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“ THE FARMER IS OF JIIORE COJVSEQ UEJV'C'1£‘  THE F.x1R.M, AND SHOULD BE FIRST-IMPRO VIE’ .”

VOLUME XI—.N'o. 35. 3’
WHOLE NUMBER 23.’).

COLDWATER, MICH.. JUNE 1, 1886.

Primed by A. . ALDRICH 8: CO..
Publishers of the CO DWATER REPUBLICAN.

OFFICIAL DIRECTOR I/'.

Omcers National Grange.

    

M¢:t:r—PUT DARDEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MEsissippi
0v¢r.iztr— AM ES (- DRAPER . . Massachusetts
Itcturrr— ORT. WHITEF EAD .New Jersey
St:-u/ard—J. E. HALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .West Virginia

Arsirlant Strwar-t'—W. H. STINSON. .Ncw. Hampshire
Clta[laz'u—A.J. ROSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Texas
Trm.mrzr- F. M. MCDOWELL . . . . . . . . . . . . .New York
Secretary-—JNO. TRIMBLE, 514 F St..Washington. D.C.
Gal: Kte)er—H. THOMPSON. .Delaware
Ceres-—MRS. KATE DARDEN - ' ' '

  

Poma2m—MRS. S. H. NEAL. . . . .Kcntucky
F1onz—MRS JAMES C DRAPER . . . . . . .Massachusetts
Lady A.i‘.iz'.iti-int 5!r'wart1—lVlRS. E. M. IJPSCOMB.

‘ South Carolina

Executive Coinmitfm-.

J. M. BLANTON, Ch'ri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Virginii
J. H. BRlGHAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ohio
J. J. VVOODMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michigan

Uflioers Michigan State Grange.

Illasltr-—C. G. LUCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gilead
02:er.rc:r—-JOHN HULBROOK. . . . . . . .Lansing
Ixcturn-—}'ERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Battle Creek
Stni/ara'—-HARRISON BRADSHAW. . . . .North Branch
Assistant Sltward-—A. E. GREEN.. . . . . .Walled Lake
Chaplain-1. N. CARPENTER....... ....Shennan
’I‘rea:urer—E. A. STRONG .Vicksl)urg
$ecretary——_I. T. C0 B8 -.- Schoplcraft
Gate Kee_1tt'r.—A. V. AGE. .Ludington
C2res—MRS.  VV. liELK‘.\"Al_’. . . . . .Grecnvillc
Pomona-MRS W. 'l‘. REMIi\GT()N . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._Alto
Flora—MRS. C. G. LUCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gilead
L. A. Steward-i\[RS. A. E. GREEN . . . . . . .Walled Lake

   
  
 

  
  
  

Executive Committee.

H. D. PLA'l'I'. Ch‘n . . . . . . ..
THOS F. MOORE.
J. G RAMSDELL.
THOMAS MARS. .

. . . . Ypsilanti
. . . . . . Adrian
Traverse City
.Berrien Center

  
  
 

_{}.VQ_A_BURRINC-10. . . . . . . .  use a
M. SATERLEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Birmingham
W. T. ADAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grand léalpids
c_ (;_1_,ucE,i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ‘i ea

J. T. coma. )'E""0fi""‘i ............... .. Schoolcraft

State Business Agent.
THOMAS MASON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .t,liicago, Ill

General Deputies.
PERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Battle Creek
MRS. PERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..B.'-ittlc Creek

Special Deputies.

WM. H. LEE, Harbor Springs, for Emmett County.

JOHN HOLBROOK. Lansing, for Ingham County.

IASON WOODMAN, Paw Paw, for Van Burcn County.

BRONSON TURNER, Flushing, Genesee County.

FRANK H. DYER. Ferris, Montcalm County.

5. H. HYDE. Traverse City,Grand Tr:iverse,Antriin, Lee-
laniiw :ind Benzie Counties. .

R. C. THAYER, Benton Harbor. for Berrien Cogunty.

GEO. W. SHEFl"lELD,_]ohnstown. for Barry (.ounty.

LUTHER DEAN. North Star, for Gratiot County.

I,  A. BURRINGTON, Tuscola, for Tuscola County.

JOHN TRUE, Jackson, torjackson County;

HIRAM ANDRE\VS, Orion, for Oakland County.

M. \V. SCOTT, Hesperia, for Newaygp County. ‘

JAMES A. MARSH. Constantine, for St. Joseph County.

M. V. B. McAl.Pl-.\'E. Moutcrey, for Allegan County.

A. M. LEITCH. North Burns. for Huron County.

P. H. GOELTZENCLEUCHTER, Birch Run, for Sagi-
naw County. ‘ ‘

GEO. B HORTON. FruiiRidge, for Lenawee (,ounty.

C. C. KNO\VL'l'0N, Old Mission, for Missaukee County.

G. C. LAWRENCE. Belle Branch. for \Vayne County.

CORTLAND HILL, Bengal. for Clinton County.

Michigan Gl'3—IIgB Stores.
A.S'1‘l-IGEMAN. Allegan. ‘
C. GOODNOE. North Lansing.

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Kept in the office oi the Secretary of the

MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,
Arm’ rent out Part-paiil, on 1'ecei;>t of Ca:/z Or-
der, over 1/1: Seal of (z Subordimrle Grange,
and [/15 signature of its Illaster or Sttretary.

Porcelain ballot marbles, per hundred. . . . .3 75
Blank book, ledger ruled, for Secretary to

keep accounts with members . . . . .. i 00
Blank record books (express paid) . . . . . . . . I no
Order book, containing [00 orders on the

Treasurer, with stub, well bound. . . 5p

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

well bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Blank receipts for dues, per too, bound. . . 50
Applications 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

i5c, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 80
The National Grange Choir, single copy 40

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

“ per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 40
“ for Fifth Degree, for Pomona
Granges, per copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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

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

per 100 . . . . . . . . ..: . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.0
American Manual of Parliamentary Law. . 50
(Morocco Tuck)... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I 00
Digest of Laws and Rulings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Roll books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 5

  

Patrons’ badges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Officcrs’ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
C0-OPERATIVE LITERATURE.

History and Objects of Cooperation . . . . . . 05
Whatris Co-operation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._. . . . 02
Some of the Weaknesses of Co-o tion. 02
Educational Funds; How to Use em. . . oi
Associative Fanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or
The Economic Aspect of Cooperation. . . . 0!
Association and Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03
The Principles of Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O!
The Perils of Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . oi
Fundamental Pruic'iples_ of Co-operation. . or
How to Start Co-operation Stores . . . . . . . . oi
Logic of Co-operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03

Origin and Development of the Rochdale

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Addnsscs and Lectures by Eminent Men. .
Address, J- T- COBB.

Si:c'v Micii. STATE GRANGE, _
_ Schoolcrafl. Mich.

ALAMAZOO NATIONAL BANK. Capital 51 "09-
sui-plus, $10,000. Southwest cor. Main and nd:c
Streets. D:'r¢¢'!ar.‘r—— acob Miicliell. J0}!!! Den Bleykera
Meiancthon D. W oi-d_, Melville . Bi&elow,J’. Wilfrc
’1'houipsoii,Geor¥h'l‘. Briton. Samue A. ibson, Albert S.
White, -Edwin J. elpu, E. 0. Huiaphrey, N. Chase.

. L Pnurs, Bv-¢n'dent- xi.v_u.i.iz J. Bicirww.
V3“-HPflt'J¢1tt.'.THoIlAs 5 C633. Carlin. febryr

ggrirtiltnral éepartiiicitt.

Roadmaking.

Not only-,',is it desirable but profitable
that we have good roads. The average
farmer is the most benefitted, while,
judging from the way he pays his high-
way tax, he is the least desirous of hav-
ing them good.

A constant mistake in improving our
roads is in the time apportioned, the
means employed, and our usage of not
making but of working ciur roads. The
first Tuesday after the third Monday in
May is as soon as the road warrants can
be placed in the hands of the Overseers.
They, at as early time as possible, as it
is a season of the year that work on the
farm is pressing, notify all liable to pay
highway tax to appear at an appointed
time and place, with teams and tools for
doingthe work. The Overseer is usu-
allya man having little knowledge of
how a road should be constructed, and
incompetent to take charge of’so im-
portant a work. All work according to
their own peculiar way, all most desir-
ous of making their time and tools count
as much as possible on their tax as the
farm has a pressing demand on their
time and attention. More work is un-
dertaken than is finished, and at the close
of the day a credit is demanded for the
amount paid at the rate of one dollar
per day for man, team, wagon, plow,
and scraper. Some have paid in full,
some in part, not enough yet due to
break another day to finish, a release is
granted with instructions to work the
balance yet due when and where each
in his own judgment thinks best. So all
return to their farms, waiting and watch-
ing for that favorable opportunity to fin-
ish the work. It is often the case the
balance yet due if paid at all proves of
small amount.

Another Overseer notifies those liable
to pay a highway tax in his district of
the amount assessed against them, and
tells some of them to work where they
have a personal interest, feeling that the
greatest good may be accomplished by
this course, while he directs in the
work of others in another part of his
district; as in the other case, some pay
in full, others in part and the balance
yet due remains until the time the Com-
missioner calls on the Overseer for his
amount. Other districts, (very few)
however, take the same interest in the
road they do in their farms.

At another election a change of Over-
seeris made, and having notions of his
own the new man pulls down what the
other has built up, and so we pass along
from year to year with unsatisfied re-
sults, when in reality but one method
should be adopted in the construction
of roads in Kalamazoo County, for the
soil, as arulc, while preserved in a dry
state will support any weight of traffic,
and in order to do this it becomes nec-
essary to raise it above the level of the
adjacent ground. Care should be taken
to give a breadth to-the traveled surface
and so rounded up that the water fall will
seek the drain. On the brow of a hill
bars should be formed to divert the wa-
ter to the ditch instead of allowing it to
follow a wagon rut and wash all loose
dirt and sand to the bottom of the hill.
But no good results can be obtained
without means. The question arises,
what means shall we employ to accom-
plish this end.

First, at our next town meeting deter-
mine that the highway tax shall be as-
sessed on a money basis and paid in
money instead of in -labor, and let the
money be expended where most needed
in town. It is often the case that in
districts where there is the most wealth
the least work is needed. Some may
object to this plan for the reason that
they would have to pay the tax in money
instead of labor._ Then I would say
lessen the amount of tax to such a rate
as will induce the taxpayer to work on
his farm and pay his tax in money.
And let the work be done under the
direction of a Commissioner, and use
such implements as are best adapted to
the work. We have machines for grad-
ing and turnpiking our roads as much
preferable to the ones we are now using
as the binder isprefei-able to the cradle
and binding by hand.

Work on the road should be com-
menced in the spring of the year as soon
as the ground is sufficiently dry to plow
for spring crops, before our roads get
dry and hard. Use at such a time a
road machine that will plane off knobs
and ridges and fill up ruts and holes. In
repairing stony roads the stones are

separated from the soil and brought to
center of the road and on a line of it.
Then they should be picked up and
thrown away instead of being thrown on
the bank or in the ditch to be brought
back at the next time of scraping the
road. For repairing hilly roads the new
Victor reversible machine is preferable
to all others. By turning the cutter-bar
directly across the road you can move
the dirt from the hill into the hollow,
and do most of the work going down
hill. In working on a side bill you can
work both ways, taking the dirt all from
one side of the road leaving it smooth
and hard. Two men and four horses
will do four times the work done in our
accustomed way of doing road work.

We have pursued a plan admitted on
all hands to be a very poor one for
many years, and it must be about time
that a better one was adopted.

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Oleomargarine.

The failure to stop the sale of oleo-
margarine does not proceed from any
fault in the laws, but from the indiffer-
ence or sanction of the people. The
only executive of municipal laws under
our form of government is public opin-
ion. If the people sanction a law and
are thoroughly convinced of the need
of it, they will enforce it; otherwise, it
will be dead upon the statute book. We
see this illustrated almost every day.
Where public opinion is strongly in fa-
vor of a strong prohibition law, it is en-
forced; where public opinion is against
it it is not enforced. So with other laws.
The people are the government and
have a more direct power in enforcing
than in making laws. If public opinion
were strongly in favor of the oleomar-
garine laws, those laws would be en-
forced. But the farmers, to begin with,
exhibit no interest in the matter. They
are sure of the butter they eat, for they
make it themselves; and they fail to see
that oleomargarine diminishes the
amount realized for their surplus butter.
The dairymen are too weak in numbers
to enforce the law themselves; they
must have the support of farmers, and
this they have not. The wise course to
pursue is not to clamor for more string-
ent laws, but to awaken the farmers to
the fact that the sale of oleomargarine
is inimical to their interests, as well as
to the interests of the dairymen. And
if the city consumers can be made so
thoroughly disgusted with oleomarga-
rine as to join the farmers and dairy-
men, the present oleomargarine laws
will be found sufficient.— IVe.iIcrn Plow-
man.

 

Public Shade, Penalty for Re-
moving it.

It may not be generally known that
trees along the highway, whether plant-
ed for shade trees or growing there
naturally, are all under the protection
of the law, and cannot be removed at
the will of the adjoining land owner
alone. Such, however, is the fact, and
that the law should be enforced against
certain ruthless destroyers of the public
shade is palpable enough, andwe call at-
tention to the subject for that very pur-
pose, and with the additional object of
preventing further destruction in that
direction.

If the good people of Michigan, and
especially of Van Buren County, will
carefully read the section of the high-
way laws entitled “Shade! Trees in High-
ways,” they will discover, first, that
shade trees are to be planted, where
there are none, along the highways;
second, that all trees now growing along
the side of any highway—this includes
the beautiful, thrifty, ra.pid—growing and
much enduring oaks, as well as hicko-.
ries, etc.—“shall, be preserved, and shall
not be disfigured or removed, unless by.
direction of the Commissioner of High-
ways, and with the consent of. the own-
er of the adjoining land, unless such
trees shall interfere ‘with, or obstruct
the travel of the highway." It will be
observed that -it takes two parties to re-
move‘ these trees; that is,,it requires the
direction of the co,mn_iissionei-_and,the
owner,.and neither or both may do _so,.
unless the trees so to be removed ob-
truct travel in the highway. .

The belief or superstition that trees
“poison” the lan,d‘.or: injure crops near
them in the field adjacent, "is; not _a legal
reason for‘, their removal, nor is thefact
that they will make good posts, rails or
firewood. Such _t1,'ecs, growing on the
margins of the highways are public shade
and cannot, legally, be injured not re-
moved, except they obstttuct travel.

This fact being planted in the minds

and memories of our readers, may it not
be reasonably expected that it will grow
and bear fruit, especially as it has be-
come the policy of the State, as it has
of all civilized countries, to cultivate
and preserve forest trees as windbreaks,
as protection against floods, for the pre-
vention of droughts, as well as for pleas-
ure, ornament and comfort.-—Paw Paw
[V0/‘t/zerizcr.
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Better than Poison.

Now is the time to commence to use
insecticides for the protection of fruits,
plants, and vegetables. and the best
preparation for that purpose is the kero-
sene emulsion. Prof. Riley, in his ad-
dress before theAmerican Horticultural
Society at New Orleans, said: “It can
not be too strongly-impresseil upon all
who use kerosens as an insecticide, that
it can be considered a safe remedy only
when properly emulsified.” The formu-
la for the kerosene and soap emulsion
found most satisfactory by Mr. Hubbard
is as follows:

Kerosene, two gallons.

Common soap or whale oil soap, one-
halfpound.

Water, one gallon.

Heat the solution of soap and add it
boiling hot to the kerosene. Churn the
mixture by means of a force pump and
spray-nozzle for five or ten minutes.
The emulsion, if perfect, forms a cream
which thickens on cooling, and should
adhere without oiliness to the surface. of
glass. Dilute before using, one part of
the emulsion to nine parts of -cold wa-
ter. The above formula. gives three gal-
lons of emulsion and makes when dilut-
ed thirty gallons of wash.

The kerosene and soap mixture, es-
pecially when warmed, forms upon very
moderate agitation, an apparent union;
but the mixture is not stable, and sepa-
rates on standing,or when cooled or di-
luted by the addition of water. A prop-
er emulsion ofkerosene is obtained only
upon violent agitation. It is formed, not
gradually, but suddenly, in short, to use
a familiar phrase/‘it comes like butter.”
The time required in churning depends
somewhat on the violence of the agita-
tion, but still more upon the tempera-
ture, which however need not be much
above blood heat. The emulsion can
be very quickly and easily made by us-
ing a force pump, so constructed that
it can be inserted directly into the liq-
uid, which iriust be kept in constant and
violent agitation by forcing it through
some sort of spray nozzle backirito the
same receptacle.

These details have been fully set forth
before, but it seems necessary to again
refer to them, because, while the value
ofthe kerosene emulsion as an insecti-
cide has been widely acknoweldged, the
important point of thorough emulsifica-
tion has not been sufiiciently recognized
and the agricultural press‘ of the coun-
try in this new application of an old
remedy have very generally omitted to
mention the methods by which a perfect
emulsion may be secured.

There remains to add to the above
full and explicit formula the methods of
its application, which may be best done
by means of a water—pot with a good
nose,ora good force pump with spray
nozzle, as the case requires; also that it
is the safest remedy known, as it is not
poisonous. W. N. Coox.

 

Feeding Stock.

During the meeting of the Connecti-
cut State Board of Agriculture, on the
15th, 16th and 17th of December, 1885,
while the question of feeding cattle was
under discussion, some of the prominent
farmers of that State declared their be-
lief in the advantages of feeding only at
night and morning. James J. Webb,
who feeds some forty or fifty cows for
milk, stated that formerly he believed
in feeding at noon, but since trying the
two feed systems he is satisfied of its
advantages. ' .

In the human family physicians at-
tribute disease to too frequent eating
without opportunity for proper diges-
tion, and we can - see no good reason
why a similar < rule may not apply to
animals; in any event, we have for some
time believed— that animals would be

much‘ more quiet if fed regularly at

morning and atpight, being left to re-
rnasticate the food during the interven-
mg time. ‘We deprecate very much the
practice of some of “giving a bite” at
every visitation to the barn. In a- little
time cattle come tojexpect it and will
bellow for it and be uneasy without. It
is much better to practice regularity in

feeding, and giving an opportunitylfor

healthy digestion, to secure a desirable

development of flesh or the production

of milk.——Germa2zIazmz Tdegrap/z. fl Md
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FEEDING ENSll.AGE.—A correspond-
ent of the Breedefl} Gazcttc writes that
he has fed ensilage to about thirty—five
head of Guernsey cattle -— including
bulls, cows and young stock—-fr“ four
years on his farm at Lake Geneva ’is.,
with entirely satisfactory results. The
stock keep in splendid condition and
are perfectly healthy, and he has never
noticed any indication of sluggishness
in bulls or of scouring in cows. There
have been no abortions, and in the whole
time only two had feeble calves, which
died. He feeds about half cnsilage, the
other half being hay and meal. Ensi-
lage takes the place of roots and bran.
There is abundant testimony that ensi-
lage, fed in this manner, is :3. good food.
The question which we have never yet
seen answered to‘ our satisfaction is
whether it is an €COl‘lOllllCLll food as
compared with roots and ordinary fod-
der'.

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How to mark poultry. Clip a toe,
and be sure to clip back of the roots of
the toe-nail, or else the nail will grow
out again. The toe is a little smaller
around it just back of the roots of the
nail, and that is the place to clip. Clip

the chicks when they are first hatched,

but it can be done at any age without
harm. The toes I always clip are the
outside and inside ones of each .foot,for
no one is likely to keep a fowl more
than four years old. If the poultry are
clipped on a certain toe (of the four
that I have named) it is best to record
it in some book, then there will be no
forgetting the toe clipped for a certain
year. Clip with scissors the chicks and
chisel full grown ones.
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“Do\vN1Nu” A Bl)HE.\llA.\' ().\'l‘5 SWIN-
i)i.i:R.—Edward and John Weathering-
ton, of Wright, Hillsdalc County, gave
R. Simms, of Morenci, their note for
$300 for 30 bushels of lloliemiun oats.
Finding that they had i)L€ll swindled
they employed 3. Hudson lawyer named
D. J. Beachford to contest the payment
of the note. Beachford saw Simms and
demanded that the note be returned in
five days, and obtained possession of it.
This will be encouraging news to the
farmers of that section, for alarge num-
ber gave notes that are falling due.

W "4-:€O«h——-:—————

AT the annual meeting of the Nation-
al Butter, Cheese and Egg Association,
at Chicago, the Committee on Statistics
reported that the decrease in value of
dairy products in the last two years was
nearly six millions of dollars, and this
in spite of the fact that the population
of the country is increasing faster than
the number of cows, which ought natur-
ally to increase values. The report
attributed the result wholly to immense
sale of substitutes for butter, of which
no statistics could be gathered.

