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SCHOOLCRAFT. MlCH—.," MARCH 15, 1884.

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iiriellluml Ewarlmwl.

BEGINNING AGAIN.
When rometiinns our feet grow weary,
()ii the rugged hills of life —
The path stretching long and dreary,
VVith trial and labor rife-
Wu p -use on the toilsome journey,
Glancing beckwirrl in the valleyan-i glen
And sigh with an infinite longing
To return and begin again.

For behind is the dew of the morning
In all its fre huess and light.

And before are don ts and shadows,
And the chill and gloom of the night

We remember the sunny places
We passed so careicswly then,

And ask with a passionate longing,
To retuvn and begin again.

Ah, vain. indeed is the asking!
Life’s duties pressed all of us mi,
And who dare shrink from the labor
Or sigh tor the sunshine that's gone“
And it may be not far on before us,
Wart fairer places than them;
Life palhaniay yet lead by still waters
Though we may not begin again.

For evermore upward and onward
Be our paths on the hills of life,

And soon with a Tillflrllt dawning
Transfigure the t il and the strife.

And our Father's hand will 1: ad us.
Tevvderly upward then;

In the joy and peace of a fairer worl-1
He'll let us begin again.

Utopian Farm.

Because our farm exists only in
fancy it is no reason why it could not
exist in reality. All things practical
were once theoretical. The notion ex-
ists that a quarter section is as little
lmd as will pay to work, and perhaps
itis for ripened crops. ‘fer families
are being comfortably supported on
five, ten, fiteen, tweuly and forty
acres of land, and often more money
made on the five than on the forty or
eighty acre farm. This is done by do
voting the farm t0specielties——berries,
fruits, vegetables. seeds, celery, bees
or f()Wl.‘l.

0 ir Utopian farm consists of twenty
acres of rich. level land. ard the spe
cialty is cows. One requisite of the
house would be a good, large cellar
with other things as tasty and con-
venient» as may be. The barn if possi-
ble should be a bank barn with cattle
and horses in basement. The hay
shoot would also serve as a ventilate‘
to carry away all stable odors. Spouts
may be arranged from the granary
above, so corn. oats, and mill feed
would be at finger’s end. Buildings,
garden, potato patch, blackberries,
raspberries, strawberries and currant
plat would altogether occupy one
acre. A few stands of bees would re-
quire no extra land. Another four
acres would be set to s-lected varie-
ties of apples, pears. peaches, cherries,
plums, quince-s, the trees being four
rods apart, the ground being in fine
tillage, and seeded to orchard grass,
three crops of which are harvested
during an average season. Five acres
would be devoted to corn, planted as
thick as practicable with pumpkins,
unless an acre was spared to oats or
wheat. This would complete the ri-
pened crops.

Those who have had patience to
follow our dream thus far will notice
that of our twenty acrefarm. We have
only ten acres left. This shall be de-
voted to soiling crops, and divided
into four pl sts. Plat No. 1 has been
seeded to rye the previous fall, and
will be cut from May 1 to 15.
E tough is cut each day for the next
day. At the end of fifteen days what
rye remains is cured and burned.
Plat No. 1 is then sowed to corn.
By this time some oats which
were sowed esry in spring are
ready to fend off plat No. 2. They
are fed from May 15 to June 1, the re
mainder cured and barned, Then plat
No. 2 Sowed to corn. June 1 we move
our forces to plat No. 3 which was
sowed early to com. This is cut from
June 1 to 15 and the plat put to sugar
beets. Plat No 4 is a meadow seeded
to clover, which by this date has been
out if not fed. Likewise the orchard
grass meadow was cut cured and
barned in season.

We begin again on plat No. l and
cut corn from June 15 to July 15 and
either this or some other plat seeded
to rye in proper season, The sowed
corn on plat No. 2 is fed from July 15
to August 15. If any remains at that
date it may be left till it has reached
its best; sin e for fodder then cured and
hauled, Y. n w ll re member we have

four acres of oichard grass as per

manent meadow, the first crop of
which was cured and barned in proper
season. The rowen of orchard grass
both second and third crops, also
rowan of clover, will be fo.ind ample
feed for the remairzder of the growing
season.

The tops of the auger beets may be
fed till I)-.-c-ember 1. Pumpkins will
last till January 1. From Deceml-or
1 till May 1 of the next year there
will be a constant drain upon the first
crop of orchard grass, corn st.alk.~<, and
what fodder was saved from the soil-
ing crops. It will not be necessary to
buy bay if the preceding has been an
average season. (loin can be ground
into meal for cows and horses and
fed on :ie ear to fowls. Sugar beets
will be adaily mess for stock.

As for bedding, leaves makes the
best. Hwrace Greeley used to C.i.ll our
present commissioner of agriculture,
George B. I.or'n,<z, the best farmer in
Massachusetts. G. B. L , has an ex-
tensive dairy and uses sand forlitter or
bedding. Celery growl-1'8, who use
large quantities of straw to make into
manure, buy by the stack of farmers,
sell enough straw by the load to pay
for the stack, then the remainder costs
them nothing except their labor.

After each crop is taken oil‘, the land
is spread with Well rotted manure,
compo:-ted under cover, and the ma-
nure dragged two ways with a horse
rake. This for'es g owih to its ut
mo-at yet the land is constantly im-
proving. The stock is never pasture-d,
and only boundary fences are no ded.
One team, twenty-five fowls, aid
no hogs but dead ones are alloweal
on the premises. From five to ten
r.-0we,j-.131; as good ones as the laws of
the land and the owuer'sb~iuk account
Will allow him to own, are kept
groomed and fed like horses. Thor
oughbred cattle cost no more to keep
and ifone was sold annually it would
bring $100 as readily as a native would
$50; likewise pure bred fowls hing
$100 each as quickly as barnyard
mongrels will hall’ that sum.

You will notice that we must gut
our ready money from those cows.
That milk business is paramount.
It is the lightning express which
must no‘. stop too often exen to take
on water. A fortune awaits the man
who will furnish clean, rich, honest
milk at present prices. He would
soon have a monopoly in the milk
business. The farm on which the
writer lives sells skimmilk to milk
men, and if that skimmilk is drank
by calves and hogs they are of the
two-legged breed.

Vile cannot afford a windmill to
pump water for stock, or to irrigate
the land, making us independent of
droughts, neither can we tile drain
the farm, ror have silos to eusilage
our crops, but with $1,000 annual in-
come from those cows, we might
sometime if they proved necessary
and practical. E, w, 5

Butler Versus

"Why dou’cyou close out my butter?”
“How long does it take to sell a few
tuba of butter?” ‘ Can’! you sell or give
away that lot of butter?” Such is a
sample of the inquiries coming in at
this time.

To the manufacturers of butterine
and its various aliases must be attrib-
uted the present demorulized condi-
tion of the butter market for its manu-
facture has completely revolutionized
the dairy interests of our country, and
it is not local in its etfrcts, it is not
confined to one district or to one State,
neither is it bound by our Union. Eu-
rope has already felt its effects on
their markets and economists lock
with dire apprehension at its rapid
inroads on the commerce of a nation.

Before its introduction all grades of
butter found ready sale, no matter the
quantity or the quality, it all found
through the commission house a ready
customer. The strictly prime cream-
ery or dairy was carefully culled out
for our ti-st class hotels, and best gro-
cery tr de whose patrons call for the
best of everything. Quality is with
them the flrst consideration, price
second. B-tween them our best
brands were never a drug on the mar-
ket, while the balance of the receipts
were purchased by the grocery houses
no -ording to their d flerent grades of
customers graded down just as nicely
as if done by rule. The better the le-

Bullerine.

C-alitv the grocery was in, the l»e‘z‘.er
the quality of butter wantn d and so
down the scale that the medium grades
found a ready sale at all times, com-
ing as it did within the reach of a
large proportion of a cities population,
and covering a class of people who
were not fastidious in their tastes yet
wanted a good article and such as we
term a medium grade.

Let us see how the making of l~u‘tv1‘-
iue aflbct.-“s the sale of butter, both
lUiI'.'r' ard choice Creamery at this
time. Butferiue is made chiefly from
lard; it is put through a pr-.~ce-as of
‘steaming and clarifying until it be-
comes perfectly odorless and tasteless,
no flavor being pcrc(»ptibl- to the
znoe: fastidious palate, to this niass is
added the wry best high fl.|V0l'e(l
creamery or the best makes of dairy
butter strictly fresh and of the {heat
grades.

Color is of little or no consideration.
Thai ks to the chemist or Hansen’.-
butter coloring. This lard acquire.-
readily th Il |VOl' of the butter incor-
porated with it in a degree according
to the q=iantity and quality used.
thereby creating the different Classe-
8.D(l4()I]&fq'l£‘l1tg['LHl8 of prices. \Ve
will here more that it would be fully
to use any low grades of butter as l‘
impart,-x its low grade ii wor to tho
lard and as there is less profi‘. in com.-
L-rfeiting copper than there is in gold
our burterlne makers may be expected
to play‘ for the richest strikes, so we
discover how easy it.  for these man-
ufacturers to provide any grada-
wantcd. '1"lzey can make it for any
price from a small margin above the
cost of lard, and up to the price ob-
tained for good « airy butter. The
g1'o(-.»:-.v-71-sm -.+.nd. doe»; often palm it ofi‘
to bi’. ‘unwary custoniers as choice
dairy and creamery butter. V‘/'e ari-
niit. it is a «lean and well made article,
sweet and of good color and the fi war
is certainly not “i=trong" (of butter.)
It-is easy to sell and as it can he sold
by the grocer at a much greater profit
than the pure gems is it any wonder
that all medium grades are neglected
and left on our market. A good arti-
cle ofits kind can be nude and sold at
the present time at 20 cents wl i«.-.h the
grocer readily retails at 28 cents per
pound, and the best bntterine can be
bought at 26 cents, while choice cream-
ery is worth 30 cents; the grocer being
able to palm off his 25 cent butterlne
in many instances vs choice creamery
retailing it at 82 to35cents. It :4 ill be
seen tbat the making of butterlne is
having its effect in opposite directions
on the butter markrt. In the first
place the best grades of creamery and
choice dairy, the class that always had
ready sale at satisfactory prices now
finds an extra demand crea'ed by the
wants of their competitors. thereby
enhancing the market value ft!‘ above
what they would otherwse sell for.

On the other band butter no good
enough for their use is left for the few
chance buyers that must have the pure
article, their wants are soon supplir.-d,
leaving that and the poorer grades
with no heavy buyers except the
packers which means 9 or 10 cents per
pound, the grocer preferring the
lower grades of lmtterine, it being
fresh and sweet and saleable at better
pzofi .

Regarding the prcfi-‘s to the manu-
facturers ofthis buiteriue business. it
can be set down safely at 25 per cent
prrfi". Some of our h€&Vi2Bl'. butter
commission men have gone into its
manufacture and though they vet re-
ceive butter, do not pay much atten-
tion to its sale as they can make much
more in the butterine business. The
amouut made is something remarks-
bie, one firm turning out two car loads
alone per day, and there are several
heavy firms, with max y more that
make in smaller quantities in this city

alone.
MORAL.

Make good butter or look for poor
prices. Your business agent,
Tuos. MASON.
Chicago, Feb. 20. 1884

This page, which is specially devo-
ted agricultural matters, is fwquenily
too small for the good material that we
have on hand. An article on celery
culture will be found on our third
page.

 

A fast walk is the beat gait for 9,
horse on farm or road.

‘-Bew-.ire of Dogs."

lu'¢liI«n- l'/.-.=‘(u.-.- -1 mail you to klii_\
tliccnclosod slip cut from the New
York Tribi1ne‘tlliilki'iig it m:i_\; interest
inziny ofthe slim-p men of the state,
and hoping that they inn) 1r!‘0liI by ad-
vice voiituiiioil intlie lust \‘(‘l'St‘.
l'n(ler the present comlitiuu the
slnwp men arctoo ;-‘~t‘V’('i‘(‘l)’ i:1.\cd in the
way of losses and rtnxicty to l‘€}il1£1lll
quiet and (»n(lun~ the llllpu.<lLinil. A
mm] lngly have $l,1'>il£) lliVt‘>'i(‘il lll Sl'.t‘f.‘ll
and his n(-1_r_rlll>m‘ may own nothing,
but the hall’ (ltI7.t*il \\'0l‘illlt‘SS ours
will.-ll be }>gl'l1liis to r(-inuin ulmui his
promises, and for which he has no use-,
and upon wllicli no tax can be col-
lected, and for wlmsc dep1*eilution.<. and
I’ni.~'i-o1ulu(‘t no one is respolisible.
Yours, ’l‘Ac..\N1\'i-:.
(‘.s..<- (‘ui‘:\"i\', i\ll("ll. l“vb. 20. 135-1.
“’l‘lil~‘. poo 3lI‘.<’I‘ 0.0.“
a sensible talk about the dog
Tribune‘ well

In
n11is:mCe the l‘lli<-ago
says : _

“One important cluirgu inzide zigennst
them Woultl l)(‘lll1lilllt'_Ylli‘ll) mon.\\'lio
should be in better i-iisiiiess, to kill
birds Wlll('ll, if pvrmittcd to live, would
keen down the llllllll)(‘l‘ 0'. lllSt‘(‘lS inju-
rious L - food-crops. lt ni.'1ybe- no fault.
of the dog that bu is thus bmugld into
the businessofinur+-asiiig the cost of
living, but it, Ct‘l'l:lllil}' is tln- fault of
tin: inilustrious and hone-st \\'0l‘kt‘l'.~i,
\\'lm2n'e over (‘&l.llt’(l uprm to my llw
cost of the ili‘L‘¢'.\‘.~'slill‘S and the l)lt"d.\‘iii‘t‘.\‘
of the idle and vicious."

“Obs:-ivant [lock-owners who u are-—
fully zmulyze the cost of the profit. of
“\'L’l')' pzirt of limit‘ bllslilt-'S.\'. d»-(:l:u'e
tlmt the slwpl1enldo;:, that (‘Iilll()(lllllf‘ill
oI'c;u1inv ll|t(~‘lll_L[(‘ii(‘,f‘, is not :4. profita-
:ibl:- assistant on the l'2u'm, even in mu‘-
ing for .s'ln=<-p, the \\'()l'l-i for wllii-ll he
has b.-on cspe~r-iully listed by _S{f‘ll(‘l‘£i-
timiSot'<-:u’cl'u1trail: pg. .~\n ;n.'er:i,r1r~
lmy oi’ ten, can do all that the sin-plienl
(lu;_-‘ mm do and IllllL‘li inure. and will
(‘list little lIi0l‘i- for food. anal 21 bu) oi‘
[Hi can be lmd for less tluui zl well-
tmiiieil dog will cost."

In \'l(-‘W’ of tlwse mid 0illl:‘I‘0l)_lt‘(1ll1lllS,
incliuling the constzuit..a.ml serious me-n-
arc of life and prop -rty, and e-spe-ciully
the great (-in-,(~k to pi‘t)lll:i.l)l<* sheep keep-
1n;_r,lhe- writ:-1' com-lmlcs th Ii

“\Vl1Hx l,ll(‘ \\'lnrlv siilrit‘-"t lllin llw-Ii
tliui'0uglnly slflvil, Illvre is l'ou..<‘: in in
vorof (lungs llLll(‘li10l‘¢' than :5. i2il:~‘Llll‘ I--
[f’Ll, and lllflVi'l\'lfill .i“ili.lIii('I'l’~.. whim-in
leauls 0lllr’l"\VlSP St‘llSllll(-‘!lt"1illlL‘ll:tOlllé-
filth)’ habit of fondling tlezi-bliimi, and
Ciii‘I'i0Il-luvlllg in-mats."

’l‘lierefore, in your pluiiiiizig lul‘
Spring planting arrange to insert a few
cuttings of dog under newly set vines
and tree , and thus mlvance both the
fruit and mutton inter- sts.

S-tfihum Sugar.

From the Herald. Ottawa Michigan.

Editors IIerald——You want to know
about Sorghum cane. It grows well
here on our sandy land. I tried at-mull
piece last year. It was a bad sprint! 3-0
get it started, and after it got growing
it went; ahead of the corn in rapid
grow th, side by side. It was late, and
did not get ripe. but n we very fair
syrup after all. I think sorghum Will
do here in a good season, and shall try
some again this year.

8. L. VVi~:I.1‘oN.

Dr. R O. Kvdzie, of the State Agri-
cultural College. writes as follows. in
regard to i'8 growing here,aud the cul-
ture i-‘ should have:

Ezlilors IIeraId:—Ynu ask me “Can
cane be raised at a profit on the sandy
lands of the lake shore?” Cine can
be raised r-rrfitably on any land and
in any climate that will produce and
ripen Indian corn. It can he rflll-(ell
duct-,eg.ful]y nn land». l00 light and
imp0vc1‘ish- d for a good crop of corn.
The soil best suited for raising a good
quality of cane is a sandy loam, but
ii has been g own with wonderful we
be»; on the light sand.» of New J»ri-ey,
which are far inferior in productive-
new to uh sandu of your lake shore

PREPARATION OF SOIL, ETC

Prepare roll the same a- fora crop or
porn’ only plant, cl0P9I‘-Hie. 
should not be more than 4!) inches
apart each way, because the cane
throws up a. large number of sucker.-A
or sprouts when pla tel four feet
apart, and the sprouts that do not ri-
pen, are not only useless but a damage
in making sugar.

Plant as early as possible, avoiding
danger of frost, as the young plant is
very tender and easily killed by frost.
Plant, aha.llovr——ahnuL h lfas deep as

corn. Fun» stake in the hill give best
results. I? can be planted in bills or
drills. I have used both methods and

tuink the drills give rather hotter re-
pu]1g_ Th. drills should not be more
than 3; ieet apart

CULTIVATION.

The cane requires the same cultiva-
thin as corn, or rather broom corn,
which it closely rcstmbles in its mode
org,-nwgh_ If planted in drills, an in-
geninus farmer can makes cultivator
out of an ordinary thi-es--toothed cnlri
valor, which will NW6 8 Rmd d“"' M
hard wmk for the first booing Take
r»fi‘the- ta-911.] or shovels; cut the fore-
wa d loo h shank some six inches
shnr er ‘ban in common us ; make a
dnuhlp or two—vsitwed share nut nf two
boards 8 inches wide and 30incbe- long
to bolt to the rrutr-ide nftbe shanks of

the C'.IlilV3.iOT, meeting in front. The

lmtlmn of each board is beveled from
within so as to form a sharp cutting
edge to throw the dirt and weeds out-
v~'2ird.~: on both sides of the cultivator.
This cutting edge on the bottvm is
made al.121I‘p(*I', by bolting or screwing
a strip of iron or steel along the out-
side. Where these wings meet in front,
the bottom of the angle is cut away for
live or SIX inche-s,soa:4 to leave a tri-
angular space for the row of cane, so
that the cultivator may pass over the
cane, without injury »othe plant,snd
throw the weeds and dirt away from the
nlant, leaving a space ofouly twoinches
on each side of the row undisturbed.
Such a culéivator will reduce greatly
the lalmr of the first cultivation and
lnwiiig, and it is the first hoeing that
costs. A cultivat r which will cut
cl» so to the drill and throw the weeds
away from the row, will leave the
work so nearly done that two men
with how can keep up with the culti-
vator.

A pair of tliills attached with side-
dr.-iught, like the ordinary rig for out-
ters. will slow the horse to walk be-
tween the rows while the cultivator
pass: s over the row.

In the second and third cultivatiiin
the dirt is thrown back towards the
rows, as in ordinary cultivation of
corn.

it is very important to prevent. the
weeds. from getting the start of the
nnu beL'au.-e it is a feeble plant dur-
ing its early gr. wilt. When it gets a
good start it comes forward Willi sur-
pri.-ing vigor.

)1 \\'iYl{l<)S.
B-»-.rn_v“.r«'l manure inert-use-H the
i2row:,lv. I)f(::1l‘€‘ but injures; the quality
llflll-"_llll0(‘. lime nnd plaster are of
little bt‘li(~‘lli, whilc 5-all dlnlnishes
the amount of crystalzuble sugar.
The inanur» s that give host zesults are
.qtipei'pl\o'~pluiti- of lime and wood
vsbe-. 'l“Lm‘-n‘: should llr dropped on
'!i-: bill after planting. A tablespoon
full if sum:-ipliospliave 0!: each bill
will require about. 230 pounds to the
acre Any good superwurisgnliats such
as the l’il)ill€-“tethl, of I)r.t!‘oli_, wii. an-
.-we-r. A handful’-. of inisli or un-
ieaciieel wood a’~*l:(*.° on excl» bill will
b(‘- nearly as bk-'ll':‘fl-'.'.l8.l an .'superphos-
pliuic, excl-pt t.b.~.t it will not hasten
maturity of the cum: to an rqusl de-
gree.
l-(i.‘ll) oi-' cA'.~u;.

Early Arum-r give-1 best results in
this vlivnate. 'l'v~o :l!.".l .i half pounds
oi :-"re -4:-3 “DU'|A’.'l.| for 6-aclvi acre. [got
my :-er-:l front D. .Vl Ferry & (1)., of
I)-:i_l'(:ll, and found the quality good,

It C. Ksnznc.

A’. at recent meeting oft-ie Columbjg
N. Y.. Fanin-is’ club, several growers
of fruit upon alarge scale testified to
the great value of bolts of evergreens
as windbreaks, especially to ward off"
the h.igntlng effects of nnrvhenat
storms when trees are blossoming. A
young farmer who had several large
orchards, stated that the one which is
protected by a dense hedge of Norway
spruce-s, nearly twenty feet high,
yieldui over 500 barrels of extra time
apples last fall, while the others. fully
exposed to winds. yielded very in-
ditfereut; crops. President Powell
who has a large cherry orchard, state
that several years ago his trees blos-
somed unusually full, but a few days-
of strong east. wind blasted nearly
every blossom, so that instead of the
expected bushels of lru:tho- had barely
enough for hleowu use. He was con.
fi lent. that “protection”-—of the right
kin«i—-would have saved them.

Mention was made ofa nursrry man
who, baviugsi-t out a row of unsold
evergreens on the exposed side of his
nursery, soon disroven-d that the trees
and plants grown within the protect-
ing ll flueuce of this shelter were of
superior quality, and he at once
planted belts of evergreens at regular
intervals through his entireuursery.
The planting of shade trees along the
bighw-y was rccrvmnu-nded, but at
I-Ill:-ll distances apart that the roads
will 2 0t be kept Wet and muddy by too
much shad". Um-iyhrly knolls and
barren hillsides should be pl.-iv ved with
trees. Several varieties were sug-
cl-ared as profitable; ll\t‘,(‘l!('.-iflllt, ash,
Euro;-can larch, lm-uzt l lack walnut
and si verb-vaf n:ax»Ie are of rapid
grovrth and their wood is valuable for
a variety of pur[.~(-s-ms-, such as the
woodwork of all farming utensils and
in the mannfuctirc of furniture.

R. G. V+nDusen contributes the
following: There was nearly 1900-
000 pounds of milk delivered at the
Elsie-cheese factory in l88.‘l,rmd it made
in round numbers loooou pnnndg of
i.-.i.¢-er-e taking about :4 pnu;,,].5 of
milk to one pound of cheese, on an
average through the season, This
goblet wholesale from 10. 14;‘, lo 1:;
cents per pound, averaging 12; centg_
It. costs to manufacture, box, sell, de.
livenmake collections. keep books,
make statements, and for all other
incl(leiJta1 expenses, including ex_
change and bad debts, about 25 cents
a pound. thus leaving 10 cents per
pound uetto the patrons. More ac-
curalely milk f r the whole season
has netted the producer i 05 per 10;:
pounds. Where does the Elsi» cheese
g to? Small amounts to parties scat-
tered widely over the state. The
nrinr-iple customers are be nrer home,
Maple Ropifln has 11 ed 6 00¢) pnundp;
Kalamrzm M 000; Ovid 15 000; Gratiot
«mun y 16 000; St John»: 19 000; while

 

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

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MARCH 55. I994.

Q11; grunge iéiigitar

SCHOOLCRAFI‘, - - MARCH 1.5.
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To ten trial subscribers for three

months we Wlll send the VISI-

for -____-_-.....__.._.---__.-_..$1 00

For new subscribers, canvassers are
authorized to retain one third of the
regula: subscription price to com-
pensate for their work.

Sample copies free to any address.

Address, J. T. Conn, Schoolcraft,
Mich.

OUR CLUBBING LIST.

   
     
   

Regular With
Price. Visiroa.
American Farmer . . . . . . . . . .,_.SI 00 S 85
American Grange Bulletin,(Lit-
file Grangerincluded) . . . . . . .. l 50 1 5"
Atlantic Monthly . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4 0 4 00
Babyland ..._ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ‘I0 85
Century (Scribner-’s) . . . . .. . . . . . 00 4 10
Detroit Free Press (without
Household) weekly . . . . . . . . .. 1 00 1 40
Detroit Free Press (with House-
hold) w . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . ..125 155
Demorest’s Monthly . . . . . . . . . .- 2 00 (2 00
DioLewis'sMonthly.......... 250 370
Farm. Fieldand Fireside . . . . .. l 00 1 1 ‘
Farmers’ Review . . . . . . ....... 1 50 1 60
]1.u-nor’: Vrmthly Magazine... 4 "0 4 ml
nu-per-sWeekly...... ...... .. 4 00 4 00
Harper's Bazar . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4 U0 4 "9

nu-per-‘s Young People . . . . . . .. 1 50 1 7'7

Inter-Ocean, Chicago (w) . . . . .. 1 00 I 40

Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - -- - 90 - 00

North American Review . . . . .. 5 ‘)0 4 59

Ohio Farm-r . . . . . . . . - - - - - - -- I 30 1 fl?
Our Little Men and Women. . . 1 00 1 20
OntLiltle Unes.............. 150 160
Post and Tribune, Detroit.

weekly) ._. . . . . . . .._. . . . . . . .. 1 00 1 40
Post and Tribune (Tn-Weekly) 4 90 4 90
Poultry Bulletin. . . . . . .. I 25 1 :29
P0“; ,.y w .,d____ 100 IE3-3
Rural New Yorker. 2 0" 2 5"
Scientific American . ‘3 ‘Z0 3 25
St. Nicholas ....... .. -5 00 3 15
The Cottage Hearth .., ..... 1 50 1 50
The Continental Mazaz'ne— 35
Tribune. Chicago. (weekly) 1 4“
The Pansy (Weekly). 1 15
Toledo Blade ...... .. 1 40
Vicks Monthly . . . . . . . .1 ‘0
Wide Awake . . . . . . . . . . .. - 2 50
Woman's Journal . . . . . . . . .. . . 2 -‘>0 2 50
Weekly Gr iphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 50 2 50
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INDEX ‘TO THIS NUMBER.

Beginning A_ggin_Ufnpi9n Fan-n—‘-Butter
Versus Butts-rine~——“Beware of Dogs ’—-S:>r-
ghum Sugar .......................... . .

Monday April 7th. and the Visitor—'l‘he
Public Schools-—Kansa.s Farmers—To Sec-
;-g¢,aneg_St,ove Wood—- Mrs. Bristol of N ew
Jersy—0bituory Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2

Forest Teaves— Open Letter-—Celery Culture
No l — Postal Jottings —Nctices of Meet-
tings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ . . 3

“Varieties of Fruit Adapted to the Chicago
Market—'I‘he Waste and Mistakes In Farm-
ing—Scienco and Pedantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

The Loom of Life—-“The Machinery of the
Heavens Running Dow_n—S<_:h«~ol System -
Pat'on5 Aid Society in Michigan Leroy
Grange— Calhoun County Pomona Grange
It was not Consum,-tion—Adver isements 5

The Houseke«=per's Tragsd v— Do we as Far-
mers and Farmer's Families do all we can
to Promote and Elevate our Calling r—'l‘he
B!,by'E Mission—slpringport Grauge—Pos-
tal J ottings—Tne Reaper De ith . . . . . . . . . 6

Put Down the Brakes—Tne Markets-Ad-
verti-ements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

5$melim’s fieiirlmul.

IDNDAY, APRIL 7TH AND THE VISITOR.

While some of the sisters are the
very best canvassers, yet there are men
in every Grange who can do some
good work in ibis line if they will.

A thousand subscribers can be added
to our list on town meeting day if

the master of every Grange in Michi-
gan will call the matter up at the next
meeting and have the work of solicit-
ing assigned to some Bro. who will
make it a business on Monday the 7th
of April to solicit for the VISITOR.

This is the year of elections and we
propose to say something about poli-
tics and politicians, as well as about
farms. farmers and farming, and we
want a few thousand farmers to read
the VIsI'roR who never read it before.
We want this not because there is
profit in furnishin~ new subscriber:
with this paper but because we want
the farmers of Michigan to occupy a
higher poslti in than they now do.

The world moves, and farmers must
be every way improved to hold their
own_ in the great race of life.

We wantto see them and their fam-
ilies better educated——better thinkers

more intelligent workers in the field
of manual labor, in the field of social
life. in matters of local government
and state and national as well.

All this comes by making use of the
means within our reach. The VISI-
1-onls endeavoring to aid in this good
work. /

Shall It be aided by its friends?
That is the question. No other so
good opportunity will be presented
this year as the day we have named.
Friends of the 0rder—friends of the
nu-mer—-friends of agi-ioulture—see to

It that some good efifectlve work is ‘

done town meeting day. Go about
it systematically and the. VISITOR
7111391; a boom that will react upon
it £‘craner'readers to their advantage."
1'5; 1‘-ogular price of the. VIQISGB per.
your-"islio cents. But money is not
plenty with a great many farmers this
year. Nine months of this year of
 activity are before us, and;

in this time w I wish to be heard often
on questions of vital importance to
faimers. '

To new subscribers we will send the
VISITOR for these nine months for
25 cents provided not less than four
names and one ll‘)llll' come with tha-
order, We shall continue to send to
trial subscrrbers three In mths for ten
cents. At these price: it seems to us
that any pets in who feels any inter-
est in the success of the 0 ‘der, or in
the welfare of the farmer might sen l
us a few names. The thousand names
we ask for can he sent. W'ill they be ?

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

It has long been the established ed-
ucatloiial p--licy of Michigan to furnish
free instruction at public expenst-i_
from the primary school upward
through the entire university course of
study. The original plan of those who
founded our educational system was to
have no break in the line of free in-
struction in all branches of a most lib-
oral and polished education. The
ordinary graded schools of cities and
villages were to carry their courses of
study through the preparation for uni-
versity work. The university course
cf study is as complete as any in this
country and was intended to be as ad-
vanced and liberal as any lll Europe.

