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“T.HE FARMER IS OF MORE CONSEQUENCE THAN THE FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVED.”

VOLUME l0,—NO. 19.
WHOLE NO. l96.

SCHOOLCRAFT, MICH.., OCTOBER 1. 1884.

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More Order, or Draft.

.., nus paper is not sent only as ordered
and paid/or in advance.

Officers National Grange.

MAsriin—J. J. WO0DMAN,Paw Paw,M ich.
0vn3sxsn—PUT. DABDEN, . . . . Mississippi.
L301-uniin—I[ENH.Y ESEBAUGH, Missouri.

8'i'xwAnD—W. SIMS, ............. . .Kansas.
A831‘. S-rawuin-—JOHN J. ROSA, Delaware.
Cnu>mnr—H. O. DERVIES,.... .Maryland.

 B—F. McDOWELL,. . .New York.
8n0’!—W. M. IRELAND, Washington, D. C.
GL1‘!-KiIni>xn——J' AS. DEAPER, . . . . . . .Mass.
CiInns—MB.8. J. J. WOODMAN,. .Michigan.
P0l01lA—MB.S. PUT. DABDEN, Mississippi.
FI.onA—Ms.s. I. W. NICEIOLSON,New Jersey
Lu)! Assn-. Sriiw.uir>—Mas. Wis. SIMS,Kan

Executlve commlttee-

D. WYATT AIKEN, ..... ..8outh Carolina.
H. D. BINGHAM ................... ..0hio.
DB. J. M. BLANTON, .......... "Virginia.

Officers Mlchlgan state Oramze.

M.—C. G. LUCE, ................. ..Gilsad.
O.—A. N. WOODBUFF, ...... ..Watervliet.
Lilo.-—JOHN HOLBROOK, ...... ..Lansing.
S.—8. A. TOOKER, ........ ..Grand Ledge.
A. 8.—A. B. CLARK, ............ ..Morrice.
C.-E. R. WILLARD ....... ..White Pigeon.
Tnln —-8. F. BROWN, ....... . .Schoolcraft.
8xo..—J. T. COBB, ........... ..Schoolcraft.
G. K.—EL1JAH BARTLETT, .... ..Dryden.
Cnnu.—MBS. M. T. COLE, ..... . .Palmyra.
POMONA.—MRS. LYDIA DRAKE, Plainwell.
FI.oiu—MBS. D. H. STONE ............ ..
L.A. 8.——MRS. A. B. CLARK .... ..Morrice.

Executlve commIttee-

THO8. F. MOORE, Ch’n.,. . . . . . . . . .Adrian.
n. D, PLATT, .................. ..Yps1lanti-
JOHN PORTER, .......... ..Gra.nd Rapids.
THOMAS MARS, ........ ..Berrien Center.
J. Q. A. BUBB.INGTON,.....,....Tusc0l8-
WM. SATTEBLEE, ........ ..Bir-minghsm.
J. G. BAMSDELL .......... . .Trsverse City.
C. G. LUCE, J. T. COBB, ..... ..Ex-oflicio.

state Busi_ri9_ss Agent.
THOMAS MASON, .......... ..Chicago, 111.

General Deputy.

JOHN HOLBBOOK ............. . .Lansing.

special Lecturers.

Thos. 1'. Moore. ...... "Adriana L°n3-W°° 00-
Stark Lampman, ...... ..Tustin, Osceola Co.
M. L. Stevens, ...... ..Perry, Shiawassee Co.
Jason Woodman, . . . .Paw Paw VanBuren Co_
A. N. Woodrufi, .... . .Watervliet, Berrien Co,

Mr. Perry Mayo,..Bs.ttle Creek, Calhoun Co.
Mrs. Perry Mayo,. .Ba.ttle Creek, Calhoun Co-

Prics list of Supplies

Kept in the omoe of the Secretary of the
MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.

And sent out Post Paid, on Receipt of Gas}:
Order, over the seal of a Subordinate Grange,
and the signature of its Matter or Secretary;

Porcelain Ballot Marbles, per hundred,.. 76
Blank Book, ledger ruled, for Secretary

to keep accounts with members,_ .... .. 1 0*.‘-
Blank Record Books, (Express paid),.. . 1 00
Order Book, containing 10 Orders on the

Treasurer, with stub,_well bound,.._. .. I0
Receipt Book, containing 100 Iteceipts

from Treasurer to Secretary, with stub,

well bound,.... ....  —--- --
Blank Receipts for dues, per l0G, bound, 50
Applications for Membership, per }.00,.. . 60
Secretary's Account Book, (new style)” 50
Withdrawal Cards, per dos.,. . . . . . . . .

  
 
 
   

   

Disiits, in envelopes, per doz.,.. .. 25
By-Laws of the State Grange,

oolpfies 10o, per doz., 75
By- ws,bound, ........... .. 20
“ Glad Echoes," with music, Single copy

16 (its. per dos., ..... ... .......... .. l. 80

The National Grange Choir, single copy
40 cents. Per dozen. .... ..

  

Rituals. single copy.-------u
6- r doz., ..................... .. 2 40
N or Fifth Degree, for Pomona 10
Changes, 1: co y ................. ..
Bls.nk“A.rti::eles oi Association” for the

In ration of Subordinate Granges
with B: of Ch.arter,all complete,....’ 10

Nofloeto lin uent Members, or 100 . 40
Declaration of Turposes, per don, be’;
per hundred ....................... .. 40
Lmbghln Manual of Parliamentary Law 6(
(I u N U
(lloroooo ) ................... .. 1 00
of In (1 Rulings, ......... .. 40
 ................... .. 16
Ldilreli J. T. COBB,

Sadr Mien. Burl Games,
SGEOOLGBAPI‘. MICE.

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diiiwflusl department;

IN THE CORNFIE-l.-D

They go, in the April morning,
The father and son, afield.

And plowing the greensward under,
Prepare for the harvest’s yield.

The father is thoughtful, sober,
The son is blythe and gay;

And thus the hours fly swiftly
Of this gladsoine, hopeful day.

They go again in the Maytime
And “tickle the earth with a hoe;”
They drop the tiny kernels
Of corn in the ground below.
The father tells his stories
Of the primitive olden time.
And the son, mayhap is dreaming
Of odors of rose and thyme.

Anon corn-blades are sprin ing
Out from the earth's dar mould:

Unto the air and sunshine
Their leaves they now unfold.

The slender blades grow stronger
Under the dew and sun,

And the hue grows clearer, deeper,
Of the green stalks every one.

There's a rustle of leaves in the cornfield,
As the Au ust breeze goes by,

’Mid the sta. ks are the children playing,
And they look to the bending sky;

They ask whence come the voices
Of the winds in their mild, sweet mood,

And wonder if it's from Heaven,
If it is the whisper of God, .

The field becomes a forest
Of stalks, and tassels, and grain,
When skies are grown more sober
And falls September rain,
Then the reapcrs with their sickles
Garner the ripened ears.
Symbols of life's ripe harvest
For the granary of the years.

The New Cattle Disease-Pleuro-Pneumonia.
To the Breeders’ Gazette more than
to all other stock papers combined,
and to it almost entirely, is due the
arousing of the public to the danger
of this contagidus disease and the pre-
cautions necessary to its spread.

From the Gazette of Sept. 11, is con-
densed the following essential facts
from the report of State Veterinarian:
N. H. Paaren.

In from three weeks to three months
after exposure to this disease the ani-
mal aflllcted will voluntarily isolate
itself from the remainder of the herd,
a listlessness, unequal temperature of
the body, irregularity in appetite and
rumination, falling off in milk and
slight shivering, a. slight, dry, short.
single cough, gradually increasing as
the disease develops into more fre-
quent and painful efforts, accompanied
by arching of the body and extending
the neck and head. The animal ap-
pears cold and emits a sticky discharge
from the nose.

These symptoms may continue sev-
eral weeks when the second stage he-
gins. This is indicated by an intensi-
ty of the symptoms mentioned in the
first stage accompanied by a very la-
bored breathing amounting to grunt-
ing.

The animal shows no disposition
to move and is stiff. There is a con-
stant moaning and saliva. exudes from
the mouth. Ext-remities are cold and
dropsical sweilings appear under the
jaws and chest.

Death ensues in from one to three
weeks after the appearance of the sec-
ond stage.

Autopsy of animals killed or dead
show that one or both lungs have
grown fast to the ribs, and were deep
red in color, solidified, and increased
from two to five times their normal
weight, (about four pounds.)

The disease has long been prevalent
in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylva-
nia, Maryland, Virginia and District
Columbia, and has been scattered by
spring combination sales of cattle, be-
ing largely confined at present to Jer-
sey cattle, not that they are more sub-
jectto the disease than other breeds,
but because individual animals were
sold aflllcted with contagious pleu1‘O-
pneumonia, and were shipped from in-
fected farms not strictly quarantined.
Of course it is understood there is no
remedy and the disease is incurable, be-
cause of its exceedingly contagious na-
ture, no effort should be made to save
animals. E W- S-

 

AMONG the sheep at the Illinois
State Fair that attracted attention,
were the Lincolns exhibited _by_ Mr.
A. M. Newton, of Pontiac, Michigan.
Mr. Newton showed a fine lot of
wethers at the last Fat Stock Show.
These were a lot of 11 two-year-old
wethers, which averaged 263 pounds,
and sold for 8 centss pound. The
low prices of _wool can not take off the
profit of raising such sheep as these.
——Farmers’ Review.

Rules For Markeling.

1. When you get to town ask the
merchant what he will give; he knows
more about the market than you do.

2 This getting up at four o’clo<.-k
to go to market is an imposition.
Never submit to an imposition.

3. Don’t be in a hurry to sell, you
will have more time after a little, and
if the price is down it can’t be
helped.

4. Never deal with your neighbors.
Itmight get you into trouble. You
can avoid it by giving away your stuff
or charging so much that they can
buy cheaper in town.

5. Don’t peddle, it lsn’t dignified.

6. Put the best always on top.
Other people do.

7. It's bad for others to be in debt;
don’t trust. But if you do trust don’t
discriminate, it might give offense.

8. Don’t trouble to make things
look nice, they are just as good with-
out it, besides isn’t italittle dishon-
est?

9. Never let anyone know what
you are raising. The boys might
steal it and your acquaintances try to
buy it. Advertising belongs to busi-
ness men.

A. A. CROZIER.

Ann Arbor, Sept. 18.

 

Artin Plowing.

Allow me to say that a good farmer
cannot afford to have a boy plow for
him. In the first place, it is not boy’s
work to follow a team all day, or even
halfa day; then he cannot mend a
balk by pulling the plow back; he
cannot turn a corner properly for
want of strength in his arms; and if
he follows the plow, he never will
lbiave straight legs. So much for the

oy.

Plowing needs to be done in the
best manner to insure a crop; any
after culture, of corn for instance,
cannot retrieve bad plowing in the
first place. I see very many fields
where farmers have for years com-
menced plowing on the outside, and
continued to do so until the have
raised quite a bank, and fairly ug out
the center. This should never be
done. If your field is level and even
and you must plow in lands, have
themin even width, plowing out and
back-furrowing alternately, and never
cross plow. And just here I would
remark that in the old countries the
land is always plowed in on one and
the same direction, and my own ex-
perience has taught me that it is a
correct practice, always leaving the
land more mellow and better disin-
tegrated, and I think that is the ob-
ject of plowing at all, while cross-
plowing will cause the land to be full
of lumps and clods.

We did follow this practice in Illi-
nois some because in our loamy soil,
which is naturally light and mellow
and before we had such perfect plows
as at present, the plows would scour
better. If your lands, however, are
rolling and surface drained, avoid dead
furrows as much as possible. A very
good way to do this I have found the
following to be:

Find the center of your piece; take
as many paces east and west as half
the width of your land north and
south; then commence to back—furrow
in the center, and keep it up till your
land is finished. 0: if, for instance,
you have small grain, less turning,
and the machine can do better work,
and it is not so apt to make your
team fret.

The greatest mistake in plowing is
this: To make a fourteen-inch plow
turn eighteen inches, or to cut and

cover. New I take a fourteen-inch
plow and cut twelve inches, plowing
from eight to ten inches dcep.—Trib-
mic and Farmer.

Premiums Awarded Dillon Brothers at Illi-
nois Siate Fair in’ 1884.

Norman stallion 4 years old, first
premium. Norman stallion 3 years
old, first premium. Norman stallion
2 years old, first premium. Norman
stallion 1 year old, first premium.
Sucking horse colt, first premium. N or-
man mare4 years old. first premium.
Norman marc3years old, first; premi-
um. Norman mare 2 years old, second
premium. Norman mare 1 year old,
first premium. Sucking mare colt,
first premium. Sweepstake premium
for best Norman stallion of any age,
$100. Sweepstake premium for best
Norman mare of any age, $50.

THE Department of Agriculture has
just had put up about 3,000,000 paper
or cloth bags of seed, two-thirds of
which will be distributed by rural
Congressmen to their pet constituents
and the remaining third will be sent
directly from the department. Large
quantities of seed-grain, vegetable-
seed, flower—seed, grape-vines, tubers
and cuttings are thus sent all over the
country. and many of the recipients
comply with the request from the de-
partment that a report be made on
their growth and worth.

Two New Wheat Insects-ImportantInquiries.

I have recently received specimens of
an inscct—larva of a moth—from Sagi-
naw, lluron and \Vexf0rd counties,
with the report that it is doingno little
damage to the wheat. It is said to
“hollow out" the berry, by eating the
flour. 1 should like very much to know
how general this insect is, how much
damage it is doing, when and how it
works, and to receive s ecimens from
every plaice where it has ecn observed.
The caterpillar is light colored. with
faint stripes, and brown head, and
about one-half inch long.

I have received from the eastern part
of the state some larval insects—-l1y-
menopterous—which work above the
joints in the wheat straw. In each
straw I find from six to 12 of the lar-
vzu. They are from one half inch to
two inches above the joint, and the
straw where they are found, for a dis-
tance varying from one-half inch to
more than an inch is solid instead of
hollow. The l2l.l‘V:'L‘ are imbedded in
small oval cells in this solid mass.
These cells are ll little more than one
eighth of an inch long. The larva,
w ich is yellowish-wl1ite,is 3. little
less than one-eighth of a inch. It has
a few short hairs and 13 Joints besides
the head. It has very small dark jaws.
The pupa is a little longer than the
larva. The legs and nine-jointed an-
tennic show plainly, color same as
larva, antennzc darker. The pupiu may
all turn dark soon. The pupzu have
just appeared. I have none of the flies
yet. wish to urge the same in regard
to this insect as to the other. Let all
send information and specimens. By
copying this our State papers can help
a. good cause. These insects are new,
and in attacking one of our most.in1-
portant crops may do great harm. The
fullest and most speedy investigation
is very desirable. A. J. COOK,

Agricultural College, Sept. 18, 1884.

Seasonable Suggestions.

Dui‘_,ng this season of relaxation froi.;
arduc .3 duties, there are many things
connected with the pursuit of the hus-
bandman which do not require any
great amount of physical effort, but
those which will prove very advanta-
geous if attended to.

The present is a good time to note
the effect of undcrdruining, and what;
advantage to crops has been gained by
it. The advantage or diszidvaiitage of
drilling in wliczit. The difference, if
any, in corn planted by hand or with
the planter; covered deep or shallow,
sprouted 01' dry.

Note the progress of Scions set from
cuttings made in the winter, as coni-
pared with those taken off at the time
of setting; the growth of vines and
trees where different mulchss have
been used; the effects of different
liquid fertil‘zers applied, etc.

Note the result of feeding whey to
mllch cows, and the profits as compared
to giving the same to hogs; of frequent
saltiug of stock and the opposite; of
soiling milcli cows wlLl1difl'e1'ent kinds
of feed; of keeping swine in clover
fields, ctc., etc.

Note the growth of different kinds of
crops now in the ground, and the ef-
fect of the several kinds of mzinurcs
used. It is a well-known fact, that dif-
ferent kinds of’ soil require differeiit
kinds of fertilizers; and also that the
various kinds of grains and vegetables,
seek in part diff'e1‘eiit elements to make
up their growth, and by noting now
the effects from certain treatments,
knowledge will be gained of value for
future use.

Giiincing over the country, we see
many farms on which there are rows
of bushes, brakes and weeds, lining the
walls, fences and roarlsides. This ought
not to be. Year by year, those now use-
less, unprofitable things, encroach more
and more upon the cultivated portions
of the field, driving out the grasses,
shading the crops, and yielding no re-
turn for the damage they do. Eradicafc
them; burn those unlit for bedding or
the compost heap, and exercise vigi-
lance in their utter extermination in
future.

Let no opportunity to get hay, fodder
or bedding pass unimproved. Too little
attention is paid to this, too little effort
expended in this direction. An excel-
lent time to apply top dressing to grass
lands, and perhaps the very best, is di-
rectly zifter haying. Whether it be old,
well decomposed manure, ashes, super-
phosphate, lime or other fertilizing
agent, it forms El. protection to the
shaven held, from the rays of a burning
sun; the fall rains carry it away for the
rootlets; also it is it protection to the
grass from ice and frost.

Making notes of observations as we
have suggested, and others similar, will
amount to more in real profit to the
farmer than he would suppose, if care
in this particular direction has never
been exercised. It is a noticeable fact,
that our wealthy and prospering far-
mers are those who keep their eyes wide
open, and are continually watching the
result of different farm experiments
and profiting thereby.—[Tribune and
Farmer.

THE su ar crop, or the supply of
the worl , is estimated at 5,000,000
tons. Nearly half the sugar of the
civilized world is made from beets.

During the winter a colony of
French agriculturists will be brought
over to instruct the French Canadians
in the culture of the beet for the man-
ufacture of sugar.

Saving Seed Corn .

There is no one matter of greater
importance to the farmer just now
than that of securing in the best con-
dition allberal supply of seed corn for
next spring’s planting. The loss to
the country in 1883 from planting poor
seed or seed of varieties requiring a
longer growing season than that af-
firded by the locality where planted,
amounted to very nearly one-half of
the crop. This year more care has
been taken to plant seed of proper va-
rieties. But not a few farmers now
find themselves with their corn far
from maturlt and needing excep-
tionally goo weather throughout
September to make sound corn, all
in consequence of buying and plant-
ing seed of too large and too late va-
rieties. The fact is that for all that

ortion of the west lying north ofa

ine drawn from east to west through
the center of the states of Ohio, In-
dians and Illinois, no varieties should
be tolerated which in a fairly good
corn season, if planted by the middle
of May, will not be past all danger of
frost by September 10. South of such
line, where a longer season can be re-
lied upon, larger and later varizties
may be safely planted. There is no
lack of varieties, first-class in charac-
ter, from which to select for such
northern planting, from which as
large yields can be realized as from
the larger and later varieties. In fact,
some of the largest yields of shelled
corn per acre on record have been pro-
duced by New England farmers with
their small eight or twelve-
rowed flint corn. The best time
to select seed corn is when it is
on the hill and is just fairly
hard. One can then select the earli-
est and best cars from stalks of medi-
um size, which are rather low down.
These should be traced up in strings
and hung where they can be qiickly
and thoroughly dried. The more
thoroughly this is done without ex-
posing the corn to the heat that will
destroy its germinating power the
better. The injury to seed corn by ex-
treme cold weather comes from the
moisture contained in the corn and
cob. If this can be completely ex-
pelled the lowest temperature we are
likely to experience will not injure it.
If the corn can be hung behind the
kitchen stove, or suspended from the
kitchen ceiling, or in a loft over the
kitchen, with the windows open to
allow a free circulation of air, it will
cure perfectly. Next to this hang-
ing is an open shed or empty corn
crib is a good locality. But seed corn
should never be left hanging in acorn
crib after the new corn goes in, nor
in a loft over hay or grain, as it is lia-
ble to injury from the moisture and
gases arising from them. For the
large corn growers who plant by
the hundreds of acres, requiring large
quantities of seed this method of
hanging up to dry would hardly be
practicable. They can,however. build
anarrow, open, but well roofed crib
especially for seed corn, and should do
so. VVhere the crop grown this year
is of the proper variety this saving of
seed from it should receive early at-
tention. Where the farmer has un-
fortunately a too late variety, it is for
his interest to make arrangements
with some one who has such as he
needs, for the eed which he will re-
quire for planting next spring secur-
ing and caring for lt himself, With-
out any disparagement of the seed
dealers, it is safe to say that if. is im-
possible for t'r em, in the way they
are obliged to handle large quantities
of seed, to have it in as good condi-
tion as the farmer can save it for him-
self. With the best care they can
give there will be a larger percentage
of kernels which will fail to germin-
ate than in seed carefully saved by
the farmer. There is more difference
between the crop from a good and a
poor stand than is often realized. A
failure of ten per cent of the seed to
germinate will yet give what would
be regarded as a pretty good stand, ‘yet
such failure is equivalent to a loss of
nearly 300 hills in each acre; with
fifty bushels of corn to the acre for :i

erfect stand, the loss would be five

ushels per acre. On a forty acre
field the loss would be 200 bushels,
which. at 40 cents per bushel, repre-
sent $S0. With a failure of 25 per
cent of seed, the loss would be 12;
bushels per acre, and on a forty acre
field, 500 bushels. which. at 40 cents
per bushel, is equal to $200, enough to
pay the wages of a good farm hand
throughout the year, yet every’far-
mer who plants seed of which he is
not absolutely sure is liable to such a
percentage of loss in stand any year.
All such risk can be avoided by each
farmer's saving his own seed at the
proper time, of the proper variety,
and seeing that it is thoroughly cured
before the setting in of cold weather.-
Farmers’ Review.

 

A prominent poultry-raiser says, that
3,000 hens cared for in the pro er man-
ner will show an annual pro tof $2,-
000.

The discovery of petroleum in India
has caused quite a sensation there, and
boring operations on a large scale will
be begun next autumn near Sibi and
Hurnai.

 

For Fertilizing Salt, address Larkin J:
Patrick, Midland City, Michigan.

Preserving Eggs.

For years pzist we have been regu-
larly importuned every spring] or
lIlfUl’lll‘x1tl0ll concerning the preserva-
tion of eggs. lieccntly we requestfl
l“‘.l.lll1_\' Field to tell all about it. and
she docs so in the poultry dep;ii*tment
of this issue. It is p(‘,l‘ll2lpS the most
czu'cfull_v prcpzired paper on the subject
that hits been published, and furnishes
iiiforimitiou that has probzibly cost the
Dcople of this country it million dollars.
That seems like :i big sum. but if the
reader will reflect ii little he will see
that it is not ex-nger:it.e(l. 'l‘ho.isa.ud.s
of “receipts” zit two dollars up to ten
(l()iid.l‘S each arc sold every year. The
“lI2wuna” nie-thod, the "German"
method, the “l’rencli" method, and
many other constitute the stock-in-
triidc of an army of agents. and some
poultry papers nuike one of these
receipts the grand inducement for sub-
scribers. We have known ten dollars
to be paid for one of the recipes Fanny
gives in her pziner. She shows how
these “i'cceipts" are changed by the
addition of one or more liziriuless sub-
stances, and l:l.IlllCl1€(l forth as new
and inf-.i.11iblc. some years ago a. young
man in a country town of this state
changed one of these recipes as Fanny
describes, and advertised it as a new
and positively sure method, and it was
reported that he took in ten thousand
do lars in two years.

The method of preserving eggs per-
fectly for any length of time has not
yet been discovered. Exclusion of the
air is the main point, and this is secur-
ed by coating the eggs with some sub-
stance. The shell of am cg is very
porous, allowing a free intro uction of
air, and the evaporation of water from
the egg. By keeping, an egg constant-
ly diiiiiiiislies in weight, air taking the
place of the water ev:i.p0ra.tcd. The
s )8ClllC gravity of a newly-laid egg is
a rout 1.03, so that it has only to lose a
trifle to make it swim in water, when
it is usually unsound. coat of
varnish. melted wax,;Z11m affiblc. 01’
even grease, on a newly-laid egg, fills
up the pores and largely prevents the
evziporzition and introduction of air,
and if it is then put in a cool place,
where the tcrnperature is even, it will
keep a long time. But there is air
enough inside of the egg to spoil it
eveiitiuilly, whatever the process em-
ployed.

Some years ago a gentlemen in this
city invented zi machine that punched
the eggs, extracted the air, filled
up the vacuum in what is termed the
“air bubble" with melted pziriiffiiic, and
coated the eggs with the same, all at
the same time. We saw this machine
in operatioii and thought at the time
that the secret had been discovered.
We have never heard of the invention
since, however, and hence conclude
it must liavc been :1. failure for some
1‘e‘.ison, for l):i1'win’s great lziw of the
“siii‘vivul of the fittest” governs these
things as well as animal organisms.

We hope that many of our readers
will test the various methods of pre-
serving eggs given in this issue, and
report the result next winter. In this
way we can get at their merits, and
in no other way. Put down a dozen
or half dozen eggs by each method
or by each of several methods, and if
some of them fall the loss will be
trifling. It will be worth a. good deal
to the ordinary farmer to know the
best way to preserve e gs for winter
use at home saying not iing about the
profit to be made in saving for winter
sules.—0hio Farmer.

AN Iowa man says in the Country
Gentleman; “l have for two years rais-
ed all the young calves I could get in
the 1"-allat ii low price. I take them
away from the cow at once, teach them
to drink, then scald one part of oil
meal, one part of corn meal and eight
parts of bran, wet enough to drink at
first, but as soon as possible feed them
the same day, as they are apt to sour
on mash in cold weather. I have
yearlings taken from the cow at three
days old, which never tasted milk again.
They weigh 750 lbs. each, and are worth
$20 apiece. lconsider that their cost
me $4}. This is an old Way of rais-
ing calves. The father of the compiler
of this, fifty years ago raised calves
that were never allowed to suck their
dams, and on the same feed, except that
instead of oil meal, ground cats, in
equal parts with corn, were used.

THERE is a good deal said by busi-
ness men about hard times, and far-
mers are too apt to join in the sense-
less clamor as though relief could be
had from constant iteration of a fault
that exists mainly because it is al-
leged to exist; that is to say, the stress
that rests upon business of every kind
is due almost entirely too feeling that
is unreal. Hard times never exist
with persons who have abundance of
good food and apparel, comfortable
homes and who are out of debt. Now
there is plenty of food in the coun-
try, clothing is cheap, shelter abund-
ant, but somehow the opinion pre-
vails that distress exists, and that
makes distress. Why not take things
as they are without magnifying trou-
bles that will vanish whenever people
cease to dwell upon them ?—Hasband-
man, N. Y.

Geolo ists assert thatif the contin-
ents an the bottom of the ocean were
graded down to a uniform level, the
whole world would be covered with

waterva mile deep.