ASHES.-—The Massachusetts Experi-
ment Station has been considering the
value of wood ashes for a fertilizer, and
the conclusion is that a bushel of aver-
age hardwood ashes is worth for the
potash and phosphoric acid -‘ me 18

   

cents, taking- the commercial ‘cc’ of
those ingredients as a standar- Prob-
ably farmers would do better it iy 25
cents a bushel for good ashes i ii to

buy uncertain preparations called phos-
phate.

_THAT the pork—packing institutions of
this country are of .,,much magnitude
may be seen from the following figures:
The number ‘of hogs packed in the West
during the winter season 1884-85 was
6,460,280, which cost an average of
$4._2o per hundred pounds, and with
their average weight of 266.51 pounds,
their total cost was $67,48g,3o3_ The
value of the pork products exported
during the calendar year of 1884 was
$59,662,961. .,

To CUIRI-3. the roup, try the German
double back-act1on,three-ply roup pills,

price 50 cents a. box. ,For something

like, the same thing in English, get a lit-
l-13.3-ssafoetida. (about an ounce), add a
spoonful of ginger, gentian,-black anti-
§I.|0DYi _red pepper and carbonate of
iron, mix well and dole it out in pills.
A box will cost you about three cents.
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Some Things as They Appear to
a Patron of Husbandry.

We are sometimes asked bythose
without the gates to give a reason for
the faith that is in us; and very proper-
ly so.

It is a question which would at once
occur to you or to me, were we invited
to engage in any undertaking with
which we were not familiar.

To be able to give an answer which
shall be both truthful and comprehen-
sive, it is necessary to look somewhat
into the needs of the American farming
population. Statistics are-dry material,
and we do not'propose to inflict any
upon you. But we will simply ask
you to look up at your leisure the
amount of business which is now being
done by trades unions, co-operative
associations, protective burears, united
workmen societies, &c.

Every trade worth_y the name, every
profession, every industry of every kind
has to-day its organization for advanc-
ing the interests,elevating the characters
and promoting the welfare of its mem-
bers.

The farmers have the Grange-—‘—an
organization founded in wisdom, having
for its basis fraternity, charity, equity.
Its aims are to cultivate the feelings of
brotherly kindness and esteem and ex-
tend the helping hand to the distressed
and needy, to aid each other by exper-
ience and example, and to secure to
farmers their rights under the law as
against all trespassers.

The farmers of this country for long
years have labored under the disad-
vantage of isolation. Isolation makes
men timid and distrustful, an easy prey
to unprincipled men, and banks, if you
please, upon which the lightning-rod‘
man, the patent-right swindler, and
every other species of rascal could draw
sight drafts and have them cashed when
presented.

I verily believe that the time was
when any scheme, no matter how:vis—
ionary or impracticable, if there was a
glow of money in it, and if it was pre-
sented in a specious manner by some
well-dressed, good-looking, fine appear-
ing, self-styled gentleman, would draw
moots of ignorant American farmers
from behind their breast-works of
habitual reserve and make them, un-
wittingly it is true, co-partners in a
crime.

What farmers needed, what they still
need, is to get acquainted with each
other. For this purpose the Grange
was organized. Not to make money out
of any man-or class of men; not to
wrong the merchant, the mechanic, the
artisan, or day laborer; but to secure to
themselves a share of the fruits of their
labors, not to overthrow existing politi-
cal or religious beliefs, but to advocate
themselves in order that they might be
the better fitted to discharge the high
duties of citizenship. ,

They do not wish to get possession
of yours, but you. Are not our inter-
ests identical? Can you not believe us
when we assure you that we wish you
to enjoy the advantages which we en-
joy? to partake of the privileges of
which we partake? to receive the pro-
tection from frauds which we receive
and to join hands with us in educating
our sons and daughters in order that
they may be the better fitted to occupy
the advanced positions, social and
political, to which we feel agriculturists
are justly entitled?

We, as intelligent Patrons, feel that
if you who are outside the gates could
only be induced to give this matter the
careful consideration which it justly
deserves, you would certainly give us
your cordial co-operation and sup-
port.

But right here we are met with this
remark: “If all that you tell’ us is true
why is it that so manyewho were once
active members of your Order have
backslidden and to-day are not found
working with you.” ‘We reply, that when
the principles of this Order were first
promulgated, their evident justice ap-
pealed to the good sense of every man
and woman engaged in agricultural
pursuits. They thought that here was
a plain road ‘across the wilderness laid
out and opened by some ‘Moses who
had removed all obstructions, strewn
the wayside with flowers, planted the
arid sands on either hand with all kinds
of delicious fruits, which they had only
to reach out their hands to make their
own. They could see waving fields of
golden grain through’ openings in the
trees, and on thejthousand hills be) 0nd,.
countless herds of domestic animals
were quietly grazing. ' Away in the dim
distance could be seen the spires and
of their‘ visionary mecca,
where, without the integvention of inid-
dlemen they were to market their pro-
ducts, reload their wagons in the pro-
portion of one part of necessaries to

two of luxuries and ‘return to their

homes which every one held in fee
simple—-no notes unpaid, no mortgages
uncancelled. ‘ 

Paul truly planted, Apollos often
forgot to water. The delectable views
which they had seen, through the neg-
lect of no one but themselves, proved
to be mirages. Slough’: of despond
were reached on the road which to
many were impassable, and they turned
back. Others pressed on but the darts
of oppression fiercely assailed and they
withdrew from the conflict. Fancied
inequalities in the way, or the dis-

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covery of secemingly shorter routes,
led others aside. Some were prompted
by mercenary motives, and when they
saw not the fruition of their hopes with-
drew in disgust. _

Others, with the highestand best in-
terests of their fellows at heart,
pressed on. Some of their hopes have
been realized. They expected to meet
difficulties. They knew there would be
fierce opposition to overcome; that
there would be defections in their ranks;
that the weak would fall by the wayside,
that wolves in sheep's clothing would
perhaps prey upon the flock. They
knew, too, that the price of victory was
earnest, persistent effort. They counted
the cost; they did not, as the saying is,
“go it blind."

It is true that they expected, as they
had a right to expect, that every man
would do his duty, not with the vain-
gloriousthough of how big I am and h )\V
insignificant are you. Not to play the
part of chanticleer and expect other
fowls to admire the way the straws fly
when you scratch. Not that you should
stand up in your place in the Grange,
and with self-important air cry down all
opposition. _

Think that perhaps the still small
voice of some unobtrusive Patron would
sound sweeeter to the ears of those as-
sembled than the brassy notes issuing
from your nickel-plated larynx, and
then SIT DOWN in capital letters.

The Almighty either made a great
mistake when he made such men to run
a Grange, or they are laboring under a
mistaken idea of their self-importance.
I think the latter must be the proper
view, as I should be sorry to attribute it
to the Almighty.

It is, however, a lamentable fact, that
the spirit of faultfinding, recrimination
and intolerance of opposition exhibited
in connection with a spirit of “I am go-
ing to run this thing" on the part of
some members, has ruined scores of
Granges in this State of Michigan, and
is to-day, I candidly believe, responsible
for the apathy existing in scores of
others. Decent people hate brawling
either in or out of the Order, and no
person having the good of the Order at
heart will indulge in it. There is too
much that is of vital importance to at-
tend to, and I am sure that an appeal
to any man's good sense cannot fail to
make him take a like view.

With charity for all and malice to_-
ward none, let us try to meet the expec-
tations of our‘superiors, and show our-
selves worthy of their esteem and con-
fidence.

To-day the control of the grand ship,
“Farmers’ Rights,” is in the best of
hands. She has an intelligent set of
officers, a willing crew. More able sea-
man are always in demand and work
and pay, too, for any number of en-
ergetic landsmen.

The cruise has but just begun. The
decks are cleared for action, covered
with the white sands of virtue, honor
and integrity. The colors are “apeak.”
The pennant is flung to the breeze.
The Admiral is aboard. Let every

Patron stand by their guns. The con-_

test is against vice and oppression and
if we ever expect to fill the niche which
God, our Father, says we may, only a
“little lower than the angles,” it will be
by our own undivided exertions.
F. W. REDFERN.

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Successful G range Trade.

Some time since I wrote a short
article to the VISITOR asking the ques-
tion whether “trade in the Grange was
consided by the older and wiser mem-
bers of the Order beneficial or other-
wise to the Grange.”

Seeing no discussion upon the ques-
tion, with your consent I will say a few
words‘ in relation to the matter, and by
giving the actual expression of some
few Granges will answer more decided-
ly than any thing else could.

We were organized in 1872, and after
two years of existence decided to dis-
courage all trade in the Grange to make
it a popular organization, as the trade
part of it was opposed very strongly by
men in mercantile circles. We en-
gaged in literary exercises and fairly
gave ourselves up to educating our-
selves as members of the Grange; but
when setting out in the matter of educa-
tion we numbered about eighty mem-
bers we found in less than three years
we had only twenty paying members on
the roll. At a meeting to discuss the
situation we resolved to do our own
business in buying from first hands
what we had to bu-y, whether it was
popular or not, and the same night sent
a letter to a manufacturing house ask-

ing them to supply us with boots and-

shoes in quantities and sizes to suit, for
which we would pay prompt cash.
answer the firm said it would be a very
novel way of doing business, but I
might send an order and if they could
fill to our satisfaction and their own
they would do so,‘ if not they would
return the order. I sent an order for
$75.00 worth and they filled and shipped
at once. ~ ‘

We sold goods to every one and at
prices that defied all competition from
houses that must have -large profits on
account of large expenses, and soon
commenced to gain in membership and
soon stood over 80 members on the
roll. .

The same may be said of Pittsford,
Cambria and Adams Granges, which I
know were dragging along with from‘: 5
to 20 members for a number of years,
but stand to-day with Soto I20 mem-

In.

bers on roll, and all with new halls
built since commencing trade in good
earnest. In these days of financial de-

pression, the average farmer has much

else to engage his attention than mak-
ing two bushels of wheat where he now
raises one, especially when he is told he
is raising one too many at present. He
is told he must economize in his ex-
penses, but to economize does not stop
the necessity of supplying himself and
family with the necessities oflife; but
if he tries to purchase an article before
it has been marked up with two or
three profits before reaching him it is
regarded by many as an act worthy of
supreme ridicule. I am firm in the
opinion that this restlessness among the
laboring classes might be largely allayed
with the principle and practice of co-
operation. I am firm in the opinion
that the day is not far distant when we
must look these matters squarely in the
face and devise some way where the
money earned by industrial pursuits will
go much further than at present, and
the only way I can see is in paying full
costs for manufacturing an article and
a fair profit on the same, and stop
right there.

I have been induced to give my views
in relation to the question aforesaid
from the many letters I have received
asking the name of the firm which we
deal with, and our manner of such deal.
It shows that Granges are looking as
closely to profits as they were in the
first days of the organization.

If any should have words of counsel
or disapproval in the matter I should be
pleased to hear them.

ANDRF.\\' l.. l)A\'is.

Hillsdale Co., Mich.

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Currency and Colnage.

In the Ohio Farmer of recent date,
C. E. Henry has an article on the above
named subject, in which he advocates
the single gold standard as being the
most exact measure ofvalue, and as be-
ing the one that conforms to the Euro-
pean standard.

I wish it might be published side by
side with Judge Ramsde1l’s article upon
the same subject, so that the reader
could observe the comparison,or rather
the contrast.

Mr. Henry refers to “false doctrines
on the currency.” His opponents say
the same of his doctrines, and when I
say of both what they say of each other,
that makes a three-cornered fight.

_ He refers to fiat money men and to
honest money men. I have noticed that
all honest money men call the dollar
that has the most purchasing power the
honest do1lar—-the roo cent dollar.

According to that, Bohemian oats are
the most honest oats in the world, but
he blows a hot blast of disapproval by
referring to thousands of his opponents
as being composed mainly of that class
most easily persuaded into Bohemian
oat enterprises. At one time in Rome,
a very few grains of gold would buy an
ox. Gold must have been exceedingly
honest then. Such extreme honesty re-
minds me of the man who stood so
straight that he leaned over backwards.

Americans flatter themselves that they
have happily escaped all the trials and
tribulations of the Old World. We have
been taught that it is monarchy that
transforms the possessors of competence
and contentment into either millionaires
or paupers,and we have been warned to
shun the spirit and power of monarchy
as well as the name. But in these later
days, the honest money men assure us
that it is the proper thing to run the
American wagon in the European rut.

Mr. Henry puts great stress upon the
words, Standard and Measure of Value,
and the reason he gives for doing so is
too long for me to quote. Suffice it to
say,it hits the Greenbacker and the B0-
hemian square between the eyes. After
having repeated, with emphasis, the
words standard and measure of value,he
says, “Hence a given weight and fine-
ness of these metals have been used for
ages to express value, the same that a
given length is used to express foot or
yard.” What does he mean by that?
Why does he change from the word
measure to the word express? Does he,
or does he not, mean that gold and sil-
ver are used to measure value, the same
that a given length is used to measure
foot or yard? If he don’t meap that,
then; where goes his emphasis of the
word measure?‘ He says substantially,
what everybody knows to be true, that
the more dollars there are circulating in
the world, the less value each individual
dollar will express or measure. There-
fore,it follows that the more yard sticks
there are in the world, the less each
stick will measure. Ah, Logic! thou
wast undone, and Henry did it.

He says, “During the last ten years
silver has dropped from a ratio of 1534
to one to a ratio of i9 to one." There-
fore if silver and gold are measures of
value, the same as ounces and pounds
are measures of weight, and if pounds
and ounces maintain the same ratio that
gold and silver do,then it will soon take
19 ounces to make a pound,and we can
have-lots of fun calling each other dema-
gogues if we can not agree as to which
has changed in weight the ounce or the
pound.

Dear VISITOR, it will never do to give
the Ohio Farmer a monopoly of this ar-
ticle; and if want of space forbids its
publication entire, then please admit
the following detached quotations:

“Demagogue -—= demagogue—mingled
shame and indignation-——Honest money
—pay their debts in cheaper money—

business would come to a standstill-—
fiat money——fiat dollar--soap bubbles.”
Now I will quote an entire sentence:
“If anyone wants to find out the evil and
disgrace of fiat money, let him read Ir-
ving’s Essay on John Law and the Mis-
sissippi Bubble.”

He yokes up Uncle Sam with John
Law. Imust (‘»'llfCSS they make a bet-
ter matched team than I‘used to think
they did.

Mr. Henry says, “I have pointed out
that both gold and silver change in val-
ue as relates to other property.” Did
space permit I would like to make some
lengthy quotations, showing with what
neatness and dispatch, though all un-
consciously, Mr. Henry serves the gold
standard as George Washington did the
cherry tree; only Georgie did it with
his hatchet, and Henry with his pen.
The pen is mightier than the hatchet.

I-Ie appeals to the history of the
world to prove that in all ages gold has
been the best standard of value: but he
neglects to tell us that at one time gold
was so scarce throughout the then civi-
lized world, and especially in the R0-
man Empire, that men could not pay
their debts,but were obliged to turn out
their children as slaves to their credit-
ors. The most false of all false gods re-
quired thousands of parents thus to sac-
rifice their innocent children. llid such
a state of things make the Roman popii-
lace peaceful, quiet citizens? Did it
make their rulers sympathetic and hu-
mane? Uid it make Imperial Rome a
nation that America should wish to
emulate? “O,,ye hard hearts, ye cruel
heads of Rome!”

Perhaps Brother Henry will tell us
all about these things in his next, for he
has promised to write more.

GEORGE Roi:i:R'i's.

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A Land of Roses.

Santa Rosa is situated in Sonoma
County and up Sonoma Valley about
50 miles from San Francisco. The
lands along the valley are rich and the
rugged hills or mountains on each side
are green to their very tops with grass,
and in places trees, and gay with my-
riad blooming flowers. The valley is
from five to fifteen miles wide.

Roses are so abundant and large and
brilliant,——crowded on the tr'ee-like
bushes or clambering far up the sides
of the houses in their rich profusion.
Roses, roses everywhere! Just across
the yard from the window where I write
is a rose bush clinging to the side of a
house loaded with dark, rich maroon-
colored roses nearly six inches across.

But don’t think I have gone wild on
roses,—no, no, it is the roses that are
wild in their freaks and nature has not
established any law to restrain their
luxuriant beauty.

You will be surprised when I tell you
the cause of this scribble. It is no less
a fact than that it has been raining all
the morning, a regular drizzle; but all
“these things are unusual for Califor-
nia,” and may perhaps be attributed to
the sappy tide that has rolled in from
beyond the sage bush. ,

After dinner my friend, Mr. Blakeley,
procured of a neighbor, a generous-
hearted woman, a horse and buggy, and
away we went across the valley, passing
through plantations of young fruit trees,
—-mostly French prunes—to a lofty
mountain which he proposed to take in,
or rather to take us to the top of. The
path of our ascent wound back and
forth on the side of the mountain until
we attained the top—four hundred feet
up. I will not attempt to describe the
prospect spread out before us of valley
and far away mountain peaks, and
nearer, at our feet, the beautiful city of
Santa Rosa, wreathed in roses andgay
flowers, and the valley around dressed
in its green rich vesture of early May.
Around us were clumps of old scraggy
oaks and thickets of brush, with wild
flowers everywhere. The mountain
quail in Quaker garb were tripping from
rock to bushy covert.

Portions of this mountain are being
cleared of brush and rock and set to
gr'apevines, the soil being well adapted
to growth of vine and the maturity of
the grape. Olives are also being
planted.

Our descent to town was more grad-
ual and distant—by way of Santa Rosa
Creek—which went rattling musically
over its stony bed.

After our return we visited a brewery
in this place. It contains 256 huge
casks holding 2,ooo gallons of wine
each. The grapes from which this
wine is made bring from $10 to $30» per
ton. What a waste of the good things
of earth! EMMONS BUELL.

Santa Rosa, Cal.

Yesterday was beautiful and bright,
so having business in Oakland, I went
down to the ferry and stepped on board
one of the large and fine boats that ply
between San Francisco and Oakland.

The boat goes about four miles when
we reach the pier built out from the oth-
er side one and a half miles—-fare fifteen
cents on ferry.- Here is a large depot
in which passengers are transferred to
cars for Oakland or any other points
farther east. Here is a- matter that at
first appeared a little singular to me: and
especially in California. ‘

The street cars with engine run from
this depot on the pier clear through
Oakland, a distance of six miles, stop-
ping occasionally to take on and let 0E
passengers. Now, the strange part of
this is that they do not receive a dime
for all this transportation of people. All

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ride that please. and most please to do
so. These trains of eight large railroad
cars run each way every half hour from
6 A. Mxuntil r2 atnight,usually crowded.

Oakland is a city of 35,000 inhabi-
tants—rather a nice place, situated on a
plain running back from the bay, em-
bowered in roses, with lofty green hills
for a background. I was here on busi-
ness, and while on my way chanced to
pass the door of Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Parties were going in, and I thought the
good-looking men and women might be
Patrons, so I made inquiry and found
my suspicions correct. Being cordially
invited to join in their afternoon meet-
ing, I went with them up to the Hall.

This is Temescal Grange, one visited
by Brother I). Goodman when here on
this coast last winter. The number
present was not large, but they formed
a very intelligent and pleasing circle.

It was highly gratifying to be greeted
in this kindly manner, a wanderer thou-
sands of miles from liome,amongst stran-
gers, on this far-away Pacific coast.

Fraternally, }?I:si.\io.\'s BL'i:i.i..

San Francisco, May 1 I, 1886,

In the Northwest.
vii. '

A trip to the CIL‘LlI‘ d’ Alene region is
to the tenderfoot as full of interest as
it is of experience. The eastern man
should visit a mining camp while “out
west” if for nothing more than to reap
the reward of self—satisf:iction. The
trip alluded to, undertaken from some
point on Snake River, is of peculiar in-
terest. To get the full benefit of the
western mode one should provide him-
self with :1 pack mule, pack saddle, and
a good supply of blankets, bacon and
beans, and the usual supply of flour and
coffee, frying pan and coffee pot. Se-
curing passage “on the hurricane deck
of a cayuse pony” you are ready for the
start. If the cayuse don’t object you
are apt to think you are a natural horse-
man and a good rider; if he does you
will immediately begin to review your
past life and cast up the account you
have registered on the book of life with
a view to ascertaining whether you'll
land in sheol or the other place. And
if your language conveys the result of
your calculations the listener is quite
apt to infer that you have little faith in
reaching the haven of hope. The first
performance generally is a right and left
sachet on three legs and a defiant
toss of the little brute’s head. Next
a snort, and down goes his nose to
his breast. You hold your breath ex-
pecting to find yourself trying to stand
on your head in the dust and frantically
grasp the saddle-horn just in time to
avoid being left on nothing by a side
lunge of the little fiend. You are some-
what over the scare now and become
most confoundedly mad to think that a
little 6oovpound pony can carry on so.
A terrific jerk on the rein brings his ear
into your mouth, and the next instant
your saddle parts, start off down the
road, trying to leave your head behind.
But you have made a start, are both-
ered no more during that day and pla-
cidly conclude from the signs of gen-
tility that you are conqueror and almost
begin to love the little fellow. Your
pack mule you trail along behind with
a piece of three-eighths rope, and at
night find you have made 25 or 30 miles
and have caught a terrible appetite
somewhere, as you can eat bacon and
drink coffee with a relish that you spurn
with disgust on other occasions. Se-
curely lariating your animals where they
can find suflicient food you put your
rubber blanket on the ground, roll up
in your woollen ones with your toes
toward a fire and sleep the sweet, sound
sleep‘ of the mountaineer. Your break-
fast is not so hearty, but the trouncing
you get from that cayuse is just as se-
vere or severerer than on the former
occasion. And every morning the cir-
cus is repeated. It seems to be a trait
of character so thoroughly developed
that it is a very uncommon thing to find
one of these little fellows, no matter
what his age may be, that will not go
through all these gyrations before mak-
ing a start.

