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" THE FARMER IS OF MORE COJVSEQ UEJVCE TAJV THE F./1:R.M, .dJV'D SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVED.”

VOLUME xr—No. 33.
wuoLE NUMBER 233. l’

COLDWATER, MICH.. MAY 1, 1886.

,1 Printed by ‘A. . ALDRICH & co.
Publishers of the.CO WATER REPUBLICAN.

0FFIC'I.4L DIRECTOR I/'.

Oillcero National 0111:50-

JI4.r!er—PU'I‘ DARD EN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

. .New jersey

  
 

5,,,,,,, - _ _ ALL ................ ..Ivvest Virginia
A-l‘3{.I‘I;‘iilf .JS‘t:-lzluagl-—W. I-I. STINSON. .New. Ham _ ire
c]up1aiu—A._I. ROSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. cxas
Trra.mrer—- F. M. MCDOWELL . . . . . . . . . . . . .New York

5“-fgtap-y——jNO. TRIMBLE, 514 F St.,Washington. D.C.

    

Ga! K —H. THOMPSO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .l_)elaware_
 KATE DARDEN. . . . .Miss|ssrpp|
fl»puma—MRS S H NEAL . . . . . . . . . . . ..Keutucky

my —MRS. Aries c DRAPER ..... ..Massachusetts
Laa;A:.rr'.rtauJ! St:~wani—MR5. E. M. LIPSCOM B.
, South Carolina

Executive Gommittmm

. M. BLANTON, Ch'n.
j.H.r3RrGr-1AM...
j. j. WOODMAN ......... ..

Omcers Michigan State Grange.
Ma:!er—C. G. LUCE . . . . . . . . .
0v¢ruer—-JOHN I-IOLBROOK
Izcturn-——PERRY MAYO . . . .
Strnmrd—l-IARRISON BRADSHAW
Arristant Stru.»ard——A.  GREEN. . . _
CImfIaz‘II—l. N. CARPEN FER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sherman
Tr¢a.rur:r—-E. A. STRONG . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S¢¢*reta1y—-_l. T. COBB

 
  
   
  

  
 

 
   
 
 
  
    

.—-A. M. AGENS . . . . . . . . ..-....Ludington

 J. W. BELKNAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Greenville
Hmuma——MRS w. T. REMINGTON ............ .._-Alto
Flara —MRS. c. G. LUCE ..................... ..Grlead
L, ,4, $t:ward—-MRS. A. E. GREEN ..... ..Wa.lled Lake

Executive Committee»
H. 1) PLATT. Ch'n ........................ ..Ypsilanti
1-nos’ F. MOORE. ..... ..Adri_au
G RAMSUELL. -Traverse, C-tr
HOMAS MARS . . . . . . Bemen Center
A BURRINGTON . . . , . .Tuscola
 SATERLEE ..... .. ..B.nningharu
W.  ADAMS . . . . . . . . . . . .Grand Iéalpid;
‘ ‘E_ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ea
 éékg, ';5""-’17“"’l ............... .. Schoolcraft
State Business Agent.
THOMAS MAso\' ........ ..'. ............ ..Chicago, ill
General Deputies.
PERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Battle Creek
MRS. PERRY MAYO ................... ..Battle Creek
Special Deputies.

WM. I-I. LEE, Harbor Springs, for Emmett County.
IOHN HOl.BRO()K. Lansing. for lngham County.
IASON WOUDXIAN. Paw Paw, for Van Buren Count-y.
BRONSON TUE{NER. Flushing, Genesee County.
FRANK I-I. DYF.l{. Ferris. Montcalm Lounty A

S. H. HYDE. Traverse City.Grand'l‘ravcrs::,Antr1m, Lee-

lanaw and lienzire Counties.

R. C. THA‘_’F.R, Benton Harbor. for Berrien County.
GEO. W. SHEFFIELI), johnstown, for Barry County.
LUTHER DE \N North Star. for G'r':1ttot Lotrnty.

I, Q. A BURRINGTON. Tuscola. for luscola County.
JOHN TRIEE, Jackson, for _lackson County.‘

j—{[RAM A5,’ D1-{E\VS, Orion. for Oakland County.

15:1. \V. SCU l"I', licsperin, for Newaygo County. ~
IAMES A. l‘-I.-\RSl~l, Constantine. for St. Joseph County.
M. V. B. MCALPINE. Monterey, fur Allegan County.

A. M. LEITCH. North Burns, for Huron Lounty. V
P. H. GoEI.'rzENcLEUcHrER. Birch Run. for Sale!-

naw County. A ‘
GEO. B HORTON. Fruit Ridge. for Lenawce County.
C. C. KNOWI.'I'()N, Old Mission, for Missaukee County.
G. C. LA\\’RE.NLIE. Belle Branch. for VI/ayne County.
CORTLAND HILL, Bengal, for Clinton County.
Michigan Grange Stores.
A. STEGEMAN, Allegan. _
C. GOODNOE. North Lansing.

PRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES

Kept in the office of the Secretary of the

MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,
Amt’ rm! om‘ Part-paid, on rzteipt of Carl: Or-
der, over I’/ze Seal of a Subordinate Grange,
and 1/12 sigmztzare of its fllaster or Serretary.

Porcelain ballot marbles, per hundred. . . . .5 75
Blank book, ledger ruled, for Secretary to

keep accounts with members . . . . .. I 00
Blank record books (express paid) . . . . . . . . I 00
Order book, containing 100 orders on the

Treasurer, with stub, well bound. . . 50

Receipt book, containing 100 receipts from
Treasurer to Secretary, with stub,

well bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Blank receipts for dues, per 100, bound. . . 5o
.Applica.fions for membership, per 100. . . . 50
Secretary's account book (new style). . . . . 50
‘Withdrawal cards, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Dimits, in envelopes, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . 25
By-Laws of the State Grange, single copies

Ioc, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
By—Laws, bound, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
“Glad Echoes," with music, single copy

15:, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 80
The National Grange Choir, single copy 40

cents, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 00
Rituals, single copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

“ pervdozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2 40
“ for Fifth Degree, for Pomona
Granges, per copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . to

Blank “Articles of Association” for the in-
corporation of Subordinate Granges,

with copy of charter, all complete. . 10
Notice to delinquent members, per 100. . . 40
Declaration of purposes, per dozen, 5c,

per I00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
American Manual of Parliamentary Law. . 50

(6 ‘G S‘ (G ‘G

(Morocco Tuck) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I 00

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

Roll books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I5

Patrons’ badges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Ofiiccrs’ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

CO-OPERAT IVE LITERATURE.

Hist and Objects of Co-operation" . . . . 05
W'hat1sCo-operation? . . . .  02
Some of the Weaknesses of Co-o eratton. 02
Educational Funds; How to Use m. . . 0!
Associative Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or
The Economic Aspect of Cooperation. . . . on
Association and Education...... . . . .  03
The Principles of Unity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or
The Perils of Credit . . . . . . .  Ol
Fundamental Principles of Cooperation. . or
How to Start Co-operation Stores . . . . . . . . 0! ~
Logic of Cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 03
Origin and Development of the Rochdal
Society... . . . . .  . . . . . . . .  03
Addresses and Lectures by Eminent Men. . 03
Address,  T. COBB,
Sec’? MICK. STATE Gaines,
« Schnplcrnff. Mich.

Ksumszoo NAfrtoNAI. BANK. Capital sx _ 
Surplus. 9m.ooo. Southwest cor. H§ll"IBd' r1n:c
Streets. D¢'rectar:—— mob Mitchell. }d_In.Dcn Bleyker_
Helancthon D. We ford, Melville Blgelow, 1. wnrml
Thotnpzon George T. Brucn. &mu A. Gibson. Albert S.
White, Edwin]. Phelps. E. 0. Hum cy, N. Chuc-
Emmr I PHELPS, Pr::z'd:nt.- xLvru.3 J. Brcnow,

Via-Prutdrutx THOMAS S. Cons. C'a.rIu'9‘r. febxy:

ggrfcultnral gepartmcnt.

Keep the Hoe Going.

That “ill weeds grow apace” we cannot gain-
say,
For proofs of the proverb come forth with the

day
If we ddn't clear them thoroughly out of the
ground,
A plentiful crop of their seeds will be found:
Making _waste of our work, without reason or
gain
And changing our prospect of pleasure to pain:
So the use of my motto I now would be show-
tn -
To keep the weeds down we must keep the hoe
going.

Bad temper will grow like a weed in the heart,
Striking deep with its roots like a venomous
dart;
And they who encourage it nourish a devil,
That changes whatever is good into evil;
Then words that should comfort give nothing
but sadness, .
And deeds that should bless are productive of
badness,
The weed of ill-temper, I now would be show-

mg
Must be, struck at the root—we must . keep the
hoe going.

Intemperance oft is :1 troublesome weed,
Changing health to disease, and plenty to need;
Embittering life, destroying all quiet,
Consuming the household with wasting and
riot.
Avoid the temptation, keep out of the folly:
Why sacrifice gladncss to dark melancholy?
Go work in the garden, and soon you’ll be
knowing,
Health and mirth may be gained if you keep
the hoe going.

Envy, Hatred and Malice are virulent weeds;
Where charity faileth they scatter their seeds;
Bright flowers of love, and sweet fruits of
kindness,
Are checked by their growth and the soul in
its blindness
Takes evil for good, and the wrong for the
right;
And goes forth in darkness as hating the light.
Uh! tear up such weeds ere their seeds they
be sowing
In the garden of life, and keep the hoe going.

See Hypocrisy spreading zt blight on each hand,
Where Candor and Truth have no hold on the
land.
Sec Deception and Craft and Sclfishness grow,
Where Simplicity shrinks like a rose in the
snow. ’”
Oh, such weeds are too rank in humanity's
field.
Too fast in their spread, too malignant their
yield:
We must_ summon our courage to hinder their
growing, _
\Ve must work, we must wait, we must keep
the hoe going.

Come back to the motto, “Ill weeds grow apace,”
There's a clear course for all and our life is a
race;
The Honest and Truthful and Good make the
running,
And loss and disgrace are the wages of cun-
nrn .
Cut down the bad weed, give sunshine and air
To the blooms that are sweet and the grains that
are fair.
Be taught as from Heaven to see that I'm
showing,
One way to be happy is to keep the hoe going.
—H/estern 1'/owmzm.

A National Experiment Station.

Why not have a station somewhere in
this country for the benefit of agricul-
ture, or for all those who produce any-
thing from the soil?

It has been said that “this country as
compared with Europe is insect-ridden.”

Then in addition to this great army pf
insects, there are innumerable diseases
that are continually destroying crops in
different parts of the country, many of
them so minute in their origin that the
producer with any means at his com-
mand is perfectly powerless to know
what the trouble is or how to remedy it.
This is also the case with the most of
our insect-pests; therefore he is wholly
at their mercy, unless some scientist,
who may happen to be looking the mat-
ter up for the pleasure of the study,
supplies him with a remedy. It seems
very unwise for us to longer rely upon
this uncertain kind of help, but should
establish and fully equip a. station for
this purpose, supplied with the most
powerful microscopes, chemical and en-
tomological laboratories with an efficient
set of men to observe, experiment and
instruct. With an institution of this
kind, where we could send specimens of
insects and diseased plants, I have very
little fear but they could tell in nearly
every case what the trouble is, and sup-
ply the help needed. Also .an annual
report from such a place would be of
untold benefit to the producer. A few
instances will suffice to show that our
help has, and must, come from a. scien-

tific source. When the_silk_.in._d,ustry, of ;
_ France was ruined byadisease that :at-

tacked the larvac of the silk w'orm, the
government offered a large bounty for a
cure, which was worked out by M. Pas-
teur, of recent hydrophobia fame, and
not by a producer of silk. More re-

cently a cure has been worked out for
that dreaded disease called “foul brood”
in bees, that threatened to destroy the
bee business in this and other countries,
by Frank Chesure, of London, England,
with a. powerful microscope and chem-
icals.

We well remember how many fields
of potatoes were destroyed with our
own Colorado beetle before we under-
stood the use of Paris green. And now
comes a cure for mildew and grape-rot;
also translated from a French report,
consisting of vitriol, lime and water,
that is said to have been effectual every
time tried.

By the way, France has sent us a
great many good things in the last two
hundred years.

But is it not about time we should be
self-sustaining in this matter, and not
have to send there for all our insect
remedies and send over there all of our
hydrophobic. patients for treatment?
One more instance will suffice. We
have a disease known as “peach yel-
lows.” It is the only disease that the
peach tree has that we cannot combat,
as it has only one other enemy, the
borer; I/rat we can dig out with a. knife,
or prevent by mounding the tree; but
the yellows is beyond our ken. The or-
chardists in different localities have seen
their orchards melt away before this ter
rible disease, and did not know anything
to do for it. But recently a scientist
out on his summer vacation with a mi-
croscope thought he would take a look
into the matter. He says it is caused
by bacteria; that it spreads by the pro-
cess of rapid division; it spreads rapid-
ly in water, hence it is worse in wet
seasons, but potash and alkalies check
it, and he advises taking out the affected
trees and destroying them. This is a
ray of light on this obscurity. But
where is there a man with the staying
qualities of a Grant who shall be paid
by the government so he can devote his
time and energies to it, and stick to it
until he can instruct us how to remove
this bane from one of our finest and
most profitable fruits?

A station as mentioned above would
not cost as much as one of John Roach’s
ships, and I think it would do more
good for this country than the whole
“American Navy." It should be of a
national character, as the diseases and
pests starting in one State very often
reach over into another, as in the case
of the Texan cattle disease and the
Colorado beetle.

Our legislators treat agriculture, that
Webster says is “the chief occupation of
man,” as if it were of the lea.st'impor-
tance of any business in the country;
but a subject that is of so much impor-
tance to such 3. large class of our people
directly, and to all indirectly, should re-
ceive more attention than it does. If
we are to hold our commercial position
among the nations of the earth, we will
have to raise large crops and not permit
them to be destroyed by enemies.-— as.
A. Pearce, in Zl/it/zzjgazz Iforliczt/lurirt.

—-————-<o:——j——~

SMALL FARMS.—A few years ago what
a sensation was caused by glowing ac-
counts of the success of bonanza farm-
ing in the northwest! The magazines
and newspapers fairly reveled in picto-
rial and verbal descriptions of illimit—
able wheat fields, steam and gang plows
in platoons, reaping machines in squad-
rons and working men in divisions!
Whoever hears of bonanza farming now?
Fortunately for "the country it has been
found that big farms do not pay. Near-
ly every experiment has resulted in the
collapse of wealthy capitalists and cor-
porations. The few big farms cannot
compete with the many small ones care-
fully and economically tilled by their
frugal owners. A fortunate discovery,
this, not only for the west, but for the
entire country, for the prosperity of the
nation depends largely on the success of
a. multitude of small farms personally
managed by their owners. The soil for
the tillers thereof!—-Rural New Yorker.

FARMERS whcT'have experimented
carefully with roots  that mangels
are not only more valuable for feeding
to neat cattle than turnips but can be
produced at less cost.

How to Paint‘ Bugg1es_.
FAnusANrr_s, GA., 1884.

I have used the Coachfiody Buggy
Paint made -by the:Puttons’ Iugersoll
Liquid Rubber Paint Works audit is an
elegant article to paint up old buggies.

Yours, ‘ B. L. LUCK,

(See advertisement: Patrons’ Paint

Works.)

gealtlg an!) gmnstntmtt.

House Cleaning.

This is the season of the year toward
which every housekeeper looks with
dread, to say nothing of the male por-
tion of the household. As spring ap-
proaches, or at least as soon as the sun
has streamed in enough to show dis-
colored walls, dust and cobwebs, soiled
paint and windows, every woman feels
an itching in her finger tips to seize the
weapons of houseclcaning warfare and
to the battle.

Now, most assuredly as cleanliness is
next to Godliness,.so it is essential to
hcalthfulncss. The best of housekeep-
ers, those who arc most distressedly
clean, can not get along without this
spring renovating; this cleaning of
nooks and corners, this thorough over-
hauling of the whole house; but I am
afraid we overdo—-tax our strength, en-

durance and patience beyond the proper‘

limit. Surely if we feel the effects of it
upon our systems for the whole summer,
or a large portion of it, we are doing
violation to the laws of health, thereby
laying the foundations for disease.

As this annual cleaning seems inevit-
able, in fact, is necessary to health and
the pursuit of happiness, cannot some
means be devised by which we may
clean and still keep well; not wear out
ourselves and the patience of the whole
family.

One good man, not far away, is al-
ways particularly anxious as to the
quantity and quality of meals, especially
at the house cleaning time-—having a
horror of eating carpet tacks from the
head of the family flour barrel. Now,
as he is about like other men, and as
good temper, a well supplied and order-
ly table is conducive to health, so let us
have it, especially at house cleaning.

Would it not be advisable in this
campaign to wait until assured of warm
weather, and not rush at it as soon as
the snow banks have disappeared and
the air is raw and cold, because we saw,
when a ray of sunshine streamed in, a
cobweb dependent from the ceiling.

Should we not have some system in
regard to the whole business. There
was once a dear good woman whom we
knew, but who has now gone where we
trust no house cleaning is known, who,
just as soon as spring was harbingered
by a single bird, went at this work with
such vim and vigor, wanting to get a
bad job quickly over, that she was sick
herself for weeks after, and every mem-
ber of the family suffered discomfort,
sore throats and colds from unnecessary
exposure in a cold, damp house. There
was no place where disorder, dirt and
confusion did not reign-—cvery window
was out, and a draft swept through all
the rooms that would warrant bad colds
and sickness. It always makes me
shiver to see any woman standing by
an open window washing window cas-
ings, as the sharp draft must reduce the
temperature very suddenly.

Could not and ought not one room
be cleaned at a time; one window
cleaned and replaced ere another is re-
moved, and our room made tidy, so if
we must rest, or friends call, we have
one room settled and in order?

As to our tables, let them be well
supplied, for certainly the comfort of
ourselves and family depend upon it;
not a bowl of bread and milk hastily
eaten from one corner of the back
kitchen table, but good, palatable meals,
prepared with care, nicely arranged and
partaken of with leisure. Surely this
is conducive to happiness, and happi-
ness is sister or near kin to health.

There need to be no extra work or
pains taken with the meals, but in so
many homes during the spring cleaning
any thing that can be swallowed is
thought to be sufticient—a.ll comfort is
lost sight of and nothing but work
thought of. Go to the cellar and bring
to light some of that canned fruit that;
has been waiting for company. You
and your family are of just as much con-
sideration, or should be, as any com-
pany, and over all and though all keep
an even tenor of your way that speaks
of, patience and a. sweet temper. . Be
careful of yourselves (of course this is
to sisters only); lift no heavier furni-
ture than you are able; avoid drafts, and

when you - are through-you will escape

ba.d~ colds, lame’ backs and aching
limbs. ,
Please hear another word of exhorta-
t'ion,and one which we wish every house-
cleaner would heed: Do not feel it
necessary to take down and store away

every stove, save the cooking stove, in
the house. This we emphatically would
repeat as we believe it is conducive to
as much or more ill health than almost
any one thing else. There are many
damp raw days even in summer when a
little fire is necessary to dry the rooms
and remove the chilliness and even to
warm them for comfort—-especially is
this desirable when there are young
children or old people. Mus. MAYO.

”T§7£.;”L}i §..fi..,..

MRS. MAYO, of Battle Creek, will speak at
Paw Paw, May 11; Decatur, May 12; liamillon,
May 13; Lawrence, May 17. These lectures
are allpublic. They will be held in the evening
of each day mentioned, except the Hamilton
lecture, which will be in the afternoon.

THE next regular meeting of I.c-nawee County
Pomona Grange will be held with Morenci
Grange on Thu sday, May 1],, commencing at
to o’clock. »

A good literary program will be presented and
a fine time may be expected. All fourth de-
gree members are cordially invited to attend.

Fifth degree to be conferred in the evening.

E. R. l’OU('liEIl

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF’
NURSERYMEN, FLORISTS AND SE1-)I)SMEN.

The Eleventh Annual Meeting of this Associa-
tion will be held in The Department of Agricul-
ture Buildings, Washington, ll. (2., commencing
Wednesday, June 16, 1886, and continuing
three days. The Association is the largest body
of Horticulfurists in the country. The objects
sought, commend themselves to all crrgzrgcd in.
any of the dcparttnents of the Nursery Trade.
The discussion of questions directly concerning
the welfare of the trade, new methods of pro-
pagating, ncw lalior-srwing device-4, rnrtking of
personal acquaintance of olht:1‘.s in the ‘trurle, ex-
change and sale of srzrpltrs stuck, cxlllllltion of
new trees, fruits and plants, are .'tnm'!g the many
reasons why every perxsort llllt.‘i’t‘5lI_‘rl in lInl‘ll’.Il.ll~
lural pursuits should be present at this meeting.
These meetings come l.ut once :1 ye:1r,——n0t too-
often to be rnoat profitnldc.

Aside from the great inl.ert-st and profit at-
tnching to the meeting itself, it comes a‘. 1:. time
of year when after a season of great cxcrllnn and
hurry the Nurscrymnn feels the m:ce.~;sity ofa
little pleasure, relaxutiuri and rest-—-nncl how
can this he more pmfitalrly taken tlnu in
meetings of this kind with those in the ll”.‘L¢lt7.

The badge system of last year is retained this
year. A numbered Badge and Badge Book are
furnished all members, the number on the Badge
corresponding with the nt1rnber:).gain.<.t ‘themem-
ber’s name in the Badge Book—thus enabling
all to distinguish any one at the meeting, soon
as he ascertains the number ofhis Badge. In
the Badge Book each can give under his number
any specialties, surplus stock, new fruit, wants
of any kind, &c., &c., at a very moderate cost.
The system worked admirably last year, and re-
sulted in many exchanges of Nursery products.

An Outline Program, hotel and railroad ar-
rangements and other information may be ob-
tained by addressing the Secretary, 1). Wilmot
Scott, Galena, Ill.

