone was laid under the superinten-
dence of Capt. J. Hohen, as arhit-acr_..
on the thirteenth or December, 179:1.
Captain Hoben was an irish Architect
direct from Dublin, via. Charleston:
who took the reward of $500 for the
design. He is buried in the Catholic
cemetery at \Vasliington and his do-
cendants are still living in that city.
The British destroyed the buiidingin
1814 It was afterward rebuilt by
Captain James Hoben, and was first
opened for the reception of visitors on
January 1, 1819. The portico. of four:
lofty columns on the nort‘; side, was
added in 1820, during the administra-
tion of President Jackson. It is a lot‘-
ty building, two stories in height, hav-
ing a frontage of 170 feet and a dei-tli
of 80 feet. The vestibule within th a-.-
aront door is 50x50 feet in dimensioiia.
The famous east room, which was fin.-
ished only fifty years ago is 80 feet long:
by 40 wide and 22 feet high. Eight
large mirror.- and three chand-liers 0
crystal and silver adorn it. The walls.
are covered with grey paper, and the:
trimming of the furniture is my rep!»
and maroon velvet VVi'h t e excep-
tion of our public halls, it is probably
the larg» st room in the country, and
for its size is certainly the Il8!.‘id30l’2198il
It is the Mecca of all lady visitors to.
the capitol. The prcsidenfis office-
which is in the second story, is also‘-
the cabinet room, and is not a very.
l -rge apartment for the White House
although about thirty-five or ortv feet‘
deep by perhaps forty feet wide, and.
witn ahigii ceiling A long table is in.
the middle of the fl -or wzth leather
seated chair-a around it; the two win-
dows have long lambrequin curtains-
ofa dark, bii]“lSii grey color. A large-
map of the United states is on 3118“.
Wall. The carpet is ofa fcd tint, with
large figures. The general effect of the »
room asoiie enters is that of a library,
without books. The Vvhite House 15-
surrounded immediately hy tweuz_-,-
acres of garden and mu-k_ Tm,
lawn is still a naked plain, l't3‘9(3h'*~
ing on to the Potomac like a desert
coming to the palace stair.-1. Like V.--.
saillies in the time of Louis XVI.
Wash-ngton is a govern ment Pl‘:-at-l0l.‘.i

l and the White House is memorable on»

ly for the people who have lived in it
Every one of our presiiierils, except
Washington, has lived in this gr: 3:
house, and h poked his horse's head in,
to its portals to look at the workmen
plastering on the scaffold. The origi-
nal cost of the ‘oiiililing in 179:3 was
about $333,000, and the total cost ofthe-
structuie to the present time with re-
furnishing, etc., has been about $i,75L~_
000. The unhealthfui character of
Washington, and of the White House-
locaiity in particular, has been for
years a subject ofcoinplaint. ’

A Salt Lake on Top of a Mountain.

There is a remarkable sol’ lake, sit.-
uated one hundred and fifty miles west
and HOLl|il of Aliiuquerque, in New
Mexico, and iiboiit fiity miles from the
Arizowa lzne. The lake is located or.
the top of a volcanic mountain, aiiti-'1
evidently occupies an extinct crater.
The lake is perhaps three-quarters of
a mile in diameter, and is so strongly
impregnated with suit that a thick.
crust of pure white salt of a spring}:
consistency like floating ice encrusm.
the margin. It is so plentiful that it is-
carried away by the wagon load. Ii
has long been used by the Iil(ll&I.i9.~.
'l‘he sal: is white, of the purest quality
and destitute of sand or any foreign
ingredient. The ti-xtureisporous like
congealed white foam. There was one»
sp-cinien inclosing the stem of some
vegetablc. and can - e handled like an:
apple by the stem. But the most on-
rious feature of this lake is a tail cir-
cular coiumn, of monumental-shaped
formation, which lose up near the cen-
ter of the lake to the height of one
hundred feet. and which appeared tr.
be compised of wu ts lava thrown.
up by some convulsion during some»
ancient gcolog cal period. The out--
side of this singular column sloped
from the base toward the top, and was
rough enough to enable it to be as-
cended. On reachiiig the top of the
cone the interior was found to be hollow-
likea tube, and at the bottom there-
was seen acircular pond of water with:
a bright emerald green color in appear-
ance, pr ibably to be attributed to the
sparse rays of light which penetrated
this huge tube, and were reflected‘
from the smooth mirror-like surface
of the water. A party with some dif-
ficulty decended the projecting sides.
of the interiorof this bowl, and they
found no incrustations of salt on the-
surface like that on the outside, but
on thrusting his hand into the waist
and withdrawing it, the hand?
came out perfectly white from the par»-
ticies of salt which adherded to it.
It was evidently a very strong brine.
--A. L. Morrison,z'n Sl.LomIs Republi-
can.

 

It is not generally known that the-.-
great railroad systems of the West pay.’
no taxes upon the millions of acres off“
lands given them by our very gener-
ous and unjust Government. The in-»
justice to settlers of permitting these»-
great corporations to enjoy the increas---
ed value of these lands without comr-
pelling them in any way to contribute.
to such improvements is an evil loud-
l calling for redress. If the present"

ongress has not the time to make-
some provision that will compel rail---
roads to bear their share of the pub-
lic burdens we shall elect a Congress.»
that will.—Toledo News.

 

The mileage system is an abuse.-
which ought'_to be ended. In the early
days, when railroads were unknown,
andajonrney to Washington was 0..
long and tedious operation, there was-.
some excuse for allowing a Congress-
man twenty cents amile each way-
But now. when the cars take any
member from his home to the capitahi
for three cents or less a mile, it is an
outrage to maintain the old custom..
The practical effect is simply to in-
crease by several hundred dollars to

say which a Congressman living at a°"

istance receives over that allowed one
from the eastern part of the country-
Representative Miller, or P» nns_vlva--
nia, a member of the Mileage Com»
mittee, which the speaker appointed».
in accordance with custom, the da

‘after Congress met, promises to do his;-.

best to break up the practise, and there-
ought to be no igiestion of his sucr-
('e.ss.—Broolc7_g,-:i iiion.

  
      
  
   
      
   
 
  
  
    
 
   
  
    
   
   
    
   
   
   
   
   

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TEE GRAEGE VISITOR.

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JANUARY l. 188-1.

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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

fa. Rural Rexnonstrance —- Holstein Cattle-
Red Pulled Cattls—Emerson's Estimate of
hue Farrncr-—-Cash from the Farm this Year
__An Agricultural Experimental Station-
Displuy of Insects at the State Grange,. . 1

The Gra.ng- Visitor Greeting —-A Lost Art
—.Impressions of the State Grange Meeting
—Schorl Law and School Inspection-

. Au In-lepenrlant Cackle— the Lansing Co-
zperativc Store, No -340 P. of H.—Our
Judiciwl Systcm—...._.......   ‘.2

-immigration-Our Common Schools—'l‘akc a
Grange l‘aper—Newaygo County Grange
—-Calhoun Dounty Pomomn Grange—Cal-
houn Countv Pomona Grzm;:e—Grangers in
Councfl—Ws.ter on ""'hich the Wind
‘Make: no Wavs=s—-Thu Executive Mansion
—A Salt Lake on Top of a Moun-
tain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3

The ‘.’is\.tor "or J;-,u. l-A Review- The Visi-
1-.01-aor 1881 and the Masters of Subordinate
.’}m.ng-‘es — A Liberal Ofi'er—$l 00- -Plaster-A
Condensed History--The Condition of the
Wheat Market —- Constitutional Amend-

-ments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Visitor and its Friends—Wlm.t should be
Done — Grange Address, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b

The Old Cance—BirthI and Growth of Our
Order—IIouscl1old Economy-A Compas-
sionate Poitician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

The Old Reaping Class—-The Woodchuck—

The Use of Hours—"A Cornet.’-Monopoly .

Must go—-Boys and '1‘rades—Mon-
apoly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Notices of Meeting s--Advertisements . . . . . . 3

:$urelau’$ lluwlmeul.

J_ 130033, — - Scuooncaarr.

ms VISITOR son JAN. lsl—A REVIEW.

We know that some who pick up
‘this paper will not take the time to go
over it at once and read all the really
good articles in this number. We
‘have therefore run over the copy and
give herewith a summary of the
whole. _

“Farmer W'inrow,” like many of
this class, was probably no 917311361‘-
The articles on cattle,show up the earn-
estness of men who make a specialty
of any breed and it is by just such
earnestness of purpose that the various
-“kinds of stock are imPf°Ved- Ami by
-iust such earnestness on the Part 05
w4,Grange workers will the farmers of
-this country be improved-

Emerson’s view of the farmer was
expressed before the . Grange hfid
made its mark on the Agricultural
class. Hear him. _

Mr. Voorhees has more head on him
--than some farmers, we judge f1‘°.m his

h count.

flaBTh.iiiking farmers entertain the
views expressed by Bret‘. er Luce on
the subject of an experimental station,
and if they make itapoint to urge
this matter upon the attention of the
next legislature, Michigan will have
one inside of two 795"-

The article of Thomis Mason gives
information that farmers ought to
‘have and remember. We hope his in‘
vitation to present subj sets will not be
overlooked-

'!‘he last article on this first page.
from Prof. Beal, like all his writing,
.15 suggestive and practical.

On the second page the "Greeting"
nb D M. Garner is an original com-

liment to the Vrsrron that we appre-
giate and trust the kindly ,hint to

"send me far and near” will not be
oat on the friends of the pipe!‘-

We have to regret that by some mis-
take, such as will sometimes happen
in a printing office. A head was not
given to the response to the toast,
“Our Country’s Future,” by Worthy
Master C. G. Luce, at a Camp Fire
of the Grand Army of the Republic
at Bronson, Dec. 19, 1883.

This address which follows is a con-
densed volume of truths beautifully
expressed and should be read in every
Grange in the State. We will not say
more but commend it to every patriot
and every citizen whose selfishness
extends only to such future time as is
bounded bv his own vision.

A lost art, brings out a fact that few
ofus have ever thought of and we may
discuss that fact with benefit.

Bro. Williar«l’s impressions of the
State Grange are told in his happy
style and are highly complimentary
to that body of Patrons.

School law and school inspection
treats of a“Vexed question.” One that
“will notdown” and we shall continue
to have articles pointing to imperfec-
tions and suggesting improvements
until we reach something more satis-
factory to the public than our present
school laws.

An independent cackle shows up
some very important truths that far-
mers should remember with profit un-
til election (lay.

Prof. \V. J. Beal of the Agzcultural
college makes a plain statement ofthe
business of the Lansing co-operative
store with valuable suggestions.

All our old readers will be glad to
see that some volunteer aid has come
to us condemning in unquivocal terms
ourjudicial system. Too much cannot
be said on this subject and when these
“kicker:-1" multiply as they should,and
kick hard and often we shall see a lit-
tle busines common sense introduced
into our judicial system. Do not over-
look the article on “Immigration.”
The facts stated are stated pretty
strong but this should have reached
the public car sooner. The nation has
been more anxious to be generous than
just.

The Farmer Poet, Bro. Stoddard has
given the schools a little attention and
this so interests everybody that we ex-
pect everybody will read his article.

“Take 29. Grange paper”—Good ad
vice——Read it——Remember it—An::l get
your neighbors to follow it.

The two clippings which follow are
“solid.” There is nothing in them
about corn or cotton, but that which
concerns the farmer quite as much.

The "correspondences columns show
that good Grange spirit of which we
are proud.

The regular readers of the VISITOR
will find that we have moved back to
the old pug: which we occupied for so
many years. If we remain here we
shall feel more at home than we have
on the second where we have been for
one year. ,_

We hope Masters of Subordinate
Granges and others receiving extra
copies of this number of the Vrsrron
will not disappoint the State Grange
by neglect of the matter referred to in
our article “The Vrsrron for 1884 and
the Masters of Subordinate Granges
nor the liberal offer to canvassers.

The article on plaster is a condensed
review of the old plaster war that the
combination threaten to revive.

The condition of the wheat market
indirectly invites attention to other
lines of farming, and constitutional
amendments—may bring upon us
some sharp criticism, for which we
will try and be prepared.

The next short article is for Patrons
—we hope they will both read and
heed.

IN our last issue we inti-rated our
preference for short articles. But
when we have a communication on
our table of such unusual excellence
as the address of the Worthy Chaplain
of the State Grange, Bro. R. E. Wil-
lard, we must give place to it long
as it is. This address should be read
to every Grange in t’ e State where
there is a full meeting. Lend this
Vrsrron to vour neighbor, and invite
him to read this address.

The articles in Ladies Department
will commend themselves to any in-
telligent reader better than we can
commend them.

The fourth column of choice selec-
tions are each a sermon of itself.

Whoever has learned aught of that
most unknown of all monopolies.
The Standard Oil Company will read
with interest this partial history of
its moving spirit John D. Rocke-
feller. It is pleasant to know that
even politicians have sometimes
“compassion” and here is an instance
that makes a good story. The re-
maining reprint articles on this page
are full of good sense.

The Youth’s Department has first a
humorous poem by Will Carlton, fol-
lowed by a brief letter from Aunt Prue.

Ned Mayo humorously hits the eco-
nomic side of hunting, a hard blow,
while Aggie E. Simmons has made
some excellent points in the last arti-
cle in this department. We have sev-
eral more good articles for this depart-
ment that came too late for this num-
ber.

The nice little story which follows
has been in type a month waiting for
a chance to be seen. and the printer
says the type must be had,so you have

the story.

“A Corner” gives history, and that
sort of history which interests farm-
ers. '

The World and Times havea few
goods words about monopoly and Sen-
a1ors,and the reprint articles which
follow are good.

THE VISIIOR FOR I884 AND THE MAS-
TERSOF SUBORDINATE GTANGES.

We had intended to make this
GRANGE VISITOR a superior number
but so many have responded to our
request for contributions, that we are
prepared to turn out another number
just as good to morrow. ‘

In obedience-jto the report ofthe com
mittee on publication which was
adopted by the State Grange We have
had printed ofthis number a large edi
tion which we shall distribute as re-
quired by this 3d resolution of the re-
port.

That the secretary be insrructed to
send to every Mast-r in the State a
sufficient number of this issue to place
it in the hands of all good farmers
within thcjurisdictmn of the various
Granges. And that the Master be in-
structed, to place these papers in the
hands of a good live member, who
shall actas agent, and who shall re-
tain in his or her hands, as payment
for services, one-third of all money re-
ceived from new subscribers and remit
to the editor twc—thirds of the sub

scription price, with the list of names
of new subscribers.

As we cannot know who the Mas-
ters are for 1884 only so fast as secre-
taries report to this ofiice we shall be
compellzd to send to the Master of
1883 to answer this requirement in
good season.

This is a matter that should be at-
tended to at once.

We shall first forward parcels often
copies and if more are wanted will
send on orders at any time. We hope
this scheme will be faithfully woaked
by those to whose hands it is commit-
ted.

And that lea is us (.0 say that it is
no use to turn this business over to a
half hearted. easy going Granger.
Commission the best canvasser in the
Grangs, be it Beother or Sister, and if
this one fails try again.

 

A LIBERAL orrssisn .00.

One doll-ar will pay for a new sub-
scriber to the VISITOR and Husband
man for one year.

This is the cost of white paper, press
work, mailing, and postage,

We believe for the reading matter
of value to the farmer this offer is as
good as the best.

What we want i- readers and those
we must have. Hence this oil’-:1‘.

VVe wish to meet the want so often
express;-d for a weekly paper and are
able to do so by furnishing both papers
for the p1‘.‘:(‘e -.21’ one.

Those wholiaxe already paid for the
Visrrou can awil themselves of this
offer and have their psyrrem. for the
VISITOR cover 1885 and get the Hus-
bandman this year.

Farmers shoull drop some $1 50 pa-
per that makes no attempt to protect
theinterest.-.. of the farmer and em-
brace this oil'--r.

   

WE are greatly indebted to Prof. VV.
J. Beal for his plain straightforward
article—The Lansing Co-operative
Store, No. 540, P. of H.

Fro.-n his first acquaintance with the
principles and purposes of the Older,
Prof. Beal has been a Patron in faith,
profession and good works. A man
of broad views and genuine philan
thropy. he sees the great need of the
average. farmer is a. more complete
business education, more familiarity
with business methods and manage-
ment, as well as a better acquaintance
with his own profession. And to this
end he is willing to devote all the
time and labor that he can command,
aside from other duties. We have lit-
tle doubt that to hit! unselfish counsel,
associated with other patrons of like
faithand sincere desire for the advance-
ment and improvement of the farmer
class, may be attributed the success of
the Lansing Co-operative store.

 

Some one has sent us the names of
the officers of Douglass Center Grange.
This shows a good intention. But
the writer has not given the post-
otfice ‘of the Master or Secretary, nor
has he given his own name, so that
we are unabie'to send him a marked
copy of the Vrsrroa. We want to
say to him that the postoflice of Mas-
ter and Secretary is wanted, and the
names of the other ofilcers of the
Grange are not wanted, but without
his name, and as he don't take the
VIs1'roR, we don't know how to
reach him.

We were pleased to learn that the
National Grange adopted the follow-
ing‘ resolution:

Resolved, That any Pomona or Sub-
ordinate Orange may provide itself
with and wear in lieu of the sash of
the Order, a badge described as follows:
For Pomona Granges, a heavy dark
green ribbon, and for subordinate
Granges, a heavy dark blue ribbon,
two inches wide and eight inches
long. trimmed with gold fringe at the
bottom, and a pin or device at the top
with which to fasten it to the left lap-
pel of the coat or dress; on the ribbon
shall be printed the name and number
of the Grange, P. of H., and the name
of the State.

We expect to keep these badges in
our supply department as soonfias we
can get them manufactured.

PIaster—Condensed History.

Eight years ago the manufacturers

of land plaster and stucco in the
Grand River Valley following the
lead of monopolies elsewhere, com-
bined and raised the price of land plas-
ter to $4 per ton. Three months be-
fore, the Executive Committee of the
State Gr—nge had contracted with the
Grandville Plaster company to fill all
orders under the seal of a Grange at
$350 This company repudiated the
contract and wentinto the combina-
tion.
\Vithin two years arrangements had
been made, a quarry opened, a mill
bull-’, and the Patrons of the State sup-
plied with plaster at $3 per too.

The combination. judging Patrons
by their own standard of honesty,
su uposed to offer plasrer for less than
$3 00 would sell their plaster to Pat-
rons all over the State and thereupon
offered plaster for $2.50 then for $1’. 00
Not losing faith in their ability to in-
duce Patrons to for.-sake the Executive
Committee and the firm of Day &
Taylor who were then selling plaster
to Patrons at $2 -30 per too, this com-
bination continued to cut down on
the price until 31.225 and even a $1.00
per ton was reached.

The Patrons of the State from the
first were true to the Executive Com-
mittee, and all its arrangements, true
to their own interests, and true to
their obligations as Patrons.