You are surprised at the appearance
of the country through which you travel
the first two days. An undulating prai-
rie spreads out for miles in every direc-
tion, dotted here and there by the set-
tlers’ houses and claimers’ “cabins.”
The soil is of the richest, and fabulous
yields of wheat and oats are apparent.
You are traversing the Palouse country,
a part of the “inland empire,” and tru-
ly it has all the natural advantages suf-
ficient for its title. The distant Cmur
d’ Alene Range with its heavy forests
make a fine background for the nearer
stretch of fields of waving grain and
native grasses. The timber reached,
you plunge into the delightful shade and
soon lose all those fine views. The trail
becomes a sort of canyon in wood, the
deep green and giant trunks towering
zoo or 300 feet above, and so thick on
either side that it would be impossible
to pick a route through it on horseback.
Here is the mine for the future investor.
These forests will in time be the scene
of busy industry and thrift. The saw-
mill will create more wealth here and
do more toward building up the coun-
try than all the gold locked -in the fast-
nesses higher up.

You pass various little outposts of the
mining region. Kingston, one of the
first, is a. city of one shanty hotel, a sta-
ble, and tent-and-shanty store. The
principal stock in trade is, of course,
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beautiful sheet of water some 25 miles
by two or three miles in extent, very
irregular, and a paradise for hunters.
You catch only a glimpse and pronounce
it exceedingly fine. But.if you were to
row around it or live on its shores a
summer you would find it exceedingly
monotonous. Only a small portion of
its shores is open to settlement, and
that is partly occupied by a “mission”
established by Jesuits years ago. Uncle
Sam’s military reservation also takes up
quite a portion. Still climbing, you at
length reach Eagle City, one of those
queer mushroom products peculiar to
mining localities. Here you find the
sluice-box in operation. Your ideas of
the business of mining takes a sudden
tumble, the construction of the machine
is so simple. A few slats are nailed
crosswise on the bottom of a trough, or
grooves cut therein, the space filled with
mercury, and the thing is ready for use.
The auriferous sand is thrown in with
water that carries it down. The little
particles of gold come in contact with
the mercury at the “ripples,” and by
that peculiar chemical affinity forms the
amalgam. At the “clean-up” the
amalgam is taken out, the mercury re-
torted over to be used again, and the
gold left behind. Water, then, is ne-
cessary for the work. Without it noth-
ing can be done; hence great amounts
of capital have been invested in enter-
prises having for their object the furn-
ishing of water to placer claims. Great
capital is necessary to develop this re-
gion, as the “pay dirt” is from five to
twelve feet below the surface and no nat-
ural water supply. Eagle had a boom
last year. Lots were valued at $1,200
and 31,500 that now would be sold glad-
ly at $50. The residents stay because
they can’t get away; or, possibly, they
stick to it, trusting ‘to luck for the fut-
ure, and living in the hope of a big find
SOOI1.
Farther up is Murray, the great min-
ing town of the region. The site is not
so good as Eagle, but the business is

here. A single street comprises the
town. Stumps, logs and brush-heaps
are the principal decorations. The

buildings are shanties or log huts or
canvas tents, nine-tenths of the whole
being saloons or bawdy houses. The
“theater,” that exponent of a booming
mining town, is in full blast, with all its
low vulgarisms and gawdy inmates.
Gamblers reap the usual harvests, and
the enterprising merchant is on hand
with his goods at zoo per cent.

Everything is feverish and uncertain.
New discoveries are made from time to
time, yet on the whole not a great
amount of color shows up. True, there
is a constant output, but the amount is
unknown. Those who are making mon-
ey work hard and keep still. Those
who are going to make agreat strike are
very noisy. As placers this region
needs a heavy investment of capital,
and for quartz mining ready money is
indispensable; so the success of this
region must await the slow recognizance
of capital before it will cause much stir
in the world. A ditch company is now
organized with headquarters at St. Louis,
and, it is said, with ample funds, are
prosecuting work very slowly.

The discovery of these placer mines
dates back probably many years; but

' the quartz claims were found only two

years ago. The manner of the finding
of this “lead” was peculiar. A farmer
named Davis, living in the Palouse coun-
try, dreamed that he prospected through
the mountains, up a peculiar gulch, cov-

ered with timber growing in striking cir-,

cumstances, and found a ledge off which
he chipped pure gold. A third time he
visited the place in his slumbers. He
became excited, organized a little par-
ty, and started into the deep forest.
Eventually he came to a, spot that look-
ed familiar. He recognized the brook,
the trees, the rocks. Search revealed a

‘ledge of the finest quartz rock discov-
ered- in many a day. “Dream Gulch”
may become the Comstock of this dec-
ade. The “Mother Lode” was discov-
ered and is ‘held by three farmers from
the Palouse. That there is gold here
in paying quantities there is no doubt,

I but it is no place for a poor man. A
quartz mill was started this summer, but
is now discontinued. _ ‘

The Northern Pacific runs just north
of. these mines. Thompson’s- Falls is
the shipping point now for the mines.
Lake Pendde’ Oreille, lying between
the Coeur d’ Alene and the Northern
Pacific in Idaho, offers a convenient
waterway, but the cost of getting from
the water to the mines is as great as
from Thompson's Falls over in Mon-
tana. The Montana slope of these
mountains is covered with the same
dense forest. Giant cedars so close to-
gether that their trunks nearly touch
one another, cover vast areas, and bull

.pine firs and yellow pine stand in great

array, The mountains usually are not
above the snow line, but covered with
dense forest to their summits. By mid;
summer only patches of snow remain.

By a visit to Murray we learn that
the miner's life is not strewn with roses.
He lives poorly, dresses roughly, asso-
ciates with many questionable charac
ters, and, in nine cases out of ten, does
not make a fortune. .

THERE was a time when the employer
resented complaints on_the partlof his
workmen as insolent interference with
his proper function, but that day is over.
The workman hereafter can be consider-
ed as in some sort apaittner in the enter-
prise. ‘

From My Diary.
CHOICE or BOOKS—_HISTORY.

Some years ago, Sii' John Lubbock
gave in a public lecture, a list of the
best one hundred books. The Pall
rllall Gazelle soon afterwards published
this list of books, and since that time
the reading public have had the pleas-
ure of conning lists of the best one
hundred books presented by a number
of distinguished authors and writers;
and these selections of books have been
as diverse as the literary tastes of those
who presented them. For the praise
and dispraise of books have been on
men’s lips ever since the preacher ex-
claimed in his weariness, “that of the
making of books there was no end.”
If that was true in the crude, ancient
days of book-making, what shall we say
of the present time when the number of
books published in one year are not
only as diverse but as innumerable as
the leaves in Valambrosa.

The matter of selecting books for
libraries is of especial importance just
now to the people of our State, as
under the new school law a township
library, in charge of a librarian, is
formed of those school districts in each
township that do no not have one hun-
dred children of school age. Districts
that have that number of children re-
ceive their accustomed portion of the
library fund for the support of a Dis-
trict Library. The rest of the fund
goes to the support of the Township
Library. Thus, as stated, especial at-
tention has lately been given to the mat-
ter of selecting books for the new li-
braries. Besides this, great interest has
been aroused in this direction by the
various Reading Circles throughout the
country, from that of Chautauqua, with
its innumerable branches, to those in
the large cities, towns and small villages
all over the land. '

Although advice is cheap, and some-
times conflicting, yet one, taking his
own counsel, need have no trouble, in
any part of the country, in finding
access to good books. Of one thing
one can be sure, it is always good ad-
vice to keep reading. Any book wiser
than yourself will teach you something
——yes, a great many things, directly or
indirectly, if you are desirous to learn.
Dr. Johnson’s advice is yet good, and
can be universally applied: “Read the
book you do honestly feel a wish and
curiosity to read, for that wish and cur-
iosity indicate you are the person to
get good ofit. Our wishes are present-
ments of our capabilities.” “That,”
says Carlyle, “is a noble saying, of deep
encouragement to all true men; appli-
cable to our wishes and efforts in re-
gard to reading, ‘ as well as to other
things.” But one should discriminate
carefully between a true and false de-
sire. The mind like the body grows by
what it feeds on. Reading like eating
should not be groverned by a false or
unhealthy appetite or desire.

.()ur object in writing this article is
not to give the best one hundred books,
but the best books that will afford the
best reading to those who seek them for
improvement.

We would say then that in choosing
books for a library we should be gov-
erned not so much by what we think
people would like to read, as by. what
the best judges in the matter think they
should read.

As history is the basis of all,knowl-
edge that books can give, so it is the
basis of all reading, and should receive
our earliest attention and such a share
of our time as its importance demands.
I would suggest, in order for you to ac-
complish the most and reap the fullest
harvest from your labors in this field, I
would suggest dividing history into per-
iods or epochs, viz—ancient, mediaeval
and modern. This done, secure the
best histories of each period of time.
The ancient would extend from crea-
tion to the fall of the western empire of
the Romans; that is, from ’ 4oo4 B. C.
to 476 A. D. First, then, to get a true
picture of the eastern or primitive his-
toric civilization, you have only to se-
cure Rawlison’s Seven Great Monarch-
ies, and Wilkinson’s Ancient Egyptians.
Or; you will find nearly the same in
Farr’s four volumes, viz—Egypt, Assy-
ria, Persia and Macedonia. With these
you could include Davis's China, and
Murray’s India, and you will have the
entire eastern world in full picturesque
background. ‘

Before you start European history,
in order to get a grand picture of its
prehistoric civilization, you should se-
cure Homer, and you 'will find por-
trayed by him the religion, civil polity,
customs and manners of the Greeks,
who were the schoolmasters to the na-
tions of their own day, and have con-
tinued to be the same to the mediaeval
and modern world. To cover the
classic Greek epoch, get Grote’s Greece
—that is the best work of the kind.
Put Plutarch’s Lives by the side of
Grote, and you are well prepared to
continue your labors understandingly
in the path of history.

Next comes Rome, the most cele-
brated pupil of Greece, whose con-
quering. legions made her mistress of
the world, and wherever her legions
carried the imperial eagle she spread
Greek and Roman civilization. This is
an era from which, including that of
Greece, all that is great and glorious in
the- modern world has come. We
think Arnold’s Rome is the best, but if
you prefer, read Thomson;

Now comes the transition from heath-
en to Christian history, which you will

\

find fully presented in Gibbon’s incom-
parable work, the “Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire,” and you are
through with the ancient world.

We have next the mediaeval period.
Begin this with Hallam’s Middle Ages,
and then take Guizot’s History of
Civilization. Then take Guizot’s His-
tory of France, and follow him through
his admirable work and he will give
you the rise and early history of about
every nation in Europe. For France
in her long struggle for nationality has
been arrayed in arms against nearly
every nation in Europe, and has some-
times fought single-handed three or
four of them that were leagued against
her. '

Motley’s Dutch Republic and United
Netherlands comes next. Then De
Aubique’s Reformation, Schiller’s Thirty
Years War, and Creasey’s Fifteen De-
cisive Battles of the World. If you
wish, you can read also Rambaud’s
Russia. Now cross the channel and
come into the dawn of that greatest of
modern nations, save one. For this
get Knight’s History of England, or if
you prefer take Green's-—both are ex-
cellent. Now go north ’cross the
Cheviot Hill and the Tweed, and on
Auld Scotia’s native heath read Men-
zie’s history of Scotland, and with it
read Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather,
and also those novels of his which illus-
trate many periods of English and
Scotch history better than the historian
does. After this, cross the North Chan-
nel and read that most interesting of all
histories, W. C. Taylor’s History of Ire-
land. Read this work and you will not
wonder that the civilized nations of the
world are at present wishing Gladstone
success in his great measure before the
British Parliament, his Home Rule for
Ireland.

Crossing the waters, we would com-
mend to your special attention,Ban-
croft’s Revised History of the United
States, with which, for the present, we
will leave you. V. B.

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“I NEVER yet met a man who had ser-
iously forecast the means by which his
fellow countrymen could be bettered,
who did not detect the readiest means
in co-operation. The kindliest and
most genial men have laboured for and
advocated it; the shrewdest ani most
prudent have commended it; and if the
mass of working men fairly grapple with
the problem and undertake to work it
out, the present progress of the Eu-
glish nation will be as nothing com-
pared to its future.”—-I’rof. T/zoro//2’
Rogers, MP.

——— —--

A LETTER was received at the State
Treasury the other day, inquiring anx-
iously if the Bohemian oat men had
left any money on deposit in the State
Treasury to pay for losses. After a
careful examination of the funds in the
treasury, the Treasurer replied that
there was no such money visible any-
where about the premises—not a cent.

finsfal gottings.

KEELER GRANGE has bought and has been
fitting up a building for a hall; and it will be
finished and the Grange will meet there for the
first time—since finished—this week Friday,
when we expect Sister Mayo to meet with us.
The hall will not be dedicated to the Grange, as
it is small and will be used only until the
Grange can afford a better one. The “Patrons
Reading Circle” has not been introduced in our
Grange as yet, as so much time had to be taken
up with the building arrangements. We are
‘glad the VISITOR is to publish a series of papers
on the general plan of the work. Farm work is
well advanced, and‘ everything in the fruit line
promising fruit; several farmers planted ‘large
fields to corn in April. The season is so early
all hope for an abundant harvest. .

We are sorry Aunt Prue has to give up her de-
partment; but what a stupid set of young people
to not keep up their corner “any way.” I wish
I was one of ’em. I'd propose something to
astonish the natives. Now can’t some one reply
and start a,“comer” on some scheme?

‘ I S. P. S.

GLASS CREEK GRANGE is in a prosperous icon-
dition;»we have a membership of 75, and two ,ap-
plications. ' We have a program at each meeting
which is well carried out. -

Bro. Luce lectured through thiscounty last
winter, and there has been‘ quite a revival here
since.

I send you two more names for the VISITOR,
making thirty in all. . C. A. NEWLAND.

Barry Co. ,

WINSLOW GRANGE has decided to hold Chil-
dren’s Day outhe 10th of June. .

Pomona Grange meets at our hall on the 26th
of May. We hope_for a large attendance.

I wish Aunt Kate would be more explicit in
regard to her treatment of film, as we have one
in our family afliicted. What quantity at n time?
and is it not too painful for a child to bear.

ANN M. BRIGHAM.

As I HAVE my planting all done I thought I
would write a few lines for the VISITOR. Our
crops in this section are looking fine. We had a
splendid meeting at our last Grange, and are
making preparations for Children’s Day. I
would like to ask if it will pay to underdrain
our land? Will some of our Brothers please
answer through the VISITOR. SCRIBE.

Talmadge Grange, No. 626.

LENAWEE County Pomona Grange held its
regular quarterly meeting last Thursday, May
13, at Morenci. There was a very fair attend-
ance, considering the busy season. The program
was uite interesting. A discussion on the labor
troub es brought out the fact that the Lenawee
County Patrons do not propose to mix or co-op-
erate with the Knights of Labor. ,

The reports from Subordinate Granges were
very interesting. The Granges reported are
mostly in good working order. The Worthy
Lecturer, Geo. .B. Horton, of Weston Grange,
requests that the reports from different Graiiges
should include the best methods of conducting
Granges to make them interesting. Also the
best way to keep them from becoming dormant.
The ideas and suggestions brought out by these
requests were many of them very important and

rofitable. The Worthy Master, Bro. Geo. D.
_ oore, occupied the chair for the first time and
is entitled to very much credit for doing so nice-

ly. Our August meeting will be with Medina
Grange. _ M. T. COLE.

T 0 (/1: K. of L. Assembliu, Laéar Un-
ions, Grangers, Patron: of Husbandry,
G.A. R., and all ollzerr irztcrc.¢lezt' in
tlze development of our public‘ land: and
{lie adzrarwement of the interests of 1/2:

prozlucing cla.r.re.r-—-Greeting:

We, the Knights of Labor of Saginaw,
ask that you use all honest endeavors to
secure the passage of the following bill
by holding public meetings for the pur-
pose of endorsing the bill and sending
a petition to your Senators and Con-
gressmen to vote for its passage:

Forty-ninth Congress, 1st session—- H. R. 5390.
In the House of Representatives, February 8,
1886. Read twice, referred to the Committee on
the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Foran introduced the following bill: '
A BILL supplemental to “An act to secure

homesteads to actual settlers on the public do-

main,” approved May 20th, 1862.

Be it enacted b the Senate and House of
Representatives 0 the United States of Ameri-
ca in Congress assembled, That from and after
the passage of this act, any person above the
age of twenty-one years who is the head of a
family and a citizen of the United States, and
who shall comply with the provisions of the act
of Congress approved May 20th, 1862, entitled
“An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers
on the public domain,” and all acts supplement-
al or amendatory thereto, and who shall comply
with all the requirements imposed by this act,
shall receive from the Treasury of the United
States, out of any moneys not otherwise appro-
priated, the sum of five hundred dollars, as a
loan, to be repaid as hereinafter provided,
which money so loaned shall be expended by
the person receiving the same solely in iinprove-
ments upon the langl entered and settled upon
under the terms and conditions imposed by the
homestead laws of the United States, including
the erection of buildings, the purchase of seeds
and subsistence, implements of husbandry, and
such other articles as may be necessary to im-
prove and cultivate the lands entered and settled
upon. \
SEC. 2. That before receiving the loan provid-
ed for by section one of this act, the person or
persons applying for the same shall file with the
register or receiver of the land office of the
United States most convenient to the homestead
selected a certificate signed by the Judge of the
United States Circuit or District Court of the
District in which such person or persons last re-
sided, whicli certificate shall certify that the
holder thereof does not own or possess goods,
chattels, effects or property in excess of three
hundred dollars. The Judge issuing said certifi-
cate shall require of the applicant therefor an
affidavit affirming the‘ truth of the allegations
therein, and also the affidavits of two citizens to
the effect that they personally know the appli-
cant and believe his or her statements in regard
to his or her effects, chattels‘ or property to be
true, which affidavits shall be filed and pre-
served by the Clerk of the Court issuing said
certificate, the Clerk being entitled to the fees
charged for like services. Upon filing said cer-
tificate with the register or receiver of the land
office as aforesaid, the holder thereof shall then,
or within one ear thereafter, also make and
subscribe an a ndavit before the said register or
receiver that the money received under the pro-
visions of this act shall be expended for no other
purpose than that specified in the first section of
this act, which affidavit and certificate aforesaid
shall be filed and preserved in the land office of
the United States where the proceedings are
had.

SEC. 3. That all persons desiring to avail
themselves of the provisions of this act shall file
with the register or receiver of the land oflice
most convenient to the lands to be entered and
settled upbn the certificate provided for by sec-
tion two, on or before the first day of February
of the yeaf’ during which they desire to enter and
settle upon said lands, which certificates shall
be entered upon the records of said land office
in the order of their reception; and the person
filing the same shall receive a receipt therefor,
which receipt shall specify by number the order
in which said certificate was filed; and upon sub-
scribing to the affidavit and complying with the
further conditions imposed by said section two,
each person, in the order in which his or her
certificate was filed, shall receive from t'lie regis-
ter or receiver five non-traiisferable conditional
vouchers, of one hundred dollars each, for the
money provided for by section one of this act,
to be paid in the manner hereinafter stipulated:
Provided, however, that any person who has
been in actual service in the military or naval
service of the United States for a period not less
than ninety days, and who was honorably (lis-
charged, may also file with said certificate his
original discharge from the army or‘navy, or
other competent or satisfactory proof of such act-
ual service in the military or naval service of the
United States; and every person making the
proof herein provided of actual service in ’the
military or naval service of the United States
shall be entitled to preference by the register or
receiver in issuing vouchers for the loan herein
provided.

