V Vin-P;ur'le1a ; Tnonas S. COBB. Carkirr.

 

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VOLUME ll —No. 32. 2’
WHOLE NUMBER232 .

“ THE FARMER IS OF M0121: OOJVSEQ UEJVCE r.7v THE 114

COLDWATER, MIoH.. APRIL 15, 1886.

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Executive Committee.

1 M. BLANTON, Ch‘n ...................... ..Virgi'nii
11 H. BRIGHAM . . . . . . . . . . .(_)hio
J.  WOODMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michigan

offloers Michigan State Grange.

(C. G. LUCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gilead
gzfi.:erer—]OI-IN HOLBROOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lansing
L¢cturer—}‘ERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Battle Creek

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Executive Committee.
H. D. PL.-\'i'I‘. Ch‘n..

THOS F. M0oRE.. ..
}. G RAMSDELL. .

. . .Ypsilanti
. . . . .Adrian
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GTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .'l‘uscola

WM. SATERLEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Birmingha.m

W, T. ADAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grand léapidg

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State Business Agent.

THOMAS MASON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chicago, Ill
General Deputies.

PERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Battle Creek

MRS. PERRY MAYO ................... . .B;mle Crook

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JOHN HOLBROOK. Lansing, for lngham County.
pAsON WOODMAN. Paw Paw. for Van Buren County.
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Address, I. T. COBB,

SEC’Y Micii. STATE GRANGE, '
Schoolcraft, Mich.

KALAMAZO0 NATIONAL BANK. Capital 51%;,-cog.
Surplus, 310.000. Southwest cor. Main and Cl“!
Streets. Directar —- acob Mitch: giihn Den Bleyker
Helancthon D. W 0rd. Melville . gg1ow.J- W:
n,Ge _, T. Bruen. Samu A. Gibson. Albert 5-
White, Edwin]. Phelps. E. 0. Hum rcy, N. Chase-
Enwnr J. PHKLPS, President: ai.viu.i: J. Bicinow.

febsyz

A ggritultural gepartiueitt.

American Bred Stock.

America is a. new country. Formerly
anything which required years of skill to
approach perfection must be imported.
This has changed. There is scarcely
anything which Yankee enterprise has
not brought to as high a state of perfec-
tion as can be found across the water.
Imported stock is about the last foreign
fancy to which we cling. It is an idea
which has sprung up in the last fifty
years. Before that time a month more
or less was required for a trip across
the ocean, and their transportation by
land was impracticable. Since that time
the importing and breeding of fancy
stock has become . an enormous busi-
ness.

These imported animals have shown
how much skillful attention to fixed
principles in breeding, with an intelli-
gent object in view, will improve and
establish certain characteristics of ani-
mals. The butter Jersey, beef Short-
horn, milk Holstein, draft Percheron or
Clyde, fleet Hambletonian are all pro-
duced by attention to one particular ob-
jectlin breeding. These principles have
been adopted by American breeders
with native stock until there is now
American bred stock of which none
need be ashamed. For this improve-
ment we are not indebted to imported
stock only to the extent of a good ex-
ample.

Away back in history, lovers of rare
beef in merry old England have been
improving Shortliorn as a breed. Ham-
bletonian horses trace back to those of
the Arabs who skillfully bred horses ages
ago. This gives an idea of the long
time required to fix these different types
of imported stock. While the shrewd
Yankee has not such advantage of time
in this new country, he must make up
in skill what he lacks in. time.

Inquiries for Morgan horses have
been frequent in journals devoted ex-
clusively to horses. They are native
horses skillfully bred, and their speed,
endurance, spirit and symmetry have
been noted all over the country in
such descendants as Hero, Black Hawk,
etc. Another family of horses were
popular in New York and other States a
few years ago called the Duchess
County horses from the place of their
rearing. There has been less systematic
improvement of a national character in
cattle than other farm animals. —The
improvement has been mostly i-n cross-
ing imported upon native stock. Yet
the native or woods cow has been skill-
fully bred in dairy districts. Often
browsed in summer, wintered on straw,
thankful for the leeward -side of the
straw-stack before the days of tight
barns, she made the family butter, furn-
ished all the milk, raised a lot of calves
and a dozen babies to the family. Well
done, good and faithful servant. If
there was any danger of her extinction
she should have a monument to her
memory. But she is still doing business
at the old stand. Chester white hogs
and Plymouth Rock fowls further show
American skill in breeding, and im-
ported breeds must get up early and
stay up late to excel them. Other
breeds of swine and fowls owe their
best characteristics to American breed-
era. The same -may be said of the
American Merino; while tracing back
to the Spanish Merino its chief excel-
lences are due to American skill and are
essentially American, according to
name. He has not been a close ob-
server of the drift of events who fails to
see that we are tendiugswiftly to a race
of American bred stock. Breeders of
imported or.foreign bred stock are sell-
ing mainly to each other or those who
intend to become breeders, Their sales
are not increasing among the majority
of American farmers. —

The patriotic, calculating Yankee re-
grets to see such vast sums of money
which might be kept at home spent
abroad for imported stock. Nations
like individuals must sell high and buy
cheap, instead of sending cheap animals
abroad and importing expensive ones at
fancy prices. This balances the wrong
way. That was a. popular idea of ex-
Commissioner LeDuc, who wished to
save importations of tea, coffee and
sugar by producing the same in the
United States. ‘ There is less excuse for
importing live stock now than formerly;
not that breeders should pay less atten-
tion to the skillful breeding of foreign
bred stock for the use of specialists, but
more to the improvement of native
stock for general purposes.

There is no reader of stock and farm i
papers who does not repeatedly read
calls for general purpose animals and}
exact descriptions of what . is wanted. i
For instance descriptions of an ideal 5
farm horse extracted from leading ag-
ricultural journals do not, strange to
say, differ from each other in any es-
sential particular. Fifteen hands high,
twelve hundred pounds weight, a three-
minute gate, with certain points of
symmetry and beauty make the general
purpose horse. The same might be said
of other farm animals. A farmer does
not wish a cow for all butter, all beef,
all milk——nor a sheep for all wool or all
mutton.

This is said of the general purpose farm-
er, not the specialist. ,Ifa farmer was
making a business of supplying a hotel,
watering place, or families with butter,
he needs a butter cow, and so with other
specialists. No fault need be found
with breeders of foreign stock, but the
future breeder who disregards the in-
creasing and unmistakable demand for
American bred acclimated stock will
not be wise to his best interests or loyal
to his patriotism.

No breeder, however skilled or prom-
nent, can do this alone. He might have
a perfect ideal animal in his mind, ‘but
when he died the work would cease.
His work already accomplished would
not be lost, but who would carry it
farther? The improvement of Short-
horns; did not stop with Bates, Booth,
Renick or Hamilton, skillful as they
were. The ideal was fixed by the Herd
Book Association, “known and read of
all men.” E. W. S.

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Twenty Years Ago and Now.

Twenty years ago the fa";mers, the la-
borers and the businessmen were hav-
ing a season of prosperity and :1 busi-
ness boom. In the markets farm prod-
ucts commanded a good price. Every
store, shop, mill, mine, plantation and
farm were crowded to their utmost ca-
pacity, and every man, woman and child
could find quick employment at good
wages. Every industry and everybody
were having a festive jubilee. But to-
day how changed! ' Our farms and our
products go begging for a market. Men
and ‘women are seeking employment,
many of them only to be turnedaway.
The fire in the furriace has gone out.
The spindle and the loom are idle. The
farm and plantation are worked with
just as little help as possible, and the
employes and laborers arfflying from
their homes to get away ‘from starvation
and are asking a crust from door to
door. What has made this difference?
Why, in those days of prosperity ‘there
was probably more money “per capital”
in circulation than has been before or
since. Then in our State wheat ranged
from $2 to $2.io,"corn about 65 cents.
I sold one hog (weight, 415 lbs.,) for
$45.65, which at the, same time of year
now would bring $16.60. Then wool
was 40C to 5oc, and butter 25 to 5oc.
Then two to five clerks were required in
nearly every country store. The shops
and mills were thronged with employes
and farms were well supplied with ef-
ficient laborers. But to-day wheat 80
to 85c., com 30 to 40 c., pork 4 to 4}_{c.,
wool 15 to 25c. and butter to to 25c,and
yet politicians are tryingto pacify us by
saying. “It can’! possibly make any dif-
ference financially, for every other coni-
modity has correspondingly gone down
with the price of farm products.

'Let’s see. Has everytliing else gone
down with farm products? Will a bushel
of wheat buy as much of everything to-
day as it would twenty years ago? How
is it with railroad fare, railroad freights,
the price of government land, taxes,
salaries of oflicers, military, naval and
civil from the President down to the
pathmaster; and all fees and emolu-
ments. These things are all fixed by
law and never go down ‘when wheat
goes down. Again do the number of dol-
lars in our indebtedness drop when the
prices of farm products drop? Does the
national indebtedness diminish with the
shrinkage of prices? If not, then it
does make a difference, and a bushel of
wheat will not buy as much and pay as
much to-day at 80c. as it would twenty
years ago at $2. Notice the difference.
Twenty years ago, at $2 ioo bushels
would buy just 160 acres of good lahd.
To-day at_8oc it will bny only 64 acres.
Twenty -years ago__7% bushels would let
you ride on the, railroad, 5oo,miles. To-
day it takes '18 54 ' bushels. '_Twe1ify years
ago 5oo bushels would lift a; one thousand
dollar mortgage; to-day it. takes 1250

bushels; Then don’t it make :-1 differ-

ence? Brother farmer can't you grow E difference when you. commence hatch-
the 5oo bushels that lifts a thousand dol- l 108- 501118 hamh 011 the 1701 d3)’; bl“

lar mortgage a little easier than you
can the 1250 bushels? We are also told

that the stoppage of silver coinage won’t I

make money any scarcer, nor drop
prices any ‘lower. Just as soon will the
brook run the same ‘volume of water
after the showers cease to come. If a
gold dollar is worth 20 cents more than
a silver dollar, then the bondholder gets
just $209,000 extra for every million of
dollars that has been or will be paid in
gold. ’ S. A. SLADE.

Wayland, Mich.
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Interest Charges in Farming.

BRO. COBB:——In the VISITOR of the
15th inst. is an article from Wm. Strong
headed “Wheat,” giving the average per
acre of the State 36 years ago and up to
this time.

There is only one point I take issue
with him, to-wit: where he charges. to
one crop of wheat two years’ 2'/zlertst. I
claim only one. Bro. Strong and my-
self had a very pleasant box (dry goods)
social, lasting one hour, last summer in
Kalamazoo, and this disputed point
came up- for consideration. I made
figures and drew a diagram, and sup-
posed I had him fixed, "but like the man
converted against his will,” &c., I. fear
not.

Now, Bro. Cobb, 1 will leave this
question to you and the readers of the
VISITOR to arbitrate between Bro.
Strong and myself. The position I take
is that the entire farm produces a. crop
of wood, pasture, meadow, wheat, corn,
Oats, and fruit annually. Where one
crop begins another ends, and only one
year’s interest can be charged to one
crop. Perhaps Bro. Cobb will say that
annual crop of wood ought to be charged
with interest for roo years, for it occu-
pied the ground for that length of time.
Also the fruit crop, for it has occupied
the ground for from 5 to 20 years. Cer-
tainly he will not claim but only one
ycar’s interest for corn, oats, meadow
or pasture, but wheat is the sticker.
Let us see about that. Statistics show
that 55 per cent. of last year’s crop was
raised on oats and wheat stubble and
after corn, and only one year’s interest
can be charged in that case; io per
cent. was on new ground. Like the
crop of wood he may want the charge
interest in this case 100 years. I have
now disposed of 65 per cent. of the"
whTeat crop,upon which he will readily ad-
mit only one year’s interest can be charg-
ed,leaving 35 per cent. to divide amongst
clover, timothy sod and summer fallow.
The latter is a relict of pioneer days,
and is not in practice to any great ex-
tent, or not-to exceed 5 per cent. of the
entire crop. I think I am safe in saying
of the 35 per cent. remaining 20 per
cent. is not plowed until after harvest
(pasture and meadow sod) leaving ro
per cent. plowed in the month of June,
the crop harvested the next year in
July, or say 13 months; can he or ought
he to claim two. years’ interest in this
case? We charge to our com and oat
crop one year's interest when they only
occupy the ground about six months.
This is 51 question worthy of much
thought by the farmers of Michigan.

A. C. Towns.

Prairieville, Mich. March 23, 1886.

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POULTRY.——Al)Surd questions are asked
by many persons as to the use of incu-
bators, thus showing how little is known
of them. Poultry is not exported, but
we imported in 1882 13 million dozen
eggs: Rudd and other poultry raisers
receive eight to $10,000 a year from this
one Industry by keeping the better
breed. You should cull out the poor
and keep only the best.
more value pecuniarily than keeping
cattle, when the breed is improved. A
number of fowls fifty years ago were not
in existence. Poultry shows were not
known then, and no papers on the sub-
ject. To-day we have fifty. The. in-
cubator is a modern invention, and
chickens can be hatched cheaper in
that manner than by the mother hen.
When a hen first forms a. desire to set,
if you confine her to a small space, with
no nest, she will give up that desire. I
use a “Success” incubator, and have
hatched on three occasions roo per
cent. ‘of fertile eggs, on another 96
P91’ Cent-s. and 98% per cent. out e
fifth occasion. The hen averages far
below that; not over 60 per cent. The
object of using the incubator is to get
the eggs out early in the spring, as you
can commence in winter; and as the
heat circulates evenly in the egg cham-
ber, cmd can be regulated, it makes no

Poultry is of

generally the 19th, and the 21st is the
proper time. Hens do. better enclosed
in yards, although they should have
good yards. When chickens are hatched
they are placed in a “brooder,” and
that is warmed, and the young chicks
are fed.—-G. A. illané/mm.

«————<o———-——-——
Michigan Crop Report for April.
[From the Secretary of State.]

For this report returns have been re-
ceived from 882 correspondents, repre-
senting 673 townships. Six hundred
and nine of these returns are from 420
townships in the southern four tiers of
counties.

The condition of wheat in the south-
ern counties is reported at 87 per cent,
and in the northern counties 93 per
cent, comparison being with vitality
and growth of average years, but cor-
respondents quite generally agree that
it is yet too early to make asatisfactory
estimate. The freezing and thawing
during March has certainly been severe
on the crop in the southern section of
the State, yet it is believed that the
roots are not seriously injured, possibly
not more than in average years. In a
large portion of the northern counties-
the ground on the first of April was cov-
cred with snow—in some places to the
depth of eighteen inches.

Ten per cent. of the acreage in clover
is believed to be winter-killed, and the
condition of that portion not winter-
killed is 92 per cent. compared with
average years. In condition horses are
98, cattle 96, sheep 96, and swine 97
per cent., the comparison being with
‘s'.""‘»k in good, healthy, and thrifzy con-
dit'Io.:;

Apples promise 89 per cent. of an
average crop, and reports from 161 cor-
respondrznt.-,~—1:.-2 in the southern coun-
ties and 39 in the northern counties,-—

place I)CL1(.'ll(‘.‘.~' at about five—cighths of.’

an average crop. Eighteen reports from
Allcgan County place peaches at 72 per
cent., 15 from Kent at 68 per cent, 10
from Oakland at .60 per cent, 10 from
Ottawa at 54 per cent, 7 from Van Bu-
ren at 61 per cent., and 9 from Washte-
naw at 49 per cent. of an average crop.

Reports have been received of the
quantity of wheat marketed by farmers
during the month of March at 300 ele-
vators and mills. Of these 247 are in
the southern four tiers .of counties,
which is 46 per cent. of the whole num-
ber of elevators and mills in these coun-
ties. The total number of bushels re-
ported marketed is 867,067, of which
223,836 bushels were marketed in the
first or southern tier of counties; 249,-
845 bushels in the second tier; 154,674
bushels in the third tier; 184,586 bush-
els in the fourth tier; and 54,126 bushels
in the counties north of the southern
four tiers. At 47 elevators and mills,
or 16 per cent. of the whole number
from which reports have been received,
there was no wheat marketed during the
month.

The total number of bushels of wheat
marketed in August, September, Octo-
ber, November, December, January,
February and March is 12,024,524, or
about 39 per cent. of the crop of 1885.
The number of bushels reported mar-
keted in the same months of 1884 and
1885 was 7,109,260, or 28 per cent. of
the crop of 1884. For these months in
1884-5 reports were received from
about 40 per ceut., and in 1885-6 from
about 45 per cent. of the elevators and
mills in the southern four tiers of coun-
ties.

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THE following are the conclusions
arrived at in a test of thirteen weeks of
the relative value of Oil meal and corn.
meal:

1. The considerable loss of weight
by the animals prevents any certain
conclusions being drawn.

2. Neither these experiments not
those of the previous year have shown
with certainty that oil meal has any
greater feeding value than corn meal.

3. If there is any balance in favor
of oil meal it is not great. The prob-
ability is, in my opinion, that the
“starch equivalent” of feeding stuffs
pretty nearly represents their relative
value as food. -

4. If the apparent gain under oil
meal feeding be accepted real, the
cost was about 4 cents  per I00
pounds of milk when. oil meal was fed.

5._ The oil meal in these experiments

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APRIL 15,1886.

Qirrttcnlturc.

Culture of Onions.

Good onion seed, planted early and
well, in good rich soil well manured, is
almost sure to produce a large yield, if
properly cultivated. No soil is rich
enough without manure. Barn yard
manure well composted seems to be
best adapted to the successful culture
of onions. Nothing but aclean, mel-
low soil that has been thoroughly pul-
verized, and all the clods and unbroken
pieces of manure taken out with a. hand
rake, and that has been made smooth
and level enough to enable a person to
make the rows straight, should be
planted. The rows should be fourteen
inches apart, and the seeds dropped a
little less than half an inch apart in the
rows. The wheels of my drill are three
feet in circumference. I regulate the
guage so as to drop as nearly eighty
seeds as I can while the wheels revolve
once. I never thin even if every seed
grows, except the very few we use on
the table. Old seed is worthless, and
poor seed, though it may be new, will
invariably bring a poor crop. Jas. J.
H. Gregory I think grows the best onion
seed, and, although he generally sells it
for from two to three times as much per
pound as most other seed men do, still
I believe it is the cheapest seed we can
buy. It produces earlier, smoother,
deeper and more perfectly shaped
onions than any seed we have pur-
chased or raised during the last twenty
years.

I planted some of D. M. Ferry &
Co’s seed last year with good results
with one exception—l had a large yield;
I also had a large lot of double onions
which retained moisture enough to
cause bushels of them to decay, while
the smooth ones are sound and in good
shape for market this spring.

Onion seed varies in size. Thorough
ly test the dropping capacity of your
drill with each lot of seed planted, or
some kinds will be thinner in the rows
than other kinds. On sandy soil half
an inch is deep enough to cover the
seeds, but on mucky ground it may be
planted deeper. The soil should be
well pressed down with a roller after the
seed is planted. The straighter the
rows and the narrower the mark into
which the seed is dropped, the easier it
will be to cultivate and keep clean.
With the Gem Wheel Garden Hoe a
person can do as much work as six men
can in the old way by hand. Com-
mence hoeing as soon as you can fol-
low the rows, and keep them clean, and
you will be amply paid for your labor.

I raised last year on a parcel of
ground 57xio2 feet 160 bushels‘. This
was the best in the field, of course, and
the yield was at the rate of nearly twelve
hundred bushels per acre. The ground
was muck and has been cropped with
onions several years. 0. R. E.

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Keep Your Plants Clean.

She who would derive the utmost sat-
isfaction from plants must remove all
.fading leaves as soon as discovered; al-
low no weeds to grow in the pot; nor
should the surface of the soil be allowed
to crust or moss over. It is a. good plan
to stir the soil once a week. One of the
best implements for doing this work
well is an old-fashioned, two-ti‘ned fork.
.As fast as blossoms fade, remove them.
Do not let the petals scatter themselves
over the soil, for they detract from the
neat appearance of a plant. Clean soil
is not unattractive as many persons
seem to think. I frequently see plants
which have the appearance of growing
out of pieces of china, pebbles, and
things of that sort which have been
used to conceal the earth about the
plant. And always keep the foliage of
the plant clean. Never let dust accu-
mulate. If you do you injure the health
of the plant, and what might be pleas-
ing because of its freshness, becomes
not only unattractive but offensive to

the sight. Ii care is taken to spread a
thin, light th over your plants in the
sitting-rr windows every day, when
_you swf’ —: room, or, if this cloth is
not at h 1l'.'(§ «. newspaper, but little dust
will settle < them, and this little can
be remove’ .y a good syringing, which
should alv. s be given after sweeping,

never bciore, for if the plants are moist
when the dust falls on the leaves, it will
stick—Country Honzc.

Window Gardening.