E zch year their orders went forward
to Day 6; Taylor and they cheerfully
and faithfully paid $250 per ton for
plaster without regard to the combi-
nation price which was usually less.
Early in September of 1883, Bro. Fay-
lor. of the firm of Day &. Taylor, by
an accident was killed. Though we
had a contract running two years
longer, this death practrcally closed
it up and the prospect of being left at
the mercy of these manufactures who
had exhausted their skill for years to
extort an unreasonable price for plas-
ter. stared us in the face.

Fortunately for us these plaster
manufacturers belong to that class
“who learn nothing and forget
nothing.-t."

Mr. M. B. Church, manager of the
Alabastine company of Grand Rapids
where he has lived for years was
notified within a month after the
death of Mr. Taylor that when
his contract for stucco expired, the
price in him would be advancedjfrom
$4.25 to 6 50.

As he was using several thousands
tons annually and knew he was then
paying a fall‘ price, this notice had
such a look of extortion about it, that
he did 1‘-ottzzke the medicine kindly.

A good Patron suggested to him
that [‘:P.l‘lli.\‘,)'>‘~' he could make an ar-
rangement with th--:-. Grangcrs, of mu-
tual advan‘-t.-"ige to both. Two hours’
talk and the arrangexiiexit was made
aud made to hold against all attempts
in break by the combination.

Mr. Church exhibited an amount of
p'uck and business energy in the
work of creating a mill and develop-
ing a how quarry of gypsum rock and
bringing all the necessary conditions
of success to a central point, that is
seldom seen.

Since he first broke ground in this
enterprise the combination have been
active and persistent in their hostll
ity. ’lhey first backed down on the
price of stucco to him‘ and were will-
ing to contract at old prices,

Next they undertook to intimidate.
Failing at these points they have of-
fered to buy his property and pay him
far more than its cost. But all to no
purpose. Mr. Church has moved right
along, in fact pushed every line of
the business with remarkable energy
and success.

As late as he started in the fall of
1882 he furnished to Patrons about
7,000 tons of finely ground plaster in
the winter and spring of 1888. With
all the drawbacks so well was the
buslress attended to in every depart-
ment that no word of complaint
came to us from any quarter, either as
to quality of the plaster or want of
promptness in the shipment.

On the other hand there was no
complaint that the patrons did not
pay as promptly as they should.

The relations between the parties
in interest were harmonious and en-
l:ir_ely satisfactory.

For the trade of 188-1 he had a fair
chance to prepare, and he has im-
proved it by building additional ware-
houses, adding sidetrsck accommoda-
tions and piling up under sheds to
season 15,000 tons of plaster rock. 0

We referred to this matter in a late
number of the VISITOR and also in our
an annual report to the State Grange.

The following from the Daily Morn-
ing Democrat of Grand Rapids ex-
plains why we refer to the matter so
soon again, and why we have given
abrief history of the plaster business
in connection with the Grangers or
Michigan.

At a recent meeting of the owners
of the several plaster mills near this
city, $1.25 per ton for land p1aster_in
carload lots, on track, was the price
agreed upon for the season of 1884.
This is one-half of the lowest price or
last year.

Now, this means oneof three things:
Either the combination as such, not
having learned anything in an expe-

-rience of eight years, still cherish the

notion that the Grangers of Michigan

will buy plaster where they can buy
it cheapest through the season of
1884. Or else this is another foolish
attempt to alarm Mr. Church and
drive him into the combination or sell
out hisproperty to them. If these
manufacturers entertain either of
these notions, they have added an-
other :0 their many mistakes. The
third and more probable explanation
is, that two or three of the solid men
of the combination have conclude d to
freeze out the weaker members, and
while pretending to be aiming their
batteries at Mr. Church, are really un-
dermining their fellow manufacturers.
Whatever the purpme of the men
who furnish the brains to concoct and
work these schemes, of one thing we
are quite sure, their schemes are based
on no good motive. There is no good
square business honesty of purpose,
underlying these eflbrts, and know-
ing this, our du‘y to ourselves, to Mr.
Church and to the farmers of Michi-
gan is to stand by the contract made
with the Alabastine company, and
pay no attention to the freaks of
known and acknowledgul enemies.
These men who now with a flourish
of trumpets announce the price of
plaster as fixed for the season of 155-1.
arethe fellows who undertook to fix
the price last vear ar $3 50, and but
for our contract with Mr. Church
should have done so. Patrons of Mich-
igan don’c buy a pound of plaster of
this combination of tricksters at any
price. Take care of your future by
taking care of the present.

THE CONDITION OF THE WHEAT MARKET

Thu l)ll:-\lll(’S.\‘ of wln".it1':1i:-iup; in HHS
country has been gwutly stirnulutcd
during the past few yr-:¢1'.<. both by fa-
(tilitivs i'o1'(*b(-.ap production on 1!. large
50:11:‘ and by an active and il1<r1‘¢-using
i'(>1'¢-ign iltélllfllltl. l’roducti4>n lmsln-«+11
increased zi11(l<-lie-;1p4,=z~.e<[ by tho: opening
nod z1e\'c1opnicnt of the grvnt .\'ortb-
vw-st. .\[illi4m.-. of xterm lntliz,-rlo rc-
inoteundcut oil’ from the l1lZl.l'l{t'l.s‘ of
the world by u tlmusnml miles of al-
niust um-xplon-d \vi1d+-riiess lmve been
1'cr1<le-rctl :u:ru-s.-'il:1w by the cxtcnsioii of
our r:ai1wu_v .-'_\'sto~nx. The ;ll‘€.'l Lhus
opened up is .-an .2\tmisiw and fertile,
and witbul so cllezm that the set,tle-1's
ll‘(l'\'(‘ lmcn euublwlto encounter s11(:v<-,.ss-
fully ull the <lillic.ultie-s :n'isingfr«nn 21
Sf".(*.l‘\‘< vliinutt-, e-xpeu.-;ive Lr;mspurt:--.-
tiou, poor water and ulinost 21 toml luck
of timber for fuel and lumbm‘. hi this
WH._‘;’ lhr p1o«lu<-‘lion of \\'llt‘:ll lms bu-on
im-.1‘-"usz'=-.l far be-_\,'ou<l llw dwnzuid for
lunuc <-011.-uxnpti<m_, but Lb;-. .s'ur1-lus
l1us‘nc«,~n l:11'gcl_\' :ll>~m‘be<l by the dc-

licir,-m-.y in the.-'uppl_\ ;Ll.-rozul. 'l‘bel'o1'-
eign dcmzunl lms bcwzl l'(*.llt:(l upon as
pcrinzmcnt nnvl like-l_\' to in-gr.--.=:.sé> even
lll()l"r’ rapidly than our s:;11l'<:-as of cup-
ply. IL lhlrx l.~e".!ll ionn-J that the popu-
lutinn of nll l-lunaps-zua (‘f,)lll1§‘,l’lt“5 IS in-

(.‘l”4‘}tSlll§:', notwitl;.st:uuliug Lhc <lr;u'u of
cmigrudiun and the flt‘.'»'£lSt2l[l‘dll of fre-
quent \wu'.<. ‘Flue power of food pro-
duction ll<)‘»Vt“.’t£l', in those (:H1llll.1‘l'.-‘S,
liars‘ rr.-:u:l;cd its limit. The whole
world is mn.<2u:l<c«l for fl-rti1i7.ers and
21 .-".zt'.c of high (:llllZlV'&LllUll has
been nttziixn-1.1.

Under the influence of guml p1'i<3cs
and stw:1d_v de.-mnud. wheat has l)(‘L’0lll€:
one of the gi‘e:i1c.sL speculzitive interests
in the 1ln:u1<-ial worhl. .\ large extent
of (:ouutr_v in [Dakota has been settled.
with towns, <:i1.ios and railroads, and :1
large fzmning population, in entire de-
pi*ll(lt.‘ll(:P, upon tlils one cereal.

In View of the magnitude of the in-
teresls involved, the present condition
of the wheut Iu2u'k<-.t is causing very
gt-ncrul iiiieusiiie.-;s. The prospect is,
to say the least, tln'+-atening, whenever
the price in Clzicugu sinks below one
dollar per bushel, and it lux.’-' been con-
SlLl‘.)l‘:ll)ly below that level for sonic
time pnst, uotwitlistaindixig all the
speculutiv«- ciforts to secure am ad-
vaxirc. 0‘

We are indebted to u friend for (:01-
lecting the following statistical state-
ment for our use.

The official weekly report. published
by the Vow York Produce Exchange,
contained some time ago an estimate
of supply and demand, placing the last
crop at about -l00,000,000 bushels, and
the requirements of Great Britain at
14:3.000,000 bushels. The entire supply
available from North America, both
coasts, is plucedut 11.3,(;00,000 bushels,
and the world's deficit after this sup
ply is exported, is conjectured to be
81,000,000 bushels. If this, estimate
were correct it would raise the prices
a little above the present level. The
correctness of the estimate is attacked
and criticised by the London Econo-
mim‘, of October 0, 21 paper of the high-
est authority on such subjects. This
paper cluniges the estimate in all direc-
tions, that is it affirms that Great Brit-
ui11‘s requirements will not be Over
130,000,000 bushels, and her sources of
supply from Egypt. India and other
eastern countries will be much greater
than estimated, and that our supply for
exportation will be greatly in excess of
115,000,000 bushels. On the latter point,
the New York Public, another high
financial authority, -contributes a most
ingenious and conclusive estimate,
reaching the conclusion that the a\'a.ila.-
ble supply for export from this country
and Canada will amount to at least
178,000,000 bushels. instead of 115,000,-
000 bushels. We can not go into the
details of the estimate, although it is
well worthy the attention and study of
every intelligent farmer. The inter-

esting fact.- are developed that, averag-
ing through 17 years before last year.
the amount of wlieat consumed for
seed is 11,, bushels per acre sown, and
the amount for eacli inlmbitant for
food is 4.1»? bushels per annum. The
changes made in the 1"/-oduce. Em-
clzazigr report by the corrections from
tlwse two authorities amount to S6.-
.30<,o,000 bushels, more tliau absorbing
the dc-liltit. mentioned in that estimate.
This state of things is brought about
we believe by the increasing supply
from Egypt and India. in H91-Szthc
:1vtuul exports from India amounted
toover :;'.',000,(‘-00 bushels, and as rail-
road building the.-re is extended, every-

thing lends 10 the belief that the In-
«liun supply can be zllumst indefinitely
lll(‘l‘(*:ls‘(‘,(l with these figures on which

to base conclusions.

These questions should be discussed
by (,l1';u1ges Furxm-1"s Club.-1, Institutes
and .\g1'icultural Associations of every
of every name. With :1 better under-
stuu(liu,-: of all these silbjccts by those
more immediz1tet_v interested. more in-
iluencc will be brought to bear upon
1e-;isluts\'e- bodies. At present it is
perhaps idle to expect the Gmngers
of the l'nited States to givetbis lll&I.l'f.(‘l'
any 4-.onciderul.io11 for the avcruge Con-
gl‘¢‘SSl|l2lll bus so for failed to compre-
hen-l llw l'cl:l.l.i\'e importance of Agri-
culum- to tlw ‘other industries of the
<:ouutr_\.

1L may be that our furiucrs may soon
be obliged to coxupete sharply with the
cryols of lndiu,:u1d tlw wretched poor
of l~Ig_vpt. who are as far below the
pauper" laborers of Europe as the
latter are lower than the best farming
population of this cmxntry. It is all
important that the prices of iron, steel
uizxcbinery and traiisportutioli shall
not be made so high by t;i.\'ati0uaud
n10llUp01_\' .-is to exclude our agricul-
turists from the wile-at iuarl-zets of the
world.

 

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.

Of the three amendments to the
constitution of the National Grange,
submitted to the several State Granges
for ratification, by the National
Grange at its late session the am-nd-
ment to article 12, substituting for Be-
l2’giou.s and political where they occur
in the first line arf said article, the
words “Sectar1Ta'n and Partisan,” will
piobably attract. more attention than
the otlu-rs. It will be easy forsomelo
<-our,-lude that with the adoption of
this amendment the barrlers will be
removed, and that Patrons may discu.-:3
ll] the Grange politics and religion
more freely than before.
so unclerstsrul it. This amendment is
simply intended to define these sub-
jects more clearly so there will be less
room for com plsint on the part
or thor-:e who have felt restrain-
ed by the article in question.
The terms: propc-sod will be better un-
derstood and somewhat relieve some
worthy.Patrons whose apprehensions
were always on the alert, lest’ ruin
would follow, if a discussion took
such range as to involve questions of
public policy. _

It seemed a very natural time to
bring this matter before the National
Grange just before the meeting of
Congress, when the City of Washing-
ton was full of politicians, and our
representatives to the National
Grange were so likely to be involved
in political discussions when of} duty.
VVhile it is hardly likely that these
representatives during their brief stay
in the Capitol city had much influence
on the politicians. yet the great need
of more influence by the people over
their law-makers was, and is every-
where apparent. ‘ '

The people, the voters, must better
understand why they vote as they do,-
and be more selfish, more determined
to take care of themselves.

We have no doubt this amendment
will be ratified and that it will be for
the good of the Order. And that its
effect will be salutary all over the
country. And it is here that the leaven
has already begun to work, which
gives promise of bringing forth great
results. Every Patrons political duty
begins at home, and when exercised
with intelligent independence the
improved condition of local, State and
the National government will soon he
felt-.

The seat or center of government
must in the nature of the case be a city
of politics and politicians. This ele-
ment is too dense for our influence to
penetrate from within, we can only
reach it and affect it from without, and
such men as Piolette of Pennsylvania,
Darden of Mississippi, Lipscomb of
S. Carolina, Devries of Maryland are
outspoken in their opinions that it is
folly for Patrons to be so tender footed
in this matter of political action. They
insist if we are to make progress, we
must make the Order felt in politics.
And in some States they claim to have
verified the wisdom of these opinions
notably in Mississippi, South Caroli-
n_s, Pennsylvania, Maine and Vir-
gmia.

South Carolina has two senators and
five representatives in Congress, a
Governor and secretary of State who
are members of the Order. ’

In Pennsylvania candidates for im-
portant offices are required to make
answer to questions covering their ac.
tion if elected, upon those matters that
afi‘ect the farmer’s interest. In Maine
the fact that Fred. Robie was an out-

VVB do not -

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JANUARY 1, 1884.

spoken Patron and a staunch suppor-
ter of the agricultural interests of the
State on the stump and everywhere,
gave him hundreds of votes, if not his
election. .

So in Ohio in the case of J. H. Brig-
ham when a Candidate for Congress,
though not elected, his earnest advoca
cy of the rights of the agricultural
class gave him hundreds of votes. So
much stress was laid upon this point
from time to time in debate when the
National Grange was in ession and in
conversation with members, that we
were strengthened in our opinion that
the Grange press should more earnest-
ly urge patrons to make their votes felt
in every important election. Since
the organization had existence favora-
ble conditions have been increasing
every year. The fact that there is real-
ly no issue between the dominant par-
ties except a struggle for prominence,
place, and pelf, opens the way to more
successfully enforce upon the attention
of patrons and of farmers the common
sense proposition, that to protect the
inteiests of the agricultural class that
class must cast their ballots only for
such men as are in sympathy with
our objects and purposes

Let it not be understood that any
member of the National Grange advis-
es that the machinery of political par-
ties be adopted by the Order. By no
means. But it was most earnestly ur-
ged by some of the strong men of the
body that the Order must take an ad-
vance step or be consumed by the dry

rot of inaction.

In this matter there should be no
mistake, nor will there be except with
those who “go it blind.”

If the voter will attend to his own
business, as the politician attends to
his own business, and other interests
attend to theirs, he may and should
be felt as a power in the field of poli-
tics, and ;hat too, in harmony with
the proposed amendment to the l2’h
article of the constitution of the Na
tional Grange.

 

THE VlSlTOR AND ITS FRIENDS.

The many good things said of the
VISITOR by correspondents as well as
brothers and sisters who come togeth-
er at the annual sessions of the State
Grange, makes us feel that the paper
is exerting a salutary influence
where read, and makes us the more
solicitous to extend its circulation and
secure a still larger number of readers.
For its present circulation we are large
ly indebted to those of its friends who
have proved their friendship by more
than mere words of commendation.
There are individuals scattered all
over the State who have spent time-
freely in this work, and there are oth-
ers who have not only sp-nt time but
money, also. A frie: d, a neighbor,
has received the VISITOR not unfre-
quently without. knowing by whose
liberality he was supplied with the pa
per for a few months or a year.

It is perhaps a little invidious to
make special reference to persons or
localities, where so many have done
well. But the very generous liberali-
ty of the Pomona Grange of Lenawee
county entitles it to the first place and
first mention. This Grange paid us
for 250 copies for six months, and dis-
tributed tLem over the county where
it was expected they would do the
most good. As the Pomona Grange
was in: stituted to aid and assist Subor
dinate Granges, it seems pertinent to
inquire if this is not a very proper
thing todo with such funds as can be
spared from their treasuries. VVe pre-
sent this matter not only in acknowl-
edgment of favors received but in the
hope that an example so worthy of
imitation may not be lost. ‘

Of the liberal brothers, who for the
"good of the Order,”-have from time
to time ordered a score or more copies
of the VISITOR sent on their account,
we mention with great satisfaction,
Brother Geo. B. Horton, of Granger,
and Worthy Master Luce, of Gilead.
In this direction their faith has been
proved time and again by their good
works.

That individuals, Subordinate and
Pemona Granges may promote the
good of the Order in this way, needs
no argument to prove. At the price
which we are authorized to offer the
VISITOR to new subscribers there are
hundreds of brothers and sisters who

can well afford to tax their generosity
a dollar’s worth by sending the VISIT
on to three friends for a year. We do
not mean by this that we object to
less than a dollar. Smaller favors
thankfully received. The scheme of
supplying every family, any member
of which belongs to the Grange. With
the VIs1'roR-, and drawing on the
Grange treasury to pay for the 89-1119:
is practiced in some Granges with
good results. We certainly see noth-
mg wrong in it, and if a few outsiders
were included in making up the list,
it would often be bread cast upon the
waters to return after many days.

Few Pomona Granges, like the Len-
awee connty,Grange, will be able to
appropriate $50 a year to a free distri-
bution of the VISITOR, but any one of
the 33 that have been organized in this
State can do something in this direc-
tion. If not in money it might by $119
appointment of its best canvassing
member do some valuable work In
this direction outside the Order.
Shall it be done?

WHAT SHOULD BE DONE.