SEC. 4. That before issuing said vouchers to
any person availing himself or herself of the
provisions of this act, the register or receiver
shall cause to be prepared a mortgage to the
United States, to be duly executed by the appli-
cant, conveying the land so settled and entered,
and upon which the applicant is to settle, im-
prove and cultivate, in which mortgage there
shall be inserted a condition for the payment—of
five hundred dollars to the United States in five
equal annual payments of one hundred dollars
each, with interest at three per centum per an-
num, the first of said pa ments to become due
five years from the date 0 said mortgage.. When
said sum of five hundred dollars, and the igter—
est thereon, has been fully paid, said mortgage
shall be satisfied by the registeror receiver, or
by such other person as may be designated for
that purpose by the Commissioner of the Gener-
al Land Ofhce. A copy of each mortgage made
and executed in pursuance of this act shall, after
the original has been duly recorded in the proper
office for the recording of deeds most conven-
ient to the land described therein, under certifi-
cate and seal of the register of the land office
where executed, be forwarded to the General
Land Ofiice at Washington, the original to be
retained in the land office where executed; and
the said certified copies are hereby declared to
be evidence on the part of the United States,
and suits for'forclosure may be instituted upon
them as effectually as upon the originals. The
registers shall keep :1 record of all loans, the
names of the persons making them, their places
of birth, former residences. and respective ages,
the amounts paid upon said loans from time to
time, and shall make monthly reports to the
General Land Office of the United States of all
acts done by them under the provisions of this
act.

SEC. 5. That upon a full compliance with the
terms and conditions of this act as bereinbefore
stated, as well as upon a full compliance with
the terms and conditions of the act to which this
act is supplemental, so far as the ,same may be
applicable and consistent herewith, b the per-
sons availing themselves of the benefi s thereof,
the receiver of the land oflice where the proceed-
ings have taken place shall pay him or her, up-

_on presentation of the vouchers aforesaid, the

sum of one hundred dollars, and one hundred
dollars monthly thereafter until the said sum .of
five hundred dollars shall have been fully dis-
bursed. But before paying any one of said
vouchers subsequent to the first one, the said re-
ceiver shall be satisfied, by other testimony in
addition to the oath of the applicant or holder

of said vouchers, that he or she has expended

. V’

the money loaned, and will expend the money
received, in accordance with the true intent and
meaning of this act; and if it shall appear that
any money so paid on said vouchers has not
been so expended, no ‘further payment in the
particular case shall be made, and the mortgage
given shall be forthwith foreclosed, and all
rights and privileges under this act, and the act
to which it is supplemented, shall become for-
feited, and the title to the land entered shall re-
vert to the United States.

SEC. 6. That the Commissioner of the Gen-
eral Land Office shall make and promulgate such
rules and regulations for the government and
guidance of registers and receivers in carrying
out the provisions of this act as he may deem
expedient; he shall also fix a. schedule of fees,
which shall not exceed ten dollars for both said
officers in any one case; and he shall, in con-
junction with the Secretary of the Treasury,
make and establish such rules and regulations
as to the mode and manner of the transmission
and payment of the money appropriated by this
act as may be deemed proper and expedient.

Sec. 7. That the sum of $35,000,000 is here-
by appropriated, out of any available funds of
the United States, for the purposes of this act;
but not more than five million dollars of said
sum shall be used or expended in any one year.
The moneys paid the United States in satisfac-
tion of the mortgages provided for by this act,
in whole or in part, shall constitute a fund
which shall be available for the purposes of this
act at the expiration of seven years from and
after its passage,.to an amount not to exceed five
million dollars [each year. At the end of each
year after Fe‘brua;y 1st, 1887, any part of the five
million dollars herein provided for expenditure
in the manner aforesaid remaining unexpended
shall be covered into the Treasury of the United
States; and all moneys received in satisfaction of
the mortgages herein provided for in excess of
the five million dollars per year for the purposes
of this act shall also be covered into the Treasury
of the United States.

SEC. 8. That any person availing himself or
herselfof the provisions of this act, or any wit-
ness in his or her behalf, who swears falsely as
to any material matter contained in the proofs,
affidavits, or oaths required by this act, the said
false swearing being willful or corrupt, lie or she
shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall be
liable to the same pains and penalties as if he or
she had sworn falsely as to any material matter
in a cause heard before the District or Circuit
Courts of the United States.

SEC. 9. That it is hereby made the duty of
the I)istr.ct Attorneys of the United States in the
several districts in which lands may be located
and settled under the terms and provisions of
this act, upon being notified by the receiver or
register of any land office within their several
districts that breach of condition has occurred in
any mortgage made and executed under the pro-
visions of this act, to forthwith institute pro-
ceedings in the proper court for the foreclosure
of said mortgage; and upon said mortgage being
forclosed the land reverting to the United States
shall not be again open to entry and settlement
under the provisions'of this act except the person
desiring to enter and settle upon the same pay
to the United States an amount equal to the
value of the improvements already made there-
on; and said land shall not be otherwise sold ex-
cept at its actual value.

SEC. 10. That from and after the passage of
this act the public domain, and all lands which
may hereafter revert to the United States by
reason of the forfeiture of railroad land grants
or from other cause, shall be forever held solely
for the use and benefit of actual settlers under
the provisions of this act and the act to which
this is snppleniental, save and except such lands
as may be reserved and set iipnrt for school pur-
poses by the Congress of the United States.

SEC. 1 I. That no patent shall issue under
the act of May 20th, 1862, and to which this act
is supplemental, where :1 mortgage has been
given under the terms of this act, until such
mortgage has been fully paid; and all parts and
clauses ofthe said act of May 20th, 1862, which
prohibits from the benefits of the same persons
“who have borne arms against the United States
Government, or given aid and comfort to its
enemies,” are hereby repealed.

.,._(_._..j_.

Qbituaries,

HALL—-—Resolutions adopted by Central LeRoy
Grange, No. 130, on the death of Bro. L. R.
Hall, who died April I4, 1886:

VVHEREAS, It has pleased the Divine Master
to remove from us by death our Brother; there-
fore,

Resolr/ea’, That in the death of Bro. Itlall our
Order has lost atrue and worthy member, the
community a social and pleasant friend, and the
family aloving husband and father.

Ra-rolzrzd, That we tender the bereaved family
our heartfelt sympathy, and invoke in their be-
half the kind protection of all belonging to our
Order. -

Rerolwd, That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to the family; also to the GRANGE Visi-
TOR for publication, and also entered upon our
Grange record. COMMl.'l"I‘F.E.
LUDLOW-—

WHEREAS, Springport Grange, No. 45, has
again heard an alarm at the gate, and the un-
bidderi’ messenger, Death, has entered and
severed from our fraternal chain a golden link
which can never be restored; therefore,

Rural:/ed, That, in the death of Brother S. H.
Ludlow, this Grange has lost a wise counclilor,
an earnest, worthy, and consistant member, his
family a kind and indulgenthusband and father,
and the community a worthy and useful citizen.
_ Resolved, That our heartfelt sympathy be and
is hereby extended to the bereaved Sister and
the famil of ours deceased Brother in this their
great aflfiction. Realizing how powerless are
any poor words of our to comfort pr heal our
sorrow, we can only commend them to the Su-
preme Grand Master.

R2-rolzrerl, That these resolutions be spread
upon the minutes of the Grange, a co y pre-
sented to the family of the deceased, an copies
sent‘ to the Gunner; VISITOR and Springport
Signal for publication, and that the charter be
draped in mourning for thirty days. COM.

MOLINEAUX:——Died on Sabbath eve.,
25, 1886, Sister Martha M. Molineaux.
She was born in Henderson, Jefferson Co., N.

Y., August 1, I834. She became a charter

member of South Riley Grange where she left

a large circle of friends, and became a member

of Capital Grange in 1881, where she also leaves

many friends to mourn her loss. Therefore
we as brothers and sisters resolve that
the members of this Grange realize with
sadness her absence from among us, and that we
have one more vacant chair. \Ve extend our

April

sincere sympathy to the bereaved family, well "

knowing that no hand but God’s can heal the
wound made by Death’s relentless hand.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the bereaved family, also spread on our
Grange record and a copy sent to the GRANGE
VISITOR for publication.
Sister, thou hast gone and left us,
Ere we knew tho-.:.wert going;
Little dreamed we, that so soon
We should miss thy smile forever ‘
In our Grange fraternal halls.
Yet a brightness. shines above us ’
,With a hope so pure and clear
That in the halls where Christ is Master
We shall meet to part no more.
Other sisters gone before thee
Have been waiting long to welcome
Thou—-theirvliving suffering sister;
Thee and the,  :t resting-waiting
For the tired and weary ones
All along the world’s highway.


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Law and Order versus Saloons.

As is alleged, jealousy among the
leading saloon keepers of Marquette in
the U. P. resulted in a demand upon
the Mayor that the law requiring sa-
loons to be closed on Sunday be en-
forced. The Mayor at once complied
and the only saloon that did not at once
comply was promptly educated by the
imposition of two fines for two viola-
tions of law. The saloon keepers of
Negaunee another U. P. town seem not
to have been suffering from the same
complaint. The wanton and persistent
violation of law by the saloon keepers

of that city stimulated the best class of
citizens to organize a Law and Order
League and the City Marshal served a
notice on all saloon keepers to conform
to the law requiring their places of bus-
iness to remain closed on Sunday. This
organization was met by organization
on the part of the saloon interest. A
poolwas formed to meet the expense
that might result from an open defiance
of law and at 2 P. M. on Sunday the 23d
of May every saloon in the city opened
its doors for business. The Secretary
and other members of the Law and Or-
der League took the names of the of-
fenders and of ,witnesses and lodged
complaints against nearly every saloon
keeper in the city. "

Without the influence of Marquette’s
judicial proceedings of ‘late date shall
have a wonderful effect'on the Courts
of Negaunee we can hardly expect the
plain and explicit provisions 9f the law
will be enforced. We say this for the
reason that we suppose that civilization
in the U. P. is not much in advance of
the civilization of the Lower»Peninsula,
and there are very few towns in Michi-
gan that enforce the State law affecting
the closing of saloons at a specified
time and selling to minors.

There is a growing interest among
the better class of people all over the
country in this matter of law enforce-
ment. .

The question is being more and more
discussed——Shall the only class of men
whose business at this time pays a large
profit, and the prosecution of which
adds immensely to the crime and cost
of municipal and State governments, be
allowed to set at defiance the express
provisions of the laws of the State?
The more aggressive the law-defying
element becomes the sooner we shall
reach that point where the enforcement
of law will become a real necessity for
the protection of life and property.
And we are therefore always pleased to
see the issue forced upon a community,
and the men who mean -no harm and

have no time to offend anybody lest it I

should injure their business compelled
to take sides with the worst element in
the community or stand up for'the en-
forcement of law.

At several of the towns in the Upper
Peninsula the outlook now is that this
point will soon be reached. All agita-
tion of this kind will result in good, for
no defense of persistent violation of a
statute clearly in the interest of morali-
ty and good order as well as economy
can be set up and sustained. _

The liquor interest of this country in
the prosecution of its business respects
law only as compelled to and its persis-
tent violations of law will hasten the
day of greater restrictions and their en-
forcement. II this is not true then _are
we on the down. grade in our civiliza-
tion. I _

We have faith to believe that a. senti-
ment of obedience to law is growing
and will prevail. ‘_ - ' '

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PORT Honor: will decoratethe tramp s
who seek her hospitality. with ball and
chain and set them to cleaning the
streets.-

WITH an importation of 100,000,000
pounds of foreign wool for the nine
months preceding April 1, 1886, and a
large supply of manufactured goods on
the market, it is not a matter of surprise
that the outlook of the market for the
new clip is not improving. Nor is the out-
look of sheep husbandry in this country
at all flattering. With that conclusion
forced upon us shall we abandon the
business? If yes, what other line of
farming shall we substitute in its place?
This question must be answered before
we decide to give up wool and mutton.

After we have cast about for a substitute
we shall probably think it advisable to
keep the best sheep we have for breed-
ing and for fattening, sell the culls and
hold fast to this branch of farming. In
fact, if we can’t afford to keep sheep we
can’t afford to continue farming, and if
we can't afford to continue farming what
shall we do in its stead? We can’t
strike and call on other farmers to
help support us until prices improve;
if we do the answer will be but a mock-
ing echo.

We are of those who believe the
Michigan farmer cannot afford to farm
In Southern Michigan without sheep,
and this means that he can’t afford to
keep poor sheep. We remember when
but few Michigan fagmers kept sheep,
and then the flock that averaged four
pounds was of the very best; and the
farmer who marketed his washed wool
at twenty-five cents a pound was satis-
fied. But in those days farmers’ wives
wore linsey-woolsey; wore a sunbonnet
to meeting which was usually held in
a log school-house. If the farmer was
real forehanded the luxury of a carryall
was indulged in, otherwise pole
springs in the lumber wagon did good
service.

But the world has moved in a genera-
tion, and although the farmer class is
charged with dullness, few are found in
the old rut. All have made some pro-
gress; and, although wool is approxi-
mating those old prices, no farmer is
brave enough to invite his wife to ex-
change her silks for linsey-woolsey, or
her carriage for a carryall.

If then it is impossible to return to
the simple and inexpensive ways of
pioneer life we must, by improvments
in stock and better methods of farming,
be able to match the changed condi-
tions of our wants. The farmer whose
average is less than six pounds has not
kept up with his opportunities, and at
present prices must begin to feel a little
apprehensive about the outcome of his
business for the year.

Talk this matter over at your Grange
meetings, exchange experiences and
profit by what others have learned.
Keep what sheep you can keep well; to
keep more than that number is to make
a greater mistake than to keep none.

 
 

FACTS and Figures about Michigan
is a most complete Hand Book for 1886
covering a’ multitude of facts on its
ninety pages besides its portrayal of the
capabilities and excellences of the
Michigan Central Railway. Frank J.
Bramhall of the passenger department
of the M. C. R. R. its Editor has cer-
tainly condensed into a small space a
collection of facts that will surprise and
interest any and every person who may
chance to open this little book. We
had thought to enumerate the subjects
embraced within its covers but soon
gave it up. It is sufficient to say "that
the compiler seems to have found and
systematized everything in the geo-
graphical, civil, political and religious
history of the State.

Nor are the various societies forgot-
ten but each with its ofiicers is assigned
a brief space. There are dozens of
things in this little Book that one can
think of and find out all about and then
there are scores of other matters equal-
ly well treated that one would not think
of until he finds the facts all boiled
down into the least possible space.

An Alphabetical Index completes the
most complete collection of facts and
figures in relation to Michigan that we
have ever seen. We notice the price is
15 cents and suppose it -can be had by
addressing Passenger Department M. C.
R. R. Chicago, Ill.

 

IN the New York World of a late
date under the heading “What will be
done to complete the work of the ses-
sion?” we find the following item. The
gentleman referred to is the author of
the Declaration of Purposes of the Or-
der of Patrons of Husbandry and what-
ever the Order may do in the future
this Declaration of Purposes will stand
the test of time and go down the ages
as the embodiment of a noble endeavor
to elevate the agricultural class of this
country.

If this “leading candidate” shall be
selected we shall accept it as another
evidence that the farmer class are being
more recognized from year to year and
we trust it will not be long before farm-
ers will have their interests looked after
in legislative bodies by farmers. The
world moves and those who have pa-
ti_ence and persistence are best satisfied
with the progress made from year to
year. - v

The leading candidate for Commissioner of Edn-
cation is J. W. A. Wright, a graduate of Prince-

ton, who has been for many years identified with
the educational and agricultural interests of the
country, and who was one of the founders of the
Patrons of Husbandry, or “Grangers,” as they
are popularly called. He has received the
united indorsement of that society, which has a
membership of over half a million, and he is
also pressed for the appointment by- the Pacific
coast influence. Mr. Wright has made the edu-
cational systems of this country and Europe an
especial study, and a series of letters from him
on industrial education in Germany and England
published in 77:: I‘Vor/d in 1876, not only at-
tracted widespread attention but were the cause
of many important changes, in public-school
methods, as well as the establishment of special
industrial courses. He is a Southern man by
birth, a Northern man by education and a West-
ern mau by residence, so that those pressing his
claims assert that his appointment would be ac-
ceptable to all sections. There are between
thirty and forty candidates for the position.

LABOR Laws of America—a pamphlet
of over 80 pages just issued by the Co-
operative Publishing Company cf De-
troit——is presented to the public at an
opportune moment. It is edited by
Henry A. Haigh, and that to those who
have examined his Hand Book of Law,

is sufficient recommendation. The ex-
istence of the organization is a protest
against existing usages if not against
existing'law and every intelligent Knight
ought to becomeso familiar with the
laws of the State affecting labor that he
can seekfithrough legislation to correct
any defects that he may find.

While the organization claims not to
be political yet it is hardly probable
that in its efforts to secure what it de-
mands it will ignore the ballot. It is
clearly the duty of every Knight of La-
bor to first become acquainted with his
rights as a working citizen and employe
under existing laws, and we believe from
this compilation this information can be
gained.

The work has been prepared for the
industrial classes and it will be found
useful for reference to employers as well
as the employed.

The price is within the reach of men
of small means and as it is asserted that
one of the prime objects of the organi-
zation is the education of its members
it would seem that this sort of educa-
tion is the kind about as much wanted
as any other. We will send the Book
to any one sending us four subscribers
and two dollars.

 
 

THE circular of Master Workman
Powderly to the Knights of Labor of
America, issued early in May, is a doc-
ument well calculated to establish and
confirm the good opinion entertained
by the general public of the head of

the organization. His advice to the
Knights is sound, and the tone and tem-
per of the paper could nit well be im-
proved.

Of course it has fallen upon some
unappreciative ears, for this large or-
ganization of mushroom growth has a
large element of unreasoning men not
qualified to fully comprehend in its
breadth the purposes of the organiza-
tion,.but more disposed to‘ ‘right real
or fancied wrongs by a short road and
with little delay.

The Master Workman in his address
deals in no uncertain phrase of double
meaning, and by his outspoken, square-
cut statements is relieved of any sus-
picion of endeavoring to please men of
all sorts of opinions. He is clearly no
managing politician. He has only words
of censure for strikes and boycotts.
This circular comes at a very oppor-
tune time, and will serve to check
the flow of public opinion which had
set in against the Knights of Labor on
account of the reckless course pursued
by Executive Committees of Assemblies
and district organizations.

AN article in a Harrisburg, Penn.,
paper comes to us marked, and we find
the marked article to be a very cordial
endorsement by a District Grange com-
posed of a half dozen counties of South-
ern Pennsylvania of Bro. R. H. Thomas,
Secretary of the State Grange, for the
office of ‘Lieutenant Governor.

From what we know of him we should
say he could discharge the duties of
that office acceptably to the people if
the work is assigned him, We have
noticed he is full of enterprise and
always casting about for something new
to work at. If in, this matter he main-
tains a faithful adherence to the princi-
ples of the Order to which he has given
so many years of faithful service, we
shall be well pleased if his friends are
able to confer upon him this office.
Farmers must not be ignored, but must
come to the front and take the labor
and responsibility as well as the honor
of position. We shall be pleased to
learn of the success of Bro. Thomas.

 

SOME Patron of good intentions has
hid behind three very good initials at
the foot of a communication, which
recites with some particularity the
reprehensible conduct of a couple of
the members of the Grange to which he
or she belongs. And for the “good of
the Order” we are invited to print the
letter.

Withholding the name of the writer
is sufiicient reason {or declining the re-
quest; and, besides, we are not able to
see what possible good could come by
the publication of the letter. The
writer should know that anonymous
communications are rejected, however
meritorious.

IF INSTEAD of continually clamoring for the
enactment of new laws, people would content
themselves for awhile with rigorously enforcing
the statutory provisions already in existence,
there would be less occasion for finding fault
with the laxness of legal restraints. Vice and
crime go unpunished simply because of a failure
to bring the offenders before the proper judicial
tribunal, and not because the laws are inade-
quate.

And this writer might have truthfully
added,vice and crime go unpunished be-
cause the officers elected to preserve
the peace and punish those who violate
its provisions, in the main neglect to
discharge a duty they have assumed
and which they had no intention of per-
forming when they took the oath of
office.

The time is part due when we should
support a man for ofiice simply because
he belongs to our party when we know
from his past record that he will not
regard the obligations he has assumed.

We shall soon have a chance to at-
tend to this business, and the man who
does not discriminate against the in-
efficient, easy—going official is unfaithful
to his citizenship.

SECRETARIES and Masters will oblige
by seeing that the number of their
Grange does not remain on the follow-
ing list of delinquents, if now on. Sev-
eral are back on quarters previous to

Dec. 31, 1885, but are not given here.
The long list of tardy reports for the
March quarter shows that some one will
be disappointed next fall when repre-
sentatives are selected for the State
Grange if these reports are not made.

Delinquents fcfr Dec. 31, 1885—160,
320, 332, 417, 651, 658.

For quarter ending March 31, 1886-
Igr I9: 38: 39! 45: 839 567 73: 8°: 81: 89:
90,106, 108, 114, 125, 137, 159, 162,
163, 167, I68, I75, I82, 185, 190, 194,
200, 212, 219, 223, 228, 229, 230, 245,
243: 257, 277. 278. 296, 298. 301. 304.
338, 350, 355, 361. 3.72, 389. 415. 443.
458. 476» 503, 505, 509. 528. 530. 566,
574. 619. 657, 659.