It is a delightful pastime for window
gardeners to form a tree of mignonette.
It is a process that requires attention,
but it well repays it. Tree mignonettes
have been supposed by some persons to
be a distinct variety from the ordinary
kinds. This is not so; they are the re-
sult ofpruning and close care.‘ Sow the
seeds in rich, friable, but not heavy
soil. When the plants come up, thin
out until one strong, growing plant is
left directly in the center of the pot.
Push a piece of stiff wire down by the
side of the plant, and begin and tie
loosely, when it is two inches high; use
worsted for tying. Pinch off every side
branch that appears on the main stem,
but do not remove any of the leaves;
their functions are required for. the
strength and health of ‘ theplant. In
four months turn‘ out the ball of earth
from the pot to ascertain if it requires a
larger size, but do not shift it unless the
roots are curled around the ball. When
the plant is about twelve inches high,
side shoots» may be permitted to grow,

but their heads should be occasionally
pinched off to force them to form a
bushy top of a foot in diameter. It re-
quires about nine months to complete
this process, but a. plant-is then grown
that will richly perfume alarge ro mi.
By re-potting every year it will bear an
abundance of fragrant flowers for a
number of seasons. Rexcda adorata is
the best variety to form into a trec.—
Farmie S. Benson, in Good fIou.te.éeept'ng.
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PREPARE the hotbeds as early as pos-
sible. Every farmer should have one,
in which to grow his supply of lettuce,
cabbage and tomato plants. If afew
potatoes are sprouted in the hotbed
they can be transplanted when others
are planting potatoes, and about two
weeks can be gained in the time of
growing. Some farmers also go so far
as to start their sweet corn, cucumbers
and a few other vegetables which they
wish to obtain early in this way.

National Lecturer’s Communi-
caflon.

SUBJECT l-‘OR APRIL Axn MAY, 1886.

Quertio/z 84.—-W hat is gold or silver?
What are their differences? What makes
them money?

Sugge.s‘tz'on:.——The monetary affairs of
a nation are of greatest importance,
and should always be shaped to contrib-
ute liberally to the welfare of the peo-
ple. In order to profit by its considera-
tion, we must for the moment divest our-
selves from all partisanism and selfish-
ness, and discuss it upon its merits, no
matter what our individual preferences
or preconceived opinions may have
been. The question to solve is simply
this: What are the fact: in the case?
When we get at these, then we will be
able to judge as to whether our prefer-
ences and opinions are correct or not.
What is gold or silver? They are metals
dug from the mines, as lead, copper,
zinc or iron. Gold is not found in as
great an abundance as silver. Their
value for mechanical purposes is less
than of many other metals. Their early
use was for ornamental purposes, on ac-
count of their beauty and brightness,
and less tarnishable than other metals.
They were also used for household ar-
ticles. Later they were hammered/into
a certain size and shape and stamped by
the government, as a medium of ex-
change for commodities, called moneda.
Later it was called money, as was that
made of brass, tin, leather and paste-
board. The Romans made it into dif-
ferent shapes; one bearing the image of
a sheep as the value of a sheep, and was
given in exchange for a sheep; another
theimage of an ox as the value of an
ox, etc. These images were stamped by
the government, who fixed the value
thereof. _

Julius Caesar won in contest large
quantities of gold, had it made into
money and secured the authority from
the government to stamp his own image
upon it. He used much of it for slavish
and oppressive purposes. The bread
riot in Rome, one of the most serious
in the history of that day, was under
the gold basis of Caesar. There was no
money to buy food and the people de-
manded bread, which resulted in much
bloodshed. Later in history copper,
silver and gold were coined by ma-
chinery under authority of the govern-
ment as money, and their quantity pre-
scribed and their value fixed, as is the
case in the United States Government,
who fixed and kept the value on Ameri-'
can money for many years—-on gold
coin 27 grains to the dollar, and on sil-
ver coin 416 grains to the dollar.
Congress some years ago reduced the
standard value on gold to 2 5.8 grains to
the dollar, and on silver to 412% grains
and this is the standard value of Ameri-
can gold and silver coin to-day.

The Constitution of the United States
authorizes Congress to coin money and
regulate the value thereof. The word
coin is generally supposed to mean the
making of metalic money, when, in fact,
in the original, it has a wide scope, and
means many things. Hence, a reasona-
ble construction of the word “coin” in
the Constitution would be, “Congress
has the right to create money and fix
the value thereof.” Gold has always
been made by acts of Congress a legal
tender for all debts, public or private.
Silver was limited in its legal tender
qualities by certain amounts. A gold
dollar in one country is not always a
dollar in another country. A gold eagle
coined in the United States and stamped
for ten dollars passes at home for that
amount; send it to Europe and it will
pass at the price of gold bullion in the
country to which it is sent. Much of
our gold, sent to foreign countries, has
been re-coined into foreign coins. Of
the entire population of the world less
than 2oo,ooo_use gold alone as money;
1,1 7o,ooo,ooo use gold and silver. Gold
is generally received as money by all
nations on account of its bullion value
in the markets, but it is not a legal ten-
der for money in Russia, Central Amer-
ica, Austria, Peru, Holland and nine
other nations. Hence the question
arises, can “gold be the money of the
world” when different nations make the
gold dollar of different value, and four-
teen of these give it noteven a legal
tender value? Is there any objection
to ‘gold being coined into money and
used in connection with other materials
of money? If not, where is the objec-

tion to silver being coined into money, '

with like power of exchange, equal with
gold? Ins said the objection to silver
is that the true value of silver in a silver
dollar haslless than one hundred cents
worth of silver, Compare this reason-
ing with gold coin, bank notes and
promises to pay, and the argument fails.
Does not the objection to the free use
of silver circulation solely arise from
the combined efforts of bullionists and
bankers to control the monetary affairs
of the government for their own aggran-
dizement? If so, then it is well to un-
derstand it, so as to act wisely in refer-
ence thereto. Should not the govern-
ment finance be arranged and so ad-
justed as to contribute to the greatest
welfare of our own people, and its use to
the world be a secondary consideration?
Would a reduction or hampering the.
free use of either gold, silver or paper-
money prove detrimental to the people?
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In the Northwest.

Although Camas Prairie is so beauti-
ful a place the natural disadvantages are
formidable. It is as near the end of the
world as one can well imagine. The
only wagon trail to it is from Lewiston.
If you desire to go farther south you
must discard the wagon for a cayuse, as
the native Indian ponies are called, and
the pack-mule. These long trains of
pack-mules were at first very interesting
tome. The mind instantly reverts to
those pictures in the old geography of
travelers crossing the Andes. Well here
they are right in our own country. My
boyhood dreams of the pack—mule have
sadly suffered since this personal con-
tact with the existing article. A pack-
saddle is a great leather concern nearly
covering the mule with great croupper
and double cinches (girtlis.) A load of
300 to 5oo pounds is tied on, one half
on each side, then cinched so tight that
the poor brute grunts as he walks. No
doubt he sympathizes with the tight
laced ladies atfashionable balls! Often
these poor animals find places where
the path is not wide enough for the load
to get through. In many places the trail
is blasted out of solid rock away up the
side of a canyon, the basaltic column
towering one or two thousand feet over-
head, and on the other side descending
vertically hundreds of feet below. The
pack crowds them from the unyielding
wall, their feet miss the ledge and off
they go, down the rugged steep, a man-
gled mass and total loss.

There are only three of these trails
leading out of Camas; one to Boise and
one to Elk City—both over the Salmon
range, dangerous and very little traveled;
and one, the hole trail, leading east over
the Bitter Rock range into Montana.
This last is the best, yet it is a very
meager “road.” Up the slope it is
filled with fallen trees and is almost im-
passable, it taking a day generally to go
10 or 15 miles. If a railroad is ever
built throu h this section, it will proba-
bly come rough the hole pass. These
trails are called passable from the latter
part of June to September, the rest of
the year they are under vast fields of
ice and snow.

The highest elevation on the wagon
road from Lewiston to Mt. Idaho” is
4,100 feet. ‘The general elevation of
the Prairie is no doubt about 3,100 or
3,200 feet. Lewiston is only6oo feet,
and there are many canyons in almost
any direction from the prairie ranging
from 7oo to r,ooo feet. In these snow
never lays long, and it scarcely ever
freezes. Ice, in the deepest, forms every
winter-——but only thin scales. Here is
where the stock passes the cold time
with very little or no care. .When you
remember that this is in latitude 47°
—a hundred miles above the north
line of the State of New York, it may
seem all the more wonderful. But these
canyons are intolerably hot in summer.
A current of air is generally moving
through them, yet the mercury often
registers from ioo to 115 degrees in the
shade. What it is in the sun I do not
know. I have seen it at 135 degrees
quite late in the season! Last winter
the m‘ercui-y went down to :6 degrees
on Camas Prairie—-not severely cold.
The one peculiar feature, however, is
that in all places the nights are cold.
One finds a pair of blankets very com-
fortable the hottest nights. These sud-
den inequalities of night and day tem-
perature, affects vegetation. Thus to-
matoes, watermelons, etc., are not grown
on the prairie, while in the canyons they
are very prolific. I never saw such
monster and finely flavored rutabagas,
carrots, parsnips, turnips and onions as
I saw grown on that prairie. Indeed
rival communities sneeringly call it
“rutabaga prairie.” Snow falls here quite
deep every winter; but the warm
“chinook” winds from the Pacific soon
take it off. As early as April and even
in March grass begins to appear where
the snow has been “chinooked.” These

‘ winds come from the southwest over the

warm Japan current. They derive their
name from the Chinook Indian country
of Oregon. Frost appears as late as
May and just up on the mountain sides
it may come at any time. Indeed old
Jack puts in an appearance sometimes
on'- the prairie at very unseasonable
times, and is quite sure to begin opera-
tions in September.

[The above was written last October,
now February advices say that ranchers
plowed ‘till the close of December and
already winter is breaking up. The
coldest was 8 degrees below.]

Hunting in the adjoining "mountains

and canyons is fine. Deer are very plen— 3 can bear.
tiful. A great peculiarity is their long‘

tails. When running they wave them from
side to side, orhold them erect according
to their fear, enabling the hunter to
judge pretty accurately about its future
maneuvers. The tail is as long as your
fore-arm and perfectly white on the un-
der side. The first deer I saw made
me laugh, its ‘ail looked so peculiar.
Then there is t-cblack-tailed deer, very
large and with long ears, sometimes.
called the mule deer. Elk abound and
afford fine sport for the many yearly ex-
cursions to their haunts. Idaho County
paid bounty on 157 bears this year at
$5 each. The black bear is very com-
mon, but the cinnamon is only’occa-
sionally seen in this immediate neigh-
borhood. The cougar, or American
panther, is a great pest. as it kills the
young colts and calves. Coyotes are
numberless,‘ but they-are cowards. Since
wheat has been raised prairie chickens
have increased at a wonderful rate.
They are now as thick as black birds
around a Michigan cornfield: a few
years ago there were none.

Of the people lierethere are three
races; whites, Indians, and Chinese.
The whitesare courteous, hospitable,
hardworking; the Indians, lazy, treach-
erous, dirty; the Chinese, thriving, lying,
murderous, economical, industrious. It
would be a good plan to send some of
those “universal brotherhood” legisla-
tors of the dude cast out here for the
benefit oi their logic.

The Nez Perce Indian reservation
embraces all that part of this fine prairie
lying off to the east. Through it flows
the Clearwater with its numerous tribu-
taries giving that part abundant water
and the genial warmth of the canyons.
The prairie there is freerfrom rock and
of the finest possible soil. These In-
diaus were engaged in war with the
whites eight years ago, led by the wily
chief Joseph. They committed the
usual atrocities on the settlers, mutilat-
ing captives, ravishing women and girls,
killing men and destroying property.
Just out there in sight of me as I write
is the spot where 12 brave men fell. The
military was stationed at the time with-
in hearing of the firing, but did not offer
help to the brave but surrounded citi-
zens. Some soldiers put on their sad-
dles to rush out in spite of orders, but
“Jigadeer Brindle” in command ordered
every man shot who left the stockade!
It is a curious and ominous fact that the
Indians fear, a half dozen brave settlers
more than a whole company of Uncle
Sam's soldiers. Indeed, they make fun
of them and ball them “wash papoose.”
Gen. Howard “chased” the tribe of hos-
tiles into the mountains and “captured"
them. His chasing was more of a pic-
nic party than anything else. They
hired civilians to do the work, paying
fabulous wages for men and $1 a day
for horses. Certain residents got rich
out of this “great” campaign. The fact
is the General simply followed after the
tribe at a safe distance like a cat after a
ball, until they couldn't go farther into
the mountains then calmly encamped
and hired some friendly Indians to go
in and corrall the hostiles! His idea
was that he could subdue them by kind-
ness! This same “kindness” idea has a
deep hold on the philanthropic east.
No sooner had the hostiles been secured
and with great pomp and ceremony sent
off to the Indian Territory, than meas-
ures were at once begun to “let the poor
creatures go back to their own fair fields
and lonely mountains." Mrs. Garfield
was foremost in this treachery to her
race and the result is that last summer
they all came trooping back fat, sleek
and hearty, decked in fine clothes and
jewelry, many of the bucks with good
watches and the dirty squaws with fine
shawls and sacques, well mounted and
apparently well contented with their
ride across the plains in palace cars
after the “fire horse." Here they are
again to hatch up new schemes while the
survivors of those wrecked homes must
sit with folded arms under the surveil-
lance of our sympathetic government!
What a picture! Would it surprise you
if those ill-used-“ settlers arise in their
wrath and strike the first blow in spite
of soldiery? What a. policy. Our gov-
ernment sets ofi” a great tract of land
subject to the Indian’s.choice-and you
may be sure he chooses the best——-then
proceeds to deal out clothing, blankets,
food, etc.,—all he needs-—to him, and
tells him placidly that he has signed a
treaty not to go on the warpath any more.
As if he cared or knew anything about
treaties. Thus he simply lives in utter
idleness. What does he want to work
for? Everything is given him and in re-
turn he is not to fight any more. Put a
lot of white men in similar circum-
stances and see how soon there would be
disturbance. Is it any wonder, then,
that the Indian, whose whole lifetime
has been spent in war or war thoughts,
is unable to keep quiet? But the kind
government-added a last injury to insult
by taking away the little force that for
years has been stationed at Fort Lapwai
on the reservation. Here are these set-
tlers, who have braved all the danger
of a frontier pioneer life, whose homes
have been laid waste, women and chil-
dren mutilated (one little girl, now a
young lady, had her tongue slit its en-
tire length) and their property des-
troyed, who are a part of the power of
the land left within gunshot of their foe,
who is fed and clothed by the govern-
ment while they must work, rustle or
starve, and even all protection removed.

This is almost more than human nature
Where is the vaunted philan-
tliropy in this? It is abject cruelty;

cruelty to the future prosperity of the
Indian and certainly it is cruelty to the
brave whites.

That the Indian is unchanged in his
nature is shown by his behavior since
his return. These “exiles" are now the
big pomps of the tribe. They sneeringly
call the stay-at-home cowards. All this
brought on a fight among themselves
before they had been back a month, in
which two were nearly killed. Amen; let
the good work go on.

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Moral cowardice Among Far-
mars.

EDITOR GRANGE Visrroa:—-—My article
inferentially charging farmers as a class
with moral or some other kind of cow-
ardice in not promptly defending their
interests and rights is stoutly denied in
March 15 VISITOR by Bro. W. Kerby.
Well, if we concede his position to be
correct we will as surely be impaled
upon the other horn of the dilemma.
for, notwithstanding all we can admit in
regard to their natural ability, love of
independence, readiness to defend their
rights, etc., the fact remains that they
are still practically almost a nullity in all
that relates, in a State or National.
sense, to their interest. If we are not
justified in calling this hesitancy to act
when their numbers give them complete
power, cowardice, then what word shall
we use to avoid the necessity of calling
them fools? Perhaps it is best to take
the middle ground and call it half and
half. Now, I am in perfect accord with
Bro. Kerby in all he says, when used in
a local sense, and will go a long way
further in the same path, but must beg
to still differ with him in regard to the
whole class. Perhaps I am mistaken as
to there being no opposition to the
principles of our Order. The ideal
meant to convey was that there was no
active opposition, and still believe there
is none, only where self-interest is con-
cerned. The Brother’s reference to the
concessions made to the principles of
the Churches would need no reply did
he not use this assumed fact to sub-
stantiate his arguments. They are, in-
deed, “a power in the land," but the
light of history reveals a broad path of
blood stretching from earliest ages
to the rgth century, the blood of the
martyrs of the Churches and of those
who opposed them. Nor is the strife
yet ended, although it is transferred to
less sanguine methods.- My remarks,
thus far, are intended to apply to those
outside of the Order, and I hope our
good Brother will not think me a chronic
hypocondriac if I growl at those inside
and also at the Grange itself. It may
be “catching,” but it cannot well be
catching without being convincing, and
if convincing there should be a founda-
tion of fact. It would be folly to shut
our eyes and deny it was light, simply
because we had it to be dark. When we
join the Grange we are supposed to
leave outside the gates partisan politics,
and the creeds of all our Churches, and
I believe we are bound to leave our
prejudices also, and to sustain the
Grange as a moral,intellectual and social
organization and co-operative associa-
tion. Now, to what class or ages are
we to look for members (P) manifestly to
all combined. Well, we all have differ-
ent ideas and tastes, and if we each
strive to have our own way there is
trouble. The older people may want
things suited to their age and capacity,
thoughtful subjects, arguments and de-
corum, while the young will wanta
good deal of fun, music and dancing.
How are we to harmonize all these
different tastes? By mutual concession
I believe we can make the Grange
irresistibly attractive to all ages and
capacities if we choose. Is there such
a Grange in Michigan? I have attended
Grange feasts where good Brothers
were shocked by the violin and organ
music; and as for dancing, why we dare
not hint such a thing, if we desired to
retain them as members—but I must
not sail longer on this tack or I may get
soused in the waste basket--(_ I've been
there before.)

The annual addresses of our State and
National Granges is before the public.
The Master of the National Grange
draws comfort and consolation from
what has been done years ago while the
order feltthe consciousness of their pow-
er, and took the offensive in a few cases,
and says: “If the advantages have not
been followed up and maintained by the
necessary legislation the fault has not
been with the Order, but with the farm-
ers themselves, * * * for /every
National Grange and almost every State
Grange that has met since that time
have memorialized Congress and State
Legislatures," &c._ So it seems to be
the whole duty of the National and
State Granges to throw grass at the
thief in the apple tree. When the
Grange movement first began the
farmers flocked to its gates in tens of
thousands. It was to them a promise
of leadership. They looked upon the
State and National Grange as an army
looks to its generals for direction and
machinery with which to assault the
foe. They have been taught discipline
and principles and theories, but are as
powerless to act unitedly and effective-
ly against the enemy as an unorganized
mob, and are no longer a source of
anxiety to their oppressors.

In our own State we are told that we
just about hold our own. Is there not
something wrong-here-—r3 years old
and just holding our own! In the
Knights of Labor we may have a
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our example A and pelt.the,_,thieves with
stones instead of grass.

I know this article is A much too long,
Mr. Editor, and yet I have scarcely
touched the subject. I will conclude
by saying that, in my opinion, we will
have to resolve ourselves into a semi-
political order so as to be able to con-
centrate our votes upon suchimen as
will represent us'in State and national
offices. '

If. this be treason make the most of
it, CHAS. S. KlI.LM_ER._

Arenac, Mich._,- , ’ ’

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‘ ‘ ——Burm‘.

The ballad, or narrative song, is the
earliest form of historical writing. This
early period has been called the heroic
age. It certainly has produced the tru-
est, bravest and grandest characters in
history. It has produced a Moses and
Abraham, a Homer, a Charlemagne, a
Roland, an Alfred or a Bayard., _The
more we study the songs or ballads of a
people, the more we will appreciate
their value. The song of Roland, cele-
brating the deeds of that incomparable
hero at Roncesvalles, made modern Eu-
rope valorous for many centuries. Being
impressed with the full value of this
species of writing drew from Andrew
Fletcher of Saltorm the following so
often quoted: “I knew a very wise man
that believed if avman were permitted
to make the ballads, he need not care
who should make the laws of a nation.”

In our last article, under the head of
single-song poets, we should have men-
tioned S. F. Bennett, of Indiana, who
wrote “Sweet—by-and-by,” which seems
in a fair way to reach lasting fame.
Dr. Muhlenberg’s “I would not live al-
way" has made his name known
throughout christendom.

But our theme is now with those
poets who are best remembered by one
of their productions. Thomas Holcroft,
an English poet, was a voluminous
writer, but the simple, pathetic ballad
of "Gaffer Gray” has made his name
the most widely known. Mrs. Opie’s
“Orphan Boy" has the same reputation
in regard to her other works. And al-
though one of her short pieces has been
called the finest song in our language,
yet the Orphan Boy will outlive it.
Bishop Heber’s Missionary Hym, “From
(}reenland’s Icy Mountains” is the most
widely known of all his writings. And
a similar fame rests with S. F. Smith’s
“My Country ’Tis of Thee.” Mrs. Nor-
ton, sister to Mrs. Blarkwood, who
wrote the “Irish Emigrant’s Lament,”
has been called the Byroness, of English
female poets, yet her “Bingen on the‘
Rhine” has given her name the widest
celebrity. Like her sister, Mrs. Black-
wood, she has written a ballad that will
never be forgotten. Gray’s Elegy in a
churchyard is another instance of one
poem overshadowing all the writer's
other productions. If Campbell had
never written anything but the “Exile of
Erin,” he would have immortalized his
name. Campbell affords an instance
where two poems strive for the mastery.
His Hohenlinden, and Exile of Erin,
are both equally famous. Bryant is the
best known on two continents by his
Thanatopsis. And the “American Flag”
is, par excellence, Joseph Rodman
Drake’s best production.

Charles Fenno Hoffman, who, it is
generally conceded, is the most admired
of the group of Knickerbocker writers,
stands among Americans as a song
writer second only to Morris, and some
writers have asserted that his lyric of
“Sparkling and Bright” is unsurpassed
by any similar production in the lan-
guage. Hoffman possesses the genius
of song writing, and that genius cul-
minated in his “Sparkling and right.”

