.-.-I —-_-.-:='—;-J =5 " \ v..V .‘\‘_‘g\_' \\_a\\ .‘»‘..'v .'r.\‘.. V ‘.-V‘ 3.8 . ‘*9-"ll? efiouog my “THE FARMER IS OF MORE OONSEQUENCE THAN THE FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVED.” VOLUME 10,-NO. 17. 3 WHOLE NO. l93. SCHOOLCRAFT. MICH., SEPTEMBER 1, 1884. [Printed by Kalamazoo Publishing Co.] Publishers of the Daily and Weekly Telegraph. Combined monthly circulation of the three papers, 72,600. Entered at the Post Office at Kala- mazoo as Second Class matter. @719 grunge; ifisilur (ENLARGED) Published on the First and Fifteenth of every month, *1’ 50 CENTS PER ANNUM Eleven Copies for 85.00. J. T. COBB, Editor & Manager, To whom all communications should be ad- dressed, at Bchoolcraft, Mich. Remittances should be by Registered Letter, Mnns Order, or Draft. ,..,. nu: paper as not sent only as ordered and paidfor in advance. Officers National G range. MAsTEn—J. J. WO0DMAN,Paw Paw,Mich. 0vansuua—PUT. DARDEN, . . . . Mississippi. Lnowunaa-HENRY ESHBAUGH, Missouri. SnrwAnD—W. SIMS,. .. .. . . . ..... ..K&n88-B- Assr. STs:wAn.D—JOHN J. ROSA, Delaware. CELPDAIN—H. 0. DERVIES, . . . . .Maryl&nd- Tansona3—F. MoDOWELL,. . .New York. sno'~s——W. M. IRELAND, Washington. D-0- Grrs.-Ksaraa—JAS. DRAPER, ..... . .Mass. Cnaus—MB.S. J. J. WOODMAN,. .Michigan. P0loNA—-MRS. PUT. DARDEN, Mississippi. Fr,onA.—Mas. I. W. NICHOLSON,New Jersey LADY Assr. STnwAnD—Mns. Wu. SIMS,Kan Executive committee- D. WYATT AIKEN, ..... ..south Carolina- H. D. BINGHAM .................. ...ohio. Du. J. n. BLANTON, .......... ..vugmw- Officers Michigan state cranze. M.—0. G. LUCE, ................. "Gilead- 0.—A. N. WOODRUFF, ...... . .Watervliet. Lsc.—JOHN HOLBROOK, ...... ..Lansing. 8.—8. A. TOOKEB, ........ . .Grsnd Ledge. A; B.—A. B. CLARK, . . . . . ... .... ..Morrice. C.—]!'.. B. WILLARD ....... ..White Pigeon. 1'snAs.—s. 1'. BROWN, . . . . . . . . .Schoolcrait- sno..—J. T. COBB, ........... . .Schoolcraft- G. K.—-1nLLIAH BARTLETT, .... ..Dryden. 0sa:s.—uRs. M. T. COLE, ..... ..Palmyn. PoxoxA.—MB.s. LYDIA DRAKE, Plainwell. I'r.onA—uns. D. H. STONE ............ .. L. A. S.—MRS. A. B. CLARK .... ..Morrice- Executlve committee- TEOB. r. Moonri. Ch’n-.------Afl1’i'-IL n. D, PLATT, .................. .-Ypsilanti- JonN ronrnn, .......... ..Grand Rapids. moms nuns, ........ ..Berrien Center. J. 0. A. BUBBING'.l.‘0N,. .'l‘usooln- wu. SATTEBLEE, ..........Birmingham. J. G. BAMSDELL .......... . .Traverse city- 0: G. Luon, J. T. cons, ..... ..Ex-oilicio. State Business Agent. THOMAS MASON, .......... ..Chicago, Ill. General Deputy. J 0%’ HOLBBOOK ............. . .Lansing. Special Lecturers. Then. I‘. Moors. ...... "Adrian, Lenawee Co. Stark Lampman, ...... ..Tustin, Osceola Co. is. L. Stevens. ...... ..Perrv. Bhinwmeo 00- Jason Woodman, .. . .Paw Paw VanBuren Co_ A. N. Woodrufi, .... . .Watervliet, Berrien Co. Mr. Perry Mayo,..Battle Creek, Calhoun Co- Mrs. Perry Mayo,. .Battle Creek, Calhoun Co- Prlce list of Supplies Kept in the ofllce of the Secretary of the MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE. And sent out Port Paid, on Receiptof Gash Order, over the seal of a Subordinate Grange, and the signature efm Hatter or Secretary. Porcelain Ballot Marbles, per hundred,.. 76 Bunk Book, lodge: ruled, for Secretary to keep accounts with members, .... .. 1 00 Blank Beoord Books. res! pai<1)...- 1 00 Order Book, containing 1 Orders on the Treasurer, with stu_b,_well bound,. 50 Receipt Book, containing 100 liecelpts from Treasurer to Secretary, with stub. well bound, ----------------------- -- Blank Receipts for dues, : 100. bound. 60 Applications for Members p,pex' 100 .. . 50 Secretary's Account Book, (new style). . 60 Withdrawal Cards, per dos.,.... .... .... 25 Dimits, in envelopes, per don, ........ .. 25 By-Laws of the State Grange, single sales 100, pa-aoz. ............... -76 B - Whboundv - --------- 20 u lad Echoes,” with music. lngle copy 15 cts. per don, .... ..:..._. ....... .. 1 80 The National Grange Choir; 5111819 WP? 40cents. Per dozen ......... ........ 4 00 Bituals,Iin81° copy.--u ------------- -- 25 u d ........... 2 ‘O o . .. u if: Fiztth Degree, for Pomona ,,,‘,3,,';'*.‘.‘°",...l".‘i‘.§.°.°;i”'..'...... "" ".1;.;;»~"r'.;.".;.;s do of Subordinate Granges ‘.3... my ofncharter, all complete,...., 10 Nag“ go ' uent Member-s,‘per 100.. 40 Decluation of P9‘ °‘-9 5°-3 .......’°' f.'.‘:“li“.;.;.:.'ai 3? u u u “ ......... _1 oo m?'3°°1al‘v'i°li.7)é'nu1ins- --------- -- gg Bo B00kl.......'. ....... ... ........ .- “¢,.., .1, 1-. cons, Baa’: Iran. Burl Gauss. , . sunoonoaarr, mos. dnvivulluval lustful}. MAN’S WORK AND WCMAN’S WORK. Mun’s work is from sun to sun; Woman’s work is never done. —0ld Proverb. Martin Kyser, coming home from his work at eve, Growled and grumbled in a way you would scarce believe; Thought his wife had easy times—said “’twas known that he Could in one day do as much as she'd do in three.” Answered quick the busy wife; Come, if y0u’li allow, To-morrow you'll do my work, I'll go drive the plow, But you must milk the dairy cow, and you must butter make, And there’: a trifle, too, of bread and pics to bake. “ And Tom’l1 be to watch, or he'll get lost, or worse; And Belle won’t play all dsy—she’s now and then to nurse; And don't forget the hired men——dinner hour is twelve-— Men want lots of hearty food when they dig and delve- “And as youpass in and out, getting toward mid-day, Mind you watch the turkey-hen, or she'll lay astray; And be sure the stove is full and the irons hot, I‘ or the clothes I've washed to-day must not be forgot. “Then for half an hour or so, ere it’s time for tea. There's your working suit to patch——do it tid- 11y. Or go to the bs.rn—yard, and see the poultry fed After which wash Tom and Belle and put them into bed. Then you'll dress yourself, you know,'as I al- ways do, And have all as nice for me as I have had for on; Cook lime something tasty—suy a bird on toast- Or some spicy rissole from the dinner’ s roast. “As I shall be so tired, of course you'll wait on me—- _ Get my wrapper. get my slippers, bring a. cup f t ' 0 ea, You'll wash up, look the house, laugh at baby's capers; _ I shall rest upon the:1ounge with the evening papers.” Well, next morning Martin's wife went to drive the plow; Martin, laughing, took the pail, tried to milk the cow, But Black Cherry tossed her head, looked around with scorn, Tossed poor Martin from the byte with her crumpled horn. Bruised and bleeding, without milk, he went sadly in; Dirty dishes, crying baby—where should he be in? Tommy,%oo, had wandered off, perhaps into the lake, And the butter, bread, and pies all were yet to make. Got the boy in some precarious position, Gave him what men call a "wholesome ad- monition;” Found the butter would not come, thought he’d try and bake, Put the bread in far too soon, dinner on too late. When the man came home at noon he was half dement, Uncooked dinner, unset table, hungry discon- tent And the thought of afternoon made him sick of life; He would give—what would he not? just to see his wife. And the wife had woman’s tact; so after noon She went homeward, knowing well she was none too soon; Dropped upon the weary house in a. glad sur- prise- Never had lshe seemed so fair to her husband’s eyes. ' For she said no bitter word, went to work instead: Fed the babies, cleaned the house, baked some decent bread; Heard him patiently abuse house and men and cow, While_ she soothingly allowed “it was hard to plow.” Then he openly confessed all his past mis. take. Wonder’d how she did so much all for love’s sweet sake! Kiss’d her fondly, as he said: “Wife, now I see You do more in one day than I could do in three,” —Lillie E. Barr, in Christian Unizm. Enemy to the Hay crop. If among the crops of our State hay is not king, surely it is a crop of great importance; and among the grasses raised for hay, there are perhaps none quite equal to what farmers call tim- othy. Should this crop be taken from us, its loss would be a. serious one. Nearly all farm crops are of late years preyed upon by enemies of one kind and another, and often to such extent as to nearly ruin them. To suc- cessfully bring our crops to maturity isa continued battle. A number of years ago, observing farmers noticed, that soon after What we call June -grass headed out, ,a head here and. there would turn yellow and die, and look as though ripe, while the other stalks had not yet come into blossom. This dying of the stalks of the June grass has increased, until it is now no uncommon thing to have one-half of nearly all the seed stalks die soon af- ter heading out. For a few years past it has been no- ticed that our timothy has been fol- lowing the same course; soon after heading out a head here and there turning yellow and dying. This has gradually increased, until this year of haying time it has been noticed in many fields of southern Michigan, that at least one half the timothy stalks were dead, and had the appear- ance of being dead ripe, when in fact, it was only time for the crop to be nice- ly in blossom. The past year has been one of the most favorable for the ravages of the cutworm, as proved by the corn fields which have been planted two or three times, on account of their destruction by these worms. Timothy and June grass sod seem- ed to be alive with these worms in the spring, and as these grasses would head out, and the stalks wither and die, farmers were heard to remark‘ “That sod is full of cutworms; see how they are killing that grass.” A careful examination of these grass- es, shows that the trouble is not chargeable to the cut-worm. The roots are all right, and the stalks are all right for some distance above the ground. but they are much smaller and shorter than plants nd: affected. As we pursue our examination high- er up, we find just above a high joint, that under a leaf sheath the stalk has been injured by an enemy, which has _taken the life out of it, very much as the maggot of the Hessian fly used to serve our wheat stalks. Sometimes the injury is all just above the one joint, but quite often it is found under the sheath, above sev- eral joints on the same plant. Prof. A. J. Cook of the Agricultural College at Lansing, writes to me, that the same damage is being done to these grasses there, and it is caused by the larva of a timid moth which lays its eggs just above the joint of the grass. He considered it a difficult enemy to battle with. Whether it has an one- my, as does the Hessian fly, the cab- bage worm, and others, that will ex- terminate it, or hold it in check, I do not know. If a remedy can be found to check its destructive progress, it will be of great value. Wm. STRONG. Kalamazoo, Aug. 5th., 1884. ______________._______ Winter Hadishes. I find very few among my acquaint- ances who attempt to grow Winter radishes,but having grown them suc- cessfully we never neglect sowing them. I Will give my method of growing and storing for winter use. Selecta rich, sandy soil and sow in, drills. From the 10th to 18th of August is the better time to sow them, but I have put them in as late as Sept. 1, with good success, although it is not always safe at that late season. The Rose China, either French or English, is the kind I like best, and see but little choice in the two varie- ties. When they are through the ground, thin them out to about two or three inches apart, leaving the strongest. As soon as large enough for use pull them, even if they seem to be growing well, forthey become pithy if allowed to grow large. Carry them to a cool place in the cellar, leaving the tops on, lay with the roots together and cover two or three inches deep with not too light soil. When used prepare them the same as if just gathered from the garden. The covering of soil has kept my radishes until March and April, so fresh that it was asked if I had grown ina. hotbed or flower conservatory. I grow, pull and store my own rad- ishes and call myself a. lady for all of that. Mns. Jos11UA BROWN. If the same fostering care were given to our farming interests as has been to our manufacturing interests, the na- tion would have been immeasurably benefited, and it is pleasant to notice the increased attention given by our national Government, though tardy, -to agricultural measures.—Amerz’can Oultivator. ; _ =»K.—-e w¢;w .. -«l -' v The article in Tm-: V1.~:1To1:, July 1.3, copied from The Ifustbazzzlz/zan, on road making, truthfully describes the condition of things in this State. and it is high time every public spirited man or woman, in fact every one, possess- ing sense, repeat the question there asked, namely, "Is there any possible remedy to correct these methods ll” My observations have led me to the conc1usion,that the overseer of high- ways is the man wholly responsible for the ineffective application of the district highway tax, and consequent despicable roadways. He is clothed with ample power to enforce the laws pertaining to the high- ways of his district, and the provisions of the law are ample to make and mam- tzlin the highways, in as good, if not per- fect; condition as the nature of the mate- rials at hand will allow. The very men who have the most pecuniary interest involved, often, if not generally, refuse to serve as overseers, because they do not wish to become prosecutors of hab- itual shirkcrs, and thus incur their dis- pleasure. Are we all moral cowards? Men are elevated to that position, and itls an honorable and responsible ofllce, who have little conception of its re- quirements, and no adaptability in the discharge of its duties. The conse- quence is failure, written in the scratch- ings of the plow share along the high- ways from one end of the land to the other. The remedy then, is the ac- ceptance of the oflice of overseer by men fearless in the discharge of duty, by men possessing practicable ability to advantageously direct and apply the forces and means at their command; capable of comprehending the situation under the various circumstances under which they are called to act, and last- ly, honest men, who will apply the means at their disposal where it is most needed, and not where it may do them the most good, and who will in- fuse dspirit of emulation in their sub- ordinzites by their example. Such men, I believe, are to be found in every community. They should be invited from their retirement, and sus- tained by every good citizen. The pub- lic needs their services, pecuniary in- terests requires it, and humanity calls, come forth. C. S. KILLMER, Arenac. Mich. Michigan Crop Report, August 1, 1884. For this report returns have been re- ceived from 870 correspondents, rep- resenting 649 townships. Six hundred and two of these returns are from 406 townships in the southern four tiers of counties. The weather during harvest time was exceptionaly fine. The rainfall at Lansing during July amounted to 3 and 24 hundreths inches as compar- ed with 10 and 12 hundreths inches in July, 1883. The weather during the past year has been unusually cool for the time of year. Light frosts were ob- served on the mornings of the 8, and 9 It is now extremely dry making it- diflicult to plow for fall seeding. Warmer weather and rain are greatly needed. Wheat and hay have been secured in excellent condition and are of superior quality. Wheat seems to be yielding better than was anticipat- ed, and it is probable that the aggre- gate product will exceed the estimate of one month ago. The amount of wheat in fa1'mer’s bands was reduced ab >ut two per cent during July. Corn promises, in the southern four tiers 89 per cent, and in the counties north of the southern four tiers 99 per cent, the comparison being with vi- tality and growth of average years. Oats are estimated to yield about 33 bushels and barley 24 and a half bush- els per acre. The yield of hay per acre was about 16 per cent less in quantity, but much better in quality than in 1883 Meadows and pastures, and clover sown this year have been badly injured by the drought. Apples seem to promise about two- thirds, and peaches one-fifth of an av- erage crop. From many localities the estimates for peaches are believed to be of but little value. Reports have been received of the quantity of wheat marketed by far- mers during the month of July at 211 elevators and mills. Of these 180 are in the southern four tiers of counties, which is thirty-six per cent of the whole number of elevators and mills in these counties. The total number of bushels reported marketed is 199,- 105, of which 79, 321 bushels were mar- keted in the flrst or southern tiers of counties; 40,025 bushels in the second tier; 36,661 bushels in the third tier; 35,929 bushels‘ in the fourth tier, and 7,169 bushels in the countries north of the southern four tiers, At 56 eleva- tors and mills, or twenty seven per cent of the whole number from which reports have been received. there was ‘no wheatmarketed during the month The total number of bushels report- ed marketed in twelvetrnonths, Au- ust—»July,_is,9,6_57,865, ., 3 What Farming Teaches. We believe there is no pursuit in life which affords :1 wider and more varied lield formental culture than faulniug. and none more important in its re- lation to the welfare and prosperity of mankind. it is the foundation of national existence. and at the same time yields the richest enjoyments to '4 pliilosophical mind. By working the soil, the f-.1rmcrstu(l- ies its peculiar properties. and finds that the earth is not :1 mere mass of dead matter, but u vast laboratory, tilled with various and curious nmtemtls, and in selecting those solls whose mineral compositions are best adapted to the growth of certain crops, a. vul- uuble lesson in geology is taught. liy investigating the composition of min- eral substances, and the clmnges of their elements when coming in contact with water or heat, knowledge of chemistry is, to a certain extent, ob- tained, and the great laws of natlxrc better mule-.1‘sto0d. Ills almost constant use of farm im- plements and machinery gives the furmeraperfect l'a.mili:1rity with the principles of mechanics. iiy his work- ings aguinst the ravages of insects, their peculiar traits are found out, and in thisaschooling is received in the interesting science of entomology. In the care of stock, he finds out the var- ious natures of the many (litlerent animals that come under his cllarge, and obtains in this way lessons in zool- ogy. In dissecting animals and plants, myotomy and physiology are learned, and his treatment of those which are sick, gives him information on the science of medicine. In keeping fowls, and contending with tllosetlxat injure crops, he llmls out their peculiarities, and in this way gets some important knowledge of Ornithology. A life spent among shrubs and plants, as is that of a farm- er, affords the most perfect opportun- ity for understanding botany. A cure- ful and thoughtful study of these en- nobling and useful branches of knowl- edge, cannot but tend to rellne the feel- ings, and elevate man in the scale of his l.neing.——G. E. B. in Tribune and Farmer. To Blast out slumps. A correspondent writl1_1g to the Ohio Farmer tells how he got rid of a lot of white and burr oak stumps. He paid fifty cents per stump and furnished the explosive material. The stumps were from twenty to forty inches in diame- ter,andl1ad been out about six years. Sixty seven of the worst were taken out at an expense of sixty eight cents per stump. ’l‘l1e1'e were only three or four failures in the whole lot. As they were blown into pieces, it was much less work to pile and burn them than when taken out in the ordinary way. He bought material and took out near- ly two hundred smaller stumps at about twenty cents each. It took him about ten or fifteen minutes to prepare the blast. He used a two-inch augur on a five foot shaft for boring under the stump. A crowbar will do in soft ground; those who follow the business use atwo and a half inch augur. The charge should be put as near under the pump as possible. He says it is not very dangerous to use, asfire will not explode it. The cap is placed in the catridge, and is connect- ed by a fuse. You light the fuse, which in one or two minutes explodes the Hercules powder. Eight or ten rods is a. safe distance if you are facing the stump, for you can easily dodge chunks if any come toward you. It will not pay he says, to use it very extensively on green stumps, and it will take from three to eight pounds per stump, and tyylilé not give good satisfaction at a. . Plani Black Walnut. Shipments of black walnut lumber from Iowa, Indiana and Ohio, have been unusually large this year. This is accounted for by the statement that awealthy English company combining with capitalists at Indianopoiis, has for a year past been quietly purchasing all the first quality black walnut lum- ber they could get hold of in thest-ates mentioned, and they have now begun shipping to England. In many cases farmers have disposed of their choic- est trees far below their real value. The price of walnut lumber where this trick of moncpolists is known has advanced one-half. People should plant more to meet the demands of the future. Now is the time to be in the work. The black walnut woo is beautiful for many purposes, and has juitly become popular and fashionable. The fashion will be a lasting one, and the world's supply is very limited. Farmers everywhere can make a very profitable investment by planting wal- nuts.——Nashvz'lle Lumbermcm. A farmer's wife, writing to the Coun- try Gentleman, tells how she keeps cabbage worms away from her plants. She always has nice cabb es. She keeps an old tin pan full 0 dry fine earth. and every time she oes into the garden she sifts a spoonfu or more of this dust over the cabbages. and the worms never molest them. Also, by putting plent of sawdust around cur- rent bushess e saves them from the Worms and it makes them bear larger fruit, as it keeps the "ground moist and rich.—-E45. . ; . - , , Separating Sorghum Sugar from the Mo- lasses. —- Iv.-r.-. Mzmy persons have had their sor- Rllllm _sy1‘I1p,(lc.os1r1oN To run MILLIONS.