THE Editor of the Former’: Fricmz’
Bro. R. H. Thomas of Mechanicsburg,
Pa., has any amount of enterprise and
push. Wanting in these qualities he
would never have undertaken the new
scheme of educating the farmers of the

country which is set forth in a supple-
ment to the Former’: Friend’. Here is
given a full explanation of the plan of
the Reading Circle which he has intro-
duced and which if taken hold of by
the Patrons and other farmers of the
country will tend to educate, improve
and promote the objects of the Grange
organization. Bro. Thomas makes a
good paper and it is really what its
name sets forth a Farmer’s Friend and
Grange Advocate. Like the Order it
represents it has improved with age and
experience until now it comes to us as
one of the very best of our exchanges.

OUR readers should read with care
an employer’s views upon the labor
question, which re print on another
page. It has the merit of a candid ex-
pression of opinion from a man who
has evidently studied the subject care-
fully, and has without prejudice ex-
pressed his views. If employers gen-
erally would look all the facts in the
face, making due allowance for the
ignorance and narrowness of many of
their laborers as has this employer the
chances for amicable arrangements
would be so multiplied that extreme
measures would seldom be resorted to
by either party. Don't fail to read the
article.

THE jotting of W. A. B., of Benton
Harbor, found on our 5th page, is worth
an average two-column article. We
hope the Lecturer of every Grange in
Michigan will read it at the next meet-
ing of the Grange. It should and will
bring out profitable discussion.

The Forum is to continue its very in-
teresting series of personal experience
articles. In the June number Bishop

Huntington will tell the story of his re-
ligious life, and Dr. Vincent, Chancellor
of the Chautauqua Circle, will describe
how he was educated.

THE article in this paper by F. W.
Redfern was read at the dedication of
Bengal Grange Hall recently, and al-
though somewhat lengthy for these
columns it contains many good answers
to questions often asked members of

the Grange.
" An Anomaly-

An exchange tells us of a a “Liquor
Dealers’ League numbering nearly
eighty responsible citizens” in Harris-
burg, Penn. At a recent meeting a

resolution was adopted to have publish-
ed in all the Harrisburg papers warning
all_ parties who violate the laws of the
State relating to the sale of liquor “with
the penalty of prosecution.” Do any
of the “eighty ‘responsible citizens”
think to make the best citizens of Har-
risburg and the country that by getting
together and adopting a nice resolution
that they are such law abiding citizens
as they advertise themselves; of course
not. And all they mean by this show
of respect for the law is to frighten out
of the business the poor fellows who
have poor clothes and little money.

SPRINGr&CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS.

ONE PRICE TO ALL I

These Low Prices Tell the Story.

Good Calicos, 30 and -10.

Good Crash Toweling, 3c and 4c.

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

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

Giiighams, 5, 7, 9c and upward.

Wide and fine printed Cambrios
at 8, 10 and 121} cts.

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

Beautiful Satines, ‘.350.

Fine Scotch Ginghains, 200.

Brocade Dress Goods. 5, 6, 9,1210.

Table Linen, 15, 19, 22, 25, 26, 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 closin out a lar e lot of
fine Plaid ambrics or 12§c,
worth from 15 to 250. These
are the cheapest we have ever
seen. SPRING & COMPANY.

SII_nI§.S.

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 Grain for 75c, worth $1.
Black Gros Grain for 93¢, worth $1.
Black Gros Grain for $1, worth $1.50.
Black Gros Grain for $1.25, worth $1.75.
Black Gros Grain for 3 1.50, worth $2.00.

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

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

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

SPRING & C0.
THEIR L088 18 YOUR GAIN I

   

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,
$6.26; former retail price, $8.

Men’s Splendid ALL WOOL
SUITS, $6.50; former whole-
sale price, $7.87; former, re-
tail price, $10.

Fire Caiiiiiei ailB1ieFlaiielSiiIi,

ALL WOOL, $7.50 and $8.00. ,

At $8.50 and S I 0-O0

OUR ASSORTMENT OF

Pill llll ail Wllllll lllll

IS UNLIMITED.

BOYS’ SUITS

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

 

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

GIANT Gllll‘ Ni} ii,

oraminapids, Mich.-

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5

Jvnci: Coouzv is reputed a. very lev-
el-headed man. We present part of a
lecture delivered by him in the law lec-
ture room of the University. We are
pleased to find arbitrati_on—the Court
of the Patrons—endorsed by such emi-
nent judicial authority as Judge Cooley.
He says:

In no class of cases is it more important that
remedies be peaceful than in those which arise
between employer and laborer. The relation is
one in which the parties are mutually concerned
in its continuance; it is largely one of confi-
dence; hostile remedies are likely to destroy its
usefulness, and in many cases render its termina-
tion inevitable. Any useful remedy must be cal-
culated to prevent the breaking up of friendly
relations,and it should also avoid disturbing the
business while the controversy is pending.

Nothing but arbitration can do this. Arbi-
tration is a friendly remedy; that is the leading
idea. When parties find themselves unable to
agree, it is assumed that both sides mean to be
fair, but that interest may have warped the
judgment. They, therefore, call in others who
may assist them in coming to the just conclu-
sion. Is this remedy available? It has been
found so in other countries. But it would prob-
ably be found more diflicult to introduce it gen-
erally in this country than any other. Laborers
have a greater feeling ofindependence here and
are less inclined to trust theirdisputes to others.
They are also migratory and change more from
business to business. Business also is less es-
tablished and permanent here than in older
countries. Nevertheless, there is a broad field
for the remedy here, and it is specially available
in the great manufacturing and mining centers
and with the railroads. How is the remedy to
be introduced? Various methods are suggested.

I. The law may make it compulsory and
create a statutory Board for the purpose. Statu-
tory Boards exist in some other countries with
large powers. In England, however, where the
prevailing ideas resemble our own more than
do those in other countries, parties do not resort
to the statutory tribunals. I do not believe they
could be of much value in this country. They
could not be given compulsory power except
where the question involved concerned a viola-
tion of legal rights. They could not fix the ba-
sis for future e inployment, for that would be
making contracts for parties. They could not
fix the rate of future wages, except by way of
advice merely, for neither party could be com-
pelled to abide by anybody’sjudgment on such
a question. A law undertaking to compel it
would introduce a species of slavery.

2. The law may provide a Statutory Boards
to which, by consent, the parties may bring their
complaints without being compelled to do so.
This might be of some service but probably not
much.

3. Standing tribunals may be established
in any particular trade or business by co-
operation of employers and men, to which com-
plaints from either side may be made; the sub-
mission having no legal force but implying an
honorary obligation on both parties to abide the
result.

This sort of tribunal is found exceedingly
valuable in England. It is composed of equal
numbers of employers and men, and it is al-
ways understood that an endeavor shall be
made by these to settle the controversy without
calling in anybody else. But if this proves im-
practicable an umpire is agreed upon, whose
decision is to control.

Such a tribunal may be limited to a single
business or it may embrace all who are engaged
in the same line of business. Controversies
may be brought before it which concern single
individuals only, or which embrace the whole
trade. It is always understood that business
shall go on undisturbed while the attempted
settlement is in progress, and thus strikes and
lockouts are avoided. In England it very sel-
dom happens that either side refuses to abide
the agreement. This would be the tribunal
particularly valuable in this country, especially
in the case of railroads. Each company with
its men might establish a Board of Arbitrators

for themselves and its very establishment would

create a bond of union and tend to make service
with the company_ permanent, and build up a
feeling of cdfiimon interest that would make the
company more regardful of the man and the
man more likely to be the champion of the com-
pany in any crisis which should make their aid
important. There is no difficulty whatever in
establishing such a tribunal except the unwill-
ingness of the parties.

' 4. A special tribunal may be created by the
parties merely for a particular controversy. This
is often serviceable.

There is, then, no difiiculty inherent in this
remedy. It ought to come into general use.
And every successful instance of the use of it
has avaluable educating influence to prevent
hostile resorts.
to a case in which outside parties, for reasons of
their own, undertake to compel employers to
discharge all or any of their men.

 

Short Hours on the Farm.

BENTON HARBOR, May 25.

With -wheat and nearly all products ot
the farm selling at lower prices than
known since 1862, would it not be well
should farmers plant less, buy less, and
work less? Working men in our manu-
factories are clamoring for eight hours’
work and ten hours’ pay. Many lines
of manufacturers are willing’ to concede
short time, but cannot afford to pay ex-
tra pricesfor labor, when the markets
are filled with goods which do not sell.

With the vast area of production, the,

aggregate of farm crops produced can
never be less.‘ -In view of these facts
will it pay the individual farmer to give
the prices demanded for farm labor,and
work himself 12 and 14 hours daily? If
not, why not give a rest to his land,
himself and his family? W. A. B.

PREMIUM LIST.

While we believe from the assurances
of our friends that they are entirelyin
earnest in behalf of the VISITOR, and
would willingly work for it with-
out pay, we are ready to make the offers,
as stated below, of articles which Wlll
be a compensation of real value to
agents.

Any one sending the names of five subscribers
and 32.50, will be entitled to a choice of the fol-
lowing:

One copy of GRANGE VISITOR,six months.

One copy of “Glad Echoes," song book. _

one copy of Kendall"s “Treatise of the
Horse.” _

For ten names and 55.00 achoice of the fol-
lowing:

One extra copy of GRANGE Vrsrrou, _one year.

One copy of Digest of Laws and Rulin .

One.Arner-ican Manual of Parliament Laws.

One copy of Pocket Manual. _ ~

One copy of National Grnnge'Choir.

Three copies of Glad Echoes. _

For thirty names and $15.00 we will send one
copy of Ha'igh’s Manual ‘ of Law and Forms.
This is a book of 492 pages and comes to us
wpll endorsed. _ ‘

But it can have no application '

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1 genres of gcetings.

PROGRAMME of the Oakland County Pomona
Grange, to be heldat Waterford, June 8, 1886:

Music, Garland Grange Choir.

Address of welcome, H. A. Bacon.

Report of Subordinate Granges.

Music.

Dinner.

AF'ri:it.\‘o0N SESSIO.\'——PUBLlL2 MEETING.

I)iscussion—Are lawyers better fitted for public
duties than other men? \Vm. Satterlee and Geo.
W. King.

Recitation, Miss Edla Park.

Discussion -15 legislation needed in the in-
terest of agriculture, if so for what purpose?
M. V. B. Hosner and D. M. Garner.

Essay, Mrs. A. E. Green.

Scrap bag, Miss Clara Landon.

Question box.

The Pcmona of Lapeer County will be held
with Montgomery Grange, June I0, 1886. All
Fourth Degree members are requested to be
present.

Meeting will be called to order at I o’clock
P. 11.; Grange opened in the Fourth Degree.

PROGRAM.

Music, by all.

Address of welcome, W’. Montgomery.

Response Ira Reed.

Essay, “Fear,” Mrs. M. Lamb.

Government of the tongue, W. E. Moore.

Give the girls a chance, Mrs. P. H. Foot.

How to keep the boys on the farm, Mr. How-
ard.

Fruit growing as a part of mixed husbandry,
N. Stover.

Growing and care of orchards, Mr. Sinclair.

Power of habit, H. Bradshaw.

Should railways be taxed the same as farms
according to their value,  Schell.

How to protect our orchards from sneak-
thieves. F. Muir.

Utilizing the waste upon the farm, E. Bartlett.

The little Leaks, Mrs. S. Tessy.

Objects of the Grange, Sister Odell.

 E. OIVEN.

THF. next regular meeting of the Pomona
Grange of Inghani County will be held with
Felts Grange, No. 347, on June 4, commencing
at 10 o'clock A. M. The meeting in the fore-
noon will be open to all Fourth Degree members.
The afternoon,meetiiig will be open to the
public.

Rev. G. \V. Tuthill will address the meeting
on a. subject of general interest to the farmer.
Able speakers will also be present to discuss the
labor question. There will also be a Fifth De-
gree meeting in the evening, should there be
work in that degree. E. H. ANGELL.

THE next meeting of Montcalm County Po-
mona Grange will be held at Douglass Grange
Hall, June 17, 1886. A change in the by-laws
is contemplated. All Fourth Degree members
are invited. Work in the Fifth Degree.

E. W. JOHNSON, Sec’y.

THE summer meeting of the Michigan State
Horticultural Society will'convene in the hall of
Capital Grange, North Lansing, on the evening
of June [5, at 7:30 o’clock.

This meeting is held in acceptance of an invi-
tation from Capital Grange, and will continue
through Wednesday, the 16th, and close with an
evening session.

The headquarters of the Executive Board will
be at the Hudson House.

The Semi-Centennial Celebration of Michi-
gan’s admission as a State into the Union will
occur on the 15th of June, and our meeting is
arranged to follow closely, so that the horticul-
turists may take in both entertainments at the
same trip.

It is desired that delegates bring samples of
fruits that are ripe at this season, as well as
packages and any horticultural contrivances
that may be of interest.

For railway rates and other information ad-
dress Secretary Garfield at Grand Rapids.

SCHEME OF TOPICS—TUESDAY, JUNE :5.

7:30 P. M. Opening Exercises.

Strawberries for market. .

8:30 o’clock. Exercises in charge of Dr. W.
J. Beal, of the Agricultural College, by members
of his class in Botany .

Adjournment.

VVEDNESDAY, JUNE i6.

9 A. M. Opening Exercises.

Strawberries for home use.

Raspberries.

Blackberries.

AFTERNOON.

1:30 o'clock. Grapes.

2:30 o’clock. Exercises in charge of Prof. A.
J. Cook, of the Agricultural College, by mem-
bers of his classes.

4 o’clock. Cherries.

EVENING.

7 o’clock. The State Fair: VI'haI: shall Hor-

, ticulturists do for it?

Cucumbers.

7;45 o’clock. Exercises in charge of Prof. L.
H. Bailey, of the Agricultural College, by mem-
bers of his classes. ’

9 o’clock. Experience Meeting: Mistakes
we have made; successes we have achieved.

Committee reports. Adjournment.

THE next meeting of Shiawassee Pomona
Grange, No. 31, will be held on VVednesday,
June [6, 1885, at the Grange Hall in Laingsburg.
All members of the Order are most cordially in-
vited to attend and participate in the exercises.

By order of Laingsburg Grange. Fratemally
yours, MAY STONE, Sec.

gbituarics,

KI.INGENSMITH—Died, May [7, 1886, aged
28, Sister Emma V. Klingensmith, wife of the
VVorthy Secretary, of Rutland Grange, No.
145, and drughter of A. G. Culver.

Patiently enduring ill health for nearly three
years, cheerfully through the last months of
suffering, with kind and pleasant words for all.
We mourn our loss. .

A member of our Grange about It years, ever
prepared to do the work assigned her when
health would permit her meeting with us. We
can truly say, “We shall meet but we shall miss
thee.”

The members of our Grange hereby tender
their sympathy to her husband and relatives, in
this their hour of deep aflliction. For the second
time since our organization, in December, 1873,
is our Charter draped in mourning.

DUNCAN—From far off San Jose comes sad in-
telligence that Edwin F. Duncan, a worthy
Brother, and once an honored member of School-
craft Grange, lies‘ dead. In the prime of a noble
manhood he has been overtaken by that Grim
Messenger, at whose command we shall all
sooner or later go hence. Long years. have
passed since he left us, but hanging in_this hall
is a beautiful and permanent proof of his gener-
ous and fraternal remembrance. To multiply
words would not more fully expres our sorrow
at so great a loss or prove our fraternal sympathy
for the afllicted family and friends of our de-
ceased Brother. ‘

Therefore, it only remains for us to order
copies of this evidence of our regard transmitted
to these relatives——spread upon the _record—a_rid
in our future lives to emulate the virtues of him

X Duryeo '
_ Starch,‘ ump, gpli‘-)yét;i:':, 40  bones, poi-‘lb 4

who has gone from us to  no more forever.
Hall of Schoolcraft Grange, No. 8,May l5,‘86.

 

WELDON-—}

WHEREAS, Van Buren Co. Grange has been
called upon to bid a long farewell to another
honored member—Sister George Weldon; there-
fore be it

Resolved, That while yielding to the inevita-
ble we sadly miss from our gatherings the bright
smile and cheery voice of our sister.

Rem/zrerl, That we tender our heartfelt sympa-
thy to the members of the household her depar-
ture hath left sorro\ving.

Rafa/2/ad', That these resolutions be spread up-
on our record book, printed in the GRANGE Vis-
ITOR and a copy of the same presented to the
family of the deceased. COM.

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l‘7€"Those in need of HORSE NETS
should send to JOSEPH SHAW, of
Charlotte, and get as good a ONE
DOLLAR NET as is made. Patrons

please send under seal of Grange.

JOSEPH SHAW,

Charlotte, Mich.

 

PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.

I’ Corrected by Thornton Barnes. Wholesale Grocer
and (grunge selling Agent, No. 231 North Water St.,
Philadelphia, Pa]

PHILADELPHIA, May 1. 1886.
PURE SUGARS.

 
 
  
  

Cut Loaf
Pulvefl pe . . . . . . . . . .8
Standard Granulated per D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7-3,;

St indnrd A White per lb ..... . .
Best White son A per 1%..‘
Good White Soft A i- lb .
Extra 0 White per

Standard 3 per lb ....... . . .6/,,
Extra 9 Yellow Bright per lb. . .

C Yellow per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .574
Brown lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553.’,

PSI’
New Orleans Extra Light per lb . . . . . . . . . . .
SYRUP AND MOLASSES-—Il1 Barrels.

Sugar drips pure sugar per gallon ....... . .23
Amber drips pure an r per gallon . . . . . . . .24
Fancy white maple rips per gallon .... . .29
Extra olden ure sugar per gallon . . . . . . .32

Fancy ew Or cans new crop per gallon. .50
Good New Orleans new cro per gallon. . .46
White honey drip, vanilla avor . . . . . . . . . .33

IMPORTANT —-The above quotations are for syrup
In whole barrels only. All syrup in half barrels 4
cents per gallon extra and no charge for packs e. In
5 and 10 gallon packages 0 cents per gallon ad itlon.
al and the cost or package.

COFFEES—GREEN AND ROASTED.

Fancy Rio per lb... .._ ........ . .
Green Rio extra. choice per lb
Green Rio prime per lb . . . - . .
Green Rio good per lb . . . . . . .

 
 
 
    

Green Rlo common per lb . . . . . . .  3 @ 9-,;
Green Maracaibo choice per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 @1214
Green Laguayra choice per =51 . . . . . . . . . . . ..1I;4.@12

Green Java choice per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 @IB
Roasted Rlo best per lb. .. ..l-21,5
Roasted Rio No. 1 per lb

   

   

   

  

   
 

Roasted Rio No. 2 er lb 15
Roasted Laguayra. est per lb .. 3};
Roasted Java bestgper lb ..... . . .21 @22
Barnes’ Golden Bio roasted in 1 lb p’k.. . . . .14
TE AS.
  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  $2, :3, ‘:3, 29
W . . . . . . . . . . . . . .~ , _ , :3
Oolong per 1- ................... . .25. 30: 35, 49, 50
Japan per it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25, 35. 40, 43, .50
Gunpowder per lb .............. . .30, 40, -L5, 50, 55
FOREIGN DRIED FRUITS.
Raisins. New Muscatells. per box ........ . .32 5o
“ Old Muscatells, “ ........ . . 1 75
" II:.ongon1layeerr!s,y b-‘ . . . . . . . . . . p 83
“ on a , oxes ........ . .
" Vallencla. pyer lb.  . . . . . . . . . .. . 10 @101,
“ Seedless. mats, 50 lb per mat. 4 00
" Ondnra, bpx,  lip ......... . . 13
" " ‘ . . . . . 13
Prunes, French boxes. per lb. . . _ . 3;/@111
 New Turkeg. per lb ......... .. .. 45.2@ 4- 4
cum-gum, new, per . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6%@ 7
WHOLE SPICES.
Black Pepper per lb ..................... .. 18
Whine " " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Ginger “ .
Cinnamon " ..
Cloves "
Allsplce “
l«"‘t‘° " so
umegs “  ,
PURE GROUND SPICES.
PurePe r,bln.ck. rlb .... .. 2o
" A rfiain Coyennpd, per lb 28
" Clnnarnonge  17
" Cloves per  ......... .. 22
“ Ginger-perlb ..............   16
" Allspfce perlb ..................  15

an sod 112 mGROGEBS'msUNDRIE8.

0.. k . r ......... .  . . . 5
Flour sulphur. peer-gsllxpf . . . . . . . . . 9‘
Bl-curb soda, loose, 112 lb Item.

