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COLDWATER, MlCH.. SEPTEMBER 1, 1886.

Printed by A. J. ALDRICH 81 CO..
lPublishei-s of the COLDWATER REPUBLICAN.

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OFFICIAL DIRECTOR Y.

Oflicers National Grange.

Ua.fter—-PUT DARDEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mississipri
Own-eer—-JAM ES L DRAPER. ... . . . . . .Massachusetts
£crturer—MOR'l'. WHITEF EAD. . . . . . . . .New Jersey

Stemard——J. E. HALL _
Au-;'.i-taut Stewar-t'—W, H. STINSON. .New. Hampshire
CI¢aplaz'n—A. J. ROSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Texts
Treasurer-— F. M. MCDOWELL . . . . . . . . . . ._. .New York
Sea-r;tary——JNO. TRIMBLE, 514 I-‘St.,Wzishington. D.C.

 

Gate Knfer—H. THOMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . elaw_'arc
Cert:-.-MRS. KATE DARDEN. . . . . . . . . . Mississippi
Panmua—MRS. S. H. NEAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Kentucky
[bra-—MRS. JAMES C DRAPER . . . . . . .Massachusetts
Ltd] Asszlrlaul Slcaaar:I'—MR_S. E. M. LIPSCOMB,

South Carolina

Executive (Turnmit-to-F

    

J. M. BLANTON, Ch‘n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Virginii

J. H. BRIGHAM . . . . . . . . .  .(_)hio
J. J. WOODMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michigan

Ufilcers Michigan State Grange.

lla.rter—C. G. LUCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gilead
Own-eer—JOHN l'IOLBRO()K.. . . . . . . . .L:insing
Lecturer-PERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Batile Creek

Slewar-d—-HARRISON BRADSHAW. . . . .Nortl: Branch
Arsistanl Steward ——A. E. GREEN.. . . .\Valled Lake
Claaplaz'u—I. N. CARPENTER... . . .Sherman
Trea.rurer—E. A. STRONG. . . Vicksburg
Sgcy-¢fary—J, T, COBB . . . . . . choolcraft
Gate I(ez';$er.-—A. M. AGENS . Ludington
Cert: ‘. . . Grecnville
Pavuana—MRS W. T. REMIN . . .Alto
. . . . . . . Gilead

. . . Walled Lake

  
  
  
  
    
  
 
  

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L. A. Ste'u.Iara'~MRS. A. E.

Executive Committee.

ii. 1). PLATT, Ch'n ....................... ..Ypsilanti
THOS F. MOORE. . . .  .Adrian
J. G RAMSDELL. . . . .'lraverse City
THOMAS MARS . . . . . . . . .Berrien Center

    
  
    

{iv . A. BURRINGTON. . . . . . ..Tusc a
. SATERLEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Birmingham
W. T. ADAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . Grand léam
C. G. LUCE . . . . . . . . . . .
J. 1'. coins. l‘E""W""i ....  ..... . Schoofcraft
State Business Agent.
THOMAS MASON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(,hicago, Ill
Genei-al Deputies.
PERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Battle Creek
HRS. PERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Battle Creek
Special Deputies.

WM. I-I. LEE. Harbor Springs, for Emmett County.
TOHN HOLBROOK. Lansing. for Inghairi County.
[ASON VVOODMAN. Paw Paw, for Van Buren County.
BRONSON TURNER. Flushing. Genesee County.
FRANK H. DYER, Ferris, Muitcalm County.

S. H. HYDE, Traverse City,Grand Traverse.An'.rirn. Lee-

lanaw and Benzie Counties.

R. C. THAYER. Benton Harbor. for Berrien County.
GEO. W. SHEFFIELD, Johnstown. for  County.
LUTHER . DEAN. North Star. for Gratiot County.

I. . A. B RRINGTON. Tuscola. for Tuscola County.
JO N TRUE, Jackson. torjackson County.

HIRAM ANDREWS, Orion. for Oakland County.

M. IV. SCOTT‘, Hesperia. for Newaygo County.

IAMES A. MARSH. Constantine. for St. Joseph County.
M. V. B. MCALPINE, Mouterey. for Allegan County.

A. M. LEITCH, North Burns. for Huron County. - _
P. H. GOELTZENCLEUCHTER, Birch Run, for Sagi-

naw County.
GEO. B HORTON. Fruit Ridge. for Lenaivee County.
C. C, KNOVVLTON. 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 or uPi>i,1i=.s

Kept in the oflice ol the Secretary of the '

MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,
Ami rent out Po:t—[mirz', on receipt of Cash 07‘-
der, over 1/re Seal of :2 Subarditzats Grange,
um’ I/ze rigmzlure of it: /llzzster or Sttwlary.

Porcelain ballot marbles, per hundred. . . . .5 75
Blank book, ledger ruled, for Secretary to
keep accounts with members . . . . . . I oo
Blank record books (express paid) . . . . . . . . I oo
Order book, containing 100 orders on the
, Treasurer, with stub, well bound. . . 50
Receipt book, containing 100 receipts from
Treasurer to Secretary, with stub,
well bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 50
Blank receipts for dues, per 100, l>0l1Tld- - A 50
Applications for membership, per 100. . . . 50
.Secretary’s account book (new style). . . . . 50
Withdrawal cards, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Diinits, in envelopes, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . 25
By-Laws of the State Grange, single copies
ioc, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 75
By-Laws, bound . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2o
“Glad Echoes,” with music, single copy
‘ 15¢, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. i 80
The National Grange Choir, single copy 40
cents, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4 oo
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, per dozen, 5c,
per 100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
American Manual of Parliamentary Law. . 50
5; H cs 45 ac
(Morocco Tuck) . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . I 00

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

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

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

Oficers’ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
CO-OPERATIVE LITERATURE.
History and Objects of Co—operatioii. . . . . . 05
VVhat is Co-operation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . 02
Some of the VVeakriesses of Co-operation. 02
Educational Funds; How to Use Them. . . or
Associative Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . 01
The Economic Aspect of Co- operation. . . . 01
Association and Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03
The Principles of Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or
The Perils of Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or
Fundamental Principles of Cooperation. . or
How to Start Co-operation Stores . . . . . . . . ox
Logic of Co—operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03
Origin and Development of the Rochdale
.Society...... . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . .. 03
Addresses and Lectures by Eminent Men. . 03
Address, J. T. COBB,

Si:c’v MICH. STATE GRANGE,
Schoolcraft. Mich.

KALAMAZOO NATIONAL BANK. Capital §r5o,mo.
Surplus, $ro,ooo. Southwest cor. Main and Bendic
Snees. Dz'rtctar.r—-Jacob Mitchell, Jo_hn ,Den Bleyker
Melancthon D. Woedford, Melville . Bigelow, J. waned
Thom ii, Georg;hT. Bruen, Sainue A. Gibson, Albert S:
whim. win J. elps, E. O. I_iuiJ)hrey, N. Chase‘.
Eovnn  PHELPS, Pre.rz'dext.- ui.v_ru.n J. BIGELOW,
Wu-Brnxdnu; Tiioiuis S. Conn. Cat]: .1 {ebryi

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FROM IOWA.

.\ G001) l’A'l'TF.RN.

Bro. Watts, Master of Little Cedar Grange,

Iowa, is at the head of a model Grange family.

Himself and wife, one son, four daughters and

two sons-in~law are members of the Grange. The

VVatt.<es are lately from Michigan. Have you

any more such families that wish to emigrate?
If you have send them to Iowa.

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Some one has said that to be passively pumped
into like a bucket is exhilarating to anybody.We
think of this passive process often when in a
meeting where a program is required. We have
seen meetings not necessarily in Granges, where
every one impressed us as dependent on some
one else to make a sensation or do or say some-
thing to cover the allotted time. The impres-
sion was quite oppressive, and always i.=, except-
ing where there is a spirit of willingness for
duty. I consider it the duty of each member of
this Grange to write or say something for the
good of the Order. Some may say it is the
Lecturerls place to have a good program and
make the Grange interesting. It is true he is
our entertainer and host, but how can he make
it interesting if we refuse to do our duty? Now,
brothers and sisters, I think it is our duty to take
up our burdens and bear them; they are not so
heavy as we think. No matter if we do not
agree as to our fitness it is a privilege to perform
a duty and make an effort to do better the next
time; more, it is a duty, and as a duty should not
be lightly set aside. We have put our hands to
the plow, now let us keep it moving. I think
when a part of a program is given to any mem-
ber of this Grange they ought to prepare for and
perform that duty. It is right, and the duty of
all members to produce something for the good
of the Order. “Can't, never wins, l’ll try. wills
to win and does."

Henderson, Iowa.

.\'llCI‘ll(i_A;\l.

YOUR article in the issue of August I, I"ariner.s
and Politics, is right to the point.

- When any party feels so secure in its position
as to override the interests of any class, it is
time to call a halt.

There seems to be a feeling of distrust of each
other among farmers, and this feeling is fostered
by those whose interests, political and otherwise,
would s-.-.f'l'er.

The great mass of agriculturalists seem ready
to confide their interests to the keeping of some
glib tongued lawyer profuse in pledges and an
adept in making excuses when these pledges are
not redeemed.

Vi/hy not trust one another? VVhy not in :1
gale cling to a tree you know to be an oak and
that has weathered the storms of a generation.

It may be crooked in body and its limbs gnarl-
ed; not so graceful as the stately pine, and not
so easily broken; but then you know it is what
it purports to be. Its exterior is rough but its
heart is oak. :

Farmers, when parties fail to give us our rights
do not forget tliat we have the remedy in our
own hands. It is contained in two words

lNl)l£PENl)El\"l‘ \'O'l‘l1\'(‘..

Trust one another. Noniinate good men ll’-
rcspective of party. ‘lxact pledges of them if
you wish and then see that the pledges are re-
deemed.

You complain that you have no place in the
government, and ask for a law creating :1 Bureau
of Agriculture in charge of a cabinet otlicer.

You can get it a! Mr marl gu/1u/'zz/ 4'/z'c'tI'aII.

Will you do it?

You are the rim and spokes of the wheel that
turns this government, and you can fill the hub
so full of your representatives that anything
reasonable will open at your “sesame.”

Cease your howling about what you want.

Reach your hands out with the ballot in them
and take it.

There is but one way in going through :1 wil-

- derncss if there be no road*~ma,{’c um’.

F. W. REni~'i-:n.\'.
Maple Rapids, Aug. 16, I886.

“C.L?’r the bread nicely.” This was an injunc-
tion often given us by mother many years ago,
when we first began to arrange the table for
meals and assist in the preparing of food; and
sometimes we wondered why she was so particu-
lar that it should be done in such a precise way.
But now when we see bread cut in any manner,
thin at one end and a great heel at the other,
thrown on to a plate in any shape, we have felt
as though we would like to repeat the command,
“Cut the bread nicely.” A nice way of serving
bread is to place a clean, nicely ironed napkin
in one of those pretty Japanese bread boats so
that one corner may cover the bread when placed
in it. It keeps it from drying and is a clean nice
way to serve it. Let the slices be cut evenly, of
a uniform thickness, and nicely placed one slice

above the other, and with good butter and the ,

good bread (no farmer’s wife makes poor, you
know,) you have a dainty dish fit for a king.
TALMADGE Grange, No. 639, is doing well.
Holds meetings regularly that are well attended.
Have had additions and the future looks bright
to all those who realize that to get good requires
some work. We feel and know that success
comes of effort in Grange work as well as else-
where. SCRIBE.
Berlin, Aug. 13, I886.

LENAWEE County Pomona Grange met with
Medina Grange to-day. There was a good turn-
out and we had a very pleasant time. We held
an open session in the afternoon. Bro. Jason
Woodman delivered an address which pleased
everybody present. He talked right, to the
point on every subject that he took up’. In the
evening we conferred the fifth degree upon five
young ladies. All ‘went home feeling that the
A. L.

Medina, Mich., 8-11, '86.

A REGULAR meeting of the Van Buren Coun-
ty Pomona Grange was held with Porter Grange
on Wednesday, August 12." When called to or-
der by Worthy Master J. C. Gould he raised the

uestior_i-—Should all the sessions of the County
Orange be held with closed doors? After a gen-
eral discussion the conclusion reached was that

_ rants in idleness.

i the matter should be left for determination to the
‘Grange that entertained the County Grange.
The opinion as expressed was clearly in favor .

of at least one open session. Reports from Sub-
ner; and a Pomona. Grange meeting means not

which all participate.

And this is one of the \'itlunl)l:' features of the 
It brings people together from ,
all parts of a County‘. enlarges the circle of our 

Pomona Grange.

acquaintance, and tends to enlarge our views
and broaden out the faculties of all participants
in this Grange work After the dinner recess,
reports from the several Granges of the County
were made and in the main were very satisfacto-
ry aiid showed the Order advancing in the
County.

A most excellent program had been prepared
and when called on by the \Vorthy Lecturer each
and all responded with instructive papers show-
ing each writer had given thought and careful
study to the subject assigned. At the close of
the program the unwritten work was exemplified
by Bro. J. J. Woodman in the most satisfactory
manner. The next meeting will be held at Law-
rence. J. \\'. !\lF.GA.\‘.

C.\i.H0i‘N County Grange held its first meeting
since the harvest time at Union Grange hall on
Thursday, Aug. 12. The day though warm was
pleasant, and a well filled hall of earnest Patrons
assembled for work. It was a day of rare profit
and pleasure. We were honored by the presence
of Brother and Sister Travers, of Branch Coun-
ty, who added interest to the meeting by their
words of encouragement to many of the ques-
tions that were up for discussion. A very able
program of practical questions had been prepared
by our Lecturer, C. C. McDiarniid, and every
member was prepared. There are no “please
excuse me” in Calhoun County Grange; every
one is ready to give expression to his ideas, and
our meetings are lively and spirited. The fol-
lowing are some of the questions discussed:

Does it pay the farmer to keep bees?

What kind of wheat shall we sow?

New methods of doing work and new nia.chiii-
ery, and the results from the use of the same
this season.

Is it practicable to keep our prisoners who are
confined in our County jail at hard labor?

This is a question that materially interests
every taxpayer and we wish the Granges in the
State would discuss the question with a view to
the passage of a law by our next legislature
which will enable us to rid our County jails oi
the lazy occupants that we have who are sent
there for petty offenses and who are boarded and
warmed at an expense (‘if .10 cents per d.iy each,
which the tax-payers pay to support these vag-
The question of aiding in
the establishing of a free reading room in the
city of Battle Creek was also talked up.

We are pained to record that amid all the
pleasant events of the day our hearts were sad-
dened by the fact that our circle was broken and
a chair vacant. The following resolution was
presented and adopted: ,

\VHF.RlCA?~', Our Brother Fiero has suficred be-
reavement in the loss of his wife, our sister:
therefore _

/Ezra/val’, That we extend to our brother our
sympathy in this hour of sorrow, and trust that
he may be sustained and comforted, and also :is-
sured that he has the sympathy of his brothers
and sisters in the Grange.

()ur next meeting will be at Pemifield Grange
hall Sept. 30. .\'lRS. l\lAYO.

Ix the \-"isiToR of August i5, a great deal is
said about the wrongs heaped upon farmers by
unjust legislation and political tricksters. Bro.
Cobb, with all his keen foresight, after showing
the many delinquencies of fariners,says, “If this
is so, why is it so? That is a question we want
answered.” With all due respect to our Worthy
Secretary, as I am much older than he, I will
presume to answer it. In the first place, far-
mers very seldom, if ever, call a convention of
their own. Political conventions are called by
wire pullers and crafty politicians, and the pro-
gram is made, the platfomi blocked out, and
even the delegates buttonholed before the con-
vention meets. Then the meeting is called to
order by a ring leader and the verdant farmer
comes in from the country, with his hair full of
hay seed and as bashful as a red beet, listeiis to
the plausible words and false promises of the of-
fice seeker, and not having sufficient confidence
to present his own thoughts, says: “Dat ish
right, I votes for you.”

Secondly, independent voters are as scarce in
our Republic as water snakes on the Rocky
Mountains. When :1 ticket is made up by crafty
tricksters. we are told that we must support the
ticket or lose our vote, and as Patrons and far-
mers we have not yet acquired sufficient stamina
to resent the insult to our manhood. This is the
reason why there are 273 lawyers in the halls of
Congress and only i2 farmers, and they only as
a laughing stock in that august body of trick-
sters. In our Pomona Grange last week, with a
ball well filled with intelligent men, the ques-
tion was asked, “Is there an independent voter
present?” and one man arose, and when he was
told what an independent voter was he was inuni.

But the great mission of the Grange is to in-
spire its members with confidence in themselves
to demand a fair representation by their own
members, and when this is accomplished lawyers
will be allowed to stay at home and the hardy
sons of toil will go up to fill their vacant seats
and make better laws for their class.

CORTLAND I—li1.i..

Bengal, Mich., Aug. 28, I886.

SUPPOSING an item from the Bruce and Arma-
da Grange, No. 657', will not be out of order. I
will say that our Worthy Master, John McKay,
was 43 years old the 14th of August, and to com-
memorate-the event about 200 of his friends
dropped in upon him on that eventful day. The
party (or picnic) was a surprise and to say that
agood time, was had by all would give but a
faint idea of the pleasure. The time sped all
too quickly and as we departed to our homes we
wished that such events might happen oftener.

' ‘ -- Ssc’v.

LIBERTY Grange,No.‘ 39i,is doing well. Most of
our ' members are earnest workers; of course
some do_ not take hold«very_ well. Emerson and
Lafayette Grange, No. 52!, made us a visit on
the 7th and -1 hope’ some good was done, There

‘ Grange in good standing.
ordinate Grzinges were deferred until after din- ‘
, fine ruin lasi night and to-day.
only agood dinner but :1 good social time in 3

-‘ work goes on.

(

being four Granges in this county, there is

‘,some talk of organizing a Pomona Grange.

There are ten charter members in our
complaining of the dry weather, but we had a
Tin; Box‘.
Gratiot Co.

Iowa, has been reorganized and has written for
supplies for honest work in the future. So the
Not all are faltering by any
means despite the cry of “hard times.”

I gait... iofgrietingii.

TH!-t Patrons of Northern Kent will unite in a
grand picnic at Camp Lake on Friday, Sept. 3.
Hon.  J. Woodman, Past Master of the Na-
tional Grange, will deliver an atldress. Vocal
and instrumental music will be provided.

Camp Lake is two miles east of Sparta village
and has the fines! picnic grounds in the northern
part of the County. With boats on the lake,
good speaking and good music, :1 grand good
time may be expected, and everybody is invitefi

THE St. Clair County Pomona Grange will
hold its next session with Grove Grange at Fargo
on Sept. 15, commencing at [0 o’clock A. M.

Progmin: Address of welcome by T. I‘). Mar-
tin; response by J. Anderson.

Reports from Subordinate Grangcs.

Son .

Dinner in hall.

Two P. M., music by Fargo band and march to
grove.

Paper-—What is the cause of the present low
prices of farmers‘ products, by Bros. Newkirk
and Quail.

Paper by M. F. Carlton.

Select reading by Sister A. W. Campfield.

Papei‘—The advantages of society now over
40 years ago, by Sister Gardner.

Query—Does it pay farmers’ wives to make
butter at present prices? Opened by Sister
Stofer, of Fremont Grange.

VVhich has the greatest influence on society--—
money or character? Bro. James Anderson.

All fourth degree members invited. All ex-
cept 10 o’clock session will be open to the pub-
lic. COM.

Fargo, Aug. 21, i886.

§liituari2s, .

FIERO—-

Died at her home in Bedford, July 26, Mrs.
Peter F iero, a charter member of Bedford Grange
No. 65.

Wiisxi-:As, It has pleased the Great Master of
the universe to remove by death :1 well beloved
sister; therefore

li’e.m/7/ca/, That in the death of our sister the
Order has lost a true and worthy member, the
community a cocizil and pleasant friend, and the
family a loving wife and mother.

/i’e.r0[7/er/, That we tender the bereaved hus-
band and family our heartfelt sympathy.

[i’c:o/2/ca’, That the charter be draped in
mourning for thirty (lays, a copy of these resolu-
tions bc sent to the bereaved family and a copy
be sent to the GRA.\'Gl'1 Vl.s'l'l‘UR for pu‘l)llCa.li0n.

Con.

PRATT---

Once more has the never relenting hand of
Death caused Riley Grange to mourn the loss of
one of its members, Bro. Cyrus B. Pratt, who
departed this life August 7, 1886.

Death hovered o’er our brother dear
For many days gone by;

But death did never cause him fear—
He was prepared to die.

So thus his equal now we lack
To fill the Ch;iplain’s chair;

And still we could not ask him back,
For he is happier there.

As we gaze upon our charter in its dress of
mourning we deeply feel that there is one more
vacant seat in our Griinge, another home has
been robbed of its most priceless treasure, and
many friends are left to mourn his loss.

We would extend the right hand of fellowship
unto our sister in her sore bereavement, and by
kind acts bind her more closely to us that she
may feel in the Grange she has sisters and
brothers noble and mic.

W1-ii.i< i- \~ It has pleased the Great Master to
remove . cone of his earthly labor.-s our
estcemcu . , ~.,r and worthy Chaplain, Cyrus B.
Pratt; [llL‘E-.-Ac

R551»/:'..z’, 311:-t as a Grange we deeply and

sincerely mourn the death of :1 most worthy
brother and friend, and hereby record our high
estiniation of his character as a citizen and pa-
tron.

A’z'ru/7'e(z', That our hall and our cbai'ter,whicb
bears Bro. Pratt’s name, together with the Chap-
lain’s desk be draped in mourning for the space
of 30 days, and a page of our record he set
apart as a memorial of him.

Raw/2/ca’, T hat_a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the familybf Bro. Pratt, an(l also to the
GRANGE Visirox for publication. COM.

SLY—-

WIIEREAS, It has pleased the Supreme Master
of the universe to remove from our midst our late
brother and Past Master, Clark M. Sly; and

WHICREAS, It is but just that a fitting recogni-
tion of his many virtues should be had; there-
fore

Rera/zled, By Superior Grange, No. 68, of
Michigan Patrons of Husbandry, that while we
bow with humble submission to the will of the
Most High, we do not the less mourn for our
brother who has been taken from us.

Resolved, That in the death of Clark M. Sly
this Grange laments the loss of a brother who
was ever ready to proffer the hand of aid and
the voice of sympathy to the needy and dis
tressed of the fraternity, an active member of
this society, whose utmost endeavors were ex-
erted for its welfare and prosperity, a friend
and companion who was dear to us all.

Resolved, That the heartfelt sympathy of this

Everybody has been .

Grange be extended to his family in their afllic—
tion.

Reso/trad, That the charter of this Grange be
draped in mourning for 90 days.

