_:_‘:.'P,"uu‘on»_- " THE FARMER IS OF MORE COJVSEQ UEJVCE THAN THE F.AR.M, .flJl/‘D SHOULD BE FIRST LMPRO VED.” ¥;‘2;‘,§’L‘‘.‘.;''3,.’.‘;‘fi§’.u‘_’ic?,‘’,‘«_ } J 15, ipubiishiinéidiiizdi)‘i7»i'.i)'iliiiE}iziiPifis'f.1cAN. 0FFIC'Ifl]. DIRECTOR 1". (linear: National Grange. JI¢..rI:r—PUT DARDEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mississippi 0v:rurr—jAMES (_ DRAPER..........M chusetts £¢cturtr——MORT. WHITE!‘ EAD. . . . . . . . .New Jersey $:ewar4'—]. E. HALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .West Virginia Assistant Steu/av-1—W. H. STINSON. .New. Hampshire Cl¢aplar'u—A. J. ROSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Texas Tr¢a.mrer— F. M. MCDOWELL . . . . . . . . . . . . .New York S¢cr:tar;v—]NO. TRIMBLE, 514 FSt. Wahington. D.C. Gate Ke2)er—H. THOMPSON. Cn‘e.t—MRS. KATE DARDEN Pnvmma—MRS. S. H. NEAL. . Flora—MRS. JAM ES C DRAPER assachusets bi) As:-istaxt Steward--MRS. E. M PSCOMB, South Carolina Executive Committee 5. M. BLANTON, Ch'n 3-1 as E O '-‘E >- K 12 J. wooDiviAN'.'. ivmcer-s Michigan State Grange. M¢:ter—C. G. LUCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gilead . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michiga 00¢r:::r—]OHN HOLBROOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lansing £:cturrr—}'ERRY VIAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Battle Creek Sf¢'ward—HARRI5()N BRADSHAW. . North Branch Chaplain-I. N. CARPENTER . . . . .Sherman Trza.mrer—E A. STRONG Vicksburg Sn-r:tar_y—_I. T. COBB . . . . . Schoolcra I Gate I(’zeper.—A. M. AGEN Ludington Pomona Mas w T. REMINGTO Flora-MRS c. G. LUCE .......... .. .Gilead L. A. Stnuard —MRS. A. E. GREEN . . . . . . .Walled Lake Executive Committee. H. D. PLATI‘. Ch’n . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tuscola {ii . BURRINGTON. . M. SATERLEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Birmingham W. T ADAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grand Rapids C. G. LUCE _ . } . . . . . . ..Gilead J. T. COBB. i5‘ 055"”; ............... .. Schoolcraft State Business Agent. THOMAS MASON ....................... ..(,hicago, Ill General Deputies. PERRY MAYO. . . I ..................... ..Battle Creek MRS PERRY IVIAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Battle Creek Special Deputies. WM. H. LEE, Harbor Springs, for Emmett County. IOHN HOLBROOK, Lansing. for Ingham County. IASON \VOOD.VlAN, Paw Paw, for Van Buren County. BRONSON TURNER. Flushing. Genesee County. FRANK H. DYER, Ferris, l\’IOlltC£lll'l"| County. S. H. HYDE. Traverse City,Grand Traverse.Antrim. Lee- lanaw and Benzie Counties. R. C. Tl-IAYER, Benton Harbor. for Berrien County. GEO. \V. SHEFFlELD,_Iohiistown, for Barry County. LUTHER DEAN. North Star. for Gratiot County. [_ Q_ A BURRINGTON, Tuscola, for Tusciila County." {?HN TRUE. Jackson. iorjacksou County. IRAM ANDREVVS, Orion. for Oakland County. M. \V. SCOTT. Hesperia. for Newaygo County. JAMES A. MARSH. Constantine, for St. Joseph County. M. V. B. MCALPINE, Monterey, for Allegan County A. M. LEITCH, North Burns, for Huron County. P. H. GOELTZE.\lCLEUCHTER. Birch Run, for Sagi- naw County. _ GEO. B HORTON. Fruit Ridge, for Lenawee County. C, C_ KNOWLTON, Old Mission, for Missaukee County. G. C. L.-‘\\‘l'RE.\lCE, Belle Branch, for Wayne County. CORTLAND HILL. Bengal, for Clinton County. I_- . , Mlchlgaii Grange stores. A. ST3 EMAN. Allegan. . C. GOO NOE. North Lansing. #1 FIRE PROOF GUTTA-P,E;RCHA ROOFING For flat or steep roofs. Cheap, durable and easily applied. FIRE PROOF PAINT.- ,_Send for prices. 4 EMPIRE PAINT & ROOFING CO., 11$ and 1130 Race Street, Mention this paper. Philadelphia, Pa. rsaprrzt EEMCV-A-L I I have moved my place of business to 115 RANDOLPH STREET, corner of Congress Street, near the Market. The location is the best in the city for sale of Fruits and Produce. I keep a full stock of SEEDS of all kinds, and will fill orders for merchandise of every description as usual; also solicit consign- ments of such produce as farmers have to dis- pose of. CEO. W. HILL, DETROIT, MICH. FRED VAR|N'S MOTTO Is. "I Nimble Sixpence is Better than a Sloirfihilliizg." I therefore offer Hand—Made Harness CHEAPER THAN EVER, at following prices: Double Farm Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325 50 Double Carriage Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2; 00 Single Buggy Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 00 Sign of Big Horse, No. 73 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. rmartzt WOOL, BEANS, Etc. If you _contemplate shipping I offer to furnish bags and storage free of charge, and if not sold in 30 days from receipt of same will, if requested, ad- vance one-half its‘estimated value with- out interest on the same. I will sell to best advantage, and remit balance due when sold. Rate of commission not to exceed five per cent., and less in pro- portion to quantity of shipment. Mar-' ket quotations on wool, beans, etc., fur- nished on application. ‘ - THOS. MASON, ' Business'Ag’t Mich. State Grange. inlay’: Tested Seed °.......““‘“=i"’*”*..'L";é‘“'-'i°.?."‘.‘;‘:.s"Z.3";'°.2i‘ doc I we ALAMAZOO NATIONAL BAN K. Capital Sr Surplus. trqooo. Southiyest cor. Main and :c Streets. Diredvrs-Jacob Mitchell, john Den Bleylter Melancthon n. Woodford. Melville Bigglow, J. Wilfred Thompson George '1‘. Bruen. F mine A. . White, Edwin L, Phelps E. 0. Humphrey. N. Chase. - . Envmi l PIIEJS. Pr:.n‘dnit,- _M£LVlfl£ J. Bic»-zuow 9'3’;-¢,.A¢r.i-{r{riv¢f:Trrn~u=."i (Town f.‘/i.‘-{Irv ,:‘ ggrimltitral gepartmcnt. The Homestead. Against the wooded hills it stands, Ghost of a dead home, staring through Its broken lights on wasted lands Where old-time harvests grew. Unplowed, unsown, by scythe unshorn, The poor, forsaken, farm-fields lie, Once rich and rife with golden corn And pale green breadtlis of rye. Of healthful herb and flower bereft, The garden plot no housewife keeps, Through weeds and tangle only left, The snake, its tenant, creeps. A lilac spray, once blossom-clad, Sways bare before the empty rooms; Besides the roofless porch asad, Pathetic red rose blooms. His track, in mold and dust of drouth, On floor and hearth, the squirrel leaves, And in the fireless chimney’s mouth His web the spider weaves. The leaning barn, about to fall, Resounds no more on husking eves. No cattle low in yard or stall, No thresher beats his sheaves. So sad, so dear! It seems almost Some haunting presence makes its sign; That down some shadowy lane some ghost Might drive his spectral kine! 0 home so desolate and 10m! Did all thy memories die with thee? VVere any wed, were any born, Beneath the low roof-tree? \VhOse ax the wall of forest broke, And let the waiting sunshine through? What good-wife sent the earliest smoke Up the great chimney flue? Did rustic lovers hither come? Did maidens, swaying back and forth Rhythmic grace, at wheel and loom, Make light their toil with mirth? Did child feet pater on the stair? Did boyhood frolic in the snow? Did gray age, in her eldow chair, Knit, rocking to and fro? The niurmuring brook. the sighing breeze, The pine's slow whisper, can not tell; Low mounds beneath the hemlock trees Keep the home secrets well. Cease, mother-land, to fondly boast Of sons far of who strive and thrive, Forgetful that each swarming host Must leave an einptier ltivel O wand arers from ancestral soil, Leave noisome mill and chattering store; Gird up your loins for sturdier toil, And build the home Once more! ’Come back to bayberry scented slopes, _ And fragrant fern, and ground-mat vine; Breathe airs blown over bolt and copse, Sweet with black birch and pine. What matter if the gains are small Th-at life’s essential wants supply? Your homestead‘s title gives you all That idle wealth can buy. All that the many-dollared crave, The brick-walled slaves of Change and mart, Laws, trees, fresh air, and flowers, you have More dear for lack of art. Your own sole masters, freedom-willed, With none to bid you go or stay, Till the Old fields your fathers tilled, As manly men as they! VVith skill that spares your toiling hands, And chemic aid that science brings, Reclaim the waste and outworn lands, And reign thereon as kings! 7:2/in Greenlzaf Whittier. Manurial Value of Ashes. The value of ashes for manure is a subject of inquiry among farmers and fruit growers, and has given rise to‘ so large a correspondence with this de- partment that I have concluded to group my answers into one general re- ply in the form of a bulletin, Tables of analyses of the ashes of plants of great scientific value can be found in the books, especially in Prof. Johnson's “How Crops Grow;” but the very nicety of these analyses, and the careful exclusion of all foreign and ac- cidental substances usually present in ashes as we find them on the farm or at the factory, render such analyses of less practical value to the farmer and fruit grower. A quantity of sand and earthy materials adhering to the fuel, of char- coal, etc., is found in ashes made in the usual way, and some allowance must be made for these in estimating their real value. A careful exclusion of all such foreign materials would give greater sci- entific accuracy to the analysis without adding materially in making an estimate of their value as they were usually found. It is a. matter of scientific inter- est to note the differences in the compo- sition or the ash of ditferent kinds of trees; of the ash of the body wood as compared with that of the branches of the same tree; of the ash of the bark, etc. But when body wood, limbs, and bark are all reduced to ashes in the :,b.,,' stove or fiirnace, with some accidcrita I ; in the earth. dirt present, the farmer wants to know the value of such ashes just as he finds them. So in the case of leached ashes, he cares less to know what is the value of ashes from which every trace of soluble materials has been removed by pro- longed exhaustive treatment with water, than to know what is their value when leached in the ordinary we. and thrown out when further leaching oes not pay. In selecting specimens of ashes for analysis, I have aimed to secure repre- sentative specimens directly from the stove, furnace, ashery, etc., in the con- dition in which the buyer would find them. The market condition rather than the scientific condition has been the object in these selections. ESTIMATE OF VALUE. In making an estimate of the cash value of ashes, I call potash worth five cents a pound; insoluble phosphoric acid, five cents a pound, and the mixed carbonates of lime and magnesia one- eighth of a cent a pound, because these materials would cost these sums if pur- chased separately at wholesale rates in the open market. Some may ask, why place a value on ashes any more than on any other waste product? The answer is that when these materials are used with skill on farm or orchard, they pay the cost and leave a profit besides in the increased production and improved quality of th'e crop. When we consider how large an amount of vegetable matter is repre- sented bya small amount of ash, the value of wood ashes for manure be- comes evident. Thus Only ten pounds of ash remain from the combustion of a cord of hard wood,and O- five pounds from a cord of soft wo One hun- dred pounds of ash repre ent the min- eral matter 0t 55 bushels? of wheat, 85 bushels of corn, or a ton of timothy hay. Eleven tons ofgooseberries,grapes, blackberries, peaches, or apples, would each contain only [00 ounds of ash. Seven tons of cherries,p ms, or rasp- berries contain only roo pounds of min- eral matter. This gives some idea of the large amount of farm or Orchard produce which will be representeii by a small weight of mineral matter. But small as is the amount of ash, it is still indis- pensable for the produ'tion of these crops, and must be pres nt in the soil in available form before rofitable culti- vation is possible. — - " Let it not be supposecfl that the ash in all these crops is identic il in composi- tion. The ash of each lass of plants has a composition peculi r to itself,'and differing in some respec from that. of other classes; yet there is a certain similarity in the ash of all cultivated plants. When the ashes of vegetable substances are served up for any plant by mixing them with the soil, such plant does not of necessity order every dish on the bill of fare, but selects such materials and in such quantities as are adapted to its wants, and leaves the bal- ance for some future meal or some other guest. - If any soil is naturally deficient in any of the ash constituents, or has been impoverished by excessive cropping,the restoration of these materials in the form of wood ashes appears to be the natural and sale process because they contain all the minerals of vegetable growth. * =i= * =1: * SOILS MOST BENEFITED BY WOOD ASHES. Discarding ashes of mineral coal as valueless for manure, I may say in gen- eral terms that the ashes of wood and ofland plants of every kind are of value for manure on every kind of soil which has been reduced by cropping; but the greatest benefit is shown upon sandy and porous soils. On these “light soils” crops of every kind, but especially root crops and corn, will be benefited by a dressing of wood a.shes.‘..Fruit trees and fruit-bearing plants having a. woody structure, will be benefited by wood ashes. Thirty to fifty bushels to the acre of fresh ashes will be a full; dressing, and three" or four times, that amount of leached ashes may be applied with pet- manent benefit. R.;C. KE‘DziE, Prof. of Chemistry. Agricultural College, June I, 1886. ONE life, fertile in rgsources, conse- crated to a good cause, may be a giant I x ~.,._ V Ingredients Used In O|eomar— garine. The following is a list, taken from the patents recorded in the Patent Oflice at Washington, of the ingredients claimed to be used in the manu- facture of this article. Manufacturers deny that they use all the ingredients named in these that when they mention a_ certain ingredient in their application for a patent, as necessary for its making, they actually use it. This list was ob- tained ofiicially from the Patent Office by Assist- ant State Dairy Commissioner Van Valkenburgh ofNew York: Nitric Acid, Lard, Sugar of Lead. Caustic Potash, Sulphate of Lime, Chal Benzoic Acid, Oil of Sesame (or benne) Butyric Acid, Turnip Seed Oil. Glyccrine, ()il of Sweet Almonds, Capsic Acid, Stomach of Pigs, Sheep, or Calves. Commercial Sulphuric Acid, Tallow, Mustard Seed Oil, Butyric Ether. Bicarbonate of Potash. Castor Oil, Boradic Acid, aul, Salicylic Acid. Gastric luice, Cotton Seed Oil, Curcumine. Alum, Chlorate of Potash, Cows’ lldders, Perozide of Magnesia, Sal Soda. Nitrate of Soda. Forinaceous Flour, Dry Blood Albumen, Carbolic Acid. Saltpetre, Slipperv Elm Bark, Borax, Ulive Oil. Urris Root, Broma Chloralum, Be-Carbonate of Soda. Caparic Acid. Sulphate of Soda, Pepsin, It is not sought to show that all these ingredi- ents are used in any single process, but the fact is established that nitric acid is used in all, and it is probable that the other acids named are employed when the most powerful agents are necess:ii'_y for deodorizing putrid; or diseased fats. Speaking of the materials used under these processes, State Dairy Coniinissioncr Brown said: “Our hearts grow warm with gratitude deeply stirred, and our appreciation of virtue is most delicately touched as we contemplate with much relief and great comfort the cuiisoliiig fact that some of these patentees, t_licse alleged proinoters of digestion and benefactors of Ouijrzicc, have considerately determined that if this compoimd of acids and alkalies, animal fats and other stuff must be pitched into the human stomach as an article of food, provision shall be niade against the danger of an utter collapse of all the vital forces of the victim by the introduction of such comparatively wholesome ingretlients as gastric juice and slippery elm bark.” The publication of a list of sixty ingredients named in the various patents covering the manu- facture of oleomargarine and other bogus butter raised a storm of indignation among those en- gaged in the making Ofthenefzirions compounds: and the organ of that interest, an obscure journal that has little patronage save among the manu- facturers of an agticle that is legally ex- cluded from the markets of the State, indulges in gross abuse of Assistant State Dairy Commis- sioner Van Valkenburgh. That gentleman, in speaking of the article, said: “The list was prepared in my office, and un- der my personal supervision. It was made up Oil of Peanuts, Sugar. Caustic Soda. iiigton, copies of which were forwarded at my request, and every article mentioned in that list appears in those patents. It is fair to presume that when certain articles are named in an appli- cation for a patent as essential for its perfection, those articles will be used. that all the drugs, chemicals‘, and forcigii;‘siib- stances mentioned in these patents were used. If not, what was the necessity for mentioning them? In preparing my list, I used the names of no articles that did not appear on the Patent Ofiice records. In sending it to members of the trade, I took care to use the words: ‘And claimed by them(the manufacturers of oleomargaineyto be used in the manufacture of olleomargarine ‘and butterine.’ The writer of the article in the organ of the bogus butter trade goes into an analysis of the articles mentioned in my list, and essays ttgprove that none of them is injurious to public health, but fails to deny specifically the use of any of the articles used. Some he sets down as pratically useless, and others as too ex- pensive, but he does not say that they are not used. Still, he does make use ofone significant remark that is worthy of mention. He says: ‘The seventeen patentees, if a number of the sixty articles mentioned by Mr. Van Valkenburgh can be taken as evidence, show more wisdom than he, for they take care that many of the con- stituents or articles used cannot be recognized from the names given in the above enumerated list.’ ‘ “To be sure they do, and perhaps it was just as well for them that the articles constituting their product could not be-recognized. The fact is that these people see that their counterfeit butter is doomed, and are ready to resort -to any expedient to postpone the inevitable.: The writer of that article shows that some of the drugs mentioned in my list are largely- and bene- ficially used as curatives. So they are. I am ready to admit that; but then the question is, Do we want medicine spread upon our bread and served at eve ‘meal we eat? Salicylic acid, I am told, is goold for the rheumatism, but when I suffer from that disease do I need to go to a butter tub for treatment? I should add that on my list I was careful not to mention any names, and also to explain that the sixty articles covered all the patents and were not to be considered as being conjointly used in any one process.” T1-tEBn'tish have encour ed the cultivation of wheat in India, and by t at means have cut us out of a good deal of our wheat trade, but when it comes to corn itris another matter. There is no .other place in the world, except in the valley .of_ the Danube, where corn is grown to any great extent; and for which reason we may not expect to be greatly disturbed by out- side competition in foreign markets. Manu- factured. com products‘ may be shipped abroad ~ with little dan er of foreigt,i,_ interferences in the trade.—Tlze ./liillstone. " “Co-Oi>ERA'r1iys stores are breaking down the hard lines between the section of society which poissessesl property and the section" which” does not possess p1‘(‘pI‘i’t_'.'.” — 6'0/rz’7m'1I Suzi!/1, patents, but it is certainly not unfair to assume . from the records of the Patent Office in Wash-» I took it for granted-. games of geetiitgs. ALLEGAN COUNTY Pomona Grange will meet with Hopkins Grange Thursday, July I, at 10 A. M. Reports from Subordinate Granges confer- ing degrees and business ofthe Order until noon. At 2 o’clock installation of ofiicers and lecture by Sister Perry Mayo. Afternoon meeting public. Those coming by rail to Bradley or Hopkins Station should correspond with the undersigned in time for arrangements to be made for con- veyance to the Grange. Fraternally, T. C. Busxxtzx, Secretary. Bradley, Mich., June 6. THE Manistee District Pomona Grange, No. 21, will meet at Marilla, Tuesday, June 29, atz P. M. A cordial invitation is extended to all Fourth Degree members of the Order. The Secretaries of the different Subordinate Granges in the District are expected to send in their reports in regard to the condition of their respective Granges, intellectually, socially and financially. Ci-ms. McI)AIitMi1i, Sec. District G., No. 2i. gbituzaries, In Memoriam. The Grange binds its :ii«:inbers together as with a silken cord. We .»