Good authority has said that the
three most popular American songs were
Payne’s “Sweet Home,” Sargeant’s
“Life on the O can Wave,” and“Wood—
man Spare T at Tree.” George 1’.
Morris, the best known of American
song writers, won imperishable fame in
writing

“Woodman spare that tree."
The question is often asked, “Is this
song founded on fact?” The author
gives the following account of the origin
of the song: Riding out of town, Feb.
1, 1837, with a friend, an old gentleman,
he directed me to turn downalittle
romantic woodland pass, not far from
Bloomingdale. “Your object,” inquired
L mMe,-61y,” said he, “to look once
more at an old tree planted by my
grandfather long before I was born,
under which I used to play when_a boy.
and where my sisters played with me.
There I often listened to the good ad-
vice of my parents. Father, mother,
sisters,—a1l are gone; nothing but the
old tree remains,” and a paleness over-
spread his fine countenance, and tears
came to his eyes. After a moment’s
pause, he added: “Don’t think me
foolish. I don't know how it is, I never
ride out but I turn down this lane to
look at that old tree. I have a thou-
sand recollections about it, and I always
greet it asa familiar and well-remem-
bered friend.” And as he finished, he
cried out-—“'.I'here it is!” _
stood at man-with. his coat of.f._.sharpen-
ing his a.x_ “You are not going to cut
that tree down, surely?" “Yes. 11311
am,though,” said the woodman. . “What

for?” inquired the old gentleman, with.-

choked emotions. “What for? ‘I like
that: Well, I will tell you: Iwant the

Near the tree-

tree for firewood." “What is the tree
worth to you for firewood?” “Why,
when down, about ten dollars.” “Sup-
pose I should give you that sum,” said
the _old gentleman, “would you let it
stand?” “Yes.” "You are sure of
that?” “Positive!” “There, give me a
bond to that effect.” f We went into the
cottagein which my companion was
born, but which is now" occupied by
the woodman. I drew up the bond.
It was signed and the money paid over.
As weleft, the young girl, the daughter
of the woodman, assured us_-that,.while

she lived the "tree should not be cut.,

Tliese‘circu1'nstar'ices made astrongimy
pression on"my ‘mind, and fur'nished‘me'
with the materials for the song I send
you?’ ’‘‘‘To' this statement I will" add,”
says. James Grant Wilsoii’,‘“th~at ‘Morris
said the -tree was a grand-'old?él1ii,'-and

that it was then, 1862‘,-still st’a'nding.”-‘-

When the elder Russell sang this song
in one of the cities of -Europe'a'di'stiri—
guished nobleman, who was-.prese‘nt,
arose in the vast audience, as the singer-’
finished, and addressed him thus-'—“Sir,
I wish to ask you if the woodman spared
I/uzl tree?” Being assured that he did,
he exclaimed, “Thank God!" and took
his seat. ’ i ‘ V, B.

, “Here and There.’
- The spicy, practiclal story of Miss
Picket’s ‘Mite-box" was read before the
Ladies Missionary Society the other

day, the moral of which was, “Look on
the bright side of life.” Count your mer-
cies and blessings and keep a “mite-box”

on the mantel-shelf, and for every new

qnjoyment or unexpected blessing put in

a penny or occasionally a nickle for be-

nevolent purposes. It is wonderful how

many blessings come to us, sometimes
in disguise if we only stop and think

about them. I am not going to trouble

you with a rehearsal of all the enjoy-

ments I have had this winter, but I fain

would tell of two or three which have

helped me pass away the dreary, cold

days. At Christmas time several choice

books were given me, and one of them

Mrs. “Romona,” of which “Grace gave

such a pleasing review, and since I have

been one of the “Shut-in-company” I

have beguiled many a lonely hour. The

rarest treat I have had was attending a
course of lectures. They were first-

class and I would so much like to tell

you of the many beautiful ideas ad-

vanced, truthful sayings clothed in ele-

gant language uttered by these men of
such extended observation, purity of
thought and intelligence, but time and
space forbid. But I will give you the
topics of some of them, so quaint and
uncommon. Perhaps you can gather
food for thought or deduce some ideas
for your own gratification. “Native
‘mettle-metal.’ “The use of ugliness,”
“The Ox that treadeth out the corn, or
Capital and labor,” “The Golden Gate
and the Golden Dawn.” This last lec-
ture was by Col. Bain, the silver-

tongued orator.” I presume many of
you have heard him as he has lectured
in very many places in Michigan the
past winter.

One of the brightest, clieeriest little
blessings came one day -when I was feel-
ing rather low-spirited, in the shape of
a long, intelligent letter full of cheerful-
ness and saying, “Don’t be surprised if
you receive the ‘Wom_an’s Magazine,’
and imagine it a "sample copy from the
editor. It is I who have ordered it for
the coming year for you. All this for
‘love’s sake’ and an appreciation ‘of
certain things of by-gone days. Joy and
gladness welled up in my heart and ever
so many pennies went into the mite-
box as a thank offering. I want to
speak a word for this Magazine. It is
rightly named, is edited by awoman,
Mrs. Estler S. Housh, and that is in favor
of it with me. The reading is excellent;
from the pen of some of the ablest
writers of the times; full of force, noble,
inspiring‘ thoughts and beautiful ideas.
On the title page is the talismauic words
from the pen of “Victor Hugo.” “The
nineteenth century is Woman's century."
These words are being verified when we
read and know of Woman’s work," “in-
dustries,” “missions” “charitie_s" and
“Reforms," in which she takes such a
prominent part and often leads the
way. Her time, ta1ent,intellect and en-
ergies are consecrated on the altar of
he'r love for humanity.

Let me quote a few lines from the
pen of Mr. A. B. Stockholm, M. I).
“Woman has always had wit and wis-
dom. She is now learning to breathe.
She sniffs the air of freedom. She be-
comes a producer as well as a consumer.
Nations groan for the moral impet
possible from woman’s wisdom an
work. The mother element, made‘ prac-
tical and aggressive, will modify and
mold all interests of humanity.”

Once the term “Old Maid” was ap-
plied to depreciate the value of a wo-
man who, by force of circumstances,
walked life’s journey alone and unmar-
ried, and many a girl -has made a great
‘mistake in choosing to marry any one
though the man might be a fraud or a
rascal, because the idea of being called
an old maid was terrible to think of.
But those days are past (let us be thank-
ful) and a. true women dares to stem the
tide of public sentiment and “paddle
her own canoe,” rather than to marry a
man not her equal in purity, intelligence
and industry. These women are not
weighed down by household cares or
Fcumbered with much serving.” Perhaps
they have turned a deaf ear to the Voice
of the siren, in language, that they
might consecrate their whole time,

 

stdength arid energies to working for
others. The world does not know of
allvthe sacrifice‘ and self-‘denials"Ia‘id upon
the altar of their love ‘for "humanity, but
they never will know of the grand work
of these pure-minded women, of the
blessed aroma of their Christian _influ-
ence which is being wafted over suffer-
ing, fallen humanity. The ‘world will
know, of their grand achievements along
the line_- of duty, of using their few or
many talents instead of hiding them in
the coarse napkin of worldly pleasures,
or one of finer texture, diflidence and
timidity. In every reform and philan-
thropic workit is the noblest minds, the
most unselfishland purest inactions who
work in unison for the up-lifting of hu-
manity. Miss Francis E. Willard, one
of the grandest, purest, most intellectu-
al, is one of the unmarried who demands
our_veneration. , She leads the way in
temperance and _now she is appointed
Superintendent of the annex depart-
ment of the-W. C. "I‘. U. -‘namely, the
“White Cross Army,” which is to work
for the protection of women, to main-
tain a law of purity, which is equally as
binding upon man. as woman, and to dis-
countenance indecent language, ‘coarse
jest and low-down witicisms.

This is a step in the right direction

‘ and needs the recognition of every true

MYRA.

man and woman.

 

i\'1.-:w'roN, IowA, March 31, 1886.

To (iriuzger in Iowa.‘

_ I have during this month sent out to each
Grange proceedings of last session of National
Grange, which had been delayed by send_ing
them to ex-Secretary  Browell; at Des Moines-,
instead of Wintersett, or_ to me at Newton.

I have also sent out I.ecturer's Communication
of National Grange for discussion in the several
Subordinate Granges. Also‘ Blank Quarterly
Reports to Secretaries where applications have
been made for same.

Let me suggest to each Subordinate Grange to
immediately subscribe for at le.'ist_ one copy of
GRANGIE VISITOR for use of Grange.

Take Grange papeis in your families.

Appoint :1 Corresponding Secretary in each
Grange to write up Grange items for your Grange
and send to VISITOR for publication.

Let each Grange appoint an efficient committee
of three whose duty it shall be to work up
Grange interest in your neighborhood.

Reorganize at least one dormant Grange in
your county or adjoining county during this year.

I have information that two Granges have
been reorganized so far, and a fair prospect for
several more soon.

Secretaries please collect dues promptly from
members quarterly. Report promptly to this
office each quarter. Write us private letters giv-
ing condition of your Grange and its prospects;
we want to become acquainted by letter and per-
sonally if we can.

All otficers be prompt in attendance on meet-
ings of your Grange. J. w. .\ll‘RPllY.

I BELIEVE Fremont Center Grange, No. 651,
has not reported through the VISITOR since its
organization. I send you the following to atone
for this delinquency:

Bro. Perry Mayo was with us and gave us it
grand lecture, and the result was we had two ap-
plications presented at our last regular meeting.
Our \Vorthy Master is a young man of integrity
and zeal and we believe him to be the right man
in the right place. The VIs1ToR has a prominent
place in our home. I think that one drawback
to our Grange is that more do not take the V151-
TOR. Our membership is not as large as we
would like to see but what we have are good,
earnest Patrons who can see the benefits of the
Order. We have co-operated for the last three
years and are well satisfied that it pays to be a
Patron. l-‘.. s'roAvi‘1-ni.

Roseburg, March 25, 1886. ‘

En. Visiron:-—lJuena Vista Grange, No‘. 544,
I’. of H., Iowa, has been holding two meetings
per month all winter. Has subscribed for one
copy of GRANGE VISITOR for each family repre-
sented in the Grange. Last regular meeting, March
16, weather quite unfavorable, but several were
in attendance. Business done and subject as-
signed discusscd, “How to revive the Grange
and make it more useful,” showing that personal
missionary work will succeed in the Grange as in
any other organization. \"esteru‘iay,3oth, Grange
met in ‘special meeting at house of Bro. O. J.
Adams. Snow drifts large in places on account
of snow storm on 25th inst. Roads hardly pas-
sable, but a goodly number of Brothers and
Sisters were present promptly at It A. M. Had
an excellent dinner (as usual on such occasions.)
After dinner—-—cnlled to order, and subject for
discussion assigned by W. Lecturer, Bro. R. 1’.
Holmes, to Bros. S. G. Russell and U.  Adanis,
“How to make farming profitable,” was ably
discussed, giving their experience in farming for
more than 20 years in Iowa, in raising grain,
stock, &c. Sheep husbandry was discussed by
Bros. Holmes and J. W. Murphy; also Hog
raising for profit. Bro. C. M. Davis gave :1 pre-
ventive of hog cholera, if not a cure: feed your
hogs plenty of alum in meal; also to chickens
for same disease. The officers of the Grange are
whetting up their sickles so to do good clean
work in case \ve should have applications for
initiation. M.

l.i:Nox, Io\vA, March 25. ’86.

As the Visrroit is the chosen organ of our
Order in this State. I feel it my duty to write and
tell how the Order is progressing in this section.

Excelsior Grange, No. 883, is the only oiie-in
Taylor County, and has been for it number of
years. We have :1 membership of about thirty;
not :1. large one but they are all of the very best.
\Ve meet in the evening of the second and fourth
Saturdays of each month. But the elements
have been against us this winter. At a special
meeting, held‘for the purpose, our officers were
installed; John Turner, Worthy Master and I5. A.
Cade, Secretary.

Excelsior Grange expects to build a Grange
Hall as soon as after harvest. The proceeds of a
number of theatrical entertainments given under
the auspices of the Grange will be devoted to
the Hall Fund. We have had a very hard win-
ter and more snow than usual. The spring is
backward. No grain is sown yet, and the ground
is so full of water it is impossible to get into the
fields. A few farmers have corn standing in the
field. Stock looks well considering, but feed is
getting scarce. Yours respectfully, 1:. A. c.

As I HAVE never seen anythin in the GRANGE
VISITOR from this part of Iowa will send in my
mite. Homestead Grange, No. 90, is not dead
by any means. Isis in good condition. We go

' right on about our business and keep our Grange

work to ourselves. I think that is one great
drawback to the Grange in the State of Iowa;
they did not keep their business secret enough.
The outside world knew too much about the
Grange affairs and worked against them. ‘We
have our own grocery store and do not have to
go to town. We send to Chicago for a great
many dry goods. -Our regular meetings are ev-
ery two weeks. Our Grange, ' like [the rest, has
suffered great loss of members in years gone by,
but it had some iiieuibers of the true blue and

would not die; they kept right on at work, and
after a while the'Order commenced to build up
again. What is the most trouble to the farmers
of _the Grange is what to do with the dairy prod-
ucts. The creamery men of our county met and
divided up the territory, and entered into an
agreement not to buy of each other’s patrons.
The idea is this, “You must sell to me or not at
all.” They pay you just what they pleasefor
your cream. Any information on the subject
will be gladly received. MRS. c. A. sAwr1:i.1..

Story Co., Iowa.

As THE GRANGE VISITOR has been chosen
and adopted as the organ through which the
Granges, of Iowa are to communicate with each
other, and not seeing anything in the VISITOR
from Western Iowa, it might be of some interest
to our Granges to hear thatjust now there is
a gentle but strong and invigorating wind blow-
ing over the Valley of the Plains of southwest
Iowa, among the dormant Granges. Its effects
are felt, as it has blown life anew into some old
Patrons of Husbandry and incited them to action.

On _the 18th of March, Silver Grange, No.

1702, Mills County, Iowa. was re-organized with
a membership of 21. Five were non-nfhliates
and -sixteen new members. This Grange had
been dormant for several years. They say now
“we will hold the fort.”
' On Thursday, April 1, another Grange was re-
organize(l—Union Grange, No. 1618, I’. of H.,
Pottawottamie County——with 21 members, 12
men and and 9 women, of whom eleven were or
had been Patrons of Husbandry, and ten new
ones who had never before seen or heard what
there was to or of the mic Grange.

It is worthy of note that most of the new mem-
bers of both of these Granges are young people,
to whom we old Patrons must look to take our
places, and that, in many cases, soon. It is be-
lieved that new life will be inspired into other
dormant Granges in southwest Iowa soon. There
were copies of the VISITOR distributed at both
of these Granges, with an urgent request that
each Grange subscribe for one copy to each
family represented. 11. 12. CIARK.

_ Council Bluffs, April 8, 1886.

MICHIGAN.

lr‘ Mrs. J. C. A., of Thurber, will Write to Mr.
H. C. Shaw, of Palmyra, Mich., or what will be
still better, visit his place, three miles east of
_Randolph's Comets, I think he will cheerfully
give her the required information about incuba-
tors. Mr. Shaw has one and is well posted as to
their merits.

Our Grange, No. 212, is not increasing in num-
ber, but I am hoping for an increase in member-
ship, also a better attendzince. Unfortunately
the roads and weather have been very bad most
all of 0111 nights for the pzist six months. \Ve
find it best to have a program at every meeting.
Since we adopted that method the members all
seem to feel that they have been well paid for
coming out, even if the weather and roads were
bad. Our members, too, are learning that when
they are placed upon the program they are ex-
pected to perform their part. Lecturers should
endeavor to prepare a program that will be in-
teresting to Brothers and Sisters, old and young.
I regard the Leclurer's office very important.
No Grange can keep in a flourishing condition
without a good Lecturer.

When we have no degrees to confer we allow
the children to attend the Grange meetings and
take part in the literary exercises. They liave
lots of fun in the lower hall until after recess,
then they are admitted to the room above.
They doii’t always wish to stay at home. It
gives them a good deal of enjoyment, and I
think it helps the Grange. They are growing
up Patrons in the “manor born.” .\i. '1‘. t:o1.I«‘..

As I HAVE not seen anything in the VISITOR
from this part of the State, I will send a few
“jottings.” \’Ve have had :1 veiy cold winter,
but not very much snow. The coldest of the
winter was in January. February was quite
warm and pleasant most of the time, and the
fore part‘ of March we had another winter. At
present it is warm and pleasant, and farmers are
making preparations for their spring seeding.
The present prospect for an abundant harvest
the coming season is very flattering, as the
ground is in excellent condition to receive the
seed. There are no Granges in this part of the
State, therefore it is a great pleasure to read the
VISITOR, which we have continued to take since
we came to Nebraska. We send greeting to our
old home, brothers and sisters at Griswold
Grange, No. 564, and they will please accept our
kind ‘regards for their remembrance of us.

Gospcr (.‘o., Neb., March 21. .v. J. PAINTER.

l KNo\\' nothing of Grange work except
through Grange literature, as there are no
Granges in this part of California. Have fol-
lowed Bro. D. Woodman in his travels, and
hope he will not return to Michigan until he has
visited this valley. Would be glad to hear
Myra is better, and that Bro. Luce will be Gov-
ernor of Michigan; also of general prosperity in
the Grange throughout Michigan.

Santa Ana, Cal. MRS. Jl-3I\'.\‘ll-1 A. POPE.

I HAVE waited long and patiently to seea coni-
munication or jotting in the VISITOR from North
Burns Grange, but up to the present date I have
failed to see one.

North Burns Grange, .\'o. 662, is situated in
the thumb of the Michigaii Mitten. We were
organized about a year ago with 22 charter mem-
bers; since then we have conferred the first four
degrees of our Order on about 20 more members.

We hold our regular meetings on the first and
third Tuesday of each month; have it good aver-
age attendance at our meetings, and try to make
them as interesting and instructive as possible.
I think we are succeeding tolernbly well.

The Grange Order has obtained a good loot-
hold in Huron County this winter. North Burns
Grange has made a special effort towards extend-
ing the Order in this part of the State, and they
are reaping the reward of their labor. Already
there have been three subordinate Granges organ -
ized in Huron County within the last month,
and there are good prospects of organizing two
or three more soon. We expect to have 21 Coun-
ty Grange organized during the summer.

In our labor for the good of the Ortlerwe have
not forgotten to put in a good word for the V15
1'I‘0R_, and we are going to try and have 100 cop-
ies of the VISITOR come to Huron County before
this year is out. We like the \'1.<I'1‘0R, and it
has some warm friends in our Grange, but I
think ive could get :1 better circulation for the
VISITOR here if it was published weekly, even
if the subscription was 51 instead of 50 cents.
I)o you not think so, Bro. Cobb?

Arbor Day is ap roaching, and I think that
every good Patron 5 ould observe it in plant-
ing either shade or ornamental trees. We should
be willing to spend at least one day in a year in
beautifying our homes. What adds more beauty
and taste to the farm than a good assortment of
shade trees along our lanes and roadsides? I
would like if some Patron who has had experi-
ence in planting evergreens would give us some
instructions through the columns of the VISITOR
as to the best time and manner of planting to
insure growth. D. 3.

NOT having seen any communication from El-
lington I took upon myself the task of letting
you know that we are not dead but still live. A
meeting of the Pomona Grange with us this
apring inspired some of our members with zeal

or the Order. Bro.-~*Mayo addressed ‘us at this
place on the 13th of Feb, His address seems to

ave, resulted in much. good for the cause in this
place; We have a monthly oyster su per at the
expense of the Grange. We are taking some
very desirable applications at present. Long
may the Order live. ,\_ 5,

 

‘ I SEE in the V1sI.ToR jottings from other
Oranges around the State, so I thought a word or

3 i

would not been: of place. We have taken in
14 new members since Nov. 1, reinstated 36 old
members, and now have a membership of about
yo members. Our Grange about lost its breath
a few years ago but kept gasping for a year or so
and finally began to mend till now I think I am
safe in saying we have one of the oldest and
largest Granges in Gratiot Co. The Bohemian
oat men have been sowing their oats around this
country pretty thickly, but that is nothing after
you get used to it. We have to have other ways
than the farm for the farmers to grow l'lCll,' so
why not be Bohemian oats as well as anything
else? What next? I-TERI-I'l"l‘ VAN LEL‘\'El\'.

TIII; farmer. of all the different classes, scents
to be the last _to awaken and see the necessity
and benefits of co-operation. If this country

that is sure to come, it seems to me that it relies
upon a large quantityof very poor material.
\\’hat a difference between a good peaceablc
community, and one where lawlessness and
neighborhood quarrels abound. When a Grange
dies, nine cases out of ten there is a lack of
principle in the community. Selfishness, mean-
ness and spite are causes that will kill any
Grange. The few who cling together to the
Order, who see the good that should come to the
farming community, and indirectly to the whole
nation, who spend money, time and energy to
keep the cause afloat, deserve the sympathy and
thanks of the whole nation. The spirit that the
Brothers and Sisters tifhlichigan breathe through
the \'1s1'roR must bear fruit in the near future.
Manistee County. «I. RANGER.

" IT IS conceded by all that this i:; an age of im-
provements, but when we rend of the various
mvindles, and adulterations of nearly every thing
that is COl’l.~‘l1lllL‘(,l,We are led to think the reverse.
Some may say I am ungenerous in my criticisms,
but I cannot believe that any who engage in
these swindles can be true Patrons. With the
instructions and warnings from our Grange press
and our respective Granges we certainly cannot
plead ignorance. If we fail to read and infomi
ourselves, and attend our regular meetings, the
fault is ours. Now a word for Capitol Grange,
and I wonder that we do not hear oftener a re-
port from such a flourishing Grange. A great
boom has dawned upon us since the election of
officers for 1886. When I name Bro. Beal :Ls
Lecturer,and Ex-State Lecturer, John Iiolbroolt,
as Master, you cannot fail to see the cause. It
has not been my lot to attend as regularly as de-
sired on account of bad roads and weather, and
being so remotely situated, yet our interest is
ever there. \\'e have :i talk occasionally from
the Master upon parlianientary usages—the one
I heard was upon :imendments. All then are
given the privilege of asking questions; it was
very instructive. We also have zltjongress Club.
of which I will speak ll€I‘(‘Illl€l’.