THE Van Buren County Pramona Grange have
a regular session at Hamilton Grang-.: Hall
Thursday, May 13, at 10 A. M. l\lrs. Perry
Mayo will be present and give .1 public lecture
afternoon or evening. All cordially in.-itctl.

J. In. l’.«\(‘KER.

THE Pomona Grange-. of Barry County will
convene with Orangcvillc Grange on Friday,
May 28, 1886, at 10 o’clock, A. M. The follow-
ing work is assigned by the l.ecturer:

Welcome to Pomona, Lecturer of ()r;tng(-ville
Grange.

Response, Bro. Asa Luther.

Address to Farmers, Nomie Slnwsorx.

Question——/t’e.mlz/err’, That the coining-‘ of the
silver dollar should be tliscontinued.’ Bros. A.
Parker, L. Barnes, Ilammond, F. Bristol, and
others.

Recitations-Sisters Cora. Mack, Ella Luther,

‘H. Allen and Howard.

Essay--Contagion of Example. Sister E.
Honeywell.

Question———Re:aIwd', That most farmers labor
too many hours? Bros. G._Braina.rd, C. Mack, A.
C. Town, and others. '

Essa.ys—Sisters Durfee, Van Wagner and
Smith.

Qucstion—1t’e:al7/ed, That our present laws
for impaneling juries are an insult to the intel-
ligence of our people? Bros. C. Newland, Geo.
Shefiield, Fish and Snook.

Papcr——I?e.m12Jed, That placing woman in 2
class with lunatics and idiots, in denying her the
rights of suffrage, should no longer be endured.
Sister Snook. N. SLAWSON.

THE next meeting of Calhoun County Grange
will be held at Home Grange Hall, Township
of Newton, Thursday, May 27. The following
program for the day has been prepared by the
Lecturer:

Reports from Subordinate Gnmges.

_ Potato Culture, W. W. Wickham.

Our Boys, Mrs. N. J. Cameron.

' Question—-Resolzml, That none but American
citizens should be allowed to own American
soil. S. E. Woodworth, C. C. Poorman, T. A.
Randall.

How may the efficiency of our common schools
be increased? Mrs. John Woodworth, Mrs.
Jane Hicks, Mr. 0. Adams. .

§3ssay—Visiting Schools; Mrs. Ida E. Blanch-
ar .

Question-—Is Plaster, as at present manufac-

tured; beneficial to crops? ‘-Does Salt as a ferti-

lizer pay? If so, on what, soils? C. H. Marvin,
Jonathan Johnson, R. Miller.
Does it my the farmer to keep Bees? Thos.
Webb, C. Convis, A. W. Lee. ’
_Discussion of Congressman O’Donnell's Sugar
Br_ll. W. M. Simons, E. M. Brown, Abram
Mtnges. MRS. PERRY MAYO.


 

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To Hepaticas.

Hooded darlings of the Spring,
Rarest tints of purple wearing,
Why delay so long to come
Boisterous winds and showers daring.

We are tired of_hot-house bloom,
Fanest lilies, royal roses,

Pine we now for woodland things,
Scent of spring, the breeze (Il$CiOS€.\'.

Shall I find you, sweets, to—day.
Ifl to the woods shall hie inc.

Coy and dainty, rarely hued,
Bluebird crooning near thee maybe.

Yes you're here at last my loves,
Fair as in the vanished Springtides.

Happy niontlis to hold such flowers.
Every bud a blessing liaitles!

Sweethearts ye are just in time,
For a little maid I knofi,
Sadly lingering winter out,
Glad of you will be, I lrow.

And I think, perchaiice, your bloom.
Radiant—wingerl from winterls gizivc.
llope again will wake in her,
Tender buds, so sweet and brave!
--— //i’/Ell C/our in (;0(7t{ I/uizratl

 

When to Plantulilvergrieéns. If

I observe in the last number of the
\'1si'i'a.iiz an inquiry as to the best time
and iiianner of planting evergreens to
insure the best success.

The best time is before new growth
commences in spring, although it is often
done successfully afterwards. I would
not advise removing such trees after an
inch of new growth has been reached.
After the new growth is completed they
may be successfully transplanted if the
ground is not too dry.

The first requisite for successful plant-
ing is to have live lrcer. The sap of an
evergreen is resinous, and if the roots
are exposed to sun or wind long enough
to become dry the tree is dead and past
all hope. I never allow them to be ex-
posed at all when I can possibly help it.
More care is necessary in a dry day
than in a cloudy or moist one. Cut off
all broken roots, and such as have been
cut or bruised in digging should be cut
off smoothly; then plant in a hole large
enough to spread out the roots in their
natural position. Work the . fine soil
well in among the roots so as to fill every
-space, and press it down with the foot.
A little water sprinkled on the roots be-
fore covering will cause the soil to ad-
here to them.

I would say to I. A. Palmer that other
circumstances than the time of planting
his maples caused their failure to grow.
Young thrifty maples with plenty of root
kept moist when out of the ground and
well planted in it will pretty surely grow
regardless of “moons" and “signs.”

HENRY Coi.i.i.\'s, Nurscryman.

, _______.,,.______
Planting evergreens.

D. .li., of North Ilurns Grange, asks
for instructions as to the best time and
manner ofplanting to insure success. I
have had considerable experince as well
as a good opportunity for observation
in the last ten years, and in my mind
there is no particular choice in the time
of setting. I have set them late in the
fall and early in the spring with equally
good results. In cases of fall planting
the trees are all in readiness for an
early start in yhe spring, and make a
larger growth during the first summer,
otherwise I consider the spring equally
as advantageous. More depends on
properly setting them. I)ig the holes
sufiiciently large to admit of all the
roots lying straight, then sprinkle loose
dirt over and among them and press it
lightly with your hand; then proceed to
fill up the balance. If planted in a dry
place or late in the spring, I would
recommend that from a peck to a half
bushel of small potatoes be buried
among the roots to hold the dampness,
or a good mulch ‘will answer the same
purpose. (3. A. l.ico.\'.—\iiii.

Wexford County.

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About Bedding Plants.

In regard to bedding-plants, the gera-
nium still stands at the head for a con-
tinuous flowering bedding-plant that will
stand the hot suns, strong winds, and
changeable weather of our New En-
gland summers. Beds made entirely of
them, or bordered with Coleus or dwarf
blue or white ageratum, are satisfactory
all summer. The best white-edged gera-
nium for aborder is Madame Salleroi. It
grows about six inches high in a rounded
clump, has medium-sized leaves of green
with white edge, stands the hottest sun
without browning. If you invest in it
you will not be disappointed.

One or two shades of the same color
are more effective in a bed than mixed
The double have more lasting
flowers than the single. The single
blooms are scattered by high winds and
showers, while the double ones hold on.
For a fine scarlet bed try 15. K. Bliss-
good foliage, intense scarlet semi-_double
flowers that measure from an inch_-to
two inches singly. A pure rose pink
bed can be made of Emile‘ ‘de Giradin
—double flower, green ‘foliage without
zone, good sized trusses. Queen Of the
Fairies has a. perfect shaped _flower of
salmon pink, double. The varieties are
almost endless. -

For a late show in the garden the sal-
vias are brilliant, easily gr0Wn- —_ A 8111311
plant set out the last of -May will bloom
from the last of July onward; as ‘ the
weather grows cooler the scarlet tassels
glow with more intense color. The
blue variety, S. patens, is different in
growth and flower, but showy. The
flowers are deep, intense blue, unlike

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- THE GRANGQE VISITOR.

anything else; the roots are tuberous
and can be kept in the cellar with dab-
lias during the winter. The single dab-
lias are showy and bloom until ‘late.
They are a great attraction to bees, but-

‘terflies and humming birds; will grow

easily from seed if planted the first of
April. A group of double hollyhocks
make a good show during July and Au-
gust. If the main stalks are cut off as soon
as flowering is over, the side shoots will
start out and bloom until frost. If you

want a single specimen of canna, try‘.

the new Ehemanii. The foliageis a fine

 green, and the flowers are as large as a

gladiolus, crimson in color.

A group of half
a dozen bulbs of Hyacinthus candicans

: will make a good show from August on.

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l

5 The flower stems are from three to five

feet high, with white, bell-shaped flow-

. ers. The bulbs can be leftin the ground,

or lifted like gladioliis.———Guua’ [form'-
»{'rr,/71'/1,42
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Tiii: best time to plant out evergreens
is in .-‘iugiist. Great care should be
taken in removing and setting so as not
to injure the roots. In planting a hedge
prepare the ground well and make it
very mellow. Set the plants about four
feet apart. I would prefer those that
are not more than two feet high. well
spread and thrifty. After they are
about three feet high shorten them by
shearing top and sides, but not betweeii
the plants. I think it better to shear in
August, as I have done for a number of
years. You then have a handsome
hedge through the whole year. I used
to shear my hedges and single trees in
the spring; but of late years I have
sheared in August, and it is a great im-
provement. After aliedgc gets to the
hight you want it—-I shear closely to
keep it in proper sliape—some branches

‘require to be cut more than others so as

to keep the hedge smooth and uniform
in hight and width. Arbor-vitze and
Norway spruce can be sheared in any
shape or form you choose to suit your
fan c y.——.’lIir/zigarz l1o;'1irulIuri.rl.

goiiuninitmtioiis.

g Reply

Encouragln
pondents.
The last Yisiioi: contains words of

cheer to all lovers of our noble Order.
Six new Granges organized in Michigan
and five old ones resurrected to new
life. A Grange reorganized in the Dis-
trict of Columbia, with Hon. Norman
J. Colman, the Comniissioner of Agri-
culture, for Master, calls vividly to my
mind what I heard Mortimer Whitehead
say several years ago. When he was
first elected Lecturer of the National
Grange, he said, he wrote to the Com-
missioner of Agriculture at Washington,
asking his co-operation with the Grange
in raising the standard of agriculture to
a higher grade, and. giving it that im-
portance to which it was justly entitled.
After waiting some time, Bro. White-
head received the following short,
pointed, crank reply:
\\'Asiii.VGi'o.\', 1). LL, _[an., io, i878.

.-llnrli/zrcr IV/1iI.~'/z:‘m1'.'

SIx:——This lilepartineiit does not recognize the

Grange. Respectfully, Gizo. B. I.(iRi.\‘G,
lfoiiiinissiotiei‘ of Agriculture.
How it must ‘cheer the heart and

brighten the hopes of our gifted I.ec-
turer, to look back only eight years and
think of that irnpudent reply, that “this
l)€pa.l‘tl1l€I'llC does not recognize the
Grange,” and then learn that the head
of that same Department now wields
the gavel in the Master's chair. The
world moves and so does the Grange.

I am glad that llro. (Tobb has come
to the conclusion to shut down on
showing up “tliis miserable business"
of selling I-ioheniian oats. If Patrons
and others have not had warnings
enough already, neither would they
listen though one should arise from the
dead. I have no sympathy for any one
that is bitten by Bohemian swindlers.
If they want to be bitten let them bite.

O. R. E. (and I do not know whether
this means golden ore or iron ore) does
me injustice by saying: “I find no
authority beyond Bro. Hill, for casting
the stigma on our first parent for being
a bloated bond-holder.” In all my
writing I have never intimated that our
first parent was a bond-holder, although
he might have been the wealthiest bond-
holder on earth if he had only taken the
sum of two cents when he was first
married and kept it out at compound
interest. he would now have a rich
legacy for each of his poor descend-
ants.

Bro. M. T. Cole asks, “Does Court-
land Hill really believe that Gov. Alger
and ex-Gov. Begole are thieves?" and
adds, “he conveys that ideain Postal
Jottings of March I5." I think the
Bi-ather is very much mistaken to think
that I ever conveyed any such idea.
This is the statement he refersto: “If
the people require a candidate to pay
$20,000 for a $1,000 oflice, how much
do they expect him to steal to‘ make
himself good?" Now, if the ‘Brother
will answer this question, I think he
will not ask me to "qualify my remarks;'’
or, if he thinks this statement’extrava-
gant, let him ask Worth) Master Luce
what the price of admission is to the
candidacy for Governorship. .

“Old Maid" has come to the surface
again, and says: “My own Grange think
me a. pudding-stick, for I keep them
stirred up.” Many Patrons need a
good deal of stirring up, for they say

The canna V
requires deep, rich soil, plenty of water, ._
; and the sunniest place.

more, and write more, and do more and
do it better than they would never to
molest them. Stir them up Sister, till
they shall do their utmost for the good

of the Order; and as you express a de-

sire to see how'I look, if you will give
me your address I will send you my
photograph, and that is the best Ican
do, until the 14th of December, when
your wish may be gratified if you will
come to the State Grange.

CoR'rLA.\'D Hii.i..
Bengal, Mich. '

In the Northwest.
Vl.

North Idaho was settled  the tide:

of immigration overleaped the bounds

of prudence in California 20 or 25 years ‘

ago. Those restless spirits penetrated
these unknown wilds in search of gold.
They found it. Various camps sprang
up. Ori Fino, ioo miles east of Lewis-
ton, reached a population of 6,000 or
8,000. Elk City, 60 miles southeast of

Mt. Idaho, and many other canips—.

Warren's, Florence, etc..-—were formed
where the precious metal was discovered.

But no famous bonanzas, such as Cali- l

forms. and Nevada furnished, were found
here. True, many men made money.
Most of the work was placer as no good
ledges were discovered. Men then
wouldn’t work, couldn’t work, for less
than $8 or $10 a day. It took a good
sized fortune to live here a year. Tra-
ders got rich, but the toilets generally
left with nothing but their increasing
knowledge. (lf course ledges must ex-
ist or there could be no placers. Dis-
coveries are made from time to time in
this line. New stamp mills are being
taken away back into the mountains,
sometimes to the very localities where
so many wrecked their fortunes and
their lives 20 years ago. Oii Fino, now
Pierce City, is to-day a deserted place,
only forty white men living in and with-
in 40 miles of it; 300 or 400 Chinese
hold the place occupying the great
buildings and continuing the work of
mining. No one knows how much they
make; they all “no sabee." But even
here the patient prospector is, it seems
about to be .ewarded. for this summer
a fine vein of gold-bearing quartz has
been discovered, and some of the ore
is even now in Omaha undergoing re-
diiction.

The fame and the ignomy of the
Crcur’d Alene mines is well known.
The U. I’. R. R. gave the discovery :1
great puff in its circulars, which led
many eastern laborers to the field.
They came by the car loads. They
didn't find gold so abundant that they
could fill their pockets; no labor could
be obtained; hunger came on. The
gambling and other dens quickly rid
them of their little cash; the pawnshops
soon received their blankets, they must
have something to eat: next their revol-
vers, guns, coats, boots, anything for a
meal. Great, strong men wept from
want and misery; crimes multiplied;
winter hastened on and the shivering,
disheartened, reckless mass was driven
out. They are scattered, gone. Some
are trying to pay for land, some drift
away down the coast, some “tramped"
back to their eastern homes, sadder but
wiser men. That action of the U. P.
wrecked many :1 promising life, ruined
many a pleasant nome. To be sure
there is gold in the Coeur cl’ Alene re-
gion, but it will take great capital and
time to develop the mines. In winter
the whole countr_v there is covered with
five to eight feet of snow, and the cold
at that altitude is exceedingly severe.

The only claims that can be mined

by the laborer are the bars in the riv- ‘
l
ers.

Nearly all these, however, are in
the possession, or rather control. of the
Chinese. A (fhinaman cannot pass ti-
tle to a mine, but they hold them “allc
samee." The whites only worked the
rocker here when everything else failed,

because they said they couldn’t pan out ‘

wages. The Chinese take those same
places and make money—iio one knows
how much, they never tell anything-
always “no sabee,” Certain it is, they
work there ayear or two and return toChi-
na with their pockets full of gold. They
come here, are not awed by our laws,
nor will they let any disputes be settled
by our courts. They settle their cases
by their own code, worship their own
gods, trade with their own merchants,
gather the gold from our soil and go
back to China with it. Every dollar
they secure is lost to America. They
do not make any improvements. We,
as a people, derive absolutely no bene-
fit from their presence; but on the other
hand see what we lose-the degradation
of labor down to a slavery basis; the

‘introduction of villainous habits of opi-

um-smoking and the lowest of low gam-
bling—houses and houses ofill-fame; the
loss of respectable white women of ev-
ery position of domestic servant and
laundrying, each of which some day
would make a. happy, prosperous Amer-
ican _home; the forcing of American
women into questionable occupations
as a. means of making» a. living, and the
dropping of America’s gold into China's
cofl'ers. This toleration of the presence
of Chinese-under the‘ "‘coinpany" sys-
tem of slavery (which we will fully ex-
plain at some futuretime) is like spread-
ing the government of China over
American territory so far as their own
people are concerned. And the day is
coming when white men will be very
glad to go on those bars and pan out
from $2 to $5 a. day or even $1; nay, it
is here now. Could those ranchers of
Camas Prairie go down to Salmon River

and secure this dust it would be a god-
send to them. Methinks you say, why
don't they do it? Because the China-
men are too thick. They have dug over
all the easily accessible bars and now
away up in the wildest places they con-
gregate in vast numbers on every bar
that shows “c0lor," living in rude huts
constructed partly under ground, and
no white man or set of men, except
they are sufliciently numerous to over-
awe the heathen, can stay near them.
Many and many a “floater" is picked
up in the Snake and Columbia Rivers
whose identity is never known—the re-
_ sult of going too near the Chinese. Any
1 inquiry made of them, they all “no sa-
bee." They cannot be dislodged ex-
cept they are scared out. But the Chi-
naman is not the coward he is proverbi-
‘ ally made out to be. When he does
lfight he fights tenaciously, and his re-
§ venge is implacable. In a fight it is al-
; ways to the death. Between themselves
git is just the same-—kill. But we will
1 revert to this question again; it is a
I

great one and ought to be more of a na-
tional one.

The gold output of Idaho is no doubt
greater than is generally supposed. No
statistics can be had in regard to the
amount of dust the Chinese carry out.
A great many dollars of it finds its way
into circulation from the hands of In-
\IltlXlS, ivliitcs, and what little purcliases
I the Chinese make of 'flour. bacon and
beans. To an eastern man it seems
queer to see the gold scales  a neces-
sary part of the outfit of every border
store. The dust is generally put up in
little balls about the size of green peas,
and ranges in value from $12 to $15 per
oz. Troy. The cunning Chinese here
are up to the fine Yankee tricks. They
find various ways to adulterate the dust.
For instance, they take copper, file it
up and mix with the gold. Sometimes
silver money is used. Thus the real
value is sometimes reduced to $8 and
Sio an ounce. They can easily pass it
off on the Indian and on some traders.
When a trader gets $500 worth on hand
he ships it to San Francisco and gets its
value in legal money at the United
States l\Iint. The total output of bul-
lion from south Idaho last year was
about $4,030,000. Probably $1,000,000
was taken out of north Idaho. Valu-
able broiiiides, carbonates, sulphides,
and even free gold, have been discov-
ered this season, and that, too, right
where people have prospected more or
less for years. We ina_v look for agreat
increase in the product of this industry
in the future, especially as the new chan-
ncls for shipment by rail offers greater
inducements to the money gatherer.
Iilor years it has been known that valu-
able deposits of copper and, gold exist
in the Seven Devils; but as that ore is
difficult to reduce and the locality was
so isolated no attention was paid to it.
Now the construction of the Oregon
Short line within a hundred miles or
so of it has given a new impetus to pros-
pecting in that quarter, resulting in the
wonderful Pine Creek mines of Oregon
and new stakings in the Seven Devils of
Idaho. Whether there are any veins or
lodes such as those found in Arizona,
Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico re-
mains to be seen. Judging from the
past one is apt to say that there are not;
but just over in Montana the Anaconda
and other mines are proving to be fine
properties, and at Ketchum, Hailey and
Boise, in south Idaho, the mills are do-
ing good work, with no show of exliuus-
tion. Future railways may develop an-
other Colorado up here in the north.

V — ~ —- -

5 From My Diary.

l

SUPER]-‘INF. i-:xoi.isi-i.

' It is the fate of the pedant to be al-
ways wrong. Your true prig of a pedant
goes far out of th: way to be far more
i correct than other people, and succeeds
in the end in being far more ungram—
matical or illogical, or both at once.
The common meanings, the common
idioms, the common pronunciation of a
Word are not enough for him He must
I have something better, and in his labor
for superfine correctness gets something
vastly worse. He is so grammatical that
he must needs dispute agar’/rs! his oppo-
nent instead of disputing will: him, not
knowing that the word wit/1 in its organ-
ic sense ineans agaiml, and that it still
retains that meaning in rmflzslarzrl, wit}:-
/zo/zl, wt"!/idrarcr, and many other familiar
expressions. He never tires of harping
on the famous phrase, “the two first
chapters," which the national school-
master and h s ilk have denounced for
the last hundred years. Yet the Bug-
lish people with solid sense will still go
on talking correctly about the two first
chapters despite the universal school-
master’s anathema. For they don't
mean the first two as opposed to the
second two, or third two, and so forth,
as the superfine critic would make us
believe. They have not mentally di-
vided all chapters and things into regu-
lar pairs, two and two, like the animals
that went into the ark. They mean
merely to distinguish the two first from
the third, and fourth, and fifth, and all
subsequent chapters whatsoever. -To
get the full absurdity of this superfine
principle of the schoolmaster, take the
crucial instance of the two first'Norman
kings (there were but three Norman
kings), therefore the first two cannot
possibly be compared with the second
two, but they can be with the third
alone. But says the prying pedant,
there couldn’t conceivably be two firsts,
there was but one first, and one second.
Nonsense! We can have fifty firsts, if

   

N.-:;.—.-. ..