Rem/2'2:/, That these resolutions be spread

,upon the records of the Grange, and a copy

thereof be transmitted to the family of our de-

‘ ceased brother, and to the GRANGF. VISITOR for
l..l'l‘”l‘l.l-I CI-ll).-\R Gi<AN<‘.i:, No, 1319, at Fonda,

publication. Com.
NOTT --
Wiii-IRI-1.-is, By the removal of our aged

brother, \Vm.  Nott, whose long and exempla-
ry life had rendered him conspicuous as a Chris
tian gentleman, conscientious neighbor and un-
selfish workcr for the best interests of his family
and his associates in the Grange; and

WllEREAS, The relations of our worthy de-
ceased brother as a charter member of Benton
Harbor Grange, and as :1 charter member first
Secretary and long connection with Berrien
County Pomona Grange No. i has endeared him
to the memory of the older members of our or-
ganization; and

\VilERi-‘.As, llis virtues, noble precepts and
example will always be an incentive toward
emulating his {kindly and christian deeds:
therefore

[fern/zmz’, That we, the members of Berricn
County Pomona Grange No. i, hereby tender
our sincere sympathies to the relatives and
friends of our beloved deceased brother; and

li’tralzmz’, That a copy of this preamble and
resolutions be tendered to the Benton Harbor
1’rz1la.fz'mn and GR./\N(‘.E VISITOR for publication.

Con.

'/.AHLTEN——

Died at the residence of her parents, Aug. 19,
I886, Miss Mary Zahlten in the 28th year of her
age.

A sad and impressive meninrial service was
held on the day following her funeral in the hall
of Algeria Grange of which she was a cherished
member.

The enclosed resolutions were offered and sec-
onded by papers read, or remarks made, by Sis-
ters \Vitham, lVlCA1‘Il1llr, Holman, Schryvcr,
Blackford and Blanchard; and by Worthy Master
Hofins and Bros. Hale, lilackford, llahii and
Byson.

The resolutions were adopted and ordered sent
to the VISITOR for publication.

WHEREAS, The unwelcome intruder, Death,
has, in spite of doors and locks, and without
signals or passwords, entered the portals of Al-
gona Grange and removed one of the brightest
links in our fraternal chain, in the person of our
sister, Mary Zahlteii; therefore

Resalmzl, That we fully realize the iacrthat
in the death of Sister Zahlten the Grange has
lost one of its best and most faithful and devoted
members, one who was “noted for fidelity” in
everything pertaining to the good of the Order.

./\’e:a/zrczi, That we tender to the family of our
deceased sister the united and licartfelt sympa-
thy of all the members of our Grange.

R850/Z7611, That as a further mark of respect to
our deceased sister, our charter be draped in
mourning for sixty days, and that :1 page of our
record he devoted to her memory.

/i’ero/rreu’, That these resolutions be spread
upon our minutes, and an engrossed copy fur-
nished the family.

i\lCKOWAl\'——

VVHEREA5, It has been the will of the Great
Author and Ruler of all to remove from our so-
ciety our much esteemed and beloved sister,
Sarah McKowan, of Moscow Grange No. 108.
|JA’esalz/ca’, That as a Grange we deeply and
sincerely mourn the death of a worthy sister and
friend and hereby record our high estimation of
her character as a matron.

lihnvolrxed, That we tender to the husband and
family of our deceased sister our heartfelt sympa-
thy in this hour of bereavement.

R.-reload, That a copy of these resolutions be
presented to the bereaved husband, and spread
upon the records of this Grange.

li’u.m/zmz’, That our hall and charter, which
bears the name of Sister McKowan, be draped
in mourning for the space of 30 days. COM.

HAVE A LARGE NUMBER OF SMALL
sea shells. more than I need for my own cab-
inet, and will send one or two to anyone who
wishes them and sends me a stamp for postage.
They are small bleeding tooth, silver snail, mon-
ey cowry, pink glass and others. MRS. DORA
FISCHER, 789 Gallagher St., East Saginaw,
Mich.

County Fair.

Farmers of Kalamazoo'Cnunty, Patrons of thc
County Agricultural Society, will you please get
your exhibits ready and be on hand 10 make
your entries as early as possible? That you may
be fully posted in the matter send for or call at
my officc in the Court House for premium lists
or any information you wish.

GEO. E. CURTISS, Sec’y.

Kalamazoo, August, 1886.

WE ask all enterprising friends of
the VISITOR to aid in getting three
months‘ subscribers. We ought to have
several thousand such within thirty

days. We mean business at this end of
the line and must have your co-opera-
tion. Collect a few dimes from farmers
who ought to read this paper and send
us their names and postoffice addresses.

A BROTHER who sent in the obituary
notice of the death of Mrs. Sarah Deuel,
of Bradley Grange, printed in last issue

Denil, kindly charges up the error to
his own crooked chirography and asks
in behalf of friends this correction.
Printers soon learn that too much care
cannot be taken in writing names. Oth-
ers learn it best by finding some mistake
made fast with printers’ ink.

 


 

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TZEIE GRANGE ’Vf:sIToR. 

SEPTEMBER 1, 1886.

gommtttticatioits.

From my Diarv.
APPRECIATION.

This word, like some others, can not
be fully defined by a dictionary. As
compared with estimate, it supposes a
union of sensibility with judgment, pro-
ducing a nice and delicate perception.
As compared with esteem, it denotes a
valuation of things according to their
appropriate and distinctive excellence,
besides their moral worth. It deals in
nice and delicate perceptions, as we say,
“Women have a truer appreciation of
character than men," or, as we speak
of the difference between two things as
something hardly appreciable.

This faculty, for it may be considered
one, has been called the “sixth sense.”
It is the interpreter of the other five
senses, for without it they do not pass
for their true worth, as it is apprecia-
tion that gives to each of them their
highest value. It gives to the writer,
the painter, the poet and the orator the
full inspiration of their theme. Or, we
may say, it puts them an rapport with
their subject. It is this sense that makes
the full man,for it is the “open sesame"
to all that is good and true and enjoy-
able in life. A man who fully appre-
ciates a thing gets all the enjoyment or
all the good it can afford him, whether
it it be a scene in nature, a work of art,
a poem, or any achievement of man.
Thus we can say that appreciation is to
the man of thought and observation,
“sermons in stories, books in the run-
ring brooks, lessons in trees, and good
in everything.” When Holmes said that
“the vulgar know not all the hidden
pockets where nature stows away her
loveliness,” he included in “the vulgar"
those who lack appreciation.

Men possess sense in an unequal de-
gree. Some have it in so great a degree
that it metes out to them the full value
of things and their full measure of en-
joyment as they go through life. Thom
as Carlyle, though h ving this sense
largely in a certain direction,yet lacked
it in so many things that he went
through life losing what most people
would call the best part of its enjoy-
ment. Emerson said, “Carlyle was a
trip-hammer with an aeolian attach-
ment.” But the aeolian part was so often
detached from the trip-hammer that
the force of the latter governed him
through life. This lack of appreciation
in Carlyle made him just so far
untrustworthy as writer, critic, or
historian. A lady asked him one
evening if he did not think the
heavens looked grand in all their starry
splendor. He replied, “Oh, madam, it
is a sad sight!"

A lady, who is a constant reader of
the Century, thinks “Uncle Remus’s
Rainy Days,” published in that maga-
zine, “the silliest of all trash.”

A friend of the writer, who has ajfull
appreciation of most things in life, yet
when traveling never enjoys the scenery
by the way. The beauties of nature at
such times are a blank to her, and we
know of a gentleman of culture and va-
ried attainments who once said to us
that “he would rather hear a cow bell
tinkle than Jenny Lind Sing.”

Then there are those who seem to im-
press people wherever they go with
their lack of appreciation. They exert
anegative influence and often put the
one who is talking under restraint es-
pecially if the topic does not suit them.
They have no humor or the love of it
in them, no poetry in their nature and

. no appreciation of the beauties and

treasures of literature. They have ap-
preciation, but it is only for those things
in life that contribute to their own inter

est. Every other feeling is absorbed in
the one effort to further their own per-
sogial fortunes. A friend of the writer
says of such an individual, who is a
prominent man in the community where
he lives, “I never heard him praise a
friend, or express any admiration of an
eloquent speech, an able sermon, or a
distinguished man, in my life. There is
no appreciation in him for any thing out-
side of his own affairs. Inever heard
him express admiration for any thing.
He is the Peter Bell of my acquaint-
ances.

‘A primrose by the river’s brim,
A yellow primrose is to him,
And nothing more.’

Bare utility measures and gives value
to every thing for him. The strongest
terms in which he gives expression to
his appreciation of'any thing are, ‘It
pays, it is practical.’ ”

The critic must have appreciation in
order to qualify himself for his task.
What value shall we attach to a man’s
opinion or estimate of a thing when he
does not appreciate that thing? At the
best such an opinion is of questionable
value; and yet how often such opinions
on men and their measures are given
by those who are not qualified for the
task they perform. For instance, take
the thousand and one topics of the
times discussed by the journalists of the
day. Here we have an important meas-
ure for the people, which the writer
does not appreciate, yet gives his elabo-
rate opinion on it. Here is a. biography
of adistinguished man, written by one
who can not or does not appreciate
him ; yet the book is written and thou-
sands, who do not know any better, be-
lieve it a correct life and a just esti-
mate of the man’s character.. Take for
example Anthony T rollope’s Life of
Thackery. Here is a writer with no

imagination writing theiife of an author

whose brilliant imagination and wit won

his way to immortal fame in literature.
V. B.

- —-
Are Farmers as a Class Intelli-
gent?

EDITOR Visrroiz:-—The moon just ris-
ing above the tree-tops attracts my
thoughts for a few moments from the
subject I propose to discuss in this ar-
ticle, upon which I feel great reluctance
to enter and would rather employ the
moments in contemplating more agree-
able themes.. How grand and awe-in-
spiring the thought of the vast and in-
comprehensible system of circling
worlds and suns and systems, so vast
that the Infinite Mind only can measure
them. But for all their vastness, we rea-
son there must be some superior power
that holds and directs their motions and
sustains them eternally. We are also
able to trace this power in all that per-
tains to the physical nature ofthis earth.
There is also another,an invisible world,
(and for all we know millions of them),
the world of spirit, of intellect. Inexor-
able law governs this world also and to
this fact we may look for the solution
of the mysteries of human or inhuman
action, remembering that perverted
functions or faculties produce monstrosi-
ties. If the physical world is wonderful,
how much more wonderful is this realm
of the soul! Much has been written and
many creeds,doctrines and theories have
been put forth concerning the spiritual
man, but after all, that part of the sub-
ject that relates to this life and the ef-
fect of the actions of each upon the
welfare and happiness of all may claim
our attention with a reasonable hope
of being able to so direct our efforts as
to be of some benefit to ourselves and
to the community around us. One would
Cuppose that the farmer being in close
contact with nature, with her thousand
varied suggestions to excite his wonder
and invite him to investigation, would
obtain large intellectual development.
But this is clearly not the case. He sees
the wonders of nature before him every
moment but fails to comprehend them.
He has no time to spare from the pur-
suit that leads to the gratification of his
wants or needs, or to the discharge of
burdens others have placed upon him.
His intellectual faculties are slow to act
from being so little used. He is the
slave of conditions he has no part in
creating and makes little effort to
change. He allows sophistry to pervert
his reason and judgment, and is thus
used as a tool of dishonest schemers
for their interests and against his own.
His stability in maintaining his pro-
fessed principles is questionable, as
those farmers and patrons who have
been nominated to office can testify.
Again, however willing he himself may
be to submit to wrong, he can have no
valid excuse, where his actions affect
others, as they do in all political and
commercial questions Clearly the stand-
ard of intelligence concerning political,
legal and commercial questions must
be raised or the farmer will ever remain
the slave he now is. Mechanics and
science have practically abridged the
space between the states of the Union
and we have one common interest, one
common purpose throughout all. The
Grange,second only to the Government
itself in importance, is at the farmer’s
service. Great numbers of agricultural
journals‘ lend him their aid in every de-
partment of his calling, and first and
last and above them all is the incom-
parable State GRANGE VISITOR, whose
declared purpose is toimprove the far-
mer himself first of all, since he is of
moreimportance than the farm—a just
and reasonable position and one that
the editor has nobly and ably striven to
carry out. What excuse have the far-
mers of Michigan, ofthe Union, for,the
disgraceful position they occupy to-day,
mere ciphers in everything but the foot-
ing up of election returns, and even
there they are found in the wrong place!
What man with reasonable intelligence
does not blush with shame and humili-.i~
tion as he stands before the lawyers, the
merchants, the capitalists, the intelli-
gence of the Nation, as a representa-
tive of the agricultural class? Bro. Ker-
by assumes I am an enemy because I
have tried to arouse them to a sense of
their position. The politician’s taffy
may be the more palatable,but the bread
of truth will be the most wholesome. I
have no object in all my articles in the
VISITOR but to benefit my class. I am
myself a farmer jtnd plead guilty to ev-
ery charge I have brought againstthem.
Years of experience and observation
have convinced me of this truth. If my
language seems harsh, believe me, I use
it for our good. The truth can not be
hid. It has long been clear to all but
ourselves. This is a delicate subject to
treat, and as I have treated it, much
more likely to call forth censure than
blessings on my head. If I have exceed-
ed the limits of truth and justice, the
columns of the VISITOR are free for de-
fence. By the way, I would call the at-
tention of all, and Patrons more espec-
ially, to the way the VISITOR is appre-
ciated. I am advised that “hundreds
fail to renew without a personal appeal
and argument.” That tells the whole sto-
ry. They are looking for something on
a level with their -comprehension, or
they are seeking something that will in-
terest them. They have no taste for
the great and vital questions with which
the columns of the VISITOR are filled,
and this, about the only paper in the

a

land devoted wholly to their highest in-
terests, is left to beg for subscribers! Of
the merits of the -VISITOR as conducted,
nothing need be said. It commends it-
self to every reflecting mind. The edi-
tor’s article, “Farmers and Politics,”
in August 1st, is sufficient in itself to in-
spire every farmer in the land with a
determination to strike for his rights, to
arouse himselffrom the lethargy of his
past life and occupy the position that
numbers, value and moral worth entitle
him to. Every number is filled with the
discussion of questions of great import-
ance to the agriculturist, and yet the
numbers of those who profit by its
teachings are shamefully few and a "per-
sonal appeal" is required to hold the
subscribers it has! Brother farmers, we
deserve all the contumely and derision
cast upon us as a class.
CHAS. S. KILLMER.
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Trip to San Jose.

June 27, Sunday morning, went down
to San Jose wtth a Spanish-Mexican
party on an excursion. The men were
rather tacitum, but the senoratas were
sparkling and bright and apparently de-
termined to have all the fun they could
extract from the occasion. San Jose is
50 miles southeast of San Francisco and
six miles from the south end of San
Francisco Bay.

On the road down we pass through
several very pleasant towns, San Mateo,
Belmont, Redwood City, Menlo Park,
and Palo Alto. The country along the
route and around these towns possesses
rare beauty and richness of soil in ‘its
level valley land and undulating foot
hills set with live oaks, scattered here
and there, giving beauty to the land-
scape and inviting to their cool shade.
The waters of the bay roll gently on
one side and the coast range of moun-
tains towers up on the other, whilst
ocean drapes the mountain’s brow with
a veil of fog in heavy, graceful folds,far
more delicate than the bridal appendage.

But [must not forget Palo Alto, for
here is to be located the largest and one
of the most complete Universities of
the United States. Senator Stanford
has large landed property here which
goes to the Institution. He also gives
$20,000,000 and other gratuities. The
location is most favorable and for beau-
ty and grandeur of scenery can hardly
be excelled. Fortunate will be our
grandchildren who shall have the favor
of being educated at this Institution.

But now comes my difiicult task, to
properly describe San Jose, the Santa
Clara Valley and its framework—the
mountains in which it is set——what I saw
and experienced there. On my arrival
I proceeded to the beautiful cottage
residence of my friend,Capt. C. M. Cur-
tis, which I made headquarters during
my stay. He, having ahorse and car-
riage, took me out eyery day from ten
to fifteen miles, over the _valley, up the
mountains, and through the canyons.
San Jose is situated in the midst of the
valley and about six miles east and
south from the mountains. It is‘a pleas-
ant town, abounding with shade trees,
flowering shrubs and flowers, has many
fine residences with well kept yards,
looking homelike in the sweet content-
ment of this favored climate, contains
good schools and massive churches
without number, has about 4o,ooo in-
habitants and eletric lights, and puts
on a business air.

Santa Clara, two miles out, but really
a part, is a pleasant, quiet, little town,
connected by a broad, beautiful drive-
way, shaded by old trees set here a
hundred years ago. On Tuesday morn-
ing we all loaded into the wagon and
started for Alum Rock Canyon, six
miles east across the valley and up the
foothills, then down into the gulch to
the stream, and up the stream a mile,
where we camped for breakfast. We
soon had a fire; tea, coffee, etc. were
prepared and we had breakfast in first-
class order, afterwards wandered up the
canyon about a mile, where the stream
was two. This canyon is narrow, the
sides of the mountain pretty straight up
about two thousand feet, the lower part
and bottom wooded. At this point, as
we could not follow both streams, we
had an inclination—tl_iere was a woman
in the case—-to reach that peak, away
there 2,000 feet. We started up; toes
would slip, but we made progress, and
when half way up unexpectedly struck
a good road just wide enough for a wag-
on, running in and out and up the side
of the mountain. We followed this road
up and still up for three miles and did
not seem to get any nearer the top. We
met a man with a cart; he said he had
been up four miles to see some colts he
had pasturing on the mountain. We
concluded we should not reach Mount
Hamilton that night on that grade,so we
turned our steps homeward, stopping
frequently to gaze on the varied beauty
and grandeur of the scene presented
to our view. It was not a picture on
the wall, but Nature’s wildest, grandest
reality. At one point a mountain rivu-
let came sliding down on the face of a
rock twenty feet, ri-early perpendicular.
We partook of this mountain-distilled
beverage and went on our way happy.
Passing on down the road, we reached
the bottom of the canyon and going up
the stream found our party and started
for home.

On the foot hills we had a fine view of
the Valley and bay; reached home
about six, congratulating ourselves on
the pleasures and joys of the day the
trip had afforded.

Around San Jose and especially to the

west and southwest for six or seven‘
miles most of the land is occupied with
fruit trees, parties having from five to
zoo acres of fruit, consisting largely of
cherries, peaches, apricots,prunes,pears
and grapes. We enjoyed feasting on
apricots and peaches which were just
ripening. The cherry. apricot and prune
trees were models of beauty and far ex-
ceeded my ideal imaginings as to what
a perfect tree should be. The growth
of these trees is somewhat marvelous,
having made this season, now the 5th of
July, from three to seven feet of growth
on the end of limbs. The French prune
is a good grower and bearer,and if prop-
erly handled, will be a profitable fruit,
its superior quality assuring its accept-
ance in the market.

On Saturday evening Mrs. Duncan,
formerly of Schoolcraft,called and took
me over to her place, about five miles
southwest, where I remained till the fol-
lowing Tuesday, visiting orchards, fruit
men and women, for be it known that
many a woman here raises the best and
sweetest of fruits, as I may be able to
prove to some of you on my return.
We drove over to Los Gatos, six miles.
which is located on the foothills at the
gorge in the mountains, where the rail-
road goes over to Santa Cruz and Mon-
terey,by the ocean; drove towards Sara-
toga, over the foot hills, on which are
many pleasant homes surrounded by va-
rious kinds of fruit. The grape is a
specialty here and does well; some very
extensive almond orchards around Los
Gatos.

Riding along here, you may see many
white cottages perched like an eagle's
nest far up amongst the peaks of the
mountains, should call it sky land. The
4th, or Monday, the 5th, was celebrated
very pleasantly by the gathering at Mrs.
Duncan's of a few neighbors,young and
of more mature years. All were social,
merry and imbued with the spirit of in-
dependence. The time went pleasantly
by with fruit, ice cream, merry songs
and social cheer.

Land appears to us very high here,
$200 to $300 per acre for the bare land,
and with house and fruit the price will
be high enough to suit the most fastidi-
ous as to elevation.

They were just finishing a large Hor-_

ticultural Hall in San Jose, 80 by 166
feet; gallery on two sides—a fine place
for the exhibition of fruit. V .

Saturday morning, July 3, met with
San Jose Grange; fair attendance. The
members are alive with Grange interest
there is no lack of ability to push and
defend the same; and the ladies, social,-
ly and in Heavenly impulses the supe-
rior of man, here find a fitting place to
co-operate in the interests of humanity
and advancement of woman.

This Grange has great possibilities in
the material that may be gathered in
here to build up a Grange, if a united,
determined effort is put forth to accom-
plish the same.

Tuesday came back to San Jose and
on Wednesday morning came up to San
Francisco, the point of concentration
for all the Pacific coast.

EMMONS BUELL.

San Francisco, Cal., July 6, ’86.]

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From Maine.

EDITOR Visi'r0R:—For the past year
your valuable paper has been a regular
visitor and a very welcome one, and we
should hardly know how to get ‘along
without it, ever filled as it is with good
things and cheering news from brothers
and sisters at the West.

At the last session of‘ the National
Grange held at Boston it was my pleas-
ure and privilege to attend, and it was
an occasion I shall always look back to
with pride and pleasure, meeting
with so many, as I did, from all parts of
our broad land, many whose names had
become as familiar to me as household
words and I was also favored in secur-
ing autographs of a large number of the
members, which I shall always hold as
valuable momentoes.

The Order in our State seems to be
in a prosperous condition, with a good
working Grange in nearly all of the
large agricultural towns-—also a Pomona
Grange in every County but one. '

Here in the valley of the Kennebec
our County Grange is an active organi-
zation, numbering some four hundred
members, with monthly meetings. At
our last meeting in July the question
under discussion was, “What branch of
fruit growing pays best?” and the senti-
ment of the discussion was that apple
growing was the most profitable fruit
culture for Maine farmers. A grand
mass meeting and festival will be held
at Hayden Lake Aug. ii and 12, under
the auspices of Somerset County
Gr.-inge, and among the many prominent
Patrons invited to take part in the exer-
cises is our Worthy State Lecturer and
Past State Master, Hon. D. H. Thing,
which already ensures it a success.
Possessing great ability, large experi-
ence, and practical, good, sound sense,
with a deep devotion for the Creator, he
has ever been ready with voice and pen
to work for the cause he so nobly ad-
vocated. Aug. 24-26 the Patrons of the
State are to hold a reunion and festival
at Old Orchard, a summer resort of
world-wide fame, which has the finest
beach on the Atlantic coast, a bean-
tiful grove of ample proportions, a camp
ground with a large chapel,immense ho-
tels and boarding houses, with hundreds
of cottages and tents and every con-
venience for a long or short stay. Our
present Worthy State Master is chief
executive of the State, and amidst his

multitude of cares he seems to take a
deep interest in the work of the Order.
We have a Grange organ, the “Dirigo
Rural,” Bro. D. M. Hall, editor and
proprietor. He is a pioneer in Grange
work in our State and faithfully has he
stood by the farmers and worked for
their interest, making his paper a suc-
cess in spite of all the opposition he has
had to contend with, and the Order in
our State is very largely indebted to
him for its prosperity. At present the
tariff question is being quite ably dis-
cussed by different correspondents, and
‘it is interesting reading for those who
feel an interest in those grave public
questions of so much vital importance
to farmers.

We have a Patrons’ Co-operative Cor-
peration situated at Portland, which is
doing a thriving business and sending
out goods to all parts of the State, a
Patrons’ Aid_ Society, which has a large
number of members but is not so‘ well
patronized as it should be, and several
counties have established Mutual Fire
Insurance Companies, and altogetherl
think we are prospering fairly well.

I rejoice to see that your Children's
Day was so generally observed through-
out your State. We have had no such
day set apart here.

