“ THE F.4RMER IS OF M ORE COJVSEQ UE./V'C'E TH.-—J\" THE F.4RJl[, .4Jl/"D SHO ULD BE FIRST IMPROVED.” VOLUME XI-—No. ,-9‘. a wi-IoLi-: NUMBER 239. I COLDWATER, MlCH.. AUGUST 1, 1886. J Printed by A. . ALDRICH & CO.. )Publishers of the CO D\VATER REPUBLICAN. OFFICIAI. DIRECTOR Y. Officers National Grange. Marin-—PUT DAKDEN .................. . .Miss’iss.pp. 0rrerr:rr—-JAMES (, DRAPER . .. Massachusetts Drturer-——MORT. WHI'I‘Ei~' EAD Sl£'wara'—J. E. HALL. . Axsistant StrIuar4'—W'. Chaplain-——A. ROSA . . . . Trea:urzr— F. M. MCDOVV .LL . . . . $£cretar_y—JNO. TRIMBLE, _-,I4, F Gate Ker/tr—H. THOM PS( )‘‘I C:rr.v—-MRS. KATE DARDF Pamr»:u—MRS. S. H. NE.-\I Flor-z—-MRS. JAMES C DR. Lieu} .'.7rw'st‘iznt 5te'warrt'—I\lRS. E. M. LIPSCUMB. South Carolina l i I - I I Executive ComI.IJi**-N- J. ‘VI. BLANTON, Ch'n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Virginii J. H. BRIGHAM . . . . . . . . . . . .Ohio J. J. WOOD.-MAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michigan Officers Michigan State Grange. [Plaster--C. G, LUCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gilead 07/ercr'rr—-JOlI.\' H( )LBROOK,. ' Lecturer—J>‘El{RY MAYO . . . . . . . - . . - Ste-wa.rd'—H.-\RR [SON BRADSHAW’. . . . .North Branch A.r:z'.rt.mf Strruizrri-——-A. E. GREEN . . . . . . . Walled Lake Clra;$laz'n—I. N. CARPENTER. . . . . . . . . . . .Sherman Trea:zrrI'r—-E. A. STRONG . . . . . . . . . .Vicksburg Secrztary—J. T. COBB . . . . . . . . . .Schoolcraft Gate I('ce_;ier.—A. M. AGENS.. . . . . . .Ludington Ceres-MRS. J. w. IiELi«;.vAP'..'I.'I.'.' ...... . .Greenville Pomona -- HRS VV. T, REMINGTON . . . . . . . . . . . .Alto Flara- MRS C. G. LUCE . . . . . . . . . . . Gilead L, A. Slermzrd-MRS. A. E. GREEN . . . . . . .Walled Lake Executiv:.(T)InIuittee. I-I. D. PLATT, Ch‘n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Yp.<.ilanti THOS F. MOOREL. . . . . . . . . . .Adrian J. G RAMSDELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Traverse City THOMAS MARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Berrien Center , Q. A BURRINGTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tuscola VM. SATERLEE . . . . .. . . . . Birmingham W, T. ADAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .GIand Iéapidj C. G. LUCE. _ . J . . . . . .. i ea J_ T, COBB, ifs‘ oflim’ ( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Schoolcraft State Business Agent. THOMAS MASON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lhicago, II! General Deputies. PERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Battle Creek MRS. PERRY MAYO.. . . . . . . . . . . . .Battle Creek Special Deputies. WM. I-I. LEE, Harbor Springs, for Emmett County. JOHN I-IOLBROOK, Lansing, for Ingham County. IASON WOODMAN. Paw Paw. for Van Buren County. BRONSON TURNER, Flushing. Genesee County. FRANK H. DYER. Ferris, Montcalm County. S. H. HYDE, Traverse City.GrandTraverse,Antrim, Lec- lanaw and Benzii-. Counties. ‘ R. C. THAYER, Benton Harbor, for Berrien County. GEO. W. SHEFFIELD, Johnstown. for Barry County. LUTHER J. DEAN. North Star, for Gratiot County. A. BURRINGTON. Tuscola. for Tuscola County. 0 N TRUE, Jackson. torjackson County. IRAM ANDREWS, Orion, for Oakland County. M. ‘.V. SCOTT. Hesperia. for Newaygo County. IAMES A. MARSH. Constantine, for St. Joseph County. M. V. B. MCALPINE, Montere . for Allegan County. A. M. LEITCH. North Burns, or Huron County. P. H. GOELTZENCLEUCHTER. Birch Run, for Sagi- naw County. GEO. B HORTON, Fruit Ridge, for Lenawcc County. C, C. KNOWLTON. Old Mission, for Missaukee County. G. C. LAWRENCE, Belle Branch. for Wayne County. CORTLAND HILL, Bengal, for Clinton County. Michigan Grange Stores. A. STEGEMAN, Allegan. C. GOODNOE, North Lansing. PRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES Kept in the ofiice oi the Secretary of the MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE, And rent out Po.il-paid’, on receipt of Car}: Or- der, azwr {/12 Seal of a Subordimzle Grange, and [/12 signature of it: xllasler or Secretary. Porcelain ballot marbles, per hundred. . . . .3 75 Blank book, ledger ruled, for Secretary to keep accounts with members . . . . .. I 00 Blank record books (express paid) . . . . . . . . I 00 Order book, containing 100 orders on the Treasurer, with stub, well bound. . . 50 Receipt book, containing Ioo receipts from Treasurer to Secretary, with stub, well bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Blank receipts for dues, per Ioo, bound. . . 50 Applications for membership, per Ioo. . . . 50 Secretary's account book (new style). . . . . 50 Withdrawal cards, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Dimits, in envelopes, per dozen . . . . . . . . 25 By-Laws of the State Grange, single copies IOC, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 75 By-Laws, bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 “Glad Echoes,” with music, single copy 15¢, per dozen . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . . I The National Grange Choir, single copy 40 cents, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 00 Rituals, single copy , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 “ per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 40 “ for Fifth Degree, for Pomona Granges, per copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Blank “Articles of Association” for the in— corporation of Subordinate Granges, with copy of charter, all complete. ., 10 Notice to delinquent members, per 100. . . 40 Declaration of purposes, PET dozen, SC, - per I00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 -American Manual of Parliamentary Law. . 50 ‘L ‘I S‘ 5‘ “ (Morocco Tuck)., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 00 Digest of Laws and Rulings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Roll books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 5 Patrons’ badges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Officers’ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 50 CO-OPERATIVE LITERATURE. - History and Objects of Co-operation . . . . . . 05 What is Co-operation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._. . . . 02 Some of the Weaknesses of Co-operation. 02 Educational Funds; How to Use Them. . . OI Associative Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . ., . . . . . . or The Economic Aspect of Co- operation. . . . or -Association and Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03 The Principles of Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or The Perils of Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or Fundamental Principles of Cooperation. . oI How to Start Co-operation Stores . . . . . . . . ' or Logic of Cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 03 Origin and Development of the"RochdaJe Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . .. o3 Addresses and Lectures by Eminent Men. . 03 Adam-,5, J. T. COBB, SEC’Y Mrcir. STATE GRANGE, Schoolcraft. Mich.. KMAMAZOI) NATIONAL BANK. Capital ‘l§0,NJ9. Sui-plus. $io.ooo. Southwest cor. Main and endrc Streets. Director:-Jacob Mitchell. John Den Bleyker, Melan ‘ D. Woodford. Melville BIéelow,J. Wilfred Thompson Geo e T. Bruen. Srunue A; ibson. Albert S. ' , Edwin]. elps. E. 0. Humphrey, N. Chase. Enwm Prints, President; MizLviLi.n J. Bicnww. Via-..". dent; Tr-Iolns S. Conn. C¢.:Ih':r.,_ febryr gnstal gattiiigs. I AM not a member of any Grange, but have taken the VISITOR something over two years, I I think, and I have enjoyed reading it ever so I much in the last year or so. In almost every ‘ issue I have found something that interested me so much as to almost compel me to write an ; article in regard to it; but I stifled all prompt- ings, until the present moment. I have been . reading those articles on Uleomargarine. I feel ‘ as though the manufacture ought to be stopped as efiectually as though it were counterfeit money instead of butter. I think one as bad as the other. I wish every Grange would follow those resolutions and enforce them. I am a farmer's wife and do not like to have butter com- mand such a low price, although I always get a ‘ shilling for mine when the market price is less than that. MR5. E. R. PETITIONS have often been sent to our mem- bers in Congress, asking them to enact a law to protect innocent purchasers from paying a royal- ty on patented machinery, but as yet we find no relief. Congress is so taken up with matters of its own that it gets no time to attend to the wants of its constituents. The laboring masses are patient and forbearing, but a crisis may be reached, when forbearance will cease to be 21 virtue. Self-preservation is said to be the first law of nature, and if those whom we pay to protect our rights will give no heed to our com- plaints, then we have the only alternative left, to protect ourselves. And if we use the only means at our command, though they may be deemed unlawful, can any one blame us? In Michigan the State Grange uses its combined force to protect its members from the clutches of these patent swindlers, but in New York each Patron is left like alone lninb to the mercy of these unprinciplcd vultures, and they are col- lecting three dollars royalty on every chain pump with rubber buckets. Congress in one day could forever settle this question of royalty on patented articles, and no one would be in- jured by such legislation, and as we have pa- tiently borne the outrage for a long time, and meekly asked Congress to redress our wrongs, and they have failed or refused to listen to our petitions, can they blame us for appealing to the only resort left us--[he 5/wt gun or 1/2: /uz/fer? CORTLAND HILL. Ithaca, N. Y., July 22, I886. THE farmers eight hour home rule as in force for the summer months: Get up at four A. M.; do chores, wash, eat breakfast, and work in the field until twelve. An hour for washing, eating and resting. Resume work atone P. M.; quit at six, and get the chores all done before nine if possible. If the farmer’s wife is all through before nine P. M. it is understood that something has been neglected. OUR wheat harvest is over and oats are being cut. Wheat is good; oats, I should think, about one-third of a crop, and hay about half a crop; but corn and potatoes are gone where the wood- bine twineth. How are farmers going to live time only will tell. No rain to amount to any- thing since cornplanting. _ Ashton Grange has had no meeting for six weeks, but expect one Saturday, July 24. Have been so very busy that we have hardly had time to read the VISITOR. , A. FORD. Alton, Kent Co., July 22, I886. CAMBRIA GRANGE is not dead, but it might be supposed in a comatose state judging from the dilatoriness to respond to the request for accounts of how Children’s Day was spent. The tenth of June opened bright and clear, a nice rain the day before laid the dust and made the atmosphere all that could be wished, though rather warm. We had a bountiful dinner at noon, in the lower room of our new ball, and as soon as possible all went to the room above where the exercises were held, consisting of music, singing, dia- logues, recitations by the little ones, aided by children [of a larger growth. When all was through with, the older ones repaired to the dining hall, (which being left in 3. rather chaotic condition, demanded at- tention) to gather up the fragments and restore order. The rest enjoyed themselves visiting, swinging, playing croquet, etc. It being the night of our Grange meeting, it was, at a late hour,decided to have open Grange. The program was hastily made up and notice was given to the few who remained. It was an impromptu affair, but was thought by some to be the best part of the day. Our hall was full and all seemed to enjoy the day, although a weari- some one to those who bear the heat and the burden of it. I think, if kept up, Children’s Day will be productive of great good. Frater- nally yours, MRS. VV. C. BARRITT. Cambria Grange, No. 74. MEMBERS of the Grange wishing to purchase any of the above named potatoes will please hold their orders until they hear from me again. I purchased one pound this spring at the low price of one dollar. They are recommended to yield I392% bushels per acre. I have fifty-four hills, and expect to get——-well, never mind until next year when Ishall probably have enough to plant one acre. Then for the profit. Suppose I al- low some for the bugs, &c., and only get Iooo bushels. These I well sell to members of the _Order at the reduced price of5oc per lb. Let me see— 1000 bushels make 60,000 pounds. At 50¢ per pound will make just $30,000 from one acre. Who can beat this? What’s the use of talking about hard times when its so easy to make money farming? (Mr. Editor I will pay you well for this adver- tisement when Isell my potatoes.) This is no Bohemian oat scheme, but genuine business. Later-I have been out to look at my potatoes. They need rain bad. Just hold your orders, please. Our corn and common potatoes are looking very nicely, considering the drouth. My St. Patrick potatoes are taking the lead again this year. The vines are" rank and green and nearly cover the ground. I am also trying Empire State and Mammoth Prolific. Both promise well. the example of VVestern Puniona Grange—adopt § Sowed twelve acres of Welcome oats. They L l I f are very nice. - Our Grange is going to make a display at the county fair again this fall. .\I. T. COLE. Palmyra, Lcnnwee Co., Mich. IT was the request of the members of Decatur write a iotting to the \'Is'I'I‘uR. are doing well. The busy ~:Ca.s'(JIl as usual keeps some of our members from attending, but there are always enough to have a good meeting. The sisters are the more fuithful, and twelve ‘years of Grange duties have not discouraged some of the chatter menibers. We have just learned that Mrs. L. J. liurri~',\vife of John 28, I886. ; County as :1 kind and excellent \\’()illfil]. Children’s Day was observed on June I0, fllltl the children did their part well. Those who were invited outside the Order responded cheer- fully. Not one child failed to perform its part. Select reading, !'eCltI‘tllOll.\' and speeclies. with good music, soon sped the hours, away, and after singing Home, Sweet Home, the Master (le- clared the labors of the day closed. All felt as though it was a (lay well spent and hoped it would have many returns. L. C. Decatur, July 20, I886. \VE are having a prolonged (lrouth here. All grass looks fairly brown. May was a very light crop. Spring wheat and-oats not half a crop. Potatoes ditto. Many not planted that would have been had the earth been moist enough for them to grow. Corn has been doing fairly well but rain must come soon to carry it out. Our Grunge meets semi-monthly. .\Ieetings are very well attended, with good interest. R. B. REY.\’0I.Ii5, Master 503. Inland, July 20, I886. THE weather is and has been exceeding dry, and there is no prospect of its being anything else for some time. Wheat all harvested, and the barley and oats now being cut. The dry weather has been disastrohs to the young clover, it being nearly all killed. Potato crop must be short, as rain now will hardly save even the late ones. Corn looks well despite the tlrouth, but will not ear much unless rain comes. The pas- tures are dry as stubble, consequently the flow of milk is shortened, but butter continues to keep up in price to eleven cents. C. C. Calhoun County. “For God in man brings man to God, through faith, and love, and sorrow, And toil, and strife, that lifts the world up to- ward a brighter morrow. And souls that fight the fight for men, though shamed, defeated, broken, Like weeping clouds are‘ crowned at last with victoIy’s rainbow token. Their names are set, like steadfast stars, ‘in heaven’s eternal arches To guide the pilgrimage of souls through all time’s toiling marches. And blest are they to whom the gift ineffable is given Through tears, through toils, through hope de- ferred, to help men on to heaven.” Two BARRELS To THE HILL. Few have an adequate idea of the amount of water required to equal a. good rain. Ordinary soil will contain half its bulk of water. A wa- tering in a dry time which wets only the surface often does more harm than good, as roots at- tracted to the temporary moisture are killed by the next drying. . I have two experimental hills of corn in a field which is becoming very dry. The drought is maturing the crop so rapidly as to promise only nubbins. I determined, to save my experiment at least, so yesterday hauled the dry earth away from the hills, making abroad basin in which I poured water until the soil was well saturated. It requircdfour barre/5.’ After the water disap- peared I replaced the loose earth, and now I ex- pect to see those hills go through, whether it ever rains again or not. A. A. CROZIER. CLINTON COUNTY Pomona Grange is prosper- ing finely. Hold monthly meetings with a good program always well worked, showing the educa- tional advantages that the Grange brings to its members. Open Grange meetings have been very successful and advantageous to those out- side the Order as well as to Patrons. Our last Pomona Grange was held in the hall of Bath Grange on the 2Ist of this month. Though coming at this very bus season of the year our Brothers and Sisters 0 Bath Grange were fully equal to the occasion and acquitted themselves nobly, doing honor to themselves and the Order they so generously respresented on that da . V. C. BOTSFORD. St. Johns, July 22, I886. OUR long continued drought was broken July 26 by at good rain. It commenced in the night and rained until noon, not hard, but steadily, and has done 21 great amount of good. VVé have not had two hours of rain before since the mid- dle of May. We are thankful for what rain we have had, and are praying for more. Harvesting 1S over. Vl/heat is an average crop, well filled, with a good plump berry. Oats are light; some pieces were not cut. Unless we get more rain c_orn will be very light and potatoes be a very light crop. There was an abundance of small fruit of all kinds and apple trees were well load- ed with fruit; but owing to the drought they are falling ofi" badly. FRANK, Vergennes, July 26. WE have a terrible drouth here this summer. Winter wheat and corn are the only crops that look anyways well at all; everything else is pretty well dried up. Oats and 5 ring wheat are hardly worth cutting. Late planted-com has not sprouted and lies in the ground as hard a.s_When put there. No hay to speak of. No rain to Speak of since §the snow went off. But few potatoes planted. and the ground is so dry that most of them do not come up; in fact, everything planted or sown late partly or all fail to grow. People are selling and wanting to sell off some or all of their stock on account of the failure of crops. ’ D. J. MCDIARMIIJ, Bear Lake, P. 0., Mich., July 20, I886. Grange, at their last meeting, that some one’ As a Grange we 1 Harris, of Parnell, Neb., an estimriblc member? of Decatur Grange, died of consumption .