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\ I “THE FARMER 18’ OF MORE CONSEQUEJVCE TITAN THE FARM, A31) SHOULD BE FIRST IEIPROVED.”

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Officers National Grange.

MAS!l‘EB—J. J. WOODMAN,Paw Paw,Mich.
0VEBBEE.B—PUT. DARDEN, . . . . Mississippi.
LEci'UB1=:B—HEN RY ES HBAUGH, Missouri.

diriwlllril Ennrlmwl.

'4»

MIDSUMMEH.

Around this lovely valley rise

The purple hills of Paradise;

Oh, softly on you bank of haze

Her rosy face the Summer lays!
Becalmed along the Summer sky

The argosies of cloud -land lie,

VVhose shores, with many a shining rift,
Far off their pearl white peaks uplift.

Through all the long midsummer day;
The meadow sides are sweet with hay;

I seek the coolest sheltered seat

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

And fringing roots and pebbles fret

The ripples of the rivulet.

I watch the mowers as they go

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

And toss the thick swathes in the sun;

The cattle graze—whiIe warm and still

struction of the bottom would be to
have the heat fines so arranged as to
heat all portions of the kiln equally.

A kiln ofthe size mentioned would
hold about 12,000, 2-inch tile. After
the first burning, it could be burned
in about three days, and would cool
off in about seven days; so that it
might be filled and emptied about
once in two weeks.

The methods used in this country
for burning tile are various but can be
grouped as follows:

1st. In the center of a brick kiln.

21. Up draft kilns; made either
round or square but with open tops.

3d. Down draft kilns-either round
or square but with closed tops.

4th. Down and up draft kilns.
made with closed tops, but provided
with doors which may be opened if
needed.

]ST. THE BRICK KILN METHOD.

planned and which has given re-
markable good results has an inside
brick wall of eight inches, a space of
eight inches filled with clay, and an
outside brick wall of eight inches. A
door for filling or emptying must be
left in these walls.

The fire arches may be ditches as
described in the English clay kiln,
but in this country are usually made
for each burning of green brick, three
feet high. These arches to give good
results should be extended four feet
beyond the outside wall of the kiln
foiming what we shall term outside
sub arches. These outside sub arches
are laid of brick and clay so as to al-
low no heat to pass through them,
and are permanent. Such kilns are
from the ground up 11 or 12 feet high,
and if 18 feet by 18 feet inside, will
hold 17,000 brick and about $1300.00
worth of tile at common prices. The
principal meritof this form of a kiln

that day. On twenty-eight other ll.‘l_\'S
tornadoes were }Il't‘(ll(‘l.t‘(l f'or p;n'ticul:u'
States or large regions: and of them
the tornadoes on S(‘\'E‘Ill€¢‘?‘. (l;xy.< oc-
cured in or near the specilictl 1‘e<.:ion.
while on eleven ll2l_\'F forn:ulo(-s occur-
red in 1'e;{‘lOllS for which they were not
predicted." L. 0.. <‘.
Lznising, July 10.

Enriching Orchards.

Iflhere is any doubt of the fact that
judicious msnuring of apple-orchards
will repay labor and expenses, or that
the successful raising of the apple crop
depends upon proper manuring, then
we may just as well doubt the virtue
of manure upon any other crop of the
farm. Yet how seldom do we see this
estimate given to the enrichment of
the apple orchard? And if it is the
main object to obtain a crop of hay,
this manurlng of orchards performs a
double service. But how seldom do
we see this important part of the farm
crops treated thus generously? And

desire is to innke this I‘uctoi'_\'iic’. its
patrons more for their milk than tlmy
can get in any other \\‘:1_\‘. Its facili-
ties in the location and lll'1‘:lll',[(flllL*ill of
its building and in:u'hiiicr_\', in its «-11-
ring room and zibundant supply of cold
waiter are not .\'lll']I:lSS(‘(l u1i_\‘\\'ll(-i'e. and
having sccu1‘c<l the >2t’l'\‘lCt‘S of an
c.\'pei'icncc(l. first-vlziss Clil‘€St‘-lll2ll{(‘l'.
it only imimiiis for ull (,‘0ll(‘L‘l'llt‘ll in
llc:u'tily C()~U])l‘l'2llt‘ and .s:iIi.s*f'zu-low,‘ ru-
sults 2i1'(‘.‘lS.s'lll‘(‘(l.—T/(C Home Farm.

 

Scouring Wool in the West.

VVool-growers in Kansas, Colorado
and New Mexico have learned that
payingtwo or three cents per pound
for freight on the rich soil held in the
fleeces shipped by them is neither
profitable to them nor satisfactory to
the consignees. The sheep-owners
are, therefore, discussing the establish-
ment of scouring-mills at convenient
points, as was long since suggested by
the Trilrunc, as a measure of relief.
That there are some objections to tliis
plan istrue—there are few plans to
which there are none. One objection
is that every fleece must be “sorted,”

. . ‘ - th 1 wh n the cm fails it is ttribut- _ _
Smw‘BD‘W' “M5! - - - ' - - - - - - - - - '-K"'“‘“' Slope the broad pastures, backs the hill; Probably no anangcments nfcre over the common brick kiln is found 9,101,], Omen. (.,,_uSes amt have [F0 exist- so that each of the several qualities of
A531‘. STEWABD-—JOHN J. ROSA, Delaware. And bright when summerbreezes break wasteful of heat and at the 531119111119 . th t .d b h A  . I énce eslieciany the idea that apples fiber found in each fleece may be
Cnu,Ln.N_H_ O_ DERvIES’__._ _Mm.y1,md_ The green wheat crinkles like a lake. so inefijcient in its results was ever ln- in e on B1 e 3“ ‘arc 93' Slug 9 wonft bear any longer in our 80“. placed with fiber of like quality from

TausUnEB—F. McDOWELL,. . .New York.
Sxc’!—W. M. IRELAND, Washington, D. C.
GATE-KEEPEB—JAS. DRAPER, ..... ..Mass.
CEBEs—MRS. J. J. WOODMAN,..Michigan.
PouoNA—MRS. PUT. DARDEN, Mississippi.
Fnoaa-—Mas. I. W. NICHOLSON ,New Jersey
LADY Assn-. 'Srnw.uzn—Mns. Wu. SIMS,Kan

Executive committee-

The butterfly and bumble-bee

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

The chickens sulk behind the rail,

High up the lone wood-pigeon sits,

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

The swarming insects drone and hum,
The partridge beats his throbbing drum:
The squirrel leaps along the houghs,

invented as this. I do not think it
will be putting it at all too strong, to
say that it is impossible to produce
good tiles of‘ a uniform quality by this
method. Some of the tiles will be
over-burned, some will be under-
burned, and a great many will be
cracked. It never will pay a tile
maker to burn many tiles in an ordi-

instance will show the improvement
over the brick kiln method, on a yard
where the brick kiln had been in use.
The time of burning at first was six
days. ‘With akiln constructed as de-
scribed the time was reduced to three
days. In the first instance the files
were invariably badly burned and
cracked—in the latter instance all

Now, the fact is, apples are just as
well suited to the soil of Pennsylvania
and we may add, to the soil of the
Middle States generally, as they are
to the soil of any other State or sec-
tion of the country. VVe manure the
land for wheat, corn, potatoes, etc.,
every year, or we should not expect a
crop, nor should we expect apples in
the absence of occasional fertilizing.

other fleeces. This will make neces-
sary the services of skillful “Sorters,”
and to such men high wages must be
paid. But this sorting must be done
at some time. and while wages would
doubtless be higher in the West than
in the East, the saving in charges for
freight would probably pay a hand-
some profits over any difference there
might be in cost of sorting and scour-
ing. \Vool thus sorted would, beyond

1). WYATT AIKE1:I—.:.....SouthCarolina. A d ,1 t, - ,,- 1 , h . _ d k ,3 Many farmers entertain 1119 1‘1°.‘‘ d b, 1, , an . , 1 ,,
E D- B1-WHAM----' --------------- --°hi°- Tfiegrizleeiisllesllviaald 333’! my ""°k "““' . "l‘Vl:Iee(:,1etIsli(l): "Elias a:rchn§.::..§l:c (is: §l§“lzi13§hm?§FJ§§‘2’$l’§§’ ‘3i?l§i.'“J.?§fii i>?ll:es’tl:ean'§§§ld if; oblalféaa roieuir.
DB. J. M. BLANTON, .......... "Virginia. Into the mirror Of the brook. T119 m9lh°d 01 Constfucllng 311011 8 p ' sorted wool. In most lines of business

Officers Michigan state Grange.

Where the vain blue-bird trims his coat,
Two tiny feathers fall and float.

As silently, as tenderly,

a kiln can be seen in any brick yard,
and is usually as follows:

vent the cold air from entering the
kiln and also to concentrate and direct
the heat from the fire.

to be used on the regular farm crops,
and thus habitually neglect the or-
chard, and then complain that it |is‘

it has been found profitable to separate
goods in classes to most readily and
completely answer the requirements

. - - - - - l t tt tt ' 1 ‘f .
M.—0. G. LUCE, ................. ..Gi1ead. The dawn of peace descend, on me; A buck floor 18 laid consisting of one - Q till“; esargilofdr 232;: frouirf?ll;i‘:\dp1PuiJis’oa1itlz of customers, and there is no apparent
0.--A. N. WOODRUFF, ...... ..WatervlIet. on ¢h_,,,i,, pe,,,c,,_1 have no need, or two courses laid flat wise over the 31). THE DOWN DRAFT niLiv_. Experienced growers of mm and es_ reason ,0, Sup Osmg the same rule
Liio.—JOHN HOLBROOK, ...... ..Lansing. Xfdfrlends to tfl_1k- of b°0k,;0 read; ground 011 W111C111119 k111i 18 1:0 St811d- _ These kilns are probably superior peciglly apples, know how ffijjgcioug would not hold 11 case of wool. _
S.—B.A. TOOKER, ........ ..Grand Ledge. °‘" °°m1”"“.°“. he” ab‘ ‘*5’ . , The brick are laid in the kiln on mth draft kilns both for efljcien- such an idea is; they know that the In ,m91'”_1° ‘V0015 1119 3117111338‘-‘ 111
, Close to my thrilling heart he hides, 9 up Seoul-m 13 from 79 to 80 9, cent
A. 8.—-A. B. CLARK, ..... ... .... ..Momce. The hoiy gpeuoc in h,,, ,.,,,c,,, edge, not on end_ each course gen“. C5, and economy They are, however’ crop responds to the efiect of a dress- while tghe less 0“ commolg “deg
C.—E. R. WILLARD ....... ..White Pigeon: 1116. and listen. and reJ0H=:-J G W,”_m_er ally being at right angles to the one c,-lstly and a complicated kiln to con- llnisofdgignggg afitfigfidglrygpangnads 831:: shrink from 60 to £5 per cent. gThus
TnIAI.—S- I".BBOWN. ------- --3°h°°101‘3fi- ' ' ' below, three brick are laid on one, struct, and in this article We Will I‘e- they would no more dream‘ of neglect, on a car-load. of say fifteen thou-
Sno..—J. T. COBB, ........... ..8choolcraft. ——-—-——————   this leaves a space of about ongfourth {Pr merely to the principle of action. ing their orchard in this respect’ than sand pounds of fleeces, the Colorado
G.K.-—ELI.IAE BARTLETT, .... ..Dryden. How to Make Dram Tiles. 01-an inch between an two bricks h fl i 1 n d t any other portion of the farm. A top or New Mexico sheep owner pays say
ci:m:s.—uBs. M. T. COLE, ..... ..Palmyra. , —— . y From t 8 Tea’ W“ C8 “es can "0 dressing of almost anything applied $450 for transportation to market. 01'
ARTICLE N0 5_ in the same layer. The number of

P0loNL.—MRS. LYDIA DRAKE, Plainwell.

Fl‘.oBA—MIRS. D. H. STONE . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

L. A. 8.—M.RS. A. B. CLARK . . . . ..Morrice.
I

Executive Committee-

CONSTBUCTION OF THE KILN.

BY PROF. R. C. CARPENTER.
The construction of a good tile kiln

layers in hight varies from 32 to 40
usually. The fire is applied in a series
of parallel arches each 16 to 18 feet
long. These arches are laid usually as
follows: For five brick in height, the

the heat to the top of the kiln; being
stopped by the wall forming this top,
it is forced down gradually, warming
up the whole kiln to the same temper-
ature, without the formation of any

in the fall or spring will surprise one
in its effects. For spring a fine dress-
ing should be bestowed, either of wood
ashes, if it can be obtained, wood pile
or road scrapings, washings from
ditches, good pulverized muck, or

this sum from $315 to $360 is paid for
hauling dirt, which, rich as it may be.
is real y not worth in the wool mar-
ket the 3 cents per pound it cost to
put it there. As the wool-grower gets
really nothing for this soil, except

-1-]; _ 1-_ M0033 chin, ________ "Adrian. seems to beg difficult; matter, ‘mi in _ _ _ air currents whatever, and draining commercial fertilizers. In autumn, 1911119-Pded 1395511188 1l'0l-1115139 13I‘0k6!'.
H. PLATT, .... ..’ .... ..' ...... ..Ypsilanti. from the realms Seen in mogfil 0,-gthi W311 13 Vertical. 1110 WP i8 made by the colder 31,- already in the kiln out compost, or well-rotted barn yard ma- 3;: d1]1;11t1h:Vg’l1i1e1»i;*1:i%e*:i1geg$1e$] gig:
JOHN PORTER’ ---------- --G’f“‘d R”‘Pid“' tile factories. The tile kilns are con- stepping 01' pr°1‘_’°m?g the next three at the bottom. A flue from the bot- nigférrvégh the lumps crushed’ 15 to be to pay freight cxlfarges commission stor-
 MABS; . . . . . . . . ..B6f!'lB!1 CBHCGI. structed in a variety of ways and GOIJTSBS. The brlck In hhfi archefl are torn leads to a chimney for  re. pfinarxneré who hesitate to enrich their age‘ and cartage on such large qugiltieg
I. Q. A. BUBB.INGTON,.....,....Tusoola. immy forms are patented No doubt laid with the same space between them moval of this gin orchards should inform themselves of the free-grazing lands of the \Vest.
WM. BATTEBLEE, ........ ..Birmingham. there is much merit in ‘the various as those in the kiln Iron doors are - upon the subject from Successful For swine years eastern States have
J. G. BAMSDELL .......... ..Traverse City. ate t d k,‘ tb f h used to regulate the admission of 3,, 4TH- THE DOWN AND UP DRAFT KII-NS fruit growers, not only as to the mode g°ld11D18f1D¢;]d,0f the rapid 1H1}Dg 0; the
G‘ G_ LUGE’ J_ T_ COBB’ _____ -_Ex_oficio_ p n e 1 ns, ye ecause o t a pat- and are Set one at the end of each These kilns are provided with dank of manunng then. 0,ch,u.d5, but as to e s 0 t eir streams by refuse rom

State Business Agent.
THOMAS MASON, . . . . . . . . . . ..Chicago, Ill.

General Deputy.
JOHN HOLBBOOK ............. . .Lansing.

Special Lecturers.

ent it is not deemed best to describe
in these articles any but those in com-
mon use.

The cheapest of all tile kilns and
one that no doubt gives good results
in practice is of a kind I never saw,
but is said to be in common use in
England. It is constructed as follows:

A ditch three feet deep and two feet

arch.

The dimensions of the arch would
be about 18inches wide by 32 inches
high. The different arches are usual-
ly about three feet from center to cen-
ter. Outside of the kiln but leaving
an air space of about two inches is a
wall of brick, laid in clay and clayed

pers so that when the firing from top
downward is completed, the heat can
be turned on to the bottom of the
kiln and made to escape at the top.
These kilns are very complicated, and
frequently do not give good results.
They are claimed to be of advantage

.over the “down drafts” only for clay

the best varities of apples for the local-
ity, as some sorts, as pears, will do
better in one locality than in another
though the distance may be only a
mile or two.-—Mz'c}u'gan Farmer.

 

Good Rules for the Cheese Dairy.
The managers of the Readfield
(lllaine) Cheese Mamifacturing Compa-

their factories, and Chicago has so
grown that her furnaces and factories
now make more dirt than is needed
for filling her once mirv streets; there-
fore there seems to be really no good
reason why the wool-grower of the Far
West should pay three cents, more or
less, for hauling dirt to fill streams
and streets where it is not wanted.

 

The Wide Wagon Tire-Act.

Thou. I‘. Moore, ...... "Adrian, Lenawee Co. wide is dug 0“, Circular form, with a over, known as the “scoring wall.” too tender to stand much heat. They i_g’ét1(J)<;§3f;V'2i1Yr1§’ tl‘l111£i§ll3:)t1ll1f?tille5;t1;:)112iiSn(])fy Ci1:19t%Sr<3 __

smk Lmpmm’ """ "T“5tm’,Os°e°1“ C°‘ diameter from outside to outside, of This W311 is 8 to 12 inches thick‘ are probably Pot” economical as the estedin the protludtion of {L fiilst-class T1119 301 Smndfi 85 N0- 179 011 the
n, 1,_ Stevens, ,,,,,, "Perry, Shiawassee Co. eleven feet Radiating from this at On top of the kiln 0218 Or two layers of down (11311 191115 and are much 1110"’ article of cheese, have published and 85811119 b00K: P-Dd W85 8 P1'0V8d -1l1D_€
Jason Woodman.----Paw PEW VMIBUIGD 00 1 H d, bl-ick,one1a1d flat ways and known as complicated and difficult to manage. given to each patron furnishing milk 8. 18§33. It W111 be font! to be of di-
A. N. Woodmfl‘, .... ..Watervliet, Berrien Co: 1’ ace“ ‘fqua 3’ 9131” “P3” 319 folll‘ uflamng ” The scoring and flmin The method of burning and cost of a Copy of we following rules_ ‘Which rect interest to the great farming com-
Mr_ Perry May°,__Bame Creek, Calhoun Oo_ other ditches each six feet long. ‘Mid. bricks fie never wen burned Oftelgl me will be treated in article No_ 6_ are as appliczible to other factories as mgnityi Th 1 f th tat f
Mm Pam M,,y°,__B,m1e cmek, Calhoun ()0, way between any two of these ditches \ 2 . the one for nliich they weie prepared. 120- - 9 D8013 9 0 8 S 8 0

Price List of Supplies

Kept in the office or the Secretary of the
MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,

And uni out Port Paid, on Receipt of Out]:
Order, our the seal of a Subordinate Grange,
and the signature of it: Heater or Secretary.

Porcelain Ballot Marbles, per hundred," 76
Blank Book, ledger ruled, for Secre

are steps or partitions in the circular
ditch. Thesejditches when lined with
brick become about 16 inches wide.
Th.ey serve the purpose of fire holes
and fines underneath the kiln.

The kiln proper is built in a circu-
lar form of clay that has been run
through the pug mill although brick
arches are thrown over the ditches
that serve for fire holes. The floor of
the kiln is made level with the sur-
face of theground, while the ditches

not at all. ‘

VVhen tile are put in a brick kiln
a chamber is left in the center of the
kiln, so as to have at least three feet
of brick on all sides. In this cham-
ber the tiles are set endwise, putting
a smaller into a larger size, thus filling
the chamber completely full.

The reason for the brick kiln giving
such poor and uncertain results is
found in the numerous passages be-
tween the brick, which permit drafts

 

Tornado Prediction.

The signal service for the last three
or four years, has detailed a man to
make special investigation of torna-
does; and to find out, if possible, the
cause of their formation, means of pre-
dicting them, and means of protect-
ing life and property. When these are
known it will add greatly to our feel-
ing of security, and to the benefits we

1. Only healthy cows produce ood
milk. They must never be lieate , or
in any way misused or unduly excited.

2. {e ularity in the time of milk-
ing, and y the same person, secures
the best results. Insist on cleanly
habits in milkers. Filtliiness is disas-
trous to both producer and consumer.

3. Do not feed your cows upon
whey, turnips, or cabbage, they are al-
ways injurious to milk.

4. Only tin pails are suitable to be
used by dairymen. All milk should be
carefully strained; doing so from the
pail through a wire strainer is not suf-

Michigan enact, That all persons
who shall have used only lumber-
wagons on the public highways of
this state, with rims not less than 3%
inches in width, for hauling loads ex-
ceeding 800 pounds in weight, for the
year ending June 1, 1884. and each
succeeding year thereafter, shall re-
ceive a rebate of one-fourth of their as-
sessed highway taxes for the year
1884, and in like manner each succeed-
ing. year thereafter.

SEC. 2. Any person complying
with the provision of section 1 of this
act, who shall make and subscribe to

to k accounts with members, .... .. 1 00 M f -,‘h h t Id - th t t b derive from the service; for tornadoes ficient it should be. strained through an affidavit that he or she has for the
Blankegoord Bo0_k§. (Egpress paid),... 1 00 151151319 t°5°1'Ve 33 fire 110195 311d 111193 zojérolelgdo (gofgetizzs :Ol§a:§°Wifi appan by their suddenness, as wen as cloth _§ilso. Otherwise the whole will last preceeding year of June 1, 1884, or
Order Book, oontammgl Orders on the are beneath. A clay wall of circular . I . terify by their uncontromble force be mlured. on the fir“ day of June on any Buc_
1'1-gauze:-, with stub, well bound.---n 50 form is carried up above the ground or enter 31? 1119 1°P Of 3 kfln 111811111! 8 ‘ 5. There cannot be too great care ceeding year thereafter, have used on-

Beeel t Book containing 100 lieceipts
tronpi Treasulrer to Secretary, with stub.

floor line, seven feet. At the top, this

down draft of cold air in one place

The officer detailed by the signal ser-
vices, was Lieut. Finlay, a. graduate

as to cleanliness in handling milk. All
pails and cans should be kept abso-

ly such wagons with rims not less
t a

_________ __‘_____________ 50 - - l and increasing the upward hot cup _' _ _ , . . _ D3} 111013199 111 W1dl311 101' 139-11_11ng
31:331.. dues, er 100, bound, 60 Wan 13 made two fa.“ tm.ck in F29 rents in other places The plastering of our State Agricultural College in 111t91.V C193I1- 3111? 15 best 590111661 38 leads exceed1ng_80O pounds in_weight
Appuafiom to: Mambo“ .P,per 100____ 50 ground four feet. It is vertical insi e . Lansing’ and he has rem/hed such 1_e_ follows. The pails and cans, when on the public highways of this state,

Secretary’: Account Book, (new style).. 50
Withdrawal Cards, per doz., .......... . . 26
Dlmitu, in envelopes, per doa.,.. .... .. .. 25
By-Lawn of the State Grange, single

In ration of Subordinate

', I an com 1,,  10 _ ' _ ation of tornados. This region to the - . experiment in Denmark by a chem- E
:2...   4°                 
 n,,_,,;,'.j,',;§'I'.a'_;',‘i;;,;;,',;,;;.".'I',;,,',," 33 lgace of the groifnd, and a ditch or un- either for cheapness or efiiciency. 9131.11, eFi:Il1a.g_\fr0lls:§: :anl‘1To1-nado f0_1_'e €i8_11t_ 501001‘, _A- 11- _ _ Y xgirfigigfigd fa-rhI?: $1; gogglga sgltieeg 

“ H H “ “ derdrain would be needed if the _W81kB Which 001'1'§8P°Dd t0 the B0_0I‘- predictions have been madeamatterof pe;;,,,1j§f,§lgfoflfdnfiékcfifiefgfi‘§"’,{‘,'E0f§§'§‘,j to be exceedingly nutritious _and 

'('3°!:;°0h1;:ck‘:l)é,i£&l,i;‘_s;,:.:::::::: 1 2:; ground were wet. The top is left open ing walls of a brick kiln are built, daily Study from the lot}, of Mmnh, This ppactice produces Soul. milk, and Evhglpsomtg, tandjs elaten Wdlth avidigy .

ii3i°"noox. ....... ,,’_, _______________ ,_ 15 for the escape of heat. A shed, how- they may be either round or square, and the average up so June 1, shows sour iilplkt makes soup patr_onhs_. 1 ~cgw”f1<:il'h0¢;se1:1;vlIl1lt;csfi haaiiye nesyteliiany
Mm...’ J. 1.. 0033’ over, should be placed above the kiln but they must be thick enough to that it has been possible to successfully eta‘. etgf gig ‘;‘13$$’;1yr§ s’O‘;)‘;‘n3 éggtgfgaigfi a strong dislike to me smell of blood_

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so that its external slope or batir is
two feet in seven -—— A single door
two and one half or three feet wide is

the kiln is baked’ into a single brick.

to intercept any rain that might fall.

The important point;in the con-

of coats of mud on the top remedies
in some degree this latter difficulty
but even at best the results are uncer-

struction of an excellent English

stand, they should be 12 to 24 inches
thick. A kiln of this kind which I

suits, that we may be justified in hop-
ing that in a year or two more, these
terrible storms may be predicted with

predict from the morning Weather
map that no tornado would occur on

taken new from the shop, must be
carefully washed with soap and water.
If sour whey is put in the cans, they
should first be Washed with cold water

milk should be set upon the round or

spection of patrons. Owners and pat-
rons havea mutual interest and the

shall be credited by the overseers of
highways of the road district in which
such person resides, with one-fourth
of the road tax assessed and levied on

 

has, it is stated, been the subject of

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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

Iidsnmmci-—How to Make Drain Tile-—Tor-
undo Prediction——Enriching0rcl a:'ds— Good
Rules for the Cheese Dairy —Scoui-ing Wool
in the West——The Wide Wagon Tire-Act-
Biood Cake for Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
To our Snbscribers—The State Public School
—Pi-ohibition and Persuasion-—Political
Duties-—Badges for Subordinate Granges—
!'sire and Picnics for 1884 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Postal Jottings——The Editor's Criticism-
Bxtracts from Visr-roa Letter-3—Another
now Read, a Guilt-Edged Dream of Mo-
nopoly, How our Modern Highways are
Built, Improved Law and Finance—The
American Corkscrew Post—-Notices of
Pomona Grange—-Basket Picnic-Harvest

Picnic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Kerosene as an Insecticide, An accidental Dis-
covery-S ecial Report on Cattle Men-—
Xoep the tables Clear of Flieii—Hight of
a Standing Tree—On the Farm-—July- A
irwllints for the Gardon—-Raspberries and
Hackberries—Plum Culture-PottingPlants
—Julv Fourth Celehration—A Scene in
Real Life—A Tax Payer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4

The Beauties of California—I-Iigh Schools as
’. a Branch of the Public School System-
Limniot Dupoiit's Carser——How the Law
In-ciui-ages Crime—Sti-ikes for Farmers-
Lavish Ex enditures for Elections- Sen-
ator Van yet: of Nebraska—Gresham and
IcPliexson—Oscar Speaka——Railroad Time-
table: .............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Black in the Blue of the Sky—“Malre Home
]iappy”—Foundations of Education——Shop-

' g— Our Gii-ls—To Witch Hazel--How the
orld is Filled with Made Over People-
Tiie Pest of Flies—How to Keep Cool-
Simple Remedies for Common Ailments-
A Picture of Mrs. Gladstone——A Hired Girl
Wanted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6

line Ono's Servant Girl——A Bit of Local
Scenery-—A Test of Pronuuciation—Seiec-
tions— Setting People Right—'l‘he Extinc-
tion of Dser—Ths Mississi pi—A Highly
avated Raiiroad—Literar otcs From the
Century 00- Better to ear out than Rust
Where “Plumed Knight” Came From-
The Piiilanthrophic Eterprizc——New Asylum
and School for the Feehle Minded at Kalam-
azoo, Mich:-—The Newark Machine Co. will
rise at once From its Ashes ........... .. 7
Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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J.T.Conn, - -

Scnooncaur.

The very able article on the fifth
page, by Frank Little of Kalamazoo,
should be carefully read and consider-
ed by tax payers, as well as school
boards.

Is it not high time to raise this im-
portant question ‘B Has the experience
of the last quarter ofa century justified
the theory of our free school system?
This article maintains the position we
had taken and set forth in THE VISIT-
on in its issues of March 15,'and June 15
of the current volume. It is of course
very gratifying to be sustained by such
good authority, and with such an array
of fa cts leading to such logical conclu-
aions. As a whole this system has

proved a failure.