MAY 1, 1886.

the sovereign people wills it. There are
two who came first and a third who
came after them. The genius of the
language has settled that question long
ago and the genius of the national
schoolmaster cannot controvert it. Your
hypocritical pedant instead of calling
that beautiful plant ca-mt!-/in, he must
be a little more correct and say-at-me/-a,
which is a rank hybrid of the true Latin
name camellia. To such pedants one is
tempted to give Dr. Pa.rr’s reply to the
inquirer who asked whether the right
pronunciation was Samaria or Sa-mar-
cia: “You may thay ’l‘ha-ni:1r-cia if
you like. but Thamaria ith quite good
enough for me.” Then again these very
learned pedants must bring into their
English histories the oriental and classi-
cal words bedizened with all their Saris-
lzrit or Persian dots, marks and accents
artistically interspersed among the me-
andering syllables. Maliomet is printed
l\Iuharr_imed, Mogul is Mughal, and that
name so delightful to old and young in
oriental t;iles—f/axn1m-e'/-I(‘a.r»iz}/~—lia5 a
pedantic peppering with assorted dots,
commas and accents. What possible
good can result from thus sprinkling the
Arabian Nights with this antique Arabic
peppering? It is unbearable. hit when
it comes to poisoning the mind of the
youth with liworig-fu-tzi instead of the
familiar Confucius we rise in rebellion
against it. These critics seem to lorget
that the liuglish is :1 distinct and sepa-
rate language, and that not one reader
in ten thousand, not even ‘pedants, can
have an inkling of Greek, Sanskrit. As-
syrian, Chinese, Welsh, Hotteiitot or
Gaelic. Life is too short, and vour lin-
guistic Cardinal Mezzofantis hnd Dr.
l’arrs left no issue. And what shall we
say of the Hellenists who have started
the craze on classic names when they
talk of Thou-kid-i-des for ’l‘hucidides,
of Aischulus for Aeschylus, of Ki-ser
for Caesar, of Kick-e-ro for Cicero, and
so on to the end of the classical chap-
ter. But they do not stop here. Look
into the work of the most popular Eng-
llsh historian of the day whose hyper-
critical pcdantry will not let him talk or
write about Alfred the Great, he must
talk about Aelfred, when the true Saxon
is simply .4/f/-rd. And that beautiful
but immoral lilfrirla of our vexed school
days is printed in the unpronoiinceable
Aelfthryth, and the beautiful l.z1(ly Go-
diva in the terriffic Gm‘!-,.I,ifu, and the
pleasant Aiirlrey (__short for l-Itlieldredal
is in the barbaric .-‘I.-'1/ze/I/zr_i'I/1. All this
over fine, rank pedantry comes from be-
ing a liyperciitical slave to mere ex-
pression.

Grotc’s history of Greece and Green‘s
history of the linglish people are both
disfigured with this antique. terriffic
spelling of names. Thanks to the ster-
ling good sense of Charles Knight, his
history of England is not made unpro-
nounceable and offensive with its an-
tiquated, barbaric names. v. I:.

..____.(.j__._._ 4.

“Taking to the Woods."

I'll_.MIRA, i\'Iicii., April 6, i886.

Eiiii'oR GRANGE \'isi'1'oR:——’l‘hinking
it might be of interest to at least a few
of your readers, I will send you a de-
scription of our village of Elmira:

It is situated in Otsego County, on
the G. R. & I. R. R., 25 miles south of
Petoskey, 12 miles from Gaylord, the
county seat of Otsego County and to
miles from Ilellaire, the county seat of
Antrim County. Elmira lies on the
county line between the rrounties of
Otsego and Antrim, the village being
partly in each county, and has a popu-
lation of 400 or 500 people. It is
pleasantly located, and the lands in
Otsego and Antriiii Counties are uni-
formally good for farming purposes, and
equal to the best in the Traverse region
or southern Micliigim. The soil is 11
sandy loam under}-aid and iiiixed with
limestone gravel; the surface is level or
rolling and the country is watered by
fine springs. spring brooks and beauti-
‘ful lakes. It is timbered with maple,
beech, basswood, birch. rock elm and
hemlock. The land produces excellent
spring and winter wheat, hay, oats, bir-
ley, and the finest potatoes; and in
short all other root crops -that can be
found in the State we have in Elmira.

The timber, which is very large,
straight and fine, is disposed of in
various ways. We have two saw mills,
stave and heading mill, and there is
now a stock company putting in, in con-
nection with G. A. Hubbard’s mill, at
large handle factory, capable of turning
out a car-load of handles daily, which
will use from three to five million feet
of hardwood yearly. We also have a
contract with the Mancelona Iron Fur-
nace Company io furnish a large amount
of cord-wood for charcoal. They are
to put in coal kilns this spring, and pay
cash for wood, which will make this one
of the best markets for hardwood of
any place in northern Michigan, and
largely assist the farmer in clearing his
land cheaply, and furnish work for al-
most any number of men who will come
here. There is plenty of good land
here which can be bought for from
$7.00 to $15.00 per acre, and generally
$8.00 to. $10.00 on easy terms.

I came here from Union City two
years ago the first of this month. I did
not get much land cleared for crops the
first‘ summer. Last season, however,
I put in 45 acres of spring crops and 35
acres of winter wheat. I commenced
putting in spring wheat about the xoth
of May, which is two or three weeks too
late. I did not sow my oatsuntil the
6th of June, which is too late to give
them a fair chance; then I planted my

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fifteen bushels to the acre, oats. twenty-
four and a half bushels ‘ permacreg pota-
toes two hundred and fifty bushels per
acre. My oats and wheat I have home
market for. My potatoes I sold for 35
and 40 cents per bushel on cars here. I
planted only ten acres of potatoes, but
received $627, and have plenty for my
own use for seed, etc. This $62.70 per
acre paid for the first cost of the land,
($6.00 per acre), the cost of clearing
the land and of putting in and harvest-
ing tlie crop, and a clear profit of about
$20.00 per acre. I think this pretty
good for the second year in a. new
country. My rutabagas went 350 bush-
els per acre. This crop I have fed to
stock, and I find it to be very cheap
feed for all kinds of stock that will eat
them.

In regard to the health of this country:
There is no asthma, hay—fever or
malarial diseases here, and I would
further say that we have actually starved
out two doctors in this town since I came
here. The doctors all agree that it is
distressingly healthy.

I have been asked when in Union
City how far I lived from a railroad,
and how far I lived from a post—office,
and ifI lived in a log house, as though
I was so far north of the north pole that
there was nothing human could stay
here, unless it was Esquimaux, Norweg-
ians, or Modocs. The facts are, that I
live in a first-class frame house, the
Grand Rapids 8; Indiana railroad runs
within thirty rods of my house, the
depot is within forty rods and the post-
otlice within thirty. We get our mail
twice a day and can send to Grand
Rapids for anything,that we cannot find
here, one day and get returns the next.
But we are not troubled to send very
often, as there are two general stores,
two drug stores, two grocery stores, one
hotel, one blacksmith shop, one liard-
ware store, one livery stable, and one
general wood~repairing shop.

This village, surrounded as it is with
quantities of cheap land, having a good
soil, and bearing a fine growth of hard-
wood timber, offers splendid opportuni-
ties to the farmer or mechanic who is
not afraid to work, and has a. little
money to start with, and we confidently
expect soon to see a thriving town of
several thousand inhabitants where
now stands the little village of Elmira.

Yours truly, ALBERT LOSEY.

P. S.—-—I think I did not state that we
have a new church and school house,
and that our school is attended by over
a hundred scholars. We expect soon
to establish a graded school here. If
you see fit to publish this letter please
don’t fail to state this about the church
and school, as it is very important.

genial guttiirgs. if

[The jotting page is a fairly correct indicator
of the weather. When storms hold a moiiop oly
of the elements this page is brimful of good
material; but when such a magnificent week
drops into the heart of April, as this year, it
makes a “growing time” for everything but
jottings.——F.D.]

OUR County Grange is in a flourishing con-
dition and our members comprise many of the
best men and women in the county. At our
last regular meeting, held at Birmingham,
April I3, the following resolution were adopted
after a spirited discussion on the subject:

Reralzlttf, That Oakland Pomona Orange is
not in sympathy vviththe Knights of Labor as
at present managed; and that this resolution
be printed in the CvR.\N(;F. VISITOR.

C. .\'. l.Al\‘l)ON.

I AM very tired this evening, and do not ex-
pect to give a very interesting jotting. In look-
ing over the last VISITOR I noticed jottings from
several Granges that have never been heard
from before on that page. We do hope these
Granges will keep on sending items; we wish
every Grange whose members read the V Isirok
would contribute something to its pages. I wish
there were more Granges in the country like
Algona Grange in Iowa; is there such a one in
Michigan? If there is, please let it be known.

I want to say a word about creameries. Will
it pay farmers to patronize creameries? I say
no; and will give my reasons: Last summer we
sold our cream to a creamery for a short time;
then we kept the cream and churned what they
would call four pounds and got five and one-
half pounds of butter. We set the milk for this
churning in creamery cans and kept it just as
we did for them. Then the next churning we
set the milk in pans in the cellar, let it set the
same length of time, churned it and got six

and one-fourth pounds of butter, and we had all-

the milk at home for our pigs and calves. Again
I ask will it pay the farmers to patronize the
creamery. ' Of course it saves some work to sell

' the cream, but what can we accumulate without

hard work. A I-‘.\R.\1ER’S wII~‘i-1.

ELK LA.Kl£ Grange, No. 469, is in a flourishing
condition. We have built a. hall and furnished
it within the past year, and are having very good
meetings. We have only received two members,
but hope for more next year. There are a good
many places in this northern country where
Granges should be organized, and I think they
could be if the right steps were taken.

Aihtrim County. uowELL S0l'RS.

IN Tlfl-L March 15th number I". bl. Otis, of
Kingsbury County, Dakota, complains regard-
ing the scarcity of water, and that many have
bored from fifty to too feet without obtaining a
suppl .‘ While I‘was in LaMoui'e Coung,‘ Da.k.,
last fill I heard the same complaint. ' ue man
who had dug three wells, two of them some 70
to sq‘; feet without finding water, mostly in solid
blue clay was told that b finding-oneof those
large ant ills(peculiar to" that country) and dig-
ging under it would find plenty of water in less
than thirty feet, as they always went to water.
He was then digging, andylownsome forty feet
had struck a rock, and came to my son, L. 
Lewis, for a drill: Said if he did. {lot get water-in
that wellhe should try the .,ant hill. He failed;

dug under’ the ant hill, and in 22 feet found »

plenty of water for stock and thg house. My
son, above referred-to  town 62,
range I34, in LaMourc County, had dug three

en 46_i¢¢;t,_ ' _ «,ol1}ni«riing-ii-=«.ni . ..;
‘life Siheoiifedulg,’-on»e'!;" I  lkcémhefg '3$p’££l;L;

I was there, nndal‘ jan.ant3rill, and W!-

six to. eight: feet? I ‘noticed several sun. holes: ‘

running down directly under the hill all within

I

potatoes, and sowed rutabagas till the  adi-°-meter Of 15 inches 15-1I’1.V'in.l'v1nu~“»r)’. ’36.

24th. of June... -My- spring-wl=ieat~—we-nt—'

, supply keeps up.

“and put in store when the wheat is sold, will

-more frequently than most men of his years

he COIIlpl_e',€:(lfll1:3 digging and f5\Ui.d.,pl€hlY.Ql:“.'
water for his stock and family use in 25 feet,
and not more than seven or eight rods from his
house where his deep wells were dug. There
had been no rains (not to exceed ‘oiie-lialfinch)
during the fall. He writes me of late that the
I give these facts for the
benefit of those similarly situated, for I consider
the water question one of great moment to the
people of that new country.

The fuel question I consider of much less
importance. From three to five acres of wheat
extra raised and sold for coal, to be hauled home

secure the stock of fuel cheaper than to have the
wood (such as grows there) given and go six or
eight miles for it, and-then prepare it for fuel.
I am sure a man with a home in Michigan better
stay on it. But men without homes, or young
men, can be independent there if they will work
and be economical in :1 few years. A
Allegan County. x. w. Lawis.

LAST Saturday was the day appointed for .1
meeting of Patrons of Husbandry at the residence
of J. W. Wing, of Scio. Notwithstaiitling the
bad roads about 30 Brothers and Sisters met for
the purpose of exchanging thoughts upon practi-
cal farming and housekeeping. Brother famiers,
just think of it: the members of a calling the
most noble, the most honorable, and the most
useful, whose numbers exceed one-hall of our
voting population, standing almost helpless in
the presence of those whose very subsistence de-
pends upon the toll of the farmer, and these
very farmers putting forth scarcely a perceptible
effort for the protection of their own rights.
What better course to pursue than to become
inenibers of the Order of I’. of II. and uiiitcdly
illustrate the truth of the maxim that in union
there is strength. There was select reading, dis-
cussions, and‘ some of the Brothers made sonic
telling speeches at this meeting. The (lllIIIC!',
prepared by Mi‘. and Mrs. Ricliai-tlsoxi, was both
ample and of the best. The young people were
pleasantly eiitertaincd by (icorgc Wing and his
Sister May with niusic, and both young and old
had a very pleasant time, and at evening ail-
journed to meet again. 7-IRS. URUIZN.

Scio, April I2, I886.

I II.\\'F. read with considerable. IIIIUTC3-2!. the

several answers to Ruth l’rcstly’s question, and
while every answer has suggested a rt-qiiisite
entirely indispcnsiblc to zi good lmriic, I think
the key note liris not yet been rung. .-\s the
price oft-very good lioiiie is “L-Icriial vigilcriee,”
it seems to me that the one l'Cqll1l’ClT!C'lil to bring
it to the staiidrird of“inodel” would be industry.
Where every member of the family sliares in the
duties and labor to be perfornied; where no one
in health lies abed while the rest arise and do the
morning's work. The most “cheerful” member
of a family is often the one who sliirks all work
and responsibility on the rest in such a I.-}m'r_/I4!
manner that they can Iiot come under censure.
"Grit" often mistakes subniission for paliciicc.
“Love” often prompts to toil for the loved ones,
to their future detriment and regret. No one
habit is more conducive to humane and thought-
ful consideration for others, than habits of in-
dustry; not incessant toil and drudgery, but the
habit of usefully employing every moment of
precious time. For true it is, that “Satari finds
some mischief still for idle hands to do."

C. R. A.

l.iRU’l'lll<‘.R j. (.9. l{.~tmsdell‘s silver article in the
V'I'sITOR gave the best insight into that subject I
have been able to get. I understand the ques-
tion in Congress is settled for the present on the
let alone principle; but! suppose the people will
be just as much divided in sentiment about it as
before. No matter; the anti-silver men will
have the country ruined anyhow, while the silver
men will have it the only thing that can save
us. So we go.

Some time ago there was an inquiry as to the
best time to cut timber for fence posts. I can-
not give any of my own experience, but whcnl
was a boy (and that was long ago) I remember
hearing an old farmer say he once had occasion
to cut some hemlock saplings in summer when
the bark would slip easily; they were peeled and
setin the ground. Twenty years later when the
fence was removed, most of them were still
sound at the heart. I know from actual trial that
hemlock posts, cut before the bark will peel,
and set with the bark on, will not last more than
four years before many of them would rot off at
the surface of the ground. From these facts let
the render draw his own inferenc :s and con-
clusions. ii. COLl.l.\'S.

Us THE oth lost. this section was visited by
one of the most furious snow storms of the year,
and decidedly the most furious that I ever
witnessed in . ril. At this point about 12
inches of snow ell during the day. The wind
was blowing a perfect gale from the northeast,
and many of the east and west roads were en-
tirely blocked with snow and impassable for
teams until shoveled out. A few moments
facing the storm was suflicient lc sandpaper the
nose of any man. Mercury registered 28 de-
gres above zero during the day and stood at 20
above on the morning of the 7th. As my wife
and ‘I were riding to-day we passed a section of
road that not a team had passed over since the
storm, and unless shovcled out it will be a iiiim-
her of days yet before any can pass. It is a
road usually much traveled.

I give you this brief report of the storm liere,
\vith my list of names for the VlSll‘Ul’.. A. 1. I‘.

Springport, April It, I886.

As I1‘ is pleasing to me to read in the jottings
of the workings of other Granges, the thought
came to my mind that it might be of interest to
some friend of the Order to know that llirmiiig-
ham Grange (323) is in a prosperous condition.
We iiiitinted eight persons during the last quar-
ter and reinstated several others. Our weekly
meetings are well attended and are made inter-
esting by all performing the duties assigned
them.

In regard to the liquor traffic, I agree with
Coiirtland Hill. I believe the only remedy that
will save this country from the evils of intemper-
zince is “unqualified prohibition." itris. uliiiis.

\V)£ \¥EB.P2 saddended by the announcement in
the VISITOR, of March I5, that our Sister Myre
was in poor health, and eagerly scanned the next
issue hoping to learn that she was herself again.
But no word, either from or of her, appearing in
the Visrrok of April I, I would ask in the name
of all the readers of the VISITOR that someone
send tidings of the welfare of our beloved
Sister.

Our little ones are jubilant over the l’roclania-
tion of Children's Day, and are eagerly looking
up the best pieces, dialogues, songs, etc., that
they may have all perfectly prepared by the time
the longed-for day arrives. l=1~‘£SS.

"OLD MAID" expresses a desire for some one
to send a pen portrait of Cortland llill. Though.
a beginner in artistic work of this kind, I will do
my best, and though the picture may not been-
actly perfect it may perchance give "Old Maid”
an idea that may satisfy her curiosity: _

Bengal Grange finds in Cortland _Hill an
eficient and active worker, despite h1§ nearl
eighty years of life, with all the ardships In -
dent on settlement in an unbroken wildorness.
He is of medium height, well roportioned,
erectyind robust in _appear_a.iice, wi ruddy corn.
plectioii, gray hair and heard. He is ever
ready with tongue and penrto work for the good
of the Order,‘a‘nd though he lives seven miles
from‘ Bengal ‘Grange Hall he is there lto Work far

would be able. ,
Old’ Maid’, would you not like to know how

‘little woman: of seventy, and is just as faithful a j legislation of—(he last twenty years has had the
worker for the Grange as her husband, though , effect of increasing the value of the yardstick,
she never writes for the press-—but she is witty  whether that was the intention of the la“ nmkers

and wise, and is “ell beloved by llt‘I'l1)Z1ll_\'_

friends. MRS. i:. .\'. .~"l'|.\\'.\Rli,

I .\‘o'rI-‘. with a good deal of satisfzictioii your
exposure of the Bohemian oat swindle. The out
scheme will soon die a'riatura.l death in this sec-
tion and lawsuits will be in order. We now have
the German barley’ and Red Line wheat run-
ning in full blast, so that this infernal swindle
like Banquo’s ghost will not down at our bid-
ding. The only way is to keep on exposing the
fraud in the papers, and by this means some will
be saved.

I enclose an article written for the Ypsilaiiti
Commercial. Ifyou think it worth republishing
give it space in your columns. Yours truly,

WM. II. R.-\.\'Ii.AI.I..

Ypsilanti, April 7, 1886.

Oak Grange is in a flourishing condition. The
average attendance is good. We have social
gatherings every other week during the winter,
at which we have music and literary entertain-
ment, the children and young people taking a
prominent part and showing remarkable ability.
We are about to commence for part of the work
for the good of the Order to practice the un-
written work, which seenis to be too much heg-
lected in our Granges. We have .HUnl(fIlllllglll-
tercsting at every meeting, and on the whole our
Grange is advancing and its ineinbers becoming
more alive to the benefit it is to them, education-
ally and otherwise. iii-2s. M. ,1. .\I.

lientoii llarlior. ~

l..v\I'I-ZILR fluiinty PUIIIUIIII (irxiiigc lllL‘l with
North Branch tiraiigv on tlichtlr i'.i'~l., and in
spite of the snow block-.ir,lc of all our cast and
west roads from the terrible storni of Tuesdziy,
about thirty l‘atI'ons reported for duty. One
lirotlicr \‘{flll{CI.l about eight ll‘Illc.~; llllivlllcf
Brother and Sister started with :1 buggy and got
stuck in the snow about (me-lialf mile from my
place and had to leave their rig, the Sister walk-
ing across» the fields to my place, and stayed
there, and the Ilrotlici went on to the hall afoot.
The day was beautiful, and after we reached the
hall, and lirrd pzirtnkeii of dinner, tliefiraiigc
was called to order by Wortliy <)verscer Muir,
(the W. Master not be-iiig prcseiil) and the usual

.‘ business rrone throu rli. We took u i the siilfecf
s 5 l J

f«:»rrlisc1i.ssiorr and nearly all took a lively interest.
The day passed very plerrsnntly and profitably,
and all seemed happy and -full of hope for the
good of the Order.

The I‘-ohcinian oat fellows l):l\’l.‘ niude their
zippcarzirice in our midst, but. so far as I know,
have found no victims in our ttm ll :'llui'liiigton),
but did in North Branch.

I did not do as Well vvorkiiig for the \'I.sII'«)K
towniiieeting day as I liopcd to, lint got eleven
naiiics, and if you will get nsiiiriiiy from each
township in the State it will swell the subscrip-
tion list considerably. II. uir.-iiisii -\\\‘.

II‘ is with pleasure that I read the juttings
from the different Granges, but as I have
not heard a word from Tztlniadge Grange, No.
639, I write to let you know that we prospering.
We have a nice ball, well finished, with a good-
ly iiuinber of live nieinbers, and hold our meet-
ings every other Saturday afternoon. We had
an open Grange on Saturday, the 17th; had a
pleasant meeting, and :1 profitable one, also.

The Ilolieini-.in oat men have not showed their
faces iiround here yet, and I am oftlie opinion
it will not be safe for them to. ‘\\'ll.I..

A III-im'I-:I.o1.'s little engine is the heart, throb-
hing continually at the rate of Ioo,ooo beats per
day, 40,000,000 per year, often i,ooo,ooo,ooo,
without a single stop. It is the most powerful of
the human machine. Its" daily work is one—
third that of all the muscles. The most tireless
of organs while life exists, itis one of the last to
yield when life expires. _—\s long as life flutters
at the heart we know the spark of being is not

iiite extinguished, and there is hope ofrestora-
tion. During the life of some people the heart
has propelled a half a million tons of blood
through the system. It continues to work the
same when we are asleep as when awake, and
never ceases its action, until the Creator coni-
mands the wheels of life to stand still. A. F.