I‘ It ll 25 D

  

boxes 5

-- " '- 10lb boxes 5
r: :::::a    - 2:2
Corn“ato.rch, Gllbtirfs. per lb...-:2 """ U 6

perlb ........ LIIII 7

  

Corn starch. new process. . . . . 51,4
Burgh, new‘ process, lautrpph. £8 3%
x .
' “ “ 1 15 boxes.  5};
Grain bags, 2 bushels ................ .  . . 24
Georzla. bfi bushels ............... . ._ . . 20
Chocolate, er’s Pr-em. No. 1 per lb. . . . 37 @3s
Btirpsed Pod-feet Baking Powder In $4 lb
, 1' oz .......................... . .1 25
BarneuPePerfect Baking Powder In 54 ll:
pe d z - 2 20

tins, r o ........................... . .
Borne; Perfect Baking Powder in 1 lb tins
oz ’

   

.............................. ..-1 25
B oe. new crop, Fancy Head. per lb .... . . 6 -
Ripe, " good, per lb ............ . .‘ 5?’
‘ “ prime, r lb .......... .. 6 4
CorxrBroomsNo.3,per oz... ...2 37
' No. 4, " . 2 32
“ No. 5, “ 2 37
“ No. 6. " .3 12
Best parlor brooms. " 3 62

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A 924.3. GABBAGEI

Mr. E. Leedham of Arhoeyo Gr-ande,CaI., and
J. C. Ward of PI mouth, o., write me that ram
"'1! “Pain 0/ ne , they raised Miirhlehead am-
moth Cabbnges weighing 91 and 92 lbs. Seed
,- - taken /romjha

-A ‘ “'. 1 ' ‘‘ same lot from
Aalnfch then»
monster cub-
b a gas 104: r a
grown... accom-
panied with a
statement of
—how they were
' SEW“: 91?‘
plied atisceuts
a ackage. I
will any 1.00 ‘per lb.
for t e largest Cab-
bage from thi: seed
_ ‘  frei ht re ai ), ro-
vided it wei hs not less than (70 lbg. w‘I,ieri)receii')ed.
M large egetable and Flower Seed Catalogue
w I be sentfroe to all who write for it.

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SOAP.—Gnu-unused not to’ in-

Kettlo heat: All the Water. No Steaming
Suds and Wearing Labor. Nollendlng-day
following the Wash. Makes the Skin Soft:
and White.‘ An flout’: Light Emu-t does
an ordinary ‘Wash. Elegant for Toilet,

SteketedsBluodflillersl

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.

Read what the people say of these bitters. Too good not to publish the follow-
ing letter:

1\lA.\'ro.\', Micii., June 23, 1885.

_ Mr. Geo. G. Steketee—Dear 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. \'ANDER(_IOOK_

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 YOUR. EIIUGGIST FOE

STEKETEE’S BLOOD BITTERS.

T.A:KE- NO OTI-IEI2.
GEO. G. STEKETEE, Sole Proprietor,
Grand Rapids, Znaiich.
PRICE, - Boo and $1 Per Bottle.

GHQ (lama. _;

We issue the Buyers’ Guide In March and September of
each year. It is now a book of 304 pages, 8+lxII inches in
size, 28,576 square Inches of Information for the consumers.
It describes, illustrates and gives the price of nearly all the
necessaries and luxuries in daily use by all classes of pen-

le, and Is sent free to any address upon receipt of IO cents
a pa 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 promptlyand 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 oods
as ourselves. Visitors are Invited to call and verl our
statement.

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

MONTGOMERY WARD & 00.,
227 &. 229 Wabash Ave., (rm Ilxpotitiol Building) cmcAeo, ILL

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

'Who1esqa1e__<;€3£_o__c§_ry House
ARTHUR IVIEIGS 89 co.

Have iopened e.

Mammoth Retail Department,
and are selling all goodsat 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.ZE?.'I‘IEEE'U'ZE2. :M:EIGsezco-

Retau Depa.rtr:a.ent..
77'a.n.o'L 79 South. Division, Street,
' GRAND RAPIDS, MIGH.

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» Centennial Grange Farmjcate.

Wzsr 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 th in that I would not be without the rightto
make and use them for ten times the cost. I have nev had any trouble with them. I have never
had to repair them. For my gates, I2 feet long and live 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—The.Centennial
Gate does not sag the post, it will raise and swing. over snow banks, up or down a side hill, opens
both ways, fastens itself open when the wind blows, will divide large from small stock, one
doing it alone, children can work it easily, and after five years’ use I caniconfidently recommend it
as the best gate I 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 kno‘
they have been in use for five years, that they are as good as when first put up, and we fully endone
Bro. Miller's statement in every respect. JOSEH ALLEN, ,
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 Wyoming Grange, Glendale, Hamilton Co., 0.

GEO. W. RAYMOND, Secretary VVyoming Grange, Glendale, Hamilton Co., 0.

R. M. COX, Farmer, Mason, Warren Co., 0. ERASTUS COX, Farmer, Mason, Warren Co. 0.
For infonnafion. address REL RATEIBUN, care of J. T. COBB, Schoolci-aft, Magi,

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JUNE 1, 1836'.

gunfire’ Ezpiirtmziit.

The Harvest Battle. .

The bravest battle ever fought!
Shall I tell you where and when? ‘

On the maps of the world you will find it not;
’Twas fought by the mothers of men.

Nay, not with the cannon, or battle-shot,
With the sword, or nobler pen;

Nay, not with eloquent word, or thought,
From the mouths of wonderful men.

But deep in a walled-up woman's heart—
Of woman that would not yield,

But bravely, silently bore her part—
Lo! there is the battle~fieldl

No maishaling troop, no bivouac song;
No banners to gleam and wave!
“ But, oh! these battles they last so long——-
From babyhood to the grave!

Yet the faithful still as abridge of stars,
She fights in her walled-up town-
Fights on, and on, in the endless wars,

Then silent, unseen—goes down!

0 ye with banners and battle-shot,

And soldiers to shout and praise,

I tell you the kingliest victories fought
Are fought in these silent ways!

Oh! spotless woman in a world of shame,
With a splendid and silent scorn,
Go back to God, as white as you came,
The kiugliest warrior born?
Joaquin MILL]-ZR.

John B. Gough.
"Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple
of my God, and he shall go no more out.”
Like missing the delicate odors
That out from the roses distill,
Like silence that falls on the spirit
When quick the music is still,
Like shadow that follows the sunset
When golden is turning to gray,
We stand in the midst of our losing
In the midst of our grieving, to—d:.y.

So rare was the fragrance that followed
The track of a wonderful life——

So thrilling the passionate numbers
Of victory, mingled with strife-

So golden the skies of the evening,
\Vhen day in its glory went down,

That, weeping.for friend and for brother,
\Ve shout for the hero that’s crowned.

Oh! soul that hast struggled and conquered,
How looks the sharp pathway you trod,
How seemeth the field where you battled,
Looking down from the hilltops of God?
Oh! surely it pays to have borne it,
With all of the measureless pain,
To find.that the soul that o’ercometli
Is heir of an infinite gain.

Gough dead! Say the same of the sunshine
When evening comes over the hill.
Say music is dead when in slumber
The hand of the player is still.
Behold! the dimmed splendor has broken
In the morning, eternal and calm,
And listen, the player is sweeping
The chords of an infinite Psalm.
—./Vary T. Lat/zro/>.

Distance.

On softening days, when a storm was near,
At the farmhouse door I have stood in the

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And caught in the distance, faint but clear,
Thesound of a train, passing, far away.

The warning bell when the start was made,
The engine‘s puffing of smoke unseen,

With thetheavy rumble as the wheels obeyed-

Across the miles between.

And so sometimes, on a moonless night,

When the stars shine solt and the wind is

low,

To my listening soul, in the pallid light,

_Come the trembling voices of long ago;
The tuneful echoes when hope was young.

The tender song of love serene, .
And the throbbing rhythm of assion‘s tongue—

Across the years etween.
rllczrgartl IV. Ifizmi/Ion.

What for the Table?

A portion of the summer’s campaign
is already mapped out for the thrifty
housekeeper by the present prospects

 

I for an unusually fine fruit crop.

Doubtless the first thought__ of each
farmer’s wife, as she contemplates this
not unpleasing prospect, will be of the
row upon row of lusciously filled cans
that shall accrue to Her cupboard
shelves before another - winter. Sup-
plemented to this nowise unpleasing
sight will arise visions of long hours in
a Jiot kitchen with weary aches and
tired bones that must be undergone be-
fore that. result shall c_rown.her. labor. It

_ loonies up -beforeher like hard “extra”

work; but awiser second thought dis-A
covers nature's ever handy “law of
compensensation.” To gain time for

‘canning she will, if forehanded, substi-

tute fresh fruit for pastrywotk. She
may during the season, it is not im-
pro,ba'ble. more than..9fYset,the one with

“the other and secure the customary

count of quarts and many a. bit of leisure
for rest and books besides.

Our correspondent, Housewife, in
her plea that more fruit be added to the
ordinary farm bill of fare states some
wholesome facts with which we are
wholly in sympathy. The vivacity that
is in her" letter provokes the suspicion
that what “Iohn says” is politic as well
as practical on his part. However that
may be, with sugar at six and seven
cents per pound and physical and men-
tal strength rising in value each day it
brings a straight problem to the solving
of each housewife. She has a right to
introduce a fruit diet (or any wholesome
innovation) into the economic _house-
keeping the same as a labor-saving ma-
chine is procured for any other part of
the farmwork. The time and strength
will be hers and may fall in better bless-
in - ‘ I ‘her family byway of other chin-

  

 mediciiial advairthges i of fruit
wli ‘ made a. large part of one’s. diet
are * ‘aining grpurid, more slowly 1,31 the
cou ry, it is-true, but even th€fre.Wh¢1'e
the :-best of fi-uitsvofien-sppil ,for lackyof
3, nfigket it is’being“substitul!ed for. rich
dislfies and labor-savored Vla-.ndS- _.Tl1_¢
home market for all kinds‘ pf fruit 15
never surfeited so long as it is not made
the common daily food of its producers.

“Apples and abstinence” are more con-

1

venient . and less expensive physicians
than those that prescribe pills and pare-
goric and attach long fees to their
remedial powers. The human system
requires less fatty food at the time when
fruit acids and flavors can most easily
be had to satisfy the natural cravings
of appetite for such foods. Hygiene
authorities prefer fruit at breakfast if
not to be had at all meals and recom-
mend eating it first. The main point
however, is that it be made a part of the
daily diet and if possible a. regular
part.

Thanks to our correspondent for
timely suggestions relating to strawber-
TIES.

Fruit on the Farm.

Your request for an article on “Fruits
for farmers’ tables” is noted. Firstly,
then, I haven’t aminute’s time to devote
to a studied paper that might hope to
find grace in ye editor’s eye. Second-
ly, I havn’t the good sense to put into it
that the subject demands. Howeverithas
occurred to me this morning while busy
sweeping, dusting and baking (my legiti-
mate calling) that I might tell you some
of the things “John says” on this im-
portant question.

He says, “There’s no use talking that
a farmer hasn’t time to raise fruit for
his family, and that he can buy what lit-
tle they want.” _

The bottom fell out of that theory
long ago. He has got to do without or
raise it himself. He can’t afford to do
without; therefore the point on this
question is to make him feel it a neces-
sity, and see that he can raise it himself.
The farmer has just as much time as
anybody else, and he can better afford
to spend a_fraction of it in planting and
tending strawberries, raspberries, black-
berries and grapes that ‘will give a suc-
cession of fresh fruits the entire season
than to spend that amount of time any
other way. This list may be enlarged
to suit the family palate, but these, with
cherries and apples, are the staples.

Now a word as to its use. Please al-
low me here to say there are few, if any,
meals at “our house” where fruit in
some form is not used, for John says “it
is ‘cheaper than medicine and much
pleasanter to take.” But many who
have an abundance say we, with our
great family, cannot afford fresh straw-
berries every meal, it takes too much
sugar. Now I understand sugar, like
agent’s wares,supplies a. “long felt want.”

Why should the farmer with the wealth
of the world at his feet deny himself its
greatest blessings. I would have him
partake freely of the small fruits in all
their glory and freshness — unbaked.
John says good bread, sweet butter, and
fresh, dewey strawberries make a break-
fast fit for the gods.

I do sometimes make pics, but I don’
like to for I believe the fruit better suit-
ed to our needs taken, nearly as may
be, in “the natural way.” I shall hail
with joy the day when pics, like rye and
Indian bread and old fashioned johnny
cake baked on a board pass into histo-
ry. . r g ..
Did you ever dry strawberries? Many
think they are too juicy to dry. My
plan is to scald them up with a. little
sugar just as I do to can, only less sugar
will do ‘just as well. Skim out all the

‘berries, lay them on earthen plates, set

in the oven, boil down the juice all it
will bear, spread on the berries, if kept
h.ot.as they will bear, and stirred often,

‘ they will be dry enough to put away in

twenty-four hours. I have put thirty
quarts of fresh berries into a two quart
can when dried. We like them very
much as a change from canned fruit.‘
HOUSEWIFE.
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What is Life?

Day by day we toil on, wondering
what is in store for us next, and as day
advances some new problem is laid be-
fore us and we move onward hoping for
something good or better. What a
blessing is hope, cheering up with her
sunny face, bidding us never des _air!
_0iic of the old authors‘ says "fe-is
what we make it; and whether good,
or‘ whether bad, depends on how we
take it. But it seems to me that this is

not ‘always .thc~ case. Events and cir-'

cumstances are sometimes crowded
upon us which it seems our duty to
weave into the web of our lives which
do not always make a. thread of golden
filling for us. Let us weave on bravely,
doing our work, no matter how coarse
coarse and rough the fabric may be,
and all will be well in the bright days to
come. ANN M. B.

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The Art of Sitting Down.
[Sent to the VISITOR by a reader.]

Not a woman out of a thousand is
able to sit down in a chair gracefully
and elegantly. A few, a very few, sit
down, and their opposite neighbors
cannot determine whether their shoes
are of English, French, or American
manufacture, but these are quite the ex-
ception, and in a very small majority.
In England all young girls are as regu-
larly ‘taught to sit’ down proper-ly,fjust_
as they are taught how to play the
piano and sew,-and that is by practice.
Consequently female shoe leather is by
no means _so apparant’ as fiit is -in this
country. At-dances, more particularly,
this is noticeable, as movements there
are more hurried, and the place, music,
and conversation hinder attention to
minor details, and the display of ankle
is somewhat alarming, and often by no
means captivating. Very few women
have really pretty feet, and the best

made and best fitting chausure will fail
to hide defects in the pedal extremities.
Girls do not think of this when they
“flop” down into a chair, as many of
them do, and should practice the art
of sitting down before a. cheval glass be-
fore they perform in public. At a
dance recently given in this city a. man
present took the trouble during the Ger-
man to walk round the room and make
a count of the various degrees of open
work hose visible. Out of about thirty
couples only five girls knew how to sit
down, the rest showing more or less
ignorance or indifference in or to the
art. That men do not like to see girls
sitting down like this is certain, as the
remarks that are constantly made testi-
fy, and surely they need only be once
told of it to rectify what detracts serious-
ly from the appearance of many a
sweet, pretty, and simple girl.—./Vcw
York flour.

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Cuvier on Tight Laclng.
[Selected for the VISITOR by a Reader.]

The great naturalist, Cuvier, was
walking one day with a young lady who
was a victim of tight lacing in a public
garden in Paris.- A lovely blossom
upon an elegant plant drew from her
an expression of admiration. Looking
at her pale, thin face, Cuvier-said:
“You were like this flower once; to-
morrow it will be as you are now.”
Next day he led her to the same spot
and the beautiful flower was dying.
She asked the cause. “This plant,”
replied Cuvier, “is an image of yourself.
I will show you what is the matter with
it.” He pointed to a cord bound
tightly around the stem, and said:
“You are fading away exactly in the
same manner under the compression of
your corset, and you are losing by de-
grees all your youthful charms, just be-
cause you have not the courage to re-
sist this dangerous fashion.”

Things to Remember.

That a brush broom is just the thing
to clean horse radish graters and silver.

That soda will clean unpainted sinks,
tables and floors. Rub soda. and soap
on all grease spots; wash with hot water
and behold the result.

That soda is excellent to purify dish
cloths and wiping towels.

That a true test for eggs is to drop
them in water; if the large end comes
up they are not fresh.

That a. nightly gargle of salt and
water will strengthen the throat and
keep off bronchial attacks.

That salt sprinkled over anything
that is burning on the stove will prevent
any disagreeable odor.

That beeswax will make smooth flat-
irons. Put a little wax on several thick-
nesses of brown paper, rub the hot iron
over the wax, wipe with a cloth, and
the result will please the most fastidious.

 

STRONG Lorri-:1: AND HOT BOILED
i\IiLi<.-Even in the best hotels, it is
sometimes difficult to get boiled milk.
In restaurants it is seldom given without
a special order. In many private houses
the article is practically unknown, in
many homes where they pride them-
selves on their good coffee, only cream
is used in the mixture. Coffee with
cream is delicious, and the lovely color
it takes on as the thick yellow substance
drops down into it is a joy forever; but
it is, alas! indigestible. I believe that
many of the people who have decided
that they cannot take coffee, would find
themselves nourished and strengthened,
without injury, by equal parts of well
made strong coffee, and hot boiled milk.
—Susan Hale, in Goaa’ 1%u.ce.éeepi'ng.

——— ~

-WHHENING CLOTHES WITH TURPEN-
TINE.-—A little turpentine in the wash-
boiler will make clothes very white, and
will often remove incorrigible stains
from white goods. A tablespoonful of
turpentine to. a, large boiler, or a tea-
spoonful to two gallons of water. There
is nosmell, the boiling preventing it.

£23111; an?) gmnsznieut.

THIS week chronicles the death of
one of the world's benefactors, Dr. Dio
Lewis, of New York City. Not widely
popular, for he stemmed a. stream of
popular indifference, hehas in his life-
time done much to change individual
opinion in regard to health matters. His
fearless, plain talks and much writing
have been sent unerringly to the com-
mon sense of every listener. Many a’
one holds physical life a. dearer, holier
boon for the simple lessons he taught.

One of the most frequent, as it is also
the easiest remedied defects of a sound
body is round shoulderedness. Chil-
dren, with soft, unmolded muscles and
tendons; youths, with litheness, grace,
and noble bearing at their command;
middle-aged and old men and women,
wearing the heavier crowns of years,too
often hear in their bodies this se1f-im-
p'osed deformity. It comes from igno-
rance or indifference: A little care to
throw the _sh.oulders often back into
square position, " or frequent._IH_i exer-
cise, if the.‘ habit is of long, standing,
will, if persisted in, effectually straight-
en and strengthen the muscles that hold
them in rightful place. No truly{grace-
ful osition canbe taken, not movement
ma c, with the , back and ‘shoulders
huniped,rounded,or bowed out of shape.

All kinds of work more or less encour-
age deformity of some part of the body.
Farm work, that requires stooping, sit-
ting in a heap on .a cultivator or binder

seat for hours ata. time, tends to drag a
man over; other parts of his work stiff-

burden of heavy labor. Desk work ele-
vates one or both arms. Drummers
frequently have one low shoulder-—a.
heavy grip tells why. Unconsciously
the trade mark ofone’s calling is stamp-
ed into his physical frame, but none
have the right to wear adefacement that
can be removed or prevented.

Farmer boys have no right to walk
the streets of town with bowed bodies
and drooping shoulders wliile natty city
fellows step briskly past. If one for
appearance’s sake has kept his body
straight and erect, the other should
strive equally for that posture because
a. fine, manly form is a credit and recom-
mendation to every boy. It is also
capital of inestimable value in times of
disease.

 

The True Nature ofa “Cold.”

Years of study and observation have
forced me to the conclusion that the
disease which manifests the symptoms
popularly supposed to indicate that a
cold has been caught is to all intents
and purposes a filth-disease,arises large-
ly from indigestion, and forms the
basis, so to say, or is in fact the first
stage of all the so-called filth-diseases.
Whatever interferes with digestion or
depuration, or depraves the vital organ-
ism in any manner, produces an impure
condition of the body——a condition of
disease; and a continuance of disease-
producing habits must inevitably result
in periodical or occasional “eruptions,”
the severity of which will depend upon
the degree of one’s transgression.
Among the causes of this impure bodily
condition are (1) impure food, (2) ex-
cess ll! diet, and (3) impure air. Our
homes, offices, shops, halls, court-houses,
churches, and, with rare exceptions, all
living—rooms, private or public, are in-
sufficiently or not at all ventilated;
and, except while in the open air, a
very large proportion of our people, in
all the walks of life, habitually breathe
an atmosphere vitiated by being
breathed over and over again; they are
starving for want of oxygen, and are
being poisoned by carbonic acid. In
default of suflicient oxygen the best of
food can not be transformed into pure
blood—tliere will always be a corres-
ponding indigestion; nor can the car-
bonic acid be eliminated freely in an
impure atmosphere. We have, then,
serious “interference with digestion and
depuration,” whenever we remain even
for a single hour 3f the twenty-four in
an “indoor” atmosphere, i. e., an atmos-
phere that is not in tolerably free com-
munication with the great body of air
without. The only offset for restriction
in oxygen is restriction in diet and ex-
ercise; butacombination of this charac-
ter would produce enfeeblement of the
system, though if a proper balance were
maintained there would arise no febrile
symptoms such as we are considering.
We have plenty of people living in un-
ventilated rooms who, so far as exercise
is concerned, live a well balanced life;
but seldom do these, any more than the
robust and active, practice any sort of
voluntary restriction as to quality or
quantity of food—nausea and lack of
appetite being the only safe-guards.
Persons of this class are great sufferers
from colds.—PopuZar Science M0flI}lél'.