-.:'..u.i_-Iy feel the gentle pressure, but when it brc..l\ . to let ilrup from our number one we lozarned to love and ripprecizite for many sterling qualities, ’ti.< then we know its power. Weston Grange has been called to mourn the loss of one who ivas nlwnys with ii: in health and who thought kindly of iis in sicl;iie..\‘. Let us not forget our Ol>lig.'itiOii.s and duty to those near and dear one‘. he has left behind. Let us remember‘ the widow and the futlicrlcss and extend a helping hand to tliose who have none to help them. Iii our sorrow and bereave- ment let us drape in rimiiriiixig the chair our brother so often occupied, and also the emblem of the office he so faithfully illlt:‘(l. G. B. lIi>l{'l‘01\', B. 1’. Tiio.\iAs, L. I‘. l\’l‘SSl<1l.l., ——~— Cuiiiniittcc. GEORGE-Sister Ann ll. George, ri worthy member of Goldwater Graiige and also a char- ter member of Branch County Puinona Grange, No. 22, is no more. The following preamble and resolutions were adopted by Branch County Pomona Grange at :1 regular meeting, April 21, 1886: WHEREAS, We have again been visited by affliction in the loss of a beloved Sister, and in her death not only the Grange but society has met with :1 loss which we feel is well nigh irre- parable; and WHEREAS, There is no atternalive for us but submission, therefore, Resolved, That while we grieve lor the (le- parted Sister‘, we mourn not as those without hope or comfort, and we tender to our Brother and his son our heartfelt symp-.itliy in their bereavement, and wish them to feel that their loss is our loss also, and that in the hearts of her Brothers and Sisters ofthe Order the beautiful and consistent Christian character and life of Sister George shall be cherished as worthy of emulation. Rerolvad, That our Charter be draped for 90 days, as‘?! slight testimonial of our respect for departed worth, and‘ that a copy of these resolu- tions be sent to the GRANGE VISITOR for publi- cation, a copy sent to Brother George, and also spread at large on the records of this Grange. COMMITTEE. HEWE'I'I‘—Died, on Tuesday, May 11, r886. Sister Clara Hewett, aged 27 years. She has been an active, energetic member of Cedar Grange for severalyeais.where all sincerely mourn her loss. Therefore, Reralzznl, That we, as Brothers and Sisters, realize with sadness her untimely departure from among us. We ex- :_e_nd our sympathy to the bereaved husband and other nen s. Rtsalved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the gfliicted family; also be spread on our Grange record, and a copy sent to the GRANGE. VISITOR for publication. ?_ “Co-OPERATION supplements political economy by organizing the distribution of wealth. It touches no man’s fortune, it seeks no plunder, it causes no disturb- ance in society, it gives no trouble to statesmen, it enters into no secret asso- ciations; it contemplates no violence, it subverts no order; it envies no dignity; it asks no favour; it keeps no terms with the idle, and it will break no faith with the industrious; it means self-help, self-dependence, and such share of the common competence as labour shall earn or thought can win, and this it in- tends to hav_e."—G._/. flolyoakg. WHY will the married ladies bother themselves making men's shirts when we can sell them a splendidly made, patent-back, unlaundried Men's Shirt for 39c, such as the dry‘ goods stores sell at 75c to $1.00, with fine linen bo- som, culfs and neckband. STAR CLOTHING HOUSE, Grand Rapids. ' JOHN April, 9; Charlotte saloonkeeper sold Wm. Peacock all the whisky he could pay for and naturally enough Peacock died. The widow brought’ suit against the liquor-vendor and a jury has just awarded her $1.342. app,‘ -i l .-._., ., _ ...a:....a. TIEIE GRANGE VISITOR. JUNE 15, 1886. gflmlltltllitfifillllfi. Views of Chicago—The Tunnel. To a stranger visiting the busy city of Chicago every day discovers some new attraction or surprise. Her stock yards and packing-houses, where for several -hours each day a half dozen cattle and as many hogs are killed every minute; her water tower, with its immense sys- tem for the water supply of the city; her extensive cable railway doing the work of hundreds of horses; her wonderful panoramic paintings of the noted battles of Gettysburg, Shiloh, The Wilderness, and the Seige of Paris; and her beauti- ful parks with their connecting boule- vards successively challenge our admira- tion and wonder. Although as a model of engineering not to be compared in extent or mag- nificence to many other structures of the city, yet La Salle Street tunnel,lead- ing under Chicago River from North to South Chicago, is full of interest to one who for the first time drives through its long subterranean passages in summer. This structure, which is built of stone, is about half a mile long, with an average width of twenty—two feet. Its roof gradually rises in the center to form a. very artistic arch. Entering from South Water Street we seem suddenly to breathe the atmosphere of another world. Chicago, with its dust and con- fusion of the sultry June afternoon, seems at once to have vanished as we encounter the damp and almost chilly coolness of the long, silent half-way. On either side is arow of gas jets which, though obviously numerous, seem only to compromise with the darkness to make a deep twilight in which objects and shadows assume various amusing and fantastic shapes quite in keeping with the unusual quietness of the scene. Seen in the distance the floor at the farther end of the tunnel appears to rise very abruptly, but really the inclination is very gradual-—in fact is scarcely pre- ceptible on entering or leaving the pas- sage, reaching a level only 5oo feet from the center. Some 8oo feet from either end, the tunnel becomes some- what Wider, and is divided into right and left drives by a row of massive granite pillars so closely set as to form an al- most continuous wall in that part of the structure lying immediately beneath the bed of the river. This route is used al- most exclusively by lighter vehicles. With the many ships constantly moving up and down the river, the bridges are often open; but a moment’s drive leads to the delightful crossing where one may always enjoy a0 pleasant drive with no delay, and all unconscious of the various lake craft that are moving about on the sluggish river directly overhead. F. H. SPAULDING. Elmhurst, Ill., June 5, 1886. —- in the Northwest. viii. "The current of these mountain streams is swift. Ferries are constructed in a very simple manner. A strong wire rope is hung across the stream, some 20 «or 30 feet above the water. On this runs two pulleys, from each of which a rope descends to either one or the other end of a large scow. By shoving the boat into the stream and winding up the ropes on a Windlass, thus alternately lengthening and shortening them, the unwieldly thing is so held to the current that it pulls itself across. Thus one, bright morning last Sep- tember we found ourselves crossing the ~Clear\vater, perched on the outside with '-the driver of a coacli-and-four,bound ;for “below.” Though the days were «exceedingly warm we found an overcoat acceptable in the cool twilight. We descend the Great Snake; our trail keeping close to the river. Sometimes the “valley” is not wide enough for a roadbed and the solid rock has been blasted away for it. Giant cliffs tower away above us on the right; at the left ‘-rolls the turbulent water right at our feet. Anon the canyon widens into a levelfield of some 20 or me acres and there is the settler’s cabin. A dozen miles of these barren rocks and watery wastes and we are again pulled over. From the top of the bluff we occasion- ally see, descending to the river’s edge, long thread-like troughs. They are grain shutes and give the only evidence of the activity of the prairies above us. Grain-cleaning aparatuses are placed in the shute that clean the passing column bright as a dollar. A change of horses and we turn into a tributary canyon leading up to the world above us. We meet load after load of wheat on their way to the boat landing. For the life of us we cannot see whence it all comes. We reach the summit—Alpowa ridge--and the mys- tery is solved. Wheat fields in every‘ -direction! Headers at ‘work on the dead-ripe yellow grain; threshers hum- 'ming away; sacks piled up in the fields where they have laid for a month, possi- bly, without fear of rain; and the merry 1:ea.mster’s shout, explain it all. But look again and again; one can not see the whole at once. Away off to the south are the Blue Mountains—proba- bly 40 miles away. Between them and us is all one vast sea of yellow. And even spots of prairie ‘on the mountain sides show, by the contrast between the universal golden and the diirk green of the giant firs, that the hand of man is even there. In the opposite direction, far as eye can see, the billowy crests of the prairie reveal the yellow stubble or uncut grain. Not a house in sight! Where do all these people live? Ah! we see. Over yonder, sheltered in that gulch, nestling among tall lombardy poplars, with its nicely fenced garden and well kept orchard is a farm house. Why there? Because there is a spring. One cannot get water here for the dig- ging; besides in winter the cold blasts sweep over this region and the cold in unsheltered locations is much more severe. The soil so dry is like dust that has gathered for ages. The least puff of wind fills the air with a cloud of it. The teamster cannot see his leaders. Ranch- ers return from the day’s labor black as negroes. In the rainy season the oppo- site condition obtains, for the wagon is generally in the mud to the hubs. This section of Washington Territory makes a part of the “inland empire.” Its soil is very productive; its people industrious. The great wants are wood and water. Unless one lives near the mountains he must haul his supply of wood 15, 20 or 30 miles—‘a serious bur- den. Water cannot be found always by digging; but is generally obtained at a depth of 70 or 80 feet through solid rock. The numerous springs in the gulches afford opportunities for avoid- ing this great expense. Of this great country the output is entirely of wheat, oats, barley and stock. Corn makes a poor showing; the best results have been the production of ‘stalks of about pop-corn grade. The surplus of grain for ’85 as shown by the transportation companies is in tons, 4oo,ooo, which shows that this great country may yet be an important factor in our producing interests. Taxes in some places are high. In Asotin last year they were 17 mills. Money lets at from one to one and one-half per cent. a month. Crossing the divide we begin to de- scend toward the great Columbia. A deep canyon soon is reached in which flows the Tucannon, so named from an Indian story of two cannons left here by a military party years ago. As we approach, the scenery below is refresh- ing. The bright little stream winding among green trees and green meadows, with the village of Marengo nestling on its margin contrasts strongly with the dead grass, yellow stubble and dusty roads we have just passed over. A long descent, on a zizzag trail, sometimes passing right under the track over which we have just come, and we are at the village postoffice. This is in one end of a livery and feed stable. In the middle of the room we are pleased to see a brother human undergoing the painful operation of having his teeth filled by a traveling dentist. Graduates from the department of dental surgery of Micliigaii University will please no- tice that the enterprising tooth carpen- ter is invading the great west. The descent was rapid and pleasant, but the ascent is very slow and tedious, which added to a hot sun pouring in upon us where never a breath of air is stirring to carry away the clouds of dust that will roll up into our faces, makes this part of our journey exceedingly tiresome. Again at the top and the wonderful panorama of innumerable wheat fields is resumed and continues until the shades of night overta.ke us at Dayton, 60 miles from our starting place. Outing. There are occasional spots on this broad foofstool that seem set up for C1 parade stand. Before such nature and . man combine in the exhibition of power. At more than one of these focus points ’ a great panorama of power spreads out ' before a visitor at Niagara. Ever__v- where is gr.'1ndeur—.vast and great. Midway between the Canti-lever and Old Suspension bridges is such a point from which the sight and sound ofthe grandeur of nature mingle with the sight and sound of man’s work as they do in few other places in the world. Away from the left comes the mut- tering thunder of mighty waters, mad with fearful falling. After acourse of two miles of comparative quiet the sup- pressed rage of that terrible current breaks out directly below an observer at this point, leaps from its bed and laps back on itself in whitened froth and spray. On and on and on comes the ponderou_s volume of waters over their percipitous bed, and on and on rushes the gigantic stream. Up at the Falls the water glimmers with a bright green light as it pours like streams of emeralds into the snowy, misty depths below. From that point to your feet it writhes like a great green serpent and then suddenly breaks into beauty, trans- cendent, incessant, awful, in the rapids below. Above, at first appearing neither in the heavens above nor in the earth be- neath, hang the spans of human skill over this torrent. Coiling along, well nigh noiseless in the din of elements below, the great railway traflicers creep ‘across the abyss. Wonderful! Great is the munificence of God and magni- ficently endowed the mind of man that involves such wonders. _ But who has not read, who not heard of the vastness of ‘Niagara?’ It is an ott told tale,—a play among adjectives and highwrought phrases and, withal, a. tiresome story until in its sublimity we see it ourselves. . . There is, however, a pleasure within the pleasure of an outing like unto this. ,............» ..... ..... It is the thought of the rest, the incen- tive and the inspiration that abounds with every trip from home and care. It is the pleasure best felt when harnessed once more in the old traces. As we sat before that display of hidden iorce and draw in a sense of freedom we queried how many others from the homes of Michigan would break from the routine and slip away to pastures new and re- freshing. ' Would that every farmer’s wife and daughter might look forward to a year- ly outing among the- rocks and glens and poetic rambling places, among far and dear ones, or live for a time along the tented shores, walking wooded paths and associated with cultured, refined men and women at some summer assembly. Any of these that her nature dictates would be such an inspiration! 3. God-send to many a one who’ feels the strain almost more than she can bear! The ordinary picnic or excursion to the neighborhood pond or campers’ lake is no ' rest to the ones who need it most. It is one of those delusive schemes by which we persuade ourselves we get more than we give. The genuine rest comes from change of work, companions and scenes. No place can more effectually do this, at small outlay of expense and time, than a few days or weeks at one of the popu lar assembly grounds. Here, tired with heavy work and heavier cares, the spirit, contagious, is caught to partake with head and heart of the intellectual feasts of lectures and cultured conversa- tion and forgets the body in the activity of new thoughts. These gatherings are a lens for thousands ofheroic wo- men who nobly do the stay-a.t-home- work. They collect life and energy of the whole world and warm into action flattering purposes and fainting hope in mankind. They are the sunshine of summer that furnishes the sinew of win- ter to many a true woman battling a hard way in life. The railroads and those in charge of the living arrangements on any of these grounds have reduced expense to a minimum, and there is no law any more stringent than to do as “everybody else does.” Choice of place is deter- mined on by preference and location. Probably Bay View, near famed Petos- key, has the loudest claims in our own State. Its position and program re- sources are capital and are inviting yearly more and more to its delights. Those who go urge, advise and insist that every one else, even the closest “home bodies,” shall go and do like- wise. Thus it spreads. The home machinery will not collapse for the want of a head a few days. Let the head grow wiser, stock up with fresh fuel and widen its power by widening its field of interest. What woman has done, may not, can not, woman do again? GRACE. From My Diary. CHOICE or BOOKS——’I‘Hl-3 BEST READING. First then, the Bible, that great Eng- lish classic, must be put down as the best of all reading; and whatever you may think of Josephus’ partiality for the Jews, you will find his work a most valuable and instructive companion volume in reading the Old Testament. While, at the same time, his antiquities are not only extremely interesting, as giving a faithful picture of Jewish man- ners, in the time of the writer, but they fill a void in ancient history of four centuries between the last book of the Old Testament and those of the New. From Palestine we got our religon, from Greece our learning and literature, from Rome our government and laws— consequently we should be familiar with the history and literature of these countries. I In regard to the writing of books, we have the great masters in literature as ‘we have in painting, sculpture, and the other arts. Homer is the great poet; the world Will never cease to read and admire the Illiad and the Odyssey. Herodotus is the father of history. Plutarch the great master of biography. Froissart the best known chronicler in mediaeval history; and Sir Walter Scott, the “Wizard of the North,” has, in the “Tales of a Grandfather,” given to the border fends of Scotland and England the charm of romance, while in his in- comparable novels he has given, under the garb of fiction, much valuable his- tory, and an admirable portrayal of the habits and manners of the people in the different historic periods of which he writes. DeFoe, in his Robinson Crusoe, was the founder of talesot ad- venture. Bucan and Montaigne heads the list of great modern essayists. Fielding laid the foundation of the modern novel, and Miss Jane Austen turned it into greater usefulness by mak- ing it the medium for sketching the character of the common people in the country-houses of the English gentry, at the opening of this century; and Miss Burney still added to the value of the novel in those interesting pictures and sketches of English life between the middle-class and the society of the En- glish aristocracy of the last century, that she has given us. Ruskin says that the real value of any book, to a. particular reader, is to be measured by its serviceableness to that reader. Now, the reader would aid himself a great deal if, in taking up a volume, he would ask himself just why he is going to read it, and of what ser- vice it is going to be to him. This question, if sincerely put and truthfully answered, is pretty sure to lead him to the great books—or at least to the books that are great for him. And we , would venture, after such an inquiry had been made, and a truthful answer were given, that something like the fol- lowing names of great authors would be brought to mind: Homer, Herodotus, Plutarch, and Plats; Virgil, Livy, and Tacitus; Dante, Tasso, and Petrach; Cervantes; Thomas a Kernpis; Goethe, and Schiller; Chaucer, Spenser, Shakes- peare, Milton, Bacon, Sir Thomas