It was the dream and hope of our
most €lll3lllI$l2lSlLlC educators to behold
here II nation of stude-iits and thinkers,
with the fiuest iiitellcctiiul culture-
prevailing I-w»ryw‘m-re, even aiuongr
the poorest classes. It is very evident
to all now that these plans, althmigh
fairly and per.-iisteiitly tried, have been
in many respects a failure. Instruction
in the classics and higher 1l]lllll(‘I1l:ltlCS
li:isl)eenoffcre(l at public expense in
almost every village school, yet it has
been found impossible to sustain
classes in these branches except in the
large cities, and even there many of
those engaged in such studies haw
came from the country and small
towns.

The experience of edirators in this
state has shown that the higher educa-
tion cannot be made universal or even
general. merely by making the in-
struction free. The money collected
from the people by taxation may build
and equip magnificent schoolhouses,
but it cannot give to all the leisure and
the scholarly disposition nccessaiy to
fine intellectual culture. It is becom-
ing apparent that the peculiar con-
ditions neccssary to advanced scholar-
ship exist only among a small percent-
age of the population in any com-
munity. One of theseconditions is the
natiiral inclination towards intellectual
pursuits. A strono; natural inclination
of this kind is not by any means uni
Vl3I‘Sd.l. Indeed it is the exception
rather than the rule among school
children of all classes. Such a ten-
dency may be to some extent acquired,
but the process is very expensive in
time, 1noney,aud effort, and the result
is new r a high grade of scholarship.

Another essential condition is a fair
amount of leisure. Toa large majority
of the pupils In our public schools.
such leisure is altogether out of the
question exceptin childhood. The cares
and ambitions of a busy life are taken
up at a very early age, and the free
instruction lll the higher branches so

- liberally offered at public expense, has

to be declined. I

These coiisiderations serve in some
degree to account for the failure to
find 2i respectable number of the pupils
in our public schools who are willing
to accept the beuelits of a. higher edu-
cation. As an illustration of the small
(leinand for advanced instructions we
cite a statement made by Rev. M. J.
Savage in the North American Review
for February. “In the month of Feb-
ruary 1883, there were in all the public
schools of one of our cities 54,723 pupvls.
Only about half of these, or 28,360, had
gone through the primary schools and
entered the grammar ; while only about
two and three-fourths per cent. or
1510, had graduated at the grammar
schools and entered the high. Of this
small amount, only 320 reached the
third year ; and but 49 of these were in
the fourth or advanced class.”
This we believe to be a fair example
of the state of things in our best city
schools. A high school course is
adopted, sufiiciently advanced to fur-
nisli preparation for the university.
The course in the primaries is arranged
with special reference to the high
school, as if all were expected to take
the entire course. Only two ancLthree-
fourths per cent. of all over reach the
high school and but a small fraction of
one per cent. over graduate. Upon_ this
forlorn hope is lavished an important
part of the school expenses. If we
should count out from the number in
this 1ittle_‘band those who have no
natural inclination to scholarship and
are incapable of obtaining anything
like a ‘higher education, the small
fraction of one per cent. remaining,
would represent about the ,percentage
in any community,Who_ are prepared to-
undertake tl_1e,advan,ce_d stiidies; '
‘The question as to how much educa-
tibnlshould be given at public , expense
should be determined’, ,largely_ by ex.
perience. If t1._o;‘¢,i§__a general demand
for instruction in the highpcigbranches
it will (manifest ,itself,.byj_,i,ncreased
numbers the higher .4-grades. We
know that there is a,univ'cli:sal. demand
for good instruction in the primary
studies, and we know that such in-

struction is essential and generally
sutlicient for good citizen.-ship: Public
opinion we believe. is rapidly drifting
toward the position that the state
should undertake to give to each child
first rate instruction in what are
usually termed the common branches,
that is in those studies necessary for
the work and business of everyday
life. The classics and higher mathe-
matics are chiefly for the individual
hem-fit and should be taught to the few
who are prepared to take them, but not
at public expense. In the light of ex-
perience, it does not seem to be a
judicious use of public funds to con-
tinue the expensive effort to supply a
demand which does not exist, and in
the nature of things cannot exist ex-
cept among the very few having a
scholarly disposition and ample leisure.

This is A matter that interests the
whole people, and the important q .es-
tiou to be next considered is this. Does
our educational system harmonise
with these facts.

KANSAS FARMERS.

In another place we referred to the
duty of the voter. Since writing that
brief article a little matter of recent
history has come to our notice which
is encouraging. All our old readers
or more drfiuitely our readers of four
«scars ago, know that we urged the
nfiairns oflhe agr.cultural class to rep-
'e‘S"I1t‘«illOY] in important official posi
:,l()n-=, particularly then to the ofilce of
governor.

VVe then based our demand on the
act that Michigan was an agricultural
skate. thaislie had been organized f. 1-
more than forty years, that in all that
lime but one man from the agricul-
'ural class had held the executive of-
rice; and more, that in all of those
years but three men out of ninety who
nad represented the State in congress
and served as governor were farmers
For this we blamed the farmers them-
-elves. We said then and have said
many times since that if the farmer
class had no capable men to fill these
sfiices then thr-yhad no claims worlh
considering. But if we had men every
way competent it was but a matter of
simplejustice that this most impor-
tant interest should have recognition.
As we thought then so we think now.
We go farther and now say that there
:3 nozjfabnut this matter of ability
among the farmers to fill most credit-
ubly to themselves and the State any

ofiice in the gift of the people.

But we have wandered from the
heading of this article.

A short time ago Mr. Haskell a
member of congress from Kansas,
died while on duty in Washington.
Phe governor of the State ordered a
spe ial election on the first of yarch
luflll the vacancy.

A4 evidence that the farmers ofthe
country have made some growth in
me last few years the Kansas faimers
of this district co-operated together
and nominated a farmer. The result
was most grwifying. The counting of
votes found the farmer candidate had
nearly 6,000 majority.

ltseemsto have been a wise thing
for Kansas farmers to nominate a far-
mer for an imporlant position, and
here is what a leading political paper
or this State says about it.

“Far'ner Funston goes to ‘Washing
*on as aclear-cut represents tive of the
f:».l‘nl€!‘Si)l the country. He will be of
if-'l'Vl('e to both the class and the cause
he represents. Tue farmers of Kansas
are to be congratulated that they have
bad the good sense to .--elect one of
their own number for congress who
will he sure to re fl-ct their Wishes on
the great questions affecting the fiscal
p ilicy of the nation.”

\Ve find our contemporary standing
on solid ground and it cannot take a
more common sense course than to
maintain in no uncertain half hearted
way the stand here taken.

The farmers of this State have very
many of th. in come to understand
like their Kansas brethren that it don’t
pay to depend upon lawyer representa-
tion, and the day is not distant when
we shall see some practical proof at the
polls of this statement.

We know the average ofilce seeker
has little regard for the rights of other
individuals or classes but ignores eve-
rything except his own ambition and
the supremacy of the party to which
he br longs.

But we hope to see such a demon-
stratlon this year as will convince the
machine men of all political parties
that the farmers of this State must
be recognized. They will no longer
be satisfied with a back seat.

There is a very general aureement
that guvernrnent is a necessary but
rather expensive luxury. There is
also a very general Impression among
the agricultural class. that an unequal
and unjust proportion of the expense
of maintaining such government in
this country falls upon that class.
The proportion of this class to all
others is set down at about 50 per
cent, and it seems at first glance as
though there was no real need of this
class in this country, where the ballot
is in the hands ofevery man, allowing
this state of things or which they com-
plain to mntlnue year after year.
But that conclusion Is not correct.
The farmer is not paying his own
proper -proportion of taxes, and half
of that which lploporly belongs to
some other man In town because he

likes to pay taxes, but simply because
he has made and is making no well
directed effort to protect himself.
If he and his fellows were on the
alert to take care of their business,
and take care of it well, this inequal-
ity would not continue from year to
year with its attendant grumbling.

This is the year of elections and we
introduce this subject to ask the far-
mers of Michigan, what are you going
to do about it? Are you disposed as-
heretofore to take better care of your
political party than you do of your-
selves? If you are then you have
only to do as you have been doing.
Stay away from the ‘caucus of your
party and when election dry is
reached vote the regular ticket that
has been provided for you by the
small politicians of your party en-
gineered by the large ones to suit them
selves.

Now this small politician is quite as
likely to be a farmer as anything else
but that don’t make him any nearer
a valuable citizen.

The main question ls—ai-e farmers
In this mater of taking care of their
own interests outside of their prem-
ises improving or not? Are they doing
more of their own thinking or non’
If they are we may hope that the
time will come when they will sel-
fisbly and patriolically protect them-
selves and pay only their fair share
for the support of government.

While we are advising them to
take better care of themselves in this
direction would it not be well for
them to become better informed as to
where all the money goes to, that is
collected in taxes. Wit}. more defi-
nite lnfoimaiion on this point per-
haps there would be more attention
paid to stopping some leaksf Don't
take for granted that nothing can be
done to lessen the burdens of taxa-
atiou. The best protection is to see
to it that only good men, get office,
not milk and water good men but
men who have honesty and back-
bone.

Help make a ticket and work faith-
'ully at all proper times and places to
fill it with good, strong men. And
if you fail, and find some men on
the ticket that are incapable. unwor-
thy or dishonest, dont feel it a duty
to vote the whole ticket because you
participated in the caucus. This is
partizan orthodoxy but is alike fatal
to a consciencious discharge of a po-
litical duty and to the best interests
of society. Vote for your party when
you find good men on the ticket and
be sure and help get them there by
attending the primary meeting. But
if you find a better man for the
oflicc on any other ticket don’t hesi-
tate to vote for the best man. There
is no harm comes to the people when
this independent voting is carried to
thatextent that the politician is en-
tirely at sea in putting in his work.
“Is hope none of our friends aie so
narrow as to think we are di-regard-
inga cardinal principle of the Order
in calling the attention of our voting
brothers to this sort of political work.
We mean all we say, if we do not say
all we mean.

T0 SECRETARIES.

In looking over our books we find
that while the reports for the quarter
ending December 31st and for pre-
vious quarters have very generally
been sent in and dues paid, yet there
are some delinquent in this matter.
There area few no doubt who sup-
pose their predecessor had discharged
that duty and have therefore given
the matter no thought. It will soon
be time to make report for the quar-
ter ending the 31st day of this month.
Please bear in mind that our blanks
meanjust what they say. We want
reports as soon after the 1st day «f
Aprilas may be, but do not want re-
ports for this quarter brfore the last
day of March.

STOVE WOOD.

Thislong cold winter has furnished
so much sleighing that we suppose
every patron has a supply of wood in
his yard to last a year, and if it is not
yet in condition for the stove by the
first of April it will be.

Well, that is all right and that is
one of the things necessary to do to
keep the domestic machinery in good
smooth working order. Green wood
often creates friction and unnecessary
wear in family affairs. Having taken
security against these bad results or
negligence as a matter of economy it
is best to have the wood seasoned un-
dnr co or and trim. matter should be
attended to before the farm operations
of the season are commenced. -Pile up
and cover up the wood but don’t pile
it in such large compact piles that it
won’: dry out rapidly. The wind
will search out the sap better this
month than any other if you will
only give it a chance. If you have no
wood house be sure and have the
wood pile well covered up. You can’t
afford to leave itexposed to the storms
of the season. ., v

 

Tin causes of the lncreaslng‘fre-
quency and violence of fioodslu
American 1_"lvers,,and the measures
that oughtto be taken for protection
against them, will ‘be discussed by
Dr. Oswald__in the April number of
the North American Review.

MRS. BRISTOL, OF NEW JERSEY.

In our jottlngs a brief letter from
Bro. C. K. Carpenter, of Oxion, gives
the kind of testimony in favor of hlslel
Bristol and that is what we expect
from every locality where she talks
There is no doubt about Sister Bris-
tol’s ability to interest and insvrucl
all who may be favored with an or-
poi-luny of hearing her. Give be)
wide advertisement and large au~
diences in justice to yourselves and to
her. Her appointments from the 15’ll
instant forward are: Monday, l7.h,
Madison, Lenawee Co.; Tuesday, ism
Macon, Lenawee Co.; Wednesday,
19th, Springfield, Lenawee Co;
Thursday, 20th, Litclifi Id, Hillsdale
Co.; Friday, 21st, South Camden,
Hillsdale Co.; Saturday, 22-1. School-
craft, Kalamazoo Co; Monday, 24th,
Allegan. Get every farmer within
reach out to these meetings.

THE time for seed sowing ha
hardly arrived, but the time for seed
catalogues has, and we find them on
our table not only from our own state
but from the ea-t and the west.

Among the most attractive is that o'
J. T. Lwett of Little Silver I\'. J.
From the showing his Monmouth
nursery would seem to be first class
in every particular.

The catalogue of James Vick 0‘
Rochester is a thing of beauty and
completein every detail. The naim
ofJames Vick has for many year-
hecn synomous with fair dealing.
Love-is offiowers will find in this care
logue much valuable information a-
well as plates of richness and beauty;

Acopy of Greene Fruit Grower is‘
occasionally found on our table am‘.
from an acquaintance with C. A.
Green through this channel we an
sure that he is one of Roclieslerh
be-tand most enterprising niirsmy-
men. His catalogues are full of prur-
tical business suggestions and are semi
free on application. In this Ixurser)
business Mr. Green is evidently at
home ready and willing to instruc!
those of us who know so much lem-
of plants and fizrwe-rs than he does-—l
feel quite sure he is worthy of patron-
age.

Of western seedsmen there is Fred
N. Lang of Baraboo Wis., who. gets
out a good catalogue and certainly on
pap r makes a good showing.

We call attention to the advertise
ment of Waldo F. Brown a seed
grower of Oxford Ohio.

Then again G. W. Park of Far-
mettsburg Pa., and E. P. Cloul 0:
Kemnetts Square Pa., are among those
who use the VISITOR to advertise lh~ ir
goods. This alone bespeaks their
enterprise and creates some obligation
to patronize them.

In our state Bro. T. L. White of
Girard,Branch C0,, has engaged in
the business ofseed growing, as has
also Fred Leucia of Flushing, whose
ad. has been running all winter in the
VISITOR. Toese gantlem on have
claims on Michigan patrons who
need seed and will be halpy to fur-
nish catalogues and prices on appli-
cation.

VVASTE SEWING SILK —We are in-
formed that every spool silk factory II’ a
more or less remnants, odd lengths and
s zss, which are laid aside and called
“Waste” Silk, and it is generally much
sought after by families living near
the factory, because sold bel .w cost.
For thirty cents one can get as much
silk as is contained on nine 100 yards
spool. The Brainard & Armstrong Co.
238 Market street Philadelphia, have
sent usa sample package put up in
nice order, and will mail a similar one
to any of our subscrib. rs, on receipt of
thirvy cents in stamps or P. 0 Note.
This is an excellent opportunity to
get a large amount of good silk, for a
very little money. Families will
find it to its advantage to send as
above.

SOME of our friends continue to over-
look the rule of every printing office.
That anonymous communications can-
not be printed. Now understand we
don’t say that the name of a contribu-
tor must be printed but we do say that
we cannot print articles that are sent
us without the name of the writer
comes with the article. From this
some correspondents will learn why
their articles have not appeared.

The Detroit Times (daily) has come
to our table for some weeks. As is
well know we spare very little space in
commending the press of any city. But
we are free to say there are few papers
that come to us that present so bright
and attractive an appearance as the
Times. Nor is its appearance all that
it has to commend it. Its tone is much
better than some of its contemporaries
and we feel' quite sure it will secure a
liberal share of patronage.

 

TIIE clover leaf can is highly com-
mended by dairymen and creamery
men as having superior merits as a
cream raiser. See advertisement.

Mayne Bold, In his last story, “The

_Land of -fire.” now appearing in St.

Jvioloolac, brings to light the curious
fact that white. the color unlver-ally
elsewhere re rded as a sign of peace.
lag the na vss of Tlerradel Fncgq
us asaslgnalo! hostility. 1 ’ ‘
fi———9 

I) America belong to the people.
or o°Tew monopollsts, railroad mog-
mites and corporatlons?~4ln-on (0.)

Obituary Notice.

Bro. Cobb;—I have long been prom-
ising you an article for the VISITOR
but always ex Inething has intervened
to prevent, 81 d the some is the case
rhis time; for one of my young friends
has recently died, and in addition
to the grief inflicted by her sudden
removal, I have been appointed a
committee to draft resolutions, which
I suppose is a very essential and relig-
ious duty, in order to remove the souls
of the “dear departed" from some un-
comfortable state, to that ‘'realm’’ of
perfect Llxss. so desirable for them to
inhabit. \V'l1y I felt it so necessary
so write resolutions was—1har one of
my bibles is the GRANGE VISITOR,
and I see by it that at the death of
every brother and sister it devolves
up in some officer of the Grange to
promulgate a series of resolutions
varying in length I suppose, as the
necessities of the case require, (as in
cases of nus.-ea for souls in purgatory
by our Catholic neighbors, which
masses are longest I believe for those
de-pest in purgatory) so being uncer-
min as to the exact location if my
dear friend, I thought it would be
-life at least to have them of siifiiclent
length to reach any emergency, so I
Atlltlltd jnst five and one-half days
trying to invent >.’Ol'Xl9[lllllg original
in that regard but failing in ihat, as
a last resort I thought I would look
ove r a few in the \'IsIToi<s for a kind
of formula, and here as usual I was
relieved, for I found that anything
original in regard to resnllllinus would
be glariugly out of style, and Ihiss et-
ll;-d another grave quel-ilioii as to the
ave-iare length of re.-solutionsaud hav-
ing failli ihal’. my young friend was
-if not more than average wickedness
I concluded thatmyresoiutionsneed
not be of more than averalze length.
ll «vim: smiled those two vexed
qu-I-«lions, Ifound no end to forms
covering every conceivable emer-
gency, so I selccwd one that had the
usual “whe-reas," the kind, benefi-
uent, merciful and indulgent Lord
nad in His wise Providence removed
from us our beloved friend to grace
His ihrone as the bad be-re graced
His footstool. (She died fiom a cold
contrac ed in going to a public ball,
half-dressed where she danced her-
~elf dizzy with her half drunken part-
ner, drank a hot, brandy 2-ling to
recuperate her shattered powers for
a “glide” then sat at an open window
and was wet outside by the rain as
she had been inside with liquor, after
which she went home and stood at
the gate an hour chatting with the
boxzy brute who had been her com-
panion, she then weut to her bed was‘
sick three days when she “was re-
moved”) and whereas in her death
her parents lost a kind, sympathetic
and loving daughter, (she was never
known to help her mother wash a
(ll.-ll, her occupation being to sit in at
Willow rocker or to recline in a ham-
mock or on a bedette and read novels
-and snooze away her time.) her com-
panions a genial, gentle, ainiable and
lov‘ng friend, (she had quaireled with,

nd wasjr-alous of every girl of her
auquaintance. was petulant, irritable
and ugly, the community a member
who though young in years was old
in deeds of kindness, generosity and
benevolence, and whose wisdom be-
yond her years was lavishly bestowed
to the elevating, ennobliilg and per-
fecting all within reach of the electri-
fying atmospbere of heavenly influ-
ence, etc., etc., etc.

Therefore be it resolved, etc., etc.,
etc.

Be it further resolved, etc., etc., etc.,
' 1" ‘V’ and

Resolved further, etc.

And that these resolutions be en-
iered at large etc., and a copy sent to
each member of the family and rela-
tive: to tne number of 67, if so many
there be, and that everybody in this
school d strict wear crepe on their
left. arm for the space of ninety days
and that full sized copies of these reso-
lutions be sent to each and every one
of the periodicals printed in this
county and that the editors thereof
be instructed to give gratis a column
of eulogistio editr rials on the virtues
of the deceased, and mail copies of
the same to all the schoolmates of
the deceased securing addresses of
the same at their own expense.

3, N w with all this labor on the mind
ofasmall sized girl who has but just
attained the age of admission to the
Grange will you not excuse me once
more for not writing an article for
your paper. Gravelv yours,

- GRACE Gszannn. _

 

W15 introduce a writer for the
Youths Department to our page with
satisfaction. Grace Gazelle has given
usa chance to repeat what we have
said before. The monotony of these
obituaries is well shown up and though
overdrawn a. little for effect, we are free
to say that we most heartily thank her
for this contribution. We long ago
niade a point that obituaries must not

exceed two inches and we have often .
‘cut them down to that by a revision,

Tlhis is sometimes a little dimcult and

stlmetimes quite impossible and cove .

the good intentions of the. ffimmittei
on resolutions.” But of late we have
given way and curtailed then but lit
tle. Infect we get discouraged as an
ellort to secure the attention of those
who are charged with the duty at


 

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MARCH 15. 15194.

writing up obituaries had proved
abortive.

But this communication has braced
us up and we make another effort to
bring those notices into more satisfac-
tory limits.

A notice of death is well enough and
these preambles and resolutions would
be well enough (when true) if there
were but a few patrons in the state, in
which case we should get but half a
dozen ina year. But with some 18000
members these deaths must occur every
week and the monotonous run of the
notices has long since become a matter
of annoyance to the editor
who must first go over the manuscript
and fix it up so that it will hold to-
gether all right.

That is, capitalize, punctuate strike
out superfluous words, and make it so
presentable that the committee wont
be ashamed of their woi k. This of
course is not always necessary. Some-
times the manuscript is all right in
these particrilais.

Then the proof has to be read and
corrected, and re-read, to be sure that
the compositors mistakes have all been
corrected.

The other day, we got two pages of
legal cap covering a condensed liistory
of some brother who had recently died,
when and where he was born, his
pioneer life, his marriage and to whom,
his eminent qualities of head and heart
all pref‘-ar-erl with a declaratory state-
ment of the intervention of an All wise
Providence in his final taking off‘.

Now as a square proposition we are
free to sax ,that we think this indirectly
charging up all the hereditary or con-
stitutional ailments, as well as care-
lessness of the deceased——tlie mistakes
of the doctor, and the accidents 01’ life,
Which result in death, to“our Heavenly
Father," is not quite the fair thing.

Of course it is liiglily gratifxiiig to
know that the patrons wliodie have all
been models of excellence in private and
public life.

In reading over these obituarirs we
have often wondered whether all the
patrons of our great state were of such
marked excellence or whether ti (9 real
good ones were dying ofl first, and bio
and bye we should begin to get some
obituaries of’ the other sort.

This has become so stereotyped that
we are tired of it. When desired, we
shall be glad to give space for a
notice of the death of a patron, but ex-
cept for some good reason this notice
must be restricted to an inch of space.
If more space is wanted we shall pre-
pare a low scale of prices for the ex-
cess and keep it standing prominently
iuthe Vrsiron.

FOREST l'EAV£-.8.

 

A copy of the second edition of this
beautiful pamphlet of 60 pages has
been sent us by the author, Mr. B.
W. Johnson, of Sl0Wflo\k8, Antrim
Co., Mchigln.

The author is evidently familiar
with forestry in every particular. The
baléful consequences resulting from
the destruction of forests have not
been so seriously feltas to deter our
people from a. sort of indiscr minute
slaughter ofour primitive forests.

"Forest Leaves” gives the law of
the U iileli States for the encourage -
ment of tree p anting also the Michi-
gan law for tree planting by road-
sides, and is a practical work on the
propagation and management of trees
for forest and ornamental pliiiiting.

There are several pages of very beau-
tiful iliti-s showing form and color
of the leaves of trees.

From our examination of this work
weare prepared to commend it most
heartily. We only regret that so few
people care for these things. To any
one having any taste for forestry this
pamphlet will be very valuable. It is
a beauty and richly worth the price
50 cents.

 

H. S. B ioth of Portage will sell his
personal property at auction at his
residence two miles north of Portage
Center on Thursday the 25 h ins’. The
auction er in R. E. James. residence
535. West Vine street Kulanrrz 0;
near union School building-i. .0ffi«:.
in Sheridan block, opposite court
house. With gmd property, a good
auctioneer, if they have a good day
there will be a good large crowd.

 

Some who have sent us articles for
publication may be dieappoirled at
not fliidlng them in print. Tue wiri-
ter is fruitvul of Institutes an I Pomona
Grange meetings at which ar-
ticles are read and ordered sent to the
Vlsvliolt for publication. We have
on hand quite a stock to draw fnm
which will caused as we find room for
them.

 

The article Utopian Firm on first
page is a leader. It the scheme is
practical vhore are lots of men ought
to know it and put it in practice. lhe
writer is not afraid of criticism. Who
will undermine his plan or show its
weak points if it has any.

 

We have said that we have on hand
nhrge supply of long nrrlcl-s. Many
of them are excellent. Brit snort
articles are always most in flflllllhd.
We never hove ‘too many jottings
Smdj vttiiigai-—rrore jnttimiru. ‘

 

'1-‘ma: Wrrirnflonss will in dancrlh
(0 mi 0 "Ii y ulustrmed, in the April
Ournuv.

‘enough for on 

THE Monarch Horse Hoe and Cul-
tlvutor combined is the latest im-
provement in agricultural imple-
ments, designed for hoeing {with
horse). Potatoes, corn, beets, cab-
bages, turnips, etc. See advertise-
ment of Monarch Mfg. Co., in another
column.

 
 

Open Letter.

Hon Omar D Conger and Thomas W
Palmer, U. S Senate.
Gerlrlejman:-I respectfully call your

attention to House bill, No. 3934, now

before the committee on patients of the

Smarter. This bill is asubstitute for

the bills introduced in the House, in-

tended to protect innocent purchasers
of patented articles offered for sale in
open mark st, and “if honest,” would
warmly commend itself to representa

tiv- men, because it would be right.

The first section of the bill down to
the “provlso" is what the people ask
for, but the proviso is a fraud, and
renders the bill worthless, and no
doubt was dictated by patentees or
their a'torneys. This provision in
tact places the people in a more difli
cult position than they are now to
protect themselves against the awin
tiling schemes of the patentright
sharks and their agents; whosow their
inventions broadcast over the land
purposelytocollectroyalyafter inven-
tions havecome into common use. This
kind ofswindling under the protection
of law, is now 3. studied businiss
amonga certain class of patentees in
'his country. To prove this I ca‘l
your attention to a few among the
many cases of robberies and attempts
to rob the people of our state, under
cover of our patent laws. “The
Birdsell Clover Huller, Slide Gate, and
the Drive Well, of which there is now
pending in the United States court.-
for the western district of Michigan 26
cases. This patent ed well was intro-
duced in the State by agents from New
Y ark, from very near the home of one
Nelson W. Green patentee. Those
who introduced the wells into this
State, were very careful to drive them
here and there all over the Stave, and
then pass on to the other Western
Sta.tes- Perhaps Mr. Green knew
nothing of the introduction of this de-
vice in the west. But in due time
his 1-gal representatives, Andrews
Brothers, of New York city represen-
ting a syndicate organiz-d to levy tri--
buts upon innocent purchasers discov-
ered here a mine that they could
work with profit, and pounced down
on the innocent purchasers demand-
ing a royalty of $10 per well of which
there are thousands in every S ate.
Now this kind of cussedness backed
my law, the people of Michigan, your
constituency. are subjected to. We
ask relief. This bill can give it in a.
measure by striking out the provision
in the first sec'ion. But ifit must be
left in, the notice should be the judg-
ment of a court of last resort upon the
patent itseif.

But the whole proviso should be
swept away for it is a downright in
salt to the lntelligenceof the people
and intended to throw dust in their
eyes.

Congress ought to give the users of
articles purchased in open market
what they ask-—perfect immunity.
0 llge psitentees to look to manufac-
rurer- alone for royalty who may be
nanufacturiug and selling their in-
ventions.

Willyiu carefully look after this
bill and put forth your best efl‘irts to
amend it, so -9 to give the people what
common justice demands and what
they should have. But if you fiiidi
cannot be had, for H-sven’s sake pre
vent this bill from becoming a law.

Very respectfully,
H. D. PLATT.

Ypsilanti, Mar. 10, 1884.

____.______.__._
Celery culture, No. I.

At this season of the year the celery
grower is expected to be awake most
all day. Hot beds and cold frames
are in order. The main difference is
the former has manure under the
soil to force growth. The cold frames
being liner, make a. rotation of
plants. Ten sash will be. necessary
mraise the plants for one acre ofcel
ery. It is well to reserve one sash
for novelties in seed. The remainder
of the sashes may be devo‘ed to the
two main varieties of celery seed,
White Walnut and Golden Dwarf,
the former being the extra early.
About four ounces of seed will be re-
quired per acre, seed will cost $3.00
per pound, and Peter Henderson, of
N. Y., is considered the reliable seeds-
man in this specialty. Novelty seeds
or new varieties come in packages.

For late crop celery plolltfl use out-
door seed beds. Prepirre the beds
about the time for onions. probably
April 10. Some prefer seed been
about three feet wide leaving paths
between, others put seed in drills
about I foot spurt. These paths are
necessary when weeding time comes.
Weeding must be done often and
carefully. Put in a few radish 
to show when the celery rows are.

:Mot-it growers prefer the drills. A

running rod will furnish plnntq

_n.w.‘s.‘

 

, The nnnri'ii‘l"pi-urluct'of the uh-en.=_o.|' -
‘the United H'-I'M is worth $l000,(l00

000, and 210,000,000 _are engaged in
producng it.

THE GBANQE VISITOR.

REMEMBER Kalamazoo County Pr-
mona Grange meets at Schoolcrafr,
on Thursday, the 20th inst. The no-
tice and program was in last number.

AT the last moment before going to
press we got the open letter from
Bro. Plntt, which find on this page.
Write to these senators about this
matter before you sleep and to your
representatives to give it further atten-
tion.

 
 

POSTAL IOTTINGS.

Most men call fretting a minor fault,
at foible, and not a vice. There is no
vice, except drunkenness, which can
so utterly destroy the peace, the hap-
piness of a home.-1’/re 1llo(her’s Mag
azrine.

The filthiest place about the farm
is the hogpen, and the hog has been
blamed for this condition; but it is
now claimed that man alone is rc-
iapon.-ible, and that the bog is clearly
by nature. Give him a chance!

Lord Brougliain told the British
House of Peers, that it was no use to
attempt to improve the morals of the
people by giving them education, it
the beershops continued to sow the
seeds of immorality broadcast over the
land.

Bro. Cobb.-——()ne year ago last har-
vestl found a natural head of wheat
iiaviiig a head of chess starting out
about the middle of the head of wheiit
There were three other men there and
saw the same. I always did believe
that wheat would turn to chess and
now I am positive it will.

HENRY ll. llowilian,
Mariette. Sanilac. Mich.

Montgomery Grange, No. 549.
is aliveand likely to live. We have
very few members but they are all
live Grangers. Brother Luce gave in
lecture at Elm Creek Grange on the
7th of February. Oir Grange was
quite well represented, and I think
received a great deal of bonefit from
his lecture. I wish every farmer in
the State could hear him talk.

Pria-:31: M. HOWARD.
Mariette. Sanilso. Mich.