The Grange is a grand and noble
organization and let us all go forward
in the good work, carrying its principles
into our lives and striving to live up to
obligations we have taken, and with
Faith, Hope, Charity and Fidelity, we
will ever work for the good of our Order,

.our country and mankind.

Mus. M. C. SCOTT.
Pittston, Maine, Aug. i9.

The Gran; and Politics’

[By vote of North Burns Grange the following

paper was sent the VisiTok for publication.]
NORTH BURNS, Aug. to, ’86.

It is a fact so transparent that I need
not produce any evidence to prove it,
that the agricultural industry of the
United States does not receive the at-
tention from our Congressmen and State
Legislators that it is entitled to. When
we consider the magnitude of the agri-
cultural industry above all other indus-
tries combined, we should blush for
shame that we have so few men of our
own occupation to represent us and
guard our interests in the halls of leg-
islation. Official statistics tell us that
about eighty per cent. of the whole
products.of the United States ai"e.agri-
cultural products, and that about forty-
eight per cent. of the whole population
of the United States are engaged in ag-
ricultural pursuits. When we consider

"these facts have we not just reason to

feel ashamed and chagrined that there
are only five men in our National Con-
gress whocan be truly called farmers.
What is the reason that there are so few
farmers in Congress? This is a very
pertinent question and should receive
all the attention from us that we can be-
stow upon it.

Is it because there are no farmers in
the United States who are competent to
discharge the duties of Representatives
and Senators? I do not believe it is.
There are farmers in the United States
and in this State who are capable of dis-
charging the duties of any legislative or
administrative olfice in our National
Government with honor to themselves
and their country. The true reason is that
farmers do not take any interest in not
attend to the primary meetings of the
political party to which they belong or
affiliate with. It is in the political con-
vention that the trickery and corruption
in political parties takes root. Now let
us think for a moment and see how po-
litical conventions are conducted, and
of what two classes of men they are
composed. We will start with the town-
ship caucus and county convention, and
we will take Huron County as an aver-
age county for this State. Each town-
ship in this couiity is entitled to five
delegates to the county convention; the
township caucus is called and they dele-
gate five farmers (or they could if they
wanted to) to the county convention,
but the shore towns very often send
lawyers and merchants. There are 27
townships in the county; 5 times 27 are
135. There might be 135 farmers in our
county convention but the lawyers and
merchants from the shore towns will
probably reduce that number to about
one hundred, or about two-thirds of the
whole number of delegates, but it is still
a farmers’ convention. Now, who do
these men delegate to go to the State,
Congressional, Senatorial, and Judicial
conventions? The farmers, as a rule,
do not have much to say about who will
go, they let the lawyers and merchants
do all the nominating and they support
some one of their own nominees, and
the result is that the leading lawyers,
merchants, capitalists and office seek-
ers go to the State and Congressional
Conventions, but scarcely ever a farmer.
Right here is where farmers “put their
foot in it.” They send’ men to their
State and Congressional Conventions
who have few interests in common with
farmers, men who will “feather their
own nest” first and ignore the farmers’
interests. Now, when these men meet
in State Conventions, who do they nomi-
nate for Governors, State officers and
Congressmen? They nominate million-
aires, lawyers, railroad kings, merchants,
and manufacturers, but seldom afarmer.

Do such men as these enact laws to
benefit and protect a farmer's interests?
They do not. Their past history is 430
“plain that he may read that runs,” that
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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

with lawyers, merchants ‘or capitalists,
but ibis human nature for man to guard
his own interests by “hook or crook,"
 when merchants, lawyers, capital

ists, and monopolists go to Congress
they look after their own interests and
let farmers “feed on the crumbs which
fall from their table." But when elec-
tion time comes around you will find
them-“stumping it” through the coun-
try shouting in stentorian tones “stick
to your party, stick to your party.”
Whodo they say this to? T6 farmers
and laborers. But I, for one, am not
going to be whipped into line by that
cry again. I have “jumped the fence,”
and I am now sitting on the top rail,
ready to topple over on either side that
has a farmer captain, and if there is no
farmer leading the ranks in either of the
old parties, I will vote the Prohibitlon
ticket.

Patrons and farmers, we are now en-
tering a political campaign. Our coun-
ty conventions are called; let each one
of -us do our duty like true soldiers.
Let us attend our township caucus and
send honest, intelligent men to our
county and state conventions; men who
will not be afraid to ask for their rights
and who will insist on having them; and
let them nominate farmers to make laws
for farmers. Let them give us a chance
to vote once for Cyrus G. Luce, to show
them how we will carry him to victory
on our shoulders, for we can trust to his
leadership; we know that his interests
are our interests; we know that he can
sympathize with us in our toils and
hardships, and that he would spurn any
gift, or bribe, to make our burdens
heavier. What do men who were reared
in ease‘, and ' luxury know about our
trials and hardships in battling with
misfortunes, poor crops and poverty?
No more do they know how to make
laws that will protect farmers’ interests.
Once more let me urge every good
Patron to attend his township caucus
and county convention and insist upon
getting his rights in them. You will
have a two-thirds vote in the conven-
tion, and make sure that you have a
majority of farmers on each of the dele-
gations, for it is in the conventions that
we get beaten on election day.

D. BUCHANAN.
. ,____<..____:,
Weather, Grange,(,'rop and other
Notes.

We had a nice rain night before
last and yesterday—rained over two
inches. Don’t we feel good, though?
How it will help out our com, potatoes.
and pastures. I mean late potatoes,
Early potatoes are nearly or quite ripe,
and those not planted early and on good
ground are a poor crop. By-the-way,
those speculative potatoes I was boast-
ing about were “Green Mountain” pota-
toes. They look nicely. Some of my
late potatoes will be an immense crop
if they do not rot. My “\Veleorne”
oats are threshed. They are the finest
looking oats and the best crop I ever
raised.

Very much of our land needed tiling;
some of it does yet. Most of it, how-
ever, is pretty well tiled and we are
talking right square to the front. You
know the Lord said to the young minis-
ter, (by the mouth of the poet) “Go
blow the gospel trumpet; go blowwhere—
ere you go.

A few years since I moved into the
woods, and of course supposed I
would have to pass for a “clodhop-
per.” It is just possible that the con-
clusion was nearly correct, for a man
living not far trom me, at our home and
in the presence of several neighbors and
myself, used this argument in trying to
defeat the laying out of a highway: (I
was one of the Highway Commission-
ers and in favor of the road) “Any one
knows that Cole must be a d d fool
or he would never have settled down
herefiin the woods." The road was laid
out, however, and has proved a blessing.
We, wife and I, have lived to grow out
of the woods—out of the stumps,(thanks
to Hercules powder)—out of the water,
(thanks for muscle and tile)—“Out of
the old buildings into the new." We

have earned the right to blow our horn‘

and we are going to do it, too. I am
going to blow for myself, blow for our
Grange, blow for Palmyra, Lenawee
County, and Michigan. We are not
placed here merely to be “blow-hards,"
but to work and let our lights shine.
Afew days since as I was passing a
place three or four miles from here my
attention was attracted, fr matter to
what--I was out taking notes for the
Grange.) I called to the proprietor,
who was a few rods away. I hardly
knew him at first, though we were for-
merlyw.-il ::.'q‘-i'1lnt€(l. He had mar-
ried and settled out of sight—nearly.
He invited me to get out; wanted to
show me something. During our walk

and talk I found he was badly in debt.

and terribly discouraged. I tried to
cheer him up. A brother Patron com-
ing up he invited our discouraged
neighbor to join the Grange. He re-
plied that he was afraid that Patrons
were paying more attention and time to
the Grange than to religion. Were run-
ning around a good deal, spending time
and money when they ought to be at
home working. It was intended for a
center shot and a clincher. I replied
that he was pretty plain, and I would
return him a few practical pointers free
of charge. He got it, too. I finally
told him if he would get out of those
tall weeds, (about six feet high) into my
carriage I would show him one of those
neglected farms where the owner at-

tended Grange regularly, went. to the
County Grange, to the farmers’ picnic,
attended the county and state fairs, etc.
He laughed and .said be guessed he
wouldn't go, but would look at one of
those applications. We gave him two
and a pencil. He filled out one for
himself and another for his wife. They
are going to join the Grange; will proba-
bly make good members and get lots of
good. No,—he does‘ not take the
GRANGE VISITOR, and will not see this;
will not be offended if he does. Is a
real good-hearted first-rate fellow, but
needed shaking up a little. We went
a few rods farther and secured two more
applicants. Well, after four o’clock P.
M., we secured eight applications, wrote
up what we saw and learned that day,_
got supper and were at the Grange be-
fore eighto’clock. Who can beat that?
“More blowing," did I hear you say?
Yes; I don’t care what you say, I am
going to keep right at it.
M. T. Cour.

Lenawee, Mich.

[This is all right; now we want eight
subscribers to the VISITOR from that
Grange.—Ei).]

gortirnlturiz.

Science in Horticulture.

[Oration delivered August 8, at the Agricultural
College commencement exercises, by T. A.
Stanley, of New Britain, Conn.]

Horticulture, strictly defined, means
both the art and the science of garden
cultivation. It includes pomiculture,
the raising of fruits; olericulture, the
raising of vegetables; and floriculture,
the raising of flowers, trees and orna-
mental shrubs. It has to do with a
greater variety of products than agricul-
ture, or field cultivation; but though of
less magnitude, it is of no less impor-
tance. The vast annual consumption
and exportation of horticultural pro-
ducts, is sufficient proof of the import-
ance of horticulture in the wealth ofa
nation. To meet the increasing de-
mand for these products, more thought
is necessary. Much improvement must
be made in the methods of operation,
while the many insects and fungoid
growths attacking cultivated plants re-
quire a thorough knowledge of the de-
velopment and habits of plant growth,
with an equal knowledge of these ene-
mies of vegetation. As an art,horti-
culture dates back nearly to the begin-
ning of the human race. As a science
it is only in its infancy. While almost
every other occupation has advanced
by the application of scientific prin-
ciples, horticulture seems to have re-
mained dormant; not, however, because
science cannot be applied to it, but be-
cause in the past men have been con-
tented with simply reaping that which
they have sown. The reasons for cer-
tain changes in plant growth have not
troubled their minds. The few exp-::ri—
merits conducted have been under the
supervision of practical gardeners,
rather than scientists; of men seeking to
increase their immediate profits, rather
than of men trying to discover the sci-
entific principles controlling plant
growth. Horticulture has been in this
stage far too long, and the time has
come when this mist that hangs between
the minds of men and nature’s laws
must be swept away. These laws must
be discovered; and when they are once
known, horticulture may be pushed for-
ward by science and practice to that
degree of perfection reached by other
industries similarly treated.

Not many years ago pear blight doom-
ed the cultivation of pears to complete
failure. The practical horticulturist
knew nothing of the nature of the evil,
and its only remedy was to make fire-
wood of the trees. The successful re-
searches of Burrell and Arthur showed
the nature of the fungus with its meth-
ods of growth, and a possible means of
contending with the pest. The attack
of parasitic fungus upon cultivated
plants is now avery common complaint,
and contrary to general opinion, this
subject is still buried in ignorance.

Why does the red rust attack certain
varieties of blackberries and not others?
Why does the bean pod fungus attack
one variety in preference to others? Is
it because one variety has a thicker ep-
idermis; because one is a more vigor-
ous grower and better able to ward off
the attack; or is the composition of
some plants such as to kill the fungus?
Conjecture is easy, but the truth is,
nothing is known about it. If satisfac-
tory answers to those questions are found
might not plants be developed capable
of withstanding all fungus attacks?.

What do we know about grafting?
This most important art was practiced
by the Romans centuries ago, and to-
day our methods are practically the
same as theirs were. We know nothing
of the laws of plant afiinity and hence
cannot explain why pear scims will
thrive upon quince stocks, while the
quince will not thrive upon the pear.
We know experimentally that peaches,
apricots, nectarines, and cherries will
thrive upon the same plum tree, and
that the plum cannot be made to grow
upon some of these trees; but of any
reasons for this, we are entirely ignor-
ant. It is said that an Italian has dis-
covered a method of producing new
varieties of roses by budding. This may
or may not be true, but certainly, in the
hands of the scientific horticulturist,
such a phenonemon would be a straw
indicating a current, which, if followed

carefully, might lead to valuable results.

There is one thing now attracting
much attention from scientific horticul-
turists which should be pushed with the
utmost energy——the classification of
garden plants. By arduous scientific
research botanists have been able so to
classify the thousands of species of wild
plants as to know them by name and
easily recognize them in the open field.
There is very little duplication of names.
How is it with our garden plants? This
year you order from seedsmen a,certain
variety of tomato; and next year an
order for a different variety——the same
will appear, only under a new name.
Even in the same year you may order
from different seedsmen different var-
ieties, all of which will prove to be the
same plant under new and elaborate
names, and these elaborate names gen-
erally increase the price of the seeds.
Here then is a field oflabor for the keen,
observing, scientific gardener, the re-
sults ofwhose work will be valued by the
whole country. To eliminate all dupli-
cate names is the object of experiments
now being conducted at this college;
and it is expected that the seventy-five
advertised varieties of tomatoes will
shrink to almost thirty. The various
state experiment stations are conduct-
ing similar experiments with their vege-
tables expecting that by their merited
efforts all garden plants will soon be cat-
alogued with scientific accuracy.

Often while gathering fruits the gar-
dener’s attention is attracted by what
are called freaks of nature. A Russet
apple is found growing on a Rhode ls-
land Greenin tree. Black cherries are
found on trees that have always borne
red cherries. Occasionally potatoes
are dug some of which are half white
and half purple. These phenonema are
known as sprouts or bud variations, and
familiar though the facts may be, yet
how little is known as to the causes.
These sprouts often result in the pro-
duction of greater improved varieties,
and could the natural laws lying at the
foundation of these strange phenomena
be discovered, they might be applied
on a large scale to the production of im-
proved varieties; and the thousands of
worthless, haphazard sorts now flooding
our markets might disappear. There
are many other phenomenal change‘: in
plant growth for which but a faint glim-
mer of a cause is known. The tall apple
trees of the south become, when taken
to the north, low bushes. Indian corn
in the Gulf States reaches a height of
twelve feet, while in Canada it rarely 
ceeds six. Generally speaking, south-
ern plants are dwarfed when transplant-
ed to northern climates; and since it is
known that dwarfing increases fruitful-
ness the reason for northern vegetation
being more productive than that at the
south is apparent. There is a change
not only in plant growth, but also in the
quality of the fruit. By actual experi-
ments it is found that apples, pears and
other fruits have a strange flavor when
raised in the north than when in the
south. Changes of climate are said to
cause these changes in plant growth
and in the quality of fruit; but what
does this broad term “climate” include?
This general explanation is not satisfac-
tory; that specific element of climate
which produces these changes is what
must be ascertained. Plants in the south
produce a heavy growth of wood and
yield fruits large but few in numbers.
In the north they make little growth
and yield many but small fruits. Now,
by careful experiments, will not that in-
termediate point he found where the
ratio of plant growth to the production
of fruit is the most profitable. This
b ' g found, fruits and vegetables could
be propagated from seeds produced in
that particular locality, and subsequent
crops would be greatly increased. Many
other examples might be given, but
these show how great is the ignorance
of the laws underlying the ordinary
garden operations. They show that
there is yet ample room for valuable ex-
periments; and that, though profitable
crops may be raised without the knowl-
edge of these laws, much more profit-
ab e crops might be raised with these
laws thoroughly understood. This is a
progressive age, and man can not and
will not work with his eyes shut. He
will continue to study and investigate
until he is master of his calling.

Then let it be understood that the
discovery of these underlying laws is to
be sought for rather than the direct in-
crease of productions. Years and years
of careful scientific investigation are
needed. All nature is a puzzle and her
science is ever new. No sooner is one
problem solved than many others are
presented. Her doors are ever open.
Through these man may pass, his lamp
trimmed, ready for thorough research.
Though the task may seem irksome
enough, yet how cheerfully may it be
undertaken in the assurance that nature
places no limit upon the success of well
directed labor.

M

The Old Fashioned Garden.

But the garden from which the whole
family may gain the purest delight, in
which they will feel the most interest and
take the most pride, is the old fashioned
one, the fashion of which came with the
Puritans from old England and lingers
in New England yet. It is that in which
year after year fruits and flowers meet
and mingle, where spade and hoe and
hand weeder give the culture,and rectan-
gular beds and trim pathways abound.
Such a garden is fair to see. I have such
an one in my mind now, where beds of

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sweet marjoram and theme flanked co-

horts of onions, stiff and rigid in their

green liveries pinkcd out with white;
where the cranberry bean, tenderly cher-
ished because its seed was brought from
“old Vermont,” flaunted its motly pods
above the scarlet poppies whose bril-
liance shamed them, and tomato plants
jostled York and Lancaster roses; where
double rows of peas hung blossom ban-
nerets and plethoric pods over a brush
forest, and sweet william and sweeter
pinks, and purple columbine and iris
mingled in charming confusion. A
wandering raspberry bush clutched you;
a morning glory vine swung a chime
of dewy bells from a sunflower tower
and the housewife's pale green hop clus-
ters treasured golden grains of lupulin
among the wreaths offoliage that wound
among the white pailings. There was
room for the gr-andsire’s dwarf pear
trees, and for the seedlings from the
peach pits the lad planted and tended.
No weed seeds ever ripened there, and
the land laughed with harvest tillablack
frost brought desolation. It was a gar-
den of delights, full of surprises; ever
new, ever charming.

And such a garden is to the house'-
hold more than a mere purveyor of
food. It feeds our love of beauty by its
fair young flowers, its tender greens, its
reproductions and renewals. Here is the
spring we see how earth’s slow pulse
thrills under sun, rain and

* * *, Every clod feels a stir of might

And climbs to a soul in grass and flowers.

Here we find the aesthetics or horticul-
ture, for here the busy woman, her
thoughts intent upon what Owen Mere-
dith calls—-

Hour of all hours, most blessed upon earth.
Blessed hour of dinner.

yet pauses among its beautyand fragrance
to rest a moment, and feast her eyes;
and go back to her kitchen refreshed and
strengthened, by the reviving influence
of nature In this ideal garden the ob-
servant man takes his microscope and
pries into nature's secrets as under the
magic glass he counts the petals of the
close folded blossom buds,discerns grape
clusters within the warm, resinous elder-
down blanket tucked about them, and
even counts upon the cluster. After all,
in spite of all they tell us ofits multiply-
ing insects, its laborious culture, its de-
mands on time and muscle, we feel that
its continuity is its charm, that the old-
fashioned garden IS the garden of our
dreams, and that the relation of the
rousehold to such a garden is that of
plt‘(lF‘Jl‘€ and profit.——-./llrs. R. F. fol»:-
rlo/za, [xi ./llzitlzigan ffnrtztullzzrirl.
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History of Horticulture.

The Michigan State Horticultural So-
ciety has in preparation, (to appear in
the forthcoming volume of its transac-
tions,) a History of Horticulture in
Michigan, in which it is the purpose to
give an authentic account of the rise
and progress of tree, plant and fruit cul-
ture in the State, together with the pres-
ent condition of thgse interests, and
their future prospects.

It is also the purpose to devote a
large space to each county, separately
considered; giving as full an account as
practicable of the origin, rise and pres-
ent condition of these interests in each,
with their adaptation , to such pursuits,
as indicated by location, soils and cli-
mate.

We, therefore, strongly urge that any
and all persons possessed of information
of this character, or of the facilities for
collecting it will lend their efforts to
the work of supplying the needful infor-
mation by responding to the subjoined
inquiries, and forwarding the same to
the undersigned, at ‘an early date.

1. When, where and by whom was
the first settlement made in your coun-
t ?

y 2. Was it made for agricultural, lum-
bering or other purposes?

3. When, where,‘ for what purpose,
and by whom were the first fruit trees
planted?

4. Have any fruit plantations been
made in your county for commercial
purposes, and if so by whom?

5. Have fruit plantations generally
proved successful, and what is their
present condition?

6. Where are the fruits usually mar-
keted, and how transported?

7. Have any nurseries been establish-
ed in your county, when, and by whom,
and are they still in existence?

8. If discontinued, why?

9. Give a full account of any old fruit
or other trees, planted prior to the set-
tlement of the county, by French traders
or others.

10. Are there any notable planta-
tions or preserved groves of trees, for
cemeteries, parks, or other ornamental
purposes, whether public or private?

rr. Mention, generally, any notable
or interesting circumstances, < ltllln
your knowledge, pertaining to the hor-
ticultural history of the State, or any
section of the same.

We appeal to all to lend effective aid
to this object; and in so doing, to assist
in putting the earlier history of their
own section into authentic and perma-
nent forin. .

Any and all persons supplying inform-
ation in aid of this object will be enti-
tled to receive a copy of the volume
containing the proposed history, when
published.

Address all communications as early
as Oct. ist to

T. T. LYON, President,
South Haven, Michigan.

Wire-Pulling.

BY LUNA SPRAGUI PECK.

The wires worked well, did you hear them click’

As over and under they moved so quick?
“What were they doing?" Why, haven't you
heard
Of the wire—macliirie which, at a word,
Goes over the ground to set up the wickets,
Clear 05 the track and station the pickets
In time for the state and county iidkets?
Magical wires that we cannot see
Over our heads right royalfy. _
“Who works the wires?” There’s no town without
A suitable man, you can pick him out,
Eager for office, unscrupulous, keen,—
He runs the town and county machine.
Then over them all a “boss" we see
Bought up by railroad ring, may be,
With a throttle press and a golden key,
He fills the state offices one by one,
And the warp and woofof the web is spun.
The canvass is over, their let it rest;
The vanquished mourn and the yietors jest.
llow many, think you, of the promise made
When striking, perchauce, some up-hill grade,
\Vill be kept, when the heat of [Le battle is o’er
And the victors safe on the w nning shore.
But the saddest sight of all to me
In this “land ofthe brave, and home of_ the free,”
Is the September farce, when freeinen are met
With no choice but to spring a trap that is set.
Women aml idiots are shut from the polls
By a law of our land, but this truth holds:
77/8)’ 1:110:11 I/1:3/‘re no! rioting, while man, elate,
Goes forth to the polls, and, sure as fate,
Is naught but a tool for the wire-ni:in’s slate.
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The Birds.

Think of your woods and orchards without birds!

Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams
As in an idiot‘s brain reuiembered words

Hang empty ‘mid the Cobwebs of his dreams!
\Vill bleat of flocks or bellowing of herds

Make up for the lost music, when your teams
Drag home the stingy harvest, and no more

The feathered gleaners follow to your door?

What! would you rather see the incessant stir,
Of insects in the windrows of the hay,
And hear the‘ locust and the grasshopper
Their melancholly hurdy gurdies play?
Is this more pleasant to you than the whir
Of meadow-lark, and her sweet roundelay,
Or twitter of little field-fares, as you take
Your nooning in the shade of brush and brake?

You call them thieves and pillagers; but know
They are the winged wardens of your farms,
Who from the cornfields drive the insidious foe,

And from your harvest keep a hundred harms.
Even the blackest oflhem all, the crow,
Renders good service as your man—at-arms,
Crushing the beetle in his coat of-mail,
And crying havoc on the slug and snail.

Think, every morning when the sun peeps
through
The dim, leaf-latticed windows of the grove,
How jubilant the happy birds renew
Their old melodious madrigal of love!

