“ THE F.dR.MER IS OF MORE COJVSEQ UEJVCE THAN -» THE F.flR.M, ..»1J\”1) SHOULD BE FIR§T IJIIPRO VE .” VOLUME Xl—No. ,3. WHOLE NUMBER 233.‘ l’ COLDWATER, MlCH.. JULY 15.. 1886. Printed by A. . ALDRICH 8: C0.. Publishers of the CO DWATER REPUBLICAN. OFFICI./1]. DIRECTOR Y. ntflcers National Grange. Master-PUT DARDEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mississippi DRAPER . . .. . . . . . . Massachusetts . . . .New Jersey . .West Virginia ‘cw. Hampshire 0z'er:eer—JAM ES L I£cturer—l\IORT. VVHITEI’ El-\D.. Stewurrl-—_l. E. HALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant 5le:tmv1'—\V. H Clta/>laz'n—.-\.J. ROSA . . . . . . . . . . . . Trrr¢:un'r—F. M. '.\ICDO‘VELL . ._- .N Srcrctary-_lNO. TRIMBLE. 514 F St.,VVashingt0n. D.C. Gaze Kc:/-cr—H. Tl-IOM PSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Delaware C:res—.\lRS. KATE DARDEN. . . . . . . . . . . .l\IlSS|S$lppl Pomomz——.\[RS, S. H. NE.-\L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Kentucky Flvra—.\lRS. JAMES C DRAPER . . . . . . .Massacl'lusetts Larly 2-1.r.rz'.\”!tmt Strward'—.\IRS. E. M. LIPSCOMB. . South Carolina Executive Committee J. M. BLANTON, Ch’n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Virgini_i J. H. P.RlGl-IA.\'I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(_)hio J, J, W()C)D.\I.-\N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .l\Iich1gan Ulflcers Micliigmi State Grange. }iIrz:ter—C. G. LIJCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gilead 0:wrsaer—JOHN HOLBROOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lansing Le,-t,‘,,~y_}-ERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Battle Creek . .North Branch Walled Lake . Sherman Ste':uarzt'—H.-\RRIS().\' E-R.\I‘)Sl'IA\y. A.ri-istavzl Stewizri{——.~\. GREEN C/ui_1i1izI')z—I. N. CARPE3 FER Trzasm-cr—E. A.‘ STRONG. Sccremry——J. T. (.053 . . - -_ 3 Gate l\'.'i'_/>t'r.—.-X. M. AGES 3. . Ludington Cc,“ -3[Rs,_]_ W. BELKN.-\1f . . . . . . . . . . ..Greenville p,,,,,,,,,,, _ _\[rRs \V. T. 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CO TLAND HILL, Bengal, for Clinton County. llichigmi Gru—uge Stores. A. STEGEMAN. Allegan. _ - C. GOOD.\'OE. North Lansing. PRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES Kept in the office of the Secretary of the MICHIG.-XN STATE GRANGE, AIL.’ 5522.‘ um’ Hm-_-,’viiz'.z’, on n’rcz'/vl of Carl: Or- .:':r, n:'.=r //1.’ Seal of (Z Suéardzmzle G;'z1rz;;u, 5,1,,’ :,;,~ ;_v.'_->~;za.‘zu'a of 1!: lllartcr or Secretary. Po1'cel:‘.in ballot inai‘l>les, per hundred. . . . .$ 75 Blank book, ledger ruled, for Secretary to keep accounts with l11Cl11l)El'S . . . . .. I 00 Blank ruconl books (express paid) . . . . . . . . I 00 Order book. coiitaiiiiiig [00 orders on the Treasurer, with stub, well bound. . . 50 Receipt book, containing 100 receipts from Treasurer to Secretary, with stub, well bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Blank receipts for dues, per 100, bound. . . Applications for membership_. per I00. . . . 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Declaration of purposes, per dozen, 50, IO 40 per 100 . . . . . . . . .., . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 40 American .\laiiuo.l of Parliamentary Law. . 50 46 6} £5 55 G6 (.\lc-rocco Tuck).: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I oo Digest of Laws and Rulings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Roll books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X5 Patrons’ badges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Officers’ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 C0-OPERATIVE LITERATURE. History and Objects of Cooperation. . . . . . 05 02 What is Co—operation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _. . . . Some of the Weaknesses of Co-operation. Educational Funds; How to Use Them. . . Associative Farming _ The Economic Aspect of Cooperation. . . . Association and Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Principles of- Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Perils of Credit . . . . . . . . . Fundamental Principles of Cooperation; . How to Start C0-operation Stores . . . . . , . . Logic of Cooperation , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Origin and Development of the Rochdale O2 O1 03 O1 O! O! 0] Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . r. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 03 Addresses and Lectures by Eminent Men. . 03 Address, _I- T- COBB, SEC'Y Mica. STATE Gnmcn, _ Schoolcraft. Mich. ALAMAZO0 NATIONAL BANK. Capital 31 50,009. Surplus. $10,000. Southwest cor. Main and Bendic Streets, Dz'rea‘or:—Jacob Mitchell, John Den Bleyker, Melancthon D. Woodford. Melville J. Bigelow, J. Wilfred Thompson. George T. Bi-uen, Samuel A. Gibson. Albert S. White. Edwin J. Phelps. E. O. Humphrey. N. Ch3S¢- Eownv J PHELPS. P-::z'dent.~ MELVXLLE J. BIGIELOW, Vict~Pre:idv:1tt.' THOMAS 5. C033. Cashier. ___‘ febiyi - by measurement was 40 tons. ggritultural gepartntettt. The Editor and the Patron. “Good morning, sir Mr. Editor, how are the folks today? I owe you for next year’s paper—-I thought I’d come and pay, And Jones is going to take it, and this is his money here; I shut down on lendin’ to him, and then coaxed him to try it ayear. And here's a few little items that happened last week in our town; I thought they’d look good for the paper, and so I justjotted ’eni down. And here is tibasket of peaches my wife picked expressly for you, And a small bunch of flowers from Jennie—she thought she must send something too. “You’re doing the politics bully, as all of our family agree; Just keep your old goose quill a flappin’ and give them one for me. And nolv you are chuck full of business, and I won’t be takin‘ your time; I’ve things of my own I must ’tend to—Go0d (lay, sir, I believe I will climb.” The editor sat in his sanctum, and brought down his fist with a thump; “God bless that old farmer,” he muttered, “he’s a regular jolly old trump.” And ’tis thus with our noble profession, and thus it will ever be still; There are some who appreciate its labor, and some who perhaps never will. But in the great time that is coming, when Gab i'iel’s trumpet shrill sound, And they who have labored and rested shall come from the quivering ground, When they who have striven and suffered to teach and enoble the race, Shall march at the head of the column, each one in his God—gi\'en place As they march through the gates of the city, with proud a.~.d victorious tread, The editor and his assistants will travel not far from the head. —-lVi// Carleton. Ensilage Rations. The "spirit” being upon me to build a silo this season, I took the occasion a few days since to visit a few silo men and get their exact ideas, after feeding ensilage during the past winter. The silo of Mr. Bert Reed, in Geauga Coun- ty, 0., was first visited. Mr. Reed is a dairyman, and is solving the problem of doubling the stock upon his small farm by the means of ensilage. Mr. Reed has a cement silo, 14x15 feet, and 12 feet deep, in the corner of his basement barn. Last season the product of 21/; acres of fodder corn, common field va- riety, was put into this pit. The yield The cost of cutting and pitting the 40 tons was $17. This year Mr. Reed will own his own cutter and power instead of paying 58 for the rent of them, and cut down in other ways, so that aside from raising the crop he expects to put his ensilagc into the pits for 12 cents per ton. The contents of this pit were ample to keep 10 cows. 2 yearlings, 2 calves and a span of horses for 92 days, with- out other rations, no grain being fed other than the cars which grew upon the fodder corn. The stock steadily gained in flesh, and the milk supply was very satisfactory. The butter was very fine, and sold at top prices. As soon as the erisilage was gone there was a falling off in milk, and grain had to be fed. ‘ This year Mr. Reed will put up ensi- lage ample to soil his cows once per day next season, and try the experiment of keeping 20 cows and other stock on 50 acres. The saving of hay was quite an item, as he has about ten tons to sum- mer over, which would otherwise and more have been fed the past winter. “In saving of hay alone, my silo has paid for itself three times over, and I never wintered my cows so well or cheaply. Think of it! the rough feed for fourteen head of stock only costing 18 cents per day.” , I also called at Mr. Frank Blair’s, in Mantua, 0., to look at his silo, and get his opinion, for Mr. Blair is the largest farmer in the township, and keeps 100 cows. His silo is 30x30 and 16 feet deep, holding about 290 tons. It is built of cement, and occupies one-half of a basement barn that is now a wing to alarge basement barn 5ox140 feet. Mr. Blair is a noted creamery man, but now is extensively engaged in the Cleve- land milk trade, and winter milking is now an important feature of his dairy- ing. This gentleman has made ensilage feeding a most painstaking study the past winter, and to enable him to cor- rectly determine the feeding value of ensilage, he put 40 cows upon ensilage, and.i0 in the same stables on a hay and grain diet, and another dairy on an ad- joining farm were fed hay and grain, and kept in an equally warm stable, and the milk of the dairies was accurately weighed every morning and evening. The same grain ration was fed to all. The result was that the cows fed on en- silage gave the most and best milk, and I kept in the best condition. 011 the 10th of April the ensilage was exhausted, and * the cows had to be put on a diet of the , best hay, and the ration meal was con- tinued without change. In "three days the 40 cows had fallen off in milk 180 lbs. per day, or $2.16, a shrinkage they did not recover from. This was con- clusive evidencc to Mr. Blair, who will put an additional 100 tons into this silo, and build one for the other dairy. The cost of filling the silo Mr. Blair puts at 25 cents per ton, being largely perform- ed with the usual farm labor. He says he shall economize a little more this year, be a little longer doing it, and hire no extra help, and pay no man 33 per day to boss the job. “How much did this 200 tons of en- silage save you?" I asked. “It made me 32 per day all winter in extra milk, and saved me 60 tons of S10 hay,” was his reply; “and it will make me a big saving on land. The acre of meadow that made me 1% tons of hay will grow 25 tons of ensilage, worth about 9 tons of good bay to feed; for I know that three tons of ensilage is bet- ter for milking cows than one ton of hay. I suppose my ensilage cost me, for growing the crop, use of land, and cutting, about $1 per ton; but I only, for all sources, paid out in cash not more than 50 cents per ton. I doubt if hay delivered at the barn at $3 and 84 per ton would be as cheap as my ensil- age. The milk was as good as any that ever came from my barn. It is all ‘bosh’ about good ensilage making bad milk The city trade is a very particular one, and if there had been anything wrong about the milk I should have heard from it only too quick.” Mr. Zeno Kent, not far away, told al- most a. similar story in regard to his en- dorsement of it. Mr. Frank Morris, of Chardon, has told the Slot/zman in his own words what he demonstrated to me personally. Mr. A. S. Emory, of Cleve- land, has a 300-ton silo, and says that with ensilage the gain in milk the win- ter of 1884-5 with the same dairy, has been $350, and by putting in twelve acres of ensilage corn he has this sea- son sold 6o tons of $12 hay, a product wliich before has always been .all con- sumed upon the farm. Next season Mr. Emory will soil partially throughout the summer believing that with ensilage he can inexpensively keep one cow upon each acre of land.—Se/acted. __.j.._—:o-—_..__ Michigan Crop Report, July 1, 1886. For this report returns have been re- ceived from 780 correspondents, repre- senting 622 townships. Five hundred and twenty-seven of these returns are from 376 townships in the southern four tiers of counties. The area of the 1886 wheat crop, as returned by Supervisors, is, in the south- ern four tiers of counties, 1,357,5 78 acres, and in the northern counties 243,- 206 acres, a total of 1,600,784 acres. Final corrections, and spring wheat sowings which were not completed at the time the assessment was taken, will probably add 25,000 acres, making the total area of the 1886 wheat harvest, 1,623,784 acres. The average per acre, as estimated by correspondents, is 13 and 68-hundredths bushels, indicating a probable yield in the State of 22,239,686 bushels. The wheat crop has evidently been greatly injured by the Hessian fly. The presence of the fly is reported by 97 correspondents in the first or south tier of counties, by 69 correspondents in the second tier, by 44 in the third, and 25 in the fourth tier. The number of cor- respondents in each county of the south- ern four tiers reporting damage by Hes- sian fly is as follows: Allegan 4, Barry 7, Berrien 9, Branch 12, Calhoun 24, Cass 10, Clinton 5, Eaton 9, Genesee 1, Hillsdalc 17, Ingharn ‘ 5, Ionic‘ 4, Jack- son 13, Kalamazoo 13, Kent 7, Lapeer 2, Lenawee 24, Livingston 4, Macomb 12, Monroe 10, Oakland 3, Ottawa 1, Shiawassee 3, St. Clair 3, St. Joseph 15. Van Buren 7, Washtenaw 12, Wayne 0; total 235. The returns of Supervisors, partially corrected, show the area of wheat harvested in. ‘1885 to have been 1,497,470 acrés, and the yield, 29,927,443'bushels. The final correc- tions will increase this area by at_ least 35,000 acres’, and the yield by‘700,0o0 bushels, making the totals about 1,532,- 470 acres, and 30,627,543 bushels. Reports have been received of the quantity of wheat marketed by farmers during the month of June at 277 elevat- ors and mills. Of these 229 are in the southern four tiers of counties, which is 44 per cent. of the whole number of ele- vators and mills in these counties. The total number of bushels reported mar- keted is 430,676, of which 90,373 bush- els were marketed in the first or southern tier of counties; 120,438 bushels in the second tier; 68,262 bushels in the third tier; 115.438 bushels in the fourth tier; and 36,165 bushels in the counties north of the southern four tiers. At 60 ele- vators and mills, or 22 per cent. of. the whole number from which reports have been received, there was no wheat mar- keted during the month. The total number of bushels of wheat reported marketed in the 10 months, August—June, is 14,044,903, or about 46 per cent. of the crop of 1885. The number of bushels reported marketed in the same months of 1884 and 1885 was 8,468,513, or 33 per cent. of the crop of 1884. For these months in 1884-5 re- ports were received from about 37 per cent, and in 1885-6 from about 48 per cent. of the elevators and mills in the southern four tiers of counties. In the southern four tiers of counties 10 per cent., and in the northern coun- ties 4 per cent.——ab0ut 2,732,000 bush- els—0f the 1885 wheat crop is yet in the farmers’ hands. The condition of other crops, com- pared with vitality and growth of aver- age years, is, for the State, as follows: Corn, 92 per cent.; oats, 85; barley. 88; clover, meadows and pastures, 79; timothy, meadows and pastures, 74; and clover sowed this year, 81 per cent. The condition of corn compared with July 1, 1885, is 113. Seven per cent. of the corn planted failed to grow. Apples, in the southern four tiers of counties, promise 94 per cent., and in the northern cciunties 86 per cent. of an averzige crop. The weather is extremely dry. Com- plaints of the drouth come from every part of the State. At Lansing the rain- fall duriiig June amounted to only 2 and 14-hundredths inches, as compared with 4 and 37-hundredths inches, the aver- age for 20 years, as recorded at the.- State Agricultural College. No rain has fallen in July to this date (July 9). Of course meadows and pastures are drying up and the oat crop is injured. Advice to Wool Growers. The I/V00! journal of Chicago some time ago printed the following advice to wool growers, which seems appropri- ate now: “If you have taken special pains with your wool,handled it carefully and hon- estly, if your lot is in good condition, and of healthy growth, and home buy- ers make little or no discrimination in price between such wool and poorer lots—ship. “If your wool is heavy, poorly han- dled, burry, or otherwise undesirable. a discriminating market,',where wool is sold on its actual merits might not be desirable. In such case, our general advice would be-—sell at home. “If markets are dull and prices far below the average cost of raising wool, and prices in the country are lower than in the market—ship. "If, under a purely speculative ex- citement, local buyers are paying above prices in the principal distributing mar- kets-—sell at home. “If markets are advancing--ship; if they are declining——sel1 at home. “On a steady market, the grower saves a middleman’s profit by shipping; on an advancing market,he makes more, in addition; on a declining market he must necessarily lose by shipping unless he is entirely deprived of opportunity to sell at home. “Growers who have shipped for sever- al years, even at a loss, should not change their method. To do so is quite likely to result in a double loss. ‘Look for your money where you lost it,’ is_ a wise adage. .It will generally be found as poor policy to change business meth- ods yearly as your methods of carrying on your farm or ranch. Change only to improve, and change as seldom as pos- sible.’’ T The French Government has prohib- ited the .use of oleomargarine in the hospitals because of its deleterious ef- fects on the system. It takes a strong man’s stomach to digest oleomsirgine. Selling Eggs by Weight. There is a standard for nearly every- thiilg, and why should there not be for eggs? A great injustice is dame by selling them by the dozen. The New York farmers’ club had the subject un- der consideration for several weeks, and concluded that apound and four ounces was an average weight, and ough to be the standard. Tliis seems like low estimate, as I weighed my eggs at the time, and without selecting they weighed 27 ounces, and the lowest average that season was :3 ounces. I have weighed them quite often since, and found the lightest ——— Horticultural Notes. [planted cherries extensively along the lanes and road-sides about my place at Plymouth, and had all the cherries I could gather besides plenty for the birds. People at the South offered a premium for the killing of birds, that attacked their rice, but afterwards offered pre- miums to recover the birds, for they lost their crops by insects.—T. 7‘. Lyon. J. .\I. Stearns, of Michigan, says the best remedy known to him for the grape flea beetle is to catch them by hand in the morning just as it begins to get warm. Follow it up as long as neces- sary. Mr. Robinson, near Detroit, conquers the grape rot by picking off affected berries. He goes through his vineyard twice a week and last year had the fin- est display of Concord I ever saw. The method is profitable with him as the crop in surrounding vineyards is all ruined by the rot. At my place, at Ann Arbor, the crop was mostly ruined by the rot. Bagging some of my grapes saved them.—E. fl. S6011. Paris green solutions for spraying plum trees to kill the curculio should be used very weak. One tablespoonful of the poison to one barrel of water is -enough. ' The grape is a prolific bearer and quite apt to suffer injury from overbear- ing. Care is necessary in the treatment of young vines. It may be no harm to leave a bunch, or even two, when the vine is in its second year. But at no age of the plant should more fruit be left to mature than it is able to carry through safely. If allowed to overbear the fruit will be inferior, and the vital powers of the vine so greatly lessened that the efl'ects can be seen for years afterwards. sermon to the -young reader. gnmiintitirations. . From My Diary. LITERATURE FOR BOYS. As modern life has grown more pro- saic, as the age of chivalry with its startling adventures of heroes and hero- ines, its Knight Templars and ' palaces, its Ivanhoes and Bois Gilberts, its tilts and tournaments, has long since passed away, the modern youth compensates himself for the absence of such adven- tures and exciting scenes in life by de- vouring the stories of “the brave days of old” poured forth annually by the printing-press. Much of this writing is of a character that is misleading and in- jurious. No one can estimate the im- portance of the influence of such literature on the character of the young reader. For the boy not only gets a passion for such reading but a control- ing desire to become such a hero. The effect of this we say is injurious, for just as a man's mental and physical‘ vigor depends upon whether he leads a healthy or vicious life, so the strength and weakness of the boy’s moral sense depends upon whether he reads that which is pure or that which is foul. The boy’s actions, thoughts, and ideas of right and wrong, are moulded as much by his reading as by contact with the world. What the hero in the book may do he imagines he can attempt to do. “Example,” says Burke, “is the school of mankind:” and the boy of to-day finds his “example” in the hero of the book he reads. He is an apt pupil in this school, where the passions have full play, and wlierea single act or deed may constitute the impulse that decides the tenor of the mind—the entire after career of his life. Here we see the good and bad use of fiction. Fiction for the young or old should always endeavor to give force and color to facts. Hence a writer—for boys has, or should have a mission. By a mission I mean that the writer’s work in the realm of the imag- ination should be conscientiously and honestly performed. Although he can make his “facts seem stranger than fic- tion,” yet his fiction should always be based on facts. The painter’s work may be a perfect fiction. for it is all drawn from his imagination, but is a masterpiece because it is so real, so true to nature. So of the sculptor, so of the poet, and so it should be of the writer of fiction. All great novelists and romance writers have been true to na- ture in their works. as all great artists must be. We find that in any community good story-tellers are scarce. Few public speakers can really interest and instruct a gathering of children, and still fewer are the writers of good books for chil- dren. That class of boys’ literature under the head of “Useful Knowledge Books,” is, most of it, worse than use- less. And a large portion of the books written for children in our public ‘and Sabbath School libraries is seldom read by the boy or girl. Says an able writer, “No branch of the literary profession requires more tact and delicacy than writing for boys. Sympathy is the key- note -to success. Unless one can identi- fy one’s self with youthful aspirations and ideas, unless one can throw one’s self entirely into the ways of boyhood, can take one’s place in the cricket field or. in the school room, or in any other position which one may wish. to depict, it is useless to attempt to secure the favor of the juvenile public.” Such a writer can write a story that will interest the young. The boy’s instinct, unet- ring as the bees’ in this matter, leads him to the good things in literature and enables him to tell them from the false. When Tom Brown turns up his sleeves and, unaided. thrashes Williams for maltreating Arthur, he becomes a hero to the young reader from that mo- ment, because it was a just punishment. It is the ethical soundness, the whole- some moral thoughtfulness that the reading of “Tom Brown’s School Days at Rugby” awakens in the mind of the boy, it is this that has made this work par excellence, the book for the boy of the present day. And it IS because every boy gets hold of the moral for himself without having it preached into him, and even without a reflection tagged on, by the writer, as an antidote to the fiction. The boy takes the story alto- gether, the whole truth lodged in his mind as “dainty seed,” but wiiicr. will, by-and-by, “spring up apace into leaf, blossom and golden truit.” The truth is, the better a story is told the less need is there for insisting on the evils to be avoided and the truths to be absorbed in life. A good story points its own moral without the “addi- tional lecture” for‘ the good of the young, which the boy always skips if he don’t drop the book altogether. The pith of the matter lies in the boy’s ob- jection to such books, which is: “If you preach, preach; if you tell a story, tell a story, but don’t preach and tell a story both.” Tom Brown's actions preach a good Although his is a muscular Christianity, yet while the story holds the reader interested to the end there is an ethical, yes, a spiritu- al force in the prevailing action of the hero that will make any boy better from having read the book, The corrective influence arising from the association of the young reader with the character in the book is decidedly healthful. Where one boy has read “The Swiss 1 Family Robinson”a dozen have read Tom Brown, or Robinson Crusoe, be- cause in Defoe’s masterpiece, like that of Thomas Hughes’, the personality of the hero is complete. The chief attrac- tion of a supreme figure, like Robinson Crusoe, is that it constitutes-an ideal. The hero dominates every situation,and hence the story has for boys a peculiar charm and an increasing interest to the end of the last chapter. We have instanced Defoe and Thom- as Hughes as writers, par excellence, for boys. There are others we- may give another time. V. B. — A Visitto Spirit Lake. DEAR VisiToR:— I had known for years that a Grange existed at Spirit Lake, and had a slight acquaintance with a few of its members, and had a great desire to visit it,but circumstances prevented. A few days since I received a press- ing invitation from Hon. W. B. Brown, Deputy for that county, to attend their regular meeting on the 26th ult. I im- mediately wrote him,declining to go,but like the boy in Scripture who was told to work in the vineyard, I afterward re- pented and went. So on the morning of the 26th wife and I took the train for Spirit Lake. The ride by rail was not so pleasant as might be The heat and dust and crowded cars made it quite tiresome,but on our arrival this was forgotten in the cordial welcome extended by old time friends. We soon found our way to the Grange meeting,in Odd Fellows’ Hall, and were received in the fraternal way common to the Order. We take unlimited stock in the Granges and individual members who have held fast to the Grange through all these years of apostasy and decline, but expected to find only a faithful few, gray-haired brothers and sisters, just able to “hold the fort.” Judge then of our surprise when we found the hall filled with earnest, wide-awake, aggres- sive Patrons, conducting their meeting with an exactness and precision that showed a thorough acquaintance with our ritual and its teachings. Nor was this work done by the old veterans, for most of the officers are young people as well as young mem- bers, which made their perfect work the more noticeable. They were conferring the fourth de- gree on a brother and his wife, which shows of itself that the Grange is on the advance. The feast was not only the usual feast of good things, but a “feast of reason and flow of soul,” as well. After a fur- ther session of an hour or two, which_ passed too rapidly,the labors of the day ended and the Grange closed. Labor was scarcely ended, for after the close a barrel of sugar that the Grange had or- dered was divided among the members. It was a pleasant meeting and we shall not soon forget the kindly wel- come of our brothers and sisters of Spirit Lake Grange. Brother Brown took us to his spa- cious and elegant home. where he and his good wife entertained us right roy- ally, and where we had ample time to consider and talk up, the interests of the Order in that section of the State. I don’t know but Iought to say some- thing of the beautiful county in which this Grange is located. Spirit Lake in its early history is noted for the fearful Indian massacre that swept away all its settlers in 1857; and is now agreat sum- mer resort, and is destined at no dis- tant day to draw to its lovely shores all the pleasure-loving people of the North- west. Spirit Lake, with the lakes east and west,Okoboji,lies in the form of a horse shoe, enclosing in its bend the town of Spirit Lake, a village of 1,000 or i,5oc people, and as pleasant a little city as you can conceive of. The lakes are the great attraction. Brother Brown spent a day in driving us from one place to another on the lakes Okoboji. We visited Arnold’s Park, East Lake Park, Brown’s Beach, Dickson’s Beach, the cabin where the Dickerson family were massacred in 1857, Lake Minne-wash-ta (the English of which is, water enough to wash in), and other points of interest. No pret- tier lake than Okobiji exists anywhere. Its wooded shores, its many capes and bays, its long reaches of bold, rocky shores, alternated with smooth, sandy bed, or like Dickson’s Beach, covered by smooth, thoroughly washed pebbles, and its clear, deep waters make it won- derfully beautiful. The next morning we returned to town, and as the guests of our old friends, the Osborns, and node: “ ‘r guidance,took a steair..~— .. 4,..c. Spirit Lake is separated trom Okoboji by an isthmus only a few rods wide. The lake is five or six miles in diameter and nearly circular in form and just as handsome as a lake can be. Together these lakes have a shore line of 7o or 80 miles and not a mile that is swamp. Not only is the town of Spirit Lake well supplied with first class hotels, but at many attractive points on all these lakes are found hotels, parks, boarding houses, lodges, etc., as well as houses devoted to the sale or rent of fishing tackle, boats, guns, ammunition, min- nows, etc. On the isthmus and fronting toward Spirit Lake is the famous Hotel “De Orleans,” an immense and beauti- ful structure built by the R. R. Compa- ny and having all the modern appliances and conveniences. Here and at several other points on these shores men of wealth have bought grounds and erected summer houses, where they and their families spend the heated term. The fishing is excellent on all these lakes and everybody goes on the water, and to accommodate this class,there are several steamers ranging in size from the miniature ocean steamer down, sail boats, from a good sized sloop down to the smallest, and row boats of all sizes and kinds. One would think to see the hundreds of these boats that they must be in excess of any demand, but I am told that they are often all in use. As a matter of course all these at- tractions and conveniences draw to Spirit Lake, not only the pleasure seek- er, but those who seek to combine busi- ness with pleasure, hence it is made a meeting place for camp and other re- ligious meetings, for political conven- tions, soldiers’ reunions, press associa- tions, boat regattas, etc., etc. After a few hours spent in looking at the beauties of Spirit Lake and its sur- roundings and a visit to the headquar- ters of the “State Fish Commission” and examining their appliances for hatching fish,including some specimens in their tanks already hatched and grown, among them Buffalo that would weigh from 40 to 60 pounds, we took the steamer back totown where we bade our friends a hurried good-by and boarded a train for home, where we ar- rived about ro o’clock I’. .\I., pretty thor- oughly tired out, but having enjoyed as much pleasure as could well be crowd- ed into the space of three days. We are in favor of holding an annual Grange Encampment at Spirit Lake and that the V1siToR and all its readers be speciallv invited to attend. J. E. B. Algona, Iowa, July 3, 1886. [If the “Annual Grange Encamp- ment" of Bro. Blackford should mate- rialize, it would afford ye editor much pleasure to accept this invitation, and we believe many of the readers of the \'isiTOR could not do better than take some of that medicine after the labors of the annual harvest have prepared them in pocket and with physical con- ditions that demand some of this kind of treatment somewhere. En] -—v-~————-doD>—-——~ Nevada City Surroundings. I have passed four weeks in this city and vicinity and in rambling over the mountains and through the ravines and canyons of the various streams. One day last week I took a drive to the Yuba River at Edward’s Bridge. The route was rather winding and somewhat un- dulating, but as we approach the river the grandeur of the scene stood out be fore us. One thousand feet below rushed madly the waters of the Yuba as if fighting for more extended liberty, while the mountains peering high guarded it jealously with its granite barriers. V The next thing was to get down, and as it had adecided down aspect we con- cluded to venture. It is rather interest- ing as we wind back and forth, crossing rivulets and past gushing springs, cool and sparkling, on the right, while on the left we gaze down the precipitous defile till we finally ‘reach the bridge. Here the road crosses and winds up the op- posite mountains. From four to eight horses are used in hauling wagons over these roads. Ispent an hour with Mr. Edwards listening to his recital of incidents of the place. And as they have no winds here, will give you the following quiet transaction: At one time, he says, he witnessed the storm king in his fury come playing with the giant trees of the mountain and tossing them in his glee far down from their lofty height. Then we retrace our way up the mountain and so back by the way of Blue tent, a mining place, to the city. On the following day I thought to vary the program a little, so started out on foot to explore Rock Creek Canyon. The stream descends over six hundred feet in three miles, making five falls of twenty-five to thirty feet each, or more, and the stream tearing ever rapidly down among the granite r0cks—-for its bed is solid rock with large boulders scattered throughout. On I went over the rocks and scramb- ling up the mountain side to get around the falls till the creek and canyon were lost in the greater grandeur of the Yuba. Retiring up the mountain side I amused myself in rolling rocks down a thousand feet and seeing them bump on the overhanging cliffs and then make a final plunge in the waters of the Yuba. The sides of the mountains are cov- ered with pine, spruce and cedar. And now back over the same stony way to Nevada City, making a trip of twelve miles on foot. I will not say I was weary, for a school-marm of our household made this trip a few days before on foot. So you see there must be something in the climate or, the presence of another kindly soul that gives daring and mus- cular activity. But I assure you that , California girls do not take a back seat, especially when any climbing is to be done. - The thermometer has ranged while I have‘been here from 70 to 80 in the middle of the ‘day, nights _cool at 50 to 6o; but over in the Sacramento Valley at Red Bluff, it has been up to 103. To-morrow I leave this place, its mountains, its clear, blue atmosphere, and its far-off snowy peaks and go down to the busy city by the sea. EMMONS BUi:i.L. Nevada City, June 20, I886. IUW.