Browne, Bunyon, Addison, Gray, Gib- bons, Scott, Dickens, Wordsworth, Thackeray, Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Prescott, Motley, Bancroft, Emerson, Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, Holmes, Parkman, and Whittier. There is one thing sure that a man who reads such books will not spend his time amiss. But we don't wish to be nnderstood that such a list as we have given is to be received as a necessity by every reader. One may dislike Addi- son yet admire Wordsworth. One may find the reading ofBancroft more profit- able than that of Herodotus. An- other may reject Milton, and pore Shakespeare. And another may fail in an attempt to master Grote’s Greece, or Gibbons’ Decline and Fall of the R0- man Empire, yet hang with pleasure and delight over Dickens or Thackeray. Hence each person must determine first of all what is best for himself. But in order to come wisely to this decision he should consult the best guides, and, as Richardson says, he should not forget that the average opinion of educated men is pretty sure to be a correct opin- ion; but let him never put aside his own honesty and individuality. Choose your books as you do your friends “be- cause of their integrity and helpfulness, and because of the pleasure their society gives you.” There are good books, poor books, indifferent books, and‘ bad books. A man who has a correct taste, and a careful, discriminating habit in reading can, like the bee. gather good from even the noxious and hurtful. Such a man need not fear the reading of almost any book that falls to his hands. In fact, the general reader has ‘need of the power to throw away the evil, and retain the good, in reading the newspapers and miscellaneous publications of the day. Tell me the books a person reads and I will tell you the society he keeps; for the love of good associates not only he- gets a love of good books, but how often do we find that it is the good associate that teaches us to read good books. There is a golden truth in the remark of old Isaac Burrow on books: “He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheer- ful companion, an effeétual comforter.” B V. B. ——% Teaching Machines. The universe is a machine. The earth moves on through space with mathematical accuracy influenced at all times by like senses, and producing like results. Winter and summer, spring and autumn, day and night are the re- sults of these unvarying motions through trackless space. We, as living observ- ers of these phenomena, need no argu- ment to impress us with their truth. Who has not marked all these things for himself? and who has not sometime wondered what would be the result if the "earth should wander from her way; and then called upon imagination to solve the problem? Sun. moon, and stars, likewise form their respective parts in this great machine, the tini- verse. They all move to a purpose, they all serve for an end. Order is their watchword, obedience is their law; and, if we could move through boundless space, from infinity to infinity, from system to system, from one rolling sphere to the other, nothing would ever meet our sight but perfection of action —~perfect obedience to perfect law. We find that man, conscious of the utility of the machine, has also invented machines for his benefit. There is the political machine, with its complex ar- rangement; and, like- most machines now-a-days, it is made to ride. Politi- cians usually make use of this machine to ride to office. What a complexity of levers, springs, and gearing this machine presents! It can be managed only by skillful hands. You must know just when to touch its various springs, throw the levers up or down, and regulate all its parts; or, if not, you will be sure to run into political stumps that will bring ruin. The political machine cuts wide, reels in the grain with a silver wheel, cuts it with the sickle of public opinion, and garners it in the ballot-box. The political machine is by no means fric- tionless. It requires a constant and everflowing source of “oil,” and a large force is constantly employed in procur-- ing and applying the needed lubrica- tion. The stump orator is the oil-can, and has such a capacity that one filling will last a whole campaign. People seem to have a tendency to forming machines.- There is the social machine, the moral machine, the tem- perance least, the e ucational machine. The State of Michigan has made am- ple provision for education. We may well be proud of our public school sys- tem. It would seem to be sufficient for all demands made upon it. The people of Michigan have a strong tendency to educate. Schools spring up everywhere and flourish. Yet, my friends, there are chine, and last, but not certain tendencies that threaten to re- duce our system to a machine. Without stopping to discuss this, we shall pass on more particularly to the subject. While the universe may be compared to a machine, and man uses machines for his particular purposes, he is not himself a.‘ machine, Neither can he be controlled and governed as a machine. Man as a living, thinking being, with varying natures and disposi- tions, can by no means he made always to conform to the same conditions and produce like results. We, as teachers have to deal with‘ the human mind; hence teaching machines are an abnormal product. If teachers wish to make their work a suc- cess and to rise in their calling and in the scale of public estimation, they must not make machines of themselves. And yet, how often this is done! You my perhaps ask me to more closely define or illustrate what I have denom- inated a teaching machine, so that you may form a more definite idea of the same as I have conceived it. The teaching machine takes the place of teacher in the school-room. The teach- ing machine acts by impulses from within. The teaching machine forms a sort of connection between his pupils and some other man's ideas. The teaching machine never thinks, plans, or invents for himself; indeed, he im- agines this would be treading on dan- gerous ground should he have the in- clination to do so—-a thing which he rarely has. The teaching machine teaches arithmetic by rule, reading by rote, and writing by chance; wearies his class with geography, makes them drowsy with grammar, and puts them to sleep on, downy beds of history. The teaching machine is often deficient in information, and, being a machine, never, of course, could make up the deficiency. He is without due prepara- tion; hence must adhere slavishly to the text-book. If the connection were broken the machine would soon stop. The whole work of a teaching machine might be described by one word—-“monotony." Were you ever about machinery that kept up a con- stant hum and clatter, and did you notice how you became indifferent to its sounds, and how at last it would have a tendency to put you to sleep? Teachers that allow themselves to become machines. beget a worse monotony than that made by clanging wheel or rattling loom—-a monotony‘ fatal‘to every pur- pose of school work. Do you say may picture is overdrawn, fanciful and existing only in the writer’s mind? Ah, would it were so! But I fear otherwise. My experience and ob- servation tell me a different story. Do not think I would ignore the teachings of experienced educators; I have re- spect for well known and established principles in education. I advise to study educational works, and profit by the experiences of others; but it is only as we digest these and make them a part of ourselves, that we shall be able to use and apply them with success. Teachers can not be formed like machines-—all over one pattern. Each and every individual that attempts the work of teaching must lay out new ways, plan new courses for himself. A teacher must have originality. To say a teacher has no originality is to say he is no teacher, but a machine, run by the motive power of external influences. The true teacher must and will develop originality. Let us now inquire if there are any causes that tend to develop our so-called teaching machines. There are several that I wish to submit. First. :1 wrong conception on the part of the teacher of the work to be done. To obtain a certificate for teaching seems to be the goal of many a young man and young woman’s ambition. Their every energy has been strained to achieve this end; and they too often imagine the great struggle to be past when this end is reached, yet in reality their work has just begun. When they receive a certi- ficate they are only legally prepared to teach. They then have the work most important and difficult to accomplish.- They too frequently come before their school with wrong notions or none at all of the work to be accomplished. Could we, under such circumstances, generally expect excellent results? Too often the teacher becomes dis- couraged, submits to fate,—grinds out his daily grist, receives his daily pay; while the school, at first cheered by the novelty of a new teacher, soon wearies,‘ growns monotonous, uninteresting, dis- gusting. ' . Anoher cause is the want of co-opera- tion on the part of patrons of the school. The world moves on and in no department has such advancement been made as in educational appliances. The teacher recognizes the want of a change of text-book in his school, or the intro- duction of some new study, or the need of some important and necessary school supplies. Let but the teacher breathe. his wants and too often will the whole district riseup in arms against such a proposal. He will be thwarted,snubbed, and, shall I say, insulted, at every turn. -' I sejen_f menjstancfout and :a.df“as ti sgh their lives depended upon the is§,,tI', when the-eiinmense sum of 25 or so cents was at stake, concerning the education of their own children. Pa- rents that never visit the school find plenty of fault with the teacher. That teacher must have the sagacity and di- plomacy of a lawyer if he gets what is JUNE 15,1886. THE GRANGE VISITOR. .._..—...._.-..._..._...._._c.__ 3 absolutely necessary to carry out his ideas of schoolwork and yet make no jar in me district. Is it any wonder under such circum- stances that the most noble-spirited and progressive teachers should become dis- heartened and discouraged? Could any better process be devised to make teaching machines than this? The third cause is low wages. The teacher has more expenses than the ordi- nary workman, yet in many places the wages are shamefully low. Without dis- cussing why the wages are low let us look at the expenses of the teacher. First, there is the expense for books and schooling incident to a preparation for teaching. Then there is the expense of examination—’many teachers having to go _by rail andipay hotel bills. There is the annual institute fee, the expense of attending institutes, association fee, reading circle fee, and books for the same. How can teachers afford to sup- port all these expenses at the current wages paid in schools? In point of fact, they can not, and hence they too often lose much that would be of advantage and benefit to them. Again, teaching is not aconstant em- ployment. In rural dirtricts a teacher’s term of school for the year rarely ex- ceeds five months, consequently the teacher must devote the balance of the time to other pursuits, which often have very little connection with education. School Boards should never engage a teacher because he offers to teach cheap; he may prove dear in the end. _"_';A School Board that engages a teach- er for less than reasonable wages is pretty sure of getting a poor teacher, thus doing an irreparable injury. They injure the children of their district, en- courage teaching machines, keep out some wide awake teacher that is quali- fied, lower education, discourage the proper preparation for the work of teaching, and offer open insult to all friends of thorough education. Better far hire a poor teacher, a machine, to stay out ofthe schoolroom,than go into it as teacher. .One man may be worth $100 a month in the schoolroorn,where another could not earn roo cents. I am not prepared to say that a cheap teacher always implies a poor teacher. In fact, I do not think so; but teachers of known ability should not have diffi- culty in procuring a situation at rea- sonable, fair wages. There is no no- bler or higher calling than that of teacher. The teacher has to do with the human mind, to guide and direct it in the proper course, to lead it along over difficulties, step by step, onward and upward in the road to learning. Do we appreciate this grand work? Are we aware of the responsibilities, and are we conscious of the disadvan- tages under which we labor? Yet,me- thinks, the true teacher will not shrink back from difficulties, but on the other hand, will accept the situation for the time being, and will patiently strive to bring about a better state of affairs within the schoolroom and without. Be- cause we work to disadvantage, because things do not suit us, is no excuse why we_ should become machines. As a mat-. ter of fact, we accept the conditions when we become teachers. If we had not desired to do this, we never should have found our place in the school- room. For the true teacher there are also many encouragemehts and gratifi- cations; for the machine, nothing but remorse. The true teacher experiences an untold delight in the progress of his pupils under his inventive hand. He teaches forthe love of the work, and not for the love of money. He is hand and heart in the work and never fails to create an interest in his school. The true teacherdoes not run in a rut, nor is he turned by a crank. If a teacher feels his work growing monoto- nous, a loss of interest in his class,want of order, a growing tendency to omit class preparation; if he feels an in-. creasing displeasure toward his pupils, and that the day is uncomfortably long, I would say to such: “Beware of the machine!” I fear metamorphosis is taking place. I already hear the click- ing of invisible cogs, and the flappings of an intellectual belt. MRS. J. W. S. THE following address was read at the June meeting of the St. Joseph County Pomona Grange with Colon Grange, and it was voted that it should be sent to the VISITOR for publication: Wort/iy Master and flatronr of Pomona Grange.‘ How swiftly has passed the last fleeting year, Since that June morning found us all gathered here, Of friendliest greetin s, each one had a share, And from baskets we I filled, a bounteous fare. We wondered if ever we’d all meet again, Each one in their place, the ranks filled as then; For Time never pauses in its ra id flight To ask us our pleasure, but 0 t claims the right To enter, our homes, an unbidden guest, And claim from among us the fairest and best; Bowing the shoulders, and silvering the hair, And leaving sad traces of sorrow and care. In the name of our Grange, who have met in this hall, I bid you thrice welcome, to one and to all. - To-day’s time and labor may you never regret; For the objectis worthy,.1'or which win met,-w To strengthen anew ¢u'r’§mei-nfui es; - ; Forour atestsucdfislnfdir. l '— ' Andwllnle we expect from oi-gue earn, We hope enjoyment to inpunin All nature is draped in its bright robe of_green, O’er forest and meadow; and hill top" ’tis seen; Which proud mortds boast of their fine works of art, There are grand scenes in nature, they ne’er can impart With pencil or brusli-—-for pen cannot tell imuchtfv Nature’s wonderous formations, which every- where dwell. The rock and the mountain, every valley and stream, Through voiceless, yet tell of the fountain su- prenie The beauteous Maytime has hastened to bring And strew at our feet the sweet flowers of spring, As if to remind us of man’s feeble power, Whose wisdom ne’er formed the tiniest flower; Nor caused, without aid, one grassblade to grow, For the power that lies hidden, man never can know. Out in the sunshine, all are happy and gay, And song-birds and flowers enliven the day. May these meetings be fruitful of good to our band, ' Whose power is becoming so great in our land; And whose workings for right, the nation has stirred, And in the near future their voice shall be heard. May our._labors be earnest, faithful and true, For the work is so great, and the-laborers few. May the vows we have taken ne'er fade from our mind, But help us suppress each word that’s unkind; ’ With charity covering the faults of a brother, Obeying the good precept——io “Love one an- other.” \Vith efforts united, our strength to maintain, Great good welll accomplish—and a victory gain O’er our greatest foe—-Ignorance-—-and hardest to fight; Oft stubborn, and willful, and blind ti) the right. e For the Grange is a school——and re we are taught That most of life’s evil, through ignorance is wrought. That kind words and kind deeds may the Prodi- gal win, Doing much to reclaim from dark paths ofsin. This, too, is the place for our children tolearn That ’tis no disgrace, their living to earn; That each should be fitted some station to fill, And that hands were not made to be folded and still. Then let’s bring to the Grange our girls and our boys, To glean of its wisdom, and share in its joys— For soon will the Patrons who had us today Lay down their life’s work-and each on their way Pass o'er the drirk river-—thcir pilgrimage o’er, This earth-labors ended to rest evermore. The seats thus left vacant, the younger must fill, And parents should strive these thoughts to instill In the minds of young members—wlio hopeful and strong May prepare for their duties, mid the worlds busy throng. And now, ’ere we close, our wish we’ll express, May Fortune and Fate your Grange ever bless. May your labors be crowned with good to us all, On ignorance and vice, may your sturdy blows fall; May you live an example of what you shall teach, Thus living a record, no slander can reach. .\lay your future be prosperous, and may harsh discords never Enter in at your doors, and old friendships sever, .\lay no evil genius, your members estrange, But long live in peace, your Pomona Grange. .\lRS. A. S. Pnocr. £05131 innings. SPRING crops are looking weil; cherries were hurt some by frost and wind. Potatoes are not all planted yet. The bugs are waiting; I saw some on greens 1 was picking for dinner. I have a lot of young turkeys, and they require so much care and attention does it pay to raise them? Perhaps it’s like making butter. We cannot have anything without hard work. We get very little though for butter-making just now, as it only brings nine cents per pound. But as we get no pay for grumbling, willdo as many others have to, make the best of it. Heavy rains last night makes rest for some to-day. E. A. L. Fargo, May 26. WELL, the Government is married at last, and gossiping should now cease. How the jotting page of the VXSKTOR has shrunk the last number, not having halfa col- umn. Come back jotters, fill upa page in our paper. The younger members of the Grange should come to the front now. Not a word in the last VISITOR in regard to Sister Mayo’s visit to this county in May. Not even a note about our County Grange at Hamilton, May 14. A certain Brother was expected to report, but he failed to do so; too bad, for we had a splendid time. Sister Mayo was there and gave us one of the best lectures we ever had. It was a treat indeed, a masterpiece of deep thought and grand eloquence. Her visit to this county was entirely satisfactory. We hope she will come again. D. WOODMAN. IN answer to enquiry in last GRANGE VISITOR, will say the remedy used to remove film from the eye was for domestic animals instead of humans. It would be undoubtedly too harsh to be bourne by anybody but animals. It requtres only a small quantity at a time. We regard it as a sure cure if used while the eye is in the inflamatory stage. Our Grange is making preparations for a grand time Children’s Da . We took Sister Mayo‘s advice, seeing we di n’t have many children in our Grange; we will borrow some rather than not celebrate the day. We have invited ten schools in the jurisdiction of our Grange to meet with us on that day. We hope the day will be fine, the pleasure abundant, and the whole a success. AUNT KATE. AN article in your last paper on the “Art of Sitting Down,” reminds me, as they say, of my schooldays, when graduation time came to the class of which Iwas a member, it was found that ' for the satisfactory conduct of a baker's dozen of girl graduates on the small stage required grace as well as skill on their part to make the effect as pertectas it must be. Among the many drills, signs, counter-signs, and tedious manipulations, that we underwent during the six weeks pre- vious to the momentous occasion was the in- _ struction, “Keep your feet flat on the floor!” There must be no twenty-six shoemaker’s last on heel display that night. I think there was not. Whether the practice so vigorously in- sisted upon at that time has been adhered to by the class, I have no means of knowing, ‘but the fact remains that such a. habit requires its posses- sor a graceful, lady-like posture, while other sole disposals are hazardous. K. R. F. Tl-IE following resolutions were presented by Bro. R. C. 