MRS. .'\. «.;1..'.\‘.\i~'u.\'.

CllI«.I.Sk1.-\, Mari-.li 28.

\\'r: sec somaiiy couiinendatioiisuf llm. l{:i1iis-
(lell’s article upon the silver question, and hear
so many men of both parties acknowledge their
conversion to its teachings that we make hold to
propose that be be requested to lll\‘CSllgL1lE3 and
report upon the coinage of paper as a medium of
exchange and tell us why it would not be for the
best interest of the American people that the
government should furnish all the circulating me-
dium instead of lending its paper to the bankers,
the very class whom, he admits, require watch-
ing. Let’s have :1 report. Henry Collins pre-
tends to be puzzled by the silver questioii as l
understand it. Congress, like individuals, some-
times has twinges of remorse as it were, andin
one of tho.-xe spasms gets the 2-llver dollar back
into the hzinds of the people as it wasin other
days, worth no more or iin less. I like your arti-
cle in last number on the Labor question and
hope the farmers will stand by the men who cer-
tainly have :t right to organize for their protec
tion (5. .\1. 11.

IT is with pleasure that I read the jotting.-
ftom the different Granges; but I have not heard
a \vord from Ronald Grange, 192.

We have a good live Grange with about ninety
paying members; have :1 ball of our own all
paid for, and one hundred dollars in :1 store that
pays pretty well. We also have alarge library
that helps keep up the interest of the Grange.

Two of our members invested one liuiidreil
dollars each in Bohemian oats one year ago and
have not seen or heard from their man. since.
As each held the other’s note they are nothing
out.

Let the world wag and comet fall,

Ronald Grange has built a ball:

And in it we will meet and plan

To do away with the Bohemian oat man.

A MI-2MIII~‘.R or R0l.A..\'D «:izAi~ci;ir..
Ionia County, Mich.

Gkovr. (j1<A.\'i;1-:,sitiiatcil at Fargo,St. Clai1'Co.,
isjust as strong as it was three years ago. Al-
though it has had many drawbacks and there
have been hardships to bear, yet the worst blow
is the sickness of our beloved \Vorthy Master,
who for two years was :1 faithful leader of our
happy Grange. But disease, that puzzles the
attending physician, has so firm a hold on him
there is little chance of his recovery.

We pick up :1 subscriber to the \'1s1‘l‘ok once
in .1 while; will cnclosc two names and one dol-
lar to-dziy, hoping our worthy sister who was ap--
pointed cni1vasscr_for the year will succeed in
sending more soon.

Theic hasbecn :1 llolicmiztii oat swindleriii this
vicinity recently. lle succeeded in getting two
farmers to take some zit ten dollars per bushel,
but am happy to say they are not Pntrom, but
ought to be. There has not been any spring
tooth barrows royalty ('OllE3CI0l'>. hearil of-.15 yet in
this neighborhood. But we ll.'l.VC heard from
Bro. Periy Mayo, and only had one fault to find
with him-—lie did not stnylmlf long enough.

April 1, 1886. - l.l<Zt,"l'l7Rl-'.R.

1 \\‘o1r1.1) like to inquire tliiuiiigli tlic G1<Arx'(;1-1
Visrroit when the best time is to set out shade
or fruit trees? Several years ago I set out about

.it at all.

two in regrml to the welfrire of Pioneer Grange

100 maple trees along the liigiiway. \\'lienl

.ha(l llicm all taken up and abmit one half

planted, an old lady, a neighbor of ours, came
along and said it was the wrong sign to set out
trees, and that they woulel all die, an-l iftliey did
not die they would not amount to anything; but
I told her I was setting them in the grouhd in-
stead of in the sign, and finished planting
them. They were dug up and planted in the
old of the moon; result, about one hnlfdied the
first year, and most of the balance might as well
have died, for they do not amount to much‘.
Last spring I set out about 50 maple trees about
as before, but in the new inomi. They all grew
nicely through the suuinier, and promise now to
be a perfect success. _
Who can tell me wlietber the difference was in
the sign or season. _1. A. vA1.MI.-;1t.
IN looking over the items on the page ofjot,
tings, there was an item from Mrs. Mayo, saying
that the Worthy Lecturer had returned home
sick, which we were sorry to hear. He spoke
twice last winter in our township, at Glenn and
at the (zrauge'Hall, 339, to a small but, I am
sure, appreciative audience, for there was un-
divided attention during his remarks, we
could not but feel that he was doing injustice to
h1m5¢1fa f0r_ be was so hoarse from a cold and so
much speaking that it was really painful to listen
to him. Nevertheless everybody seemed to be
well pleased with hisreinarks. Some came eight
and ten miles to hear him the second time.

Through an oversight, or _neglect of somebody, -

there was not sufficient notice given in our town
of the lecture or there in’ ht have been nearly a
full house. lfolptsiders di 11:}: seem to know of
_ ewasto spe a 'nonagood
night there would be a full ho,use.gflThe Patrons
can  the hall for most any other lecture or
entertainment. We hope the Lecturer will come.
again and a sufficient notice of it be given.
H. H’. G.

relies on the farmer to carry it through the crisis’

 


 
  

 
 

 

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CHlLDl:l_3_hl’S DAY.

A Proclamation.

At the late session of the State
Grange the following was adopted:

R630/1'60’, Thatothe \VOrthy Master proclaim a
'Children’s Day, to be universal throughout the
State, and that the same be announced in the
VISITOR.

In cheerful obedience to this mandate
of the State Grange, I do proclaim
"Thursday, the Ioth day of June, 1886,
as Children’s Day, to be observed as
such by the Patrons of the State of
Michigan. In some localities a Chil-
dren’s Day has been observed with
much interest and profit to old and
young. This will be the first attempt to
inaugurate the day all over the State and
it is hoped it will prove agrand success.
To this end the efforts of all are in-
voked. The notice is issued in ample
time for preparation. And while we
cannot foretell what the weather will be
let us go right on as if we knew it would
be all that we could desire. I am ad-
monished by some experienced persons
that questions will arise and be asked
in relation to methods and plans for the
observance of the day, and in anticipa-
tion Of this I now invite Sister Mayo,
who is the originator of this particular
plan for a universal chil(lren’s day, to
briefly sketch the outline of a plan to
aid others. This should not be laid out
in detail, but just a few hints.

Fraternally, C. G. LUCE,
Master State Grange.

i\«l0SHER\'Il.LF., MIcII., March, 1886.

BRO. COEB—Tl1e enclosed $I.4o is for the
VISITOR and Huséandnzarz, both of which I am
in need of. Being myself a Prohibitionist, and
being entirely unable to conceive how a person
ofvordinary observing and reasoning powers can
expect the liquor traffic to cease without :1 com-
plete division of the people upon the subject, I
am anxiously waiting and tar/7;-(ting the \/’IsIToR
to take a course more favorable to that result.

W. L. SMITIL

We don’t know that Bro. Smith ex-
-pected us to answer his letter in this
way, but as others have sometimes ex-
pressed similar sentiments we will de-
‘fine our position as editor and manager
of the VISITOR as an answer to all.
Bro. Smith is of course a good Patron,
and, as he says, a good Prohibitionist.
Undoubtedly he has some neighbors
who are Patrons and who politically are
Republicans, Democrats and Green-
backers. Now all these take the VISIT-
OR, or ought to (we make no condition
or exception to that statement; if they
are Michigan Patrons they ought to

take the VIsITOR). Some belong to this
church, some to that, and some to none.
The VISITOR, a Grange paper, we are
making for all these people not because
of their politics or religion or with the
expectation that they will all see alike
upon these subjects no matter what pa:
pers they read. We don’t think it would
satisfy all these thousands of readers if
the VIsIToR had nothing in it but Grange
.-matter pure and simple, and so we give
them something of a variety. We aim
to keep clearly in view the principles of
the Order as announced to the world in
its noble DECLARATION OF PURPOSES that
-will stand as a. monument of wisdom for
ages to come.

Adhering to this put pose and these
views of editorial duty, we cannot ad-
vocate any line of partizan politics that
shall give offense to large numbers of
our readers. And “Being a Prohibi-
tionist” we understand to include apur-
pose to support for Township, County,

State and National oflices only such '

persons as endorse the platform of prin-
ciples of the Prohibition party and make
it a_pa'Lrtizan question at the polls. Now
theright or wrong of the creed of. any
political party we are not now consider-
ing.

..r:

Some progress has been made since
Salem Christians hung witches, but
there are still very many men whose
prejudices must not be too rudely
assailed, if you expect to keep them
within earshot ofwhat you have to say.
While we may not like men’s prejudices,
we must not so rudely assail them as to
drive them out of our reach. We be-
lieve reading the VISITOR aids in main-
taining the Order in the State and
wherever else it is read, and this is its
legitimate work. It is not important
what views the editor entertains upon
disputed points in politics or religion
But it is important that whatever his
motives may be that they be not thrust
upon the attention of his readers in such
a. way as to become offensive to those
who may read the paper and drive them
from its support..

As a Grange paper ithas seemed to
us within the scope of legitimate work to
advocate the nomination and election
of farmers to important Offices, always
provided they are competent, and this
for the reason that farmers have not
been recognized as is their right. But
we have not urged such recognition or
connection with any political or relig-
ious party or organization.

Temperance is a cardinal principle of
the Order, and the VISITOR has been
outspoken in favor of the enforcement
of all law bearing upon the sale and use
ofintoxicating drink. It has not aslvised
political action from the standpoint of
partisanship, nor can it consistently do
so; and this must be our answer to Bro.
Smith and all others who think we do
not go far enough in the advocacy of
temperance principles.

Cheap Postage.

We reached the period of cheap pos-
tage a few years ago, and believe the
people appreciate this department Of
government more than any other. We
remember when distance, rather than
weight, determined the price and pre-
payment was optional. We remember
receiving a sheet and a half of foolscap
—a friendly letter, doubled up, tucked,
and sealed with a little red wafer the
size Ofa three-cent piece. That was the
standard fastener forty years ago. NO
envelopes in those days. Half dollars

were scarce and hard to earn, but on
the corner of that letter the receiving
postmaster had charged 50 cents—the

regular price for that amount of paper

carried by government Boo miles. Now
the same letter would cost the sender
two cents, and the sender would lick
and stick the representation of that
amount on the corner before the
agent of Uncle Samuel would receive
the letter for transmission.

But we do not care to write an article
about cheap postage, We did not pick
up our pencil for any such purpose.
Nor did we intend to say anything about
the z:'z'rectz'on of some letters that we
receive from persons who do not take the
VISITOR. Of course all who do will re-
member that we said our say about

‘directing letters—a.nd said it twice-,

and as we now remember we expressed
a great dislike to the appearance ofa
letter where the direction was all
crowded up into the northwest corner,
so close that it seemed in danger of
slipping off.

What we did want to say, and say it
so that some of our correspondents will
take the hint, is this: A jotting on a
postal card is a good thing, and we are
thankful for them; but when so much
is forced on to one card that it is about
impossible ‘to read it, we begin to feel
that the writer don't appreciate two-
cent postage on an ounce letter as we
do. When we get one of these over-
loaded cards we first feel sorry for our-
self, because selfishness begins at home;
then we feel sorry for the compositor,
because it takes him longer to read the
card than it does to set the type.

We like postal cards, we believe in
economy, but we don’t think it fair to
ask a one-cent card to carry matter
enough for a two-cent stamp.

GEO. G. STEKETEE, of Grand Rapids,
has made a change in his advertisement
in this number to which we call atten-
tion. Our readers all understand that
in the columns of the VISITOR few ad-
vertisements of medicine of any kind
are seen. But Mr. Steketee is one of

the prominent men of the city with a
well established reputation, and from
what we learn of his standing we are
glad to give place to his advertisement.
 

WI-1 have a very brief communication
from -.1 Sister Patron dissenting from
some editorial opinions expressed in an
article found inthe VISITOR of Feb. 15,
headed, Church and State. As the Sis-
ter simply objects to our conclusions, it
is not worth while to make further
reference to the points raised. People
will always honestly differ, and if the
difference is honestly ‘entertained we
are not disposed to quarrel with them
about it. p ‘

READ “Whipping Up Nature,” on the
sixth page, before going through your
spring work with all your might. A
penny saved is one gained, and the
same is no less true of powers of endur-
ance.

I 'IfII1»:" VISITOR is under many obliga-
tions to these who worked so faithfully
on townmeeting.day in extending its
circulation. The returns are beginning
to come in and, while they do not in-
dicate any such large resu'ts as last
year, still they show that a strong effort
was made and the results are highly

gratifying. The VlSlTOR’ffi1StS that its
friends will not sl-acken their interest or
their labor in itsbehalf but continue the
good work, Remember, too, that short,
crisp, pithy communications are always
acceptable for its columns. In that
way our readers can help to make the
VISITOR a welcome guest in every Pat-
ron’s household-

NOTICES 01-‘ l\«II'.I~:TINos to secure in-
sertion should be received at this Office
at least three days before the first and
fifteenth of each month. March gist
we received a notice for‘ at Pomona
Grange MeetingApril 8th. The edition
of April first had been printed, and of
course the notice went to the waste
basket. .

Send in notices of meetings early, or
as soon as a date is fixed upon.

WI; present less editorial matter than
usual In this number. This is not say-
ing the number is of less interest or
value than the average. But we have
somehow come to feel that in the line

of duty we should occupy about one
page, and failing to do this calls forth
this explanation. Severe and protracted
sickness in our family has demanded so
much of our time that this line of work
postponed from day to day until neglect
seemed inevitable. In our last we
promised to review the first two num-
bers Of The Forum, but this must go
over until some other day.

\VI; have had some enquiries about
plaster, and in each instance have an-
swered the enquirer by letter direct.

We assume that these enquiries come
from persons who did not take the
VISITOR when we explained the situation
and arrangement some months ago. For
the information of all concerned we re-
peat that all manufacturers of Plaster in
the vicinity of Grand Rapids have
formed an association with 3. central
Office and buisness agent. The‘execu-
tive committee of the State Grange of
Michigan have a contract with the as-
sociation to furnish plaster On any Order
under seal of a Subordinate, County or
District Grange free on board cars at
Grand Rapids at $2.50 per ton. Orders
addressed to the Plaster Association or
to any individual mamzfacturer under’
seal_w_ill be honored. ’

TI-IERI-: have been thousands Of dollars
spent in litigation over the Spring Tooth
Harrow Patents, and the end has not
yet been reached. The tool has proved
so satisfactory that large numbers have

been sold. In fact the Spring Tooth
Harrow is found all over our vast coun-
try. But no matter under what patent
or by whom made there was one defect
in all mak,e,s—-the liability to trail in
hard ground. This defect has been
overcome by the Hill Harrow Rudder.
This was attached to a large double
Harrow used on our farm in the spring
of I885, used throughout the season,
and gave entire satisfaction. We have
before us the endorsement of a dozen
far.mers with whom we are personally
acquainted and they all agree in pro-
nouncing this Rudder a valuable addi-
tion to the Spring Tooth Harrow.

SI-:v_I:RAI. jottings and items came too
late for this issue, but their worth fore-
casts a good paper for May I. In the
meantinie our friend Killmer’s raid on
the farmers,__'the ~National Lecturer's

Communication, “In the Northwest,”
the ladies treatment of important topics,
and other equally good matter in this
number, will afford ‘material for com
.ment and consideration.

ONE of the finefeats of late periodi-
cal productious is Good /{ours/Eerping.
It combines all the highest points of a

cultured, refined home with its most
practical necessities. It is a triumph in
housework lore. "Every reader feels
thata new dignity is added to the house-
keeper through its clean, crisp pages.
Send I0 cents to Clark W. Bryan & CO.,
Holyoke, Mass, for sample copy. ~—

 

WE find upon our table “Grant's Bat-
tle Fields Revisited,” a book of 128
pages published by Eaton & Anderson,
Kalamazoo. , This book is simply -a.col-
lection of letters written by comrade C.
0. Brown, and covers as the title page
sets forth “A horseback ride from Chat-
anooga to Atlanta” in the summer
of 1880.

From a personal acquaintance with
the author, at sight of the book we felt
a.ssured.thatthe thrilling events of the
great civil war, that clustered around

A" those historic battle fields, penned by a

writer of such rare descriptive powers
must be interesting reading.

To know that he participated in the
bloody contests he so vividly describes,
and that he was made familiar by per-

.sonal service with the mountains, val-

leys mi streams, sieges and butt es,

 'I'§........E—GR.-ANEE.--Y.Ie;ToR«-.  

marches and counter-marches, that he
so graphically portrays, to those who
know the man is an assurance that the
perusal of this. little volume will richly
reward any one who has a spark of pat-
riotism or cares to spend an hour in a
rapid review of some of the most im-
portant events and battles of the great
rebellion. Wt know of no investment
of twenty-five cents that .will bring such
rich returns.

CARE!-"UL readers of -the articles on
“Railways and Electricity," by Mrs. W.
K. Sexton, in this and the last VISITOR,
will find many valuable and well stated
facts.

THE LAW AND ORDER LEAGUES.-—
These Leagues are doing noble work
in the States. Their fourth annual con-
vention was held in Cincinnati, on the
21st, 22d and 23rd days of last month.

The object in view, is simply that the
law as it stands. should be carried Out.
The aim, in short, is to make every
effort possible to secure Obedience from
the lawless to the law.

The first organization of the kind,
took its rise in New York, in 1877.
Now there are thirteen State organiza-
tions, -and from six to seven hundred
local Leagues, with an aggregate mem-
bership of more than one hundred
thousand.

The good accomplished has been
marvelous. In Chicago, it has shut the
saloon doors against 3o,ooo minors. In
Boston, it has stopped the sale of liquor
to children. In Cincinnati, it has made
war against Sunday theatres, and has
stopped them; In-Louisville, Ky., the
League has had a. bitter fight with the‘
gamblers, and it has won its battle.
And so On. '

These Leagues are not temperance
ones. They are simply combinations
of the decent and" law-abiding part of
the community to have the law en-
forced. ’ ‘

Do we need any such organization in
Canada? Some who Ought to know, are
Of opinion that we should be all the
better for something of the kind.—
Toronto Globe.