To Cuiti»; Fii.sI.—-Equal parts of sugar-and
salt thrown into the eye once :1 day has proved at
never-failing remedy with us when persevered
in. It took three months in one instance, but
was it bad case, the whole eye being covered
Will) a thick blue film. caused from chaff in the
eye. .u:_'x"r K«\'l‘l-Z.

II‘ is claimed that he who causes two blades of
grass to grow where but one grew before is a
benefactor. Working on this principle I will
state my method of raising potatoes on the plan
of one man doing the work of two men. As I
saw an article in the March 15th Visirox on
“How to raise potatoes," Iwill take the same
for my subject, even to raising them out of the
ground when grown. I hired the potatoes
dropped, then took one horse and hitched to my
coverer and covered four rows to a round; then,
just as the potatoes came up so that I could fol-
low the rows, I hitched to a two—horse wheel-
cultivator, setting the two outside hind teeth on
the outside of the bedvpicce of the cultivator,
and with this I could tend four rows to a round
as good as the old way of going one row to a
round or twice in a row. I took no pains to
prevent covering the potatoes, as they will grow
if they are covered up, and it will kill the small
weeds. After cultivating thoroughly, I took all
the teeth out of the cultivator except two and
put on two shovel-plow blades and went on and
hilled the potatoes, four rows at a time, doing
better work than is usually done with a shovel-
plow. I went on with the same cultivator and
cultivated the ground down, using the teeth.
When I came to dig the potatoes, being tired of
digging by hand, I took the same set of wheels
used in tending the field, put on some poles and
a seat, attached a couple of hooks and went on
and dug the potatoes, four rows to the bout.

Waterford, Mich. L‘. F. r=I.uMii.

OUR Grunge, Felt Grange, .\‘o. 347, was al-
most dormant for awhile, but new members are
joining and others are being reinstated. Our
next report will make a better showing. We
have a lodge free from debt and nothing to pre-
vent prosperity. We will soon renew our sub-
scription to the VLsITOR out of the Grange fund
so a copy can be in every family of our Grange.
We are in it wealthy locality with good and iii-
telligeiit citizens and could have, with a. little
extra effort, one of the best Grange lodges in the
State. If every lodge could own a building
there would be more lodges in good standing.
Had we rented, our lodge would probably have
been a thing of the past. Near as several
Granges went down because rent was so high.
The few members left could not afford to rent.

Had they owned their halls, they would have

lived through their weakness and started 't_I

3 ain. The Grange shoud be a power throug
W ich the farmers can have their rights re-'
Ipected. out». w. inn-zwicii.

' April 20.

II‘ THE discussion of the silver question is now
in order thiou h the VISITOR, I will resent a
few ideas on the subject, in answer to t e article
of Bro. J. H. Rogers in VISITOR of Apr. 1.

Bro. R. says: "Money is the‘ yardstick by
which all values are measured. It is - extremely
desirable that this yardstick should be always of
the same length, unfortunately this is impos-
sible." __

It is impossible under‘ present regulations, and

Sister Cortland Hill looks, too? She is :1 blithe

fluctuations are to be expected. Much of the

0).’ IIOI.

Again he says: "Gold and silver, on wliicli !

, the money of all civilized nations is based, are ,1

among the most stable products of human labor, 5
but are both subject in fluctuations in \'.‘tlllC ex-
actly thc same as wheat, etc." I

V)/e admit this is a. very good coiiipnrison, but 3
let us reason a little further. If there vvas no '
substitute to be had of which to make bread, or ,
if bread was the only article of diet which wmild j
sustain life, the value of wheat would be much I
greater than at present. A substitute always 5
lessens the demand for the principal, or thing for l
which it is used, and consequently diminishesi
its value. Now this principle is as applicable to
gold and silver as it is to anything else. In fact
it is more so, for legislation favorable to these
metals have given them a commercial value that
is altogether out of proportion with their intrin-
sic value, if they can be said to have such it
thing as intrinsic value. If there was no substi-
tute for gold and silver in the shape of legal
tender greenbacks, bank notes, and notes of in-
dividurtls, or if :1 law was passed making it illegal
to use anything but “hard money" in the trans-
action of business, the purchasing power of both
of these metals would be greatly increased, and
there would be such a settling down of prices as
would convince the most skeptical that there was
something wrong in our moiictary 2-‘_\'$leIlI.

I quote again: “The real value of :1 gold
dollar is wliat the gold it contains is worth in the
markets of the \\‘oI'ld."

We cannot me-.i.surc the value of the _‘,".1rIl>ll('l>{
with the yardstick ll.\Clf; it must be compared
with soiriethiiig else that pos.~c~.~c-s value. What
shall it be? John Stuart Mill says: “The value
of nioiiey is inversely as gcrieral prices, rising as
they fall, and falling 31‘. they rise." Then the
]t".ll value of a dollar in gold is the amount of
mcrcliaiidisc it will t-xclraiige for in the iiiarkets.

.-\gain, "If the tliictiiatiuin in the value of the
two Iiictnls had not since nradc one high and the
other low at the .-.inic time, no ~«l’.t‘ll qiicslioris uc
now face could have arisen.”

Is it true that one has raised in \'1Llllt'.* and the
flll‘lL‘l' fallen at the same time.’ I had ~iippose<l it
was a well kiiovvri fact that both are higher than
they were at the time of nlricli you speak, and
that the tliffereiice llC‘l‘.\'(‘(,‘ll the two simply
shoiverl how iiiucli one had arisen iiiore limit the
other. The discrepanc_v may be easily explained
when we consider that lingland and (ierniany
have both dcnioiicti/,cd silver and stopped its use
as money, thereby lcssciiiiig Ilie 1lE:1‘ll‘.‘.ll(l for that
metal. and inaking a greater one for gold. In
spite of adverse legislatioii it \\i=l buy more. of
everything else except gold than it would at the
liiiic flit‘ rrati-iiinl debt nus ct>iiiI';ic‘.cIl.

lIl’..\R\' \!.\.-\.\li\’.

ll.\\ rm; received se\cr;rl letters asking nu: to i
send the naiiic of the firm in lioslon vvlierc our
Gi':in;,;e purchases limits and ~'ll()t'\ in the Vlsl rut;
Iwill say in reply through the \'IsI'I'l)R that I
don't feel at liberty to (in so at present. .\ny
Grange can find out the n:im(- by writing lllt‘ at
address given below.

I am willing to say our tirangc has purcliascd
their goods in quantity dcsir-;«d from the firm for
six years or more and have rcceivm-l entire satis-
faction iii goods rind prices from first to last. I
think netirly every (lrange in llillstlzile county
are buying of the same house and with the same
success. You will get just what you order and at
prices that defy any competition.

We know exactly what we say in relation to
the matter, as we have bought our goods from
maiiufactiiriiig houses in Bostoii, Xtru‘ York and
Chicago for the last twelve years.

]efi'erson, Micli., April I7. .-i,'~Iiii<i:'.-.' l.. D xvis.

SII'.'.‘i-;i¢ ljizizttx Grange, No. 644, sec-nis to be
a silent Grange as far as the Visirok is cori-
cerned, so I take the liberty once more to speak
for it. Some changes have lately taken place,
three:having left on demit, as they were moving
away, but others are being ml-led so that the
number remains about the same, and although
this Grange is small and meets with many dis-
couragemeiits, yet it nirmifests the true Patrons
grit and will not give up. We hope to make
Childrcn’s Day a memorable one for our little
folks. Vfish we might hear lroni Sister Mayo as
to the plan to follow or adopt, as a Children’s
Day is anew departure with us.

MRS. ANNA M. I.I'n.\'.\m>.

\\'cxforrl County, Mich.

7 '0 1/1: Sirier Hrtnm: of Grange Mn. 53.

Dear Sister Patrons, kind and true,

My heartfelt thanks long since were due.

They should have been expressed by voice.

But ways and means gave me no choice.

Home carc’s a tyrant, strong and grim,

And holds allegiance to each whim.

Your willing hands my task made light;

Your cheering words made dark days bright.

May such dark hours ne'er come to you:

May angry fire-fiend ne'er pursue

Your boarded treasures unto death,

Nor sweep away with heated breath

The steady gatherings of years,

Fond memories of joys and tears.

Our home, though plain, was dear as your.-;

But time and courage surely cures

Such troubles sooner than the loss

Uf dear ones, a far heavier cross.

May choicest blessings come to you

In every work you may pursue.

For work you will with willing hands

While trouble makes such loud demands.

May strength and love to you be given

To make your lives bright gleams of heaven.

MRS. J. 5. BlDWEl.l..

THERE is no occasion nor palliation
for weakly attacks on “Grangers,” under
the guise of witticism; and I hope
farmers everywhere will have the digni-
ty to resent it. The Grange has been
of more value to farmers and thus to
the world in its brief time, than all these
light-headed scribblers could be in a
thousand years. The tlipparit jeering
crowd of village boys who sometimes
surround the country lad is only an ag-
gravated reflex of the sentiment of the
people of the town, but in nine cases
out of ten the country boy sooner or
later overtops the whole list. It may
be said that farmers can afford to stand
it with such an array of facts on their_
side, but the attacks are often wanton,
as well as unwise, in that they havea
tendency to educate a public sentiment
averse to labor or the conditions sur-
rounding it, and thus drive those from
the farm who would do it honor.—-A. C.
G. in /Vic/ujgarz }7_'ar»m'. ' i
. WANT to plow? Well, go ahead.
Can’t find the plow, eh? About face;
go to that ten~acre lot at the farther
end of the farm, and you will find your
plow just where you left it nearly six
months ago: rusty, weather-beaten and
almost worthless. Well, a new one
will cost only gi5.oo, and that is much
cheaper than to carry the implements
to_the tool house, well cleaned, after‘
using. Of course it is, and that’s wh
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MAY 1. l 896.

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Railroad Regulation.

The speech of Senator Palmer on this
subject is timely and most satisfactory.
The Star: Repué/ican, in which we find
the speech printed in full, heads it,
“Senator Palmer Speaks for the Peo-
plc"; and the speech justifies the head-
lines.

Starting out with an illustration, he
follows with a full and free recognition
of the value of railways to civilization—
refers to “Primitive Methods of Trans-
portation” and the commercial facilities
afforded by modern inventions in which

railways in importance and magnitude
figure so largely, and says: “The
question at the front to-day in this
country and in Europe is not how to
cripple or restrict railroad building or
railroad operations; is not how to do
away with the vast commercial power
extendingbver 265,000 miles of rails laid
through developed and developing ter-
ritory, but how best to promote them,
that they may continue to serve rather
than to rule the interests of individuals
and communities." The control and
regulation of railways, though covering
a halfcentury, is still a subject of ex-
periment, and likely to remain such for
some time to come. Continental Eu-
rope seems to have made greater pro-
grass in that direction than England or
America. The growth of railways has
been marvelous. In -1828 there were
three miles of railroad; 1830, 41 miles;
in 1340, 2,200 miles; 1850, 7,500 miles;
in 1860, 29,000 miles; in 1870, 49,000
miles; in 1880, 93,671 miles; and in
1885, 125,500 miles or nearly one-
half the railroad mileage of the world,
and covers 20 per cent. ofthe estimated
wealth of the entire country. Stock-
watering and discriminations are re-
ferred to and instances given of the in-
iquitous practices permitted and en-
couraged by railway management. -

The speech was in support of Senate
Bill 1532: To regulate commerce.
While tree from invective the Senator
was in no way timid in the expression
of his views upon the subject, as the
following quotations show:

“For forty years a. constant struggle
of wits has been going on between the
grasping corpcrations and Legislatures
endeavoring to restrain them, and to-
day we are confronted with successful,
leg -alized wrongs remaining uncontrolled
and unredressed.” “Holding in mind
the fact that the estimated wealth of
this nation is divided between the tail-:
road corporations and allother property
owners in the proportion of ,1 to 5; that?
the 20 per cent. represented by   1-
has become concentrated under t “
control of men who may be counted

' upon the ten fingers, while the 80 per

cent. is difused among individuals.and
companies of diverse interests; that our
present action is taken because of
the oppression of the 80 per cent.
by the organized 20 per cent., it
would seem that we fall short of our
duty if by the terms of this bill we pre-
vent the employment of the best" talent
attainable to represent the interests
of the people.” “If this bill becom-
ing a law should fail to utterly sup-
ply a - remedy, another attempt
must be made. If it is partially
successful, we shall have accomplished
something and new remedies will be
suggested by its pa1;1ia,1“failure.". “'_1‘h¢
complaint of the people is of discrimin-
tion, uncertainty, and heater‘ mjiny.
The complaint of investors is_ that two-
sevenths of the capitalized investment
is water, and that through inside com-
binations the masters of Wall Street are
able to realize vast profits upon rail-
road wreckage and the depreciation of
railroad property.”

We shall feel inclined henceforth to
associate this Michigan Senator with

VanWyck, of Nebraska, in his defense
of the people from the injuries inflicted
by railway mismanagement.

Patrons’ Reading Circles.

“Add dignity to labor," is a. fiat that
issues regularly from the head of every
Subordinate Grange to its assembled
members. Nor have these injunctions
been in vain; labor has been lifted from
the ruts of drudgery ar_id mere muscular
levels. Business transactions, political
interests and social intercourse, in the
years since the Grange was organized,
have gained added dignity and impor-
tance among the farming class; but this
dignity has ever been commensurate
with the elevation of the farmer himself.
It is out of the natural order of things
that it should be otherwise. That farm-
work may advance to its rightful place
among the rank of industries in the
eyes of outsiders, it is imperative that
the agriculturalist shall exalt himself to
a true and high dignity and possess a
sure rooting of character.

Education has been thus far the foun-
dation of progress in the Order, and
systematized education, we believe, is to
be the keystone of the perfect structure
that awaits completion at the hands of
the laboring classes. We use the term
“educated” to cover all kinds of infor-
mation and knowledge that makes a

volving upon him. It has awider sig-
nificance than text-book covers hold.

It has been through no want of sym-
pathy or interest on our part that so
long time has intervened between our
notification of an organized means of
home culture for Patrons and this men-
tion of that fact through the VISITOR.
Our support is always on the side of
whatever, in our judgment, tends to fa-
cilitate the advance of the farmer and
to bring his chanceszfor improvement on
a par with human nature in other sta-
tions of life. In Patrons’ reading Cir-
cles we recognize what will, in a meas-
ure. take the place of town and city
privileges of lectures, societies and
instruction meetings that are not access-
ible to people in the country.

We had already felt the ripeness of
time for some such plan by which
farmers and their families might acquire
a more extensive knowledge of their
work and the world, when word came
from the session of the Pennsylvania
State Grange that a plan had been put
on foot there for this purpose. Through
the efforts of Bro. R. H. Thomas, State
Secretary, the organization of a Patrons’
National Reading Circle was effected.
In a well written circular letter the de-
mands for the plan are given with an
outline of the proposed work and the
course of study determined upon for
this year. This was issued early enough
for members to begin work on the first
of April, and reports already show the
scheme is receiving liberal patronage.
Only three books are in the course this
year, it being deemed best to give no
discouraging amount of work at first,
but so arrange it as to admit of farther
research in other books, if time and in-
clination allow. The titles of the books
at once suggest their fields and adapt-
ability to the purpose. They are:
“Waring’s Book of the Farm,” “Barnes’
History of Ancient Peoples,” and “Com-
plete Etiquette,” by Mrs. E. B. Duffy.
The plan proposes that each Grange, or
such members as choose to do so, form
a circle for the study of these books.
Each circle would need one set and
probably some individual members
would wish separate sets. The cost of
these three is a little less than $5.00 if
ordered under seal of the Grange. They
alone will form the nucleus for a good
Grange library. The circle may meet
oftener than the Grange or not, as it
deems best. If carried out in close con-
nection with the regular work we can see
how these studies may be made a. fund
for a. very large part of program work.
They will be good to read aloud and
discuss and ask questions about.

Another Patrons‘ Reading Circle is
under the supervision of the Ohio State
Grange Lecturer. This is a. more ex-
shaustive course and divides the work
into two classes, one for adults and one
for juveniles, each covering more sub-
-jects than the three books named in the
other course. Having no prejudices,
we shall express no preferences for any
of these plans, being sure that all ef-
forts in these lines are worthy of multi-
plication and are bound to be of great
profit to our class.

‘It is essential that we progress, and
the pressure of the times demands that
we make systematic progression. More-
over, when members of a great body
are pledged to devote a certain. time
each day or week upon a. specified task,
the discipline resulting from such sys-
tem very nearly equals, the matter mas-
tered.

N 0 reports have reached this ofiice of
the introduction of the Patrons’ Reading
Circle’s plans into any of the Granges
of Michigan or Iowa, and we doubt if it
has been much known among them.

.Every Lecturer should certainly do
no less than send for fullest explanations
and bring this matter before their
Granges. Although a. month late, it is
not too late to begin the work for the
current year and be on time for the
second. .

For further information address R. H.
Thomas, Mechanicsburg, Penn., and E.

C. Ellis, Glendale, Ohio.

person better fitted to do the duties de- '

“The Forum.”

Volume 1 No. 1 of T/us Forum was
issued by the Forum Publishing Com-
‘pany for March, 1886.

It is a monthly of over 100 pages for
the independent discussion of subjects
that concern all classes alike.

We will not say it fills “a. long felt
want”—except in the direction of afford-
ing an opportunity for men of ability to
express their opinions upon vital ques-
tions. Other magazines have the same
objects, but the number of men and

women who have the ability and are
willing to have their views printed for
the consideration of their intelligent fel-
low citizens are in excess of the maga-
zines of this character.

The newspapers of the period, like
a garbage wagon, make it their business
to load up with the news of the day.
All that is cast off-—often that which is
vile—and few thinking men care to
cast their viell considered thoughts and
opinions into such a mass,

The subjects considered in the
March number are first, “Science and
the State,” by Prof. Alexander Win-
chell. The chief points in the article
are a charge against the people and the
government as being altogether too
practical for the advancement of pure
science—unwilling to appropriate money
to this end, and although an advance
is all the time being made it is more
incidental than by well directed
methods. And this advance is likely to
suffer a check by a growing public
prejudice against the support ofhigh
schools and State universities. The
article is able, though we are not in
accord with some of the writer's con-
clusions.

“Newspapers Gone to Seed,” by that
racy writer, James Parton, is expressive
of the condition of the great body of
metropolitan newspapers of the present
day. Mr. Parton sees in the near
future a desirable daily paper—“small
in size, free from party bias, with com-
ments simply elucidating, printed on
good firm paper, amply indexed and
containing the news of the day that has
real permanent value. As things now
are you have a mass of printed matter
without value for reference raked to-
gether at great expense in great haste
and in the main of little value.”

E. P. Whipple in a humorous way has
recounted the perils of housekeeping
under the significant title “Domestic
Service." The article is amusing read-
ing but a sad commentary on a boast-
ed civilization. He closes by suggest-
ing that some charitable person start a
college for the education of female
domestics.

Theologically inclined readers will
perhaps find in the article of Rev.
Heber Newton, “Is Romanismabap-
tised Paganism?” a chance for unprofit-
able discussion. .

“How I was Educated,” by Edward
E. Hale, one of New England’s -literary
men, is well told, and in it we see
his faith in good sense and good associ-
ates as quite as valuable as good
Latin, for he says “The good of a col-
lege is to be had from ‘the fellows’ who
are there and your associations with
them. * * I could get more infor-
mation out of Chambers’ Encyclopmdia,
which you can buy for ten dollars, than
any man will acquire as facts by spend-
ing four years in any college. But the
business of changing a boy into a man,
or, if you please, changing an unlicked
cub into a well-trained gentleman, is,
on the whole, more simply and certain-
ly done in a good college than any
where else.” In his closing he has
emphasized the value and importance
of association by quoting from Emmer-
son: “It is little matter what you learn,
the question is with whom you learn.”

“Vulcan, or Mother Earth,” 3. cans-
tic article on cremation, is summed up
“But under the name of progress we
must revert to barbarism.”

Dr. William A. Hammond says his
say about “The Coming Man,” in which
we feel so much less interest than we
do in the men that have been. The
article is interesting, and the amusing
conclusion is reached that in the vicissi-
tudes most likely to come with pro-
gressive civilization the baldheaded
men are likely to be at the front, and
largely outnumber all others.

“My Religious Experience,” by M. J.
Savage, is a somewhat detailed account
of a. New England boy's religious ex-
perience, and the changes that came to
a life surrounded by religious influences
and largely devoted to religious teach-
in .

$‘Shall our Laws be Enforced?” would
seem to admit but one, and that an
affirmative answer. And yet the im-
munity from punishment enjoyed by
violators of laws affecting the morals,
health and peace of community, all bear
witness to the criminal delinquency of
civil ollicers charged with the execution
of the law.- The Rev. Howard Crosby,
in answer to his question “Shall our
laws be enforced? has undertaken to
show why they are not enforced—who
is responsible for defective legislation
and the delinquency of olficials. The
article is able, educational, and timely,
but unfortunately falls mainly upon
those who shun the activities of political
life in the interest of the people.

We have briefly referred to the
several subjects considered in the
March number of T/ze Forum. To the
April number such prominent persons
as David Dudley Field, Noah K. Davis,

at‘; .

Gail Hamilton, 0. B. Frothingham,
and others of equal celebrity, have con-
tributed. “An Employer's View of the
Labor Question" is the best common
sense view of the subject we have seen
from the standpoint of an employer,
and we may add from any other. We
mean to present the article to our read-
ers before long.

We wish more of them were inter-
ested in such reading as is found in
T/re Forum. If they were they would
give less time to these drag-net papers
that are so plenty and yet so poor.