-X. OI-‘I-‘ICE or SILCRICTARY. Iowa STATE GR.\.\'(iF.. P. or H. - Nizivrox, Iowx, June 30, 1886. l T o ll-latter: and’ Secrrlm-{er of Smiori/r'mr!x Gz‘an_;w in Iowa :- Deiz:'Brz/X/ra;z—-\'iiu will please make your Quarterly Reports to this ofiice closing with this day (June 30. i886.) A goodly number oftiranges on the Secretziryis books have made no reports to this office since I became Secrei:iry—Dec. 1385. It is very important that each and every Grange nirike :1 full report from the time of their last report to this office until July I. I886. The Executive Committee of Iowa State (lrange have had under consideratioii for some time the best means to use to reorganize and build up the Order of P. of H. in this Slate. So far as they now see the best in their opinion is to send suitable Brothers and Sisters out as Lec- turers, not to make excellent speeches alone but do mission:ir_v work among the people: reach the farmer.» in a plain coiiinion-sense way and iiiake them feel that each lecturer is one of them with a common cause. interest and purpose. The Grange cause can be built up if the right man can be found in \".‘Ll‘l\)l.lS parts oftlie State who will do the work. Bro. I). B. Clark, (,l\'erseer. iiiforiii- this oiiice that by a little personal effort he lia- recon- structeil two Grnnges iii \\'esterii I-.i\v;i_ llro, Blackford, \V. 31., iii a like niriniier i'eorg:1iii/ed one in Kossiitli County, with ri prospect of more to follow: and so with l-iro. Clark. It is work and not chilil'.< play that will build them up. The \V. .\I..Hi'o. lilnckford has" the ivliole lecture busi- ness in his liaiitls. and is (l8SllUll.\ to liiid the right persons for the work. Liuri‘espmitl uitli him at Algon-.1. Iowa. The Executive Coininittee have iin-.1nimoii. 1" yet how seldom is this Cl’lf0l‘C€tI I100, the pulpit; perhaps it is not considered a saving ordinance,but I venture to say its observance would be a means of grace to many. You may ask, would I wholly abandon the credit system? As near as may be I would, especially in all minor transactions. To the first I would say, never voluntarily venture upon such dangerous ground—you of- all others can least afford it. There are those who can handle the wealth of oth- ers in comparative safety, but they are very few; sooner or later the great ma- jority who attempt it meet with utter failure.—S. C. B. z'2zDirigo Rural. 0 THE Annual Reunion and Mi" Encampment of the Tri-State Ye‘ Militia Association of the states 0-.’ Indiana and Michigan, will be ' Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 1 23rd, inclusive. Tents and rations will be fur. " all Veterans and Militia who join Association. The Governor of Indiana as Presi- dent, and the Governors of Ohio and Michigan are Vice Presidents of the Association. It is expected that this Reunion will be the grandest military display wit- nessed since the snrrender at Appomat- tox and grand review at Washington in 1865. - KNIGHTS of Labor will nominate a. state ticket in Wisconsin. Love’s Arithmetic. She was one and I was one, Strolling o'er the heather; Yet before the year was done We were one together. Love’s queer arithmetician— In the rule for his addition He lays down this roposition; One and one m e one. She and I, alas, are two, I Since, unwisely mated, Having nothing else to do, We were separated. ":3: Now ’twould seem that by this action Each was made a simple fraction, Yet ’tis held in Love’s subtraction one from one leaves two. ‘ E .1; run‘: .4: flit: flgrangei fifiigifirr. Published on the First and Fifteenth of every month, AT 50 CENTS PER ANNUM Eleven Copies for $5.00. I. T. COBB, Editor and Manager, SCHOOLCRAFT, MICH. flR6ml[IflilC€S should be by Registered Letter, Money Order or Draft. §‘ 7'/air pa/tar is re»! only as ordered ‘£ arziiprzidfar in advance. Single copy, six months, . . . . . . . . .$ .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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I oo Sample copies free to any address. Address, J. T. COBB, SCHOOLCRAFT, 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. We aim to send every numbci of the paper for the time paid for, then strike out the name if not renewed. Renewals made promptly are a matter of much convenience, and we re- spcctfnlly solicit such that no numbers be lost to you. _ Advise this office at once of a change in your address, or if numbers fail to reach you. Patent Law Legislation. We print in this issue under the head of “Regulation of Patent Laws” a clip- ping froin an exchange which simply proves that Congress is willing to make believe that it is disposed to do some- thing to protect innocent users of pat- ented articles. We feel quite sure that this is all make believe. This Congress will do nothing of the sort. There may be,and we presume there are,a few men in Congress who would be glad to earn the money paid them for services by an equivalent in good, honest work. But if there are any of this sort there are so many more of the other sort, that very little has been done so far and there is no reasonable ground for hope that very much willbe done. This country has been overrun from one end to the other with royalty robbers and the farmers of the country all know it and some of them have bought that knowledge and paid honest money for it, while others more fortunate have not paid for such knowledge, though they are all the time liable. Now it is no use t3 expect Congress to amend the patent laws so long as owners of patents keep alobby in Wash- ington to prevent such amendment,and nothing is done on the other side ex- cept to petition and growl. If farmers, who are the chiefsulferers, -would exact a pledge from every candi- date for Congress that he would vote for such amendments to the patent laws as would secure protection to innocent vpurchasers,we might hope for the adop- tion of some protection amendments. Nothing but the fear of defeat at the next convention or election will induce these law—makérs to take care of the in- terests of their farmer constituents. We should be glad to believe the farmers of the country were selfish enough to take care of themselves rather than so parti- san as to forget self in their zeal for par- ty, but unfortunately they are not. WE are not familiar with T/ze C/zroml .5/e from whose editorial pages Prof. Beal has favored us _ with quotations which we print elsewhere, followed by some rather mild comments by the Pro- fessor. The education of T/ze Cln-am‘:/e editor in some directions has been sadly neg- lected. When that education is so ex- tended as to understand that one-half of the people of this country belong to the agricultural class, and that this class pays more than one—half the taxes ap- propriated to the support of the Uni- versity, and that a very fair propprtion of the men who have attained eminence in this country were once “young hope- fuls" who never afterwards received the polish of University treatment, then this editorial illustration of the advan- tages of a University education will not write so wildly. For the credit of the Institution the management of 27;: C/zromkle better be committed to a wiser head or else its editorial wisdom ‘be subjected to revis- ion before given to the public. A. C. HEDDEN, of Ithica, N. Y., whose advertisement is found in this number for the first time, has _sent us a sample of his corn binder, a simple little device that must prove very useful to every farmer who cuts and shocks corn. It is a device that as soon as seen satisfies everyone, who ever tied up a shock of corn, of its usefulness, Its small cost puts it within the reach of the small farmer as well as phe large. Look up the ad., send for a sample, look itover, and probably each farmer in your Grange will join‘in an order for a binder. ' ‘ ’ -. ...._............_......._.._.__._.._ ,, ._.,. _. . . .._. -4-|1>1u4 ......_, . -_..., ...._..._.................-:u..gz;.N...c ...... .. _.,.c .. .. ......... ...,.....«.......m.... ...., ...-, 'I'IEE[ZEl GRANGE VISITOR. SESSIONS. Through the kindness of an editorial friend we are able to present our readers with an excellent likeness of ALONZO SESSIONS, who died at his home four miles from the city of Ionia, on Saturday, the third inst., at the ripe age of 76 years. Born in'Onondaga County, N.Y., be improved the educational advantages offered by a country school as best he could, and at the age of twenty-three started for the great west,—and after a few months’ tl'.lVCl, mostly on foot, he settled in the territory of Michigan, building the second log house in the township, where in the intervening years, by persevering industry and well considered methods he made for himself and family an ample fortune, and an established character for probity and devotion to the cause of agriculture. found time to devote to the public welfare. Attentive to his own affairs he An exchange says of him: “He was a justice of the peace and later sheriff, and it is on record that he was elected supervisor 1 8 times. Mr. Sessions was elected to the legislatiire in I856, 1858 and 1860, and in 1872 he was a presidential elector and subsequently president of the electoral college which made Gen. Grant president for the second term. In I876 Mr. Sessions was elected lieutenant governor and discharged the duties of his office faithfully and well. cian. His ambition was satisfied.” is great praise. His ambition was to be an honest man and politi- To say that ‘.1 politician is an “honest man” We can safely add that he had another ambition that he never lost sight of in all the years of his active life. He was ambitions to be agood farmer, and in this he was a success, as we know by personal observation, having twice, within the last six years, been his guest and looked over his large farm and seen his fields, his herds and flocks. At an early day in the history of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry in Michigan Alonzo Sessions became a Patron and for several years was a valuable member of the Executive Committee ofthe State Grange. He was a safe counselor and a thoroughgoing business man. For several years he occasionally contributed articles of a practical character to the VISITOR, as also to the Husbandman, of Elmira, N. Y. To the Elmiia Farmers’ Club, one of the oldest and most widely known volun- tary organizations of the kind in this country, he contributed many valuable let- ters. The Club showed their appreciation by electing him an honorary member, a relationship accepted and held during subsequent years. Of all the men ofour acquaintance we think of none who more thoroughly despised shams and shiftlessness than did Bro. Sessions. Honored be his memory. Peace to his ashes. Bogus Butter and Legislation. The New Hampshire law for the pro- tection of dairymen if enforced will take care of the bogus-butter business well enough without the imposition of a tax, and we think the chances are that in states having large dairy interests its enforcement would be attended to. ' This is certainly a shorter road to a desired end than to require hotels, res- taurants and all public eating places to post notices of their intention to offer spurious goods. L. H. Dyer in Our Grange [James says: “New Hampshire has taken the lead and enacted a “Pink Law” so called, which meets the expec- tations of its friends in its practical ef- fect. Other states attempting to work in other directions have utterly failed in accomplishing anything except to help introduce these frauds to middle- men who would sell them for pure but- ter.” Here is the New Hampshire wisdom: THE “PINK LAW” or NEW HAMPSHIRE. An act relating to the sale of imitation butter. Be it maclrd, etc..- SEC. 1. Whoever, by himself, or his agent, shall sell, expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell, any article or compound made in imitation of butter, or" as a substitute for butter, and not wholly made from milk or cream, and that is of any other color than pink, shall, for every package that he or they sell or expose for sale, forfeit and pay a fine of fifty dollars, and for a second and each subsequent offense, a fine of one hundred dollars, to be recov- ed with costs in any court of this State of competent jurisdiction; and any sum so recovered and paid shall go, one-half to the complainant, and one—half to the county where the offense was committed. SEC. 2. The complainant in any ac- tion brought under section one of this act, or the health officers of any city or town, may cause specimens of suspected butter to be analyzed, or otherwise sat- isfactorily tested as to color and com- pounds; and a certificate of the analy- sis, sworn to b the analyzer, shall be admitted in evidence in all prosecutions under this act. The expense of such analysis or.test, not exceeding twenty dollars in any one case, may be includ- ed in the costs of prosecution in all cases prosecuted under this act. SEC. 3. For the purpose of this act the term butter shall be understood to mean the product usually known by that name, and which is manufactured exclusively from milk or cream,or both, with salt, and with or without coloring matter. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect up- on its passage. Signed August 27, 1885. IN the last two numbers of the VISIT- “o’R Chi“ldr’et"i‘s°‘ Day with its programs and work, fun and food, had every at- tention. The published accounts prove the value ofthe scheme and the success attending its observance has made it a Grange institution for annual use. Since July I we have received a few reports of—Children’s Day doings in character and kind substantially like those already printed. No. I08 opens with “Better late than never,” and sets forth the abundance of children,of good things to eat and drink, anda literary program as suc- cessful as meritorious. And so we may say of Granges I12, I70, 273, 337, 340, and 391. All these will observe Chil- dren’s Day next year with music and banners and be on hand with their re- ports to the VISITOR before the Nation- A al Holiday shall change the scene to more noisy glory. WE believe there is general agreement that the present Congress are more in- tent on making party and personal capi- tal forfuture use than any other object. How to maintain or secure party su- premacy and how to get returned, are the main questions with the large ma- jority of our Representatives. While all agree that in the interest of the peo- ple the tariff needs revising, yet there is no honest effort made by any consid- erable number of members to set aside extreme views and amend existing law so far as there is no wide divergence of opinion. With this state of things we see no reason why farmers should be particu- larly anxious on partisan grounds to aid in returning this regiment of lawyers to the Capital City as legislators. We judge of the future by the past, and by this rule the present Congress has small claims on the people for future support. OUR advice in the last VISITOR to hold fast to wool and mutton as a branch of farming,that it was bad policy to give up on account of the low price of wool, has received unexpected sup- port in an advance of from three to five cents per pound since the middle of June. The market opened slightly bet- ter than most farmers expected and caused free selling very generally. Wool passed into the hands of specu- lators this year with little friction and buyers have made some money. This will encourage farmers to continue in the business of wool growing which we think some relinquished without good cause. We say to farmers, keep sheep —keep thempwell, and better keep too Plow Improvements. It has come to be understood by ev- erybody that invention and improve- ment are the characteristic features of the nineteenth century. However ex- cellent an implement may be, Yankee ingenuity at once sets about improving it, and so often succeeds that we are no longer surprised whenwe find an article that does most excellent work ordered to take second place by some improve- ment that reaches the desired object by some simpler device,requiring less pow- er to work or less cost to construct. We remember our first plowing when a boy on the prairie. The plow had a wooden moldboard on which two inches of black soil would accumulate in about ten rods. This must be scraped off with a wooden paddle, which was about as necessary a part of the equipment as _the team. Years ago we got away from that sort of a plow and were hap- py when we followed a steel plow that would smur ifcarefully groomed with a wdolen cloth as soon as turned -out of the furrow and was carefully housed ev- ery night. Later saw in use plows that required less care-—that might even be left in the furrow while the plowman went to dinner and run freely through the soil when hitched to again. Later in life we wandered away from that sort of work and those who took our place have known nothing of the annoyances that belonged to our expe- rience. Nor have they remained in the fur-row, following a plow that we should have called perfection. The plowman has left the furrow and mounted aspring seat and ought to be happy. But