—  —~

BOHEMIAN OA'I's.——The following is
what Henry M. Talcott, a member of
the State Board of Agriculture, and a
prominent banker, of Asthabula. County,
Ohio, thinks Of the Bohemian Oat
scheme: “We had one Henry L.
Bacon to come here four years ago, as
the head-centre of this business. I
wrote up the business for our papers in-
stantly, and tried my best to prevent
our farmers from being swindled. I
told Bacon, when he brought his first
notes to my bank to try and get them
cashed, that he Ought to be put in the
penitentiary at- Once, and thank God,-
he is there now for seven years—sent

»from the Summit County courts in Ak-

ron. He made a big run of the busi-
ness, however. Our farmers were a set
of fools Over the business, and now lots
of law suits are on hand in our courts as
the result of it, and many good people
are in trouble. I hope "you will push
this light before the farmers as fast as
you can.”
~~~——  --~

PATRONS in all parts of the United
States will be pleased to hear that Bro.
J. W. A.'Wright, Past Master of the
California State Grange, and author of
our “Declaration of Purposes,” is strong-
ly talked of for the position of Com-
missioner of Education’ at Washington.
Bro. Wright is now living in Alabama.
His education and the prominent posi-
tions he has held in our great education-
al organ, the Grange, fits him perfectly
for the position, and if it were put to a
popular vote, there is no person in all
the country who would get such a large
vote, especially from the agricultural
class, as Bro. Wright. 'l'he Grange
vote of a million or more members
would be unanimous.

 genres of geztings.

HILLSDALE County ‘Pomona Grange will
hold its next meeting at Fayette Grange Hall,
May 5. The forenoon meeting will be devoted
to business’ of the Order. The afternoon session
will be devoted to the organization of a County
Horticultural Society. Charles’ W. Garfield,
Secretary of the State Horticultural Society,
will be with us, and give us a lecture in the
afternoon, after which he will proceed to Organ-
ize a County Horticultural Society. Patrons and
farmers of Hillsdale ‘County give us your atten-
dance and your co-operation in the work. The
Grange will be open to all in the afternoon.

1. E. \VAG.\'I-‘.R.

. regular meeting of the Livingston County
Council will be held in Brighton Grange Hall
Tuesday, May 4, 1886. ~

The program will consist of a song by Sister
Alice Sherwood, and papers by Sisters Cole,
Newman and Bidwell, and Bros. Fishbeck and
Dean. '

The subject of forming a l’omOna:Grange will
be discussed at this meeting, and it is impor-
tant that all the Granges in the County be well
represented. MRS. w. K. SEXTON.

THE annual meeting of Allegan County Grange
for the election of officers, conferring degrees,
etc., will be heldat Moline Grange Hall Thurs-
day, May 6, I886. The 5th de e will be con.
ferred in the A. M. in form. hose comin by
rail on the L. S. & M. S. and M. S. R. . to
Don Centre, should notify S. Fenton, Dorr
Center, or E. N-. Bates, Molina, who wlllprovide
conveyance from there .10 Moline. Dinner by
‘Molinc Grange. T_ C_ 3L?5K1RK_

Bradley, M., April I0, '86.

Tu): next session of St. Joseph County Grange
will be held in the village of Nottawa on Thurs-
day, May_ 6, commencing at Io:3o A, M’, After-
noon session will be public, when all are cordial-
ly invited to be present. A good program will
be provider}. A. n. Itowuzn.

SP1-t1Nd& 00.,
GRAND RAPIDS.
om: PRICE TO ALL I

These Low Prices Tell the Story.

. Good Calicos 30 and 40.

Good Crash Toweling, 3c and 40.

Good yard wide Brown Cotton.
4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 cts. .

Good Bleach Cotton, 4, 5, 6. 7. 8,
9 and 10 cts.

Ginghams, 5, 7, 90 and upward.

Wide and'fine printed Cambrics
at 8, 10 and 12:} cts.

Linen Lawns 12:}, 15, 20, and ‘25e.

Beautiful Satines 250.

Fine Scotch Ging ams, 20c.

Brocade Dress Goods. 5, 6, 9, 12&(:.

Table Linen, 15, 19, 22, 25, 20, 30c.

Linen Towels for 6. 8, 9, 11, 13,
15. 18. and 210.

White Dress Goods from 5. 7, 9,
100 and upwards.

We are closin out a_ lar e lot of
fine Plaid ambrics or 12§c.
worth from 15 to 250. These
are the cheapest We have ever
seen. SPRING & COMPANY.

SIIJIIS.

Black Gros Grain for 38c, worth 56c.
Black Gros Grain for 42c, worth 6oc.
Black Gros Grain for 48c, worth 65c.
Black Gros Grain for 57c, worth 75c.
Black Gros Grain for 63c, worth 75c.
Black Gros Gram for 75c, worth $I.
Black Gros Grain for 93c, worth 51.
Black Gros Grain for $1, worth $1.50.
Black Gros Grain for $1.25, worth $1.75.
Black Gros Grain for $ I.5o, worth $2.00.

The Silks selling at $1.00 31 25 and
$1.50 cannot be obtained elsewhere in
this market at any price, as we have the
exclusive agency of these goods and are
entirely indemnified by the manufactur-
ers against any reasonable damage that
may Occur from wear, and we make
good to our customers any reasonable
damage if any should occur.

We wish it were possible for us to
enumerate all the different articles in
our store worthy of attention.

There are thousands of dollars worth
of merchandise upon our shelves and
counters that is commanding great at-
tention from customers all over the
country as well as citizens of our city.
The supply seems sufficient for the in-
creased demand, anrl our departments
were never as well supplied.

SPRING & C0.
IANT
CLOTHING
OON|PANY’S

.——ANN'UAL————

GLEABANIIESALE

__Q_1;I___

OVERCOATS !

To make necessary repairs
In our store, occasioned by the
late fire, we are forced to com-
mence our CLEARANCE SALE
earlier than last year.

Over 1,300 Uvercnals

now in stock, divided into

Six DISTINCT Lots!

On our froiztfilubles
Every Garment liIiA_INLY MARKED.

None Reserved!
All Must Go !!

Bond prices that make sales easy
and bargains assured:

Lot No. 1. at $15.00
66 66

2, at 12.00
“ “ 3.. at 10.00
“ “ 4, at 7.50
“ “ 5, at 5.00
“ “ 6, at 2.50

The flrst three lots comprise all
our Overeoats selling regular
For $30, $25, $22, $20, $13,

 

The last three lots are made up

from all Overcoat: selling at
$14. $12, $10, $8, $5.

$2.50 new buys“:-egnlar $6
Overcoat.

Boys’ and Children’: Overcoat:
8'0 on game basis of value.

3'' This 0 I-tun‘

should migspiivho idtvyviizlliiizimti-hgt

ing distance of Grand Rapids.

GIANT GLUTHING 00.

 

 

 


APRIL 15, I886.

CLII-“I‘61_\l_—-Atlris home March :7, .336, crutrresi
W. Clifton, aged 48 years.

WHEREAS, An all wise Providence has seen

"fit to remove from us our worthy Brother and

orurer Master, C. W. Clifton, therefore,

Resolved, That the members of Forest Grange,
of Mecosta. Co., Mich., realize with sadness his
absence from our midst.

Bro. Clifton was a. charter member df‘Forest
Grange. He held the office of W. M. for several
years, and represented as at the State Grange at
various times. He was a firm believer in Grange
principles, and an active and progressive ‘worker
therein. He had the confidence and respect of
all who knew him.

During his long and painful _i.llrr,es~. of iifteen
months, he bore his alllictions with patience and
cheerfulness. We all cherished the hope. until
near the last, that he would recover: but a higher
Power decreed otherwise, and he nzts taken from

us.
Rcsalzml, That, as individual members, we
strive to emulate his example, while he lived,
in trying to make the Grange and community
harmonious and united. ,
Resolve-tr’, That we extend our sympathy to
his bereaved family, and pray that the Great
Master may lead them even to behold akind and
loving hand in this night of sorrow. _
Resolved’, That the Charter of our Grange be
draped in mourning for sixty days, and that a
copy of these resolutions be sent to the (}rL.\.\'(.‘.I-:
VISITOR and also to the county papers for pub
lication. and a copy be presented to Sister Clif-
ton and family. COMl\lI’I"l‘lr2E.

BAGLl:‘:Y—~

WHEREAS, Our worthy Sister. Mrs. Hattie
Bagley, having been suddenly removed by
death, therefore

Resolved, That this Grange has met with an
irreparable loss, and tender our heartf:lt sympa-
thy to the bereaved family.

Resolved,- That in behalf of Peninsula Grange,
No. 663, the Secretary be requested to spread
these resolutions on the records of the Grange,
send copies to the county papers and GRANGE
VISITOR for publication. and furnish a copy to
the family of the deceased.

Peninsula Grange Hall, March 27, '86.

\‘VILCOX.——RcsoIutions adopted by Waslrington
Grange, No. 403, on the death of Bro. llarvey
Wilcox, who died Dec. 6, I885:

WHEREAS, It has pleased the Divine Master
of the universe to remove from us by death our
Brother, therefore

Result./ell, That in the death of Bro. \Vilcox
our Order has lost a true and worthy member,
the community a social and pleasant friend, and
the family a loving husband and father.

Rrso/1'ea', That we tender the breaved family
our heartfelt sympathy, and invoke in their be-
half the kind protection of all belonging to our
Order.

Resolved", That :1 Copy ofthese resolutions be
sent to the family, also to the GR.‘\NGl<: \'Ist'ror<
for publication. and also entered upon our
Grange record.

BOWEN—I)ied at his home in Casenovi-.1 town-
ship, Dec. 26th, A. D. 1885, Bro. \V'm. 
Bowen, in the 84th year of his age.

VVIIEREAS, In the death of Bro. Bowen, Trent
Grange, No. 372, has lost a wise and judicious
counsellor, the community an honest and useful
citizen, and society a bright and exemplary mem-
ber; therefore

Rasrrlzwl, That, while we remember his fall-
ing health and tottering steps. we shall also re-
member his happy expressions made rnauifest by
his ever cheerful spirit, and

Resolved, That it is but ajust tribute to the
memory of our departed brother that in our re-
gret for hisremoval from our midst, we mourn
for one who was worthy of our respect and re-
gard, and

Rrsa/:'td', That as a further testimony of our
respect for the departed, and as an expression of
our sincere sympathy for the bereaved widow and
family, that these resolutions be placed upon our
records, a copy be presented to the widow and
family of the deceased, and a copy be sent to
the GRANGE VISITOR for publication.

WOUGI-I—Died suddenly, Feb, H, 1886, Sister

Alma Waugh.

She was one whom the Grange materially
benefited, and she in return by her gentle,
quiet ways and activity exemplified the precepts
of our noble Order.

Resolutions of condolence and sympathy were
adopted and inscribed on the records of Pontiac
Grange, 283, of which she was a member.

McKIBBEN—-Died, at her home in Commerce,
March 7, I886, of consumption, Sister A.
McKibben in the 27th year of her age.

At a meeting of Commerce Grange, held
March 16, the following resolutions were
adopted:

VVHEREAS, By the inscrutable Providence of
God, Sister A. McKibben has been removed
from among us by death, therefore be it

Rzsalztea’, That in the death of our Sister we
have parted with a consistent member of our
Order whose loss we sincerely mourn, and that
her family has lost a good mother and adviser.

Resolved’, That while we bow in submission,
we fain would express our sympathy for the
bereaved husband and relatives, at the same
time realizing the inability of our words to heal
their wounds inflicted by this great loss, let us
be more faithful in the discharge ofour duty to
the living. 

Resal-uezl, That our Charter be draped in
mourning for thirty days, and a copy ofthese
resolutions be placed on the records of the
Grange; a copy be presented to the family of
our deceased Sister, and that a copy be sent to
the GRANGE VISITOR and each of the Pontiac
papers for publication.

BREWSTER——Departed this life Jan. 22, I886,
§'a.lIl8.I§ E. Brewster, member of Olive Grange,
o. 35 :

WHEREAS, The Messenger Death has entered
our fold and removed a Brother, who, although
he was without relatives to wipe the death damp
from his brow, but by kindness and gentlemanly
bearing won for himself “friends” in time of
need; therefore

Resolved, That in memory of our departed
Brother we drape our Charter for thirty days,
and send a copy of these resolutions to the
GRANGE VISITOR and to both county papers for
publication.

BUTRICK-

WIIEREAS, The Great Master -above, whose
wisdom we cannot question or comprehend, and
whose ways are to us past finding out, has seen
fit to again allow the Messenger of Death to
visit our Grange, this time removing from among
us and from a life of activity and usefulness;
Sister Rosette Butrick, a Charter Member of
Cascade Grange, and one whose zeal for the
cause and energy in carrying on the good work
has never,been surpassed by any of. our mem-
bers; therefore .

Resalvzd, That we tender the afilicted family,
and especially’ Brother Butrick, the, warmest
sympathy of our sorrowing hearts and ‘ledge
ourselves to do all we-can to lighten the oad of
sorrow and afiliction that has fallen upon them.

Resolved, That our hall be draped in,moum-

. ing for ninety days, and that these resolutions

be entered upon a memorial page in our record,
a copy furnished the family of ourdeceased
Sister. and also published in the GRANGE

A ,PlERCI:‘..-At a regtfar meeting of 7

vmournrng for si.\ty days.

VIilTOR.

    

Daub;

Grange, No. 185, he d 1’ their hai in Danhy,

Ionic. County, Feb. 3, 18%, the fclIowirt‘g‘pre~

amble and resolution: were unanimously

ted!

WHEREAS, The Great ‘Master in His allvsise
Providence has removed by death from our midst
our much esteemed and worthy Sister, Mrs.
Clark Pierce, and v

Writ-.Rt-:As, Bound together as we nre by the
fraternal -ties of Brotherhood, ’ti~ meet that we
should sorrow with those of o- r fraternity who
are thus ailllctedf thereTore.i;e ll . ‘

Result/ed, That this Grange exttrrd to our sor-
rowing Brother and other relatives of our de-
ceased Sister that sympathy uhich flows from
hearts that feel for others’ woes.

Resolver/, That our Charter be draped _ in

It’esrIlz*czl, That :1 co y of these resolutions be,
sent to the GRANGE 'rsr1'--rt and the I‘--rtland
0&:tr7':'r«fur publication, and a copy under seal
ofthe Grange be presented to our worthy Brother,
Clark Pierce; also that the Secretary be instruct-
ed to spread the same at large upon the record
of the Grange.

\VHlTL':\RK—-

VH11-:rtr:.\.s, One of our faithful members, Mrs.
Clarissa Whitlarls, was removed from Northfield
Grange by death Dec. 22, I885; therefore

Reso/-I-ml, That we tender to the relatives of
the deceased our sympathy in their ailliction, and
that we sincerely feel the loss of one of our num-
ber who was so much respected.

Remlm-zl, That a copy of these resolutions be
placed upon our records. and one also be fur-
nished the (leases VISITOR for publication.

BOST\VlCK.—-- Died at Bellair, Antrim County,
-Mich., March 9, of scarlet fever, I’I’I(I?iJe Bost-
wick aged 18 years and 8 months. Sister Bost-
wick was a member of Rural Grange, No. 37,
Wayland. We desire to extend our heartfelt
sympathy to the bereaved husband and many
friends.
We shall meet but we shall miss thee,
There will he one vacant chair.
MRS. I-:. N. SMITH, Lecturer.

PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
I .' ted b Th t;- Barnes. Wholesale Grove
ifrihe? ranrteyselllhlgnltglient. No. 231 North Water St:

Philadelphia. Pu.j _ _
. Pnrnanntrun. April In, 1886.
‘ PURE SUGARS.

 
 
  

Cut Loaf per if» . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..._

Prrlverlzed per in ....... .. ..5_;i
Standard. Granulated per lb -'15‘;
Sttndard A wme per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..6‘/,

ugh; while S-rrt A per . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..5},;,
«(rod white Holt A per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Extmttwhlte per . . . . . . . ..  .. '
standard B per lb . . . . . . . . . ..
Extra (2 Ye~low Hriglrt. per lb
(7 Yellow 3'-er lb . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Brown per in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
New Orleans Extra Light per lb. ........ ..
SYRUP AND MOLASSliS——Iu Barrels
Sugar drips pure sugar per gallon. . . . .23
A tuber drips pure srrgar per gallon. . .'2l
Fancy white maple drips per gallon .29
Extra golden pure sugar per gallon... . . . .30
Funny Iv.-w (Irlefllrh new crop per gallon. .50
(load New Orlemrs new crop per gallon.. .-iti
white lroney (l lp, \'u.n:-lla. flavor ......... .33
IMP()RT.‘\.\'T —The above quotations are for syrup
in whole hrrrn-ls only. All syrup in half barrel: 4
cents per gr lluu extra. and no charge for packnpe. In
5 and lo gsllnm packages 5 cents per gallon ad: mon-
al and the mm. or package.
C01-‘Fl-2ES—GI-LEEN AND ROASTED.

  

FzI,[\(‘y Rio per Ib,. . .1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .l1
‘keen Rm L-xsra ch-‘.1;-u pet‘ I!) . . . . . . . . . . . . ..l0 10%

Green Rir, prime pg-r llv . . . . . . .. 95~@1U
Green Ring.)---l per fin. ..
1;;-epn Rio oontmmr per 

   

  
  

     

 

   
  

 

 
 
 
        

 

    
 

Green hlarutznibcu (‘I|‘.l\ e pe l2 @l2}/
Green l.s.',zrtu)'rn Itiulltfe per 35%. ..lI12 @l:2
Green Juvtr.«~l1ol<:e 1» r lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..I'.‘ @118
H0s§[gd Rn. best per" ll» . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I254;
Roasted Rio No 1 per ll» . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..l’.'
tmusted Rio No. _' per ‘lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..ln
Roasted Iragu-Iyra nest per in. . . . 13%
Roaster‘. Jnvn best per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :21 @132
Lsrunes’ Golden Liu roasted in Ill. p'k._. .. ..I~l
TE IS.
Imperial per lb . . . . . .. 50
Young 1-Iyrwu Del‘ 3‘! 55
Ooloug per ..... . . 50
J gpan per ll: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "5 . 49, 45, .50
Gunpowder per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  -10, 41, 50, 55
FOREIGN DRIED FRUITS. _
Raisins. New lliuscatells. per box ........ . .82 50
" Old Muscatells. “   1 75
“ London layers, -‘  . . 3 00
_ " London layers,%boxes.......... 1 00
p " Valencia per lb ................. . . 10 @1oy,
" seedless, mats. 50 lb per mat .... . . 4 00
" Oudara, Pox. 28 lb . . . . ..  18
H " " 14 1b.. 13
Prunes. French boxes. per lb s§/@11
" New Turkeg. per lb..- 452@ 44 4
Cm-rants.new. per  o§4@7
WHOLE SPICES.
Black Pepper per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
white “ -'  ..............  28
Ginger " 12
Cinnamon “ .. . 9
Cloves “ 17
Altsplce “ 9
Mace " . .. 50
Nutmegs “ . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 60
PURE GR"Ul\‘D SPICI-IS.
Pure Pepper, black. per ‘lb .............. . . :30
“ African Cayenne, per lb . . . .... . . 28
“ Cinnamon per lb . . 17
" Cloves per .. 22
“ Ginger per lb . . Ia
" Allsp re per lb. . . 15
GROCE ‘rs’ SUNDRIE8.
salsoda.I12lblregF.perlb....,...... .. fix
Flour sulphur. per in . . . . . . . . . . E-
Bl-mrb sods. loose, 112 lb kegs. . . .. 4
“ " " 251!) boxes ........ .. 5 .
" " _ "D Hill: boxes ........ .. 6
" " in me . ........... .. 6'4
“ “ in ‘A lb patch as . . 71
corn starch. Gllber-t's. per  . . . .. HA
“ Duryeds. per lb .... . .. ..... .. 7
Starch, lump, Duryea's, 40 115 boxes. perlb 4
" Gilbert’: “ * " 4
Sam starch. new prolcess ............... . . 51.4
n, new process, um .............. . . .'-.-
"fg “ 6115 xes........... 6%
." “ libboxes .... .. 554"‘
Grain bugs, 2 bushels ...... . . 21
Georzis. bags, ‘2 bushels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1)

Chocolate. Bakers Prem. No. 1 er lh.... 37 @3q
Barnes‘ Perfect Baking Powder in 9.1 lb

tins. per doz .......................... . .1
Barnes‘ Perfect Baking Powder in 5513

   
   

tins. per doz .......................... ...7
Barnes Perfect Baking Powder in I It tins
r doz ..... .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 25
00. new crop. ncy Head. per 15.. . .
Blce. “ good, per 115... .. %
“ “ p e, 1' lb . . . ('2
Corn Brooms No. 3, per 0  ..2 37
" No. 4. “ . .2 62
" No. 5, “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 87
" No. 6, " . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..3 12
Best guarlor brooms. “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 62
Lye. bbitt's. per case of 4 doz. . ....4 00
Lye. Penna, " -- , "3 25
Lye. Phlln-.. “ '- ..-.: so
Potash ‘ “ “ .2 S0 @-'5 25.
Saltoeter. rzranulated. per lb.. . . . 10
“ pure. per in .......... . . 10

 

 

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FOR SALE.-vA few choice young Bulls and

Heifers, all registered and from extra milk
and butter strains. Prices low. Correspondence

rt -r=r.ow.
Read what the Allegan Patrons say.

Entire Satisfaction

I have uzd, the No. 3 Wilder Plow for the
last three years and it has given me entire satis-
faction ir_t both sod and stubble. It is a first-
class sod and stubble plow.

M. V. B. MCALPINE.

“Ha:-d'—'l—:; Boat.

I am" using two of the \’.ir.rler Flows, and for
all purposes I consider tl-rc..r hard to beat. lam
well satisfietl with them.

JQHN STEGEMAN. _

Send 'I'en Dollars to the Allegan
Grange Store and get one of these un-
equalled Plows. Also send for samples
and prices of my Beautiful White Pop-
lar Honey Sections. ‘

JULIUS TOMLINSON.

aprtmz Allegan, Mich.

 

The proprietors of Thornapple Stock
Farm have Three Red Young Mary
Short Horn Bulls old enough for service
for sale. Also two or three Heifers, all
red in color. Stock all registered or
eligible to registry and will be sold at
reasonable prices. - Call on or address

H. G. HOLT,

aprr 5t3 Cascade, Mich.

r'i'6‘inR:"?_:’-55 On.

_VVn.rrant Deed for a mxroz feet Bulld-