\lay, She \\':1.-z well known in Van Bureu ‘ éoticcs of iglcttings. \\'A\':\‘I-: Pu_\Io.\‘.-t (No. S) meets with Plymouth Grange Frirlay, August 13, at io:3o A. .\I. Fol- lowing is the program: Call to order. Welcome address and response. Reports from Subordinate Grange.-, etc. lliniier. 2:00 P. M. \\‘hat is the C(lll.~'€‘ of the present l financial ? response by Mrs. Tutlle. Recitation———.\li.<.< Maud Cody. Address by County Exaininer Cholctt Cady— How may we iinprove the common schools? Reading of the Grange Qu.‘.rterl_v, .\Ii.»s O. Smith. What is true hospitality? rinswcrerl by Mrs. lllount. Essay—-liarly education, .\li.~s S. M. Smith. Bro. Stevens-—.subject not named. All Patrons are invited. Get posted on the queries or the school question, and take part in the (lisctissions. I I I I I I I I l l I F » I I I I TIII-J next regular meeting of Lenawee County Pomona Grange will be held with _\lediiia Grange at the Academy building, Medina, on Wednesday, August II, 1886, commencing at 10 o’clock A. 1\I.shnrp. A good literary pro- gram, consisting of music, recitations, essays and discussions, will be carried out in the after- noon. All Patroiis are cordially invited to at- tend. Fifth Degree to be conferred in the eve- ning. E. R. POCCHER, Sec. Adrian, July I8, 1886. A GOOD TIME.-——The next meeting of the Kent Countyliomona Grange.nIi.l.l..be.hdLl with the Whitneyville Grange, commencing on the third VVcdiIesday (IS) in August next and will continue two days. An excellent program has been prepared and will be given Wednesday afternoon in open Grange, to which the public are invited. It is expected that there will be a large attendance. H. C. HA\'ADO.\‘E. Grand Rapids, July 21, 1886. A REGULAR session of Van Buren County Pomona Grange will meet with Porter Grange on Thursday, August I2, at to o‘clock. J. E. PACKER, Sec. Hartford, Jnly 22, I886. PLEASE notice in the GRANGE VISITOR that the annual picnic of the Grangers and Farmers of Montcalm County will be held at Clifford Lake, five miles west of Stanton, Aug. 27, 1886. Mrs. Mayo, Lecturer of the State Grange, has been engaged as speaker. Everybody invited. Yours, fraternally, O. F. MASON, Chairman Com. Arrangements. Stanton, Mich., July 2I, I886. THE Grangers’ Inter—State Picnic Exhibition opens Monday, August 30, I886, at Williams’ Grove, thirteen miles southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The thirteenth annual Inter-State Picnic-Ex- hibition, under the auspices of the Patrons of Husbandry ofllennsylvania, Maryland_ Virginia, West Virginia, New Jersey and Delaware, will open at Williams’ Grove, Cumberland Co., Pa., on Monday, August 30, 1886, and continue until Saturday, September 4th. Excursion rates at reduced fare will be ar- ranged over the principal roads in Pennsylvania and adjoining States. ' Agricultural and scientific addresses,by promi- nent farmers and statesmen, will be delivered on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Over three thousand persons will encamp in the Grove from Monday until Saturday. The grounds will be lighted by electric light, and special literary, scientific and educational enter- tainments will be provided each evening. Newspaper men in general are specially in- vited to be present, and to them will be extended all the courtesies and conveniences of the Com- mittee Headquarters. Manufacturers of agricultural and domestic implements and machinery, and breeders of good stock, will do well to make a note of this exhibi- tion. Last year over one hundred thousand farmers, representing twenty States, attended this gathering; and from present indications the number will be much greater this year. Over three hundred manufacturers of agricultural im- plements, and a large number ofraisers of fine stock, have already made application for space for exhibition. Members of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, and their families and friends, may be supplied with tents on the grounds by making early ap- plication. Circulars, giving full details of the arrangements, will be issued by August Ist. R. H. THOMAS, Gen Manager Inter-State Picnic-Exhibition, Mechanicsburg, Pa. THE next meeting of Berrien County Pomona Grange will be held at the hall of Mt. Hope Grange at, Hill’s Corners, on Tuesday, August Io, I886, at 10 o’clock, A. M. The afternoon session of this day will be open to the public at which time the following program will be pre- sented: Address of welcome, W. J. Jones. Response, Freman Franklin. . A Talk About Apples, W. A. Brown. Essay, Miss Florence Hartsell. Our System of Crop Reports, Alvin Morley. The Lessons ‘of the Season, by those persons called to respond by the Worthy Master. Fraternally, S. V. WILSON, Sec. Berrien Springs, Mich, July 23, I886. BRANCH County Pomona Grange will hold a meeting with Union Grange on Thursday, Aug. I9, Union Grange entertaining. The Grange will be opened in the 4th degree at Io A. M. and the regular business transacted; all 4th degree I members heartily weicornc-I. The afternoon l meeting will be public. The literary exercises to consist of the voluntary contributions of all j the members. This was arranged by a vote of J the Grange at its last meeting so that each mem- ‘ ber will feel themselves in honor bound to con- tribute their iiiite for the general good, choosing their own subject. whether grave or gay, truth or fiction, they will be acceptable. l)fli|'0i‘l\‘,ll1lS is entirely in you‘ hriiids; let it not be an uniner- itcd trust. lt'.‘i' .'\. HoI€S.~lt)n at Porter Grange h21llTbursd2ty, August I2, I886. The program consists of pi- oneer .~'ul»ject.~. l’:iper-—- “Societies of farmers thirty years ago." Bro. Gen. Weldon. Porter. Paper-—“Scliools of early days in Michigan.” Bro. Dr. A. J. Kiime, Decatur. Essay-—“Soci:il and intellectual privileges of the farmer's wife forty years ago." Sister Lottie Warner, Paw Paw. l’ape1'—-—"Celebrations in Michigan during its infancy.’ Bro. Samuel Hoppin, Bangor. Essay-—-“.\ly first week of housekeeping.” Sister H. L. Nurtlirop, Lawrence. I’ziper—“Agriculture of this country in its early days.” Bro. I). \Voodman. Paw Paw. By order of the executive committee no part of the meeting will be public. All Patrons are cordially invited to be present. MEL. C. B. Cii.\Iii,Es, Lecturer. Tl-IE next meeting of the lonia County Grange will be held with Kean Grange on Wednesday, August 18, commencing at to A. M. C(JMM_l_TTE_E. TIIE Farmers’ Annual Picnic in connection with Clarkston Grange, will be held August to in I“isher’s Grove, Lashabaiv Plains. Worthy Master Luce will address tlz: meeting. Every- body invited. E. F()S_’i‘ER. gliititarics, NOTT- VVHEREAS, It has pleased the Great Master to remove from the scene of his earthly labors our esteemed brother and Past Worthy Master, VVm. J. Nott, therefore sincere mourn the- death of :1 most worthy brother and friend, and hereby record our high estimation of his character as a citizen and a. Patron. ji’r:a/rim’, That we tender to the family of our deceased brother our heartfelt .14‘ ,-.-.x...».a:-.:v:u.<-an»...-um.»-—n.o ,., ,, .. W..- , ,_._,.. THE‘ GRANGE "V'ISI'I'OZR.i AUGUST 1, 1896. gnmmuuicatious. . A Question of Public Morals- The Problem Answered. A communication signed “Tax-pay- er,” in one of our leading papers re- cently, headed, “A Problem for Solu- tion.” asks the question: “How long 60 saloons must be yearly licensed to bring us virtue, sobriety, peace and good or- der?” “How many more must be ad- ded to these 60 to furnish places of amusement and moral culture of Chris- tian fathers and mothers, boys and girls, young men and young women, and to aid in all that tends to promote purity, good order and personal liberty in our homes and among the people?” Then follows the searching inquiry: “What of the future?” One who has studied the problem somewhat would respect- fully submit the following brief enumera- tion of causes that conspire to establish and maintain these lawful places of business, where liquor is dispensed as a legalized commodity; where saloon doors stand invitingly open upon all our main thoroughfares, and the noise of ribald laughter, profanity, the gurgling of drink, and the jingle of glasses may be heard far into the hours of the night The answer to this “sum of human vil- lanies" may be subdivided thus-: 1. So long as the Gove_rnment of the United States is the principal co—partner and major beneficiary in the importa- tion, manufacture and sale of intoxicat- ing drinks to the people of the United States——its dividend, share and profits of the “tra-tle” the past year being esti- mated at $ioo,ooo,ooo!— . 2. So long as under the special tax law of this State,this city derives an an- nual income of $13,107.60 from the‘,_traf- fic in drinks within the city limits, which is an abatement of taxes that would otherwise be levied upon the just as well as the unjust, and so long as the business thus taxed is legalized, made respectable and entitled to take rank alongside any legitimate branch of business or public industry.- 3. So long as Members of Congress, Governors, State Legislators, Mayors, Aldermen, Prosecuting Attorneys, Mag- istrates, Chiefs of Police, Constables, and all other persons in authority, ob- tain their seats through the good—will, contributions, influence and votes of liquor dealers, manufacturers, saloon keepers, whisky drinkers, and their reprobate allies—comprehensively des- ignated as “the whisky element”—with- out the support of which the noblest, truest, and most exemplary character in our midst, nominated for public of- fice, would be shamefully and over- whelmingly defeated.—— 4. So long as lawyers, doctors, bank- ers, politicians, capitalists, merchants, leading citizens,and all persons engaged in industrial enterprises do not inter- fere with or oppose in any appreciable way the whisky business, for fear of os- tracism, abuse, boycotting and personal injury of their persons and property.— 5. So long as this type of sin, plated with gold, erects stately mansions, rides i’1 fine carriages, dispenses munificent gifts, receives.the plaudits of the multi- tude; and fashionable society without discrimination,opens wideits doors and welcomes the dram-seller, the dram- drinker, the profligate, the profane, the licentious, the vulgar, the illiterate, and all who are rich in worldly possessions. 6. Solong as the public press,the pul- pit, and 90 per cent. at least of profess- ing Christians and so-called temperance people are unwilling to take any stand religiously, socially, commercially, or politically against the saloon business, or join in any attempt or movement to suppress the sale of liquor, so long will public “sentiment” and statutory en- actments uphold and perpetuate the traffic. Defending the saloons in the lawful prosecution of their business, (making drunkards), the pulpit and press content-themselves with spasmod- ic appeals to the moral sense of such as may chance to hear or read their ex- hortations; perhaps sincerely deploring the evil effects in a general way, but more particularly some special lament- able case of intemperance within their immediate knowledge; while multitudes day and night throng the counters of the whisky shops—lawful places of trade —drinking damnation to themselves and their posterity. So long as these conditions exist,whis- ky and alcoholic beverages will not be declared contraband, but be held as regular articles of commerce. The Gov- ernment may occasionally raid a few moonshiners in the woods—not in the interest of good order and sobriety, but that the public treasury may not be robbed of its share of “blood money” —,the price that Whisky pays for the for- mal government sanction and authority to fill the land wih drunkards, the asy- lums, prisons, jails and almshouses with inmates, and to ruin both the bodies and souls of men. Oh, license! Oh, tax! What ablessing to mankind! Make them pay a round tax (good honest money it is, whether in the national, state or municipal treasury,) but do not attempt to stop the traffic! Ever since the days of Noah, who, as soon as he stepped out of the ark, planted a vine- yard, made wine, got drunk and “lay naked in his tent,” down to the present time, man hasbeen a slave to his appe- tite_s and lusts -and there is poverty,bru- tality, desolation and mourning in mil- lions of homes. . “Tax-payer" wonders at the apathy i cut in a. great variety of artistic beauty of men, but he may see,the W. C. T. U. i and Prohibitionists may see,the fathers, 1 mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, and the world of mankind; may see, that the great army of vice_ and intemperance is thoroughly en- 5 trenched everywhere. Particularly, the ‘ whisky influence is so interwoven with . our political methods and national life, that, to uproot and destroy the one, ; _ ‘ : rows of red, vellow,wh1te and variegated I would seemingly annihilate the other. The “cause of temperance” is not ar- rayed in antagonism against ordinary flesh and blood, but against govern- ments, municipalities, statutory enact- ments,and powers; against drunkenness, licentiousness and moral rottenness in high places,against a “public sentiment” 9‘ _I when the plants in any bed have reached l j mantle of green there is no perceptible : and symmetry. Each bed has its regular succession of plants for the season so , that while some are being planted or i cultivated others are in full bloom, and maturity they are replaced by other 1 varieties from the hot-houses. Each ,3 bed contains no more than three or four l varieties, arranged to bloom at the same 1 time. Early in summer one may see ‘; tulips bordering groups of many tinted ; peonias. From the first warm glances of; spring till the warning frost of October changes to brown and gold natui'e’s dark = break in the broad panorama of beauty. that demands free trade in whisky, and 3’ “the devil take the hindmost.” . Perhaps“tax~payer” boasts of the civ- ilization, enlightenment and Christiani- ty of the age——c0ntributes money to , Park. send missionaries abroad to heathen; lands. Let him take “a long look ahead” and see if he can discover even the faintest glimmer ofthe dawn of an abid- ing temperance reform. Let the heathen go, and let us begin preaching the gos- pel of godliness, temperance, faith puri- ty,and upright living——the abandonment of heathenish doctrines and vices——in our own sanctuaries; in our own halls of legislation; by our own firesidesgyea, even in the public streets and haunts of vice of the towns and cities of our Pen- insular State. L. Kalamazoo, Mich., July 12, ’86. ———————:o——-————— Views of Chicago—No. 2. LINCOLN PARK. In the northeastern part of Chicago, somewhat apart from her centers of trade and commerce and artfully isolated from the heat and confusion of the city, is situated that most beautiful and famous resort, Lincoln Park. Skirting its eastern border its entire length of one and one-fourth miles the blue waters of Lake Michigan are seen rip- pling over the pebbly beach, from which the park extends back in gentle undulations, miniature bluffs and broad stretches three-fourths of a mile in width, and has therefore an area of more than 6oo acres. The south half only, being as yet quite adequate, is improved; but every year large ad- ditions are being made from the ad- jacent unimproved portion, for which work several men are constantly em- ployed. The surface of the park is not a plain spreading out level in every direction, like some beautiful valley or broad prairie, presenting all of its beau- ties simultaneously; but on every hand minature hills dotted here and there with groups of trees and beautiful shrubbery effectually shut out distant objects,making innumerable cozy nooks, delightfully secluded. Nestling among the hills beautiful valleys wind about, rich in dark velvety lawns and spark- ling fountains. Lake View Drive, the finest and most delightful carriage-way in the city, ex- tending along the lake shore from South Chicago to the northern limit of the Park, passes through its eastern border, gracefully winding about as the white sandy beach alternately advances and recedes. As we enter the Park by this drive the musty waters of Lake Michi- gan suddenly burst upon the view, spreading out before us-—a seemingly boundless sea—in awealth of mellow beauty and grandeur. Away to the south the light-house at the source of water tunnel timidly lifts its solid walls for many feet above the waves, yet seen in the distance appears no larger than one of the tombstones in a country churchyard. Dotting the waters in all directions are vessels of .every description, from the majestic propeller with its hundreds of passengers to the little skififjust large enough for two. Occasionally a sturdy little tug is seen headed for the harbor, leaving behind a long, dark trail of smoke suspended in the foggy air, through which the snow—white sails of many a pleasure yacht glisten in the sun with more brilliant glances and changes of color than all the painters in the world could imitate. Nearer the shore little children of all classes are wading and playing in