per- fection is always a little farther forward and the inventor has been constantly working to simplify the mechanism of the riding plow without losing any of its effective qualities. And we now in- vite our farmer readers to the advertise- ment in this number of the St. Johns plow which has several new and novel features that claim attention. It has been thoroughly tested and approved by several good farmers ofour acquaint- ance and costing less than any other first class RIDING PLow this new farm implement makes its demand upon the farming public with a fair show of dis- placing some very worthy competitors. The University and the Farmers. The State has weakened her educational sys- tem by dividing her strength. Three public in- stitutions of learning have been fostered when only one should have been maintained. Teach ers and farmers can not be made in a machine. Far better would it have been for Michigan to have united her resources in support of an insti- tution for general education which fits a student for the duties to which inclination leads him than to have attempted to make artisans and pro- fessors tr) order. When these different schools cannot all be supported let the fittest survive, and let that school he nourished which has the greatest number of students and the widest rep- utation in the world of letters. Public institu- tions should bc kept close to the people, but the representatives of the people should prove them- selves worthy guardians of such trusts. There is one element in state politics which has always been menacing to the University, and the cause of this enmity has been devotion to another institution. The grangers of Michi- gan have always petted the Agricultural College, but have never been generous enough to include the University in this liberality. The leading Patrons of Husbandry have sent their sons to be educated. at Lansing, but Ann Arbor has seldom been graced by the presence of the young hope- fuls. A Detroit paper recently published some figures showing the cost of educating each agri- cultural student. The State of Michigan pays five hundred dollars a year for each student at the college farm. In other words, as it is a four years’ course, the peo le of Michigan are taxed two thousand dollars or each graduate from the Agricultural c_ollege. A graduate of that college is barely fitted to enter the University. The course of study at the college, with the exception of special training in one or two of the sciences, is only equal to that of the high school. Sever- al times attempts have been made by the faculty of the Agricultural colle e to raise the standard of admission. but such e orts have always been opposed by the granger members of the legisla- ture, who wish to have their sons step from country schools into collegiate halls. Michigan has the finest high school system in the United States, yet the local schools are ignored when students are sent to a State institution for aca- demic training. It is asking a good deal of State generosity to give suchextravagant support to a school whose members are almost wholly from a single class of citizens. Two thousand dollars is too much to pay for a graduate of the Agricultural college that, as a missionary, he may go into rural communities and teach the Darwinian theory, the approved methods of ditching, and what quarter of the moon is the best for planting potatoes. Farming is among the most noble of professions, but it has no need of special favors at the hands of the people.-—T/re University C/mmicle. The above extracts from two edito- rials of 7723 C/zranzkle, a University stu- dents’ paper, published at Ann Arbor, have been sent me with a request for reply. They were written in May, 1885, just after the defeat of a bill in the Legisla- ture to increase the mill tax in aid of the University. Thetone of the articles is too bitter and narrow to have been written by anyone except young and inexperienced students. Nothing would be more natural than for persons to support our Agricultural College, which was established for them and mainly through their influence, yet they have repeatedly voted in favor of giving large appropriations to the Uni- versity. A call of the roll at the latter institution at any time will show that a very large number of students came from the farm, it it would not always show that a majority of the students were sons or daughters of farmers. The hackneyed report of the estimat- ed cost of a graduate of a young college is unjust and untrue, as it gives no credit few than too many. for large numbers who have attended men...y--_;.-=1‘--\‘A.-Aoeyza-vL;i1:.§$v»‘\.z£sI»F§‘d .u;..g¢..»,- .~-«.»...»>¢v--... -- -an -....r,.. ..,.,.r _ ;—.~,e.--.- ,~vu»v-a--a-a-_~,». . ~ --.-.-I JULY 15, 1886. the college for months and years but did not graduate, and it does not take into account the fact that the college is yet young and growing rapidly. The older it becomes and the more numer- ous the students the smaller will be the cost of educating each one. Still in any case higher education is always costly. The law of the State establishing the Agricultural College prescribes that stu- dents shall be admitted from the com- mon schools, yet large numbers fail to pass the entrance examinations, as they are very severe. No efforts of the fac- ulty to raise the standard of admission can be found in any of the records though no doubt many would prefer to have the standard higher, as is the case with nearly all teachers in every college. The high standing of graduates of the Agricultural College in all departments of the University show. that the above comparisons in the editorials is far from true. The students attending the Agri- cultural College are from all parts of the State, and usually not much over half are from the farm. The “Darwinian theory" has come to stay, and is now universally accepted by all leading scientists the world over. While it is by no means proved that a graduate, even at a cost of $2000, is not worth much more money to the country as he shows by example and precept “the improved methods of ditching.” we are thankful that the author of one of the editorials places “farming as among the most noble of professions," while even the teachers at the Agricul- tural College hardly thought this occu- pation had yet reached this high stand- ard. Although farmers have supported the University so liberally by voting money and in furnishing students, they some- times wonder why it would not be bet- ter for the State if it had fewer lawyers and more educated farmers. Besides the students from the law school a much larger per cent. of the graduates of the literary department enter the profession of law than enter any other professizn or business. Michigan is a large, prosperous and wealthy State, the people of which pos- sess a great variety of views as to the education needed for her sons and daughters. Instead of growing narrower, the leaders of all classes are growing more and more liberal in their ideas of the educational wants of the State. Their action in the past fully accords with their belief that no class of people or no line of business requiring education and skill shall be neglected at the ex- pense of a few chosen professions. W. J. BI-:AL. Glam Cl mic. YOUR SURPRISE will know no bounds when you see our Suits at $3.75, $4.50, $5.00, $7.50, $9.00 and $l0.00. They are marvels for the money and cannot be duplicated in the State for anything like the same figures. Hot Weather Garments We are showing in every grade, style and quality at prices guaranteed to please you. Grail Activity Prevails ——iN OUR-—— CHILDREN’S DEPARTMENT owing to the Steel Cross-bow Target Guns we are giving away with each boy's suit. GIANT llLllT Ni} 80.. Grand Rapids, Mich. ‘I ::'‘;u~‘'ir2’R¢=-tav.. /. ..,-o-x.-55H¢Qb~1‘4Q1-vvs~'."-»-rm‘. , . er’! JULY 15, 1886. Jntemperance in Relation to the Labor Question. _ The organization of labor has hitherto been in the hands of unfit men with too few exceptions. The leaders have been selfish, narrow-minded or ignorant. The true way to utilize the strength of unit- ed labor is to develop the individual power of the members. By no other means have great nations ever been formed. An association, the effective strength of which depends upon the surrender of the rights and liberties of its members, may be a dangerous in- strument for the use of adventurers and demagogues, but it cannot advance the interests of the men themselves. The most urgent want oflabor to-day is self- control. In this free country no man endowed with average abilities need re- main all his life poor. If he has thrift, self-restraint, perseverance, he will pass from the ranks of labor to the ranks of capital. It is the saving man who be- -comes the capitalist—the man who has the force to deny himself indulgences. What a lesson lies in the drink-bill of the American workingmen,for instance! At a moderate estimate, it amounts to between four and five hundred million dollars a year. While labor is throwing away that enormous sum annually, with what show of consistency can it lament its condition? One year’s remission of that destructive self-indulgence would -solve every labor problem extant; would provide a fund for the establishment of co-operative works, for the sustenance of the sick and aged, for the mainte- nance and education of orphans, for li- braries and scientific schools, for all manner of helps. At present the workingman can hard- .ly make both ends meet. Is it not be- cause he insists on creating capitalists out of the saloon-keepers, and, not con- tent with that,on submitting all his rights of citizenship to the same objects of worship? The saloon in politics is the most hideous abuse ofthe day,but where would it be if the workingmen withdrew their support from it? It keeps them poor. It keeps our politics corrupt. It supplies a constant stream of base ad- venturers, who disgrace the American name at home and abroad. It makes the terms “public office” and “public plunder” synonymous. It stifles prog- ress, fosters pauperism, brutalizes hus- bands and fathers, breaks women’s hearts, puts rags on the workingman’s back, disease in his body, and shame and despair in his heart. Yet when la- bor is most disturbed, when the demand for advanced wages is loudest, when strikes are most frequent, when hunger and misery are most rife in the homes of the poor, the saloon flourishes still. There may be no bread at home, but there is always beer and whisky at the bar, and the men who consider them- selves the victims of circumstances or the “thralls” of capital, squander their earnings, spend their savings, in these dens. Can there be a serious labor question while this state of things con- tinues? Can workingmen talk gravely of their wrongs while it is plain to all the world that if they only saved the capital they earn they would be com- fortable? This aspect of the case has not been sufficiently examined, and for reasons which will probably occur readily to the reader. But it is really the key to the situation. When we see on the one side a yearly waste of between four and five hundred millions of dollars, and on the other side a body of men,the squan- derers of this vast fund, complaining that they have not sufficient opportu- nities, we cannot long be at a loss to comprehend the true nature of the ex- isting dissatisfaction. It is clear that labor- has been incited= to seek from without the relief which ought to be soughtfrom within. The socialist theo- ry of a paternal state system which pro- vides everybody with work and wages is a mischievous fallacy. It simply en- courages indolence and dependence. The first duty of labor is to demonstrate its capacity for self-government. At this moment its drink bill is an impeach- ment of that capacity. No man who spends half his earnings at a saloon can get on in the world,or has the least right to expect to get on. Nor can any body of men follow the same course with bet- ter results. Prosperity is the reward of persevering,temperate,ungrudging work. In these days, there is however, a great .. wind of new doctrine. We are asked to believe that it is possible to succeed in very different ways; that the less a man works, for example, the more he ought to receive; that national prosperity can be advanced by diminishing production; and many other equally hard sayings. But it may be confidently affirmed that these new theories are destined to be short-lived, and that the world will have to be managed eventually upon pretty much the old 1ines.—_/uly Allanlic. Two spoonsful of amonia in a gallon of water is to be the best and safest remedy for the potato beetle. It is easily tried, and can do no harm, and in r so far as it supplies an element of plant - food, which always favors rapid develop- ment of foliage, it must certainly be of benefit. Bugs do not like rank foliage. .:.___.-non-______.. A SMALL quantity of salt scattered over the squash hills at time of planting or afterwards, is said to be a preven- tive for many of the insect foes which prey on the young plants. No harm in trying it judiciously. TEIE VISITOR. A Secretary of Agriculture. The Committee on Agriculture of the i National House of Representatives has [ agreed to report favorably a bill provid- ling for the establishment of a Depart- iment of Agriculture and Labor, under ‘charge of a Secretary, who shall be a member of the Cabinet, with an Assist- : ant Secretary, receiving the same com- lpensation now given to the Commis- sioner of Agriculture, and creating in this department a Division of Labor,un— der charge ofa Commissioner ofLabor, whose duties shall be the collection of information upon the general condition of labor and laborers, being practically a national enlargement of the field now occupied by the Commissioners of La- bor Statistics in a few of the states. The House has twice before passed bills for the elevation of the agricultural bureau into a full department, but the bills have been defeated by the Senate. The opposition to this elevation, in which the political press generally has joined, has been nominally based upon the theory that the Secretaryship of Ag- riculture would be more a reward for political service than is the present com- inissionership, and that consequently the real interest of agriculture would re- ceive less attention than at present; while it has also been contended that agriculture is only one of many indus- tries, and that to give it this distinction is unjust to the others. But the fact is that agriculture is the basis of all industries; unless it pros- pers, all must suffer; while it actually employs nearly one—half of our total population. Even admitting that the Secretary of Agriculture would be se- lected chiefly for political reasons, it by no means follows that the interests of his department would be neglected. On the contrary, such a man would not be less ambitious to increase the import- ance of his position than were he mere- ly styled Commissioner, while his op- portunities for doing this would be very much greater than are possible to a Chief of Bureau. In no way could he accomplish this object so successfully as by increasing the usefulness of his work to the people; moreover, the de- tails of the work of his department would continue, as now, under the charge of Chiefs of Divisions, special- ists in their lines of work,and their ten- ure of office would not be less secure because of the fact that their chief was a Secretary instead of a Commissioner. So far as the political features of this question are concerned, there is no get- ting around the fact that our recent Commissioners of Agriculture have been selected chiefly for political rea- sons; and they will continue to be se- lected for the same reasons in the fu- ture, whether styled Commissioner or Secretary. The advantages that would accrue to agriculture from having the agricultural bureau elevated to a full department would be a tacit acknowl- edgment of the importance of this in- dustry;an acknowledgment which would result in larger appropriations for agri- cultural research and education, and in greater care that tariff and other legis- lation should not be inimical to the in- terests of agriculture.—Exr/umge. ————————o————--—— Producer and Manufacturer. The whole country is agitated over the wool question. What has become or the old manufacturers of woolen fa- brics we met in ‘67, and afterwards, when there was an understanding be- tween the sheep breeders and the man- ufacturers? They must have all gone to a good reward as they deserved, and a new lot of men come up in their places who knew not Joseph, and have struck for themselves, and left the wool-growers to work alone. Yea, more, they have established a house of their own, and filled it with shoddy, and they care not for the welfare of their kinsman, the keeper of sheep. This is not right. There is an unpatriotic sound and sel- fishness in it. The interests of the pro- ducer and manufacturer of wool should be united, as they are inseparable. If the manufacturers of wool are bound to work in imported shoddy, and in their own line, and entirely for their own in- terests, then the farmers must do the same; and if the raw material is to come in free, admit the manufactured goods as well. This will be the result and it .is natural. If sheep go down and this industry is ruined, then make ruins at the same time of the factories and have one grand pandemonium of disaster and downfall. We hope there will be a better spirit and modern Mammon may not be so blind as it would appear. Our idea is to do the best thing for the most people, and extend prosperity as wide as possible. Farmers éannot keep sheep at a loss a great while, and they will not. They are entitled to all the advantages which legislation can give them, in common with other interests. ——Ex:}zange. ..:__—_(.;—..