- Why do the agricultural classes fail to harmonize? If every one who is entitled to the name, or occupies a rural home, would take the platforms oiiered by each of the national conven- tions, as a bid for their suffrage, read it carefully, digest it thoroughly, and partisan afliliations be laid aside long enough for candid consideration, one will be found to offer pre-eminently more to both the producer and con- sumer than all the others combined. Then if honest to the precious puri- tan blood, and the gallant statesman- ship that framed our Declaration of Independence and ransomed this to us a free land to a free people; let us vote honestly. unitedly and under- standingly. Political subtility has ever made its most bewildering stronghold in the non-essential rather than the essential. The London limes says of two of the platforms: “The platforms concocted by the Republican and Democratic conventions are both unworthy of respect. They are distinguished by the absence of clear convictions, by evasions and by trimmings, by servile rivalry in flattering the masses, and by pandering to popular prejudices, modern demagogues and social ' q uacks.” The National Wool Growers’ Asso- ciation, in special convention. ap- pointed a committee of three to attend said convention, to secure proper re- cognition of the greatest agricultural industry in America. The recognition secured from one is an insult to com- mon intelligence, the other is con- temptuously silent, and yet with won- derful amazement we await the ver- dict of one million twenty thousand flock masters in November. I see expressed in postal jottings a fear of “no hope,” as both the candi- dates of the old parties are in favor of the monopolies. Why stop to ques- tion at all when a Puritan states- man is in the field, nominated by two great conventions, with a grand public record of over twenty years. standing squarely upon anti—monopoly plat- forms? Such is Benjamin F. Butler, one of America’s greatest soldiers, statesmen and international law stu- dents. You need never expect reform from any nomination and election upon old party platforms, compelled to caucus with, and train under professional po- litical leadership. In the language of the greatest stu- dent and orator of his day: To you my countrymen and brother farmers, I say “Come, let us reason together like men.” EDWARD MARSII. For the first time I ask a place among the Jottings. I want to propose a vote of thanks to Cortland Hill, for starting the scientific discussion we have been favored with this summer. Mr. Hill may be wrong in every one of his con- clusions, he surely is in part. If to light and warm the universe the sun is slowly parting with his matter, radiat- ing it into space according to the cor- puscular theory Bro. Hill adopts, the “machinery of the heavens” isrunning down just as surely as if the planets are to dash into his mass some millions of years hence. Either course of reason- ing leads, in different Ways, to the same conclusion, that is, growth, maturity,old age, decay and death. Still he deserves our hearty thanks for beginning what has been to many Patrons arare treat. Ithink the last VISITOR (July 15,) settles the chess and wheat question; but if any brother is still doubtful, let him experiment with chess; if it be an imperfect or crippled wheat it either will not grow, or if it grows, is capable of producing under the right conditions not chess nor timothy, but the parent wheat. If there is a way from wheat to chess there is a way back again to wheat. If vegetable life can be thankful, this must be a land of thanks just now. We have been through a severe drougth ,grass by the road dry enough to burn, corn wilting, potatoes -beginning to dry up, but all is changed now, for the last three days each forenoon has been showery, and the earth is moist again. An unusual amount of wheat has been threshed from the shock this TEE GRANGE VISITGE. 3 season, nearly half, I judge, of the en- tire crop. The yield varies from 3.3 buhels per acre all the way down to 10 or 12. The quality is the best and will overrun considerably by weight to the measured bushel. The difference in yield ought to furnish a subject for study to many an indifferent farmer. On lands in good condition for wheat, the yield is uniformily good, while fields that have been "run” till poor, give but very light crops. There is 150 and even 200 per cent difference in ad- joining fields where all but manage- ment of the land was equal. As a rule, the best yields are from clover sod. The prospect for corn was never better. Oats are good considering the dry weather; late potatoes are prob- ably injured by the dry weather. unless very late. New wheat is worthss cts; old corn 55cts. per bushel, JOHN H. Romans. Berrien C0,, July 25th, 1884. Kalamazoo County Pomona Grange held its regular meeting with Montour Grange on Thursday, Aug. 28. A gentle rain commenced falling about 7 A. M., and continued until noon. This prevented very many who had intended attending this meeting from starting. But the rain was so much needed all over southern Mich- igan that much asall the good Pat- rons of this county desired to be pres- ent they accepted the situation, if not wizh expressions of thankfulness cer- tainly wlth much satisfaction as it meant more com, easier plowing, and a chance to prepare ground for wheat seeding. But the meeting was by no means a failure. This Grange oavns a nice, commo- dlous building, occupying the base- ment and upper story. The first floor a well finished store commands a good rental sufficient to soon extin- guish the debt incurred by the build- ing committee. We have attended many of the reg- ular meetings of this county Grange but have never found a hall so nicely decorated as was Montour on this oc casion. Every other department of prepara- tion was complete-—the supplies more than ample for man and beast, and the meeting small in numbers was excellent in quality and demonstrated apoint that is too often lost sight of, that large numbers are not really necessary for a profitable and enjoy- able meeting. J. 'r. C. Said atalented man from the pulpit the other day, “Take your daily paper to-morrow and with your pencil mark every thing in it you would not willing- ly see your boy read. The disfigured sheet will surprise you! ” Mothers and fathers, are you careful enough ‘R Do you unhesitatingly invite to your table any newspaper that falls in your way ‘3 Do you comprehend the gigantic growth that a crime germ, planted by some venomous paragraph, may make in the soul of your boy ? Would you beguile the young minds in your keeping by the false glitter of a frontier cow-boy exploit? Would you have him learn to read with unmoved resentment the catalogue of criminal proceedings ‘B In such a teeming field of rank growths, do you want him to feed ‘.’ And can you point him with saftey to the pages besmeared by Cleveland scandal and Greely cannibalism ‘B If you would blight a treasure de- signed to be susceptible to the helpless twitter of a birdling, a cloud of deadly blasts hangs over you, waiting but your beck to scorch the innocence of your child. A thousand times better to discard a paper which you have read for years than to harbor its treachery. if it prove a leper in morals. These thoughts are not ill timed in this cam- paign when already many of us turn in disgust from papers we had trusted. J. B. For the last six months the Republi- can papers allover the State have been holding up the name of Cyrus G. Luce, as the coming governor of Mich- igan, and so general, and so satisfactory was this idea among all classes that no eifort was made to secure a nomi- nation that every,body endorsed. But when the convention met in Detroit, it was found that a high tariff lum- berman with inflated pockets could furnish more costly cigars and higher flavored wines than honest farmer Luce had thought of; and _so they dropped Bro. Luce and put Gen. Alger on the head of the ticket, and when the sensible delegates saw that there would be a mighty kicking among the Grangers and farmers, they thought that they could heal the breach by throwing a little taify to the disap- pointed candidate by offering the Lieu- tenant governor’s place to him. But I am glad our Worthy Master had the manliness to resent the insult, and throw back the taffy in their face. Well, I am not disappointed. I knew all the time that the wire pullers of the Republican party did not want a farmer for Governor, but they will hear from this on the 4th of Novem- ber, and if I am not much mistaken, a down-hearted gentleman resembling Gen. Alger, may be seen with his head bowed down, muttering this mournful soliloquy: Oh I wish I had joined the Grangers Before I started up “Salt River.” CORTLAND HILL. c _-;~,;,;,j;§2:rnar,is.*-it-‘£—.,‘?-'r\.‘*‘~*‘r°"'.’»“’ ' Bro. l‘ord,you make two points on Gov. llegole, and the mention of his name seems to fill you with contempt- I will now assert that he has not rode one mile on a free pass while doing his own business. The firm of Begole, Fox & Co., are heavy shippers, and the trans- portation they receive is a part of the contract price with the railroad com- panies, and is paid for to the last cent- The number of pardons granted is be- low the annual average for years past; so we are freer from“Pardoned Rascals" than under republican rule. You are evidently misled by the republican newspapers you are reading. No man knows the political situation of the country, who reads the papers of one party only. While I was reading re- publican newspapers exclusively, the main idea I gathered from them was that this government is an empire, holding in subjugation some conquer- ed provinces inhabited by cannibals and llottentots. I added to my list of newspapers the Detroit Free Press, and Chicago Times, and found that every state and territory of this union is in- habited by men and women of the highest order of culture. If I hadn't read with minute care in several his- tories, an account of the various forms of government that has prevailed on this continent since the discovery in 1492, I should be occasionally misled by all of these papers. , I am so entirely freed from political demagogism, as to believe that Mich- igan never hada low order of a man for governor. Now Bro. Ford you have got to stand exceedingly well with your neighbors if they speak better of you than Gov. l5egole’s neighbors do of him. Bro. Cobb, keep up the jottings, for the postmasters have actually come to read THE Visrron since they were commenced. O. TonL1NsoN. I am glad to hear that your new quarters are so pleasant. It is one of the necessities of our lives that we have pleasant surroundings, else our temperament and work are effected for worse. I think ministers and editors, and in fact all literary people, ought to have the most pleasant room for study or writing, that can be obtained. This thought occured to me when I called at our parsonage not long ago. Our minister gets blue and fault find- ing sometimes, in his manner of deal- ing with persons and sentiments, and when I looked into'his study at home I did not wonder. It was what had been a little seven-by-nine bedroom right off from the sitting-room and not far from the dinning-room and kitchen, where he could hear all the clatter and have an occasional ,snitf of the thou- sand and one smells, combined of cook- ing and washing; and where the sun- light scarcely ever penetrated. I expect now that Bro. Cobb and his secretary have such pleasant and cosy quarters THE V ISITOR will be more than ever brim full of interesting and spicy editorials and clippings, and whatever pertains to that department. [We assure our private correspond- ent, she is quite right in the matter of enjoyment, so far as our change of abode afiects us.——E1).j The nomination of Alger and Bur- rows was undoubtedly brought about by the corrupt use of money and promises of patronage in opposition to the de- mands of a large majority of the work- ing men of the party, who favored the nomination of those honorable and competent representatives of the peo- ple, C. G. Luce and J. J. Woodman. The clearly expressed wish of the farm- ers who constitute a large majority of the party was ignored and defeated by the corrupt wire pullers and so called politicans, under the control of the Detroit ring of monied aristocrats. It is clearly the duty of every honest farmer and working man in the State, who loves his country and her free in- stitutions better than party, to assert his liberty at the polls, and defeat the unscrupulous demagogues, who have no respect for our rights, but are the hire- lings and pliant tools of millionaires and soulless corporations. Money is a mighty engine of oppression in the hands of unscrupulous men and tricky politicians, and is far more dangerous to our republican institutions than the slave power ever was in its palmiest days. —,.- .- Rnronnriz. I remember hearing Bro. J. -J. Wood- man make this statement once in an address he delivered, and for the benefit of those who did not hear I will ’ re- peat it: ' -- “There is -no such word as Granger, we should say patron. We are patrons of husbandrymot Grangers. We have no more right‘-to say a member of the grange is agranger. then the member of a church is a churcher, or the mem- ber of a lodge is a lodger, or the mem- ber of a club is a cluber. ‘ Never use the word granger, we are patrons.”- Now;-one of the grand principles of our order is culture and education, and if the using of this word granger is wrong (as it is) let's abandon it and use only the proper word patron. The word was doubtless given us as as an opprobious epithet,and I think it is;time we have outlived it: as. we arena or- ganization that now commands honor, and at any rate let us honor ourselves, and [use that grand word patron that we all love. Mus. PERRY MAYO. - - ,-v.-»z—:a-.rsszv>.r.»--si» .- t . As I saw given in your number of July 15th, a useful device by C. Killmer, and thought by the perusal thereof, that it might prove so, I was deluded into trying it. I think that per- haps it might work on some cows. But the brindle in question is espe- cially noted for a pair of very active heels. As soon as she discovered that her caudal appendage was not at her disposal (unfortunately for me) she set about discovering its use. My new tin milk pail could have been seen in the air on one side, the stool on the other, while I after gathering myself up represented a dejected spec- tator, while the docile brindle went tearing around the yard, acting very much as I suppose the mule did while trying to renovate a bee hive. But as this is only aspecimen of human ills, I would say write again, Mr. Killmer, perhaps I shall have better success next time, and I sincerely hope that no one else who may have tried this has had the experience I have. I re- main very respectfully, Yours, A FARMER. Some one asks for instructions in poultry affairs in VISITOR of August 1 The most complete information re garding the poultry business is learn- ed from the American Poultry Jour- nal of Chicago, C. J . Ward Editor; and Poultry World. Hartford, Conn., H. H. Stoddard Editor. Various books are written, the best of which is a 25 cent series by H. H. Stoddard; among them is “Au Egg Farm.” Best food for young turkeys is bread crumbs, sour milk curd, and wheat. For chicks we have abandoned coops, letting them to run at will with the hen, having the food in coops into which the chicks can run. All poultry journals contain ad- vertisements or directions for home- made incubators, but if you are not thoroughly posted in the business, you better buy a book with complete instructions for running the same. You will save money in the end. Eleven above freezing this morning. Corn, sorghum, and buckwheat need two weeks of good weather. Beans are now ready for harvest. The clover- seed crop will be fair. A less average of wheat than usual will be sown, Threshing is lively; wheat yields all the way from 12 to 30 bushels, worth from 60 to 70 cents, the lowest for for- ty years: it brings less than it cost to raise it. Oats yield from ‘25 to 50 bushels. The potatoe crop is good. The roller skating and political busi- iness is lively and exciting. We have four presidential candidates in the field and all have spoken their piece. Take your choice. The temperance party will be an important feature in the coming election. Caucuses, conven- tions. reunions, mass meetings, pic- nics and fairs are now in order. The farmers “boom” for governor is “bust- ed” and growling is heard on every hand. Well. what are we going to do about it? This seems to be a leading question just now. D. W. Paw Paw, Aug. 27. The ladies have given some attention in theircolumn to the health of our girls. I Wish it might be carried fur- ther, for it is a subject of common in- terest and at present is receiving much notice from eminent sources. In the articles which have already appeared, one thing was not emphasiz- ed enough to satisfy me. When a de- feet so easily remedied as stooped or round shoulders is allowed to go un- corrected, it is an inexcusable error. ‘Vs not less frequently see it in boys and young men than in girls; and a straight, square shouldered man or woman, past middle age, is a sight that seldom fails of remark. The graceful carriage of the entire person depends on an upright spinal column, with shoulders well back. ' It is said Aaron l5urr‘s daughter was accounted one of the most beautiful of women, and that her fine bearing was wholly due to persistent effort in the development of straight shoulders, and, in consequence, healthy lungs and full chest. , G. Crystal Grange. No. 451, held a Chil- dren’s Day, Aug. 8, 1884. A good time was enjoyed by the children. Quite a large programme. of literary exercises, were carried o,ut.—y At the close ice cream was served- in great abundance. There were also pies, cakes. etc. which could not help but tempt the little ones, appetites. All‘ enjoyed the occasion, very much. - ' Wheat turns out good for the amount! of straw. Oats will also be a good crop. ' Potatoes will be abundant and worth about ten cents a bushel this fall. E. W. J OHN soN. Montcalm Co. Woims in Clawson wheat abound, not many in other varieties. Corn is a good crop on ground where good seed was planted. ‘ Brother Grangers, now is the time to look after your seed corn; look out the earliest and largest ears; for these being the first to and silk, have re- ceived the first pollen from;-the first.’ tassels. Hang it up where it will dry‘ early and you will have first class seed corn for next years planting, T. N. Tnsvxs. Summerton, Mlc.h., Aug. 21st, ’84. Schoolcraft Grange No. 8. is now set- tled in her new hail over Wm. Coop- er’s new brick store, and or. the even- ing of August 2, the time of our for- mal occupancy to the same, we inixi ated five new members in the first de- gree. On the evening of the 2d, gave them the second and third degrees, and on the evening of the 30th, will make them full pledged Patrons of Husbandry, at which time we should be pleased to see all old friends and acquaintances. We are very proud of our new hall with its new carpet, which the ladies made last Thursday, having met at the hall for that pur- pose, bringing their dinner with them. Although it was very warm they succeeded in accomplishing their task (as they always do) in the neatest pos- sible manner, and the boys also suc- ceeded by the dint of hard pulling and sweating, in getting it nailed to the floor, and now let us say to our broth- ers and sisters, let us see how long we can keep itlooking as bright and clean as it now is; for you know that we shall not have to grope in alleys that are dark in order to find the entrance to our Grange, but come straight up from the broad way, and thus we can keep ourselves presentable before the goddesses. Come one, come all and see us. C. 1’. Aug. 27, 188-1. We see so much in the agricultural papers and the GRANGE Vrsrror. joins the illustrious company, by clipping out occasionally an article about those “Useless harmful blinders, and check reins on the noble horse.” Blinders keep the horse's eyes where they be- long—ahead, instead of watching ev- ery move in the wagon. Ifa whip is taken out of the socket, horsey gives a jump which breaks everyone’s back whose hopeless luck it is to be in the wagon. Check reins keep horsey’s head where it belongs especially when hitched and left alone. Any one with a spark of horse sense might know that harness makers would not men- ufacture, nor farmers use these things unless necessary. The same criti- cism might apply to doing away with horse shoes. The editor or printer took too much liberty with my report of St. Jo. Co. Grange meeting. The reader will please note that "Bro. Ames of Stur- gis” is a myth, while Bro. Amos Sturgis of Sturgis Grunge is a tangible reality, and was the person referred to In response to G. W. P. (why oidn’t he give his name), I say, let us vote for St. John and prohibition. No vote for principle is ever thrown away; while all votes given, even to a suc- cessful candidate, are thrown away if justice and right are ignored. So we are to be governed and mis- represented by lawyers again. Who is to blame ? H. CoLL1Ns. Klinger Lake, Mich., Aug. 20th, ’84 Bro. Cobb.-—l noticed in the last is- sue of THE GRANGE VISITOR, Mrs. S. A. Prout inquires for a remedy for the cabbage worm. It is reported thata man becoming angry at their depreda- tions went to the house and took hot boiling suds, after washing, and pour- ed it on the cabbages, determined to kill the worms, and expecting to de- stroy the cabbages also. To his sur- prise he found his cabbages doing finely after their hot bath. We saved ours last year by three applications of hot suds. Sometimes one application is snfiicient. If you are hard hearted enough, you will enjoy seeing the green fat worms hasten off the cabbages, nev- er to return. I would not dare use par- is green. Any hot water will answer. DARIUS F. RUssELL. \Villiamson, N. Y. Grange No. 528 is still alive, although there is not a very large at- tendance just now; but those who do attend are true Patrons. We hope to add many to our ranks this fall. We expect the Pomona Grange to be held in this place the third Wed- nesday in September, also a picnic on the same day. All who can come are welcome, hope to have a large at- tendance wlth well filled baskets; we have a good hall, a few steps from Bro. C. P. It‘ar’s grove and although Mrs. Far is not a member of the Order, she does all she can to make things pleas- ant. I take great pleasure in reading 1‘ THE VISITOR, especially the Jottings. Mas. C. A. LEPION. Lecturer. Our Pomona festival in Bangor last Wednesday, was afine affair, but a great many inquired of me why Mrs. Mayo did not come. They came from everyfpart of the county and made the largest-gathering we have ever had of the kind. There were two brass bands which played in unison, and had a grand eifect. The day was spent in short speeches,recitations in elocution, select reading, good music, eating ice cream and chickens; only one thing was 1acking—the inspiring eloquence and noble words of Sister Mayo, to make it the grandest gathering we have ever had. Fraternally yours ever, CORTLAND HILL. Having often seen articles in “GRANGE Visiron" about improving the roads, I thought I would give mine. As far as my observations go it is the wheel that wears out the road more than horses, and I have thought bad places might be permanently im- proved by digging a trench eighteen inches deep and fifteen inches wide in the wheel track and fill it nearly full of those small stones that farmers pick off their fields and put in the fence cor- ners, then cover the stones with earth. It certainly would make an improve ment in the fence corners. But this is not my object in writing to you. I read in July 15th of Vrsrron a communication from “Old Maid", which hadthe right ring in it and I wish to say to all that wish to improve the human race and add to domestic happiness to send for a paper called The Alpha, published by Caroline B. Winslow, No. 1Grant Place, Washing- ton, D. C. It should be read by old and young. then given to a neighbor or sent to I friend. It is one dollar a year. Muss. We continue to be more and more interested in the Postal J ottinga. Since I last wrote I have been very ill, or you would heard from me ere this. Let us have more Postal' J ottinp. We were very much pleased with Mrs. Jayne’s article, hop. she will write more; we need more light on the same subject. Where, oh where is our farmer governor? How long it does take farmers to wake up to their own interest. It seems that ten or twelve years of Grange schooling ought to do more than it has toeducate the farmer. It has done a great deal, but not half what it might have done. Please write more Postais. AUN'l‘ KATE. Grattan, Aug. 23rd, 84 I wish to say to H. Collins, who says he is in doubt what to do. and to D. W. of Paw Paw, that there isa general kicking out of the old party harness, in this part of the country. Our town hall was packed Saturday evening to listen toa prohibition talk, and after the speaking we organized a Prohibition club with 25 voters on- rolled, about one-tenth of the whole number in town, and we expect to quadruple that number of voters be- fore election. I wish all such men as H. C. and D. W. would throw oil’ the yoke, come out and help organize and work for a party that has at least one principle to back it. V. A. BBUNDAGE. Alamo. NOTICES OF MEETNGS. St Joseph County Grange will hold its next meeting with Corey Grange, Thursday, September 4th, 1884. The afternoon session will be public. A pleasant time is anticipated and a cor- dial invitation is extended to all Pat— rons. MARY A YAUNEY, Sec’y of Co. Grange. Hillsdale County Pomona Gran e will meet at Grange Hall, J onesvil e, Sept. 3, 1884, at 10 A, M. sharp. opening and song b the choir. Essay, by Mrs. W. ichards. Select reading by Sister Clickner. A song by Mattie Monroe. Declamation by Miss May Teri. Something of his choice, by John E. Wagner. By A J . Baker: Lord Macaulay’s letter to Hon. Hen J. Randall, au- thor of the life o!r.Tefferson. Dated May, 23, A. D. 1851. Question, The Science and Econo- my of the Farm and House, opened by Isaac Sherifl‘ and Mrs. R. South- worth. A. J . BAKER, Sect. The next meeting of Berrien Coung Pomona Grange, will be held wi Mount Tabor Grange, commencing at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, Nov. 11th. The meeting of Tuesday afternoon will be open to the public, and the fol- lowing programme will be in order: Essay by Sister Isaac Shimmer. Co operation in marketing wool and other farm products—By Bro. Edward Marsh. Essay by Sister C. N. Faruham. Essay—Have a Purpose—By Bro. William V. Cook. Ronmavr C. THAYEB, Benton Harbor, Aug. 6, 1884. Program for meeting of Alleganv County Council, P. of 1:1. at Plainwell, Sept. 2d. 1884. Music—Conszregational Singing. Address of Welcome, by Sister Wil- son of Plsinwell Grange. Response by Bro. Phelps. of Olse 0. Essay, The Past, Present and u- «ture of the American Farmer, by Bro. Arthur Stark of Otsego Grange. ' Essay, Timely Thoughts on Timely Themes, -by Sister L. E. Drake of Plainwell Grange. 