'l'h'a‘yer, Master of Berrien County Grange, at our last meeting: Resolved, That we listened with pleasure and profit to the lecture of Sister Mayoon the 26th of last month, and we most heartily commend her to all the Subordinate Granges in the State, whether strong or weak, believing that her lee- tures tend to the development of u better man- hood and womanhood._ Resolved, That our thanks are due to our Berrien County Pomona Grange for instituting the course of lectures Sister Mayo in our county, of which the it mentioned lecture was one. The Grange ordered the above sent tothe GRANGE VISITOR for publication. Fraternally, .‘.!. J. Mcnczi, Sec.-etary. ‘WILL W. A. B., of Benton Harbor, or Bro. Cobb, who seems to endorse the suggestions, lease explain how farmers are to pay their taxes, amily expenses, etc., while themselves, families and lands are resting. Does his debts rest or interest cease to grow? It seems to me in view 'of the low price of farm products the farmer should work more, raise more for the market if he expects to meet his obligations. W. A. B. and a few others may be able to pursue the course he suggests, but their numbers are few. Most farmers are paying too high prices for labor, there is no question; while all farm pro- ducts are ruiniously low labor is high. Now, if W. A. B., or any one, will tell us how we can work less, rest more, and meet our obligations, we will thank them for the information. Crops are suffering for want of rain—none for about four weeks. D. Woominx. Paw Paw, June 9. TO THOSE who dwell in mosquito infested localities I would suggest the practabiliiy of pro- tecting the head and face with an ordinary hee vail. I have sufiered greatly from these tor- mentors, and know of no remedy until lob- tained a veil to use while handling bees and it is just the thing to keep off mosquetos while milk- ing, riding or doing any kind of work. They are made of netting with silk Brussels Net in front, which is so fine as to be scarcely observ able while wearing it. It is made to slip over the hat with an elastic band, the lower edge tucked under the vest or shirt. Costs but 352:5 by mail. Send to M. H. Hunt, Bell Branch, Wayne Co., Mich., or to any dealer in bee sup- plies. You will not regret it. C. S. KELLMER. Arenac, Mich. A PLEA l-‘OR TR.-‘l.\lI’S.——Tramp$—wl1O and what are they? Could we know the life-history of every tramp who begs :1 inorsel at our doors we would find that many of them are the victims of circumstances over which they have no con- trol, and do not deserve the ball and chain penalty inflicted at Port Huron. \\'e have an annual exodus of tramps here in the fruit growing region, and being located where I ‘nave had opportunities of feeding and interviewing large numbers of them. I have found that :1 few \-roixls kindly spoken, with food freely given, has alinost iiivaii:7.bly opened the heart of the most iinportunaie mcndicant; and I have lis‘Cene;l to many a tale of aspiintioiis crushed, hopes blasted, service unrequitted, and eriiployinent sufficient to sustain life refused. It is very true that idleness, vice and inrempercince are the primary causes which send abroad the great army of tramps. But idleness l: generally enforced, and crime and intemperzince usually go hand in hand, the one being the natural sequence of the other. Prohibit the sale of intoxicants and we will have but few trainps; ifthe tramp or the honest laborer cai_mot get whiskey, their manhood will not be crushed, and they will find employment and bread. If not, the tramp will be truly an object of chririty. W. A. B. lienton llai-bor, Mich. Is there any need of our public speakers mak- ing so many gestures with their liaiids and arms? 39°- BRO. COB13:—I would like to see through the columns of the CIRANL‘-E V'Isi'roR a discussion, pro and con, of what is called the eight hour system, or. if rightfully designated would be, pay without labor. This system, if forced upon concentrated capi tal, will bring min to manufacturers and a mul- tiplication of evils to such as live by their labor. I believe it to be the height of folly and det- rimental to the interests of laborers for them to dictate to their employers the number of hours they shall run their factories and shops. They should be willing to conform to the rules of their employers, and if not satisfactory to them quiet- ly and peaceably seek employment in other di- rections and not interfere with those who are willing to work. About the worst enemy of labor is the high- sounding resolutions of political conventions for the sole purpose of capturing their votes. Who- ever heard of any legislation other than in favor of capital? If any, let t in speak. There should be no war between la or and honest cap- ital, and if left to themselves would adjust their differences without the least jar or friction. Rockford, Mich., May 31, 1886. K. OF L. WARM dry weather brings languor, and a de- sire to shirk real work or exertion of any kind. This is my reason partly for not replying im- mediately when Bro. Hill so kindly offered me his photo. I shall send and exchange with him for our mutual pleasure. Mrs. Steward, I thank you for the pen portrait of this wide-awake Brother who bears with digni- ty his nearly 80 years, notwithstanding his pio neer hardships. Your description agrees with my preconceived,-idea, barring his age and condition matrii-nonially——I thought him much younger and a bachelor. Tell it not in Gath (P) Yes, I am pleased to know there is a Sister Hill, and that she is an honor to her husband, and the Grange; would that their number might be multiplied. Very lazy weather even for an OLD MAID. I WILL say in reference to our Pomona Grange of the igth: we had a good attendance from several Subordinate Granges of Clinton County, as many as we could reasonably expect when we consider the busy time of year with farmers, and also that we are in nearly the northwest corner of this county. The forenoon and afternoon sessions were held in our Grange Hall, which was as full as could be seated. The time was mostly spent in discussions, which were very interesting, especially in refer- ence to the Grange. giving their support to the Knights of Labor. Only one weak voice was in favor of doing so, the rest being very much op- posed to it. The evening session was an open meeting held in the Christian church, which was well at- tended by outsiders as well as Patrons. Brother Courtland Hill, of Bengal Grange, read his auti- biography written by himself. Perhaps he will send it to the Vrsrron so as to meet the eye of that Old Maid that wanted his picture. There were essays read by Sister Rice, of the Bengal, and Sister Libbie Anderson of the Essex, which were fine; several recitations and instru- mental pieces of music by our members, and select singing b the choir. At to o’cloc all hied away to their homes well leased with the May meeting of the Clin- ton unt Grange. Mas. NELSON Janna. Maple kapids, Mich. I ’ THINK it is not because of lack of apprecia- tion that Sister Mayo's lectures in Van Buren County have not been reported to the VISITOR. We were favored in hearing her, both at the County Grunge at Hamilton and Keeler, although a steady rain toward night prevented many from attending. Those, who btavedthe storm and went, expressed themselves well entertained. The warm sympathy with the betterment of the condition of the working classes, gives strength and.interest- to her subject, and he:-audience feels that she is one with them, talking about what she knowsand feelubomapeisonul observa- tion and investigation; with her perceptive faculties and intuitive reading of character. and her warm interest in building up and giving ho e to the timid and discouraged. e were so favored as to have her at our home for a few hours, and enjoyed the visit very much indeed, and do not hesitate to recommend her to Granges in need of a shaking up. You ma open your heart to her and she will not mis- uri erstand you, or laugh at your fears. We believe her to be an earnest Christian woman, giving much thought to all that pertains to socie- ty and its privileges, its allurements, and pos- sibilities; satisfied with rothing short of the fact. We are glad to have met her and talked of the things that pertain to our common weal. We say to her take courage, forin time due the seed planted will produce an hundred fold. Mas. O. M. S. Keeler, June ii, 1886. THE bogus grocery men are through this coun- ty taking orders. They hail from Detroit and Chicago. One of our Grangers sent an order by them of $11.00, and now claims he could have saved three dollars had he sent through the Grange. They have deceived a good many of our farmers as their goods are not what they. represent. Iwould say to all P. of H. stick to the old Grange ship and she will carry us safe through. R. TRELY, Lec. Burch Run, June 14. ' gisrellattrnns. Back Door Esthetlcism. It seems an odd subject to write about but why not discuss one’s back door, or one’s neighbor’s, on paper as well as to think about it and talk about it to emp- ty air. I am sure I do not mean to take back anything I have to say on this matter and perhaps it has puzzled some young housekeepers as it once did me, to keep the back door regions decently clean with an ill trained maid-of—all- work and no city swill wagon to come each morning to my relief. The poul- try yard was quite a little distance from the kitchen porch in my western home and my remarkable “help,” Ida-Lizy by name, insisted upon filling the pails brimming full, before taking them away to empty for the cow or chickens, and then started off with a slatternly over- burdened limp, leaving greasy pools to mark her trail the whole length of my neat plank walks. Of course the grass was killed wherever the pails were ac- customed to stand, so I had a triangle of broken stone railed in like a flower bed and having had a new sod planted close about it, with a bright bed of coni- mon flowers, (of which Ida-Lizy was fond) on the other side of the walk, I watched the result. It took about ten days to fill the stony triangle with drib- blings of potato-skins, mop-shreds and untidy overflow of every kind, and the new pails were unrecognizable from the sediment left clinging to them. On the other hand two of the plants had been killed by having hot dish-water thrown out on them and despair filled by soul. Moving the waste water vat for wash and dish-water so far into the limits that Ida-Lizy could not throw water on the grass without passing it stopped that trouble, and a novel scheme born of my distraction finally triumphed over the nuisance of greasy pails, ruined grass plats, and the torment of files which the sun and swill together seem to call about the back door in armies. First I asked my good-natured colored man to get me a box about a foot deep, two feet wide and four feet long. With a little use ofsaw and ax this was done and be- ing reversed over the spot that I consid- ered most convenient for my structure, it was settled firmly in its place. To each corner I had strong lath nailed, the back ones being lowered about two inches. On their upper ends I, myself, tacked other laths, as ’Dolph was too clumsy about it, making a good frame- work for strong cords which I proceeded to string back and forth and up and down the sides. Then I went to work transplanting morning-glory roots, wild cucumbers and California pinks, all of which are rank growing vines requiring no care, except to protect other plants from their encroachment. To keep them in bounds, a narrow border, not more than four inches wide was boarded in all about the foundation, and close to this the sod was planted, brought from stray corners of the lawn. The next move was to get some pails that could be easily scoured and would not hold the smells of the whole year's refuse. A dealer in hardware helped me out here who contributed two blasting powder cans. These were given a pair of bails and a wooden handle at the tinners for fifteen cents apiece, and the remains of some green blind paint made them look aesthetically cool. A coat of green also covered my curious back-door structure and then I waited for the vines to grow; without regard to various comments from the family on the “slop-arbor,” as it was derisively dubbed. The luxuriant habit of the vines transplanted was at once responsive to the rich soil in which they were set, and by June my “slop-arbor” was the envy of my neighbors. The large green leaves shading it all day long and concealing completely the contents, except from the front, while the novelty and the pretty sprays of flaunting blossoms all over the frame- work really shamed or inspired Ida-Lizy to keep the pails rinsed when emptied and the platform scrubbed with a broom when she did her back steps and porch each morning. The dread of having to attack it with a scrubbing-brush, also made her careful not to fill too full and the two tall sheet-iron pails, with straight sides held more than she could find to fill them. It was such a relief to the eye after ‘previous experiences of my own and my neighbor's back doors in the country, and I hope some one else will try it.——Gaad ffousekeeping. BA'i'ri.i: CREEK Knights of Labor talk of starting a co-operative manufacturing institution in that city. ~————————-on-—'————— WAYNE will have a new county poor- house to cost $25,000, with all the modern improvements. Ballots, Not Bullets. The centralization of ' capital and the centralization of labor are both wrong in principle. Each of them is a dan- erous engine, but neither of them is so dangerous when both exist as either of them existing alone would be. The centralization of capital after years of unquestioned supremacy is now being counter-balanced by centralized labor. It is a progressive step though founded on wrong principle; because it offers the only available present check to the tyrannical aggrandizement of capital. Labor has learned in this respect the lessons taught by capital itself. It has learned to combine, to centralize and to use the weapons which such centraliza- tion gives. It, in its newly organized and centralized capacity, is also learn- ing that the law is one of those weapons. Centralized capital has been able to make laws, through its centralized pow- er, and having made them to suit itself, has had no sort of objection to operat- ing under them. Centralized labor must unmake some of these laws before it can gain a footing of equality with centralized capital. This constitutes one of the great bat- tlefields—not between capital and labor’: per se—upon which the people must struggle with monopoly. It is a contest between two organized intelligencies, but that is not all. It is, also, a contest between organized greed and organized resistance. Physical violence is not a. factor in the struggle, for it is ballots,. not bullets, that will win, Law that has- made the monopolistic system must be unmade, and that can be accomplished. without striking a blow.——/Ex. ,~———<-———————— S0.\Il-Z'l‘l-IING A1.-our CHINESE. — Chi- neseis a queer language. All its words. are only one syllable long. But the sounds in the Chinese language are not. very many, some four hundred and six- ty-five at most, and their written lan- guage contains about eighty tliinisand pictures, each picture representing a thing-or idea. And these pictures must be coniniitted to memory. This is hard work, and not even the wisest Chinese professor can learn them all. But now comes a difficulty; for, of course, where there are so many words and so few sounds, many different words have to be called by the same sound. How, then, are they to tell, when several dif- ferent things have exactly the same name, which of them is meant? We’ have such words. For instance, there is Bill, the name of a boy, and bill, the: beak of a bird; there is bill, an old! weapon, and bill, a piece of money; there is bill, an article over which the Legislature debates, and bill, a claim for payment of money; besides bills of exchange, bills of lading, and so forth.. But Chinese is full of such words of a. single syllable,yen, for instance, which,. like bill, means many very different. things. So they chose a number of lit- tle pictures,and agreedthat these shouldt be used as “keys.” Each “key” meant. that the sign or signs near which it stoo-ii belonged to some large general ‘ set of things, like things of the vegetable, ani- mal, or mineral kingdom, forests,mines, or seas, air, or water, or of persons,like gods or men. It was like the game called Throwing Light, in which you guess the article by narrowingdown the field until certain what it is. But there the Chinese writing stopped short,thou- sands of years ago. There it is to—day- There are now two hundred and four- teen of these "keys,” and by intense application, Chinamen learn to use their method with surprising quickness and success.-—St. [Vic/ia/as. DRUNKENNESS no excuse for crime, was the solid, sensible foundation on which stood the prosecution, and the’ Judge in his charge to the jury, in the case of Fred Foote tried for- the- murder of a saloon keeper at Fenton, and sentenced to prison for life, on a verdict of “guilty of murder in the first degree.” The murderer is only 22 years old. Whata fate! And all for the love- of whisky. Whileit is true that if the liquor traflic was not, this murder would. not have been committed, yet the- ground taken by the Judge is an emi-- nently just one. It is'time that every' court and jury in the land took such a stand; when they do we will hear less. of the cowardly brutes who fill them- with “make brave” poison and then. butcher innocents, or beat and maim the helpless victims of their cursed pas- sions.—Ex.° }— A GREAT writer once said: “The con- sciousness of being well dressed, gives. a satisfactien that religion is powerless. to bestow,” and there are few people so superior as to be able to rise above the knowledge that they are badly dressed. *"'j—%O “Tm: co-operative societies have- arisen out of motives which do the high» est honour to the operative class.”—T/le- Iale Earl of Derby. _ GRANT Co., Wrs. 1\_{n. ED1ToR:—I find no hesitation in» saying th_at_ the Paint gives our Grange~ great satisfaction. It works freely and. covers more surface than any paint that I _ever used. We consider the Ingersolli Liquid Rubber Paint the best and’ cheapest paint we ever used. We saved at least 25 per cent., and it has such an elegant gloss, and seems to form a stony surface like marble that defys rain anti sun alike. Fraternally, Jno. Jonas. See advertisement of Patrons Paint: Works. -2. - GRANGE .VIsITO2Ei». . TUNE 15, 1886. %llB $111313: 'fii,i_%itur. Published on the First and Fifteenth of every month, AT 50 CENTS PER ANNUM Eleven Copies for $5.00. J. T. COBB, Editor and Manager, SCHOOLCRAFT, MICH. §‘Remittances should be by Registered Letter, Money Order or Draft. §‘ This paper is stnt only or ordered ‘§ andpaidfar in advance. Single copy, six months, . . . . . . . . .$ 25 Single copy, one year, . . . . . . . . . . . 5o Eleven copies, one year, . . . . . . . . . 5 oo To to trial subscribers for three months we will send the VISITOR for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 oo Sample copies free to any address. Address, J. T. COBB, SCHOOLCRAI-‘T, Mich. Entered at the Post Office at Coldwater, Mich., as Second Class matter. To Subscribers. Remittances may be made to us in postage stamps, or by postal note, money order, or regis tered letter. If you receive copies of the paper beyond your time of subscription it is our loss not yours. \Ve aim to send every numbti of the paper for the time paid for, then strike out the Renewals made promptly are a matter of much convenience, and we re- spectfully solicit such that no numbers be lost to you. _ Advise this office at once of a change in your address, or if naimbers fail to reach you. name if not renewed. With the Michigan Editors. Our rs-.