The Grarge is permently a social in-
stitution. Nothing in modern times
has brought the rural population to-
gether and enlarged the sphere or per-
sonal acquaintance like the Grange.
T hese opportunities have been well
improved. And this important fact
has not leen overlooked by those out-
side the gate. It is admitted on all
hands that the influence of the Grange
can be clearly seen in the greater intel-
ligence, improved manners and self-
reliance of the farmer class. But we
are not using all the means within our
reach for our improvement. We may
be faithful in an attendance at our own
Grange meetings but we do not visit
neighboring Granzes as we should.
In this matter there is both room and
great need of improvement. Where
Granges are within ten miles of each
other exchange visits. Enlarge
the sphere ofyour acquaintances and
you have enlarged the sphere of yo ur
opportunities for usefulness and for

personal enjoyment. Associating with

more people, gives us broader views
aud serves to eliminate the small prej
udices which have so often in the pale!
given to our class the place of inferior-
ity. This is not only aduty we owe to
ourselves but to our fellow patrons.
Many a weak Grange would be stimu-
lated to life and activityif notified that
a half dozen or so of brothers and sis-
ters would visit them at their . next
meeting, and this were repeated two
or three times this winter, and its
members were in turn invited to re-
turn the visit. In conclusion we say,
interchange visit.-i more for your own
good and the good of the Order. ‘

WE’ are glad to place the new adver
ti-ement of Messrs. Winslow" and
Crooks on our eighth page. Not gl .d
to do so sim} ly because welike to gel
a good, long advertisement, but in this
case, because we are personally well
acquainted with these gentlemen.

We know them as citizens, and as
business men with whom we have bad
business relations; and we can cheer
fully give them our endorsement as
reliable and square in their dealings.

With long experience in the busi-
ness, a large stock of material, per-
sonal energy and industry, they are
most certainly in a position to givethe
most favorable ralesloc stomers.

THE American Honl, Kalamazoo,
is a large, well-furuislied house. with
theflnest diuing—room in the State.
In rooms, fare and accommodations it
equals any of the highest priced hotels
in the State. If any of our friends
come to Kalamazo-:>, that is the place
l0 stop. We have nalronized this
house for four years, and in this mat-
ter know what we are talking about.
Price $1.-30 per day.

Mi-issns. Loan & firomas, an ad-
vertising flrm o. Cuicag ), have favor-
ed us with a new desk tool, which is
unique as well as useful. Iccoinbines
an agate, nopareil and an inch meas-
ure and is also a very c invenient ruler
and paper cutter. Price ten cents in
stamps or otherwise.

 

Grange Address.

The siipcrioril): of the Grunge above
all other Fu1'iiiei's’ ()i'gui1i7.ait.ioiis. and
how to best }>t‘l‘})e.tll2l.lt‘. it in its pros-
perity and iisefulu.-:ss, delivered at Lan-
sing at an 0p8l1Sl?SSl(Ill oi the .Mlt'lllg2Ul
State Gi'zin,ge, by E. ll. Williard, Ger-
muntown, Ohio, Dec. 188:}.

Worthy Aldsfer, Palrons, Mfatrozis,
and Friends.-——’l‘hose of you who were
present attire public men-ting lust _V(‘Hl'
duringtlie sessions of the State Gruiige,
will see in what we say this evening.

hatl am very inucli liketliat good par-
sun, of whom we told you last yeur,
who never could gctover talking about
the dear bretliren at .lumesl.0wi1 and
their woiirlc-rful kindness to him. Last
year it was my privilege and pleasure
to be with you in the very happy and
profitable meeting of the State Graiige
of Michigan, and so this evening I am
here again to tell about the good things
of the Grzuige, and the_good-times at
this farm ers’ Jamestown.

It is said that a music committee in
acertziin town made a. public adver-
tisement for cruididaites for the posi-
tion of church organist and music
teacher in the place. Among the re-
plies that were received was this one.
“Gent1emen,I noticed your advertise-
ment for an organist and music teacher
in your town, either lady or gentleman.
Having been both for several years, I
now offer you my services. Yours,
respectfully. '

Afew weeks ago our Wortliy State
Master Luce was in some anxiety
about a speaker for this evening. He
wanted some one who had been some
thing like a preacher and a Granger,
and as I have been both for some
years, I accepted my Worthy brotl1er’s
very kind iiivitation to address you
again this eveiiiiig.

Allow me to say to you members of
the Order of Patrons of llusbandry,
that I esteem as one of the green spots
of my life the very pleasant and to me.
profitable associations,that I have had
with our fraternity in the State of
Michigan, and I _believe that these e_n—
nobling friendships arid _liappy associa-
tions, such as we enjoy in the Grange,
make us better for both this world and
also the next. Man has a many-sided
character and destiny, and it is only as
we develope all these sides or parts of
our character and destiny, that we be-
come like unto what God originally
meant us to be.

You have all perhaps heard the old
fable about the goat and the cast-iron
image in the door-yard of the palace of
a prince. After a very unsuccessful,
but persistent attempt of the g0al? to
knock the cast-iron image across the
lawn, the goat is said to have walked
away, and thoughtfully remarked,
“’tWere better had we never met.

lt was a very different feeling from
this however that possessed my soul
1331; spring, when it became my duty in

THE GBAEE:

the work of gospel ministry to practi-
cally sever the close and pleasant rela-
tions wliicli had existed between us in
the associations of the Grange lll our
meetuigs at White _l’igeon. Tlmse of
you who have never been compelled by
the force of circumstzuices to przicticul-
ly break these fraternity ties, that link
you to institution.-' like that of the
Grange, know riotlliiigof what such an
ex ericuce really is.

lilo is a great State. It is as famous
for making otlice-holders as Connecti-
cut and Rhode Island have been for the
mani1l'actui'e of wooden nutincgs. It
is a great agricultural State, a land of
beautiful and productive farms. Its
resources are varied and its products
and crops vastly diversified. Its far-
mers are thrifty and prosperous. And
yet, after all is said that can be said in
its praise. I am coustruinerl to say to
you tonight that the cniiriition of the
farmer in the state of Michigan is lin-
most desirable of any State in which I
have thus far been. True. in the
Grange one sees much of the cream of
the furining class of our people, for
such a. laudable and praisewurtliy or-
ganization us the Order of the l’.-ltrons
of llusbaiidrynaturally attracts to it-
self the most thrifty, social. enterpris-
iiiguud aggressive elements zuuong tin-
tillers of the soil. And, there is per-
haps no State in the Union where the
G range has inztde such 2|. deep iinprcs-
sion and e.\:ci'ted such 21 lnlppy influ-
ence upon the farniing population as in
this great State, that lies beneath the
lakes.

You halve all perhaps llP.lll‘li the story
about the caller and the Irish .~a,ervant
girl. “is your Mistress in." asked the
caller of the domestic. “Sire is, sir,"
xvus the reply. ‘Is she eiigaiged?“ asked
the caller. “l"a.itli. she is more tlnui
that." was llridgcfs prompt response.
".Slie’s married sir!"

So to some of my frienrls in Ohio,
who have made inquiries about the
work ainl lllflllEllf'e of the Grzuigc in
Michigan. I have ztlvvaiys suid, “it is
more than engaged in :1. good work; it
has actually done untold good, and is
really married to the iiidustriul inter-
ests zuirl farniing people of ;\liclii-
gun."

The subject upon which we desire to
speak this evening is the s1ipcrlorit_v of
the Grange over all other f2u‘iriei's' or-
gaiiizzitioiis, and the best iii»-:m.~: of pro-
moting the peririzuient welfare of our
Order.

The superiority of the (,)rde:' of Pa-
lroiis of llusb:uidr_y to all otiwl‘ far-
mers: (>l‘g2l.lllZill,l()llS is to be seen, lirsi in
the respect, which it coiriinuiids be-
cznise of its State ainl Nzilimizil <3l1;u'zu.--
ter and influence. There is no disput-
ing the fzurt tlnd one \\'e:ikil+-as of
Auiericuns is that welook too much
upon outward 3.ppEflll‘illl(‘(-'24. “'9 allow
deference to tl1(-rir-E1 n1;ui, not so much
:icr:o1'(ling to his cliezructe-r or 2lL‘(:UI‘lllllg'
to the use lie lll:lkt‘S of his ricln-s, but
rather £l.(:(}t)l‘(llll}Z to the amount of his
ricln-s. We show deference to the uizui
of olilce, not so much ‘«l(3(3()l‘(llll',," in his
persomil Worth, but rutlier ucr-ordiug at
the ollicc. which he holds 13 l1i;;llorlow.
Nuinbers. outw;u'd slrcngtli mid indu-
ence go far tow'.ii‘d-‘ «l~:lei'uiiniiig wlnit
tbc I-\1iici'i(.-air public and our public
men think of cruises and orgaiiixiitioiis.
A local or county l':irniers‘s club does
not have but u very llniilml lnllueuce in
such ll r;ouuti'_v us‘ this. lftlre lll'LCl'f*StS
of the l'zu'liIc-rs are to he eiiiplizisixcrl in
sue-‘uu A ay as to couiuiuml iuucb defer-
encezuid respect. ll i‘cl'm'Iri-,» arc to be
brought about, if corrupt zxllizinrcs
eiguiust the interests of :lg'l‘l(flllllll'<‘ are
to l_>c-.Ll1w:11'te<l, if \\ rungs urc to be lift‘,-
veuted or l'l_L!llLtEll, if leglslritioii is to be
lllillll.-‘lll,‘(‘(l lil belmlf oftlie iizitioii‘.-‘ [test
uiidmost perliizuieut welfare, this czui,be
done only through sonic m';,ruiii7.'.iLi._i11
that shall lnive State and National
clizirzicler :lll(l inllueuce.

'l‘liereis uuotlier thought also upon
this point, that we wish to impress up-
on your minds. In un orgzuiizzitioii
like that of the Order of ,l’-.i.trous of
Il1isl);i.1nlr_v, ciuliracing all parts of the
luiid,:illsectini1s of our nation. all the
various crops and agi'i(:i‘iltiir:iJ ii1tei'est.s
rcpresciited in the 1:14-inlieisliip of the
friilcniity; wlnitevcr influence it ex-
erts upon the public mind, uud what-
cvei'rcfoi'1ns it ll.(lVOC£tl.t‘S, and wli'.it-
ever steps of progress it proposes, will
not be prompted by sectionulism, sel-
fishness, rauliczilisni, political or reli-
gious bigotry, but will be such as will
promote the highest and truest welfare
ofthe nzition, and protect and help the
real and peivnuiieiit iiiterests of agri-
culture, which lie at -‘lit: basis of our
Natioiizil weziltli, prosperity, purity and
happiness.

',l‘l1ei'e. more truth than liction in
the following little 1)iiI‘llg'l‘2l})ll which
many of you perliups sziw going the
rounds of the press several years ago,
and which has amused me quite it good
(iii?-ll.

"The baby has got zi. new tooth, but
the old lady is laid up win a. cold in the
he:i(l.”reiriarkc(la gentleman to :1 de-
feuted candidate. “What do 1 cure!"
vvas the reply. “Well,” said the gentle-
man, slowly, “before the election you
used to take me aside and ask me how
my family was coming on, and Fire
been liunting you all over town to tell
you, and tliaL’s the way you talk to me.
But it don't make any difference. I
voted for the other candidate, any-
how.”

Now, the Grange, because of its col-
lossol, representative organization, and
because of its State and National char-
acter prevents such insincerity. It is
too big a body to be coddled for sellisli
interests, too non-partisan and non-po-
litical to be sought after soiusincerely,
or to advocate principles or reforms,
that are not born of truth and de-
manded by riglit and justice, and that
will not be wholesome and good for
our nation at large.

It was at a most happy and oppor-
tune time that the Order of Patrons of
Husbandry took its rise. It was in
the last month of 1867, after the strife
and turmoil of our great civil war had
fairly ceased, and the fatliers and sons
and brothers, who had been fighting
the battles of the rebellion in the
northern and southern armies had re-
turned to their homes, and werejust
about settled down again in the quiet
and toilsome pursuit of agriculture,
when the interests of agriculture de-
manded and justified such an osganiza-
tion as the Grange, and when there
was seemingly an open door to a wide
sphere of usefulness before it, and a
waiting desire for something of the
kind among the farming class of our
people, that this strange movement
began and soon attained such collossal
proportions.

Again, the superiority of the Grange
above all other farmers’ organizations
is apparent from its systematic zir-
rangeuient of work. Political econo-
mists tell us that one of the indispen-
sable things to success in human en-
terprise is a. wise distribution or divis-

 

 

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ion of labor and czipital. One great
objection to so nuiuy local efforts lll
the War)‘ of l~‘urmers' clubs is that they
are so much at the mercy of circum-
staiicc.-'. if there are good, wise men,
at the head of them, they are often so
rnaungezl that they are of vast bene-
lit and intense interest. if, however,
tuere are slow men or poor nianagers
at the llczid of tln-.<c 0fg'2tl1l'l.:-l.i'.lUllS,
the meetings are zilinost sure to be
fzlilures in their results. Even with
good, active. wide-ziwake men as the
leaders, the discussions are apt to be
too gPll(.‘l‘ill and pointless, and the real
work accomplished quite frequently is
coiiip:ii':itiwl_v little.

For iustuiice, a few months agol

uttenderl _a. meetiiig of a fariners
club in (M110, in one of its leading
coui1lie.< in every respect. It lies

almut 150 miles north of Ciiiciniiati,
and its heart and center is the fertile,
lovely and fur-or-lcbrailed Mianil Vul-
ley. This meeting of which we speak,
was the In-st 3l.ti.(-llI,iI‘(l of any held for
_\'c2irs. It was presideri over by the
president of the Suite bozml of con-
lrol of the expr-riiné-lital station in
(lliiu, a ivide-awake-. .siiiui't and very
intelligent gentleuiun, who is most
llHd.l‘lll_V’ and actively identified with
the interests of tin-.1ille.i's of the soil.
As a jollilicsitioii day, it vvus it suv:ce;~‘s'
in every rr-spect. But the public ex-
ercises were very barren of much
prolit totlie reul iutere.-ats of agricul-
ture. Every luvvyer, justice of the
peace, preaclier and politician, that
could be rt-coguized in the audience
was of coursc called upon for -.1 speech.
Of course f‘:l(‘ll one tried to inuke a
funny or pleusiiigz speech. Thus the
nn-etlng drifted out of the lmnds of
the farmer and coirseqiieiitly away
froni the real interests and practical
iinproveiut-ut of zigricultiire. The set
1llllil‘l-ass of the day was what might
be styled :i very good college oration.

(hi my way lioinc, I could not help
but contrast tlnit meeting with many
Ul':l.nf,'(‘ ineetiiig.-', which I had attend-
ed in Micliigaii, and think of the dif-
ference. Why, mzmy of the ordinziry
meetings of White Pigeon Grunge,
were worth vastly more f’ r fari1iei's'
lllI.P!‘rSl.S than that loiig-arlvcrtised,
crowded and inucli-t:ilkcd of iiicctiiig
of tlie, l'arruers' club of one of the most
populous, tlirifty uud old settled couri-
ties in the great State of Ohio.

Till‘ Gruiige .~s_\'sl.ei1iuti7.es its work.
it has coiiiinitte-es and otlicr-i's. whose
special luisiiicss is to prepare inter-
¢-.~'tin;_{ and [)l'<)lll:ll)li'. work to ciigage
the time of czlcli iiieeliiig. ll re-ccivt-rl
useful suggestions from the State and
Nruioiiul (lrmiges, in the way of pl‘2l(.‘-
i,l('£ll, ll.;.',l'l(:llillll'2ll subjects for useful
(llstfillsnloll, and all the business that
curries before if, rnust ll(:*l'(fSSill‘ll_Y per-
tulii totlle iiiiiiietlizitc iiitercsts of ug-
riculture. But outsidc of the Grange
Hllcllil. meeting as this is without it
purzillel among f2l,l‘lll(‘,l‘S.

Aiiotlie1'featui‘e in which the .-supe-
rinrity of the Grange eippr-zlrs is in its
;Itfllf'l'.'ll -.-hziracter czilliug out and de-
veloping the talents of :ill, youiig and
old, the nmrlcsl auid liiuid, both niulc
and lcuizile uieiiillers. In the appoint-
ment rind work of its various. slzirnling
and special cmuriiitlees, iu the literary
exel‘<:l>:e.~', tlnltslnuild be held at zllliiosi.
€.\'f‘l'}' llli-frtlilg, an-l in its lllllll(fl’0l,l5
I)lll(‘l‘5,ill2ll ure to beIillr.*d.lhc1'e oiiglxt
to be uud is :1 plzn,-e for every llli‘llllJl‘l‘
ol'lln:(li':iuge. .‘r1nlji1;-‘L lxcro, let. me
1111-_ru l.']n)l) _\«Iu, n;-‘ the H-pi'csr-iitzitivcs
of the i\In-,higun (§i*’;iii;,rc.s' to Iriuke spu-
ciul I-£'l'ui'ts to (‘.111 out the latent liter-
ll.l'_\' i:lll*lll in your lllijllllll-fl’.-illlpitl liorue.
’l‘r_v 5... «,1».-t Ilia inoclcst, the l,m4.'l£\V‘<ll‘d,
tlw lnlt:-i-lug lo lzikc purt, und. be-fore
you ui'e:iw;i.i'c of it. you inuy be sur-
priscrl at the results Those are not
the best and most siicr-l-ss‘1il (lmiige
oflir,-ei's, who do niost all of the work
tlmii.-‘elve.~:. but those, who most tllul'-
ouglily ¢levelo;.H- the working talent
uinl em-i'gies of the whole Gnuige, and
who Sl.lC(‘.e(-,‘(l best in getting the gI'e:it-
est number of ineuibcrs to tzlkc part.
and to work.

This feature of the Grunge work has
done ;’:1'l*.‘ll. good H.lll(Jll_L}," the farrning
class of penplc, There are scores of
l’u11‘oi1.~+ uud .\.l-.i.trmi.< in this ball
to-night, who (‘Elli testify tliut, not only
lldV'(' they becoiiw more easy and pol-
ished in coiivcisutioii, but more lluent
and forcible in public address, because
ofthe tmiiiiug, Wlllbll they have re
ccived in this way in the Grange.

Finally. as to the superiority of the
Grange, we mention the fact that,
being :1 si-c1'et Order and its lll8llll;eI‘-
ship elected by ballot, it can be perma-
nemly uiuintuiiied as a distinctively
fariuers‘ orgaiiizatioii. Some of these
older and more experienced Patrons
can testify how the f’-‘1':iiigcrgoat raves
and r:m’r.s about our balls, when some
sharp, sellisli fellow who is not a far-
mer, nor 2!. true friend of the farmer,
tries to ride our gout for selfish eudsl
Audl bliss.-; and honor the old fellow
for it.’ Of course we do not mean to
say that such applicants never get into
the (l1':iiige,but it is an open secret
that they put. their lives in peril, when
they try to ride our gout. lie is a. very
tanie and gentle old fellow when a
gei1uiiiei'aii'mer rides liiin. and he will
somctiuies allow preachers to ride
him: but, all the fire of his youth is
rekiinllerl, and he becomes almost un-
iiiaiizigeiible when some insincere, sel-
fish candidate tries to ride him into
the Grange.

But, seriously, my friends, in the fact
that the Grange is it secret Order. lies
one of the elements of its superiority.
We have already spoken of how far-
mers’ meetings can be so easily divert-
ed from their true purpose and aim.
But,the Grange in its very character
has made all due precaution against
the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry
becoming anything else than a_ farmers’
organization, and so long as its mem-
bershipinnst consist of tillers of the
soil, so long its meetings, work, influ-
ence and business must pertain to the
interests of agriculture. And, in this,
it seemsto me there is not only an
argument for. but a complete justifi-
cation of the Grange as a secret Order.