“The Independent Voter in the Next
Campaign."-—An editorial on this sub-
ject iu the March Ceriturg says: "We
venture, thus early, two predictions:
One is that the independent voter
will be found on the side of the can-
didate whose past life gives the best
guarantee that he is in sympathy with
the convictions and aims of the inde-
pendent voter; and the other is that
the candidate supported by the inde-
pendent voter will be the next Presi-
dent of the United States."

Bravo for Brooklyn! The Brooklyn
Aldermen on Monday, on motion of’
Aldermen Bowers passed the follow-
ing resolution, by a vote of 12 to 4:

"\VllEREAS, The railroad corpora-
tions have given free passes to public
ofiicials during their term of ofliue,
thereby damaging the morality and
lll(it*pr-rl(‘l(-31108 of action of such officials,
tliei'efoi'e the Cornrnon Council declares
its disapprobatioii of such action.”

Now will our Legisla ure show its
independence of corporate influence
by an equally emphatic voteY—Ju.e-
tice.

Pay an ignorant. slovenly house-girl
two dollars a week to ruin your stoni-
ach,arid the doctor two dollars a visit
to tinker it up again. In the good
time coming there will be an experi-
mental kitchen connected with every
high school, and cooking will be taught
as one of the sciences. Why not?
Years are spent in mastering s:iences
that are never put to any practical
use, while the science which should
build up robust bodies and healthy,
active brains is ignored. What fools
we mortals be!

We say to the young man who fari-
cies himself sharp in business matters,
every nickel you invest in liquor is a
dollar’s worth of evidence that you
lack good business sense. Would you
purchase an article of food which you
knew was tainted and which would
ruin your health and bring misery to
your family ?

No, it wouldn’t be business; it
woiildir’t pay. Very good then. go on
drinking it you will, but stop boasting
about your good sense in business, for
you haven’t any.

The farmers of the country have the
power; why do they hesitate to use
it? Bscause——théy are not wise as
they ought to be. That is more mild
than necessary, and four letters would
have expressed it. The riiilroads have
got the dropsy; too much water in
the system; they should be tapped;
their on ital slo k reduced about four-
flfths, which would bring it down to
about what ,thc cost of building,
then the charges could be placed at a
flirure which would pay liberal divi-
dends on honest cost.

Fl-{end J. T. C-bbb_:—Wlll you please
correct one word in my response to
“the press of New_York ;" in the line
whereI soy "Peter Cngger and the
t_sei‘-ada‘ys,”tho lust ‘word should be

James, of Albany, so spilled their
a me. It is on the first or second

'(‘I8Fid)B. I am"qu'ite énre"iifsrlin and Z

page of manuscript. Got home S-it
urdsy no-n all right a little tired, but
the memory of the “institute” is still
fragrant with the “psrsnips” and
savory with those excellent dinners at
Long's hall. Your friend,
A. D. P. VAN BUREN,
GALli‘.SB‘L'BG, Feb. 12.

THE Census report makes a very
unfavorable showing for doctors, es-
pecially at the West. Illinois, with a
population of 3,077,871 has 5,890 doctors,
oronein 521. Indiana has 4,993 doc-
tors, or one in 396 of population. The
average for the Western States and
territories is one doctor for each 524
of population, a proportion not equall-
ed anywhere in the world. Chic.-igo
has one doctor to .348 population, De-
troit one to every 469, Indianapolis one
to 313, Denver one to 200, Kaiisas one
to 332, Milwaukee one to 819, Minne-
apolis one to 387, St. Louis one to 475,
and St Paul one to 353.

Bro Cobb.-—Volinia Grange, No.
1%, is doing nicely. Our meeting.-
are becoming more profitable. We
have something interesting for each
meeting. VVe are getting new mem-
bers, and they or me to stay. The
question B x serves a good pui-
pose. Four questions were drawn at
the last meeting as follows: Is it a-
profitable to make butter in winter si-
in summer? R -lerred to VV. R. K rlvy
for essay. VVtiat should be the prime-
olj ct of life? Referred to G. W.
Gard. When is the best time to sow
plaster, and the belt may to sow it?
P.-ferred to M. J. Gard. Sills“ tr-
uiange devote one day to a V(‘g9i&il]l>
-.how next falv‘? R ferred to M. B
Welcker. Fraternally yours,

M. J. Gard.

If the character of a nation is to
be known by any principle that pre
dominates, then by what name she]
be American nation be designateii?
Our christian people would no doub
feel abused if we did not c-ll it a
christian nation, but is it justly enti-
tied to that appellation‘? Sraiisrics show
that as a n ltion we pay $12 000,000 for
the support of the christian ministry,
$75 000,000 for lawyers, while our
liquor bil runs up to $660 000000‘
N )W if we voluntarily pay 80 times as
much for whiskey as we do for chris-
tisnify, is it not proper that we should
be known as s drunke-‘ nation instead
of a christian nation‘? Let Reformer oi
D. W. or some other good bri ther
answer.

CORTLAND HILL.

Governor Cleveland, of’ New York in
alate address at an agricultural meet-
ing well said: “While I urge you to
claim froui the soil all it has to yield
by the aid of intelligent ciiltivation,l
cannot refrain from reminding you
that. as citizens, you have something
else to do. You have the responsibility
of citizenship upon you, and you should
see to it that you do your duty to the
State, not only by increasing its wealth
by the cultivation and improvement of
the soil, but by the iritelligerit selec-
tion of those who shall act for you in
the enactment and execution of your
laws. Weeds and thistles. if allowed
in your fields, defeat your toil and
efforts. So abuses in the adiiiiiiistra—
tioii of your government lead to the
dishonor of your State, choke and
thwart the wishes of your people,
and waste their substance.”

Editor Grange Visitor.-—As I have
read several }-it-C(-'8 in the GRANGE
VISITOR and other papers oflale, inad-
ed “Lice ou cattle,” I wish to give
the readers of the Vrsrron my experi-
ence in the matter. I have tried most
of the remedies mentioned but not be-
ing satisfactory I thought to try the
natural remedy and ti at is dirt. Let
C. P. Morton and others who are
troubled with lice (D cattle get dry
dirt or sand and fill the hair along the
back and sides from horns to trail with
it and report. I have used 11 thing
else for the last twenty years and am
satisfied with the results. It is the
cheapest and the easiest applied of.-my
remedy that I know of. It should be
very dry and applied as often as
thought necessary.

0 V. HAMMOND.

Springport, Mich, March 5, '84.

Editor VISI'l’0R.‘—Ify0u think the
subject worth the space it woull oc-
cupy, I would like to say a few words
in regard to an article in Vrsrroa of
March 1. I was very much disap-
pointed that one who has come inio
brosvler fields of usefulness through
the Grange, should deliberately sacri-
fice an old and dear friend simply be-
cause the family dog expressed his
friendliness to the detriment of the
immaculate white apron. I t(0 like
to see everything spoilessly clean and
neat but let us not be "painfully heat”
for in this never ending battle with
dirt we are finally conquered, and
must lie down with folded hands and
beburied in dirt. I hope that “A
Patron” will think better of her rush
resolution and not sacrifice her friend
because of the unsolicited autograph
of u too familiar but friendly dog.

. “lNEZ."
Lester, Mich. March 8, 1884.

Through the agitation in the

Granges and in the Grange press, the

people have become thoroughly

awakened fo the dsngeis of the free
pass systi m. in connection with men
holding public positions, and yet so
far we have or-crmilir-bed but very
little in the way of prevention. I
think it is high time now that we
make another advance on the ene-
mies work, and I propose that the
Pomona and Subordinate Granges
during the next political campaign
re quire it pledge from every candl-
dave for either house of the State
Legislature, and of each candidate
for Congress to vote for a law making
it unlawful under heavy penalty for
any State cfllcer orjudge (fany court,
or number of the Sale Legislature
or rcember of Congress to receive a
pass from any railroad company. All
horor to Hon. A. F. Frisbee from the
20 h Senate district for refusing
passes. C.

Orion, March 3d.

Brother Cobb.-—My subscription to
the VISITOR has expired but do Ilfl
erase my name from your books. I
expvct to take the VISITOR as lorg as
[live if ills printed until thin. I am
at a loss to account for the negligence
of members of the Order in not sus-
taining the paper. It should be in
evey patrons family. Those outside
the gates wlo read it think it the
iiest agrii ultural paper published and
lfth-.88 ins de could be awakened to
1881158 of duty it could be made to
fl -urish like the bay tree until its
health giving influence would pervade
the minds of eve-y farmer in the state.
Until the i let us labor for the objec
tor which it was established and the
masses are rslieved from the uijusr
i-xactioris that beer so heavily upon
them at the present time. N -t until
then can the O:dH' lay aside its badge
to attend the feast that celel rates the
accomplishments of the grand declara-
tion of purposes of the order.

So small would be the money outlay,
so iiiconsiderable the labor required,
to insure for the next generation a
wealth of timber land equal to that of
which we have the benefit. and shade
treesin even more adequate supply,
that it isagreat wonder to us, amid
all the forcible facts brought forward
against the rate at which forest des-
truction is goirg on, there has been no
more general movement in favor of
tree planting. In Germany and
Austria, for upwards of halfa century,
the number of trees planted has borne
agood proportion to those annually
cut down, and itls certain that this is
the case how, year by year. In
France, Italy, and England, also, tree
cultivation is now general, and it is
held to be a most. important matter of
public concern. But here, with the
characteristic improvideiice which has
come to be considered a marked fea
ture of American character, we are
destroyiig our great virgin forests
with a rapidity never before equaled
in any other countrv, and without
taking any measure to insure their
future growth.

I have been th nkinga good deal of
late‘ about this promissory note busi-
ness, add I can’! see any gord it-a>ori
why one she uld be c lleciable if ob-
tained by fraud, because it was trail 9.
ferred before it was due. No pru-
lent business man will buy a sni-pi
cious note until he krows all about
It 81 yway. But sharp:-rs find the
present law ofrransfer the must con-
venient means of swindlii g the intro
cent. If my one knows of a. valid
reason wiry all notes obtained lry
fraud shruld not be valiii on due
proof, without regard to the innocent
purchaser, I hi-pe they will live it
in the VISITOR, be sure it would be a
great inr.-ovation, arid if there is any
unseen danger lurking behind su-~h
char'ge,l would not edvocwe it, but
ifthere is not, then this change ii.
the prrrnii-sory rote luvs, would al-
ii ost rob the corfldence thieves Ira"-
elingthror.-gh the country and goi-
ring farmers notes of their business.
Why no’doiI? 0,

Orion, March 3d, 1884.

I believe there are two constilu
tional amendments to be voted on at
the next election, one to increase gov-
ernor's salary to $3,000, which should
be adopted, the other to pay members
of the Legislature $740, and 10 cents
mileage which would increase the
cost of each session about $30,000, un-
less its adoption tends to shorten the
sessions. Under the present per diem
system they spin our the session as
long as possible at $3.00 per day, and
the expense above the pay of members
is about $150 for each day, the pro-
posed amendments can be found in
each supervisors, town clerk and jus-
tice’s olfice in the State, let the lee-
turer of each Grange get it, and thor-
oughly discuss the subject in order
that patrons may vote intelligently.
Judging from her excellent letters to
the Vrsrroa, I believe Bro. }Iil1’s
eulogy of ‘Aunt Hattie richly merited,
I certainly never intended to injure
her feelings, but would like to provoke
a contiiiuaiice ofher correspondence,
the perusal of which gives me great
pleasure and is highly instructive.

‘ y " REI-“onrnm.

WE beg to differ with the distin-
guished "uiiknowii" who gave us the

proverb. “Talk is cheap.” it is riot

true. Talk is a very costly commodi-
ty. Millions are wrested every year
from the honest labor of the country
to pay for talk. Witness our halls of
legislation, our courts. and all other
assemblies supposed to be working out
something for the public good. It is
the never-ending flow of talk, talk,
talk. that makes our Congress a na-
tional political debating school. It
is the talk. talk, talk of law_\’ers that
makes justice 21 luxury for the wealthy
and a mockery for the honest man
with a just cause but a slim purse.
Talk is cheap in the sense that wa-
ter is; but when that useful beverage
comes to us in a flood and washes
away millions of property it is acostly
possession. The country is d.owned,
deluged with tloods of talk. Won’t
somebody please pray for a drouth?

Can you Mr. Editor or any other
man give any good reason why United
States senators should not be elected
by the people instead of the legisla-
tures of the respective States. To be
sure it would stop a vast ariiount of
corrupt lrillllllg and deprive unscrupu-
lous lo gislators of the lucrative prac-
tice of' selling their votes to the high-
est bi-‘tier, which has l~ecoriit- :1 dis-
grace to the nation. L'nd«-r the pres-
ent systeui the Senate is so far re-
moved l'roiii the people that the great
niass of voters have llut-llillt‘ iiilluence
with that body which igriored the
house bill to protect the rights of iniio-
cent purclizisers from patent right
sliarks. and now they adopt a resolu-
ll()l1 to pay Sr’-.00 ]lt'l' day to a clerk for
each senator wliich will cost t.-rx—pay—
ers about $100,000 for this session, and
our Senator l’a|nicr voted for the
steal, while Conger was honest enough
to vote at: rinst it. The house dare not
pass such a resolution but are as much
entitled to clerks as the senators.
The Grange should agitate the subject
until they receive an ariieiiiiriierit oi"
the constitution. ltlglmlnllizlc.

[For Adflifnvirrl Jnfl-inmz .0: r fl/hpaga}
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N0|lCi'.S UF mztliflos.

St. Clair Pu mona Grange No. 12 will
hold its next regular [D0-'6"lliR at
Jeddo Wednesday Mlrch 19 1884 to
which all patrons are corn ally in-
vited. F. M. CARLE"l‘()N,

Secretary.

Port Huron March 10.

The next quarterly meeting of the
Munistee Dir-u'l!'t Pomon Grange will
be held with Sherman Grange the.
thid Tuesday in March at 2? M. All
fourth degree members in good stand-
ing are cordially invited in am-nd.

H. A. DANVILLE,
Secretary.

Marailla, Mich. March 5.

The annual meeting of Allegan
County Pomona Grange, will i e held
at Molilie, on April 3rd 18:84. The
fifth degr ewill be confered, also the

lecliou of (fllcers will take place.
All fourth degree nceinbers are
cordially invited to attend, and join
said Grange. Fraternally,

D. S. Gakriivnn,

Feb. 28th, 1834 Haul‘. Lay)’,

A special meeting of Lancer Co_
Poiriova Grange N0. 2?) will he he]
with F-iiit River (ilraivue No, 656, on
the third 'l‘huv.-day in March. (March
20 Ii), 12584. Meeting will he called to
uid-r at 1o’cli»(-k P M. All 4 fr de-
L-‘Tl-8 uienil.»er.- are coruia ly invited to
attend. The following is the program
furnished by the W. Lect. Sister E.
R Owen:

Music, by the Flint River Grange
Choir, the usual order of liui-Lnes-s,
IlJllSi('; oration, "vlliaz good can be
hl’~Ul1lpllSil(>'(l in the (irar gt-?” by
E. Bartlett (if Dryden Grul-go ; music’
essay, “ilury ofiii patron, by H, Lea,-
man of North Branch Urhligf; ii usic,
essay, “now to make ht-ure attract-
We 1"’ by Sister S. J Mom. of Pine
Sins. Grange; music, dli~cui-siozi open
all. R >0 vru that a. prlltrntlvfl tarifl‘
lH bemfi-ial to the Iurmer.
Montgomery, Bartlett, , and
D- n on the siliiniiitise and by
Muir, Stove-, Foot aid Fin-kie on the
Kl-gulivt; music. All Vbhnre names
appear in the above program are re-
quested to come prepared to on their
part. J. W. l~'criiLL.

Secretary.

The next meeting of Branch County
P -m-inn Grunge will be held at
Q iincy on Thursday, llrlnrvb 2li,p,and
will he entertained by QIlllt('y Grange.
The nieeiiiig will be called to order
at 10 A. M and the regular business of
the Gr--iige be transactc-d in the morn-
ing session. All4th d+gree members
will be cordially wel -omed.

The afternoon meeting will be an
open one, lhe public are invited espe-

cinity. The programme
exercises is as follows:
Music, by Quincy Grange choir.
Welcome to Pomona Grange, by
Mrs. T. L. Joseph.

of literary

forming character in the young, by
Mrs Fulcher.
in Aiiuire.

What sciences most dirrctly con-
cern fiiirmers by Mr. Wagoner.

As the law allows that women may-
have a voice and vote in school meet-

ifso why don’t she uoii? by Mrs. J.
C. Boone.

R-citation. by Mrs. Marla Warner.

Song, lay Mr. and Mrs. H. B. George,
Heal ii and home.

Notes and observations of 3 school
in»-hector, by T. B Keni-dy.

The care ofsiock through March and
April, Dr. L. Jorinson. Flora’s offer-
rniz. Mrs. May Graves.

Rwlmtlon, by Miss Addie Jones.

Closing song by Qiiucy Grange
ch -ir. .

“Discussion on such papers as is de-
. .d.
Mas. Mun: E. Hoaron.
L-ciurer.

 

Tun Acme creamery is endorsed’
auioiig (lull) men and runners and de-
sa-rvedly so. It is as simple as well as
effective a. mar-liine of the hllld we ever

su.w.——[W. 11. L., In Ohio Iva:-7722:".

 

 

cially the people of Qiincy and vi- ‘

The value of an attractive home in‘

Song, by Miss Jennie Johnson, Rob-

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

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MARCH I5. 1894.

firrllrullrrrl -}‘lt|illlll1llll-

“Vatieliesol Fruits Adapted to the Chicago
Market.”

On page four, of the issue of the VIS-
ITOR of Feb. 15th appears a paper
read several years since by Thomas
Mason; prepared by W. A. B., by a
series of questions addressed to Mr.
Mason.

It is not my purpose to anticipate
the reply of Mr. M—, but rather, to in-
vite attention to the fact that the pa-
pa r, bere republished, er-t-imates fruits
strictly from the dealer's standpoint,
without regard to their profitablenes»
to the grower; and we are the more
inelined to traverse the recommenda-
tions of the paper‘, for the reason that
inexperienced planters for the mar-
ket seem, too often, to forget that the
interest of the grower and that of the
dealer, are by no means always identi-
cal.

One of the very first varieties of ap-
ples named is Steele's Red, a name-
sometimes applied to one variety and
sometimes to another; but which pro-
perly belongs to none.

Spiizenburg is also named. Bu
there are at least half a dozen Epicen-
burgs, and we are left to guess which
one is intended; we will assume that
Esopus Spilzenburg is intended, since
it is the one most generally known;
and we will only add that, to the
grower, for market, it is one of the
most hopelessly unprofitable varie-
ties; although beautiful and excellent
where it is szzccessful, which is almost
nowhere in Michigan. The VVagner
is alittle better, while the trees are
quiie young; but for a series of years,
it must be written down as very un-
profitable. N'o;vton pippin.-3 are even 8
Worse f.=.ilure than either of the for-;-
going. not only in Mil lllgull but ev(-
rywlrere at the wes.-. It can rarely be
grown lit to tiller upon the market;
and succeeds only in a very few local-
itiesin. the entire country. But the
moet utterly worthless variety in the
apple list, is the Pcnnock, which will
bear to be handled with a scoop, like
potatoes; and isjust fit to go upon the
tails at a hotel \\ here the ol-ject is
to get a dish of fruit that will stay.

Passing the pears and cherries which
are less seriously objeCti0t1B.ble, we
come next to plums. In this list there
is but a single variety, the Lombard,
any intelligent plum grow-..r in south-
ern Michigan would plant. for profit‘.
Washington and Green Gage are ex-
cellent but they almost never mature
moi; fgrri’. V\’ild goose, has not yet

done anything creditable in this
Stair.-. It seems molest home further
south.

Yellow peaches are characterized as
the most popular; and while several
are na.rr.ed, and the conrrnon imnre.-.-
sion among growers seems to be that
almost any yellow peach will pass in
the market as a Crawford; thereseems
more recently to be a growing prefer-
ence among buyer.- for the really finer
and better pale I1:shed varieties.

Of the lis: of strawberries, at least
six are utterly unfit to be planted for
prori€'; while Agriculturlsts, Seth Bay-
den, Col. Cheney, Forest Rose, Great
American, Lenings White, and Presi-
dent ‘Wllderjust hang upon the skirts
of such a list as an amateur might de-
sire. Capt. Jack, Charles Downing,
Champion Duchesse, Eudlcott, Glen-
dale, Green Prolific, Jucunda, Mon-
arch of the west, and Triomphe de
gand, are of such a doubtful character
under the hand of the average grou-
er that they can hardly be said to be-
long in a general market list. This
would reduce the list to six varieties,
Champion, Crescent, Cumberland,
Kentucky, Sharpless and Wilson; of
which only the second, third and
sixth stand high among growers gen-
erally; while with the others, special
management is essential; and, with it
some of them at least, as well as oth-
ers not in the list, often yield returns
greatly exceeding the results of ordin-
ary management with any varieties.

T. T. LYL-IN’.

South Haven, Feb. 16, 1884.

Editor Grange Visitor:——In your is-

ticle by Thos Mason, of Chicago, on
market varieties of fruit. To the
farmer and fruit grower this is a very
important question as his suc;ess in a
great measure is depending upon the
wise selection of varieties. In other
words a man may comply with all
the Pnmlrtions of success in other re-
spects and after sper ding years of
toil in growing an orchard find his
labor lost, from want of knoweldge in
this one direction. There are so many
things to be taken into account, hab-
its of growth, hardiness, adaptability
to soils, size, color, keeping qualities,
texture, etc., etc., that extreme care
should be used in making recom-
mendations and then the conditions
under which success may be expected
should in all cases be given, other-
wise it will be misleading. Take the
Baldwin for instance. which can be
grown on a greater variety of soils,
with profit, than almost any other
apple, yet on account of the tree being
tender should never be set on low
ground where the cold air settles, or in

sandy soils it will have a bright, red
color pleasing to the eye, while on
heavy clay the apple will be a dark
brown or dull red. The Red Canada
or Michigan Steel's Red,on account of
its size, color and flavor stands de-
servedly at toe head of the list and
if its habits of growth were good and
as productive as the Baldwin, it would
leave nothing to be desired for a first-
class market variety. The Steel's Red
has not been disseminated enough to
prove whether or not it will be a prof-
itable variety for all .-oils and climates
It should be top grafted into ,
hardy, tree growing variety, as the:
Golden Ru.-;sett or Northern Spy.

The fruit it perfect will bring in
any large market from -300 to -*Z~‘l.o<'l
more on a barrel than any other va-
riety. The Spi‘zenburg although a
fine apple is Worthless with me, as
it doe- not bear and the tree is not
hardy. The \V»;gner is a very fine
apple, but it has the fault of overbear-
ing when young, causing the tree to
become diseased, and it soon dies out
Perhaps if the fruit was picked off‘
until the tree attained a proper size,
it might give satisfaction. The New-
ton Pippin is agrand apple, with high
manuring and with a suitable soil,
but with the majority of growers, it
would probably prove a failure. The
Spy I consider the finest apple grown
for cooking, it being very fine in tex-
ture, juicy and jus: acid enough to
give it a pleasant flavor. It bears
heavily of fine, large vpples on some
soils and again in other localities
grows a small and knotty fruit that ii-
worthless. The Pennock or R')rnarr-
ite is a third-rate apple, and should
never be seen in a list of Michigan
apples u; less a man grows enough to
sell by the carload, and then they
. ust go into the extreme south for a
market. For Ill me use they are
wor.‘l.lessas a man will not eat them
lfthere azcany turxrip.-s around. But
it is its-el=;-as and a waste of time to gt:
tlirorrgli the whole list. Ifyou r-an
efettrniiiie which is the best variety _
for market takirrg all things into ac-
count set out this one variety or ifyon
do not wish to carry all your eggs in
one basket. rnmkc it two varieties, that
is enough if you have made a wise-
choice.
A man cannot go far out of the way
in pliclrrg tic Baldwin and D‘teel’s
Red (Dawnings Red Canada) at th+
head of the list of market varieties.
In regard to cherries I will give my
experience and you can take it for
whatitis worth. I set out 10 or 15
varieties. including (.fll1‘5 sweet sorts
the Black Tartarlan, Nor Wood Napo-
leon Bigarreau, Goes Transparent,
Late May Duke el(‘., together with
the May Duke and Early Richmond.
of the sweet sorts there is hardlya
tree left, they having been killed by
hard wi::re:s. The sour varieties, the
Early It chmond, and lllay Duke are
nearly allalive, and bearing fine crop.-
of fruit. Now frorn .\lr. Mason’;-
standpoint the sweet varieties are all
very well. the fruit is all that could
be desired, but like an old receipt for
crroking rabbits, which commences
with the preamble “first catch your
rabbit.” I would say, before you
market the fruit first grow the tree.
If that can be done then pass on to
the second rropo.-sition. I can agree
with Mr. Mason as to the value of the
Miami r.rspberry as a choice market
Variety. Having grown the Doolittle
and Miami together, I can testify to
the superiority of the latter over the
former. One thing more and I am
done. To the unexperienced with a
fineenthusiasm for growing fruits, my
advice would be to go slow. D0[l’I
imagine because the polite and insinu-
ating a-ent charges you $2 00 for one-
half (It zen strawberry sets that the
fruit will be high-toned or flavored,
because the price is high or that in
buying the "very latest importations”
in fruit trees at a fancy price, war
ranted to be iron—clad, frost proof, bug
proof, and ever bearing, wi-.h a higl
sounding title as the Duchess of somu
where, and the Duke so and so or the
Emperor of Softsoa. Captain Jack, or
“any other man,” that the fruit wil
be large and fine because the name is.
"For what's in a name,” etc.

Yours truly,
WM .H. RANDALL.

Ypsilanti, Mich., Box 973.

A correspondent of the Popular o'cl-
ence News says: “During the_ many
years that I have taken your journal
Ihave noticed in it V2l.l‘l01lS rnethods
for removing glass *~‘toppel‘s from hot-
tles, all of which seem to have some
objectiorr. Tire one I use has no se-
lions objection, ltlld is t-lft-otllitl. At-~
tach one end of a. stout cord to scrim-
thing firm, wind it once around the
neck of a bottle, hold the end firm
with one hand. and with the other
hand move the bottle I‘-‘l ridly buck and
forth. The friction will readily heat
the glass enough to expand it just
where it is needet .”

 

A SENATOR happily describes us-
when he said “We are a rich govern-
ment and a poor people.” “The oppor-
ation of existing laws, both Federal
and State, is to gather the wealth of
the country, the earnings of the mil-
lione, into the hands of the few. You
cannot manufacture millionaires with-
out defrauding labor. There is no de-
vice known to mortal man whereby a
few can be made suddenly rich by com-
mei-ce,manufacturers or stock specu
lation without robbing the producers
of wealth.”

 

positions exposed to severe cold. On

 

it but some of
have seemed to be just the thing
in the right place
counts one ahead to make up for the

The Waste and Mistakes in Farming.
Read at the February meeting of the
Kalamazoo county Husbsndmt-ins Club
by W. B. Cobb, and publishei iv vote
of the meeting.

a my story, unless my inexperience sub-
jects me to more mistakes and greater
waste than older heads, or perllaps thr-
comnrittee thought I might continue my
mistakes on paper, which when present
ed would draw out discussion, when b_\
the same errors. or similar ones, might

5011119 [ be avoided in the future.

In this paper we shall aim to treat ol
the common every day mistakes, and
leave the more weighty affairs cl
church and state to those whose nat-
ural inclinations lead in that dizectlon.

It seems to me the foundation of all
mistakes in farmingis attributable tr
:3 lack of knowledge of what causes wil.
produce results. We are too apt to “go
it blind” and when some "go as you
please” adventure proves to be a mis
take, the failure is usuily at‘ributed to
some theorv remote from the true cause
and usually justifying the adventurer.

Now suppose we carefully scrutinize
one year's farming operations of the
present day of the average farmer. We
Will commence in the spring. Mr. A.
goes to town and in passing the black-
smith shop espies neighbor B's plow left
there for repairs. Now that looks like
busiues=. Wonder if the frost is on:
of the ground. Well I can plow
if he can. Home he goes to eat
an early dinner and when night comes,
has at least. "one lap” on neighbor A.,
whose plow he saw at the shop. The
next day all the plows on that street are
at work, vreir.-g with each other on the
home stretch . The same practice 113 f. l-
lowed throughout the entire season. It
the ground is in poor condition they
don't deny there was fault in the plow-
lng.1f the crop is sparing on the ground
and looks sicklv, the cause 18 easily ac-
counted for,-ind when the tlrr».-sho:r‘s tally
is short of What it m:gl.t have been, we

‘lo k buck over the past uni see the mic

takes and consequent loss and resolve to
learn by past experience and to do
differently in the future.

It seems to me the great mistake, and
waste in farming comes of not knowing
more about the fundamental princi} lee
that govern farm operations, the general
management and work,the best ft:l'llllZ:‘l'b
to use, the rotation of crops, manner of
handling and disposing of the same.

It never appeared more true to nie
than when attending the institute at
Galesburg last year. There were views
e:rpressed by many leading farmers
whose practical experience had taught
them, in many instances, quite dill'er-
entlv. There was a Want somewhere,
either in knowledge, or in its ;)t");)(-)1‘
application. There were half a tin’ zen
tqually prosperous farm;-rs all in the
same vicinity with the same kind of so 1,
some sunshine and rain, markets alike,
social and educational advantages (qllnl
and each one persulng s verv d;l}‘=_rent-
course and perhaps all getting along
fairly well. When one hits the mark
the other misses it and so it goes the
rounds. How often we notice this when
some city lad takes a notion to run the
“Old man's” farm. He buys teams and
traps, hires a man or two, and runs busi-
ness on high pressure principles. being

careful to avoid folloring in the foot-

steps of his old fogy neighbors. Now
this follow will succeed fairly well until
his ambition fails him. He has made
some mistakes and is sorry for
his experiments
and the boy
next blunder.

Now, it seems to me. there is but one

right way to produce the same result
and with the same existing circum
stances

all ought to arrive at the
test possible way from about the same
direction.

I do not wish to be understood that I
think farming can be successfully done
by some tabulated rule laid down in
somebody ‘is spelling book, but I do think
there is a great waste and many mis-
takes made by our not knowing more
fullv what results under different cir-
cumstances and conditions our opera-
tions wrll produce.

The prarie farm. the opening field and
the sandy hill all need treatment. and
very materally different the one from
the other. but some plan for each would
be beneficial and make mistakes and
waste less frequent.

The same general rule will apply to
machinery and tools: we ought to know
which particular tool is best adapted to

each locality, kind and condition of soil.