—__._ WITH reference to providing a home supply of cucumbers, the New England Homeslead says: "Where the waste water from the sink can be used, make a. bed six or eight feet square, raise it about five or six inches, sloping it from the centre so that the water will run off, and run your drain into the centre of it. ‘Do not plant your seed too thick. Very little fertilizer or manure is needed, and y/ou can raise more cucumbers with less are than you can on a piece of ordi- nary land five times the size.” Regulation of Patent Laws. It is gratifying to know‘ that the fol- lowing bill has been before the House Committee on Patents and reported fa- vorably. “‘A bill to limit jurisdiction of the United States courts in patent cases, and to protect persons who, without notice, are bona fide manufacturers,pur- chasers, vendors, and users of articles, machines, machinery and other things for the exclusive use, manufacture, or sale of which a patent has been or may hereafter be granted. “Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem- bled. That hereafter the United States District and Circuit Courts shall have no jurisdiction to hear or to try any case arising from the actual use of any patent right, its infringement by such use, by any person in or citizen of the United States or the Territories, where- in the amount in controversy does not ' exceed two hundred dollars against one person or citizen. “SEC. 2, That purchasers of any pat- ent right for actual use shall not be lia- ble to damages, royalty, or for value of the same, or for infringing the same in any manner, who at the date of such purchase had no knowledge of the claims of any third person, or that the inventor of the same has an interest therein averse to the seller thereof. That no person who shall in good faith purchase, use, manufacture, or sell, with- out previous knowledge of the existence of a patent therefor, any article,ma- chine, machinery, or other thing for the exclusive use, sale or manufacture of which any patent has been or hereafter may be granted to any person, persons, or corporation whatever, shall be liable, in damages or otherwise, for an infringe- ment of such patent until after written notice of the existence thereof shall have been personally served on such person or persons or corporation, as the case may be, and ‘ such infringement shall be thereafter continued. “SEC 3. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith are hereby re- pealed. « “SEC. 4. That nothing herein con- tained shall affect any pending suit or proceeding in any of the Courts of the United States or in any Court of any of the several States.”—Exc}zange. : IF the grass is killed out, fall back on millet. A little manure spread on the surface with the seed, will ensure a good crop. Millet may be sown till July. If the new seeding is killed out, pasture it, and in June plow the ground and so.w on millet. Three or four tons of hay may bevhad in this way. genial gottitigs. MICHIGAN. ‘ W1-{EAT_in this township is very poor. Is about half harvested—will only yield about eight bushels per acre. Hessian fly did the damage. Com is looking nicely. Oats good but need rain. Potatoes look well but are suffering for: _. The advance in S “ rain. Pastures dry and poor. wool doesn’t hit the farmers’ pockets very much. No Bohemian oats sown this year. M.T.COLE. Palmyra, Lenawee Co., July 12. WHEAT harvest, which commenced June 28. is yet in progress. Except in a few instances self binders have done the reaping. To-day, June I0, will finish the work and find 8-10 of the grain secured. The grain ripened very sud- denly, the Fultz first. The weather has been good, not a drop of rain except a light shower yesterday since harvest commenced. The straw is bright, heads well filled with a fine plump berry. Will yield perhaps 16 to 20 bushels per acre. Corn is doing finely, the largest we ever saw at this time of the year. Oats are rather short and ripening rapidly. Judging from ap- pearances, which is the most desirable kind of wheat to grow? Answer, farmers. D. W Paw Paw. “OH, MY,” if we only had some of the rain D. W. tells us about in the last VISITOR! Why, we have not had such a rain since the middle of May, nearly two months. Drouth covers every- thing, dust fills everything, and heat nearly burns up everything. Wheat has suffered least of all. The report to the agricultural de art- ment of July I estimates the average crop o the County at 85 per cent. Hay is not more than half a crop; pastures and meadows look as if the fire had run over them. Half the oats sown will never be harvested, and between the drouth and bugs potatoes look as if they had not much to live for. Corn has a fair stand, has been well tended and is still in a situation to make a fair crop if we have rain. The outlook on the whole is not very flattering to any one. With short crops and the constant decline in the price of the products of labor necessary to meet the de- mands of the gold standard of money it begins to look like hard times indeed. Hesperia Grange added 13 to her membership the first quarter of the year, and 7 the second quarter, and has never done more or better work than now. The joint meeting of Western and Newaygo County Pomona Granges at Trent June I and 2 was a very interesting and enjoy- able affair. Many of the labor questions and problems of the day came up for earnest but friendly discussion and examination. Another joint meeting is to be held in October at Ash- land Grange hall in Newa go County. We wish our friends 0 No. 957 had given their subjects a little more liberal examination before passing their sweeping resolution con- demning strikes and labor organizations. Why, we have always supposed that the Grange was a labor organization and if we remember rightly our folks had a little plaster strike at one time- avery successful one, too-—-a slid: gate strike and a drive well strike. It makes all the differ- ence in the world whose ox it is that is gored. Capital’s ox in its ownexis estimation is a time honored and sacred animal, while the ox of la- bor becomes legitimate prey for every oue—even those ‘of its own household. We are admon-. ished to be cautious - and true, and to these might well be added, liberal. The grave social problems which underlie this question of strikes and labor organization, confronting-as they do the highest interests and welfare of society, are worthy of more careful study and consideration than that hasty resolution would seem to indicate. 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Over a million dollars have been given to the art school and muse- um of Cincinnati within the last six years. An article by Mr. Richley Hitch- cock, in the August Century, describes the present aspects and the future pos- sibilities of ‘fThe Western Art Move- ment.” It will be one of the illustrated features of the “Midsummer Holiday” number. —-——-—-——C *- Grange Notes. vOur excellent contemporary, the Di- rigo Rural, indignantly but truly says: “What more inconsistent than for our American farmers to claim that they are freemen, while they tamely submit to be mad'e pack horses for the tools of monopolies and politicians to ride into position where they can enact laws to more completely enslave them and rub them of the profits of their labor.” It is not exaggeration to say that the solid growth of our Order was never more encouraging than now. If it could become general, and it should, and can, we should all feel the flush of pride which comes of success. The Bulletin calls to the many true and tried ones, who have grown weary and have been “taking a rest," to again put on their armor and do valiant service in their loved cause again. gntices of gectings. HILLSDALE County Pomona Gran e will hold its next meeting at Fayette Grange all, Jones- ville, August 4, commencing at 10 A. M. A good program and music can be expected. Discussion—_l-Iave the Granges of Hillsdale County accomplished what they should for the past year? If not, why? Led by Bros. N. T. Brockway and H. H. Dresser. Question box. All fourth degree members are cordially in- vited to attend. J. E. VVAG.\‘ER. For Dyspepsia Mental and Physical llxliauitliii, ‘lleivoiisiiess, weakened Energy, Indigestion, Etc. HORSFORD’S ACID PHOSPHATE A liquid preparation of the phos- phates and phosphoric acid. Recommended by physicians. It makes a delicious drink. Invigorating and strengthening. Pamphlet ‘free. I For sale by all dealers. Bumford Chemical Works, Providence» 8.. I. _..j a'Bewa.re of Imltations. july15y1 6 THE QRANGE VISITOR. JULY 15, 1896. g.....L §.,.......... The Other Side. Art ANSWER TO “THE GIRLS THAT ARE \VA.‘lTI-JD." Tell us not of good girls that are wanted; Good men are much more in demand; A good wife may be had for the seeking By every good man in the land. Although home girls always are wanted, There are many good girls who want homes, There would be more bright, happy nresides Were there not so many coxcombs. If men \vere more fond of their heartlistones, Their lives would be freer from stain; If young wives were less often left lonely; There would be less sorrow and pain. The men who are wanted are wise men, Who can their tempers control; Who will bear their shares of life’s burdens, Not make their wives carry the whole. Yes, sensible men are wanted; Although girls follow fashion’s moods, The silliest, shallowest woman Can never equal the dudes. Not fops are wanted, but heroes; The heroes of every day, “me have hearts and brains, and are ready To do what comes in their way; VVho are willing to work and be saying, And do not expect that their \VlV€$ Will scrimp while they spend their substance In leading riotous lives. Among girls who are clever and brilliant, Could men only understand, There are loving and true—hearted women Enough to meet any demand. —zV. Y. Ledger. -.-j—_———¢oa——-—-——~ The Housekeeper’s Song. “It is sweep, sweep, sweep, Though you’ve done it an hour before; And it’s scrub, scrub, scrub, Table and chair and floor. And you needn’t be weary a bit To find your labor in vain; Do it as well as you can today You can do it to-morrow again. “It is cook, cook, cook, There’s meat and there’s bread to bake; It is cook, cook, cook, There’s pudding and pie to make. The buttons are always dropping, The stockings are ever to mend, The men in the field to look after, The children to wash and to tend. “It is fight, fight, fight, For a man in the tug of life; And it’s fight, fight, fight For a clean and tidy wife. A man can plant an acre of land, And gather the golden wheat, And get the price in his open hand; And the price of labor is sweet. “But work, work, work, Is ever a woman’s lot; It is work, work, work, If the weather be cold or hot. And this is the worst of the trouble, She hasn’t a shilling of gain, And, though she may clean and scrub to-day She must do it to-morrow again. ' “Oh, wife, wife, wife! Don’t worry and fret and pout; Oh, wife, wife, wife! You are cross to-day, no doubt; For you know very well your labor Isn't done for a shilling or two; just think how happy you make us all Of the love we give to you! “Oh, wife, wife, wife! If you could not cook and clean, Oh, wife, wife, wife! \Vhat sorrow it would mean. To toil for love is better than gold, And the way we differ is clear; The work you do is done by the day, And mine is done by the year.” T exzz: Stf!z'ngr. The Culinary Department Of the Home. . How to successfully manage and con- duct this department of the home would allow of a great deal being said, but I will only give a few of my thoughts,hop- ing to awaken adiscussion of this sub- ject and get ideas from the more expe- rienced and successful. In writing of the kitchen or cookery, I do not purpose giving receipts for rich pastry or a receipt for a cake with a dozen eggs in it, for while I Consider it well enough to know how to make good pastry, I do not consider the one skilled in this art always the most successful; but rather the one that can balance up well the work belonging to this depart- ment. _ The housewife that can place on the table wholesome, well-cooked food at the proper time,that any pne (not over- ly particular) can make a good meal from, and do it in an economical man- . net and do the other work belonging to the kitchen with the least waste of time and material is the one skilled in this department. I To use and not waste should be the - motto of the housewife,for it is right to use, but wrong to waste the time and material God has given us. In prepar- ing the food for the family health and taste should both be considered. A Little that is foreign need go on a far- mer’s table. It should be supplied from the vegetable and fruit "gardens, and from these by proper care and man- agement can be prepared a meal fit. for a king or even a Granger. To plan and prepare the breakfast over night is a great help in getting an early breakfast, and more of the work can be done in the cool of the morning in summer. As to the other work_ pertaining to this department, I would suggest Mon- day as washing and scrubbing day,Tues day as ironing and baking day, Satur- day as a day to make ready for Sabbath, with the days intervening for miscella- neous work that may come up each week. But I do not favor a rule or form so rigid -that it cannot be changed to suit the convenience of the family or those interested. Onlthe culinary department I of the homehdepehndis largely theihealthi, happiness and financial success ofithe family; and he heart, the head and the hands should be engaged.. _ Mas. JENNXE DAVIS. Buena Vista Grange, Iowa. — {——-(O)-——:—‘ - A Sabbath in Fairly-Land. It is no ambition to write thrice-told tales to be met and vanquished by sim- ilar appendages, already “Twice told,” that introduces this trip into these col- umns; but when the fates, in Sunday ‘ mood, set “the chiel amang us takin’ notes” down on deck of a steamer bound to attend church at Brooklyn Tabernacle moved up among the Thou- sand Isles what else can she do but take ’em? V Concede her right, and ship ahoy, we are off! The “St. Lawrence" plows out into the fallow fields of her namesake. On the right, to whose side we hug, is the mother-land and to the left lies her majesty’s, purpling in the distance, al- beit her child is now sulking in rebel- lious mood. Overhead floats the flag of our “ain countrie,” and below the dear old colors are doubling themselves in the waters that away back played “ring- round-rosy” about Michigan and held the home State in their arms as croon- ing mothers do rock their little ones to sleep. In their stately calmness, scarce- ly ruffled this morning, there is no sug- gestion of the fury we saw them tumble in at their big tempest pot a few days ago. On board our fellow travelers are all oblivious to aught but scenery and the comfort and luxury of unbounded breathing room. That is, the air is sup- posed to be unboundedly fresh but be- fore the day is past you may suspect that Havana is unbound from its moor- ings, and lost to Cuba among its eigh- teen hundred northern cousins and, un- less your olfactory qualms admit tobacco smoke uncomplainingly, you will cry for fresh air in a world of free air. Most of the company to-day is made up of busy people who see the four walls of some shop or store from seven in the morning to the dawn of that electric lighted day that follows the old time sunlit ones. Here is a clothier; that young man showed you silks last week and will again any day this summer when you step to his six by two stand- ing room; there is the one who weighs out your groceries; there the druggist with his wife and baby for his own on this one day in seven. On all these, whom she seldom sees, Dame Nature smiles in a restful bland way this morn- ing. She took all her attire out of a three days’ wash last night and it lies a drying in this sunlight. The wind, we find, is fresher than the sunshine, and keeps us, coat-clad chin high, sunning ourselves on deck like turtles on a log with only their heads poked out of their shells. We are steaming down the stream. The larger islands, like sentinels at the head of the river, are passed and the wonderland of topographical dexterity opens around us. “Thousand Isles,” they are called. Actual count makes that mean eight hundred more but the ordinary calculator satisfies himself with the “big- box - band — box » and - bundle” count and lets it go at that, Being very “ordinary,” the last method passes up over the delay that exactness would cause. There are period-like isles with only a stubbed finger of rock to make it an island at all; there are comma islands with tufts of grass clinging to one edge of them; there are semi—colons and whole colons strung together by foot- bridges; there are exclamation points with great gray old rocks piled at one end of an island that slips off into the river at the other; but the interrogation marks outnumber all the rest and the islands refuse to answer what in all the world is‘.like them and how they came to be in it. There are brown heaps rising out of