And when you think of this, reruemher, too,
’Tis always morning somewhere, and above '
The awakening continents, from shore to shore,
Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

——l.ong/la/law.

Why Some People are Poor.

Silver spoons are used to scrape ket-
tles.

Coffee, tea, pepper and spice are left
to stand open and lose their strength.

Potatoes in the cellar grow and sprouts
are not removed until the potatoes be-
come worthless.

Brooms are never hung up and are’

soon spoiled.

Nice‘-handled knives are thrown into
hot water.

The flour is sifted in a wasteful man-
ner and the bread pan is left with the
dough sticking to it.

Clothes are left on the line to whip to
pieces in the wind.

Tubs and barrels are left in the sun
to dry and fall apart.

Dried fruits are not taken care of in
season and become wormy.

Rags, strings and paper are thrown
into the fire.

Pork spoils for want of salt and beef
because the brine wants scalding.

Bits of meat, vegetables, and cold
pudding are thrown away, when they
might be warmed, steamed, and served
as good as new.

FUMIGATING HEN HOUSES.—At this
season unless extra care is taken to re-
move droppings, vermin will find their
way into hen houses. The best remedy
is through fumigation.
filled with live coals, throw some resin
on this and immediately follow with
flour of sulphur, at the same time clos-
ing every aperture. In an hour’s time
the vermin will be killed; but the opera-
tion should be repeated once or twice
after two or three days to destroy ver-
min that may hatch from eggs whose
vitality is not destroyed. Thorough
washing of perches, nests and all wood-
work with kerosene oil is the best pre-
ventive. Fowls that have run where
they can roll in the dust all summer,
will keep themselves free from vermin
until they become broody. When a
hen gets in this state she loses care of
herself, and may some day be found
dead in her nest, killed by the tiny in-
sects that prey upon her.‘ The nest for
setting in summer should l1c.‘\7.;i‘ be in
the hen house, or at least DUI. in the
apartment where the fowls roost.

— 

THE Iowa State Grange do not pro-
pose to send out lecturers merely to
make fine speeches and build up a repu-
tation for oratory, but to do missionary
work among the people; to reach the
farmers in a plain common-sense way

‘and make them feel that each lecturer

is one of them, with a common cause,
interest and purpose. A number of
dormant Granges have recently been
reorganized in that State.
~————¢o-—————-——

ARTICLES of association of the Detroit '

Butterine and Oleomargarine Manufac-
turing Company have been filed. Capi-
tal stock, $3o,ooo paid in. G.L.Samp-
son, G. W. Alexander and G. H. Paine
are the incorporators. This is painful
news for butter-makers.

 

Take a pan.

 


 

' country——men who have succeeded not

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'I'2E1ZEl‘C3-—2E2).A.1.\‘l'C3-IE} VISITOR. S

SEPTEMBER 1, 1386.

farmers’ campaign, and the conditions
not only all favor but demand the elec-
tion of the farmer candidate. No duty
is now more obligatory on the farmers of
this state than that of doing some earnest
work to secure the election of their can-
didate. Failing in this the farmers of
this state confess their willingness to
occupy an inferior place in all the af-
fairs of government. We can not be-
lieve Michigan farmers will bring in such
a verdict against themselves next No-
vember.

flit: fitting: fiigifur.

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 'V'fJf”:z."_f',d’f'a,"‘“' : . We let politics severely alone this
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‘ SCHOOLCRAFT, Mich.

tural interests of the country as affected
by legislation, they were called upon to
pay more than their fair share of the
burdens of taxation. By their chronic
indifference they were mainly without
representation from their own class in
the legislative bodies of the country.
We hoped by a presentation of some of
these obvious truths to stimulate some
of our reader; to greater activity, not
in the line of partizan work, but toward
such» independent action with a definite
purpose as would tend to make the in-
fluence of the farmer class felt in every
department of’ government.

‘We charged up to the farmers them-
selves the footing of a balance sheet,
that proved their dereliction to the
manifest duty they have long owed the
class to which they belong—a class
large in numbers and large in the pos-
session of taxable property, with little
representation in legislative bodies.
What farmer can look at that record of
representation in Congress of i2 farm-
ers and 273 lawyers and say that he has
been faithful to himself and his fellow
farmers. Now, we ask our readers to
step out for a moment from the confi-
dence of party affiliation and association
into the condition of farmer citizens, or
citizen farmers, and ask themselves how
farmers owning the same number of
acres of land in the same school dis
trict, each with one wife and the same
number of children, all white——the same
distance to mill and to meeting, and
having, so far as science, philosophy or
religion can show, the same financial
interests to protect and subserve, will
persist in ignoring their fellow farmers,
and keep up from year to year a run-
ning fight with each other in the field of
politics the outcome of which is to turn
over their own interests into the hands
and heads of a lot of professional gen-
tlemen who have an established repu-
tation for taking good care of them-
selves first, last and all the time. No
one can or will claim that we have over-
stated the case, and we think no sensi-
ble one of the victims of this misman-
agement will undertake to say that in
thus working against each ‘other the
farmers of the country have wisely pro-
moted their interest as individuals or as
a class.‘ In the article referred to we
urged farmers to attend‘ the primary
meetings of the parties to which they
belonged, and act with the definite pur-
pose of taking care of the interests of
the agricultural class. Since then the
primary meetings and the county and
state conventions of the several political
‘parties have been held and" the result of
their action is before us.

Whatever effort was made by our
farmer friends of the Democratic or
Greenback parties to secure recognition
in their conventions we do not know,
but the presence of large numbers of
representative farmers in the Repub-
lican Convention at Grand Rapids and
-the nomination of one of the most.capa-
ble representative men of his class is
satisfactory evidence that in the pri-
maries and county conventions of that
party there was a determined effort on
the part of farmers to vindicate their
right to recognition.

Two years ago in the Republican
State Convention the farmers made a
gallant fight but were overpowered by
the politicians of the party. This year
those same politicians were only con-
spicuous by their absence.

The nomination of Cyrus G. Luce
for Governor is the triumph of the
farmers of the State over the politicians.
This evidence of awakened interest and
of determined work by our farmers is the
more gratifying to us that it is in accord
with the persistent appeals made by the
VISITOR to the farmers of the State to
come to the front and take care of the
interests of the farmer class in every
department of the government. At no
time have we asked for afarmers’ party,
and we want none. But we have asked
and urged farmers to stand up for the
farmer, his rights, his ' profession, his
interests, and cease to be the conven-
ient and useful tool of the lawyer poli-
tician. .

From what we have said no one has
a right to infer that we desire farmers
to combine and drive all lawyers from
legislative bodies or from prominent
official positions. By no means. But
we do insist that farmers should com-
pel them to be less ‘pretentious in their
claims. A mild and polite invitation to
stand back and ask for no more than
their fair share of oflicial positions won’t
do. The compulsory ballot is our only
remedy and it should be intelligently
used in ‘caucus in convention and at
the polls onelection day,‘ Farmers of

 

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who once read the-' V!SlTOR but who
from some cause have not renewed their
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to the contents of this number and to a
renewal of their subscription. As an
inducement we offer to send this paper
three months in clubs of five or more
to any office for ten cents each. Or
better still, we will send the VISITOR
from date of receiving subscription the
remainder of this year and all of next
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THE Executive Committee of the
State Grange of Michigan established
the GRANGE VISITOR in April, 1875 and
committed its management to our hands.
Established to promote the Good of the
Order of Patrons of Husbandry,we have
endeavored to keep it within the wise‘
restrictions provided by the Constitu-
tion of the Order in the discussion of
partisan politics. Satisfactory evidence
of our compliance with this restrictive
condition was furnished last week by a
brother who has taken the VISITOR all
these years. He ‘said he had never yet 3
found out the political preferences of
its editor and we had the satisfaction of
informing him that we did not have to
fetter our sympathies or our convic-
tions to run a neutral paper. To this
we now add? we believe more in men-
true men, who have the courage of
theirconvictions than wedo in profes
sions and platforms.
 

'l‘Hi~;i<i‘. are farmers of ability in this

only as farmers but who have shown
themselves shrewd, ‘capable business
men whenever and wherever they have
taken hold of any business enterprise
outside of that of farming, and Mr. Luce
is one of the number. He is still living
on the same farm where as a young
man he turned the first furrow on land
that never knew the plow before. He
has continued to cultivate that land,and
the additional acres that successful
farming enabled him to buy, for all
these years from early manhood
until now, except when engaged in
some public business that required his
temporary absence. Few men of his
ability in this State, or out of it, have
proved their devotion to the farmer and
agricultural improvement in the field
and on the platform as has Farmer
Luce. _

All business affairs, whether of a pub-
lic or private nature have been inan-
aged with the same successful results
that have marked his farm life.

Cyrus G. Luce is a man of broad
views, pronounced opinions, and ac-
knowledged ability wherever known
and that means in scores of the rural
districts of Michigafh _ ,

While not offensively aggressive in
any body of men of which he is a com-
ponent part, his natural qualities of
leadership have always brought him to
the front. He stands to—day before the
people of Michigan as a capable 1'eP1'§'
sentative of the agricultural class, nomi-
nated for the important office of Gov-
'emor, and we believe not wholly de-

endent on the political party that
gominated him for that support, which
we trust will in this year of grace 1886
give us a farmer Governor of rare ex-
ecutive ability. ’ _ , h
This is the farmers opportunity—t e

'tion.

Michigan, this is your fight for recogni-
By your independent action you
can make it a grand success and prove
to yourselves and the world that Michi-
gan farmers have taken a forward step,
creditable alike to themselves and their
profession.

 

A Picnic.

The patrons of St. Joseph County are
regular and worthy ofimitation in one
thing. -They have a rousing good pic-
nic in Bro. Langley’s beautiful grove on
the banks of the St. Joseph river every
August. This fact we don’t get second-
handed. Let business be what it may
we don’t let it have more importance
than this annual picnic. As it is but six-
teen miles away we always manage to
get there, nor do we mean to desist until
from sufficient cause we must. The lo-
cation is a good one, the grove perfect
and its owner such :1 devoted Patron
that he would let everybody drive
through his best cornfield to get there
if necessary and not grumble a word.

There has always been a good stand,
good music, good speaking, and this
year the good reputation of this annual
picnic was well maintained‘ by the pres-
ence of about 4,000 people.

Afterthe abundant and excellent din-
ner. which is part and parcel ofa farm-
ers’ picnic, and the usual invocation and
music, Bro. Jason Woodman, of Paw
Paw, came to the front and talked for
three-quarters ofan hour, and he talked
well. He urged the importance of the
younger class of farmers seizing upon
the educational opportunities afforded
by the Grange for personal improve-
ments, spicingfiljiis speech with anecdotes
and holding t e attention of all within
hearing to the last. Bro. Woodman is

_a _rising young man, and is both able and
willing to do good service in the field of

range work. Our lecture field is poorly
supplied with young men who take kind-
ly to platform efforts to advance the
causeof agriculture. We are very glad
to be able to say a good word for Bro.
Woodman. He should be encouraged
to work both for his own improvement,
and for the good of the order.

Bro; Brown followed with a speech of
characteristic earnestness and power;
but from indisposition did not hold out
as long as the audience would gladly
have listened. - _

These picnics are enjoyable and pro-
fitable occasions, affording such excel-
lent social opportunity for young and
old. Here all come together from farm
and village on a common level for rec-
reation and real enjoyment. The im-

provement and culture ofthe last twenty.

years has eifaced the line of distinction
between town and country people, and
as Bro. Woodman said of the crowd be-.
fore him, “you cannot tell from appear-
ance which is which.”
Nothing occurred to mar the general
njoyment, and we think all went home
at a seasonable hour resolved to come
again next year.
 
Standard Goods.

Three words in the report made by
Mrs. Mayo, of a late meeting of Cal-
houn County Grange attracted our at-
tention. Those words gave character
and standing to that Grange worthy of
imitation. Our reporter says “there are
no ‘please excuse me’s’ in Calhoun
County Grange." With a good program
as such a live Grange will always have
the educational character of the Order
and its value to farmers is proved at
every meeting. And yet there are farm-
ers in every neighborhood who are self-
reliant and always assume that they can
get along and take care of their own af-
fairs without belonging to any society.
Of course these farmers can get along,
and so do men and women get along
through the world with little or no ed-
ucation. But is that an argument against
common schools? The Grange is a
school for old and young without a com-
pulsory school law behind it to compel
attendance. Where the scholars never
say “please excuse me,” the school will
give the best return on the investment
of any to which farmers are asked to
contribute. The members ofa prosper-
ous, healthy Grange don’t learn to say
those mournful, ominous words, “please
excuse me.”

 

Wi-: do not attempt to disguise the fact
that we are well pleased with the work
of the Republican Convention in so far
as the _head of the ticket is concerned,
and this pleasure comes of our knowl-
edge of the representative character of
the candidate and of his ability and
adaptation to the work of the office, the
duties  which he is so admirably cal-
culated to discharge. His familiarity
with business affairs, both public and
private,_his untiring industry and estab-
lished character for integrity makes the
farmers’ candidate acceptable with all
classes who know him and who desire a
safe, economical and intelligent admin-
istration of the business affairs of the
State.

 

._...__..__...._.

WE believe there are friends of the
VISITOR who wlll not feel it a hardship
to send us a dollar and ten names for
three months. Let us hear from such.

Don’t overlook this mild invitation ‘to
do something for the Good of the Or-
der and the farmer as well.

 

Tm: i-‘aiitsof this country: have be-
come an immense business.

All agree that they have proved im-
portant aids in the development of agri-
culture. That some barnacles should
grow to them was to be expected.‘ Some
of them have already come under the’
ban of popular disapproval and been
forced to retire.’ We have a distinct
recollection of attending a State Fair at
,_[ackson not many years ago, and we
!well remember with what indignation
some good people criticised the man-

agement for its easy-going blindness to
lthe continued and persistent violation
j of a certain rule of the society which

3 ptrmiltczl I/1: ra/1' of beer only. In
january, 1884, the rule was amended.
Of the gentlemen who were decided in
their opposition in allowing the beer
nuisance to remain a shield to protect
the sale of poor whisky Mr. Chamber:
lain, now President of the State Associa-
tion, was inline with the President,Philo
Parsons, of Detroit. and other gentle-
men who clearly saw that the society
could no longer safely carry the odium
of permitting the sale of liquor on its
grounds during the progress of the State
Fair. Men of ability we find get in a
rut, resist innovation and fail to see and
refuse to accept. until they must, the
onward march of our civilization in the
direction of moral reform. Of that ex-
ecutive committee of the State Agricul-
tural Society :1 considerable number
were of thisclass and only consented to
such amendment of the rule prohibiting
the use of the beer screen when mem-
bers of their "own body became wit-
nessess in the case. But the rule was
amended and has been fairly well en-
forced. Under the Presidency of Mr.
Chamberlain temperance‘ people need
have no fear of any relaxation of its en-
forcement this year at Jackson.

_ 
“Sl’()'l‘ CASH" in, the Detroit" E2/wing

_/om-mu of a late date has,.without know-
ing it, declared in an argumentative
article for the general adoption of a
fundamental Grange principle. He

would “discountenance the credit sys-
tem" by the most radical means. He
charges the hard times to a system of
credit that is everywhere wanting in that
element of safety, which should belong
to business transactions,and after paint-
ing a “ghastly picture of the miseries
that follow in the train of general—al-
most universal—.- credit,calls for agitation
not only by the press, but on the ros-
trum; in public debate; on the lecture
platform; in the schools, and‘, in fact,
everywhere, as is the great cause of
temperance. Let the manufacturers and
wholesale dealers set the example by re-
fusing to sell on any at/zrr terms. Let
societies be formed by men who will
come to the front and take an oath—if
necessai'y—to abolish this growing evil,

the baneful effects of which are seen in

the haggard and distorted countenances
of thousands who are to-day crowding
the jails, the penitentiaries, the asylums,

or, worse than all, the suicide's'grave.

Let us awake then, I say; let us look

well to our interests, and a brighter day

will dawn; a glorious day‘ of rejoicing,

when .

Man will meet his brother man,
On kind intentions bent,

And say-—what now not many can---
“ law: no man (I re):/.”'

 

_ SPOT t.'.\sii.
 
Important Notice!

The following Granges are delinquent
in the payment of their dues and re-
ports: For quarters ending March 31
and June 30, r886—i8, 73, 83, 159, r63,
r67, 168, I85, I94, zoo, 223, 228, 230,
248. 292.298.304.338. 36!. 389, 406,
476. 479. 523. 574-

For quarter ending June 30, 1886-
28, 39, 58,127, r41, [58, 162, I7[, I74,
180, I82, 186, 191, 219, 236, 238, 245,
251, 252, 259, 260, 267, 268, 27r, 275,
277.29I.3I5.3I6.3I8, 333. 335. 336-
342.358.36°,362.377. 390- 399. 403.
421.427. 431. 437. 440. 44:. 456. 470.
487. 503. 509. sis. 563. 564, 5->8. 582.
620, 622, 624, 643, 644, 645, 650, 652.

In our next isrzze (Se/5/. lj) we slzall
fiué/1':/1 a list of Grange: mtit/ed /0 rep-
resentation in Me Stale Grange. A70
Grange not /zaz/ing made a relfiort for
r/uarter emlirzg /liar:/z 31. 1886, and all
prrviaus yuarlcrs, will lie crzlil/at to a
plate an rut/t a /is/. -’ ’.-’.-wry: autism] in //ult
at once.

 

A LI'l‘TLE bit of an “ad” over the name
of A. F. Wixson, Detroit, too small to
at. -- .. five, may be of real
value to l.il ii-3 wives who don’t live,‘
next door to a tin shop. All sorts off
tinware is liable to surprise the house-
keeper with a leak, and this Detroit ad-
vertiser offers the facilities for :1 prompt
cure that can be applied with little
trouble by an unskilled workman; It
has been tried at our house with satis-

factory results.
_ 

WE know the VISITOR has lots of
friends. We know this can be best

 

 

increase its circulation under our very
liberal offers. For the “Good of the
Order” take hold of this work and if
some of you should put a few dimes into
this business in behalf of your friends
and neighbors we don’t believe you
will live long enough to be sorry for it.
Good work will surely bring returns.

proved by doing some good work to _,

Tin: pioneers of the -several counties
of this state are called upon by the
President of the State Horticultural So-
ciety, T. T. Lyon, of South Haven, for
information that no other class of people
can give. The years come and go, and
with our busy, bustling life we are apt
to lose sight of incidents with which we

were familiar that belong to the first half
of this century, that had at the time of
their occurrence no special value more
than other passing events of that day.

To rescue facts now of historic value,-

that relate to the earliest tree planting
and fruit culture in the several sections
ofour state, is the laudable object under-
taken by the State Horticultural Society.
All pioneers should read the appeal of
President Lyon printed on our second
page, and immediately set aboutlooking
up what facts they can recall. Talk with
each other about this matter,and before
the rst of October send their stories to
President Lyon. Don’t wait for the other
fellow; if you do he is so likely to wait
for you, that the desired information
may not reach President Lyon at all.

_.____._____._.
Beans, Aug. 3, 1886.

j. T. CouB—«l was requested by the Orange to
ask you to give a receipt for canning green corn
and beans in the Visrroit. '

Fraternnlly Yours,
’ _li.'s'ri.'s N. (lu'i‘HRii-:, Sec’y. ,_

On receipt of this letter we invited ai-

Patron living near a canning establish-

ment to furnish the desired information. '

T 00 late for the last issue he replied that

the process at that factory was not pub-
lic property and he could not get hold
of it. By the time an answer to-this in-
quiry can reach our readers through the
next Visiron the information will be of
little use for this year. But let us have
it-—it may be of value another year.

Tris ’I‘h_iify-Eighth Annual fair came
State Agricultural Society of Michigan

will be opened on -its grounds at ]aclt— ‘

son on Monday Sept. :3, and continue
through the week.

By the kindness of our friend Wm
Chamberlain, President of the society,
we are favored with .-i card of admission
and hope to give our readers some items
of interest that we may gather. It is

safe to say in advance that horse trot‘ 

notes will be omitted. We are not pos-

ted in the language of the turf, and for ' 

a long time have believed that depart: '

ment of an Agricultural Fair has re-
ceived too much attention.
Tm: paper of our Patron friend, 1).

Buchanan, printed on the third page, I

was not received in time for the last is-
sue of the VISl'l‘4')R. While too late for
his advice to be heeded in so far as
nominations for the more important of-
fices for the campaign of i886, yet in it
we see a straw,

managing politician.
be recognized, and it is safe to say that
whatever his qualifications he will'not

prove more inefficient than very many ‘I

from other professions who have been

found willing to serve the people for ‘‘

glory andpay.
. .

 

Fnoii Geo. w. Hill, of Detroit, we.,,_i:,

have a sample of East India White Win,-;_
ter Wheat.

Mr. Hill has long advertised in the

VISITOR and we have always found him
reliable. The ‘sample of wheat received
is very fine and is worthy a trial by any
farmer who has rare well developed in’
his business qiialiiicatious as well as en-
terprise. -
See Mr. Hill’s advertisement.

 

A Criminal Act.

Within find money for the GRA-.\Gl-2 Visi'roR
one year. I have been without it for two oi-
thrce months waiting for some one else to get it
for me until I got so nervous thinking it criminal-
for any Patron to try and live without it that I
made up my mind to attend to my own biisiness’
and send for it myself. Frateriially Yours,

(iliu. tf.i.\iriii:i.i..

So writes a Patron. If there were
more members of the Grange of his

stamp the cause would leap to its high-
est ambitions.

:5.-2-_-.-.-_-.-5..-2:
Secretaries, Take Notice.
FULL representation from your county

depends largely on the discharge of’

your duty. We must have reports and
payments of dues to entitle to represen-
tation and your Grange and the Granges
of the country depend on you. Do not
by negligence disappoint your friends.
- -.-_-__-__—L-_-5:-._=_--—

WE appeal to our friends to send the

\’isi'i‘oi< for three months into the fami-

lies of farmers all over Michigan.

admonitory to the 'i
The farmer must '

Friends of the Order, on you we rely‘ 4

to do this work.
begin at once?
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From a Graduate’s Standpoint.

inhaling the crisp lake breath of Chau-

ticle relating to the C. L. S. C. before I
had tasted the inspiration at its fountain
head. But having never been here at
that writing may add weight to my ad-

ing come here, enthusiasm for my cause
would appear to have captured my bal-
ance of reason. When enroute for this
queen of summer resorts I was half in-
clined to forego the trip because of the
heat, saying to myself, “I can get it all

[robes for spotless white.

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and they will change their lavender
Think you
not that day will hold more of joy . for

: them because they have passed the gate-

‘. way of faith on this side?
Standing under the sylvan branches

No one supposes the diploma, the

‘congratulations, the salutes of fellow
tauqua itself, I almost doubt the wis-,

dom of my course in sending you an ar- i

students,‘nor any of the graduation hon-
ors are the real goal of the C. I.. S. C.

: Were it so, the heart of the" enterprise

fwould be gone.

It is rather the in-

 creased habit ofself thinking, profitable
; employment of time, influence upon
vice for the chances are that now hav- '

homes and communities and the ex-

; tended capacity for being of use.

in the papers and save myself the wea- '
riness;" but a “providential" rain per-f

suaded me to go on.
been there know and you who will go
may learn, there is a something about
Chautauqua that cannot be gotten in
newspapers, nor yet from the lips of
friends.
nottell you. No one can. 
“Soul to soul can never teach,
What unto itself was taught."