THE Forum from its first issue takes
rank with the best of the monthlies and
deserves success.

mw

FROM its obliging and genial Secreta-
ry, Charles W. Garfield, we are favored
with the Annual Report of the Michi-
gan State Horticultural Society for 1885.
It is a book of 500 pages and contains
first the officers, committees, etc., of the
State Society; next, name of the several
local societies to the number of31, with
the name and postofiice address ofits Sec-

retary; officers and committees of the
State Agricultural Society; the ofiicers
of the Michigan State Grange, with its
Executive Committee, as constituted in
1882, which would indicate that Bro.
Garfield don’t keep up with the times in
Grange work; the Constitution and By-
Laws of the State Association; State
and Provincial Legislation in the inter-
ests of Horticulture and Forestry; pro-
ceedings of the summer meeting of the
State Society in Benzie County; the
Forestry Problem; the Annual Fair of
1885; Proce_edings of the twentieth ses-
sion of the American Pomological So-
ciety held in Grand Rapids; the Annual
Meeting of 1885, Reports of Auxiliary
Societies; Fruit Catalogues, and closing
with a complete index.

Many of our readers will feel no in-
terest whatever in this brief summary of
what this book contains. In fact, most
farmers have little or no interestin Hor-
ticulture beyond the ripening fruit,which
they have very little of, and then only
that raised by some one who does take
an interest in this very branch of agri-
culture of which their indifference is
only matched by their ignorance.

Well, what are you going to do about
it some one asks. Why simply call at.
tention to the subject, as those who read
a little and talk a little about this mat-
ter will all the while come a little nearer
to an acquaintance with the possibilities
that are within their reach, and better
understand that fruit -is not only palat-
able and healthy, and that a dollar's
worth of fruit is often easier raised than
a dollar's worth oftcorn.

The average farmer has yet to learn
that often a. bushel of grapes cost no
more than a bushel of potatoes.

All have found out that if we raise
potatoes we must not only plant and
cultivate but fight the potato bug at the
right time and with such diligence as
will beat him. If at the right time a
little attention is given to small fruits
few farmers’ families would be without
a bountiful supply of their own raising
at small cost.

We believe there is in this matter con-
stant improvement, and to promote and
encourage such improvement the State
of Michigan has authorized the publica-
tion annually of 8,400 copies of the re-
port of the Secretary of the State So-
ciety for the benefit of the people. Un-
der just what rule of distribution the
people are to come in possession of
these reports we are not able to say;
but from our brief examination we do
know the Reports are of great value to
those who care to know of the progress
being made in Horticulture.

Few farmers could read one-tenth of
the 67 pages devoted to the Forestry
Problem in this Report without becom-
ing interested in the subject. The fa-
cilities for transportation which have
come to this people in the last half of
this century have brought our splendid
native forests under the eye and within
the grasp of a civilization that is greed-
ily aggressive and cruelly indifferent to
the wants of future generations. And
not only indifferent to those who come
after us, but too often penny wise and
pound foolish in the spoilation of tim-
ber on poor lands that grow timber at
greater profit than anything else.

This is a. subject that should be dis-
cussed in every Grange and is always
seasonable; and he who gets hold of
this Horticultural Report ‘for 1885 will
find a. collection of facts and opinions
to draw upon of great value.

 

IN another place we have tried to
give an idea of the newly formed read-
ing circles for Patrons. While this is,
as a Grange effort, a. new movement
along the line of educational advance-
ment, its mother-motive, so to speak, is
now well known and tested. The
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific
Circle, the obvious model of Patrons,
Teachers, and all special reading unions,
is now a. thoroughly organized success.
It proves what this kind of mental co-
operation at home can achieve. Pat-
rons, above all others, should embrace
these opportunities for their promotion
at home. In consideration of the wide
spread influence of organized effort for
home culture, we have arranged for ,a
short series of papers on the general
pan, and particularly its work in our

Stall‘, to appear from time to time
during the summer.

SPRING-<35 00.,
GRAND RAPIDS.

ONE PRICE TO ALL l

These Low Prices Tell the Story.

Good Calicos 3c and 4c.

Good Crash Towellng, 3c and 40.

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

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

Ginghams, 5, 7, 9c and upward.

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

Linen Lawns 12%, 15, 20, and 250.

Beautiful Satines 250.

Fine Scotch Ging ams, ‘.200.

Brocade Dress Goods. 5, 6, 9, 12lc.

Table Linen, 15, 19, 22, 25, 20, 300.

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

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

We are closing out a lar e lot of
fine Plaid Cambrics or 12$-c,
Worth from 15 to 250. These
are the cheapest we have ever
seen. SPRING & COMPANY.

SIIJIES.

Black Gros Grain for 38c, worth 56c.
Black Gros Grain for 42c, worth 60c.
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 $1.
Black Gros Grain for 93c, worth 31.
Black Gros Grain for $1, worth $1.50.
Black Gros Grain for $1.25, worth $1.75.
Black Gros Grain for $1.50, worth $2.00.

The Silks selling at $1.00 $1 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 sufiicient for the in-
creased demand, and our departments
were never as well supplied.

SPRIN G & CO.

THEIR LUSS IS YOUR GAIN l

Having purchased in the neighborhood
of Twelve Hundred Suits, at a great
sacrifice, from a manufacturer going out
of business, we have placed the
entire lot on sale

At Unheard of Low Prices.

We name a few prices:

MEN’S SUITS, substantial, well
made, at $3.75; former whole-
sale price, $4.25; former re-
tail price, $6.00.

A SPECIAL feature of this sale is
the tremendous lots of Good BUSI-
NESS SUITS, neatly made,
good quality, well trimmed, at
$5.00; former wholesale price,
$6.25; former retail price, $8.

Men’: Splendid ALL WOOL
SUITS, $6.60; former whole-
sale price, $7.87; former re-
-tail price, $10.

Fine Uauimere and Blue Flannel Suits,

ALL WOOL, 37.50 and $8.00.

At $8.50 and S I O-O0

OUR ASSORTMENT OF

Pill llll and Wllllll lllll

XS UNLIMITE D.

BOYS’ SUITS

at same basis of value, commencing at
$1.75 for good, substantial ev-
ery day suits.

V

€‘You are advised to lose no time
in securing a suit at this great sale.

——j__:..._—___.__.__.

GIANT llllll‘ lit} 60..

Grand Rapids, Mich.

(A. MAY, Prop’:-.)


MAY 1. 1886.

THE C3-'R:.A.1\'l'G-‘El VISITOR.

5

A DAY too late for the last number of
the VISITOR we received from Bro."
Woodman a notice that Bro. H. Esh-
baugh, Lecturer of the National Grange,
had early in March an attack of paraly-
sis and that his condition had in no way
improved during the following four
weeks.

At the date of writing, April 7, there
seemed little prospect of improvement.
From the tenor of the letter we have
little expectation that he will render far-
ther service to the Order as its chief
Lecturer. We had a brief personal ac-
quaintance with Bro. Eshbaugh, which
left with us a very favorably impression-
of him as a man and a Patron. We
hope later intelligence from him may be
more favorable.

After the foregoing was sent to press
we received a paper from Festus, Mo.,
with a marked notice of the death of
Bro. Eshbaugh, which occurred on the
19th of April. This obituary sets forth
that he was born in 1822 in the State
of Pennsylvania, in which State he
lived until he was 21, when with his
father’s family he went to Niagara Co.,
N. Y. In 1869 he moved to Missouri.
His qualifications soon gave him prom-
inence as a citizen, and with the ad-
vent of the Grange in that State he at
once took an active part in Grange
work and served as Master of the State
Grange for eight years, and for several
years has acceptably filled the import-
ant office of Lecturer of the National
Grange.

A worthy and useful Brother, a model
citizen has obeyed the mandate to cease
from labor, and in sorrow we who tarry
can truly say—-well done.

BEGIN to make preparations for

CHILDREN'S DAY, June 10th.

THE Patrons of Allegan County have,
through the successful management of
the Grange Store for some eight or ten
years, reached a degree of confidence in
co-operation not to be found in any other

part of the State. Carrying a stock offrom
$25,000 to $40,000 worth of goods, with
annual retail sales running from $150,-
000 to $180,000 on a four percent.
margin, it is no wonder that these
Patrons have confidence in the new
scheme which by a circular they are
about presenting to the Patrons of
Michigan. The fact that nearly every
class of manufactured goods are now
sold on a moderate margin of profit is
pretty well understood by the great body
of the people, and the other fact that
one line of business of absolute necessity
has seized upon the circumstances and
conditions which belong to affliction, to
levy an unreasonable profit upon their
goods, has stimulated the Patrons of
Allegan County to take the preliminary

steps to establish a co-operative busi-
ness in furnishing undertakers’ goods.
Their Circular is brief, presenting state-

ments of cost and profit, and inviting
the support of their fellow Patrons of
the State. Whatever may come of this
attempt at co-operation, there is no
question about the unreasonableness of
charges fastened upon people because
they are in no condition to protest
against such charges, and the whole
business has taken the security afforded
by a combination to maintain prices.

SOME time ago one of our corres-
pondents asked for a plan ofa house
for swine. We think the inquiry came
from the Agricultural College. The
letter was referred for answer to our
friend B. G. Buell, of Little Prairie
Ronde. He has been and still is a
successful breeder of Poland China
swine, and we assumed he would tell
the readers of the VISITOR all about the
construction and arrangement of a first-
class hog-house. But he is abusy man,
and it seems don't believe ahog de-
serves an expensive house to make him
happy or profitable to his owner. A
letter from Bro. Buell just received

closes as follows:

“ You wanted I should send you an article on
that pig-pen business. I have been thinking
some about it, and the more lthink the more
confirmed I am in the opinion that an elaborate
and expensive large building for keeping swine
is not a paying investment or a healthy institu-
tion. Sma.ll, cheap, temporary structures that
can be occasionally moved to fresh ground are
in every way better than a structure that neces-
sarily confines the occupants to the same spot
for a long time. Occasional p1ow_in_g and scrap-
ing pig yards is a salutary prescnption that few
farmers regard as they might with profit.’

 

THE business of raising celery has
had most surprising growth in the
vicinity of Kalamazoo within the last
few years. It has added materially to
the prosperity of this inland city, as the
product has found a market in almost
every city of the country.

It has given laborers employment
and that means‘ more houses, more gro-

ceries, more of everything that _goes to
make up the necessaries of hfe and
some of its luxuries.

Of the low lands around Kalamazoo
there are to-day not less than 'x,ooo
acres devoted to celery. ,

Twenty years ago these lands were
worth less than $25 per acre; now they‘
are held and sold at from $250 to $460
per acre, and are worth these prices for
this business.

business cannot be prosecuted as suc-
cessfully elsewhere as at Kalamazoo.
But necessary conditions must be re-
garded—-soil, irrigation, drainage, seed,
setting, culture, care and marketing are
each in their turn essential to success.
All these and more are explained by G.
Bochove & Bro., experienced growers
of celery in a neat little pamphlet just
issued. The price, 50 cents, should not
stand in the way of any one wishing to
undertake celery culture even on a
small scale. Address G. Bochove &
Bro., Kalamazoo, Mich.

THE GRANGE was a necessity. It re-
sulted from the thought and activity of
a few men in the vanguard of Agricul-
ture and is the motive power of progress
among all close adherents to its princi-
ples. The Grange press is its faithful

right arm, strong, if the body is strong,
but weakened when that body denies it
sustenance.

We have always claimed that readers
prefer articles from their own number
rather than clippings and reprints.
There is a sense of ownership in an
article from our own ranks _ that claims
interest and consideration as no
“finished sentences” from the pen of a
stranger ever can. While we “have
had nothing to complain of” in this re-
spect for a few issues, a correspondent
in the Ameriraiz Grange Bu!/glitz so
clearly expresses our views of the matter
that we insert a portion of his letter,
hoping to ward off thereby a relaxation
of patronage on the part of our practi-
cal writers:

The test of a good Agricultural paper is its
self—devotion. Its contributors must necessarily
be farmers of some experience in their business
and calling; farmers of some experience in the
sciences, natural and mental; farmers of progres
sive views with a keen observation. At all
events let them all be farmers of good or ill with
the_assuran_ce that we have their best thought on
various su_bjec_ts; we will be interested in it if its
construction is not so “terribly grammatical.”
We want to know what men and women are
thinking about while the lawyer and the minis-
ter and other professed gentlemen are making
speeches; while the political, or religious, or in-
dependent newspaper devotes a. “side” to
Agriculture and Horticulture, made of clips from
other journals or thoughts of those who “toil
not, neither spin," we want to know what
these common laborers of the fami have to say.
Advice is perhaps the cheapest thing on the
market. Strange that every newspaper of any
note must have an Agricultural “side,” as if far-
mers did not know what to do unless they were
told when and how. Why don’tlhey devote
some of their space to the mechanic, to the
merchant, to the lawyer, the doctor, the up-
holster or the niilliner? 0, they have their
organs, have they? So have we, and at all
events we wish to be advised by those who
know; by those who have toiled out an ironclad

experience on the farm.
.j.—___:..——__._

APPARENTLY one of the most feasible
and practical moves of philanthropy of

late is theproject recently made public
by Drs. Warner, proprietors ofthe large
corset factory at Bridgeport, Conn.
These gentlemen employ about r,o00
girls andwomen who are mostly depend-
ent on their own earnings. After giving
the matter much study and considera-
tion, a lot has been bought and on this
"will be put up a building at a probable
cost of $35,000 for the use of all em-
ployees. The first floor contains all the
appurtenances for cooking and serving
food; the second floor will be given up
to a library, reading, music and recep-
tion rooms, the third floor is to be
occupied by halls for meetings and
classrooms where competent teachers
will be employed to give instruction
free of cost. In fact, every thing is to
be free except meals, and those may be
had at or below actual cost. A savings
bank will also be instituted for the em-
ployces and judicious economy en-
couraged.

What insures this plan a permanent
operation is the foresight of the pro-
jectors in providing an appropriation
for the running ‘expenses, and contract-
ing that whoever runs the business after
them shall maintain it in all its depart-
ments. We hope to see manufacturers
all over the country following this
laudable example.

THE attention of our readers is called
to Island Home Stock Farm, Grosse

Island, Wayne Co., Mich. I-Iere will ‘be
found a large collection of imported
and home bred Percheron stallions and
brood mares, and parties in search of
this kind of stock should have no
difficulty in pleasing themselves at Is-
land Home.

Messrs. Savage & Farnum extend a
cordial invitation to all to call ‘upon
them and inspect their stock whether
they wish to purchase or not. Do not
fail to see their stock before you buy.

 '
Farmers, Attentionll

We give you real, not imaginary, value
for your hard earned dollars.

- $2 83 buys agood strong working suit.
$5 95 buys an all-wool cassimere suit.
$6 95 buys an all-wool blue flannel

suit such as many of our neighbors sell
at $10 to $12.

$10 buys a fine black dress suit such
as is worth $16 to $18 anywhere.

7 cents buys apair of cotton socks,
strong and heavy, ' seamless, the kind
that stands many washings.

83 cents buys a boy's gray sailor. suit.

99 cents buys a boy's blue sailor suit.

We use all customers right. Our goods
_speak for themselves. We can‘ save
money for you if you live within 50
miles of our store. Come and see us;
we will make it an object. _

STAR CLOTHING House,
36, 38, 4o & 42 Canal St.,

It is too much to assume that the

4

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Children’s Day.

I do not know that I shall be able to
make any suggestions that will be prac-
tical for all the Granges to follow in re-
gard to Children’s Day; doubtless not,
as they must be governed largely .by
their circumstances and surroundings.
But a few general ideas may not be out
of place.

In the first place, rally the children.
Wherever I have been among the
Granges in the State I always ask this
question,’ “Do you observe a children's
day in your Grange?” “No; we would
like to, but have no ddldren.” Poor
souls! If you have not children borrow
some. I have known this to be done
with good results. Rally the children.
Do not be exclusive; invite the children
whose parents are not members of the
Order; and by all means let these
children join in the exercises. Let
them feel that they are necessary in the
arrangements. Invite their parents to
come also. I have known parents to
thus enter a Grange hall for the first
time and receive, while there, favorable
impressions of the Order.

Make your halls bright and attractive
with flowers, fruit, and birds. Let all be
done with the idea of making it attractive
for the children. Put the arranging of
the program into the hands of some judi-
cious member of the Order, and let it
consist of songs, recitations, declama-
iions, dialogues, charades and tableaux;
all to be carried out by the children
with the assistance, ' of course, of the
older persons, if necessary.

Let every officer be in his or her

proper place with regalia on, and let as
much of the opening exercises be gone
through with as possible for on open
meeting. Do not have aprogram too
long; avoid tediousness by all means;
strive not to spoil everything by doing
too much; and should you think it ad-
visable to give the children an address,
be judicious in selecting the person to
speak. Let it be to the children and
for the children-—and not too long.
' Let the tables be arranged so as to
seat the children first. Let them be
your guests; and if anyone must wait
let it be the grown persons. With a
little tact and a little work you can
make this Children’s Day the gala day
of the year—a day that the children
shall look forward to with delight, and
back upon with pleasure. Strive above
all to make it a day of profit as well as
pleasure. I never knew a C/zi/a’rm’s
Day to (it a failure.

Pardon me if I relate to you a little
circumstance in regard to our Children’s
Day—a day that has always been a
bright spot in my life—where I received
such impressions as to the sweet charity
that is one of the foundation stones of
our Order that I shall never forget
them:

A certain Grange in this State had
voted to observe a Children’s Day.
All the children in the limits of the
Grange were to be invited—none were
to be missed. There was one very poor
family in the circuit, poor as to this
world’s goods, but rich in those things
that make poverty of purse of small
account. They had a beautiful family
of bright boys and girls, but do all they
could they could not always keep a
second pair of shoes or a best suit for
them all. These children were invited,
and the mother very frankly and sensi-
bly told the lady who invited them she
should like very much to have them
come but they had no shoes fit to wear
and some of the children had not suitable
clothing. She was sorry, but such were
the facts, and tears came to the moth-
er’s eyes and a pain in her heart as she
felt the pleasure that must be denied
her children because they were poor.
One day four new pairs of shoes with
a nice pair of stockings in each, cloth
for two new dresses, and a few other
necessaries found their way into that
home. The children were made ready
—and nicely ready too. They came
with songs and recitations; and more
than all that, mother came. She came
with a love in heart toward that Grange
that by the spending of a few dollars
had placed her children up on the same
level as the others; that had helped her
to feel that, though they were poor,
there was a tie that bound her to these,
her brothers and her sisters, stronger
than wealth—a tie of love. “Go thou
and do likewise.”

Would the impressions of that day
upon that family ever be forgotten?
Would not everymember of that Grange
feel that they had been profited in doing
good? And truly onto our heart there
fell a sunbeam—the trace of which will

ever remain as long as mem‘ory lasts.
MRS. MAYO.

KALAMAZOO CELERY.

A new work, giving the secret of success to Celery Culture
at Kalamazoo, by experienced growers. How 3 crops are
. grown in one season. Blanching without ground. Giv-
ing everything complete in minute detail. so the most in-
expcrienced can now grow Celery. Price. 50 cents,
postpaid. Shippers of vegeta" plants. Celery plants a

specialty. Write for prices. Address

 G. BOGHOVE & BBO..

, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

5-I-It

MY AGENTS ARE MAKING

$5.00. “GM. “END. I$.00. 05.00 and ‘$.00 Pf!‘ DI]
«-9 I in-vv.r'J:.lvLiiir._'y.vvn..i-*:..r5im;]a #2‘,

selling LEW1S‘S Combination mum FORCE Wars. It
makes 3COU|Eeh nmzhinee. I»-have eats all ‘over the U. 5.
who einnk Irotosasperday sell ry these pumps. I give
their e an Iddra in catalogue. a gut!-duct it I rill
rend a mntflc fun). ex crrpaid. In no ea-pru: mm‘o~ I’!-
III: (I. 5.,/or  MI e ofbrass ; will throw wars to
60 feet. and retai s for only 36.00. Indispensable for ‘ yin:
fruit trees. The Potato Bug atrachmeiir is a wonderful invent-
Ion. Agents wanted everywhere. Send at gnce for ill'_d cata-
logue, price-list and terms. Address P. C. Ll:WlS.CatslLill,N.Y.

IMYII3

Stekelee’sB|oodBitlers!

No Whiskey Here.

For the Cure of Bilious Rheumatism, Malaria, Indigestion, Bil-
iousness, 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 known. Those that know of my remedies know that I sell no humbug.
Reald-what the people say of these bitters. Too good not to publish the follow-
ing etter:

‘ MANTON, Mrci-i., June 23, 1885.
‘A Mr. Geo. G. Steketee——D_ear Sir: For years I have been troubled with constipation or cost-
iveness, dizziness and wandering of the mind. At times it seemed as though there were thousands
of needles penetrating my arms, fingers and legs, with hot and cold flashes running all over me,
bad breath and coated tongue. I have taken one bottle of your Steketee'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. Steketee 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
house remedies, all without cure. Two bottles and one-half of your Steketee’s Blood Bitters has
entirely cured me; so I say long live Mr. Steketee and his Blood Bitters.

J. C. VAN DER VEN.’.’

ASK Y‘C)'U'II. EEUGG-IST FOE

STEKETEE’S BLOOD BITTERS.

TAKE NO OTIEER.
Gr. STEKETEE, Sole Proprietor,

Grand Rapids, Mich.
PRICE, 500 and $1 Per Bottle.

GEO.

zspq GUIDE.

We issue the Buyers’ Guide in March and September of
each ear. It is now a book of 304 pages, 8vlxll inches in
size, 8,576 square Inches of information for the consumers.
It describes, illustrates and gives the rice of nearly all the
necessaries and luxuries in dai.y use y all classes of peo-
ple, and is sent free to any address upon receipt of IO cents

0 pay the cost of carriage. We charge nothing for the book.

A I of the goods quoted in the Guide we carry in stock,
which enables us to make shipments pramptlyand as ordered.