The machinery provided to graduate
the meager percentage who carry off
the honors is far too expensive for the
raults obtained.

Free schools are for the many and
however free, the many only success-
fully attempt to attain what has long
been known as a good common school
education, and until it can be shown
that more than this,rnakes better, safer,
citizens, this is all that should be at-
tempted in a general way at public ex-
pence.

We are glad to see the subject attract-

’ ing attention, and hope for .a full dis-

-mission of the subject in the columns
of THE VISITOR.

 

We give our readers, "with pleasure,
the article found on another page,
under the heading of “Foundations
of Education.”

It gives the term education a
iroader sweep than that with which
we usually view it and we gladly fol-
low in the new path when guided by
ihoelear light of Mrs. Jayne’s good
season and finished sentences. True
reformers, aiming at a united reforma-
tion of body, mind and soul, will feel
through this lady's earnest words that
the is whole-hearted in what she says,
and that she probed her subject well
before arraying herself so urgently as
also does by combined word and deed,
against the prominent evils of the

  

THE STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR DEPEND-

FNT AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN.

This State Institute is situated one
mile north of the beautiful city of
Coidwater.
By common consent, John J. Bagley
is entitled to the credit of originating
the scheme, and by his fostering care
greatly aiding in establishing it on a
permanent foundation.

A joint resolution of the legislature
of 1869 authorized the Governor to ap-
point three Commissioners to examine
into the discipline and management of
the penal, reformatory. and charitable
institutions of the State, and report
plans and recommendations for their
improvement.

This Commission not only visited
these institutions of our State, but
other states, and made an exhaustive
report, setting forth the deplorable
condition of the children in the poor
houses of the State.

They said: “These children are the
wards of the State, and the State has
the deepest interest in raising them
from the pauper class; and it seems
very clear to us that some provision
should be made for them.” Growing
out of this investigation, legislative
authority for the establishment of a
State Public School was had in 1871;
and the necessary machinery provid-
ed to locate and commence work.

The ins itution was completed, and
notice was given in May 1874, that
children might be sent to the number
of 150, to occupy the five beautiful cot-
tages prepared by a generous State for
their reception.

But it is held by all those of large ex-
perience and observation of institu-
tional life, that however much it may
be better than a home of poverty and
wretchedness, it is not the natural and
best p‘ace to bring up children. That
“Be it ever so humble there is no place
like home,” provided the surround-
ings are fairly good. Family life is
the natural condition of society, and
the best. Since the opening of the
school, children have been received by
years as follows:

In 1874, 159; 1875, 92; 1876, 104; 1877,
97; 1878, 160; 1879, 106; 1880, 168; 1881,
137; 1882, 150; 1883, 151.

For several years there was a con-
stant pressure of applications from
superintendents of the Poor upon the
Superintendent of the State School.
And the reply came back with dis-
couraging monotony, “Your County
has its full proportion here now, and
the institution is full to its capacity.”

But asthe institution has become
better known and its objects better
understood the demand for children
has increased and a better, business
relation between the supply and de-
mand has been established.

Under the law, dependent children,
sound in body and mind between the
ages of 3 and 14 may become wards of
the State.

The proceedings necessary to secure
admittance to the State School, are
an application made by a county
Superintendent of the Poor to the
“Judge of Probate of the County
where the child belongs for examin-
ation as to his alleged dependence.”
A farther examination by a physican
to determine his physical condition,
if found dependent and not mentally
or physically defective the Judge of
Probate makes an order for admission
to the State school. These children
may not of necessity come from poor
houses as the language of the law
covers a wide field.

"It shall be the duty of the Super-
tendents of the Poor of each County in
the care of children in the Poor
Houses, or other children which
shall be found in a state of want or
suflfering, or being abandnoed or im-
properly exposed, or children in any
Orphan Asylum where "the oificers
thereof desire to surrender thenito the

care of the State. whenever there
shall be a vacancy for their County in
said School, to brirg such children
before the Judge of Probate for said
examination.”

When turned over to the Superin—
tendent of the State School, children
become wards of the State and subject
todisposal during their minority by
the Board of Control of the Institu-
tion-

But the school is not a permanent
home. In the natureof the case it
cannot be, but rathera half way house
between something much worse and
something better.

Said Gov. Bagley, “ The State may
do everything in its power, for-;-these
children, still it is not a home—as ‘we
know home." The heart is wanting
and it cannot be supplied artificially.
This home, as we call it, is after all
only a purgatory, a half-way house
between hell, or the county poorhouse,
and heaven, or a happy home.”

In the ten years of its existence
what has the school done? It had re-
ceived prior to January last 1,466 child-
ren, most of them between the ages of
three and twelve. Of this large num-
ber 40 had died; 131 had for various.
reasons been returned to the several
counties from which they had been
sent; 904 had been placed in homes
and indentured; 59 had been adopted;
47 were out on trial, and the remain-
ing 255 were then in the school subject
to application for indenture.

No one will presume that all these

children have the very best of homes,
but the larger part have as good as
homes will average the country over.
Many of the children are bright, and
desirable for those who are so circum-
stanced that a child will go to make
up the complement of wants in a
household. And there are many such
families. The demand on the school
for children is all the while increasing.
The readiness with which twenty
children from another state were
placed in a neighbor county, referred
to in the last number of the Vrsrron,
furnishes the best of evidence that
there is ample room for the wards of
the State in her good families. The
source of supply only need be better
known to largely increase the useful-
ness of the State Public Schools.

When Superintendents of the Poor
come to better understand their legal
right to send to the State school the
children of vicious parents who de-
serve and receive county aid, and ex-
ercise that right with a judicious re-
gard to the welfare of all concerned,
then will the sphere of usefulness be
greatly enlarged.

During the last ten years of the ex-
istence of the State School, children
have been placed in homes as follows:
In 1374, 3; 1875, 60; 1876, 44; 1377, 87;
1878, 79; 1879, 115; 1880, 216; 1881, 196,
1882, 17-5; 1883, 189; and during the
first four months of 1884, 114.

It will be seen the number inden-
tured has been increased continually,
and the inquiry for children is aprom-
lsing feature of thefuture outlook of
this institution .

But does it pay ? This is an impor-
tant question, and one that could not
be answered at the outset. The men
who have any knowledge of the in-
stitution, are rather scarce who even
express a doubt. It is the business of
society to take care of itself, and it
proves a costly business whichever
way we turn.

For many of the facts and figures of
this article, we are indebted to a very
excellent article read before the State
Association of Superintendents of the
Poor, at its annual meeting in January
last, by John N. Foster, the present
able Superintendent of the State
School.

To know better how well it pays,hav—
ing given an outline of its work, we
will again refer to Mr. Foster’s paper
to ascertain something of its cost.

He says; “This school has cost the
State since it was ordered, for con
struction, furnishing, and current ex-
penses, in round numbers $323,500.
The property is now worth $211,500,

children an average of $35,500 a y’

The average number since its 0 _ :1-
ing is 264 children, which gives av-
erage per capita cost of $2 35 per eek
for each child, for clothing, food, edu-
cation, and all expenses of supervis-
ion. Had the entire cost and expenses
of the State School been assessed
upon the tax payers in 1876, it would
leave been 85 cents on every $1,000 of
the assessed valuation of that year,
but as it was carried through a period
of ten years, it cost the tax payers 8;
cents each year on every $1.00 of asses-
sed valuation. Upon a basis of $40.-
000 a year hereafter for current expen-
ses, and upon the present assessed val-
nation of the State, $s1o,00o,'ooo the cost
for the State Public School will not
exceed 5 cents on each $1,000 assess-
ed. A per capita tax upon our
entire population would require the
payment of 2; cents each annually.”

Here then is the cost, but not_the
answer to the enquiry “Does it pay?”
When we cast about us we see that we
are taxed for this. that and the other
thing, on every hand, so we see our
civilization is a sort of expensive lux-
ury, but we do not for a moment think
of rejecting it and encouraging a re-
turn to barbarism. But we find to
perpetuate it, there must be a con-
stant, a perpetual struggle; there must
be effort, sacrifice and money. The
ignorant must be educated, the vicious
restrained, not for their own sakes
alone but to save society itself from
the consequence of ignorance and
vice in its-midst. .The work cannot
be undertaken like the building of a
house, and completed, but it is con-
tinuous. , In kind, we see this work
has the character of permanence and
we therefore conclude “it pays” to re-
move dependent children, already a
tax upon society, from those.surround-
ings and influences that ‘educate to
pauperism and crime. Paupcrlsm has
reached the condition of a profession.
Society has so far» failed to devise zany
adequate means to cut off’ that ten-
dency to, a continued supply which
comes. of natural .~ or. hereditary causes
and must therefore bear the burden in
some way" thus imposed, and that
worldly wisdom which is prompted;
by the most active humane instincts‘
will so far as possible seek to elevate
to a higher plane the dependent
class. - ~

Where has or where can there more
effectual work be done in this direc-
tion than the comprehensive plan
adopted by the ;State of Michigan, as
developed in her State Public school
for dependent and neglected children?

 

“You can not make the eople rich
b act of Con ass,” sayst e comfort-
ahle classes. 1 0, but stop making them
poor by act of Congress, and they will
make themselves rich by act of abor.
-— Winsted (Conn) Press.

having a net cost for the care of the 8

PROHIBITION AND PERSUASIDN.
In the August North ;l77l€i'i(;an Re-
view, Neal Dow takes as a text for a
temperance paper, this sentence-

"We have suffered more in our time
from intemperance than from war,
pestilence and famine combined those
three great scourges of mankind.”

These are significant words, taken
from the lips of Mr. Gladstone, than
whom no one is better prepared to
pass sentence upon the affairs of his
country—warlike, oft times pestilence-
swept and famine drained England !

Prohibitory measures are rising
triumphant from repeated rebuffs and
it well becomes us to give careful con-
sideration to the opinions of such men
as Neal Dow, the prohibition champ-
ion of Maine, on a subject which is
inevitably becoming a leading issue
in government matters. He first
briu fly sketches England’s progress.
More than 450 acts have been adopted
by Parliment toward the intrencliing
of the liquor traffic. The city of
Liverpool tried the experiment of
granting license to any who asked for
it, on the supposition that to multiply
temptations among the people would
not extend intemperance. On the
contrary, the results for evil made the
city proverbial for its degradation.
When Maine substituted prohibition
for license, English temperance men
read of it with amazement; so far were
they at that time from thinking of
prohibiting this gigantic crime of
crimes.” The London Times remark-
ed:

“If the State of Maine persisted in
that policy, it would show better than
any other thing could do, that its

people were qualified ‘for sel.’-govern-
merit.”

The example of Maine led to the
organizaton in England of an alliance
that has finally gained for the people
the right of prohibiting the liquor
trafllc in their several localities. Mr.
Dow further gives his exposition of
the statement that prohibition inter-
feres with personal liberty. He says:

“In connection with this question
of prohibiting the liquor tra file, a great
deal is said in this country about
personal liberty, and it is urged by
able, men, and even by lawyers,
that the suppression of the traffic
would be an arbitrary exercise of
despotic power, and it is insisted that
it would be a violent interference with
a great trade, involving a vast capital
and employing a great many men,
and affording means of subsistence to
a great many people.

“While we value personal, civil,
and religious liberty as highly as any
other people, we understand that there
is no such thing as a personal liberty
that‘ is inconsistent with theigeneral
oo .

Prohibition of any trade is an extreme

' measure, and cannot be justly resorted

to except the public good requires it.
Some trades are useful, but dangerous;
others are useful but liable to abuse.
These are regulated and restrained by
license, by which it is sharply pro
scribed how they shall be conducted.
The manufacture and sale and keep
ing for sale of gunpowder is one of the
former, the keeping and driving car-
riages and carts for hire is one of the
latter, and slaughter houses are an-
other. Many other things, not harm-
ful in themselves, are forbidden un-
der certain circumstances. A man
may not drive his strong, fast horse
rapidly through the streets of a city.
Nor may any one set fire to his chim-
ney and burn it out in any city; in
the country he may do it. In order
to determine, then, whether prohibi-
tion of the liquor traflic may be re-
sorted to justly, it is only necessary to
ascertain whether it is or is not con-
sistent with the general good.”
Under the same title as heads," this
review, and accompanying Mr. Dow’s
emphatic demonstration of the em-
cacy of prohibitory laws, is another
paper by Dr. Dio Lewis, which as
strongly, and at greater length, pleads
for persuasive means of suppressing
intemperance. Dr. Lewis makes
strong his position by the distinction
between vice and crime. Penalties
may be laid upon the perpetrator of a
crime, but vices partake of a social
nature in such degree as to be beyond
the reach of legal restriction. He
classes intemperance among social
vices. No man. commits crime until
he directly does offense to another and
no legal authority has the right to
punish him until such. time, or in any
way interfere With. his personal liber-
ty. Legislatures have as much right
to see that the presentniodes of cock-
ery do not become too appetlzlng and
detrimental to health. or to enforce
laws for healthful clothing, r‘ to at-
tack scores of other mor‘ wrongs,
as to trench upon 8.___gie§fli,I:’S, liberty to
choose what he shall; drink. We
quote a few of-his idfiiitiinents, but
i-ecomm_en.d.to all a Athorough reading
of the two articles ei_iij.ire.,_, V :
"Itis clear .-to my own mind that
the real sources of nine-tenths of our
ignorance, bad health, ad morals
and crimes are as far beyond the reach
ofthe constable as are our thoughts
or our dreams.” --v -'
Prohibitory liquor laws are indis-
pensible to the temperance cause.
But they must attack the crimes of
the liquor traflic, not its vices. The
failure to make this distinction threat-
ens theruin of the grandest revolution
in human history. Pi-ohibitionists
rarely mention the crimes of the hell-
born traffic, but grapple with its vices.
In this conflict they will fail.
By a simple change of tactics,
civil law would do more in
removing intcmperance in twelve
months, than it has done in a quarter
of a century.
Sale to a child, to a man who is
drunk, or to a person known to be

dangerous when under the influence
of drink, is a crime. But prohibition-

ists miss their great opportunity in not

prosecuting adulterations.
teration is a fraud, and a fraud is ai-;
waysa crime. Officers can go any-!
where in search of a fraud, and allg
drunkards would cheer on the attack. :
A vigorous prosecution of adultera I
tions would paralyze the whole trade.” l

After speaking of the importance
people attach to law-makers, and their
errors and blunders, he says; “The

periodicals, edited with brains and

conscience, may contribute more to

welfare of the State than the entire

legislature. Generally, when we read

the two or three cciumns of newspa-

per report of the doings at the State

House, we are ashamed. Their blun-

deiing comes in great part of their at- ,
tempting tasks which lie beyond their l
reach.

“Theii,” exclaims the prohibition-
ist, “you would have us lie help-‘€88 On
our backs, while millions of our fel-
low-men go down to perdition.” A
man who can indulge this though‘. in
full view of that magnificent l'8V0l|l-
tion known as Vvashingtoniaiiism,
and that amazing outburst, the W0
man’s Crusade--9. man who, in full
view of these proofs of the overwhelm
jug power ofmoral forces will say that
if he can not have the constable to
help him cure his neighbor's vices, he
must lie helpless on his back, is a
queer creature.

I am an old man, but I expect to
live long enough to see the friends of
temperance turn their backs upon the
constable join hands and hearts in a
grand movement combining the tactics
of Washingionianism, and the W0-
man's Crusade, and within twelve
months fill the most wonderful page
i? the history of christian civiliza-
l on.

 

POLIYICAL DUYIES.

Before our readers get this paper the
national conventions will have deter-
mined that of the several iniilion citi— '
zeiis eligible to the presidency, but four
have any sort of a chance for inaugur-
ation on the 4th of March next. of
course it is rather dislieai'tenlii_e; to
these few millions to have their cliaiices
thus summarily postponed for four
years by the action of a few liundred
men in convention assembled, but
numerous as they are, we expect they
will accept the situation without pro-
test

With this important iuattcr already
placed beyond our reach, in so far as
bringing it down to one of four men
named by the National Conventions,we
now have time to cast about and de-
termine each for himself who is tl.e
choice for the otlicial positions that if
not as conspicuous as the Presidential
ollice, yet are really of quite as much,
and sometimes of more importance to
the individual voter.

And here the average voter utterly
fails to be governed by that law of self
preservation, which in some other di-
rections he so well regards. If he sus-
pects some midnight prowler is likely
to make a. raid on his chicken house.
he may watch and wait for many a
weary hour to protect his rights. lint
with what utter disregard of all the iii-
terests that aflfect taxation and good
government does he treat the primary
meeting, the convention, and sometimes
the election—events that are to de-
termine who arc to make and adminis-
ter the laws. As laws are made and
executed, every man’s interests are af-
iected more or less.

The farmers of Michigan for the last
four years have come to better under-
stand, that with all their boasted free-
dom and strength of numbers, and
power with the ballot, that the coun-
tries of the old world are better repre-
sented in their legislative bodies by the
agricultural class, than are the farmers
of the United States in Congress.

But with that better understand-
ing of the situation they seldom
in political aifairsstart in down at the
bottom, to carry into effect their convic-
tions, else we siiould see them attend
the primary meetings of the political
parties to which they belong, and .in
their action have some definite object
in view besides the nomination of some
member of their party who wants
office.

The farmer very well knows that be-
tween oilice seeking politicians be they
democratic or republican, thereis about
the difference there is between tweedle-
dee and tweedledum, and he should
know that if the whole matter of poli-
tics is left to them, they will attend to
it with little regard to his interests as
a farmer.

Now the farmer who believes the
agricultura.l interests of this country
are just as well cared for with one
farmer in Congress against 25 lawyers
and gentlemen of other professions,
should ‘give himself no further trouble
about politics.

From‘, our knowledge of linman
nature, we think it much safer to
recognize human selfishness and
govern ourselves accordingly. And
we therefore urge farmers to turn out
to the primary meetings and do your
best to secure the nomination of
capable, honest men for ‘every official
position, and insist on a fair represen-
ation of farmers in places of trust and
responsibility.

Don’t however for a moment enter-
tain the idea that afarmer will do, be-
cause he is a farmer, In the Agricul-
tural Class there is ability for any
position however high, but those best
qualified are not the men to rush to the
front and press their own claims.

The chronic fault with farmers is to
never lock the door until after the
horse is stolen, and then complain of
something or somehody—grumble, in-
stead of work. It is not our purpose to

advise how you shall vote, but rather

An ariui— I

A Lil [ST 1, 188-1.
insi.-;t that you act. and act at all times
iillli places where Slltll action will in
any xvay affect results. Allow no job
of work to interfere with your political
duties for these are duties both patrio-
tic and pecuniary. Attend caucus~’5v
but don't attend to simply vote a flck‘
et prepared by the oiie-horse ivlmcan
of your neighborhood, who i-“the pliant
tool of an intreaguing «\‘I11380SUe 3'-
little farther along,

xgtlong Since, 9.: item appeared in
an excl,-ange_ __3i\'lllg advice to secre-
t;u*i95_()f 5u}ul‘dll1Ll.ttt (‘wranges in regard
to('oi're3_u)Dde11ce. It laid special stress
upon the duty of being prompt in an-
swering all C-raiigeletters. The Grange
being an educating force, as secretary.
you are in a position to grasp all its ben-
elits. See that your quarterly reports are
promptly and accurately made out, and
that your letters are written with the
heading, date, il(iiil'€SS, body of letter.
iiilli sigiiaturc, all correct in point of
position, punctuation, and capital let-
ters. Perhaps people trangress the
rules of strict propriety. to the an-
noyance of a greater number, in the
niatter of direction on the envelope.
which every one must read, through
whose hand it passes. Through the
centerofthe envelope, beginning well
to the left, and giving plenty of space
without (.'l‘<)\\'(llIlg or line writing, is
justly proper.

As to tlieliand writing itse1f,“legibili-
ty first, elegaiice afterwarils, should be
your rule." There are few, if any
reasons, that excuse any one possessed
of good iierves, from writing a legible
banal. (‘oiistaiit practice, and a nice
attention to line points, may add ele-
gance, but for general use, “read as you
i'uii"lia1id is preiciable.

i’zilc ink should be another outlawed
article at your writing desk. Jet black

ink never is in poor taste;all other
kinds run the gauntlet of putting your
corrcspendenfls patience to the test.
Nothing is more trying, we had almost
said impolite, than forcing your reader
to “stiidy out" your faint lines.

The ability to write a business letter
correct in all details, is one of the best
reconimeiidatioiis an applicant for any
position can offer. Business citizens

understand this, and doubtless more
people are estimated by them through
letters, than through personal acquain-
tance. The very fold of the letter
sheet sutlices for the passing of fair
sentence upon the writers knowledge of
proper correspondence. If the folds are
on a slant, and with the corners at “hit
and miss,” little attention to details in-
side niuy be looked for.

Too many forget that the business
man wants nothing but the business
part of the letter; he cares nothing for
personal excuses, and matter not strict-
ly in line of business.

If it is necessary such things are in
the letter, it should be observed that
you should not write on two subjects
on oneline. Begin the new topic on
the next line a little to the right. This
is a slight matter, but one of great con-
venience, botli in business letters and
friendly correspondence.

Taken in detail and carried out with
ease and preciseness, letter writing is zi
nice art both in the form, and in the
composition and substance. Of the
latter we have not spoken in this as we
aimed to call attention especially to
business writing.

BADGES FOR SUBORDINATE GRANGES.

in the VISITOR of June 1st, we gave
notice that we could supply the badge
for members authorized by the Na-
tional Grange as a substitute for the
regalia in use at a cost of 25 cents
each. We have had several orders and
the goods so far give satisfaction.

The badge for ofiicers has for its
fastening a fine device and costs
50 cents each. All the badges
have the State, name and number of
the Grange, beautifully printed in gilt

letters. The office is also printed on
ofiicers badges.

Orders will be promptly filled and
forévarded by mail or express, charges
pai .

 

FAIRS AND PICNICS FOR 1884.

The Eleventh Annual Inter—State
Picnic and exhibition under the aus-
pices of the Patrons of Husbandry of
Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Vir-
ginia. New Jersey and Delaware, will
be held at William’s Grove, Cumber-
land County, Penn, to continue from
August 25th to 30th.

It was estimated that not less than
75,000 persons were in attendance last
year from twenty different Seates.

The annual fair of the Michigan

State Agricultural Society for 1884 will
be held at Kalamazoo September 15th
to 19th, inclusive. _ ,

The grounds are first-class and the
preparations for a good fair will we
hope he of like character.

we seea notice in a city daily that
the annual meeting of the Hillsdale
and Lenawee Farmers’ Club and Hor-
ticultural Society, will be held at Devil’s
Lake, August 7th, and that Hon, C. G.
Luce has acce ted an invitation to
speak. That c ub always has a big
time at its annual meeting, and we hope
to get there this time.‘ _

 

Tux: Minnesota Grange Helper is a
neat four-page quarto, printed on good
paper, free from typographical errors,
and well edited. The reading matter is
of high Grange order, and as a patron's
paper is assuredly worth the loc. sub-
scription price per year. Address the
editor, Sam’l E. Adams, Master Minn.
State Grange, Minneapolis, Minn.

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AUGUST 1. 1884.

POSTAL JOTTINGS.

The Edifor‘s Criticism.

Mr. Editor and readers of the \'IsI-
TORI I tindit an impossibility to take
up a paper without finding its columns
filled with more or less criticism. No
doubt you all noticed in the last VISITOR
how the wor’thy editor split my jot-
ting in the center with the sharp pen
of criticism. and said he did not think
very favorably of my way of getting
rid of bugs on vines, and that poultry
of any kind used to assist the gardener
was adangerous experiment. We do
not agree with the editor on this point,
for this reason. We always plant cu-
cumbers and marry other kinds of vines,
and year after year have been pestered
with bugs. We have used a great many
highly-recomineiided receipts with but
little benefit. This year we put three
coops of chickens, (forty—five in num-
ber) among the vines, and no bugs
have been seen, and 1 can safely say
they have not hurt the vines in any
way. I also find the lower half of the
Jotting very badly mixed up, words
being taken out where they should
have been left, and others put
in where they ought not
to be; so changed either by the
editor, or by the printer not being able
to read my manuscript: Where it
reads “cannot celebrate its birthday,”
it should have read, cannot celebrate
the birthday of our nation. And fur-
ther where it reads, “for mechanical and
medical purposes” it should have read,
“for medical purposes ;" the word me-
chanical cannot be found written in
the “Jotting,” and should have been
excluded. Also the July 3d, 1884, was
not written in the center of the article,
which place it was printed. 1 should
not have written a jotting for this
number had not necessity compelled
me; but we must all take the bitter
with the sweet:

I shall look with an eager eye,
For the sweet by-and-by.

O. F. PLOW)IAI\'.

July 22, 1884.

[Our defense to the charges preferred
by Bro. Plowman is brief. We have
been pleased to receive jottings from
this earnest Patron and really do not
think we have done him an injury by
repairing his manuscript. on the
contrary, if his jottings were printed
just as he sends them to this otlice, he
would not be proud of his own work.
If we print his manuscript at all,
we must make it presentable.
—EDiroR.]

Idislike to address any lady as an
“Old Maid:” but will say to the lady
who writes over that signature in July
15 of the VISITOR, that her plan of im-
provement will not accomplish the re-
sults sought.

It is now but little over a century
since the systematic improvement of
domestic animals commenced. ,

Behold the results in the Holstein,
Jersey, Durham, &c. The human race
are governed by precisely the same
laws of reproduction. Let rickety,tobac-
co-steeped and whiskey-soaked young
men marry consumptive, dwarfed,
feeble young women, and to their child-
ren, the “ dispensations of Divine Pro-
vidence,” will surely be frequent, and,
I add, strictly just. A woman who
shows such powers of observation as
you do, should change their name, and
let me suggest that “Sensible Lady”
would sound better than “ Old Maid.”

Now," Sensible Lady,” 1 refer you to
the report of the United States Com-
missioner of Agriculture for 1883, page
466 and on, to show what can be done
in “improving the human race,” for
the laws governing the transmission
of qualities are precisely analogous be-
tween the animal and human king-
doms. The quicker we can be made to
understand that we have got to work
out our own salvation the better it will
be for us. Your suggestion that the
husband must wait until he is sought
by the wife will not work. The con-
tracting parties must have sound minds
and healthy bodies if they expect
healthy children, and the choice
of time will as yet be as
completely under the control
of parties in marriage, as any other
knowledge of science.

I am glad to see a lady get out of the
kingdom of bonnets, frills, laces, and
for once defy Mrs. Grundy. When men
and women discuss this subject with
the dignity and earnestness, that its
overshadowing importance demands,
reform will commence.

Now, “Sensible Lady” you and I have
stated what thousands of readers of
THE Visrron wanted to hear, but lack-

ed to sa .
courage y 0. TOMLINSON.

A splendid rain yesterday and to-day.
Just what was needed, for corn, pota-
toes, beans, pastures and clover.
It will put them all beyond the reach
of drouth. Wheat and hay all secured
in good order. The yield and quality
of wheat will be good, better than was
expected. The price will be low-
80 or 85 cents. Oats ready for harvest,
which is somewhat retarded by the
present unsettled weather. The straw
is bright and the yield will be good. The
white Russian variety bids fair to out-
yield other varieties. Politics are get-
ting worse and worse mixed every day.
The raking of the characters of the
nominees for President and Vice-Presi-
dent has commenced in good earnest,
and the indications are that the ordeal

will be severe. We had a grand cele-
lviation at P-tw l‘-aw the 4th. livery-
horly seeined to enjoy themselves. All
drinking places were closed, conse-
quently no rowdyism or drunkenness.
Now. if the good of society require the
saloons to be closed on holidays, Sun-
days and election days, why not keep
them closed every day in the week,
month and year‘! Are these days any
better than others? It would seem so
from the safeguards thrown around
them. I). W.

July 24th.

Colon Grange, No. 21.3, is in a pros-
perous condition, and moving along
harmoniously as an incorporated body.
We have additions of two or more
members nearly every quarter. There
is a falling off in attendance owing
wholly to the busy season of the year.
Our Grange numbers about one hun-
dred, who are always ready and willing
to help the good work along. We have
used in the past quarter about seventy
tons of fertilizer of different kinds,
bought in car load lots, and thus mak-
ing a saving of at least fifty dollars in
that direction.