If the prairie l'(’(]l1!l‘6l:! a steel plow
and a cast one is just as good for the

npeuir~gs,then why not have just two

kinds and of the very best possible
make.

At the Husbandmans Club last
year there were as many different npin-
ions about which was the best reaper.
mower, cultivator, etc., as there were men
there, and they seemed to pride th:m-
selves~in each one having a different
too]. and a way of his own to use it.

In reply to the inquiry, “What will
keep tools from rusting?" Tue verv
remedy applied by one would spoil his
neighbor-’s. Now there is a mistake
somewhere. ‘.‘What is sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gander.” and
whatis good for one farmer is equally
good for another under like circum-

Michigan has not a single distillery.

Why this subject was assigned me is.

2 need a more expensive outfit
1 He may want a seven-foot bind-
ier and a suiky plow. while the

smaller farmer can’: afford the addi-
tional r xpense. ‘;:»'.1".- he can get the same
;thing on a smaller plan, or perhaps, but-

many colors, like Joseph’s blzuse in

!a larger scale than another and as Egyptian darkness or spotted and of 3 the material in them for deep thought,

f‘ and when put in shape by other bands

olden times; whether it is better to feed , are productive of much good.

corn while on clover. and if so, when to
do it; whether to give them ground feed
in a slop, stewed clover hav or cocked
potatoes:

jter still, tbev may combine their i-.rfer- pork, and when the choice is with us. to

,ests so that the large binders can cut the I know which to do.

Some would say do

igrtin for the nezghi-orhoiul. In my V many of these things; others none. One

-‘opinion we want to do aavuy vcrfl: this . w-2-uld bur stock and feed his crop»; an- =

I endless variety, select some good tool.-
l best .\.l:-ipre-.1 to our location anti circurn
.stanc-3s,use them to the erclu.-ion -.1" rill
.utl_1ers, and we will :".V'Old paying for end-
Eless patent dodges and high pricr d ex-
:periments. One might say if we lessen
f the variety, we decrease the competition
iv with the ct‘-rrespondirg liability to high
j prices, but if we buy as many or more
lrnsehinesun-'1 all alike it seems to me
i we would cheaper: the manufacture and
lconsequently increase the demand and
give the fame: a better tool for less
money.

I think there is another mistake we
make. The way we do our work. One
is forever planning and fails to live to
see his schemes mature. Another jumps
at conclusions and does his work by
main strength and awkwardness. On
the one hand we fail in what we under-
take by undertaking too much. on the
other by rushing madly in without con-
sidering results. The proverb given
for anger will apply well to this class of
farmers: “When angry, count ten, when
zzery angry one hundred.”

To illustrate the other class: I know
a farmer who would invaru bly leave a
needy cornfield to rock the baby, or the
ha} ing for the churn, the summer fal-
low for an auction, would stop all hands
for a circus, and every Saturday put in
:1 full day in town, and at the end of the
st-9.son’s work he honestly believes he
l.-as made the best of his time and b an
i.-xi‘:-etlirrglv lr.-rlustrious. This remlnd.r-
rne of what a farmer once said “that
working between meals was what broke
hrm nil up.”

some of our plans had bGttOl.‘1lr,V€l’
come into pr-actzloe, but good. jl1LllclOllb
farming, togellre-r with energetic work
will produce succes-ful results.

So much for the crops and their cul
ture. In the care and handling of
stock the difference is still more per-
ceptible.

This country as compared with others
in the live stock industry is fur ahrad,
and with the amount of land yet unim-
proved and resources undeveloped
shows the industry capable of almost
indefinite extension.

Our fertile lands and productive pas,-
tures together with cheap transports.-
iion and improved facilities for handling.
enable us to successfully compete with
other countries 11). the production of
me.-.t.~:.

The foreign consumption is much
agreatcr than they can supply; there 1:-
room for their own and all we can
send them. We should ever hear in
mind that poor goods bring poor
prices. The better the article the
higher the price and greater the de-
mand. As a rule, those who want a
good article and will have nothing else
are willing to pay a good price for it,
and to make our business profitable we
have only to study how to produce the
best quality at the least cost.

We may learn a valuable lesson from
some of our English breeders and feed-
ers, whose practice it would be well for

us to imitate and aim to arrive at as flat-
tering results. \Ve farmers ought to
know to a certainty whether it pays to
feed stock, and if so what kind are the
best and will bring in the largest returns
for the money invested.

It is an undisputed fact that feeding
has as much to do with the variations in
stock as the breeding, and an improve-
ment in either makes a more perfect un-
irnal. Like producs like to a certain
extent, but the animal islargely depend-
ent on its food for the quality of flesl‘.

We should study the nature and hub-
its of the animal we feed, and the com-

position of food, and learn such com-
binations as Will make a nutritious ration
that will convert everything grown up-
on the farm into meat, with good returns
for capital invested .

It is a mistaken notion that a great
extent of land is l'( quired to keep stock.
Au economical system of feeding is pref-
ferable. soiling when necessary,
and not devote so much valuable
land to pasture that can be used

so small a part of the year. I think we
can raise as much or more grain on the
same number of acres for a series of
years by feeding a certain amount of
stock as we could do without the stock.
They are a help to each other that neith-
eroculd well do without, and to com-
bine the two with profit needs careful
study and persistent effort.

We should know whether to feed more
gram and less hay, straw and stalks, also
the best kind of shelter and most con-
venient racks to economzo feed. Should
determine whether to pump the water
fresh and warm from the ground or let
the windmill do the work. what kind of
sheen should we keep for wool and shall
we raise earlv lambs for market, wheth-
er cattle should be fatted at two, three or
four years old or sold for veal. whether
we keep for farm use Holstines Her-
fords Poled Angus or the httle Jersey,
whether our horses should be the Nor-
man Membrino. Hambletonian or Clay,
whether our hogs should be pigs in the
spring or shoate of sixty to
a hundred pounds; whether they should

lots: .r would sell his grain and buy meat.
; -‘luv; would raise wool and growl about

5 the price. and when he bought clothes. 5-

select the poorest kind of shoddy.
If the farmer woull wear the same

would last longer, look better. keep him
warmer. increase the demand for wool
and give him a better price for his clip.

Another would sell half fatted stock,
chew tough beef and blame the butch
ers, buy some double headed hybrid
wheat, some $10 cats or white elephant
pvtutoe, only to find that they had been
duped again. Btill another. would sell
good clover seed this year and buy sand
and Canada thistles next; buy of some
eastern nurseryman forty different kinds
of halfdead apple trees when four va
rleties of good trees are better, sit out
three a‘ r four dwarf pear trees, and pe:-
lraps he would get some fruit, and in-the
garden follow \ ut the rule with the ad-
dition of a scythe.

In our age of progress the experi-
ments of yesterday are the necessi le-
of to-day, and valuable lessons from
a prsc‘ioal standpoint have been demon-
strated by the exhibitions at the agri-
culturnl fairs and the Chicago Fat
Stock shows. There was the stock of
all ages, kinds and quality and the man
ner tr‘ producing given res nits, rain?
average gains per day and u can-fur
study of the animals and manner 0‘-
Jrei.-truer t to enlighten and instruct.

Prof. Stuart says: “Tire period when
food it: cheaper than care is at an en_l.'”
‘chimnrer feeding is no doubt the most
favorable for producing growth and lay
mg on fat, because it re quires less Itltlti
to keep up the animal heat, but it may
be doubted wht-thrr summer feeding
costs less than in the winter because ill
a. rule the country over. it takes threi
times as much land to summer stovk ai-
’o winter it, and if the labor of prep .r
ing the winter food costs less than tllt
capital invested in the extra number or‘
acres in pasture, then the winter fe«.dinp
is cheapest.

These are questions we should be llblt
to decide correctly. A change of circnrn
stances would of course necessitate drf
ferent operations and bring about d der-
ent results, but .1 more thorough under
standing of the lJll:ll]t:8S as a whole, an 2
a better knowledge of the details, would
diminish the 1abor,lncrease the profit.-.
m..ke mistakes less frequent, and the-
wholc more pleasant.

Now, I wonder if we don't make some
other mistakes ‘B

An eminent English writer once said
the “Americans were a set of grum-
blers. There was always something the
matter, it was too hot or too cold, too
wet or too dry, too much sunshine or too
little, and if they had a real nice plea;~.-
-.n t day they sneeringlv called it a
Weather breeder.”

Arc-n’t we S0111-Jllllles in too great -.1
hurry for our meals when the fault is
not entirely with the cook? Don’t we
behave bad house-cleaning time, when
we get only the best of it? lJon't we
say swear words at the Bl'.uVé,',)lpe and
go 011‘ and leave the old stove for weak-
er hands to black?

Do we take our wives to ride only to
church. and then don’t they go alone?
Do We give them what money they want,
and if we do, don’t we borrow it all back
before they have a chance to spend it?
I guess we do, audits among the mis-
takes in farming.

As regards the average farmers build-
ings. mistakes and waste are too often
the rule. They are frtquently erected
with the ol-jest sought almost entirely
ignored.

dis house is without sufiicient sun-
light-.ventillation or drainage, without
woodshed, and woodpile poor or none at
all.

His barns frcquently too much foun-
dation and roots with too little storage
capacity between.

His fences just good enough to learn
his stock to jump and make him a fit
sul ject for a neighborhood quarrel
which may terminate in a lawsuit, where
mistakes will occur and waste and loss
certainly follow.

Do we keep pace with the time?

Do we improve the opportunities be-
fore us? Otuel vocations and pursuits
are on the alert.

The newspaper man prints startling
news to dav and takes it all buck to-mor
row. The principal ingredient of pa-
tent rnediornes is printer’s ink.

Fickle fashion keeps up With the most
improved kind of se wing machines and
makes the garment cost the same no
matter what the facilities are for making.
The inventor of the burglar lock in-
vents a tool to pick it.

Governments construct immense iron
clads and at the same time makes guns
big enough to sink them, one makes
business for the other and all prosper.

Among the things needfnl with far-
mers is a more thorough understanding
of farm management. more friendly dis-
cussions on subjects of interest, a gen-
eral airing of the common mistakes, to-
gether with the successes and failures in
different experiments. Some very crude

stances. One may be doing business on

be white like the “beautiful snow," black

whether to sell as hogs orl

kind of clothing that his sheep do they 2

tome well studied plan from a sua-
, cessful neighbor is w rth a dozen con-
= jecfures from the city agrioulturalist,
but when we take some brother farmer
for a pattern let us be careful and
. choose wiselv. See that we select the
-, right one to follow.

In the first place let us be sure there
is the right in-rtcrrul in ourselves. How
, often a good farmer is spoiled by trying
to make a doctor. lawyer, preacher or
, specrrlzitor, Now most every one of us
,5 is good for something, and better adapt-
ed to that than anything else, and we

i make a fatal blunder when we mistake

3 our calling.

: Jav Gould was once a cow boy on a
rough Connecticut hillside, and there
was a mutual dislike between the cows.
the business and himself. Wm. H. Vim-
derbuilt was at thirty years of age try-
ing ID vain to get a living on a farm
while his father frequently in conversa-
tion alluded to him as his fool.

In casting about for a pattern there
are two kinds we should avord—the fan-
cy farmer and the sloven. I would not
for a moment discourage good. thorough,
practical farming (wish I had done bet-
ter myself), but the real fancy farming
belongs to some agricultural college or
an experimental station, where lI16l0C&-
tion and surroundings are suitable. and
will warrant the extra outlav of time
and monev.

The individual farmer as a rule can’t
afford to try experiments, even it he
has a special gift and his inclinations
run in that direction. Men who have
-S20,()t?O to 4 tier or refuse for any single
animal. and \. ho can afford to take all
the risks of carrvrrrg such property may
perhaps well spend their money that
way.

If we have money enough and are run-
ning the farm for the love of it, and can
take part of our pay in glory. than fancy
fnrrnrng may do, but the average farmer
is r_ot thus happily situated. Men who
have to economize on some of the nece :-
srtio:-, or borrow morev for such specu-
lation, hurl b-..-tter stand back. keep cool,
and look on. There is u mean between
the two extremes, which when our-efully
followed. will bring in the bust returns.

"Bi tter be born lucky than rich” is a
good maxim but to be altogether suc-
cessful one needs to have shrewdness
and brains, together with persistent ef-
fort and with these we will be less likely
to mike waste and mistakes in farming
and reap the hill reward of our labonand
good luck and prosperity be our portion.

Science and Pedanlry.

The L: clinical pedant imagines, that
(tin :r.~ir-al rlClt‘llL‘t‘, is sorrrethlng or ly to
be found in labratorits, transactiorrs
of lean’ ed sr'(-ieties, and ttchnlcal
treatie.-; his int’-llcc: is too narrowly
spm-la] zed to enable him to withstand
that the .-e “material char'ges”, which
the (-i1iltl"oi«serves around him,” are
as purely chernrcal, and as strictly
scientific as any [.0i~!Sll)l(' labratory per-
form a!'rt‘t,R, and that the rationale of
.~uch vulgar, every day procc-cdirgs as
described in “l<‘arri.day's L. ctures,” on
"'l‘he Chemical History of C.‘-udle,” is
of much greater phzlosophical ir-tere-sf,
than the hypothetical formula given
in learned words of scientific sound.
Says the authority above quoted: "I
hate taught chemistry to children of
five _\ ears of age and upward.-, and find
that the ciremical elem».-nts—the let-
ters of Nature‘s alp'r.rabet—are quite as
intelligible to them as the letters of the
liter;.u‘y alphabet, and that the ordina-
ry combinations of chemical elements
are as easily understood, and remem-
bered as the spelling of common Eng-
lish words. Chtinistry is far morein-
tclilglble to young children than Eng-
lish grammar as usu:-lly taught, sim-
ply because chemical phenomena are
fucts presentable to the senses, which
are more active in children, than in
adults, while the rules cf grammar are
intangible, invisible ab-tractions. VVe
lately listened to a lecturer on "Seeds”
on the growth of the plant, in which
the lecturer clearly demonstrated, and
made plain the fundamental law of
plant life‘ This lecture was worth to
those who heard it, a volume of those
verv scientific lectures, on the same
sul ject, in which a learned Professor,
after having gathered the simj le. fun-
damental truths, packs them away in
technical phrases which he glrbly de-
livers to his listeners, in a lecture so
sicentific, that lllllth ofit is not un-
derstood. John Randolph, said a pub-
lic speaker, should not use, or quote a
word or vhr-rse that his listeners could
not understand. The he-arcr has a
right to demand this.

V. B.

It is the part of an indi-creet and
troublesome ambition [0 care too much
about fame-about what the world sa 3
of u~; to be always looking into i. e
facts of others for approval; to be al-
ways anxious for the e fl'ect of what we
do and say; to be always shouting to
hear the echo of our own voice. If you
look about you, you will see men who
are wearing life away in feverish anx-
iety for fame; and the last we shall ever
hear of them will be the funeral beil
that tolls them to their early grave.-
Longfellow.

 

 

A Cincinnati correspondent writing
after the recent flood says: “It is 39.
tonishing how clean the streets, the
cellars and houses look after their wash
ing, and what 3 new, appearance thg
itreflg and stores present after their
at .

ideas set forth in homely form often have

  


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MAROH 15. 1884.

-dnmnmniratiuzo.

THE LOOM OF LIFE.

l‘.Y E2303 E. RI‘ XFORD.

All day, all night. I can hear the jar,

Qf t1»,e‘l0r.m of life. and near and far

It thrills with its deep and niuffled sound.
As the tireless wheels go always around.
Busily, Cr'5'i'<le1l;SS1.y goes the loom,

The wheels are turning early and late,

And the wool’ is woundin the warp or fate

Click, clack! there's a thread of love wove in.
Click, clack! and another of wrong and sin!
What a the-ckered thing will this life be
When we see it unrolled in eternity 2

Time with a face like a. mystery.

And hands as busy as hands can be,

Sits at the Zoorn with its warp oulspread,
To catch in zts meshes each glancing thread
When shall this wonderful web be done?

In a thousand years, perhaps, or oi.-c;

Or to-uiorrow, who kn >weth‘r' Not \O|l not I
But Wheels tu in on and the shuttles fly.

Ah, sad-eyed. weaver, the years are slow,
But each one is nearer the end I know.
And some day the last thread shall be wov-
en in,
God grant it be love ins‘ead of sin.
Are we spinners of woof for thislife-web-
say?
Do wefurnish the weaver athread each day?
It were better then, on my friend to spin
A beautiful thread than :1 thread of sin.

 

-"The Machinery of the Heavens Running
Down.”
PROF. A. WINCHI-ILL.
The above named professor for only
$35 visited St. Johns, a short time ago
to insrrnct her intelligent citizens (D
the‘ Life Time of Worlds" and reveal
to the people the awful fact that God's
great machinery of the universe was
getting out of repair, and hastening to
certain ruin. I think the piofeesor
makesapoor return to the state, for
the money 511-: has 4-xpetidetl in fitting
him fora useful life. For a man of
his assviineii abilities and the a:'va::-
tagcs he has erjoyed, he shows some
very weal; points in his intellectual
capacity, some of which I will show.
To prove that the universe will be
destroyeil he «ff.-rs as an argument,
that all nations in all time. whether
pagan, christian, civilized. or bar-
barous, have believed and taught its
destruction by fire or flood, and this
universal sentiment, is a kind of rev-
elation and must correspond to reality.
Why does not the professor cfl“ei' The
same argument to prove that the earth
is as flat as a pancake, for this was
once the universal sentiment of all
mankind, and so sincere were tbry
that they put to death, men who ad-
vanced a different theory. The argu-
ment .sjust as good in one case as in
the other. Another week poii t in
the professor's theory, is, that the sun
is a great ball o.‘ lire, heated to white
heat, and requires a constant supply 0!
fuel to keep the enormous ltfllipt-!!al'tll'*:-',
and for this purpose there was a quan-
tity of cosmii al matter left loose in
space, that did not enter into the for-
mation of the planets, and this waste
matter is now supplying the sun with
fuci, and when this is all exhausted,
then the planets, oi-.e by one will rush
into the central orb to keep up the
solar heat. And when the fuel is all
exhausted, and every planet, comet
and satellite, is consumed then the
fire of the sun itself will go out in end-
less night, and the oi;b of day as a
blackened mass of expiring embers
will go back to chaos, and the pall of
death will throw her dark mantle over
the solar drama of today. Now Piof.
Winchell knows very well that the
sun is 5250 times larger than all the
planets, comets. and satellites com-
bined, so that if every particle of mat-
ter in the planetary system was rushed
into the sun at once, it would not in-
crease the heat of that orb any more
than a cubic inch of ice would increase
the heatof a furnace whose capacity
was -520 cubic incheasuppose the earth
with its mighty oceans -:f water, and
its mountains of granite rock were
thrown into the sun, it would not in-
crease the heat of that. body enough to
boil a tea kettle. The professor shows
another weak point when he says that
the centripetal force is overcoming the
centrifugal force and eventually, must
prove the total destruction of all or-
ganized matter. The professor knows
as well as I do, that these two opposite
forces are so exactly balanced that La
Place determined by actual demon-
stration, that neither force gained on
the other the one-five hundreth part
ofasecond in 2500 years. With this
data before us. which the professor
dare not deny, let him cipher out the
problem and tell how many cycles of
eternity willrun their rounds before
either force will or ercome the other,
and destroy the solar system.

The great trouble with ProfeseorWin-
chell is this : He is not a Granger and
has no “faith in God.” He starts out
with an idea of God, until he gets the
universe in good running order, then
like the engineer jumps from the train,
and leaves bl/ind chance to run the
machine, to sure and certain ruin.
The professor admits that when chaos
shall hold dominion over all, and sums
and systems shall go back to nothing-
nese, the soul immortal, shall rise
above the min, and ,smile at ease
amldstthe wreck of worlds. But if
God can fit a soul for endless life,
with capabilities for 11.. finite progress,
why can he not flta world for endless
progress too.

CORTLAND HILL.

School System.

Bro. Cobb,-——In friendship I wish to
reply to the article of "'DirectoI” in
the VISITOR of February 1st, and pm-
sent some amendments to our school
laws that we think would be benefi-
r-ial to both pupils and taxpayers.
He says as yet we do not think the
laws governing and providing for our
common schools favor, to any great ex-
tent, the concentration of education.
In our limited judgment we cannot
see how they couli concentrate the
management of education much more
zhan the present system allows. I
have before me the advertisement of
the school examiners (f a certain
county for the examination of cand -
dates for teacher . After stating how
the candidate must stand in each
study, eta, it says five per cent is al-
lowed for full attendance at the insti-
tute. .\'r.=w Mr. “Director,” this looks
to me like concentration. Again he
says in our county S’. Joseph, the
county superintendents gave good sat-
isfactior. There is one thing certain,
either he or I are laboring under a
mistakr. If I am I hope same reader
cf the VISITOR will correct mt‘. If I
am not mistaken I saw a petition (-12-
culated in the Legislature to abolish
the county superiniendei cy. I agree
with ‘‘Director’’ when he says if we
have town or county superintendents
-r a board of examiners, everything
depends on our l)(‘ll' g able to get hot.-
esi and compete ll mer‘. \Ve believe
tbe temple of a township are better
f:'."(lllti1uI€d with the number of men
necessary for superinlen lents than
the people of a county are with a like
number, and vve say without fear of
13l)Ilil"a(1ICl10I) with truth our town-
ship (Faliiu.-) has men as com; etenl
for superintendents as the imijorily of
the county !XalllII]€l'.'~‘, and they can
ex-siniaie caniilllates for ieaclitrs wit}..-
0uI1~‘.1v.leS“.IOII.~§-'f)Llll.'lg fnnn the Start-
l)0itl‘<l0It’(1lICaI.1l)l_l and judge of th:-ii
ability toieach our primary schools
but if we have a county .-ui.-erintei:d-
ett we do not believe in his being
elected by the board ofsuperviz-or.-i bur
by the popular vote, as we live on ths
county line we’ve had a cliance to
see the workings of the county plaiz
the first experience in the two £30111.’-
ties were that in St. Joseph wage.-
Weiitup, while in Cass they did no‘
8.(1VéJIl(.";‘ so mu 1*. The i.ext cliang.
in siipe-rir:ttndeiit’s wages went dowi
in St. Joseph and up in (,‘:s—'. Now.
Mr. Director, if you are advocating 2.
good cause please give your name, a.-
we are from the ‘same county We may
thereby ‘o;-.—coirie at.-qiiaiiiied. In sug-
gestiiig the ain--~niSinenis we will ti}.
to Lllt~2.lr{‘} it plain so we may be iinile —
.-hood. In clinpter 2 s cliou :20, under
the lltalllllg eleventh in eecoiiil lin:-,
after the word taiiglit insert. the VVl‘I(1 ,
and “wlicther by male or fem.-ll.-."
You may tlsiiik this B.I11IllOl'}0in?.Il|li
when you have ollicers that pay no
rrapect. to the wi.-Ilies of tine dlstric-1
they could be made 10 respect their
wishes. In chapter 3. :4‘ 0l10I.~‘J,S[1‘lk&
out the word ‘‘board’‘ where it occur.»-
in the 10 and 12 liiies, adopt section 15
ofchai:-ter 3 of the laws of 1581, i: —
stead of the aIneIltl!llt'l.1t0f1883. The
practical studies neglected while those
of less importance receive the greater
attention. VVa are in favor of amend-
ing the ezitire chapter 12. \Ve zavor
the town inspectors plan, and we can't
see why the wages of examiners
should exceed the w- gas of the board
of supervisors. \Ve favor the restora-
tion of section 1, of chapter 15, of thr-
school laws of 1851, excepting the
word male in the fourth line, and tie
rest of the section after the word do}-
lar in the 5th line‘-; also the 1-emoraric-n
of section 2 and 4 of said chapter, and
the repealing of section 6 and 7. afie r
the word institute in the 3] linr. sec-
tion 2 of chapter 17 should be repealet‘.
Others may disagree with me. but let
us keep trying until the key note is
struck, then demand of our represent-
atives the reforms that are needed.
We are not getting value received, and
in our opinion our childrui are not
getting as practical an education as
they did twenty years ago. There are
anumber of studies now demanded
we cannot see are of any practical use
to a person through life. Mr. VVeb-
ster defines the word practical “relat-
ing to practice, capable of being turned
to use." Is it economy for the higher
branches to be taught in a graded
school? A. P. SHEPHERDSON.

Patrons Aid Society of Michigan.

This society was duly incoirorated
under the laws ofthe st..te of Michi-
gan January 21st 1851 ft-r the purpose
ofsecuring to the famillis or heirs of
patrons in good health life insurance
benefits on the assessment plan. Had
the Patrons of Husbandry within this
state, unitedly worked for the accom
plishmeut of this worthy purpose, 3d-
vertising judiciously its desgus and
methods, there is no question that it
would be to-day the sounder-it and
most successful benefit association
authorized to do business in Michigan.
As has been well said of a similar
association of another state :

“It is based on economic principles,
bringing it within the reach of members
generally; affordingall an opportunity
to provide for their families a benefit
of $1,000 at -the time of death of the
insured.” It matters not how much
of this world's goods we may possess.

TEE GBANG

$1.000 paid to a family within thir'y
or sixty days after they are left to pro
vide for thvinselves is a riiatter of
great importance, fr r farms, ~tock.
notes or rnorrgage-.4, are not cash, and
the $l,()(l{) from His benevolent associa-
tion crnir-s to tide over the space that
would be r quired to realize cash on
property left to he adminii-tered upon.
in 1] any cases at the time of death,
there are no crops on hand, stock is
not marketable, and there is no cash
available for relief. Hence, $1 000
from this as-ociation would be
i-ufiicientto meet necessary emergin-
(:.e-. and leave asuug little sum to the
family for Iuture use. There arr
thousands of cars where there an
some debts unpaid at the time ofdeath.
Perhaps the farm is inciiiiibered witl
a vnoiigage, and the family is left 9.
the mercy of creditors. and they mu.-I
etruggle alongas best they car. and a
last the property may he sold, often at
a sacrifice. to meet demands agains
the estate, which when settled up,
leaves not emiigh for family support.
W'oere-as $1 000 at the time of deatl:
might have paid the debt, and th-
propcrty on band could have been
saved to the family, and they left pro-
vided for in the future. There an
many cases when at the «loath o’
either rail)».-r or mother. $1,000 from
this Ircnevolent association would ht
snflicin-nt to reach all incidental ex
penses, pay all personal debts. uni
leave a balance to aid the family, edu-
cate the children, and they be kc pt tr-
getiier to become useful cit'z-ens, in-
stead of being c« iiipelled to have ever) -
ihii-g sold to pay expenses and debts
and the family l)F(lfll'!]8 mattered It
take Hlngle handed the huff?-:ting of ar
unfriendly world. VVe may take an)
view of this s rlj ct we please, and i
iii-uteisnot whether we are poor in
well provide»! for, nor what the 51111
roundiizgs may be the same conclu.-ins
is pressed upon every thinking iii‘nt
that ‘ or» is a good opportunity to -<-
cure $1 (N90 with little effort, and a
litile expense for the benefit of cm
f-ziiiilir-s, when -‘we are called to leave
ihm to thr-m.-elves. Another fact i.-
al-o f~r4~iui_v U)"-’EHP(I upon our mind».
and that is the duty to make comfort
able provisions for those we call on
-'|'4VIl and wlioin we must. leave bi-him
us In no xvi-y can vi  prt.vid‘- so we]
with -o i-'1YIl‘zl1at‘0‘iI', as by obtainiis;
tIl?]”nli6I'l-‘hip in our own benevl.-ion‘
‘ISNTEII-1lIll‘l‘ and tin ’eliy sec re on‘
fimily the ow tin.-ii.-amt doll’-.r.-: 'vll‘l
the hie.-;-rn-, s it : (fowl.-i.”
.\'i-:('.v' ‘ANY IIXI’l<JN.'~l-ZS.
']‘1isrei‘:ri in 11.115-‘,3h‘IIl all otiiei‘ or
gan‘zat‘<ii2s, >ifiI1l(,‘€lXpPI1S€Sl0 be pro
vi«..‘ed frr, i-«'..(-ii as printing, HI.H.II0ll8I'y
roatage, .- evrt‘-tary's services, etc. Tires:
are arranged cs €(3(,Il(1Il.l1Cl'11y as ir
prudent to rnzike I.ll€11I, and these an
alliliv Ixpeni-es to be provided for
’I‘h<-r-;- are-1.0 salaries fut‘ iflicers :n.'«
:!=irn;io.v.-, no dividends or interest or
smck, no l.1rl1'l‘.?y or fortune for an}
...r~.r-. except. the “one thousand do‘-lars"
to the ha-i:-"s vi a decea.-.t-l brother 0
i-ISlP.I'. }I»—nce, the advantage of a co
t;peTIl.1I',’t.' binevoleiit ai-I-.-ociation c-vex
ihe coninioii system of life in.-urai Ci
The expenses of the association an
met out of the five dollars adiiiix.-.ioi.
fee, w..icli will doiibtl-ass more thae
mes.-t all lJ{'C’:.‘l:4&l'y expenses. Thar.
are no aniiiial (Ill-‘:::l, nor fees to be p2i<'
ior the purpose of keeping up th-
:1-S')i‘1.‘.YIi,l!l,  miiple provi-foils ar-
Illwlefllll of the t'1Il:lll sum for adnils
.~'I"r11. VVU say small, because the
any nut is but tr.fiEiig when compare
with the lo.-uliitg and c-xpenses fl 1‘
usual life 1I]f<‘IlI'aI)C.5:‘. The only mote},
to be paid by iiitiniii-1's, in addition to
the admission fee, is the 35-'fI€S‘Il1(-'I]1
at thedeath of a member, which Il-
graded to the risks of death at the
diff}-reiit age.-2
RA'1‘1£S()l~' Assn Sllll-INT.

At the riveting of‘ the vrusiees of th.»
society in I)'.—ceir.-bei last, the scheduli-
of rates was revised and arranged to
('0.':f(II‘I1lll'l(~!‘e nearly to the t.-.bie of
mortality based on Ameriwau {X-
;.(-rie ce as follows:

 

RATE HF A.3'.5‘I-Z.‘l.s'3ll£N'l‘ FUIL t'EI{'l‘Il"l('A'I'I£$ IJF
.":l.00l'.

1 I
<5 <5
z‘/_:
Illltxitxlléli l«Ll~Zl¢lLl.'.t;l~2.l.'.

 

A comparison of the scliedule with
the table showing “minimum cost of
insurance of lives from year to year”
as given by Commissioner of Insur-
ance, Hon. Eugene Pringle, in his re
port for 1883 shows the advance assess»
ment rtqiiired of each member to be
only thirty per cent of the minimum
cost of insuring $1,000 for one year at

the given age.
HOW ’I‘O JOIN.