rug Lot at . t. Andrews Buy. FIn.. will
be‘ sent. by prepaid mall to an one who
within 30 days, remrts 50¢" Hoe, [in legal
fee for executlnrz Deed by Notary Pu Ill‘. and
we. postage. Write name in full so that need '
ecorrect. No more than Deeds for

82.20 to nny one frunlly. This great olfer
is for the purpose of starting a Local Colony
ay all taxes for

Cb.,227 MnlnSt.,Clnclnnat ,
0.. Pensacola, I-‘la... or St. Andrews Bay, Fla.
K§'Deed can be executed more '
s
ll.

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A LL PATRONS of HUSBANDRY
supplied with SI-Ll-:Ds at a liberal DISCOUNT under
a contract with N EW YORK STATE
Gl€ANGE._ _ , _ Imar4t

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COUNTRY, tlre.F§ut: Goyem.
ment Lands and CHEAP RA|LRoAD

Maps or NORTHERN PACIFIC
’ LANDS in Minnesota. Dakota. Montana.

Idaho. Waslrineton and Oregon. The Best Agricultural.
Grazing and Timber Lands now not-n tn Settlers. SENT
FR1=1:- Address. CHAS. B. LAMBORII.

' Land Commlnloner. st. Paul, Minn.

solicited. STONE & BIGGS, Breeders of Hol-

’ stein-Friesian Catt}-:. llnszirrgs. Mich. innit; -‘

  
  
 

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OBGANS: PlAN_OS:
Highest Hon- - New mode of
M 12:" g;°,:: §%.:‘:'.;'.{...'.'..l’."
War '3 - , . , '
bitlonstorelgh-' V, : 'q“‘"" M
teenymm one. _ V V much tunings:
,. Pianos on he
|H1nd1’€49'-Y1€3- prevailing

$22. -to 0900. ‘wrest-plu
For Cash. Easy sysfebrp. lye-
' e or
§°;f,','.‘,.°{_"’c.{’.': ' iiirarrltf of tone
pm“, g-e._ and urablllty.

ORGAN AND PI 0 G0.

. 154 Tremont Stihgogzgrpgsgglnion Sq),  Y.

 
      

  

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Order on trial. artdreu for circular and location at
Western and southern storctmnsel IIIII Agents.
~ P. K. DIDERIGK & 00¢. Albanv. II. V.

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FCDII SALE;

.,WELOOM E. OATS!

Raised direct from Burpee’s stock. \Veight, 37
to 40 pounds per bushel; 50 cents per bushel
cash with order. New sacks 25 cents. Remit
by registered letter. O. A. COBB, Ottokee,
FIIROII C0., OIIIO. [5mgr3t

EGGS FOR HATCHINGI

From In splendid flock of ve lar e farm-rais
T!-IORO GHBRED LIGHT BRYAYI-IMAK I-‘OWl.‘.~‘ (uh?
excelled layers throughout the whole year.) Per setting
of 13. from thirteen difiereut, mrefully-rnated breeding
pe_ns (no two akin!) One Dollar. (less than half the usual
price!) » Reduced prices for larger quantities.

_ C. G. KLEINS'I'L'CK.

SIXOHI3 rflfm. Asylum Avenue. Kalamazoo Mich.

F‘I.‘R‘.E PROOF

GU'l‘TA'-PERC.H A‘. ROOFING

For flat or steep roofs. Cheap, durable and
easily applied. FIRE PROOF PAINT. Send
for prices. , _
EMPIRE PAINT 8: ROOFING ($0.,
_ H28 and I I30 Race Street,
Mention this paper. Philadelphia, Pa.

PATENTS

LIICIUS C. WEST _Solicitor of American an
Foreign Patents, and"(.ounsellor in Patent Causes,
Tmde ‘I33-‘ks, Copyrights, Assignments, Caveats,
Mechanical and Patent Drawings. Circulars
free. 105 E. Main Street. Kalamazoo, Mich.
Branch ofiice, London, Eng. Notary Public.

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8tekelee’sBlooBitlersl

No Whiskey Here.

For the Cure of Bilious Rheumatism, Malaria, Indigestion. Bil-
leusnesn, Liver. complaint. and Impurities of the Blood.

 

Perfectly free from Intoxicants; compounded from Roots, Herbs and Ber-
ries. It is the most perfect remedy for the cure of Malaria and Bilious Rheuma-
tism ltnown. Those that know of my remedies know that I sell no humbug.
_Rea1d what the people say of these bitters. Too good not to publish the follow-
ing etter:

, Man-ron, Mrcrn, June 23, r885.
‘ Mr. Geo. G. Steketee—Dear Sin For years I have been troubled with constipation or cost-
tveness, dizziness and wandering of the mind. At times it seemed as though there were thousands
of needles penetratin my arms, fingers and legs, with hot and cold flashes running all over me,
bad breath and coate tongue. Ihave taken one bottle of your Steltetee’s Blood Bitters as you
directed when I was at your place. I can say that it has done me more good than anything that I
have ever found before. In fact, I feel like a new man. No one should be without a bottle of
Steketee's Blood Bitters. M. VANDERCOOK.

Long'life to Mr. Stelretee and his Blood Bitters.

Thus writes Mr. J. C. Van Der Ven,of Grand Haven, Mich., Oct. 1, 1885: “For the past
year I have scarcely been without pain in my bowels. I used remedies from the doctors, and
ouse remedies, all without cure. Two bottles and one-half of your Steltetee’s Blood Bitters has
entirely cured me; so I say long live Mr. Steketee and his Blood Bitters.
J. C. VAN DER Vl-LN."

ASK ‘YOUR. IDIIUGG-I51‘ FOE!

STEKETEE’S BLOOD BITTERS.

TAICE KO OTHER.
G‘rE(). G. STEKETEE, Sole Proprietor,

Grand Rapids, Mich.
PRICE, - zoo and $1 Per Bottle.

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Wrssr CHESTER, BUTLER Co., 0., Aug. 18, 1884. I

This is to certify that I have had in constant use on my farm, Richardson’s Centennial Gran
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make and use them for ten times the cost. I have never had any trouble with them. I have never
had to repair them. For my gates, 12 feet long and five boards high, I use posts six inches square.
The posts stand as straight and plumb as when I first put them up five years a.go—The Centennial
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both ways, fastens itse f open when the wind blows, will divide large from small stock, one person
doing it alone, children can work it easily, and after five years’ use I can confidently recommend it
as the best gate I have ever seen or used. .  P. MILLER,

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We, the subscribers, have given thorough examination of Bro. J. P. Miller’s Gates and know
they have been in use for five years, that they are as good as when first put up, and we fully endorse
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A,PR,I_I, 15, 1896.

 3a#=*'ii.s-~~  

 Wh§t'Can Woman Do?
[From “Sc:-apsmrend by Mrs. L. E. Cameron at

, State Woman’s Institute at Rochester, Mich.]

“We are but women. Whatcan women do?”
Over and over all a‘long night through

That simple statement and the question plain
Unresing kept .my~scarcely conscious brain,
‘Till half awakenedghalf asleep, I thought
Of many deeds by‘noble women wrought.

“We are but women. Whatcin women do?”
My soulmade answer: “All shewishes to."_
It is but true when women want more “rights”

They've naught to do but tat?‘ them; for all

V heights, ‘ »
All depths, all breadths, all compass that she

W)
What plact’: so e’er she chooses she can fill.

Time was when mankind said to her, “Thus far
Andno whitrfurther. . There we place a,-bar;
And it would be unwomanlyto try .

To overstep the bounds or pass them by.”

But now the answer is to all so plain

None may repeat the words of this refrain.

“What can a woman do?”, One need but ask
VVhat’s to be done? No matter what the task‘ '
Or what required. Be it courage, skill, ' - ‘
Patience, discretion, wisdom, strength or will,
Through everyavenue she enters in

Where women fail men need not hope to win.

That First Requlsite.

Some weeks agb when I asked the
question, now grown familiar,to the
Visiroiz, namely: “What, is the first
requisite of a model home?"_it__h_a.d but
then caught my thoughts, nnelf desired
to ask for others’ opinions, rather than
give my own. The feplies that have
been made will each have its advocates,
and if mine clasps hands" with no one of

them, I think’ it will, only because it,
it stands out on broader ground and‘

embraces all.

The te_rr_n, “model home,” is shaded
by as wide diversities of opinion as
actual hofmes differ. I shall take it to
mean that place where are grown and
nurtured principles of man and woman-
hood; and by the words “man” and
“woman” I do not speak in the sense
that distinguishes that a person is the
one because he wears trousers and hat
or the other by her skirts and bonnet.
Iflthought every man a man, my con-
clusion of the whole matter might
perhaps be covered by——“a man.” In
the model home I look for men to be
manly and women, womanly.

The answer to this question that has
seemed most popular is that love is of
the first importance; but “love” isa
broad word and in the modern home is
often spread too thinly to meet the
needs of a. model one. Poor, poor is
that misnamed love_ that fondles and
gives only caresses while its loved ones,
in so far as comforts and necessities go,
are like unto the turkey in tradition.
Gumption would be more to the loving
purpose here.. On the other hand,
real, full weight love (such as everyone
presupposes he is getting, however
short it afterwards falls) is the deep,
never failing, strong current that sweeps
under and bears the model home life
like a mighty river in its course.

It was in an editorial of the Western
Rural that I first saw this subject dis-
cussed, and the distinctively manlz’/ée
treatment of it prompted me to ask, was
he right? He claimed that “the very
first need of a home is a. good library,
with a. thoroughly scientific treatise on
cooking, about every fifth book." He
doesn’t care for a stove, or kitchen, or
dishes until there is knowledge to use
them. I imagined a feminine ripple of
laughter went up from each fair-faced
housekeeper reading it. Following the
case he made, I found its points well
taken, and was convinced the writer had
himself dealt dyspeptically with raw
bread, burnt steak and muddy coffee,
in order to be able to discuss his sub-
ject so philosophically. Physical health
is the substructure of the mental and
moral, and by its flaws the higher
natures are weakened and must rise, if
they rise, over a tottering foundation.
He thinks physicians should doctor the
kitchen before the patient, and give the
housekeeper _a course of physiological-
training, followed by a series of cooking

lessons; then firmly fix forever in her
code of law the intimate relation to
be maintained between the two. When
this is mastered he would have her
keep in view that matter is a servant of
minds. ‘She must know food’s place is
to stimulate minds to activity, ‘ind not
to monopolize its attention. Then
shall harmony, health and honest hap-
piness hallow the model home. Under-
standing with this that “the within de-
termines the without,” the cook holds
both the secrets of the stomach and the
key note of the family prosperity.

When the doctor’s horse stands
habitually at certain hitching-posts
a monotonous routine of pics and pills
is the fare of those households. I also
protest against taking any such for a
pattern, however loving or orderly the

, inmates may be. Our gentleman
friend asks more than he maythmk
when he asks a housekeeper to be all
this; but he asks not too mu,ch,..siInp1Y
a sounddmind in a sound body and well
developed; ,Why.ha'8my one a right to
ask for f less thin thisrbr dare take Into
a home anything less? But that people
do enter into covenants to build homes
wit/mu‘ ‘well dam-lajteil. c/zarqcters, the
stopping places, mockingly .-called

omes,” and long divorce lists plainly
indicate. Only one excuse remains and
is that an age of discretion has been:
denied a large portion of the human
race. It is easier to believe that with-
-out waiting for the years of judgment
 discretion to bring their councils,

far too many young peoplecut them-
selves off, from, s3|ch’benefit§ ere their
seisdn.  ’  '* -i, . .- I
“Soured on tile world” stands written
over “against the "doorway of many -a.
girlish woman’s so home; and “rea
as ye have 56wnl"iis*'all the comfort le t
to-her“ stunted complement. ‘But the
model home—that.pl_ace that is long _the
shelter‘ and roof-tree of its‘ inmates1—
-feels full many-a stormiand much of sun-
shine beat upon it, and well we know
that in such shelter’ shall 'matu_re lives be
‘moulded and developed"before they
leave its‘ protection to found ,_o‘th‘er‘
homes.’ ' ' " Rum REs"ri.i-:v.

Railways and Electricity.
: Wonderful.as.has been the resolution
in the-mode of travel, caused by the in‘-
vention of railways, no lesswonderful
has been the change in the mode. of
transmitting messages brought about by-
the discoveries and advancements in the
science of electricity, and it is a signi-
ficant fact that both were simultaneous,

> thescience of electricity having been

es_tablished*in 16oo, but two years prior
to the invention of railways. Gilbert,
of Colchester, in that year published a
book treating of the magnetic and elec-
tric forces. He is the inventor of the
word electricity which he derived from
the Greek word electron (amber.-) '

In 1672 the first electric machine was
made. Grey and Wehler in 1729 were
the first to transmit electricity from one,
point to another. In 1746 the Leyden
jar was accidentally discovered at Ley-
den. In 1752 Benjamin Franklin proved
-the identity of lightning and electricity
by his famous kite experiment, and in

1760 made the first lightning conductor.
In 1786 Galvani made the discovery
which led to the addition of the new
branch of science, Galvanism, which
bears his name. ‘ . -

The telegraphic instrument now used
in America is the invention of Samuel
F. 'Morse, a native of Massachusetts,
born in 1791. He petitioned invain to
Congress, year after year, for appropria-
tions in establishing a telegraphic line.
At length, in 1843,. when he had almost
yielded to despair, that august body at
midnight, and at the ‘ last moments of
the session, appropriated thirty thou-
sand dollars for an experimental line be-
tween Washington and Baltimore. For
his telegraphic inventions he was re-
warded by testimonials, honors, orders
of nobility and wealth. Several Euro-
pean states joined in presenting him a
purse of nearly eighty thousand dollars,
and banquets were given him in Paris
and London. _

In the long list of philosophers and
inventors none stand out more promi-
nent than the name of Edison of our
own time, through whose wonderful dis-
coveries in electricity, our cities have
been flooded with a light so brilliant as
to be seen nearly a score of miles.

He is at present chiefly engaged with
his new idea of telegraphing from rail-
road trains in motion. This has been
put to a practical test and proved satis-
factory. The telegraphing is done by
throwing the electric current by induc-
tion to one of the wires alongside the
railroad. His experiments have already
shown that the spark can be thrown one
hundred and seventy feet. The regular
Morse instrument, with certain applian-
ces, will be used. The battery is to be
grounded in the wheels of the car, and
on the top of the car there will be con-
densers of tin foil spread upon long
strips of wood.

Arrangements are also progressing for
an experiment in telegraphing by the
same method from one ship to another
at sea. He is positive the current can
be thrown over the water twenty-four
miles and possibly farther. He has con-
ceived the idea of telegraphing from
ship to ship so as to establish communi-
cation between the shore and any part
of the frequented seas. Not content
with this projected miracle,which seems
to be near its fulfillment, he is also busy
upon improvements in submarine teleg-
raphy. The method now generally in
vogue of reckoning words through the
cable by the flicker of a flame thrown
upon a mirror, is amazingly insufficient.
The number of dots indicating letters
often has to be judged by operators
from the length of time the flame hesi-
tates. Edison is trying to devise some
means of attaining a higher or better
regulated rate of speed, that the record
may be made clearer. But it’s a. tough
job he says. Edison is now taking up
the phonograph which he laid aside for
a time, while absorbed in his electric
light inventions, and now intends to
bring it to perfection and practical use.
He is building a phonograph with a five
foot wheel to be driven by steam. The
sound will be transferred from the phon-
ograph to a wheel forty times its‘ iame-
ter, the sound being thus amplified forty
times louder than the human voice. It
will have a funnel thirty feet long. If
placed on top of a. building Mr. Edison
claims that a person standing two blocks
away will be able to hear it talk plainly.
He has also got so far. -as to mike the
machine an-y “ah” distinctly by means
of many wave lines.

Mr. Edison-says, “After I get this ma-
chine perfect. I will construct I phono-
graphs . for office use, to take the place
of stenographers and type-writers. All
you will have to do will be to hand it to
the office-boy who, by touching a spring,
can make it repeat or talk back all that
you have said to it, and translate it at
will. Then again you can have one at

home, and when a thought strikes you. 9

ma'chine and you have it boxed u I for
next day. . I: have no doubt it willlbe; 7i

‘great _success._ Perhaps the most inter-

esting thing he has to say is-respecting
his exploration for a new force.‘ At pres-
ent he calls it sim‘pl_v‘x_,' y, Hedoes
nofpretend to know,__w,ha,,t. it is. Bu1;'h_e,

l_says..-that ..there.' are ‘many phenomena
"which are not explained by anyfiforce

y,etrec0z!iizcc_L'~‘aIl1id ‘uric. thiesewuich he
is going to investigate. Vibrations of
matter, at_ the rate of 30,000 a second,
produce thejhighest sound we can-‘heat?
'.Between these and the vibrations which,
at the rate of mi1lion,s'per second, cause
the_’se_ns_'a,tion of heat, there is a large

.ga.p;' and between these, and the vibra-

tions that give‘sensations_.ol‘ color, there’
is another gap. These‘ gaps, _’Edison.
believes, are filled by vibrations as yet
u'nmeasured,'_which constitute the new
or ‘unnamed force he is .in search of..
Think of it! A man in this skeptical
century whodares believe in aj'discov-
ery beyond all‘ discoveries. Here. is a
student of Nature who is not afraid to
brave the spiritof a Galileo or a. Kepler
or an ‘Isaac Newton. Mr. ‘Edison be-
lieves. inan intelligent Creator, :1 per-
sonal God, and says‘ the existence of
suclra _God can almost. be proved from
chem"istry.— And so we discover down.
in Avenue‘ B,.in the prosaic city of New
York, aphilosopher who believes in a.
personal God and is, at the same time,
the foremost exponent of applied
‘science. Curious that he should be at
work night after night inithe midst of a.
million of -people, only a few hundred
of whom know-how he is employed dur-
in_g,the' nocturnal hours. As a usual
thing he works until live or six in the
morning, his supper basket remaining
untouched beside him, and sometimes
it‘ is nine o'clock of the next day before
he leaves the bench or laboratory. “I
can’t thinkgout anything, he says, except
when I’m experimenting. I have a li-
brary of 6,ooo scientific works but some-
how I can?t find what I want in books.
I cannot make calculations on paper I
have‘ to be moving around." So there
he goes moving around thinking and"
working with his hands in the big som-
bre building while the city is asleep. He
is the controlling power of several large
factories, a millionaire, a man of busi-
ness, a marvelous inventor, yet he is as
simple and happy as a child when
wrapped in an old seersucker dressing-
gown; he can manipulate at will and
without interruption the mysterious
forces and properties of nature.
Americans are practical and skeptical.
It mightbe instructive to them to learn
that the champion of their inventive
genius is a believerin things unseen and
unknowable. MRS. -W. K. SA.‘(TO.\'.

Home Adornments.

There is no home so humble but
something can be done to make it look
inviting. A bird in its cage, a plant on
the window sill, a cushion on achair
seem to welcome the tired ones and lull
them to rest and comfort. The rich
man’s home may be more gaudy, but
with looks reserved and cold in appear-
ance. Everything is’ of foreign manu-
facture. and is costly. »

But we poor can by industry and a
limited amount of “expense work with
our own hands in what spare moments
we have numerous things that give sun-
light and a welcome to our homes.
Some bear the erroneous opinion that
the only place a man's eyes rest upon
in the house is on the table and see
what delicacies have been prepared to
put into his stomach in one short half
hour by his wife’s‘half day’s work. If
this were the case I should not be sur-
prised if a man came in, ate his meals,
and then passed out to find enjoyment
somewhere else, as at aboarding house.

But it is his home. He likes a good
meal, and to see all these things that
make his home look cheerful; and is
thankful in his heart that his wife, mother
or sister takes the pains to have home
the most attractive‘ and pleasant place
in the world. ACHSAH A. WHAr.1.oN.

Ingham Co.

4.4

Why Not I?

To-night is our regular Grange meet-
ing, but for various reasons I cannot at-
tend, and, in a regretful mood, take up
the VISITOR to while away the long
evening before me. As_I read the
thought comes, why cannot I join the
Ladies’ Department? I would not wish
to intrude, but seek instruction and
companionship; so I will draw my chair
a little closer and introduce myself,
trusting to the mothers of our Order for
a kindly welcome.

I am a member of Windsor Grange,
No. 6x9. It is in good running order,
having a live corps of ofiicers and hold-
ing unusually interesting meetings."
Thanks are mostly due our Wot-thy
Lecturer, Geo. D. Pray, for his well ar-
ranged program for the ensuing quarter.
We have had some splendid essays,