The savings, financially, of course,
are worth looking after. But that, in
my estimation, is only a drop in a
bucket compared with the benefit we
receive morally, socially and intellectu-
ally. We have select readings and es-
says of every description pertaining to
the farm. In the Grange we have es-
says and speeches, not from silver-
toiigued politicians, who never sharp-
ened a hoe or planted a hill of corn, but
from silvery haired farmers who have
practiced what they talk, and know
what they are talking about. As to the
younger members, they have something
to do to prepare and furnish the music,
recitatioiis, etc. And all in all it is one
of the greatest schools of the age

M. 1-‘. VAL'cIiAi\‘.
Secretary.
Colon, St. J o. Co.,l\lich., July 21. 1884.

The old parties are raising a great
hue and cry about the tariff and free
trade, in order to divert the attention
of the people from what is the most
important and vital issue of the cam-
paign. Every intelligent working-
man must see and realize the fact, that
both the old parties are now controlled
by wealthy aristocrats, and unscrupu-
iua monopolist, and that the main and
most important issue is monopoly or
anti-monopoly. The American Sen-
ate is controlled by, and composed of
some of the most unscrupulous monied
aristocrats on the face of the earth, who
hold their seats by right of purchase
from venal legislators. Hence they
smothered the hills which passed the
House, restoring to the people some
80 million acres of forfeited railroad
lands, worth at least two hundred
million dollars, and not a single meas-
ure in the interest of the people has,
or ever will pass that body until it is
revolutionized by the people, and a
new party is placed in power,
who will recogniz 9 and main-
tain the right of the masses against

the corporations.
REFORMER.

In the Postal column not long since
a Van Buren County lady spoke en-
couraging words for the late work of
prohibition in that section. Since
that time a petition has been presented
to the council of Decatur village, ask-
ing that the prohibition ordinance be
revoked, on the grounds that the trade
was materially effected there-by; it
was signed by some 50 business citizens.
With the phoenix-like spirit of pro-
hibition, the friends of the new order
of matters give evidence of their loyal-
ity by rising with a remonstrance.

The Decatur Republican says:—

So much has been said about farmers
going elsewhere to trade since Decatur
closed her saloons, that a gentleman
living on Little Prairie took it upon
himself the other day to make a can-
vass of school district No. 1. Volinia,
with a strongly Written paper ‘asking
the Decatur authorities to not revoke
ordinance No. 20; and.out of 131 er-
sons visited 127 signed the paper. his
takes in all but three families in the
district, who were not visited that day
for lack of time.

Ultimate prohibitions are but a.
matter of time and the exertion of such
prompt efforts as the one referred to
above. G.

The Republicans are jubilant over
the action of the Democratic Conven-
tion in Chicago, for that gives a free
ticket to James G. Blaine to the White
House. The Democrats had a golden
opportunity to give the peoples leader
that would have swept the country
like a tornado, but they choose to suf-
fer defeat under the old Democratic

flag, rather than gain a victory under ’

any other colors. And now the aris-
tocrats, railroad men, and bankers,
say that they do not care which is
elected— their interests will be safe in
the hands of Blaine or Cleveland.
And the poor working trash, with
hands in their pockets, and their lower
lip hanging down say, we don’t care a
d— which is elected, for neither of’
them will ever care for our interests.
This is the feeling and spirit, that pre-
vade the masses to-day towards both
the old parties—they are displeased
with the men they are compelled to
vote for. I wish there might be some
means devised by which the people
could show their indignation to the
insults that have been shown them by
our political wire pullers.
' CORTLAND HILL.

 

TEE GRANGE YISZTOB.

The long-expected rain has coiue,an<l
none too soon, for the pastures were
dried up; the potatoes much in need of
it; the cats, which promised so well,
are light on account of drought; the
corn, beginning to suffer, though I
think it is not materially injured; and
the plows are idle. But now the farm-
ers feel better, and all their care and
toil will be rewarded, partially, at
least, and I am satisfied that no class
deserve more. I notice that, like my-
self, your correspondents see the neces-
sity of independent voting, and I hope
that they will not only talk it but act,
and whenever they seean unworthy
candidate, no matter to which party he
may belong, spot him. It is positively
necessary that we should do so if we
expect political reform. We must not
deceive ourselves. The average party
leader cares only for the people and
the country just so far as it is their sel-
fish interest to do so. Very patriotic

before election are these gents, and,
generally, just as selfish after. Let us
no longer go it blind, but study each
candidate and vote for patriotic and
honest men. G. l..S.
Constantine, July 24.

Who for Governor of Michigan?
My first choice is Josiah W. Begole.
He is the first governor of this State
to inaugurate Grange principles by
refusing to ride on free railroad
passes.

What Republican Governor has
ever recommended to the legislature
the passage of a. law against free
passes? If we are going back on the
first man that adopts our principles
they had better keep clear of us. Gov.
Begole has not rode one rod while do-
ing executive work on a free pass
from any railropd company. Beside
this he wears.-the royal stamp of
manhood placed upon him by nature.

Farmers of Michigan, show your fidel-
ity to principle, by voting solid for
Josiah W. Begole, the first Governor
of this great State to make any recog-
nition of your demands.
0. ToMI.iN5oN.

Copious rains this week have re-

drought ever known in mid-summer.
here on the Lake Shore. '

good condition,"-and fields of wheat
threshed show a good yield of the best
quality. Corn good. Potatoes light.
Rasberries largecrop and low prices.

much injured by dry weather.

Not much enthusiasm in national
politics; all of the platforms. except
Butler’s, are too profuse in promises
of political reform. _ , "

In State politics Luce for governor
willhave a “walk away.” A bitter
dose for the old rings; but they must
swallow it, or die.

A. C. Glidden has been down here
packing the primaries for J. J. Wood-
man as congressman from the fourth

district; the right thing to do, and
Glidden the right man to do it. Post-
masters for Burrows and people gen-
erally for Woodman, a few, however,
think he has too much wool on the
brain for this hot weather.
W. A. B.

S'ri«:vnNsv1LL1=:,_-July 25.

Mrs. Mayo‘ gave us an excellent
lecture on the evening of July first.
Those outside the Grange seemed to
enjoy it, and I believe all thought it a
good lecture. I presume she can do
better when feeling well; she was
tired that evening having done a good
deal of speaking during the week.

12 and _.t_hree more applications were
read to the Grange, more talk of join-
ing. I think these lectures are work-
ing them up by degrees. What we
want are well educated and well posted
lecturers who have our cause at heart.

I believe if C. G. Luce is put up for
Governor, all or nearly all of our
Grange will support him.

D. J. MCDIABMID,
Manistee C.-. Sec.

There is room for more jottings.
Haven’t you a thought, even if not

ore than three or. four lines in length,
"hat will do somebody good ‘E An item
of five lines will find five times the
number of readers that an article cov-
erin a column will. Jot down your

who esome opinions and fill the Postal
column,—ED.

Pine Grove herd, Porter, Cass Co..
Mich., contains over 100 head of pure
bred Poland China swine; blood of the
Butlers, Corwins, Sambos, and U. S.
1,195 stock, all recorded or eligible to
record in Ohio Poland China records.
Parties desiring stock can be sup lied
at_ reasoplable rates. Call on or address
Gideon ebron,Constantine, St. J 0. Co.,
Mich. Box 300._

s

Extract: rimit H Vislior " Loam.

The Grange interest is waking up in
this State (Minn.), owing to the vigor-
ous campaign of our Bro. Whitney. He
won't let ’em sleep.

Faithfully yours,
SAM’1. E. ADAMS.
' (Master Minn. State Grange.)

I like the VISIT-OB very much, al-
though 1 am not a Granger. ‘
. Yours truly,

Oakland Co. , . D. P. TUCKER.

I send the name of an old lady who
has been reading the VISITOR at my
house four weeks,and is so well pleased
with it she wishes you to send it to her

one year, commencing July 1.
' Fraternally yours,

St. Joseph Co, H. N. ADDISON.

Our VISITOR of July 1 failed to reach

‘ us. I trust you will send a copy as we

lieved us from the most protracted-

Wheat and hay generally saved in .

Blackberries and strawberry fields‘

We initiated two new members J ulv‘

would be sorry to lose one. Ilaying
and harvesting are progressing finely;
have had nice cool weather for harvest.
lierrien Co. J. W. R0llAl:l>.~‘.

like

Q —.j

Editor (il’.A.\'(:E Vi.-ii‘oi::-l
your paper first-rate.

I intend to engage in
try business. Will you please give
me (through the VISITOR) instruc-
tion as to how to make a hatch-
er, and such other information as you
may deem important? What is the best
food for young turkeys ‘3

Spring crops are looking very well ill
this county.’ Wheat is nearly all cut.
and will average but little over one-
half a crop. Yours,

Ottawa Co. DAVID COLEMAN.

- [Will “ Old Poultry” please answer
this correspondent ?— l-11).]

the poul-

Anofher New Road—A Gill-Edged Dream of
Monopoly—-How Our Modern High-
ways are Built—|mproved Law and
Finance.

[By request we print the following
Anti-Monopoly document. As an ex-
pose of the methods pursued bv mon-
opolies it has won wide and deserved
recognition. We commend it to our
readers as an argument against the
claims of either Blaine or Cleveland]

Yesterday Constable Stern discovered
in the city jail a map of the United
States and some railroad connections
which were entirely new to him. On
making in uiries he discovered that
the map ha been drawn by a couple of
prisoners and was the ground plan of
a big railroad scheme in which the two
were interested.

“ We propose,” said one of them, “ to
start a new railroad system, beginning
at Carson and ending in New York.”

“ When will you begin operations 2”’
queried the officer.

“ Oh, as soon as we get out. Now let
me outline the plan. We start out with
some pins, chains and compasses and
make a survey. We announce through
the press the proposed Carson, Arizona
and Texan line. Then we incorporate
and let in a lot of the solid citizens, ap-
point a committee to 0 to the financial
centres and lay in wit a syndicate of
bankers to place our securities. They
make a satisfactory lay, advertise
heavy in the higli-toiied papers, and the
treasury begins to bulge. We get the

country excited. the people subscribe

for the bonds, and they go like hot
griddle cakes; do you catch the idea 1"’

The constable began to grow inter-
ested and nodded his head.

‘fWell, then we apply for a govern-
ment subsidy. throw a few thousand
acres of stock around Congress, get
some of the orators to talk about the
wealthy country about to be opened
up, great natural resources requiring
devel ipment, &c., and the thing’s done.
Then we sell the land at fivedollars an
acre, and push our road right through
to Texas.’

. “ You get quite a start,” said the
oflicer, “ but who pays off the hands ?”

“Oh,I forgot one of the most im-
portant accessories: of course we or-
ganize a construction and finance com-
pany; as directors of the railroad com-
pany we vote unanimously to give our-
selves as a construction company, fat
contracts; then we sub-contract the
cpnstruction out to actual contractors

radialf price, and they pay the hands

or not, justas they choose. But these
are minor details. Now our next point
is New Orleans. We want more money,
so we find flaws in the original bill of
sale, and as we take a hand in electing
the Judges they pronounce the title in-
valid; holders haven’t any money to
contest it, so we serve writs of eject-
ment to fellows who have improved
our lands, and sell ’em again at higher
figures. This gives us another raise,
and then we freeze out the original
stockholders, sell the road buy it in, re-
organize, water the stock like the devil
and give everybody a chance.”

“But the law steps in--”

“Oh,_ d———n the law, The law doesn’t
cover railroids; railroads are too live-
ly; besides,’ we’re putting up a job now
to have a majority of our own men in
the United States Senate (we’ve at all
the State Seiiates now) an , the
Supreme Court, and then we can head
off any ‘communistic attacks,’ you
know. When we get our road to New
Orleans out of our earnings, our lands,
and the taxes we should have paid the
Government, what we made on the
construction company and the reorgan-
ization, Uncle Sam swoops down, calls
for his money and threatens to take the
road. Well, there’s nothing small
about us; we say, ‘Take the old road;
its a busted concern anyhow.’ Then he
won’t want it so bad, you see, and we
continue business.”

“But how do you freeze out the stock-
holders ?” . '

“Why, we hire the Government
Commissioner to make a report and
bear the stock. That shakes the hold-
ers out and we rake it in in blocks.
Then he makes another one you see
and the market rallies.”

"But this costs money; you need a
good lot ?”

“Well, we’ve made a good lot in back
freights and sockin’ it to the small
shippers and the non-competitive points,
to say nothing of Construction Com-

any, our lands and freezing out stock-

olders.” ,

The policeman had no reply.

“Then from New Orleans we go to
New York.” 

“But have you made enoughto build
the New York road. The Eastern
people won't stand the back freight
racket.”

“Maybe not, but the dear public
there are always keen to put up for
railroads. The bankers arran c all
that, and if it’s too thin for the nited
States they have pals across the big

nd who are always ready to help un-
oad a road on foreign investors for a
divide. They are always ready to
build the road and let the company run
1t—and we're the company, you know.”

“One splendid racket to work is when
stocks are low we buy, then form a pool
with other roads, show big earnings,
stocks advance, everybody rushes in
and we let them boom it up until we
think they are high enough, when we
quietly unload, pass the word to break
the pool, and the lambs are sheared
both ways.”

“Railroading is a money-making
business anywa . By givin’ the big
shippers speci rates and slingin’
around passes pretty lively givin’ free
excursions, subscribing i erally to
statemen’s benefit funds, and occasion-
ally building a. church—perhaps own-
ing a newspaper here and there to
blackguard anti-inonopolists and lead

public opinion; by pursuing a liberal}
policy like this we can always llldke‘
our.-‘elves solid with the ruling classes.
Of course this costs money, but as we
tax both producers and consumers we
reassess all these little expenses on the
public, and more too, for the farmers
and other small shippers never bargain
for rates; steam transportation costs
mighty little, and what with new in-
ventions and the growth of the country
it's gettin’ less every dav. That enables
us to pay dividends on all the water we
put in, whit-li keeps investors quiet and
everybody whose influence is worth
anything says, what a great and glori-
ous country we have! See what free
railroads and a free government has
done for us!"

" But what about the ‘ free and equal‘
provision in the Collrltltlltloll of the
[.'uitcd States 2"’

“ What do we care about the Consti-
tution! That was made before steam,
electricity and corporations came in,
and it don’t apply now if it ever did."

“We let the inasses continue to think,
though, that they control everything.
On the Fourth of July and at election
time, our lawyers and the other fellows
we pick out to represent us in the Leg-
islatures take the stump and give the
workin' men a little tafl'_v about free-
dom aud equality, the will of the peo-
ple, etc., and by the aid of brass bands,
fireworks and beer, we get the poor
devils so patriotic they're willin’ to do
most anything; then haviii’ our own
men in both parties to steer things,
we keep ’em about equally divided, and
capital comes out on top every time.”

"But suppose an Anti-Monopoly
party should come up and couibine the
rank and file of all parties, wouldii‘t
that trouble you ?"

“Well, yes; I think that would; but
the people, especially the workiii‘ class-
es, are such d—-—d fools, they‘re always
quarreliii’ among themselves, and we
join the fight one side or the other and
keep ’em broke up all the tiIne.”

" Why wouldn’t it be cheaper for the
public to build their own railroads and
other public improvements ?"

“Ah, there you are again, but we get
over that by holding up to View the
horrors of oflicial corruption and cen-
tralization of power in the hands of
the Government, and as long as we can
stave off’ civil service reform there's no
danger of the people owiiiug and run-
ning railroads —altliough they may
\vork the Post Oflice and the Tele-
graphs.”

“IIow’d you get on to all this ?” asked
the oflicer.

“Four years in the same cell with
the President of an Eastern Railroad,
and he occupied his idle hours learning
me tliebusiiiess. How did he et in?
Why, he forgot himself one ay and
tried to play on an individual some of
the games he'd been workin’ on the
public, and it not only busted him, but
he got fifteen years besides. He’s got
ten years to serve yet, and lie’ll watch
my career with a tutor's interest.”

I wouldn’t a been here now if I'd
only followed his advice, but when l
was getting ready to (go into the
corporation businessl lai in with a
road agent up here, couldn’t resist the
temptation to forcibly interfere wdth
the pecuniary affairs of an individual,
and here I am. The corporation rack-
at is the only thing worth working
now-a-days; as long as you only plun-
der the public according to law you’re
safe. This is an age of law, and if
you’re posted you can make more mon-
ey lawfully than you can any other
way. After you can accumulate a
competency you can elect or buy your
own legislature, make laws to suit,
and roll it up at the rate of millions a
year. It doesn’t matter much wlieth-
er its gas or water, steam or electricity,
or money—-anything the public want,
all you’ve got to do is to claim an im-
provement of some kind, get a charter,
form a company, lay in with other cor-
porations to monopolize something,
and you can strike it rich; only it’s all
got to be done according to law, and if
the law as it stands don’t cover what
you want to do. you must chan e it
before you go ahead.”—-Carson ( eb.)
Appeal

 

The American corkscrew Post,

Referring to our advertisement’ of
some time ago in this paper, about
these fence posts, and in responsetothe
urgent request of the thousands of
‘farmers and others who have asked it,
we have concluded and now announce
that for a short time-—as we find the
demand for the goods urgent, and the
hardware jobbiiig trade too backward
about taking in and carrying stock
sufiicient to supply the demands of the
retail hardware trade and the thous-
ands who want our posts—to give all
the trade discounts named to the retail
hardware dealers and to the public,
and to supply them with the oods di-
rect, untilsuch time as the job ers take
into the channel laid out by us as
shown by our circular and price list.
And in order to man c this matter
and also the matter of t e agents’ com-
mission named in our circular, and the
copyright clause, we have concluded
for the present to do all the business
east of the Rocky Mountains at the
Chicago office.

T. E. SPAIDS, Prest.

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

The next meetin of Berrien County
Pomona Grange wi 1 be held at Bain-
brid e Hall, commencing at 10 o'clock
in t e forenoon of Tuesday, August
5th, 1884.

The program will be the same as for
the meeting of last April.

ROBERT C. Tiixrnrst,
ec.

-Kalamazoo Pomona Grange will
hold a meetingrin Montour Grange
Hall, at Scotts, hursday August 21,
at 10 A. M. Open meeting in afternoon.

PROGRAMME.

Essay—-Women on the Farm, by Mrs.
A. B. Day of Ross.

Essa —Marketin farm Products. by
James esmith of gVic_ksburg). _

Essay—GrangerS Political uties, by
Henry Adams of Montour.

Come with your questions prepared
for the question box.

EMMONS BUELL,
Lecturer.
Kalamazoo, August 1, 1884.

The next s cc‘ meeting of Kent 00.,
Grange will e he (I at Sparta Center,
with Sparta Grange on Wednesday,
Aug. 6, 1884. .

MORNING PROGRAMME. (CLOSED
GRANGE.)
Opeuiiig song, Choir.—E. M. Manly,
Address of Welcome,—Master Sparta

Grange,

3
W
lit-si~o:xse.—)l;i-tw l'oiii-Jiia Imange,
.\'ong.— lir -. ll. 1;. IloIt_
llet-ess.——.~'oi-ial llinner.

.\F'l'l-‘.lZ'.\'()H.\‘ l’ll(N&l:.-\.\I.\lh‘. _Ui‘1-IN
_ _t: I-:.\ .\‘(;1-1.‘
Nuig by f‘lioir.~l£ .\I. .\laiil_v,

\\'t~lcolile
.\l:1yn;ii'd.

llespon.-'c.—lloii. John l"oi'teI,

.\‘oiig.—-llro. ll. G. llolt.

Equal .\‘iiff'ai'ge.-—lli'o. 5. Me Nitt,

.\liisic.—-Miss Nellie .\'haple_v_

(‘o-opcratiou.—liro. Z. lliuman,

>‘ong.——l}ro. ll. (R. limit,

A (‘hapter of (‘lii'oiiicles.~.\lr.-3. W.T .
Remington,

.\'ong.——.\liss Nellie Shaplcy,

lissay.-—.\'ister  Bradford,

Song by ffhoir,

The Tariff‘ ~ Bro. N. Whitney. (Trent
Graiige), '

Soiig.—Miss Nellie Sliapley,

Should Farmers be Lawvers.—Hon.
l._vinan Murray. '

l£ssay.—Sister Slocum,

l’oeIIi or Persoiiatin>ii.—-Hon, E, G, 1),
Holden,

Remarks of‘ visitors and closing song,
led by Bro. .\fanl_v.

ii. A. lil'lll.l.\'U.-\)ll-T,
Lecturer.

to >'parta.-—liev. J. H.

The next regular iiieeting of the Cal-
houn county grunge will be held Thurs-
day, August 14th, at 10 o'clock, a. m.,
at l’eiinfield(iran e hall. The follow-
ing questions wi 1 be presented and
discussed: What do the farmers of this
country need to compete with other
classes, and how shall it be obtained?

Discussion led by Bro. John Allen, of
Battle Creek Grange.

How far may the parent influence
the formation of the character of the
child in their earlier experience?

Question led by Sister Wm. Simona,
of Battle (‘reek Grange.

What can be adopted by the house-
wife to lessenthe burden of cares rest»
mg upon her? (:1
Question led by Sister J. Johnson, of
Fnion Grange. L‘; ‘:1

Is the use of tobacco a sin ‘! Reported
upon by Bro. A. Lee, of Pennfield
Grange.

The patrons of Peiinfield Grange al-
ways welcome in a royal manner all
who come, and ample entertainment is
always furnished for man and beast.
The work of the harvest will be ended,
and we trust t see alarge gatherin of
the patrons of the county to a feas of
fat things, restful for the body and
full of good thoughts for the mental
powers, that all may be benefited, and

etter prepared for the work of life that
comes to each one of us.
Mus. Pniuiv MAYO,
Secretary.

Pomona Grange.

lonia. Co. Pomona Grange will meet
with Roland Grange, Aug. 6th. A
general attendance is desired as ar-
raiigements for the picnic on Aug.
‘_>oth,aretobe perfected. The follow-
ing assignment of topics has been
made for the meeting:

Select reading, Mrs. f‘. E. Higby,
Baiiner,—-“Women's work in the Tem-
perance cause.”

Mrs. E. l). Lambertson, Orleans,-
“The Farmers’ Mission in American
Politics.” .

Will. N. Moore, Easton,—‘-“Are agri-
cultural societies the benefit to farm-
ers that they should be 1*"

D. II. English, South Boston,--A
general discussion on wheat culture and
other seasonable farm topics to fill the
time. E. C. Hows,

Sec.

Newaygo County Grange, No. II.

In accordance with previous arrange-
ments, the next regular meeting of
Newaygo County Pomona Grange will
be held at the Croton Grange Hall, at
Oak Grove. on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, August 19 and 20th, with the fol-
lowin order of exercises:

1.—- pening and Welcome, by A.
Terwilli er.

2.—A ublic Address, by Mrs. Perry
Mayo, of Battle Creek.

3.—“Farm Life—Its facilities for
cultivation of the moral and intellect-
ual faculties.” Paper by Mrs. L. E.
Wright.

4.-“What is an Education? Does a
collegiate education (so-called) make
or have atendency to make successful
farmers?” Paper by Wilks Stuart.

5.—-“Does the License Law of this
State tend to diminish the sale and use
of intoxicating liquors ‘:”’ Paper by
Mrs. J. II. Brando.

6.—The best varieties of Strawber-
ries,time of setting. and methods of
cultivation, T. Taylor.

’7.——The Middle Classes of Society.
Paper by Mrs. M. M. Scott.

8.—Call of Numbers Three, Seven,
Eight and Nine of the last programme.

The openiii exercises, followed by
the address 0 Mrs. Mayo, will com-
mences at 2 o’clock, on Tuesday, and
a cordial invitation is extended to the
farmers of Croton, and of the count
generally, to join with us in this wor
in which all may be mutually benefited.

“Come one, come all,” we need your
help and you need ours.

M. W. Scorr,
Lect. Co. Grange.

Basket Pic- me.

There will be a basket pic-nic held
in Mr. G. W. Locher’s Grove, about
half a mile south-east of Podunk school
house, in the township of Rutland, un-
der the auspices of Barry County Po-
mona Grange, Thursday, August 7 ,
1884, at 10:30 A. M., to which all are cor-
dially invited. Mrs. Perry Mayo from

Battle Creek, and other good speakers v

will be in attendance.
0. H. STONE,
Master of Pomona‘ Grange.
CHARLES A. BRIGGS,

Secretary.
Harvest Home Picnic .

The Patrons of St. Joseph County
will hold a harvest home picnic on
the south bank of the St. Joseph river
in the Grove of W. B. Langley, on
Thursday, August 14, 1884. Let All
citizens regardless of professions, turn
out and make this gathering one of
pleasure and profit to all.

Among the speakers expected will
be the Hon. J. J. Woodman, Master of
the Nationa1Grange, who will address
the people on topics of interest to all.

MARY A. YAUNEY,
Secretary of C oun ty Grange. '

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4

A

lnsecticide—An Accidental
Discovery.

MACHINES, LUBBICATORS AND OILS.

A can that had been used on a mow-

er to carry grease in, had fallen off’
the mower or been forgotten on the
ground after useing it when greasing
the machine. The can contained a
mixture of beef fallow and kerosene
oil. It remained from hay-time
till we were plowing in the fall, and
seeing it shining in the meadow near
by I sent my little boy to fetch it and
throw it in the furrow, lest it might
get in the way of the mower next
season. When he got there he stop-
ped and hesitated to pick it up. I
asked him what was the matter, and
he said there was a bees’ nest in it. I
told him I guessed not. “Yes. there
is,” he said. At last he picked it up
and brought it to me, and sure enough,
the can was nearly full of insects,
but they were dead and mostly
dismembered by decay, but
it was easy to see that there were a
great many different kinds of insects;
some large, some small; all had found
one common death by eating of the
contents of the can, and how many
more had been able to escape from the
can to die elsewhere, I know not; but
I do know that the grease caused a
great destruction among the insects.
No doubt a great many of them were
ofa useful kind; but the thought at
once came into m mind, can kero-
sene be mixed wit something that is
attractive to the different kinds of
insects. and in this way get them to
take a little of it? Can some prepara-
tion be gotten up that will be
inviting to the chinlz bug, the
May bug, and others of that class
of insects ‘B Its odor seems
to be the great barrier. I tried to in-
duce the house fiy to take a little of it
well sweetened with molasses, but did
not succeed, and my present object is
to call the attention of some person
who has the time and genius to in-
vestigate and experiment on the sub-
'ect.
J First, can it be deodorized? Second,
can it be made inviting to taste‘?
Third, can it be incorporated with
some dry powder, or dry earth, and
ground to a dust, and sprinkled on
the foliage of plants when wet? It
seems to me to give promise of useful-
ness in some or all of these ways. Who
will investigate?

Iam tired of buying the oils and
lubricators sold on the markets as
machine oils. One gallon, for which
I paid $1.25, cost me over $100 before
I was through with it; in fact,
I am not done with it yet in its effects.
The oils sold today are largely Waste
grease, light oils and crude petroleum,
that have a body given them with
glue, resin and that kind of stuff.
Put it on a machine, run it a while.
then let it stand; the light, oily part
is gone and a gluey, resinous, sticky
substance remains and frequently I
have been unable to start a machine
after it has been idle a week or so. I
have seen mowers dragged nearly a
mile on hard roads before they could
be started Eand the boxes filled
with kerosene oil at the same time.
I have seen binders that would slide
like a sleigh, and that on hard roads
too, but not a wheel would move,
and when they got started they would
run so hard that they were called
horse-killers; and the consequence is
horses give out, machines break,
delay is caused, the crops get too ripe,
storms come. waste follows, and loss
on every hand, except to the villain-
ous scamp who makes and sells such
vile stuff. I make my own oils and
lubricators, and know their constitu-
ents—beef tallow, kerosene and lamp-
black, if I have it on hand, constitute
my lubicator, and lard, thinned with
kerosene my oil; they are not as good
as genuine oils, I admit, but far bet-
ter than what I can buy.

