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“THE FARMER IS OF MORE CONSEQUEJVCE THAN THE FARM, AND SBOUL_D BE FIRST IMPROVED.”

VOLUME l0,—NO. 21.
WHOLE N0. l97.

SCHOOLCRAFT, MICH., NOVEMBER 1, 1884.

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Srnwsan-—W. SIMS, ............. . .Kansas.
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Executive committee-

D. WYATT AIKEN, ..... ..South Carolina.
E. D. BINGHAM ................... ..0hio.
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Officers Michigan state Grange.

M.-0. G. LUCE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Gilead.
0.—A. N. WOODBUFF, ...... ..Watervliet.
L.Io.——JOHN HOLBROOK, . . . . . . ..Lansing.
S.——8. A. TOOKER, . . . . . . . . . .Grand Ledge.
A; S.—A. B. CLARK, . . . . .  . . . . ..Morrice.
c.——r. B. WILLARD ....... ..White Pigeon.
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G. K.—ELIJAH BARTLETT, .... . .Dryden.
0nnns.- HRS. M. T. COLE, ..... .-Pal1nyra.
Poaozr .—MRS. LYDIA DRAKE, Plainwell.
Fr.oiu—MRS. D. H. STONE ............ ..
L. A. S.—MB.S. A. B. CLARK .... ..Mori-ice.

Executive committee-

T308. 1‘. MOORE. ch'n...-  ----Asirimy
H. D, PLATT, .................. ..Yps1.lantL
JOHN PORTER, .......... ..Grand Rapids.
THOMAS nuns, ........ ..Bertien Center.
.1. Q. A. BURBINGTON. . . . . . . . . . -Tuscolm
wn. BATTEBLEE, ..........Birmingham.
J. o. asmsnnnr. .......... ..Traverse City.
0. G. LUCE, J. T. cons, ..... ..Ex-oflic10-

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

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

Special Lecturers.

Thos. I‘. Moore, ...... ..Adrisn, Lenswee Go.
Stark Lampman, ...... ..'I‘ustin, Osceola Co.
E. L. Stevens, ...... . .Perrv, Shiawassee Co.
Jason Woodman, . . . .Paw Paw VanBu1-en Co
A. N. Woodruif, .... . .Waterv1iet, Berrien 00:

Mr. Perry Mayo,..Battle Creek, Calhoun Co.
Hrs. Perry Mayo,. .Battle Creek, Calhoun Go.

THE flavor and odor of the plants
upon which a. cow feeds are distinctly
noticeable in the milk.

 

For Fertilizing _Sali, _ Midi‘!->88 Lflrkill 45
Patrick, Midland City, Michigan.

diiiiilliiil Eiiiilmeil.

BETTER THAN GOLD.

Better than grandeur, better than gold,
Than rank and titles 21 thousand fold,

Is a healthy body and a mind at ease
And simple pleasures that always please;
A heart that can feel for another’s woe,
With sympathies large enough to enfold
All men as brothers, is better than gold.

Better than gold is a conscience clear.
Though toiling for bread in an humble
sphere,

Doubly blessed with content and health,
Untried by the lusts and cares of wealth;
Lowly living and lofty thought

Adorn and ennoble a poor man's cat.

For mind and mortals in nature’s plan
Are the genuine tests of 8. gentleman.

Better than gold is the sweet repose

Of the sons of toil when the labors close,
Better than gold is the poor man’s sleep,

And the balm that drops on his slumbeis deep;
Bring sleeping draughts on the downy bed,
Where luxury pillows its aching head,

The toiler simple opiate deems

A shorter route to the land of dreams.

Better than gold is a thinking mind,
That in the realm of books can find

A treasure surpassing Australian ore,
And live with the great and good of yore,
The sage/s lore and the poet's lay,

The glories of empires passed away;

The world's great dream will thus unfold
And yield a pleasure better than gold.

Better than gold is a. peaceful home

Where all the fireside characters come.

The shrine of love, the heaven of life,
Hallowed by mother, or sister, or wife;
However humble the home may be,

Or tried with sorrow by Heaven's decree,
The blessings that never were bought or sold
And centre there are better than gold.

, —Fatlier Ryan

 
 

The Model Farm Horse.

()urs is an age of intense progression
and that progression is articularly
intensified in America. \_ e are a na-
tion of workers. Neither night or
day, neither youth or old age, neither
poverty or influence circumscribes
our unceasing energy to labor. It
has been very well said that very few
Americans know how to live, for they
have only one portion in life. namely,
all work and no play. We are always
in a hurry to eat, in order that we may
hurry again to our never finished work.
lVork robs us of digestion and de-
prives us of recuperative sleep. The
old—fashioned methods of farming were
too slow, so that we have called into
requisition the combined energies of
steam and machinery to hasten the la-
bors of seedtime and harvest. When,
therefore, intelligent attention is paid
to the breeding of the model American
farm horse, two elements will be ab-
solutely prerequisites. We mean speed
and power. He must be able to haul
enormous burdens, and he must be
ambitious to walk off with them at a.
brisk pace that would astonish the
old-time farmers, whose horses imi-
tate, in their movements. the pausing
motion of yoked oxen. If the horse is
a fast walker he will necessarily prove
to be a brisk trotter, that is he will
move with energy and eagerness up to
the limit of his trotting speed. In or-
der to possess power it is unnecessary
to encumber him with the unwieldly
frame and the tremendous weight of
the heavy draft horse. Seventeen or
eighteen hands in height, and two
thousand pounds in weight, means
slow, elephantine tread, not in harmo-
ny with the rush and push of Ameri-
can civilization. All these classes of
ponderous llOl'S€S, like the N«)1‘maii,
the Clydesdale, and the English draft
horse, that have been so uumerously
imported to this country, will answer
valuable purposes by judicious cross-
ing. They will becomc necessary fac-
tors in the evolution of the American
farm horse. They will contribute
height and weight, and the inherited
ambition to overcome gre at burdens.
But unassisted by our own strains of
blood, they could never produce the
model farm horse. Their weight and
slowness of motion would never bring
them into general use for long jour-
neys or transportation, where quick
transit is a desicleratum.—Nat2'o7ial
Live-Stock Jounm.-f, Chicago.

 

BATIUNL4 the udder and teats of a
cow freely with crude petroleum,
using a. pint of the oil and a half hour
in its application, is reported by a
farmer as having been perfectly suc-
cessful in reducing a case of “caked
bag,” which had resisted all other ap-
plications or remedies. The applica-
tion was made at night and the next
morning the swe1ling_was gone and
the udder soft and pliable. The reme-
dy is simple and is worthy of trial.
There is a good deal of virtue in crude
petroleum as an application for swell-
ings, bruises, or sprains, as IS well
known. What was sold by _dru_gg1sts
as “Seneca oil” before the sinking of
oil wells, was simply crude petroleum
gathered from the surface of springs
in what has since become the oil re-
gions.

 

THERE is no certain rule about the
use of plaster on clover._ In some s1t_u-
ations, a. bushel will yield a l;on;1n
others, it does no more good than so
much road dust. It should be tried in
all localities where fertilizers are
needed.

Lice on Swine.

The breeders of high bred swine are
greatly annoyed by the presence of
lice. At this season of the year they
are often astonished by the sudden
appearing of the vermin on pigs that
have the best of care. Grease is the
common Ieme iy, but as the dust set
ties on the skin and givei a most un-
tidy appearance, I sought a remedy
free from this objection. I have. for
some years used carbolic acid and but-
termilk, and found it eflicient, cleanly
and rather beneficial to the hair and
skin. A teaspoonful of either crude
or crystal carbolic acid. thoroughly
stirred and then sprinkled upon the
swine from a sprinkling pot or with
a whisp broom, will destroy the ver-
min as completely as grease, coal oil
or tobacco water, with none of their
bad effects.

Pure coal oil should never be used,
as it often causes sores and pealing of
the skin. I have found it mixed with
lard, half-and-half, free from this ob-
jection. If the application of pure
coal oil should make the skin sore, a
thorough rubbing with lard of the
parts afl-cted will give relief—-if done
soon. Last summer I applied pure py-
rethrum, a teaspoonfui to ag.-lion of
water, and found it killed the vermin
almost instantly, and delighted the
pigs as the day was warm. The skin
and hair was not affected. This rem-
edy can be applied more easily than
any other, as all well kept pigs are
tame enough to stand still during the
application from asprinkling pot, and
not many will stand to have grease
and oil applied as it should be with-
out being shut into a close pen.——L. N.
Bonham in Bulletin.

 

Vegetables for Horses.

Every horse owner should provide a
certain amount of vegetables to feed
during winter as regulators. Pota-
toes and beets are both good, and per-
haps the cheapest to raise or purchase.
Itis my practice to feed five or six
quarts of these vegetables twice a
week. I prepare them as follows:

Cut the roots into pieces not more
than an inch thick, put them into a
pail and add sufficient wheat bran to
fill the pail full, then moisten until
the whole can be worked into a mess
by means of a stick. A horse will eat
this with a relish and thrive wonder
fully. The feed is cheaper than all
clear grain, that is, with two feeds a
week of the mash less grain will be
riquired to take the animal through
the winter than if not given, and the
horse will be in much better health
and spirits.

I have seen onions recommended as
a remedy for distemper. A writer in
an Eastern paper says that the
quickest way to cure epizootic is to
give these vegetables. In proof the
case of a horse is cited, which had a
very severe attack of the diseaae, and
his owner placed halfadczen onions
in the crib with his regular food. 'l‘he
horse ate three of the onions immedi-
ately, and by the time he had swal-
lowed them began to cough and sneeze
and prance about, appearing quite
indignant and refusing to touch the
remaining onions. For full five min-
utes he ran at the nose, but he has
not had a cough, a sneeze, nor any
symptoms of the epizooiic since.-
Tribune and Farrner.

 

Leaves as a Fertilizer.

The value of fallen leaves as a fer-
tilizing agent is greatly uuder-esti-
mated ’I‘ne farmer laments over
worn out fields and meadows, while
in his woodland is a thick layer of
half decayed leaves which, if added
to his decomposed heap and judi-
. iously distributed‘ would aid greatly
in restoring his farm to the condition
of new land. The gardener finds
rotted leaves one of his best allies, for
they can be used unsparingly with ex-
cellent reaulis where animal manurcs
would produce disease or too rank
growth of vines and foliage.

One of the main secrets of the flo-
rist’s success is the use of leaf-mold
Without leaf—mold and clean sand the
greenhouse would become a “barren
i-;ieality.” Mixed with soil for pot
plants, in the porportion of one ihird,
leaf mold produces wondeiful effects,
particularly upon roses.

Rake up the leaves when they fall,
make them into a heap in a conven-
ient place, where they can be kept
wet all winter, and put brush : r
earth on top to keep them from being
blown away. Perhaps by next spring,
the bottom leaves will be decayed suf-
ficiently for use. but not until next
fall or the spring following will the
whole pile be decomposed. The older
and more thoroughly rotten the mold
the better.

Rotten wood and chip dirt are also
efficacious fertilizers, though not equal
to leaf-mold for pots, and not always
asreadily obtained. It is surprising
that those living near the woods do
not make a more general use of rotted
wood and leaf-mold. Several wagon
loads of each mixed and kept damp
ayear or two in a heap, would be a
veritable treasure to one desiring to
raise luxuriant flowers and large
juicy vegetables.——Tri'bune and Far-
mer.

Farm Briefs.

A_TOl’-DRESSING of fine stable man-
ure in winter is a great benefit to lawns
and grass plots.

Now is the most favorable time in
the year for collecting all sorts of veg-
etable refuse and muck for winter use
lll yards and stables.

F01: removing the seed from broom-
corn take a board and make a comb of
it by szivving; into one end of it to make
teeth. which should be sharpened at
the ends.

Tm-: wood—pile should not be allowed
to get low now, for in cold weather
the amount of wood on h2u1d,qu:ilit_\',
etc., husa wonderful effect upon the
patience of the ll()llS€\\'lf(‘.

Wo1:KIN<: oxen should ll2l\L' u separ-
ate feeding place, and :1 dueziud regular
supply of food. There Sll()l1l(ll)(‘ no op-
portunity of their iiitcrfering with oth-
er cattle, or being interfered with.

LATE corn that may not ripcn before
frost should be cut up mid ted in bulk.
All kinds of stock are fond of it. and
will fatten rapidly on it. For early
pork and the feeding of milch cows it
is particularly valuable.

Conx gives strength to the horse.
’l‘he1'ef0re, where his work continues
the same, give a little more com as the
weather becomes colder. liut if the
work falls off, as in winter, the feed of
corn may be decreased.

C())l)ION earth is a good deodorizer,
and only those who live in crowded
cities have any use for chlorides, cur-
bonates, and other bi-chemicals.

IN a season like the present one,
meadows have a very good autumn
g1'o_wth. Home farmers cut this for
their young stock, and it is valuable for
that purpose but the practice is a bad
one for the_me_adow; it is much better
to pasture it lightly, and leave an af-
teritnzith for the protection of the grass
roo s.

Cour. ashes spread under gooseberry
and currav‘ bushes, to the depth of
three or ff l inches, are said to be a
pi'eventi\’e'of the attacks of the cat-
erpillar which strips the foliage from
these shrubs. They are also found it
useful remedy against Currant, peach
and apple tree borers. Now is a good
time to secure a stock for spring use.

Tun very best and easiest way for
sheep raiscrs to depress the industry
to the lowest notch is to offer all the
sheep for sale because of temporary low
prices for wool.

SECURE a supply of stable bedding
before the wet and cold weather sets
in. b'wa'mp grass. leaves, sawdust, etc.,
are good. Do not use sawdust if other
material can be obtained easily, as it is
no advantage to the manure pile until
it IS decomposed,:md years are required
I0 accomplish tl1at.——Tr2‘bune and Far-
mer.

 

Pasturing Meadows in Autumn.

There is a strong temptation to pass-
ture meadows in the fall, particularly
if there is a luxurious growth of af-
termath. Animals intended for the
butcher or those unusually thin would
thrive so nicely upon this rich, juicy
grass. save a large amount of grain,
and thus increase his profits, thinks the
farmer. A superficialreasoning seems
to establish this theory. But the gain
is not  great as he supposes. The
injury to the meadow will become
apparent the next haying season. If
the meadow is to be broken up the fol-
lowing spring, then pasture as long as
the stock can maintain itself in a
thriving condition. The droppings
will compensate the soil ior the ele-
ments removed in the grass, particu-
larly if the stock is mature and fed
daily a ration of grain.

But meadows from which it crop of
hay is to be removed the following
season, are seriously injured by close
cropping. The roots are broken and
exposeil to the sun, and much of the
grass pulled up by the roots. Grass,
like wheat is better by having a. good
protection from the biting frosts and
keen blasts of winter. A liberal
growth of &l.fl’.€‘l‘Ill2ll'.ll will furiiisli this
protection and keep the roots in ii vig-
orous condition, will start them into
action, whereas, if the ground is bare
lsteiii the fall, it will be weeks before
any signs of life appear, and before the
grass becomes matted and high enough
to prevent the evaporation of moisture,
the sun has baked the ground to al-
most the hardness of a brick, after
which thereis but little if any growth.
—Ame7'z'can Farmer.

 

of the beet
sugar works zit Alvarado, Cal., writes
to the editor of The Sugar Beet, that
the farmers in the vicinity have just
become educated to the business of
best raising, and have found out that
it is their most profitable crop. The
dry weather at planting time prevented
many from planting, but those who did
plant good beets, proved that the crop
requires less moisture than the cereals,
as the latter proved nearly a failure.
More them three times as large it crop
is expected the present season, judging
by the extent of acreage planted. Ex-
periments in feeding the pulp were very
satisfactory, milk and beef both being
produced, and sold in market with ex-
cellent results. The business of feed-
will be doubled this year. The net
profits of the campaign of last season
was $21,000. the factory running only
ninety days.

THE superintendent

A New Use For Pest Moss.

The Peat Mo: 5, r r Sphagnum, which
abounds in bogs, wortlebeiry swamps,
and mi rasses in the .\'o1'tho1'n States.
is now utiliz‘-l a.-' an excellent article
for bedding in stables, as well as for
packing plants in commercial nurser-
ie.-'. In the «lden time, almost the
only use made of sphagnum was to
calk the chi 1' press, when the months
of making ci<l<i' came around. Straw
was much pleuiier then than now, and
there was not much demand 13 r it in
cities or villages. No one dreamed
that the day would eve 1' come when
worthless moss. which Ci‘-ens unob-
se.-rve<l over cold swamps and bogs, as
they fill up the vegetable decay from
their bowl rs, wouid eve 1' have any
commercial value. That period has
come, and the peat moss I r ip is hence
forth to be addul to the valuable re-
sources of many a f- rm, and gives
value to land. who re fr ms, i‘-rushes and
aquatic plants grow. The peat moss
gath. 1' :1, dried in the sun as tboi'.)ugh-
ly as wt» dry bay for the barn, may
be baled like hay or .~"raw for the gen-
eral market, or ston d f r iedding for
home-. um». It is Cluinittl for the com-
mercial sr lcle, that it is (}lli.*ttp( 1- than
and sure-ru-r to straw, or any min 1'
building, on account of its mougy,
elastic, absorbing, and disini’-.cting
qualities. it absorbs nine times its
own weight of moisture, retains the
ammonia from the urine of lheauimals
bedded with it, and is therrf-ix: ex-
cu (lingly valuable as a manure. These
claims may be a little exasgerated.
We have used for years sun dried
salt marsh sods, cut in six or eight
inch cubes for bedding, and though,
them hsri to beat. But these are on-
ly available for shore farmers. The
peat moss is much more widely dis-
irlbuied, and is within reach ofa mul-
titude if farmers, either upon their
own or till‘ 1' neighbor's premisas

We rr far too penurious in the use
ofbulil.ngi1' al s(vrben:.-‘ in the stable.
it pays to stable horses, working oxen
and mil.-.ti cows at night, the year
round. The ordinary method of keep-
ing cov s in an open yard at nighi,cr
in the pasture,  wasteful, as one will
discover by visiting the barn of a
thrifty farmer who stables his cows
and oxen, and uses dried peat or other
ai .-tr-rbenis, to be dropped into the barn
collar beneath when saturated. The
accumulation of this sheltered fertili-
Zr 1' is very large in the course of a pas-
turing season, and its value is seen in
the rank growth of the crops where it
is applied. We welcome any good
article of bedding; -specially one so
widely distributed and so easily pro-
cured as peat moss. In the district
where it grows, the experiment of
using it can not be very costly, and
it may lead '0 valuable results. Even
f it should fail at first (0 prove a com-
mercial crop, it could hardly fail to
have a large home market. It would
u-rtainly save straw, which has a
reidy sale at remunerative prices in
the vicinity of large towns and cities
and within easy reach of sea-port.-' and
river lai dings. The more that grows
upon the surface of tile peat an «i bog
meadow, is more easily gathered than
the peat and muck that lie under-
neath. It makes a cleaner and softer
bed. keeps the cattle drier, and probab-
ly retains the ammonia as well or
better. Experiment with peat moss.
—-American Agriculturist.

 

The Poztltrg World says that the
difference between an egg laid by a
plump, healthy hen, fed with good
fresh food daily, and an egg laid by a
thin poorly-fed hen. is as great as the
diiference between good beef and poor.
A fowl fed on garbage and weak slops,
with very little grain of any kind, may
lay eggs to be sure, but when eggs are
broken to be used for cakes, pies, etc.,
they will spread in it weak, watery
way over your dish, or look :1 milky
white, instead of having a rich, slight-
ly yellow tinge. A “rich egg" retains
its shade, as far as possible, and yields
to the beating of a knife or spoon with
more resistance, and gives you the con-
viction that you are really beating
something thicker than water or dilut-
ed milk.

Honduras raises a great deal of fruit.
Six s’eimers are run icgularly be
tween that place and New Orleans,
and bring bananas and cocoanuts
without end. The cocoanuts bring
the grower$40a thousand, and it is
said that ti 9 great demand for them is
from spice manufacturers, who break.
and then grind _them up. shells and
all, for use in adulteratirg.

 

A WESTERN farmer advises tying
the 4 one rf « eed corn together by the
husks :1" d hanging in some place
wl or a the grain can be saturated with
coal smose Thecdor. he say.-:, will
repel squiriels and worms from eating
the C011], '1‘resee(l comes up quicker
the planis grow more vigr rausly, and
the corn ri[e"s earlier than from seed
not so f1'0a’ed.

ON an average, only six out of six-
teen of the children of the United
States are at school every day in the
educational year. Four of the remain-
ing ten go occasionally. Six grow up
in ignorance. This state o_ things
must be improved, or three-eights of
the next generation will be blockheads
or crimina1s.——The Om-rent.

$iiolasi's Eiiiilmiil.

.l.‘[‘.Coss, - -

Scnoorcnur.

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TO THE AGRICULTURISTS.

We have given of late,as we thought,
some well coiisfilererl opinions upon
the subject of independent voting,
and since our last issue have seen
something of the enthusiam of polit-
ical parties.

From our standpoint of nonpartis-
anship, we find ourselves philosophiz-
ing upon the childishuess of men,
whose convictions sewn the product
of their zeal, and the cold fact which
has been somewhere well stated, that if
from the plat forms of the two domi-
nant parties the abuse of the other
were striken out-—and what was left
ofeach was submitted to the examin-
ation of the average citizen, he would
be unable to determine how to lable
the remains. Some of our friends
may think we are likely to have a
hobby, and perhaps they are right.

But the Presidential election of
1884 will soon be behind us. Before
another VISITOR reaches you the
violence of this political storm will
have passed away, the wagers paid,
all our people will have accepted the
results, and the country will be saved.
No matter what the result, this last
KIOSK’. fact will come to the victors
and we shall known that one-half our
voting po Julatlon can go to bed with
a feeling of confidence and security.

But we have not yet reached that
point. Election day intervenes, and
we shall all be on hand to take part in
the great periodical salvation which
comes to this country once in four
years. Now do the farmers as a
class take any part in this work?
Of course they do. They
rush around and do more huirahing
than any other class, long enough, for
the very good reason there are so
many more of them. Yes, more of
them than of all the professions, all the
mechanics, all the tradesmen, and all
business men of every kind, complex-
ion, and name. Now what have they
got to show as a class. A magnificent
country, thousands of splendid farms
with fine buildings and hundreds of
thousands of the other sort. A world-
wide reputation for push and produc-
tion. Not that production which
comes of careful, studied, systematic
work, but that which f)ll0WS the push
ofunirammeled energy. Nor is this
all. We have an Agricultural Depart-
ment organized and run largely in
the interest of politicians who have
used it" annually to send their
political farmer friends for ser-
vice rendereda few gzircels of seeds
paid for by the general government.
Then this department 1. fcer a fight ge' 5
an appropriation of a few thousand
dollars annually while other depart-
ments are supported by millions.
Nor is this all. Out of the -100 mem-
bers if Congress this great cl;i=:-: of
over 25,000,000 of people have about
a dozen representatives from this
class, in this legislative body, and this
dozen in proportion to the whole pop-
ulation itjust about fairly represents
the interest taken by Congress
in the agricultural affairs of this coun-
try.

Then again after much opposition
there have been established a few ag-
ricultural collegcs that have re-
ceived agrudged support from State
governments.

In the State Legislatures we fre-
quently have quite a show of farmers
but it has never entered the heads of
two-thirds of these legislative gentle-
men that the farmers of the country

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'1‘ tutal class sustains totlie government

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, I-‘daft,-’1llel1Cl(-‘S these duties seem plain.

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l\'OYEMBEll 1 1884

Isa class had received less govern-
mental consideration than any other
3.

That the farmers themselves are to
blame for this state of things is of

ourneh. gely true.

A_legitiinate work of the Grange is
to lraw attention to‘ this state of
thing 5, ‘fix the blame whereit belongs :
and endeavor toarouse an ambition,
stinzniate an energy, give definite in-
form ation. and help this most impor-
‘t'-"arir class to a better ‘understanding
of Their duties and their delinquen-

‘, '1? .121 tliose who comprehend their?
\\3- have had our iiglit for recogni-ii
fin“. ‘:1 acandid-ate for the executive;
oi‘rl;-~ and have been defeated. Our 
re;iie:s belong to all political parties, ,
and jive shall not venture to advise,
sp,-3:-ifically what to do in the matter of ,
supporting any :iAid~iNi«liial candidate!
But we do say this. ‘
as i class in this State vw have had no ,

Do not forget that .

_ Iconside-ration shown us by the men!
j vrh-:c run the machine.

l)o not forget

A NEW 0RGANlZATl0N—lTS NECESSITY.

There is a popular impression that
when and where laws are made the
law makers pi';,n'ide‘,the machinery for
their enforcen;ent;_and we assume that
this the popular belief is correct. But
it seems to be a. ‘fact that the army of
civil otficers who are supposed to be
charged with this duty take quite an-
other view of the situation, and recog-__
nize no obligation‘ on their part nut 11
some citizen or citizens outside of this
vast army, which is spread out over
the country everywhere, comes for-
ward with a complaint setting forth
in exact and specific terms, when,
where, how, and by whom a law has
been violated. And this has come to
be a chronic condition of things No
inatte1‘l1owgros's the violation, _how
much inliividii'als or families may suf-
fer the oilicialsbf nearly every com-
munity staiidlistlessly by. wilting for

' :1. compulsoryinandate from aiiun0fi'i-
l cial citizen.

All efforts to enter the field of poll-
tics and elect men to ofiice who will

, at once see that each and every law in

V ni-.iv,'a.ct in strict accord with their own

:..;p.

 because. he finds his name there, when

_ _ honett, or otherwise unworthy, is a di-

A‘; tip for this rigid adherence to the de-

. ,j.,,j. gnterest in the government, and in
“ "interests half as well as the politician
,' looks after What he takes to be the in-

.:,, terest of his party, and continues to do
i.» mfg; ten years, agriculture will be

-= ithere are such,‘a every fair minded

Wtiiral State to befiwitlibut a represen-‘

'--“generation is1a=reiiection upon the in-
V‘. ‘tefligence of that class‘, and is a clear

,,- dlependeiit voter will leave his impress
.. -on the ballot he casts.

 iioleuce that this will be the case.

" V,  x'i_ore iinlependent;- intelligent recogni-

 

' ,5‘.-"¢m;ntry has reached a point where it
.,,:'c’emmands the respect of the‘ great

 

.%~fi’.iZe(l as the best citizens, no matter
 what their political ‘aiflliations may be
'_  while_ some ‘ofthese best citizens

 . are talking -Q aiidd voting proliibition,

‘Wpolitical parties. To the prohibitionist
‘  _i',é shall o_iIer_,ii,o,advice, fofthese have
‘ mainly 1eft,piie,'q;. the other .political
-“ "parties quitezreoeh.tl-y and will stick to
’ - their new allegiano'é,,‘aiid‘that will; cer-

 ~* We advise that however strong '5
 'i:i.a.zi’s party attachment‘ may be, that
. —‘ so far respect‘ th

  
 
  

 “every man’who'ls‘ addicted "to the use
3 , saloon influence toyaelvance his po-

,_t_.icL:ets allliquor glrinking candidates,
lcii-fiipel suchtogo to-the small majori-

,  be-ashamed of yourself for this‘?

that the indepen'dent' voters not only ,
hold the balance of power but in the I
‘intelligent exercise of that right they 
‘convictions. , )
in these days when thediffereiice be- .
‘ftween thedoniinant parties solargely j
,.¢.;m.s,ists in the “ins and the cuts" and 1
.-«L139 .:-ampaign, as far as these parties
are concerned is an expensive and des-
pc-r.iie struggle for placf‘. POWGT alld
 2.- it not wise tocoolly look over
thu field and resolve to vote for the
, ‘m .-;om'p‘eteivt_.‘-representative men
"thiii we find oii”tl‘u'- -tickets before us
 than for tho slvwight ticket Off
.-omr party as we find it simply because ,

1

‘it  ceur party ticket. We lose coniiq

9 .

‘- in tlw genuiiieness of d malls
cal wisdom and good common
who COI1llLl(‘lll21_\' declares that he

  
  
 
  

 

‘se

,; ,al'.x iys votes 21 straight ticket.

1-“  a votiiig-citizen of any party, or
"a pirtiz in of any name to vote for a
niiciate he finds on his ticket, simply

he knows him to be incompetent, dis-
,i~e..-: violation oi‘ business principles
and practical common sense, 311d 1135
about the consistency of a temperance.
"mar. voting for a saloon keeper. 2
We assert, no good defense can be set

n ‘mslfié of the orthodox politician.

lwhen farmers come to recognize the '

f,;.;z mat they have a direct and spec-

it.-: ;idminis.tration_. and look after those

represented by a cabinet oilicer, and
g,he.;-5 wi1l_be at least one‘ men),-
he: of
fi-«:»m'th<> agricultural class, and per-
haps a-‘few from ,otl,iei',States. Every
tmwughtfiil, intelligent farmer (and

,<':iti:en knows that fora rich agricul-

taeive in Congress, from that largest
and most important class, not for a
yes: or two,.but from generation to

‘ verdict of guilty pronounced upon their
business habits.
ii‘. this State there seems to be a very
ge.iiera.l uncertainty  to the outcome
,._of the campziign, and it is everywhere
confidently expected that the in-

we look -forward with some con-

We
desire it as an evidence of more
thoughtful consideration, more Icaru-
at efforts to secure. good oilicers, and

."'t,iou of the relation ‘v'_vli'ic_h“the agricul-
oi‘ the state and nation.