3 Clean Mouth. Clean Stomach, and Sweet Breath, by Dr. E. Amsden, of Allegan Grange. Essay by Sister T. Stevens, of Alle- gan. Question for discussion, What are the Obstacles to More Eflicient Co-Operative Work among Patrons? Opened by M. V. B. McA1pine of Montgomery. Question for discussion. “Shall money always stand above honor, truth and virtue. and above true man- hood and womanhood?” Opened by Sister L. E Drake. ' Essay, The Actual and the Possible of Farm Life and Farm Homes, by Sister Orren Foster of Montgomery. J. C. Lsoosrr. Sec. One of the aims of farming should be, You consume-—to buy nothing you can raise yourself. to produce as far as possible everything. 4 firrliwllrnl Eurslmnl. A Few Hints in Floriculture. My experience in growing out door flowers, is that all hardy annuals, per- ennials and biennials do much better if the seed is grown late in the fall, than if sown in the Spring. Two years ago this summer, if you will remember, was a very poor season for growing any- thing, and that Spring when sowing flower seeds I noticed an unusual growth of self sown flower seeds. Thinking it a pity to destroy them, which was my usual costom, I allowed them to stand, and what was the result? Why, the self sown seeds made nice large plants that bloomed earlier and longer than did those I planted in Spring. Profiting by this discovery, the next Fall I sowed about two dozen different kinds of annuals, and in the Spring when the ground was warm enough to sow, in- stead of sowing seed I had nice grow- ing plants, and now each year I make or sow the greater part of my garden in the fall. I cultivate flowers because I love them. Ladies, mothers of growing families, beautify your homes with flowers ; don’t excuse yourselves on the plea, you have no time or money to use that way. If you Wish to try, I will help you what I can. I can send you some nice flower seeds, as I always have plenty. Ihaveanice variety, such as Ager- atum,Ca1andrina, Sweet Peas, Am- brosia, Pinks, Centaurea, Candytuft, Delphinum. Euphorbia or Snow on the Mountain, Phacelia and others. Send six or eight stamps to pay postage and packing, and I will send you some flower seeds. Mas. F. A. WARNER, 979 Bundy Street, East Saginaw, Mich. The Raising of Pears. I am asked to tell how I raise pears. Well, itis not a difiicult matter. Sim- ply go at it with good common sense and careful watching of your trees and most any one can grow them. As a location of the orchard, if I could have just what I wanted, it should be on a gentle slope toward the south. and the soil a gravelly loam on clay sub-soil or, next best an entirely clay soil. If the latter, or if the clay in the first case was near the surface, it would probably be necessary to under-drain the land. I consider a southern slope where the trees get the full sun, bet- ter than a northern exposure, and I would as soon have it exposed to winds as sheltered. My preparation for planting would be to grow corn, well manured on the ground the prev- ious year andin the spring just before setting out the orchard, plow the land well. Then where I wanted the trees to stand, which I have not more than one rod apart each way, I would dig holes three feet across, and eighteen inches deep, and loosen up the sub- soil for anothers spade’s depth, scatter about one quart of salt over this loos- ened sub-soil in each hole and then fill in six inches of good top earth, leaving the hole about one foot deep. HereI would set the trees, carefuliy preserving and laying out every fibrous root, and packing the earth well around the roots. As to the selection of trees: They should be two years old from the graft and both tops and roots (especially the latter) well-grown and first-class in every particular. In buying trees from a dealer or agent, I make them strike out that clause about furnish- ing other varieties equally good if they happen to be out of what I order. Af- ter setting the tmes I leave the surface close around the tree a little dishing or hollow the first year, so as to enable it to get all the moisture it needs. I never mulch but very little, while I hoe about the trees so as to keep the surface mellow. My after cultivation is to grow some hoed crop among the trees for five years,:cultivating the ground well, but not manuring too heavily. I think the ground can be too rich for the pear. The selection of varieties for my or- chard, whether for my own use or for market, would be Bartlett for early; Seckel and Sheldon, Autumn; and Duchesse d’ Angouleme, late autumn. The last I regard as one of the best. For the sake of variety, I also have Onondaga, Lawrence, Burre d’ Anjou, Lo uise Bonne de Jersey and others. My practice in ripening and mar- keting is to pick when ma- tured, though stil green in color and somewhat hard (when they pick easily by lifting them up is the test.) Put in barrels in the dank, when they will "sweat”, and the pears as well as the barrel inside will be covered with drops of water. Afterwards they will turn yellow and are then ready tosell or can. If I shipped away, of course I would have to send them green.-—From G'a7_'fieZd’s Primer of Horticulture. Keeping Grapes. Vineyardists have different methods of keeping grapes. Some in baskets, some on slats, some suspend the bunch- es, others pack in cotton, but in what- ever way kept the following hints up- on the subject are commendable. Place the fruit where it will be neither too dry, nor too moist, too hotnor too cold. As to temperature the nearer freezing the better, so long as it is above freezing. Too much moisture will breed mold and spoil the flavor of those that do not rot. Contact with decayed or broken grapes will spoil the berries they touch. Too much warmth if the air is not excluded, will dry the fruit and make raisins if the fruit is good enough. If the air is excluded the fruit will spoilif too warm. Hence we infer that grapes to keep should not be packed. _ Put up the fresh clusters in boxes, two or three layers deep, upon cotton, paper, or grape leaves between layers. Light ‘wood boxes are best. Let the size be governed by your own taste. If for marketing, use those that will hold from two to four pounds. In handling the clusters touch the stem only. Contact with the hands takes off the bloom; besides there is danger of bruising. Handle carefully. The boxes ought to he covered. People have been taught to wax the end of the stem. There is little use in this. If your grapes are of a variety that will keep well, the peduncle lays fast hold on the pulp, and is kept fresh by the grape. A little dry- ing of the fruit causes the peducle to wither and break from the berry. Grapes separated from the cluster soon decay. The Hartford often drops from the stem in gathering. With the best care it can be kept fresh, but a very short time after gathering, and the Concord is but very little better. Observe, if when you draw a berry from the cluster it brings out the ped- uncle from the center, it promises to keep well. Tenacity to the stem is your criterion. The stronger the hold of the berry the better it will keep Then for keeping, a tough skin is nec- essary.—-Tribune and Farmer. A Fruit Dry-House. A lad correspondent tells us how her hue and madea dry-house, and he is not acarpenter by trade either; and she considers the work on- of large profit. In three days from the time the timber was laid the building was ready for use. It is a wood frame six by seven feet—boarded up and down, and battened. No windows. There are two large holes bored on either side or ends for circulation of air, a ventilator through the roof, brick chimney. Parlor stove and tight fit- ting panel door completes the descrip tion of our drying machine, and a perfect little home comfort it has prov- ed to be so far. There are racks made ofnicely plan- ed lath nailed on to side pieces, for ap- ples, pears, peaches and the like fruit. Sheets of tin with the edges turned up make very convenient holders for corn. berries, etc; these are kept in place by setting them on cross pieces of wood. which reach across from side to side of the house, or from end to end. We like them letter than shelves. The cost of the outlay for the house was about twenty dollars, work not in- cluded. In two weeks time we had more than covered cost in our stock of dried fruit, beside the additional com- fort of keeping a great deal of litter, dirt and flies out of the kitchen. We are satisfied thats. drying house is a good investment.—Tribune and Far- mer. _____.._________.__ Coal Ashes and Curculio. I have for several years saved my plums from the ravages of the curcu- lio by the use ofcoal ashes. They be- come so completely disgusted with it that they leave for other parts. Just as soon as the blossoms fall I com- mence with my ashes. I take a buck- et full of the ashes under my arm, and with the other hand I dash the ashes all over and through the trees, cover- ing the trees completely with ashes. and go around every few days and give them another dose. If the rain washes off, I renew the dose, and keep at it till my plums are ripe. when I am well paid for my trouble. I had this year eight bushels on seven small trees, which I sold for thirty-two dol- lars. I have several of the Reine Claude variety upon which I did not use the ashes, because the plums were scattering. I thought it would not pay, but there was one of those trees that was close to those I put the ash- eson; it got its share of the ashes and that limb ripened up all of its plums, but not a plum was there leit on the other trees of that variety. This was conclusive evidence to me that it was the ashes that saved my plums. When I first commenced the ashes, my broth- er told me that I would not succeed, that he made sure of saving his plums by placing a sheet under his trees and shaking the little Turks off of his tress and catching them on the sheet and killing them. But when plums were ripe I had plenty and he had none.— Cor. Ohio Farmer. Fruit as Food. Fruits, says Dr. Cameron, are used as a staple food in many warm coun- tries, but in most parts of Europe, as in the United States, they are regarded chiefly in the light of luxuries. De- prived of their stones or seeds, they contain not often more than five per cent. of solid matter. They are very poor in albuminoids; but they are usually rich in sugar, and many of them contain much acid. There is the greatest variation in the relative amounts of sugar and acid in edible fruits. Berries contain, as a rule, more acid than stone fruit. The grape contains from thirteen to twenty per cent. of sugar, the cherry, only one and one- hafper_cent.; in the peach there is about nine per_ cent of soluble pectin and gum, while the gooseberry in- cludes only two per cent. of these bodies. In the common fruit the per- centage of free acid varies from a mere trace to about three per cent. The pear is almost wholly free from acids, while the current contains three times as much free acid as sugar. The (grape is probably the best fruit adapts to the sick. As heat and force producing foods, five and one-half pounds of grapes, six and two-thirds pounds of apples or cherries. ten and three-fourths pounds of currants, are equal to one pound of starch. The di- etetic value of the fruits is chiefly due to their fine flavor and their abundance of saline matter. card From Dr. Dio Lewis. OFFICE or D10 LEWIS’S MONTHLY. Bible House N. Y. 12th. Aug., 1884. Mr. Editor: Dear Sir—I have at length gained possession of my mag- azine——DIo LEWIS’S MONTHLY. Here- after all communications to its Editor or Publisher, and all business about my books must be adressed D10 LEW- rs, BIBLE House N. Y. Those who have sent money to oth- ers for Dro LEwIs’s MONTHLY, or for his books and have received nothing in return, will please communicate with me at once. Very respectfully, Dro Lnwrs. For Fertilizing Salt, address Larkin «lr Patrick, Midland City, Michigan. . TEE GRANGE VISITOR. €:nrret11u1I1Ie1I.tr- chronicles. CHAPTER I. Now it came to pass in the reign of Begole the Governor, that certain sons of toil came together on Hickory Is- land in the township of Akron to hear one Cyrus, whose surname is Luce, to listen to words of wisdom: and behold he broke forth in the following words: “Ye tillers of the soil, why do ye not band yourselves for protection ?” Ev- ery other trade or business is guarded against fraud but yourselves; the mer- chant, the lumbermen, the shoemaker, the butcher, and even the tailor, (who is but the ninth part of a man) each meets with his fellow workmen and says, “We will bind ourselves with an oath, that we shall sell for much, and no man will sell for less, but must abide by his oath ;” but ye who feed all, from the king on his throne to the beg- gar, and pay for all from the robe that decks the princess, to the coffin that buries the pauper. have naught to say as to what ye will receive for your hard wrung products of earth, the price of your commodity being found without your consent or knowledge. From dawn till dark, ye and your wives and children toil literally fulfilling the command, “thou shall earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow.” What the merchant. and the shoemaker, and the tailor leaveth, the tax gatherer taketh; and if perchance he leaveth a small portion, then decendeth upon you a swarm of harpies called middlemen or agents who place temptations before you inthe shape of reapers, cultivators, fan- ning mills, patent churn, or some other kind of “agrivator” to consume what little yet remains in your store ho use, or perchance he taketh your note, and that small paper will be a“skeleton in your closet” that at the appointed time will walk boldly out, grinning at your troubled countenance if the money is not forthcoming. He further instructed and said; we have a league called the Grange, where men and women join themselves to- gether, to resist them that eat your substance, ye can go to those that sell and buy for yourselves, also we have men :at convenient places to go to them that make those impliments of labor called farm machinery, and buy for you so much less than ye pay to middlemen. But they harkened to his voice as men who having ears hear not; and the rains decended continual- ly, and it came to pass, instead of fields of corn and wheat stood lakes of water overflowing the land, and the fruits of the ground perished where they stood; and behold the land was filled with murmerings against the Lord of the harvest, and they said one to another, “What will become of us ?” “We will all perish of hunger.” but when they looked a portion was saved, and they began to smile again. After the harvest was gathered in the demon of Discontent again entered into the sons of men, and they said; “Our taxes are very grievious, how shall we ever be able to pay them? They forgot He who fed Israel in the wilderness, and hears the young ravens when they cry And about this time certain men arose and said: “We must dig wide and deep ditches to drain our lands that the floods may not again overcome us,” and they began to run to and fro, carry- ing great scrolls of paper called peti- tions, and many set their names there- on, and a cry went up to one Cook, “Come over and help us ;” and he being in high authority, even drain commis- sioner, came and bargained with them that they should dig so many rods of ditch for so much money, and all men with one accord began ditching, saying, “It will pay our taxes, and eke out our scanty store.” It was even as they said, and peace and prosperity reigned once more. and the lions in the way shrank out of sight for a season. CHAPTER II. And it came to pass in the 2nd. month of the following year, and'the 20th day of the month, there came from Ellington, one having authority over those sons of toil called Grangers, and to join themselves together, saying; “Lo l I have lived these many years as a Granger and surely derive benefits from it; and he showed them how, by assembling themselves together one might derive benefit from another’s experience; also it fostered kindly feelings among neighbors where they met at divers times, and he asked certain of the men; “Wilt thou help in the matter?” But they answered; “Nay, verily, our burdens are as heavy as we can bear :” but this man Hatch was not cast down, but came yet again the second time bringing his Bro Bur- rington, and lo I they two prevailed, for one after another to the number of twenty-three, leagued themselves with the multitude of Grangers. Cassius, whose surname is Hazen, was chosen Master, he being familiar with their workings, also of good re- pute among his fellowmen; and Flora, his wife, was also counted among the sisters; now this same Flora is well versed in the love of the Grangers, and the brethern and sisters often come to her for advice, and never seek in vain; she is of ruddy countenance, fair to he exhorted them with much speaking ‘ look upon, and of a merry heart that doeth good like a medicine. Next ;in command was chosen Charles, who is of the tribe of Honey- wells to be Overseer of the labors, for as much as he has much land, and many flocks, he must needs instruct the brethern in their duty. Maggie, his wife, who is a true help-mate, join- ed with him saying; “Whether thou goest, I shall go ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God, my God.” Next came Samuel, the Colemanite, who was made Lecturer, and well doth he fulfill the oflice; he exhorteth the Grangers nightly with much speaking saying; "Why will ye put your hand to the plow and look back ?” “Ye must enter into the thing with the spirit, and each bring his mite for the good of the Order, or it will utterly fail; and many began to wake up to their duty and found themselves not entirely dumb as had they supposed they were, each asking knowledge of the other; then said Samuel of Coleman: “It is a good thing, for it will teach our young men and maidens the need of learning to speak in public, and before their fel- lows, not hanging their heads when called upon, and answer with one ac- cord, “I pray thee have me excused.” Sister Mary who is called Luther with her young son and daughter, unit- ed themselves with the Grangers: this Mary with the help of her son tilleth the soil, raiseth cattle, and everything about seemeth thrifty and prosperous, showing that she is a capable woman, her son being an example to the young men round about, sober, active, and ag- greeable. Sister Carrie Luther being chosen to the arduous post of Secretary performeth her duty as she doeth ev- ery thing else, with neatness and dis- patch, mt-riting the thanks of the breth- ren and sisters. Bro. and Sister Garlick, with their daughter Nellie are counted among the faithful that come every regular meet- ing; the sister being chorister, maketh our hearts glad by her sweet songs, cheerful countenance, and kind regard for our welfare. As the shepherd careth for his sheep, so our pastor joined the little flock of presence and counsel, bringing also his wife and daughter. But not many days after they were both afliicted with di- vers diseases or the flesh, and were sick certain days, so we looked in vain for their coming. Our Worthy Treasurer, Bro. of Mary, seeing that the Grangers had no place of meeting where they might come to- gether, freely offered his dwelling, which they accepted gladly. Now, this Charles had come from the far land of the East, even the Empire State while yet very young: when he became a man after the manner of other men, he look- ed upon the daughters of earth, and saw that they were fair, but none pleased him till he saw Emma, the daughter of Elihu; and behold when he looked upon her his heart was no long- er in his keeping, the maiden had stolen it, and he thought within himself she will look well to the ways of my hous- hold; for she eateth not the bread of idleness. When he spoke to Emma of these things she went straightway to her father saying, “Sure1yI will remain no longer with thee, for to-morrow I become the wife of Charles.” ()n the morrow it was even as she said,lhey were married after the manner of the Akonites. Our Worthy Gate-keeper who is call- ed Mead, at one time thought to better his condition by a change of occupa- tion, but six month life in town caused him like the prodigal to return, not to his father’s house, but to the farm say- ieg, “Would that I had not left it, for the last state is worse than the first: and God had surely afliicted our broth- er, and he mourned sincerely many days; but as the days of mourning drew nigh to a close he thought within himself, it is not good for man to live alone, so casting his eyes about, they fell on a comely widow, and when he beheld her his heart was made glad, and he rejoiced with exceeding great joy. Last holiday they appeared to us together looking pleased and happy, and all who looked upon them said, “It is well.” Of our Sister Nettie it may be said, “Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. And Grant—not he of Rebelion fame—being a man of peace, not of war, going about armed, not with swords and _shields, but with smiles and pleas- ant words; he therefore maketh great havoc with the hearts of the daughters of men, passing lightly from one to an- other, always welcomed by the young and the old. Time would fail me to speak of all the doings of the Grangers, of our Bro. and Sister Edmonds who are prevented from meeting with us at all times, the distance being so great, that after the toils of the day they are very weary. We must not forget our Sister Winter whom the Lord hath afllicted with di- vers diseases, so that for many days her life was dispaired of. Now our Bro. Sam is not of the mind of some other men who thinketh the woman’s place is at home taking care of the baby, while the man taketh his recreation alone, for he said, “My wife must be one of you or I can not re- main,” and immediately they proposed the Sister’s name, and she straightway became one of the Grangers, And many were seeking informa- tion, one wished to learn how to drain the sons of toil, making glad by his 1 his farm, an other, what would de- stroy wire-worms, and still another what kind of fences to make? The sisters also began to thirst for knowl- edge asking in regard to household mat- ters; is it profitable to make rag car- pets? How to preserve butter for a length of time? Now this pleased us, for if we lack in knowledge we should ask that it may be given us. Here endeth the second chapter. OUR ENTERTAINMENT. "A little nonsense now and then, Is relished by the best of men l” The members of Prairie Grange will give an entertainment in which each one will take the part mentioned. There will be all sorts of musical in- struments, from a violin up to a jewe- harp; the entertainment will take place in Sister Luther's grove on the even- ing of the 23rd day of July, 1884. The programme is as follows: Opening piece—In the Days When we were _’ioneers—Quartette, by Sis- ters Garlrck, Hubbell. Edmonds and Hazen. King Edward the First.