Will you bear with me kind friends,
for :1 short time longer, while I shall
brieliy try to answer the question
“How can we the most successfully
and wisely perpetua.te_ the Grange. in
its prosperity and usefulness ?’_’

Continued, useful existence is always
one of the strongest proofs of inherent
strength. If we see ii. man, who has
attained to the remarkable age in these
days of 80 or 90 years, we _at once take
his long life as a conclusive proof_ot
the fact, that he had a strong and vig-
orous bodily constitution. If he had
been weak and sickly, he never could
have reached such an age. His. long
life, therefore, is the most convincin
proof of his bodily healthiness an
strength. _

When the foundations of the Ameri-
ican republic were laid in 1776, and

when afew years later our national

 

independence was zrcknowlerlzvd by lin-
guverunieuts of the old world, and tin-
Aniericuii governuieul was Iuwlullv
and properly OI'gillll2’.E‘(l. by the foriu.-v.
tion and adoption of tlze constitution
in178’7, many of the lending .sL:il<-snwii
and public inch of Europe openly pre-
dicted that the experiment would not
last long, and that the .~\ri1e1'ic:ui rc-
public would soon be clnuiged into a
iiioiiarclly. They boldly declared such
a form of government. too weak to last
long, and that the people could not
govern tliemselvr-s. But, to-day we
can show to the world almost 105% years
of the most orde.:l_v and prosperous
history ruining the nutionsol' the earth,
and our perpetuity its the rc-at repub-
he of the world proves 519 streiigth
of such it form of government among
such a people. and has refuted and
covered with shame the errliig proph-
ecies uiid Eui'ope;iu pl'Opllt‘l..\‘ of a cen-
tury ago.

As it was in the founding of the
nation itself, so, in the origin and his-
tory of this great f-.i.i'mc1‘s moveiiieiit
there were not wanting those, who
boldly prnpliecied its iulierent Weak-
ness, and its speedy and sure decline
and death. ’l_‘ln=re are always some
people, ivlmse only inissiou and busi-
ness in life seem to be to (llSCIllll'2tg‘€
the enterprise of the world, and find
fault with wlizit others do, and this is
about all some people in this world, are
lit for. lint for 16 years, the (irzuige
movciuent has gone forwzml prosper-
ously; true, there are not as Illi|ll_V
Granees and Patrons all over the land.
as there were from 1874 to 17476, which
were the years of the greatest outward
strength and membership of the 01'-
der, but Lo-day the perpr-tuit_v of the
Grange '3 the pron-lest feature in it-
liistory and proves its inherent
strengih.

But, you say, “we admit all this, and
Only ask, ‘how can we best perpetuale
the Grange in its prosperity and use-
fulness?’ ”

In answer to this we say, fir-t of all
keep foremost and always in your
minds that the Grange isa farmers’
institution, and make it exclusively
such in its aims and int! reuces. It is
not a gossiping society, nor a mere
social pasttime, nor a political or re-
ligious agency in any sense whatever.
but it is a farmers’ society, whose sole
intention is to make the farmers’ life
happier and better; todiscuss subjects
connected with farm work, and to
protect and advance the agricultural
interests of our nation preeminently.

A friend of mine. who is judge of
one of the courts a: Toledo, Ohio, tells
apretty g"0d story about an old Ger-
man dox-tor in that city. A certain
man accidentally fell and broke his
neck. The housenold,of course. were
almost dlstraclei with grief, and has-
tily sent for this old German doctor to
come to the house immediately. When
the doctor entered they were wring
lug their hands in grief, and they be-
sought the doctor most earnestly, and
asked him, “On doctor, doctor, can’t
you cure him?” “Vy ofcourse [can
cu re him,” said the old German doctor,
“but vat’s de use? hish neck is broke.”

So it seems to me it is with all woik
of the Grange, that is not directly in
the true interest of the farmers and
lille-1'54 (if the soil. You might have a
dime lively discussion over partisan
-. oliiir-,5 or religion, than over farming;
you might possibly increase the mem-
bersliip for a while by trying to get
everybody into the Grange; but,
whu ‘.- theuse? It Won’: last. And,
while all Ania might seem like a cure,
it would only be death in the end.

A second idea, which we Wish to em-
phasize:-. in answering the question we
have slaterl is, exalt the intellectual
work of the Grange. Make promi-
nent the intellectual part ofall your
meeings. The position of Master in
the Grange is the most honorable and
responsible. but the position of Leo-
turer we regard as the most important.
L')Uk well to thi-. position in every
Grange. Put some literary person,
either lady or gentleman, the best ed-
ucated member in your Grange in the
place of lecturer, and give him full
power in the intellectual work of the
Grange, make him feel that you ex-
pect a good deal of planning and work
from him in the way of theliterary en-
tertainment and the intellectual im-
provement of the Grange, and, by all
means co-operate with him heartily;
never shirk any duty he imposes upon
you; write a composition if it be only an
inch long, and read a selection, if you
niispronounce half the words, and no-
body understands hallwh-st you read;
encourage the lecturer; don't be afraid
to praise him whenever he gives you
agood eveninfls enlertainmr-nl; and
when it can possibly be done, vote the
lecturer five or ten dollars, with which
he can procure a few of the best far-
mer’s papers and magazines, and thus
haveastnck of material. from which
he make sulections with which to give
you good intellectual entertainment
and instruction in the Grange. It
will pay well in the end.

There is perhaps no more interest-
ing or practical and profitable agricul-
tural literature that can be used in the
exercises of the Grange than the re
ports or bulletins of the various State
experiment stations. These experi-
ment stations are now established in
at least six States: Conneciicut, North
Carolina, New Jersey, New York,
Ohio and Massachusetts. These expe-
riment stations are departments for
practical experiments and tests in the
interests of agriculture. They are of
European origin, the first agricultural
experiment station having been estab-
lished in Germany in 1851.

One remarkable thing in reference
to these experiment stations in our
own country is that all these experi-
ment stations in these six States have
been edzablished within the past ten
years; In just six years to the very
month after the origin of the Grange.
Am I claiming too much when I assert
that the Grange movement has
been largely instrumental through
its direct and indirect influences in
the accomplishment of this great pro-
gresssve movement in the interests of
American agriculture? It was the
Grange that first really aroused the
farmers of this country to to rhe need
and imporlanc of such efforts and ex-
periments, and of the practical value
of applying science and scientific tests
to agriculture. To see the part which
the Grange has taken in the establ sh-
ment of these State experiment sta-
tions, take the simple example of the
State of Ohio. Who first introduced
the bill into the Ohio legislature, cre-
ating the State experiment station in
Ohio. It was Colonel J. H. Brigham,
Master of the Ohio State Grange? And
the Ohio legislature passed the bill in-
troduced by Colonel Bi-igham,no doubt

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because they knew that back of him
we-r thousands of voters in the Grange
who demanded the establishment of
» -uch an experimentstation.

In this Stale of Mir-big:-in, we be-
lieve that we will never see a State
experiment station e.- tablished among
us, until the Michigan State Grange
and the Michigan PalronsnfHu.~iband-
ry shall take earnest, co operative and
aggressive action to secure this great
boon to the agricultural interesis of
the State.

Now rne report of these State expe-
riment slallouscau be secured by leo-
tur rs of Sobmdiiiate Gr.-inges, —nd
would furnish excellent material to
present to their Grariges for the intel-
lectual entertainment and instruction,
and practical benefit of the member-
ship of our Order. And we especia ly
commend the reports of the New York
and Ohio experiment stations as pos-
sessing more than usual merit and in-
r.-eresf. These l‘6unrLs or bulletins can
be obtained at a very trifling ex-
pense.

I have in my hands this evening
the reports of the Ohio experiment
station, which any of you, that wish
to do so, can examine for yourselves
after iheexe-Pi.-use of this evening are
concluded. Future report-s willdoubt-
lessbestill more valuable than that
which I have before me.

Thirdly, try to make the Grangea
means ofs:-curing permanent llllpl'0VB-
ments and benefits in those communi-
ties, where the Grange is establis .ed.
Have a choir in every Grange; have
some fal'mer’s socials occasionally un-
der the auspices of the Grange, and
let the object be, not so much to make
money as to promote sociality and to
make your lives happier and beiter;
establish a library if you can, with
good, attractive books to circulate
among your membership, and by all
means. try to have a museum, a col-
lection of grains and grasses, of min-
erals and curiosities, of insects and
bugs, only so you leave out the hum-
bug. Do anything and everything
you honorably can do to get the mem-
bers interested as generally and heart-
ily as possible.

Lastly, uiake the Grange helpful to
two classes especially; is: the young
people from the farm, and 2-1 the far-
mers’ wives. Mark well the fact that
we say make the Grange helpful to
those two classes.

The New York Herald which isone
of the best edited of all our great Oily
papers, last April gave the following
short and sensible advice to farmers
about their children:

“Give the children each a small
piece of ground and let them play at
gardening They will at leist get
healthy amusement and some knowl-
edge of the growth of plants. En-
courage them by helping them with
the hard work of spoiling and prepar-
ing the ground, avnl if they succeed
in raising a few nice early strawber-
ries or peas, or any other vegetable or
ffull} that they may takea fzrnvy to
cultivate, buy the produce of them,
[fyou want them to become farmers
it can only be done by nlaking ram-
ing attra-:tive.———N. Y. Herald, April,
1883.”

The same is true of young people
that is here said of children; if you
want to keep them on the farm, you
must mak» farm life attractive to them.
lionie ou-_-‘lit to be the greencstsuot
on earth to your sons and daughters.
Too many [,-‘lrttlltii. however, ,-1.;-.5 [jke
the old lady in the story. they are fol.
lowing their children about in an irri-
tating way, that .~muietiiiies amounts
to almost (lownright'persecution:

"Wlllyiui my son," says an ego-
nomical mother t J her son, “for mer-
cy’s sake don’t keep on trauzpiug up
and down the floor in that manner.
Y0u’ll wear out your new boots. (He
sits down.) There you go—sitting
down. Now you'll wear out your new
trouser»! I declare, I never see such
a b y!”

The Grange can be made so interest-
ing and profitable to the young pegple
from the farm, that it will throw pe.
culiar charms about the farmer's life.
Show your children that life on the
farm is not all work and drudgery,
but that it has attractions and enjoy-
menls, such as a good Grange,that are
peculiar to the pursuit of agriculture,

A matter-of-fact boy defined salt as
"that stuff which makes potatoes taste
bad when you don't put any on."

Patrons and matron.-i, make the
Grange meetings so helpfuland pleas-
ant, especially for the young, and
bring the work of the farm and the
enjoyment of the Grange so closely to.
garner, that just as potatoes don't
taste good without salt, so the farmers
in all your communities will see and
feel the need of the helpful Grange
for their families, if not for them-
selves.

It is said that some gentlemen at a
dinner table were one day discussing
the familiar line of the poet. “An
honest man's the noblest work or
God,” when a little boy spoke up and
said, “It ain't true,my mother's better
tban any man that was ever made."
That boy was not far from the real
truth of the matter.

If there is one feature about the
Grange which has always commend-
ed it to me as a sensible and profitable
farmers organization, it is the pro-
vision which it makes for the recrea-
tion and social enjoyment of the {ar-
mer’s wife. How she rises early in
the morning, toils hard all the day,
sweating over the not stove, and work-
ing tlll arms and limbs a».he, than
often being compelled to do all th.
milking and perhaps go after the cow;
in the bargain too; with an the
mending and patching to do, a family
to rear, watching over the habits of
three or four boys, and molding the

dispositions of two or three girls-
oh! if there is a living our;
on the farm that needs the

recreation, the change, the happy dj-
version and social enjoyment and the
entertainment of the Grange, it is the
farmers’ noble, devoted, heroic wife.
And we predict the greatest success
and usefulness for that Grange, which
provides best of all for the young
s-90916. and especially for the wives
and mothers from the farm,

Fellow Patrons and Matrons.——It
is a good work, xvhioh you have
done; strive manfully to make it gnu
beéterl

be inscription over the ray
William H. Seward, the great? chieiugf
pron of the cause of freedom to thg
blacks. simply says “he was faithful,
Oh! May such leouraim in all oin-
duties and as.-ociations in the Granges,
and may the last, eternal verdict upon
your lite and mine be: faithful to self

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TEE GRANGE VISITOR.

 

JANUARY 1. 1894.

'$*““** department-

THE OLD CANOE.

Whiglaegie rocks are gray and the shore is
I

And the rugged pine. in its lonely pride,
Leans gloornlly over the murky tide;

Where the weeds and the rushes are long

and rank,
And the weeds grow thick on the winding

where this shadows are heavy the whole day
flirough,
There lies at its mooring the old canoe.

The useless paddles are idly dropped,
Like the sea bird's wings that the storm has
lopped,

And crossed on the railing, one o'er one.
Like the folded hands when the work is done;
While busily back and forth between

The spider watches his silver screen

And the solemn owl with his dull "too hoo."
Settles down on the side of the old canoe.

The stern half sunk in the slimy wave,
Bots slowly away in the watery grave,
And the green moss creeps o'er its dull decay;
Hiding its mouldering dust away,
Like the hand that plants o'er the tomb a
flower,

Or the ivy that mantles the falling tower;

e many a blossom of loveliest hue
Springs up o'er the stern of the old canoe.

The cutrentless waters are dead and still——
But the light winds play with the boat at will
And lazil in and out again

It floats t e length of the rusty chain.

Iike the weary march of the hands of time,
That meet andpart at the noontide chime,
And the shore is kissed at each turning anew
By the dripping bow of the old canoe.

Oh, many a time, with a careless hand,

I have pushed it away from the 'p»-bbly strand.

And paddled it down where the stream runs
quick,

Where the whirls are wild and the eddies are
thick,

And laughed as I leaned o’er the rocking side,

And looked below at the hrokenotide,

To see that the faces and the boats were two

That were mirrored back from the old canoe‘

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But now’ as I lean o'er the crumbling side,
And look below in the sluggish tide,

The face that I see there is uraver grown,
And the laugh that I hear has a sober tone,
And the hands that lent to the light skiff wings,
Have own familiar with sterner things.

But I ove to think of the hours that sped

As I rocked where the whirls their white

s ray shed.
Ire the blossom waved, or the green grass
grew.
0 er the mouldering stern of the old canoe.

Birth and Growth of Our Order.

Read before Pittsford Grange, at its
Anniversary meeting, Dec. 4th,
1883
Worthy Master, lVelcome Guests,

Brother and Sister Patrons.-—We cele-

brate to-day the birth of our noble

Order. On the 4th of December, 1867,

in the city of Washington, D. C., the

the first Grange was organized.

To—day thirty six States and one
territory are represented in our Na-
tional Grange. An increase of nearly
6,000 members during the past year.
was r ported at the recent session of
the Na ional Grange.

Aw an Order we are yet young. but
gheallhy, vigorous constitution in-
Elll“l-110 usa probability of long, if
not perpetual life.

T.-u years ago to-day, our Pittsford
Grange celebrated the sixth birthday
of on: Order for the first time, it being
but just organ.zed as a Subordinate
G;‘an.4r,e. Since that time each anni-
vem;-y has been observed by its faith-
ful P .l'.rons in Pittsfnrd. And to day.
with grateful hearts, we come again,
offering our trir-ute to its worthy
foun ere, OliverH K“l1yW- M- Ire
land, Wm. Sau dersy J‘”“3 R Th°m
30;. J inn Trimble, T. M. McDowell
and Rev, A. B. Grosh. not forgetting
1vI:.-.- Carrie A. Hall, who put in her
plea. fin the “full membership of wo-
men.” These are all yet living, most
,«,f;h.m in the city of Washington,
where as honorary members of the
National Grange, except the Worthy
B--‘cretary, O. H. Kelley, they hadthe
privilege, afew days since, of ming-
ling with their brothers and sisters of
the Sixth degree in their 17th Annual
session, at the birth place of our Order,
and clasped hands with brothers and
sisters from the Pacific States, from
tho Ailanfic and Gulf States, from five
New Eugland Stgtr-S, with the Wor-
thy Master and his wife of our own
loved Michigan, and of all the interior
States, except one, not omitting the
Master and Secretary 0‘ D°mim°“
Grange, Canada. -

Our fraternity reaches from shore to
shore. dlsrobes itself of all partisan-
ship in our own country, and extends
greeti gs to its numerous brothers
and sisters in the British D1'0V1l-‘0°3-

Our beginning was small, the first
0;-gamzation was principally a school
ofinstruction and atest of the man-
1,131. The growth of the Order ‘for
three years was slow, there being
but 88 Granges organiz- d during that
time. The year following over a bun-
dred more were added, and the next
year over a thousand. In J anuary
1873, the flrst annual meeting of the
N,,,,(,,,,,1G1-ange composed of Masters
or State Granges, eleven in number.
conv- ned at our Nation's Capital
The ioundelfi of our Order had up_ to
this time exercised fatherlv authority,
‘Dd were 1,, full possession of all
geeords. At this convention they
ypggaed all to the representatives of
fie S'a'e G‘-angefl   r9queSt:
t “Makeauch a constitution and by-
laws as, in film" judgment’ thefgood
of the order requimv “"4 we W‘; ‘€25

dorse it. We have worked ‘O m
up an mmuzam which in our judg-
ment was absolutely needed, and now
all we aslcis that you shall 169"-9la‘9f°"
re 00d.”
 nr founders are satisfied.

ib  ,,,_,,,r gouqjest expectations realizci‘.

Grange principles are true. solid and
undying.

Like all institutions we have learn-
ed some useful lessons by our mistakes.
These did not accord with our pur-
poses. Our mistakes were but human,
and to day we are the wiser if not the
better for them. From the beginning
our trust has been in a higher power,
in the one God who rulefh all. The
instruction (1 our beautiful ritual
has been. A good Patron places
faith in God.

The question has oft-n oeen asked
"Is the Grangea religious institution?”
The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, a mem-
ber of Chemung Valley Grange, New
York, and pastor of a church, said, in
his address to the National Grange at
Canandaigua, N. Y., four years ago,
that. “He found his Grange to be but
another church.” That, “There were
gathered men and women, there
were songs and prayers, and oppor-
tunity for remarks; and readiness to
receive information.” He said, “His
church was a Grange with one or two
elements added, and one or two miss-
ing. “As an active christian pastor.
he should do what he could to make
the church more Grangelike. Some
things the Grange could do which,
alas! human nature will not permit
the church toundertake There were
qualities in the Grange which he
longed to transfer to the church.”
No doubt other pastors, as well posted
in Grange lore. would respond,
amen

Our manual is a marvel of‘ beauty
founded upon christian principles.

Does your creed teach temperance?
So does ours. Does your church rule
require you to be ‘honest with your
felloa men? So does ours. Are you
instructed to be charitable to all? So
are we.