How long will the people yet endure
before they arise and demand that
nothing manufactured shall be sold
without the maker’s brand and the
extent of adulteration clearly shown
on what is sold? It is next to im-
possible to buy anything to eat, drink
or wear, or use in any way, but what
is adulterated; we buy adulterated
food to make us sick, and adulterated
medicine to make us well.

JOHN MARCH.

Lafayette Co., Wis.

Kerosene as an

 

special Report on Cattle Men.

HON. D. V. STEPHENSON,

United States Surveyor-General for
Iowa and Nebraska, Plattsmouth, Nob.

DEAR SIR: Having just returned
from my surveying work in North-
western Nebraska, under my contract
No. 18, I deem it my duty to make you
this special report.

The whole country embraced in my
contract is occupied and run by capi-
talists en aged in cattle raising, who
have hun reds of miles of wire fence
constructed to inclose all desirable
land, including water courses. to form
barriers for their cattle, and prevent
settlers from occupying the land. They
also represent that they have desert
and timber claims upon the land they
have inclosed. Upon their fences they
have posted at intervals notices as fol-
lows: “The son of a bitch who opens
this fence had better look out for his
scalp.”

The fences are often built so as to in-
close several sections in one stock
ranch, and the ranches are joined to-
gether from the mountains clear around
to the mountains again.

Persons going there intending to set-
tle are also notified that if they settle
on land the ranchmen will freeze them
out; that they will not employ a man
who settles or claims land, and that he
cannot get employment from any cat-
tle men in the whole country. They
will not even allow their men to take
Government land.

To my surprise I found the whole
country, embraced in my contract, to
be well supplied with excellent timber;
on the spurs and mountains pine trees,
fit for sawing purposes, 400 feet long.
besides ash, co tonwood, elm, boxelder,
and birch. The valleys are well watered
with beautiful streams of clear water
from the mountains: plenty of water
to irrigate the whole country if irriga-
tion was needed. The valleys are long
and wide, and well adapted to produce
cereals and vegetables without irriga-
tion. I saw the finest Wheat, oats and
barley raised here in small quantities,
and never saw finer potatoes, onions.
cabbage and melons than I saw, ate, and
raised in the bad lands of Nebraska
during this trip from which I have just
returned. Whenever an attempt was

made to l‘d.lSe it crop the result cxceeded
the expectations. One ninii. James Mc-
Cliesiiey, this fall sold over $1,000 worth
of onioiis. This man took a squatter
claim, ziiid the cattle men, after failing
to intimidate him, bought his claim and
let him stay there and l‘2liSe \’i'll‘ttI€\'€l‘
he likes; so he claiiiis the land.
The valleys are very rich and fertile.
with 21 liixui'i:iiitgi'owtli of line gi‘2issc_s.
My chief object in addressing you lll
this manner is to l‘cp0l‘t the wliolcsale
destructioii of \'illll{llJl€ timber on the
oVe1'm1;1ent land of this whole region
y the cattle men who pretend to own
and raise it. There are acres after acres
of bare stumps, which, but a short time
ago, were growing timber. There are
thousands of logs, cut during last sum-
mer illld hauled out to’ accessible points
to be used for building fences, corrals,
handing chutes, and houses in Nebras-
ka. and Wyoiiiiiig. And all of which I
respectfully submit, and will more fully
report and explain in my field notes of
survey.
GEO. W. l~‘AiiiFii5i.n,
Dcpzzty 7.’/cited States iS'urre,yo2' for
Neb2'a.sl:a.
PLA'l"l‘S_\lOL"l'II, .\'eb., Nov. 20, 1883.

 

Keep the Stables Clear of Flies.

N ow when the season for flies is
coming on, we want to protect our
stockiii the barn-—especially horses.
One of the reatest hindrances to thrift
during the iot weather is the annoy-
ance caused by flies. This is true both
in field and stable; out of doors we can
not by any considerable degree control
them, but in the lzittcr we can. The
stable or burn should be provided with
screens. By this means fumigation
being practiced to drive the flies out,
the stock may pc quite well protected.
The placing of small vessels of chloride
of lime about the ceiling will sometimes
answer the purpose of keeping them
out of the building.

Large numbers of flies may be des-
troyed by lianging up asmzill bundle of
niotlierwort or ii small willow bush
suspended by a string from the ceiling.
Sprinkle it with buttermilk and the
flies will be attracted by the smell, set-
tling in large numbers on and iii the
bush. At night a wide-moutlied bug
may be held under the bush and the
string cut, when the whole will drop
into the bag and the flies may be des-
troyed in ziiiy convenient way. If the
stable is fumigiited by burning dry
cow dung the flies will also get out
double quick, as they (zire utterly un-
able to tolerate the pungent odor of
the burning dung. Don't keep your
windows and doors shut.

A. ll. IIE.\‘Dl’.ICl{S.

Wisconsin.

_____._.__.______
Height of a Standing Tree.

Any person however ill informed,
might easily get at the exact height of
a tree when the sun shines, or during
bright moonlight, by niarking two
lines on the ground, three feet apart,
and then placing in the ground on the
lines nearest to to the sun a stick that
shall stzuid exactly three feet out of the
soil. When the end of the shadow of
the stick exactly touches the furtliest
line, then also the shadow of the tree
will be exactly in length the same
measurement as its height. Of course,
in such it. case. the sun will be at an
exact angle of forty-five degrees. Meas-
urements of this cliaracter can be best
effected in the summer, when the sun
is powerful, has reached to a good
height in the heavens, and when the
trees are clothed with living green so
as to cast a dense shadow. To Illillly
to whom this idea may not have oc-
curred, it might be made aiiiiuully a
matter of interest thus on warm sum-
mer days to take the height of promi-
nent trees, and so to compare growth
from year to year.

 

On the Farm.

Mowing Bushes.—When the weath-
er is not suitable to make hay, it is not
a good plan to utilize the time by cul-
tivating crops, which needs to be
done when the ground is not wet, but
the bushes in the pastures can be cut
to good advantage. We know it is not
the practice of many farmers to cut
bushes before August, believing hat
if out then they will not sprout; Ii ‘:1!
this is a mistake. Many kinds of
bushes may e cut annually in August
for fifty yea without killing them.
If bushes are to be killed it is import-
ant that they should be out early, say
the_ last of‘ May, then in July, and
again in August. In this way by cut-
ting close it will require but a few
years to kill them all out.

The averages of milk per cow for the
Unitec_l_Stat_es are: 1850, 167 pounds;
I860, 14-’); 1810, 206; 1880. 233. It should
be remembered, that aside from any
deficiency in the enumeration, there is
a small amount of milk sold from farms
for town use, in 1850 and 1860, which
was not included, and for the four
periods the quantity used on the farm
is not reported. _ After a careful analy-
sis of data bearing on this subject, I
woi_ild estimate the total average yield
per_cow as follows: In 1850, 27.) gallons
per aniium: 1860, 288; 1870, 312: 1880,
3510 gallons, the range by States being
from 125 to -175 gallons.

J. R. Donor;

Wxsiinvoron, D. 0., July 1, 1863.

Northwestern sheep men have all
along given more prominence to mut-
ton than do the flockmasters of the
old sheep-raising States, and now that
wool is getting so low it is not strange
that they are paying increased atten-
tion to the carcass. A high class of
mutton comes from that country, too,
and the tendency is rather toward
improvement than deterioration. It
is claimed that Colorado alone will
market 300,000 wethers before winter,
besides 100,000 lambs.

The Texas Wool-Grower says: If
Texas sheepmen find slow sale for
their wool and are pinched to make
both ends meet in consequence. they
have the consolation of knowing that
they are not alone in a tight place.
During the past two months business
matters have tightened all over the
country. causing wealthy men to
scratch close. Sheep-raisers need not
be discouraged.

Many farmers in Minnesota have
combined and have already raised
enough money to build eleven eleva-
tors. They are trying to render ther
selves independent of the railroad?

The returns to the department of ag-
riculture estimate the wheat crop at
350,000,000 bushels The May average
is 94, against 83} for the same month

a year ago.

THE GRAIEGE VISITOR.

Etriiwiiitii Qiiitimtui.

JULY. ,

BY LEIGH PRESCOTT.

'

Right overhead, a blazing sun;
Here undeineaih, a torrid noon;
The very cattle pant for breath.
The brook has hushed its lively time.

No wiiidwave stirs a single leaf,

The meadow-grass lies parched and dry;
From lower slopes we see the heat

Rise trembling towards a cloudless sky.

The éistant click of sharpening scythe:
Is hushed’ and underneath the trees
The wearied mowers wipe their brows,
And stretch their limbs in well-earned ease.

E0 still, the very cricket’s jump

Is heard among the new-mown grass;
So hot, the very stones would sweat,

And drops stand on the brimming-glass

The tired dog. with panting tongue.
The dozing cow. with half-shut eye,

The mowers’ empty water pa il,
Seem silently to eay—July.

 
 

:A few Hints for the Garden.

In the Ilorticultural Department of
Tiii-; (}iiA.\'ni: \'i.si'roi:, July 1, I
noticed 2111 article on the Cabbage-root
fly. This root-lly or maggot which
works on the roots of young cabbage,
turnips and rudishes is, indeed, very
destructive to plant life; and when
any one knows from practical ex-
perience efiectiial remedies in destroy-
ing this, or any other pest, I think it
their duty to give their experience to
others. My husband has been :i mark-
et gardener for several years, and this
trouble among cabbage is known
among gEll'(lell€l‘S£lS “club-root.” The
milk and kerosene remedy may be good
and no doubt is, but let me tell you of
it simpler renicdy, which Mr. Wziriier
has already used with the best results,
and that is, only salt and water. at the
porportions of one quart of salt to five
gitlloiis of water; after the salt is
tlioroughly dissolved it is ready for use,
pour about ll teacupful of the liquid on
each plant, repeat the operation every
two wceks until the plants are a month
or so old; this is good to sprinkle on
any kind of plants troubled with mug-
gots or root insects besides it is an ex-
cellent fertilizer.

I’->1‘ the striped beetles we use the
old tinie-triedreinedy, of dusting the
vines when the dew is still on them,
but we are it little more favored than

others in this, as we live near
the Ezist Szigiiiziw water works;
we get instead, ‘a barrel of

soot which the fireman clears off the
bottom of the boiler. It is so light, it
seems to cover the whole plant coin-
pletely. and when the sun and winds
dry the plzints the soot does not dry
off as easy as ashes do.

Another pest, and one with which I
lnid to contend with only y€Sti’:‘l‘(ld_‘y’,
was the “rose slug.” I have a fine s;;'ec-
imen of the Geiieral \V2ishingtoii rose.
All at once the plant presented the 'a.p-
peziraiice of being burned or scorclied
by the sun; the leaves slirivled and
dried: I knew the cause at once, and
picked off and destroyed all the slugs
I could lind, then gave the plant El. thor-
ough drenching once a day with the
following liquid; 1 pound of whale oil
soup to 8 gallons of water. Continue
this for a week. If the plants are very
young be more sparing in the use of
this liquid, as it might injure the deli-
cate growth.

Another nuisance in the flower gar-
den is a certain kind of ant that eats
peony buds. Dust the buds with if.-
stcf; powder, or pyretlirum, and they
will disappear. Another mode of dis-
posing of these troublesome visitors, is
to lay fresh bones around the plants,
and they will leave everything else and
attack these. When thus accumulated
they can easily be destroyed by dipping
in hot water.

Mns. F. A. WARNER,
South Saginaw, Mich.

Raspberries and Blackberries.

In our state we have a most success-
ful market grower in Evart H. Scott,
of Aim Arbor. It is said of him by
growers that compete with him in the
markets, that he always gets a little
better rates than the market reports in-
dicate as the prevailing prices. We
have drawn from him the followin
words concerning his practice for grow-
ing raspberries for market:

“A person starting out in the culture
of raspbe_rries_ should select a rather
l1i_gli, rolling piece of land. I prefer a
stiff clay loam, moderately rich, to any
other soil, for the reason, mainly, that
in time of drought it holds moisture
better than a lighter soil. If the piece
selected is not well drained, I should
before setting a plant have it well
drained.

After selecting location the next
thing is the varieties to plant. Of the
red I would recommend Turner and
Cuthbert. The Turner is a moderate-
ly early berry, very hardy, bright color,
and a good flavor. The Cuthbert is a.
little later than the Turner, of a. larger
size, hardy, and sells at the highest mar-
ket price. Of the new varieties Han-
sell and Superb are promising and very
early.

Of the black caps I would recom-
mend Souhegan and Tyler for very
early, and Gregg for late. There isa
variety which I have thoroughly test-
ed that is a Wonder in its way, and I
refer to Sl1afi:'er’s Colossal. The plants
are propagated from the tips, and their
fruit is red, becoming purple when
very ripe. I have found it the best
canning raspberry on my place.

"-.Vlie'i plants are received, if not

my to sgt out at once, heel them in

.~ -«ro-in .

;»lzii'k off the rows either with a one-
horse plow, or by running a. line and
digging holes with a. spade. The rows
should be at least five, nor more than
six feet apart, and the plants set from

two and one-half to three feet in a row.

A UGUST 1, 188-1.

I’-e careful and not set the black cap va-
rieties too deep, especially on liezivy
soil. The crown of‘ the plant two or
three inches below the surface is about
right.

The red varieties can be set at the
same depth as they were taken up.
press the dirt firmly arouiid each plzint.
drziwiiiga little loose dirt around after-
ward. Ihave found spring by far the
best time to set plants; if set in the full.
mulch with some coarse material and
mound the dirt over each plant to keep
from lieaving. Now keep the soil well
cultivated, the oftener the better, until
about the first of August the first
year; after that do not cultivate after
fruit begins to ripen. For working
among the rows I use a common spud-
ing fork; it does not cut the roots, but
pulverizes the ground well. Hold it in
a perpendicular position and work it
around; do not put under and raise the
roots.

When plants get about two feet high
pinch the tips oil’; this makes them
grow brancliing and less liable to be
twisted and broken by the wind.

As soon as possible after the fruit is
all picked remove the old canes and a
portion of the new ones leaving the
strongest for hearing next year. For
removing the canes, I use a piece of
steel about the width of a pruning
knife blade, curved into (I. hook and
fastened into a handle about two or
three feet long. This is the best in-
strumeiit for the purpose. Very late
in the fall or early in the spring cut
back from one quzirter to oiie-third of
the new growth. For this purpose I
use a pair of steel shears the blades of
which are about one foot long and about
one to one and it half inches wide, fit-
ted into light wooden handles-witli
this tool it man can do a large amount
of Work. Out the smaller canes furth-
er back in proportion to the larger
ones.

In marketing select the man or firm,
which upon carefiil inquiry you find
most reliable. Then if you park your
fruit honcstly,wliicli you should make
at point always to do, and raise choice
fruit, which you (32111 certainly do if you
give it proper care, you will reap agood
harvest."

Wishing also to get something foroiir
beginners from Mi'.Scott’s experience
in blackberry culture, he gave in re-
sponse to inquiry {I note as follows:

“For l)l&lCl{l)9l'l'lES select a high loca-
tion. Heavy, well-dr:iiiie'.l
niuch preferable to light soils. Use the
sztiiie care in the selection of varieties,
setting of plants, thorough cultivation,
and pruning as in raspberries. Rows
should be from seven to eight feet
apart, and plants should be set two and
oiiejliulf to three feet in a row. Do not
set any tender varieties. Snyder and
’l‘ziyloi"s prolific I have found the hill‘-
diest I have tested. The Snyder is
quite an early variety and enorinously
productive. For that reason the canes
must be thinned and pruned closely.
Taylor's Prolific is later and of fine
quality.

The blackberry if kept in proper
shape and wellcured for, is very profit-
zible——even more so than the rapberry.
—From Primer of Horticulture.

 

Plum Culture.

l-‘or rot in plums I know of no cer-
tain remedy. Hundreds, yea tliousunds
of bushels of plums have rotted in
northern Micliigzin in the last few
years. The idea that they rot only
where they liaiig’ on the ti'ee so as to
touch each other is incorrect; I have
known llltlll thinned so that they did
not come in contact, yetthev all rotted;
picking the fruit as soon as the rot ap-
pears on it, does not appear tozdo any
good.

Last October I read an article in
the N ew York Witness, I am sorry I
have not it at hand, which stated that
if the fruit was picked carefully as
soon as it commenced to rot and then
placed in a pail of water to prevent the
spores of the decayed fruit from rising
and lighting on the fruit remaining
upon the tree, carried away and burned
or deeply buried in the ground, tree
and fruit be liberally sprinkled with
lime, that it would prove a certain
remedy for rot. It also stated that the
spores contained in the decayed fruit,
if left under the tree, would cause the
fruit to rot the next season. I have
noticed that when the fruit rotted once
on a tree it continued to rot year after
year. If the above should prove to be
a certain remedy for rot, then I know
no reason why plum growing may not
be made a success; if not, then the rot
is it serious obstacle, although I have
iieyer known it to appear until after
several crops were raised.—From
Scc’y G’arfleld’s Primer of Horticul-
ture.

Potting Plants.

The soil to be used should be a mix-
ture of leafinold from the woods, sand
and good loam, aiittle powdered char-
coal being an improvement. A piece
of broken pot should be laid over the
drainage hole. then enough soil put in
so that when the ball of earth is placed
in the pot, there will be about an inch
of space from the surface of the soil to
the rim of the pot. Fill in the soil all

8 around the ball and pack it moderate-

l tight. Finally give the pot a tap on
the bench to settle the soil. After all
are potted, put a spray nozzle on the
sprinkler and give them a good water-
ing, shadin with newspapers two or
three days tiring sunshine until re-
established. Never use a large seized
pot fora small rooted plant. If you
do the soil will sour, and the plant
sicken and die;—[Farm, Field and
Fireside.

 

“AN English writer,” says the New

York Tribune, “enjoys the songs and
twitterings of birds in the garden,
and their destruction of slugs, etc., un-
til the fruits begin to ripen, when they
are driven off by using some common,
cheap firecrackers, the noise and smoke
of which alarm and keep them away.
A few must be used quite early in the
day, and a freer discharge about 3 or 4
P. )I., when they again desire to feed.
They soon learn to prefer peace, safety
and wild berries.”
Now this Englishman commits a
fraud on the bir s. He invites them
to sin for him, and destroy his slugs.
and w en they partake of a. ripe cherry
he explodes powder under their noses.
Why not treat the birds with the same
fairness due other friends who come
to amuse and help you? Certainly if
our birds serve both as musicians and
policemen We should take pleasure in
seeing them make a. good breakfast out
of the cherry trees, the only method of
payment which is acceptable.

For fertilizing salt, address, Larkin and

Patrick, Midland City, Michigan.

soils are.

Michigan, which is usually regard-
ed as having the most advanced col-
lege in the country, has a special in-
structor in hor.iculture, who has no
other duties. Twc-thirds of the day
is given to class-roorn work; three
hours field work daily in the orchard
and garden is required from students
during thejunior year. More atten-
tion is given, however, to the botani-
cal and technical work than to fruit
growing. Almost nothing has been
done in the way of experimental work
or to the testing of new varieties of
fruits, more attention being given to
vegetable growing than any other
branch of horticulture. The depart-
ment is liberally supported by the
college, the annual expenses in excess
of receipts being about $4.500.—Jour-
nal of Agriculture.

 

THE EFFECT or DARKNESS UPON
Fnownns.-—An English experiment-
er planted a hyacinth bulb in October,
1882, and as soon as it commenced to
sprout, remove it to a perfectly dark
but well ventilated place. In March,
1883, a stem of dark purple flowers
was produced, the leaves of the plant
being totally colorless. In October,
1883, the same bulb was again planted,
and was grown in the light through
the Winter. It has flowered again
this year, and the flower cluster is
smaller and less deepl colored than
that which came fort last year in
the darkness.

________________

If Congress would give a little
thought to weights and measures, and
pass a bill rendering obligatory in all
the States a uniform and consistent
system of weights and measures. it
would do agood work. As it is now
the standard, or rather lack ofstandard
is confusing and annoying, and in

a degree promotes misunderstandings
and_ encourages frauds.——Ameri'ca7z
Cultivator.

 

We have liezird considerable talk
about fziriners growing fruit for stock.
John Jones planted apple trees for
stock. lie dug holes in at llleiltlOW and
stuck them in. l’zisturiige run short.
and in August he turned in forty heard
of cattle. The stock liad all the fruit,
(or trees) enjoyed it hugely Ellltl seein-
cd to thrive on it. .\'cai'cely it tree was
left. Another fni'iiicr turned his sliccp
into it line bearing orclizird. The bark
of the trees zippczm.-il quite llOlll‘lSlllllg'
to them, and they ate it with good rol-
isli. Plzinting fruit for stock is a suc-
cess in this locality.

THE VVASIIINGTON MONUMENT.

The shaft of the \Vashington monu-
nieutlacks only forty feet of the point
where the pyramid of the roof will be-
gin. The work is progressing at the
rate of nearly four feet a day. The
wall at the upper course is now only
a little over two feet thick. The foun-
dation has thus far been compressed
about an inch and ii half with the ad-
dition cf about 200 feet of shaft. This
settling has been so nearly even that
the greatest deviation from an exact
level is measured at one of the cor-
ners by a thickness less than that of
a horse hair.

MORE ONE AND T\V() DOLLAR BILLS.

When the Treasury department
ceased printing $1 and $2 notes, for
lack of an appropriation. there were
on hand several hundred thousand
sheets of these notes in a partially
finished condition. It is now found
that enough of the present appropria-
tion is available to pay the expense of
finishing the partially printed sheets,
and Secretary Folger ;has given
orders to have the work resumed.
The number of notes which will be
put into circulation, will probably
amount to no less than $2,000,000.

It is not enough that It man here
and there attain to wonderful power in
the effective use of thought, because
his force will be insullicient to move
all his fellows, but when they too.
have increased development, gainjis at
once apparent, available strength great-
ly augmented.

Of course power may be directed to
evil but the tendency in this age of
enlightenment is toward good, and
there is therefore great encourage-
ment for hope that the world in the
next generation will make reat ad-
vances in all the material lessings
for which human effort is expended.

A FEW pictures properly placed on
the walls of a Grange room may add
very much to the appearance. making
the room cheerful and bright, if the
pictures are properly selected. It is a
serious mistake to estimate the value
of a picture by its colors, and as a gen-
eral rule it may be assumed that gaudy
displays on canvas or paper are coarse
or tawdry when judged by art stan-
dards. What is required is that the
representation be true to life, or nature

6i-urmpundente.

luly Fourth Celebration.

Fraternity Grange celebrated the
Fourth ofJuly irxtheir Hall in a pleas-
ant, aud we think a profitable way.
Believing it unwise to go abroad
when we can have a feast at home, we
arranged for a dinner which proved to
be ample for the ocasion.

The children of the Patrons were
out in force, and when seated at the
table, they looked the picture of the
future Grange gatherings.

The after dinner exercises consisted
of music, recitations and impromptu
speeches, having a bearing upon the
past, present, and future of this great
Republic. At the table we discussed
the position of the Republican party
on the temperance question. The ma-
jority of the members favored giving
it a wide birth, believing the party to
be in the hands of, and controlled by
the whiskey ring and the lords of lag-
er beer. They favor the prohibition
party and will vote for it at the next
election, regardless of giving the pub-
lic helm to the Democrats, and pen-
sioning the rebel ‘,soIdiers. Even all
this would cost far less than it does to
irnbrute the millions by means of the
grog shop, and exercise the woe and
misery that follow in the wake.

Fraternity Grange sends greetings
to the Order of Patrons, loaded with
best wishes for its prosperity; for we
see in it the education of the oppress-
ed; the conseivation of the grand-
est and noblest thought of the age.

S. P. BALLARI).
________._._______

Ottziwzi Gfilllgé’, No. :30, celebrated its
llth 2llllll‘v'el‘Sil.l‘y on the Tth of June by
having it <.Iliildi'eii‘s Day; and it Wil.S{l
griind siicccss. >}istci' Perry .\I:iy0 gave
an address in the zifteriioon, and in
regard to her lecture will say that we
have li:u1Thonipson, llolhrook, \\'00d-
inan, .\lickle_v, Whitney, Luce, \Vood-
ward, Bristol, Wliitt-lieziil, Moore, and
Thing, but Sister Mayo gave as good
szitisfzictioii :1:-iuiiy of them. and that
is saying coiisideriible.

(,‘ii.is. W. WiLi)i-:,
Sec.

 

A Scene in Real Life.

“'l‘h:it is it sad sight”’ was the ex-
pi'c.-ssioii nizulc by a dry goods jobber, 213
he pointed to El. man holdiiig coiiyei's:i-
tioii with sonic of the sulesiiicii. “I
have just _L,"lV'ell him two dollars, and
lieis now levying coiitributioiis among
his frieiids. Five years ago he was one
of the most proiiiineiit szilesiiien in one
of our largest wholesale houses, and his
Sill2ll‘y and coinniissioiis on his sales
brought him ten tnousuiid it your. lle
saved upnioiiey until he had about fifty
thousand dollars to his credit.

“lie, like many others, when he had
secured at modest fortune, went to
spectulatiiig on Wall street. It was
not long before his money was lost, and
he was penniless. He took to drink-
ing for the purpose of drowning his
sorrows, und as it result he lost his sit-
uiition. llis brain in time became
crazed by the use of alcohol, and he
went to at lunatic asylum. Helios been
out only a few weeks and there he
stands a wreck before reaching mid-
dle age. Ilis wife and daughter have
left him and are living with their rela-
tives some distance from New York.

It was truly aszid sight. The man
had naturally a splendid physique, it
broad white brow, and a. pleasant face.
Yet there he stood begging for aims
among the salesmen he knew in other
days, and very near the store where for-
merly he was so prominent a figure.

What a lesson for sober reflection.
and what a moral does this wicked
manhood convey. Speculation deso-
lated a home and separated a family,
drove the husband to drunkenness, to a.
lunatic asylum, and finally to be gary.
What the end? Too often, a as! a
lonely, friendless death, and a pauper’s
grave. _

This is but another dark chapter in
the history of thousands, who, in the
greed of sudden gain, risks all that life
holds dear. The days of trouble and
nights of pain that follow, who can
picture? The storms of agony that

true to the subject. This is really the
best criterion of value.

The daily life into which people are
born, and into which they are ab-
sorbed before they are well aware,
forms chains which only one ina
hundred has moral trength enough
to break when the right time comes
——when an inward necessity for inde-

pendent individual action arises:
which is superior to all outward con-
ventlonalities.

Among the new applications of cot-
ton is its use, in part, in the construc-
tion of houses, the material employed
for the purpose being the refuse,‘
which, when ground up with about
an equal amount of straw and asbes-
tee, is converted into a paste, and this
i formed into large slabs or bricks,
which acquire, it is said, the hardness
of stone, and furnish a really valuable
building stock.

A Connecticut lawyer has sued one
of his clients for a" bill of $440 for ser-
vice rendered. It appeared that the
client’s suit has involved a. sum of
$50, and had been continued through
twenty—one terms, on each of which the
giwyer charged a. twenty dollar term

ea. V

THE flrst problem in all education
is to awaken an appetite in the pupil;
many teachers only succeed in awak-
ing disgust. One man can lead a boy
to school, but a whole faculty cannot
make him learn.

In a libel case tried in New York
last week, a witness declined to be
sworn, but gave his testimony “on the
honor of a. gentleman.”

WE owe one-half of our success in
this world to some circumstances, and
the other half. to taking the circum-

stances on the wing.

sweep over the soul when fortune flies,
are too bitter to be voiced in language.
Despair alone can echo the misery of
the bruised spirit.

The dew of the morning and the
spleiidors of high noon, that seemed
so full of promise, have faded in the
storm, on whose darkness no how of
promise gleams.

 

A Tax Payer.

“Please, sir,” said a. man at the
station who said he was a farmer, but
who looked more like a tramp;
“please. mister, won’t you lend me
adime? Ilive out in the country
apiece, and will give it to you when I
come in again. Ye see, I hev come
to town to pay my taxes. and I find
myself just ten cents short. My broth-
er owns a farm just at the edge of
town, but I hain’t got time to run
over there ’fore my train goes. Give
me a dime and I’ll bring you in the
biggest watermelon grown on my farm
when they get ripe.”