the pure waters all forgetful of the unwholesome, con- taminated air of the city. At the northern end the drive winds gracefully to the west and south around a range of hills that have heretofore cut off the view of the Park, and breaks up into innumerable thoroughfares leading in every direction among beautiful lawns, lakes and hills. . Near the center of the Park are located the conservatory and green- houses containing agreat variety of rare tropical trees and plant. Orange and lemon trees bearing flowers and fruit; broad palms with their thick leaves IO feet in length; huge ferns attaining al- most the praportions of trees; the In- dian Rubber tree bearing a striking resemblance to the pawpaw of our own roadside, are a few of the many objects of interest to the visitor. In the hot- houses, too, are grown the flowers that are from time to time to succeed each other in adorning the acres of flower- beds in the Park. It is indeed a hope- less task to attempt to describe these great flower gardens. Sunken gravel walks wind about with graceful curves, branching and again converging to star- round little plats of smooth cut lawn in 'tle hills having stone steps reaching excavations are made to contain the which the flower-beds and designs are’ Crossing by a rustic bridge the minia- ture river flowing through the Park we enter that part most frequented by visitors—the part containing the ani- mals, the most noted feature of Lincoln Itis some 40 acres in extent, and is situated in the central -part of the Park. It is covered with groups of lit- their summits, and in the sides of which dens of all the larger animals. These dens are built of a species of limestone with many a jutting crag, irregular col- umn, or overhanging rock, over which a stream of the purest water comes trickling down to supply a little pool in one corner. A snug lair is provided for each den, while with numerous boulders scattered about the uneven floors we almost seem to have discovered the animals in their native haunts, only a step removed from the surroundings of their mountain or forest homes. Open- ings below the dens are made secure by a double iron grating, and above they are bordered by a strong iron fence over which, as we reach the top of the hill, we may look down into their in- terior. In these enclosures maybe found the mountain lion, several species of wolves, black, brown, cinnamon, grizzly and polar bears, red and gray foxes, besides many smaller animals such as the rac- coon, groundhog, badger and prairie dog. A deep pool of water, some 33 feet in diameter, with arocky lair in the center contains the sea-lions, and a smaller one is the home of a pair of beavers, whose building instincts keep them ever busy in constructing an im- aginary dam of the branches and sticks from which they have taken the bark for food. The basin containing the fish- otters is entirely enclosed by a conical screen of heavy wire. A small cage of two compartments confines a pair of large wildcats, which are ever walking from side to side of their narrow en- closure as if fretting at any other re- straint than their native forest im- posed. Moose and deer are kept in an en- closure of some five acres, having a high fence about it and a large pool in the center, and similar yards are provided for the Cashmere goats, buffalos and caribou or reindeer. A wire house 20 feet high with a dome-shaped roof is divided into various apartments sup- plied with pools of water, perches, swings, kennels and nests, and contains a great variety ofinhabitants. Lying at full length among the rocks or along the water’s edge scaly alligators are seen basking in the sun, seemingly lifeless, save when some huge green turtle tumbles carelessly over them into the water. On perches and in nests near the roof eagles, white and gray owls, and crows, mingle together in per- fect harmony. One, a venerable bald eagle, while sitting on a jutting crag, deftly catches in his talons pieces of meat thrown to him by his keeper. White and black rabbits, doves, quails and pigeons occupy other apartments. In a similar cage black, gray and fox squirrels vie in mischievousness with the jay and magpie. At this season of the year the moose and deer are developing their new growth of horns which, covered with soft velvety skin, present a curious mosslike appearance. Nor must we forget to mention the sleepy sandhill crane, one of the drollest birds imagin- able. The animals are fed and cared for by experienced and skillful keepers; and if love of native freedom could ever be forgotten they must enjoy life. They have been mostly donated to the Park by individuals. The collection com- prises most of the animals of our own country, besides many from other lands. The river flowing through the Park expands near its southern end into a chain of winding silvery lakes,connected by pebbly channels over which pretty bridges pass uniting various walks and drives. Many varieties of rare water fowls float fearlessly on these clear waters, while rowboats are ever gliding about with their loads of merry- makers. A statue representing a dusky war- rior and his family commemora:es the former inhabitants of Chicago, anda monument, recently unveiled, sur- mounted by a figure of Schiller, marks the place which that great poet holds in the hearts of her German citi- zens. A cozy refreshment house on the western side is of interest to us as being built entirely from the ruins of, the great fire, and near at hand a fused mass of nails, horseshoes, stoves, safes and stones bears record to the same dis- astrous conflagration; .- into twilight as we turn slowly from the refreshing drives and roll rapidly to- ward the dusty city forgetting all else in contemplating the beauty and grandeur of this miniature world——Lincoln Park. F. H. SPAULDING. vv From my Diary. TE.\t.‘HI.\'G. Assume that the right is in the as- cendent and go ahead. Nothing so braces up the heart as the contempla- tion of what is good and hopeful in the actual life of man. If great is the evil of modern life, great is the godd; and the active work ofthe good must crowd out the active work of the evil. The most happiness and the most personal force will always come from the teacher who assumes that the right is in the as- cendeut. A despondent or cross teacher will affect the minds of all in the school- room. Hope makes the case more hopeful. The younger Pitt gave way too easily to grief and thus shortened a life that had years of happiness and na- tional usefulness before it. He who, like an Atlas, carried England on his youthful shoulders, lacked hope that takesa long look ahead and finds en- couragement that will tide it over pres- ent troubles. Napoleon’s brilliant tri- umph at Austerlitz disheartened Pitt. He should have gathered up the aver- ages for English life and history, found strength and worked for 3. Waterloo. The evil genius of the present day, one that most affects young men is impa- tience. If one has escaped the perils ofinfancy and childhood,and has reach- ed twenty,life then is full ofambuscades for him. Nothing will keep him hon- est and safe but patience in doing his work well and faithfully, patience in waiting for his weekly or monthly pay, patience in waiting to grow into full manhood and solid business attainments and worldly possessions. Each day of childhood, like each day of manhood, belongs to the final quantity that makes the full man. But the young can not wait. They do not plan their conduct for a forty-year period, but they try to crowd it into one brief and perhaps criminal day. It took the strength of all their years, the combined virtue and intelligence and ability of youth, man- hood and mature life, to make a Frank- lin, Washington, Lincoln, Macauley, 3. Gladstone or a John Bright. There is seen a gradual flow of drops to one final stream. We all travel over one great road. Our lives are made up of all we have read, studied or got from men, of all we have seen and done, of all places we have visited and of all ex- periences we have met, whether of grief or gladness. This road begins with in- fancy,continues on in childhood,through manhood, and ends with old age; we are all traveling it. And each period of this life must contribute something- do its part for the final result—full man- hood. Each period should produce its part towards full’ development. The French Protestant writer, preacher and statesman has said that the teacher of youth is the master of society. But he only repeated what Aristotle,who taught great Alexander to subdue the world, had said 2,000 years ago, “The fate of empires depends on the education of the young.” V. B. —v{:——-oj————-- "Rural Lite.” (Essay read before the Berrien County Farmers’ Institute in February last.) ./llr. Prarzlient, /lfemlwrs of [/13 A550- zialiwz, 1Laz[z'e.r mm’ Gen!/e//zcrz.-—“Rural Life” has presented itself as a subject worthy of consideration, and the asso- ciations therewith have found place among the earliest recollections of my life. Scenes beautiful and grand have made lasting impressions that time can never blot from memory’s casket. Im- pressions that have influenced the pu- rity of the thoughts and feelings of my whole life. As a child I stand gazing upon the placid waters of the beautiful Seneca Lake, outlined by the waving forest casting dark shadows that length- en as “twilight’s hour steals gently o’er the earth.” There is something within that reveals to us the loveliness of Na ture, brings back the freshness of youth- ful feelings, revives the relish for simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthu- siasm which warmed the springtime of our being, strengthens our interest in human nature by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, and where, tell me will these thoughts be more tenderly nourished than in the country. As the mind acquires strength and begins from year to year to investi- gate what a field of inquiry lies before us?——The fall of the rains,the density of the atmosphere, the gathering of clouds, the fertility of the earth, the source of streams, the planetary system, chemical agencies, and the study of electricity! Man may unquestionably enjoy the same sensationsin the city. Surround- ed by the work of humanhands, he may look up and bless the power which bestowed such faculties and means upon his creatures. But it is a fact which few will pretend to deny that the more the mind is interested and occu- pied with artificial things, the more it is carried away from the truth that is in nature. In the city a man may step out of his door upon common ground; the house he lives in is precisely like his neighbor’s; one of a number he may re- turn to without attachment and leave without regret. But in the country not only the grass we tread on, the path, But the cool May afternoon is fadin the trees, the birds that sing above our heads and the flowers that bloom be- neath our feet, but the atmosphere around us seems to be our own. There is a feeling of possession in our fields, our gardens,and our homes, which noth- ing but separation can destroy. And when absent we pine to trace again the familiar walks, and wonder whether the woods or lawns are looking the same as when they received our last farewell; and, indeed, a great deal may be made of the few facts which do transpire in the country. “Impossible,” exclaims the precocious youth learned in civic lore, “you only hear the news once a week, and as to your facts, what are they? Nothing but the return of the swallows, seed time and harvest,-a show- er ot rain, or a thunder storm, and what is all this to the community at large?” I answer, it is a good deal to the com- munity at large; a good deal to those who choose to reflect. It is true we are sometimes a week later than you in learning what has been the movement of some foreign army, that a Cabinet minister has been dismissed, or that an elopement has occurred in high life. There are even similar facts never reaching us at all, which is proof that they are of as little importance to us as the building of our roofs, the scattering of our grain, or the reaping of our com is to you. You snatch up the Morning Post and read of some interesting elopement; we learn with as much in- terest that a hawk has seized our favor- ite dove. You read that a once popular statesman has been overthrown by the strength of an opposing party; we hear thataformer servant of our own has been dismissed from his place. You read, perhaps, of the dismemberment of Poland; while we are startled with the intelligence that the fox is making dreadful ravages among our poultry. What follows? Our conclusions are, at least, as philosophical as yours, and if we take time to reflect we will find that the weak must be victims of the strong all the world over, that cruelty and wrong are permitted to deface the glory of the earth for reasons which neither of us can understand. \Ve hail the birds of spring as the blessed messengers of hope; the seed is scattered in faith; the harvest is reaped in joy; the rains descend, and we give thanks for the opening of those fount- ains whose source and whose seal is above the thunder’s roll, and we bow before the terrors of the Almighty. I wish men, and women, too, would sometimes pause in their pursuit after mere verbal knowledge to think for themselves; and to turn away occasion- ally from the pile of fresh books accu- mulating daily to that which never was and never can be written—the wide fields of Nature; not only as they lie spread before their view, but as it ex- pands in their own minds, teaching them by the gradual unfolding of eter- nal principles of truth, that we have faculties of the heart as well as the head, and that we must render an account of a moral as well as an intellectual na- ture. It is not by merely dwelling in the country that men become poetical, nor by working their way by fair and hon- orable means to pecuniary independ- ence that they necessarily sacrifice the best part of their nature. We have du- ties we owe ourselves and duties we owe others. We are social beings, and only in mingling with each other can we hope to maintain a cheerful mind. The boun- tiful Creator has supplied his creatures with sources of happiness so varied that the meanest peasant may find them in his daily path,while to the liberal mi ded earth,air and ocean teem with de ight. Our great minds drink deep from Na- ture’s fount. ’Tis said, “knowledge is power,” but neither is knowledge all that we live for nor power all that we enjoy. Yet when the facilities are multiplying every day, when it has become almost as diffi-3 cult to remain unlearned as to learn, when the memory is stored with a fund ofinformation which at one time would have been deemed incredible,when the ordinary track of learning is thrown open to the multitude, not only should we desire to benefit those around us,but by embracing opportunities improve those talents God has given us and strive to cultivate a taste for something nobler than the daily gossip which so often fills the mind. Knowledge is not like food, destroyed by use, but rather augmented and perfected; and there is no body of knowledge so complete but that it may acquire accession in passing through the minds of millions. It has been said, “Education makes more dif- ference between man and man than Nature has made between man and beast.” Daniel Webster said: “If we work upon marble it will perish, if we work upon brass time will efface it,if we rear temples they will crumble into dust, but if we work upon the immortal minds, if we imbue them with princi- ples, with the just fear of God and our fellow man, we engrave upon these tab- lets something which will brighten to all eternity.” The most inventive tal- ents hiive been brought to bear to light- en farm labor,and I think I might safely say that genius, that God-given spark of intelligence, has concentrated her force in directing the manufacture of machinery and conveniences for the far- mers more than in any one direction upon the face of the globe. There is hard work to be performed both for the mental and physical powers, and we en- , noble it according to the degree of per- .‘ AUGUST. 1, issts. THE GEEANG-E VISITOR. 