water like the bare backs of huge sea. animals, basking at the water’s surface, with now and there a pine tree sprung up from a crevice, as if the old fellows had giant tassels stuck in their snouts for adornment. You would not be surprised to see island, tassel and all plunge under water at sight of you. , Splashes and points of land jut up in an impertinent fashion without law or order and you wonder how many thou- sand years they have lain round in this untidy way. On some of the rockiest of the isles pagoda-like summer houses have been built from which you fancy on days of river tournaments streamers flutter, music floats and hands clap to cheer on the contestants. “Alps upon Alps arise” in the shape of islands pal- ace crowned instead of snowy capped peaks. Buttress and bulwark to the right, left, east and behind are peopled with turret and tower, porch and porti- co, fanciful, staid, prosaic, and poetic. Although it is a. little early for the “sea- son” to open, now and then groups of islanders, to the custom grown, wave us welcome as we pass. Here we meet a tug lugging six heavy canal flats sturdily up the river. You have seen ponies carrying well kept men that looked as this little tug boat does and you felt like calling out, “Why don't you get off and let the horse ride?" It is a perse- vering tug. But the Bay-—Alexandria. Bay is near- ing. We have put Central Park, Round Island and Thousand Island Park in the back ground with all their individual worlds of life and interest. Alexandria Bay is our destination. It is also the headquarters ‘of the seven hundred ex- curslonists who arrived last night from Brooklyn for a few days at this'enchant- ed spot. They brought their minister with them and would have novices be- lieve, their church, also, for, see, up yonder top flaps the banner inscribed, “Brooklyn Tabernacle”; but the fame of the Thousand Island House o’ertops such deception. In our trip on paper we share you the unloading of the boat, the cries of the duskylporters,the promiscuous crowding of New Yorkers with “down easters,” Brooklynites with islanders—-and "west- erners,”— spare you, too, the river breeze’s gift, a vociferous appetite, and call you now apart from the throngs by a gateway into a bare field overlooking the river with its sweep of fairy-land scenery. Look down, stoop over and lay your hand on the rock you stand on. Along here somewhere these rocks were the first raised from the sea of all the continent. No wonder their bare heads are grown gray. Touch them reverent- ly. They are the mither of our all. At three o’clock the open air services began. They were conducted by the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, of Brooklyn. Sitting around on improvised seats in the back yard of a prince among hotels amid scenes of eden—like rarity and by scarce a stretch of imagination attend- ing the services of Brooklyn Taberna- cle, hundreds of miles from that city, has a tinge of romance about it. Con- cerning the discourse of Dr. Talmadge a strict silence is the “dead line” across which we will not venture. A re- membrance comes to mind of a time when a correspondent of your paper challenged the unsheathed blade of mer- ciless criticism by “writing up” this same moment. Let us have peace at any price. . The “St. Lawrence” calls, we scram- ble, hasten, tumble, pell mell, any way to get aboard and set our faces toward the “low declining sun.” .The water is transcendently beautiful in the soft radi- ance. The night is full of rest as the day has been of pleasure. Three hours later our train stands fu.ming on the track that in an hour completes the day's circuit. We do not leave beauty at the river. Old York State is attrac- tive here with its grazing hills and small wood lots. The fields are sprinkled with buttercups and mustard, as if a “cup of the skies had been overturned and a thousand stars spilled out.” The roadsides are pied with golden hearted daisies with frilled nightcaps on; while “Beyond in waves of shade and light The hills roll off into the night,” and into old Ontario’s bosom for there if you watch closely you may catch a single glimmer of its waves. J. B. Watertown, N. Y. ?-————-j Are Women Fools? An old Pennsylvania Dutchman, now gathered to his forefathers, invariably summed up his opinion of woman kind ,in season and out of season, in three words: “Women are fools.” Isabella of Spain comprehended and sympathized with the plans of Colum- bus, and aided him to accomplish his discoveries; therefore, “Women are fools. They cannot grasp great theories. Caroline Herschel performed drudg- eries of calculation to help her brother, and also made independent discoveries; hence, “Women are fools. They can- not have truly scientific bias.” Fanny Mendelssohn composed many of the works attributed to her brother Felix; so, “Women are fools. They cannot grasp the theory of music.” Mrs. Stowe did more by her pen than any ten men by their speeches to ab- olish African slavery in this country, which proves that “Women are fools. They are not capable of judgment on great questions.” Charlotte Bronte wrote an immortal novel while toiling in the gloomy kitchen at Haworth; hence, “Women are fools. They can only think of but one thing at a time.” Mrs. Roebling, during her husband's illness, carried on stupendous calcula- tions without which the Brooklyn Bridge could not have been built. Evidently “Women are fools. They have no head for the higher mathematics.” Anna E. Carroll planned a vast cam- paign during the civil war, which threw victories into the hands of our North- ern general and virtually saved the Union; hence, “Women are fools. They have no military genius.” Mary A Livermore, in the same way, did priceless work at the head of the Sanitary commission, thus showing that “Women are fools. They have no ex- ecutive talent.” Mrs. Frank Leslie paid off a $50,000 debt in less than six months after as- suming control of the great publishing business left by her husband, which makes it plain that “Women are fools. They have no financial abilty.” The elder Mrs. Button wife of the senior partner of the Germantown Woolen Mills invented an improvement to a machine after her husband and others had given up in despair, showing conclusively that “Women are fools._ They have no mechanical turn.”—Wovr't- an’: Work. - THE following is recommended as a cure for neuralgic headache: Squeeze the juice of alemom into a small cup of strong coffee. This will usually af- ford immediate relief in neuralgic head- ache. Tea ordinarily increases neural- gic pain, and ought not to be used by persons affected with it. reverend gentleman in an unguarded Washing Made Easy. I have recently tried a method of washing which I find greatly lightens the labor and robs “blue Monday” of half its terrors. It is as follows: Put the clothes to soak in cold water the night before wash day. In the morning attach the wringer to the tub and wring them out. Cut up one bar of soap and dissolve it in hot water; when dissolved stir in one heaping tea- spoonful of pulverized borax and three tablespoonfuls of kerosene; then add three pails of cold water. Put this into the boiler, and put in as many of the soaked clothes as the boiler will hold. Let them boil twenty minutes, stirring occasionally. Take them out into a tub of water, and if there are any “streaks” on bands, etc., rub them a lit- tle on the washboard, wring and put through the bluing water. The clothes will come out beautifully white and clean. ' I have tried this till I am convinced it is the way to wash. It entirely does away with the hard work at the wash- board, as only the very worst stains will needa rub after the twenty minutes’ boiling. If )’)u have more than one boilerful of clothes, put the rest in after the first have been taken out, without adding more water—-though if you like you can keep out a half—pailful of the preparation for the second boilerful— and boil twenty minutes. The first rinsing water is the thing to use for wash- ing flannels and calico. There is noth- ing in the ingredients that can possibly injure the clothes, and the kerosene odor is entirely dissipated during the drying. I should like to have the readers of the Hausa/told try this method and see if they do not find it a great saving of la- bor, while giving just as clean and w/titer clothes than by the old “elbow- greage” process at the washboard.—-E.S. Mai. in .411‘:/zigan Farmer. Kitchen Helps. I was thinking the other day how many “little helps” we have in doing our work now, in contrast to that of years ago. In the matter of dish—wash— ing, we have iron sinks to begin with; easier to keep clean than the wooden ones. The dish-pan made of pressed tin instead of several pieces, to catch dirt. The small-handled mop for the pitchers, the soap shaker that utilizes all the bits of soap and takes but a sec- ond to use, the dish-drainer made of tinned wire, the iron ring kettle scraper, the rubber sink scraper, are all helps. The cake of “Sapolio” to clean the sink and the zinc when dish-washing is over; so much better than the odorous kerosene. The Pearline to add to the water for washing the dish-towels. The wash-dish made of “Granite Ware” is easily kept clean, requires no scouring, nor does the tea-kettle, coffee- pot, stew-kettle and various other dishes made of this same smooth ware. The “Dover Eg- -Beater” is a great improve- ment on the “fork music” we used to practice when making cake, to the wea- riness of arm and patience when the egg would not froth quickly. ‘ The porcelain-lined kettle, farina boiler and steam boiler are some of the little helps in our kitchen. The clothes- wringer, the washing machine, the sew- ing machine, cold-handled flatirons, and various other things are helps to easy and quick work. The silver-plated knives and forks save scouring twice a. day, 365 days in a year, and need only the application of a little silver soap, chamois skin and elbow grease to keep them looking respectable the week round. Have you got a. low chair in your kitchen? If you have not, do make one without delay. It is such a rest to sit a few moments when working in the kitch- en, and we have perhaps something on the stove that must not be left even for a few moments. Take an old wooden or cane-bottomed chair and saw off the legs enough to make it comfortable, and make a cushion of some dark cretonne- or almost anything that turns up in the old chest or piece-bag. You will won- der you never had one before; and then you will want a paper holder, just to hold two or three papers, or your favor- ite book or magazine. One can man- age considerable reading, even if pretty busy, if one has a book where it can be taken up, even for a few moments,while the potatoes are boiling or the bread is baking. It can be sandwiched in a lit- tle at a time. The old Scotch proverb, “Many a little makes a mickle,” will have an illustration. If a person has no appetite, and needs nourishment, sometimes the following can be taken: Make a strong ' cup of coffee, add scalded milk and sweeten; beat an egg, pour the coffee on to it, and serve. Strong coffee, without sugar or milk,‘ will stop vomiting in cholera morbus sometimes, when other remedies fail. - How Two Women keep House. One is a dressmaker, the other a. bookkeeper, the latter from a comfort- able country home. For a year she had endured life in a boarding-house at four dollars a week for board and room. It was all she could afford to pay out of her salary of twenty-five dollars per month. It occurred to her that, if she could associate a friendly dressmaker with her, the two could-have alarge room and possibly afford the expense of a fire in long winter evenings, so that they could sew, read, or chat undisturbed. The dressmaker consenting, the two set out" to find a room suited to their means. As they looked, their project grew and resolved itself into two rooms, and a system of housekeeping on the small- est possible scale, as an experiment. They scrimped on their summer hats and dresses, and bought a second-hand parlor cook-stove and a few dishes, rented their rooms very plainly furnished in a cheap quarter, and entered on their new life. They breakfasted together and separated for the day, the dress- maker returning after tea. The book- keeper comes home at noon, gets her simple dinner, and leaves the housework until she returns at six o'clock, and, shortly after, the dressmaker comes in. Half an hour suffices to put their small domain in order, and the evening is spent in reading, rest, or recreation. Gradually their rooms have assumed a cozy, home-like aspect; the dress- maker has bought a sewing-machine,the bookkeeper a writing desk; their food is of better quality at one-half the cost, and they are vastly happier in every way. It is two years since they entered into this useful and friendly partnership, and the bookkeeper’s heart is almost broken because her friend has a lover, who is destined some day to withdraw her from the cozy home. She wickedly hopes that times will be so hard that they cannot marry, or that Providence will send her also a. lover, or another nice girl to keep house with, as the least compensation for her loss.—Dc- trait Times. --— Items. Every woman who keeps house, do- ing her own work, can, if she choose, have many inexpensive helps that will do much toward preserving her health and strength. I hold it every woman’s duty to so measure her work that she can do each day’s share without overtaxing her strength that she has no right to draw upon and when she overuses the amount given her for one day's work, she draws upon the future, making herself liable to the heaviest kind of usury when she is called to pay her debts. Some one has said: “The excesses of youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with compound interest about thirty years from date.” Nowhere does this hold more true than in case of the house-mother who is too unselfish to complain, and whose family are not thoughtful enough to see that she is overworking until it is too late.-—/llrr. K'm’zz'c. A lady, Mrs. Keech, has been ap- pointed overseer ofhighways in Cannon township, Kent Co., the first time a woman has occupied that office in this State. Now let her show the residents how to make a good road. Twenty years ago a Kansas carpenter was utterly astonished when a woman who was having a. house built insisted on two closets for the second floor, where there were three rooms; tmo closets were almost unheard of then in a Kansas farm house. I wonder if it’s~much better in some places today. If the good work needed in the build- ing of the house was neglected, there are still very many ways of lightening labor. A little money spent in the way of buy- ing conveniences for doing work will often save itself over and over again in wages for help, and, mayhap, in doctor’s bills as well. We never know how much we save in such things, though we often learn by sad experience how much we lose. The washing machines and wringers take away half the horrors of Monday, and nickle-plated irons, with wooden handles, help Tuesday to dispose of the ironing with amazing rapidity. The carpet-sweeper is a true missionary to tired muscles, for it often saves them from destruction, Even the egg beater, agood coffee—mill, sharp knives, light kettles, (the new granite ware is so much easier to lift than the old iron pots!) plenty of pans and basins,—all go to make up comfortable days for a woman, by giving her a chance to do her work ' rapidly and well. - ANTIDOTE FOR PoisoN.—The follow- ing item, prescribing a simple treatment in case of poisoning, appears in the Medzkal journal: If persons swallow any poison whatsoever, or have fallen into convulsions from having overload- ed the stomach, an instantaneous and very effective remedy is a. heaping tea- spoonful of common salt and as much ground mustard, stirred rapidly in a tea- cup of water. It is scarcely down be- fore it begins to come up, bringing with it all the remaining contents of the stomach; and lest there should be any remnant of poison, however small, let the white of an egg and sweet oil, but- ter or lard—several spoonsful—be swal- lowed immediately after vomiting, be- cause these very ‘common articles nulli- {y a larger number of virulent poisons than any medicine in the shops. ———.—-—on-—————- To Clgzn PVz'm1ow.r.——Wash with luke- warm water, rub with any clean, dry cloth to take off the first dampness, then finish with a piece of chamois. A large one can be purchased for fifty cents, and it will last a. lifetime and save so much hard work. When soiled wash in soapsuds, rinse well and dry, then rub it in the hands to make it soft. For silver it is unequaled. Also wring it in tepid water, and use it to rub off the finger marks on the piano, then rub with a dry one. s . 34¢-"r. _, JULY 15,: 1886. 