The station agent lisened to the old
chap’s request, and finally passed
over the dime. But he didn’t seem
satisfied. He kept watch of the farm-
er, who had started ofl briskly toward
the court house. The station agent
watched him. He slipped into a
saloon. The agent quickly followed.
The farmer was just wiping his
mouth.

“Here, you,” cried the indi nant
agent; “I thought you want that
dime to pay your taxes.” “Th_at.s
what I did,” replied the tramp; “Just
paid the last installment. Bin payin’
all my taxes that way for a good maniz
years. I wonder what the country

coming to—it keeps me poor to pfly
my taxes. Will on-—” But the

station agent ha gone.—(76¢0G0°
erald

 


 

 

aAUGUS'l‘ 1, 1884.

Qpummxmiratiunr.

The Beauties of California.

[California Correspondence]

“The mountains look on Marathon,
And Marathon looks on the sea.”

So may we say of the Slll'l‘f;:l,lll(.llIlgS
of Los Angeles. Standing on one of
the foothills, at the eastern edge of
the city, far above us in the back-
ground rise the mighty Sierras; with
here and there some towering peaks
still covered with a mantle of snow,
reflecting in dazzling whiteness the
rays ofa midsummer sun. With the
mercury at 8:3’ in the shade, our senses
regaled with delicate perfume, and
tropical groves surrounding us, we
wonder how the snow can remain on
that peak, that seems so close on our
left. But we are told, that though ap-
parently near, it is sixty miles away;
and its summit 3.000 feet above our
heads.

On our right runs the low
range of the St. Vincent mountains.
Striking out from the Sierras, they
have marched onward to the sea, and
not only met it but the leader has
ventured out into the very depth of the
Pacific; and there reposes a giant land-
mark to the mariners of the coast, and
the waters beating on its majestic front,
are broken and fall to one side into
the semicircular bay of Santa Monica.

Only seventeen miles distant by rail,
from Los Angeles, a climate that
hardly varies 10° in the whole year,
(0.-3° being the average;) entire freedom
from gnats,mosquitos, and other in-
sect pests, a fine beach and excellent
bathing facilities, render Santa Monica
one of the most delightful sea-side re-
sorts.

In its remoteness from civilized cen-
tres, it offers to the invalid, the tour-
ist, the pleasure seeker, a Cape May,
a Newport or a Long llraiich,
with the additional advantages that
that dread Arbiter C¢I..s!0nz, has pre-
scribed no formulas for expenditures,
though first-class hots-ls about the
white tented beach show that old Cal-
ifornians delight in camping out. With
the coming of summer,liome on the
sirocco swept plain, and confines of the
desert, becomes a weariiiess uneiidura-
ble. They must go C’(tl/I1)_[7l[/ either to
the mountains or the coast. And na-
ture here in all her graiidure, softly,
hopefully, lulls to rest every business,
perplexity and anxiety, and healingly
braces up the exhausted energies. No
excursionist returns without grateful
memories of Santa Monica.

It is this proximity of mountains and
seas, that contributes to that superior-
ity of climate, that has gained Los
Angeles the enviable reputation of be-
ing one of the most favored cities in
the world. And assuredly it has a cli-
mate almost incomparable.

The lofty mountain barrier, sentinel
like, watches and repels every ad-
vance of its foe, the desolatiiig north
winds, over its favored valley of tropical
fruits; while the vast expanse of
the Pacific ocean, with its gentle cool-
ing breezes, counteracts the heat of an
almost vertical sun, and relieves the
temperature from the oppressiveness
felt in more inland places.

There are, undoubtedly, locations
where, for a few weeks at a time the
climate may be more desirable than
this; but as an “all the year round
climate,” I do not think this can be sur-
passed.

Jupiter Pluvius seems to have been
unsparing and impartial in largesses to
the country in general, during the last
winter and spring, and California re-
joices in her deeply stored superabun-
dance. The rainfall of the last season
was the greatest known since (57 and
its benefits will be felt not only this
year, but for the next two years to
come; as the springs and other irri-
gating sources have been so abundant-
ly replenished.

Although strawberries, cherries, and
a few other fruits, have long
been in the market. yet the
fruit season proper will not open till
about the middle of the month. There
will be a large crop of peaches, pears
and plums; and grapes will yield more
heavily than for years.

However, in accordance with the
inevitable law of compensation, the
immense amount of good done by the
rain towards fruits and gardens, was
but’ partially shared by the crops.
Large tracts of wheat have been in-
jured by rust; and a heavy shower
on the 17th of June (a phenomenon
almost without precedent) destroyed
many thousands of tons of hay.

‘The Fourth of July was celebrated
with due patriotism. As I beheld the
thronged streets, the elaborate decora-
tions in red, white and blue; and the
stars and stripes, not only proudly
waving from every conspicuous point;
but becoming animate in the glorious
panorama of national enthusiasm, I
happily contrasted their triumphal
beauty with those dark years of our
republic, when civil strife spread its
Pall over the land. I recalled that
night of time in my experience, that
seemed ages in duration; where no
Fourth of July with song and shout
and banner eve .. .e to kindle the fires
of patriotic ‘ mm-:ched were the
fiI'6S.desecr -_ mo .;LLttfS. The scene
brought to mind the diverse express-
10I1 of Patriotic feeling, from two of
my old neighbors during that trying
«ordeal when the thick gloom of dread

; But was it the aim or determination of

 

TEE GRANGE VESETQR.

5

and apprehension darkened every
hour, when the contest seemed doubt-
ful when patriotism was vacillating.

The one declire 1, that should the
Southern Confederacy triumph, in
sheer mortification, he would seek a
land where the English language was
unknown, and forget that he had ever
spoken it. The other. in her affection
forjthe “lost cause" would scorn to live
under the government of the l'nited
States, but would go to California.

C. S. Conn.
Los Angeles, July 7th, '84.

 

High Schools as a Branch of the Public
School System.

Hon. J. W. Breese, President of the
board of education of Kalamazoo, in
presenting the diplomas to the high
school graduating class of 1834 said:-—

“A thorough English education, deep
and broad, is the foundation to build
upon. Vast sums of money are an-
nually raised for educational purposes,
and this money should be discreetly
used in giving a more thorough and
coin lete English education, and to lay
the ed rock of American ideas.”

These words so concise, yet com-
prehensive in their meaning, have a
deep significance. They strike at the
very root, and suggest the only legiti-
mate scope, and true aim of a proper
and practical public school system.

In the beginning, free schools were
advocated upon the theory, that the
welfare of society and of the state
would be siibserved and directly pro-
moted by a reasonable education of the
masses, particularly the children of
the poor; that education tended
to thrift and good morals;
and ignorance was fruitful in crime
and pauperism; that the cost of
tuition acted as a bar, depriving many
children of the poor f'roni any school
advantages whatever.

An intelligent and generous public,

by legislative enactment declared
that they would be taxed to
educate these children in the

primary English braiiches so that
they would he better fitted to earn an
honest living and in a higher sense ap-
preciate the prerogatives and obliga-
tions of good citizenship.

the founders of free schools to provide
a full academic or collegiate course of
instruction for the people, free of
tuition?

Does the high school department-3.
most expensive branch of public in-
struction—as now organized in the
public schools in cities and the large
villages, in any perceptible degree in-
flueiice or promote the objects for
wlhich the public schools were design-
er 2’

A high school is certainly a costly
appendage, availed of at best by a mere
fragiueiit, so to speak, of the great
body of the pupils, whose schooling
ends in the primary, and at the farthest,
grammar rades.

Altlioug 1 receiving their equal share
of the public school funds, no rural
town undertakes to maintain a high
school; but that exalted privilege is
given into the hands of magnanimous
and public spirited tax-payers in cities
and villages-Kalamazoo for instance-
whose other expenses being compar-
atively light and insignificant, can well
afford to, and of right ought to build
ornate edifices. employ an extensive
corps of liigli-salaried teachers, estab-
lish a high school department to ed-
ucate a mere handful of resident
pupils; at the same time opening wide
the doors of these “temples of learning”
to admission of non-resideiit pupils, at
the nearest nominal cost for tuition.

It would seem, that in no true sense
is there a public necessity for a high
school to be maintained by tax in
Kalamazoo.

There are other institutions in our
midst amply endowed, and admirably
adapted to the Work of educating such
of our pupils as desire to take a more
complete course; and for the average
tax-paying parents of such pupils, in-
finitely cheaper than to be taxed year
after year to maintain a free collegiate
department in the public schools.

It is said, that the great bulk of the
taxes are gathered from persons of
moderate means, professional men,
mechanics, laborers, whose aggregate
valuation does not exceed five thous-
and dollars.

As arule, while they are taxed to
educate in the high school a very small
precentage of the children of usually
well-to-do people who can devote the
necessary time, their children cannot
be spared to complete a full four years
course in the high school.

If the high school theory is a sound
one, and its maintainance promotes
public interests, then,as a rule, all the
pupils entering the public schools
should complete the full course and
graduate. Would this be desirable
upon general principles, and would the
people be Willing to provide buildings
and teachers for nearly three thousand
resident pupils? As it is, an exclusive
privilege is availed of by a select few,
at the expense of the many.

On the other hand, we are evidently
forcedto the conclusion that our peo-
ple do not appreciate, or cannot avail
themselves -of a privilege so generous-
ly accorded them by the tax-payers,
the board of education, and the mana-
gers of this department-for, although
our population has increased “from 6,-
076 in 1860 to over 15,000 in ’84, yet the
total enrollment and the graduations
are but ‘slightly greater now, if any,
than twenty years ago.

Judge Mills; at the recent banquet
and reunion of the alumni of the Kal-
amazoo hi school, said: _ _

“Thata. igh school education is not
essential to business success.”

There is every reason ‘to conclude,
that the popular belief IS in perfect ac-
cord with the sentiments ‘so candidly
avowed. Furthermore, it IS safe toa.f-
firm, that not two tenths of all the pn-
pils eiirolled, ever pass the primary
grades. _ - _ _

Now besides the building and the
contingent expenses connected there-
with, more than three thousand dollars
annually are appropriated out of the
public treasury to pay salaries of high

widening the scope of. the higher pri-
maries and intermediate grades; so
that our boys and girls who cannot at-
tend school but a few years at loiigest,
shall realize in a greater degree that
proficieiicy and advanced scholarship
that shall qualify them for the sub-
stantial and arduous duties of life?
Fl’.ANl{ l.lT'l‘Ll-2.

LAMMOT DUPONT‘S CAREER.

Worth $13,000,000 when Killed-—Runnlng
a Blockade to Supply Russia
with Powder.

Mr. Lammot Dupont, who we‘
killed on Saturday by the explosion at
Thompson’s point, is said to have
been worth $l3_000.000. He had a con-
trolling lnterest in the manufacture of
nearly all the high explosives that
were made in the United States and
Canada east of the Rocky mountains.
Ten million pounds of these materials
were consumed in the country in 1832,
the Repauno company’s works at
Thompson’s point producing one-
third of this amount. He is credited
with having organized a combination
of all the makers of high explosives.
When negotiating with the Panama
canal company for the powder to be
used in that work be guaranteed to
supply twelve ton of Atlas powder
daily if that amount were needed.

One of the most daring achieve-
ments recorded in the history of the
present century is one of which he
was the central figure. During the
Crimean war the Russian government
ran short of powder, and the explosive
was required to continue the defense
of Sebaetapool. A cargo was pur-
chased from the Duponts in this coun-
try, and was placed in 9. steamship ly-
ing oflf Baltimore. The British had
frigates posted in waiting outside the

Chesapeake. After seven feints the
watchers were eluded and a chase be-
gun across the Atlantic, through Gib-
raltar and up the Mediterranean sea.
With remarkable good fortune the
vessel passed through the Bosphorus
and into the Black sea unchecked; but
when nearing the place of contention
the English warships hailed the
stranger.

Young Dupont was at the helm him-
self, and insisted that the vessel pro-
ceed, not heeding the signals of the
warships. Two broadsides were fired
into the vessel, but she was able to
steam ahead and steer through the
rocks and was beached inside the Rus-
sian lines. This daring adventure
saved the cargo, for which the Russian
government paid the sum of $3,000,-
000. Throughout the civil war the
family rendered distinguished sei-
vices to the government. and at the
very beginning of the rebellion Mr.
Lammot Dupont was placed in a.posi-
tion bywhich,‘ through his energy and
genius, the country was sup; lied with
the means of defense for the ensuing
conflict.

VVhen it became evident that the
rebellion was not to be suppressed in
a single campaign the government
began to consider what means it had
for supplying powder to the vast
armies to be put in the field. Mr. Du-
pont was called to Washington to
consult with the president, and his
eatimates fairly startled the cabinet
by revealing to thema great danger
ahead in the highly probable exhaus-
tion of the supply of saltpeter.

From England alone‘ could the re-
quisite amount be obtained, and Mr.
Dupont sailed for Liverpool with the
necessary credentials, personal and
financial, and made his way with all
speed to London. There he at once
applied to Peabody and the Barings
(then financial representatives of the
United States in London), but encoun-
tered many obstacles, attributable to
the timidity of the secretary of the
the treasury, who, after prom-
ising an ample supply of funds,
had failed to make good all his engage-
ments. In this emergency the patri-
otic envoy concluded, on the respon-
sibility of his own house, an arrange-
ment with Brown Brothers & Co,
which placed at his command a sum-
cient sum. But the greatest difllculty
was yet to be encountered, for Earl
Russell’s government refused to allow
Great Britain to be deprived of so
much saltpeter, and Mr. Dupont re-
turned to America.

Another consultation of the cabinet
was called, and, when all were bewil-
dered by the difiiculties of the situa-
tion. Mr. Dupont made the suggestion
that, in the event of another refusal,
the American minister should be in-
structed to demand his passports and
close the embassy. This, it was under-
stood, was to be stated merely as an
alternative, for its moral effect, with-
out any immediate intention of put-
ting the threat into execution. Presi-
dent Lincoln accepted the suggestion,
and Mr. Dupont, returning to Eng-
land, had an interview with the prime
minister, who, on learning the dan-
ger of an interruption of diplomatic
relations, begged Mr. Dumont to for-
bear communicating with Mr. Adams
for a day, and next morning called
upon him at his hotel to tell him that
the council had been communicated
with by telegraph, and the consent of
the government obtained to the ex-
port of the saltpeter. A number of
vessels were at once loaded, and for-
tunately got away with their cargoes
the very night of the arrival of the
news of the capture of Mason and Sli-
dell. The premier on hearing that the
-vessel had sailed expressed his satis-
faction and privately assured Mr. Du-
pont that he was at liberty to state
confidentially to Mr. Lincoln that
scarcely for any cause would England
at that period go to war with Amer-
ica.—Philadefpln'a Record.

__.::.._..j__:.._________

The Cincinnati papers remark that,
though the court house and most
things else are lost, including hon-
or, a jailful of murderers have been
saved. All things considered, it is the
most curious of reflections, and it
ought to strike the men who made up
the mob deaf and dumb.

To insure respect for the law we
must make law deserving of respect.
To stop the masses from attempting
outrages against wealth we must in-
sist that wealth shall not commit out-
rages against the masses.—- N. Y.

World.

Tun Midsummer Holiday’ Century
will contain “A Glance at British Wild
Flowers” by John Burroughs and Al-

school teachers alone. There were;

eleven radnates this year. _
Would it not be better to use this

money in raising the standard and_

fred Parsons the artist. It will be one

i of the most decorative articles in illus-

tration and most charming in text that
has ever appeared in the Century.

How The Law Encourages Crime.

Is a criminal lawyer a good lawyer?
Is he a respectable citizen‘?

There is such a thing as an honest
game of cards, and it hurts no one and
pleasantly while: away many even-
ings that would otherwise be irksome
and long. VVhat if the professional
gamnlerjoin the social game with the
purposein view not of amusement,
but of cheating his 3 infiding and un-
suspecting fellow citizens‘? Ought he
not to be kicked out? Is there any
establishment outside of a room de-
voted especially to gambling that,
learning his character, would not kick
him out, and incidentally break his
head besides?

Well, here is what is usually
mentioned as the noblest of the pro-
fessions. It isn't the noblest by any
means-—any more than is the profes-
sion whose main purpose it is to fight
with weapons and to kill men most
skilfully, numerously and expedi-
tiously. There is nothing distinct-
ively noble about either of them—they
are merely necessities resulting from
the corrupt tendencies of the undevel-
oped man, and they toil not, neither
do they spin, so far as actual value is
concerned. Here is this legal profes-
sion, which respe..ts itself and tries to
be honest and giocl. There enter upon
it scores of men whose only purpose it
is, not to vindicate the law, but to
cheat it, to render it inoperative, to
make ita by word and ‘L laughing
stock. They say—these sharks, these
scoundrels, these gamblers in the
honesty Wl ich tries to make laws in
behalf of juatlce—that it is the first
business ofa good lawyer to destroy
the law, and for some extraordinary
reason the bench respects them and
treats them as if they were not rascals.
There is no burglar who doesnot make
his veiitnres with the firm name of
Fogg & Dust, criminal lawyers, shin-
ii g in the light of his dark lantern.
There is no murderer who has not
Fogg & Dust written upon the coward
courage that he has screwed to its
sticking point. There is no man who
contemplates outrage upon helpless
women in whose diary is not written
the firm name of Fogg &— Dust, as an
agency, born of the devil and all ini-
quity, to save him in case he is caught
by the law.

Everybody knows the natural re-
sult of long familiarity with crime.
The old policeman learns it [0 his
shame. There is not a town consta-
ble who has served for five years who
has not compromised with felony a
dozen times. If police departments
are not corrupt as a whole, it is be-
cause they have been in place
but a brief period, or because of the
unsuspected leaveii contributed by an
uncoiisciousiy honest authority who
has yet to learn his opportunities.
The criminal lawyer is encouraged to
bad action from the beginning of his
career. The law says he must defend
his guilty client [0 the best of his
ability. If pardons him if he cheat,
lie, twist, outrage, strangle, misrep-
resent. It enforces upon him the
privilege of making the law seem to
be no law at all, ifit do not happen to
be law in favor of the criminal Whose
guilt no man doubts. VVhat is the
tendency of that encouragement?
Must not the criminal lawyer in-
evitably abandon his profession or
become 3 criminal himself? His pay
is in s ‘olen money. It may be in
money {ed with the blood of murdered
men. His associates in business mat-
ters are fuard men, and the law directs
him to treat them with respect, lest
the rights of his murderous client be
infringed upon. What must the
character of the criminal lawyer in-
evitably become? Is it strange that
he buysjuries. that he tramples upon
every principle of justice and thinks
it right to do so, that finally he looks
upon crime merely as a means to his
own fattening, and that as he grows
rich and shrewd he comes to believe
that the more criminal he himself is
the more it is his right to pat himself
on the back and to congratulate him-
self on the absence of that simple con-
science which once instinctively told
him the difference between right and
wrong?——l\'. Y. Graphic.

 

Strikes For Farmers.

A writer in the Ohio Farmer com-
plairsof the buyers in certain milk
selling districts as follows; “Every year
the strings are drawn a little closer,
and each year the share taken by the
buyers is larger and larger. They set
the price of milk, change it as often as
they see fit, and never say as much as
‘by your leave.’ The latest thing is to
date their milk notices back ten days
instead of forward three.” This is an-
other little swindle of one class of the
dairy middleman, almost on a par with
watering milk or concocting butterine,
and the farmers of any community are
fools to submit to it. We hear much
of labor combinations, nowadays, and
of strikes—often ill—advised and work-
ing more injury than good—but if there
ever was a body of men who ought to
combine for self-protection it is the
farmers. They already have their or-
ganizations—town, county, and State-
in the form of farmers clubs, and
county and State agricultural societies,
and it would seem that alittle healthy
agitation of the subject of the abuses
of middlemen would be productive
of some good. It is urged that the
buyers have divided up all the terri-
tory, and that a farmer must take his
milk to a certain factory, or not take
it anywhere. That means or aniza-
tion among the buyers. Now et the
farmers combine, in this territory, and
“strike” some fine mornin , and see
how the buyers and the fac ories will
like it, The milk can be made into
cheese and butter at home, so it is
not lost, and if the farmers were
strong enough, and their organizations
big enough, they would soon be able
to dictate terms. Especially would
this be the case when it is considered
that to bring milk from a distance
by rail involves transportation ex-
penses, which doubtless, would amount
to far more than the difference in rice
demanded by the producers. Won dn’t
a. good, healthy strike by a large body
of mad Grangers be a funny specta-
cle?

 

Greed, greed, greed, was at the bot-
tom of the recklessness that ruined
Fish, Eno, and the Grants. They
were all no intent on getting money
that they never stopped to inquire
about the means. The devil has no
such other bait for the souls of men as
the almighty dollar.-—Burlz'ngton (Ia)
Gazette.

l

Lavish Expenditures for Elections.

It is well iinderstood that millions of
dollars are appropriated from the pub-
lic treasury for uses that liavc as their
ultimate purpose political effect. These
are indefensible peiisioii st-lie,-iiies, ap-
propriations for public buildings, junk-
eting trips for congressional coiiiniit-
tees, and other ways where the money
is not so glariiigly wasted perhaps. but
none the less real waste. The (juveni-
ineiit has taken on the habit of extrav-
agance. iii the public offices at Wash-
ington there are hangers on placed 111
position with the sole purpose of draw-
ing salaries. men who are cared for
because of political service. inexcusa-
ble waste of public moneys. millions
dissipated by the political parties for
sinister purposes. There is nothing
like frugal management. for the public
mind is demoralized on the question of
expenditures, and we are therefore
compelled to pay millions upon mill-
ions for which no return is lllatlf', the
money being squandered in violation
of the principles on which the Repub-
lic was established It is hardly too
much to say that the administrator of
public affairs is in every departineiit
intimately connected with lavish uses
of money for political ends. Even the
elections long since ceased to be free,
because enormous sums of money are
used to influence results. We do not
say that the public moneys are so used,
nor do We entertain that opinion, but
ambitious politicians pour out money
with amazing freedom in their efforts
to attain position or advance party
interests, because with success they
establish hold upon the public treasury.
is it pos.-iible that all this can be cor-
rect? If not, the ltepublic itself is
endangered.— /1115‘//fllllllllflll .

 

Senator Van Wyck of Nebraska.

The State of Nebraska is to be con-
gratulated upon having such an hon-
est, fearless and able representative
in that stronghold of the monopolists,
the United States Senate. Senator
Van VVyck is not afraid to call things
by their right names, and he is able
to do it in a parliamentary way which
can nonplus even such a skilled parli-
amentary factician as Senator Ed-
munds, who last week undertook to
shield the arbitrary action of the
Senate Judiciary Committee in
arrogating to itself the authority of
Congress to regulate the relations ex-
isting befween the Union Pacific Rail-
road Company and the Government.
Having exposed this high-handed
piece of business, Senator Van Wyck
showed that he had every desire to
give the Judiciary Committee 9.
chance to right itself and withdrew
the matter, for the time being, from
further discussion. There has been
too much Star Chamber Committee
work done at Washington for the pub-
lic good, and the service of such repre-
sentatives as Senator Van VVyck in
exposing them are simply of priceless
value to the community. If our legis-
lators were all like him there would
be fewer hundred millionaires and
fewer tramps in this country.

m._._____.________
Gresham and McPherson.

Gen. Gresliain, the postmaster gen-
eral, was suliordinate in command to
Gen. 1\IcPlierson, whom he greatly
loved. When flreshain was before
Atlanta, just a day or two prior to its
fall, he was wounded badly, a shell car-
rying away the fleshy part of his leg
above the knee. Ile sent word to Me-
Phersoii that he was disabled and had
been ordered to the rear. .\lcl’liers0n
sent back a sympathetic message and
an escort, and (iresham was carried by
aroundabout course to a point where
he received medical attention. When
he could be further moved, he was put
into a baggage-car on a stretcher, and
alongside acoflin which was put in the
car before he reached it. He heard the
men about him talking sadly, and
caught the remark that “It is too bad
the general is gone.” “What general?”
asked Gresham. The men expressed
surprise that he did not know whose
dead body was so close by his side, and
shocked him by telling him that it was
that of McPherson, who had been killed
andhad overtaken him oiiliis way to the
rear. Gresham reveres l\lcPliersoii’s
memory. and a New York con reiss-
man, who found him sitting in Me her-
son square, near the Arlington, 3. day
or two ago, looking at the statue of
the brave man, tells us that Gresham
frequently stops as he goes that way,
and looks upon itaslie recalls the story
of his life and death.— Washington 007'.
Rochester Union.

 

THE huge raids on the Treasury in
the patriotic guise of pensions, but re-
ally for the purpose of reducing the
surplus revenue and preventing reform
of the tariff, are not to go through Con-
gress without some honest opposition.
The first volunteer from Connecticut,
Joseph R. Ilawley by name, spoke on
the subject in the United States Senate
the other day. Here are a few sentences
from his speech:

I heard a very great soldier say not
long ago what I will substantially re-
peat, and which indicates my doctrine.
Nothing can be proposed to help a dis-
bled, wounded, suffering soldier,_ or his
widow or his orphan, that I will not
sustain, and nothing can be proposed to
pension an able-bodied man that I will
sustain. Every man in this broad land
owes his labor, his property, and his life
to his country upon demand at any
hour of day or night through his whole
life, and 2,000,000 of men very cheerful-
ly offered all this. They are not beg-
gars, nor do they desire to bankrupt
the country to which they offered their
services for which they are ready -to die.
They do not ask us-it 1S not the real
voice of the soldiers of this country-
that we shall add $180,000,000 to the an-
nual taxation. Those dollars come ul-
timately out of the poor men than _they
do from the rich men. Disguise it as
you please, the burden filters down un-
til it rests upon the labor of the country.
The soldiers do not ask us to make a
pension list which, when added to the
existing pension list, will be $2,000.000.
I venture to say that you may assem-
ble 10,000 soldiers anywhere and argue
this question fairly before them, and
they will tell you that they do not ask
that able-bodied, well men shall be _pen
sioned simply because they enter into
the service of the country. The say
they went cheerfully, patriotically,
thanking God for the ability to go
again. and they are not bcg¢3«1‘S-

Is not that sound talk? If not, why
not ?—Bu_[7"alo Express.

 

The public functionary’s author-
Steele.

The American farmer toils late and
early to raise crops, and is first and
last the tool and victim of the colossal
transportation monopolies whose pow-
er ovei--shadows the land. He gets for
his crops a fraction of what they are
held at the seaboard, and he kisses the
hands that rob him. Gambling
houses in grain. known as boards of
trade, merchants’ exchanges and
chambers of commerce, make fle-
titlous prices and play with the food
of the nation and the hungry of the
Old \Vorld for stakes. as blacklegs
with dice. When the gamblers have
made their play with the material,
the transportation companies come in
for their share, which is all they can
get. At Buffalo the elevator ring, the
scalpers, the insurance men, the
parasites of every kind. get their
hands upon the breadstuffs and take
their tolls. Follow a bushel of grain
from the farm to Liverpool, and you
find that all along the route hordes of
non-producors. parasites of the non-
working kind, prey upon it beypnd
zryiy lfgitimate need.—Bu_[]alo (1. . Y.)

rut .

 

Shall we have the Tombs for the
man who steals an overcoat. and all
Canada fora man to range in if he
robs the people of three millions? A
different measure has for years been
applied to the crimes of Wall street
from that applied to the spoils which
the wretcli carries up llat alley. For
the man who steals an overcoat a ride
in the city vaii without an oppo'tunity
of looking out of the window. For the
man who steals a large estate, splen-
did equipage dashing through Central
l’ark. There is an iiupression abroad
that the pooi+;st way to get money is to
earn it. A plain young man gets tired,
and altliough he gives up his situation
he has more nioiiey than he ever had.
It‘ he can escape the penitentiary three
or f'our years he will get into politics
and have fat jobs. When he gets so far
along he is sat'e—t‘or perditioii.——1t’ev.
T. 1)c Wilt Talmagc.

____.___.____._

If duringalong voyage at sea one
passenger should save up a cask of
water, and the general suppl at
length became exhausted, an the
ship’s company were nearly crazed by
thirst, the possessor of the only water
aboard could sit by his cask and say,
“ Hands off unless you pay me 8
dollars drop.” It would be his prop-
erty. As the water monopolist on the
ship has 9. right to use his own to the
best advantage for himself, no matter
how much suffering there may be
about him, so the millionaire may
continue without end to levy tribute
from the people merely because they
have acquired the power to do so.
What monstrous doctrine to preach to
a community, the most of whom are
struggling for a living!-—iS(oc/clan
(Cal.) illuil.