1' iii-: temperance sentiment of this

body of the people, known and [recog-

,»mor-.-., are adhering to the ‘great rival

 cover the_ "recommendation
which we make to members of the
old parties, which is this. '

  

_e .widespre'ad tem-
jperanee sentiihen ‘ _« the country, as to
“strike from "his: t1'ck_'et ’tll‘e name of
of intoxicating liquor or who uses the

litieai for'tune‘s. ,,'Str_i_,ke from ..your

ties, if elected at all, and you will

act

 

After all that. we have said about
Hone J 0'1‘1‘INGl-S, we have in this
lnber less than half a page. A
whole page has been our ambition, but
I afraid there isn’c send enoughlin all
the Patrons of Michigan to meet this

Congress from Michigan‘

which their oilicial duty is involved
is enforced, have" and will prove una-
vailing. \Vith the growth of a tem-
perance sentiment in this country there
has come ademand for the enforcement
of law as it relates to the sale of liq-
uor. And on account of the prevail-
iing apathy on the part of ofiicials, it
!has been found necessary to organize
i so much of that part of a community
was are law’ abiding, into a compact
 force for tliesole purpose of enforcing
E in a legal and constitutional manner
 existing statutes. This has been done
1 in an effective manner in the great
city of Chicago, and the success of the
1.-iiort there, has incited communities
elsewhere to adopt the plan, and it
‘ seems to us the only real business
: method in siglit.j()i course, it is all
;wrong that this sort of a “vigilance
? committee" organization has become a
, necessity, but it is a plain case that as
glong as oillcials in a State will not
i enforce existing State laws, as federal
oiiicers ‘enforce federal laws. the only
recourse for the protection of society
lies in voluntary organization for the
enforcement of law. Within the last
six months several such local organiza-
tions have been formed in this State
and for the purpose of deriving the ad-
vantages which come of co~operation,
representatives from seven of these
‘; Citizen’s Law and Order Leagues, met
in the city of Grand Rapids,-' on the 21st
day of October, and orgnuizeda Citi-
zen’s League for the State. This work
has no connection - with politics.
Those who have taken -hold of-.it are
» not asking for more law - but simply
that the laws of Michigan in force be
ecccutcd, “Only that and nothing
, more.” 
l’.-muons are not always ’wide-awake
to the advantages which they enjoy, or
rather ‘which are within their reach,
either in a social educational or finan-
cial way, by being:l’ati‘ons.'“”In fact we
think it safetoi sayu that one-half the
members of the-Order do not get‘ out of
it what there is ih"it for them,’ and
irom this half, the most of tl1e~Jcpm-
plaining comes. This half, or many of
them were induced to join the ‘Order
in the hope that they could make or
save some money by becoming‘l’atrons,
and the opportunity is within ‘their
’ reach, but scarcely any of them avail
‘ themselves of such opportunity,and the
few who do, take hold of the matter in
such an apprehensive - ‘gingerly way,
that with the first failure ‘their ‘ confi-
dence all vanishes. If they treated
their farming affairs as they treat their
Grange opportunities the sheriff would
have a chance to, sell them out within
three years,,,,.,We are Well aware that
many so-called Grange stores are iiota
success, for, the reason they are started
and run by men wh_o,with no experience,
are not careful and judicious. In these
days of sharp competition, 1 the .-ri'ght_
men must manage this business or fail-
ure will follow-; and the right man is
not always selected to run the business.
But there are places where goods‘ are
sold and orders are filled, - at as low ‘a

these places are withiinthe . reachbf
any and every Patron; and a ' little
business sense andizbusiness Sagacity
on the part of thosesinterested, is all
that is wanting to seourezs to Patrons
the expected financial .benefits of the
Order. But this ~sta'te'm‘entr.goes for
nothing, with those-who.-wait for some
one else to do all :.-Gr_angIe~;-w.ork‘ for
-them. These Patrons‘ will_.;§t.i.l1,»wait
-and some Of-,bh8I!1'2.Wlll: continue to
grumble. , VII-.'i» -.- ,; b,,.,.,.i 1‘ ‘
‘The followiii Gr‘ '
neither the rep%rts 4fii%e'sIlJi:l:‘efiisl)‘ialit. 41:11‘
fa nr March: Nos. 83;5:i14;'uIi5,' 239,,-265,
‘.376, 285, 310, 321, 5S0,’80(SjI673'),':649z T ose
,.........i .9.

.. not having 1-‘Bp0rfv6d.;'f01'vlSfli§1j,<J!h, bu for

iil'QVi0llS .quarters,, are;
s:;, 157,‘ 176, 200, 230, 23 z4i,“2;ap,
zsa, 310, 321, 331, 380, -ms, * 461‘, J 464,; 480,
 :3, 530, 580, 1596, 607, 62_5i'fi36, 638, '6-18,

Tho,s,e_de1inqu_ent,f l;;gl,}1,l16al‘,82 18,
2 Iv    65,: 681  ,89v  91': 
1->6,110,1:;o, 140,1.-,'»1’,‘ 18 1172, I80, 194,
221, 230, 141, 245, 248;"-1'51, case; 262, . 275,‘
2.»-1, 286, 2 7.,295,-301,. 304.1339, 355,! 3' .
:i-'9. 390, -.93, 4Q=§...41.7...421,.9.4.f.2s'>.:1.3- 15?,
44:; 4~:18.,461',464,466, 2130,1309, 51 1.31.‘,
no, 56-1, 566,568,’690,-666,‘6l60. -‘“ '-’I ’

 

Iiv England the workman has the
li:s1:Iien on his emp1oyer’s effects for
the wages he has earned and can col-
! at his pay without an hour’s delay,
u bile in Republican America he can
I---. put off and gouged and often swin-
«bed out of his earnings altogether,
with no little eifort to do him justice.

demand. I am discourage l.

.-»..msm ___,_,.. M

—N. -Y. Ihtth.

. impunity, we may safely say very

rate as purchasers can.-«ask for, arid."

' IAN AND IYS ENFORCEMENT.

Michigan‘ has biennial meetings of
her Legislature for the purpose of en-
acting, amending and repealing her
laws, and this has been repeated for
nearly half a century until we have
now left “Howells compilation"

of the laws in force in two volumes ag-
gregating nearly 2400 pages. The manu-
facture of all these laws with the repairs
bestowed upon them from time to
time, was paid for by people of the
State at the rate of $3.00 per day to the
manufacturers whether‘ - at work or
play, at the State Capitol or at home,
and is generally considered, at least
by the manufacturers themselves as
rather small pay. Besides the pay roll
of these‘ gentlemen, there c up .2; alarge
bill for contingent expenses, that
is, legitimately chargeable to the

cost of inaniifacturiiig laws for
the benefit and goveriinient of
the people of this gnat :State.

We are not writing this article to criti-
cise or iind fault with this legislation
or its cost, but rather to call attention
tothc more important fact that as a
people we are so ambitious to push
ahead, t‘lia_t iii the lllillll We forget to
look behind and carefully study the re-
sults wliicli have followed ourlabors.

We refer to this matter at this time,
simply to direct attention to chapter
71. of the compiled laws of the State,
which we print below in obedience to
:1 request made by resolution of the
(‘itizens League cf the State.

On all hands it is recognized that the
inanui'acture and sale of liquor is a
matter of ,\'utional and State legisla-
tion, and so far as we know, but it very
small per cent of the people Ubjo-ct to
somesort of legislation on this subject.

National Iizivvs relating to the manu-
ikiciuijc and sale of liquor, arc, we be-
lieve vcry generally enforced. But
how is _i,ta‘-ooiit State laws? liead this
«chapter, ,_'of Micliigan laws and hear
the universal answer?

That nearly every one of the 2-! sec-
tions of this chapter are not only vio-
lated in every county in the State but
that some of these sections are violated
in nearly every town in the State every
day. And yet we profess to be a law
abiding people—whicl1 is true as ap-
plied to the great majority——that ma-
jority, which feels a genuine interest
in good goveriimeiit, good morals
and good citizenship. And this large
class so interested, are so intent on
their own private aiiiirs that they al-
low this meager minority in their midst
to continue to violatelaws which have,

cost so much to enact, and the
violation of which, direct_l_v and
indirectly add largely t their

taxes’, ‘and to‘ the p:iii1iei',%aiii and
crime‘ of the country. With this law
on our statute books our most earnest
and active opponents of the truillc
are working night and day to get more
restrictive legislation.
We are not going to find fault with
any honest endeavor to suppress the
evils of intemperance, and we are
free to say that we believe
the efforts of the probibitionists of
Michigan, have been piompted by the
best of motives,-—and more, that by
their efforts and to the‘ labors
of‘ the’ many thousands of tem-
peranc‘e’ men and women scat-
iered throughout the land are we iii-
debted for the growth of temperance
sentiiiient in this county within the
last 25 years. . 
‘ ‘-Brit‘, ‘has not the time arrived when
’vve‘:shou1d c tll a halt,» iaud take time to
-‘moi. over the field. and come to a clear
iii'1tlei'standing of .~. our exact situation
to-‘day. In doing so we. find this law
upon our statute books. We also iind
an army of oilicials scatterd all over
the State;-'ivhose duty it is to enforce
every provision of a violated law. in-
stead of (liscliargiiig this oilicial, duty,
this gre-.tt‘armyare» waiting for the law
to execute itself, and its violators pro-_-
secute their business, if not with entire

nearly so. To look at this matter in
_Zl,l),l1SlDeSS way, what is the right thing
to do? Sh-all our energies be spent in
the noble work of trying to get more
law, or shall we turn our attention to
the enforcement of what law we have ?

The application of business principles
to this enquiry, can give us but one an-
swer—enforce rigidly the laws we
have, andif more are wanted we can
get them for the asking.

Parsons of Michigan—D. n’t be so
intensely partisan next Tuesday as to
forget that you are fai'mers—that as
such your; firstprivilege as a citizen is
t,o..\*ote-.f-rom.,a. higher standpoint of
.-duty than-.the claims of party as pre-
sented by politicians. Keep in mind
the relation thelgreatbody of the ag-
ricultural class. ..bear to the administra-
tion of the State and National govern-
ments and express your convictions by
your votes. -

‘Tina Patrons of Otsego, Allegan
county have made an arrangement
with Norton & Lester, merchants of
.mhat~;;p1ace. All parties interested
should read their advertising notice
on the seventh page of this paper.
give these gentlemen your support if
gvoll believe in co-operation, and co-
operation isa fundamental principle
of our Order.

ONE of our readers writes asking
for a poem entitled “Bessie and I,"
(‘aii any one send it to us or tell her
where she may find it? We will pub-
llsh it if suitable for the VISITOR when

THE Executive Committee of the‘
State of Michigan met in answer to,
the callof its chairman at the Hudson ;
House, in the city of Lansing, on the ‘
evening of the 21st of Oszober. The;
session was continued [if an. hour or 1
two the !ollow_ing.morning, and there 
being no appealosses to consid.-r the i
work of the sesslan was easily dis-;
posed of. 
A committee wssappointed tomake 3
arrangements with the hotels, to set
cure a hall and look after transporter I
tion. 
The hotels will chage the same:
rates as last year and the hall of the‘
house of representatives is at our ser- 
vice. Railroad arrangements will bej
published in a later issue. ‘
l'r has been a long time since we:
have been favored with acommuiiica—:
tion from Gov. Session of lonia. We?
hope every farmer and every voter
who gets this paper will read with:
care this very sensible article from a,
thoroughly ‘practical, patriotic man, ,
who kl10'WS ‘our public men. and the_

clerk, servant, agent, or emplc-ye, sell

zzive, or fUl‘.1’lBh. or cause to be sold, ;

given, or furnished any intoxicating.

-pirituous, malt, brewed, or fermented ,
liquors, cider, or wine, or any liquor‘

or beverage, any part of which is in-
Ioxicating, spirituous, malt, brewed,
or fermented, to any minor under the
age of eighteen years, and every pc:

-on who shall himself, or by his clerk,
<ei-vent, agent, or cxiploye. permit or
wllow, any such liquor, cider. wine or

beverage, to be sold, furnished, or:

given to, or to be drunk by any such

minor, in his or her store, shop, sa- 1
loon, restaurant. bar~room, or place of.

business,where such liquors or bever-
ages are kept, for .ished, or sold, shall
be liable for both actual and exam

plary damages therefor, to the father, ‘

another, guardian, or master, or any
person standing in place of a parent,

to such a minor, in such sum, not less .
f ban fifty dollars in each case, as the

~-ourt orjur_,' shall determine: except a
nlrugglsi upon the written request of a ‘

parent, guardian, or master of such mi-

.-ior, _or upon the written pre-,-
~lCl'lptl0ll and requfist of 9. reru-
.ar practicing p sician. P 'o- ,
rider! that the physician mak-

ing such prescription shall not be
she druggist him;-ie f, nor a member of
Ibe firm of drugglsts selling such
of such

liquors, nor an employs

maiiagem'ei,it"'of all pa'rti'es. jI\'o man §_
more earnestly deprecates the apathy g
of farmers than he, or sees the need of 
this class acting for tlieiuselves in the .
field of politics. Advice from such a
source should‘ be heeded. It cannot"
be heeded too soon. ’

Adullsration and Sale of Spiriiuous and ,
intoxicating Liquors.
Cl-IA1’i‘l£R L.\'.\'I.
7/ ‘J‘_’¢i0 SEC1‘L')l\' 1 TIM pcoplr; of
thc Sale of lllichigan enact, That if3
any person shall adulterate any spir-
none or alcoholic liquors used or in-
tended for drink, by mixing the same '
in the manufxcture or prepaiu ion;
thereof, or bv process of rectifying, or E

substance, or liquid, which is poison-
ous or injurious to health, except as '
herelnafier provided, or if any person ,'
shall sell, or oil‘.-r to sell any 3
wine, or spiritous, or alcoholic .
liquors. or shall import into this State ,
any wine or spirituous or intoxicat lug
liquors, and sell or offer for sale such 
liquors, knowing the same to be adu1- ,
verated, or shall sell or offer to sell any 1
spirituous or intoxicating liquors from ‘-
any barrel, cask, or other vessel con- ,
mining the same, and not branded as
hereinaf.er provided, he shall be deem _
ed guilty of a misdemeanor and .
u; on conviction thereofshall be fined ‘
in any sum not exceeding five hun- 1
dred dolln ‘s, not less than ii .'ty dol '
lars, :l -.d shall be imprisoned in the-
jeil of the county. not more than six- 3
ty nor less than ten ’:i;s. ;
'2 2261. SEC. 2. It shall be the f
duty of every perro or persons en-.
gaged in the manufa .-ture and sale of I
malt, spirituous, or alcoholic liquors, 3
or in rectifying or pro ring the same §
in any way to brand .11 each barrel, ,
cazk or other vessel containing thef
same, the name or names of the per- _
syn, company or firm manufacturing,
rectifying. or preparing the same, and ,
also these words, “Pure, and without i
drugs or poison.” 
'2 2:2. SEC 3. No person: shall
sell at wholesale or retail any ale, rum,
wine, or other malt or spirituous liq- 3
iiors from any barrel, cask, or vessel, 1
unless the same shall have been brand- 3
ed and mu ked ziaaforesaid. ' 5
 2263. SEC. -1. If any barrel, cask,?
or other vessel containing any drug-,
god or poisoned liquor shall be found 3
in the possession of any wholesale or g
retail dealer in liquors, or in the pos-

otberwise, with any deleterious drug, 5 5-5,,“ of ‘j[,‘,,./,,-.,/,-,,,, ,.,,aU,«,_

I "1t°x“’ated pe“’°"- nor ‘° ‘my p"“’°“ : in such suit or prosecution shall be

I any of the liquors mentioned in sec

«lrugglst or firm. But if any druggieti

-shall furnish, sell, or give to any such
minor any such liquor more than once
upon the same written prescription or
-iILL\1l- request, he shall be liable in
amag s therefor as aforesaid, and to
be ex ent aforesaid in each case.
tails!» Sec. 2. The damages in all
-ase.- provided for in this act together
with costs of suit shall be recoverable

Ill action of trespass on the case be-3’

fore any court of competentjurisdic-
tion.

~ue 811418 theref-.r. But recovery by
one ofsaid parties shall be a bar to the
suit brought by the other.
s.ii.i~: ()l-‘ .\l‘ll‘.l'l‘L'0US AND IN’i‘U.\'l(.‘A’l‘
ING Ll(1l'\)ltS TU MINORS, 1)iu;.\'Ki:N
1’EB.SUl\'S, ANI) IIABITUAI. Dl‘.L'Nl\'.\RIi~
7/_2-_'TU Sec. 1. Thu poop-’c of I/ac ,
That it shall '
EOL be lawful for any person except ‘-
-iruggists, to sell, furnish to, or give
any spirituous, malt, brewed,
serniented or vinous liquors, or any
beverage, liquor, or liquids contain-.
iug any spirit;-us, malt, brewed, ;
fermented or vinous liquors without.
first having executed and deliver :d to
uhe county treasurer, of the county .
In which such business is proposed to ‘.
we prosecuted, or carried on, the bond l
required by section nine of this act. '
"«.;£::7l Sec. :3. Itshall not be lawful I
for any person (except druggists. who 1

shall be governed by section thirteen §
of this act ) to sell, furnish to, or give, }
-iny spiritous, malt, brewed, ferment I

3 ed, or vinous liquors, or any beverage, .

liquor. or liquids, containing any
-pirituous, malt, brewed, ferme..ted,or
vinous liquor to any minor, to any

in the habit of getting intoxicated, nor
to any person whose husband, Wile,
parent, child, guardian, or employer,
«ball forbid such selling, furnishing, 5
urgiving. The fact ofse1iing,givlng, or E
furnishing any of said liquors to any

minor, or to any intoxicated
:person, or to any person in the,
habit of getting intoxicated, shal‘
be a prinicn fncic presumption

of an intent, on the part of the person
-0 selling, giving, or furnishing such
liquor, to violate -he law.-

‘//,:3ZT'_’. Sec. 3. It shall not be law-
fui for any person to keep any billiard,
nool, or card table, or to allow the
«time to be kept in any room where

H0118 one and two of this act are, or
may be sold or kept for sale, nor
in any adjoining room in the same

And in any case where par- .
,' ents shall be entitled to such dumag- -‘
~ » s, either the futher or the mother may

I
-plrituous, malt, brewed, fermented
vr vinous liquors, or who shall be
z,-irunk or intoxicated in any hotel,
-avern. inn, or place of pubiic busi-
iess, or in any assemblage of people
; collected together in any place for any
1 purposes or in any s" rest, al ey, lane,
, vnghway, railway, or street car, or in
3 any other public place, shall, on con-
: viction thereof, be punished by a fine
-vi‘ .en dollars, and the costs of prose-
cution, or imprisonment in the com-
inonjail of the county not less than
sen days, and not exceeding twenty
days, or by both such file and impris-
nnuient in the discretion of the court.
42:277. SEC. 3. Vvbenever c-m-
p'aint shall be made by any person on
math befire any justice of the peace in
, iny county, orany municipal or po-
, Eice court. of any village or city. that
, any person is found intoxicited or
‘las been intoxicated in any hotel,
iwtore, public building, street, alley,
.' uighway. or other place, it shall be the
'll1l.y of such justice, municipal or
police court to is-.u1ea suhpoe u .ocon1-
p-l the attendance of such person
so found intoxicated, or who has ii-an
iutox casted, as aforesaid, to appear be-
fxre thej-isiice or court issuing the
same, to ti-stli'_, in regard to the per-
.-.on or persons of whom, and the time
when,and the place where, and the
rinannerlii which the liquor produc-
ing his intoxlcation was procured;
and if such person. when subpm iaed
shall neglect, or refuse to obey such
writ, the said justice or court who
issued the same shall have the 5 me
power and authority to compel the
utiendance of the person so subpoen-
ied and [0 enforce obedience to such
writ as in other civil cases
;whenever the person so subpoenaed
shall appear before thejiistice, munici-
(281 or pol-.ce court, to testify as afore-
said, he shall be requirrd to snszver
on oath the following qus.-stion.-1, to-
i wit: \Vhen, where, and of whom did
you procure, obtain or receive the
liquor hr beverage, the drinking or
wing of which has been the cause of
the iiitoxioatioii mentioned in the
complaint? And if such pelB0l'.l shall
. refuse to answer filly an-.l fairly such
questions on oath, he shall be punish-
vi! and dealt with in the same man-
ner as for in contempt of court as in
other cases. If it shall appear

‘from the testimony of such person

vbat any of the offenses .-1,:eci1i:d in
vhis act have been committed in this
h'lu‘.e, such justice or court, before
uvmom such testimony is given, shall
inukeatrue l'<.'(:0l‘d oi the same and
cause it to be subscribed by such wit-
ne.-s; and the said testimony or
answers, when subscribed as afore-
z»-aid, shall be deemed and taken to be
z-utficient complaint to 8llI.h0l'iZ‘:l the
issuing ofa waarrant to arrest any

i ‘IQYSOD 01' persons W110 lllfly appear

from said complaint to be guilty of
having violated any of the provisions
of this act. Any person arrested on a
warrant issued pursuant to the provis-
iuis of this section shall be brought
nefore the justice or court lei-ulag the
-aine, and all su sequent proceedings

governed by and eubj ct to the pro-
visions of this act and the rules of,
law applicable thereto: .l’rom'dcdr
that the person so testifying under
the p -..vlsions ofthis section shall not
be held or prose,-uted for the intoxi-
cation concerning which such testi-
mony shall be given.

Q2272). Sec. 10 It shall be the duty
of village and city marshals, and in
cities having no marshall. of the chief
of police, or some subordinate ap-
pointed by such chief, to visit
at least once in each week all
plaiii-1 within their rt--ipeetive jur-
isdictions where any of said liquors
:1 re sold or kept, to learn if any of the

'pf()VlSl0I1S of this act have been,

or are being viola ed. and whenever
any of the officers above mentioned
shall learn of a violation of an of

session of any person holding himself
out as such a. dealer, it shall
be deemed primaffaoic evidence of
the violation of the provisions of this
act. 7 -

it-uildlng; and it shall not be lawiul
1 Dr any person to engage in 1! .-y game
'of billiards, pool, cards, dice, or any
!other game of chance, in any room

1

3 where any of the liquor: af resaid are,

: or may be sold or kept for sale, nor in .

'4 2264. SE(‘."=‘-S. Any person who T any adjoining room,
shall put into an barrel, cask, or 52273. Sec. 4.
other VOSBG1. b1‘Bl.1 Gd 01‘ mflfked. 118 _ ful for any person to sell, ofl'er to sell,
required by this act. any liquors i furnish, give, or have in his pCs:<:.s-
drugged or adulterated as aforesaid, ‘g ion any of the liqinrs mentioned in
or who shall seil'~oroifer for sile any [ sections one and iw of this act, in
such liquors for the purpose and with - any concert hall, vaiety show, theat-
the iDt6Dl'«0fd6C9iViflg 971)’ P318011 in 'er, or other place of 8lX1US€ll]('.‘.l',, nor
the sale thereof, shall be deemed lfl any 1' HJIIIS in any buildingopc Jug
guilty of an aitcmpt to practice a 5 into where any such concert hall, va-
fraud, and upon convic.lon thereof? iiety show, theater, or other place of

It shall not be law- »

“be” lawful for any person, by himself,

shall be -imprisoned in
prison not more than one y(:l . ,
'4. 2:265 SEC 6.. The pI0'Jl:l0l1S of,
this act shzii not be .< > construed as
to prevent druggists, physicians. and .
persons engaged in the mechanical
arts from adulterating liquors for med- 1
ical and,m_echanical purposes. I
'0. 2266. SEC. 7. Prosecutions for a
violation or any of the provisions of
this act may be commenced by infor-
matlon in-’ the circuit court of any
county, by the prosecuting attorney
of the county in which the ofiense
shall be committed. which in
formation shall be ' filed with the
proce sdings in any previous examina-
tion before any justice of the peace.
and the proceedings after the tiling
of the information, or information,
and proceedings as aforesaid, shall be
the same as in other criminal cases.

 2267. SEC‘. 1. The People of the
State of Michigan enact, That it-shall
not be lawful for any person _by him-
self, his clerk or agent, to permit any
student in attendance” at any public
or private institution of learning in
this State, or any minor to play at
cards, dice, billiards, or any game of
chance, in any part of anybullding,
in which spirituous liquors or intoxi-
eating drinks are sold; norshall it

"his clerk or agent, to-sell or give to
any student in attendance _-at any
public or private institution of learn-
in in this State, or "any, min‘o'r ’ any
sp rituous orintoxicatini drinks, ex-
cept‘ when phesoribed by-tamegular
physician for -3 medicinal purposes:
and any up ,n “who shall offind
against eithei"of_’tiie foregoing" fro-
visions of this act,‘in"-additiohrto-the
penalties now provided; by la«=w,:'shisil

e. deemed. to hug (been guil_t_.yr_ ofs
-misdemeanor, mpg with conviction
thereof, shall be nod‘ wenty dollars"
and the costs of prosecution, and in
default of payment thereof, shall be
imprisoned in the county in 5 for sixty
days.
SALE TO Minons UNDER EIGHTIIN
YEARS or non.

@2268-Section l.—T}iepcople of the
State of Michigan enact. That every

0

o

sent.

 

person who she’! by him-oi’, or by any

the State i amusement may be.

E22174 Sec. 5. A11 saloons, restaurants,
bars, in taverns or elsewhere, and all

. other places where any of the liquors

mentioned in sections one and two of
this act, are, or may be sold, or kept
for sale, either at wholesale or retail,
shall be closed on the first day of the
week c.-mmonly called Sunday, on all
election days, on all legal holidays, and
until seven o’clock of the following
morning, andon each week-day night,
from and after the hour of nine

o'clock until seven o’clock of
the morning of the succeeding
day. The word “closed,” in

this section shall be construed to
apply to the back dooraswell asto
the front door. And in prosecutions
under this section it shall not be nec-
.-ssary to prove that any liquor was sold.
Provided, -.hat in all cities and incor-
porated villages the common council
may. by ordinance, allow the saloons
and other places where said liquors
shall be sold, to remain open not later
than ten o'clock on any such week
day night.

‘g' 275 Sec. 6 Any person who
shall violate any of the provisions of
the proceeding sections, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be pun-
ished by a fine of not less than twen-
ty-five dollars, nor more than one
hundred dollars and costs of prosecu-
tion, and imprisonment in the county
jril not less than ten days, not more
shun ninety days in the discretion of
the court. And in case such fine and
costs shall not have been paid, at the
time such imprisonment expires, he,
the person serving outsuch sentence,
shall be further detained in jail until
such fine and costs shall have
D9811 fully paid. Provided, that in no
case shall the whole term of imprison-
ment exceed ninety days. Each viola
tion of any of the provisions of this
act shall be construed to constitute a
-—eparate and complete offense, and
fir each violation on the same day
or on dlflerent days, the person or
persons offending shall be liable to the
forfeitures and penaliies herein pio-
vidcd.

Q 2276. SEC. 7. Any person who
by false pretense shall obtziin any

the provisions of this act. it shal be
his duty to enter complaint before
iome justice of the peace of the proper
townships, or police justices, as the
case may be, and to d » whatever
shall be necessary to bring the offend-
: er to justice.

3, 2280. .3‘r.<.:. ll. Whenever com-
plalnt shall be made to any justice of
the peace, or police justice, of any vi-
olation of any of the provisions of this
1 act, he shall not require security for
«costs to be given, but shall take the

mmplaint and examination of the
witnesses as in other cases, and if
the offense appears to ha .-'e been com-
mitted, he shall issue his warrant for
‘the arrest of the offender, and shall
j notify the prosecuting attorney,
, whose duty it shall be to appear and
‘ prosecute the same.
3. 2281. SEC. 1:.‘ All persons en-
gaged in the business of selling or
‘keeping for sale any of the liquors
mentioned in sections one and two of
f this act, whether as owner, or as
g clerk, agent, or servant, shall be equal-
Ely liableas principals for any viola-
‘ tion of any of the provisions of this
- act. ‘ .
@2282. Sc;. 13. Itshall not bela'2v-
fui for any drugglst, nor for any per-
, son whose business consists in whole,
1 or in part of the sale of drugs and med-
lcines, directly or indirectly, by him-
self, his clerk, agent, or servant, at any
ume, to sell, furnish, give, or d-liver,
any S,2ll'll’:0l]S, malt, bro wed, ferment-
e.l, or vinous liquor, or any mixed
liquor, in part 0 which is spir-
itous, malt. brewed, fermented or vin-
ous, toa minor, except for medicinal
- r mechanical purposes on the written
order of the parent, or guardian of
such minor, nor to any adult person
whatever who is at the time
intoxicated, nor to any, person in
-he habit of getting intoxicated, nor to
any Indian, or to any person of In-
dian descent, nor to any person whose
husband, wife, parent, child, guardian
or employer, shall forbid the same, nor
to any other person to be used asa bev-
erage; but such druggists, shall be
allowed to sell said liquors for medl-
val, mechanical, and sacramental ur-
noses only, and subject to the fol ow~
iig restritions and conditions: Every
-uch dealer in drugs and medicines,
-hall procure and keep a suitable
blank book in which shall be record-
ed by said druggist, his -clerk, or em-
Joye, the names of all pers.ns apply-
iag .i’or such liquor for any of these
-awful purpos s, the date of each sale,
1. we amount and kind of liq-
uor sold to each person, and
he purpose to which the same was to
be applied, as stated by the purchaser,
which book shall be kept in the store
f said druggist, and shall be open to
.11 persons for examination during all
-usiness hours; and the failure to
Keep a record of _every such sale, or
he .“.=.l-':':.-y 3:’ 1:11:12: for any p‘.1:pJ.3e

 


NOVEMBER 1, 1884.

.;e..,»,- —. -.