3 fection we reach in the performance of whatever task seems before us. The wife of President Garfield was at one time so situated that she with her own hands ministered to the wants of her family and found enjoyment in it be- cause of the enthusiasm she was enabled to throw into her daily tasks and proud of her success in breadmaking. There is, of course, in every vocation of life extremes which sooner or later we meet and which is not impossible to be real- ized in the life of one person. Old Farmer White gives his views as follows and many can sympathize with him. He says: You may talk 0‘ the joys o‘ the farmer, An’ envy his free, easy life, You may sit at his bountiful table, An’ praise his industrious wife. Ef you chopped in the woods in the winter, Or follered the furrer all day, With a team of unruly young oxen An’ feet heavy loaded with clay, Ef you held the old plow, I’m a thinkin’ You’d sing in a different way. You may dream 0’ the golden-eyed daisies, An’ lilies that wear such a charm, But it gives me a heap o’,hard labor To keep ’em from spilin’ my farm. You may pictur’ the skies in their splendor, The landscape so full 0’ repose, But I never get time to look at ’em, Except when it rains or it snows. You may sing 0’ the song birds 0’ summer; I’ll tend to the hawks an’ the crows. You may write 0’ the beauties o’ natur’, An’ dwell on the pleasures o’ toil; But the good things we hev on our table All hev to be dug from the soil; An’ our beautiful, bright, golden butter, Perhaps you may never hev lurned,_ Makes a heap 0’ hard work for the wimmen, It hez to be cheerfully churned; An’ the cheeses, so plump in the pantry, All have to be lifted and turned. \Vhen I come from ‘the hay field in summer, With stars gleamiii’ over my head, When I milk by the light 0’ my lantern, And wearily crawl into bed; VVhen I think 0’ the work 0’ the morrer, And worry fur fear it might rain, When I hear the loud roar o’ the thunder, An‘ wife she begins to complain-— Then it seems as if life was a burden, \Vith nothing to hope for or gain. Many truths does it set forth,but now as the civilized world has made great strides in improvements,we feel positive we have much to hope for and gain,that our tasks are lighter and our hearts should be. We know that labor is just‘ as irksome in towns and cities as in the rural districts and the cases of vice and misery more numerous. In the country man may be as brutish, as stultified and as incapable of every gentle and sub- lime emotion as in the city. He is gross, selfish and insensible to the hap- piness of others, but it is no more the fault of Nature when the eye has not been_ opened to behold her beauties than it is the musician’s fault when his auditors are without hearing. Rural as- sociations will not shut us from advan- tages in life. Growth is the “central cause” and meaning of the world. All Nature conspires to educate the spirit of use. Man more than any thing else was made to grow. He should acquire material for the exercise of his faculties. Innumerable aids will come from every quarter. Sunbeams flow down and play upon the earth and the life of a tree circulates from base to summit. So will the free soul absorb and grow from all that for which it has a liking. Oh, what a glory does the world put on For him, who with a fervent heart, Goes forth and looks on duties Well performed and days well spent. For him the winds, aye. and the Yellow leaves shall have a voice And give him eloquent teaching. MRS. SYLVESTER PARKS. ————e-—-(Oi-j:—j Position of the Farmer. [Essay read at the meeting of the St. Joseph County Grange by John W. Harrison and sent to the VISITOR for publication by order of the Grange.] Wort/zy Master and Patron: of Hus- bandry.-—At the request of the Worthy Master of St. Joseph County Grange I have endeavored to present a few thoughts in regard to, What position shall the farmer of the future occupy? What shall be his social status? What shall be his place and influence in poli- tics? Shall farmers, as a class, stand equal in the several relations of life with members of other classes of society? Such is the questioning which is con- stantly coming to the front to-day. We meet with it in every casual gathering of farmers. We find it the burden of many articles in our agricultural papers, and especially do we find it frequently brought up in the Grange Hall. And upon this subject do I now propose to give you a few thoughts, which a con- sideration of the subject has brought to my mind; and I shall try to tell what I think the future farmer will be in some directions, and also what he will not be. There has been a great advance in the social habits and intelligence of all classes of our people during the last 100 years. In the last century it was not uncommon to count by scores, in every township, people who could neither read nor write, people who regarded books as a realm into which they could not enter; and if they had, they would have found but a very meager supply in com- parison with what may be in every per- son’s hands to-day. Then, the lecture, the lyceum, the social gatherings of various kinds, which the people of to- day are wont to attend, were not in ex- istence. And, Ithink to these things: the broadcast sowing of books and papers all over the land, the establish- ing of lecture courses, lyceums, etc.,and to the habit people have of meeting , together on so many different ocCa- l sions, are we largely indebted for _the progress that has been made, especially & during the last 20 years. But has the farming community, as a. . class, kept pace with other classes of society, in taking advantage of these things? While there has been great advancement and improvement among them, I think we must admit that they have fallen be- hind other classes of our people, not because of any natural inability to ap- preciate and appropriate the advantages of which I have spoken, but because of the nature of the occupation in which they are engaged; living isolated from each other; at a distance from town, where all the helps to improvement are apt to center; while those of our people residing in our town and villages,having constant access to all these means of acquiring knowledge, and living in daily communication with each other, as a class have naturally been benefitted more. But what if such conclusions are correct. Shall we draw the humiliating inference that such results are inevitable? That the farmer must always remain behind his brother tradesman or me- chanic, in point of intellectual develop- ment? No. Never will we admit that an occupation selected by the Creator, Himself, for a large share of the inhab- itants of the world is in itself degrading, and is necessarily at variance with the growth of intelligence, with the devel- opment of a true manhood and woman- hood among us, and with the lifting up of our lives to such a plane of intelli- gence and usefulness as the Creator from the first intended his creatures should occupy. The farmer of to-day does not stand where the farmer of ioo, or even 50, years ago stood, and the farmer of the future is not going to stand where we stand to-day. But you ask how will the change be made. Through various agencies; among which I predict that the principle of association as exempli- fied by the Grange, will be one of the chief. Then, too, the future farmer will be more of a reader, and his read- ing will be different from that of his brother of to-day. The simply partisan paper will be read less, and the truly political paper more, for the reason that he will care less for the partisan, but vastly more for those great political questions that will belong to his day, as" there have been those that belonged to us, and to every age that has preceded ours. He will make more of a study of what we call political economy; try to see how Legislation is going to effect his interests, not with that selfish and narrow vision which can see nothing but from the dollar and cent point of view, but he will look from a standpoint which will certainly take into account justice to him as a farmer; but in the spirit of that broad charity inculcated by our Order he will not deny that justice due all other classes of society. His reading will be different again in another respect. He will not exclude from his list the light readingof his day, because it is necessary to meet one of the various wants of our intellectual nature. It is to our studies what the condiments on our tables are to our food. But he will not live on that kind of food, as I am afraid too many of our people are now doing. He will be a student of the history, not only of his own country, but also of those others from whom we have largely received our code of laws, and whose traditions have done much to mold our habits in doing and thinking; a student that he may avoid the errors they may have fallen into and improve on their good things. He will also devote a good deal of his reading time to the study of such books and papers as treat more directly of matters connected with his business, the teachings of science and experience combine in regard to agri- culture. And here I would say that I hope the future farmer will have the benefit of a comprehensive experiment station in connection with our agricul- tural schools, and that they will_do for him what the individual farmer has neither the time or money to do for himself in that line. The future farmer will be a man of culture and intelligence and therefore will respect himself and demand that respect from others to which he is en- titled, and while courteous to all he will drop that servility of manner that now so largely marks his intercourse with the members of other classes of society, especially of what we call the learned professions, and will learn to respect and defer to the members of such pro- fessions’, not because they may be min- isters, lawyers, teachers or doctors, but because he will find one whose learning makes him an honor to the profession he has chosen and whose private char- acter will entitle him to the respect of all. He will drop as a snare and a de- lusion the idea that ‘any calling can either degrade or elevate a person, and will realize the great truth that it is the man or woman engaged in any calling that elevates or degrades it. As I have said, the man and woman on the farm will be persons of intelligence and re- finement; but before they are that they must wake up to the truth, that this is not going to come upon them without any effort, but will be the growth of hard work and much time spent in that direction. The Order of Patrons of Husbandry is to-day laying a good foundation for the rearing of such a su- perstructure, but the present generation of farmers can not expect to complete the work; they _must look to our young people to carry on, to enlarge and fill- out the work now begun. And to the young men and young women of our Order I would say in all kindness you will not, can not do it unless you make it the object of your lives. It is only to be obtained by much reading and much thinking of a kind that will be much more like hard work than recrea- tion. You may drift into the follies and frivolities of the age and catch them without any effort, much the same as you might catch the smallpox or measles, but the work I have sketched out for you will never be taken in that kind ofa way, but will surely come as the result of earnest, untiring effort, and in response to that only. But do not let us be discouraged if such changes do not take place as fast as we would like; the world is moving much faster than we think it is. I sup- pose that if we could leave the. world for 25 years and then come back, we should realize that things had been moving swiftly toward a better time; but while we are here we are apt to overlook what is going on around us, and come to the conclusion that if the world does move at all it is going back- wards. I think very likely that if some of us here to-day could look back to the doings of our ancestors we might find some of them engaged in drowning witches at Salem, or perhaps trying to learn what is in store for them by con- sulting a gypsy, and if we have outgrown such folly let us be thankful and learn to be charitable to the man who yet may believe in the transmutation of wheat or timothy into chess, or who may be out gazing into the fage of the moon to learn when to plant his pota- toes or to shingle his barn, believing that time, the great educator, will eventually set him right. There are indications all around of a change for the better in the condition of the laborers of the world; and while I believe that no right-minded person can fail to condemn and abhor some of the means made use of by the Knights of Labor and other labor organizations, yet I also believe that the principle of association, when these gross errors shall have been weeded out, is the true source of good to the working man. The world is also moving swiftly in the direction of total abstinence from all that can intoxicate, and just in propor- tion to the workingman’s temperance and morality will the time be hastened when the evils that now attend him will be done away. And in order to hasten that day let us fully realize that no mere material prosperity, whether of the individual or of the community at_ large, can ever be a substitute for up- rightness of character as a means of lifting up that community to a proper conception of the duties and responsi- bilities of life, which must be seen be- fore we can hope to see the evils that now afliict society removed. - Three Cheers for Congress. Hurrah! Hurrah! ! Hurrah! ! l and make the welkin ring all over this great world as it never did before since the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy. The world is moving more rapidly than common in the right direction. Why, she is on wheels, and, did you know that Congress was accelerating the motion and by and by we shall be going at the rate of 2:40, with almost inconceivable velocity against our worst foe (a greater enemy to peace, happi- ness and prosperity in this life than ev- ery thing else combined) until we shall dash it in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Congress has laid the ax at the root of the tree this time in dead earnest as she never did before. She has struck the key note to the song never before sung which will vibrate and reverberate all over this vast universe, giving joy and happiness unto all the people thereof. Why, Dennison, what’s the matter with you? Are you crazy? Yes, with joy and gladness indescribable. Why, I have just read some of. the most glori- ous news ever heard by mortal ear. Congress has done one of the best things she ever did, and if I should say it was the very best of all else put to- gether, I believe I might prove it by some good witnesses. The name of that gentleman who introduced “The Nation- al Scientific Temperance Bill,” (recently passed by the unanimous votes of the Senate and only eight votes against it in the House, published in the GRANGE VISITOR of July 1, i886)—yes, and I will include the names of all the Members of Congress who voted for it, will yet be rendered immortal by every impartial historian as coming next to the Father of our Country in the record of everlasting remembrance. I wish I was capable of compliment- ing them as they very justly deserve for the final consummation of this most grand and glorious transaction. They have just laid the found..tion to commence doing what I have been tell- ing my neighbors for 25 years must be done before prohibition could be en- forced. ’ I have also told them occasionally during this time that if the mothers were all right on the subject of temper- ance and would bring up their children as they ought to and might do, that in the lifetime of one or two generations, in any age of the world’s history, they might dethrone King Alcohol and bury him and all hisinterests into everlasting oblivion beyond the possibility of the least shadow of hope of a resurrection. Ihave told them that if the Church was all right on this subject, they could put a stop to this business, but the trouble lies in wrong education. I have told them that ever since old Uncle Noah's drunken frolic every coming generation all the way along down the ages had been taught by their parents, their neighbors and by their ministers, by precept and example, that God never made any thing in vain,that liquor was included among the good gifts of God, and they verily believed it because it had been taught them through every source of instruction, un- til they thought it was good to keep them warm in cold weather and cool in hot weather,to keep them in good health when they were well, and to cure them when sick,and to increase their strength so as to double their physical endur- ance, so that the use of it had become engrafted into their very being, making them the most abject slaves to its per- petual use as a beverage,until you might as well undertake to arrest the progress of a northwest cyclone or a Dakota blizzard by shaking your old head across its pathway,'as to. expect to. en- force the prohibition of its sale and use as a beverage, until this erroneous edu- cation of all these past ages can be cor- rected by scientific knowledge of the fact that alcohol,no matter where found nor how much diluted with the best drink imaginable, nor how immensely sugar-coated, it is alcohol still (and these drinkers would not want any of those drinks ifthe alcohol was taken out of them) andisinjurious to the human being when used as abeverage. Now, let every State Legislature in this Union pass that same law (or make a better one if they can) and see to it that it is most thoroughly enforced, and the next generation or two will destroy the liquor business with a vengeance that knows no mercy. Every newspaper in the United States which does not publish this law and re- publish it every six months until every State Legislature adopts it,and continue to do all that is necessary to make the people acquainted with it and help to enforce it, I shall stand ready to accuse them of being consecrated to the liquor interest. Yours truly, in the interest of every thing that is right and against ev- erything that is wrong, D. A.DEN1\'lS0.\I. gisrrllanroits. Strength for To—Day. Strength for today is all that we need, I As there never will be to-morrow; For to—morrow will prove but another to-day. With measure ofjoy and sorrow. Then why forecast the trials of life, \Vith such sad and grave persistence, And wait and watch for a crowd of ill That has as yet, no existence! Strength for to—day—what a precious boon For earnest souls who labor! For the willing hands that minister To the needy friend or neighbor. . Strength for to-day, that the weary hearts In the battle for right may quail not; And the eyes bedimmed by bitter tears In their search for light may fail not. Strength for to-day on the down-hill track For the travelers near the valley; That up, far up on the other side Ere long they may safely rally. Strength for to-day that our precious youth May happily shun temptation, And build from the rise to the set of the sun On a strong and sure foundation. Strength for to day, in house and home To practice forbearance sweetly; To scatter kind words and loving deeds, Still trusting in God completely. Strength for to-day is all that we need, And there never will be a to-inorrow; For to—morrow will prove but another to-day, With its measure ofjoy and sorrow. -——-P/Li/ad:/p/zz'a T inter. FROM every side come complaints that the strikes are injuring business. Man- ufacturers are loth to make contracts, fearing that strikes may cause loss. Buyers are slow to purchase, feeling uncertain about the future. Prices are lowered to attract trade, and this affects the values of farm products. Mechanics and craftsmen of every degree are or- ganizing in every section, and “history is being made” by the great strides which both labor and capital are mak- ing towards a better understanding of their mutual relations. A revolution is in progress which we believe to be all in the interests of peace and bar- mony among men, employers and em- ployed. The leaders among the work- men seem possessed of sound judgment and earnest patriotism. Strikes, boy- cotting and anarchism are no part of their program, and unruly demagogues who stir up the strife are being vigor- ously set upon by the great mass of their former followers, whose eyes have been opened to the duplicity of agita- tors who work chiefly for “soft jobs” and cheap glory.