3.311,, to g.;.....m¢.a;' Where They Used To Be. Papa’s got his patent right and rich as all crea- tion; But where's the peace and comfort that we all had before? Let’s go a-visitin' back to Griggsby‘s Station-— Back where we used to be so happy an’ so pore! The likes of us a-livin’ here! lt’s jest a mortal pity _ _ To see us in the great big house, with carpets on the stairs, And the pump right in the kitchen; and the city! city! city! And nothin’ but the city, all around us every- where! Climb cleaii above the roof and look from the steeple, And never see a robin, nor a beech or elm tree! And right here in earshot of at least :1 thousand people. And none that neighbors with us, or we want to go and see! Let‘s go a-\'isitin' back to Griggsby‘s Station - Back where the latch string’s a hangin‘ from the door, And every neighbor around the place is dear as a relation — . Back where we used to IIC so happy and so pore! I want to see the Wigginses, the whole kit and bilin‘ A drivin’ up from Shallow Ford to stay the Sun- day through, And I want to see’in hitchin’ at their son-in—law‘s and pilin’ Out there at Lizy Ellen's like they used to do! I want to see the piece quilts the Jones girls is a- makin’, And I want to pester Laura ‘bout their freckle hired hand. And joke her ’bout the widower she came purty nigh a takin’, 'l‘ill her pap got his pension ’lowed in time to save his lan(l. Let‘s go a—visitiii‘ back to Griggsby’s Station— Back where there’s nothin’ aggra\'atin' any more, Sliet away safe in the woods around the old location- Back where we used to be so happy and so pure! I want to see Mirandy and help her with her sewiii' And hear her talk so lovin’ of her man that's dead and gone. And stand up with Emanuel to show me how he’s growin‘ And smile as I have seen her, ‘fore she put her mournin‘ on. And I want to see the Samples on the old lower e" ht '-— Where John, our oldest boy, he was wok and buied, for His own sake and Katy‘s—and Iwant to cry with Katy, As she reads all his letters over, writ from the war. a VVhat‘s in all this grand life and high situation, And nary pink nor hollyhawk a blooniin’ at the door? Let’s go a visitin' back to (.iriggsby‘s Station- Back where we used to be so happy, and so pure! ‘ IV. l€1'/5}’. _Out-Walkwed. Women and girls are commonly called “the weaker sex,” and supposed to have less physical endurance than males, but the following rather large story shows that with proper training they can soon compel a different esti- mate of their physical strength: One of our most venerable and or- thodox colleges has recently become the proud possesser of an Irishman for its President. The learned gentleman has two or three fascinating daughters, who are naturally the recipients of many polite attentions from the stu- dents. A few days ago one of these young ladies, all of whom are famous pedes- trains, started for a walk, when she was met by a student acquaintance, who asked permission to accompany her. “Certainly,” said the young lady, and they walked off merrily into the coun- tr . yAfter proceeding some miles the fair pedestrain remarked incidentally that she intended to call on some friends at T.» Now T. is just ten miles from the‘ college, and our student friend, Whose strength is intellectual rather than phy- sical, was somewhat aghast at the pros- pect. However, there was nothing to be done but to trudge on with as good a grace as possible. T. was reached, the call was made, and then the young gen- tleman proposed to take a carriage and ride home. “Oh, no,” said the Irish lassie, “I would just as soon walk,” and she led off at a brisk pace on the homeward road. To the credit of masculine pluck be it said that our representative was equal to the emergency, and escorted his companion to the paternal front- door, where she bade him a cheerful good-day, and he was suffered to de- part. It is painful to add that he was unable to attend his college duties for nearly a week. —_——-——-—o>—-————--- Sense and Nonsense. “The doctor said he'd put me on my feet again in two weeks,” “Well. didn't he do it?” “He did, indeed. I had to sell my horse and buggy to foot his bill.” “And you’ve been footing it ever since?” “Precisely.” There are lots of people who mix their religion with business, but forget to stir it up well. The business invaria- bly rises to the top as a result. A small Hartford boy qnarreled with another, and, having too much con- science to wish. any one dead, said: f‘I wish there had never been a birth in your father’s family.” Several children were frozen to death in Germany, the other day, while going THE" 5 i'-..<3*.2R'..A.IlsI‘: * to school. This ‘shows that children do‘ not go to school any faster in Germany than they do in this country.—Burling— ton Free Press. It was a Harvard sophomore who said the other day, when told that a girl had once taken the highest classical honors of the college: “Oh, well, you know the girls have nothing to do but study. We fellows really have so much else to do that we don't get much time for books.—Boston Record. “Lend me your ears,” as the farmer said to the corn stalk. A patent medicine , advertisement says: “The human body is much like a good clock.” This sounds reasonable. A good many men spend a large part of their time in striking. ‘ _ "Are you pretty well acquainted with your mother tongue, my boy?" asked the school teacher of the new scholar. “Yes, sir,” answered the lad timidly, “ma jaws me a good deal, sir.” A small child being asked by a Sun- day School teacher: “What did the Israelites do after they had crossed the Red Sea?” answered: “I don’t know, ma’am, but I guess they dried them- selves.” Sunday school scholar ( to teacher)- “Did you say the hairs of my head were all numbered?" Teacher—-“Yes, my dear.” S. S. Sch0lar—-“Well, then, (pulling out a hair and presenting it), what's the number of this one?" When the heart is full the lips are si- lent; when the man is full it is differ- Elli. [Ila/eirzg It Easy for Ifir Empl0_yer.—— A merchant went to his head clerk and said: “_]olin,I owe about $10,000, and all I possess is $4,000 which is locked up in the safe. I have been thinking that this is the right time to make an assignment, but what plausible pretext I can give my creditors I know not. You have plenty of brains; think the matter over, and let me know your de- cision in the morning. The clerk prom- ised to do so. On entering the office the next morning the merchant found the safe open, the money gone, and in its place a letter which read as follows: “I have taken the $4,000 and have gone to Canada. It is the best excuse you can give your creditors.” With jachne at work in the laundry at Sing Sing, Buddensiek learning to make shoes in the same institution, and Most blowing the bellows of a black- smith’s forge on Blackwell’s Island, the revival of industry in New York society is becoming so notable as to attract wide attention. fleam’ on 1/1! street.-—“Why, that man was your chum at school, and you two were always inseparable, yet now you pass him with a cool bow. Has any dis- pute occurred?” “Oh, no; we dearly love each other still, but it would not look well to show it. I have become a doctor and he has become an undertak- er.”-—P/zz'/arz’eZ19/zia News. THE CAXNIBAL ISl.A‘.V'DS. How happy must the people be Amid these islands blest, Where strikers cease from troubling And switchmen are at rest. No Powderlys infest these isles, No Martin Irons jaw, No Knights of Labor proclamate, No riots break the law. Among these cheerful islanders A man is but a man, And be he either poor or rich They serve him if they can. Sometimes they serve him raw: again They do him up on toast; Braized, buttered,stewed; anon perchance They serve him as a roast. Qbituatics, BRIGHTOl\'— \Vi{Eiu-:As, It has pleased an all-wise provi- dence to remove from our midst Sister John Brighton, in whose death we have lost a faithful friend, a loving companion, and a. jealous co- worker, whose untiring efforts and unswerving fidelity were devoted to the interests and welfare of our organization and demand a just and fitting tribute of praise. Therefore Resolved, That we deeply lament our loss and hereby tender the afflicted family our sincere and heartfelt sympathy in this sad hour of their bereavement. Reralzrzti, That our charter be draped in mourning for sixty days. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the GRANGE Visrroit and one to the W'a.’1/nt Comm! Courier for publication. COM. Lowxnss Co., Miss. ‘Mr. Editor:—-The Patrons’ Liquid Rubber Paint which I purchased, is as fresh and glossy now as when first ap- plied. It is unquestionably the best Paint ever used in this place. Fraternally, W. H. VVoi3sL°n , 8 30 ‘ Ar . . . . ..Calumet....... Express Trains daily the year round make close connec- tions with trains from Canada and the East. to all Lake Superior points. Night express with sleeper leaves St. Ignace 10:30 P. M., arrives at Marquette 7 A. .\i. Leaves Marquette 9:30 P, M., arrives at St. Ignace 6 A. M. A. VVATSON. Gen‘l Superintendent, Marquette, Mich. E. \V. ALLEN. Geu’l Pass. and Ticket Ag’i. Marquette, Mich. V SELECTED BV THE U. S. GOV'T GARRY THE F8 MAIL. THE LINE V T0 Buriinginn Hiliiifi c.e.&rg.n.n. ~ini{oiiiy nu 3. ‘s, ' Ind: cgmcnco 1-o -Eituvsn. ‘"*°"~-+ ..°..-:-~:- :'.':'1‘.°.’u°-~“-‘“°'“- II I . |L¢I||||fiE&IllY£:lllUl|_ totsunhlmoiflljr vvsmm K. I ADELPHIA. 51 II and all Eutarn pokltl. It Is the principal line It: ‘rs.-~-:".'.=.°.:.'::*.l*-.° r . IOWA. aaflflllll. IIEBl‘l§RA.IKIIIsA-S, GOLOIMBO with brunch Ilnos to all thelr Important cities and towns. From GIIIGAGO. PEOIIIA or ST. LOUIS. It runs every day In the your from one to three ale nntly equl pod through trains over It: own tracks be ween on c and Denver, Oh cage and Omaha, chlcngo and council Bluffs, chlcnpo and st. Joseph, Oh cage and Atcnlson, Chicago and Kansas city, chlcago and To aka, Ohlcago and edar Rn Ids, chlcago and Sioux Ity, Poorla and council Bluffs, Poorla and Kansas city, 81:. Louls and Omaha. st. Louis and St. Paul, Kansas cit andbenver Kansas lty and St. linul. Kansas clty and Omaha, For all polnta In Northwest. West and Southwest. Its equipment Is complete and Iii-st class In every partlcular. and at all Important points Intarlocklng switches and signals are used. bus Insuring com- fort and safety. For Tlckets. Ilutn. General Information etc.. regardlngj the Burlington Ioute. call on an Ticket Agent In he Unlted ates or Canada, or a dress T. J. POTTER 1ar V.P. G. GEN. Mom, cmcaoo. HENRY B. STONE, Asst. GEN. Mam, cmcaao. PERCEVIJ LOWELL, GEN. PAea. Am-.. cuicmo. 15sept86eoI FIRE PROOF GUTTA-PERCHA RUOHNG For flat or steep roofs. Cheap, durable and easily applied. FIRE PROOF PAINT. Send for prices. EMPIRE PAINT & ROOFING CO., 1128 and 1130 Race Street, Mention this paper. Philadelphia, Pp. 15aprr2t REMOVAL 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 kee a full stock of SEEDS of all kinds, and will ft orders for merchandise of every description as usual; also solicit consi n- ments of such produce as farmers have to is- pose of- GEO. W. HILL. DETROIT, MICH. GERMAN CARP. Orders filled promptly, and satisfaction guaranteed; address, SILL & REEVE, Dexter, Mich. a‘:':'il'-If: ll0llllllllllTS 8 STATUARY In Practically Indestructible. SUPE.'"0B in Every Respect to nrble or Granite. AT WORLD'S FAIR, New 0ni.g=.ANs, 1884-5. Over 25,0002:-oololl For Duignn and Circulars Arldrnn H.W.{lxreen.Ilai2'gr,Céd. Rapids,lilici2. OFFICE, EAGLE HOTEL BLOCK. GHQ GUIDE. We issue the Buyers’ Guide In March and September of each year. It is now a book of 304 pages, 8ixII inches in size, 28,576 square Inches of Information fortbe consumers. It describes, illustrates and gives the price of nearly all the necessaries and luxuries in daiiy use y all classes of pen- Ie, and is sent free to any address upon receipt of IO cents 0 pay the cost of carriage. We charge nothing for the book. All of the goods quoted In the Guide we carry in stock, ;i which enables us to make shipments promptlyand as ordered. » We are the original Grange Su pl House organized in I872 to supply the consumer direc a wholesale prices, in quantities to suit the purchaser. We are the only house In ; existence who make thls their exclusive business, and no ‘, other house in the world carries asfreat a variety of code 1 1 as ourselves. Visitors are Invite to call and veri our 5 ’ statement. 1 Semi for the Guide and see what It contains. If it is not i ,: _ worth I0 cents, let us know, and we will refund the amount ; paid without question. 1; MONTGOMERY WARD & 60., 227 8:. 229 Wabash Ave., (llm Exposition Building) CHICAGO, ILL. _ t-L-._-_:;. __.'- .;:; -.-._.:-;_~,<.-. CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY TIME TABLE, JUNE 26, 1886- TRAINS EASTWARD—CBNTRAL l\l.BIl"DIAN TIII. TRAINS \V‘ESTWARD—CENTXAL IWERIHIAN TIME. 3 No. 18, No. 4 }No. 6. [Na 1. No. 3 No. 5. Express Express.I Express. ‘ Mail. Express. Exprus. Port Huron, Lv. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 05 A. M.i. 7 55 P. M. ‘ Chicago. Lv .l 8 05 A. M. 3 25 P. M. 8 xsr. I. Lapeeiz. . . 8 31 " 9 34 “ Valparaiso. . .l1o 3o “ 5 32 “ io 29 " Flint... . 9 06 “ io 10 " South Bend. . - 12 oo " 6 52 " 12 or A. ll. Durand . 9 35 “ 1o 48 “ Cassopolis. . .t12 47 P. M. 7 29 “ 12 43 “ Lansing. .. 10 30 “ ,1i 50 “ Marcellus . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 16 " ‘.._ . . . . . .. 107 " Charlotte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11 00 A. M312 :5 A. M. Schoolcraft . . . . . . . . . . ..l 1 35 " 8 06 " 1 :7 " Battle Creek. Ar . . . . . .. A. in. 11 45 " l I 20 " Vicksbu . . . . . .. ..I 1 5o " 8 r5 “ 1 43 " “ Lv. . . 8 50 12 05 " I 1 25 “ Battle Creek, Ar. . . 2 45 " 8 55 “ 2 3-: “ Vicksburg . .. . . 9 45 12 43 " 2 21 " " Lv. . . 3 45 “ 9 oc- " 2 35 " Schoolcraft . . 9 S5 12 55 “ I 2 32 Charlotte . . . . . . . . . . 4 42 " 9 43 " 3 25 '- \Iarcellus . . I0 20 1 16 ‘ '* . . . . . . . . . Lansing . . . . . . . . . ..l 5 20 “ 10 14 " 4 oo " Cassopolis. . . . to 50 1 42 ‘ I 3 19 “ Durand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 05 " 11 08 “ 5 03 " South Bend . . . . . . . . . . ..In 40 2 23 “ j 4 07 " Flint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 55 “ 11 37 “ 5 40 " Valparaiso . . . . . . . . . . . . .l 1 38 4 oo " i’ 5 52 " Lapeer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..l 8 42 " 12 07 A. M. 6 15 " Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..l 4 05 I‘. M. 6 30 “ I 8 1o " Port Huron . . . . . . . . . . ..l1o 2o “ I 1 26 " 7 35 " V\'ay Freight carrying passengers going East, 3.30 P. M.: going west. to 05 A. M. *Stop for _.assengers on signal only. Nos. 3. 4. 5 and 6 run daily. _ 5 Tickets sold and baggage checked to all parts of Canada and United States. For through rates and time apply to G. M. WATSON. Local Agent. Schoolcrafi; W. E. DAVIS. Assistant Gen’ Passenger Agent, Chicago; W. J. SPICER, General Manager, Detroit. BUSTNESS AGENT MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE. THOMAS MASON, General Commission Merchant, 161 South Water St., Chicago, Respectfully Solicits Consignments of PriiIi,IagaIab1ei,IiIIar,Igg:,Iru:IuI,IzwIiii,IiIai,PalIi,'Ii1liw,Ir. BONDED AGENT of the N. Y. Produce Exchange Association, Chartered Feb. 13, 1878. All Orders Receive Proper Attention. _—i— -- Bedncti on inf’:-ice ofPain' to. THE PATRONS’ PAINT WORKS have made another reduction in the price of Paints, notwithstanding they are cheaper than any-other Paints in the market, even if the others cost NOTHING. Why? Because TEN THOUSAND PAT- RONS TESTIFY THAT THEY LAST FOUR TIMES AS LONG AS WHITE LEAD AND OIL MIXED IN THE OLD WAY. » WE DELIVER 10 GALLON ORDERS FREIGHT PAID TO YOUR DE- POT. WE SEND YOU AN ELEGANT PICTURE OF SOME OF THE LEAD- ING MEN OF THE ORDER. A pamphlet, “Everyone their own Painter,” sam- ple of colors, references of many thousand Patrons, etc., free upon application. Masters and Secretaries, please name your title in writing. J an 1 t12 PATRONS’ PAINT WORKS, 64 I-‘nlton §t., New;York- ,4,“ _. ,,.,.. , —... §‘~ ..- .. .. . _ 3 .. Q 8 .... ..._ _.....-. ................-4-..v.r...r...‘........4.,. . .. W, .. .....a..... .__....,..l...............,...... _, :2»;-.:' - . :-9&9." JULY 15, 1896. v_flflA .-.. S. .. J lm Bludso. Wall, no! I can’t tell whar he lives, Because he don’t live, you see; Leastways, he’s got out of the habit Of livin’ like you and me, Whar have you been for the last three year That "“ havn't heard folks tell‘, , How JiniBludso passed in his checks The night of the Prairie Belle? He \vasn’t no saint—them engineers Is all pretty much alike-— _ One wife in Natchez under the hill, And another one here in Pike; A keerless man in talk was Jim, And an awkward man in a row; _ But he never flunked and he never lied- I reckon he never knowed how. And this was all the religion he had- To treat his engine well, Never to be passed on the river, To mind the pilot’s bell; And if ever the Prairie Belle took lire-— A thousand times he swore He’d hold her nozzle again the bank Till the last soul got ashore. All boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day came at last—- The Moravian was a better boat, But the Belle she wouldn’t be passed; And so she came tearing along that night, The oldest craft on the line- With a nigger squat on her safety valve, ‘ And her furnace crammed with rosin and pine. The tire bust out as she cleared .the bar, And burnt.’ a hole in the night, And quick as a flash she turned and made For that willer bank on the right. There was runnin’ and ciirs’n but Jim yelled out Over all the infernal roar, “I’ll hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last galoot’s ashore.” Through the hot, black breath of the burning boat Jim Bludso’s voice was heard. And they had trust in his CUSSCKIIICSS, And knowed he‘d keep his word. And sure’; you’re born they all got oil ‘ Afore the smoke stack fell-— And Bludso‘s ghost went up alone In the smoke of the Prairie Belle. He weren’t no saint—but at Judgment I‘d run my chance with Jim ’Longside of some pious gentleman That wouldn’t shook hands with him. He seen his duty, a dead sure thing- And went for it there and then; And Christ ain’t a-going to be hard On a man phat died for men. ——CoZ. _7o/m Hay. gr Cost Q)’ the Wlzite 1{au:e.