We are the original Grange Suppl House organized in
I872 to supply the consumer direct a wholesale prices, in
quantities to suit the purchaser. We are the only house in‘
existence who make this their exclusive business, and no
other house in the world carries as great a variety of code
as, ourselves. Visitors are invited to call and veri y our
statement.

Send for the Guide and see what it contains. If It is not
wo_rth I0 cents, let us know, and we will refund the amount
paid without question.

MONTGOMERY WARD & 00.,
227 81. 229 Wabash Ave., (llear Exposition Building) CHICAGO, ILL

GROCERIES!

It will be interesting to every Farmer in the vicinity of Grand Rapids
to learn that the

Wholesale Grocery House

~—oF-—

ARTHUR MEIGS 3:. GO.

Iiave pened. a.

Mammoth Retail Department,

and are selling all goods at much LOWER PRICES than any other dealers.
SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS will be given large purchasers. OUR
STOCK IS LARGE, and embraces everything in the
line of Groceries and Provisions. When
in town don't fail to call on us.

.A.].=x’.'I'IE-I'U'IE2. ZBEEIG-S3330.

:E?.e'ta.i1 Department

'77 and '79 south. Division Street,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICE. d C8
e 5y!

-7 mm

centennial Grange Farm Gate.

_ _ _ WEST CHESTER, BUTLER Co., 0., Aug. 18, 1884.

This is to certify that I have had in constant use on my farm, Richardson's Centennial G
Gates for five years, and am so well pleased with them that I would not be without the right to
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 ago—'I‘he Centennial
Gate does not sag the post, it will raise and swing over snow banks, up or down a side Iiill,'opens
both ways, fastens itself 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 1. have ever seen or used. J. P. MILLER,

_ Past Master West Chester Grange, No. 752, West Chester, Butler Co., 0.
We, the subscribers, have given thorough examination of Bro. J. P. Miller's Gates and know

Bro. Miller's statement in every respect.
Past Master Butler Co. Pomona Grange, Director Butler Co. Agricultural Society, and formerly
Ohio State Grange Stock Agent, at Cincinnal i, West Chester, Butler Co. 0.
PERRY WRIGHT, Master West Chester Grange, West Chester, Butler Co., 0. ’
JOHN L. VAN DOREN, Master VVyomirig Grange, Glendale, Hamilton Co., 0.
GEO. W. RA-YMOND, Secretary Wyoming Grange, Glendale, Hamilton Co., 0.
R. M. COX, Farmer, Mason, Warren Co., 0. ERASTUS COX, Farmer, Mason Warren Co 0
For information, address REL RATHBUN, care of J. T. COBB, Schbolcraft,  I
' ' feh15ni3

Reduction inPi-ice of Paints.
THE PATRONS’ PAINT WORKS have made another reduction in the price
of Paints, notwithstanding they are cheaper than any other Paints in the mar
even if the others cost NOTHING. Why? Because TEN THOUSAND PAT.
JRON S TESTIFY THAT THEY LAST FOUR TIMES AS LONG AS WHITE
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CD]:-IIE] GRANGE VISITOR.

MAY 1, 1886.

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i . Habeas Corpus.
Last thoughts ‘of Helen Hunt Jackson (H.~ll.)

M lbody, eh? Friend Death, how now?
' by all this tedious pomp of \\ rit?

Thou has reclaimed it sure and slow
For half a century, bit by bit.

In faith thou knowest more to-day
Than ldowhere it can be found!
This shrivelezl lump of suffering clay,
To which I now am chained and bound,

Has-not of kid: or kin a trace
To the good.body once I bore:

Look at this sunken, ghastly face;
Dlds’t'thou ever see that face before?

Ah, well, friend Death, good friend thou rut: '
Thy only fault thy lagging gate,

Ilstaken pity in.thy heart
For tiniorous ones that bid thee wait.

Do quickly all thou hast to do,
Nor I nor mine will hindrance make,
I shall be free when thou art through,
I grudge thee nought that thou must take!

Stay! I have lied; Igrudge thee one.
Yes, two, I grudge thee at this last,»-

Two niemlwcrs which have faithful done
My will and bidding in the past.

I grudge thee this right hand of mine.
I grudge thee this beating heart;

They never gave me coward signs,
Nor played me once a traitor‘s part.

I see now why in olden days
Men in lv:irl>.1ri«_- love or hate _

Nailed enemies’ hands at wide crossw:t_\'.-.
Shrined lc;uler<‘ hearts in costly state;

The s_vmliol., -ign, and instrument
Ofcntzh sunl’s purpose. passion, strife.

()ftire.~. in which are poured and spent
Their all oflove, their all of life.

0 feeble. mighty human hand!
0 fragile, dauntless human heart‘.
The universe holds nothing planned '
With such sublime, transcendent .'trt'.

Yes, Death, I own I grudge thee niim:
Poor little hand, so feeble now:

Its wrinkled palm, its altered line.
Its veins so pallid and so slow.

Oh, well, friend Death, gnarl friend thou art.’
I shall be free when thou art through.

Take all there is—take hand and heart;
Titre must be some where work to do.
August 7, I885.

Michlgan’s Family of Children.

Last week “business" (I believe that’s
what the men all say) called me to Cold-
vIa.ter,—-now the press-home of our Vis-
ITOR,--and through friendly kindness
I spent the night at the State School.
This refuge and school for dependent
children has been so often and well
written up by Editor Cobb that your
only hope of something new about it
from me must lie in the feminineness of
the pen that writes this account.

The tastily laid grounds and spacious
buildings crown a slight elevation of
ground a mile from town and gave a
happy outlook upon the near country,
at that time just caressed with an April
green, and the city, so well known by
its claims on beauty. Inside the build-
ings the care and comfort of the little
ones is in keeping with the exterior
appearance. At the children’s supper
time I was invited to their dining-hall
to’ see together the two hundred mimic
men and women that our State has gath-
ered to a better home and to such care
as most of them had never known until
brought there. When all the stools and
high chairs were mounted, each porce-
hin bowl of milk appropriated by one
of the small army and the long rpws of
small heads had bowed over them, while
many childish voices invoked blessings
fiom above, the work of the supper
hour went on much as it does at other
children’s suppers. The same did I say?
Not quite, for no words were spoken ex-
cept by ladies in charge, and such order
and politeness were manifest as do not
always accompany meals where children
are. At the “baby table” it did not
take much effort to be still, for already
little eyes were heavy and heads hung
sleepily over on tiny tired hands.

After tea we made a tour among the
cottage homes of the children and
lstened to some bf the evening exer-
cisesbeforetheir early bedtime. Each
Cottage accommodates a lady manager
and about twenty-five children. Every-
where a home-like feeling prevails, al-
thoixgltbome boys, we fancy, would feel
the orderly methods to be a. genuine
straight-jacket way of living beside the
halter-skelter sway they and their
“traps” hold in their own homes.

In the “baby cottage” we followed
the fashion tirade popular a few days be-
fore by Gov. Alger, and paid a visit to
the dozen crib-beds up-stairs, each with
itstwo sleeping babies, from two to six
years old; I judge. How blissfully un-
conscious they were of being on exhibi-
tion! Here was plenty of material for
sentimental indulgence over these poor
waifs that had been gathered in by the
arm of charity and started on healthy,

‘ useful lives.

Next morning I enjoyed a. visit to'all
the various departments necessary to
carry on the business of so large an es-
tablishment-—the.large laundry with the
engine rooms below, the nine cottages
and the school building, where an enter
taining hour was passed in the kinder-
garten room; and in the main building,
the ""6!fi’c'e’s, parlors,‘ library, ’ dining-
rooms, corridors, ’ airy chambers, the
sewing-Isbom. supply department for
clothing, rea.dy—made and uncutgoods;
kitchen, bake room, coolers, and even
thenelvias a “corner grocery” down in
the basement, and which i is the root -of
all good we suspect, that keeps‘ on the
place so many souls and bodies together
and "pyfi . Nor could’ I have. passed,
the'chudrcn’s play-room without notice,
iortlfe little fellow acting as my pilot

ijpointed it out with much --um-.’r;_-,st~.;d _
‘ pride,‘ and sagely comm‘ente'd'th'at"“if ‘disarranging-ithefrighjt angled‘ furniture?

.bies seemed to have a task—beds to

little boys are good they
things.” .

The ‘buildings and grounds were liter-
ally alive with children doing up the
morning’s work. Everyone but the ba-'

get good

make, walks to sweep, steps to scrub,i
dishes to wash, potatoes to pare, or er-
rands to run—-everywhere the system by
which so much.family machinery runs
smoothly was apparent,‘ and moved so
orderly that at first sight the employes
seem to have only an “easy time” and
a fine home. Think not so altogether,
for nothing of. the kind is well done
without much work being done. Plans,
judicious and firm, must be laid.and ad-'
hered to, and plans don’t grow nor live
of themselves, as every live person
knows. ' ' _
This fine conduct of the entire place
reflects much credit upon Mr. Jno. N.
Foster, the present Superintendent, and
his capable assistants,‘ J. B.
Kitchen and Parlor.

i We believe all will‘ admit that the
i kitchen has more to do with a healthy,
l happy home than the parlor, and no
ilife can unfold and make the most of
its opportunities where the oversight of
the kitchen is considered degrading, or
of less importance than all the other ap-
pointments of the home.

Take for example an elegant dwelling
furnished with all the luxuries of the
present time, and jhow much of comfort
and real enjoyment can there be if the
meals are irregular, poorly cooked and
illy served? It throws the whole econ-
omy into disorder if the meat is either
burned or raw, the colfee muddy, the
j bread sour, and no one can entirely ig-
i nore such discomforts for any length of
time. There must be a ruling power to
look after the kitchen and its interests
to make any home more than a shelter
from wind and weather.

How unwise it seems in those estab-
lishing a home to leave its furnishing
till the last! The better way is to fully
equip that department and then make
the parlor as pretty and cosy as their
means will admit of.

A pleasant, wisely appointed kitchen
is large and well lighted, with the win-
dows and doors so arranged that a draft
can be secured when wanted to carry off
the odors'of the cooking. It has a good
range or cook stovelarge enough to make
the cooking for the usual family easy,and
is wellfurnished with convenient utensils;
has a sink for washing dishes, with cup-
boards for the iron and tin ware needed
to prepare the food, and the pantry is
convenient of access. It is on a level
with the rest of the house but never a
step lower, and has what chairs and ta-
bles are necessary and a clock to regu-
late the time of getting the meals.

The sun has a. chance to lend its
cheering rays to brighten the presiding
genius who controls the health and hap-
piness of the rest of the dwelling. A
dark and sunless kitchen is just as much
to be deplored as a. dreary and uncom-
fortable parlor and has quite as much
effect on the household. If you find
neatness and order prevail there, you
are apt to find the same in the other de-
partments; but if the contrary is the
rule, no amount of glossing will hide its
lack in the living or general appearance
of the home. Although the kitchen
holds so high 3. place in a thrifty house-
hold, it does not seem necessary that
the whole of one's time should.be spent
there. Every one needs to leave behind
its cares and duties and spend a portion
of their time in the parlor to relieve
their mind from its daily routine, else
the thoughts and aims are narrowed and
we are liable to become a machine
whose highest delight is to excel in qual-
ity as well as quantity of viands with
which to tickle the palate.

The parlor is also a great factor for
good or ill in the home life, ‘and can be
made a haven of rest or a prison, just
as the housewife shall will. ,

We would have it a sunny, cheerful
room, that should be furnished as well
as the purse can afford after the kitchen
has been provided for. It should not
be-any too" good for every day use,‘ and
should be the one spot to look back to
when the children have left the ingle
side. Its bright lights and cheerful and
cosy appearance should tend to keep
places of questionable resort decidedly
in the background. I

We believe this idea of shutting up
the best of the house and living in the
poorest or the dullest and having no
home amusements has driven many a
boy away from his home, to take the
first step in a. downward course.

It is perfectly natural.for us to love
our home, and it is only when that home
is made to resemble a prison by undue
restraint or lack of agreeable surround-
ings that the boy finds his greatest
pleasure away from the home circle. It
matters not if there are no costly dra-
peries, or luxurious furniture is unknown,
if love and respect dwell there it is a
haven of rest and is ever looked back
to as the clearest spot on earth.

 Have you.,never gone into", a house‘
whose very air  to fneeie you?
where everything was in such spick-and-
span order that it‘ seemed almost sacri-
lege to touch anything, much" more to
. sit down andfienjoy yourself? the‘ chairs '
all at right angles, the books a’nd.papers
at right angles, and the people‘- them-
selves at right angles? , .

Is it any wonder‘ that children do not

r§i>tss.séd' for fear“

It seems to me that the best we have
is none too'good for our loved ones,
and their enjoyment should come nearer
to our hearts than that of the occasion-
al visitor. CHLOE.
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Mind Cure.

Beautiful spring is with us again and
the weather is so delightful one cannot
help giving expression to their feelings
in some way so will write a moment and
rest, for I have been very busy. These
bright days bring to light such an accu-
mulation ofjdnst and Cobwebs and va-
rious garments (which one needs handy
by in cold weather) that the average
housewife must be very busy in cleansing
and righting up. I presume the sisters
are all tired, too. Probably the most of

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changes you will make in your homes
and gardens. I think every woman
should have a few flowers, at least.

it will rest and cheer one so much if you

; only devote Ct few moments each day to

their culture, besides all in the house-
hold will become interested in their
growth and beauty.

I have just finished reading a piece on
mind cure which advised the concentra-
tion of the mind on something pleasant,
on something that requires no thought
to throw off disease. .-\s so many of my
acquaintances are complaining I would
like to inquire if any ot the readers of
the Visiron have read up this subject.
and what their ideas are about it? This
writer says hundreds are trying it, and
so curing themselves of simple and even
serious ailments. It certainly has one
good feature about it. It does away
with all whining and complaining. You
must claim you are well and make the
mind control the body. I have been
taking one of my first lessons.

ANN M. BRiGH.x.\i.

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A Friendly Chat.

As we thought we should like to
speak of several things, we concluded
“A Friendly Chat” would make the
right heading for our article, as we
have noticed that the heading was the
main point many times that prompted
us to read articles.

It has been a long time since we have
held pleasant converse with our Patron
friends through the columns of our
beloved GRANGE VISITOR, yet we have
made frequent calls by our jottings,
which has been a reminder to you that
we take a deep interest in the Grange
cause, and that we are so willing to
stand up boldly while we keenly feel
the lack of ability to do justice to so
great a cause. Still we feel duty bound
to do something to help advance
Grange principles and to help develope
a higher standard of man and woman-
hood among the farming class. My
Brothers and Sisters, there is a great
field that is awaiting us, both in and
out of the Grange. Shall we be idlers
in this great field of life? We cannot
all expect to occupy pleasant places,
nor prominent positions in society, but
we can each do our own duty where-
ever our lot is cast if we but think so.
Whatever our hands find to do we
should do with our might; let us not
falter if we have labor that is disagree-
able to perform. Our hands are not
any better than others, th'ough'you’a.re
rich and I poor. 0! arn’t we glad that
honor and integrity is the great prere-
quisite for a noble man or woman, in-
stead of wealth? It is said that an
honest man is the noblest work of God.-
We expect it meant women, too, as one
is of small account in the world at large
without the other.

We want to tell the Sisters that for
several years we have been saving
essays and short articles cut from the
GRANGE VISITOR in a scrap—book.
They are perfect gems to me. You can-
not begin to think how much pleasure
I derive from reading them. Just think,
such a host of contributors altogether
in one book, all bound by the same fra-
ternal ties, and all laboring for the same
cause—the development of a better
man and womanhood. Brothers, too,
have the honor of a position among our
selections as you well deserve, although
we are sorry to say, you don't write
nearly so many essays as our Sisters.
Now, we expect to take lots of comfort
in reading our scrap-book, especially
so, should we live to become unable to
attend the Grange, which we fear is not
far distant.

A few words now to our contributors.
Sister Prout, I agree witli you in every
particular, in your article in the GRANGE
VISITOR of March 15. We find many
things practical and valuable amid
Maple Twigs, and was much pleased
with Sister A. M. Leonard’s article on
School Life; and with our new depart-
ment we are also well pleased. Many
valuable suggestions‘ are presented,
which we hope will be taken into ac-
count. We cannot mention all of your
names, for you are so many,but we assure
you everything is read by us, as a rule,
and appreciated, even to the advertise-
ments, which we wish were not so many.
Could we not get rid of some of them
if the GRANGE VISITOR had a greater
circulation? Does the Vrsrron have to
resort to so many advertisements in
order to sustain it? If so, we are sorry,
and think it high time, Patr‘qg§’.1,¢_’£—m to
bestir themselves _in\beh;a'lfof étuébest
supporter of Gran ‘fSi'incip*les=“-‘the
GRANGE VISITOR. e expect to have

love a. home where everything childish ,

advertising in all papers to some extent;
it is quite necessary, but it is thought

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cf a noise or of

you are racking your brain over what

Some may think they have no time, but‘

I by -‘some that the Visrrok has more than
 i‘s..fo.r,_the good, of.-the Order-—-thatit

might better be filled with good read-
ing matter, as there are so many sub-
‘, jects of importance that should be dis-
icussecl through the medium of our
.(}R.-ixcc VISITOR which is of vital in-
] tcrest to the Agriculturist, and questions
‘on State and National politics should
be freely discussed. The farming class
must become better informed before
they will stand up for their rights side
by side with the lawyerand great pro-
fessionals of the day. Farmers must be
represented as lawmakers as well as
those of other industries in order to se-
cure their rights and privileges.
We are glad the GRANGE Visrrou is
taking so much interest in the capital

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tendency to help harmonize the two.
It is deplorable that we have so many
strikes and riots; it looks so iuncivilized
in what is called a free country.

My letter is quite lengthy after all,and
hope you will excuse me, as we have
not entered the Ladies’ Department for
a long time. It is ahabit of mine to
write long letters. There is not a few
other things I should like to speak of in
this letter, but will not tax your patience
any longer. Auxi‘ KA'I'l<‘..

ifjealtlg anb gnnusctncnt.

Tin-'. two new departments added to
the reading matter of the \'1:<1'1'ok makes
that already valuable paper unsurpassed
as a family paper. Mrs.‘ l\Iay0’s several
articles on “Health” are prolific of
thoughts and suggestions which every-
body ought to know. but many do not.

Miss l‘lucll’s department on “Amuse-
ments” cannot but be read with interest
by all. Every timely and well directed
effort for amusements in the family and
society are conducive to health and
good morals. livery reader should
ponder on her words about “Conversa-
tionalists.” The article she has brought
to her help from the pen of Miss Emma
Rogers will confer a lasting favor upon
mothers and all who have children un-
der their care, by her instructions in
“Kindergarten in the Home.” I have
heard it commented on many times,
and wishesithat they might be continued,
as very few have any knowledge of the
work.

Will she please give the address of
some pottery where the clay can be ob-
tained? The bricks are not to be had
here. C. P. A.

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No doubt tobacco blunts the sense of
propriety. The narcotic nosegay is as
unconscious of the odors he exhales as
is the eater of onions and garlic. “In-
difference and apathy with‘ regard to the
comfort of others," says the London
Times, “is one of the most remarkable
effects of tobacco. No other drug will
produce anything like it. The opium
eater does not compel you to eat opium
with him. ’I‘he drunkard does not com-
pel you to drink. The smoker compels
you to smokc—-nay, more, to breathe
the smoke he has just discharged from
his own mouth."——_/or. Cook.

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FROUDE says, “Men sound in soul
and limb can be bred and reared only
in the exercise of plough and spade, in
the free air and sunshine, with country

enjoyments and amusements; never
amid foul drains and smoke blacks,‘ and
the eternal clank of machinery.”

 gently’ gepartment.

To Our Boys and Girls.

In olden times royalty was heralded
by a flourish or blast of trumpets to
warn the people, who were expected to
do homage to their monarch. Well,
the first sweet notes of the returning
birds this morning heralds the ap-
proach of spring with a. pageantry more
georgeous than was ever dreamed of by
monarchs of earth. Let us wa.tch this
procession as it slowly unfolds itself be-
fore us; and to do this properly we
must employ all the senses and faculties
of our being. Now all is bleak and bare
of vegetation, and old winter still howls
defiance from his icy throne in the
north, but his glorious majesty, the sun,
has turned from his southern journey
and is sweeping northward, and we
begin to feel and see the effect ofhis
approach in the warmer winds, return-
ing birds; and soon the swelling buds,
opening leaves and the emerald gar-
ments bedecked with gems of every hue
will appear. Behold, nature is clothed
in splender to welcome back her king.
What a. grand study this is for us! and
as we study what pleasure it brings us.
How it enlarges our minds and increases
our capacity for enjoyment, our desires
for knowledge and improvement, our
love and adoration for ‘the Supreme

in the returning birds we are led to
think of ‘the power that gave them
instinct that protects‘ these fragile little
creatures from destruction and brings
them back to us when danger is ast'
with their sweet songs “and sprig, tly
ways, and their valuable help, too.
The growing leaf andiunfolding flower
invites us to study into the mysteries of
-their life,.gro_wth~, color,’ p'rbp‘erties and
objects; for,’ which they‘ have been
cre.a'ted., , I ‘ J I V‘ KM’
The sun and his seeming movements
demands our attention..~ ‘How’ surprised
we are when we first leainthat therising
and setting of the’ sun ‘and his motions

and labor question: May it have a,

pletely deceiving our senses. Whata
time the ancients did have about it be-
fore it was finally settled that it was
this old earth after all that made all the
the apparent motions of the sun. 0,
what a grand subject astronomy isf
How it must lift_ou_r minds from the
petty things of earth and direct them,
more enlarged and unfolded, upward
and ever onward toward nature’s God.

My young friends, shall we waste one
precious moment in thoughtless idle-
ness when so much is printed in great
capital letters all over the face of nature
for us to read?