~ 

-Good Advice to Young Men.

You take a basin of water, place your
finger in it for twenty—five or thirty sec-
onds, take it out and look at the hole
that is left, The size of that hole rep-
resents about the impression that advice
makes on a. young man’s mind.

Don’t depend too much on your fam-
i1y—the dead part I mean. The world
wants live men; it has no use for dead
ones. Queen Victoria can trace her
ancestors back in a. direct line to
William the Conquerer. If you cannot
get further back than your father you
are better off. Your father was a better
man than old-William. He had better
clothes to wear, better food to eat and
was better housed.

If you are a diamond be sure that
you will be found. Cheek, brass or
gall never gets ahead of merit.

I love a young. man who is straight-
forward. Ask for what you want. If
you want to marry a rich man's daugh-
ter or borrow $500 from him, ask ‘him
for it; it amounts to the same thing in
the end. It is always better to astonish
a. man than to bore him.

Remember that in the morning of
life come the hard working days. Hard
work never killed a man. It’s fun, re-
creation, relaxation, holidays that kill.
The fun that results in a. head the next
morning so big that a tub could hardly
cover it is what kills. Hard work never
does. ‘ '

Those who come after us have to
work just as hard as we do. When I
shovel the snow off my sidewalk, if per-
chance I take a. three-quarter piece off
my neighbor’s walk, I put it back, be-
cause if I didn’t I should be doing him
an injustice.

You can't afford to do anything but
what is good. You are on dress parade
all the time. I
16 Don't be afraid of pounding‘persist-
ently at one thing. Don’t be afraid of
being callad a one-idea man or a crank.
If you have one idea, you have more
than most men have. It takes a smart
man to be a. crank.

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WE are no longer happy so soon as

we wish to be happier.-—-Lazllatte.

.en the joints and bend him under the .

DoN’i‘ TAKE OFF YOUR FLANNELS.—-
Remember that it is better to suffer a
few days with the heat at this season
than to get even one chill. North of 40
degrees north latitude, as it used to be
said by a distinguished physician, win-
ter tlannels should never be taken off
before the ioth of June, and very often
not then.

INVALIDS who are not fortunate in
having soapstone foot-warmers, will find
bags of sand, heated in the oven, an ex-
cellent substitute.

gisczllmitons.

The Barefoot Boy.

Blessings on thee, little man,
Barefoot boy with cheek of tan!
VVith thy turned up pantaloons,

And thy merry whistling tunes;
With thy red lip redder still,

Kissed by strawberries from the hill;
Willi the sunshine on thy face,
Through thy torn brim'sjaunty grace;
From my heart I give thee joy-

I was once a barefoot boy!

Prince thou art—the grown up man
Only is republican.

Let the million dollard ride!
Barefoot, trudging at his side,

Thou hast more than he can buy

In the reach of ear and eye-
Outward sunshine, inward joy;
Blessings on thee, little boy.
Cheerily then. my little man,
Laugh and live as boyhood can!
Though the flinty stones be hard,
Stubble speared the new-mown sward-,
Every morn shall lead thee through
Fresh baptisms of the dew;

Every evening from thy feet

Shall the cool wind kiss the heat:
All too soon those feet must hide

In the prison cell of pride;

Lose the freedom of the sod,

Like a colt, for work be shod,

Made to tread the mills of toil,

Up and down in ceaseless moil:
Happy if thy track be found

Never on forbidden ground;

Happy, if they sink not in

Quick and treacherous sand of sin;
Ah! that thou couldst know thy joy,
fire it passes, barefoot boy.

— Wfiillier.
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An Employer’s Views.

AD_lUS'l'.\IENT BETWEEN LABOR AND CAPI-
TAL.

A strike or lockout is, in itself, a ri-
diculous affair. Whether a failure or a.
success, it gives no direct proof of its
justice or injustice. In this it resem-
bles war between two nations. It is sim-
ply a question of strength and endur-
ance between the contestants. The gage
of battle or the due! is not more sense-
less as a means of establishing what is
just and fair than an industrial strike or
lockout. It would be folly to conclude
that we have reached any permanent
adjustment between capital and labor
until strikes and lockouts are as much
things of the past as the gage of battle
or the duel has become in the most ad-
vanced communities.

Among the expedients suggested for
their better reconci1iation,the first place
must be assigned to the idea of co-ope-
ration, or the plan by which the work-
ers are to become part owners in enter-
prises, and share their fortunes. There
is no doubt that if this could be effect-
ed it would have the same beneficial ef-
fect upon the workman which the own-
ership of land has upon the man who
has hitherto tilled the land for another.
The sense of ownership would make
him more of a man as regards himself,
and hence more of a citizen as regards
the commonwealth. But we are here
met by a difficulty, which I confess I
have not yet been able to overcome,and
which renders me less sanguine than I
should like to be in regard to co-opera-
tion. The difficulty is this, and it seems
to me to be inherent in all gigantic
manufacturing, mining, and commercial
operations. Two men or two combina-
tions of men will erect blast furnaces,
iron-mills, cotton-mills, or piano manu-
factories adjoining each other,or engage
in shipping or commercial business.
They will start with equal capital and
credit, and to those only superficially
acquainted with the personnel of these
concerns, success will seem as likely to
attend the one as the other. ‘Neverthe-
less one will fail after dragging along a
lifeless existence,and pass into the hands
of its creditors; while the neighboring
mill or business will make a. fortune for
its owners. Now, the successful manu-
facturer, dividing every month or every
year a proportion of his profits among
his workmen, either as ‘a bonus or as
dividends upon shares owned by them,
will not only have a. happy and content-
ed body of operatives,but he will inevi-
tably attract from his rival the very best:
workmen in every department. His ri-
val, having no profits to divide among
his workmen, and paying them only a.
small assured minimun to enable them
to live, finds himself despoiled of fore-
men and workmen necessary to carry
on his business successfully. His work-
men are discontented, and, in their own
opinion, defrauded of the proper fruits
of their skill, through incapacity or in-
attention of their employers. Thus un-
equal business capacity in the manage-
ment produces unequal results. It will
be precisely the same if one of these
manufactories belongs to the workmen
themselves; but in this case, in the pres-
ent stage of development of the work-
meii,tlie chances of failure will be enor-
mously increased. It is indeed greatly
to be doubted whether any body of work-
ingmen in the world could to-day or-
ganize and successfully carry on a, min-
ing_ or manufacturing or commercial
business in competition with conceins

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owned by men trained to snchaffairs.
If any such co-operative organization
succeeds, it may be taken for granted
that it is principally owing to the excep-
tional business ability of one of the
managers, and only in a very small de
gree to the efforts of the mass of work-
men owners. This business ability is ex-
cessively rare, as is proved by the in-
credibly large proportion of those who
enter upon the stormy sea of business
only to fail. I should say that twenty
co-operative concerns would fail to ev-
ery one that would succeed. There are,
of course, a few successful establish-
ments, notab,ly two in France and one
in England, which are organized upon
the co-operative plan, in which the
workmen participate directly in the prof-
its. But these were all created by the
present owners, who now generously
share the profits with their workmen,
and who are making the success of
their manufactories upon the co-opera-
tive plan the proud work of their lives.
What these concerns will become when
the genius for affairs is no longer with
them to guide, is a matter of grave
doubt, and, to me, of foreboding. I can,
of course, picture in my mind a state of
civilization in which the most talented
business men shall find their most cher-
ished work in carrying on immense con-
cerns, not primarily for their own per-
sonal aggrandizement, but for the good
of the masses of workers engaged tliere—
in, and their families; but this is only a
foreshadowing of a dim and distant fu-
ture. When a class of such men has
been evolved, the problem of capital
and labor will be permanently solved to
the entire satisfaction of both. But as
this manifestly belongs to a future gene-
ration, I cannot consider co-operation,
or common ownership, as the next im-
mediate step in advance which it is pos-
sible for labor to make in its path up-
ward.
A PLAN or ARBITRATION.

I would lay it down as a maxim that
there is no excuse for a strike or lock-
out until arbitration of differences has
been offered by one party and refused
by the other. No doubt, serious trouble
attends even arbitration at present,from
the difliculty of procuring suitable men
to judge intelligently between the dis-
putants. There is a natural disinclina-
tion among business men to expose
their business to men in whom they
have not entire confidence. We lack
so far in America a retired class of men
of affairs. Our vile practice is to keep
on accumulating more dollars until we
die. If it were the custom here, as it is
in England, for men to withdraw from
active business after acquiring a fortune,
this class would furnish the proper arbi-
trators. On the other hand, the ex-
presidents of trades-unions, such as Mr.
Jarrett or Mr. Wihle,after they have re-
tired from active control, would com-
mend themselves to the manufacturers
and to the men as possessed of the nec-
essary technical knowledge,and educat-
ed to a point where commercial rea-
sons would not be without their proper
weight upon them. I consider that of
all the agencies immediately available
to prevent wasteful and embittering con-
tests between capital and labor, arbitra-
tion is the most powerful and most bene-
ficial.

The influence of trades-unions upon
the relations between the employer
and employed has been much discussed.
Some establishments in America have
refused to recognize the right of the
men to form themselves into these
unions; although I am not aware that
any concern in England would dare to
take this position. This policy, how-
ever, may be regarded as only a tem-
porary phase of the situation. The
right of the workingmen to combine
and to form trades-unions is no less
sacred than the right of the manufactur-
er to enter into associations and con-
ferences with his fellows, and must be
sooner or later conceded. Indeed, it
gives one but a poor opinion of the
American workman if he permits him-
self to be deprived of a right which his
fellow in England has conquered for
himself long since. My experience has
been that trades-unions upon the whole
are bencficial both to labor and to
capital. They certainly educate the
workingmen, and give them a truer con-
ception of the relations of capital and
labor than they could otherwise formi
The ablest and best workmen eventually
come to the front in these organiza-
tions; and it, may be laid down as a
rule that the more intelligent the work-
man the fewer the contests with em-
ployers. It is not the intelligent work-
man, who knows that labor without his
brother capital is helpless, but the
blatant ignorant _man, who regards
capital as the natural enemy of labor,
who does so much to enib_itter the re-
lations between employer andgemployedg
and the power of this ignorant dema-
gogue arises chiefly fnorn. the laclr_.pf.;
proper organization among men through
which their real voice can be'expi=esse’d'.i
This voice will always be found in favor
of the judicious _al1_d intelligent repre-
sentative. A _
come intelligent .. more ..det'erence must

  
  

be paid to them person  to their
rights, "and "ev’en,to t opiriioiis and
prejudices; and up  whole a

greater share of profits  in
the day of prosperity to  ‘

than to the ignorantg’worhi‘I _ _
can not be imposed" upon-sorcadily.
On the other hand he will be found

 

pensation when business is depressed;

and it’ is better in the long run formcapi-i
tal to be served by the highest intelli-
gence, and to be made well aware of
the fact that it is dealing with men who
know what is due to them, both as to
treatment and compensation.
* * * * * *

It is astonishing how small a sacrifice
upon the part of the employer will
greatly benefit the men. I remember
that at one of our meetings with a com-
mittee, it was incidentally remarked by
one speaker that the necessity for ob-
taining credit at the stores in the neigh-
borhood was a grave tax upon the men.
An ordinary workmen, he said, could
not afford to maintain himself and
family for a month, and as he only re-
ceived his pay monthly, he was com-
pelled to obtain credit and to pay ex-
horbitantly for everything; whereas, if
he had the cash, he could buy at 25 per
cent. less. “Well,” I said, “why can
not we overcome that by paying every
two weeks?” The reply was: "We
did not like to ask it, because we have
always understood that it would cause
much trouble; but, if you do that, it
will be worth an advance of; per cent.
in our wages.” We have paid semi-
monthly since. Another speaker hap-
pened to say that although they were
in the midst of coal thejprice charged
for small lots delivered at their houses
was a certain sum per bushel. The
price named was double what our best
coal was costing us. How easy for us
to deliver to our men such coal as they
required and charge them cost! This
was done without a cent’s loss to us,
but with much gain to the men. Sev-
eral other points similar to these have
arisen, by which their labors might be
lightened or products increased, and
others suggesting changes in machinery
or facilities, which, but for the confer-
ences referred to, would have been un-
thought of by the employer and proba-
bly never asked for by the men. For
these and other reasons I attribute the
greatest importance to an organization
of the men, through whose duly elected
representatives the managers may be
kept informed from time to time of their
grievances and suggestions. No matter
how able the manager, the clever work-
man can often show him how beneficial
changes can be made in the special
branch in which that workman labors.
Unless the relations between manager
and workmen are not only amicable
but friendly, the owners miss much;
nor is any man a first-class manager
who has not the confidence and respect,
and even the admiration, of his work-
men. No man is a true gentleman who
does not inspire the affection and de-
votion of his servants. The danger is
that such committees may ask confer-
ences too often; three or four meetings
per year should be regarded as suffici-
ent.

THE GREATEST CAUSE or FRICTION.
* * * * 15 *

Wages should be based upon a slid-
ing scale, in proportion to the net prices
received for product month by month.
And here I gladly pay Mr. Potter, Pres-
ident of the North Chicago Rolling Mill
Company, the great compliment to say
that he has already taken a step in this
direction, for to-day he is working his
principal mill upon this plan. The re-
sult is that he has had no stoppage what-
ever this year nor any dissatisfaction.
All has gone smoothly along, and this in
itself is worth at least as much to the

manufacturer and to the men as the dif-‘

ference in wages one way or another
which can arise from the new system.
The celebrated Crescent Steel Works
of Pittsburg, manufacturers of the high-
est grades of tool steel, pay their skilled
workmen by a sliding scale, based upon
prices received for product-—an impor-
tant factor in the eminent success of
that firm.
>3 3 * >l< >l< *

THE STEPS TOWARD PEACEFUL RELATIONS.

Dismissing, therefore,- for the present
all consideration of co-operation as not
being within measurable distance, I be-
lieve that the next steps in the advance
toward permanent, peaceful relations
between capital and labor are:

First—That compensation be paid the
men based upon a sliding scale in pro-
portion to the prices received for prod-
uct. A

Second—-A proper organization of the
men of every works to be "made, by
which the natural leaders, the best men,
will~eventually come to the front and
confer freely with the employers.

. Third—Peaceful arbitration to be in
all cases resorted to for the settlement
of differences which the owners and the
mill committee cannot themselves ad-
just in friendly conference.

F ourth——No interr.uptio'n ever ‘to oc-
cur to the operations of the esta ish-
merit, since the decision of the arbitra-
,tors-shall be made to take ,_efl'ect from
the date of reference. ‘I '

'.:~If these. measures were adopted by an
e"stablishIn'ent,'se'v'eral important.advan—
 would be gained: '  '

. F_irst——The employer and employed
wqulrlssiiriultaaieon . shage, their pros-

Of course, as men must he- perity or ad'versity"wit"h" eacli “other.

.sca1e once settled, ,the _f¢¢1i.!lgQf
antagonism, would be gone, and a feel-
ing ofinutuality woiildensue. ' _ Ca ital
and.-laborwould beshouldler tosho _ er
supporting-each other... : ' . -'

Seconda-Therecouldbe neither strike
nor lockout, since" both parties had
agreed to abide by a forthcoming decis-
«ion of disputed po»int_s., Knowing that
in the last resort -strangers were to be

called in to decide what should be a

  

 

"family afl'air,'the cases would indeed be
few which would not he- amicably ad-
justed by the original parties, without
calling in others to judge between them.
——-————on-——-———

AN interesting estimate of the amount
in weight of one inch of rainfall on one
acre of ground is thus given: Ari acre
of ground contains 6,272,640 inches
square. Rain one inch deep would give
that many square inches; 1,728 cubic
inches make one cubic foot. Rain one
inch would give 3,630 cubic feet. A
cubic foot of water weighs 62% pounds;
2,000 make a ton. This will give 226,-
2575 pounds, or II3 tons and 875 pounds,
to the acre, of rain one inch deep.

-— — — -

ONE of the simplest and readiest
of waysjto loosen a rusted screw is to
apply heat to the head of the screw.
A small bar or rod of iron, flat at the
end, if reddened in the fire and applied
for two or three minutes to the head of
a rusty screw will, as soon as it heats
the screw, render its withdrawal as easy
with the screw-driver as if it were only
a recently inserted screw. This is not
particularly novel, but is worth know-
ing.

- ~-V
CU.\fl%ER[.Ai\”D 'o., N. _l.

_\lI<. EIiIToR:—I find the paint has the
most brilliant gloss and will go twice as
far as common paint, rendering it much
cheaper than any other paint in the
market. It came promptly to hand,
and I wish all success to the Patrons‘
l’aint\\'orks that iiianufactiire Ingersoll’s
Liquid Rubber Paints. Fraternally,

_l. W. F. ]osI.i.\', Grange 70.

See ad. Patrons’ Paint W0rk.—[ED.

_ _____.>______ ,

I'r’s easier to secure a confirmation
in the United States Senate than run a
saloon in Ishpeming. Recently Mrs.
Elizabeth Ellis got judgment against
one liquor seller for $1,500, and another
for $8oo—the men were convicted of
selling liquor to a minor, and the
amounts were for civil damages—and
every other dealer in the city is trem-
bling in his boots.

_  -

“OUR foremost thinkers have made ,

us familiar with the ideas of co-opera-
tive banking, co-operative farming, and
co-operative manufacturing villages, all
of which must be thought out and
worked out, before we have made En-
gland the best place for working men to
live in the sun ever shone on,”——T/zoma:
Ifug/1:5.
————-———<o>———————

Six thousand dollars’ worth of notes
are in the hands of F ostoria parties,
which were obtained of farmers in that
vicinity by sharps selling emery wheels,
and getting the farmers to sign an order,
which was in fact a note.

L. S. & M. S. R. R-
KALAMAZOO DIVISION TIME TABLE.

Standard tiIne—9oth meridian.
GOING SOUTH.
N Y & C N Y & B

 

  
 

    

Express. Ex & M W’? F‘
Lv Grand Rapids . . . . . . . . . . - 7 5o AM 4 40 PM 5 oo All
Ar Allegan . . . . . . . . . . " “ 9 o7 "
Ar Kalamazoo....  Ioo5 “’ 655 “ mes PI!
Ax Schoolcraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Io 42 " 7 33 “ 2 oo "
Ar Three Rivers . . . . . . . . . . . .. II II " 8 on “ 2 55 "
Ar White Pigeon. . II 442 " 8 3o “ 4 3o "
Ar Toledo.... . SIOPM 4r5Im 630.5):
Ar Cleveland.. . . 9 3o " 8 no " . . . . . . . .
ArBufl'alo . . . . .. . 330AM 24oi>M . . . . . . ..
GOING NORTH.
N Y & B NY & C
Ex & M Express W’, F‘
Lv Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. II 55AM!!! 55AM . . . . ....
Ar Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 40 PM 6 3o " . . . . . . . .
Ar Toledo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. II :5 " Io 4o " 8 30 PM
Ar White Pigeon.. . . . . . . .. 5 so AM 3 30 PM 8 15AM
Ar Three Rivers  6 I8 “ 3 56 " 9 45 "
Ar Schoolcraft. . . 6 47 “ 4 24 " II 45 "
Ar Kalamazoo.. 7 30 " 5 oo “ 1 35 pm
Ar Allegan  . 8 32 " 558 " 3 05 "
Grand Rapids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 50 " 7 I5 " "
All trains connect at White Pigeon with trains on main
line. M E. WATTLES.

Supt. Kalamazoo Division, Kalamazoo.

MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD.

DEPARTURE or TRAINS FROM KALAMAZ00.
TIME-’I‘ABLE—MAY :8. I884.
Standard tiirie—9oth meridian.
WESTWARD.
A. M.1P. M.
Kalamazoo Aw mmodadondeaves ' ‘ '

 
 
 

 

  
 
 
   

Kalamazoo Express    ‘ I . ' ”

Evening Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I ho, . . . . . .

Pacific Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 27 . . . . . .

Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 r 38 . . . . . .

Day Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., r 45
EASTWARD.
Night Express . . . . . . . . . . .‘ . . . . . . . .

Kalamazoo Al. mmodation leaves
Kalamazoo Express arrives . . . . . . .

Mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Day Express . . . . . .

New York Express. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Atlantic Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  

 

i I oo
. New York, Atlantic and Pacific Expresses daily. Even-
ing Express west and Night Express east daily exce t Sat-
urdays. All other trains daily accept Sundays. reiglit
trains carrying passenge out from Kalamazoo as follows:
No. 29 (ens? at 5:10 P. M. and No. 2o (west) at 8:Io, bring
passengers roin east at I2:45, P. M.
H. B. Liznvliizn, Gen. Manager, Detroit.
J. A. GRIEI, General Freight Agent, Chicago.
0. W. RUGGLBS. G. P. &. T. A., Chicago.