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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

 

In The Cornfield——The New Cattle Disease-
Pleuro-Pneunionia— Rules For Marketing-
Art in Plowing-- Premiums Awarded Dil-
lon Bro‘s at Illinois State Fair, 1884-Two
New Wheat In sects—Impcrtant Inquiries—
Seasonable Suggestions——Saving Seed Corn
—Prescrving Eggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

.Beaders take Notice-—To Secretaries and oth-
er Remitters— A Visit to Lenawee county——
The Detroit I’ost—Renewl Renewl—John-
son’s New Universal Cyclopedia-Lenawee
C_ounty Fair and its Patrons-— Notes of Ad;
vice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘

General Notice—'l‘he Monthlies—The State
Fair and Rule Six as it was and is—The
Farmers’ Calling and Protection——Rei:ni-
aiiscencas of the Fair——Postal Jottings—-
Notices of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3

The Impossible—Life is Brief—Pear Blight
Care of Gerani'ums—0rchard Pruning—
Making Sorghum Syrup-Sunshine in Sta-
/hles—Stolen Public Lands——Grange
‘Thonght——Incubators—Commercial Fraud --
Always N ipping—-Batter and Leaders of the
Civil War-—The Gleanors— Reverences—
Literary N otes—Value of Education-—A re
Not Law Abiding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4

The Penny Ye Meant to Gi’e-—Grange Work
In The N orth—-The Polieical Duties of Pa-
trons—Political Correspondence-Lectun
er’s Communication -- N ational Grange P
of H,—A Woman of Geuius—Autumn
Leaf Panels—- Without Esrm-.stness—A

- Good Doctor—— Candy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Out of the Woods —Reforms—Housekeeper
and Husbandry-— The Science of Cooking-—
Books in the Houss—Selections—Woman’s
Privileges—-Postal Jottings . . . . . . . . . . . .

. An Hour at the Play Grounds-—Bangs-— Pret-
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.i..ang_uage— _gilvie’s Handy Book— N ow
This is Shouting—'I‘he Reaper Death-—I‘he
Markets——Advert1semsnts . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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We don’t get any more money than
' we like to see, either for fees and dues,
for supplies, or for the VISITOR. But
we sometimes get it in a way that we
--don’t like. Aug, 30th we received an
envelope containing a money order
"for $24.40 with nothing to show who
sent it or for what.
We once carried a memorandum
"account of $10.00, with a money or-
der, for two years before we found out
who sent it and it gave us a good deal
- of trouble.
This is a careless, unbusiness-like
' way of doing business and we hope
farmers will all quit such practices.

 

T. W. Munson, Secretary of the
Livingston County Agricultural Soci-
ety, favored us with a Fair ticket,
"backed by a friendly invitation to
“Come and get acquainted.” We
should certainly accept it if it took no
ztime from oflice work, which just now
-won’t bear any farther neglect toat-
* tend fairs. But we arejustas thank-
. ful for being remembered, as though
r we had attended and went home with
' Secretary Munson and slept in his
best bed.

 

The courtesy of an admission ticket
‘to the Indiana State Fair which com-

; menced on the 29th of September, and
« continues to the 4th inst., in the city
» .of Indianapolis has been extended to

A us by its officers. We take pleasure
— in making mention of this recogni-
tion of the Grange Press by Agricul-
-inral societies, and particularly by
those of a neighboring state. We rec-
ognize the good these societies are
- doing, and they all have our best wish-
-es for that success they so much de-

 AOIVO.

A ViS|T TO LENAWEE COUNTY.

The names ofmany patrons of Len
awce county were as familiar as house
hold words, and we had long antici-
pated the pleasure of greeting at less
afew of them at their own home.-.
But every day for all these years has
see med to have had its duties and its
work, and we have found it easier to
p stponea visit than to pick up our
satci el and start.

But the week of the county fair
found us in Lsnawrc county, and a
good county it is, whether we refer to
its patron farmers or to its patrons’
farms.

We were unexpectedly met down
toward the small hours of the night at
the depot by Bro Allis, and an hour
later were erjoying the hospitality
ofthe “best bet.” three miles away
from the city of Adrian. This enjoy
ment was conti:-ued on the foilo wing
day by an acquaintance with thf‘
father and mother of Bro. E. W. Allis.
These people have arrived at an age
that excuses most patrons from grange
attendance, when the meetings hold
so late that the return home is likely
to invade the following day. But this
drawback had not prevented attend-
ance at the hall of Madison Grange-
the evening before with a very late re-
turn home. With agood farm, good
surroundings, good society, and an
ambition to reap all the ad-
vantages which the Grange offers
the farmer class, his family are appar-
ently contented and happy, as well as
useful members of the community in
which they live.

No patron of ;the county has evinced
more interest in the VISITOR. or in an
unselfish way given more time to ad-
vance its interests, than has Bro. E.
W. Alllis, of Madison Grange.

Those who attended the State
Grange session of 1882 will remember
Miss Mary Allis, who, as an elocution-
ist, entertained us so well. Her work
for the O'der was everywhere in sight
at the Grange exhibit of Madison
Grange on the fair grounds.

On the streets of Adrian we met
Bro. Thos. F. Moore in his carriage,
bound for home. We accepted his in-
vitation, took a seat at his side, and
were soon at his very pleasant home.
Bro. Moore has a large and most ex-
cellent farm, the cares and labors of
which he has turned over to Bro.
Beale,‘ his son-in-law. Barring a
domestic siiilction he is remarkably
well fixed to enjoy life, and all things
considered, we think his philosophy
is equal to his circumstances, and he
really gets more out of life than most
men would in his situation. ‘.Ve speni
the afternoon with Bro. Mooie, the
last third of it on the road to Bro,
Chas. E. Mickiey’s, a few miles dis-
tant, reaching there in the twilight.

We werevery glad to find Bro. Mick
ley in a much better mental condition
than we had expected, and we com-
menced at once to have a right good
visit with him. We had not seen him
since he attended the State Grange
session in December,_l8S2, since which
time he has done little or no Grange
work. The loss to the Order by his
absence from the field of labor has
been known and felt in every place
where his eloquence had been heard
and his influence for good had been
felt.

The next morning Bro. Mickley
took us in his carriage and drove over
to Bro. Horton’s, about a mile away
As President of the Lenawee County
Agricultural Society, Bro. Horton was
on duty on the Fair grounds We un-
derstand he is the largest cheese man-
ufacturer in the State, and with Bro.
Mickley we first looked over his cheese
factory which is convenient to the
house. The big vats were not as full
as usual owing to the short pastures
The needed rains had shunned
this county as well as there
of Southern Michigan, and the dairy
business has suffered in common with
all other farm interests. However the
long rows of cheese in the curinghouse
showed that some work had been done
during the season. At its close we in
tend to give our readers something
likea full account of Bro. Horton’s
business, and shall pass it by at this
time. We next visited Weston
Grange Hall whxchis reputed the fin--
est in the State, absorbing more mon-
ey from the pockets of its Patrons
than has any other Hall in the State.
Descriptions of Weston Grange Hall
have appeared in THE VISITOR more
than (ace, and we shall be brief, sim-
ply saying, that it seems tons com-
plete in every part, from the lower
story with the kitchen, dining room,
and their necessary accompaniments
to the next story with its cozy Grange-
Hall, with its rich carpets, frescoed
walls, with fixtures and furniture to
correspond. ,, On this floor is a nicelv
furnished library room under the tow-
er of the building, also a museum
in which entomology, ornithology,
and half a dozen other ologies
have specimens in great variety
and value. The members of
few, if any Granges in Michigan or
elsewhere, have such opportunities for
improvement as are afforded by the
library, cabinet, and museum of West-
on Grange, often proving to the sat-
infection of all concerned,-the value of
the educational and social features of
the Order. A year or two ago an
annex was added to the building for a

store. Into this Bro. Horton put 9.!
stock of such goods as farmers mus: i
have, and the amount of business donr 
as we underst.v.n<l. has been satisfac-;
torly to all cc.-ncerr.ed. Bro. Hortor; 
is having a new horse barn built, has I
a farm of several hundred acres tn!
look after, two or three cheese factor-
ies to manage, besides his Grange
work and cutside interests that are
quite a tax upon his time VVhen
we found him on the fair
grounds the next day in addition
to his officialdutf s as President, he
aided by his wife, was doing more-
than his full share in the work of
arranging and perfecting the exhibi'
of Weston Grange. Bro. Horton’.-
zeal in Grange work seems to equal his
industry, which is sayinga good deal
when we take into account the amoun-
of business he has on his hands.
Returning with Bro. Mickley to dinner
we spent the afternoon looking over
his splendid farm. He has pasture-
that have not felt the plow for 20
years, that yield to his thriving steers
an abundant supply of grass through
the entire season. For many years
grazing and fattening steers has been
the leading branch of his farming.
Turning over his fields but seldom,
when he does, an abundant crop re
pays his labor and raises the question
whether the grain farmer of South-
western Michigan, by turning his
land over nearly every year, has not
adopted abad policy, one that givcs
him more work than wealth, and if
persisted, in means leaner fields and
poorer crops for the next generation.
This land was all very heavily tini-
bered, and here, when but a grown up
boy, Bro. Mickley commenced to how
out of the wilderness a farm. And
right well he succeeded, not only mak
ing money, but as the year.-
rolled on presenting to his brother
farmers a model farm. Good fences.
clean tillage, good buildings, with
shaded spacious surroundings, with-
out rubbish or weeds to mar its beau-
ty, make good our statement. Twen
ty-five acres of nature’s forest as finc-
as we ever saw, untouched by the
woodman’s axe, tells of the labor re-
quired to convert the forest, covering
a large farm, in to a msadow ready for
the rattling reaper.

We very much enjoyed the day with
Bro. Mickie-y and we hope, in the near
future, he will give us an opportunity
to devote more hours to his entertain»
ment at our home than he devoted to
us.

Hitching up his favorite horse wr-
had a pleasant ride to the house of Bro
Beals, on whom we depended to ge
us to the fair ground the following
day, and this dependence wasgnot mis
placed. v

Bro. Beal and his good wife reached
home rather late, after a hard day’s
work on the fair grounds, getting
things in shape for the thousands Wliu
visit a county fair, and never have a
well defined idea of the amount of la-
bor required to fix things in shape for
them to criticise and grumble about,
as their caprice may direct.

Bro. Beals, as one of the oili-
cers of the society, has devoted
agood deal of time to the work of
preparation and is certainly very de-
votedhto its best interests, and in this
he has had the hearty support of every
member of his family.

These patrons always have time to
devote to the good of the Order. They
do not wait to be elected to the State
Grange, but go right along on their
own hook and have a. good time.

Preparation for the fair was the
work of all and we had only
time to look about and learn that our
host gave much more attention to his
garden than the average farmer, as his
vegetables were not only fine, but the
variety was large. We had a pleasant
ride over a splendid farming country
to the city an-2 fair grounds, where we
spent the remainder of the di-y. going
home with Bro. M. M. Cole Wednes
day night. He, too, has forged a farm
out of the heavy timbered land, of
which Lenawee county must have had
a large share. Situated lower than
much of the surrounding country his
farm could only be made productive
by drainage. What and how mucl-.
he has done of this kind of work on
the strength of a partial promise, we
expect to learn in the columns of the
VISITOR a little later in the season. A
stay of one night with Bro. and Sister
Cole qualifies us to say, with a nice
family in a nice home, they are well
fixed to enjoy life and we are quite
sure they do in a reasonable rational
manner.

They have given in times past
adundant proof they were good pat
rons nor do they yet weaken either in
faith orlwork.

But we have drawn out our story
much longer than we intended. In

closing we must add that a most cor-
dial greeting everywhere mot us from

tain a grateful recollection of our first
visit to Lenawee county.” It. is a couii-1‘
ty having much larger dairy interests,‘
and better adapted to those than any
of our western counties. Saying this,
is equivalent to saying that her far-niy-é
ers have not impoverisliéd their farrnjg
as have many of the ‘grain-raising,
farmers of the"st‘ate. That her farmers
live as well, and are as rich as can be
found elsewhere, you can tell as I did

by visiting them at their homes.

earnest, working patrdns, and we re- .

THE DETROIT POST.

Not having been brought up in a
priiitingoiiice or reached the editorial
sanctum either by appreiiticcsliip or
through any line of regular service or
expcrieuce, but in the cciitr:11'y liaviiig
been forced into the edit riul business
by the peremptory order of an l-Ixvcu-
tive Board after we were 50 _\'('lll‘S of
age, it cannot be expected that we are
fully up to all the coiirtesits and obli-
gatioiis that attach to the position of
editor of a city newspaper. But apply-
ing the little common sense with which
we are blessed (and we have somehow
come to think that it is one’s best stock
in trade) to the action and determina-
tion of the editor of the Detroit Post,
we think we have been treated very
shabbily, and we submit the following
facts and ask the judgment of our
readers upon them.

(in our own motion, without let or
liiiidreiice from anyone, soon after the
Detroit C0llVC‘lltlOll, we wrote an article
for the Visrroi: headed "The llurrcl
C.'iinpaigii." To our criticisms in this
article of the course pursued by Mr.
llall of llamburg, he took offense and
gave vent to his anger in language
more forcible than genteel in an "Open
Letter” addressed to us by name. In
our judgment this letter was couched
in language unbecoming :1 gentleman.
llut this is simply a matter of opinion
which we entertain, and about which
those who have read the “Open Letter"
maydiifcr. The editor of the Post gave
place to this attack of Mr. llull upon us
and when requested to print an answer
made the following reply:

liiuromai. ROOMS or 
Tun DE’l‘l{()lT l’o.s'r, -
l)i-:'ri:oi'r, Sept. iii, 1s'.~'4.

Afr. J. T. Cobb Schoolcntft, Jlic/z..'
DEAR Sm:-—Yoiii’ mr-rnorzuidum cu-
closinp; extract from the (}ii.\Nois Vis-
ITOI: is received. In reply to your re-
quest that I “Will please give it in the
sonic editions of the Post that I gave
his lettengiving credit to the Visirou,”
I have only to say that I see no reason
why the Post should conduct it person-
al controversy between you and Mr.
Ball in its columns. Yours truly,

J. L. Srioxxisv, Editor.

Now this may be strictly in accord-
ance with the theory and practice of
journalisin, but we don't believe it.
We know that partizaiiship in the field
of journalism has little regard for fair-
ness, but we have a better opinion of
the class of gentlemen who edit news-
papers, thzui we should have, if we
accepted this narrow, one—sided action
of Editor Stickney as representing the
editorial fa.ll‘llt:SS of Micliigaii editors.
Any man could see that sort of a letter
would be answered, and without the
Post took pay of .\Ir. Ball for printing
his letter and refused our answer be-
cause we did not buy space, we are ut-
terly at J. loss to understand the ground
of refuszil, except we associate its editor
with the politicians of our metropolitan
city. It is well understood that these
gentlemen have no sense of fairness
and are loth to recognize any claims

from the country, however reasonable
and right.

Cities, with them, are to furnish the
candidates for oilice and the rural dis-
tricts the votes to elect them. And
we now [ind-that the Post is conducted
on the same general principles. This
may do for a few weeks or months, but
that arbitrary disposition of the rights
of the party of the second part we
think will not be sustained. As the cast-
is too plain and simple for argunieiit.
we leave the Whole matter to the ver-
dict of our 20,000 readers in the rural
districts.

 

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lOHNSON’S NEW UNIVERSAL CYCLOPEDIA

We are informed this work has been
pronounced the “best” by the highest
authority in the State University at
Ann Arborgin the State Normal School
and in other schools and Universities.
It is stated there are more sets of John

syn‘s Cyclopedia in use in Ann Arbor
than all other kinds combined. There
is no doubt of its being a work of great.
merit. It only needs to be examined to
be appreciated. A good cyclopedia is
a library within itself. and the ques-
tion of getting one is important, like
thatgof theleducation of our children. It
is the great home teacher. It stands
ever ready to answer all sorts of ques-
tions accurately, quickly, and “to the

- point.”

This book in the hands of any person
or family who will refer to it often,
will prove a valuable educator, taking
the place to some extent of a library
to those who havenone. To those who
can afford any investment in books, a
good work of this kind covers a. larger
field than can elsewhere be obtained.
This is undoubtedly of such late date
that it is fully abreast of the times.
Its cost being much less than some of
the more bulky cyclopedi-as, brings it‘
within the reach of a. m..ch larger num-

ber of people.

OCTOBER 1. 1884

LENAWEE COUNTY FAIR AND ITS PAT-
RONS.

\Ve have had a standing invitatioi
for several years frxein many of th-
good patrons of Leuawee county to
visit them at their homes, at their
Grange halls and their Grange pic-
nics. But much as we desired to
comply, work or duty some-where has
p<stponed the promised visit for in
these many years.

In rrsponse to aspecial call we at-
ten/‘e-l the annual Fair of the Lens-
wee county Agricultural Society last
Week and met for the first time many
of the patrons of the county. Al
though we had seen some at the State
Graiige, thr-re were many others
equally earnest that we had not seen,

This society having one of thc finest
counties in the State to sustain it, by
bad management somewhere finds
itselfjust at this time in the condition
of ambitious young folks who start
out in life relying more on their in-
dustry and pluck than on their
wealth.

With new grounds, a new track,
new buildings, (but not enough of
them) with little or no money in its
treasury, the gates were opened to
the putlic on Wednesday morning the
24th of September. A rain in the
morning with a threatening aspect
through the forenoon and a real gen-
uine wet afternoon made the outlook
rather a sorry one for the society.
But about sundown the ho'izon west-
ward brightened and gave promise
ofa good day on the morrow (Thurs-
day) which with Michigan fairs is
the day. Despite the rain, stock of all
kinds had been coming in all day
and we heard it said that in some de-
partments the exhibit had never
been surpassed in the county.

The society had offered four pre-
miums for Grange exhibits of agri-
cultural products, and four Griinges
were on hand to compete.

We wish to say at ‘he outset that
our report will entirely fail to give
the reader any correct idea of the ex-
tent and excellence of the exhihiis.
The arrangement and construction of
buildings for the purpose required,
was new to us and might be styled
the cottage plan, and two of these build-
ings abo: t 21x30 each in ere, allotted to
the four Granges for their respective
displays. This floored space each side
ofa ten foot passage through the
building was used as the taste or ca-
price of the members engaged in the
work of arrangement might dictate.
VVe took up our pencil with the in
tention of giving as near as we could
remember, something of a description
of the exhibits of each Grange. But
we soon found ourselves unequal to
the task and we turned from such a
purpose in despair. '

It was a matter of surprise to us
that such painstaking labor had been
bestowed on some partof the work of
preparation before leaving home, by
so many members of the Order. The
explorations for material had ex-
tended to the orchards for fruits, to
the gardens for vegetables, to the
fields for grains and grasses, the woods
for wild vines and fruits, lichens,
mosses and ferns, to marshes for fl2.._s,
to yards for evergreens, to the con-
servatory for flowers in pots, in
wreaths, festoons, pyramids and cush-
ions of fragrant beauty. Parlors had
yielded their pictures, cabinets of
collections their relics gathered from
all quarters of the earth. With this
mass of material, from the mammoth
pumpkin that obtruded its huge form
upon your gaze where every inch of
space seemed needed for display of
fruits of smaller size and liner grain,
to the smallest seeds or tiniest plant
and flower; among boxes and barrels,
cases and cans, pots and pictures, jars
andjugs, pans and pails, baskets and
bottles, the faithful Patrons were
bringing order out of confusion by
driving nails, placing shelves, aus-
pending novelties and taxing their in-
genuity to make up the greatest va-
riety in form, feature and finish of
the products of their labor and skill.

Each Grange had its name and
number in conspicuous place—nni a
daub of paint on eight cent cotton,
but a work of art made by deft fin-
gers for creditable display.

“Adrian Grange” set in letters of
small grain on a dark curved ground
ornamented the wall. In the center
was the inevitable floral horse shoe
giving its number in beautiful colors
while below potted plants in brilliant
bloom filled up with fragrant finish
the space from top to bottom.

Long lines of canned fruits of every
kind and color, with jellies of lus-
cious look were marshailed like
soldiers on dress parade.

Bunches in varied lengths of
golden grain with long full heads,
and fcathery grasses neatly tied with
ribbons of red white and blue were
fastened to the walls as the tastes of
the willing workers dictated.

From the museum of Weston Gran_e
over 140 kinds of grasses were seen be-
hind glass placed between the rafters
and thus every inch of space was
utilized.

Long, large ears of bright yellow
corn found a place high on the walls
or rafters, while varieties of smaller
size were neatly sandwiched in be-
tween.

All the Grangss had hundreds of

things in common while each had
some novelties of its own.

In the Madison Grange exhibit was
a case of insects that prey upon our
fruits and grain with their parasites
(our friends.) from the entomological
collection of Bro. Allis, who by the
way has become somewhat famous
in that part of the country for his de-
votion to and knowledge of entomol-
ogy. Through the glass cover visitors
could see the “horrid things,” but so
general is ignorance that few com-
ments went beyond, “them’s in.
sects.”

Here our attention was first called
to some fine specimens of etching on
litchens and later we saw smaller
specimens in another exhibit. Some
blackberries on the vine or case
fresh from the woods seemed out of
season but they were as good as June
could furnish.

And here a cage of Banta chickens
came in as agricultural productions.

Over each department were the
words Ceres, Pomona, and Flora,
made of grain, fruit and flowers to
which was added a fourth "miscella-
neous” the letters of Which c m.
posed of insects, seeds, flowers, small
vegetables. and nuts made up a beau-
tiful variety.

In the Adrian Grange exhibit un.
def glass were two specimens of but-
ter fac-similics of the pine apple in
shape, but of rich golden color.

Here too, was the festive goat in
evergreen, we suppose put on exhibi-
tion for the benefit of the general
public as all good Patrons know him
well Two vegetable pyramids sur-
mounted by toy flags stuck in in-
veiled parsnips was one of the no.<-l
features of this exhibit and near by
the skill of the taxidermist was
seen in a cage of stuffed birds

The expressive motto. “Tn essen-
tials unity, in mon-essentials liberty,
in all things charity,” gave sig-
nificant expresslon to the spirit that
animated and encouraged these patrons
in their work.

Weston Grange hal its Altar enn-
belished on all sides with grains ad-
hering to its 4 irfuze i n flowers and
forms of beauty by skill that we know
not of. This alter surmounted with
a bed ofliowers, rich if not rare was
a thing of beauty indeed. The nation-
al IOIOTS covering much of back
ground and interior of the roof was a
marked feature of this - xhlbit.

Its floor was carpeted with moss,
fresh from the forest—and “Weston
Grange,” in letters a foot long made
of grass and grain trimmed with im-
mortello was a feature none could over-
look.

Its motto “By Industry we thrive, ’
was every where illustrated aud“Faith,
Hope, Charity" proclaimed its pristi-

pies.

“Palmyra Grange” was conspicuous
in central department and under-
neath a floral pyramid 49‘ feet high
flanked on either side and all around
with blossomed beauties rich in fra-
grance and com plete in arrangement.

Here as elsewhere the great law that
we have heard so much about all our
life was violated. The relation of
supply to demand was disregarded
and the fact was clearly rsiabli lied
that each Grange needed all the space
allotted to two. In this abundant dis-
play there may have been the “corn,
wine and oil ’ that we read of, but here
we can only certify to the “corn and
vegetables that found a place, a d
hardly that for want of room.

In every department of every
Grange evidence was not wanting of
refined taste, of patient industry, of
culture and skill that did honor to in-
dividuals and to the Patrons of Lena-
wee countv.

The prizes offered $35, $25 $15 and
$10 were certainly meager and all out
of proportion to the value of the ma-
terial and the labor involved in the
exhii.it- A brother whose judgment
commands our confidence, estimated
the labor bestowed at not less than
200 days and this tax fell not on all
but like other Grange work on the
earnest, faithful few.

We very much enjoyed the time
spent on the fair grounds with so
many Patron friends, and shall long
remember the Lenawee county Fair
of 1884.

NOTES OF ADVICE.

If P. S. Chappell will send us his Post
Ofiice address we may be able to help
him in finding the supplies which he
ordered sometime since and claims not
to have received. His order had the
name of no P. 0. found in the postal
guide and his card of complaint none
whatever.-

Correspondents need not look for
their productions, even in the postal
column when sent unaccompanied by
their whole name.

From the Secretary, B. B. Baker, of
the Central Michigan Agricultural So-
ciety, we have a "Complimentary” to
"admiL” to its Fair, which opened at
Lansing on the 29, of Sept. We ap-
preciate the courtesy though unable
to attend.

FROM C. A. Barnard is received a
circular describing his poultry yards
at Wasepi, in St Joseph county. He
deals only in the Plymouth Rock
fowls. Any one desiring to purchase
would do well to correspond with him
or call and inspect his stock.

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GENERAL NOTICE.

MICHIGAN Srars Gamma,
Si-;cs.s'ru.v’s Orrrcs,
Sept 28, 1884.

The books of this offl .-e show at this
date the following Granges entitled
to elect delegates to the County Con-
vention, to be held on Tuesday, Octo-
ber 7, 1884, by virtue of Section 3,
Article 2, By-L'tW.5 of Michigan State
Grange:

Allegan—3 Representatives. Nos.
37, 53, 154, 238, 247, 248 271, 296, 338,
339, 364, 390, 407, 520. 643.

Antrvim——1 R *p.—469, 470. _

Barr;/-2 R.-p.—3S, 55, 127,145, 256,
424, 41.5, 472, 648

Branch—1 R:p.—88, 91, 96, 97, 137,

152, 400.

Berrien -2 Rep.—14, 40, 43, 46, 80, 81,
84, 87, 104, 122, 188, 191

Benzie—1 R.-p.—503.

Calhoun—1 Rep.--65, 66, 85, 129, 130.
292.

Case -1 Rep.—42, 125, 162, 291, 427.

Cl1Inlon—3 Rep.—l40, 202, 225, 226,
342, 343, 358, 370, 439, 4-36, 459, 505,
659.

Eaton —-2 Rep.—67, 134, 223, 224, 260,
301,315,360, 361, 619

Genesee—1 R.-p.—357,

Grand Travcrsc—-1 R:p.—379, 624,
638, 655.

GT(t(‘iOl—1 Rep.—391, 431.

.Hz'llsdale—3 Rep.——74, 78, 106, 107, 108,
133, 182, 183, 251, 269, 273, 274, 286, 568.

Ingham—2 R :p.—— 54, 235, 262, 287,
289, 322. 347, 540.

Iom"a—3 R;p.——-163, 168, 174, 175, 185,
186, 187,190, 191, 192, 270. 272, 281, 325,
430, 640.

Jackson—1 Rep.—-28, 45, 320.

K(/.lamazuo.—2 Rep—8, 11, 16, 18, 21,
24, 49, 61,171.

Kcn£——4 Rep—19, 39, 63, 73, 110, 113,
170, 219, 220, 221, 222, 295, 337, 340, 348,
350, 353, 479, 563, 564, 634.

Lapeer—-1 Bep.—396, 448, 656, 246,
549. 607.