How much do we gain when we de-
grade ourselves with tobacco or alcohol,
or our moral and intellectual nature
with immorality, or too much fiction?
Why, the mind can’t grow with such
food. There is nothing whatever in
such things to expand or improve it;
on the contrary, it surely dwarfs and
perverts our best faculties, and we may
grow to maturity and live to old age a
visible proof of this truth. Is that your
ambition? I know it is not; but let me
tell you that however strong and self
reliant you may feel it will need your
constant effort to keep from drifting the

Being who must have created all. First,_

wrong way.
1 Now, I hope a great many young
 people, say from eight to fourteen years
' old, will chance to read this. Per-
haps l have used some words you don’t
underst:tnd. Well, I did not mean to
when I began, but I could not express
my meaning very well without them. l.
will tell you what to do. (let :1 small
dictionary, and always have it handy
when you read anything, and look up
every word you don’t understand. You
have no idea how fast you can learn in
that way. A few days ago I heard :1
very learned main say he always had his
dictionary within reach when he read
anything. Such a course will give us
wealth,not of gold,but what is far better.
wealth of language and of ideas.
From your friend,
CIIAS. S. l\'ii,1..~u~‘.s.

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From Frolic to Fact.

Several years ago I had what my
friends called “mushroom fever.” I
never heard of another case, and it did
not, in this single instance, prove to
be of a contagious nature. A sudden
fancy for lichens, mosses, particularly
for mushrooms, took me searching along
the fences, under leaves, over logs and
through the woods, for anything in the
Crygfitogamz‘ line. Many an armful of
“trash” accumulated around A in the
door-yard as the results of walks, drives
or aimless rambles through our country
roads and woodlots. Whatever may
have given a start to such an odd freak
I do not now recall, but the inexhaust-
ible variety that I found, their curious
growths, and in a few cases their ex-
quisiteness of forms and delicacy of
colorings kept the “fever” in good pro-
gress for some weeks. It was a marvel
to me that such beautiful vegetation
could be so plenty and I had never had
my attention called to it. When I had
thought- to have found all the species in
our neighborhood, lo! the half was not
known, and new revelations cropped out
in the most unexpected places.

All things have their day, it is said,
and in time my patient friends rejoiced,
I suspected, when the last importation
of mushrooms lost its pristine beauty
and. prosaically decayed as the others
had done, Had I studied mushrooms
in botanical lore as diligently as I did
the “subjects” themselves, I am con-
vinced my enthusiasm would have been
unabated and much more to a satisfac-
tory point. Worthless occupationit was,
probably, in all points save this--it
shows how great fruits the habits of
observing and admiring might bear if
well trained. No legacy can compare
with the practice of observation. Self-
made men have made the close looking
into common things about them the
rungs of the ladder by which they
climbed to wealth or fame, or power-
ful personal influence. If, hand in hand
with this habit goes the habit of admir-
ation, it will be touching matter of fact
things of earth with a glow like that of
sunshine. To criticise unjustly is un-
kind; besides, it is forming an ill prac-
tice, and one that rebounds to our own
harm by giving us eyes for the-uncouth,
the ill-shaped, the misfitting and the im-
propricties in our surroundings and our
friends. Some good everything and
everybody affords. It is the duty of
the young, especially, to dwell on ad-
mirable forms, hues, motions and traits
of character rather than to be con-
stantly seeking to find fault. Walk
through nature and among people with

and not to blemishes.

Are there lordly oaks above your
path? Stand from under and admire!
Are there filmy mosses at your feet?
Bend low and study their intricate pat-
terns. Has a. spider spread the lawn
with lace and Heaven dusted it with
dew? Stop a moment to admire and
observe this work of a" night. Perhaps
the oak is transformed by man into a
triumph of architecture? Stand off,
again, and take in its plan and propor-
tions. Does a rare landscape flash be-
fore you from Na.ture’s page or ainter’s
canvas? Observe closely its admirable
points. Is it‘ the acquired grace of the
trickster or su pleness of ‘a. ‘schooltnate
or gymnast ,t at attracts your eye?
There, too, isroom to admire‘ the won-
derful make-up of the "human bad
that permits of such develepernen .
And so on.‘ It is said we grow to be like

north and south are all delusions, com- .

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“MY 5i5t€T'l1\e down in a manna,’ says

You're to waiuif you pleasc. . ,i

A nd says I might stay an she came, if/I’d promise
her never to tease, "

Or speak till you spoke to me first. But that’s
nonsense, for how would. you know,

What she told me to say if I didn’t? Don’t you
really and truly think so?

“And then you'd feel strange here alone and you
wouldn‘t know just where to sit, ,

For that chair isn't strong on its legs, and we
never use it abit.

We keep it to match with the sofa.
says it would be like you

To flop yourself right down upon itand knock
out the very last screw.

But Jack

“Suppose you try? I won’t tell. \'ou’re afraid!
Uh! you’re afraid they would think it..was
mean! 

‘Well, then. there's the album —-that's pretty, if
your fingers are clean.

For sister says sometimes Idaub it; but she only
says that when she_‘s cross. v

That’s her picture. You know it. It's like her,
but she :=.in‘t as good looking, of course!

"This is me. It's the best of ’em all! Now tell
me you’d never have thought

'l‘h;it once l_\vas little as that? It S the only one
that could be bought— -

For that was the iiiessage to pa from the photo-
graph man where I sat-— .

That he wonltlii’t print off any more till he first
got his money for that.

-‘Wliat? . Maybe your tired of waiting.
often shc’s longer than this.

'l‘hcrc’s all her back hair to do up,and all of her
front curls to fiizz,

But it is nice to be sitting here talking like
grown up people, ju-I you and me.

Do you think you‘ll be coiiiing here often?
do! lint don't come like Tom Lee.

\\’h y

Uh,

“Tom Lee. ller last beau. Wliy, my goodness!
He used to be here day and night,
‘Till the folks thought he'd be her liusband; and
Jack says that gave him a fright.
You won’t run away, then, as he did? for you’re
not a rich man, they say.
_ Pa says you’re as poor as a cliurch-mouse.
are you? And how poor are they?

‘ *:\in’t you glad that you met me? Well, I am;
for I know now your hair isn't red,
But what there is left of it’s mousy, and not what
that naughty Jack said.
Ilut there! I must go. Sister's coming. ButI
wish I could wait, just to see
If she ran up to you and she kissed you the way
.-the used to kiss Lee."
——Bre'/ //izrlr in My /mlrgtmilrn/.

Now

 “AI l-lo EEi'éi;7s"i~ie's7E"N MM”

-Printed from Cbyntrjr Crnrlrvratx by request of Paw Paw
Grange. ;\'o. xu7,]

Often. in passing through wood or orchard,
and observing the curious, paper—likc nest of the
hornet depcndiiig from some bough, I have felt
a wish to know something of the home-life of
the builders. Any near approach and indica-
tion of unwarrantable liberties, however, was
sure to be received with such business—like inove-
ments on their part, as to dampen the ardor of
investigation, and leave the wish unfulfilled.
But “all things come to him who waits," and
one day, in early springtime of the year last
past, I found the desired opportunity at hand,
for, while near a window in my sitting—room, I.
chanced to notice some insect alight outside the
glass. On closer observation, I found it a lztrge
queen hornet, I'c‘:_/ta mam/am.

Encirclcd by her forearms, and pressed
against her body, she carried a ball of dark hue
and moist appearance, which she finally attached
to a small lump of similar material, previously
spread upon the under side of the upper win-
dow-sash. She then, by various turnings and
manipulations with her mandibles, drew it into
a large depending thread ofa little more than :1
half inch in length. Away she flew, and soon
returned with another accumulation, which was
carefully fastened to the extremity of the thread,
and drawn out horizontally :1 little in all direc-
tions. \Vork continued here, and soon I
noticed several concavities in the under surface
of this shelf; partitions were placed and built
downward, forming cells in which eggs were
deposited, one in a cell, and not more than one
cell utilized each day. The eggs were attached
to the side of the cells near the top. After this,
these walls were still further elongated, and,
from being round at first, gradually assumed the
form of a hexagon.

When seven of these were completed, a cov-
ering was begun upon the window-sash, and
drawn downward over the cluster of cells.
\Vheu completed, it had the form of an egg,
with an opening in the bottom ofsufiicient size
to enable the queen to easily pass in and out.
lrler time was now divided between the con-
struction of her house and the care of the eggs.
The latter received many visits during the day.
At such times she appeared to inspect the cell
with much care, and passed her tongue rapidly
over the eggs, evirlently for the purpose of moist»
ening them.

It must have been a matter of some surprise to
her, when she had this first shield or covering
about three-fourths done, to come into contact
with :1 solid substance, which proved no barrier
to sight, but through which her best eflbrts failed
to force her body, for I hardly think she took
this window-glass into account when she selected
the place for her summer house. Something
very like reason was brought to bear upon the
dilemma, for at frequent intervals small should
crs were drawn out upon the glass to serve as
braces or stays. No sooner was this one, wall
complete than another was begun, and formed
around the first, with about one-eighth of an
.inch space between. Another and another still
was swiftly built. When the third was complete,
the lower part of the first was torn away, and all
through the season's work, as outer walls were
added, inner ones were torn down.

In about eight days from the deposit of an
egg, it showed a change, and began aslight
movement. Soon it was seen to take food,
which, whatever may have been its original
nature, appeared to have first been niasticated
by the mother, and then transferred to the mouth
of the young, which apparently had no choide as
to receiving it. The process was amusing; The
mother hornet would come home in great haste
from a foraging expedition, rush to some cell,
and, placing her mouth to that of the occupant,
make one or two quick, decided rno_veni_ents,
and the feeding was done, “wiIl’e~nrll,‘e.=-” I
was reminded of an incident related‘ by one of
Africa’s explorers, Capt. Spekc. On entering one
of the royal liutsof the Wahumas, he saw'se'I§eral
young girls in the presence of their father, who,
rod in band, was compelling their d,illige_n,t_; ap-
plication-to certain milk pots; In both castrs I
rapidgrowth was the result. _' ; ,-

The larval state of';t_I§_g:,"11¢5fD¢l- -I3-$t¢d“{'°m
twelve to fourteen days; atthe _en4-9fW1!i€Ik‘{fim¢

          

 

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head devoured them at leisure. When these

days were ‘ended, it ' ed _to close the o -
ing of its cell with I‘. thin white vail orpellicle,
and the movements, which had been almost con-
tinuous from the first, became more slow, _until
at the end of two days perfect quiet was attained,
and the sleep of the chrysalis began.

Some of the cells were so placed that the
glass formed one side, thus enabling me to_notc
all growth and change. After the chrys_alis, or
pupa, became quiet, the first thing noticeable

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was a thickening, and ipparent harding of the
skin, which became Opaque, whereas it had be-
fore been s"emi-transparent. The'body near the
centre became constricted to a mere thread, to
mark the division of the thorax and abdomen.
The shape of the head then began to show, and
the eyes became prominent and deep in color. I
The wings, legs and antennae were faintly out-
lined on different parts of the body, and gradu-
ally came out in form as though cut by some in-
invisible chisel. Soon after the e) es “stood out
to prominent display," the color of the whole
body, which was at first very light, began taking
on a deeper shade. Together worked the iii-
visible chisel and brush, until ten or'twelve days
had passed from the covering of the cell. when ;
the occupant ‘in its new form tnre away the bar-
rier it had placed between itself and the mother's
care that ‘ had supplied its. earlier wants, and
stepped briskly forth a bright and glistening
hornet, into the work-a-day world ofits race.

As a cell , was vacated, its inner walls were I
carefully scraped out, and another egg placed
therein. During this time other cells contain- 
ing other eggs had been ranged around the l
original seven, and as one by one the perfected I
insects emerged, it required very little observa-‘ I

'tion to convince one that they belonged to the ;

household division, styled workers; for very lit- E
tle time was taken to become acquainted with 
their surroundings before their wings were tried, 
and soon they were as busy as the founder of)
theirilittlc home. ; 1

As the card of comb ll'1CrCa5'_‘(I in size am-I
weight, other threads or pedicels were spun from
it, to its support above. When the card had at- I
taiiied a breadth of about six inches, :1 thread
was dropped from its center, and another cluster '
of cells comnienced. This was awell-ordered
Il()LhCl‘l0l(l. and possessed the most industrious
children it has ever been my fortune to incet,
all sharing alike in the liuinc—builtliiig and care
of the young.

The sayiiig l.I1I'tl“llt.‘(‘ls have other flc.'i~,”t\c.,\v:ts
verified in this case, for the nest was early in— ‘
fcsted by a very minute species of insect. ,

I’acl<arrl says the material used by this hornet L
in building is masticated rotton wood. After
close observation, I could hardly agree with this
statement, but should say rather that its color ‘,
and fiber proclaim it to have been gathered ‘
from the surface of weatlier-lieaten wood and
formed into a kind of paste by being mixed with =
a gluelikc substance which the hornet is enabled
to produce from its own body.

I never weuried of watching the little workers,
as, day by day, they brought and spread the lit-
tle gray balls. One would alight on the outer
covering of the nest, and, looking around for a
moment. make choice of some place to work,
then press the ball it carried upon the edge of
the unfinished cover, and ruiining backward,
draw italong for some distance, making a little
roll, then returning to the point of commence-
ment, go backward over the same route, drawing
down and pressing with its mandibles, as one
would use their hands. This would be repeated
itntii the required thinness and shape were se-
cured, when the impatient wings would soar
away to renewed labor. It has been said that
insects can generate :1 certain amount of heat by
rapid breathing, and I often noticed members of
this’ colony, upon the cells containing brood,
keeping their bodies in swift vibration by the
energy of their efforts in this direction.

In the early days of this home, its originator
——thc queen niothcr—was full oflifc and activity,
bustling around with all the iinportaiice of any
young housekeeper, and the adveiit of the earli-
est children elicited much anxiety and watchful-
ness on her part. Ilut as the season advanced,
and the family rapidly increased, her anxious
fears seemed to abate somewhat, her working
zeal aliroad flagged. her pace grew slower, and
she was more frequently “at home" to callers.
Gradually the weigliticr duties were relegated to
younger shoulders (and wings), while she cou-
tcnted lierselfwitli the oversight of affairs. With
an air of importance and dignified demeanor, she
inspected over and over again the work of her
children, and kept the cells furnished with eggs.
Early in July the third card of cells was started.
These were, however, much larger than those of
earlier date,and proved to be dedicated to the rear-
ing of queens, while a circle around them, smaller
than any before, subsequently produced drones.
A fourth card reached a breadth of three inches
before the season closed. When the raising of
queens and drones began, the upper cards of
cells were deserted, and no more workers were
hatched. -

The first few coverings of the nest were made
entire; but soon they were formed into sections,
joined at frequent intervals to the ones beneath,
thus giving great strength to the structure. When
the early autumn frosts appeared, it had a length
of sixteen inches, and diameter across the glass
of ten inches. The chill air of September drove
them from outside labor, and each day many of
those going forth for food, failed to return.
Their numbers were being rapidly decimated,
and tearing to lose them all by further delay,
I decided to take down the nest and capture
what few inmates remained. Accordingly I
“set out" like a certain “brother Richard” of
nursery fame, with “bottle and bag,” and taking
position near the nest, began a vigorous prod-
ding with a stick. Several workers rushed forth
with loud expressions of indignation, and an
evident determination to rout the intruder; but
an insect net speedily encircled them, and they
were conveyed with some care and respectful at-
tention to the interior of a cyanide bottle. I
continued the attack until appearances justified
the belief that all had left their home. I then,
with a sharp knife, loosened the nest from the
window and took it down, when, to my surprise,
I found there were some young queens within.
I carefully laid it down, and after much labor
coaxed out nearly one hundred queens and a
number of drones. This unexpected quiescence
of the queens proved them to be amazons in
naught but size. As I look on the empty nest
and the few inmates I have preserved, fancy
portrays again their oldtime busy life and droll
building, which beguiled many an hour ofthe
long summer days. i\1any ct lesson may be
gleaned from simple things, and another picture
now hangs on memory’s wall, which, in my life,
will doubtless never have a duplicate.

Van Buren Co., Mich. Mus J. C. (loom).

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MAN, keep your record clean.
—-/o/m B. Gmlgfi.

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~ lslaIid.llIi'nIa ‘I
stuck Farm.

, us,-once Isle, lush.

flit! uoduetected {min the
gutofsirisald dams of es-
Iablisltedmpuution and reg-
istered in the French and
. American Stud Books. We
_ ' ’ have-~u very largcinumber of
inpafidand grade slalliom and brood mares on hand.
oes_nrusoed" wCo :flw&it& Sand for
e; usti-at ca ogue, . Adurpss.
SAVAGE & I-‘ARNUM; D‘eir’o‘if£ Mich.

   
   
     
  
  
   

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,will occupy the" corner store‘ in the \\'enha.m

Block, -

ll. t.lnei Monroe ttll Illlllll  

where in the future,  in the past, ‘they will 
make a specialty of Physicians‘ Prescriptions, 3

Farmers‘ and Faniily Receipts. Our stock of,

Veterinary Medicines and Instruments will al-
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WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OI"

ADJUSTING TRUSSES,

and willgiiarantee -.1 fit. (lui $8.00 Battery is
equal to any $15.00 lhittcry ever offered for sale.

We Guarantee Eijli Eveiilliiii.

M1lls,LaceI. Dickinson

Now of No. 8 Canal Street, after

MAY 1,
N. E. Clllltll‘ llIlllll‘03& Divlsloi Streets.

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A D-. Dl;G.A~lIID_. Highland Station Oak-
o1a,nd.C<».._.Mich., Farm one huff mile
north of the station, breeder of Shorthorns of
Pomona, Young Pli llis, White Rose, Bell Ma-
hone and Sally Wal rfamilies. Stock of both

sexes for sale. Terms easy, prices low. Cor-
rcspondence solicited.

A.t:"*the Melis Hardware Store, 17,19 G-randville Ave., Gd. Rapids.

 

ERLIAN CARP. Orders filled promptly, and
satisfaction guaranteed; address,
SILL & REEVE, Dexter, Mich.

   
   
 

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GALE VVALl§].VG (7l?[.'l‘I\’A'l‘()ll, No.
made with expansion or conipressinxi apriu v.an<l I‘:

be adjusted to work Beans or rows plnntm ex inch:-4
rt. It. is simple and durable, and Is guaranteed 1.)

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(:'I)\?e entire HflII‘4f2I(‘.KIO|’!.

_ Manufacturers of THE
‘IILOVIS, Walking and

       
   
  

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Tongiies, an
depth desired and mud» to Inn.--~ In 0- from

"ALBlON, M3034.

and
TI)!‘
_i p1-.)ws fl'\tI-‘I0.
with tour or six uliovels and center tooth for f;i:!i '~..
I"? “I"!lI.

UFACTURING coi,

   

  
  

         

‘in-... t..i-..~i.s.n\| rt. ,mu een rely
of wruutzlir uinl iimlln-atrlv: iron. The niolst sun 9
: in! durable plow in the nuirkvt. Hus par ect
zov.-er or Home Lift. Tnrnsnsqimre corni-rwttm
’ out .u.'.sin~.; Ilio plnw out of the ground.

GALE Cl-KILLED SULKY and HAND
Riding Cultivators and Horse Hay

.akes. All Goods warranted.

TIIT‘. (LI L”. l’I'.{)V.'§ are rnnxle with adjustable
;.:i uual B -nii:s, .~t:‘;ii':l2t. or slflllllllf Land Sides
" I'fl.l('!‘.l i~‘rniiul:iril Jointernml {nee Cutter. *
5 are the ll-_:lm-st «I and most perfect (Jhtlled
All of tZ'.:.- U" * Cu!‘ .v:r.i X‘.i‘I' made with Nplil
~'.i I i::i_M~ i-djustc-«I to any

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on. ii». ni:iili- of _‘\l:ilit-itlilv Iruii. A Child can
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Circulars sent on application Correspondence solicited. Mention this paper. Address

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CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY TIME TABLE,
 _. .. .. ___NQV-16~_188¢;.-_ .. . . .
Tl\'.\I.\\‘ WI-1\TWARD —(‘r2.\"l‘kAL MERIDIAN Tl.\!l'.. I TRAINS EASTWARD—CI!NTRAL MERIDIAN TIME.
A’ K ' I  i"Nri-“2‘l~I\fo. 4 I I‘-"of? . if , "W No.1. No.  9 No. 5. No. 11.
FT_triii.\.-.2  Egigs  ll?)-a(;.I“_!—L.c:~ STATMVSV Filing)“ !I:_ppnriet:;l§EAtlantic Xalpso
4 ~ ~ . . . .»s.i .. ' » . - . '-I .x ress. coon.
1Ex.Sun. Daily. Daily. Ilixzsun ‘,0 Sunday. Daily.  I):ily_ Ex_Sun.
Lv Port Huron . . . .  ti 25r|M-Tr)5.\ll! 8 05PM: 4 mix»: l, I.v Chira o . . . . . . . . .. 9 io.\M 3 25l'.'lll 8 3:: PM 5 an):
"Ii-nlayCity........l74b“.*9 io.. *9 m“l5i8" ; “C.R. .&P.Cr'g.ioo9" ¢2o“§g27“ 635“
" Itaipeer . . . . .. .‘ 8 r2 " 9 28" l 9 34 ‘ , $40“  " Rcedesdale . . . . . .. to 55'‘ . . . . . . . .l*ro 08' 7 I7 "
“ Flint.‘ . . . . . . . .  8 53 “ zoos " lro xo" E 0' I, “Valparaiso . . . . . . .. ir 5o" 5 32 “ no 41 " 8 co"
A1'Detr0Il. G.W.Div . , . . .. ‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..l . . . . . . .. 1, " Haskells . . . . . . . . .. :2 07]’)! 5 46" * . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
LvDctroit.I).G.H&.\I’, 6 5 20" 4 .- ; -- Szillwell ........ .. .2 I
" Pontiac . . . . . . . . . .' 7 55 3o " 5 3 " South Bend.. .; . .  i 2

“Holly . . . . . . . .. E8 50" 12 norm: 6 * ‘ " Granger-s‘.........; i I

ArI)uraiid....... 1 9 30" r 05“ 7 ' "Cassopolis . . . . . . . .l 2 -1

LV Durand . . . . . . . I 9 39" ‘[0 39 “ ro ; “ Marcellus . . . . . . . . 2 45 " . . . . . . . .l"‘l 17 “ . . . . ....