 
 

T/lc i\'o/'//1 Am» 1'/cmi [i’m,'ieu1 1'01‘
August contains an article by Justice
James V. (Iampbell on “The Enroacli-
incnt of Capital" which will coinmaiid
the serious attention of all readers.
lticliard A. Proctor treats of “The ()i'i-
giii of Coinets," and succeeds in present-
ing that difficult subject in a iglit so
clear that persons who have little or no
acquaintance with astroneiny can fol-
low his argiinieiil. “Are we a Nation
of llzisczils?” is the startliiigtitle of an
article by John I“. llume, who shows
that states, counties, and municipali-
ties in the l'iiited States have already
formally repudiated, or defaulted lll
the payment of’ interest on, an amount
to bonds and other obligations equal to
the sum of the national debt. Judge
Edward C. Loring finds a. “Drift
toward Ceiitrallzation” in the recent
judgment of the limited States Su-
preme Court on the power of the Fed-
eral Government to issue paper money,
and in the opinion of the minority of
the same court rendered in the suit for
the Arlington property. John Haw-
thorne writes of “The American Ele-
ment in Fiction” and there is a sym-
posium on "l’rohibition and Persua-
sion,” by Neal l)ow and Di‘. l)io Lewis.

 

Oscar Speaks.

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ltubber Paint manufactured by the Pa-
trons Paint Works, proves to be the best
body, brightest colors, and most lasting
of aiiypaiiit l’atrons have used around
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MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD.
DEPARTURE or TRAINS rnox XALAILIOO.

TIME-TABLE —-MAY 18, 1884.
Standard time—90th meridian.

WEBTWARD.

   

Kalamazoo Accommodation leavea,-
Kalamazoo Express arrives, ._

  

Evening Expreas.-...----..--.._-...--- 1 00 ._...
Pacific Expi'esa,.._-__-----...-_.__.. 2 27 __
Mail...__...___._._......._.........._ 11 3‘ .,____
Day Express,-----___--_..-----.....---..- __.-- 1 45
EASTWABD.

A. H. P. I.

Night Express 3 17
Kalamazoo Accommodation leaves,_..__ 6 45 ._..
Kalamazoo Express arrives, __________ _.., 10 00
1 ................................. ..- 1.2 08
Day Express,___-_ ____._ 1 45
New York Expres 8 10

Atlnutic Express,_':

New York, Atlantic and Pacific Expresses dull .
Evenln Express west and Night Express out
except sturdays. All other trains daily except Elm-
days. Freight trains carrying passengers out ton
Kalamazoo as follows: No 29 (east) at 5:10 2. 11., and
No.20 (west) at 8:10, bring passengers from out It

12:45, P. I.
H. B. Lupus» Gen. Manager Douult.
J. A. Gnrn, General Frei ht A’ cut, Chicago.’
0. W. Ruoorns, . P. T. A., Chicago.

L- S. 6: M- S. R. R.
KALAMAZOO DIVISION Trim TABLI.

Standard tiine—T-Oth meridian.
GOING SOUTH.

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Le. Grand Bapids-..--_-.. 7:30“: T0077 Tin

  
   
   

Ar. Allagan ___ - 8 47 “ 5 15 “ 1030 "
Ar. Kalamazoo- - 9 42 “ 6 16 “ 1166 "
Ar. Schoolcraft- 10 17 “ 6 54 “ 1 I5 1.
Ar. Three Rivers- - 1046 “ 724 “ 38'! “
Ar. White Pigeon-_._-_--_ 11 12 “ 1 62 “ 4 60 "
Ar.1'nlsdo-..-_--_._-____ 6 32 PI 2 17 All 8 17 A]
At. Cleveland -__..____...- 1007 “ 6 37 “ 6 46 II
Ar. Butfalo_--_,._-___..-- 3 81 AI 12 46 Pl 2 20 "

GOING NORTH.

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Le. Buffalo, ________ _-__'11 41 i-ul12 01 All 12 10 PI .
Ar. Cleve‘ _ .- _ 6 32 " 632 “ 8 55 Al
Ar.Tolr _ _ __, 11 17 “ 10 22 " 822 on
Ar.W' - . ......_ 552;: 8122! 8165:
Art? _,600“ 337" 1045“
Art  ’ 406“ 1200

Ar Kalamazoo- . . 442 “ 23' --
Ar. Allezan -_- --- 9 12 “ D 40 " 4 ‘-5
Grand Rapids_.....---_. 932 “ 656 “ ‘ 0 '

All tnlns connect at White Pl

nuln lino . E. Wtffll.
Supt. Knlammoo Dlvidon, Knhmum

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6

India flbjpaijmiznt.

BLACK IN THE BLUE OF THE SKY.

An artist one day at his easel stood
And sketched with his pencil free,
The gold of the meadow, the green of the
wood,
And the urple and gray of the sea.
A child loo ed over a little way back,
And questioned the artist, “Why
Do on mix with your colcrs a touch of black,
hen you paint the blue in the sky?

“Only because I see it my child;
I am painting the sky as j,t,is;”
And he softly said to himself and smiled:
“It is one of earth's mysteries:
Not the lily itself wears a perfect white;
Nor the red rose an unmixed dye;
There is light in shadows, and shadows in

light, - .
And black in the blue of the sky.”

Th e are films over nature everywhere,
Booth and refresh our sight.
For mortal eyes were not made to bear
The dazzle of shadeless light.
Our consolation and our complaint-
Awaking both smiles and sigh;
There are human faults in the holiest saint;
There is black in the blue of the sky.

What then? Are the skies indeed not blue,
Lilies white, nor the roses red?

Shall we doubt whether ever the crystal dew
Drops pearls on the path we tread?

We may dwell where there is no blur in the

air

No veil ove’r death. by-and-by.
But good is good, always and everywhere,
Though black may steal into blue sky.

We have read from the leaves of an old-fash-
ioned Book.

Of One in the glory unseen,

Whose gaze the poor seraphim dare not brook,
Before whom the heavens are unclean;

And the hope of immortals is in the thought
Of a Truth and 9. Love so high

That possible evils sullies them not-
No black in the blue of the sky.

 

“MAKE HOME HAPPY.”

More than building showy mansions,
More than dress and fine array;

More than domes and lofty steeples,
More than station, power, and sway’
Make your home both neat and tasteful,

Brig t and pleasant, always fairy
Where each heart shall rest contented,
Grateful for each pleasure there.

There each heart will rest contented,
Seldom wishing far to roam,

Or if roaming, still will ever
Cherish happy thoughts of home.

Such a home makes men the better,
Sure and lasting the control,

Home with pure and bright surroundings,
Leaves its impress on the soul.

 

Foundations of Education.

HARRIET B. JAYNES.

Speaking of the three periods of
' Wendell l’hil1ip’s life, preparation,
struggle, and victory, Joseph Cook says:
“His preparation extended from his

birth, or rather, from some generations
before it, to the Boston mob in 1835.”

To Mr. Cook’s statement add similar

views of eminent scientists, regarding
hereditary, adding also results of the
observations of thoughtful human-
itarLans, and we have a foundation
stone for practical education.

Wendell Phillips began his carreer
with a. prepared life, an inheritance of
ancestral merit of the highest type.
To this was subjoined “his boyhood in
the historic streets of Boston, h-is edu-
cation in a cultured home, and Boston
schools. Harvard university, and his
study and initial practice of law.” It
is plain, except to the superficial ob-
server, that the stepping stones of his
true progress in education, in fact, the
cornerstone, were laid by several ante-
cedent generations. His, was the rich
frui-tage of ancestral seed—sowing.

This thought of inheritance, with its
twin sister hygiene I wish to empha-
size as the basic principle in all broad,
upward progress in education; More
motion is not progress» Certainly one-
sided motion is not right’ progress.
When we thinkoof the eighty millions
of dollars and upward, expended in our
country last year for education, mostly
menta.l——body and moral, largely left
out, we can understand that motion

may be a Waste of energy, a loss of

ground. _, _

Progress has been defined as “motion
from a fixed point, and towards a den-
nite goal.” N 0 past is so great that it
contains all the truth, no future so
beautiful in anticipation, so rich in
promise, so grand in hopefulness, that
does not rest upon its past. And look-
ing from one toward the other, we find
no time for reverent truth seeking, for
persistent abandonment of sin. physio-
logical and spiritual, but the living
present, the vital now. As workers of
to day it is our privilege to utilize, not
only the wisdom, but the errors of the
past; by the principal of selection to
aid not only the “survival of the fittest,”
but by a wise reading between the lines
to help in the regeneration of the un-
fitt est. The progressive thinkers of
the present educational epoch, have
made the fixed point of our definition,
hereditary, with its fostering sister, hy-
giene; and the definite goal. a sound
mind in a sound body; is regenerated
soul in a pure temple.

The imagination must be held in
leash as this ideal future with all its
beautiful possibilities, its restful poises
fires the soul; for, with all the scien-
tific deductions of the last few years,
with all the demonstrated truths of the
harmony of physical and mental devel-
gpment, with all the multiplied efforts
of gifted, intelligent workers to till
the human soil, and sow information
broadcast, between now and then lies
——not an unbridgeable gulf——but a
great progressive step. We catch the
prelude notes of the music of the grand
educational march coming to our cars
from the kindergartens where, “Dame
Nature” is busy with her babes culti-
vating every sense into refined exercise;

training every physical power,
quickenlhg the perceptions in their
work of observing, comparing,
and contrasting. One of the truest
signs of progress is the recognition of
the fact that infanzy, the first seven
years or“ child-life, is the most vital pe-
riod f0l‘ the formative work of a true
education. Plato saw this and said:
“The most important part of education
is right training in the nursery.” Froc-
bel’s work is a beautiful embodiment
of Plato’s idea. one of his favorite
notions is “that education as culture,
has to do with children as human
plants, which are to be surrounded
with circumstances favorable to their
free development, to be trained by
means suitable to their nature. Its
purpose being tofitake the oversight of
children before they are ready for
school life; to exert an influence over
their whole being in correspondence
with its nature; to make them
thoughtfully acquainted with the
world of nature and of man, and to
guide their heart and soul in the right
direction.

Another note of cheer and progress
is that observant people are coming
to see that the education in the peo-
ple’s schools is lacking in certain vital
elements. In the words of another:
"They fail to provide for a true phys-
ical culture, which, since health is
the capital of life, is the prime endow-
ment of every human being. They
fail mostly to provide any industrial
training. (We are happy to add just
here that the seed schools of reform
in this direction are planted.) Nearly
all men and a large majority of wo-
men must earn their daily bread. In
the absence of this practical training
all ranks of labor are crowded with
incompetent hands.” And the house-
hold is not the least sufferer. We hope
the great things from the kitchen
gardens and training schools connected
with our National Woman’s Christian
Temperance University.

Still another hopeful indication of
progress is the effort of scientific phi-
lanthropists to teach the practical Bi-
ble lesson that the sins of the fathers
are visited upon the children to the
third and fourth generations; also that
the virtues and graces of the parents
descend as a benediction upon their
posterity. This brings us back to our
fixed point.

A thoughtful physician has said:
“People are much inclined to ridicule
the press, as they term it, over the ad-
herence to hygienic laws. It is deemed
a great deal too much trouble to keep
these bodies in good order. Yet they
are expected to be always prepared for
activities. The machinist who‘ would
thus use the most ponderous and en-
during machine would be considered a
madman.” It is said that nothing less
than three generations of right living
will cure the race of its defects and de-
formities, unless we adopt the Ly-
curgan law that none but healthy,
mature persons shall become parents
of children. In that case the-second
generation would be healthy but it is
to be feared the business of the census-
taker would languish. That this
patchwork of existence which we seek
to endure with more or less of resig-
nation is not the pulsing, joyous life
of our God-given heritage most of us
know to our sorrow. “Real joy of exist-
ence has evaporated .from the most of
humanity before they come into this
world,” says Dr. Anna Ballard. Oliver
Wendell Holmes has quaintly said that
“Some people need to call the doctor
two hundred years before they ”s,i‘_"e
born.”  _ _ -_ ' “

The terrible result of disregarded
physical laws isjthe inheritance which
comes to most.

Do you say “We know all this dark
side; it is the remedy we wish to hear
about?” We know of no remedy now,
but right living and a more careful
reproducing of the race. Constitu-
tions, like poets, are born, not made.
“The first; consideration in child-life
says an eminent physician, is
to be Well born, to come into
the world with a proper balance of
forces ready to combat the forces from
without, that are ever seeking to over-
come this equilibrium." A speaker at our
State institute of heredity and hygiene
said, “This generation, more than any
other,‘looks to motherhood for the sal-
vation of the race.” Quickly to my

fatherhood as well ?” And as quickly
followed the answer, “Because the
time is not yet come‘. Because the grand
uplifting of mind, soul, and purpose.
the baptism of courage and action, the
Pentecostal inducement of the Holy
Ghost, with its accompanying tongue
of fire, which came to woman in 1873-4,
as the earnest of the proclamation of
emancipation of- humanity from vice
and crime, have not yet fastened with
asoul grasp sufliciently strong upon
man to break the shackles of policy,
the greed of gain, the lust of appetite.
A second time must salvation come to
man through woman.” And so I saw
with clearer vision that to motherhood
is entrusted (humanly speaking) the
physical salvation of the race. Its
brooding, tender yeamings are not to
be left to grope in the twilight of in-
stinct, reaching out vaguely into the
darkness of ignorance, but in the crys-
tal light and purity of scientific, moral
and Christian knowledge are to be em-
bodied definite plan and action, looking
for specific results. It is not mere
theory but demonstrated fact, that a.

large portion of inherited tendencies

mind came the question, “ Why not to‘

TEE EBAKQE VIQETGB.

Illa)’ be overcoine. Mothers are awak-
ing to this fact and rallying to the res-
cue.

The subject of hygiene llatesback to
the twilight of mythology. Its history
begins with the tower of Babel. Hg.’-
giene is based upon climatical, chemical.
mlcroscopul and biological knowledge.
It brings health, long life, happiness.
The hygiene text book is not yet writ-
ten: for hygiene is something back of
bad water, back of bad air, bad food.
improper clothing. foul surroundings.
It transcends chemistry, transcends
microscopy. It is more than biology.
It is good birth. Alas! if Diogenes
with his lantern sought in vain for a
wise man, will the philosopher of the
present, with his lamp of science, be
more fortunate in his search for a well
born man? We hope so (‘.’) It is the
boast of Americans that they not
who were a man’s ancestors, but who is
the man. Science is more aristocratic,
or, if you please, more just. She asks
what were his ancestors, and what in-
lieritence they bequeathed to him. Our
judgments of people would often be
greatly modified could we glance back
along the lines of thought and action
of their progenitors. The universal
execration of Guiteau might be at-
tempered with at least pity when we
learn that IllS"IDOl;h€!‘ in feeble health,
overtaxed with care of an eccentric, ir-
ritable husband and a number of child-
reudeelingherself unequal to an ad-
ditional burden, bent all her thoughts
for the firstihree months of Guiteau‘s
existence to the accomplishment of his
destruction. "His father’s erratic tem-
perament, with his mother’s three
months’ continuous thought of murder
culminated in the monster who bereav-
ed our nation.

The boy Pomeroy is another instance
of cursed by his inheritence. During
his ante-natal life his mother had an
uniiatural desire to see flowing blood,
visiting abatoirs for that purpose.
Can we wonder that the result of this
ignorant satisfying of such an abnor-
mal craving was a. son who kills people
for the pleasure of seeing blood‘.-' An
-English gentleman, a member of par-
liament, being in a financial strait,
committed forgery to tide himself over
his difiiculty. He had no intention to
injure the man whose name he used,

nor did he. He met’ the paper before

it matured with ad‘ self-congratu-

latory feeling that good not
harm . was the result of his
act. Nature gave a different de-

cision. During the period of intense
anxiety incident to the planning and
executing his crime, a son came into
being, in due time was bornabeautiful
boy, with an unstained name, the fond
father said to himself as he hugged to
his heart with pride the deed which
had saved his financial credit. The
boy verged to young man god“ the
center of his father’s fondes .love and
ambition, when a pall of lore than
midnight blackness fell forever upon
this father's cherished hopes, shroudin g
hissoul with lifelong remorse as he
learned that he had bequeathed the
fearful inheritance of an inveterate
propensity for forgery to his much
loved son. Without murmuring, he
impoverished himself to pay the forged
paper, acknowledging in the bitterness
of his sorrow that as he had planted
so he must reap. Ifleptomauiaé is of-
ten without doubt, the baleful fruitage
of strong coveting on the part of the
mother. It is said the babies of Eng-
lish beer-drinking mothers are never
sober. We all have had abundant evi-
dence of the transmission ‘of appetite
for stimulants and narcotics, and thank
God, we have, also, indubitable evi-
dence of the transmission of sturdy
virtues of mind. bent toward the righ t,
of hearts facing the sunlight of truth.
cMem_ory-h-as been scientifically de-
fined ‘as retained impressions on nerve
ganglia. Then every human faculty
is a reserved ganglionic impression.
Protoplasm is the simplest "combina-
tion of ‘matter which will produce life.
We are a mass of a protoplasm; each
cell is susceptible to various influences.
An influence exerted upon a parent
cell is transmitted to its subdivisions
and progeny. Hereditary is protoplas-
mic memory. A sad thing it is to have
a child cursed yby.-its protoplasmic in-
heritance. _But it. is an inspiration to
know that while ',the scratch on the
green rind of the sapling is seen in
the gnarled, knotted oak of after years,
so also is seen the result of the prop
-and the band, and the sunlight to the
bent swaying shoot in the tall fair tree
of later growth. Inheritance is mighty
but environment is also powerful.
Hygiene is thepreservation of health
in its broadest sense, physical, mental,
moral, the cleanliness of hearts as well
as of hands.” It includes a knowledge
not only of the functions and proper
care of the body, of foods and their
preparation, of clothing, exercise, pre-
vention of diseases but of our daily
habits of’ mind as -well, of everything
that will , ,d' to make our bodies what
they were designed to be, fit temples of
the Holy Spirit, our minds healthful
and vigorous, our souls in accord with
the kingdom of God.
A knowledgeof ourselves body and
mind is the foundation of true educa-
tion.

The Midsummer Century will con-
tain another illustrated short story by
Ivory Black, the author of “Rose Mad-
der,” which appeared in the May Cen-
tury. This is entitled “An Effect in
Yellow,” and is also a stor of Bohe-

mian artistic life in New 1 ork.

Shopping.

The other day I was obliged to wait
for an hour in a store while the good
man was intent upon some adjust-
ments to a plow. I sat and quietly
watched the many who came in to
purchase or “just to look,” or he look-
ed at. I could but notice the contrast;
some came because they Wished 10
buy, asked for what they wanted,
bought it and went about their busi-
ness, as life seemed to them to mean
business. More than half of this
class were men. Then there were
some who knew not what they want-
ed, but seemed to depend upon the
clerks and friends to decide for and
assist them in their purchases. They
had no minds of their own, and when
their purchases were made, were not
satisfied but were ready to find fault
with clerks and friends for the decis-
ions they_rendered. Some came with
a regularly made out bill of particu-
lars, and bought exactly what their
bill called for, even to the
half and quarter of a yard,
some came and asked for things that
they seemed to want but nothing
suited them, even though the polite
clerk showed them piece after piece of
the object sought. “This was not just
what they wanted; that they rather
liked, but the price was too high.”
“One was too thick and the next too
thin, toowlde or too narrow, any-
thing but just right. They would
call’ again,” and the polite clerk
quietly bowed them out, and as
politely said “call again,” though we
thought he meant “just come when I
am out, please.” Then come the
woman who thought herself good on
a bargain, who ssked the price of an
article and then said, “I can never buy
so much as that; I -can get it for so
much less elsewhere. I will give you
so much for it,” naming a price some-
what less, and then for fully 20 min-
utes she would banter and haggle
though the proprietor very gentle-
manly informed her they had but one
price and could take no less. Then
came the timid little girl that mamma
sent onan errand, she whispered so
softly for what she wanted, and then
looked shyly around for fear some one
heard her. We knew she had been
admonished not to loose her parcel or
her money for she removed every
thing from herpocket and put her
money in the very l iwer corner, grasp-
ed her parcel tightly in one hand,
and her little brother with the other
and went her way.

One thing impressed itself upon me.
So few counted their change; they took
what was given them and thought it
all right. Nearly every man counted
his change, but hardly a woman. I
could but think of a short lecture that
a teacher gave her pupils. She made
a practice of giving a short practical
lecture every Friday afternoon, and
one was upon shopping, and I think I
shall never forget it. ‘

Always know what and how much
you want to purchase as nearly as you
can. If the article is for yourself use
your own judgment as to its suitable-
ness, as you ought to know better than
any one else what you can aflbrd. Be
cautious about giving advice to your
shopping companions in their pur-
chases, and never ask for what you
‘do not want, for no lady will be guilty
of such a breach of good manners,sim-
ply from idle curiosity to look at
articles. Always pay for what you
buy, and count your change.

Mas. PERRY MAYO.

 

“ Our Girls."

I ha.vejust read in your issue of July
1st .“ Aunt Kate's ” article, with caption
as above. Ah, yes! she knows, and by
sad experience, caused by _poor health,
many of the ills that afilict not only
" Our Girls,” but humanity in general.
She has told a little of the causes, the
remedies, and sounded a note of warn-
ing that all should heed. and may pro-
fit by it if they will observe, try to learn
and practice. None can know so well
as those who have had some experience.

What is applicable to our girls in re-
gard to habits that are detrimental to
health, may and does to a great extent
apply to our boys, and older people,
both men and women. All should
strive as best they may to learn how to
live in order to enjoy life at its best
and longest.

We are too apt to rely on those who
have set themselves up as teachers and
healers, thinking because they have
made it their business they know it
all

They may know better than others,
but their efforts are often of little
avail, because people in general know
so little of how to render assistance by
helping themselves.

In order to be competent, to teach
children the right .'_ways, I parents must
know and must put; their knowledge
in practice. .

Young people need social amuse-
ments, but parents often allow them to
that careless and unrestrained extent

that is detrimental.

Dancing may be pleasant and
proper amusement, but is often
perverted to that extent that it be-
comes very pernicious. More often
-than otherwise,it is indulged in to that
extent that the physical energies re-
ceive ashock from which they never
recover. And intemperance and vices

at our public balls.

 

I believe our voungladies have it in
tlltll‘ power to do as much, if not more
for the cause of temperance than all
our laws, if they will uttei‘l_v refuse to
accompany it young 1112111 to 21 party if
aware that he uses iutoxicants as :1
beverage, and especially if he carry
a whiskey bottle in his pocket.

I tell you, girls, you have it in your
power to do a greater work for term-
perance in this w;1_v, than all the laws
yet tried.

And to the young men I would say,
in your social amusements, avoid all
places where public devices for gum-
bling in any form are practiced, and
mzike the business of liquor selling
unpopular and unprofitable, by keep-
ing entirely away from them at all
times, and as for yourselves do not
learn to drink and you will not wish to.
Let all, of whatever sex, age or em-
ployment, try every day to learn and
teach something that will help make
people honest, industrious, temperate,
charitable; shun everything that has a
tendency to lead to habits that are bad;
seek to know and practice that which
will help all to do and enjoy whatever
will tend to the most and best enjoy-
ment, and make the world better by
having done tliat which will improve
us all. cu
Gratt-an, Mich.

To “ witch Hazel.”

I should have responded to your
criticism ere this, but I was not at
home when that number was received.
And then, again, you came after me
with such a “ sharp stick,” (your pen)
that it nearly took my breath away.
But I have recovered my wontcd equil-
ibrium, and accept your criticism in
the same kindly spirit you sent it out,
really believing you did not Illcllll more
than half you wrote. I imagine you
are like many others, talk on either side
of the question to suit the demand.
Your thrusts did not penetrate my coat
of mail. “Be sure you are right then
go ahead,” and Itook for my shield the
opinion of the majority of people whose
opinion is worth retaining. I am glad
I succeeded in stirring up a bee in
somebody’s boiiuct. Mrim.

How The World is Filled with Made-Over
People.

“Wanted-— A girl to make over.”

The above appeared in the advertis-
ing column of a city paper. It is so
indefinite that the reader is left to
imagination as to whether the girl is
wanted to make over as a wife, or a
seamstress, or merely to serve as a
model for some one whose training,
prejudices, bigotries and ambitions
are seeking for an educational outlet.

Every day some young man is look-
ing fora girl to make over. While
she is his sweetheart she is simply
perfect, but as soon as the honeymoon
is ended the making-over process [be-
glns. It has its regular formulas, one
of which is like this:

“Did you make those biscuits,
Helen?”

“Yes, dear; they’re not quite right,
but I am going to improve on tnem.”

I supposed you knew how to make
bread when I married you.”

“Why, Charlie! didn't I want to
waita year on purpose to learn how
to cook, and you said you never cared
what you eat, and didn’t want to
marry a cook, and all that?”

“Pshaw! never said such a word.
Give these bullets to the cat and kill
her. I’d give anything for one of my
mother’s tea-rolls.”

“Well, dear, I will write to her for
the recipe. I-I-ll try hard to learn.”

Buta man who finds fault with
one thing will find fault with another.
It does not occur to the young hus-
band that his mother is 50 years old
and a farmer’s daughter, and that he
married a school-girl who is as differ-
ent from the mother-stripe as he is
from the father-pattern. He is just
capable of expecting her to make sau-
sage and soft soap as his mother did.
Eventually he makes her over into
anendescript that is neither a com-
panionable wife nor a comfortable

ousekeeper. And his highest praise
is the mission of fault-finding.

David Copperfield tried the makin -
over process on sweet, sunny litt e
Dora, is cbildwife. She tried to live
up to his kitchen and market require-
ments, but was glad to die and end a
condition so unsatisfactory.

Children are perpetually required to
make over. An original child is run
in a groove, fitted to another soul.
It is dwarfeu and expanded at the ar-
bitrary will of parents, until it be-
comes an epitome of its father,
mother, uncle or cousin. These Gad-
grinds‘ of learning incline the twig
in their way, give it their limited sky
toreach, and when it is no longer
a living branch of air and sunshine
and riotous life, point to it as the dry
stick of their grafting.

The world is full of made-over peo-
ple. A great number went early to
their graves, discouraged with the
demands made upon them.

“What shall I do to cure in
daughter of laughing and loo g in
the glass?” wrote amother to a cele-
brated divine. And the answer came:

“Let her alone. Time and sorrow
will cure her of both, all too soon.”

Apopular novelist has depicted a
scene between a husband and wife,
where the wife wishes to take a
journey for her health.

“You don't wantto travel,” says the
considerate husband. "It will disagree
with you; traveling always disagrees
with me."

She urges a sea-voyage.

“You will be sea-slck—-a sea-voyage
always makes me sea-sick.” Etc. etc.
etc.
Made-over people, like made-over
clothes, are weak and unreliable. It
is no sign because J ohn’s father is a
shoemaker or a farmer that John will
be. He might do worse, but he (may
do better. At any rate he has a right
to ascertain _his own value and do
that best fitted for him. “Blessed,
.thrice blessed, is the man who has

young

of the worst kind are often contracted found his work, says Calyle. “Let

him seek no other blessedness.”

AL'L§U-8'1‘ 1. 1884.

It is a responsibility the thoughtful,
capable soul will shrink from, that of
making over a huinan life. But the
narrow, unwise. bigoted theorist is
always willing to try his hand. on the
principle that “fools rush in where
angels fear to tread.”

The Pest of Flies.

An Iowa lady writes to a journal
concerning her exemption from dies,
as follows: For three years I have
lived in town, and during that time
my sitting room has been free from
flies. three only walking about my
breakfast table, while all my neigh-
bor’s rooms are crowded. I often con-
gratulate myself on my escape, but
never knew the reason of it until a
few days ago. I then had occasion to
remove my goods to another house,
while I remained on a few days longer.
Among other things removed were the
geraniums and calcolarias, which
stood in my window, being open to
its full extent top and bottom. The
boxes were not gone half an hour
when my room was as full of flies as
those of my neighbors around me.
This, to me, was a new discovery. and
perhaps it may serve to encourage
others, in that which is always a
source of pleasure, namely—wlndow
gardening. Mignonette planted in
long, shallow boxes, placed on the
window sill, will be found excellent
for this purpose.