You must fill out 9 blank that will
be furnished on application. You
must be in good health, and between
the ages of 20 and 60 years, and must
get this certified to by the master and
secretary of yonr Giang.-. Y iu must
pay a membership fee of  and the
amount of one assessmciir. (6.0 table.
Take age at nearest birthday.)

The full amount of the mortuary
assessment is used to pay dea 11 losses.
The advance assessment bt-11: g paid,
there are no further payments until a
draft is made upon the treasurer for
the pay ment of death losses, and hence
the mortuary assessments are only
made when necet sary to replace in the
treasury the fund already drawn upon.
The society offers to its members ad-
vantages for securing beneficial re-
sults to their families or heirs, such as
are not afforded by any authorized
rivals in this state. Any reader of
the VISITOR can learn what these are,
on application to the secretary, J. T.
Cob':, Schoolcraft, Mich. HOMO.

E VISITOR.

iiurrespnttzlctttcs

Leroy Grange

Ira (bob.-—-It is ll vs-i‘_v pleasant
task to be the 1Jtftll‘(’l' of good tidings.
I um pleased to ini'(-riu you that I.ei'o}.‘
Gi‘ang»=, of Calliouii (‘purity lias zigiiiii
revived and proposes to continue its
existeiice.

A vote V\'¢l.SI.2|ktI‘l1l)' that Gftlllgt? a
a few \'\'8l'liS zigo. to siiireinle-1' their
C1lklI‘lt‘1',llIlI.l ii nicctin-,5 was tfzillul to
divide the iiioiiey and the property of

the Gruiige. The l,‘:illiou2I (.‘oiiiit_v
Gmiige lf‘ilI‘llt‘(l of this, and did not
propo,-‘e to let Leroy ljritnge «lie

without at least Ill‘cl1ilI1}_:‘ an clloi-t to
save that which seemed lost. A coin-
niittec W‘d..3‘llpp0lIli€il to go to l.ei‘o)'.
visit froni house to liou.-go, and to be
preseiit at their last meeting, Zlllll see
if some IIlL‘2lSlll’(.‘b' could not l)e'p1‘Q-
sented to persuade lll(’I1l to 1‘t3(.‘UllSl(,lt‘I‘
their former vote-, and to try to iiiakc
an effort to live. llro. Perry Mayo was
appuiiited cliairunm, and was to be
assisted by llro. and Sister Siinoiis.
15m and 5lSl.(,‘l' ljgtinerori. Bros. .\l'.iyo
and Sinioiis visited the iiiciiibers of
Leroy (}I'.‘l1lg't’. were very kiiidly re-
ceived and iiiost limpitzilily ciitertzliiiod.
They wvrc present at their iuect iig,
(l.Ilf1I1'1(".1 to show them by an 1-ai'ii«-st
lcciiirl: the iiccessity oi’ the (lI‘g£ll1lZil-
lion. and the sad I‘t‘.SllllS of their let-
ting tlit-ii‘ llraiigv die.

A vote was then taken to recon.-'id<-r
their forint-r motion of SllX‘I‘0n(1v1‘ing
their (.‘lli|I'I.t‘I' and dislmiidiiig. .\ mo-
tion to recoiisidi-r was c..i'rii»d, and on
the ipicstiori "Sliaill we siii‘i'ender our
colors.‘ Not 3. ineiiiber votctl 111 the
;ulii‘iii:tti\'<-. A l1l(‘L‘I1llg\‘l'iIS L‘.‘l1l('tlIl)
o.-lect (‘I1It.‘t‘l'.‘i and llro. l\I:iyo was aslretl
tobu p:‘»:.~seiit:Iii<l iii.-‘tall bllt‘lIl,ll1SII‘llt:I
llil‘i1l iiitlic iiiiwi'itteii \\’-ark of the
i,ll'1l"l‘. mid to bsiug his nbiwl‘ half
uluiig, Wilt.‘ was lll\'1[=!l to give i1ll'1ll
zi ll-vtur-'.

At the time appoiiitn-il We »\'t‘1lL and
«lid wliut. we t‘()lI1tl to eiii:oiii‘;i;.:e illill
Sl'i't*llgl1‘il‘llil1eIl1. llro. (‘.12. Lusze \\':r.s
ztskvil to conic on the fitli of l“t-bi’ii:iry
ztml <leli\'ei‘;tiiot1iei' lecture-. You that
ii;t\'eli.ult1ic good 1'oi‘tuiic to listen to
the \Voi'tliy :l?..1te .\I;tsLci' kiiow we.-ll,
we had froiii him “it feast of Iill
tliings.“ lle ;.‘,'zl\'L‘ us ll stii‘i'iii;rzii1di'ess
upon Lite iieccssity of the iil‘&lilg'(,’., and
it good six:-ll ziiitlit-lice listened iiiost at-
lt’lll1\'l‘l_\' for an 1l(>‘tlI“<'.Ild u lizilf.

Lt-roy Uriingc can boiist of us u.-2ii‘iiest-
.'l1llll':‘.l‘;,’e lieziitc-'1 iiieii illlll vvoiiirii as
Cillllllllllctilllll-_\' ;iil:'oi'il.s, and we zine
truly glad to ace tin-in zigztiii l'itll_\'Illg
into lllllflllltl with us, try and c;i.ri'_v'
out the grand 1)l'lill,'lp1t'>i of justice-
:l1lIlI‘1f._11li. .-ind the coiiiity <}i‘.iiu,;'c hits
pli-vlgcd 1lh‘t‘1Il0 staunl by l1Il‘lll aiiid c.\—
Lwiid to them the l'lt,’llI. liztinl of fellow-
ship. .\ii:.-'. l’i«;i:i:r .\l..iru.

Sea‘. I 1' (‘ulliouii Count) Ufiillgt‘.
lliittlc (Jreek.

1,~'ro. Uobb.'—.-Xccortliiig to promise
vcry rcceiitly made I write you a short
history of the South Jefferson Grange
t'ninkii»g perhaps that it may correct a
f:.I5(‘.III1[)I‘€BSIl}Il that has gone abroad
that South Jtfiersoh Grange was ab-
solutcly dead; and also €l.1C()llI'8g(-'
many Granges that have become ir-
resolute over some trivial embarrass-
ment. ‘Ne were organized by Bro,
Ualiill on Dec. 25, 1873, with 44
cliarter members, soon look applica
tions for nearly as many more and
took our position among our sister
Granges as one of the healthiestin the
State.

{scarcely one in a dozen had any cu-
rect coriception of the business or
duties of the Grange and joined as
much from curiosity as otherwise fol-
lowed by the false impression that the
otiicialsof the organization were the
D11‘ lic servants upi 11 whom the suc-
cess of the Grants depended and all
benefits either financial or otherwise
must be handed around as you would
deal out the good things at a marriage
supper. When it became generally
understood that each member must
help paddle the ship, many at once
signified their disappointment by re-
tiring in good order. No harm came
to the Grange by the withdrawal of
such members except the sad effect
it had upon those outside the gate
who were watching the progress'of
the institution and judged of its bene-
fits and advantages only by its effect
upon ilw iii»-inbers who belonged.

Jealousy also crept into our midst
which acted as a feeter to our progiess
and a blight upon our prosperity, y}IJ(1
before we were hardly aware of our
own wt-akr-ens we were reduced in
numbers to about twenty. I will add
right here that the small number left
were the very essence of the entire in-
stitution, the old regulars that never
run nor retreat and when desertion
reached that point of course it had
tostop.

The few who were left carefuly
looked the situation over, found their
powder perfectly dry and at once
gave the order to advance, fully re
solved for what we lacked in numbers
to make up in energy and courage.

Up to this time we had been occu-
pying a hall not our own, and finding
we were too weak in numbers to
longer rent a home we at once resolved
to build one. and in three days from
the time the resolution was offered to

build, the site was procured, the tim-

1
her on the ground and wine drawn for

the foundation. \Ve resolved if the

few left must “go the thing along")

we would do it 21- jiidiciou-ly as poss-
ble and save all the middle profits in
our power. Accordingly the Seen-
tary was instructed to look up th.
most judicious place to buy our hoof.-
and shoes and dry goods as well. \Vr
struck it large manufacturing house in
Boson for our boots and shoes an

the largest dry gcod’s house in Chi-
cagofir dry goods. and will say in
this connection that last year on‘
Grange bought in boots, shoes ant‘
dry I-,'00(1'~.' alone the snug little sun-
of .¢-iglit thoii.-anti two hundred anr
forty dollars worth to say nothing «-1
h'81I:,p18.‘lI9V‘,SE'élI, paint, b3l'Il(SS anx-
groceries, and althouzh this is not in-
tended as an advertisemezit for an;

h -use I will say that we have pui-
cha.-"erl of Mr. T. Kiniiamut ti: Urn, o-
I,-‘rand Rapids, whose card appears in
the \'iSiToi«: nearly or quite LEW dol

leirs worth ofliarness in the last yvai
with entire ;-_<atisf:icti:.ii and shall
[,‘;rl>l::|l)1y'l0lll)l€ that amount in th-
ne x? year.

I aiii Well aware that some of th»
bro:hers will my that the above
amount is quite large for a Grange oi
twenty, as this history has left them
but I add that it has been a year 01
znve since we found ourselves so ni.
merically weak and a glance at our
last report would reveal the fact th: I
recruits have been receivul, so WI
stand over eighty strong, and an o'-
d--r ha.-xjust been made for about 100
blank applications which I think vve
could use within the IHXC year hao
we hall rooni. Our only nil.-:t.:lic~.sii.-ct
our new departure, was in s:' lug on;
new hall ‘.0 the body as it was ant.
not as it s} ould be.

In concluding this hastily writ or
record I will say. that it is railicallj
wrong and wickel to stand 3l‘0lllit.'
and see an institution of the iL:ip0.-
t.:ilLit‘i.1i% Grange is to the fariiiei.
wither and dies >‘.I1Ll there is unearthly

xi use for any one for so (lllI‘lg ex
tept tlt)\VIJl‘lglli wilfulness or ex:reni-
1.‘./.incs'.-'. As soon as those ou!siu'-
the gates saw that we were bound ‘I-
do our business, buy our own :;o:;c’,-
and sell our own products we lvail up
p.iC.-ilious for reinstatement and initia-
tion until the work grew tedious ant.
Illlillhi-Z)l.10llS. Hoping to have the (X
perieiice of others in this matter vn
will not intrude farther on yv in‘ pa-
tience. I reiuaiii yours fratl-i‘Iialiy,

A.\'iIsi;'.v L. DAVIS, Ex sew.

 

Caliiozisi, County Pomona_Grange.
...—.s&‘:

11.0. Co/2/i,-~Uiir annual meeting
V.-':I‘-l held Feb. l1:'n, at Pcnlitieli:
Gr:-i...;e hall. The day was very cob:

and .-iormy, snow drifting, air full of
frost, still we had a large iiieeting.
Did you ever know :1. Granger It
from z.--'.‘ Our Master It. G. Poole, saiu‘
‘ueioietue meeting, that “none bu

the :-piritually minded would be out,’

but he found eriougli of that stamp tr

fill the hall. The result of our ole--
tion was R. S. Poole, for Master, J.
L. Kinyon, Lecturer, )'.Il'.~_‘~. Perry
Ma) o, Secretary.

In the afternoon a public meeting
was held and the following question
was disciissed:

Iflcsoluctl. That protective tariffb
for the best int:-i'est of the America:
iieopli‘. Perry Mayo and (‘. C. Mi-
Dermid for protective tar:tl'. and E..-

ward White and Prof. Uarus for fret
tradv.

Though it was cold enough without
they waxed warm within, each adv».-
cate of their side sure, and could prov:
by undisputed authority, and by fact.-
and figiires, that unless the principle-
they believe in were carried out, tin
Unite-1 ‘tales would very soon be
wiped completely out.

Tl.i--y argued long and well, each
I2I‘)lI]g their very best to prove the
other wrong. Charles I’. Chidester,
of B.l1evue Grange was present, and
opened the question by reading a
carefully prepared essay upon protec-
tive tariff.

The best of all is that though they
differed radically in their arguments,
the kindest feelings prevailed, and
they cherished for each other only
brotherly love.

Our officers will be instalied at Le-
roy Grange, March 13th. We have
written to Bro. J. J. Woodman, ask-
ing hlm to be present, install our om-
cers and deliver a lecture, and we ex-
pect a glorious time. Yours truly,

Mas. PERRY Mayo.

Battle Creek.

The editors of Sr. NICHOLAS are
gratifying the spiiit of adventure and
heroism which all the boys have(and
which is appealed to by the blood and
thunder style of literat .re)by furnish-
ing sketches of “Heroic Boys.”—some
as wonderful as fiction, and all true.
Papers giving the boyhood of Marcus
Aurelius, Harry of Monmouth‘ after-
ward Henry V.. and Giovanni of Flor-
ence, aftei ward Pope Leo .\'., have ap-
peared in late numbers of the mags-
zine. Among the other promises 81:1
The Boy- Viking(OrlofofNoi'way):'I‘he
Boy Crusader. (Baldwin oiJerusa|em)
and The Boy Cnieftan (Brian of Mun
stei ). Had the boys of this series died
before man-hood. they still would
worthly rank as Heroic Boys.

 

Governor Bates of Tennessee will
call a special session of the Legislation
of that State, should the Supreme
Court: declare the Railroad Commis-
sion act unconstitutional. that a. new
bill may be passed free from the ob-
jectionable features.

It was Notconsumption.

i Dr. P(nge.’I'y: Your valuablemedb
lcine is doing wonder- for some ladies
;here. one in particular, who a year
lago was c-.>i«ii .ed mo.-stof thr time to

her bul. Every one said she had
-‘consumption. I knew she had ills-
fieases your medicine would cure. and
ipersuaded her to try it. Soon she
l was much better; she 1. t be r help go,
;and has done her housework ever
‘since, and walks every day a distance
l0I8 mile and a half—-all due tr Z09.-
Phora.

1lespoc‘fiil‘y yours,
)1 G i:«m(;i-: (‘oi«ii;Y.

Jack-"on. Mil-11., Fun. 5, 1.*‘¢~".5.
See advertisenieiit in another col-
umn.

illll Stale Agriiulluia llullegr,

Lilllhillg‘. Dlioh.

This institution is thor >n_-glily r-i1uippeil.hav-
ing a large teaching force: .'il~io ample f.I.ci.li-
ties for illustration and niaiiipiilation includ-
ing Labomtories. Conscrrvatone-. Library,
Mix.-euin, Ulll~sSl"lUI1'l zlppiratus, also a large
and well stocked farm.

FOUR. YEARS

ire required to complete the course embracing
Che-m.stI'_\‘, Matheuiltics, Botany, Zoology,
Eriglish Lniiguage and Literature, and all
Jtiier branches or a college course except For-
-ign Languages.

Three hours labor on caich working day
sxccpt .§'uittii'days. Maximum rate paid for
labor, eight cents 1-L11 hour.

HATI S.
Tuition free. Club Boarding.
CALENDAR.

For the year I584 the terms begin as follows:
‘5PRING Ticnn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .February 18
Suxxan '1‘ir.iiM . . . . . . . . . . . . _ . _ _ _ _ _ . _ “Ma 20
A UTUMN 'I‘i-zitx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Septcmbei- 2

Exumiiition of candidates for advanced
stniidiiig will be held 1*‘:-lii'iiar_y 18. (':iiir‘IdMea
for liilullhlfiifill. to College on .‘~'~~pi«-mber ‘2 may
present. themselves for oxmniiiution either on
May 211, or Scpteniber ‘2 l'.I 9 L M.

For Cabaltigue -apply to
R. U. BAHID, Sc-4-relnry.

CLOSINTECTSIIF SALE
,lHllSllN l,_HUlSlllNl Cllilt

Fair Grcund at Pontiac, If/;'icli.,

Thursday, March 21, 1884.

,‘flI'|lllII<'l‘l'. ('01.. (‘. (‘. .ll'Il(.'1»‘., Inllula. Ill.
A:5:’I3‘I‘l'ZIJ LY
(‘ol. J, I’. 1~'0.~Tl.1l, l'uiiti:n-, Mivli.

The ii\i~l~r.-<i;;iie«l will .-a- ll lln-.1!‘ cutiro herd
of Ini)mr.t:I.l I*‘ii-miah Cattle as above. to close
outa co-pmtiiersiiip. at public iiuctiivn, on
trw I“-uir liiutiinls, l’oii‘.iii.i-,, .\Iii:h.. Marcli 20,
18:1. For descriptive \)J.t1lu;_;u¢'.:~i apply to

l’lll‘.Ll’5 it SIJELLY,

11501)-35 Puutiibc, 3-.Il(:h.

RAILROAD.

Di-EPARTUICLF OH’ ‘l"RAI.\.‘<l itrtom KALAMAIOO.

NIICHIGAN CEI\".'l'1{AL
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I\vil&lll.A6\I- l-l.\'pri--.5 arnves.

EASTWAKD.

Niglit Exprmpg, ______________________ __
I{;il.ii:i.i7.oo -trwoinmodatioii luIA\’nG,_
Killulll-ILUU lhpru-is arrI'vea,____
Jltfll
Day
New York blxpn-56,-
Atlantic l<lxprm9s,_______________

Evening EXpI't"9B \l"*.'l[ and Night Expiuls east dnl
except Ssstiirilayl. All other trains daily except gun.
days. I-'i'r-iglit trains carrying plies:-ii5u.n; out from
K.'iliIIx1nZ0() ii.-s follows: No 214 (mum at 51- p. 3” ‘M
No.‘/0 (west) at 7:1 , bring pa-lseiig rs 1‘..,m u3,t 3;
ll: 7, I‘, )1.

New York, Atlantic and Pacific”!-lxpressoe daily,
I

H. B. liznraiin, Gen. Manager, Detroit.
J. A. tjiiiim. ill-n(‘I'u1 1-'n:i;;ln. Agent, Chicago.
0 W. RUuul.lL~i, U. P. at T. A., Chicago.

L- s. & M- s. R. R.

KAL.-sMAZOO Divi.-iiorv 'I'iaiir. TABLI.

  

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GOING b'UU’l'H.

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Ar. Allcgau ___.-- ,‘ ll -17 “ 5 [5 “ ‘ I 30 II
Ar Kaln.u.nu.oo_ ,‘ 9 4! “ 615 “ I155 “
Ar. Sc1ioo1cmf‘t_-_ ‘I0 17 “ t, 54 “ I 5 1,.
Ar.Three Rivers- i1(i45 -* 724 " .131 “
Ar. White Pigeon- X1112 “ , 752 H 450 -4
Ar.TuIodo _____ _- 1 53;4i>l‘ 217 All 817A:
Ar. Cleveland 1007 -' u 7 -4 3 45 ,-
Ar. Buxraio____- 3 ill uliz 46 ran 2 an '-

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,5 .5Ali3l2PI 516;;
6oo".3s1'- ions“
oso~l4te~ 1200-
71: “.442 “ 239:.
M12" .40“ £36
9.2“ 656" 810‘,
All trains connect at White Pigeon with train! on
man Hub. M. E. Warring,

Supt. Kalamazoo Division, Ealamaloo.

(Emmi) aafiibs & Ennis; 3. .8:
Passenger '.l‘iIne ’.[‘ab1e,

   

 

City daily, except Saturday. All other train dolly
excerpt Snnlcy.

Woodnifi sleeping cars on N. I. axe betwggn on
'cinuatl and Grand Rapids, and sleeping and chair an
on same trains between Grand Rapids and Petmkoy;
also Woodrutfsleeping can on _Nou 7 and 8 betwgg.
Grand Rapids and Mackinaw City. A. B. LIH.

Gen] PHI '

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GOING NORTH.
(Suindani time.)  l l -
STATIONS. H0. 1. =, N0 3 , N0. 5. N0. '.':
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; 9 52 ll __
5 14 All 10 35 ‘I
l 6 52 H 2 25 p.
5“'?.‘.l“i‘.."°*"‘§" I Z“: r 2 62 '-
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Traverse City_Ar, . 4 55 pg ____
Petoskey ____ __ “ ________ ________ 5 ~24 -4 3 14
Mackinaw City “ _______i__..____E 3 00 u 5 (,0 I4.
GOING i-SOUTH.
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Grand Rapida_l4v. 232 In
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THE GBANG

E VISITOR.

MARCH 15. 1994.

thing is not lllEtllil§{+‘(l to suit the
wishes. I believe farmers

atlitfi grpalgtnleqt.

THE HOUSKEEPEWS TRAGEDY.

ty and integrity
of labor which the artist puts upon b
one day an I wandered I heard a. complaining

And saw a poor woman, the picture or

gloom. . , - , , - - «
8,” 8, ‘red at the mud on the dom__5t_.Ap(,twM makes him a master of his protessio

ruiuiug_) " Neither is it alwa_\'s wealth which
dbmla "-8 11°? W3“ 35 35° Wield“! the makes a man notable. History r
l'|)0!I3

“Gr, life is a toil, and love is 3 troub'e,
And beauty will fade, and riches will flee,
And p assures they dwrndls and prices Lh y

And nothing is what I could wish it to be.

“Thor's too much of worrirnent goes to a bon-
r-ct.
There's too much of it ning goes to a shirt,

There's nothing that pays lo: the time wasted reached t" the "pry t"l)m“St rolmd i

on it. the ladder of fame. While on th
There's rlothing that lasts but trouble and
d.rt."

"In March it is mud. it's slush in December
And mldsunlmefls bLeKzeH are laden with,
duwt.

In fall tue leaves litter, in muggy September
'.lhe wall-piper l'0l.S, and th flat-irons rust.”

young to acquire k owleilge, we see a

"There are worms in the cherries, and slugs
in the roses,

Thell-’s .ll.tsiu ti e sugar, and mice in the 3' mgher Cmnsa

pres, _
The ruonlsh and spiders, no mortal suppo es.
And ravagrrrg roaches and carnuginp-, iii- s."

the intellect. Parents often make
great inistake here.
Cllllrllge

°'lt's swe-ipiilg at six‘ and dnstirg at seven,
lt‘s vrcruals at eight, and uisiles at muti-
Ii\; , orung and pann ng Irl n1 en to eleven.
We l-can-.e break our fast eer we p.IlLl how

to dine."

“With g ease and with litter from outside to
center,
Forever at war, and forever alert
No rest tor a. day lest the enemy enrer, _
J. spend my whole time illa struggle with
that "

education in their cliildre

young. Give them

tellect; it will reward
“Last night in my dreams’ lwas mmoued should reverses overtake them the
fulen-I.‘

On in bars litt'e isle in the midst of the sea.
M one chalice ox hie was a Cr-lsbtsiess emle lvor
o sweep off the waves, o'er rhly swe,t
over me "

“Alas! ’twss no drearn—agsin I behold it,
1 y old, 1 am helpless, my late to av it,
She in - :1 down her slsves, her upron she

fold d. , . . _
1-ho, mi, down and di,,d_ and was bu,-,-,,d ’lhe habits of the larrneis, like many
inditt. others are oftentimes not of the righ

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Dove as Farmers anti Farmer's Families
do all we can to Promote and
Elevate our Cailln,,‘l

are whilerl away over cards and othe
uames, while they are very iguoran
—’ taiice. I do not consider these game
altogether sinful,

Read by Mrs. Amanda Gunnison be-
fore a Faruiers’ Institute at Williams-
ton,Jan. 17, 1884.

When we contrast the life of the
American farmer today, with those of
past ages we are led to exclairn, what
a stride civilization has takeri? Then
when we compare their representation
in public affairs, with those of other
professions, we believe that a far
greater progress awaits them in the
future, to place them even on an equal
standing with those of other avoca-
tions. M-any farmers remind me of a
bevy of school children upon the play-
ground. If you stand and watch theui
(as I often have) you always see some
more tirriid than others, they will step
hack,aud let those more persevering
take the lead and manage the whole
play. They are looked rrpoii by the
formerastheir superiors and readily
acquiesce in all that is said and done;
taking it for granted that they must
succumb to the wishes of their lead-
ers. Here is where the great differ-
ence lies between the agriculturist
and the professional man, we lack cori-
fidenco in ourselves and our fellow
farniers. we are inclined to think, that
because we are tillers of the soil, we
should not vary from it, as it untils
us for success in other callings. This
is a great mistake with us and those
of other professions take advantage of
our tiinidity. Yet I am proud to say
that the last decade has created a great
revolution in this respect. Institu-
tions have been organized whereby the
talents of the farmers have been de-
veloped, and caused them to see the
necessity of co-operation. They are
fast awakening from their (1 irmant
condition, and why? l\'othiiig less
than oppression; which was as likely
to prove disastrous to the farrners’ fu-
ture welfare, as it was with the Puri-
tans when driven from their mother
country. Another hindrance to our
success is that we aretoo apt to think
thatitis not brain power but merely
muscle required to make a successful
farmer. There is no profession which
should so encompass the mind of man
as agriculture; for it is the source and
foundation of our nation’s prosperity.

It is the better class of farmers who
have come to the conclusion that it is
not muscle alone which gu des the
plow and barrow, but it uiust have
brains to back it. This is what adds
dignity‘ to labor. This element is what
islnecessary with us ioikeep pace with
other callings. It is usually the best
educated farmers who are most suc-
oeasful. Notwithstanding all the ex-
perience of past ages, together with
all modern improvements, we find
some farmers to-day who take no in-
terest in anything outside their farm
fences, unless it may be in a neighbor's
cattle or hogs which have strayed into
his enclosure (through a rickety fence
or tumbled down gate.) It is such as
these that 11 Grange or Farmers’ in-
stitute or any organization, originated
for a higher and noble.-r standard’ of in-
tellcct ever reaches. Their children,
(although reared in sight of a school-
housi-) aroreared in ignorance. -Their
aokoolllayl end when they are old
enough to labor, thus another genera-
tion‘ fo_l,l,l3,V,§' in the footsteps of their
ancestors.-'_1‘hey take no interest in‘
public 'z'i‘flirir"'s,""rrot enough to attend a
gclrool-rnfeetirig it few rods’ ’a'.'wa'y,' ‘or '3
caucus, or town «mar-trng, yeti: "ai'c__‘t_he.
very ones ready to find fault if every-

niote ourselves and families to tha

times demand. Life is too

must read and improve ourselves, that

ones at the polls, can cast their hallo

and did not step in to the traces unti

bachelor, (or rather he found me,) try
ing a. mixed husbandry, namely to til

with unskilled efforts.

Grange was organized, and
years of cool and careful deliberation

united with that noble Order, and eacl

make it. Brother and sister farmers

brotherhood, to emulate our calling

in need of.

 

a-sertion that not a farmer in Michi-
gan but knows frrm experience how

family relations is the mending o

my "liege lord" ‘had addressed me in
the manner fir-st spoken of, even my
aimioble disposition might have been
severely tried. but as he was more con-
siderate I cheerfully performed what I
always considered one of life's disa-
greeable dutles. But I wish to make
a suggestion to the brother farmers
«that many perchanv e be a help in time
of trouble. In the flrst place take 0 d
bags that are not worth mending or
got ohonp com-e sacks for potatoes and
vegetables that are "c "f the earth earth-
ly." ' Then when the groin hogs are
brought home instead of throwing
them In a. pile in one corner all dust
and child’, give them I vlgoro ls shak-
lvig and tnrowtbem over A line or pole
put up for that purpose and out__of the
Wily‘ of .mlfce..ls.c.dl' rots. ,!‘h£;y\‘l need
mending do not wait till the very min-

veals to us the names of men, who
have risen from poverty, and made
noble records for future generations
dJIlb e, to profit by. Their education was ac-
quired by perseverance anil ambition,
and with the aid of at few books, and
alpine. knot, they have step by step,

other hand, where we have free schools
and seerningly everything to tempt the

about us young gentlemen and ladies
especially in the rural districts, who
have not a common school education.
They have not the ariibition to aspire to
When they 2l.l'l'l\'e
at a certain age they think they iriiist
take their surplus cash to adorn the,
outward person and thereby dwarf

They should en-

eveii if they do not marry them oil‘ as
stiitalile iltlV:lll-
tages and iliey will carve their own
fortunes. Clothe them l‘f'S[l(‘Cl?tl)l_Vl‘lll(l
take the remaiiiiler to clothe their iii-
yoii tenfold,

will have their edur.-.atioii to fall back
upon, it fits them for all ernergericies
in lii'e. We have a loftier duty and
higher aims in life than merely to
draw from "Mother Earth” the larg-
est amount of subsistence, to support
the mere animal part of our nature.

character. Their long winter evenings

upon many questions of vital impor-

yet they are not
what we require to elevate and pro-

high standard of intellect which the
short to
be lost in gaming, while webs are lie-
in’! intricately woven all about us, to
defraud us of our honest labor. lVe

those especially who are the privileged

intelligently and understandingly. I
was not born and. bred to farm life,

I came to the Wolverine State, and
upon the farm where the schoolhouse
stood where I taught, I found a lonely

the soil and perform household labor
He finally con-
vinced me that my mission in the
schoolroorn should cease and that new
avenues of labor were awaiting me.
Thus my schooldays ended and farm
life began. It seemed from the nature of
my early life contrasted with the iso-
lated life of a farmer's wife a great
change. I seemingly lived for years
witliiir the four walls which enclosed
my kitchen, and saw nothing but my
own family which needed me, until the
there I
found an opening; and after a few

upon all its aims and purposes we

year only unites us more closely to its
purposes. Tl-us farm life wears a fardif-
ferent aspect now, than when I first
entered upon its cares and duties, and
like every other vocation is what we

let us awaken to the fact that our
mission is not merely to become an-
tomatic machines from which all other
classes may ' gain nourishment. but
rather ll"l'l(l1ll‘ vocation alone be stim-
ulus enough, to unite usin one great

and strive for equal rights with all
mankind, and never until this is ac-
complished can we attain to that high
standard of excellence which we stand

Bro. Cobb.--Wil you allow me to
say a word to Jul es, who in the last
number of the Vrsrrorr ventures lb!-‘

potent for evil in the harmony of the
bags. Now I have mended those dirty

bugs many times and it is not a pleas-
ant task truely, and it is possible, if

ir ute they are wanted but sfew days
like all
other classes are ranked in society ac-
cording to their edllcatioii. their abili-
It is not the amount

previou-, take them to the louse and

harm.)

leisure here are a few bags I wish you
would fix up a litile.”
ri.
fully complied with and then I woulo
9‘ have Farmer Jsmes’s solilllq-iy rim
somewhat diiferenily. He might say I
always it new she was the best woman

the money that load of wheat brings
then I’m a brute.
You see-J-m-s, its so much nicer to
have the money, for our very own, to
11 do as we like with. Some wives would
"’ prefer a good msg~ zinc or a. nice pic
ture, to a new dress, and, with all one
deference to their superior wisoom the
“lord-- of creation” are not al-ays
good judges of dress goods.
One word more. D) you James,
whistle “Home sweet horn " when
your better half asks you to but up
the sitting room stove? and can you
keeps smiling face in d refrain from
naughty words during the perfum-
ance of that duty‘? If so, your wife
swoulvl consider l-erself among the
highly favored ones, and should say,
“He is the best of husbands and he
shall have the mince pie. he likes so
well, every day in the» week.”
UNI-I or TH E Sisrr-:rzs.