As one of Pansy’s story boys says, ‘‘It’s
in‘ the atmosphere.” 4 ' 

The gracefully spread arches of “God’s
first temples” bend benignly over the
city man has built so rapidly beneath
them.: The: -varied moods of the lake

seem to acquiesce in the innovation,.

and amid all the multitudes that annual-
ly tread her shores nowhere else can'be

As you who have 3
§ As the father gives good instruction to ;

GRACE.
Chautauqua N. Y. Aug. r9, 1886.
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Politics and the Agricultural in-
terests.

Will the American people be wise and
learn from the experience of the past?

his children and warns them of the

i temptations and sins that lie along their

What that something is I can- '

foundiso much of uniform kindliness

and charity linked with the profoundest
learning, gayest repartee and keenest wit.

‘Wheiithousands from every part oflth-is’

country and many from other lands- are

ziockiug to this Mecca of love, wisdom"

and logic, and letters about it are com-'
mon in the local press, I will confine
myself’ to the relation it bears to a mem
ber of the C. L. S. C. only. » "

Not that this is all there is of the
Chautauqua “Idea.” On the contrary,
the founders possessed more energy
than could possibly be turned ‘into one
channel, and a score or more of benefi-
cent streams are flowing from their in-
stitution. The spirit of them all is cos-
mopolitan, charitable, lofty. Wisdom,
they say, without love is luminous but
cold. Love without knowledge is warm
but dark. United wisdom and charity
rnake"a g’ )l(lCIl mean vastly more service-
able to mankind than either extreme.
High Christianized intellect or deeply
intellectual Christianity, which are one
and the same, is the silver cord that
binds‘ Chautauqua to its untold suc-
cesses.

Among these achievements the Chau-
tauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
holds no unimportant place. It has 74,-
900 "registered members. Yesterday
amorig the crowds on the grounds it was
exceptional to meet any one not wear-
ing a badge of some one of the nine
classes.’ But yesterday was our own
day. We were all here,—'4,ooo ‘of the
class of ’86,——to graduate and receive
our’ diplomas. To be sure, only‘ six
hundred and seventy-eight hands were
stretched out to accept the parchmeht
but the spirit of the absent was present.
We felt it. It was impressive, almost
expressive. '

It was ‘a sight never to be forgotten.
Picture (if you only could!) the groves,
the_.I.talian sunshine in skies and friend-
ly faces, the “Golden Gate,’?. through
which none but graduates pass, ,a hun-
dred tiny girls strew flowers in path of
the ‘long procession, four abreast, that
passes between the classic columns into
the Hall of Philosophy while the choir
_greets the graduates with

‘.‘Sing pinns ove: the past.

All things, all things are yotirs.”

Then followed the brief recognition,

service, a solemn moment to the tired
struggling soul that had buffetted rebufi‘
and obstacles innumerable that it might
enjoy the honor of graduating. It is
the first time many and many a one
hasfelt the theill peculiar to a grad-
uate. What it it was no classic course,
and did not “finish” the sciences and
arts and ologies? That mother would
have done all that if she could. She
has done all conscience would permit
time for from other duties. She has
sacrificed, and contrived mayhap, of
her means and time to do this. She
perhaps has scrimped herself, that she

may be in Chautauqua at this time, to‘

mingle with her classmates and hear the
“I congratulate you,” from men num-
bered among the world’s wisest.

“Does it pay?” comes again to my
thoughts as I look into these eager,
flushed faces and upon the profuse dec-
orations and other welcoming signs and
I think of the other folks at home who
doubt, hesitate and delay on the ques-
tion. I wish I could tell you of the let-
ters read, of the stories told of what has
been done by some of these very peo-
ple. I wish you could have seen a sun-
ny faced “sweet girl graduate”—of 82
summers—trip up onto the platform at
one of our class meetings . and have
laughed with us in our pride, when her
white curls were set a bobbing by the
heartiness with which she waved her
handkerchief in response to our “salute.”
Then you should have seen her in her
pretty graduating dress, sitting at the
“Golden Gate” waiting till it opened,
another lady, 86 years old is a member
of the class but was not able to be pres-
ent. f It can not be» long ere another

gate,} of purest gold and grand,.will
swing backward to tliesegdear old ladies

‘how to preserve her government.

future path, so does the historian point
out to succeeding nations the mistakes,
wrongs and fatal errors committed by
the people who preceded them. This
Government can surely take a lesson
from ancient Rome whose people were
so devoted to agriculture that their
most illustrious commanders were often
called from the plow. And not only

"commanders but chief magistrates as

well. For in Cincinnatus we have a fine
illustration of the influence _of agricul-
ture on the Roman people, as the
foundation of their government was not

only laid upon agriculture as abasis,

but the superstructure that was -reared
u-pon it was firm and enduring till the
Roman people forsook the cultivation
of the globe for mere conquest and na-
tional aggrandizement. And what was
the result of her great error? Why, in
her national distress she called upon
Cincinnatus who was the embodiment
of the wisdom and strength of her great

agricultural interests. ‘She made him‘

dictator and he soon delivered his coun-
try from her great national peril. He
taught her by precept and example
what to do. Twice did this wise and
great man Serve his country and became
her deliverer from foreign foes.
experience should have taught Rome
Dur-
ing her early days, when to be-a good
husbandman was accounted the highest
praise, and when whoever neglected his
ground or cultivated it improperly was
liable to animadversion of the censors;
during those days Rome flourished and
her people were happy and prosperous.
Then her Senators commonly resided in
the country and cultivated the ground
with their own hands. It was when the
love of agriculture predominated with
the people and the Government, that
Rome was at her best, was safest and
most powerful. Now is not our Gov-
ernment not only unwise, but is it not
committing a fatal mistake in neglect-
ing the great interest of American ag-
riculture. This is a fatal mistake; all

other great interests are fully represent- _

ed in our Government councils. “The
great American agricultural industries,”
which, as Senator Beck says, “give em-
ployment to more than half the workers
for wages whose welfare is held up
(properly so) as the highest aim of_ leg-
islation, and whose products constitute
at least 80 per cent. of ourexports, and
are not even ranked among the indus-
tries of the country over which Con-
gress is asked or expected to throw its
protecting arm.” Now this we say is
the fatal mistake. It is, as john Ran-
dolph would have said, “the poison un-
der the wing of the constitution.” These
great agricultural industries are really
the strong protecting arm about the
Government. But by neglect it will
soon begin to lose that power. And
woe betide our country when this great
interest becomes paralyzed by the Gov-
ernment’s encouraging and fostering
other and less important interests to the
final disparagement of this. Our Con-

gressmen would seem to be advocates

of all other national industries but that
of agriculture. Are they waiting for
this industry to‘ be presented to them
by special lobbyists with the accustomed
fees for their advocacy? How well and
eloquently these members of Congress
can talk to -their constituents before
election "on the great and permanent in-
terests of agriculture. One would think
to hear some of them talk that their en-
thusiasm on this theme would hold till
they got into Congress and manifest it-
self there in a speech on presenting
some measure for the benefit of the
great farming interests of the land. But
it does not. ._ Pledges to farmers, if any
are-._giv.eu, are soon forgotten in the na-
tional_ halls. of legislation, where other
me.tsu.res and interests that derive their
value and importance from agriculture
receive all their time and attention.
Now most of the great monopolies
and moneyed interests usurp the atten-
tion of Congress.

It is to the country that we are to
look for a correction of this evil.
this evil that is afiecting the great body
politic; and when this Government goes
down it will go down monopoly-end fore-
most. But we need not despair while
the reading, intelligent farmer does his
full duty. For it is the vote of the toil-
ing millions -that make our Presidents
and lawmakers. Let our farmers in-
form themselves . concerning. .all the
measures that will promote the best in-

It is-

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Surely "

terests of the country; let them vote
only forrnen who will sustain such in-
terests, and we shall have a much need-
ed reform. _ A. D. V. B.
Z____..._.____.___
‘Cass County Wheat Growth.
The twelfth annual wheat meeting of
the Volinia Farmers’ Club is a matter of
history. Pursuant to a call by Secretary
Rogers it convened at the town hall on
Saturday, August 14. It was attended
by a good number of interested farmers
of this and adjoining townships, besides
several from Van Buren county. Prof.
A. j. Cook, of the Agriculttiral College,
was advertised to be present and talk
to the audience on insects injurious to
the wheat plant. The meeting was called

to order and an animated discussion as

l to the merits of the various varieties of

wheat in cultivation and time of sowing
so as to best avoid the ravages of the
Hessian fly was in progress when Bro.
Gard drove up with Prof Cook, he hav-
ing been delayed by the late arrival of
the train. A brieftime was occupied by
the professor in arranging cuts of the
insects. He began his lecture by giving
a minute description of the Hessian fly,
of the manner in which its ‘eggs are ‘de-
posited on the young wheat,-their hatch-
ing, the larva working its way down into
the enfolding sheath of the plant, and
states, what was new to most or all of
his audience, that the larva subsists by
absorption and not by eating the juices
of the plant.

Several other insect depredators were
shown up in a very entertaining manner
but none of which proves so destruc-
tive as the Hessian fly. Therefore, the
latter received the professor's special
attention, and as it means for lessening
or preventing its ravages "he recom-
mended preparing the ground in the
best manner and e‘nrichin‘g it so as to
furnish food for the insects and. for a
crop. Besides, heclaimed, that would
be a more effective and better way than
late sowing, as it is only occasionally we

"are visited by the fly; and the risk from

late sowing, with a weaker growth to
stand the winter and unfavorable
weather in spring make it more subject
to late ripening and shrinking from rust.
The professor's lecture was listened
to with attention and apparent approval,
except his recommendation to sow wheat
at the usual time when the fly is
about expected. Several members stout-
ly combatted his position as being the
rankest heresy. They claimed that by
waiting until about the zoth of Sept. be-
fore sowing, experience has proved to
be the best safeguard and generally a.

complete antidote.’

For twelve years this Club has held
annual wheat meetings ofthis kind, and
always with a fair attendance, and with
interesting discussions; and although
the profits ofwheat growing are infinites-
i_mally small our farmers still cling to
the wheat crop, not knowing what else
to turn their hands to, and hoping that
a change to better prices will warrant
them in keeping along in the good old
way of their fathers.

.., _.

TI-IE September Century will contain
a paper on Liszt, which, while it has
been for some months in, ..preparation,
happens to appear at _a. time I when it
will be read with unusual interest. It is
an account of a summer with Liszt at
Weimar, written by. one ~»of his pupils,
Mr. A. M. Bagby, and is full of interest-
ing anecdotes and_reminiscences. The
accompanying illustrations include a
frontispiece portrait of Liszt and a full-
page picture of “The Master,” seated
at the piano,both engraved by‘ Johnston.

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A NEW and harmless mania is the
pine-needle craze. Ladies who take
vacations among the pine woods of the
Eastern States, make a point of bringing
home enough pine needles for a pillow,
having faith in the healthful and healing
properties of the balsam which they
contain. One pillow will . last from va-
cation to vacation. There are many
sweet herbs that would make more
wholesome pillows than musty feathers.

SiNci~: it is well known that impure
water produces fevers, dysentery and
other fatal diseases in mankind, it is a
fair inference that bad water is not good
for farm animals, especially for dairy
cows. Bad water will make had and
unwholesome milk. A cow ought not to
drink water that is not palatable and
wholesome for her owner.

**- - -

A TENNESSEE farmer makes an appli-
cation of one handful of ground sulphur
and the same of salt to about a peck of
ashes, mixed together thoroughly, then

applied to the collars of the apple trees =

that were badly affected by the borer.
He says the remedy killed the worms

and saved the trees.
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TILE IN Ii.i.INois.—Statistics of the
Illinois Agricultural Department show
thatvmore than r5,ooo miles of tile drain
were laid inthat state in i884, and that
nearly 40,000 miles have been laid since
1880. ‘

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WE have had the best results from
manure hauled directly from the stable
on the snow or frozen ground, and scat-
tered very thinly,':a.ud' evenly on the
growingiwheatg ' Q - Q

 

THE agricultural editor of the Peoria
Transcript is of the opinion that the
society ofhogs-is»p'referable to that of
an alleged man half full of sour cider.

A out With Henry Goo:-go—Ho
Think: the Irilh Land Question the
Load Question of the Whole World.

The masterly address of Michael Davitt
to the uasembied Irish societies at Chi-
cago last Saturday has amused the on-
thusiasm of Henry George, the scholar
and political enonomist. To his mind
Daviu. is the greatest leader in the Irish
cause. Mr. Davitt. like Mr. George, ad-
vocuws the nationalization of the land.
Mr. George believes that the recent elec-
tions in England will have the effect of
uniting the democracies of the two na-
tions, aud that the day of triumph for
Ireland is near at hand. He also believes
toast the land bill was the bugbear
which frightened the English and brought
about the dcl'ea.t ofthe home-rule meas-
ure. All the Irish people had to do now
was to preserve their equauimity and
continue the good light. Coercion might
be tried by story government to test their
fortitude, but it would fail as signully un-
der Sulisbury’s administration at it had
under Gladstone's.

“l)&Vit.t,” said Mr. Geoege to ureporter
for The New York World, "is entirely
right in his position. The policy for
wtiich be has contended has at last pre-
vailed, and the mass of the Eu lish peo-
ple are in a. temper to learn to do justice
to Ireland. Mr. Gladstoue’s change of
front was perhaps too sudden tocarry
the first election, but it must be remem-
bered that all the opposition to him did
not ‘come from those who objected the
Irish home rule. Many Englishmen who
have been in favor all aloiig of couceediug
to Ireland the fullest. measure of home
rule found fatal objections to the details
of his proposed bill, and many others op-
posed him because they considered the

laud-purchase bill a part of his scheme." '

“What really is the objection in Eng-
laud to the land-purchase bill?"

"On the part. of Englishmen, who be-
lieve as Mr. Davitt. audl do, that the
land is the common property of the re-
sumtion of’ the land of England by the
nation. there is aniuflexible objection to
any proposal to buy out the laud-lords.
They look upon the Irish land-purchase
billpus setting above precedent that the
people should be compelled to pay for
what. is r’ hifully their own. '10 buy
out the Iriifi landlords would be to estab-
lish a claim upon the English," Scotch,
and Welcli landlords to be bought out
when their time comes. And on the part
of those who have now gone thus furthere
is a very natural disposition to make the
English nation responsible for a large
sum of money to pension oil‘ a body of
men whose greed and tyranny have kept
the two peoples in hot water. Nothing
can be better‘ calculated to throw into
strong light the essential injustice and
absurdity of private property in land
than the proposition to buy out the land-
lords in a body. When a man goes to
buy a piece ofland he does not do so
without asking by what title itisheld,
and when the proposition is made that a.
people should buy the land of the land of
the country from some of their own
members it is but natural that the ques-
tion of title should come up and that
men should ask by what right one class
can claim to hold as their own individ-
ual property the land of the country.
Mr-. Gladstone will now doubtless aban-
don his land-purchase scheme, and this
will bring to his side many of those who
opposed him in tbolust election, while
the irresistible growth of radical o iniou
outhe land question will tend ate fly to
strengthen the most radical party.”

"What will be the tendency in Ireland
on the loud question?"

f‘More and more to the position that
the land of Ireland belongs of natural
right. to the whole Irish people, and
should be treated as the common proper-
ty-of the nation, all land-owners being
merely tenants. The day, I believe,I has
louggoue by when any scheme of peas-
aut proprietary could even ive a halt to
the Irish land movemqnt. f the Eu lisli
poo It: were willing to buy out the risk
lau lords and leave the land question to
be“ settled by an Irish parliament, I don't
think the Irish would much care. but it is
certain that the bulk ofvpeoplc will never
consent to buy out the landlords at their
own cost, nor to deem the Irish land
question satisfactory settled when the
possessions of the present proprietors had
been divided among a. larger number of
smaller proprietors.”

"Mr. George, would you explain the
difference between lundholding in Amer-
ica. and in Ireland? Many sympatliizers
of Irish landlords upon this side of the
water ask why the landlords in Ireland
have not the same right to possess prop-
erty as those upon this side of the Atlan-
tic. '

"There is no d.fi'ereuce between land-
holding in Ireland and laudlioldiug in
America. The landlord in America is
even freer to evict a. tenant than a land-
lord in Ireland. and the system is fully
as bad here as there, the only difference
being that our population is not as dense
as that of Ireland, and we do not realize
its effects as clearly, but I know of no
part of Ireland where the absurdity and
injustice of treating land as the private
property of individuals can be seen more
clearly than in this very city of New York.
There is no part. of the world where
people are packed more closely together
and larger sums are pocketed by non-
producers as a tribute from labor for the
use‘0f' natural opportunities,‘ to which one
citizen has manifestly as good a. right as
another. We. too. have our absentee
landlords, our lack rents, and our evic-
tions, and here, too, we may see in chron-
ic pover_ty and growing puuperism the
inevitable results of allowing some people
to claim as their own what nature has
provided for the use of all. It is not only
the sympathizers with English landlords
who think the landlords of Ireland have
as good a. right to what they are pleased
to call their property as have the land-
lords of America. I certainly hold that
view. and I hardly think the Irish laud-
lords would count me as one of their
sympathizers."

“But. was not the property of Ireland
acquired by conquest while that of Amer-
ica was gained by peaceful means?"

“'I‘lfu't makes no difference. Whether
my great-great-grandfather was forcibly
made a slave or whether he voluntarily
accepted’ slavery for himself and his des-
cendants make no difference to me and

~ parliamentary staff do not.

can not afoot the title of any man who
claims a right to the produce of my labor .
without giving me anything in return.
The ri lit of I man to himself is on in-
ullenub 9 right inherent to man. and can
no more be void by purchase or grant.
than it can by conquest, and this right
involves the right of every man to a foot-
hold iu the world. The inalienable right
to life, liberty. and the pursuit of happi-

' ueuu vinvdlvoa on inalienable right to an

equal share in the natural elements nec-
essary to the maintuinauce of life. The
true doctrine is that declarrd by Thomas
Jefferson: that the land of the country ,
belongs in usufruct. to the whole people
of that country, and that our generation
can have no right. to grant or deed away
the birthright of future generations.
Every child that is born in this cityof
New York comes into the world with the
equal permission of the Creator, and
equally entitled to all that nature has
provided for the enjoyment. and susten-
ance of man. Yet. under our system some
of the children born here 8! quire. by
virtue of their birth. the legal right. to
more land than they can by any possibili-
ty uso, while the great majority have no
legal rights whatever in the land of their
birth, and are forced to buy permission
to live in this world from those who are
legally the owners of this part. of the
planet. This is the foundation and the
beginning of that monstrous injustice in
the distribution of wealth which is pro-
ducing on one side the millionaire and on
the other the pauper. The Irish land
question is simply the land question of
the whole civilized world."

“Do Messrs. Davitt. Parnell. and the
other Irish loaders hold such extreme
views as you do upon the loud question?”

“Davitt, I think. does. and so do num-
bers of other influential men, among
whom may be mentioned Dr. Nulty.
bishop of Mouth, and such men as Put-
rick Ford in this country. So, too. do
some of the Irish members of parliament,
but Mr. Parnell, who -is himself an Irish
landlord, and the leading members of hi
They repro-
seut the political aspirations of the Iriak
people. but Davitt represents as well the
social aspirations, Parnell and his co-
adjutors must, however, either drift along
with the current or finally be overwhelm-
ed by it. The moment the political side
of the Irish question I! settled the movo
meat. for the nationalization of the land
will flame up, not in Ireland alone, but
in Great Britain as well."

“Don‘t you think that fear of the real-
ization of such a scheme will frighten
away from Mr. Gladstone'a support the
British middle classes and others besides
the nobility who believe in the rights of
pro rty and defer the day of home rule
for relund P"

“That. is precisely the difficulty which
now makes those classes 10th to accede
to any settlement of the Irish question
that would conform to the wishes of the
Irish people. The real fear they have is
as to what would become of the Irish
landlords; not so much that they have
any sentimental regard for the Irish
landlords, but that they know that the
overthrow of Irish landlordism would be
but a prelude to the overthrow of British
luudlordism.”

Mr. George was sanguine that the time
was not far distaut—iu fact, within tho
next generatiou—wlicn these great truths
would be fully established. A century
and a quarter ago people doubted that
mouarchial form of government would
disappear from France; that the greatest
republic of ancient or modern time:
would spring from the western Atlantic,
and that slavery would meet its doom.
But all those events happened, and he
had not the all meet doubt that the land

ueatiou w_oul be solved in the new
luture.—-Chicago'Times. ‘

 

 

Rector Meadows is a noted mountain-
eer, says The Nashville American. no
is blind. A reporter saw him . yesterday
at the Chattanooga depot a. few minutes
after the Chattanooga train had pulled
in. Meadows lives In Warren County
near MOMIBDVIIIG. and is 27 years old.
A few years ago he accidentally stuck I
knife in his left eye. Severe inflamma-
tion set in, which was extended to the
other eye, and the loss of the sight of the
one was soon followed by that of the
other. It would seem that this double
calamity would have rendered it impossi-
ble for him to travel alone with safety,
but such was not. the case. He had be-
come so intimate with the country sur-
rounding his home that he was able, even
after his affliction to go from one place
to another with comparative ease and
safety. He always carries a long hickory v
st.ick,a.nd with that as his only com union
he roams the hills and valleys of is no-
tive county with as much ease as other
people. He frequently acts as a messen-
ger from Smart. Station. a. small oiut on
Mcminville branch, to N icholsou priugs.
a distance of three miles, and never has
sustained a fall. He is a. musician of
more than ordinary ability, and is em-
ployed duriurz the summer months in the
bank at Nicholson Springs. Bis room is
in a romote place, to reach which he has
to pass through several corridors and as-
cend two flights of stairs. He walks
straight to his apartment without any
attendant. and never has made a, mistake
in entrance. He files into the dining-hall
as if perfectly at home. and threads his
way to his accustomed seat with as much
ease as any guest. His gait is steady,
without that halting motion so usual to
the blind. He has 9. watch without I
cryta-_l. and by passing his fingers over
the dial can tell the time as accurately as.
any man. His senses of touch and smell
are wonderfully acute. He never forgets
a voice. and can select that of a person
whom he has only once met from a.
crowd as readily as were be able to use
his eyes._ If conducted but once to any
given point -lie can easily return to it
alone. He says that he counts his stepl.
and can calculate his hearings in that
way. _He _is light.-hearted fellow who
takus life just as it is without a. murmur.
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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1386.

gratin’ éqiartmciit.

Grandmother's Bible.

“So you've brought me this costly Bible,
With its covers so grand and gay;
You thought I must need a new one
On my eighty—first birthday you say;
Yes, mine is a wornout volume,
Grown ragged and yellow with age,
With finger-prints thick on the margin;
But there's never a missing page.)

“And the finger-prints call back my wee ones
Just learning a verse to repeat;

And again, in the twilight, their faces
Look up to me, eagerly sweet.

It has pencil-marks pointed in silence
To words I have hid in my heart;

And the lessons so hard in the learning,
Once learned can never depart.

“There's the verse your grandfather spoke of
The very night that he died;

‘\\'hen I shall wake in His likeness
I, too, shall be satisfied.’