-r-.: trip with the Michigan Press As:»-.- '1 -zrion began on the bright foreiioon of Tuesday, the first day of June. Starting out as we had all along believed, from one of the most beauti- ful and productive localities ofour great State, at the end of the first ten miles we marked the wheat crop of 1886 down to fifty per cent. of an average crop so far,and did not alter the estimate before reaching Coldwater, 55 miles distant from home. A traveling man familiar with Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana, said his observation confirmed our opinion and said it held good on the lines of railways from Laporte to Hillsdale, but that farther east the dam- age by insect was less. The oat fields looked well, the crop -. gslng the ground handsomely, very no form in growth, but evidently about ready to pray for rain. The beautiful green of many mead- ows was sadly broken up by the pres- ence of patches of sorrel. In this joint occupancy, if the question of title had been determined by extent of present possession, the record would be painted red. The checkered corn fields were per- feet in appearance, and if the present promise is made good by a favorable season,we shall have full cribs of golden corn next November. And if we don’t forget it, we are to tell you next Sep- tember how to harvest and feed this most valuable crop of the Michigan far- mer. One of our friends,a good patron and a successful farmer,has told us more than once that while the farmers of the State have learned how to plowgto plant, to cultivate, and raise the crop, very few have learned how to make the best use of it, and this brother says we are about as far behind in knowing how to manage the crop to the best advantage from and after the first of September as we were when we used one horse and the single shovel plow to check row the ground before planting and to cultivate the crop afterwards. We are not going to tell you what he knows about farming until the first of September lest you for- get it. The scheme is labor saving and as we believe. has not been patented. Reaching Coldwater just before 2 P. M., we had no sooner stepped from the platform than we were saluted by Bro. George, who notified us that he was there to provide transportation to Cold- water Grange I-Iall,a half mile distant, for all of us who desired to find the Po- mona Grange of Branch County in ses- sion, We told him that just then that was our objective point. and that we in this instance meant Bro. Luce, who came on the train at Bronson, and Miss Jennie Buell, our oflice assigtant, who for the time being is of the -Michigan Press Association. ‘We soon found the fine Hall~of Cold- water Grange well filled with earnest patrons at work. Brothers were mak- ing brief reports of the estimated per- centage of the wheat crop of 1885 still in the hands of farmers in their several localities, and as we “now remember 20 per cent. was about the figure. A brief recess brought us face to face with the owners ‘of many familiar names, 3nd we had occasion to again deplore the omission in our mental make-up of that very convenient-and valuable quali- ty, known as agood m¢m°|'Y- _ When business was f¢.S.l1m9d. ‘Hide’ the direction of S7 fer Horton»?-he W0?‘ thy Lecturer, we "$903 f°“'.'4d 0!“ 513-‘ '50 make 3, mgetingof the Pomona Grange of Branch ‘Cdunty a success, there was no’ need to have the brothers present at all, exceptto h¢lp..fi1l.uP the 1911- and mgke an audience. The _ papers read ‘the sisters were no ordmrr S°h°°!' girl productions, but suggestive contri- butions of wit, wisdom,and sense, cred- itable alike to their authors and the Grange for the educational influence it has exerted on its members. Bro. Luce was furnished asubject and invited to make a speech, which of course he did, and we were not long in finding out the weakness of his faith in bogus butter and that he favors the bill since passed by the Lower House of Congress, which imposes a tax of ten cents per pound on allimitations of but- ter, and makes ample provision for its collection. Of course, we had a chance to make 5 speech—we always do on similar oc- casions. l)ut we thought best to be con- sistent with oiir habits and not waste our wisdom on a few dozen patrons when we have such splendid opportuni- ties twice a month, where there is no one to talk back for a couple of weeks. We were well pleased with the busi- ness promptness of the Master and all who had anything to say or do. We saw that 4o’clock had been designated as the hour for closing. There was no par- leying, no dallying for anything, and this was a marked feature of the session. We are sorry to say that this is not a characteristic feature of Grange meet- ings. There is often one-third of the time wasted in unimportant talk about matters that properly belong to an ex- ecutive committee. When patrons come ten to fifteen miles,or more,the program should be complete and worked with a business dispatch that will make us feel that we have business habits. Branch County Pomona Grange in this matter is worthy of both praise and imitation. At 4 o’clock the session was formally closed and the members at once dis- persed. We accepted the proffered hospitality of Brother Williams for the night and had abundant evidence of the devotion to the Good of the Order of this Brother and his self-sacrificing wife, before we left them the following morning. Their Grange hospitality, in- dustry, and general helpfulness, have given them a place in the front rank of the patrons of Branch County. We reached the Opera House of Coldwater in time to find the citizens of the city were proving their interest in the meeting of the Association by their presence. We listened to the mu- sic, the prayer, the Mayor's welcome, the response, and the very able paper of the famous Nasby. He made some humorous hits, threw away some good professional advice and good suggestions on the zoo editors present, and secured the approving endorsement of a full house from the first to the last of a lengthy paper. Some other excellent papers were read, as announced on the program,and the session closed with a most ludicrous “How not to do it” sort of a talk from H. Potts, of the Grand Haven Courier- Journal. The editorial fraternity, with all the wives, daughters, and friends who came with them, were the accepted guests of the citizens of Coldwa er, and were en- tertained in a right royal manner during their stay. Wednesday morning car- riages were provided for the en tire company of not less than 3oo, and after driving around the city through its clean and shaded streets for an hour, the State Public School, a mile away, was visited. As we have had something to say of that State Institution, we will only add here that on their return we only heard good words in every reference to it from those who visited the State Public School. We shall take occasion at some other time to describe this School and give something of its history. The Lewis Art Gallery has a State reputation for completeness and excel- lence. Here, through the courtesy of Mrs. Lewis, the lovers of art came and went with entire freedom during the stay of the party in the city. The evening of Wednesday was made especially memorable, as by invitation of Mrs. Lewis,the gallery was open and made the starting point of the Associa- tion for the special train at IO P. M. Not only was the gallery open and illuminat- ed by gaslight, but Mrs. Lewis kindly opened her house and invited all to view the splendid-paintings which everywhere adorn the walls. Nature has not quali- fied all to enjoy and appreciate the beauties of art, but none could fail to appreciate the lavish liberality of Mr. H. C. Lewis and the courteous atten- tion of Mrs. Lewis on this occasion. The members of the Association were unanimous in their praise of Coldwater hospitality and we heard but one com- plaint from the other side. One editor had by mistake or otherwise missed the great supply of Coldwater and over-. loaded with Firewater for which the re- ception committee and the good citizens of ‘this beautiful city were not held re- sponsible. J - At ten P. M. we boarded a special of six elegant sleepers furnished by the N. Y. Central Sleeping Car Co. These, with two L. S. 8: M. S. coaches, a din- ing room car and a baggage car made up the train of the excursion party. For each and every one of the 220 married and singlelweary ones to find their allotted places in the first or sec- ond story of a sleeper, even with the aid ‘of a colored chanibermaid of the male persuasion, required time, patience ' and lamplight down to near the short hours of the next day. But when the, morning dawned we found each one well fixed and far on our way, having passed Cleveland, and were whirling ‘along at a speed of 35 miles an hour under orders to reach Buffalo at ten o’clock. The crops in sight after day'- light were fair, the meadows looking better than nearer home. A light rain and cooler weather made the ride a de- lightful one, fully appreciated by very many to whom such a trip was a new and rare treat. At Buffalo we were turned over to the faithful care of the Michigan Cen- tral and an. hour later were sidetracked at Niagara to remain for a day and a half. Of Niagara, Nature’s noisy wonder, and of man’s marvellous engineering successes, all side by side, we shall say but little, leaving these for the more fa- cile pen of Miss Buell to describe, only briefly referring to an hour spent close down to the rushing rapids between the railway bridges. We reached the rocky narrow margin by a rickety stairway running parallel with a seven-inch cast- iron sectional shaft 5500 feet long that for 37 years had transferred the motion of a waterwheel in the river to a mill on the heights above. A proprietor of the mill, born within sight of the cataract, invited us to make the descent with the assurance that no finer view of the rap- ids could be had than at the foot of the stairway and we think he was right. Above us on either hand high in air were the two railway bridges with trains every few minutes moving leisurely to and fro over the vast chasm. As the mighty river is narrowed just above the cantilever bridge the rapid under current from the falls catches the great upper strata of comparatively still water that forms the lake navigated by the Maid of the Mist, the turmoil of rushing waters becomes indescribably grand. The Empire State undertook a few years ago to have something free at Ni- agara. The established reputation of the place for getting the last dime from all comers has been somewhat relieved by the action of the State in condemn- ing, in 1884, all the private property ad- jacent to the Falls and the Islands in the river above the Falls. In our ram- bles we made the acquaintance of a gentleman who gave us some figures paid by the State for condemned prop- erty. A paper mill company was paid $156,- ooo for the little island, and the mill property is now removed from highest tower to basement stone. Other large and valuable buildings were taken down and others, still stand- ing, are to be carted away, that a mag- nificent park, free to all, may adorn the approach to this one of Nature’s great- est wonders. The total amount paid for property condemned was $1,325,- 000. So far the property condemned has paid for all improvements. The park was formally opened to the public July 15, r885,with great pomp and cere- mony. At seven P. M. on Friday the train slowly crossed the wonderful cantilever bridge bound for Detroit. All daylight passenger trains of the Michigan Cen- tral make a stop of five minutes oppo- site the falls the ape of which is such that a fine view ii be had, not only of the falls on’ both sides of Goat Island, but also of the river above with its is- lands, bridges and hurrying waters seem- ingly anxious to reach the brink of the unseen precipice and make a plunge to the fathomless depths below. A ride over the Canada Southern,one of the smoothest level roads in this country, brought us to Detroit long be- fore morning. But we kept our places in the sleeper turning out at about the usual hour in the morning. From this point the members of the Association dispersed, the most of them taking the early trains to their homes. The President of the Association,Mr. A. J. Aldrich, of Coldwater, was emi- nently successful in his efforts to make the meeting at Coldwater pleasant and profitable. For the completeness of the arrangements with President Newell, of the L. S. & M. S. R’y, O. W. Ruggles of the M. C. R’y, and the courteous em- ployes acting under them as well as the officers of the other railway lines of this State, the members of the Association are indebted for the most enjoyable ex- cursion that it has been our good for- tune to share. In coming out from Detroit we noticed the wheat along the line of the Central looked well, showing little or no injury from insect work. Oats and meadows especially needed rain. The stand of corn seemed per- fect and where diligently worked will do well for some days without the rain. so much needed in many places by other crops. FOR thirty years James J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass , has been dis- tributing his Seed all over the United States until his name has become a household word in the house of nearly every farmer, and the seeds have estab- lished for themselves an inter-national reputation. The value of a crop of any kind is always determined by the value of the seeds that are sown. Gregory's Seeds never fail, therefore the thirty- years of successful business. Look up his advertisement in our columns of this week. ‘ ' THE article on another page, entitled ‘Teaching Machines,” was written for a meeting of teachers, but it contains so many points that parents and school patrons should comprehend more fully than they do that we present ‘ it entire. “INGR!-ZDIllN'iI‘S USED IN OLEOMAR- GARINE,” found on our first page, pre- sents a collection of sundries that from its drug-store look must alarm the coun- try butter—maker, and if cows could read would make them take to the woods. There may be butter made and sold that is harmlss,-but we so well know that Yankee ingenuity is seldom re- strained by conscientious scruples that we feel there is no safety in eating the bogus article so long as rigid inspection laws are not enacted, and so long as public opinion does not demand the careful inspection, condemnation and confiscation of adulterated goods pre- pared for the table and represented by the manufacturer’s brand or label as pure. ' If the dairymen and farmers lose in this fight on the point of taxation we think great good will come of the agita- tion. It is notorious that we import ship loads of white clay into this country annually for the purposes of adultera- tion, and until it can be shown that the adulterated articles kill one man in ten ‘outright, we shall go on running all lines of manufacturing where adultera- tion is possible in such a way that a manufacturer must eschew honest goods or be driven into bankruptcy by his competitors. Out of all this agitation we shall get at least, we think, inspection, and the bogus article will be sold for what it is —and we hope we shall get even more. We hope it will be ground into the heads of the farmers of the country the important fact that if their interests are to be recognized and protected they must know who represents them in the legislative departments of the govern- ment. . So long as they have more faith in their several political parties than they have interest in their own business as farmers they will suffer for the want of protection legislation, and it is not be- coming to complain or continue to use lawyers for legislators, and continue to suffer; and it is after all about the fair thing. If we had no level-headed farmers and business men there might be some excuse for allowing the whole matter to pass into the hands or heads of profes- sional men. But when we find compe- tent men all over the country identified with agriculture, and as farmers ignore that fact, we should cease to complain of bogus or any other fraud that we we have it in our power to remedy if we will but attend to our business as busi- ness men. SoMi: of our city cotemporaries are wisely prescribing the farm cure for the unemployed workmen of city and coun- try, but neglect to tell these needy citi- zens just how the remedy is to be ap- plied. Homesteads are mostly quite remote from metropolitan cities, and it takes money and time to spread before a hungry family a good square meal of your own raising, even if you have the skill to wrin a living from willing or reluctant soi . No, gentlemen, the medicine can't be had, and if the city laborer were transfered to “western wastes of Prairies wilde” he would have a chance to starve to death a score of times before his industry would see re- turns from mother earth. ON THE FIRST page will be found so much of Bulletin No. 15 from the Chemical Department of the Agricul- tural College as we thought ofreal prac- tical value to farmers. It would, of course be well for every farmer t) un- derstand the constituent elements that make up the soil on which he depends as the basis of his business. But he has so many things to learn before he undertakes to master the chemistry of soils that we omitted that portion of the Bulletin which would not be well under- stood, and present so much as can be brought at once to a practical use. Read the Bulletin and be governed by its sug- gestions, and we think it will pay. THE Bar Committee has consulted lawyers in difierent States, and found that the average length of a law suit is in some States six years, and in others only eighteen months. The largest number of reversals on appeal was forty- eight out of seventy-three, and the least forty- four out of two hundred and forty-four. In one set of State reports the committee found eleven hundred and eighty appeal cases aflirmed, and eleven hundred and sixty reversed.—E.tr/range. And yet it is alleged that this is a pro- gressive age, and that we have learned how to do a thousand things better than our fathers. If in litigation we are do ing better we shall be greatly obliged to the profession to tell us when, where and how that improvement can be dis- covered. -::—u THE wool clip is being picked up this year in many places by men who have a little money and some faith in wool. When the best clips are bought for twenty-five cents per pound in a coun- tr_v,that depends on importing annually a large amount of wool to meet the de- mand for home consumption there is little room for loss and with the present outlook some chance for a little profit on the investment. Dependent Children The State Public School at Coldwater for the care of homeless and dependent children was the pioneer institution of the kind in this country. Since its es- tablishment nearly 1,50 children have been consigned to the guardianship of the State and have been provided with homes in families that have extended a welcome to these wards of the State. No one longer questions the excellence of this charity. From time to time charitable institu- tions in Eastern States have presumed on the benevolence of our people and consigned in the care of agents to va- rious points in our State their surplus dependent children, finding homes for them in families and turning their backs on them forever. The legislature has so far failed to protect this territory from this sort of invasion. Our State School send out children on trial for 60 days. And children are often returned when they are not found acceptable. There is therefore a de- cided advantage in taking a child from the State Public School of Michigan over the chance solicitation of a pauper child from the cities of New York or New England. We have notice from the Secretary of the State Board of Charities that 32 children in the care of a Rev. gentlemen of Boston with their assistants have just landed in the county of Midland in search of homes. Aside from the fact that it is much safer to take children from the State School that can be returned if not de- sirable, the important fact should be recognized by every family in Michigan that Selfishness begins at home and our first duty in this matter lies in taking care of our own dependent children. It will be time enough to import pauper children when we have none of our own needing homes. The press of the State should give this matter such publicity as will make it impossible for these agents to palm off these children on our kind hearted citizens who are will- ing to accept the care and responsibility of rearing and educating the unfortu- nate children of other people. WE have a new ad from Bro. Thomas Mason, of Chicago. It is for farmers and should receive their attention. Bro. Mason is active, honest, and will do the best he can for those who patronize him. His commission is less on wool than common men usually charge, and he has equal facilities for reaching the best markets. It is certainly safe to try him with your wool or other farm products. THEIR L088 18 YOUR GAIN l ,_ _...