If you are still doibtful, read our
"Declaration of Purposes.” It then
not satisfied, petition our Order for
"further instruction.”

Says one, “I have known dishonest
Grangers.” Have you ever known
any institution that had not its Judas?
“'9 teach principles, we point to no
man as a pat ern. We do not expect
to instruct all classes. but confine
ourselves to the one class, upon which
the hope of every nation depends, the

farmers. A class numerically greater
than all othels combined, one whose
calling is so high that it need yield
precedence to none other. Jefferson
said, “Agriculture is the highest call-
ing of man, and the surest road and
safes uard to a nati )n’s prosperity and
liberty.”

Our own Subordinate Grange has
passed its infantile years, has lived
through the epidemics so fatal to some
of our sister Granges. We have faith-
fully reported our condition each sea-
son to our State oflicers, and been ac-
cepted as “live and well.” We feel
something like aboy or girl of ten
years, too old and too big to be whip-
ped, quite deflant if need be, but
challenge not.

Our State Grange was organized in
the village of Kalamazoo, April 15th,
1873, with 18 Sl.lb0l‘dll]3lZ8 Granges as
a basis.

To-day the Subordinate Granges of
Mvchigan number over 600. We have
a l-ve Grange paper, "THE GRANGE
VISITOR, managed by our State Sec-
retary, J. T. Cobb. It has held com-
munication with Patrons for the past
eight years. It publishes truth fear-
lessly, and has a full list «f original
C0l1C.'lbl.ltOlS.

Its articles are suited to our general
wants, and pleasant to receive.
Grange literature, such as all Patrons
and farmers need, is abundant, whole
some and within the reach of all.
There are twenty or more paiiers,
weeklies, monthlies and semi-month-
lies, published by and for Patrons.

The Patrons of Husbandry have
also their experimental farms, their
professors, and their colleges; but bet-
ter than these, oecause accessible to
all farmers, is the Subordinate Grange.
Our lecturers instruct, discussions are
free, and farmers, at least Grangers
are being educated; are learning to
know, and learning to tell what they
know.

Learning to look after their own in-
terests financially, socially and scirn-
tifically.

We have reason to be proud of our
success. Our advancement as an Or-
der is greater than we dared to hope.
Our Order is progressive.

Its individual Patrons will be called
one by one, to lay down their imple-
ments of labor, and to join those who
have been advanced to higher degrees,
beyond the hopes and trusts of mate-
rial life. Our children, and theirs in
turn, shall take up our unfinished
work, and to sixteen years shall be
added a hundred, and then its thou-
sands perhaps—its Patrons firmly
united by the faithful tie of agricul-
ture; laboring for the good of the Or-
der aud all mankind.

Mus. S. A. Pnnnm.

Pittsford, Dec. 1883.

In an eastern city, not long ago, a
Sister of Charity was dying, and at last,
from a stupor, she opened her eyes and
said: "It's strange; every kind word I
have spoken in life, every tear that I
have shed, has become a living flower
around me and they bring to my senses
an incense ineftable.

Household Economy.

Rosella Rice, one of the popular and
practical writers of the times, sends
out her articles under the caption,
“How we do at our home” and to me
her effusions are decidedly interesting.
The thought occurred to me that I
might make some suggestions on
household economies which might ar-
rest the attcntion of two classes of the
readers of the VISITOR. The first class
is the husbands who carry the purse
and deal out the money for the asking,
all the while wondering where so
much money goes. I will answer. It
is money we want and must have to
buy household conveniences to help
us about our work. I do not mean
every jim-crack or patent right arti~
cle sold now-adays, for some of them
add to our work in the use of them
instead of being a benefit. We need
the labor saving machines and those
which have common sense principles
about them.

The other class I wish to reach is
the long list of housekeepers who have
not yet learned the easier and better
way of managing. Some of them
young in experience and who do not
as yet once imagine the difficulties
and trials bcforethem, (and it is well
they do not.) hey do not al-
ready know how the wheels of the
household machinery will got blocked
and the work will not move though
they think they push it very hard.
They expect the bread and cake will
always rise. but instead, it some times
falls. They are not always wise in
their purchases. A farmer’s daughter
married and set up housekeeping on
herown responsibility. Her father
gave her quite a good supply ofmoney
telling her to use it as she liked best.
She bought lace curtains, Brussels our-
pets, upholstered furniture, pictures
and vases. When she needed to fur-
nish her kitchen and pantry the
money was all gone. She had
nozhing to buy chairs for the kitchen
or for a table to (at her food on and
her dishes were only vases. That
was not economy but unwise manage-
ment both on the part of her parents
and daughter. If one has not ade-
quate means to furnish the whole
house, it is better to supply the
kitchen and vantry with necessary
conveniences and use plain carpets
and plain furniture in the sitting
room, and shut up the parlor till
means accumulate to get the nice and
pretty things wnich add so much to
the beauty of home life. True house-
hold economy is the basis which un-
derlies all our successes in every day
affairs. We need to econor.-;iz time
strength, brains, nerves, money and
temp ‘r. The kitchen should be as
pleasant if not the pleasantest room
in the house. We women spend so
much of our time there doing the
several kind of work that falls to
our lot.

The kitchen should be of ample
proportions, well lighted, well paint-
ed,clean walls, whether kalsomined
or papered, furnished with a large
first class cooking stove, or range,
whichever you prefer, and plenty of
light furniture to go with it. The
marbleized iron furnil ure to use around
the stove, is an advance step in the
right direction for our benefit. Have
plenty of pills, pans, basins, and pie-
plates of yellow ware lined with por-
cefain. So many think it is economy
to have a few cheap, cracked dishes
for every day use, and an elegant
china set for company. I do not ad
vocate (as some do),tl1e use of c‘ ina
for every day, it requires too much
work in properly caring for it. I pre-
fer pure white porcelain with fancy
pieces interspersed. The dishes in
fashion now—a-days are so cheap and
of such variety of patterns, that it
seems to me hardly anv one is excu-
sable if they do not have plenty to
use.

I see my article is assuming too
great length but I wish to tell the
housekeepers (and their husbands,
too,) of a kitchen convenience I have
useda year. It is called the Acme
baker. It is made of sheet iron with
acover and inside is a tin plate per-
forated with holes and set upon little
pieces of tin to keep it out of the wa-
ter which is used to keep the gravy
from burning and generate steam.
The meat, turkey, or chicken is placed
on this tin-plate, seasoned to suit you,
covered up and placed in the oven,
and all that is required is to keep up
the fire. You can go about any other
work, or reading, or writing. No
turning of meat, basting of it, watch
ing that it does not burn, or roasting
your own brains, to see it is doing all
right. Ithlnk it will roast »half an
hour sooner this way and will be of a
delicate brown, juicy and delicious.
The price of mine was one dollar and
a half, I do not know as that is the
usual price. If Bro. Cobb will ap-
prove, and the rest of you do not ob-
ject, I will say something about how

I manage baking day in my next ar-
tlcle. MYRA-

It is high time that something should
be done to put a stop to the grabbing
of the public domain by foreigners
who have no intention of settling in
the count , and whose only obyect
in etting old of these lands is to es-
tab ish a system of absentee L_and
lordism that will compel Amer-ica,n
citizens to pay tribute to foreigner“ 9
«.-ii.-.i new no syn.-pazliy with Amer s
can institut ici l". - iris}.

 

The Alabaster Box.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of
your love and tenderness scaled up
until your friends are dead. Fill their
lives with sweetness, speak approving,
cheering words while their cars can
hear them. and while their hearts can
be thrilled by them, The things you
mean to say when they are gone, say
before they go. The flowers you v can
to send for their coflins, send to
brighten and sweeten their homes be
fore they leave them. If my friends
have alabaster boxes lald av» ay. full of
perfumes of sympathy and affection,
which they intend to break over my
dead body, I would rather they would
bring them out in m weary :OllI'B
and open them, that may be re-
freshed and cheered by them when I
need them. I would rather have a
bare cofiln without a flower, and a
funeral without an eulogy, than a ll e
without the sweetness of love and
sympathy.

Let us learn to anoint our friends
beforehand for their burial.

Post-mortem kindness does not cheer
the buidenec spirit. F.owers on the
coffin cast no fragrance backward over
the weary days.

Rev, Daniel Waldo once said “I am
an old man now, I have seen nearly a
century. Do (you you want to grow
old slowly an happily? Let me tell
you how. Always eat. slowly, masti-
cate well. Go to your
smiling. Keep a good nature and
soft temper everywhere.

Cultivatea good memorv, and to do
this, you must be communicative; re-
peat what you have read, talk about
it.

Dr. J ihnson’s great memory was
owing to his communicanvenn-es.”

l_3oImowlxo Tl{OUBLE,—“Tlie worst
evils” sa.y_s 2l.”pI‘UVel‘b, “Are those that
never arrive.

By way of practical counsel to all
borrowers of trouble, I would say, face
the real difficulties and troubles of
life and you will not have time for
practicing the art of self-tormenting.
The most contented people in the world
are those who are most occupied in
alleviating, with christizui ln-zu"-. and
hand, the sorrows that flesh is llt‘ll‘ to.
Visit the homes of ignoramvc and
poverty and vice and in face of the
terrible reality you will there witness,
your own pent} care-"a will seem as
nothing. The curiosities of the future
will VlilllSll:«tlt0gt‘l.l‘lel', while you will
be better able to bear those burdens
which, though real, will sceni light to
you by COIIlp2l.l‘lS0ll.

A BEAUTIFUL FIGURE.-—-Ml‘. Web-
ster visited Mr. Adams a short time be-
fore his death, and found him reclin-
ing on a. sofa, evidently in feeble
health.

lle remarked to Mr. Adams: “I’m
glad to see you, sir. I hope you are
getting along pretty well.”

“All, sir, quite the contrary. I find I
am 2L poor tenant, occupying ahouse
much sllaittercd by time, it sways and
trembles with ever wind, and what is
more sir, the land ord. as near as I
can make out, (l0l1’l3 intend to make any
repiurs.”

OI\'LYONl£I)AY AT A TIME ~A ‘a.‘y
liadlnct with quite zlseriollsaccidelil
which made a p:iinful.surgiczll opera-
tion nccessar_v, and many months
confined to her bed, when the physician
had finished his lnork, and was about
to take his lczwc she asked, "Doctor,
how long shall I have to lie hcrc‘:”’
“ Oh! only one day at a tlme,’. was the
cheering answer. The poor sufferer was
comforted for the moment, and many
times during the following Weary weeks
and the thought “only one day at a
time” came back with :1 greeting in-
fluence.

SELFISIINESS R-EIlUl{ED.~—A poor old
maul, busily planting anupplc tree, was
rudely asked, “Wll-at do you plant trees
for? You can’t eigpect to cut the fruit
of them ‘.-"’ He raised himself up, and
leaning upon his spade, answered.
“Some one planted trees before I was
born and I have eaten the fruit. I
new plant for others, to show my grati-
tude when I am dead.” Thus should
we think and act for the welfare of
others.

THE YOUNG TO TAKE OUR PLACES.
-—As we get older do not let us be
affrouted if young men and women
crowd us a. little, we will have had our
day, and we must let them have theirs.
When o11r voices get cracked, let us
not snarl at those who can warble,
When our knees are stiffened, let us
have patience with those who go fleet
as the deer.

Because our leaf is fading, do not let
us despise the unfrosted.—Talmadgc.

NEV'ER GIVE WAY TO MELAN-
CHOLY.-0116 great remedy is to take.
short views of life. Are you happy
now? Are you likely to remain so till
this evening, or next week, or next
month, or next year? Then why de-
stroy present happiness by apprehen-
sion of distant misery which may
never come or you never live
to see it? For every substantial
grief has twenty shadows, and
most of them shadows of your
own making.—lS‘idn+y Smith.

WHAT IS VANITY.——A Courtier, rid-
ing with his soverign amidst the accla-
mations and splendor of a triumphant
procession, asked him “what is wanting
here l'” And very emphatic was the re-
ply “Pcrmane1ice" Yes, that is wanting
the music, the hurras, the parade
would soon be over. And so with all
those things in which, aside from God
we depend for happiness.

AGE LAYS OPEN THE CHARACTER.-
Age seems to take away the power of
acting a character, even from those
who have done so most successfully
during the main part of their lives.
The real man will appear, at first fit-
fully, and then predominately. Time
spares the chiseled beauty of stone-. and
marble, but makes sad havoc in plaster
and stucco.

Old age has no terrors for Victor
Hugo, who is said to have acknowl-
edged that passing from thirty—nlne to
forty was the most trying time in his
life.

“But” said a. friend, “I should think
it a. great deal better to be forty than
fifty.” “Not; at all” replied Hugo; “forty
vears is the old zige of youth, while fifty

yea. ‘s is the youth of old age."

occu pation ~

The Oil Ionopolist.

“Did you ever hear how John D.
Rockefeller of the Standard Oil com-
pany salted William H. Vanderbllt to
the tune of $1,000 000 ” Inquired an
oil speculator of the Cleveland corre-
spondent of the Chicago News.

“Never.”

“I don't believe it ever got into the
papers. You can be certain that
Vanderbilt never mentioned it, and
Rockefeller never talks business to
any one. It got out among the all
men, however, and has caused some
talk. It came about in this way;
R0 kefeller will manage things his
own way, and those who do not care
to go it blind and obey orders might
as well look out for connections else-
where. The Standard, with its vast
and always widening interests, must
be handled like an army on a contin-
ual march through the country of the
enemy. One head must Ian and one
hand direct. An order is an order,
and, while there can occasionally be
a council of war, all the details and
many of the decisions come from one
man alone. There was a time sev-
eral years ago that, with public
clamor, offlclal lDVeBl’.igB‘.i0D8, trouble
in the oil flelds, and the always in
creasing burden of management, sev-
eral or the old-timers among the stock-
holders felt that the day had come
for holding affairs within their defined
limits. Mr. Rockefeller did not agree
with their conclusions, and quletlv
ignored all suggestions as to how he
should conduct the business. Mr.
Sam Andrews, one of the three found-
ers of the Sandard, knew as much as
any one the dangers threatening the
great monopoly, and on several occa-
sions expressed his opinion freely.
Rockefeller said little, but with his
Scotch longheadedness laid his plans
for a move at the proper moment.
Vanderbilt at that time held a com-
paratively small interest in the Stand-
ard, but had secured enough and
seen enough to make him wish for
more. Rockefeller probed the big
millionaire with his usual skill and
secured from him a provisional offer
covering an amount of stock equal to

bat held by Andrews. The next
ime upon which a uestion of policy
came up between essrs. Andrews

and Rockefeller, the latter suggested
that if Andrews was dissatisfied with
his connection he had better sell out,
“Get me 1,000,000 for my stocks,’ said
Andrew immediately, “and out I go!”
Mr. Rockefeller smiled, and offered
him $700,000 Andrews refused, but
after some figuring they compromised
on $900000. Then Rockefeller took
t-sat block of stock, without the addi-
zion of one-tenth of a share. and
dumped it onto Vanderbilt for $2,000.-
000. The difference went into his own
pocket.”

“Are Vanderbilt and Rockefeller on
good terms?”

“Oh, yes; as Slllh things go. l‘hey
keep a sharp eye on each other, how-
ever, and neither would care to go
intoa place where the other could
give him a squeeze Rockefeller lei
Vanderbilt into the Standard because
he wished the inside on railroad
transportation and Vanderbilt went
in because he believed it a good
thing The old commo~:or'> liked
Rockefller immensely and allowed
r-im to make his own terms for trans-
portation between Cleveland and New
York.”

Even his bitferest eremy cannot
deny that John D. Rockefeller is one
of the most remarkable men of even
this pf0ilfiC age. The owner of $25,
000,000 at 40, every cent of which he
owes to his own ability and energy.
and at the head of the most complete
and tyrannical monopoly in the world,
he presents a commercial figure as
uniqueas it is formidable. He took
the oil business when in its infancy,
and by doing that which Wade did
with the telegraph, and Gould and
Vanderbilt with the railroads, he kept
control of the world’s market in h s
own hands, and made prices or un-
made them as he chose. And y t
with all the so -res ofcoiumns that have
been published for and against the
Standard, there have never been, to
my knowledge, an adequate aztem-,it
made to describe the man Rickefeller
in his own personality, or to dispels
sionately sketch him as he appears to
those who know him best.

It is generally understood that he
had not. a happy boyhood, and it is
certainly known that he commenced
life w-ihout the lift of a h'l.Ild or the
loan of a dollar from any man. His
advent from the commission business
into oil has been told again and again,
and with it has been sketched the out-

ide history of the Standard, and such
meager portions of the outside history
as could be obtained. Mr. Rockefeller
in size is a little above the medium,
oeing neither thick-set nor spuare, a
tnonde of the quiet order. wearing no
whiskers, and having alight mus-
tache. Hei- a peculiar-looking man
in one respect, in that his eyes so
more than his face. and nelLh- r tel H
anything that their possessor does not
want known. He wears a very quiet
manner and is courteous to every body
with whom he comes in contact
Long before his present wealth was ob-
tained, or even dreamed of, he was
married to Miss Lucy Soellman, a
teacher in the Cleveland public schools.
and a woman of high culture, beauti-
ful face and engaging manner. She
was a daughter of H. B. Spellman, a
temperance worker of no little renown
some years ago, and closely indenti-
flt‘d with the late William E. Dodge
of New York in many good w irks,
Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller have
been blessed with three daughters, and
one son, ranging from 16 to 7 years of
age.

Mr. Rockefeller is a member of the
r-lecond Baptist Church, located 01
Euclid Avewue. and presided over by
a minister of sensatianal tendencies.
He is superintendent of the Sunday
s4«:h00l, as he has been for many
years, and is always present when in
tne city. Mrs. Rockefeller is also in
charge of the infant department. To-

ether they are two of the s:aunc..
pillars of the church, and whenever
anything l- to be done for the Bap
List. denomination in any part of the
country, the president of the Standard
is me flrsl. man called upon. He is
one of the trustees of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union that is
making «he presentlemperance fight
in Ouio, and has furnished as much
money toward the campaign
as any livlngman. But he is thorough
hus.ness in big donations, and goe.-_on
a theory of his own. H4 does not give
f.::.eve-ryinzng that comes along, nor

just to get rid ofan applicant. He
tifikfi close questions and looks into
the merits of each case.

This is the social and home-like side
ofthe Standard prlrwo. lli-a business
side is another. \-Vh:-u H» matches
his skill in the market. nu:-inst that
of another man or combination of
men he is relentless cold and deter-
mined. Hls success has come through
the buylngout, wearing out, crushing
out of competitors; but theolalm is
set up by his friends that he never
moved agalnsta man with thenurpose
of war until he had first Ofll-‘Pl-d to
take that man’s business and property
otfhls hands at a fair and generous
valuation

Mr. Rockefeller has kept himself
away from the public as much as
possible He takes no part in politics
and his name is never seen among the
delegates at any convention or in the
lists of honoray vice presidents of po-
litlcalmaes meeting He keeps his
doors closed to interviewers nu-l re-
porters, and never goes into , riot to
explain or answer anyih-i ,1. He is
seldom seen on the business streets,
and his face is known to a smaller
number of Cleveland people than that
of any man whose prominence in
wealth and activity equals his own.