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The Baby's Mission.
Y It was such a little rni‘e of :3. ha" y
and its advent into that cold cbeerless
loveless borne seemed so strange. It
wasa child of their old age. They
were in fact both past lho prime of
life and had begun the downward
road, where the sun ows grow longer
and longer until they reach to the
vull-y of the shadow called death.
No little ones had ever blessed their
loveless union, and every year they
1" had grown farther and farther apart
t till theyi-eemed to almost hate each
oiher. The wife ball married for a
home, but her ideal home had never
been realized. Certainly she had :-
roof to shelter her, anda place at the
scanty table and that was all she
knew ofa home. She had tri-d the
best she could in the early yiars of
her married life tograce and adorn it
with a few trifies and ornaments ihat
make home so much to a woman, and

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termed “fol do rols” were laid away
on 9. high shelfout of sight, and cov-
ered with the dust of years. Her
woman’s heart rev. lted at the idea of
destroying them, so they werl just put
out of sight. ‘
The mau'had married bccsuse,_he
thought he could make more money
with a wife, than without. His ideal
in this respect has been realized. By
toil. unrelenting, »nd by saxing that
was rniserly, they had succeeded in
acquiring property, and yet, in the
good deeds of love, in kindness to
humanity, in charity to all they were
poor very poor, and they had grown
old, and hard ; embittered toward each
other and toward all that knew them.
All that was lovely, pure or true, all
that which Iaisls man above the
brutes and stamps him with the
image of God seemed to have been so
overrun with the words of neglect and
abuse that nothing but the remnant of
a man and woman seemed left. And
yet down deep in their hearts, so drep
that neither realized its pr se ce was
just a little spark of love, that love
that is etern ll, for G id is love, and a
baby's hand was all that could fan
the spark to a flame, and the flame to
sucu ablaze that it lighted up their
hitherto darkened lives and a light
like a beacons shone out from that
home whose rays lighted and bright-
enrd up all who came within its
reach.

Advice had come to them from the
east, thinking a. change of climate
might restore her wasted body, and
heal her breakng heart. She staid
buta few months, and was laid to
rest in a country grave yard, and lefl
them 8 baby in a dying legacy. Poor
little wai , how and was its advent into
that home. No one gave it a welcome_
no one even smiled or breathed I
prayer craving even the care of him
who has said "I will be a father to the
tatherlrss and the orphans porrion
forever." Yet this wee baby proved a
good angel, sent by the good rather to
stir the soil of their hardened cal-
Iouscd hearts and make their direct
lives blossom as the rose.

They ccu.d not send the baby away,
they knew no one to whom to send it
and certainly t-vey had no idea of
keeping it and so it just staid. An
old adage says “children thrive not
well without love” and certain” 11139
baby pl'0Ved this adage true.

But some how, how I cannot tell the
wrman began to sing lullabys to it;
and strange cradle sons! lb?! We".
no love mingled with the tones. Still
she sang, and with the singing and the
rocking a tender chi-rd was struck
and her women: hurt went out
toward the motherless one and she be-
garr to love the baby. '

The men, strong. vlgorflllll T0081!
man that he was looked at the baby
only in wonder; he couldnot rem9m-
bor ever to haveseonvso youliz '1 Wild ‘
-before. At. onv~rhro*- irhls seemed to

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say, "Vilife, (you can subs itute a pet
name it you choose it will do no
I shall take some wheat to

is market next week and when you have
paintings, hut it is the thought and

study that he has made use of which In Dino 0,595

out i f t» n such a request will be cheer-

iu the world, and ifsbe dour g-t half

novv the remnants of what he had '

he] plessues=.

pretty baby prottle.
love. In their love for the baby , they

took on 8 different look, they ceaseo
to scold and growl at each other, they

in their love to the child.

Order soon came from chaos, flow
ers bloomed in the hitherto negectell
lard. and the fragrant flowers of love
bioomed in their hearts also. Their
baby grew so tall and strong. As tall
as he royal tiger lillys that blossomed
at their door, and which to him were
such a wonder and delight and then,
God took their baby in hirnal-if,

“Oh not in anger, not in wrath
liid the reaper --ome t ut~ ay
But a. I angel came from paradise,
And bore their cilild away.”

How dark seemed the world, how
cruel seemed the hand that had taken
their baby when they seemed to need
him most and lb! now hear seeme
their hearts to breaking.

But he who wounds knowetb how
to heal and to-day after the lapse oi
years they raj ice over their baby
that they say “his gone home first.”
And what. has been the result of the
ills of that baly? They are gray
haired now, tneir forms are bent with
the weight of years. the 1' steps are
feeble and slow, yet their faces will
brighten and their hearis beat quicker
at the mere meniion of baby’s name.
Allchildren are dear to them, they
love all tile children in ihe neighbor
hood and whenever is child is sick.
whenever children need help and
care, then y on will find them minis-
teringto the little ones with such ll
love and such a tenderness as is born
only of a great sorrow.

MRS. Pr-zany Mluro.

Birttle Creek. Mich.

 
   

Springport Grange.

We have-just made a very pleasant
vii-it lo Spriv goort Grange, Jackson
county. I tbiik the county caunoi
boar-it many Granges and that it was a
firltl that needed earnest laborers, and
if we could in lge so of the rest of the
residents ofJlcksnn County from the
good pvople of Springport the work
would be very agro-able indeed, for
we fouudss kind and wboll-hearted a
people as it has ever been our good
f-wuue to meet, their exceeding kind
ness to us will long be r-rriembeied.
B -th Mr. Mayo and myself were in-
vitr-d to go and speak to them; but du-
ties on the farm colnpol ed Mr. Mayo
to decline so the "other hali” had to
pluck up courage and go alone. And
vie t uly rreedell all the C4ll]I'liL',e We
could sumin in for we learned that a
temprrsbce meeting had been called
by a former pastor of ours, who was
l-rationed there and we were expected
io speak. The cause of temperance
lies very «lose to our hearts and we
did what; we c.uld. 'lhe next day
Tuesdl y dawned bright and fair and
was so warm and pleasant as to eug
gr-st ilad lhiugbts of a lime -when
i-pring days would warm or d bring to
life and light seed, plant and fl )Wl:'T.
The truslces of ihe Baptist church
had very kindly opened their house of
worship for the use of t e Patrons of
Spririgporl; Grange and their friends,
and their pastor opened the meeting
with devotional -xercises. A Grange
choir aided very much in :he exer-
cises by the singing of some grllr d
Grange songs that cheered the hearti-
nfall who listened. The day seemed
just made for the me» tir g and a full
house of attentive listeners greeted us.
The night came down dark, and
stormy and we were glad that we were
sheltered with kind friends, and r0‘
trying to make our way hornewurd on
such a tempes nous night.

Springpori. Grange is reviving. We
thiuk it has seen its darkest hours,
and that the glad dawn ofa bright. r
day is nigh. It is well otficered. J.
A. Courirlght ls Master, S H. Ludlow
Secretary and 0 Hammond Treasur-
er. Our best wishes are with them
for their success, and our hearts and
hands are ever ready to lift what bur-
dens we can and to share in any toil
or care that will have for he olject the
upbuilding of our fellow man that we
may do: little good in the work of_
life.

Mas. Punmr Mum.

Battle Creek.

 

Corponlloris in all ages and in all
countries, have proved dangerous en

ruries to the liberties of the people, and
ti air pow;-rs must be gresrly curta led
and that justus soon as the people -can
put. in folce the necessary legislation.
_.Or¢gon ’_VidcrIo' . I

 

c,.,,l,.l».,,,,.l.--1-,.lllll' separators brine is’
gain of from l0t'iV‘-"l'2 oer cent in 0'13""

lapperll to him by re.-iron of it! 0“!

and other expenses.

It was such a wonder
to him. He would lay its little thin
claw like hands with n his own, and
wonder if baby's band would ever be
so largeas his, and wonder again if
his was ever so small, and he soon
found the baby's eyes following him
about the room, and it soon gave
those stoiles of welcome that bsbys
give so lavishly to any and all who
will ever look at them, and so it soon
found its way to the man's heart by
many ariless cunning ways that only
a baby knows, and in a verr llltla time
they both loved the baby, and oh! how
devntedly.. Then how he did thrive
such sweet winning ways, such sweet
They had now
something to work for, something to

Deltsu to love each other. The home

were united as they never were before

i.lt._v of butter, Defllllefl a saving in ice”

POSTAL JOTTINGS.

Bro Cobb :-At a meeting ofBrancb
county Pomona Grange at Butler the
ladies of Girard Grange No. 136 pro
posed to hold i-ocials for the purpose of
purchasing a lot whereori to build a
Grunge hall, Elizl Craig giving the
lirst social and oyster supper. The
receips were $25 which was a good
beginning. Our Grange is working
true to the cause of the farmer. We
have six new members, taken at our
last meeting and three joined by
demits from the Gilead Grange.

H. J. w.
March 5 1884.

Dear Brother Cobb.-—-I am compell-
ed l0 address these few lines to you,
for there seems to be a mystery abou-
rniairig carnations. I feel in duty
bond to all lovers and amwures of
those flowers to er lighten them. Now
then, sow your reeds in Well pulveriz-
ed dry soil, in drills, seed two inches
apart in drill. It matters not wheihrr
in open air, or box, or hot-bed; also
«over very lightly. Any sol wherein
cabbage grows, these plants will. Care
must be taken, a little ashes sprinkled
alter sowing to keep angle worms away
for they will eat the plants while very
youn;.; therefore, soil oughr not be too
r-lcu. Alter the plants are 3 or -1 inch-
rs high, transplant ih in in richer
soil. Heed bed ought also to be covero
with brush, to guard ug iusl chickens
and cars. 8 ed can be put in ground
as soon tlr it is dry enough. T is di-
reciiou will suflice for the present
Elery reader and patrl n viill do well
to perserve Vrsrron, ior I will have to
-xplain how they will have to to treat_
ed for winter 11 -weriog
Y lure Fraternally,
Jncon Ba Um-.<;r<As.

How cheering and helpful in our
life's work are the opportunities for
iuterchar-g-sol thought, resting places
iu the great thoroughfare of life
where we may turn aside fron its
dust and toil, and by contact of mind
with mind receive fresh vig ir for our
daily tasks. The wisest of all men
has said “Iron sharpeueih iron, so 3
man sharpenerh the countenance of
his friend.” Our thoughts are made
quicker and ourlives are made hap
plrr and brighter by co n'nUui0lI with
and sympathy of kindred hearts.
Life to all brings jays and srrrows.
and in the height of our joys and
depth of our sorrows, we seek human
companionship. The pleasaritsmile;
kindly word and sympathizing tear
form the bow of promise in our life's
horizon. The voices of those we love
are like sunlight to our souls and there
are times when we would give all we
poi-se-s to again hear that voice which
thrilled our heart withj y, and fl loded
our life with beauty, whose sort ca-
dence made sweeter music to our ears,
than al the melodies of nature.
Flowl rs bloom and die, leaves thrive
and fa 1, fruits ripen and decay, sea
sous come and are gone, all things
pass away; but the love we bear our
friends is as immortal as our own ex-
istence. and their memory will ever
serve to ligh en life’s dark hours and
farm ester of hope on the other side
of the river of death.
Mus. W. K Ssxron.

Howell, Dec. 25, 1883.

Editor Grange Visitor.-—Not having
seen much in ibe Vrsiroa. in regard
Ie the holdii g of Children's Day, as
recommendeu by the S a e Grange at
its last session, I thought perhaps a
short account of its rirst Cilildren’s
Day by Cedar Grange, No 235, might
beofsorno intcrest. On Saturday the
16th, at 10 l.’cioi-k, the crowd began io
fill our call, and befole noon the corn-
pai y numbered full one hundred, in
leastl no-hall of whom were children.
A beautiful repast was served by the
sisiers, after which the meeting was
called to order and }Il’I~Sldt'lll over by
Postmaster G e. F. Fuller, our Mar-
ier being kept at home by sicknes-..
Prayer was offered by the Worthy
Uhapl.n. ‘

H Ill. J. H. Forster of Williamslou
then delivered a very flue address in
the children, filled wiih good advice,
and was list. bed to with the closes»
att-niion. Twenty-tine of ihe litlle
folks then spoke pieces, and of course
plenty of music was interspersed by
the boys and girls.

Not one of all ihose sperlklrig made
the least failu.e, and many r-poke ao-
xnirably well. I should like to men-
lion some particularly but all did so
well I will only mention the singing
of Charles and Beriie Bonner. This
was finely rendered and showed voices
that will always make them many
happy listeners.

Worthy Chaplin Thomas Parker
then addrcssed them for a few mn-
ments in a happy and entertaining
way after which the meeting closed,
and I think I express the sentiments
of every member of our Grange when
I say it Wu 3 grand success. We pro-
pose to hold such meetings once every
quarter and ‘I would recommend to
every Gnrrgeto try it on -e at least, '-
ond [believe it will ever be a source
of plsnsuroto all concerned. Invite
all the boys and girls in your neigh-
borhood. It will soon interest the
older onegoutsiiie ibe 0r‘er.

'  " ' "Fr"aterna.lly‘ yours.

GEO. W. Prrxnrs.

THE REAPER DEATH.

BES'I‘—Sister Axonrxz But 8 member
of Harmony Grange died February 17, 1884.
Resolutions of respect and condolence were
adopted by the Grange and ordered spread
upon its records.

STARR. —Died at her home in Royal Oak,
Mrch., Feb. lat, 1884; Miss IVHODA. S'r.urx,
aged 22, I member of Birmingham Grange,
No. 323.

While we are reminded, almost daily, that
death is among us, we stand appalled at each
mauifestlrion of its presence, yet long to
lift the veil which hides the future from in.
Death bas again entered our ranks and
removed from us one who, though so young,
gave full promise of a useful lite. We shall
miss her voice in song and social convene,
but we can only mourn her loss in quiet sub-
mission feeling that

'-Druvh cannot come

To her iniirneiy who is fit to die,

The loss of this cold world,

'1 he more of Heaven.

The blister lite, the earlier immortality."
It is therefore

Resolved, That, in the death of our amis-
ble sister. the orange laments ihe loss or one
whose estimable characier. rare attainments
or mind tllrd lnlt'llcCl.' and ready willingness
to puioim the duties assigned iler, made her
one or its most efliclent members.

Resolved. That, in the loss or‘ Sister Rrronlt
DTAAR, society mourns one. who was ever
striving to do good. lhc bereaved family,
lately so happy in her pl‘tSeLCu, is now athlet-
ed with the keerlrst sorrow. 1'0 them we
would I‘l vl lently lender our most sincere and
Lnariio t sy inpatby.

Ir-solrslll, lhai. as an expression of our
regard iol- our worthy rlstcl‘ we drape our
Cllul'l.c.l' in mourning for .1 period of." sixty

uuyfl.
set.-. lb, I884.

SPlNCEll.— Wnsrnms, Bro. MORGAN J.
S1’l£NC1-.8, in the (38th year or his his utter is
prolrllcie-d llllitss has departed tlom our
nli st. Thole-fore,

Resolved, l‘hat in his death Pontiac Grange
has lost a. va.uablc and worthy nl1uAlX‘r,
Rlaalverl, 'l'riat we most llsarrily sympa-
thize will our bereaved sister ur this her
great llfll 0 ion.

Results:/. Tllat these resolutions be spread
on tile records or the Grange and ihat our
charter be draped in mourning tor sixty days.

ANNABIlE.—Wusri.rrAs, Our Heavenly
k‘atl.e he removed by death Bro. Wxsunt
ANNAIJLE, Malcll ll, 188-1, of pneumonia, in
the 2» year or his age. Thsrtiore

Resolved. l‘nar. in memory or our departed
brother, of Hudsorlvrlle Grunge, No. 112,
the altar be. drslycd in mourning for the pe-
riod or slxry days. This resolution to be
spread u} on our record, anu is copy to be
sent the urusos Vrsrron for publication.

SHEPARD.-Wmcursas death has entered
our held and removed trim our midst our
worthy brolher, Geo. W §H.hI’ABD, a charter:
member or nsrtxold Grarge, No 89. and
r-lnnrul until culled hence by death, there-
fore

R:-solo-d That whi‘o we humbly bow in
submission we would express our sympsth
l0l' lbs rue moors 0. the bereaved family re -
iz rlg the inability or words to heal the wound
inflicted.

Resolved, That as we cannot reach the
dead and can the living, we will endeavor in
the future to disc urge more truthiully our
duties towald one another. .
Resolved 'lhilr. our charter be draped in
mourning for sixty days. that a copy or these
resolutions be entered on our Grunge record,
a copy be sent to the family or our late broth-
er, one to h- Uranus Visrrorr and also to
the Hartrord Buysprma tor pub.l..:u.ll0n.

SKINNER.-— In the providence of God, we
have been called to mourn the loss of out
worthy sister Ftoanxor: sxrnnxa, who on
the lzth on, or .Iau., A. D. lo‘b4,arter is short
but painlul illness was summoned home to
the drain Master above. ’1‘herexore,

Resolved that in her d is in Windsor
Grange has been deprivell of a moat worthy
and exemplary member, her husband a
young, affectionate and noble wi 0. her chil-
dren s.krnu,l--ving mother, her parents an
amiable a la true daughter, her brothers and
siatr-:13 an e lr-nest, lovi g sister, and the com-
munlty a noble. worthy woman, who is wor-
tily of exalted respect and aflecnouate re-
me-rnbrsrlce.

Resolved, That we sym; athize deeply wilk
the her uved husband. parerlrs, uuu d or,
ii tle, ml beiless children in whoe family
circle so gre lt a vacancy has been mule, and
Cl-lllll end them to the Master above who
warches even the sparrows as they tell, and
will wipe all to-an irom their ey es.

Reiolled, 'I'lla.r.a.a a token of respect to
on Worthy Sis er our Clll1l‘tr'l‘ be draped for:
sixty (lii)r,hXl(l theta copy of there resolu-
ions be placed upon the record of this
Grunge, a copy be out to the be caved fami y
and also to tho urursor: Visrrorr. for publica-
uon.

AUS FIN — At ll meeting of (‘ourtlund
Grange, No 563, held in their hall Feb. 22nd.
the following among other proceedings were
h d:

Wrrrmsas, It has pleased the Allwise Ruler
ot the universe to summon from us by death
our much esteemed and beloved Sister AUB-
TIN and.

vll‘rrr:sEzls We desire to express our deep
grist for her urrtlrnely dl ath. and our esteem.
for her many virtues, thereror-i be it

Resolved, That in the dt ath of Si-ter Aus-
nx we real as we have lost a worthy member
or our Urau.e, one who ever strove to ex m-
pliry the principles of our Order -n an honest
and upright life and in srrrct devoiron to its
teachings, one who was an honor to the

Grange. and a friend to all.

Rem med, That our B\ mp «thy be extended

to the farm y of sister Aus'r.r¢, and especially
to that aged cl rn anion. and we will ever
hope and pray that Hewhllsufiers not even
the s] arrows to full to the gvoul 41 without his
notice. wbolunpers the viirld to the sham
lamb mly watch over and guard him now
and furl-v er.

Resolved, That our lull and charter ho
draped for tho space of 30 days.

lteeulved That a. co; y of these proceedings
be published in tr e R: elm rd R-gut" (A-
1131' Spring Clipprr and Grinds Vrsr-ron.

 

The story, wl ich has never yet been
told in print, of how Wilkes Booth,
the asses.-in of President Lincoln.
orossed the Poiomar-, and where he
.ll-our his time from the night of the
14 h of April until he was snot on the
rrmrniug ofihe 26th, will be contrib-
uved to the April Cer_tury by George
Alfred ’l‘own-end.

 

ONE of the largest railroad owners,
remllrkld the other day that the gov-
ernrnerit might go down, but the rail-
roads were. sound. When tbc_rai|roads-
claim to be stronger than the govern-
ment, is it not about the time that the
question of strength should he settel

or the time will come when their state-
ment will be true? ,
j'j 

Tm: president of the Peliiriilvanin

railroad receives as-alary ofsi00.000 per:
year. _ ,
rilltes sneeringly remark, tlillt the
iner is getting above his ~lii’riiou, -¢‘fie‘1g.
actually iriedlzliniz in politics."
ai ot'~el',."their women want silk dress-

Who pays it ? Tire railroad mag.

far-

And says-

es. Go slow gent.lerneu..

 

 


   
 
 

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MARCH 15. 1884.

Erratic’ Eepatiment.

 

PUT DOWN THE BRAKES.

No matter how well the track is laid,
No matter 1 ow strong the engine is made,
When you find it running on ll. downward
smile.
Put down the brakes.

If the demon drink has entered your soul,

And his power is getting beyond yo ir control,

And dragging you down to a terrible goal
Put down the brakes.

Remember the adage, “Don't trifle with fire,”
Temptation you know is always a liar;
If you want to crush out the burning desire,

‘ Put down the brakes.

Are you running in debt by living too fast?
Do you look back with shame on a profitless

past
And feel that your rum is coming at last‘:
. Put down the brakes.

Whether for honor, for knowledge or gain,
You are fast wearing out your body and
hr .in

Till nature ho longer can hear the strain.

Put down the brakes.

- Rescue.

 

Dear Uncle and 1\-'rphews.-—-How
easy to imagine that some “things are
not what they seem.

Instance-Rsdishes and lettuce for
dinner, a Florida paper red0lei_t of
orange blossoms and roses, and a
warm fire have made this seem a
sun u-H ii iy, iiocwitlistm-llzig out-
side the cold is intense, and a mail
northeaster, is driving the snow be-
fore it with a velocity unsurpassed by
January. C

Thissuggesfs, upon how many real
troubles we iuigut turn our backs, if
weonly would, and make, not only
ourselves, but all those around us
hapDiei'

Yes, there are troubles that defy
time. But the lesser ones, that we
magnify and cling too, blindly sui-
posing they are our cross, are of:en
self-imposed and would down at our
bidding.

It was lamentable ignorance that
caused the old time farmer to burden
his horse with a large stone to balance
the com in the sack. Is it not iguor
ance on our pm; to load ourselves
down with unnecessary. trouble in‘
stead of making as light as possible
that which we cannot cart off‘?

-Sunshine and cheerfulness
necessary to life, let us court them.

Says Lydia Maria Guild : "I hang
prisms in my windows to till the
room with rainbows. I seek cheer-
fuiness in every way."

My rural friend the VISITOR did
notfollow me into town, so have not
read the last number.

Hope our department was filled
with letters replete with interest.

AUNT PRUE.

fife

 

THE MARKETS.

Grain and Provisions.

Nnw Yoax, Mar. 12.-Flour without decid-
ed change; export and home trade d('fl1'~Iid
light. Wheat. opened §4@%c lower, subse-
quentlyrecnvered from the derline and. ad-
vanced 5(,@% per cent; moderate speculative
trading; No. 1 white, nominal: sales 40.Uil1 bu.
No. 2 run. March. $1.07%@1.08; 16011.30 bu.
April. $l.f_‘9’}é@1.0994’,: 766,UUO mi. May. $1.11!/.
@1.12}-.';; 248,111: on. June. i‘i1.12‘f”s@l 13%. Born,
opened lacs?-fic lo Iver, butlater reacteu 5§@:lg<-.;
mixed western, spot, h5@6:W;: futures 6191. r
65%. (law, without decided change; western
395-f.@vl7. Pork, quiet, steady; spot new mess
$l7.5L@i'7 6254. hard, higher, firm; steam ren-
dered. $9.6‘.’.‘,/r.-.

Dmraorr. Mar. 1z.—12 :30 r. ll(.—Wh6at. firmer;
cash, $103“/1; M-irch 31.03%; April, $1.05;
May, $l.(1iI'§; June $1.08; No. 2 red, cash,
$1.U8%; No. 2 white, 91%: N0. 3 red. 91.
Corn, No. 2 cash, 5254 bid. Date, No. 2 white
88% bid; No.2,3d%.

Flour. Wheat. (lam. Oats.
Beo‘pt’n.......... 145 18 U00 7.5“) 1 66:‘:
ship‘ts ... ....  none 202.0 ‘Z:i,uuo none

TOLEDO, Mar. 12.——Wheat, active, firmer; No
2 red_ cash. or March, $1 0151.; April, $1.02;
May, $1.045/4: June, $_1.il.'iX; July 51.13%.
Uorn, cash and May, 8(ItlV": high mixed 51%;
new do.51; No.2 cash or March 5355; reject-
ed 50; no grade. 42%. Oats. dull, steady; No.
2 white. 3@3854;No.2 cash. or -,aroh 3641.365...

CHICAGO. March 12 ——Begi.li-r wheat. firm
liisher: 91% Maren: 96.76 May: 989é@93% June;
99% July. Corn, hglier; 5 54 March. Hats,
firm; 31%’; March Pork. higher; 517.82% Mar.
hard. firmer; $9.45 March.

Groceries.

New Your. March 12.— Butter, firm, fair
demand; western 10@37;El2in oreamery 38
Cheese, firm, 33152;. Sugar. quiet. unchanged.
MOLBHBES, steady. Rice. qui t, firm. Coffee
sfit)ea.dy. Tallow. steady,75§. Western eggs,dull,

l/ac.

OHIGAGO wnonassnn PBIons—'ruims REPORT.

Sugar, stand. A......7% Butter. dairy. l7@28

granula  8%; extra cream’:-y 83.035
Driedapples.....'l%@8 oomm.-n..... i7
Potatoes, n., bu...2i@3'l Eggs, fresb.. 2l)5§@21
Wool. fine. w‘shd...32-33 Beans h pick. $1.50-2.35

Live Utocx.

Onroano. Mai-I-h 12 —Ho2s—reoei_pts 14.000;
quiet; light. 35 756665; rough packing 85 Oifl
675; heavy packing and shipping. $680@7 40.
Oatt.le——receipts.5._lm; ready; exports $il.4u@
6!): good to choice, 8fi.'tfiaili.B0. Sheep——re-
ceegpfii, 2%.); slow; common to choice, $40.")

There is a lady in Minneapolis at Y‘

the head of a$30,000 business, employ-
ing forty hands who holds services in
the jail every Sunday afternoon, visits
the Stillwater Stat-S Pri.-on once a
month, has organized and directs the
Bootblacks and Newsboys’ Saving
Club with seventy-live members, and
sixty dollars in the bank, and a clue
room of their own. Sue belongs to th '-

Womans Sufferage Association, and ' V"

makesa happy home for aged parents.
But there is one thing this woman can
not do. She cannot vote for a Minn-
eapolis Alderman.

 

The right of the people to regulate
their rates has been afilraied by the
highest court in the land. It the,
roads were wise, they would so {adj ust
those rates. that such regulationwoiild

never be deemed necceasary. For if .

they do not, whether such a course is
politic or impolitio, whether it hurts
them or helps them, the people will'go_
to the other extreme, and perhaps im-
pizirthe efllciencyof the roads, by‘cu't-
I

oaalato
Winn

 

’ using of his products the

In-mar-ho dkee the bestathomo-. ’

total; the list to lo and sit at the
N!!-

 

too deeply into those rates.—Kan- A
Journal. . _..

The April Cffllllty contains two ar-
chitectural papa-rs,nne on the New
Y irk City hall and anoiher on the
White l:luuse,—the latter more de-
scriptive of the interior of the build
iug, which has been recently decorat-
ed by Mr. L uis C. Tll'l:sl1\' and his as-
sociate ariists. In the May Century
will begin Mrs. Van Rsnssiliefls ar-
ticles on the present movement in
American architecture, which are to
be rich in illu-itratian of both public
and private buildings, churche~. col-
lege bu l Jugs, railroad stations, city
and country houses, evc.

Maple sugar is made at a time when
no other wu-rs pros-es. ll. ha« a line,
distinctive flivor and is always in de-
mand as a luxury. A sugar camp,
with all the appliances for 8 grove of
200 trees, will cost hardly $100 and will
last for years. The maple is agloiioua
tree to look upon for form and fullfige,
hr-rides its value for timber an I sweet:-.
Sugar making will encourage its
planiing on rocky lands unsuited to
tillage.

Uniform railroad signals are now
talked of. The railrnails have given
us uniformed time, uniformed c-induc-
[nrg_ uniformed brakemaii, and now
will add uniform railway signal. S »
far no good. but what the people mo-t
war t in uniform rates.—bchcnctady N.
Y) iS'.’m'.

FARM FOR SALE.

Desiring to chin ze occup itions would eel‘
my farm ciintaiiig 79 acres ')Y cnoice land Sil-
uateil one ilc west and 1.1- miles south ofllie

hriviiig town of Hurttoril. waiil f-urn is in
go i(l iep -i , with two go d be irinnz app!-. or-
clmg-ris besidesa good Vfllllily of other fruit.
}og.1 sail a,ria,pterl ti lnth grii i and tru 7.,
being within the fruit belt in VanBur(-n Co.
Seveuty—on': acres iin raved land. balance
timber, including a thrifty youiip; sugar bush
of ov-.r 300 trees No waste land, splendid
buildings. all new or neaily new, that cost
over three thousand dollars Any amount or
splen id spring witcr convenivnt to both
lmu.-e and barn. Handy to s hool and in a
good Ylelg'\Y)Ol‘l10(l(l. If desired. would give
long time on part of purchase vnoney.

1‘ yr further iiiforinatiou call on or address
the suhicrihcr on preernises This is a rvre
chance for some one to get a beautiful. pleas-
arur. loin-3. J E. PACKER.

lrnanit

STRAWBERRIES.
I24 Fine Plants for only $1.00.

25 plants r--.ii:h of Wil.-ion, Sharpllwh‘. l7llmlI<‘TlNllll 3"”
1Iuiwe-ll, and a copv ofa larizl‘ H-'\'*‘-Ill)?-lM.‘.-"‘v [WM "4"
ing how to grow all kinds of l-'riiii~i Flow re clc., al~o
li--w to div-troy zill inn--~Is tliiit t nuhle -{rm ii Fruit-i
lloiise-plants etc. all ofthe above for only 51 '7‘ . mid
ziny pr-rson who names this p»ip~r and sr-nus order
Lu-[|:ra April 1st will receive FR)-2?. 1'.’ plant.-i, each of
Jifllllfll Vick mid “1nCh6~Kfl!f, the leading new varieties.
Book will be sent upon receipt of iiiout-y. Plants in
April. Show this ofi‘--r to your DE‘l;.’,ll'l'll" and K?‘ “P ll
club. $5-in cash to the ilireo [)>'l’~l0l1E to-nriing the
mogt n1'ders_ E, W, \V'El.l). ‘Niiiseryiimii,

1 um-~_g: Jalllcalflw , N. Y.