I" Lansing . . . . . .. lie 47 " nr 37 " gii ] “ Schoolcraft . . . . . .. 3 0.4" 8 o6 “ I r 37 " Pins.

‘Charlotte . . . . .. in 3:" )1? xi“ fr: 9 “Vicksburg........ 3 15" 8 15" i r 48“ Ex.Stm.

Arllattle Creek. .. . ,r2 3omiz r oo “ i 1 Ar Battle Creek . . . . .. 4 a3 -' 3 55 u 2 40 at No. 7‘

Lv Battle Creek . . . . . . . . . . . .  r 20" I i ’Lv Battle Creek,,.... 4 o8 " 9 oo" 2 45 " 7 com

" Vl‘3k~‘l’l“’E.. . . . . . .. 2 ii “ ? " Charlotte . . . . . . . .. 9 3 . -

" Schoolcraft. . . . . . . . .. 2 1*; " 1 “Lansing . . . . . . . . . . io 4

" MEFCEHUS - - - » - - J 43 " Ar Durand . . . . . . . . . . . ii 5

“ Cassopolis . . . . . . . X. . . . . . . . . ' Lv Durand . . . . . . . . . . I .

“ Grangers . . . . . . . j Ar Holly . . . . . . . . . . . .

"SouthHend... . , . . . . . .  "Pontiac..........

“ Stillwell . . . . . .. .4 . ‘

" Haskells . . . . . . . . ..lEx.Sun. 5 :5 " I

“ Valparaiso . . . . . . . .i 6 o5 wt? 5 32 " J

“ Reedesdale . . . . .  6 45 " 1 . . . . . .. . , _. 4);‘, N 9 25“
“ C  I. 45'. I’- Cr‘: 7 30 “ 5 56 “ _ . lAr Port Huron.. 45" (0 40"
ArChir:ago . . . . . . . . . ., 8 40“ , 7 35": .;
i I \Va-yifreights leave Fchoolcr-aftieas" ard 4.20  Nos. 3,-1:5 and 6 daily?‘ till’ othg: EEK y 

Way freights leave Sclioolcrnfi westward 9.13 P. st

Nos, 1. 7 and S will stop at Durand '20 minutes for meals
No. 4 will stop at Ilattle Creek 2n minutes for meals.
No. i will,stop at Valparaiso co minutes for meals.

Nos. 3 and 6 have a dining car attached between Chica-

go and Battle Creek.

Where no Lime is shown at the stations trains will not ‘

stop.
*Trains do not stop for passengers except on signal.

All Chicago 8'. Grand Trunk trains are run by Central ,

. Sunday.
Pullman Palace Cars are run through without change
' between Chicago and Port Huron. Detroit. East Sagint,
| Bay City, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Bufialo, New York,
I Toronto. Montreal and Boston.
‘I Dining cars on 3 and 6 West of Batfle Creek.
Gi-:0 B. Reeve. \V._]. SPICER,
Traffic Manager, General Manager.
Chicago, Ill. Detroit Mich.
E. I’. KEARV, Agent, Schoolcmft. Mich.

Ftzindard Time, which is one hour slower than Eastern I

Standard Time.

BEANSliiiPOTATOES,ii 

Green and Dried Fruit, Onions,
Poultry, Furs, POIIZB,
Wool, &c.,

'V§7'¢h.l\'l"'I'EE1

Those having Produce to dispose of will do well
to correspond with me and get posted in their
value on this market. By sending me a sample
of beans (postage Ic per ounce) I will state by
return mail 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 cent.
I’r:ttcrnally yours, THUS MASON,
State Business Agent,
163 South Water Street, Chicago.

THE MAN

WHO MAKES

5 Ton \Vnzon Scales.
Iran Lew-u, Steal Bnrlngn, 3l’:I.II
Tun Beam and Burn x, for

$80 and

JONES he pays the freiglat-—fnr (I'll

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. KAIAMAZOO DIVISION TIME TABLE.

Standard timc~9oth meridian.
G9I_N(} SOUTH.

   
  
  
    
  

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' Lv Grand Rapids. 7 50 AM 4 40 PI! 5 cont
ArAllcgan..... 907" 558" 997"
Ar Kalamazoo.. I0 o5 " 6 55 “ 12¢; ru
Ar Schoolci-al't.. m 4; -‘ 7 33 -‘ 2 no --
Ar Three Rivers.. u xx " 8 oz “ 2 53 "
Ar \Vhite Pigeon.  rr 4o " l 8 30 " I 30 “
Ar Toledo . . . . .. .. 5roP|l 4i5AM, 6‘3oAM
Ar Cleveland. 9 30 -' I 8 20 -* _ , _ _ , ,,
Ar B_uffalo...... .. 33oAMl zgot-u|.. . . . . ..

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E Supt. Kalamazoo Division. Kalamazoo.

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MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD.

DEPARTURE or TR/ims FROM

  
 

  
 
 

Prica List mention this piper and ‘ XAI.A.\lAZ00.
oddre-o IIINES Of IIIIGRAMIMI. ‘ TIMI:-TABLE—MAY 18. I884.
BIlllh9-l-|l|0fl- N-‘O Standard time——9oth meridian.
feb 15 n2 ___ _ 7 WESTWARD.
EA. MJP. ll
\ ‘- ».__ '  Kalamazoo Accommodation leaves . . . . . . . . . I 4 45' . ; , , 

    oyn"t:|r sheuggl  arrives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . 

_ .- J. M 1 our and Corn pat-5 E . ' ‘ ' ' ‘ ‘ ’ ‘ ' ' ’ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' ‘H ’ °°l " '

4 tnthe BAN nxrnn .' C "P'€3-5 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --I 2 21: .... ..

‘.1. '~ '(F. W son‘: Patent . loo per Mall - - - - - - - . . . . - - . . . . . . . . . . . . .  ii 38;‘......

'QA)lIul, Po§we m “do 11:3! £20“ fig Day Express . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . ..l x 45
LLB. rcu an . . _

onappncatton. _WlL§0N BROS-..li‘. ‘ Pu. -_.._ .7 _ V
' fab 15 ‘6 Night Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  , ,:
‘ " _ Kalamazoo Accommodation leaves . . . . . . . .  6 45' _ . , _ _ ,
  &   Express arrives . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . .  xo co
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..: . . . . .- X2”
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- r_\fii_n£i_E‘I<l_xpress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 x 

117 Federal sr., Boston.

Consignments Solicited, and Cash
,A_d_vances Made.

FRED VARlN'S Moms :.s.
“A Nimble Sixpence is Better than a Slow Shilling."

I therefore offer Hand-Made Harness CHEAPER
"runs Even, at following prices:

Double, Farm Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .525 50
Double Carriage Harness, . . . , . . . . . . . . .. 2; 00
Single Buggy Ilamcs-z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00

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

Pedigree, Blanks.

in stock ianeleri. s_lio‘uldi song! to In

for I aalnploof ourconIp|nodPedl-

gree Blanks and Lut __ _
fishers.

HASSLOCK &; ,

. Punter:  Pub _
febifinfi;  .fliIIIIvIOoi ‘Tenn’

Allen Burfee,
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FUN DIRECTOR.
N o. 103 Ottawa Street,
Grand Rapids, - - Mich.
Residence, 193 J offersoii Ave

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, New York. Atlantic and Pacific Expresses daily. Even-
ing Express west and _Night ‘Express east daily gxgepg $3.,
urdays. All other trains daily exce t Sundays. Freight
"3135 C3"'YmE PKWCDEBFS 0'2“ from larnazuo as follows:
No. 29 (ens? at 5:10 P. M..and No. 20 (west) at szxo, bring
passengers !0l'|‘;1iéail2Z4§, P.  -  _
. . imwixn,‘_. '_De '_

I. A. Guru. General Freight Age:-:3 cnféiaiii mi‘
0. . Rucems. G: P. &_ 1',‘ __, Chipgo

Detroit, Mackinaw & Marquette ll.‘ ll.
"The Mackinaw Short Line.” I

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

um: '1-anur.  3.131-,
Takiiiq rum nee.2a.-as.‘
6 o5 p. in. ' _g:_

WEST.

READ DOWN.

   

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359 ' lshpeIning....,... taro i“

730 "  .Ho'u3II!on........ 83o|.§.

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IE: T ' dail h yea: ¢|¢.¢ co‘.-_
fiOnS  ti-zfhgsfmmyéaenadn  070 all his
Superior points.

A. WATSON.
Gen’! Superintendent.

G‘ _l P r. w. A_ir._i.i:iv,
Mania-cue. Mich. - " 3“ “d ’°'"” A“

Marquette, Mich.
N0‘? 3!‘! Olrono Hillel Nuns Gang] 0&1.
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A 6

WANTED AND FOR SALE.

ll few of our sassfiitis tam  benefit For
oliertodoallttle free adverliinp and wearegladofit.
We introduce this {eat-.l.e at the instance of a contributor
who made reference to the Husbaudman. and as the Illu-
beulnusn has the credit in this instancewe mayas well

yprop is xcelleut rule governing this class of adver-
N-ilfihll well as its plan. The rule is as follows, and will
be ered to:

Thewurr oowun is for the use of subscribers only.
Notices not exceeding six lines will be admitted once free.
For every subsequent insertion twenty cents a line will be
charged. and for in publication all over six lines will be
charged at the same rate. Nothing will be admitted ex-
cept ‘ of interest to farmer readers. asforinstance,
firm property, animals. implements. " y for sale or
wanted, information wanted, etc.

’ANTED.—To borrow $700.00 at six per
‘cent. per annum, with first-class real
estate security. ‘Address, jno. MOODIE,
St. Clair Co. Mt. Salem, Mich.

ARM FOR SALE. ——Six miles south of Elk

' Rapids, on a good road; forty acres of

land, thirty of it cleared; a good house and

barn, and fifty trees just commencing to bear.
For particulars address MARCUS G. BARKER,

Antrim Co. Elk Rapids, Mich.

THOSE who have used the Boss Zinc
and Leather Collar Pads and Ankle
Boots say they are the best and cheap-
est, because most durable. They will
last a life time. Sold by harness makers
on 60 days’ trial. DEXTER CURTIS,
febxm3 Madison, Wis.

gbituaries,

HOWARD—Once more Sherwood Grange _is
called upon to mourn the loss of one of its
members, Sister Julia Howard, who departed
this life April 4, 1886.

Death hastened on with silent tread
And claimed her for his own;

Rejoicing angles, with wings out-spread.
Bore her to her eternal home. ‘

Another link in our chain is severed,
And by the Master borne away;

Free from the pain from which she suffered;
Our Sister wakes to it brighter day.

Long and weary has been the period of her
sicltnes and suffering, all of which she bore
with remarkable fortitude. Although we hoped
she might recover from her sickness and be
spared to us many years to come, we feel that
we must bow to the will of the Master of the har-
vest, who is fast gathering in the sheaves of
ripened grain. _ _

As we gaze upon our Charter in its dre§ of
mourning, we deeply feel that there is one more
vacant seat in our Grange, another home has
been robbed of its most priceless treasure, and
many friends are left to mourn her loss. Words
are weak ‘to console the wounded hearts who
mourn for the dead; therefore, we would extend
the right hand of fellowship unto our Brother in
his sore bereavement, and by kind acts bind him
more closely to us, that he may feel in the
Grange he has Brothers and Sisters noble and
true.

The usual resolutions of sympathy and friend-
ship were adopted and spread upon the records
of the Grange. COM-

   

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d e t. od lik t‘ ' u, not
Task,” 12?; uh]e.i1d‘ngle(s, «fr ‘iii: °.‘3'i.'.pa'2.iu.§’..,‘§a§§ iii) mph.
stro and durable at half the cost; of tln. Ia o n
sUi's“sT1'rtl'rl-1 for PLASTER at Half the
°"',,.." .°§“-‘l"FI‘.'.§ ““" Sluuasaxiii é'3'z3§‘le3°7}’e'3.’

C 0 . §

um wf’ ii". FAY & co., CAMDEN. N. J..

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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 .)l' address

H. G. HOLT,

aprl5t3 Cascade, Mich.

I-‘(DE SALE;

WE LCOM E OATS!

Raised direct from Burpee’s stock. \Veight, 37
to 40 poullds per bushel; 50 cents per bushel
cash with order. New sacks 25 cents. Remit
by registered letter. O. A. COBB, Ottokee,
Fulton Co., Ohio. I5mar3t

PATENTS;

LUcrUs C. WEST, Solicitor of American aiia
Foreign Patents, and Counsellor in Patent Causes,
Trade marks, Copyrights, Assignments,.Cs.veats,
Mechanical and Patent Drawings. Circulars
free. 105 E. Main Street, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Branch office, London, Eng. Notary Public.

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' so 1 mom.-i mo Roch-
o<te:.‘1t.¥.°:E'g:tseo in oraroeuggih-alt
Gr-war and our 1 PICS Fruit Guido
Illnm-ated.w:t.|u5 ooxnun PLATE. How to
soar" '5": was Tllllndntlons ' ""u.l"'ooi.i.:a' ii";

is bu and no om.-n.1..r. Panda...

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814 Try One, $14

- A better Harness than you can buy
for 320.

l ml lllll llllll llllllll,

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

ran 30 nuts
I will fill all orders received under seal
of the Grange, and may be returned if
nqt satisfactory.
l. VANDENBERG,

GRAND Ramps, Mich.

out 13, yrl

H9 3; 

Under Contract with the Executive Committees of the
Pennsylvania and N ew York State Granges and recognized by _
the State Granges of Ohio, New Jersey and Delaware to‘fur-
nish Granges with all kinds of Groceries. We carry a large and complete‘
stock of all Groceries, Sugars, Syrups, Molasses, Coffees, Teas, Spices, etc. We
1111 al orders from Patrons when the order is under Soul of
Grange and signed by the Master and Secretary of the Grange, and
upon receipt of goods and found satisiactory payment to be made within 30
days from date of bills. We are now filling Orders from Patrons
in Michigan as the through rates from Philadelphia are very reasonable, 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 Philadelphia- If you desire information in regard to
prices on any goods in our line of 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.

THORNTON BARNES,

Wholesale Grocer and Grange Selling Agent,
241 North Water Street,

    

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Philadelphia, Penn.
a'ti'6'»i'z‘a MONUMENTS 3 STATUARY

Are Practically
Indestructible.

SUPERIOR In Ivory Respect‘ , A '
to .111-lilo or Granite. ': —'

     
  

  
  
   
 

Awmoso can MEDAL ~
AT WORLD'S Faun, New '
ORLEANS, 1884-5.

Over-25,000 Ereclell

For Designs and Circulars

. in Addtsn
H.lll.Green,Mal2’gr,(id.Rapills.Mich.

OFFICE. EAGLE HOTEL BLOCK.

GRAND RAPIDS fib. So PLQVV.

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. decrm6 GRAND RAPIDS MANUFACTURING CO.

JACKSON GRADE LEVEL.

PATENTED SEPT. 16, ’84,

For Farmers, Dltchers, Sewer Builders. Plumbers, Contractors, Builders and Everybody
wishing to Establish New Grades. .

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17- 
8 H a rm s Level ) 3
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A—Grade Bar. B-—Tl1e Level. C—Registering Scale. D—'I‘humb Screw to Level. E-
Thumb Screw to Grade Bar. F-—Buck Sight. G—-Globe Sight. H—Pointer
on Scale. See F»g. 2.

The Level is made of cherry, nicely trimmed with brass, with brass bearings, center pin.
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—foot
Rod and
Target.

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LEVEL AT WORK.
Do no ditching by GUESS and risk losing tile and labor, but BUY one at the following
lowtprice, put up in a neat. package to ship by express: - ‘

Level and Tlllltlll complete, with Blobs Sights. - - - SID

OUTLET FIG. 2.

Level and Tripod complete, with I5 in. lung flange Ttloscapa.
All 8-fool Roll and target, complete, - - -

EITHER OF ABOVE FURNISHED ON RECEIPT OF PRICE OR 0. O. D.

- 20
-~2

The Latest. Hundreds  in Use. |_|VE Afififlfs
T” s“"P‘°°*~ GRADE LEVEL GOMPANY WANTED
T1” °h°"'P°“' Tackscn, Mich.

Th6 ‘BEST. Refer to s‘nyBn‘.nk or Business House in City. All 0191' m U, S,

C, II. HARRIS, Sn ’t., North Coo er Street.
. _ P P
Cut thisfod.” out and keep for reference or hand to some ditcher. 15mm-(.6
»t»fi‘..‘.‘.’.‘ 't.l.'i‘..§* .3. 53":

 Bonllter. 1 850 Prize Puzzle. and

I parlor games. at for locts. (‘nine of A th , locu,
_..__.. - ._‘-..lIOSV-OGs‘y"Cll'ntonvIll‘I1!gg.oun. .

janxstg

so may Plain and 26 .i.. -  1;"? p

A ll“-rPEll‘CHA ttoorlitc
For flat or steep roofs. Cheap, durable and
easily applied. FIRE PROOF PAINT. Send
for prices. -
EMPIRE PAINT & ROOFING CO.,
H28 and tl3o Race Street,
Mention this paper. Philadelphia, Pa.

  

OR SALE.—A' few choice young Bulls and
Heifers, all registered’ and from extra milk
and~h_utter strains. Prices low. Correspondence
solicited. STONEBI BIGGS, Breeders of H01-

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THE L EST!  

SOLD AT WHOLESALE BY

THE GUl\ll\l HARDWARE C0,,

5 and 7 SOUTH IONIA STREET, \
And at RETAIL by

W. S. GUNN & SONS

—— Dealers in '

Hardware, Stoves, House urulsllllg Goals,

Etc._, Etc., Etc.

Examine the great bargains offered by us before you buy your Cook and
Heating Stoves. We sell at No.8 “HOME GARLAND" Cook Stove for $15.00; No. 9
for $17.00; older patterns 10 per cent. less. The “MODEL GARLAND,” our Ele-
gant Square Coal Stove, we offer at $25.00 for No. 33, and $28.00 for No. 44; the
same size with Oven at $31.00. ‘

W. S. GUNN & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich,

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THE SIX SHOVEL

Fremont Bulky Gullilalur.

Orltlfall Improvement ever made In
Iiidiny Cultluaton.

Lighter Draft. Simpler. Enter handled
and more Durable than Any other.
A CMPLETB REVOLL"l'l0ll

in the method of R:tl.uin;z,Lnwer-
ing and Guidinyg the alloy:-lat, unv-
lng nearly halt‘ the work.

Lite, Responsible Agents Wanted

 on unoccupied tel-rltory. We will
be pleased to mail lllllxtrntmi and
descriptive circulars FREE to any
one applying. Address
FREMONT CULTIVATOR C0.
Bollevue, Ohio

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M ll_l3.ll.|_D._E_lfl clelunv

AND REFRIGERATOR.

FOR BOTH SUMMER AND WINTER USE!
Used with Water and Ice, or with Water only:

  

No lifting of cans;.no skimming of milk; positively no sedi-
ment drawn with either cream or milk. Adapted for farm
dairies, ranches, families hotels restaurants anl boardln
schools; also for hos itals, as fums, soldiers’ homes an
similar ubllc institu ions. A TIVE AND RESPONSIBLE
_ AGENT WANTED. fiseud for Circulars to the manu-
3 facturcrs. (Mention this Paper).

MUSELEY 8i PHITBHABD MFG. 00., CLINTON, IOWA.

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BUSINESS AGENT MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.

THOMAS MASON,

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

Respectfully Solicits Consignments of

lrull:,legelthle:,Blllal,lggtlrtlileel,lltwl‘ur:,llide:,Pelll,l'allnw,llc.

BONDED ‘AGENT of the N. Y. Produce Exchange Association,
Chartered Feb. 13, I878.

 

 

All Orders Receive Proper Attention.

Pmrcnann cnunu.
_ concussion

WITHOUT

_fllfl!Tl0|l.
Quantity lncteaspd,

llualily Improved.

SOLD QlLlEllI'l‘.

(‘llllllll A1‘ wlrou.
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SALE
IIAVI I0 AGENT.

l: V‘ . "  .. Band for Cll-ruler.
lloseloy&Prltcllard llIg.co.Cllntoll,lolla.

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sent. by prepaid mall toatiif ogdlwho
within a0dars.rexnIta 50¢. «oc. pa legal
{gator execut‘-l6lfi'l)eed byIN'c‘>|‘tln“ry Pulpl e. and
cage. ennme n need
lllhgucorreet. No more ‘hon 3"l’)"e:¢i. r 1-
3.20 to any one fun] 1. This greato er
s for the purpose or starting I Local‘(.‘olony
ln youroommunlty. We Buy nll taxes for
Pro yen s. gfi-its are se in; at the Ba tor
mm 82 to . Illustrated Pump lets
2:11: wtth¢I}eed. wAmr;(n:,& Andrew:
‘'04-'14 . AM -. St. Cl I
0.‘ -Pensacola. l;l:.u,xor St. AIi‘dI‘e'Wl lligylinlflnf

LA KEVIEW SEEN‘-A,  «-

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ALL PATRQNS of HUSBANDRY
supplied with sums at a liberal DISCOUNT under
a contract with NEW YORK STATE

RANGE. ’ tmar4t

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A Maps of NORTHERN PAC”.-xc
COUNTRY. the Free cum
ment d_.(s and  ,

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vlnomm IIAND AGENCY.

Cheap Farms. Splendid Climate. Short Mild prim...

   

V cscriptive Land List Free.
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stein-I~"n‘esia'n Cattle, Hastings, Mich. ianlt7 15apn:n

. 54mPl¢S I-lid terms, ac. Crown Ptg. Co. Northlflrd, C 5.
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