TEE GBARGE VISITOR.

other than above named, shall subject
such druggist to the penalties provided
for in this section. Every such drug-

gist shall, before commencing busi-I

ness, and on or before the first Mon

day in May in each year thereafter.
execute and file with the county
treasurer a bond to the people of tht
State of Michigan in the penal sum or
not less than one thousand, nor more
than three thousand dollars, with twi-
good and sufficient sureties to be ap-
proved by the township board of tho
township or the board of trustees, or
the common council of the village or
city in which such druggist shall be
carying on such business, which bond
shall he in lieu of all other bonds,and
shall be substati-lly as follows:—

[It is not deemed necessary to pub-
lish the form of the bond.-—ED ]

fiummunitalinnc.

sheep that are kept merely for their
E fleeces. . I
i It is better to be at the caucus a‘ d
‘, convention, and assert your rights.
.1 but assert them somewhere and you
i will be hear-d,felt, and treated, with
f some respect, instead of being used as
l you have been, to promote the schemes
! of men of 0th’ r callings.
,3 I have worked fifty years to improve
: the State and pay taxes. No man in
I it him a greater interest in its prosper
. ity and honor than myself being one
.. of the grand army that fights un
, ceasingly and perpetually to subdue.
: reclaim, and in every way improvt

its condition and increasei‘s products.
- I realize that the triumphs <f peace

are a ti eusand times more glorious
3. than those of war, and that our grand
larmy should be in condition to con
jquer in all the conflic‘.-4 of life.

At Home, Ionia Co., Oct 20, 1884.

[A letter from Ex-Lieutenent Gov- .

ernor Sessions]

Bro. Cobb: It is a plersure to know
that there is one man and one paper
in Michigan at work with some ener-
gy, vigor and courage to promote all
the interzsts of the farm and the far
mer.

Our friend Bali makesa sad mistake
if he concludes that a Granger is pro-
hibited from political thought and
action on‘slde the Grange.

If he is not more us; ful and manly
in every regard his Grange education
is a failure. Grod laws and Wise
homes and faithful administration is
asimportant to farmers as to any or
all class's, and under our system cl
taxation and government if anything
goes wrong we are most responsible
because we are the most numerous and
best able to secure equal and exact jus-
tice to ourselves and others.

This duly we all recognize and ad-
mit is not performed as it should be

First, because we give the matter too ;

little thought, and second, because we
have no adequate organization, and
secure no harmony of action. In ac

tion they imi-‘ate sheep by following
the leader. If there are two or more
leaders they divide and work with
more or less zeal against each other,
resulting in dlsfrust and bittn-ness_
but no benefits. To illustrate I will
speak ( f the Republican psriy. i
helped to organize that party and h ave
worked to make and keep it, the party,
of truth, ofjustice, and < f human lib

erty.

The masses ( t‘ the party are honest, i
sincere men, just as honest to-day as ;
It is the scheming 

they evrr were.
intrigueing politicians and the con

sent to follow them ti‘ at has
placed the party often on, sometimm
over the ragged edge of d.-. feat.
farmers of the country should control
it, make and keep it right and vote
with it, but they do nothing of tht
kind, 8!. d those who do control it lack
the good sense to do anything to en-
courage it. What they do is often

repulsive, to-wit: Two years since u :

large prrtion of Republi! an farmer.-
after voting twenty years for city can-
didates asked for the nomir ation of
Mr. J uhn Rich.

He was at least ti" e equal of any man
presented fr 1' the < mce but was Ce.-lert-

ed. He wrs de 'eated and the cry was, *
“the farms rs are not a;reed,” yet the :

cities had four or more candi"ates, and
they were able to combine and agree,
using farmers then and there to aid
them.

through alone for want of votes from
the country.

When the legislature met a United
States Senator was to 1, c elected. Can-
didates from the cities were thick.
Over fifty days we re wasted. While
on the farms in every county are men
in all respects equal, and in some su
perior to those voted for, they all had
soarre a dozen votes.

At the convention at Grand Rapids,
and in the congressional districts all
interests were thought of and recog-
nized except the farmers.

No farmer went to Chicago to enter
the National Convention as a delega’ c.

. The meth: ds, the action, and the re

sults, of the recent republican conven-
vention at Detroit are known and re

membered. Our candida’c lived on a
farm, and, although he had a State
reputation rs.) business man, and v as

' known to be familiar with our State

institutior s, and in every way qualfied

for the duties of the executive cflice, E

the claims of the farmers were set aside.
That sort of a man could not be used
by the party managers, and the cor»
rupt means which are legitimate with
the machine were invoked to dz" fear
the farmer. In the hands of political

experts who found money, ./iberality J,

and ambition combined in the person
of asoldier, the scheme was worked,
and worked successfully as against
the farmer candidate.

The press of the country, relying as
it docti for support on the farmer ‘class
to a considerable extent, is mainly in

the hands of politicians; who work it.

to secure ends with little regard to the
means used, and the results we see in
the city, as a;ainst the country, and
the cities win. And this state of
things will "continue so long as far-

mers do not assert for themselves and
their calling a spirit of manhocd.

U111?“ You farmers cultivate less wheat
Ind more cheek and independence.

you will be regarded and treated like

The 2

Garfield pulled their candi-;
da‘e through. He could not pull’

A Grange Falr.

f On Thursday Oct. 16, a good com-3

,pany of Patrons met at Smiths Hall
‘in Wayland, Allegau county. to ex-
,hibit some of the products of their
iskill. There were large pumpkins

shown by Bros. Tanner a.nd others,
;one weighing 65 pounds, the largest.
1 There were mammoth squashes
 present weighing nearly 40 pounds and

line specimens of llubbards weighing
{from 1.3 to 15 pounds exhibited by

Bros. Adams of Martin and Buskirk,‘

fol’ llopkins Granges. Nearly all the
 varieties of corn were there from pop-
: corn ::}»,,’ inches in length to field corn
.3‘ 12 inches long. Fine samples of pota-
jtoes were there; the White Elephant

shown by several parties being the
-‘ largest. Bro. Buskirk brought an enor-
-‘mous table beet Weighing 12 pounds,
’ and liro. Gregg 3. big radish of peculiar

formation or growth an especial won-
}, der. it attracted much attention-
l’omona’s table was well loaded with
g as fine specimens of apples and grapes
;as could be shown anywhere in the
; county. Some canned fruits were
{ shown. ilro. .\l. A.(}ur1ey, of Martin
l Grange brought the largest sunflower.
{Sister Lillian lluskirk, of Rural
’ Grange had best show of flowers and a

:couple of gourds labeled llercules j
. clubs and it is our opinion that if that :
' imaginary inhabitant of the skies ever

Shandled such ponderous weapons, he 5
iceitainly must have been a power in ‘

lhis dominion and feared.

Fine parsnips, carrots, cabbage, cel-
ery, onions, etc., were in their proper
place. Bro. Buskirk, of Hopkins,
showed the only samples of cats, beans,
; and barley.

' Mrs. Whitney a t[ullt4St2ll‘) of over
7,000 pieces and some large silver

property of her great grandmother.
Sister ll. G. Smith. a crazy

quilt. and children's croched skirts.
llro. and Sister Jordan, an enlarged
framed photograph of their two year
1’ old son, Bro. Philips of the M. E. .
church is a small man, but great in 3,
work, judging from :1 line camp chair 
. of his own manufacture, hisbetter half 3
making the cover. l
Those outside of the gate were not
excluded, and taking advantage of the
opportunity, Mr. Geo. llenika the un-
dertaker, brought out. some of the nec- ;
? essaries of death, line shrouds. ’
The harness men exhibited some
._ horse blankets and other goods in their
l line, the hardware men their oil stoves
‘ and the bee hive man samples of honey

Dinner was served in box social form
f the Brothers buying numbers, and
‘drawing partners, lottery style to il-
‘ lustrate the uncertainty of matrimony
we suppose. The village )1. Us were
there. and beheld with down cast faces
the excellent appetites of our robust
f matrons. « Dinner 2% r. )l. ) Some of
‘the exhibits were sold at auction for
‘the benefit of Rural Grange. Some
exchanged with each other. All went
away well pleased with the fair. One
thing was noticeable, two of the great-
,est interests of this section were not
' represented, namely wheat and butter.

A great amount of good can be ac-
,complished by the Grange fairs if Pa-
 trons only will it. 3

The county fair is too faraway for
‘ some, and often is large and unwieldy,
f while at the small Grange fairs we are
7 acquainted with all, and have time to
. examine closer each article, and if seed
lis wanted for another season we can .
‘ obtain it with greater ease. ‘

\

:

T. C. 1}. =

1 Bio. Cobb.-—Will you allow me =
,' space for a word relative to that New
5 Orleans commission muddle. There
. must have been a discordant element
;introduced into that body since the
3last meeting of the State Grange, for
V at that time Brothers Burlingame and.
Carroll appeared before the State
lGrange and did some effective work
fin showing up the advantages our
, State would receive from a creditable
lexhlbit of the resources of our State
lespeciaily the agricultural. Arrange-
; ments'were then made by Mr. Carroll
lwith several Patrons that I know of,
 for I was one of them to secure speci-
§ mens ofgraius and grasses and other
5 products. It was then stated and well
understood that there was no means in
l the hands of the commissioners to pay
the expense of collecting, but the
Patrons of this section were willing to
contribute specimens and means if
necessary to aid in the work. The in-
structions sent out by Mr. Carroll

spoons 130 years old originally the‘

as to what and how specimens should
be collected were followed and proved
a great help in the work. I have now
some 35 specimens of grasses, 24 of
rare plants indlginous to our State,
also nine varieties of wheat four of

grain. A neighbor of mine has as
many more, and after comparing oats,
as strangeas it may appear there is
not seven duplicates. A brother in an
adjoining town informs me he has, all
told 74 specimens. Now Mr. Editor
what are weto do with tlzem. The
commission has been enlarged and as
usual, the lawyers havea m jority on
the board to the exclusion of all far

mere and but one member left to
represent the agricultural interests
even remotely ( Mr. Carroll ) and the
‘lawyr rs have combined to find him,
if they can, so as tohave a purely
legal commission. Farmer Smith
? was removed by Governor Begole be-
;cause he wasa republican, which so
idisgusted Burlingame and Garfield
that they resigned. Carroll stood his
‘Iground and protested even through
3 the papers against such a dishonorable
 course which as might be expected had
I the effect of bringing the lawyers out
; in a billingsgate against him, and the
appointment of another lawyer (_ Rob-
inson) on the commissiun.

Will the farmers submit to such a
lsnub, and then respond to the calls
lthat are now being made to aid in
=' the work. For one I say emphatical-
ly, no! Farmers keep your.-specimens
and let the lawyer’s commission go out
into the highways and hedges, and
collect their own exhibit as best they
can.

J. W. S.
Charlotte, Mich., Oct. 25, 1884.

POSTAL JOTTINGS.

Give the farmers fits that will be
driven to the polls and vote for ma-
chine candidates. They don’t deserve

to be represented.
u. 11. 1.».

Will some of the sisters, through the
columns of the “VISITOR,” inform me
how to take mildew out of cotton
cloth. Yours truly,

Farmington, Oct. 15, ’84.

A READER or run Vrslron.

‘ _Bro. Cobb :—I wish to acknowledge
jthrough the columns of the Vlsrron,
I the receipt of a. beautiful, unique and

useful present from the members of
,'Oakwood Grange, No. 333, St. Joseph
lcounty. Many thanks, dear friends,
ifor this kind remembrance, and God
.bless you. Truly yours,
' Mus. Penny .\iAvo.
A visit to Fairlield Grange, No. 278,
,found a live Grange of 80 members in
| good working condition. The old and
, young take hold of the work with en-
Tergy, and work unitedly. And when
fall Granges do this our cause must
prosper.

Mas. A. .1. .$U'rToN, Leo.
ilenawee County.
Say to Aunt Kate and E. A. L ., who
seem to have been swindled out of their
money, if they will each send $1.00 to

lthe Chicago Express company, they

will get their dictionaries and a first-

;class weekly paper for six months, if

they fail I will refund their money.
Address, II. II. TAYLOR.

Dowaglac.

The last Vrsrrox was a rattler in
the good cause of independent voting,
and I hope it will cause the farmers
to be united on Tuesday next in see-
ing the necessity cf a strong pull
altogether.

If we expect tobc recognized in the
future, we must, whenever we find
them, give the machine candidates the
grand bounce.

G. L. S.

Constantine, Oct. 19,188-l.

The political campaign is nearly
over, and we are glad to know that the
GRANGE VlSI'l‘OR is so non partisan as
to advocate voting for the best men,

, irrespective of party. This seems right,

for as partisan politics cannot be dis-
cussed in the Grange, it‘ would seem
inconsistent for a Grange paper to fa-
vor the election of a man, merely be-
cause he suited the party predilections
of its editor. Farmers have helped to
choose for their leaders bond-holders
and monopolists, till they find them-
selves utterly powerless to break the
chains bound around them, as exem-
piified in their efforts to secure the
nomination of C. G. Luce for governor;
and having failed in that, let all good
and true men unite heartily in sup-
porting one who is pledged to do his
utmost to protect"i‘our homes from the
curse of rum. V '

' M.

Bro. Cobb.--—With this I enclose my
subscription to the Vrsrron with my,
assessment to Patrons aid society.

‘I must tell you about our Grange
again;~it is quite a while since I wrote
you. I Grange N o. 98 is prospering
finely, we have nearly doubled our
membership within one year, just-
nowattention is called to the political
contest, and every one is interested in
their own party. After election is over
we expect to have full meetings, and
interesting ones too. We had our first
fall of snow last evening, but tonight
it is all gone.’ '1 shall be glad again to

cats, three of barley in the straw and ~

read "GRANGE Vrsrroa,” and I ai
ways find some selections “for our‘
meetings in it. The “Huebandman"
is first, then the G. V.aud sandwicher
in is the Bulletin Advance, and sev
eral others. J1-JNNIE-B. STERN.

Scriba, N. Y., Oct, 1884. «

A correspondent writes that some
farmers won’t take the Advance or any
other agricultural paper, because the)
know more about farming than the
editor does. Any farmer who know-
so little that he supposes a paper is all
made up of what the editor says, ough
not to be allowed to take an agricul
tural paper.—Farmer’e Advance. H:
couldn’t. read it if he were allowed to.
-—Tribune and Farmer. And if his
wife read it tohlm he couldn't under-
stand a word of it.——Amer2'can Farmer.
Charltably considered, he has read po-
litical papers until his faith is pre-
verted beyond the reach of agricultural
writers.

Perhaps you have yet to learn that
Michigan revolves around Detroit.
When we can fully concede and appre-
ciate the fact we will understand why
it is very improper to say or do any-
thing they don’t acquiesce in. Now,
Brother Patrons, let’s not vote for C.
G. Luce, for governor, because it will
be showing a little independence, and
it may exhibit a little disrespect toward
Detroit, and the Peel. I am going to
vote for Luce, though I don't suppose
it wil1"bust” the “machine/‘ but it
will showa disposition to move in
that direction and will count one some-
where. I hope others will do likewise,
and not consider party (or machine)
more than their seeming better inter-
est.
» JOHN 8. WILSON.

[Much to our regret it was found
when too late that one of the
jottings in our last issue had
gone to press in such a mutilated
state as to read without meaning and
to place “our compositor” in a decid-
edly unfavorable light in the eyes of
the lady who so kindly sent us the fol-
lowing beautiful lines.

'.'e reprint them this week deeming
them of such merit as to be highly ap-
preciated by our readers,-—En.]

"God's finger touch is on the hills;

The leaves beneath it gleam and glow,
Till the stran e splendor overfllls

Their trem ling life and lays them low.”

80 ardent souls, by life divine;
Enkindled, light our gloomy day;
A little while before us shine,
Then spent with glory pass awaiy."

J. C.
Oct. 11th. 1883.

Shall we vote at the coming election
to increase our taxes? Every farmer
and tax payer ought to consider care-
fully, whether they think they can at’-
ford to vote this fall for an amendment
to the constitution to pay our legisla-
tors $700 for the session, and ten cents
per mile each way for traveling ex-
penses. The profits of the farm this
year will be very small, with little en-
couragement of being better. Farmers
have to bear the burden of taxation
and they ought to consider well wheth-
er they can afford to increase their
taxes for anything really not necessary
at this time. The people are responsi-
ble for a good deal of the taxes they
complain of. Now if we don’t want to
increase our taxes don’t let us vote
to increase them. A. 1-‘.

I am a friend of the principles of‘
liberty and, as Washington advised,
feel jealous of my rights, therefore
think it my duty to oppose all mon-
opoly in the Grange as well as out,
and speak plainly against representa-
tion by Masters and ‘past Masters, to
the State Grange. What is taught in
the Grange is apt to be practiced,
outside. I am a greenbacker,and don’t
see how a man can be a Granger and
be anything else unless it is a prohibi-
tionist. I am opposed to their one
idea system, consequently hope to see
greenbackism, prohibition, antl-mon-
opoly and all other opposition to evil
that infests our politics combine in
one party, (as it seems to take about
twenty years to change an administra-
tion,) and then kill many birds with
one stone. DANIEL Nonrnnve.

The most scandalous political cam-
paign that ever disgraced any nation
is fast drawing to a close and the re;
sult will soon be known, and ‘unless’,
this country contains some patriotic,
statesmen who have the nerve, energy
and ability to come to the front and
devise some effective method to pre-
vent the corrupt useof money in de-
debauching our judiciary, controlling
our conventions and elections, and
sapping the foundations of our libel‘-P
ties by corrupting the voters, thereby
placing unscrupulous politicians. ill.
power’ who have no ‘respect: for ;the._
rights of the people, twill‘ continue to
run the government in‘ the interest of
the monopolies and monied aristoc-
racy, the time is not far distant when
the bloody scenes of the French revo-
lution will be re-enacted in this coun—,"’
try, as it is a well known fact that his-
tory repeats itself and like causes pro-
duce like results.

The political contest is drawing to
aclose. The great battle for power
and‘ the spoils of omce will be to ght
in a few days. Barrels of money, and
muchvalualle time has been spent

3

:3

during the campaign, which has bee,
a m ost vindictive one. Stump speak-
ers have shouted themselves horse.
landing the honesty and purity of
their leaders and party. And charg

lug all manner of 1’8BL8]ll.l€8 upon
their opponents. “The dear people"
have been bored by lawyers (who al-
ways have some ax to grind) sat in
the sun or storm, stamped, cheereu
and swung their hats for some
party or candidate, But this windy
war 0 fwords will i n be over. This
Nation will not"go tp'_emaeh just ye’-

if your or my part‘y”does. I presumo

we all have had our say, and have hi-

somebody; if they have not hit back
it may be for the want of efficien-

weapons. Now let Patrons vote for
principle as well as men, and let me
flsk you can you conscientiously vot-
for men, who have been nominated
by or through -dishonest means.
As good Patrons and honest men you
cannot. p_ w_

Paw Paw, Mich, Oct. 27th, 1584.

I see by jottlngs ti at there is a good
deal electioneerlng. In the Vrsrron
of Oct. 15, D. C. B. says that he can-
not vote for Cleveland because be de-
pends on the solid South for three-
fourths of his votes; now, that may
be so, but is it any worse for Cleve-
land to receive the solid South than for
Blaine to receive his from asoli d North?
It seems to methat one is just as bad
as the other, or, in other words, when
either party talks in this way, it is
simply the pot calling the kettle black,
for unless the one party can get the
South ardthe other get the North
nei th(r can carry this point. This is
the very worst feature of the case
We should have no North, no South,
no East or West. But one united
whole. Can that ever be, you say‘?
not as long as we have the two old
parties. Ihrar some say, what are,
you going to do about it?. This is a
remedy at han d. We have two par-
ties in the field, with Butler at the
head ofor: e, and St. John at the in-ad
of the oth er, and both of these parties
havcissnes that are natioral, while
the other seem to be sectional, and
depend on a sectional vote for their
election.

But I hear some say, if I vote for
St. John I am throwing my vote away
and another says, Butler can’t lc
elected. As surely as the sun shall
rise to-morrow the right must some
day triumph!

- ' W. B. J.

Wl on George Washington and his
companions revclttd against the gov-
ernm cut of England, he cove red him
self withglory, and rendered himself
immortal in the history of the ages;
but when Jefferson Davis rebelled
against the United States for the pur-
pose of setting up another Govern-
ment more congenial to his liking, he
covered his name with infamy that
the ages can not wipe out.

The object of both was the same, to
‘establish a form of government, as
each thought tetter suited to promote
the welfare of the people they repre-
sented. One was successful, and his
name will form the central star in the
constellation of fame, as long as the
republic shall live. The other faile d,
and ignominy and disgrace will crown

-his name while living, and re st upon

his grave when dc ad. Statesman telj
us if Davis had succeeded, his rebellion
would have been called revolution, and
his name would have stood among
the patriots of the ago. And
if Washington had failed he would
have been branded as traitor, and the
great deed of his life would have been
written “Rebellion” on the page of
histo ry. Now will the wise ones tell
us, how the results of the deed moulds
the character of the act‘?
CORTLAND HILL.

Bro. .’l’omlz'mon:—l have read care-
fully your reply in Visrron of Oct.
15th, and fail to findjone word of proof.
It seems that the Truby Brothers
have to send their passengers when
their freight goes, and do not use a
500-mile pass-book.” We still have
nothing but your assertion that Be-
gole’s and his wife’s 500-mile pass
books had anything to do with Begole,
Fox Sc Co's. freight. The public are
too well posted to take a so-called
Free Press (or any other press) inter-
view as proof of anything. We have
the testimony of two conductors on the
D. G. & M‘.-R.  that Gov. Begole did
usea free -pass as governor on that
road. rl believe that no other governor
has ever been accused of expending
so much money to secure his election.
You think -that the fact of his leaving
his partyis strong presumptive evi-
dence 'that:he is a man of original

”th‘cught.”’ The fact is that he left his

‘parityiinimediately after failing to se-
cure a re_-nomination for Conga ess.
and it is‘ a strong presumptive evi-
dence that he left on that account. I
am not, going to vote ‘with a party
whose principles have been wrong for
the *lasti'40 years. Man may change
but principles never. ‘1 do not claim
that all men that belong to the Repub-
lican party are honest. It would b-
poor policyvto sink a noble ship be-
cause some of its otilcers are not just
the ones I would have chosen.

To D. C. B. I would say that voting
for Bro -Luce now, would be half a

vote for =Begole. I hear nothing

against G_cn. Alger, except the manner

Of his nomination. lie was a good
S0ld1<*r- is a good citizen, and 1 think
will make a good governor. As for
smashing the machine, if on me ._.-_;,e
side there is not as big a machine -and
a combination of machine-‘.tl".en 1 am-
not tell what a machine is. There
the,Democrat, the (lreenbacker anal the
partizan temperance man. all working
for the same end. lleliver me from
the machine.
A. F: :'..'1.
Alton, Kent (‘o.. Mich.

The country will be Saved.

The country is in danger. No doub
of it. From every school house, from
every opera hall, from dry goods boxas
and even railroad cars, we are told of
the dangers that threaten this beloved
la: d of ours. We are told it by the
most prominent men t t‘ the nation . by
those high in authority. b those who
hope to be promoted to o co. and by
a vast horde of nobodies who tilt about
the greair r lights as moths circle
around acandle. It is not a new ex-
perience to be warned of our critical
condition. ‘Men of more than three
score years and ten recognize the Jan-
ger cry as among their earliest remem-
brances, and with the certainty of
time every four y(a's has brought it
forth as a familiar ni htmare. Per
haps it is a tvadition at has been
handed down t'rom the east, or it may
be a relic to remind us of the ever
present menace to libc rty. Sci» J

nows whence this d auger comes at it:
punctual regularity, orwhither it van-
ishes with November blasta. But
there is no doubt that men believe it.
Men of all parties and all station 5 are
infected with the thought, and all are
working to save their country. Can
we doubt the result? With 10,000,000
voters enlisted in the atriotic work o
saving the country, i would be folly
to doubt that it will be saved. it has
been saved many times, and a we ck
from to-morrow it will be saved again.
-——Evem'ng Journal.

 

A Drill that Seemed Easy.

From the "Recollections of a l'ri-
vats." in the November (‘en:‘ur,g we
quote the following: “After enlist-
ingl didn't seem of so much conse-
quence as I expected. There was not
so much excitement on account of my
military appearance as I deemed justly
my due. I was taught my fa.cings,a.nd
at the time i thought the drill-master
needlessly fussy about shouldering, or-
dering, and presenting arms. The
musket, after an hour's drill, seemed
heavier and less ornamental than it
had looked to be. The lirst day I went
out to drill. getting tired of doing the
same things over and over. I said to
the drill-sergeant: "Let's stop this fool-
ing and go over to the grocery.‘ ills
on y replly was addressed to a corporal:
‘Corpora . take this man out and drill
him like h-—l‘; and the corporal did.
I found that suggestions were not as
well appreciatei in the army as in
private life, and that no wisdom was
equal to a drill-masters ‘Right face,‘
Left wheel,‘ and ‘Right, oblique, in-arch.‘
It takes a raw recruit sometime to
learn that he is not to think or sug-
gest, but obey. Some never do learn.

acquired it at last, in humility and
mud, but it was tough. Yet I doubt if
my patriotism, during my first three
weeks’ drill, was quite knee high.
Drilling looks easy to a s ectator, but
it isn’t. Old soldiers W10 read this
will remember their green recruithood
and smile assent. After a time I had
cut down my uniform so that I could
see out of it, and had conquered the
drill suiliciently to see through it.
’tl‘hen the word came-: On to Washing-
on Y”

NOTICES OF MEETNG8.

llarmony Grange, No. 2:37. will here-
after hold its meetings on the 'I‘luu's-
day evening before the last Saturday
of each month, as previously.

l’nn.o S‘. CllAl'l"ELI.. Sew.

Lenawee Co. Grange will hold its
next regular meeting at Madison
Orange hall on Thursday, November
lath, 1854, at 10 A. n. A good progran)
is being prepared and a general at-
tendance is desired. Instructions in
the fifth degree will be given in the
evening.

Pcr order ex-committee.

Geo. D. Moons. See.

The regular meeting of the ‘Living-
ston C0. Council has been postponed
until Tuesday, Nov. 11. Brother liar-
ger and Briggs, Sisters Cole, Persons
and Brown are on the program for
essays, and an unusually interesting
time is expected. ’

An adjourned meeting of the Co.
Convention for the purpose of electing
a Representative to the State Grange
will be held the same day at Howell
Grange hall the place of meeting for
the council.

.VIus. W. K. .\'i:'.‘(T‘ xx. See.

The next meeting of Branch Count
Pomana Grange will be held at C0 -
water Grange Hall on Thursday, Nov.
6, beginning at 10 A. M. ‘

The afternoon meeting will be pub
lic. A 00l dial welcome to all. . All
fourth degree members are especially
invited to attend, and also to take an
active part in the meeting. The pro-
gramme of exercises is excellent‘ and
varied, but too lengthy for publication .
It consists of music, papers, essays,
reeitations, and discussions; and‘ one
cannot attend‘ the meeting and go
home empty handed-if they the
least skill in the 1 rl: of gleanlng. Din-
ner, a picnic. T

Mas, E. A.Hon'roN,
Lectlm r.

The next mc eting of Be rrieu Conn
Pomona Grange will be held .wi
Mount T8b( r Grange on Tuesday
Nov. 11, commencing at 10 o’c'loc'k in
the forenoon. The aft: rnoon meeting of
that day willbeopen to the public.
and the programme of exercietswill
be as follows: ‘

Essay--by Sisla r Isaac Skinner:

Co-operation in Marketin Wool
and Other Fa in Products— y Bro.
Edward Mar h.

Essay—by Sister C. H. Farnham.

"Have a P.rpcae”—by Bro Wm.
H. Cook. R C T

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THE GBALIGE 7151193.

NOVE MBER 1. 1884.

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October Work.
ORCHARD.

This is one of the most important
months to the orchardist and fruit-
grower. It is the month of prepara-
tion for future operations, and while
it often happens that the work may
be continued far into November, un-
less planting can be done now it is
bestto delay it until Spring. What-
ever is done should bedone as early as
possible, that the soil may get well
settled around the roots before it freezes
deeply. The past season has been one
of unusual fruicfuiness, and every one
contemplating planting new orchards
should have fully decidcd, by watch
ing the markets and visiting neigh-
boring growers. what varieties will
prove most profitable.

PLANTING.

If trees, shrubs and vines can be
planted before November 10, now is
the best time to plant, butif they grow
late so that the wood is not well
ripened at that date, planting should
be deferred until Spring, although the
work of digging holes and making
everything ready may continue until
the ground freezes. If the trees are to
be planted in turf land, (and they
will succeed, if properly treated, as
well as if set in plowed land) and the
s )ll cannot be cultivated, let the holes
be dug several times larger than need-
ed for the spread of the roots, and
be sure to press good surface soil
closely around the roots. After the
hole has been filled up enough to
cover the roots one or two inches deep
ene or two handfuls of some good
phosphate will be found of great bene-
fit; but do not put it in contact with
the roots. When planting is done, a
mound a foot high should be made
around the trunk to keep the air
from working down to the roots by
the swaying of the tree in the wind.
Grape vines and small shrubs may be
covered up entirely for protection
from cold.

PURCHASING TREES.

The question is often asked, Where
shall I buy my trees? The inveter-
ate tree agent has been about all sum-
mer, with his glaring and exaggerated
pictures of wonderful new varieties
that he praises in the most extrava-
gant terms, and which he is most anx-
ious to sell, because the price is high
although it costs little more to grow
them than to grow the most common
kinds, and his commission is corre-
spondingly great, forgetting the fact
that nine out of ten of such “new va-
rieties” prove infcrior to the old stan-
dard sorts.