—-Our Country Hozzze. - KEROSENE El\lULSION.———Mlll( Emul- sion: To I part milk add 2 parts kero- sene and churn by force pump or other agitation. The butter-like emulsion is diluted cm’ lz't3z'tum with water. An easi- er method is to simply mix I part kero- sene with 8 of milk. Soap Emulsion: In I gal. hot water I-2 lb. whale oil soap is dissolved. This, instead of milk, is mixed to an emulsion with kerosene in the same manner and proportions as above. ’ CANADA has secured laws making it unlawful to sell oleomargarine or butter- inein any portion of the Dominion. A- Tramp’s Reason.| “You are the third man that I have fed at the door to-day, and probably a hundred during the year. Why is it that strong, healthy-looking men who have the world of work to choose from are obliged to beg for food,and women who are restricted in their occupations are never seen traveling through the co un- try moneyless?” I asked, as I handed him his rations. “That’s easy,” said he. “Women mar- ry and have somebody to take care of them.” “Who takes care of them when their husbands adopt the profession to tramp!” I asked. “When they have no other way and are sick, they go to the poorhouse." “But the number of men in aims- houses is generally three or four times greater than that of women, and the same is true of jails and prisons." “Well,” said he, in a bold manner, “women have but few wants compared with men.” “What are they?” I asked. “Food and clothing are the greatest wants of both.” “The fact of it is,” said be, “women don't chew, not smoke, nor drink, and these things amount to more than the little it takes to eat and wear.” As “an honest confession is good for the soul,” the stalwart fellow must have felt much better after such an acknowl- edgment, and I, too, after advising him to give up those luxuries, go to work and beware of ever troubling me again. He gave a critical, parting look at the house, as if he intended to fix it in his mind and avoid it in the future.—P ~ tron. ,____<._._____ THE duty of farmers to take an ac- tive interest in public affairs is being rapidly recognized and must soon be un- iversally pl'Ol101.ll'1(‘.€(la necessity. The “Pacific Rural Press” says upon this point: One direction in which we rejoice to find the agriculturist notably advancing is in his personal participation in the conduct of public affairs. View the matter broadly and it will be gratifying to discern how great progress he has made in this way during the last twenty years. About the first notable and effective appearance which we remem- ber which the farmer, as such, made in the direction of a public policy was their successful work in the enact- ment of the wool tariff of 1877. Per- haps the next was the celebrated : Granger Cases in favor of regulation of railroad corporations, about five years later. Since that time the farmers’ in- fluence in State and national affairs has come to be recognized and respected both by those who honored and those who feared it, and though persistent and organized opposition has been made it has advanced with the force of determination and consciousness of right. ,: IN the light of recent revelations con- cerning the profligate disposal of our public lands, among which is the state- ment that five—sixths of the area of Florida has been given to what were largely swindling and now defunct cor- porations, the bill lately introduced into the U. S. Senate by Senator Plumb comes none too soon. It provides that no foreign person or corporation can hold any real estate in the United States except as acquired in the legal collection of debts; that no corporation can hold real estate whose stock is owned by foreigners to the amount of over ten per cent; that no corporation other than rail or canal companies can hold over 5,000 acres of land, and none of these any more than enough for the proper operation of its business, except such has already been legally granted by congress; and that all lands not nec- essary for the working of their business shall be disposed of by all railroads, etc., within ten years, or revert to the United States. We have wanted such a law as this for a long time, and we trust that the day is near when this will be on the statute books and enforced. The land is for.the people. THE War feature of the Century will be “Fredericksburg,”described by Gen- eral James Longstreet, and by General Darius N. Couch and General William Farrar Smith, the latter of whom were Union corps commanders in the battle. A short paper by Major J. Horace Lacy of Virginia, owner of the historic “Lacy House” opposite Fredericksburg, printed in the same number, describes “Lee at Fredericksburg.” It contains the following paragraph; “I. am the more moved to send you these reminis- cences, as in the providence of God your magazine occupies the foremost place as the great pacificator between the North and the South, holding the even scales of equal and exact justice, and pouring light on every act and in- cident of tire great Civil War. You have not raked amid the deceitful ashes of the past, to bring together upon the altar of sectional hate the live coals of that fire which once burned all ‘ too fiercely, but ever by kind, fair, and im- partial utterances, giving both sides an equal show, you have poured oil upon the troubled.waters and deserve that benediction which rests upon the peace- maker.” -—————-—uo>——-———— _THi«: New Jersey Senate has passed a bill prohibiting the sale of oleomargarine and other imitations. -=.>:«>v«:a1:..us»".;woncan- 4: _. _ , ._. . ...-._...._...........m..«.,...,.... ..... ‘ THE .-GRA.1€1.'.CaZlE.i..VI§I!I?QR«.. AUGUST 1, 1886. @311: fitting: ifiigilur. Published on the First and Fifteenth of every month, ” AT 50 CENTS PER ANNUM Eleven Copies for $5 .00. J. T. COBB, Editor and Manager, SCHOOLCRAFT, MICH. §‘Rernittances should be by Registered Letter, Money Order or Draft. 3 This paper is sent only as ordered E arzdpaidfor in advance. 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SINCE the last issue of the VISITOR business called us into a corner town of this county, and we took good care to pull up at the hitching-post of a farmer ‘friend about 7 P. M. And right here we confess to a mental arrangement before leaving home in the afternoon by which to test his hospitality. Passing by the familiar chat of the evening, a restful sleep and an early breakfast, we come to the purpose of this writing—a brief description of what we saw on and about the premises of Sylvester Fredenberg, of Wakeshma. Everybody has heard of Wakeshma, and a good many people of this county know mine host. Forty years ago this township was heavily timbered. Here and there strips and patches of the native forest still stand in its primitive beauty and majesty, but the most of it has disap- peared before the destructive industry of farmers intent on compelling the forest to make way for the homes and comforts if not the luxuries that come of successful effort in this direction. And here a little over thirty years ago our friend stuck his stake -on about too acres of land. With a good wife, a good trade and persistent applica- tion, the forest has disappeared; large and commodious buildings, with every convenience that an active mind and a carpenter’s skill could suggest, now oc- cupy a prominent rise of ground on a well-travelled highway—and- it is of these farm conveniences that we started out to tell. - ‘Last springvsome one of our Agricul ttural College friends asked us to invite our farmer readers to tell how to con- :struct the best house for swine, and we had but one answer. That }was from our friend, B. G. Buell, who for a num- ber of years has been largely interested in Poland China swine at Little Prairie Ronde. The summing up of his views we remember was adverse to any per- manent expensive hog house, and no other farmer gave either an opinion or a plan. Mr. F. does not concur in that opinion, as some years experience with a hog house constructed on his own plan has been every way satisfactory. His HOG HO US E is 18x33, outside measure, located on ground slightly descending to the east. The west wall is raisedjust above the ground. East and west walls 14 inches thick and three feet higher than the west wall. ‘ With this west wall as the starting point the building is 14 feet high on the west side and I3 feet and 4 inches on the east side. Sills, posts, plates, and apurline to support the rafters, all 6x6 timber. I The roofis a novelty; can be made by anybody without payment of royalty, and was made in this wise: Rafters 20 feet long give good projection; beech strips 1x4 in. laid close together made the deck; this being covered with tarred paper laid lengthwise with atwo inch shingle lap. Over this was spread a -coat of common brown mortar, from .§/3 to % of an inch thick which was afterward saturated with coal tar. A thin coat of coarse sand or fine gravel completed a good roof at a small cost. The lower story is 7 feet in the clear and divided into four parts. An alley 6 feet wide on the west side leaves space for pens each 10 feet square. To three girts, nearly 4 feet high, are suspended by heavy strap hinges the partitions between the alley and the pehs. Plank troughs 7xIo in the clear are set under these swinging partitions. In front of the trough are 2x4 scantling r2 inches apart, set in a girt running parallel with ,supplied with doors, and in line with the one to which the swinging partition is attached. These studding serve the purpose of compulsory education and seem to answer the purpose better than the Michigan statute as applied to chil- dren. The partitions between the pens are these at each end of the building are doors in the walls for ingress and egress. In addition to these outside doors there are suspended from above clo‘se- fitting doors that admit the hogs but keep out the chickens when the outside doors are fastened open. Above the wall at the rear of each pen is an open- ing with a close fitting door used in cleaning out the pen, and above each of these openings just under the joists is a three light slide window for light and ventilation in hot weather. There are also corresponding windows in front above and below of larger size. The floor of the alley is made level with the front wall, also under the par- titions. From the front and sides of, each pen the floors have a. slight descent to a central point at the rear about four inches below the floor level. At this rear central point a two-inch tile through the wall carries off all liquid matter. This floor is finished with cement, and is hog proof. No bedding is used winter or summer. A ventilating flue 4x5 inches ten feet long passes from‘ the center of each pen through the up- per floor and roof. At one end of the alley is an entrance door and at the other an arch over which is set a kettle with a capacity of three barrels. From the center of the kettle—cover a three- inch pipe conveys all steam into the chimney. But we are not done with the house. Loading hogs for transportation from the farm has always been considered one of the worst jobs that belong to farm work. From this pen hogs are in- vited to load themselves and they do it without protest. Three ten-inch plank are firmly cleated together on the under side. One end of this 3o-inch. plank walk is hinged to the sill over the wall and the other end when ready for use rests on the partition sill of the middle pen. The three foot wall and six inch sill brings the upper end of the plank walk about right for the animals to walk through an open door into a wagon box or rack on a wagon backed up to re- ceive its load. As the swine might not voluntarily walk the plank without side guidance that is supplied on one side by the pen itself and on the other by a swinging partition about five feet wide and ten long. A 2x4 scantling set in the studding at either end about 18 inches below the joists serves as a hinge for this swinging partition of which it is a part. When not in use the lower edge is swung up and fastened to the joists entirely out of the way. The lower end of this plank walk is raised up to a horizontal position and securely fastened until wanted. These fixtures are so simple that a man after his wagon is backed up in place can fix the whole thing for loading in two minutes and not hurry either. The upper floor is of matched stuff, fitted closely in every part, there being but two openings in it, one 4x6 against the side of the building for bran or other ground feed to pass through a spout to a box below near the arch, and the other a trap door at the head of the stairway from the alley below. Mr. Fredenberg believes in two things in keeping‘ stock,Feed well and keen warm. In this pen his hogs are comfortable in winter, with the drainage provided no part of the pen remains wet "and. the three ventilating flues prevent any evaporation freezing to the floor joists or other parts of the pens. This house is not expensive where stone are plenty and common lumber cheap. We no- ticed a protection to the arch in the shape of a 2% inch strip of band iron running- around the top course of brick, the ends spiked to the studding of the building. With cheap fuel Mr. F. be- lieves it pays to run all the small pota- toes, poor fruit, pumpkins and odds and ends of farm produce through that ket- tle for his swine. Of that we are not so sure as we are that he has a first class hog house with or without the arch and kettle, The ground floor arrangement—the troughs with the swinging partition to shut the swine from them when desired—the up- right scantling against the troughs that serve as stalls to keep each animal in his place when eating—the simple load- ing arrangement—-the ventilating flues from the pens through the roof and the swinging extra - doors are all valuable features of this model hog house that we hope we have described so as to be understood. The value of poultry has not been overlooked on these premises as shown by a large poultry house and yard. A new scheme to discourage setting hens is worthy of mention. Against the yard fence is a Coop elevated from the ground some two feet with slat front well roofed, provided with a good place to feed and water and a roost. Here bid- dy gets tired of setting on the very open floorof narrow slats which she finds it impossible to warm, and inside of 48 hours gives it up in despair. This slat arrangement neither comports with her instincts, observation, or experience, and the sitting business is abandoned. So says this farmer. A sort of feeding, moveable coup three feet high by six feet square made of 1x3‘ slats nailed upright and open on all sides, is found very convenient for feeding weaned chickens, as it protects them from invasion by the old and hun- gry. ' After the wants of the family are supplied the surplus eggs are sold.when the price is nine cents or above. If not worth that price they are dropped in a pickle made by adding one quart of salt, one pint slacked lime to three gal- lons of water. Not many winters back 3oo dozen were sold from such a pickle for 25 cents a dozen. Hens have a well ventilated house for summer that is light and warm in winter. Have warm water every morning in cold weather with warm feed. Variety, covering vegetable and meat diet, is considered important. Mixed breeds prove most profitable and the business well man- aged always profitable in a small way. The most important business of the farm is the dairy. The milk of 16 cows goes to a cheese factory only a quarter of a mile away to which this farm is the largest contributor. At the factory the milk is weighed in, each farmer credited with the amount furnished and the cheese when cured turned over to the several parties fur- nishing the milk in proportion to the amount furnished each paying to the cheese maker one cent a pound for his services. The farmers take home their share of the whey respectively. Selling their first-classcheese at country stores they get more groceries and have less labor than if made into second class butter and taken to the same market. This Co-operation in a primitive way has provedsatisfactory for several years. We have not time to extend these notes of our trip to Wakeshma and can only wish that our readers may enjoy the reading as we did the visit and de- rive some profit from our hastily written observations. Farmers and Politics. Well, Michigan is to have an election next November and the puzzled poli- ticians are sizing up the chances of in- dividuals and of parties. Doubtful is a larger factor in the problem than here- tofore. The professional politician's shrewdness is seasoned with well-foun- ded anxiety now that Michigan is as- signed to the list of doubtful States. Our standpoint is one of enquiry.