CHOICE FIEITD PEAS,
0/over and Timothy Seed.

A limited quantity of Eu-ly Cxnada Seed
Corn, warranted to grow IUO per cent. Extra
nice. All kinds of Farm anti Vegetable Seeds
fresh and pure. GEO. W. HILL.

S0 w00lll)Tldge st., Duraorr, Mich.

l5mar3t

  if ii-.....;i‘+.—+o§”§.;gs_

Said farm is situated in Silver Creek town-
ship; four miles north, and one mi 6 west of
Dowagiac, and coutaiiis ll0 acres of land;
ninety acres u‘ der 1 ood impruvinent twenty
acies of wheat, or the g.-auxin; en &Cl‘- s of or-
chard. frame house and l)ll.lI), and a good well
of water. For terms, enquire of

G. VV. N"E,
Dowiigiac Cass Co. Mich,

DAIRY QUEEN CHURN.

The easiest Churn to run in existence, le-
quiring but one-third ihe labor at any other
Uhurii made. Woiked by hand or trcaille
As easy to clean as a butter tray. A success
with wind-mill power. Giving the be 1: of
8alZl“f8.Cl’.i0ll. Every Chum guaranteed. Send
for Price List.

Dairy Queen Churn (}n..
SciiooLcaArr, Mien

   

ran nous. Send for descriptio
of this famous breed, Also Fnw1s,,;,,
: 13. S11. Vlzlli. ¢.lL1£'VlnL.Al\v'D. .

    
 

 
  
  

    

new Our Agents are sweeping

HELP.
bovs, girls. all iloequal:
Address at once.

1 Wcwanta.nAcEflTinew:ry
.lOCillKV. Something entirely
the tiel-.l wherever they go. and
 j his money mpirlly. M.-r.
' WU
Entire/I  ly well. will send you full out-
PROF"-ABLE_ fitori nceipt of 2 oentfitninp.
' §.« . .~ .' ‘ L0.
UU“SldY"?lll.l Hl\(x
  Brownwood, Texas '
l5inzi.r2t

     

 ~Y,'_,:l‘,—_ .i V  . F
1:? New 3-wheel Si1lliyPlow 
ioo Pounds ligliler llrall ‘

THAN ANY OTHER PLOW MADE. either .
sulky or walking. doing the same work.
No other plow can approach it in LIGHT-
NESS OF DRAFT or THOROUGHNESS OF
WORK, because no other plow is con-
structed lllre it, embodying the scientific
principles of perfect plowing. Note
these great Points of Advantage:

The plow is in FRONT of the driver.

The plow is not DRAGGED but CARRIED
by means of the perfect support of 3 wheels

The iron! wheel acts as a pan e, and the
plow Slice: and turns a UN F0 M furrow.

The Swivel.-Plate Pole prevents all side-
drsfl and _wei hi on horses’ necks.

The Drive 3 weight is mainly over the
furrow wheel. which acts as the landsiqe
to the plow. and is All ADVANTAGE In
keepingfhe plow flrml down to itsworli.

It is imple, Easyto sndle_. Strong and
Durable. and requires no iloclieying to
make it do perfect work. I is
aiructsd that it MUST do it.

save your horses. save your own
strength. save time, save money. MAKE
money. and increase the yield of your
fields by securing THE best and light-
est~di-aft plow that ever turned soil.

I d for Ulugtrblfifl circulars oontain- -
in; e’ tlmou, of practical. unbiased
xariners proving our strongest claims.
Twenty-eight large pages or reading
mum:-,; . ’ to interest and please
every intelligent farmer. sent ran. .. .

send uonoeand learn all about the _
Flying Dutchman. and many Oth8lflOflI.
thing: which will make your running
more sneoessinl. and save you much

Moi.im: PLOW co.
‘~ Moi.me. ILi.mois.

‘IKE GRANGE VISITGR.

Alabuiine

Is the only preparation based on th-
proper principles to constitute a dura
on finish for walls, as is not held oi.
the wall with glue, etc.. to decay, bu:
is a Stone (ement that hardens with
age, and every all ditional coat strength-
ens the wall. Isreariy for use by ad
-ling hot water, and easily a; plied by

anyone.

wiii 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 airy other preparation
on the same surface.

For sale by paint dealers everywhere
Send for circular containing the twelve
beautiful tints. Manufactured only by

ALABASTINE CC
M. B. Cannon. Manager,

iuyl-ti’. Grand Rapids, Mich

[Cont/ricutvlfrovn 61:4 4/1:-ei.r}

How Watch Cases are Made.

Tlii‘: many grt-at lll'41'i>Vi}.nl(:l'll.< intro-
rliicerl in this iiiliniillivtiiri: of the Ja.-‘. l-1419-’
ti-will \Vziicli (Ito-"i-, liziu: lrul to similiir in‘-
}..’H'i'(‘lllv.:l1l.‘~. in the niiikiiig of .\ll\l'l‘ f‘:l.‘~'A'-.

liillv.-r the old iiii-lliotl.-', (L11l‘ll part. of II.
.\ii\(‘!' (‘rise was mrirln of ;<4‘\’|",l‘1Il }«l\"1'('s of
Ill-‘lili .'~‘0lll(.‘f‘(“l Y;ll"_:'\".ll('I‘, n-qiiiriiiu 1;, g'_’Z‘('2Ai.

"1 of rzullitig and e-'-ill-:riii;_:_ v.'l.«i-':li

 
     

.- iii .. i lll(‘ ini-‘.:il:iIiil;::;\i: it Y.Yl(5]‘oll2llJllll_‘s'
of ‘mill I‘:ll.llCl‘ll!1ll’l llic ('l:u=tir:i1.v oi" .ail'.'r»r.

l nilr r “K: iiiiprmfiil Tll€‘l.ll'Hl%. ('2ll‘li part
of the l{i'-j.'st.mio .S'il\'cr Wiilxdi (‘rise is .7'l1l1l(‘
of mu» .~4(‘nll4l piece of niiszil liuixmierirl into
.~.‘.:i1»-. The '.i.il\'.'i.ii‘.:i.gr.-.~' um l"C1l(lll_V'.ll-_l‘-.’li'~
<-iii. for every one l~:iimi.'s tlirii. ll1llTll'll(‘Y‘ll'i;.:
li;.rili:m< the metal Wlrilc .<<‘»l<loring .~ni'i<-n- if.

‘lb l.&’.\'l ilie siiperiority of tlic }\'i'_‘,"-‘lolio:
T;ll\\'X' \V:itI.:li Case, take one of 3 mt. v-'<-inlil,
yrr-.~~; ii sqiizmcly in the i'f(*1‘li.(5l‘ \\'l1(‘ll rrluu,-.-l,
anal it will not give, wliilc aciisc of some
wvizllt of any other mzikc will give €D')ll;__’ll
tn llrltfilk the crystal. The Kc-.ystonc Silver
‘W-.-.li-li Cziso is made only with silver cup
Iillll gold joiiits.

f-‘-on-1 3 rent stamp to Keystone Wxtela Case Fletcri-vi, Hila-
drlphln. i‘:\.. for Yiiinds-onxe lliustralod l'tun;s|iIct showing how
Janos Boss‘ and Kr-yltciu Winch Cases are made.

(To be continuzd.) T
FOOLISH WOMEN,
Those suffering i‘rom
complaints pt‘Cllll‘.U' to

\

their sex, Wllll‘h are
daily becoming more
dangerous and more

firmly seated, yet who
neglect to use, or even to
learn uboiit Zoa-l’hora-
Woman s Frieiid.
For testiinoniuls prov-
ing its merits. adilress,
R. I’ic:~ic;i«;i.i.Y 6: ($0.,
Kalamazoo,
Mich.
Sold by all Driiggists,

N. B.—l-Every woman. sickly or lienltliy,
slioiild read Ur. l’(‘llg£*lly'l~‘ book, “Advice to
_\lot.liers, concerning iliseziscs of women and
cliililren." Free to any lady. Postage in sealed
envelope -ic.

Clover Leaf Can

 
  

nos rue
Cream Gathering System.
 Tue CHEAPEST AND
" BEST. Has the l:i.i-. es:

cooling sn face. It is the
mo~t succis ful cream
raiser and gives the
best satisfaction of any
can now in use. Patent
allowed. Send for price
list.

llclall ll luncan,

St-hnoli-raft, Mir};.,
M:lhllTHCtUf| r~ and dealers
in Creamery sllpplies,

iiciliaiil FEMALE SEMINARY,
K‘°"“‘”“"‘7?‘.?2;.l’“..“.’E.;....

'[‘.3rm opens April 311 Bye tvriiig at this
time pupils can prepare for the regular course
in September. Superior advantages are
oficred. F .»r C talogue address

MESS M. H. SPRAGUE, Principal.

PRACTICAL POULTRY KEEPINE

Fourth edition. .-in il|ii~ir.°iii-ll book on

 

l’oiillrv by mziil, 50 cent ‘ l‘o:-'tiil Yll)il'
profi-ri‘e<l; siziinps itiki-ii. .~i1|1lIlI “IF
i||u.¢v-arr-rl I"ll'(‘iil.'ll’.~‘« of (‘ll . in-ii1lll.\'._

J. Ill. '1‘. Joliiisori, Bing .ll‘.lL()li, .\. X .

PATRONS IN MICHIGAN!

You can Save Money

by Joining the Wisconsin State Grange in
a oo-operative purchase of Teas, Lkilfees,
Barbed Wire, and many articles bought in
large lots at corresponding reductions. We
have a flourishing agency jlhl. across the
lake in Milwaukee, with low rates of freight
via. Detroit or Ludington Lines.

Send for our Large Illustrated Catalogue.

Mailed free to all applicants. No pay for
goods, ordered under seal, until received
and adproved. BARBED WlitE—-price for
February: 4%, 5 and 6 cents per pound.
Free sample of best (40 cents) Japan Tea by
maiL Write for information,

L. G. KNIFFEN. State Agent,
21-1 W. Water St... Milwaukee, Wis.

Seeds for 1884

TRY MY SEEDS.

I have a choice lot of Fresh Seeds at three
eents‘per pocket. I also sell by the ounce or
poun Send for price list. .

T. L. WHITE, .
GlR.AR.D,~Branch Co., Mich.

l5feb6%

ElLT.B_Aiflll|£l.liSléE|l

v , ii EXTRA. because grown by myself hburthe very

_ choicest onions. selected from a crop which took the
I first premium In Essex, Connty,llass.. ianions for rais-
l ing the flnest onions in the United States. Early Yel-
; kw Globe Danvern. per I: by niall, 8l.$.‘ l7a.nv_ers Early
‘ Bed Globe,‘ 81.65, Early Red and Yellow Flatot Cracker,

V 181.65, had large Red Weathelllleld, I140. -Diinvers

Early Bed Globe is both the oat,-liut,ȢAe grtalest
crown and IL: lasduvuat of all the Bed onlonn.
7 Reed of my own raisin, for premium stock. ‘try It
_ 3 in runs to an.
alumni. B. Clitoris lnrikhend. Ian.
lncfl

 

Fifty cents’ worth ofALABAs'rr:~rEi

‘ ';.- 

iifiifiii er i’L1i'i'i1il1ial

This Offer HOLDS GOOD UNTIL JUNE 10th ONLY.

$  IN PRESENTS, GIVEN AWAY.
I EYERY SUBSCHLQER GETS A PRESENT.

' The pmy:-2-iomr-.4 of tin xv-11-1-;r.r.wn and p-.-polar wev kly paper, l-I GOLDEN ARC-05$". bc-iniz desirous
of. ll’ZK:'fid‘ilI'lf1§.€ their pap. 7 iniv (‘\‘|‘]'_\' home as’ re it is not now taken. have orgzahizrd ii stoic compnn ' with
an AL-Tlioltlli-LII 1. Pl i'Al. 0F 0200.0 0 fcruit-purpose of pu 1iin:fhi- Argosy i-xtensiv-;-ly,an have
decidxd 1-os: v-- .-in-:.;.' Yu£<.ll\'v'h1.' : lll»-l('l‘ll)C beforelnne 10'. . is-4.i4(f.000 in prtsvntn‘. ilead our Great. 0I'cr.

C).i"STI.nY FIFTY CENTS

Wow'!l- 7- ‘- »::.- . .m.4-i n rur :: ll):‘ -r \" ’-. ‘hook cl '1 R . SV re-cu)’ ly for
Three’ .\lur1Ill.l1l;.‘('i hir or-u vi .urio-;r:- . tin‘ ’ilf'l!l"lO4li‘1l:l:n8"I'l’3a&| cdtitlg the holder tfone of
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1 100 \V:ifiei-bury Vt all-he-~. $3.50 mach. . . .

  
  

850 500 Ladle:-‘ 1'0:-L1-f. Knives, $1 each
20 Cents’ I-‘coll-A I-‘pl I Chulnlk 820 eel-la.. 400 1000 (til Pleturen. 8 cm . . . . . ..
20 Ludiefl Golf! \i k (‘hn*nn.3l.'-each. Biff! 500 Solid Gold Kllgzfl. SE 1-iu-ls.
20 Solid Gold lirai rim, 3 beat: . 800 1000 Autograph Altunnn, Q1 em

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" ’l'\{'l".3 1')’-Y'|V}Z ( \‘l N 'l 0 05 IE DOLLAR. rnn__King 1 grand total (-T100000 rcsciibs tn be givento
um (11-51 mm liziuilrr d ' . ii: ..i!--J .".KYJN,l‘ll)< rs I’\‘\'i'lV\.‘(L Ln-ry one (out flVl'f(‘IQl'll. A lot‘ the ribr-ve presents
will 'm- 2I1i1if‘JM4lllI H furr null Impartial nnnnni-|_-. full ]\'.\i‘ll\:!)l!|T"3 oi V\'LiiI it will be uivi-ii hi’ roziftvr. Among
, the last 9;'..'i:l:: priav tits urn .UilJ oi on» ax*ticli*- whirgli we nizuiiifax.-titre :£Tl(Y_(5W!| tliw }»;i!e—1)L,1:. ii that mtnils at
,. nnr- Ii .ll..r liil: win" 1 on " rd in: rvi-r_v home. and In wrll worth
Five Dollars In i;.iy Fun: 5:, i:i.llion~= haw-bi on ex.-id at one b<»l.l:\r (‘<I( ll. l‘.i-vi-;.-nvrncrs rind niunufacturers
1 we can si1'ur:i:., :_I]'.'\: .'»0,01-1H0uu1" l‘l.1lI.\c1'llK‘Y$i,lH'll(:lrln2 that you will be so well pleased that you willalways
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THE AWARD OF PRESENTS wll oaltlveilg tAail<v3E;>B<<:|_evJi.J’n¢ePIE(i‘tl}. 03:34. ‘h th
A or o 31- 9
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3 A T’ rm.“ ossr=ui., TERTAININO.
in TR CT! 4-. VA ‘ _|..A _ E |. pl) '. it as the best corps o firs:-i| 53
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. n ..c t ‘or ' K . out i-; .7 or ‘we ve on ll’ wit rout. -reach or ri-mium; ii 0 cr
:0 -x .- I0i>,00<i mi...-.-rims so. once, we make the roi.i_6wmc, iaemuf org: : L
we will send you [IE 60 D"N
OR   ARGOSY wecklv. for 8 mnnth.~:_
mid <.n-- :'-(1 lpt, good for one present. FOR I I .00 we will send Till‘! GOLIYDPIN AR(MI\Y.wo(~kl_v.
six months, amt two rnciiots, good for two_pi-cnenr-. FOR $1.75 we will send 'l.l.l£ GOLDLV
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ncuuuiiitainu-n um ne 1: liorvz, an get. V0 to sm >‘4.'r1l)u for uiree mrmt is._and send us 2.50._W(‘;“Yll
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the A llG0~Y for six months; not nvr-iity to Ellll!~(:K'llK! for three inonfhs and we will pen I you the AIHEIISY
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HOW T‘? S MD MONEY, Srnd :niull sunis, from 60 centsbo One or ’lVvo Dollars by Poatal Note.
Cash or Ftnrnx-E: larqrvr *-‘Uni: -1:-. r Inc sent by reg-in-tr-rcif mall or post. oflco order. Address U-ll 0I‘d8l'5 to

THE ARCOSY PLYIEALISHING C0_ 8| WARREN STREET. NEW YORK.

MEfsA%%3rg the‘ above Presents are given absolutely fvee to our Subscribers.
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THOMAS MASON.

183 South Water Street, Chicago,
Respectfully Solicits Consignments of
FRUITS, VEGETABLES, BUTTER, r-zccs,
GRASS SEED, RAW Fl R73. H DES, PELTS, 'I‘.‘.l.LOiV ETC.

Clmitered 19.-b. lriili, 1577.

ALL osnrns iilacizlvi: iiiiopiii ATTENTON

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1 would not give ii. for an‘ other paper I ever saw.

The host Elliihv ‘rs in AlD‘:l‘lC.'A L".'lllX'lTlull’ to its ci-liuiii-_&-
Journal, L('\\1~1.owti, Me.

as in-ll ii.-: iLl!~’Sl"uL1.i'-'1‘, ri-mini: Ylrltifit their Ch-l(Al‘fll,
would do well to subs. ribc in ii.-- C/run-It Union, .\l. Y.

iiiq to be vntcrtuinivil mill |l]:'Ll'l|"l\'(l.
:i.vi- i-nprvr-h. We curiinii-ml ii to th: reading public.-—
its (‘lus:—'. will
to ii's.—‘I‘i'mrs, lndiuniip lis. liiii.

lK‘\.‘ll'lT1'i girls: vu-lther M-n-nilolus
nor dull 4 n the other.-l‘ri>.~:~. l'l.il.i.di-lpliia. l‘.x

lII0l'(‘
siniizir publication in the conntry.—Trl¢-qriiph, Lu.
liuquo, 1<.w:i.

Dom irinion, llllil, lictng 0fl(‘i‘ ].'Il.Y'2l<lll(‘1‘d inio the home,
will

pi-any Inunlty of hnldny-school lit:-rn urn 1-: It in 24
re
dime dreull

am-e, but cvirry vi-my cnninu-ndnble in the I'hunu:teI'
ofltn coniellu. ’ x
allow It to year friends. nialgpgors and acquaintances. ylftgplec thit.ludlelou- fuller! -n-I -0!--«H we top-at. ,

1;-.iis:i:;-:.és idsiqipi-Mics. S'"l‘A'l‘_<3 Gi“:tA.NGE_illo.scle.v’sCi1

General Commission Merchant,

BONDED AGENT 0}‘ THE  W.’ PRODUCE EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION,

   

“worm AND WIN.’

* A.\‘lI\VSI0ll‘t.' DYl.lol‘.ATlOALGE.ll. Jr. ‘_. I
Conincnccn next in ck in the AK(i0S\ . It. In one I
of’ the \i-r_\’ bout. this Popular Author ‘er wrote. "'-
lt. I. fa:-cluutlng, In-ti-uctlu: and helpful. and will "
inspire courage. Ilignlt_\'.nnd noble ri-solut.ouo.
LVERY ONE SHOULD RI-l.\ll IT.

WHAT sUBscTi§i«:iis"s.ivI"

I ellrmi. «peak too highly of the umosr; my boys 
' they would never do without .
MRS. M. E. A.\uLi_L, “'2-nl. ilichfield. Ohio.
Tim .Kl’.I’)CSY has l’)(‘t"l no good this yr-.'.r 1 nun: have
it uiotxwr: enclosed .5 81.75.
1).i.\'. W. llL'.\‘f"L\'GYO.\' Boston.
l have taken a 1:\'lflil\(’l' of lI'lp(’|"?‘. but lncvor land one
I like as well are TILE Aiioosv. Tu sit beli1l'l' the un-
lriusi-coiil t\'(‘i|A!1pIS mini n-ad it in the bolt enjoyment ';
I lmiow oi‘. Tiviiiglit l mu l"'*6(lllL,‘_‘ my old papcrri over: I.

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in rim. l'r(--wnta of >100 earl 1.000 a to iii: no. in-_. ..~ i-uii-. toordci-.324). . 200 5° ‘°-'‘ “”'‘°“‘ “‘ .‘2"1‘:*" t'‘’‘''“’ W 5“‘’‘"‘V”°" »'
10 (‘mph l’re-ems of 8.10 each. (:0 in (ilr -‘ IIui..1i!r- Gm-mount. in. egg}; , 1.30 I-I10?-lit‘! yrutr. V. i:..~ii-.1 5. Zllousx. midubilii In
8 l.‘k-gnrif. l'pr-lziii. Pianos. ' .00 each. 900 bl? I-‘old l'cn-1 rind lloiili-ran, $2 t'IA'h I00 I lizive b-\»ri n r~¢~.'ulr~r ii! the Ahuost 9-he inst year. And
5 .l-Zle nt. Cabinet. 0rmuL«, I00 each. 600 In 4: Ext.-uuizin holrl I’:-vwll-. $1 nu-II. . . .. 500 cannot now do uithoui. it. let it rout vihutl will. ‘
25 i-it-Iv ng Mar-him-s. $30 each ........ .. 750 r-on l'nlr .\ir~Lr-I-Plnied Mina-o. 32 each. 1,090 ll. ii llitoniwt-:Li., Wakclirld, Kim. , -_
2 Gents‘ Solid (Sol \\ nu-he», $40 ea 9:00 {-00 Large Phofogriipll Albumin. 32 each. 1.000 Tug A}'K}o5Y 3,. thy. “.,y h,.,,¢ Imp,’ M um kind pub.
0 Ladies’ Solid hold W afchefi. $25 ca 750 I)00 Pair Holler l~5.'ntv.'6. 3'.’ ends. . lisjicd. 1 uoulgl not do u (thou; n for cu-It-e 31.75. 76
30 llcantlful Dlnrniiriil Hing-, :30 on. 600 500 Two-Dnllur (5l'l‘(‘lIYHl(‘LIl . i-‘guy; r:_ J,.mqg,,,~_ p;m,,._\-vm,._ 0.
. Gents’ -wild i-‘liver \\V’ntr-hen, 8l.'~ ca. 890 500 line-llollnr (irurnbacku... 1 “,1”. ",9 Am;(,,,-,- "5"". an ,M"h~,, .p",".‘_ "3 
$5 Lndlrn‘ Chair~!1iri-.- \\ l.|Il:TI¢.‘,I_. 310 (ms. 2.’-ii 500 Jln rlc l.iaiI(m'n<_. 8| r-no . . . . .. mg), mm.“(,,m.,,u,1im,,n,,.,,,,.,.wd,nK ,5 ,_u,.t. W lei“,

n laotlu, lxnpreui n with In renders.
M158. IDA AUSTIN 1-‘i-rt.Iln1!<-r-k, Wy.
Tliztvl-iv‘-ad the Guild:-ri Pays, Ymifh'n('i>m[wvniu1i and
Irnle-Aica.'¢e.fnr b<‘.V'-“'<'llldflil ..-. but give me the ATUJHSY.

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Ta’! 001.173.‘: ATIGOSY is lianrlsum-ly printed on liui-«I ’

paper. and is (rLi;,.-tiled with !".'l(lifl§ riiutter lb.iL l'.Ill 1. - . 8
Inf:-Jy placed iii the haiii.i.< of our youth-11::-um, twi-
ristown. Po.

It is sparkling and pure. il'.t<~ri~sting and Ilgb-toned.
l'a.i-onis nnil piiai-dians who would ilace frisci nting,

Full of life and vim, it (‘i *_TTll‘l'll‘nd.‘-1 itself to those desir-

Thc il1iL~tr1ut.miis

l'mii‘.‘y 1~'u1'r. Sari Fi'.iiici.~c-v, L’-.1.l. ~,
It has: t.:1kl‘V'l1lle_IlJlIIE place omen: the best papers of

: |:uUlI>'li\'l‘ evidently undcnumdn boys‘

Tliiz CiiLlrKN Anoosr is u bright. lrlfldlglg |'llIp(“..l‘ for "'
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Trix (lni.i>r.ii ARGOSY is ll youths‘ pripcr. uud cont-Ina .
int<-rm-sung reading mutter rm-u iuiy omerba

It In in llrai-(-Tau pups-r, fully eigiinlllylg the Youth‘: ‘

~ Hi ro ti n:rnnin.-11.1-old. Ciiiiilo-ti, Mr. I
1311: (tonnes Aauosr is as far removed from the

in the (Y(‘1lI0IIlAlI'.l|$>u(Y"l’l:l‘l‘fl“II|llA!0Ku oi‘ the hall’- 
Tim 001.01-Ix Axfiorhninz only beautiful in nppenn ,

It I-o one-. ofthe few pnpvrnfur wrung

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l Nine Size: for dairy and factory
vrllll or wllhout pulley.
l one it. wlioli-shin when: no
i have no .-Lmnt.
I50; Fuwnru. liutlrr Hon-n, Prints, Etc.
Moseley A' §i_oda1iu-d h1‘l‘|{ ($0.: '. _,
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'3 Aiiil to get at once Brisk, l‘ln(‘1‘.'.‘,‘(.’Clc and Sucwsefiil Workers, we hrivu decided to give

S I ,0 O O C  H To the Agent who orders the mo:

Cyclopcllinn before I l.”.\'l£ 1st, 1884
We «ill-r i-ucli extraordinary induce

Bi-tum-vii the [on ]N‘I‘.~lilIN who no-nil iIir- ion nr-\
 A liirm-,i-it I‘(l(‘.l‘H hel‘urr- Jl'\‘l4} list. lHH«I.
. if you iloiint find the I‘ rlopeiliu worth the innn.-y we will roiiiiiil [lie ca.-li livery Il1Zi‘lilWllY ro.iliz
lliiiiiiuoiim ll’:-oilis mi ull orders so-nt uni! the must l‘l'i('l"_,'|‘l.ll' will 1"l'i‘ll'(‘ill“ $'.:.00lB.0I) (
nzniit-d ahovv-in addition to all other rommisislons. Sniiil lliiv Dolliir nil vim‘ fur ~
rnu1ConfltlentIiil'l‘n-rmsitoAgents. We inn-c di-pumml s2_oco_oo cagh with .l1)ll.‘
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This valuable volume g1VL‘><i am-irrato and concise infurniatlon, 1li'l'flui.'év£.'

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titles null Towing ofl Ills-iory. .lI\\‘. '
lho \I'or-Id. l llorlit-ulture. foiriinnrmw.
[Exploration & Travels l.1ta-rnI.ui-1-., R13 thology,
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and is the best and must nopular(‘_\-clap.-«1l.; for all cls.~..se-z and coudiwns

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. _ , World Mfg Go.122 Nassau Street, New York
We Want Agents for the WORLD’S CYCLOPEDIA

nlellti-J that Agents cannot fail to earn from $100 to $300 per llllililli. \\'o will also tllVl(lt:t1llllLll_V

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An Immense caving of labor and money
boy can cultivate and both

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liiiar-t Creaniery

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Ls.-is wlll‘. or without ice.

“l STODDARD CHURN.

01 (I513 '

i iioiiiniiii HORSE not

and hill potatoes. corn. eic.. 15 time! no
easy and fast as one man can the old war.
* Illustrated cimuoizne FREE. AGENTS

‘ \VAl\l'1‘ED» Mention this paper.

l»llJldl‘Ul:

Addrcé

lloiizirrli lllfg. 00., 206 State St.,l"liie2i;,'o,llI.

   
 

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Davis & Baiiklii

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DILALEBE IN

  
  

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24 to 28 Milwaxlieefl.
Chicago. Ill.

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Is the only general purpose Wire Fence in use, being A Strong Net-Work without Barbs. It will turn
dogs, pigs, .~!llPep and poultry, as well as the most. viirioiis BIOCYC,W1l.l10llt|l\)lll"}'li\ Qlf.llf‘(li'I1(‘tl or e‘.o<‘k- ll I-HUS‘
the fence for farms, gardens, stock ranges and railroads, and vary heal for lawiiii. l‘.‘"k°. Scbfifil l'>l-»“ fill‘! "‘“lU‘
to-ries. Covered with rusbproof paint (or gnlvninzr-<l,) it will _lrist_ R l.lY'i‘~llT11Q*... ll i= Superioi-to ‘Boards 01'
Barbedwlre in every respect. We ask for it. 1:. fiiir trial, knowing it will wmir itself into furor. The-Siedrwlclr
Hates, made of wrought iron pipe and steel win-, defy all competition in neainessy 9“"”:*tli and durability;
We ul-n make the best and cheapest All Iron Automatic or Self-Opening Gate. also Cheapest and Nee‘
est all Ir-on Fence. B1-It Wire hire-in-In-r and Post Auger. Alzsolflaxnuifau-lure Russell 3
ext-ellrui. Hind Enginesfor pumping water, or gear:-,d engines for grinding and otlier
light work. For pr‘c<~.~a and pairticiilzirs ask liziiwlu are dealers, or address, mentioning paper,

SEDGWICK BROS. MIf’:'s.. Richmond. diana.

l5inar6tem

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Davis J. Falrfamb,

llreamarysniiiilles.

V.

WAGON SCALES,

Tare iii,-am uinl Balm Box,

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l.oi. YM\'i‘ii- Mei-I ls.i.,m.‘,._ pr“.

69 and

an lm tn-up-ht.—lur free
Prim 1..-i 1,». 2.2: n Yl1~4’,Q")1~l‘.|"l
w~»~< mm M nivcmimoir, '

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ululliu: Vindmill lfvouwan
llw Azviz ' 1'<irtli8lie}~.t wind

 

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Bend or Catalogliie.
POWELL an DOUGLASS,
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ll 5'00 PT’/‘)()’s‘I‘l)l1YlYIEfI.‘N'lnd- .
ll iliforiimtiririof the"
Lham ion\'aiii:lo:s.stéelf-lieg-.

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mill. ll1\‘v5ll'.(lllU the menu; of
the (Jhunipion-(every Mill (‘ul-
ly warrriiited. and always gives
satisfaction. Twenty years‘ ex-
manufacture

givc your customers entire 33¢

illam. Long!‘ ow,
aiislzitkiini, Improved Early (Jmimla: all yellow Flint varieties. The three first have YN‘(‘li
'~:i‘2.~i(~<i in the ftimilim of their originators from 20 to 40 years. Under good cultivation. B.‘|(ll1
have yielded from 150to 200 bushels of cars per acre; price piir peck. $1.00; or biiiilinl, 83.00.
No cliargc for boxes or bugs.
to any :Ml(ll‘€BS for 10c. Srmiple ears postpaiil, for Sc. My large sew. iftitalngiic free to rill.

JAMES J. H. GREGORY SEED GROWER. Marblehead, Mass.