There are several important reasons
why we should not buy our trees from
these tree agents. First, and most
important generally they know very
little, practically, of the value of the
varieties they so urgently press upon
your notice, and are wholly inex-
perienced in all horticultural
operations. All the advice they
can give is obtained from the cata-
logueof their employers. Second, no
middle man is needed‘in this business.
A person planning to plant fruit or or-
namental trees, and desiring informa-
tion on any point relating thereto, can
get it by writing to any of our leading
nurserymen, or presidents or secre
taries of horticultural societies—inf..r-
-mation coming from men of large ex-
-perience, that is of real value, and not
taken second hand. There is a great
saving in buying trees in clubs. Let
several persons unite their lists and
send one of their number to some good
local nursery, or send the order by
mail, and they will in nine cases out
of ten, get better satisfaction than
from buying of the traveling agent.
The extravagant praise given to un-
tried new varieties; and the urgent
pushing of the traveling agent is little
less than swindling, and is doing
much harm to legitimate nursery
men.

PROTECTING TREES.

All tress standing in or near turf
land should have a mound of fresh
soil or manure a foot high around the
trunks to protect them from mice dur-
ing winter, which, next to roving cat-
tle, destroy more trees than die from
any other cause. Any mulch or weeds
should be first removed, or the mice
may burrow under the soil and girdle
the trees below the surface.

THE HARVEST.

Winter apples and pears should be
gathered by the 15th, before severe
freezing weather, and stored in a cool
open shed, a short time before putting
into the cellar.

SMALL FRUITS.

Tender raspberries and blackberries
should be bent over and covered with
soil to protect them from severe win-
ters. This seems to the novice like a
formidable undertaking; but let him
put on an old pair of gloves, a stout
coat, and with a man with a spade to
help him it can be very easily done.
Now with the gloves on, take hold of
all the canes of the hill and draw them
close together; then, with a hard pull
start the roots a little; at the same
time bend over the canes and have
the man throw on just soil enough to
hold them down. Then if the plants
are in rows, the work may be finished
with the plow, throwing up a furrow
on each side; or if irregularly planted
by throwing on soil enough to com-
pletely cover all the canes and make
a little mound over the roots. To en
rsurea crop of fruit every year. thi-
aniist be done with all the tender kinds
-even such as Snyder, Wachusett and
‘Taylor’s Prolific blackberries; and
Turner, Cuthbert Caroline raspberries
are much. benefited by the protection.
Before this is done all old fruiting

canes must be removed.

GRAPE VIN ES

Maybe pruned at any time after the
leaves have fallen, although the work
is generally more profitably do_ne later,
or during the warm days of winter.

The last weeding should be given the
-strawbsi-rv beds to prepare them for the
winter covering to be put on next
-month.

VEGETABLE GARDEN.

Harvesting everything is now in or-
«der. All the tender vegetables, of

course, have been secured. The har-
dy sorts will keep better if taken in
before severe freezing, except perhaps,
the parsnip. This is especially true
of the best and carrot, which are often
much injured by cold before being

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gathered. One of the best methods of }
preserving vegetable is to pack them
in slightly moistened leaves This is
much better than soil, being a better l
non-conductor, keeping the roots at‘
an even temperature. Cwmmon fiat!

and fresh until May, and beet-: until,
July. Leaves of any kind may be,
used. In or-c corner of the cellar,
1-pro.-a<l a layer of leaves one or two;
inches thick; then a layer of veg~'3Y.al)les 3
one deep; then a layer of leaves and
so on. 'I‘o secure the most perfect
condition, a cool, even lcmperatllrc
must be preserved, but vegetables keep
better at any temperature by this than
by any other method.—-Our Country
Ilome.

Sending Plants By Mail.

So much progress has been make by
nurserymen and florists that now it is
comparatively an easy matter to send
plants any reasonable distance by mail
with perfect safety. Of course, such
plants require careful packing; not
only must they be kept moist, but they
must be packed so as to insure them
against damage in handling while on
the mail. Mail ouches do not always
receive the kin est treatment in the
world, and unless packages are well
packed serious damage will result.
Testing as I do a large number of va-
rieties, I receive a large number of
packages through the mail, and uni-
formly have received them in good
condition. The first essential in hav-
ing plants live is to keep the roots
damp and uninjured. For this pur-
pose moss is used; over this was gener-
ally placed two or three layers of oiled
paper, and then over this stout wrap-
ping paper, each wrapper being well
tied on. and in this way packages came
through long distances without injury.
Iliad occasion to send to Chambers-
burg, Pa., for a collection of roses;they
came as nice and fresh as though they
were just out of the ground. They
were packed first in damp moss, then
a layer of oiled paper; the package
in tile condition was put in a. stout
pasteboard tube, and then
with wrappin paper. on winch was
the address. ‘hese must have been
three or four days on the road, giving
them every advantage of close connec-
tion, and yet were in first class con-
dition, the ieaves fresh and green.
They were set out and grew right
along. Many are deterred from pur-
chasing plants from the fear of their
not being able to come long distances
through the mail without injury, but
my experience is that with the present
plan and knowedge of doing the work
of packing this risk is reduced to a
minimum. At any rate so far as my
experience is concerned, I have always
had good success with such plants if
proper care were given after they were
received ——N. J. Shepherd in German-
town Telegraph.

wrapped

Pansles the Year Round.

With most people the pansy is a
favorite flower. Yet many fail, even
after much labor and expense, to have
it constantly and in abundance. For
two years my pansy beds have been
from early Spring to late Fall a mass
of large flowers; and in miriwinter
even, when the snow has gone off,
they have been found to be still in
bloom. My method is easy and inex-
pensive. About the middle of August
I spade a small bed, say three feet
square deep, mixing in plenty of fine
manure and covering with a half
inch of sand. I enclose it with a
frame about six inches high, covered
with slate one inch wide and two
inches apart. I sow an abundance of
the seed of the choicest varieties, cov-
ering lightly with the sand.

Nothing more is needed until the
following Spring, except to pull any
weed-i that start and to put on a light
covering of straw before Winter sets
in. In early Spripgl prepared aiarger
bed, about three feet wide and long
enough to contain the plants trans-
planted six inches apart each way,
and provide a frame and covering of
slate as before. The plants soon grow
up through between the slats and the
surface is covered with flowers which
on account of the deep, rich soil and
the partial shade retain their size even
in the heat of midsummer I now
have four such frames, two planted
last Spring and two a year ago, the
latter doing as well as the former.
The old beds have had no care
this year except to remove the slight

. covering of bean vines in the Spring

and to pull a weed occasionally. The
pansy plants are so thick that only
now and then a weed appears.——N, Y.
Tribune.

Largest Flower in the World.

There is a tree which grows on the
Island of Sumatra that produces the
largest flower, we believe, that has ever
been discovered. It has been given sev-
eral names, such as Amorphophallus (a
genus of amophous, or irregular in
shape), Conophallus (from the conical
shape of its_ spadix) and signs, signify-
ing gigantic. A traveler says that
while traveling at one time, some fifty
miles from Padany, he came across a
flower bud in a partly decayed condi-
tion, but it was easy to form an idea of
its immense proportions when fresh.
This flower measured exactly thirty-six
inches in diameter and was two feet
thick. It was so heavy that it took
four Malays to carrv it along on a bam-

00.

The plant has two states of existence
—one as a tree, thejother as a. flower, as
shown in our engravin s. The tree
measures eighteen feet in iiei ht, the
trunk being twelve feet an about
thirty inches in diameter. The color is
pale green and the branches are mot-
tled. In groups the trees have a pleas-
ing appearance.

Measuring the Age of Trees.

The counting of the rings added by
exogenous trees every year to their cir-
cumference can only, without risk of
error, be applied to trees cut down in
their prime, and hence is useless for the
older trees, which are hollow and de-
cayed. Trees, moreover, often develop
themselves so unequally from their cen-
ter that, in the case of a specimen in
the museum at Kew, there may be
about two hundred and fifty rings on
one side to fifty on the other. Perhaps
the largest number of rings that has
ever been counted was in the case of an
oak felled in 1812, where they amounted
to seven hundred and ten; but DeCan-

dolls, who mentions this, adds that l
three hundred years were added to this ;
number as probably covering the re-!
inainiug rings which it was no longer.‘
possiblr-. to count. This iintznice may

Packing Butler.

The following system of packing

butter, particularly for small dairies,‘

l
1

5

bctakcn to iilii.-‘trzne how unsatisfac- ‘ and W119” 3 felt’ Cm‘-‘k9 “f the “‘*'”"5l
turnips may be kept perfectly crisp ; E0r_V this mode of icrkniiing ieally lS l 3”‘ PU d°WD (‘filly 111 “J9 "!€8“0Il 1“.

for all but trees of co:nparativel_v y outh- ;
ful age. '
The r-xtci'n:il girth rueasiirciricrit is.
for tll(fSc- ._.,,,,_:ni'.:~: the best we can have, 
being espt-«:iali_v applimallle where the
date of :1 tree's introduction into a ,
country or of its plantings definitely ,
fixed, since it eiiabies us to argue from
the individual specimen or from a illlIll-
ber of Spt'<‘illl‘filS, not with C+*l'i:lllllCy,‘

as a species. In these nieasureiin-nts of

"Aboi'etuin,” lies our bcst guide,though ‘

tural quantity to the limits of probabil-

of the first century, how shall we esti-
mate the diminished growth of later
centuries‘! The best way would seem

the first century, and then to make, say

every century. Thus, if we were to
take twelve feet as the ascertained
growth of an oak in its first century,
four feet would be its constant average

oak of forty feet was a thousand years
old. lint clearly it might be muchless;
for the reason for taking the third is
not so much that it is a more probable
avera e than the half, as that it is ob-
vious y less likely to err on the side of
excess of rapidity.——Popular lscience
Jlfontlzly for 1V0r'embI’7‘.

A Rain Machine.

Atcr great battlei, violent rain
storms are of very general occurrence.
This is due, itis now known, to the
agitation produced in the air by the
violent explosions of cannon and mus
ketry. The detonations attract clouds,
and at length comes the grateful rain
todissipate the smoke of the battle,
soothe the agony of the wounded and
dying. Acting upon this hint, inven-
tors have been at work at the task of
making machines which would break
up seasons of droutli. Great fires and
explosions of gunpowder have been
suggested, but the cost would be too
great for the small area benefited by
the shower that would follow. In
Australia, a new rain producing ma-
chine is about to be tested. It is sim-
ply a balloon which carries up into the
air a heavy charge of dynamite. At a
sufficient distance above the earth the
dynamite is exploded by an electric
current that passes through the wire
communicating with the earth. This
machine will not be expensive, and
should it succeed in breaking up
drrughts, the human race will be vast-
ly benefited. It will be the first step
enabling us to control the amount
of moisture we get from the heavens.
Should we succeed in ridding any por-
tion of our planet of dry spells hurtful
to vegetation, we should soon find
means of dissipating clouds which
were dispensing too much rain. The
fertility of the earth would be quad-
rupled if man could at will produce
rainy and dry weather, and who will
say in view of the marvels of modern
control over nature that man will not
in time have as complete command of
the atmosphere that surrounds the
globe as he has of the earth which he
inhabits?—Dcmorest’s Monthly.

How Frogs Help Farmers

Mr. C. M. Weed, of the Michigan
Agricultural College, has recently ex-
amined the contents of stomachs of
eight common frogs ( Rana halecina ) ,
and finds undoubted evidence of the
usefulness of frogs as destroyers of in-
sects injurious to farm and garden
crops. The average quantities of va-
rious insects and other substances de-
termined by the examination are as
follows: Insects, eighty per cent;
Sow-bugs, one per cent, vegetable mat-
ter of various kinds. Of the insects,
over half are known to be injurious,
and one-quarter are on the doubtful
list. Much of the vegetable matter
( leaves, etc ,) was probably swallow-
ed accidently along with the insects
and spiders. Nearly all the stomachs
contained grasshoppers, and in one
they made up sixty seven per cent of
the contents. The Carabid beetles
formci a large part of the food taken
by some of the frogs. The Straw-
berry Crown Girdler was well repre-
sents l, as also were other pests of the
garden. Much has been said for and
against the frogs, the robin, and the
crow, but there is no evidence of use-
fulness more positive than the find-
ing of large numbers of injurious in-
sects in the stomachs of these creat-
ures. Under the dissecting knife, the
frog is sure to have its rig .t to live
vindicated. By their good works we
shall know them, and learn to pro-
tect our croaking friends, as well as
their relatives, the toads.——Amcrr'can
Agriculturist.

 

A good wash for roofs and buildings
isas follows: Slake lime in a close
box to preventthe escape of steam, and
when slaked pass it through a sieve.
To every six quarts of this lime add
one quart of rock salt and one gallon
of water. After this boil and skim
clean. To every five gallons of this
add, by slow degrees, three-quarters of
a pound of potash and four quarts of
fine sand. Coloring matter may be
added if desired. Apply with a paint
or whitewash brush.

THE best potatoes this year in many
sections were grown from seed planted
three to five inches deep. In a dry
season this is much better than plant-
ing in shallow marks and then hill-
ing up witha mound of earth. With
deep planting drought is avoided and
there is no need of hilling up to keep
the tubers from being greened by the
sun.

THE farmer with an undiciplined
mind usually hates exactness. He
don’t. like to be asked how many acres
he has of anything, what is his yield
per acre, his income, his expenses, or
whether he is advancing in wealth.
To keep accounts is horrifying. The
farmer of the future will do better.

 

Cows like a change of pasture.

trees of :i centiiry or more in age. such f
as are given abundantly in Londous {

rate, and we might conjecture that an ‘

:and the ends drawn over.

but within certa_in limits oi'_ v:iriabili- 1
ty, to tlw rate oi growth of tlzut tree 3

even then the growth in subsequent 
ages must rcinain matter of conjecture. 3
The diflicuity is to reduce this conjec- ‘

ity; for, given the ascertained growth .

to be to take the ascertainerl growth of 
; so that the development of lactic acid 3
would go on so slowly that if the brine =
were kept in a place of quite low tcm- A

the third of it the average growth of -'

recommended by an excliange:--The

' butter is first; made with all possible ,

care, and after being worked is rolie-i 1

into small cylindrical shapes, four or
five inches long, and not more than a
couple of inches in diameter. Tlzei-:e

rolls are then wrapped in muslin cloths ;

crock is next nearly filled with strniig

A large =

brine, and these rolls of butter are im-I

mersed in this solution.
put into the crock to keep the-rn from
flr-atinc. Tue butt(- 1' as Wanted can be
secured without disturbing the mass

A weight is .
‘care should be taken to

as is necces-wary when packed in tubs, .

and it is then always fresh. It will.

noi absorb salt from the brine, for the
reason that salt and butter never
make alliances, and as the butter will

can be no possibility for it taking up

Live Fence |Posis.

lfwire fences are toccme into uni-»

ver.-al use there appears to be no good
reason why all of our nutlarulsa should
int be surrounded with 9. line of trees
a ii‘ »p. r distance apart :0 1-:ii've:i-'
po-ts’ :hi- would =ave the expe-.n=-= of
gs-.l-ts and at the same time secure a
perimirxent fence. ‘

Around fields that arr to he plowed
and cultivated, there would be an ob
je-cllou on account of the root:-;
axrninri pastures ther- not only .«‘9€'lll.~‘
to be no objection, but a positive ml-
vantsge secur «l by the sl2:i‘ie which
the trees would afloiui.

In setting ll'r‘E'.~ for this
sat
tree.-, and also tree-‘ :nl:ipted to the
.-oiland the climate. Smie lo(':i‘iti6.-‘

purpose

quite a different kind.
=20 miles of the ocean the red c-«luv

, would be one of the best for this pur- ‘
not take up additional moisture, there 3 l’‘‘‘“*? 1C W111 grow on any soil iron :1 ,

lstiff clay to :1 dry sand or gravel. It

ex,“ 831, Being immersed in the brine 3 is true it will not make quiic as rapid

it is seen that it is uninfluenced by the
air, and this in :itself would
natural changes in the butter in check

perature and quite uniform, the pos

sibility of the butter becoming rancid §
wouldbe very small. at least befu-H.
Another method 3

nerd ad for the table.
is to thoroughly wash out the butter

while in the granular state, with weak =

brine, and when free
milk, place this granulated butter
without further saltlng or working in
small muslin bags
three pounds each, tie them up and
put in brine the same as mentioned
above.
some extra spring butter was shown
in the granular form put up in two-
quart glass fruit cans.
said, was first filled about one third
full of strong brine made of the best
dairy salt. The fine, unworked but-
ter was then put in until the can wax-
running over, when it was allowed to
stand fir a while to permit all the air
to escape, when the cover was put on
and sealed perfectly. Butter was
shown made two years before that
was in every respect equal to that
made during the fair.

 

Health of Hogs.

There are many things to observe in

:::e.:“;;1::.*;.%..':r,2.?r:.i:.:;*%..r.:2r.:::.°; 1 may  a  by 

large n_un1ber _of them. The connnon
saying is, “as dirty as :1 hog.’_‘ And yet in
some respects hogs are particular about

cleanliness; and it is especially im-.

portant that their food, drink, and beds

should be clean. ll-amp or poorly ven- ‘.

tiiated places of keeping arc the cause
of many diseases, and aggravate others.

llog raising is the ea’-ieet and best
way to make money if health can be
[)l'eS€l'V€(l2 consequently it will justify
any one to incur considerable expense
to insure theirhealth. Carbolic acid is
the best agent to use about hog pens
and to mix with their food. It is safe,
easily understood and can be used or
administered by any one without the
least danger. It is cheap, and farmers
should use it freely in purifying the
pens, beds and any foul places where
the hogs frequent.

If hog cholera is in the neighborhood
and hogs have been exposed by having
dead ones hauled through the neigh-
borhood, or if cholera is at any
place above them on a. stream
of water, no matter how far, hogs
should be given carbolic acid three
times :1 day. Ten drops is enough for
ahog weighing one hundred pounds,
and the dose graduated more or less,
as the hog is heavier or lighter.

It can be given in liquid or ground
food, and the quantity is so light that
it will be‘fi‘cely taken. It is not claim-
ed that it is aremcdy for cholera or
any other malignant disease, but is
good to ward off or intercept any diseas-
es. And it is so healthy an agent that
it can be profitably used at all times in
:1 limited way, but when there is any
proliability of contagion being about
use it lavishly, both as a disinfectant
and as an inward immunity from di-
scase. A bottle of it should always be
kept about the horse stables, and a so-
lution of carbolic acid sprinkled about
the stalls and especially if the stables
are damp or lacking in ventilation. Its
success in all such cases is indisputa-
ble.—-Iowa. Slate Rrgisle’/'.

Eat Cheese.

lluy several cheeses and keep them
through the winter. As they ripen,
get older, they will also taste better
and digest easier. Every American
family should make cheese an article
of diet, taking the place of meat as a
partical substitute for it. To crowd
pie and cheese into a stomach already
crammed, is to invite the doctor and
encourage patent medicine. Better
eat cheese as a food spiced with good
sauce, and patronize your own wel-
fare. More cheese more cows. More
cows better farms, and more comforts
at home.

 

The New England Farmer says. ‘The
best feeders in New England long ago
learned that the most profit from swine
is made when the pig is converted into
a hog in the shortest possible space of
time. To do this good breeds are se-
lected, the pigs are fed well from the
start, and they are kept growing con-
tinuously froin birth to the time when
they will sell at the best profit; for-
merly at about a year old, but more re-
cently at from seven to nine or ten
months. Most feeders make two crops
of pork in a year instead of one, as for-
merely. This requiresa good deal of
care in the breeding and rearin of
small pigs, warm pens for the bree ing
stock, and generous feeding all the
time. Pigs treated in this way are
always plump, smooth and thrifty.”

 

TEN years ago Cuba produced 770,-
000 tons of sugar, but the crop has been
decreasing from year to year till last
year it was reduced to 488,000 tons, and

be present condition of the cane indi-
cates even a greater rate of decrease
this year than the average, not much
over 400,000 tons being expected as
the yield of 1884.

We do not advise holding butter af-
ter the fall market has opened, except
for special reasons. There is so much
butter made in winter, and put in the
market fresh that old summer made
is not so much in demand.

At a dairy fair at Milwaukee ,

The can, it is,

hold .

from butts l‘- -

holding two or‘

.growth as some other trem‘, but it
!bears transplanting as well as most
dcciduousnec.-, and will soon begin

second year after .---t, it will grow as
fast as iflcft to grow whore the seed-
Siing first started.

Thc locust would be :1 still better
treeif it were not for tllc borer that
gets into the trunk, rl'.<*n in such
numbers as to kill thc ircc. This is a
1 very rapid growing tree, and yet
= would not grow large enough to on-
cumbcr tbc land. Wherc tho borer
does not work this would be an ex-
cellent lines for live fence posts.

The chestnut would make an excel- 1

lt'[lt tree for posts if it did not grow
solargc; it grows very rapidly and

runs up s‘r:iight, but when standing:

single it grow.-‘ vi-ry large.

The black w:|‘nut is a quick grow- I

ing trio, and it grows in good form f-,-i'
:1 post.

The white ash in
would be a good tree, but occasionally
would in time got too large.

Thc red maple is easy to transplant,
grows well, and would make a very
good tree for posts in wet land.

The walnut would also make a good
free on dry hind, but it is very diffi-
cult to ti'zuis,il:unt it, and the time re-
quired to get it large cuougli for a post
would bc an objc_-tioii.

Hc who aticmpls to surround his
land with live fence posts should first
make himself’ so familiar with the
habits of the elifil-rent tree.-, that he

the wrong trees on the different soils
which surrounds his farni.——Mass(/.-
cln/se:tl’.s' Plowman

Grange Difficulties.

The great diiliculty here is that farm
ers do not appreciate the importance
of attending to their own business.
This same dilliculty stands in the I.e5.,-'-
islatures and in Congress. If fitl'lllel'S
would only attend the priiuary meet-
ings of their parties and have a voice
in the selection of delegates they would
receive their just proportion of the of-
iices.

Anotherdiillcuity of ourOrdei' which
shows itself more as we grow older is
the slackness of Patrons in paying their
debts and living up to the cash system
which we profess. When we first 01‘-
ganizcd we talked cash and paid cash,
in fact it was the l'oundation on which
our Grange was to be built. We coin-
plained of the middleman, because he
charged us with a large percentage to
make good his losses with slack and
dishonest men. We said the Patron
must pay cash for what he gets. if he
has not got it he must borrow it. If he
can't or won’t borrow, then he must not
buy.

How well are we living up to this
principle? An examination to-day of
the books of the secretaries, purchasing
agents and iirnis with which we deal
would sui‘prise some of our c:1sh-pav-
ing Patrons. As soon as it becomes evi-
dent that the cash-paying Patrons are
carrying the weaker ones. the former
will gradually drop out, and when the
credit Patrons find that there are no
cash men left to carry them, they will
drop out also, and then it will take Sir
Wiiiiain IIerschcl‘s telescope to discov-
er the Grange. Co-operation in buying
for cash is the motive power which
started the Grange movement in this
country, and we should not let it go
down, as it surely will if we don’t stick
to our cash system and do business on
good, sound business principles.

Another difiiculty we meet is the
absence of foretlionglit in our business
and socialineetings. It is not an un-
common thing just as the meeting is
being called to order to hear some
member asking, “Wiiat are we going
to do to-night ?" What is the subject
of discussion?” And the answer ‘‘I
do not remember wait till the secretary
res ds the minutes.” A, rides two
miles in the rain expecting ll will
make a speech worth coming to hear,
while ll leaves home under great dis-
advantages, expecting a rich speech
from A. N either came prepared to
say anything, both are d_is:ippointed be-
cause the choir did not sing a new piece
and all go home wondering what in
the world they came for anyhow ‘B

lrothers and Sisters, 1 hope this
picture is overdrawn, but I fear it is
too true. To be able to speak well on
the spur of the moment is a rare gift,
but any of us by giving thought and
study, can produce some ideas which
will be worthy of the attention of our
Brothers and Sisters, and if each does
something, the whole will be a. success-
ful meeting.

So, too, in regard to our business
meetings. We should study the fitness
of men to the ofiice they are to hold and
give thought to the business that will
come before the meeting. so that we
will be able to cast our vote, and in-
fluence wisely, and for the best good
of the Order.

In closing, I will say: I do not wish
to be understood in any sense predict-
ing the collapse of the Grange in Onon-
daga county; on the contrary, I believe
it to be on a stronger footing then ever,
and still gaining.

I merely throw out these warnings
as danger signals, hoping that we may
escape the danger they threaten, and
rise to still greater heights than We
have yet attained.-0. M. Talcott.

 

The number of third rade certifi-
cates issued by the boar s of school
examiners compared with those of the
first and second grade is trul ap all-
ing. We hardly like to a mit hat
Michigan teachers lack ambition and
industry, and yet things look that
way.

hill. ’

durable ,

require one kind and other localitie-'
VVitliin 15 vi‘.

to grow; by the third, and often the,

some localitic s ,

Get Your Money‘: wo.-u._

In sho » ling, my dear mad: ~ -

, ‘"13’ fllll1!9.}<of' real value, evlgii  
1 buy less than you t':inc_v vou re-qu'ire
; (lnly rich people can afford to buv ban‘-
; gziins. 1\'ev¢-1' b11_v ii clieap or poor ma.
l. 1*’1'|=il lllilllv up as :1 good one. as it will
ionlv last :1 mm: ori'oui'fl1 of the lime
E and never look as well. A cheap mate
; rial lt‘llll>lS to <=.v-,-e.-‘.<i\'e trimmings tr)
it-over its poorne.-‘s. while a good stuff
will be :1 t~ontinu:rl pleasure from its
own P.\I('€llt‘llCt‘.. A good dress material
, 111313‘ ll“ Worn for years. It may be
» scoured. vurned, dipped. made over and
I at last given away. while a tiinisv one

is unlit even to give away after a'little
wear.

To trinunings the same principle will
apply. .\ wonuni will often spend in
two or_thrce _v+>:irs on fringes and fancy
trnnin1n5.:s an amount that would pur-
, chase real lace sullicicnt for a lifetime.
The fringes wear out, fade and are good
for notliing in less than a season, while
‘the lace would last out her time and
:go down to her descendants. Yet she
l says she cannot afi"oi'd to buy real lace.
; l“:nn-_v stiiffs in dress goods should be
. looked upon with great suspicion, espe-

cially if they [7l't‘SEllt an innlsuallv fine
:ippe:irzin(:e for the price. It is safer to
i keep to st2uid:u'd materials of which
i _vou have proved the durability, though
i even those will vary in different years.
I if ladies would insist on obtaining du-

rzibility ratlier than cheapness, the man-
, uf:n-turers would soon rise to the de-
3 in-and, and would improve the style of
g their goods as fast as they are deterior-
; ating them at prescnt.—I2zrmcrs’ Advo-

ty cafe".

A New System for Profit.

There is always profit in feedinga
farrow cow through thr winter so lib-
I eraily that she will give a good mess
of milk and fatten at the same time.
Some farmers make a practice of pur-
‘ chasing farrow cows, which they can
always do at a less price than those in
calf will bring, and, by giving them
extra feed will get an extra amount
of milk, and either sell or make it in-
to butter. During this time the cows
will gull] in flesh, and in the spring
they will sell for enough more than
the first cost. to about pay for all
the extra food they have had.
When a farmer can get pay for the
food he gives an animal, in growth
and at the same time an additional in-
come in the form of milk or wool. he
is doing a profitable business. Here
is a good opening for eastern farmers
—-wintering and feeding farrow cows.

There is a borne market for the milk
land the beef, at remunerative prices,
land the products of the farm, in the
form of fodder can be consumed and
returned to the lanai to enrich it. The
diary districts of New York are with-
in driving distance, or the cows can be
trauexporreri on the cars from these sec-
tions, where there is always a consid-
r 1' \l)l9 surplus of such cows. It will
;be a good plan to buy co vs in the
lspring, let them come in, and milk
4 for a year, and then turn them off for
, beef, this systeni is practiced with
fsuccess by many. There is then no
‘dry time to feed, with no gain, but
,the cow is productive all the time.
Cows are usually dry one-fourth of the
year. The great want of land in New
England is manure. No system of
farming will supply this want better
than the liberal feeding of plenty of
animals.

Good Examples.

The empress of Germany is one of
the most simply dressed of women,
except on occasions of ceremony.
Her dry goods bills are said to be less
than the wives of many of the mer-
chants. She drives out in a calico
dress. And Princess Bismarck, fresh
and comely, when past sixty, super-
intended her farm work, went about
the house with a great bunch of keys
at her girdle, and her house filled with
knitted quilts and such like, the evi-
dence of her skill and industry.

The public domain saved for the
people, the water ways of the country
improved, railroads taught that they
are carriers and not common specula-
tors, and more cbiidreii be taught com-
mon trades than be too well educated,
that they must either keep books or
live by their wits. Do these things
and the tramp will disappear. He will
be only a relic of the past. Keep on
with the present system, and the tramp
will multiply, and where will be the
end ?—I’it(sburg, Pa. Labor Iferald.

 

A PECULIARITY of robust yet care-
less persons is that they have gener-
ally inherited their constitutions from
ancestors who have observed rules;
who have eaten with some (is, rec of
regularity, who have consulte their
surroundings; cooled themselves when
heated ; warmed themselves when cool;
rested themselves when tired and, to
use Emerson's expression, lput up solid
bars of sleep between eac day's task.
——Detroit Free Press.

 

Artificial marble can be made by
soaking plaster of Paris in a solution
of alum; bake it in an oven, and then
grind it to a powder. In using mix it
with water, and to produce the clouds
and veins stir in any dry color you
wish. This will become very hard and
susceptible of a high polish.