A compassionate Politician.

A politician, when he wants a cer-
tain place for one of his henchmen, is
no more reluctant to turn out its oc-
cupant than Cooley Khan, of Bengal,
was to put a live out in the breaches of
anon-paying tenant. There are how-
ever, exceptions to all rules and the
autobiography of Thurlow Weed shows
that he was an excellent politician. In
1861, a number of New York merchants
asked Mr. Weed to secure a consular
appointment for a veteran clerk who,
being an Eiiglishimm, wanted to go
home to end his days there. He savs:

Mr. Seward requested his son Fred-
erick,tl1c assistant secretary, to find a
place for him. I went to the depart-
ment with Frederick, and in looking
over his consular register carefully, his
eye finally rested upon Falmoufh,
where, upon exalllillatioli, he found
that the consul vvas an En lislun-.m,
and had held the ofllce morct .-.n twen-
ty years.

It was decided, therefore, that one
Englishniuii should give place to an-
other, that other being an American-
ized Eliglislirnaii.

I reported this determination to the
secretary, who immediately sent my
friend’s name to the president, and
when the messenger returned with Mr.
Lincoln’s approval, Mr. llunter, the
chief clerk, was directed to fill up the
commission and obtain the pi-esidcnt’s
signature in time for me to take it to
New York that afternoon.

Between 4 and 5 o'clock 1*. M.. I went
to Mr. Hunter for the commission,
which lay before him on his desk. He
rose soniewlmt (leliliclutely (us was his
mzuincr), Look the commission in his
hand and delivered it to me without
speaking, but with evident 1'cl11<-,fan¢-c.

I said, “ls it all right, Mr. Hunter?’
He replied:

“I have obeyed oz dcrs.”

"But,” I added, “you do not seem
pleased. Is there miytlling wrong
about the zippoiiitnil-lit?”

“l have nothing to say about the ap-
pointment, hut l have never dischnrgefl
a duty since 1 came into lll(‘.llt‘})a.l‘lL-
merit with so much regret.” lle said:

“The first conimissiou that I filled
out ‘when I came into this oflice, twen-
ty—six years ago, was for Mr. Fox. our
consul at I*‘alu1outh, who slictzeedl-ll his
then recently deceased futlier, who re-
ceived his appointment from President
Washin fun.

“The (,on:‘-iular accounts of Mr. Fox
are as neatly and accurately kept as
those of Gen. Wuslliugton during the
Revolution. 1 think he is the best
Consul in the service of the Govern-
mi-nt. You will judge, there-fore,
whether the 1‘e1nov:ll of such it Consul
is not calculated to occu:-‘ion rcgl'cf.."

When he finished, while he stood
looking at me with his pen in his hand,
I deliberately tore the commission into
strips, threw them into the vvuste paper
basket, and left the department for the
cars.

VVlien I explained in New York what
had occurred at Wusliingtcn, it Was
approved, not only by the gentleman
who had asked me to interest myself,
but by the applicant himself.

TIIE disputatious brother in the
Grange sends in his complaint. There
arescveral of him, such with :1 com-
plaint. He says, “ I think it unkind
to find fault with a member of the
Grange who tries ti correct what is
going wrong.” Why yes, to be sure, it
does have the appearance of unkind-
ness, when mere fault-finding is the
purpose of criticism, but the whole
life of the disputatious brother is un-
kind. He vcxes his fellows. be dis-
turbs the serenity on every accasion, he
is a severe trial to those whose lives he
attempts to regulate-,bv a standard not
squared by the golden rule. No.-—
there is no unkindness in pointing out
his offensive manner. He must review
his own life and make an effort to reg-
ulate it by hilanthropic sentiment.
While he Sen 3 in his complaint he is
not the only one who has offered,
comment on the description His long
suffering fellows have sent in expres-
sions of thanks for the remarks that
single him out as an offensive creature.
It appears he has his exsistence in
many Gr-anges, and in each he is an el-
ement of discord. Will he, in the future
try that introspection which is needed
to give him true understanding of his
foible; then tr to conform to the un-
written law which makes him but an
equal integral part of the b0d\ he dis-
turbs? Then he will assume less
prominence as a perpetual re ulator.
Eldigm the Husbandman, lmfra

If they persist in making an at-
tempt to hold on lo the millions of
acres to which they have no legal
claim they may arouse 1 public senti-
ment that will not rest satisfied with
a restoration of the acres that have
been illegally acquired, but will de.
mano that every foot of land given to
the railroad shall be "restored to the
people.
the V’ will not foolishly provoke a con.
fee ,that ifonce begun, there in rn ten-
ing where it will end.—In‘.sh World.

 

Among the barbarisms of the 19th.
century which will excite the surprise
and almost the incredulity of tlw 20th
slavery. land monoply, and ....vat,§
ownership of rail highwy.yg,— ihpel,-a
(Kansas) Am‘i-monopolist 1

Ifthe railroad kings are wise’

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S   illlllllfi’ flepalllniuit.

you are startled with the fact that he

JANUARY 1, 1884.

1 THE OLD READING cuss.
WILL casrxroiv.

I cannot tell you, Genevieve, how oft it comes
to me-
That rath-~r young old reading class in Dis-
trict Number ‘Ihree,
That row of elocutioniste who stood so straight

in me,
And charged at standard literature with
amiable design. ,
We did not spare the energy in which our
words were c ad;
We gave the meining of the text by all the
light we had:
But still, I fear, the ones who wrote the lines
we read so free
Would scarce have recognized their work in
District Number Three.

Outside, the snow was smooth and clean-
the Winter's thick-laid dust; ,
The storm it made the windows speak at
every sudden gust;
Bright sleigh-bells threw us pleasant words
when travelers would pass; _ _
The maple-trees along the road stood shivering
in their class;
Beyond. the white-browed cottages
nestling cold and dumb,
And far away the mighty world seemed
beckoning us to come-
The wonderrus world, of which we conned
what had been and might be, _ _
In that old-fashioned reading-class of District
Number Three.

We took a hand at History—its altar!
spires and flames—— _
Lnd uniformly inispronounced the most im-
portant names: _
We wandered through Biography, and gave
our fancy play. '
d with some subjects fell in love--“good
only for one da
In Romance and
man apoint,
And m 6 what poems we assailed to creak
at every joint; _
And many authors that we love, you with
me Will flrgr°°y , _ _
Were first time introduced to us in District
Number Thiee.

W8l’6

'1
Philosophy we settled

You recollect Susanna Smith. tha t°80h°l"8
sore distress,
Who never stopped at any pane-8 801$ Of
day express? .
And timid young Sylvester Jones, of incon-
sistent sight,
Who stumbled on the easy words, and read
the hard ones right? '
And Jennie Green, whose doleful voice was
always clothed in black?
And Samuel Hicks, whose tones induced the
plastering all to crack?
And Andrew Tubbs, whose various months
were quite a show to see? _
Llasl we can not find them now in District
Number Three.

AndJasper Ienckes, whose tears would fiow
at each pathetic word,
(He's in the prize-fighting business now, and
bits them hard, I've heard;)
And Benny Bayne, whose every tone he
murmered as in fear, _
tflis tongue is not so timid now; he is an
auctioneer-;) . _
And Lanty Wood, whose voice was just on-
deavoring hard to change, _ .
And leaped from hoarse to fiercely shrill with
most surpassing range:
Also his sister Mary Jane.
prudish glee.
Alas! they're both in higher schools than
District Number Three.

so full of

So back these various voices come, though
long the years have grown.

And sound uncommonly distinct through
memory's telephone;

And some are full of melody, and bring a
sense of cheer,

And some can smite the rock of time, and
summon forth a tear;

But one sweet voice comes back to me
whenever sad I grieve, _

And sings a song, and that is yours, 0 peer-
less Geneveive!

It brightens up the olden times, and throws.
a smile on ine-

A silver star amid the clouds of District
Number Three.

—-Harper.

 

Dear Nicces and Nephews.-—I once
heard a temperance lecturer say when
asked if he. really believed the -.r.-ii-
perance V.'Ul'l{i'.-‘F: would Sl1CC€8‘.l in
their attempt :,n .-xieriniiute intein-
perance; “Succeed, of course we will
succeed! Have we not hundreds of
thousands of boys on our side? What
can withstand such an army?

Do you hear that boys? It is you
who count in this grand army. On
3. on they depend for success.

Perhaps he thought. the girls were an
uniniportant: factor, as he did not men-
tlhgzn them, but I do not, and I want to
say to you, both boys and girls, that
whatever your interest in this prob-
lem that so many are endeavoring
to solve, it is a legacy that will be
left you by your fathers unsolved.
Prepare yourselves for the struggle,
lirnr at no distant day it will rest with

has disappeared. you kick the dog,
vow vengeance on Mr. Woodchuck,
and, go back to the house. You are
met by the small boy, who has been
viewing proceedings from the top of
the gate post, and he blandly says,
“have you got him,” for an answer
he is told to mind his business, and
go to piling that wood, as he was ti-ld,
and not to be caught fooling his time
away like that again.
As the spring days brighten into
summer, the woodchuck grows in
proportion. He is no longer one, his
family numbers perhaps a score. He
has thrown up several wagon loads of
dirt in the meadow, has whipped out
all the dogs in the neighborhood, is
minus one foot, and has a trap or
two upon the others that remain. He is
“monarch of all he surveys.” When
in the haying time in June you mow
into several volcanoes of sand and
gravel, break half a dozen sections,
you wish every woodchuck was in
the torrid regions. You follow and
hunt him most persistently, for you
are bound to have him, and in the
fall you succeed, and Mr. Woodchuck
has '0 give up, and in figuring up
your account with him it stands some-
lhing as follows:

To six mowing machine sections . . . . . . . . _
Damages done to wheat and clover. . . . . -90
Powder and shot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
81.25

15

60

By one scalp...............

To balance.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
NED MAYO.

The Use of the Hours.

Some one says “The hours perish
and are laid to our charge; by perse-
verance the very odds and ends of
time may be worked into results of the
greatest value.

H

sinks so early in the west, that many 8

now have more time away from their
daily pursuits than they do at other
times of the year. A large number
of us are away from the literary socie-
ties, temperance lodges and lectuiee
s.: enjoyable and instructive; but have
as much spare time as would be cc-
cupied in preparing for and attending
them, that might be profitably used 5
in numerous ways of which I will
mention a few.
The reading of travels would make t
one more acquainted with the differ-
ent parts of the earth. The history
of foreign nations, their laws, customs
and religious worship for the past and
present. would be interesting to some;
but that which seems the most essen-
tial for the public in genteel, is a more
thorough knowledge of the topics of
the day. A long list of vital ques-
tions are now awaiting solutivii at
the ballot box, but to be brief, I will
only name prohibition or license, pro-
tection and free trade and woman’s

t

voters need tobe able to cast their
votes understandingly as to what they
are voting for and against. The
strength of the liquor lrulfic is the
law protecting it and do you wish to
be a supporter of a law that he.ps to
destroy the peace of our homes? that
fills out almehouses and prisons with
occupants?
The sentiment of the ballot has
given free trade an advantage to the
English who will sell cheap until our
maniifactories are silent; then sells
for what they can extort. Are you an
upholder of a law that is against your
own country’s interest? ‘f
The law estimates wom«3n’s judg-

ment unqualified to represent the bal-
loi”. Therefore, she is seenilllgly be-

no interest in our government and
never will have; but ihanks to Him '1
who will prove truth and r gilt con-
querors over all :ucb narrow-minded
prejudice, for this movement for wom-
an’s suffrage is making progress in

you alone.

Welcome Annabel, and many
tliauks for your temperance article.
No, the waste basket is not for such
w-mis as yours. May your noble re-
solve to work for temperance be ad-
liered to and may success crown your
-aincst efl'oi ts.

I hope to hear from all the nieces
ails} nephews soon. AUNT PRUE.

The Woodchuck.

'I‘h—.: full-.>~ing is a three minute
speech delivered by one of the young-
est members of Battle Creek Grange,
..\*:;. .66: ‘

Worthy Master.-—I'he subject that
I have oh man is one that I have
never heard discussed inside of
Gr«nge halls. Still it is one of great
importance, especially to the small
boy and dog, viz. the Woodchuck.

Some warm day in spring you hap-
pen tolook down the meadow fence,
and you see him lying out in the sun

enjoying himself to his heart's con-
tent. You tear into the house, load

presidency of these U:1itedStates; not
long after, each home will be repres-
ented by a ballot or ballots for the
election ofa person to fill this high
position and each voter ,ought to so
educate his views, that he may cast
his ballot for amen who persoiiates a
platform of principles,
purify, protect and elevate the home.

bands and fathers if they have made
any provision for the leisure time of
their families which these long win-
ter evenings will give in the shape of
such reading matter as will not weak-
era but rather strengthen their intel-

our land, and it would be well for
woman to be improving her leisure
moments, in preparing for the new
responsibilities and opportunities
awaiting her.

There is al:o another reason why

in study of the qll"Stl0n% effecting the
nation’s interest.

Six months hence, conventions will
be called to select candidates for the

“-

th
th

which ‘will .
in

In conclusion, I would ask the hue-

80

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the shotgun with buck shot, call the
dog and with blood ll.I your eye start
for that tarnal woodchiicz. You go
around the barn and down the lane
dog in one hand, and gun in the
other. You crawl on your hands and
knots -100: 60 rods, you are wet to the
skin and coverul with mud to the
waist. When you raise up for a shot

lects, thereby aiding them to gain a
practical education, making each home
abranch corner stone of the nation
and a supporter of the highest inter-
ests of humanity.

the only educational institution in
the
-excluded.

Su

AGGIE E. SIMMONS.

 
 

THE State Agricultiir:-il Cillege is

State from which girls are

out once wetting her dainty feet,
do next?” a-ked restless Susie.

the hill and find where the
gins.
thinks I ain,t big enough;

asked her.”

eagerly, and off they started, h‘tLld in
hand at firs:/but they soon found they
each needed two hands to catch hold
of the bush»-s and projecting rocks, as
they climbed np the hill close by the
little bed of the brook. Up and up they
went; it was pretty tiresome but there
was fun in it, for the white kitten rail
iiimblv ahead and kept stopping for
thein,and the brook seemed to laugh
out loud as it danced merrily to meet
them.

mile? ” aeked Susie at last, winding
her arms around a young birch tree,
while she stopped to take breath.

I guess,” said Benny. ' See there's our
chimney down,there, and smoke going
out. Mother,s making pies.”

claimed; and, as she pushed around a
thick briery bush there was the white
kitten waiting for them just ahead,
and there at last was the bubbling
spring gushing from the rocks,
birthplace of their brook.

and drink some water
bending down to do it

During the winter season the sun 9"’ brlerflv" Cried Susie» SWUSEHDS 39

reached out to catch at her, and she
couldn’t get away

his hands scratched; and, when Susi-:

curls, so that she could not move away
any more without her hair being
pulled. This was too discouraging, and
she began to cry.

at the top 0. the home chimney below.
loud as he could, but the wind blew

up hill instead ofclown. Then he said
he would go home and tell her to
come.

dare to be left alone; there might he
hears among the trees, or a snake.
Don't

wish I had some scissors or a knife,
aniyhow. I'm big enough.”

they wondered what they should do.
Would they have to 0 without dinner
or supper? Would t

all night there on the

- , - , - tliirty—tli1'ee ceilts.,' “llurhig the will-

3l1fi'F589- _ $51?:‘a%e?g3llm:{:ur§£g?ilgIteS€V$?: tcr four hundred vessels lily 111

Why need the people more in- kmengmbbed g,‘;%nst’hel_ and purwd“ .\'l-w York ll2ll'l)()l', the <i‘.‘.'1it:1‘S plead-

formation upon these questions? bu, it could notchelg her. Yes‘ it co,uld_  wlheiitfiteyeii at 1-i}ll'lUllSly low

Because law is the sentiment iéelp hell A_ bfjighti ea flashed through . In léthepigvofds, farmfls sold their
expressed by the ba.lot, and the BHDYS 111111 -

“Let’s send a note to mamma by kitty!
he exclaimed. “I've got some paper in
my pocket and a little stub end of a
pencil. and Ican print!”

with great interest while Benny slowly
printed these words on a torn slip of
paper:

lid in u BRiRe

his pocket,
the whit: kitte-n’s neck. VVhen that
was done, he turned her head down
the hill toward home, and clapping
his hands at her said in dreadful tones:

the hill, and was quickly out of sight
with a sigh of relief.
had thought of something else.

neath the ignorant foreigner who has now; he S“l‘5li and “gal” he 51°V"l.V
' penned on another ragged slip:

bark, and launched it down the little
rumbling stream, which carried it
swiftly out of sight.

. N0w_ sheiueome pretty S.-mnyn he was used in resringtgrand palaces,
sai-J, sitting down in perfect faith to ffflterlng 3“ and klumg P"lm°’*l
w,,;,-_ liberty.

morning, and tr-en she baked pies and
made cookies before she had time to
think much about them. Then she
stepped to the door to see how they

. were ettin lon , aiile ll 1 th - “P“c"”"’e.””’ in mi“ °r .th’”“"nd by
the publicshould use the spare h~r.-urs but -,§,,,,, w§,:n0§,.,sW;,._ 8‘ 8‘ em’ humbugging ihe publlc generally.

she asked, looking down; and then she
spied the note tied around the vvllite

furry neck. She took it off and read Ow‘ m D““"'c”m" i”5t”""5'n9- If
the blurred words, govornmeii: by the people}, file’ the
,,De’R MaMa We aiR no heRe people is to live. then thi- ‘rlitllly

TangLID in a BR.iRe Bush. Cum.

nail and started, but
which way to go.

birch hark raft, with a piece of paper
pinned to it which was too wet to read;
butit told her all she wanted to know,
for now it was plain that they had

Soshe started swiftly to the hills
pushing the bushes aside, with the lit-
tle white kitten running before her;

even a quarter,that the little ones had
gone, she soon reached the spot where

the brierbush and Benny sat patiently
waiting at her side.

Was there ever atangle that a mam-
ma would not set‘. right? Gentl and
skilfully, she freed first the cur s and
then the little dress and then with her
light hearted girl and boy followed
the stream back again Just in time
to meet Papa as he came to dinner.
Selected.

 

TEE GRANGE V15 ITDB.

How Benny Sent Notes to lamina. “A Corner."

Out in a part of the country where
it is very hilly there stands a red house
at the foot of a steep hill whose side is
covered with birch and pine trees and
a thick under-growth of brush. In
that house lived two little children,
and what do you think they did one

and then, Wllh headings

the Chicago Exchange; the
Corner all gone to pieces.”

,1; ? when they hear of this kind

Their mama was busy baking, and
they went to lay by the little brook
in the yard. h~y were making ii
bridge of stones there and that morn-
ing flushed it. Then Su.=iie’s white kit-
ten tried it, and stepped across with-

the Spt:(:ul;tti)1's right."
But what is ii Come.