Mil$sfl(‘l11l9l'LtS gi own Flint (loni, prime sired. czircfiilly selected ;
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CHOICE SEED 

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" rr wiy.L Pay YOU,
you run a. own‘ or we 5
i chose a llOn'S Sickle Grinder.“-‘ '..
reliable Sickle Ur‘n:l--r and one that is
sold at l'OZ|8(rTlIY|l(.‘ prices. to handle the
BOSS. More Boss Sickle Grinders are
sold every year than all otlivi-s mule.
Send for Price List. and Catalogue.
Agenm wanted for unoccupied territory.

  
  

- Clzowe Pansy, and olotclwd and striped

Petunia I have grown the gourds by the
_, acre to hold]!-om/our to fli-e pars em-Ir,
MM each order I will send my trmeiav.

 
   

A. M. LA‘NG,'€ove Bale Farm, Concord, I(y
15marlf.. . . -- ». -~ ~

I08 Pages. It teaches you how to
rear them to take care for them, to
feed, to have them lay eggs in cold wt.-atlier, to

Ag. roigso ci-:N'rs:l YEARS  
V .a.*:..s-.°..**.°.. 2£..:=;.;f.l:::*§".:3.::%:. II THE

mafe worth nvv Dozumm mw Farmer. Andrea iirevcnl anflrtat all ‘drseasesogolld or 10"“!-'s tobe
1.v_ 3}; gox ' oxpog H1 _ n " success it " po iltryman. D 2_'C. in stamos
",‘,‘,,1;f’}, OWN "’ D 0 O A Filly-page book FREE rdn ‘Au. with ‘ii.

‘POWELL & DOUGLAS,
- Waukegnn. Ills.
lana'f'rs of Puinps.Windaii11n. ca.

 

s.'a7.i."2‘r’>:l‘r’a".¥‘2l.'..'.i’.

isfaction, take the aggncy of out

ta Wood mgh Over

N‘-L&QY'iJVc bccfusold the U.
Prices as low as for inferior ,

gjoods. Send sunpbtfll page

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POWELL U: nouiiuis, "’
Wnukczan. lll.. Alsnuhtuus‘ ‘

mm.

Ilwfilpnyyouif you nut in handle I .

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0 Cardn,'iio are like, with home

_ _ '10:. 'l'h‘c-,prcVtt.iepi pack you evu cow.
This Elcganfklng or Beautiful lm ed all Illk Hald-
knvhlef for a 31.00 Miler. Slmn Bk licence.
K3335‘? ‘GAE
liiiarfl ; - 1 -

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erli izing all.
Experience has -proven that salt is one of

the mast valuable manure: and is now gener-

ally being used with mos": gratifying re ulis.

The undersigned willship this ‘salt in bulk,

co. in... II. 1'.

' ’ ll’ 20 PER CENT llllflfllllll.

in car load lots; to any part of the United
States at very low prices. Circulars and sam-
ples sent on applic tion. Address

I uilw 4; Pu-iucir.

COPY-

!n"” &|d Duartpiian of your Ital.

Hull“ City. lllclh A-on anyone under. uiuuupun. D. a

,i’r.".'~S‘i..“-.'llPAlE,_!T8.i~:-t§*.'s:»:-:':.t.

L. imnuii

the middleman. V _ 

Lirunn Sn) nu, Iooulsrn, I. 1.
lbniarfl _

. sens to 1’=..o£ I-1.Y‘}

ii ofllitgnweroldahfiwlwfl

V -Iu’9:l“!‘PI\'tmnI of Husbandry‘ with’ Ihdli seal

direct from my 3}!!!) FARM A! lorn um sewn‘

from catalogue prices. and no a trial glider and Ian
gy coeds. V Buy of.-the grower and can fin unit I '1

 

 

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TEE EBANEE VISIEOB.

MARCH 15, 1884.

'I'3I:‘..' ITLAGEJLEA FALLS AIER.

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A’ that use them are cut usiastlc in

,and are the largest in the state, extending along the east side ol
lthe L. S. & M. S. railroad from Nlain street to Kalunmzoo avenue.
.‘0ur workshop is 213 feet long and was built for the lnisiimi-as.

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DEALERS IN

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OUR RIARBLE \V()RKS ‘WERE I-ISTABLI

188-4:.

,Wins1ow & Crooks,

GRANITE AND MARBLE,

Near L. S. & M. S. Depot. Kalamazoo.

SIIED IN 1 8-18

O30 Overcoats $16.

This is What We are doing,
Come in and We will
Explain more fully.

$30 00 OVERCOATS
$27 50 OVERCOATS
$25 00 OVEBCOATS
$20 00 OVERCOATS

$|6 OO
$l6 OO
$|6 OO
$|6 00

All Overcoats marked in
plain English figures, 18,
.510. 25, 27, and $30 will be

sold at a uniform
$16.

price of

$15 on OVERCOATS $11 no
$I3 50 OVERCOATS $11 on
$I2 00 OVERCOATS $11 an

All Overcoats marked on

the ticket 15, 13 50, and $12
will be sold at a uniform
price of $11 00.

$10 90 OVERCOATS
$8 50 OVERCOATS
$150 OVERCOATS
$6 5!} OVERCOATS

$6 OO
$6 OO
336 O0
$6 OO

All Overcoats marked on

the ticket 10, 8, 7 50 and
$6 55 will be sold at a uniform
price of $6 00.

Our fine Overcoats are going fast at these

prices, but we have a great many left.

STAR CLOTHING HOUSE,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICE.

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“M” 'E’“"‘“”"CF"‘”“L x'"'””” ""3 "'*~‘”°' ’1‘~‘T"“"'- “55"”~‘-L "*“"“"‘*‘5" "M -‘v “'0 have the best machinery for handling and polishing stone, and
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, ' Nu. -1. g No.4. _ No.8. 1 ,. 1 No.11. =. Na. 4 5 N0. 11. lwe earry the largest stor-hand do the best work.
( " Day ' Pacific B Creel. ‘\"'.]' l.in:ir~~d Atlantic; V'.il foo ' . . . l
~- ;y_,pW.,d_‘E,m,,__ ‘pM_.,E.r_ Snnoms. Fliiaélm 1 ,.;xW,,,,: ..;.,,,._, Mc'o,,,  Below are some ot those lll Kalamazoo and adyoining counties who -'
‘REX-S“9: D:‘“~“: .“5’-5“.".‘-- _. _,...,_';  L .P""‘-‘ .1  l have recently favored us with their orders:
7 SJ iii 8 -0 PM i 1": pr Le.Chir5Lgo____-" 9 lung 3 ‘.11 PM . ‘  _
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‘ ." ’5‘“"“"“"‘."’-«-F---:7-; -; -_--;-1 ' - "-- Hiram Arnold O. M Allen , ~ “ ‘ . 0 =1} 11 D
L 20 I f 5” Alexander Buell Est Ethan Allen L’t"V'F- L°V”’ _ J 1‘ M€3d- 
L,-_ 991"» (;H_,§M_ ‘. , ;» ; . “ Etillwell -__;l-2.42 “ _ 1 Bush & Patterson J. H. Bostwick F H ‘ A‘“,g"’N- ‘ l
" Pontiac “ 1 . . ~ 933 " , 5:15 “ “ “I'll 3*-‘Ed ' Hon Geo M. Buck J. B. Borden A‘ °'“,““h llldm hick l
" lioliy '~ 3 so '* 3 95: -‘ , o 11 H . ozu -- " l3"mé<"'-1 - I Chas H Booth K Barr?“ 0. Harrison Eat .1, Grove; ‘
Ar.DurImi '- 1 940 H 1101'.’ " .1105; «- E 7:15 ~ “ Crw-wwlm 1 .' ‘ cg, v1 K .
 . y r____ __  _, u M,,m.,,,, . R Bm.k1,(,ut W R Beebe & go - Im Dam) J+F.McKee
Lv.I)Ilmnd__ 94. H riozso --  4:3 " ‘ 7 20 *- .. Schwlcrgft , . l . ’ ' ' E H, Moon \“ Schulju
-' Liuialli;:__ 11 «ii  L113‘; " .i1:.u 2 828 " .. vmmm -. 1,2,, .. I 7 lines-":z'r G9°- B3"d“7“‘” 1“‘“‘° 5- BMW,“ W W b t ' 3
" crmrlom-. _-_’l14o -- .124»; ru 22:; in‘ 903-‘ A, game “fig; ;..5 —- - V. . ~ u lllx Tm Hon. 8. S. Cobb Henry Beckwith 51- 9 3 9" G“°- SCU'“1*J8-
"-B“""" °‘"““l~l”4“ P“! V5 “ W‘ ‘ v“"¢0 “ i.v' Brittle cm‘ 4 in U 3 ska “ 1:15 ' l\+:a< .‘M E-it F W Gnrteniue E A Carder & Son A1'°"l'5TA-
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" S(‘h0fllCl'llf1.::]' L“""““""'I 6 5” 5  l lilo ‘Q ‘ ’ 1 Est. ‘-lamuel Cr ks E*t' W’ (" s”b"1 M“"- M- A- Whfelfil
. D,,,,,,,,, , 7 _ , Datlltl bahil r 00 , .
" 1“*"‘"'”"‘“‘ --' ' "1 ' Willard Dodge Er-t J H Edwards M’“'K Vance E” G’ A~W1“50l1
-« (;..g..¢,p(,m__ D1ir.ll.G.H,&l.j ‘ 1 _« , ' . . . .
n 3 ll ll « , .-.. H H Everard 1:. Briedman l‘=“““ 0"UM“-
rangers -_-l __________________ __ ~ 0 I» t _ “ - - - _ (w 8 And 1“ E B
.. 3,,,"h H,_nd_ pony,” “n 3.: H 441 H vmbu Glynn Eqt John Gibbs )1. . ‘ . rus rs. . undy
': Stillwe-ll_ Kl)latrog.W D‘ “  k I 4-> R?“ w_ Gardner E_,,._ R Gmdnel. 1' W. Collins L (l. Curtis
A [],,,.p,.us_ I - . et, . . .V4 ‘ ' ;: "" '; Eat W A H Abel Craven S. G. ])nVlB
“ Vulpuraii-1-i__ t.’_hl;_a. “ Hm; ____ __ “ .1| ‘F, “ hllu " I 5 5 L‘ M'Gates ‘ m‘ Ouse E TA 1) I - -
" Redr-«dale.-- 71»: ~ .‘ __. I « i,..W.,___ . -- ‘12.;7n. 93.; -‘ . :41: “ Eat. I’. Goodrich Frank Henderson "7 , ‘ ' '3 lame‘ J3"‘“"' F"‘h
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Anohioago -__-l 314) h E 7 45 " ‘E 810'‘ _- ‘ Ar. Port Hurou_§1o -M ‘- 9 i263 " 7 so ~ :10 in ~ Hon J_ L Haw” Inhng Bros Sum‘l Harper 8. 6; E flan
‘ ' l)r. 11.0. Hitchcock H Kirkland “-15- Hall Jr (‘H-0 M- Hudson
wa p,..i._,_m_,, ],.m.U scb__.,,C,fln l.;u_m,mm 513;; R,“ tral tnndisrd Timr-._ which is one hour slower than y W M d‘ R A Kr‘llV Conrad K-lliler
, Y _ V. . E gt. d .11. _ L. Kendal . ere itli ‘ ‘ ,
Westward, Will.) A. M . except Miiialaiy. ‘””"'"‘ ~ ‘W ‘W m“ - v Q _ ,1 -v , (J P Larahee L. .M('l)lll‘sl‘l)l1
. \I1cl.In. ant Asylum Mo tn 1: Homa.Cem
 1, 7 and S will stop at Durand 20 minutes for EH13’;-y32 “D116: ‘I3 7- Au °‘h“" ml“ dmlyn ezwl" E Mcpjlroyt  S Parker ‘I P i\fL‘Pl.l8l‘lln E».-t  [flurphy
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No. 1 will stop 1.: \’;slpor»iis0 20 nnin-mu fur IW-lb'- na:7”mlliiE}(i‘]iLt:'g‘lldalliiilt(t:   .l5):;o:‘,[])liii]E:s Afr?" prnfhlly Omen M. Slrnpunn W. N Vaneve-ry
Nos. 3in1d5vlm\'i-it Dining (‘nr attached between Yorl-r.T0routo, Montreal and Boston, , E t G  V ', ..
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I J P Ir B. n E
cnlmgo “"1 BMH“ C"““l‘- Diniri cars on ‘i and 6 West Battle Creek ‘ On‘ ' arson” V 9' IDS m
VVII-»re no tirue i-1 shown ill. the d[lll.l\)ll.1 trainls will _ K ' ' H, Rnlfifou  St. John AL"EG-ix (‘0v-VT"-
notstop, G39» 3- EKEV3‘ 3- 5- 05“-4\""‘ E C Starke M M sirumon  D. Bro-ly E-lt..E..E B()Vl€
1' Trairl-r do not stop for [):l~uF'llg"‘I‘.-K I-xm-pt on signal. Traffic Hana?” “P-'W"\’ M7|\lbKl‘ , ‘ 3. y r ' ’  I . Eat,  C Bannister B B U;-onk
All Chicago & (iruriti Trunk trains arr run by Ceu« E. P. Kl-ZAHY. Agent School:-rat‘! 'tl’rw ‘ [OS k‘D(‘_Ve1’. h. A. §lIIltl.l ‘ " ‘ ‘
’ ')r. J. M. Sneak. F B. Stnckhridgtr £I']?”5’hp'°n .(]"I§LJS"’mPt°n
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1. ’ r .-}e0_ “rattles F_ \v_ w,1c0x_ J M. l‘ unx lhon. Gilmore
  Wm. H Gordon M. D. L. Hollis
- r ’ Ricn LAND. W ,
, , , gr _ - ;_ ~ 111 (xreen ‘E. Hllutley
F 01: ALL CI.lMA’i‘ES, FOR ALL SOILS, "=1 “ A1.1.l’LA.\'1‘s. Hf} ‘i~‘.‘,’f,“““‘ E; ‘if,BG§,§::.V,1,e' Est. C. V. Huntley if. Hilbert
EVERY SA(‘l\' Tl-ZSTEII FOIL VITALITY. ALL '1'i:s".'l-:1) 1:: Ll‘.-.1ri)l~;.\':i FOIL l'L'll[T)' A_\'D VALUE. (pqt "Vm Oatman Rflhf Suméon A. Harvey Est, J_ H_ Hunt
SBATALOGIJE  PRl(llE LIST 01-‘ ALL 'l'l-I.5"l'E]) V'Altll2Tl2LS. I-‘It‘}~IE. . Egthck Shanley 1“  ONE. J_ A_ flgjght  D, Bu,-ding
s..‘.!:;‘t..".*;:’.2:'.i.*r.:3*:i“;.?..i2;:*~.~::::.:t2:g llllliii SIBLEY zz c0..Roclesaer.Il Y. and Chicago. Ill. coo:-En.  9-Hfivnmgnh };g- SLEV Lincoln
- ~~~——A \i. M. Brvant Tlios. Blaine ‘8 ' ' ' " am ,‘”‘- "95
‘V. S. Delano Cooper (lemeteryCo Job" Moowd W ‘V’ Om)“
E W. Huntle A. W. Huutle S M'm“'g"e E P-P'md]e
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   .\lrs. M Simmons M. J. Noble "3' "mm ‘O’ R P" ‘q1"‘m
Known (:\‘t‘l'_\'V‘llt:r(" us the but I It’ you wrirlt :1 S(‘<‘4lt‘l' ALAMO. Jhs Hteveus.   ,$tafl0rd
pl.“ .3. ;..-....-- . i .1  3 - -1 1 x W_ Afibton Julius Hmkle), Dr. H. H. Stimson Levi luttle
us I!‘ Liv 1 ~«-r , . - ,- .1 ‘ . . ll» .
£"l‘lI.~l:1.\‘i"t':l iitlln lilllvilt .1111 :«11ll lllI“l.~.lll’l‘, B‘UY A p -[0lJIl   J0lJD W. JEIDBB.   réglnflll d %rF'  Wllllams
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er, iiiv:-~.t1:utu t 11- iricrlts v. 112- . lIllll_V. - _ . I ‘
SANDS m use: .-\l<n i:i:1lirif.ilLli1ur>-5 m 1‘:-1; Jas. Brown Austin Buell 1 mu 1“) M W911“
. 5.5:’    Es. Jan. Dew»-tam A-  A _, A m nvwm;,v;;,v~rv-
_ st " ~'..  ‘ . '31» -. 1.2.-.5 --n .   lohn Hobden W. F. Winterburn. - - norm . . Abrams
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' "W ‘ ""°“"“'d “'"”"r"" lohn Harvey Dnniel Handing 3 V P- BUN“ CM!‘ Brfldt
“ MANN ANUFACTURlNG CO., Waukegan, Ill. .y,.,,,,.,., p.,,,.,,,., w,,n.,c.. p,,,,_.0,,, Let. L. H. Bentley F 1:. Uadv
Nam» thin paper. 17954‘ Est. L. A. Parsons Gilbert Smith, A- U_Bd,Y Mrs. 8 Cleveland
SCa00LCR_,‘p-T‘ Edwin C00l8y J. B. Cuflkllll
.. i  S ,"m__“m_nd__‘ H-in. S.F. Brown J. '1‘. Cobb El‘?-é3!;{',PC t kl]? Drake A
4,‘ /f EAyL@li&vl;l%np‘_lo%u 1;.-.3, E N T H U U S N Est John Crone Jav Clark 8 . . nms oc avid Ferris
—~' smfi _ her“ A1'LA1vric.ismANiEii E"t- 1’'-W- H- FOX E“-JBFRPLCFOSG 3 ‘ii %”““Pbe’3  S H"°h°°0k
,_,<.,§, fi fir * v glktub E1,§°¢I,';:6§f;flweb-3“-3-D3I¢J n‘l‘Dwooo W. C. Sidler Horace Kinney - “R” M- Hfill
. . . . . , .
1  1,: _ PRU!-rs . _ _ - Est 1:.V L. Skinner Est. M: Smith 0’ £3 E(I}"0<_i%l1 1? N- J. Hall
. : in the U .9 izuiuy llluctratcdeatao . Joe. 0. Terrill Jnhn Bidler E» 9_1111ll8W3J7 0- W- UOHY
.; uh , ,, ,.,.'f.:‘.~:,*.,";.,"°,‘.:';,,';f**,",',;_m,,'.:     Est. J. s. Thomas Est. Geo. Stuart. H- H- Hill. J- Howard
  , "Tron nni¢‘luPo|’n.n’t.hu,‘  VICKSBURG Mrs. E. Hincklev Eat. D Longcor
~ 3  J 1- “WE u-nu srun Earsale by the GRAND RAP_iDs & lNDlA.\'A Eat. P. A.Beebe Mrs. M. Best J“ 385'!” _ Mm M- McCarty
f . . , nw Juan. iE4.dR.C‘o. Sugfigfizillc daxlcrpndncn allilmrsféemm Wm_ S Buff ,]_ w_ Darnng Eat. Luther Kinney Rnbt. Moore
- u a ll.’ \ ca ul , - ' '
I 834‘ towrilsaandgcities, one of the heaghicst parts of the rhea‘ B‘ Funny  Bl" _ H,enry Lewis T‘ S‘ Nfisbflt
United suues. Furs: wazeg. good lmarketS._5nle lves Brovhers John Miller %l*tAMNM9TR8DEbB1efgI‘NwNFiPb1tt
f di 13-” : “own - fruit good roads, schools,c urches, a c agricu- John Manow My-8_w Mocomsey . ewcom 8 90. - {nbinson
"‘"s'°"‘5 S7213"-?~w‘3~‘r5r’~T«¥ m~""‘ ;"':£.:°::::':... “.23.: ::.'.‘3;"s..';“:::.*:: 21.22:. s. J. manna-«on umm stems. N. NM . DA swvnenson
" ' B " 1 “L A“‘‘''‘'‘’'’' “’‘‘b‘'’‘‘'‘’“‘ ”' °' nilc. 'i~‘_m books,'nups,cruné,and all additional _ GALESHURG. M“ E Sabrina 15- 11- Thompson
mforlmmonp Iddms W 0 HUGHART F. B. Al'l"lllJ Ez'a Bet-kwith  Iiwliinfleet fiI1'flWL-  Warner
KlIG'S Y R . . ' ' . '. Est. L. M. Hunt Est. J. N Mcclary - 9 "38 _- “B? 91d _
‘ 3nuklxmlorcl:e||l.Efl l 0:smI£'x"i‘ic$§."§'i‘s'i5ii§3ihSem3L3eii{§p‘d"M’°h‘ Eat 0 Pu‘-terson Mrs- M- Rogers. M- W°°d"1fl' ESL J '13- Wfilklufi
The man Fame” 1, Remeinber the location and the firm : Near the Michigan Southern
I

  

their praise. I sell direct to the
farmers and make the price very

price-list. Gno.W. KING, Marion, 0.

Greenwood Stock Farm.

A CHOICE LOT 01'‘ P173)! DEED

POLAND CHINA SWINE

For Sale at Reasonable Bates.

Pigs in pairs and tries not akin. Breedlxg
Stock recorded in Ohio Poland China Recor .

Parties wishing stock of this kind will find
it for their interest to correspond with or visit
me. B. G. IgUl:lAlA,
Little Prairie Rondo, Casi 00., Mich.
lfifebtf

The Cooley Creamer

Saves in labor its entire
cost every season. Itwill
produce enough more
money from the milk to
Pay for itself every
days

over and above any other
method you can employ.
Don‘t buy infringing cans
from irres onsible deal-
ers. By decision of the U.
5. Court the Cooley is the
. — > .7» A only Creameror lfilkcan
which can be used water sealed or submerged
without infringement. Send for circular to

JOHN BOYD, Manufacturer,
199 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, ILL.

  
 

NORTHERN GROWN, VERY EARLY.
Alxo Flower Vegetable and lucid
Seeds M New Vanties oi Fora-
rocs. Order early. Caralogue Free.

FRED. N. LANG. Barauoo,W.s.

‘SEED
GDIHI

16* b6-‘x

FOR VEGETABLES
I 0FFEBC'll‘l‘.;'1l:10§(EBS
$1 muslin nuluns
For the [ABE EST CROPS

oi’ VIEGI-ITABLES and GRAINS. My Can”
I’ - will i - II the detail!!-
 :'§"«.l rt-en!-‘v vii :l"|l(‘hQfld- 191830-

3 —SIElElES-"

. .—All and choice
For the ii-églixliiifl ;este,:ie.w For the

ril’£iiJ¢.
_ .—Bes ll. fse lCorn Oats.
E fidnllcitatoed 83:: offer-3:1 by any'hou8e:
E cw and standard varieties. -
ur Plant. Small Fruit. and Imple-
ment Llits I.ll'o com|;I:¢t% all I‘
» 4 - ~ ' . r :
Mandrgirre n3:lual?l‘: ?0‘u7e0|l. Addreflsu
S him Y. EDVVABD P. CLOUD.
Km“ squmw '!luc.~iter (,b»un¢u.Pa..

SEEDS GIVEN AWAY!
A PACKAGE Mixed Flow Pl’ 8oed_r~(-100 kinds)
and sample Pu:-k'g Floral Magazine, all for 2

low. Send at once for circular and v

 BIG Bunnies!

The famous

CUTHBFIRT RED RASPBERRY
Amt 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
terms to Gianges, Clnh~. or combined orders.

Address I-‘IKBID. LUCIA,

Fliu/img, Mu/liyaen.

novl .6111

German Horse and (low

P OWD E RS.

This powder has been in use for many
cars. Itis largely used by the farmers of
ennsylvania, aim the Patrons of that State
lhave bought over 100,014 pounds through
1 their purchasing agents. Its compr aition is
our secret. The receipt is on every box an-
I-pound package. It is made by Dr. L. Ober-
tioltzof» Sonia fr. Co., Phoenixville, Pa. It
keeps stock health} and in good condition. It
helps to digest and assimilate the food.
Horses will do more work, with less food
while using it. Cows will give more milk
and hem better condition. It keeps poultry
healthy, um increases the production of eggs
It is also of great value to them when molt-
lng. It is sold at the low est wholesale price
b R. E. JAMES, Kauunzoo GEO. W.
ILL & 00., 80 Wooniaamcn S1-.. Iliimorr.
THUS. MASON, 181 Warns S'i'., Cmcaen.
and ALBERT STEGEMAN, ALLEGAN. Put
up in 80-11:. boxes (loose , price EIGHT Cxx-rs
per lb., 30-lb boxes (of 5-113. packages, Tnn
Cnxra per lb.

YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN

Can save money by attending the
IIALANIAZOO

Business College.

Fall term opens Sept. 1. Send for Journal.

    

PRESIDENT,

gtgmps Tolliynur friends. G. W. PARK,
fgnggttsburg, Pal l5_]lLl’L6t‘ .1

depot, on Rlain street and Kalamazoo avenue.

Oflll. O. Wlll lllll. OBI}. W. Ollllll .

II alaxnazoo, - Nlich.

M. B. CHURCH -11339.1-zrrs co,

GRAND RAPIDS. l\IICH..

--—aoLi=.- MANUFACTURERS or-—

  

Palented June 13, 1882.

This invention supplies ii long-felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put away

in B. small space when not in use. and yet make a roomy. cc mfoital le

the many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a com-

fortable night’s test (an be had. 1 hey are all narrow, short. without

bed at all. While Tm: BEDETTE folds into as small space, and is as light: as anything can be
made for durability. When set up it turnishes 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 i 01: tacked to the frame.
ya on all cots. but is made adju table, so that it can be taken 0E and put on again by any one .1
in B. few minutes. or easily tightened. should it become loose, at any time, ii-om stretching.
_ It is a perfect spring bed. in ft and easy, without springs or mattress.
it is a complete bed. without the addition of anything; for cold weather it is only necessary

cords, form the most perfect spring bed

to add suflicient clothing.

The “BEDETTE” is a. Household Necessity,

And no family, after once using, would be without it. It is simple in its construction, and
It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed, and the price is

not liable to get out of repair.
within the reach of all.

PB.ICE:——

36 inches wide by 6} feet long, 83 50. 30 inches wide by 63 feet long.
by 4) feet long (cover nor adjustable) 82.50.

For Sale by Furniture Dealers Everywhere-

“EEDETTEW

 

Mention ()‘B.At\'(lE VisI'i'oi<.

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

of

DRY GOODS

AND

cARPT:T1NGs

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, can be returned,
and the money paid for the same will be

refunded.

SPRING 8: COMPANY,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

lfimay 24i

[1Vl(I»II(rII ll t \ lt~l'I()B.]

b» d v hen Wflllttd. Uf

spring, and in fact no

Homes »: Texas 5 Arkansas!

Low prlceH,lnrig credit Rich ax-irultural and

grazing hands. producing uliviit, rye. umi. corn. 0- mm
grmucm-, and all tlw clinics trulnz, in in schools churches
and ruilvmidfl.

Chi-up lard i-xcurniuns every rv-mulh.
For nmpn V‘, To-x 3 Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas,

with all iulormallon. address J. B. I-'RAVl'l.l-LY, P-98.
and Land Aunt Missouri Pacific Ky (34)., 1U9 Clark

trnet Ch icago. 111.

For warm weather

._._.—.

$3 00. 27 inches wide

THE DAVIS SWING CHURN.

The Most Popular (‘burn on the Rlnrket.
. Because it makes the
’ moat butter. Because
no other Churn works
so easy. lleci-use it
makes he beat grained

butler. l-‘ rumc it is The
the easiest czruim-<1. ii °
h X81310 flpiits cir pdrlfxlcr
ins  l. sot. 10 t- in-a~
kn lhlttt-r IV rk "Ins an
or, the ‘«t:iu'lritt Ilut éhhxnen 3 raw
t r Prlnu-I-, and r 5
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8

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full line of Butte
.- Milking l't«.'1islls f4-
Dni.i .~1.nd Factories. Fenrlfurlll-‘.s'ratedltirv-ul:11':
YPSIMONT l~‘A.K.!1’ 3'.-ll"Ea'l.K r: 1'-5..
FA-iE<~\v\ {‘:2.‘r1:,, V.‘.
lmarstx

in: |')) for 513.

3,0,. -_.—._.
1mar6t

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‘THE IJINGEE & CONARD Co's
l BEAUTIFUL EVER-lll.00llll._NG

zate blmui de ‘var-ed safely. postpaidmo any pol-itroflice.

splendid \"ll‘ efiea, our r:°1o'ce, nlllabeled. for 3 l:

2 o s :2ifvrs4::nmrss:75£or
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In‘ E _ E
17;.‘ 33,9", Ihr [flu-5,. 70 pn. Eldllvlfl//'/1,115.9 1-rz al‘E‘REE
THE DINCEE &wCONQRD CO
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On!» Gruvu, Chennai‘ 60., Pt

 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
   
     
  

frlgeramr.
clear of sediment.
for the FIl'Tl«El' and Dalryuian in “intense.
wanted. Sand for oircular nud price list.

ACME CREAMBR all BUTTER COOLER

A combina-
tion by which
all larniars can
1 make Crum-
ar Butter as
we 1 as keep it
in a nice con-
dition until it
is marketed.
5. _lrr-raves two-
pflfi third: the 1.-
bor. No local:
required as it
is strictly a
cold water re-
The cream: in tnken from the top and la
The most complete an-anganient.
Agents

MuCA.LL & DUNCAN,

lupm 8 choclcrim.,M lch.

FENNO G. MANNING,

Wool llummlssinn Merchants,

I17 Federal Rt... Boston

Consignments Solioited and Cash Advances

Made.

I

 Hand—Book FREE.
R. S. & A. P. LACE)’,
Patent At.t'yn, Washington, D. 0.

" BARBOUR” CORN §lnlE«..L.

fiwqualu d for .\'l1'.. \!.'l H
and Sl.Vl'l‘l.[."'i'l‘ l)r<..-is
[)0filtlVt‘l_$ onl_','( &1:.in
in a place, r/.-rlr» ~«‘lILL'II
or t

   
 

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1iah’s American Mariual of

PARLIAMENTARY LAW

19 the cheapest and belt. The subject is made
so plain that every Citizen or Society member
should have 3 copy.

Circular of commendation free. Price by
mail pro aid; cloth, 60 cents; leather tucks,
81.00. outage stomps received.

Address, I. '1‘. Com, Schoolonft. or

GEO. T. FISH.
Banana-run. N-

PATENTS

LUCIUS 0. WEST, Solicitor of Ame:-log:
anr Foreign Patents. and Counsellorin Patent
Gaul-M Trade Marks, Copyrights. Assign-
ments, Cgvnnlz. "' """MIv‘ir-ill Dnwinrl.
Circulars true. 106 E. Mufti al:., Chase Black,
uprltt LALAJMALUO, MICE;

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