 

Some recent trials show that very
thin blades, as flat springs and cutlery
blades, can be effectively hardened and
tempered by heating them and thrust-
ing them into a mass of mineral wax
—crude parafine. The needles of sew-
ing machines and small drills have also
been treated successfully.

 

THE independent newspaper, like
the independent voter is the true
patriot-. It requires no brains or pa-
triotism to follow the machine and
extol its workings.——Carthage (Mo.)
Press.

Dr. G. R..I’atton, an eminent Min-
nesota physican, says that no person
who abstains from the use of alcoholic
drinks, ever suffers from a. fatal sun-

stroke.

 

The truest test of civilization is not
the census nor the size of cities, nor
the crops—no, but the kind of man the
country turns out.

 

The State Horticultural society
meets at Ann Arbor for its annual
session the first week in December.

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‘...A_‘.-..-. ...._.. .

NOVEMBER 1, 1884

THE GBAZIQE 7131103.

5

dummnniraliunz.

NOBODY’S CHILD.

Only a ucvssbcy, under the light . _
Of the l5mp—p0st plying his trade in the rain.
Men are too busy to stop to-night,
Hurrying home through the sleet and rain,
Never since dark a paper sold;
Where shall he sleep or how be fed?
He thinks as he shivers there in the cold,
While happy children are safe abed.

Is it strange if he turns about

With anger words, then _C0lI1eSvlCO blows,
When his litlle neighbor, Just sold 0}1'~’.

Tossing his pennies, past him goes:
“Stopl"— some one looks at him sweet and

mild,

And the voice that speaks is a tender one;

“You should not strike such a little child,

And you should not use such words, my ,

soul”

1-; it his anger or his fears
That have hushed his voice and stopped
his arm?
“Don't tremble,” these are the words he hears;
“Do you think I would do you harm?”
“It isn,t that,” and the hands drop down;
“I wouldn't care for kicks and blows;
But nobody ever called me son.
Because I’m nobody’s child, l’s’pose.”

Oh man! as ye careless pass along,

Remember the love that has cared for you,
And blush for the awful shame and wrong

Of a world where such a thing could be true!

Think what the child at your knee had been ,

If thus on life’: lonely billows tossedi
And who shall bear the weight of the sin,
If one of these “little ones” he lost?
[Phebe Cary.

Observation

“The man who looks around him as he walks,
Sees objects often wonderful and new;

And he who thinks while his companion

talks,
In time may grow the wiser of the two.
An open eye, a quick, attentive ear,
Will lead the mind into the ways of knowl-

edge. _

For all the world's a universal college,
And every one may learn a lesson here.”

Men may be dividedinto two classes:
first there are those who have eyes and
see not, who have ears and hear not,
Whom we may term the non-observers;

second there are those who use their’

eyes and ears to the best advantage,
whom we may term, men of observa-
tion. The man of observation mentally
takes note of whatever he sees that
is worthy of notice. One inan will
travel from Maine to California and
not add an iota to his stock of knowl-
edge, Another may travel the same
route and gather material olit of which
he will make a valuable work. These
men may be equal in intellectual abil-
ity, but widely different in the faculty
of observing things. The detective
differs only from his fellows Ill the
power of keen observation. lie has
learned to read men as he travels.
Your artist is nothing more than a
detecter of nature in all her \'ill‘_\'lll_L,"
moods.

“He paints the mauiners as they lly."

\Vha’tever may be a u1:in's scieiitilic

attainments, or his book knowledge,‘

there is a great deal that he can only
get by observation. There are inaiiy
things in mechanical art in which the
eye is the sole guide or instructor.
I asked a shoe-maker if he followed
a form or rule exclusively in his art.
He answered, no. Some of the most
important things I do by the eye.
That which pleases the eye most,
must be done by the eye. The shape,
linish,and style of the boot which give
it its highest attractiveness in market,
came all from the eye. One must
learn by close observation how to fol-
low the line of the beautiful in mak-
inga lad_v’s boot. The naturalist, like

the “detective,” is only a keen obse1'ver- 

and learns to distinguish a certain class
of men, the other to distinguish men.
animals and plants by their national

traits. “I travel, like the mole,” says ‘

a friend, I never see anything by the
way; while my companion reaps a
harvest of good things as he passes
from place to place. Hugh .\liller’s
“First Inlpressions of England and its
People,” contains nothingbut what he

got from observation in a vacation

tour of merry England. Yet it is
one of the books that a man can
read a dozen times and still llnd de-
lightful. Observation is the foreriinner
to experience, it points out the facts
and experience proves them by trial.
All the Indian’s sagacity and educa-
tion 'came from observation. Observa-
tion may be termed the red man’s iii-
structor and constant guide. All his
art and cunning in peace and war he
got from the book of Nature. Not
only as

"A keen observer, he foretells the hour,

By sure prognostic, when to dread a shower.”
But he is unexcelled, by any other
men, in the wisdom and knowledge
he has gained in the school of observa-
tion. What you call genius is some-
times but keen observation. Alexan-
der Hamilton once broke up a. j ugg1er’s
public performance by detecting the
“trick" in the performance. The jug-
gler acknowledged afterwards that he
dare not proceed any further, as he
saw that Hamilton's keen eye was
solving his mystery.

No one dared mount the. splendid
young horse that had been presented
to King Phillip. But the boy Alexan-
der saw that what made the animal so
shy and restive, was his own shadow.
He turned the animal’s head so that
he did not see his shadow, mounted
him and rode off triumphant, the hero
of the hour. Aristotle says that Alex-
ander when young was the most ob-
servant pupil in his school.

Says one of our thorough horticul-

, turists, “we cannot call education ob-

i0IVati0n. but certainly careful obser
vation is education. It is the key of

! horticultural success.” And is not

i careful observation the key to agricul-

E tural success? We know that observa-

'tion is a good teaclier to learn from,
and that in some lields the highest sci-

‘ ciitilic attliiiimeilts are reached through
this channel. This is the case with as-
trononiy which is exclusively a science
of ob:-ervatiou. And how much agri-
cultural scieilcc can the fziriner obtain
through this smile source of iiii'oi'nia-
tioil.

' '-An open eye, a quick, attentive ear,

’ Will lead the mind into the ways of knowl-

-‘ edge,

3 For all the world's a universal college,
; And every cne may be a learner heie.”

Y. I}.

J
I

I NATIONAL GRANGE. P. or H., l
I, Ori-"ici-: or SECRETARY, ‘
; VVASI-IING'1‘0l\',D’‘.C.,OCt.15,’84 i

Dear Sir and B7-at ier:
I In accordance with the pzovieions
of its Constinition, and the resolu-
tion adopted at the session of 1883, the
Eighteenth Session of the National
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, will

be held in the city of Nashville, Ten-
inessee, commencing on “the Vv'ednee-
lday after the second Monday in No-
: vember,” (12th proximo,) at 11 o’clock
g A. M.
,‘ The session of the Grange will be
3 held in the Capitol building.
E Arrangements have been made for
' accommodation ofmembers a: the Max
a well house at $2 00 per day.
I’ By order of Exec£~utive Com.

WM. 1. IRELAND,

*1 Secretary National Grange.

 

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A Work For Parents.

Dr. Mo Cosh of Princeton, in com-
mon with numerous other serious
minded men and iournals, is impress-
ed with the fact that the comparative
number of young men entering upon
collegiate courses is growing every
year smaller. The reason for this
falling off in number Dr. Mc Cosh
laflirms is that " not more than one
= in ten when graduated is really worth
i the time and money spent upon him,”
i and the outside world, seeing the nine
who have failed. become skeptical as

to the worth of a College training.
5 The Chicago Standard continuing the
' discussion remarks:
j “Few persons are anxious to send
‘ their sons to college to row a boat, 0]
ito play base ball; or to bet on others
iwhile they are doing it. They have
‘-no desire, to have them engaged in
‘lhazing, gambling in their rooms, or
:joining in night brawls which get
ithem into the hands of the police, as
5‘ at New Haven and Princeton. Such
5 things must cease or colleges will con-
1 tinuc to loose favor with the people "
« There is much misdirected effort
1 and much wastc ofopporaunity among
1 the students in our colleges is unde-
niable. But the rcnicly is not to be
found in throwing the colleges aside
and compelling young men. to criucafe
rthemselves as best they may. The
I “indiscretions" ofcollegc men are sel-
ldom the fault of college influences.
I In the great majority of cases it may
i bc said that the young man who neg-
‘lects his chances at college would

neglect them elsewhere. Astudent
V‘ who goes to college with a thorough
; appreciation of the true aim of a col-
; legiaw course and an earnest purpose
3 to live up to that aim, is rarely found
1 giving undue attention to “ lowing a
;boat, or playin base ball, or betting
i on others whi e they are doing it.”
j The root of the cvil is probably to be
| found in the fact that parents do not
{strongly impress upon their sons the
ltrue method of college life. They
‘bring the boy up with all possible
,.care until he is old enough to go to
icollegcu Then they pack the young
f ellow off‘ and think their duty end-
ied. But there are many ways of
i“going to college.” Pa-eats should
‘point out the right one and see that
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their sons walk in it.—Detrail Times.

 

What You've Been Looking For.

I
3 A deal of breakage amongst gl:-iss-
l ware and crockery can be prevented
’by the simple precaution of placing
§lamp chimneys, tumblers, and such
:articles in a pot filled with cold
luster to which some common table
}salt has been added. Boll the water
i well, and then allow it to cool slowly.
lWhen the articles are take out and
,1 washed, they will resist any sudden
 changes of temperature.

Crape may be renovated by thorough-
,‘ ly brushing all dust from the meters],
' sprinkling with alcohol, and rolling in
,anewspaper, commencing with the
[paper and crane togeihcr, so that the
l paper may be between every portion
i of the material. Allow it to remain
sso until dry.
I A better plan for removing grease
spots than by applying a. hot iron is to
rub in some spirits of wine with the
hand until the grease is brought to
powder, and there will be no trace of
it. Every school boy is not aware
that ink spots can be removed from
the leaves of books by using a solution
of oxalic acid in water; nor does every
house-maid know that “spots” are
easily cleaned from varnished furnif
ture by rubbing it with spirits of
camphor.

It is worth while keeping a supply
of ammonia in the household, in case
we wish to remove finger-marks from
paint, or require to clean brushes or
greasy pans. A teaspoonful in a basin
of warm water will make hair brushes
beautifully white; but care must be
taken not tolet the backs of the brush-
es dip below the surface. Rinse them
with clean, warm water. and put in a
sunny window to dry.

 

MONEY THAT NOBODY OwNs.——There
are, it seems, $20,000,060 in securities
and money in the treasury of the
United States that no one claims. In
times gone by sundry persons have
bought government _securities which
they have lost or which have_bcen de-
stroyed; hence the twenty millions of
unclaimed bonds in the treasury. There
are savings banks in New York which
have in their vaults large sums that
will never be claimed: They belong to
poor people who died or that have
moved away, or have forgotten they
had ever any money in the bank. There
is supposed to be some $80,000,000 of un-
claimed money m banks and trust com
nies througliout the country which is
lost to the eirs forever.

DOES your grocer sell bogus butter?

when do Obligations of Patrons Cease‘!

The l'ollowi1igle1ter from the Wor-
ihy Blasts-r 01 the .V.itioii:il Orange. to
‘W. A. Aim.-'ti'olig, .‘»l-.i.sici‘ of X. Y.
>t;ite(}rai1gc_l’ of ii. settles, dcflnitcl_\‘
a question that lias been inoote-ri lllz!ll_\'
tllllP:5 by \'éll'lOll>l lmsiiil-ss oi'g:mi;:;i-
tions (l4‘,ll(‘.lldE‘llT. on lhiiroiis of lIus-
bziiidry for continued sIlppoi't:

the lstn is before inc, and coiitents du-
ly coiisidc-rH.l.
In :illS\\'P1'I(l your iliqulrlcs, I will

(iranges, it becoine.-1 ll€'C(>‘.‘3s‘>{l‘_V to sus-
pend from int’-nibersbip those who lieu‘-
iect or fail to pay dues as required by
the laws of the t)l‘(lt‘l‘, so that the
Grange may be relieved from the pay-
ment of dues to the State Grange upon
such delinquents. This suspension.
however. is but teiiiporary, and ceases
upon the }>’(i_\‘lllE‘llt of all accrued iliics.
If, however. the dues are not paid
within a reasonable time the Grange
may by vote, "drop thc mune of such
delinquent from the roll. In the lilt-
tcr case the delinquent 1llPllll)el‘('}lll
be ieilistated only by action of the
Grange under its by-laws.

All such suspended
whether their names are upon the roll-
book of the (iraligc. or
dropped tlicrefroin——2ire Patrons of
Ilusbaiidry unalliliated and m:i_v be
adinitte-«l into any .\.'uboi’dinate Grange

of the Digest of the National Grange;

business associations, co-operative or
otlierwise,conducted by or under the
auspices of the Order.”

But when a member of the Order
has been tried upon charges unbecoin-
ing a Patron, and “expelled," or “finally
suspended” from membership, by “sell-
tence of the Grange," such person is
no longer a“Pat1‘on of llusbaiidry" in
any sense, has no claims to any of the
benefits of the Order, and is under no
responsibilities to it, further than the
requirements of his obligations and the
demands of the civil laws regulating
property rights. Hence the following
definition of “What constitutes a Pat-
roll 1”’ passed by the last .\'ational
Graiige:

“Applicants admitted to t~lleOrderot'
Patrons of llusbandry(accountable for
their conduct, if uulilliliated, to the
Grange in whose jurisdiction they may
reside) and responsible to all business
associations co-operative or otlierwisc,
conducted by or under the auspices of
the Order, continue until e,\'pelled from
the Older, finally Sl1Sp(tll(lP(l by sen-
tence of the (flange, or they rei-eive
from the proper authority a with-
drawal card."

The phrases, expelled from the Or-
der, and linally suspended by sentence
of the Orange, are in a legal sense and
only in grade of punishment.
gree of disfavor expressed by the
Grange in pronouncing sentence upon
the convicted. Expulsion is the “sever-
est degree of disfavor and coiidcimia-‘
tion of any known to our laws.
nal (or definite) suspension,“ severs a
member’s connection witll the Order as
eilectlially as “expulsion,” but with a
less degree of disfavor.

Yours fraterilally.
J. .1. \\'ooli)IAN,
Master N. (l .l’. of II.

Paw Paw, Mich.. Jan 21, 1854.

 

The Granger and the Grabbers.

A well known St. Paul lawyer
makes an interesting siiniinary of the
division of the assests or the noble
Granger. He says the railway manager
the miller and the merchant get their
heads together, carefully estimate what
the farmer grows, what it requires to
prevent the dissolution of the body and
the spirit, and then coolly proceed to di-
vide the balance between themselves.
The railway manager takes the lion’s
share, the miller follows close after,
leaving the merchant to bear the bur-
den of the credits, and in case of inor-
tality to lead the funeral train as chief
n1ourner.—iSt. Paul I)a,_2/.

 

Advocates an Honorable Tumble.

bead whitens for death,” said Elias H.
Sellers grandiloquently to a superior
courtjury yesterday; “it” I should prac-
tice till I am 70 years old and ready for
the grave I never will take advantage
of a technicality. I don’t know what
is considered honorable to an attor-
ney for a railway corporation, but I
won’t work on the prejudices of ajury.
I don't come into court gentlemen of
thejury, in this way. I come honor-
ably, and if I fall I fall honorably.”

 

IIERE is alesson for fair managers to
study. We quote with a feeling of real
gratitude the following from our re-
port of the Hillsda1e(Mich.) County Ag-
ricultural Society’s fair: “This fair is
one of those, institutions where the
management adhere strictly to the
principle of conducting a fair solely in
the interests of improved agriculture.
It does not undertake to supply any out-
side diversion.” Good! And what of
the attendance? Average attendance
12,000 and receipts larger than ever.
Now, let the skeptics who think farm-
ers cannot be induced to take an inter-
est in agriculture for its own sake take
note, and let Fair managers who think
they cannot run a fair without female.
bicyclists or balloons take notice. In
the meantime we respectfully doff our
hats to the managers of the Hillsdale
Agricultural Society.— Farmei-’s Re-
vzew.

 

Mr. W. Mattieu Williams calls at-
tention to the danger attending the
habitual use ofa cup of tea when fa-
tigued from brain work, thus enabling
a man to continue at work. In reply
to an assertion that “fatigue disap-
pears like magic after drinking a. cup
of tea,” he says “that which actually
disappears is the sensation of fatigue,
which may be deadened by any one of
a multitude of other drugs besides the
alkaloid of tea.” He adds, “This sense
of fatigue is the natural safety valve
of the whole vital machinery, espe-
cially of its prime mover the brain.”—
Grange Bulletin.

 

One of the greatest curiosities in the
arctic regions is the music which the
traveler has with him wherever he
goes. The moisture exhaled from his
body is at once condensed and frozen,
and falls to the ground in the form of
hard spikes of crystals. which keep up

Dear Sir nnrl Brother.-—Yolil‘s of.

state, tint. in the work or .\'liboi'dinllle :

nlembers— =

liavc been -’

in thcjuris<l.ictioi_i of which they re-,:
side, as ]lI‘O\'ldP(i ill rule :34 on page 04 ‘

and consequently are responsible to all :

meaning, Syll(IllVll’lI)llS terlns, dilfering i
or de- 9

est peiialty," and (‘Xpl'(‘SS(:S the high-,

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‘i The farmer is the true and always
1

“If I should practice law till my‘

Farmers‘ clubs.
If we wu-re ;i.~'l.'e<l what the llrst du-
{_\' oftlle I",-lrlvn-r i.-, we would llzlswl-l‘.
Ul'g2illlZ“Z ll" we \\'¢'l'P asked for the
sccolid duty. we would ;iii.~;wcr, orgrz/1-
/:4‘; llinl if we \\'(‘l‘if called upon to
pioii'uliic-- an opinion as to the third
l'é3qlll.\“ilt‘. we would illl>f\\'Pl'. nl:«;,\.\'-
,lzl-:. ll‘ we -.v+-1'» :2.-‘kc-xi. "llow lll.l!‘.)'
i':l.i‘iiicl'.»"::lil'z»,-‘ slloiild tin-re be in the
pm\'iii¢':s;‘3 our zuzswo-r would be.’
Couiil the public scliool liiilisi-.:, Tllls‘
~would give lbe iiuinlu-r required.
‘.‘vIlrllllH‘l'S' oi" th£‘1‘H'ili clubs sliould
lIlt’t:t ‘.\".*(~*l\'l}' dui'iilgtln- wiuti-1‘ nioiiths;
ill.’-_v should vlmose iw-pres»-:it:lti\'e.-:. to
hold towilsliip incctiligs e-"vein inomli.
At lll¢~St‘ lllPt‘llllg.~'« (lull-gates should be
cliosc-ii to lneet qll;u'tel'ly in every,
coulity, and there should be a provin-
cial lllt-‘l‘i'Ilf.’,' iiiiuually, coinposeal of
(lt‘l(‘;{3ilt‘S from tho L'<‘li|'ll_'»' iin-ctliigs.
II’ we were asked to draw 21 line of dis-

tlnctioii lictivccii i'zli‘inci's zunl the
other portions of the <‘«I’.illlllllli{_\', we
would uliswei‘. the l‘.'li'uiiug lu>:l‘.‘ cam

neitlu-i' iiiovc nor be moved.

is given for thought, suiiiniei‘ for 21(3-

tiollz and it is only by (‘Oll(‘,r'l‘It‘,ll
, 5-”Jll(’.ll]lll§.‘,‘ that the height of inentzll I
devclopinent and lilisiiiess pi’-isperlt_v .
can be 2ll.tlllIlt-'d.

The clubs which air:-.uly r-xi.-‘t are
l'ettercd in many \va_\'s. .\l:iiiy useful
and practical questions are di-cussed,
the declsioiis being based on the per-
sonal c.\'pei"iciice of the lllL‘lill)(‘l‘S; but ,
the results of individual experience ,'
differ, and very little atlelllllt is 1
made to investigate the priiici- *
pies or causes which lead to these !
, differences. Many questions discussed 5
v have beeiisettled by science, or. iii util-

er words, by practical oxperiiiieiits ,
often repeated, and these que.-ations are l
, no longer debatable; indeed, there are I
.‘ but H. few important qliestious in agri-

i culture which can not be traced to ,
,i some firmly established principle. ,
I; The agricultural press is the chief .
; educator of the fllrlllefs, and in it there 
i will always be found :1 variety of sub-

ijects for debate. Let the club he lirst
assured that its editor is the right man ‘
in the right place, and then his services ‘
can be greatly utilized through its col- |
I uinns, especially in aiding to decide l
_ what questions are debatable and what 
l are not. Mecllauics Institutes should j’
ialso be turned to account. l“ai'iiier.=ll
5 being taxed for such iiistitutions. they '
; should derive all the advantages possi- i
I ble from them. :
‘ ltthcre is a nieniber of the club who i
‘ has a special talent for mathematics or ‘
;nieclianics, he should prepare papers

g on agricultural inipliments and ma- 
fClllllt‘l'_\', and direct the requireinellts!
, oi‘ the whole club in practical matters i
= pertaiiiiug thereto, so as to prevent iin- v
,position by maiiufat,-ti1i‘ei's or agents!
I .\'imilarily all the departineiits of farin-
1‘ ing might be divided amongst the

members; and the school teacher should i
be invited to lend a helping hand. A;
i great deal of experimental work could ;
g be done in this manner. some ineni- i
3 hers should make a special study of i
E the scieiices of experiineutiiig, and lay ,i
out such work as could be easily and I

\\'iiiteI‘,~

 

 

,,1_.l._ , inexpeiisively conducted by tllIIPI‘t‘Ill.]

nieinbers of the club.~Fm-nier‘.»- .~ldi-o- i
cate rCan.)

 

successful minor in the extraction of

money from the earth—a fact most
1 strikingly proved in the history of Cal-

ifornia, whose splendid march to wealth
A and power only fairly began when the
energies of her population were turned
to the production of bread for the
world instead of gold. The prodigious
consumption of 56,000,000 of people is
brought strikingly before us when we
realize how vast a proportion of our
aggregate products is used at home and
how small a share relatively is used
abroad. The hundred and odd millions
of the New England farm product does
not nearly support her own people, and
they are compelled to exchange the
fruits of their mechanical industry to
an enormous amount annually for the
means of subsistence so lavishly out-
poured from the graneries of the more
fertile west. And this fact is but one
of inany'which shows the independence
of our people and the vast extent of our
internal exchanges. This scene of to-
day has an enhanced interest when we
reflect that throughout the gorgeous
autumn upon which we have just en-
, tered it will be reproduced in countless
communities throughout our broad
land. From ocean to ocean, from north-
ern lake to southern gulf, the richness
of the harvest, the contentment and
happiness of the people, will be shown.
On fields as fair by displays, as brilliant
as those which now deli ht our eyes
and gladden our hearts. for will the
autumn exhaust the inspiring scenes
when the chill of winter on the north-
ern border of the Union shall make
the southern seem genial and welcome.
Our brethren of the cotton region will
continue the woiiderous story. They
invite us to witness in the commercial
emporium of the south the great tri-
umph of the southern agriculture in
the production of that singular plant,
which has revolutionized the manufac-
tures. They have the finance of the
world. which has enriched the United
States beyond the reach of imagination
and has added incalculably to the com-
fort, the health and the luxury of the
human race.——G2-cmge Bulletin.

 

[Read this twice.—ED.]

After election, what? Political jour-
nals and orators depict the danger if
the opposing candidate is elected, and
impress upon the minds of simple peo-
ple the calamities sure to occur iftheir
candidate is defeated. Does anybody
believe that this country will experi-
ence a cataclysm if the republican
party is defeated? Or that the final
day of accounting will be hastened if
the democratic party loses? Steady-
going, sober people, whether demo-
crats or republicans, will do right when
they vote their convictions. The
country will prosper much in propor-
tion to the industries of its people. It
is possible, it is true, for bad legisla-
tion to retard prosperity, but bad leg-
islation will put the other party in
power; so there is constantly an in-
centive to wise consideration of public
questions. The difference between the
two great parties is more in name
than in fact. The hubbub and uproar
of the time intervening before election
day will do more hurt to general busi-
ness, it is likely, than all the legisla-
tion of the next year, no matter which
party wins. Those who are deeply
concerned about the prosperity of the
country can hardly obtain satisfactory
guarantee from either party that, if
successful, it will not do very foolish
things.—Husbandman, Elmira, N. Y.

 

a constant and not unpleasant clatter.

SAVE thestraw; hay may be high.

Huntington‘; Transcontinental.

The “last spike“ was quietly driven
theutlier day in the first 1';iilro;irl in
the l‘iliiL-ll >'i.-ltvs that can rightly be
called u"traiiscoiitineiital line." Tbi.-:
spike bound to the tics the last rail in
the road which Huiitiiigtoii, (‘i‘o».-in-1‘,
and Sl:uil'ord have iinide it the c1'o'.\‘u-
iligziliiliitinlli of their lives to lay across
tllemiltlilelit. "lie-se lilril now ll2l\'t‘ a
ruilrozul of their own froin the .\tl.ii:-
tic to the l’zicilic, ulld siztiiig in Iii‘-'ll'
private cars curl ride from San l“r;iu-
cl.-lco to .\'o»wpoi't News without leav-
ing their own Ir;u'ks. Tliis is the cou-
suuiiualion of plans which they laid
lifteeii _ve2li's ago. when they iirst liegliii
the coiistriictloii of the Soutlierii l’zi-
cilic. Tin-y have purslied the i'<-;iliz.l-
lion ol'tlieii‘schcliies with the daunt-
lP>'Slll)llll)' and the niasterly streiigtli
with which they must be credited €\'t‘Il
b_v the critics who ii-ave most sharply
censured them for their misuse of
tl1H})O\\'(‘I‘S intrusted to them by the
people. They have achieved their
purposes in spite of the laws of Nature
and of lIlt‘ll. They have gone with
equal case through (‘ongress and the
deserts of Arizona. There was 1!. ino-
ment last spring when it seem-9(l as if
the King of T(’.l‘l'l_)l'S in the money mar-
ket had marked lluntington and his
partners for its own, but they outrode
even that pursuer, and have survived
to drive their last spike lll peace.

The following table will give the
public a clearer idea than any amount
of comment of the work lluntiiigtou
and his partners have done and the
power they have gatliered into their
hands. It gives the mileage and the
capitalizlition, including water, of the
various roads they have bought and
built, including the l‘entr:il l’acil‘ic:

Miles. Bonds and
Stock.
Southern Pacific . . . . . _ . . 9-'15  84,039,000
Southern Pacific of New

Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 11,069,000
Southern Pacific of Ar-

izona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38-1 2‘.i,.5‘.)‘.),000
Galveston, Harrisburg &

San Antonio . . . . . . . . . . 0327 «l!),‘2l7,000
Texas & New 0rlesns.. ‘.200 0,270,000
Morgans, Louisiana and

Texas................ 20b‘ ll.4‘J-1,000
Louisville, New Orleans

& Texas. .. ....  -1'30 20,700,000
Chespeake, Ohio, and

Southern......... .. . I¥0:~' 19,541,000
Elizabeth, Lexington 3;

Big Sandy . . . . . . . . . . . . 13'.) 7,000,000

Kentucky Central . . . . . . . 253 12,184.00

Chesapeake Jr Ohio . . . . . . :'i'_’0 65,22S),()00

Central Pacific . . . . . . . . . . 1.215 l~l0,‘J.37,000

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . -3,900 S«1,l20,0U6(J

Wltil all its extciisioiis and connec-
tions, including that by which the
Iluntiiigton syiidicatereaclies Cliicligo,
this system covers not less than 5,000
miles of transportation. It strings to-
gether Saii Fraiisico, El Paso, Saii An-
tonio, llouston, Galveston, New Or-
leans, Baton llouge, Mcinphis, Vicks-
burg, Louisville, ifiincinnati, llichinond.
Chicago, The seventeen iron steaniers
which the syndicate acquired when it
bought l\Ioi'gaii‘s Louisville A’; Texas

he, extend its line of carriage to New
York, llavaniia and the ports of Mex-
ico. The land-grants, belonging to the
different roads contain uncounted mil-
lions of acres, whi.-h now pass under
the control of three or four persons.
This little handful of men dominates
the highways of ten States and Terri-
tories. Tlieirpower of taxation is gov-
ernmental, and their revenues are im-
perial. All these diliereiit corpora-
tions will be welded into one. The
men lluntingtoii,Stanford,and (Jrocker
will die, but the corporation will live.
The coutry must rule it, or it will rule
the couiiti'y.—Cliic-ago Tribune.

 

To the question, “What sug estions
have you for the good of the lrder ‘:"’
A Worthy Master responds tersely,
“Iniluence the sons and daughters of
farmers to become members,” That is
a good suggestion. Intluence them-
how? Make a Grange so useful, so iii-
structive, so entertaining and delight-
ful in its character that the sons and
daughters of farmers will be irresisti-
bly attracted; then when they have
part in the management they may be
able to make it more useful, more at-
tractive, and a greater power for good.
From the Ifusbandman Elmira, N. Y.

Literary Notes from the Century Co.

The edition of the November Centu-
ry will be the largest ever printed of
that magazine. Besides the lirst chap-
ters of Mr. IIowell’s new novel, The
ltise of Silas Lapliam,” the story of
an American business man, its liction
will include “A Tale of Negative
Gravity,” by Frank R. Stockton; “Free
Joe and the ltest of the \Vorlt.”an
illustrated story by Joel (.‘liandIer liar-
ris; and “The Lost Mine," by Thomas
A Janvier, with a. full page picture by
Mary Hallock Foote. Mr. Geor e
Ticknor Curtis contributes to the .\ o-
vember Century a paper on "How
Shall we Elect our Presidents?”