And here inside the old cover
Is a date; it is faded and dim,

For I wrote it the day the good pastor
Baptised me-—I’ve an old woman‘s whim,

“That beside the pearl-gates he is waiting,
And when by-and-by l shall go,

Then he will lead me into that kingdom,
As into this one below.

And under that date, little Mary,
Write another one when I die;

Then keep both Bibles and read them;
God bless you, child, why should you cry?

“Your gift is a beauty, my dearie,
V\'ith its wonderful clasps of gold.
Put it carefully into that drawer;
I shall keep it till death; but the old--—
Just leave it close by on the table,
And then you may bring me a light,
And I’ll read a sweet psalm from its pages
To think of. if wakeful to-night.”
——-//11/fie A . Caoley in Landon C/irirtizm.

   
 

Social and intellectual Privileges
of Farmers’ Wives Thirty Years
Ago. -

BY MRS. LOTTIE M. WARNER, PAW PAW.

Thirty years in the future assumes a
grandeur in the imagination widely in
contrast with the same number of years
of retrospect, and when we go back in
memory over that length of time in the
past we find ourselves only a beginner
in the practical experience of the wives
of farmers thirty years ago, and we shall
have to rely on history more than per-
sonal experience for the few thoughts
we may give on this subject assigned us
by our Worthy Lecturer.

The social and intellectual privileges
ofall are so closely united that we must
pay due attention to the opportunities
for literary attainments to get a basis for
the consideration of the subject in ques-
tion, for without such acquiremcnts one
must take a low rank socially and in-
tellectually.

The f~.iimer’s wife of thirty years ago
was but the girl of forty years ago, more
or less. The district school afforded
the only opportunity for the education
of the girls that were to be the wives of
farmers thirty years ago, only in excep-
tional cases. It is true there were 3.
few female seminaries at that date but
they were limited as to their course of
studies and very few girls that became
the wives of farmers were privileged to
enter their halls.

A simple knowledge of some of the
rudiments of branches taught in the dis-
trict school, was all that was requisite
for the education of girls to fit them for
the duties of a farmer's wife. The
thought of a girl taking a classical
course of education thirty or forty years
ago was considered absurd, and an idea
of their admission to the professions or
lecture platform, to say nothing of the
pulpit, was looked upon as a Caprice of
some erratic brain.

The industrial rights of women, such
as admission to colleges, occupations,
professions, and eligibility to ofiice, to-
gether with the right of suffrage, had not
met with any recognition or favor ade-
quate to provide any method of inde-
pendeht support for them, and they were
taught from babyhood to abandon self
and lean on others, until they became
the stupendous parasite of the human
world, with no object in life save to be-
come the wife of some man to whom
they could look for support. Other
acquirements were looked upon as more
essential in those days, and the girl who
could not band her spinning wheel and
produce thirty knots of warp, or
forty knots of filling for the weav-
er’s loom in a day must take a sec-
ondary place as the coming farmer's
wife. In short she must be competent
to be milk and dairy maid, cook, laun-
dress, seamstress, nurse, governess, be-
sides doing the work for manufacturing
flannels for full-cloth and family wear,
picking up wood for fires, together with
a host of incidental duties unnamed that
would occupy her time from early morn
until the late hours of night, and many
times without assistance.

Thirty years ago to be a wife signified
owrfership of mind and body by the hus-
ba.nd,and whiis the relation was regarded
as making th: ‘ an and women one, the,
man was the am. The world was under
the domination of man inspired by the
utterances of St. Paul, as found re-
corded in his first letter to the Cor-
inthians, where in speaking of man he
declares “he is the glory and image of
God: but the woman is the glory of
man." He also enjoins on the women
to "keep silence in the churches;” "and
if they will learn anything, let _ thpm ask
their husbands at home, for it is not

ermitted unto them to speak.” Also
in his first letter to Timothy where he
says, “I will therefore that men pray
everywhere, lifting up holy hands with-
out wrath and doubting." And again

he says: “Let the woman learn in II-

‘in life's great orchentra.

lence with all subjection. But I suffer
not a woman to teach, nor to usurp
authority over the man, but to be in
silence. For Adam was first formed,
then Eve. And Adam was not deceived,
but the woman being deceived was in
the transgression." It might be inter-
esting to digress from the subject in
question and take a view of the social
and intellectual status of man in those

‘primitive days when Paul regarded him

as the sole preceptor of woman, but we
forbear and leave our brothers and sis-
ters to form their own conclusions as to
the social and intellectual privileges of
wives under the influence of such a sen-
timent, which was prevalent thirty years
ago.

With the results emanating from the
influence of such teachings combined
with the domestic responsibilities de-
volving on farmers’ wives of thirty years
ago, they could not for want of time and
culture take rank socially with the more
intelligent and refined. Physical force
was regarded as a better requisite for
the farmer’s wife than fine intuitions,
and the strength of love and beauty in
woman was crushed by its power until
many a delicate organization yielded its
spirit in silence, hiding its secret in the
unknown, only to be entitled as among
the Providences of God.

Thirty years ago the fact that there
were masculine and feminine forces in
plant life that must have egual condi-
tions to propagate the best of their kind,
had not dawned on the minds of the
masses, and the same was true of the
human kind. But as the more subtle
elements in nature are becoming better
understood, we come to see that woman
is not “lesser man” as Tennyson says,
but that she is what man is not, and has
been an unknown factor in the world of
genius. Her intellectual faculties have
been undeveloped and she has been the
grown up baby of the world for ages,
and but for her reproductive functions
and her household services to man, she
might as well have never grown up at
all. She has been such a crude mass of
possibilities that man, being coarser and
so entirely different, could form no cori-
ception of them. Man could not have
developed his wife if he had tried, for
development is growth, and it is the law
of nature that every soul must grow for
itself. Woman is the counterpart of
man——“his other half,” made up of con-
trasting, not similar, faculties, yet finer
than he. ll_"oman’s genius had not taken
shape in action thirty years ago, which
was good reason for her subordinate
position. She was unconscious of her
inherent strength, or the possibilities of
its unfoldment. Now “the gates are all
ajur" and the world is waiting for wom-
an’s effort. Man has nearly reached a
point beyond which he can not go until
his other half, which represents the love
side of the dual human soul, shall tztite
her place beside him. The woin;iu’s
era is at our very doors. At the pres-
ent time, both in this country and in for-
eign lands, universities and colleges are
opening their doors for the entrance of
woman. The system of co-education
has been tried and found to be highly
successful. The President of our own
University of Michigan says: “Women
graduates are doing their full part in
winning a reputation for Michigan's
University, and are justifying the wisdom
of the Regents, who opened to them the
opportunities for a thorough classical
training.” The N. Y. Sun, of Nov. I,
r884, says: “The best legal newspaper
in the United States is edited by a wom-
an. And at the bar, the most difficult
of all professions and the one most for-
eign to the feminine characteristics, a
number 09 earnest and well-trained
women are earning respect and winning
success. Women are admitted to prac-
tice in most of the States, and now at
last, Congress has voted to admit them
to practice before the Supreme Court.
This last achievement deserves notice,
not because many women will be direct-
ly affected by it, but as an indication of
the wonderful change in the status and
acquirements of the sex in this country.
It is the striking of the clock_that marks
the progress of a social evolution of the
most important character and one which
will lead to vast and beneficial results
hereafter."

Thirty years ago we had no order of
the “Patrons of Husbandry" to assist in
the elevation of woman from the posi-
tion occupied by her then. The Order
now ‘recognizes her as the equal of man,
both socially and intellectu.-.‘ly, and ev-
erywhere good men are renioving the
obstacles that would hinder her advance-
ment. Women are becoming conscious
of their own faculties, and as rapidly as
they do ,~.--, Etlltl prepare for individual
action, the worltl will be preparing to
demand that action.

The bar of the law that denies full
citizenship to woman will, ere long,
yield to the agitation of thought of the
leading men and women of the nation.
Then, in the language of the poet:

“Let agitation come, who cares? '

We need a flood; the filth of years hath gath-

ered on;

And he who cannot stand alone, had best be

gone.”

And while this agitation tends to
bring rapid changes in the social and
intellectual condition of the farmers’
wives of to-day as compared with those
of thirty years ago, we cannot express
ourselves better than by giving voice to
the sentiment of Mrs. Wilmans, of Chi-
cago, in her paper entitled the "Wom-
an's World," where she says: "1 hardly
know what to think of the minor chord:
They are be-

coming more inaudible every year.
There is the clash and clangor, the rush
and roar, of the louder notes that quite
drown the minor ones. .

Is this Darwin's survival of the fittest?
It is the survival of the strongest, but
the strongest is not the fittest now when
the day is in the transit from animal to
divine. And by this living truth I know
that before the lapse of many years
Beauty shall become Duty and rescue
her own, modulating all tones to the
harmony of her perfect life.”

I gcztltlg stub ginuscinznt.

Fruit-

We have been highly favored this year
in Michigan with an abundance of fruit.
Every orchard is laden with apples. The
berry crop, both wild and t:u1tivated,was
immense. From the peach belt there
is but one estiinate—never a larger crop.
And really it is a bountiful supply all
over the State. Now will we use this
wisely and well, or will we really abuse
this blessing? Will we fill our cellars
with the juice of the apple made into
cider (which is fit only for vinegar) to
pervert the appetite, to foster a -ove of
the accursed stuff that always stingeth
like an adder? Brothers and sisters,
please don’t do it—for your own sakes,
and the sake of your children, and for
others’ children, don’t do it. Do not
manufacture it. In most of our farm
homes is employed the farm laborer.
Some may have a natural or an ac-
quired taste for drink. If you have the
cider in your cellars and do not let
them have it, if they want it, they will
think you are niggardly and stingy. If
you let them have it, it is but the little
lighting of a small flame that may de-
stroy both body and soul. And let me
urge you again as those who profess to
deal onlyjustly with our brother man,as
those who profess to wish to foster only
the good and the right, can you do this
evil and sin not? And also as to the
health, is it fit to take into our systems
that which will inflame, burn and de-
stroy? We do not believe that there is
.1 single person who ever was benefitte 1,
but rather really mide worse by taking
cider,ferinented cider, into the stomach.

The great mass of farmers’ wives cry
out against their burden of work. Now
I believe it to be our duty to simplify
the domestic duties as much as possible.
I believe it is right and healthful to car-
ry just as much of the brightness and
beauty of the summer into our winters,
to so take care of this bountiful supply
of luscious fruit as to have a plenty all
winter. Now let us preserve it for our
own families as well as for company.
The comfort and well-being of our own
should be of quite as much considera-
tion as our friends. A nice dish of canned
mil: for breakfast for the child who has
a delicate appetite may really be jiist
what its system craves. A well supp‘ii:d
fruit basket for every day through the
winter may save a doctor's bill. Shall
we not serve it fresh on our table in-
stead of the inevitable pic that takes
time, toil and lard? No ripe, fresh fruit
will hurt any one, but of its healthful
qualities there can be no doubt. Let
us use this blessing of fruit well and not
pervert it. Mns. Mayo.

Bay View Assembly——The Finest
Summer Resort in the North-
west-—lts Brilliant Programs.

BAY VIEW, Aug. 19, '86.

Three months ago the first number of
the Bay View Assembly Herald came
out telling about the advantages and
brilliant programs at Bay View. The
question was quickly settled—I was go-
ing to Bay Viewl With maps and guide
I found the place. It was just above
the bustling city of Petoskey, at the
head of Little Traverse Bay, and
reached by the Grand Rapids & Indiana
Railway. In eight weeks I was off, ar-
riving with the throng of resorters and
tourists which has since been continual-
ly coming. For three weeks I have
been charmed by the superb scenery,
renewed in body and soul by the invig-
orating climate and lake breezes, while
indulging in one continual round of de-
lightful recreation and feasting upon the
rich programs. Bay View is certainly
the loveliest resort in the Northwest.
It is now in its eleventh year, and the
first in full Assembly work. I must con-
fess my surprise at finding here a sum-
mer city in the woods, with a resident
population of nearly r5oo, besides half
as many more in hotel and boarding
houses. There are over r5o cottages,
fine public buildings, a pretty railway
station, substantial dock, hotel, post-
office, telegraph and telephone stations,
provision stores, parks, lighted streets,
peal of bells, and a splendid water
works system. It is a universal remark

that this is the most enjoyable and suc- ’

cessful season this popular resort has
ever had. Almost everyone in Michi-
gan has been here, and I am told not
more than two people were left in some
cities.
THE ASSEMBLY IDEA.

A new class has this year commenced
coming. Large numbers of represen-
tative and progressive people, and the
best young people are here—a.mong
them forty or more students from Albion
College, and that joyous company, the
Chorus Society from Flint. One of the
college fraternities of national extent
has just secured ample grounds here
which it will adorn, and upon which it
will build a. beautiful hall. The change
and boom are largely accounted for by

the inauguration of the Assembly with
its many attractive innovations, under
the superintendency of Mr. John M.
Hall, of Flint. The assembly idea is
certainly the popular one, and Bay
View has boomed and been crowded,
while other resorts with no other at-
tractions than a summer outing, have
been depleted. The assembly is asum-
mer school of various departments, sup-
plcmented by lectures, concerts, devo-
tional and conference meetings, sermons,
readings, and various entertainments of
a lighter character, of acknowledged
excellence. The plan of combining
these things with the recreative delights
of a summer resort is most excellent,
and one is sure to carry home besides
an invigorated body a stimulus which
becomes an inspiration fora whole year.
Here one may learn improved methods
from able and experienced workers and
for almost every hour in the day for
two weeks, listen to music, wit, wisdom
and eloquence of the highest order.
What rare privileges we have had may
be inferred from the names of eminent
orators and musical talent we have lis-
tened to daily.
OUR ENTERTAINERS.

Among lecturers have been Mr. C. E.
Bolton with his famous illuminated
tours, Wallace Bruce, Pres. Alexander
Martin, Sophie W. Knight, Jahu Dewitt-
Miller, Prof. Samuel Dickie, Mrs. Edna
Chaffee Noble, Pres. C. H. Payne, Mrs.
Sarah K. Bolton, Pres. L. R. Fiske and
others; among readers have been Miss
Fannie J. Mason and Mrs. Noble, while
in music we have had the Kalophon
Quartet, Chorus Society of over thirty
voices from Flint, Misses Mattie C. and
Hattie Reynolds violinists; Petoskey
Cornet Band, Miss Edith Barton, pian-
ist; Miss Hattie M. Rood, soprano so-
loist and whistler, and the Assembly
Chorus of over one hundred voices un-
der direction of Prof. E. E. Stephens.
Here is one of the daily programs
which indicates the fullness and variety
of every day’s program throughout the
season.

SATURDAY, JULY 24.

8:30 a. m.—Devotional meeting. Rev.
IA. P. Davis.(Chapel.) Children's Chorus
3l iss Bertha Ward,((_‘-hildren’s Pavilion.)

9:00 a. m.-—Fifth session Ministerial
Union. Topic—What should be done to
reach the masses. Rev. J. W. Reed.

iozoo a.m.—AssemblyChorus rehears-
al. Prof. E. E. Stephens.

11:00 a. m.-—Lecture, Rev. Jahu De-
witt Millcr. Subject—Our Country’s
Posisibilities and Perils.

2:00 p. m.—Grai1d Concert under
direction of Prof. E. E. Stephens;
Miss Fannie J. Mason, in readings;
Miss Mattie C. and Hattie Reynolds,
violinists, assisting.

3:00 p. in.—Fourth Session Sunday
School Normal Class, J. H. Pilcher, Esq.
Topics—The English Bible; Organiza-
tion of the Sabbath School.

4:00 p. m.—Cooking School:
ing——Mrs. Sophie W. Knight.

5:00 p. m.—C. L. S. C. Round Table,
John M. Hall. Lecture by Sarah K.
Bolton. Subject——Mrs. Harriet Beech-
er Stowe. Sunday School Teachers’
Meeting.

7:00 p. m. —- Lecture by Horace
Hitchcock, Esq., of Detroit. Subject
-—-The Graded Sunday School; how ac-
complished; the results.

8:00 p. m.—Lecture by Mr. Wallace
Bruce, of New York. Subject—Land-
marks of Scott

Commencement Sunday and Recogni-
tion Day were all red letter days and
the impressive services, strong sermons,
stirring addresses and music and splen-
did decorations in honor of the fifteen
graduates and the large representation
of the Chautauqua Literary and SClfiltl-
fic Circle, were exceedingly interesting.
The Michigan Chautauquanc are en-
thusiastic over the organization of the
Assembly and their round table meetings
at 5 o'clock every afternoon were al-
ways delightful occasions.

PRACTICAL EDUCATION.

The department work has exceeded as
did every<hing else, all anticipations.
Mrs. Sophie W. Knight has been teach-
ing daily with practical illustrations,
large and enthusiastic audiences in the
Cooking School, while Prof. H. A. Mills
in the Art School has been teaching
another useful, personal accomplishment
to a large class, using charcoal as a
medium and frequently going with the
class upon sketching expeditions. The
Sunday School Normal class had a
good instructor in Mr. J. H. Pilcher
and was quite well attended, and Mrs.
Edna Chafiee Noble successfully laid
the foundation of a school in elocution.
The morning devotional meetings, con-
ducted by Rev. L. P. Davis and others,
were enjoyed by everybody and the
ministerial Union meetings in charge of
Pres. L. R. Fiske, were useful by reason
of the timely subjects of christia.n,work
practically considered in able papers
vigorously discussed. Perhaps the most
enjoyable and useful adjunct to the
Assembly has been the musical depart-
ment, Prof. E. E Stephens, director.
Seventy-five singers were present at the
first rehearsal, the number soon advanc-
ing to one hundred and twenty-five.
Miss Edith Barton, an accomplished
accompaniest, presided at the piano
and this department besides giving four
grand concerts adorned ‘the daily pro-
gram with the finest music. Miss
Bertha Ward has had large success with
9. children’: chorus which made re-
markable progress and closed its work
with a concert which everybody praised.
In no direction has the management

Broil-

succeeded better than in the selectionii".
of talent tor program and department’ '

work. Each person was equal to the
place, all worked together with the best
and pleased everybody. It is expected
all will return next year to do even bet-
ter work,and make the Assembly a still‘
larger success.

is auspicious. A Michigan Department

of the C. L. S. C., the best state depart- .,
has been organized -.
by Mr. Hall, as a part of his Assembly -

merit in existence,

plans, and he has begun the publication

ofa wide-awake and vigorous paper, -.
in the interest-_

The Bay View Herald,
of this department and the Assembly.
OTHER A‘I”1'RACl‘I0.N'S.

Little or no space is left to write of the
other attractions of Bay View, the puri-
ty of the air, equitable climate, cool
temperature, wholesome social pleas-
ures, and unnumbered recreations. One
may rest, dress and do as his sweet will
pleases, and find at this opulent resort
enough of the best to satisfy
sire and taste. The instituting of the
assembly this year, was 2. trial innova-
tion, but so successful that, yielding to
the universal desire, the trustees of the

place have made it a permanent feature,

and at one of their closing sessions
agreed to pay half the expenses of build-

inga Chautauqua Hall, and tendered’

the free use of the grounds and build-
ings, cared for, to Bay View Assembly,
which is hereafter to be a separate or"-'

ganization. Mr. Hall was commissioned '
to select the Advisory Board and ofli—'
cers of the Assembly for the ensuing‘

year, but thereafter they will be chosen
at an annual meeting at Bay View all
the cottage owners and Chautauqua
readers present being the electors. The
Assembly is to have an undenomina-
tional bases, the ofiicers to be selected
from the Protestant evangelical denom-
ination. It will make its own plans,
manage its own affairs and pay its own
bills. Nothing more far-reaching in
consequences nor more decisive in the
fortunes of this fair resort has ever been
planned. Bay View proudly takes her
place in the family of summer assem-
blies. She sends greetings to all chris-
tian peoples inviting them to come and
receive of the rich bounty she has to be-
stow and cooperate in the management.
The annual camp meeting which has
been held here from the beginning of
the resort will continue and reversing
tl‘.C order of this season, will in the fu-
tur-.:, precede the Assembly one week,
the latter continuing two weeks.

A far-seeing man said to me, a few
(lays ago, that he confidently predicted
in five years Bay View" would be the
largest and finest summer resort in the
West. It certainly has the beginnings
of the best of everything. I used to
think it was so far away that I could
never spend a season here out of the
savings ofa modest income. But now
Ihave discovered my error, for Bay
View is but six to eleven hours'distance
from Central and Southern Michigan,
and with half-fare tickets sold by nearly
all the railroads, the distance becomes
an inconsiderable factor. I am fully
persuaded that people of Michigan,0hio
and Indiana can go nowhere else and
obtain as cheaply and quickly so many
advantages and so much of a stimula-
ting change, for which we all take vaca-
tion, as‘at Bay View. Already one vast
railway system leads up here, and in a
few months another will have its track
to the grounds. The great Grand Rap-

ids and Indiana Railway, leaving Ciu- '

cinnati, makes a slight curve, passing
through Southern Ohio, Eastern Indi-
aria, and Western Michigan, coming
straight up to Bay View. It brings
tribute from the South, and crosses all
the great East and West lines in Michi-
gan. The Michigan Central will soon
bring the Southeast and Eastern Michi-
gan into direct communication, via. its
Mackinaw division and a connecting
line.

Any person of ' good character may
become a member ofthe association up-
on the payment of $ro. He then be-
comes a part owner of the grounds, may
select without additional cost any un-
improved lot, have a voice in the man-
agement and halt‘-fare rates for himself
and family as often as they shall desire
to go to Bay View during the season.
The high social and moral character of
the place will continue to attract an-
nually thousands who find serious ob-
jections to the average watering place
with its expensive living and dissipa-
tions. Fifty memberships have been
taken this year, about twenty-five cotta-
ges have been built, besides large pub-
lic improvements made.

C. L. S. C.

IT is said that the Order in Texas has
increased beyond anything known in 9.
single State. In difierent porti  of
the State there are over one hundred
and twenty-five co-operative stores and
in Galveston a wholesale co-operative
association which sells about four hun-
dred thousend dollars worth of goods
per annum.

-—-——-———-——10:——-—-——-¢—-—-

A vronurr form of hog cholera is rag-
ing near Hillsborough, Ill., many farm-
crs having lost all their swine. The
loss in one township will reach $r,ooo.
Various remedies have been tried, but
they have so far failed to check the pro-
gress of the malz§y.__

Kliir your beg? lambs on the farm,
no matter what the butcher may ofier
for them.

  

A splendid beginning.
has been made, the Assembly more-
than paid all its expenses, and the future 

every de- '

 


 

’ corn.

SEPTEM BER 1. 1886.

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

  

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48

Cost of Crops.

II'—as is undoubtedly \ r. 9 case in many
iustances—one farm»-r an produce corn
or wheat at from ten 0 fifty per cent.
less than his neighbor, it is easy to see
that one will prosper and the other fail
in his business. I adopted the rule
several years ago of keeping an account
with my leading crops (wheat. corn and
potatoes), and was strongly impressed
with the fact that the cost per bushel as
the yield decreased per acre increased.
There are some factors of cost that can-
not be changed materially; for example.
interest on the money invested in thv
land. seed and the ordinary operations of
plowing and planting; and these will be
about the same whether we raise ten or
thirty bushels of wheat to the acre. 01'
twenty-five or seventy~fiv8 bushels of
Now, if we take ten dollars an
acre as the smallest suui that will pay
ground rent, seed and labor, for
growing a crop of corn or wheat up to
the time of harvest, it will be seen that at
the lowest yields named the farmer must
receive one dollar a bushel for wheat
and forty cents for corn to get barely
paid for his work and investment. and
then look to the straw and cornstalks to
pay him for harvesting the crops. If —
as during the last year—the average
prices of these crops are from fifteen tn
twenty-five per cent. below what I have
named, then life becomes a struggle wi=h
debt to the farmer who produces the
minimum crops. The most carefully
prepared statistics taken by both nationai
and state authority show that the
corn crop of the United States. average.»
but little above thirty bushels par acre.
and the wheat above twelve bushels.