—Song, by Sister Carrie Luther. The Last Ditch—(not political). Or- ation by Bro. Ilubbell. There's a good time coming—Recita- tion by Bro. Hinson. Beware of Widders —Soliloquy by Bro. Mead. Why don’t the men Propose——l)uet, by Sisters Mc Greggor and Tyrrell; at the same time a dirge will be played on the bass drum as an accompaniment by Bros. Hazen and Honeywell. The Miseries of a liachelor, or I Must and will get Married—Declamation by Bro. Grant. Maggie, with the Light Brown Hair. —Song, by Bro. Budd Luther. After a While—-Recitation by Bro Edmonds. . Sealed Leap-year Prososals-—by Sis- ters Carrie, Nettie, and Maggie. To be distributed to the young men by Bro Garlick. Mr. l’ickwick’s Proposal-—Drama, by Bro’s Hubbell, Edmonds; Sisters Luth- er Hinson, and others, including Mas- ter Freddie Luther. Nothing to Wear—llecitation, by Sis- Hubbell. Our Minister's Sermon—liecitation by Sister Tyrrell. We Won’t go Home till M orning— Chorus by Bro’s Hinson, llazen and Mead. Don't Believe all you Hear-—Dialogue b_y Sisters Honeywell, Hazen and Gar- 1c The whole to be concluded with a grand chorus, in which each member will sing the same piece with a difl'erent tune, with Jim. llubbell to rattle the bones, Bro’s Luther and llazen whistle- ing- If the members are not satisfied with the musical instruments they can have a brass band stationed at one end of the grove, and then “There will be brass at both ends.” RULES or‘ run EVENlI\'(;. “Children under one year of age will not be admitted unless accompanied by their parents or guardian.” "Those who think they will enjoy themselves better by leaving early in the evening, are desired to do so, but to open and shut the doors quietly, and wear their own hats away.” Tickets one dollar, to be had at the door. REBECCA. The entertainment was intended as a “take off” on the members, which of course can not be understood except by those acquainted with the circun1stanc- es. Montcalm Pomona Grange. This morning our quiet city of Greenville was the scene of an unusu- ally lively time: Montcalm County Pomona Grange, held a festival at Baldwin Lake about one mile from Greevllle, and invited some of --ur neighboring Granges to participate with us. According to previous ar- rangements all formed in a procession at 11 A. M., making a procession about one mile in length. There were about 600 people who partook of our bounti- ful store of provisions, and manv more could have been supplied. Af- ter dinner exercises were had on the platform of the grounds. Sisters Rose Taylor, Linna and Nina Baker, and Bro’s William Taylor, Professors F. C. and W. L. Snyder, gave us sever- al pieces of excellent music, with Sis- F. C. Snyder as organist. Addresses were delivered by Bro. A. P. Brown, of Bushnell, Master of the County Grange, and Bro. W. L. Snyder, and John E. Taylor. The addresses were thoroughly comprehensive, and most interesting, and exhibited what edu- cation can do for our farmers. The programme, and the manner of carrying it out, gave great credit to those having charge of the occasion. Perfect harmony was maintained from first to last. The thorough education of far- mer’s sons and daughters should be at- tended to. Only teachers who are competent and accurate, should be hired in our country schools. Then there would be no need of sending the children away to receive a flrst class common school education . The quiet and retirement of country life would afford superior advantages for thought and meditation in connection with proper training, and in comparison with the noise and bustle of city life far- mers would be gratified with the re- sults. The tiller of the soil then, when called to public honors by political par- ties, would have no need to say, “I pray thee have me excused,” but would respond to such call and do his class and the nation credit. Every farmer who would do and live for his country’s prosperity, should at once becomea member of the Grange nearest his farm, and help to speed on the day when right shall be right, and truth shall stand, and God’s power to rule shall be reorganized in all the earth. . Fraternally, Mus. J AS. W. BELKNAP, Sec. of Montcalm Grange, 318. SEPT. 1. 1884. Calhoun county Grange. Our regular meeting was held at Pennfield Grange hall Thursday, Aug. 14th, and being a meeting of especial interest I send you just a synopsis of the proceedings. Mrs. Chauncey Hicks gave an address of welcome, saying it was meet that a woman should wel- come the Patrons of the county to their meeting showing in a most beau- tiful and logical manner what the Grange had done for the toiling wo- men of the land. A beautiful letter was read by the Secretary from a sick sister (Mrs. Cameron) who for more than a year has been most sorely alllicted. With the letter came 100 badges that this sick sister had made while confined to bed, or couch, or bol- stered up in her chair. The kindness will long be remembered by every member of Calhoun County Grange. Mrs. Edward Brown read an excellent essay,—title, Do the labor-saving imple- ments in the house correspond with those upon the farm? A lively dis- cussion followed the reading of this paper. Bro. C. C. McDermid read a paper entitled Problems in American farm- ing, an stated some of the problems that the farmer has for years been trying to solve. lle not only gave us problems but also his opinions as to the solutions of some of the vexed ques- tions. Mrs. Johnson also read a paper whose title alone drew the attention of every sister present, “What can the housewife do to lessen the burden of cares resting upon her. The temperance question occupied (as it generally does) a part of the time; earnest men and women's voices were heard upon this all important theme. Eight new members names were pro- posed for admission into the county Grange, and will be received at our next meeting. Pennlield Grange en- tertained the Patrons in a royal inan- ner, serving a sumptuous dinner and also ice cream and cake, when we had a recess at 3 o'clock. .-Vin.-' l’r:nnv MAX’O, Sec. National Grange. P. of H.—Leclurer’s De- Department. CO)l.\lL'NI(JA'l‘lO.\' TO Tnr: N.\'l‘E on.\.\'uns. SL'BORl)l- a Masters and Lecturers of Subordi- nate Granges will please notice the following instructions from the Na- tional Grange: “The National Grange, by resolution, makes it the duty of Masters of Subor- dinate Granges to bring these ques- *ions before their respective Granges for consideration, and it is made the duty of Subordinate Grange Lecturers to lead in the discussion and solicit a full consideration. lfa question can- not be fully considered and disposed of at the nieetimr at which it is intro- duced. it should )6 placed on the order of unfinished business, so as to be again reached at a subsequent meeting. The National Grange sends these ques- tions out to assist the Subordinate Granges in the educational work. and to have questions of general impor- tance considered in every Grange in the United States in the same mouths and for the same purpose.” States who have furnished the ad- dress of their Subordinate Granges, will be supplied through the Worthy Secretary of the respective State Granges. We also mail copies to Granges and Patrons who have sent address, with request that they be furnished direct. 'l‘llE Ql.7ES'l'I()NS For this quarter are among those in which every farmer is deeply inter- ested, and we trust that they may be carefully read, well studied and prop- erly discussed in every Subordinate Grange. We can only exert influence for good in any direction and for any purpose in proportion to the know - edge we have of the undertaking; hence, if we desire to accomplish any good, to correct any errors, or improve upon the subjects named, we must un- derstand them in detail, and after dis- cussin them in the Grange, talk them up wit 1 outside friends, and in this way create a sentiment that will ac- complish the results desired. It is in this way that the educational work of thed Grange is made a power in the lan . Lecturer’: Communication-—Naiiona| Grange, P. of H. SUBJECT FOR SEPTEMBER. Question 66.—What are the political duties of Patrons ‘B rSugge.stz‘om.-In uniting with the Order of P. H., we neither surrender nor abandon any of the political rights and privileges guaranteed to every citr- zen, neither are we in any degree re- lieved from any of the political duties alrlid responsibilities attached to citizen- s 1p. The educational work of the Grange should enable us to better understand and more highly appreciate our polit- ical rights and duties. And honesty demands that we exercise these rights and discharge these duties upon the principles of justice and dictation of conscience regardless of dictatorial partizanship. It matters not so much what we pretend or profess to be politically as it does what we are and do politically. It matters not so much whether we belong to or claim to be free from party afiiliation, as it does what we our- selves do in party, or independent of party. If we belong to a party, it is our bounden duty as good citizens and Patrops to exert ourselves manfully in securing the very best material in the party for the public service. Men of undoubted integrity in whose hands we can safely trust our interest and the public welfare. If we act inde- pendent of party then direct those acts in a channel where they will accom-. plish most good. _ Patrons are not justified to remain in political inactivity, nor trifle with the sacred rights of the elective fran- chise. Fraternally, H. Esna.-men, Lecturer National Grange. SEPT 1, 1884. TEE GRANGE VISITOR. 5 it .. :5" l “ “J "'_’* M’. -6 gm.- -§-J lo qmmmnuiratinna. Improvement in our School System. I know of no subject more worthy ofour attention, no subject that we can more profitably think about and talk about than improvement in our school system. I allude particularly to our common schools, for they are under our imme- diate supervision and will be what we make them. The last school census informs us that there are 560,630 children between the ages of five and twenty years in our State, about one-third of the total population, and when we consider that that half million of girls and boys must soon be the foundation on which shall rest our agricultural, commer- cial, political and literary superstruc- ture, we readily realize the necessity of opening opportunities for them to acquire more knowledge and conse- quently be better prepared to enjoy more of life than their predecessors. Happiness is the great theme of all human beings, and there is no way to secure it except we seek it in the channels of wisdom; and if we become wise enough, we shall be happy enough, hence the need of giving our children better and better chances to be wise. Our topic, Improvement in our School System, indicates that we be- lieve there are errors therein, else there would be no need of improve- ment, and it requires but little investi- gation to satisfy any one that such is the case. Then we will first notice some of the errors and secondly how to remedy them. The first great error and the one that underlies them all is lack of in- terest upon the part of the people in the school work. The great difficulty being that Americans think more of filling their pockets than their heads; more of en- larging their purses than their brains. We are accused of being a commer- cial people merely, and, as a commu- nity, are said to be in danger of suffer- ing from an extinction of all the finer qualities of social life, and if the accu- sation is not altogether just, it is true that we are drifting that way. Some of our people are making themselves believe thatjall the rogues in the coun- try are educated men, and that edu- cating a man is liable to make him a burglar, a forger or a mur- derer and the general and final result be in conformity with the idea of an old gentleman with whom I was talking a few days ago. Said he: “I believe our educational system will, in time, be the ruination of the United States.” His idea being that the edu- cation acquired in school has a tend- ency to make people shiftless and un- willing to work, resulting at last in their ruin. Now, it is evident to any person who gives the matter serious and constant thought that such ideas are very erroneous; that a thorough knowledge of the arts and sciences taught in our schools will not make a rascal of any one, but on the contrary, will fill him with higher and nobler aspirations, and assure him that he has abilities to carry him through life as a man and not as a _brute; and al- though we are often told, and almost made to believe, that nearly all of the outlaws of the country are educated men, yet I think that investigation would invariably prove that they are entirely deficent in scholarly learning; that they were the ones, such as can be found in all of our schools, who spent their school days in fooling their teachers and in developing their ani- mal faculties. The second error is the employing of incompetent persons as teachers in our schools. Less consideration seems tobegiven by those who'have the matter in charge, as to the selection of persons for teachers than to any business they have to do, as if there was no particular importance attach- ed to it only to hire for little money. Would one hirea man to build a house who had never done such work, or enough of it to be boss of his busi- ness, or a man to establish the lines of his lands who had never had exper- ienceasa surveyor, or a woman to cook his victnals whose experience in the culinary department of the house consisted only in her having eaten what was prepared by others, simply because he or she would work for half price ? But when an applicant comes for a school, the question is, “what is your price? And if you will work cheaply enough, we will hire you.” And it being onlya makeshift for the young man or young woman, a bar- gain is made to suit the ideas of the school omcers, and he or she is then sent to the school inspectors for ex- amination, and if they are disposed to do their duty and find it necessary to refuse a certificate, the district ofilcers interpose and insist that a license be granted. because, they say, “our school 18 small, our scholars are small and this young man.” 01‘ Y0“!-18 W0’ man as the case may b9. “G811 d0 W911 enough for us,” and a certificate is granted, 'so the matter is disposed of without further trouble to the cm- oers, which is of much account to them. Then school begins, and the teacher, with book in hand, proceeds to dis- pense the great wisdom that he is possessed of. He calls a class in Arithmetic, he says, “John, what are fractions?” “Don’t know, sir.” “Why, John, fractions are broken numbers, are they not.” “Yes sir.” “James, how do you add fractions?” “Don’t know.” “Come now, James, you do know; you first reduce them to fractions hav- ing the same denominator, do you not?” “Yes sir.” Andsoit goes through the whole recitation, the teacher doing all the talking, surprising the school with the display of what they suppose to be his wonderful knowledge. Like Goldsmiths’ village school- master: “With words of learned length and thundering sound amazed the gazing rustics ranged around. And still they gazed, and still their wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.” Another great error in our school work is lack of thoroughness upon the part of all who are interested. Schol- ars are too eager and parents too will- ing that the elementary studies be dropped, only half mastered, to take up others that are new and seemingly more attractive, and instead of enter- ing upon a study properly qualified to commence and prosecute it with energy and success, they find them- selves incompetent for the work, and for the want of that mental culture, whichathorough knowledge of the lower studies would give, they either fail, or what is just about as bad, come out of school with only a superficial education, and if the little they have got fails to prompt them to further investigation, they might about as well have none. Another error is that our districts are too great in number. There are 6630 in the State, and there were employed during the school year ending Sept. 1882, fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty seven teachers. You see we are like the M. E. Church, we have so many appoint- ments to fill that we have to take any- thing we can get to fill them with. But perhaps enough has been said about the errors, and it will be well to name the remedies. When our legis lature passed the act making the schools free, requiring the property ownerstofurnish money to pay for the same, they made one of the best laws ever placed on our statute books, giving us a basis sure enough on which we may, if we will, build just what we want; and in the first place I would re- form by enlarging our districts, put- ting two, three or four into one. for scholars would better go four miles toa good school than four rods to a poor one. It is quite essential to have scholars if we expect tohaveaschool, but with our districts as they are we find only avery few attending, not enough for company, not enough to arouse ambition. Then all those who propose to make teaching their pro- fession should be required to attend apreparing school, under the mana- gement of the State, where the work of a teacher should be thoroughly ex- emplified; where they would learn how to teach as well as what to teach; where the prominent idea should be that the masses of the people should be taught what is most useful. what is required in every day business; where what is termed the “stuffing process” would be ignored; where a pupil could not pass unles he held a full hand; where the idea would be effect- ually instilled into their minds that the people require persons for teachers tobe actually possessed of sufficient common sense. as well as book learn- ing,to be able to improve the minds of the scholars whom they are hired to instruct; where they would receive diplomas as professors of common schools, which would be suflicient guaranty of their qualifications and fitness for teachers in any of that grade of schools. in the State. Then we should hire them by the year, and with a prospect of steady employment during life, they would feel that they had a work before them worthy of their best ef- forts, and we would find that there would be enough young men and young women willing to engage in the profession at from $300 to $500a year to fill the teacher’s positions in all our schools, and the cost to us be less than at present. C. E. Dnwnv. [Read at Oakland Pomona Grange, No. 5, held in Waterford on Tuesday, May 27.] The Public High school. Mr Frank Little’s article in the Vrsrron of August 1st, with the edi- tor’s note endorsing it, have been ex- tensively read and have set some peo- ple thinking on that subject. With- out doubt their expressed hope that it will be fully discussed will be real- izod. There are some considerations in fa- vor of retaining the high school as a public institution. First, is the assumption a true one that high school graduates are "usual- ly the children of well-to-do people.” That term denoting "those whose ag- grcgate valuation exceeds five thou- sand dollars each?” Very doubtful. An experience of thirty years in teaching does not verify it. The cata- logues of twelve years in academies endowed by private munificence show full half of the graduates, the children of parents whose property did not equal five thousand dollars each: and those of eighteen years in public schools show a still greater proportion, the sons and daughters of people of limited resources, no small per cent being young men and women, fitting themselves for teaching as a means of assisting their parents or of starting in life. This fact leads to a second consideration. That organization of the educa- cational forces of a state which does not provide within itself for the de- velopment and qualification of its own teachers is scarcely worthy to be called a public school system. If it is an appropriate function of the State government to provide a system of schools at the public expense, is it not equally incumbent upon that govern- ment to make provision, as a part of that system, for fitting its teachers for their work? The high school should prepare them fat‘ the technical train- ing of the normal school; and both should constitutea part of the sys- tem. But there is a third consideration so much broader and deeper and higher than these as to dwarf them in the comparison. All those discussions which proceed upon the assumption that the purpose of our educational system is simply to fit men for “busi- ness success” take a very narrow, par- tial view of the subject. It is a noble thing to be a good lawyer, or doctor, or minister, or merchant, or artist, or artizan, but it is a far nobler thing to be a good man. In this nation where every man is a sovereign, the duties of the citizen to his country, of the par- ent to his family, of the man to him- self and his God, infinitely transcend the responsibilities of the lawyer to his client, of the physician to his patient, of the pastor to his flock. The amenities of social life, the cor- dialities of friendship demand a higher intelligence than the duties of any profession: It requires a deeper philosophy, a higher degree of self- knowledge, a more searching insight into the human heart, a higher per- fection of mind and soul to be a good husband, or father, or brother, than to be a good merchant. Government- al institutions are good and sound and practical in just so far as they tend to develop manhood, to produce physically, intellectually and morally full-grown, well-poised, symmetrical men and women, men and women with great hearts and souls, all on fire with love for the race, all aglow with thought, full to over-flowing, with noble, magnanimous, generous sentiments. For no other thing can a State better afford to pay than for the development of such men and wo- men. And so long as the barefooted boys and girls of those in limited cir- cumstances are capable of such devel- opment, so long should the temples of higher culture be open to them in common with the sons and daughters of their wealthy neighbors. We all revere our revolutionary fathers, and in our affections the au- thor of the declaration of independ- ence holds no mean place, but admir- able as is the wisdom, the statesman- ship, the philanthropy of that immor- tal document, still more we recognize the profound philosopher, the large- hearted lover of humanity, the com- prehensive legislator, in the author of that system of education recom- mended by him to his own State—Vir- ginia. Our own system is like it, commencing in the district school and culminating in the State Uni- versity. Let itstand in its unity,as a monument to the wisdom of its pro- jectors. Let its influence develops every latent power of our youth into harmonious and vigorous action. 