readings, and so forth. I, too, have
been anxiously waiting for answers to
Ruth Restly’s query, What is the first

requisite of -a model home? When first

my husband read it to me, I said: “I
can tell; it is order, for that was the
first law of God. In the beginning all
was chaos and his first work was to?
bring everything into working order,
and our homes should be in sympathy
with his great,‘ grand, universal work, or
home.” Taking him for our guide and
teacher, what essential is more apparent

than order? And as I read to-night
what the conclusions of others are, l '

all that is necessary ‘is to talk it anti: "

home we. should have a judicious min-
gling of all these attributes: order, love,
patience and forbearance, a. goodly
amount of firm.ness,and, as one writer.
truly says, grit. , That last is a great essen-
tial in my estimation. Mus. A. M. B.
‘ “Whipping up Nat_ur‘e.”

‘ There is a whipping up of tired nature
going ’-on that ought to come_unde‘r the
no__ti_‘ce of. some society for thepreveni
tion of "cruelty to animals. The lash is
being applied in .- this way, to take a
common instance, in your very house.
Your" husband did not; sleep any“last
night, thinking of his business entangle-,
ments.— You prrepare -him , two cups of
strong ‘black coffee, which -‘he’_ pours
down for" breakfast, unable to ‘eat ‘any-
thing with it. No doubt while the
stimulus lasts he is carried through an
immense amount -of’-work in a savage
manner. ' It passes for pure grit, by the
on-lookers. Perhaps it may be; but
there ,is another kind of grit that we
like quite‘ -as well,—the patient, steady
following .one’s conscience. And your
doses of strong tea that enable you to
get through the house cleaning, or the
fall sewing, is another whip,——long and
cruel. The society should have its
hands on you bothinstanter.—./mzrglzrct
Sidrtty. in G000’ Housekeeping.

_ 
The‘Wheel Horse.

There is a wheel horse in every lami-
ly; some one who takes the load on all
occasions. It may be the older daugh-
ter, possibly the father, but generally it
is the mother. Extra company, sick-
ness gives her a heavy increase of the
burden she is always carrying. Even
summer vacations bring less rest and
recreation to her than to others of the
family. ‘The city house must be put in
order to leave; the clothing for herself
and the children which a summer so-
journ demands seems never to be finish-
ed; and the excursions and picnics which
delight the hearts of the young people
are not wholly a delight to the “provid-
er.” I once heard a husband say: “My
wife takes her sewing machine into the
country and has a good time doing up
the fall sewing.” At the time I did not
fully appreciate the enormity of the
thing; butit has rankled in my memory,
and appears to me now an outrage.
How would it be for the merchant to
take his books to the country with him,
to go over his accounts for a little
amusement? Suppose the minister
writes up a few extra sermons, and a
teacher carries a Hebrew grammar and
perfects himself in a new language,
ready for the opening of school in the
fall?—- C/zrirlian Umim.

~ -  —

Is 1'1‘ TRuE?——Women jump at con-
clusions and generally hit; men reason
things out logically and generally miss
it

Some women can't pass a millinery
store without looking in; some men
can’t pass a saloon without going in.

A woman never sees a baby without
wanting to run to it; a man never sees a
baby.without wanting to run from it.——
Was).

 

' gealtlg nub gmusnnrnt.

Without Carefulness.

A livelyvimagination and a natural or
acquired habit of seeing the funny side
of everything without turning it to any
good account may tend to entertain
and amuse a company gathered for
pleasure, but too much of it sates a
healthy social-palate, and -their use
should always be guarded. Pure, unal-
loyed good nature is seldom wearisome,
but social sporting sometimes takes a
turn that is much to be condemned. It
is that amusement that seeks its enter-
tainment at the unknown expense of
others. I refer especially to that
method of making sport in company by
means of silent communicating. It is
silent, but valuable and full of expres-
sion. Its subjects are personal pecul-
iarities, misconstrued remarks and un-
fortunate blunders of—with shame be it
said—people present and’ perhaps in
close proximity to the spotters. An
obscure reference, the sly nudge, a
gentle touch or hit, a quick wink, grim-
ace or motion, a meaning expression, or
evdn the steady meeting of eyes for an
instant among a party of “chums” has
brought the flush to the cheek and con-
fusion to the enjoyment of many a guest
or stranger, who has no means of know-
ing if he is the subject of ridicule or
compliment. Which, indeed, if sport or
praise, is his he does not know, or if
such communicating relates to others
than himself, or to matters not known
to him, his doubt as to what the fun
is about only aggravates his uncomfort-
ableness. There are few, though white-
capped with years, who do not enjoy the
bubbling, innocent mirth of young peo-
ple that drops from their lips without
malice or harm; but the instance is a
rare one where a ifoiceless crossfire of
sarcasm or mimicry can be endured
with equanirnity of countenance and
temper.

If the sport evades the notice of its
‘subject there may be friends who will
 it - all and feel. keenly the indignity
done another. Such‘ “edged tools” are
dangerous and more given to leaving
life scars on the user than the
‘afllicted.

Perhaps nothing shows the true level

think tofhave a complete and-,-perfec-ti

‘of a family's aims‘ better than the small

talk indulged in during a spare time for
recreation or social conversation.
Loosed from the harness that the duties
of the day have girded on its members
they are free to follow the bent of their
inclinations. It is at this time and when
the mind and body are seeking rest-in
amusements that the real self, living
back of skilled fingers and sturdy mus-
cles, claims its ' right to rule. The way
an‘ hour’s leisure ‘or ahalf holiday is
spent often indicates more of the inner-
most person than a year’s faithfulness
at a post of duty. Such “extras” of
time are straws v that society is con-
stantly tossing into air and show a var-
ious direction of plans and purposes

everywhere.- We show our individual:

tastes and aims in no way more plainly
tha‘n in the amusements we seek. There

are those who work hard and well when '

they work, who in their recreations keep
no end "in view but to have a “good
time.” Their definition of recreation I
think would be expressed in those very
words, and carry it out at any cost.
They belong to‘. the class who work to
recreate, while their opposites rest
that they may work the more and bet-
ter. Life to one is a shallow brook,

rufiled by the pebbles in its bed, but to _

the other it is a river and strong in its
depth. Cheerfulness, sunlight of earth,
plays on the waters of both, but the
river has deepness beneath a brightened
surface that the gurgling, rippled brook
never ‘has.

It'is an excellent thing to be gay and
happy hearted, but, as some one point-
edly remarks, “no one was ever made
great or good by a diet of broad grins,”
and since the ludicrous and laughable
of life are always on top it becomes us
to look for more than surface amuse-
ments. It is with something akin to a
child that an acquaintance of mine tells
her experience in a family of capable,

well-read people, who spent much of‘

their social time in making stale wit-
ticisms, half hints at disreputable stories,
cunning comments on neighbors and
friends, and neither did they hesitate to
be uncharitable if it made a laugh.
This is but an illustration of the
common aimlessness of pastimes, saying
nothing of those that are more exhaust-
ive of time and strength. How can we
expect to make a profitable use of all
our gifts if we hitch up earnest work
with halting, indifferent play? It makes
an ungainly team and one that pulls
effectively no way. JENNIE BUELL.

City Kindergartens.

Miss Emma Rogers wrote for this
department an excellent article on
kindergartens in country homes. The
only wish of VISITOR readers is that she
had written more fully of the plan of
education and details of its workings.
If the writer mistakes not, Froebel’s
original plan was to supply a place
where small children from three to
seven years, who were not old enough
to‘ attend school, could stay during the
day while their mothers were out work-
ing for the support of their families.
The children could here receive the in-
struction suitable to their age, and
which the tired mothers were in no con-
dition to impart. These places were
out of doors in summer, as the German
word implies, “children’s gardens.”

Kindergartens in country homes as a
branch of the original idea is worthy
the study of every mother of young
children in rural districts, as it will aid
materially in their training. The writer
never was intrusted with the education

of any young ideas, but has seen a little I

of kindergarten work in cities.

Miss Susie E. Blow, the daughter of
the late millionaire, Henry T. Blow, of
St. Louis, has devoted her life to the
study of this system, both in Germany
(its native home) and New York City.
St. Louis, Missouri‘, claims to be the
foremost city in kindergarten education,
having a room devotedto the little ones
in each public school building, main-
tained at public expense. “ Over a hun-
dred kindergarten teachers attend lec-
tures given by Miss Blow in this work
each Saturday evening at ro A. M. Will-
some one who knows about it give us an
ideaof the course of instruction?

Here are a few hints: The children
are in the open air when the_weather
permits. The writer has seen whole
cabinets of clay models, spoken of by
Miss Rogers, which were works of art,
done by these little toddlekins of five
short seasons. There are charts and
object lessons, and one would be sur-
prised how much the youngsters know
about squares, angles and the drawing
of objects. They have calisthenic ex-
ercises——an army of little ones will hop
about imitating frogs. They are taught
walking, and that ,ve xed question what
they shall do with their hands and feet
is settled. These exercises are accom-
panied with their pretty songs. They

"learn a little of the theory of music.

They are taught to bow as they enter or
leave; say “thank you” (not “thanks,”
I hope) when receiving anything, and
“excuse me” when leaving aroom or
table. In fact, they learn -to belittle
society folks. They learn practical
duties as well. They have their little
seats, desks, tables and dishes. These
they take charge of themselves. They
bring their luncheons, set their little
tables, wash their wee dishes and put
them away. Instruction is clothed in
amusement, and never allowed to be-
come wearisome. They have their
playthings and learn to care for them.
You may select kindergarten pupils

 

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among their associates by a  yet"
modest behavior and genera.§.»/i’ -
gence. There is no  _ 
life than a little girl, andboys*£x"fiz,nll
right in their way. Any education
which makes them intelligent little
ladies and gentlemen will be well re-
ceived by their many friends.

E. W. S.

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DoN"r flirt dirt from one piece of fur-
niture to another and call it dusting, but
take it up .carefully in a’ dusting cloth
and shake it from the window.-—0ur
Country Home. -

 

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A GUEST who will not be interested
or pleased with that which "is" proposed
for his entertainment is worthy of cen-
sure.-—0ur Country Horue.,

joy, temperance and repose %
Slam the door ontlme doctor_’snose.

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Courage.
Keep up your-courage, friend,
Nor falter on the track;
Look up, toil bravely on,
And scorn to languish back.
A true heart rarely fails to win ,-
~ "A will candnake a way; '
The darkest night will yield at last .
Unto the perfect "day.

See yonder little flower
You’ve crushed beneath your tread.
The sunshine and the shower ’
Beat on its bended head; .. . ,
Though bowed it is not broke;
It rises up again.
And sheds a sweet perfume across
The arid desert plain.

Then like the tender flower
Be ye, oh, weary man!

In countless ways God blesseth you,--~—
Deny it if you can.

You’ve love to cheer your heart,
You’ve strength and gracious health;

For these full many a lordly peer
Would gladly yield his wealth.

Never despair! it kills the life,
And digs an early grave;
The man who rails so much at Fate
But makes himself her slave.
Up, rouse ye to the work!
Resolve to victory gain;
And hopes shall rise and bear rich fruit.
Which long in dust have lain.
——St1c(lza'.

IN reading the many articles of inter-
est in the last VISITOR, the one entitled
“Woman versus Man Mind" attracted
my attention, and when I came to the
signature, saw that its author was near
home, and this of course would add a
little more interest to the article to me,
as it was the first article Or item that I
had ever seen from the “Lake Shore”
in the VISITOR. We think that E. W. S.
did not get out to hear Mrs. Hazlett, or
Mrs. Stone, in the last Presidential
campaign. Write again, Florena, when
you know of any of the intellectual
“masculine gender” that are in need of
information on woman's intellectual
ability. _GRANGnR.

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STOP lying for ten years 
starve all the lawyers. I don; 
this profession lives by do 5,
roguery, for I have the highest '_
for the lawyer who defendsa-goodrlnan
against the onslaught of 'the"\'vicked.
But for the miserable five-dollar lawyer
Ihave nothing but contempt——for the
fellow who does mean and petty tricks,
and says he didn't do them as a man,
but as a lawyer. Perhaps when he goes
to hell he’ll say he's there as a lawyer.
(Laughter.)——Sam foner.

...__.—....——l»o—-——-———'~—~—

NEVER make haste to be rich, and re-
member that small and steady gains
give competency and tranquility of
mind._

  

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NEVER be idle," but keep your hands
or mind usefully employed except when
sleeping.

NORFOLK Co., VA.
MR. EDl'I‘OR:——\Ve beg to state that the
-sample barrel of the Ingersoll Liquid Rubber
Paint, sent some time ago, has proved very satis-
factory indeed. Very truly,
JOHN Rorsn & CO.
See advertisement of Patrons’ Paint Works.
— I)I'I‘OR.]

 

VERY Person who wishes to im-
prove their Handwriting or learn to
Compute Interest rapidly should
purchase

PARSONS’ Slllélé INSTRUCTOR,

Penmanship and Interest Rules,
and TABLES for 6, 7, and In per cent.

_and COPY SLIPS.

    

W. F. 15a:-sons.

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College, Kalamazoo, 111:’:/z.

Gl_{EEl\’WO0D

STOCK FARM

Poland china swine a Specialty. .

Breeders Stock recorded in Ohio P. C. Record. Cones-
pondence and i ’ invied.

B. G. B11
LITTLE Pmmm Roxm-3. _
Case 00., Mich. “

ibley’s Tested Seed

Ii tl . Sentfm It.
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nocnssrirz. N. Y. arm CHICAGO. 
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'Wtite your name and pdstofiice plain. Grangers,

  
  

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At W-holemle to the consumer. Send for Price
List to D. Woodward & Son. Clinton, Mich.

29 Points for $4.80. I mart6

The Leading Music House

In  Michigan.

FRlEDilIElI Bnos.,

3o.ar;d 32 C2_m,.a1.S§xe.et’..
<3-rana‘1.'_Lap,1,_c::.u. 11:.

 

Weber Pianos,

Knabe Pianos,
Fischer Pianos,
' Peek Pianos.
Chase Organs,

Smith American Organs,
Taylor and Farley Organs,
Valley City Organs.

A LARGE STOCK OF

Sheet Music,
Music Books. and
Musical Merchandise. '

zenxczs LOW,

Terms Easy,
Satisfaction Guaranteed!

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For sale by the crumb RAPIDS & INDI-ANA

    

ous towns and cities, one of the healthiest parts
of the United States, purest water, good markets,
fine fruit, ood roads, schools, churches, large
agriculturafi population, best building material at
low figures, good soil low prices. easy tenns,
perfect title. For boo , maps, charts, and all
additional information, address

W. 0. HUGHART,
Landgommissioner, G_rand_RapidI. Mich,

  

This powder ‘has been in use many years. It
islar ly used by ‘the ‘farmers of Pennsylxania,
nndtfe P‘etr_ens.df that State have plmchased
over 100,000 pounds through their purchasing
syntax Ito-composition is ouseeret; 'l’hc'reci-
pe is on every box‘ and 5-pound package. ' It’ is
made by Dr. Oberholtzer‘s Sons & C_o , Phoenix-
ville, Pa. 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
be in better condition. It keeps poultry healthy
and increases the action of eggs. It is also
of at value to em while melting. It is sold
at e lowest possible wholesale prices b R. E.

AMES, Kalamazoo; GEO. w. HILL CO.,
Woodbridge St., Detroit; THOS. MASON,
I81 ‘Hater St., Chicago, Ill.; and ALBERT
STEGEMAN, Allegnn. Put up in 60-lb. boxes
(loose). Price Exam‘ Cums per lb., 3c>lb.
boxes of 6 5-lb. packages, Tux CENTS per lb.

 

“The Old Folks at Home."

WHITE SEAL BURNING lllL !

The New York Boaro or Health estimates that 30 con
lives have been destroyed by the explosive qualifies of pe-
troleum. If every household would adopt the White Seal
Oil for family use, none of these unfortunate accidents
would occur

White Seal Burning Oil

has none of the defects usually found‘in common oils. It
cannot be axploded, does not char the wick will not smoke,
emis no ofiensive odor. and prevents the breaking of
chimneys .
\Vhlt.e Heal Burning Oil ,

is a. rich oil for illuminating purposes. It is as light in
color as pure spring water. It gives a strong, steady light.
and burns much longer than common oils.

It die While Seal Burning Oil is not sold in your vicini-
ty. send your order direct to us for a barrel or a case con-
taining twoneat five gallon cans.

BROOKS OIL (.70.. 55 Euclid Avo.. Cleve-

land. (_)hlo. , 1 July

I HAVE FOR 'S§LE

A Pnnz,-ran use on

1,000 Tennessee Farmers’ I llamas

(new, ’85-6), land owners, from different Post-
offices. Price, 15K. Stamps taken, but a $1 bill
or postal note on Pulaski, Tenn., preferred. 1
want to buy unused printed postal cards. Send
sample and number for sale. and I will make an

= offer.

R. R. CO. Sugar maple the principal timber. -
‘ Advantages: Railroads already built, numerh ‘I

   
  

it the men, Hardwarg store, 1-7,19 Grandville Ave., Gd. Rapids.

 

Mi||s,lacey}

MAY 1, ’86,

will occupy. the corner store in the Wenham


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wherein the future, as -‘in the past, they will 
make a specialty of Physicians'.Brescriptions, ;
Farmers‘ and Family Receipts.‘ Our stock of,
Veterinary Medicines and I.nstrun_ien_ts will ul- ‘

. ways__he found complete. _

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“'5 MAKE A SPECIALTY 01-‘

ADJUSTING TRUSSES.
and will guarantee a fit. Our $8.00 Battery’is
equal to__§iny $15.00 Battery ever offered for sale.

M1lls,Lacey.Dlcl1nsnn

Now of No. 8 Canal Street, after

' MAY 1,
N. E. Clllllfll‘ Munroe & Division Slreets.

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D. DEGARMO, Highland Station, Oak-
‘ V , rland, Co., Mich.. Farm one -half mile
north ‘of the station, breeder of Shorthorns of
Pomona, Young Ph llis, White Rose, Bell Ma-
hone and Sally W er families. Stock of both
sexes for sale. Terms easy, prices low. Cor-
respondence solicited.

M

J. C. ROLLER. Postmaster.

I5Cll)l'lt liitlslsn (lilo: Cu , Temz. ‘

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GALE

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made with expansion or 1-omprmslun spring. and rail
be adjusted to work Benns or rows ‘planted :34 inches-

is gnurun teed to

gin. It is simple and durable. no
vo entire soilutavtlun.

  
    
    
 
    
 
  

FLU ;-hulking and

‘Ton es. en

 
  

5.. .4. .: _ . 4'-"‘

GALE RIDING ("'
mmplete (‘omh lmliuu, .... i.._;
Vgiorflonthe mnrkez. .

rm.-5 weizL1‘wAan—cnrrr'iu.L MERIDIAN 11.\u:. ..

oGllLE'itf:..*.*:.':.

‘ Hnmlli-3 and B-?u!Zl.\I, straight or slnntln
and (talc-'3 Pnlent Standard Jointernnd
Tlmy are the llghtest draft and most perfect. Chilled

4 Hows made: All of the Gale Culti\'utnr.~l are made with spilt

\‘els and center tooth for l'a:‘.ow.

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dep desired and rrv-do tn tin-mv m of from the plum.
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A 1 III '
ox wrought and malleable iron. The mm: ulna e
and durable plow In the market. Hut 001
power or Horse Lift. Turns: square corner with-
out raising the plow um. 01 the ground.

 

, , Mann acturers of THE GALE Cl-IILLED SULKY and HA!!!)
‘V rlllltlling Cultivators and Horse Hay
:1 ea.

All Goods warranted.

Till‘. CALI! Pl.0\VS are made vs-IthLn§1nr;sgabIa
nee Cutter.

Sliuvt.-'.s can be ndjusted to my

  

ALE HOYl~'l’.' H.-\ Y k.-IKE. AWHLOE

, I F‘.
V .-\'|"0I_l. _TlIn ruostl IAIPK I ever. 57 l'lr'l| whm»‘_ :4:-ring Seat.
and \\ uI'.;lll';‘ ('ultl- continua‘ mmlu of Iilallunlilv lruu. A chlldcnn

operate It as well as a mun.-

Clliculnrs sent on application‘. Correspondence solicited. Mention this paper. Address
GALE MAN UFACT-U RING GO.»-,5 ALBION. MIC!-I.

lsmarfit

CHICAGO & GRANDTRUNK RAILWAY TIME TABLE,
 Nov. 16, used.

TRAINS BASTWA L MQIDIAN TIHI.

 

      
  

  
   
    
  
  

 
 

     
    
   
 
 

 
   

 