LeeZenaw—1 Rep.—374.

Lenawee—-2 R-.Ap.——l67, 212, 213, 276,
277, 278, 279, 280, 293, 384. 660.

L'£m'ngston——1 Rt-p.——90, 316,336, 613.

Macomb—l Rep.—403, 623, 637, 657,

Jl1amIstee—1 R;p.—557, 530, 633.

Ma.son—1 Rep.——4l5.

lllecosta--1 R p-362. 517.

Mon.-oe—1 Rep.——-509

Montcalm -1 Rep.—3l8, 436, 437, 440,
4-41, 650.

1l{uslccgon—1 R.~p.—372, 373, 376

Newa,ygo—-1 R.-p.—494. 511, 544, 545.

0ceamz—1 R.-p.——390, 406, 495, 600,
658.

0aklomd—3 Rep.—14l, 245, 2-33, 257,
259, 267, 275, 283, 323, 328, 335, 377, 395,
443.

Ottawa——-2 R-ep.—30,V 112, 313,
639, 645, 647, 652.

0secola—1 R:p.——620, 628, 651.

St. Clair-1 Rep.—49l, 528.

.st. Jo8eph—2 R~1p.--22, 76, 173 199
215, 236, 237, 266, 291, 303, 304, 333.

Saginaw—1 Rep.—574

Sam'lac—1 R-p.—417, 566 641, 654

Shiawassee—-1 Rep. — 151, 160, 180,
228, 229, 252.

Tuscola—1 Rep.—-526, 548, 582, 661.

Van Buren. -2 Rep.-— 10, 23, 32,
60, 89, 158, 159, 172, 346, 355, 610.

Washtenaw—2 Rep.—52, 56, 68, 92,
351. 399, 476, 631.

Wayne—2 Rep.—26S, 298, 367, 368,
389. 618, 622, 636.

Wezrford--1 R-'.-p.—63‘.’., 644.

By the neglect of some Secretaries
quitea number of Grange;-i stand now
upon our books disfranchised.

For the purpose of securing repre-
sentatives to all delinquent Granges
we shall add to the list all that may
report up to the last moment practica-
ble, and delegates duly elected who at
the convention show a receipt for dues
for the quarter ending March 31, 1883,
on which is endorsed, “entitled to
representation ” should be allowed to
participate in the work of the Con-
vention.

In the last Visitor we give so much
of Article 4.h, By-laws of State Grange
as relates to the make-up of the legis
lative body of the State Grange.

The following Granges have
sent in neither the reports for De-
cember or for March: Nos. 83,
114, 115, 239, 265, 276, 285, 310, 321,
580, 606, 625, 619. Those not having
reported for March, but for previ-
ous quarters, are: 2, 7, 36, 39. 57, 59,
114, 115, S3, 157, 176, 200, 230, 239,
241, 255, 265, 285, 810, 321, 325, 331, 332,
361, 380, 396, 461, 464, 480, 513, 530. 580,
606, 607, 625, 635, 638, 648.

421,

By the courtesy of the President,
Hon. Pnilo Parsons, we received a
complimentary admission to the Fair
grounds of the State Agricultural So-
ciety, at its lasi; annual meeting in
Kalamazoo, which we used, we hope,
to some advantage to our readers as
well as to ourselves.

President Clay of the Western
Michigan Agricultural and Industrial
Society, sent us a “Complimentary”
which we wanted to use, but could
not. We are, however, just as much
obliged, and promise to do bett. r next
time’

A FINE, substantial library book is
before us from the hands of the pub-
lisher, C. G. G. Paine, to whose ad-
vertisement we are pleased to call at-
ieution on another page. "Carleton’s
Treasury of Universal Knowledge”
isa convenient and valuable book for
refercnce on all subjects. The well
arranged analytical Index makes it
better than Is usually the case, and is
°9P0¢iMly adapted to general use,

THE MONTI-ILIES.

Among these exchanges the most at-
tractive in size and appearance, is the
new geographical magazine, which in
its Michigan number has equaled its
first issue devoted to ])d.k0t3. The
value of this paper is not appreciated
until the need is felt for a late map
of our state, and a ready reference to
her history and industries. Michigan,
with her fair scenes, her immense for-
ests, mining interests which cope
with the world’s, her educational in-
stitutions and as yet unbounded re-
soures of enterprise and wealth, is de-
serving of the tributes of the pages in
the August I)-mcriplive Arnericu.

The publishers are George 11. Adams
& Son,.-3!) Bcckrnan St., N. Y., to whom
much credit is due for giving the read-
ing people this new dcpartmeiit in the
line of inagizines.

In the Atlanfic are the llSIlitl number

of articles of literary interest, with
poems by Celia Tiiaxter, 0. W. Holmes,
and A. M. Lord. The subject of South-
ern Colleges and Schools, is considered
at some length by C. F. Smith. The
colleges of the north and south when
compared numerically, are decidedly
favorable to the southern states. This,
however, is but the following of a too
popular line of thouglit—-namely, that
a college in one place is acollegc in
another; whereas, looking the matter
fairly iii the face, southern colleges are
almost wholly deprived of the “back-
ing” derived from preparatory high
schools, and being compelled to admit
of an intermediate class of work, the
ideals which should be kept before the
youth, are lowered. The term college, ,
or university, practically’ means to him
high school work. Nor is this true
alone in the south, it holds good in the
north in a lessened degree. The orig-
inal dignity and high ideal of a college
course can not be maintained, unless a
thorough and sufiicient preparatory
course preceed it. The Massachusetts
plan is advocated by the writer of the
article we are considering, and it may
be said here, it has been suggested as a
mode of extrication from the preplexi-
ties of our Michigan school system.

“In every town in Mass. containing
4,000 inliabitants and over, a high
school is required to be kept, in which
the pupils are all offered the advan-
ta e of a preparation for any of our
co leges, and where the high schools
are so popular that about eighty towns
are now maintaining such schools,
though not required to do so by law.
This state of affairs in Mass, is but the
legitimate result of the policy inaugur-
ated in 1647 by the law of the colony
which requires that every town of
ov.r one hundred families shoul -.ma‘:i-
tain a school, the teacher of which
should be able to instruct youths as far
gsthey may be fitted for the universi-

There is an inexplicable some-
thing, in the cutting of the
fresh leaves of 2 new magazine

that savors of no other pleasure. The
reading of the October North Ameri-
can Review in no way dispels the sen-
sation; but as usual, it is found replete
with good things. The tariff question,
begun in the September number, is
again dealt with from an opposite point
of view by John RlClld.1‘tlS, and others-
“The origin of Yellow Fever” is writ-
ten about by Dr. G. Creighton; “Shall
the Jury System be Abol ..1ied?” by
J udgc Robert Y. Haynes, and besides
these, are other ably presented papers
on prominent current topics.

The Womcmls Century comes to our
table this month. This magizine was
formerly issued under the name of
Women at Work. It is fresh, and in
its healthy subjects, treated by not a
few well known women, pre.-ents it fa-
vorable contrast to many a woman’s
journals that savors of senszitional con-
tents. We prcdict for it a welcome in
every home it enters.

As a. people we have become proud
of a system of education that offers
to the children of all grades of society
like opportunities for educational ad-
vancement.

With the apparent harmony and
completeness in theory of our system
of free schools as a people we had
become so enamored. that until
quite recently the question of practi-
cal results has hardly been raised.

But the time has come for a search-
ing examination into the system, and
its value determined by results; not
can this be seperated from the rights
and duties of the tax payers.

We are glad to find on the part of
our contributors on the subject much
earnestness and ability. We have from
time to time so well indicated our
views upon this subject that our hearty
endorsement of the communication of
Mr. Funk Little in the last number will
surprise no one of our regular readers.
The VISITOR is a good place to carry
on this discussion and we shall wel-
come communications on this subject.

If any of our readers failed to read
Mr. Little's article on the third
page of the last number, don't fail to
look up that copy and read it. Re-
form is a word full of significance and
is every where used by all sorts of
people. The School System of Michi-
gan cannot escape the criticism which
the word implies, when applied to our
educational system.

 

Mono oly candidates may retain for
a time heir grip upon the industries
of the nation, but the should beware
how they tie down he s_afet_y—valve,
for the pressure is_all the time increas-
in , and an explosion will_ surely come
un ess the pressure is relieved.—-Inde-
pendent Record.

THE STATE FAIR AND RULE SIX AS IT
WAS AND IS.

Our readers will remember that We
attended the winter meeting of the
executive committee of the state agri
cultural society, held in J inuary last
in the city of D.-troit, and that we
wrote up so much of what transpired
as related to the tussel of the mem-
oers of that committee over the rule
which, up to that time, had been re-
lied upon to protect, if not provide,
for all those who desired to take their
whiskey straight. The committee. by
its maj irity, had heretofore success-
fully resiste-l all appeals, and all in-

existing rules as to ex:lude beer and
kindred drinks from the fair grounds.
But President Pareonsin his inaugu-
ral message, read at this meeting to
the full board, charged that intoxicat-
ing drink was openly sold on the fair
grounds in that city and that the pro-
hibiiory rule was and had been with-
out force or effect except to bring re-
proach upon the society by its con-
tinued violation. He asked that ac-
tion be taken and the rule so amended
as to meet a very general demand
from the best citizens of the state.
A full discussion brought out
sufll:ient evidence to fully establish
the truth of the charges prefered and
the rule was so amended as to add beer
and cider to the excluded drinks.

The fight was short and sharp but
the victory was then and there most
complete.

The State Agricultural Society has
held another Fair for 1884 within

,the limits of a city where saloon

keepers abound and the publ.c not
only tolerate their business within the
law but its violation as well.

After the years of experience under
a rule of the society which covertly
protected the dispenser of spirituous
liquors, it was with no small degree
of satisfaction that we noticed how
easily the new regulation was en-
forced.

A resolute executive officer backed
by an advancing public sentiment
was fully sustained, and the StatejFair
of 1884 at the new city of Kalamazoo,
will be remembered as the first where
the saloon keeper had no standing or
recognition by the State Society, and
Hon. Philo Parsons of Detroit is en-
titled to the honor of leading in this
reform movement when he pro-
nounced in favor of amending the rule
at the winter meetiig of the commi-
tee. This step and his firm adher-
ence to the course marked out down
to the last hour of his administration
was all that was wanting to relieve the
State Society from the odium
which had attached to it because

a majority of the committee
intentoniy on the revenue derived

from permits, had not kept up with a
growing public sentiment which de-

manded immunity for the public from
the disgusti ig, damaging results of
the sale of liquor at fairs. We know

that Mr. Parsons had earnest and able
support by members of the committee.

That the GRANGE VISITOR and its
correspond ants from all parts of the
state heartily endorsed the reform
movement at the time is also well

understood. Add we think the entire
management at the close of this firs‘.
experimentare well satisfied with the
result and would be unwilling to re

store a rule that invites violation, be-
cause it llD,)1l8S to a class of men who
l.ve and thrive by a trafli: that is
heartless and unrelenting towards the
best interests of the individual man
and of society. The world moves, al-
though there are men and plenty of
them, who recognize the fact only as
they are compelled to.

Prof. L’1.ugley’s interesting paper
on "Spots on the Sun,” in the Sept.
CENTURY, will be followed by another
on “The Sun’s Surroundings,” in the
Oct. number of the magazine. The
remaining article of this brief series.
also profusely illustrated, the last two
of which will treat of the moon and
stars, will appear_in early num .-ers in
the coming volumn.

The opening article in the Oct. CEN-
TURY will be “Lights and Shadows of
Army Life,” an anecdotal and rsmiu
scent paper, by George. -F. Williams
the well-known war correspondent
during the Rlb811i0l], and author of
“Bullet and Shell." The illustra-
tions will be reproductions, now en-
graved for the first time, of the Well-
known etchings by Edwin Forbes, the
pictoral wancorrespondent.

Compnamrs have been received to
the eflbct that the Sept. VISITOR has
not been received at several oflices.
So far as we have been notified the
papers have been sent from the office
and in this way the recipients may
find themselves possessed of dupli-
cate coples, but this is better than not
anything. The fault lies with the
printing office, which.‘ in the hurry of
State Fair work, neglected to send all,
or blundered in the sending.

The independent ncwspaper,1ilre the
independent voter is the true patriot.
It requires no brains or patriotism to
follow the machine and extol its work-
ings.——0’ar£hage (M9,) Press.

In West Virginia the Grsenbackers
smell‘ Republicans have united on astate
tic et.

fi iences which sought to so change‘

‘WE have certainly not less than
15,000 readers, and yet out of this tinni-
ber there are only three or four «who
can, with any degree of assurance, be
depended upon for Jottings.

The remaining 14.996, although they
have been repeatedly invited, “Nay,
even entreated,” seldom respond with
the petty postals we like so well
and which are an actual requirement,
made so by the hearty endorsement
this column has received. The fairs
are nearly over, the fall work well
along, the drought is replaced by re-
freshing showers, and now we long for
a.deluge 0fJottings. Shall we have
them? 0: shall we come around
another day and admonish you of
your duty as we do now?

VVe do not believe it is for lack of
ideas—we hope not at least, nor is it
the desire to see this department fail,
that makes it every two weeks come
two, three or four columns short of the
-space that is allowed if the material
were forth coming,

Will you respond? Will you make
the October 15 VISITOR briming over
with your best thoughts jotted down
for us ‘.7

 

TEL]-ZGRAP1{ll\'G, shorthand, and
type writing, are taught at the Kalam-
azoo Business College by an experienc-
ed operator.

 

The Farmers’ Calling and Protection.

A few days ago while attending the
State Fair at Kalamazoo, I examined
as carefully as circumstances would al-
low the large number and good quality
of the different breeds of cattle,
horses, hogs, shecp,poultry, etc.; I was
also, very much interested in the va-
rious kinds, excellent quality and fine
specimens of grain, fruit and vegeta-
bles that were on exhibition there.
These were all the products of the
farm. All who examined them seemed
pleased and interested. Every person,
no matter what his business is, di-
rectly or indirectly interested in good
stock, good grain, good fruit, good veg-
etables etc. The people zould not be
prosperous and happy without these
necessities. They are of daily use, and
human beings would suffer and be mis-
erable Without them.

Again, as I passed around among the
hundreds of machines, of various
kinds, which covered acres of land, I
noticed, that nearly all was farm ma-
chinery, intended to assist the farmer,
in different ways in producing some of
the necessaries of life.

The thought occurred to me, that
nearly all I had yet seen was the pro-
duct of the farm. or intended for the
farm, and if these products and ma-
chinery were taken away, there would
not be enough left on the groun_ds“to

ll1t8I‘eStlK*0ll‘:‘ " ‘ '“ W” W"
1.... of iic igan would be called a

failure.

I was reminded more forcibly t Ian

ever before of the great importance

and value of the farmers’ calling.

That it is truly the greatest of all in-

terests on earth. That it is the basis

of all prosperity That every other
business could be dispensed with and

the loss felt less than the business of
the farmer.

Let agriculture be stricken out of
existence, and business generally must
cease, and misery and Stil.I‘V:l.tl0l1
would be the result.

If the business of the farmer is the
most important and necessary of all
occupations, ought it not to follow as
zi natural consequence that the far-
mers who perform such :1 great
amount of hard labor in tilling their
fd.1‘1llS, should be the most wealtliy and
prosperous. should be in circumstances
to enable them to enjoy life as well as
any other class of people ? But is such
the case? Where are the millionaires
among the farmers. But few are
worth one-tenth of a million, while
hundreds of men of other professions
in our large cities are worth more than
a million of dollars.

Where are the farmers, (take the
sober, industrious class) who can afford
to spend the hot summer months at
the fashionable and expensive resorts
and watering places‘! Where are the
farmers and their families, who ride
in the palace cars, who can afford to
spend pleasant afternoons and even-
ings riding out for pleasure in splen-
did carriages, as do the wealthy in the
large towns and cities? Ought not
the class of people whose business is
the most important of all others. who
work hard from morning until even-
ing havethe best of everything this
earth affords? Are not they entitled
to as much enjoyment and pleasure as
any other class ‘B

Why cannot the industrious and
economical farmer become as wealthy
ashundreds and thousands of people
of other occupations do, whose ser-
vices are not as valuable, and who do
not perform one-half of the labor that
the farmer does, because farmers as a
class do not receive as much of the
profits of the labor performed, and
money invested as they are entitled to.
The profits of their business is not

- near as large in proportion to the cap-

.itel invested as many other occupa-
tions, and at the same time they pay
two‘or three times as much tax in pro-
portion to their income and capital in-
vested as perhaps any other class of
men. A price is set on everything the
farmer buys, and people of other busi-
ness set a price on what he has pro-
duced, and has to sell, and notwith-

gstanding what he raises on his farm ,
I is absolutely necessary to sustain life, f

and, people cannot live without it, yet ,'
, he does not have the privilege of set. ’
E ting a. price on his own labor and pro- ,1
iducts, so that he will receive af-air

lprost, and be sure he will get it.

trol the price of their services so they
often receive very large profits.

If farmers ever expect to protect their
rights and interests and realize greater
profits for their capital invested, and
labor, they must first advance and im.
prove the condition of their farms,
stock, etc., and become better farmers
in many re-pects. Next they must
unfit» and defend tlieinselves zigainst
the unprincipled gaiig of monopolies,
corporatioiisand political deiiiagogiics
that infest this country at the present
time.

The most dangerous and hurtful
men to-day to the prosperity and hap-
piness of the laboring people are the
men who control political parties.

If farmers want to change many of
the unjust laws and abuses and free
themselves from exorbitant taxatioii,
they must put aside that unwise par-
tisan spirit, and unite and elect men
to office who are true and honest, such
men can be found in the different po-
litical parties, if the people will but
select them and vote them into 0lll'.'€.

1f the farmers of this country will
but do their duty and use the power
they possess they can better their
condition a great deal in many re-
spects.

A. l“AN(‘l{ll()NEli.

Reminiscences of Ihe Fair.

At the Micliigim State Fair held at
Kalamazoo, Sept. 14, 15, 16, 17, noth-
ing attracted greater attention than
the traction engines or dummies as
they went slow or fast, turned short
corners and backed into their posi-
tions as they stood close together
side by side. A gentleman who raises
large quantities of grain said to the
writer a. few days ago, “If I could
hire team work done when and as I
wanted it done, it would pay me to
do so for my teams eat their heads
off every winter.

Why is not that traction engine a
solution of the problem for grain
growers. A small engine of three to
five horse power would do away with
all horses but one, would haul hay or
grain to the burn or market, having
previously cut the same, attached be-
fore the mower or reaper, would plow,
drag, grub trees, haul stones and
would be eating nothing when idle.
The 800 head of stock was the attrac-
tion among the sterner sex, and the
gentler sex were attracted especially
by the Jerseys.
,,.£1.~.l.*;...1“’3.%“3=.*n..lie§ ii%.liPs61us" the
specimens from his Crystal Spring
herd. Senator Palmer and Levi Ar-
nold eacli had herls there.

Sliorthorns will attract admiration——
they are standard goods.

Ilon. Wm. Ball had a fine herd which
took first premium as best there, head-
ed by a line Barrington bull.

William Alex Mc Pherson, of Howell
Michigan, wason the grounds with his
herd; the bull Waterloo Duke attract-
ed mucli admiration, being a fine spec-
imen five years old, weighing 2500
pounds. A two year old Rose of
Sharon heifer was one of the finest iii-
dividual specimens on the grounds;
she was bred by the Hainiltons of the
most noted Flat Creek herd; had able-
gitllt shape, size, and bone, and gave
indications of being a noted milker.
By the by,-Messrs William Mc Pherson
are breeding shorthorns witlia view
to general usefulness as milk and but-
ter as well as beef cattle. They are
pleasant men to deal with.

J. M. Knapp was on hand with Red
l’olled cattle. He says if we ever hear
of his owning horned cattle again, he
wants some one to quietly lead them
off his premises, for he will not own
them while he knows his own heart.
W. 0. Jackson and Son of South Bend,
lud., had Holsteins and fine ones too.
That Yanika of Lziwnside 2434 H. II.
B. It.. was a beautiful specimen ofa
three year old heifer. She gave 813/4
pounds of milk per day when fresh on
grass alone. Other fine specimens
completed as good a collection as was
on the grounds. H. McNary & Son,
West Leroy, Michigan, deserve m re
credit than we shall be able to give
space to mention as breeders of H01-
stein cattle. They have laid the foun-
dation for aherd which will be hard
to beat, and when they have sufficient
to warrant a sale there will be no
slow market for them. And we must
not overlook the line herd of H. K.
Sexton, of Howell, of Howell a breeder
of no mean rank, who is enterprising
and VVorihy of special mention.

E. T. Doney is a gentleman of J ack-
son whom we were glad to meet, not
only because he was a pleasant gen-
tleman but is doing a good Work by
showing how much can be raised ona
small farm. He has‘ only 10 acres,
says it is enough and yet had at the
fair six head of Devons, eleven Essex
hogs, and four Hambletonian horses.

He told how many of each be had at
home but “he fergot” to give a.n,in-
stance of how every rod of ground
counts with him. He said he covered
his fence corners with cut potatoes,
covered them with straw, and dug 100
bushels before he left home. May his

tribe increase.
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POSTAL JOTTINGS.

1 {ill} glad you batted that _

O.\'foi‘d Sept. 20, ‘$1.

Ball.
J. N.

The next meeting ofSf. Joseph Conn
,l_v Lxrangs will be held at Parkville

Whilemcn of other occupations con- ,9 Gruiigo Hall, on Thursday, Oct, nth,

, 18744.. The arternooii session will be

. public. All are invited to attend.

Main‘ A. YA.\'.\'I-IX‘,
Sec’y.

In reply to Mr. A S. Prout’s inquiry
in regard to the cabbage worm, I no-
lce by experinienting, that salt is 3
great preventative. I thought I
~hould try tanzy water and salt, and
found it a perfect success. I have-
watered my cabbage with it from the
time, the wirm cimmenced, once a.
week. Mr. Piout asked for this ad-
vine in THE VISITOR. of August 15th.
Put the tanzy .ii an iron kettle and.
the salt in when applied to the cab-

bige.

Mas. E C. Me LAINE.

If Jos. Latiining, delegate. will read
my jotting in the Visiroii of Aug. 15th
with :1 little cure he will discover that
I make no such charges as complained
of. l clnirged that the political ma-
chine lizid ground out a full grist of
llurrows delegates, and that all man-
ner of trickery was resorted to to secure,»
that result. I inzide no charges against
the To gentlemen, delegates, who nomi-
iiated Mr. Burrows. They only carrieti.
out their instructions. The trickery
complained of was resorted to mostly
in the township caucuses, of which
there is zibuiidant proof, which will be
promptly furnished Mr. L. if desired.
It is not likely “pottage" would be of»
fered Mr. L., or that he would ever get
a smell of it. lhit others did. and the
savory inorsel was too tempting to be
resisted by them. I wrote that jotting
not in liaste, as Mr. L. suggested. I
made no misrepresentations nor used.
term s not warranted under the circum-
stances. I regret that we cannot main-
tuid our political differences without
misrepresentations, caning hard names,
cheating, sulling ballot-boxes and the
use of money as much as anyone, and
hope the time may come when such
means will not be resorted to, in thrust-
ing upon us your professional politician.
we do not want. 1). W.
The editorial in the Visiroa of
September 1st, condemdlng the action
of the Republican State Convention,
meets the approval of good men of
different political parties. Had Mr.
Luce received the nomination as he-
-ahould have done, he would have been
elected by a large majority. I would
have voted for him, because he.
.xn‘t7sh.:r.6ra'aas.1{s. But 1 will not
vote for Gen. Alger. I will not vote
‘or a man for any office who uses.
money or whiskey to secure his nom
enation and election against the wishes
and choice of the people. The Repub-
lican and also other political parties.
must learn that they must respect the
avishes and choice of the people, if
zhey want the people to respect them.
[‘he people must rule this country
ind not a few rich men.

Your criticisms Bro. Cobb were se
vere but they were true and you were
'ight; stand by the position you have
Laken and we, the people, will stand‘.
by you. 0. K.

[Continued on. Sixth Page]

NOTICES OF MEETNGS.

Western Pomona Grange No 19 will
hold its next meeting at the Hall or
liaveiiiia Grange Tliiirsday 1! and
Friday Oct. 9th and 10th, The] fol-
lowing questions will be discussed:

Political Duties of l.’atrons, led by
N. Whitney and John Mc Nitt.

How can we best improve our live-
stock ?—Joseph Minnich, and Samuel.
Stauffer.

How can we best educate our child-
ren agriculturally—that is, so as to ap-
preciate the advantages of farm life-
Ied by Mrs. Thos. W. Wilde, and H. E
Hupson.

Yours Fraternally,
Ciuis. W. WILDE,

Lecturer.

The next regular meeting of Oak-
Iand County Pomona Grange, No. 5
will be held at Milford, October 14th,
1884.

Program is as follows:

Opening the meeting. _

Music by Pomona Grange choir.

Address of Welcome by Master got
Milford Grange.

Response by Master of Ponona.
Grange.

Question drawer conductel by Lee-
-.urer of Pomona Grange.

E say by Mrs. E. Wager.

Music.

Dinner.

Toasts.

Our Order Superior to other Secret.
Societies.
"Our Mothers,” Response by E M’...
Landon. “Our Fathers.” Response
by Miss E. Brondige.

Our Table.

Response by J- E. Vlfhiting.

Public meeting at 2 o'clock sharp. -

Music by Tenny Plains choir.

Reading of Pomona Scrap bag by
Miss Effle Kinney.

Music by Milford Glee club.

Discussion.

Can co-operation in farming be»
made to yield as great advantages as-

Recitation by C. N. Landon.
Select reading by Sarah Newman.
Song by Mr. Waite. Tne “Farmer
feeds them all"’
Adjournment.
Fnnnnr Cnxmgée

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Response by Lyman Cater- .

unnufacturin and traffic. Opened‘.
by M. V. B. osmer and Wm. Car-
penter.

Music.

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OCTOBER 1, 1884.

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Double—J as. Y. Murkland, Heroine,

Wood, Asa Gray, and Golden Dawn.

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THE IMPOSSIBLE.

Ian cannot draw water from an empty well,
Or trace the stories that gossips tell,
Or gather the sounds of a pealing bell.

In never can stop the billow’s roar,
Nor change the winds till they blow no more,
Nor drive true love from a mai<ien's door.

Kari cannot o'ertake a fleeing lie,
change his wheat to a field of rye,
Or call back years that have long gone by.

Ian never can bribe old Father Time,
Gain the height of a peak that he cannot

climb, _
Or trust the hand that hath done a crime.

Han cannot a cruel word. recall,
fetter a thought, be it great or small,
Or extract honey from a drop of gall.

Ian can never backward turn the tide, _
Or count the stars that are scattered wide,
01' find a fool a trusty guide.