Concoding these figures to be nearly
accurate, and remembering that a largn
per cent. of our farmers produce on an
average from fifty to one hundred per
cent. above them. we are forced to the
conclusion that an equally large per cent-
grow crops below these averages. and
find no profit whatever in their business,
but merely subsist by practicing an
economy that is almost niggardly. Now
I believe It possible on many farms to re-
duce the cost of production of all product-
to some degrec?,and some of them so much
as onc—half, and will try to show how I
think it can bodone. The first thing I
should say to many farmers would be-.-:
Reduce the of areal and under cultivation.
Itis the besetting sin among our Weston:
farmers to cultivate too much land; 1,000
bushels of corn from twenty acres must.
of necessity cost less than the same gro wth
on thirty acres of the same farm; and tlm
farmer who can noise 500 bushels or
wheat on twenty acres will realize it

ood profit, while his neighbor who sow
groin thirty-five to fifty acres to get the
same amount will run behind. Now
these highest averages that I have named

' , are easily within reach of most farmer.»

and can be excelled by many. I do nor
say that the farmer who has been grow-
ing poor crops can at once change his
system so as to increase thempto this ex

’ tent; but I do believe there are few farms

where the average yields are now at th.»
minimum on which they could not be in»-
creased fifty per cent. in less than ten
years. One hopeful feature of this plan
of farming a smaller area and farming II.
more thoroughly is that it is one which
must improve the land, while the plan or
keeping the larger part of the farm un-
der the plow necessarily exhausts it.

I have tried. during thirty years. the
plan of keeping up the soil by buying
manure at the village. and also by the
purchase of commercial fertilizers, but
some years ago abandoned them both as
too expensive, and determined that the-
farm must be selflperpetnating to the ex
tent of producing its own fertilizers; and
I have been greatly pleased with the re-
sult. Now the system of farming which
reduces the area under cultivation enables:
one to do this in two ways: first——and the
cheapest and best-—by growing crops
which fertilize; and, second, by raising
stock to consume the straw. bay and
grain. and give a large amount of man-
ure. Under the system which I practici-
on my little farm of ninety acres, we
grow from ten to twenty acres of clover
every year. which is neither cut nor pas-
tured, but allowed to make all the growth
it will from harvest until cold weather.
and then is plowed down. It usually
makes a growth equal to that in the fol--
lowing June on fields that are pasture-d
closely in the autumn, as it is the almost
universal practice of farmers in this lo
cality , and after a careful comparison 0’
its effect upon the soil, I estimate its
fertilizing value to average about $12 per
acre. by which I mean that it is worth to
the crops as much as a dressing of man-
ure would be which would cost me
$12 if bought and drawn from the village
two miles distant. Lest this article be-
come too long. I will condense into a
sentence the means by which we are to
increase our yields. and thus reduce the
cost of production- 1. Decrease the area
under cultivation. 2. Follow a rotation
which will put. all the land in clover once
in two or three years. 3. Keep good
stock to consume the crops grown. 4
Mike the preparation of seed bed and
the cultivation of all crnns thorough.-—
Waldo F. Brown, in “N. Y. Tribune.”

Negro Minstrelsy.

The origin of negro minstrely has been
so often discussed and recurs so frequent-
ly that the writer need make no apology
in referring to some of his reminiscences
connected with the burnt-cork fraternity.
This department of theatricals dates as
far back as 1799, though the first miiistrel
company was not organized till 1843.
The earliest instance of the introduction
of negro characters on the stage occur-
red in Boston, Dec. .50, 1799. RusselI’s
Boston Gazette of that data contained an
advertisement of the entire performance,

   

as given at the Federal Street theater at ~

the time. The first piece was “Oronoko;
or, the Royal Slave.” At‘ the end of the
second act there is a song of “The Gay
Negro Bo ,” in character, and this was
given by r. Graupner, a member ‘of the
old Federal Street company. The fam-
ous pantomime of "Gil Blas” had been
introduced that Christmas week, and al-
though the house was hung with mourn-
ing at that time on account of the death
of Washington, such was the applause
given to the song of “The Negro Boy”
that he had to bring in his little bench

and sing his story over and over, again
and again.

The chord of popular sympathy had
been stmck for a lonely and enslaved
race. The next popular negro song was
called ‘The Battle of Plattsbnrg.” Dru.

‘maria history tells us that this was or-

iginally sung by an actor, vulgarly known
as ' Pig Pie Herbert,” at a theater in Al-
bany in 1815. "This song made such a
decided hit. that the enthusiasm of the
audience became uncontrollable. From
that moment it was a popular favorite.
It had a long and successful season, and
was the chief attraction at this theater
and elsewhere. There was another noted
individual ofthe day, one George Nichols,

a clown in western circuses, who became
very popular in that section of the country.
He lived after Herbert. The following
are a few of the other names represented
among the pioneers of the burnt-cork
comedians and vocalists. Robert Furrell,
who, it is said, was the original "Zip
Coon;" Sam Tatnall. who sang a song
called “The Back Side of Albany," in
1823; Barney Burns, in songs called "My
Long Tail Blue” and "Such a Getting
UpsI;aixS;" Bill Keller, Enam Dickson,
Tom Bl Ickle-iy, Leicester, John Smith.
George Washington Dixon. etc. In those
days negro acts were occasionally per-
ioruied on horseback in circuses, as well
as on the stage. In this way, between
unbounded admiration on the part of man

agers, this kind of performance struggled
along here and there until the late '1‘. D.
Rico, the aokuo vrl@ed father and found-
or of the Ethiopian comedy, came to the
front. He at once tilled the bill and the
theaters. too, wherever he appeared, and
sustained his success for thirty years after-
ward. A brief sketch of this renowned
negro comedian may not beuninterest-
ing: T. D. Rice was born in the city of
New York May 20. 1808. At an early
age he learned the trade of a carver,
joined a dramatic association, and went
to Kentucky under the management of
N. M. Lndlow, a well-known western
actor and manager. While a member of
this company he displayed considerable
talent as an imitator of the negroes
in their peculiarities and cccentricitics,
and was at length announced to make
his first appearance in a negro’ character
in the city of Louisville. Prior to this

however. he had played both in New
York and in the west many low comedy
parts with success, but not until he com-
menced his negro singing and burlesq-‘e
operatic performances was he considered
of sulficient note to render his name at-
tractive. In the fall of the year 1832 be
made his Ethiopian debut. at the Old
Bowery theater, New York. in the char-
acter of "Jim Crow." This character,
both on accountof Its novelty and the
excellence of its representation, attained
a popularity unequaled by anything of
the kind before or since. Rico during
that season is said to have brought more
money into the Bowery treasury than any
other American performer during the
same period of time. After a most suc-
cessful career in New York, Boston, Phil-
adelphia, and other cities, he visited
England in 1836 and performed with
great applause at the Sorry (London), as
also in Dublin and Cork, creating a furor
unprecedented even in the annals of
the British stage, and almost literally
driving for a time from the boards such
favorites as Macrcady, the Woods and
other distinguished performers. While
in England he married a Miss Gladstone,

. the eldest daughter of a former manager

0! the Surrey theater. He soon after re-
turned to his native country, appearing
at Wallack’a National theater, corner of
Church and Leonard streets, New York.
Oct. 17. 1837, in his specialty, the "V=.r-
ginia Mummy.” For many ears sub
sequently Mr. Rice was eager y sought
aher by the managers, and played as a
"star" in nearly every theatre in the
union. His popularity, however, waned
in his later days, though he appearsd,elici-*-
ing much applause, as’ late as 1854.
Stricken finally with paralysis, his dearh
occured after a season of prolo ed suf-
feriug, in the city of his birth, pt. 19.
1860, at the age of 52.

Mr. Aifreu Bunn, in his “Stage, Both
Before and Behind the Curtain.” publish-
ed in 1840, referring to Mr. Rice. says:

' “His succcz-s has been obtained by hi.

prudent adhesion to the personation of
one class chariic:er—a path, be it re
mem bored. altogether untrodden. He has
chosen for his InIl‘t~l/3 ‘It is better to br-
great in in a little thing than little in a
great thing,‘ and he has triumphantly
acted up to the axiom."

The first organzed band of negro min-
strels made their appearance at the
Chatham theater, New York city, Feb.
I7. 1843 -—Charles T. White in The New
York World.

THECONDUCTOR sJaw DBOPPED -~ 0 e
of those smart Alexanders who travel i-n

 

‘cheek and the inability of the public to

change $20 bills for a glass of soda or
tour tobies got on a Penn avenue car the
other day and tendered the aforesaid $20
for his fare. Of course the 00Il(Il1(:I.iI
could not change it. and so he got his-
ride free. This was repeated until the
conductor got tired of it, and after the
fourth or fifth time of its repetition he de
termined to get even with the fellow. B_t,
visiting the toll-houses and by other
means unknown, the manipulator of th-
bell-punch managed to scrape up $19 95
in pennies.

Placing these in a little bucket he qilir-‘ -
ly awaited the appearance of IJIS victim.
having posted the driver and some u-rh-.~
intimate friends who happened to be on
board. When the unsuspecting y« u v;
man with the plethoric pocket book pu.
in an appearance and promptly produced
the "20" with many apologies the con
ductor pocketed the bid and produced his
little bucket, and amid the grins of the
spectators presented it to his customer.
The young man looked pretty cheap. and
after feeling the hen: of the bucket,
thoughtfully got off the car and disap-
peared around a corner.fi'l'hen the con-
ductor took the bill from his pocket and
proceeded to fold it up nicely, so that it.
would fit into a convenient corner of his
pocket-book. Something in the appear-
ance of the bill caught his eye, and. as he
cxamined it a little closer. his jaw drop-
ped about a foot. The bill was of the
genus denominated by the sporting fra-
ternity as “queer.” The young man had
313.. been layiu-.2 for the condnctor.— Pitts
burgh Commercial Gazette.

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

Standard t:ime—-9otl'i meridian.
GOING SOUTH.

  
  

' ' ‘ N . .
 ExY&&§{“' 3’ F‘
Lv Grand Rapids . . . . . . . . . . . - 7.45 A5! 5 no PME 3 OOAM
Ar Allcgan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. goo " 6 to " l 907 "
Ar Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. to o5 " 7 IO “ 'i2o5 PM
Ar Schoolcraft. . . . . . in 43 “ 7 4,4 ‘ 2 oo "
Ar Three Rivcrs.. .. n u " 8 I2 “ 2 55 “
Ar White Pigeon. .. xi 4o " 8 4o 4 3o "
Ar Toledo . . . . . . .. . . 5 to PM 2 30 AM 6 3o Al
A1 (_'lcvel:iud.....  940 “ 325 “ . . . . . . ..
Ar Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 30 Au 2 45 PM . . . . . . . .
GOING NORTH.
Lv Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. u 55 AM it 55 AM . . . . . . ..
Ar Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . 6 40 PM 6 3o " . . . . . . .
Ar Toledo . . . . . . .. .. :1 i5 " io go " 8 30 PM
Ar White Pigeon. .. 5 20 AM 3 25 PM 8 15AM
Ar Three Riveis.. . 5 5o " 3 53 " 9 45 "
Ar Schoolcmft.  . . 6 so “ 4 23 xx 45 "
Ar Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 65¢ " 5oo " i 35 PM
Ar Allegan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 55 " 6 io " 3 c5 "
Grand Rapids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9 07 " 7 25 " 6 58 -'
All trains connect at White Pigeon with trains on main
line. M. E. WATFLBS.

Supt. Kalamazoo Division. Kalamazoo.

Detroit, Mackinaw 8:. Marquette II. B.
“The Mackinaw Short Linc.”

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

     

WEST. TIME TABLE. EAST.
mun nowu. Taking Effect Dec.23,‘85. ns.u> or.
605 p. in. Lv.......I)etroit . . . . .  io 45a.m.
6 50 a. in. . .St. Ignace. . 8 30 p. m
8 52 " Ncwhcrry 6 21 "
8 59 " . Dollarville . 6 x4 “
9 40 " . .Sciiey 5 x5 “
n 00 1 m. .. . Munisiug .. 3 58 “
xi 3: " . . . . . . . ..Au Train . . . . . . . . . 3 25 “

i2 40 " . . . . . . ...Marquctte . . . . . . . . 2 i5 "

x 4:; “ . . . . . . . .Neg:un_e:- . . . . . . . . 2 on p. u:

1 55 “ . . . . . . . . Isbpcming . . . . . . . . 12 58 "

5 30 " . . . . . . . . Houghlon . . . . . . . . 9 no "
635 " Ar......Calumct.......Lv. 8 i5 “

Express Trains daily the year round make clone connec-
tions with trains from Canada and the East. to all Lake
Superior points.

Night express with sleeper leaves St. Ignace ro:3o P. IL.
arrives at Marqueuc 7 A. H. vcs Marquette 9:3p P. 11..
arrives at St, Ignace 6 A. M.

A. VVATSON,
G¢n‘l Superintendent
Marquette, Mich.

E. W. ALLEN,
Gcu’I Pass. and Ticket Aft,
Marquette, Mich.

MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD.

DHAITURI OF TRAINS PEOU KALAHAZOO.
TIME-'1‘ABLE—NAY .3. .33.,

 

  

 
   

Standard ti ,at.h meridian.
WESTWARD.
If. P. If
Kalamazoo Accominoda ion leaves. . . . 4 45 . . . . . .

Kalamazoo Express arrives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 go

Evcuinglixprtss . . . . . . . . . . .. 

Pacific Express . . . . . . . . . . . .. sn7.....

Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. n 38.....

Day Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i 45
RASTWARD
B1. 1’. H
Night Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3i7.....

Kalamazoo Accommodation leans” 6 45 . . . . . .

Kalamazoo Express arrives . . . . . . . . . . . .. in on

 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a . . . . . . - . . . . . . X3 03

Day Kxprcm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 4n

New York Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 I0

Atlantic Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. i on . .

New York. Atlantic and Pacific Kxpreses daily. Even-
ing Express west and Night Express as: daily cxce 1 Sai-
urdmys. All other trains daily nice: I Sundays. Ereighi
trains carrying paslciige . out from alamazoo as follows:
No. :9 (ens? at 5:io P. M. and No. In (wst) at Sun, bring
passengers i-cm cast at 12:45. r. at.

H. B. Lunvlum. Gan. Manager. Detroit.
J. A. Gluil. General Freight A cut. Chi o.
0. W. Ruaaus G. Phi. 1‘. A.. C iago.

THE LINE SELECTED IV THE U. 8. 0OV’T
TO CARRY THE PAST AIL.

    

 

 

It Is the only line with Its own track from
CH ICACO TO DENVER,
Either by way of Omaha, Paclfic lunc., St. Joseph,
Atchlson or Kansas City.
If connects In Union Depots with Ihrou htralns tram
NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, OSTON
and all Eastern points. It is the principal line to
SAI FRAKGISGU, PIIIWLAIII 8. CITY 0F HEXIGU

Ii traverses all of the six , reat Slates of ILLINOI
IOWA. MISSOURI, NE8RAS&A, KANSAS. COLORADO
pith lg:-ancli lines to all their important cities and

own .

From CHICAGO, PEORIA or ST. LOUIS. It runs
every day in the year from one to three elegantly
equipped through trains over its own tracks between
Chicago and Denver,

Chicago and Omaha,
Chicago and Council Bluffs,
Chicago and St. Joseph,
Chicago and Atchison,
Chicago and Kansas City,
Chicago and Topeka,
Chicago and Cedar Ra Ids,
Chicago and Sioux ity,
Peoria and Councll Bluffs,
Peoria and Kansas city,
St. Louis and Omaha,
St. Louls and St. Paul,
Kansas Cit and Denver
Kansas Ity and St. Flaul,
Kansas city and Omaha,
For all points In Northwest. West and Southwest.

Its equipment ls complete and first class In every
particular, and at all important points Interlocking
Switches and Signals are used. thus Insuring com-
fort and safety.

For Tickets. Rates, General Information, etc..
regarding the Burlington Ilouie, call on any Ticket
Agent. in the United States or Canada, or address
T. J. POTTER 1sr V.P. &. Gen. Mcs., CHICAGO.

HENRY B. STONE, Assr. GEN. McR., CHICAGO.
PERCEVA3 LOWELL, GEN. Piles. Ania. Cmcaco.

Ihseptslieoi
FIRE PROOF

GIITTA-PERCHA ROOFING

For flat or steep roofs. Cheap, durable and
easily applied. FIRE PROOF PAINT. Send
for prices.
EMPIRE PAINT & ROOFING CO.,
i128 and i130 Race Street,

Mention this paper. Philadelphia, Pa.
isaprizt '

I€«EIL\£O'V7'.£LZl'_. I

I have moved my place of business to

115 RANDOLPH STREET,

corner of Congress Street, near the Market. The
location is the best in the city for sale of Fruits
and Produce. I keep a full stock of SEEDS of
all kinds, and will fill orders for merchandise of
every description as usual; also solicit consign-
ments of such produce as fanners have to dis-

pose of- ‘GEO. W. HILL,
DETROIT, MICH

ERMAN CARP. Orders fi1le.I promptly, and
satisfaction guaranteed; address,
SILL & Rnnvs, Dexter, Mich.

-’—'l'EE—-

Palr0ns’llraceiyHouse.

Under Con tract with the Executive Committees of the
Pennsylvania and N cw York State Granges and recognized by
the State Grangcs of Ohio, New Jersey and Delaware to fur-
nish Granges with all kinds of Groceries. We carry a. large and complete
stock of all Groceries, Sugars, Syrups, Molasses, Coffees, Teas, Spices, etc. We
fill all orders from Patrons when the order is under Seal 01'
Grange and signed by the Master and Secretary of the Grange, and
upon receipt of goods and found satisfactory payment to be made within 30
days from date of bills. We are now filling Orders from Patrons
in Michigan as the through rates from Philadelphia are very reasonable, as
the railroads are cutting through rates. A trial order from Granges in Michi-
gan will convince them that they can Purchase Groceries to advan-
tage in Philadelphia.. If you desire Information in regard to
prices on any goods in our line of business or freight rates do not hesitate to
Write us, as we endeavor to answer all inquiries promptly and satisfactori-
ly. We will mail free upon request our Complete Price List of Groceries,
giving the wholesale prices of all Goods in the Grocery Line.

THORNTON BARNES,

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

 

marxsyr

Philadelphia. Penn.

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aylq Quins.

We Issue the Buyers’ Guide in March and so iiibsr If
each year. It Is now a book of 304 pages. Bixl Inolios II
size, 28,576 square inches of Infomiatioii fortlio unulurn.
It describes, illustrates and qivss the rice of nearly all tbs
necessaries and luxuries in daily use y all classes of no-

le, and is sent tree to any address upon receipt of II outs
pa the cost of carriage. We charge nothing for tliu book.

I of the goods quoted in the Guide we carry h stock,
which enables us to make shipments proiqptlyanl as oi-and.

We are the original Grange Suppl cuss organized II
I872 to su ply the consumer direct a wholesale prices, In
quantities o sult the purchaser. We are the only house In
existence who make this their exclusive business, and In
other house in the world carries as great it variety of coils
as ourselves. Visitors are Invited to call and vsrlgr our
statement.

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

MONTGOMERY WARD & 00.,
227 &. 229 Wabash Ave., (lieu llipoiitionlluilllilg) ciiicAao. ILL

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CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY TIME TABLE,
JUNE 26, 1886-

TRAINS WBS‘l'WARD<-GNTRAL IIBRIDIAN TIME.

No. 18, No. 4 |No. 6.
Express Exprss.| Expres.

TRAINS aAsrwAu>—rnAi.u
No. i.
I u

ANTIMI-

 

Nn. 3
all. Express. Express.

   
  

Battle Creek, Ar . . . . . .. . .
" Lv..  85c XI 05 ii 25 "

  

Yicksburg . . - 9 45 I2 45 " I 2 2i " " 9 no " 2 35 "
bchoolcraft. . 9 55 in 55 " I 2 32 " ' 9 43 " 3 35 -
Marcellus.. . . IO 20 x i6 “ '*' . . . . . . . .. " 10 :4 " 4 oo 1

Cassopolis . . . . . .. . ... to 50 x 42 " 3 19 " “ xx 08 “ 5 03 “

South Bend. . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4,0 2 28 " 4 07 " “ ii 37 “ 5 40 "

Valparaiso . . . . . . . . . . . . . i * 4 co " I 5 52 " “ X2 07 A. M. 6 15 “

Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 c5 P. M. 6 3o " I 8 io “ “ i " 7 35 "

Way Freight carrying passengers going East, 3.30 P. M.; going west. 143.05 A. K.

*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 Smtss.

For through rates and time apply to G. M. “WATSON. Local Agent. Schoolcraft; W. E. DAVIS, Assistant Gen.’

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

GROCERIES!

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

‘VVho1esa1e___C3)§_c:_gery House
ARTHUR means to co.

Etave Opened. a.

Mammoth Retail Department,

and are selling all goods at much [1(DWER PIIICES than any other dealers.
SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS will be given large purchasers. OUR
STOCK IS LARGE, and embraces everything in the
line of Groceries and Provisions. When
in town don’t fail to call on us.

.A.IEQ.'I'IEEE'U'IE?. ]_\£EZEIC3-S&5CCD-

Retail 2Depa.rtnn.e:n.1:,

7'7 and '79 south. Division St:i:eet-,
GRAND RAPIDS, Mien.

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dec85yi

BUSINESS AGENT MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.

THOMAS MASON,

General Commission Merchant
161 South Water St., Chicago,

Respectfully Solicits Consignments of

l‘iill:,Iegalillii,lillii,Iggi,lrii: lIll,llIIllII,IlllI,llllI,lI.lllII,llI.

BONDED AGENT of the N. Y. Produce Exchange Association,
Chartered Feb. 13, 1878.

All Orders Receive Proper Attention.

 

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8 ' p THE GRANGE VISITOR.

'_L
Papers read at the Farmers
Union Picnic in A lgansee.

   
 

SEPTEMBER 1, 1886.

gree of perfection which the human eye
hath not seen nor ear heard; neither hath
it entered into the heart of man to con-
ceive. Let us, therefore. in the feeble
comprehension which we have of our
high destiny and our relation to the in-
finite, lift up our heads in'confidence and
gladly pursue the work that is before us
ascolaborers with God, fully realizing
that while we live and have our being in
Him, we are essential to Him, and that ;'

PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.

[Corrected by Thornton Barnes. Wholesale Grocer
and mangle. elling Agent, No. 231 North Water St.,
Philadelp la. Pa]

314 Try One, $14lThe Leading Music House.

A better Harness than you can buy In Western Michigan‘

lllil llllflrllllll illllii,"“"§.'3.‘..‘,‘. ..B..§.°5" /

1 , .
Full Nickel, or Davis Rubber Trimming,  <3-ran Rap 7 as 3‘

om: TIMES.