0. W. Hnvwooo. The High School is not Necessary to Busi- ness Success. This sentence quoted by Mr. F. L. in the VISITOR of Aug. 1, is in keeping with that peculiar idea in regard to business that has been in vogue with certain people for the last half cen- tury. Their theory was to spend as little money on education as possible. Get just that minimum that will ena- ble you to carry on your work,or trade. All above this was superfluous. This is the education that turns out all our cobblers, tinkers, quacks and pettifoggers in business and profes- sional life. This is the class that would cut off the high school and leave the poor in every community with no chance to educate their chil- dren. They would dwarf our union schools down to the meager common school curriculum of reading, writing, and arithmetic. These would-be phi- lanthropists say to the large class in every community, thus deprived of a high school, “You must be content with what the common school affords you, for the founders of our educa- tional system did not mean that the State should pay for education above the three Rs.” “Though the fair brow of your little boy may conceal the ethe- real fire that quickened the mighty minds of an Adams ora Henry, the State is too poor to pay for the high school training to develop such an intellect.” The founders of our school system took no such sordid view of education. They had a higher and more exalted view on this subject, and believed that a liberal education was the most practical, that the more people were educated the more virtu- ous and law-abiding they were. That the less they had the more vice and crime abounded in the land. Hence the State would save money by edu- cating the people. There is no one thing that exerts so injurious an influ- ence on our schools to-day as the per- nicious sentiment some hold concern- ing school system. The stream cannot rise higher than the fountain. A school board entertaining these senti- ments, and we have plenty of them, not only dampen the ardor of both teacher and pupil, but by their cold indifference in regard to education tend to diminish the attendance, es- pecially in the high school depart- ment that they would like to destroy. This department in our union schools is to the poor in every village and large town in this State what the col- legs is to the wealthy class. It is the only means for the education of their children. It is from the ranks of the poor that most of the eminent men and women in this country have sprung. Yet these practical men would cut off the very school that is developing so much of the intellectual wealth of the land. v. B. An Independent Press. There is much more talk each year in the independent press of the coun- try about the weakenings of party ties. The sturdy common sense of the American voter seems likely in the near future, to manifest itself. One symptom of this change is the growing independence of journalism. Several of the greatest and most influ- ential journals in the United States are so free in their expresssion of opinion on political subjects that their party standing can be determined only by tradition. Only a few years ago it seemed as necessary for a paper to belong to some political party as it was for a voter to be properly labeled as a Republican or a Democrat. Even the smallest country journals were careful either to declare their neu- trality or to raise the flag of one of the parties. In the latter case the paper was in the position ofa paid at- torney and to the impartial reader was about as reliable in questions of fact as a lawyer before a jury. It is becoming more apparent that it is not the function of true journal- ism to engage in partisan politics. Apolitical party may have newspa- pers in its interest but those interested should pay for it just as a merchant pays for his advertising or a client pays his attorney. In short, such papers should be recognized as the representatives and agents of certain groups of politicians and they should make no pretense of performing the office of real journalism. The time will soon come we hope when the great newspapers of the country, while consistentlv advocating cer- tain principles, will no longer consent to be called a Republican or a Demo- cratic journal. On the other hand neutrality in po- litical matters is worse than partisan- ship. It is cowardice and extreme selfishness openly confessed. All the important questions before the peo- ple ought to be open to the freest discussion in every general newspa- per. A. J. Free Government. Free government is a contradiction. Government is the soul of despotism. Governments all depend finally upon physical power as represented by the army for the enforcement of their edicts. They necessitate war which is murder on a large scale, which in turn breeds murder and a variety of other crimes distributed pretty evenly throughout the world; and then gov- ernments try in vain to suppress the evils they have created. The poet appeals to individual man- hood and womanhood and says, “Be not like dumb driven cattle.” Govern- ment issues the same command with the word not stricken out. Slaves are told that they can share in sovereignty by the use of the ballot. To be a slave- holderis no better than to be a. slave, and to be a. sovereign and a serf at the same time is a double misfortune. “Our Free Government” looks well on paper. “Governments derive just power from the consent of the gov- erned” would look well if it was true, but it isn’t, but even if it was true where do they get their right to au- thority over women and children? Women have no part nor lot in gov- ernment except as its victims or as its beneficiaries, and yet the schools have set the girls to studying Science of Government, Civil Government. Sci- ence of bosh! Uncivil, masculine, mon- strosity. Women are under just as much obligation to study and obey the edicts of the Fee J ee Islanders. Mas- culinity, white and black, Wants to monopolize suffrage, but monopoly is at a discount and women will soon be voters, which may make a bad matter Worse by prolonging the reign of hate- ful authority. Liberty is not the des- potism of a majority. Liberty is obe- dience to natural law, and freedom from the interference of artificial laws. The pursuit of happiness is the study and application of natural law. GEO. Ronrmrs. The Average Caucus. Place, and time as convenient as possible for the boys, perhaps 8 o'clock, P. M.; the very important business, no less than selection of delegates to re- present the faithful, and a scattering of the great outside, the disgruntled farmers being represented by perhaps two or three. Why is it‘? Because they do not feel like turning out at that hour after the hard labors of the day, or they can not aflord to leave their work for a short time, because they have been there before and know how it is run? or, because they are not selfish oflice seekers, and think it not worth looking after? Now, the system is all wrong, or they are all wrong. They can judge for them- selves, I can explain it to my own satisfaction. It is something like a school. They sit around and wait patiently until the peda-demagogue appears. When his step is heard in the hall there is a stir among the instructed, and some one observes “there comes the boss, give him the chair!” The Boss dumps himself into it, school commences and well they have their lesson. Class No. 1 recites according to rule, and is accepted as the right thing for the whole country. So they goon until the whole have spoken their pieces, and all to the same effect. Now this same “Boss" and the others too, perhaps are terribly opposed to “strikers,” “packers,” “henchmen,” etc., except when the creatures do their ignoble work. Ye gods! Can you not devise some better method? I humbly think you might. And this is the way. that the people get mis- represented, is it strange that we some- times stray from the fold, and go it independent. G. L‘ S. Ex-Governor Si. John of Kansas on Tem- peranco. “I did isay that the action of the Chicago Convention in wholly ignor- ing the temperance queetion, is an insult to every prohibitionist and ought to be condemned by every Chris- tain man and woman in the United States. The convention could cross the Rockies and pitch into the Mor- mons and Chinese; it could protect the fleece of the scabbiest sheep, but nota word of sympathy or protection for the home in the fight against the saloon. Such political cowardice ought to be condemned by every Christain man and woman in the United States, and so far as I am personally concerned, it never shall be indorsed by my bal- lot. It is high time leading prohibi- tion Republicans were speaking out against the cowardly ignoring of the petition of 1,200,000 good men and women who plead for the home against the saloon.” We believe railroads are highways, for the use of the people, and subject to the same control or supervision as the old dirt or turnpike roads, and they may serve, not oppress and rob the people whose money builds and keeps them in repair, and that stock water- ing, stock dividends, fraudulent bonds and mortgages, are but a system of leg- alized piracy and should be prohibited by government. We believe it the du- ty of overnment to see that private capita actually invested in railroads receives legitimate interests and that charges be limited to do this and no more. We believe the electric tele- graph and telephone should be made a. part of our postal system and used im- partially for the dissemination of in- telligence, not (as now done), of exert- ing enormous dividends on ten times their actual cost and to conceal, sup- press or color news to suit the interests of the soulless monopolies and greedy comorants in control of them, thus misleading and deceiving the people on important public uestions and as a means of bribing o cials and debauch- ing the public service.—Enterprise (Kan.) Anti-Monopolist. If you want to vote directly for the interests of the nation have a care con- cerning who is sent to represent our district and State in Congress. t is here that public measures originate and are fostered until they are put out as the law of the land for good or evil to the people. If your represen- tatives at Washington are good men, determined to act for the welfare of the people, then prosperity and peace will be the people’s. If your represen- tatives are selfish or bad men, looking only to their own interests, and those of certain classes of citizens, then the masses, will suffer injury. Do not let the pomp and glitter of presiden- tial election continue to draw you away from the vast importance of hav- ing good men in congress.—0ats/till (N. Y.) Mail. Now in the‘ heat of the summer and of politics it is well for farmers to keep cool, to keep free from bewildermen that will seize upon thousands that run with the machine. Farmers have enough to do to attend to their own affairs, not that it is wise to abstain from political discussion, but it is wise to take part in politics with the pur- pose of advancing the true interests of the country, for that wil be also the true interests of farmers and of all citizens. One may go so far, as indeed he should, without losing his head. He who keeps cool during the heated political canvases just beginning will be very likely to do his duty more ful- ly, and more satisfactorily than if his balance be lost.—F1-om the Husband- man, Elmira, N. Y. The “coward’s session” is what John Swinton calls the present winter meet- ing of Congress. It is not a bad de- scription.—Newport (R. I.) Jounnal. The World’s Exposition. The World’s Exposition that is to be opened at New Orleans, is so far per- fected in all its departments that it is now in order to state that it will be the largest world's fair ever held. The buildings are larger than those erected for the Philadelphia centennial. The exhibits out-number those of any pre- vious exposition. Each of the States except possibly one or two, will be rep- resented by an exhibit. Congress has made a loan of $1,000,000 in favor of this centennial exposition. The U. S. Government will make a special ex- hibit, the largest it has ever attempted, costing hundreds of thousands of dol- lars, and to that end a mammoth building is being erected in the group of exposition buildings. The Mexican government has appropriated $200,000 and will erect a special building for its unique display. The Central Ameri- can republics have been aroused from their long slumber and will be fully represented for the first time among the great nations of the earth. At the exposition one may learn more about the natural resources of those regions than by an ordinary visit to Mexico or Central America. To lovers of music a visit to the Exposition will be highly gratifying as there is a music hall ca- pable of seating 11,000 persons and a stage large enough to hold 600 musi- cians. Grand concerts will be given during the season. Besides this the fact ought to be known that New Or- leans is the only city in the Union that has an established opera during half a century. Nor is this all. Strang- ers think themselves well paid by making avisit to the quaint old city at any time. During the carnival season tens of thousands of visitors flocked to the Cresent city to see the gorgeous pageants prepared annually at an expense to the citzens of from $100,000 to $200000. This lavish expendi- ture of money is for the gratification ofstrangers and home folks, and the displays are absolutely free. The cit- izens of the Southern metropolis who do such large things, in such a large way, have pledged their word to make their World’s Fair the crowning event of the century and they will do it. What Two costs can Do. Mr. Editor.--—The Patron’s lngersoll ready-mixed Rubber Paint is rapidly gaining favor in this vicinit . It covers more surface they claim. That I bought for two coats covered three, and its gloss and finish gives a heavy blow to all prejudice. I hope Patrons will stand by their own. Fraternally, LOTT HALL. [See advertisement.—l.y«-‘' ‘ 6 ._\‘El’l‘. 1, 1334. remarkable growth in public opinion in favor of woman suflrsge during the past year, and why such an event should be considered so very demoral z- ing to society, and to women in partic- ular, I am at a loss to find out. One says, “they would have to meet so many disreputable characters.” I ask, would they be likely to meet any worse characters at the polls than at many other places? Many women are in the habit of attending all kinds of public gatherings, such as circuses, wild beast shows, horse races, fairs, Lighted er ""6, “mom, ‘me; etc., where every variety of fraud and §n!::1l:i:gfelairps°:1;‘dlt(l!1l;:evkvB°efl.gl0W vicihare tolierztledi. l’iI‘slgey tfikgh sfiats . . on egrau s n , en e ec- §,‘,‘,',",,‘,',‘,ff,‘.,‘?°,°,§",‘;‘;',§‘,‘,.f,'§‘,‘§ m -116,’ tender ey." ture, watch the races and other mon- And showed me those shoes of heavenly hue, key pm-(01-mgnceg for two hours at 3 As she whispered low—but not to you. time’ with 8 Mary Magdalen on one side of them and a Judas Iscariot on the other. What I cannot under- stand is, why it should be so much more degrading to drop a ticket in the ballot box, than it would be to hand a ticket to a showman, or the gatekeeper at a county or State fair. A few years ago at our town caucus a woman was nominated for township superintendent of schools; no one doubted her ability to fill the oflice, or believed that she would degrade herself or family any more as super- intendent of primary schools than she would as superintendent of Sab- bath schools, (which oflice she had filled fora number of years,) but the ticket bearing her name was defeated. If I remember correctly there was but one on that ticket elected. gaffer flipazitnieqt. LITTLE BLUE SHOES. From The Woman’; Journal. Two little shoes of worsted blue, With satin ribbons woven through The scalloped tops, and slowly tied By trembling hands that could not hide her: owner's jo . as, standing there, She proudl hel aloft the pair, Two tiny s oes of azure blue Were shown to me—but not to you. She softly spoke. What matehless grace She whispers now; I yet can see Her face with its gentle mystery. She smiles and beckons; my fancy teems With fairy etchings, faint as dreams. But dimly true, that I saw in thought As I looked on the work her handshad wrought In hours transcendent ;-—those shoes of blue, Long hid from me—-still hid from you, Like little ships, serene and still, They wait for pasengers to fill Their co cabins, warm and neat, Crochete to shelter baby-feet. In many a port of love and cheer Such harbingers of life appear, From myriad pictures this I chose, A woman showing tiny shoes, For little shoes must ever await The little -feet that kindly fate Bring into the hallowed harbor fair Of father's kiss and mother's care; And I hold that, fast as the world may go, Such shoes and shoe-maker ’twill never on ow Queer little shoes, so soft and blue, Sometime— sometime, you'll see the m too. ELLA A. Grnss. —j——-Z}-&—j-Z-< woman accepting the nomination ? WHY IS IT SO‘! I do not believe that when women adopt occupations unusual to their sex, in which they work nobly and honor- ably that they have made a mistake. I believe they do just what God in- tended them to do. A man does notcut out his life work, according to the pat- tern of his sex, but according to the pattern of his ability; why then should a woman be barred from the track, through the prejudice of some, who can find no other fault than that she is a woman? Let a woman do what she can, not because she is a woman, but because she is a human being, and whatever work she takes up, if it increases her courage, her generosity, her pity, her charity for others, her power to influence for good, that is the work which God in- tended her to do. It matters not where her work may be, in the church or in the school, by the cradle or in the sick room, on the platform, Would Womflfl 31131389 WW9 3 or at the polls, so that she does her Tendency to demoralize Society? duty as a woman, she should be re- I P19501110 I 511811 incur the Ti dicule spected, not sneered at nor condemned. of some, for selecting this subject, but I know that some cjaim that any law; at 01"‘ 185‘? °°“n‘53' meeting I was framed with aview to make woman called on to speak on the question. free and independent will tend to her “Is it not a fact, that the most intelli- degradation, but I believe that “what 891“ men are in f“V°1' °f W0’-"3" is sauce for the goose, must be sauce 5“m'“3°7” The q“°9ti°n had alrwdy for the gander,” and if independence been replied to by one brother and Wm 50 “grade woman for hum,mi_ two sisters. The substance of the tyls sake let something occur to take brother’s remarks was, that he was a away some of the mdepenpence of great-lover of women, that his family man or he will become so degraded W°1'°“u w°m°n- and “mt it ‘"3 his that woman will not respect himat all. most sincere and most agonizing prayer to Heaven that his daughter who was then principal in a school, might never so far degrade herself as to meddle in politics; he was followed by a sister who said she agreed with the brother, and believed women had of live to see the day when she would so were is work for us to do”, aim fimuy far degrade her family and herself as gives "5 th,eSe Words’ “There 15 no ex’ to go to the polls and Wm I could cellence Without great 1abor.” only say that I did not think it would ,W°“' “us Ere?‘ man had “either t° degrade me in the least, and that dig nor delve, toil nor spin, and so it if everI should have the opportunity was an easy matter for mm to ten us to "vote, I should certainly do so. of tlie excellenc‘? of labor’ and our And now, after nearly three duty In regard to It‘ month's reflection I am satisfied that But after. an’ the labor question is it would be no more degrading to on 3 par .W1th oiher problems of ‘tile woman to attend the elections and de— day’ and 15 .not likely.’ to be Same? 1.“ posit her ballot than to vote at a °u.r generation? and’ If we besfr “H5 in county or State Grange‘ In regard mind, that it is not the calling that to the question referred to, is there 3 elevates the person so much as the per- brother or sister here who will deny 30.11 elevatgs t.he canmg’ we cannot that many of our most intelligentmen fall Eogeeft lltl 1: best to talfe up tour wor , e 1 ar or easy, p easan or ggognlafigfy olfst ?:;::nha:l;fl“:f;: hateful, with a matter—of—course deter- sent to the Massachusetts Legislature mination to accomplish it to the best _ _ of our ability, knowing that ‘honor 314 petitions for woman suffrage with - - . ~ 21,540 signers, about one_thi’rd of shines as brightly in the lower rounds f k, ' til ' --om mm. mm. thsmiiailiihiii-ltgiia£1§.i§..i§:(i "my b° fmmd minism“ °f ever-V honesty adds to the growth and devel- denomimtion, such as James Freeman Clark, Philips Brooks, :11:-1::,t ..(-Dlfhetlée i1:d:1r:1:ya;L pTe:etyo(1g J 95°91‘ C°°kv Wm‘ B' Wright! room at the top,” is a singularly‘ true Bradford K. Pierce, S. J. Burrows, 0ne_ Athowughly good andwpfipfect 13- P- I-'iV°rm°r° “Dd “hers? “Wye” workman in“ any branch ofifibiisiness such *5 Wm° B°wd“‘°hv Sunuel 13- is always sure sooner or later to stand Sewel, Judge Pltman, Judge Abbott, and John E. Fitzgerald. Business men, Henry Shaw Russell, Oliver Ames, William Lloyd Garrison, Rufus Frost, and John L. Witting; political men of every shade of opinion, ex-gov- ernors Claflin. Washburn, Banks and Butler, Congressmen George, F. Hoar and John D. Lang, ex-coll_e_ct- ors Russel and Beard. Collector Worthington, and Attorney General Snerman, the Hon. W. W. Crapo, and speaker Marden, Wendell_Phillips and John G. Whittier. These, and at the foot of the ladder, and are al- seven thousand other intelligent men, ways complaining of their bad luck. have expressed their desire to give It isa natural and social law, the wor- women the right to vote in municipal thy and fit are always preferred. and town affairs. Among my own It is nocondescension for us to Work, Some find work where some find rest, d so the weary world goes on; I sometimes wonder which is best; The answer comes when life is done. Some eyes sleep when some eyes wake, And so the weary night hours go. Some hearts beat where some hearts break, I often wonder why ’tis so. Some hands fold where other bands Are lifted bravely in the strife; And so thro' ages and thro' lands Move on the two extremes of life, Some feet halt while some fast tread, In tireless march a thorny way; Some struggle on where some have fled; Some seek, when others shun the fray. Some sleep on while others keep The vigils of the true and brave; They will not rest till roses creep Around their name above a grave. —Father Ryan. "-“" Woman Suffrage. [Read at Pomo_lia—Grange at Crys- tal, by Mrs. Mary A. Bowen.] The Dignity of Labor. The dignity of labor is a favorite theme in prose and poetry. A great man tells us that “Work is the cure of all the miseries and maladies which afliict mankind! and it is a matter of are eagerly sought. but the products of human hands, guided by an educated brain, with taste and experience almost rival ma- chinery. The question of work makes us ap- peal to sentiment. Skilled workmen are always in demand. It "only those who give slop shop work who find themselves just where they began, very limited acquaintance, many -3! no matter whetherlt 'be on the farm, those who are the most intelligent, are ‘in the house, the shop, the office or willing to accord to women what is the store, whether sailor, soldier, is morally theirs. Those of you who teacher or preacher, in fact, no matter keep posted, know there has been a what the occupation, we should resolve ‘ ‘ -.'