Nan cannot reap fruit from worthless seed,
Rely for strength on a broken reed,
Or gain a heart he hath caused to bleed.

 

LIFE IS BRIEF.

3 ’1‘is not for man to trifle; life is brief,
And sin is here;

Our age is but the falling of a leaf,
A dropping tear.

Hot many lives,but only one have we—-
Orie, only one;

For sacred should that one life ever be-
That narrow span.”

Pear Blight.

We copy the following from Saun-
ders “Injurious to Fruitsz” _

During the heat of midsummer,
twigs oi the pear tree sometime be-
come suddenly blighted; the leayes
and fruit wither, and a discoloration
ofthe bark takes place, followed by
a speedy death on the part affected.
More frequently these effects are the
result of fire bligbr,a mysterous di
amse, probably of the fungoid charac-
ter, but occasionally they are due to
the agency of the pear blight beetle.
In this latter instance there will be
found small perforations like pin
holes in the base of the buds, and
from these issue small cylindrical bee-
tles, about a tenth of an inch long,
ofa deep brown or black color. The
beetle deposits its eggs in the base of
the bud, and when hatched the young
larva follows the eye of the _bud to-
ward the pith. around which it passes
consuming the tissue in its course,
thus interfering with the _circulations
and causing the twig to wither. The
larva changes to a pupa and subse-
quently to a beetle in the bottom of its
burrow, and makes its escape from
the bud in the latter part of June _or
thebeginning of July, depositing its
eggs before August has passed.

“The only remedy that has been
suggested is to cut off‘ the blighted
limbs below the injured part, and
burn them before the beetle has _es
eaped. The damagecaused by this in-
sect must not be confounded with the
well-known fire blight, since that, as
already remarked, is a disease of the
fngoid character, and is entirely in-

' £1 cdmitii-£i.iiseril: agency.”

in this vicinity shows that both or

these destructive agencies are at work
the beetles being found as above de
scribed, and the work plainly seen,

while in other places, and often on the

same tree, the bark on the main
branches is entirely dead and brown
in large spots, and some limbs as
large as a man’s finger were withered
and faded all through, bark and wood.

30 inadequately is this subject of
pear blight understood, that we are
able to give fruit growers little aid or
encouragement, beyond the consoling
thought, that it is something which,
in view of the present lack of knowl-
edge upon the subject, they cannot
prgarlent, or as a rule, successfully cope
wi .

Care of Geraniums.

It is altogether useless to expect that
geranium plants, which have flower-
ed all summer in the open air, will,
if taken up and potted, continue to
bloom equally well during the winter
season also. If geraniums are wanted
for winter flowering, they must be
specially grown during the summer,
although it is not yet too late to pre-
pare a few plants for that purpose.
If plants have not been specially re-
served, a few should be taken up im-
mediately and potted, care being taken
to select the most compact and perfect-
ly formed specimens.

In potting, select porus or soft-bak
ed pots. proportionate to the size of
each plant. and place in the bottom
of each at least an inch of broken pots
in order to insure perfect drainage.
Keep the plants in the center of the
pots, and firm the soil well around
their roots.

When the plants are potted water
thoroughly, and place in a shady situ-
ation for a week or ten days, after
which time they should be exposed to
the sun. Have them well supplied
with water and remove all flower-
biids until it is time to bring them
inside, which will be on the approach
of cold weather. Give them a light
sunny situation, and an average tem-
perature of 55°. Do not crowd the
plants, and turn them occasionally,
so as to develops an even symmetri-
cal shape.

The most suitable compost for ger-
aniums is a compost of two-thirds well
rotted sods from an old pasture; one-
thigd well deaayed manure, and a fair
sprinkling of bone-dust, thoroughly
mixed and pulverized before using.
Water should be given as often as
necessary, care being taken to give
an ample su ply, and when the pots
become fille with roots, liquid ma
pure water should be given twice a
‘week. One ounce of guano dissolved
in two gallons of water, will be a prop-

or proportion for this purpose.

When large specimens are desired
the plants should be repotted as often
8 the pots become filled with the
roots. or until they have reached the
ieaired size, when they can be treated
as above advised.

There are so many good varieties in
cultivation, that most amateurs find
it quite difficult to make a selection of
like most distinct. so for their benefit

{enumerate twelve double and twelve
lrgle flowering varieties, all of which
my be relied upon as first-class.

Single—-Clement Boutard, Master
Christine. Jean Sisley, W. C. Bryant, '
Mary H. Foote. New Life, Evening
Star, Mrs. Windser, Mrs. Gordon,
Progress, Cygnet, and Aurora.-(cor.
Ami rican Garden.

 

Orchard Pruning.

A late English Horticulturist says
that after trying all sorts of plans, he
is thoroughly convinced that there is
nothing equal to the little-a_nd-often
s stem of pruning or rather pinching.
he soft young shoots can be readily
removed by the finger and thumb,
which is the easiest way. To which
we may add, that any owner which is
really interested in his arden will be
likely to pass among _ is trees and
shrubs quite often, and if he sees any
want or defect, he will at once supply
or remove it. With this view, a well-
kuown cultivator recently remarked,
thathie de3.i)f1 for pruning was all
the way through.

 

Making Sorg hum Syrup.

The idea so generally entertained a
few years ago, encouraged by the rose-
tinted reports published by t e depart-
ment of agriculture, that every lar-
mer with his atch of sorghum, a two
horse mill an Cook evaporator would
be able to make a good article of sugar,
has some time since been ex l_oded. It
has been found that sugar ma ing from
juice of sorghum, as well as from the
true sugar beet, is a. process requiring
for its success extensive machinery and
the a plication of thorough scientific
know edge. Syrup making 1S ii. simple
process; a s rup can be made by sini-
ly boiling own—-the more rapidly the
iietterutbe juice as it comes fl‘_0Il1 the
mill. llut such syrup, though light in
color, has the rank, disagreeable
sorghum flavor and is liable to ter-
ment in warm weather. Its quality
can be greatly improved by two simple
processes which any sorghum manu-
facturer can use. These are deface-
tioii and the use of lime. The former
to get rid of much of the impurities
that are found in the juice of the cane,
the latter to neutralze the acid con-
tained in the juice. Defaction sim-
ply requires a tank in which the juice
as it comes from the mill can be beat-
ed to the boiling point but not allowed
to boil. This brings to the top a thick
blank et of scum, while a dirty slimy
sediment settles toihe bottom, caving
the clear liquid between the two.
The lime for neutralizing the acid can
be used at any time wiiile the juice IS
in the defactor, and it is well, though
not essential, to use it as soon as it is
filled. It is prepared by stirring finely
slaked lime in ‘water till it is of the
consistency of cream; 1]. considerable
quantity can be prepared at one time,
so as to be always read to use as need-
ed. Iu using it, it should be stirred
into the juice a little at a time, testing
the juice with the blue litmus paper
(which can be procured at any drug
store ) to ascertain when there is
enough in. The raw juice turns the
litmus paper a bright red, but when a
sullicieiit amount of lime is added to
the juice it is _a weak purple. The
oration, ‘andtlie syrup 1roI’ii‘i‘v‘Will’iFe
almost entirely free from the
well known sorghum flavor, and will
be less liable to ferment in warm
weatlier, but will be darker in color
than if iiizide without the use of lime.
Where syrup is made for market in
considerable qiuintity, the use of sul-
phur to bleacli it, and restore the
bright color is advisable. This is done
by the sulphur bath in which the i'a.w
juice is exposed to the fumes of burn-
ing sulphur or by exposing the lime
after it is prepared for use, to the
fumes of sulphur, forming the bi-sul-
phate of lime, but this use of sulpliur,
by the man who makes for his own
use, is hardly worth while, and those
who lI1{i.IlllIiict11l‘() for market are gen-
erally fzimiliar with the process oi‘ its
preparation, audit hardly needs to be
described in this connection. By the
process of defecation described above,
and the use of lime, a really good
wholesome and palatable syrup’ can
be_made, furnishing a valuable sweet-
eiiiiig iiiiit-erial iii the household. But
sugai'—mzikiiig outfit with which no one
woiks on a scale of less than live linu-
pred acres can afford to supply him-
selr. Where the syrup grunulates in
part, as it frequently does, the sugar
can be drained out for family use in
the man ner described in the Fame2's'
Review some time since. Make a box
with a. V~sliaped bottom and bore 35-
inch holesin the extreme bottom, In
these fit plugls reaching above the top
of the box. )i1mp the musli sugar in
and loosen the plugs sufiiciently to al-
low the molasses to flow. It will drip
through, leaving the sugar in a com-
pact mass, which can be further dried
by putting in bags and hanging up to
drain.—Farme7's’ Review.

Sursfiine in Slabfes.

The majority of the stables and barns
of the country and of towns, and villa-
es also, are not what they should be.
’ioneer settlers not having the means
to erect proper outbuildings, contented
themselves with mere make shift
structures, hoping to soon replace
these temporary buildings with better
ones. But this was never realized.
Instead of new barns and stables suita-
ble to shelter his stock, his house grain
and implements, the old buildings were
repaired, added to, and remodled, with-
out any well defined plan as to tiie
occupants. If the roof was watertiglit,
it was considered good enough by
most of the settlers. Some, more ad-
vanced,i1iade their barns warm, but
entirely ignored another important
point—that of admitting light and sun-
shine. This is a serious defectthat is
far too prevalent. It attaches to the
well built costly structure as well as
to the tumble down rookery that has
been patched up, piled around with
coarse litter, and covered with straw.
Light and sunshine are powerful
tonics. The absence of these enfeebles,
unnerves, and prepares the system for
disease and decline. They are tonics
which the animal and vegetable king-
dom mutt have—and have in abun-
dance. The importance of this is forci-
blp illustrated by the following from
the National Lice Stock Journal,-
_“We tried an experiment. some years
since, to test the effect of absence of
light upon a calf. We had two deep

I titioii.

red calves of the same age (sixty days) '
one weighing 180 pounds and the oth-

er 182 pounds. The latter was placed

in a dark room, with a trough that

could be filled by ‘d spout through a par-

The other was confined iii the

same amount of space, but in full light,

and both were fed exactly alike for the

next tliree nioiiths. The object was to

test the effect of light upon such :1

growing animal. At the end of the

time the one in the light weiglied 430

pounds and the other in the dark 300

pounds, and its color had faded toa

very pale, dirty red. its eyes were so

much affected when admitted to the
light, that it kept them closed most of
the time for the first week or two. The

two calves were ke it on together, but

the one from the dark never fully rc-

covered from this three months ofda1‘k-
ness. It never recovered its bright red
color, although the color improved.
Any one who noted these two calves

durin this experiment, would never
after oubt the iiiipoiicy of a dark sta-

ble. Sunliglit is iiidispeusibie _to
healthy vegetable 1 and animal life.
Every farmer sees his cat and (log se-
lect a belt of sunshine on the floor to
lie and bask in; and if he will watch
his cattle when turned out, he will find

them at once seekin the sunny side of
the barn yard. An with all these in-
dications before his eyes, still the far-

mer keeps his animals in 3. dark stable
much to their discomfort and his pc-
cuiiiary loss.

“We do not, of course, include all
farmers in this statement, for a. small
minority fully understand the impor-
uance of sunlight in stables, and make
ample provision for its introduction.”

Stolen Public Lands.

The report issued from the General
Land Olfice at Washington a few days
ago concerning the fraudulent meth-
ods adopted by the cattle companies
of the Northwest in possessing them-
selves of the public lands of that sec-
tion calls for prompt and energetic
action on the part of the Secretary of
the Interior and Attorney General
Brewster.

From this report it appears that in
Colorado alone it has been proved on
investigation that the big cattle rais-
ing corporations have fraudulently
closed 2,800,000 acres of the best land
in the Northwest, and it is the opinion
of the agents who are now prosecut-
ing the inquiry that it will be
established that about 6,000,000
acres have been stolen in that State.
One company composed entirely of
foreigners who have no intention of
becoming American citizens, has gob-
bled 336 square miles of Colorado lands
without any warrant. In New Mexi-
oo 1,500,000 acres have been stolen from
the public domain; in Kansas 600,000
acres have been stolen; in Wyoming
250,000 acres this stat ement is officially
made that in Dakota 75 per cent of the
entries. The lands thus seized without
warrant or iustifioation of any kind
are the most fertile in the Northwest-
ern Territories. The entries, we are
told, are made along the streams.

The methods pursued in obtaining

a colorable title are peculiar to greedy
corporations. They employ a num-
ber of men, otensibly to herd cattle,
but really to make entries on the land.
After the entry is made and the em-
ployee has secured his patent the cor-
poration buys the pretended interest
in the tract tor 9. more trifle and then
n'io.nopolisi.s, not ?:onierE-t“?.5.°.-;g’.“3P{ng
the unoccupied lands, compel séttlers
in their neighborhood to sell to them.
threatening loss of employnieiit and
ruinous competition if they refuse to
do so. They adopt the law of the
piunderer not only towards the Unit-
ed States. but also towards the indi-
vid ual citizens.

One peculiarity about these corpora-
tions which will not escape notice is
that a large percentage of the members
are foreign capitalists. Many of the
companies are composed entirely of
foreigners, who spend the entire
profits arising from the use of Ameri-
can lands in Great Britain. These
men have not the least sympathy
with America; they not only will not
do anything to advance American
interests, but do all they can to injure
them. It was only the other day that
one of the leading men among the
monopollsts, Mr. Morten Frewen, the
wealthy English ranch-owner 0:
Wyoming, tried to divert the entire
cattle trafiic of Wyoming, Montana,
and Dakota into Canadian channel.-
with the avowed purpose of benefit»
ting Canadian commerce at the ex
pense of America. Mr. Frewen is::
type of the whole class.

It is high time under the circum-
stances that these foreign monopolist;
and their American allies were oblige-
ed to disgorge. The system of plunder
introduced during Mr. Schurz‘s free-
and-easy administration of the Interi-
or Department has been permitted to
go too long unchecked. If it is per-
mitted to proceed the monopolists will
have squatted over all the unoccupied
lands of the country, to the exclusion
of intending settlers, and it will be as
difiicult to disposess them as the rail
road corporations of the lands which
they illegaliy retain. * * * Let
the public lands be reserved for actual
settlers. The alien monopolists must
go.—C'hz'cago Times.

Grange Thought.

The time is now at hand when
Granges will resume their regular
meetings, the labors of the season be-
ing so nearly completed that relief
will soon come and time will be al-
lowed for Grange work that by neces
sity has been deferred while other
labors of timely need pressed. What
shall be the rule in taking up the reg-
ular work of the Grange? First and
foremost the observance of principle.-
in which the order is founded. If
ill-feeling has been engendered in the
past, or bickerings have marred the
harmony of the Grange, drop all;
start anew with animosities buried
and with full determination to accom-
plish all that may be done in the
work designed by the order. There
are months to come when a great
deal can be done to strengthen the
Grange, and it rests upon the mem-
bershi to see that this achievement
is ma e. There is no special advan-
tage in meeting unless real work is
attempted and pressed to execution.
Let those who can, devise plans to
promote the welfare of all within the
order, not forgetting that its benefi-
cence extends to all with whom we
bplvp association in any of the affairs
0 ie.

Incubators.

Considerable interest has been
excited in the last two or three years
on the sui*v'ect ofincubators, and those
interested have been feeling around in
the dark, as it were, in trying to
strike some method by which chick-
ens could be hatched surely and with-
out trouble. This is somewhat like
the “royal road to wealth.” The roy-
all road to wealth has not been as yet
found without encountering some
trouble on the road. The same is true
in regard to hatching chickens. Ev

en if the most perfect incubator was
procured, it will be found necessary
to attend to it every day, and what
with turning of eggs and keeping an
even temperature, the incubators have
not made so many friends as was first
thought they would.

The best incubator we ever found
was the hen herself. She has been
bred to the businses, and after she
once makes up her mind to go at it,
she has no other business on hand.
The difficulty generally experienced
is that two hens or more wish to go
into the same business on the same
spot, and in their struggle for the
masters the stock is generally ruined.
It is, to say the least, annoying after
two hens have squandered three
weeks, to see them bring off one
chicken between them. The ques-
tion thcn arises, “How can you pre-
vent more than one hen sitting on a
nest at a time?” We remember
fifteen years ago or so, of seeing a pat-
ent nest with a door in front like a
triangle, which, when the hen Went
onto the nest, closed after her, pre-
venting olhers coming in, aid still
leaving her free to go out; but this
brilliant device has not met with the
success that the patentee thought it
would. People still go on in the old
way letting their hens sit where they
have a mind to. Some years ago we
practiced this method ourselves, with
the result of only about halfa dozen
chickens being batched in the entire
season, although there were more hens
engaged in doing their best at it.-
Brecdei-’s Journal.

Commercial Fraud.

In the criminal history of the cur-
rent year unusual prominence must
be assigned to the records of commer-
cial fraud. The revelations of the
past few months touching the dis-
honesty of persons holding positions
of trust have been so numerous and of
so startling a character as to lead many
to think that the country has been
passing through a moral epidemic.
Such an oplnion_a.ssumes that the
conditions which are responsible for
the existence and extent of the disease
are either unknown or unmeasured.
It is needless for us to inform our
readers that such is not our view of the
matter. Whatever the extent of a
social evil may be nothing is gained
by shirking the labor of seeking out
its predisposing causes, or by taking
refuge in moral commonplaces. It is
time that lhereshoul-.i be a general un-
derstanding of the importance ofthe
action or inaction of the community
as an element in crimes of frequent
commission affecting the community.
What the disclosures to which we
havereferred do in fact reveal is that
the sense of the responsibility
which fiduciar relations involve blaze
uocu Lu (1 wiuu Atuui. impaired. 1 is
is a point which has not received from
our legislators and administrators the
attention which it deserves. This is a
commercial age, and in a sense in
which there is much truth crime takes
its character from the age. Criminal
ingenuity makes use of the conven-
iences and contrivances, even the con-
fidences, which have so large a place
in the business transactions of io-day,
to defeat the ends of society, to divert
property and to wreck and scatter is-
boriously accumulated hoards. But
while perverted faculty is finding in
modern conditions so large and rich
a field for exercise the machinery of
a criininz.-llaw remains in a condition
fitted only for the requirements of a
comparatively rude age. The more
violent offenses are punished; the
more secret and insidious kinds of
crimes are atoiied for inadequately, or
not atall. The result is seen in the
evidences of demoralization which the
public press is continually occupied
in chicnicaling. There is need of a
general recognition of the truth that
no man and no body ofmen—- not even
society itself—is tree from responsi-
bility, and that society can not sliirk
its responsibility except at the risk of
danger to itself. The criminal law
which is or should be the chief defense
or society is sadly in need of ‘amend-
ment in this country and those who
are intrusted in the duty of legislation
should see to it that this branch of the
law be improved and brought abreast
of the age.—Bra(l;treels.

Always Nlpping.

A judicious wife is always nipping
off from her husband’s moral nature
little twigs that are growing in wrong
directions. She keeps him in shape
by continual pruning. If you say
any thing silly she will affectionately
tell you so. If you declare you will
do some absurd thing she finds some
means of preventing you from doing
it. And by far the chief part of the
common sense there is in the world
belongs unquestionably to women.
The wisest thing a man generally
does are those things which his wife
counsels him to do. A wife is a grand
wielder of the moral pruning-knife.
If J ohnson’s wife had lived there
would have been no hoarding up of
orange-peel, no touching all the posts
in walking along the streets, no eating
and drinking with disgusting voracity.
If Oliver Goldsmith had been married
he would never have worn that
memorable and rediculous coat.
Whenever you find a man whom you
know little about oddly dressed, or
talking absurdity. or exhibiting eccen-
tricities of manner, you may be sure
that he is not a married man, for the
comers are rounded ofi'—the little
shoots pared away--in married men.
Wives have generally more sense than
their husbands, even though they
may be clever men. The wii'e’s ad-
vice is like the ballast that keeps the
ship steady. [Ruskin.

James S. Fair is the wealthiest of
the United States Senators. He is
worth $40,000,000. He was born in
Ireland.

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.

Under this title The Century; will
, begin with the November number of

the present year, and continue with-
out intermission, (if possible.) a series
of separate papers, the object of which
is toset forth, in clear and graphic
manner, the life and spirit of the most
important of modern military con-
fiicts-—the War for the Union. The
main portion of the scheme will be
papers of a popular character on the
great engagements of the war, by gen-
eral officers high in command at the
time, either upon the Union or the
Confederate side. In many instances
the contributor will be the ofiicer of
first command, and in every instance
a participant in the engagements un-
der consideration. For instance, the
battles of Shiloh and Vicksburg will
be described by General U. S. Grant,
who will contribute four papers to the
series; General Beauregard will write
of the First Bull Run; General Mc-
Clellan, of Antietam; General Rose-
crans, of Stone River, etc, etc. The
Passage ofthe Forts below New Or-
leans will be described by Admiral
Porter, and the Western Gunhoat Ser-
vice by Rear—Admiral Walks, and the
fightbetween the .l{am:(or and the
Jlferrunac by Colonel John Taylor
Wood, the senior surviving officer of
the latter vessel. Other prominent
Confederate generals have engaged to
contribute, and some of these contri—
butions will be hardly less notable
than those above mentioned. In sev-
eral instances briefer supplementary
papers will chronicle special incidents
or consider special phases of an en-
gagement. Personal reminiscences
of several of the most prominent mil-
itary leaders, now dead, will also give
variety to the scheme.

The foregoing contributions will all
be by general officers, or, in three or
four instances, by staffofflcers, and
will represent war as it appeared from
head-quarters. In conjunction with
them will appear from time to time a
number of briefer sketches, entitled
"Recollections ofa private,” If fleeting,
with interesting and life-like details,
the experiences of the common sol-
dier from the time of enlistment to the
muster-out‘ the drill, the march, the
bivouac, the skirmish, the charge, the
retreat, etc. Auxiliary branches of
the service will also be treated in this
supplementary way.

In the North American Review for
September, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stan-
ton argues the need of liberal divorce
laws. She does not agree with Judge
Noah Davis, that, “Divorce is the foe
of marriage.” She asks that Women be
made an equal party to the marriage
contract, and is convinced that the
divorce question can not be finally
settled until women has a vote. Lib-
eral divorce laws, she argues, are in-
tended to enable those only whom
God has not joined together to be put
asunder. Such laws, so far from be-
ing barbarous and degrading, indicate
the growing independence, intelli-
gence and virtue of American woman-
hood. Our decreasing families so far
from being an evidence of the dying
out of maternal love, indicate a higher
perception of the dignity and respon-
sibility of motherhood. \Vith wo-
man’s keen sense of moral principles.
she begins to appreciate the awful
waste of human force as she contem
plates the panorama of our social life;

I1_B uuuappy lunaqfpsl rfnur jgjlg and
prisons, of our asylums for the insane,
the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the or-
phan and the pauper, the innumera-

le standing army of drunkards,the
multitudes of children whom nobody
owns, and for whom nobody cares-
colai, hungry, their feet in slippery
places, sleeping at night in all our
cities like rats, in any hole they can
find. In view of these appalling facts,
the mothers of the race may well
pause and put the queslion to them-
selves: Is it for such as these we give
the heydey of our lives? For such
as these we ever and anon go down to
the very gates of death? Is this a life-
work worthy our highest ambition, 9
religious duty of our best powers ‘.’
The answering question from every
mountain top is, “No.” Above the
thunder of Sinai, a warning voice,
loud and clear rings through the cen
turies: “The sins of the fathers shall
be visited upon the children to thc
third and fourth generations.”

The late l’i‘esideiit G:ii'liel<l——wl1o
was liiiiisclf formerly it college presi-
dent, in an address said:

“The people are making 24. grave
cli:irge_ against our systeiii of higher
education when they complain that it
IS disconnected from the active busi-
ness of life. It is :1 charge to which
our colleges cannot plead guilty and
live. They must rectify the fault, or
miserably fail of their great purpose.

Business colleges, my fellow citizens,
originated in this country as a pro-
test against the insulliciency of our
system of education—as a protest
against the failure, the absolute failure
of our American schools and colleges
to fit young men and women for the
business of life. Take the great classes
graduated from the leading colleges
in the country during this and next
month, and how many, or rather how
few, of their members are fitted to go
into the practical business of life, and
transact it like sensible men? These
business colleges furnish their grud-
uates with a better education for prac-
tical purposes than either Princeton,
Harvard, or Yale.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS for the coming of
St. Nicholas include serial stories by J .
T.Trowbridge, and E. P. Roe; 3. series
of papers on places of interest in
Europe by Frank R. Stockton entitled
“Personally Conducted;” “Talks for
For Young Folk,” by H. H.; “Art
Work For Young Folk,” by Charles
G. Leland; papers on “Choosing an
Occupation,” based on personal inter
views with prominent representatives
of various trades and professions; more
short stories by Miss Alcott; a series
called “Among the Law—inakers” and
embodying the recollections of a
page in the United States Senate; pa-
pers on “The Progress of Invention;”
a story of Texas, by the late William
M. Baker—and a great many other
good things besides. The first num
ber of the new volume (November)
will have a colored frontispiece, from
a design by A. M. Turner, printed in
fifteen colors. The December number
will have for a frontispiece a reproduc
tion, in color of the picture, “Alice in
Wonderland,” by the same Academy
exhibition.

The Gloanars.

, Once more I learn from my subject
lthe value of gleanings. Ruth going
j. into the harvest field might have said:
l ‘-There is a straw, and there is a straw
i but what is astraw? I can't get any
barley for myself or my motber-ln-
law out of these separate straws.”
Not so said beautiful Ruth. She
gathered two straws and she put them
together, and more until she got
enough to make a sheaf. Putting that
sheaf down she went and gathered
more straws until she had another
sheaf, and another, and another, and
then she brought them all together,
and she threshed them out and she
had an ephah of barley—nigh a
bushel. O , that we might all be
gleaners! It is all the straws that
make the harvest, it is the pence that
make the pound. and it is all the op-
portunities of doing good that make
a life of usefulness ifrightly employed.
Elihu Burrltt learned many things
while toiling in a blacksmith shop;
Abercrombie, the world-renowned
philosopher, was a physician in Scot-
land, and he got his philosophy, or the
chief part oflt, while as a physician
he was waiting for the door of the
sick room to open. Yet how many
there are in this day who say they are
so busy they have no time for mental
or spiritual improvement; the great
duties of life cross the field like
strong reapers and carry off all the
hours, and there is only here and
there a fragment left that is not
worth gleaming. Ah, my friends.
you could go into the busiest day and
busiest week of your life and find gold-
en opportunities, which, gathered,
might at last make a whole sheaf for
God's garner. It is the stray oppor-
tunities and the stray privileges
which, taken up and bound together
and beaten out, will at last fill you
with much ioy—yea, more joy than
ltutli fa it when she took home to her
iuother-in-law, Naomi, the ephah of
barley. It is because people will not
do the small work oflife that there is
so litlle great work accomplished.——
Dr. Talmage.