 

How to Keep Cool.

The food and drink most suitable
for summer use can be quickly named.
Use a minimum amount of fat and
heated food, but take care to use the
most nutritious, and diges‘ible sub-
stances that can be commended. Heat-
ed foods are best used at breakfast
time. Perfectly mature fruits used
raw, or fruit not quite ripe cooked.
Cold boiled ham, tongue or beef, good
bread and butter and good cold milk
makes suitable summer lunch. The
milk may be at times substituted by
cool lemonade. The two should, how-
ever, in no case be used together. The
clothing best adapted to hot weather
is loose garments of woolen fabrics, no-
tably flannel. This for the reason that
the materialjust named aids the eva
oration from the surface of the b0 y
before referred to. Vviping the face
hands, and arms with a cloth wet
with cold water, followed by drying
these suifaces gently, is at times very
grateful.

Simple Remedies for Common Ailments.

A pinch of common salt dissolved in
water will relieve a bee—sting.

l.’-sins in the side are most promptly
relieved by the application of mustard.

To cure sneezing plug the nostrils
with cotton wool. The effect is instan-
taneous.

Broken limbs should be placed in a
natural position, and the patient kept
quiet until help arrives.

If an artery is severed. tie a. small
cord or handkerchief tightly above it
until the physician arrives.

_Seven or eight successive applica-
tions of_tlic_wliite of an egg will prove
most eflicacious for a burn.

A good powder of snuff which will
cure catarrh lS made of equal parts of
gum arabic, gum myrrh and blood
root.

Burns and scalds are immediately re-
lieved by an application of dry soda
covered with a wet cloth, moist enough
to dissolve it.

To cure earache, take a pinch of black
pepper, put it on a piece of cotton bat-
ting dipped in sweet oil, and place in
the ear and tie a bandage around the
head, and it will give almost instant
relief‘.

If your hands are badly chapped, wet
them in warm water, and rub them all
over with Indian meal; do this several
times, and then in the water used to
wash off the meal put a teaspoonful of
pure glycerine.

An excellent liniment for toothache
or neural la is made of half an ounce
each of oi of sassafras and oil of ori-
ganum, one and a halt‘ ounces of tinc-
ture of capsicum, and a half pint of
allcpllliol. Apply to the face on a flannel
co .

A Picture of Mrs. Gladstone.

[London Cor. Boston Herald]

Let me in passing, speak a word of
Mrs. Gladstone. We are alwa s cu-
rious to know somethin of the omes-
tic life of great men, an wish to know
if the wife has any part in the hue-
band's success. It is always said that
Mrs. Gladstone has been a help-mate
indeed. And one would be led to this
opinion from the sweet wifely, mother-
ly expression of her countenance.
Mrs. Gladstone does not look older
than an American lady commonly does
at 50. Her hair is almost black, and
her face is almost free of lines and
wrinkles. English women of the last
generation dress hideously, as the ma-
jority of the present generation do.
And Mrs. Gladstone, in respect of
dress belongs to both past and present.
She always looks dowdy. One can
not get over the feeling when seeing
her that she is of bourgeois ori in.
If one did not know her one woul as-
sume that she belonged to what is call-
ed here the “shop-keeping class.”

When she came into the chapel on
Sunday she was really a curiosity.
Her face is uncommonly sweet and
spiritual. Her smile tells the story of
a true and gentle heart. But—why
should egg lady dress so barbarously ?
The puff -out hair, the big, ill-shaped
bonnet, with the old-fashioned spotted
veil; a long, rather dusty, velvet cloak
with wide fur trimmings and ungloved
hands, did not seem suitable to the
face. During the service when Mrs.
Gladstone removed her cloak, she put
on a light, coarsely-knitted worsted
shawl, and then to me the picture of
odds and ends seemed complete.

A Hired Birl Wanted!

“Not by me; since usin Zoa-Phora I
can do In own work. 1; is Woma,n’s
Friend in eed.” So say scores of wom-
en to-day. See advertisement in anoth-
er column.

Sold by all druggists.


 
 

A UG U ST 1, 1884.

 . ........._,..,.—-...-_.......:._V_,'.. £5: >_

TEE GRANGE VISITQE.

7

Eunihs’ Eepatjtment

SOME 0NE’S SERVANT GIRL.

She stood .here leaning wearily
Against the window frame,
Her face was patient, sad and sweet,
Her garments coarse and plain.
“ Who is she, pray?” I asked a friend;
The red lips gave a curl--—
Really I don't know her name:
She's some one’s servant girl."

A%;in I saw her on the street,

ith burden trudged along,

Her face was sweet and patient still;
Amidst the jostling throng,

Slowly but cheerfully she moved,
Guai ding with watchful care

A market basket much too large
For her slight hand to bear.

-.

A man, I'd thought a gentleman,
Went pushing rudely by,

Sweeping the basket from her hands
But turning not his eye:

For there was no necessity
Amid the busy whirl

For him to be a gentleman
To some one’s servant girl.

Ah! well it is that God above
Looks in upon the heart,
' And neverjudges any one
By just tne outer part.
For it the soul be um and good
He will not min the rest,
Nor question what the garments were
In which the form was dressed.

And many a man and woman fair,
By fortune reared and fed,

Who will not mingle here below
With those who earn their bread,

When they have passed away from life,
Beyond the gates of pearl,

Will meet before their Father's throne
With many a servant girl.

 

A Bit of Local Scenery.

Aunt Prue and C'Ou.s"in.9:—~AS 1 en-
tered the dining-room Monday morn-
ing, appetiteless and languid, I was
greeted with "Let us all go the lakes
this afternoon.” _

A more stimulating suggestion could
not have been offered, and I readily as-
sented.

One o'clock found us ensconced in an
easy carriage behind a horse familiar
with the uneven road before us.

In a very short time we had left the
village behind and below.

As we gradually ascended we felt the
air grow perceptibly cooler and a light
breeze sprang up, doubtless from that
exhaustless “ cave of the winds,” which
was decidedly refreshing after the
stilling heat of the town.

Passed fields redolent of freshly cut
clover, fields of growing corn, and fields
that seem a. sea of molten gold as the
bright sunlight glints the rustling
waves.

Still climbing up, but so gradually
and so smooth the road, our horse
gave no signs of fatigue, notwithstand-
ing liis load was no feather-
weight, and the time he had
made could not be denominated slow.

Suddenly we come to a halt. The
highest point on the road is reach-
ed and we must pause to enjoy the
view.

We turn and look back and there
below lies the valley “on either side
the river” dotted with groves, fields of
growing and ripened grain, farm build-
ings and villages with here and there an
isolated church spire; beyond the dim-
ly outlined hills that fade away and
are lost in the hazy hue bent by the
distance.

But we do not linger long, now we
descend, now we climb, but not so ra-
pidlyas before, for one of our- party
has fallen asleep and must not be
awakened. A little farther and we
notice a silvery glimmer through the
trees at our left, a turn in that direct-
ion and the lake lies a present reality
before us.

The inviting shade of the lawn of
the Lake House, the rustic seats and
hammocks are a welcome sight. Here
we will rest while the sun has dipped
a little lower before we loosen yonder
anchored boat.

How the water sparkles! A silvery
sheet the sunlight makes of it.

I close my eyes just a mo-
ment, such brightness is
blinding. The laughter and shouts
coming from the grove back of the hotel
prove that some of our’ party are not

’ idly dreaming. But I dream on, con-

sciousonly ofithe pleasant sensation
of a swaying hammock. ,

I must have slept, for such grotesque
sights as I saw seldom visit me in
waking hours. ,

A noisy summons from the boat
about to shove off dispels all dream-
land visions, and we are soon gliding
away from the shore. _ ’

Fish are caught, songs sung, an ad-
joining lake visited and the beauties of
the setting sun admired as ’ it slowly
drops from sight. Then a row in the
twilight back to. the hotel where a,

‘tempting supper-awaits us.

As we pass out of the grounds on our
return trip, I'h‘ea.r‘some‘ one instruct
the driver to take the north road.‘ '

And a picturesque route it proved to
be by moonlight. There was a mina-
ture “ Watkins Glen” that deserved
the encomiums lavished upon it. And
of course there’ was a bottomless pool.
Aswe passed it, the woods on all sides
shutting out the light of the moon ‘and
innumerable - will-o’-the-wisps flash-
ins above it, made it seem
werid and desolate. For a moment I
fancied myself an unwary, benighted
traveler being led by Jack-with-the
lantern into its slimy depths.

As we emerged from the wood the
aromatic odor of the Yarrow along the
road-side reached us and its dense
coryms of white flowers were visible
in the moonlight. It recalled that

quaint rhyme our grandniotliers, when
they were maidens gay, used to repeat
on Saturday evening as they placed a
leaf of the weed in their slipper.

“Good evening, good evening, Mr.
Yarrow, I hope I will dream of my true
love to-night, And sec him at meet-
ing to-morrow.”

Then my thoughts turned to that
other Yarrow and the words of the
poet :—

“Let heifer and homebred kine partake

The sweets of Burnmill meadow,

The swan on still St. Mary’s lake,

Float double, swan and shadow,
We will not see them, will not go

To-day not yet to-morrow;
Enough if in our hearts we know,

There's such a place as Yarrow."

The lights of the village can now be
seen and in a few minutes we are at
home.

As we separate for the night all ex-
press themselves well pleased with the
day’s installment of their summer va-
cation. HELEN MAIt.

 

A Test oi Pronunciation.

Who of the cousins will send small-
est number of mistakes made in read-
ing this?

The following rather curious piece of
composition was recently placed upon
the blackboard at a teachers’ institute,
and :1 prize of u. Wcbster’s Dictionary
offered to any person who could read
it and pronounce every word correctly.
The book was not carried off, however,
as twelve was the lowest number of
mistakes in pronunciation made 2-

"A sucrilegious son of llelial, who
suffered from bronchitis, having ex-
hausted his finances, in order to make
good the deficit, resolved to ally pim-
self to a comely, lenient, and docile
young lady of the Malay or Caucasian
race. IIe accordingly purchased a
Calliope and coral necklace of a chamele
on line, and, securing a suite of rooms
ata principal hotel, he eiiga ed the
head waiter as his coadjutor. Ie then
dispatched a letter of the most un-
exceptional calligraphy extant, invit-
ing the young lady to a matinee. She
revolted at the idea, refused to consider
herself sacrificable to his desires, and
sent a polite note of refusal. On receiv-
ing it he procured a. carbine and a
bowie-knife, said that he would not
now forge fetters liymeneal with the
queen, went to an isolated spot, sever-
ed his jugular vein and discharged the
contents of the carbine into his
abdomen. The debris was removed by
the coroner.”

The mistakes in pronunciation were
made on the following words: Sac-
rilegious,Be1ial, bronchitis, exhausted,
finances, deficit, comely, lenient, docile,
Malay, calliope, chameleon, suite,
coadjutor, calligraphy, matinee, sac-
rificable, carbine, hymeneal, isolated,
jugular and debris.

 

Teach a girl to be thorough in wliat-
ever she undertekes, and later on she
will find that one talent will gather
many to itself. A smattering of any-
thin is always dangerous. Learn less
but earn more thoroughly, should be
the rule fora girl’s education.

o

SELECTIONS.

The student’s author-—Reade.

The Western farmers’——Bacon.

The Cincinnati favorite——Hogg.
The giant's author-Longfellow.
The fisherman’s author——Crabbe.
The favorite pastoral author-Lamb.

_ The base-ball player’s author—Field-

mg.

1 The telegraph operator's author-

Swift.
The

Holmes

The favorite of the ague districts-—
Shakes-peare.

New York city has 7,326 butchers,
ggkeéiangg: grocers; and 10,000 liq-

A Baptist lady in Texas devotee to
the Lord’s cause all the eggs laid by
her hens on Sunday.

Our very manner is a. thing of im-
portance. A kind “no” is often more
agreeable than a:rough “yes”.

According to the returns of the Cen-
sus Bureau in 1880 the United States
has become the second copper produc-
ing country in the world.

He who performs his duty in a sta-
tion of great ower must needs incur
the utter enmity of many, and the high
displeasure of more.—Atterbury. ,

Wood-cut illustrations in the cam-
paign papers serve one good“ purpose.
at least-—they act as a terrible warnin
no keep many a good man out of poli-

ics.

real estate dealer's author-

Senator Morrill, of Vermont, was ab-
sent for one day recently for the first
ti_me,during twenty-nine years of ser-
gécec in the Congress of the United

at es.

We shall doubtless have a very wet
summer—if we may judge from the
rapid evaporation ot'_“water” now going
on in Atlantic Cable and Western
Union shares.-—N. Y. limes.

No one will ever shine in conversa-
tion who thinks of saying fine things;
to please, one must say many things

Francis Lockyer.

.0! the road ‘of-life one milestone more!
In the book of life one leaf turned o'er!
Like a red seal is the setting sun

On the good and the evil men have dono--
N anght can to-day restore!

Enthusiastic English tourist in Scot-
land to a native coachman—-“And is
that indeed the house in-which Rob

was born ?” _
ative coachman-—“Eh, sir, an’ it's
jist ans 0’ them.”'

" Thereport of the Senate Post-Ofiice
Committees on the subject of ostal
telegraphy, shows how the cost 0 tele-
graphic correspondence has been 111-
creased by the swollen capitalizatron of
the Western Union Company, and the
benefits which will accrue to the coun-
try through the measure proposed.

The Mayor of Boston sent two pack-
ages exactly alike in wei ht and con-
tents, a few days a o. no of them
was bound to Paris, rance, 3,000_miles
or so away, and the postage on it was
twenty cents. The other was destin-
ed for Worchester, 40 miles distant, and

the postage was 28 cents.

indifferent, and sometimes very bad.—— h

Love is indeed a transcendent excel-
lence. an essential and sovereign good;
it maketh the heavy burden light, and
the rugged path smooth; it beareth
all things without feeling their weight,
and from every adversity taketh away
the sting.

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad, refuses to receive intoxicat-
ing liquors for transportation points
within the state of Iowa, unless a cer-
tficate authorizing to sell is produced,
as required by the prohibition law of
that State. '

Let's oftener talk of noble deeds,
And rarer of the bad ones,
And sing about our happy days,
And not about the sad ones.
We were not made to fret and sigh,
And when grief sleeps to wake it;
B ht happiness is standing, by-—
his life is what we make it.—E.z:.

The postofiice department has estab-
lished a postofiice at the Agricultural
college, and R. G. Baird has been ap-
pointed postmaster. This office was
obtained through the oiforts of Senator
Con er, and is for the convenience of
the 'acultv and students.

The bane pf life is discontent. Who
has not found it so? We say we will
work so long, and then we will enjoy
ourselves. But we .find it just as
Thackeray has expressed it. ‘ “When I
was a boy,” he said, ‘I wanted some
taffy; it was a sl1illing——I hadn‘t one.
When I was a. man, I had a shilling;
but I didn‘t want any taffy.”

In England the mails are used for
the transmission of nearly every spe-
cies of merchandise. Fish, game, meat,
butter, eggs, fruit, cream, and all other
farm products are transmitted through
the Eu lish parcels post at ver ' cheap
rates. fin :1. word, the British ost re-
ally does the express business of the
country.

Indolence is a sort of sccond nature-
with many of us, which takes a
great deal of will power to uproot and
supplant. Not being compelled by
stress of circumstances to do a thing,
becomes with us a sufficient reason
why we should not do it. till we al-
low necessity to become the only spur
that can goad us to..action.

Faith in a sublime truth, loyalty to
a great purpose, will make the faces
or men shine like the sun, and their
raiment white as the light. These
true souls are the normal examples
of our humanity; and we are but
shapes and forms, and not men, if
we do not aspire for a life like theirs.

If we agitate freely and discuss
freely with the largest libertyof
speech and the noblest use
of logic, every question that concerns
us as a people, I believe we shall some-
how solve it in safety. But if we at-
tempt to repress discussion, or tangle
counsel with sophistry, we shall only
render the Gordian knot more intricate,
till by and by some mean Alexander
comes along and cut it with his sword.—
Rossiter Johnson.

The State—this State and every other
—ought to protect by law its children
against the exaction of excessive hours
of labor, even though the intemper-
ance and greed of unnatural ~ parents
should uphold such ex-action. We
would enact that no child under four-
teen years old should be required to
work more than six hours per day,
none under eighteen more than eight
hours per day, and none under twenty-
one more than ten hours per day.-
Horacc Greeley.

There is a. man in the Sullivan coun-
ty jail on an execution issued by a
creditor. The debt was $25. For five
years the debtor liasbeen jailed, re-
fusing to accept his freedom under an
circumstances. while _the creditor wi 1
not listen to the proposition for re-
lease until the debt is liquidated. In
the five years of his incarceration the
debtor has cost the county nearly 32000,
for board. The oflicials are in a di-
lemma as to what course to pursue to
rid themselves of the. county’s unwel-
come and costly guest.—Justice.

The Evening Leader sharply con-
demns the state of things in Grand
Rapids by which in effect saloonists
are told to go ahead with their law-
breaking, an criticizes the judgement
of the officers who select these juries
on liquor cases. There is a general
outburst of indignation all over the
state against the defiant saloonmen
who set at naught the laws of our com-
monwealth. Politicians serve them in
the selection of juries and the result is
disheartning. There is a day of retri-
bution near at hand for these time-
servers and law-breakers, if we rightly
interpret our exchanges, and correctly
read the purposes of our citizens.

When our stock companies conceal
nothing from their stockholders which
they are entitled to know as partners
in the business, when the pay in
dividends only what they make, be it
little or. much, and are conducted hon-
estly and openly, and without reference
to stock manipulations,‘ then the
mana ers will have nothin to fear
from ar rumor:-1.. They wi ‘them-
selves tell all thereis to tell, and all
the investor needs to know in order to
buy and sell with confidence and" with
intelligence. Bears ‘cannot frighten a
man into t. rowing away a house be-
ciguge they tell him it is worthless.—N.

. mi.

The big staqgawhich is to be the foun-
dation of the‘ artholdi statue pedestal
is‘ thelargest artiflcal one in the world.
It is 91 feet square at the base, 67 feet
square at the op and 52~feet 10.. -inches
igh._ It has tunnels and a. shaft pierc-
ing it_ in three directions, Various
smaller holes are drillbd through it.’ It
is made of broken stone, sand,‘ cement
and water. The materials were mixed

together in the consistenc_vs».0f« brown ‘

sugar. poured into, cc and rammed
down till the _.si1perfit__1ous water was
squeezed out; their rest became the
water of crystallization in the chemical
change which made on’e.stone. About

20,000 barrels of cement were used.

There is not a single paper. in all the
land which has interest in this,0rder
that will not joyfully accept the__1abor
of arranging communications in’ their
proger form to present to its readers
An there are thousands of farmers
whose forms in writing are as proper
and complete as are seen from more
practised hands. The difiiculty is in

eginning. Let those persons attem t
the work. here suggested and accept t e
judgement of their fellows rather than
their own depreciating estimate. Ev-
ery agricultural paper is made better
by the contributions of farmers who
have practical wisdom to communicate.
What means shall be employed to en-
list effort in this direction ?

to the

-ual filth t an many .a. river of bright

-than the Limit & iOi‘oya -"railway, in

Setting People Right.

“I hardly see why you worked so
hard, George, to convince that man he
was wrong, when it was of no impor-
tance to either of you. You offended
him and needlessly heated yoiirself
this July day, and I cau’t possibly see
the gain.”

“It provoked me to see a man so stu-
Bid and prejudiced. I tell you, John,

is arguments were not worth a straw.
If he was not so stubborn he could not
help but see I was right."

"But why did you want to set him
right‘! What if he does choose to go
by the moonin all his doings it won’t
hurt him or any one else. Where a dc-
lusion is harmless let a. man enjoy it if
he wishes. A man may be very igno-
rant and have great errors of the
understanding, and yet be :1 very good
man. It does not affect his moral
worth. though he may be held in less
esteem for it. Mr. Ilavnes is a er-
fectlv upright man, and an excel ent
neighbor, and as untiring as the sun
about his work. For my part, I like
tobe on good terms with my neigh-
bors, and I never needlessly run
against their slmrp angles. In fact,
George, when we come to think of it,
don’t we all live in glass houses?» I
own up to a good many weak points.
and I am thankful my friends are as
charitable to me as they are.

“Well, I'll not try and set you right
however unreasonable you are.”

“On the contrary, I will endeavor to
hold myself open to conviction until I
am sixty; after that I expect my cori-
victions will have crystalized like Mr.
IIayne's. But candidly, Geor c, you
will always be getting yourse f into
troubleif you go about the world with
the determination to set everybody
right on trifies. It is not worth while
to pick every mote out of our brothers
eye unless we are uncommonly skilled
oculists. Ten to one we may do more
harm than good. Where persons are
even moral y in the wrong it needs
skill and adroitness to win them over.
We must often take them by gnilc its it
were, or rather unziwares. There is a
great power in ii soft answer, even to
sharp-voiced people, and it is the height
ofgood policy. ,I'like to bring out the
best side of people when I can, and hold
them to it. It: is better and far pleas-
anter all around.

“Make friends as you go along, and it
will be worth more than money to you
many a (lay. Old Mr. Ilavnes will
never come to trade with you when
you set up for yourself, unless you get
back in his good graces. It is easy to
listen civilly to his views of science,
if they are not very profound, and
where you d.fier you can express it
quietly, if you need to, and never give
offense for nothing. Some one says,
“In order to get on well with the world
you will need to listen patiently to a
great deal which you know very well,
and which is told you by those who
know nothing about it.”

The Extinction of Deer.

It is stated by En ineer Phillips,
(late of the Northern aciiic Railroad)
that no fewer than 20,000 elk, antelope,
and mule deer are slau htered every
winter in Minnesota, ontana, and
Wyoming alone. There is every pros-
pect that three of the noblest game an-
imals on the American continent will
soonbeyentirely extinct. Elk which
formerl ranged f'rom the Middle States
to the ‘-’acific, are new never found
east of the Missouri River. Twenty-
five years ago they were plentiful in
Kansas and Nebraska, but civilization
has driven them into the dense and un-
inhabited reigons of Minnesota andlthe
Northern Territories. The hide hunt-
ers effect the most sweeping destruc-
tion. The average price of an elk skin
is $3. The hide hunters use repeating
rifies, and frequently kill from six to
twelve elk in a herd before they get out
of range. Mr. Phillips afiirms that, be-
sides the slaughter or the animals
named, in the year 1882 more than
25,000 buffaloes were killed for the
traders between the-Yellowstone and
the head wzitersof the Little Missouri.

If there if to be sport in the Great
West in the future, those interested
will be compelled to move for legisla-
tion which will give protection to game
in the Western States and Teritories.
Otherwise there will be very few elk,
buffalo, mule deer, or antelope left to
hunt in five years.

 

The Mississippi.

Some idea of the vastness of Make-‘
Sepc as the Indian calls the Mississippi
may be gained from a statement which
I quote from a recent article.

“Its length from Lake Itasca to the
Gulf of Mexico is more than one-eight
the distance around the World; its bas-
ins exceed a million square miles”.
Nevertheless no idea of beauty can be
attached to the lower partof this Fath-
er of Waters, and its low-lyin banks;
even the majest of its brea_ nb is lost
sight of as one (g ides through it, brown
and turbid, an watches waves of liq-
uid mud roll from the bow of the boat.‘
Dickens has told us of the sluggish,
filthy river, whose turbid and oath-
some waters brought disease and death
r ‘settlers of Eden. But
though e in no way exaggerated the
foul appearance of the water, antipe-
li’eved in calling it filthy he was cor-
rect, it is robably more free from net-

running water.

 

A Highly Elevated Railroad.

The Pike’s  ;railway,vvslsich will
be in operation nex,t,,.year,, will be the

most notable, 'piece,of, track in the
‘world. It will modnt“2,000 feet ‘higher

Peru. It is now in operaticntoa oint
over 12,000 fegt above; the sea eve].
The entire thirty miles of its le II
will be a succession of complf 'd
curves and grades, with no pleiiéio
straight track longer than .300ime.
The maximum grade will be 3l6_.,fiect‘
to the mile, and the averaige grade
270 feet. The line will a (fund in
curves from 500 to 1,000 feet ion ,‘ in
which the radius changes every c ain.
-—iScie1mjfic American.

 

Literary Notes From thscsntury Go.

The story of the romantic life of
General Sam Houston, who was in turn
United States senator, Cherokee chief,
general in the army, and first president
in the Texan republic will be told in the
August CENTURY by Alexander Hands,
who has been assisted in the repara-
tion of his paper by the fami v of the
"hero of San J acinto.” Two portraits of
Houston, one from a miniature show-
ing him as 3. Cherokee chief, will ac-

company the article.

Better to Wear Out Than Rust.

‘Tire late l’rof. Samuel 1). Gross at :1
dinner given to him in Philadelpliiii,
on April 10, 1~7'.v. said: After fifty
years of earnest work I find myself still
in the harness; but although I have
reached that age when most men, tired
of the cares of life, seek repose in re-
tirement, and abandon themselves to
the study of religion, the claims of
friendship, or the contem lation of
philosophy. my conviction ias always
been that it is far beter for 3. man to
wear out than rust out. Brain work,
study, and, and persistent application
have been a great comfort to me, as
as well as a great help; they have en-
hanced the enjoyment of daily life,
and added largely to the pleasures of
the lecture room and of authorship; in-
deed, they are always, I am sure, if
wisely regulated, be conductive both
to health and longevity. A man who
abandons himself to alife of inactivity,
after having always been accustomed
to work, is practically dead."

Where ‘-Plumsd Knight" Came From.

There _:u'e many inquiries as to
where this phrase ——“plumed Knight”-
came from. Bob In ersoll when he
nominated Blaine at ‘incinnati eight
yezirs ago, called him a plumed knight.
l-‘itch, the eloquent Nevada orator,
once used the phrase, and Dennis Kear-
ney’s private secretary stole it and put
it in a. speech that Kearney delivered
in the East. Probably it was Mac-
aul-a_v’s lines which afforded both the
inspiration;

‘~’l‘he lung has come to inarshall us, in
all iis armor drest,

And he has bound a snow—white plume
upon his gallant crest.”

And 21 little further on the ballad
thus referred to King Henry:

“A thousand knights are pressing close
behind the snow-white crest,

And in they burst, and on they rushed,

* while like a guiding star,

Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the
helmet of Navarre.”

 

A Philanthropic Enterprise-—New Asylum
and Schoolloi-the Fseble-Minded at
Kalamazoo, Mich.

Having had twenty-five years’ expe-
rience ln organizing state and public
institutions for this class of persons,
I have established a new asylum and
school at Kalamazoo, Michigan,
which is now open for the admission
of pupils and inmates.

The school is now in operation and
pupils can be admitted at once.

The establishmentis organized upon
the "COTTAGE PLAN” There are two
cottages now, in addition to the main
building, and other cottages will be
added as needed.

Special attention will be paid to the
classification of upils, and better
facilities will be 0 ered for individual
instruction than can be given at the
crowded public institutions.

Great care will be exercised in the
selection of pupils.

The property in use is one of the
most delghtful places that could be
found, aftera search of several months
for a desirable location.

Above malarial influences and with
abundance of fruit and pleasant sur-
roundings, the establishment is ele-
gant in all its arrangements.

Any person who knows the name or
residence of any feeble minded person
or child, in the State or County, will
do a favor to them and to the under-
signed, by communicating the same
to my address. Applications should
be made to

DB. C. T. Wrnnrm, Supt.

(Late Superintendent Illlnols Asy-

-luui for Feeble-Minded Children.)

Kalamazoo, Mich. -

 

The Newark Machine co. will Rise at once
from its Ashes.