_;5,,w».-Vs-'05"-e"--4‘-V4-vac"-i: Was there anything wrong about that _ at the head, and his work and advice’ Machinery has been pfoducpd aids largely in accelerating our wolfkj’ TEE GBAHGE VISITQB. to do our work the best. however hard and disagreeable, and do it with- out complaint. It is not best for us to be habitually contrasting our surroundings with our supposed merits, or to think we ar’e":s0 much worse off than our neighbors. If mind and body be sound and healthy, what is there we cannot face ‘B Can- not we be refined and intelligent, even if we must earn our living? Has not the Divine Master set the example of intelligent, practical work, for is not creation going on continually around us, and did not Ile pronounce the work of the creation of the world and its various inhabitants “very gogbd '3” It matters much with usthen wheth- er we be happy and cheerful under the conditions in which we are placed, or whether we make our life mean and pitiable with continued grumbliugs at wish, we are contented to be and do all that we can to make life pleasant for ourselves, and for those with whom we live. ‘ -~ If we cannot build a railroad, organ- ize a bank, found a city,or create a state, we have work just as important right at home. Said a gentleman to me a few days ago: “we are none of us of much account in this world, for when We are gone, are places are soon filled and we are forgotten; our life passes as a tale that is told.” I said then. and I say it now, that de- pends upon the story our life will tell, for we do not suffer or work alone. Other lives are so bound up in our lives that :— ‘-We cannot think that it matters not How we live our life below, It matters muchto the heedless crowd, That we see go to and fro; For all that is noble, and high, and good, Has an influence on the rest, And the world is better for every one Who is living at his best.” ‘ AL'xT SARAH. , How Shall we Entertain Company at Our Homes‘! [Read in Moline Grange by S. Fel- t0u.] ‘Now, therefore, I having been named and chosen to tell you what I know about entertaining company, do hereby feel it my duty to warn you, that your guests will in all human probability, come unexpectedly upon you and like Ruth Hall’s mother-in- law, to the back door, for such is the custom of the country in which we dwell". And if, peradventure. at that moment, your hands be engaged in mixing the staflfpf life for your house- wife’s brow shall man eat bread.’ If your faded calico chances to be not immaculate in cleanliness and sur- mounted by the inevitable kitchen apron, if the breezes have been play- ing at hide and seek in your hair since the hasty touch you gave it before breakfast, even then hesitate not. A change of wardrobe may not be possi- ble but how fortunate that you wear your company manners every day and how more than fortunate, that unlike our garments, they improve with use for “an attractive every day bearing comes of sincerity and refinement,” and with its aid you march bravely to the front-I mean to the back door, and extend a cordial and I dare say, heart felt welcome, for who is not glad to receive her friends? Now, if you are the happy possessor of a roomy and well appointed house, if in the domain that you have just left, you have left also a willing and reliable assistant (may the number of such assistants increase), what might have been a task is surely only a pleasure. A few moments will doubtless suf- fice to make you presentable and with a mind at ease, a very necessary ad- junct to the successful entertaining of company, you are ready to play the part of the agreeable hostess. In the ideal home will be foundmuch to sug- gest pleasant and instructive conversa- tion. Books, music, pictures, flowers have each apart’. Wearying of these, though I think one"nev_er would, there are games entertaining alike to old "and young; and their "’tl_iere are , those old‘ but inexhaustible topics, the weather, the short comings of your neighbor and the political situation. These we have always . with us. But all our lives have not"been cast in as pleasant places as have those of the mistress of the ideal, "home; and to =‘—ma_hy,‘a4farmer’s,_wjlfe, company, very .though “it may be, _mes_ns more than pleasant chat and parlor egtertainment; auiishe who can under adverse gcircumstances, with perhaps neglected duties that will not be for- gotten, assume the role of the cheerful and dignified" hostess’ and cause her guests to feel thoroughly comfortable and at ‘home, she has learned and to a purpose, the art of entertaining, the true science of hospitality. , ‘ V .4 _.Ml‘s. Powers, a beautiful widow of Wat Las Animas, is said to be the wealthiest cattle raiser in the west. She is worth $15,000,000, and is called the native-acattle ‘quben. The womeli and girls of the south and west rearannually $45,000 worth of silk cocoons. It is an industry which may be extended over almost every part of the United States. our supposed hard lot; whether if we ‘ cannot be all, and have all that we hold, be not dismayed, for labor de-- gradeth not and by the sweat of his, .n,0t The Grange Visitor. Man is said to be a social being, and the same may certainly be said of we- men. And I think I am safe in say- ing that there is no one who does not enjoy a social visit with a friend or neighbor, and who does not feel rest- ed and refreshed after a friendly chat? Yet there are times with us all,when tired and worn with extra work and care, we do not feel equal‘ to the task to entertain even the“ best of our friends; at such time there is no more welcomd guest than the GRANGE Vrsrron. It comes is quietly, wait- ing patiently to be noticed, until such time aswe are ready to devote to it, and then instead of having to be en- tertained, it is always ready to enter- tain us. Whenever. in the daily round of toil, there comes a few moments of leisure, or really one becomes too wea- ry to go on without a little rest. then it is that the real worth of our VISIT- OR becomes apparent. While reclining on the couch. or an easy chair, resting the tired body, the ever welcome VISITOR .is ready to do its best to entertain and interest us; wasting neither time nor space in try- ing to prove that the moon is not ,made of green cheese, or in the use- less task of trying to convince peo- ple that they are all wrong on po- litical questions,it is ever ready to give us free, noble thoughts in what- ever is perplexing’ in‘ our daily work on the farm, ever bringing us new ideas, and seeking easier ways of get- ting along with hard jobs, instruct- _ ing our young people, and helping to make farm life pleasant to them. In short, it is THE VISITOR that is ever welcome in our homes, in sun- shine and in storm, on blue _dsys or light days, in sickness or in health. Long may it be ere we cease to wel- come to our homes “THE GRANGE Vlsrrox.” Brass. Battle Creek Grange, Aug. 9, 1884. ______________ Home Obligations. Ignorance is called the Mother of Selfisllness, and I believe it to be true. If we find an educated, true and noble soul, willing to sacrifice ease and com- fort for the sake of others comfort, there we will find the foundations for a cheerful, happy home. How important if we expect to be happy, that we cultivate the high and noble qualities inherent in our nature. There is often more true love and ullion in the homes of the lowly, where true nobility of soul exists, than in the halls of the rich, for the reason that wealth makes people‘ V selfish; necessaily so. but as a natural consequence. The fact that they have their own way in so many things that wealth can buy, causes them to be selfish in all other respects. Ilow of- ten do we see people with a strong love of home, unhappy when obliged to be long absent from the sacred spot where peace and harmony reign su- preme. No wonder there is a soul thirst that nothing else can satisfy. The weary,‘_worn traveler sighs for it when in a distant land. The young and old, the rich and poor, the sad and weary, all yearn for home. I have heard the soldiers say that there were more who died in the. war from sheer homesickness, than’ all other sources combined. Yes, a place of rest we feel it to be when we seek and enter it after the busy cares and trials of the day are over. Home! what a hallowed name. Ask the little child what is home, you will find that to him it is the world; the father’s love, the mother's smile, the sistcl’s embrace, and the brothers welcome. The home of my childhood I What words fall upon the ear with so much music as those which recall the scenes of early childhood ? Knowing that it is impossible to love that which is unlovely, let every husband and wife try to make them- selves as agreeable as possible, that their companions may not find it rough sailing over the uneven sea. of life. and calltheir one haven any thing but a happy «home. ~— A Mus. A. J. WICKMAN. . Manning. 1': - . “There is no greater source of trial to tlibaverage housekeeper who has a. family of little ones, than weekly nrending. V However strong and’ _well garments areas to fabric and make; ho,lcs’and rents will come, and they must-,be stopped everylweek by the systematic wife and. mother. Shall I tell you my plan ‘B’ I hive a family of six. to mend for, and I sometimes tliinkl have more than my average share; not of family, but of mending, for some of them are so bent upon coming through every garment. I have two lttle girls, nine and eleven years old, and they do nearly: all my mending. Now, mothers, do not be shocked at this and think I am one of those awful creatures who work little girls beyond their trength, for I am not. I think it a’ Viijity toward my daughters, to teach ‘them this, and a dutflto ‘myself-,to try togease my labors all Izean. When my clothes are ironed 1 fold them when properly dried and lay all articles to be mended in a pile. Then generally there will come a spare 15 or 20 minutes when I take my patch- -believe there is nothing more certain es and baste each one, all ready to be i seWed.tliis can be done quickly, and then they are ready for the little girls: ‘ an hour or only a half for two or three afternoons and your mending will be done. It teaches them the use of the needle, teaches them to be independ- ent, able to do for themselves and also teaches them some of the practical duties of life that they must have, and which can never be better learned than when they are young, and are under mothers’ tender care. There are of course, some garments they are not equal to, and some of them are not done so well as I could do it myself, but it is done, never to rip, and every Week they must try to improve upon it. Mothers, just try it and see if it does not work well; if they get tired or rebellious, a story told by mamma will help wonderfully, but do notlose your patience, what ever you do, and then insist on its being well done. Morlilzli. _%_______________ Editor GRANGE \'lslToIr—-It is won- derful what a distance man's imagina- tion can soar away to, when unchecked in its flight. I was forcibly reminded of this fact while reading THE VISITOR of Aug. 15, which contained an article signed “G,” and headed "Notes From Island Park." G. while on that trip’ must have worn a pair of spectacles of immense magnifying power. I have no desire to criticise the above article at length, but will toilcll briefly on two or three points. I happened to be at Island Park during the very some days mentiolled by your corresponilellt, ex- cept Saturday, therefore do not speak from hearsay. Speaking of the Taber- nacle G . says, “Under cover of an im- mense roof are comfortable seats for 6,000 people etc. New ill(‘Ie arenot either comfortable or uncomfortable seats in that building for one-third of that number, and furthermore, there were meetings during those days when the seating capacity was more than suflicient. Again: G. says, “Flags of all nations fluttered from the sides” etc. The only thing wrong about that state- ment, was the simple fact, that the flags of all nations did not flutter from the sides or ends either. Speaking of the crowd waiting for Mr. '1‘alm-age G. says: “Then from a throng, 12,000 strong, burst and fluttered aloft the beautiful Chautauqua salute, etc." Let us see a little about the "burst and flutter” business. The fact was, Mr. Gillet came forward to introduce Ml‘. Talmage, and before doing so he re- quested everybody to get out their handkerclliefs, and give Mr. Talmadge a grand salute, and he stood there and continued to repeat his request until a good many handkerchiefs were waved, but not more than one-tenth of 12,000. That is the plain story of the grand “burst and flutter.” Further on G.says, “Few, I dare say . heard all of Mr. Talmage’s lecture, although he is gifted with a strong voice, and exert- ed it to the utmost.” What sense or reason is there in that statement? The writer tells us that the building will seat 6,000 people, and yet a man with astrong voice, exerting it to the utmost, can be heard by only a few. The correspondent says Mr. Tal- mage did homage to the name of woman, and added. “He ascribed to her an eminence that lifted her far above the scoffs and sncerings of In- gersoll and his followers.” Notwith- standing the exaggerated expressions of this fanciful correspondent, I am very loth to believe that the writer of that sentence, would knowingly publish a willful falsehood, even by implication; hence, the most charitable view I can take of the matter is, that the writer spoke altogether at random, or was prompted by one-sided, strongly preju- diced hearsay evidence. No truthful man or woman, of whatever religion, who has heard or read all of I ngersoll’s lectures, would have made as gross a blunder as to utter such a sentence as the one quoted above. There is no question of reform for which Ingersoll has striven more earnestly or continu- ously, than for the elevation of women. It is almost amania with him. Grant for the sake of argument, that Inger- soll’s views in regard to religion are totally wrong and unfounded; grant that he has told innumerable lies in his lectures;grant; that he is abase, wicked and dangerous man; still I think G. is the first one who has ever accused him of scoffing and sneering at women. Mr. Talmage himself, did not even hint such a. thing. Whether Ingersoll’s influence is bad or good, I than the fact that it cannot be destroy- ed by misrepresentation. I feel no un- kindness toward the writer whose ar- ticleI have briefly criticised, but for the sake of G.’s own reputation, I truly hope that no more unfair, unjust re- marks about anybody will appear in articles over the above signature. Let us be fair, no matter what the result may be. That is the way to cultivate i self-respect. The Grange force is made up of people of all shades of opinion,and the work will be seriously retarded if intolerance is allowed to become prom- inenent. This is not Written for the purpose of provoking a discussion on any subject whatever; but simply to assist in checking the bad habit that too widely prevails, of making reckless, extravagant, and misleading state- ments in the newspapers, on a variety Eminent Opinions on Woman Suffrage. _—_. Justice is on the side of woman suf- frage.—-William H. Seward. All I have done for negro suffrage I will do for woman suflrage.—Henry Wilson. In the progress of civilization, wom- an suffrage is sure to come.—Charles Sumner. I am highly gratified with the late demonstration in the senate, on the question of female sufl‘rage.——Hon. Geo. W. J llian. I believe that the enfranchisement of woman would be a direct benefit both to woman herself and to the S.'ate.—Rev. Charles F. Thwing. Woman's suffrage is undoubtedly coming, and I for one expect a great deal of good to result from it.——Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I believe that the great vices in our large cities will never be conquered until the ballot is ut in the hands of women.——Bishop impson. I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bear- ing its burdens,‘ by no means exclud- ing women.—Abraham Lincoln. In view of the terrible corruption of our politics, people ask, Can we main- tain universal suffrage? I say no. not without the aid of women.—Blsh- op Gilbert Haven. In the administration of a State, neithera woman as a woman nor a man asa man has any special func- tions, but the gifts are equally diffused in both sexes.——Plato. Why should not women vote? The essence of all republlcanism is thzt they who feel the ressure of the law shall have a voice a its enactment.—— Rav. John Plerpont. I have not found a respectable rea- son why women should not vote, al- though I have read almost everything that has been written on the subject, on both sides.——M. J Savage. I think there will be no end to the cod that will come by woman's suf- 'rage, on the elected, on elections, on government, and on woman herself.-— Chief-J ustice Cllusc. Woman have quite as much interest ill good goverllruent as inch, and l have never heard any sutisf'.ictol' ' rea- son fur excluding them frolu the allot box.—George William Curtis. ._________________ The Improvement in Woman's Dress, But we women who are advanced in life rejoice at the ilnprovelllellts made in the dress of women within the last 30 years. We remember when the S and 10 breaths of it dress skirt were pulled out allddistcnded by from six to ten stifl white uliderskirts, the waist was drawn into wasp-like proportions, the skirts were long enough to catch all the dirt of the streets, and the feet of the wearers were encased in papcr-sol- ed slioes—the smallest one could get. The other day ainerchunt in Boston who deals extensively ill under-cloth- ing for women, said that a few years ago, when ladies came to be fitted with corsets, it requires the service of an at- tendant during sever-ll hours a day to lace them; and she was obliged to put her llzuids into ice water, so diflicult was the task. “But” he says, “ladies do not wear small corsets now, not dress as i'ormcl'ly.” lle sells "improved waists” in grczitnumbcrs, worn instead of corsets. __________.__.__ Dr. Kedzie says: In cooking acid fruits housekeepers unwittingly waste a good part of the sugar. Anxious to get the fullest effect of the sugar upon the small fruits, they boil the two to- gether, and thus convert most of the cane sugar into grape sugar. Several years ago my assistant in chemistry tested this matter by placing one hundred parts of ripe gooscberries in a stewpan with water to cover them, added twenty five parts of sugar and cooked the fruit. A second portion of the same berries was cooked without sugar, and after the fruit was partially cooked the 25 parts of sugar added and when this sugar hau dissolve both samples of cooked fruit were analyzed, when one-half tne sugar in the flrst batch was converted into glucose, and only one-tenth of the cane sugar in the second batch was thus changed. If the gooseberries had been green the results would have been more striking. If very acid fruits, like currants and cranberries, are rapidly cooked by boiling and then set to cool for a few minutes and the sugar added, a fine jelly-like mass will be found when the sauce is cold. very different from the watery mess so often seen. In “making preserves" the same principles hold good for the most part, though preserves are more apt to work or ferment if sugar is not cooked with the fruit. In this case it is better to steam the fruit till it is so tender that a straw may penetrate it, then put the fruit into cans, add the sugar, and seal up at once. Three pounds of sugar for four pounds of fruit will be ample. ___________________ The bad old fashion of breaking the wills of children has mainly passed away and parents are becoming aware that the will of a child is a very essen- tial factor in the man or woman that is to be. The will is to be educated, developed like every other element of character and woe to the unhap y child who is born without a good vig- orous determination to assert itself. It will be a poor weakling unable to maintain its chosen line of life against oppcsition, at the mercy of every out- ward influence, vacillating in opinion, unstable in action. Rejoice, 0 mother, in your persistent and determined lit- tle boys and girls. They cause a world of trouble and annoyance until the judgment and conscience are matured, but they are the children who pay best for their raising. There is noth- ng so incurable, so utterly hopeless as weakness. It is as dangerous as premeditated treachery, as destructive as vice, as bitter as ingratitude, as sor- rowful as the grave. AN experienced buyer of silks says that agreed test to secure one from be- ing deceived ID the quali‘y of black silk ls_to pincll a specimen on the bias and afterward pull it 111 an opposite direction. If the crease made by the pinch looks like a similar fold in a piece of writing paper, reject the piece unhesltatlngly. On the contrary, if the mark smooths out and is hardly of subjects. N . G. W. distinguishable, it is safe to purchase. V. :-“H l -19-- l ..-,... SEPT 1, 1884. TEE GBALIGE VISITOR. 7 ifluutlu’ fiepaqtment. COSSIPERS. In speaking of another’s faults, pray don't forget your own, Remember those in houses of glass should never throw a stone. If we, have nothing else to do, but talk of those who sin, ’Tis_better we commence at home and from that point begin. We have no right to judge a man until he's fairly tried, Should we not like his company, we know the world is wide. Some may have faults, and who has not, the old as well as young, We may, perhaps. for aught we know, have fifty to their one. I'll tell you of a better plan and find it works full well. To try my own’ defects to cure before I of others tell. And tho‘ I sometimes hope to be no worse than some I know. My own shortcomings bid me let the faults of others go. Then let us all when we commence to slander friend or foe, Think of the harm one word may do to those we little know. Bemen. ber curses sometimes, like our chick- ens, roost at home, Don't speak of other's faults until we have none of our own. SWEET PEAS. Oh what is the use of such pretty wings If one never, never can fly?