- How is this election to affect the farm- ers of Michigan? They have business interests that taken as a whole, in im- portance, probably equal all others com- bined. Are the farmers of this State aware of this fact? If we are to adhere to that axiomatic law, “That we must judge the future by the past,” then we think it safe to say that the farmers of Michigan are not aware that in the elec- tion of 1886 they have interests involved that demand their careful attention. A law making body of the State is .to be created, and to it is entrusted the duty of electing a member of the Sen- ate of the United States, and Michigan’s proportion of members of the House of Representatives, The farmers of Mich- igan have seen Congress for years chaf- fering over patent laws that in their operation have proved instruments of oppression and robbery, and these laws have been neither amended nor repeal- ed. They have seen the tariff when amended at all altered to their injury. They have seen messages of Presidents covering pages of the daily press and referring to the condition of the various interests and industries of the people, and seldom devoting a dozen lines to agriculture. They have seen this entire interest in so far as government is concerned con- fined to a Commissioner with very‘limit- ed powers and treated with very little consideration. The government it would seem has yet much to learn of the relative impor- tance of this industry and yet from its own statistics we are able to show that the Agricultural class-represent by far the most important industry of the country, that it gives employment to more than twice as many people as are engaged in Manufactures, Mechanical Trades, Mining, Railroads, Quarries, Petroleum and the Fisheries. Agriculture by the census of 1880 gave employment to nearly eight mill- ions of our people and these eight mill- ions produced food not only for them- selves and the forty-three millions who were not food producers but of their surplus enough to feed half the people of Europe. The other industries named gave employment to less than four and a quarter millions in, 1880. At that date the ce.'.*-us shows the investments in Agriculture amounted to ,$i2,io4,o8i,44o and that manufactures, railways, quarries, petroleum, fisheries and mines had investments of $6,040,- 644,462 or less than one half of the property value invested in Agriculture. A farmer visiting the seat of govern- ment of this country where the govern- ment is made by the people will have no difficulty in finding the war depart- ment which represents authority, shoul- derstraps, dignity and idleness; or the Navy department which represents in money value perhaps a score of coun- ties in some good agricultural State,and these Departments are presided over by Cabinet officers—Advisers of the Presi- dent—a part of the government itself. But if this visiting farmer wants to find the official representative of the Agri- culture of this country he will employ a guide and when standing at the door of this department if he succeeds in finding it, he will not be told that its chief is engaged in consultation with the President. In the government council when affairs of State great or small are being considered, Agriculture has no representative present. The door of the council chamber of this great gov- ernment is shut against intrusion by any authorized representative of that indus- try that give = employment to more men, and embraces within its broad do- main more than twice the financial val- ues of all other industries combined. These departments of War and Navy have not only a constitutional adviser of the President but they have Acade- mies where officers are manufactured by hundreds and brass hands by scores at the expense of the farmers of this coun- try. Is there any Academy where Agri- culture in any of its various lines of re- search or experiment is taught, sustained or managed at government expense? Yes, there is a little sorghum sugar mill which with its appurtenances cost a few hundred dollars and where some experi- ments in making cane sugar have been quarreled over by subordinate officials for the last few years, to little purpose and at small expense to the government, but fairly illustrating its care, interest and concern in Agriculture. Occasionally some plain truths are uttered even in Congress but so far to little purpose. Senator Beck in a speech in December last said-—“The great American Agriculturual industries, which give employment to more than half the workers for wages whose wel- fare is held up (properly so) as the highest aim of legislation, and whose products constitute at least 80 per cent. of our exports, receive no real eo7z.rz'a’er- alien /zere, and are not even ranked among the industries of the country over which Congress is asked or ex- pected to throw its protecting arm.” A United States Senator tells the far- mers of this country that Agriculture “receives no real consideration and is not even ranked among the industries of the country.” Now, who is to blame for this state of things? Who is to blame that from $30,000,000 to 4o,ooo,ooo are annually appropriated to maintain a war department, with its long line of commissioned and non-commissioned officers—gentlemen retired on half pay or full pay, and for that matter those who are not retired are really no more useful. Who is to blame that there is kept up a continual racket about ships and gunboats. admirals and rear-ad- mirals, monitors and tugs, commodores and captains, big guns and torpedoes, and all the paraphernalia of a navy that costs from I 5 to 2o millions of dollars annually and is said to be paltry beyond description in comparison with the na- vies of the prominent nations of Eu- rope? With an inventory of the 48th Congress before us, we see at a glance who is to blame. In that body of 4oi members, we find 273 lawyers,r4 manu- facturers, i6 merchants, ii bankers, i2 farmers, and 46 members whose occupa- tion not being given, it is quite reason- able to suppose they are political trad- ers who know how they got there better than most of their constituents. We neglected to say how much is ap- propriated annually in support of agri- culture, but it does not much matter as it never reaches a million. For this meager representation and this con- tinued neglect—this unfair treatment, the farmers of the country are them- selves responsible, are themselves to blame. They elected nearly all these 273 lawyers and these 46 trading politi- cians and had something to do with the election of these representative mer- chants, manufacturers and bankers, of whom there are none too many. With these facts before them, will far- mers continue to allow these legal mi‘:- representatives to annually expend mil- lions of the money of the people on war and navy pretense,while they grudg- ingly dole outa few thousands to the great industry that feeds the people of the world? So long as we commit our ‘affairs entirely to those who are not of us, so long may we reasonably expect neglect. The history of the past throws its light on the future. Shall we profit by it, or shall we continue to elevate to oflicial positions these professional gen- tlemen who have given us for all these years such convincing proof of their utter disregard of the agricultural inter- ests of this country. If the agricultural class has no rep- resentative men——no men fit to cope with lawyers on the floor of Congress- no men who, knowing their rights, dare maintain them, then we must patiently suffer the reproach which the present state of things brings upon us. As we said at the outset there is to be an election in Michigan this year. There are usages that precede elections made necessary for the better concentration of votes upon individuals, and if far- mers propose to look outfor themselves better than they have been doing, they must take a hand in this preliminary work. They must consult together and determine upon a line of action, and then pursue it with the same regard to the outcome that they give to any oth- er business where their interests are in- volved. Don’t forget that you are farmers and that the great agricultural interests of the country have been neglected and belittled by Whigs, Democrats, and Re- publicans alike, in the Congress of the United States. No party, as such, de- mands that agriculture shall' be repre- sented in the affairs of government by aCabinet ofiicer. See to it that you vote for no man, be he farmer, lawyer, or what not, who is not pledged to use his best endeavors to accomplish this object. N 0 party, as such, so far as we know, is resp msible for patent laws that are a disgrace to our civilization, subjecting, as they do, an innocent pur- chaser of a patented article to the lia- bility of prosecution and payment of royalty on the demand of any owner. Certainly no party, as such, has under- taken to amend these laws, nor can we look for relief with a well grounded hope of success to a body composed two-thirds of lawyers, whose bread and butter interest is identified with litiga- tion. Look to no party to setthis long- cherished wrong, right; but look to men who are pledged when elected to use all legitimate means to protect the far- mer as well as the patentee and vote for no man, whatever his political brand, until you are satisfied that he will do his level best to protect you from the royal- ty robber, who is licensed and encour- aged by the present laws. We do not ask you to vote only for farmers for all offices, but we do ask you to attend the primary meetings of the party with which you have been identified; invite your fellow farmers to be present, with the declared object of electing good men as delegates to conventions. Re- sist the schemes of small politicians, be they farmers or loafers——declare at the outset that farmers must and shall be represented and if defeated in caucus and convention. then vote only for the best men on any ticket. As farmers, you have interests to protect that you have heretofore neglected, and you are unfaithful to yourselves as men——to your families as their natural protectors —to your business as farmers—to your country as citizens when you blindly vote to maintain a party without regard to its candidates,theirqualifications and their determination, if elected, to dis- charge their official duties fairly, faith- fully and well. The professional make-up oftlie Con- gress of the United States is a sad com- mentary on the intelligence of the agri- cultural class. Here in this great North- west, developed by the sweat and toil pf the husbandman, and now teeming with the products of the earth and rich in every element of prosperity and natural greatness, have there been no men grown competent to take care of their own affairs? Congress says “No.” Congress could not have said no, but you farmers of the Northwest have so ordered. You have the votes that make Congressmen and you have used them to send lawyers to Congress, who have been indifferent, if not adverse to the promotion of your interests. Farmers of Michigan and of the coun- try, we arraign you as responsible for a condition of things that is a reproach to your intelligence, your business capaci- ty and your independence. You have worked for a party rather than a pur- pose, and how has your party rewarded your fidelity? Through its manipulating managers your representative men have been ordered to stay at home and you have cheerfully acquiesced, and now when the great and important issue be- tween the two dominant parties is official position with the honor, power and patronage it gives—-when “the ins want to stay in and the outs want to get in," will you continue to rally round a parti- zan flag wholly indifferent to your own welfare as farmers and the standing and dignity of American agriculture. UNDER date of July 23d Bro. J. W. Murphy writes from Newton, Iowa, in a business letter “It is very hot and dry. No rain of consequence for eleven weeks and for four weeks the mercury has ranged from 84° to io2° every day in the shade. “The appearance is that in this part of the State our corn crop has gone up; so with gardens and potatoes. Wheat good and cut but there was not much sown. Oats fair but short in the straw. Hay an abundant crop and of excellent quality. . “The failure of our corn crop will seriously embarrass our farmers and nearly bankrupt many I fear." WE have a very brief letter of com- plaint from A. J. Baker and should comply with ‘his request to “Return if not printed” it his neglect to date his letter had not made it irupéssiole to comply. His complaint is that we ap- proved of what Senator Palmer said in his speech about Railroad regulation because as he alleges the speech was made in favor of the Cullum Bill. We did not discuss the merits of the Cul- lum Bill or any other and the complaint covers ground that we did not invade. Your Post Office, Bro Baker, is next in order. M. P. ANDERSON of Midland writes that he has several car loads of Agri- cultural Salt of superior quality and so- licits orders As he did not give price we refer all enquiries to him Bro.Bur- rington of T uscola gives Mr. Anderson an unqualified endorsement as a reliable business man. Write him for prices and freight rates. ...___...___._.__ IN ANSWER to the remittance of $5.00 to Joseph H. Reall, Prest of the Am. Ag. and Dairy Association, by order of Moline Grange, we have his letter of acknowledgement with thanks for the Cash and for the resolutions of support published in the last issue of the Visi- , TOR. AUGUST}, 1, 1886. ..p - ~-+- v:rsJ:u:-OR. G g - I .5 .;...~...cp.. vm Look to Your Trees. I A noticeable disregard for trees set with good intent, for ornament it not for use, prevails in every hamlet and along every roadside that we have visited or traveled in Michigan. With a laudable ambition to adorn a front yard or highway and provide a grateful shade for the next generation, trees are set in the spring and then left to take care of themselves. The work of setting is seldom creditable to the skill or industry of the workman be he owner or employe. Complaints come from every quarter this season of early drouth. Wheat pulled through without damage, but all other crops and gardens have suffered. The poor trees—the only thing within easy reach of relief——have, with all the spring crops, suffered severely and many of them, nigh unto death. Now this is as unnecessary as it is wasteful of labor already per- formed and equally fatal to good inten- tions. If the work of setting a tree and mulching have both been well done at the time of setting, further attention is seldom required the first season. If poorly done, when the tree shows the effect of drouth it should be dug about with a grubhoe, the ground mellowed not less than three feet each way from the tree, and then with barrels, stone- boat or wagon, not less than three pails of water should be applied to each tree, the ground liberally mulched at once, and a day or two later as much more water applied. With this treatment you can with renewed faith trust the rest to Providence. But don’t let your faith and trust carry you over more than one year, for‘ the ground will settle and be- come hard; and when hard dries out rapidly and requires a renewal of the mellowing process of the previous year. If this has not been done in the spring, attend to it at once-—-water and save your trees. AND what shall we say in answer to the arraignment “L” of Kalamazoo brings against “The public press, the pulpit and 90 per cent. at least of pro- fessing Christians and so called temper- ance people who are unwilling to take any stand religiously, socially, commer- cially or politically against the saloon business.” If the counts in his indict- ment hold good in his city, are they more difiicult to sustainiin other cities and villages of Michigan. Read the article—“A Question of Public Morals” and determine for your- self whether you are responsible and if so, to what extent for the presence of the “saloon business" in your township and the State. We happen to know the author of this article and know him to be independent in thought, expression and action upon all questions of public concern. If we had more such citizens in the Church and out “men of exemplary character nominated for public office would not be shamefully and overwhelmingly de- feated.” The Inter-State Picnic Exhibi- tion At Williams’ Grove, Penn.,lunder the management of Bro. R. H. Thomas, Secretary of the State Grange of Penn., has been a great success from the be- ginning a dozen years ago. It has be- come an immense affair as an exhibit of animals, implements, machinery and men. In his circular which we print on an- other page, he says “Last year over roo,ooo farmers representing twenty States, attended this gathering” which justifies our statement that this Pic Nic is an immense exhibition of men. Of this large number of course a large pro- portion are Patrons, and it must be a. good place to spend a week, better we think than in a tent by some Michigan lake. We hope Michigan will be well represented at this Pic Nic Exhibition. Do]-:s it pay neighboring farmers who raise the same crops, work the same highways, pay the same taxes,attend the same church, are subject to the same laws, and who apparently have the same business interests, to attend the political meetings of adverse parties, hurrah for different candidates, and vote different tickets? If so, how and why? BEFORE some of our readers get this number of the VISITOR the fate of the Bogus Butter Bill will be known to the dairymen of the Country. The dailies report that it has passed the House as amended by the Senate and is in the hands of the President or Garland. Congressmen have done their duty and now feel safe with their Constituents I SINCE our last we have had several more reports of Children's Day, each a pronounced success. With a favorable day next year 15o,ooo children in Michi- gan will rejoice at the returning anni- versary of Children’s Day. SEE A. F. Wixson’s Ad of “Solder Pencils. They have proved good as recommended at our house and are an economical addition to farm house- keeping. THE politicians’ strike is not likely to ‘come off this year. Before December some of the fellows that get left will wish it had. Fancy Farming. Among the great body of farmers who comprise half the population, pay half the taxes and till half the land is a class called fancy farmers; and they shall be the subject of these remarks. Poor fellowsl They are the butt of many a joke from both their city brothers and their country cousins. When they leave the city they are prob- ably asked if the). are going to shear their hogs and when they arrive at their rural home some wag may ask them if they know why it is that a blackberry is always red when it is green. The wits didn’t make much though when they asked Horace Greeley why he did not write another book on “What I Don’t Know about Farming,” for the sage replied, “Life is too short.” Let us see if these fancy farmers are of any importance as a class. Who was the originator of the mod- ern fair or agricultural show? Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. Who were the breeders of the Duch- ess, the Rose of Sharon, the Phyllises, the Barringtons and other noted fami- lies of short horns? The nobility of England, her fancy farmers. Coming across the ocean, we find that nearly every president of the United States was the owner of a farm and superintended its operations. Who owns Mary Ann of St. Lam- berts, the Jersey, which is the the greatest living butter maker? Who owned Mercedes, the Holstein which at the time of her death was the champion butter maker? Who owned Princess 2d, which later made a butter record unequaled? Fuller, of Ontario, Wales, of Iowa, and Shoemaker, of Maryland, all fancy farmers. Who owns Dew Drop, Maud S., and the most noted Hambletonians? Dyer Bros., Robert Bonner, Geo. W. Childs, and a iiost of fancy farmers. Prof. Cook is a recognized authority on bee culture; Southard & Ranney, physicians of Kalamazoo, are leading apiarists; a retired minister of Allegan owns one of the completest outfits for the honey business in this State or any other; he has a little steam planing mill for making his own hives and boxes; has a large building devoted to the storing, boxing, canning and shipping of honey, and looking out upon the fields you may see acres covered with the homes of the little busy bees, and the air is filled with “hum, sweet hum.” It was Jonathan Wilson, a machinist in Kalamazoo, who entering the celery business bethought him that the roof boards which shelter the winter crop could be used in summer to bleach the celery and now as "soon as the crop is large enough a board is placed on either side and hooked together with a bent piece of iron. One man may thus bleach acres in a day when a few rows would be good work for one man who must draw three feet of earth on each side against the plants, A retired foundry man, in Kalamazoo, is selling milk for one cent per quart more than any other milkman can get for milk. He keeps the best stock and has raised the standard for milk, making it impossible to sell poor milk in Kala- mazoo. This has been of immense value to the city and has not hurt the milkman. Among fruit growers we find mer- chants, judges and professional men. When Judge Severens showed that Michigan swamps could be subdued and corn, hay and oats successfully raised thereon, he did more for this State than during many years of legal practice. These citations show the numbers and wealth engaged in fancy farming. Let us see if it may be of any value to the practical farmer. The farmer's occupation is depend- ent upon so many conditions over which he has no control that these fancy farmers are necessary in the first place as scientists to propagate new and bet- ter seeds—seeds which will yield larger and quicker returns; a ninety day com; a tougher wheat, perhaps a hybrid be- tween rye and wheat with which the Rural New-Yorker has been experi- menting. Prof. Beal has long experimented with grasses and the outcome will be improved meadow and pasture seeds. We need berries and peaches which will not winter kill. These scientists also discriminate be- tween harmful and harmless birds and insects and plan campaigns against the injurious ones. We need scientists as professors of agricultural colleges and managers of experimental stations. We need fancy farmers who have the wealth and inclination to test new theo- ries regarding the practicability of ensi- lage, the value of the soiling system, and by the use of quick maturing seeds to give us a better rotation of crops. These ideas if practical cheapen pro- duction and benefit the farmer and the world. We need them as breeders of fancy stock. Farmers cannot pay thousands of dollars for. a cow or a horse and while the fancy farmer may breed these as a recreation the farmer receives the greater benefit,.for the descendents of such stock are so widely scattered that every other farmer now owns a three minute horse and a fifteen pound butter cow. We also need farmers who will bring to farming the mercantile habits of .‘ bookkeeping, the care for minor details and the continual watching for better and more scientific methods. We need them as editors of farm papers, inven- tors of farm machinery, as sympathizers among our law makers and as friends in every walk of life. Fancy farmers are not mere fancy. E. W. S. Schoolcraft, July, 1886. ~— Draining. EDITOR Visiroit:—'I‘here is no subject connected with the farmer’s business requiring so much careful study and thoughtful investigation as that of drainage. I believe there is none that receives so little of his attention. Nature with a thousand tongues is cry- ing out to attract his attention to its necessity. Even while our prayers are for rain we see pointers, in the hard baked and deeply cracked soil that was water soaked or perhaps cultivated while too wet, the stunted vegetation thereon barely reminding us of the earlier prom- ise of an abundant harvest. My own field of wheat, hardly worth the cutting save that little ridges perhaps a foot above the general level, which will yield perhaps 30 bushels per acre, because the water could drain or run away from the roots of the plant, is a costly and should be a convincing argument. Here is evidence indisputable that drainage will pay one hundred per cent. yearly. Where is the undrained farm in Michi- gan that does not furnish the same tes- timony. We may be fully convinced of the practicability and necessity of draining and yet be unable from its great cost to accomplish much. It is expensive to under drain properly, and where tile is used (the only really good material to use) it is essential to have the bottom one a true grade,which here- tofore has required the services of a competent surveyor, adding largely to ths cost. Now, however, any one with the low priced instruments advertised in the Visrron may save that. I do not speak from personal experience, but from my knowledge of the subject gen- erally I believe the grade level in ques- tion is all that is really needed. Then there are ditching machines of great promise, and I believe the time is not far distant when the farmers even of small means, who can obtain the tile, may be able to thoroughly, and thus permanently, drain their land. The present busy season is no time for a farmer to write essays, at least a farmer so busy as I am, yet we all expect the VISITOR to be full of interesting matter. I presume Bro. Cobb would be thank- ful for a little lift now and then.‘ Broth- er farmers, if it requires such an effort for you and me to write a single article, what must be the strain on the editor who fills nearly a whole page twice a month, of good, sound practical sense.: Another thought. Thousands of young men are yearly stepping into the places of the aged or deceased farmers, who need to know the very rudiments of draining literature, hence frequent es- says upon the subject are necessary and always timely, and I hope sometime in the future to be able to discuss the sub- ject somewhat more in detail, it other pens more able than my own do not re- lease me of the duty. . C. S. KILLMER. Arenac, Arenac Co., Mich. _ THE daily papers and the big wigs in politics are very busy and fussy just now running up and down the calendar of lawyers to sort out the next set of fellows who are to go to Congress. Do any of the laborious brethren think it wouldibe at a risk of wrecking every thing if the farmers should run these political matters over quietly in their minds, step to the front with an inde- pendent word or two to say, and con- clude to swap off a score or more of tonguey lawyers for another breed of statesmen, chosen right from between the plow handles? Who says that an honest, level-headed farmer can not’ worthily represent his industrial fellow citizens in running the corrupt kinks out of our national laws? Well, the farmers themselves have been saying so by their votes for the butt end of a century, and very likely they will sit back in the corner at the caucus this autumn and say so again. The sturdy husbandman has wonderful knack of seeing fine points of superiority in that glib son of thunder, the stump orator from the courthouse, and very likely he will ticket him through to Washington as usual.———Gra1zge News. A METHOD has been discovered, says the “Indiana Farmer,” of making sugar without crushing or pressing the canes. The cane is cut into strips and the water extracted by alcoholic vapor, which leaves the saccharine to be dis- solved into liquid. The alcohol and sugar are filtered by means of lime and chalk. It is claimed that this process of manufacture will add one—third to the production over and above any process now in use. —- — Any pasture used for cattle and horses may profitably have as many sheep added to the stock as there are acres in the pasture, and the pasture will be benefitted thereby. Sheep eat so many different kinds of plants which cattle and horses fefuse, that the addition of a few sheep, by keeping down those plants which other stock refuse, really in- creases the product of grasses for other stock. ‘ Stekelee’sB|oodBiltersl No Whiskey Here. For the Cure of Biiious Rheumatism, Malaria, Indigestion, Bil- iousness, Liver Complaint, and Impurities of the Blood. Perfectly free from Intoxicants; compounded from Roots, Herbs and Ber- ries. It is the most perfect remedy for the cure of Malaria and Bilious Rheuma- tism known. Those that know of my remedies know that I sell no humbug. Read what the people say of these bitters. Too good not to publish the follow- ing letter: ‘.\iANTo.\', MicH., June 23, 1885. Mr. Geo. G. Steketee— Dear Sir: For years I have been troubled with constipation or cost- iveriess, dizziness and wandering of the mind. At times it seemed as though there were thousands of needles penetrating my arms, fingers and legs, with hot and cold flashes running all over me, bad breath and coated tongue. I have taken one bottle of your Steketee’s Blood Bitters as you directed when I was at your place. I can say that it has done me more good than anything that I have ever found before. In fact, I feel like a new man. No -me should be without a bottle of Steketee’s Blood Bitters. M. VANDERCOOK. Long life to Mr. Steketee and his Blood Bitters. Thus writes Mr. J. C. Van Der Ven, of Grand Haven, Mich., Oct. 1, I885: “For the past yearI have scarcely been without pain in my bowels. I used remedies from the doctors, and house remedies, all without cure. Two bottles and one-half of your Steketee’s Blood Bitters has entirely cured me; so I say long live Mr. Steketee and his Blood Bitters. J. C. VAN DER VEN.” ASK YOUR IDIIUGGIST FOE STEKETEE’S BLOOD BITTERS. TAKE NO OTEIER. GEO. G-. STEKETEE, Sole Proprietor, Grand Rapids, Mich. PRICE}, - 500 and $1 Per Bottle. HEDDEN’S PATENT I Corn & Fodder Shock Binder (Patented june X5, 1886.) A little implement of great practical utility, cheap and durable, For Compressing and Binding Corn and Fodder Shocks temporarily, while the work is being done permanently with Twine. The superiority of twine for binding is.an acknowledged fact, and with this little implement the shocks can be bound cheaper, easier and more surely than by any other method. No more pulling grass or weeds, or cutting marsh grass, flags or willows. By its use a small boy can do the work of a man easily, and far better than by the old way. 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Take a pail full of strong, cold soft soap suds, sprinkle thoroughly, either with hand or syringe, every part of the bushes, turning the bushes down so that the suds may reach both sides of the leaves; do this every other morn-. ing for three mornings. After the third application there will not be a worm left. The washing will improve the bushes and the currants will be perfect in quality and flavor. The same pro- cess will be necessary in August, to kill the second brood, which will appear at that time. If leached ashes are applied to the roots in May, the worms will not appear and they greatly benefit the bushes, stimulating them to more vigorous growth. The August brood, however, will have to be treated to a bath of soap suds. Try this, everybody, and you will be surprised at the result. —— -v AN exchange announces that mange or barn itch on cattle, can be easily cured by one or two applications of molasses, this is less offensive than sul- phur and grease; and is fully as efficient. The cheapest grade of molasses will answer the purpose. All kinds Grass, Clover and Vegetable eds. Try my East India White Winter Wheat. I have imported a quantity for trial. Send 5c for sample and price. GEO. W. HILL, ' Iaugl3 ii5 Randolph St., Detroit, Mich OR SALE.—-\‘.'nul:l like to say to the lovers of Sea Shells and Curiosities that I have a quantity of named shells that are large and nice. As I do not care for but one of a kind, will sell them cheap. I sin have Devil Fish. sting of a sti'.:ir_ fish, and several other curiosities to spare. Anyone wishing to purchase or exchange will address with stamp N. W., Lowell, Mich. To Build Cheap Silo. What ever cheapens the cost of the silo, or lessens the expense of filling it, will hasten the introduction of the meth- od especially upon the farms of those of moderate means. The important ex- periments on ensilage conducted at Massachusetts: Agricultural College, have shown that a balloon frame of scantling, of suitable size, covered on the outside with matched boards, and lined on the inside with two thick- nesses of one-inch matchedjboards, with a layer of tarred paper between them, thus securing a partially air-tight en- closure, surrounded by a dead air space as protection against frost, is the best and cheapest form of construction. If the boards and timbers are saturated with hot coal-tar which can readily be .done with trifling expense and little la- bor, the duration of the silo will be very much increased. Silos are, in these respects similar to ice-houses, their usefulness does not increase with the increase of cost. i I o ~.a-'»:.- - .. 6 TEZE" GRANGE vIsI'I-‘OR.’ AUGUST 1, 1386. games’ Pluck and Prayer-Whlch? There wa’nt any use of fretting. An’ I told Obadiah so, . For if we couldn’t hold on to things, We’d jest got to let them go. There were lots of folks that’d suffer Along with the rest of us, _ And it didn’t seem to be worth our wlule To make such a dreflle muss. To be sure, the barn was most empty, An’ corn an’ pertaters sca’ce, An’ not much of anything plenty and cheap But water an’ apple-sass; But then, as I told Obadiah, It wa’nt an use to groan, _ For flesh an’ blood couldn’t stan’ it, an’ be Was nothin’ but skin an’ bone. But, laws! if you'd only heerd him At any hour of the night, A rayin’ out in that closet there, ’ would have set you crazy quite. I patched the knees of those trousers With cloth that was no ways thin, But it seemed as if the pieces wore out As fast as I set ’em in. To me he said mighty little Of the thorny way we trod; But at least a dozen times a day He talked it over with God. Down on his knees in that closet The most of his time was passed; For Obadiah knew how to pray Much better than how to fast. Butl am that way contrary, . That if things don’t go just right, I feel like rollin’ my sleeves up high An’ gettin’ ready to fight. An’ the giants I slew that winter I ain’t goin’ to talk about. And I didn't even complain to God, Though I think he found it out. With the point ofa cambric needle I druv’ the wolf from the door, For I knew that we needn’t starve to death Or be lazy because we were poor; And Obadiah he wondered, And kept me patchin’ his knees,‘ And tho’t it strange how the meal held out An’ stranger we didn’t freeze. Butl said to myselfin whispers, “God knows where his gift descends,” And ’tisn’t always that faith gets down As far as the finger-ends, An’ I would not have no one reckon My Obadiah a shirk; For some, you know, have the gift to pray, And others the gift to work. —_‘7o.repfiz'ne Po/lard. — Child—Dreams. I remember when in childhood, Early on a bright spring mom, I have sought the tangled wildwood, Culled the blossoms from the thorn, Listened to the song-bird trilling Notes of wildest, sweetest joy, All the woods with music filling. Do bird-pleasures know alloy? Do birds e’er grow old, I wonder? Do they e’er look back and sigh For the shade they once sang under? For the old-time, clear blue sky? I remember oft reclining ’Neath the shade of low—boughed tree, Sheltered from the sun’s bright shining, F anned by zephyrs light and free; There I planned for coming greatness, Built my castles high in air, Sure that of the world’s proud trophies I should gather my full share. True in after years they tumbled, All those castles I had reared, And I saw their columns crumbled- Structures to my heart endeared. But their rearing had afforded Many an hour of child—delight, And their memory still is hoarded As a relic pure and bright. Ah! alas! That Time should banish Youth’s bright rainbow from our skies. Who would have amirage vanish That is pleasing to the eyes? Who would give up ho e’s fond dreaming, Though it only “smi e to cheat?" Who wish not that flowers-—e’en seeming, Might be scattered ’neath our feet? -—-Syl:/z'a Silver!