Haverenco.

Mzitliew Arnold during his visit to
.\ii1erica.w:is shocked at the irrever-
ence and lack of respect from the
young to their siiperiors ililll elders.
He tliiiiks no (.'lVlll'/.2l.i.l0ll can endure
without reve-reiicc, and none can dis-
pute that it is an important element in
the perpetuity of a nation, the church,
the Sblloolilllil the home.

Close our eyes and ezirs us we may to
the irreverence of the larger portion of
the rising generation, cliaritably con-
sole ourselvcs with the oft repeated so-
liice that “boys will be boys,” that
young people are not expected t 0 have
the discretion of adults, and yet we
feel that the linglisli philosopher is
just in his criticisiii pf young Ameri-
c2ui‘s iiiiuiners. llcciuise the young
just l.-cgiiiiiiiig the jouney of life are
igiioruiit of the way their parents have
traveled, is good reason why the coun-
sol of older persons should be respect-
ed, and revere-rice ziccoriled age and
wisdom. The home is the uiitioifs iiur-
sery. Here are trained citizens that
inust ll0Ii0l‘ or dislioiior zi republic gov-
eriiiiiciit.

Literary Note.

The wo.\ii~:.\i AT Worm, published at
llmttleboro, \'t., begins its eigiitli vol-
ume with September as Tui: \Vo.\i.iN’s
Ul£.\"l‘['ll\'. It is a iizmie fully in bar-
iiioiiy witli the clieirzicter of the maga-
zine, which is devoted to Art Litera-
ture, Biogriiphy, Home Science. and
\\'omuii’s Work in industries, Missions,
(lliiiiitics and lieforiiis. Miss Frances
ll. Willuril <toiiti'ib1it<,-s to this iiiiiuber
asketcli of Mary r\ll(‘ll West, and Kate
Saiiboru is ziuiiouiiced for fortlicoming
piipi.-ins‘. A bcztiitifiil i’llgl‘&l.Vlllg, “(len-
evievo of l§i'ubant,” with descriptive
article by Fred Myron Colby, gives the
iiiziguziiic. zi line literary stamp. 10 cents
a copy, l’i':iiik E. Ilousli Pulilisiier.

Value 0! Education.

Vlalter Scott, in a narrative of his
personal history, gives the following
caution to youth: “If it should ever
fall to the lot of youth to pursue these
pages, ‘etc such readers remember that
it is Willi the deepest regret that I re-
collect in manhood, the opportunities
or learning which I neglected in my
youth; that through every part of my
literary career I have felt pinched and
hampered by my own ignorance; and
I would this moment give half the
reputation I have bad the good fortune
to acquire if by doing so I could rest
the remaining part upon a sound
foundation of learning and science.”

 

Are Not Law Abiding.

if saloon-keepersliad cheerfully com-
plied witli the laws made, after the pro-
liibitory law was repealed; if they had
paid the tax; given their bonds; care-
fully closed up in good faith on Sun-
days and legal holidays, and kept open
only within legal hours on other days;
refused iii all cases, to sell liquor to
habitual drunkards, minors, and for-
bidden persons, tliere would have been
no Prohibition party of any account at
the present time. It is equally true
that if they had faithfully observed
this course there would have been less
s2iloon—keepei‘s and very little drunken-
ness.—[Ypsilanti Commercial.

The Scientific American says, if a
bottle of oil of pennyroyal is left un-
corked in a. room at night, not amo-
squito, or any other bloodsucker will
be found there in the morning. Mix
potash with powdered meal, and
throw it into the rat-holes ora cellar,
and the rats will depart. If a rat or a
mouse gets into your pantry, stuff in
its hole a rag staturated with cayenne
pepper, and no rat or mouse will
touch the rag for the purpose opening
alcominunication with a depot of sup-
p ice.

A party platform is not thought in
these days to be complete without
some reference to the decline in our
shipping. A good deal of verbiage is
indulged in, in regard to its regenera-
cy. I‘his is done of course to attract
votes, but we doubt whether it counts
for much in that respect. The ship-

ping interest is too much accustom-
ed to the promise-and-do-nothing pol-
icy of both the great political parties
with regard to its welfare to expect

at their hands.
egister.

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dnmmnmiratinnt.

THE PENNY YE MEANT T0 Gi’E.

There's a funny tale of a stingy man,
Who was none too good, but might have
been worse, .
Who went to his church on a Sunday night,
And carried along his well filled purse.

When the sexton came with his begging
late

The Ehuriih was but dim_with the candle's
light‘

The stingy inan fumbled all through his purse
And chose a coin by touch and not sight,

It's an odd thing now that guineas should be
So like unto pennies in shape and s‘ze.
“I’ll give a penny,” the stingy man said;

“The poor must not gifts of pennies dtspise."

The penny fell down with a clatter and ring !
And back in his seat leaned the stingy man;
"The world is so full of the poor,” he thought
“I can't help them all—I give what I can.”

Ha. ha l how the sexton smiled, to be sure,
To see the gold guinea fall in his plate l
Ha, ha! how the stingy man's heart was

wrung _
Perceiving his blunder, but Just too late ?

"No matter” he said, "in the Lord's account,
That guinea of gold is set down to me,

They lend to him who give to the poor;
It will not so had an investment be.”

4-Na, na, inon," the chuckling sexton cried out;
"The Lord is na cheated-—he kens thee well;
He knew it was only by accident
That out o’ the fingers the guinea fell !

“He keeps an account, na doubt for the puirl
But in that account he'll set down to thee

No mair 0’ that golden guinea, my mon,
Than the one bare peuu y ye meant to gi’e l

There's comfort, too, in the little tale-
A serious side as well as a joke;

A comfort for all the generous poor,
in the comical words the sexton spoke.

A comfort to think that the good Lord knows
How generous we really desire to ba,
And will give us credit on his account
For all the pennies we long “to g1'_c.”
—-St Nw/zolas.

Grange Work In The North.

Partly from desire, and partly by re-
quest, I depart from my usual custom
and ask space for a brief sketch of a
recenttrip north. Just past midnight
as the month of September was usher-
ed in, I boarded the train at Bronson
for a full week's work at Manistee and
\Vexford counties. At one o’clock I
reached the Elliot House in Sturgis;
left orders to be called at 4:40, and was
soon fast asleep. Promptly on time
the porter pounded on my door. The
agony of awakening at this hour after
only three hours sleep can be better
imagined than described. However,
the task was performed, and in the dim
light of the morning we sped away.
At Kalamazoo We stopped 20 minutes
forbreakfast. Hotel men do not make
as much out of a twenty minutes meal
when I eat as they do from some. At
all events I managed to get my money's
Worth at the American House that
Monday morning. At Grand Rapids a
chair car was attached. If any evidence
is needed to prove that change
is not always improvement, these
chairs will furnish the proof.
Over the same road chair cars
were run a few years ago that were as
much superior to the ones now in use
as these are to the ordinary passenger
car. More could be seated in a car, and
asleep or awake ride with much great-
er comfort. Captain May, the chair
car conductor, is a model, and under
his watchful care I managed to rest
and sleep, making up for some of the
loss in the night. At 3:40 I reached
Martin, where I was to leave the rail-
road:I stepped off the train, but no
good Patron grasped my hand. 1 sig-
naled and signed but no one re-
sponded. I went to a Hotel and
as I had been ordered to talk Lt Sil-
ver Creek that nighf, very naturally
inquired for that Creek. But all de-
nied auy knowledge of such a stream
or locality. Finally a boy (that I judge
goes along with eyes and ears open,)
said: 1 know where Silver Creek
Grange hall is. It is three miles west
of here and Mr. Farnsworth is one of
the head men in it, and he lives close
to the hall.” I hired a team and rode
out to Bro. Farnsworth’s. Called and
introduced myself to Sister Farms-
worth. She, to my amazement said;
“We heard some time ago that you
were coming but have not been noti-
fied of the day.”

She rang the bell for Bro. Ferns-
Worth. He very soon put in an ap-
pearance. and about that time we felt
pretty sick. I showed them my as
signments made by the ex-committee
of the District Grange, but that did
not help the matter a particle. Bro. F.
says this is the night of the annual
school meeting, and it is useless to try
and get a meeting at the hall, but go to
the school meeting and we will try and
get a hearing there. I went and found
a full attendance. After a part of the
business was transacted they kindly
adjourned for a week and gave me the
house and the audience. For thisl
was very grateful indeed. In the even-
ing Bro. Charles McDiarmid arrived to
take me to the next appointment more
than forty miles away. With excel-
lent company we sped along through
the dense forest of tall trees, relieved
by gaps the sturdy pioneer had made
for the purpose of hewing out a home
in the new country. At noon we had
made more than half the distance and
stopped for dinner with a Mr.‘ Wood.
He has one of the finest places I saw in
Manistee county. He does not belong
to the Grange but he ought to. Here
We changed drivers as well as teams.
Bro. H. A. Danvillc, widely known in
Grange circles. took me in charge with

l

 

1 P. )1. we traveled seven miles through
fa forest of tall hemlocks without see-
 ing a house. In the hospitable, genial
f home of the )Icl,)iarmids I rested un-
‘til the evening shades appeared, and
ithen three miles away to Pleasanton
fijrange hall. Here they have con-
i struc-ted a home for themselves. Here
 is solid evidence of their faith in the
 future of the Order. I was met
 by an attentive audience; they listened
jquietly for nearly two hours to such
lthoughts as I had to present. The
next day Bro. Danvillc took me to his
home in Marilla, sixteen miles away.
In the evening I talked to H. well-lilled
schoolhouse. This Grange needs a
hall; with this and an increase of
faith it may become one of the strong-
est Granges in that whole section.
Bro. Danvillc has a good fertile farm
with the stumps removed from quite a
portion of it. He has good buildings,
good horses, cattle, hogs and sheep.
He had a fair crop of wheat, good
corn and hay. His cabbage, beets and
onions beat all, and as his garden did
not indicate any superior culture I at-
tributed the great, large, solid cabbage
heads to the soil. With all this evi-
dence of capacity in the land he offered
to sell eighty acres on the road and join-
ing his improvement for $11) per acre.
liro. Pope near him offered to sell his
farm of 160 acres with 2.3 acres im-

proved, 20 more chopped, small
but comfortable white house, a
frame barn and a good hear-
ing orchard for $2,500, or about

$1.3 per acre. Distance from market
and heavy roads reduced this value,
but these lands will be worth more by
and by. On Thursday the 4th,I was
billed to talk at Cleon in the P. M. and
at. Sherman in the evening. With Bro.
Danvillc I reached Cleou at noon to
learn that no notice had yet been re-
ceivcd. Again doomed to disappoint-
ment. But under great pressure of the
kind friends, consented to go to Sher-
man that night and come back to them
the next; evening, and all started out to
circulate the notice. Bro. Sears piloted
me over to Sherman a distance of ten
miles; here we halted with Bro. Car-
penter. Both he and his wife are live
patrons. After feasting on chicken to
our appetites content, we repaired to
the school house, where I met the most
lively and enthusiastic audience on the
trip. The next day according to prom-
ise, I wcnded my way back to Cleou:
enjoyed the interesting and friendly
conversation of Bro. Scars as we wound
around the tall hemlocks. He was a
soldier in the war of the rebellion,
and the stories of the war will not grow
old 01' uninteresting in this generation.
At dark we reached Cleon Grange II-all.
Here, too, they have indicated their
faith by their works. They have con-
structed to partial completion a large
Hall, not quite done yet, but with such
a people it will be finished in time.

I shall forget many events of the
busy life 1 live, but while life last-s I
shall never forget that night at Cleon
Grange Hall. 'J‘hc night was extreme-
ly hot, nearly one hundred 011 the out-
side of the Hall. The large building
was crowded. I received the full bon-
elit of the heat of the atmosphere, and
to this was added the heated breaths
of that large audience, as I stood on
the platform a little above them. Well,
I lived through a two liour’s talk; but
at times doubted whether I should or
not. I was glad thatI returned to
talk to them. They seemed to appreci-
ate the effort. At 10 o’clock I’. )1. we
started for Sherman a long 12 miles
away. But Bro. Byron l)ean,auotlier
soldier, was my escort, and the time
passed rapidly and pleasantly. Bro.
Dean has a good farm and pleasant
surroundings, but one thing he lacks.
IIe wants that last: best giftr—a wife, to
round out and complete his happiness.
But I have no fault to liud with him,
for at 1:40 in the morning he delivered
me safe and sound at the hotel in the
village of Sherman. From there to
Martin, 16 miles, I was to take the
stage, was called early to
breakfast and mounted a mixed
train (by courtesy, called a stage,) for
Mantou; we made the trip in a little
less than five hours on the hottest day
of the season. The train was on time,
made close connection, and at 9:10 1*. M.,
We steamed up to our starting point,
at Bronson. Found the wife waiting
with conveyance. At 11 o’clock we
were at home 10 miles away. IIad
put in six full days an_d just reached
home before Sunday. My extensive
trip through these new counties forci-
bly called to mind the pioneer days of
my boyhood and early manhood. But
Manistee and Wexford counties, as well
as other northern counties, have a
future of reasonable prosperity before
them. While much of the land is
sandy, yet the thrifty growing clover
and other crops indicated that the sand
contained elements of fertility. In
time one or more railroads will be con-
structed through this region. This Will
give value to their timber, and lands
that are now worth from $5 to $7 per
acre will be worth from $12 to 320.
Our present drawback to comfort and
prosperity is their heavy roads. Much
effort should be made to better the
condition of their main thoroughfares.

Kind friends of the North, I shall
long remember the laborious but pleas-
ant week I spent among you. Be hope-
ful, cheerful and united, and many
good things shall be yours. Remem-

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TEE GRANGE VISITOR.

a rattling pair of roadsters. At 4 11.  ber Bro. )Iickley’s neighbor, and all’
)1. we reached liro. 1\lcI)iarmid’s. This  avoid his fault.

Fraterually,
C. G. Ltci-:.

The Pollilcal Duties of Patrons.

[Read before Kalamazoo Pomona Grange, by

' H. Adams]

It is one of the proofs of the suc-,
cess of the Grange, as an educator,
that I am able to appear before you on
this occa<ion. To be invited to
speak to so large and intelligent a
body of men and women as constitute
the Pomona Grange of this county, is
an honor I little dreamed of, or aspir-
ed to, previous to the organization of
the Grange.

The subject which has been assigned
me by the W. Lecturer, is certainly an
important onejust at this time. We
Americaus are a queer people. Each
presidential campaign is an unusual
one, and the present is no exception,
it is a very unusual one.

Four political parties have come be-
fore the American people, each with
its platforms and declaration of princi-
ples, each with its candidates for the
different offlces from President down,
and to decide which candidates are
best qualified to fill the different‘. po
sitioue, and what positions are the
most nearly right, or most practicable
is the question with each concslentlous
voter throughout the land. And
right here I wish to say what I con-
sider the most important duty of all,
and what must be the first step in
any advance. It is the duty we owe
to ourselves, and posterity that we
devote more time to the study of the
affairs of Government and political
economy, than we ever have before.
With our improved farming machin-
ery, the self-biuders, and sulky plows,
if we don't avail ourselves of the ad-
vantages for mental culture that may
be derived from these inventions, as
far as we are concerned they might as
well have never been invented

We often hear this sentiment from
those who profess to believe that the
Great Monopolles are inevitlble.
"Money always has ruled, and it al-
ways will.” Now I deuv the truth
of the assertion, that money always
will rule. It need not rule in any
matter adverse to the interests of the
people where they have the privilege
of the elective franchise, as we have,
that money is enabled to rule
in measures that are opposed to their
welfare. Hence, the importance of
giving more time to the study and in-
vestigation of all questions that may
come before us.

It has been said by some one speak-
ing on the subject: That each Patron
should make it a point to attend the
caucuses ofthe party to which he may
happen to belong to, and see that good
men only are given the nominations.
NowI think the main idea was a
good one; but I hold that no intelli-
gent man, be he Patron or otherwise,
has any business to happen to belong
to any political party. Every man
should have some ideas of progress,
and should study how the present con-
dition of things may be improved up-
on, and when satisfied that a measure
is right, or a. reform is needed, attach
himself to the party he thinks most
likely to make the desired change.

The railroad king never happens to
belong to any political party, Oh no !
He gives his vote, and the influence
of his money to the party that gives
the strongest guarantee that his busi-
ness will not be interfered with. The
banker never happens to belong to
any political party; but he supports
the party that has the most to say
about “honest money,” and gives him
and his class the most power to regu-
late and control the volumn of curren-
cy. The llquor dealer and manufac-
turer never happen to belong to any
party organization; you will find them
working for the party and the candi-
dates which glves the best assurance
that their infamous tariff will not be
molested.

I think we have not yet arrived at
the top round in the ladder of prog-
gress. In our declaration of purposes
which we have given to the world,
we find this; “We aim to build up a
higher and nobler manhood and wo-
manhood.” Now if we desire to rise
morally and intellectually, we must
observe nature’s laws and comply
with nature’s condtlons, before we
can look for any development in this
direction. We have in ourcountry to-
day two influences that tend to lower
and degrade us, the monied and the
rum power. ,

The first seeks through class legis-
lation laws which make the rich
richer, and the poor poorer, and
threatens to defeat the objects of free
government, and to degrade the labor-
ing classes. The other, the rum pow-
er, needs no description from me; its
methods and effects upon society are
too well known. The question of the
hour is; “What can we do with it?”
It is denied by many that we have a
right to legislate against these things,
so it would seem if the right was once
fairly established in the mind of the
voter, that his duty would be perfect-
ly plain. I will say in regard to the
firet, that the supreme court has al-
ready decided that the creature can
not be above the creator, and recog-
nizes the people as being the creator

and source of all laws, which should
govern society. Then all that re-

mains to be done is, to grant no,
i right to any one to commit a wrong
‘under any circumstauies, and to re-

serve unto ourselves the rights and
privileges that properlv belong to us
in the firs; place, and not delegate
them to corporations or private indi-
viduals to be used to the peoples hurt.

Political Correspondence.

Mr. Editor.-——I agree with you that :

the farmers of Michigan, and thousands
of others are sorely disappointed in the
defeat of C. G. Luce as a candidate for
the office of Governor.

That he possesses the qualifications
requisite in an executive office, all will
admit who know him, and the almost
universal demand among Republican
farmers, for his nomination led us to
expect his success.

I agree also with you, that he was
defeated through is “vicious. system"
and all “to gratify a few federal otlice
holders, and their associate machine
politicians.”

I am glad that you have so fearlessly
and ably given expression through the
columns of Tina Visrror. to the feel-
ings of the farmers of Michigan.

I believe that all that you say in Tun
VisiT0ii of Sept. 1st;,in reference to
the manner in which General Alger
was nomiunted, will be conceded as
true by all, except the machine politi-
clans.

If I am correct in this conclusion,
what is the plain and obvious right
and duty of the farmers, and other
friends of Mr. Luce? To my mind
there is but one course to persue. and
that is to smash the “Machine,” and
thus teach those “Federal ofllco hold-
ers and their associate machine poli-
ticians," tnat they can not longer dom-
inate over farmers and working men
of our State, in this high handed man-
ner.

If we fail to do this now, we need
never again assert our independence
and demand our rights. The republi-
can farmers have at least been insult-
ed, betrayed, sold out. Now let them
resent the insult. and teach their be-
trayers a wholesome lesson.

Bro. farmers, you can do this without
leaving your party or sacrificing your
principles; just sit squarely and flatly
down upon the "‘Machine,” and its
“Vicious System” but once, and you
will have done more to compel recogni-
tion,and bring about your just demands,
than by passing scores of resolutions
or by making long speeches.

And now is the very time to do this
Work. Fortunately the opposition can-
didate is a farmer, raised on a farm in
the east, he, with his own parents
helped to improve and cultivate a
fa’*m of his own in Gcnessee County,
and while he has other large interests,
he still carries on the “old farm," and
like Bro. Luce, he yet loves the farm, is
proud of it, and proud to be known as
a genuine Michigan farmer.

Farmers of Michigan, the way is
open for us to yet have a farmer
Governor.

Let us improve the opportunity.

LEVI SPARIES.

Niles, Mich.

Lecturer’s communlcation—~Nalional Grange
P. of H.

[Subject for October 188-1.]

Question 67. Do._we, as an organiza-
tion, employ co-operation to the best
advantage?

Su_r/grstions.—Orgauization implies
co-operation, for it requires united ef-
fort to form organized bodies for any
purpose. The Order of Patrons of
Husbandry was instituted for the pur-
pose of uniting the farmers into a fra-
ternal associatiou, with a view of
bringing them regularly together in
their Grange meetings, and there culti-
vate our social natures to a more
friendly feeling and closer association
among ourselves, and to improve our
intellectual facilties to greater useful-
ness to ourszlves and to the world.
And in proportion as these two feat-
ures are advanced in any Grange oom-
muuity, will rest the financial advan-
tage to its members. The social ad-
vancement in a Grange will aid much
in its educational work, and the edu-
cational advancement leads to finan-
cial advantages. But to accomplish
either of these co-operation must be
employed—it is indispensible in mak-
ing Grange meetings a suceess—a lack
of prosperity in these prevents social
culture, and hinders educational ad-
vancement, and the failure of these
prevents financial benefits. If these
are made successful in every Grange,
then co-operative business enterprises
will become so firmly established that
it will place them beyond all doubt of
failure, for successful results will be
assured.

The success of Grange meetings, the
advancement in the social and educa-
tional work, as well as the success and
prosperity of all business enterprises
depends upon ourselves. Our acts,
efforts, means and influence must be
united in a co-operative way and suc-
cess is assured.

The subject loses none of its inter-
est; it is an all-important question
upon which rests everything con-
nected with the order, We very life
depends upon the co-operative efforts
of its members. In considering the

suljsct the following questions pre—i
,r-sent themselves:

1. Do we, as a Grange, unite in

3our work, and co-operate in making

‘our Grange meetings what

2. Do we co-operate as a Grange
in considering and discussing ques-
tions pertaiulug to our interest and
our welfare?

3. Do we unite our efforts, means
and influence to the financial advan-
tage of our members?

If we desire to build up our Grange
land make it a useful instrument in
the community for good, for the ad
vaucement and elevation of ourselves.
our families and our neighbors, then
we must take deeper interest in
Grange meetings to make them in
tereeting and profitable.

If we desire to profit by the educa-
tional work in the Grange, in im-
proving us intellectually, then we
muet study the questions presented
and participate in their discussions.

If we desire to profit most by the
financial feature of the order, we
must consolidate our efforts, means
and influence in a business enter-
prise, either in merchandising where
there is an opening for a co-operative
store, or in securing supplies at whole-
sale rates, and in disposing of surplus
products. If we desire to succeed in
either of these propositions, we must
work rtrlctly upon the principles of
cooperation to accomplish the object
sought.

A Woman of Genius.

The most original and beautiful
piece of wood-carving yet done in
America has been accomplished by a
young woman who, traveling in Swit-
zerland with her father, persuaded
him to give her the opiortunity to
learn the rudiments of the art. De-
termination to excel, the fine cou-
sclence of the artist, and endless prac-
tice, have developed a genius.

Some years ago, a New Jersey girl of
sixteen proposed to go into her father’s
shop to help him through a period
of debt and iscouragement. His busi-
neus was making spindles and filers.
“He told me,” says her biographer,
“that in twelve months she could do
more work, and do it better, than
any man he had ever trained in eigh-
teen inouths.” Her father died.

Her two eldest brothers learned the
trade of her and went away. Two
younger sisters and a brother four-
teen years of age all worked under
her, turning, polishing, filing and
fitting all kinds of machinery.

When I last saw her, she was mak-
ing water-rams to force streams lnto
barns and houses. She also turns out
many kinds of carriage axles. She is
her own draughtsman, and occasion-
ally does her own forging. She un-
derstands every part of her steam en-
gine, and her work prospers because
she loves it and does it thoroughly
well. This young machinist would
have had no chance at all had not her
wise father perceived that hands were
of no sex.—IIarpcr’s Bazar.

Autumn Leaf Panels.

Autumn leaves are exceedingly ef-
fective on white woodwork, and now
that it is fashionable to decorate par-
lor door panels with hand painting on
satin, etc., 9. careful collection of au-
tumn leaves, well arranged, will be
found to rival this more pretentious
decoration. Select leaves perfect in
shape, and brilliant in coloring, pass a
warm iron over them, on which bees-
wax has been rubbed. This gives a
natural and lasting luster and pre-
vents curliug. Cross two tiny leaves
close in the corners of a door panel,
and arranges cluster in the center
to suit the taste.

A touch of mucilage on the backs
of the leaves will fasten them to the
panel. A string of leaves fastened to-
gether with the stems, in the manner
in which children make wreaths, is
effective on the center of the door
between the panels. The leaves should
be fastened together before they are
waxed, as afterward they are too brit-
tle.—Bcrt/La, in Tribune and Farmer.

 

Without Earnostness.

“Without earnestness there is noth
ing to be done in life; yet even among
the people whom we call men of cul-
ture but little earnestness is often to
be found; in labors and employineuts,
in arts, nay even in recreations, they
plant themselves, if I may say so, in
an attitude of self-defense; they live
as they read a heap of newspapers,
only to be done with them; they re-
mind one of that young Englishman
at Rome, who told, with a contented
air one evening in some company, that
"to-day he had dispatched six churches
and two galleries.’ They wish to know
and learua multitude of things, and
seldom not exactly those things with
which they have the least concern;
and they never see that hunger is not
a eased by snapping at the air.
Vegan I become acquainted with a
man, my first inquiry is, with what
does he occupy himself, and how, and
with what degree of perseverance?
The answer regulates the interestl
take in that man for life.”—Gocthe.

 

DeLesseps, who du the Suez canal
with Italian, Frenc and Turkish
laborers, whose diet is almost exclu-
sivelv cereal food, is strong in his con-
demnation of meat, claiming that the
corals furnish not only a cheaper but
alstronger food. He says, “one pound
of dry wheat or flour is worth as much
as three pounds of wet beef. Scald
the pound of flour and see. You have
a ga lon of mush; you cannot eat it in
two‘! days. If you feed the cerals to
cattle, as they do in England, it takes
ei ht pounds of grain to make a pound
0 meat, so why feed the grain to ani-
mal tramps ‘P Why not eat it ourselves
and do away with a surplus population
of 50 million cattle, hogs and sheep-
animal tramps ?”

The main building of the New Or-
leans’ Exposition is said to be the larg-
est erected in the world, covering thir-
ty-three acres of land.

they :
‘i should be? 1,

5

A Good Doctor.