 

When the tide is at the full, it turns.
Our educational methods have been
growing in system and severity, if not
in protection for many years: and the
demands upon the pupil have constant-
ly increased, until the necessities for
grading have become imperative, and
the pecularities of the individual are
almost entirely ignored. It would
seem impossible to carry this further,
and any change now must be in some
other direction. As this crisis, one of
the brightest and most fearless of
American writers comes forward
with a strong argument against the
whole system, a protest against the
grading and cramming that takes so
much of the vitality out of the educa-
tion we are giving to the rising genera-
tion. Edward Everett Hale, in the
November number of the North Amer-
ican Review makes a plea for “Half-
Time in Schools,” which every parent
and every school board ought to con-
sider seriously.

 

[O. H. Kelley, founder of the
Order of Patrons of Husbandry, and
now Mayor of Carrabelle, Florida. ]

ll[r.Edito1'.-—I have thoroughly test
ed in this climate both for house
painting ( inside and out,) and on sail
craft during the last five years, and it
certainly is‘a1l that is claimed for it.
The salt air from the gulf has no effect
on it whatever. It (the Ingersoll
Liquid Rubber Paint, manufactured at
the Patrons Paint Works, 76 Fulton
Street, New York) is much better than
any paint I have ever used, and it is
the only thing that I ever gave a. tes-
timonial to.
Yours Fraternally,
0. H. KELLY.
[ See advertisement.—ED.]

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GRANGERS OF OTSEGO

AND VICINITY.

We, the undersigned, the committee ap-
pointed hy Otsego Grunge, No Jim, to whom
was referred the matter of arranging and per-
fecting plans to c:irry out the proposition of
Messrs. Norton and Lester to establish a store
in the village of Otsego. upon a basis similar
to that of the Grange store in Allegziii; would
say that we have made the necessary arrange-
ments with said firm and they are now sell-
ing goods at actual cost, adding to each pur-
chliser's bill 13 per cent as protlt. They, the
said firm furnishing their owli capital, and
paying their own expenses. Therefore, we
would respectfully suggest and urge all
Gi-angers to give them. the said Norton dz
Lester their hearty support, as without, such
support they cannot sell goods at the profit
proposed. Ii E Piri-‘.i.rs,
M. El.DIl.Er),
Aarnus. 'I‘. Sruzx,
Committee.

TO THE PURCHASING PUBLIC.

We have now conimenced selling goods on
the Grange plan, and sell goods at cost, add-
ing six per cent to purchaser's bill, and sell
for cash only. However, for a short time we
will sell goods to any person or persons,
whether amember of any Orange or not, at
the same rate-, but only for a limited time
after which persons will be obliged to either
join the Grange or purchase trading tickets of
us. Very respectfully,

NORTON it LESTER.

A.  

H0 USE DECORATOR

AND DEALER IN

Fine Wall Paper,

Window Shades, Room Mouldings,

gilrfiafs’ étafrrials,

Paints, Oils, Class, Etc.,
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TIME-TABLE—MAY 18, 1884.
Standard time—90th meridian.

   
  
  

WEBTWARD.
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Evening Express _ 1 00‘

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New York Express, __| -
Atlantic Express, .............. _._1'

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Evening Express west and Night Express out y
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days. Freight trains carrying passengers out hon
Kalamazoo as follows: No 29 (east) at 5:1‘! r. l.. and
No.20 (west) at 8:10, bring passengers from east at
12:45, P. M.

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J. A. Gain, General Freght Agent, Chicago.
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Standard tiine—-90th meridian.
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Le. Grand Rapids

   

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Eiirpailmrul

A VIOMAMS WISH.
Would Iwere lying in a. field of clever,
Of clover cool anl salt and soft and sweet
With dusky clouds in deep skies hanging over.
And scented silence my head and feet.

Just for one hour to slip the leash of Worry
In eager haste, from Thought‘: impatient
neck
And watch it coursing in its heediess hurry.
Disdaining Wisdom’s call or Duty's beckl

Ahl ’twere sweet. where clover clumps arc
meeting
And daisies hiding, so to hide and rest;
No sound ex ept my own heart's beating,
Rocking itself to s eep within my breast-

Just lie there, filled with deeper breathing
That comes of lis‘ening to a wild bird song?
Our so-ile acquire at times this full unsheath-

All Bnuldfl will rust in scabbard kept too
long.
And I am tired-- so tired of rigid duty,
so tired of all my tired hands find to do!
I yearn, I faint for some of life's free duty.
its loose beads with no straight running
through.

Ly laugh. if laugh you will, at my crude-

But women sometimes die of such a greed-

Die for the small joys in-id beyond their
reach,

And the assurance they have all they need

Farmers’ Wives.

"Poor, weary, farmer’s wivss !” ]
wonder how many of them appreciato
the consoling sympathy tiny receiv-
at the hands of various writers.

One might judge from what he read»
that, taken as a class, farmer’s wives
are the most miserable creatures in ex
istenoe, the merest drudges, and slaveo
to death. The farmers themselves
according to the scribes, being selfish
tyrants, with never a thought beyond
acres and stock, and hired men.

There is no doubt but therc are some
whose circumstances are similar in
those represented; but they are only
the exceptional ones. As a class, fav-
mers’ wives are as happy in their vo-
cation, as are the wives of in rchanti»
or professional men. They delight in
the work of a farm house, taking care
oftbe rich creamy milk, working up
the golden butter, making the delici-
ous cheese that fairly melts in one,s
mouth, canning the fruits that are
grown upon the farm, taking care of
thepoultry, and perchance feedingihe
calves and pigs when necessary, and
doing a thousand and one other things
about the house and garden.

Hard work !of course it's hard work;
but she knows that there is no excel
lenoe without labor. And she knows
also, that there is no better placi-
in the wide, wide world for the human
pets that gather about her many times
a day, for loving words of appreciation,
than a well ordered farm. There is no
plaoe -more restful and comforting
to a tired mortal, than the home of a
thriving farmer’s wife.

Tobe sure you will often iindthe
floors covered with home made car-
peting, and sometimes patched at
that; and the furniture may be worse
for wear; but there is an air of easy
comfort about the room that is not to
be found elsewhere.

Asfor farmers‘ wives being obliged
to always stay at home that is more or
less 3 farce. Very many of them have
a horse and carriage at their disposal,
and can go when they please. And at
least one day in the week, their sunny,
cheerful faces may be , found in the
village streets, shopping being the os-
tensible business, but usually 3. pleas-
ant call is made upon a. friend and
pleasant chats are had with many ac-
quaintances. Then there are the neigh-
borly visits, which reach a long way

around. They are all the more en-
joyable because familiarity has not
beenpossible and therefore has not
bred contempt.

The scribes also carry the idea that
the farmer's wife is always dressed in
a dowdy style visible to all beholders,
and is a disgrace to the nation, and
Mrs. Grundy in particular.

This, too, is a false notion, for a
stranger visiting an agricultural fair
will be quite unable to distinguish the
farmers’ wives from the wives of the
city lawyer or doctor, and as for “old
and wareworn faces,” they do not all
belong to the wives of farmers. Ah,
nol the spirit of happy contentment
is found far more frequently upon
the farm where boys and girls are
fostered with a mother's gentle voice
and a father's guiding hand, than
where the care of the nurslings is left
to -hirelings, while the parents spend
their leisure in discussing fashions
and horse-racing; and each flirting
with some one’s better or worse half,

all too often bringing their names be-
fore the public in shame and everlast-
ing disgrace. ' '

Farmers’ wives may. need the sym-
pathy of friends sometjiires,’ but not be-
cause they are the wives‘ of agricul-
turists, for there are but few of them
who would be willing to exchange
places with their city sisters. The na-
tion owes much of its prosperity to this
noble band of women; the ship of
“state is manned by the sons of farmers
to a great extent and what there is of

honest integrity in the hearts of our '

representatives, comes from the foun-
tainhead, which is the farm. And in
the not far-ofl future, our representa-
tives will not only be the sons of far-
mers, but the daughters will help them
in the halls of Congress as well as on

the farm. Mar MAPLE. 1

Window Gardening.

The time of "iiower bed" glory is ,
spent, the day of “taking up plants” !
is past, and the nipping nights have!
vanquished a lingering desire to cover 
each evening what remained of our;
out door plant pets. (int among them 3
on the naked stubs of once brilliant;
geraninms, and bright lined COIPUS 1
none of the wealth of foliage is left, but I

its brown and bedrzibbled semblniicv l

sweet pansy faces peep up at _vou

er plants. Dear, talking

to bedeck yourselves with. and to be-

heart resolves ‘B Are you not proud
who links your name with noble words
and stirs so many listless hands to
act?

“Pansies are for thoughts" you know,
and always in selecting flowers
for next year, let them stand first in
your thoughts. Who has not seen their
manifest charity? Strip the pansy
cornerday after day of their blossoms.
and they only smile back the thicker
if such an expression may be used.

But it is upon indoor gardening that
we are bent at this sea!-on. All the
heavy work of repotting and arrang-
ing for the winter is done, and the in-
mates of every truly home--like room
find a clipping of summer kept over
for their use. All the various
modes of propagation, ti'aiispl:inting.
and arranging plants are iiiteresting,
every woman has a way of her own in
this, as in several other iniitters of
greater or less importance. No gen-
eral rule seems to prevail, but a good
deal of “judgment” is served up if you
ask for directions, just as it usually is
in recipes for any culinary com
pound, “a pinch of salt, butter accord-
to judgment, ctc.,"
wrecked on this rock of judgment,
many times?

Plants, however, take kindly to this
quality, we discover, and thrive on it
as if it were a necessary element in
the soil. They evidently know when
the judgment that cares for them _is
prompted by a love for their vigor and
beauty, at any rate we all know they
appreciate being “fussed over."
an accepted fact that while one wo-
man may give her houseplants the af-
ternoon sun instead of the morning
rays, ammonia baths, tobacco spri1ik-
ling hot water plunges, bone-dust, pat-
ent fertilizers, charcoal and the linu-
dred and one things recommended to
“make them grow,” “keep them back,"

v

of elegant bloo us” all at the right and
proper time, her neighbor will far out-
strip her by a sympathetic attention
to light, heat and air, and the before
referred to “fussing.”

In a room which I frequent, stands

for any task in plant work, has trans-

pared the way and eager phnit life
walked therein.

This is how it was.
depths two months ago was dragged ,

chine.
on castors, likewise filled it with the!

slips and small plants well stai'ted,}
were set out in this new garden. In 
the shade at the back door they set-,
tied themselves with not a single case i
of “wilt," and then. how they grew!

With that uvaricious desire that con-.
stantly adds one more kind," our wash- 

then a broad fragrant leaved geranium ,
until there was no more room. ;

When the frost came our timeworn E
habitant of the kitchen was treated to 
a bright dressing of paint and a place :
before the south sitting room window, r
where a large oil-cloth protects the
carpet from all drippings. There are.
seventeen plants in this, our window
garden, included several varieties of ge- v
raniums, some of them beautiful‘
bloomers, a. mosquito fuchia droops
over all, and the dainty Smilax with
maurandya and other vines twine
among them. Such rapid growths I
have never seen. With the bright
green moss laid about their roots and.
all set off by the red of their garden;
wall, it is a. pretty addition to any
room, besides taking the place of
crooks, which, when one unites lim-
ited space with unlimited love for
flowers, are difiicult to manage so as
to give light to all.

It is with gratificationthat those who
have cultivated the begonia for any
time see them given aplace more fre-
quently among the pots of-;ama.teui's.,_,
The begonia. rex, when grown in any
way approaching its possible size and
beauty, makes a. joy forever in itself.
The same may be said of the crab
cactus. Each year ( sometimes twice)
ainedium sized one hears from fifty to
seventy-five exquisite and perfect
blooms, while a large plant reaches one
hundred and twenty-five, and upward.
Plants, like child-life, thrive most
robustly and with that healthy vigor
that is our admiration" when as nearly
as may be, surrounded by such provis-
ions as nature has embodied in her
plans. As she does not send rainsat
regular intervals to her out-of-door

vegetation, neither need the satura-

fldtters in the Chm air; only 3 few  time permits, adding more to the pile.

from their places undemmth the mu_  ;)ri;3l;:it:t1:dy;>rt(.);'hto3l:1etlIi)¢1e 1:11:23  aside our indecision of clamcter, and
r ‘ ' l I ‘ I
What would We do without yOI1);i',nE;I;::,',  into little'_balls and tuck them under-  sphere to which God has allotted rs;
beautiful and expressive Pad, vear_ ,ne.a.th the soil; this serves the double l ever advancing the influence Ci our

will you never cease to and new tints  purpose of niellowing the earth, and of Order, having faith in its power to

guile us with new thoughts, and fresh 3

of your name sake, our human “l’ansy" ,

Who has not ,

Itisz

and “cover them up with a profusion = ,
 fluence of some kind we must exert, ;

TEE QBANGE VISITOR.

“figures on a dial.” To such kinds as

l tion of in-door gardens be regulated by  rrasons. We are as a cl- as isn':i‘.ed_
iwe need something to bring us out.

the calla and a few others, of course t We need to exct-ange our thought»-

this does not apply, as standing water
is better in their pots. «Have you
ever tried the effect of plunging c2-.l:i
pots into boiling hot water ever)
morning?)
Leaf mould. one of Dame Na.tui'e’.~
own restoratives, may be made at your
own doors by pruning down the blow-
‘ing leaves witha little dirt, and as

j making a fertilizer for it.
‘ J. B.

I Influence.

The immortal part of orr being so
5 transcends the material, as to control
- the body in which it dwells, and the
glives of others, ly a force as strong
land subtle as the power of nature,
which binds the atoms of earth togeth-

§ er, and sends it whirling on through '

limitless space, receding from, and
‘returning to its great central power

!as the seasons change and the years,

I roll c n.

<
x

’ but the ii flue nce we exert for good cr
ill shall go on widening and increas-
; ing in endless duration reachirg back
1 from the eternal bills, the memo:y oi
kindnc.-3 cr unkindness we have
shown to those around us.
The saddest thought that could
3 come to ; our hearts would be the

I thought of having led one human soui |

astray, while the hope we may_iii_fus¢~
' iiitd-‘desponding-I hearts, and the
: strength we may give to weak, erring

Qones, will be as sparkling gems shin ‘

§ing out in earth’s darkness and sin,
land will loose none of their luster
3 amid the purity of Heaven.‘_‘H- ’ '
The elements of nature conspire fr 1-
the happiness or destruction of man.
coming in gentle breezes, and giving
, to the invalid fresh vigor and strength
and to all, a promise of 1' right sum

:mer days, or with the swiftniss of‘

, lightning, and the force of an avalanch
l rushing man to swift destruction, and
, desolating our fair earth.

' Rain comes upon the earth making
fit soft with showers, and crowning
I the earth with goodness, or, descend-
ling in torrents, creates a deluge, de
l stroying animal and vegetable life;

f thus, our influence is ever a power for -

‘ good or harm, uplifting and ennobling
' society, or degrading those with whom
 we dwell.

' “No man liveth unto himself.” In-

2 quiet and unobtrusive it may be, com-
.ing not with observation and powers
butnone the less c ffeotusl .
= man may overpc. wet the weaker one.
but his it fluence is not enhanced

a piece of furniture that one, willing  lllelebl/; l'01'09 01' mind and 110l5 ‘ ll
‘, muscle, is the controlling power over 3
formed into a marvel of beauty. She  the liV€50l'0thF1‘3-

did it did 1 say? ‘No, she only pre- ‘ tifully exemplified

This is most bean

in the daily life
of a faithful, (leveled mother, with
“line upon line, and precept upon pre-

lfp from cellar ‘ Cept, here a little and there a little”

guiding the young minds with a

the dingy form of an old washing ma-  wise and skillful hand and instilling
Feminine ingenuity set it up ? in their hearts pure and holy desires

stimulating them to noble lives, while

Mns. W. R. SEXTON.

“-60-Operation.

[Read before Northville Grange, by
Mrs. Mary Brokaw.] ’

All classes of business men, long ago
learned the value <, f co-operation;

hands and allowed these men to fix
th elr price on his produce; sat and said
“I can’i,” while they made our laws;
knowing that we were the majority;
and all we needed was united action
Not until the moneyed kings and Iheir
monopolies were flooding our coun-
try, did we begin to anchor to our
strength.

We feel to-day that our future as a
nation is in our hands, if we will it.
In agriculture we expect to reap, ac

cording to the outlay; if we give but -

little attention to preparing our
ground, and sow but a small amount
of seed, the crop will necessarily be
in accordance. In nature we see the
grrater muss drawing the smaller to
it. Six all streams flow together to
make great rivers. As men acquire
infiuence it comes more and more
rapidly. If we expect to gain an end
we must work for it; the greater part
if what men call genius, is only 9.
talent for work, connected with a
strong will power. A great many of our
men who have spread light through
the world, have had scarcely oil for
the lamps by which they worked.
We must not expect that the seed
we sow in,the morning, to grow to
maturity before evening.

Let us then,f' as farmers, stand.
united and assert our power; working
for those principles that are for the
great good of humanity; working,
just as faithfully as if we stood in the
rank of seine great battle, and we
knew that the victory for mankind
depended on our bravery and strength.
When we do that, the least of us will
be serving in that great army. which
achieves the welfare of the world.

We need to oo—operste for many

Heaven and earth may pass away. E

The strong ’

l and idr as with others, our very l.fe, as
l a G'ange, depends on one united ef-
Tfort; tfo good we do may be com-

rrrntively small, but let L‘.’~‘ remember

ti :1‘: we are either gliirg l:ickw:m’s
‘or forwards. Let us not fancy that
jwe could lc something if we lad rt
j diff rent lot assigned us, the very oh-
i structions that we most depreciate
j may befor our good. Let us then cast

flake up our work cheeifully in the

I better our lives, homts and so~’nl sur
'roundin,r_s. Who can cslcu‘ate the

benefit of itsocially? Let us be :-tim~
fulated to reversed action. Let us
" think more and rmd more, and then
will we be adding dignity to labor.
rememlering that our strength de-
pends not on our num‘ers, but upon
our being true workers.

Purpose.

"Yet I doubt not through the ages one in
creasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widened with
the process of the suns."
—-Tennyson.

“Lived fora purpose!” What bet-
ter epitaph shall muscled srm ever
carve on marble slab for you than
that? What though it never even be
given to passers-by on raised stone and
only finds a place in the refiecting
thoughts of some life yours has
touched when you stemmed together
. the stream of iife’s duties?

The story is told of a group of
school boys, who, one wintcr day for
want of other sport, made tracks in
the fresh snow. It was proposed that
they makea trial and see which of
them could dig the straightest paths.
:, With much hilarity and manyl2uigh-
‘ing remarks they plunged to their
work. The deftly hindled shovels
sent the snow flying in a cloud of
white about their active bodies. The
light snow parted before their vigor
and the paths rapidly lengthened.
3 Aftc r alittie time they stopped work
to see whrse seemed mr.-it true to a
straight line. Those whrse most ho’.-.
.teror..- ifforts lad, in the minds of
their companions assured them suc-
cess, now looked back and saw with
3 dismay tint their paths crooked one
way and another.

But there was one boy who had not
attracted much attention and whose
E road had, in fact, escaped notice, who
 now, with a touch of pardonabie
pride, hrmd  companions exclaimf
“See how good Paul's path is, his is
,best after all!” And then they sle-
fi mended how he made his so straight
-, while theirs had crooked and won! d
‘far out <1‘ the way. "Why," mid
fPaul”, "I don't know, only I kept.
; my eye on that pine stub yonder, and
‘ worked for that.”

The Paul that in his play aims for a
5 pins stump and does not take his eye
I from it until his task is accomplished
§will be the boy in the schoolroom
iwho definitely fixes the amount of
 knowicdge he will acquire, and stead-
gily pushes forward until he stands
imast‘ r of the quantity and quality

»‘Nor is it amiss to predict that from
3 such metal shown in the schoolroom

best wood soils well mixed with leaf-Eupon them ever shine, tlcc sweet, i will come forth the character of 2:.
mould and sand. Then as they rooted,  pure light of maternal love.

v sterling man, who, like his namesakc
‘: of olden time will rrsolve, “this 0!1(
~ thing will I do.” Under the shadows
3 of such a rc solve the physical power;
i may ‘falter, the work of the outward
A man may seem trifling and light beside-

 the Herculean toils of stronger fellow

imen, but bright, because untoucher

tub took in now 3‘ finely wt Vim’ and  while the farmer has sat with folded E by the hot breath of lower aims, high
3 unmoved by harassing trials, anr

ispotless, uneullied by wrak devia
] tiors, shall always shine out the pur-

 pose of a noble man, the in fiuence of

9 whose purpcse who shall judge?
3 It is not enough to purpose to live.
j that is instinct, nor to hire];
g clothe and feed the body, that is pu en
:ly selfish, brute crratures would dr
‘rat. To human beings is the God-
given privilege, yrs, command, to bl
; “even perfect,” yrauting nothing.
‘ In the busy inarts thronged by al
classes of humanity, the thoughi
strikes you, “ Hnsthat stone hammer
er any purpose in life, is his visioi
any farther than to—day, or its hori-
zon marked by the dollar that reward.
his sinew? With the quick transi-
tion of mind invited by contrary ap
pearances, the next question which
plies itself is, what more has thi»
natty merchant at the left? Ther-
unbidden, the still small voice faces-
about and demands, what more have
I ? What more have you ? Aim-
less, purposeless, with no reason for
living, with no compass to point al-
ways to a magnetic pole which by its
attraction, shall permeate with far
felt power to the deep seated roots of
character, and draw all toward it, how
many breathe out their appointed
time! .
Purpose, ennobles the veriest drudge
and elevates to respectability even
drudgery. The greatest Thebaw states-
man, when his enemies seeking to
punish him for holding office too long
as they thought, made him city scav-
anger said, "If the office ‘does not
honor me, I will do honor to the of-
fice." A member of the British
Parliament upon being twitted of hav-

ing once blackened boots, replied,
“But did I not black them well?"
Persistent effort to do one’: best, rp
lift any calling. It may not bring
plaudits from the masses, sneers it may
call forth instead; if each effort take

you out of the dead level of others 0‘ T
your profession, but the best reward ‘

of genuine worth is ifs possession, A
manly S".l)YlYD'.‘lil. 8";lli“B here that
some rbymist has put into simple
Vers! :
“If ii cobbler by trade it shall be my pride
The best of a cnbbler to be;

And if I'm a tinker, no tinker beside
Shall mend an old kettle like me.”

Mark out a life that has a headlight -

of purpose to guide it over the shoals
of temptation and rocks of deceit and
sin, and you plan for eternity. In
every extremity the tempted soul
rises triumphant on the strength of a
noble resolve, and rides on the oresl
of billows that swamp the ballssted
skiff‘ floating at random on life’s
waters. If the soul is imbued with ii
high aim, no matter what the work,
it will tend toward that! Apparani
destruction, may come, but only ap-
parent.
fabric whose material is woven over
the same. The rains of spring. thi
dews of summer, the gorgeous ofl'er-
lugs of autumn, and the wavering
mantle of winter hover above, and
then settle down on the mother bosom-
only to add chemical changes to us

ture’s one general system of prepara

tion for growth.

wells of Danger.

AMONG some letters laid away as
treasures, is one redolent of orange
flowers. Yet in the lines traced by a
mother's hand, trembling with a moth-
er's loss, linger a fragrance the years
can never remove. The baby of the
home, scarce fifteen months o1d—one
day catching the pearly shells of the
orange bloom, the next lying with their
buds in his closed hand! The letter
tells all this, and how a little sister,
when she thought no one was near,
stole away by the empty crib to pmy.
And her voice in a tremulous sweetness
plead:
care of my little brother up in heaven
until I get there I" The sobs clicked
the words. “And. dear God, if there
are any wells in heaven, don't let him
fall in I Not all at once could the lit-
tle sister trust the baby brother to
angel hands. ’i‘lio.r sziinc love went be-
fore to Shield iilulil harm.
not understand that in earth uloneare
we11sol' danger.

The child voiced flie cry of every
human ear;
life is full of \vc1ls;don't let my
ones fall in I " And the wells are so
many. About their low curbing llovrers
may creep; we step along fearlessly
nnzil we lind we are
and perhaps no sister’s or brotlicfs
hand to save.
mental, moral and physical nature, lie

in the way all our feet must trend.‘

Over some of these we have no control:
some are so manifest that we can shun
them if we will; others must be search-
ed for and filled up.

whose basin is empty, or whose breath
is miasmatic, we do not simply put :1
plank over, and leave it atrzip for 1in-
wary feet, but we fill it up with stones
and earth, level it off, and sod it over.
some of the wells all of us find, might
for each individual be so abolished.

There is the well of ignorance——re:i1, :

positive ignorance. The very first
thing with which all of us have to do
——our own lives—we know the least
about. ’i‘he laws of health so very sim-

1e,arc little understood. Then the
awe of mind, of soul, so diflicnit to
comprehend, the complex miatinn of
the trinity in the human! Why a
thing done once, done again consci-
ously, becomes the third time of its do-
inga habit. that fastens like a leech
upon us, and takes will power to re-
move. What are the laws of meat and
drink? These homely necessities of
our race. Where do we begin to sow
the seed of evil habits ‘B How far are

we responsible for our own well being :

and that of others? The well of ig-
norance leads to deeper wells of tempt-
ation and sin. Every time we violate
a law we dig it deeper; every time we
exciise ourselves on plea of ignorance,
we put a lank over.

The wel of indill'ei'ence captures
many. The heart is mighty in re-
sources when once it is roused. but we
let a dull apathy settle over us. A fire,

gi pestilence, a flood, a famine, a polit- l
ica

contest, may shake us up some-
what, but the next calamity finds us in
the same pool. Our homes are shel-
cc. rd we say, what does the world
need of us 1-’
less tramp of thousands of homeless
feet; men, women and children. The
hospital and prison doors open beyond
our sight; ‘we have small care who
goes out;or in. The saloon tempts other
people's children; its screen has ‘ the
sanction of our silence. We talk of the
moral questions that demand decision
as if our own individual decisions were
of no im ortance. Ah, the world is
full of we is of indifference, all grass-
grown over. but ever a. pitfall and fl
snare!

The well of sefielmess is very near
all of us. We make a shelter of it and
dwell in it. Our lives are bounded by
its small dimensions. We do not know
how very small it is for we never come
outside to see. In the beautiful story
of the good Samaritan, all the poo 19
who passed by “on the other si e”
never saw over the curbin of the lit-
tle world they lived in. T e one man
who comes down in history had filled
up his well of selfishness and lived for
other people.‘ ‘

Dear sister woman, these are wells
that may be very close to our own
doors. If we do not fillthem up, they
may prove real wells of danger to the
young feet to come after us. All the
hope of the future lies in the work of to-
day. Perhaps it is safeto say in no other
age were women to awake to responsi-
bility; so eager to learn and so prompt
to do. If these wells of ignorance, in-
difference and selfishness are about us,
they may not be of our dig 'ng. Cu-
rious facts are evolved hese days
about heredity, and our ancestors must
also rise in remorse that they dared to
live. But we can each do a rave and
he! ful thing; we can fill up the wells

an stand on solid ground. “God helps

They are but coloring toa _

“l)ear God, please take goodi

it could u

“Dear God, the any of ‘
ear

falling J
Wells of danger to the f

If :r well is near V
our lionies \\'i1l\.\‘t-3 water is impure, or

We do not hear the rest- ‘

NOVEMBER 1, 1884.

‘those who help themselves." and it is
,-‘said, and. "he will not do for us
what we can do." The liitle girl’s
pr-a_vci* must be the cry of every moth-
er's heuvt who semis a child out into
,'the world. How much of it can We
5 answer ourselves ?— Woman's (‘enfairj/,

l

 

SELECTIONS.

They who true joy would win
Must share it; happiness is born twin .—
[Byron
I Look on meat, think it dirt, then eat a bit;
And say witbal,“earth to earth I commit."
— (Herbert.

Advice is like cnstor oil, easy enon ll
to give, but dreadful unpleasaiit $0

, take.
Vain—glory is a stimulus that pleas-

ingly titillatcs our hearts, and finally
tears it.

) Medicine has cost the world more
than bread and has killed more than
it has cured.

Laziness is 21 gxood degil like nimiey
the more a man as of it the more he
seems to want.

Sickness is often the moral cave,
with its quiet, its darkness, and its
solitude to the soul.

The gods give_ nothing really good
and beautiful without labor and dili-
gence.-—[.\'enoplion.

A man that can be flattered is not
3, nece-sarily a fool, but you can always
‘ make one of him.

Tm: only amarantiiine riower on
earth is virtue; the only lasting treas-
ure, trnth.—[Cowpei'.

An idler is twice a thief, he not only
steals _his own time, but liangs around
and tries to steal yours.

I never knew a man that lived npoii
hope, buiytliat he spent his old age at
I somebody s else expense.

, He who has nothing to do in this
; world but amuse himself has the hard-
 est job on hand I know of.

F lie happy if you can. but do not de-
spise those who are otherwise. for vou
do not know their troubles. '

The greatest pleasure I know is to
do a good action by stealth and have it
foun out by accident.-—[Lamb.

When you strike oil stop boring;
many a manlias bored clean through
and et the oil run out at the bottom.

We cannot understand what we
have never experienced; we need pain
; were it only to teach us sympathy.

, “He iiveth long who liveth well!
All other life is short and vain;
He liveth longest who can tell
Of living most for heavenly gain.

There are two kinds of men I do not
want to meet when I am in ii hurry,
men that I owe and men that want to
OW8 me.