—4o>_.A._ 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, $4.26; former re- tail price, $6.00. A SPECIAL feature of this sale is the tremendous lots of Good BUSI- NESS SUITS, neatly made, good quality, well trimmed, at $5.00; former wholesale price, $6.25; former retail price, $8. Men’s Splendid ALL WOOL SUITS, $6.60; former whole- sale price, $7.87; former re- , tail price, $10. Fine Caisiiner and Blue Flannel Suits, ALL WOOL, $7.50 and $8.00. At $8.50 .and $ I 0-O0 OUR ASSORTMENT OF llll llll til Wlllllll lllll IS UNLIMITED. BOYS’ SUITS at same basis of value, commencing at $l.15 for good, substantial ev- ery day suits. ' _......Aq.>—..__._ l€‘You are advised to lose no time in securing a suit at this great sale. >—A. GIlllTlll.llT N6 in. -1 Grand Rapids, Mich. ' (A. MAY. Prop’:-.) I Gsnmm CARP. Orders filled promptly, and satisfaction guaranteed; address, SILL & REEVE, Dexter, Mich. . 9 r 5 JUNE 15, 188?. 'I'IiIEEl VISITO«R. WITH no rain since the middle of May meadows are not good for more than half_a crop. Oats that were very for-’ ward at that time will be so short that the farmer may be thankful that binding twine is substituted for short bands in the harvest field. With a mowing ma- chine. a horse hayrake and a short crop haying will not interfere with corn cul- ture very much and the farmer who d<')n’t keep his cultivators running through his cornfield this dry weather twice a week will find his corn crop has followed the lead of the meadows and yields but half a crop. Cultivate con- tinually not to kill wee ls,fOr we suppose there are none to kill in your cornfields, but cultivate to prevent the corn froiu suffering from the drouth. How dcgs it happen that there is general complaint of enforced idleness among those who depend on their daily labor for their daily bread and yet farm labor commands almost war prices. Day laborers demand the price of two bushels of wheat for a day’s work at any kind of common farm labor. With cheap clothing, the farm hand who does not in a few years save up a little capital to start out in life with, is either the patron of saloons, or buys experience in patent rights, paying therefor in honest money that he never sees again, or impatient to become rich. tries speculation in a small way and gets beat. WE shall look with great interest to the action Of the Senate on the Bill taxing oleomargarine, and to the action of the House on the Bill prohibiting the acquisition of government lands by for- eigners. These are two of the most important measures that have engaged the attention of this Congress, and their passage is demanded by the peo- ple. Representative Congressmen pay better attention to the demands of the people at the session preceding an elec- tion than they do the off year. Now is the time to show them that they are watched by their constituents. BRO. D. H. ENGLISH under date of June 4 writes: “We had a very interest- ing meeting Ofthe Lowell District Coun- cil on the 2d inst., and it is a mystery to me why farmers will not work to- gether and make a success of our noble Order." A great i_many sensible, practical far- mers have been trying to solve that “mystery" for ten years, and farmers of the next generation will still find it a problem. It can only be disposed of by referring it to professors of mental philosophy. WHERE there is june grass, meadows should be cut early. If left to ripen june grass is worthless. Only poor farmers will neglect such meadows and such farmers don't read agricultural pa- pers and when they do seldom see that they are the ones addressed. THE annual roadmaking is nearly done and whether well done or half done the roads will get but little atten- tion for the next eleven months in the well settled part of the country. In the woods where they must, people will do better. WITH Wheat at 75 cents don’tgive up wool raising at 25 cents. With the same attention the wool crop is more reliable than the wheat crop, requires less hired help, and don't impoverish land as does wheat with poor farming. WE respectfully call the attention of every subscriber to the seed advertise- ment Of James J. H. Gregory, Marble- head, Mass. His large and complete catalogue sent free. — REPORT of a special committee ap- pointed at the annual session of the State Grange, December, 1885: Farmers of Michigan view with amazement the continued effort in Congress to ruin the business of wool growing among them, which it has taken years of intelligent breeding and care to build up. In the three years since the last reduction of the tariff on wool, the ‘price of both wool and sheep has steadily declined, and during the last year the number of sheep in our State has been lessened more than one hundred tliousand, with a prospect of a still further.re- duction the present year. .The history of the changes in the laws affect- ing the duties on wool and its products has proved that neither the continuation of evil following a reduction, nor the prosperity resulting from an increased duty, are at once felt in the con- quences sure to proceed from the change. The reduction of I883 gave a new impulse to foreign wooliproduction, and the efi'ect is now felt in the vastness of the importations of both wool and manufactured goods. Every fleece of wool and every skein of yarn that arrives takes the place. ofa fleece and a skein that should be furnished by our own farmers and factories. _ The effect of free wool will be to sustain and maintain a market in the United States wholly in the interests of the owners of vastflockson boundless plains of perennial pastures, a hernia-» here remote, and to reduce the increase of every fiiriner, and to lessen the value of ev farm whete flocks of sheep have heretofore n a. a source of moderate profit. . ‘ _ simple 'us.tice to the farmer demands: that the tariifofl 7 be again wilha_ , tee of perpetuity instead of the antithesis‘ of wool and its products being admitted duty free. . I , $‘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. , and prayer by, the Chaplain,. Worthy Master glgilbrrifs gap. Christians’ Joys. The following touching incidentis not without its lesson: “Here is something that will interest you, Robbie,” said the mother, as she handed to her boy a copy of the VISITOR containing the procla- mation Of State Master Luce for a general Chil- dren’s Day for the farmer's boys and gir"ls'of the State. His bright eyes sparkled, and his face beamed with smiles as he eagerly read the edict. “Good, good; another day of fun. Wonit we have a grand time? But, pshaw—mamma, the Ioth of Jnne—why that will be right in strawberry picking, and you know all must be at work then. It is just too bad!” and the face that had beamed with joy only a moment before was saddened for Iione felt more keenly than this bright gay boy the privation of being obliged to stay at home on Children’s Day. The mother was silent in thought for a moment, there were two ideas struggling for supremacy, one was the securance Of the fruit, and the other the securance of the day of profit and pleasure for her child —-a day wherein might be planted in her boy’s heart the seeds oflhat which is good and true, and which would certainly yield bountiful fruitage all along the road of life. “Robbie, you shall go; some way will be pro- vided to take care of the berries, and you and the other children shall have your day. Yes, your day, you know Robbie. It is all yours to improve, to enjoy, to grow strong and good in, and you shall go." The boy’s faith in mother's promises was sure and strong. He well knew she would never promise him any thing and then not keep her word, (would that every child had the same rea- son for trust in mother's word that Robbie had.) “All right, mamma; that's good! another day of fnn;” and Robbie began to look forward with all the eagerness of young life to the anticipated pleasure, and count each day one less to the time of the promised treat. But there came a day when a sad messenger stopped at that home, and said with such assur- alias as to admit of no mistake that Robbie’s lit- tle life must go out here; here where it had been like a bright snnbeam, gay and joyous, to that other life which we call eternal, and where they never say “I am sick,” but in its blissful rela- tions “passeth all understanding,” The keen intelligence of the boy was not dulled by the pain and fever, but his watchful eye and knowledge of the dire scourge diphtheria told him that he must die. Then again, stronger if possible, came that unflinching faith in mother, and questioning began: “I’ve not been a bad boy, have I, niamma?” “No, Robbie; not a bad boy, but you have been a good boy, our dear good child; always a comfort to papa and I.” “Mother, will I die?” Oh the agony and the torture that came into that mother's heart; how could she tell her boy whatshe so well knew. With a mute but appealing cry to the helper of the helpless for strength, she said, Oh so bravely and sweetly yet so assuredly: “Yes, Robbie, you must died; every thing that can be done has been done, and the doctor says there is no help, and you must die.” “Mamma, ifI die willl go to heaven?” “Yes, Robbie; God is good, God is just, and He never gave such a sweet, pure life as yours without again taking it to himself. Yes, Robbie, you will surely go to heaven.” His face that had shown almost with a radi- ance saddened for a moment and again he ques- tioned: “Mamma; will there be any fun in heaven? tell me, truly.” “Yes, Rob; yes. God never made such a bright, fun-loving, joy- ous nature as yours and let it go out here and then in heaven give it nothing to enjoy, nothing to take its place. Yes, Robbie, there will be fun for you there. If not fun and frolic, as you call it,there will be joys for you to take its place; and my boy you will be :ati.fied.” “Truly, mamma; truly? shall I be satisfied?" “Yes, truly; you will be perfectly satisfied.’ “Then I am all ready. I am not afraid;" and after tender kisses and loving good-byes, Robbie went to heaven. Children’s Day found him free from pain and enjoying the new yet perfect delights of the other life; and who shall say. that his bright spirit did not behold and erij oy Children’s Day here? So many times has this thought come to me. Do we make what we term religion something to be desired by the young and b the children also? Do we make it joyous and right, happy and gay, or are we so long-faced and solemn and of such sober mind as to almost frighten chil- dien? Surely a Christian, one who has the spirit of Christ in their hearts ought never to be gloomy, never sad. We should have the best of life here, and we shall have a joyous one over there. No cross words and looks for Christians; no selfishness, no anger, no fretlnlness; but the fruits of it are purity, peace, happiness and joy. Do our lives hear such fruits? “Except you be- come aslittle children you cannot enter the king- dom of heaven." “I shall be satisfied when I awake in his likeness.” ‘ MRS. P. MAYO. -——-———-———-——— , Reports of Children’s Day. IN obedience to the proclamation of Worthy Master Luce, Schoolcraft Grange No. 8, con- vened at their hall on the tenth inst. at I P. M- The children of the Patrons as well as of those outside the gate, responded readily to the invi. tation to be present. They came with glad hearts and smiling faces, and entertained us with their recitations, songs, and dialogues. They were then seated at the tables which were tastefully decorated with flowers, and par- took of the strawberries, cake and ice cream that had been bountifully provided. We were at loss to decide which were the happiest, the parents as they looked into the future and saw these their representatives of this noble order, or the children who, for the time being, were of the most importance. - ‘ We believe Children’s Day will be from hence- forth an established feature of the Grange, and hope the Granges of this State have generally observed it this year. ' H. F. C. CHILDREN'S DAY at Capital Grange Hall was a grand success, one long to be remembered by the children; and when the children are happy the balance of the crowd are happy too. Tables were spread for one hundred and forty, and probably from ten to twenty lunched after the crowd had been filled. Ice cream and straw- berries, with an abundance of everything in the way of pastry and meats, composed the bill of fare. A lite r rain was repared by Sisters A. Guunisohar’ai'i)dogLydia Gi)aham. All seemed pleased with the promptness with which the children responded when called upon. We think Children’s Day one of the best institutions connected with the Grange. Train up a child ,in the way he should go, and when he gets older he will be a -Patron. The State Pomological Society meets in Capi- tal Grange Hall immediately after the exercises are ended of the Semi-Centennial birthda of Michigan on the 15th inst. O. R. A GOODLY number assembled at our hall to articipate in our Children’s Day festivities. The weather was sunny and bright, with a cool, ref;-esliin breeze from the lake.’ ' The . orthy Master called to orderat about 12 o'clock. The officers appeared in their places with regalia, on. After an opening song, I.uce’s proclamation was read, and an address was given to the children,when the Worthy Mas‘- ter called a recess for dinner. About me children partook of a dinner gotten up in the style usual with Grangers, and thanks to an early season plenty of strawberries to go with it. A large number of adults were served at the tables after the children were through. About (2 O’clock order was called again, and the children went through exercises in read- ing, declamations, and select pieces in singing, acquitling themselves very creditably. On the whole we had a very enjoyable time, and I think the children will long remember this first Children’s Day under the patronage and guidance of the Grange. S. R. Li~;wIs. Ganges, June 10. THE Sturgis Grange observed Children’s Day with appropriate exercises last evening at their all The children gave their parents and friends an entertainment, consisting of selections in music and recitations, in a well arranged pro- gram, opening with “Children’s Jublilee” and closing with “Jolly Farmers.” The little fel- lows came with hearts full of gratitude to their parents for the opportunity, and parents went away with feelings of pride in the success of their children. Under the able management and di- rection Of Miss Cora Kelly nothing short of complete success could be expected. The most refreshing and palatable part of the entertainment was its “after-piece.“ consisting of cake and ice cream—none ofyour skim milk and corn starch ice cream—but the genuine stuff, fresh from the dairy, sweet and delicious, and such cake and such a variety as the farmers’ wives and daughters know so well how to pro- vide. The Patrons of the Grange, old and young, all seem to take great interest in the welfare of the Order. Under the guidance of such men as Rawson, Sharp, Cressler, Palmer, and others, with their better halves as assistants, failure in an entertainment of this kind would be out of place. A PARTICIPANT IN THE “AFTER-PIECE." ON account of circumstances it was decided to hold Children’s Day in Colon Grange On the 22d day of May. Accordingly preperations were made for a good-sized time, and it came with some two hundred and fifty present, about [00 of which were children. Dinner, such as the mothers and Sisters of the Grange only know how to prepare, was served up to about 230 per- sons, many coming in to the feast rather late. Dinner being over, we all repaired to the Grange Hall and listened toan address by Bro. Ander- son, of Bronson Grange, after which came the program set down for the occasion consisting Of recitations and select readings, interspersed with good music by both band and choir. The little folks responded nobly, as did also the larger and Older ones called out by our Lecturer. Thus the afternoon was occupied. All seemed gay and happy. The program was concluded by Bro. Geo. Keyes dancing the boomstick dance to the amusement of all, and especially to the little folks. The day was fine and all seemed to enjoy it very much, and it was pronounced by all a decided success. A. S. P. ' THE Ioth ofJune was heralded with delight by the children in the vicinity of Flushing Grange. The morning was fair and bright, but clouded up about 9 O’clock making it very cool and pleasant. They commenced gathering at Io o’clock in a beautiful grove owned by Brother Partridge, on the banks of the" Flint River; the children enjoyed themselves while the process of preparing .tables and making ready a sumptuous dinner which was all ready at precisely 12 o'clock. The bugle sounded, and the little folks were given the preference to the first table, and were waited upon in such a way that they would all like to be little Grangers and busy workers in the hive. After dinner the exercises commenced by a song of welcome by the Grange choir, and prayer by Rev. John Sweet; the W. M. then made some very appropriate remarks, giving the children the reason why the day was set apart as Children’s Day. The little folks entertained the audience one hour with singing, declamations, dialogues, &c., doing amplc.,'ustice to them- selves, showing that a large egree of interest was taken. The remainder of the after- noon was spent in all manner of games and boat riding on the placid waters of the beautiful stream. All went , home well paid _for a day spent for the children and with the children. JOHN PASSMORE. Flushing, June I2, I886. BUTLER GRANGE, No. 88, celebrated Chil- dren's Day. A fine day, good attendance, a lengthy and very interesting program, picnic dinner, and Jumbo boards, was the order of the day. The parents seemed to enjoy the occasion as much, ifnot more, than the children. When night came they all went home feeling benefited for this bright spot in their lives, and vowing to come again next year if their lives were spared. The Grange furnished candy for the children, which wu enjoyed with a keen relish. A REPORT of Children’s Day in each Grange was requested. I will give you alittle idea of what was done at Montour, N9. 49. We were slow in getting together; but the lunch hour brought them in. Some8ochildren took din- ner at once. We expected Galcsburg Grange to unite with us, but as more of them reported or lent their presence, and some of our Own members were also delinquent, I fear that heart disease has got among them. Bro. C. will you be kind enough to look after their welfare? Nevertheless we had a good program and well carried out, with plenty of good music and good supply offiowers Each and every one said to themselves or neighbor, grand success! FARMER JAY. Scotts, June II, I886. KEELER GRANGE observed Children’s Day, and the children voted it a grand time; one fea- ture was amartial band composed of children ll, 7 and 5 years old. Other children sang and recited; and all fell into line at the supper table and did justice to the viands. Parents and children enjoyed the gathering and think this new feature of the Grange a happy addition. MRS. O. M. S. WE held Children’s Day on June Ioth. We had a good program and well carried out. Forty-one children sat at the first table and about 30 adults at the second table An able ad- dress was given us by Elder Enirock, of(.