‘Laughter is one of the best physi-
cians known, being as necessary as
pure air to invalids. hypochondriacs,
sufferers from nervous exhaustion,
and those prostrated by business cares
and mental worries. He is a gay
companion, is foe to gloom and death,
for, being adisclple of Mollere, joy,
brightness, and health accompany
him everywhere. His treatment is
simple and applicable to all ages. He
never mrkes any charge for his ser-
vices, and he is always ready to come
when sent for. His face wears the
brightest of smiles, which are in
themselves better than most of the
drugs in the pharmacepoea for curing
certain diseases, and his presence is
sufficient to rouse the weak and leth-
argic into new life. lnvalids should
covsult him as often as possible if they
would lighten their burdens, make
their lives longer and happier, and de-
fy the approaching hand of Time,
which spares no one from its wither-
lug influence.

Candy.

A physician has said. “The candy
shops are as much harm as the liquor
shops.“ This is by no means true, but
it is true that an immense deal of harm
results from the inces alt purchase of
candy for the little ones. A man
must be poor indeed who cannot afford
his children an 0CCd.SlOl1dl dime for
candy, and his heart must be very hard
who denies them this trifling luxury.
But the well being of his children,
their health, digestion, teeth and hap-
piness, demand an abatement of admin-
istering to them these poisonous
sweets. The stomiicli is kept in a. state
01 unrest caused by their fei'iiiei1tati0n
that leads todisasi-rous results. A bad
habit of eating at all times is contract-
ed in childliood b_v candy eaters, and is
apt to continue through life, to the det-
riineut of health. Affection for the
little ones can be nianifi-stcd in a safer
and more rational way than in patron-
izing the candy shops, and they will be
ias well satislicd both now and through

ife.

 

A PIANO-FORTE workman recently

made a ver efi“ective temperance ad-
dress ln ondou. In his hand he
held a loaf of bread and a knife. The
loaf of bread represented the wages of
the working man. After a few intro-
ductory remarks he cut otfa moderate
slice.
"This,” he said, “is what you give
tothe city government. He then cut
offa more generous slice, “and this is
what you give to the general govern-
ment. Then with a vigorous flourish
of his carving-knife, he cut off‘ three-
quarters of the whole loaf. “This,”
he said, “you give to the brewer.”
By this time only a thin slice re-
mained. He set aside the greater part
of this to the “public house,” and
left only a few crumbs; "and this you
keep to support yourself and family.

The free ice water fountain provided
by the Buslziess Mons’ Moderation So-
ciety at the postoillce,Now York City,
is constantly beseiged by thirsty pedes-
trians. Over 1,200 pounds of ice are
used daily. The keepers of saloons and
lemonade stands in the neighborhood
complain of a great falling off in busi-
ness.

A. Iii. mid/LE,

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1'4

AND DEALER IN

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Window Shades, Room Mouldings,

firtififs’ gjfilaterials,

Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc.,
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Special designs furnished and Estimates
given for interior decoration, and all kinds of
stained and ornamental Glass work.

MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD.
DEPARTURE on TRAINS lraont KALAIAIOO.

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

  

WESTWARD.

-‘A. H. P. I
Kalamazoo Aocommodationleaves,___-i 4 '
Kalamazoo Express arrives, ___-.._ __ __._. 9 40
Evening Express,___.-...._._..- - 1 00 __.
Pacific Express,_.._._..--_._ ,r 2 27 __._
Mail._...____._.__.__.__...___.__ 11 38 ___-
Day Express.-_.-.__--_----..---_... 1 45

EABTWABD.

A. K. P In
Night Express,--_-_..-_-_.--._.-__ 3 17
Kalamazoo Accommodation leaves,_._... 6 4:5 __..
Kalamazoo Express arrfves,-__.-_.-- -..._. 10 00
Mai _..-----._- ..._....-....--_-_ ._... ll 08
Day Express, .... -___.-..... ...... _ -_.__ 1 46
New York Express,___-_._-_..._.. -__... 8 10
Atlantic Express, _____ -... ..... ..- 1 OJ .__..

New York, Atlantic and Pacific Expresses dull ,
Evenin Express west and Night Express out y
except aturdays. All other trains daily except Enn-
days. Freight trains carrying passengers out mm
Kalamazoo as follows: No 29 (east) at 5:19 2. 11., and
No.20 (west) at 8:10, bring passengers from east at
12:45, 2. it.

E. B. Lanna», Gen. Manager, Detroit.
J. A. Gama, General Frel ht Agent, Chicago.
0. W. Booous,  P. T. A., Chicago.

L. S. & Li. S. R. IR.
KA  DIVISION TIMI TABLI.
Standard time-—-90th meridian.

GOING SOUTH.

NY&0NYlB
Expreu. Ex t M W” R‘

Le. Grand Bapid.s_.____. 7 35 us 4 00 PI 5 in Al
Ar.Allagan ._.....j-- t 50 " 6 16 " 1 30 “
Ar. Kalamazoo__..._.__... 9 50 " 6 20 “ 12 50 Pl
Ar. Schoolcr-aft -__-....._ 10 19 “ 6,62 “ 1 60 “
Ar.Thrce Bivers-_.___ 10 -15 “ 722 “ 342 "
Ar. White Pigeon__.____ 11 10 “ 1 50 " 4 60 "
Ar.'1‘oledo- 505m! 126m 8201:
A1-.Oleveland -....-._.__ 9 40 “ 6 36 "

Ar. Bufl'alo__________ 8 80 Al 12 45 us

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OUT OF THE WOODS.

BY HUDSON TUTTLE.

Well stranger, you're quite right, I reckon,
When you say I must feel alone;

Whatever I set myself doing
A hard row it is, I must own.

My Jane was a wife good as ever
Come up from the old Buckeye State,

And together we worked for this homestead
Most faithfully, early and late.

I thought in the West ‘twould be better
Than cramped in our old Eastern home.
And she in her goodness consenting,
We left those we loved, here to come,

Three years since we came to this country;
Ah! sir, I remember it well
How the first night she cried when the sun
set
And the darkening shadows fell.

Not a bit did I blame her for it;
Our cabin was roughest logs,

And a dismal O‘l0I‘Ll3 was chanted
From a wilderness full of frogs.

By the side of the logs a iii-e—place,
With a hole in the roof for flue,

Smoke and dirt everywhere about us-
To cry seemed the right thing to do,

It was hard; the two years we struggled
Before we felt sure of success,

And then came the terrible fever
And snatched from us sweet little Bess.

She was the youngest —the dear baby;
A sweet child —don’t mind it I cry:

Just as hard was it when our eldest,
Our three—year old Will had to die.

We are tough, I can tell you stranger,
And our hearts are toughest of all,

I guess they are made just to trample,
Just to gather up sorrow and gall.

With all her long watching and waiting,
And grief over all we had lost,

M Jane droopod and paled like a flower
That had felt the blight of the frost.

It was in the chill of December.
I shall never forget the day;

When the bars of the body was broken,
And her spirit unbound from its sway.

No mourners, but three or four neighbors,
N o flowers, expect the snow-flake,

For the tears of the heavens were frozen
And shrouded the earth for her sake.

Yes, alone with my cight—year old Susie,
And the prospect ahead I own dark;

M world, stranger, lies under the pine tree
Three graves where the flowers you remark,

Sue and I planted those wild flowers,
The trailing arbutus and moss,

And under the pines in the shadows
We sit and talk of our loss

I know you will call it a fancy,
When I say the come like a flame,

And often I hear them low whisper,
That they love us even the same.

You may call it fancy delusive;
Then I wish thus deluded to be,
For life would be utterly worthless
If the dear ones would not come to me,

You soon will be out of the woods, stranger,
My path out I can see clear;

You will find many friends to greet you,
And I, my wife and children dear.

 
 

Reforms.

Under the auspices of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union; the
people of this place were last night
given a rare treat.

Mrs. A. Benjamine of Maple. Ioula
Co., and President of their organiza
tion in the 5 .h. Congressional district,
delivered a lecture, dealing with tem-
perance, associated with educational
matters. Necessarily, its bearings
upon politics were touched and her
appeal for St. J ohn and Daniel's cause
must have won convictions of doubt-
ers. Her full, clear voice and grace of
manner held a goodly audience to the
close of her well connected and forci-
bly put arguments. The womanly
influence felt throughout the evening
did not disguise the misery that made
for her a theme,but it raised the means
of combating it to an elevation of
morality and sacredness such as
gentlemen speakers leave us far short
of.

The Union which; this lady rep-
resents, in common with thousands
of the best of the land, has reached
such astonishing proportions that we
can not add to its glory, but only
satisfy our own pleasure, by giving it
our hearty tribute before the ladies of
THE VISITOR. An organization born
of the high and pure longings for that
which is perfect in its goodness, and
which quality crowns woman's nobil-
ity, a decade ago the women launched
forth, and this effort has become an
immense power. In every state and
territory there are already a state or
territorial organization and their
work is divided into thirty-six de-
partments, in each one of which a
grand work has been done. Wh are
others despaired, they worked.

It seems to me, could the tired,
faded woman of our rural districts

feel for once the magnetism of one of

these leaders--could know they had
her personal sympathy, that she too,
sees unmeasured obstacles climb up
before her—and then could inhale her
spirit of seemingly indomitable cour-
age — would be an inspiration for
months, a baptism of enthusiasm.

Ladies, do you not find a world of
comfort in knowing that others,too,are
well nigh sick under their petty cares
and little odds of work !And isn’t there
almost a consolation in finding that
they, too, reached at times the “slough
of despondency.” It magnifies the
work of these temperance leaders
when we sturdily face the dimculties
which they have encountered. They
had their way to make, at times beg-
ging the privilege to work; few hands
were offered in the cause of a purely
woman's project, that brought them
in contact with the roughs, the ignor-
ant and vicious of men.

I am convinced that we are not in a
commonsense way philosophical
enough. We walk round and round
the little circling path we have beaten
down for our fee’, and do not look
out upon the work of others enough.
The glass of compirison is seldom
hell to our eyes. If it were—not
one but would find here a hap,.ier
home than scores,—not one but would
see sisters whose duties and interests
double here. The satisfaction of’ feel
ing and knowing we have allegiance
wizh the bus] workers in every fi.-id
of reform, adds vim to daily routine
and rests by the very sense of activity,
the lcngings to help the fallen and
unfortunate. It is not to every woman
to giv.. utterance to h.-r earnestness
before an audience of listeners; to the
majority it is not privileged ofcen to
meet with those whom the public has
learned tolink wi h reform work; but
»t is permitted her to feel herself “one
mgin the great wheel" that is keep-
ing alive the means by which much
gain shall some day be divide '.
Schrolcraft, S:pt. 26, ’84. *

Housekeeper and Husbandry.

Let every lady housekeeper study the
appetite of her lord, don't think that
a. man can eat anything. This is a sad
mistake. \Vork in the heat of the day
has a tendencyjto make him cross.
Don't play too long on your new organ
that he has been kind enough to buy
for you; put your house in order and
stop a. moment to think “What will I
prepare for dinner to-day ?" Ile needs
more than potatoes and meat. lie is
fond of apple dumpling. or pudding, or
strawberry shortcake. This will I
prepare. “It is the duty of every house-
keeper to look well to the ways of her
house and eat not the bread of idleness.’

Fathers. if vou wish to make home
pleasant, don’t come into dinner with
a frown, especially if dinner is not
quite ready. Lend a helping hand.
Your wife wcrks more than you do.
Attend to the baby's wants, fetch a
pail of water, or assist in putting din-
ner on the table. Bear some of her
burdens. It is the duty of every man,
married or single, to practice domestic
affairs. The mother works hard to
straighten her house, works in the gar-
den or harvest field, prepares dinner
or supper, and does her knitting or
patching when the family has rested.
Fathers and sons, relieve the tired
wife or mother. Let her retire with
the others. Give her the rest she so
greatly needs.

Mus. C. Mo LAIN.

North West Grange.

The Science of cookery.

Learn the economy of the kitchen.
——RusIcin.

The nearest road to a man’s heart is
down his throat.——Fanm‘e Fern.

To win a husband to stay always at
his own table the wife must aim to
compass the science of cookery; and
whatever else she may excel in, she
will be counted as nought if she fails in
this.

A husband being called on to write
an epithath on his departed wife, who

was without education and few mental
resources, still having lived very com-
fortably with her and being deeply
grieved at her loss, was considerably
puzzled at first to select from her many
virtues any one which would happily
commemorate her true Worth. Ile fin-
ally decided on this:

“Her picked up dinners were a per-
fect success." What more honorable
record should a true woman crave from
the pen of one whom she has catered to a
life-time ‘B
t Of a modern belle it has been writ-

en:

“She had views on co—education,
And the principal needs of the Nation;
And her glasses were blue, and the numbers
she knew
Of the stars in each high constellation.

"And she wrote in a. handwriting clerky.

And she talked with an em phasia jerky:

And she painted on tiles, in the sweetest of
styles,

But she didn’t know chicken from turkey."

Now, to be a model women in the
economy of the kitchen necessiates a
knowledge of the difference between
chicken and turkey, and a thous-
and other fine distinctions not learnable
in one day, nor attainable in one year;
and so the faculty of at least one Col-
lege in the United States has recently
decided, we are glad to learn.

Hence they have introduced to the
young ladies of the junior class the art
of cooking in the most thorough man-
ner as the following explanation shows 2
Every girl is taught to make good
bread, and puts her knowledge into
successful ractice by taking her turn
in mixing, neading, and baking, with
no other assistance than the first les-
son received. Each is also taught to
make raised and baking powder bis-
cuit, pie crust, cake of various kinds,
puddings, and to cook a roast or broil
a steak.

They can tell the best cut of beef for
roasting or broiling. how many mm-
utes should be allowed for cooking a
pound of roast mutton, beef, veal, or
pork; how hot the oven should be for
each; how to pre are it for the oven,
and how to atten it after being placed
therin. They can give a clear and ac-
curate descri tion of the preliminary
steps to be ta en as a preparation for
any sort of baking; know how to stuff
and roast a turkey, make oyster soup.
pre are stock for other soups, steam
an mesh potatoes, so they will almost
melt in the mouth; and can pigs are a
palatable meal of substanti and
fancy dishes in good style.

Canning fruit and vs etables, pre
serving and makin jel res, pickling,
and so on. are added 0 their lessons as
rapidly as sible, and so thoroughly,

that soon t e members of the class can
be trusted to can, pickle and preserve
by themselves. _
The genuine interest and enthusiasm
manifested by these young ladies gives
the best promise to their future success

TEE GRANGE YISIEQB.

as cooks. Thus far the hard work has
been cheerfully done, and what is gen-
erally deemed drudgery by the average
housekeeper is treated by these school
girls as a pastime. ..\'o unpleasant word
from the first to the last has marred the
general harmony of the class in attain-
ing the science of cookery.

Iappy girls of Iowa’s Agricultural
College, who, in such a broad, sensible
and practical atmosphere of the-orutical
instructions, are daily winning a deep-
er spirit of appreciation of the tender
and solemn responsibilities devolving
upon the wife and mother?

If these girls can carry into all their
domestic experiences the some sunny
temper and the unfailing industry and
perseverance that they have evinced
in the experimental kitchen they will
brighten and adorn any kitchen
and any house or mansion suffi-
ciently fortunate to secure them as
mistresscss: and that young man who
is wise enough to “strike while the iron
is hot.” for one of these .e-ntcrp1'ising
queens of the kitchen is to be thrice
congratulated in winning so desirable
a )l'l7.tfi

int some discouraged. overtaxed fair
maiden of the farmers kitchen will say
“0 yes it all sounds very nice to keep
sunny tempered and sing at one’s work
with cooking lessons in a college
in connection with the best in-
struction to be had in books;
but let them walk in my line and
it wouldn't be so cunning." That’s
so, dear girls, and your aunty knows
just how it is herself; but if you have it
good, sensible mother from whom to
learn the mysteries of good cooking, do
as St. Paul, “thank God and take new
courage” every day, for she is worth a
thousand colleges to you any day. It
is true that there are trainin schools
for cooks some nearer than own, for
we read that private classes were open-
ed in Boston several years ago; which
were well patronized; but the expense
of instruction was necessarily so large
as to close them to persons of small
means. Miss Carson, of New York,
and Miss Parloa, of Boston, are doing
a good work in conducting cooking
schools; but it is becoming more and
more desirable to bring such teaching
Within the reach of all those who in-
tend to become cooks scientifically, and
those who have finished their radua-
ting course, and having a. predilection
for cooking, would learn to cook eco-
nomically and become good housekeep-
ers, and from this source could help to
support their families and keep them
above want. It is well written:

“ We may live without poetry, music and art,

We may live without conscience and live
without heart,

We may live without friends, we may live
without books,

But civilized men ca: not live without cooks."

And now, girls, please begin to culti-
vate the science of cooking. Have a
recipe book ready, and wherever on
go be on the alert for every good ish
that chances in your way, and learn
how to make it before you give up,
and write it down, then you are sure
of it. I know a little domestic maid-
en, not yet twelve years old, who went
visiting in Bradford count about
three months ago, and whi e there
she secured the receipt for making
"Lightning Yeast;" and now nearly
one-half of the town where she resides
uses the formula for making bread
which she learned, to the saving of
loads of wood, tons of strength and
time. besides the gain of as nice a loaf
as ever graced a lady's tea.-table.

How different from the fashionable
yuung lady of a certain city, who vis-
ited a cooking school the other after-
noon, when her attention was equally
divided between a new dress worn by
an acquaintance and directions for a
cake- The recipe she gave to her
mother read as follows:

“Take two pounds of flour, three
rows of plaiting down the front, the
whites of two eggs, cut bias; a. pint of
milk, ruffle around the neck, half a
pound of curr-ants, seven yards of head
trimming, grated lemon peel, with
Spanish lace fichu. Stir well.”

Her mother said she thought these
new-fangled ideas 011 cooking ought
to be frowned down.-—1l{rs. A!
France in Farmers Friend.

Books in the House.

However. the mistress of the house
may regard her duties to those em"iov-
ed by her, she cannot very well put out
of sight the fact that, if her servants
read anything worth reading, it must
be provided by her. For this reason I
advocate having two or three shelves
in the dining-room, On these should
be placed not only the cook book and
the literature of the kitchen, but some
other good books and papers: let it be
understood that these may be taken
and read at any time. It is just possi-
ble that some of these, like the Bibles
in the cars, may not be used, but it is
not probable. If any one fears that a
taste for reading will intefere with a
legitimate performance of duties, I
would like to cite her to the case of
a. women whom I know who reads
Carlyle, and quotes Burns, and and is
also an accomplished cook, and one of
the most conscientious diggers out-of
corners ever employed as a maid-of-all
work. A judicious selection of cook-
books is an actual inspiration to a girl,
and ersual of them will lead; to that
intel igent interest in work which
makes it pleasurable

—-Ruskin.

 

Womans Privileges

Every argument that can be adduc-
ed to prove that males should have the
right to vote. applies with equal force
to prove that females should possess the
same right.—Hon . Ben j amjn F. Wade.

The correct principle is that women
ase not only justified. but exhibit the
most exalted virtue, when they enter
on the concerns of their country, of
humanity, and of their God.—John
Quincy Adams.

I fully believe that the time has
come when the ballot should be given
to woman. Both her intelligence and
conscience would lead her to vote on
the side of justice and pure morals.-
Bishop Hurst. -

I believe that the admission of wom-
en to the suffrage is in the line Q God’s
providence, and that it is approved b
the spirit of the Bible and the expo -
ence of histcry.—-Rev. Williams Bur-
net Wright,

If prayer and womanly influence are
doing so much for God by indirect
methods, how shall it be when that
electric force is brought‘ to beer
through the battery of the ballot-box?
—Francis E. Willard.

Irire woman suffrage, I know of

many prejudices against it, but of
nothing which deserves to be called a
reason. The reasons are all on the oth-
er side.—-Professor Borden P. Bawne,
Boston University.

_ In quite early life I formed the opin-
gon that women ought to vote, because
it is right, and for the best interests of
the country. Years of--ibservafion and
thought have strengthened the opiu-
ion.—-Bishop Bowman.

Tho-e who are ruled by law should
have the power to say what shall be
the laws, and who the law makers.
}’Vomen are as much interested in leg-
islation as men, and are entitled to
repr-.-sentation.—William Lloyd Garri-
son.

_ Any influence I may happen to have
is gladly extended in favor of woman
suffrage. . . . As for our capacity to
voteas intelligently as the mass of
men. that is a point I would scarcely
Eokpiisscend to argue.—L_vdia Maria
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SELECTIONS.

Ti1e_re are many of the greatest deeds
done in the smallest struggles of life.

Men are seldom more innocently em-
ployed than when they are making
mone_v.—[J ohnson.

Money is a liandmgiiden if thou
knowest to use it; a mistress, if thou
knowest not.—[_llorace.

The philosophy which affects to teach
us a contempt of monv does not run
very deep.——[llenry Taylor.

Any man may do a casual act ofgood
nature, but a continuation of them
shows it is a part of their tempera-
ment.-—[S.erne.

No story is the same to us after the
lapse of time; or, rather we who read
it are no longer the same interpreters.
—[George Eliot.

Many people take no cure of their
money till they come nearly to the end
of it, and others do just the same with
their time.——]Gocthe.

The strength and safety of a commu-
nity consist in the virtue and intelli-
gence of its youth, especially of its
young men.—[Hawes.

The sting of every reproachful
speech is the truth of it; and to be
conscious is that which gives keenness
to the invective.—[R. South.

We often meet with more instances
of true charity among the ignorant
and poor than among those who pro-
fess to be Christians.—[M. Banclello.

We feel our immortality o’ersweep.
All time, all tears, all pain, all fears,
Peeling like the eternal thunder of the deep
This truth into our ears-
Ye live forever.

There are many who despise half
the world;but if there be any who
despise the whole of it, it is because
the other half despises them.—[Gol-
ton.

Whois wise‘? He that learns from
every one. Who is powerful? He
that governs his passions. Who is
rich‘? He that is content.—[Mlscella-
mes.

By doing good with his money, a
man as it were stamps the image of
God upon it, and makes it pass current
for the merchandise of IIeaven.—[ltut-
ledge.

I have also seen the world, and af-
ter long experience have discovered
that ennui is our greatest enemy, and
remunerative labor our most lasting
friend.—[Moser.

It happens a little unluckily that the
persons who have the most intimate
contempt of money are the same that
have the strongest appetites for the
pleasure it procurcs.—[Shenstone.

Our forfathers had clocks put on the
ouside of churches that they might not
be late in getting to service; we put
the ciocks inside the churches lest we
be late in getting out.—Rcv. II. A.
Tapper.

We all know much better than we
do, and believe more than we reduce
to practice. How few realize in exper-
ience, the uprightness and nobleness
of their convictions !—-Rev. C. 11. Zim-
mcrman.

Many will flnd gifts at their Father’s
table at the great marriage feast of the
Lamb, which they never knew t ey
were to have, and some which they
fancied were lost irrevocably on earth.
—ll[ag Kingston.

No humility is perfect and propor-
tioned but that which makes us hate
ourselves as corrupt, but respect our-
selves as immortal, the humility that
kneels in the dust, but gazes on the
sky.—-Archer Butler.

Whoever has sixpence is sovereign
over all men—to the extent of the six-
pence; commands cooks to feed him,
philosophers to teach him, kings to
mount guard over him--to the extent
of sixpence.—[Carlyle.

A word is but a little thing; but it
may brighten all the years of life, and
cast a glory on the expiring hours;
while an evil, bitter speech may stin
the heart, and plant a thorn tha
rankles until the dying day.

Christianity is not a philosophy or
a. scholasticism. It is the light of life
—pla.in truth for plain people; and it
commends itself to every hungry heart
and to every man’s conscience in the
sight of God.—Dr. Ellis, D. D.

As the tree is fertilized by its own
broken branches and failing caves, and
grows out of its own decay so men and
nations are bettered and improved by
trial, and refined by broken hopes and
blihtegd expectations.——F. W. Robert-
son.

We often hear it said that this, or
that person “Died a Christain.” That
is very well, but we had rather hear it
said the lived as Christains. It is the
living hristains that we need the
most, not the dying ones.——Tlze 0riter-
1.011.

It is not in the bright, happy day,
but only in the solemn night that other
worlds are seen shining in the long,
distance. And it is in sorrow—the
night of the soul—-that we see farthest,
and know ourselves natives of infinity
and sons and daughters of the Most
High.

A Freedman’s teacher writes of a
colored woman who, havixig learned
her alphabet, said; “Now want to
spell Jesus, for it ‘pears to me like the
rest will come easier if I learn to spell
the blessed name first. A good many

things “come easier"'i_f we learn that
name first.

The value of a dollar is to bu_v just
things; a dollar goes on increasing in
value, with all the gr.-nius and all the
virtue of the world. A dollar in the
_un1v_e1'_sity is worth more than a dollar
1n _a Jail; in a temperate scliolurly, law-
abiding community, than in some sink
of crime.-[Emerson

 

POSTAL JOTTINGS.

Many people shut sunshine out of
their houses as if it were an enemy;
watch its decent upon the carpet as if it
were a thief of color, and plant trees
to keep it away from the mouldering
house.

Fairs are the exciting topics of this
month, and especially interesting to
farmers.

Yesterday closed the fair of Lenawee
County, the first held on the new
grounds. I: was asuccess; the most
attractive feature being the display
by four Granges.

Palmyra Grange N 3, 212 was award-
ed the second premium; the fi.st was
given to Weston, the banner Grange
of our county. As the editor of this
paper was on the grounds for two
days we may look for an extended
notice of the same.

M.

P..\llIlyl'8.

In a country so sadly overrun with
lawyers as our own, it is sometimes
consoling to know that we have even
one less of these blessings than we
might have bud under more favorable
circumstances. The following inci-
dent is related by the person chiefly in-
tercsted, and consequently must be
true. A well known lawyer in a cer-
tain village of Michigan asked :1
young lady why she did not study law,
remarking, that he thought it a suita-
ble profcssion for her. “For the some
reason." she replied, “that my father
gave up the study.” (in being asked
that reason, she amswercd." “Because

he could in-vcr learn to lie enough.‘’.

It might be remarked in conclusion
that the gentleman who could not be
a lawyer is now a "Commercial Trav-
eler.”

Bro. Cobb: —Too many lawyers-
Gov. Begole’s exposition commission
is quite li ible to come to grief from an
over supply of legal talent. The com-
mission has three lawyers on it, Good-
win, Thuran and Robinson. Not a
farmer has been appointed on that
commission. With three lawyers on
it 8' 11 $5,000 in the treasury it is not
stra  mat thereshould be a fight 1.»:
the spoils. It is a pure (lelIl()C:‘.'il_l(:
affair now that Smith, the only repub-
lican on the board, has been kicked
off because he was a republican. The
fight will be watched with interest
from nowon. The legal wing held a
clandestine meeting. 0.: the 17th, suc
ceeded in stealing the books and rec-
ords, and although there was not a
quorum present, declared themselves
the commission and proceeded to busi-
ness. OCCASIONAL.

Grand Rapids, Sept. 26, 1884.