Detroit, Mackinaw& Marquette H. R.’
“The Mackinaw Short Line.”

only _Dire5.-t Route Between the East
and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

 

W1«:s"I:. , TIME TABLE. EAST.
READ Dowx. Taking. Effect Dec.23,’85. READ up. ~
6 05 p. in. Lv”.. . . ...DetI-oi: . . . . .  In so a. In.
7 45 a In 8 I5 p. in.
9 5° ‘ 5 57 » “
55 .. 5 so ..

,0 ‘O u‘ 4 so u
I: 05 p. In 3 25 "
I2 45 u 2 so u
3 as H X u
3 33 u 12 25 u
3 59 " 12 to "
7 3° '5 8 30 I; II-
8 30 " Ar . . . .  Q ._. .,.Lv. 7 I5 "_

Eur-uulhin  yaunouimaukedose I "

fiouwhkfrahsfron and the Ea3,"'bal! ,
Supniurapoiim. V 3
A. WATSON. E. W. ALLEN,

’l ’ ' tendent. Geu’l Pass. and Ticket Aft,
Ilene, Mich. Marquette, Mich.

50 Chrome: or 25 Hidden name Cards. name on me.
Samples and terms, «to. Crown Pug. Co. Northford. C It

inch t10

 

     
 

MANUFAGTURING oo. _
ALBION, MICH.

 
  
 
   

    

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'Ie li-'.\hl:i sinni I-_ . mud y
of wrought and Iiiullenble Iron. The most sun I
and durable plow in the market. Has

.5, ,,

GALE WALKING (‘[FL'l‘I\'A'l'0R. No. .1.
made with expansion or comprossioii spriii .an(1 can
be adjusted to work Beans or rows (planter z’)! inches _
3 art. It is simple and durable. an ls guaranteed to _pcw'.-rpor Horse Lift. Turnsa square cornerwttlb

vs entire satisfaction. out raising the plow out of the ground.

Manufacturers of THE GALE CHILLED SULKY and HAND
PLOWS Walking and Riding Cultivators and Horse Hay

 

 
    

 W Rakes. All Goods warranted.

. , THE GALE PLO“'S_ are made with Bdlllslflmi
Hiiiirlle-5 and BORIDS. struiglit. pr slnntinfi nd Slda
and Hale‘.-I Patent Slalldflfil Joiiiter and ee Cutter.
They are the lightest draft and most perfect (fhllled

 pjows made. All of the Gale ('iilii\'niors are miule with split

TOD eg an four or six shovels and center tooth for fallow. Slion-ls cuii be adjusted to any
‘ dept désirerl and made in t,hnw\' to or from the hllllll.

  
 
  
    
  
 

 

   

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E IIOR IIA Y Rl‘KEo A Derfzvfi

I CAI. ,
The most. Li: l.(‘\!‘l'. .'.'.' !Vll‘ll \-'lIPPl. .~'uriii;.: >11-at.

Complete (‘iiiiih.ii-itiuii ll.i..i1' :I.l ‘~\':ill{lllg ('iili1- ('1l.\llllL‘.'\"lllilllt' of Mtilimnlilt‘ lrnn. A cliildoun
water on the l1l2Ll‘l>§l-l. opoi'u‘u- it as well as zi. Iiizui.

.ciI‘culars sent on application. Correspondence solicited. Mention this paper. Addrals

GALE MANUFACTURING 00., ALBION, Mlgl-I.
15mar t

cuIcAco"7i‘GiiiITi?i5"i‘iIiiiiiiI{'”fiIii‘EWKi?TIMI: TABLE,
M-5-35?§_:__a;.,,.1,:386:,..__

 
 

GALE RIDIHIZ l""I"

 
 

TRAINS \\'li5T‘.\'ARD-CENTRAL MERIDIAN TIME. l
l

1 RAINS EAS'|'WARL)——CB.\"l"RAL MERIDIAN TIMI.

  
  

  

 
 
 

;‘N0. 18, !'.\'o. 4 ,'.\'o. 6. I ‘,.\'o. I, _ No. 3 No. 5,
! Express I l:Zxpress._I Express. I 1 DI£lll.;I Express. Express.
_. ___..j__._ .-_. ' ..—.. 3 j._...__ 1

Port Huron, Lv . . . . . . ..l . . . . . . . . . .i 8 o5 A. .\I.f S 05 I‘. M.  Chicago‘, Lv . . . . . . . . .  9 Io .-\.  3 25 P. H. 8 30 7. 1|.
Lapeer... l  9 2S “ ‘, Q 34 ' I Valparaiso . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘II 50 " 1 5 32 “ I0 41 "
Fl"  ., ' “ ‘ " S hB d... ..i 6 ..,.6 2 “ , ,
Dllltén ‘ii: :5 “   “ Coalsisiopoliri. . :35 P “u i 7 :9 “  Q: “‘“
Lansing . . . .51 I 37 ' in 50 “ Marcellus... 2 45 “ * . . . . . . . . . I I7 "

Charlotte . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i . . . . . . . . . .i12 II I". M.'X2 25 A. M. Schoolcraft . 3 o4 “ 8 06 “ I 37 "

Battle Creek, Ar . . . . . ..‘ A. M I I 00 E I 2o " Vicksburg . . . . . . . ..i 3 I5 " 8 I3 “ I 48 “

" v _ . . . . . .  6 I5 l I 2o “ I 25 " } Battle Creek, Ar . . . . .  4 0; " 8 5; " 2 4-) "

Vicl:sbur'7.... ' 705 j 2 It “ 2 21 “ I " v . . . . .  403 " 902- “ 245 "
Schoolcrzffi - 7 I5 ' 2 23 “ .1 2 32 “ .. .. “ 9 43 " 3 35 "
Marcellus 7 36 2 45 “ 4* . . . . . . . .. " ' I0 14 " 4 :0 "

- - H 3 . ., K It .i 03 u 6 I.
sfilipfiléid... .. 3 3% 33.’. u 333 -- -- ii 37 “ iis ‘-
Valparaiso . . . . . . . . . . . . . lie 24 5 32 “ 5 52 " . . I “ I2 07 A. M. 6 28 "
Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..lI2 55 P. M.i 7 55 “ 8 I0 “ Port Huron . . . . . . . . . . .. '- “ I 26 " 7 45 “

 

 

Way Freight carrying passengers going East, 4.20 P. M.; going West, 915 A. M.

*Siop for passengers on signal only.

Nos. 3. 4. 5 and 6 run daily.

Tickets sold and baggage checked to all parts of Canada and United States.

For through rates and time apply to G. M. WATSON, Local Agent. Schoolcrafi: W. E. DAVIS. Assistant Gen’!

Passenger Agent. Chicago; W._l. SPICER, General Manager, Detroit.

    

THE L’ EST!

son.» AT’  noLEsAr.1-: BY

THE GUl\ll\l HARDWARE C0.,

5 and 7 SOUTH IQNIA STREET,
And at RETAIL by

W. S. GUNN sz SONS,

———Dealers in '

Haiilware, Stoves, Hausa Fllllllslllllll Goals,

EtC., Etcog  ‘

Examine the great bargains offered by us before you buy your Cook and

Heating Stoves. We sell a No.8 “HOME GARLAND” Cook Stove for $15.00; No. 9

for $17.00; older patterns to 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 dc SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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iBUJSIN-ESS AGENT MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.

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

Respectfully Solicits Consignments of

liiili,ligalillii,Billii,lggiiiiiileal,liwl‘iii,lilii,,Pell:,lil1iw,lit

npivnnn» AGENT gr, i;h,e.1r,.;.,_. Produce Eichange Aeqociatiofi,

~__.

Chartered ‘Feb. 13, I873. . .

 

All Orders

.1

Itec"i’uéitio‘IiinI?riceof

“ " ,  1>ATRoNs"‘PAINT'WoTR:K‘s;have made another reduction‘ iii .i..l,..‘i...

Zfieceivé Propel: igttenflon.

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of Paints, notwithstanding they——aré cheaper than any other Paints in the market, .

even if the others cost N OTHING. Why? ‘Because TEN THOUSAND PAT-
RONS TESTIFY THAT THEXFLAST FOUR TIMES AS LONG ASVVHITE
LEAD AND OIL MIXED IN THE OLD WAY. ' I ‘ ‘ ' ' ‘ ' '

WE DELIVER ro GALLON ORDERS FREIGHT PAID TO YOUR DE-

POT. WE SEND YOU AN ELEGANT PICTURE OF SOME OF THE LEAD-
ING.MEN OF THE ORDER. A pamphlet, “Everyone their own Painter,” sam-
ple of colors,’references of many thousand Patrons, etc., free upon application.
Masters and Secretaries, please name your title in writing. I

I Jan 1 :12 'PA'l_‘BONS’ PAINT worms, 64 -Fulton st., New York.

 

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THE‘  »

JUNE 1, 1886.

ONE of the most interesting, but one
of the most unfamiliar, portraits of
Benjamin Franklin is the fine bust of
the celebrated French sculptor, Hou-
don, which is now in the Metropolitan
Museum of New York. Benyon Cox
has made a drawing from this bust, and
Whitney's engraving from the drawing
will appear as the frontispiece ot the
June Century.
 -~-

IOHN P. SANBORN has opened a silo
on his farm. It was filled with eighty
tons of corn stalks, cut just as they be-
gan to tassel and show the silk, and the
cattle like this fodder so well since the
silo has been opened that they will eat
nothing else. The silo is built of tim-
ber, and was comparativelyinexpensive.
-—Port Huron Times.

-— ~

GIVE the calves and young things
generally that generous care that surely
starts them on a successful career.
Neglect of the young is the first step
toward shiftless farming.
~ 

ALL experience goes to show that the
farmer who has smooth land which can
be cultivated by horse power, and
neglects to raise a root crop, fails to
live up to his privileges.

 — —

“JERSEY LIGHTNING” has seen its
most popular days. The New Jersey
Senate has passed a local option bill by
a vote of thirteen to eight.—Framing-
/mm Gazetle.

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THE watering troughs are liable to
get full of filth and rubbish, and will
need attention everyday. The water
for horses should be as pure as can be
secured.

- -———-—uon>-——--- —

TUR:~:i.\'G sod under and immediately
seeding down again by sowing grass
seed, is one of the best and cheapest
ways ofimproving impoverished land.

 —“’“

THE best authorities agree that one
pound of cheese and one-half pound of
bread contain as much nutriment as
two pounds of beef.

— -—-- -

THERE are 80 graduates of Michigan
University lIl Washington, most of whom
are holding Government positions.

-— -

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,
feb1m3 Madison, Wis.

FIRE ERGO]?

GUTTA-PERCHA ROOFING

For flat or steep roofs. Cheap, durable and
easily applied. FIRE PROOF PAINT. Send
for prices. _
EMPIRE PAINT _& ROOFING CO.,
u'28 and 1 130 Race Street,
Mention this paper. Philadelphia, Pa.

1 saprx 2! _

$14 "l_'ry One, $14

A better Harness than you can buy
for $20.

A Plll lllll‘ lllllll llllllll,

Full Nickel, or Davis Rubber Trimming,

Best Oak Stock, for 314.

run so_ nnvs

I will till all orders received under seal
of the Grange, und may be returned if
not satisfactory.

i. VIINDENBERG,

oct 13, yrl GRAND Rnrms, Mich.

Pedigree Blanks.

Stock I-‘uncles-s should send tons
for a sample of our combined Pédl-
gree Blanks and Letter Heads.

HASSLOCK & AMBROSE,

Pi lnters and Publishers,
t‘eblin6 Nashville.’ Tenn.

Allen Durfee,-

FURNISHING _
FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
N o. 103 Ottawa Street

Grand Rapids, - - Mich.
Regidpnce, 193 J etferson Ave.
1y on

Fonno. Brothers & lllillii,‘
Wlllll lllllllllsllllll MERCHANTS

117 Federal St., Boston.

Consignments solicited, and Cash
Advances Made.

i ;'Vl[I,D VIIIIPS iuorro 15.,
‘fiillllle Siximee isisttertlmi a Slow Shilling."
ltherefore offer Hand-Made Harness Crruriin

' 1'1-tax, EVER, at following prices:

I  Farm Harness ...... .. ........ .425 50
Dqsihle Cori-iage Harness . . . . . .  . . . 2; co
Sngle Buggy Harness . . . . . . . . . .' . . . . . . . . 00

Sign of Big Horse, No, .73 Canal St., Grand,
Rapids, Mich. 3 irnarizt

‘ I came ‘l\ . 
 Psggget 3 m';§i°e'.' :fé‘;::‘ll": From:
E-zow and our ioo-puss Fruit Gui

mama ooxoun rurzs. flow to
t W upsd Grow Fréulptgdalrfiz

hook lllustrrflousan 00 0 .
It III Iwme 060." R. L. 1'', Price cts.

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Farmers’
Implements,

Sash, Doors,

Glass, Nails,

General Hardware,

Screen Doors an

Window Frames,

ASSORTMENT OF

Pumps,

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Barb Fence Wire, 

Tar, Felt and

Straw Board, 

ALL TO IIE HOT AT THE

Melis Hardware, 
17-19 Grandville Ave.,
Opposite the Engine House, Q

Grand Rapids.

German Horse and Cow

POWDERS!

This powder has been in use many ycars. It
is largely used byt e farmers of Pennsylvania,
and the Patrons of that State have purchased
over 100,000. pounds through their purchasing
agents. Its composition is our secret. The reci-
pe is on every box and ,5-pound ackage. It is
made by Dr. Oberholtzer’s Sons § Co., Phoenix-
ville, Pa. It helps to digest and assimilate‘ the
food. Horses will do more work with less food
while using it. Cows will give more milk and
be in better condition. It keeps poultry healthy
and increases the production of eggs. It is also
of great value to them while melting. It is sold
at the lowest possible wholesale prices by R. E.
JAMES; Kalamazoo; GEO. W. HILL & Co.,
80 Woodbridge St., Detroit; THOS. MASON,
181 Water St.,‘ Chicago, Ill:; and ALBERT
STEGEMAN, Allegan. Put up in 6o—lb. boxes
(loose). Price EIGHT CENTS per 1b., 3o-lb.
boxes of 6 -s-lb. packages, TEN CENTS per lb.

 

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

PARSONS’ SELF lNSTRUCTOR,

jzm-_
Penmanship and Interest Rules,

and TABLES for 6, 7, and 10 per cent.
and Copv SLIPS.

W. F. Parsons.

College, Kalamazoo, Illicit.’

 

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and as
. n. far do Co., CAMDEN". is.
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GREENWOOD

STOCK FARM

Poland china Swine a Specialty.

Brcodersstoclrrccoi-ded' Oh’ P.C.R rd. C
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I '. B. G. BUELL,
I.rru.a Puma: Boimn, _
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Send rot-price.
and Illustrated Catalogue of

‘ ciucmum (0.) COBIIUGATING 00.
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°-e‘°se.'i";.:".*an.°e*2“e8f?“°"'~
um CHIOAOO, In.

sibfeys Tested Seed

Bocns-in. N. Y.

 decrt6e

Notice of

BEMEIVAL !

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llIlIIS,I.flBllYellllllllIlSUlI

Pharmacy and

SllRGElllI’S INSTRUMENT-vDEPOT

is now located in their elegant new
store,

.139-141 Monroe St, Corner of Division.

We shall make a specialty of

Physicians’ Prescriptions,
Family Receipts and
Veterinary Supplies.
l@‘We especially solicit the trade of
farmers and will guarantee Quality and

Prices on every article that goes out of
our store.

  

llills,li2ck"suI1.

The Leading. Music House

In Western Michigan.

FRIEDRICH BROS.,

30 and 32 Canal Street,
Grand Rapids, NE.

 

Weber Pianos,
Knabe Pianos,
Fischer Pianos,
Peek Pianos.
Chase Organs,
Smith American Organs,
Taylor and Farley Organs,
Valley City Organs.

‘A LARGE STOCK 01-‘

Sheet Music,
Music Books, and
Musical Merchandise.

egress LOW‘,

‘Terms Easy,

Satisfaction Guaranteed!
5in lsept

 

“The Old Folks at Home."

WHITE SEAL BURNING OIL!

_ The New York Board or Health eoti_mates that 3o,ooo
lives have been destroyed by the explosive Slualilics of
troleuin. If every household would adopt e White

Oil for Emily use, none of these unfoiaunate accidents

would occur.
- White Soul Burning Oil ‘

has none of the defects usually found incoinmon oils. It
cannot be axplodcd, does not char the wick,will not smoke

ernjts no ofieiuivc odor, and prevents the ‘ 1 ol
chimneys.

- _ White 8031 Burning Oil
isarlch oil for illuminating iii-posa. It is as light It

color as pure s any water. I gives a strong, steady light
and burn: my Ion er than connoncils.

II the While Seal _iirning Oil is not sold in your vidnl
iy_.s_endyoui- oi-derdirectoo iisfor ahanel ornasecoir
tanning two neat five gallon cans.

nnooxs on. co..  av... Cleve-

lsnd. 01110 1 July
I’ A T E N T 
LUCIUS c. WEST, Solicitor of American and
Foreign Patents, and Counsellor in Patent Causes,
Trade marks, Copyrights, Assignments, Caveats,

Mechanical and Patent Drawings. Circulars
free. 105 E. Main Street, Kalamazoo, Mich.

_ Branch office, London, Eng. Notary Public.

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  Patrons’ llmceryllouse.

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Under Contract with the Executive Comnii tteesuof the
Pennsylvania and New 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, Cotlees, Teas, Spices, etc. We
fill all orders from Patrons when the order is under Seal of
Grange and signed by the Master and Secretary of the Grange, and
upon receipt of goods and found satisfactory payment to be madewithin 30
days from date of bills. We are now filling Orders from Patrons
in Michigan asthe 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 Pliiladelphim. 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 \Vater Street,

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Philadelphia. Penn.
lll0llUllllllTS8STATUARlW Li I I  

Are Practically
Indestructible.

SUPERIOR in Every Respect
to Altblo or Granite.

AWARDED can MEDAL i
AT WORLD’S FAIR, New ‘=
ORLEANS, 1884-5.

Over 25,000 Eroclcd

   

 
  
  
  

— For Designs and Circulars
kg» Address
:3 H.W.Greerz.Man’gr,Gd. Rapids.lV.licli.

OFFICE. EAGLE HOTEL BLOCK.

 

GRAND RAPIDS 3.\TO. 50 PLO VV .

This is our latest Improved Plow. Buy one ot 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. decim6 GRAND RAPIDS MANUFACTURING CO.

JACKSON GRADE LEVEL.

PATENTEI) SEPT‘. 16, "8

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

’l‘I:I.r:s('oi*i;.

M .-aw--~
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A— Grade Bar. _
Thumb Screw to Grade Bar.
op Scale. See Fig. 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 nest 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

B—The Level. C-—Registering Scale. D—Thumb Screw to Level. E-
F—Back Sight. G—Globe Sight. H—Pointer

   

 

LEVEL AT WORK.

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

Level and Tripod, complete, with Blobs Sights, - - -

Lave|.and Tripod complete, with I5 in. Long Range Tiliscope. - 20
An p-loot llod and Target, complain, . - - - - - 2
EITHER OF ABOVE FURNISHED ON RECEIPT OF PRICE OR 0. O. D.

The Latest. I I-Iundreds Now in Use.  
T" 5““P1°°*~ GRADE Lrivnr. GOMPANY WANTED

The cheapeit Jackson, :M:1ch.. ‘
The ‘BEST. Refer io'auy Bank or Business House in City. All On: lhg U, S,

C, I-I. HARRIS, Sup’t,»North Cooper Street,
Got this “ad.” out and keep for reference or hand to some dltcher. 15mgr[6

was MAN

:—!'on 'i'i9.:‘:."sc.io..
law! . llnl Inning
'I'uols:muI sn.s.',='."'

360 and

ions _
rm. i.i'.’i' ’.'.’;'u..'? ::''l.'''' ,4"! 23
Blnmnson. ll.!l.'"'
feb 15 £12

Ekiuuv cm». Ord till 1
G satisfaction guarantferesd; a‘:‘ldr}«:‘s),mpfly’ and
SILL & REEVE, Dexter, Mich

 

 

  

A D. DEGAmro, Highland Station, Oak-
0 land, Co., Mich. Farm one half mile
north of the station, breeder of Shortliorns of
Pomona, Young Pb llis, WhilB_ Rose, Bell Ms.-
hone and Sally Wal er families. Stock of both
sexes for sale. Terms easy, prices low. Cor-
respondence solicited.

 
 

on SA1.E.—-A iew clioice young Bulls and

Heifers, all registered and from extra milk
and butter strains. .Prlces low. " Correspondence
solicited. STONE & BIGGS, Breedeis of H01-
stein-Friesian Cattle, Hastings, Mich. ianit7

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