- Pink and due as the clouds that shine In the delicate morning sky, With a perfume sweet as the lilies keep Down in their vases so white and drop. The brown bees go humming aloft; .I‘he humming—bird soars away; The butterfly blows like the leaf of a i058, Off, off in the sunshine gay; While you peep over the garden wall, Looking so wistfully after them all. Are you tired of the compan Or the balsams so dull aniiproud? Of the coxcombs bold and the marigold, And the spider-wort wraped in the cloud? Have you not plenty of sunshine and dew, And crowds of gay goes ps to visit you? How you flutter, and reach, and climb! How eager your wee faces are! Aye, turned to the light till the blind old night Is led to the world by the star. Well, it surely is hard to one's wings, And still be prisoned feel wingless things. “ Tweet tweet," then says Parson Thrush, Who is, preaching up in a tree; “ Though you never may fly while the world goes by, Take heart. little flowers," says he; “ For often, I know, to the souls that aspire Comes something better than their desire!” —.Su.um Hartley Swett, in SI. Nrcnozas for August. Dear Nieces and Nephews:—Why have the nephews deserted the Youth’s Department? Even Grandpa and Will do not come any more, and Frank, Fred, Charley and George, where are they ? Time was when this department marshaled quite an army of boys. I would that I cauld sound the reveille that would recall them, but am con- vinced of my imcompetency, and grieved that such is the case. There must be boys in many of the families where THE Vrsrros. is read, who could worthily contribute to the department and whom we would be proudto welcome. Will not some who read this send us a few lines? will not ask for more this busy time of the year. But it is not alone Nephews that have fallen off‘. We recall the names, new rarely seen, of Sixpence, Pretty- By-Night, Old Girl, Ellen, Sweet Briar, Nettie Giflford, Laura, Ella Spaulding etc. How I would like to hear where you all are and what you are doing. Such a family're- union as we might have. Just imag- ine'what a plethoric condition the de- partment would present! I greatly enjoyed F. P. C’s graphic description of a trip down the St. Law- rence. If we less favored mortals can- not go down the St. Lawrence, it is fortunate for us that one who weilds a clever pencil can. Did you all read that beautiful po- em "Nobility" by Alice Cary on first page of last issue? And it may not be out of place to say right here that the poetical selections in THE VISITOR average better than in any paper I have compared it with, which is not a few. The last lines of the poem mention- ed above particularly attracted my at- tention: “For good lieth not in pursuing, Nor gaining of great nor of small, But just in the doing, and doing As we would be done by, is all." What nobl_e lives all might lead, if we would but live up to this simple truth. AUNT Paps. Another Opinion. There is a discussion in THE Vrsrroa regarding the origin of the term “Com- mencement" exercises as applied to the- “doin’s” at the close of a school term. I have always understood it thuslyi These exercises were formerly held at the beginning instead of the close of the term, and when the time of holding these exercises was changed the name remained unchanged still being known as “Commencement exercises.” Carry the news to Aunt Prue. Respectfully, EUGENE W. SHIRGLEY. The Chautauqua movement has been extended to include the pungy folks’, who already have a “R m_ mon- They are now to have an 1 ustrated 'odicalof high character, which will issued b the Publishers of far-fam- ed WIDE wax]: in azine. D. Leth- rop & Co., Boston. w 0 will send it free for two months to any of our read- ers who may reQl111‘°1t- A New Book Reviewed. It has been my pleasure during the past midsummer weather to have a most entertaining book for the occu- pation of moments of leisure and rest. It is a habit of mine, or one I desire to acquire, that prompts me to put in writing any impressions left by an especially good book; and this time I am inclined to give my review “of Pic- tures from English History” for the perusal of the cousins, hoping that they in turn may serve us with other readings. Coleman E. Bishop selected these pictures from the great historical ar- tists and edited them that] the volume may be used by members of the Chau- tauqua reading circle, to which refer- ence was made in the ladies’ depart- ment of the VISITOR of Aug. 12. The main idea of the book is to give the reader an insight into the Works of our best writers and cultivate a desire for further Search among their writings. England's history is given in a com- prehensive way by these forty-two pic- tures which are illustrative of its most important changes and influences. More than this, we assure ourselves we have the best word painting there is, of each scene. The pieces touched by Charles Dick- en‘s hand attract attention here and there all along this gallery of fine gems. Not only for the writer’s sake do we linger long before his works, but be- cause, in these instances, of the sub- jects. There is one picture represent- ing "The Beginnings of English Ills- tory,” another of "The Danish Rule,” and one of “The Battle of Agincourt;” but, best of all, for dearest in our mem- ories is his name, is the beauti- ful form of Alfred the Great. It is a priceless tribute to a noble man to give to the young readers of Britten, and one that softens our thoughts, who are foreigners, to those days of cruelty and war, when Eng- land was shaping herself out of the crude materials under Anglo-Saxon rule. The sketch of “A Mediaevial Tourn- ament,” by Sir Walter Scott, taken from his Ivanhoe, leaves the enchanted reader in just the state of mind which it is the aim of the entire book to do. There is that unsatisfied feeling as if _ adelicious cup has been held to our lips only while we sipped its contents for a moment. No one reads that ex- tract from Scott. however many times he has read the whole volume, but could read on, enraptured, to the end. I delight most in those passages where you see the mu;titude waiting with joyous festivity the appearance of the gallant knights who will soil their snowy plumes and strip their splendid vesture of its graceful trap- ping in the coming play of arms. “The lists now presented a. most splendid spectacle. The sloping gal- leries were crowded with all that was noble, great, wealthy and beautiful in the northern a.11d inidland parts of En- gland; and the contrast of the various dresses of those dignified spectators rendered the view as fair as it is rich, while the interior and lower space fil- led with the substantial burgesses and yoemen of merry England, formed in their more plain attire, a dark fringe or border around this circle of brilliant embroidery, relieving, and, at the same time, setting off its splendor. Meantime the enclosed space at the northern extremity of the lists large as it was, now completely crowded with knights desirous to prove their skill against the challengers, presented the appearance of a sea of waving plumage, intermixed with glist- ening hemlets, and tall lances, to the extremities of which were in many ca- ses attached small pennons of about a span’s breath, which, fluttering in the air as the breeze caught them, joined with the restless motion of the feath- ers to add livliness to the scene.” Is it not a. fair sight to look upon? With mingled pity and exultationa we look from the cruel John of this picture, where he stands in the gala day of his unsurped dominance to the adjacent scene, and see him, the van- quished king, writhing and foaming under the gelling accusation of a con- quered spirit, and the stern mandates of the Magna Charter. How the despot cringes before those words !--words that have since become a. headlight of lib- erty to a miserable people. All the light we find in the portrayal of John centers about his forced recognition of the Magna Charter. Blackness gather- ered close about him until some one says of him; “Foul as it is. hell isdefil- ed by the presence of John.” Grandest of all to my mind is the portrayal of “The King Maker” the last of the barons. Lord Lytton has given us an account of this brave man in words that thrill one through with their tender admiration, and vivid reproduction. All _ the attraction of light fiction fades before the spell of such word painting; all thedross of low inspired motives burns out -when in contact with the high at- mosphere of such a writer and such a subject. If you have read this book you found in “The Plague in London” quaint touches of a pen that is too familiar to be a stranger's. You even consulted your book-mark before being assured you were not re-reading; but curiosity gave way to delight and you lapsed into the consciousness of a day long, long ago, when, curled up in some corner. you counted time with Crusoe by notches on a stick and trem- bled with him at sight of a foot-print in the sand. Long ere we knew of a writer's “style.” DeFoe’s odd idioms impressed themselves on our plastic minds, and, even before the mournful scene of stricken London, we hear the pleasant cadence of our former com- panion’s voice. After this follow numerous sketches of modern times, when less of chivalry and more of the solid English traits predominate, and the history clusters about the proceedings of parliament and the ascendancy of now one lord and then another. I have been much pleased with this book because all was entertaining. In reading a. more: com- plete history there are many pages that are necessary to be read, but far from hold the interest as others do; this volume does away with that feature. bits of favorite authors’ works. GRACE. Breezis ‘Bangf,s:0pinion. I "r - In a recent issue of Tim Visirou, I saw 3. selection by Myra; subject, “Ba.ngs," and I feel that I must array myself on the other side and suyga few words in their favor. N ow it seems to a fashion gone before. I think, if .\Iyra can recall how peo- ple dressed their hair twenty or twenty- five years ago (probably when she was a 'girl), she will find some as ridiculous fashions as bangs. For instance‘ the fashion of putting the hair down over the cars so as to completely hide these useful organs. People look just as badly without ears, as they do without fore-heads. ’ And before that, women wore their hair not exactly banged, but about as badly, for it was pulled down over the forehead just as much. , , Of course I have got bangs, lots of them, and‘ think that I look ever so much better, and even ~ the old bang- haters beg for mercy when I uncover tliat “noble brow.” I The very idea of Florence Nightin- gale not being banged. I think that if she had been born about twenty or eighteen years ago, she would have been banged as much as any body, and have looked forty per cent better. I; even think if these old bang-haters had been allowed to be girls now they would be hanged as much as I am. I think myself, that my grandmoth- er would not look exactly well with bangs, for there is something uncon- genial between bangs and wrinkles. Perhaps other people can see this also, and this is why they hate bangs so much. Sour grapes you know. Hoping no one will scold back at me for this,I will sign myself, Bnai-zzia BANGS. Aug. 7, 1884. Our Bodies. Mr. William Blaikie, in a recent article on “Our Bodies,” deplores the lack of thorough physical our country. The general athletics. and the‘ sports which occupy so many of the students of the colleges, are en- gaged in by those who least need them. The amount of strength required to compete in any of the ordinary sports is far above that possessed by the av- erage young man. In reply to the statement that some may benefit b' manual labor, he says: “Not one in fi - ty of our school boys and girls does a day’s manual labor in the whole year round; indeed, the majority of them never did one in their lives. They grow, but they do not develop. It has been argued that the system of athletics generally pursued makes those who practice it essentially prize fighters, champion oarsmen, ‘wasting their time and devoting all their thoughts to some feat of athletic prowess.’ ” In rebuttal of this statement, Mr. Blaikie instances President Eloit and Professor Agassiz, of Harvard, and Dr. l\IcCosh and Mr. Gladstone. "Yet the former two did excellent Work in their university boat. Princeton's famous president, if our information is correct, rowed in the Dublin university crew, and the British prime minister can now, at seventy- three, probably cut down more trees in a day than any merchant, banker, or professional man of his age, in the city of New York, and yet finds time to grapple with the most intricate and difficult problems of a territory twice as vast as the whole United States.” Continuing the argument, the Writer says: “The results of th‘s utter neglect of any sound system of physical edu- cation stand out in almost every city home in America. Not one boy in five is well built, or, unless he is fat, meas- ures within an inch, often three inches, as much about the chest or thigh or upper arm, or weighs within ten pounds as much, as a well proportioned, vigorous, properly developed boy of his age shoul _do. "Scarcely one girl in three ventures to wear a jersey, mainly because she knows too well this tell-tale jacket on- ly becomes a good figure. Yet the dif- ference in gir h between the developed arm which graces the jersey and the .undeveloped one which does not, in a girl of the same height and age is sel- om more than two inches, and often, even than one, while the well-set chest outgirths theindifferent one by seldom over three inches. Among iris, run- ning is a lost‘ art. Yet it is oubtful if an exercise was ever devised which does more to beget grace and ease of movement. " “Most girls have weak arms. If they doubt it, et them try with one hand to push up once high over their head a dumb-bell weighing a uarter or even a fifth of their own weig t. _.Or with both hands catching hold 0 a bar or the rung of a. ladder as high up as they can reach, let them see if t ey can pull slowl up till thechin touches the ands. et a moderately strong man at dumb-bells. will push up one weighing over half his own weight, and some men have managed to put n more than their own weight; and as pullin u a girl with develo .arms can 0 it live .or six times wit com arative ease, and a boy with thoroug y good arms two or three tunes as many. Both the fore- and the reader is served with the tid- ' me that bangs are no worse than many . training , throughout the schools and colleges of arms and the upper arms of most girls are not so large by an inch as those of well built girls of their height and age. Yet in any well regulated gymnasium we find youths adding in one year an inch, and even two inches. to the girth of each upper arm, and half as much to that of each fore arm, while a gain of from-three to five inches about the chest is nothing rare, and all this simply by less than an hour’s daily work, yet this besides expanding the lungs, calls thevarious muscles of the arms, shoul- ders, chest, and all the greater parts of the body into vigorous play. . Professor Farrow, at West Point; Prof. Andrews, of the Gymnasium of the Young Men’s Christian Associa- tion of Brooklyn; Dr. Sargent, of Hem- enway Gymnasium at IIarvard'Univer- sity,-and Archibald Maclaren of tl1eGym- nasium at Oxford University in Eng- land,all find no difficulty in adding in one year from an inch to an inch and one alf to the fore and upper arms, and three -inches to the girth of chest, of. pupils under their charge.-—The Sievens Indicator. , ’ Learn about-the’ Pulse. Every intellectual person should knowrhow to ascertain the state of the pulae in health; than by comparing: it with what it is when he is ailing,.,he maybave some idea of the urgency of tbe"cas'e. Parents should know the healthy pulse of each child-—as now and then a person is born with a pe- cularily fast or slow pulse, and the very case in hand may be of that pecu- liarity. An infant's pulse is 1'40; a child‘ of seven about 80;‘ and from twenty to sixty years, it is 70 beats a minute, declining to sixty at four score. A healthful grown persons pulse beats 70 times in a minute; there may be good health down to sixty; but if the pulse always exceed 70 there is adisease; the machine is working it- self out; there is a fever of ii-flamation somewhere, and the body is feeding on itself; as in consumption, when the pulse is quick, that is over 70, gradu- all increasing with decreased chances of cure until it reaches 110 or 120, when death comes before many days. When the pulse is" over 70 for months, and there is a blight cough, the lungs are affected- ' Health Hints. From the Health Maiithly. Don’t goto bed with cold feet. Don’t stand on hot air registers. Don’t lie on the left side too much. Don’t inhale hot air or fumes of any acid. » Don’t lie on your back to keep from snoring. Don’t eat in less than two hours af ter bathing. E Don’t eat the smallest morsel unless hungry, if well. - Don’t start a day’s work without’ eating a good breakfast. Don’t take long walks when the stomach is entirely empty. Don’t forget to take a drink of pure water before breakfast. Don’tjump out of bed immediately on awakening in the morning. Don’t strain your eye: by reading on an empty stomach or when ill. Don’t {ill the gash with soot, sugar or anything else to arrest the hemorr- hage which you cut yourself, but bring ~ the parts together with strips of ad- hesive plaster, SELECTIONS. Zealousness is an active virtue. Reading is the perfection of,pleas— ure. - Thought is the gift of but Cato. What we do not understand we do not possess-—[ Goethe. Nature has established laws; our part is to obey them.—[Volney. N ature_ and wisdom are never at enmity with each other.—[J uvenal. Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail and man the vessel.—[J. C. Hare. True virtue is derived from‘ deeds and qualities, not from power or titles. —[Coloma. Second thoughts are the adopted children of experience.—[Annie E. Lancaster. The Sabbath is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week. -—[Longt'ellow. Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sun- shiny old age.—-[Mrs. Child. Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings can enjoy.——[E. Young. A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by the one party; there is no battle unless there be two.——[Seneca. An old stump of an oak, with a few young shoots on its almost bare top, are like youthful follies growing on old age.-—[J. Foster. Temperance is reason’s girdle and passion’s bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.- [Jeremy Taylor. We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends.—[J0ubax't. Ifthe riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the -kin dome of Europe were laid at my _fee in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.—[Fenelon. The careful reader of a few newspapers can learn more in a, yeap fcw.—[D. than most scholars do -in theirgrea 1ibraries.—[F. B. Sanborn. - A man once trick 9. iece of white sloth to a dyer to have t dyed black. do was so pleased with the result that, after a time he went backnvith a. piece of black cloth and asked to have it dyed white. But the dyer answered: “A piece of cloth is like a man’s repu- tation; lt can be dyed black, but it can not be made white again.” A PAPER descriptive of a ‘cooking school for young gll‘I&",II1 New York City has been repared by Charles Baf- nard for the_ czptember St. Nicholas. It is written in eforni of a story and is fully illustratednxfrom designs by 1 Mrs. Jessie Curtis Shepherd. 800d. Fall Fairs in Michigan. Michigan state agricultural society, Kalamazoo, Sept. 15 to 19. Michigan state horticultural society, Kalamazoo, Sept. 15 to 19. Tri«state fair association, Toledo, Sept. 8 to 13. Central Michigan agricultural so cievy, Lansing, Sept. 29 to Oct 3. Eastern Michigan agricultural so- ciefv, Ypsilanti, Sept. 23 to 26. Northwestern Michigan agricul- turxl society. Flint. Sept. 22 to 25. Western Michigan agricultural so- ciety, Grand Rapids, Sept. 22 to 27. Northern Michigan agricultural society, Greenville, Oct. 7 to 10. Armada agricultural society, Ar- mada, Oct. 1 to 4. Avon agricultural society, Ro:hes- ter, Oct. 14 to 16. Brooklyn Union agricultural society, Brooklyn, Sept. 23 to 26. Central fair association, Hubbard- ston, Sept 23 to 26. . Fenton Union agricultural society Fenton, Oct. 7 to 10. - Grand Traverse county agricultural society, Traverse City, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. Eaton Rapids Union agricultural society, Eaton Rapids, Oct. 7 to 9. Stockbridge Union agricultural so ciery, Stockbridge, Oct, 7 to 9, Union agricultural scciety, Litch- field, Oct. 7 to 10. Union agricultural society, Plain- well, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. Branch County agricultural society, Coldwater, Sept. :32 to 28. Calhoun county agricultural society, Marshall Oct. 7 to 9. Clinton county agricultural society, St. Johns, Oct. 7 to 10. Hillsdale county agricultural ciety, Hillsdale, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. Ingham county agricultural society, Mason, Sept. 24 to 26. Livingston county agricultural soci - ety. Howell, 23 Lo 25. Macomb county agricultural society , Mt. Clemens, Sept. 24 to 26. Oakland county agricultural society, Pontiac, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. Osceola county agricultural society, Evart, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. Oceans county agricultural society, Hart, Sept. 30 to Oct. 1. St. Joseph county agricultural socie- ty. Centerville, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. Van Buren county agricultural so- ciety, Paw Paw, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. Washtenaw county agricultural so- ciety, Ann Arbor, Sept. 20 to Oct. 3. S0- If we look for anti-monopoly senti- ments in the concrete we find it in the Grange. The political organiza- tion that has taked the name Anti- monopoly is but an outgrowth of the Grange that groups men within the order and without for the purpose or political action. But the sentiment had its inception in the Grange and development to the point where broader organization was necessary to effect objects incompatible with the rules as then construed by the Grange which placed inhibition upon political T so serious that he fin-.illy sold his busi- ness to a corporation composed of his creditors. It .s understood that this company, with ample capital, has un- dertaken to make good as far as possi- ble all the obligations of Mr. Beatty giving preference to the purchasers of organs and pianos whose goods are still undelivered, and to whom it is ship- ping daily their instruments. The company is under the presidency of Mr. I. W. England, of New York, his inan- ager being Mr. W. l’. llaulwen; and the gentlemen composing the directors and stockholders are among the best known and most responsible business men in the country. All new orders, we are assured, are filled on receipt with in- struments of the best quality; while arrearages are being manufactured and shipped at the rate of not less than 100 a week. On such :1 basis, supplying a superior article at a moderate price, tee of agents’ commissions, the new con- cern ouglit to achieve a great success. THE REAPER DEATH. BUSSEL— Died, July 10th, l88-l, at the age of «'38 years, Susan Russel, a charter member of Thornapple Grange, No. .‘l.~4. Appropriate resolutions were adopted by the Grange. lly order of Committee. BEACH—Died on the l‘.Zth of July, Bro. Wrnmax S. Bnacn, age 72 years. He was an earnest advocate of temperance. a member of the Methodist Church, and a constant at- tendant on its service for nearly 50 years. He was a Charter member of Farmingtou Grange and its Chaplain for seven consecu- tive years. By order of Committee. FISHER— We mourn to-day the loss of a worthy member and Steward of our Grange, Brother F. H. Fianna, who diei at his home in Union City, July 22nd, 1884, aged «$0 years, five months. Appropriate resolutions were adopted. By order of Committee. THE MARKETS. Grain and Provisions. Lrvxaroon, Aug.20.-—Wheat, dull; new west. ern winter. 73 id; new No. 2 spring. 65 l0d.] Nlw Yonx, Aug. ‘Z9.—_Flour, receipts, 12,!!!) bbls.; dull and drooping. Wheat, receipts 23l,(Xl) bl_i.; %@?~éo. lower, depressed;moderate s eculative business; No. 1 white, nominal; o. 2lred,Sept., 8lM®89?g”;0ct.9ll»i,@9lX; Nov. 93M’;@98%;Dec. lfl7é@l-D556; Jan. 9tl%@9tiX; Feb. 98%. Oorn, receipts ll5.0(x) bu.: %@9(c. lower; mixed western snot. 58@0-1: futures, 56@d3K. Oats. receipts. 39,000 bu.: !~a@%o hi her; west- ern, 33@42. Beef, quietzmess, $12. ork, dull; mess, $1841). Lard, dull; steam rendered. $7.85. Dnraorr. Aug. 20- 12 n.—Wheat. cash. 82%: Aug.. 82%;Sept.83;Oct. 8454;No. 2 red. cash, 84; Aug. 83%; Sept., E-377; ; Oct... 8‘. nominal: No. 3 red 78. Corn, No. 2 cash. M54. 0atd,No. 2. white, 30 asked; No. 2, 26%. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Oats. eipts ........ .. 250 72.500 1.500 146(1) hipmeuta ...... .. 3(1) 18,300 0]) 14.01) TOLEDO, Aug. %.—Wheat, dull. easier; No. 2 cash 8l%: Aug., 8l)£@3l% :Sept . 