Be not angry that you cannot make
$ others as you wish them to be, since
‘ you have not made yourself what you
I ought to be.

This world and the next resemble
the east and _weel; you car. not draw
1 near to one without turning your back
.1 on the other.

Once I’ ut my foot upon a spider,

And tb' ught-- are these comely ways‘:
Is not God to both Li us provider

Of an interest in these days?— ‘_Oeethe.

A neat, clean, fresh aired, sweet
rand well arranged house exercises a

moral as well as a physical iilluence
,' over its iurrsute-v.
Wrddings -'-fl‘-:2 leave old familiar
_ ll‘.-ENE‘ and piacts as empty and haun-
, led as funerals. They are the funerals
‘ of old assnciatiom.

; Grace teaches us, in the midst of'iife’s
j greatest comforts, to be willing to die,
, and in the midst ofits greatest crosses
i to be willing to live.
l*‘isliei'uieii, in order to liziiidle eels
: securely, cover them with dirt. In

like maiinerdocs detraction strive to
‘grasp excellcnce.—- [Douglas Jerrold.
We were designed in the cradle. per-
I hap_s earlier, and it is finding out this
I design and shaping ourselves to it, that
i‘ our years are spent wisely.-~-[Lowe-ll.

God only is the creature's home,
Though long and rough the road;

Yet nothing else can satisfy
The love that longs for God.— Ll“aber.

1 Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike
i those of the body, they are increased
; by repetition, approved of by reflec-
§ tion, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Anirreligious man, a speculative or
; practical atheist, is as e. soverign who
;‘ voluntarily takes off his crown and de-
: clzires himself worthy to reign.--~[ Blak-
. ie.

; What a world of gossip would be
,prevented ifit was uni remembered
‘ that a person who teds you of the
4 faults of others intends to tell others of
1 your faults.

Honor is like that glassy bubble

That finds philosophers such trouble

Whose least part crack’d, the whole does
ii

And, wits are crack’d to find out wh —
l_ Samuel But er.

_ Write it on your heart that every
fday is the best in the year. No man
has learned anything rightly until he
knows that every day is Dr.~omsday.—-
[Emersoii.

“Think more of the harvest and less of the
lobe ”
Should be the grand motto of all as they toil;
For God will bless those who act nobly and
wisely,
And flowers will spring from unpromising soil.
i‘ HE who waits for an opportunity to
do much at once may breathe out his
life in idle wishes, and regret in the
last hour his useless intentions and
barren zeal.

Grant me ever to esteem the wise
man as the alone wealthy man; and as
for gold, may I possess as much of it
as a man of moderate desires may
know how to use wisely.-[Socrates-.

ONE never knows aman till he has
refused him something, and studies the
effect of the refusal- one never knows
himself till he had; denied himself.
The altar of sacrifice is the touclistones
of character.

Kind words produce their own im-
age in mcn’s souls, and a beautiful im-
age it is. They soothe and comfort the
bearer, they shame him out of his un-
kind feelings. We have not yet b n
to use them in such abundance as t ey
ought to be used.—[Pascal.

:[‘’was only a word, a cheerful word,,
To the weary, heavy hearted;

But hope and trust sprang up afresh,
And the gloomy clouds were parted.

0 the might of words i  little words I
What power to them is given;

They may sink the soul to the depths of woe,
Or raise it up to heaven.

 


TEE GRANGE VISITQB. 7

1\7()V' EMBER 1, 1884.

‘lluutlc’ fiepaqtment.

"THE HOME THAT IS HAPPIEST.”

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AuI‘dhIttlt1;11l;%(:ln);e 3:“ is ggpiest’ ,‘ Somewhat similar point, and 31. ,,m.0duce 3 lama that taxed the wits there were picture frames, fire screens, with pr.-my Faces m.i,i.m-.i‘.in- Beautiful l-'1-owrac.a.nd their

Wardrobe isgso extensive that it takes hours to 411$ and un-
dress them in f.h(‘l!‘ Differ--nt suit»: l-Every Child and every
Mother that has seen them go in H:~1&ci saver them. (‘hildren
Will get more renl enjoyment out of is Set of them FI'\‘ll(‘h Dolls

Brightest and best,

beziutifuily carved brackets, their tools
Is where they all labor,

and war implements and things too in-

has not found this true? “M usic hath
charm-.” that seems in agreat measure

hough it may be familiar to a portion
.f your readers, I will tell it. “Two

Is helper alone,

'I‘o laugh with her

And father is jolly;

He has not a son
Who does not think

In labor or play,

And where they all rest.

Where no careworn father
The brunt of work bears,

And no gray-haired mother
Is burdened with cares;

Where no tired elder sister

But each one isbusy
Till all work is done.

Then mother has leisure

girls,

She shares all her secrets,
They smooth her soft curls,

And deck her with blossoms,
And fondly declare,

There never was mother
80 Winsome and fair.

His stories and fun ‘
Are the life of the hOU.B6ll0lt.l,

father

Knows best and it best.
And would not work double
That he might take rest.

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merchants made a trade of a horse.
[‘he buyer, an ignorant, not very tal-
outul man, and by no means his fe1—
low tradesman’s equal in ii gurefla W88
-lated, when, instead of arranging a
fixed price for the animal, they agreed
Io regulate the pay by the thirty two
nails in the horsc’s shoes. He: was to
pay in miliet, one grain for the first
nail, two for the second, 1‘-ur for the
ibiid and st on. Delighted with a
bargain so good, as he thought, by
which he became possessed of a valu

able beast for a light sum; he rejoiced
greatly among his friends for his
stroke of good fortune. But when the
pay day came he found the amount
of millet necessary to make the {rice
good would have impoverished him
riad not his l':iends interceded in his
behalf, and secured a stipulated price

i-titution of such, and will continue to

to denote the degree of refinement to
whicha nation has attiined, perhap-
that b.-cause a prop: ap,:reciat;on of
its delights is so much increased by
cilture. Siakeap.-.ir-i siys, whe=.h:r
':rl1lY_0l' not:

l ‘The man that hath no music in himself,
And is not moved with concord of sweet
sounds,

is fit for treason. stratsgems. and spoils:

"he motions of h is spirit are as dull as night
Amid his afiu-tions dark as Eicbus.

g lief. no such man be trusted.”

' Professional and amateur the-itricals
nave been, and I believe always will
)8, attractive to the mass of the people.
Lectures, and any entertainment that
vf keeps us indoors, are usually reserved
for the long, cold, season of the year.
Fhrough the summer months country
aleasures are the rule. The “S sveet
Country Cousins"_ are suddenly and

fro pient, but to those who earn their

numcrublc to mention.

It was iidvertised that their ii.rtis.i1i<
would pursue their arts in iizitive cos-
tumes for the benefit of the visitors
but that piirticuliir time must have
been their "evening out” as wc were
disappointed in scciiig them.

As we were about to make our exit-
we sziw two young J.-ipiinese gentle
men sitting on ii sofa conversing with
friends in very good liuglish. One of
them sported ii diainond stud while
they both wore rings on their small
shapely hands. They are rather below
the medium height of :1 lllilll and are
much better looking thiui their distant
cousins the "l.lilyl.ht‘1'l (lliiii:isers"

With the sound of their pleasant
voices in our cars we departed, and
passing through the almost deserted
streets, back to our rooms well pleased
with the we._\' in which we luid spent

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And all

than out of
sends imin iatel r
UP 80 and Girl 1: yod for tire long hours with a Set of these
l-‘renci Dolls. and they felt wry sorry ind:-ed to think that

ang Agi-nt, nialv or einnlc, can «all we Se-ts l.‘V'l€l' '
do thin. you niake on-r $405 vi.-«-Ir. Ifyou sum! or one ortwo
Sets we will send our .\'¢'rrc‘l llriliod and l-‘ull Du-cctions how
you can niakc lll<ll'I' tluiii (Inc lliiinlnxl llullumu. month out
of thniw Dolls. You have not one (in ' tluloen-. iasench day'sde-

‘— - é lny LN
ms of liiiiiity. ADDRESS

THE BEST FARMERS

irles that cost 310. l-2\ cry person the
for KllU|"(‘. A l.nil_v «rites us

how much mnu.~«-nu-nt there is ill ih~~s'l‘ Dolls t-tn-y would wil
lingly pny tinublr- the rim-_ a.-kml forth:-m. Sample Set con-
iisliiig of Three 00  with lhvll‘ \\'uTtlI'\)dR‘()ffif P

3'! ' I c
zscta Ti: 32.
get ;;i.:5'tor tlicni. Fifty St'l.1 lur 34,.-.u_ ,.,.. g... . go_ 100 _ -1.

Hail {orig Ora. ‘*5-"S. Six Dolls 64
A :5.»-u

S1'Ls(0l‘ 3| y..i._g..¢ ;1,_r,n_

lec
:g; 33
. &uu
ycxpress 67.00 you rrl :l:> for tin in. An) Little mwir Lgilrl or
y. you
' so mun ':lv-liars lost to on. his uiiano portunl t I
ihouuc. I 73 ailmuucii arm? use villi?”

Warehousemen and Seed Dealers,

Everywhere, Use the OLD RELIABLE

/ "§§NTENN|Al” FANNINB MILL.

ey will all tell you thnt it takes the Cockle and
Oats out of “Wieat, and is the only perfect Cleaner.
Grader and Separator of all kliids of Grain nnd Seeds.
The only Two-Shoe Mill and the BEST III the World.
If you want. some Interesting iiiforumtlon about Mu.-
chlnos that pay for themselves the first year, and bot-
tom prices, send our nmun on a postal card to us. IVE
MAKE THEM.

S. FREEMAN Gt SONS. Racine. .Wis.

‘here did you Nee this iulvertisernontf

      
   

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In happiness ever in money. The application 90 m0l'fllB jflecuonatel’ ’°“"””'°"’?d by fheu . _,,  HA , , H, I” H A , _  , ,_ g_ _,“g_ V _ , , , m__g___g_,
The years pass away; is striking How mue transgressions any friends, who are seized with a our evening. V

For pleasures are brightest ' - - - ilesire to listen to the pl8ll1£l"e cry b“'EhT B315”  335'"
That many hearts share, gather greater, maintain their own, 1 . ‘ k 1 th h_ “ ‘mm mm‘.

-"‘-ml burdens are lightest and settle into fixed habits has been “f the l“8"l"l“‘w v 3”‘ e W ‘p'l‘°.°r' , QUABTIB8. W01]-I5
That 1118-11)’ hands be“ me theme of momma“ Since the in_ . will. "Excrtions" after pleasures are The Necesslly ol,Ssnitary Reform. nun. FKUIEISAQEDF’&“lE1EEgi_!§:)l%‘fiIlEgE£::.‘1;llsS J%.‘§:‘DELl‘._lA‘N;§ElI;.9NEIVA'f!1l‘l.Y",l.‘Il1NG iruwr

        

Dear Nieces and l\'cphews:-You
have all heard of the house that J sck
built, but did you ever hear of the lab-
oratory that Jack built?

We will give you the slory as found
in a scie .tificj iurnal.

This is the laboratory that J ack
built.

This is too -vindowin the laboratory
that Jack built.

This is the glass that lighted the

bread by the sweat of their brow, a
quiet family picnic with a few chosen
.v'ri'+.-nd.-s in some shady grove near
E home, will usually prove more satis-
factory. For myself, I think thata
A November su,mowe,._ quiet afternoon at home with some

__ ;light work or interesting book, is
5vcry pleasant, and as I listen to th:
i drowsy hum of the bees, the low twit-
ering of the birds, and the soft rustle

l-‘roin itll article on "The l’riiiciples
and Priictice of House-l)i'ainage," by ,
George in‘. Waring, .l1'., in the .\0veni-ll Ml“ J‘ l«l~\ l‘ -\l”’ ll"“'_l‘-' llils, l"‘“‘," 1 ""° ”‘°°"
ber ceritury, we quote the following: - 5§‘l€*°'l"‘l l’.‘f “*0 ”l‘<“l4ll§t‘»l'S”l UN‘ ll Ullll S i _CElCAGO. ()ct.2ll.—Ho . receipts. 2£».uio=. ac-
:-Houses “ML are perfect’ even in the illl',(ll1lt is to open ‘(it .\i:w Uri ans ‘ Liv:-,ashnde >_h‘-u‘n_s:r; light, 34.1034 M. rough
gPllL‘l‘il.l ainiiiigeincnt and coiistruction ll! ll(‘.(‘¢‘llllI'r‘l'. to pifsllic U‘'l‘«F “'8 ill“. {,',“,§:.“'*'§",,::,‘,.,1',§5,?" "(§',,,t'1‘f"",§',,,l’:}‘,’,‘$f,“",,'f,f,‘6l. 'f,h,,'K'.
of their sanitary works, are extrciiu-ly l"”'““"“l ,Ul “"'l“““ -V’ “,"»'l'l\’- “ml 5l“j exrw-‘rm. 86.‘J'>@tlt'.i;c<mlm--n to iroml shlnninii
mm‘ Those which, having “gm, per- liais 2i(:«.-cinecl the triist. l_h¢,- ('ll()l(‘l' of :4 2519'. 75; tuckcrs and feeders. _$3.u.@43~.
fecL_c,,,,ti,,ue so u,,d,.,. dd,,1- 0ccup,,_ :i lady of .‘~'ll(,‘ll iiitviiiatioiiiil Aproin_i-Igfiifykifsgelgfldjé-fa):2-ll: low-7.: inferior to
tion, arc still 1iioi'ei'zirc. So Tueistliis ‘“'“,‘-'_‘.‘ ‘}"ll‘l1 l’:'il\'-“'l "\ “llll\Ur&llillll.V' 1? ' ' ' ..- 
that it is souietiiiics asked if it is, after 91'9"‘-“ 9 " " - "‘ "‘”"“‘~"”'5 " .‘ l‘? .g’'‘’‘‘
ML worm While to encounter the ,,d_ ciitcrpi‘isf..-. and [|lI‘.'l.s‘:lllll_V sigiiii_icaiit,l 0”" Cl-“Balm; U57-
dmonal expense and the cUnSt,,_m,,t_ l)L‘(.‘&lllS(f lllll1ll»\'t‘.*l an llllpl)I‘liI,llI. laclor

be as long as geometrical progression
thus holds good in the massing of sin
upon sin.

 

GRACE.

Dear Aunt Prue.-——()ur subscription
to the (lu.x_\'ui«: Visirou expired _
some time since and, although, I was L

 

  

 

 

bouquet of tluvu=n,&r.) 50 New [nip-irted,
completely 1-mboancd Chi-mnoa‘ with name.
is. .. ~l]i£1I.‘hS 50--. (not tlw cheap eiuhooaul migr-
—I-lK't'rtIu~l by otlirr; for llw.) Agent: New Sun
pie Book l'n:nilum l.. : fllll‘ Price List lI‘l{l-lg with each order.
sin.» h. s. cuum 00.. ci:.v'ricim 00K.00NN.

li_ctl'_‘:

pendants, on aim which is crushed to
the earth with every death of Wife or
child or friend. Thercis asentiniental
view, no less important, which need
not be recited, but which is sulliciently
suggested to the minds of all who have

Yours Rcspeorfiiily,

ish hue, to form common salt, a mole- the dueling of ms G__,,.mm students our admiring eyes. And wlizit ii crowd A R LAM“

cule new, that furnished the soda are the chi“ relics of barbnity 1,, ftlironged the streets; pedestrizins run-
that meltedwith sand, compounded Europa Taeoyjmpic gqmfi famed lining this way and thzit, each on his
the glass that lighted the window in in fable and story whfle quzlte in ha“ i own business interest, while the street
the laboratory that J .-.ck built.

‘of the leaves moved by light breezes, t m- , U at er,» .UO,, (1 I . d . in an llll(ll.‘,l'tdl~1'ill"llliLlfll\'lllltlt‘I‘B0lll.ll- lies-Ilnr With
_ regretfully aware ofthe fact. I failed 6 101 _ l D. 6L elldll 8. _ ,  , _ “ix, ‘  I _‘ . U U.
WlI1<l0W in the l&b0l”8~l50l'Y tllllt J 4011 to renew it because {was Waiting “,1.  I do not wonder at the poet saying: wliethcr,pii1_(lced, thcfworldvhas not got   <I’)l_ll~r-tll  Ammo“ Fame: _ _ . ‘ _ ‘ _ _ _ _ n v:" 8‘;
built. t” I found time to write 3 nice lagter ‘ “My God, I thank thee who hast made 3gf:gt;V§'h‘aél1itf‘li:tgugle 53 a1‘]'3peS“tl(l)lllj“:ll{ north‘ I, ‘is a ‘tribute ‘Of upD,.t,ciat,0,,' American Grange Bulletin.  1 J0 ' 1 7b
This ‘“ ‘“° 8"“ “ed "1 "““““3 ror theYouth’s Department Since‘ s.‘}i‘.‘i.§’."’.f"..f.‘£.3,’.“E.’.‘.i'..-. mprovemeut corresponding with the and-1°°<l Wine which ought tv cw l3‘.‘.§’3.l‘...‘i’.“.;.;.'.'.'.;.; """"""" " '5 33 93:“.
the glue that lighted the window in school closed, sickness, visitors and the Beauty 8.ll1)d light.” J y. C?“ in ll1Ull‘5.Y 3-ml _ltlll1‘3- The l1l0$l7 Elle  tlligptlv .1Ilte.r“St' 111913’ llllllposlf 0: century (SCl’ll)'l18l‘-'8-)1‘.-...‘.-...;‘...: '4 00 ll l0
the Iabomtor that J39]; bum_ . . .. ,, simple and the efiicient answer to this ,3 " ll fmll “-5 mlllllltflfi "1 “*9 l1_94”5 Chautiiugua Young Folks Jou -
. . y . labor Wlllcll 153 bl-935lD8 h3V° 90, ,5 that the world hasnot got on wen of the “onion of the hind, especially, mg)   -, 1 1,,
This 13 the 3°‘“'~ that melted “".”1 filled my time that the letter is still; Visit in Chicago Continued. .._ta11,an.1is not getting on well; that f91"d"10m.r them Mrs. Howe is a ri-cog- Detroit F.-... Prcss(with House-
sand. compounded the glass that .1100 . __ men la, e classes of the ,0 upti nized leader. Tlnit tlic woinun’s dc- old w .................. .. 1 20 1 so
unwritten. Isend you another so 1 a g_ _g p p .i on ' '_ _ _ , v __
lighted the window in the laboratory es“ ' on the Recreation of the Past R,,tumiug from the ulgutue of “em 0ue_h.du Qt an we chm},-en ‘born dle p.irtinent“will_lie vicll il.(l.lIlll|lSleI‘t‘Ll, we HB1’P6r’s llgonthly Magiuuie... 4 00 4 0o
. Y . . . . before the atmm thea eof five ears. are non ...ssuied, and that the gciu-rel 9"P°”VV9°klY ------------ -~ 4 00 4 09
that Jack bull“ and Present, which. though deserv- Ysllllfg. Wlllcll We Vl3ll16(l In the 1‘-fl3E1'< that thoseywho come to Igmmuity $1.613,’ enterprise will lac equzillv a siicccss, H“'P°l”! B"-‘-M - - - - - - - - - - - - -~ 4 00 4 00
This is “J9 33”‘: 3 m°1°"“l° new’ ing little, I trust may find some fa- H0011. We Wendell 0111‘ way t0 the hotel escape the Suffering, loss of time, and we are cert;».iii,il’ unremittiiig xcul zuid W” Y°“"3 P°°l’l” - - - - ' - --   3;’
that furnished the soda that, melted ,0, Wm, my kind aunt and c.,.,,i,,,_ to recruit for an evenings visit to Mr incidental expense of unnecessary sick- tireless energy have any virtue. ,,‘,‘,',,,,°"A';,',,',;,',.:,;,;',;,;,,;,,,‘,,“‘ jj ,-“, 0,, 4 ,2,
with sand, compounded the glass that but 33-ectionate niece’ Borne s J ;ipanese store. When we Ef3Sf1;ltl13ttl111€?V€g?;-88   alfl lllllilli FIFIMN ofo r 01 '8 Meg” er ghioLFalnn§r.... .d . . . . . . . . . .. 1 2-3 1 65
- - - . ' - - n ne-iii o -  -J .. - s w e '  -- 
lighted the “lmdow in the laboratory SUN“‘°w““R' "m,erged out In the_ Street Omie mole’ itnvlvodld ll: wells we living uudervlgil-1 farmers or the SOHSl')fpf81'lnel‘S. 0:: Lilli:  l g l 
that Jack blult O_:{’,_ 18' ’8-§, ll0- av wonderful tlansforllla-U011 ll (1 feet, sanitary conditions; |;h;|,f, one of —~—-' —-——-——--——-— |1:"0_8t, I_)etroit (weekly) . . . . . . .. 1 U0 1 -ill
This is the chlorine, of yellowish R,5C,._,.,~AT,(,,\-V taken place. What with the gas jets the chief items of cost _in carrying on 1-HE Rflppg D5“-H_ ._;['-l°§*i1‘§lh°ofi:n9"°3ll--»-»---   
hue, contained in _tbe salt, 8 The recreations of the past and pres- and electric lights the \.«lio1e_ world (t)lt1_e<;iVlicl;gtotlg:3.gve I1‘3§ll(1)ll]( ieofisthfiatztogf  V g ' _T__ I . I Fr.ibuue'Chié;é.o.'.(.WégLm-::: I W., 1 40
molecule new, that furnished the out am-5,. g,.eauy_ especially in one seemed in a perfect blaze ol glory mppmfing and attending me sick and M-1'-D ‘-Dlc‘-l Ans-30.1“ lwl home Ill -\“l-, {he Pansy (Weekly) ........ .. 199 1 gs
soda that melted with sand, com- important pa,-gem,“-_ The spirit of The letters on the Signs glittered and helpless; that ;,,,other great 1:91,, is the  vf‘“I§3f“°“_C°:i“’_:J_3"°f "_“°l“’-V‘ b‘““"“   """""""""" -   
pounded the glass that lighted the cruelty, both to man and animals, is sparkled as if studded with precious cost of raising children to or toward 15 “ “”""ge ' y°“‘.'  we.,i.i,- <5. .p:~.ic , _ _ _ _ , , , _ _ , _ ,_ 2 an 2 .34,
window in the laboratory that Jack riot indulged DOW, eX39Dt by the very irenis of all colors; while the Show win- (t1ll“f1l)‘5]§f”lt"k”l€:‘i ilédigllal   '1'W9-8 Well with her in lleflltlfs glml hour. ,
'°““‘- lowest class of people. and even by ‘l°“'”‘ Sllowed “'°““e"S$ We had my mftiigioiisestnleiitgiiiuithégi-eaihbjlci W.°"’whe""1°w”li"3-m°‘l°"m°'  ~—‘ -
This is the sidium, light and free them only 1,, aumited deg,.ee_ in this to look and the contents of the of J. “_e11_'1_eg|‘la,-ml me is to Secure  Sll1:‘.(l§11l1(lkti‘u3tl]lBTVlllg'O'E power, ‘ I  
tllfil llllllell Wllih 0lll0l'lll9. Of yellow- comm-y_ The Spanish bun fight and whole establishment were revealed to llLlppll1eSSl0l'Ou(:S self and one‘s de— "” 9 5‘ “°“”” 5"‘°‘“ 5 "“"“’- 5 hidden by hand l-<'l'liHI:

Mattnwziu Mich.

GILMAK —Died at his resiuleiicc in Al1t~:

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three,

common salt. a molecule new, that

_7iand, compounded the glass that light-

This is the atom that weighs twenty

consisting of sodium so
light and free, that united with
chlorine, of yellowish hue, to form 3

furnished the soda that melted with

ed the window in the laboratory that
J ack built.
This is the science of chemistry. that

later date would hardly be a pleas-

ant spectacle. In those days amuse.
ments which did n it endanger life or
limii were considered tame and almost
unfit for man to indulg'~3 in. While
we read thrilling stories of Romn

   
     
   
  
  
  
    
 
    
  
  
   
 
   
   
  
 

built.

abandoned

will favor. us. again.

of Tm: VIJITOR.

tract."

f°1'9. thereby.

@511 I18 jm_ore.

Briar. I am sure it

wish of all the cousins if a vote of

$e;aches of ffoms weighing twenty-
ree, and of sodium metal so light
and free, that united with chlorine of
yellowish hue, to form’ common salt
a molecule new, that furnished the
soda that melte-i with sand, com-
pounded the glass that lighted the
window in the laboratory that Jack

It was with pleasure we received
Pretty By Night and Sweet Briar’s
letters. It had been so long since we
heard fromthem was afraid they had
the department.
our new Contributor, E. W., who
handled her subject with such vigor

AUNT PRUE.

 

A Cousinly Chat.

You may glance over the past for the
benefit of the future, but you must
take “no footsteps backward.”
was something like that I have
been saying to the names I find in the
youth's nook of the last few numbers

Are they not a goodly showing?
Aunt Prue have you not been pleased
to see so many old faces? And the
new ones too? What staunch friends
Miss Breezie and E. W. would be un-
der the principle that “opposites at-
We are all very glad to have
heard their views, even if no one
_ stands convinced otherwise than be-
I was interested in
Minnie Bi-own’s good latter; have nev-
er met many young members of the
Grange, and certainly none who take
e same out and out fashion of tall-
ing of its good that she does. Please
. ,  1 Pretty has returned
‘"3" ml‘ ‘b°'1'1"Ylng,' ‘ and our, own 8 west

will meet the

thanks be tendered for that vivid de-

scription of the “Battle
-' _ 1118-” Yours is the best I've heard

. it. Sweet Briardon
‘*3 your promise of

 

of Gettys-

’t disappoint us
further letters

Hope

It

honor and English chivalry witha
sigh, to think of all that has passed
away, we read a history of those
times wit.i a griwing thankfulness
that we live in a mire enlight-
ened and law-abiding age. The festi-
Vale of ancient times were usually cel-
ebrated by a display of wild beasts,
and men fought tigers and each other,
while the people from king to peasant
looked on, and cared nothing whether
man or tiger died so both fought
bravely. As the people obtai led
clearer and higher views of the aims
and duties of life, rude and barbarous
sports found less favor. There has
been, is, and probably always will be,
a class who allow matter to triumph
vver mind, but the difi‘.-rence between

alarge majority, and are n.-w but a
small minority. What is chosen as
recreation depends much on what
may be the fashion, but this gives a
wide range for age, disposition, occu-
pation, season of the year etc., to guide
our choice. For those of sedentary
uabits, a pr )p01' amount of muscular

necessary. The young men have base
hall, bicycle and boating clubs, and
horse back riding. hunting, and even
valking, if amid pleasant surround-
ings is a delight‘. The, young ladies

iis, and croquet; and in horseback
riding many can Elmilt rival their
grandmothers ‘who had no other way
-f traveling. Judging from the pa-
.,ronage.,which it secures, and the
.vhole_og'1umns devoted to it in our

smusement “par exE:ellenoe.” I: has
ieeu said theri is nothing new und_r
he sun, but [hive never heard that
my record of the fascinations of the.
listing rink have been discovered
from the most ancient nation, the
‘heithen Chlnee,” or the Egyptian
Pyramids. N :r have they exhumed
one single specimen from those prolific
"ulna of Pompeii or Heroulaneuin.

For those who prefer more quiet pleas-

then and now is, that then they were.

exercise, is not only pleasant, but

<har.-in boating, archery, lawn ten-_,,

iical papers roller , skating is the

mouy with the spirit of moss flme3_ ! curs, ‘bus’ and carriages went rattling
would excite honor in the mind, 0; :‘ over the pavements, to the imminent
the b,.avestple”u,.e seekers of today‘ ‘ risk of those who were atteiiipting to
and the real European tournament of. make the “r°5S‘”gS-

.-lfteritiaversiiig several blocks we
iirrivcd at the corner of State uni
Jackson streets, where is situated an
elegant seven story brick. with glass
fronts faciiig both streets, il.Il(l so beau-
tifull_\' illnininzited that we seemed to
he gazing into fairy liiiid. This is the
- Jiipziiiesc building, and after sutlicieut-
ly admiring the exterior, we entered,
and proceeded to examine the interior

The (:U'.llltel‘S, shelves, and cases.
were zirrauged like those in any other
store, but the contents were quite dif-
--rent, We first ‘lialted ‘be-for-l it col-
lectiou of table china, They gi'e:itl_\,-'
resenililcd our mzijoliéii \\'au'e, as they
were bright in colors and taiitzisticzilly
siiziped. 'l"iie‘ little cups would
scarcely hold more than 21 table’ spoon-
full and looked more like a d0Il’s‘ tea
set. were even smaller‘ than our most;
fashionable chinii; Next to these
wiis a glass case contziiuing cliildrcn’s
toys, but their names and uses were
so strange to me that I will not at-
tempt to describe them. Scattered
about among the goods were I].1lDldLlll‘e
men and women dressed in Japanese
costumes, some in the forms of
placques, others hanging to the Wall by
strings. The cases which I most ad-
mired contained dress patterns, silk
handkerchiefs, bed and table spreads
embroidered cushions etc,, all of the
finest material. The dress goods I
should call silk paper; it was very
beautiful, but entirlty different from
anything we manufacture here. The
spreads were richly embroidered silk
and cost a little fortune.

A piece of furniture, next called our
attention, which we were at a. loss to
define. The top seemed to be a book

lower part had doors similar to a. com-
mode.=The.me.terial is black and re-
.se1'nbles iron; two urns about three

zference seemed to belong with it, they
too were-made-.of the same black heavy
material fantastically ‘carved in the
shape of theirgjwmsite dragons. Next
wasa. colle3t,iq&:o§,,..ornaments for ta-
bles and brackets and some beautiful
table lamps which looked quite like
uul‘ own American ones.