‘lio, a great temperance orator. The day was well spent by the children, and with pleasure to all present. R, '[‘m.;1_y'_ ‘Burch Run Grange, No. 574. I To-DAY was Children’s Day at our hall, and 91 children sat down to the first tables. All. seemed to hrive a good time. After dinner was over, all went from dining-room to the hall above where music and speaking was called for and all done well, and hope to enjoy many such days. Otsego Grange. CHiLoitEN's. DAY in Bengal, Thursday, to, was observed as “Children’s Day" at Bengal Grange Hail. The day was lovely, the roads’ were good, and at noon 70 children were seated at the first table of a sumptuous feast, and this is not half the number that should have been there. After dinner was over, and young and old were well fed, the intellectual feast began. A good progr-mi had been arranged, and each actor when called came _forwa'rd and performed the part assigned to him or her without a single failuge. Grey-headed men were astonished to see little girls of six or seven years for the first time face _such an audience, and perform their June 3"’.'5.!*,‘E.°iI§..”.!2"".§._lI!.‘?"' For the Cure of Bilious Rheumatism, Malaria, Indigestion, Bil- lousness, 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: MANTON, MicH., June 23, I885. 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. VANDERCOOK, . Long life to Mr. Steketee and his Blood Bitters. Thus writes Mr. J. C. Van Der Ven, of Grand Haven, Mich., Oct. 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." I, 1885: “For the past ASK YOUR JDEITC3-G-IST FOE STEKETEE’S BLOOD BITTERS. TAKE NO OTIEER. G-E0. G. STEKETEE. Sole Proprietor, Grand Rapids, Mich. PRICE, 500 and $1 Per :B'ot1:1e. {j Centennial Grange Farm Gate. WEST CHESTER, BUTLER Co., 0., Aug. I8, I884. This is to certify that I have had in constant use on my farm, Richardson’s Centennial Grange Gates for five years, and am so well pleased with them that I would not be without the right to make and use them for ten times the cost. I have never had any trouble with them. I have never had to repair them. For my gates, I2 feet long and five boards high, I use posts six inches square. The posts stand as straight and plumb as when I first put them up five years ago—-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 person doing it alone, children can work it easily, and after five years’ use I can confidently recommend it as the best gate I have ever seen or used. J. P. MILLER, ’ Past Master West Chester Grange, No. 752, West Chester, Butler Co., 0. We, the subscribers, have given thorough examination of Bro. P. Miller’s Gates and know they have been in use for five years, that they are as good as when first put up, and we fully endorse 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 Cincinnati, 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 Wyoming Grange, Glendale, Hamilton Co., 0. R. M. COX, Farmer, Mason, Warren Co., 0. ERASTUS COX, Farmer, Mason, Warren Co., 0. For information. address REL BATH BUN, care of J. T..COBB, Schoolcraft, Mich. part so well. After the program was exhausted, Sister Mayo, of Battle Creek, was introduced, and talked to the children for half an hour or more as only a loving mother can. And who can tell the influence for good that will follow those children all through the lane of life from 15mayt2 PHILADELPHIA MARKETS. [Corrected by TIIOIDID-Ir‘ Barnes. Wholesale Grocer and (118.1! Selling Agent, No. 231 North Water BL, Philadelp in, Pa.] PHII.AnEI.rHrA. May 1.31886. PURE SUGAR8. those gentle words, so sweetly spoken by the Cut Loaf r-lb .......................... ..7 main mover in getting up “Children’s Day” in Plilveri per in ........................ .. %@7 Michigan. One such day of intellectual train- n’ " """" "fig ing and moral teaching to the youthful mind is 3,3; white 30“ A 11,2, six" :5 3 worth more to the children of our town than two Good vgiwfiison A r it: 57/ weeks schooling in the best school in the 5”“ “.3 9°’ g Stand (13 ..... .. .. county. COURTLAND HILL. Ext“? yang‘: grub, per m_ __ : Clinton Count» Yellow perlb ....................... .554 Brown 5 AGAIN I take my pen to write a word or two this time, and will be careful to take a sheet that r lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Organs Extra Light per lb ......... . . SYRUP AND l(OLASSEB—In Barrels. is stain d with the Grange seal, for my last I 511811’ 5'1 Pu“ 311831’ P01’ 811100 ------- --23 expect ound its way into the waste basket. $:‘;?,°'whf: 23:31:“ flmwpgrgfigg "" We have just returned from celebrating Chil- kn-I men um guguv pgr 3.1103, :2 3:32 dren’s Day; had a picnic in Bro. P. I-Iolises’s Fancy ow 0rIeonu new croppergullon..5o grove, and a very nice time we have had. We think everybody went home satisfied that the day was well spent, and will look forward for many more such days. There was recitations, singing and dialogues by the children, and aking by the M. E. minister, music by the lra:P- 3?:-glen . % pointing a day for the children," for otherwise we cnoooiuo, ken Pram. No, 1 Z: 37 gg should not probably have observed it, and we BI»rnea' Perfect Baflng Powder lnxli hope-he may livemany years to dothe same,and am‘ "" ""‘ 5 ““° h°P° 1*? will be the one to appoint the day ...I‘.’l'.".'°.'..‘.'l.’.‘..'.' - of Thanksgiving for all in thlei State argtllizer year. Bor'no3“Porbot Powdorlsrl I this Eguyg LL15. ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . .... Kalanio Grange, No. zz4.,,Eaton Co., Mich. £35“ """'..°'°"F"‘°’ 3"‘ 1”’ 3 M II IRON A ; . °°'''-.*=°°'-- :-:~w1. - -:: =2 OO .............. i send for prices I ' and niumacea Catalogue or CINCINNATI (0.) CORBUBATING 00. Ismarlzt CIll’Ol!DIOl'%!Ildd€lIlIllIeCald5IIlflIOI1&-i 5llsu.i d 4 Crown C Nortliford. ‘ peun terms, c. Pig. 0. “chance .- - .-.3,..,..,g __wm»_- _..._. .,. .....-.—>..._.._.—.... ....»...._4ar -"““""““"""“' ‘ THE GRANGE VITSITOR. '.iUNE is, 1886. ‘ finite’ To Busy Hoiisewivee. Slack a little! Slack a little, Darling wife! Why such breathless haste and hurry All thy life? Slack the vigor of thy striving; Ere to late Tell those monsters, Care and Labor, Just to wait. Slack a little! Slack a little, Busy handl Slack thy rubbing and thy scrubbing; , Drop the sand. Minister thy blessings slowly, And the longer Bind love’s thousand precious tendrills All the stronger. Country Gm!/eman. ———-———-o>———————— Experience of a Young Matron. Do you want to peep into Bedlam Town? Then come with me as the day swings down Into his cradle, whose rockers’ rim Some peopl: call the horizon dim. All the mischief of all the fates Seem to center in four little pates. Just an hour before bed, \ve say: “It’s time for bed now, stop your play.” Oh, the racket and noise and roar, As they prance like a caravan over the floor, With never a thought of the head that aches, And never a heed to the “Mercy sakes!” And “Pity save us!” and “Oh, dear, dear!” That all but the culprits plainly hear, A monkey, a parrot, :1 Guinea hen, VVarrior‘.-'. elephants, Indian men, A Salmtioii Army, :1 grizzly bear, Are all at once in the nursery there. And when the clock in the hall strikes seven It sounds to us like a voice from heaven, And each of the elves, in a warm nightgown, Marches away out of Bedlam Town. “Who Am l,thatl Should Heed?” Some one has said that to be passive- ly pumped into like a bucket is exhila- rating to no creature. We think of this passive process often when in a meeting where a program is required. We have seen meetings — not necessarily in Grange—where every one impressed us as dependent on some one else to makea sensation or do or say some- thing to cover the allotted time. The impression was quite oppressive and al- ways is excepting where the spirit of willingness is a. distinctive feature of the gathering. The Lecturer of a Grange, by virtue of his office, stands responsible for a good program at each meeting, and the power that a good Grange has to at- tract arid hold its members depends largely on its Lecturer. This officer holds more control over the character of his Grange than any other officer. He is entertainer and host, and if his wit or talent, or ingenuity fails him,it is probable his Grange will not be a suc- cess. It certainly will not succeed so- cially nor intellectually. _ « But a Lecturer alone avails little. When those in authority over us assign tasks to us, it is supposed we and the duty have something in connection. Having been deemed fit for the task-- no matter if we do-not agree as to our fitness—it is a privilege _to perform that duty and make it a means to .a better. More, it is a duty, and as a. duty should not be set lightly aside. If we have put our hand to this plowir_rg,let no one look back. If you have joined the-Grange or any organization because you be- lieved in its principles,’ you thereby pledged your support to its cardinal principle, and one to be held iinviolate, that when any part of a program is giv- en to a person that person should pre- pare for and perform that duty or _s_e-' cure a competent supply. We have heard of a Grange whose command was, “Do or Die.” Iris not so harsh an idea as at first it seems, for willful or need- less failure in these respects does mean death in time to the ability to do them. Lecturers need the hearty co-opera- tion of members. If they propose good things, do not let them drop because of a weak notion of your incapacity. “Can’t never wins.” “I’ll try” wills to win and does. N 0 one person can long a.muse,interest, or instruct a. body alone, but when the mantle of responsibility rests on all, the leaderhas his legitimate work to do in arranging its folds. ' , JENNIE BUELL. —-—-————-Io>———-——— "Mlnd Cure.” In the issue of the VISITOR for May 1st, appeared a short article under the above heading, or caption, in which the -writer, A. M. Bingham, speaks of the strong influence the mind has over the body in overcoming the imfirmitives of the flesh, and calls for the opinions of others who have read on the subject. Now, as I have made that subject——tlie subject of sanitary science-—a. study for the last, six years, having been an in- valid myself, I would offer a few thoughts that might be of benefit to some who are suffering from bodily ailments. ‘ Our experience and ‘observation upon this, lead us to the conclusion that mind and body are co-relatively associated; and from the very nature of their exis- tence there’ is a continued rcci ocity of action between them while lifiir and in this precarious condition it legit- imately follows that the impairment of the one necessitates a corresponding impairment of the other. This is too; plain to need any demonstration farther than to say that whoever passes through severe mental afiiictiou, whether from ‘r}ea”f"Triend," or inscr- row and“ regret for some wrong act or acts committed, &c., where the grief has been deep and protracted, will find his physical health has been taxedanda lasts; consequent impairment of the bodily functions, and m}:a..zIer:a. — The mind and body act upon each other beneficiently or detrirnentally, ac- .cording to circumstances. Yet we see that the mind is superior to the body. It is the intellectual, preminent to the animal, and consequently the seat of the ruling power. Mind controls the body, or should. Therefore, a strong will power overcomes the greatest of difficulties. The old adage, “where there is a will there is a way,” is practi- cally true. Strong minds have done wonders in the world. With th_ese'facts before us, it follows that the better condition the mind can be placed in in the treatment of disease the better we make our bodily condi- tion. And in order to accomplish this we should feed the mind with healthful food by giving it ideas that will thrill it with interest and delight, and cause.it to take on ahealthy action and manifest itself normally; not let it be idle and inactive, as some teach, claiming that it wants rest, for as surely as the body would die with all rest—inactivity—and no nourishment, the mind will experi- ence a like death, though peculiar to itself, if 'so treated. \Vhile it is true that we should not overwork the brain, it is also true that we should not starve it. In order to have a good and healthful action of the stomach and the rest of the digestive apparatus. we must have a good ‘state of mental digestion. So treat the mind with good things. Every thing that will tend to make us value life and our own existence, with some grand object in view of making the world better for our ‘being in it, will serve to stimulate the mind to a healthy condition. But in the treatment of the intellectual man we should not entirely ignore that of the physical. We should establish right bodily habits. For, as we have just observed, that which will help one will help the other. We can assist nature by observing’ hygenic rules. To help the body that it may feel bet- ter and throw a healthful action on the mind, we must assist it by whatever physical agencies necessary that we can bring into requisition. I would pre- scribe as some of them that the patient, if-not too feeble, observe: I. On rising in the morning, go for about one hour’s stroll, and get around at breakfast time with an increased ap- petite. It is better than pills. 2. Eat regularly as possible, and of the most nutritious food, taking care to not over eat. ' 3. Retire to bed with a cheerful mind, and at an early hour, so that nature can do her work .for the patient in the fore- part of the night, and rise early in the morning. ’ ‘ " ‘ ' 4. Keep the skin clean by not taking less than two baths a week, being sure to get up a good reaction. 5. Take gymnastic exercises daily in the open air, but never overdo it, &c. Carry this out with a heroism .and you will develope body and brain, and have consequent“ good health and be of benefit in, the__,world. I have tried it and am satisfied. K. C. KERR. —:——-————-—-—~ A Rest Amid the Flowers. How often we have been taught the necessity of never failing patience; of perseverence under adverse circum- stances; and unselfishness, is surely something which we must possess if we would be successful in conducting our home so that all may be happy. Fret- ing about little thingsis a habit easily acquired, never was known to do any good, and if indulged in by even one member of the household causes an- noyance and unhappiness. It would be but repeating an of: ex- pressed truth to say, let our house which God has given us be ruled in love, with patience and forbearance. Let each seek to make others happy beside them- selves, and in doing so our own hearts will be warmed with love, and happiness will seem to come without an effort. One might be long suffering and kind, yet the home seem to lack some- thing, not seem complete. We must be all that and not leave the other undone. What a splendid lesson Sister Mayo has given -us on this subject, and timely too —our home surroundings, from the gar- ret even down to the cellar. No place, however little used, must be left to ac- cumulate dust or unsightly rubbish. No place in all the house where the argus eye of its mistress does not often rest. How watchful we must ever be that no place is left unaired; no room where the health-giving light of the sun cannot reach at least once every week. And when all is made tidy within, we have not finished by any means. There is the yard to be looked after; the shrub- bery and the flowers to be trimmed, which not only need taste but strength to prepare them to add beauty, and if beauty then happiness, for “a thing of beauty is a joy forever.” No home is quite complete without a. pretty yard, and at least a few flowers. The many new varieties, with their long Latin names, are really beautiful and some- what- expensive; but the dear old-fasli- ioned pinks, and pansies, four-o’clocks, sweet ,Williams,. lady slippers, and the ragged robbin; any one could have these with very,.,litt1e_-trouble. I have! ten- der ‘memory for the old holly hock, though some think they suggest the idea “poor but honest." How high they did grow‘ by the dear old home —I remember they reached to the very caves of the hozise; (the c?.'ves were not so very high, but the flowers must have been.) Who of us have not been carried back in memory, to that loved spot, our early home, by the sweet perfume of some friendly lilac. In imagination we have wandered again with the dear ones and gathered with them great handfuls of the fragrant blossoms. They are closely connected with my earliest love of flowers. I well remember my mother's first flower garden—-—“just fifty years ago.” It stood just beside the Elm covered cottage, not elm shaded, dear friends—not so romantic as that; the bark had been peeled off from the poor shade trees and used instead of shingles for a roof; and the garden was just in front of the house. It consisted ofa lilac and a quince bush, a rose bush (was ever roses quite so red), some horseradish and some pieplant, all brought from her far away home in Massachusetts. They were -set close together, and surrounded by alog fence to protect them until other fences could be made. We used to climb over when we wanted to be very near to them and smell the sweet fragrance of the, to us, dear delightful blossoms. We feel a sort of pity for one who does not have time to care for and cultivate a taste for flowers; for any one who cannot turn aside from the busy life on a farm and find rest amidst the flowers. They need not be expensive nor troublesome; there are so many kinds that ask but a little place, and they will cheer us with their brightness and fragrance all the long summer days. There are so many facilities for hastening our work, in- doors as well as in the field, that we seem to have more time to look after and enjoy the pleasant things with which we are surrounded. And well for us it is if we spend the time thus gained in rest and recreation. The husbandman must of necessity be much in the field, with nature in all her truthfulness; but not so with the house- wife. She must make an effort to leave her work and enjoy the many pleasures nature provides for us outside her little yard. That there are such pleasures one has but to practice looking for them, and lo! they spring up in every nook and corner. “'6: learn to forget the pressing cares of every day life for a little time, and our hearts grow light, our strength is renewed thus making us more capable of filling the place God has assigned us, whether it be -wife, mother, sister or friend. Surely such a home, thus guarded within and sur- rounded without, will help prepare us for that “Home over there” with its “Evergreen trees” and its “River of Life.” MR5. S. Binwi-:Li.. ———-———————o—————-:- Woman’ Sphere. Essay read before Branch County Pomona Grange at its June meeting in the city of Cold- water. The subject of woman’s sphere oc- curred to my mind, Monday afternoon, after washing, baking, churning, feed- ing chickens, setting hens, carp, calves, birds, cats and dogs, not to mention breakfast and dinner, and I thought what a broad field for thought and action, especially action, has the aver- age farr'ner’s wife, if she were to be questioned about her true “spere,” as Samanthy Allen calls it, her answer would be about as clear as the explana- tion of the Hibernian, who defended himself when charged with cracking his neighbor’s'kettle; he made three points: 1st, The kettle was whole when he re- turned it; 2d, It was cracked when be borrowed it; 3d, He didn’t have it at all. She would undoubtedly make three points but they would each begin and end with work (with a big W). I’m afraid. Perhaps it will console the tired, over- worked wife if she will but cast a glance along the pathway of the vanished cen- turies, she can see a vast contrast be- tween the women of to-day and the women of earlier ages. In heathenism women are miserable. As a girl-infant she is scarcely permitted to live, and as she becomes herself a mother she may be seen casting her own helpless babes to the Nile and its crocodiles, but through Christianity woman has ad—- vanced to a loftier position and a. hap- pier sphere. Sometimes I . “They talk about a woman’s sphere As though it had a limit; There’s not a place in earth or heaven, There’s not a task to mankind given, There’s not a whispered yes or no, There’s not a life or death or birth, That has a feather’s weight of worth, Without a woman in it.” Courage and heroism have sometimes been thought to be the peculiar prov- ince of man. There are and have been women fairly on a par with any man, such as Joan of Arc, who has never been surpassed as a leader in battle; but the courage and heroism the farm- er’s wife knows so much about and which forms the greater part of her sphere, is to meet cheerfully and grace- fully several agents a day for weeks, in- vite them to partake of dinner when your cupboard is almost as bare as the little dog's Mother Hubbard's was. It is courage we need to cause us to smile pleasantly when one’s husband inquires fora piece of cloth like his pants to carry. around with him, so that the neighbors will know he -can afford the cloth for patches! Talk about the pa.