The three parties in Cass County
have each nominated good, competent,
reliable farmers for representatives
in the legislature. giving farmers the
assurance that they will be faithfully
represented, whether Gideon Ilcbron,
prohibitionist; John Ilain, Greenback-
er, or R. J. Dickson, republican are
elected. The only way farmers can se-
cure a fair proportion of the offices, is
to give timely notice to political man-
agers that if their just claims are not
recognized, they will beat the party
nominees at the polls. It appears
from Gov. St. John's speech that pro-
hibition does prohibit in Kansas; in
three years it has crushed out four
whiskey stills, and thirty-two brewer-
ies, convicted 928 violators of the law,
collected 3100.000 in fines, and imposed
eleven years imprisonment in the ag-
gregate upon the liquor sellers. What
has been done in Kansas can be done
in other states if temperance men will
take hold of the matter in earnest-

REFORMER.

Dear Sz'r:—I am receiving numer-
ous communications asking about
clover seed, how to ship, prospect of
price, etc. For the benefit of all having
the article to dispose of I would say,
clean as thoroughly as possible, put in
new Stark bags, sew the bags——not tie
——bags will be paid for by purchasers
of the seed; take a railroad receipt and
enclose by mail to the consignee: be
sure and weigh it accurately before
shipping. I have large, clean, dry
lofts where I will store free, and I in-
sure at slight expense to any that wish
to ship to hold. I will take all seed at
market price on the day it is received
less 4 cents per bag inspection, and 20
cents per bushel commission. Any of
the City dailies furnish a correct price.
As to the future price it is uncertain,
the crop is large both in this country
and Europe. I am handling for the
New York exporters, consequently
shippers may expect the best results.

Respectfully Yours,
Geo. W. Hill.

There are enough and more than
enough voters believing in prohibition
asa principle tomake a clean sweep
at this election if they would only act
out their convictions and practice as
they preach, but they say their flrst

duty isto their party and that they

OCTOBER 1, 1884

WI
cannot throw away their vote on a
mere sentiment that has no practical
following.

There is :1 wa._vfors:icl1 to give their
influence, and votes also, against Free
Wliiskcy, without injury to their own
party czuididate, or aid to the opposi-
tion, so that a Blaine mun shall in effect
vote for Elaine and a licmocrat for
Cleveland, and at the same time give a
vote that shall square with their prin-
ciples. Let them choose from among
their acquaintances :1 politicul oppo-
nent and teinperunce mun. (me who
is also too politically "cuse lizmlened"
to do right for fear he muy not be on
the winning sideand agree to go to the
polls together and plump for St. John,
l’1'cston and Alcott. l’i'uctically the
result would be the same as though
each voted his old party ticket, as one
oflsets the other, but it counts two for
prohibition.

There is yet time before the election
to work out this plan for pi‘;i4_‘tic;111‘e-
suits zmd to make such a showing in
prohibition votes that at the next trial
it shall win.

If you don’t desire to adopt this
plan as a whole it is practically divisi-
ble.

TE.\ll’.EltANCE l)I£3i01‘l{A’l‘.

‘V8 Were prmnpted by an adver.
tisement seen in the GR.-\.\'(il-J Visi-
TOR of May 15 to send one dollar to
the Chicago Entcrpr-ise company, on
condition that they would send the
Americin Standard dictioum-_y and
the Chicago E/zlerprisc for a year.
We received the June number.
They wrote us they could not supply
orders for dictionaries fast enough,
but that all orders would be fi.led in-
side of two months. We have re-
ceived onlv one number of the maga-
zine and no dictionary. Can any one
tell the reason why? Are they a
swindle or not? I confess I felt more
than ordinary confidence in the ad-
vertis.-ruent because it was in the
Unit.-\.\'(il£ Visirou I have written
twice to the company and received no
reply. Was I the only one fooled?
I hope some one will answer this
question. B o. Cobb, willyou please
make some enquiry about this compa-
ny and report in the VIsi'1‘oi:. It is
for your interest, that your contribu-
tors have a dictionary; they might
perhaps make less trouble about spell-
ing their words. I was in need ofa
dictionary and took this way of ob.
raining one.

As ever, a true Patron,

AUNT KATE.

[We sent an enquiry to Lord &
Thomas asking about this firm, and
below give their answer. We aim to
fight shy of frauds; but are liable to
get beat sometimes.—Ei).]

Pub. of the Grange V£sitor:——.S'chool_
craft Miclz.

I)ca2-Sir.-—-’l‘he Chicago Enterprise
a(lvcrtisine.'1t wuspluced by us for a
party who is responsible and who has
paid us. We know nothing further of
them than this, and that they have dis-
continued the paper. Yours truly,

LORI) & Tnonss.

Cmcxoo, Sept: zuth, 1384.

Bro. Tomlinson, are your assertions
about Gov, Bcgole posiliue proof? Is
there not a possibility that you do not
know all about it?

Here is an extract from one of his
letters:

From Gov. llcgolc's letter to mana-
ger of F. & l’. M. Railway, June 2,
1683.

“You will do me :1. great favor by

sending me one of your 500-mile pass-I

book, also one for Mrs. Begole. I have
just used up the one you gave me be-
fore I was elected.”

Was that 500-mile book a part of the
"contract price with the Railroad Com-
pany,” and paid for by the firm of Be-
gole Foxo: ()0? if so, why did he
have to beg for it ‘:' Is Mrs. B, the
«‘Co.” of the firm ‘B I am glad that you
have been enlightened as to the con-
dition of this government. I have
read Republican papers since the first
one was printed, but I was so obtuse
that I could gather no such ideasas
you found there.

I have read Democratic papers since
beforethere was a Republican party.

I remember when the Free Press
said that when we left Michigan to
coerce their brethren of the South,
then in rebellion, that we would get a
“fire in the rear from 100,000 Demo-
crats.” '

I am glad to learn that Gov. Begole's
neighbors speak Well of him, and only
wish that his public record were equal-
ly as good. A man that would spend
$32.000.00 to elect himself cannon be
more immaculate than was Job of old.
A man that, as soon as he failed to be
re-nominated for Congress, found his
party so bad that he must leave it, is
too good for me to vote for, I would
have been glad to have voted for Bro.
Luce, but farther say not.

Our hot week in September has just
made our corn crop. We shall have
a big yield of clover seed.

A. Form.

We are more concerned, and we be-
lieve the voters will agree with 118.
that the majority of the next House
shall be right upon reform questions,
and composed of fit men, than that it
shall be called “Republican” or
“Democratic.” What the people want
are representatives who will truly
represent them.-Boston Herald.

 

Ex-Gov. St. John, the prohibition-
ists’ candidate, expectfi to K03 3'5 ‘"93
80,000 votes in the State of New York.

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OCTOBER 1, 1884.

EEE RBANGE 7151335. 7

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THE BEST FAR!-?_MEi~'ES

And all Warehousemen and Seed Dealers,

Be What You Sevm.

, One sultry day last summer I was
reading in Tm: VI.-riron of the capdi-
dacy of Bro. Luce for Governor. Thai

l . .
; binding thernselves to any crazy fash- i

Du’! think bet-~susv;~ you are fresh

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‘finals Bepaqtment. .$l.”‘..~i‘.‘.?.ii’.:-“-°£’.1‘333;‘;

AN HOUR AT THE PLAY GROUND.

I sat an hour to-day, John, beside the old
brook stream,

Where we were sclmol boys in olden time,
when manhood was a dream;

The brook is choked with fallen leaves, the
pond is dried uway—

I scarce believe that you would know the
dear old place to-day.

The school house is no more, John, beneath
our locust trees;

,. - . - i ' .
we wild rose by me wmuow Side no m0re‘not worth while to make ourselves

The scattered stones look desolate—the sod ‘

waves in the breeze;

they tested on
Has been plowed up by stranger hands since
you and I were gone.

The chestnut tree is dead, John, an i— what is
sadder now-

The broken grspevines of our swing hangs on
the withered bough;

I read our nan es upon the bark, and found
the pebbles rare

Laid up beneath the hollow side. as we had
piled them there.

Beneath the grass-grown bank, John, I look-
ed for our old spring,

That bubbled down the alder path, three pac-
es from the swing: _ _

The rushes grow upon the brink, the pool is
black and bare,

And not a. foot this many a. day, it seems, has
trodden there.

I sat upon the fence, John, that lies as in
time —

The same half panel in the path, we used so
oit to climb-

And thought howo’er the bars of life our play-
mates had passed on.

And left me counting on this spot the faces
that are gone.

— The Judge.

 

Dear lweces and 1Vrphews.'——'l_‘lie
season of conventions has passed. Al-
ready State election returns are coming
in, and it will not be long before we
shall witness the closing act of the
quadrenial contest. -

Close upon this will come winter,
which means school for our young peo-
ple and more time for reading and
recreation for the farmer.

With but little outlay, winter even-
ings can be made. a. source of great
revenue. "

Did you ever hear the story of the
judge and his two nepliews?

Thejudge owned a finc colt which
both the boys greatly admired. As he
couldnot give him to both he decided
to present the colt; to the one who
made the best use of his evenings the
coming winter. In the spring he found
that James had purchased a scroll saw,
and with it earned enough to pay
for the saw and all material used, be-
side having ten dollars in the b‘aving’s
bank. Frank had paid one dollar to a
circulating library and read three good
historical works.

Frank received the colt. “For," says
the judge, “although James deserves
much credit for the industry and busi-
ness ability he has displayed, Frank
must have the colt, since what he
learned is worth far more than what
J amcs earned.”

The judge doubtless believed in the
truth that was long ago demonstrated,
that he who reads good books under-
standingly when young, sows seed that
will bear abundantly in after years.

F. C. B.’s article was replete with
interest. \Vhen I entered with her the
weaving room and watched the weav-
er busy replacing bobbins and pick-
ing up the loose threads, I tliought; of
a white haired lady of my acquaint-
ance Who was once a factory girl, not
in the mills of Jamestown but of Sa-
lem and Lowell. Many interesting
stories does she tell of those days in
the factory, and sometime, perhaps I
will give you some of them in the de-
partment. ,

I was glad to welcome Minnie Brown
and ioin her in her wish for the future
of the department.

Come again, Minnie and F. C. B.

AUNT PRUE.

I’.  Just received Pretty-by-Nights

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Breezie alludes, can possibly be, for
there are plenty of foolish old folks
 well as young ones, and always will
be, uiiless the “I,.ctcrminrzlor" is more
watchful and regular in histrips than
he seems to have been, since this “Fre-
ble Jfinrlcd Bree://" has become fash-
ionable. It seems as if there was a
continual ctfort on the part of the
“Tyrant Fasliion" to do something to

‘altcr the appearance of the “Human

form divine,” and in most cases, it is

conspicuous by violent opposition, but
keep within the bounds of reason and
descency, and dress ourselves in as
quiet and lady like a manner as possi-
ble, but one must draw the line some-
where, and certainly bangs-—pIishii‘ig
as they do, just over “the windows of
the soul” should receive, as they de-
serve, the anatliemis of all who have
any brains, and we are not willing to
exchange them for a shock or snarl of
hair, either natural or purchased.
E. W.
Paw Paw.

 

Praiiy’s Berrying.

Dear Aunt Prue.-—-As I open THE
GRANGIE VISITOR and turn as usual
to the Youth’s Departmedt, I see a
pitiful wail from Aunt Prue who is-
calling for lost or strayed nephews and
ur ices, so I will respond with how we
went blackberrying.

We had plotted, and planned, and
cooked, and anticipated, and at las
the eventful day came, (if old time was
slow about bringing it to us) and at
seven o’clock we could have been seen
piling ourselves, together with our
lunch baskets into the big wagon, and
making ready for a start. After stop
ping at various places for more com
pany, we find ourselves really on the
road to the pine woods where the
beautiful berries grow.

We must drive slow for we are It
big load, and the road is long and
dusty, and the sun is so warm, but a‘
length we reach what our driver as-
sures is the very last house on the road
and soon we are greeted with shouts
of“Oh, see the berries.” then we all
begin to coax for a camp and stopping-
but the relentless driver hurries us
on until the grand beautiiul, blue lake
stretches out before us without a rip-
plein its gleaming surface. Then we
turn to the left and find a pic-nic
ground furnished with tables and
seats. Here we halt, and each one i:
equipped with a basket and started to
hunt for berries. The boys and girls
move away in couples and singly, to
meet no more until a warning from
empty stomachs tells them they
must seek the camp ground and theiv
lunch basket. At 2;20 P. M. we gath-
er once more around the mother. ans
with much laughing and joking we
eat the liberal dinner, finding tha!
all baskets are filled, we start for t‘ e
lake. There we amuse ourselves f--r
a long time. Some skip stones on
the water, some with bare feet dart-
the tiny waves to catch theivv, and run
screaming over the sands when a
a larger wave breaks over their feet.
while the quieter ones saunter far up
and down the beach finding choice
stones, and fragments -‘if wrecked ves-
sels, nut we are warned by the sink-
ing sun and the voice of our elders
that we must go, so with many reluc-
tant glances, and ringing good by ’s we
start on our home jOl1I‘I]( y.

With laugh -. r and sorgs we kept OUI
spirits lively until the shadows dc ep-
ened into night, and the tired berry
pickers drop one by one at their vari-
ous homes, and the weary «ld horses
draw up before the dear old farm
house, and good by, to

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from the hands-ifyour trylor and you‘
barber, that yr ii will I)'iSS f"-r a gentle
man ll'li8:-!:=_\/nu are I:.'l‘:‘. You migh
carry the perfurue of .'‘()%BS snout ym.
for ag-<  without being once mistake:

jewe-lry do not convert a rougl.
into a gentleman, any more than ;
stove pipe hat and a cigar make 1».
man of a monkey. A few smart, well-
learned quotations from eminent an
more will not convey the i-npreacim
that you are Conver.-uuil: with litera-
sure.

You are apt to become scorched ll:
the flames, :or y--ur literary cnmpan
ions will soon sound your shallow
depths, and your ignorance will ap-
pear more glaring than before. An
extensive library does not make 2:
lawyer, a sanctimonious face a minis
tor, an elaborate sign adoctor, or a
pairof wings an angle.

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Good Language.

Young people should acquire tbv
habit of correct speaking and writing
and abandon, as early as possible, any
use of slang words and phrases. Th»-
longtr you put this off‘, the more «it'll-

guege will be: and if the golden age 01
youth, the proper season for the ac-
quisilion of language, be passed in iti-
abuse. the unfortunate
most probably be doomed to talk slang
for life. You have merel to use the-
language which you reu , instead of
the slang which you hear, to form a
taste in agreement with the hes‘
speakers and poets in the country.

 

Miss Alcott, autborof “Little ‘We-
men” has written the following letter
to an ambitious young lady who ap-
plied to her for advice as to her liter-
ary career:

My Dear Miss—I can only reply t»-
yours as to other innumerable letter.-
of the same sort which I receive.
One must wait and work long and
patiently before success of any sort
comes, and talent must be in the tales
or they won’t sell. If people won’-
take the stories try something else
For a young woman with good health
and a brave heart, many ways of ea; n-
ing a living are open if she can pu':
her pride in her pocket, and take
whatever comes, no matter how hum-
ble the task may be; nurse, teacher,
companion, housekeeper, seamstress,
or errant, are all honest; trades, and
worth trying while waiting for tin».
more agreeable work. I tried them.
and after grabbing and grinding for
twenty years, made a"hit seemingly
by accident, but I could see how very
hard experience had helped, every
sacrifice enriched, and so believr
heartily in that sort of training for all.

I do not know any one in Wash
ington, and think any thing bettcr
than the places women hold in pub-
lic omces. If your stories are good
they will find a market; if they are

else. The gift is born with us anus
cannot be learned, as some think

advise or recommend except in this
general way “Hope and keep busy“ i-
my motto, for while one works des
pair can not get the upper hand.
Yours Truly,
L. M. A.

—G"range Bullntin.

for». ions. Fine clothes and costly ‘

cult the acquirement of correct lan- i

victim will »

not, stop writing and try something

Knowing nothing of you or your ca-
pabilities, it is impossible for me to

0gitvie‘s Handy Book.

have just received, which
more information of practical value

upwards.
of practical value for every depart-

eure our readers that they will find

The political,
graphical history alone, is worth

Of Useful Information. is the itle of
a modest little book of 12.5’ pages we
contains

than many books that cost from $2.00
It contains statistical tables

ment of human eifort, and we can as-

something of great value in this book.
Historical, and lilo-

 

,his nomination was insisted on by thu-

irepulllicgiii farmers, and that many
;democrat and greeback farmers Hisu:

‘desired his nomination and election;
;that this tiillliillti was so general that
'his nomination was a "foregone con-
;clusion." I thought that if it were true
,'that such a i":irincra'-1 Bro. Luce was

 about to be noiiiiiiated and elected Gov.
Tot .\Iiclii__;.m, why then thcinilleniuin '
ihad surely come and opened up busi-
lness in that State. While pondering
.' on these things I fell asleep and dreami-
,'ed that I was in a strange place. and‘

one said to me; "You! are in -—- City.
_Z\Iich, at——— Hotel, and these men in
1 the parlor are the bosses of the Repub-
ilican party of the State.

There were six or ciglit men in the
room seated about a table on which
iwere county (‘and township maps of
the State, so marked as to show the
‘republican votes fora series of years,
; as well as bottles, glasses, and boxes of
7 cigars.

Presently one who seemed to be
Chairman said: “(it-ntlemeii we are
herc for the purpose of making up a
State for the coming Republican con-
vention. Who shall we put up for (lov-
ernor will be the first question 1*” An-
other arose instantly and proposed the
name of Gen. -—- and went on at some
length to point out the qualifications
if the Geiieral for tho otlice. Nearly
all present S8t‘ill€(i to coincide with the
speaker; but one timid looking fellow,
who scarcely looked as though he be-
longed to the clique, arose and said in
a hesitating way, that one C. G. Luce
had been proposed foi Governor, and
that his nomination seemed to be de-
manded by republican farmers gener-
ally. and that the demand was backed
, by a strong support from the business
linterests of the State, and he thought
it well to canvass his claims to the
position in it.

Then another immediately took the
floor, and with tire in his eye, and iii-
dignation in his voice proceeded to de-
nounce the timid man for even sug-
gesting the name of Luce, and
went on to say that however well
Luce‘s honesty, education. and kiiowl-
edge of public affairs fitted him for
the otlice, every member of the ring
ought to know that he was not the man
to serve their purpose. “Why” said he,
"Luce has old fashioned notions of
right and wrong, professes to have a
conscience, and to be guided by its
teachings, lays great stress on what is
for the good of the people; with Luce
for Governor our occupation would be
gone. Suppose we succeed, (as we are
393;. to) in getting such measures
through the general assembly, as shall
put money into our pockets or patron-
age at our disposal. Lucc would sure-
ly veto. Yes sir, he would veto as
sure of fate, though there were mil-
lions in it for us. And besides this we
need a man with a B-ar'l, and Luce
hasn’t it, rif he has he wonldn’t use
it. I don’t say that he wouldn’t con-
tribute to what he would call legiti-
mate election expenses, but does any
man here believe that if in a clear con-
test, we found it neccessary to place a
few thousand where it would do the
most good, that Luce would give us a
“draw on me” for it). You all know
he would’nt; and I say, left armor Luce
and his farmer friends go to Hades, be-

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bound in handsome leatlierette, flexible-
covers, and will be sent by mail for 25
cents; or bound in silk cloth for 50
cents by J. S. OGILVIE & Co., Pub-
lishers, 31 Bose St:., New York.

 

No vote can be lost or thrown away
when it is cast against corrupt political
parties. or to express desire for a reform
in Government. Always vote for a
principle, though you have to vote
alone, and you can cherish the sweet
retiection that your vote is never lost.

fore we put him up for Governor.”

The third man arose and in an apolo-

getic manner stated, that he knew as
well as the man who had just taken
his seat, that Luce was not the man to
suit them, but that there was another
phase to the matter that they might do
well to consider.

“It is known to you, gentlemen, that

the democrats and greenback parties
have efte.ted a. fusion, and that they

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short tinie after this I saw that the!

ltcpiiblicaiis of Micliigaii had iiomi-,
natcd General Alger for governor,‘

The niaking of pliotogmplis in this
coiintry alone mnsiiiiie-3 _ve.i. l_v tbrty
tons ofsilver and three tons of gold.

and I wondered whether it was all it,
dream. The-ii in your issiie of A11;r.i
flotli, I found that the \'i.<iTo1: and}
the friends of Luce were iiidfgnaiit ati
the l’l‘Sllit. llut how iiidignant? Will
they smash the slate into i'ragni<,-iits
and thus teach the bosscs a lesson
they will heed for years, or will they
justify the estimate placed on them
by political inanagers? Alas, lfcar
the latter, and if so I am glad tin-y
have been Slllll)i)t d, and sincerely
hope they will get double doses of
the same tCl‘t‘21tIilL*Ilt. If farniers are
to be purilieul by lire, the sooner itis
kindled and the iiercer it burns, the
sooner the puritication will take place.
The farmers of Micliigaii net-d such a
man as Luce for governor, the poll-
t"cians lll3(‘(i Gcn.Alger. The fiil‘lll(‘I‘S
need such men as Woodman in (‘on-
gress, the politicians need such men as
Burrows, and the oftener their just
demands are ignored the sooner thc
time will come (and it will come)
when fariiicrs will ccase to tie them-
selves to any political party and vote
for their own intei‘cst.s and their own
friends. “So mote it be.” 1;.
Algona, Iowa, Sept. 15.
___.__j______._
Now This is Shouting.

Mr Editm-:—’ ‘lie members of our
Grange have used l.ileIl'g»"l'S()ii Liquid
Rubber Point with the nest of satisfac-
tion. In fact it is bcller 6/um it cluilm
to brqand looks bette' when spread than
itdoes on the sample card. Two coats
will give a body and a beautiful hard
gin.-Py finish that no other paint will.
and at an actual saving of our-half
what the otuer paints cost. We have
used the white and tinted paints and
fli.-d the m unquestionably the best we
have ever seen, as they will not crack
(r flake «ii. The Paint is already
mixed, anyone can apply it. One of
our members us--d it on the inside of
his hours"; ma li0‘l9 the painting him-
sefand says he saved $20 by using to
Iiigtusoil paint. and might have H;.'.'.'od
more if had had listzned to reason and
used it on the outside, instead of buy-
ing w:.ite lead and Hi], and having a
painter put it on. Another painted a
wagon and slv-igh with en. ire satisfac-
tion. To the public and patrons ev-
erywhere we would rec. mmend tin-
Ingersol Paint. Y u will find Mr.
Ingersoll a gentleman to deal with.
We have the honor to remain.

Fraternally Yours,
E. ALLEN, Mast,
R J. H0l’l{INS, Chaplain.

 

THE REAPER DEATH.

CARPENTER.—-Died August l9th, 1884.
The Honorable C. K. Carpenter at his resi-
dence in the town of Orion, Oakland county,

Brother Carpenter was an active worker

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first Master of Uri 11 Grange, No. 269 of P. of u

The Order in Oakland county owes much of 5
its present prosperity to the wise councils,
mature and sound judgment of Bro. Carpen-
ter. He has always been closely identifind
with the enterprises, and progress of Orion,
and of Oakland county. Holding many posi-
tions of honor and trust; in all of which he

a one mile radius
shops and stores, all within two minutes walk.

stiiti ii.

 

State of Michigan, in his .-39:1: year. I v

in the Grange, being a charter member. and ‘ -C

H. He has also been Master of the Detroit ‘I V
and Bay City district Council, and of Oakland I '7 __
Pomona Grange, a member of State Grange. i I

At a. Bargain.

A choice ITOPFSKIY consisting if House and
lot in aplea.-..nt rail road town. Four mails
per day; eight regular passenger trains; only
about two hours from Detroit,

Proptrty has grout well and cistern, good
5ide—walks, sh ubbery and fruit, neat fences-
ncatly located -..r.>und other choice reszdances.
Two good schools and three churches within
Library l)lI7iliiugS. hotels,

Also, I have an eighty acre northern wild
tract, locate-d Witlllli two miles -t‘ a rail road
As owner is I"'ll]<)\‘llig out of the
Stute——r'ngnging in I..il’Ll1lll£1 I am authorized
to sell akogether or separate one quarter down
balance, one, two and Lh-(30 years. or, it closed
in 30 days, will take bulk of hay in good cows
she’-p, it. good span of work horses and hat-
ness, wagon, reaper, mower, plows, or other
farm tools, it in good con-iition at fair rates.
This is a rare cl anco to secure a pleasant vil-
lage home with school advantages, with only
:1 small outlay of 1"!!! iv in iriey.

For particulars, aridress,

Gldilltllli l\l.CA RTWRIUHT,
P. O Box, 70:! LANSING, Mi-HE.

200 Meunoflamsforsahl

I have a complete assortment of one and
two years old Rams, consisting of REGIS-
TER ED VERMONT S'|‘()()K, person-
ally selected from leading flocks, and sired by
some at the most noted rams in that State.
Also, Michigan Registered and Grade
Stock of my own breeding.

I submit the following reasons why you
should come hereto buy, and invite everyone
to come and see for themselves if they are not
good and true ones.

Because I have the largest and finest party
in the State to select from, and you can find
just what you wrnt.

Because each rum will be priced on his
merits and never for more than he is worth.

Because they will be just as represented in
every particular.

Because they will be guaranteed stock get-
ters.

Because if shipped on order I guarantee
satisfaction.

Because I have a pedigree and transfer to
go with each registered animal to prove his
purity of blood.

Because, in order to sell so many, I must
and will sell far it wer than any breeder in the
State, quality considered.

Because you can sell again at 3. i‘IY',‘.{'..‘ profit
over my price.

Because nl\‘ stock is but pettml and prun-
percd and will not go back‘ on the punt...-.cr.

As an indication of what people think of my
stock and prices, I would say that at the two
fairs I attended last fall, I secured nearly half
of all the premiums awarded on fine wools,
and sold nine—tenths of all the rams sold on
the grounds; and this year my prices will be
30 to 50 per cent. lower than last.

200 Grade Ewes to Lot to IIc.~'p-.)n.\|lbie Purtlcs.
Correspondence invited, and visitors wel-
come whether they buy or not.

A. ‘V. ll.-I.YI)E.V,
Residence at llnniilt-in, 7 llllit-rt west. Decatur, Mich.

ISAIAH DILLON %
AND SONS,

jLEVI DILLON
( sun sous.

{ ‘  D%‘||.fl.0N~i}Bl.R0
T   NORMAL.lLL.