/lorne. when to Read. I was attracted by Janie Fairley’s love of books, an attraction which led me so far that I one day asked her to marry me, and though she declared she loved the books no less, she still put them aside a bit, and a proud day it was for me when I held the little wo- man’s hand in mine and knew hence- forth she was to bear my name and be a part of myself. We were poor, and yet rich enough, with our forty acres free of debt and our dot of a. house with just room for two and a friend; and although the work—half gardening, half farming— kept us busy of mornings with the weeding and the berry picking and the thousand morning chores, yet my Janie managed so cleverly to steal a peep at her best loved pages that I thought to put it down for other folk to profit by; for Janie had a knack at housekeeping as well as reading, and many a flush of pride have I felt when I brought in a neighbor to break bread at our table for there was no bread whiter or whole- somer, from whatever whelt made, than my Janie made from the kernels of our own granery; and I’ve often heard her say that many a. line she conned at the kneading board with her book set up on a wire frame at her hand. “Buy me big print,” she used to say, “for the better it will serve me at the work table.” And the churning! I thought to save my little girl some hardships and I bought an easy revolving churn and a rocking chair, and to see my bonny wife with her book in her hand turning and turning till the butter came, undis- turbed by the splash! splash! of the cream, but rising at once at the chug! chug! of the butter, was a sight that, sent me up and down the furrows with‘ a light heart and always a new plan to get another book. Secretly I had loved my little box for my tobacco’s sake, but now I hid it away on the beam under the horse brushes, and as often as the day came around I put into it the dime or nickel I had saved by giving up the weed; and one time soon there was enough to buy abook I had heard her wish for, and I bought it; and the little tin box is the banker who gives us two or three books in the year. And the rainy days, and the bitter days; how many a minute there was for the reading when we came to count them all up, but never so many that the fire burned low or the work went un- done. “We’ll have all day to think about it,” was Janie’s word in the morning, and to such purpose did she think that many a dollar she saved in the farming and many a dollar she made in the mar- keting; and long before our third baby came there was a fine bearing peach orchard on the “knob” in the lower field, all due to ]anie's reading in the morning while she waited for me to come in with the milk. “I like to have a book or a paper handy,” she would say; “there are so many minutes one can catch on the wing;" and she actually fitted a dainty pocket in the back of the little rocking chair to hold a paper or the last maga- zine for the reading minutes. Sometimes there was a minute to wait for the pies to finish in the oven or the bread to come to just the brown I liked, or a. second or two at noon while the men washed and combed; and what a rest and a change it all was to her and how cheerily she met us at the dinner table, full of something to tell us to help us in our business, or to make us laugh, or to keep us up with the times while we followed the plow. And the babies! The same wicker chair helped in putting them to sleep and the little things loved naught else so well as a paper. I’m sure of my bairns for they’re born with the love of books fairly pictured upon them, and though they are well tanned and frolic- ’ some they’ll stop at any time to hear a rhyme or a pretty child’s story. And Jamie has the mother’s knack of telling, too, and the very thing we like ourselves that she tells to the children in such a. way they beg for more. She has been that clear headed when she read that nothing that ever went in through her eyes was lost, and she has thought and thought so much that now it just seems she always had these ideas, they are so much her own. I cannot give you a better rule than ]anie’s: “Neglect no work, but seize every stray moment for reading”; and I’m sure if you do equally the thinking you’ll be as well read as my Janie, and there’s few her betters. ’ ‘ " JOHNS MACGREGOR. ———-———. II. Lapeer... . . . . . 8 31 “ 34 " Valparaiso. . . . xo 3o " 5 32 “ to 29 " Flint... .. 9 06 “ 10 IO " South Bend. .. 12 oo “ 6 52 " 12 or A. I. Durand. . . . . . 9 35 “ IO 48 " Cassopolis. . . 12 47 P. M. 7 2g “ 12 43 " Lansing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . io 30 " in 50 " Marcellus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 16 " - * . . . . . . . . . x 07 “ Charlotte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 00 A. M. 12 25 ll. M. Schoolcraft .. .. . . .... .. 1 35 " 8 06 “ I 27 ," Battle Creek. Ar. . . A. M. 11 45 “ ‘ 1 2o “ Vicksburg . . . . . . . .. 1 5o “ 8 15 “ 1 43 " “ Lv 8 5o 12 05 " 1 25 “ Battle Creek, Ar. .. 2 45 " 8 55 " 2 3:1 " Vicksburg . . . . 9 45 12 45 “ 2 21 " “ Lv . . 3 45 “ 9 oc- " 2 35 " Schooicraft. 9 55 12 55 “ 2 32 " Charlotte... . . . 4 42 " 9 43 " 3 25 " Marcellus. . 1o 20 1 16 " . . . . . . . . . Lansing . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2o “ 1o 14 " 4. oo " Cassopolis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5o 1 42 " 3 19 “ Durand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 05 “ 11 o8 “ 5 c3 “ South Bend . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 40 2 28 “ 4 07 " Flint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 55 “ ll 37 “ 5 40 “ Valparaiso . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 38 4 oo “ 5 52 " Lapeer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8 42 “ 12 07 A. M. 6 15 " Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 05 P. M. 6 3o “ 8 1o " Port Huron . . . . . . . . . . .. 10 2o “ I 26 “ 7 35 “ Way Freight carrying passengers going East, 3.30 P. M.; going west, 10.05 A. M. *Stop for passengers on signal only. Nos. 3. 4. 5 and 6 run daily. Tickets sold and baggage checked to all parts of Canada and United States. For through rates and time apply to G. M. WATSON, Local Agent. Schoolcraft; W. E. DAVIS, Assistant Gen’ Passenger Agent. Chicago; W. J. SPICER, General Manager. Detroit. GROCERIES! It will be interesting to every Farmer in the vicinity of Grand Rapids to learn that the Wholesale Grocery I-Iouse ——OF'-—- ARTHUR MEIGS Zr. GO. Iiave Ojpenecil. er. Mammoth Retail Department, and are selling all goods at much LOWER PRICES than any other dealerl. SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS will be given large purchasers. OUR STOCK IS LARGE, and embraces everything in the line of Groceries and Provisions. When in town don’t fail to call on us. ARTHUR IEEIG-SiiiA, July 15, 1886. PURE SUGARS. Cut Loaf per in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._37/, Piilverized per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ../ Qtandard Granulated per ‘lb Standard A White per 1b.. b_ Best White Soft A per . " -ood White Soft A er lb. Extra C White per i . . . . . . . Staiidard B per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ' Extrii.C Yellow Bright per lb . . . . . . . . .. _ 4) Yellow per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . .0 Brown r lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. New Or eans Extra. Light per lb . . . . . . . . . . . SYRUP AND MOLASSES-—In Barrels. Sugar drips pure sugar per gallon . . . . . . . . . 22 Amber drips pure sugar per gallon . . . . . . . .23 Fancy white maple drips per gallon ... .28 Extra olden pure sugar per gallon. .. .. .332 Fancy%ew Orleans new crop per gallon. .50 (10-)~'i New Orleans new cro per ga.llon.. .46 White honey drip, vanilla avor . . . . . . . . . .33 IMPORTANT ——The above quotations are for syrup In whole barrels only. All syrup in half barrels 4 cents per gallon extra and no charge for package. In -5 and 10 gallon packages 5 cents per gallon addition- al and the cost or package. COFFEES—GREEN AND ROASTED. Fancy Rio per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Green Rio extra choice per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . ..11 0111,; Green Rio prime per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103. @11 Green Rio good per lb. . . .. 10 @101/,, Green Riocominon peril‘-..... . 9 @ 91. Green Maracaibo choice per lb .12%@13 Green Laguayrn choice per 39. ..12 @12 /, Green Java choice per lb .... . . . . . .20 @21 Roasted Rio best per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..l31,§ Roasted Rio No. 1 per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Roasted Rio No. 2 per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111/, Roasted Laguayrs. best per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Roasted Java bestper lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2’; @2i Barnes’ Golden Rio roasted In 1 lb p’k .... ..15 TE AS. Imperial per lb. . . .. 25, 35, 40, 45, 50 Young Hyson per lb - , 35, 40, 50, 55 Oolong per *: '. 30, 35, 40, 50 Japan per lb . . . . . . .. . .25, 35. 4 50 Gunpowder per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30, 40, 55 FOREIGN DRIED FRUITS. Raisins, New Muscalells. per box. .. “ Muscatells, “ . “ London layers, “ " London layers. 1/4 boxes... “ Valencia per in ‘* seedless. mats. 50 lb per mat .... .. 3 75 “ Ondarir, bpx, gs lb I I i I I I Implements, Farmers’ Sash, Doors, Glass, Nails, General Hardware, Screen Doors an 3 Window Frames, % ASSORTME NT OF Pumps, Barb Fence Wire, Tar, Felt and Straw Board, ALL TO BE GOT AT THE 1 Full Nickel, or Davis Rubber Trimming, 3 ' not satisfactory. ,4: AUGUST 1, 1886. $14 T.-y one, $14IThe’ Leading Music House. li In Western Michigan. §i=iiii:iiiiic_ii BROS., 30 and 3: Canal Street, Grand Rapids. MI. A better Harness than you can buy for $20. I Pill STRIP llllill Elllllll, Best Oak Stock, for 314. Iron :30 DAYS * W b ' I will fill all orders received under seal j e er Plfiggie Pianos of the Grange, rind may be returned if; Fischer Pianos, ‘ Peek Pianos. Chase Organs, Smith American Organs, Taylor and Farley Organs, Valley City Organs. A. VANDENBERG, I GRAND RAr>ins, Mich. I: MAKE YOUR OWN ERTILIZERS. ~. W'here to get the materials in the clie:ip- - i1- est form: how to make up fnrinul.-is for difler- 2x A‘ ent crops; seven ways to make ilant food or i .1 bones, ground and whole :, all 11 out fish for ‘ .2 l'Tl7lI’1uX'€ and where to get them, and wood _. A :isIics,&c.,&c. Abook of izop.1gcs,crow we Residence, 193 Jefferson Ave. , . . . ~ (r.i..,.i.i ...-.-....i.i .. IyNovi6 vided it weig is not L35 than 70 His. \Vll('Il l‘CL'k ivcd. Melis -Hardware, 17-19 Granclville Ave., V Opposite the Engine House, f Grand Rapids. 1 mjjlmuuu ‘ MAcH|N§_llY.i°ri.£a.°r;tl.lFREE Georgia bags, 2 bushels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Chocolate, Baker's Prem. No. 1 per lb. . . . 37 (938 Barnes’ Perfect Baking Powder in % lb tins, rdoz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....125 Barnes Perfect Baking Powder in $4, 115 tins, r doz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barnes Perfect Baking Powder in 1 lb tins per doz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 25 Rice, new crop, Fancy Head. per lb. . . ... 6V Rice, “ good, per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 prime, r lb . . . Corn Brooms No. 3. per oz. 2 25 " o. . " . 2 35 H No. 5, is 2 65 “ N0. 6. “ . . .2 90 Best 1oi_- brooms. " ............ ...3 15 Lye. abbltfs. per case of 4 doz ........ ..4 00 Lye. Penna, “ " ........ ..3 25 I-re. Phil:-. " H ........ ..2 so Potash " " ........ ..2 80 @s 25 j H 4 .. ..... .. 121 Prunes, French boxes. per lb 59,610 .l-Iampton, DotroIt,|IIch_. .- New '_I‘urkey; per 112.. g§@ 4% 451:) °“"““-"- ‘“*“- Wgvflgié-é-PI E o@ - A D. DEGARMO, Highland Station, Oak- Black Pepper per 1,) _ _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ _S _ 18 0 land, Co., Mich. Farm one half mile white -- -- ________ H _ 23 north of the station, breeder of Shorthorns 01 Ginger “ . 12 Pomona, Young Phyllis, White Rose, Bell Ma- glingggmon --------------- -- éli hone and Sally Walker families. Stock of both n‘i’.pic. ~ 2::::'.'.‘.::::::::::::::: 9 sexes for sale Terms easy, prices low Cor- Mace « ..................... .. so respondcnce solicited. Nutmegii “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 65 PATENTS "‘-‘-"’f1‘il’£‘f.li‘3.i‘,?2.‘.i.‘£.‘§f.;',§.‘.a;:::::::::::: 32 *- ,, giggggilgg; §f_'_ P ------------------ -- g Lucius c. WEST, Solicitor of American and .. Ginsu. pg, 11, . 16 Foreign Patents, and Counsellor in Patent Causes, -* A11sp‘ce per ............ .. 15 Trade marks, Copyrights, Assignments, Caveats, GROCERS' sUNDR1Es_ Mechanical and Patent Drawings. Circulars S&130dfi-1- 1&9 173 kezslbper 13- -- 1% free. 105 E. Main Street, Kalamazoo, Mich. g1if’c‘;"t,5]“s(1)’d8“’,"1'01")§:'3'11'i',i)',*{;3‘g‘ 2 Branch oflice, London, Eng. Notary Public. “ “ “ 25 lb boxes.. 5 apfitf “ “ _ “ 10 1!) boxes. . . .. 6 “ " in lb packages . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6% " " in M lb packages ......... . . 7}; Corn starch, Gilbert's. per in ............ .. 6 “ Duryea's. per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Starch, lump, g\11lt')ye:.'S, 40 lb boxes, perlls 4 It i '5 H H H 4 Corn starch. new process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5% Starch, newprocess, lump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3% “ “ £5 )1: ‘boxes . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ‘ " *‘ x . . . . . . . . . .. 51 ‘ ' - Grain begs, 2busiieis .... ......... .. 24”‘ EVERY Person who “Shes to m’ ‘Penmanship and Interest Rules, / W. F. Parsons. prove their Handwriting or learn to" Compute Interest rapidly should purchase PA RSONS’ SEl.II;T INSTRUCTOR, and TABLES for 6, 7, and 10 per cent. and Copy SLIPS. College, Kalamazoo, 1112':/z. For Dyspepsia Mental and Physical Eiiiauslimi, Nerioiisness, Wflflllllllflll Energy, Indigestion, Etc. HORSFORD’S '1.‘ the lea.d,d at rrod like tin or mu, not «:35; like ahingleamraar If-at ocgmr-ozmons. gas! in :pial.v. stron and durable at half the coat of tin. In so a sUB8S'l‘I'.l‘ TE for PLA -ran in Half the Cost. 0?! flPlE2‘1S undtflli Gsmog BIND,‘ do}: . . ’ . on sun as r J“ "°i'i'vf’ ii’. Ic<‘3YBdc co?."hAiunEN.’n. 13" x5apr5t . ACID PHOSPHATE A liquid preparation of the phos- phates and phosphoric acid. Recommended by physicians. It makes a delicious drink. STOCK FARM Breeders Stock recorded in Ohio P. C. Record. Corres- GREEN W00 [1 Poland China Swine a Specialty. pondence and inspection invited. B. G. BUELL, _ LITTLE PRAIRIE Ronnn, , Consignments Solicited, and Cash ,My large Vegeieihle and Flower Set-il Catalogue will be scntfree to all who write for it. _T I Fem” Bmlhm 8" mmds! blames J. H. llragory, Marlilehaad, Mass. W":£”l‘l‘.l§§.l°.l._M.l7.ll§ll.lNTS9wooi., BEANS, Etc. If you contemplate shipping I offer Advances Made_ fito furnish bags and storage free of . gcharge, and if not sold in 30 days from ;'receipt of same will, if requested, ad- lvance one-half its estimated value with- 5 Ton w\ll’°n:b‘ii“Scalea. cut interest on the same. I will sell to "°¥.l'.°ls'.'.?.’..§l.Ti°'ia§.'2."i"a§'.',2.?“ best advantage, and remit balance due $60 and when sold. Rate of commission not to exceed five per cent., and less in pro- fi',“Immmn_ N.Y.“l portion to _quantity of shipment. Mar- ket quotations on wool, beans, etc., fur- nished on application. f THOS. MASON, " Business Ag‘t Mich. State Grange. FING German Horse and Cow I RON i-.-ml for prices POWDERS I R00... This powder has been in use many years. It is largely used by the farmers of Pennsylvania, CINCINNATI (0.) CORRUGATING C0. I5marI2t 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. JAMES, Kalamazoo; GEO. VV. HILL & CO., 8oWoodbridge St., Detroit; THOS. MASON, [81 Water St., Chicago, Ill.; and ALBERT STEGEMAN, Allegan. Put up in 60-lb. boxes (loose). Price EIGHT CENTS per 1b., 30-lb. boxes of 6 ;-lb. packages, TEN CENTS per lb. FRED VARlN’S MOTTO 35- : I I * ' I “ll Nimble Sixpence 18 Better than a Slow Shilling. ’ ltherefore offer Hand—Made Harness CHEAPER THAN EVER, at following prices: Double Farm Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25[5o Double Carriage Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25‘oo Single Buggy Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:00 Sign of Big Horse, No. 73 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Imarizt ~ by 3-——"""{.—— " ‘7- \ g:._ _z—— IOHI/ISO RIDING PLOW. Covering all points of excellence heretofore reached, presents to farmers some new and novel points of excellence. Ease of draft and simplicity of construction are prominent features. Send for circulars to the sr. JOHN PLOW CO., KALAMAZOO, MICH. Reduction in Price of Paints. THE PATRONS’ PAINT WORKS have made another reduction in the price of Paints, notwithstanding they are cheaper than any other Paints in the 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 ro GALLON ORDERS FREIGHT PAID TO YOUR DE- POT. WE SEND YOU AN ELEGANT PICTURE OF SOME OF THE LEAD- ING MEN OF THE ORDER. A pamphlet, “Everyone their own Painter,” sam- ple of colors, references of many thousand Patrons, etc., free upon application. Masters and Secretaries, lease name your title in writing. Jan 1 t12 PATBO S’ PAINT WORKS, 64 Fallon 53-, NOW2Y0l'k' Invigorating and strengthening. Pamphlet free. For sale by all dealers. Bumford Chemical Works, Providence, 3. I. QBewa.re of Imltatlons. july15y1, Cass Co., Mich. ‘ Kettle heat: :11 the Water. following the Wash. INGERSOLUS QUICK-ACTING SOAP.-Guaranteed not to in- jure the Finest Fabric. A Toa- No Steaming Suds and Wearing Labor. No Mending-day Makes the Skin Soft . and White. An Hour’: Light Eflort does 4) an ordinary ‘Wash. Elegant for ‘toilet, Sample cake mailed for the postage, lc. Sample ‘tax, 36 cakes, deliver,-ed, freight. free, $3. Ing Machines une- qualled. Mnsters, Seo- reta;-ies and others, write for full pa:-tlcu. lars. Pamphlet with Pictures of Leading Patrons, FREE. Lddnu PATRONS’ SOAP WORSE 64 FULTON 512, NEW YOBX. Shaving and Gene- ral Uses. The Price saved many times In Labor, Fuel and Wear of Clothes. Home-made S o 3 p dear even if it costs nothing. For Wuh-