81%: Out. 83%; Nov.. 85%; No. ‘Zsoft, 84608496; No. 3 do., 793 organization within the Order. The 30,‘ Grange is essentially an anti-monop ly organization, and no citizen can hold membership in it with full dis- charge of his personal duties without being at heart, and in his acts as anti- monopolist. This was true in the early history of the Grange and it is even more apparent now as the real life of the order.—From the Husband- man, Elmira AV. Y. ~'Tne Senator elequently denounced communistic tendencies. but I would suggest that communism of capital is far more dangerous to the nation and its prosperity than communism of labor. Those who are horrified at the idea of communism should remember that a communism of capital, represented by as many men as can be counted on the fingers of one hand, can gather in an inner chamber in New York or Chicago and combine :59 against the interest of his State and mine by striking at the productive industries of all the States of this Union. And yet we hear no denunciation of that communism- the most dangerous because the most powerful.—Senato7' Van Wyck. For many years, even here in the United States, under the most favor- able conditions, society has been rapidly dividing into two great classes—theenormously rich and the miserably poor. The middle ranks are continually disappearing-some scaling the acclivity which leads to wealth, but by far the greater number falling one by one into the abyss of poverty which yawns at its base. From the debts of this abyss the glittering eyes of the starving com- munists are fastened on the food which greed and monopol have wrung from them, and whic is be- ing torn and devoured before their very eyee.—San Franciscan. One company has invested in 311,- 000 acres of land in Texas, another -in 1,300,000 acres of bottom land in Mississi pi, another in 2,000,000 acres in Flori ‘ . Kansas, and Colorado are also favorite regions for the specula- tions of the English’ capitalists. One does not need to be afprophet to_ see that this ‘home of the ee is destined ere ion to suffer from the evils of land monopo y; and the extent of that suf- fering will depend upon the intelli- gence and courage of the people.—Low- ell (lllaaa) Sun. THE BEATTY ORGAN AND PIANO 00. A Wonderlul Business Rejuvonated and Established. [From lwunk Leslie’: Illustrated Newspapen] THE name of Daniel F. Beatty, of Washington, New Jersey, is tolerably well known to the majority of the peo- ple of the United States in connec- tion with the manufacture and sale of musical instruments. By liberal and widespread advertising, and by dealing direct with the purchaser, he built up a most._extensive business in organs and pianos. It was his ambition to erect ‘and own the largest organ fac- tor in-the world, and he succeeded in so oin . But the hindrances and loss- es inci ent to a disastrous fire in 1881, and the want of adequate capital, com- bined with a lack of business method, ledto a serious entanglement in his affairs. Althou h he made and sold over seventeen t ousand (17,000) or ans ast ear. his ernbarrassments, w ich do their origin years before, became Carcsoo. Aug. 29.—Wheat, stronger: 79 cash Aug.; 70% Sept: 8l5£@8l% Oct.: 88% Nov. Corn, steady; 52% cash Aug.; 5115 Sean; 50% Oct.: 45% Nov. Oats, firm;25% Au¢.; 25%@25?.; Sept»; 23% Oct. Bye, 55%. Barley. firmer; 65 Sept. Pork. irregular - $2'l..'>0 Ang.; 31811) Sept. and Oct.; $12.50 year. Lard, ateady;87.47% Aug. and Sept.; 87.55 Oct. Grocer-lea. Raw 1031, Aug. 29.—Butter. active; western, 802256. CHICAGO WHOLESALE PRIOlS—'l'II!EB BIPOBI. Sugar, stand. A 6% Butter, dairy.. 11017 granulated" ... 6% ex. creamery 198% Dried applee.. 6i(@7K common 5012 Potatoes,new.bu. ~l0@45 Eggs,freeh .. 1301354 Wool, fine w'ahd 31-32 Beans h pick 81.25-2.30 [J10 Dtook. Carosco. Aug. 29. — Hogs. receipt-. 12111); fairly active; 5@10c lower; light, 85.756650; roug packing, $5.8')@fl 15: heavy packing and shipping, $ll.?o0@6.60; graesers, $4.'>0@fi 50. Cattle, receipts. 5.211); brisk, fat cattle firm; exports. $d.5,5@7.00; good to choice shipping, .60; common to medium, $4.2.'i@5.80. Sheep. receipts, 1,lIX); weak; common to good s2.25@4.o0. POLAND CHINAS ! Pine G1'ove Herd, PORTER, CASS CO., contains over 100 head of Pure-bred Poland China Swine; blood of the Butlers, Shellabar er, Corwins, Oom- mander, Sambos, and . S. 1195 stock, all recorded or eligible to registry in Ohio Poland China Record. Parties desiring stock can be supplied at reasonable rates. Call on or address, GIDEUN HEBRON, Box 300, lsep lyr Constantine, St. Joseph Co., Mich. SOMETEING_UNEXPEG'.l‘ED! rnoaoucnsnep V... m; Different Breeds, ( to be divided as premi- ‘‘ " urns amen those ettln 3 up the larggest clugs for g ——-THE NA'l‘IONAL——— Wool - Growers’ Quarterly. The official organ of the Narronu. WOOL- Gaowaas’ Assocurrou. These shee are donated by leading breeders of the nited States, to aid in securing an immediate and immense circulation for THE QUARTERLY in every State and Territo . A handsome 64--page magazine, only 6 cents a year in clubs of ten; single subscriptions 60 cents. For particulars, cash commissions, etc., ad- dress at once, The National Wool-Growers’ uarterly. lsept 2t Pi tsburg , Pa. DO YOU WANT T0 SAVE MONEY? If so, come to Grand Rapids and buy your Clothing at the great Star Clothing House. 1338'!‘ ASSOBTIENT IN THE STATE, AT LOWEST LIVIHG PRICES! Just now we are offering light weight ds less than cost of manufacturing. E00 White Vests ........ ..35c, Soc, 01 00 Light Coats ............. ..26c. 60:, 75c Bargain: in Suits and Dusters! All Straw Hot: at Half Price .' Star Clothing House,G1-and Rapids. , PEAR HEAD UARTERS. _— . PEACH a other F urn TREES. — New and old varieties or aniuuns. Early Cluster “A B|ackberry.%'°:.i-i‘§l.'.'~‘.'.sx:“..‘.‘,'.‘xZe‘?“-3’.-: Currant.s,GrIa£es, aw Catalogue Free JOHN s. 00 1Ns.iuoorestown.N.J. lsepeemst We have published for free dis. tributlon a valuable work en- titled “A Revolution in Wheat Growin .” It tells how any farmer can grow five to ten ushels of wheat more per acre without any increase in labor or fertilizer. It s ‘ the hands of every wheat ‘Um hem grower at once, so they H can realize the above re- - ' ; suits in their next crops. It is sure to of great refit to you and we want every wheat grower who rea s this W°*‘° “"4 '°'.*‘i.:°.:*: °:2:s:. a.°°.:*..:v ‘-'.-...‘°.:1.°°:: w n . n esson stal card toJ. A. Evnnrr: s Co., Seedsman and Pub hers, Watsoutown, Pa. _ M ,..._._.—. 6‘ ...~ - .- 8 The three great fields of speculation are in land, food and money. Legiti- mate is the reward of the man who sows the seed and transports it. But somewhere between the field and the mouths of the people there is a parasite. Over the roof of the Produce Exchange in Chicago and the Stock Exchange in New York we see the hand of greed waiting its chance to steel what it can get; to grasp away food from the very mouths of the people. I need not mention the system of dealing in futures, buying stocks not yet created and grain not yet grown. Th~y are parasites pure and simple, who sit in halls and corn- ers ready to get something for noth- ing.—Rev. James JII. Pullman. BUGGY SHAFTS RATTLE, RATTLE ! RUBBERS “NO GOOD.” '5 CTS. ('/2 PmcE)2 ANTI-RATTLERS man.) WANT AGENTS MOREY 8.CO.LAGRANGE ILL. l tem FOR SALE. FIVE JERSEY HEIFEHS. Full Blood, Not Registered. In calf by registered bull. ble. Inquire of, H. C. UNDERWOOD. 1 Sep. 2t. Prices reason- TEE GBARGE VISITOR. Fast Potato lli wing TIIE Iflllllllll POTATO IIIEEEII Saveslts oostyesrly. irivn rriixs °““’~......‘° 3'5. Gas SENT ushelsldnDayl 60 Days’ Tcailrial. = 3' Write postal ea or FREE elggantly illustrated Catalogue, in Six Brilliant Colors, that cost us 62000 to publish. lllilldltll Manufacturing 00.. %I’.?c*i‘33‘2 life; 0] u ne EACHERS WANTED—l0PRINCIPALS 12 Assistants, and a number for Music, Art, and Specialties. Application form mailed for postage. SCHOOL SUPPLY BUREAU, Chicago, Ill. l5july84 ly Mention this journal. > I 2 ,__, l Homes ** Texas 2 Arkansas Low prices, long credit. Rich agricultural and graiiing lands, producing wheat, rye, oats, corn,cotton grasses, and all the choice fruits, near schools, churches and railroads. Cheap land excursions every month. For maps of Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas, with all information, address J. B. FRAWLEY, Pass. and land Agent Missouri Pacific Ity' Co., 109 Clark street Chicago, 111. Michigan Female Seminary Kalamazoo, Mich. On Mount Holyoke plan. Location delightful. Board and Tuition, $172 per school year. Fine Library, Cabinet, Telescope and Musical Instruments. Much attention given to the English language and review of elementary studies. Fall term begins Sept. 4, 1884. For Catalogues address, Miss M. H. SPBAGUE, 15july6t Principal. 17£sh’s American Manual of PARLIAMENTARY LAW Is the cheapest and best. The subject is made so plain that every Citizen or Society member should have a copy. Circular of commendation free. Price by mailprsgaid; cloth, 60 cents; leather tucks, 81.00. ostage stamps received Address, J. T. Cons, Schoolci-aft. or G-EO. T. FISH. Bocinsrna - I Rodgers Amber Wheat. Seed for sale at $4.00 for 2 bushels, 87.50 for 4 bushels, bags included. Larger quantities at 81.50 per bushel and 25 cents for each bag, free on board cars. A very desirable variety for all dry soils, either clays, loams or sands. Has yielded 4 to 10 bushels better per acre than any other variety {grown here. Samples by mail on figplication. NBY CHAMBERLAIN, Three Oaks, Berrien Co., Mich. Aug. 15, 2t- Prof. Kedzie’s Letter to the Ala. bastine Company. Aonrcunrnnar. COLLEGE, Q Lansing, April 19, 1884. To M. B. Church, Manager: Dan Sm, ——-The Alahastine put on the walls of the Chemical Laboratory more than four years ago is in as good condition and bright in appearance as when first 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 by contact, as whitewash and calcimine will. am satisfied with Alabastine. Yours faithfully, R. C. Kanznc, Professor of Chemistry. IMITATIONB AND msaixeiixirura. Some cheap attempted imitations of Ala- bsstine are being offered in some places to Alabastine dealers, under different names and at very much lower prices than Alabastine could be sold for. A cniur, mranion MANUFACTUBED WALL rnusn caiibemsde so as to impose on the public with less chance of detection when first used than most axir Inn) or ADULTERATION. Commom calcimine appears to be a very fair finish when first put on, but no one claims that it is durable. Manufactured only by Tim Ar.a.'sssi-in Co., M. B. Cmmon, Manager, Grand Rapids, Mich. The State Agricultural Eollege, This institution is thoroughly equipped,hav- ing a teaching force: amp e facili- ties for ' ustration and manipulation includ- ing Laboratories, Conservatories. Library, Museum, Classroom Apparatus, also a large and well stocked farm. FOUR YEARS are required to complete the course embracing Ohsniis , Mathematics, Botany, Zoology, English age and Literature. and all other branches of a college course except For- e Languages. ‘fines ours labor on each working day except Saturdays. Maximum rate paid for labor, eight cents an hour. , RATES. Tuition free. Club Boarding. CALENDAR. Suntan Tinzir ..................... . .May 20 Auroiiii TERM ............... . .September 2 Exainintion of candidates for advanced standing will be held February 18. Candidates for admission, to College on September 2 may resent themselves for examination either on a 20, or September 2. at 9 A. at. IT)!‘ Catalogue apply to R. G. BAIRD, Secretlry. German Horse and Cow '- P OWD ERS. TII.Il§OWd61‘Il&I been in use for many cars. tis largely used by the farmers of Tennis lvania, and the Patrons of that State have E0 ht over 100,000 pounds through thelrp ' _ _ our secret. The receipt is on every box and 5- undpsokage. It is made by Dr. L. Ober- hoIt,ssr’s Sons at Co., Phoenixville, Pa. It keeps stock healthy and in good condition. It helps to digest and assimilate the food. Eorseswlll do more work, with less food and bein better condition. It heaps poultry health , and increases the production of egg Itlsalzoofgfsat value to them when inc lag. It is sold at the lowest wholesale price Kat .‘“.o”‘:.‘.i¥' "*“""°°' mos. inflow. 181 v w, and ALBERT STEGEMAN, Aiiniioarr. Put up low-lb.boxss(lsose, oelmin Cairn E2, 30-Ill; boxes (of lb. pack-ages, Tn P" - agents. Its composition is Y smite GEO. W. T DAIRY QUEEN CHUBN. The easiest Churn to run in existence, re- quiring but one-third the labor of any other Churn made. Worked by hand or treadle. As easy to clean as a butter tray. A success with wind-mill power. Giving the best of satisfaction. Every Churn guaranteed. Sand for Price List. Dairy Queen Churn Co., KALAMAZOO, Mien. 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. BUEL Little Prairie Rondo, Cass Co., lch. lbfebtf KENT COUNTY POMONA NURSEEIES I A GENERAL ASSOBTMENT or NURSERY STOCK. APPLE, PEAR, PLUM, PEACH, CHERRIES, SMALL FRUITS And GRAPEVINES. Ornamental Trees and Evrrgreeiis! Prices to suit the times. Buy direct and save money. Price lists free. I BUTTRICK & WATTERSON, CASCADE, KENT CO., MICH. l5augtonov1 lone canoe and euuoeaooooee A combina- tion by which all farmers can make Cream- er Buffer as we l as keep it in a nice con- dition until it is marketed. It saves two- thirds the la- ’ bor. No ice is required as it is strictly a _! cold water re- frigerator. The cream is taken from the top and is clear of sediment. The most complete arrangement for the Farmer and Dairyman in existence. Agents wanted. Send for circular and price list. MCCALL & DUNCAN, Kalamazoo, Mich. laprti IIIIIE Presses, Gs-ates-s Sorghum lllilla, Jell Machinery {Steam and Fire) All kinds of Mi Su plies. Illustrated Catalogue free. 0. G. H MPTON, Detroit, Michigan. lstofmo IIIIING MTII INII IIIIMIN Can save money by attending the KALAMAZOO Business College. Fall term opens Sept. 1. Send for Journal. PRESIDENT, Kalamazoo, - Mich. 1'33 LINE SELECTED BY THE U. B. GOT‘? TO CARRY THE PAST MAIL B I" uénlgg on ONLY LINE RUNNING TWO THROUGH TRAINS DAILY FROM CHICAGO, PEORIA & ST. LOUIS, Through the Heart or the Continent by way of Pacific Junction or Omaha to DENVER, or via Kansas City and Atchison to Denver con- necting in Union Depots at Kansas City, Atclilson, Omaha and Denvm with through trains for SAN FRANCISCO, and all points in the Far Wat. Shortest Llneto KANSAS crrv, And all points in the South-Wat. TOURISTS AND HEALTH-SEEKERS Should not forget the fact that Round Trip tickets at reduced ram can be pui-ch via this Great Through Line to al the Health and Pleasure Ruorts of the West and South-West including the Mountains of COLORADO, the v'n.uey or me the ’ cmr or MEXICO, and all points in the Mexican Republic. HOME-SEEKERS Should also remember that this line leads direct to the heart of the Government and Railroad Lands in Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Colorado and Washing- ton Territory. It is known as the great THROUGH CAB LINE of America, and is universally admitted to be the Finest Equl pod Railroad in the World for a classes of Travel. Through Tickets via this line for sale at all Rall- road Coupon Ticket Oflioa in the United States and OS POTTER, Vice-Prs. and Gen. Manager. PEBCEVAL LOW Gen. Pass. Aft % JNO. Q. A. BEAN, Gen. Eastern Ag’t, I517 BFOIGWBY. New York, and £16 Washlnzton St.. Boston. lstofinoz _, , I. v ‘- Clover Leaf Can FOB THE Cream Gathering System. -"‘ - //‘ \, TEE CHEAPEST AND ray. BEST. Has the largest ‘ . 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 ,,,,_ PAINT llellall & Duncan Kalamazoo, Mk-h., Manufacturers and dealers in creamery supplies. 154.. Portable and A rlcultlln ral. Send for c rculara. SIIIII ENGINES so we —1 E3'~°n- N- Y- lmaylemfit ‘en BUSINESS AGENTT MioH. STATE GRANGE.l THOMAS MASON. "G'renera.1 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, Chartered Feb. 13th, 1877. ALL ORDERS RECEIVE redo-7E3 ATTENTION. TEE! 1"IA.G-.AIRA FALLS .A_'IEI. LIE /- —. -.;I, ' I39 or no crizrcaao & GRAND rnusrx . “ ’ ~ I .,:.v., mg exam) rnurvx nanwars. 6 “am, y ‘gr’; gr’ L . NM 9, 9’ tab} T::;§.':6;'I tvs'TTinL§ K O 4 If 0 AITNIUISKA -4. J‘: f’;,~U]4aQ(§4 . :4 sse:Ri"‘i\::'‘' .) nusu-inn Q " ‘ fit; Lnuxxvi v uasmvu 2 P N SYL .;."N' um. anus.-as ' IVSSUID E O i U‘ CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY TIME TABLE. . December 30th, 1883. TRAINS WBS‘l'WAB.D.—CENl‘BAL snaiiiiax riisa. TRAINS EASTWAB.D.—ClN'l'RA!. MERIDIAN risu No 2 No. 4. No. 6. No. 8. No 1 l§‘o._ 8. No. 6. No. 11. , . . . . . Snrioss. Mail, Ex]":)"r¥m Snrioivs. Mail. 122;: EX’ Sun‘lEx. SIi_E Daily. Ex. Sun. Ex‘ Sun’ Daily. Daily. Ex. Sun Le. Port Huron- 6 35 All 7 50 AM 8 (0 PM 4 10 Pl Le. Chicago"--- 9 10 All 3 21 PI 8 30 Pl 6 20 Pl “ Imlay Oity-- 7 50 “ _____...._ 1'9 05 “ 6 19 “ “ C,RI&P C105 10 06 “ 4 13 " 9 23 “ 6 20 “ “ Lapeer__..- 8 15 “ 9 12 “ 9 30 " 5 43 “ “ Redesdale___ ____________________ ._- --_-_--.. “ Flint .... _. 9 07 “ 9 56 “ 10 10 " 6 25 “ “ Valparaiso __ 11 50 " 5 25 “ 10 40 " 7 45 Pl A1-_ 139;“ G_ w_ my, __‘_____ TQTQ5 Xi ____ ____ _____ HI_l8keIlB..._- Lv. nei.,n.o.s.u. 650 " s 32 “ 835 “ 430 -- ,, 9t1"W°l1—— -* Pontiac " 7 55 *- 920 '- ass -- 5 35 ‘- ,, gomh Bend- " 11° .'.' 85° ll 9553 ll 1° 1‘ 7. 62° if I -- 0::ogedlBis"- 216 “ 721 *- 12 51 " ' Ar. Durand 9 40 10 2. 11 06 7 05 “ P -- H H No_ 7_ v , [ Marcellus... 2 45 -______ fl 16 Lv. Durand---” 945 -- 1030 " to 45 ‘ 7 20 " .. Bc,,00,c,.m _ 305 .. ______ __ 1 36 .. P. H. 31 ‘é‘i.“‘I“€‘.:.'" II 23 ‘3 S33 .7 ll 33 " 333 «'5 “ "‘°*"’“'s -- “ §"‘s“"' ar 0 __- ' is Al x ml. Ar. Battle Creek 1240 pm 1 on u 1 03 -- 10 20 H 4 35 A, Lv. Battle Creek ..... -_ 1 25 “ 1 2s -- I ..' c,,,,,,0m, 5 32 .. " Vicksburg __ --..---- 2 10 “ 2 17 " _______ or “main ‘" 6 09 .- 5‘ _ “'-— ,, §i°:l_‘;‘;lfi$fi" Ar. Duran ___._ 7 40 “ .. 0,,,,,,,,,,,,,,__: Lv. Dur., n.s.n,sa 9 15 -; u Granger, ___ llolly, ‘ 963 L “ South Bend P0111,-C. 104° ,, " Stillwell “ Detroit “ ,, 11 45 n L . "‘ Lv. list, c.w.n' . ___-__-_ _-_______ e 25 _..-____ :: Valparalilao -- " Flint____1.'_- 8 15 “ ll 35 “ 600 “ 8 ‘L5 “ " 3038:3216--- “ Inpeor -___ 8 58 “ 1207 Al 635 “ ’ 912 “ “ 0,111 P Cros " Imlay City__ 9 25 “ _.____- 1'6 53 “ 934 “ Al‘. Chicago ._. Al’. Port Huron- 10 40 “ l 26 “ 7 50 “ ‘ 10 40 “ I . . . way Freight, leave gchoolcmn Eutwud 5:35 I,_ u_. tral Standard Time,_ which is one hour slower than Westward, 10.05 A. 11., except Siinday. ' E3""°"‘ 5‘““d3'd T"11°- Nos. 1, 7 and 8 will stop at Durand 20 minutes for N05» 3- “Id 3. d|"¥- 5“ M591’ 9”“ “"7: °3°°P' mean Sunday. . 4 Wm M - e _ Pullman Palace cars are run through without change SE 1 will ‘Sip 3‘: I as 9-oak 20 mun"? for mlals between Chicago and Port Huron, Detroit, East Sagi- - 5 P M 3 P““'9° 20 minum °' "W 9- nsw Bay City, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Buflalo, New Nos. 3 and 6 have s Dining Car attached between York, Tomato, Montreal and Boston. °hi°"8° “'1 B‘m° C"°°k- Diniu cars on 3 and 6 West Battle Creek. Wh . . . . . g are no time is shown at the stations trains will G”. B. an“ 8. 3. °““'‘" not stop 1‘ Ti-aiiis do not stop for passengers except on signal. Traffic Manager. "‘ ‘ Manager E. P. Kasai, Agent. Sclioolcraft Mich. M. B. CHURCH “IBEDETTE” CO., GRAND RAPIDS, l\IICI-I., T 56 ©QQ Patented June 13, 1882. A 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 yen: make a roomy, comfortable bed when wanted. Of the many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a com- fortable night's rest can he bad. They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in fact no bed at all. While TEE BEDETTE folds into as small space, and is as light as anything can be made for durability. When set up it furnishes a. bedlong enough for the largest man, and is as comfortable to lie upon as the most expensive bed. It is so constructed that the patent sides, regulated by the patent adjustable tension 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 off and put on again by any one in a. few minutes, or easily tightened, should it become loose, at any time, from stretchingj ' It is a perfect spring bed, soft and easy, without springs or mattress. For warm weather it is a complete bed, without the addition of anything; for cold weather it is only necessary to add suflicient clothing. The “BEDETTE” is a. Household Necessity, And no family, after once using, would be without it. It is simple in its construction, and not liable to get out of repair. It makes a pretty lounge, is perfect bed, and the price is witliinthereivchofall. g-gag, PRICE: 36 inches wide by 6} feet long, 83.50. 30 inches wide by 6} feet long, 83.00.’ 27 inches wide by 4} feet long (cover nor adjustable) 82.50. For Sale by Furniture Dealers Everywhere. SEPT. 1, 1884. S niuua°§oLLs" us; Liquid Rul1lierPoiet. ONLY PAINT KNO\’l./C’ TO SCIENCE that f::i‘.l successfully :' — sist the action of MOISTURE, SUN, . SALTAlR&WA'I‘ER. FUMES FROM COAL GAS, &c., and therefore the CHEAPEST PAINT HOUSE, SHIP, CAR, TELEGRAPH, on STEAMBOAT PAINTING. fin . T— ~ ~ FINE BRUSHES. AT FACTORY PRICES. VVe pay the freight and sell you at the lowest wholesale factory prices, the some as it you ‘came to the factory. We were the first concern that sold to Patrons, and we don’t want store keeper’s trade now. R. H. Thomas, Secretarv Pennsylvania State Grange says: “Many of our members have more than saved their Grange expenses for a lifetime by purchasing your paint. It lasts many times longer than any other paint, and would be cheapest at twice the price per gallon.” Brother Thomas was formerly a painter. Brothers J, T. Cobb, Secretary, and C. L. Whitney, formerly Lecturer of Michigan State Grange, have used and approved this paint, and 206 Subordinate Granges use no other paint. Masters and Secretaries supplied with cards of specimens of the paint, and circulars for the Whole Grange. All consumers should address Patrons’ Paint VVorks, 76 Fulton Street, New York, and receive book, "Everyone their own Painter ” Brother (3-I=I.Eli&."I" Black Friday Sale! On Friday last, we closed our Stores to mark down the balance of our Spring and Summer Stock, and we are now Selling these goods way below cost, to close them out, and make room for Fall Goods. We will mention TJUST A FEW PRICES. OVER 100 FINE IILI. WIIIIL TIIIIIIII-MADE SUITS, elegantly trimmed, reduced from $27 50 to $18 00! OVER 130 SPLEITDIED ALL WE SUITS, selling elsewhere for $15 00, we have Reduced to only $7 50 ! llver 240 lldd Goats, dillercnt sizes, good value at $3 50, $5 00, $7 50 and $10 00, Will go at $1 50, $2 50, $3 50. $5 00! Special Bargains in Boys’ and Ohildcenh Suits. GOOD BROWN OVERALLS 1,‘._{‘{$“n"§f“’ All STRAW AND MANILLA HATS At Half Price. You can save money ‘by coming to the old established TAR OLOTING TOT. SMAWM 0 We are the 0riginal_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 they get an order. We buy from first hands in large quantities and carry in stock all the goods we handle, embracing Dry Goods, clothing. Boots. Shoes, Hats, Caps, Fancy Goods, Hosiery. Gloves, Underwear, watches, Clocks, Jewelry. Silverware. Sewing Machines, I-lardware. Tmware. Guns, Revolvers, Fishing Tackle. Crockery, harness. S_addles.__Tru_nks. Groceries. and in fact nearly Every- thing that IS rpquired ill the Hou_se or on the farm. Our Buyer s Guide IS Issued in March and September of each ear and will be sent free to any address u on receipt of postage. cents._ It Is a_ book of 215 pages. 8%x % inches. with over 3.30l._i _lII|lS‘I.'I'3‘ll0nS 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 WAR!) as CO., 227 Jr. 229 Wabash Ave., chloago, us, lmi-i-iniwi-s. LUCIUS 0. WEST, solicitor or American and Forsi , Patents, and Counsellor in Patent FENNO &. MANNING, Wool Eommisslon Merchants, -117 Federal S.t.. Boston. Ca ta . glue“ Mas-gs,“ omen?» °°¥15l£flm°_nt3 30110305 and 08811 MWIOGS <"s‘.‘.’.’.‘.a... TE... '13? n. .:., ca... Block,‘ . Made. sprltf KALAMAZ00, inon. :.........- « .