"Now that's done and wbat’ll we the

“I know‘)! said Benny; uktis go up the fall Of man.
1-rook be
It’s hard climbing, and mother
but I’m
bigger now than I was the last time I

rope, about 1635.

“Well let's go tten,” said Susie,

in lid 6.

dred pounds.

and fifty pounds.
not want the tulip;
lating. Nor
bulbs, or expect to have any,
too, u'a.~i a speciilzltor.

October 1, the ll()l)lel1litll

“Haven;t we gone as much as a

“ No, not more than three quarters.

ed if the con
and that eiidcd the trziiisactloii.
bulb had been worth on October the
first 250 pounds, the nobleinan
would have i'ccoveredllft_v pounds and

“0h,then let's hurry!” Susie ex

amount-. ‘A corner lll bulbs was made
when a dezller would slip over to Hol-
lziiid, ascertaiii how Illlllly of the bulbs
(for wliich,zit that date, there was the
largest defllillltl) were ill existence, buy
as inaily of them as he could, and keep
them out of the market until he lizid
created an artificial scarcity. Then the
price rose and he would sell.

The tulip comer was coiiipiirlitively
iiiiioceiit, because tulips are not one
of the lll‘CSS&tl'l€S of life. But what;
shall we say of Et(J01'llel‘lll pork, in corn,
in oil, in wllczit, lll outs, lll potatoes?
What shall we say of iiiillioiiaims who
by ‘(L system of lies made all poor wid-
ow pay it dollar and fifty cents more
for her winter barrel of flour them it
is fairly worth 1‘

Take, for example, the Wheat corner
of 1879, descrilied by Mr. Henry D.
Lloyd in the North American Review
Afew very rich men put their lieads
and their millions of dollars together
to buy a. mountain of wheat, First
they got fifty articles published in the
papers predicting low pi'ices—very low
prices. 'l‘elegi':i.ins from various mark-
ets of Europe appeared, all Spektklllg
of tie immense quantity of wheat
coming forward, The speculators
sold even a million bushels or so at
low rates. At length when they have
bought from twenty to fifty millions
of bushels, they stop selling except at
it price which no legitiiiiate buyer can
afford to pay, Read what Mr. Lloyd
says about it. “The price was run
dowii to eight '-one and a half cents
per bushel. \ lien all the wlieat a.iid
coiiti‘-acts to be had were obtainl-ll the
price was raised one dollar and

the

"Oh. Susie, make a cup of your hand
” said Benny,
imself.
"I can’t; I can’t! I am caught in

he spoke to disengage herself; but it
eeme-I as if every thorn on the bushe-

Benny ran to help her. but only got.

urned her head, the briers caught her

“Oh, dear! I wish mama was here,”
aid Benny, looking wistfullv down

“Mammal mammal” he shouted as

be wrong way, and carried the shout

"Oh no, no!” begged Susie. “I don’t

0, Benny.”
“We 1, I won’t,"said Benny; “but I

hen, he sat down by Susie. and

cg have to stay
ill?

“Oh, I am so tired!” said Susie, mov-

wbeat at losing prices, poor men paid
high prices for their flour, ship owners
suffered serious loss, and all interests
suffered, in order that six graspin
merciless men might make two mi
lions dollars eat.-li.

We should like to bea. king for about
half an hour just to place such specu-
lators where they would do their coun-
try most good. lliippily their corner-
iiigs often corner them, and their ill
gotten millions are gone in it click.
of the tel<=.gi'2ipb.—- Youthisi Oonzpanion

Susie stopped crying, and watched

“DeeR MaMa We aiR up here Tang-
Bush. Cuinl’,
Then he found a piece of string in
and tied the note around

 

Monopoly Must go.
When Herbert Sglciicer *.‘:'.‘i~5 in this
country last year, he sail ilfll r‘.-_=.»ued
that the f_-te of the Italiaii R9;)ubiicg
of the middle age.-:wou1.1 9., on,»-,._
While: W‘.“lli.l.l is l'_2‘JZ‘r.‘B.5lEl{ wE‘."i mar-
velon-l rapidity, argue-i bc, ii" is accii
inulaling in his l.l.:['lllS of 9. few, and
these few are enslaviug the many.
The spirit of‘ monopoly lost Venice
and Go;-nos their freedom. Their mer-
chants got up “corners” in the c arty-
iug trade of the world, and amassed
enormous fortune.-s thereby.
Th-» patriotism of the masses were
played upon in the interest of these
“corners.” The wealth so acquired

“Scat! boat!”
The frightened kitten darted down

mong the bushes‘
‘Ni.-w,mamina WlllC0l1'lt‘l"S‘.:l(lSuSlP,
But Benny

“I'm going to send a letter in a boat

,‘De«R MaMa We aiR up helte
‘ac-gILD in a BRiRe. Cum.
This he fastened to 9. piece of birch-

Are we not witnessing the same
process here? Our millioners have al-
ready grown into a good-.-ize regimen t.
The majority of them have made
their money in watering :-stock, getting

Their mamma baked her bread that

Some of them are already ("Xl.')(.‘3'l.."3 in
buyingiip legislators and prmy i;,-.:l-
ventious, and even v:>ter.~:.

The Clillfll-t'(l wealth which privileg-
es and monopolies created i- ds-.ng-:r-

The wind blew in her face, and the
h":e kirten rubbed against her feet.
“Where are the children, kittie'.”’

must be zealously kep wlzhéii narrow
bounds. The party which ll.‘.’.:-.4 l‘Ull'(I
the nation for more than lweillyye.ers
is responsible for the sirenglh which
monopoly has attained. That party
mu.-t be ihrusl; from power if Amen
can freedon is to continue it reality,
and not the empty shell to which
Italian freedom was reduced_——N_ Y.
World.

She caught her sunbon net of}? the
hardly knew
They were up
e hill, of course; but she might miss
em. As she stood irressolute, right.
sight down the brook came the little

It is rather a matter of congratula-
tion that the very rich Senatois are
reported to be extremely disgusted
wiili the positions assigned them on
the committees of the Senate. They
had no sort of pretense in experience,
public service, or special knowledge
to more important positions. But
they seemed to have imagined that
their riches entitled them to some
special consideration,and it is well that
t is imagination should be dispelled.
In the far West it has become so much
amatter of course that the Senator-
ships should go to the richest men in
the State who care about it that an
election to the Senate has several times

ne along by the brook.

d, as it w s not nearly a mile, nor

sie stood weeping in the grasp of

The newspapers startle us all. now
' such as
“Disastrous Corner in Lard.” “Terrible
Break in the Oil Corner.” “Frenzy in
rest Pork
Iigli prin-
cipled men do not cry their eyes out
of disas-
ter. Some men even smile, rub their
hands, utter exclainations of pleasure,
and express the opinion that "it serves

‘B Let us go back
to the origin of the thing, like the old
12tSlllUIl8dil.l.ll'.ll0l'S Wl.l0,Wllell they wrote
“ History of the Isle of Dogs,” be
gun with the creation of the world and

Corners appear to have been invented
at the time of the tulip mania in Eu-
When the tulip was
iiitroduced into the iiortherii regions of
Europe, about the the year 16041, it ex-
cited tlie liveliest zidniiration for the
brillialicy and viuiety of its colors. The
price of rare bulbs rose every Seitsoll,
until several varieties were worth their
weight in gold, Then the trade degen-
erated lllLi) guiubliiig, zlllll corners were
For iiistziilce ii. great lord
would order April 1, a bulb of fashion-
able species to be delivered to him on
October 1, the price then tobe two hun-
When October first arriv-
ed the ruling price was one hundred
The great lord did
he was only specu-
did the seller have any
for lie,
Accordingly on

paid him the
250 pounds wllicli he would have clear-
lapict had involved a reality
if the

the speculator would have lost that

printed

pfirl) p0

the one 0

see how
the great

nopoly.
States, a
and out t
grower;

millions
crushing

buy up
immense

.-abusing
their exi

the State

q iiestion

similar 11

ting into
islatures
ers and,

A3“. S9
and vote

who may

l‘l.'lV.‘: a

President

no doubt

time. Al
is watch

tunity thi

An artic=e on silk

a stumblin
try which
taken occasion to discuss. The writer '
finds that the
obli ed to bring from Europe skilled S Pm” Y‘
wor men at high wages because a large
proportion of Amezicaus refuse to give
two years to learninga trade at which
they are sure of earning acomfortable
livelihood for the rest of their lives.
It is tothe general decay of appren-
ticeship system that we have to at-
tribute much that is dangerous and ex-
travagant in social t ndenciee and
trade management. American
too seldom choose to take up ii respecta-
ble trade in the thorough manner that
makes both the occupation and them
selves honorable. They ropose with-  4-  - -
out consideration of abi lty to enter
the profession or to become immedia-
tely rich men——m be, in short, "as good
as any body.” '1 hey pass through the
public schools, and are a t
half-taught, shallow an
with no p
work of life.
Those who have the sound sense to
see how much better is a‘ good trade
than a precarious scramble for bread
find too often that the unions stand in
the way. Meanwhile the foreigner who
has thoroughly studied his work steps
into factory and shop, takes the remu-

yields his ambitions
through sham work in a tiade for
which he has had no proper training,
and in which for him there is little
possibilitY of rising from workman to
master. The most cheerful
cannot but perceive and lament the
growingspirit of contempt for good
manual labor, and the ignorant asump-
tion,cheap “smartness” and dishon-
esty that are the inevitable outcome of
that spirit.

fearless in the cause ofjustice;
slble, a man from amongy wirselves.

have blundei-ed
work has

very circumspect‘,

gl’0'.lIl|.l this winter.
opinion that the Democratic tendency
to blunder will assert

Boys and Trades.

the Tribune has befor

manufacturers

nerative laces, and thrives as indus-
try and nowledge always thri~e.
The American presently, perhaps,

optimist

 

Monopoly.

Iv is not within the province of the
Rural New Yorker to take ,-iirt iii any

mice. or to influence our

readers to vote for the candidates of

r the other political factions,

but we do take it upon ou rsel.ve.-i to ad-
vise our friends that it is best to fully
understand the position upon which
candidates running
stand, before casting their vote-; to

for office may

they may stand regarding
quesiion which is agitating

the people to—day, viz., that of mo-

Capitalists are taking up millions of
acres of grazing land in the Western

nd stocking them with im-

mense herds, thereby crowding down

he more un pretentious stock
corporations are investing
in special industries, and
out, by the power of money,

all sttem ts at competition; railroads

ongressmen to grant them
tracts oi land, and then they

bleed their patrons by charging ex
tortionate rates, and in other ways

the public, who gave them
stence. The Northern Pa

cific railroad was granted 42,000,000
acres, a tract seven times as lar eas

of Massachusetts, the sa e of

which will probably pay the expenses
of the road.

There is, however, no
as to whether the N orthern

Pacific will be run in the interests of
the corporation, or the public.
great monopolies, and others of in

These

ature, control with a hand of

iron many thousands of laborers, sup-
press all legul attempts at competition,
and aim to control legislation and the
rights of men.
evil can only beaccomplished by put-

The reduction of this

the National and State leg,-
righteous minded law-mak-
electing to all judicial and

executive offices men who will hon-
estly enforce the laws. Today there
are by far too many National and
State ofiice-holders, who are nothing
more or less than tho» paid work rs of
monopoly.

we say. fai‘..riei'.-.', be careful,
for the right man, it man
if pos-

repressili in ti. fitting man-

ner the interests of agriculture and
the community at large‘.

   

We think it is the intention of the
D-.-mocrat majority

_ _ in Congress to
quiet unimportant session.

Her: ofore when ever they have at
temp-‘ml to mzinut.-i«::-.lure tiiuiider fora

ial campaign in Congress they
terribly, and their
reacted on them. It will
be their aim this time to be
and not loose any
But we are of the

itself in good
ltlle Republicans have to do
and wait. Democratic in-

discretion will be Republican oppor-

 time as l1t:l'ei30f0l'8.-- West

Point (Neb) Republican.

  

5 sizes. Worked by
. two llIf‘D. Stands on
‘Q/' runners. Price $35 to
r. I
‘.21. . '0

_ _, Si _
H. L. BENNETT, Westerville, Ohio.

LUQIUS
an Kl Foreign

1:A.'1'E1\I TS.

C. WEST, Solicitor of American
Patents, and Counsellor in Patent

Causes. Trade Marks, Copyrights, Assign-

ments, Caveats, am
Circulars free.

aprltf

Mechanical Drawings.
16 Portage street,
KALAMAZO0, MICE.

FOOLISH WOMEN.

shoiild

N B.—Every woman,

Those suffering from

complaints peculiar to
their
daily becoming more
than erous and more
firm y seated, yet who

sex, which are

neglect to use, or
even to learn about
Zoa~ Phora. — Woman's
Friend.
For proof of its merit,
- address,

R. PENGELLY dz Co.,
123 W. Main St...
Kalamazoo,
Mich.

sickly or healthy,

read Dr. Pengelly‘s book, "Adviee to

Mothers." Free to any lady. Postage in sealed

envelope, «to.

had ve much the pearan f
auctioii.y—.N. Y. until. 06 0 an

In

nd stamps for Na: laws.

 éoorany disability; also to Eelrl.
‘FRESH

manufactures 
in another column deals with 1
g-block to American indus- 5

are I

boys

to emerge
inefficient
reparation for the practical

and shambles

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No. 5 leaves Cincinnati and No 8 leaves Mackinaw
City daily, l‘X(‘(‘pl. Siltiirilzsy.
except Siiill -y. .
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gig‘) Woodriill-llwvplng '-IF-4'11! NU‘ 7
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between 013

and ll between
A. ll. LEl:.“I‘,
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between Ohicago and Port Hllllbllrongh din".

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

The Manistee District Pomona
Grange, No. 21, will hold its next
regular meeting at Cleon, Maoist-e
oounly, January 8, 1884. The election
of oflcers will take place. All mem-
here of the Orde.v -vecordially invited.

Yours flu’--rnally,
GEORGL ll. TAYLOR, Isec‘y.
Sherman, Dec. 20. 1883.

Washtenaw County Pomona
Gr-nizr-. No. 7, P. of H . will meet
with Salem Grange, Nu. 376, at Salem
Grange hall on “’edueI-«day, January
10, 1884, at 101,‘,-o’Cl0ck A. M.

J. Evarvrs SMITH, Sec’y.
Ypsilanti, Dec. 29. 1883.

A special session of Van Buren
County Grange will be held in Law-
rence on Thursday, January 10.

Open session at 1:30 P. 151., when the
following exercises will be presented:

Essay. Mrs. Wil1'l‘aylor.

Deelamation, Jessie Branch.

Essay, Mrs. H. Christie.

Address, Alfred Jennings.

All fourth degree members are in-
vited. J ASON VVOODMAN, Lect.

Paw Paw, Dec. 29, 1883.

A special meeting of Kalamazoo
county Grange will be held with
Galesburg Grange, N0. 18, on Thurs-
day the tenth of January. The
Grange will be called to order at 10
o’clock A. M. sharp.

It is expected all standing commit-
tees and oflicers will be ready to re-

At2P. M. the doors will be opened
to the public and Worthy Master
Woodman will deliver an adnress and
afterward install the officers of the
county Grange. A good time is an-
ticipated and everybody invited.

J. Q. ADAMS.

Galesburg, Dec. 22d. 138.5.

In the report of the Worthy Lectur-
er, at the late session of the State
Grange, he recommended that “The
Declaration of Purposes” be keptin
stool: for gratuitous distribution. We
are prepared to respond to calls for
this purpose. Send in your orders.

PARSONS’ Business College at Kala-
mazoo is an institution that we can
recommend.

The manufacture of salt in this
state has grown from 4,000 barrels in
1800to 2,882,165 barrels in 1883. The
factory price of salt in Michigan has
gone down from 351,80 per barrel in
1866 to 80 cents per barrel in 1883.

These changes have taken place
undera policy of tarifl protection.——
Grand Travers Herald.

Miss. Frances L. Steward succeeds
(hpt. Spenceras postmaster at Ypsi-
lantl.

Homes : lexas  Arkansas:

Low prices, long credit. Rich agricultural and
gradng lands producing wheat, rye, oats. corn. cotton
‘raises, and all the choice fruits, nr ar schools churches
and railroads. Cheap land excursions every month.

For maps of Texas, Arkansas, Missouri. and Kansas,
with all lnforniatiomaddrer-s J. B. l<‘R..\WLEY, Pan.
and Land Agent Missouri Pacific Ry" Co., 109 Clark
street Chiuigu, ill. or D W. ELLIS, Minneapolis‘, Minn

llle Slale lgllrullulal llnllege.

This institution is thoroughly equipped,hav-
ing a large teaching force: also ample facili-
ties for illustration and manipulation includ-
ing Laboratories, Conservatories. Library,
Museum, Classroom Apparatus, also a large
and well stocked farm.

' FOUR YEARS
are required to complete the course embracing
Chemis , Mathematics. Botany, Zoology,
English ages and Literature, and all
other branches of :1 college course except For-

engrrihloanguages. _

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

RATE S.
Tuition free. Club Boarding.
CALENDAR.

For the year 1883 the terms begin as follows:
Suture 'l‘mur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .February 20
Smnrxa TERM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 22
Auwuxn Tam ............... . .September 4

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

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

BIG 2BE_IlRIES!

The famous

CUTHBERT RED RASPBERRY
And GREGG BLACK CAP RASP-
BERRY. CRESCENT and BID-
WELL STRAWBERRY. and
other SMALL FRUIT PLANTS
FOR SALE.

My plants are very fine. I have money to
raise and must and will sell cheap. Special
bums to Granges, Club-. or combined orders.

Address FRED. LUCIA,

Fluahmg, Michigan.

llIVl.6m

THE CHAMPION OF

THE HOMES AGAINST THE SALOOHS.

“A Mosterly Prohibition Paper."

THE LEVER

J :11 f the United
"'°,...."“““‘...o,,,...T°”?i’t‘3.'i‘.".'é‘3...‘i‘.i'.’fiin§’ion.... The
' Jcarlcss Advocate of the Total Prohibition
of the Drink Trafllc.

Rxunr-Pans, Fll-‘TY-81.! Conuuu, Wniurpr.
Terms..0n1y $1.50 Per Year.
§'Ltberal reduction to clubs. Agents Vented.

lunplotl free. Address,
VAN FLEET cf: LOOMIS,

87 Washington St., Chicago, Ill.

TEN THOUSAND

HARDWOOD

Farms in Michigan.

uuuieby the GRAND RAPIDS & runmxa

_ th princ' timber.
  afrc-.1dyl_g:ilt, numelvdtz
towns cities, one of the healotlgldest pagu of s
W 5*=*...=‘-..:’"..'°.=.:..'.:“:.::..%... 
Gnu xood mm’ blest b’ll_ildinEasl;I’a‘l:rrl.?: gterlzcv:

’ w riccs, .
:gu{“’F§?bi::;}m:§,&hartS, and all additional

‘‘'‘‘‘‘’‘‘‘'‘‘‘°‘‘’ ’‘“'°” w. o. HUG1-IART,

Land Commissioner’ ‘Grand Rapids. Mich.-
lksurrn Rounds, Traveluur 55:98.