Of course there was the inevitable
fan counter; they dote on fans, conse-
quently much more space was devoted
to these highly esteemed artichs.

case, the middle a bureau, and the,

..feet high and sixteen inches circum-.

had to do with the .-iiiiiitary re ulatinn
of houses by the frequency wit which
their services are called into requisi-
tion only when the ollices of the under-
taker have been performed. No cost
and no care would be too great to
prevent the constantly recurring do-
mestic calamities which liavc had their
origin. and which have found their
development, in lllllbelléll conditions
that a little original outlay and a. con-
stunt and wzitcliful care would have
prevented.

 

:

OCR educational methods have-"been
growing in system and severity,.lf not
in perfection, for many years; and the
demands upon the pupil have con-
stantly increased, until the necessities
for grading have become imperative
and the peculiarities of the individual
are almost entirely ignored. At this
crisis, one of the brightest and most
fearless of American writers comes
forward with a strong argument
against the whole system, a protest
against the grading and cramming
that take so much -if the vitality out
ofthe education we are giving to the
rising generation. Elward Everett
H ale, in the November number of the
No: th American Review, makes a plea
for “Half-Time in School,” which
every parent and every school board
ought to consider seriously. The old

uestion. “Where are we, and where
drifting?” was never more forcibly’
suggested than by another ‘article in
the same number, that in which Prof.
Gilliam discusses “The African Prob-
l-um.” The facts that he givesas to
the increase of the negroes in the
United Sates, their peculiar situation
and disposition, and the problem they
will force upon us in the near future,
call for the gravest consideration. The
other articles in this number are:
“Woman ‘as a Political Factor," by
Judge Robert C. Pltmant ‘Progress
in Naval A1-maunent,”',  Hobart
Pasha, who thinks the U11 tedgstates
Government has been wise in not con-
structing a costly navy; “Friendship
in Ancient Poetry” by Princi al J.
C. Sharp: "Herbert Spei:oer’s atest
Critic,” by Prof. E L. Youmans;
“Over-Illustration.” by Charles T..;
Congdon; and “Restriction of the
Suffrage” by William L. Scruggs.

 

Till-J time to do good is when the
opportunity occurs. There is no time
when evil may be done with ex” octa-
to.i of rew.r.l such as attémlls? the

' performance of every good deed. Doe

ers of evil may for a time see "to
flourish, but the inexorable lafiadf
compensation brings punishment jllilsv’-—’
as surely astiine passes to ripen‘ mar.
fruits of evil deeds. »-The man 0 the
woma I who makes it the rule of life
to do good, wherever and whenever

the opportunity is found, may be sure ~ ago

that greater measure of happiness will
be found than in any course that ad-
mits evil. for that person will be con-
stantly in the line of duty.—Huaband-
mam, E’mz'ra. N. Y.

weip, \'_-.n Buren county, Sept. 18th, 1884,
H0.\'.JOSEl’ll GILMAN, in the will year: of
his age

Bro. UIILMAN was no ciily pioneer of this
county, having resided here more than 10

Grunge. 'l'ne'- ti:st Master of
Gruiige-, No. 10, and has been one of its most
Worthy illlll efli -ient members. He wii. 3,

all who km W Lim

WILSIJN.--Died in Paw Paw township.
Sept Bill, Sisrisn h‘z.iz.-i WrLso.v, ago-i 00
years.

She was also 011:) of ihe early pionceis of
this county. A highly esteemed lady, and
had been ii faithful member of No. 10, since
its organization.

DOWNING. —Died in Almena, Sept. 9th,
Sisrnn MARY E. DOWNING in the -34th year
of her age.

41 years, was a worthy member of No. 10, a
highly respected and lovely woman.

Thus has death made serious inroads upon
this Grange, and the church of which they
were respected members.

The Grange adopted the usual resolutions of
respect and ordered the Grange hall draped
in mourning out of respect for its departed
members.

__.______.__._m.

THE MARKETS.

Grain and Provisions.

Ninv 1031. Oct. 29-Flour, receipts l5,C(l)
barrels; quiet. weak. Wheat. receipts 854.(XlJ
bushels; opened }(@%c lower; afterwards re-
cover -dand advanced atnfl-3; moderate trad-
ing; No. 1, white. 83%; No.2 red Nov.. 88%@
88%: Dec. 8’l!£@86%: Jam. 88}£@3B%; Feb..
90%@90%. ,Oorn, receipts 99000 bn.; %@Ko
hi‘ er; mixed western spot 52056,; futures,
$4. Oats. receipts. 57,!!!) bu.;without de-
oi ed change; western, .

quiet; new menu. $16.5J@16.75. Lard. ateadier;
steam rendered. 87.52. V

Dnnorr. Oct. 29. -12:00 I. —Whoa¢. steady:
No.1 white 78; each 885%; Nov. 79 ; Dec;
No. 2 red..8l5£ null: 81 _ov.; if .
3red,67%; L.-ngborggs bid. Corn. No. 44.

zed.

ark. firm,

 

Oatn. light m_i bid: No. 2 white 56:
No. 2,  bid. _

’ ~ ' “ mom-. mm. Dom. oar...
, Bodph.-. ... 1.842 81.244 1.9M 1.602

Shlpta .......... 640 41,701 2,186 none

TOLEDO. Oot. 29.—Wheat quiet but firm;
‘No. Zrcdgonh. Oct. 71%: Nov. 72: Deo.. 7391;
Jan. 7554; May 83; o. 2 soft. 80@82; No. 8 soft
6856@'lBK; rejected 51.
Oiuoaao. 0ot.~29 -1 :10 p. ix.-—WheaI. steady:
75% Nov..;__'I6X. bid Deo.; 7756 bid Jan.;845-G
asked -Mhyi“ Uorn, firm; 42_b1d Out.: 42%
naked Npv.,; 39% year: 3796 bid JUL: 39%, hid
Ueo.; 3954 bid Mafia Oats. dull, 25% Oct.; 257‘
Nov.; 259402695 . c.; 25% yenr;29% bid May.
Pork. uiat: $15.50 0ot.; 811.1754 year: $11.85
‘Jan. ‘Lard. steady: 86.9.) Uct.: $6.80 Nov.
. 1l,.80®6.82l»i.Deo.;86.9J Jan; $6.':'l%@7.06 Feb.
__ye,dnll:.61_._. _______
Groceries.

NEW Yoax, Oct. 29.-—Bnttcr, steady; western,

omosao wnomisau 1>n1ons—-'rnna nxroirr.
sngu, tand. a.... 656 Butter dairy... 13023
g1-anullated....... B ex.cre'ainery....%@2B
Dried avples.......6@7 common ......i5-moss
otatoea . . . . . ..

....-

P . Ezcmtr 21324
.79: ‘fine 't:’.'.‘;v.’.'3'.“i.’.‘3l Ban‘ h. rk".*,l.’."H..£l

years He was the liist Overseer of the S.e/e ;
Paw Paw ‘

man of sterling integrity, highly respected by ‘

She had been 8. resident of this county about I

,Shorthorn Bu1l.Ca1f

i-‘(>11 SALE. 
‘ ’l'lil.~' ('4-ili‘i«i«x‘.; third premium at the Mich.
, .< nlc l<‘;qii' oi l.\‘.\‘l, in :o ring of 20.’ Pedigree
and }).ii‘ilI‘llllll‘.5' sent Ull zipplil,-atlon.
GEUfl(;.‘E JUDSON.

M'iiooi.l'i: \l' l’. Out, ‘_’I:, l\'.*x'l.
The American Sail Cimuan ,
1 No. 70 and 72 BROAD ST.. NEW YORK.

lmines NEAW mrw i-:e.<:.i, ‘Louisiana.
(Jill-is ihv I"llI'e:~il Rock Salt lbrluiiiily and

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puck--rs‘ us:-, in nn_\' «,;i'wl~ :l~ lfh‘ll_ llllllpd, cru-lied iind
‘ ',;i'niiii:l .-.1 piirvs r. -iii! ll'.I iw, T.l;i4 Suit gives [ha
. lll‘,.jl|'~l :4.lll~<llU'llUll wlinii-vi-i iiniwl, ll. .\_ri|l .110 inure,

3 viwglit lul‘ uuiglii, ll: Ill .iii_s reia.-i -lit in‘ (ii-- mukert.
1“.i\h[ ' 1

lflreenwoud Stock Farm.

A CHOICE LOT OF PURE BBQ)

I POLAND CHINA SWINE

For Sale at Reasonable Rates.
Pigs in pairs and tries not akin. Breeding
Stock recorded in Ohio Poland China Record.
Parties wishing stock of this kind will find
it for their interest to correspond with or visit

. B. G. BIJEL
am Little Prairie Ronde, Case (kruhloh.
lbfebtf

Clover Leaf lCa.n

FOR THE

cream Gathering System.

— ‘ ,.~'‘ Tm: Cnaarnsu Alb

,, .. ’ Bssr. Has the largest

‘. coolingsuriace. It is the
most successful cream
raiser and gives the
best satisfaction of any
can now in use. Patent
iallowed. Send for price
ist.

llccall & Duncan

Kalanaaoo, llch.,
Manufacturer! and dealer:

\W in creainery lnppliol.

‘Ha
I 20 Hidden Fain 10 ots.
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8

TEE GRANGE VISITOR.

NOVEMBER 1, 1884

Farm for Sale

_:o3__.

EXCH__A_NGE.

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 Soura BUEDICK-ST.,
KALAMAZDO, Mien. 

2806 Lbs.Wg’t
of two OHIO IMPROVED
GI-I ESTER ,HOG_
Send for description of this
0.

4
I famous breed. Also Fowls.
In B.SlLVER,Cleveland,
l5sep6t

POLAND CHINAS 1

Pine Grove I-Ierd,

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 s‘-ock, all
recorded or eligible to registry in Ohio Poland
China Record. Parties desiring stock can be
supplied at reasonable rates. Call on or
address, GIDEON HEBRON. Box 300,

lsep lyr Constantine, St. Joseph Co., Mich.

EACHERS WANTED—l0PRINCIPALS

12 Assistants, and a number for Music,

Art, and Specialties. Application form mailed

for postage. SCHOOL SUPPLY BUREAU,
Chicago, Ill.

lHul_v84 ly Mention this journal.

1<ish’s American Manual of

PARLIAMENTARY LAW

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

Circular of commendation free. Price by
mail pre id; cloth, -50 cents; leather tucks,
81.00. ostage stamps received -

Address, J. T. Cons, Schoolcraft. or

GEO. '.P. FISH.
Roonnsraa, N; Y.

PATENTS.

LUCIUS C. WEST, Solicitor of American
and Fore‘ Patents, and Counsellor in Patent
Causes. rade Marks, Copyrights, Assign
Inents, Caveats, Mechanical and Patent Draw-
ings. Circulars free. 106 E. Main st., Kala»
mazoo, Mich. Branch oiiice, London, Eng.
Notary Public. sprltl

DAIRY OUEEN CHURN.

The easiest Churn to run in existence, 1e-
uiring but one-third the labor of any other
hurn made. Worked by hand or treadle.
As easy to clean as a butter tray. A success
with wind-mill power. Giving the best of
satisfaction. Every Churn guaranteed. Send

for Price List.

Dairy Queen Churn Co.,
KALAMAZOO. Mien.

Prof. Kedzie’s Letter to the Ala.
bastine Company.

Aeaicunrusu. Conmren, g
Lansing, April 19, 1884.
To M. B. Church, Manager:

DEAR SIB, -—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. I
am satisfied with Alabastine.

Yours faithfully, R. C. Kanzm,
Professor of Chemistry.
1M1'rArIoNs AND INFBINGEMENT9.

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

A CHEAP, INFERIOR MANUFACTURED WALL
FINISH
canbe 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 Arlsass-rim: Co.,

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

The Slalu llgrirullural llullege.

Lansing. Dlich.

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
Chemist , Mathematics. Botany, Zoology,
English anguage and Literature. and
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:
Srnnve 'l‘snx ...... .. . ........ . .F'ebrnu'y 18
Smnnsa TE!-?M,... .......... ..May20
Aucmmv Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .September 2

Examintion of candidates for advanced
standing will be held February 18. Candidates
for admission, to College on September 2 may
present themselves for examination either on
Ma 20, or September 2. at 9 A. H.

or Catalogue apply to
R. G. BAIRD, Secretary.

German Horse and Gow

P OWD E RS.

This wder has been in use for many
cars. tis largely used by the farmers of
enns lvania, and the Patrons of that State
have bought over 100,000 pounds through
their purchasing agents. Its composition is
our secret. The receipt is on every box and
5- und package. Itis made by Dr. L. Ober-
ho tuner’: Sons A Co., Phoenixville, Pa. It
keeps stock healthy and in good condition. It
helps to digest and assimilate the food.
Horses will do more work, with less food
while using it. Cows will give more milk
and beinbetter condition. It keepspoultry
healthy, and increases the production "of eggs
Itisalso of great value to them when molt-
Ing. It is sold at the lowest wholesale price
B. E. JAMES, KALAIAIOO, GEO. W.
as 00., 80.Woonnamen S-1-., Dawson-,
THOS. MASON) 181 Warn S1,,
and STEGEHAN AIJJOAI. Put

Price List of Supplies

Kept in the omce or the Secretary of the

MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.

And sent out Post Paid, on Receipt of Cash
Order, our the seal of s Subordinate Grange,
and the signature of its Master or Secretary.

I

Porcelain Ballot Marbles, per hundred,.. 76 ,
llisnk Book. ledger ruled, for Secretary ‘
to keep accounts with members, .... .. 1  
Blank Record Books, (Express psid),... 1 00 ‘,
Order Book, containing 100 Orders on the 
Treasurer, with stub, well bound,. . . . _ I0 1
Receipt Book, containing 100 Receipts E
from Treasurer to Secretary, with stub,
well bound,.......... 60
Blank Receipts for dues, per 100, bound, 50
Applications for Membership, per 100,. . . 60
Secretary's Account Book, (new style). . 60
Withdrawal Cards, per doz., .......... .. 20
Dimits, in envelopes, per doz.,. . . . . . .. . . 25
By-Laws of ti - State Grange, single
copies 100, per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 75
20
l 80

By-Laws,bound,..  .... .............
“ Glad Echoes,” with music. Single copy
16 cts. per doz., .....  .......... ..
The National Grange Choir, single copy
40 cents. Per dozen. .. .. ..
Rituals, single copy,...
" rdoz.,.......
gr Fifth Degree, for Pomona
Grauges, per co y,

Blank “Articles 0 Association" for the
Inocrgration of Subordinate Granges,
with y of Charter, all complete,... .
Notice to lintpient Members, per 100,.
Declaration of urposes, per doz., 6c.:
per hundred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A0
American Manual of Parliamentary Law 6!

It (I (I II (I

40
26
240

10

10
40

(Morocco Tuck.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 00

Digest of Laws and Rulings, . . . . . . . . . .. 40

Roll Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 15

Address, 1. T. COBB,

Sac’! Mica. Sun Gasnen,

SCHOGLCBAFT. MICE

: con‘! .<lIT.Lr..
, . _ .

D‘ I I ‘SI-l‘_r.. ._ In ' arm
15 - 9‘,

$60. 5 T filer
WAGON SCALES.’

Hume: 2 lexas  Arkansas!

Low prices, long credit. Rich agricultural and
grazing lands, producing vrheat, rye, outs, corn, cotton
grasses, and all the choice fruits, near schools,churches
and railroads. Cheap land excursions every month.
For maps of Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas,
with all information, address .1. B. FRAWLEY, Pass.
and Lend Agent Missouri Pacific R)" Co., 109 Clark
street Chicago, Ill.

J‘. F. English :94 Son,

Breeders of Thoroughbred and Grade
R E D P O L L E D

NORFOLK CATTLE,

SARANAC, MICE.

F OR SALE, §%"r€L‘.’°%.‘;§.‘2

Albert. 729 English herd look, of the Elmham
strain (extra milkers): gentle, vigorous, three
years old. Not wishing to inbreed, will sell
for want of use.

loct2t

ACIIIE CREAMEB 31111 BUTTERAGUULER

J. M. KN AP P,
Bellevue, Mich.

combina-
tion by which
all farmers can
make cream-
or Butter as
we las keep it
in a nice con-
dition until it
is marketed.
It saves two-
thirds the la-
bor. Noics is
required as it
— . is strictly a
' " ~:—...-_s. _. ._ ._ - cold water re-
frigerator. The cream is taken from the top and is
clear of sediment. The most complete arrangement
for the Farmer and Dalryman in existence. Agents
wanted. Send for circular and pr ce list.
MCCALL 8: DUNCAN,
Kalamazoo, Mich.

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-’ PEAR HEAD UARTERS‘?
EACH and other RUIT TREES.

‘3 new BERRIE§ s.*.¥.§.:.*.'o“-
' Q EARLY CLUSTER IO
  Pu has-pale, ['Is\er

IIIMlA1lA,IIsyes.

, 0 ANTS, ts. 0:T"Ca!alagu¢)Vss.
' " J. S. COLLINS, Moorestown, N. J.
jsepoemst

IIIUNE MEN AND WIIMEII

Will find superior advantages for learning
Telegraphing. SHORTHANI) and Type
Writing at the

KALAMAZOO

Business College.

A Practical Reporter is employed to
teach Shorthand and an experienced operator
to teach Telegraphing and Railroad Bus-

PRESIDENT,
Send for Journal.

ISAIAH DILLON

% LEVI DILLON
AND soxs.

'u“rLL’o“N
NORMAL,‘ ll;

IMPOBTEBS AND BEEBIDEBB OF

NORMAN HORSES,

(Formerly of firm of E. Dillon & Co.)

NEW IMPORTATION

Arrived in fine condition J une 15, 1884. Have
new a large collection of choice animals.
STABLES AN D HEADQUARTERS
LOCATED AT NORMAL,

to th Ill‘ ' Ce tral and Chicago and
2I)tIdi)1sl)epoI:as. ]S1t(;<:et ciirs run from the Lake
Erie A; Western, and Indianapolis, Blo9m1ng-
ton, and Western depots in Bloom1n8I50|1o
' ct to our stables in Normal. Address,

5. DILLON BROS-1 NORMAL. ILL.
A" ‘*15.ep12:

in   ,’_ 
a..." “~».#.*:".r:~°-i-

Sawing...&de..Ea‘sy.

KOEABGE LIGEENDIG SAWING MACHINE

SET ON‘
30 DAYS’

. EST TRIAL.

For lrgggi camps. wood-yards, farmers getting out
Stove W , d all sorts of log-cutting-is Is unrivaled.
Thousands add yearly, A boy of 16 can saw logs has and
ens]. Immense savlreig of labor and sssoney. Wnto
for elegantly illustrat catalogue in 6 brilliant colors,
also bnllvivuntgélluminated lief 133 colors. All free-
Il . U.

i3t°.'§ao°n3’nr'eB5"o., <A>' WSW St, Chicago, n1.
léjune

KENT COUNTY

POIIIONA NURSBRIES I

A GENERAL Assonrxsxr or
NURSERY STOCK.

APPLE, PEAR, PLUM, PEACH.
CHERRIES, SMALL FRUITS
And GRAPEVINES.

Ornamental Trees and Evorgreens!

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

BUTTRICK & WATTERSON,

CASCADE, KENT CO., MICI-1.
15-augronovl

A MAN WANTED

To sell the Amsrzrmx Hons AND l~‘A1m_CrcLoi-1:m.\, the
Lu,-st lrurrk for fzrrmrrs and stoclvmisr-is publi-1hr--l.
Over I,I1NlpH;;"5 an-.1 11.111111 fine errgrnvirrgz.-5. Won];
fivetinrl-s its (-051 to any farmer Splcnilid in<.lurr--
rm-rrL~ in gurlrl lrrmr. VVri1e for circu ms and ts-rm.-,
(3. G. G. Palm-, [)1-troit, .\liclr, loam

PAINT

factory.

urun5éuLL’s°
Iluulil Ilulrlrer Paiur,

ONLY PAINT KNOWN
T0 SCIENCE

that will successfully ::-
SlSl’. the action of
MOISTURE, SUN,
SALTAIR &WA’l‘ER,
FUMES FROM COAL
GAS, &c.,
ll and therefore the

u r; CHEAPEST PAINT
for
HOUSE, SHIP, CAR,
TELEGRAPH, OR
STEAMBOAT
PAINTING.

FINE ssussss.
S.

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awrurlrlli

AT AC

VVe pay the freight; and sell you at the lowest wholesale factory prices, the some as it you came to the
We were the first concern that sold to Patrons, and we don't want. store keeper’s trade now.
R. H. Thomas, Secretary Pennsylvania State Grange says:
Grange expenses for a lifetime by purchasing your paint.

would be cheapest at twice the price per gallon."
Secretary, and C. L. Whitney, formerly Lecturer of Michigan State Grange, lmve used ru-1:1 approved this paint
and 206 Subordinate Granges use no other paint. ’
the paint, and circulars for the Whole Grange.
Street, New York, and receive book, "Everyone their own Painter ”

Br-other

‘-Many of our members have more than saved their
It lasts many times longer than any other paint, and
Brother Thomas W118 formerly :1 prriuter. Brothers J, T. Cobb,

Masters and Secretaries supplied with cards of specimens of
All consumers should address Prrtrons’ Paint. Works, 76 Fulton

THOMAS MASON»

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

Respectfully Solicits Consignments of

FRUITS, VEGETABLES, su'r1-an, aces,
GRASS SEED, RAW FTJRS, HIDES. PELTS. TALLOW ETC.

BONDED AGENT or THE N. W. PRODUCE EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION,
Chartered Feb. lsth, 1877.

ALL ORDERS RECEIVE PROPER ATTENTION.

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$22.00 'I‘() ::‘>:'r().00.
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$2.00 TU Sl:3.0l1.
-$3.00 T() $10.00.
l’I.\'l£ W()ll.~‘,'Tl£I) $15.00
Cl's'1‘()M 1\l.-\l)l£.
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DRESS (‘0,\'I‘ AND
$12.rur ’l‘(1 $rZ~'2rr.Irr.r.

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(Ill TO $16.01).
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Sin Ti) $12.00.
r3::.r»(r T1) $10.
CL'STO.\[ MADIC,

CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY TIME TABLE.

December 30th, 1883.

TRAINS WliS'l‘WARD.——CENT1lAL MERIDIAN TIMI.  TRAINS EASTWABD.--CENTRAL MERIDIAN TIMI

N0. 4. N0. 3.

Limited

No. 6. N 0. 11.
Atlantic Valp‘so
Express Express Accom.

Daily. Daily. Ex. Sun

321m 830» 520111:
413“ 923" 620“

IN”-1 I Day 15291:} IBN3'8r.I
. ‘ res

Snrross. ‘Exlllgili l\E‘prm_ Exp?“ ,Pw,.g.,__|
r ' ‘lEx. Sun. Daily. ,l<}x.Sun.
750111 810 PM: 4101=nILe.
" Imlay City-- 750 -r l ____ ___ 19 05 1- r 519 H u
" Lapcer______ 815 “ 1 912 1- 930 1' ; 543 ~ I

-. 907 1‘ 955 “ 1010 “ 1 625 1-‘

No. 1.
Ma il.
Ex. Sun.

S’.l‘A’I‘l0N8.

Le. Port Huron _ 6 35 All‘ Chicago _____
C,Rl&P Cros
Bede.-rdale___
Valparaiso __.
Haskells___
‘ Stillwcll .__,
“ South Bsnd_

7. ______ __f'8'25 [iii
. 6.50 H 8 32 “
7 55 -- 9 20 -~

MADE TO 01101111,
‘WE U3"DE1i“'EA1?- wr1.1. 11171’ .\ SCARLET
liL'l{ wo1rsTr«:1> sr,'1'r‘.s'.
irrrrass .~'r‘1'r‘.<,
rt‘.-11.1. o\'1-:r1C0.\'rx<_
$3.30 TO $10.00.
IC1r11.r>1r.1~:.\'s 0\'1«:1rc'rs, \\'r.\"r‘n1r ()\'l-2llC0.\'l‘.S- F.\l.I. U\'Ell('().LTS.
$3.50 To $315.

G1-angers ___

' Cassopolis __
Marcellus.--
Schoolcrafi _ ‘
Vicksburg _- 1

A . Battle Creek
. Battle Creek
Charlotte _-_
Lansing___.

. Durand-

" .”Dur., 'I)'.G'§ll_T.
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9 ~10 “ ,1(12'.' “

. Durand_-...-, 945 “ 11030 “ ‘.
' Lnnsing_-_..-l11 00 “ l11:+2 -* ,
Charlotte ___l11 40 -‘ I12 06 pm
. Battle Creek 12 40 P
. Bllllle Creek
Vicksburg __
Schoolcraft_-
Marcellus _-
Ca.'4sopolis___
Grangers -__
South Bend-
Stillwell___.
Hsskells-_._
Valparaiso __
Reds-sdalc-___
C,RI&1’ Cros
. Chicago ___

“ ]s5o“g953“
.Durar1rl " _1

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qwosmoa "‘

I‘\'o. 12. E____
, 'a1p‘so ~ ‘'7'
Accom. I 300 I '
Ex. Sun.i'
6 20 AI 5 25 “
7 05 “ , 1
7 40 “ Imlay City";
8 40 “ 7 45 “ 8 10 “ E ______ __ Ar. Port Huron-11 4

______ __r 52.5"
 OK

1125“ I 600“

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Pontiac, “
Detroit, “ _

way “.3,-gm” leave Schoolcmft‘ Ea_stWm.d 5:35 P_ “G tral Ftandnrd Time,’ which is one hour slower than
Westward, 10:05 A. 111., except Sunday. E“5“"'“ b““‘d““l T1"-“’-

Nos. 1, 7 and 8 will stop at Durand 20 minutes for _ 508- 3: “Dd 5: d-“I'IY- 5“ °"“’1' "'3"-‘3 ‘mill’: 93°91"
,,,e,,1,,_ Sunday.

No. 4 will stop at Battle Creek 20 minutes for meals. ,p"‘n"“‘“ P313“ °‘“'9 “"3 ml‘ th"°‘1gh ",m1°“t °h’mK°

No. 1 will stop at Valparaiso 20 minutes for meals.  %1;lB)C.!(l3li,cayIf0Hn,:1,gil1:::,x;E gtgfigg g:lt,r5(:“I’;ul::,t),B§§:

Nos. 3 and 6 have a Dining Cur attached between York, Toronto, Montreal and Boston.
Chicago and Battle Creek.

Where no time is shown at the stations trains will Dmmg cu” 0“ 3 and 6 West Bank, creek‘
,0, 5,0,,‘ Geo. B. Rnvs, B. B. Osnuwn,

1* Trains do not stop for passengers except on signal. Trams Manager. General Manager
All Chicago A: Grand Trunk trains are run by Cen- E. P. Kksnr, Agent. Schoolcrafl. Mich

M. B. CHURCH “BEDETTE” CO.,

GRAND RAPIDS, IVIICJI-I.-.

mun gfifififimmnfl

Patented June 13, 1882.

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

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

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

The “BEDETTE” is a. Household Necessity,

after once using, would be without it. It is simple in its construction, and
It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed,and the price is

PRICE:

36 inches wide by 6} feet long, 83.50. 30 inches wide by 6; feet long, 83.00. 27 inches wide
by 4} feet long (cover nor adjustable) 82.50.

And no family, _
not liable to get out of repair.
within the reach of all.

For Sale by Furniture Dealers Blverrywhereo

TRUNKQ,
00 cents to $15.00.
$5.00
BUYS A ZINC TRUNK
\Vortl1 $7.56.

OUR WlIl’l‘li SIIIIITS
Alli] BEST 1-‘I'l"i‘lNG.
’l.3cts. F01’.
LINEN l}()SU;\l SIIIRTS.
S’i‘ll~‘1~‘ l<‘1,'l{ ll.\’l‘S.
(‘Il1l.l)Rl£.\"S
.\.\'l) ISUYS" il.\’l‘S,
Biisfl‘ $1 l‘A.\"l‘S IN 'l‘llF.
CITY.
l1‘l.\'E l’A\"l‘S.
ONLY $3.50 to $r..30.

. to
.50.

The Star Clothing House.
Strictly no Price.

GRAND RAPIJ)S, ZIIICII.

S

We are the 0rrgrna|_Grange Supply House, organized in I872
to supply the consume!‘ _d1rsct wrtlr all classes of Goods at Whole-
sale Prrces, In quantities to suit the purchaser. _ We are not
purchasing agents or commrssrnn men who buy their goods after
they get arr order. We buy from first hands In large quantities
an carry In stock all the goods we handle, embracing Dry Goods,
Clothing. Boots. Shoes, Hats, Caps, Fancy Goods, Nosierv. Gloves,
Underwear, Watches. clocks, Jewelry, Silverware. Sewing Machines,
Hardware. Trnware. Guns, Revolvers, Fishipg Tackle. Crockery,
Harness. S_addles._ Tru_nks. Groceries. and in fact nearly Every-
thing that Is r9quIr_ed up the House or on the farm.

Our Buyer s Guide Is issued In March and September of each
pear and will be sent free to any address u on receipt of postage.

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

3.300 _IIIll8‘IIl'3Il0ll8 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 warm 0:. co.,
227 J. 229 Wabash Avo.. chloago. Ill.

Fall and
Winter Caps
BEST $8.50.

0 Satchels 33

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W lll d on a watch alum
sreiiiiifiiii nhrnsss, c. oiif, to be
examined before paying auymoney
and i f not satlswfvactory turned at

man

FENNO & MANNING,

llluul Euruurisslun Merchanlul 

;l17 Federal St’... Boston.

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Address

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