\Vay freight: leave Schoolcraft westward 9.15 I’. M

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

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

No. 1 will stop at Valparaiso 20 minutes for meals.

Nos. giand 6,have a dining car attached between Chica-
go and attle Creek.

Where no time is shown at the stations trains will not
stop.

‘Trains do not stop for passengers except on signal.

All Chicago & Grand Trunk trains are run by Central
Standard Time, which is one hour slower than Eastern
Standard Time.

I No. 2 No. 4 N0-_6 N31 3 l No._x. No. 3, No. 5. N; n.

. :srmo.«s. -ilfgrlcfg Eggs E3:-jg I13,-:;,§ge,f . 5.,,,,,,N,, Eifgexiw gpriep ‘Atlantic yaip-so

- . Ex.Sun. .Daily. Daily. Ex.Sun. Sunday. Daily Daily. Ex.Snn.

. . , ,

Lv'Port Huron.. .. .. 6 25M‘! 8 'o5u.1 8 051* u 4 rent I Lv Chica o . . . . . . . . .. 9 roux 3 25PM 8 30nd
“I.m1ayCuy . 1 46"""9 ra ,. *9 re" 5 :8" “C.R. .&P.Cr'g. may“ 4 so" 927'‘
“ La r.. . . . . . . . . . .. B 12 “ 28 " 9 34 " 5 4o “  " Reedesdale . . . . . .. re 55 " . . . . . . .. ‘to 08'

“ Flint . . . . . . . . . . . ..l S 53 “ ro o5 “ I0 10'‘ 6 2o " ' "Valparaiso . . . . . . .. n 50" 5 32 " IO 4: “

ArDetroit. G.W.Div.' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . " Haskells. . . . . . . . .. u 07PM 5 46 “ . . . . . . ..

LvDetI.'oit.D.G.H&M 6 so ' 10 2o" 4 :0 " re 25 " = " Stillwell . . . . . . . . .. x2 40'‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

“ Pontiac . . . . . . - .  7 55"‘ 1! 30" 5 35 " re 40 ‘‘-'i " South Bend . . . . . .. 1 26 " 6 52 “ 12 lot}!

" Hol . 8 so" 12 zoom 6 no)“ r: 30AM 1 " Grangers... .. r 48" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
Ar Durnntl 9 30" I 05“ 1 05 ' r 20 “ , " Lassopolis . 2 r5 " 7 29" no 55 "
I_.v Durand 9 33'' re 39'' m 4,8 ‘ 7 20 " E " Marcellus . . 2 45 “ . . . . . . . . l*r r7 “

<" Lansing ._m 47 " u 37 " u 50'' 8 28 "  " Schoolcraft. 3 o4" B 06 ‘ l x 37 “

“Charlette..  tr 3!" :2 n“ in 251m 9 07“ l "Vicksburg.... .. 3 x5" 8 -" 1 48"
ArBattle Creek . . . . .. rz 30PM 1 oo" 1 w" xo xo " 5 Ar Battle Creek . . . . .. 4 c3 " 8 5- " 2 4o "
Lv-Battle Creek . . . . . . .  E Lv Battle Creck,..... 4 o8 " 9 oo " 2 45 "

" Vicksburg . . . . . . .., . . . . . . . . _ ‘ " Charlotte . . . . . . . .. 5 02 “ 9 43 “ 3 35 "

" Schoolcraft. . . . .1 . . . . . . . . K “ Lansing . . . . . . . . . . 38 o

" Marcellus I Ar Durand x

" Cassopolis I Lv Durand . . .

“ Grangers : Ar Holly

' South Ben ‘: “ Pontiac

“ Stillwell. . .  " Detroit. .

" Haskell: . . . . . . . . . . Ex.Sun. 5 : '

“ Valparaiso. . . ._. . . . 6 05AM 5 '

" Reedesdale . . . . . . .5 6 45 *‘ ‘  " Imlay City . . . . . . . . 9 no ‘ . . . . . . . . *6 48 " 9 25 “

"C. R. Ldtl’. Cr’g 7 30" . 6 56" . ;ArI’ort Huron . . . . .. I0 20" I 26" 7 43" 10 40“
ArChicago . . . . . . . . .. 8‘ 4,0" ‘L 7 55" . . . . ..j ,

Way freight: leave Schoolcz-aft eastward 4.20 1-. M. i Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6 daily. All other trains dai y except

. Sunday.

I Pullman Palace Cars are run through without change
I between Chicago and Port Huron. Detroit. East Saginaw,
I Bay City, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Bnfialo, New Yorl,
l Toronto. Montreal and Boston.

Dining cars on 3 and 6 West of Battle Crfic.

GEO. B. Rrsnvc, W.]. Srrcun,
Traffic Manager, General Manager.
Chicago, Ill. Detroit_ Mich.

‘ E. P. KEARY. Agent. Schoolcraft. Hindi.
I

BEANS, POTATOES.

Green and Drled Fruit, Onions,
Poultry, Furs, Pelee,
Wool, &e.,

‘WANTED:

Those having Produce to dispose of will do well

to correspon with me and get posted in their
value on this market. By sending me a sample
of beans ( tage Ic per ounce) I will state by

return ma’ just what you may expect net per
bushel delivered at your railroad station. Sacks
furnished and freight _ paid by me or I will sell
them on your account, commission five per ant.
Fraternally yours, THOS MASON,

  
    
    
 

State Business Agenx,
n _ . .163 South.Wat;.r Street.
i "S   THE MAN

'30 Ill!)
5 Ton \Va¢on Scales.
lrol Levon. Stool Burton, Bun
Ton yum and Don: Box, hr

860 and

JONES he peruse Intuit-(or (us
Print Llu In-nrlun -Ila

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Bin; union. E .
feb 15 U2

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uni “$1=":';11'n3":':r::.::.c ""
G‘. W mun-anteurpk 100 pet-

can
and

Testimonials ens
ll £80

L. S. & M. S. R. R~
KALAMAZOO DIVISION TIME TABLE.
Standard time-—9oth meridian.

GOING SOUTH.
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Expns.Ex&Mw'7 '‘
Lv Grand Ra 'ds .... .. I. our om 00AM
ArAllegan..i” .. 3:7" :53" go)"
Ar Kalamazoo .. 100$ " 655 “ rao5n(
Ar Schoolcralh. .. :04: " 733" zoo"
Ar'.l‘hr¢eRiven.. ..nr:'‘ 802" 255“
Arwhite Pigeon . . . . . . . . . . ..n4o" 830" 430"
ArToIedo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. stern 4r5AM 63oAnI
AI’ Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 930" 820" . . . . . . ..
Al-Bufi'alo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 330414 zqoriu ...... ..
W a__ _ ‘ GOING NORTH.

*.z."..**.*.*s.‘:,.*.:.:-=- -2
CV Bnfifi . . . . . . . . . . ..  u 55Auu55An.......-
ArCleveland..... . 640?»! 630“ ...... ..
ArToledo..‘ . . . . .. .. ux5 " 1040" Sgoru
Azwhite  550AM 33o)-M 815»:
Ar Three Rxvers.. 6:8 “ 356 " 9 “
Ar Schoolcraft.... 647 " 424 " 1145 "
Arlblamazoo . . . . . . .. .. 13-)" oo“ r35n¢
Ar-All n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 832" 558" 305"
Grand pids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .._95o“ 715“ 658“

All trains connect at White Pigeon with trains on main
line. M. E. W/n-r1.ns.
Supt. Kalamazoo Division. Knlanamo.

MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD.

DEPARTURE or fluurrs non KALAMAZ00.
TIME-TABLE—LIAY I3. 1884.
meridhn.

Standard tiIne—9oth
__’ WESTWARD.

A. M. P. M’.
Kalamazoo Accommodation leaves . . . . . . . .. 4 45 
Kalamazoo Express arrives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9 go
glvceininglixpress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . .. x .... ..


ii _" TlEi”noi”liiBlh'e”r§"lTi:*Iild’§‘—h
WUUL COMMISSION MERCHANTS

92 Federal st., Boston.

Consignments solicited, and Cash
Advances Made.

A FRED vnmws Mocrino IS. I
“A Nimble Six once is Better than a Slow Shilling."

I tlierefore 0 er Hand-Made Harness CHEAPER
THAN EVER, at following prices:

Double‘Farm Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25 50
Double Carriage Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 00
Single Buggy Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 00

Sign of Big Horse, No. 73 Canal St., Grand
Rapids, Mich. Imarlzt

Pedigree Blanks.

stock Fanciers should send to us
for a sample of our combined Pedi-
gree Blanks and Letter Heads.

HASSLOCK 8: AMBROSE,
PI inter: and Publinhern,
Nashville. Tenn.

febl m6

Fnmrlsnmo .
FUNERAL DIRECTOR.

No. 103 Ottawa Street.
Grand Rapids, ~ - Mich.

("Q ERMAN CARP. Orders filled promptly, and
satisfaction guaranteed; address, _
Sin.  I{l~TF.\'lv‘.. In.-xter, Mich.

Residence. 193 J eiferson Ave.

ryNu\' 1(-

Allen Durfeef

 

New York. Atlantic and Pacific Expresses’ daily. Even-
ing Express west and Night Express east daily exc t Sat-
urdays. All other trains daily exee t Sundays. reight
trains carrying passengers out from .I£aI3lI'l2ZOu as follows:
No. 29 (eas? at 5:10 P. M. and No. 20 (west) at 81:0, bring
passengers rom cut at x2:45. P. M.

. B. LEDYARD, Gen. Manager. Detroit.
J’. A. Glirnl. General Freight Agent. Chica o.
0- W. Rvccuzs. G. P. 8:. T. A., C icago.

Delmil, Mackinaw & Marquette ll. ll.
“The Mackinaw Short: Line.”

Only Direct Route Between the last
and the Upper Peninsula of Hichigan.

WE5T- EAST.

TIME TABLE. 
READ Down. l'l'aking I-:1lfoctDec.23,’85.l

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_ Express Trains daily the year round make close connec-
tions with ti-_ams from Canada and the East, to all Lake
Superior points.

‘ A. WATSON.
(.xen'l Superintendent.

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‘ Marquette, Mich. C

E. W. AL ,
Geu'l Pass. and Ti ket Ag’t,
Marquette. Mich.

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WAPRIL 15,1886.

WANTED; 1\N7D.'FQB‘ SALE."

A few of our subscribers have &'k,eii,xhél:cnefit of"onr
Q to do a little free adveifuing. and‘ we are glad ol"it."
We introduce thi l'eaIu.e at ale instance of a contributor
who made reference to the Htnbandmari. and as the;Hu.r-
hudman has the credit -in‘ this instance-we may as well
appropriate its excellent rule ‘rig this class of adver-
tumg as well as its plan. The rule is as follows, and will
be adhered to: s 1 .

The WANT coi.u_:ni is the the use of subscribers only.
Notices not exceeifing six lines will be admitted once free.
For every subsequent insertion linen , cents a line will be
charged. and for Gist publication all over six lines will be

at the use rate. Nothing will be admitted ex-

cepts,’ '  interest to farmer readers, as for instance.
7 ‘ ' ulimnls. implenients, "' y for sale or

u- - tion wanted. etc. .

        

1 5 Choice Plymouth Rock chicken eggs, or II

t l’el-tin Duck eggs sent for $1.00. Write for

free picture and circular with premium offers.
it G. T. WAi_isr-Lnii, Justus, Ohio,

TSWOLD SHEEP»-—Two thoroughbred
registered Cotswold Rams for sale cheap.

Address, JAMES McDiAiuiii),
Bear Lake, Manistee Co., Mich.

R SALE.——A farm of 80 acres, situated
about midway between Ann Arbor and
Ypsilanti. Good soil, good buildings, and 20
acres of apple orchard in bearing. For particu-
lars address Whl. H. RANDALL, Ypsilanti, Michi-

gan. Box 973-

. ' » Oontoto Green‘: Nui-aei-y(,!o Roch-
’; ._ It

our. 9 mdmaoragmdflrrripo dd‘:
Pnonnifiue and Grow Print! and‘!
hookot 'Illlllimntlonnndoolorc1l late.
It Wm uo."3.i..r. rriulims.

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A-:—"ClNclNNAT|.’ our 

i5inari2t
814 Try One, $14

A better Harness than you can buy
for 820.

l Pill STRAP llllll illlllli,

Full Nickel, or Davis Rubber Trimming,
Best Oak Stock, for $14.

FOR 3C) DAYS

I will fill all orders received under seal
lofithe Grange, "ind may be returned if

' not satisfactory.

A. VANDENBERG,

oct 13, yi-1 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.

I 92=LELEA_BBIGE !

xx. E, Leedlmm of i\r.)_\'n Granule, C:il., and
J. C. \V;trvl of Plyiiimitli, 1\lc., write me tliutfrom
my strut‘; nf R€(4,d8, tli:..j: rziiscil .\I:trblL-licud Mum-
moth Culihagcs \Vt'l1_;l]ll‘lg 91 zuid 91 lbs. Seed

- taken from the
same lot from
tchicli, t It a a e
monster cab-
!) a. ge s to e r 5
grown, accom- ’
panicd with :1
. statement: of
; how they were

own, sup-
pied at igccnts
ii )1lCl(:1gC. I
will pay $1.00 per lb.
for the largest Cah-
_ _ huge from this seed
  ., ,    (freight repa.id).'pro-
Vllded it weighs not less than 70 lbs. w cn received.
M large Vegetable and Flower Seed Catalogue
val be sentfree to all who write for it.

James J. ll. Gregory, llarlilolioatl, Iltss.

apri-t7

BEAM GATHERING. {in

description of this system of butter

making, together with illustrations
and descriptions of cream gathering cans,
rot'ri'gero.tor and hauling cans, plans for
cnesmeries, and other information of great
value to any one’ about to start butter mak-
ing on the cream gathering system, or de-
airing to make a change from the present
system of dairying, will be sent free upon
application to Chan. -P. Willard & 00., 280
Hichigan Street, Chicago, 111.

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THE LINE SELECTED LIV TI-IE U. S. GOV'T
TO CARRY THE FAST All...

    

 

 

 

‘It Is the only line with Its owntrac Ii-om

CHICAGO TO DENVER,
Either by way of Omaha. Pacific lunc., st. Joseph.
c on or Kansas city.
It connects In llnlon Depots with throu h trains from
NEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA, g0STON' '

and all Euler-n points. It is the principal line to

Ill FIAIGISGO, PIITLAID &. 6l'l'Y Bf HEXIGD
It traverses all at the six great States ol ILLINOIS
VIA. MISSOURI, IIEBIIAS A. KANSAS. GOLORAD5

whmnch fines to all their Important cltles and

HS.

Front CHICAGO. PEORIA or ST. LOUIS. It runs
every day In the year from one to three elegantly
Fl pod through train: over its own tracks between

I1 ca 0 and Denver,

ch cage and Omaha,
chlcago and councll Bluffs,
chlcago and St. Joseph,
Chicago and Atchlson,
chloago and Kansas clty,
chlcago and To aka,
chlcago and dar Ra Ids,
Chicago and sloux lty,
Poorla and councll Bluffs,
Peoria and Kansas city,
st. Louls and Omaha,
st. Louls nnd st. Paul.
Kansas cl and Denver
Kansas lty and st. Paul
Kansas clty and Omaha,
For ell points In Northwest. Weotlnd Soiltliwul.

Ito M is com o and llrst close it every

filc.Ii'l:r’.no.nI at all ihiiimu mic Interlocking
choc and signals are null. Inuirlna ml-.
lorlnml nlety.

F0Y'“TlcK'O::.B::l|Ol. 093:3: IcII.Iflr:|Ilgn,nI&¢“

II N 0 I .
mot lilo. mined as or Condo. 9'' I ,
an 
. O .
Feucsvu. Lowl:u., em. Pm. 1m..cumo.

l5septB6eol

. C, H. HARRIS,

   

Under Contract with the Egg-,le3i.tgye,;.,t_3omni;h,to;cs,4 of the
‘Pennsylvania and Ne W York 68 {_H},<i.1:’¢cognized by
the State Granges of Ohio, N cw Jersey 'ai’nd Delaware‘ to fur-
nish Granges with all kinds of Groceries. We carry a large» and complete
stock of all Groceries, Sugars, Syrups, Molasses,.Cofl'ees,.Teas, Spiizesgetc. - We
till all orders from Patrons when the order is under Seal of
Grange and signed by the Master and Secretary of the Grange, and
upon receipt of goods~a-nd- found“ satisfactory payment to be made within 30
days from date ol"bi11s. We are now filling Orders from Patrons
in Michigan as the through rates from Philadelpltia are veryrcasooable, as
the railroads are cutting through rates. A trial order from Granges in Michi-
gan will convince them that they can Purchase Groceries to advan-
tage in Philadclphim. If you desire information in regard to
prices on any goods in our lineof business or freight rates do not hesitate to
write us, 'as“we endeavor to answer all inquiries promptly and satisfactori-
ly. We will mail free upon request our Complete Price List of Groceries,

‘ giving the wholesale prices of all Goods in the‘ Grocery Line. A

TOR1\ITONB,iARNf   I

Wholesale Grocer and Grange Selling 
241 North Water Street, ‘ A‘

   

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, .‘:.='.l..=.lloioi1mrse Slllllllll

In Practically
Inilostruetllilo.

SUPERIOR in Ivory Respect A’
to .au-lilo or Granite. I

  

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Philadelphia, Penn.

    
  
  
  

   
  
  

Awmnso GEIZD MEDAL "4
AT Wonwrs FAIR, New
Ontema, 1884—5.

Over 25,000 Eroeloil

For Designs and Circulars - V

Addrnn “ 4“
H.llI.(lreen.llan’gr,(ld. Rapids, Mich.

OFFICE, EAGLE HOTEL BLOCK.

 

GRAND RAPIDG ‘.-l.\'TO. 5of§:r_.o'v<7'.

This is our latest Improved Plow. Buy one of these Plows for $10 full
trimmed, with one extra point, of your dealer, and if it it does not please you
after a trial of one day, you ‘may return it to the dealer and your money will be
refunded. decimé GRAND RAPIDS MANUFACTURING CO.

V rillirnsouint olsilmo.

Believing that it 1.1 man has dealt Iqlurely with his fellow.
men his patrons are his «Advutisv.-rs, I invite all 9.1;.

make inquiry or the character ofni seeds lllIl0llL:' over :1

Inillion or l‘l|l'lllL‘l’S. Giirdetiau an Planters who have

  

them during the postrlélilrty years. Raising :-
lugetgortion of the seed sol (few seedsrnen raise .lic
oeéd ey sell) lwas thefli: seedsman in the Unit-.--I
States to yyarrant (as per catalogue) their purity and treslines~
My new . egetoble and Flower Seed Calfll0I','1l&fI)l'lS86 will be
seiit}‘BEl to all _Wl}o write {or it. Among an immense variety
my lrieiidswfll find in it (and in noneother) ii new drumhead C- i_
b.-ii:e,jnst about as early as H<*mleI'5on’8, but nearly twice In‘ I
la:-so 1 James J. H. til , lllu-blehc-ad, nlnu.

JACK soE11gTG)RA1pE ESEVEL.

For Farmers,'Dil;chers. Sewer Euilders, Plumbers, Contractors, Builders and Everybody
= wishing to Establish New Grades. -

Tnnnscoirig.

G4-.1

   

A- Grade Bar. B--The Level. C—Regiolei-ing Scale. D-'I‘huml1_iBcrew to Level. - E'-
Thuinb Screw to Grade Bar. F——Bnck Slight. G—Globe Sight. H——Pointer '
on Scale. See lg. 2.
The Level is made of cherry, nicely trimmed with brass, withbrass bearings, center pln.
back and front sights, thumb screws, etc. A malleable turned tripod-head, bolts and screws;
second growth ash legs; all finished up in a neat and tasty manner. The GRADE for 100

feet or for one rod is shown by the pointer on the registering scale H in inches without the
trouble of adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing as no other Level will do.

8-f t . .

Rodognd [lJ..'.l.l.Llll,l;E,£lulll%lil‘l.LiJ.,llIl;l-klLlIlJ.ll,l;]£lllll.ElJ.g; If ' \\l.lo'._‘;J_.[l.'.:.El.‘.lT''

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OUTL FIG. 2. LE EL AT WORK.

Do no ditching by GUESS and risk losing tile and labor, but BUY one at the following
lowiprlce, put. up in ii neat package to ship by express: 3 0

level and Illpoll complete. wjlll lllo_li Sights, I - - -,

Level and Trim complete, with I5 in. long llango lolosoopa. - 20
An ll-tool llolliind.largol, oomplole, - - - - 2
EITHER or ABOVE FURNISHED ON RECEIPT or PRICE on 0-. 0. D.

The Lol=eIt- . “ Hundred NOW in Ue- LIVE AGENTS

Tne sfihpllesth F GRADE LIVED COMPANY WANTED
T113 ch99-P9“ tackson, :M:ic.'ri..
lllm lit II. S.

The BEST. l llefer to any Bank or Business House in City.
Sup’t, North Cooper Street.

Cut this “ad.” out and keep for reference or hand to some (litcher. 15mart6

.« . sou) AT Wfl

THE HARDWARE C0

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OLESALE BY

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. 5 and 7 SOUTH IONIA STREET,
Ami ul RETAIL by

W.  (.5-U N N & SONS,

—— I)ea.lei-s in

, Home Furnishing Goals,

Harmmca, ;;m

i

Err , litt.-.. lite.
Examine the great lizirguins offered by us before you buy your Cook and

Heating Stoves. We sell a No. 8 “HOME

for $17.00; older patterns io per cent. less.

(}Ai<i.ANn" Cook Stove for $13.00; No. 9
The “M0l)El. GARLAND,” our Ele-

gant Square Coal Stove, we offer at $2-;.oo for No. 33, and $28.00 for No. 44; the

same size with Oven at $31.00.

W. S. GUNN &

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STODDARD
creame1_&.

Eon No

 

 CREFASMERIES.

Refrigerator

ual on the i_nai-ket. Adapted to

SONS. Grand Rapids. Mich.

 

  

I MOSELEY’S  
calilnelcryam .‘."2.?..9 »

urge small

  

ahtnining

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‘renmfidiawn on the milk, No p. aibjm, 

run issrz :::?:.:*.i*;:‘.;:;*..:i.h;:*:;*?.:::::::::::;t lo

39 MO RE? 3 PVBAMIDAI. STBAINEB
Cl8_‘m ‘ U3‘-“I P6-'fwlU and does not clog. because milk falls on point ,5
7‘ ' rtrnxg llumr now.-5. lloxm. Vrints, Dog Plnwcrrs zuitl Fartory Supplies.
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THE SIX SHOVEL

Fremont Sully Cultivator.

Greatest Improvement over made in
Riding Cultiuriiurs.

Iilgliter DI'l".SlII]DlPf. Ens!-r hnntllml
uid more Duriilalo than tiny other.

A COMPLETE llEl'0Ll"l'l(l.l

in the ll".f'iilO(l of ll‘-.i I" lmwi-r~

  

ing and Guiding ll'.t- .
lng nearly half the \'.'i) .

Live, Responsible Agents Wanted

, on unoccupied Ir-rrltnry. We will
be pleased to ll.lll.ll illustrated and
descriptive circulars FREE to any
one applying. Address
FREMONT CULTIVATOR C0.
Bcllcvue, Ohio.

mar i t6

‘MSElEY’8 UBBIIJENT BREAMERY

;’ 4  AND REFRIGERATOR.

No lifting of cans;

  

, AGENT WANTED.
’ tootalrer

g ilosttrv &. ran

 

merit drawn with either cream or milk.
dairies, ranches, families hotels, restaurants anl boarding
schools; also for hos ital
similar ublic institu ons.

FOR BOTH SUUHER AID WINTER USE!
Used with Water and Ice, or with Water onll.

no skimming of milk; osltively no sedi-

dapted for farm

s, as lnms, soldiers’ homes on
A TIVE AND‘ RESPONSIBLE
E"Send for Circulars to the manu-

s. (Mention this Paper).

GHARIJ MFG. 00., lllllllflll, IOWA.

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our

Busmmss AGENT MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.

raomts 
General Commission‘ 
161. South Water  Ghi'_oag‘o,7 *

Respectfully Solicit

so Consignments of .

l'ruill,legelilles,llller,lggolriillam,lhmllrl,iilal,l’all:,'l'illnw,llc.

BONDED AGENT of the N. Y.

Produce Exchange Association,

Chartered Feb. 13, i878.

All Orders ReceivewP1-oper Attention.

    

      

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OR SALE.——A desirable {arm of 160 acres,
in good state of cultivation, with good build-
ing, orchard, &c. Situated 7% miles northeast
of Three Rivers, and }4 mile west of, Parkville.
Will be sold cheap. For further particulars, in-

g concussion

WITHOUT

FRICTION.

llllIl|’fl'lfn_criased,
Wily Improved.

SOLD llll lllRl'l‘.
Oll ('ll7II Al‘ WHOLE-
SALE Wlillla‘ WI
IIAVI I0 AGIIT.

I i «‘ Sondfor Circular.
, ardllg._Co.6llnton,loro.
iéinai-4t

VIRGINIA LAND AGENCY.

Cheap Farms. Splendid Climate. Short Mild Winters.

PRITGHARD GHIJRH.

 
    

 

 

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Good Markets. Descriptive Land List Free.
febltfi GRIFFIN 6 JEBVIS. Petorsbnrg,'Va.

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l‘.1l‘i<\'lllr;', 51. _l\)s<_'l'iI‘i C(),, filial),

5 Chiurnos or 25 Hidden name Cards. name on 10c.
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