The Newark Machine Co., of New-
ark, 0., whose factory burned on Satur-
day morning, July 5th, consumed at
lar number of clover hullcrs, grain
dri ls, rakes, monarch fans, &c A
lar e force of men are now at -work
bui ding clover hullcrs, grain drills,
&c. They are getting out material at
the B. and 0. shops at Zanesville, and
John H. Thomas & Sons, Springfield,
who have kindl tendered their factor-
ies, at which p aces they are getting
out woodwork for clover hullcrs, &c.,
and expect to have some on the market
by August 1st. They have received
many letters and telegrams from differ-
ent manufacturers throughout the U.
S. offering them aid in any way. The
firms that have heretofore supplied
them with raw material, have tele-
graphed them offering anything that
they may have that could be used in
the construction of their implements
at low prices and long credits. Their
insurance is about $250,000, distributed
among sixty-one first-class companies
in this country and Europe, and the
adjusters are now there and at work,
and expivect to finish the whole thing
soon. he Company has commenc
building one shop, 125 feet by 40 feet
two stories high, and 300 feet of shed
ding to. be used for workshop and
paint room. and they expect to be ready
after August 1st to fill any orders in

their line of goods. '

 

1.9.‘.-i Cincinnati woman, Mrs. Eliza

Blakenly, whose husband drank him-
self to death, has obtained a verdict for
-$5,000 damages against “ Chris ” Green,
a saloonkeepsr, in a suit under’ the pro-
visionsofwhat is known as the ’ Adair
liquorlaw, which makes a saloonkee er
amenable tothe wife of a. drunkar if
he continues to sell him liquor after
being-warned not to do so. ' '

I

Drrsoxr. July 25-12 rr.—Whest. firm; cash,
81.01%: July. 81 01% : Aug" 925; bid: Sept" 92%
bid: Oct.93‘,»é bid: No. 2 red. cash. 90%: Mich.
red 90; Aug. red 8994: Sept. 90: No. 2 white 90
b1d_. Ov-rri, No 2,ca.sh, 5831’ bid. Outs, No.2,
white. 38%; No. 2. 34%

_ Flour. Wheat. Corn. Oats.
Beceipts ........ .. 8 1137(1) none 1.500
Shipments ...... .. none 14.250 none none

TOLEDO. July 25.—Wheat. quiet, steady; No.
2 cash July or Aug. 8754 ; Sept. 89; Oct. Ill; year
8754; o.2soft ‘J1. Corn. nominal; high mixed
56%; No.2,cash and futures, 555$ ; rejected 58%;
no grade 48. Oats, nominal; No. 2 white. 87%;
cos or July, 35.

Carcsoo. July 25.—Whest tirm ;8‘.’.% cash Jul ;
8233 Aug.; 84,’ Sept: S5}g@.85?~; Oct. Corn. hig -
er; 54);’ cash uly. Oata, higher; 30 July. Pork,
steady: 8241!) July and Aug. Lard, steady:
8711) July. ‘

 

Groceries.

Nxw Yosx, July 25.—Butter, firm: western.
803); Elgrn creamery 20. Cheese. _tirm; 550
9%. Sugar. quiet. Mo asses. dull. Bice stead .
Coffee, steady. Tallow‘, dull; 61-lfi@88-lg.
Western eggs, dull; 18.

01110300 wrionsssuz i>aross—rurs.s asroar.
Sugar. stand. A.. Butter. dairy... ltmlfi

granulated. . . .. 7. . $4 ex.crenmery. . l7@l8K

Dried apples. ..d54@75fi common .... . . 5@l1

Potatoes ..  15 Eggs, fresh... ..15@ K
in.

.. 15
Wool,fine m 31@32 Beans, h pkd.8l.2.’»-2.50

Llvo Stock,

Carcsoo. Jul 2.5. —- Hogs, receipts, 18111);
fairly active; ' 10c lower; light, $.'i.(X)@5-'30;
rong _paoking. s5.oo@5.2.-.; heavy packing and
shipping, $.'r.30@5 60. Cattle-—receipts, 6.5m;
natives and grades ashade higher, Texans l()@
15:; lower; exports, $6.'I5@7.(lJ; choice to fancy
shippers 35.1-‘@6110; fair to good, $5.50@8.m;
common to fair, $4.70@5.‘.’.5.

TEACHERS WANTED— l0 PRINCIPALS
l‘.2 Assistants, and a number for Music,
Art, and Specialties. Application form mailed

for postage. SCHOOL SUPPLY BUREAU,
Chicago, Ill.
l:';jiilyS~l ly Mention this journal.

Professor Ksdzis’s Letter to the Alsbastins
Gompany.

AGRICULTURAL Corpses,
Lansing, April 19, 1884.
To M. B. Churclz, Manager:

Dasa Sis, —-The Alabastlne put on the walls
of the Chemical Laboratory more than four
years ago is in as good condition and bright
in appearance as when iirst applied, save
where water from a leaky roof has injured it,
The Alabastine seems to grow harder with
age, making a firm and coherent covering,
and has no tendency to soil the clothing bi
contact, as whitewash and calcimine wil .
am satisfied with Alabastine.

Yours faithfully, R. C. Ksnzrs,
Professor of Chemistry.
rnrrrarrous AND rnrsrxosxisxra.

Some cheap attempted imitations of Ala-
bastine are being offered in some places to
Alabastine dealers, under different names and
at very much lower prices than Alsbastlne
could be sold for.

s. CHEAP, rzursaroa xsxusscrvnsn WALL
smrsn
canbe made so as to impose on the public
with less chance of detection when first used
than most
ANY sum or ADULTEBATION.

Commom calcimine appears to be a very
fair finish when first put on, but no one claims
that it is durable. Manufactured only by
Tax Ansnssrms Co., '

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

How Watch Cases are Made.

Most persons have an ambition to carry
a gold watch case, and yet few people know
how a watch case is made, or the vast dif-
ference in the quality of them. In a. SOLID
Gonn WATCII Cass, aside from the neces-
sary thickness for engraving and polishing,
a large proportion of the metal is needed
only to stiffen and hold the engraved por-
tions in place, and supply strength. The
surplus is not only needless, but undesira-
ble, because gold is a soft metal and cannot
furnish the stiffness, strength and elasticity
necessary to make the case permanently
strong and close-fitting. The perfect watch
case must combine gold with some metal
that will supply that in which the gold is
deficient. Thishas been accomplished by
the James Boss’ Gold Watch Clrsefluuflu
whichsaves the WASTE of need-
less gold, and INCREASES the sonmrrx and
STRENGTH oi the case, and at the same time
reduces the cost om: HALF.

loud I sent stamp to Keystone Watch Cue Factories, Plllb
dolphin. Pa., for handsome Illustrated Pamphlet nhewtaqhew
ls-so Bass‘ and Kenton Watch can an -Ade.

(Tb be continued.) I

The Slate Agricu iural tillage,

This institution is thoroughly equip _v-
ing a la teaching force: also amp facili-
ties for il ustration and manipulation includ-
ing Laboratories, Conservatories, Library,
Museum, Classroom Apparatus, also a large
and well stocked farm.

' FOUR ‘EEIIARS b
are: niredtocomple t ecourseein racing
Chflllilql , Mathematics. Botany, Zoology,
English nguage and Literature, and .ll.l
other branches of a college course except For-

ei Languages.

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

RATES.
Tuition tree. Club Boarding.
CALENDAR.

For the year 1884 the terms begin as follows:
Snare Tsar: ................. . .Febrnary 18
Susana Tarn: ..................... . . suyzo

““"“"“°i‘i..°i. ri:“'.:‘*..'°=.., .'r.:.‘?.'::;°.:.‘?
stan ' wil e e .
for aidrllrlrlgssion,-‘to College on September 2' may

resent themselves for examination either on

20, or September 2, at 9 A. It. I H
or Catalogue apply to
R. G. BAIRD, Sooréthry.

. A Michigan match makin firm has
. just introduced into its estab ishment a

_circular saw exactly 60 inches in diame-

ter. This is probably the largest inuse.
Fifty-two teeth project from its rim
It is now revolvin at the rate of 675
revolutions a mrnu e, and _is capable _of.
making a 10 inch to a 12 inch cut with
each revolution. .

THE MARKETS.

Grain and Provisions.

Nlw Yon. July 25.—Flonr, dull an; W933-
Wheat, Owned %0%o_ lower. later‘: "(>1l:K0l'_
and recovered the decline; very 41;“ N“, "L
No. 1 white, nominal-sales, 155$; Qggx P-16‘b1'°d
Aug. seesaw mun bu. Septnov u ml 06!!!!
bu.ooc.9smb9sx; isooo -_ Bob“ 1-, b .194.
13,000 bu. Dec._81.0lX 1;“ .- 5 “@334 -05-
o°m' dun‘ mu“ flbetterpo islet‘ “Wh-
tures, 8(E68%. tq I V93 9"‘
3-l@w_ pork ,,.o anged. . stronger;
steam renderc‘- 3735

FOOLISH WOMEN,

Those suflerln from
complaints’ pecu lar to

their sex, which are
daily becomin more
dun erous an more

firm y seated, yet who
neglect to use or even to
learn about ioa-Phoran
Woman's Friend.

For testimonials prov-

ing its merits. address,
. PKNGELLY & Co.,
Kalamazoo,

Mich.
Sold by all Drngglsts,

N. B.—Every woman sickly or health ,
should read Dr. Pengelly's book, "Advice
Mothers, concerning diseases of women and
children,” Free to any Lady. Postage in sealed
envelope 4c.

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Catalogues address, M188 M. H. SPRAGUE,

l5july6t Principal.

DAIRY OUEEN GHURN.

The easiest Churn to run in existence, le-
quiring but one-third the labor of any other
Churn made. Worked by hand or treadlc.
As easy to clean as a butter tray. A success
with wind-mill power. Giving the best of
satisfaction. Every Churn guaranteed. Send
for Price List.

Dairy Queen Churn Co.,
KALAMAZOO, MICE.

Greenwood Stock Farm.

POLAND CHINA SWINE

For Sale at Reasonable Rates.

Pigs in pairs and tries not akin. Breeding
Stock recorded in Ohio Poland China. Record.
Parties wishing stock of this kind will find
it for their interest to correspond with or visit
me. B. G. BUELII3
Little Prairie Rondo, Cass Co., tch.
lfiiebtf

  

OING WES .

ONLY LINE RUNNING TWO THROUGH
TRAINS DAILY FROM

CHICAGO, PEORIA & ST. LOUIS,

Through the Heart of the Continent by wuy
of Pacific J uuctlou or Omaha to

DENVER,

or VIB. Kansas City and Atchison to Denver, con.
nectlng In Union Depots at Kansas City. Atchlson,
Omaha. and Denver with through trains for

SAN FRANCISCO,
and all points In the Far West. bhortest Line to

KANSAS cmr,
And all points in the lsoutla-West.

TOURISTS AND HEALTH-SEEKERS
Should not forget the fact that Round Trip tickets at
reduced rates can be purchased via this Great
Through Line to al the Health and Pleasure
Emorta or the West and south-west including
the Mountains or COLORADO. the whey or the
Yosemite, the
CITY OF MEXICO,

and all points in the Mexican Republic.

HOME-SEEKERS
Should also remember that this line lends direct to
the heart or the Government and Railroad Lands in
Nebraska, Kansas, Texan, Colorado and Washing-
ton Territory.

Itls known as the great THROUGH CAR LINE
at America, and is universally admitted to be the
Finest ul ed Railroad in the World for

E9 a'II’cIasst.~s of '.l‘rn.vel.

Through Tickets via this line for sale at all Rall-

Eoalpnggupou Ticket Ottlcm In the United States and

a .
T. J. POTTER,
Vloe~P1-es. and Gen. Manager.
PERCEVAL LOWELL
Gen. Pass. Ag’: Chicago _
JNO. Q. A. BEAN, Gen. Eastern Ag’t,
;_sI7 Broadway, New York, and
soc Wu.sl.i1ugton St... Boston.

llllllill

Presses, Grater-s, Sorghum Mills,
J clly Machinery (Steam and Fire) All kinds
of Mill Supplies. Illustrated Catalogue free.

0. G. HAMPTON, Detroit, Michigan.

    

FOR SALE.

Registered JERSEY BULL CALF.

Perfect in Color. Age one year.
reasonable. Enquire of
H. C. UNDERWOOD,
Kalamazoo Mich.

Price

1 July 4t.

   
 

    

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

Fast Potato Digging;

THE Illllllllill POTATO lllfilifl

Savesltscostyearly. rrvu rnms 1‘

ours. to eve tanner. Gunr~

anteed to lg Six Hundred
ushels aDsyI ;
.

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E" Write postal card for FREE elegantly
illustrated Catalogue, in Six Brilliant Colors,
that cost us $2000 to publish.

Monarch Manufacturing 00., %i’.?c§.‘c‘i3". fir.

1-ijune

In the only generamirfnse Wu-o Fence in u g A
Strong Rat-Work W! I! lnrbl. Itwill turn fhplgkl,
shop, and poultry in well as tho moat vicious Btoc ,
without injury to either fence or stock. It isjust this (once
lot (arms, gardens stock ranges and railroads, and vs:
nut for lawn: parks,scbo0l lots and cemeteries. Covaro
with ruattproolpaint(orgnlvanizod)itwilllutalifa-flma.
It in luportor to Board: or Barbed Wire in ovary re  ,
We ask for it 3 fair trial, knowing it will wear 1 alt
into favor. The Dedfwlek 8:
iron pipe and steel wire, do
Itrongth and durnbility.
cheapest L11 Ii-on_Autouiatlc or Ball-Opening Ono also
ckuput and Kucut All lron Inca.
stretcher and Pool. Auger. Also mnnuf-c-
sure Rnau-ll’: excellent Wind Engine: for .
puma Inf water, or geared engiuu for
and 0! er ig
hardware dealers. or address. mentioning paper.

PAINT

factory.

all compotltlcuin neunau

\Ve pay the freight and sell you at the lowest Wholesale factory prices, the 5:11:10
VVe were the first; concern that sold to Patrons, and we don't wzmt store keeper s trarle now.
u..,mae oimougm. I R. H. Thomas, Secretary Pennsylvania State Grunge says: ‘-Many of our meml)e1'.~ have more than saved their
e also mske the be I Grange expenses for a lifetime by purchasing your point.

3,, ,9," 1' would be cheapest at twice the price per gallon."

.~\l'Gl’ST 1, 1884.

I.»'iANUF.‘1CTURER

r1uuriéuLL=s°
. Liquid Rubber P3113,

ONLY PAINT KNOW.
TO SCIENCE
that will successfully :’:—
sist the action of
MOISTURE, SUN.
SALT AIR &VVA'l‘ER,
FUMES FROM COAL
GAS, &c.,
and therefore the

CHEAPEST PAINT

, for

‘ HOUSE, SHIP, CAR.

TELEGRAPH, 012
STEAMBOAT
PAINTING.

FINE BRUSHES.

PRICES.

 

AT FACTORY

as it you came to the
‘ B1-other

It lusts mziny times longer than any other paint, and
Brother Thomas was formerly :1 painter. BI'OtlleI‘S J, '1‘. Cobb,

Secretary, and C. L. Whitney, formerly Lecturer of Michigan State G'I‘£1I1t_{”i}, have used our’. approved this point,
“work For Wee, am, pm,“ 1-;:“;f_‘§ and 200 Subordinate (arranges use no other point.

M21ster.~:. and Secretaries supplied with cards of specimens of

, J ' ' , . . ), . .* ),'., 7 ... - ,‘
sEDG“.“,KBBos‘,m,n“mchmondInd‘ tho, paint, and circulars for the whole Grange. All consumers should address 1 .it10us l .11..t W 01115, .6 l ulton

 

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BUSINEHSS AGENT MICE. STATE GRANGE.

THOMAS MASON;

General Commission. Merchant,
161 South Water Street, Chicago,

Respectfully Solicits Consignments of

FRUITS, VEGETABLES, BUTTER, EGGS,
GRASS SEED, RAW FURS, HIDES, PELTS. TALLOW ETC.

BONDED AGENT OF THE N. W. PRODUCE EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION,
Ch:irtei'ed Feb. 13th, 1877.

ORDERS Iiizizrivi-: PROPER ATTENTION.

'I'I-IE KIAG-AEIA. FALLS -  LIKE

 

 

  
  
 

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CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY TIME TABLE.

December 30th, 1883.

TRAINS WESTWARD,—-CENTRAL MERIDIAN TIMI. TRAINS EASTWARD.-—CBN’H1AL MERIDIAN TIME

 

   

    

 

    

 

1”“-1 2l)(:s'y4. gaodigb BNd}e8'k ' N°-1- iligiitséd Ailffifib gfipldé
. 9 . .
Brflmu‘ Exnggh iExpreaa. Expreu. Pnss’g’r. BT"‘“°"' Elfaéiin Express Express. Accom.
i_ ' ',Ex.Sun. Daily. Ex. Sun. ‘ ' Daily. Daily. Ex.Suu
Le. Port Huron- 6 35 An‘: 7 50 Anal 8 (0 PM 4 10 Pl Le. Chicngo_-___ 9 10 AM 3 21 PM 8 30 PI 5 20 Pl
“ Imlny City_..: 7 50 1*‘ I _____ __ +9 05 " 519 “ “ C,RI&P Cros 1006 “ 413 “ 9 23 " 620 H
" Lnpeer ____ -_ 8 15 ‘~ 9 12 “ 9 30 " 5 43 H “ Redesdalo___ _-_____. ..... _- _ -___-_
" Flint __ l 0 07 “ l 9 55 * 1010 " 625 H “ Valparaiso -_ 11 50 “ 10 -10 “ 7 45 PI
Ar. llet, G. W. niv.!-_--_-__;"s'25 .4? ______________ __ “ H{‘“k°“9-—- 17 07 E“ --- ---
Lv.Det.,>D.G.11.&1l.‘ 650 “ s 32 “ s 35 “ 4 30 -- j: StI11W°1l--- 12:? ,j
-* }I‘1ol111l.lI6 7 55 :1 9 20 2 93: 2: 535 2: ,, g*::;l;e£°nd- 1153 _,
“ o y '- I 350 953 i 101 620 ,, --- ,,
At. Durand " 1 9 40 “ 10 2': " 11 06 “ 7 05 “ °“85°P9“' —— 9 16
Lv. Dur:ind___.._‘ 9 45 “ E10 30 *- 10 45 “ 7 20 -‘ ii ‘§ff,'f,',,°,f’,1i‘,',‘;’f‘," 333 ii
-‘ Lansing__..__l11(I0 “ .1132 -* 1150 " I 828 H .. vickaburs ' 322 ..
" Charlotte _-- 11 40 “ U206 H: 12 22 in, 9 as H A,._ Bame Greg; 4 00 -.
Ar. Battle Creek 12 40 ml 1 05 -- ' ,1 L,,_ B,,,,,,, 0,89,, 4 20 u
Lv. gorge Creek __-_____i ;25 2‘ .1 Charlotte 5 24 1.
“ ic burg- _. 10 ‘ ~ "' a
-I Schoolcraft I 2 20 u ,;; ’°,§‘,;‘,",‘,,';g----- 3;’; .2
. , . _---_
“ Marcellus I 240 ‘ ——~ (_ H
u Oaasopolis V 3 09 it LV. Dun, D.G.‘H‘_&l. 7 do “
It ‘,§,§f,’,',§°,’;‘e,;,;- ‘,yZi1>1’El’ ,’é‘g.;-.-.-« ‘~" 53%., u 33? -—
u stmwen "Accom. “ Detroit, “ 950 “
""' Ex. Sun.I """ " Lv. Dei., G.W.Div. ______ __
ii tIrI:i;§:2i9s'JII 620 la‘ 5 25 “ -‘ rum ______ __ 8 15 -‘ 11 2.5 ~~ 1 600 “ 825 ~
“ Redesdale-___ 705 " ______________ __ “ Lapeer ____ 8 58 “ 1207 AM; 635 “ 912 "
-‘ C,RI&P Cros 740 H . 648 H u Imlny City__ 925 “ _____ _, 53 “ 934 "
1'. Chicago __-- 8 40 “ I 7 45 “ Ar. Port Huron- 10 40 “ 1 26 “ 7 50 “.!,10 40 “

  

trolfitandard Time, which is one hour slower than
Eastern Standard Time.

Nos. 3,and 6, daily. All other [rains daily, except
Sunday.

Way Ereigbts leave Schoolcraft, Ezistward 5:35 P. M.;
Westward, 10:05 A. 14., except Sunday.

Nos. 1, 7 and 8 will stop at Durand 20 minutes for
meals. '

 

FENNO &. MANNING,

lluul Bnmmissiun Merchants,

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

German Horse and Cow

POWDE RS.

This powder has been in use for many
cars. tin largely used by the farmers of
arms lvania, and the Patrons of that State
have light over 100,000 pounds through
their pur using agents. Its composition is
our secret. The receipt is on every box and
5- und package. It is made by Dr. L. Ober-
ho tact’: Sous & Co., Phoenixville, Pa. It
keeps stock healthy and in good condition. It
helps to digest and assimilate the food.
Horseawill do more work, with loan tood
while using it. Cows will give more milk
and bein better condition. It keeps poultry
healthy, and increases the production of eggs
It is also of t value to them when molt-
lng. It is sold at the lowest wholesale price
b B E. JAMES, Kauxuoo, GEO. W.
HVILL it 00., 80 Woonnamax S:-., Damon,
TH08. MASON, 181 Want Sin, Cnnnao,
and ALBERT STEGEMAN, Annnaan. Put
up in 60-11:. boxes (Ieose , price Eran-r Cums
r1b., 30-lb. boxes (of I-11). packages, Tu
mm: per lb.

Clover Leaf Can

FOB TEE

aream Gathering System.

Tm: Cnmrngm Am;
Bnsr. Has the ‘n_1-gest
cooling surface. It is the
most; successful cream
raiser and gives the
best satisfaction of any
can now in use. Patent
allowed. Send for price

hat
llccall & Duncan

Kalnmuoo, lllch.,

Manufacturers and dealers
in creamery supplies.

  

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

It saves tfi»
thirds the la-
bor. Noiceis
required as it
is strictly a
cam. cold water re-
frigerator. The cream is taken from the top and is
clear of sediment. The most complete arrangement
for the Farmer and Dalrymun in existence. Agents
wanted. Send for circular and price list.

MCCALL & DUNCAN,
Kalamazoo, Mich.

ACME UREAIIER 1 BUTTER (100111

 
  
  
   
    

lapru

Irish’.-3 American Manual of

PARLIAMENTARY LAW

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

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

Address, J. T. Cons, Schoolcratt. or

GEO. T. FISI-I.
Bocnnsrnn. N: Y

uuiu MEN All] wuiui

Can save money by attending the
KALAMAZOO

Business College.

Fall term opens Sept. 1. Sand for J ourna.L

 

DRESIDEN T,
K alamazon, .. Mich.

No. 4 will stop at Battle Creek 20 minutes for meals. .
No. 1 will stop at Valparaiso 20 minutes for meals.

Pullman Palace cars are run through without change

. between Chicago and Port Huron, Detroit, East Sagi-
‘ now Bay City, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, New

Nos. 3 and 6 have a Dining Car attached between
Chicago and Battle Creek. .
Where no time is shown at the stations trains will
not stop, 5
1 Trains do not stop for passengers except on signal.
All Chicago 8: Grand Trunk trains are run by Con-

York, Toronto, Montreal and Boston.
Dining can on 3 and 6 West Battle Creek.
Gxo. B. Run, 8. B. Oanuwax,

Trafllc Manager. General Manager
E. P. Kunr, Agent. Bchoolcmft Mich.

M. B. CHURCH “BEDETTE” CO.,

GRAND RAPIDS, l\IICI-I.,

———soLn MANUFACTURERS or———

 66   ©Q@

    

Patented June 13, 12. C   I ‘

This invention supplies a long-felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put away
in a small space when not in use, and yet make a roomy, comfortable bed when wanted. 0!
the many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a. com-
fortable night’s rest can be bad. They are all narrow, short, without a ring, and in fact no
bad at all. While Tm: Bnnnmn folds into as small space, and is as lig t as anything can be
made for durability. When set up it furnishes a. bed long enough for the largest man, and 13 as
comfortable to lie upon as the most expensive bed. _

It is so constructed that the patent sides, regulated by the patent adjustable tension
cords, form the most perfect spring bed. The canvas covering is not tacked to the frame,
as on all cots, but is made adjustable, so that it can be taken olf and put on again by any one
in a. few minutes, or easily tightened, should it become loose, at any time, from stretchmg.

It is 9. perfect spring bed, soft and easy, without springs or mattress. For warm weather
it is 9. complete bed, without the addition of anything; for cold weather it is only necessary
to add sufiicient clothing.

The “BEDETTE” is a. Household Necessity,

And no family, after once using, would be without it. It is simple in its consl:ruction,_ and
not liable to get out of repair. It makes a. pretty. lounge, a perfect bed, and the pnce 18

within the reach of all.
P B. I C E :

38 inches wide by 63 feet long, 33.50. 30 inches wide by 6} feet long, $3.00. 27 inches wide
by 4} feet long (cover nor adjustable) 82.50.

For Sale by Furniture Dealers Everywhere-

i Street, New York, and receive book, "Everyone their own l’ai11ter ”

$0.50’/Coir) IIPIECE GI i'_1«.‘.\'i:i rm 1’.
IN ORDI-JR 1'0 1{I5l)U()l£ 0i‘1—: .<'1w ICK 01>

l-'ineTa.ilor-lVladeSuils,

\Ve will give to e\'er_vou<-. I,-ujriiig

MEl\T’S OR BOYS’ SUITS

————1-‘R0.\l——
$12.00 .'
And Upward.~:,

A $2.50 Gold Piece!
A $2.50__Gold Piece!

Our $12 Suits are selling everyhwere for $15
“ $15 “ “ “ elsewhere for $18
34  u it u 4: u 

Besides the above prices, we ggive a

$2.50 Gold Piece with a $l2.0ll Suit!
$2.50 Gold Piece with a $|2.0[l Suit!

@" We also cut them over to fit y0i1.

$12.00 .’ 12.00 .’

All Suits below $12.00 We have reduced
from $2.50 to $4.00 per suit.

A Lot of IMPORTED JERSEY SUITS for Boys,

Reduced to $1.93.
SAILOR SUITS, $1.65.

ALL WOOL SUITS, $3.50, 3.65 to 7.95.
MANILLA HATS, $1.38; worth $2.00.
MANILLA HATS, $1.50; worth $2.50.

GAUZE UNDERWEAR, 13c.

Reductions in Every Department!

REMEMBER :
With $12.00 Suits and upwards we give a $2.50

Gold Piece.

.A. $2.50 G-OLJD PIECE C3-I'V']-IlIL\T .A.'VV'.A.'SZ'!
l.2§.'V'.AA_'V' .|.\'ElEZ.A.I-E) lEIOlEIIaZ G'_'~"ICD‘E) OS'Z$ V

 

We are the Original Grange Supply House, organized in I872
to supply the consumer direct with all classes of Goods at Whole-

sale Prices, in quantities to suit the purchaser. _ We are not
purchasing agents or commission men who buy their goods after-
the get an order. We buy from first hands in large quantities
an carry in stock all the goods we handle. embracin Dry Goods,
Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Fancy Goods, llos_ierv. Gloves,
Underwear. atches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware. Sewing Machines,
Hardware. inwarc. Guns, Revolvers, Fishing Tackle, Crockery,
Harness. Saddles. Trunks, Groceries. and in fact nearly Every-
thing that isrcquired in the House or on the farm. _
Our Buy rfls Guide is issued in March and Soptgmber of each
year and wil be sent free to any address u on receipt of postage.
cents. It isa book of 216 pages. 8%x 1% inches. I_NI‘IIl over
3.300 illustrations of articles we handle. also prices and
descriptions of all the goods we sell. Invaluable as a book of
reference. Let us hear from you.

Respectfully,
MONTGOMERY WARD & C0.,’

227 as 229 Wabash Avo., Chicago. Ill.

BUGGY SHA-FTS siuii uiui 

RATTLE. RATTLE! '
RUBBERS “NO GOOD.”

lmu y lemfit

Hand-Book FREE.
 R. S. & A. P. LACEY,
P-cont. Att'yI, Wuhlnnol, D. O.

  

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