We must regard the age in which we
live as the most remarkable in the history
of the world. The best and keenest scru-
tinizers of the times are completely non-
plussed as to a proper name to apply; so
rapid and startling are the changes that
there is no longer any fixed science in the

PHILADELPHIA, August 21, 1886.

PURE SUGARS.
Cut Loaf per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .614
Plllverize per ib.. . . . . . . . . .. 6-'7
smnrlard Granulated per m '
Standard A Wnite per ill.. .
Best White Soft A per .'..

Hood White Soft A per iii .

Extra C White per . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 
 
   

Standard 8

 

methods and form of art. We scarcely
wait for one invention to cool before it is
tossed into the great crucible in which
all things are tested, when suddenly new
and more beautiful shapes and radiant

without the co-operation of all things the

Standing thus, let us put forth all our en-
ergies to scale loftier heights and reach

Extra (7 Yellow Bright per ib..
sublime oratorio of creation could not 0

give forth the perfection of its music. §'°w"

Sugar drips pure sugar per gallon. .. .

   
 

Yellow per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ew Orleans Extra Light per i

SYRUP AND MOLASSES-—In Barrels.

22

  

x, 7‘.

 

Best Oak Stock, for $14.

FOR 30 DAYS E 

  

colors are developed. The solid ores and {Egg §vr5:“€h:;n;ilms"l:li]';fJlflintiglsfiissélggsif ggllggrgllllpis $5322“ ripiiepiifizlilltdn '.  I will fill all orders received under seal  Weber Pianos’ _
heat-resisting gems are found by our new P Extra golden pure sugar per gallon ...... .3-2 Knabe Pianos,

blasts soluble as wax. Well may the
miser tremble for his coins lest by some
rare device they are proved to be coun-
terfeit or are converted into vapor and
spirited away. Think and move—there
is no other motto. We are measured by
what we undertake, not what we accom-

ing others we bless ourselves.
Mas I. BAILEY.

THOUGHT.

Pitiable and lamentable indeed thought 5
would be a life governed by feeling un-

aided by thought. Truly, thought should F

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

lnroanxr —The above quotations are for syrup

in whole barrels only. All syrup in half barrels4
cents per gallon extra and no charge for pack

. In
and 10 gallon packages 5 cents per gallon adlifiidon

al and the cost or package

COFFEES——GREEN AND ROASTED.
ancy Rio per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

 

of the Grange, -ind may be returned if
not satisfactory. »

A. VANDENBERG,

GRAND Ramos, Mich.

J, Fischer Pianos,

i ‘ Peek Pianos.

;‘Chase Organs,

Smith American Organs,

Taylor and Farley Organs,

Valley City Organs.

oct 13, yrl

plish. Motives are greater things than be the Siamese twin sister of all the priu- 9,39,, 310 exm choice per in ............ ..l1 4* 111,; _
results. To determine upon attainments ciples of nature wuich make or break Green Rloprime perm ------------------- --105'«.@1l    . A LARGE S10CK OF
om. Hve5_ Green Rio good per lb . . . . . . . .. 9 Sheet Nlusic,

is frequently attainment itself. Thus car-

It may be, probably is true, G

reen Rio common per lb 

 

nest resolution has often seemed to savor that in cases of great emergency, where Green Maracaibo clllhoice perm FURNISHING Music Books, and
of Omuipotence. If we wait to dellber- action must he instant, that we are . E-;-gélfilgclé  fl: |.‘UNE]gAL DlRECT0R. 1 Musical M em ha“ diSc_

are we miss the opportunity." Every

and color are swept unregretted away in-
to the oblivious tide. How softened the
once haughty tone that made common
men tremble. Will you please? takes the
place of Go and do! The peril that
stalked up dark and grim before unwill-
ing obedience has dwindled to a sand hill
over which little boys fly kites and chase
butterflies. No intellect so dim but
lights up ever and anon with a conscious-
ncss that he has more than a tread mill
‘existence in this world’s moving tableau.
He can not live and walk with wise men,
among flowers as it were, continually
without perceiving his own worth and
beauty. In times past wise conferences
were held aloof from diggers and delv-
ers. The images of grace and beauty,
whether of art or nature, were carefully
walled in from vulgar eyes. Now the
garden plot is wider spread and the
gates are open. The aromatic odors
climb up in their airy way and
pervade the common atmosphere. The
roll of the curtain requires too many
hands and eyes to keep the secret of good
things enough for all any longer pent up.
Even those that were termed servants,
slaves, clowns and clodhoppers bear the
real or honorary titles of men. Sad
change to those that wish it different, but
great joy to the freed millions that were
bowed down, who made little or no com-
plaint. We have the elements now at our
will, the wind or sea cannot stay as; the
mountains melt and whirl at our com-
mand; our feet are planted in high places;
our hands are springs of steel; our breath

governed by instinct, but what after all

Roasted Rio best per in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .’.-:

  

 
 

    
 
 
  
  

 

     

  

He have raised to life? How many deaf
and dumb and blind and lame and sick
and sorrowful would lie have healed and
comforted? he whose heart is most
alive to God, will have eyes and ears and
heart and hand mos’. open to mankind.
Both by precept and example we are
taught to be thoughtful and loving to all.
It is a factl believe that “more evil is_
wrought by want of thought, than by
want of heart.—” In our hurry and
worry of life we catch at one idea—a good
one—and attempt to live upon it. Bread
is the staff of life, but let us live upon
bread alone for a year even. and our re-
ward will be the scurvy. Thought is the
antidote for such mistakes. The student
at school who never has thoughts of his
own, may learn and repeat the rules par-
rot like, but will never know how to ap-
ply them, and will be like him referred
to in the Arabic proverb. "He who
knows not, and knows not that he knows p
not, is a fool; shun him." ’l‘o study add
thought, and then he may be like him
“whoknows, and knows that he knows.”
“I didn’t think” is a child's excuse. Let
it not be ours. What has led to discoveries
both terrestrial and celestial but thought?
What has made this earth to yield her
fruits which we see around us today but
thought put in action. In order to think
we must have something to think about.
and we have only to search out after it to
have it. How many here can tell just
where and how and when each article of
food upon their tables every day. was

For Dyspepsia
Mental and Physical Bxllallsiloll,

llflllfllllllflll, Wflfllflllfll lillfllfil,
Indigestion, Etc.

HOBSFORD’S

ACID PHOSPHATE

A liquid preparation of the phos-

hates and phosphoric acid.
Recommended by physicians.
It makes a delicious drink.
Invigorating and strengthening.
Pamphlet free.

For sale by all dealers.

Rumford chemical Works, Providence,

R. I.

I hone and_Sally Walker families. Stock of both

By attending ,sexes' for sale. Terms easy, prices low. Cor-

O PARSONS
/ —

College, Kalarnazao, Illicit.
Fall term opens Sept. Send for Journal.

I respondence solicited.

;1=A'ri::N'rs.

K: LUCIUS C. WEST, Solicitor of American and
‘ Foreign Patents, and Counsellor in Patent Causes,
Trade marks, Copyrights, Assignments, Caveats,
Mechanical and Patent Drawings. Circulars
free. [05 E. Main Street, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Branch office, Lolidon, Eng. Notary Public.
apritf
. ‘  Offers, 2oo picture bulletin, 48 column
OI‘ PENMANSHIP AND INTEREST RULES story paper, all for 4:: postage.

And tables for 6, 7’ and 10 Per cent.’ only 25c_ Augr5t6 NATIONAL BAZAR, 7 \V. Broadway, N. Y.

New liook of Fancy Work with ion il-
lilstrntions, 15:: new stitches, 10 Special

 

ReductioninPrice of Paint

THE PATRON S’ 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 IO GALLON ORDERS FREIGHT PAID TO YOUR DE-
POT. WE SEND YOU AN‘ELEGANT PICTURE OF SOME OF THE LEAD-
ING MEN OF THE ORDER. A pamphlet, “Everyone their own Painter,” sam-
ple of colors, references of many thousand Patrons, etc., free upon application.

Masters and Secretaries, please name your title in writing.
Jan 1 t12 PATRONS’ PAINT WORKS, 154 Fulton St., NewfYork-

:
man's life lies within the present. Time is that but instant thought? The Roasieg Ilpo  perg .................. ..i:; NO. 103 Ottawa Sti-eet _  ,
past is spent and done with only as we weightier problems of life often require figggd Lgguagrageegt 5:; Grand Rapids, - - M10h_ .
turn -and view the pictures we have hung protracted thought; were we to decideln- Roasted beitiper ib....:....fi).. _ @2i Residence, 193 Jefferson Ave. Tex-xns Easy,
about the walls of our hearts; the future stantly, as in cases of emergency, we 331193 911 °Y°8fF§i :11 D 1yNovi6 g i G '
is uncertain. We sleep and wake scarce- doubtless would often make sad mistakes. Imperial per in ...........  M25 35’ 40’ 45 50 V . at sfaction uaranteed.
ly knowing whether the stavréy heatielps God uevelr does f;(1)l' I1S.lWIlzii:i Sp OED dz (Y)0l11ng'Hys0IY]A1perIb ............  :3, -lo, 50: 55 GREEl\VVO0D sin lsept \
have not shifted attitude. is are i e for curse ves, an wes on as ame oong per ------------------- --35. . 35. 40. 50
rapid travelers and our lives are made up to_ ask it. If our hearts_are in harmony §‘},",f‘,§‘o£’,°,,1':,b',,',,',: ‘n‘,__ _,_'j_','f_'jjj§3_’ E3; 23; 3; 22 S T O C K P A R M   S
of incidents as various as though we were with our creator and His laws, then will _ Foam .' DRIED FRUITS. Poland china swine a Special‘ ’ ’ 
on swift revolving wheels. Not puly _our our thoughts be In tune ‘also, and lead in “Wins. Ig)€l-‘vjvlpll/Il:1Ss(3c’;1t2=«1llf.1>er,,box.-IZr:----:92 30 Y- } .
domestic utensils, but our grain mills, due time to safe conclusions._ Those who -- London layers: -~  .. 2 75 Breeders Stock rscorded iinoluo P. 9. Record. Corres-y If you contemplate shipping I offer
plows, and all the thousand and one are actuated by impulse, acting upon the jj §¢<;pé1Ip(§8ll;yé<i_r1sfi%b0xes -------- -- 1b?‘0@ 8;’ "°" mm 3", '"spcm°"‘"V'"d‘ W0 fumlsh bags and Storage fl‘-‘C Of
Patgntt regisgered at'IVZY155h"ig_%ton Cg“!-nge first iancyi phfilenters I.I.l:‘lI‘ head‘-ii. 1:193 ~ seedless. mai.s.l'>i).i1i.1ierni.a "" " 4 L B'P("‘ BUlE{LL3 ‘Charge. and if 110t 501d in '30 da}'5 from
wit t e as ions. e splri s o aw, correspon o e servan _we rea o in :: ongaru, nor, 28lb.... ITTLE RAIRIE ONDE recei t of same W-H -f t d _
logic. Phl1°5°PhY and ‘'e“gl°“v 51! Sm“ ‘"9 89°‘! b_°°k= who was gwen one talent Prunes, French boxes. liieiihi giflééio Cass C0 Mi(;h  vanctle) one-half its i:s’tirilatr:dl1ire:1Sluee \’.vi2ilCi-
their phases suddenly and mechanically. and hid it in the earth. Extreme thought u new Tux-key_perlb .......... .. .. 33/,@ 4t/,_ " ' iout interest on the a I '11 ll t
We have passed the time when we can upon one subject alone does not make Curi-ants.new. pervlb -------------------- .. 6%@ 7 -b d 5 me._ wl se -0
stop to count our tracks in the sand. On the most useful man. The bird_that sings Bl k P r l_gH0LE SPICES. - est 3 Vantagfh and Fem“ _ba_13I1C€ due
our broad republican soil we are all the sweetest is not the one which has no wfifte °p.?° "en '_jj """"""" ‘fjjj German Harse and Cow when 5°ld- R349 of Commlsslon “Oi *0 //
kings. Man goes to his coronation care or thought bestowed upon it, but Ginger ‘- exceed five per cent., and less in pro-
whether he will or not. He puts his sweet sounds. It would starve to death gigpgnon ‘  I portion to quantity of shipment. Mar-
crown on his head or under his feetashe on music alone. God not man never Allspice k t uotati l b f -
honors or dishouors his manhood So- made a clock with but one wheel, and Mace -‘ T -ehqd onspon W00’. Cans’ etc" Ur
. . . . ' . . u h" . ' ;- ~,
clally we may all be divided into two when man attempts to pick to pieces “megs FUR ' ' is 13‘ lzlpoiigiefir l-})la§tI1]C)e?zl.l'ljl|‘lIlerl:(:)f1'nI§l;l);l)ic_?rs .1‘ ms e on app maEIl.(i_rI" S .
l kd wn on others God’s machiner and ut it to ether EGRMTD SHOES’ g y ' Y . ‘ 1°’ """a’ O ' MASON:

9135593» the men 5'13‘ 0° 0 Y P g and the Patrons of that State have purchased B ' I ' h
and those that look down on themselves. with but one wheel, he will be like Sam Plgre l;<=?pper.l(v:1ack.i>er11*--1-b--- - 3 over ioo,ooo pounds through their purchasing usmess Agt Mic . State Grange.
Either class find life full of lessons. The Jones who, when he had put together .. c,,’,“,f,‘,‘,’,’,o,;"y°‘,3‘,‘,§’j_‘_"_3T___" ; 17 agents. Its composition is oursecret, The red.
simplest is generallyhthe hardestlfto re- the clock] he had take: apart, lipid enpugirh ;- gilgvlees pgrg ........... .. . pg pe gs ogl every box and 5-pound package. 1: is
member one of whic is one s so -satis- wheels efi; to ma, e anon er coc ,  8 F 1' ---------------------- -- ma e y Dr. Oberholtzer‘s Sons& Co Phoenix-
faction is an uutaxed kind of plrplperty Thought should be the balance wheel of Amwe ‘(’,e,:§’é',,,‘,'S',' ;s'I’,‘,,,i)'1','I'l,“,é“" 15 yillg, Pzfi It helplséo digest anil assifiipaiefthg I G-
which is very unpleasant to ‘fin epre- life. Too many men and women are ex- 331 soda, 1121:, ken pew, __________  1% °°_ - _°FS?S -W1 0 m9re Wjor wit ess 00 F
ciated. The hardest rock is made of the ti-enlists, and forget there is always a Flour sulphur. per 1h ......... --  5 Wh‘.1°“5‘“g ‘L (.5‘.’‘‘‘5 “H 3”“ ‘"0"’ milk and 

, softest mud. One can bll%f00l‘nl:[eOIo8:l and grand mean between the two lextremes. m'°.'3"b 5°'i."'1°3“°' ‘ggigfé  §’::d“;nl::;’s'e:°3“:‘12;’;ucfioljleigselgzgltrlxfsagtg and ,,,,w,,a,:j'25;,’;",;:;:'e“:}

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who thinks every man a rogue is very educate. We sometimes meet people " Dm'ye&’s.,l>erlb ------------ -- * 8oWoodbrid e St., ‘D t ‘t; THOS. MKSON’
certain to see one when he views himself. who seem to forget everything but their S"“’°1l.-lumi" g;*,{,¥;;;,*.gv 4° .1.‘ "°.‘.“"“"’°}'."’ "’ 181 Water  Chicaegdfn Ill._: and AI:BERi‘ I: B h I”
We can not be too careful about shorteu- outer arments, starvin the soul and corn starch. new process ....  ........ .. 51,4 STEGEMAN, Alle an. Put u l in 6o-lb. boxes “mo mi "3 & 0 l d8

/ ing e eaui vi 5 inc lug e sumac or co es. _, v ,, v -------------- -- -_4 oose. rice IGHT ENTS per ., 30-‘).
' th b t'ful e'l of mist covering t’ h'g th t hg f 1 th SW0“ n°WP|'0ce8l‘ 101119 ‘W (1 ) P ' E g C } lb ll ’
manhood or about too hastily drawing it Others care but little about their apparel -- .- ffi {,’3§§§j_'jj_'j;_'j;j f;% boxes of 6 5-1|» packages. TEN CENTS P=r1b-   
away. The longer the morning dew re- if they can only eat of picnic dinners the Grain Jams. 2§>ushels ............... ..  24 V
mains hanging in the blossoms of flow- year around. A few forget body and 8,°,'3,;f,‘,§,'3,“é;,S,;,fe‘;l;s1,§§,;s,;_--,,,;--1-gr-,,,  §‘7’'/§@38 117 l"0d0l'8l 91-. 309001!-

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$52....Z.?t.’.§°....;‘;.I.§...°..1l.....$V§§2'é‘é‘$’y“°§‘n§‘fg§”‘23”.2i."°i?:.‘?;.":..{?‘°i§ ,‘l:*::.=;*,.e.‘£‘?*’«§3°-‘--.-."-‘1k.f.‘?%*..'?t>.‘rt*.‘~:'.M... YOUNG E Cons-onmentssollclted. and cash .\
now. When our wants are rapidly mul- either class commendable? I have heard ‘.‘i'.’.‘..°," ed .I.’(.).'i‘.l?.r..l.xi _ M N Advances Made-

 tiplying and we are all becoming meas- good men pray—Lord close my ears and Bflfgegpggrfggt Baking Powder inl 18 tins _

sf nrsbly equal, there must_be kindnes, eyes to all but Thee. No doubt they RCe.ngw-égéa-fiBé&.fié&a;.éé}.$. .425 —-——WILL SAX/E——— A D. DsGAiuio_, Highland Station, Oak-

 trnst and faith or nobody will be proper- meant ri ht, but an ose our Savior had R-ice. “ good,.perlb ..... .. it - land. C0-. Mich. Farm one half mile

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ly served 01 well treated. In this strange prayed thus and Hig prgyef had bgen 0omB N p:1i'ime,perlis..... ..‘   _, ynorth of the station, breeder of Shorthoms of
transition the unjust distinctions of caste answered! {How many ‘dead would -- SN: 4,’P°'-- °zIjIIjf,jjjjjjjj5;§,=°, lP°’“°““’ Y°‘"‘g PhY“‘5’ whim R95“ Be“ M3‘

cultivated and raised? How manv ever
thought whether Pine apples grow. upon
pine trees, or like a cabbage plant in the
ground? Shall we not be held respon-
sible, if at the end of life we are a.sl~:i;d, if
we cared for our brothers around us and
in foreign lands who were in need. if we

is steam; our brain lightning. If we fail I?-B°W‘“'° of In“tati°n5- .l\11Y15Y1

to make the elements servants as they
have made us slaves. it will not be from
want of guiding reins and whips and
spurs. In the grand economy of nature
there is a supply for every need, and no
want of either. The hand, head or heart helpgd support the cause of terzlperiince,
should go unsatisfied; to properly utilize and many other good works. and W9 re-
the world’s products challenges the best ply’ we did not know “bout -hose
efforts of the human race. The strong things or think about them. May
man will not be put on a low diet; not we not be asked, where were your pupars
will any man have his sphere of thought and books that laid an ar .1-§_d you un-
circumscribed by high walls; he will give read, that would have fold you about it

aIi'6'nl'z‘: MONUIIENTS B S'l'ATllAllY I

An Practically
Indestructible.

BUPEWOB in Ivory Respect
to .l3l'blO or Granite.

AwAno.=_o GDTD MEDAL .
AT WORLD’s FAIR, New
ORLEANS, 1884-5.

‘ 50 Hidden Name, etc. ."e.rf'nIned Cardin! Prize
10¢. OLINTIIN BROS. Cllnbonvlllo, 003;.

   

 

For Sale or Exchan e.

‘A farm_ of 160 acres, five miles from H ward
City, Mlch., twclity—five acres cleared and
fenced; plenty of buildings in fair condition;
soil clay and gravelly loam with clay subsoil;

_y_“.. I R.

    

his ideas Scope even if his inventions an? Perhaps one thing alone required l\q“2’i(:le.red by fine springs and by Little Muskegon UVOI‘ 25,000 EPOGIOI
move from the patent oflice at Washmg- but a moment’s thought—-when God Also, adjoining the above, two 80 acre tracts F" °"‘¢"' "'4 °"=-I-H .
103150 the W00dP11e§-but What he 10338 commands-—think I Will. of good unimproved land which will be sold 545""

the world with its hands full of chisels,
screws and hammers must inevitably gain.
The age is practical notwithstanding it
changes colors like a prism. It consults
the interest of man, or rather man con-
sulting himself,looks after his owninterest.
What is to be the climax in the fast mov-
ing and ascending scale puzzles keener
eyes than those that watch the starry
heavens for new planets, with our earth
subdued, its mountains cast down and

Mus O. C. NASH.

singly or together.

All these lands lay upon a main highway, the
titles are perfect, and I will sell them cheap and
on easy terms.

I will exchange a portion of them for a small W‘

improved farm in Central or Southern Mich. — ‘
Wonderful Discovery in Laundry Soap.

For further particulars, prices, etc., call on or
one Bar of Inge:-so11’s New Discovery soap does a Wash with one

 

I il.W.llreen.liin’r.Gi. Rapids. Mich

OFFICE, EAGLE HOTEL BLOCK.

 

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address
V7‘. 8. DOVE.
Howard City, Mich.

  

, Wu“, places lined up; were is only M, i'.i.I.”‘.i§°o,°"r””..'I,'2.‘3§..‘7';,‘f;',‘L',',}_°,:,°;;' hour-’s light labpr. This is a saving of eight hour’s hard labor. A
»‘ the law of love to be enforced to link ‘-= BOX 00111531115 thl

 

rty-six Bars, thus saving thirty days of grind‘
labor. It is estimated that the wear on clothes by using the $5
alkali soaps. amounts to one hundred dollars a year, all of which is
saved by using Ingersolrs soap. It is elegant for the toilet.

fl®T‘&Y A 303% ~

Sample box delivered to you, freight paid, for only three dollars. Sample bar mailed for the
postage, 14 cents. Patrons’ Soap Works, 64 Fulton St. , New York. Our new book, “The Grange
its Work and Workers,” containing ictures of twenty-six leading Patrons, and testimonials to thé
above effect from hundreds, mailed lice. augm‘

0!
at

‘I hearth to hearth, hamlet to hamlet, na- 39.3. 1('3I.i"‘Trifii§mfé"-I’«i‘1‘t%l1d£Rm‘:uiIila":.¢imti'1:
tion to nation, when the Eden of Nature “‘="°v‘§f“n°f‘ 1°,.‘x‘§'~& Co” cM‘E‘},i§N"’,”N,’f,"'

will be restored, and man in the sunshine
of the world’s new sprin shall walk tri-
, umphautl , like some ho y thing. It has
5 4 beensaid an was madein the image of
‘-;" i God; he possesses the power of thought.
 thegenius to unfold from the vast do_-
main of nature those things which are es-
1 ' gential to his comfort, happiness and pro-
7 ion. Through him God works, if not
to build worlds, to develop them to a de-

"Money to Loan.

There has been placed in my hands money to
loan in sums of five hundred dollars or more, to
be secured onlgood improved farms.
' ‘ J. W. OSBORN,
Attorney at Law,
No. 121 South Burdick St.

Kalamazoo, Aug. 9, X886.

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