- tience of Job! Why, it can’t be com- pared with the patience it requires to induce a hen to’ incubate in a place which you have prepared with so much taste and care that you expected that beasily hen would show you everlasting gratitude, and give you a look of love from her beautiful eyes, but what does she do when you place her tenderly on her soft nest with many words of en- couragement, but go to work and try to scratch the whole thing out of existence, keeping up a loud cackling as much as to say, “You can’t come it,” “you can’t come it.” Then she walks slowly back to the old nest and tries to hatch a brood of chickens from the old rubbish with which you decorated it. Even an act of Congress can not break up a hen when she thinks she has a call to incu- bate nor make her sit if she don’t want to. If you do get her to sit she will probaby butcher her young ones as fast as they appear, and she won’t take it kindly either if you attempt to inter- cede in behalf of the chicks; but women bend to circumstances so easily and gracefully because they are early taught to bend to stern necessity. Sometimes when life looks dark you can’t help but feel that it would have been twenty-five cents in your pocket if you had never been born, then you can sympathize with the little fellow in Sunday-school, who when asked if he did not wish to be born again replied with decision and promptness, “No, marm, for I might be born a girl next time.” Men wouldn't fret over a hen that will run mad and refuse to be comforted unless she can hide away somewhere, and sit day and night on a door knob. They would say “Sit if you want to." One of the prov- erbs from Talmnd says, “Ten meas- ures of talk were sent from heaven and woman took nine.” If that be so, it would certainly be her bounden. duty to do the talking for her husband on all occasions, if it was nothing more than to mortgage the farm, to pay the boot money in a horse trade. We’ll even we could, we’d fly for them. Why not let us talk and die for them? You all remember the old saying, “A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.” Could any thing be a better illustration of the way wom- en do their work as compared with the way men do theirs, than the comparison of Helen E. Starrett? “Look over a village of a thousand families on a Mon- day morning. In a thousand little kitchens :1 thousand women would be seen thrusting wood in a thousand little stoves, heating water in a thousand lit- tle wash boilers, bending their aching backs over a thousand little washboards and hanging their clothes on athousand clothes lines. If the men of such a vil- lage were to underake to do the same thing, they would get up a stock com- pany, invest money in buildings and machinery, so organized that about half a dozen men would do the work, re- ceive good salaries therefor and the rest of the men would go about their busi- ness on Monday the same as any other day.” Woman’s work has grown and strengthened day by day, until now, in this present century, the moral force of her labors is felt, like rays of light, all over the world. The real and true work of women goes out beyond the pale of manual servitude to toil. She stretches forth her hand in alms giving, and while clasping the sin-stained palm of a. fallen sister, she pours comforting words into the sinful heart; and she rescues the inebriate from his doom. Like an an- gel of mercy she pleads for his man- hood, his honor, his home. Our sol- diers, as they lay sick in their hospitals, tell of the ministrations from gentle hands. Woman’s influence is wide and extended. It beams from her eye and rings out even in the tones of her voice. It shines forth in every act, and flows in torrents from her pen. To beautify her home and it with joy to fill, That all who thither come herinfluence may feel; To comfort those who grieve, the drooping heart to cheer, The needy to relieve, this is woman’s sphere. To use the ready pen, if God this gift bestows, \Nhile from the fount within, a stream of bless- ings flows, To heal the broken heart, to dry the mourner’s tear. New courage to impart, this is woman’s sphere. To lead all whom she may to walk the narrow way, To seek for those who stray, to win them back to God, To bear a steadylight, that shineth fair and clear, Ever serene andbright, this is woman’sspliere.” J. L. R. @2311}; stub, guutstutettt. Prevention of Communicable Disease. (From a paper by John Ave , President of the State Board of ealth.) I shall attempt no argument to prove t e communicability of the diseases 1 have named, but shall assume as true what sanitarians, physicians, and com- munities, all over the country, have demonstrated time and time again. But in order to be able to combat these dis- eases intelligently, we should know something of their different modes of communicating themselves. The contagium of scarlet fever is prohabl the most subtle and least un- dersto ' of any of them. We know that it may be communicated. by direct contact; that it will cling to the cloth- ing, hair, and whiskers of attendants and visitors, and be carried from family to family in that way. Cats and dogs may become its carriers. Books and papers, articles of clothing and ornament may be the means of conveying it. It will cling to the walls of the house, to the carpets and furniture for months, ready to strike down the first unfortunate child be home in the air for short distances. The fine particles thrown off during desquamation, or the process of peeling, seem to contain the germs of the dis- ease in their greatest activity and are the most difficult to manage. The se- cretions from the throat, mouth, and nostrils are also dangerous, and by ad- hering to the clothing of those in at- tendance will also convey it. One method of communicating it is illus- trated by a case which came under my observation a few years ago. A lady living some ten or twelve miles from Greenville visited friends in Wisconsin. In the family where she was staying a child was sick and died with scarlet fever. She assisted in the care of the little patient and often held it upon her lap. Soon after the death of the child the lady started home. The dress she had worn while caring for the child was simply hung out of doors one day, and then put with other clothing in ‘her trunk and brought home. On her way home she stayed over night near Green- ville with a daughter who had a little girl about two years old. Of course she held and played with her little grand- daughter. The next day she went on home. Nothing came of this visit. But three months afterwards she paid her daughter another visit, and this time wore the same dress in which she had cared for the child in Wisconsin. Be- fore she had concluded this second visit her granddaughter was taken with scar- let fever and died, There can be no question but the germs of the disease were brought from Wisconsin in that dress. About this time scarlet fever broke out in the neighborhood wh ere this lady lived. Its origin was at first a. , mystery. but was finally traced to this lie for them, we’ll cry for them, and if‘ dress. Diphtheria is communicated in much the same way as scarlet fever. Though in this disease the discharges from the nostrils, mouth and throat seem to be the most noxious; and by adhering to whatever they come in contact with, are the means by which it is generally spread. Since the preparation of this paper was commenced the following letter has been received through the Secretary of the State Board of Health, from Dr. Peckham, the very intelligent and efficieut health ofiicer of the town- ship of Hope, Barry County: Ci-:r),—xR CREEK, B.-.iut\' C0,, 1\Iicii., 9 Feb. re, 1886. 5‘ II. B. Bmiwr, ill. 0.: SIR—Two young ladies by the name of Harriinzind went to Kcilaiiiazoo on a visit. While there both were striken with diphtlieria, and one of them lived nine days; the other eighteen days. The mother took care of them. After their death she returned to her home in Hope Township. The next day after her return I called upon her. She stated to me that the health officer had caused a thorough disinfec- tion of all the rooms and her clothing. I thought best to order her to remain indoors. Within ten days her youngest child, three years old, came down with the disease and died. Another one twelve years old recovered. While the father of the family was taken and died, Mrs. Hammand and her son did not have the disease. The premises were closely guarded. no one allowed to go there or come away. The period of incubation was about eight days. The restriction was complete. * |* * I think the health officers in Kalamazoo were not thorough enough. They should have retained her longer. Very Respectfully, H. F. PECKHAM, M. 1),, Health Officer, Hope Township. This letter illustrates three things: (I) The exceedingly dangerous char- acter of the disease; (2) The ease with which it is communicated; and , (3) What an eflicient health officer can do to restrict it. The usual means by which typhoid fever is spread is by first poisoning the water-supply of a household or commu- nlty with the bowel discharges of a ty- phoid patient, and then to drink the water. Of course this is a filthy prac- tice; and at first thought it might be said that no person or family would do such a vile thing. If, however, you wish an illustration, read carefully the history of the recent epidemic in Ply- mouth, Pa. The way these discharges are often disposed of is to throw them on the ground or into the privy vault. At Plymouth, the discharges from a young man who had contracted the dis- ease in Philadelphia, were thrown upon the frozen ground or snow. When the snow melted and the ground softened, they were carried directly into the gen- eral water-supply of the city. From this one case more than a thousand per- sons were poisoned and over one hun- dred died. In many places on farms and" in towns, the well and privy vault are near neighbors; the ground often porous and the draina e from the vault to the well perfect. e well often re- ceives the surface drainage from an area equal in diameter to twice its depth. So we can readily see how the water- supply of a whole community may be polluted by the thoughtless act of an at- tendant upon one of these cases; and in this way, all who use the water be ex- posed to this slow and wasting disease. Possibly typhoid fever may be communi- cated in other ways; but this is believed to be the most frequent. Attendants are not necessarly liable to contract the disease. Knowledge of how the disease is spread suggests at once the means by which it can be stopped. Keep the water-supply pure! Measles and whooping-cough are both contagious diseases, and are gen- erally communicated by direct contact; though it is probable they may be spread by infection also. It is_ estimat- ed bythe secretary of the State Board of Health that during the last ten years there have died annually in Michigan, ,of these two diseases, 573 persons. that enters. It is possible that it may They are then “dangerous to the pub- ,/ __\ 4 4.» ..mw'c- ‘ '-‘ ~ 1-. .._. ,.-., \ JUNE 15, 1886. ' r lrc health." The way to prevent the spread of the disease is to keep away from them. and to keep those who have them at home. A child with whooping-cough has no more right to be in school than though it had the small- pox. ————-———-nou}————_— AN eminent physician in New York is re: ported to have said that many lives are lost by starvation. owing to an over—estimate of the amount of nutrition contained in beef tea and meat juices, and that' in typhus and typhoid fever there is no good substitute for milk and eggs. It is well known that the body is fed by the albumen in the meat; this is congulated by boilin , and converted into a solid, which is left behin when the beef tea is strained. and so the most nourishing part is lost. Beef tea causes indigestion and diarrhea when taken in excess, but it is appetizing in appearance and smell, if it is nicely prepared, and a little may be given occasionally as a change from milk, which may become distasteful if it is used too exclusively. Chicken broth or mutton broth may be substituted at times, but in serious illness, when liquid food alone is allowed, the chief reliance must be upon milk, and the greatest care should be taken to vary the manner of serving it, that it may not pall on the delicate appetite. In typhoid fever, the lining of the bowels is ulcerated; in favorable cases, these ulcers soon heal, and no harm fol- lows. If proper precautions as to food and rest have been neglected, this ulceration may assume a severe type; the ulcers eat through the coats of the bowel, violent inflammation is excited. and the patient dies. For this reason, the food is one of the most important parts of the nursing in diseases of this nature, or in any that affect the stomach and digestive organs. —- A HEALTH journal says you ought to take three-quarters of an hour for din- ner. It is well, also, to add a few vege- tables and a piece of meat. — THE white of an egg is almost pure albumen, and so a very important addition to the invalid’s diet list. Break the whites of two eggs intoa self-sealing jar; add a pint of milk, and screw the top on tightly; shake the jar until the con- tents are thoroughly mixed, and then give cold. This is far superior to plain milk as a fever food, and, if well shaken, the presence of the egg can- not be detected. A whole egg, well beaten, can be taken in a glass of milk. ———{o————-———- MILK really disagrees with very few people when the taste is disliked, it must be disguised in various ways. It should never be allowed to stand in the sick room, as it quickly absorbs im- purities. WHAT shall the children read? This is a question that every mother should decide herself, and judge whether it is good or had before the child reads the first line. Don't say you've not the time—-—la.ée the time to read a large share of the book, or glance over the paper, before it is laid on the table for public use. A quick, intelligent eye, and a moflzer’: eye, also, will do won- ders in a turning over of leaves, read- ing here and there a few words, seeing if the language is pure, the style grace- ful, and the moral healthful. Much of harm is done to the young people by their reading sensational stories of the “blood and thunder” style, smuggled in and read secretly, or in some cases, openly, in illustrated weeklies have caused many boys to rob and fly from their homes, seeking for “worlds to con- quer,” “bringing up” in a police station and returned home. Much of the blame is to be traced to the mothers—too muchindulgence from a mother has ruined more families than a father’s harshness—bad books, and bad companions being easy stepping-stones to wickedness. v————-———.‘vs ;- 3’. ‘I .\ . ...4.~.....,...........“.... 4...... ..e...esans- — > _ ,_,_V,_,,,,,,,>.-_._._..,._.‘,. , .., V_ _ _.._ . ....._... ,._..,. ...e., . . .a._- .. —.——s--«rm .é , . i .. . . . . ~ JU NB 1.5, M56. ——WHE-" W—-i s.i4eir.y7oee. s?i”‘i4 . THE S Abetter Harness than you/can buy , l / ..-....-_ ,.,,,,,,,..,.,. W, Patlons llrocerlflouse. 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We will mail free upon request our Complete Price List of Groceries, ASSORTMENT OF giving the wholesale prices of all Goods in the Grocery Line. . f ' .".‘?1'..°.i‘;."'.‘.’.‘.‘.'i"i.'l.".‘i.".‘.‘.°‘g".'.‘ll..‘..?‘;§.3i‘i‘:..?.l Pumps’ THORNTON 13 ARNES, \ "3" "'"““° "§'§.‘3§Z".’i‘.i°"r‘..‘.‘.'.'el‘s'Zf.3 .iL‘a'e”.'i' " '""‘°°"'"'°" Wholesale Grocer and Grange Selling Agent, Barb Fence wire’ 24] North Water Street, stand. By mail 40015. lso books on Onion, mansvr Philadelphia. Penn. and get a Sample Package of their GELATIN E ‘Starch Polish. @‘We want vo see every far- mer in Kent C<\ur.~ty and will guarantee to you quality and prices in everything we sell. .—{—-—-¢o>—————— ‘ We shall make a specialty of Squash, Cabbage, and Carrot and Man lll rnlslng. at ‘go cents each, or the five for 1.3g by mail, Two of these have been throng lo and :5 editions. My largo Seed Cata- loguefree to all who wrltefor it. JAMES J. H. GREGORY, MARBLEHEAD. MASS. Physicians’ Prescriptions, Family Receipts and Tar’ Fe" and veieranarysuues. Allen Durfee .'.l'.:'.l.=.llolulllllsaslllullil \ Arc Practically FURNISHING B r lndostructlllle. FUNERAL DIRIJCTQDR. Straw 0a d’ BUPET‘ GB in Ivory Respect No. 103 Ottawa Street, to earweorer-r-m« Grand Rapids, - - Mich. ALL TO BE cor AT THE AWARDED G610 MEDAL ’ .9‘ Residence, 193 Jefferson Ave. Arovgpgkpés gew Fenno Brothels &. llhilds, Melis Hardware, on-r2s.oPl§: I-:r-cm- Wllfll. ClllllllI*‘SIl]N llll1lllfHANTS i "7 Fedeia, sh ;,,,,,,,,,_ 17-19 Grandville Ave., — Hbll¥l.F(§£eEenfii‘lgl£EgrfiG(d&l;:p;dL%) C s‘ m nts Soliciled, and‘ Cash ' ~e ~—e—~e ~——~—-~—— ~ -— ~~.—--—~~-——~ on lg" Ailvances Made. Opposite the Engine House, DEAl.ll. X_‘.l~liu in;.- that ll 1! lllzln has dealt sqll.-lrcly with his l:.-|lorv- nlcll his plltmns are his best ll(lV«'.'l'llt~(l'i, l lll\‘2U‘ all to make inquiry or the chllractel olm so.-r=-ls nmunl.- owl‘ :1 million of Farmers. 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Iran Levon, Steel Bnflngs, Brul Tue Beam Ind Bum Box, for , ville, Pa. It helps to digest and assimilate the 30 and 32 Canal Street. I-.lors.e‘s Wlcll do niollie work with lei: foog we issue the Buyers, Guide in March and September of _ Grand Eap1ds' 3“; lie honditldii. wlt lievfis §'§f1°i.§"ieafiiy each year. It is now a book of 304 pages. Bixll inches in , ‘ i °f It i . ' ‘ , ' e l "2 ‘ - 4 - (zit tgl'l-e:all;)v‘i':lslt1epi)(ssillileem1piilt:ges ii§‘152.S°i:l necessaries’and luxuries in daily use by all classes of peo- , " =. JAMES, Kalamazoo; GEO. w. HILL & co., Ie, anltlhis sen: fpee to.any aaprelss upon lt';l}elpfl aft :10 gens: ; ’ 3 w ab 11.. 5 ,, De ' ; 1*Hos_ MASON e cos 0 carnage. ec arge no lng or e on . . ’ ' ’ lgx ville." 3'5, Ehicagt(::)ulll.; and ALBERT,‘ 0 plflyl of the goods quoted in the Guide we carry in stock, I Weber Pianos. STEGEMAN, Allegan. Put up in 60-lb. boxes which enables us to make shipments promptlyanu as ordered. ll [5 |—‘ Knabe Pianos, (loose). Price EIGHT_ CENTS per 1b., 3o~lb. we are the original Grange Supply House organized in It 3 ll" P|’°n°“"°”'Il Fischer Pianos, boxes of 6 s-lb- packages. TEN CENTS per lb. l872 to supply thlihconsullller dlrectfl at whtoilesallla pllpces, ln ' a titles 0 sui e purc laser. e are e on y ouse ln "' Ch Peek P1an0S' iiillish.-nce who make this their exclusive business, and no 5 or THE WORLD, ase Organs’ other house in the world carries as real a variety of goods 1: Conhinin over 2ls,ooo'11aes.br-my Smith American Organs, as ourselves. Visitors are invite to call and verify our 2 ‘‘°”''‘ “*5 "‘° °°‘""‘”°" C‘“‘‘' Taylor and Farley Organs 9t3t9m9"l- . we o~*=°'“‘v=~+‘-'=“»«’¥“<‘>‘i"v‘»’«°=“”e‘«=e=- city orgafe .%.':".l.'°*l'e.‘::‘“:::":*:.l'e:i:.r.°::::::~.l;i:.:.=.::: 1: run invaluable companion in everyschod. W”. . cc“ 3’ . " ° ’ ‘” .n¢.¢oyery Fireside. pald wlthout question. c.ac.InnlAlaao.,1>uim, sprinsfie1d.lI-- Sheet M Si‘ LARGE 5T_°CK °F _ . 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