  

IMTORTERS AND BBEBDEE3 OF

NORMAN HORSES,

(Formerly of firm of E. Dillon Jr Co )

 
 

__ h V 4 Ad _ ' ‘ r ' _ , . exhibited that candid and mature judgme 1;,
article. Many thanks for flowers. Am PRETTY BY NIGH'1‘- J0 n Qumoy ams glglrzgaobl?-Egtzfigg Vfiflggljt’ ::3et::; which cflrliefi with it success. n NEW IMP0l}.T;L'.l1.'i3I840HN
i _ _ _ ' , ‘. . _ - , d 1- _ A;-' d'fi d't'nune -5, . ave
glad She h "3 ‘wt forgotten me A. P. Aunt Prue and (lousms.-—-How is Bé,1,_c(i§’,I;‘ti1lé]rg ti‘; t1t_’1‘:nII§;31§’;bli1IE‘*1(1)r%,)‘;§’erts(; votes to Spare, and what I fear is, that 0"” Grange ad pte mm “mm "pm ‘.133. ailiarlgl:  of choice animals.

sive of their great loss and of sympathy for
the friends of the deceased.
__._______.______

THE MARKETS.

this for a standard of education ‘.»’ I

copy from the Scientific American.
“According to Ruskin, an educated

man ought; to know these things : First,

the farmers who demand and desire
Luce’s nomination, will bolt the ticket
if we wholly ignore them, and vote for
Begole or for Prohibition, or refuse to

defeat Blaine; and according to Demo-
cratic papers, he is running merely to
defeat. Cleveland. Surely it is very-
wicked in Butler to undertake two"

 

STABLES AND HEADQUARTERS
LOCATED AT NORMAL,

O posite the Illinois Central and Chicago and
Aiton Depots. Street can run from the Lake

Bangs.

 

I would like to say 3. few words in
reqly to Miss Breezie’s attempt to de-
fend the most senseless of all fashions
—“Bangs."

To argue that it is no worse, or not
much worse, than some ofthe styles
exploded years ago, is certainly “faint
praise” and not much of it: but it is
all she or any one else can say in their
favor; and really the world ought to be
improving, not retrograding. Breezie
says that hangs are an improvement
in her individual appearance——that is
a purely personal matter, if she is un-
fortunately deformed or disfigured in
anyway that hangs can improve by
hiding the defect, I am truly sorry for
her, and would not say one word
against her or any one else to “make a
bad matter better,” but while so doing.
don’t, for pity sake, tryto persuade ev-
ery body else to do so too. It looks too
much like the old story of the fox who
lost his tail, and then wanted all his
friends to sacrifice theirs also. It is a
well known fact that a great many
fashions almost as silly as bangs, have
been the results of copying after the
efforts of some one to hide their defor-
mities. The“Grecian Band” for in-
Stance, and many others that might
be mentioned.

31113 88 far as Florence. Nightingale,
or any other wise and good woman,
whose very name brings thoughts and
purest hope for the welfare of all
mankind is concerned, the idea of their

where he is——that is to say, What sort
of a World he has got into; how large-
it is, what kind of creatures live in it
and how; What it is made of and what
may be made of it. Secondly, where.
he is going—tl1at is to say, what
chances or reports there are of any
other world besides this; what seems
to be the nature of that other world.
Thirdly, what he had best do under
the circumstances, that is to say, what
kind of faculties he possesses; what
are the present state and wants of
mankind; what is his place in society;
and what are the readiest means in
his power of attaining happiness and
diffusing it. The man who knows
these things and who has his will so
subdued in the learning of them that
he is ready to do what he knows he
ought, is an educated man; and the
man who knows them not is unedu-
cated, though  could talk all the
tongues of Babel."
HELEN MAR.

 

They were 10,444 schools provided
with savings banks in France, in 1879,
in which 224,000 children deposited.
The number has now risen to 22,484
schools and 442,021 depositors.

 

The schools of England. and _Wales
last year had 4,273,304 pupils, being an
increase of 162,646 over the previous
year.. The cost of _the schools was
£5,817,466. It is believed that under
the new code the number of scholars

will be increased by half a. million.

such big jobs at once.—Jolm Swinton’s

Paper.
____.______.____

people.

 

in five thousand acres each.

 

sway by the crash of 1873. is to-day one
of the wealthiest men of Pennsylvan-

delphia Press.

 

One of the most remarkable tele-

to London in twenty-three minutes,
The messag
over 13,398 miles of wire.

 

originated by Treasurer
about twenty years ago, now amounts
to about $250,000. The contributions
§_27xp)16O year aggregate from $4,000 to

, n

 

The smallest salary paidby the gov-
ernment to a postmaster last year was
nine cents; the amount being deter-
mined by the number of stamps can-
celed. This postmaster resides in a

town in North Carolina.

The Virginia legislature, during its
rec« nt session, passed flftv-five Acts
for the benefit of railroad corporations
-—to increase their powers and privil-
e--es, or to diminishitheir liabilities
and responsibilities to the State and

A TABLE has been lately published
showing that foreign persons and asso-
ciations, mostly English, own of the
United States, 20,647,000 acres of land
in large tracts, none of them less than?

Jay Cook, whose fortune was swept

ia. He has_ investments in iron, coal,
gold _and silver mines and railroads
reaching far into the millions.—Phi{a-

graphic feats on record was the recent
ilivery of a message from Melbourne

e went by land and sea

The “conscience fund” which was
Spinner

vote at all, and in either case we are
defeated—more than one-half our votes
are farmers, and a slight defection de-
feats us. IIa.dn’t we better have a
half a loaf than no bread P”

Then the first speaker arose to reply,
but was quite good-natured this time,
and said, "that the remarks of the gen-
tleman proved that he was not posted
in the history of the" State.” The far-
mers bolt the ticket,” he said. “The
idea is. preposterous,” (and he laughed)
“they have always had aslarge a pro-
portion of the voters as now, and they
havn’t had a governor for the last quar-
ter of acentury and did they ever bolt?
No sir. the farmers have been aptly
compared to the beaten, hound that
licks the hand that smitesihim, and we
have only to apply the party lash and
they will -all vote the ticket straight.
But if our timid friend _i's!,,fearful, we
can as a sop for the fa.rmers',"offer Luce
the secondiiilace on the ticket, he could

self I have no fear of a. bolt‘; -. Now -let
us finislfour sla.te“and set the machine

caucussés‘ are to look after, county‘con-
ventions_,to be controlled, and we are
to see toadt that such delegates‘ are
sent up to the State convention, ,''as
shall be as wax in ourhands. “Let_,the’
farmers go to?-‘the devil, and let usgo»
to work.”

That last remark

wakened me and
found I

had been dreaming. A

do us bu't,‘,l,itt1e harm there. For my— 96330

at work. We have much to do. Your 1, ca

- ni _ 35.110611): Rrausars, $8.50@4.50-

Grain and Provisions.

Lrvunroon. Sept. 30.—l:80 P. n(.—Wheat.
new spring. steady: tin. 7d.

Niw 1021, Sept. l0.—F'loi_ir. receipts 2'l.(XlJ
bbis.: steady. Wheat, receipts 27 (11) bus.;
opened a shade higher. subsequen ly rul-d
easier and declined X0960, moderate specu-
lative business: No. 1 white. nominal: 0. 2
red, Oct . B79£@88: Nov , 8996090: Dec. 91940
9196; Jan.. 98)§@93%; May 999£@997£. Oorn, re-
oeipts, 65,(XIJbu.; dull: mixed western, spot, 55

; futures. _ 49K@59%. Ont-. reoewfll.
041,!!!) bu.;easier: western, 8l®39. Pork, dnl ,
new menu. $l7.(I). Lard, heavy;s ren-
dered. 37.67%.

Dnnorr, Sept. ao.—12m l.—Whent., steady;
cash, 79% asked; Oct. 79%; Nov. 81; No. 2 red.
cash. 85%: Sept. 85%: Out. 84%: Nov- 845€:No.
3 red, 76% asked. Oorn, No. .2 cash 53%,. Oats.
light mixed 28%: No. 2 white 80%; No. 2, 27.

Flour. Wheat. com. on f1,
Bec'pts.......... 740 9.000 none 2.300
flhlptl .......... 250 35,200 none none

Tommo. Sept. 30.-—Whe-1. easy, active: No.
2 cash and 0136., 78; Nov. 80; Deo., 81%: No.2
soft, 84%: No. 3 do. 7656@78. ’

Omosoo, Se t.I0.—1:10 P. u.—Whe:|. ruled
wank during t a middle session but improved
toward one o'clock, closing at 7856 Oot.; 80%
Nov.; 82 Dec. Oats, lower 25% Sept.: 25%
Oct ; M Nov. Bye, easy, 545%. Barley. nom-
inal. Pork. steady; $l7.tI)0ct.;$ll.7n year;8l2.
(IJJMI. Lard, lower, $7.15 Sept. 61.17% NOV-

 

Groceries.
Nuw Yon, Sept. so.-—Bntter. firm; western.

om.o:.ao wnonsssnn rarons—'rIius anon 1'
Sugar, stand. A.... 6% Butter. dairy... 13@24

 

Dgra‘pniutled.. ex.oreamery. .. . 0%

n 3 93,, .. common......

0 etoe:u.)........95@40 Ens.freah....- 1 9

Wool,flne md'm.30@81 Basins. 11 pkd-81-W4-55
Livo Stock,

Onzosoo. Sept. 30.—I_Iogs - Peoelpts, 1.500:
ulow;10@il$c lower; light, 84.756550; rough
xgoking, 34,335.15: heavy packing nng‘ptli‘i.1:, 5

. ..
rec l,l(X); common natives and western: '
150250 owor: exports. $0 6,-85: ‘ *0
choice. $5306.80: common to r. (IIfl5.§0.
butchers. 250 lower; 82 ammo. 83-35@4.it‘.

Erie iii Western, and Indianapolis, Blooming-
ton, and Western de ots in Bloomiugtou,
direct to our stables in ormal. Address,
DILLON BB.OS., NORMAL, ILL.
15sepl2t

AGENTS WANTED
To sell the only authentic Life of

Gen. JOHN A. LOGAN.

The most vividly interesting book of the year, sell-
In by thousands where others sell by hundreds.
47% large pages, steel portrait, pic=ure of Loan!
lloussriung fac-siinile in colors of Fifteenth Corps
. gme Flag, Sent by mail on receipt ofone dollar.
Address THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,

loctlt WAHHIIIGTOI, D. O.

A MAN WANTED

To sell the Ainzaicsiv Hoiyu no hair Crctopznu, the
best book for farmers and stock-miners published.
Over 1,100 pages and 2,000 flue engravings. Worth
flu times its cost to any farmer Splendid induce-
ments to good men. Write for circulars and terms,
C. G. G. Paine, Detroit, Mich, 10ct5t

J‘. 3‘. English & Son,

Breeders of Thoroughbred and Grade
R E D PO LLE D

NORFOLK CATTLE,

SARANAC, MICE.
BED POLLED

  , BULL. Prince

Albert, 729 English herd l ook, of the Elmham
strain (extra milkers : gentle, vigorous, three

years old. Not wish to inbrood, will sell
for want of use.
J. M. KNAPP,
.1°ct21; ‘Bellcvue, M lch.

 WANTED '° °i:'..°‘.:.".'.. 

it
'“gfiJ:.|',1!-ircaiel In mg. n

8heep—reoeipta, 2,500; dulhoonimon to ‘good
323604.00. '

léseplt

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THE SBAHQ

Farm for Sale

ExcFj_TucE.

OVER ONE HUNDRED ACRES OF
CHOICE PRAIRIE LAND
Under good cultivation. Eight acres timber.
In good location. For particulars call on or
address 0- F. COLEMAN,
Real Estate Agent,
114 Scorn BUBDICK sr.,
KALAMAZOO, Micir.

2806 Lbs.Wg’t

of W0 OHIO IMPROVED
1 CH ESTER HOG

Send for d€.~'l‘l‘l|'Il.lI'Jl') of this

famous hrvvrl. Al.-:0 Fowls.

L. B.SILVER,Clcveland, 0.
l5sep6t

POLAND CHINAS!

Pine Grove Herd,
PORTER, CASS CO., contains over 100 head
of Pure-bred Poland China Swine; blood of
the Butlers, Shellabarger, Corwins, Com-
mander, Sambos, and U. S. 1195 stock, all
recorded or eligible to re "shy in Ohio Poland
China Record. Parties esiring stock can be
supplied at reasonable rates. Call on or
address, GIDEON HEBRON, Box 300,
lsep lyr Constantine, St. Joseph Ce., Mich

EACHERS WANTED——10PRINCIPA.LS
12 Assistants, and a number for Music,
Art, and Specialties. Application form mailed

for postage. SCHOOL SUPPLY BUREAU,
Chicago, Ill.
1ldul_v84 ly Mention tliisjourual.

I4€sh’s American Manual of

PARLIAMENTARY LAW

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

Circular of commendation free. Price by
maiipre§sid; cloth, 60 cents; leather tucks,
81.00. ostage stamps received

Address, J’. T. COBB, Schoclci-aft. or

GEO. T. FISI-I,
Bocmis-run, N: Y.

PATENTS.

LUCIUS 0. WEST, Solicitor of American
and Fore" Patents, and Counsellor in Patent
Causes. rade Marks, Copyrights, Assign
inents, Caveats, Mechanical and Patent Draw-
ing]. Circulars free. 106 E. Main st., Kala
mazoo, Mich. Branch ofiice, London, Eng.
Notary Public. aprlt!

DAIRY QUEEN CHURN.

The easiest Churn to run in existence, re-
 g but one-third the labor of any other

urn made. Worked by hand or treadle.
As easy to clean as a butter tray. A success
with wind-mill power. Giving the beat of
satisfaction. Every Churn guaranteed. Send
for Price List.

Dairy Queen Churn Co.,
Ksnuuzoo, Mien.

Prof. Kedzie’s Letter to the Ala.
bastine Company.
Aeaicunrunsr. Connor,

Lansing, April 19, 1884.

To M. B. Church, Manager:

Dnan Sis, —The Alabastine 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. Ksnzru,
Professor of Chemistry.

IMITATIONS sun mrsinciiiaiisrs.

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

A CHEAP, INFERIOR MANUFACTURED WALL
FINISH

canbs made so as to impose on the public
with less chance of detection when first used
than most
ANY KIND 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 Amsssrma Co.,

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

The Stale Agricultural College,

Lansing‘. 

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

FOUR YEARS
are required to complete the course embracing
Chemis , Mathematics. Botany, Zoology,
English anguage and Literature, and all
other branches of a college course except For»
eign Languages.

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

RATES.
Tuition free. Club Boarding.

CALENDAR.
For the year 1884 the terms begin as follows:
Seams '1‘ssis.' ..... .. .. . . . .... . .February 18

...:.-...September2

Examintion of candidates for advanced
standing will be held February 18. Candidates
ior admission, to College on September 2 may

resent themselves for examination either on
20, or September 2. at 9 A. is.
Flhr Catalogue apply to
R. G. BAIRD, Secretary.

   

German Horse and (low

POWDE RS.

This wder has been in use for many
ears. tis largely used by the farmers 01
enns lvania, and the Patrons of that State
have ht over 100,000 pounds through
their purllgiasing agents. Its composition is
our secret. The receipt is on every box and
5- und package. It is made by Dr. L. Ober-
hotuer’s Sons & Co., Phocnixville, Pa. It
keeps stock healthy and in good condition. It
helps to digest and assimilate the food.
Horseswill do more work, with less food
while using it. Cows will give more milk
and bein better condition. It keeps poultry
healthy, and increases the production of eggs
It is also of great value to them when molt-
ing. It is sold at the lowest wholesale rice
b B. E. JAMES, Knunzco, GEO. W.
in. b 00., 80 Woonssmeii Sn, Dursorr,
TEOS. MASON, 181 Warns Ban, Cnrcsso,
and ALBERT STEGEMAN, Annscu. Put
up in 60-lb. boxes (loose , price Emir! Clrrs

glut», 30-lb. boxes (of -lb. packages, Till

DEDERICICS HAY PRESSES.
 the customer
keeping the one
that suits

   
 

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Order on tel. adrlre fr lrcular nd location of
Western and Southern Siorehouses and Agents.
‘ P. K. DEDERICK do 00.. Albany. N. Y.

locIl0t<-ct

Lying Agents can't SELL and tell
the truth about Josss. Put *our
lips onsprspg: and sign ifyou c,

WAGON SCALES.
Beam Box. Taro _Beam. Freight
Paid. Free Price List. Every Size.
address JONES OP BINGEAXTON,

BINGEAM'I'0N.N. Y.

 

Humes 2 Texas  Arkansas!

Low prices, long credit. Rich agricultural and
§§'.§§3-‘fllidfiiiliidffiéiéi. ‘F’.-'3.°.‘.‘.‘,’.?.i’;§L’2'.°.;.‘i§.'e"z;.°.‘i3.°..'.’.
“’i'.'.’.‘.'.§.‘L’."$ mfi’f.‘,”.l'i‘i13.§..‘.°_“Tii‘:‘.‘T7...§.f.',i'.?a :‘;".§’.i’.‘.5.§
with all in{ormation.addi_'ess J, B. FRAWLEY, Pass.
‘AtI;(:eI;ICl11:ii;§;llifiHilB80ul’1 Pacific Ry- Co., 109 Clark

Michigan Female Seminary

Kalamazoo. Mich.

On Mount Holyoke plan. Location delightful.
Board and Tuition, $l72 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. II. SPRAGUE,
l5july6t I’rmci'pal.

Greenwood Stock Farm.

POLAND CHINA SWINE

For Bale at Beasonable 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 vfsél
me. B. G. BITELIK
Little Prairie Rondo, Cass Co., lch.
lbfebtf

KENT COUNTY

POMONA NURSERIES!

A GENERAL Assosrirssr or
NURSERY STOCK.
APPLE, PEAR, PLUM, PEACH.

CHERRIES, SMALL FRUITS
And GRAPEVINES.
Ornamental Trees and Ever-greens!

Prices to suit the times. Buy direct and save
money. Price lists free.

BUTTRICK & WATTERSON,

CASCADE, KENT C0., MICH.
l5auglonov1

ACME UREMTEB aut1BU'I'TER(}uULl-JR

A combina-
tion by which
all farmers can
1 make Cream-
er Butter as
we 1 as keep it
in a nice con-
dition until it
is marketed.

. It saves two-

. thirds the la-
bor. No ice is

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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 prlce list.

MGCALL & DUNCAN,

laprtz Kalamazoo, Mich.

lllUllli MEN llll] W[lMlll

Can save money by attending the

IIALANIAZOO

Business College.

A Fall term opens Sept. 1. Send for J oumal.

 

PRESIDENT,
1VIich.

Kalamazoo, -

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catalogue in 6 brilliant colors,

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also b iantly Jlunilnated poster in 5 colors.

 

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ros THE

Gream Gathering System,
v’’‘ T113 CmiAPEs'r AND
' . BEs'_r. Has the largest
cooling surface. It is the
most successful cream
raiser and gives the

best satisfaction of any
can now in use. Patent
illltowed. Send for price
is .

McCall & Duncan

Kalamazoo, l!ilch.,
blanufiicturers and dealers
in Creamery supplies,

Portable and A lcultnn

ral. Semi for c rculara.
  Wuurl, uuuer & muse.
 m Eaton, N. Y.

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and 206 Subordinate Granges use no other paint.
the paint, and circulars for the whole Grange.
Street, New iork, and receive book, "Everyone their own l’:iinter ”

OOTO BER 1, 1884

MANUFACTURER

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0 Liquid llllllllfll Paint,

ONLY PAINT KNOWN
TO SCTENCE

that will successfully rc-
sist the action of

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FUMES FROM com.
GAS, &c.,

and therefore the

‘ GHEAPEST PAINT
N  for

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TELEGRAPH, on

STEAMBOAT
PAINTING.

* . _ FINE Z3; USHES.
AT FACTORY PRICES.

We pay the freight and sell you at the lowest Wholesale factory prices, the some as it you came to the
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Grange expendes for a lifetimclily purl,-hasino youiigpjirltsl It lash?ulfiiioutigoiiinlldiiltjehzlle more ulllu -saved the"
would be cheapest at twice the price per galltdn.” I T y ° mu my 0 ex palm’ and
Secretary, and C. L. \Vliit.ney, formerly Lecturer of Michigan State Gr:in;_u-, have used and approved this paint

Masters and Secretaries supplied with (:.'l.l‘(lS of specimens oi‘

Brother
Brother Thomas was loruicrly 9. pziinter. liI‘Otll¢3l‘S J, '1‘. Cobb,

All consumers should address Pzitrons’ l’:Lint VVorks, 76 Fulton

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1/LB. CHURCH “IBEDET'l‘E” 56.,

GRAND RAPIDS, DIICI-I.,

——sor.n MANUFACTURERS or-—

 65  

.99

bed at all. While Tm: Bnnmrs folds into as
comfortable to lie upon as the most expensive
cords, form the most perfect spring bed.
in a few minutes, or easily tightened, should it

to add suficient clothing.

The “BEDETTE” is a.

within the reach of all.

36 inches wide by 6} feet long, 83.60. 30 inch

istohno

per lb.

Patented June 13, 1882.

This invention supplies a long-felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put away
in a small space when not in use, and yet make a roomy, comfortable bed when wanted. Of
the many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a com-
fortable night’s rest can be bad. They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in fact no

It is a perfect spring bed, soft and easy, without springs or mattress.
it is a complete bed, without the addition of anything; for cold weather it is only necessary

    

small space, and is as light as anything can be

made for durability. When set up it furnishes a bed long enough for the largest man, and is as

bed.

It is so constructed that the patent sides, regulated by the patent adjustable tension
The canvas covering is not tacked to the frame,
as on all cots, but is made adjustable, so that it can be taken off and put on again by any one

become loose, at any time, from stretching.
For warm weather

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, a perfect bed, and the price is

——PR10E:—

es wide by 6; feet long. 33.00. 27 inches wide

by 4} feet long (cover nor adjustable) 82.50.
For Sale by Furniture Dealers Elves-ywherec

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AGENT MICH. STATE GRANGE. l  =-— _— THE _ 6
THOMAS MASON, as » E1 '11
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Respectfully Solicits Consignments of E I 3 H
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GRASS suns, RAW runs, moss, PELTS, TALLOW me. E5 E ' '
BONDED AG-I-INT OI‘ THE N. W. PRODUCE EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION, .1 T‘: Q "3 E
Chartered Feb. 13th, 1877. '-* : 5.. E‘ -/7 .1‘ .4
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L3. Port Huron. (‘-35 All 7504; 8l0 rm 41t2T.'Le.cnicago_____ _9'fo7i ":fi’i"E 8302: 520»: ;~_, 5* _,. ’/1 i‘* A 3: so 11 5 ,4 5 E" C c C o
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.. ,,,m,_-M .. 755 .. 9,0 .. 933 .. 535 .. , “ South Bend_ 13o '- 644 H 1210 AM '“" ‘ ."—. 1:: '- E ~
“ Holly " sso " 953 U 1011 H 620 u p “ Gmllgerq --- 1 50 “ -l """ " '-* U
A,.‘D,mmd n 94,, u ",2-_v .. 110,; u 705 u ‘  Cassepelia _ 721 “ ll 51 " l V, T _ .0’ L:
Lv.Durand___“._. 945 -- 1'\:m‘- 1045 H 7 20 7- - .. §‘;‘,‘fo°§,‘c1:§,;,-- . _' ', 7‘ 5-? :5 H ,.,- —.~’ 1; :
" Lansing“--- 1100 “ 1132 “ 1150 “ 828 “ | u Vichbm ‘ 232. u 81,, l( 146 u Pass‘g‘r- r:' ,., ,“_’,‘ 7, : ;_‘. U“ ;. ;_. 5
“ Charlotte--- 1140 -‘ 12 co m 12 22 up eos “ 1A, B,,,,,., C,.‘“7,; 400 u 3-,»; u 14., -« Lx Sun. 0. >-’ *-* v-4 2 Q : ‘4 I i "-
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., _ .Durand_____ 725 H H.211" 7, .— Q 7, _; 1: A Q‘ r-* V-‘ 7; :: /- ,_ 3‘; 5*» A. _c_
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-- Pontiac, H 845 “ i535 H 5, 5; ,4 F F,‘ j 5% 2 <1 , c t... »— —‘-< _. .2. Q 1" ,
N sgmwen Detroit. “ 960 “ 625 “ U T‘ ; v’ 1-! 1‘ >— ""‘ '5 "" : ,1‘ —- /V‘ V‘
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“ Valpurais-0.“ Flint 815 “ l 600 ‘* 5 lfl "" : L21  > 7 {-1 Fl Z
« B,edesdale.: l , Lap€eT::' 858 " ca-3 " I-2 :3 '3 Z A  J  '3
“ c,RI&P Cros 648 H i 715 “ 1 Imluy City__ 925 N 11153“ 1 934 u : O ‘1 *1 ‘ ;:
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Westward, 10:05 A. 11., except Sunday. , Easter“ S"‘“‘d‘“'d T‘me~ rd (3    H   . IQ
Nos. 1,7 and s will stop at Durand 20 minutes for’ N08» 3. W16. dafly. All other I-rams daily. except 8 - O 07- -
meals. I Sunday. pi L) nose no)
No. 4 will stop at Battle Creek 20 minutes for meals, ‘ Mf£yel:Bé1h:allga§ea§a1rsP:r3 rI1iil1lrt(1:Jro1;)%1:|-:)viltth¢;§iI:s<t:hg:igg‘o; d H In C”.
No. 1 will stop at Valparaiso 20 minutes for meals. ngw Buy City, Hamilton, Nmglm’, Fans’ fiufimm New 0 Jl W !j i . i _ \ E '___I %.
0 Nos. 3 and 6 have a Dining Car attached between York,Toronto, Montreal and Boston. .._—| I 3 .    -  6   Q)
liicago and Battl C k. v - ~ ___. ‘ 1 ‘ " I ‘ " _ l ’
Where no time i:s1.roe:«n at the stations trains will Dmmg can on 3 and 6 West Battle creek‘ g -J 4 ‘J ‘ —‘l ‘J "‘ -1 E -q %
not stop, . Giro. B. Rnvs, 8. B. Ouuur, (3 (J :73
1‘ Trains do not stop for passengers except on signal. ‘ Trafllc Manager. General Manager h I I-' x
All Chicago & Grand Trunk trains are run by Cen- E. P. Ksssr, Agent. Schoolcralt Mich ‘.3
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We are the 0r|gmal_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, Hosierv. Gloves’
Underwear, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware. Sewing Machines’
Hardware. Tinware. Guns, Revolvers, Fishing Tackle. Crockery:
Harness. S_addIes._ Tru_nks, Groceries. and In fact nearly Every-
thing that IS rpquired :_n the House or on the farm.

Our Buyer s Guide IS issued In March and September of each
year and Will be sent free to any address u on receipt of postage.

0ents._ It Is a_ book of 210 pages. 8%x 1% inches. with over

3.300 _IllllSll‘3l|0ll8 of articles we handle. also prices and

descriptions of all the goods we. sell. Invaluable as a book of
reference. Let us hear from you.

Respectfully,
MONTGOMERY WARD & 00.,

227 Jr. 229 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill.

rsmuo s. MANNING,

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