—-—Most peo- ple believe that the $50,000 a year which the President gets as his salary is the sum total. This is a mistake. The es- timate of the amount which Congress is to appropriate this _year lies before us, open at the page relating to the President. We see that $36,094 is ask- ed for him, in addition to his salary of $50,000, to pay the salaries of his sub- ordinates and clerks. His Private Secretary is paid $3,250, his Assistant Private Secretary $2,250, his stenc- grapher $1,800, five messengers, each $1,200, steward $1,800, two door-keep- ers who each get$r,200,fourother clerks at good salaries, one telegraph operator, two ushers getting $1,200 and $1,400, a night usher getting $1,200, watchman who gets $900, and a man to take care of fires who receives $864 a year. In addition to this there is set down $8,000 for incidental expenses, such as station- ery, carpets, and the care of the Presi- dent's stables. And further on, under another heading, there is a demand for nearly $40,000 more. Of this $12,500 is for repairs and furnishing the White House, 82,500 for fuel, $3,000 is for the green house, and $15,000 is for gas, matches and the stables. The White House, all told, costs the country, in connection with the~President, consid- ably over $12 5,000 a year.-—San Fran- cisco I1/aria’. Origizz af“_Decoratz'o7z Day.”—As Dec- oration Day is a fixed fact, and proba- bly not one in a hundred of our readers knows its origin, the following may be interesting to them. Mrs. Sarah Nich- ols Evans who died in Des Moines, Iowa. last year, was one of the four la- dies with -whom the observance of Decoration Day originated. On the 13th of April, 1862, just one year after the fall of Fort Sumter, Mrs. Evans, with the wife and two daughters of Chaplain May, of the second regiment, Michigan volunteers, decorated the graves of a considerable number of soldiers buried on Arlington Heights, near Washington. In May of the year following they rendered the same sad- ly-pleasant attention to the graves of soldiers buried ‘at Fredericksburg. In 1874 Congress made the 30th of May a - legal holiday. The charm of nobility and family ti- tle is something to which “distance lends enchantrnent.” Only a little child's frankness, however, would be likely to say so to the aristocrat him- self. - ,"'—'_:_’, ’ .‘ _ An English lord who visited Scotland was at a dinner given in his honor at a private residence. A little daughter of his host,who was too well bred to stare, but who eyed him covertly as the occa- sion presented itself, finally ventured to remark: “And are you really and truly an En- glish lord?” “Yes,"he responded pleasantly, “real- ly and truly.” “I_.e_=hg,ve often thought I would like to see an.English lord,” she went on, “and—a,t_id—” _ he infhffupfe ,’IaiigI‘iingIy.i ‘ “ ’ “No---no--” replied the truthful little girl,‘ “I'm not satisfied; I'm a good deal disappointed.” rwhilewe believe from the assurances 'po;jtion.t:§ quantity of shi_pgient., .Mar-- 'ket*quotations"dn wool, rb'eims,’efc.’, ‘fur: PREMIUM LIST. of our friends that they are entirely earnesfin behalf of the VIS’iTOR, and would willingly work for = it with- out pay, we are ready to make the ofl'ers, as stated below, of articles which will be a. compensation of real value to agents. Any one sending the names of five subscribers and 92.50, will be entitled to a choice of the fol- lowing: - One copy of GitA.\'Gi~: VISITOR, six months. One copy of “Glad Echoes,” song book. One copy of Kendall’s “Treatise of the Horse.” For ten names and $5.00 achoice of the fol- lowing: . One extra copy of GRANGE VISITOR, one year. One copy of Digest of Laws and Rulings. One American Manual of Parliamentary Laws. One copy of Pocket Manual. One copy _of National Grange Choir. Three copies of Glad Echoes. For thirty names and $15.00 we will send one copy of Haigh’s Manual of Law and Forms. This is a book of 492 pages and comes to us well endorsed. PHILADELPHIA MARKETS. {Corrected by Thornton Barnes. Wholesale Grocer and ‘»1I'&IJ e Selling Agent. No. 231 North Water St., Philadelpliia, Pu. PHILADELPHIA, July 15, 1886. PURE SUGARS. Cut Loaf rlb..... Pulverize per 1b.. . standard Granulated per ‘lb . Standard A \V!xite per lb . . . . . .. Best White Soft A per . . . . . . . . . -0041 White Soft A )el' Tb . . . . . . . . Extra C White per . . . . . . . . . . .. standard B per lb . . . . . . . . . . Extra C Yellow Bright per 4 (.1 Yellow per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brown r lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. New Or eans Extra Light per ft» . . . . . . . . . .. SYRUP AND MOLASSE5—In Barre Sugar drips pure sugar per gallon. . . . "3 Amber drips pure sugar per gallon. . . ~ Fancy white maple drips per gallon . Extra golden pure sugar per gallon. . Fancy New Orleans new crop per gallon. .54.: Good New Orleans new crop per gallon. ..-16 White honey drip. van.lla. tizivor . . . . . . . . . .33 l!\iPOR'l'A.\'T —’l‘h-. above quotations are for syrup in whole barrels only. All syrup in half harrelsi cents per gallon extra and no charge for package. In :3 and 10 gallon packages 3 cents per gallon addition- al and the Post -it pa('K&Ze— COFFEES—GREEN AND ROASTED. Fancy Rio per 11).. . ., . . . . .. 13 Green Rio extra choice per 11 @111/, Green Rio prime per 1') . . . . . . ui,.@11 Green Rio good per lb. . . . . .10 @10}§ Green Rio common per 1’) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9 @ 9I,._. Green Maracaibo choice per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . .121,§@l3 Green Lagueyre choice per '13 . . . . . . . . . . . ..l-2 @121/. Green Java choice p--r lb - @~_)_1 Roasted Rlii best per Th. . _ Roasted Rio No.1 per lh. . . .1: Rousveti Rio .\o.'2pe:1b. . .1124 Roasted Lagusiyra nestpcr lb .14 Roasted Java. b»;-.2: per in . . . . . . . . . . .. @-2; Barnes‘ Golden Rio roasted in 1 lb p’k .... ..15 TB AS. Imperial per in. . .._ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25, 3.5, 40, 45, 50 Young Hymn per ib . . . . . . . . .. ‘ 50, 55 Oolong per ‘ 40, 50 Japan pct‘ Iii. . . . . 3.3, 45, 50 Gunpowder per in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..-30, 10, 45, 50_ 55 FOREIGN DRIED FR'L'lTS. -Raisins. New Muscatells. per box . . . . . . . . . .82 50 “ Old Muscutells, “ . . . . . . . . .. “ L«'.r.don layers -‘ . . . . . . . . .. 2 85 “ {iopdon layers 1/ boxes. .. .. 1 00 “ 'a.encia per . . . . . . . .. 9:, 93 ‘~ Seedless. mats 7 lb per ma. 3 7§5@ /4 “ Ondara, box, 28 l‘ . . . . . . . .. H “ “ 14 lb . . . . . . . . . 12,34 Prunes. French boxes. per lb . . . . . . . . .. .. s=r@10 " New Turkey. per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3%@ 4% Currants, new. Der lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-i/4@ 7 WHOLE SPICES. Black Pepper per D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 white ~ " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. as Ginger “ . 1:2 Cinnamon ‘_‘ . 10 Cloves " 21 Allspice “ 9 Marie " . . 50 Nutinegs “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. 65 PURE GROUND SPICES. Pure Pepper. black. per in. . . . 20 " African Cayenne. per lb 23 " Cinnamon Ber lb . . . . . . .. 17 *' Cloves per . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. 24 “ Ginger per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 " Allspzce per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 GROCERS' SUl\'DRIE.—:. Sal Soda. 112 lb kegs, per in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1% Flour sulphur. per 1?: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Bi-curb soda. loose, 112 in kegs . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " “ " 25 “v boxes . . 5 “ “ “ 11! lb boxes . F " “ in fit puckiigt-5.. 614 " " in ‘/5 lb pacl:a_ 71,; Corn starch Gilbert's. pr 15.. . 6 “ Duryea's. per In . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 Starch. lump, l)uryeu‘s. -10 in boxes, perils 4 “ Gilherts " " “ 4 Corn starch. new process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51/_. Starch, newprocess, lump. . . .. 3‘ “ “ 6 it boxo (5 ‘* " 1 lb boxe 51, Grain bags, '2 bushels ....... . . Geortzia bags, '2 bushels . . . . . . . . . . 20 Cnocolate, Bakers Prem. .\‘o. l p._-r 1b.... 37 @35 Barnes’ Perfect Baking Powder in 1% lb tins. per doz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..1 25 Bagnes Perfect Baking Powder in ,1/, lb l.lIlS, er doz . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 20 Barnes Perfect Baking Powder in 1 it tins per doz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 25 Rice, new crop. Fancy Head, per its. 63/, ice, “ good. per in . . . . . . . .. . .. 51.. “ “ prime, er lb .......... . . 51,, com Brooms No. 3, per 02 . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 " N0. 4, “ . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-,) “ No. 5, “ . .. '5 “ No. 6. “ . .- 04) Best arlor brooms, " . . . ‘ 25 Lye, s.bbitt’s, per case of 4 do ) Lye. Penna, " “ - ' Lye, Phila.., “ H 30 Potash “ “ ........ ..-2 so @3 25 IIEAIII GATHERING. sin description of this system of butter making, together with illustrations a.nd.descr1pt1ons of cream gathering cans, refrigerator and haulin cans, plans for creanieries, and other in ormation of great value to any one about to start butter mak- mg on the cream gathering system, or de- siring to make a chan from the present system of dairyiug, wi I be sent free upon application to Chas. P. Willard & 00., 280 Michigan Street, Chicago, Ill. julyrstz 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 egtceed five per‘ cent., and less in pro- nished on application. THOS. MASON, Business Ag’t Mich. State Grange. OUSEKEEPERSI Save money. by H mending your own Tinware with SOLDER PENCILS! l\_'O ACID, ROSIN, or SOLDER- ING COPPER used. Ten Cents per Dozen. Address, A. F. WIXSON, : 486 Sixth Street, ‘ vents wanted, Detrolr, Mich. 1 July t2 - IRON Rent: for prices and Illusrrntr.-.6 Catalogue of CINCINNATI (0.) CDRRUGATINE CO. Farmers’ Impleinents, Sash, Doors, Glass, Nails, General Hardware, Screen Doors an Window Frames, ASSORTMENT OF Pumps, Barb Fence Wire, Tar, Felt and Straw Board, ALL TO BE GOT AT THE Melis Hardware, 17-19 Grandville Ave., Opposite the Engine House, Grand Rapids. nd for our NEW §’fiACH|NEIlYci°..m.......-...FREE 0.0. Hampton. Detroit,Mich. 155 A D. DEGARMO, Highland Station, Oak- o_land,Co., Mich. Farm one half mile north of the station, breeder of Shorthorns oi Pomona, Young Phyllis, White Rose, Bell Ma- bone and Sally Walker families. Stock of both sexes for sale. Terms easy, prices low. Cor- respondence solicited. PATENTS. LUCIUS c. WEST, Solicitor of American and ‘ Foreign Patents, and Counsellor in Patent Causes, Trade marks, Copyrights, Assignments, Caveats, Mechanical and Patent Drawings. Circulars free. 105 E. Main Street, Kalamazoo, Mich. Branch oflice, London, Eng. Notary Public. aprrtf VERY Person who wishes to im- prove their Handwriting or learn to Compute Interest rapidly should purchase P.rlRSONS’ Slllélé INSTRUCTOR, Penmanship and Interest Rules, and TABLES for 6, 7, and 10 per cent. ‘ . and Copv SLIPS. W. F. Parsdns. ‘g . College, Kalamazoo, ./Iliciz. Tfikfifilglkla legdldoes rapt carrodejike tin - , rile’! , or r composltmnl, , ?i.e!.’((:)ayV aneclflclllililix-itibelia at half the cost of ties.” 18 RE?) a :-3U‘ TITUTE for P TER at Half the °%‘.i"FE.§ sdat GS °.l d°;'*‘° _ ' . a as an sun as re ’ ° wiirf’ ii’. £2311 dc oo'.°5'i:an1nnN.p N. J.“ i5apr5t GREEN\‘VO0D STOCK FARM Poland china Swinea Specially. Breeders Stock recorded in Ohio Record. Corres- pondence and inspection invited. B. G. BUELL, O LITTLE PRAIRIE RONDE, Cass Go., Mich. J TIEIE GE VISI«TO.R:. 314 Try one, 314 A better Harness than you can buy for 820. I in llill lllill Elllllli, Full Nickel, or Davis Rubber Trimming, Best Oak Stock, for $14. FOR 33 DAYS I will fill all orders received under seal of the Grange, Iind may be returned if not satisfactory. A. VANIIENBERG, GRAND Ramos, Mich. ma Your own . FEIITILIZERS. \Vhere to get the materials in the che:ip- ‘ —‘ est form; how to make up formulas for difier- ent crops: seven ways to make lant food or bones. ground and whole : all a out fish for , inzinure and where to get them, and wood ashes. &c.,.'L’c. A book of 120 pages, crowded - -; with valuable information, all given in the ' plain, common sense wa farmers can under- - st.md. By 1'l\ZllI4OCiS. lso books on Onion, » Sqnzish, Cabbage, and Carrot and Mangolll ' i“..lS1.'lL’,'. at 30 cents each, or the five for $1.3; '3 Ivy ll'I:lII, Two of these have been lI‘Il’(IvIL’I] ' 1 I’) and ice-ditions. DI]; large Sr-ed Caz..- g logucfrec to all who writefor it. JAMES J‘ H. cnecoev, :9 MARBLEHEAD, MASS. oct 13, yrl .i.«~ :~, C en ufe, FURNISHING . FUNERAL lIlRE()'I‘0R. N0. 103 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, - - Mich. Residence, 193 J eflerson Ave. ryN0v16 Fenno Brothers & childs, WDUL UBMMISSIUN MERCHANTS 117 Federal St.. Boston. Consignments Solicited, and Cash Advances Made. 5 Ton w\EiPa:i>Ki-in Scales. Iron Lev---. Steel Bnvlngs, Brut Tue Beam and Dam Box, for $60 and JONES h. pnya the fr¢i¢I:t—for fm VEII iii" “i‘ai'i’r'§'iir" Sill}: iii’ iii’ Blnzhnniwn. '.Y. ' feb 15 L12 German Horse and Cow POWDERS I This powder has been in use many years. It is largely used by the farmers of Pennsylvania, and the Patrons of that State have purchased over 100,000 pounds through their purchasing agents. Its composition is our secret. The reci- pe is on every box and 5—pound package. It is made by Dr. Oberholtzer’s Sons & Co., Phoenix- ville, Pa. It helps to digest and assimilate the food. Horses will do more work with less food while using it. Cows will give more milk and be in better condition. It keeps poultry healthy and increases the production of eggs. It is also of great value to them while molting. It is sold at the lowest possible wholesale prices by R. E. J.-\‘.\lES, Kalamazoo; GEO. W. HILL & CO., 80 \Voodbridge St., Detroit; THOS. MASON, I81 \Vater St., Chicago, Ill.; and ALBERT STEGEMAN, Allegan. Put up in 60-lb. boxes (loose). Price EIGHT CENTS per Ib., 30-l-b. boxes of 6 ;-lb. packages, TEN CENTS per lb. The Leading Music House. In Western Michigan. FRIEDRICH BROS., 30 and 32 Canal_ Street, Grand Rapids. 31. _. i. , Weber Pianos, Knabe Pianos, Fischer Pianos, Peek Pianos. Chase Organs, Smith American Organs, Taylor and Farley Organs, Valley City Organs. A LARGE STOCK or Sheet Music, Music Books, and Musical Merchandise. ?E.IG‘ES LOW’, Terms Easy, Satisfaction Guaranteed! 5in lsept “The Old Folks at H onie.” WHITE SEAL BURNING UILI The New York Board or Health estimates that 30000 lives have been destroyed by the explosive qualities of pe- troleum. If every household would adopt the \Vhite Sea} Oil for family use, none of these unfortunate accidents would occur White Seal BI.l1‘nIllg(.‘II has none of he defects usually found in common oils. It cannot be axploded, does not char the wick will notsmoke. emits no offensive odor, and prevents the breaking of chimneys. Wliite Seal Burning (III is a rich oil for illuminating purposes. It is as light It color as pure spring water It gives a strong, steady ligI.t, and burns much longer than common oils. It the While ~eaI Burning Oil is not sold in your vicini- ty. send your order direct to us for a barrel or a case con- taining two neat five gallon cans. BROOKS 011. 00.. 55 Euclid Ave.. Cleve- land. Ohio. ' 1 Ju:y A 92-LBLEABBAGEI Mr. E. Leedham of Arovo Grztnde, Cal., and J. C. VVard of Plymouth. .\l'e., write me tliatfram my strain of needs, thug.‘ raised Min-bleliead M um- meth Cabbages weighing 91 and 92 lbs. Seed .1‘ taken from the same lot from which these monster cub- baaes were , prawn, accom- , panied with a statement of how they were grown, sup- plied atigccnts :1 ,acka_x:c. I will pay £1.00 per lb. for the largest C "3 bage from this .-c.-ed /' aw‘ .‘2~‘~ _ ~ (freight prepaid». pro- vided it weighs not less than 70 lbs. when received. M large Vegetable and Flower Seed Catalogue wi I be scntfi-ee to all who write for it. James J. H. Gregory, Marhlahaad, Mass. FRIREE SQUARE DEAi..Iittl. 1;cliovi:i_:_~' men Iiis_patrons are his best advertisers. I invite all to make inquiry of the character olm seeds unioni: over .1 million 0! Farmers. Gardeners audy nsed them during the past ‘hirty years. Raising ‘J , large portion of the seed sold, (few seedsmen raise .l:» seed they sell) I was the first seedsnmn in the Unzn,--l Stutes to warrant (as per catalogue) their purity and lreslino.-s~ My ‘I‘_fW Vegetable and Flower Seed Catalogue for 1886 will be sent pl-REE to_:ilI who write for it. Among an immense "II'I€'V my t_i-iendswill find in it (and in none other) a new drumhead C-ah bane. Just about as early as Hendersnn’s, but nearly twice (I large 1 James lliat it 1|. iimn has dealt squur.-ly with his fellow- Planters who have 93Bn'eSi J. H. Gregory. Dlnrbleheud. lllnu. GROCERIES! It will be interesting to every Farmer in the vicinity of -Grand Rapids ‘ to learn that the Wholesale Grocery House ——o1=-— ARTHUR MEIGS 39 GO. Eiave Cbpened. a. Mammoth Retail Department and are selling all goods at much LOVVEII PRICES than any other deale SPECIAL IN DUCEMENTS will be given large purchasers. OUR STOCK IS LARGE, and embraces everything in the line of Groceries and Provisions. When _ in town don’t fail to call on us. ARTHUR IMEIEIIC3-S