1 848-1 884.

WINSLOW & BROOKS.

DEALERS IN

Granite and Marble,

Near L. S &l{. S. Depot, Kalamaaoo.

Our Marble Works were estab-
lished in 1848 and are the largest
in the state, extending along the
east side ofthe L. S. G: M. S. rall-
roud from Main street to Kalama-
looavenue. Our workshop is 218
feet long and was built for the
business. We have the best mu-
chlnery for handling and polish-
ing stone, and we carry the largest
stock and do the best work.

Below are some of those In Kala-
mazoo and adjoining counties who
have recently favored us with their
orders:

KALAIKAZOO.

Hiram Arnold 0. M Allen
Alexander Buell Est. Ethan Allen
Bush & Patterson J. H. Bostwick
Hon. Geo M. Buck J. S. Borden

Chas. H Booth R. Barrett

R, Buckbout W. R. Beebe tic Co
Geo. Bardeen Isaac A. Brown
Hon. S. S.’ Cobb Henry Beckwith
Est. F.W.Curtenius E. A. Carder & Son
Leroy Cahill. Hon. T. S. Cobb
Willard Dodge Est. Samuel Crooks
1:1. H. Everard Est. J. H. Edwards
John Glynn E. Briedman

Rev. W. Gardner Est John Gibbs

L M. Gates Est. R. Gardner
Est. P. Goodrich Est-. Wm. A. House
Fred Hotop Frsnk Henderson
Hon. J. L. Hawes Est. N. Hindes

Dr. l:l.O. Hitchcock Ihlmg Bros

L. Kendall H. Kirkland

Jacob Kiitz W. Meredith
MichInsaneAsv1um Monnt’n Homecem
E. McE1roy H. S. Parker

N. A. Newton Est. H Phelps
Delos Phillips Hon. Allen Potter.
Samuel Pike A. T. Prouty

Hon. J. Parsons Ira Ransom

H. Ralston Dwight St. John

L C. Starkey M. M. Stimson
Jos. Speyer. K. A. Smith

Dr. J. M. Snook. F. B. Stockbridge
Est. J as. Taylor 0. 0. Ty rrell

J. Woodard E-st. Wm. Tali.

H. Wood J. M. White

Geo. Wattles F. W. Wilcox.

RICH LAND.

1'. T. Bingham C. & B Fowler

H. G. Farr G. L. Gllkey

Est. Wm. Oatmau Robt. Stimson
Patrick Shanley M B. Otis.

coon-1:3.
M. M. Bryant Tnos. Blaine
W. S. Delano Cooper Cemetery Co
E. W. Huntley

A. W. Huntley
A. G. Huntley Thos. C. Leener
Mrs. M Simmons

M. J. Noble
A. W. Ashton

ALAMO.
Julius Hackley
John L. Hill

John W. James.
osnrnuo.
Joe. Brown Austin Bnell
Est. Jae. Dewaters A. Crane
John Hobden W. F. Winterburn.

TEXAS.
John Harvey Daniel Bending
Jerome Parsons Wallace Parsons
Est. L. A. Parsons Gilbert Smith.
SCHOOLCRAFT.
Hon. 8. F. Brown Hon. J. T. Cobb
Est John Crose Jav Clark
Est. Dr. W. H. Fox Est. Jesse Cross
W. C. Sidler Horace Kinney
Est. P.V.L. Skinner Est. M. Smith
J cs. 0. Terrill John Sidler
Est. J. S. Thomas Est. Geo. Stuart.
VICKSBUBG

Est. P. A. Beebe Mrs. M. Best
Wm. S. Bair J. W. Darling
Thos. B. Finlay M. Hill
Ives Brothers John Miller
John Mallow Mrs. W. McComsey
S. J. Richardson Hiram Stevens.

PAVILION.
A. Forbush Tudor Fitch
C. Harrison

Est J. Grover
Ss.m’l Knapp

Jas. McKee
E. H. Moon

Y. Schilling
Wm. Webster Geo. Schilling.
O. G. Co. -k

WAKESHMA.
John R. Culp

Est. W. F. Lovin J. N. Mead.

GALESBURG.
F. B. Austin Ezra Beckwith
Est. L. M. Hunt Est. J. N. McClery
Est. 0.Pat-terson Mrs. M. Rogers.
F. W. Ford

AUGUSTA.
‘ Est. G. S. Karcher
Est. W. C. Sabin Mrs. M. A. Wheeler
Mrs. K. Vance Est. G. A. Willson
nalmv country.

0. S. Andrus Mrs. E. Bundv

F. W. Collins L. C. Curtis

Est T.A.DeBei'mer Isaac Fish

H. Fisher Est. W. C. Gazette
Sam’i Harper S. & E. Hall

H. A. Hall jr. Conrad Kahler

C. P. Larabee E. Me-Pharlin

P. McPharlin Est. M. Murphy

. 3.: H Mosher D. B. Pratt

N. T. Parker Jos. Schultz

M. Simpson W. N. Vansvery
Est. G. Williams C. N. Youngs.

ALLEGAN county.

L. Brody Est. E, E, Bovjg :;
Est. J. 0. Bannister B. B. Cronk

S. B. Chase G. H. Compton

R. Doud J. F. Doud

Mrs. M. England Est. E. Field

J. M. Funk Thos. Gilmore
Wm. H. Gordon M. D. L. Hollis
Est. C. V. Huntley S. Huntley

J. A. Est. J. H. Hunt

0. . F. D. Harding
Est. H. B. Isham Est. S. E. Lincoln
John Moored W.V. Orton

S. Montague E. P. Pnndls .
Thou. W. Bouan Est. B. P. Sloan
Jas Stevens Levi Tuttle

Dr. H. H. Stimson Mrs. M. Williams
P. H. Sohuh E. E. Whitney.
G. H. Vreeland Allen M. Wells
VAN HUBER COUNTY.

A. J . Austin D. W. Abrams

S. V. P. Bradt Mrs. L. A. Baxter
Est. L. H. Bentley Chas. Bradt

A. Cadv F. B. Cadv

Edwin Cooley J. H. Conklin

Est. G. W. ComstockDav1d Ferris

B. J. Desenbcrg H. S. Hitchcock
E. J. Hemingway J. Howard

H. H. Hill Est. D. Longcor
Mrs. E. Hinckley Mrs. M. McCarty
Est. Luther Kinney Robt. Moore
Henry Lewis T. S Nesbitt
Est.M.Mergenthaler Robt . Nesbitt
Mrs. E. Sebring Geo. W. Robinson
14.. N. Vanflect D. Stephenson

H. Watkins Mrs. L. A. Warner
M. Woodrufl 1:1. Wharfield

Remember the location and the
firm : Near the Michigan Southern
depot, on Main street and Kala-
nnzooavenue.

Height

GEO. C .WIN§I.0W,
GEO. W. CROOKS.

cords, form the most perfect spring bed

to add suflicient clothing.

The “BEDETTE” is a.

within the reach of all.

M. B. CHURCH “IBEDETTE” CO.,

GRAND RAPIDS, NICICI-1..

---SOLE iununcruaaus or———

66 

Patented June 13, 1882.

This invention supplies a long-felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put away
in a small space when not in use, and yet make a roomy. comfortable bed when wanted. Of
the many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a com-
fortable night's rest can be bad. They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in fact no
bed at all. While THE Bxnnrrn folds into as small space, and is as light as anything can be
made for durability, when set up it furnishes a bed long enough for the largest man, and is as
comfortable to lie upon as the most expensive bed.

It is so constructed that the patent sides, regulated by the patent adjustable tension
The canvas covering is not tacked to the frame,
as on all cots. but is made adju table, so that it can be taken off and
in a few minutes. or easily tightened. should it become loose, at any

It is a perfect spring bed. st ft and easy, without springs or mattress.
it is a complelo bod, without the addition of an

put on again by any one
time, from stretching.
For warm weather
ything; for cold weather it is only necessary

Household Necessity,

And no family, after once using, would be without it. It is simple in its construction, and
not liabl» to ,:'et out of repair. It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed, and the price is

——PRICE:~—

35 inches wide by 65 feet long, 83 50. 30 inches wide by 6; feet long, 83 O0. 27 inches wide
by 4} feet long (cover nor adjustable) 32.50.

For Sale by Furniture Dealers

Everywhere-

nieute, lace the “
Jr.” ‘arm and
don Iinl-laments
yon_d_ all Com-
pcuuou.

I.-EHGEICO.
27&: I29

1'

' -m... N_ E W TO 0 L
season, together v.1l.ili’%prove-,.

Hoes, Cultivators,  .
Hocstk Potatolhggera. : ~

stun Now. I

you are inter-

vreolfer /
mi” / if

1

Alabastino

Is the only preparation based on the
Jroper principles to constitute a dura-
~lt- finish for walls, as is not held on
he war with glue, etc., to decay, but
is a Stone (ement that hardens with
sge, and every additional coat strength-
ens the wall. Is ready for use by ad-
ling hot water, and easily applied by
anyone.

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

For sale by paint dealers everywhere

-lend for circular containing the twelv-
neautiful tints. Manufactured only by
ALABASTINE Cc

M. B. CHUMIH. Manager,
luyl-ti’. Grand Rapids, Mich

JERSEYVILLE, 111., April 25, 1882.
Dr. PENGELLY:

DRAR S1R:——I am more than pleased
with the effect of your Zoe.-l’li:>ra in our
daughter's case. 1 am surprised to see
how she has improved. Sheis gaining
in weight and color, and I think feels
better than she ever did; her nerves
are steady, and the distress she suffered
in her chest is entirely gone. I firmly
believe that Zoa-Pliora is all that has
saved her life.

I am willing you should use my let-
ter, for I_am not afraid to tell what a
wonderful cure your medicine is, and I
would like all who suffer to fr it.

Yours respectfully,
Mus. SA]-IAH RANDOLPH.

I shall always remember gratefully
the good liealtli your medicine has
brought my daughter.

LEWIS RANDOLPH.

N. B.—-This was a case of suppres-
sion. Many a. girl by the use of Zoa-
Phora at the critical period of develop-
ment might be saved from life-long
sufiering and expense.

(Omliuuedfrom last week.)
flow Watc/I Cases are Made.

This process tifinuntifactuie was inven ted
by Jarues Boss, who started in I)ll.\'lll‘.‘.~.~ in
1854, and the Iiicthods and tools llsotl in
milking tilkfie watch (ruse.-‘. are l‘()7C‘l'(‘4i by
paleiits. This is the only wri.c'c}i t-<r.~r nz-ulv
tlrrdrr I/sis p/‘occss. For nizmy yeah‘ the in-
troduction of tlit-se goods was slow, ms in;
to popular prejtidice against “plated" Ln u »» is,
but gradually the public lenriieul that Ilm
Jamar Boar‘ Gold lVcufch (,'a.»'c was not a
(limp gold-washed or electro-plu/oi nrtirle,
but was made of genuiiw _qo(1l pl«m-..- wt‘
stmulard quality and I]ll:€/Elle-8'8. ("arise-it-iitimis
adherence to the deteririixiutimi to make
the best watch case ever put on the market,
and the adoption of every iiuprovcuient
sugguted, has made the .lam.u.~: Boar’ Gold
Watch Cbsc the STANDARD.
In this watch case the parts
most subject to wear—the bow, crown, hinges,
thumb-catches, etc., aremade of sour) com).

nun:

Bend 8 cont ship I. Keystone Watch Cane Factories. Phila-
delphia, l’u., for ha-dune Illustrated Pamphlet showing how
lnncnflc-'uudKeyIhnoWutchCuuuo -ado.

{lb be continued.) 8
German Horse and (low

POWDE RS.

This powder has been in use for many
cars. It is largely used by the farmers oi
ennsyivania, I-no the Patrons of that State

their purchasing agents. Its compt sition ir-
aur secret. The receipt is on every box and
5-pound package. It is made by Dr. L. Ober-
holtz«cr’r Sons & Co., Phoeuixville, Pu. It
keeps stock healthy and in good condition. It
helps to digest and assimilate the food.
Horses will do more work, with leg: fopd
while using it. Cows will give more milk
and bein better condition. It keeps poultry
healthy, and increases the production of age
It is also of great value to them when molt-
lng. It is sold at the lowest wholesale price
by B. E. JAMES, Kannuaoo GEO. W.
HILL Jr 00., 80 Woonnarnon Sun, Dnrnorr,
THOS. MASON, 181 Wu-as S'r., Gmcaoo
and ALBERT STEGEMAN_, Annuals. Put
up in 60-11:. boxes (loose , price Emrrr Cams
per 1b.. 30-" boxes (of 5-11). packages, Txu
Cllrrs pct lb.

POLAND CHINA STOCK

I have at my residence in Porter, Cass Co.
THIRTY HEAD OF‘

PURE BLOOD POLAND CHINA PIGS,

Eligible to registry in 0. P. (7. Record.
Stock for sale at reasonable prices.
respondence solicited. Call or address
CIDEON HEBRON,
CONSTANTINE, St. Joseph Co , Mich.
P. O. Box 300. 1r3nov6m

Cor-

1'1'.sh’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 prepaid; cloth, 50 cents ; leather tucks,
81.00. Postage stamps received.

Address, J. T. Conn, Schoolcraft. or

GEO. T. FISH.
srna, N. Y

Greenwood Stock Farm.

POLAND CHINA SWINE

For Sale at Reasonable Rates.

Pigs in pairs and tries not akin. Breeding
Stock recorded in Ohio Poland China Record.

Parties wishing stock of this kind will tint:
it for their interest to correspond with or visit
me. B. G. BIJELL,

Little Prairie Rondo, Cass Co., Mich.
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tinue to act. as Solicitors for Patents, Caveats Trade
Marks. Colpyrirzhts, for the United States. Canada,
England, ‘rance. Germany, etc. Hand Book about
Patents sent free. Thirt -seven years’ experience.
Patents obtained throne MUNN & C0. arenotlced
In the rlcirmriirro AMI-ll-.l.ICAN, the largest beat, and
most widely circulated scientific paper. 20 a year.
Weekly. Splendid engravings and interesting in-
formation. Specimen copy of the Sch-ntiflc A mer-
Icnn sent free. Address MUNN A Go. scrnxrrno
Annnrcax Olllce. 131 Broadway, New York.

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TTER COOLER

A combina-
, _ tion by which
?T_ all mrmcrscan
make Cream-
er Butter 3!
we I as keep it
in a nice con-
dition until it
is marketed.
It saves two-
thirds the la-
bor. Noiceis
required as it
is strictly a
‘ v ;“' cold water re-
The cream is taken from be top and is
The most complete nrrangernent
Agents

frigeratqr.
clear of sediment.
for the Farner and Dairyman in. existence.
wanted. Send for circular and pr'ce lint.
MCCALL Bx DUNCAN,

laprtr S (‘llOOl(‘lBfl,Li ich.

FENNO & MANNING,

Wu ul llnmlsslnn "Merchanls.

1.17 Federal St., Boston
Con signments Solicited and Cash Advances
Mad: .

JANUARY 1. 1884

$3,uunwor1h”oiPresEdi§
Given llway.

We are offering greater inducements than
ever to people to buy goods, besides reducing
the prices of goods so low that one can’t help
but buy. We offer 9. Present to every one pur-
chasing $4.00 or more from now till March 1st.
We guarantee every person to receive a. Present
of some intrinsic value, and every one will have a
ta.ir chance in the Distribution of the fine ones.
We will now describe some of them, as there are
5,000 in all valued at over $3,000.

ROSEWOOD CASE, VALUED AT- - - - -$6000.00
1 Fine Gold Huntintz Ca.‘-:e Watch $100 00
1 lilegant Swell Box (‘utter ‘
1 Silver Plated Tea Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 [)omestic Sewiilr Macliine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
1 (}<mdKitCl1oIi.Slove- and l5tiI'iiisl1iiig: . . . . . .. . . . .  .. ..
‘l llandsome Bt‘tll'0()lll Set (7 pieces). . . . . .  .. .. . . . . ..
1F'inc I')re.-.-‘ Suit.............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

1 Satin Lined Overcoat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

1 hzuidsorne l)ressiIig (iown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1 Fine Sinokirig Jacket. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

1 Sinoking Jacket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12

1 Tilting Silver Piitlt’ti l’iIt-lier and (‘up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 25

‘.24 Ca.-‘(*:s‘ Silver Plated \Vare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 150

100 Silver Plated Napkin ltin,;r- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 150

"115 Silver l’latetl Butter l)i.<he-‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 75

1'3 Nickel Plated VVatc:ht-.-' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . .. 75

:20 Fine Silver l’Iated C:I.<tm-.- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 150

15 Fine Traveling Bugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 75

6 Fine Trunk.-' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 30

1 Lady’s Gold lluntinu Case Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20

3 Large Silver Plated Cake Stand.-< . . . . . . . . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . .. 40

36 Knit Jersey .Izicket.= . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

1;: Sets Coinb.-' and Brushes in hzindsnmo case.-' . _ . . . . . . . . . . ..
.30 Pair Silk Suspender.-*
‘2 Pair of Pants to order (rnade to tit) . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . ..

$
8

75
65
45
45
25
18
35
20

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And 3,000 other l’r(-sent.-, c0nsi<tir1,tz of Neckties, Suspenders.
Knives. Underwear. Hut.-, U-up.-'. etc... iriakiiig in all over $3.000.

This is no Lottery Scheme of one chance in thousands,
but every Purchaser, as stated, gets a Present as soon as
he makes the purchase. Come and see how fair we work
the scheme, and see the jolly crowd taking away Presents.
Our house is known all over the State for Low Prices and
Square Dealing.

STAR CLOTHING HOUSE,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICE.

1'un1 I Mention GRANGE Vrsrioic.
J .3

People who may reside at so gr

eat 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

DRY GOODS

AND

CARP-ETINGS

of every description to be found in Michigan,
simply by writing us. Samples of nearly all
kinds of goods can be sent by mail.

All orders strictly attended to, and any
goods _sent, not satisfactory, cannbe returned,
and the money paid for the same will be
refunded.

SPRING 8: COMPANY,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

[Mention the VIs'I'I‘oR.]

l5may 24!

Farms for sale. tiatalcrxle
free. Map-‘ of Va. 20cm.
H.L.Slupla.~.fL'o.HichnwDd,VI

VIBEINI

g, TENTSi%§£ %

Y.
D.
instructions and Hand- it sent 1
ldt-cm

have bought over l00,06|- pounds through 

Offers superior advantages to Young Men and Women who wish to prepare for Business. The
College is filled with Students from all partsrot the country.
Actual Business plan of instruction lS far1n;advance of any other school.

Total expense for 3 rnothts, $80 or 4 months, $92.

Board only $3.00 per week. On)

Send for Journal;

W. F. PARSONS, P1-es’t.. ;